The Billings Gazette from Billings, Montana • 18

Friday, April 7, 1972 Morning Edition 10 Board to consider school accreditation tendent of the state school in Great Falls, said 21 of the 28 professional staff members voted to affiliate with the teachers' union. Federation of Teachers as bargaining agent for the professional staff at the School for Deaf and Blind. Floyd J. McDowell, superin Omholt will run again HELENA (AP)-State Auditor E. V.

"Sonny" Omholt filed Thursday for Republican nomination to a third full term in the office he has held for nearly 10 years. The 52-year-old Omholt was appointed auditor in May 1962 Real Bird defends option secondary schools, making them eligible for state equalization aid under the School. Foundation Program. At the upcoming April meeting, the board is to approve orders for distributing in June and September state equalization aid to counties having eligible school districts. Also up for board approval is recognition of the American HELENA (AP) Public Instruction Supt.

Dolores Col-burg's recommendations for accreditation of state-operated, parochial and federal schools in Montana will be considered Monday by Montana's Board of Education. The recommendations have not been made public. Last month, the board accredited all public elementary and Child critically burned Crows elect committee GREAT FALLS (AP)-Fire Marshal Kenneth Roeben said a 2-year-old Great Falls boy was critically burned Wednesday in a fire apparently caused; while he played with matches. Little Michael Miller suffered burns over 40 to 50 per cent of his body, according to an attending physician. Roeben said the toddler ap- parently ignited a towel that was wrapped around him while playing with matches.

The explosion of a can of lighter fluid, stored under the sink in the home, contributed to the severe burns, Roeben said. When Mrs. Barbara Johnson, the boy's mother, screamed for help, a school-boy, 12-year-old Vincent Spotted Eagle, rushed in and helped her remove another son, 3-month old Thomas Johnson from his crib and out of danger. The Johnson's have two other boys, who were not injured. After further help arrived, Spotted Eagle left the home and went on to school, authorities said.

The World's Largest Selling Brandy Pryor Frederick Turns Back 53, Anna Belle Plain Bull 9. Wyola Dorothy Bastien 47, Alice Da vies 32. Off-reservation Angela Rus-sell 14. No candidates filed in the Big Horn district. Tribal Secretary Frederick V.

Lefthand said a special election would be held in this district later, The committee, usually known as the education committee, screens candidates for tribal scholarships and keeps track of Crow Indian college students. It also is active in the operation of the Crow Youth camp and interests itself in other problems dealing with education and also with health and welfare. CROW AGENCY Members of the Crow Indian tribe Monday voted to elect six of the seven members of the tribe's health, education and welfare committee. One was selected from each of five of the six reservation districts, and the other will represent the off-reservation members of the tribe. Voting by districts was Lodge Grass Emmett Old Bull 104, Josephine Russell 42, Laura Singer 36, Wanda Medicine Horse 28, Robert Bulltail 17.

Black Lodge Janette Adams 90, John M.Stewart 55. Reno Danetta Falls Down 124, Ann Big Man 71. E. V. OHMOLT Cat burglar strikes trailer Somebody broke into Robert Nelson's trailer house, 3921 Dry Gulch Road, Sunday night, but it wasn't until Wednesday that Nelson discovered it was a "Cat" burglar.

That's when he called the sheriff's office. He found that a Caterpillar tractor radiator, with cast iron frame, weighing about 100 pounds and worth about $50, was missing from under his bed. ers will be instituted if that one is successful. Opponents of the purchase claim it will affect the outcome of any such suits. Real Bird denied this, citing as proof the recognition of the problem in the option.

"This does not affect anybody's right to sue under Section 2 of the Crow Act of 1920," the tribal chairman said. He also had quite a bit to say in reply to a claim that the ranch was a losing proposition, a bad business venture. The ranch was very profitable in the past, he-said. "We're going to get good management. We can make good money for the tribe.

We can also bring our own land back to the Crow people," Real Bird said. He showed a letter from James Canan, area director of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, which states, "You are reminded that one of the prime concerns of the Burea of Indian Affairs is considering approval of the proposed loan from the Farmers Home Administration will be an adequate management plan for the land involved in the purchase." REAL BIRD PROMISED that management would be eyed by the BIA, the FHA and the tribe, and said all must agree before the tribe takes over the ranch. The tribal chairman can't see how the purchase would put the tribe in harmful competition with small ranchers. "If everybody raises good beef, everybody is going to sell that beef," he said. By HELEN M.

PETERSON Editor, Hardin Tribune Herald HARDIN Terms of the option to buy Little Horn Land and Livestock were explained here by Edison Real Bird, chairman of the Crow Indian tribe. Real Bird said he wanted to answer the critics of the purchase and to make clear just what the option means. A copy of the option was furnished for study. It gives the tribe the right to purchase 34,453.69 of deeded land and leases on 79,483.11 acres more for the sum of $3.5 Real Bird said the amount is negotiable and that any such price negotiatins would be con-" ducted by representatives of the Crow tribe, the Bureau of Indian Affairs and the Farmers Home Administration. The tribe is seeking a loan from the FHA to finance the purchase of the ranch.

Appraised value of the land is about (50,000 above the purchase price named in the option, Real Bird claimed. INCLUDED IN THE APPRAISAL are improvements valued at $150,000. These include several homes, shops, machinery shelters and a variety of other outbuildings at the ranch headquarters 11 miles south of Wyola. The tribal chairman said that if the tribe's loan application is turned down by the FHA or the transaction is not approved by the BIA, the $35,000 paid for the option will be returned to the tribe. However, if the tribe itself decides not to buy the land, the money will be forfeited.

Critics of the purchase claim that the tribe is "mortgaging the Big Horn" or committing tribal income or authorizing a tax on members of the tribe in order to secure repayment of the FHA loan. THESE ALLEGATIONS Real Bird vehemently denied. "Other tribal income, the tribe's taxing authority or title to the Big Horn Mountains are not affected in any way," he said. The FHA mortgage will apply only against the land purchased under the loan. Section 2 of the Crow Act of 1920 has been cited frequently in the debate over the purchase of the ranch in southern Big Horn County.

This limits legally the amount of land within the boundaries of the reservation that one purchaser can own. Some of the land involved in the big purchase is allegedly in violation of Section 2, and therefore some problems on land titles may be invovled. Real Bird pointed out that this fact is recognized in the option. The seller guarantees to reimburse the tribe should any of the land titles be shown to be invalid within the next five years. Title insurance is also provided under terms of the option.

"The option we have says that Section 2 may affect some land titles. If those title are no good, Little Horn Land has to pay the Crow tribe back," Real Bird said. ONE SUIT on a Section 2 violation is now pending, and oth MTtfeirmi Youths to attend 4-H conference S-T-R-E-T-CrHL fillings' largest selection of knit! 'fabrics and lingerie can be seen BOZEMAN Five Montan-ans will attend the National 4-H Conference April 23-28 at the National 4-H Center in Washington, D.C. The trip is considered to be the top honor which can be won by a 4-H club member. This year, for the first time, delegates were selected on the basis of interviews during Montana 4-H Congress, rather than by a selection committee on the basis of record books.

The delegates include Susan Ochsner, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. Donald Ochsner, Miles City, Broadus Stage Route; Chuck Toavs, son of Mr. and Mrs.

Harry Toavs of Shawmut, and Susan Undem, daughter of Mrs. Gertrude Undem of Glen-dive. The group will leave from the Billings airport at 12:45 p.m. April 22, and will arrive back at Billings the evening of April 29. 2300 Grand vj Hundreds of gals have hod fun I CAFE ROYAL FRAPPEi Vi Stock '84 Brandy Coffee (very cold) Crushed Ice Shake Serve in Champagne glass with straw 'learning to sew with Kim and Ginger.

Call 656-7652 by then-Gov. Tim Babcock to succeed the late John J. Holmes, who had held the for more than 29 years. In addition to being auditor, he also serves as insurance commissioner, investment commissioner, fire marshal and director of both the Hail Board and the state's Central Payroll Office. No one else has publicly expressed any interest in running for auditor this year and Omholt, of course, hopes this situation will hold.

He has never had any primary opposition and in 1968 was unopposed in the general election. The next auditor will be paid 15,000 a year instead of the $10,500 Omholt now receives. In paying the 150 filing fee at the office of Secretary of State Frank Murray, Omholt said: "My open-door policy and public service to everyone will remain as it always has since I assumed office." "It is my purpose to promote and sponsor more supervision for the state auditor over Montana's fiscal affairs so that the title of auditor means what it says and can say what it means," he said in a prepared statement. A native of Great Falls, Omholt was graduated from Fort Shaw High School and attended Northern Montana College. Following military service, he was in the automobile, farm machinery and insurance business in Dutton before moving to Helena.

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