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Monday, October 19, 1981 Great Falls Tribune 7-A 6 Great Falfe Tribune Monday, October 19, 1981 mm Time will determine success of reclamation efforts Winds fan smoky blaze State regulators are largely satisfied with reclamation results so far. But they say it will take as long as 10 years to prove reclamation works. Scientists say the reshaped landscapes must hold up to frost and drought, to the erosive elements of rain and wind and to the force of underground water. Other difficulties involve rebuilding natural drainage ways, and possible damage from salt or sodic materials. Soil chemist Eugene Doll, superintendent of North Dakota State Univer-isty's reclamation research station at Mandan, said, "This is something you just keep chipping away on.

I don't see any breakthroughs in the next 10 years. "The reason is that reclamation is a new thing. What you could really call good, sound research didn't start until 1970." Doll said most reclamation efforts have been "stopgap" measures to meet the fast-changing state and federal laws developed during the past 10 years. Better, long-run ways to restore mined lands will develop as researchers across the northern plains begin pulling their data together, he said. The industry is strip mining more than 1,000 acres yearly in North Dakota.

That means the equivalent of an average-sized North Dakota farm is being chewed up each year. By law, the land must be reclaimed, and companies are spending about $15,000 an acre to do that. The state has charged coal companies with about 20 violations since mid-1975, when major revisions of the reclamation law took effect. In two-thirds of the cases, companies were fined. The fines ranged from $500 to, in one instance, $25,000.

Half the violations were by one company, Consolidation Coal, a Conoco subsidiary, which supplies lignite to Basin Electric Power Cooperative plants. Sensitive about its image, the Bismarck-based co-op has negotiated to buy Consolidation's 3-million-ton-a-year Glenharold Mine near Stanton, where the state has ordered up to $100,000 of repairs to correct erosion and runoff problems. Legislation directs most reclamation efforts toward restoring crop and pasture growth. But on some stripped lands, companies are producing wildlife and recreation areas. One of them is across the road from the Joe Schmidt farmstead, where Baukol-Noonan plans a golf course with grass greens.

jS ifi HI Km Hw Now the fields are coming back, somewhat lower, because a 10-to 20-foot seam of coal is missing, and often flatter, from the tread of dozers and scrapers. Schmidt is farming and chewing the barley seeds from some of that land again. And he's generally happy with the coal company's reclamation effort. The results aren't anything to write a song about, however. His half quarter of barley was yielding only 15 to 20 bushels and a quarter of hard spring wheat only about 17 bushels an acre half the yield Schmidt got on land that hadn't been mined.

He explained that crops on the reclaimed tracts hadn't benefited from his usual practice of letting land lie fallow for a summer to save moisture. He also said the barley and oats were damaged during a 100-degree heat wave in July. Schmidt still is optimistic that Baukol-Noonan can meet the state and federal requirements for returning the mined land to equal or better productivity. Dime-a-ton royalties from their coal land have made the strip mining more pleasant for the Schmidts. They have tripled the size of their farm operation, to 3,000 acres, and have added several vehicles, implents and farm buildings with the coal money.

The industry has provided jobs for two Schmidt sons who live at the homeplace and help Joe farm and run cattle. Ken, 30, is an electrician for the Baukol-Noonan mine; Steve, 23, is an electrician at the nearby Milton Young Generating Station run by Minnkota Power Cooperative of Grand Forks. By STEVE SCHMIDT The Grand Forks Herald CENTER, N.D. (AP) Joe Schmidt stopped his swather on top of a hill the coal company made. He plucked a head of barley, ground it between his palms and plopped a handful of kernels into his mouth.

Chewing the seeds and spitting the hulls, the stocky, stubble-faced farmer contentedly surveyed his crop and the view. Schmidt, 57, is among many western North Dakotans who have watched the coal and power industry alter their farmland. He saw 80 acres of barley below him. At the edge of the field lay the "foothills" made of spoils from the Baukol-Noonan lignite strip mine. A gusty wind muffled the sounds of the dinosaur-like dragline and its attendant coal haul trucks.

Turning, Schmidt could see the Minnkota Power plant that burns the lignite, part of the man-made Nelson Lake where plant water is stored, transmission towers marching off to the north and east, and scattered farmsteads including his own along Square Butte Creek. The panorama used to include the town of Center. A new hill formed by strip mine earthmovers has blocked it out. Schmidt and his wife Monica say they never thought they'd see anything like this when they bought the farm 40 miles northwest of Bismarck in 1949. In the past 10 years, about 500 acres of their grain fields, pastures and haylands have gone in and out of the big dragline buckets.

Captain Bruce Hagel, far right, smothered flames on the edge of a massive grass fire which burned furiously off and on most of Sunday afternoon just west of the GTA elevator and south of the Burlington Northern Kailyard. Firefighters were dispatched to the scene at about 2:15 p.m. and were on the scene for almost four hours. During the course of the fire, Hagel, and fellow Great Falls firefighter, Will Keithcart, far right-below, communicated by radio with another firefighting crew. Waves of smoke, below, drifted upward as the grass fire, with the help of a strong southwesterly wind, smoldered and periodically ignited more intensly as the winds increased.

A firefighter, right, douses the flames as the GTA elevator, located at 600 Street S.W., can be seen in the background. Two engine units and six firefighters fought the smoky blaze. The property which burned is owned by Burlington Northern, according to fire department officials. The cause is not yet known. ART DIETRICH DENTAL PLATE CLINIC DENTURIST Phone 403-328-4095 222 5th St.

South Lethbridge, Alberta PLAY PRACTICE Adria Melander, left, and Daye-Llyn Handle rehearse a scene from Otis Bigelow's "The Giants' Dance," a satire set in fifth-century England. The play is the Electric City Theatre's first of the 1981-82 season and will be presented at the College of Great Falls Friday, Saturday and Oct. 30 and 31. Curtain time is 8:15 p.m. (Tribune Photo by Steve Velaski) Theatre schedules first play 3 light those of all ages.

Included in the cast are Daye-Llyn Randle, Carol Cassie, Adria Melander, Tom Cordingley, Craig Hooker, Norm Houseley, Ray Ross, Bob Stromberg, John Gordon, Chris Lange and Jeff Overturf. Subsequent productions of the Electric City Theatre, a local volunteer theatre organization, will be "Picnic" scheduled for February and "6 Rms Riv Vu" in May. Tickets for all shows are available at Kaufmans, Readers' World, Paris Gibson Square and at the door the night of the performance. Curtain time for all performances is 8: 15 p.m. Otis Bigelow's "The Giants' Dance" will be the Electric City Theatre's first play of the 1981-82 season.

It will be presented at the College of Great Falls Theatre Friday, Saturday and Oct. 30 and 31. Set in fifth-century England, the satire is not only a dramatist's account for the existence of Stonehenge, but also a tale of romance, intrigue and conquest with relevance to conditions in modern society. It is a story of wizards and kings filled with the magic of Merlin, the punishment of evildoers, the triumph of true love and the ultimate folly of war. According to the director, Mary Melander, the play is intended to de I VCR VT8500 VHS (NOT AS PICTURED) 6 HOUR RECORD WITH REMOTE CONTROL REG.

$129500 i now $966 1 PANASONIC 19" COLOR TV MODEL CT 9021 NOT AS PICTURED Tribune Photos by Steve Velaski and Bert Lindler Phi Funding delays opening of Redford' resource institute $39900 REG. $499.95 NOW REG. $469.95 NOW '396" SANYO 13" COLOR TV MODEL 31C46 WITH REMOTE MSDB said facing Catch 22 He filled out a one-page disclosure, she said, but the bank then wanted a four-page statement. He did that, she said, but then the bank wanted some marketable collateral. She said he became upset.

"I don't know if you've ever met Robert Redford or not, but he's got a lot of red hair," she said. He stopped dealing with the bank and "now we're back to square one," Hope said. Although Redford said the time is right for starting the institute, he said he may have made a mistake in estimating the time it would take to raise the money. "There's never been a point where we've lost funding or the hope of finding funds," he said. Northern Tier official is confident pipeline will be built despite decision ty, Deming said.

Even without a legal requirement, the school would need the psychologist, counselor and audiologist because they evaluate the handicaps of children both before and after they enter the school. The braillist converts written material into braille for blind children at the school and in local dis- YAMAHA NS4 SPEAKERS SACRIFICE PRICE $68L YAMAHA R-500 YAMAHA K-55D REsfJEER CASSETTE pRlCE WITH REMOTE CONTROL 4 4 aim SACRIFICE PRICE $28800 $29900 Minimum RMS Output Power per Channel 8 orimj, 20 10 20.000 Mi. 0 015 THO 40Wl6rJBWl YAMAHA P-35D drIvte TURN TABLE WITH YAMAHA CARTRIDGE Over the next few months, Northern Tier must convince the state siting council to change its mind. Hodge hopes for a "consortium of effort" by Northern Tier and the state. "This is a problem for us.

If we can get some cooperation from the state we'll solve it to their satisfaction," he said. Northern Tier has 15 days from last Friday to file exceptions to the proposed rejection order. Other parties then have 15 more days to file replies to those objections. The council makes its final decision after exceptions and replies are considered, probably around the end of the year, Hodge said. proposed tanker terminal at Port Angeles.

The council pointed to fire and explosion risks at the terminal, to be located less than 7,000 feet from downtown Port Angeles. "That's something that the Coast Guard should address," said Hodge. The council also questioned the need for the pipeline at all. But Hodge said, "This council should not make the determination of national need." He said Congress and the Reagan and Carter administrations approved the project. Northern Tier will cooperate with the state, Hodge said, adding, "We're going to ask the council for assistance in finding out what it is they want." THE BODY BEAUTIFUL 14800 SACRIFICE PRICE tricts across the state.

Without cooperation from the Legislature, Deming said he would eventually be forced to find money elsewhere, probably from a reduction in teaching staff. That, however, would increase the school's student-teacher ratio to a level above nationally accepted standards, he said. At present, the school has 22 teachers and 136 students in classes of less than 10. Budget constrictions because of the federal cuts could eventually push class sizes as high as 13, Deming said. That number sounds low to people who don't work with the handicapped, but Deming said it's roughly equivalent to classes of 40 students in local schools.

Also in jeopardy is the school's vocational education program, which employs two persons. The amount of money involved in the reductions is relatively small. Deming figures a $6,000 cut in the Title 1 monies this fiscal year, which began Oct. 1, and an additional $28,000 next year. The vocational educational funds won't be affected this year, but will be down bv $31,000 next By JAY GOLEY Tribune Staff Writer If the Legislature does not appropriate money from the state's general fund to replace lost federal dollars, Montana School for the Deaf and the Blind will be caught in a Catch 22 situation, required to hire professionals but left without the money to pay them, says Superintendent Robert Deming.

Reagan administration reductions in aid would eliminate financing for two of four school employees whose functions are required by law, he said. Both federal and state law require that the school employ a psychologist, an audiologist, a braillist and a counselor. Deming said. Yet, he said, the federal money that pays their salaries is considered supplemental to the school's educational programs and is being reduced. Deming believes the state should make up the difference.

The positions, he said, are essential. Deming has put together a request to the Legislature that the money be appropriated from the general fund. If it isn't, the school could manage, but with considerable difficul BLANK TAPES DICK SEZ; TDK SAC 90 REG $5.50 FUJI 2-PK C-90 REG $7 90 PULLMAN, Wash. (AP) Film star Robert Redford said Friday the establishment of his Institute for Resource Management at Washington State University and nearby University of Idaho has been "surprisingly smooth." The institute, set up by Redford to "reconcile the need for continued economic development of our natural resources with the need for conservation and environmental protection," was to have opened this fall at the two schools, but has been twice delayed to the fall of 1982. The problem has been funding.

"The institute is a long time in coming, but it's here," he said. Funding was more difficult than he anticipated, because of the economic situation under the Reagan administration, the actor-director said, and non-governmental sources of funding are now being tapped by many more people. "The changing political climate has had a real effect on the ability to raise money at the speed with which we started," Redford said. He said funds for the institute's $5 million endowment are being raised and are coming from both industrial-development organizations and preservation groups. When the institute was first announced in February, University of Idaho officials said Redford was going to give the institute $5 million.

That was quickly changed. Redford would help raise the money, they said. In a recent interview, institute director Hope Moore said Redford got into a dispute with a bank from which he was to borrow the money. She said Redford agreed to guarantee a loan for $300,000. The bank wanted a statement of financial disclosure from him, she said.

MSU picks married homecoming king BOZEMAN Montana State University's Homecoming Saturday was loaded with all the usual tradition. But it also had something the school has never had a married homecoming king. Bob Francisco, a senior in industrial arts from Townsend, was crowned king. Hope Fjelstad, a senior in business education from Livingston, reigned over the festivities as queen. Francisco was single when he was nominated as a king candidate last spring.

But his marriage during the summer changed that. University historians say they cannot recall a previous instance in the school's 88-year history when MSU students elected a married student to reign as king or queen. $069 $395 Oregon physician featured in Junior League Celebrity Series NOW NOW SANYO SANYO M9902 AMFM STEREO CASSETTE RECORDER REG. $119.95 ALPINE 6 "x9" COAX SPEAKERS SACRIFICE PRICE SEATTLE (AP) A Northern Tier Pipeline Co. official expressed confidence Sunday that the firm will build its crude oil pipeline despite a crushing setback last week.

The Washington state Energy Facility Site Evaluation Council voted 22-4 Friday to recommend that Gov. John Spellman reject Northern Tier's plan to build the pipeline from Port Angeles, where the company also wants to build an oil port, to Clearbrook, Minn. The plan was staunchly opposed by environmentalists and a number of Port Angeles area residents. Many people consider the lopsided council rejection a knockout punch to the proposal, which Northern Tier has pushed for five years. But after a weekend to consider the blow.

Northern Tier Vice President Jim Hodge said the company will realize its dream. "It's a draft order," Hodge said Sunday. "It's negative towards the project (but) it by no means binds them (the council) in their ultimate vote in a final draft recommendation to the governor." The final decision is up to Spell-man, who said he is likely to abide by the council's recommendation. Officials in Idaho, Montana, North Dakota and Minnesota have agreed to let the project run through their states. Northern Tier came this far and won't give up on Washington, Hodge said.

"Our direction now is to figure out how to solve the technical we ought to be able to figure out how to solve a 20-mile problem in a project this size," he said. Those 20 miles are the pipeline span that would be built under Puget Sound between Port Angeles and Snohomish County. The council's main objection was to the underwater segment. Hodge said he did not think Northern Tier would go back to its original plan to run the line around Puget Sound. The council opposed the pipeline's "projected risks to the environment, health, welfare and safety of the people of this state." It also objected to Northern Tier's M9925 AMFM STEREO CASSETTE RECORDER REG.

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Collection of this second fe would reduce the fees paid by pro erty owners in the boulevard district. Johnson said the commissionet could plug in whatever rates the want for the two fees. The fact that Montana Powt owned 16 acres of the Speck Cours wasn't discovered until a few yeat ago. Both city officials and Montan Power officials have tried since reach an agreement by which the cit could gain ownership of the land. The agreement to be discusse Tuesday involves the city's tradin about 12 acres just to the east of th Speck course for Montana Power's 1 acres.

Appraisals showed the tw pieces of property to be worth aboi the same amount, about $210,000, a cording to Johnson. fee for inspection of mobile home setups. City staff members have been working on the commissioners' suggestion of a dual system of fees to be charged for boulevard maintenance, and commissioners could reach a final decision Tuesday, City Manager Al Johnson said Friday. The proposal involves doubling the size of the present boulevard district, which is located in the older, core areas of the city. Property owners in the boulevard district are charged for such city services as tree planting and trimming and leaf pickup.

The proposal also calls for collection of a smaller fee, charged to the residents of the remaining two-thirds of the city, for the perceived benefit they receive from the city's scenic boulevard City commissioners will attempt to reach agreement on much-discussed changes to the city boulevard assessment district at a work session beginning at 8 a.m. Tuesday in the Civic Center's second floor committee room They'll also discuss a proposed land trade with Montana Power to bring 16 acres of land at the city's Speck Golf Course under city ownership. The commission's regular meeting, at 7 p.m. in the commission chambers, will include a hearing to discuss how successful city recipients of federal Community Development Block Grant' money were in completing their projects. Commissioners will also consider a proposal to establish a standard, and somewhat lower, city 50 OFF ALL RECORDS AUDIOPHILE 613 CENTRAL AVE.

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