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The Montana Standard, Butte, Monday, September 10. 1990 5 'Missing' minister prompts questions sa know Bo Tanner is not his real name. but we don't know who he is. Whether the fact he disappeared is because of our investigation or for some other reason, we don't know KALISPELL (AP) Flathead County authorities say they want to question Polebridge-area minister Robert "Bo" Tanner about incidents that include a burned church and threats against his life, but they still can't Find him. "We still have crimes that were committed, and we want to solve them," sheriffs detective Lynn Ogle said late last week.

County authorities had mounted a full-scale search for Tanner last week after he failed to show up for an appointment with another deputy in Kalispell. Then Tanner's wife, Debbie, reported Friday that her t- i 1 I i i 1 uuauana naa contacted ner Dy letter from Texas, but she refused to reveal where he was. The Tanners opened the Pole-bridge Alliance Church a. year ago. church has been shredded, another with sheriffs detective Pat Walsh in Kalispell.

Ogle said Tanner made a bank deposit in Columbia Falls, bought some clothes there, but never showed up for the appointment with Walsh. When Tanner didn't return home that evening, his wife called the sheriff's office, only to learn he'd failed to keep that appointment. An extensive search by ground and air of the Polebridge area ensued. Those who know Tanner agreed with Pastor Randy Junker of the Fellowship Alliance Church in Columbia Falls that the Polebridge minister's disappearance "is totally out of character." Ogle, who knows Tanner personally, described him as a "cowboy type, almost a redneck." "He would give you the shirt off his back and work hard doing it," Ogle said. UM Foundation urged to delay fund raising MISSOULA AP) The University of Montana Foundation should not embark on a major fund-raising campaign until its new president becomes more familiar with the state, a consultant's report says.

The Chicago-based John Grenzebach Associates Inc. also said the UM Foundation should wait until it gets a new executive director. Departing chief Bill Zader resigned effective Oct. 1 to take a job in Albuquerque, N.M. UM President George Dennison, who started work Aug.

15, said the foundation will lose some time on planning a new fund-raising effort if it follows the recommendation. But, he said most involved with the recommendation agreed that a delay is needed before starting the four-to-six-year effort. "I don't believe we would have been ready to initiate a campaign for a year-and-a-half anyway, no matter what happened," he said. Grenzebach said the university and the foundation have a fund-raising capacity of $30 million to $40 million. Sales tax executive to resign HELENA (AP) The executive director of a key supporter of a sales tax in Montana has quit because his work is over and the group is launching a new campaign, the group's president says Jim Scott of the Montana Tax Reform Coalition said that Dale Harris would resign as of Sept.

30. Harris had operated the coalition's one-man research and organizational staff since the group's inception a year ago. Harris wouldn't comment on his departure Friday. When Scott was aked whether Harris was forced to resign, he said: "It was mutual. I won't comment any more than that." The coalition has called for a 4 percent statewide sales tax.

Scott said the coalition will be relying mainly on its members to carry nttt an "aonroccivo (Trace. twite asitmatinnal Mmnaion" OYnlainincJ itc ntA- he disappeared is because of our investigation or for some other reason, we don't know." The detective said" he believes Tanner may originally be from Texas and is a Vietnam War veteran who may have been a prisoner of war. Yet without knowing Tanner's true identity, information on him cannot be verified. Ogle said. Tanner left his.

Polebridge home Tuesday morning and was to meet church was burned to the ground by an arson several weeks ago, the Tanners' home has been vandalized, and Robert Tanner's life has been threatened, authorities said. Ogle said his office wants to talk to Tanner to sort out the facts. The detective also said that Robert Tanner is a false name. "We know Bo Tanner is not his real name, but we don't know who he is," Ogle said. "Whether the fact CI Parents: Day-care for infants hard to find KALISPELL (AP) You've had your baby, and you're ready to go back to work.

All you have to do is find the proper day-care center, right? Good luck. Susan Christofferson, who makes referrals for parents looking for day care in a four-county area of northwestern Montana, says the options are so few that she is running ads to lure workers into the day-care profession. "It's just getting real scary for me," she said recently. "I don't know where they're going to come We don't have enough options for parents returning to work." And new options can't come soon enough for families in need of infant care. vviv ai uggi -i fj una a vuuvutivuui vwtituigii nsaunuii iw posal.

Harris has been the group's chief lobbyist. Average streamf low near normal HELENA (AP) The average streamflow on Montana's major rivers was near normal during the month of August, the U.S. Geological Survey says. The USGS also said the August level of Montana's nine major reservoirs was near or above normal at five reservoirs, but was as low as 12 percent of normal at the others. Streamflows along the Yellowstone, upper Yellowstone, Marias, Clark Fork and Flathead rivers ranged from 81 percent of normal along the Yellowstone to 112 percent on the Marias.

Lima Reservoir in the drought-stricken Dillon area was at 12 percent of its average level and nearby Clark Canyon Reservoir was at 36 percent of normal. Fort Peck Lake stood at 70 percent of normal and Fresno Reservoir near Havre was at 75 percent. Canyon Ferry Lake, Bighorn Lake, Hungry Horse Reservoir, Flathead Lake and Gibson Reservoir had levels ranging from 96 percent to 131 percent of average. Suspended, fired teachers' rights differ HELENA (AP) Teachers who are suspended from work do not have the same rights as those who are fired, the Montana Supreme Court has ruled in a case involving three Billings teachers disciplined for drinking. The trio Daniel DeBar, Thomas Hornung and John Kochel were suspended for 2's days without pay after school officials learned they had been drinking alcohol on a bus while returning from a staff field trip to the Custer Battlefield.

The men admitted to drinking, but went to court to obtain salary for the time they were suspendedAfter losing in district court they appealed. The teachers claimed that, because they were under contract with the school district, they could not be suspended without pay except by action of the school board. They also said they should have been given written notice Health board denies groundwater petition HELENA (AP) The state Board of Health has denied a petition from Noxon-area residents concerned about groundwater pollution near two ver-mining projects, but that doesn't mean the complaints won't be heard. Board members told Jill Da vies of Noxon Friday that more information is needed on her request to have the Health Department monitor water pollution, and said a public hearing will be scheduled. The Department of State Lands is responsible for monitoring a tailings pond at the Asarco silver mine near Noxon, as well as the proposed Noran-da Minerals Corp.

tailings pond near Libby. But Davies, who is a member of the Cabinet Resources Group, said State Lands isn't doing a good job. She asked for a rules change to give the Water Quality Bureau in the Health Department authority over tailings ponds. "The Libby group is frustrated trying to get the problems resolved," said Stan Bradshaw, a Helena attorney who represents Montana Trout Unlimited. "They see the board as a court of last resort." Board member David Simpson said that all parties involved, including Asarco and the Department of State Lands, should be heard.

The board's next meeting is Nov. 9. Steve Pilcher, chief of the Water Quality Bureau, said his agency already has taken enforcement actions at Asarco's silver mine ponds at least four times. But he said his agency doesn't have the manpower to regulate Asarco as much as Davies' group would like. East Helenans cool to yard removal EAST HELENA (AP) East Helena resident Dixie Gradwohl has a message for the U.S.

Environmental Protection Agency and other like-minded government agencies: "If the EPA wants me to have a new lawn, the EPA can pay for it," she said last week. "If it is coming at the smelter's expense, they can forget it." Gradwohl was one of several East Helena residents who talked about whether soil from their property should be removed to remedy lead pollution from the nearby Asarco smelter. While some said they were concerneiabouLpotential health problems from elevated levels of lead in the soil, most suggested the public-health community should lighten up on Asarco. Morris Pietz, an Asarco employee, said regardless of who pays for it, no one is replacing his lawn. "I seeded this yard 31 years ago," he said.

"No one is going to tear it up." A public hearing cleanup dptions is scheduled Oct. 2. EPA and local health officials said last week that soil removal is one of the options being considered. East Helena Mayor Ed Stipich said that the decision should be left up to local residents John Wardeil, state director for the EPA, said local residents will be involved in the final decision. But he added that EPA has the authority to make and enforce a decision.

"We want the community to buy in to whatever decision is made." War-dell said. Billings man dies in crash BILLINGS (AP) Montana's latest highway fatality victim is David Lee Rivens, 31, of Billings, the Highway Patrol said Saturday. Rivens died Friday when he was thrown from his van after it rolled, the patrol said. Rivens was not wearing a seatbelt, the patrol said, and apparently fell asleep while driving. The deathjraisecuthe 1990 Montana pared with 126 on Sept.

9, 1989. and a hearing before the suspensions. The Supreme Court unanimously rejected that view Wednesday, saying the law containing such requirements applies to fired not temporarily suspended teachers. The justices also said the suspensions should be ad- ii i i i ii 1 i I Officials identify climbing victim GLACIER NATIONAL PARK (AP) Glacier National Park officials Sunday released the name of a 21-year-old man who died while climbing in the park on Friday. Park spokeswoman Amy Vanderbilt said Brian McCartie, of New Providence, N.J., fell at least 100 feet from a cliff on the north side of Bishop's Cap above the Garden Wall while attempting a solo climb of the mountain.

McCartie's body was recovered by helicopter Saturday along a rugged portion of the mountain. Vanderbilt said McCartie was an employee at St. Mary Lodge in the park and was an avid and experienced climber. A search for McCartie was launched early Saturday morning when he didn't return from a hike Friday night and failed to report for work. uresseu uirougn me grievance procedure speneu uui in uie leacueis contract and not in the courts.

Tourism office begins fall travel campaign HELENA (AP) The state tourism office has launched its first-ever fall campaign to lure travelers to Montana during the autumn months. The new "Autumn Splendor" television advertisements use the same concept as the award-winning "Montana Sings" summer campaign. Sandra Guedes, head of the Travel Promotion Office, said the effort is intended to extend Montana's tourism season beyond the usual summer and winter months. She said the TV and magazine ads are aimed at the older travelers who are not limited to the traditional summer months for their vacations. The 30-second TV ads are being- aired in Saskatchewan, eastern Washington, North Dakota and South Dakota.

Magazine ads were placed in such publications as Travel Holiday, New Choices, Family Motor Coaching, Trailblazer and Highways. Montana woman's job Welcomes American evacuees from O' muniana win cuiuinuc vafiuiiiic uii auiuiuci aa uic icauiug wui isiu season," Guedes said, but the fall campaign should extend the benefits of summer into the shoulder season of autumn." Student leaders vow to work together "I would certainly be enjoying my short maternity leave more if I had this issue ironed out and I didn't have to worry," said Lorelle Adams of Kalispell, whose daughter is a month old. Adams said she and her husband began looking for day care when she was still pregnant, but have yet to find a' suitable situation. They are on a waiting list at one center, but there's no guarantee an opening will happen in time. Her maternity leave ends in two months.

As Adams pointed out, the ques-tionlsn't always finding a place it's finding the right $lace. "We don't want jus a babysitter, somebody to monitor a pacifier," she said. "We want (the baby) to be stimulated." nignway laiaiuy ngiire to com is a crisis Romania, Kuwait was worth your life to get a lemon or a banana, so there was a lot of sleuthing to be done bers and friends of foreign service people trapped in the Gulf. Among other things, Hinds' office has put together a message network of telex cables that provides the people at home with their only direct link to and from the embassies in Baghdad and Kuwait. "It's the greatest thing ever," said Hinds.

"When we talk to family members, there is very little change in the situation and it is very depressing for them to hear from the State Department day after day, 'Sorry no change'. But when (relatives in the Gulf) send a message back, we're able to call the family with something to say." Hinds said the cables from Kuwait and Baghdad are full of upbeat messages, reassurances, love and humor. And, while she would not comment directly on reports that embassy staff in Kuwait are drinking boiled swimming pool water or burning furniture, said "the tenor of the cables is, 'Don't watch the news, its being "I know that they have adequate supplies of food and water" and nningIectricaT genera tonOunas- said, adding that one evacuee suggested that the embassy pool may have been filled with drinkable water in preparation for the crisis. Hinds' office also is responsible for looking after the 80 foreign service officials and dependents who have made it out of Kuwait and Iraq so far; for making sure they have places td stay, that they get proper health care and know how to get in touch with one another. Last Thursday, for instance, a woman in her office helped rush a returning father to a Washington hospital where his wife was delivering their first baby.

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State Department's Family Liaison Office. "We've all been working in crisis mode for a month." It takes a hard look to see any stress. Hinds' blue suit is neatly pressed, her short brown hair combed. For the moment, any excess energy is channelled towards a pearl necklace that she twists about her fingers with a sort' of absent determination. Hinds is far away now from the Hi-Line in Montana, where she grew up on a wheat farm before leaving for the University of Montana in Missoula.

There, she dated and later married a childhood friend, who introduced her to the State Department while working as an Army attache in Moscow 12 years ago. She took a position, known in the department as a "CLO" or community liaison officer, which meant that she did everything from helping embassy families find out where to buy groceries there were no maps of Moscow in those days to helping diplomatic dependents find jobs. "It was worth your life to get a' lemon or a banana, so there was a lot of sleuthing to be done," she said. Now, as Deputy Director of the Family Liaison Office, a job she has -held for- three and a half-years Hinds oversees 154 CLOs around the globe. She describes herself as an "advocate," fighting within the state department to see that employees and their families get the help they need overseas.

"We do things that other people in the State Department might consider unimportant," Hinds said, like setting up SAT tests for evacuee students or trying to help people who have lost all their possessions. "But these daily life things are what people really care about." Over the past month, Hinds and her colleagues have been in contact djiily with hundreds of family mem- BILLINGS (AP) In a move similar to that taken by the presidents of Montana's colleges and universities, student leaders also have agreed to set aside differences and unite to improve the overall university system. The agreement came during a three-day retreat of the Montana Association of Students, which ended Sunday at Eastern Montana College. It cemented a bond that student leaders say will affect the 1991 Legislature. "I think in the past there's been too much competition and infighting among the institutions and among the student governments," said Kirk Lacy, the association president.

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