Independent Record (Newspaper) - August 14, 1963, Helena, Montana Florida Man Said MSU President Dr Robert Johns Will Be Offered Top College Job frees Coital Writer Dr Johns executive vice president of the Uni- versity of Coral Gables Flo apparently will be offered the presidency of State University Johns 42 was one of more than 40 candidates con- for the vacancy left by the resignation of Dr Harry K Newborn Johns wos one of two candidates who visited the MSU campus The other candidate was Dr Frederick Bolmon of the American Council of Education ington Earlier the ed Johns wis the leading date for the job and that the State Board of Regent had rowed the field of candidates to Nation Military Leaders Okay Test Ban Treaty Washington Gen Max well D Taylor told senators day that the nation's top military leaders approve the limited nu clear test ban treaty even though there are military tages Taylor chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff gave his views to a closed session of the Senate Preparedness subcommittee even as Dr Glenn T Seaborg man of the Atomic Energy Com mission was supporting the treaty at public hearings by other Sen ate groups Fail to Halt U.S Seaborg said he was convinced the treaty's restriction of testing to underground explosions wouk not prevent the United States from developing an antimissile warhead He said underground testing would permit development of a wide range of nuclear ons Taylor read to the preparedness subcommittee headed by Sen John Stennis a carefully prepared statement on the tion of the Joint Chiefs of Stall Aides of Stennis withheld cop ies at it Iran they could make available a sored version of the Monday testimony by Dr Edward Heller atomic scientist woo test ban agreement the But om of I the who Siamese Twin Separated iii Operation Dies Los Angeles Daniel B a r 11 e y Siamese twin died today at Childrens Hospital of a blood infection Daniel and his brother David were born Saturday to Mrs Re- becca Hartley IS They were Sunday David has not yet developed symptoms of the infection a pital spokesman said Johns and Bolman Expected The Board of Regents considered the two finalists at closed session Tuesday is ed to announce Johns selectio Thursday There were indications tha Johns would be advised informs 225 12 Petes Price TM House Committee Votes Income Tax Slash for Most Taxpayers offer by telephone ly of the Wednesday Native Of Ohio Johns was born in Mount Ver mm Ohio May 12 1921 He re- his bachelor's degree irom Ohio State University in 1942 and his doctorate from Stanford Uni versity in 1949 Johns started his leaching career at Pa High School in 1048 In 194847 he was assistan dean of students at the University of Omaha In he was chief counselor for men at Stanford Johns went to Purdue Univer sity in 1949 and until 1992 served as administrative assistant to the president and assistant professor of education Formerly at Striae He later became executive to the president and professor of education at Purdue In 1943 Johns was named di- rector of U.S Armed Forces He was named director of the Commission on Higher Education in Chicago in UN He held this pot 1900 when he went to hit present job at the University of Miami He is a member of two fraternities Phi Delta Eta Sigma and a of Sigma Chi social Started Philanthropies Johns doctoral dissertation at was on the subject Ten Philanthropies to American A study of the lists and their influence on the Bids Opened On Three MSU Units Projects Bids were opened by the stat today on remodeling projects a three units of Montana's univer sity system Apparent low bids for an add tion and improvements to th Student Union Building at era Montana College totaled 293 Calls For Addition This project calls for an add tion about 24 feet south and wes of the present facility and improv Ing certain areas of the ing including the entire ment which will provide recrea tion areas and group meetin rooms The apparent low bidders ar Herb Grass Chinook at for the general contract which in eludes a bowling alley Roy J Nault Havre at For the mechanical contract am Groggans Pennie Havre at 374 for the electrical contract Center Apparent low bidder for eling a portion of the Libera Arts Building at Montana Stat University for computer cente was Merritt Cass Sons Poison The firm offered to do the job for The third project calls for coating on the Health and Physical Education Center at Montana State college The apparent low bid of was made by Sheet Meta Co Bozeman Bids were opened by Controller falter Anderson as head of the Department of Administration nd by employes of the Board o Examiners They were taken un der study M Page It State Processing Petitions For Legalized Gambling Petitions aimed at getting Gambling were checked question of legalizing gambling on Montana ballots next year are being processed by the office of Secretary of State Frank Murray Action on the petitions re- from Livingston will be delayed until Monday to give Murray a chance to personally check them He is on a trip out of the Capital City The more than 700 names on the petitions circulated by the Montana Association for against registered voter lists in Park County by Clerk Margaret before they were for- warded to Helena Before such a question could be put on ballots as an initiative eight per cent of the legal voters of the state would have to sign the petitions The petitions from of the counties would have to carry the signatures of eight per cent of the voters hi each county No You're Not Seeing Things Monkey Is Loose a Ringtail monkey with a taste for sight life was last seem headed for a Helens per club when he left home two lights ago An unidentified customer JOB entering the supper club is reported to have remarked Yen woof believe it but I just saw a monkey headed this way Tiny residing with the J Wellington Fauver menagerie east of the city is dark brown in color art stands about high Mrs Fauver said he is gentle and children but has waned anyone trying to capture hint that he may bile He Is a frightened little monkey now and hungry so anyone seeing him should fy the she added Manages to Smile President's Wife Goes Home From Hospital By Frances Hyannis Port Mass ff Mrs John F Kennedy holding the President's hand and ing a smile went home irom the hospital today and her doctor promptly suggested that she tail all of her official activities until after the first of the year The long convalescent period was similar to one Dr John W Walsh had advised for Mrs after the birth of her first son also by Caesarean section in Satisfactory Recovery Mrs Kennedy had made a very satisfactory said White House press secretary Pi- erre Salinger In a statement shortly alter Mrs Kennedy left the hospital Base at Otis Air Force She flew by helicopter with the President to their Squaw Island summer borne near Hyannis Port where she will stay now probably into mid-September Tne President and Mrs walked slowly down the two stone hospital steps and the short distance to a waiting blue car which drove them to a nearby helicopter pad The President helped Mrs Kennedy into the car Mrs Kennedy had a long do vastly different from the bouffant ones she usually wears Photographers and reporters stood behind rope barrier and Force personnel families and children came out to watch Mrs Kennedy's departure after a week in the hospital following the birth of her third child rick Bouvier Kennedy who lived less than two days Go to Heese Led by two Air Force police cars the motorcade moved out to the helicopter landing area where they took off for the ride back to the Kennedy summer home on Squaw Island near Hyannis Port where Mrs will convalesce with her family Mn Kennedy's press secretary Pamela Turnure described her condition as very good Children Are Waiting The Kennedy youngsters line and John Jr as well as a new puppy were ing at Squaw Island to welcome Mrs Kennedy home President Kennedy who flew here from Washington Tuesday night brought a blue roan cocker spaniel as a gin for Mrs given to him by Irish cousins after his visit to Ireland Shortly after the President en- tered toe hospital his press Piere Salinger announced plans for Mrs Kennedy's de- parture Mrs Kennedy's recovery from this Caesarean seemed far ier than when John Jr wai born on Nov 29 1980 It wat 14 days before Mn Kennedy left town University Hospital in Washington And she was wheeled to toe front door by then president-elect WILDERNESS RIDERS Several enthusiasts are among a frees of who plan an eight-day pack trie through the Bob Marshall area this week Main tive of the trek Is of the scenic fishing and photography Left to Dr NeO C Livingstone IL Helena William M Aberdeen Frank W McCabe Albany Robert B Lament Aberdeen Stanley H Arkwright Bit lings S Alston Helena Royal C Billings E E Bus F M Gannon and Phil Gun aU el Helena Commission After Hearing Report Gov Babcock Predicts Centennial Celebration Will Be Success A prediction that Montana year will have one of the mos centennial celebrations ever held in the United States was made today by Gov Tim Bab cock The governor made his after listening to a progress re port on 1964 celebration plans at a meeting of the lontana Territorial Commission executive committee here The session was held in the State Weather Will Be Warm Next Five Days Above normal temperatures ranging from 80 to 95 are ex across the state during the next five days The weatherman also predicts from thunderstorms or scat ered showers on both sides ol the Divide The five-day outlook in detail East of Divide Temperatures Thursday through Monday are ex to average above norma with maximums mostly 80 to 95 and minimums SO to 65 ation in the form of scattered bowers or thundershowers will verage to locally one inch with shower activity most frequent over the west ion West of Thursday through Monday will verage above normal with the maximums mostly 80 to 95 and minimums 50 to 65 Precipitation n the form of scattered showers r thundershowers will leave one- to locally three-fourths nch State National Forecast Helena and Fair night and morning partly loudy with isolated tower Thursday Low tonight 58 Thursday high 84 The Helena ure at 1 p.m was H L H L tilings 17 to 75 47 M Calf irr roadus U 78 55 utte lit Bunt II rummond U real Falls it Denver 77 93 W Us -101 II los AngelM It N 71 47 SI New Orleans n New York 74 70 Phoenix 104 10 M Ori 74 II n SI St Loult II II 17 II Ukt M 71 M 54 Sun Fran MM Cllr 17 97 Seattle M 39 Moula 13 97 Spokane M N Wuh II 17 State precipitation: Cut Bank true nut Falls truce National precipitation: trice 01 Phoenix trace Portland 1 Washington 40 The burning Index today in M Jena forests m M-M normal Kennedy mil extreme The total number of to date It II ol wlrich 11 wire Governor's Mansion Well Pleased I am very well cock added with the progress which has been made on the various projects for 1964 I also greatly appreciate the dedication to making the observance cf the 100th territorial birthday ance a great event which has been demonstrated by the mem bers of the commission After hearing reports on ress to Babcock concluded I predict that Montana will have of the greatest celebrations of its kind next year ever held in the United States Organized in 56 Counties Commission Chairman L W Upshaw who presided at the sion said that committees have been organized in all 56 counties of the state to insure grassroots participation in the celebration Reports on all phases of the celebration were made by State Coordinator Robert Rockhold Rockhold was sent to Helena by the John B Rogers Producing Company of Fostoria Ohio which has a contract with the Centennial commission He Sees Great Event Based on 60 years of ence which our firm has had in this field we are certain that the Montana celebration will not only be a great event but a financial success We make this statement after reviewing averages and of more than city county state and national com- memorative celebrations similar to the one planned for Montana The executive committee was to hold another session later in the day to hear a report from Howard Kelsey of Gallatin way chairman of the New York World's Fair Centennial Train committee More than 300 tana boosters will go to New York next April on a special train The purpose of the trip is Man Is Killed In Butte Mine Truck Accident Butte A truck willing waste from an open pit mine plunged from a dump road Tuesday killing one occupant and seriously injuring another occupant Dead was William J Lutz 28 an employe of The Anaconda lo Allen Lee Ledger 48 of Deer Lodge was injured Ledger was instructions from Lutz in he truck Coroner Andy Aleksich said he truck traveled 165 feet on the shoulder of the dump road before rolling down a steep ment said the two men from the truck shortly it started down the The men rolled down he slope about 250 feet he said ind the truck rolled about 30 eet farther before stopping The mishap occurred north of he Berkeley Pit at a former each dump The Berkeley Pit is a huge open pit mine Lutz an employe of the firm or several years is survived by widow and two children to advertise the Big Sky Country The Montana Story One of the major events in 1964 will be presentation of The Montana a musical spec will be staged in major cities throughout the ure State The 1964 celebration will open with participation in the Pasadena Roses on Jan have a float in the world-famous pageant Lloyd Schermer of Missoula chairman of the Centennial of Roses Committee said Montana will be represented in Pasadena by Sen and Mrs Mike Mansfield and Gov and Mrs Tim Babcock The ernor will make a television ad- dress to the nation during the Tournament of Roses ceremonies Tournament ol 1 Montana will Mickey Cohen Is Attacked In Prison Badly Hurt Washington West Coast racketeer Mickey Cohen was assaulted by a fellow and critically injured today in he federal penitentiary at a The Justice Department an- nouncing the attack said Cohen 49 was slugged several times on he back of the head by another innate wielding a length of pipe as he worked at his job as a ir in one of the prison shops Cohen is serving a sen ence for income tax evasion and was transferred to Atlanta rom Alcatraz last February A Justice Department man describing the midmorning assault emphasized that there is no apparent connection between the assault on Cohen and recent revelations by mobster Joseph Valachi about a nationwide crime ring Valachi was a prisoner at At- lanta last year when he killed a fellow prisoner with a pipe ing the victim had marked him for death There was no immediate of Cohen's assailant The Justice Department man said that he is a former mental patient Treasury Says Average Is 151 Per Cent Washington The House Nays and Means Committee voted today for an income tax rate slash estimated by the Treasury to per cent for most taxpayers The Treasury's latest proposal on individual tax rates ranging from 14 to 70 per cent was for inclusion in a the House Is expected to act on by early September The present range of rates is 20 to 91 per cent The committee recessed before taking up the corporate rale question The Treasury has mended a reduction from 52 to 48 per cent in this field Also approved today was the timing suggested by the of the vidual rate reduction to go into effect Jan 1 1964 and the re mainder a year later The committee defeated by one Republican tion that would have made the second part of the cut depend on holding the public debt to a fied limit Before today's committee ion Rep John W Byrnes Wis senior Republican member on the committee was openly about President plans to balance the budget Congo President Will Form New Government Rule Brazzaville Congo t President Fulbert Youlou by a riot of strikers who barged raft and corruption an- today he will form a new government and postpone the of rule The chief executive bus buckled under to the main emands of his opposition ng savage fighting Tuesday and urther disturbances today I will open consultations with 11 political tendencies for the of a small team of and men of good will whose essential task will be he said State Highway Death Toll Climbs to 139 Bismarck The Montana highway fatality toll limbed to 139 today with the report of the death of a Kansas woman in a Bismarck hospital Mrs Melvin Smith 25 of on Kans died Tuesday of in- uries she received Saturday in traffic mishap three miles north f Glendive Mont The accident one car Mrs Smith was admitted to the Sunday for treatment of severe concussion fractured eft leg lacerations chest bruises nd other injuries The Montana highway toll for he same period last year was 49 Mobsters Hideout Ft Monmouth his heavily guarded Army post fas disclosed today as the secret of Joseph Valachi 60 the crmer mobster reportedly facing n underworld death sentence or informing on a nationwide rime syndicate Three-Day Celebration East Helena Opens Jubilee At Band Concert Friday East Helena's celebration of its Diamond Jubilee will officially begin at 7 p.m Friday with a band concert and other events planned for the first night of the three-day celebration will con into the wee hours of the morning The 7 p.m concert will be at the East Helena city park with Robert C Clark directing the ena Municipal Band Minstrel Show Next on Friday night's agenda will be the East Helena Kiwanis minstrel show starting at 8 p.m in the public school on Main Street The minstrel show will be repeated at the same time and place Saturday night Chain of command in charge of the Kiwanis event includes R H Kiwanis president Charles Willis chairman Dick director and Buck ris There will be a dozen acts in the fast-moving minstrel show and tho entertainment will last somewhat more than an hour Proceeds from admission charges will be used for youth and expenses of the Dia- mond Jubilee Two Dances Friday After the minstrel show two dances arc scheduled Friday for adults and the er for teenagers Both are tume dances although wearing costumes is not mandatory for the adult dance A small sion charge for the adult dance will be used for repairs on the volunteer fire hall where the dance is being sponsored by East Helena's volunteer department The teenage dance will be at Union Hall sponsored by the erans of Foreign Wars recreation council Costumes are required for the teenagers and there is no admission charge Ninth through twelfth grade students will be ad- mitted Prizes arc being given for the best boy's and girl's costume The adult dance will continue until 2 and the teenage dance until after midnight
