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Beaverhead County's locally owned and operated daily newspaper Examiner Vo/. 87, No. 4 T O * T h u r s d a y , J a n . 7 , 1 9 7 1 ........ »; —■■gg;\ T h e V o i c e o f S o u t h w e s t e r n M o n t a n a S i n c e 1 8 8 1 Peace Aired . PARIS (AP) — Representatives of Hanoi and Saigon a t the Paris peace talks today expressed hopes that the New Year will bring some progress in the deadlocked talks. But they followed up with repeti tions of old charges against their opponents. “We express the wish that the conference \yill record progress in the coming year,” North Viet nam’s chief delegate, Xuan Thuy, told newsmen as he entered the first weekly meeting of 1971. He added that recent promises by President Nixon and Defense Secretary Melvin R. Laird of gradual American disengagement from the war only showed fiat the United States is determined to pursue the war under cover of its Vietnamization policy. Mme. Nguyen Thi Binh, the chief Viet Cong delegate, said the Vietnamization policy proves that the United States has no real in tention of withdrawing all its forces from South Vietnam. Speaking first at the 98th weekly session of the talks, South Viet nam’s Pham Dang Lam said the New Year “has generated unanimous hopes that the negotiations will get out of the impasse and that 1971 will see the start of a new phase leading to the end of hostilities and the restoration of peace. For us who are around this table, we cannot merely say that we share this hope, rather, it is our duty to make this hope become reality;” Lam blamed North Vietnam and the Viet Cong for the stalemate and said their final objective remains the conquest of South Vietnam “by force and subversion’ and the extension of Hanoi’s Communist regime to Cambodia and Laos. The American representative, David K. E. Bruce, accused the Communist delegations of re jecting all American proposals out of hand while trying to impose unacceptable conditions “in- , compatible with any kind of real negotiations.” Bruce also renewed his appeal for humane treatment and release of American prisoners held in North Vietnam., In his prepared speech, Thuy said the Vietnamese people “are determined to continue their resistance until final victory, whatever may be the prolongation and extension of the American war of aggression.” Mrs. Binh recalled Nixon’s election promise to end the Viet nam war and said: “Quite on the contrary, the war has become Nixon’s own war and has spread to all of Indochina.” Junior Leaders M ap Activities Dump Explodes SAIGON (AP)—A 10-hour series of explosions has wrecked a big allied ammunition dump on the central coast of South Vietnam, killing three South Korean civilian employes and destroying more than 5,000 tons of ammunitions, officials say. Cause of the blasts were not immediately determined. Express Hopes UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. (AP)—Special envoy Gunnar V. Jarring flies to Jerusalem in an effort to get his Mideast peace talks moving. He will confer with Israeli’ Foreign Minister Abba Eban. ! Breakthrough SAN FRANCISCO (AP)—Sci entists have announced the syn thesis of human growth hormone, a research breakthrough which could lead to discoveries affecting such diseases as arteriosclerosis cancer and dwarfism. Compares Issues WASHINGTON (AP) - Housing Secretary George Romney says integrating the suburbs calls for as much public understanding as the Vietnam war. P e n t a g o n F i g u r i n g F o r e i g n A i d C o s t / WASHINGTON (A?) - The Pentagon—caught with its cash drawers open—says it is sending scouts around the world to find out, in part, how much Food for Peace money was converted to arms for war. Armistead I. Selden, deputy assistant secretary of defense, said it’s “extremely difficult, if not altogether impossible” to place a dollar value on U.S. military assistance to foreign nations. “These figures are in the field. They can be gotten; they will be gotten,” he told a Joint Economic subcommittee Wednesday. But he said Sen. J. W. Fulbright, D-Ark., was correct “as far as he went” in estimating the total Riding Your Way THE MESSEH6ER . N W e're heading for your home (and all the homes In the Dillon ■ Twin Bridges - Sheridan trade area) next Wednesday. W e'll be chock full of the latest news of the area and bring the latest In shopping bargains. See you soon, THE KESSENBEE. .4 Tilt TrlbunwBnomlner’i now Idoo from fho past military aid cost at $7 billion in fiscal 1970. Wartime conditions in Vietnam, said Selden, have prevented the Defense Department from cataloging money turned over to South Vietnamese, Thai and Philippine troops. “We certainly are not trying to hide any figures,” he said. Noting the U.S. has been in the war since 1965, Sen. William Proxmire, D-Wis., said, “all you have to do is mention war and somehow you don’t have to be accountable.” “Most of us in Washington have seen a lot of mismanagement in government programs,” said the subcommittee chairman, “but this is the first time I have come across one that appears to be charac terized by unmanagement.” Christmas Again In Bethlehem BETHLEHEM (AP) - The sound of Bethlehem’s church bells: echoed across the Judean .hills today as thousands of Eastern Orthodox pilgrims celebrated their Christmas. Unseasonal warm weather at tracted the largest - turnout, of Orthodox worshipers since the Israelis captured the Biblical town 3 y e a r s ago. Midnight Mast) at the Church of the Nativity, marking the tra ditional site of Christ’s birth, was celebrated by the Greek,.Orthodox Patriarch , of Jerusalem, Benedictors I. The service was attended by Israeli military andpfficialsi Arab dignitaries and hundreds of the faithful.- Members of the Beaverhead County 4-H Junior Leaders Club discuss plans for future activities at their monthly dinner Wednesday evening. The young people, who serve as assistant leaders for various clubs, and coordinate county activities, planned a weekend camping trip, participation in several worksMfps, and a review of county fair ac tivities during the dinner melting. Twelve members of the club were present. Bitter Weather Takes Big Toll By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Zero cold clung to most of the nation from the Southwest to the Great Lakes today, taking a heavy toll on fuel supplies and slowing activity. Temperatures eased slightly in sections of the Plains, but subzero readings were widespread for the fourth day from Utah and New Mexico to the heart of the Midwest. Albuquerque schools were closed for the third day this week because “the current unusual cold tem peratures have made it impossible to provide a proper learning at- mosphei#,” school officials an nounced. The heavy demand for natural gas caused pressure to fall to one- third normal in the Southern Union Gas Co.’s lines in New Mexico Wednesday. The company was Warming Trend Across State By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS A clearing and warming trend gained some strength across Montana today, bringing weather relief after some of the most bitter cold of winter so far. Temperatures Tuesday ranged from 37 below zero to 21 above, with perennial coldspot Cut Bank in the unusual circumstance of having the warmest temperature in the state. The warming trend was brought on by the erosion of a cold air mass along the east slopes of the Rockies. Snow was on the ground in most Montana cities, however, after the spate of bitter cold and cloudy weather. West Yellowstone ranked as the snow capital with 44 inches. The Weather Bureau said some snow would continue across the state through Thursday with temperatures showing a slow warming trend in all sections. 1,294 More Unemployed HELENA (AP) - Post holiday layoffs in trade industries and the winter slowdown in outdoor work added 1,294 names to the unem ployment claim list last week, the Montana Employment Security Commission said Wednesday. Moddy Brickett, acting chair- .man of the commission, said the statewide claim . total of 9,533, including 1,787 women, was 28.3 per cent above the same week last year. ¡More than half of last Week’s claim increase came from Billings, Butte, Great Falls, Kalispell and Missqula, Brickett said. Job totals in construction were at a winter low, he said, with some projects closed for the season and others .operating with minimum crews. Logging layoffs were common in most timbered areas except at Thompson Falls where job totals remained stable, he said. A strike at Missoula kept 400 mill hands idle for the second con secutive week. State unemployment insurance checks for 6)283 unemployed workers totaled $242,726 last week, Brickett said. given permission to truck propane to Albuquerque to pump into the pipes to raise pressure. Postal service in the city also was cut back sharply and window service at the main post office was suspended through today after the General Services Administration ordered thermostats lowered to 40 to conserve gas. Thermometers that registered 12 below early Wednesday in Al buquerque failed to show a reading higher than 6 above zero during the day. A temperature of 21 below at Kingston, Utah, broke a pipe bringing water to the village of 150. Residents spent .much of the day hauling water from the nearby hills where the pipe ruptured. A —6 reading at Salt Lake City broke a 6-inch water main under the Hotel Utah. Water flooded tunnels to six downtown buildings, cutting off heat and power for four hours. In Arizona—which recorded its lowest temperature ever with a — 39 Wednesday on the Fort Apache Indian Reservation —the Magma Copper Co. laid off half its 2,000 workers at San Manuel and closed its mine because of a natural gas shortage. Snow-removal efforts cleared most major streets and highways in Nebraska and Iowa after the New Year’s weekend storm 4that halted traffic in many sections of both states. In parts of Kansas and Okla homa, where the weekend storm dumped up to 10 inches of snow, cattlemen and law enforcement officers banded together to get corralled thousands of blizzard- driven cattle and prevent rustling. Blast Kills Broadus Man BROADUS (AP) - A violent explosion ripped through a res idence in Broadus Wednesday night, killing one person but mi raculously sparing the victim’s wife. Killed was Rudolph Amundson, believed to be in his early 70s. Amundson’s wife, Agnes, about 68, was struck by flying debris but was uninjured. She was led from the burning home by a neighbor. Powder River County Sheriff Grant Gatlin said he was called to the house after he heard an ex plosion that “sounded like a sonic boom.” He said that when he arrived the house was consumed in flames. He said the force of the explosion, believed to have been caused by a propane heater; blew out the home’s four outer walls, causing the roof to collapse. An adjacent house, unoccupied at the time of the blast, suffered severe fire damage. U.S. Water Supply Gets Head Start WASHINGTON (AP) - The U.S. Geological Survey says the nation has a better supply of water at the startof this year than it had lh 1970. Hydrologist John C j Hammerer said Wednesday that “streamflows are above normal for this time of the year- in many areas of the nation from California through the northern Great Plains, Missouri, and western Pennsylvania and northern Virginia,” Bill Would Require State Fluoridation By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Mayors of several Montana cities seemed relatively uncon cerned Wednesday when a bill to require mandatory fluoridation of water in cities over 1,000 population was introduced in the Montana Senate. Only one, Kalispell Mayor Lawrence “ L arry’’ Bjorneby, came out in opposition to it. “I am very much against it,” Bjorneby said. “I do not feel fluoridation has been proven to be necessary or good policy.” Bjorneby said he believes a majority of Kalispell citizens was against water fluoridation. He said there was a public meeting “about five years ago” where a state Board of Health representative \was told he was out of place telling the people what to do.” Legislation Would Affect Dillon Water HELENA (AP) — Legislation requiring fluoridation of water supplies in 44 Montana com munities, including Billings, Missoula, Helena and Butte, will be introduced in the Montana Senate later this week. Chief sponsor of the bill is Sen. John C. Sheehy, D-Billings, whose wife is a member of the State Board of Health. The board has requested mandatory fluoridation legislation. Also endorsing the legislation is the Montana State Dental Association. The legislation would require all cities with a population of 1,000 or more to install fluoridation facilities by July. 1, 1973. Fourteen Montana communities are presently adding fluoride to their water supplies. Voters have rejected fluoridation in at least five cities: Billings, Helena, Whitefish, Kalispell and Dillon. Communities affected by the proposed legislation are: Ana conda, Baker, Belgrade, Big Timber, Billings, Boulder, Butte, Chinook, Choteau, Columbia Falls, Columbus, Conrad, Cut Bank, Deer Lodge, Dillon, -East Helena, Eureka, Forsyth, Glendive. Hamilton, Hardin, Harlem, Havre, Helena; Kalispell, Libby, Livingston, Malta, Missoula, Philipsburg, Plains, Plentywood, Poison, Red Lodge, Ronan, Sco- bey, Shelby, Sidhey, Thompson Falls, Townsend, Troy, Whitefish, Whitehall, and White Sulphur Springs. “1 think it should be up to the cities to make their own decisions here,” Bjorneby said. “It seems that people have been stampeded into it by the public health department.” Voicing support for the bill were Columbia Falls Mayor Roger Elliott and Missoula Mayor George Turman. Elliott said some Columbia Falls citizens were afraid water fluoridation would cause a health problem in conjunction with fluoride emissions from the nearby Anaconda Aluminum Company. But, the mayor said, there is “no relationship between the two.” Elliott said he thinks “there is some good in fluoridation. I’d have to be in favor of it.” Turman said he respected the judgment of Missoula dentists who are supporting the fluoridation proposal. Two mayors were interested in the money factor involved. Butte Mayor Mike Micone asked \How are we going to pay for it? ” He said state legislatures \can legislate all these regulations but they never give us the money.” When asked if a fluoridation requirement would cause a hard ship in Great Falls, Mayor John McLaughlin said, “If it cost any money, yes.\ The bill’s chief sponsor, Sen. John C. Sheehy, D-Billings, said Wednesday it doesn’t cost much to fluoridate water, and that cities would have to pay for fluoridation by raising their water rates slightly. Sitting in the middle on the fluoridation question was Cut Bank Mayor Richard Kulberg, who said, “I have’t made up my mind yet.\ And, shying away from the question was Billings Mayor Howard llultgren, who said, “I don't want to get into that.” Senate Passes Bill To Finance Session HELENA (AP) — The Montana SenateWednesday passed its first bill, a bill calling for an ap propriation of $850,000 to finance the constitutional 60-day regular session. The bill, HBl, is up $100,000 from the appropriation request for the legislature two years ago. The so-called “feed bill” was sponsored in the House by Rep. Norris Nichols, R-Stevensville, the chairman of the House Ap propriations Committee. The Senate approved the bill with a 54-0 vote. William Groff, D-Victor, chairman of the Senate Finance and Claims Committee, said the money request was based on present legislative salaries and should be \okay for the first 60 days.” Included in the bill was $100,000 which, if signed by the governor, will pay for new legislative print ing equipment. Groff told the Senate, which acted as the Committee of the Whole, that $40,000 had been left over from the last regular session and this also was included in the bill. Yet to be voted on in the Senate is a companion bill, HB2, which would establish the rate of pay for legislative attaches. That bill would raise top officers pay by $5 per day to a range of $30- $32. Four bills and one Senate Joint Resolution were introduced during the morning session, including a major proposal by Sen. B. J. Goodheart, D-Malta. That bill calls for an amendment to a 1940 statute dealing with procedures for refunding under the gasoline tax. The bill would allow “anyone who pays for gasoline to be given a tax refund.” This, however, does not include aviation gasoline. Goodheart’s bill states that ap plications for refunds must be filed with the Board of Equalization within 13 months of the gasoline purchase. The other bills are: a provision calling for a period of five years within which legal action for damages arising from work or Improvements. op. real property must be started; an amendment outlining steps in validating all joint tenancies created by direct conveyance prior to July 1, 1963; and outlining procedures to be used in lieu of probate. This is in establishing guidelines for probating estates inherited by children. The Senate Joint Resolution, introduced by Gordon McOmber, D-Fairfield, calls for the secretary of Health, Education and Welfare to “ forstall enforcement of regulations” for a period of a year in installation of automatic sprinkling systems in some Montana hospitals. U n u s u a l A n i m a l H o m e H e r e Ghengi, five-year-old gelding, is an unusual animal in equine country. He belongs to Mr. and Mrs. Ray Gilbert of Dillon, and is a Bashkir horse, commonly known in America as a “Russian Curly.” The little horse has unusually thick hair, which curls tightly, almost like a poodle, which gives him his nickname. Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert bought Ghengi from the DeMelle Ranch Ghengi, the Bashkir horse, known as a Russian Curly iß m h & d fi 'V x s J near Bishop, Calif., when he was a weanling. The breeder now values them at $350 at weaning time. The Bashkir horse, which swept across Europe with Ghengis Khan, has a reputation for being very hardy, and is an unually speedy animal for a short distance. He is very tough and as horsemen say, \has a lot of bottom” and will stand a long hard ride without tiring. The Bashkir is not registered, although work is beginning by fanciers of the unusual animal to set up such a system, similar to that used for the Quarter Horse and other more standard breeds. Historians believe the Bashkir first came to America in 1848 when the Russians established Fort Ross on the California coast. At that time several of the animals were imported, and some escaped into the desert to the east where they joined mustang herds. The animal has very strong breeding - characteristics and seems to pass the thick warm curly coat, short brittle mane and tail, heavy bone structure and head conformation on to get, no matter what the other side of the family breeding is. However, they seem to acquire the color of breed with which they are crossed. The Gilbert horse is very gentle/' and has won numerous ribbons in sweepstake races and barrel races at the Big Hole Old Timers Day at Jackson for two years. He has a black mane and tail, and is a buckskin with pinto markings. Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert, both ex pert horsemen, are making their ' home in Montana, and are former Californians. He is a retired building contractor. They first ''•made their home at Bannack, and later, purchased an acreage on the Beaverhead River near Dillon, In addition to the Bashkir; gelding they have several .Ap- paloosa horses and are active - members of .{he Ridihg Club. r- r & ... ................. V . V , _,>).• X . . _ ; / * V ¡d<: .yxUaSfedjfctagliaL Ü T ”\
