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4-AAIssoullan, Saturday, March 10, 1979 Residents protest duplexes for Only th apply district i udgeship so the motion to change the zoning failed. The commission decided to recess the public hearing on the matter until next week when Thibodeau could attend. The residents, several of whom took time off from work to attend the meeting, were angry and frustrated. The commission members were apologetic. In response to the residents' concerns, the commission members placed a one-week moratorium on building permits for duplexes In the Orchard Homes area.

not too late to change it now. That's why we're here." The residents expected a decision on their petition for the zoning change, but they didn't get it. Commission chairman Doug Campbell and county surveyor Dick Colvill voted for the zoning change and County Commissioner Jim Waltermire abstained. Commissioner Fritz Thi-bodeau was on vacation. Commissioner Barbara Evans did not vote at all saying she needed more information.

At least three members of the five-member board must agree before a motion passes, Curtis Street. Preliminary plans for the project were approved last week by the county commissioners. Some people attending the meeting were concerned about sewage problems that might result from high density housing. Others complained about overcrowding. "I've got 68 people living across the street from me," Elizabeth Buck told the commission.

"There are 31 duplexes in the general vicinity, most built in the last year and a half. The zoning should have been changed 10 years ago, but it's By ANNETTE TAYLOR Staff writer At least 23 residents in the Orchard Homes area don't want any more duplexes to be built in their neighborhood, and they let the Missoula County Planning and Zoning Commission know about it Wednesday during the county commissioners' weekly meeting. The residents have proposed that the zoning in their neighborhood be changed from allowing single- and double-family dwellings to permitting single-family dwellings only. They are hoping to prevent the building of six duplexes on ment Board to resign effective March 31. By law, Montana district judges must receive permission from the board in order to take early retirement.

Applicants for Brownlee's position are required to complete a lengthy questionnaire for the judicial nominating commission. Each applicant is asked to furnish detailed information about his or her educational background, professional background and experience, litigation experience, business experience and ties, political experience, memberships in professional organizations, and any public honors. Applicants are also asked their marital status and the number and names of their children; the Judges whom they have appeared before most frequently during the past five years; the names and addresses of the adversary counsel against whom they have litigated their primary cases during the past five years, and their attitudes toward the law. The bar association, which represents about 135 western Montana lawyers, will meet March 23 to discuss the applicants, Delaney said. The association will then recommend three of them to the nominating commission.

Those recommendations will be advisory in nature. The nominating commission will review all the applications and submit a list of three to five candidates to Gov. Thomas Judge, who will make the final decision. Delaney said the bar association's recommendations will be neither an "exercise in cronyism or a popularity contest," but, rather, a genuine attempt "to nominate the very best people we can find." Brownlee, 62, announced Feb. 23 that recurrent eye problems and a caseload that is too heavy prompted his decision to retire after almost 20 years on the bench.

He asked for, and received, permission from the Montana Judges Retire By DEIRDRE McNAMER Staff writer The state Judicial Nominating Commission has received just three applications, so far, to fill the vacancy which will be created by the March 31 resignation of 4th Judicial District Judge E. Gardner Brownlee. Bozeman District Judge W.W. Les-sley, chairman of the seven-member commission, said Thursday that those who have applied are Ravalli County Attorney Douglas Harkin, Mineral County Attorney John Henson, and Missoula attorney William E. Murray.

Missoula attorney Dexter Delaney, president of the Western Montana Bar Association, said Thursday that he expects five or six more lawyers to apply for the position during the next couple of weeks. The only legal requirement for a state district judge is that the person selected must have been a practicing member of the state bar for five years. 'Street furniture' ideas sought sidewalks and streets. The Missoula planning department wants to see some fresh, innovative designs for all those things. Details of the contest will be announced in a few weeks, according to acting planning director Dan Obermeyer, and it will be open to anyone, professional designers and artists as well as semi-pros and outright amateurs.

The main prize will be com- By GORDON DILLOW Staff writer The Missoula urban renewal agency is planning a "street furniture" design contest to come up with ideas for the downtown urban renewal program. Street furniture is an architects' and engineers' term for benches, bus stops, kiosks, planters, tree guards, trash cans in short, any accessories to daily life that are placed on Midvives needed, health board fold three doctors who are willing to help these women, she said. Health Officer David Feffer said that the health department nurses are counseling mothers and advising those who may have a problem with delivery to have their babies in a hospital. Boggs suggested that the health department attempt to recruit a nurse-midwife to come to Missoula or offer a full or partial scholarship to someone to be trained as a home Is the place for birthing; it is not a medical crisis," Boggs said. A nurse-midwife also could provide some prenatal care and counseling and screen out high-risk mothers who should deliver their babies in a hospital, she said.

Until recently, only one doctor in Missoula provided prenatal care to mothers who planned to have their babies at home, Boggs said. All other doctors refused to give care to those mothers. Now there are Missoula needs a licensed nurse-midwife to help the increasing numbers of women who are choosing to deliver their babies at home, Missoula attorney Deirdre Boggs told the Missoula City-County Health Board Wednesday night. Last year, 29 home births were recorded in Missoula County. In the state, 147 were recorded, she said.

Since there are no licensed nurse-midwives in Missoula, women have their babies alone or call upon women willing to assist, "none of whom are openly available or regulated," Boggs said. She said there are two nurse-midwives in the state, but neither is interested in home births. There are fewer than nurse-midwives in the country, she added. Women give birth at home because they cannot afford hospital care or because they live too far from a hospital or other medical facilities, Boggs said. Other reasons are psychological or spiritual "that the $15,000 to $20,000, Obermeyer said.

The study will determine whether it's advisable to build a parking garage at the corner of Broadway and Pattee Street, next to the Western Montana Bank Building, and how it could be financed. The consultant also will consider the feasibility of building parking garages at the Missoula Bank of Montana's drive-in bank site on West Main Street and the parking lot on West Pine Street across from Connie's Lounge. The three finalists for the consultant's job are E. A. Barton Associates of Cleveland, Ohio; Ralph Burke Associates of Chicago and N.

G. Jacobson of Seattle. All three firms have national reputations in the traffic and parking design fields, Obermeyer said. Although there have been several downtown parking studies conducted in past years, Obermeyer said, this study of a' specific parking garage site is necessary because without it, the parking commission couldn't sell bonds to finance construction of a parking garage. Obermeyer said the study should be finished by the end of this year, and, if everything goes well, the parking garage project might be let to bid by early 1980.

munity recognition, Obermeyer said, but the urban renewal agency may be able to come up with the money for a nominal cash award. "We'll be looking at maintenance and durability," Obermeyer said, "and something reflecting Western Montana's heritage." That means concentration on wood materials, he said. Obermeyer said he may also ask the architecture school at Montana State University to let some of its students work on street furniture designs. Once the winning designs for the various kinds of street furniture are selected, Obermeyer said, the agency will start looking for money and volunteers to produce the street furniture. Obermeyer said the agency wants to get something built and on the street as soon as possible, perhaps this summer, as sort of a visual reminder to Missoulians that the urban renewal plan is getting started.

The urban renewal plan, approved by the Missoula City Council in December, calls for a revitalization of the downtown area as a retail center. The plan envisions closing some streets and converting them to malls, building several parking garages in the downtown area, connecting stores with covered walkways, and building a civic center somewhere in the North Higgins Avenue area. In other urban renewal business, the Missoula Parking Commission plans to select a consultant next week to conduct a "feasibility study" for a downtown parking garage. The Obituaries. Health Department seeks comments Missoula-area residents have been invited to tell Missoula City-County Health Department officials what they think the agency should be doing during the next fiscal year.

Health Officer David Feffer has asked that county residents write the department and list recommendations for dealing with community health needs and problems In Missoula. People can complain about present programs sponsored by the health department and "positive comments are welcome also," Feffer said. He said the comments will be considered in the next few weeks as the department officials re-evaluate their programs and long-range goals. "We need to find out what's important to people living in Missoula and what they want the department to do," Feffer said. "We also need to find out whether what we have been doing is having any effect or is even appropriate for the people here." "It's not like the people in the health department are Martians telling Missoulians what they should and should not be doing," he said.

"But it's good to find out what people outside the health field see as needs." The health department deals with many areas, including air pollution control, water quality, new subdivision reviews, sanitation, home health-care services, immunization, out-patient treatment, school-health programs, child-abuse prevention and services for the handicapped. Recommendations and comments should be sent to the City-County Health Department, 301 W. Alder by March 16. Feffer also is planning to conduct a public meeting later this month to gather comments. Mary Hornick- charge of burial arrangements.

There will be a memorial service at the Sand Coulee Methodist Church at a later date. Mem orials may be made to the Sand Coulee Methodist Church. Graveside services will be Saturday at 9 a.m. Mary Hornick, 90, a resident of Missoula since 1966, died Thursday, March 8 in Wayside Manor. Born May 21, 1889 in Strea-tor, 111., she came to Montana that same year with her parents John and Barbara Mittal.

Prior to her Missoula residence Mrs. Hornick lived for many years in Sand Coulee. Joe Weitzel study probably will cost about He retired in September 1972, at which time he moved to Cor-vallis. He was preceded In death by three brothers and a sister. Survivors include two brothers, Robert Weitzel, Corvallis, and Ted Weitzel, Libby; a sister, Freda Butts, Medical Lake, and numerous nieces and nephews.

Funeral services will be Monday at 2 p.m. in the Whitesitt Funeral Home in Stevensville with the Rev. Gary Trowbridge officiating. Burial will be at Riverview Cemetery at Speech judges needed CORVALLIS Joe Conrad Weitzel, 68, died Friday in Daly Memorial Hospital at Hamilton. Mr.

Weitzel was a veteran of World War II. He was born Aug. 30, 1910, at Fort Collins, Colo. He received his education at Victor, Arlee and Stevensville. He had worked as a horolo-gist an expert maker of timepieces.

He received his education as an horologist at the Denver American Academy in Denver, Colo. He worked at a sawmill in Libby for a while, and also worked for J. Nils and Diamond Match Co. at Superior. My grateful appreciation to the NEW IN MISSOULA! 5-Spice Roast Chicken (Cliurhroilcd) Takeout 519-7810, (Lanvin french bakery Doctors.

Nurses, and many friends for their concern for and kinilnesses to me during my recent stay at Com mun ily II ospila I. "Sourdough" fVillard Thompson Mrs. Hornick was a member of the Sand Coulee Methodist Church and the Rebekah Lodge, Great Falls. Mrs. Hornick was preceded in death by her husband, John, and one son, George.

Survivors include three sons, John, Spokane, Steve, Butte, and Andrew, Missoula; two daughters, Lillian and Margaret McGuire, Missoula; six grandsons, one granddaughter; sue great-grandsons and one great-granddaughter; two sisters, Susan Langley, Great Falls, and Theresa Moritz, Renton, two brothers, Mike, Belt, and George Mittal, Sand Coulee. The Five Valleys Burial Memorial Association is in Martha Becker KALISPELL Martha C. Becker, 87, died in Kalispell Wednesday evening. Mrs. Becker was a member of the Faith Free Lutheran Church in Kalispell.

She was born July 17, 1891, in Pocacontas County, Iowa, a daughter of Louis O. and Margaret E. Williams. She spent most of her life in Minnesota, Montana and California. In 1971 she moved to Kalispell, where she married Harry S.

Becker. She was preceded in death by a son, Melvin I. Greibrok, in 1969. She is survived by her husband, Harry, at the Montana Veterans Home in Columbia Falls; three brothers, Henry, Andrew and Clarence Williams, all of Thief River Falls, and a sister, Cora Beck, Lewis-town; and four grandchildren. Funeral services will be at 10 a.m.

Monday in the Johnson Chapel with the Rev. John Rieth of the Faith Free Lutheran Church officiating. Burial will be in the Glacier Memorial Gardens. Develop and print your own! Rent our darkroom for only s3.50hr. INEXPENSIVE! MODERN! CONVENIENT! OPEN 9-9 TOO! Rental faa include black while chemistry Town It Country Shopping Centar S.

3rd. Si Russell Around Missoula. Volunteers are needed to judge the School District 1 speech and drama meet scheduled for Thursday, March 22, on the University of Montana campus. Four speech categories interpretive reading, impromptu, expository and original oratory will be judged. Solo acting, duo acting, plays and pantomime are the drama events.

No experience in judging is necessary. An orientation session for judges will be 8 a.m. the day of the meet. Anyone interested in judging all or part of the day should call the District 1 Curriculum Office, 728-4000. Drivers identified The driver of a Missoula County Sheriff's Office patrol car that was involved in a two-car accident at the intersection of Orange Street and Brooks Thursday night was identified as Deputy Michael Reid McMeekin, 31, Lolo.

The driver of the other vehicle was identified as Dale Edger Buelow, 21, 928 S. 5th St. According to a report by the Missoula Police Department, Buelow's car was northbound on Orange Street when it went through a yellow caution light at the intersection of Brooks and struck the patrol car. McMeekin, the report said, was responding to an emergency call and had the patrol car's emergency lights and siren operating at the time of the accident. Traffic on Orange Street and Brooks had to rerouted for about 30 minutes Thursday night while the two cars were removed from the scene.

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Ellen and Rick Mace, 2208 Strand girl. Deborah and William Williams, 1813 Reserve No. 2, boy. Public event and meeting notices will be published in the Around Missoula column if they are received by noon two days before the requested day of publication. All items must be typed or legibly handwritten.

None will be accepted over the telephone. Date, time and place must be included. BITTERROOT CITIZENS FOR SENSIBLE GROWTH will hold a "Get Acquainted" fund-raiser on Sunday, March 11, from 2 to 8 p.m. at the Tucker's Barn three miles south of Victor on Highway 93. The funds will be used to sponsor and support local Bitterroot programs and projects.

Bluegrass Music, beer and refreshments will be served. A $4 donation is requested. WHITE HOUSE RECITAL BROADCAST, Andres Segovia, the unchallenged master of the Spanish classical guitar, will present a White House recital this Sunday. The event will be broadcast live on KUFM, 89.1 FM, Missoula; 99.3 FM, Butte, beginning at 2 p.m. Segovia is credited with having transformed the guitar into one of the world's most popular and widely studied instruments.

By editing and adapting works for other instruments, Segovia has virtually created an entire body of music for the guitar, an instrument once considered unsuitable for the concert stage. VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS OLE BECK POST NO. 209 AND THE AUXILIARY potluck dinner Saturday, March 10, 6:30 p.m. at the American Legion building, 825 Ron-an, honoring all past Commanders, past Presidents and the three local winners of the "Voice of Democracy" essay contest. FIVE VALLEYS AUDUBON SOCIETY MEETING, Monday, March 12, 7:30 p.m.

at the Western Federal South Side Bank (across from Trempers). Robert Twist, Refuge Manager at the Lee Metcalf (Ravalli) Refuge, will present slides and talk about wildlife refuges. There is also scheduled a field trip on Sunday, March 11, to the Lee Metcalf (Ravalli) Refuge. If interested, meet at the Harry Adams Fieldhouse parking lot at 9 a.m. Sunday.

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