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1 uteJfto Nino residents 'fx Goif course Rev. Phil Vold A face federal i' board meets reflects on a A drug charges La for first time, sense of place Anaconda Area News .4 Butte Area Mows 2-3 CiossiJied 17-13 Market Report 15 i Montana News 7 National News 8, 17 1 Obituaries 3 Religion ft Sports 11-14 tmi. TUE wro 2 El HIGH LOW, Vol. 118, No. 152 Good Morning! It's Saturday, October 30, 1993 Butte Anaconda 50C 4.

1 1" llT tktyty LKD I VMMIJl 71 Gbss KTVM-TV ffi zn Jin. "We really feel like we have a good product out of Bozeman," she said. Cannaliato said the 15 employees weren't given jobs in the Bozeman station' because it is already fully staffed. KBZ-TV42 began broadcasting news Oct. 4.

He said producing two news broadcasts proved to be too costly for the company, so one had to be cut. "It's just that we feel we have a better product that we can deliver to the Butte audience" from Boze Ohman said the station will "continue to have a sales presence here," but the Butte news broadcasts will cease. None of the current news and production staff will be hired to work in the Bozeman station, Ohman said. "We will be keeping an office here with a very minimal staff," she said. Ohman said the station will keep two sales people in Butte.

She said the company believes it will still be able to draw news from Butte via its Bozeman station. man, Cannaliato said. KTVM's departure leaves KXLF as the only television station in Butte and eliminates loca' weekend newscasts. KTVM had recently started producing weekend news in Butte, while KXLF's Saturday and Sunday newscasts originate in Missoula. Ohman said while the news won't be originating in Butte anymore, advertisers will still get service from Eagle Communications.

"Butte is still very important to Please see KTVM Page 10 Eagle Communications will continue to broadcast all syndicated and NBC programming in Butte on channel six, said Charlie Cannalia-to, Eagle Communications vice president for broadcast operations. The switch in newscasts followed a recent advertising campaign in Butte promoting KTVM's new weekend news broadcasts and additional staff members. "We're making a difference in Butte," one advertisement in The Montana Standard said. KTVM Sales Manager Allison By Dave Kirkpatrick Standard Staff Writer Eagle Communications Inc. of Missoula fired 15 full-time and part-time workers at KTVM-TV 6 television in Butte Friday and moved its news operations to Bozeman, the company announced.

Bozeman station KBZ-TV42, which is owned by Eagle, began broadcasting local news to Butte Friday at 6 p.m. with Art Carlson anchoring the newscast. 71 School district pays $13,793 for legislative leaves By Matt Bender Standard Staff Writer I 1 VV Hi ii r- frr4ri crf' fa I TT here is no Staff photo by Walter Hinick the track Friday decked dut in Halloween garb serving as a dress rehearsal'for Sunday's main event. TERROR ON THE TRACK: students and teachers at West Elementary School parade around possible way for me to serve if it wasn't for the additional money (from the district) to short-term contracts and places them on the regular pay schedule. District Business Manager Bob Odermann said that if substitute teachers are hired fo.r more than 30 days the district must sign them to contracts and pay benefits except for health insurance, major medical and life insurance.

Nachatilo said the district could hire substitutes at $60 a day and Expanded land use opposed nificant problems for leaseholders. NEWS mm Leaseholders petition The Butte school district paid approximately $13,793 in 1993 for substitute teachers while three instructors were serving with the Legislature in Helena, according to district figures. Article 18, Section six of the 1993-94 Butte teachers' contract dictates that teachers will their regular rate of pay minus the cost of the substitute. However, Article 10 of the same contract reads, "The District shall establish pay for substitute teachers, but for the purpose of pay adjustments for members of the unit, such pay shall be considered at $50 per day." Fred "Fritz" Daily, D-Butte, Dan Harrington, D-Butte, and John "J.D." Lynch, D-Butte each missed 75 days of school while the Legislature was in session this year between Jan. 4 and April 27.

The three received their daily salaries minus $57.50 ($50 a day plus a $7.50 deduction from benefits). Under the current contract. Lynch, Daily and the newly elected Debbie Shea. D-Butte. receive $202.07 per day.

Harrington makes $176.91 daily. During the 1993 legislative session, Butte School Superintendent Bill Nachatilo said the district paid $26,730 for. three substitutes. The three teachers who went to the Legislature were docked a combined total of $12,937. The daily pay rate for a substitute teacher is $60, but during a regular meeting of the Legislature, the district signs substitute teachers utte.

Anaconda districts generous Montana ranchers, have, been outraged since the Land Board decided Sept. 1 20 to add hiking and bird-watching to the kinds of recreation allowed on leased state lands with a permit. Cooney, Mazurek, Keenan and O'Keefe voted for the expansion. Gov. Marc Racicot cast the lone negative vote.

Ranchers responded by closing millions of acres to hunters this fall, although some sportsmen say much of the land never has been open to general hunting. The ranchers said their protest will continue until the board rescinds its decision. Bill Donald, a Melville rancher, is among 23 people who have formally requested that the board to reverse itself. The board will consider the petitions at its Nov. 15 meeting.

Donald said Friday that additional uses of leased lands betray a 2'2-year-old compromise. Ranchers believe they already gave ground in Please see LAND Page 10 "I would need compelling information that those two activities are incompatible with basic use of that land," said Secretary of State Mike Cooney. Attorney General Joe Mazurek said he might consider changing his mind "if there is a problem down the road and this presents a horrible unmanageable situation." Superintendent of Public Instruc-' tion Nancy Keenan said lessees have exaggerated possible impacts of allowing hiking and birdwatch-ing, in addition to hunting and fishing, on their leased property. "I can't imagine that damage will be as devastating as some people believe," she said. "We made a decision that I'm pretty comfortable with right now," said state Auditor Mark O'Keefe.

"It's hard to imagine reversal of my position without any new information." Landowners, particularly eastern panel to reverse public access stand By Bob Anez Associated Press Writer HELENA Pressure is mounting for the state Land Board to reverse its decision expanding public use of state leased lands, but members appear unlikely to make an abrupt about-face. Ranchers have submitted petitions asking the board to change its mind, and a legislator wants next month's special session to pass a resolution urging the board to take such action. The four state officials who voted for the change said Friday they first would have to see evidence that allowing hiking and birdwatch-ing on state leases has created sig move them out of classrooms before they accumulate 30 days, but does not for the sake of instruction. "We get one teacher because moving subs in and out of a classroom would create havoc," Nachatilo said. "It is for the students' sake." The cost of signing a substitute teacher to a contract for more than 30 days varies depending on the teacher's experience.

Under the Current salary schedule, a substi- Please see LAWMAKERS' Page 10 Boutros urges U.S. to keep commitment WASHINGTON (AP) U.N. Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali, at odds with the Clinton administration over international peacekeeping, is urging the United States to keep its commitments to the world body. "Let me say this frankly: I need the United States. The United Nations needs the United States," Boutros-Ghali said in forceful speech Friday night to the annual dinner of the U.N.

Association, which promotes close ties between the United States and the United Nations. -His comments reflected recent tensions between Washington and the United Nations over the extent and nature of peacekeeping operations. Detroit court strict about dress code DETROIT (AP) No shirt, no shoes: no justice. That's the edict in Detroit's 36th District Court, where a dress code forbids shorts, sandals, blue jeans and any skirt more than 2 inches above the knee. It doesn't apply to those being arraigned, except for prostitution suspects who must follow the 2-inches-above-the-knee rule for skirts.

LegaJ briefs are still OK. Russian immigrant shows no sign of surrendering the necessities," Frojen said "A good portion of our manpower is volunteer," he said. We've had assistance of the local reserve deputy unit. Search and Rescue, the Ravalli County reserve deputies and a Department of State Lands individual who pulled time on one of the positions Authorities said Vilensky. who immigrated to the United States from I'kraine about three years ago, has been committed tp the Warm Springs State Hospital several times after violent or threatening incidents-involving teachers, social workers and his landlords.

officers surrounded Vilensky's house "are being Cared for by the Western Valleys Chapter of the American Red Cross. "There are about 45 people altogether that we have in motels around Missoula." said Jeanne Hatfield, executive director. "We're also trying to provide meals or such other things as they She estimated the chapter's cost at $700 to $800 a day. Weary police and sheriff's officers also were receiving help from numerous businesses and individuals, "trying to feed and keep the officers warm and provided with year-old David, have been seen, said Sgt. Wendel Frojen of the Missoula County Sheriff's Department.

"They have been observed, and there have been conversations about their well-being," he said. "It appears the children do have food available." Vilensky's wife, Galina.lef't the house with her 11-year-old son, Nicoli, on Wednesday to buy groceries and was taken into protective custody. The couple has nine children. Fifteen families who were evacuated from their homes when police and sheriff's MISSOULA (AP) Police who have surrounded Ivan Vilensky's house for five days managed sporadic telephone contact with him Friday, but there was no sign that the standoff was nearing an end, a police spokesman said. The Russian immigrant retreated to his house Monday after wounding one of several officers who attempted to arrest him on a felony warrant charging that he assaulted his landlords in June when they tried to evict him.

i Two of Vilensky's sons who remain in the house with him, 2-year-old Moses and 4- SUNDAY Vampires' worst nightmare New Englanders declared war on undead, scientists say -0 41 m' i ilHIP lated by a construction project. Sledzik said when he examined JB, it was clear the remains had been 'disturbed sometime after the body had turned to a skeleton. The long bones of the upper leg had been placed on the chest as an 'X' and the skull had been removed and placed on the leg bones. The effect was to form a skull and crossbones. In the laboratory, Sledzik determined that the bones bore lesions from tuberculosis.

JB also had a hunched and crooked shoulder, from an improperly healed collar bone break, a crippled leg and probably what was art open and festering wound on his foot. The man also had missing front teeth. life, JB could have been a frightening figure," said Sledzik. Memory of this scary appearance could have prompted some to dig him up and to make sure he was dead by removing the skull Sledzik said his research shows such beliefs were common in New England as late 1892, particular among families that were riddled with tuberculosis, a disease Please see VAMPIRES Page 10 WASHINGTON (AP) Panicked New Englanders, desperate to end attacks from beyond the grave, once unearthed corpses and performed vampire-killing rituals in a war against the undead. It's a century-old tale of Halloween horror, now confirmed by scientists.

Dr. Paul Sledzik of the National Museum of Health and Medicine said Friday that bodies from 18th and 19th century graves in several locations in New Eng-. land show evidence that they had disinterred within a few months or years of death and then mutilated or disrupted in some way. Journalists' accounts published as recently 1893, he said, support the belief that this ghoulish tampering with corpses was prompted by the idea of "killing" the undead to stop them from sucking the life force from the living. Sledzik participated in analyzing corpses from a cemetery near Griswold, Conn, and found one that clearly bore the sign of vampire killing.

The corpse, found in a coffin bearing the initials "JB," was found in the Walton family cemetery of Griswold. a burial place that had been accidentally vio Unusual homes offer practicality What to do with worn tires, pop cans, mud, glass and wood? Try building a house. With a little ingenuity, incorporate solar power to heat water and provide energy. It can be done, as two Whitehall families have proven. For the story and photos, by Standard staff writer Paula DelBonis, on these unusual but practical homes, turn to Big Sky Lifestyles Sunday.

i i AP Laserphoto DR. PAUL SLEDZIK and Allison Willcox of the National Museum of Health and Medicine hold the skull and reconstructed face of man whose corpse had been disinterred after burial. Such tampering supports the belief that vampire killing rituals were conducted in the 17th and 18th centuries..