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'Tis the Season to Be Jolly' 'Keep Trying Attitude Brings Hope for Glasgow Base Use Fashion coats in your ioice of leathers and utter-soft suedes toward which the entire Montana con Great Falls Tribune An Independent Newspaper Circulation more than 39,000 morning; 46,000 Sunday WILLIAM A. CORDINGLEY Publisher WILLIAM JAMES EDWARD P. FURLONG Executive Editor Managing Editor THE TRIBUNE'S POLICY 1. Report the news fully and impartially in the news columns. 2.

Express the editorial opinions of The Tribune only in the editorial column on this page. 3. Publish all sides of important controversial issues. 1 3iSi fmfi Fall's great fashion news is leather and here are two of the season's best styles, done in a choice of supple leathers, zip-lined in deep acrylic pile! 1ta Thursday, Dec. 19, 1968 8 Misses' 8 to 18.

SUEDES Thursday, Dec. 19, 1968 Great Falls Tribune 9 Lobo Staging Comeback Yellowstone Welcoming The Wolves at Its Door YELLOWSTONE PARK Evidence is mounting that the wolf, historically part of the natural scene in Yellowstone Park, is making a comeback. Park Superintendent Jack K. Anderson says wolves have been seen a dozen times in, Yellowstone during the first L0 months of this year. One of the wolf spotters was Marshall G.

Gates, a seasonal ranger who returned to Yellowstone on a vacation last winter. He was photographing wildlife when a wolf suddenly appeared in the view finder of his movie camera. As a result there is now photographic evidence of the animal's presence. Anderson recalls that frontiersmen considered the wolf a menace and for many years afterward the role of such predators in maintaining the balance of nature was little appreciated. Thus from the 1870's through 1926 wolves were poisoned, trapped and shot.

By that time it was asssumed. they had been eliminated. However, park records show lone animals were reported in 1932, 1938 and 1942. A couple were spotted in 1944 and two more in 1953. Someone saw an adult and three pups in 1955.

Others were seen near and within the park through 1966. Then in 1967 two lone wolves and two groups containing three or tour animals each were reported. This year there have been sightings of one group of three gressional delegation, state officials and Glasgow leaders have been working for some time. If the Army contract goes through, it is expected from 300 to 500 workers would be employed for as long as two years. It would not be a big enterprise, Kimmitt said, but "it would be the beginning of a new use for Glasgow." And with continued cooperation of the congressional delegation, state leaders and the Glasgow community, it would not be the end of the "keep trying" attitude that has been displayed.

There are other irons in the fire, including several plans for private industries to use the base. LEATHERS It has been almost six months since Glasgow Air Force Base in northeastern Montana was closed as a military facility. In view of the many months that have passed since it was announced the base would be deactivated, it may seem that an inordinately long time has gone by with nothing done toward finding a constructive use for the $100 million base that costs $600,000 annually to maintain. But now there's a glimmer of light on the subject, and it is a result of application of that well-known motto: "Keep Trying." Retired Col. Joseph S.

(Stan) Kim-mitt, secretary for the Democratic majority in the U.S. Senate, said here this week that by mid-January it may be resolved that small military items will be manufactured at the base. It all hinges on an Army contract 3 GI for Bible verse for today: have fought the good fight, I hare finished the race. I hat kept the faith. II Timothy 4:7.

SHOP WARDS FOR HER GIFTS! A WIDE SELECTION AT LOW PRICES! Our Readers' Opinions Speech Clinics Praised To the Editor: The Speech Club of Belt Valley High School would like to thank C. M. Russell, Great Falls Central and Great Falls high schools for their help at the speech clinic at C. M. Russell Dec.

7. These schools provided to speech students the opportunity for instruction and criticism in their areas of speech. We not only found what we were doing wrong but also how to improve. We appreciate their help and urge other schools to participate in clinics such as these, as well as regular speech meets. GENIE WHITAKER and LINDA PIMBERTON, Belt Valley High School, Belt 'Conflict in Cultures' To the Editor: 1 read with Interest, the letter of Mrs.

Arthur Huyghe of Conrad anent calling Attorney General Forrest Anderson at 6:45 a.m. and finding our Governor-elect less than eagerly responsive. What we have here is a conflict in cultures. Coming from Big Sandy myself, I can report that by 6:45 a.m. the roosters were all up and crowing, and things had been going along in great shape for some time.

My mother used to make sourdough griddle cakes which got us all out of bed well before 6:45 a.m. But down in Helena where they drink wine out of ladies' slippers. 6:45 a.m. is the "real dark night of the soul." Next time I hope Mrs. Huyghe's emergency comes at 6:45 p.m.

because that's getting around to the second martini time when those Helena fellows are real bright-eyed and ardent, or something. DAN CUSHMAN, 1500 4th Ave. N. Story Protested To the Editor: I should like to register a protest about your story flatly stating that a fake "COD man" was in the Great Falls area. Apparently neither you, Mr.

Blount nor the sheriff's office checked with Mr. Fuller at the Post Office. Also, did Mr. Blount check with Mrs. Blount about expecting a package? Possibly the story is true, but pertinent facts should not have been omitted if it was check out.

GEORGE H. WILLIAMSON, 1225 4th Ave N. Editor's Note: The result of an investigation by Mr. Fuller, which proved the COD man was NOT an impostor, appeared the day following the original story. 1 generally, and he has good reasons.

For one thing, tax credits further complicate an already excessively complex federal revenue system. They are another form of government subsidy. But unlike normal subsidies, it is hard to pinpoint their exact cost because it is buried in many thousands of tax returns and account books. As a result, Congress finds it difficult to compare costs and benefits when it considers ending or extending a particular program. As sound as Mills' case may be about tax credits, there is something very disturbing and potentially damaging for the economy about the fact that one congressman can wield so much power over such a vital area of national interest.

It is another argument for giving the President authority to adjust tax rates, up or down, within prescribed limits. This would make the powerful taxing function a far more effective economic regulator, stimulating the, economy when it needs thrust, retarding it when inflation tends to get out of control. Other Editors Say Give President More Taxation Leeway Milwaukee Journal Wilbur the Wilful, they call him. And with good reason, for Wilbur Mills, the Democratic powerhouse from Arkansas, is one of the most influential and determined (some might say obstreperous) men in Congress. As chairman of the powerful House Ways and Means Committee, he has a final say on federal taxes, as Lyndon Johnson was reminded when he tried to get the recent income tax surcharge bill passed.

To insure that everyone understands the ground rules. Mills publicly gave a piece of his mind to President-elect Nixon. The array of tax credit proposals that the Republican backed during his recent campaign mainly to encourage industry to do more on job training, pollution control, etc. "won't get anywhere, in my opinion," Mills said. Mills has long been opposed to tax credits and eleven lone animals.

"Some of the reports undoubtedly involve the same animals," Anderson concedes. "However, differences in size and coat colors indicate there are at least six wolves living in the park now." Park officials hope the wolf is here to stay. "One thing people come to Yellowstone to see Is the animals," said Anderson. "This will give them a rare chance to look for, see. and hear wolves." Besides, the wolf would assist in restoring natural controls on those elk and buffalo herds which stay within the park all year lonq.

At present, wolves are not protected on lands adjoining Yellowstone. The Park Service hopes hunters on these lands will not shoot them while numbers are still low. Anderson says a cooperative program with the Bureau of Sport Fisheries and Wildlife provides for selective control of wolves that might move into areas where they are troublesome to farmers and ranchers. He feels this will rarely be necessary because of the Marge blocks of remote wilderness bordering Yellowstone National Park. Adult wolves usually weigh from 60 to 100 pounds and are larger than coyotes, which range from 20 to 40 pounds.

it i i The Nixon-Rogers Myth TT James Reston Htm $nrk Hi The Idea of a University Board Chief Cites Need For 'Water Insurance' ft s- be his own Secretary of State. He may try, but it is not likely to work, and Nixon is not even likely to try. vL -v mm v. Max Lerner 11 Srlk 1 Hie annual runoff ranges from a high of 40 inches to a low jof one-fourth inch. The average is five inches.

Over half of the state has less than an inch of annual run Ml A ua VPs BILLINGS (AP) A comprehensive water development plan is Montana's best insurance against the claim of downstream states on Montana water, Everett V. Darlinton. director of the Montana Water Resources Board said Tuesday. Darlinton, who appeared at a meeting of state legislators, ex Art Buchwald The Christmas Play rV off. About half of the total streamflow occurs in May, June 1 plained the board's activities and outlined its legislative re quests.

He said a complete inventory on the state's water resources is less than one year from completion. A number of facts about state water have already been devel and July when melting snow-combines with the rainy sea-' son. Some 15 million acre-feet water annually enters the state from Canada and Wyoming while 43 million leaves the state for a net loss of million acre-! feet. Some 3.5 million acres of land are either under irrigation or have water rights for irriga-jtion. Irrigating that amount of land would require more than 10 million acre-feet.

Darlinton said intensive efforts This mood is bound to spread to Congress. The Clark Kerr commission, in its Carnegie Report, wants the children of the poor, and especially the black poor, to get into college in much larger numbers and is asking Congress to double federal college aid to $7 billion by 1970 and almost double it again in 1976 to $13 billion. I leave it to you to say how enthusiastically Congress will greet this program in the time of the campus barricades. The present cry is for a "black curriculum" on the campus, for lowering the admission requirements for disadvantaged black students, for raising the scholarships and subsidies given them, for granting immunity to disciplinary action against students who barricade college officials in their offices. This is a new phase in the history of Negro social action and in American university history.

The "black curriculum" has obviously become the campus counterpart of "black power" in the ghettos. But the inner city has been quiet recently, while the campus has been seething. Partly it is because the Negroes in the inner city have grown tired of riots which result in Remember when going off to college meant going to an ivory tower? Now it means going to the barricades. The students are majoring in "confrontations," with a minor in "sanctuary" and another minor in "laying siege to the president and the deans." In my own classes at Bran-deis, 1 find that the best function 1 can serve is to bring into focus the ideas and emotions that are swirling through the campus, and through the minds of the students, and get a calm discussion of them against the backdrop of history and the life-experience of societies. Any notion of sticking to the syllabus and the topic assigned had better go out of the window along with other ancient customs.

These are times that try administrators' souls. It takes steel nerves, a hearty constitution and a feel for the absurd. The parents are, I think, taking it harder. 1 can remember when parents knocked themselves out to get their child into the college of first choice. Now they are anxiously asking how much violence the college has experienced and are wondering whether they raised their boys or their girlsto become campus guerrillas.

oped from the inventory, Darlinton said, including: Precipitation varies widely in the state, from 56 inches in the northwest to less than eight inches in the Red Lodge Three-quarters of the state receives less than 14 inches of precipitation a year. i THE SWEATER have been made to accumulate date on both surface and ground water for the survey. TAKES ON A NEW SPARKLE ORLON KNITS ARE GALA GIFTS WASHINGTON Whoever thinks the theater is dying in America probably doesn't have any children of school-age. The truth is that the class Christmas play is still the hottest entertainment around. It is playing to capacity, captive holiday audiences everywhere.

I was on my way to work with my friend Renfrew the other morning. He asked if I would mind stopping by his daughter's school. He had promised to see her in "Hark! Is That a Snowflake Falling?" a play that the eighth grade had been working on since Sept. 17. Since Renfrew drives me to work on cold, wet mornings, I didn't have much choice but to say I would.

"It won't take but a few minutes," he assured me. We went into the school auditorium, which was rapidly filling up with proud parents, though I noticed most of the fathers were anxiously looking at their watches. A teacher handed us a mimeographed program that I scanned for a few seconds and then said, horrified, "Renfrew, each class has its own play, starting with the kindergarten. 'Hark! Is That a Snowflake is listed as the ninth item." "It will go fast," he assured me. "They're very short plays." We waited for the 9 a.m.

curtain to go up, but because of some hitch it didn't go up until 9:35. The kindergarten did "Up the Chimney," which went for 10 minutes. The first grade did a musical titled "What Angels Do We See Tonight?" with a reprise at the end. The second grade was well into "Grump, Grump, a Christmas Slump" when I turned to Renfrew and said, "It's 10:30. I have to get to my office." "Ursula has seen me," Renfrew whispered.

"I can't go now." "Which one is Ursula?" "She's one of the snowflakes," Renfrew said. "There are 15 snowflakes." "She's the one who's waving to me." He waved back. "It won't take long." As each child finished the lines in his play, I noticed an anxious father jump up from his seat and dash for the door. After the third, fourth and fifth grades had finished their presentations, the auditorium was half-empty. I like Renfrew, but I couldn't help wishing he had a child in one of the earlier grades.

The sixth grade did a mystery play, and the seventh performed "How They Got the Christmas Tree From Maine to Arizona," which required a sequence about each state en route. It was 11:50. Only the parents of the eighth grade were still there, and one stranger who, if he had to do it all over again, would have gone to work by taxi. Finally, "Hark! Is There a Snowflake Falling?" was ready to be performed. A hush went over the audience.

"No matter how many times I see her on the stage, I still tense up," Renfrew said. A fairy princess came down the line of snowflakes and held her wand over Ursula's head. "And what do you want to be?" Ursula stood up straight and blurted out, "I want to be the first snowflake on Christmas morning that any child will see." The princess moved on. "Okay," Renfrew said, "we can leave now." "You got to be kidding," I said. "We sat here four hours for one line?" "You're lucky," Renfrew said, "last year she was a church bell and all she had to say was As we were driving downtown Renfrew said, "Well, tell me.

What did you honestly think?" "Renfrew," I said, patting him on the shoulder, "it was a memorable morning in the theater." SALE! A NEW YORK There is a deceptive myth making the rounds these days that President-elect Nixon chose William P. Rogers to run the State Department because he wants to be his own Secretary of State. This theory, based on Rogers' limited experience in foreign affairs, involves a mis-judgment of Nixon, Rogers, the close personal relations between the two men and the nature of the State Department job. No doubt President Nixon will take an active part in the definition and negotiation of problems with other nations. He believes in personal diplomacy, particularly with the leaders of authoritarian governments.

He talks a lot about meeting with the Soviet leaders, not in one summit conference, but in a series of summits, and he will probably revive Franklin Roosevelt's habit of making periodic reports to the people over the air. All signs, however, point to an institutionalized presidency under Nixon rather than to the strongly centralized presidency in the person of President Johnson. Collective Leadership Nixon has been remarkably adroit so far In avoiding some of the larger stupidities of his own campaign propaganda. He has clearly put his own personal stamp on the cabinet, and he dominated it when he presented it to the nation, but he has picked and is organizing his administration so that it can operate under the collective leadership of the Cabinet aided by a vigorous and articulate White House staff headed by Dr. Henry Kissinger of Harvard.

Nixon did not pick Dr. Kissinger to head his national security staff and Pat Moyni-han to run his White House domestic affairs council because he was looking for personal aides, but because he wanted efficient cabinet committees operating in accordance with a pre-circulated agenda under the staff system. The President-elect spent three long meetings with Dr. Kissinger explaining how he proposed to organize the Cabinet Security Council team and even longer with Rogers on the same subject before appointing them. Nixon is a cautious man.

He is well aware of the fact that Johnson made several critical moves in the escalation of the Vietnam War without careful analysis in the National Security Council, and that President Kennedy, who, like Johnson, was bored with tedious debates in the Cabinet room, made the same mistake when he plunged into the Bay of Pigs. The outlook, therefore, is not for a President trying to be his own Secretary of State, but for the new Secretary of State presenting his case on major issues before the NSC and after much more consultation with the State Department experts than was the case under Johnson and Rusk. William Rogers, like any other Secretary of State, will have only one client the President of the United States -but he is a forceful advocate, will define the considered judgments of his department in the Cabinet with precision, and will do so with the kind of confidence that comes only through long years of easy and friendly association with Nixon. Equal Relationship Indeed, the Nixon-Rogers association is likely to be a much more equal relationship than the Johnson-Rusk relationship, close and trusting as that was. There was always the danger in personal conversation with Johnson of being overwhelmed by the power of his personality and policies.

Also, Johnson had a way of relying, not alone on the institutions of the presidency, and not alone on the advice and debate in the Cabinet room, but on outside advisers, and from time to time on outside negotiators and private emissaries. This is not likely to be President Nixon's way. He will be very much out front, but only after the most careful private and organized discussion. The days of one-man dominance are not coming but going. Cabinet meetings are tiresome and time consuming, but Presidents are much more likely to get considered judgments when key questions are defined in advance, discussed within the departments, and then presented to the President in the presence of other Cabinet members.

Questions posed suddenly by the President to a single cabinet officer take less time but often get a less reasoned response. No President, not even Johnson, can do all the things he has to do and also 0 the death of their people and the burning of their houses. The campus Is a safer arena for activism than the ghettos, and college officials are more responsive than police. Besides, the development of militant black leadership on campuses in the next five years can be an important prelude to the transfer of that militant leadership into the ghettos in the following five years. That is why the Black Panthers and the Progressive League groups, in California and elsewhere, have thrown in their lot with Negro rebellion on the campus.

the realm of education it means a drastic change in the conception of a university. The idea of a university as a place where learning happens and the life of the mind is explored is now considered square. Instead, the university is now seen as an arena where the conflicts of society are fought out. and as an engine for social action and social transformation. The white activists on the campus join with the cause of the black activists, even though the reverse has not always been true, since the black students are still caught in the dream of parallel subcultures on the campus as well as parallel societies outside.

Faculty members are in ferment, trying to make some sense of events that are moving faster than events have ever moved for them. Some of the younger ones throw themselves into the fray, with a feeling that if the larger society cannot be transformed, perhaps the university can, and if it has to be closed down and even bloodied up in order to transform it, the cost is not too high. Some of the older professors also join, unwilling to let a revolution pass them by toward the end of their life, as life itself has passed them by earlier. Others are ready to fight a rear-guard action to keep the university as a place where the role of ideas can operate. Still others are tortured between their cherished idea of university standards and their sense of guilt about black experience in America.

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