Great Falls Tribune from Great Falls, Montana • Page 19

Wednesday, February 1 5, 1989 Great Falls Tribune 7B. Baucus 'inclined' to vote against Tower Om the air Emergency station KMON installs back-up generator including the federal de I By CHARLES S. JOHNSON Tribune Capitol Bureau HELENA U.S. Sen. Max Baucus said Tuesday that he is inclined to vote against the confirmation of John Tower as secretary of defense and believes President Bush ought to withdraw the nomination.

"I think his personal life has risen to a point where It begins to compromise his ability to perform his job," Baucus, a two-term Democrat up for re-election in 1990, said in an interview in Helena. Opponents have accused Tower of womanizing and having a drinking problem, charges denied by the Texas senator. Baucus said he is not "wild" about Tower's nomination for another reason. Given Tower's recent experience as a defense-industry consultant, "I don't think he can cut out fat and waste at the Pentagon," Baucus said. Based on what he knows today, Baucus said, he would vote against Tower's confirmation.

He has voted to confirm other Bush nominees, Baucus said, and has secured commitments from four of them to visit Montana. They are Transportation Secretary Samuel Skinner, Health and Human Services Secretary Louis Sullivan, Veterans Affairs Secret- swallow hard." A compromise must be "worked out for the sake of the Montana economy, Baucus said. "Once we decide, the 4.5 million acres is going to be released to the (Forest Service) plans, and timber can be harvested," he said. "It will allow outfitters and people directly connected with the tourist industry to begin to plan too." Baucus said he is trying to get the four lawmakers to meet once a month to discuss issues affecting the state, with the wilderness bill topping the agenda. "The whole point is to get us working together for Montana," Baucus said.

"We can differ on national Issues, but we need to work together on Montana issues like getting new projects, essential air service and helping rural hospitals." Baucus, home during the Lincoln Day recess, spent the day working as a home-health-care provider to elderly people as part of his plan to spend a day a month holding down various jobs in Montana. It's an idea Baucus said he borrowed from Sen. Bob Graham, D-Fla. In the past year Baucus has worked at sawmills in St. Regis and Deer Lodge, a bank in Glasgow, and a gold mine concentrator south of Helena, as well as serving as a National Guard medic in Billings.

ficit and the trade deficit, Baucus said, and Bush is not doing that yet. "He is not presenting a budget to this Congress as a leader showing where to cut and where to add revenue," Baucus said. If Bush were to offer a fairly significant proposal on how to reduce the deficit, Baucus said, he is confident that "the Congress would meet him halfway." "George Bush is a good process person, he's a good manager, but he's not a good results person," Baucus said, contrasting Bush with President Reagan, who figured out his goals and often achieved them. On another issue, Baucus said he is trying to get the groups interested in a Montana wilderness bill to meet and come up with compromise proposals to finally resolve the issue. Baucus said he agreed with U.S.

Rep. Pat Williams, D-westem district, about the delegation's need to work together to resolve differences over wilderness legislation. "It's important that we get it behind us," Baucus said. He encouraged various groups on all sides of the wilderness question to meet publicly and privately and work together to reach a compromise, adding: "The different groups are going to have to fully automatic and only take a minute to switch," he said. The station has invested about $38,000 in the generator Senst sb Id KMON 'has had a propane-fueled generator and a bomb shelter at its transmitter site six miles south of Great Falls since the 1940s.

That generator has enough fuel to run 24 hours a day for two weeks, he said. When KMON went off the air Feb. 1, Bill Murray, Cascade County emergency and disaster services director, remarked that having backup power at the transmitter but not at the studio was "like giving one person a two-way radio." Although KMON-AM is Great Falls' emergency station, it has not had an emergency generator since 1984. Blue Cross of Montana, which owned the Rainbow Hotel, ordered the generator next to the hotel removed, in part because of concern the propane tank could be a risk. A change in building codes now allows a small propane generator to be installed on the roof of the When the lights go out again, KMON should remain on the air to fell everyone why.

The designated emergency broadcast radio station has installed a emergency back-up generator system for its main studios in the Rainbow Hotel. The generator will provide power to operate studio equipment in the event of a power blackout, Residents relied on Hi-Line radio stations for news early Feb. 1 when electricity went off in a large portion of northcentral Montana, including Great Falls. A similar situation occurred last spring during warm weather. KMON was negotiating to purchase the generator before the recent blackout to prevent the station from being off the air for any length of time, according to KMON General Manager Jim Senst.

Only an automatic switch-over system remains to be installed. That should be in place by the weekend, Senst said. "Currently we would have to switch systems manually, but with the new system it will be Max Baucus ary Edward Derwinski, and Environmental Protection Agency Administrator William Reilly. "They're more inclined to "say yes before their confirmation vote," Baucus said with a laugh. Baucus said he fears Bush is squandering an opportunity to provide decisive leadership in his first 60 days in office as Presidents Franklin D.

Roosevelt and John F. Kennedy did. The United States has some deep economic problems that it must And off the air Economics close Cut Bank station By MAC DANIEL Tribune Staff Reporter Economic reasons caused the closing of Cut Bank radio station KCTB, station owner Elaine Mitchell said Tuesday, adding that the station is being looked at by prospective buyers and could be sold. The FM station shut down permanently Feb. 3 without notifying its listeners.

Mitchell would not reveal how many firms are looking to purchase the station or how much it would be sold for. The adult contemporary radio station broadcast its last signal after being off the air Feb. 1 and 2 because of mechanical failure during high winds and a bad winter storm, said Mitchell. Along with her husband, Dan, Elaine Mitchell owns 69 percent of Glacier Communications the firm that owns and operates the station. The couple previously owned 10 percent before purchasing about two-thirds of the company in August 1987.

The Federal Communications Commission was notified of the shutdown, said Mitchell, who is waiting for papers to arrive from the FCC to make the closing official. Mitchell had been silent to the press about the station's closing until Tuesday, saying she and her husband were going to release a statement on the closing to the local press once she had made the closing official with the FCC. The 30,000 watt station began broadcasting Nov. 1, 1983. At closing, the station employed seven full-time and four part-time employees.

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Charles and Borromeo Halls, the YWCA and Shodair Hospital. Kerins said that despite the various problems the academic semester will finish on schedule, but students and faculty will lose a couple of three-day weekends. "The students are glad to get back into class," Kerins said. He described the mood on camus as "upbeat." HELENA (AP) Classes have resumed at Carroll which Was extensively damaged by flying debris from a rail car explosion Feb. 2.

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