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Idaho Free Press i Caldwell News-Tribune, Thursday, May 5, 19C6--13 Co Airs Bounty on Cold A $1.5 MILLION gift from Mr. and Mrs. William Van Alan Clark of New York City will be used to construe! and equip the main classroom-laboratory building at Mackinac College, and the new, four-year liberal arts college on historic Mackinac Island. The 75,000 ft. two-story concrete structure is due for completion in August, 1067.

Designed by the Arkansas architectural firm of Ginocchio, Cromwell, Carter and Neyland, the new arts and science center will be fully integrated with the existing fine arts facility (background) on the Cedar Point campus. A roof plaza and 300-seat lecture hall (right) are special features. Mackinac College Building Is Result of $1.5 Million Gift MACKINAC ISLAND, A gift of $1.5 million for construction and equipping of the main classroom-laboratory building of Mackinac College was announced by the board of trustees meeting here this weekend. The 75,000 square-foot, two- story, reinforced concrete structure to be named at a later date is the gift of Mr. and Mrs.

William Van Alan Clark of New York, New York. Ground has already been broken, with completion scheduled for August, 1967. Clark is honorary chairman ol the board of Avon Products, Inc. He and Mrs. Clark became interested in the development and purposes of Mackinac College at the time its charter was approved by the Michigan State Board of Education in 1965.

They discussed the need for an academic center with Dr. S. Douglas Cornell, president of the college, on several occasions. The concept evolved of an arts and science center fully inte- grated with the college's existing fine arts facility. The new center will house 20 classrooms, 13 seminar study areas, a lecture hall seating 300, faculty offices, and laboratories for biology, chemistry, physics, psychology, and languages.

Expressing the gratitude of the board of trustees, Basil R. Smylie Hits Proposal for Parking Lot BOISE (UPI) Gov. Robert E. Smylie protested today as "amazing and outrageous" a proposal by theGeneralServices Administration to turn the grassy area behind Boise's old post off ice into a par king lot. Smylie said he was amazed to learn the federal government "proposes to obliterate part of the Capitol Plaza." "I plan to make a strong protest to the General Services Smylie said "This would be in contravention with every bit of planning state and county are making with respect to the capital area of Boise." The area in question, immediately east of the downtown Post Office Building, is across the street from the Stalehonse.

Smylie added he hopes when the government Is finisludusing the post office building the state or city could acquire It as a green space in perpetuity." Meantime, Smylie questioned the success of a conservative move to run former U.S. Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson for president. would suspect the history of third parlies in the United Slates Is replate with failure and frustration," Smylie said. Interns Selected WASHINGTON (UPI) Sen. Len Jordan has chosen three college students from Idaho to work In his Washington office Ihis summer as interns.

Jordan said they are Rosemary Barker, Buhl; James T. Jones, Eden, and James K. Pliarrls, Jerome. Entwistle, chairman of the board, said, "On behalf of the trustees 1 wish to express our greatest appreciation to Mr. and Mrs.

Clark for their most generous gift. In the making of it they express their confidence in the ability of Mackinac College to meet the greatest challenge in education today. That challenge is lo train a leadership, bold, unselfish, enlightened and mature the modernizing of man himself lo match the unprecedented perils and opportunities of the age." Dr. Cornell, receiving the gift on behalf of the college, said: "Mackinac College has been established lo combine sound academic education In the liberal arts with the cultivation of clarity and selfless purpose in ils students relative to the giant opportunities and profound issues of the modern world. The new building will provide indispensable instructional facilities our classrooms, laboratories, and faculty offices.

"The college is deeply grateful to Mr. and Mrs. Clark, who through ttieir great generosity are playing a key role in the building of an Institution of higher education that intends to present young men and women with both the privilege of Intellectual adventure and the dial- lenge oi moralresponsibilitylor tha world in which they live." The new arts and science center of Mackinac College has been designed by the architectural flTM Ginocchio, Cromwell, Carter, and Neyland of Little Rock i Ark -i to harmonize with fne existing buildings of the col- le TM1 TMN the wooded lake- snore are a of Mackinac Island where the campus is located. Mackinac College is now enrolling its charter freshman class, to begin studies Sept. 14.

I' is a privately supported institution, offering a four-year liberal arts curriculum leading (o the Bachelor of Arts degree. Co-educational and fully residential, the college is open to qualified students. Plans 1 a student body of 1,000 hen four classes are In residence, with a student-faculty ra- of fifteen to one. Proposed Rate Hike Is Mulled WASHINGTON (UPI) -Thar's gold in them thar hills, ill right, but it costs more to dig it than Uncle Sam-the only legal buyer--is willing to pay for It. That was the story told Wednesday before the Senate Minerals Subcommittee as i opened hearings on two bills to subsidize the gold mining industry, caughl between rising costs and a gold price unchanged since 1934.

To chairman Ernest Gruening, D-Alaslca, and other westerners on the committee it was an old story--and a frustrating one. Gruening, in opening the hearings, recalled that over the years the Treasury Department ssfra, rs. 3 gold above $35 an ounce or to subsidize gold raining. This time the story was same as Fred B. Smith, gener- Congress (o urge approval of The mining company officials subsidy legislation.

said, however, that it was Kellar said it was uncertain doubtful thai legislation now be- how much subsidies would ao fore the committee could sUmu- complish In increasing goldpro- late gold production enough to duction but said "it should not halt the continuing outflow of be too difficult" lo step it up gold from the Treasury to meet enough to meet defense, Indus- a deficit in the balance of ply- trial and dental needs. mcnls. Famine Claims 50 Lives In India's Orissa State NEW DELHI (UPI) -A famine in the state of Orissa has claimed at least 50 lives in the past two months and has forced parents to sell their children "like chattels" or abandon them in jungles, the head of the Indian opposition Livestock, Produce CHICAGO (UPI)--Live Isef prices on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange: Open High Low Latest Units Jun 25.80 25.80 25.52 25.60 59 Aug 26.20 26.20 25.90 25.95 43 Oct 26.50 26.50 20.30 26.42 16 Dec 27.10 21.10 27.00 27.00 30 CHICAGO (UPI)-Produce: Live poultry: Roasters special fed white rock fryers 2 -22. Cheese: Processed loaf 45 3 brick munster Cheddars: single daisies 48 3 4 -51; longhorns 3 4 40 Ib blocks i (wheels) Grade A 61-65, Grade 58-63, Grade too few to report; Swiss: (80-100 Ibs blocks) Grade A 58-61, Grade 55-59, Grade 54-51: Wholesale prices as reported by Clii- cago Mercantile Exchange: Butter: Easy, 93 score fh; 92 score 90 score 89 score 60 1 carlots: 90 score 62Vi; 89 score Eggs: Weak. White large extras 32; mixed large extras 32; mediums standards 31; checks 25.

Potatoes: Total U. S. shipments 490; arrivals 63; track 175; supplies moderate; demand moderate; market about steady. Track sales: (100 Ib U.S. 1A unless otherwise indicated): Idaho russets medium 4.25; Minnesota Dakota round reds 3.40-3.45.

Street sales: Minnesota-North Dakota round reds 3.85-4.15. Onions: Arrivals 11; track 44; supplies moderate; demand moderate; market about steady. Track sales: Texas yellow grano large 5.50, yellow granex large 4.40-4.50; medium 3.75. Street sales: Texas yellow grano large 5.15-6.25, medium 3.75; yellow a large 5.25-6.50, dium 3.75-4.00, while 5250bmedium-large 5.50-5.75, Mexican whiti large 5.75. CHICAGO (UETy-Livestock: Hogs 5,000.

barrows and gilts active, strong to 50 higher, sows 25-50 higher, no. 1-2 190-220 Ib barrows and gilts 23.7524.00; mixed 1-3 320-400 Ib sows 18.0018.75. Sheep 200. moderately active, slaughter lambs and ewes steady, small lot choice and prime spring slaughter lambs 27.00; deck choice 100 Ib shron slaughter lambs with no. 1 pelts 24.50; cull lo good slaughter ewes 6.00-11.00.

Cattle 9,000, calves none, trading on slMghter steers slow, steady to weak early, later fully steady, slaughter heifers slow, steady to 25 lower, mostly steady, cows slow, steady to 25 lower, bulls active, steady to strong, prime 1200-1450 Ib slaughter steers 29.25-29.75; high choice and prime 900-1140 Ib slaughter heifers 2.6.75-27.25; utility and commercial cows 18.25-20.50; canners and cutters 17.25-19.25; utility and commercial bulls 21.00-24.50. The charges came as the government of Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi de- in of special government famine relief. Mrs. Gandhi and Food Minister C. Subramaniam announced they would visit Orissa in eastern India, where three million persons have been reported threatened with famine.

Dwivedi said the famine had become so bad that Jobless and impoverished Hindus had begun to steal sacred cows from rich the proposed subsidy legislation, The government's gold policy, Smith said, was the same today as in 1934. To pass any bill to subsidize gold mining, he said, would shake the world's confidence in the stability of the U.S. dollar. than a million persons. Socialist party leader Suren.

dra N. Dwivedi called for immediate government action in his native Orissa state to stave off a mass famine. The official government dec la- and violators are often excommunicated from the Hindu church. SPOKANE (UPI)-Represen. sur y's policy as "one of the tatives oi public and private raost examples oi gov.

electric power users told a six- ernmen obstinacy and ignor- state committee today that pow- er rates should not be increas- A Republican colleague, Sen. ed to help pay lor irrigation Gordon Alloll of Colorado, said projects. he and other senators had The statements were made sought for years to find legisla- by a Northwest Governors' ti 0n na i would help gold Committee studying a proposed raining and still be acceptable Columbia Basin Commission to the Treasurey. and Basin Account Legislation. ne Treasury response, Allott The speakers were Norman sa as always either "stony L.

Krey, Spokane, manager of silence" or the claim that such Northwest Operations tor Kais- legislation vfould lead to Insta- er Aluminum and Chemical bility of the dollar. Corp. and chairman of the Bon- Gov. Grant Sawyer of Neva- neville Power Administration da appeared personally before Industrial Customers Commit. committee to urge subst- tee, and Ken BUlington, Seat- dies.

The Democratic governor tie, executive secretary of the sought to point up Ihe cost Washington Public Utility Dls- squeeze which gold miners fac trictsAssociation, by noting that wages and the Krey told the committee, cost of steel had trebeled since "power rates are an important 1940. factor in attracting and keep- "Little wonder that Ihe oper- ing industry, especially heavy ators have given up to the industry. It is therefore of the ghosts that populate many a utmost importance that the gold camp," Sawyer said, rates of Bonneville be protected One bill before the commit, against any increases due to tee would provide subsidies of excessive drain on power rjve- 5 pe cent of the value of the nues for assistance to irrigation gold produced, with an addition- projects." al 3.75 per cent paid for each 5 He said Bonneville customers per cent rise in the consumer had agreed that a reasonable price index. The other bill would limit on the amount to be paid provide for subsidies based on by power users for irrigation the difference between current would be $400-milUon in any 20 and 1939 production costs, consecutive years. He added, Kenneth C.

Kellar, vicepresi- was also agreed that the dellt 0 the Homestake Min i then prevailing rate schedules Co in be would not be increased because of the Americam Min ng of irrigation assistance." Billington said his associa- Addi)ive bon, which once opposed Ihe BARTLESVILLE okh entire Idea of a basin account, now is largely because of the threat of water diversion to tlie south- a five-dullai word fm synthetic west. dcierpenis that shoo away loam UPI' has been added willing to cooperate lie i cx i roll sym iielir de- It's "bioclepvadables." He listed, however, a number of restrictions which the departments want placed on any repoi-is Phillips Pe- basin account. irolexim Company. as well as din and eliminate of spwasr plant? Oi 1 ACADEMf AWARD WINNER JULIE CHRISTIE BEST ACTRESS OF THE YEAR IN COUNTRY MUSIC SPECTACULAR "DEVASTATING! BLISTERING! UUJtOKKMKYffl liSIMM) COLOR PlucTheA ARNOLD JTAHC HUNTI HAU I 1EO ren Maslroianni DtSica's Marriage itaiiu suit NOW SHOWING I CoWw.ll Everyone's buzzin' about the FUN, AND LAUGHTER! Fun Aplenty! Mothers Day Ttea TREAT MOM on "HER DAY" FREE CARNATIONS FOR THE LADIES' We're Serving Our Regular Menus Tender Orange Glaze BAKED HAM ROCK CORNISH GAME HENS with Wild Rice Dessert and Drink LUCKY MOTHER DOOR PRIZE 2 Free Dinners, 1 in the Afternoon, 1 in the evening. Music by the DUO for your entertainment.

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