Headstart evaluation finds benefits for preschoolers
The Office of Economic Opportunity reports that Headstart raised intelligence levels and improved motivation and social behavior in poverty areas. Children entering middle class schools continued to improve, while those entering low-spirits districts leveled off, allowing non Headstart peers to catch up. The study is a 1965-67 evaluation by Headstart’s research division led by McDavid Gordon Grotberg and Datta.
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Washington
Office of Economic Opportunity
Headstart
Division of Research and Evaluation
John W. McDavid
Edmund W. Gordon
Edith Grotberg
Lois- Ellin Datta
Football scores from Montana high school games
Butte 31 Helena 6. Anaconda 20 Laurel 19. Anaconda Central 19 Columbia Falls 0. Helena Central 22 Libby 19. Hamilton 26 Deer Lodge 13. Great Falls Central 6 Missoula Sentinel 4. Bozeman Rosary 14 Winifred 9. Ennis 50 West Yellowstone 25. Whitehall 14 Three Forks 13.
Soviet Zond 5 completes lunar flyby and studies outer space
Soviet Tass reports Zond 5 has circled the moon after adjusting trajectory to study physical outer-space characteristics. The unmanned probe flew within about 1,212 miles of the moon and remains in flight, while Cosmos 242 with science gear was launched to continue outer space research.
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Moscow
Moon
Outer
Soviet Union
Bernard Lovell
Britain
Jodrell Bank Space Observatory
Foreign Ministry
Tass
Outer Space
Earth
Humphrey touts crime fight record in Louisville speech
Hubert H. Humphrey declares he is the only presidential candidate who cleaned up a city and won an FBI law enforcement award. He cites his Minneapolis mayoral tenure and argues he will replicate the crime-fighting success as president. He contrasts Nixon as evasive on desegregation nonproliferation and Justice Fortas.
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Louisville
Hubert H. Humphrey
FBI
Humphrey
Minneapolis
United States
Richard M. Nixon
Springfield
Ill
Nixon
Abe Fortas
Helena civil action claims debts against Lt Governor hopeful
Thomas L. Judge, a Helena advertising man and lieutenant governor candidate, is named defendant in a $3,777 suit filed July 31 by his grandfather Peter Guillot. The action lists seven promissory notes from 1960 to 1962 totaling $3,777.51 with interest. Guillot, 86, says he paid Judge’s college and car expenses and banked money for his start in business. The case was sequestered by a local attorney and publicized only recently.
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Helena
Thomas L. Judge
Peter Guillot
Guillot
Louisville
Montana weighs new tepee burner pollution controls
Montana state health officials and the Air Pollution Control Advisory Council advanced 15 emission standards to a public hearing on October 25. Regulational focus covers sulfur dioxide, odors, and tepee burner cleanup costs, with opposition from industry and occasional clashes with Wake and former congressman Wesley D’Ewart.
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Helena
Montana
Tepee
State Board of Health
Air Pollution Control Advisory Council
Benjamin F. Wake
Wake
Wesley D’ewart
Wilsall
Council
E Ringelmann
Butte Hit By Heavy Snow Storm In September
Montana towns faced a brutal early season storm with Anaconda reporting eight inches and Butte about three inches of melting slush. Snow began Friday at 12 25 a.m. and continued, with 96 inches of precipitation logged by 5 p.m.. forecasts warn more snow above 4000 feet and rain below.
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Montana
Anaconda
Butte
California
Federal Aviation Administration
Anaconda Struck by Severe Equinoctial Snow Event
Anaconda suffered extensive damage as an equinoctial storm dumped eight inches of snow Friday, isolating the town. Power and telephone lines were down, hundreds of motorists stranded, and crews worked to restore service across Anaconda and Philipsburg with outages peaking in the morning.
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Anaconda
Montana Power Co
Philipsburg
Montana Power
Lowell Painter
Mountain States Telephone Co
Mike Podrill
Retired Helena Banker A. T. Hibbard Dies at 78
A. T. Hibbard, 78, former president of the Montana Bankers Association and longtime banker in Helena, died Friday at a grain elevator in Avon. Funeral services set for Monday at St. Peter's Episcopal Pro-Cathedral. He led the Union Bank & Trust Co. from 1933 to 1956 and held numerous civic roles including Savings Bond program chairman since 1941.
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Helena
A. T. Hibbard
Montana Bankers Association
Avon
St. Peter’s Episcopal Pro-Cathedral
Montana Taxpayers Association
Hibbard
Union Bank & Trust Co
State Land Office
Banking Corporation of Montana
Montana Livestock Loan Co
Helena Bank
Helena Chamber of Commerce
U.S. Treasury
Montana Society For Crippled Children
University of Montana Endowment Fund
Farnborough air show crash kills multiple
A 40 ton French experimental plane crashed on the roof of a Royal Air Force social club during the Farnborough Air Show in front of 16 000 spectators. The crash killed at least six people and possibly more, with reports of up to 12 bodies from the wreckage. The crew were believed to be French air force officers.
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Farnborough
England
North Atlantic
Weather and historical air show note at Butte Anaconda
Hazardous driving conditions today with light snow and locally heavy snow in the mountains. Rain mixed today and snow decreasing Sunday with high near 46 and low around 25. Snow probability 80 percent today and 70 percent tonight. A 1952 air show disaster reference notes a jet engine incident with 30 killed and 63 injured. The Breguet 1150 Atlantic design links NATO nations and a multinational consortium for final assembly in France.
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Breguet
France
China to Display 59 Priceless Antiques at Mexico City Festival
Nationalist China will send 59 valuable items including paintings copper jade porcelain and sculptures for display at the international cultural festival in Mexico City during the Olympic Games in October.
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TAPEI
China
Mexico City
Eastern Air Lines Jet Hijacked To Havana Lands In Miami
An Eastern Air Lines jet diverted to Havana with 43 passengers on board landed in Miami with only its crew aboard. Cuban authorities detained the passengers in Havana as they refused to permit large hijacked jets to take off. The hijacker, a lone gunman of Latin appearance, remained on the scene before the crew and remaining passengers were returned to Miami on Cuban airlift flights.
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Miami
Fla
Eastern Air Lines
Bahamas
Havana
Jose Marti
Eastern
Cuba
Nassau
Boatman
W. T
Slim” Babbitt
Fidel Castro
Fulgencio Batista
Castro
Wilfredo Roman Quendo
EAL
Florida
Key West
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Libby
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Deer Lodge
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Bozeman Rosary
Winifred
Ennis
West Yellowstone
Whitehall
Three Forks
Russia
Mooner
Anthony C. Collings
Hhh
By Frank Cormier
Jest
Thomas
By Dave Earley
By Jerry Holloron
Standard State Bureau
Magicland
Western Airlines
Silver Bow County
Weather Bureau
Low Lands
John Radonich
W. 3Rd St
The
American Bankers Association
Butte-Anaconda
San
Juan-to-Miami
Paul Boatman
U.S. State Department
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