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Missoulian SUNDAY July 16, 1989 Montana History sltaefows MM-padt heariinig those most loudly voiced by opponents of the measure. "They both had their day in secret closed meetings," Charlo rancher Del Palmer said Friday of the state and tribes. "Now it's time for the public to speak." Starting at 1 p.m. Monday at the Ignatius Senior Citizens Center, current FWP Director K.L. Cool, a representative from Stephens' office, and tribal and state-technical and legal staff will meet individu-.

ally with people wishing to express or ask questions about the agreement. Other meetings are scheduled July 18 at. Poison High School; July 19 at the Holiday Inn-Parkside in Missoula; July 20 at the new Fish, Wildlife and Parks building in Kalispell; and July 21 at the Hot Springs Senior Citizens All forums are scheduled from 1-9 p.m. Although his exact schedule was still; undecided Friday, Stephens plans to attend at least one of the meetings later in the week, according to his spokesman, Victor. Bjornberg.

Tribal Council Chairman Mickey Pablo said last week he likely will join the governor. zation of tribal and state wardens so all land on the reservation would come under cooperative enforcement; and a joint state-tribal license for non-tribal reservation residents. The pending pact which pertains only to non-Indians because the Hellgate Treaty governs tribal members also envisions that alleged game law violators on tribal land would go to tribal court and that alleged offenders on state lands go to state court, at least for the first three years of the five-year plan. "The agreement really doesn't reflect exactly what either side wanted," Schwinden said in an interview from his Helena home Friday. "Both sides gave up some things.

It was a compromise. But what I think we've done is broken some really new ground that shows there's options to unbridled hostility and endless litigation." The entire pact could be terminated by either side with 120 days' notice. At tribal request, the agreement was worked out mostly in private. Along with the issues of court jurisdiction and cross-deputization, charges of secrecy are among challenge the treaty's tenets and rally behind abolition of the reservation, state officials have chosen to work within their interpretation of legal guidelines laid out thus far by the courts. In 1986, following a major assertion of tribal control over non-Indian fishing and hunting on the mulit-racial reservation, former Gov.

Ted Schwinden and Jim Flynn, Schwinden's director of the Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks, invited the tribes to work out a joint agreement that would ease growing jurisdictional disputes. Coming to terms was not easy. Since the 1.2 million-acre reservation is cross-hatched with state, tribal, private and federal lands, the competing powers clashed and clamored for nearly two years before reaching a tentative conclusion. Late last year, the agreement was signed by the tribes just as Schwinden was leaving office. Making the pact final was left to the incoming administration of Gov.

Stan Stephens. In its current form, the agreement calls for joint state-tribal boards to draft regulations and management plans; cross-deputi- By RON SELOEN for the Missoulian PABLO As the 134th anniversary of the Hellgate Treaty is observed Sunday by the Salish and Kootenai people, the roots of conflict that led to that historic document are in many ways still laid bare. On Monday, a series of innovative meetings between state and tribal officials and the public will kick off throughout western Montana. At issue is a proposed resource management agreement with intricate ties to the federal treaty promises of July 16, 1855. In the treaty, cursed by some and coveted by others, the Flathead Reservation was set aside for bands of the Salish, Pend d'Oreille and Kootenai Indians who were being displaced from parts of their native lands by the encroachment of whites.

According to interpretations repeatedly affirmed by federal courts, the Hellgate Treaty, signed at Council Grove west of what is now Missoula, gives exclusive hunting and fishing rights and privileges to the tribes on the reservation. While some non-Indians today stridently fi.h -JOiP -A 3 A MICHAEL GALLACHERMluoullan THE CENTENNIAL PARADE through downtown Missoula Saturday morning provided a great excuse to relive a bit of the past. Marshall Moy of the Sons of Norway Normanden Lodge 424, was dressed to kill for the occasion. IDAHO CRASH Head-on crash injures five North Dakota cou-0 pie involved in an accident on Highway 12 about 28 miles west of Lolo Pass on Friday evening remained hospitalized in serious condition Saturday. Meanwhile, Idaho State Police have concluded that reports of a man fleeing the scene were false.

Arnold Halverson, 64, of Mylo, N.D., suffered head injuries and other injuries, according to Cpl. Lyle Bolon of the Idaho State Police. Halverson's wife, Bernice, 67, suffered multiple injuries. Both were in serious condition at St. Patrick Hospital Saturday night.

The Halverson's grandchildren, Stephanie Schaan, 9, and Ryan Schaan, 6, both from Oregon, were treated for minor injuries at the hospital and released Saturday -morning, Bolon said. Mark McCarter, 29, of Hamilton also was treated at the hospital and released Saturday morning, Bolon said. The Halversons were traveling east in their late-model, larger American car at about 6 p.m. Mountain time Friday when their vehicle was struck head-on by a 1-ton truck that drifted into their lane, Bolon said. McCarter originally claimed that he was a passenger in the truck and that the driver had fled on foot into the woods, Bolon said.

But after searching the woods Friday night and Saturday, Bolon said he concluded that McCarter was the only person in the truck. Alcohol may have been an influence in the accident and charges will probably be filed following further investigation, Bolon said. THUNDER BOOMERS Severe storms pass through severe thunderstorm moved north through ira Ravalli County about 4 p.m. Saturday, bringing down powerlines in five places in Victor and Stevens-ville, Power was out in some areas for about 30 minutes, according to the Ravalli County sheriff's office. A National Weather Service spokesman in Missoula said the storm "got the edge of Missoula" and moved northeast through Powell and Lewis and Clark counties.

The spokesman said another severe thunderstorm moved north through the Flathead Valley between 3:30 and 5 p.m., dropping -inch hail in Charlo and 1-inch hail in Kalispell. Forecasts call for a 50-percent chance of thunderstorms Sunday, the spokesman said, but they are not expected to be severe. 'j Don Baty GOING-TO-THE-SUN Heavy rain closes road EST GLACIER The Going-to-the-Sun Road in Glacier National Park was closed late Saturday when heavy rain on the east side caused some Tockslides and flooding, officials said. Greg Notess, communications worker, said the road was closed about 6 p.m., after officials received word the road was blocked at Dead Horse Point, midway between Rising Sun and Sunrift Gorge. Notess said there were reports of heavy water across the road and fears that parts of the highway may have been damaged.

It was unknown when the scenic route across the park would be reopened. Associated Press partes rait tite past Tower slated Nuclear network comes to Hamilton By GREG LAKES of the Missoulian HAMILTON The U.S. Air Force intends to build a 300-foot-high radio tower in Hamilton that officials say will allow military communications in the event of a nuclear That, one critic says, could hasten one. "I think it encourages people to think of a nuclear war as possible, as survivable," said Debby Blank, spokeswoman for the Whitefish Peace Alliance. "It's real dangerous that way," The proposed one of four new ones in Montana, is part of the Air Force's Ground Wave Emergency Network a $700 million system of 96 low-frequency repeaters that would relay ground-hugging communications signals that officials say would be immune from one aspect of nu clear attack.

The program was approved by Congress in 1984 out of concerns that the electromagnetic pulse from a nuclear weapon detonated from 100 to 300 miles above the nation would disrupt conventional communications and cripple the military. "If they were to do that, in la sense the president would be held hostage," said Kevin- Gilmartin, chief of media relations at Hanscom Air Force Base in Bedford, Mass. "He couldn't find out what was going on." According to Gilmartin, the Air Force built 10 towers as a test in the Midwest soon after Congress approved. The second phase called for 56 towers, including most of the original 10, Gilmartin said; 52 already are built in a rough figure-. 8 that loops along both coasts and bisects in Nebraska.

Montana already has three: One at Pablo Reservoir near Poison and others near Great Falls and Billings. The final phase would add 40 more towers, including four in Montana, to "fill in some of the holes," Gilmartin said. For each tower site, personnel mapped out a circle with an 18-mile diameter. In Montana, circles are centered on Hamilton, Livingston, Epsie in the southeastern part of the state and Bainville in the northeast. The Air Force will conduct a series of informational meetings in or near each of the four towns this week, Gilmartin said.

The Hamilton meeting is Monday at 7 p.m. in the election room of the Ravalli County Courthouse. The Air Force later will find U-acre parcels in areas it deems suitable, open its decisions to public and official comments, and build the towers in roughly a year, Gilmartin said. Each fenced site would contaiji the antenna, 15 supporting guy wires, a buried copper grid anfl three buildings, each the size of -a pickup camper, to house equipment, Gilmartin said. Each unmanned tower site costs about $1.5 million, he said.

Although he acknowledges criticism in Wisconsin where officials held, jpuljc meetings last any debate willever wfe lo put the towers, not fo build them "Congress has, approved system, and' CoWreOas funded it rSilmartin coM Procession carries Centennial theme cannon. It took four years to complete. Hackley, whose entry earned a third-place in the equestrian division (his cannon was drawn by horses Tag and Roady), wore a uniform similar to one the U.S. military men wore 100 years ago. "The artillery has red on its uniform," he said, pointing out stripes on his pants and chevron on his sleeve.

"If they were the infantry, you'd see yellow." Hackley is one of 16 men who form Battery A of the First Montana Light Artillery, a regular feature at centennial events around the state. Three women's from Missoula got together for one float, winning a first place in the float division and the Best of Show award, too. Small replicas of old frontier buildings decorated their entry, while volunteers demonstrated women's roles and jobs in history dressed as a ihomemaker ironing clothes, a madam, a dance-hall girl, a proper lady of class, and the modern woman sitting at a desk with a computer and telephone nearby. "You put a bunch of women together and they can do anything," said Connie Lindborg, past president of Insurance Women of Missoula. By ME A ANDREWS of the Missoulian parades go, Saturday's centennial OX event was a mt.

People lined the LiJk streets, the theme brought out colorful and imaginative floats, the weather was sunny and hot, and participants were eager wavers. The procession even provided a nice change of pace for Missoula parade watchers: It began at Connell Avenue and traveled north the reverse of the traditional parade route for the city. Seventy entries filed by. The parade was shorter than University of Montana homecoming parades because floats had to comply with the theme and politicians were not allowed to participate, according to Tom Kosena, who helped stage Saturday's production and also has organized a number of UM's Getting banned from a parade doesn't keep politicians away, however: Missoula mayoral candidate Dan Kemmis was handing out his "Dan Fan" fans to sideline viewers perspiring in the morning heat. Chuck Hackley of Missoula joined the parade with his Parrott Rifle, a cannon that shot a 10-pound shell and was used sometime in the 1850s to 1880s.

"You just have to scrounge," Hackley said, detailing how people from around the country helped find parts to reconstruct the, Her group and the American Business Women's Association and CWI: Credit Professionals of Missoula organized the float. Among the loudest jobs in the parade: George W. Porter's. The 75-year-old Montana native shot off a mini cannon atop the American Legion's locomotive. He got off about seven shots before quitting because of skittish horses.

He then clanged the bell, also atop the locomotive. Certainly the most functional person in the parade was the poop-scooping clown, Mary Hungerford of Missoula, who picked up what the horses left behind. "It wasn't too hard," said 9-year-old Sasha Rieker. She and her 13-year-old sister Amanda, helped by bringing up the rear with the collection cart. Other parade winners: Equestrian Hellgate Muzzleloaders, first; Bitterroot Mountettes, second.

Floats Morin Family of Arlee, second; Sons and Daughters of Montana PioneersDaughters of the American Revolution, third. Musical and performing Missoula Area Square and Round Dance Federation, first; Bitterroot Cloggers, second; Fraternal Order of the Eagles Drill Team, third. Auto Pioneer Hellgate Cars, first; Missoula Symphony Orchestra, second; Grizzly Auto, third. 1 A Trail cold on Five years later, investigation missing priest continues, but with few new clues sidered in the development of a profile of a murder suspect," Nistler said. "These are obvious issues that have to be looked at." It is possible, Nistler explained, that someone may have had a personal grudge against Kerrigan, because of his lifestyle or for other reasons, or a vengeance for priests in general.

Investigators say one thing is clear robbery was not a motive. The moccasins, windbreaker, shorts and bloodied shirt identified as belonging to Kerrigan were found on the east shore of Flathead Lake along Highway 35, four miles northeast of Poison, on Saturday morning, July 21, 1984. The shirt had a $100 bill tucked in a pocket. The FBI re- has run the gamut, from assuming the priest was abducted and killed to the possibility that his disappearance was staged. Before he disappeared, the 58-year-old Kerrigan had been in Ro-nan only two days after having been transferred from Plains by the Helena Diocese to assume leadership at Ronan's Sacred Heart parish.

Parishoners reported him missing to the Lake County Sheriff's Department after he failed to appear at Saturday and Sunday Masses. If there was a murder, Nistler believes it may have been a crime of passion. "Kerrigan's alleged homosexuality and the fact that he was a priest are factors still being con By DENNIS G. JONES for the Missoulian POLSON The five-year investigation by Lake County authorities into the disappearance of Catholic priest John Patrick Kerrigan has yielded his car and bloodied clothing but little else. No body has been found.

Although authorities say there are more than a half-dozen suspects, there is no solid proof that Kerrigan, who was last seen July 20, 1984, is even dead. "There is no conclusive evidence that we have a homicide," Lake County Attorney Larry Nis tier said recently. The drawn-out investigation JOHN KERRIGAN ported that the blood on the shirt matched Kerrigan's, but that the shirt bore no marks from a bullet, knife or other weapon. Eight days later, Kerrigan's 1976 Chevrolet Impala was discovered in a field on a hill just south (See PRIEST, Page B-4).