The Missoulian from Missoula, Montana • 14

1 -The Missoulian, Wednesday, January 5, 1972 Anderson Claims $1 Million Saved by Reorganization HELENA (AP) Noting that Montana's executive-reorganization program "is well ahead of schedule," Gov. Forrest H. Anderson estimated Tuesday the total first-year saving to the taxpayers will be $1,374,000. "In contrast, the total state general fund cost of the entire executive-reorganization project will amount to $195,000 at its completion," Anderson said upon returning to Montana from a two-week vacation in California. The governor said he expects Obituaries William Barrieth PHILIPSBURG Funeral services for William Barrieth, 85, who died Sunday at Warm Springs, will be Friday at 2 p.m.

from the Wilson Funeral Home. The Rev. Gary Wolfer will officiate with burial in the Philipsburg Cemetery. Mr. Barrieth was born in Michigan in 1886 and moved to Philipsburg in the early 1930s where he engaged in ranching and mining.

He is survived by three sisters in Missouri. Dora Johnson PHILIPSBURG Graveside services for Mrs. Dora Johnson, 85, of Hall are tentatively set for Saturday at the Philipsburg Cemetery. She died Monday in a Missoula hospital. She was preceded in death by her husband, Lewis.

She is survived by a niece, Mrs. Dale Herrod of Hall. Lucille Weskamp RONAN Lucille Magdelene Weskamp, 71, of Walnut Creek, died there Monday. She will be buried at Ronan Saturday. She was born in 1900 in Indiana and spent her early days there and in Colorado before moving to Ronan in 1946 with her husband, Frank Weskamp, whom she married in 1920 in Colorado.

She moved to Arizona in 1962 after her husband died and to Walnut Creek last year. She was also preceded in death by a son, Paul, in 1967. She is survived by two sons, Robert, in New Mexico, and Herman, in California; two daughters, Mrs. S. J.

Holson in California, and Mrs. H. G. Rzany in Washington; 14 grandchildren; a great-grandchild; five sisters, including Mrs. Art Schroer of Ronan and Mrs.

M. E. Priest of Pablo, and three sisters out of state and three brothers, all out of state. Funeral services will be in Walnut Creek Thursday with graveside services at the Calvary Cemetery in Ronan Saturday at 11 a.m. with the Rev.

R. J. Beaulieu officiating. Shrider's Mortuary is in charge of arrangements. Alma Playter KALISPELL Funeral services for Mrs.

Alma Playter, 77, will be Wednesday at 1:30 p.m. in the Johnson Chapel with burial in the Conrad Memorial Cemetery. Mrs. Playter, a former Kalispell resident, died Sunday in Walla Walla, Wash. She was born in 1894 in North Dakota and moved to Oregon as a child.

Her family moved to the Flathead Valley in 1908 and she married Edwin Styren there in 1926. He died in 1944 and she continued to operate a service station owned by the couple for several years before moving to Washington where she married William Playter. He also preceeded her in death. She is survived by a brother. Arthur Overby of Kalispell; three sisters, Mrs.

Olga Holden of Kalispell, Mrs. Ida Buchholz of Polson and Mrs. Ella LaHatt of Walla Walla. Elmer Sieler KALISPELL Funeral services for Elmer Sieler, 50, will be Wednesday at 3:30 p.m. in the Johnson Chapel with burial in the Conrad Memorial Cemetery.

Mr. Sieler died Saturday in Kalispell. He was born in South Dakota in 1921 and moved to Baker as a young man marrying Ellena Nasset in 1941 there. He worked as a ranchhand before buying his own ranch at Ekalaka. In 1955 he moved to Kalispell where he was a construction worker and later worked for the state highway department.

Survivors include his wife at the family home; five sons, Elmer of Kalispell. John of Wenatchee, Joe of Marion and Allen and Phillip both at the family home; three brothers, Walter of Baker, Aaron of Clearfield, Utah and Edwin of Everett, two sisters, including Mrs. Annie Lozing of Baker and 10 grandchildren. Levy Election Dates Set for Next Month KALISPELL Trustees of the Kalispell school district set two special levy elections for Feb. 8 for elementary and secondary schools.

The elementary levy was set at $127,538 or about 9.76 mills with the high school levy at $187,934 or about 8.29 mills. The elementary levy would be used for additional teachers and to help supplement the school's basic budget. The high school levy would help upgrade several courses and seven teachers, eliminate student fees and provide for an additional maintenance man. The board agreed to set up a screening committee to help select a successor to Supt. Del Langbell who will resign at the end of the year.

The committee will consist of two board members, an administration representative, a teacher, and a community member. Named to replace the late DeForest Shotwell in the Flathead High music department was Don Goddard. In the elementary system, Larry Saksa will replace Goddard. In The Service GAYLE R. GALLOWAY KALISPELL Marine Cpl.

Gayle R. Galloway, son of Mr. and Mrs. Calvin R. Galloway of 319 LeSalle Road, Kalispell, has reported for duty with Headquarters and Maintenance Squadron 16, Marine Corps Air Station, Santa Ana, Calif.

tirement systems. The Department of Administration now invests, on a shortterm basis, funds previously left idle while accumulating for investment in long-term securities. Higher interest rates also are being obtained, the goverpor said. He cited one such $9 million transaction by which earnings were increased by nearly $193,000 a year, or a 41 per cent increase in earnings. He said the department estimates additional revenue of $700,000 a year will be earned from such investments.

Anderson said the second major saving from reorganization "is due to improved management and the consolidation of administrative services." He listed a number of examples of savings already realized by some of the 14 new departments now activated. These immediate savings, which Anderson said total 000 annually, include: $87,000 from eliminating five district highway engineer positions he described as "entirely superfluous" and $30,000 by the Department of Natural Resources and Conservation in more efficient use of personnel and cuts in travel and general operating expenses. "In one year, savings from reorganization have more than paid for the entire state cost of the executive-reorganization program," the governor said. THOMPSON FALLS (AP) Jury selection is to begin Wednesday in the first-degree murder trial of Bryan L. Mercer -the first murder trial to be held in this small western Montana city since World War II.

Mercer, 19, of Noxon, is charged with the burning-shooting death last April of former Mineral Project Hears About Planning Commission ion all or most of the remaining five of 19 new state departments to be activated by Julysix months ahead of the schedule set up in the Executive Reorganization Act of 1971. means that the benefits and increased efficiency of reorganization are being realized earlier than anyone hoped or expected," Anderson said in a prepared statement. "These benefits are already noticeable in two different areas." He said the two areas are an improved investment program and reductions in agency expenditures through improved management practices. Anderson said the Department of Administration estimates increased earnings on "idle" treasury cash will amount to at least $500,000 a year and, in all likelihood, as much as $1 million a year. The most recent figures show that, as of November 1971, the state had $36 million, or 82 per cent of the treasury cash invested, as opposed to $19 million or 43 per cent in November 1970," Anderson said.

"This represents an increase of over 90 per cent in the amount of treasury funds invested in interest securities. "Prior to these new investment procedures, over half of the state's treasury cash was lying idle in noninterest-bearing bank accounts." Another major change concerns the investment of funds for the Montana Trust and Legacy Fund and various re- By MARGIE HAHN gram was discussed. This is really a zoning project wherMissoulian Correspondent ein areas known to have flooded in the past during high water would be mapped and the flood boundaries indiSUPERIOR An explanation of the Western Mon- cated. This would deter building in these areas with the tana Regional Planning Commission was presented Min- resultant loss of property and sometimes life. eral County residents at a meeting of the Project.

Members of the three -county Project, RavalBruce Bugbee of Missoula, administrator for the li, Missoula and Mineral, through their chairmen, have commission, said the group is a nonprofit corporation requested the Montana Resources Board in cooperation composed of the county commissioners and mayors of with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and local particithe nine counties west of 1 the Continental Divide. Each pants to map the 50-year and 100-year flood frequency of county will have two votes, one from the mayors and one the flood plain in the project area. from the commissioners. There may also be associate According to Chairman Philip Donally, after this members, There are no dues, he said.

project is completed anyone building in an area where The primary purpose of the group is to institute a possible flooding is indicated would not be eligible for resource inventory of the region which will be made either financing or insurance on their property. available to any group for development use, Bugbee said. Two previous proposals, a countywide sanitary have been a number of inventories made in fill and a rural fire district, were discussed. Both will be the past and I am sure many people are tired of being considered in detal at the next meeting, Donally said. questioned," Bugbee said.

"'There has been no effort Edna Frey from the Missoula-Mineral Human Remade to coordinate and use the information gathered. sources office reported that funds to aid in furnishing the That is what we plan to do." proposed county hospital may possibly be available from At present, he said, there are no funds to work with the Economic Development Administration. but the group is seeking funds from private foundations. Bugbee said indications from Washington, D.C., are that Attending the meeting were persons from Hamilton, funds may be available from there. Missoula, Alberton, St.

Regis and Superior. The need for a flood delineation plan as defined in The next meeting will be Jan. 25 at 7:30 p.m. in the HB-265 and in the guidelines of the federally funded pro- Big Sky banquet room, Donally said. 'Pup' Stays Put While 'Master' Heads Home Koza received six letters inquiring about the dog.

They came from California and Oregon. Letters received after the Christmas Eve story were from Indiana and California. Telephone calls were not uncommon. A Minneapolis man talked for 20 minutes with Koza asking about the dog and exchanging animal stories with the Lewistown rancher. Glasgow Man Dies Despite Drive Efforts GLASGOW (AP) Paul Crater, a 21-year-old Glasgow man for whom a fund drive was formed to help in a kidney transplant operation, died here during the weekend.

Crater was scheduled to receive the transplant in a Seattle hospital with his brother as donor. Glasgow Jaycees were assisting in obtaining funds for the costly operation. A spokesman for the Jaycees said it was tentatively decided to give those funds already collected to the widow. Glacier Will Tackle Sewage Problems WEST GLACIER (AP)-Gla; cier National Park officials announced Tuesday a major step to improve sewage disposal facilities in the northern Montana park. Supt.

William J. Briggle said preliminary design studies of new facilities have been accepted by representatives of the National Park Service, the Environmental Protection Agency and the Public Health Service. During the past two summers, he said, two engineering 'Sane' Approach Urged For Use of Resources A "sane" approach to multiple use of the West's natural resources was urged Tuesday by attorney Robert Helding in a talk before the Missoula Kiwanis Club. Noting that the area east of the Mississippi River with more legislative power in the U.S. House is looking more and more longingly toward the recreation areas of the West, Helding, a forest products industry lobbyist, said the West must work for legislation that will allow both recreational and economic use of land.

He said the federal goverment as of 1962 owned 800,000 acres or about one-third of all land in the United States and by mid-1972 will own under pressure from the east 400.000 acres of land. According could prove disastrous to the to an American Forest Institute economy of the state. study, this amounts to 11,000,000 He said Montanans must not acres more than all land in the only talk multiple use but pracstates of Washington, Oregon, tice multiple use, convincing California, Nevada, Arizona, visitors from other parts of the New Mexico, Utah, Colorado, nation that the state can provide Idaho, Wyoming, Montana and both recreational and economic the eastern half of South Dakota. use of natural resources without In Montana the federal gov- damaging the environment. ernment has control of 34 mil- The tourist business in Monlion acres of land, about 41 per tana the past year amounted to cent, he said.

$162 million and it will grow Noting that two of Montana's steadily with more and more biggest industries, wood prod- persons visiting the state, Helducts and cattle, are threatened ing said. He urged all Montanans with rigid controls on use of to work together to provide legtimber and grazing lands, Held- islation which will allow sound ing said that legislation passed developent of the economy and by the national government recreation. Jury Selection Today Kalispell Council Ponders In Noxon Murder Trial Parking Ordinance Plan schoolmate Mike Taylor, 16, of Trout Creek. On April 14 the charred and bullet-riddled body of Taylor was found outside a firing range at Noxon, which is near Thompson Falls. Authorities said at the time that Taylor had been shot more than half a dozen times and then set afire with diesel fuel.

Mercer was arrested several days later and charged. Since that time, he has been held in the county jail at Thompson Falls. A report from Warm Springs State Hospital said psychological testing place Mercer in the "superior range" of intelligence. The report pronounced him capable of standing trial. Authorities said at the time Taylor's body was found, it was believed that the shooting took place in a shed and Taylor managed to tumble out of the building and run several feet before collapsing, after the diesel fuel had been ignited.

Mercer is a 1970 graduate of Noxon High School. He was an honor roll student and a star athlete while in school. Taylor was a sophomore in high school. Munro Named WEST GLACIER (AP)former Montana Fish and Game Department employe, Richard J. Munro, has been selected to fill the position of management assistant in Glacier National Park.

The announcement was made Tuesday by Park Supt. William J. Briggle, who said Munro will begin his duties on Jan. 23. Munro was previously management assistant in Grand Teton National Park and is well known in western Montana where he worked as an information director for the state agency.

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fining off-street parking requirements. The ordinance would not include parking requirements for the central business district of the city. The first off-street parking Newspaper Sketch Gets Doll Back A police detective's daughter, Angela Williams, 3, learned how to track down a lost dolldraw a police identikit-type picture, have it published in the local paper. That's what she did when she lost her favorite doll, Susie, while shopping with her mother. Only hours after the crude drawing of Susie appeared in the paper, someone returned it to little Angela.

BLETCHLEY, England (AP) The proposed ordinance sets minimum parking requirements for such business firms as retai. establishments, hotels, hospi tals, churches, homes and hous ing projects. The council approved a new rate structure for water depart ment services performed or. private property. The new rates are subject to approval by the IRS.

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ordi busi further that LEWISTOWN (AP) An attempt by an Idaho man to lure "Puppy" back to his home has failed and the dog continues its strange five-month vigil beside U.S. 191 near this central Montana community. Don Davis of Pocatello claimed he lost the dog last summer near Buffalo, Wyo. Then Davis saw the animal on a regional television broadcast during the holiday season. Within hours of the broadcast, he was on his way to Lewistown, which is about 300 miles north of Buffalo.

The dog, "Puppy," was first' seen by Lewistown rancher William Koza last August as the animal was grubbing for food in a dump. Koza began feeding the dog and eventually gained some of the animal's confidence. However, no one else can get close. Davis, after arriving in Lewistown, could fare no better. After several hours of coaxing and trying to make friends with the dog, he gave up and decided the animal was better off at his vigil site, miles north of Lewistown.

Others, however, also saw the broadcast. Monday morning The animal is not without friends. The mailman takes him a patty of dog food every day. Someone else leaves a pint of milk every Sunday and other central Montanans give him handouts. Why he has taken up residence there probably will never be known.

Adding to the mystery was the insistence by Davis that he lost the dog near Buffalo, last summer. Winter Camping Trip Planned By Missoula-Mineral Scouts Missoula-Mineral District Boy Scouts will conduct a winter camp Jan. 14-16 in the East Twin Creek area. It will be a chance to practice winter camping skills and to learn new methods for comfort under hard winter conditions, said Paul Martin, winter camp director. This year's camp will emphasize winter first-aid and cooking skills, said Martin.

Fees will be 25 cents for each scout. Camp setup will begin at 5 p.m. Jan. 14; activities will end at 3 p.m. Jan.

16. Contests to be run by all patrols will include fire building, preparing a meal, winter first aid and safety and snow sculpture. firms, Morrison-Maierle of Helena, and Daniel. Mann, Johnson and Mendenhall of Californoa, conducted detail analysis of sewage disposal in the park and made recommendations for improvements. Briggle said that while the reports indicated no major sources of pollution, emphasis was placed on the need to upgrade existing sewage treatment facilities and construct new treatment facilities to handle anticipated future loads..