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1 Independent Record, Thursday, Tonight in Helena 7:30 Prickly Pear District Committee meeting, Montana Power Auditorium. 7:30 Civil Air Patrol, National Guard Armory, 1100 N. Main. 7:30 Jaycees Membership, Sleeping Giant Lodge. 8:00 Lewis and Clark Unit of the Montana Diabetic Association, Home Federal Savings and Loan building.

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Ernest Retz Ben G. Burgess Tom Twichel BEYER, Henry aged 53 years of 8 West Riggs East Helena. Chapel services will be conducted March 11 at 10:30 a.m. with Forrest Clark officiating. Those wishing may send contributions to the Lewis Clark Cancer Com.

Interment in Forestvale Cemetery. GROSS, Mrs. Mary aged 84 years, of 1031 Missoula, Chapel services will be conducted at 2 p.m. March 10 with the Bishop, and Elders of the Church Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints officiating. Interment in Forestvale Cemetery.

HERRMANN CO. FUNERAL HOME Chapel of Roses Rodney at 7th. Ph. 442-1234 W. LLOYD LINDEN ERVIN D.

CHESTER RAINWATER, Arnold aged 1 35 years of Kalispell. The body wil be forwarded to the Johnson Funeral Home in Kalispell for funeral services and burial. HAGLER Mortuary Phone 442-8520 620 Logan Street Don R. Hagler Brent C. Anderson HOGAN, James aged 88 years of 816 Flowerree.

The body has been taken to Hillerest Lawn Memorial in Great Falls for cremation. Private funeral services will be held at a later date. Memorials are preferred to St. John's Hospital. STONE, Harry aged 78 years of 717 N.

Rodney. Chapel services will be conducted at 2 p.m. Mar 10 with Rev. Leonard Watson officiating. Interment in Forestvale Cemetery.

March 9, 1972 Union Rejects Company Offer More than 300 Operating Engineers, locked out of cencrete plants in six Montana cities earlier this week, late Wednesday voted to reject a contract proposed by the Ready Mix and Concrete Products Association. The business manager of the union, Kenneth Kaighn of Helena, said the statewide vote was rejected by a majority of the workmen affected by the lockout. However, he said, an agreement was reached with the Helena Sand and Gravel which had rejected its bargaining rights with the Ready Mix Association last December. The three-year contract rejected by the workers calls an increase in wages of $1.11 over a three-year contract peri- James Hogan Succumbs James W. Hogan, died Wednesday at St.

John's Catholic Hospital following an extended illness. was born Sept. 29, 1883 in Drarah, Iowa, the son of the late James W. and Grace Hogan. He graduated from high school in New Hampshire and he attended Bryant's Business College in Chicago.

He was one of the original founders of Ace Hardware Co. in Chicago and later operated and owned the Park Hardware Co. in Chicago. He married Nina Skelton, May 25, 1914 in Great Falls. They had one child, Catherine, who died at the age of 7.

He is survived by his widow, Nina of Helena; one sister, Mary Hogan, Pasedena, and several nieces. He was a member of the Montana Club and BPOE Elks No. 193. The body will be taken to Hillcrest Lawn Memorial in Great Falls for Cremation services. Hagler Mortuary is in charge of local arrangements.

Bus Hearing To Be Friday Clark Fork Valley Express Company, headquartered in Helena, announced today that the Montana Public Service Commission has scheduled public hearings on their application to provide the public with direct passenger and express service between Helena and Missoula. The hearings will be held in the offices of the Public Service Commission at 10 a.m. Friday. Clark Fork Valley Express Company has been providing the only direct bus service between the cities of Missoula and Helena since November 15, 1971, under a temporary permit issued by the Public Service Commission. In the original application to the commission, the bus line stated that without the direct routing, 23 per cent of the people of Montana must travel via a circuitous routing to their capitol city if they wish to use commercial highway tation, and in addition, the nearly 400 University of Montana students who reside in Lewis Clark county, many of whom must depend on commercial transportation, must spend roughly 20 per cent of their normal weekend in travel time between Missoula and Helena.

Clark Fork Valley Express Company offers through bus service between Kalispell and Helena, and connecting service other major communities in western Montana. The enroute time between Missoula and Helena has been reduced by 50 per cent from the original routing via Butte, to a total transportation time of hours, the mileage traveled between the two cities has been reduced by 69 miles. Want to say -send lovely flowers from KNOX for FLOWERS DIAL 442-4070 1920 North Main EASY PARKING! City Briefs Mary Flanagan, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George Flanagan, 721 Second is on the dean's list for the fall semester at St.

Edward's University, Austin, Tex. Vital Statistics Marriages Steven B. Zeigler, 20, of 1835 Flowerree and Deborah Jean Ford, 17, of 1018 Logan. Lloyd L. Rutledge, 24, of Malmstrom AFB and Louise Anita DeBree, 20, of 1612 Butte.

Divorce Alice F. Daily from Gledus W. Daily. Births St. Peter's Community Hospital Mr.

and Mrs. Clyde White, 416 N. Ewing, a girl, March 8. Mr. and Mrs.

Tom Minor, Aspen, a boy, March 8. Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Forrey, Townsend, a boy, March 9. J.

Williams Dies at 82 Jonny "Jack" Williams, 82, of 916 Prospect, died Wednesday at Veterans Administration Hospital at Fort Harrison. He was a former Radersburg resident. Williams was born March 28, 1890 in Swansea Valley, South Wales and came to Billings in 1913 and to Radersburg in 1914. He was a hoisting engineer at the Keating Mine in Radersburg where he lived until moving to Helena in 1961. He married Clara Jones in Morgantown, W.

Va. March 3, 1920. Williams served in World War entering the service in Billings in 1917. He was discharged March 8, 1919 at Fort Lewis as a sergeant in the 14th infantry. Surviving, in addition to his widow are a son and daughterin-law, Mr.

and Mrs. Glenn Williams, a granddaughter, Mrs. Mike Nilan and two great grandchildren, all of Helena, and a nephew, Glenville Thomas of Zanesville, Ohio. Services will be at 2 p.m. Friday from Connor's Mortuary in Townsend with the Rev.

Robert Varker officiating. Burial will be in Radersburg tery. Pallbearers will be W. D. Williams, W.

G. Williams and Bill ald Williams Falls and Webb, all of Radersburg; GerIrvin Blessinger of Helena. Honorary pallbearers will be John Heath, Ludwig Champa, Carl Steck, Frank Lowrance and Chester Aldrich, all of Helena and Ben Webb of Radersburg. Gross Rites Funeral services for Mary Gross, 84, of 1031 Missoula who died Monday at St. Peter's Community Hospital will be 2 p.m.

Friday in the Retz Chapel with bishops and elders of the Church of Later Day Saints officiating. Burial will be in Forestvale Cemetery. Pallbearers will 1 be Buck Jinley, Bob Sorrels, Chuck Larsen, Ray Morrison, Jim Fournier and Jim Mulder. State, National Weather Official temperature in Helena at 1 p.m. was 55 MONTANA H.

L. P. Belgrade 63 33 Billings 42 Broadus ...45 Butte 55 Cut Bank 29 Dillon Havre Helena Kalispell Lewistown Livingston 60 Miles City Missoula W. Yellowstone Drummond Whitehall Spokane NATIONAL H. Bismarck 36 Chicago 29 Denver Los Angeles 69 Paul 19 New Orleans 70 1.13 New York City 55 .17 Phoenix Portland, Ore.

Louis Salt Lake City Francisco Seattle Spokane Washington, D.C. Sunset today 6:25 Sunrise tomorrow 6:53 DAILY PRECIPITATION SUMMARY Amount 24 hours ending at midnight Total this month to date .05 Total this month to late last year .02 Normal this month to date .16 January 1 1 to to date date this year 1.71 January last year ..2.03 January 1 to date 30-year normal ....1.06 Witnesses Refute Testimony On Mrs. Fletcher's Health od. the same as was ratified with the Helena concern. However, the association had not included the upgrading in the position of some working positions in its proposal.

The Capital City company, on the other hand, agreed to upgrade the positions of oilers field equipment servicemen and mechanics. Kaighn said the wage creases would begin with a 34- cents-per-hour boost as soon as the men get back to work late this month, cents per hour March 1, 1973, and 40 cents per hour March 1, 1974. The doors were closed on concrete firms in Helena, Great Falls, Butte, Billings, Bozeman and Livingston Monday. In announcing the vote rethe association will agree to results, Kaighn said he "hopes convene negotiations imme-1525 diately as I see no reason for this lockout in the first place." Meanwhile, the Labor Committee of the Montana ReadyMix and Concrete Products Association met Thursday morning at Great Falls to discuss the lockout it has imposed at plants in six cities. William Leslie of Billings, a member of the labor committee said the meeting was called to discuss ways to resolve the lockout.

The association locked the doors to plants across the state at the beginning of this week because of the contract deadlock with Teamsters and the Operating Engineers. "We will reopen negotiations with the engineers at any time at any place," Leslie said. Henry Beyer Dies at 53 Henry S. Beyer, 53, East Helena, died today at St. Peter's Community Hospital following an extended illness.

He was born Feb. 14, 1919 in East Helena, the son of Mr. and Mrs. C. A.

Beyer. He graduated from Helena High School and attended Carroll College. He married Lois Samson, June 16, 1941 in Boulder. Beyer entered the Navy in 1942 and upon returning was employed by Blue Shield and Blue Cross. Later he was employed as a sales manager of radio stations in Helena and Great Falls.

He held the positions of chief settlement clerk and metallurgical accountant at the Co. where he had been employed from 1950 to 1964, at which time he and his family moved to Medford, Ore. to manage a mobile home company. In 1967 he returned to East Helena and resumed employment with the Co. He was an active church member and active in politics, serving as Democratic precinct chairman in Oregon.

He was an ardent sportsman and played semi-pro baseball in his earlier years. Survivors include the widow, Lois of East Helena; his parents of East Helena; a son, William, Seattle; four daughters, Mrs. David (Marlene) Didrikson, Helena, Mrs. Larry (Christine) Hoffman, Shelby, Mrs. Steve (Linda) Kasperick, Helena, Cindy Beyer, at home; two brothers, Clifford of Beaverton, and Norman, Kalispell; two sisters, Mrs.

William (Dolly) Woods, 'East Helena, and Mrs. Charles (Thelma) Krouse, Bozeman; five grandchildren; several nieces and nephews. Funeral services will be conducted 10:30 a.m. Saturday in the Retz Chapel with the Rev. Forrest Clark officiating.

Burial will be in Forestvale Cemetery. Speech, Hearing Clinic Set For Mar. 13-15 Dina Bennett, one of five speech and hearing therapists employed by Montana Elk's Clubs will be in Helena March 13, 14 and 15 for a speech and hearing clinic. Miss Bennett's services are free to any adult or child, Elks Club member of not. If needed, therapy will be set up on a regular schedule.

She deals with speech deficiencies such as stuttering, delayed speech and articulation problems in private sessions at B.P.O.E, 193 in Helena. Appointments can be made by contacting B.P.0.E. 193. At the Helena Animal Shelter seeking homes are a female white poodle mix about four months old who is described as scared and rescued from downtown traffic; two puppies who are a black and white Lab and German shepherd mix, one male and one female about three months old and a black female poodle mix about seven months old. Baha'i Group To Speak Tonight Six members of the Baha'i Faith will speak here Thursday and Friday, according to Dick Mereness, chairman of the Baha'i Faith in Helena.

He said the group, mostly young persons, originated in Alaska and plans to journey south to Panama where in April a new temple will be dedicated toward the Bahai's objective of "human unity." The group will speak at 8 p.m. Thursday at the Home Federal Savings and Loan Building and at 8 p.m. Friday at Room 102 at O'Connell Hall at Carroll College, in sessions open to the public. The trial in which Mary Fletcher is suing the city for damages resulting from injuries received when a defective gas heater emitted carbon monoxide into her city-owned apartment went into its fourth day this morning as Keith Keller, attorney for the city, brought witnesses refuitng earlier testimony about Mrs. Fletcher's health.

Mildred Typolt, city housing and relocation specialist, and Larry Gallagher, urban renewal relocation officer, disputed Mrs. Fletcher's witnesses who said she was in good health and was mentally alert before the Jan. 25 accident. Gallagher and Mrs. said Mrs.

Fletcher was unkempt, slow mentally, and that she walked unsteadily before the incident, and that they could recognize no change in her appearance or actions after the incident. Keller also brought witnesses, through a deposition read this morning and by testimony Wednesday afternoon delivered by a doctor who had treated Mrs. Fletcher in 1966, who said that she had problems with alcoholism. Keller also questioned a chemical enginer from Seattle, J. M.

Kniseley, who testified Graybill: Voters Will Get There are many meaningful changes in Montana's proposed new constitution, and also many good things in the present constitution which will be retained, President Leo Graybill of the convention told the Helena Rotary Club Wednesday. "Look at it carefully and I am sure you will like it," he added. A panel of seven members of the convention spoke to the club, each describing some phase of the work of drafting the new document. Arnold Jacobson, Whitefish, was moderator. Graybill paid tribute to the Montana press for informing the people of the issues which have been discussed.

"The newspapers are doing a good job telling the people," he said. He said that plans are to provide each voter with a leaflet which will contain not only a copy of the new constitution, but also comments and explanations of the various articles. Probaly there will be several separate issues given the voters for their decision, but the matter which will be on the ballot is yet to be decided by the convention, he said. The decision to vote on the in June was made document, there might be too much distraction in the November election when a president and a governor will be elected, he added. Jacobson said that the proposed local government article provides that each city will vote on its form of government four years after the constitution is adopted and each ten years thereafter because there are several alternate plans available and citizens should have a chance to adopt more efficient forms of governing themselves.

Fred Martin, Livingston, said that the convention is making progress and he thinks that the final document will be something the people will buy. Mason Melvin, Bozeman, said that the judicial article provides VFW Cites Helenan in Bravery Award A young Helenan has awarded the top national citation for bravery of the Veterans of Foreign Wars. Mark Johnson, son of Mrs. Jeanne Sportono, 902 Logan, was commended for an action last summer in which he rescued another youngster who had fallen into a pit on mount Helena. The youngster is an explorer scout and works in a division of the Lewis and Clark County Search and Rescue Association.

The award was presented by past VFW Commander Leslie Fry of Reno, Nevada in ceremonies at East Helena. the defective heater shortly before the incident was inad quate. Wednesday Keller called John Larson, the power company repairman who worked on the heater five days before the accident. Larson testified that he adjusted the heater and was satisfied that it was working properly. city contends that Montana Power is responsible for the accident, which resulted in Mrs.

Rhein Wins Speech Competition Annabelle Rhein won the Helena Toastmistress Club's annual speech contest Wednesday at The Colonial with a talk entitled "It's the Label that Sticks." Mrs. Lyle H. Harris was runner-up. Mrs. Rhein will compete in a council contest in Kalispell April 22.

Judges for the contest were Loren Davis, Merle J. Rognrud, Mrs. Gerald W. Roth and Mrs. Robert D.

McDonald. Would-Be-Thief Flees the Scene A young male entered the Slyvia Lindstrom residence at 618 Harrison through a window this morning at 10:30, saw Mrs. Lindstrom and then fled according to a report made to Helena police. The man was described as being six feet tall with long blond hair below the ears, between the ages of 20 and 25 and weighing about 225 lbs. He was wearing a yellow shirt and grey slacks and white gloves.

Helena police report that no similar incidents have been reported to them. two deaths. Mrs. Fletcher's attorneys, Robert Cummins and Floyd Small, contend that the city, by virture of its building code ordinances, is ultimately responsible for keeping its property safe for habitation. Wednesday afternoon Cummins questioned Dr.

William Wise, Mrs. Fletcher's physician, who said that Mrs. Fletcher had been harmed by her exposure to carbon monoxide Jan. 25, 1971. Mrs.

Fletcher was brought unconcious to St. John's Catholic Hospital after the incident, and remained in a coma or semi-concious for about 48 hours. Wise said he thought that Mrs. Fletcher needs 24- hour care in a nursing home because of the gassing. As Cummins' last witness Wednesday, Mrs.

Fletcher testified that she has suffered injuries resulting from the incident, and that she has suffered memory loss. Statehouse Lighting Set Friday for a supreme court, district courts, one justice court in each county, plus such other courts as the legislature may create. Jim Garlington, Missoula, said the committee which was assigned the executive department had had much of its work done in advance by the reorganization act adopted by the voters two years ago. Sterling Rygg, Kalispell, chairman of the Revenue and Finance Committee, said that many changes have been made in that field, among them a provision that not ail property need be taxed which may result in exemption of household furniture, abolition of the Board of Equalization which has been misunderstood by some local officials, and adoption of a statewide taxation plan. Donald Foster, Lewistown, said that the Bill of Rights retains all the rights of Montana citizens which are in the present constitution, plus some others.

Court Hears Doctors Testify In City Suit Robert Cummins, attorney for Mary Fletcher in her law suit against the city stemming from the Jan. 25, 1971 asphyxiation incident in a city-owned apartment at 16 S. Park, continued his case Wednesday with testimony from doctors who have treated Mrs. Fletcher. Dr.

E. C. Maronick testified that he treated Mrs. Fletcher when she was brought to the emergency room of St. John's Hospital on the day of the incident.

He explained to the jury the effects of carbon monoxide on the human body, saying that the brain cells are the first to be damaged. He also showed X-rays showing pre-existing conditions of minor arthritis and calcium in Mrs. Fletcher's arteries. Also to be called to the stand were a pathologist who conducted autopsies on the two men who died in the asphyxiation incident, and Dr. William Wise, Mrs.

Fletcher's personal physician. Tuesday afternoon Cummins called Val Ketchum, an expert on gas heaters for American Sheet Metal and Roofing Co. in Helena, who said the heater at 16 S. Park definitely did not meet standards. He said that had he been called to inspect the heater before the accident he would have recommended it be shut off until it could be made safe.

Cummins noted that standards the heater failed to meet are the same standards that are required by the city building code ordinance. Cummins also called several people who testified that Mrs. Fletcher's physical and mental condition has deteriorated since the incident. Montana's Statehouse will be bathed in light Friday night when an exterior flood-lighting project is activated at 7:30 p.m. Hansen, administrative assistant to Gov.

Forrest H. Anderson, said a cremony is planned when the lights are officially turned on for the first time. The legislature last year authorized the expenditure of up to $27,000 to illuminate the outside of the Capitol, including its copper dome. Two shades of light are being used to give a warm color to the illumination. Workmen installed the final lighting fixtures Thursday.

Hansen said representatives of the executive and legislative branches will particpate in the ceremony to which the public is invited. Clothes by: Country Set Shoes for walking with him $12.00 Orchids. The look for spring is soft and casual. Shoe looks combine smooth multi colors of suede. Or soft leather with the new rage: the wedge.

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