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GREAT FALLS TRIBUNE MONTANA'S BEST NEWS GATHERER United Press Associated Press VOL. 69, NO. 238 GREAT FALLS, MONTANA, SUNDAY, JANUARY 8, 1956 McFarland Makes Position Clear 'Tension9 Increasing Between Missoula, University President Autopsies Fail To Yield Clues Twin Slayings By Tribune Staff Writer HELENA Increasing tension between residents and officials of the City of Missoula and the administration of Montana State University is expected to come to a head soon. Dr. Carl.

McFarland, university president, has challenged those tie regards as foes of continued and orderly expansion of the campus and has made his position so clear it is only a matter of months before the State Board of Education will have to take a stand for or against him if pressures from the municipality continue. The conflict between "town and gown" may come up at the Jan. 20 meeting of the board here. However this month's session is not one of the four meetings each year required by law and regularly attended by presidents of the six university units so a formal inquiry may be y4x wKiM 1 'W jf '-frit -j, I 1 iv'f 3 Hopes that information gathered in the investigation of the cold-blooded killings of Patricia Kalitzke, 16, and Lloyd Duane Bogle would eventually lead to a tieup with the murderer was all that developed in the fifth day of the investigation. Autopsies on both the girl and the youth failed to add anything of value to the probe.

Dr. C. E. Magner, county coroner, reported no bullet fragments were found. Some tests remain to be completed but it appears doubtful the autopsies asked by coroner's juries would nrnvirlp anv lparl in tha cn.

5 JJZ11 f7 J' siili Moving of Indians Rapped In Letter From Mansfield "An Indian on a reservation has an opportunity to fight for his rights, but once he leaves he has 'lost all." Mansfield urged the Interior Department to withdraw its opposition I to pending legislation which would I provide welfare funds for Indians I living in the Hill 57 area at Great (Falls, Mont. i "These people cannot and are prepared to go out into society jand compete with other citizens," ihe said. "They need education, im-; proved health facilities and adequate opportunities for economic WASHINGTON UP) The federal government should shoulder its responsibility for the welfare of all American Indians, on and off reservations, Sen. Mansfield (D-Mont) said Saturday. Mansfield said in a letter to Wesley A.

D'Ewart, assistant secre tary of the interior, that interior officials apparently are eager to move Indians off the reservations, knowing full well the Indians will no longer be wards of the federal government and consequently ineligible for federal aid. "Hasty action," he said, "only adds to the overburdening of state and local governmerts and discred its the federal government." Conditions among off-reservation Indians are "deplorable," Mansfield declared. "State and local welfare agencies are unable to pro vide all the necessary assistance. AMEN Heartfelt sorrow over the over a roaa emoanKment seven miles north or Great Falls sometime Monday night or Tuesday, apparently prompted unknown persons to erect this sign. It was found Saturday by sheriff's officers at the spot where the Great Falls High School junior's body was found Wednesday by a county road patrol operator.

The tragic death of Patricia Kalitzke, 16, over the area in hopes of finding a .1 i tt. delayed. The January meet- mg was called primarily to hear a report on a special in vestigator report into howi services at the State Orphans Home at Twin Bridges may be improved. McFarland, it has been learned here, made his personal position clear in a letter to Walton R. Taylor, Missoula city manager, last month.

In that message he wrote: "I have never thought I could survive on my present job for more than five years, which period is all my good predecessors had and is soon to be up for me, so if the position now becomes untenable because of the attitude of certain hotel-men, barkeepers, real estate brokers, and other special interest groups I shall be neither surprised nor discomfitted." Copies of this letter were repro duced and have received rather wide circulation throughout the state in the last week. So far as could be determined here the controversy has not reached the stage where alumni pressure has been encouraged but it is taken for granted graduates as well as students, faculty members and administrators of the university sys tem will be encouraged to place themselves on record before the board of education reviews, at a spring session, the question of re newal of contracts for all presi dents of the six university units. A check of the minutes of the board of education reveals in November it received a letter from James S. Umber, president of the Montana State Federation of Labor, contending the University Food Center had been catering to outside groups for luncheons and dinners which otherwise might have gone to downtown establishments where union cooks and waiters were em ployed. The minutes show the matter was tabled at the November meeting, held in Great Falls, until the December meeting here but there is nothing to indicate any further action was taken.

Earlier, it is known, a protest was submitted to the education board by State Fire Marshal Arthur Parsons against the closing of certain streets or roads within the campus boundaries so as to make it more difficult for municipal firefight-ing equipment to reach some of the fire plugs which have been established on the campus in connection with the city water supply system. So far as can be determined the education board has taken no action on this communication. McFarland charges this complaint by (Continued on page 4) officers returned to the scene to go 41. I I 1 1 i w-v Mansfield Proposes Daily me gin ami ncr uoy menu, iioya uuane uogie, is, vvaco, airman, earlier. Harland McDonah, director of the sheriff's office identification Foreign Policy Checkup First in County Alderman J.

J. Obstarczyfc Files for Commissioner Fussy Thief Abandons Part of Loot BILLINGS Sheriff's deputies renewed their search for a fussy thief Saturday when a strongbox PRICE 10 CENTS mercilessly murdered and dumped clue to the blood-thirsty killing of that might have been overlooked bureau, took the picture. Cascade County Taxpayer's League. He is married and the father of three children, all of school age. The family home is at 827 2nd Ave.

NW. A past president of the Eagle's Lodge and state vice president of the aerie, he also is a charter member of the West Great Falls Kiwanis Club and presently manager of Hansen oil JOHN J. OBSTARCZYK and gas wholesale and distributing company. Born in West Great Falls Dec. 27, 1909, Obstarczyk attended local elementary and high schools.

He was in the baking business for a number of years, and for the last 12 years has been associated in the real estate and wholesale gas business. He entered politics for the first time last spring, when he was elected alderman. In filing for the county office, Obstarczyk said he is 'opposed to application of the newly established property revaluation figures to the assessment rolls. He declares he will do all in his power to reduce taxes in order to place the county on a competitive basis for securing business and industry that will stimulate employment. All county purchases should and will be placed on competitive bidding, he added in pledging courteous public service if elected.

Charge Dismissed KLNGSPORT, Tenn. (IP) City Judge Brantley Blue dismissed a charge that cab driver James Reed violated a local law by al lowing a passenger to ride in the front seat with him. The passenger, Judge S. G. Bilgreath testified that he had asked to ride in the front seat because he had just recovered from pneumonia and wanted to sit next to the heater.

containing part of his 1 a Cascade county, John J. Ob- i i il i found about eight miles south of here near the Hardin road. H. O. Gangstead, local wrecking and towing service operator, found the box at the roadside near the top of Hardin hill on Highway 87S.

It was stolen in a burglary of the F. D. Alkire residence here last Aug. 4. Only two $10 bills were missing from the box," deputies reported.

The thief discarded a diamond and platinum ring and several business papers in the box. The ring con tained one large diamond and eight smaller stones. lution of the killings, Magner said. A car found abandoned on the Belt highway with a bullet hole in the door proved to have no connection with the slayings, Harland McDonah, deputy sheriff in charge of the identification bureau, reported. McDonah said the owner had been located and it definitely had been proved the car had been in tne location trom wmch it was ordered towed by the Highway Pa trol several days before the two young people were killed in what appeared to be a "Chinese exe cution." Detective Sgt.

Jack Anderson of the Great Falls police department, assigned to the case along with Sgt. Fred Peres, said, "We've questioned a lot of people and gathered a lot of information. Now we just hope some of it will help lead us to the killer." Anderson said so far nothing definite has been established and it appeared the killer was "very lucky" or "planned it very care fully." The mother of the murdered airman, Mrs. Albuquerque Bogle, is expected to arrive in Great Falls from her Waco, home shortly after funeral services there for her 18-year-old son. Officers hope Mrs.

Bogle may be able to give them some informa tion as to whether or not the youth mentioned being afraid of someone or of having been threatened. The provost marshal at Malmstrom Air Force Base Saturday night said despite rumors to the contrary, his of- fice knows of no airman absent without leave from the base. He also said no one at the base was being held, although a large number of men are being questioned about the murders. Contributions to the Kalitzke Bogle Reward Fund established by committee of Great Northern em- ployes, Saturday night was termed "disappointing with only $10 received in the mails during the day. Saturday's receipts brought re ward totals to $1,110 including $500 pledged by GN employes and a second $500 fund established by the Cascade County Trades and Labor Assembly.

Robert Klassen, secretary-treas urer of the GN employes reward committee, said solicitation would continue in hopes of swelling the fund to be paid to the person pro-1 viding information leading to the arrest and conviction of the killer of the young couple. Klassen said his committee Sat urday placed receptacles tor re ward fund contributions in 22 local business establishments. He said additional canisters would be placed today and Monday. Contributions also are being accepted through the mail and should be sent to the Kalitzke-Bogle Reward Fund, care of Postmaster, Great Falls, Klassen said. Three young boys found Bogle's body lying beside his car in a "lovers' lane" west of the city Tuesday morning.

His hands were tide behind his back with his own belt. A coroner's report indicated he had been shot through the head, probably between 10 p.m. and mid night Monday, and died about four hours later. The body of the Kalitzke girl, fully clothed, was found Wednesday afternoon by a county road patrol operator about seven miles north of the spot where Bogle was murdered. She also had a bullet hole in her head.

Magner reported she apparently had been shot about an hour after the boy and also died several hours later. 78th Birthday FLAT ROCK, N.C. (IP) Carl Sandburg, famed "poet of the prairie" and biographer of Lincoln, celebrated his 78th birthday today "looking forward" to more writing. He said he has no plans for retirement. Where You Go to Church Column on Page 6 ineral Land Along Divide Being Sold LOS ANGELES OP The president of a dog and cat food company disclosed Saturday he is purchasing $11,000,000 worth of Montana-Idaho property reported rich in thorium, a radioactive industrial fuel.

D. B. Lewis, Los Angeles, manufacturer of Dr. Ross dog and cat food, said the property was located near Salmon, Idaho, and was partially in Montana as it splits the Continental Divide. Part of the property has been paid for with $6,000,000, some ol it cash, and another $5,000,000 is in escrow, Lewis said.

It was bought from the Idaho Thorium and the Salmon Uranium Inc. Lewis said present plans called for stockpiling along with continual development of the area and extensive installation of mining and milling equipment. Lewis said a federal license had been issued to permit sales of the thorium outside the United States. He said the property, consisting of 175 claims, had been tested and found to be rich in high grade thorium ore. Train-Auto Crash Kills Seven Persons SOUTH BEND, Ind.

(IP) Seven persons were killed Saturday when a carload of youngsters en route 1 to a high school basketball tourna ment wras struck by a Grand Trunk Railroad passenger train, sheriff's deputies reported. The dead included a mother from New Carlisle, who was driving her two daughters and several teen-age youths to Walkerton. It was believed some of the youths were members of the New Carlisle basketball team. Police said the station wagon in which nine persons were riding cleared one of two tracks in nearby Crumstown, then was struck by the train. Six persons were killed instantly, one died soon after the accident in a hospital, and two were ized in critical condition, sheriff's deputies said.

Police listed the dead as Mrs. Louis Berzai, the driver of the car; two of her daughters; Roger Lind-sey, 17, Lydick, and Mack Baird, about 16. Names of the other two victims were not available immediately. Officials at Memorial Hospital listed the injured as James P. Ruther, about 16, and Louis about 15 or 16.

Land Sought For Children's Center Here HELENA UP) A proposal to purchase state property near Great Falls for location of a rehabilita-' tion center for crippled children will be presented to the Montana Land Board Tuesday, Land Commissioner Lou Bretzke said Saturday. Representatives of the Montana Society for Crippled. Children planned to meet with Land Board members. They hope to acquire enough land to locate the center in the Montana Addition adjacent to city limits, Bretzke said. It is in the same suburban section south of Great Falls proposed for development and annexation to the city.

Last summer, the Land Board sold about nine acres to the school district for a future school site in Montana Addition. Bretzke said the board also may be asked to sell about a section of land on Freezout Lake in Teton' county to the Montana Fish and Game Department. The agency plans to enlarge its waterfowl refuge. Fairfield Police Chief Nabs Burglar With $1,300 Loot progress. This is long range program in need of much planning and study.

All indigent Indians should be the responsibility of the federal government, regardless of tribal affiliation or location," he said. posed areas" such as the Middle East. South Asia and Africa. Mansfield said he would scan, the administration's request for additional military foreign aid funds closely. But he said he would be willing to "double or even triple" funds for technical help to underdeveloped countries.

Blast Brings Rash of Calls In Missoula MISSOULA UP) An explosion of about 25 sticks of dynamite on the Clark Fork River Bank just west of Missoula stirred the city and surrounding area Saturday. Telephone calls poured in to the sheriffs office and the police and fire departments from residents who heard or felt the blast. Glenn Jones, construction super- intendent for the Montana Power said the contractor on the natural gas distribution system was blasting frozen gravel on the river bank. 1952-54, Storti's team compiled a 14-10 won loss record. His best record was made in 1954 when his team won 8 and lost 1, losing only to Montana State University.

He was named RMC coach of the year in 1953. Dr. Keith Bowen of the Health and Physical Education staff will continue to serve as freshman football coach as well as wrestling coach. "Under the new arrangement the head football coach is responsible for the football staff and program," Renne said. "Most institutions, including many of this region and MSC opponents, have been following this procedure of pinpointing responsibility, with apparent satisfactory results.

"As a rapidly growing and enlarging institution, Montana State College must, strengthen its various programs in keeping with that growth and to meet more effectively the competition of other similar public institutions with which MSC has athletic relations." "To be fully effective the coaching staff must be a closely knit, harmonious unit. Modern football is a highly organized sport requiring adequate individual coaching of the various players and with effective over-all coordination and smooth- teamwork for best results." MSG Rehires Tony Storti As Head Football Coach WASHINGTON UP) Sen. Mans field tD-Mont) called Saturday for a dav-to-day assessment of Ameri can foreign policy which he sail would enable this country to cour. ter promptly Russian cold war (thrusts. Mansfield, a member of the SeE ate Foreign Relations Committee, criticized current U.S.

foreign poi icy as too rigid, asserting: "We have to be flexible to meet the situations as they arise, and therefore have to operate on wha really amounts to a daily assess ment schedule. The Montana Democrat said in an interview that in the light oi present Russian strategy "some of the old ideas inherited from previous Democratic administrations and carried on by this administration may have outlived their usefulness." In this connection, he said the "containment policy" was "ex- tremely effective in bygone years." But he said its potency has "less ened considerably" now that the Soviet Union has begun what he de- scribed as "leapfrog jumping" over the containment line and "penetrating into forward or ex- However, Renne inferred that all was peaceful saying John W. (Brick) Breeden would continue as athletic director head of the Department of Health and Physical Education. Storti came to MSC from Stout Institute, Menomonie, in 1952. TONY STORTI He played halfback for the Uni versity of Delaware during his col lege days.

In his first three years at MSC, V- 5 Inaugurating 1956 political activ- starczyk, a Great Falls resident 46 years, filed Saturday for nomina tion as county commissioner on the Democratic ticket. A member of the City Council, Obstarczyk is alderman for the Fifth Ward. He is the first person to officially file for public office in the county, and will seek nomination in ihe June 5 primary for the post now held by Commissioner Robert Frost, representing District No. 1. Frost's term expires this year.

Obstarczyk, a properly owner, is the newly-elected president of the O'Neill, was released to Richland County authorities for questioning in connection with a break-in at Sidney. The car carried no license plates at the time O'Neill was stopped by police here. A car of its descrip tion, bearing expired Oregon plates, was being hunted here after law officers received reports it was a car whose driver had eluded high way patrolmen near Helena recent ly. The driver at that time was thought by police to be Raymond Board, known by police as an asso ciate of Perkins. Weather 2 Above IvJ Zero at Midnight at The Tribune building Great Falls Partly cloudy today, tonight and Monday.

High today and Monday, 43. Low tonight 30. Great Falls Precipitation 24 hours to last midnight X) Total this month to date. T. Same month to date last year 72 Normal this month to date 14 Jan.

1 to date this year T. Jan. 1 to date last year .72 Jan. 1 to date, 30-year normal 14 MONTANA FORECAST East divide Partly cloudy west and north; (air southeast; few showers, rain and snow western mountains today; high 35-45 except 10-20 northeast; partly cloudy, little change in temperature tonight and Monday. West of divide Cloudy with occasional snow or rain today and tonight; little change in temperature; high 30-40; partly cloudy, little change in temperature Monday.

(Montana weather map on page 23 City Mar. Min. City Max. Mln. Albuquerque 57 30 Minneapolis 21 0 Boston 37 20 New Orleans 69 59 Calgary 1 5 New York 30 24 Cheyenne 57 20 Okla.

City 38 21 Chicago 33 26 Phoenix 75 49 Dallas 53 40 Salt Lake 58 30 Denver 48 22 S. Francisco 57 49 Fairbanks 3 12 Seattle 43 35 Kansas City 29 11 Spokane 45 33 Los Angeles 66 47 St. Louis 33 14 Loot, including $1,300 in cash and checks, taken in burglaries at two Fairfield business firms was recovered by Fairfield Police Chief Albert Becker with the arrest of a man about 3:50 a.m. Saturday. Becker arrested Donald G.

Perkins as Perkins was backing up a 1955 car on the Fairfield main street in an attempt to pick up loot from Carlson's Cash Store, one of the burglarized firms. Loot from a break-in at the Silver Dollar Bar was found in his car. Becker said the bar was looted of $1,300, four pints and 11 quarts of whiskey, and 49 cartons of cigarettes. Entry was through a rear door that had been left unlocked. Becker said he found two suitcases inside the front door of Carlson's store.

They contained a pistol, clothing and about 100 cartons of cigarettes. The police chief learned of the burglaries when an employe of the Silver Dollar bar told him he had seen three men leave the bar through the rear door Becker then discovered the Carlson store had been entered through the front door. When he entered he "flushed" two of the thieves who escaped through a rear window. They were seen leaving town in a black sedan. Perkins, apparently unaware Becker discovered the burglaries, was backing his car toward the store when Becker placed him under arrest.

Perkins later was transferred to the Teton county jail at Choteau. Perkins is from Portland. A 1950 car registered to Edith O. Perkins, Portland, Perkins' wife, was impounded by police here a few days ago and its driver, Harry B. BOZEMAN UP) Anthony (Tony) W.

Storti has been named head football coach at Montana State College, President R. R. Renne announced late Saturday. The position became vacant ear ly last week when Wally Lemm sub mitted his resignation. Line Coach Dale Digerness previously The 33-year-old former MSC foot ball coach returns at the request of the MSC administration to the position he held so successfully for three years.

He quit a year ago to enter the insurance business then later re turned to MSC as associate director of the Public Service Division. Montana State competes in the Rocky Mountain Conference. Rene said Storti will have full authority to recommend th staff who will assist him. These assistants will include a head line coach, an end coach and backfield coach. Previously only two men handled the varsity football coaching chores.

Storti is en route to Los Angeles for an. NCAA meeting opening Sunday. When Lemm resigned Thursday he said, "A situation is taking place in the Athletic Dept. with which I do not care to be associ ated." i.