The Daily Sentinel from Grand Junction, Colorado • 13

Mesa student costs will be up in fall end meals additional charges will go from $123 to $135 per year. In other business, the trusteees approved Mesas professional staffing pattern of 142 fulltime equivalent teachers, compared to 143.3 teacher the past year. The cut of 1.3 FTE teachers is expected to be absorbed in adjustment of the part-time staff. The trustees also approved John U. Tomlinson, president; Carl Wahlberg, assistant to the president; Richard Appel, director of business services; and Gary R.

Calhoun, assistant director, as persons whose signatures may be authorized for disbursement of funds from various Mesa College accounts. Tuition, dormitory rates and cafeteria costs will all increase at Mesa College this fall. The increases were approved Saturday in Denver at the regular meeting of the Trustees of State Colleges, Mesas governing board now that it is a state college. Rates for Colorado resident fulltime students will be $127 per quarter and $381 per year, based on 10 hours or more of classes. That compares to $115 per quarter and $345 per year for the 1974-75 year.

However, a fulltime student during 1974-75 was any student who took no more than seven credit hours of work. Non-resident students will be paying $507 per quarter or $1,521 for the year, based on 10 credit hours or more. This year, the non-resident paid $458 per quarter and $1,374 per year for seven credit hours or more of classes. Some part-time students will be paying slightly less than they have paid this year. The 1974-75 rate was $17 per credit hour for residents, and they will pay $15 next fall.

Non-resident part-time students will pay substantially more next fall at $35 per credit hour, compared to $22 per hour this year. Dormitory rates in both single and double rooms will raise $31 per year. Present single room rates are $208 for the fall $188 for the winter and spring. They will go to $220 for fall $198 for winter and $197 for spring. Double room rates are currently $178, $158 and $158.

They will increase to $190, $168 and $167. Cafeteria rates will go from $506 per year to $532 per year for the five-day plan. For students who also want week I mrtKX' -ls -r I'll4' 3 If -t (if? J. -r'' Jf lk Learning to swim Todd Mantlo breathes a sigh of relief after going underwater at the hands of instructor Valeria Petra-feso. In the background, Jillene McMinn takes her class through an exercise in holding their breath un derwater.

the instructors and students are all part of the citys Leam-to-Swim Program held at the Lincoln Park pools. Sentinel photo by Bill Wagner Airport board discusses past due accounts Springs police continue probe into shooting of local men The El Paso County Sheriffs Office has turned up no new leads in its investigation of last weeks shooting deaths of a Grand Junction and a Palisade man, a spokesman said today. Undersheriff Gary Gibbs said nothing new had surfaced in the investigation, but said, Were still working full time on it. A 19-year-old Palisade man, Francis Gerald "Jerry Romisch, was found dead of multiple gunshot wounds last Tuesday near Colorado Springs. His body was found lying beside his pickup truck alongside Colo.

115 south of town. Romisch had spent the weekend at home with his family and had left Palisade at 6 p.m. June 16 to return to duty at Ft. Carson, where he was assigned to Over 45,000 in past due accounts receivable, and discussion concerning the routes to be taken in receiving payment for them, took up much of the time of the Walker Field Airport Authority Monday afternoon. Airport manager Jim Spellman recommended to the board that they write off over $3,000 owed to the airport authority by the Army Reserve Center.

The Army allegedly backed out on a land purchase agreement with the authority after the commission had developed sewer and water lines to accommodate the agreement with the Army. The amount is compensation for the development of the utilities'. Spellman noted that a civil action suit against National Car Rentals has been assigned a court date of July 24. He said wrn inn i firr DENISE OLIVER SON County dog control could get stricter that a continuance on the action would be provided if a substantial payment is made by the company toward the $6,400 that it owes the airport for lease space. The payment would have to be submitted with a guarantee of payoff on that the amount due by September 1 of this year.

Authority member Larry Brown suggested that a demand payment of 25 per cent of the nearly $8000 owed to the authority be made of the Aeroplane Restaurant immediately, with an additional 25 per cent each month until paid. The authority, however, decided to wait until Spellman discusses the issue with Dick Pond, owner of the restaurant. Under a contract negotiated 1974, Pond is to pay 6 per cent of the restaurants gross revenue as rent for Police look A 24-year-old Grand Junction woman missing since April 6 has become the focus of a intensive investigation by city police. Police report no leads in the disappearance of Denise Lynn Oliverson, of 1619 LaVeta, who was last seen riding a bicycle from her residence at 3 p.m. April 6.

Mr. and Mrs. Robert D. Nicholson, of 801 Ouray, reported her missing April 7 after a friend of the woman said she had been on her way to Lincoln Park. On that day police found Mrs.

Oliver-sons bicycle and shoes under the Fifth Street bridge near railroad tracks, but have been unable to come up with any leads since. Capt. Robert Burnett said today the in Grand Junction is to release by early 1980 a comprehensive report based on nationwide geologic, geophysical and geochemical investigations, locating new uranium resources. An initial evaluation of domestic uranium reserves identifying areas in the nation warranting further exploration will be released by the Grand Junction office by January of next year. Recently the Grand Junction office has also signed 21 contracts and agreements totaling $1.7 million to conduct activities asssociated with uranium resource evaluation.

The contracts and agreements were signed with universities, state agencies and private companies. The work under the contracts will be done in 19 states including Colorado. The contracts include work such as Not a rock, or baseball but a shot put It is a common occurrence when a boy breaks a window. But the window breaking was a bit unusual at the George Ryan rest dence, 804 Glenwood, this week. Instead of the usual baseball, rock or projectile from a pellet gun doing the damage it was a shot.

put. Ryan's 18-year-old son, Randy, was practicing a new spin method of throwing the shot and did not get turned Into proper position. The misdirected shot crashed through a rear window in Ryans car, resulting in $150 a military intelligence unit. The second death occurred early Thursday, when Daniel Howard Van-Lone, 29, was found shot in the head on a dirt road near Colorado Springs. He later was pronounced dead at a Colorado Springs Hospital.

Van Lone worked as a cook at the Four Seasons Motor Inn, but had recently moved from Grand Junction with his wife and four children, where he had lived since sometime in 1974. Undersheriff Gibbs said the investigation still had found no connection between the two deaths, and said it was nothing like a case of mistaken identity. Gobbs said Romisch was shot in his pickup truck, and said VanLone drove a station wagon. ings on regular commissioners meeting days. Allen said that he feels the meetings should be confined to policy and long-range planning, and commissioners agreed.

Three of five BuRecbids over estimate Three dt fivelbids submitted to the Bureau of Reclamation in the past week were higher than engineers estimates. The apparent low bids for the three that were above estimates follow: Exploratory drilling for the proposed Dallas Creek Project: Jensen Construction and Drilling, Springville, Utah, Golden frilling Inc. of Golden, and Continental Drilling of Los Angeles, $83,702.50. Estimate $57,700. Drilling test wells for the Paradox Unit of the Colorado River Basin Sa-linty Project in the Paradox Valley: Jensen Construction and Drilling, and Continental Drilling $89,180.

Estimate $65,186. Completion of the Hunter Tunnel of the Fryingpan-Arkansas Project near Aspen: Perini Corp. of Framingham, Harrison Western of Denver and Granite Construction Co. of Watsonville, $18,265,525. Estimates $13,636,856.

The apparent low bidders who were below engineers estimate follow: Re-sloping the spillway cutbank of Blue Mesa Dam of the Curecanti Project: Rippy Construction Co. of New Castle, C.J. Abbott Inc. of Grand Junction, and Rocky Mountain Construction Co. Englewood, $247,000.

Estimate $350,000. Drilling for the Savery-Pot Hook Project near Craig; Rollins, Brown, and Gunnell of Provo, Utah, Golden Drilling, and Continental Drilling, $181,280. Estimate $140,115. Of Interest Births Mr. and Mrs.

Bernard Holzer of Phoenix, are the parents of a girl born June 18. Paternal grandparents are Mr. apd Mrs. Simon Holzer, 538 N. 26th.

Maternal grandparents are Mr. and Mrs. Ray Perry, former Grand Junction residents, now living in Sun City, Ariz. Mr. and Mrs.

Jack Stewart of 1111 Highland, Montrose, are parents of a 7-pound, 3-ounce boy born at 1:04 a.m. on June 23 at St. Mkrys Hospital. Work 'tripling' at new within the terminal, budgeted for $65,000 to include architects fees. heard that although a formal announcement isnt planned at this time, United Airlines plans to bring in their own staff sometime this year.

Uniteds presently manned in Grand Junction by Frontier employes. entered into a lease agreement with Monarch Aviation for the old Frontier building located east of the terminal. The lease is shbrt term, for office space for Sky-Choppers, who will occupy the building while Monarch expands their offices. made a formal offer of $5,000 to Public Service Company for the purchase of five acres of land northwest of the airport at the end of runway II. woman ping or According to the CBI bulletin she is described as 54 tall, with long brown hair and blue eyes.

She was last seen wearing blue jeans and an Indian print Mrs. Oliverson was graduated from Grand Junction High School in 1968 and employed at Dixson Inc. as an assembler in 1974. She was divorced following a short marriage in 1972. Persons with information concerning her disappearance are asked to contact the police.

The Daily Sentinel Tuesday, June 24, 1975 13 through compiling information including the estimated cost to develop a given reserve. According to the report on corn- mercial marketing of uranium fuel to nuclear power plants, uranium buying activity in the United States during 1974 was markedly below the 1973 pace. The report also includes data on buyer uranium inventories and the unfilled needs for uranium between 1975 and 1982. The report on uranium industry exploration is based on a survey of 83 exploration companies. It states that there are plans for exploration work of $109 million this year and $117 million in 1976.

Surface exploration is expected to increase 29 per cent and development drilling 43 per cent in 1976, according to the report. posals from companies and evaluated them oh the basis of such things as who the key personel would be in Grand Junction. The contract will be for four years, but only the figures for the next fiscal year starting in July are known. $18 million has been budgeted for the contractor during the next 15 months. The reason for the 15 month period is that congress has approved a plan under which the federal fiscal year will run from October to October rather than from July to July, as it does now.

Congress felt that the new fiscal year, to become effective in 1976, will avoid the problem of having agencies operating without approved allocations in mid-summer, something that happens frequently becausq congress fails to al space. Nearly $5,000 due the authority from Westair will be cleared up by the end of this week, according to assurances given Spellman by the company. The account is over one year old. The authority listened to a review of the 1974 audit recently completed by Dalby, Wendland, and Jensen. Dennis Simpson of that firm was present to explain the audit, and his report included the news that the airport financial condition leaves no reason to panic." According to Simpson, there has been no increase in assets compared to prior years, due to a lack of funding for capital improvements.

In other action the authority: listened to proposals and plans for expansion of the baggage claim area for missing Colorado Bureau of Investigation was asked to provide assistance this month in distributing information concerning her disappearance to police agencies through the western state area. He said a number of interviews with friends and relatives of Mrs. Oliverson have failed to turn up any clues. According to her father, she had planned to stop at her parents home before or after a trip to Lincoln Park. He could give no reason for her disappearance.

Nicholson said he contacted the Federal Bureau of Investigation for assistance after she was reported missing, however, was told they will not become involved unless there is indication of death resulting from foul play, kidnap- radiometric surveys, geological and related investigations and geophysical technology development. The ERDA office have also issued two in a series of reports on aerial sur veys as part of a nationwide program that will eventually cover the entire continental United States. Airborne measurements are being compiled during the surveys to provide profiles and maps of gamma-radiation intensities equivalent to relative concentrations of uranium, thorium and potassium. Reports have also been issued recently by the Grand Junction ERDA offices regarding uranium marketing activity in the United States, and on uranium industry exploration. One of ERDAs functions is to stimu- late exploration by private industry Bendix in Grand Junction.

The present contractor at the compound is Lucuis Pitkin a New York firm that has operated programs at the compound for the Atomic Energy and ERDA since 1963. Although Pitkin was one of the nine firms to submit proposals to the federal agency last winter, the company was not selected because ERDA was looking for a company with different expertise than Pitkin, according to ERDA officials. Recently the compound has been given responsibilites for identifying uranium resources nationally. Under this expanded program, ERDA wanted to contract with a company that had expertise in both the geo-sciences and in corporate management, according to officials of the agency. Last January ERDA solicited pro By NICK PABST Sentinel Staff Writer The work for the staff at the Grand Junction office of the federal Energy 1 Research and Development Administration is doubling and tripling, according to James C.

Westbrook, director of administrative services at the office. Located at the old Atomic Energy Compound south of Grand Junction, the ERDA offices are charged with the re- sponsibility of identifying and eval- uating new uranium resources in the United States and with improving ura- nium exploration technology for the nation. As part of ERDA since the first of this year, the AEC compound has been expanding its responsiblities, but the staff has not yet been increased as much as officials at the offices are hoping it will be. One of the goals of the ERDA offices Dog wardens are apparently going to work on an extended basis and seven days a week, Mesa County Commissioners said Monday afternoon. The action came after representatives of the Mesa County Humane Society, led by Ms.

Kay Knowlton, requested the additional service and also said it would mean that overtime must be paid. We have received complaints (about pickups by the wardens) and many are justified, Commissioner Lawrence Au-bert said. Aubert said that the commissioners have talked to City Manager Harvey Rose, who is expected to ask the city council to appropriate money for overtime hours. Ms. Knowlton noted that 1,300 fewer licenses have been sold and revenue is down $4,000 from a year ago.

There are more dogs in the city and county than there were a year ago. I wish there were some way we could impress on people to license their animals. This helps pay for dog control, Knowlton said. Aubert and Commissioner Hctjvard Roland agreed that more tickets must be issued for loose dogs, and Roland suggested that dog wardens must be deputized. No formal action was taken on the problem, but commissioners agreed to continue working on the subject later.

In other business, commissioners agreed to meet with Gene Allen, Mesa County development director, and some city officials as a planning group to address the long-range problems of Mesa County planning. The group will probably hold 7 a.m. breakfast meet- locate funds before the new fiscal year. The $18 million will be spent partially on payrolls in the Grand Junction office, but the greatest portion of the money will go into sub-con tracts let by Bendix. There will be certain changes in key positions now occupied by Pitkin management personnel, when Bendix takes over in about 90 days, ERDA officials said.

But the change is not expected to have "a significant impact on the labor force at the compound, the officials said. As of the first of this year there were about 160 people employed by Pitkin at the compound. By next year, Bendix will employ about 240 people. ERDA itself currently employs 68 persons at the compound. Bendix Corp.

to receive ERDA contract Veterans Ask By AL REUTER Veterans Counselor, VA Hospital Im a service disabled veteran, and I have Veterans Administration Mortgage Life Insurance coverage on my specially adapted home. How long will this coverage last? A The insurance will cover your wheelchair home until the mortgage is paid off, the home is sold, or until you reach age 70. Im eligible for the Veterans Administration health care program, CHAMPVA, because Im a 100 per cent service-connected disabled veteran. My wife is entitled to Medicare. Can she have her prescriptions filled under CHAMPVA? A No.

Dependents eligible for Medicare are not entitled to benefits under CHAMPVA. A new contract worth $18 million during its first 15 months has been awarded by the Grand Junction office of the Energy Research and Development Administration to a subsidiary of the Bendix Bendix Field Engineering Corp. of Columbia, Md. The contract calls for Bendix Field Engineering to operate a number of uranium resource evaluation programs for the ERDA office, located on the old Atomic Energy Compound. Although the contract has not be signed yet, Bendix was chosen by agency from nine other companies that submitted proposals to ERDA last winter.

To be negotiated before actual sign- ing occurs are such things as employe benefits to be offered by the contractor to the more than 220 persons that will be employed in the next fiscal year I.