Idaho State Journal from Pocatello, Idaho • Page 11

POCATELLO, IDAHO, TUESDAY, JULY IW7 IDAHO STATS JOURNAL-SECTION PACC 1 Summers Pleads Innocent BOISE, Idaho (API-Former State Sen. H. Dean Summers, K-Boise, pleaded innocent in U.S. District Court today to seven counts of income tax and banking violations. His trial was set for Sept.

6. Summers was indicted by a federal grand jury earlier this month on three counts of income tax evasion between 1970 and 1972 and lour counts of making false statements on banking transactions. U.S. District Court Judge William Sen- warzer, San Francisco, ordered Summers released on recognizance. The judge said attorneys for both sides in the case have agreed to refrain from making any public comment "to make sure the defendant has a fair trial." Summers was a seven term veteran of the.

Idaho Legislature until defeated by State Sen. Ron Twilegar, D-Boise, in 1976. For several terms he was chairman of the Senate State Affairs Committee. Summers' attorney, James Rlsch, said he planned to file several motions later in the day. Judge Schwarzer said they include a motion asking for a change of venue, a motion to sever the various counts against Summers and an effort to obtain testimony presented before a federal grand jury in Boise.

The judge set deadlines for both sides to prepare written statements and ordered a pretrial conference Aug. 29. Idaho Statesman Reporter Charles Etlinger was subpoenaed by the defense for Summers' arraignment but was not called upon to testify. U.S'. Atty.

M. Karl Shurtliff declined comment on whether he and attorneys for summer have been conducting plea bargaining in the case. The government alleges Summers filed income tax returns for 1971, 1972 and 1973 which did not contain his true income. Summers has confirmed that he is accused of a tax deficiency of about $18,000. The bank charges claim Summers made three false statements concerning stock ownership of Farmers and Merchants State Bank of Meridian, of which he is a part- owner, and one count of making a false statement to the Bank of Idaho, Boise, in which he formerly held stock.

Summers also owns a Boise insurance agency. On June 17, Summers and Idaho Potato King J.R. Simplot were among the persons named in a civil complaint filed by the Commodities Futures Trading Commission alleging manipulation of the Maine potato futures market to lower prices. Earlier this summer, Simplot paid a $40,000 fine after pleading no contest to a charge that he and some of his potato firms had failed to report all of their income tax liability during the early 1970s. Garden City Couple Killed GARDEN CITY, Idaho (AP) A 67-year-old Gar- Uen City man apparently shot his wife Monday night then killed himself with a 22-caliber pistol, Garden City officer Ralph Snell said.

Pebble Helen Cox, 63, was found shot in the temple on the front lawn of her trailer home in Garden City shortly before 8 p.m. Monday evening, Snell said. She died shortly after arrival at St. Alphonsus Hospital, officers said. The body of her husband, William H.

Cox, was found inside the trailer home with a bullet wound to the head, Snell said. Snell said his investigation is continuing and no motive for the shooting has been established. Man Faced Sex Charge HAILEY, Idaho' (AP) A Boise man who allegedly killed his stepdaughter and a bar patron before fatally shooting himself was receiving psychiatric treatment after being charged with sexually molesting the 15-year- old girl, say Blaine County officials. Last Friday, Dennis Sechrest, 36, took Dana Blankenship hostage and walked into a bar where his estranged wife worked, said Sheriff Orville Drexler. Within minutes, the girl and a customer, Fred Klamm, 58, of Paul, Idaho, were dead, and Klamm's wife, Darlene, 52, was wounded, said Drexler.

Sechrest shot himself in the head with a rifle died early Saturday morning in a Boise hospital, the sheriff said. Blaine County court records' shdw Sechrest was charged April 5 with sexually molesting his stepdaughter. The charge, signed by Sechrest's wife, Nancy, was later dropped by the county prosecutor in exchange for Sechrest seeking psychiatric counseling. Mrs. Sechrest filed for divorce the day after charging her husband with molesting her daughter.

Officers said Sechrest had visited the resort where Mrs. Sechrest worked earlier Friday to discuss community property. Escorted by a deputy sheriff, Sechrest was last seen returning to Boise. Speaker Opposes Grant BLACKFOOT, Idaho (AP)- House Speaker Allan Larsen, R-Blackfoot, said today the Bureau of Land Management's offer to turn over to the state only 1,120 acres of the 8,007 sought in the Island Park area "is entirely unacceptable." Larsen, chairman of the Legislature's Land Grant Committee, said he was asking the Idaho Land Board to reject the offer and insist upon the full entitlement of 8,007 acres sought in the Eastern Idaho resort area. Larsen said the BLM's offer was not consistent with what members of Idaho's congressional delegation and the land grant committee were told by Interior Department officials at a meeting in Washington in June.

Larsen said at that meeting Interior officials "told us that the entire 8,000 acres would be turned over to the state, probably within 60 or 90 days." Larsen said the Idaho Land Board had a meeting lined up with Secretary of Interior Cecil Andrus in Washington last week but it had to be cancelled when Gov. John V. Evans was hospitalized for a hip replacement. Begin Mop-Up Firefighters began mop-up operations on parts of the 1400-acre Pattee Canyon fire southeast of Missoula while other crews worked to completely contain the fire which has destroyed six homes in the area. (APWirephoto) Board Elects Off leers, Sets Contracts By MARY MATTHEWS Journal Correspondent MALAD-Re-elected board members, Donald Vaughan and Dan C.

Williams Sr. were sworn in as members of Oneida School Board at the July meeting. Vaughn was re-elected board chairman and Williams vice chairman. Also re-elected as treasurer was Paul Evans. Teaching contracts for Clyde Ahlquist as junior high school math teacher and head basketball coach, and for Mrs.

Elaine Watts as elementary school music instructor were approved. Also approved was hiring Mrs. Christine Davis as school lunch supervisor, suc- cedding Mrs. Lola Beeton, who retired at the end of the school year. Ahlquist comes from Pocatello where he taught the past four years at Irving.

Mrs. Watts taught last year at Byron, Wyoming, and also taught piano at Brlgham Young University, Provo, where she studied. She attended Ricks College, Rexburg and has a bachelor's degree in music. Two of her five children are at home and will attend Malad Schools. Resignation of Melmda Micn- eles as fourth grade teacher was accepted.

She will teach at Grand Junction, this coming year. Advertising for a teacher will be done immediately. Alterations In scaling at the gym were discussed. Malad High School Principal Jerry Esplin said recommendations of LaDell Andersen, USU athletic director, and Williams, coach at Colorado State University, Ft. Collins, who had conducted a basketball seminar here this summer, were to remove bleachers that had been installed over the edges of the gym floor, and to provide padding along concrete walls around the gym.

The Board instructed Esplin to see that the rows of seats on each side of the gym are taken out before school started. i were, opened on recovering floors in the elementary building. Low bid of $2,575 submitted by Leon Stucki, Logan, was accepted provided it included all the main floor hallway. Bids i elementary building were discussed. Specifications called for use of asbestos, which contractors pointed out is a cancer-causing agent and not used extensively any more.

It is also much more expensive than other materials. All bids were rejected. Supt. Howard May was instructed to call for new bids using new specifications for the roof work, and for sanding Ihc gym floor, to be opened at a special meeting to be announced soon. May was also instructed to call for bids for school bus insurance, fire insurance, gasoline for school buses, diesel for buses, and for one person to help in the school lunch program in Malad, all to be considered at the regular August meeting.

Elementary Principal Phil Gillies told the board a helper is needed to bring lunches from the Snowville, Utah, kitchen to the Stone school where some 30 students will be served this fall. The Snowville School furnished the lunches to the Stone stud- a i a arrangement between the two districts. He was instructed to contact Mrs. Bonna Anderson, who served as teachers' aide last year at Stone, to see if she would be interested in the job. Supt.

May was approved as authorized representative for the Board in matters dealing with all federally funded programs. Evans and Williams said they felt the high school band program situation should be reviewed and steps taken to adjust the program to attract and retain more students. Complaints from students and parents prompted the action. Quotations on repair to the high school library work room and for installation of a section of deteriorated sidewalk at the high school will be obtained for review at the special board meeting. The Board was asked if the Holbrook school property could be put up for sale.

Vaughan said the Board had earlier decided not to let any school real property go, as such land might be needed for future expansion. Teacher in-service training dates prior to school opening date, Aug. 29, were set as Aug. 17 and Aug. 25 or 26, with other in-service training scheduled later in the year.

Mrs. Betty Jones told the Board she planned to have a i program developed by spring. Athletic department will order a set of colored and of white varsity basketball uniforms, with proceeds from ticket sales to be used to pay costs of some $1,000 for the two sets. The jayvee uniforms are worn out, Esplin said, and the old varsity uniforms will be "handed down" to the jayvees. Extra curricular assignments were made.

Bill Schmidt will serve as athletic director, head football coach, assistant basketball coach, and freshman basketball coach. Ahlquist will serve as head basketball and baseball coach, assistant football coach, and eighth grade basketball coach. Frank Madsen will be wrestling coach, and AJay Jones, boys' track coach. Roslyn Brimhall will serve as head coach for girls' basketball, volleyball and track, and as pep club and drill team adviser. Marvalene Broadhead will be drill team coach.

Other assignments were Deon Hanson, declamation; Edith Thomas, yearbook and journalism; Betty Jones, drama; Ralph Bennett, band activities; George Bush, assistant to secondary school principal. Head coach stipends vary from $600 to $840, and assistants, $360. Other activities carry various extra wages. Supt. May was instructed to prepare a letter for Board signature complimenting former Supt.

Lloyd Sorenscn on his faithful discharge of his duties as a teacher and later as superintendent, and thanking him for his services. Among the bills paid were $6,569.62 to Gem State Equipment for a new 66 passenger gasoline bus; $1,314 to Frank Madsen for repair work on school buses; Thomas Plumbing, for new radiators, repairs on grounds sprinklers, and the heating system; to Cassia County School District for elementary students tuition and transportation, and $418.64, (or secondary students. Lloyd Sweeten questioned the Board regarding a figure in the recen! school audit. IHC Suggests Wing DOWNEY-Marsh Valley Hospital board met with Gary Pherson, Intermountaln Health Care inc. area administrator, and Doug Carpenter, also of IHC, in a regular July meeting.The transition of the hospital as an affiliate with IHC is going smoothly, they said.

Such services as purchasing, personnel services, accounting and data processing will be made available to the hospital through this program. IHC architects submitted three proposals for solving the over crowded conditons In the laboratory at the hospital. The board favored the plan which called for the building of a separate 960 square ft. building south of the hospital. Finances for such a venture were discussed, with no definite commitments being made.

Hospital board members will journey to IHC headquarters in Salt Lake City for a tour of its facilities in September, with a definite date yet to be set, it was decided. Dr. L. G. Burkett introduced James Erwin of Arizona, medical student at University of Utah, here for a month with Burkett, as part of his schooling requirements under the prospective physician plan, with which Burkett Is affiliated.

The board changed their regular meeting time to the third Thursday of each month at the hospital at 2 p.m. August 18 will be the next meeting. Oneida Collects Taxes MALAD-Mrs. Vesta Nielsen, Oneida County treasurer, reported that $282,594 was collected in second half of 1976 taxes last month. Total 1976 lax bill for Oneida residents was Of this amount, became delinquent.

First half collections amounted to $555,239, or 62 per cent of the total charge, Mrs. Nielsen said. Tax roll in 1976 was $117,000 above the 1975 charge, due to increased levies and higher property value in the county, the treasurer said. Gasoline Burns Youth MALAD--Heros come in all sizes, and five-year-old Brooks Tovey is lucky his brother Roger and his friend John Wakley, both 10, knew what to do in an emergency. Brooks had found some gasoline in a can and was trying to carry It into, the house to show his brother.

He found a match somewhere, and as small boys, and girls, do, lighted it. Gasoline that had splashed onto his clothing ignited. His screams alerted the older Tioys" to HISTSscnerRoger tackled his brother, rolling him on the ground to control the flames. John reached through flames of gasoline burning on the sidewalk to turn on a water hose and put out the fire on the boy's clothing. John and Roger are Cub Scouts and credit their action on training received in the Scouting program.

A neighbor, Colleen Anderson, took the boy to Oneida County Hospital where his grandmother, Mrs. Joe Morgan, is employed. He was treated there, and moved to University of Utah Medical Center, Salt Lake, for surgery on his legs and left hand. He received second and third degree burns. Brooks' parents, Mrs.

and Mrs. Gerald Tovey, were away from home when the accident happened. John's parents are Mr. and Mrs. Ben Wakley.

Revenue Funds Sought MALAD-A request for between of Oneida's federal revenue sharing funds for use in setting up Oneida Medical Services, was presented to Oneida County Commissioners by Mrs. Betty Jones, hospital board chairman, and Eldon Corbridge, Board member. Five mem, representing the entire community, will form Oneida Medical Ser- vides board of directors. They will be selected from Lions Club, Chamber of Commerce, Hospital Board, Commissioners, and Malad City council. Oneida Rod and Gun Club representatives asked the Commissioners to see that public accesses to public lands are kept open.

Access to First, Second and Third Creeks on Oxford Mountain (Deep Creek) have been fenced off, and some other areas. County Attorney J. Wesley Crowther was told to investigate. Repairs to access roads to reservoirs were also requested. Commissioners approved a request by the TV Translator Board for funds to hire a surveyor so the required ground application on the Cherry Creek site can be completed.

Bingham Bans Booze BLACKFOOT- Any beverage with alcoholic content is now banned inJJlngham County public parks. Bingham commissioners on Monday approved an ordinance banning drinking or possessing alcoholic beverages In county parks. At the present time this will affect only Sportsmen Park in Aberdeen. North Bingham Park near Shelley is being developed, but is not yet finished. Jensen Grove Park on the Snake River near Blackfoot belongs to the city and will not be affected by the county action.

Blaze Costs Company BLACKFOOT-Fire brought around $425 damage to Olson's Salvage Company at 1420 Camas Street here at around 1:15 p.m. Monday. Blackfoot firemen said sparks from a cutting torch apparently caused the blaze that destoyed four cars and two sheds. A flare-up brought firemen to back the scene Monday night. Laetrile Faces Battle BOISE, Idaho (AP)-An Idaho state legislator plans to introduce a bill allowing sale of the controversial cancer drug Laetrile, but medical and legislative leaders say it faces an uphill battle.

Rep. James Colder, R-Boise, says he plans to introduce a bill in next year's session to allow sale of Laetrile when prescribed by a licensed physician. The drug would be given only to a patient who signs a written statement acknowledging he is voluntarily asking for the drug. Dr. Charles Smith, medical director of the Mountain States Tumor Institute at Boise, said he can't support the use of Laetrile since it has not been proven effective against cancer.

"It has not been shown to be of any benefit in cancer treatments and we do not support the use of Laetrile," he said. Smith said tests are under way to determine effectiveness of the drug. Until it is proven of value, he said, "We do not think we should be prescribing drugs that may only serve to detract from the rigorous therapy which can in many cases be effective against malignancies." Sen. John Barker, R-Buhl, chairman of the I Idaho Senate's Health, Education and Welfare Committee, said he was hopeful research will provide more information about the drug before the Legislature has to deal with Golder's bill. Dr.

Charles Robertson, a radiologist and president of the Ada County Medical Association, said he has mixed feelings about the Colder bill. "If it doesn't hurt anybody and doesn't: prevent patients from getting other care, the bill doesn't seem out of line to me," he said. "I may be sticking my neck out," he said. "I doubt that Laetrile has any value whatever, but if it will make some people at least feel they've tried everything, then OK." State Rep. Ronald Lechelt, Dldaho Falls, the only physician in the Idaho Legislature, said he would vote against the bill.

"I guess my chief concern is that I've seen nothing to indicate that laetrile is effective," he said. Colder said he is sponsoring the bill to give people another alternative in cancer treat-, ment. Wilderness Acres Added SPOKANE (AP) Thirty million acres Is about the most that is likely to be added to the existing 14 million acres of land designated as wilderness in the United States, says Asst. Agriculture Secretary Rupert Cutler. Cutler, the official in charge of wilderness are expansion, said Monday that environmentalists should trust the U.S.

Forest Service to make the right decisions on proposals to establish roadless wilderness areas. "It's not the Nixon-BuU administration anymore, when they (were) told to produce timber and to hell with the environment," he said. "The Forest Service has a difficult job ahead of it In trying to weigh and judge a long list of priorities in roadless areas." Cutler answered questions at a conference of environmentalist leaders during a fact- finding tour of the Pacific Northwest. At an earlier news conference he said, "I don't consider wilderness to be a lockup but something to preserve for generations." Backcountry areas like the Idaho Primitive Area, the Beartooth region of Montana and parts of Alaska deserve wilderness protection, Cutler said. Cutler also said he opposes removing the Forest Service from the Agriculture Department, than 40 years..