Early season snow hits Montana as cold moves in
Old Man Winter's chill sweeps Montana dumping wet snow across the state. The Montana Highway Department warns of slippery roads and requires chains on many mountain passes near Great Falls. The National Weather Service posts a heavy snow warning for western and southern Montana east of the Continental Divide with projections of over a foot in some passes and one to eight inches in lower elevations. Temperatures fall to the 30s with some 40s in western and northeastern areas as a clearing trend begins by Saturday night.
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Great Falls
Mont
Montana
Montana Highway Department
National Weather Service
Continental Divide
Weather Service
Governor seeks local government modernization commission
Governor Tom Judge urged the 1974 Legislature to create a local government modernization commission to study and prepare legislation for state constitution driven reforms. He addressed about 175 Montana League of Cities and Towns members and said a funded panel will draft home rule plans, optional government forms, and recodify local laws by 1975. A temporary task force will begin planning immediately.
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Great Falls
Tom Judge
King
Montana League of Cities and Towns
Cities and Towns Board
Governor proposes local government modernization plan
The governor urges a state policy delineating relations among municipalities counties and state agencies drafted by agencies serving cities towns and counties. A 16 page white paper outlines local government problems and recommends study by the modernization commission with local official and citizen involvement.
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Standard State Bureau
Montana Salary Commission urges big raises for officials
The Montana Salary Commission recommends totaling 5 000 per year for legislators and 25 to 50 percent increases for other state officials. It would raise the governor to 36 000 annually, chief justice to 34 000, and the clerk of court to 14 700. The plan bases legislators at 50 a day for 70 days plus 25 a day for 60 days.
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Helena
Montana
Cial
Montana Supreme Court
Stanley
Anaconda sells forest products division assets to Affiliated Home Centers
Anaconda Co will sell the remaining forest products assets including Anaconda Building Materials Co and Anaconda Hardware of Anaconda Co to Affiliated Home Centers for about 3.6 million dollars. The sale preserves current employee jobs and expands Affiliated Home Centers' presence in Montana and other states.
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Missoula, Mont
Anaconda Co
Affiliated Home Centers
Kansas City
Champion International Corp
Anaconda Building Materials Co
Montana
Anaconda
Butte
Deer Lodge
Hamilton
Missoula
Whitehall
Montana Hardware Co
Great Falls
Billings
John B.M. Place
The
William C. Allen
California
Minnesota
Pennsylvania
Ohio
Illinois
Place
Allen
Forest Products Division
Chile's junta in big trouble
In Buenos Aires, the Chilean armed forces struggle to restore normalcy after Tuesday's coup toppled Allende. Martial law, curfew, food shortages, and sealed borders paralyze Santiago as troops face shortages and unrest amid a fragile transition. A clash between troops and snipers briefly relaxed the curfew.
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Santiago
Salvador Allende Gossens
Chile
Allende
Butteman killed in mine accident
Wilfred A. Riordan a 50 year old hoisting engineer died after falling 200 feet in the Leonard Mine shaft near the 3,800 foot level He was crossing with a fellow worker when he slipped Coroner Leo Jacobsen and officials investigated with no autopsy planned Riordan a World War II veteran and local union officer is survived by a widow and several children Mass of the Resurrection is set for Monday at St Joseph Church with burial in Holy Cross Cemetery
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Wilfred A. Riordan
Iowa
Leonard
Leo Jacobsen
Jacobsen
Frank Johns
Anaconda Co
Max Salazar
Riordan
Butte
Mr. Riordan
Army
South Pacific
Federal Credit Union
Operating Engineers
Mary B
Jery J
Gene
Emmett
Patrick
Robert LeFever
Colleen
Meg
Mary
William C
Daniel J
Sacramento
St. Joseph Church
Holy Cross Cemetery
Duggan Merrill Mortuary
UAW strikes Chrysler over contract after 14 hour talks
The United Auto Workers call a midnight strike at Chrysler Corp after failing to reach a new three year contract. About 113 300 production workers walk out while GM and Ford contracts are extended. Talks resume Saturday at 11 a.m. as union chief Leonard Woodcock notes complex, uncharted issues including health and safety and voluntary overtime.
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Detroit
Mich
United Auto Workers
Chrysler Corp
General Motors
Ford
UAW
Leonard Woodcock
Chrysler
Woodcock
Solidarity Forever
William O’brien
O’brien
Siward
Court ends 27 hour wildcat strike at Anaconda pits
A 27 hour wildcat strike by about 1,600 Anaconda Co. workers ended Friday as Berkeley and Continental Pits and key shops resumed normal operation by 4 p.m. Federal marshals served 17 engineers from Local 375 with court orders to end the walkout. A court hearing is set for Tuesday in Missoula.
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Wildcat
Anaconda Co
Berkeley
Continental
Weed
Engineers Union Local 375
U. S. Dist
William Jameson
Billings
Pig-loving bear loses contest near Mis- Nordbye home
A local tale from Mis- Nordbye centers on two 35 pound pigs fattened for dinner. A 200-pound black bear repeatedly raided their pen, finally lured into a Fish and Game cage and relocated about 100 miles away.
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Missoula
Mont
Nordbye
Mis
Fish and Game Department
Norbye
Bob Swenson
Swenson
Tom Grunhard
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Butte High
Cliff Moore
Butte Weather
Gary Langley Standard State Bureau
Modernization Commission
Govenor
Forrest Anderson
Judge
Offic
J. D. Holmes
Jeremiah O’leary
Washington Star News
Buenos Aires
Butteman
New Continental Pit
Berkeley Pit
U.S
Russell Smith
William Evans
Engineers Union
Nordbye’s
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