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of Great Falls Tribune ON THE RECORD Saturday, August 21, 1993. Man charged in burglaries By Tribune Staff More arrests are expected following the capture of a 20-year-old Great Falls man in connection with a series of cabin burglaries in Cascade and Chouteau counties, officials announced Friday. Ian Michael Johnson, 3101 2nd Ave. a grocery stocker originally from Mississippi, was arrested last week and charged with felony burglary and theft and misdemeanor criminal mischief, according to a Cascade County Sheriff's Department press release. "The investigation is continuing and more arrests and recovery of stolen property is expected," the Sheriff's Department announced.

The arrest came after a sevenmonth investigation. It followed the burglaries of eight cabins in the Sudden Valley and Dearborn areas of Cascade County, two cabins in the Highwood Mountains and one in Great Falls, according to the Sheriff's Department. About $4,800 worth of stolen property, including a pickup truck, has been recovered. Couple found dead in rural Bigfork BIGFORK (AP) Lake County authorities are investigating the apparent murder of a man and woman whose nude bodies were found in a bedroom of their rural residence by a neighbor investigating a foul odor. The victims were identified Friday as John 41, and his wife, Nancy, 32, who moved to the Flathead Valley from Boulder, a few months ago.

Lake County Sheriff Joe Geldrich said there was evidence of a forced entry to the house, which is 8 miles southeast of Bigfork. He said both apparently had been shot with a small-caliber handgun but no weapon was found. The bodies were found Thursday evening. The bodies were taken to the State Crime Lab in Missoula for autopsies. A neighbor alerted authorities after seeing an open door and smelling a foul odor coming from the residence.

Whitehall accident victim identified The Associated Press A 68-year-old Butte man who died in a traffic accident at the Whitehall city limits was identified Friday as Joseph Guillot Wilkerson the Montana Highway Patrol said. Wilkerson was driving west on Montana 55 when he crossed both lanes, drove off the south side of the highway and struck a tree in the Whitehall city park, the patrol said. Meanwhile, John E. Paul, 48, of Melvern, was killed Wednesday in a head-on collision between his motorcycle and a car north of West Thumb Geyser Basin in Yellowstone National Park. The driver of the car, David Dennis, 50, of King City, was hospitalized overnight, and two passengers, Linda Dennis, 48, and Leah Dennis, 19, were treated and released.

Obituaries Local Herbert H. Maki Herbert H. Maki, 67, a retired Belt rancher, died Friday at a Great Falls hospital after a long illness. Cremation has taken place. At his request, there will be no funeral service.

O'Connor Funeral Home handled arrangements. Maki was born March 28, 1926, in Belt. He served in the U.S. Navy during World War II and the Korean Conflict as a radar operator on reconnaisance flights. He attended electronics school in Chicago and worked as an electrician in Billings.

In 1949 he married Laura Mae Olinger in Billings. They moved to Great Falls, where he worked in television repair until 1958. They then returned to operate the family ranch east of Belt until his retirement in 1985. Maki was an avid reader, a private pilot and a photographer. Surviving are his wife at the family home; his mother, Bertha Maki of Belt; a daughter, Janice Regimbal of Billings; a son, Dennis Maki of Lolo; a sister Caroline Omer of Temple City, and two grandchildren.

He was preceded in death by a son, Brian David Maki. Sundra L. Standley Sundra L. "Sunny" Taconette Standley, 53, medical receptionist and secretary, died Thursday at a Great Falls nursing home of natural causes. Funeral services will be at 2 p.m.

Monday at Christ United Methodist Church, with burial at Mount Olivet Cemetery. Memorials are suggested to Christ United Methodist Church or the Gift of Life. O'Connor Funeral Home is in charge. Standley was born June 29, 1940, in Great Falls. She attended schools at Wolf Creek and Great Falls, graduating from Great Falls High School.

Statistics BIRTHS BRIEN Daughter to Diane and Robert Brien, Great Falls. MURPHY Son to Cheryl and Bret Murphy, Great Falls. NOLEVANKO Daughter to Tina and Steve Nolevanko, Great Falls. PALAGI Daughter to Darlene and Douglas Palagi, Great Falls. SCHMIDT Daughter to Mary and Barry Schmidt, Fairfield.

SMITH Son to Lisa and Steven Smith, Great Falls. WATSON Son to Barbara and Bradley Watson, Great Falls. WEASELHEAD Daughter to Mae Weaselhead, Great Falls. MARRIAGE-LICENSE APPLICATIONS McLANE-LINN Brian Joseph McLane, 21, and Jillian Elizabeth Linn, 25, both of Great Falls. BRUSKOTTER-SULLIVAN Mark Allen Bruskotter and Elizabeth Nia Sullivan, both 24 and both of Dillon.

ADAMS-GOULET Keith Brent Adams, 21, of Hemet, and Lori Lynn Goulet, 21, of Great Falls. TILLER-MUNGUIA Wayne Leo Tiller, 33, of Great Falls, and Tracy Lee Munguia, 33, of Billings. Fire calls Friday, 10:36 a.m. Public service call, 1120 9th St. S.

3:18 p.m. Open fire hydrant, Wire Mill Road. 3:20 p.m. Public service call, 4217 Central Ave. 3:41 p.m.

Public service call, 1622 3rd Ave. N. 3:44 p.m. Structure fire, 312 Central Ave. W.

5:03 p.m. Public service call, West end of 1st Avenue N. Bridge. 5:03 p.m. Combine fire, SimmAshulot Road.

Courts CITY COURT Zela Pamela Decker, 28, 209 10th St. fined $330 after guilty to disorderly conduct, conspiracy to theft 3rd Ave. fined $100 for failure to: appear for trial. Pleaded guilty, Christopher James Churchill, 18, fined $315 for DUI per se. Pleaded guilty.

Steven Edward Laverdure, 27, McKees Rock, fined $395 and sentenced day in jail. Pleaded guilty to DUI, following too closely and driving without insurance. Martin Rex Bornikhof, 29, 32 Eaton, fined $240 for driving without insurance, expired registration and a stop sign violation. Pleaded guilty. Mary Ann Davey, 20, 1131 5th St.

fined $265. Pleaded guilty to an unlawful transaction with a child (giving a wine cooler to a minor). David Gerard Dereu, 29, 1505 9th St. N.W. No.

113, fined $385 for speeding and driving while his license was suspended. Pleaded guilty. Jean McGuire Clough, 63, 728 56th St. fined $430 for DUI per se and failure to remain at the scene of an accident. Amy L.

Rightsheld, 19, 1212 6th Ave. fined $130 for being minor in possession of alcohol and theft. Pleaded guilty. Connie Burgess Allen, 23, 1604 Ave. fined $70 and sentenced to a day in jail.

Pleaded guilty to speeding, expired registration and failure to obey court order. Kelly Marie Febach, 19, 2908 3rd St. N.W., fined $190 for speeding. Pleaded guilty. Michael Jay Murphy, 39, 2817 2nd Ave.

sentenced to six days in jail. Pleaded guilty to obstructing a peace officer, domestic abuse and failure to serve a previous jail sentence. Tribune photo by Mark Downey URBAN HAYING: A swather works its way over an urban field beside the State Highway Department facility in Great Falls this week. City extends deadline for townhouse plan By Tribune Staff City commissioners have granted a developer a one-year extension to finalize plans for the first stage of a residential project that could bring a development of up to 370 townhouse units to southern Great Falls. County commissioners took similar action earlier in the week.

The city conditionally approved preliminary plans for the Cascades Subdivision in April 1990, subject to the MLS Group of Staten Island, N.Y., complying with certain conditions. The group didn't meet the conditions within the three-year requirement, but sought a one-year extension this year, according to CityCounty Planning Director John Mooney. Its local representative is engineer Wayne Dean. The proposed development would be on 58 acres of land along the east side of 13th Street South between 24th Avenue and 31st Avenue South. In other matters this week, the commission: Awarded a $33,370 engineering contract to Morrison and Maierle of Great Falls for work in designing road and utility improvements on several streets in southwestern Great Falls.

They include Park Garden Road between Fox Farm Road and the Missouri River; Linden Drive between Adobe and Park Garden Road and Swan and Robin courts. On a related note, City Manager John Lawton said preliminary planning is being completed for major road improvements on Fox Farm Road and he expects construction to start by late summer or early fall. Housing: Handicapped FROM IB of accessible housing nationwide, including 24 units in Missoula. As a result, the group sold its Federal dollars are expected to eastside donated property and finance most of the Great Falls has agreed to buy property south- project, and the housing agency east of the Great Falls Clinic. expects to bankroll 51 housing "The new location is where units in the area this year, Jones HUD identified a prime location," said.

His group expects to hear by the group said in a press release. the end of September whether it "The change of location should gets the federal guarantees. project Southwinds Estates into According to Jones, federal dolNo. 1 priority." lars will not pay for orthopedic Group members say modern equipment, electric doors, a pagtechnology has helped disabled ing system and other amenities. adults live longer, but society has The Great Falls group, which not given them places to live more wants to raise about $77,000 for on their own.

One study found the extra items, is about halfway more than 120 handicapped to meeting its goal. adults in Great Falls who could To aid this effort, Great Falls benefit from such housing. now live with relatives or in nursMobility Impaired Housing plans its annual Wheel-a-thon Sating homes. urday, Aug. 28, in Elks Riverside Accessible Space the Park.

The group hopes to raise as project sponsor, has successfully much as or more than last year's developed more than 1,200 units amount of $5,500. She managed and was an agent for the State Liquor Store in Cascade for 10 years. She then worked as a medical receptionist at the Great Falls Clinic, and for the last five years she has worked as a unit secretary at the Standley Montana Dea- Standley coness Medical Center in Great Falls. She married Robert Standley in 1958 at Great Falls. They were divorced in 1985.

She was a member of Christ United Methodist Church. Survivors are her father, Eugene Taconette of Wolf Creek; her mother, Vera Murray of Vero Beach, and her stepmother, Elizabeth Taconette McMaster of East Helena. State Magna Sondeno BIG TIMBER Magna Sondeno, 81, a farm homemaker, died Wednesday at a Columbus nursing home of natural causes. Funeral services will be held at 10:30 a.m. Monday at the Big Timber Lutheran Church, with burial in the Lennep Cemetery at 3 p.m.

Lowry Funeral Home is in charge. Sondeno was born April 7, 1912, in Plentywood. She graduated from high school in Antelope and from Western Montana College. She taught school in the Plentywood area and in the Lennep and Lebo schools. She married Elmer Sondeno in 1936.

They lived and ranched near Martinsdale until 1971, when they moved into Martinsdale. In 1987 they moved to Big Timber. She was a member of the Martinsdale-Lennep Lutheran Church, the What Not Club, the Martinsdale Community Aid, the Wheatland Me- County seeking personnel head By Tribune Staff Cascade County is seeking applications for personnel director by Aug. 31. The new post will pay between $30,000 and $35,000, depending on qualifications and experience.

Minimum requirements are a bachelor's degree in business or a related field and three years experience in personnel management. County Commissioners would prefer somebody with significant experience in collective bargaining negotiations and conducting employee assistance programs. In recent years a few county department heads negotiated contracts and the auditor's office handled other personnel aspects, according to Commissioner Jack Whitaker. But that policy came to an end when bitter feelings were left after the strike of courthouse employees in the summer of 1991, he said. This year the county hired Duane Johnson, Lewis and Clark County's personnel director, to negotiate its contracts when no other department heads wanted to.

The commissioners decided to hire a personnel director during this year's budget review for several reasons, Whitaker said. The new official would administer a new employee pay classification plan being draw up, would handle labor negotiations and laws on disabled people, minorities and women. JUSTICE COURT Mark Krakowski, 36, of 10th Ave. made an initial appearance on issuing a bad check. Jason P.

Krueger, 21, of 627 23rd Black Eagle, made an initial appearance on failure to transfer registration, no insurance and obstructing justice. Christopher David Legg, 21, of 627 23rd Black Eagle, made an initial appearance on two counts of being habitual offender, failure to report an accident, reckless driving, eluding a police officer and obstructing a police officer. Clifford G. Rust, 21, of 627 23rd Black Eagle, made an initial appearance, on obstructing a police officer and contempt for falure to pay. and failure to post bond.

DISTRICT COURT Wabeyuma Wyman Walker, 21, Black Dion David Wilson, pleaded innocent Eagle, fined $540. Pleaded guilty to care- to fraudulently obtaining dangerous less driving, driving without insurance drugs. Trial was set for Oct. 25. and failure to remain at the scene of an Barbara Ann Gladue, pleaded accident.

to criminal sale of dangerous drugs, a Rebecca Anne Sundquist, 20, 2519 felony. Trial set for Oct. 25. Jet skier rescues stranded Scouts By Tribune Staff work on getting their ski merit badge. One boy fell into the river A Boy Scouts got and was carried downstream by the boatload of stranded on the Missouri River in current.

Great Falls Wednesday evening un- As Sittler and the others worked til a jet skier came to the rescue. on getting the boy into the boat, the Travis Ross used his jet ski to pull boat's motor quit and the river curfour Scouts and scoutmaster Ed Sit- rent carried the boat below the railtler back to the safety of Broadwater road bridge near the Tribune buildBay, according to Sittler. ing. Sittler said he was particularly Sittler continued to the rescue and he to threw have engine happy that Ross came problems out an anbecause several other jet skiers re- chor so the boat wouldn't continue fused to help out of concern they'd to float downstream. One of thebang up their equipment in the shal- boy's parents eventually figured out low water.

that the boat was in trouble and "I'm not sure how we would have went to help from the skiers. 1 get jet gotten out of there" if Ross hadn't "This sure gave me a different helped, said Sittler, a local dentist. perspective on the river" and its. said he was pulling Scouts power, Sittler said of being Sittler on skis behind his boat so they could downstream. 59 -76 55 -66.

WATCH YOUR TEAM ON RCA morial Hospital board and the Meagher County Cowbelles. Surviving are her husband of Big Timber; a daughter, Sharon Johnston of Billings; a son, Gene Sondeno of Big Timber; two sisters, Gertrude Christiansen of Minneapolis and Dorothy Conger of Missoula; a brother, John 1 Overby of Plentywood, and six grandchildren. Other state deaths: This list of deaths of Montanans is drawn from other newspapers. Billings Floyd A. Smithson, 56; Leslie "Les" A.

Parks, 100; Raynell A. Schwabe, 76. Bozeman Donald Ralph Boegli, 76; Harold William Roby, 81. Butte Catherine Copperi, 90; Donna Hutchins, 47; Michael Walsh, 88; Floyd Coffing, 77. Clyde Park Linda Lee Clark, 44.

Dillon Francis Mooney, 75. Glendive Bertha Evers, 96. Helena Charles Henry Vivian, 85; Marie Steffeck, 88. Livingston Alma C. Undem, 82.

Three Forks Florence Doore, 85. Apple Valley, Calif. Curtis Redson, 41, formerly of Helena. Funeral Services SATURDAY, Margie I. Services for Margie I.

Self, 69, 911 1st St. West Havre, MT, will be held Saturday at 3:00 p.m. in Croxford Sons Rose Room with Father James Cavanagh officiating. Cremation has taken place. Croxford Sons.

MONDAY Burch, Mae LaRue Services for Mae LaRue Burch will be held Monday at 11:00 a.m. at the Stanford Presbyterian Chruch. Graveside burial will be at 3:30 p.m. at Highland Cemetery in Havre, MT. Memorials are suggested to the Stanford Presbyterian Church.

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