The Missoulian from Missoula, Montana • 3

Thi Mmoulian, Saturday, July 16, 19773 Doty Turns In Badge After 20 Years AflCHS 1978 Budget Totals $7.5 Million By ANNETTE TAYLOR Missoulian Staff Writer "I'm just one of those guys born to be a policeman," Missoula Police Capt. Charles Ray Doty said the other day while walking down Spruce Street toward the station. He took a deep breath, firmly clutched his overflowing scrapbook, and puffed out his chest. His badge caught a sparkle from the sun, auuuM as i out what their real trouble was," Doty said. "It wasn't that they were in trouble with the law, but mostly were having problems at home.

"It's good to hear about some of those kids now. 1 just heard about one boy I worked with who is a respectable businessman on the West Coast making $100,000 a year. That's a lot more than I make," he said, laughing. Working with kids changed considerably when drugs came into the picture, Doty said. At first, Doty didn't recognize a possible drug problem, such as that in the case of the Missoula "Tarzan," who would swing around on ropes and shoot flaming arrows at "That guy was high on something, but we didn't recognize it at the time," Doty said.

And in the 70s, things really changed for Doty. That's when his scrapbook ends. "I almost quit the force then," he said. "We were the center of hostility during the Vietnam War (protest era). It was really hard to work with the university students, who are usually easy to get along with, calling you names.

We had to wear riot gear all the time. "We always had a good rapport with the public and then we were put in an adversary position. "As soon as we got rid of the (riot) helmets and the Vietnam situation was closed, things got better." And better. Now, Doty doesn't want to leave the force. But even though he's retiring as a policeman, he's not going to stop working.

"I'd go crazy if I didn't keep working," he said. "I'm going to take a month's vacation and then look for something to do." He paused and adjusted his hat. "Maybe something in law Chief Ed Russ and he explained my duties and turned me over to the radio desk and left. I was all alone and I didn't even know how to operate the thing. It seemed like an eternity before anyone came back." He has worked on the desk and as a patrolman, a detective, a juvenile officer every detail of the department except identification, he said.

He spent his last year working on warrants and abandoned cars and as. a court bailiff. One of his most exciting cases, Doty said, was the Phil H. Giger murder case. A Butte man was shot to death near 711 E.

Broadway March 3, 1959. Missoula author Jesse Bier wrote a book, "Trial at Bannack," based on the case, in which Doty was featured as a Lt. Harlcy Rice. "Warren Cochran and I were the first on scene," Doty said. "Giger claimed he had been robbed and kidnaped and killed the man In self-defense.

He was aquitted. "There were several witnesses to the shooting and one witness took off as soon as he heard the shots. We had to go after him. "During the trial the county attorney put on a dramatic presentation before the jury by putting on the coat of the victim with the five bullet holes in the back. "He also tipped over his chair when the defense attorney was speaking.

He said it was an accident, but I think he did it deliberately, to detract from the attorney's statements." In the 1960s, Doty became the only juvenile officer in the city and, according to Municipal Judge Wallace Clark, Doty was a good one. "I always tried to get into the kids, find ii were planned for the shooting of the last scene in a corny 1930s Edward G. Robinson movie. "For as long as I can remember I've always wanted to be a policeman," he said. But Doty isn't a policeman anymore.

He put in his last day on the Missoula City police force Thursday, re Missoula County High School personnel will receive pay increases ranging from 4 to 13 per cent under the district's proposed $7 5 mil-' lion budget. The pay raises are included in the fiscal year 1978 preliminary budget released this week by MCHS Supt. George Zellick. The budget is expected to be approved witn only minor changes by the school district j' trustees at a meeting July 25. Characterized earlier by trustees as a "hold-the-line" budget, it actually represents an increase of about 7 per cent ever last year, from $6.98 million to $7.5 million.

TjJ, Special Levy Down However, the high school special levy will be about 9 mills less than last year's. The special levy will be for $2,225,683, an estimated 31.21 mills. The total millage is less because a $1.5 million building reserve fund was retired at the end of the 1976-77 fiscal year and no oth-er building reserve fund was asked this year. A building reserve fund to construct a new high school was defeated by the voters in April 1976. No new programs have been added in the proposed budget.

Most of the increase in the budget would go for pay raises and increased cost of supplies and utilities. The district's contribution to employes' health insurance benefits has been increased by $15 a month per employe. Teachers' raises run from 4 to 10.3 per cent higher than salary levels specified in last year's contract. Base salary for a teacher with no experience increases $430 for the nine-month school year, from $8,570 to $9,000. Administrators' Raises Top administrators in the MCHS district will receive pay raises ranging from 5 per cent for the superintendent and assistant superintendent to 13 per cent for the directors of spe-cial servies and of personnel.

The 13 per cent increases reflect adjustments made by school trustees to bring the salaries closer to those of other persons in the area with similar responsibility. Zellick will receive $36,750, up from $35,000 last year. Principals at Hellgate and Sentinel will get raises of $1,750, from $27,750 to $29,500. Custodians and maintenance workers who were employed by the district last year will receive a pay raise of 10 per cent. The base pay for the three new custodians added to the district payroll this year will be $3.64 an hour, the same as new custodians were paid last year.

The size of the teaching and administrative staff has not been increased for the next school year and the capital outlay budget has been cut in half. The only new construction scheduled is a $2,000 storage shed at Sentinel. $49,000 for Remodeling Hellgate will receive $49,000 to remodel science facilites, Sentinel and Hellgate will get $35,000 each to complete alarm systems requested by the state fire marshal and Seeley-Swan will get $7,000 for improvement of music and drama facilities. The general fund budget for the three high school units of the MCHS district has increased from $4.7 million in 1974-75, to $6.47 million in 1975-76, to $6.9 million in 1976-77 to the current budget of $7.5 million. The Missoula Technical Center, although a unit of the MCHS district, operates on a separate budget.

Some of the budget increase has occurred because of increased state support of special education for handicapped or disadvantaged students. Although special education money comes from the state, it appears in the general fund and the funds and programs are administered by the district. The money to finance the budget comes from the state foundation program, from district-wide permissive levies and from the cial levy voters approved in May. Ray Doty tiring after 20 years. His scrapbook is filled with Missoulian stories of cases he worked on and arrests he made, even one-inch stories that didn't mention his name.

"I was sworn in at 9 a.m. July 13, 1957," Doty recalled. "I talked for a few minutes with U.S. Forest Ideas May Help Nepal I Itvi Kesher Sthapit At Streetlight Use Cutback Will Begin Next Week By DON SCHWENNESEN Missoulian Staff Writer U.S. Forest Service land inventory techniques may soon be influencing resource management halfway around the world in Nepal.

Two American soils experts already are working in the lofty kingdom in the Himalaya Mountains between India and China and Wednesday a Ne-palese forester arrived in Missoula to spend a month with foresters on the Beaverhead, Gallatin and Idaho Panhandle national forests. Erosion control is one of the biggest land management problems in Nepal, according to Keshar Man Sthapit, a 25-year-old graduate forester from Katmandu who works on soil and water conservation issues in Nepal's eastern zone. In earlier times, "the people misused the forests," he said, and "at the same time we do have very high rainfall and steep slopes." Rainfall in the eastern zone averages more than 100 inches annually, and even in the drier far-west zone 40 to 50 inches of rain falls each year. Summer is the rainy season, and summer monsoons have caused landslides on steep hillsides, at times clogging streams the country where "it's very difficult to reach every place," he added. Sthapit said Nepal is working to develop a better land inventory system that can be used to identify the erosion trouble spots that are most in need of attention.

E. M. Richlen, Northern Region soil scientist for the Forest Service, said Sthapit will spend a week studying the Beaverhead forest, a week on the Gallatin and two weeks on the Panhandle. Area Man Named To Legion Office William Heikkinen, Missoula, was hamed deputy vice commander of the Montana American Legion at the group's annual convention last week in Lewistown. Delegates to the convention passed resolutions in support of a strong national defense and production of the Bl bomber, against giving up the Panama Canal and against the operation of Soviet ships close to American shores.

plains and less valuable forests in the mountains. Since the eradication of malaria in Nepal, he said, many hill dwellers have flocked to the lower plains to convert forest lands into rice-producing crop-. lands. The result has been a serious social dilemma for the government, which has been forced to allocate some forests for conversion to croplands. The government endeavors to re-settle only landless people in plains areas, requiring those who have abandoned lands in the hills to return to those lands.

But it's difficult to determine which of the immigrants to the plains have abandoned lands elsewhere and which ones haven't. Timber in Nepal is sold by the government, which nationalized all forested lands about 17 years ago. Logging is done selectively and all trees are marked before they are harvested, he said. Grazing also is regulated, although government officials have difficulty enforcing the regulations in remote areas of blocks both east and west on Front Street, Main Street and Broadway. The city also is reducing electrical energy consumption in other areas.

Mayor Bill Cregg said Friday lighting in City Hall has been cut in half and air conditioning units are shut off each day at 5 p.m. They remain off during the night and on weekends. In the city park and recreation department, some softball games scheduled at night under the lights at the McCormick Park ball-fields have been rescheduled for daylight hours at other fields. Park Supt. Garry Kryszak said no more night games will be played after this weekend.

Spray fountains in city parks also are not being used this summer to save water and Montana Power is scheduled to shut off every other street light in the central business district next week in response to a request last month by the Missoula City Council. The council voted June 28 to reduce downtown street lighting to help meet the 10 per cent electrical energy cutback required by Gov. Thomas L. Judge for all local government units. City Traffic Engineer Ed von Borstel said MPC employes are scheduled to begin work Monday on cutting the power to individual lamp posts.

The job should take about a day and a half, he said. The power company was not able to schedule the work earlier. The affected area is along Higgins Avenue, from Front Street to Broadway, and in the 100 with several feet of silt. Serious erosion began about 20 years ago, initiated by a succession of unusually wet years, he said. The Nepalese government is working to minimize erosion by installing check dams to catch sediment, diverting water away from serious erosion points, planting trees and improved grasses and encouraging the people to terrace hillsides.

He said the government has encouraged terracing by offering to pay 70 to 80 per cent of the cost of such work. Nepal is roughly one-third the size of Montana, with an area of about 56,000 square miles. About a third of the of the country is forested, with commercial forests in the lower Mi Shoplifter Gets 6-Month Sentence 5 days only July 14th to July 19th Electrical Malfunction Interrupts 911 Service Missoula's 911 emergency dispatch system was out of order for about Vk hours Friday following an electrical malfunction. According to 911 Director Sgt. Jim Coodey, the malfunction occurred in part of the Mountain Bell telephone system at the dispatch center.

Callers attempting to reach the center would hear a ring, but the dispatchers on duty would not. To find out if anyone was trying to call in, the dispatchers had to continually search the telephone banks to intercept incoming calls. Coodey told The Missoulian he notified local radio stations and asked them to inform listeners of the problem and advise them to call the specific emergency service they needed instead of calling the 911 system. Coodey said during the breakdown the dispatch time for emergency calls could be affected, and added he was worried about "the 5-year-old kid out there" who might not know how to call the sheriff's office, for example, and would try to call 911 for help. However, after the malfunction was corrected at about 4:30 p.m., Coodey told The Missoulian he did not think anyone was seriously affected by the breakdown.

He said the dispatchers intercepted about 10 calls during the malfunction. Coodey praised Mountain Bell repairman Gene Whi-taker for his quick repair of the faulty equipment. A representative from the county communications department will meet with Mountain Bell representatives Monday to work out means of making the 911 system "as fail-safe as possible," he said. Municipal Judge Wallace Clark sentenced William C. Kenofel, 55, who has no perma-- nent home address, to six months in the county jail for shoplifting.

Kenofel pleaded guilty day to stealing four cartons of cigarettes from Safeway, 610 W. Broadway. -o- Justice of the Peace Janice S. Carrington revoked a three- month suspended jail sentence Friday for Carl Frederick meier, 23, 116 Tahoe St. Absmeier pleaded guilty Wednesday to criminal trespass and received the suspended sentence, but Thursday pleaded guilty to driving while intoxicat-" ed.

Absmeier will serve 10 days in the Missoula County Jail and then be considered for work release for the remaining three-month jail term. Sentencing on the DWI charge will be July 20 in Judge Clark's court. -0- A motion for bond reduction on Anthony Martinez Duran, 18, Bakersfield, was denied by Judge Carrington Friday. Duran, charged with burglary, a felony, was being held in the county jail on a $5,000 bond. He allegedly entered the YWCA Nearly New Store, 1136 W.

Broadway, Monday to commit a theft. A preliminary hearing was OEWIRfl'xZx TRADE-IN SM( 0fo)fo) OFF Obituaries) Sallie Westmoreland KALISPELL Sallie "Rae" (FXAound wlissoula set for July 29. -0- Gene Michael Gehlen, 47, 7 Lacota Drive, changed his plea to guilty Friday to a Feb. 19 DWI charge. Justice of the Peace Bill Monger suspended Gehlen's drivers license for 60 days and fined him $250.

-0- Linda LaValley McVey, 25, 1530 Phillips was found guilty Friday of reckless driving. McVey was involved in an accident at 1320 Toole Ave. on May 8. Judge Clark suspended a six-month jail sentence. Local Man's Death Apparent Suicide A 39-year-old Missoula man, Paul Schlechten, 2314 High-wood Drive, died about noon Friday in his home of an apparently self-inflicted gunshot wound, according to Deputy County Coroner Fred Nelson.

Schlechten is survived by his wife, Jean, and three daughters. Funeral arrangements are pending at Livingstpn-Malletta Funeral Home. Robert E. Johnson Robert Evald Johnson, 65, 1941 36th died Friday in a Missoula hospital. Mr.

Johnson was born Jan. 11, 1912, in Anaconda. He was graduated from Anaconda High School in 1929 and from the University of Montana in 1941. He served in the Army in Europe from 1941 until 1945. Mr.

Johnson came to Missoula in 1945 and has been a licensed public accountant for 25 years. He was a member of the Musicians Protective Union in Anaconda and the union's Local 498 in Missoula. He was a member of American Legion Post 27 in Missoula and the Immanuel Lutheran Church in Anaconda. He married Elizabeth Schubert in Anaconda on Sept. 22, 1949.

Mr. Johnson is survived by his wife; one sister, Lillie Taylor of Anaconda, and two nephews in Anaconda. Funeral services will be Monday at 10:30 a.m. in the Livings-ton-Malletta Chapel with the Rev. Beryl Burr officiating.

American Legion Post 27 will provide an honor guard at the funeral. Burial will be in Mount Olivet Cemetery in Great Falls. A son, Dean, died in 1962. Survivors include her husband in Kalispell; a daughter, Phyllis Stockwell, Kalispell; a son, Walter, Helena; six grandchildren, and two sisters. Funeral services will be Saturday at 3 p.m.

in the Johnson Chapel in Kalispell with the Rev. Roy Hankins officiating. Burial be in the Glacier Memorial Garden Cemetery. Westmoreland, 71, a resident of since 1942, died Thurs- day afternoon. 2Z' She was born May 24, 1906, in Grandyville, Ky.

She spent her early life there and later moved T1 to Indianapolis, Ind. On Sept. 29, 1928, she mar- Jried Clarence Westmoreland in Martinsville, Ind. The couple later moved to Kalispell. Eagles to Meet Tuesday The next regular meeting of the Missoula Eagles will be Tuesday at 8 p.m.

in the Eagles Lodge, 2200 Stephens Ave. Meetings are conducted the first and third Tuesdays of each month at the lodge. Activities to be planned at the meetings include bowling, picnics and youth activities. Coupon Book Portraits Should Be Ready Soon ANY TOP OR BOTTOM IN THE STORE WITH ANY OLD, TATTERED, SHREDDED, TORN, WORTHLESS DENIM TRADE ONE TRADE PER PURCHASE YOUR TRADE IS WORTH MORE THAN EVER Blood Pressure Clinic Tuesday A free blood pressure screening clinic will be held Tuesday from 11 a.m. until 3 p.m.

at the Senior Citizens Center, 705 S. Higgins Ave. Volunteer nurses will take readings for anyone over 18. The clinic is sponsored by the Missoula City-County Health Department. Additional information can be obtained from Glenda Oldenburg at the Health Department, 728-4510, or from the Senior Citizens Center, 543-7154.

in them (the coupon books) was this photo deal," said one customer. "I think we've been ripped off." But the man who started the promotion disagreed. "The truth is we're highly embarrassed over the thing," said Erck, adding that if people want to get their money back they can contact him. Erck, who sold his interest in KGMY in June, now has his office in his home at 14 Carriage Way. Dave Wilson, manager of Rich Color, of Tacoma, said the KGMY promoters sent him 600 to 800 individual portrait orders many more than he had anticipated.

He said he had to hire an extra person to work on the orders. All the orders should be completed and mailed by July 22, he said. Z'l Free color portraits promised Missoula residents who partici- pated in a recent coupon book promotion sponsored by KGMY ZZi radio will be arriving soon, the manager of the promotion says. Lou Erck, a former owner of ST. KGMY and director of the pro- motion, said the great number of portraits requested was more than the color processor was ready to handle.

Several Missoula residents complained to The Missoulian that they had not received color portraits taken three to four months ago. They said they had purchased the coupon books in dMarch for $20 and that one "of the primary reasons they bought the books was for the wZfree color photograph that T. would be taken. "The only thing worthwhile a 6 OPEN FRIDAY 'TIL 9:00 CORNER OF SO. HIGGINS AND EAST BECKWITH 549-9611 Wilderness Backpack Trip Planned The Missoula Parks and Recreation Department will conduct a three-day backpack trip to Pyramid Lake in the Bob Marshall Wilderness next week for boys and girls ages 13-17.

Persons can register for the trip at the department office at 100 Hickory St. The trip will cost $5 and participants should have their own food and equipment. The department has some backpacks and stoves available for use. The group will leave at 9 a.m. Tuesday from McCormick Park and return Thursday afternoon.

Further information can be obtained by calling 543-4211..