Idaho State Journal from Pocatello, Idaho • Page 13

Connolly Will Address State GOP Convention POCATEtLO, IDAHO, FRIDAY, MAY 28, 1974 IDAHO STATE JOURNAL-SECTION 3.PAGE 1 BOISE. Idaho (AP)-John Connally, a former Texas governor and cabinet member, will be the keynote speaker for the Idaho Republican convention in Moscow June 25-26, Connally will address the convention shortly after its convening June 25. GOP party officials said Thursday. Sen. James McClure, R-Idaho, will deliver the banquet address the opening night.

Other speakers for the Friday meeting will be Reps. Steve Symms and George Hansen, both R-Idaho, and two men who are opposing Hansen in the 2nd district Republican primary race--George Forschler of Burley and Dr. Glen Wegner of Boise. Helen Chenoweth, executive director of the party, said training seminars will also be held the first day on campaign strategy, federal and state campaign financing disclosure laws and canvassing precincts to get out (he vote. Delegate selection, elpctinn of party of- ficials and other business are on the agenda for the concluding day.

Vern Ravenscroft 'of Tuttle, who was elected state chairman Isst November, is not expected to have any opposition for election to a full term in the position. Orriette Sinclair of Twin Falls and State Sen. David Little of Emmett are expected to seek re-election as national committeeman and committeewoman. The convention, which will attract more than 500 delegates and party workers, will select 13 national convention delegates from a list submitted by backers of Former Gov. Ronald Reagan and four delegates from a list submitted by the President Ford campaign committee.

Four others will be selected at large and technically will be uncommitted en their first ballot at the Kansas City convention. Idaho Supreme Court To Hear Sixteen Cases BOISE, Idaho (AP)-The Idaho Supreme Court will hear verbal arguments next week on 16 cases including a lawsuit challenging Idaho's 1975 medical malpractice insurance law and another over a state attempt to regulate mining on federal land. Also to be heard is a suit by survivors of some of 91 miners killed in a 1972 fire at Sunshine mine in Kellogg. They are challeging a limit on the amount they can recover in damages. District Judge Marion J.

Callister ruled the Idaho Tort Claims Act is constitutional. It limits any judgment or claim again! an Idaho governmental entity to $300,000 in one incident. Apnes. House, widow of a miner killed in the underground fire, appealed that decision, she contends the law denies the families equal protection and is unconstitutional. Her suit contends, the Sunshine mine fire happened because of state negligence by failing to enforce safety rules.

Mrs. House is one of 41 survivors who filed the action. The case will be heard Thursday. The court will hear next Friday arguments on constitutionality of a 1975 iaw limiting liability of doctors and hospitals for medical malpractice. The iaw, passed shortly after the major liability insurer in Idaho stopped accepting new policies, was designed to make it easier and less expensive for Idaho doctors and hospitals to get insurance.

District Judge Alfred C. Hagan ruled last September portions of the act limiting liability violate the state constitutional guarantee of full and complete remedy for every injury. The law limits liability of doctors and hospitals to $150,000 a claim and $300,000 for any one incident. The court will hear argument Wednesday on an appeal of District Judge James Towlcs' decision that Idaho cannot stop dredge and placer mining operations on unpatented mining claims on federal lands. County Accepts Bid By ESTHER LAKE Journal Correspondent A i a County Commissioners this week accepted a low bid of $11,622 from Ellsworth Construction Co.

of Blackfoot for remodeling of a courthouse annex in the basement of the former LDS Tabernacle building. Other bids were from Cannon Structures, Goodwin Construction and Norm Hammond Construction $19,249, all of Blackfoot. Remodeling plans were prepared by Wallace, Hudson and Associates of Pocatello. Plans are for construction to start as soon as possible, with completion of the remodeling job in 60 days. Remodeling plans do not include any work on the upstairs auditorium part of the building.

"A hanging door will be lowered from the ceiling to cut off the civic center part of the building except when the auditorium is in use," said Mrs. Pat Williams, deputy county clerk. "There will also be glass doors erected to close off the stairs to the downstairs office to keep air conditioning contained," Mrs. Williams continued. Most extensive remodeling will be at the entrance to the annex and in preparing a downstairs vault for county records, she said.

A circular room (used for baptisms when the building was owned by the LDS Church) will be remodeled for use as office space by Bingham commissioners, Mrs. Williams explained. She said space will Hansen Kicks Oft Campaign Nearing Completion Two units in the first of a three-building condominium complex in Lava Hot Springs will be ready for a preview showing Saturday. The condominiums are being built on State grounds west of the swimming pools. Tlie suit arose when Gov.

Cecil D. Anrus and other members of the Idaho Land Board filed legal action to stop three Montana men from continuing a garnet and gold mining operation on the headwaters of the St. Joe River drainage near the Montana-Idaho border until they obtain valid stale mining permits. The defendants said they are operating on federal public domain in the St. Joe National Forest.

They allege the stale has no jurisdicion to regulate mining on that property. The suit was filed against James Click Eugene Weiss and Oral Lake, who live in the Missoula area. The court will hear arguments Tuesday on a suit brought by Boise Water Corp. appealing an Idaho Public Utilities Commission order refusing most of a requested rate increase. The water company asked for a 37.4 per cent increase in 1974, but the PUC authorized less than five per cent.

Condominium Preview Showing Set LAVA HOT SPR1NGS-A preview showing of two model units of the Hot Springs Village, Inc. condominium complex being constructed on state grounds in Lava will be held Saturday. The two models, complete wilh the exception of carpet and furniture, are part of a 32-unit building of studio and one bedroom dwellings. Purchase price ranges from $27,500 to $31,500 unfurnished, and $28,950 to $33,950, completely furnished. It is anticipated that the first building in the Hot Springs Village, Inc.

complex will be completed in mid-June or early July. Construction of a second building containing 16 one and two bedroom units is scheduled to begin immediately afterwards. Bailey Construction Co. of Salt Lake City is building the condominiums with Harry Niebuhr, formerly of Howe, Idaho, superintendent. Following Memorial Day weekend, a sales office will be maintained on the condominium site.

A few units are still available in the first building according to officials in Village Investment Properties, a newly established firm which handles sales and rental management of the condominium units. Members of Village Investment Properties include Dave Sanders of Lava, formerly associated with Satterfield Realty; and two Pocatello men, Dean Funk, assoc. broker, Landmark Real Estate, and Dale Symes, CPA and accounting teacher at Idaho State University. Region'sGovernorsSeekLid on GrazingFees also be provided in the annex for Mort McBain, welfare director, who will also be in charged of renting the auditorium. The driver's license bureau will be moved from its present location in a mobile home to either the annex or the main court house, according to Mrs.

Williams. There is also a chance County Clerk Grace Williams will move her offices into the annex, although all plans for office re-locations have not been finalized, she added. SALT LAKE CITY (API- Five Rocky Mountain governors say proposed increases in grazing fees on federal land will create critical hardships for ranchers. The governors of Utah, Colorado, Montana, New Mexico and Wyoming, therefore, urged Congress today to declare a moratorium on all increases in fees charged to ranchers for grazing livestock on federal land. The governors, in their capacities as directors of the Federation of Rocky Mountain States, said grazing fee increases proposed by the De- partment of the Interior should be suspended until the matter has been investigated by Congress.

The request was in a policy memo drafted by the feder- a i A i a Resources Council, which consists of state agriculture directors, and the land-use committee of the federation's Natural Resources Council. Although the governors are asking for a halt in grazing fee increases, they said they would support "any federal legislation that establishes a 'fair market value' grazing fee formula that incorporates the cost of mar- ketable livestock and the cost of doing business in localities." The memo says that the current formula for setting grazing fees does not account for ranchers' cost of doing business nor for return on their investments. The federation is a non-profit organization of state officials, businessmen, educators and researchers designed to develop policies and programs beneficial to the Rocky Mountain re-, gion. Rocky Mountain states produce some 12 per cent of the nation's cattle and calves and some 34 per cent of its sheep and lambs. Forage on federal land provides about 12 per cent of the needs of western livestock, the federation said.

About 25,000 ranchers in the region hold federal grazing permits for almost 280 million acres of public land, it said. Federal grazing fees have been going up since 1969, according to the federation. In 1968 grazing fees were set at 33 cents per animal unit month (a formula which differs according to the animal) for lands owned by the Bureau of Land Management and 56 cents per animal unit month for lands owned by the U.S. Forest Service. In 1969 the two federal agencies began increasing grazing fees to reach a 'fair market value' for use of the land and resources by the end of 10 years.

Fees, now stand at $1.51 per animal unit month lor BLM land and $1.60 for Forest Service land. The federation says that's a 385 per cent increase in eight years. The increases have created "inequities and uncertainties, causing hardships for ranchow- ners in the Rocky Mountain states," the governors said in their request to Congress. Board Learns of Cost Overrun on Building ST. ANTHONY, Idaho (AP)-Rep.

George V. Hansen kicks off his bid for another term as Idaho's 2nd District congressman today at a fisherman's breakfast. Hansen said Thursday he will announce at the annual St. Anthony fisherman's breakfast and that "will be the beginning of my usual grass-roots campaign. "The people of Idaho's 2nd District and I have been very compalible during my years of public service," Hansen said.

"We largely agree on most of the key issues like keeping government lean and clean and serving rather than dictating." Hansen said he will make his official announcement in all 26 counties of the district. He is serving his first term but also won two terms in 1964 and 1966. The state's other Republican congressman, Steve Symms, also will announce a bid for reelection Friday at Boise. By DAVE CLEMENS Associated Press Writer BOISE, Idaho (AP)-The Idaho Board of Examiners has been asked to approve payment of $1.3 million above bid price for a state office building. The money has already been obligated and board members said they knew nothing of it beforehand.

The new state office building behind the Capitol was bid at $4,098,000 in December 1974. Emerick Construction Co. of Portland entered the winning bid. A letter from A.C. Hartley, manager of the State Insurance Fund, was presented at the board meeting, requesting permission to invest another $1.3 million from his fund in the of- fice building.

The fund provided the money to meet the original construction bid. Also produced was a copy of a May 14 letter from Max Boesiger, director of the Division of Public Works, to Hartley, saying estimated cost of the building had risen to $5.3 million. The board secretary said the letters were the first official communication examiners had received on the matter. Board members Atty. Gen.

Wayne Kidwell and Gov. Cecil D. Andrus said they had not been aware of the additional $1.3 million before Thursday. The Insurance Fund gets money from premiums paid by employers taking workmen's compensation insurance from the state. The fund keeps a reserve to pay claims, and invests the surplus.

The fund will own the new office building, which will be leased by the slate. The examiners tabled the matter until further documentation could be presented. "If they want the money, they'd better come in here with more than a letter," Andrus said. Boesiger said the extra $1.3 million has been obligated. However, he said even with the additional expense, rental cost per square foot of the building to the state would be $4.30.

He said that is below what the state now pays now for private office building space. Boesiger said the original bid was "just for the bare building without any partitions." He said it was decided to hold the bid for the partitions until the building neared completion. Partitions cost $250,000, be said. He said other major expenses not in the original bid were $332,000 for architect's fees; $76,000 for an auditorium and fireproof storage vaults and $42,000 for a sound masking system. Boesiger said the additional fees were approved by D.E.

"Skip" Chilberg', state Director of Administration until he quit (his month. Asked why the extra costs were not presented until the building was finished, Boesiger said, "I don't know." He called the affair a "lack of communication" and said the Department of Administration could have been expected to keep examiners informed. Andrus said the Permanent Building Fund Advisory Council, made up of legislators and laymen, should have done so. Phil West, financial officer for the fund, said the law doesn't clearly require his office to ask examiners' approval of investments. "I think Mr.

Hartley goes to the board more as a courtesy than as a necessity," West said. He said the fund must report its investment transactions to the Department of Finance. "It's up to Max Boesiger and the state as to what they spend over there," West said. Alvin Buckskin LaNada Boyer Lionel Boyer lal? JR Olalhe Creasey Kcsley Edmo Daniel Evening Arthur Hayball Loimic Hutchinson Layton Littlejohn Joseph Thorpe Matilda Warjack Jimmie Dann Roscoe George Eleven Seek Tribal Council Seats in Fort Hall Elections Today FORT HALL-- Members of the Shoshone-Bannock Tribes will go to the polls today to elect three members to the Fort Hall An terms. Terms of Olathe Barney Creasey, Raymond Meeks and Kesley Edmo expire this month Meeks is not seeking re-election.

The eleven candidates are Alvin Buckskin, LaNada Boyer, Lionel Gross Boyer, Olathe Creasey (incumbent), Kesley Edmo, Sr. (incumbent), Daniel Evening, Arthur Hayball, Lonme Layton L. Littlejohn, Joseph Frank Thorpe, a chief judge Fort Hall Indian court. Clyde Osborne, whose term is expiring this month is not seeking re-election. Chief judge candidates for atwo-yeaTM term are Jimmie Dann and Roscoe George The Mis opened at 9 a.m.

and will close at 8 p.m. in the five districts of the reservation: Fort Hall at Buffalo Lodge; Gibson at Eagle Lodge; Ross Fork at Putnam Lodge; Lincoln Creek at the day school and Bannock Creek at the day school. Any eligible member whose name does not appear on the voting list many sign an affidavit of residence in order to vote and is requested lo be in attendance at the tribla office during the counting of the ballots after 8:00 p.m. today to speak in his own behalf, in case there is a question concerning his residence or eligibility. Buckskin is a previous member of the business council.

LaNada Boyer, a 1971 graduate of the University of California at Berkeley, completed one year of law school at the Anlioch School of Law in Washington, D. C. Lionel Boyer attended the University of Utah and ISU. He was formerly employed by the Fort Hall Irrigation Department, the Pocatello School District, the Shoshone- Bannock Tribes, and is presently employed by the Substance Abuse Program of the State Health and Welfare Department. Ms.

Creasey has served three years on the business council. Edmo has served on the business council for more than 15 years. Littlejohn has served on the business council 11 years and has been chairman three times. He is currently chairman of the Fort Hall Housing Authority. Thorpe served 13 years on the business council.

He was chairman and vice-chairman. Hutchinson is presently coordinator of the new indoor livestock facility. Ms. Warjack has had 20 years of experience in working on a one-to-one basis with local Indian people while employed by the Fort Hall Agency and PHS Indian Health Service. Kayball served two years on the business council as chairman and vice-chairman.

He was a member of the Blackfoot school board for five years. George, who is running for chief judge, has been an associate judge for three years. He has taken courses in judicial training and attended workshops and conferences through the American Indian Judges Association. Dann has been chief judge for seven years. He is a member of the Idaho State Magistrates Association and served as president of the Northwest Tribal Judges Association.

He has completed training with the National American Indian Court Judges Association and attended numerous seminars..