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Falls Tribune ON THE RECORD Tuesday, August 20, 1991 Statistics BIRTHS VAN NUYS Son to Roxann Van Nuys, Great Falls. BERG Son to Larry and Roxanne Berg, Judith Gap. BRENDGORD Daughter to Pam and Tom Brendgord, Great Falls. MARRIAGE-LICENSE APPLICATIONS BODNARUK-SOLLY- Bernard Gregory Bodnaruk, 44, and Angela Margaret Solly, 33, both of Lethbridge, Alta." CHULYAK-GEMAR Michael John Chulyak I1, 22, and Pamela Annette Gemar, 22, both of Great Falls. LEE-HENDRICKSON Sharid Lance Lee, 22, and Debra Lynn Hendrickson, 19, both of Great Falls.

MOORE-CAICHLE Johnny Eugene Moore, 34, and Christian Ann Caichle, 18, both of Great Falls. TOME-ARENDER Larry Dale Tome, 26, and Belinda Ann Arender, 22, both of Great Falls. GREGOIRE-FENNER Joseph Jason Gregoire, 20, of Dodson, and SueAnn Fenner, 19, of Great Falls. REBRYNA-APPLEYARD William Rebryna, 56, and Debra Elaine Appleyard, 34, both of Regina. Fires Sunday, 11:10 p.m.

Lady choking, 916 2nd Ave. S. Monday, 9:04 a.m. Resuscitator call, 300 Central Ave. 9:17 a.m.

Smoke at 3-D Inter- national, 1825 Smelter Black Eagle. Lottery MONTANA CASH HELENA (AP) The winning ticket for Saturday night's $20,000 Montana Cash lotto jackpot was purchased at a store in Montana City, but no one has stepped forward to claim it, state lottery officials said this morning. Whoever claims the ticket with all five of the winning numbers will take home $16,000, after $4,000 are deducted for federal taxes. Saturday's Montana Cash drawObituaries Local Charles "Pat" Patterson Charles "Pat" Patterson, 69, a former upholstery worker, died of natural causes Saturday at the V.A. Hospital in Helena.

Cremation has taken place, and no services are planned. Chapel of Chimes is handling the arrangements. Memorials are suggested to the American Lung Association. Born April 3, 1922, in New Salem, N.D., he and his family moved to Saugos in 1925. He attended country school there and graduated from high school in Fairfield.

He enlisted in the Air Force in 1940 and served in the South Pacific. He was discharged in 1945 and Great Falls, where he worked for contractors. He then into the upholstery business. He owned Pat's Upholstery for about 12 years. He worked in Oregon for 10 years and then returned to Great Falls.

He loved leather working as well as fishing and big game hunting. Survivors include a daughter, Marla Walsh of Fresno, a son, Wayne Patterson of Fresno, seven grandchildren and four greatgrandchildren. Marvin John Pfeffer Marvin John Pfeffer, 63, a longtime Conrad ad resident, died of cancer Friday at the home of his son in Great Falls. Service is 3 p.m. Tuesday at St.

Michael's Catholic Church in Conrad. Burial will be in the Hillside Cemetery in Conrad. may be given to the fund for the oncology ward at Columbus Hospital or the Gift of Life program at the hospital. He was born May 13, 1928, to Carl and Anna Pfeffer on the family farm in Belle River Township in Minnesota. He attended schools there and worked at various jobs until entering the Army in 1950, serving as a paratrooper.

He was honorably discharged in 1956. He moved to Conrad, where he lived almost 40 years. He worked as a carpenter. In 1956, he married Doris Marjorie Jones. He was preceded in death by a younger brother, Peter, and by his daughters, Mary Catherine and Beverly Ann.

Survivors include his wife of Conrad; daughter, Sharon Jean Childers of Great Falls; son, Robert of Great Falls; brothers: Laverne and Clarence, Minneapolis, Donald and Carlos of Minnesota, Harold of Garfield, sisters, Irene Pfeffer, Laura Douvier, Marci Kadrowski, Florence Pfeffer, all of Seattle, and Betty Freitag of Spokane; and four grandchildren. State Kathryn E. Jung CONRAD Kathryn E. Jung, 86, died of natural causes Monday at the Pondera Medical Center. Wake: services will be held 7:30 p.m.

Tuesday at the Pondera Fu- TUESDAY AUGUST 20, 1991 Great Falls City Commission meeting, 7 p.m., commission's chambers in the Civic Center. No work session is scheduled. Montana Writers Festival Tour presenting a reading by two fiction writers and a poet at 8 p.m. in the C.M. Russell Museum.

Street sweeping on avenues, 1st Avenue Northwest to 8th Avenue Northwest from 5th Street Northwest to Watson Coulee Road; residents urged to remove vehicles from roadway 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Hearing on site selection for a proposed women's state prison, 11 a.m., City Commission Chambers, conducted by state site selection committee. Active parenting, Montana Extension Service program, 7-10 p.m., USDA Building, Westgate Mall. ing had 88,634 tickets sold.

Fiftynine players hit four numbers for a $200 prize and 1,762 people hit three numbers for a $5 prize each. The total payout for the week is $40,610. The winning numbers were 19, 21, 31, 34, 36. Also, five Montana players matched five of the six Lotto America numbers from Saturday, for a prize of $1,149 each. One-hundredthirty Montanans hit four of the six numbers, good for $45 each.

Montanans spent $100,285 playing Lotto America from Thursday through Saturday, and the payout totaled $11,625. Nobody won the Lotto America jackpot, which climbs to $11 million on Wednesday. Courts CITY COURT Son Im Coty, 34, 435 Columbine Court, pleaded guilty to DUI per se and operating the vehicle in a careless manner. Fined $355. Kenneth Fred Hiskey, 38, 5th Ave.

changed plea to guilty to DUI, fourth offense, and no headlights. Fined $1,055 and sentenced 28 days in jail. Joseph Robert Parrish, 25, 237 32nd Ave. pleaded guilty to misdemeanor theft. Fined $165 and sentenced three days in jail.

Catherine Ann Verdejo, 42, 721 2nd Ave. S.W., pleaded guilty to DUI, second offense, careless driving and no liability insurance. Fined $820 and sentenced seven days in jail. Brandie Lynne Kelleher, 16, 524 33rd Ave. N.E., pleaded guilty to no driver's license, no liability insurance and failure to yield to hazardous traffic.

Fined $345. David Anthony Ayala, 23, 417 10th St. pleaded guilty to failure to pay fines. Sentenced four days in jail. John Cruz Lopez, 35, 1217 8th Ave.

N.W., pleaded guilty to misdemeanor neral Home. Funeral Mass will be 3 p.m. Wednesday at st. Michael's Catholic Church. Interment will be in the Hillside Cemetery.

Born Oct. 8, 1904, in Osakis, Jung was educated in rural schools in Todd County, Minn. In 1923 she married Adam Jung. They farmed near Osakis until 1955, when they moved to Conrad. Jung worked as a cook in the Luce Hotel, Conrad Hotel, Evergreen Cafe and Cone Cafe until retirement 1966.

She and her husband lived in Horizon Lodge for a few years before moving to the Pioneer Nursing Home in 1985. She played the accordian and piano frequently at the Horizon Lodge and Pioneer Nursing Home. Survivors include sons, Kevin Jung of Alexandria, Edward Jung, Donald Jung of Great Falls, Richard Jung of Great Falls, Paul Jung of Port Angeles, Gary Jung of Sequim, and Lee Lee Jung; daughters, Elaine Tweet of Great Falls, Audrey Crumpacker of Power and Mary Jung-Butterfield of Seattle, and 29 grandchildren. William Wade Brown FORT BELKNAP William Wade Brown, 30, a resident of Montana all his life, died Friday of self-inflicted hanging at the Montana State Prison at Deer Lodge. Funeral Mass will be 10 a.m.

Tuesday at the Fort Belknap Recreation Complex. Burial will be in the Brown Family Cemetery near in Malta is in charge of the arThree-Buttes. Adams funeral al Home rangements. Born Nov. 13, 1960, at Fort BeIknap, Wade was raised in Libby.

He graduated from high school and for several years worked in Libby, Cut Bank and Conrad on ranches and doing construction. Last year he married Janice Sand in Cut Bank. Last fall, he attended the Fort Belknap Community College. He enjoyed horseback riding, horse-hair braiding and doing bead work. Survivors include his wife, of Cut Bank; one son, Bill Brown; his father, William Charles Brown of Three-Buttes, south of Fort Belknap; his mother, Patsy Evans; two sisters, Sharon Brown of Cut Bank and Barbara Brown of Michigan; and a bother, Tracy Brown of Cut Bank.

John A. LaPlante CHINOOK John A. LaPlante, 77, former owner of the Cozy Corner Cafe and The Fountain, died Monday in Sweet Nursing Home in Chinook of natural causes. A Rosary will be recited at 7 p.m. Wednesday in the Edwards Funeral Chapel.

Funeral Mass will be 10 a.m. Thursday at St. Gabriel's Catholic Church and burial with military honors will follow in the Kuper Cemetery. He was born Oct. 28, 1913, at Mahomen, attended schools there and worked in Minnesota before coming to West Glacier in 1928.

He came to Chinook in 1936 where he operated a meat market. He owned the Cozy Corner Cafe and The Fountain. He was in the Navy in World War Street closures planned for project assault and failure to pay fines. Fined $215 and sentenced six days in jail. John Edward Strom, 31, 3724 7th Ave.

pleaded guilty to domestic abuse. Fined $315 and sentenced four days in jail. Walter Farrell Wise, 30, Oroville, pleaded guilty to misdemeanor assault. Sentenced four days in jail. John Edward Ward 33, 517 3rd Ave.

No. 3, pleaded guilty to domestic abuse. Fined $310 and sentenced three days in jail. Harold Frank Peltz, 27, Garden City, pleaded gulity to DUI per se and careless driving. Fined $355.

JUSTICE COURT Michael Anthony Gondeiro, 31, Belt, made an initial appearance on charges of DUI and driving without a valid driver's license. Arraignment set for Aug. 23. David John Dionne, 32, 416 6th Ave. made an initial appearance on charges of DUI and failure to obey stop sign.

Arraignment set for first available date. Sandra Lee Fairbanks Moreno, 30, 1005 2nd Ave. made an appearance on charges of DUI, no valid driver's license and failure to drive on right side of roadway. Arraignment set for first available date. Carol Lynn Hayes, 24, 1905 20th Ave.

made an initial appearance on charges of DUI hand failure to drive on the right side of roadway. Arraignment set for first available date. Henry Clayton Henderson, 29, Vaughn, made an initial appearance on charges of misdemeanor theft, DUI (second offense) and driving while suspended. Arraignment set for first available date. Linda J.

Smith, 24, Malmstrom, made an initial appearance on charges of felony theft. Preliminary examination set for Aug. 29. Dale Lee Greenwood, age unavailable, 616 4th Ave. N.W., fined $410 and sentenced days in jail for DUI (second offense).

John Sloan Jillson, 60, 900 Jefferson fined $880 and sentenced to one day in jail for DUI, insurance (fourth offense) and basic rule." II and returned to Chinook where he owned the Arrow Lounge and the Tip-Top Lounge in Shelby. He also was in the cattle feeding business in Chinook, retiring in 1972 and moving to Bigfork. He returned to Chinook in 1982. His first wife, Frances Sorrell, and his only son preceded him in death. He married Viola Scheck April 8, 1982, in Polson.

Survivors include his wife of Chinook; daughter, Elizabeth Hjermstad of Kent, nine step-children; brothers, Lloyd of Washington, Frank and Bernard of California; sisters, Roseann La Plante and Elizabeth LaPlante, both of Minnesota, Lyda McCorkle of Washington, two grandchildren and 17 step-grandchildren. Edwards Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements. Brian Winden FORT BENTON Brian' Winden, 40, a former construction worker, died Saturday following a long illness at the Chouteau County District Hospital. A wake service will be held 7:30 p.m. Tuesday at the Immaculate Conception Catholic Church.

Funeral Mass will be 11 a.m. Wednesday at the church. Burial will be in the Riverside Cemetery. The Benton Funeral Home is handling the arrangements. Winden was born in Williston, N.D.

In 1967 the family moved to Fort Benton, and two years later Winden graduated from Fort Benton High School. He worked for the farmers elevator for 14 years and later did contruction for area farmers and ranchers. He was an avid outdoorsman. Survivors include his parents, Harold and Bernie Winden; three sisters, Brenda Morris, Barbara Buck of Geraldine and Jackie Goldhahn of Geraldine; and one brother, Jerry Winden, of Tigard, Ore. Emil Albert Finneman KALISPELL Emil Albert Finneman, 74, a longtime Kalispell resident, died of natural causes Saturday in the Kalispell Regional Hospital.

Cremation has taken place. Graveside services and burial of the urn will be held 1:30 p.m. Wednesday at Conrad Memorial Cemetery. Memorials are suggested to the East Valley Q.R.U., in care of the Creston Fire Hall. Johnson Mortu- Numerous city streets are closed this week in connection with the summer- infrastructure repair project on the Lower North and Lower South sides.

8th Avenue South between 6th and 9th streets will be closed for five weeks. The east lane of 5th Street will be closed between 3rd Avenue South and 7th Avenue South for one week. The east lane of 6th Street will be closed between 3rd Avenue South and 5th Avenue South for two weeks. 4th Street between 2nd Avenue North and 3rd Avenue North will be closed for about one week. 8th Street between 3rd Avenue North and 4th Avenue North will be closed for two weeks.

2nd Avenue South between 9th and 11th streets will be closed for one week. 8th Avenue South between 4th and 6th streets will be closed for seven weeks. The project includes improvements to streets, sidewalks, curbs, gutters, the storm-drain system and water lines. A construction meeting will be held 10 a.m. Tuesday at Perkins Restaurant.

The public is invited to attend the meeting to ask questions about any matter related to the project. Power knocked out A contractor at the Civic Center construction project hit an underground power line knocking out electricity to portions of the downtown and lower North Side Monday. Power was out for about 10 minutes beginning at 9:41 a.m. Jim Larkin, Montana Power Co. division operations superintendent, said the line was hit in Margaret Park, north of the Civic Center, where work is in progress to provide more parking.

ary is handling the arrangements. Born June 2, 1917, in Anamoose, N.D., Finneman received his education in a two-room country school in Shiller Township, N.D. In 1938 he married Magdalene Lacher. Together they farmed in that area until 1952, when they moved to Kalispell. Finneman worked for Broeder Sawmill for 11 years.

He then did farm labor for Harold Termaat, Kenneth Iverson and DeWitt Clark before moving to the Ovando area, where he worked as a ranch foreman for two years. He returned to Kalispell and worked for Jim Edmiston, Harry Johnson and the Tutvedt brothers before retirement. Survivors include his wife; two daughters, Sharon White and Juanita Bays of Ovando; two brothers, Nick Finneman and William Finneman, both of Oregon; four sisters, Lucy Stolt of Minot, N.D., Reca Rutten of Fargo, N.D., Viola Mayer of Erskin, and Sophie Braddock of Viking, and four grandchildren. Other state deaths This list of deaths of Montanans is drawn from other newspapers. Absarokee Ronald Ray Rossen, 54 Billings Pete Leikam, 83; Wilfred R.

"Pete" Pederson, 73; Donald Lee Randall, 63 Bozeman Johanna Colver, 79, formerly of Butte Butte Helen Matson, 70 De Borgia George P. Hansen, 73 Deer Lodge Charles C. Dawson, 70; John A. McGillis, 84 Forsyth Clara Marie Callen, 96, formerly of Baker Hardin Albert Steen, 77 Helena Kathrine "Kay" Bach, 80 Livingston David E. Adkins, 85 Lodge Grass Harold T.

Anderson, 77 Missoula Stella Arlie Campbell, 73, formerly of St. Ignatius Polson Seleta O'Neill Scott, 100 Wibaux Arnold Albert Gerber, 57 Adelants, Callf. Howard Sparks Patterson, 83, formerly of Libby Sacramento, Calif. Ruth Norene Hartley, 62, formerly of Billings died in Actress, former dead at 61 KALISPELL Rae-Nell Alsbury, 61, who played a munchkin in "Wizard of Oz," died of lung cancer Sunday at her home. Visitation is from 9 a.m.

to 6 p.m. Tuesday at the Johnson Mortuary. Graveside services will be held 11 a.m. Wednesday at Conrad Memorial Cemetery. Memorials are suggested to the Flathead Hospice.

Born April 5, 1930, in Alhambra, Alsburay graduated from Hollywood High School in 1948. In 1952 she married Malvern K. Alsbury Jr. in Santa Barbara, Calif. Alsbury was an actress and Road closures STREET RIVE.

SOUR DRIVE 6TH AVE N. STREET. STREET. I SO STREET, ORIVE STREET 4TH AVE. 3RD 3RD AVE -2ND AVE N.

-CENTRAL 2ND -2ND AVE. Both sides of road closed 6TH AVE. S. East lane of road closed -8TH AVE.S.. Ware pleads innocent to murder Donald Elliot Ware, 27, pleaded innocent Monday to a charge he tried to murder another man during a fight Aug.

7. He will go to trial Nov. 11 before District Judge Thomas McKittrick and could face a maximum of life imprisonment if convicted. Ware, who is being held on a $50,000 bond, also pleaded innocent to a charge he tampered with evidence by throwing a handgun into the Missouri River after allegedly shooting David Johnson, 26. Court records said Ware shot Johnson after arguing with him over Johnson's former girlfriend, whom Ware was dating.

At 7:42 p.m. officers responded to 1404 7th Ave. S. where they found Johnson lying on the ground. He had been shot once in the leg and once in the knee area.

Ware, of 1000 3rd Ave. No. 3, surrendered to police the next morning. Falls man charged with drug possession A Great Falls man accused of growing marijuana in his yard has been charged with criminal possession of dangerous drugs, a felony, in district court. William Francis Orr, 43, of 412 6th St.

S.W., was arrested Monday morning at the Cascade County Jail and released on his own recognizance. The charge was filed Friday afternoon. According to court records, Great Falls police received a tip and watched the house where Orr lives from May of 1991 through Aug. 12 when Detective Sgt. Larry Renman observed what he identified as plants.

Police say they seized 33 plants from different locations in the yard, including the garden; two bags of marijuana and some paraphernalia. Help Little offered to Gorbachev cent of the Soviet people, mostly older, rural people, want a return to traditional communist regimes, Clark said. They fear the insecurity and change, including talk of having to work harder. But about 51 percent, including younger, better educated city residents, did not feel the economic changes under Gorbachev were coming quickly enough. Keys in the next few days will be how much resistance is mustered by supporters of Boris Yeltsin Russian Republican and in the Balkan states and how far the military goes in enforcing order, Clark said.

Many military officers are loyal to Yeltsin or Gorbachev not the old Soviet regimes, he said. "It's very volatile," Clark added. "It's a powder keg waiting to explode." FROM 1B A recent survey showed 39 per- States also refused to favored nation" trade Soviet Union, despite emigration policies, Yet President Bush that trade status to its crackdown of at Tiananmen U.S. negotiators to accept a Stra Clark Soviet Union. The United extend "most status to the its improved Clark said.

wants to extend China despite demonstrators Square. Most recently, forced Gorbachev tegic Arms duction treaty Clark scribed as miliating to Soviet military." The treaty quires the ets 1 to eliminate more nuclear weapons more modern ones than the United States, said Clark, a former U.S. military attache to the Soviet Union during previous arms control talks. It was such loss of military power and the further loss of governmental control from central government to individual republics with Gorbachev's scheduled signing of a Union Treaty Tuesday that may have set off the coup attempt, Clark said. If the coup succeeds, powerful party bureaucratic leaders who may have been deliberately sabatoging the flow of consumer goods to the public, could relent, temporarily ending long lines for routine items, Clark said, but real, structural problems remain with such a backward economic system.

It's hard to predict whether the takeover will succeed in a new military regime, lead to a long, internal civil war, or perhaps even fail and result in new impetus for the reform movement, Clark said, in part because of major splits among Soviet The Gift of Life is a campaign expand the Regional Cancer Center at Columbus Hospital in Great Falls. Donations will help support programs dedicated to the conquest of cancer in research, education, patient services and a much needed family housing center. Those wishing to send gifts in honor or memory of a loved one or friend, may do so by sending their donation to: Gift of Life Columbus Hospital P.O. Box 5013 Great Falls, MT 59403 406-771-5860 1-800-451-9107 4TH AVE. S.

9TH AVE.S.. ReTalks the reSovi- and Funeral Services WEDNESDAY Fraunhofer, Thelma Loretta 71, 1252 8th Ave NW. Services will be held 1 p.m., Wednesday in the Croxford Sons Rose Room with Bishop Ira Smith officiating. Burial will follow in Highland Cemetery. Croxford Sons Mortuary.

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Survivors include her ex-husband and friend, Malvern K. Alsbury four children, Christie Rae Thomason of Malibu, Deborah Lynn Brekke, Malvern K. Alsbury III and Kimberly Sue Araiz; and four grandchildren. peninouse SALON PROFESSIONALS 313 Central Avenue Great Falls Phone Appointments 761-1431.

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