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GREAT FALLS CITY FINAL EDITION No. 262 87th Year Great Falls, Montana, Tuesday, January 2, 1973 Single 1 Lower Price by Codv Carrier Deuverj Legislature convenes; senators file 48 bills By STEVEN P. ROSENFELD Associated Press Writer HELENA (AP) The 43rd Legislative Assembly convened New Year's day with a call for unity and the Senate got right down to brass tacks, introducing 48 bills and four resolutions. Senate bills include a $1 million appropriation to finance the first session of the 43rd Assembly, more than 30 measures to implement the new state constitution, iaws to regulate non-profit medical and health service organizations and implement a no-fault insurance system and a proposal to make bluebunch wheatgrass the official grass of the State of Limit the reapportionment of the state legislature to exactly 100 representatives and 50 senators. Raise the milage allowance of legislators and state employes from nine cents a mile to 12 cents.

Create the procedures needed to call special legislative sessions. Require a two-thirds vote in the House, instead of a majority vote, to impeach a state official. Extend the terms of state supreme court judges from six to eight years and district court judges from four to six years. Provide for filling va- Continued on page 2, col. 1 ment the new constituion are measures to: Require a unanimous jury verdict to convict a person of a misdemeanor instead of a two-thirds vote.

Allow liability claims against the state government to accrue from July 1, 1973 to 1974 in order to enact a method of dealing with the government's subjection to suit. Give 18 year olds the rights of adults, including the right to possess beer and liquor. Recreate the State Building Code Council as an advisory arm of the Department of Administration. Require all elections be by secret ballot. Resolutions called for studies by the Legislative Council, including a probe of the problems involved with provisions in the new constitution granting the "right to know" and the "right to participate." The House, waiting for the formal adoption of rules, adjourned after its members were sworn in and its leadership was elected.

Rep. Harold E. Gerke, D-Bil-lings, elected speaker, told legislators they were the representatives of all the peopel of Montana, not just the Democrats and Republicans. He said the House could work hard and get its job done within 60 legislative days in a manner that will make the members proud of the effort. rules for this session of the legislature.

Newly elected senators were sworn in by Chief Justice; James T. Harrison, then got down to the business of introducing legislation. A bill to appropriate $1 million from the general fund to pay legislative operating expenses in 1973 was submitted by Sens. Lynch, Moore, W. A.

"Bill" Groff, D-Victor, Jean A. Turnage, R-Polson, and Gordon E. Bollinger, D-Glasgow. It has been assigned to Groff's Finance and Claims Committee. Another measure assigned that committee sets the duties and compensation of employes of the legislature.

Included in the bills to imple ing to the Legislative Council. Another 200 measures are still in the mill, expected to be introduced in the early days of the session. Tuesday afternoon, Gov. Thomas L. Judge delivers his State of the State address to a joint session of the legislature.

Wednesday, his budget message is presented to the House and Senate. With Democrats in control of the Executive and Legislative branches, these messages are expected to set the tone of the session. The only action in the House, following the election of officers and the administering of the oath of office by Associate Justice John C. Harrison of the Montana Supreme Court, was to introduce the proposed joint Rep. Larry Fasbender, D-Fort Shaw, was elected majority leader and Oscar S.

Kvaa-len, R-Lambert, was elected minority leader. Democrats have a 54-46 margin of control in the House and a 27-23 edge in the Senate. Sen. Neil Lynch, D-Butte, was elected Senate majority leader while Sen. Jim Moore, R-Two Dot, was chosen minority leader in a contest voted strictly along party lines as expected.

Lt. Gov. E. W. "Bill" Christiansen, president of the Senate, told legislators "I hope we can resolve the issues in the spirt of cooperation and in the best interest of Montana." The House has 49 bills and one resolution prefiled, accord Tom Judge is inaugurated as state's 17th governor Forrest H.

Anderson for all his assistance in the past four years and noted the smoothness of the transition into office since the Nov. 7 election. "I feel sure that history will hold a place for Gov. Anderson," he said. Judge said many difficult decisions will have to be made in the next few years by elected officials to handle serious problems and take advantage of great opportunities facing the state and the nation.

Quoting a portion of the Kennedy inaugural address of 1961, Judge said: "I do not shirk from this responsibility. I welcome it." Lt. Gov. E. W.

"Bill" Christiansen responded to his inauguration with a two-sentence statement: "The great task that lies ahead is one that must be contributed to by all Montanans. We will need your help and I know we will get it." Judge and Christiansen are the last executive officers of the state to run independently for office. The new state con-slitulion requires all candidates for governor and lieutenant governor to run as a team, starting with the primary elections. State officials inaugurated New Year's day are also the last in Montana to take a lengthy oath of office. After July 1, the new constitution provides for a more compact oath, eliminating disavowals of campaign spending infractions.

Judge, dressed in a dark blue business suit, received standing ovations before and after his brief inaugural remarks. Anderson, wearing a light brown suit, remained silent throughout the ceremony but gave hearty smiles and handshakes to both Judge and Christiansen. Christiansen, former minority leader of the Montana House and a Hardin automobile dealer, wore a blue-green suit. Carol Judge wore a cream colored knit suit. The rotunda was packed with state officials, family and friends of the governor and lieutenant governor.

Red and white bouquets decorated the marble hall. Spectators, including many of the 150 state legislators waiting for the 43rd Assembly to convene, packed the balconies on the third and fourth floors overlooking the rotunda. Outside, the Montana National Guard fired a 19-gun salute. The only casualty of the inauguration was a clarinetist with the Helena High School Band. The young man collapsed while standing in band formation on the steps leading up from the rotunda, and fell down several stairs.

However, he was not seriously hurt and was assisted out of the hall. Chief Justice James T. Harrison of the Montana Supreme Court administered the oath of office to Judge and Christiansen. He also swore in Atty. Gen.

Robert L. Woodahl and Associate Justice John C. Harrison in ceremonies in the court chambers and later administered the oath to the state Senate. Woodahl, elected to his second four-year term last November, pledged to enforce the laws of the state "impartially and without favor." The attorney general, fighting the flu, said he "thanked the many thousands of Montanans who Continued on page 2, col. 3 HELENA (AP) Thomas L.

Judge became Montana's 17th governor Monday and took a line from the inauguration of President John F. Kennedy, promising to welcome the responsibilities of the office. The 38-year-old Helena advertising man, former legislator and immediate past lieutenant governor, is the youngest chief executive in the state's history. He spoke of the Montanans he had met at Indian reservations, farms, plant gates, campuses and shopping centers during his campaign for election. "I was very inspired by these people," he told 300 invited guests and some 700 others who crowded into the capitol rotunda for the inauguration.

"They want a voice in the decisions that affect their lives. They want to preserve the wholesome qualities of life we enjoy in Montana. They want opportunities and security for themselves and their children. They want a government that is honest, efficient and just. They want a government that cares about people." Judge thanked retiring Gov.

of the Montana Supreme Court. Judge, at 38 the governor in state history, succeeds Gov. Forrest H. Anderson. (AP Photo) GOVERNOR SWORN IN Montana's new governor, Thomas L.

Judge, was sworn in New Year's Day by James T. Harrison, Chief Justice Year begins bloody in Ireland Good Morning! The Lockhorns Vietnam peace effort begins anew WASHINGTON (AP) New efforts to reach a cease-fire in South Vietnam get under way Tuesday as Henry A. Kissinger returns to Washington and American diplomats begin technical talks in Paris. Kissinger is scheduled to meet with President Nixon this week in preparation for his secret talks with the North Vietnamese in Paris Jan. 8.

The presidential adviser has been on vacation in Southern California but is said to have been in direct contact with North Vietnamese officials in recent weeks. Leading up to Kissinger's negotiations will be the technical talks between experts from both sides. Meanwhile, efforts will resume in Congress Tuesday to pressure Nixon to reach a settlement as House Democrats discuss various antiwar BELFAST, Northern Ireland (AP) A girl's scream and the crack of gunfire in the still countryside spread the violence of Northern Ireland south into the Irish Republic Monday in the first hours of 1973. Police discovered dark-haired Brigid Porter and her fiance, both shot dead, in a lonely field after a farmer reported hearing a scream and gunfire at 2 a.m. There was speculation that they were killed as informers by Roman Catholic guerrillas or for sectarian revenge by militant Protestants from the North.

Gunmen opened fire on a car carrying four men to work Monday night in Dundonald, near Belfast, killig one and wounding the others. Police in Belfast announced the arrest Monday of Elizabeth McKec, 25, described by the British army as a high-ranking officer in the outlawed Irish Republican Army. with a bullet in the brain. Another bullet slammed into Brigid's head. Their bodies were sprawled together in the form of a cross in a muddy ditch two miles from the Irish republic's border with Northern Ireland, where sectarian violence has claimed at least 681 lives since August 1969.

Detectives who scoured the field where they lay said the couple, both Roman Catholics, had been driven to a road 300 yards away, forced to walk to the ditch to be shot, just a few miles from their home in the seaside village of Buncrana. Police theorized the couple could have been executed by the Irish Republican Army's fantical Provisional wing for putting the finger on Martin McGuinness, a 23-year-old IRA commander in Londonderry, seven miles away across the border in Northen Ireland. Miss McKee is thought to be the first woman IRA suspect held without trial under Norh-ern Ireland's aniterrorist laws. A guerrilla rocket fired at the Belfast police station smashed through a wire fence and into an office where a woman stenographer worked. She collapsed with shock but was not injured physically.

The army said the missile was a Soviet-made RPG7 rocket of the type fired in early December at police stations and army posts in Northern Ireland. The couple executed in Ireland had been dancing at a village festival celebrating the new year. As they left the dance in the Donegal village of Bumfoot they were bundled into a car and driven to a lonely field by armed men. Brigid's finance. 25-year-old carpenter Oliver Boyce, died McGuinness and his top lieutenant, Joseph McCallion were ambushed by Irish police and captured Sunday with a carload of gelignite and ammunition near the frontier.

The provisional command in Londonderry denied any involvement in what it termed the "brutal double murder." It declared: "We do not make war on women." Another theory was that the couple were the victims of Northern Ireland seeking revenge for their people killed by IRA raiders striking from bases inside the republic. The killings raised to at least seven the toll of violent deaths in the republic in the last three months. Another 160 have been wounded. This has deepened fears the bloodletting in Northern Ireland was spilling over the border. "We have our own little cold war.

He raises the thermostat and I lower it." Weather Forecast Climbers fail to conquer Teton Peak MOOSE, Wyo. (AP)-Slippery climbing conditions and gusty winds prevented 14 members of a climbing party from completing its midwinter assault on Grand Teton Peak Monday, and the leader of the party says if the second half of the group can't reach it Tuesday, they will come down from the mountain. Veteran mountaineer Paul Petzoldt radioed officials at Grand Teton National Park that "rimc'a crusty, frost-like covering, had made the climbing surface of the peak dangerous. He said 12 members will make the attempt Tuesday, and if they are unsuccessful, he entire party will try to make it to Bradley Lake on its way back to park headquarters. A storm is moving into the western Wyoming region, bringing snow to the Grand Teton and Monday visibility was zero at times, Petzoldt said.

Pctzollt said he sighted several other climbing parties on their way up the mountain. He urged that they be warned of the slippery conditions and the avalanche danger. Petzoldt said when the climbing group started out Monday the weather appeared to be good, but when they reached the upper saddle on the final climb to the summit, a northwest wind started gusting between Mt. Owen and the Grand Teton, which made the rest of the climb almost impossible. Since beginning the organized midwinter climb in 1965, Petzoldt, head of the outdoor leadership school at Lander, has made the ascent to the summit twice.

The rest ended in failure, largely because of the weather. East of Divide Winter weather watch. Snow, northerly winds and much colder in some sections today and in most sections Wednesday. Highs today in 30s, lows tonight 0-20. West of Divide Winter weather watch.

Snow and northeasterly winds in some sections today and in most sections Wednesday. Highs today 25-35, lows tonight 15-25. Rose Bowl USC, 42, Ohio Stale 17 Cotton Bowl Texas 17, Alabama 13 House Demos prepare for new Congress Orange Bowl Nebraska 40, Notre Dame 6 WASHINGTON (AIM -House Democrats caucus Tuesday for the first formalities of the new Congress and perhaps for the first skirmish of reitewed" endeavors to push through antiwar legislation. In preparation for the opening of the 93rd Congress on Wednesday, Democratic representatives were summoned to the caucus primarily to choose officers and consider rules changes. The election of Rep.

Thomas P. "Tip" O'Neill of Massachu- wa assured when his only opponent, Rep. Sam Gibbons of Florida, dropped out after failing to gain significant support among his colleagues. O'Neill, a 60-year-old Irishman who first came to Congress 20 years ago, moves up" from majority whip to the No. 2 spot in the leadership, behind Speaker Carl Albert of Oklahoma.

Though the initial caucus may be dominated by organ-izational matters, antiwar members plan to offer resolutions declajf lg the caucus on record against President Nixon's Vietnam policies. The proposals range in severity from a denunciation of Nixon's actions to demands for legislation cutting off U.S. funds for the war. Calls for new antiwar legislation mounted with Nixon's renewal of heavy bombing against the Hanoi-Haiphong area in mid-December. When the President ordered the bombing halted against those targets Saturday, some congressmen tempered their expressions ofji relief with criti cism of Nixon for resuming the bombing at all.

The Senate has passed numerous antiwar measures during Nixon's first term, and Senate Majority Whip Robert C. Byrd, said Sunday he is certain such legislation will be considered this year. But he said he personally would not support such an effort lor 30 to 60 days depending on developments in negotiations. Both the Senate and House were girding for a tug-of-war with the administration over the broag question of the pre rogatives or each in setting spending levels and determining access to foreign policy information. Nixon's lop congressional lobbyist, William fimmons, has said the administration will make a greater effort to inform congressional leaders of executive-branch planning and policies.

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