Idaho State Journal from Pocatello, Idaho • Page 29

BLURRED PRINT PAGE 2 SECTION JOURNAL POCATELLO, IDAHO, SUNDAY. SEPTEMBER 1975 Preston May Get Wafer Funds PRESTp.N-Preston Mayor Lyle Shipley told the city council in its meeting Thursday night that the city could receive a large fedceral grant of about $300,000 to finish its water line project. "I'm optimistic we'll get the funds for our water system. For the first time in our lives we're doing things right," he said. "We're near the top," he added after reading a letter from Congressman George Hansen.

Hansen explained in his letter to Shipley and the council that the funds which had been lost earlier had been tacked onto another bill which passed, restoring grant monies for such projects. The good news kicked off a three-hour meeting which saw the council give a third reading to and pass the city's new abandoned and junked car ordinance. The council also explained to about 25 citizens present that it would not make a final decision on an entrance to the city equipment building until everyone understood ihe proposal. The citizens appeared to protest what they feel will be a devaluation of their property because of city plans to put an alley between two houses on First West and First North Street to the new city equipment shed. "We're not going to make any move until everybody's aware of what is'going on," Mayor Shipley stated following a 45-minute discussion.

In other business matters the Mayor read a proclamation declaring Nov. 4 as the city election. The terms of Couneilmen Lynn Fackreil and Walter Ross will expire this year. Filings must be in to the city clerk by Oct. 1.

Councilman Ross stated that the city had received a grant of $14,039 for resigning the city. The resigning project will take place shortly. All old signs will be replaced with, new break-away steel posts. Some trees will also be removed. High Court Transfers Monies BOISE, Idaho i API--The Idaho Supreme Court has ordered the State Endowment Investment Board to turn over all assets in the public school endowment fund to State Treasuer Marjorie R.

Moon, but a trustee has refused to accept the order. Bill Hepp, trustee for the board, refused service of the court order late on Friday afternoon. "I respectfully refused service of the court order," Hepp said in a prepared statement, saying he was statutorily defined as an em- ploye of the board. He said the court order should be served on Atty. Gen.

Wayne Kidwell, who represents the board, or on members of the board. Kidwell's office is representing Miss Moon in filing the suit. The court ruled a year ago that the state treasurer is the constitutional custodian of the public school funds, which now total about $70 million. That decision came after a five-year fight between Miss Moon and the board over who will be in charge of investing the public school funds. Charging that the board has refused to turn over the funds despite the court ruling.

Miss Moon filed suit last month asking for a writ of mandate to compel the board to turn over the funds to her. Hepp said he had no comment on whether the board would comply with the court order. "1 haven't been served any papers so I comment at this time," Hepp said. Miss Moon said the decision is still technically in the courts until the board's opportunity to answer expires at 5 p.m. Sept.

26, so she didn't care to comment until then. Teaches Idaho Superintendent of Public Instruction Roy Truby. who campaigned for office last year promising among oilier things that he would return to the classroom, is shown teaching at Challis High School as part of a two-week assignment as a substitute teacher. (AP Wirephoto) A Truby Finds Return to Classroom Grueling Book Protesters Repeal MERIDIAN. Idaho (API- Some Southwestern Idaho parents say they're going to try to repeal laws requiring compulsory education.

The group, calling itself the "Group of Shocked Parents," heid an organizational meeting Thursday night. Shirley McKague, Meridian, said several legislators indicated interest, although none urged a redefinition of academic freedom, "with respect to the basic family unit and moral responsibility." Mrs. McKague said in Florida, a parent was arrested for removing her children from school to protest the education they were receiving. Unless Princess Attending Princeton? MONTE CARLO, Monaco (AP) The Monaco royal house has denied that 18-year- old Princess Caroline of Monaco will enter Princeton College this fall, but it did not say whether she might enter at a later date. preventive measures are taken, she said the same thing could happen in Idaho.

About two dozen persons attended the meeting. The group originally organized early this year to battle what it contended is improper material in school textbooks. Mrs. McKague said 1,200 persons donated toward Factfinder Named In Oneida County Teacher Impasse BOISE, Idaho (AP)-An Idaho Department of Education official has been named factfin- der for the impasse between teachers and the Oneida County School District in Malad City. George Hunt, instructional resources coordinator for the department, was designated to study facts of the impasse after talks broke down over a procedural agreement en what items are negotiable and over the amount of money set aside for salary increases.

Both sides asked State Supt. of Public Instruction Roy Truby to name a factfinder. There are about 750 students in the district. Classes ane continuing despite the lack of a contract. publication of an ad condemning the textbooks.

The ad ran in a Boise shopper. Cities Can't Change Census Figures BOISE, Idaho (AP)-A city which annexes new population caii'i revise its census report during the year to receive more state funds, an attorney general opinion says. Boise Mayor Dick Eardley asked Atty. Gen. Wayne Kidwell if cities may alter their population count, by adding newly annexed areas.

Some federal and state funds are given to cities and counties on the basis of population. Included in the per-capita distributions at the federal level are revenue-sharing funds. St te distributions include profits from the state-run liquor business. Kidwell said in an opinion released Thursday a city may use a more recent official U.S. Census Bureau report in lieu of an older one.

But he said Idaho laws do not allow units of go- verbnment to update current population reports to reflect annexations. By TEUI HILLYARD Idaho Falls Post-Register CHALLiS, Idaho (AP)-The halls of Challis High School echoed this week with word of a substitute teacher, but it wasn't just any substitute. Public Instruction Supt. Roy Truby, as part of a campaign promise to spend some time teaching, is spending two weeks here as a substitute teacher. Truby arrived for classes Wednesday morning after attending a school district board meeting the night before.

"We have tried to keep this thing low- keyed. 1 came in as a substitute teacher even though most students in the school do know anyway," he said. Truby acknowledged that teaching is different from what he remembers. "I forgot what it was like to teach six hours a day and when the school day is over you are really exhausted," he said. Classes f.o on as usual during his stint.

He passes out assignments or announces plans tor a test, among other teaching duties. He dined with friend Gale Chambers one afternoon. Chambers is editor of the Idaho Farmer-Stockman. After lunch he had 50 minutes to prepare for a lecture in his final class of the day. He also dictated Setters to his ottice in Boise.

Truby came to Challis for the two weeks with his wife, Sheila, and three children, two of whom are enrolled in Challis schools. Mrs. Truby said she enjoys the time here, although it was hectic registering the children for school. She said the family plans to enjoy a nearby stream for fishing after the assignment ends. His classes at times stray into government topics because, he says, he tries to give students an understanding of how history- relates to current events.

"I want to share with the students some of my experience in government," he said. Federal Court Overturns Indian Convictions SAN FRANCISCO (AP) Constitutional guarantees were violated when three Coeur d'Alene Indians were charged under a federal murder statute that requires a lesser burden of proof than Idaho law, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled. Judges, in what may be a landmark case, reversed the trio's murder conviction on charges of beating to death Emma T. Johnson, 81, of Worley, Idaho, in February, 1974. Gabriel Antelope, 26, Leonard Davison, 18, and William Davison, 15, were charged with first-degree murder under the federal felony murder law.

They argued on appeals that had they been white, they would have been charged under Idaho law, which contains no felony murder provision. Conviction under the federal law requires no showing of premeditation, while that factor must be proven under Idaho's first- degree murder statute. "Needless to say, it requires less evidence to obtain a first-degree murder conviction under the federal definition, with the felony murder inclusion, than is needed to obtain a murder conviction under Idaho statute," the court said. "The cornerstone of appellants challenge is that they are discriminated against by reason of the racial based disparity between government burden of proofs. Because appellants were indicted and convicted under a statute unconstitutional in its application to them, the convictions for murder are reversed." Antelope and the elder Davison had been sentenced to life terms on the murder conviction, while the youngest defendant was given a 12-year prison sentence for his second-degree murder conviction.

Sprout Damage Hits Soft CALDWELL, Idaho (AP)- Some 35 southwestern Idaho wheat growers and warehousemen discussed marketing difficulties caused by sprout damage in wheat at a special meeting here and were advised not to panic. Wheat industry people in the normally arid southwestern corner of the state have en- AROUND OREGON Tiny Sisters Is Worth Stopover for Tourist By ESTHER LAKE Journal Correspondent To your list of tiny towns in the West worth stopover, add Sisters, Ore. When you suffer through hundreds of miles of stunted sage, merging finally into sage and juniper, you finally come to the "recreation area" of yellow pines with the snowy Three Sisters mountain peaks in the a Log cabins, simple and elaborate real estate signs offering acreages then the six blocks or so of Sisters, population 715, according the map. There are 600 residents, according to the lady at the drugstore, who adds. "It's a great retirement area.

We have a development of doublewides "--she nods off toward the endless miles of pines--" and other retirement places on the other side." I know. This morning we saw a couple of jaunty gray-heads bicycling into the village for their morning constitutional. Mountaineers and skiers flock to this country too for the winter recreation sports. In "the summer the street has a steady stream of tourists. Most of them stop for a few hours or a few days, to explore the interesting little shops or to eat at The Gallery, featuring good food and the paintings of an Oregon artist named Ray Everly.

We drove on through to the western side and registered at Sisters Motor walking distance from all of the places we want to explore. Hot August weather in the afternoons cools at night so mornings are cool with air fresh from snow-laden peaks and scented with The first nigh! we went to The Gallery and I had a top sirloin steak--about the last red meat on this journey because when we hit the ocean I'm living on seafood! What fascinated me at The Gallery were the price tags on Ray Everly'r, paintings which line the walls. As an artist, Ray Everly has the eye of a camera, recording in minute detail every last twig and wrinkle, depending on whether he is "photographing a lace or a mountain. There is no selectivity, no center of interest, no feeling. His paintings are giant color photographs recording actual details.

I thought at first we were viewing the clever work of some photographer who had found a way to reproduce color photography on canvas, then realized these were paintings. The pricetag on the nearest was $10,000. "Are you kidding?" we asked the waitress. "Do you really think someone will buy that for SIO.OOO?" "Oh yes," she said, shocked. "That's a Ray Everly original! There are some over there at S14.000." "That's Ray Everly over there," she said, nodding at a balding man with blackrimmed glasses.

My impulse was to go over and ask him some embarassing questions--but he was eating with a group of friends and I decided to leave the man in peace. If he can sell his "originals" for that, it proves P. T. Barnum had something when he said: "There's a sucker born every minute." The six-block area of about the only street SISTERS CITIZEN' Bonnie McDonald pauses for moment in her work at Sisters Craft- works, a shop featuring iron, stone and wood. (Photo by Esther take, Journal correspondent) in Sisters is lined with wood buildings of another era--false fronts, wooden railings and scroll work, store lettering in the ornate black Gothic of a century ago.

Rocking chairs and tubs of geraniums add a cozy touch, to front porches. All phony recollection, of course, but charming and a relief from neon and plastic and our shopping-center civilization. The little shops that line the street show real individuality. "The Shearing Shed" has weaving supplies, knitting, macrame--all hand crafted. Summit Lines has mountaineering supplies.

A little sign on the door indicated the place was closed for the weekend because the owner himself was off mountaineering. (Most shops here are open on Sunday.) Hotel Sisters seems ID be an old hotel, spruced up and redone. In the corner of the lower flcor is a unique woodcraft shop of handcarved wood pieces and furniture by the "Cosmic Carver" who offers "Your Ideas, Carved in Wood." Next to this is a little shop called the "Stitching Post" of sewing, quilting, patchwork, decorating. And on the side of the building is posted a typed list of summer art classes and workshops for painting and sketching, tolc work, stained glass crafts, leatherwork. Down a ways is an interesting junkshop called and Antiques-Curios and Collectibles.

It is an informal place whore you can browse and paw through things. Katherine's Fashions, with its wooden exterior showing rockers on the porch and a rail fence, has really fine clothes of well- known names. And right next to our motel is "The with gingham gowns and aprons, all kinds of arty handcrafted objects, and for something unusual, cones of old-fashioned freezer ice cream for Zi and 45 cents. Sisters is out to charm the tourists. If you drive through Sisters and don'l linger, for a few hours or a few days, you're missing something! Antelope and Leonard Davison were also given consecutive 15-year terms for burglary and robbery convictions.

Trial testimony indicated that the naked Mrs. Johnson was found lying in a pool of blood. Witnesses said Antelope had kicked her to death. About S2 were taken in the burglary. The appeals court said its decision, issued Sept.

5, was the first of its kind. In theory, it could mean that Indians cannot be charged with federal law violations in situations where the state lav; on the same crime differs from federal statute. Asst. U.S. Atty.

Mikel Williams of Boise a rehearing is being sought. He said that if that request is denied, an appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court will be considered. All three Indians are being held in federal institutjons. countered sprout damage this year and are generally unfamiliar with the problem.

The condition is caused by rains during harvest season. Idaho Wheat Commission Administrator Harold West, Boise, told the Friday night meeting that the off-quality condition occurs occasionally in areas with higher rainfall. He said the problem was first brought to light in 1968 when Japanese noodle-makers complained of poor quality flour. The northwest produces large quantities of soft white wheat for the Japanese and other Asian market -I, THE WAY IT IS Off By RICHARD LAKE THE BEACHES-Sisters didn't want to let us go. In the heat of the afternoon we sat out behind our cabin and entered intc the spirit of the ponderosa pines.

Esther said there were a million birds in a tree nearby. For once I didn't argue with her. The wind was singing and sighing genllv through the great yellow pines. Summer blue sky and eternal snow on the mountains. I couldn't read for fear I would miss a minute of it.

In a way I wondered why we should leave such perfect contentment. Today the reason came out from behind fog and showed itself. We began to see signs saying, "To the beaches." We resume our love affair with the sea. In my semantic-dominant mood I will tell you that the sea is just a basin of water slopping back and forth. The conversation of the waves is manufactured within our own minds, and means only what we want it to mean.

Today I can feel the keys of the typewriter trembling as the surf pounds. As I do every year, I rush to view the breakers as though I had never seen them before. These breakers, of course, I never have. More semantics. If the sea was not man's ancient home and primal origin, many of us act in eloquent testimony that it might be so.

Something comes over me. I tremble like the keys of the typewriter. I listen for more subtle messages. Of course, I am a bit off because of the rush of sea-level oxygen to the brain. Don't worry, the semantidsl will become dominant again, and I will debunk the sea.

Tonight, hoivever, I must eat some seafood to gain strength. For a few days you will hear nothing from me except beach talk and driftwood dialogue. I am searching for my psyche, which was nurtured in the seacoves and sirenglhened in the surf, My brain is saturated with salt air. I won't be able to analyze further Ihe crazy doings of mankind until 1 have recovered from this oxygen jag and completed my mystic ceremonies. We arc going up the coast tomorrow for an historical reason.

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