Great Falls Tribune from Great Falls, Montana • Page 19

I I II IH liiMlf Mr- rv 18. l79 Great Falls Tribune 19 Bill would restrict kidnapper discussions If Ml t' iRGENCYl Tl HANDLE ff I AFT AWSTMU I -I ymcms oom, puu on lL lOCK WRi Villi BREv By GARRY J. MOES Associated Press Writer HELENA (AP) A state representative from Hardin introduced a bill Wednesday allowing police to cut or divert telephone lines to ka'p someone who is holding hostages from talking to outsiders. The bill appears to be a reaction to a much-publicized case lust year involving Clyde Rector, who was later acquitted of charges he murdered a highway patrolman. While he held hostages in Eureka shortly after the killing ef Patrolman Michael Ren, Rector talked at length to an Associated Press newsman in Helena via telephone.

The taped telephone conversation became a major legal battle between the news service and prosecutors. The bill, introduced by Democratic Rep. Thomas Conroy, would allow the supervising law enforcement officer in an area where hostages are being held to order telephone security employees to cut, reroute or divert telephone lines to prevent the holder of the hostages from talking to anyone other than police or individuals authorized by officers. While it is clearly aimed at preventing the kind of situation which involved Rector, it could, in some circumstances, impede conversations between a suspect hostages and those who might be trying to dissuade him. In House floor action, tentative approval was given to bills making the Joint Interim Revenue Oversight Committee permanent, allowing allow cattle to stray onto another person's property; Make Indian studies permissive rather than mandatory for teacher certification; Add wood-burning stoves to the list of alternative energy generation forms qualifying their owners for lax credits; The salary increases proposed for state officials are in line with recommendations by the Montana Salary Commission, a citizen panel created to make salary recommendations to each session of the Legislature.

Following are the proposed salaries, with present pay in parentheses: Governor $40,750 lieutenant governor $29,750 secretary of state $25,500 attorney general $37,750 state school superintendent $33,000 state auditor $25,500 public service commissioners $26,500 Supreme Court chief justice $11,750 justices $39,750 ($36,000) Supreme Court clerk district judges $38,500 The House approved a bill Wednesday repealing a law which gives the lieutenant governor extra pay when lie serves as acting governor. Lt, Gov. Ted Schwlnden has always declined the extra dollars. The bill requiring the Department of Institutions to provide vo-tech programs at the State Prison comes following appointment of a special legislative committee to look into allegations of that government grant courts to give grandparents visitation rights with grandchildren in cases of divorce or death of the children's parents and to create a state lawyers pool. The House split 50-44 in advancing to final voting stage a controversial bill aimed at keeping landowners' gates across county roads open to hunters and recreationists.

The bill raises the fine for locked gates from $10 a day to $100 a day. Ranchers and farmers in the House opposed the bill, saying landowners must protect themselves from the careless. They said the bill will lead to more posting of private lands against trespassers. Among the 28 new bills introduced in the House Wednesday were measures to: Require no-smoking areas in public places and raise cigarette taxes by 1 cent to fund cancer and health education projects; Raise salaries of all elected state officials; Require vocational education courses at the State Prison; Allow the Board of Public Education to accredit private or parochial high schools who request state accreditation, at no special expense to the requesting school Declare that coal slurry pipelines are not a beneficial use of water; Further subject district court judges to county budgeting processes; Allow bread to be sold at metric weights; Make it a crime to knowingly elected state officials. (Appropriations) (South, Fasbender) Excepting confidential employees from the definition ot a public employee In a collective bargaining law ond restricting labor organizations representing employees of the Board ot Personnel Appeals to unaffiliated labor organizations.

(Labor). HB213 (Williams, others) Generally revising me property tax ctassifi cation system. (Taxation). H8214 (Dozier) Revising the laws relating to apprenticeship programs. (Labor).

HB215 (Magone) Clarifying the fiscal duties of the state treasurer. (State Administration). (Vincent, others) Allowing tax credits for installation of wood-burning stoves. (Natural Resources). HB2I7 (Hirsch, others) Clarifying the audit requirements tor third-class school districts that do not maintain a high school.

(Education). HB218 (Hirsch, others) Requiring the Department of Livestock to collect from the proper owners expenses involved in the holding and return of stray animals. (Agriculture). HB2I9 (Seltert, others) Making Indian studies tor certified teachers permissive rather than mandatory. (Education).

HB220 (Seitert, others) AHowIng the trustees ot any school district or community cot-leae to hire legal counsel at their discretion. (Education). HB221 (Moore, others) Raising the standard state income tax deduction from 10 to IS percent and increasing the maximum deduction to $1,000 tor singles and tor joint returns. (Taxation). HB222 (Prates, others) Requiring the Department ot Natural Resources to establish a program to remove silt from reservoirs behind atoms.

(Natural Resources). MB223 (Conroy) Permitting supervisory police officers to control telephone communications to and from a person holding hostages. (Judiciary). Legislative calendar If it isn't one thing D.B. COOPER PLACARD? Cowlitz County, Sheriff's Detective Bob Nix displays an exit placard from a Boeing 727, found by a hunter in November near Toutle, Wash.

The FBI confirms that the placard matched one missing from the plane skyjacked by D.B. Cooper in 1971. (AP Photo) Placard could be link to Cooper skyjacking HELENA (AP) Here is the Montana Legislative Calendar for Wednesday, Jan. 17: Killed tn Senate: SBI4 (Watt, Jerqeson) To revise Monton-as local government laws and expand the powers ot local governments. Introduced in Senate: SB139 (Hazelbaker) Clarifying what constitutes the Montana Insurance Code, (Business and Industry).

SBI40 (Mehrens, others) Clarifying the role of the workers' compensation judge. (Labor and Employment Relations). SBI41 (Mehrens, others) Generally revising the laws relating to workers' compensation. (Labor and Employment Relations). SB U2 (Roskie, others) Lowering the tax rate on most residential, industrial and commercial property.

(Taxation). SBI43 (Watt, others) Reducing the term of office tor county commissioners from six years to four years. (Local Government). SB144 (Von Vatkenborg) Clarifying the powers ot the Montana Board of Housing to provide staff and facilities to carry out its programs. (Stare Administration).

SB 1 45 Jeraeson, others) Dtsol lowing form-related expenses as tax deductions tor corporations, except those corporattons with 20 or fewer shareholders, all of which must be natural persons. (Taxation). SB146 (Thtessen, others) Requiring the Board of Land Commissioners to maintain a central index ot all real property ond interests in real property held, acquired or disposed of by state ogencies. (State Administration). Introduced in House: HB209 (Lund) Authorizing the Board of Public Education to accredit non-public high schools.

(Education). (Holmes) Increasing the tax on cigarettes by 1 cent per pack to fund health projects. (Taxation). HB2I I (Scully) Increasing salaries of LIBBY (AP) First, Libby-area residents were told that running water in taps would help prevent freeze up of household systems. So they ran water lots of it.

Now, the area's water supply is so depleted that residents could be totally without water in two weeks, a utility spokesman says. Joe Kauzlerich, Pacific Power Light Libby manager, said Tuesday that water use is unusually high because of efforts to avoid freezing pipes during the prolonged cold spell. which owns and operates the water system for Libby and the surrounding area, has had employees at work since before New Year's Day trying to thaw frozen water lines entering the houses of many residents. About 200 of the area's 1,800 hookups have been affected. Kauzlerich said in a special radio broadcast that the new threat is water may just run out all together.

money for vocatinal education the prison has been misused. Rep. Danny Oberg, D-Havre, said he prepared his bill prior to appointment of that committee and before learning that U.S. Sen. Max Baucus has launched an investigation.

Oberg said he has btn concerned that released prisoners have not been adequately prepared to become productive citizens. "When the state of Montana decides that a prisoner has paid his debt to society and releases him, I think he should have the skills needed to compete in today's tight job market," Oberg said. The bill would require Board of Public Education approval of any vocational programs offered at the prison. The programs would be administered by the state superintendent of public instruction. The private school accreditation bill is one sought by a coalition of non-public schools and endorsed, in part, by the state Board of Public Education.

The House Agriculture Committee called Wednesday for further study on a bill allowing the establishment of rodent control districts in Montana. Wildlife advocates couldn't "gofer" the idea and testified against the measure to exterminate certain gophers, ground squirrels and prairie dogs. Government agricultural officials said the rodents do about $10 million worth of damage to crops and farmlands annually in Montana. He said water use has risen toarateof 5 million to6 million gallons a day, but Flower Creek only provides about 1 million gallons of water daily. Kauzlerich said the supply simply isn't keeping up with demand.

As of Monday, he said, about 26 million gallons of water were in the water system reservoir. Kauzlerich told residents to limit the use of water to absolute minimums. If water must be run to prevent freeze up then only a trickle the size of a pencil should be allowed to flow, he said. "I realize that a lot of services will probably freeze if you quit running; your water, but we're between a rock and a hard spot," he said He said it" the' system is allowed to run completely dry then nobody will have any water and all the pipes will freeze. However, if only a portion of the system freezes up residents can at least hope "your neighbor will have some water to borrow from." MONTANANS while trying to verify tne origin of the placard, he said.

Ray Mathis, FBI spokesman in Seattle, said agents in the past have twice searched the area in which the placard was found. Both he and Nelson said there were no plans to conduct any additional searches. The federal statute of limitations for skyjacking is five years. But Cooper, if he is alive, is not a free man. He was indicted by a federal grand jury in absentia in 1976 as a "John Doe." The Justice Department also has argued that there is no statute of limitations for capital crimes, and that what Cooper did was a capital crime.

Cooper has never been seen and none of the $20 bills given in ransom has surfaced in circulation. The jet was en route to Seattle from Portland when Cooper handed a stewardess a note saying he had a bomb. After picking up ransom and two parachutes in Seattle, and allowing the passengers and two of three stewardesses to disembark, Cooper ordered the crew to fly the plane to Reno, Nev. When the plane landed in Reno, the rear boarding ramp was down, the 21-pound sack of money and one set of parachutes were missing and Cooper was gone. He left no IF YOU'RE A MONTANAN AND YOU'RE IN BUSINESS THIS SPECIAL EDITION WILL BRING YOUR MESSAGE TO 1 75,000 GREAT FALLS TRIBUNE READERS, FEBRUARY 20.

KELSO, Wash. (AP) A heavy plastic placard from a Boeing 727, found by a hunter in a thickly wooded area, could be a link to the unsolved iyi D.B. cooper skyjacking, authorities said Wednesday. Cooper is believed to have parachuted from the Northwest Airlines jet near Woodland, about 10 miles south of here, with $200,000 in $20 blls. The placard was described as an nscrgency warning notice of the type jvwed next to the rear exit of 727s.

"There isn't any way that it could have come off a plane without the (rear) door being opened," said Cowlitz County Sheriff Les Nelson. "We know that two days after Cooper jumped that the placard was missing off the plant "This is the first probable, tangible piece of evidence that has surfaced in the D.B. Cooper case," he added. "It's inconceivable, it's one in a million, that any other plane could have lost it in the area in which D.B. Cooper jumped." The placard was found about "six flying minutes" from where Cooper is believed to have jumped on Nov.

24, 1971, said Nelson. It was found last November by a hunter near a logging road north of Ariel, said Nelson. The FBI and sheriff's detectives withheld information about the find Treasure State CHOTEAU JAROLIMEK, Mary, 86, died Wednesday in a Kirkland, convalescent home where she had resided since 1974. Services will be 10 a.m. Saturday in St.

Joseph's Catholic Church here. A wake will be held at 7:30 p.m. Friday in the church. Zwerneman Mortuary is in charge of arrangements. Born in Chicago, she married Joseph Jarolimek in Wisconsin in 1920, and they moved to the Collins area in 1943.

He managed the General Mills elevator there. Upon his retirement in 1939, they moved into Choteau. He died in 1973. Surviving are two sons, John, Bothell, and James, Billings; a daughter, Sylvia Swierczek, Minneapolis; a brother, Mike Horak, Collins, and a sister, Emma Brauner, Black River Falls, Wis. SHELBY SULLIVAN, Hazel 86, died Tuesday at her home.

Services will be Saturday in the Burns Funeral Home Chapel, followed by burial in Mountainview Cemetery. Born at Council Bluffs, Iowa, she came to Montana with her parents in 1909. She and Mike Sullivan were married in 1910 at Kalispell. They lived in the Shelby and Cut Bank areas, where they were engaged in farming and ranching. Her husband preceded her in death.

Surviving are daughters, Lillian Spargur, Casper, and Mary Jane Dyrdahl, Cut Bank. SHELBY SANDS, Leon "Lee," 69, died Saturday at his home on the Christian Ranch in the Sweetgrass Hills. Services will be Friday at 2 p.m. in the Burns Chapel. Sands was born at Woodstock, and served under Gen.

George Patton during World War II. He was a supervisor for Northern Plastics in LaCrosse, was one of the originators of the printed circuit and worked as a custom cutter betore settling northern Montana. He had worked on the ranch deaths since 1965. Surviving are sons, Ron, Jerry and Mike, all of LaCrosse; his mother, Eva Curtis, LaCrosse, and a brother, James Norman, Stockton, Wis. HAVRE REED, Alice 81, died Wednesday.

Services will be Friday at 2 p.m. in the Holland and Bo-nine Funeral Chapel. Cremation will follow. Born at Courtney, N.D., she attended schools in Canada and nursing school at Rochester, Minn. She moved to California in 1923 and nursed there about 40 years.

In 1971 she moved to Montana and married Robert R. Reed at Chinook. They lived in the Hoglund area about five years before moving to Havre in 1976. He survives with their stepchildren, Richard Neal, Fresno, Calif. Frances Zaparynuk, Big Sandy; Olive Cress-well, Harlem; Helen Maloney, Lor-ing; Robert J.

Reed, Great Falls; John Reed, Witchita Falls, Texas, and James Reed, Turner. Former Missoulian stabbed to death MISSOULA (AP) Cynthia Louise Herbig, daughter of a Missoula couple, was stabbed to death near her apartment in Washington, D.C., early Wednesday, Missoula police reported. Miss Herbig, 21, was living and working in Washington, the police statement said. She was the daughter of Harold and Lois Herbig. The statement said Miss Herbig, possibly the victim of a robbery, was taken to George Washington Hospital, but attempts to save her life failed.

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