Independent Record (Newspaper) - May 9, 1973, Helena, Montana HEADING HOME An Indian girl peers out a bus window for a sight home in Wounded Knee as residents returned today after militants had held the village for 71 days Weather Partly cloudy tonight and a slight chance of showers Thursday Low tonight 34 high tomorrow 62 Rain chances 10 per cent through tomorrow FROM MONTANA'S CAPITAL CITY Helena Montana Wednesday Evening May 9 1973 White House palming blame on CIA WASHINGTON AP James W McCord Jr says he is completely convinced the While House was behind a scheme to blame the CIA for tlic Watergate wiretapping McCord who faces a prison term of up to 45 years on his conviction for burglary tapping and conspiracy in the case told of pressure to blame the CIA in a memo given to Senate and government gators The memo was published in the New York Times today and confirmed as genuine by McCord's attorney Bernard Fensterwald The development came as top present and former CIA beaded for Capitol Hill to explain why disguises a spy camera a tape recorder and phony identification papers were supplied to While House aides bent on burglarising the office of a psychiatrist who treated Daniel Ellsberg de- fendant in the Pentagon Papers case The Justice Department meanwhile refused to comment on why the CIA involvement had been kept quiet since last year when the department first learned that CIA assistance had been given to E Howard Hunt Hunt was then under in- in the Watergate case and lias since testified that he helped engineer the burglary McCord said In his memo that his then attorney Gerald Alch met him twice last De- cember prior lo the Watergate trial in January There ed a suggestion from Alch that 1 use us my defense during the trial the story that Hie gale operation was a CIA he said Record store can't handle scandal WASHINGTON AP The response to a tongue-in-cheek Richard Memorial Sale at a Washington record store lias forced the firm In back off a bil The Orpheus Discount Record Store offered records at cents to anyone formerly a White House adviser or or indicted by a grand jury or Senate subcommittee or Jack Anderson A store spokesman said An- derson was the first In arrive with several children and went home with about 10 records Then followed a woman in- in the takeover of the of Indian Affairs lasl summer The store has since limited its offer lo three records per sale customer McCord who had retired from the CIA after years service said Alch lold him my personnel records at CIA could be doctored In suggest he been recalled to tive duty to carry out the lapping against the Democratic party McCord said Alch told him Dial James the newly appointed director of the CIA would go along with it McCord said Alch spoke lo him after meeting with a yer for Hunt William and I received the impression that Alch was conveying an idea of request from Billman Later McCord lold that ho refused lo go along with any scheme to blame the CIA be- cause it was not true Indian siege cost million WOUNDED KNEE AP The costly con- between Indian tants and the government at Wounded Knee lias ended but the tasks of policing and ing up the village remain Kent Frizzell Interior De- solicitor estimates Uie government's coal since Hie start of tlie siege at million to million Most of this would he the overtime pay and living ex- penses of federal negotiators and lawmen along with the costs of transporting men and equipment to the liny western South Dakota Indian reservation town Stan Lyman superintendent of the Pine Reservation said a preliminary survey showed thai in addition lo the government costs it would take to put houses in the lage back inlo livable condition Some 200 American Indian Movement members and seized the hamlet Feb 27 to protest what they called corrupt management of Indian affairs on tion by the federal government and Hie Bureau of Indian fairs Terms of a settlement call for government of those allegations as well as a new government look inlo treaties made with Indians AIM supporters who the village at limes swelled Hie numbers inside Wounded Knee lo about 300 Bui by at 9 EOT Tuesday time the surrender was scheduled only about 120 re- mained according lo Continued on page 2 Parents want playgrounds School land sale proposal sparks parent outcry By KEN ROBERTSON Staff Writer A school board proposal to sell a portion of the School District No 1 land around Central School came under fire Tuesday night from parents whose children attend Hie school Representatives of the Central School Association presented a lo the board calling for retention of land Federal De- serve Bank has indicated il may waul lo buy The parcel of land under study for sale is the old high school building north of Central School the Building and land around the two totaling about square feet Playground size Edward W McCurdy Central School PTA president presented the recommendation to Ine board along with a leller from a stale Department of Health and Environmental Health Sciences official thai McCurdy said indicated the school's playground already is not of adequate size Tile letter from Albert J Gasvoda an architect with the Wafer Quality Bureau On page 19 of this department's school regulation il states for school sites The area shall he sufficient to provide adequate space for all school facilities and activities The land or an elementary school should lie five acres o serve pupils plus one acre for each 1011 additional ils except that one Iwo and room schools should have a minimum of two acres McCurdy quoting from a city parks and recreation plan said the city study showed the Central School site already contains less than five acres To meel the stale which were set up long the school was built and consequently do not apply to Central School the school playground area would have lo be six acres since 412 pupils currently lend the school of cooperation McCurdy also said he fell selling land would the of a cooperation signed by the cily and school The hereto agree thai when sible school grounds shall be developed in spirit of Iho park and recreation the agreement signed Nov 2 notes II Is understood and agreed that every effort will bo made by cily the counly and the school board to make available their respective physical plants for tional cultural and educational activities to citizens of Hie the ment continues Selling land thai could be used for a ground did not meet with Intent of these sections of agreement McCurdy noted A recently organized group called the Central School Playground Committee also sided with he PTA stand Hob Crane a spokesman for group Continued on page 2 Congress urged to stop Forest Service move WASHINGTON AP ate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield urged Congress day to prevent the tion of the federal Forest ice The Montana Democrat posed that Congress deny funds for he plan which would dose regional For- est Service offices at Missoula Mont Ogden Utah and Mansfield testifying for self and Sen Lee Metcalf D- Mont asked Senale Committee to insert such a denial provision in Service fund for the coming fiscal year I intend to pursue ter other avenues but Pot at Camp David WASHINGTON AP Some of the military men assigned to Camp David have admitted ing marijuana while guarding Hie presidential retreat in the Maryland mountains the tagon says The Defense Department said Tuesday that it had removed 28 Marines and 18 Navy personnel from Camp David duty ing an into mari- juana use there President on frequently works at Camp David as did his three diate predecessors Some of personnel trans- ferred use of mari- juana at some lime during said the Pentagon Others were either suspected of use or provided in- formation used during the in- The Pentagon did not name Continued on page 2 I am confident that a tion through appropriation process is the mosl Mansfield said If are questions about the current of regional setup then 1 suggest that a special commission be appointed to review al lo determine their he said The commission should In- clude federal agencies Con- gress the lumber industry and conservation groups he added Mansfield said he and other senators from Montana Ulah and New Mexico had protested to the While House were given no encouragement He said plan is ridiculous and will nol save the federal government one it is proposed as at economy measure The Forest Service has been an active and innovative federal agency lor most of Us lifetime and 1 am now concerned with an obvious effort to clip its Mansfield Krogh to quit Bod Krogh WASHINGTON AP Egil Hud Krogh Jr lull responsibility for sending glars into the office of Daniel psychiatrist ed today as undersecretary of transportation lie had been until January the top aide to John man President Nixon's lie affairs assistant who quit under fire April 30 My overriding desire now is lo accept full responsibility for my acts and decisions and lo assist in bringing all fads and circumstances inlo thn open so lhat a fair judgment of activity can he Krogh said in a letter to the President I am making my he said adding lhat he hopes his future actions will contribute to the inexorable process of healing in which our is now caughl up Krogh was head of the learn of House plumbers signed to investigate the leak of Pentagon Papers Meanwhile Elliot L son testified at the start of his Senate confirmation hearings to be attorney general He said he will he guided by Senate proval in Iris of a special prosecutor to investigate the Watergate scandal He lold the Senate Judiciary Committee he has asked for recommendations lor cial prosecutor from the dents of the American Bar sociation American College of Trial Lawyers and from Judges prosecutors and yers in private practice Krogh had reportedly been under intense pressure from Secretary Claude Brinegar to give up the job since his involvement in the burglary was made known Brinegar reportedly fell lhal Krogh's Involvement with put him under a very ugly as one source pul il and thai the de- was being hurl be- cause of il Re lore moving lo the Trans- Krogh was principal assistant to lop While House domestic aide John D Ehrlichman
