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Saturday, February 25, 1989 MONTANA ROUNDUP Fire destroys home near Florence FLORENCE Fire investigators suspect faulty wiring started a fire that destroyed an unoccupied modular home west of Florence on Thursday night. Florence Volunteer Fire Department Chief Bob Krout said Friday that the double-wide home, which he valued at $40,000 to $50,000, was fully engulfed in flames when firefighters arrived shortly after 8 p.m. He said the home. which was owned by Craig Siphers of Stevensville, had been shut for the winter. But the electricity was still hooked up, Krout said, and the fire "definitely started under the trailer" where investigators found a faulty wire leading from the meter to the breaker box inside the home.

He said a neighbor reported the fire after seeing flames coming through the roof. "It was just too far gone," Krout said of the effort to save the structure. He said firefighters and equipment from the Florence Volunteer Fire Department, Three Mile Volunteer Fire Department and Missoula Rural Fire District were at the scene at the end of One Horse Creek Road until about 2 a.m Friday. Heat from stove ignited propane SEELEY LAKE A propane explosion and fire Wednesday at Seeley Lake was caused by a wood stove that ignited leaking gas, a fire official said Friday. Dave Sisk, chief of the Seeley Lake Volunteer Fire Department, said a wood stove being used inside the Filling Station bar and restaurant apparently sucked in propane gases through a wall.

The gases ignited, and the fire spread outside, according to an investigation conducted by state fire inspectors, Sisk said. The fumes leaked as a delivery truck filled a propane tank on the outside of the building. Propane fumes are heavier than air and settled on the ground; the wood stove actually drew the fumes through the wall or air holes in the building, and ignited, Sisk said. The fire originally was thought to have started by a spark from tools used to try to close the leak. Verne Shreve of Florence, the driver of the propane-delivery truck, suffered minor burns, mostly on his face, and was treated and released at Community Medical Center in Missoula.

Explosion destroys vacant cabin I LINCOLN A vacant cabin here was leveled by an explosion Thursday night, Lewis and Clark County Sheriff Chuck O'Reilly said. No one was injured in the blast, which collapsed the sides of the home and started a fire. The structure was undergoing remodeling work, O'Reilly said. The home has a propane heating system, but the sheriff said there was no indication that propane caused the explosion. The state fire marshal's office was investigating, he said Friday.

O'Reilly said it has not been determined whether the blast caused any damage to neighboring homes. The nearest structure was 75 yards away. Authorities seek Life Skills inmate MISSOULA Law enforcement officers were looking for a 21-year-old man with "numerous tattoos" Friday after he failed to return as scheduled to the Missoula Life Skills Center. Marilyn Lemaich, an employee at the center, said Chad Gregerson, who has a tear-drop tattoo under his right eye, had been released from the center to work Friday afternoon, but failed to return to the center in the evening. She said Gregerson, who is serving a 10-year term for felony theft, is not considered dangerous, but requested that anyone who sees him to contact law enforcement authorities.

She described Gregerson as white, 5 feet 8 inches tall, 160 pounds, with brown blue eyes and tattoos over his body." Cut in milk prices delayed HELENA The Montana Milk Control Board has voted 4-1 to postpone a decrease of 21 cents in the price of a gallon of whole milk until a related court case is settled. Friday's decision in Great Falls means Montanans will have to wait an indefinite time before benefiting from the decrease, if it goes into effect at all. The price reduction was scheduled to take effect March 1. board said it would postpone the decrease until after District Judge Jeffrey Sherlock of Helena makes a decision in the case. The board's action came in response to a request for an injunction filed by three dairies protesting that such a large decrease could force them out of business.

Sherlock's decision could take at least four months to complete, a lawyer for the Milk Control said. The delay came one week after Cloverleaf Jersey -Dairy Inc. of Helena, Equity Supply of Kalispell and Vita Rich Dairy Inc. of Havre filed a petition for a temporary restraining order in state District Court to halt the price cut. Milk Control Chief William E.

Ross announced the cut earlier this month. It is the largest proposed milk price cut in the state's history and would drop the price of a gallon of whole milk from $2.69 to $2.48. TV show to examine murder case BILLINGS The mysterious murder of a young Montana woman in Wyoming last year is the subject of an "Unsolved television program scheduled to air March 8. A spokesman for the prime-time television show said Friday that the case of Lisa Marie Kimmell was filmed in her hometown of Billings and in Wyoming last October. John McLaughlin, a researcher for the program based in Los Angeles, said a film crew Ron and Sheila Kimmell Oct.

15 about their daughter's death. The film crew then went to several towns in Wyoming, where Lisa had been spotted between her March 25, 1988, disappearance, and April 2, when her body was found in the North Platte River near Casper, Wyo. Lisa, 18, had been driving from Denver to Billings when she and her car disappeared from a Wyoming highway. Authorities say they still are searching for her car and her killer. Reserve deputy faces two charges FORSYTH Bob Hagan of Lame Deer, a full-time dispatcher in the Rosebud County Sheriff's office at Colstrip and a reserve deputy, is being held in Forsyth in lieu of $50,000 bond on two criminal counts involving female children.

Hagan is charged with attempted rape of a 9-year-old girl and with breaking the leg of a 6-year-old girl. He is scheduled for arraignment Tuesday in Forsyth on felony counts of aggravated assault and attempted sexual intercourse without consent. Gary Ryder, deputy Rosebud County attorney, said the alleged criminal acts were brought to his attention by the county welfare department. Hagan was arrested last week. The attempted rape allegedly occurred in January and the assault incident earlier this month, authorities said.

Ryder said the alleged victims both live in Lame Deer, where the incidents were reported. In addition to dispatcher duties, Hagan fills in when full-time officers go on vacation or in times of emergencies. Park announces plowing schedule YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK Plowing of snow from roads in Yellowstone National Park is to begin March 6 with the closure of the road from Mammoth Hot Springs to Norris, according to Superintendent Robert Barbee. He said roads between Norris and Canyon and between Norris and Madison will be closed to all traffic March 8, while the area from Fishing Bridge to Canyon will be closed March 13. Barbee also said the road from the west entrance to Madison and Old Faithful, as well as the east entrance to Fishing Bridge and West Thumb, will be closed March 20.

And the road from the south entrance to Old Faithful will be closed on March 27. Barbee said that as part of an agreement with the town of West Yellowstone, the portion of road from the west entrance to Old Faithfu! will remain open to oversnow travel one week later than usual. Seeley plan calls for cooperation By DONNA SYVERTSON Seeley plan Last summer's fires likely to increase river flows BOZEMAN (AP) Flows in the Yellowstone and I Madison rivers this spring will be higher than people have seen in years because of last summer's forest fires in portions of the river basins, according to a federal official. "There's going to be a lot more water than people are used to seeing," said Phil Farnes, supervisor of the U.S. Conservation Service snow survey office in Bozeman.

Snowmelt water flows in the two rivers, which eventually empty into the Missouri River, are expected to be at least 10 percent higher than normal this year because of last summer's drought-fueled forest fires, some of which burned until the snows came last fall. Farnes said some streams would be flowing bank-full and probably for longer periods this year, particularly during normally dry periods of late July and August. Farnes said large tracts of land in the Madison and Yellowstone river drainages were denuded by fire. That means that snow which otherwise would have been held aloft in the branches of trees and shrubs often evaporating directly into the atmosphere has piled up on the ground and will contribute to a larger, longer spring runoff. Additionally, there has been more snow this year than in recent winters.

"We're still below normal," Farnes said, "but it's better than it has been in the past three or four years." Most areas in southwest Montana have snowpacks that are 80 to 90 percent of normal, he said. "Just being close to normal will be a heck of an improvement," Farnes said. "People have gotten so used to below-average years that this will look like a heck of a lot of Roughly 38 percent of the tree and forest canopy in the Madison River drainage was affected by the fires, Farnes said. The decrease in tree cover should, in turn, produce 12 percent to 13 percent more water in the Madison River this year, he said. The Yellowstone River probably will carry 11 percent more water this year, Farnes said.

The Gallatin River should have an increase of. only 3 percent, Farnes said, and there probably will be "no change" in the Jefferson River. All are tributaries of the Missouri. Snow piled up in burned areas at high elevations "will add to the runoff later in the season," he said, "because a lot of those places don't start to melt until after the peak runoff." In a normal year, peak runoff occurs between mid-May and mid-June, Farnes said. Bill could improve library services The future of important public library services depends on action by the Legislature, Ted Schmidt, director of the Missoula Public Library, said Friday.

A bill now pending in the Legislature, if passed, could restore Missoula's full bookmobile services beginning in fiscal 1989. 90, beef up a book purchasing budget that has fallen 37 percent in the last two years, and prevent the library from closing in June 1990, Schmidt said. House Bill 193, sponsored by Rep. Bob Thoft, R-Stevensville, would establish a statewide library card that would enable people to check out books from any library and return them to any library. It would support that and other service improvements by a $3 million appropriation, of which $78,000 a year would go to the Missoula Public Library.

That extra income could help support the bookmobile and other services Schmidt mentioned. The bookmobile is now supported temporarily by public contributions. Library board members Friday were encouraged to attend a hearing on HB193 by the House Appropriations Committee at 8 a.m. March 13 in Room 104 of the state Capitol. Concerning financial support, "I feel we've not only run into a brick wall, but are bricked in from all sides," said board chairwoman Marcia Dunn.

"We need some legislation to increase funding," said Faye Olsen, while new board member Kerry Foresman agreed that the Legislature is "where the responsibility lies." Because money is tight, the Missoula library will be closed this June, probably for two weeks. The board approved a capital budget request to spend an estimated $73,917 to replace the library's 15-year-old carpeting. The request goes to county commissioners where it joins, in no particular priority, earlier requests for a new air conditioner and insulation under the floor that overhangs the library parking lot. Missoula man draws fine for drug charge Brent M. Hinger escaped physical drug-related explosion and fire scorched Sept.

16, but his pocketbook didn't scathed. District Judge Jack Green on Hinger. $1,000 for felony possession drugs with intent to sell. Green also a three-year deferred sentence on the Hinger was living at 206 S. Davis ber when a highly flammable mixture and acetone, often combined to juana derivative, exploded on a stove.

Hinger escaped without injury, Hawk, who was visiting Hinger, Hawk suffered first- and second-degree the fire. In a barn behind the home, OBITUARIES Missoulian By MICHAEL MOORE of the Missoulian A.J. 'Jack' Richardson GREAT FALLS Former Missoula resident A.J. "Jack" Richardson, 76, of Great Falls, died of cancer Thursday, Feb. 23, in a Great Falls hospital.

He was born Kalispell and when he was 3. Great Falls High license as a civil or through study In 1940 he married Alma Lohse in Great Falls. She died in 1964. Mr. Richardson worked as a surveyor in Alaska and the Yukon during World War II.

He joined the city of Great Falls engineer- Oct. 12, 1912, in moved to Great Falls He graduated from School earned a engineer and surveyon his own. A.J. Richardson A.J. Richardson ing department in 1946, was named assistant city engineer in 1949 and became engineer in 1955.

He resigned that post in 1959 and was elected county surveyor in 1962. He also was a civil engineer at Malmstrom Air Force Base, in the city engineer's office in Missoula and for the state in Helena. He started sculpure as a hobby and he sculpted Mike Mansfield in 1979. His work was shown at galleries in Montana and other states. He was past president of Friends of the Library.

In 1967 he married Jeane Victoria Eichwald in Great Falls. She preceded him in death in 1979. After retiring in 1977, he lived at Avon, Missoula and Great Falls. Survivors include two daughters, Linda Muskovitz, Great Falls, and Carol Kolb, Fort Lauderdale, a son, William, Missoula; a stepdaughter, Jennie Eichwald, Seattle; two stepsons, Paul Eichwald, Missoula, and John Eichwald, Salt Lake City; a brother, Art, Great Falls; a sister, Florence Rafferty, Spokane; six grandchildren and five great-grandchildren. He also was preceded in death by a brother and a grandchild.

Memorial services were held Mon- day in Great Falls. of the Missoulian Authors of a plan to encourage orderly growth in Seeley Lake hope it will create an atmosphere of compromise rather than confrontation. The plan, an amendment to Missoula County's 1975 comprehensive plan, states that most of its goals must be accomplished on a voluntary basis. It also includes a resolution advocating a philosophy that "working together works." The resolution, said Bud Johnson, president of Seeley's community council, is a little idealistic, "but it can't hurt to get that implemented." The plan, which will be the subject of a public hearing with Missoula County commissioners Monday at 7 p.m. at the Seeley Lake Community Hall, advocates solving problems on a one-on-one level.

The plan supports balancing air and water quality, a healthy economic base, timber management, sewage disposal, growth of recreation and tourism, improved law enforcement and fire services, housing and protection of wildlife. "We didn't make real strict guidelines in there," Johnson said. "It's pretty general; we did it for a reason, so it could go either way. "It's not a very good situation when people are yelling and calling names and you get lawyers involved in suing," Johnson said. "We'd like it where both (sides) may have a heated discussion, but they're open-minded enough to come with something they agree In putting together the document, the council held several public meetings to get responses.

Most debate centered on an improved sewer system and land management of timber resources, Johnson said. The document also calls for communitywide support to change state-owned land, on which many people hold leases, to private ownership. Some residents wonder why the plan doesn't call for private ownership of federal lands, too. But the council, Johnson explained, thought its best chance was with the state lands. Once that issue is resolved, he added, the area can concentrate on federal leases.

injury when a his kitchen escape un- Thursday fined of dangerous gave Hinger, 28, charge. St. in Septemof marijuana produce a mari- but Jeffrey Jay wasn't so lucky. burns in investigators probing the mishap discovered a marijuana-growing operation. Authorities found more than 100 marijuana plants in various stages of maturity.

Hinger, who fled the house and wasn't located for three weeks, and Hawk were charged with possession with intent to sell. Prosecutors dismissed the charge against Hawk in January, after Hinger told them Hawk had no part in the grow operation. Hinger pleaded guilty as part of a plea bargain, the terms of which appeared threatened Thursday when Judge Green became angered by Hinger's vague responses to questions about time he had spent in jail on past traffic violations. Although Hinger's driving record has no actual relation to the drug charge, Green said he'd have sent Hinger to jail for his courtroom demeanor. "I find your attitude here disgusting," Green told Hinger.

"If it was up to me, based on what you did here today, you'd be spending some time at least Robert F. Baker Robert F. RAINIER, Wash. Former Missoula resident Robert F. Baker, 76, died of natural causes Sunday, Feb.

12, at his home in Rainier, Wash. He was born May 13, 1912, in Philipsburg to Charles and Hazel McDonel Baker, attended schools in Missoula and graduated from Missoula County High School in 1933. On Nov. 8, 1943, he married Lois Blachly in Spokane. Mr.

Baker was employed by the Montana Highway Department before World War II and was a member of Missoula Masonic Lodge No. 13. During the war he worked for ti the Army Engineers at Gore Hill, Great Falls and at Kodiak, Alaska. He later was employed by the Washington State Highway Department and in 1952 joined the Washington State Parks Department. He retired in 1974.

Survivors include his wife, Rainier; a son, Charles, Menlo Park, and a sister, Grace Martell, Missoula. Informal services been held at Scott Lake, Wash. Mary E. Woolsey STEVENSVILLE Mary E. Woolsey, 90, of Stevensville, died of natural causes Thursday, Feb.

23, at North Valley Nursing Home. Funeral arrangements are pending and will be announced by Whitesitt Funeral Home. Loretta C. Scheffer MISSOULA Loretta C. Scheffer, 94, of Missoula, died of natural causes Friday, Feb.

24, at Valley View Estates Nursing Home in Hamilton. Funeral arrangements are pending and will be announced by LivingsonMalletta Geraghty Funeral Home. Obituary policy Obituaries are news stories, and the Missoulian prints them at no charge. They include name, age, birthdate and hometown of the deceased, along with other background information about the deceased. Cause of death is listed.

If the person was 70 or older, natural causes if accurate will suffice. Other suggestions also include lighting and a cemetery, which the plan supports. The plan encompasses the area in School District 34. Johnson urged residents of that district to attend Monday's meeting to comment on the plan. "If they shoot it down, we've got to re-do it," he said.

Henry M. Jackson MISSOULA Henry Milton Jackson, 73, of Missoula, died of natural causes Thursday, Feb. 23, at St. Patrick Hospital. He was born Sept.

16, 1915, in Gerdler, to De Amos and Lucy Jackson. He began working at the age of 9 in the Kentucky coal mines. He later moved to Ohio and eastern Henry M. Henry M. Montana, Jackson where he worked as a farm hand.

He also was employed as a tree trimmer in Missoula and Stevensville. Mr. Jackson was a member of the Church of God. He was preceded in death by five brothers and two sisters. Survivors include a brother, Lloyd, Lexington, a sister, Loney Belle Shaffer, Mendon, and several nieces and nephews.

Graveside services will be 2 p.m. Tuesday at Sunset Memorial Cemetery with the Rev. Bob Conrad officiating. Arrangements are under the direction of Squire Simmons Carr Funeral Home. The family suggests memorials to the American Cancer Society, P.O.

Box 3914, Missoula 59806; or to Hospice of Missoula or Partners in Health Care, 500 N. Higgins, Missou- la 59802. Florence May McDonald KALISPELL Florence May McDonald, 75, of Kalispell, died of natural causes Thursday, Feb. 23, at her daughter's home in Kalispell. Graveside services will be 2 p.m.

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