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STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY COLORADO STATE MUSEUM Denver8 Colorado A NEWSPAPER FOR THE HOME Information and Enjoyment for Every Member of the Family COLORADOAN Continuing Fort Collins Express-Courier i THE WEATHER Fort Collins: Partly cloudy sno flurries Details at the bottom or the page 10 PAGES 5 CENTS ESTABLISHED 1873 FORT COLLINS COLORADO TUESDAY EVENING JANUARY 11 1955 4 Ike Asks Pay Boosts New Governor Hands Problem to GOP Assembly Cash State to Sue Weld To Force Tax Hike DENVER (JP) The state of Colorado will file suit against Weld County Assessor Kennedy for a directive from the State Tax Commission and Board of to adjust the irrigated land mill levies in his county Gov Dan Thornton announced Tuesday He told newsmen only minutes before the ceremony to inaugurate his successor Ed Johnson that a board investigation in Weld county had shown Kenne- DENVER Colorado's Legislature was told by Democratic Gov Ed Johnson Tuesday to refrajn frqm making any tax cut until it has determined the Bize of appropriations for state departments and institutions He tossed the problem of already exceeding to the Republican-controlled Legislature The statements clashed with views of powerful GOP leaders in the Senate who want to reenact the bill reducing the income tax 2d per cent then make appropri- January 1933 and his second office last week Kennedy reiKirted he had raised irrigated land assessments throughout the county by 25 per cent and felt this would be necessary to raise the money the board thought Weld county assessments were short The board of which Thornton was chairman said it did not cape how much money ws raised but wanted to equalize the assessments and mill levies with those of neighboring counties dy had not followed its flat directive of last week Kennedy can flount the rule of the Tax Commission and Board of Equalization then other counties can and there goes the entire equalization program out the Thornton said He said Atty Gen Duke Dunbar would file suit to force Kennedy to comply with the orders of the state At a special meeting in the gov BARBARA GETS FIRST President Eisenhower gives his 5-year-old granddaughter Barbara Anng the first look at one of the pictures he made during a tour of his farm at Gettysburg Pa Income Tax Cut Bill term started In Junuary 1935 Johnson unbeaten in 32 years of the stormy politics also said in his inaugural: 1 The public school prob lem from the kindergarten to a degree in college has reached the' crisis state in 2 A highway tunnel should be constructed through the Continental Divide and or east-west highways across the state frot Utah to Nebraska Should lie to the high standards which have Deen adopted fof the interstate system of major Tighter Traffic Control 3 bearing borrowed money should not be used for highways except to match federal but if anything is needed to make the 35 million dollar warrant issue i effective it should be done at once 4 Jail sentences should be imposed on i speedsters the reckless and the drunken of motor yehlcles and more highway patrolmen should be added serious mistake Ja require by law that the superin tendent of the mental hos- med the duties of governor of pitals be Patients are Centennial State for the third entitled to the best of medical I time Clash bn Taxes The new declaration however that no tax cut should be approved before appropriations are determined pointed up a clash with thinking of Republican leaders Retiring Gov Dan who sat on the rostrum with Johnson has teaid no new taxes are necessary at least for a year despite the fact that spending is exceeding income for the state general fund The bill to Continue the 20 per cent reduction in state Income which expired automatically Jan 1 was offered by Sen Frank Gill (R-Hillfose) president pro tempore of the Senate Ed Johnson Takes Oath As Governor i i By Hal Seymour -'DENVER MV-' -Ed Johnson a power in Colorado politics' for a third of a century Tuesday as- $101 Billion Road project Proposed WASHINGTON (A5) President Highway Advisory Commission recommended Tuesday a 101 billion dollar modernization of the highways in the next 10 years The commission said the present 2-cent-a-gallon federal gasoline tax should meet all costs of the $31225000000 government's share of the program This would include financing the major cost of a 40000-mile network of super interstate roads The program calls also for an expenditure of 27 billions by federal state and local governments over the next decade as pact of a plan for a properly ar tag on his proposal when he advanced it last summer Asks Postal Increase at Same Time 4 WASHINGTON UT) President Eisenhower 1 urged Congress Tuesday- to boost the pay of government Civil Service and postal workers by about 5 per cent and at the same time postal rates He also proposed -a health Insurance program for government workers The President estimated the pay raise would cost $339500000 a year and that the cost to the government of the health program would be $55000000 a year The tieing together of postal rate and postal pay increases amounted to repetition of the stand of last year that the two should go hand in hand He vetoed a bill last year to boost federal pay because it did not include higher postage rates Opposition to Postal Hike Congressional comment since the new session began has indicated the lawmakers are receptive to the idea of a pay boost for government workers but still reluctant to raise postal rates In special message Elsenhower recommended that: 1 Congress create a permanent Independent commission to adjust postal rates in the future Rates now are established by Congress 2 In the meantime Congress should raise existing rates on the first three classes of mail Eisenhower specify by how much but the position has been that letter postage should go up from three to four cents and air mail postage from six to seven cents Second Third Class The President said second class rates which apply on newspapers and magazines should be Increased 6uch matter makes a fair and reasonable contribution to postal Third class mail consists largely of advertising matter Eisenhower said revenue from it has been "substantially the cost of the service and that the should be raised so that users of this service will pay a fair of postal revenues As to pay raises Eisenhower proposed: 1 The pay of classified Civil Service employes be raised by 202 million dollars which would be alxmt 5 per cent-of present payrolls There are about a million employes who would be affeetpd They would get raises ranging from $125 a year in the lowest grade to $800 in the next to the top rating There would be no increase in the present top pay of $14800 a year Percentagewise the individual Increases would range from 29 per cent to 74 per cent Health Insurance The lower rise would be from $2552 a year to $2625 for certain crafts watchmen and cleaners The biggest rise from a percentage standpoint would be in Class 15 workers lifting them from a minimum of $10800 a year to $11 600 2 Another $8500000 in raises for State Department foreign service employes and those in the Veteran Administration department of medicine and surgery 3 Creation if a group health Insurance program for the government service at a cost to Uncle Sam of around 55 million dollars annually The employes themselves would pay about two-thirds of the total cost 4 Pay raises totaling 129 million dollars yearly for postal employes Nearly half a million mail men and others would benefit would be 5 per cent For 1500000 Employe Altogether the pay raises would effect around 1500000 govemmert employes and the White House said all these and around 500000 others would be covered by the projected group health plan Eisenhower told Congress his program to raise postal salaries and rates be in the public interest for it will further assure -ASKS 2 Col 4 West Slope water right Sen Donald Brotzman (R-Boiflder) who heads a House-Senate committee set up a year ago to study the problem asserted Monday about time the Legislature gave cts attention to He said two things his committee may recommend when it submits its report in a week or so are a constitutional amendment to give the Legislature the ultimate say-so on where the water should go and bills to give the lawmakers control of underground water Brotzman said the report Will be prepared after a committee meeting with Gov Johnson Wednesday Change of Board Rep Frederic McLaughlin (R-Basalt) said he believes groups within the Legislature are working on good on the" water problem He pointed in particular to a proposal that the State Water Conservation Board be revamped to includft five members from each sloie Asked what the basis for the representation would be since it be on population McLaughlin said the basis that we got it and they want ticulated highway system that solves the problems of speeding safe transcontinental travel intercity transportation access 'highways and farm-to-market "movement For National Security This would be in addition to present plans for spending of 47 billions over the next 10 years in which the federal share is about 9 per cent President Eisenhower had proposed the outline of a massive plan last summer saying It was needed for national security as the highways had become run 'down since World War-II He suggested a 10-year program just about double the 47 billion dollars that was planned by cities states -and the federal government The five-member commission hd appointed to propose financing and "other details for a stepped up program recommended Tuesday that the government pay about 30 per cent of the 101 billion dollars total To Congress Soon The President hung an than six typewritten pages in length 1 He devoted little of this text to finances which he termed 85 per cent of a work saying he has reached some and is checking them They will be presented he promised in a special message a few Tha 71-year-old Democrat was sworn into the office he vacated 18 years ago to become US senator The oath was administered at 11:27 amby Chief Justice Mortimer Stone pf the State Supreme Court As Johnson took the oath of office the 168th Field Artillery Battalion of the Colorado National Guard fired a 19-gun salute from (wo 105-millimeter field pieces mounted at the capitol steps Overflow Crowd 1 More than 800 legislators state officials their 1 friends and relatives and citizens of the state were seated in the Colorado House of Representatives and an estimated 200 more onlookers stood at the rear of the chamber or Watched it over television sets placed in the halls of -the capitol building The inaugural ceremony opened at 11:00 am when the president pro tem of the Senate Sen Frank Gill (R-Hillrose) called a Joint session of the Legislature to order Gill appointed a committee composed of the seven women representatives In the House to escort the seven Supreme Court justices to the rostrum This was a departure from customary procedure in which a Joint committee of senators and representatives is ai pointed but the women were called on because their number equals that of the Supreme Court i 4 By Justice Stone First to swear to uphold Mie Constitutions of Colorado and the United States and faithfully perform the of his office was Lt Gov Stephen Mc-Nichols who has been a Democratic state senator from Denver McNlchols took the gavel from Gill and presided over the remainder of the ceremony Chief Justice Stone then administered the oath of office- to Vance Austin and Thomas A Gilliam regents of the University of Colorado Mrs Allegra Saunders and Gilbert Dale members of the state board of education Atty Gen Duke Dunbar State Treasurer Earl -Ewing Auditor Homer Bedford and Secretary of State George Baker Governor Cheered Johnson received a standing ovation when he was escorted down the center aisle of the flag-draped House Johnson Aiovad to behind tha rostrum which was covered with bouquets of red and pink Colorado carnations and took the oath of office Chief Justice Stone then administered to Henry Llndsley the oath as Colorado Supreme Court justice and removed his robe of office and draped it on shoulders Stone a Republican was defeated in the Nov 2 election by Llndsley ations fit the funds available Crisis in Schools Johnson now 71 and graying expressed his view in his Inaugural address It marked the start of a third term as chief executive for "Big Ed" who spent 18 years in the United States Senate between his second and third terms He became governor in in Works The Supreme Cburt Monday aft-ternoon deferred until at least Thursday action on a new petition by and Colorado Springs for a rehearing of the so-called Blue River water case New Bills In House By Thursday Republican Chief Justice Mortimer Stone who wrote the majority opinion when the court ruled 4-3 to deny the clties their appeal for more Western Slope will have been replaced on the bench by Denver Democrat Henry Llndsley New bills introduced Monday in the Houso included One bv Reps Walter Stalker CR-Kirk) ST Parsons (R-La Jara and Raymond Simpson (R-Cope) to transfer the duties of the state oil inspector to the commissioner of agriculture Parsons said at present the inspection duties of the two offices overlap The bill would do away with the oil office altogether Rep John Mackie (R-Boulder) introduced a bill to force the formation of a fire district to a vote of the people In the district If It Is opposed by 50 petitioners The measure also would limit the levy of such a district to two mills Mackle said at present there is no limit He said the temperature sometimes reached as low as 40 degrees below zero and on one occasion it fell to 72 below In the camps where he worked he estimated there were several thousand Germans and a tot of He saw only two other Americans one Pvt William Marchuk 30 of Norristown Pa who was released with him and another soldier Pvt William Verdme 28 of Sarks La An American request for release has been presented to the Russians BOY HONORED FOR SEA EXPLORER WORK 1 Dennis Willis member of the Sea Explorer Ship 95 was awarded an emergency service award In special recognition of his work as a member at a meeting Monday night In the Elks Home Jeff Jensen first mate reported Tuesday Cloudy Snow (OS Weather Burean) Pert Colllnc Partly cloudy TOtedav night Mattered enow flurrtea Intermittently eaet of mountaini Wednesday partly cloudy with few enow flurries In mountain areas The x-perted high temperature Tuesday and Wednesday la It to 40 low evernl(ht )t to 20 degrea Tha maximum temperature Monday waa 31 the low overnight degree 1 The reading downtown at pm Tuesday waa 41 degreea Colorado Cloudy with arattered anowa mountains and weat Tuesday night partly cloudy eaat Tuesday night with a few scattered enow flurries Immediately east of mountains Wednesday partly cloudy with a few snow flurries mountain areas low Tuesday night aero tp 10 below moun- Yank Freed-by Reds Tells Of Rebellion at Camp BERLIN (F) An American released from a Soviet slave labor camp at Vorkuta said Tuesday a rebellion flared there in July 1953 in which guards mowed down 110 prisoners on the spot and wounded 500 more John II Noble 31 of Detroit who was released by the Russians on Saturday after 9(4 years imprisonment told a news conference the vast network of prisons in Russia only a to ekplode in open revolt Noble said the revolt at Vorkuta In Arctic Russia northeast of Mos DENVER (J1 A bill to extend the 20 per cent reduction in state income tax ill be taken up by the Finance Committee of the Colorado Senate within the next few days and may pose the first major problem for Democratic Gov Ed Johnson Chairman Howard Shulta (R Grand Junction) of the Senate committee said he had held up action on the measure until after inauguration The bill was offered by Sen Frank Gill (R-IIillrose) president pro tqmpore of (he Senate when the Legislature session last week For Only One Year feel the 20 per cent reduction bill will pass the Senate afid probably the Shultz told a newsman governor has the privilege of vetoing it if he wants Other members of the Finance Committee Indicated that the bill is likely to be amended so that it applies only to taxes on 1955 income As presented by Gill it would make the reduction permanent Shults said he-- feels the state should decide how much money it has available for revenue for next year then vote appropriations accordingly He did not specify whether he will demand a balanced budget but added he much about the financial prospects for the 12 months starting July 1 Water Proposal Another problem doming before the lawmakers is over the East- MostStocks Take Losses NEW YORK MV- Most shares declined in the stock market Tuesday under persistent profit-taking Some issues were down more than $1 including Southern Railway Climax Molybdenum Southern Pacific and Boeing Airplane but a few registered wide Montgomery Ward was active and up nearly $3 and Kaiser Aluminum rose more thart $2 New York Central which had shown strength even during last sudden decline in the was down around $175 at $3575 Directors announced a dividend of 50 cents for the first quarter a widely-anticipated action It is not unusual for a stock to decline on if the news has been expected of Fire ment She know the three children were at the home of a neighbor when she returned -and found 17 firemen fighting the blaze The neighbor Mrs Henry Lane said she heard the three children crying and found them standing on the front porch of the burning house could see them in their little nighties and underwear backing out to the sidewalk" she told newsmen started out in the dark when-1 switched on my porch light Then they ran over here Mrs White said the family lost in the $3000 fire which destroyed the half vacant duplex apartment building Public Service Co Asks Gas EldfeHilce DENVER Public Service Co of Colorado and its subsidiary Pueblo Gas and Fuel Co are asking the Colorado Public Utilities commission for permission to pass on to consumers more than 4 million dollars increase in wholesale gas rates Joseph McNulty chief engineer for the commission announced the filings Tuesday Public Service Co asked permission to pass on an increase of $3717493 to consumers in the Denver Bpulder Longmont Loveland Fort Collins area Pueblo Eisenhower due to send the highway program to Congress on Jan 27 lie is expected to follow pretty closely the findings of his five man commission headed by retired Gen Lucius Clay As outlined last week by Frank Turner the executive director the plan would be to set up-a big new federal agency to finance the program by floating bonds Change In Policy This would mark a shift from present federal policy under which highway improvement contributions are made to the states out of appropriations For work on the strategic network' of interstate highways the federal government now puts up 60 per cent and the states 40 per cent of the cost The idea is for the federal government to pay the 24-bil-lion-dollar cost1 of developing 40-000 miles of interstate roads The two features appeared likely to be the most controversial portions of the program of Public Servlc Co in accordance of a ruling by the PUC issued last Dec At the Jan 19 hearing rate schedules of Public Service Co also will be reviewed making effective an increase of $1-529000 in electric rates and $23-000 in steam rates Girl of DALLAS Tex OH Wilma Jane a 7-year-old honey blonde was the toast of firefighters Tuesday Battalion Fire Chief Lester and his men called her a little agreeing Wilma Jane saved the lives of her two younger brothers Donnie 5 and Tommy 4 heard a loud pop and then I smelled smoke and opened my Wilma Jane While said after the fire was over Firemen said the Wilma Jane heard probably was a light bulb exploding florrt the heat of a fire that started near the kitchen range was fire all In our Wilma Jane said was care but the head of an Institution is an administrator Water Solution Possible 6 The fair" employment practices law and Its administration both should be strengthened 7 should seek a solution to the east-west water dispute which benefit both slopes and Injure neither It can be Stabilization of the water need not halt progress in any section 8 extensive and cooperative ground-water exploration With the Geological Survey should proceed unhampered by lack of necessary state 9 Although Colorado Is facing expansion of industry more industry is needed in "long suffering mining such as Trinidad and Walsenburg and the Legislature Bhould enact laws enabling them to build plants and rent them tax-free to firms This has been done in Mississippi and other southern states No Spectacular Promises 10 A system similar to that of the federal government should be adopted whereby 1 many governmental reorganization plans would become law 60 days after being promulgated by the governor unless either house of the Legislature disapproves Johnson set and as the watchword of his administration' am not promising an adventurous or spectacular he concluded1 I will strive with all my might to give Colorado a sound solid devoted and alert administration With God as my guide I have no Common Objective He launched his talk rqade in the House of Representatives chamber where he first took a seat in 1923 by asking cooperation of the legislators and saying he expect or by anyone Johnson called happiriess the progress and the prosperity of the people of the common objective of the lawmakers and himself "His prepared text was little more Flurries tains S-1S northwest 10-20 olaewhere high Wednsday 25-30 northwest 33-45 southeast Wyoming Mostly elondy north and weat Tuesday night otherwise partly cloudy Tuesday and Wednesday Mattered light anowa mountains and weat spreading to scattered areas eaat portion Tuesday night continuing moun-s tains on Wednesday scattered anowa Immediately eaat of mountalna Tuesday colder northwest Tuesday afternoon and southeast portion Tuesday night FIVE-DAT FORECAST Colorado: Temperatures will average to 0 degreea below seasonal mostly minor temperature changeu west colder Friday warmer over weekend east scattered light snow Tuesday night and mountains Wednesday snow likely over moat of state Friday cow tvas Inspired and organized by followers of the executed Soviet Secret Police Chief Beria who was then under arrest From 50 to 60 persons were executed later he said as a result of the revolt Noble said the slave labor camp at Vorkuta contained more than half million Inmates of whom 5 per cent werededicat-ed to opposing the Soviet regime Noble said the inmate got the impression that men were trying to foment revolution throughout the Soviet Union to overthrow Premier Georgl regime Noble descrilied how he and his father a camera manufacturer were- trapped in Dresden by World War II and were compelled to remain there under local internment Both were arrested in 1945 by the Russians The father was released seven years later Young Noble was taken from a German prison to Vorkuta in 1950 He said he was sentenced to 15 years although he was never tried and added: they ever told me was that we were guilty of having received American officers and soldiers in oar home in 1945 and that we had American food in our Even when he was released the Russians declined any explanation sLife in the Siberian labor camp he said is and of us ever expected to he said worst thing was to fall into Soviet hands because once there you hardly have a Noble was put to coal mining Gas -and Fuel asked permission to pass cm an increase of $477-873 to consumers in that area Wholesale Price Up Feb 1 The wholesale price are being made by Colorado Interstate and Colorado-Wyoming Gas Cos which supply Public Service and Puablo Gas and Fuel They are being placed into effect by wholesalers Feb i before final determination by the Federal Power Commission in Washington whether the increases are justified The wholesalers are furnishing a bond and will reimburse the Retail companies if any part of the raise is turned down In their application to the PUC both Public Service Co and Fheb-lo Gas and Fuel Co promised they would make refunds to customers if any rebate is granted by the Federal Power Commission Hearing Jan 21 The Public Utilities Commission set a hearing for Friday Jan 21 on the application This hearing will be only two days after another hearing into rates schedules which the PUC will review That hearing requires a reduction of $961000 in gas rates 7 Heroine tried to find Momma and she went on as her brothers hugged she said were right there watching television when I went to sleep cried and shook Donnie He woke right up and we ran to the front room Tommy was asleep on the couch I shook him but he wake up picked him up and tried to pull him with us He woke up then The front door wasn't locked We all went on the front Mrs Wilbur White whom fife-men had to fight to keep from running into the blazing house after she returned from taking her husband to work said she left the range burning to warm the apart-- 1.