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Missoulian, Friday, March 16, 1979-9 icp tops flow, with some conditions wiSS her opinion, the danger involved with drunken drivers leaving the event still is high. "Somebody's going to get it," she said. Evans said that, if somebody appealed the permit decision to the health board, she would, as far as she knows, be able lo vote on the appeal despite her stated opposition to the kegger. kegger that somebody will probably appeal it." She said she believes that kegger sponsors have tried in past years to conduct a safe event, but she added that, in By STEVE SMITH Staff writer Sponsors of the annual Aber Day Kegger at Miller Creek will get the health permit they've been seeking for the event, but Missoula's city-county health officer plans to make a "strong request" for some precautions. The issue of whether to allow the kegger arose in the past two weeks, with county commissioner and city-county health board member Barbara Evans leading the opposition.

Evans opposes the event, sponsored by the Missoula Liquid Assets Corporation and scheduled for May 16, on grounds that it poses safety, sanitary and traffic hazards. The health board, after a public hearing Wednesday, left to Feffer the decision of whether to issue the permit to the kegger's sponsors. Feffer said lie will sign the permit for four reasons. First, he said, the Missoula Liquid Assets Corp. has complied things," he said, "but I will request them to." Feffer said he will ask sponsors to impose a $5 parking fee at the K-0 Rodeo Grounds kegger site "as an incentive for car-pooling." He also said he will ask that sponsors obtain four additional large buses to transport kegger participants to and from the event.

"I would urge them to work with the Mountain Line and other bus companies on this," Feffer said. He said he will attend the kegger to get "pertinent medical and safety data" to be used in deciding whether to issue a health permit next year. Feffer said members of the public can appeal his decision to the health board. Evans, who had been informed of Feffer's decision to grant the permit, told the Missoulian Thursday evening, "I think there are enough residents in the area who have seen the hazards of the with Section 3 of the permit application, which requires provision of sanitation facilities and adequate law-enforcement personnel. Second, he continued, no historical data exists to support any claim that the kegger poses a substantial danger to the public's health and safety.

Third, said Feffer, the issue of substantial danger is "merely one of supposition." He added that the probability of danger "just hasn't been demonstrated." And fourth, he said, the problems inherent in the kegger are not demonstrably different from those inherent in the annual University of Montana-Montana State football game, various rodeos or the Missoula County Fair. Feffer added that he plans to request that kegger sponsors "do everything within their power" to keep drunken drivers off the roads after the event. "I can't demand that they do these j-OJ jit ih 1 1 it i oiceir soys sufvivo twDitsr wutsiii iiyviii what's eating you." Samp, a relative unknown compared with past chamber banquet speakers such as Dr. Norman Vincent Peale, Abigail VanBuren and Art Linkletter, regaled his audience with his earthy and humorous advice on everything from love to sex to the raising of children. "Don't count on your children for comfort in your later years," he said.

"Children were not invented to be enjoyed; they were put here to test the tolerance of the adult." Samp said loving and helping others not material success is one key to happiness and survival. Another, he add- By STEVE SMITH Staff writer Survival depends upon somebody else being more important to you than you are, a University of Wisconsin health educator told about 750 persons at Wednesday night's 91st annual Missoula Area Chamber of Commerce banquet in the University Center Ballroom. Discussing "Survival of People in an Uptight World," Dr. Robert J. Samp also said that a person's survival program is dependent on moments of joy.

"Have some fun, folks!" Samp said, adding later that survival in today's world "isn't so much what you eat, it's photo by Josephine Loewen Mass transit Bill's passage would allow airport liquor "We're playing bus," 5-year-old Pelah Hoyt explained, as she pulled two of her ASUM Day Care playmates in a wagon through Sacajawea Park recently. Passengers Cristy Burch, 4, (left) and Bobby Rummel, 5, seemed to enjoy their ride, especially with a helpful push from 3-year-old Jason Thoene. City may give low-income persons break on curb, gutter installation ed, is not being preoccupied with one's health. "What you want to do is out-survive everybody," he said at one point. "That's the way to get rid of enemies; outlive the SOBs." Samp urged his listeners not to be preoccupied by what is going on in other towns and other places, but to concentrate on Missoula.

"Here's where life is!" he said. "Right in your own community with your own friends and your own neighbors. Pay attention to them and give them some of your time." Samp implored his listeners to "make peace" with neighbors and family and to "settle up with Mom and Dad." "Give them (parents) one more word of thanks before it's too late," he said. He also suggested that his listeners get re-acquainted with their children, and he urged husbands and wives to renew their efforts to love and respect one another. "The kids nowadays don't think that you (mothers and fathers) love each other any more," Samp said.

Samp discussed the concepts of challenge and hard work, and he said survival "has to do with using the brains God gave you." The chamber's annual George Award was presented to the organization's building committee for its work in obtaining a new chamber of commerce building. Committee members were Dan Lambros, chairman, and George Caras, John Ruffatto, Jack Roemer and Rud-yard Goode. Goode, outgoing chamber president, presented the 1979 chamber gavel to incoming president Gene Peterson, general manager of Missoula's KYLT Radio. Master of ceremonies at the banquet was Missoula businessman William Green, Missoula County's director of airports, said on being told of the bill's passage. Green has talked with representatives of several national companies that specialize in airport restaurants, but all of them have said they are not interested in building and operating a restaurant at the Missoula terminal unless they could operate a lounge in connection with it.

The liquor-license question had stalled negotiations because, until passage of HB-779, the only way a license could have been obtained for the airport was through the state's license-quota system. Under that system, liquor licenses cost $100,000 and more. Green said he would mail packets containing specifications and other material to prospective restaurant bidders by the end of this week. He added that an agreement could be signed as early as mid-May. By STEVE SMITH Staff writer The Montana Senate has given final approval to a bill that will allow Missoula County's airport to apply for a special airport liquor license.

House Bill 779, passed by the House earlier, creates an all-beverages, branch liquor license for use by Montana's major public airports. The bill will become effective with the governor's signature, according to Sen. F'red Van Valkenburg, D-Missoula. The Senate's passage of HB-779, sponsored by Rep. John Scully, D-Boze-man, clears the way for Missoula County airport administrators to apply for the $800 license.

It also allows them to continue efforts to find a suitable concessionaire for the building and operating of a restaurant-bar at the county's newly remodeled terminal at Johnson-Bell Field. "That's music to my ears," Gary gutter assessment. The loan would be paid off whenever the owner or owners of the property died, when the house ownership changed hands or if the homeowners no longer faced financial hardship because of curb and gutter assessments. The council still has to debate the terms of the loan program, but generally it would apply to low- or fixed-income elderly people and disabled people who live in their own homes. It also might be applied to low-income homeowners with dependent children.

City officials estimate that only about 1 percent of the people who must pay for curbs and gutters would be eligible for the program. The loan program would apply only in cases where curbs and gutters are ordered in as part of the gas-tax street paving program. year, and about three dozen city blocks are scheduled to be paved. But several City Council members have questioned whether elderly, low-income homeowners should be forced to pay for curbs and gutters. Many of them don't drive, officials believe, so they don't use the streets as much as other property owners.

And the increased property values attributed to curbs and gutters don't really benefit those who don't plan to sell their houses anyway. If anything, increased property value just means higher taxes. The proposal before the City Council would allow the city to "loan" qualified homeowners the amount the new curbs and gutters would cost them, at the same rate of interest that other property owners pay to amortize their curb and By GORDON DILLOW Staff writer The Missoula City Council soon will consider a plan to give elderly, low-income homeowners a break when it comes to paying for curb and gutter installations. The city puts in curbs and gutters whenever a street is being repaved, and the adjacent property owners have to pay for them at a rate of about $7 a foot whether they like it or not. City engineering officials say the curbs increase the lifespan of the street, and property owners benefit because curbs and gutters increase the resale value of their property.

The street paving itself is paid for with state gas-tax money. The city got about $250,000 in gas-tax money this of the Missoulbn Steve Smith. it kid in fff bit still a If mere's you 0 other offspring my remarkable maternal grandmother, who was known to many around Butte as Kate. Mary Crane O'Connor died in Butte in 1937, two months shy of her 86th birthday anniversary. Her daughter, Kate O'Connor Mueller shrewd Butte businesswoman; Catholic to the core; feisty, yet lovable, in what her son-in-law, my father, sometimes referred to as her shanty Irish-ness made 88.

Cheers. Mary, and you too, Kate, and thanks, old dears, for the memories. Notions If memory serves, it was about eight years ago that I traipsed from Dublin to Belfast trying to get a handle on my mother's ancestors I didn't do very well on that score, but my travels still were enlightening in that they relieved me forever of what had been some schoolboy notions about shamrocks. Blarney stones and leprechauns. Parts of Dublin were unspeakable poverty and filth, and Belfast was a British curfew and a 30-caliber machine gun set atop sandbags on every other street corner.

If you haven't been turned inside out by a novel lately, try Leon Uris' "Trinity" on for size. Follow that up with Jill Uris' "Ireland: A Terrible Beauty" and you'll have a pretty fair grasp of the Emerald Isles' longstanding miseries. As the inscription to "Trinity" says of Ireland, "There is no present or future only the past, happening over and over again, now." Tasty If you don't know that a seven-course meal in Ireland consists of a boiled potato and a six-pack, you should. Mumble If you can't think of anything else appropriate to say tomorrow, just swig your beer, doff your kite-f lying cap and mumble as follows: Up the long ladder and down the short rope. To hell with King Billy and God bless the Pope.

If that doesn't do we 11 tear em in two And send 'em to hell with their rcd-white-and-blue. For heaven's sake, remember to mumble' You never know when somebody of different political and religious persuasions might be nearby and of a mind to rearrange your nose. Of course if you're Irish you'll probably welcome the action. Happy St. Patrick's Day.

and may the wind alwavs be at vour back! the duece KUFM is all about, dig up the February issue of "Borrowed Times," Missoula's alternative newspaper, and read Jim Robbins' informative piece on public radio and its local practitioners. It's a lengthy, albeit lively, article, and I can't quote much of it here, but when you're done reading it you'll know a lot more about UM professor-KUFM station manager Phil Hess and his talented crew, who over the years have built, in Robbins' words, "a cultural oasis amidst the desert of western Montana radio." Robbins says of KUFM, which daily provides western Montanans with about as stimulating and delightful a menu of listening as you'll ever hear: "KUFM listeners have doubled in each of the past four years, according to a rating service commissioned by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and based on a diary kept in the homes of listeners. According to the study, in 1975 KUFM had too few listeners to register on the survey. In 1976 KUFM had 1.5 percent of Missoula listening; in 1977 4.42 percent of the area's audience tuned in, and this past year the rating was 9.2 percent." Robbins quotes William Marcus, 28, who, along with KUFM's Terry Conrad, does much of the station's programming: "I worked for (Missoula commercial station) KGMY for a week, and they told me to imagine my audience as a housewife with the vacuum cleaner running. We were supposed to make ourselves heard above the vacuum." If you read Robbins' article and still are wondering why National Public Radio and its affiliated stations such as KUFM are taking hold, tune in to 89.1 on your FM dial (99.3 in Butte) and find out firsthand.

And if you like what you hear whether it's Roger Johnson's excellent noontime newscasts or NPR's "All Things Considered" remember that public radio your radio needs public financial support. KUFM's annual fund-raising marathon is coming up in April, and any money you can send the station's way is well spent. You're beautiful, KUFM; hang in there. Cheers If family records are believable, tomorrow, on St. Patrick's Day, I won't have to delve as deeply as a few "Irishmen" I know to come up with some Gaelic heritage to toast.

My great-grandmother, Mary Crane, was born in Clair Morrice, County Mayo, Ireland, May 10, 1851. She emigrated to the United States, married one John O'Connor, moved West and brought forth unto the world among "Without a word, Pablo shot his five-foot, diamond-shaped kite into the air on a fifteen-mile southwest breeze. I sent my nonrigid kite up rapidly another one thousand feet to get out of his way as fast as possible, but maintaining a belly in the string so that he could not run a tight line against mine and cut me. I went up to four thousand feet. He continued to try to lean on my string, but he couldn't take hold.

My kite just drifted away, carrying my line out of the grasp of his. Nor could he reach mine with his razor-studded kite. We fought each other for five hours. "The sun was beginning to fade and the wind was coming out of the northwest. Pretty soon, I knew, there would be a sudden drop of wind and then there would be a stillness in the air.

"I began to reel in my kite one thousand feet, then two thousand feet. Pablo Diablo reeled his in from one thousand feet to eight hundred feet and then six hundred feet, waiting to meet me when I came down within his fighting range. As the wind shifted, our kites began to fly over a copse of trees in the southeast area of Central Park. I brought my kite down another five hundred feet. Pablo brought his to two hundred feet.

I knew that the wind was soon to die down entirely. All of a sudden the wind stopped dead. Pablo Diablo, who had no experience in the park, flying above treetops, looked His kite fell into the trees and was disintegrated by the branches. I spun out my kite on my fast reel in a victory flourish, and the kids cheered and cheered. I was champion of New I could go on at great length about kites, kite-flying and the therapeutic value thereof, but always there is the chance that I will be caught in a technicality by Missoula's Rick McClanahan, who builds superb box kites when he is not exhausting his energies at rugby; the ingenious and enterprising Brandenberger twins; or by young Ross Andrew of the upper Rattlesnake, who I once saw save with a flick of his wrist an imperiled 45-foot Chinese dragon kite.

The crimson dragon had plummeted 300 feet and was within inches of being shredded on a radio antenna outside Ross' brother's bedroom window when Ross' perfectly executed wrist-flick halted the plunge and sent the kite soaring skyward. Suffice it to say that if you are not flying kites and smelling roses, for that matter you should be. After all, there's got to be more to Growing Up than just TeeVee. Beautiful If, after all these years, you're still wondering what If you don't have a nagging crick in your neck by now, the middle of March, you haven't been gazing up at your kite enough. That probably means you haven't been flying your kite, which may mean that you don't even own a kite.

That, in turn, may mean that you are among the thousands of smug adults who annually persist in proclaiming that kiteflying is kids' stuff something they left behind when, thank God, they Grew Up. If, deep down, you sense that those kids darting gazelle-like around fields and playgrounds are having more fun than you you who have resolutely parked your carcass in front of your TeeVee I suggest you build or purchase a modest kite, find a suitable cap and take to the air. A modest kite costs about four bits, which is cheap thrills. Of course if you just received your income-tax refund and are feeling flush, you can buy a dazzling, 12-foot, delta kite from the Smithsonian Institution for $125, or a custom-appliqued, seven-foot, diamond kite from San Francisco for a paltry $280. As for a spool of serviceable string serious kite-fliers call it line the cost in these days of cruel inflation is anybody's guess, but you should through careful shopping be able to find something workable for under $100.

It is useful to know that most adults who fly kites wear caps. Caps, they hope, make them look boyish, and they then do not have to suffer the condescending inquiries of other adults who, bless their righteous little hearts, Long Ago Put Aside the Things of Childhood. If you think you are too old to fly kites, consider Will Yolen, dean of American kite-fliers and a man who probably is past 70. Will, who flies with the aid of a fishing rod and reel, several years ago vanquished in a duel the wily Pablo Diablo Paul the Devil who flew kites from the rooftops above 110th Street in New York City. Pablo used glass-encrusted line on a heavy-frame rigid kite, the perimeter of which was studded with razor blades.

Pablo was, in Will's words, "the scourge of the rooftops." No other kite-fliers' lines could withstand an assault from Pablo; he was, again in Will's words, a "killer." Will in his classic work, "The Complete Book of Kites and Kite Flying" describes how he did away with him: "After months of viewing my kite aloft, Pablo descended from the rooftops and approached me. The little kids cried, 'Mire, mire! (Look, look) Pablo Diablo, Pablo and scattered as they screamed, clutching their kites. i jr.