Marines Braced for Major DMZ Push Says North Viet Nam Aims Big Victory
UPI reports Gen. Lewis Walt warns a large scale North Vietnamese assault across the DMZ is likely as monsoon rains approach. B52s bomb North Viet Nam supply lines while Marines press a major Prairie operation south of the border with heavy fatalities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alvin B. Webb Jr
Saigon
UPI
U.S
Viet Nam
Demilitarized Zone
Dmz
Lewis Walt
No Man’s Land
North
South
Kennedy cancels visit to Montana
Sen. Ed Kennedy cancels four planned stops in Montana after learning of a Kennedy family death. He left Denver to return to Washington for a funeral. Officials hope to reschedule the dedication of Kennedy Park in Butte and his Civic Center talk. Billings conference may proceed with a replacement speaker.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kennedy Family
Kennedy
Ethel
George Skakel Jr
Greenwich
Rain Bow Trout Lost As Pablo Reservoir Dries Up
Western Montana scene at the canal below Pablo Reservoir shows many trash fish and hundreds of pounds of rainbow trout lost when gates closed. The reservoir nearly dried. netting the fish back was possible but not done. Ducks and geese are expected to have water.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pablo Reservoir
Montana
Metcalf Calls for Action by Conservations in Butte Banquet
Senator Lee Metcalf urged conservationists at Trout Unlimited banquet in the Finlen Hotel to act early in highway planning to protect recreation resources. He highlighted Save Our Streams legislation and praised the Montana Junior Chamber of Commerce for aiding coordination between highway and resource agencies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lee Metcalf
Butte
Trout Unlimited
Finlen Hotel
Omar Bradley
Bureau of Public Roads
Metcalf
Servation
Montana Junior Chamber of Commerce
Montana
Soldier escapes Boulder jail then recaptured after 12 hours
A 20 year old Bas in soldier escaped Boulder jail by crawling a vent and using a pipe drain to reach the attic and exit. He was captured in Basin 12 hours later by Highway Patrolman Paul Durle and Deputy Harold DeMers. Army authorities planned to return him to Ft Lewis, Washington.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boulder
Basin
Jefferson County
Richard L. Sullivan
Paul Durle
Harold DeMers
George Paradis
Sullivan
Silver Bow
Ft. Lewis
Wash
James Bond gets 007 ID at Montana State University
Bozeman reports a shy freshman at Montana State University being handed anonymously sent toiletries tied to a fictional secret agent. Return to campus as a sophomore, he receives a new student ID from an automatic machine, numbered 007 along with about 6,300 others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bozeman, Mont
UPI
James Bond
Montana State University
Ford and Chrysler mull 1967 price cuts in wake of GM rise
Ford and Chrysler officials debated slicing 1967 car prices after General Motors stunned rivals with a larger hike. Ford seeks around 113 dollars on average and Chrysler about 92 to 103, versus GM’s 54, as they weigh cost-cutting options to stay competitive in 1967.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Detroit
Ford
Chrysler
General Motors
City Policeman Fired Over Political Candidacy Angers GOP Leader
Silver Bow County Republican Chairman H. A. Frank blasted Mayor Powers’s suspension of Earl J. Holman, a 29-year city patrolman and Republican candidate for county commissioner. Frank said Holman was fired because he is a Republican and urged him to withdraw his bid to protect his position and pension. Holman, 60, was told of a temporary suspension amid an inquiry. The mayor said the action is temporary pending an investigation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. A
Bud) Frank
Silver Bow County
Republican Central Committee
Thomas F. Powers
Earl J
Si) Holman
Holman
Frank
Billings
Lyndon spoof money halts after Secret Service review
Republicans issue a spoof Lyndon dollar as campaign literature targeting Johnson's Great Society. A printing run for one million bills was halted after Secret Service and a U.S. attorney's office concern about vending machine fraud, then halted and recycled.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
McClure Publications Company
Washington
Secret Service
U.S
US. Attorney's Office
GOP
Also Mentioned on This Page
Walt
da Nang
Clyde Jabin
United Press International
Sen
Edward
Ted) Kennedy
D-Mass
States Water and Power Consumers Conference
Robert C. Larsson
Paradis
Richard Sullivan
Chrys
Ler
American Motors
LBJ
Johnson
Republican Congressional Committee
Lyndon
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!