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Stanley Nees Takes Over As Acting Chief Executive "I feel strange," said Stanley R. Nees, 67-year-old Poplar grain farmer, as he occupied the governor's chair for the first time Wednesday as between-sessions president pro tem of the Montana Senate. Nees took over as the state's acting chief executive at midday when Lt. Gov. Thomas L.

Judge crossed the border en route to Sun Valley, Idaho, for a conference with his 49 counterparts. Judge had been in charge of the state since Sunday when Gov. Forrest H. Anderson went to Moran, for the Western Governors Conference. This gave the executive reins to the Senate president pro tempore ad interim and he is enjoying the experience.

'An Honor' "It's quite an honor to be able to sit here, but I feel strange," Nees said, adding: "I appreciate that my fellow senators decided they would take a chance on me." Nees was chosen to the interim post, which makes him second in line of succession to the governorship, a March caucus of the Senate's Democratic majority. Asked if he found much time to be on the land this year, during 106 days of regular and special sessions, Nees replied: "After the regular session, I helped with the Of the matter he discussed with the elevator association officials including Kent Norb and Oliver 0. Thorvilson of Great Falls and S. N. Halvorson of Kalispell Nees said: "This certainly has been a problem.

Nees, who served Roosevelt County for 11 years as a county commissioner, is no stranger to Helena. As a member of the State Aeronautics Commission, under Govs. John W. Bonner and J. Hugo Aronson, he made monthly visits to the Capital City for nine years.

Since resigning from that agency, without becoming a flying farmer, Nees has served eight sessions as a state senator. County Deputy Selected For Law Academy Post Charles O'Reilly, chief deputy sheriff in Lewis and Clark ty the past two years, has been named assistant director of the Montana Law Enforcement Aca-' demy on the campus of Montana State University. He will assist Director Charles Band Concert At 8 Tonight The Helena Municipal Band will play selections scheduled for last week's concert at 8 tonight at Memorial Park bandshell. the concert was rained out last Thursday. Selections include "Show Boy" by Will Hutt; "I Love a Sousa March" by Warrington; selections from "The Sound of "Waltz Cacavas; "Lady of by Evans; "Park Avenue Fantasy" by Malne neck; "Talk to the Animals" by Bricusse; "'The Spirit of Independence" by Holzman; "March of Time," a medley, and the concert will conclude with the national anthem.

Third Workshop Series Begins, Monday, at Carroll Registration for the third se-1 ries of two workshops at Carroll College is scheduled for Monday according to C. W. Huber, summer term director. The third session, which will run from Monday through July 30, will include workshops such as "Psychology of Women: A Changing Role in a Time of This workshop will examine the emerging psychological, sexual, social, political and maternal role of women in light of recent presure group activites which have generated the women's liberation movement. "Ethical Dimensions of Contemporary Social Issues" will examine the leading ethical perspectives taken today on such isues as human sexuality, abortion, civil disobedience, violence and revolution.

It will attempt to consider critically the underlying ethical principles that ground opposing views on these matters. Another workshop, "Selected Topics in Systematic Geography for Upper Elementary grades" will explore three topic areas: the Koppen System of Climate Classification; rural settlement patterns in the United States and topics in economic geography. The intent is to bring the knowledge and tools of the professional geographer into the elementary classroom. Skillen in administering the curriculum of the academy. O'Reilly, a Helena native who worked for the Lewis and Clark Office for six years, was chosen from 45 applicants at a meeting of the academy's advisory board Wednesday.

He will take the post Aug. 10. The academy is funded by the Governor's Crime Control Commission to oride spocialized pro Independent Record, Thursday, July 15, 1971 Anaconda Co. City News in Brief Margaret Ann Power, ter of Mr. and Mrs.

T. C. Power of 702 Harrison, will be among the first coeducational freshman class to enter Domincan College of San Rafael, in the fall. A June graduate of Helena High School, she received honors at entrance from the college. She plans a career in nursing.

Telephone Pioneers will have a noon luncheon Friday in the private dining room of the 4B's Cafeteria in the Capital Hill Shopping Center. Helena VFW Auxiliary, Post No. 16, will meet at 81 p.m. Friday in the Pow Wow Room of the Western Life building. 4-H News Valley Bandits Valley Bandit 4-H Club members entertained Cub Scouts of Pack 206 on a tour and picnic.

They toured Elkhorn, including its cemetery. They were accompanied by two scout leaders and two 4-H leaders. Independent Record Published weekdays (except Saturday) afternoons and Sunday morning by The Independent Record, 317 Allen Helena, Montana, zip code 59601. Second Class Postage Paid at Helena, Montana 59601. NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS If you fail to receive your copy Record of from The Independent 3 your carrier DIAL 442-7190 Weekdays before 6:30 p.m.

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Monday through Friday When calling department in "the Independent Record Closed Saturday, Sunday Night Phone Numbers News 442-7206 Business 442-7203 Advertising 442-7227 DETZ Funeral Home, 315 East Sixth Ave. PHONE 442-1550 J. Howard Retz C. Ernest Retz Ben G. Burgess Tom Twichel McCOSKERY, Ruth aged 50 years of 708 N.

Ewing. Chapel services will be conducted at 2 p.m., Friday, July 16 with Rev. Leonard Watson officiating. Interment in Forestvale Cemetery. Those wishing may send contributions to the Lewis and Clark Cancer Committee or the Shriners Hospital in Spokane.

HERRMANN CO. FUNERAL HOME Chapel of Roses Rodney at 7th. Ph. 442-1234 W. LLOYD LINDEN ERVIN D.

CHESTER GRAY, Robert Lawrence, aged 34 years of Helena, formerly of Harlem. The body will be forwarded to Chinook for funeral services and burial. HAGLER Mortuary Phone 442-8520 620 Logan Street Don R. Hagler Unions, Anaconda Co. Mum on Copper Talks The board of directors of the Big Sky Country chapter of Parents Without Partners Inc.

will meet at 8 tonight in the home of Laurrie Dawson, N. Ewing. Ralph M. Leary, a senior at Helena High School, has been accepted at Rocky Mountain College for the fall 1971 term, according to James. R.

Taylor, dean of admissions. Leary is the son of Mr. and Mrs. William E. Leary, 1330 Ninth.

Helena High he served as president of Thespians and was elected to the National Honor Society. Captiol Neon To Manufacture New Light Parts Far-reaching plans are being made by Capitol Neon Inc. at its new plant on U.S. 12, according to manager Jack Wiley. Wiley said the firm has employed Leroy "Bud" Elledge as general superintendent and will begin the manufacture of component parts for signs so lightweight that they can be shipped by air freight out of Helena to all parts of the country.

Elledge was foreman for Gordon Neon in Dever for 12 years and has worked as foreman for Neon Tube Light of San Francisco. He will live in Helena at 1309 Butte and "brings a wealth of experience to our area on both the manufacture of plastic and neon signs," Wiley said. He said the two new products that the firm will produce are electronic devises which Elledge has designed. Miss Mary Ellen Flanagan has been included on the dean's list for the spring semester at St. Edward's University in Austin, according to school.

Miss Flanagan is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George Flanagan of 721 Second. To qualify for the dean's list, a student must post a grade point average of at least 3.20, based on a four-point system, for no less than 12 semester hours. Vital Statistics Marriage Licenses James L.

McClure, 22, Lincoln, and Glenna Rae Longmire, 20, of 709 Ninth. Rogers C. Gwaltney, 63, of 211 Roberts, and Elizabeth Hutfless, 66, of 211 Roberts. Darrel N. Alm, 20 Rimini, and Carol Ann Gilreath, 19, 393 Sierra Road.

Larry Gene Wall, 22, of 145 N. Ewing, and Connie Jean Meyers, 20, of 649 N. Ewing. Births St. Peter's Community Hospital Mr.

and Mrs. Lynn Wakefield, 160 Fairway Drive, a girl, July 14. Mr. and Mrs. James Wilson, Townsend, a girl, July 14.

Mr. and Mrs. Westly Bussell, 1145 Vallio Drive, a boy, July 14. Mr. and Mrs.

John Blacker, 1430 Butte, a girl, July 15. Deaths Mrs. Ruth T. McCoskery, 50, of of 708 N. Ewing, died Wednesday at St.

John's Catholic Hospital. Robert Gray, 34, Harlem, was killed Wednesday in an auto accident. Contract negotiations between Anaconda Co. and the unions continue today, but a wall of silece surrounding the negotiations room precludes any indication of what progress is being made. Spokesmen for Anaconda and the Steelworkers Union are not telling outsiders what is going on behind the closed doors.

The strike is entering its third week today and more than 6,100 mineworkers have been idle 30 at midnight. The talks began in Helena July 7., The Anaconda Co. has offered increased fringe benefits and 70 cents an hour over a threeyear period. These offers were made in Salt Lake City, Utah talks in late June to 1 try to prevent the strike. Workers walked off their jobs at midnight, June 30 ending the talks in Utah.

At the start of the Helena talks, unions presented an offer of their own but will not disclose details. Their offer hits on four areas wages, pensions, hospitalization benefits and the "productivity clause" desired by the Anaconda Co. Groff Is Vice Chairman Of 11-State Water Council State Sen. William A. Groff, D-Victor, is the newly elected vice chairman of the Western States Water Council, members of the Montana Water eRsources Board were advised today.

Groff, 18-year veteran of the Montana Senate and its majority leader in the 1963 session, is one of Gov. Forrest H. Anderson's three representatives to the 11-state council. The other Montana members of the council, set up by the Western Governors Conference in 1965, are Douglas G. Smith, director of the state water agency, and Clyde L.

Hawks, a former member of the board. Groff has described the council as an organization working to reach mutual understanding and agreement on the crucial issue of water development in the western states. The governors' resolution which created the council charg- 46 Physicians Licensed Forty-six doctors licensed this week by the State Board of Medical Examiners plan to practice in at least a dozen different communities. This was announced Wednesday by Dr. William F.

Cashmore, Helena, member and executive officer of the board, which also renewed the temporary licenses of seven other doctors, including several who are waiting to complete citizenship requirements. Therapists Licensed By J. D. HOLMES AP Capitol Writer Also licensed by the board at its semiannual meeting were seven physical therapists. All of the doctors were interviewed by the board before being admitted to practice medicine under reciprocity agreements with other states.

Cashmore said many of the newly licensed doctors already are working in Montana under temporary certificates. Of the new group of medical doctors, 9 are to practice in Billings, 6 each in Great Falls a and Bozeman, 4 in Missoula, and 2 each in Helena and Culbertson. Other places expected to have at least one of the doctors include Glasgow, Miles City, Livingston, Butte, Lakeside, Hot Daytime Traffic At Flesher Pass To Be Rerouted Flesher Pass between Helena and Lincoln will be closed beginning Friday to daytime traffic for about four weeks while a paving contractor completes operations on the highway, according to an announcement today from the Montana Highway Commission. The announcement said that Zook Bros. Construction Co.

of Great Falls is paving the road. Signs will be posted at the above Canyon Creek and on Rogers Pass diverting traffic to Stemple Pass. The road will be open on Sundays and between 8 p.m, and 7 a.m. daily. It is estimated that the pass will reopen about Aug.

16. Want to say -send lovely flowers from KNOX for FLOWERS DIAL 442-4070 1920 North Main EASY PARKING! ed it with "a continuing review of all large-scale interstate and interbasin plans and projects for development, control or utilization of water resources in the western states." Mrs. McCoskery Dies Wednesday Mrs. Ruth T. McCoskery, 50, of 708 N.

Ewing, died Wednesday at St. John's Catholic Hospital following a brief illness. Funeral services will be conducted at 2 p.m. Friday at Retz Funeral Chapel with the Rev. Leonard Watson officiating.

Burial will be in Forestvale Cemetery. Pallbearers will be Budd Williams, James Wilcox, Jack Thibaudeau, Harry Harlen, Rex Smart and Jack Benson. Mrs. McCoskery was born Sept. 15, 1920, in Chinook, the daughter of Mr.

and Mrs. Frank A. Thibaudeau. She came to Helena as a child, attending grade school here and graduating from Helena High School. She married Woodrow F.

McCoskery, Oct. 13, 1940. She was active in the Presbvterian Church, Ladies circle of the Church, Sapheria Miriam Chapter Temple No. and 1, OES, Daughters of the Nile. Survivors include her widower; two daughters, Mrs.

Roger (Linda) Bracken of Omaha, Mary Kay of Helena; two sons, Robert of Denver, David of Bozeman; one brother, Frank Thibaudeau of West Glacier; four sisters, Mrs. Clarence Bakke of Helena, Mrs. Marguerite Hellor of Helmville, Mrs. R. D.

Curry of Dillon and Mrs. Charles Verna of Salem, and six grandchildren, Weather Official temperature in Helena at 1 p.m. was 80 MONTANA H. P. Billings 88 Belgrade 83 Broadus 85 Butte Bank 81 Dillon Glasgow 84 Great Falls Havre 87 Helena 83 Kalispell 80 Lewistown City 88 Livingston Missoula 87 W.

Yellowstone ..82 Drummond ...83 Whitehall ...82 NATIONAL H. P. Calgary Bismarck 79 Chicago 73 Denver .04 Los Angeles 85 Paul .08 New Orleans New York City Phoenix Portland, Ore. St. Louis -79 .39 Salt Lake City ...96 San Francisco 60 Seattle 79 Spokane 85 Washington, D.C.

Sunset tonight 9:18 Sunrise Friday 5:50 In Focus at The Library New books for light summer reading at the Helena Public Library include: "When in Rome," Ngaio Marsh's latest mystery starring CID Superintendent Roderick Allyn. An unconventional tour of Rome with an odd cast of characters involves them all in murder, blackmail and drugrunning. "Who Shot The Bull" by Bill Knox has an unusual victim for its first killing; a prize Angus bull worth $120,000. Scottish inspectors Thane and Moss find themselves with the local police inspector as chief suspect and a Scottish nationalist group complicating the affair. "The Embassy Madonna" by Lydia Kirk centers around an art masterpiece stolen during World War II which is to be returned to be Belgium, Mlle.

Sacquin of the American Embassy discovers a last minute substitution in this tale of intrigue set in Brussels, Charles 0'Reilly education to Montana criminal justice personnel. O'Reilly, who has worked ir. the sheriff's office for the past six years, and his wife, Sandra live at 740 Broadway. Springs and Polson. The newly licensed Montana medical men and the places they are to practice, if determined: Drs.

Harold D. Barnshaw Billings; Carl Z. Biscaro, Missoula; John G. Bloemendaal, Great Falls; David W. Burgan, Missoula; John W.

Cey, Livingston; Walter C. Degnan, Billings Robert H. Di Carlo, Denver; David A. Fink, Billings; Bruce R. Fishburn, Madison, Byron 1 Lee Gifford, Lakeside; Robert R.

Greenheck, Denver. Drs. Edward J. Hagan, Williston, N.D.; Jack L. Haling, San Diego, James W.M.

Ham, Miles City; Frank w. Humberger, Columbus, Ohio; James E. Jarrett, Missoula; V.A. Jenko, Helena; Steven Kairys, Harlem; John Kelly, Hot Springs. Drs.

Larry, W. Lassinger, Bozeman; F. Lodge, Bozeman; Karl A. Lustig, Shakopee, Robert Gray, 34, Rites in Chinook Robert Gray, 34, Helena, formerly of Harlem, was killed Wednesday evening in an auto accident on the York Road. The body will be forwarded to the Eliason Funeral Home in Chino ok for funeral services and burial.

Gray was born Sept. 7, 1936, in Fort Belknap. He attended school in Harlem, and has been employed in various parts of Montana, Washington and Alaska. He came to Helena about a year ago and was employed by the City of Helena. Later he worked for Creek's Building Maintenance.

Survivors include his mother, Mrs. Jacob Kuntz of Harlem; his father, Michael O'Day of Fairbanks, Alaska; four brothers, Michael of Oroville, Wash. Reuben of Bozeman and Richard and Jack of Harlem and eight sisters, Marilyn Bentz of Kirkland, Judy Geraghty of Fairbanks, Monti Birdsell of Camis, Loraine Lahaieing of Olympia, Evelyn liams, of Harlem, Elaine Bastin of Helena, Charlotte Kuntz of Olympia and Clarice Kuntz of Harlem. Perry Bowlby Died Monday Perry H. Bowlby, 57, of Butte, died Monday at the Fort Harrison VA Hospital.

He was born July 2, 1903 in Evanston, Wyo. He entered the Army Sept. 30, 1942 in Spokane and served as a private until his discharge Non Nov. 3, 1943, in San Francisco. He was a retired miner.

Clayton H. McCracken Billings; John B. Messer, Crow Agency; Paul M. Melvin, Great Falls; Thomas J. Meyer, Hamilton; Clayton L.

Meyers, San Bernardino, Calif. To Practice Here Drs. James E. Nickel, Helena; Wilfred L. Olsen, Pocatello, Idaho; Leonard Pace, Bayside, Queens, N.Y.; Charles W.

Patterson, Great Falls; Richard C. Reem, Billings; Normal L. Reitzel, Vinton, Iowa; Joseph D. Rich, Billings; Robert D. Rieth, Thermopolis, Paul H.

Roc key, Seattle, Wash. Drs. Richard R. Sabo, Bozeman; Howard M. Siegler, Houston, Robert J.

Seim, Missoula; William H. Smoot, Billings; Joseph R. Svoboda, Richmond, Bernard M. Varberg, Bozeman; Walter C. Vashaw Great Falls; C.

Dale Vermillion, Billings; and Francis H. Weiss, Woodbury, N.J. Physical therapists are: Kenneth J. Bicha, Butte; Robert B. Bowman, Great Falls; Keith G.

Buckles, Great Falls; Cathy Ruth Conner Hawkins, Darby; Ronald O. Nessland, Cody, Wyo. Mrs. Doris M. Nordstrom, Missoula; and Mrs.

Michele St. Marie, Crow Agency. Training Session For Judging Livestock Held Twenty-five 4-H members from Lewis and Clark and Broadwater counties took part in a livestock judge training session this week at the fairgrounds in preparation for a new event to be added to the Last Chance Stampede and Fair coming up July 29-Aug. 1. Livestock station judging will be added to the fair program for 4-H'ers 14 years or older with livestock judging experience.

Animals to be judged are beef, dairy, sheep and swine, Stan Howard, county extension agent, reports station judguses the experience and judgment of several judges instead of just one or two. The stations are set up in the judging arena with from three to five persons assigned as judges at each station. The animals are then paraded past each station with judges arriving independently at their own scores. For example, in market beef judging five stations will be established. They will be fatness, carcass quality, rear quarters, cutability and growthiness and the judges at each station will evaluate only one factor and not judge the entire animal.

Members who attended the training session will help the other 4-H'ers with the judging at the fair. NOTICE Flesher Pass will be closed during daylight hours, except Sundays, for paving. Detour over Stemple Pass. Other workshops to be offered include "Information Sources for the School Library 1," "Modern Mathematics Workshop for Elementary teachers," "Strengthening School Library Resources," "Contemporary Economic problems" and "Forms and Analysis of Literature." In addition, a class on themethods of creative jewelry making, casting and copper enameling will also be offered this session. Further information is available from Huber at 442-3450.

Card of Thanks We wish to thank all those who expressed their sympathy and assistance in many acts of kindness, floral offerings, memorials and messages during the recent bereavement of our dear mother and grandmother. Mr. and Mrs. Wylie Nelson and family Mr. and Mrs.

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