Ground broken for uptown parking facility in Butte
Ground breaking occurred Tuesday morning for a 160 car three level parking mall by Park and Shop Inc on the old Butte Hotel site opposite City Hall. The project received a $301,300 SBA loan and involves 160 investors with stock shares from 100 to 10 000.
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Butte
East Broadway
Park and Shop, Inc
Butte Hotel
City Hall
Taylor McDonnell Construction Co
Walter Hinick
Small Business Administration
Corporation
Neil Lynch
Thomas F. Powers
SBA
Oliver Steele
Park and Shop
The
Butte Development Association
Gordon’s space walk ends early due to heat and sweat
Richard F. Gordon Jr and Charles Conrad Jr ended their attempted around the world walk for Gemini 11 after 44 minutes, the heat and perspiration battering Gordon blinding his right eye. They planned a second excursion and a high altitude ride with the Agena rocket before finishing their three day flight.
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Cape Kennedy
Fla
Richard F. Gordon Jr
Gordon
U.S
Charlies Conrad Jr
Conrad
California
Kennedy rival takes early lead in Massachusetts primary
Edward J. McCormack led early returns for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination in Massachusetts, with rival Kenneth P. O'Donnell trailing. In Senate races, former Gov. Endicott Peabody led in Massachusetts while Edward W. Brooke faced no contest. Other states voting included Arizona, Colorado, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Rhode Island, Utah and Vermont.
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Kennedy
Edward J. McCormack
Massachusetts
The
Bay State
Kenneth P. O'Donnell
White House
John F. Kennedy
Endicott Peabody
Boston
John F. Collins
Edward W. Brooke
Brooke
U.S. Senate
Minnesota
Karl F. Rolvaag
A.M. Keith
Rolvaag
Keith
Wisconsin
Patrick J. Lucey
Warren P. Knowles
Maryland
Arizona
Colorado
New Hampshire
New Jersey
Rhode Island
Utah
Vermont
Justice Department sues Grenada officials over desegregation
The Justice Department charged Grenada Mississippi officials with wilfully failing to protect Negro children at desegregated schools from white violence. Atty. Gen. Katzenbach asked a U.S. District Court in Oxford to order protection, arrest, and prosecution of attackers. Also note Stokely Carmichael faced an Atlanta grand jury indictment on riot charges.
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Justice Department
Grenada
Miss
Atty
Nicholas Katzenbach
U.S. District Court
Oxford
Department
Stokely Carmichael
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
Atlanta
School census to begin here Thursday
Margaret Leary, clerk of School District No. 1, announced that a school and general census of Butte and surrounding area will start Thursday. The census covers all persons from infancy to 21 and aids the Foundation Program funding while serving as a local and state record for future job, passport, and Social Security or Medicare applications.
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Margaret Leary
Butte
Miss Leary
Board seeks 4.4 million for federal matching funds
The Montana Board of Education voted to request 2.2 million in state funds for the 57 89 biennium to match an equal federal allotment for vocational education. The plan aims to increase flexibility in project approval and long range planning and to support new area vocational schools such as the Helena program for mechanics and carpenters.
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Helena
Board of Education
Richard F. Morris
Mechanics and Carpenters
Helena- Area
Wastebasket fate looms for civil rights bill in Senate
Washington AP reports the administration's civil rights bill looks headed to the scrapheap as Republicans blame President Johnson and Senate leader Everett Dirksen for its prospects. Senator Javits argues Dirksen does not speak for all Republicans and Johnson could rally support despite GOP opposition. Democrat Lausche also objects to assigning blame to Dirksen.
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Washington
Senate
Johnson
Everett M. Dirksen
Illinois
Dirksen
Jacob K. Javits
R-N.y
Javits
Frank J. Lausche
D-Chio
Cars safer than horses in Montana highway view
Helena AP reports Montana highway engineer Paul M. Johnson argues that automo bile travel is safer than horse drawn travel. He cites 1909 death rates and current motor vehicle fatalities, noting Interstate safety features cut accidents injuries and deaths significantly.
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Helena
Paul M. Johnson
Montana
Johnson
Big Timber Man Dies After Sunday Crash
Richard Boylan twenty one of Big Timber died in Billings hospital Tuesday after a Sunday crash on US Highway 10 near Laurel. He and Roger Faw twenty three from Laurel were in a car that struck a horse. the vehicle flew and landed on the roof. Boylan suffered head injuries and died. Faw was treated for multiple cuts and bruises. The 1966 Montana traffic toll rose to nineteen, up from ninety last year.
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Billings
Richard Boylan
Big Timber
Roger Faw
Laurel
Boylan
Montana
Butte murder trial selects seven men and five women
A jury of seven men and five women was drawn in Judge John B. McClernan’s department to try Roy A. Brooks, 61, on first degree murder for the April 26 slaying of Jesse Villalores, who was stabbed in his apartment. The state will present its case at 10 am Wednesday. defense may seek temporary insanity and intoxication as extenuation.
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John B. McClernan
Department of District Court
Roy A. Brooks
Jesse Villaloves
Atty
Mark P. Sullivan
F. Lee Williams
John T. Mullany
John A. Alexander
Villalores
Brooks
Ella Mae Sheehan
Alice F. McLean
Diane M. Nixon
Ellen Fries
Paulette Anzik
William Crunch
William Yokie
George M. Carpenter
James Duggan
R. H. Newgard
Howard R. Whindom
Joseph C. Starcevich
John B. Lively
Resistance to Red Guard reported in parts of China
Soviet and Japanese dispatches report widespread Red Guard resistance in eastern and southern China. In Kweilin 100000 clashed with Red Guards with army called in to restore order. Tass and MTI notes allege clashes involving 30000 metal workers students and others against revolutionary masses in Kweiyang and Peking based violence in Shanghai with Red Guards breaking into the Shanghai City Communist Party Committee building and injuring people.
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Moscow
Red Guards
China
Kweilin
Kwangsi
Tass
Peking
Red Guard
Kweiyang
Hunan
MTI
Shanghai
Shanghai City
Communist Party Committee
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Powers
Hazel Carter
Art Duggins
Roger How
Africa
Associated Press
MDTA
Unemployment Compensation Commission
UCC
Edgar H. Reeder
Tle
Butte Vocational School
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