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i Snow Mostly cloudy with periods of snow Tuesday and Tuesday night. High Tuesday 25, low Tueaday night 15. More weather, vitals page 5. 83rd Year-No. 234 Billings, Montana, Tuesday Morning, January 7, 1969 Single rt Home Deliver i Copy 1UC Price Lower mm It's Gov.

Forrest Now Wis 0 II mm 1 ftaririiett Sum GliM i we ing many members of the 1969 legislature, which convened Monday afternoon. A military color guard flanked Anderson and Judge during the ceremony and the families of the two men occupied front row seats. Prior to other swearing-in ceremonies, the Montana Supreme Court honored retiring Associate Justice Hugh Adair. The ceremony marked Adair's last appearance on the bench after serving for 26 years. Anderson, the state's first Democratic governor since 1953, succeeds Republican Tim Bab-cock, whom Anderson defeated in last November's general By HUGH VAN SWEARINGEN HELENA (AP) Gov.

Forrest H. Anderson officially took over as Montana's chief executive Monday after he was sworn Rep. Harold Gerke of Billings has been named minority whip in the lower chamber by new Montana House Democratic minority floor leader John Hall of Great Falls. in at a ceremony in the reception room of the capitol. Anderson and Lt.

Gov. Thomas L. Judge took oath of office together with Chief Justice James T. Harrison presiding. The room was packed with several hundred persons, includ The state's other new officers taking office Monday included Atty.

Gen. Robert L. Woodahl, a Republican; Treasurer Alex B. Stephenson, also a Republican; Public Instruction Superintendent Dolores Colburg, a Democrat, and; Supreme Court Justices John W. Bonner and Frank I.

Haswell. Bonner was governor from 1949 to 1953. Re-elected state officers beginning new terms Monday were Secretary of State Frank Murray, a Democrat; Auditor E. V. Omholt, a Republican, and Republican Ernest C.

Steel, chairman of the Railroad and Public Service Commission. Woodahl, 37, is the first Republican in the attorney general's office in 36 years. By JERRY HOLLORON Gazette State Bureau HELENA Mrs. Dolores Colburg, who became Montana's superintendent of public instruction Monday, was demoted last week by her former boss and predecessor a state superintendent, Harriet Miller. The State Bureau confirmed Monday that Mrs.

Colburg was demoted to an "unclassified position" within the Department and asked her not to return to work until Jan. 6. The retiring state superintendent is said to have been upset about the length of time Mrs. Colburg held the contract without revealing what action she planned to take, the nature of the questions she raised about it and the fact that she sent a copy of her questions to Pantzer. Mrs.

Colburg, on the other hand, is said to have believed that her questions were legitimate and although she was not a party to the contract, that her signature on it would suggest her full approval. The result finally was that the project, which was to have begun immediately, has been cancelled. of Public Instruction and was asked by Miss Miller not to return to work until she was sworn in as state superintendent. Mrs. Colburg, who was elected to the state school job on Nov.

5, has spent about a year and a half as administrative assistant to Miss Miller. Both are Democrats, and Mrs. Colburg filed for the state office only after Miss Miller announced she would not run for a fourth term. Miss Miller endorsed the election of her assistant last fall. BOTH WOMEN refused to comment on the rift between them.

However, through other sources, the State Bureau has the project and signed a contract for it on Dec. 26. Miss Miller also signed the contract as superintendent of public instruction. ALTHOUGH IT was not required, Miss Miller also asked Mrs. Colburg to sign the contract, not as a legal party to it but as a means of noting its existence.

Very late in December, the contract was given to Mrs. Colburg and later the document was returned unsigned. Accompanying it was a list of questions concerning the project. The last also had been sent to UM President Robert Pantzer. It was at the point that Miss Miller demoted Mrs.

Colburg learned that this is what happened: Several months ago, Miss Miller began planning a project under which Montana college and high school students and teachers would be given an opportunity to live and work for several months in big-city ghettos. Purpose of the project would have been to help the Montanans understand urban problems as part of an attempt to make education more relevant. The project would have been funded by federal money at least at the start, although it might have been possible to get aid from a private foundation later. The University of Montana had agreed to cooperate in iii win mil 1 vawnj Mew 1 Glasgow usiness for IliifllfiiS transform the complex into a self-contained industrial community. The installation has modern residential, educational, health and recreational facilities for resident workers.

A subsidiary of Avco, Avco Economic Systems was awarded the contract to renovate and manufacture certain ordnance components for the Army at the former Air Force base. Only a portion of the base facilities will be required for the ordnance work. By The Associated Press Avco Corp. was awarded a $5 million contract Monday for production and manufacturing at Glasgow Air Force Base, Montana senators announced. Core of the Department of Defense award, said Sens.

Mike Mansfield and Lee Metcalf both is $2.4 million to produce Army ordnance items for a 13-month period as the first phase of a 25-month manufacturing program. The senators said the first year also includes $250,000 to modify base facilities and an additional sum for operation and maintenance. Total for the first year will involve a minimum of $3 million and provide employment for 300 persons by May 1, they added. The senators said production will begin by March 1. James R.

Kerr, Avco president, said Avco has leased the entire base for a five-year period. Avco will perform both the manufacturing and economic development work which will till 4 mm Bill Would Lower Vote Age Avco, in leasing the entire base for the five-year period, announced plans to explore the possibilities of developing other portions of the base for commercial production work. Under consideration are manufacture of commercial aircraft components, camping trailers, refrigeration equipment and plastic fabrication. Gov. Forrest H.

Anderson, who took office Monday, was unavailable for comment; but a spokesman in his office said Anderson would discuss the matter Tuesday. Anderson is scheduled to deliver his State of the State message to a joint session of the Montana House and Senate at 2 p.m. Tuesday. Former Gov. Tim Babcock, reached at his new office in KBLL radio station, Helena, told The Associated Press "I'm just glad to see it happen, regardless of when." Sunday was his final day in office.

Babcock recently bought the station. "We've been talking and negotiating with a number of companies and it didn't seem that Avco was the most likely," Babcock added, referring to his work while in office and that of the State Planning and Economic Development Commission. Gazette photo by Bill Tutokey Auto exhaust is the major source of dirty air. apportionment and to report its findings to the 1971 legislature. The roll call vote that elected Mahoney carried with it the Democratic majority's selection of legislators to head four powerful committees, the selection of Sen.

Gordon McGowan, D-Highwood, as Senate president pro tempore; Walter H. Marshall of Helena as chief Senate clerk and ex-Sen. Richard Nixon Hogeland, sergeant at arms. Legislators are currently paid eight cents a mile. State employes receive nine cents a mile.

The bill also would provide mileage allowance for legislators traveling to and from pre-legislative caucuses. All bills were sent to committee. Also sent to committee was a Senate joint resolution requesting the Legislative Council to conduct a study on legislative A Sunday Drive Pollutes the Air House Starts Fast With 85-Bill Day Solon Wants Gambling Vote IN LARGE, the pollution crisis is the result of growth and the industrial revolution. Eighty per cent of the nation's electric power is generated by coal or fuel oil and consumption doubles each decade. The nation produces 150 million tons of refuse yearly and much of it is still burned.

Population has grown from 75 million in 1900 to over 200 million, and today 70 per cent of it is urban, living on 1 per cent of the nation's land mass. One of the most incredible statistics in the story of pollution is simply the amount of raw gasoline allowed to evaporate into the atmosphere. Some 10 billion gallons of it totalling 15 per cent of all gasoline sold in the U.S. yearly simply evaporates, loading the air with additional hydrocarbons and chemicals. Beginning in 1969, the federal government will require additional devices in cars limiting the amount of gasoline evaporation from the carburetor and other sources.

SHEER GROWTH is a major factor. It is not enough to hope that new industries will be pollution free. New industries mean more people, using more cars, burning more electricity, burning more fuel to heat their homes. Air pollution is interwoven through virtually all of man's endeavor and activity. Industry is a major polluter.

Phosphate plants pour out fluorides and poison vegetation. Chemical plants pour out foul smelling mercaptans and other offensive materials. Steel mills dump iron oxides into the air. Refineries spew sulfur oxides and other wastes. To some extent, advancing technology reduces pollution.

THE DECLINE of coal as a home heating fuel; the conversion to diesel railroad engines; the frequent conversion (Continued on Page 2) By DICK WHEELER Gazette Staff Writer Who and what pollutes the air? The best answer is that you do. Especially if you own a car. Over half the pollutants in the air nationally are emitted from the 80-plus million automobiles we own. A car without pollution controls spews about 530 pounds of pollutants into the air each year. With the controls that were initially installed in 1968 models and thereafter, the amount per car will be reduced to 180 pounds annually.

But it will take a decade before even as much as 85 per cent of American cars are equipped. Meanwhile, the equipped cars will wear out and their control equpment will work less and less well. IT DOES no good to try to alter the composition of gasoline to remove the polluting elements. Auto engines act as miniature "cracking plants" to create the olefins and other smogmakers from fuel. The basic cause of smog in cars and from other sources is imperfect burning.

For that reason scientists are working on various devices to complete the burning process. Cars in poor condition, with dirty spark plugs, carbon deposits, fouled carburetors, produce many times the smog that comes from well-kept cars. Diesels produce smoke and odor, but a lower level of gaseous hydrocarbons than other engines. Up to 30 per cent of the photochemical smog of Los Angeles is caused by crankcase vapors. When an engine has malfitting piston rings, unburned fuel vapors mix with crank case oils and vapors, and are vented out of the engine.

A blowby device being installed by manufacturers pipes vapors back into the cylinders for burning. HELENA (AP) Four bills were introduced Monday during the opening session of the 1969 Montana Senate, including a measure to provide gasoline tax funds to cities and counties and one to lower the voting age to 18. The Senate was in session for only one hour and concerned itself principally with organizational formalities. Lt. Gov.

Thomas L. Judge, a former state senator, called the Senate into session promptly at noon. The bill on gasoline taxes provides that $1.5 million be allocated biennially to counties, cities and towns for road construction and maintenance. The bipartisan measure calls for allocating the money on the basis of a complex formula that takes into consideration the populations of counties and cities, their total road mileage in relation to the state's total road mileage and the amount of land within the cities and counties in relation to the state's total land area. It stipulates that the money not be used to purchase equipment.

The voting-age bill, besides lowering the age to 18, provides that persons voting in Montana state and federal elections must be residents of the state for one year. Anderson, a successful candidate for governor in the June primary election, called for lowering the voting age during his campaign. Another bipartisan bill proposes that the terms of state legislators begin on the first Monday in December rather than the first Monday in January as now is the case. The bill also contains a section which proposes that the date for taking the official canvass of general election ballots be changed to insure the canvass is completed before the first Monday in December. A fourth bill introduced at the opening session proposed that the mileage allowance paid to state legislators be the same as that for state employes.

HELENA (AP) Montana's House of Representatives was off and running Monday in a three-sitting first afternoon that saw an unprecedented 85 bills sent to committees which prompUy scheduled several public hearings for later this week. Speaker James P. Lucas, leader of the Republican majority, which has been perfecting the House machinery since a Nov. 22 caucus, said the 85 bills probably exceed the first-day total of all sessions in the past quarter century. The traditional "feed" bill and its companion attache pay-scale bill cleared both the Appropriation Committee and the printer en route to floor debate and final House vote Tuesday en route to the Senate.

Until the $750,000 appropriation is enacted into law by Gov. Forrest H. Anderson, no money is available for expenses of the 41st assembly which thus far is operating on credit. The feed and pay-scale bills probably will make it to the Senate Tuesday afternoon following the 2 p.m. joint session which will hear Gov.

Forrest H. Anderson's State of the State Message. Copies of the budget recommended by former Gov. Tim Babcock will be distributed during the second day. In a major departure from past procedure, the House will meet daily at 1:30 p.m., leaving the morning clear for committees to work without interruption.

Despite this additional committee time, in view of the heavy influx of bills, Lucas advised the 58 Republicans and 46 Democrats in the House they may not get more than Saturday afternoon and Sunday off next weekend. In the past, the first weekend has run from Friday afternoon to Monday a practice that some feel contributed to the traditional overtime past the constitutional 60 days. Antelope I Dies in Viet WASHINGTON (AP) Army Spec. 5 Edmund J. Schmidt, son of Mr.

and Mrs. Frank J. Schmidt, Antelope, has died in Vietnam, the Defense Department said Monday. His death, the department added, was not as a result of hostile action. Eye Opener A political forum is where the listeners sit in chairs and the Speakers straddle fences.

By JERRY HOLLORON Gazette State Bureau HELENA Legislation aimed at removing the "anti-gambling" provision in Montana's constitution will be introduced by State Sen. John "Luke" McKeon. The Anaconda Democrat siad he will introduce a bill to repeal the constitutional prohibition against lotteries Later in the 1969 legislative session, which opened Monday. Repeal of a section prohibiting lotteries would require a majority vote of the people, and McKeon said that the holding of such a vote on gambling is what he is after. "If the people want a change in the laws of gambling, they have a right to vote on it," he said.

McKEON'S proposed bill would require two-thirds approval by both legislative houses even before it is put before the people. At this point, its chances of passage in the legislature appear very slim. McKeon said if the constitutional section were done away with, the legislature could authorize by law the extent of lotteries and gambling it wanted in the state. Are icket Linos rosse Other unions are respecting Oil Chemical and Atomic Workers picket lines, but traffic continues to flow across the lines anyway, union spokesmen said Monday. Management of local trucking firms are taking trucks through picket lines into the refineries, Jod Haddenhorst and Don Bush man, presidents of the Billings and Laurel OCAW locals, said.

They said the same is true of railroad tank cars and claimed that trains are being manned by management when they cross picket lines. Operation of the three oil refineries in Billings and Laurel by managerial personnel consti- operate with managerial personnel. "We certainly would not run the refinery unless it were safe," said Barry Nolan, manager of the Humble Refinery. "We have supervisory people and chemical and mechanical engineers who understand the processes fully and are capable of running the refinery." Supervisory personnel at Farmers Union Central Exchange in Laurel and Continental Oil Co. in Billings were unavailable for comment.

Payroll losses to merchants in the Yellowstone Valley are close to $14,000 each day of the strike, union spokesmen said. tutes a danger, union spokesmen said Monday. "EVEN UNDER ideal conditions the refining of petroleum is a hazardous occupation," Bushman said. "The operation of these plants by unqualified personnel is a serious hazard to life and property in the surrounding communities," Bushman said. "Refining operations are even more dangerous during the present cold weather," Haddenhorst said.

"There is a possibility of frozen steam lines and a lack of experienced fire fighting personnel," Haddenhorst said. The union locals have filed a Weather Hampers Search for Planes mum pm wwy ifw 1 I ,5 2xW 1 i r. ganized searching in Montana for a missing twin-engine private plane carrying a family of four from Lynwood, Wash. The last reported word from the plane came when it took off from the Great Falls airport at 12:25 p.m. Sunday.

The plane was due in Paine Field at Everett, at 5:30 p.m. The plane had fuel for eight hours. Piloting the craft was Leslie Kottsick. With him were his wife, Emily, and their children, a boy 9Va and a girl 7. The Kottsicks reportedly had been in Montana visiting in Great Falls and Glasgow during the holiday season.

The family formerly lived in Glasgow. MISSOULA (AP) Poor weather conditions hampered searchers Monday looking for a light plane missing since Saturday on a flight from Poison to Billings. Aboard were the pilot, 35-year-old Cecil Mocabee, a Billings police detective, and his two sons, Jack, 13, and Allen, 9. Four planes were able to get into the air Sunday to search for the missing craft, but they were grounded late in the day. Jack Hughes of Missoula, who is directing the search in that area, said they planned to cover the pilot's probable line of flight once the weather clears.

Poor weather hampered or 3 11 statement with the state fire OIL, CHEMICAL and Atomic marshall calling his attention to workers are seeking a 72 cents what they claim are safety haz- an hour wage increase over a ards in plants continuing to 23 montn contract. The stand- 1 ard industry offer has been 35 JPY cents an hour with Farmers I flu ex Umon central Exchange offer-Vitals, Weather, Obits ....5 ing 53 cents an hour over a 36 Markets ii month contract, according to Landers "iZZZIZl 7 unionheads. Dr. Thostcson 13 xhe labor cost involved in Astrology 13 producing a gallon of gasoline Bragg 3 is only two cents according to Comics 12 the Chase Manhatten Bank of Sports 9, 10 New York," union spokesmen Classified 13, 14, 15 said. alette photo by Bill Tutokey New snowfall brings a few problems..