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The Daily Sentinel from Grand Junction, Colorado • 5

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Grand Junction, Colorado
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Friday, October 3, 1975 The Daily Sentinel -Page 5 Littleton school decision may affect local contract dispute eral jurisdiction In local teacher contract disputes will remain unresolved. Both sides in the Mesa County dispute, the district and the MVEA, were waiting today to hear from their lawyers for an Interpretation of yesterdays Supreme Court ruling. Sherryl La Salle, president of the MVEA, Thursday afternoon reiterated that the possibilities of a teachers strike in Dist. 51 were growing. In a press release, Mrs.

La Salle stated nowhere in the state is the situation more critical than it is in Mesa Valley." Mrs. La Salle also said, With the continuing refusal of the Board of Education to negotiate with MVEA I see dark days ahead for teachers and their students. Asked what that statement meant, Mrs. La Salle said today that if the Labor Division is not allowed to intervene in the local dispute, the MVEA would have very few options left aside from a strike." By DON FREDERICK Sentinel Staff Writer The Colorado Supreme Court Thursday afternoon temporarily stopped the state Labor Division from entering a teachers contract dispute In Littleton, but the decisions effect on a similar local situation is still up in the air. Two issues were involved in the deci-, sion.

And on the issue which effects Mesa County School Dist. 51 the ques- tion of whether the Labor Division has-1 the right to enter local teacher contract disputes the court gave no definite ruling but asked the Labor Division to show cause within 20 days as to why it should be allowed into the Littleton The Littleton school board has asked Othe court to keep the Labor Division out of the contract dispute after teachers in that district had requested the division to intervene and investigate. 1 Teachers in Dist. 51, represented by the Mesa Valley Education Assn (MVEA), had made a similar request of the Labor Division after local contract talks stalled. Last Friday, the Dist.

51 school board said it would not accept Labor division intervention. The school board questioned the right of the division to enter the dispute and said it would be watching the outcome of the Littleton districts suit with interest. However, yesterdays decision did not completely resolve the issue. According to' a Littleton school district official, the Labor Division was-temporarily stopped from entering the dispute because the court is already considering an aspect of the labor problems between Littleton teachers and the school board. During the summer, a district court judge in Littleton ruled that the school board did not have to negotiate with teachers.

The Littleton teachers group appealed that decision and the State Supreme Court has yet to rule on it. But until the Labor Division responds to the show cause order from the court, the question of the divisons gen night fun resident as cook. Van Lone had worked or yie Ramada Inn while living in Grand Junction. He had left in May to return to Colorado Springs where he is believed to have lived most of his life. He lived here with his wife and four children at 2950 North Ave.

Young Romisch was returning to duty at Fort Carson, driving his family's pickup truck, after spending the weekend with his family in Palisade. The shooting occurred alongside Colorado 115 south of town. Former political aide charged in attack on Salt Lake woman Saturday held Thursday afternoon on Bundys ar- rest. But following a closed door ing, a representative of the county at- Crown Point Cemeterys sturdy metal gate which had been securely chained shut was battered sometime Saturday night, presumably by some type of heavy vehicle. Sentinel Photo Man indicted in death of former Vandalsdestroy gate at Crown Point Cemetery Vandals demolished the gate at Crown Point Cemetery, probably with a heavy vehicle and probably Saturday night, said Helen Dixon, president of the Veterans Cemetery Assn, Vandals have damaged headstones and littered the place with beer cans before, but never to the extent of the Saturday night binge, Mrs.

Dixon said. She estimated the cost of repairs would eas-- ily reach perhaps morer Crown Point, north of Appleton, dates back to the 1890s and its headstones bear the names of many Mesa County pioneers. Little used In recent years, the Veterans Cemetery Assn, assumed Ownership three years ago when it became evident that Veterans Cemetery on Orchard Mesa would soon run out of space. The Association is a nonprofit organization, which maintains the cemeteries with revenues from lot sales augmented with donations from patriotic organizations. Two more indicted for burglary Jjy grand jury 3 1 GLENWOOD SPRINGS Richard D.

Greene, 20, of New Castle, and Perry Dan Rodrick, of Silt, have been indicted for multiple burglaries by a grand jury along with Michael Richard Pugh, 21, of New Castle, according to the district attorney. Pugh had been arrested last week, while Greene and Rodrick were picked up yesterday. According to DA Frank Tucker, the three men shared a trailer at Shady Grove Trailer Park in New Castle. Tucker has said that over $75,000 in stolen goods are Involved. An as yet undetermined amount of the goods have been recovered, including a large amount of tools.

But the sheriff's department says it will take them some time yet to identify and evaluate all the Items. I torneys office handled the news conference, instead, reading only the charges against Bundy. who was found dead of multiple gunshot wounds on June 17. Deputy District Attorney Steve Barr said this morning that four of the murders appear to be related. So far however, the Romisch death has not been linked to the others.

Glenn has been charged in the stabbing death of Karen Crammer, 18, and the shooting death of Winslow Douglas Watson III, 21. Also charged in the Watson death are Michael Corbett, and Rick Mobley, who is the object of an extradition procedure A civilian employe at Fort Carson has been indicted in the fatal shooting of a former Grand Junction resident, Daniel Howard Van Lone, 29, on June 19. The indictment returned Thursday by an El Paso County grand jury natfed Freddie Lee Gleno 18, who had previously been Indicted in two more of five murders currently under in-vestigatioh in El Paso County. Glenn Is held in jail without bond. One of the victims was Army Spec.

4 Gerald Jerry" Romisch, son of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Romisch, of Palisade, from Florida. Corbett is charged in the stabbing death of Winfred Proffitt. Corbett, and Mitchell Martin are charged in the shotgun death of Rickey Lewis.

Barr declined to speculate on the motive for the murders, on the grounds that Investigation has not reached that point. Van Lones body was found with a gunshot wound in the head in the early morning on a dirt road about a mile from the motel where he was employed 1 SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -A' law student and former assistant to the Washington State Republican Central Committee was charged Thursday with aggravated kidnap and attempted criminal homicide in an alleged attack on a young woman. Police said when the incident occurred II months ago they had evidence it may be linked to the murders of at least two teen-aged girls in Utah. Theodore Robert Bundy, 28, a second-year law student at the University of Utah and advance man from Washington Gov, Dan Evans' 1972 campaign, was being held in lieu of $100,000 bail. Deputies declinedtofeomment on published reports Bundy was being questioned in connection with the murders one year ago of two teen-aged girls and the disappearance of a third.

Seattle police investigating several similar murders confirmed they had been contacted about Bundy, but said he was not now considered a suspect. Police call the Washington cases the Ted murders because in some cases -witnesses said they last saw the girls CTwith someone who introduced himself as Ted. Bundy was charged In an alleged attack on a girl at a Salt Lake area shopping mall Nov. 8, 1974. Officers said the girl and other wit- nesses picked him out in a lineup Thursday morning, lafter Bundy was brought in following a lengthy in- vestigation.

Police earlier said they believed the mall incident was connected with the murders last year of Melissa Smith, 17, a daughter of the Midvale police chief, and Laura Aime, also 17, of Salem, Utah. Both bodies were found in nearby canyons and police said they had been beaten and raped. At about the same time, Debra Kent, also 17, of Bountiful, disappeared. No trace of her has been found. Sheriffs Capt.

N.D. Pete Hayward announced a news conference would be Routine contact made with Salt Lake officials Nothing but routine procedure, at this point, is the way Sheriff L. R. liams characterized a Mesa County con- tact with Salt Lake sheriff's officers on the Sandra Jean Weaver murder here in July 1974. Williams said this morning that Depu-i ty Milo Vig has been talking with Salt 1 Lake authorities in connection with the arrest of Theodore Robert Bundy.

Bun-, dy was charged in Salt Lake Thursday with aggravated kidnap and attempted criminal homicide in an alleged attack on a girl in a Salt Lake mall last November. In Salt Lake City, sheriffs department officials refused to give out information on their contacts with the Mesa County sheriffs office. A member of the detective division t(ld The Sentinel that any information would have to come from Colorado law officers. The contact with Grand Junction came about because Miss Weaver, of Arcadia, had been living in Salt Lake City, prior to discovery of her 1 bruised and beaten body here July 2, 1974. The 18-year-olds body was found face-down in the brush near the river on U.S.

6-24 about 16 miles east of Pali- sade. Mr. and Mrs. Tony Langdon, Pueblo vacationers, found the nude body and stopped another traveler, who called the sheriff. Miss Weaver, whose death was attributed to strangulation, was eventually traced through her contact lenses and a dental chart by the sheriffs department in Trempealeau County, Wis.

That identification was not made until January, 1975. She and a friend, Joan Elkins, of La Crosse, hitchhiked to Salt Lake and were living in the trailer home of a young man they had met in Utah. Both were employed at a Salt Lake warehouse, unpacking and stocking paperback books. Miss Elkms was sick the morning of July 1, 1974, and did not report for work. Miss Weaver left for work alone and was never $een alive again by friends.

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