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Grizzlies count on Mornhinweg for '84 season Feds help Ravalli County in pot search One dead, scores hurt in Amtrak wreck PAGE 2 Missoulian Missoula, Montana 30 cents i Ronan priest is missing By DENNI8 JONES Correspondent Refinery blast kills six Explosion felt for miles around By EDMUND 0. LAWLER Associated Press POLSON Lake County authorities are searching for a 58-year-old Catholic priest who disappeared from Ronan over the weekend. The Rev. John Patrick Kerrigan was reported missing Monday after he failed to show up at Saturday evening and Sunday morning Masses in the Ronan Parish. Undersheriff Joe Geldrich said Kerrigan, who had served in the Plains church for several years, had recently been transferred to Ronan and had just moved into the Ronan rectory Thursday.

According to Geldrich, Kerrigan was last seen in Ronan late Friday. Kerrigan's car, a 1976 white and brown four-door Chevrolet Impala, also was missing. Because of the discovery of some personal items believed to belong to Kerrigan, the search was intensified Monday along Highway 35 on the east shore of Flathead Lake northeast of Poison. An airplane also was used in the search Monday afternoon. Police wouldn't say what they found, nor more specifically where they found the items until results are returned from the state crime lab in Missoula.

Kerrigan was described by authorities as 6 feet tall, 200 pounds with gray-blond hair. The car's license number is 35-8268. Geldrich said there is no indication that the disappearance of Kerrigan is related to the escape of four men who fled from the Swan River Youth Camp early last Friday. Two of those men were captured Saturday near Superior after abducting a young woman at knifepoint from Joe's Smoke Ring at Evaro. They are Kenneth Allen, 21, of Kalispell, and Harold Gleed, 21, of Ronan.

They were captured Saturday afternoon near Superior and have been charged in connection with the robbery of a store in Evaro north of Missoula and the abduction of a woman from the store. The other two escapees Daniel Radi, 18, of Billings, and Ronald Dodd, 21, of Billings are still missing. U.S. economy picks up speed Associated Press A refinery in Romeoville, burns out of control after an explosion Monday night that killed at least six people and injured 20 others. The blast knocked out power to 10,000 homes, shattered windows for miles around and ignited a fire that remained out of control late Monday.

ROMEOVILLE, 111. An explosion rocked a Union Oil Co. refinery Monday evening, killing at least six people and injuring 20 others as it knocked out power, shattered windows for miles and ignited a fire that raged out of control, authorities said. The 6 p.m. blast at the sprawling refinery that straddles Romeoville and Lemont knocked out a transmission tower and up to 10,000 homes in the area lost power, according to a Commonwealth Edison spokesman.

Power was restored to nearly all the homes within two hours, he said. Will County Coroner Robert Tezak confirmed that six people were killed in the blast and said he feared the death toll could rise. Four charred bodies were lying near the entrance to the plant, but rescue workers could not reach them because of the intense heat. "We just can't get in there," said Tezak. Twenty people were injured three of them seriously, officials at three hospitals said.

E. Erie Jones, director of the state Emergency Services and Disaster Agency, said late Monday that the "fire is still burning pretty much beyond the control of the fire personnel" but "it is not extending itself, it is not moving." "We're about 15 miles away here and we thought it was an earthquake," said Sgt. Paul Dixon of the Will County sheriff's office in Joliet. "There was a loud explosion with it, a loud rumbling." The explosion occurred in the refinery's coke plant, said Stephen Clancy, assistant fire chief at Romeoville, a town of 15,000 people located about 25 miles southwest of Chicago. "To the best of our knowledge we felt one explosion," Clancy said.

"But there could have been two, one inside the other. The explosion blew out windows within a five-mile radius and cracked building foundations, Dixon said. "You could see pieces of debris falling from the smoke cloud," said Phil Keefer of Lockport, who lives about a mile from the refinery. Thirteen victims were brought to Silver Cross hospital in Joliet and one was in critical condition, said spokesman Craig Tuntland. Two burn victims were brought to the University of Chicago Hospital burn center and were in serious but stable condition, said spokesman Bob Heitsch.

Five were taken to Good Samaritan Hospital in Downers Grove, said spokesman Nancy Simmons. Jim Cox, a private pilot who was flying over the area at the time of the blast, said there were two explosions. The second one, he said, "shook the airplane." "I was talking on the telephone," said Angela Schmidt of nearby Lockport. "The door blew open like someone threw something at it." "The fire that's on right now doesn't seem like it's stable," said a Union Oil Co. employee who refused to identify himself.

"It's out of control." Thirty-five miles away, Lou Anne Lenzie of Morris radio station WCSJ said the station was flooded with calls after the explosion. Residents reported the blast shook their homes, she said. Pat Ward, who lives about five miles from the refinery, said the explosion knocked an antenna off the roof of his house. "I've never felt nothing like it before," he said. "We could see a little bit of smoke in the air, and that's about it right now." There had been several previous fires at the refinery, one in 1977 that "ran about three days," Clancy said.

57th Miss America drops her crown Real GNP Increased toSIO 9Bon After Revision WASHINGTON (AP) The economy spurted at a surprisingly strong 7.5 percent annual clip in the second quarter, with inflation remaining under control, the government reported Monday. The White House called that "exceptionally good news," but private economists predicted the continued boom would lead to a bust, and stock prices dropped amid investor fears that interest rates will be driven higher. The Dow Industrials By RICK HAMPSON Associated Press lit Source Commerce Oeparrmenr pageant is getting away with something, which I think is very unfortunate." Williams said she did not recall signing any form approving release or general distribution of the photos. Asked about that, Guccione said, "Obviously she did consent because she signed a model release, which is a de facto consent for the photos to be published." Williams said Sunday in an interview with The Associated Press that the first time she saw the photos, "I wasn't really thrilled about them. I didn't want anyone to see them." Meanwhile, lines formed and telephones rang at newsstands across the country as customers clamored for copies of Penthouse's September issue, featuring pictures of Williams taken in 1982 by a photographer in the Mount Kisco, N.Y., studio where she worked for one summer.

pageant," she added, and asked "sponsors and the public to continue all their support" of the event. Albert Marks pageant executive director, said pageant officials "regret that circumstances have caused Miss Williams to relinquish her title." In a statement issued in Atlantic City, N.J., he said she had "fulfilled all of the duties and responsibilities of her position in exemplary fashion." As the painted portrait of Williams that had hung in pageant offices was taken down, Marks said no deal was struck with Williams to get her to resign. Williams said she would devote herself to her career. She had reported receiving offers for various show business projects. Bob Guccione, publisher of Penthouse, which published the photos this month, said "I think it's a mistake that she elected not to fight to keep her crown.

I think the NEW YORK Vanessa Williams on Monday surrendered her title as Miss America at the request of pageant officials because she had posed nude for sexually explicit photos with another woman. She became the first of 57 Miss Americas to be forced to resign. Williams, 21, of Millwood, N.Y., the first black Miss America, said she wanted to keep her title but "the potential harm to the pageant, and the deep division that a bitter fight may cause, has convinced me that I must relinquish my title." "It is apparent to me that because of all that has happened during the past week, it would be difficult for me to make an appearance as Miss America," she said at a news conference. She refused to answer reporters' questions. "It is not my desire to injure in any way the Miss America title or Associated Press closed off 4.75 points after a double-digit dip through much of the day.

The growth figure released by the Commerce Department for economic activity from April through June was sharply higher than the preliminary estimate last month of 5.7 percent. The first-quarter change in the gross national product was put at an even stronger 10.1 percent rate, the biggest spurt since an 11 percent pace in the second quarter of 1978. While the economy grew at twice the rate analysts had predicted for the first half of the year, inflation even declined somewhat in the spring, the government said. As measured by an index tied to the GNP, prices rose at an annual rate of 3.2 percent from April through June, down from 4.4 percent in the first three months of the year. Presidential spokesman Larry Speakes said the GNP report was "exceptionally good news again." "While growth continues on an excellent track, inflation remains nailed down and the economy is on track," he said.

However, there was a different reaction on Wall Street, where stock prices fell as the latest news spurred greater fears that rapid economic growth will drive up interest rates, revive inflation and eventually bring on a new recession. Vanessa Williams is embraced by her mother, Helen, after announcing that she will relinquish her Miss America title. and the first runner-up puts it on "I'll obey the rules and do my part as first runner-up," she said. When word came Monday that Williams had agreed to resign, Charles said: "I'm excited. It's unfortunate it had to be under these circumstances." She said she would fill in on scheduled appearances for Williams, honor several commitments she had as first runner-up and "accept new ones." "It's my lifelong dream because the pageant has been what I've been working for all my life," said Charles, who lives with her parents in Mays Landing, about 12 miles west of here.

She said she would try to telephone Miss Williams but did not know what she might say She refused to comment on the nude photographs of Williams that wcoe taken before the Miss America pageant and appear in the September issue of Penthouse magazine. Charles said she and Williams knew each other through the pag eant and three joint appearances, but were not close friends. As for her new duties, she said she was under contract to perform at a casino here during this September's pageant, but that she would find a way out of the agreement in order to crown her own successor. Charles began taking voice lessons at age 5 and dance lessons when she was 10. She plays three instruments piano, guitar and flute.

As a child, she practiced for the day she might be crowned Miss America by dressing up in her mother's clothes and parading around the house singing "There She Is," the pageant's former theme song. Several years ago, Charles took a stage name by combining the first name of her mother, a music teacher, and her father. Charles DaGaet-ano, a salesman. Through the years, they have acted as her agents. ATLANTIC CITY, N.J.

(AP) -The resignation Monday of Vanessa Williams as Miss America 1984 opened the door to successor Suzette Charles, the first runner-up from New Jersey who has been preparing for the crown since early childhood. Like Williams, Charles is black, 21, a singer and a dancer. But unlike Williams, who was recruited while in college to enter the New York state pageant, Charles competed in her first pageant at age 7 and has had her eye on the title ever since. Charles, whose father is of Italian descent and mother is West Indian, dreamed of becoming the first minority member to be named Miss America in the pageant's 57-year history, but finished second to Williams. When it was revealed that Williams had posed nude for photos in sexually explicit scenes with another woman, and was being asked to step down, Charles was ready.

I 2 sections, 24 pages Around Missoula 10 City records 10 Classified 19-23 Comics 24 Community 9,10 Entertainment 16,17 Finance 8 Obituaries 10 Opinion 4 13-15 OrVild i IV Iw Partly cloudy Tuesday and Tuesday night. Scattered afternoon and evening The new Miss America, Suzette Charles, gets a kiss from her mother, also named Suzette, after assuming the pageant title Monday..