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rv News you missed FROM MONTANA'S CAPITAL CITY Helena, Montana, Friday evening, April 14, 1978 25c Vol. 36 No. 145 Dracula was a freedom fighter Senators hope to end threat ire WASHINGTON (AP) Senate leaders will propose a reservation to the second Panama Canal Treaty which they hope will end the threat to approval of the agreements, congressional sources said today. The reservation, or condition, will state in firm terms that the United States has no intention of intervening in Panama's internal affairs. (Related stories on Page 14) WASHINGTON (AP) Dracula, at least to Romanian President Nicolae Ceausescu, was no blood-sucking vampire fleeing the dawn.

No, says Ceausescu. Dracula was a Romanian freedom fighter who struggled against foreign domination and oppression. The subject of the legendary figure of horror fiction arose during Ceausescu's appearance at the National Press Club here on Thursday. He was asked what he thought of American tourists invading his land to visit Count Dracula's castle in Transylvania, a mountainous region in central and northwest Romania. In the first place, the communist chief of state replied, Dracula was no count.

He was a commoner. In the second place, he was no vampire. "He was a leader of the struggle of the Romanian people against the yoke of the Ottoman Empire," he said. "It is true he was tough on our enemies and those who had committed treason. But he was very kind and mild to the people and fought for their freedom." DURING CEAUSESCU'S state visit here, there have been protests at the White House by Hungarian-Americans about they what they say is a lack of human rights accorded that minority in Transylvania, which touches Hungary's border.

Both countries are members of the Soviet bloc, with Romania considered by Western observers as the most repressive internally while being allowed the most freedom to vary from the Soviet position on foreign affairs. The American image of Dracula is based on the 1897 novel by British author Bram Stoker. He wove a tale about a Transylvanian nobleman who, after sunset, changed into a giant bat that flew about the countryside drawing blood from the necks of his sleeping victims. IN THE NOVEL, the count moves to England, terrorizes the nation and eventually dies after a stake is shoved through his heart. Stoker is said to have based his character on a 15th century Transylvanian known to history as Vlad the Impaler.

He is said to have earned this title from his habit of dropping captured Turks from his castle onto sharpened stakes driven into the earth below. scheduled a meeting today with Sen. Dennis DeConcini, who authored another reservation. Deconini's condition upon the treaty would give the United States the right to use military forces to keep the canal open, even if its operations were threatened by problems inside Panama such as labor strikes. An aide to DeConcini, said the senator has not yet seen the proposed reservation meant to offset the impact of his own reservation.

Meanwhile, Sen. S.I. Hayakawa, said he may switch his vote and refuse to support the second treaty unless President Carter signals a switch in foreign policy. Hayakawa said he is disturbed about communist-supported actions in Rhodesia, the cancellation of the B-l bomber program and the president's decision not to approve production of the neutron bomb at this time. At a news conference today, Hayakawa said Carter has agreed to meet with him on Monday.

HAYAKAWA SAID, "It is possible that I may not vote for it (the treaty)." The intervention issue has jeopardized the treaty approval for more than a week. On Thursday, Sens. George McGovem, Howard Metzenbaum, D-Ohio; Floyd Haskell, D-Colo. and Daniel Moynihan, all said that they have doubts about supporting the second treaty without a congressional statement that the United States has no plan to intervene in Panama once it takes over the waterway. And, in still another development, Sen.

James Abourezk, DS said he would reverse himself and vote against the remaining pact unless he is given a more active role in Senate negotiations on energy legislation. I J1 i Njf -w -f As presently drafted, the reservation would say that no action taken by the United States under the treaties should be interpreted "as intervention in the internal affairs of, Panama and will not be directed at the territorial integrity and the political independence of Panama. The new reservation would be voted on Tuesday, just before the final vote on the second treaty. That treaty would gradually turn over the canal to Panama by the year 2000. The first treaty, to guarantee the waterway's neutrality, was approved by the Senate 68-32 on March 16.

SENATE MAJORITY Leader Robert Byrd Sen. S.J. Hayakawa, says his support for President Carter is dwindling because of the President's foreign policy. (AP Laserphoto) I nf or no I turmoil rips Guess who came 1 1 to state dinner? with "a notice for proposed administrative action," but a spokesman denied his accusation that the Carter administration was carrying out investigations similar to those of the Weathermen. Justice Department spokesman Terry Adamson said searches without warrants had been carried out only against "foreign agents under rigorous internal executive branch approval." The Justice Department contends the Weathermen investigations were illegal because the underground group had no significant foreign ties and it was not a national security case.

J. Wallace LaPrade CONCORD, N.H. (AP) White House press secretary Jody Powell says he's not sure how a used car salesman from New Hampshire con-, Vjctej 0f a feiony was in vited to a White House I state dinner. I The Washington Post reported today that 11 Robert Sowa, a former Manchester alderman, dined at the White House on squab at a state dinner for the president of Romania on Wednesday. Film star Ulva Pippy dies in Bozeman NEW YORK (AP) J.

Wallace LaPrade, pulled from his post here as head of the nation's largest FBI office and threatened with dismissal for conducting improper wiretaps and break-ins, has lashed out at Attorney General Griffin Bell for ordering similar investigations. LaPrade said Bell has acted "with the president's authority" and challenged Bell to debate the issue with him on national television. The 51-year-old LaPrade made his claims at a news conference at which he announced he had been relieved of his duties here and transferred to Washington pending investigation of the charges against him, which stem from an FBI investigation of the radical Weathermen movement in the early 1970s. "The issue at hand is political, as opposed to legal," LaPrade said, "and there has been a political effort to control the FBI. I think that Mr.

(J. Edgar) Hoover in his tenure was strong enough to maintain the organization in such a fashion that that was not possible, although it was always tried." THERE WAS NO immediate response to LaPrade's remarks from Bell, who was out of Washington Thursday. The 27-year veteran, an assistant FBI director and chief of the New York office since early 1975, was head of intelligence during the Weathermen investigation from 1970 to 1972. Referring to pressure from Bell concerning his alleged part in investigations conducted without warrants, LaPrade said. "Is it proper to ask: Will another political power in Washington desire to prosecute today's actions five years from now?" LaPrade called on all FBI agents now involved in such "warrantless investigations" to stop work until they have written orders from President Carter.

According to a New York FBI source who did not want to be named. Bell asked for LaPrade's resignation Monday after he was named an unin-dicted co-conspirator in an indictment charging former acting FBI Director L. Patrick Gray and two former aides of ordering the warrantless surveillance of the Weathermen. IN WASHINGTON the Justice Department acknowledged that LaPrade had been served The White House 1 guest list identified him las "Robert Sowa, nJk i Manchester, N.H., state Robert Sowa representative Sowa, 33, resigned as alderman in March 1977, after pleading guilty in Hillsboro County Superior Court to charges of theft by deception and making a false report of a crime. i posite Glenn Ford in that movie.

The same year "Martin Eden" was released, Pippy entered the Army, on July 13, 1942. He served as a Captain in the Army Signal Corps until being discharged on April 15, 1946. His veteran status helped him meet his future wife, Shirley Kannegaard, when he was hospitalized at Fort Harrison Veterans Hospital where she was a nurse. They were married on June 17, 1967 in Santa Monica, Calif. Survivors include the widow, Shirley, in Bozeman; six step children, Rod Gwaltney Wolf Creek, Robert Dargan Jr.

and John Raymond (Continued on Page 2) in 1931. More stage experience came while he attended Intermountain College in Helena; he graduated from there in 1934. Two years of teaching school in Marysville detained Pippy 's arrival in Hollywood. But he finally arrived there, enrolled in the Pasadena Community Playhouse and washed dishes at the YMCA until he was "discovered" and hired by Columbia Pictures. Pippy adopted his mother's maiden name, "MacDonald," for a stage name.

Of all the movies in which he acted, Pippy once said that the role of Capt. Butch Ragan in the Jack London epic "Martin Eden" was his best. He appeared op Former Helena resident, Ulva W. Pippy, better known as actor Ian Mac-Donald to fans of such westerns as "High Noon" and "Gunsmoke," died at his home in Bozeman on Tuesday. He was 63.

The veteran movie actor, who moved to Bozeman a year and a half ago from Helena, appeared in about 50 movies and acted with stars such as Gary Cooper, Glenn Ford and Errol Flynn. After a Hollywood acting career that spanned from about 1937 to 1962, Ian Mac-Donald retired because of ill-health and moved back to Helena, where he had lived as a boy. He was born in Great Falls on June 28, 1914, a son of the Rev. William and Sarah Pippy. They moved HE RECEIVED a suspended jail sentence, was fined $1,000, placed on two years probation and ordered to repay $3,865 to the insurance company.

The charges were filed two weeks before the Sept. 14, 1976, Democratic primary in which Sowa was an unssuccesful candidate for the state Executive Council. Powell was quoted in the Post as saying he borrowed a pair of galoshes from Sowa during Carter's 1976 New Hampshire primary campaign. A year later, when Sowa wasn't invited to a reunion of New Hampshire campaign workers, he wrote to complain and said he'd "really like to come" to the White House, Powell said. "So he got an invitation," Powell said.

"I guess somebody thought it might make up for a past Ulva Pippy: Ian MacDonald of film fame to Helena, where Pippy attended Helena schools. He began his acting career at Helena High School and starred in a play ers' success? ludmes will appoint' lohn Go open on this year's ballot. Kovich the City of Helena's former finance director has not announced whether he'll seek election to the seat he has held by appointment since July 1. Kovich said he and Goers had planned file for election, but that his colleague's untimely death had created uncertainties. The current term in District 3 which Connick won by election in 1974 does not expire until 1980.

State law, however, says an appointed commissioner (Kovich) will serve only until the next general election Harold Paulsen and Charles Meyers, both of Helena, are vying for the two-year interim term in District 3. The District 1 commission term held by Chris Gardner expires in 1983. Gardner won a full six-year term to that post last April 5. Kovich to determine whether they are in the right district. Districting maps are available for public inspection at the courthouse.

GOERS DEATH created the third vacancy on the Lewis and Clark County Commission in less than a year. District 3 Commissioner Art Connick died June 8, and the judges named Mike Kovich to fill the vacancy until this November's election. The current term in District 2 expires this year. Although Goers had not formally announced plans to seek election to the District 2 post, courthouse officials say he probably would have done so. Only one person Edward Bezanson, 46, of Helena has filed for the District 2 seat.

THE DISTRICT 3 commission post is also a day. seven days a week. They must be willing to act as a walking complaint bureau, attend meetings of public and civic groups, and be prepared to answer all criticism and overcome public apathy." Lewis and Clark County commissioners handle a $6.5 million annual budget, supervise 300 employees and are responsible for all governmental functions within the county. In past appointments, members of the Republican party have expressed anger that the County Commission is not "balanced" party affiliation-wise (Kovich and Gardner are "Democrats.) Judge Meloy told the Independent Record Thursday the judges will appoint the applicant most qualified to fill the position regardless of party affiliation. Pergons interested in the apppointment should contact Clerk and Recorder Helen Goers died at Madison Dam near Ennis while making an underwater inspection of Montana Power Company's hydro-electric equipment.

He was an independent consulting geologist and hydrology expert from Austin. Under Montana law, district judges are charged with the responsibility of appointing Goers' successor. They stress that applicants should be qualified to serve as the full-time administrators for the Lewis and Clark County one of Montana's largest. COMMISSIONERS earn $13,308 a year. Applicants must have been full-time residents of District 2 for at least two years immediately preceding the appointment According to the judges, applicants "must be willing and prepared to work well ovfr 40 hours a week and be on call 24 hours By SALLY HILANDER IR Staff Writer Lewis and Clark County is seeking candidates to fill the District 2 County Commission position vacated by John Goers' April 6 death.

Interested persons have just six days in which to file applications with Helena District Judges Peter Meloy and Gordon Bennett. The judges set an April 20 deadline in an effort to avoid conflict with the April 27 primary election filing deadline. County commissioners in Montana serve six-year staggered terms. The current District 2 commission term which Goers held by appointment for only seven weeks expires in November. Goers, 34, was appointed to the commission Feb.

15, after Art Woods resigned to become the county's civil defense director..