Witness: Everybody Was Drunk During Brooks Murder Night
Benny Sandoval testified in Roy A. Brooks 61's first degree murder trial that April 26 at 315-17 W Porphyry the group drank whisky with Brooks and his wife Mary Villalovos and his hosts the Villalovoses. Sandoval said Brooks accused Villalovos of not belonging upstairs and Villalovos kept asking Brooks to leave.
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Benny Sandoval
Roy A. Brooks
Jesse Villalovos
Sandoval
Brooks
Mary
Villalovos
Anna
John A. Alexander
John T. Mullany
Sanoval
Villaloves
Smith
Jess
Smiths
Georgia Governor Race Plays Out After Primary Night
In Georgia, former Gov. Ellis Arnall led a six candidate field in the Democratic gubernatorial primary but faces a runoff with Jimmy Carter Lester Maddox or James Gray in the mix. Across the nation, Md Massachusetts and Wisconsin show varied outcomes as national leaders weigh recent results.
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Associated Press
Georgia
Atlanta
UPI
Ellis Arnall
Jimmy Carter
Lester Maddox
Albany
James Gray
Arnall
Miss These
A brief note highlights a long road ahead for a youthful English hitchhiker as Page 5-A outlines. Page 17- High school and college weekend grid predictions appear with sports betting and team forecasts.
Deer Lodge prisoner travels 50 miles before recapture
William H Barrow escaped from Montana State Prison in Deer Lodge last Friday night and walked about 50 miles through the hill country before being spotted two miles south of Boulder on U S 91. A rancher telephoned tip led to his arrest and return to prison.
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Boulder
George Paradis
Montana
Deer Lodge
William H. Barrow
U.S. 91
Butte
Barrow
E. C. Ellsworth
Paradis
Gemini 11 Crew Set Altitude and Extravehicular Records
Astronauts Charles Conrad Jr. and Richard Gordon Jr. reached 850 miles above Earth to set a world altitude record and spent 2 hours 8 minutes outside Gemini 11. They drifted with hatch open at 17 500 mph, snapped pictures, and described the experience as wild. The flight included a rare rendezvous with Agena and an artificial gravity effect of about 0.00015 percent. Proton 3, a large Soviet satellite, was spotted in orbit during the mission.
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Cape Kennedy
Fla
Charles
Pete) Conrad Jr
Richard F. Gordon Jr
Earth
Gordon
Conrad
Air Force
Mission Control
Mansfield to try again to move civil rights bill
Senate failed to end debate on the civil rights bill 54 to 42. Senator Mansfield of Montana signaled a possible new cloture bid and planned discussions with Senator Hart, while noting no White House talks with Johnson yet. If revived, a new vote could come Monday.
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Mansfield
Washington
Senate
Johnson
Mike Mansfield
Montana
Philip A. Hart
Dmich
White House
Grant approved for city schools in Montana
Harriet Miller announces a $131,730 grant to School Dist 1 of Butte under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act for developmental reading and health care programs involving about 525 students at elementary and secondary levels. The program begins immediately with Leroy Casagranda as director. Four Title I projects totaling $324,573 approved this year, Miller says.
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Helena
Harriet Miller
Butte
Leroy Casagranda
Miss Miller
Attempts to Cut Military Funds Fail in House
The House approved a 1.019 billion military construction bill after defeating efforts to cut 300 million and to stop a new Navy boot camp in Orlando. The roll call was 346 to 3 with Brown Long Morton voting no. The measure funds US site construction, housing for service members, and overseas installations, falling 95.6 million short of the President’s request.
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Washington
House
Orlando
Fla
Senate
George E. Brown Jr
D-Calif
Clarence D. Long
D-Md
Rogers C. D. Morton
Long
Weather outlook for state with scattered showers
Forecast notes considerable business with a ten percent chance of precipitation. High today expected around 60 degrees, low tonight near 40. Record from last year shows a high of 47 and a low of 29. State forecast and temperatures appear on Page 2.
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Butte-Anaconda
Russia expels US diplomat amid tourist espionage claim
Moscow accuses Americans of using tourists for total political espionage and orders expulsion of a US Embassy official. Peace Corps worker Thomas R. Dawson, 24, was arrested near Astara on the Caspian Sea. fellow Peace Corps member David Osterberg detained. The Kremlin cites prior incidents and mirrors a September expulsion of a Soviet official in Washington.
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Moscow
UPI
Russia
United States
Peace Corps
Iran
U.S
Thomas R. Dawson
Annapolis
Newcomb Mott
Mott
Massachusetts
Norway
Dawson
Caspian Sea
Astara
David Osterberg
Walnut Creek
Calif
Donald R. Lesh
Valentine A. Revin
Washington
Bill sent to LBJ minimum wage hike to 1.60
Senate approval sent the bill to President Johnson to raise the minimum wage from 1.25 to 1.60 by 1968, expanding coverage to eight million more workers. The 55-38 vote followed a hard-fought compromise, with the House already passing 259-89. The measure phases in 1.40 next Feb 1 and 1.60 the following year.
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Washington
Senate
Johnson
House
Labor Department
Idaho Gubernatorial Candidate Killed in Wilderness Rescue
Charles Herndon, Idaho Democratic gubernatorial candidate, died after rescuers pulled him from a central Idaho wilderness area. The crash, triggered by a rainstorm, killed two Oklahoma men and injured Herndon and pilot William Bir of Twin Falls, raising the day’s fatalities to three.
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Stanley
Idaho
UPI
Charles Herndon
Oklahoma
Herndon
William Bir
Twin Falls
Treasury reaffirmed price of silver at $1.29 an ounce
Assistant Secretary Robert A. Wallace said the Treasury will keep silver at 1.29 per ounce in the near term and warned against windfalls from hoarding. He noted decisions on future policy lie with the Joint Commission on Coinage, which will meet early next year.
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Salt Lake City
Treasury Department
Secretary of the Treasury
Robert A. Wallace
American Mining Congress
Wallace
Joint Commission On Coinage
Landowners push meeting with Metcalf over Libby Dam plans
Landowners in Rexford demand a meeting with Sen. Lee Metcalf to discuss Libby Dam land seizures. The Kootenai Landowners Association cites a 10,000 acre private land grab outside the flood area and seeks August and monthly gatherings to resist Corps of Engineers plans for 19,000 acres for Forest Service recreation sites after dam completion. Groundbreaking occurred last month amid concerns over land values and compensation.
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Rexford
Libby
Lee Metcalf
Mont
Kootenai
Corps of Engineers
Forest Service
Charles C. Holbrook
Seattle
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Roy Brooks
Karl Rolvaag
Minnesota
Democratic-Farmer-Labor Convention
Edward J. McCormack
Gov
Endicott Peabody
George P. Mahoney
Maryland
Mahoney
Wisconsin
Clement J. Zablocki
Roman R. Blenski
Zablocki
Fraternal
Order of Eagles
Moon
Trusty
Danny Rieder
Boulder Valley
Harold De‘Mers
Ellsworth
Sen
Everett M. Dirksen
Riil
Dirkson
Lesh
State Department
Robert J. McCloskey
Komsomolkaya Pravda
Bill
LBJ
Congress
Libby Dam
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