Johnson signs bill to free tight money
President Johnson signed a law to inject 4.76 billion into the home building market, enabling FNMA to buy FHA and VA guaranteed mortgages. The move aims to free banks to offer more loans despite tight money, supporting 300,000 modest income homes while the president pushes additional tax relief proposals.
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Washington
UPI
Johnson
Federal Housing Administration
FHA
Veterans Administration
Federal National Mortgage Administration
FNMA
Anaconda Plant Plans 5 Percent Copper Smelter Capacity Increase
The Anaconda Co adds a sixth converter furnace at the Anaconda copper smelter and expands the converter area. A fifth furnace will be in operation next February while a new hot fan system improves environmental conditions. Copper concentrates from Butte and the Yerington mine are processed for anodes shipped to Great Falls refinery.
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Anaconda Co
Anaconda
Martin K. Hannifan
Montana
Hannifan
Butte
Yerington, Nev
Great Falls
Nazi Leader Rockwell Arrested After Chicago March
George Lincoln Rockwell the American Nazi leader was arrested in Chicago after his South Side march faltered amid rocks and acid thrown at his followers. His rally at the Chicago Coliseum drew about 65 people far from the predicted 2000 to 3000. Rockwell and a companion in clerical garb were detained at the start and released on $50 bail shortly after the rally’s scheduled start.
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Chicago
UPI
George Lincoln Rockwell
South Side
Rockwell
Chicago Coliseum
Republicans oppose right to work laws
Montana Republicans adopted a Saturday platform denouncing right to work, inflation and Johnson administration farm programs. They endorsed funding for a state building program via a cigarette tax referendum while opposing new taxes until tax structures are studied. Gov. Babcock backed the platform though some debated the open shop stance.
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Great Falls
Montana
Johnson
Orville Freeman
GOP
Legislative Council
Tim Babcock
Prison escapee Barrow sparks interstate search
William H. Barrow, a 48 year old Montana State Prison escapee, fled from a cow camp near Deer Lodge between midnight and 3 30 Saturday morning. Bloodhounds tracked toward a river near the NP railroad tracks west of Deer Lodge, with a sighting in Garison at 7 am. Ellsworth suspects he changed into work clothes and may have ridden a freight train. Barrow has a prior felony record dating to 1935 and a 10 year sentence for robbery. he is 5 10, 170 pounds with blue eyes and reddish grey hair.
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William H. Barrow
Montana
Barrow
Taylor Creek
Deer Lodge
E. C. Ellsworth
Ellsworth
Garrison
Ells
Governor Babcock kicks off Senate bid in Montana
Gov Tim Babcock formally opened his U S Senate campaign in Great Falls assailing Democrats and the Great Society as trying to be all things to all people He held that his Democratic opponent Sen Lee Metcalf mirrors allegiance to Washington and noted Dwight Eisenhower offered an endorsement via taped TV report Babcock said he would rely on Montanans for support and warned of a tough race
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Great Falls
Tim Babcock
U.S. Senate
Great Society
Lee Metcalf
Washington, D.C
Montana
Dwight Eisenhower
Washington
Ike
Babcocks
Babcock
Mild winter hints from a Butte crab apple tree
A crab apple tree owned by Emmett Andrene at 2700 Aberdeen begins blossoming in the third week of September. The same tree bloomed this spring, suggesting an unusually warm winter ahead, though odds are against this forecast.
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Emmett Andrene
Aberdeen
Democrats oppose general state sales tax in Montana platform
Montana Democrats on Saturday rejected a general sales tax and any new burden on property taxpayers. They endorsed a 10 plank platform aligning with 1964 positions, opposing open shop laws and merger of transportation facilities while stressing higher state support for education to ease property tax load. The platform also warns Referendum 64 could divert cigarette taxes from veterans bonuses and notes inflationary risk of tax cuts.
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Montana
Republican Party
Missoula
Democrats
GOP
Lee Metcalf
Tim) Babcock
Party of Fiscal Responsibility
Murder trial to open here Monday
Roy A. Brooks a 61 year old man faces first degree murder charges for the April 26 knife slaying of Jesse Villaloves 45 in an Upper town apartment. Jury selection begins Monday in Judge John B McClernan s district court. Brooks appeals defense by John T Mullany and Joan A Alexander. state represented by County Atty Mark P Sullivan and deputy F Lee Williams. Villaloves a miner lived at 315 W Porphyry where the stabbing occurred. Brooks unemployed was tenant of the same address on a lower floor and the men reportedly argued over a small sum owed Brooks pleaded innocent April 28 and is held on 17900 bond.
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Roy A. Brooks
Jesse Villaloves
John B. McClernan
Department of District Court
Brooks
John T. Mullany
Joan A. Alexander
Mark P. Sullivan
F. Lee Williams
Villaloves
W. Porphyry
Villalores
Brooks Brooks
Municipal League proposes packaging abandoned cars in Montana
AP Roundup reports Montana Municipal League delegates urged creating plants to bale old abandoned cars for scrap metal revenue to fund programs. They discussed funding via a small vehicle tax add on license fees and sought stricter litter laws while deferring a bottle tax proposal. Delegates also called for urban affairs office funding and freeing municipal utilities from railroad and public service commission regulation.
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Montana Municipal League
Willard Fraser
Billings
State Urban Affairs
Railroad and Public Service Commission
Two Young Men Die in Separate High Speed Crashes
Montana reports 1966 traffic toll reaching 192 with two young men dead in separate high speed crashes. Sterling Thomas 18 of Roundup and Airman Thomas J. Ruck 24 from Northport New York stationed at Glasgow Air Force Base died. Passengers Dianne Taylor 22 and Robert McElwaine 21 injured at the base hospital. Wheeler 21 was injured when a car rolled over near Roundup.
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Montana
Sterling Thomas
George Thomas
Thomas J. Ruck
Glasgow Air Force Base
Northport
N.Y
Glasgow
Dianne Taylor
Robert McElwaine
Thomas Youth
Robert Lee Wheeler
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Lewis and Clark County
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J. D. Holmes
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