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Seven Counties Reported Off Depressed-Area List LIVINGSTON (AP) Gov. Tim Babcock, again refuting claims that Montana is not prospering, told mayors and other city officials Friday that seven counties have been removed from a depressed-area list. "To my knowledge," Babcock told a banquet session of the Montana Municipal League, "the first public attention being given the fact that they have worked themselves out of this Obituaries. Laura Jennings Succumbs Here Mrs. Laura L.

Jennings, 90, 108 Mary died Friday in a local hospital. She was born March 11, 1875, in Ames, Kan. She lived the last 12 years with a daughter, Mrs. Moore, in Missoula. She was a member of the Presbyterian Church and the Degree of Honor Lodge, both in Deer Lodge.

Besides Mrs. Moore, she is survived by another daughter, Nona Atkins, Bozeman; two sens, Fred, Harlowton, and Ayers, Deer Lodge; two brothers, C. H. Weckwerth, Casper, and Fred Weckwerth, Visalia, three sisters, Mrs. Cusic, Bartlesville, Mrs.

Bertha Brooks, Arvado, and Mrs. Pearl Bramwell, Concordia, 14 grandchildren and 33 great-grandchildren. The body was sent to Deer Lodge Friday for funeral services and burial. Squire Simmons Carr Mortuary was in charge of local arrangements. Elmer G.

Opitz Rosary will be recited for Elmer G. Opitz, 49, 1520 Cooper St. at 7:30 p.m. Monday and requiem high mass will be celebrated at 9:30 a.m. Tuesday, both in St.

Francis Xavier Church. Burial will be in St. Mary Cemetery under the direction of Geraghty Mortuary. Mr. Opitz died Wednesday of Injuries sustained in an automobile accident.

Anna Wesley Funeral services for Mrs. Anna Wesley, 35, of 1736 Phillips have been set for 1:30 Monday in the Squire-Simmons-Carr Rose Chapel. The Rev. Glenn Husby will officiate and burial will be in Missoula Cemetery. Mrs.

Wesley died from: a gunshot wound received at her home Wednesday. W. C. Carpenter Funeral services for a former resident of Missoula, William C. Carpenter, 88, of Lake Placid, N.Y., were Wednesday, according to work received in Missoula by a cousin, Ray E.

Walters, 600 Eddy Ave. He died Sunday in a Lake Placid hospital. Survivors include the widow, the former Bess Epperson of Missoula. Allen R. Beutell Funeral services for Allen Ray Beutell, 24, of 603 Stephens who was fatally injured in an automobile accident late Vednesday, will be at 1:30 p.m.

Saturday in the Squire-Simmons-Carr Rose Chapel. The Rev. Paul Deane Hill will officiate and burial will be in Missoula Cemetery. Thompson Rites Private funeral services for Gertrude Thompson, 429 E. Spruce were at 11 a.m.

Friday in the Squire-Simmons-Carr Rose Chapel with Dr. Claude Boydston officiating. The body was sent to Spokane for cremation. Dam Proposed Near Billings BILLINGS (AP) Federal dam building may soon be under way three miles west of Billings. The Soil Conservation Service said it wasn't sure yet on size of the dam, proposed for Cove Creek near the Yellowstone Country Club.

The dam is described as a first step for flood control in west Billings. The SCS plans to meet with affected rural property owners and city and county officials before deciding the dam's size. ACCUSED KILLER RELAXES Donald Boggs (right) 23, of Londonderry, Ohio, relaxes in a Flagstaff, jail after reportedly telling officers he killed four persons in three states. Boggs and his girl friend, Dixie Radcliff, 16, of Amesville, Ohio, were arrested in the slayings of Halvor Johnson, 28, and Robert Willis, 23, both of Newport, N.H.; Warren Lenker, 25, of Elizabeth, and H. B.

Flory, 59, of San Antonio, Tex. At left is sheriff's deputy Bill Kenney. (AP Photofax) First Lady Praises Land Beautification By FRANCES LEWINE DENVER (AP) Dedicating a university campus garden Friday, the nation's First Lady said she hoped philanthropists would make "such wise and lasting donations to the beauty of the land and the joys of its inhabitants." Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson stopped in Denver to attend this ceremony at the University of Denver on her way back to Washington after three days in Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming.

She planted a tree to help open officially the $125,000 Mary Reece Harper Humanities Garden, a gift of a former university chancellor, Dr. Heber Harper, in memory of his mother. The President's wife, who has been promoting the beautification of American cities, coined a new word that she said the nation should beware of "uglification." America's cities are growing at a frightening rate, she noted, with 75 per cent of the population now living on one per cent of the land. "It is going to take real planning and real imagination and training to cope with these facts of our future, or we shall find ourselves stifled by the uglification of a once splendid Mrs. Johnson said in a prepared address.

The four -acre garden on the campus she dedicated will be a beauty spot of fountains, statuary, water courses, plantings and ponds to dramatize man's history, ideals and creativity. Mrs. Johnson said she was Lynda Johnson Has a 'Friend' DENVER (AP) "He's just a friend," Lynda Johnson declared Friday of a handsome young medical student who dated her on a three-day visit to Grand Teton National Park, Wyo. In a gay mood, traveling back to Washington, the President's 21-year-old daughter laughingly parried reporters' inquiries about a possible romance. She said farewell to her summer beau, Brent Eastman of Evanston, and sang a folk song entitled "Four Strong Winds" to characterize the situation.

The last line went, "I'll see you if I'm ever back this way." But it also another verse, which tall, dark haired Lynda added, "Oh, you'd change your mind, if I ask you one more time but we've been this way a thousand times before." Lynda said she didn't know whether she'd be seeing Brent New Institutions Director to Report Late HELENA (AP) Floyd A. Green, newly appointed director of Montana's Department of Public Institutions, advised he will be in the state in October to begin his new work. Green was scheduled to report for work in Helena Sept. 20. He advised the board that personal business has delayed his departure from Modesto, where he is administrator for the Gould Medical Group.

Green was hired by the Institutions Board to replace Maurice A. Harmon who resigned to become director of child welfare i in Kentucky. -Sentinel, Saturday, September 11, 1965-3 McMillan Granted Preliminary Hearing category is my talk to you Earlier, the league's resolutions committee, working on policy statements that will put before the convention Saturday, unanimously rejected proposals to create a new tax base in Montana by enacting a sales tax or conducting a state lottery. In his praise of Montana's prosperity, Babcock said. "Deer Lodge County no longer is included on the depressedarea list," describing it as a tribute to the people of Anaconda.

"The same can be said of Silver Bow, Flathead, Sanders, Carbon, Musselshell and Lincoln, all of which have been removed from the redevelopmentarea category because of much improved employment." The governor said he finds it amusing to recall the "news releases and telegrams that poured from Washington when these counties were declared eligible for redevelopment Babcock said he expects the four counties still on the list will be removed shortly, adding, "I'm not convinced that any of them belonged on it in the first place." He did not list the four counties. Without mentioning names, Babcock took note of what he called "an absurd controversy over whether or not Montana is prospering." He told the city leaders they know the state is prospering because their communities are prospering. do not need a report from the Unemployment Compensation Commission to convince you that jobs are in abundance in your area," Babcock added. He repeated his previous protests against statements that paint Montana as a povertystricken area. The closest Republican Babcock came to individual criticism on this subject was to refer to a U.

S. Senator, presumably Democrat Lee Metcalf, and to "one or two Montana labor leaders," probably Joe Crosswhite, state AFL-CIO president, and James Umber, the union's executive "No matter how you look at Montana's economic picture, it cannot be said of us that our people are impoverished," Babcock went on. "Economic problems always will be with us. But the solution to them does not lie in pushing the panic button and crying to Washington for help." Mayor James Shea of Walkerville, league resolutions committee chairman, said his seven committeemen unanimously turned thumbs down on the measures to increase state revenue. The committee approved several proposals to put before the general convention Saturday morning, including support of legislation to increase gasoline taxes by one cent to finance city streets.

Delegates were split into large-city and small-city groups for most of Friday's sessions. Kershaw Pleads Innocent to Assault Charge Alan C. Kershaw, 33, of Missoula, pleaded innocent in district court to a charge of stabbing a 16-year-old Missoula girl with an ice pick or some such instrument on July 3. Kershaw was arraigned before District Judge Emmet Glore on a charge of first degree assault. He is in the county jail in lieu of $5,000 bond.

Cancer Group Seeks To Educate Public A stronger public education program aimed at cancer prevention will be the goal this year of Missoula's unit of the American Cancer Society. This announcement was made during a meeting this week by H. Eugene Miles, who was reelected president. The April fund-raising crusade collected $6,592.95, according to French Kellogg, who was reelected treasurer. Memorials during the past year have amounted to $1,044.35.

The membership also was informed that $792.45 has been spent for indigent cancer patient care durling the past six months. Social Security Bonus Slated BILLINGS (AP) Social Security beneficiaries in Montana will share a $347,788 bonus this month, which represents a 7 per cent benefit increase retroactive to Jan. 1. Glenn Gardner, Billings district manager for the fede: al agency, said the back payments will be made in separate checks. September checks will reflect the increase approved by Congress.

The bonus checks pick up the balance for the past eight months. The increase boosts Montana's monthly Social Security payments to $652,291. A state Cancer Society meeting will be Oct. 1-2 i in Billings, according to a report by Mrs. Roy C.

Krutar, state representative. Volunteer workers will be trained during this meeting. Miles requested assistance in storage facilities for home nursing equipment which is loaned to cancer patients. Other officers elected were: Ewing H. Heisel, vice president, and Mrs.

Fred A. Lerch, secretary. Re-elected to the board were Mrs. Donald J. Tweto, Mrs.

P. J. Natale, F. Earl Monaco and Dr. Eugene Drouillard.

Committee chairmen selected were: Mrs. Frank S. Bernatz, memorials; Mrs. Delmar E. Jsquish, service; Sister Rose Theresa, hospitality; Mrs.

Patrick Duncan and Mrs. Leo Hanson, co-chairmen of public education, and Heisel, the crusade. No Congratulations From Frenchmen BANGKOK, Thailand (AP)France failed to join its other seven partners in the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization in congratulating the anti-Communist alliance on its 11th anniversary. The action- -unprecedented in SEATO's history was interpreted as another move by French President Charles de Gaulle to disassociate his government from SEATO support of U.S. policy in Viet Nam.

Crosby Seeks to Halt Divorce Proceedings Roy G. Crosby 38, filed papers in district court Friday to halt proceedings in a divorce suit against him until after he is tried for a criminal charge of bigamy. Crosby contends that any further proceedings in the divorce action filed by Lilly G. Wilkinson would be prejudicial toward him since she is the principal or complaining witness in the bigamy action. The editor of the Montana Intelligence Letter, sometimes circulated here through the mail, also asked that District Judge Emmett Glore be disqualified from the divorce proceedings.

Glore transferred the case to Judge Gardner E. Brownlee Friday afternoon. Crosby also asked the divorce Lucien N. McMillan, charged with the murder of his former wife, Friday requested and was granted a preliminary hearing which was set for Sept. 17 at 9:30 a.m.

Actress' Death Explained HOLLYWOOD (AP)-Actress Dorothy Dandridge died as a result of a rare medical phenomenom which started with the fracture of a tiny bone in her foot, the coroner's office reported Friday. Dr. Harold Kade, coroner's pathologist, said toxological examinations disclosed she died as a result of bone-marrow particles entering the bloodstream and reaching her brain and lungs. The 41-year-old Negro actresssinger, who starred in the movie versions of "Carmen Jones" and "Porgy and Bess" was found dead Wednesday in her apartment near the Sunset Strip. "Chemical laboratory tests showed no indication of any overdose of drugs or medications being involved in the death," Dr.

Kade said. Sheriff's Sgt. Al Sholand said Miss Dandridge slipped Sept. 2 on the stairs of a Hollywood gymnasium. She suffered an almost unnoticeable fracture of a metatarsal bone of her right foot.

Fat-like particles from the bone marrow entered the bloodstream and caused her death six days later, Dr. Kade said. The actress had planned to have the foot placed in a cast the day she died. Private funeral services for Miss Dandridge will be at 11 a.m. Saturday.

NO RELATION McMillan appeared before Justice of Peace Joe Young. He is in the custody of the sheriff in lieu of $10,000 bond. The traveling salesman, who lists his residences as Great Falls, Lovell, and formerly of. Billings, is charged with the premeditated murder of his ex-wife, Mrs. Anna Wesley, 35, of 1736 Phillips St.

She died of a gunshot wound Wednesday, while undergoing surgery, Mrs. Wesley told police before she died that McMillan shot her after she shot at him once and missed. McMillan claims he was in Great Falls at the time of the shooting. He was arrested there several hours after the shooting. London Traffic Stopped by Lovely Girl LONDON (AP) A lovely girl stopped the traffic in London's Oxford street Friday--and that's official.

She wore a blue suit with silver buttons, austere white collar with man-pe tie, high heels, nylons and a neat white cap. She looked like a movie star and she is a cop. Her name: Elisha Pirchi, 20, an Israeli policewoman. She is helping with the Israeli exhibition in London and at the same time studying British traffic methods. She said she expects to marry soon.

"I met him," she explained "on a one-way street." He was going the wrong way and she booked him. glad to know that American students of tomorrow will not be "doomed to cement campuses, but will have always this jewel of greenery. She predicted this would be the spot on the campus "your graduates will most remember" because "It is the garden spot of our lives that we do remem- Tire Blowup Injures Man An employe of the OK Rubber Welders, 1019 W. Central was Injured Friday morning ber." Mrs. morning plane.

Denver way she Johnson left Jackson, The language of the Basques, after a "tire blew up on in the Tetons Friday who live in a region straddling it was reported. aboard a chartered the border between France and Hospitalized with cuts After the brief stop in Spain, remains a mystery. The Charles Jenne, Arlee. she continued on her Basque language cannot be re- listed in good condition back to Washington where lated with certainty to any other Patrick Hospital, where was due about midnight. known tongue.

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With a traveling press entourage on the same chartered plane accompanying the First Lady, Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson, on a four-day Teton trip, it was pretty hard for Lynda to avoid a barrage of questions about romance. She and Eastman had gone mountain climbing into rugged and picturesque Death Canyon in the Tetons Thursday and had spent an evening at a new ski lodge listening to guitar playing. Eastman, 6-feet-2 and bronzed from a summer as a guide on rubber rafts that float down the Snake River, was a romantic figure, attractive to many a feminine tourist who has ridden his float boat.

"I'm afraid none of us is going to make the grade," Lynda told women reporters who were taken with the personable Eastman. Referring to Brent's obvious popularity she quipped, "I just wish daddy could get as many votes." case be transferred from Missoula County to Lake County, since he was a resident of Lake County at the time the divorce action was filed. Brownlee would act on Crosby's motions if he assumes jurisdiction. Crosby's motions were filed by his attorney at Kalispell, Robert S. Keller.

In the divorce action, Mrs. Wilkinson's grounds are extreme cruelty and mental suffering. She claims they were married in Great Falls March 1, 1955. Crosby also faces a charge of uttering and delivering a fraudulent check and three counts of criminal libel. He is free on $5,000 bond.

The case is to come to trial during the fall jury term. Story Hours Beginning This Morning Story hours will begin Saturday at 10 a.m. in the children's room in the Missoula Public Library. Mrs. John F.

Syverson will be the narrator and will conduct the opening program. Story hours will be twice monthly during the school year..