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Regents will not discuss MONTANA role and scope statement By TOM HARVEY presidents had to catch airline UM will ask the regents for KAIMIN Montana Kaimin Reporter flights after their meeting, Friday, authorization to develop a so they were not able to conclude proposal for a "Mansfield Center of Tuesday, October 31,1978 Mlatoula, Mont. Vol. 81, No. 21 The Board of Regents will not discussion of it. Public Affairs." hold a hearing on the Montana The presidents' council will meet According to the request, the University System role and scope Dec. 6, to discuss the rest of the program would be for graduate statement at its Friday meeting at report, Pettit said. He will then students who are pursuing careers Vehrs to be prosecuted the University of Montana. make his final recommendation to in “domestic public service.” Commissioner of Higher Educa the Board of Regents. tion Lawrence Pettit said yester UM President Richard Bowers The center would probably in for illegal sale of wine day the regents would not discuss was out of town and unavailable clude graduate programs in public the statement because the Council for comment. administration, rural and small County Attorney Robert of selling wine without a license, a of Presidents finished discussing The regents will hold an open town planning, applied sociology, Deschamps III said yesterday he felony. only half of it when it met with him meeting on the statement on Dec. political economy and en plans to prosecute Carson Vehrs The trial will be held in January last Friday. 11, Pettit said. They will make the vironmental studies, the agenda Jr., former University of Montana before District Judge Jack Green. Instead, Pettit said, he will give a final decisions at a meeting the says. food service director, on a charge Vehrs was found not guilty last status report on the document. next day. week of felony theft. The role and scope statement is Pettit said faculty and students In light of that verdict, intended to be a long-range plan to could still write letters commen Deschamps said he was hesitant control and channel development ting on the statement before the about prosecuting Vehrs on the throughout the University System. December regents’ meeting. wine charge and another charge of The statement has been sub But, said Pettit, he is “assuming official misconduct, a mis jected to heavy criticism recently that the official campus response demeanor. from some UM faculty members is coming through the president” Jurors from the first trial said who attacked it for its "negative of each unit. they reached the verdict because tone.” "The regents are going to be Deschamps failed to prove Vehrs Pettit said some of the unit more concerned with the broke a law by establishing a travel presidents' responses” than they fund for food service employees would be with letters from faculty out of concession receipts. Senate debate and students, he added. Vehrs testified that he believes Pettit said the Friday regents’ he had authority to establish the set for tonight meeting at UM would contain fund. Other testimony showed no mostly “housekeeping matters." UM policy denied him such a right. Senate District 47 can “It won’t be a terribly exciting Deschamps said he has recon didate, incumbent Sen. Bill sidered prosecution on the wine Norman, D-Missoula, and meeting," he added. The meeting will begin at 1 p.m. charge because it does not relate GOP challenger Thomas Friday in the University Center to any UM policies or Vehrs' Payne will debate tonight at 8 Montana Rooms. authority as food service director. p.m. in room 131 in the Pettit will hold a joint press However, the official miscon Science Complex. conference with Bowers at 1:30 duct charge does concern UM Moderator for the debate p.m. Thursday. policies and the defendant’s will be Hal Stearns of Helena, The agenda for Friday shows a former job authority. former newspaperman and meeting of the Capital Construc Because of this, Deschamps current director of the cam tion Committee "at 1 p.m., the said he is still considering whether paign for the university A WITCH SPORTING tennis shoes and beads delights children with to prosecute on this charge. The system’s six-mill levy. Budget Committee will meet at 1:30 p.m. with the full board in scary Halloween stories at the Sigma Chi haunted house fraternity party trial would also be held in January, session at 2 p.m. Monday night. (Staff photo by Am Halverson) he said. Intense race develops to fill boots By VICTOR RODRIGUEZ prohibits Moe from continuing in the charge of extraditions," Froehlich added. commissioners “who were dissatisfied” Montana Kaimin Reporter department as a salaried county worker. “Since then, I have been out of touch with with then-sheriff John Murphy. Since "Montana law specifically states that no the department for 15 months. My time is Murphy was a Democrat, Moe said, he ran The 1978 Missoula County Sheriff's race individual over the age of 65 can be occupied with delivering prisoners, taking as a Republican. has erupted into what many observers call employed by the sheriff's department,” prisoners to court, and delivering warrants. Murphy, however, lost in the Democratic the most bitter cat-and-dog fight over the Zaharko said. "Moe will be 65 In It is a full time job that has kept me primary election to John Nicely, but ran changing of the guard at the sheriff's December." exceedingly busy. nonetheless as an independent. Moe department in recent county history. “I'm certain that the move was made to defeated both candidates in the 1970 Although Sheriff John C. Moe, an In Volunteered services keep me at a low profile and to keep me out general election. dependent, will retire from eight years in “However," Zaharko said, “Moe has of town as much as possible." Moe kept Froehlich, who had served four office after the Nov. 7 election, several volunteered his services. to help in areas Because of the new job, Froehlich said he years under Murphy as undersheriff, in the deputies reportedly have contended that where he has expertise.” He added that has missed being in town to campaign, and sheriff’s department as captain of detec Moe is trying to keep a partial hold on the Moe's law enforcement would be used subsequently has had to use a 30-day tives. sheriff’s department by endorsing his whenever needed, especially in training vacation which began Oct. 21 to catch up. On March 10, 1978, Froehlich officially undersheriff for the position. new deputies in the use of firearms. “In all fairness, I would have to state that filed for the office Of Missoula County Republican candidate Bob Zaharko, According to a Missoulian story last in June, Moe sent me a letter stating that I Sheriff with the clerk and recorder’s office. undersheriff for seven and a half years spring, several deputies contended that would not have to leave town at night” to In August Froehlich chose long-time under Moe, recently dismissed a story Moe was playing political favorites by handle extraditions, Froehlich said. friend Dan Magone for his undersheriff circulating since last spring that Moe would keeping Lt. Ray Froehlich, the Democratic Froehlich said the fact that he decided to selection. Magone is a 20-year veteran of be hired In some capacity at the sheriff's candidate, “out of town serving warrants run for office did not “fit well with Moe's the Montana Highway Patrol. department if Zaharko were to win the and handling extraditions.” plans to set up his own successor . According to Betty Magone, Dan election. Before those charges were made, Moe leaving out the voters of Missoula County.” Magone’s wife and Froehlich's campaign Zaharko told the,Montana Kaimin that if had demoted Froehlich from captain of "Because he is endorsing one candidate, secretary, the Froehlich campaign has cost elected he would accept Moe's services on detectives to lieutenant in charge of ex it is no reason to throw a stumbling block in a voluntary basis, but that Montana law traditions, warrants and jail operations. front of the other candidate,” Froehlich • Cont. on p. 4. “This is not a campaign between Moe and said, adding "I don’t feel I’m running Froehlich,” Zaharko said, it is a campaign against Zaharko, but rather I feel I’m between Froehlich and me, and I will running against the sheriff.” campaign on that basis.” In answer to the charge, Sheriff Moe said, “Yes," Sheriff Moe supports me," “Lt. Froehlich was demoted, reassigned Zaharko said, “but to my knowledge, he has and censured by me for good cause. I have not campaigned for me." declined to state the reason for that, and Mr.