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Concert attendants get new liquor check By Jeannie Young said, adding that policemen from the side or outside of the concerts, we concert, you should be able to drink. Kelly said she had attended five UM Montana Kaimin Reporter Missoula County Sheriff’s Office have to check it out. I don’t think they had any right to be concerts and had never been narcotics division were at the there." searched before. "We don’t keep a gigantic list of all For the first time, persons attending concert. University of Montana concerts were the people smoking marijuana. We searched at the Field House door Bogue said Program Council did not would get writer’s cramp." instead of the ticket gate. request that narcotics officers attend the concert. Joseph deVictoria, Program Council The procedure was used at the Z Z security administrator, said the new Top and Bluegrass concerts to keep Philip Nobis, head of the narcotics searching procedure "definitely congestion down at the ticket gates division, said five plainclothes of­ helped. The amount of large bottles and to lower the number of bottles ficers had been at the concert about brought in was down.” and cans being sneaked into 45 minutes. Officers were searching concerts, Gary Bogue, Program for a fugitive on whom they had a Eight officers were on duty during Council programming consultant, warrant, he added. both concerts last weekend, Bogue said yesterday. said. Nobis said that plainclothes Bogue said those violating Program narcotics officers attend some Marilyn Kelly, freshman in art, said Council’s rule prohibiting cans and concerts, but he did not know how bottles at concerts were given the two officers frisked her when she many. He added: options of throwing the containers came in. away or taking them outside. "If we have information that they’re "I was very pissed off,” she said. "We don’t search for drugs,” Bogue dealing large quantities of drugs in­ "When you pay that much for a Convicted slayer sentenced to death Great Falls AP criminal code. The revised statute a sentence of 100 years in prison Duncan McKenzie, 23, was mandates the death penalty for would mean McKenzie could be sentenced yesterday to hang for the specific offenses including freed in seven years. deliberate homicide and aggravated slaying of a rural Montana school Five charges—including one more of kidnaping. McKenzie was convicted teacher. deliberate homicide and aggravated of both. Cascade County district court judge kidnaping, and one of rape—were R. J. Nelson said McKenzie could not The new code took effect in January dismissed by the seven-woman, be rehabilitated. He set April 30 as 1974, a few weeks before Miss five-man jury following the 18-day the date of execution but Harding’s nude body was found trial. AN UNIDENTIFIED BLUEGRASS CONCERT-GOER is checked for liquor by immediately granted an appeal by about a mile from the one-room Al Olsen, a campus security officer, and Harold Larsen, a deputy with the McKenzie’s defense lawyers. schoolhouse at Ledger in northcen- Testimony indicated that Miss Hard­ sheriff’s department. (Montana Kaimin photo by Ed LaCasse) tral Montana. ing was raped, beaten and slain on McKenzie, found guilty of the murder the night of Jan. 21, 1974. A of 23-year-old Lana Harding, is the Nelson said that in his judgment, pathologist testified death occurred first person convicted of a capital McKenzie would pose a danger to when her skull was crushed with a UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA ■ ■ STUDENT NEWSPAPER offense'under the state’s revamped the public as long as he lived. He said blunt object. Professor attacks missile program By Susan Sorich "The first is to keep what we have at present or decrease montana Montana Kaimin Reporter it. The best we could hope for would be the destruction of Installment of multiple nuclear warheads on Montana civilization. based missiles could be interpreted as a threat to the “The second is to continue the arms race. The result Soviet Union, Meyer Chessin, professor of botany, said would be genocide. Friday. "People must think about nuclear war in order to Chessin called for the “phasing out and eventual eliminate it.” KAIMIN elimination of land-based missiles." Tuesday, March 4, 1975 • Missoula, Mont. • ’ Vol. 77, No. 78 The United States is an open society and people have a Chessin said that in accordance with the Valdivostok most important role in eliminating the threat of nuclear agreement with the Soviet Union, the United States could war, Chessin said. transform 50 Montana based Minuteman III missiles to ‘Kaimin’ misquotes CB candidate multiple independently-targeted re-entry vehicles But Chessin said the trend-today is toward more sophis­ Last Thursday’s Montana Kaimin in­ University. Schwartz, junior in (MIRVs). But Chessin said that 200 missiles are being ticated weaponry and development of a United States correctly reported that non-partisan business administration, said the MIRVed according to an Air Force official. arms system that could theoretically be used to eliminate off-campus Central Board candidate non-monetary and community the land missile bases of opposing powers. Carl (Mike) Schwartz said he sup­ benefits of having a good athletic "The Vladivostok agreement is the first real cap on the ported state funding of athletics department far outweigh the costs of nuclear arms race,” Chessin said. “It limits the build up "Accuracy of missiles is being stressed now,” Chessin because it makes money for the not having an athletic department. of MIRV’s for both the United States and the Soviet said. "The relative effectiveness is greater if accuracy is Union.” greater, not if yield is greater. Chessin told about 50 persons at an environmental "You don’t need a very heavy or a very accurate missile to problems seminar that if 200 missiles are MIRVed the take out Chicago, or any other industrial complex,” but Ford may compromise number would be 150 above the limit set by the research indicates highly accurate weapons are needed agreement. to destroy missile silos and similar bases, he said. on oil tariff increases Washington AP Simon and Zarb said Ford's Chessin said, “There are two options as far as nuclear war The seminar was the eighth in a series of nine being spon­ is concerned. sored by the botany department Winter Quarter. Top Ford administration officials and proposals were preferable to a plan Democrats who control the House made public by committee Ways and Means Committee began Democrats on Sunday. searching through their rival proposals yesterday for an energy The Democrats’ plan outlined by compromise. Ullman calls for a gradual tax hike to 40 cents a gallon by 1979 on use of A comprehensive plan assembled by gasoline beyond a family’s average the committee’s Democrats is a basic needs, with rebates through “definite move in the right direction,” coupons or tax reductions; gradual Treasury Secretary William E. Simon imposition of oil import quotas as told committee Chairman Al Ullman, economic conditions permit; D-Ore., who agreed it is a "real basis creation of a federal agency to buy for talking.” imported oil; levy of an excise tax on new cars with heavy gasoline con­ Meantime, at the White House, sumption, and a tax up to 85 per cent President Ford huddled with on petroleum producers’ windfall Republican congressional leaders profits. on energy and the economy. A GOP senator indicated Ford would defer Along with his special tariff program the second and third dollars of his on imported oil, Ford recommended controversial scheduled $3-a-barrel eventually replacing that levy with a oil tariff incrase. $2-a-barrel excise tax on all domes­ tic crude oil and imported oil; im­ The first dollar went into effect Feb. posing an excise tax of 37 cents a 1. thousand cubic feet on natural gas, Sen. William Roth, R-Del., issued a putting a windfall profits tax on oil statement before the leadership producers, removing price controls AMBULANCE ATTENDANTS AND A BYSTANDER help Jim Walsh, junior in business administration, after he was in­ meeting saying a proposal he made on domestic crude oil by April 1, and jured in an accident yesterday. (Montana Kaimin photo by Jim Frye) last week that further oil tariff in­ taking price regulation off new creases be deferred for 60 days “is natural gas. very likely to be accepted." The Senate-House Democratic Student injured in IMS cart accident Simon and Federal Energy Ad­ leader’s program included, among ministrator Frank G. Zarb, were other things, a gasoline tax increase Jim Walsh, junior in business ad­ cart hit the curb near the Physical The driver, Raymond Ryan, junior in among Ford administration officials of just five cents a gallon, creation of ministration, was injured about 4:30 Plant and flipped on its side, pinning political science and history, was ap­ who were lead-off witnesses as the an independent agency with standby pm.