Word: montana
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Many of the ornaments came in the form of amendments to the continuing-spending resolution and gas-tax bill. Senator Howell Heflin, an Alabama Democrat, tucked in a $1 million appropriation for channel-widening at the Franklin Ferry Bridge in his home state. John Melcher, Democratic Senator from Montana, hooked a $243,000 fish hatchery for his, and Louisiana Senator Russell Long pushed through a $5 million cloverleaf project outside Baton Rouge Even Senator William Proxmire, the Wisconsin Democrat, famed for his "Golden Fleece" awards for Government waste, rammed through a $1.5 million poverty-studies program at the University...
...speeding fine. Murray was flagged down for driving 68 miles an hour in a 55-m.p.h. zone on Sept. 3, 1980, and ordered to pay a $5 fine. The incensed motorist not only refused to pay up, he filed a lawsuit asking damages of $1,050,007. It charged Montana Highway Patrol Sergeant Ron Johnson with using unauthorized police powers and other infractions. Murray, an unemployed salesman who likes to do all his own legal work, also filed a series of 100-year liens against the property and financial assets of Johnson and his wife. In retaliation, the Johnsons...
Last week the Montana Supreme Court upheld a lower court's finding of damages for the Johnsons: $200,000 plus attorney's fees estimated at $2,100. Serving notice that it would not stand for similar suits, the court said it hoped to "alert those inclined to follow the example of Daniel Murray-they may well be traveling a rocky road...
Exposure to his grandfather also gave Hilary another purchase on history. This leathery old bird had led a storybook life. He arrived in this country from Ireland in 1874 and then served some five years in the U.S. cavalry in Montana and Wyoming. Later, he helped build railroads in Central America and returned rich enough to earn a name in Kansas City. He remained a cavalryman at heart. Ages later, he tells his grandson that the spot where he will be buried affords a good view of Washington, D.C. The author writes: "Rustlers and stage robbers had been the objects...
...several states, NCPAC commercials were kept off the air by victims' complaints that they were misleading or outright false, prompting NCPAC to file a federal suit charging censorship. Democratic Senator John Melcher, a veterinarian, countered a New Right commercial claiming he was "too liberal for Montana" with a TV ad of his own featuring cows. After a shot of "out-of-staters" carrying a briefcase full of money off a plane, one bemused bovine remarks, "Did ya hear about those city slickers bad-mouthing Doc Melcher? One of 'em was stepping in what they've been trying...