The Idaho Statesman from Boise, Idaho • 7

i mf THE IDAHO DAILY STATESMAN BOISE IDAHO SATURDAY MORNING AUGUST 31 1063 PAGE SEVEN 4 Officers Sharpen Skill At Weiser Tar get Range I LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS have been receiving firing practice on the pistol and rifle range being constructed near Weiser A joint project of the Weiser City Police Washington County Sheriff's office the Idaho State Police and their auxiliaries the range will he open to the public upon permission from the sheriff or police chief Hunters will be allowed to use the range to zero in their rifles The range is located at the north end of the Weiser landfill ManagementUnionAgree On New Simplot Contract at the food processing plant here with wage increases and other benefits He said the agreement with the American Federation of Grain Millers was reached after four months of negotiations involving a total of 21 meetings Alunn said federal mediation This is a frequent scene near the Washington County seat Although gun battles are rare in modem Idaho law enforcement officers are consistently recording It is all taking place on the new law enforcement targe' range now in operation at tin north end of the Weiser land fill Weiser Chief of Police Ale! Pierson said the range Includes the FBI practical pistol course containing three lanes for firing at distances ranging from seven to 60 yards A rifle range with a distance of 100 yards between firer and target has also been constructed Still Unfinished work is still to be done on the grounds but we already are getting target sail Pierson An old dwelling donated by the city of Weiser wil soon be moved to the firing range for use as a clubhouse The project to build a rifle and pistol range was undertaken last spring Various Weiser organizations have assisted in the project said Pierson AIos of the construction work has been handled by the Heavy Equipment School of Weiser Jointly sponsoring the venture are the Weiser Auxiliary Police the Washington County Posse and the Idaho State Police Auxiliary along with the Weiser City Police Department the Washington County Office and the Idaho State Police Although designed for use by law enforcement officers and lice auxiliary members the firing range will be open to the public Chief Pierson said persons wishing to use the range should obtain permission either from Washington County Sheriff Hank Davis or himself The range is open every day Bring Own Targets public will have to furnish its own the police chief reported of the law enforcement agencies will sel! targets since they are for police use he said adding that policemen are firing at both bullseye and silhouette targets Pierson said the rifle range will be of special Interest to hunters who may want to zero in their rifles we' hope to establish schools in fire arms training here for law enforcement rsonneL like to have I men teach the The location of the firing range at the city land fill Pier-son believes offers a perfect spot because all the firing is toward a high bank rives an ideal background for shooting and aids in the safety of the course because there are no he added policemen are like soldiers preparing for a war they hope will never come We hope we have to shoot at anyone But if the time comes for such action wp must be ready the police chief said Harris Quadruplets Reported in Poverty CHICAGO The Harris quadruplets bom 'two months ago to a $90-a-week assembler and his 19-year-old wife are iving in poverty in a broken lame a court action disclosed Friday The little girls Sheena Shawna Sherry and Shannon are considered by physicians to be the first known set of iden-leal quadruplets in the United States They were bom June 30 Judge James Crosson in a hearing in Superior Court Fri day ordered their father Bernard to contribute $30 a week support for the quads and their jrother Shawn NNC Names Nampa Pair Assistants NAMPA Dean Thelma Culver of Northwest Nazarene College announced Tuesday that the academic Council has recommended two Nampa -juniors Eugene Ftiruyama and Alarvin Page as student assistants for the school year 1963-64 Dean Culver added that William Alanley Nampa senior will continue this year as an assistant in the department of physics Ftiruyama son of Air and Airs Fred Furuyama of Nampa raduated from Nampa Senior -igh School An honor student he is majoring in mathematics He wifi serve as a student as-r sistantl in chemistry Pace who will assist in the department of music is the son of Air and Airs AL Pace of Nampa A business major he graduated from high school in Yuma Ariz Pace was awarded the Hill music scholarship at NNC where he has participated in band and instrumental ensemble work A VALLIVTJE HIGH SCHOOL FFA TEAM was victorious Thursday in livestock judging com-petiton at the Western Idaho State Fair Members are: (left to right) Lon Klahr Lawrence La-Rue chapter advisor Victor Yammamoto and Marshall Hickman Teams from New Plymouth and Notus placed second and third respectively in the contest in which 18 teams were entered The Vallivue team plans to compete at Portland Oct 19 in the Pacific International Exposition By STAN SIABTIN A shot from the pistol rips into the a moment before only i another bullet tears into the Truck Crushes Pocatello Man At Mine Site PORT HALL 2P A 20-year-old Pocatello man Alichael Hal Scott was killed Friday afternoon when the 35-ton ore carrier he was driving tipped over threw him out and crushed him Scott was working at the Simplot Gay Aline 30 miles north of Pocatello on the Fort Hall Indian Reservation The accident occurred a 3:50 Friday Officials saic the truck was full of phosphate ore which Scott was taking to a stock pile Bingham County Sheriff Arch Hess investigated the accident It was the first fatality in 15 years of operation at the mine Oregon Visit In September By JFK Told PORTLAND 2P President Kennedy will visit Oregon next month and deliver a speech in Portland two newspapers reported Friday The Oregonian and Oregon Journal listed the date as Sept 28 The Oregonian quoted Senator Maurine Neuberger D-Ore: as saying the President will ded-cate Northwest Towers an apartment house for elderly citizens It is located at Northwest Nineteenth Avenue and Everett Street The Senator also said announcement to visit Oregon bears out the plan that I knew he had to visit the site of the Oregon Dunes National Seashore Park am delighted that he will have he opportunity to compare at first hand the Oregon Dunes with his own Cape Cod which he has long taken an interest In Washington Press Secretary Pierre Salinger said there would be no comment on the reported visit Judge at Payette Withholds Ruling In Zink Hearing CALDWELL A preliminary tearing for Howard Earl Zink 40 of Parma Route 1 on a charge of lewd and lascivious conduct with a minor child under 16 was held Friday afternoon in Canyon County Prolate Court Judge Edward Lodge presided Judge Lodge took the case under advisement He said he might render a decision prior to the completion of the typing of the transcript The charge involves a nine rearold Canyon County girl Prosecuting Attorney Robert Yost said Zink is free from custody under $2500 bond Weiser Kiwanis Qub Hears Former Official Frank Kershisnik Farmers Home Admin-strator for Washington County was the principal speaker at the uncheon meeting Thursday of the Weiser Kiwanis Club Kershisnik and family have retured to Weiser after serving eight years with the International Cooperative Administration in Afghanistan Somalia and Lybia NAME CANDIDATE ST LOUIS The National Prohibition party chose Prof Harold Munn Sr Friday as its 1964 presidential nominee Munn of Hillsdale Mich the vice-presidential candidate in 1960 won on the first ballot by five votes at the party's 24th presidential convention Weiser High School Nears Centennial Records Yield Colorful Campus Story This freshman class will be entering a school which has about 480 students and an auditorium that seats a little more than 300 All assemblies have to be presented twice so the entire student body can see them the principal reported The centennial class for Weiser will soon begin its high school career in a college-like atmosphere becoming part of a school with some problems some advantages but much constructed and equipped at a cost of $600 The new building had homemade seats nailed to the floor and was lighted by tallow candles and tin reflectors nailed to the walls Records show that the building also served as a church on Sunday and at other times as a playhouse and dance hall A $40000 high school was built in 1904 and 15 years later when it was becoming overcrowded remodeling and additions were started The improvements which cost $90000 'resulted in practically a new building But the Weiser educational picture is actually two separate stories that merge into one much as two corporations joining forces Early success of Weiser education according to many residents was due largely to Edward Paddock an itinerant readier who came to Weiser the and established a boarding school which eventually contained a campus totaling an estimated 750 acres Set Up Academy Although he had no money of his own Paddock set up the Weiser Academy also known as the Intermountain Institute Paddock would travel East and beg money for his school by telling owners of large companies that educating them (students) in the sage brush said Chester Taylor of Weiser who attended the Academy in 1902 students have New Evidence Introduced In Butts Case ATLANTA A mystery woman was brought into the Wally Butts libel controversy Friday by attorneys for Curtis Publishing Co The attorneys In arguing for a retrial of Butts libel suit contended that Judge Lewis Morgan erred in ruling out testimony from and about woman Identified only as a of Atlanta No other details were given about the woman who Curtis attorneys said traveled with Butts on numerous occasions visited him in hotel and motel rooms and was given a car by the former Georgia coach Curtis attorneys also labeled as gross excessiveness the $306 million verdict awarded to Butts last week Butts sued for $10 million because of an article in the Sat- urday Evening Post charging he and Coach Paul Bear Bryant of Alabama rigged a football game last fall Curtis attorneys said Alorgan should have allowed the mystery woman to testify Sersonnel sat in on negotiations uring 2 months Alunn said the agreement was still subject to ratification by members of the Local 291 an AFL-CIO affiliate He said information on wage rate increases and specific benefits will not be released until the ratification takes place He said the new pact will become effective immediately on its signing by union members which he felt would be within the next 10 days Sitting in during a portion of the negotiation meetings were Alarion Frazier Wheatridge Colo vice president of the Grain Alillers and A Stevens Portland the western regional representative Alunn noted that separate agreements are still to be worked out between the union and Burley and Hey-bum plants Tito Announces Nikita Recognizes Yugoslav Policy VELENJE Yugoslavia President Tito triumphantly told his nation Friday that Premier Khrushchev recognizes independent brand of communism as right Khrushchev agreed Tito described Yugoslavia and the Soviet Union as united on all major issues and assailed Red China as promoting racism and undermining world commu nism Payette Clerk Issues Four Permits to Wed PAYETTE Alarriage licenses were issued in the Payette County office Friday to Charles A Croner of Friiiuand and Patsy Lee Hyde New Plymouth and to Charles Boss of Twin Falls and Lana Kaye Fretwell of Friiitland A marriage license was issued Thursday to Alerlyn Homer Thome of Remer Minn and Alarie Idaho Koch of Oswego Ore DIVORCES GRANTED CALDWELL Divorces were granted in Seventh District Court here Friday by Judge Edward Aschenbrener to Barbara Lynn Blank from Richard Blank Lillian AIcDonnel from James AIcDonnel AI a 1 Thompson from William Dean Thompson and Glenda Kelley from Earl Landon Kelley 3IINISTER TO TOUR TOKYO Prime Alinister Hayato Ikeda will leave Tokyo Sept 23 on a two-week goodwill visit to the Philippines Indo-ia and nesia Australia land the Japanese government announced Fridas YOGI BEAR WEISER The freshman class at Weiser High School will have a centennial of its own to celebrate in four years When this freshmen are graduated in 1967 100 years will have elapsed from the start of the first school in the Weiser area In 1S67 four years after Idaho became a territory and 12 years before Washington County was created the first Weiser school was started with an enrollment of 10 students Records in the office of Lloyd Eason superintendent of Weiser schools show that the beginning of formal education in the Weiser Valley began a small house on the Weiser River bank about one mile east of the old court house on East Court In 1879 Washington County was created from what were formally parts of Ada and Idaho Counties A short time later the Washington County Public School System was organized A former cowboy from Utah described by one historian as was the first superintendent of public instruction That man Hart also served as county recorder Home of Its Own Emerging from private homes and shacks the Weiser school received a home of its own in 1882 when a school house was DIVORCE SUITS FILED PAYETTE Suits for divorce have been filed in Seventh District Court at Fayette by Betty Blakley against George Blakley and by George Carey against Hazel Lb Carey NAMPA PERMIT ISSUED NAMPA Squires building inspector issued a permit Friday to Robert Myers for 447 West a $20360 home Bird Street BIRTH AT NAMPA NAMPA A son was bom Friday at Mercy Hospital to Mr and Mrs Gary Schoen Nampa Route 5 CARMICHAEL Reunion Planned By Class at Kuna KUNA The Class of 1958 of Kuna High School will begin a weekend reunion tonight in Kuna with a no-host dinner at Village Diner at 7:30 Warren Reynolds class president announced A picnic for members and their families will be held in Kuna Park Sunday at 1:30 Forty-six of the 61 members of the class have been contacted Reynolds said Official at Payette OKs Pair of Permits Two construction permits have been issued in the city office one to Walker and Harlan Ames for $1000 for the addition of a sausage kitchen to their business at J7 Tenth Avenue North A permit was also issued to Robert Allen for a house at 2250 Sixth Avenue South in the amount of $13500 BIRTHS AT CALDWELL CALDWELL Sons were bom Thursday in Caldwell Memorial Hospital to Mr and Airs Otis Patrick of General Delivery Homedale and Mr and Airs Maralba Kershaw of Caldwell Route 1 A Glen Alunn personnel manager for Simplot Company announced Friday a contract agreement was reached between management and union representatives which he said provides workers Adult Classes For Ontario Area Planned ONTARIO Carl Devin director of adult education at Treasure Valley Community College has announced adult education classes at four sites within the college education district Basic institutional menu planing taught by Agnes Foley will meet Alonday nights at Cairo School Basic clothing construction taught by Hazel Anderson will meet Tuesday evenings at Ontario High School Also at Ontario a course in ABC shorthand will meet Tuesday and Thursday evenings Tailoring taught by Virginia Steffens will meet Mondays at the Nyssa High School also Mondays at Nyssa Robert Fat terson will teach the popular rapid reading course Later in the fall Grant Rinehart Nyssa will teach a course of farm records and accounting A class in advanced clothing construction taught by Christine Moore is to be arranged at Vale All classes except the last two will start the week of Sept 23 and will meet at 7 pm Registration may be made at the college office starting Sept 19 or at the first meeting of the class Caldiccll Clerk Issues Five Permits to Wed CALDWELL Alarriage censes were issued Friday he Canyon County Ice to five couples They were Dean Lavem Dormandy of Port-and and Sharon Rose King of llilwaiikie Ore Jerry Frazier lock and Cheryl Sue Pleak both of Nampa Stanford Lorenzo Orison of Pocatello and Karen Dawn Welch of Emmett Aaron Aliles Grigg and Zeoma Nadine Jeffries both of Wilder and Leon George Brock of Nampa and Alary Louise Thomason of Aferidian DIVERS RAISE CANNON FT FISHER NC Navy divers brought ashore Friday a third cannon raised from a federal gunboat which sank offshore nere during the Civil War The six-man team headed by Lt 7 Carder of the Naval School Explosive Ordnance Disposal Unit Indianhead Aid used a balloon to raise the 6400-x)und cannon from the USS Pe-erhof which went down two miles off Ft Fisher March 6 864 after it rammed another ederal gungoat BIRTHS AT ONTARIO ONTARIO Births at Holy Rosary Hospital Thursday were son to Air and Airs Roman Guererro of Ontario and daughters to Air and Mrs Alar-in Boylan of Ontario and to Air and Airs James Bachman of Vale Illinois Governor Vetoes Flag Law Explains Reason SPRINGFIELD 111 JP -Gov Otto Kemer vetoed a frill Friday which would have required grade school children to recite the pledge of allegiance to the flag and the United States and that put him in mind of a story Under the bill students would have been required to recite the pledge at the beginning of class each day But Kerner said the bill was of doubtful constitutionality and was unwise because it nude patriotism compulsory the governor said me of the small boy who often accompanied his father to athletic events He grew up believing that the last two words of our national anthem were Permit Given to Move Half-Razed Residence CALDWELL A permit was issued tty the city building office Friday to the Arctic Circle Drive-in 1124 Cleveland boulevard to move the remain der of a house out of the city to make way for construction of a restaurant The top floor of the old two-story residence was azed last week Bill Huckstep 3oise received the moving NEW ALPHABET LISTED BETHLEHEM Pa JP An experimental 43-letter alphabet designed to increase the teaching of reading to youngsters will be inaugurated in the Bethlehem school district this fall a week-long series of seminars at Lehigh University was told The seminars aimed at familiarizing educators in America and Canada with the new system ended Friday DIVORCE FILED CALDWELL Suit for divorce has been filed in Seventh District Court here by Curley against Carol AIcCurley By Hanna-Barbera money they could work through their way through the said Taylor the graduates would repay Paddock by deeding over land to the In the late Paddock in his sick and unable to be eg ol for more money for his scho had part of the property turned over to the National Youth Administration Vocational training that Pad-dock had stressed was continued and expanded by the NY A Before the outbreak of the war the NYA school at Weiser attracted students from throughout the country and was aimed at making the unemployed self supporting Taylor reported During the war the NYA was discontinued Weiser High School took over the land and buildings in 1948 becoming only high school with a campus Cause Problems Having a campus with 21 buildings Including seven used for classes can cause many problems reports Supt Eason of the old buildings of course is quite Eason said heating is Administering a school where students sometimes have to walk a quarter of a mile between classes also can be troublesome we do not know whether students are loafing between classes or whether they are kept in class after the Eason shrugged are advantages to the campus high school the superintendent added students away from the city center and school hallways not overly congested are just a coupler Future Uncertain The future for Weiser High chool is uncertain Cost of re-odeling the campus structures would be higher than building an entirely new high school Eason said But it is unlikely that we could gain enough support to either remodel the present structures or build a new high he surmised JUST ARRIVED at Nanqpa Friday was a carload of furniture for the new Parkview School schoobTa Pete Jorgensen custodian at Parkview School Nampa schools will are Charles Whitney at left principal of Parkview and School Nai open with a full day of classes Tuesday.