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If Saturday, Oct. 2U, iU.vk vv Examiner advises Fremont officials fund in question A By JOAN BARRON Capital Bureau Chief And BONNY KIER Correspondent CHEYENNE State Examiner Dwlght Bonham said Friday he has advised Fremont County officials to obtain the opinion of their county attorney on a questionable $800,000 building fund designated in the county budget as a reserve for depreciation. Bonham said Fremont County Clerk James A. Farthing told him the sum represented additional funds obtained for a building program. If so, Bonham said, the fund must be re-designated and officials must obtain a legal opinion regarding whether the money can be spent without a vote of the people.

He said the county's 1979-80 budget contained a manually-written entry In ink explaining that the funds were for the courthouse and Jail. But Bonham said he wasn't sure if the entry was made by Fremont County officials or by an examiner who reviewed the budget. At any rate, Bonham said a reserve for a depreciation fund Is set up to budget money annually over a period of time to pay replacement costs of equipment, for example. Bonham said he advised Farthing a building program was not the proper use for funds budgeted for a reserve for depreciation. He said he was not advised the source of the $800,000 but assumed It was obtained through a mill levy.

Bonham also noted that cities, counties and school districts are required to explain at budget bearings the amount of money available and how It will be spent. According to county commissioners Lowell Lund and John Philp of Lysite, the $800,000 was to be used for a new addition at the Evanston institution, noting two balls had been closed resulting in crowding In other halls because of a shortage of aides and trained professional staff. Herschler also invoked his executive authority to grant pay raises to personnel at the State Training School at Lander effective Dec. 1. The governor cited the investigation by an independant review committee he appointed to explore complaints against the school, adding that the report demonstrated inadequate staffing, and salary levels.

Funds for the wage increases are in Gov. announces pay hikes Hobos reportedly once stopped at this hot springs well, called the Juturna Well or Maytag, near Thermopolis to wash their clothes. The well, drilled In 1919, is located near the railroad tracks on private property. The Maytag New degree programs OK'd Wallop offers 3-point program to aid impact By PENELOPE PUROY Laramie Bureau LARAMIE Three new degree programs were approved by the University of Wyoming's Board of Trustees Friday The three degrees, a bachelor of theater and dance, a bachelor of arts in English and theater, and a bachelor of science in English and theater, will be added to the curriculum offered by the College of Arts and Sciences. The bachelor in theater and dance would provide a concentrated area study for professionals in dance and theater.

The bachelor of arts in English and theater would allow students to combine those majors without being required to obtain a teacher's certificate. The bachelor of science in English and theater, however, would allow students to combine majors and get a secondary teacher's certificate. In other action, the trustees approved the basic design concept for major additions to the College of Agriculture and the Star-Tribune, Casper, to the Fremont County Jail In Lander. Philp said Friday he had not heard of any problem concerning the legality of the money, but Lund said earlier this summer they had been advised there might be a bookkeeping error. Lund maintained that the error had been cleared up by Farthing.

Farthing, however, said Friday he had received a letter from Bonham but had not had time to look Into the matter, adding that he didn't feel that the fund was an illegal procedure. He said he would talk with the examiner to determine what would need to be done. County Assessor Lorraid Ocenas said Friday there had been no special mill levy printed in the tax notices for the building fund but that the fund was Included In the regular levy. Commissioner Max Kail of Lander was out of town. existing agency budgets, he said.

Herschler added that It will be necessary to increases salaries for health care at the state's remaining institutions as well. He said the Legislature will have to devoe time to this problem when It meets hi February. Herschler announced the pay Increases through a news release issued by hs office, Friday afternoon. The annnoua-cement did not specify the amounts of the wage hikes. Herschler was in his office Friday morning following a weeklong hunting trjp but was gone again Friday afternoon.

8 1 "There are some federal programs tht Impacted communities try to participate in but find the formulas for funding are too restrictive." The federal government should allow states to structure taxing systems "to meet each state's unique needs." "A state should be able to exercise Its right to recapture a reasonable portion ot a mineral's lost value," be said. "Severance taxes, like state property, lncom and sales taxes, should remain the prerogative of the state." The federal government should erf-courage the energy Industry to meet the problems of affected communities. "Prepayment of taxes, posting of performance bonds and guarantees of local debt have been suggested in the past as further means of partclpatlon," be said, "but they do not have adequate Incentives built in to encourage even greater participation." Wallop said a new federal agency should bebe created to help affected towns and cities. 1 be said. Defense attorney Raymond Hunklns said in his opening arguments that Raymond Reese had tried to run over the defendant moments before the shootings.

Hunklns said the defendant fired on bis brother as Raymond was pulling an object out a coat pocket. The object turned out to be a leather glove, he said. The defendant's son also testified his father was hard of seeing and "was In a daze just did what you told him to do." The son also confessed to altering the scene of the shootings by placing a gun in his dead uncle's hands. Asked why, be said, a "wild thought came In my bead. Desperation." The witness Initially was charged with the shootings along with his father, but the charges were later dropped.

but not to the other act, and that PadlUa accomplished the latter act by use of force. The court also ruled that trial Judge John T. Dixon was correct when he refused to allow PadiUa's lawyer to impeach, or attempt to discredit, the girl's testimony. The Justices refdsed to consider the defense contention, jrullng that the lawyer had not properly demonstrated to Dixon why impeachment should be allowed. In another case, the cert rejected a request to rewrite a deed to two sections of farm land.

Francis and Jenny Clausen, who in 173 executed a quitclaim deed to the lands, sought to have the deed written so that they would retain mineral rights. CHEYENNE (UPI) Wyoming Sen. Malcolm Wallop has proposed a three-point approach for the federal government In dealing with effects of rapid energy development on western communities. Testifying before a Senate committee, Wallop said the boom towns cannot handle the demands of increasing populations and attendant social and economic needs. "Many communities have narrow economic bases and restricted access to capital markets and simply cannot deal with boom circumstances," Wallop said.

"Impact problems by definition are a result of lack of up-front money. The rural character of the West is being drastically changed by the rapidly developing energy base." The problems are compounded by extensive federal land holdings, the senior Wyoming senator said, but can be solved by following these considerations: Federal assistance should "recognize that each impact area is unique and therefore must allow maximum local vs Staff photo by Adella Gould ees approved plans to modify the west entrance to the union to alleviate problems caused by drifting snow. On the search to fill several key university positions, UW President Edward Jennings said a committee was being formed to find a permanent vice president for academic affairs. History professor William Steckel is temporarily filling the position. And, Jennings said he has not yet decided whether to abandon the position of vice president for student affairs.

He Is proceeding, however, with plans to. establish a special assistant to the president who would be responsible for legal problems, affirmative action programs and other areas that cannot be handled by one vice president. Joseph Geraud, who currently holds the position of vice president for student affairs, asked to reassigned to the College of Law's faculty earlier this semester. during his nationwide campaign. Stroock is serving as Rocky Mountain regional coordinator of Bushs' presidential campaign.

Stroock said Bush plans to develop his Western regional campaign platform after he meets with state campaign workers and steering committees, probably in Denver In December or January. But Stroock did say he expects that Bush will support the "sagebrush rebellion." "He's going to come out In favor of seeing what the sagebrush rebellion can bring about," Stroock said. The sagebrush rebellion is a movement to have federally-controlled lands In the West put under states' control. The movement recently spread from Nevada Wyoming. long-term "The Social Security program requires some long-term plans to put it on a sound basis again.

"It has to remain as a Insurance-type program. We must plan so that it will be able to meet demands of persons in the future." In response to a question from the audience, Connibale said that he supports Constitutional ammendment that will restrain the growth of the government by limiting federal spending. Fiscal discipline must rest on the bureaucrats not on the taxpayers, Connibale said. He added that economist Milton Friedman and a group of economists have put together "a complicated constitutional ammendment that'll work." innocent Shockley testified government agents had promised him immunity if he would tell them about local betting activities. Defense attorney Vincent Ross criticized law enforcement officers in his final argument for not abiding by that promise.

"There is such a thing as fair play. We cooperate with the government and they as they please," he said. Shockley said he bad been a high school athletic oflcial since 1961 but never bet on any high school sports he was officiating. i Two head Bush committee CHEYENNE Certain health care personnel at the State Hospital at Evanston and the State Training school at Lander will receive wage Increases, Gov. Ed Herschler announced Friday.

Herschler said the State Hospital was threatened with loss of certification of Medicare funds totalling $500,000 a year which would have jeopardized the licensing of the institution. Receiving the pay increases effective Oct. 1 were nurses, LPN's and aides at the State Hospital. Herschler said he had also been concerned about the care of patients Swine program will guard against PCB CHEYENNE (UPI) Wyoming Agriculture Commissioner Larry Bourret announced Friday an emergency certification program for swine to guard against contamination of pork with cancer-causing PCB. Slaughterhouses have been requiring certification of animals, Bourret said earlier, and Wyoming hog growers have been relying on a certification program conducted by the Montana Department of Livestock.

The program will protect against tainting of meat with polychlorinated biphenyls and "still create as little Inconvenience to the (meat processing) plants and fanners as possible," Bourret said. If producers certify that their hogs did not consume feed purchased between June IS and Sept, 15 that was produced by three companies, he said, state meat inspectors will allow their hogs to go directly to slaughter. If hogs consumed suspect feed, he said, "the producer and the meat Inspector will consult by telephone with the state Department of Agriculture and try to determine if any contaminated feeds were actually fed. If the hogs did consume contaminated feed, Bourret said, "we will slaughter a representative number of the suspect hogs and chemically analayze the tissue for PCB. The sampled hogs will be retained pending analysis." Amendment will reduce liability CHEYENNE (UPI) Sen.

Malcolm Wallop, said Friday an amendment approved by the Senate Finance Committee would reduce the tax liability of Independent crude-oil producers and spur exploration. Wallop said the amendment, which he proposed, would allow Independents to continue using "percentage depletion" deductions In calculating their gross income from crude oil production. It was passed Friday on a 109 vote. The amendment was added to proposed windfall-profits tax legislation. A House version of the legislation removes the percentage depletion deduction, which would be used In calculating income subject to the windfall profits tax.

"Denial of percentage depletion would have placed an additional burden on Independents, who have a large proportion of the oil the committee decided to tax at a rate of 75 percent," Wallop said. "By maintaining, present law with respect to percentage depletion, we can make sure the Independents of the country will have the financial ability to discover more oil. This is especially important during this period of high interest rates and tight monetary policies." Independent producers already face a 32 percent increase In their tax burden over the next four years, resulting from a scheduled reduction In the depletion rate to 15 percent from 22 percent, he said. The last major reduction In the depletion rate was in 1969, when It dropped from 27 percent to 22 percent, he said. By SHERYL DAVIS Staff Writer LARAMIE Former Congressman William Henry Harrison and former national Republican commltteewoman Estelle Stacy Carrier were named Friday to bead the George Bush for President Wyoming Steering Committee.

The announcement was made at the Republican state Issues conference being held in Laramie at the University of Wyoming. There appointments were announced by Congressman Barber Conable, ranking Republican on the House Ways and Means Committee and chairman of Bush's steering committee. Bush, one of about half a dozen Republican presidential candidates, Is one of the first to set up a Wyoming organization. Deputy testifies Reese confessed to killing 2 College of Engineering. The plans would add a six-story addition behind each building and provide more classrooms and sophisticated laboratories for both colleges.

UW wlU seek about $22 million for the facilities during the legislative session this spring. In addition, the board accepted a bid for Improvements of the campus safety system. The Electric Service Co. of Casper was awarded the $199,000 contract for the second phase of improvements to the Wyoming Union, the Campus Food Services and for a direct electrical tie-in to the Laramie Fire Department. The first phase of the project, which is almost completed, added sophisticated fire detection equipment to the UW resident halls.

The project was paid for by a special fund set aside for work on the dorms, food service and union. In other physical plant action, the trust Wyoming does not hold a presidential primary but both the Republicans and Democrats will hold state conventions May 10, 1980, to select delegates to the national nominating conventions. Conable said Bush "is putting a heavy organizational effort into the early primary states." The New York congressman said Bush is faring well In straw polls conducted in the past several weeks in Iowa. Bush, 54, has served as a U.S congressman, Republican national chairman and envoy to China. His other governmental positions have Included ambassador to the U.N.

and director of the Central Intelligence Agency. State Sen. Tom Stroock, R-Natrona, was also present for the announcement and said Bush has promised to visit Wyoming ence being held at the University of Wyoming in Laramie. With regard to a tax cut, Connibale said "It was must be time to have the optimum economic effect, not the optimum political effect. "I would not be surprised when congress goes borne (this fall) that President Carter will probably announce that due.

to changing economic conditions, a tax cut Is appropriate." Such a tax cut, however, should Include a savings package "to encourage people to save more, not to spend more," Connibale said. He added that a roll-back of Social Security taxes may also be in the future. Right now there is declining confidence In the Social Security system, Connibale said. football referee said be had been excused to referee a high school football game in Casper that night. Shockley testified he bet on horses, dogs and professional sports, and accepted bets from friends and forwarded them to a bookie he named as Clark Addison.

He said be never received payoffs on his friends' bets. Wagering on sports events in Cheyenne ran as high as $300,000 a month, he said, with $100,000 placed on football bets during the 1971 season. to a do Fiscal planning must be TORRINGTON (UPI) A Converse County deputy sheriff testified Friday that 76-year-old Charlie Loren Reese confessed to shooting a brother and nephew to end a "feud." Reese is charged with first-degree murder in the Dec. 27 slayings of his brother, Raymond, 73, and Raymond's son, Francis, 35. They were found shot to death on the defendant's ranch in Converse County.

Deputy Dave York said be was one of the first officers at the scene. He said the defendant told him, "I left two of 'em dead I ended the feud once and for all." The defendant's son, Charles V. Reese, also testified, saying his father shot Raymond in apparent self defense on a dirt road near their homes. "My father was so sure there was a gun Raymond was pulling out of the pickup," Court upholds conviction BY SHERYL DAVIS Staff Writer LARAMIE A New York congressman told a gathering of Wyoming Republicans Friday that fiscal and economical planning needs to be considered on a long-term basis, rather than only when an election Is coming up. Barber Connibale ranking Repullcan on the House Ways and Means Committee, said "it is the responsibility of the federal government to do long term planning and not just make it through the next election." He said the federal government needs to take action in the areas of Social Security, tax cuts, and a constitutional ammend-ment to curb federal spending.

Connibale was speaking at the second bi-annual Republican state issues confer Jury finds CHEYENNE (UPI) A high school football referee was found Innocent In U.S. District Court Friday of falling to pay a special wagering tax on his gambling activities. A I2-member Jury deliberated about two hours before finding former Air Force Sergeant Dale Shockley, 43, innocent of falling to pay the tax to the Internal Revenue Service. Shockley was not present for the verdict. U.S.

District Judge Clarence A. Brimmer CHEYENNE (UPI) Juries need not be consistent In verdicts when passing Judgment on a criminal defendant charged with related crimes, the Wyoming Supreme Court ruled Friday. The state high court upheld the Big Horn County conviction of Mike PadlUa on one of two charges of sexual assault, even though the jury acquitted him of the other charge. Padilla argued that because the critical element of the charges was the same whether he used force during two alleged acts of rape against a 15-year-old girl was the innocent verdict on one negated the guilty verdict on the other. Justice John J.

Rooney, writing for the unanimous court, ruled the conviction could stand because the Jury could have concluded the victim consented to one act i.