The Daily Sentinel from Grand Junction, Colorado • 1

i i 1 it i i 4 -A 4 "jnr-t i i I i 1 i 4 A 1 7 v4 -IT -v 1 k- Vx h' U4 1: i r'1' h) fy W- When they make rolls at Orchard Mesa Junior High, they now mix 22 pounds of flour in two minutes. This morning, NeldaCourter of the food service division, ran through two batches for hungry students like Mike Phillips, 14. Thats a total of 800 rolls. The big mixing machine, new this fall, was the star of a regional meeting Saturday of school food service personnel. In addition to dough, the machine was used today to mix a batch of hamburgers.

Sentinel photos by Robert Grant Local Selective Service office doors on Feb. 28 i f. "vM 'fc'S r- AS hi I i- Massive Newsstand price 1 5c Patty Hearst trial begins SAN FRANCISCO (AP) Patricia Hearst, heiress to a vast publishing fortune, went on trial today for bank robbery. The proceeding, one of the strangest bank robbery trials ever held, opened with jury selection in a courtroom packed with 150 prospective panelists. The jury will be asked to decide whether Miss Hearst was pawn or willing participant in an April 15, 1974, holdup of a San Francisco bank branch.

If convicted of the armed bank robbery and weapons charges, she faces a maximum of 35 years in jail. Jury selection is expected to focus on attitudes toward kidnap victims, radicals and the wealthy. The prosecution and defense agreed it was the first time in history that a kidnap victim was placed on trial for bank robbery. Defense attorney Albert Johnson described Miss Hearst as apprehensive as anyone in her position would be," and her father, newspaper executive Randolph A. Hearst, today blamed her terrorist abductors for his daughters plight.

Miss Hearst, pale and solemn, walked quickly into the courtroom and took her seat at the counsel table. House votes to override Ford veto WASHINGTON (AP) The House voted today to override President Fords veto of a $45 billion labor-health, education and welfare appropriation, adding momentum to a Democratic drive to expand spending on social programs. The vote was 310-113, 28 more than the two-thirds needed. The Senate was expected to act soon. Senate Democrats are optimistic about chances of completing the override action.

House Republicans offered in vain an eleventh-hour compromise that would have set the funding at a level $424 million below that specified in the measure but still $491 million above Fords budget recommendation. The measure would provide funds to numerous social programs, including the remnants of President Lyndon B. Johnsons war-on-poverty program. tOeppe: mixer The TTW Shutting With few duties left to perform, Wagner has been allowing Bureau of Land Management employes to use part of his office at the local Federal Building since November. Wagner's job and the operation of the local draft board will officially cease Feb.

28. Andreen said only the Denver selective service office will continue to exist, all other local draft boards will share the same fate of the Grand Junction branch on Feb. 28. Andreen said that the requirement to register for the draft is still a federal law and could be reinstituted by the President at any time. He also said that he has received no word on another part selective service law the requirement that males carry Meyers says j.1- rx Tuesday Jan.

27, 1976. Grand Junction, Colo. their draft cards at all times until they reach the age of 26. Andreen said he assumed that requirement still was in operaton, but added, Certainly, there's going to be no surveillance of it. Andreen said records from the various local draft boards are being mailed to Denver, where they will be stored at the Federal Records Center.

Andreen said the staff of the Denver selective service office will be "drastically reduced. In what he agreed was an irony, the main purpose of the Denver draft office will be to supervise the "alternative work service now being performed by many Vietnam War resisters as part of President Fords clemency program. confrontation He said today that in addition to the Chicago-based firms offer, he is considering three other jobs. One would be a management position with a local business, which he declined to identify. Meyers said that he also has tenative interviews scheduled with two larger cities, one in California and one in Minnesota, for police chief.

The chief said he would take a few days off beginning next week to travel around before making a decision on his future career. His decision probably wouldnt be forthcoming until late next week or early the following week, he said. Meyers, who walked away from a Sentinel reporter Jan. 20, before questions on the incident could be asked, said today the report was not based on fact and his acting operations commander, Lt. Ron Smith, would back him up as to what occurred.

The inspector, James Gilliam, reported Meyers threatened to get his job because Meyers felt Gilliam was out to get him. The argument took place when Meyers was off duty in The Timbers Bar and Restaurant, 1810 North Ave. In the same argument, Gilliam said Meyers also told him he would fire a police officer who made allegations the chief was buying alcoholic drinks for a 19-year-old girl friend. Gilliam told The Sentinel he would be willing to take a lie detector test about the incident if Meyers and Smith would. didn't lead to resignation Robert Wagner, executive secretary for the local military draft board, carts papers from his office as he prepares to cease operation by Feb.

28- Sentinel photo Prior to covert operations to close its By DON FREDERICK Sentinel staff writer A procedure that became one of the rites of manhood for 18-year-old American males has been officially sacked by the federal government, at least for the time being. And as a result, a Grand Junction office 'that determined the future for many local malesr will cease to exisf Feb. 28. Late last week, federal officials announced that males turning 18 years old this year will not be required to register for the military draft. Ronald Andreen, deputy director for the Colorado selective service system, said this executive order, issued by President Gerald Ford, pertains only to draft registration in 1976.

But he added that federal officials have told selective service branches that no draft registration will be required for the forseeable future. According to Robert Wagner, executive secretary for the local draft board, the law requiring every 18-year-old male to register for military service began in 1941. Discontinued in 1947, the requirement was reinstated in 1948 and has existed ever since, Wagner said. The announcement ending draft registration marks the final step in what has been a gradual slow down of activity by the local selective service office. Wagner said no local male has been drafted since July 1, 1973.

Last April, following an executive order by Ford, the board suspended" the draft registration requirement, Wagner said. it could be embarrassing to them politically if the operation and their knowledge of it were made public. Asked by Chairman Abraham Ribi-coff, if he felt that congressional oversight committees have ducked their responsibilities, Helms said he didnt like the word ducked but agreed that they had "failed to assume their responsibilities." In another development, CIA director William E. Colby acknowledged that he too was once an anonymous source for a newspaper story exposing CIA contacts with journalists. Colby joined other Ford administration officials in accusing the House intelligence committee Monday of vio said, has been Other to and assure coal reserves tribal Reaction by industry spokesman Burlington lease We But the early to have on ix-CIA director advocates briefing Grand Junction Police Chief Ben Meyers said today the New Years Eve confrontation with the local state liquor inspector had nothing to do with his resignation announcement last week.

In his first interview with The Sentinel on the subject, Meyers also said he might not take an offer to become a consultant for a law enforcement evaluation agency, Public Administration Service. He originally said that job was why he is resigning, effective Friday. lating its oath by disclosing top-secret intelligence operations contained in the committee's final report, which was to be released this Friday but which was leaked to the news media over the weekend. The committee seems neither able to keep secrets nor its agreement," Colby told a news conference in one of his last official acts as head of the CIA. Meanwhile, the Senate moved toward a vote today on confirmation of former Republican national chairman George Bush as Colbys successor at the CIA.

Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield predicted Bush's nomination would be approved easily but acknowledged there would be some opposition. down and methods. One of the accusations being investigated by the Justice Department involves Helms' alleged approval qf a 1971 breakin at the offices of a former CIA employe suspected of a security violation. there's going to be an oversight committee, I think it ought to be in on the takeoff, Helms told the committee, which is considering legislation that would create a new panel to monitor the intelligence community. Helms, now ambassador to Iran, said that members of Congress sometimes did not want to be told about the CIA's covert operations in the past because WASHINGTON (AP) Former CIA Director Richard M.

Helms said today that any new congressional committtee set up to monitor intelligence agencies should br briefed on covert operations before they are undertaken. Helms, currently under investigation by the Justice Department for his role in past Central Intelligence Agency misdeeds, also told the Senate Government Operations Committee he never felt himself to be above the law. But he said that some of the cases where I got in difficulty involved conflicting laws. He cited a provision in the 1947 National Security Act charging the director to protect intelligence sources co! decision won't 'ravage the West' points of the new policy are designed discourage speculative leasing that Indian-owned land over will not be mined without permission. DENVER (AP) Millions of acres ot coal-rich public lands in the West would be reopened to mining under a decision announced Monday by the Secretary of the Interior.

procedures." The firm is asking permission to lease coal rights under more than 15,000 acres for development of a coal-fired plant. It is the largest such application in the state. We are not in the business of leasing coal for speculative purposes. We are in the business of seeing that the federal re-' sources are produced for the nations benefits, Kleppe said. Kleppe said states with stricter reclamation standards for mined land would be able to impose their rules rather than use the federal standards.

We must be certain that the value of the coal itself is great enough to warrant environmental risks inherent in the mining activity, Kleppe said. He told reporters that any impression that were going to open the door and scuttle the West is false. I to Kleppes announcement spokesmen was cautious. A for Dryer Brothers, a Northern property with a application on file in Montana, are pleased the moratorium lease applications. To actually lift the moratorium on leases, Kleppe must sign an order ending the moratorium imposed by then-Secretary of the Interior Rogers C.B.

Morton. After that is done, Assistant Secretary Jack Horton estimated it could be mid or late 1977 before any new leases are approved. The new eight-point coal leasing policy, Kleppe announced, includes development of federal reclamation standards, a commitment to draft regional envirpnmental impact statements when needed and a requirement that leases be handed out through competitive leasing. Applications have been filed for 51,000 acres of land in Montana, the Bureau of Land Management said. In Wyoming, more than a dozen lease applications are on file.

In Utah, 42 applications are Thomas S. Kleppe said he was lifting the moratorium on coal leases of federally owned land, but said the move does not mean we are going to come out and ravage the West. Kleppe, announcing the lifting of the moratorium at a news conference, said western governors would be able to discuss individual mining projects with him, but woqld not have veto power over lifted. spokesman said it was too determine what effect it will implementation of any leasing of is Almost all of the 190,000 square miles coal deposits on federally owned land in the West. 1.