Greeley Daily Tribune from Greeley, Colorado • Page 7

plane ji Ex-convict Questioned in Best Extortion Plot Sl'ltlXGS tfi-C M. Goldsmith, r( convict, was jailed here Sunday i iv L)I8S questioning about J5.000 eitor-i lion plot against Mrs. Louise Best, widow of one-time State Penitentiary Warden Koy Best. Police Chief 1. B.

Dad Bruce police "don't have a lot on him yet, however. He said Goldsmith would be given lie detector test Monday. Bruce said Goldsmith has denied phoning Mrs. Best twice early this month and threatening her with death If she didn't givo him $1,000 In cash. Police disclosed the threatening tails Saturday, and said an Intensive Investigation of the case has been under way for several weeks.

Mrs. Best and her 10-year-old daughter, Suzanne, have been under 24-hour police guard since the calls were received on Feb. 3 and Feb. 4. Bruce said Goldsmith has ad mltted phoning the Best home on one occasion, however, since hi release from prison last August.

Goldsmith was quoted as saying he only wanted to see if Mrs. Best needed any help. He said Suzanne answered the phone and hung up tin him. Bruce said a teacher at Suzanne's school reported that Goldsmith questioned her "persistently" Jan. about the location of the Best home.

The teacher said she refused to give him the Information. Bruce said Goldsmith gave no explanation why he sought Mrs. Best's adress after claiming to have telephoned the home earlier." Bruce said Mrs. Best's telephone number and huuso address have Mrs. Kla-uche 73.

of Eleventh street, died at the Weld county general hospital Saturday uiKh- after a loug illness. -Mrs. I.ycan was the widow of A. T. Lycau who died here in 1952.

She was born in Pennsylvania Aug. 4. 1881, and came to Plaiteville to live when she was a small girl. The Lycans move dto Greeley in 1916. She was a member of the Methodist church.

Mrs. Lycan survived by two Bons: Elmer B. Lycan of Colorado Springs and Glenn C. Lycan of Santa Ke, N. M.

She was the sister of T. 0. Brown of PlatteVllle. There are two grandchildren. Funeral services for Mrs.

Yy- can will be at Macy's Drawing room at 3 p.m. Tuesday with interment at Mizpah cemetery, Platte- vllle. only recently been Hated In Colorado Springs directory. the Mrs. Laura Magill of Pierce Dies No Atomic Blast Monday HooverComnision Says Health Services Are Wasteful and Chaotic lowances--and treat deal of waste which could be pre vented.

0 renter efficiency could be ob- FRANK CAREY AP Science Reporter WASHINGTON m--The Hoover Commission ttid Sunday "chaos" describes present relations among! the federal government's numerous Atnong measures recommended medical strvices. It recommended were these: sweeping changes designed to I Eswbiishment of central co- with "lack of Ciwrdinatiou," dupli- cation of effort, and "huge Bastes." ordinating council for all medical services; In a scribed report by the to Congress--de-1 2. Stricter procedures regarding commissiou staff allowing nou-service-ccmnected dls locates Sandia Peak In New Mexico, near where the smoking wreckage of TWA airliner was found Feb. 20. No sign of lite was teen necr the burned wreckage of the plane, which had been missing since the previous day with 16 aboard on flight from Albuquerque to tanU Fc.

(AP Wlriphoto Map) Funeral services will be held al the Pierce community Methodist church, Tuesday at 2 p.m. ura Vnn Why Magill. Mrs. Magill, who lived with her and daughter, Mr. and Mrs.

T. E. Galiatin died at their home in Pierce Saturday afternoon, following an illness of several months. She was horn Sept. 29, 1875 near Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada and came to Colorado In 1897 to the Cripple Creek-Victor area.

There she was married to Charles F. Van Why Feb. 1C, 1898 and they homesteaded in the Dover- Carr community early in 1906. Mr, Van Why died in June, 1907. On Dec.

16, 1912 she was married to Joseph Magill. They made their home In tho Pierce community in 1(143. Mr. Magilt dirt June 19, 1946. Mrs.

Magill was a member of the Pierce i Methodist church. Survivors are the following children: Mrs. Mary Johnson and Verona Wadsworth both of Fallen, Mrs. Susanna Galiatin and Charles Van Why, both of Pierce; Edward B. Van Why of Carr and Magill of Denver.

Twenty- two grandchildren and 21 great grandchildren, as well as several nieces and. nephews also survive. Interment will be In the Nunn cemetery. Waldrons of Eaton are in charge of funeral arrangements. LAS VEGAS, Nev.

ijpi-- Atomic test officials Sunday definitely ruled out uny blast for Monday because of wind conditions They scheduled another conference for Monday to decide whether to strige a shot at dawn Tuesday. A spokesman for the Atomic Energy Commission test organization said the weather outlook was fairly good for netting off on Tuesday the less powerful of two pending blasts. The more powerful will be fired from a 500-foot tower. It was scheduled to open the present test series Feb. 15 but has been postponed several times because of bad weather.

Two testa have been made so far in the series. The big blast is expected to iiuck nearly times the power of the nominal A-bomb. The AEC has designated It a "major effort" of the Llvermore, laboratory which specializes in H-bomb work. This has led to speculation that the potent device may be'a new atomic trigger for the hydrogen bomb. Crawford Advises Friendly Solution of Water Dispute DENVER Ivan C.

Crawford, director of the Colorado Water Conservation Board, said Sunday night that It should be possible to reach a workable solution on diversion of water from Colorado's Western Slope to cities on the Eastern Slope. Speaking on radio station KOA's "Fireside" program, Crawford eald "the economic value of water for municipal purposes will warrant transmountalu diversion He added that "economic considerations will prevent the use of the entire available supply for agricultural purposes on either the West or the East Slope." Crawford said 69 per cent of Col orado's surface water yield origi nates west of the Continental Di vide. 'the first full picture ot the vast scope of federal health and medical services and of the impact they make on the taxpayers' commission said federal agencies have assumed responsibility for complete or partial health and hospital care for 30 million ot the nation's 160 million people. The commission, headed by former President Herbert Hoover, and known officially as the Commission on Organization of the Executive branch of the Government, teed off with his statement: "A review of the federal medical services shows great in (2,030.000.000 in disability al- armers Union tears Talk on iround Water 2 Americans Freed by Reds Hit U.S. Policy Burglars Start Denver Fire Costing $30,000 DENVER (fi--A fire started by burglars caused more than damage Sunday to the J.

and K. Construction 1-story brick office building at 845 Decatur stheet. Fire investigators said the blaze started with papers and records ripped from drawers and filing cabinets. Officers theorized the burglars became enraged when they could find no money. A sledge hammer was used in smashing doors, cabinets and ot- flee machines.

The fire burned a central area In the building and caused heavy tmoke damage. Keppel Brierly and John Lonergan, the owners, said the only thing taken was a level they valued at Man Buried in Style 38 Years after Death, 40,000 View Corpse MEMPHIS, Tenn. (ft They buried Ed Cochrnn Sunday--38 years after be died of. exposure cold night up in Missouri, a long way from home. The funeral home was crowded.

But not many were relatives or friends. They came partly out of curiosity, partly so Ed Cochram could go to his grave in style, just as his brother wanted. It had taken a long time. Ed Cochram, a Memphis Negro, died back in 1917 in Caruthersville, a Mississippi River town, broke and alone. No one knew his next of kin.

The body was embalmed and lay in a funeral home, shrinking a bit with each passing year, until it looked like an Egyptian mummy minus wrapping. In fact, the story goes, the embalmer used to boast (he's now), his method was the same "secret" process used on pharoahs and nobles in King Tut's day. It "petrifies," he said. The brother, E. Cochram, 66, of Memphis, sent for the body last week.

He knew where it was all the time he explained, but never had the money for a proper funeral. "My wife was after me to tend to it and I wanted to see to him being buried before 1 die," he added. ability care of veterans; J. Elimination of present govern ment care for merchant seamen; 4. The closing of 12 U.S.

Public Health Service general hospitals 5. Steps that might allow the closing of certain hospitals for oth er facilities of the military serv Ices and the Veterans Administra tlon. Tht commission said lucl hospitals could be used by state and local communities to help re lieve shortages. The commission recommendei that the VA administrator "con sider the recommendations mad by task force" for the closin of 19 hospitals which, the task fore said, "have such a. small bed ca pacity, are so poorly located or have a low bed utilization that their continued operation It uneconomic and ineffective." These hospitals are located at Outwood, Aspinwall, Erie, Beckley and Clarksburg.

W. Amarillo, Bonham and Marlin, Boise, Idaho; Fargo and Minot, N. Grand Island and Lincoln, Ft. Thomas, Grand Junction, Colo. Iron Mountain, Lake City, Miles City, and Slouz Falls, 8.

D. Liz Taylor Is Mother SANTA MONICA. Calif. Iff)-- Actress Elizabeth Taylor gave birth to a boy Sunday--her 23rd birthday anniversary--In Santa Monica hospital. HONG KONG (ft--Two Amer cans showing the effects of 1 years' close detention by the Ch nese Communists on spy charge arrived here Sunday declaring the were "full shame and reinors for their crLmes against the nese people.

The two are Malcolm Bersoh 29, American medical etudent New York City, and Mrs. Ade Austin Rickett, 35, former WAV ensign and wife of Waiter A. Rio ett. The Rlcketts were Fulbright scholars, and formerly lived In Seattle, Bcrsohn a Mrs. Rickett reached the border between Hong Kong and Red China about noon Sunday.

A first report here said Rickett also was released, but it later only Mrs. Rickett had been freed. She said her husband is still in the Peiping prison. Hong Kong newsmen, who have met hundreds of expellees from Red China, said Bersohn and Mrs. Rickett appeared to be among the most thoroughly brainwashed to arrive here yet.

Ten days ago both were suddenly called before a Communist court and "tried" on espionage charges. Both confessed, pleaded guilty, weer sentenced to years nd ordered expelled since both had already served that much time. M. J. Edwards, part owner of the (unernl home here, said more than 40,000 people had i through over the past week to view the body, naked in the half- open casket.

Justice Douglas To Make Motor Trip in Russia This Summer A A talk on the proposed nderground water code was given ere Friday night by A. Ham- chairman ot the subcomittee undergound water studies of the olorado agricultural planning ommittee. Hamman adressed a meeting of Weld County Farmers Union. i preliminary, and general re- larks preceding an outline of the iain provisions of the proposed ill in the state legislature, Ham- nan made these points: 1. All water appropriated under he code must be put to beneficial se.

2. The right to use of underground water is based on a prior- ty system--first in time, first In ight. 3. No junior appropriator of ground water will be curtailed for the benefit of a senior decree, except where it is reasonably necessary to prevent material injury to the senior appropriation. 4.

A senior appropriator has no right to continuation of-the ground water level existing at the time of his appropriation. 6. The senior appropriator does have the right to a continued flow equal In quantity and quality. 6. Existing ground water appro priattons.

are fully recogniied. 7. All claimants to ground wate must file within two years after th 'act becomes effective. Failure to file Is prlma fact vidence ot intent to abandon. Failure to file within fiv ears is conclusive evidence bandonment.

Under the law, Hamman said, no ew or. additional appropriation hall he made without a permit rom the state engineer. The state engineer must provide egulations governing modification change of existing well or umplng equipment. Section seven, Hamman said, re- uires the state engineer to issue temporary permit to appropriate round water upon presentation of proper application accompanied a $25 fee, unless it appears here is insufficient water avail- ble. Such permit shall set forth con- litions for, drilling, casing, equip- ilng and other requirements to jrevent waste, pollution or injury Ramsay Scolds Cattlemen for Leasing Stand DENVER-- Head of state land board said Saturday that "some of the boys" In Colorado's cattle ndustry apparently want an pen, free market for their live- tock but an "OPA-typo of price elling" on their state land graz- ng rentals.

A. M. Ramsey, nUni OPEN 1:15 Irving Berlin's There' No Business Like Show Business with Marilyn Monroe Donald O'Connor Johnny Ray and many, many Soonl BAY DAY AT BLACK ROCK WASHINGTON' Supreme Court Justice William 0. Douglas said Sunday he will take a motor trip In Soviet Russia this summer. He said he had been advised that the Soviets will grant him visa and also will permit Robert V.

Kennedy, counsel to the Senate Committee on Government Operations. to accompany him. Hack in 1D4!) the Soviet press printed charges that Douglas was "spying" on tin after he went mountain climbing in the Middle East. On his return home from that trip, Douglas scoffed at the USE THE TRIBUNE WANT ADS CSCE Band Will Give 10 Concerts in South Colorado During Week The CSCE concert band will give ten concerts in seven Colorado cities during a southern Colorado tour which starts Wednesday. The band, traveling in two buses, will go first to Denver where it will give concerts at West Denver high school at 10:30 a.m and 11:15 a.m.

and at South Denver high school at 1:30 p.m. and 2:15 p.m. An evening concert will be given at the Englewood field house at 8 p.m. Thursday the band will move on to Colorado Springs for a concert at the high school, at 10 a.m. and In the afternoon will present another concert at 3 p.m.

at LaJunta high school. An evening 'concert at Las Animas will be at the community hall. -Friday. March 4. the concert wll be at Walsenburg high school a 2 p.m.

and at Pueblo Central higl school at 8 p.m. Eighty-two players will make th trip. Each year the concert hand makes such a tour to one section of the state. Director of the bant is Wayman E. Walker.

JtSSE WOJHCN Now! Ends Tucs.l AWARD NOMINATIONS! WINNER OF SFX ACADEMY "PARIS EXPRESS' 1 Jumr GARLAND MASON Starts WEDNESDAY! In an open let- vested rights. The state engineer must publish a notice in the local paper of the application. The cost of this pub- ication is to be advanced by the ipplicant and the unused portion returned to him. The publication must be each week for four successive weeks, he said, referring to section eight. Any person anticipating material from a proposed new appropriator may file a protest within 10 days after the last publication er supporting repeal legislation or the so-called "formula" governing rental of state lands, aid he had been told some cat- lemen were opposing the new egislation because some of "the boys" had lost confidence in him.

"If any of them were confident that I could always be depended upon to go along with them on anything they proposed I Is high time they lost that Idea as they never had any reason to 'such confidence," said Ramsey. "Some of those 'same ones thought ft was fine stuff when the land board compelled the city of Denver to pay a rental on the golf course In keeping with Its value, but they don't want the land board to have the same authority to fix rentals on the school land they are grazing. "They want a free and open market In which to sell their cattle, as they should have, hut they want an OPA-type of price ceiling on their grazing rentals." The proposed bill, authored by Senator William A. Carlson, a Greeley Republican and majority leader In the upper chamber, is scheduled for final early next week in the senate. repeals the "formula bill," which pegged rentals at the carrying capacity based on the previous year's livestock market, and grants the land board discretionary powers in contracting for rentals.

instructs the board, however, that "care and use" of the land have to be considered as important factors In contracting, and calls also for advertising of lands as racts expire. Ramsey said the new legislation is a product of conferences with representatives' of the Colorado Cattlemen's the farm bureau, soil conservation organi- of the notice. If protests are received, Hamman said, the state engineer must iold a meeting not less than 30 days or more than 90 days after the expiration date for filing protests. If evidence presented at the hearing causes the state engineer to find that the new water use will materially injure any prior right, the temporary permit shaJl be cancelled. 17 Year old Denverile Admits Fatal Stabbing DENVER (ypl A 17-year-oli youth has admitted fatally stal bine a rienver man Friday men police reported Sunday, beratis the man refused to buy the you! ami four companions a quart wine.

Dennis C.arcia was quoted paying he stabbed Alphonso Uli bnrri. 32, with a nine-inch knife Uibarri's 26-year-old brother. Albert, also was attacked by the teen-flge gang, but escaped with minor fart cuts. The Ftabtiins occurred in front of a Denver liquor store where a holdup man was shot to death two weeks ago by the proprietor. The four other youths Implicated in the Ft.ibbins also are beinp held by police.

No charges have been filed. A 200-year-old doll's "pram." sent to a rummape sale In England, ended in a miiFeum. A permit, Hamman said, does not grant or confer a water right, and failure to protest does not Impair existing rights. There Is the matter of priorities. A permit Is a necessary prerequisite to the initiation of a new appropriation.

The quantity ol water allowed under any permit or decree is always limited to the amount put. to beneficial use with in reasonable period ot time, a a stated. The act specifically does not af feet procedures applicable to sur face water appropriations. The state engineer, Hammar pointed out, would have the duty and the power to regulate drilling and construction of ail wells to prevent waste ot water or i to other wntcr resources. He would be permitted to enter upon the land of appropriations to correct Education Assn.

of zations, the Colorado the Colorado School Boards, the Colorado board of education, PTA groups, lators and the land board. He said the cattlemen's associa tion approved the bill at Its meeting in Colorado Springs in winter, endorsed it in the Record Stockman, and again voted endorsement at a meeting of their state land committee in Denver last Jan. 19. However, the association subsequently withdrew its flat endorsement, in a legislative meeting Feb. 15, and said it could neither support or oppose the hill.

Ramsey contended that the sentiment does "not fairly represent" the association's opinion. He added: "Not more than ne-h8lf of the members ot the cattlemen's association hold state leases, and some of the largest lease-holders have endorsed the bill." "The cattlemen, in repudiating their agreement and opposing the passage of the proposed bill, are turning their back on the first opportunity they ever had to sit down with the land board and beneficiaries of the school land to mork out a mutually agreeable leasing arrangement," wild Ramsey. "This misht also be their last chance if they defeat, this legislation, as the land board promised that, if this hill vas passed meet- any well construction deficiencies jngs would be arranged to agree which the refuses on how the various features of the correct. bill would he carried out. The proposed code nlso provides "I have been accused of favoring open competitive bidding.

Nowhere in the proposed bill is there any provision expressed or implied fnr leases In be auctioned off to hish oppose it if it were included. extent of ernnnd water and the I huve snid. however, and I repeat effect ot withdrawals on surface i It. I ivnuld prefer that to the pres- streama. Hnmman said.

I ent formula." Suggests Ground Districts The formula bill has been M- Gronnd water useri affected by tacked as unworkable. Moreover, a well drillers must have a state permit and that, they must have a state license and pnst bund. The state water hoard would have power and the investigate and determine the nature and SAFEWAY MEATS ore trimmed of excess wasfe BEFORE weighing i i i order would be permitted to petition the district cnurt for redress from an order by the state engineer. critics contend the present law fnils to produce the maximum rental they claim state return..