South Idaho Press from Burley, Idaho • 1

S0u By KARY MILLER RUPERT Minidoka County School District residents are being asked to approve a $247,000 override levy for the 1981-82 fiscal year, on Tuesday, September 1. The levy, which is a little more than half last year's approved levy, is being requested to replenish about $200,000 trimmed from the current budget in non-academic areas and to give district employees a 4.6 percent raise in salary and wage benefits. The raise does not include district administrators whose salaries were set by the board earlier this year. The budget as it now stands shows a cut in the capital outlay fund, money for desks, furniture, remodeling, painting, repairs and some maintenance, of other maintenance funds were cut and the con-tingency fund is munus $35,000. The contingency fund is money used in- case of emergency and if not used is put back into the next year's budget as a starting balance.

The levy would put these programs back up to last year's level and double the already approved 4.6 percent raise for district employees. District office officials said no cuts in the current budget were in the academic programs as they felt mat area was cut deeply enough several years ago. A simple majority will decide the matter and according to the district office, passage will not increase taxes for school operations over last year, they may be a bit lower. The $247,000 levy, which will only be effective for this fiscal year, will offset the $450,000 levy approved last year. A slight increase in the bond interest and redemption levy on the two junior highs will be a little higher this year making the taxes about the same or a little lower.

Reduction or increase by other taxing districts will also effect actual taxes paid. If the levy passes, the district would be required by law to hold another public budget hearing ammending the budget. The levy amount needs to be before the county commission by. September 4. This Is the district's last opportunity to pass a levy and have the money come into the district for the current fiscal year.

Eligible voters, anyone over 18 who. is a citizen of the United States and a resident of the school district, can vote at any of the pzZL'Z Voters may cast tiidr between 12 noon asd rt Acequia, Key burn Ll" a Elementary Schools; Ttzt I. Junior High School; i i School; the Ron Kane rtsij. its Paul) 500 East 173 NcrtS; Watson residence, 13CD VssA (Jerome County) Cecil Tsrry 1 residence, 1050 North West (I2 coln County). Six air controllers convicted Daily Serving Eastern Magic Valley 25 Arceneaux delayed fentesdri pending a review, but said tr 1 not Impose the maxtesm.

tzJi punishment of 18 months in prosa a. fine The slxareal officials of Ci I Professional Air Traffic CsoJrsrj Organization PATOO" Arceneaux said the arguments missed the point of k- 3 order, which prohibited fcs ti- He said television news played during the trial tmfc ba I controllers picketing at New Ortaasa International Airport just "gilded LSa lily." Idaho, was first woman on river eriy couple's trip mside BStfMSB I Burley, Bessie Hyde (Editor's note: The following is the first of two stories dealing with the disappearance in 1928 of Kimberly ranchers Glenn and Bessie Hyde. It was compiled through a review of contemporary reports published by the Twin Falls Daily News. On Monday, in the second story, a new element in the 53-year-old mystery will be addressed the discovery of human remains believed to be those of Glenn Hyde.) By DAVE HORSMAN KIMBERLY They were young and bold, fresh in love and spirit. He was lanky, raw-boned Westerner who, except for a couple of terms at the university of Idaho, had made his home on his father's ranch southeast of Kimberly for the last 14 years.

2ne was a tiny product of the East, Kimb NEW ORLEANS (AP) A federal judge has convicted six striking air traffic controllers of criminal contempt of court for ignoring court orders to return to work. U.S. District Judge George Ar-ceneaux issued his ruling Friday, a day after the trial which was held without a jury. "Air traffic controllers' are highly intelligent and highly skilled," Ar-ceneaux said. "They deal daily on an hour-to-hour, minute-to-minute basis with federal regulations.

They literally hold the lives of thousands in their hands. This conduct is inexcusable." bulent waters have wrapped in tragedy many times the efforts of man to conquer it by boat, is being dared for the first time by a Bessie told the Post that Glenn had been swept overboard once during the nip. We carried no We preservers," she said. "I admit I was scared to death. I can't remember very clearly all that happened.

All I know is that I managed somehow to hang to the sweeps. keep the boat straight as possible in the current until my husband could grasp the sides. Then I helped pull him aboard." In the same interview with the Poet, Bessie explained why they were taking such a risky honeymoon: "Our main object in this trip was to give me a thrill. It's surely been successful, so far. I have been thoroughly drenched a dozen times, and I'm enjoying every minute of the adventure." The next day the Uydes resumed the i trip a brief seven-mile stretch, were accompanied by A.G.

Suro, a Francisco capitalist who happened to be in the park as a tourist," according to an Associated Press story published Dec. 18, 1928, in the Twin Falls Sutro was put ashore at Hermit's trail, according to the AP account, and, after "bidding him goodbye, (the Hydes) set out on the last and most dangerous leg of their long journey to Needles." They were never seen again. Dec. 6 passed and on Dec. 12 Hyde's father, R.C.

Hyde, began an investigation that soon turned into a massive ground-and-air search. In addition to posting a $1,000 reward for the safe delivery of his son and daughter-in-law, Hyde appealed for assistance from "government forces" in the hunt. His plea was relayed through Glenn Hyde's two sisters in Kimberly and two local men, John Graham of Twin Falls and John Hardin of Kimberly, telegraphed Congressman Addison T.Smith, who "took the matter up with President Coolidge immediately," the Twin Falls newspaper said in a Dec. 18 story. Two Army observation planes were sent from a field near Riverside, Calif.

At the end of the first day's search, one of the pilots sent a radiogram to his corps commander: "No sign of missing party. Refueling at Las Vegas. Early tomorrow will reconnoiter remainder of canyon as far blackened 1,386 acres was burning out of control near Packer Creek about 50 miles east of Boise. U.S. Forest Service Information Officer Kay Savage said 172 firefighters were battling the blaze, mostly with hand tools.

She said 115 more men were being held in reserve for Saturday night Two firefighters were evacuated to a Boise hospital by helicopter Saturday afternoon; one from a reaction to a bee sting and the other suffering severe vomiting, probably from dehydration, Savage said. The fire was burning one mile south of Trinity Lookout and 3Vi miles from Big Trinity Lake. Savage said fire crews were attempting to build a fire line across two ridges at the north end of the blaze. She said not all the acreage up to that point had been burned, but severe spot flames caused the concentrated effort in that area. Savage said thunderstorm activity Since Voyager 1 examined Saturn last November, scientists have been trying to explain the unexpected complexity of the rins, which tiiat ship saw as hundreds or thousands of tiny ringlets arranged one within another.

But Esposito said an experiment that examined the rins, by watching a Volume 77 Number 130 WASHINGTON (AP) The Equal Rights Amendment, on the verge of success just five years ago, now appears doomed. Even as supporters are mounting an llth-hour campaign to salvage the ERA, an Associated Press survey finds that the amendment is unlikely to win approval in even one of the 15 unratified states. Three more states must approve the ERA in the next 10 months for it to enter the Constitution. If this does not occur, supporters will be back at step one of the painstaking process that any constitutional amendment must survive. Last week, The AP surveyed knowledgeable political figures in each of the 15 states whose legislatures have rejected the ERA or not even bothered to consider it.

Their responses showed that not a single state was expected to abandon its opposition by the June 30, 1982 deadline set by Congress. House Speaker George Ryan, a staunch contends, "It's going nowhere," in Illinois, and Rep. William Redmond, an ERA proponent, says, "I've seen corpses in a morgue that looked livelier." The Nevada legislature's first order of business this year was to kill the ERA. And the lawmakers aren't meeting again until 1963. Arkansas' Senate president pro tem says "the chances are slim and none" in his state.

South Carolina Lt. Gov. Nancy Stevenson asked last summer: "Why bring it up again and let it be kicked to death?" This year, it wasn't. A relative optimist is Sen. Helen R.

Marvin of North Carolina, who says, "While there's life, there's hope." But she concedes that in her state like Illinois, a key battleground "it looks bleak." So, without three dramatic and unexpected reversals, enormous effort to win legal equality for women will have failed. If this happens, ERA OUJWl nVUiU scratch, to resurrect the amendment. Feminist leaders now emphasize that a half-century struggle was required to win the vote for women, ana they say they are dug in for the long haul for the ERA. Phyllis Schlafly, ERA'S most prominent foe, thinks ERA'S heyday has passed forever. Along with the civil rights campaign and the antiwar crusade of the 1960s and the 1970s, the ERA cause was one of the powerful social movements of these times.

Last week, with time running out, ERA supporters raised $1 million for a "countdown" campaign for ratification. Congress passed the ERA on March 22, 1972 and Hawaii ratified that same day. By the end of the year, 22 states had approved the amendment. Ratification appeared just a matter of time. Then the effort stalled.

In the past five years, no state has ratified the amendment. Lowell Thomas is dead at 09 PAWLING, N.Y. (AP) LoweU Thomas, the broadcaster-explorer who bid America "So long until tomorrow" from the four corners of the globe for more than a half a century, died of a heart attack Saturday at his home here. He was 89. Thomas's secretary, who identified herself only as Electra, said Thomas died "peacefully, in his sleep." She said be had been in good health and had returned to New York last week from Colorado where he had given a speech and attended a corporate board meeting.

"When he came back be resumed his usual work schedule. He was recording The Best a radio series he was doing," she said. In April, Thomas celebrated his 89th birthday at the banquet of The Explorers Club. He was its honorary president and key patron. Its highest award for exploration is named "The Lowell" in his honor.

The award recognized a career based on interviews with some of the most famous men in some of the world's most remote places. EiA is dad raised on the banks of the Ohio in Parkersburg.W.Va. They had met when he visited San Francisco, where she was studying art. "The acquaintance ripened into love," according to a contemporary article in the Twin Falls' Daily News, "and on April 10, 1928, they were married at Ascension Episcopal church, Twin Falls, by Rev. W.

Hewton Ward, pastor." The newlyweds lived at the Kimberly ranch but made very private plans for a grand honeymoon adventure. Slightly more than six months after they exchanged vows, on Oct. 22, Glenn and Bessie Hyde put their homemade, flat-bottomed wooden TWD1Q DUBOIS, Idaho (AP) -Firefighters contained a range fire about noon Saturday that blackened 38,230 acres and threatened two small eastern Idaho towns. Bureau of Land Management District Fire Management Officer Bill Casey said the fire was expect to be under control by 6 p.m. Saturday.

He said crews were beginning to demobilize later Saturday afternoon. The fire forced evacuation of a U.S. Department of Agriculture Sheep Experiment station 5 miles northeast of Dubois late Thursday night BLM spokeswoman Hester Pulling said the -flames came within 20 feet of some of the experiment station buildings, but none were burned. National guardsmen plowed double fire lines around the station with tractors and prevented fire from reaching the complex. About 500 residents of nearby Dubois manned garden hoses to protect their homes when the flames came within 1.

Sunday, August 30, 1981 scow a 20-foot craft guided by long sweeps at bow and stern into the Green River at Green River, Utah. They would ride the Green to its confluence with the Colorado and then challenge that mighty river as far as Needles, where the Colorado emerges from the Grand Canyon. They eanned to reach Needles by Dec. 6 and ke a train to Los Angeles. Bessie would be the first woman to conquer the turbulent Grand Canyon waters, which had been navigated successfully only nine times since i Major John Wesley Powell completed the 217-mile journey in 1869.

i The Grand Canyon had been declared a national park nine years earlier in 1919. The couple reached Bright Angel Creek in the canyon on Nov. 15 and spent a day and a night at a hotel on the was then that their "secret" ad- venture first made news. i. Bessie was interviewed by the Denver Post and Btories about the trip- stressing that his honeymoon was a first for females appeared soon after on front pages throughout the West.

The Twin Falls Daily News carried a 20 dispatch by the Associated Press that began, "The foaming Colorado River, whose muddy tur- Death mask Anthropologists at the University of Arizona reconstructed the face of this skull, which may be that of Glenn Hyde. (AP Laserphoto) two miles of the community early Friday. Thursday night, flames came to within two miles of Spencer, population 38. Pulling said some 90 firefighters and support personnel battled the blaze, which burned in sagebrush and grass over a 30-mile expanse. It burned 10,000 acres of BLM land, 15,730 acres, of state and private lands and 12,500 acres of land belonging to the sheep experiment station.

The fire started near Interstate 15 Thursday and was fanned by 40 mph ground winds. Cause of the blaze is still unknown. The fire was spotted by crews at the experiment station who were conducting a controlled burn, Ms. Pulling said. They sent as many people as they could to help fight the fire, and then the winds came up, and the controlled fire got away and merged with the new blaze.

Meanwhile, a timber fire that has so rings, described evidence that the fabled rings actually are constantly changing as spiraling waves spread through the icy particles. In other words, what had seemed an incredibly complex but stable system of narrow rings separated by empty gaps now appears as a solid, changing sheet of particles. far as El Tovar Hotel (where the Hydes hadstayed)." On Dec. 19, the Army aviators spotted the Hyde's boat arj rcy-artei that it was stranded on ttsd midstream rock at Separation The ground searchers tsci ever at that point. Separate teams haJI by nark officials, veteran rive w1 Emery Kolb and Hyde himself tst oat above and below the rapids to comb the rough terrain.

They hoped to find footprints on snow-covered rim near the beat btt turned up nothing. The assistant park superintassisst reported finding footprints on a mrtmi bank of the river but a corsii distance upstream from fee steisisd scow. He guessed that Kyia tal landed to survey some rasids sir On Dec. 23, after Hyde boat and its ccr The Associated Pres 'apparently' wSriir ts i i i i camping euf." -j scow, "tha AP fo a dispatch published by Twia newspaper. "Entries in the diary me progress or tne comis.

tzm ust notation, made on Nov. S3, their arrival at a point 12 Diamond Creek and thtt ti snot' is rapids that day. rm lseaKa of the pilot ess scow 14 miles Diamond Creek indicated to t.t returned searchers that Hyde tm wife had been lost in the rapids the last two miles above there," added. In the same story. Its gloomy words of Kolb, the lljti said he was "making rsrparetlKj to continue the search for bis ssa." And so he did In a published Jan.

4, by C3 Twm Falls newspaper, Hyde is mmm search party. Kolb, sittlrj Hyae in tne pnotearapa, is wem a pair of Glenn Hyde ikik fast i scow, according to the phcto C2; Ln. Interest by the news cjsa wanea at mat point, norever. were no more stories in tLa Twin FtUg newsDanerdurins Januarv. It was presumed that tns river tzi claimed the lives of Glenn aoJ Hyde a tragedy, to be sure, but tm with a noble and natural ending.

had as yet failed to develop, lcrrssiri the of Kghtnis-csma se ditions to the blaze. A rans Ere to tli Desert area 40 miles was contained afeffizt i with control expected fcy rLa Saturday. Casey said fcs tzm touched off by llditntes VzZzzzizyt Two other fires ta ersa r5T: 7,500 acres and 3,500 acres bc''s oflntrntlaHt Firefighters got fcs better cf fcn other major racse fire? la southeastern Idaho FrUhy. A I acre fire which bisrcJ 1 -i" I LJ seven inUes smatsaM cf '3 declared out arsi a TCHtsral- it" miles east of sru I under control. A Uks? i Pocatd'o Vallsy 9 rsf3 Holbrook was ccr.tiL:-ci lj firencters Friday aftsrscca.

1.1 star tliri on and dtiH behind fesra, srcsSa Lir i distinct circles. Father tesy ere wsvrs i windiag tLc a rJ 1 particles. Er lis t'j formed of "tL and ssowtlilj fs i 7 1 z.r 5 be oaly abcat t2 iJ. I Missing 53 years Glenn and Bessie Hyde disappeared on their honeymoon on the Colorado River 53 years Experts now believe they've found Hyde's bones along with the silver belt buckle he wore in this photo. (SP Laserphoto) sip jm.

i Tip It's good that so much of the world knew Low'ell Thomas. He was one of a The weather Mostly dry Tuesday through Thursday. High mostly in the 80s. Lows 45 to 55. Shuttle goes to pad again CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.

(AP) The Columbia, slated to become America's first craft to make a second manned voyage into space, will start its slow return to the launch pad on Monday morning. The entire space shuttle and its mobile launcher will be rolled out at 5 a.m. from the Vehicle Assembly Building aboard a huge crawler transporter for a 3-mile trip to the same launch pad where the first historic mission began last April. The shuttle will be fitted with new twin solid-rocket boosters and a new external tank. Voyager II seas Saturn's ring PASADENA, Calif.

AP) Saturn's rings now seem more like moving spirals than circles within circles, a scientist said Saturday as Voyager 2 raced off toward another distant world after sending back mountains of photos and data. An exultant Larry Esposito, of the team which is examining Saturn's.