Montana Kaimin, May 6, 1977 Associated Students of the University of Montana

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For more information, please contact [email protected]. kaimin■ montana University of Montana • Student Newspaper Friday, May 6, 1977 Missoula, Mont. Vol. 79, No. 95 — tw o university students vying for vacant City Council position By DANIEL BLAHA Bill Potts in the Democratic primary Council because “young people Montana Kalmin Reporter last February. He was defeated by 18 need to get more actively involved. votes; Potts ran unopposed in the Very few people run, but then people Two University of Montana general election. complain about the representation.” students are vying for a vacant Moran said he served in the Air The quality of neighborhoods Missoula City Council seat in Ward Force for four years, until May 1976, needs to be protected from 6: Nancy Orr Dye, sophomore in and that he started school that unchecked development, Moran accounting, and Kim Moran, summer. said. He expressed his sympathy for sophomore in general studies. He said he was running for City • Cont. on p. 10. That seat was vacated when Georgia Walters was elected city treasurer. City Council members inter Regents will discuss viewed six applicants for the seat Wednesday afternoon, and will elect the new alderman Monday night. Dye, 32, did two years of under faculty salary raises graduate work at UM 12 years ago. Commissioner of Higher Education Lawrence Pettit and the six She plans to take the Certified Public university system presidents are preparing a faculty salary increase package Accountant (CPA) exam next year. to present to the Board of Regents at its next meeting. She returned to UM last fall. Pettit, who was in Missoula yesterday “on business," said the salary in In 1974, Dye was elected to the creases were first discussed last Thursday at a meeting of university ill Missoula county study commission, presidents in Helena. which was part of the local A 5 to 10 percent increase can be proposed to the regents and still remain government review process within the next biennium's budget, Pettit said. The increase will not be res mandated by the 1972 Montana tricted further to allow leeway among the individual systems, he added. Constitution. She served as co The1977 Legislature appropriated $500,000 to the University of Montana chairperson of the joint city/county for instructional faculty. But UM was advised to lay off 65 faculty members study commission, which proposed over the next biennium to stay within that budget. OOPS1 The University of Montana ROTC program held its live-fire exercises consolidation of the city and county A 10 per cent faculty salary increase was written into the faculty ap at Blue Mountain last weekend and got an unexpected live fire to combat. governments in June of 1976. propriation. Tracer bullets from two automatic rifles set the parched hillside ablaze twice UM President Richard Bowers and Regents Chairman Ted James were before the guns were put away. Both fires were dealt with in true Army Avoid Waste unavailable for comment. fashion — lacking enough water and shovels the unit stomped the fires out Because of her work on the study The next regents meeting is scheduled for May 25 in Havre. with their boots. (Montana Kaimin photo by Mark Scharfenaker.) commission, Dye says she wants to see much closer cooperation between the city and the county to avoid wasteful duplication of services. Marlenee opposes wild areas Dye said one of her major concerns is that procedures for By RANDALL E. MILLS economic condition of the area. He few days after reports by the Carter vationists contacted yesterday zoning be standardized. She said Montana Kaimin Sanlor Editor cited an unemployment rate of 13 administration that the three areas in about Marlenee's statements she is against spot zoning and per cent in the Libby area, where Montana and most of the other areas expressed disappointment with his faulted the council for being Eastern District Congressman logging is the main industry. in the bill have mineral deposits or stand and generally agreed that his "swayed” by requests from home- Ron Marlenee said yesterday that he the potential for deposits. statements were premature. owners for instant rezoning. opposes a bill that would designate Lobbyist Influence Wilderness status would prohibit all Steve Gates of the ASUM Student "I'm not in favor of making a three areas in Montana for wilder Marlenee said he based his mining. Action Center said it is obvious that decision in that manner," she said, ness study. decision on testimony he heard from Eastern District Sen. John the “timber lobby got to him adding that procedures for Marlenee, a Republican, said he labor and logging industry lobby Melcher said in a telephone (Marlenee) before he got to see the petitioning the council should be set opposes classifying as wilderness groups. interview with the Kaimin yesterday testimony" about the areas. Gates so that all Missoula citizens would the Welcome Creek area in the Lolo He not only opposed the three that he has not decided whether to stressed that the testimony on the know how to go about it. National Forest, the Mt. Henry area areas in Montana, but all of House oppose or favor the areas for areas, including the transcripts from Dye said she supports the In the Kootenai National Forest and Bill 3454, sponsored by Rep. Morris wilderness classification. Melcher, a Melcher's hearings, is not even publication of vacancies to boards the McGregor-Thompson area in Udall, D-Ariz. The bill would create Democrat, held hearings in Missoula available yet. He said Marlenee is and commissions as one means of both the Lolo and Kootenai forests. 14 wilderness areas and 8 areas for In mid-April to gather testimony "making a big mistake” and taking a insuring open government. She also “These are three areas that we're wilderness possibility studies. about the McGregor-Thompson and "stupid political move.” supports the posting of. signs on going to have fo allow development” Those areas are scattered through Welcome Creek areas. Don Alldrich, Missoula coordi multi-family construction sites. And in, he said in a telephone interview. out the western states, including He said the testimony from that nator for the National '-Wildlife she said she would like to see more It would be “unfeasible” to make parts of California, Washington, hearing has not been transcribed yet Federation, said that it is “too bad neighborhood groups formed. those areas wilderness, he said, Arizona, Colorado and Wyoming. and is not ready to be looked at. that he can take that attitude without Moran, 23, ran against Alderman considering the depressed Marlenee’s comments come only a knowing a damn thing about” the ‘Three Impediments’ areas. Marlenee is obviously The Welcome Creek area has listening and agreeing with timber “three impediments" toward its and logging lobby groups, Alldrich being classified wilderness, he said, said. Kimble says he’ll run including past timber sales, mining He questioned how Marlenee claims and signs of past mining could oppose the part of the Udall activity and the four miles of graded bill that only asks to study areas for road there. He said the presence of wilderness possibilities. Marlenee for Baucus’ seat in ’78 those three things usually precludes does not have anything on which to By PATTY ELICH thatthat Kimble Kimble has has said said outright outright that that he he plans plans to to be a naming an area wilderness. base his decision, he said, adding However, Melcher added that that Marlenee is from the Eastern Montana Kaimin Raportar Candidate.candidate. State Rep. Gary Kimble, D-Missoula, said Thurs “The state needs a capable representative, a true “nothing is sacred about where you District and thus is not familiar with day that he plans to run for Western District advocate in Congress," Kimble said. Kimble said, if draw the boundaries” in the area. Western Montana. congressman from Montana in 1978. elected, he could obtain federal funds for the state The “signs of man” are all in one Alldrich added that the logging Kimble made the statement during an interview for projects like water quality control because he has corner of the area that could be companies in Montana would have a session with reporting students at the University of had "experience with the federal bureaucracy." excluded, he said. started logging the proposed Montana journalism school. “In a state as poor as this, you have to look to the There are some problems with the wilderness areas years ago if they ”l plan to be a candidate,"Kimble said. ”l am going federal government for supplemental money," he McGregor-Thompson area, he said, thought it would be profitable. to actively seek the nomination." . said. because the north half of the 367,000 Kimble added that he would not officially an If he should end up running for Congress, Kimble acre area is filled with privately- nounce his candidacy until Rep.

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