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PC schedules Raitt ■ montana for Aber Day kegger Bonnie Raitt has been signed to Finding bands for the kegger has play at the University Liquid Assets been difficult, Marquand said. k a im in Corporation library kegger May 11, Attempts to get Charlie Daniels, Bob Ian Marquand, Program Council pop Seger, the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, the University of Montana • Student Newspaper concerts coordinator, said Amazing Rhythm Aces, Poco and yesterday. Jimmy Buffet have all fallen through, Tuesday, April 5,1977 Missoula, Mont. Vol. 79, No. 76 Other possibilities for the annual he said. kegger include Doug Kershaw and Marquand said Program Council Commander Cody, Marquand said, will put on fourconcertsthisquarter, but neither have signed contracts two in the field house and two in the yet. University Center Ballroom. In addition, a local band to be selected by the ULAC directors will The Marshall Tucker Band will (Montana Kaknln photo by Bob VonDrachak.) play at the kegger. play in the field house Monday, he said, and Fleetwood Mac will play there for the third time on May 3. Steve Seskin and Friends will play in the ballroom Friday evening, Mar quand said, and a jazz band led by Saudi deal still on, official says Stanley Turrentine will play there By RANDALL E. MILLS There seemed to be a great deal of Bozeman, said yesterday that the pretty sharp relief” his contention April 17. Montana Kalmin Senior Editor confusion and uncertainty among Saudi project has been "mortally that the MITC should be more open officials contacted yesterday about wounded" but “may not die.” Ap about its business. Program Council passed up two the Saudi program. plegate has tried recently to get the The MITC is a private, non-profit other jazz musicians, Chick Corea A proposal for Montana scientists MITC to release information about corporation designed to stimulate and George Benson, who recently to help develop agriculture in Saudi Bowers Unaware the Saudi program, along with its and negotiate trade between Mon played in Spokane. Marquand said Arabia has not been called off, but University of Montana President other operations. tana and foreign countries. Corea and Benson each wanted merely trimmed down, an official Richard Bowers said he had "no Negotiations over the program will between $7,000 and $10,000 for a said yesterday. knowledge of it" being cancelled or probably continue, he said, but they Montana University System of performance, and that PC felt that John Podobnik, a Montana in any way stopped. will be "scaled down" to the $20 ficials would have at least known of the risk of losing money on the International Trade Commission Bowers suggested that Lawrence million to $50 million range. the Saudi problems, Applegate said, concerts was too great (MITC) official working with the Forcier, acting forestry school dean, However, he said he wouldn’t give whereas nobody other than MITC of PC also missed Elvin Bishop, who Saudis, told the Montana Kaimin would knowaboutanycurtailmentin the smaller plan "much of a chance." ficials knew of the problems because played jn Billings last week, because yesterday that reports in the Sunday the project. But when contacted, He said the whole controversy of the commission’s closed-door Bishop had no date free to come to edition of the Billings Gazette and Forcier said he was “not aware of the about the Saudi project "raises in policy. Missoula, according to Marquand. Associated Press reports yesterday basis of the AP report." were unfair in that they gave the im George Blake, UM forestry profes pression that the project had been sor who has been to Saudi Arabia cancelled. working on the project and Wild Horse Island sale The AP reported the "virtual negotiations, said yesterday that collapse" of the program yesterday, Forcier would not know anything but Podobnik said that the Saudis about the project being curtailed or may cost state nothing have simply rejected one proposal increased because the acting and have asked for another. forestry school dean has not been By PAUL DRISCOLL purchase by the state of the 76,000- The island’s famous bighorn Montana Kaimin Reporter acre Mt. Haggin Ranch near Anacon involved in the negotiations. Blake sheep, which have never numbered da. Matching federal funds also echoed the same information about more than 320 head, will be managed The proposed sale of Flathead played an important role in that by the fish and game department. $10 Million Request the second project proposal as Lake's Wild Horse Island to the State purchase. O'Gara said the sheep, which were The Saudi Council of Ministers is Podobnik did, adding that the of Montana may come about without According to Bart O’Gara, faculty moved to the island in the 1930s, are now considering a request for $10 project will go through because the actual cost to the state and will result affiliate with the Wildlife Research heavily infested with roundworm and million to begin work in July on Saudis want it to. in a substantial advantage for both Unit, UM will be subject to fish and lack sufficient grazing. further parts of the program, he said. Blake Is one of several people the University of Montana and the game department administration on In addition, the MITC has been given under consideration by the Saudis to Department of Fish and Game. the island. The department will $73,000 by the Saudis to have two take one of the two jobs working with But final negotiations of the tran probably manage the island as a scientists travel to Saudi Arabia to the Saudis to determine the size and 51 Acres Developed saction hinge on the release of mild-use recreation area, he said. map out a second proposal. scope of the second proposal, According to Ron MacDonald, federal matching funds by Secretary The island will be available, O’Gara The Saudis rejected a ^238-million Podobnik said. family member and the lawyer han of the Interior Cecil Andrus. said as it had been in the past, for proposal in January because it was In addition, Keith Colbo, Gov. The 2,200-acre island, owned by graduate work in such areas as dling the proposed sale, only about too expensive, Podobnik said. Thomas Judge’s administrative aide, 51 acres of the island have been the Alice MacDonald family of Mis predator-prey studies. The second proposal would said that he "wouldn’t have any idea” developed. These have been divided soula, is home for one of the largest probably cost from $50 million to $60 about what has happened with the into half-acre lots that are "laid out contained herds of bighorn sheep in No Big Centers million, he said, and would cover program and that he only knew what aesthetically and protect the the United States and has Flathead O’Gara said he does not foresee much the same ground as the first he saw in the Gazette. Judge, who is shoreline,” he said. proposal, but on a smaller basis. The listed as an MITC director, is in Lake’s last undeveloped shoreline. construction of a big research center on the island. Nor does he foresee second proposal would involve fewer Washington, D.C., for talks with The appraised value of the essen MacDonald said his family plans to personnel, smaller buildingsand less government officials about Indian tially undeveloped island is $3.5 restriction of public use of the island, retain six acres of land on the island. equipment, he said. jurisdictional matters. million, but the MacDonald family he said, with the exception of Wild Horse Island has been in the Horticulture, range management, has made an offer to sell the land for snowmobiles occasionally during MacDonald family since 1961 when it irrigation and other water projects ‘Mortally Wounded’ $2 million and make a gift to the state years when the lake freezes out to was purchased by R. B. and A. P. would be studied in the project, he Rick Applegate, director of the of the remaining $1.5 million. the island. MacDonald. said. Center for Public Interest in Matching Funds Because the MacDonald family’s proposal includes the gift of $1.5 BNE million, the state may be eligible for m p i! Construction to begin matching funds from the Land and Water Conservation Fund. Ac cording to Ron Holliday, the fish and on halfway house game department's administrator of recreation and parks, the state's It appears that the Missoula residents who felt threatened by the share of matching funds oh gifts this halfway house has overcome its final placing of the house in their year will total $1.75 million. stumbling block—the United States neighborhoods, will become a home The state should receive $1.5 Army—and construction is for about 15 Montana State Prison million in matching funds from the scheduled for early this summer, ac parolees who have been convicted of Wild Horse Island gift and $250,000 cording to a Department of non-violent crimes.