The Daily Sentinel from Grand Junction, Colorado • 1

The Daily 22 pages Newsstand price 15c $hil Funds i diverted edesl impset Grand Junction, Colo. Thursday, Oct. 9, 1975 7 i X' -U A V- tx X' i 1 4 sKi.m The state official said he was disappointed in a Colorado West Council proposal to use several hundred thousand dollars for planning. A box full of figures was all he got from the Colorado West Council when he requested a proposal for the use of the funds, Lorenson said. Lorenson also said, however, that the State of Colorado did not yet have a policy to deal with the impact of oil shale development.

The only policy the state has is that developers should pay for impact, Lorenson said. I I 1 II 7v iMF'TX. A By NICK PABST Sentinel Staff Writer GOLDEN Oil shale funds are being used to deal with growth problems resulting from coal development in Routt County, Burman Lorenson, the governors oil shale coordinator said here today. The oil shale funds are being used to deal with coal impact because the town of Hayden in Routt County is willing to work in partnership with the state and Industry to solve growth problems, Lorenson said. The partnership with Hayden is an example of the kind of cooperation that has been lacking in other counties affected by oil shale development, Lorenson said.

Within the next several months a team that will include Lorenson and representatives of both Hayden and the coal industry will do engineering studies on such specific problems as sewer expansionand school building nance." There are questions about where money from federal oil shale leases should be spent, Lorenson admitted. But he said his main concern is getting done with the money. More than $10 million collected from the federal oil shale lease payments have been allocated to five counties in western Colorado. The counties are Mesa, Garfield, Rio Blanco, Moffat and Routt. Some $150,000 will go to Routt which is the only one of the counties that is not a member of Colorado West Area Council of Governments headquartered in Rifle.

Lorenson, addressing the Environmental Oil Shale Symposium at Colorado School of Mines here, said he would be working with the Northwest Council of Governments in Hayden rather than with the Colorado 'West Council. "'k coating A thin layer of frost covered autumn leaves and lawns in Grand June-, tion this morning after temperatures dipped down to 33 at 2 :30 a.m, The low temperature for the same date last year 49. The weather is ex- Friends convinced pected to be warmer in the Grand Junction area today and Friday with the low tonight predicted at 35 and the highs Friday between 68 and 73. 1 Sentinel photo by Robert Grant 1 9 man joined 'culf'v; Feds favor 1 00,000 1 barrel shale goal DURANGO, Colo. (AP) No official investigation has been launched into the disappearance of a prominent Durango businessman last summer, but friends are convinced he left to Join a cult which promises followers they will be carried to a better life by an unidentified flying object.

Word of the alleged cult first came from Oregon where authorities are investigating the disappearance of about 20 persons who were said to have discarded their personal possessions after attending a meeting where the departure was discussed. Since that time, reports have come from many areas throughout the West of similar meetings being conducted by The Ford Administration favors creation of an oil shale industry that would produce 100,000 barrels per day within five jears, according to Dr. Robert Seamans, head of the Energy Research and Development Administration (ER-DA). There hrid been reports recently that the administration would recommend that Congress provide some form of federal assistance for the development of an indi'istry that could produce as much as onti million barrels of shale oil a day, Ttye 100,000 barrel per day industry use a combination of above and ground techniques to recover oil shale, Seamans said in an interview with The Sentinel. He is in Grand Junction for a day-long tour of two oil shale sites in Western Colorado, the Paraho Development Inc.

experimental project near Rifle and the Occidental Oil Shale site near De Beque. Seamans said he envisions an industry that could perhaps produce A friend of the Durango businessman, who ashed to remain anonymous, said his friend had been approached by members of the movement and he left all personal possessions and became a missionary for.it. Dorothy ODonnell of Grand Junction, said a group of about 20 persons which she believed to be from Oregon, camped at the Colorado National Monument near Grand Junction from about Sept. 19 to Sept. 22.

She said a woman member of the group told of giving away her baby. The group spent evenings reading what appeared to be a Bible, Mrs. ODonnell said. And, a Denver couple has reported that their 25-year-old son left home a week ago after attending a meeting on UFOs at a Denver YWCA. The friend of the Durango businessman said the businessman left with the total conviction that he was following the Lord and was less interested in escaping the earth and feels he is a missionary for Christ.

Two men released AV i -w -7 r-ri The leader of the cult claims to be Jesus Christ returned, said the friend. Theyre a group of the most innocent, unassuming, unimpressive, nonfreaky he said. Theres nothing about' their behavior, their dress, their mannerism or their personalities that even belies a subciSture, or even a counterculture. Theyre just a bunch of nice people The friend said the cult appeals principally to people who are intelligent because it is so complicated to fathom all of the logic they support their theory with, that it requires a thinker. The routine approach of the cult is to explain the movement to someone and ask them if they would be abl? to leave everything they own in one week and join the group.

The most remarkable thing about, the whole deal is their innocence, the friend said. Theyre not conning people out of money. Theres no gre at religious fervor about their messa ge, no one has any charisma. on bond RICHARD DEAVENS 1 patrolman First degree conspiracy rates up to year in jail. Offical misconduct is up to a year in jail, from a $50 to a $1,000 fine, or both.

Since the charges stem from a single dis because of inefficient utilization of existing personnel in that department. I think the sheriff should show the taxpayers some results with the people he has before asking the taxpayers to pour more money into his department, Tucker added. Tucker went on to claim that since January the sheriff's department has not completed and turned over to the DA one investigation. Our office does the investigating or it doesnt get done. Tucker says.

The district attorney also asked what is the sheriff doing with the The state does not trust development figures prepared by industry, Lorenson said, and as a result separate studies of the same problems are done by both government and industry. The studies frequently use different figures and reach different conclusions, he said. The state official, who was appointed by Gov. Richard Lamm, also said that a study done last year by the state of oil shale development did not give local people great consideration. The study was known as the Rapp Report and was criticized by Colorado West government officials as not being responsive to local needs.

But Lorenson added that only Hayden has really indicated it is prepared to work in partnership with industry and state government. He criticised what he said was a ted-dancy of all levels of government to blame someone else for problems and not work together. A partnership such as the one in Hayden should be developed by other communities in Western Colorado, Lorenson said. Routt County, in which Hayden is located, does not have any oil shale deposits or impact from development of oil shale sites in other counties, Lorenson noted. 50,000 barrels per day using above ground retorts to remove oil from Bhale, and 50,000 barrels a day produced by the In situ technique which burns oil out of the rock while it remains in place underground.

Occidental is the only company that has expressed ah interest in working with the federal government on the development of a commercial sized in situ operation, Seamans revealed. Legislation being considered by congress would authorize ERDA to enter such a venture with a private company. Seamans said me of the purposes of his visit to the oil shale sites today was to prepare funding requests for fiscal year' 1977 that will be submitted by the agency to Congress next January. The requests could include funds for both above and below ground loan guar-' antees to help develop an industry: Seamans said that the 100,000 barrel- cl (Continued to page 12) BOSSY WILSON candidate tion when we ha ve to arrest a police officer. No police department likes to do that, he said.

up cases and catch burglars, while the sheriff's office has a poor record of accomplishment Tucker sums up his view by saying: If we had 10 more of those guys in the sheriff department we might get 10 times more of what were getting from them now in the way of real results -and that would be ten times nothing. Tucker has submitted to the Garfield commissioners a 77,000 budget for the DAs office for 1976, up 28 per cent from 1975. His request includes no new fulltime positions. Hogues 1978 budget request is for $135,000, up 100 per cent from 1975. 1 Dist.

51 board refuses to talk to labor investigator Vi" Frosty persons who claim to be from another world. So far, persons in Denver and Durago have been reported missing; presumably to join the outer space cult. Officials and friends of the two have refused to divulge the names of the persons. Bill Richardson, an investigator for the Durango district attorney, said he has become familiar with the cult movement. He said a woman calling herself Electra had been in Pagosa Springs earlier this year to prepare for the arrival of other persons in the movement.

He said she has since gone to other areas of the West and Midwest. for our school district. Sherryl La Salle, president of the MVEA, said today the boards action means that the options remaining to the teachers are very slim. She said, I am very disappointed that the school board is not willing to cooperate with the Department of Labor. In still another aspect of the deteriorating relations between the MVEA and the school board, the teachers group today blasted Dist.

51 SupL Donald Oglesby for new policies requiring the group to pay for use of school buildings. The MVEA said it suspected the charge, which would be $22 for a two-hour meeting, comes as a result of the teacher requests this week for building use to explain to parents and citizens the teachers side of the current dispute situation." However, this morning Oglesby said the policy charging teachers for building use was part of a new rent policy adopted about two months ago by the school board. Oglesby said in no way was the policy startkl by him or directed at the teachers. He said, It is unfortunate the MVEA now seeks to blame other people for application of policies. The policy adopted by the school board raised rents for all adult groups seeking to use school buildings.

EDisfi. sheriffs, a full-time secretary, and a full-time investigator. When the Commissioners asked Dist. Atty. Tucker last week why the county needed investigators in both the sheriff's department and Tucker's Glen-wood office.

Tucker said he doesnt believe the sheriff needs an investigator. Tucker went on to say he's not sure the sheriff needs new deputies or a secretary either. Tucker said he believes the sheriff could utilize his existing staff much more efficiently. Sheriff Hogue saw red when he heard about Tucker's remarks. Hogue told jhe Sentinel that the sher Junction cop arrested on pot charges A Grand Junction policeman and a former City Council candidate arrested late Wednesday for possession and selling less than an ounce of marijuana were released on bond this morning following a preliminary hearing in Mesa County Court.

Dist Atty. Terry Farina, presiding in -the place of the four county and district judges who are in Colorado Springs at a judicial conference, advised Patrolman Richard Deavens, 27, and Bobby Earl Wilson, 27, 138 N. Sixth, of their rights. He set bond at $1,000 for Deavens and $500 for Wilson. Deavens also has been charged with officials misconduct of a public official and conspiracy to commit official misconduct.

Wilson has a charge of conspiracy to commit official misconduct against him as well. If convicted, the two face the following maximum sentences on the charges: The marijuana charge, which is 'a misdemeanor crime, carries a imum $100 fine or a year in jail, incident, the maximum time each man would face, if found guilty, would be up to a year in county jail and a fine, or both. -Police chief Ben Meyers said the three-month long investigation which proceded the arrests involved not only the city police staff, but also the Colorado Bureau of Investigation (CBI) and investigators with Farinas office. He said it began with tips received from several citizens. The two were alleged to have sold less than an ounce of marijuana to CBI undercover agent at Second and Rood Wednesday afternoon.

Wilson was arrested by Capt. Ed Van-dertook and Lt. Bob Evers in the 900 block of Orchard at 5.25 p.m. Deavens was arrested at the police department at p.m. by Lt.

Ron Smith and Sgt. Fred Albrecht. Meyers said Deavens, who has been wi the force since March 1974, has been suspended without pay pending the outcome of the case. It certainly is an uileasant situa- The Dist. 51 School Board this morning told an investigator from the Colo; rado Labor Division it did not wish to discuss with him the local dispute over a teachers contract.

The board announced that after meeting this morning with Robert Frey of the Labor Division it still believed the state agency had no jurisdiction in the local problem. The Labor Division has maintained it does have the right to intervene and investigate local teacher contract disputes and Wednesday night Frey met with the leaders of the Mesa Valley Education Assn. (MVEA), the group representing local teachers. In another new development in the local contract controversy, the executive board for the Grand Junction area Chamber of Commerce announced today it had talked recently with both the MVEA and the school board and said it did not believe the issues separating the two sides were of sufficient magnitude to cause-a strike. The Chamber of Commerce also sided with the school board on the question of the role of the Labor Division in the contract dispute, saying it did not think intervention by the state agency was needed.

In its statement today, the school board said it is inadvisable to become committed to a procedure that would allow a state agency to determine policies oimeld By MARY BOLAND Sentinel Staff Writer GLENWOOD SPRINGS TheyTe just running around 10-4ing all over the county, says Dist. Atty. Frank Tucker erf the Garfield sheriff's department. (10-4 is radio jargon for everything okay.) Tucker is explaining his side of a bitter dispute which has arisen between himself and Garfield sheriff Ed Hogue over Hogue's 1978 budget request. Hogue has asked the county commissioners for a 100 per cent budget increase.

Ha request includes five new full-time positions three new deputy fi sheriff poi'e Cnesii's people and cars he already has? The district attorney said it is inefficient for the sheriff, the undersheriff, a sargeant and a civil process server to all be in the Glenwood office every day from $-5. Some of those people should be on evening shifts, Tucker said. As another example of what he claims is inefficiency in the sheriff's department, Tucker says he has seen two deputies ride out into the country just to separate two drunks who were yelling at each other. Tucker claims the investigators in his office have px'ven their ability to solve iff is the chief law enforcetr Jent officer in the county, and that Tr keep his mind onhisowr, department, and not presume to judjge many men the sheriff needs tr do his job. When told of Hof.jUe-s statements, Tucker said the commissioners and the taxpayers are ented to his honest opinion about how best to use the taxpayer's money jaw enforcement in the county.

Tucker said, that at present the Dist. Atty's office is forced to do the law enforcement 'investigative work in Garfield not I of a shortage erf people in the ar fied sheriff's department but.