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Tm wday, Sepie mWr io, 1985 Great Falls Tribune 9-A lVo crowds attracted by dedication Schmechel turns down idea of monument to Snake River jump to sell Colstrip 3 said this would require the company to request additional risk compensation, significantly increasing the cost of Colstrlip 4 power to Montana consumers. It also would increase Montana Power's other financing costs, with Montana customers footing the bill, Schmechel said. The plan also would force Montana Power to sell 210 megawatts of power to other utilities at its full cost when the market price would be less than half of that price, Schmechel said. This would be "prohibitively expensive to the company," he said, "with the losses causing seriously impaired financial health." Schmechel concluded by telling the PSC that its recent order approving an $80.3 million electric rate hike phased in over eight years Montana, combined with the disposition of Colstrip 4, "will best serve the public interest." "I trust that the commission shares this belief," Schmechel said. The PSC approved the order on a 4-1 vote last month, with Driscoll credits still available on the still-un completed plant if Montana Power would buy the power from a wholly owned generating subsidiary.

Schmechel, however, said this proposal would cause several "adverse impacts" to MPC customers and investors. It could jeopardize Montana Power's attempt to obtain a leveraged lease arrangment for Colstrip 4, he said. Under such a plan, Montana Power would sell its share of Colstrip 4 to an investor group, which would lease the power plant back to Montana Power, which would sell the power to other utilities. MPC's Montana customers would neither use Colstrip 4 power nor pay for it, according to Schmechel. "It is also very possible that sensitive negotiations with out-of-state power purchasers would be severely impaired and perhaps even aborted," Schmechel said.

Under Driscoll's plan, the power from Colstrip 4 would be sold directly to the Montana market without out-of-state utilities providing credit support, the MPC chairman said. He TWIN FALLS, Idaho (AP) They compared him to P.T. Barnum and credited him with a multimillion- dollar boost in Idaho's Magic Valley economy, but the crowd was only a fraction of the thousands who turned out in 1974 to see daredevil Robert "Evel" Knievel try to jump a motorcycle across the Snake River. "I came here today seeking no publicity of any kind, but just to remember this event," Knievel told about 50 people who braved cloudy, rain-threatening skies and whipping winds Monday for the dedication of a granite monument to the death-defying stunt that occurred just 11 years and one day before. Calling the monument dedication a "media event that hasn't been taken advantage of," Twin Falls Area Chamber of Commerce executive vice president Michael Dolton ignored the local controversy over the memorial to say it should have been erected years sooner.

Thou sands of tourists inquire about the event every year, he said. The stone rectangle donated by a local cemetery depicts Knievel's rocket-powered Sky-Cycle in a line drawing at the top over his name and the inscription "Explorer, Motorcyclist and Daredevil." It is located at the scenic overlook on the canyon's south rim at the Perrine Bridge, two miles downstream from where Knievel nose-dived into the chasm. Dolton said the unsuccessful stunt was "a major historical moment in Twin Falls, Idaho, where our community was placed on the map forever by Evel Knievel during his Snake River Canyon jump. He has a talent for showmanship unequaled in the realm of American folk art since the days of P.T. Bamum and Buffalo Bill Cody." Mayor Emery Peterson agreed, saying he had been told the jump was one of only two great events in Twin Falls history the other being the dedication of the irrigation project at the turn of the century.

Knievel, who has turned from stunts to art and is now painting under the guidance of western artist Black Jack Ferriter in Butte, still displayed the flash of a decade ago as he arrived for the dedication in a richly furnished bus towing a trailer with his paintings, most of them of western scenes. Wearing a white sports coat, tan slacks and boots, he sported a large gold ring encrusted with diamonds on his right hand and a wide gold bracelet with his name set out in diamonds on his right wrist. His walk still stiff from scores of of trying Tribune Capitol Bureau HELENA Public Service Commissioner John Driscoll's plan to try and force Montana Power to sell the Colstrip 3 power plant instead of Colstrip 4 would hurt the utility's customers and its investors, MPC chairman Paul Schmechel told the PSC Monday. In a letter delivered Monday, Schmechel also reiterated the company's plans to sell its 30 percent share of Colstrip 4 or its output of electricity and reported that "progress is being made." He did not elaborate. Montana Power has decided to get rid of its share of Colstrip 4, which isn't expected to begin operating until next April, because the facility isn't necessary to meet its Montana needs for many years, Schmechel has said.

But Schmechel warned that the utility has "serious concerns" that the PSC might take some action that couild jeopardize its plans to dispose of Colstrip 4. Although not mentioning Driscoll by name, Schmechel was referring to the Hamilton commissioner's plan to force Montana Power to unload Colstrip 3, which has been operating for nearly two years, and to keep Colstrip 4 instead Driscoll's plan has drawn no support so far from the other four PSC members, but he has held out hope for it in the event of a favorable ruling from the Montana Supreme Court of a 1984 Montana Power rate case. Other commissioners have questioned its legality, saying Colstrip 4 wasn't part of this rate case, but Driscoll disagrees. Driscoll wants the PSC to refuse to allow Montana Power to charge consumers for Colstrip 3 as it did last year in the order reversed by District Judge Mark Sullivan of Butte. That way Montana Power would be forced to sell Colstrip 3.

Then the PSC would commit to rates that would cover the cost of buying the output of Colstrip 4 under Driscoll's plan. He said the cost of the power would be 10 percent cheaper to consumers than Colstrip 3 power because of investment tax BOLTS NUTS WASHERS FASTENERS Your COMPLETE supplier for 70 years CARL WEISSMAN SONS, INC. 300 3rd Ave. Great Falls WANT ADS Work Wonders Mountaintop note may 11.00 At this rate, you should know more about Ginnie Mae. Let me introduce you to Ginnie Mae's.

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Bombeck broken bones suffered in other motorcycle stunts, Knievel mounted the flatbed truck used for the ceremonies to tell the crowd, "The Snake River Canyon was a stage, and the world was my audience." "I know that it will always be controversial," he said of the jump, adding, "I don't see any big line of daredevils standing here wanting to jump across." For some older, conservative residents of Twin Falls, that is just fine because Knievel's jump conjures up memories of hordes of bikers and assorted undesirables, and lawsuits over unpaid bills. One city councilman called the monument and dedication "one of the biggest, asinine things to ever happen to Twin Falls." Labeled a Western Woodstock, the 1974 spectacle drew a crowd of between 10,000 and 20,000 to the sweltering sagebrush by the canyon's south rim to watch Knievel's million-dollar X-2 Sky-Cycle hiss up a dirt take-off ramp like a giant firecracker. The machine arched almost straight up, flipped over and plummeted out of view into the canyon. Knievel, who had opened his parachute, landed safely, equally out of sight, at the base of the same canyon lip, without crossing the river. be genuine "Over it we built a cairn of flat stones.

So far as we are aware, no one has climbed the mountain since that time. It is quite possible that through the intervening decades the paper has disintegrated. The cairn should be there, however, and the bottle under it." Because the note turned up by Best and Steiner was in such good condition, park officials suggested another climber could have copied the Cannons' note and inserted the new one in the bottle. Park officials also said according to a catalog used by curators and historians, bottles of the screw-top type found containing the note weren't used until the 1920s or later. Best said others have told him the catalog is incorrect, and that screw-top bottles were available in 1901.

Clyde Lockwood, the park's chief naturalist, said he has been turned down by two laboratories he hoped would age-test the paper for free. Lockwood said he has a couple of other labs in mind, but that lack of funds and the press of normal business has delayed the request. Shelby voters will choose city officials By Tribune Correspondent All three of Shelby's candidates for mayor say they're hoping a large percentage of the city's 1,361 registered voters will go to the polls in today's primary election. However, none of them are speculating on whether the turnout would swing the vote in their favor. Incumbent Mayor Ron Randall, seeking a second term, says his supporters have been encouraging voters by telephone.

Randall also says he doesn't "know of any issues" surrounding the election. One of the challengers, Irene Gottfried, the wife of Toole County Commissioner Joe Gottfried and a member of the Shelby Local Government Review Study Commission, doesn't bring up the word issue, but says she decided to run some time ago because the city didn't seem to be "moving ahead at all." Randall's other challenger, Shelby optometrist Dr. Larry Bonderud, is an advocate of local government's role in expansion and new business, says, "The attitude of Shelby standing still is pretty prevelant and a mayor could take a leading role in just being aggressive." Bonderud is the president of the Toole County Community Development Corp. There are also two Shelby City Council seats on the line in today's primary, both in Shelby's ward 1. For a two-years term appointed alderman Connie Thorn is running against Mark Cole and for a four-year term, Thomas Carter is running against Ralph Nierenberg.

The polls will be open from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. Forest payment estimates drop MISSOULA (AP) Counties in Montana will be getting substantially less money than expected in national forest payments, with northwestern counties the big losers, the Forest Service says. The agency's Northern Region office in Missoula has made a $3.2 million downward revision of the estimated payments, which come from private contracts to log timber on national forest land. The new reduced estimate is because of the depressed timber market, the Forest Service says.

Lincoln, Sanders and Flathead counties in northwestern Montana will lose the most money. The Forest Service says estimated payments to Lincoln County fell from $3.37 million to $2.08 million; Flathead County dropped from $1.32 million to $1.08 million; and Sanders County was down from to $675,000. $40,000 OF SURPLUS INVENTORY HAS TO GO Our warehouse is bursting at the seams with NEW Sealy models. A Sealy Quality. AND, it's KAL1SPELL (AP) A note in a bottle said to be left 84 years ago by the first people to climb a Glacier National Park peak has not been proved genuine, but a climber who found it this summer says he has discovered evidence corroborating the note.

The note was discovered on Mount Cannon in July by James Best of Kalispell and Ted Steiner of White-fish, who scaled a new route to the lower and less accesible of the mountain's two peaks. An old malted-milk bottle containing the note was found partially concealed by a rock cairn. The note commemorated the first scaling of the mountain in 1901, and said it was left by Walter and Cornelia Cannon, for whom the peak is named. Park officials have said they doubt the note is genuine, but have yet to test it for age. Best, however, says sections in My husband and I watch a lot of animal documentaries on PBS.

We have for years. At first, it was enough to satisfy the public's curiosity of animals by seeing a whale take a trip to the Baja or a deer called Bambi play in the meadow. It was real interesting. After a couple of years when all the animals in the world had been photographed taking trips and playing in the meadows, producers figured we should see how they get their food. This seemed reasonable.

It was also a little gross seeing mothers eat their babies, snakes eat bird eggs, lions stalk newborn wildebeest, cheetahs eat monkeys and bears grab handfuls of fish out of streams and stuff them into their mouths. We went through a couple of years of hyenas fighting over carcasses, but it was real interesting. But the focus on how animals got their food was soon used up and someone decided it might be fascinating to see how animals gave birth. There wasn't a documentary that flashed by where someone wasn't falling out of someone. Some animals dropped their eggs, some gave them to a friend to carry.

Some carried them in their mouths and spit them out and I wouldn't have been surprised to see someone give birth in their ear. Seeing a male sea horse give birth gave me a moment of exhilaration, but it got a little stale. Producers were up against the wall. What else could you say about animals? Then, someone suggested their sex life. Bingo.

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"That we might leave evidence of our climb we wrote on a scrap of paper a brief account of it and the date, and put the record in a small bottle," Cannon wrote. since. There is an unwritten law among censors that sex is only dirty when it applies to humans. With animals, it's a way of life and in perfect accord with the evolution of the planet and everything living on it. Joan Rivers could get arrested for saying what David Attenborough would get a conservationist medal for.

I have seen lions doing you-know-what on TV every 10 minutes of their courtship, night crawlers who are switch hitters and very weird, salmon who kill themselves going upstream to spawn and, having done it, die a happy death. I've seen ducks who grab the neck of the female and practically drown her for the privilege, walruses who maintain harems and the swift birds, who mate in flight (their mother knew what she was doing when she named them). Paparazzi slink around every bush and tree in Africa followed by 50 natives carrying lenses. There isn't a single creature on land, sea or air who is safe from the probing eye of the camera. Why those poor pandas from China have not had a moment's peace since they arrived in this country.

We were cleaning out the garage the other day when my husband said, "Look at that!" There were two spiders on the wall, one small female and the other male twice her size. "I do believe we're going to see an X-rated documentary here." The male spider moved closer to the female and ate her. So much for sexual appetite. I wonder where we go from here. ot mm.

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