The Billings Gazette from Billings, Montana • 11

Wednesday, Oct. 12, 1983 The Billings Continued stories! Cable From Page One have remote control, the new box renders that feature useless, except for the volume control. And people with video recorders find it now impossible to tape one show at the same time they watch another. Many people with recorders purchase them precisely for that convenient feature. That coupled with an annoying busy tone when one tries to dial Montana Video with a question has cable consumers up in arms.

"They warned us about this. We expected some aggravation," Harris said. The Gazette's ENJOY! al and Action Line have been swamped with calls from irritated cable viewers. Montana Video has installed a new phone, 259-9571, to cope with the questions and complaints and Harris says they are doing their best to "get to the people within a day or two and accommodate their wishes." They have 25 additional servicemen and workers on duty, he added. Part of Montana Video's intent in installing the new boxes is to eliminate pirating and black marketeering of the pay channels, particularly Showtime and Home Box Office.

The system will make it impossible to tamper with outdoor hookups and steal, MTN From Page One But MTN's news format has consistently rated below KULR-TV, Billings, leading Sample to conclude that viewers "don't care what goes on in Kalispell." He adds, "They want to know about the fender bender i in Billings." Sample said the decision to originate the news broadcast from Billings is unre- Ad From Page One The company named in the ad is Grant Geophysical, which hopes to begin collecting seismic data on the reservation to sell to companies interested in developing tribal minerals. Company spokesman Alan Foley seemed puzzled when The Gazette called to inquire about the ad, which had noted that Grant would be "furnishing the expertise" for a Crow data-gathering program. Foley said his company did indeed have an agreement with the tribe for the right to conduct "non-exclusive' seismic surveys on the reservation and it had been signed by Tribal Chairman Donald Stewart. He further said that he had been to Washington, D.C., to get approval from Ken Fredericks in BIA headquarters. The contract would simply allow Grant to solicit business from companies interested in the oil and gas leases and provide them with seismic data, Foley explained.

The tribe would get a percentage of the profits after Grant's overhead costs were paid. The agreement did not prohibit a problem which has cost Montana Video thousands of dollars in the past. Showtime and HBO, in fact, will move from their present locations to new positions when they become "addressable" through the new box. While most consumers don't object to that, they do object to what one customer calls "a trade-down in services." Ed Burks, 671 Tepee Trail, is one of more than 18,000 people with the basic cable service in Billings. He decided to join the 7,000 pay channel subscribers in Billings by adding HBO and the Disney Channel I last week.

He called and had the new box installed. But Burks became irritated when the box left his $89.95 remote control feature useless. And he became furious when he found his expensive video recorder would no longer record one channel while he watched another. "That's one of the reasons I bought the recorder," he said. "Now, I can't use the video recorder and can't use my remote control.

And they want to charge me $5 a month for an extra box." So Burks called the company again and had them remove the converter box. He is back to basic cable. To get the pay services Showtime, HBO, Disney Channel and Cinemax each TV in a home must have one of the new boxes. The first box is free. Second and third boxes cost $5 each.

For owners of video equipment, it is possible to record and view two separate channels on a sing- Gazette lated to the sale of the station. In fact, that sale cannot go through until the Federal Communications Commission approves it sometime next spring. Lilly, 48, has 26 years experience in broadcasting, including sales and station management positions with television stations in Portland, Maine, and Buffalo, N.Y. Most recently, he served as vice president of Television Operations of Park Broadcasting, which operates seven television stations, located primarily in the South. When the sale is final, Lilly plans to other companies from seismic work on the reservation, he added.

It just gave Grant the authority to make surveys on the request of oil and gas companies. Tribal member Dewitt Dillon had approached Grant in Tulsa about making an agreement with the tribe, Foley said. Dillon apparently did the local footwork for Grant and allegedly obtained Stewart's signature on the agreement. BIA officials in Billings said Dillon visited with them and was told the proper procedures for concluding a deal with the tribe especially the fact that BIA approval would be necessary. Foley said he assumed that Stewart's signature and Frederick's approval were all that were required for a valid contract.

But there is a hitch. Before the ad appeared, most officials, including the tribal attorneys, had never even heard of Grant Geophysical. No contract had ever been presented to or approved by the BIA, and the tribal council had never passed a resolution approving the deal. Fredericks, reached last week in a BIA field office in Aberdeen, S.D., said he had talked to Foley in the form of a "courtesy call," but had not approved any official agreement with the tribe. The Gazette tried repeatedly to contact Stewart last week, but he either was Deer Fish have and also Game been authorized Commission.

this year Dale Graff, the department's From Page One captain in Miles City, said the process of establishing special "damage hunts" for licensed hunters, the spokesmen said. They said that allowing the public to harvest the game would probably have resulted in wasted meat because many of the animals were shot in September when temperatures in eastern Montana reached the 100-degree mark. There was one damage hunt, in southern Rosebud County. Deer seasons have also been opened early in parts of three other eastern hunting districts experiencing heavy crop and range damage. Thousands of additional deer hunting tags personnel were sent to shoot many of the pillaging deer and antelope because "hot weather is not conducive to deer hunting.

If we do it (kill deer and antelope) with. wardens we can do it cleanly with head shots without any waste of meat. If you send hunters afield in 105-degree weather there would be problems with spoiled meat." All but two of the 27 "kill permits," each usually limited to 20 deer and 10 antelope per ranch, were issued in the agency's Miles City District. "The big problem in our area has been the drought," said Ken Walcheck, the agency's information officer in Miles City. Nicaraguan rebels MANAGUA, Nicaragua (AP) Rebel saboteurs attacked dock installations at Puerto Corinto, Nicaragua's most important port, setting off huge oil-tank fires that raged out of control into the night Tuesday.

At least 10 people were wounded in the attack, including three sailors on a South Korean tanker docked at the port, Red Cross officials said. Deputy Foreign Minister Nora Astorga on Tuesday night summoned U.S. Ambassador Anthony Quainton and the rest of the Managua diplomatic corp in Managua to protest the "criminal attack," le TV but you need two boxes. If your home has two TVs and one video recorder, Harris suggests getting one box for each TV then using them both on the same TV when necessary. Harris said Tuesday that he knows there are catches in the new system.

The converters must remain plugged in, for instance, he said, and do take up to 10 minutes to warm up if they are unplugged when someone vacuums or switched off with a wall light connection. It is possible to continue as a basic cable subscriber without the new box, Harris added, using the old converters installed several years ago by Montana Video. You won't, however, have access to any of the pay service channels. "In some cases, that might be the way to go," Harris said. "People can either adapt to the new system or just stick with the cable.

We know the changes aren't for everyone." Burks and other have decided to stick with the cable. But for some who have been paying for HBO and Showtime and enjoying the variety of shows the choice is a difficult one: whether to forego the pay channels for the continued use of their video recorders and remote control or continue to subscribe to the pay channels and work around the disadvantages of the new box system. For those with old boxes who have chosen to convert, Montana Video will refund the $15 paid several years ago for those or credit customers' account. move his family to Billings, where MTN has its main office. Sample began the MTN network at the age of 32, in 1955, with a single station in Billings.

MTN later developed into an interconnected, statewide network with news bureaus in Billings, Butte, Great Falls, Missoula and Helena. Sample, 60, said he will remain with the broadcasting group as a consultant. As for MTN's 140 other employees, Sample said he knows of no immediate plans to either lay off workers or change their positions. not available or said he would talk about it later. The Gazette was unable to contact Dillon.

BIA officials in the Billings area office said they did not consider the agreement binding because it had not been reached through proper channels. "It's too bad this had to happen," said Bob Kelly, a tribal member and representative of Raven Oil and Gas a Colorado firm seeking approval of a controversial oil and gas deal with the tribe. "Grant is a good company and I hate to see them caught in the middle of thing like this. But it looks to me like someone promised them something they didn't have the right to promise." Tribal Attorney Tom Acevedo said the next step will probably be to ask Grant to resubmit its proposal to the tribe through the proper channels. The first step is tribal council approval and the second is BIA approval.

Acevedo said what he is most concerned about is the image tribe projects to business. He said the tribe had been working hard to show industry that the tribe offers a stable environment for development. "We're worried about what business may think about us when something like that happens," he said. "Ranchers in our area were growing alfalfa to harvest the seed about Oct. 1, before the start of the deer season.

Because of the drought which has dried up rangeland, the alfalfa has been a drawing card for deer." Ironically, Walcheck said, some of the landowners who had department personnel shoot big game on their land plan to charge people to hunt during the regular season. "They figure there are more deer and antelope and this will attract more hunters," Walcheck said. Graff said that issuing kill permits is "strictly a last resort," after department personnel exhaust other methods of keeping deer and antelope out of crops, including shooting shotguns at night and using chemical repellents. oil port Puerto Corinto as the fires spread, said Guillermo Zamora, local delegate for the ruling Sandinista National Liberation Front. Four large tanks filled with liquid fuels caught fire and exploded in the port area, Zamora said in a telephone interview.

He said one contained more than 1.6 million gallons of diesel oil. "This is the first time we confront such a horrible catastrophe here," Zamora said in a telephone interview. "We have no estimate yet for the damages, but they are great and irreparable." 5 shooting deaths in Texas may be linked HEMPSTEAD, Texas (AP) Five people, including a state trooper, were shot and killed in three separate incidents Tuesday in southeastern Texas, and authorities tried to determine if the slayings were connected. A sixth person, a 70-year-old woman, was in critical condition from one of the shooting incidents. Highway patrolman Russell Lynn Boyd, 25, of Hempstead, was gunned down Obituaries AREA DEATHS Jacob Sitzman, 74, Tacoma, formerly of Park City Lawrence "Red" Morrison, 70, Livingston Ola W.

Seger, 81, Roundup Willard H. Marshall, 89, Sheridan, Wyo. Florence V. Komrosky, 69, Glasgow Edward Cebull, 64, Roundup Peter Joseph Bertino, 85, Culbertson Grace N. Miller, 89, Bozeman Donald P.

Ryen, 66, Belgrade Mildred Kemmis, 77, Sidney Lawrence 'Red' Morrison LIVINGSTON Lawrence "Red" Morrison moved to Livingston in 1952 where he worked briefly for Park Electric Cooperative before working for the Northern Pacific Railroad. He retired as a stationary fireman in 1976. Mr. Morrison, 70, died early Tuesday morning at Memorial Hospital. He was born in Ollie, the son of Mr.

and Mrs. Robert E. Morrison. He attended Ollie schools and then operated a grocery store in Carlyle. On Feb.

26, 1941, he married Genevieve Ferrel in Miles City. Survivors include his wife; a son, Jerry of Missoula; a daughter, Betty Jo Huggins of Glendive; two sisters, Helen Dillon and Evelyn Stromme both of North Freedom, a brother, Robert of Baker; and two grandchildren. Services will be 1:30 p.m. Thursday at the Franzen-Davis-Bebee Chapel with burial in Mountain View Cemetery. Willard H.

Marshall SHERIDAN, Wyo. Willard H. Marshall, sheriff of Sheridan County for 24 years, had previously worked for Burlington Northern Railroad, and was president of the Perkins Foundation for several years, a member of Legion of Valor, American Legion, DAV, Masonic Lodge, Scottish Rite Bodies, Kalif Temple and Elks Lodge. Mr. Marshall, 89, died Monday in Eventide Nursing Home.

He was born in Nora, a son of Arthur and Jennie Marshall, and had worked for the Illinois Central Railroad. An officer in the Second Division of Engineers during World War he received the Silver Star, Distinguished Service Cross, French Croix de Guerre, Purple Heart and many other battle decorations. On Dec. 24, 1920 he married Hazel Daly in Denver, Colo. They moved to Sheridan in 1919.

He is survived by his wife; two sons, Bob of Sacramento, and John of Jackson, and three grandchildren. Services will be 10 a.m. Thursday in Champions Funeral Home with burial in Sheridan Municipal Cemetery. Peter Joseph Bertino CULBERTSON Peter Joseph Bertino, who loved people and was a friend to everyone, had farmed with two of his brothers in the Culbertson area for 60 years. He died Monday in Billings Deaconess Hospital at the age of 85.

He was born in Coal City, a son of Frank and Giovanna Ruffatto Bertino, and moved to Montana with his parents in 1911. Survivors include four brothers, John and Frank both of Culbertson, Louis of Columbia Falls, and Albert of Santa Maria, and a sister, Jennie Ross of Eugene, Rosary will be recited 7:30 p.m. Wednesday at Everson-Clayton Memorial Chapel in Culbertson. Mass will be celebrated 2 p.m. Thursday at St.

Anthony's Catholic Church in Culbertson with burial in Riverview Cemetery, rural Brockton. Injured student spends 51 hours trapped on ledge LURAY, Va. (UPI) Rescue workers rappelled 300 feet down the face of Old Rag Mountain Tuesday night to administer first aid to a student who got lost in the Shenandoah National Park, fell off a cliff and lay on a ledge 51 hours before he was found. Larry Hakel, chief ranger, said the workers were not expected to evacuate Shawn Howland Crawford, 18, until early Wednesday because rain and darkness were hampering the rescue effort. The extent of the Baltimore youth's injuries was not known, Hakel said.

But he was unconscious when rescue workers reached him and was suffering from hypothermia because temperatures Sunday night fell to near freezing. Rescue workers strapped Crawford to a stretcher lowered over the cliff as a precautionary measure and administered intravenous fluid. 81 Announcements Come to the YWCA Holiday Bazaar, shop for fun Holiday gifts stay for brunch, Thurs, Oct. 13th, from 10-4 open on Friday. YWCA 252-6303.

CONGRATULATIONS Debi Morrow Olsen of C- Ring West on the arrival of her baby boy, Debi will be taking appointments as of October 5th. Call 656-0191 Gainans GREENHOUSE GIFTS FLOWERS "FLOWERS CONSOLE" 501 N. 30TH ST. DOWNTOWN RIMROCK MALL CONVENIENCE CENTER 245-6434 WEATHERLINE 24 HOUR UPDATED WEATHER FORECAST CALL 052-2000 Te Tee by The Carette By Steree FI0 1.93 80 Card of Thanks Thank you from the George (Eddie) Miller family for all the prayers, flowers, cards, memorials food received from friends relatives during the recent loss of Father Husband, Eddie Miller. Special thanks goes to Dr.

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Will be closing at 11 a.m. Wednesday to attend funeral services for BOB DAVEY Florence V. Komrosky GLASGOW Florence V. Komrosky had been a 1 nurses aide at Deaconess Hospital until retiring in 1975. Mrs.

Komrosky, 69, died Sunday at the Deaconess Hospital in Glasgow. Born in Fargo, N.D., a daughter of Jacob and Martha Hoover, she grew up and attended school in Valley City, N.D. After marriage to Harry H. Komrosky on Dec. 20, 1930, they farmed in the Sanborn, N.D., area for several years.

They lived in California and Nevada before coming to Glasgow in 1965: Mr. Komrosky died in 1968. She enjoyed dancing and bingo. Survivors include two sons, Harry of Glasgow and Lowell of Power City, N.D.; three daughters, Debbie Seiler of Glasgow, Vallie Simmons of Phoenix, Bonnie Mosby of Yerington, 20. grandchildren; and 17 greatServices will be 2 p.m.

Thursday at the United Methodist Church with burial in Highland Cemetery. Bell Mortuary is in charge. Jacob Sitzman CANTON, Ohio Jacob Sitzman came to Park City, with his parents in 1912 and then farmed in the area for a few years before moving to Tacoma, Wash. Mr. Sitzman, 74, died Sept.

19 at the Westbrook Park Nursing Home after a long illness. He was born in Rifle, a son of David and Mary Sitzman, and had lived in Canton since 1951. A member of Martin Luther Lutheran Church and a past president of the Northeast Ohio Purchasing Agents Association, he retired from Ohio Ferro-Alloys Corp. in 1974. Survivors include his wife, Emma; a daughter, Mrs.

Markay Breiner of Massillon, Ohio; a son, David M. of Redmond, a brother, Sam of Park City, and 11 grandchildren. Private graveside services were Sept. 21 at Sunset Hills Burial Park. Ola W.

Seger ROUNDUP Ola W. Seger came to the Roundup area about 67 years ago and ranched with her husband in the Roundup vicinity. She died at age 81 Tuesday in Roundup Memorial Hospital after a long illness. She was born in 1 Montezuma, N.C., a daughter of William and Lizziebell Matney. She married Julius Seger, Aug.

16, 1924, in Roundup. He died in 1970. Survivors include two sisters, Pauline Guptill of Tenino, and Margie Spendiff of Renton, Wash. Services will be 11 a.m. Friday at the Wier Chapel with burial in Roundup Cemetery.

Donald P. Ryen BELGRADE Donald P. Ryen, long-time resident and farmer of the Spring Hill area, north of Bozeman, died Sunday in his home at the age of 66. He was born in Bozeman, a son of Martin: and Lena Ryen, and attended the Spring Hill school. Survivors include five sons, Bob of Peoria, Lloyd and Wayne both of Bozeman, and Lyle and Jack both of Belgrade; a brother, Clark of Belgrade; and a sister, Anna Marie Bakken of Bozeman.

Services will be 2 p.m. Wednesday at the ken-Nelson Sunset Chapel, Bozeman. Burial will be in the Spring Hill Cemetery. BALLARD Funeral Home Cody, Wyo. DOW Lucille, (Babe).

Funeral services will be 10:30 a.m. Wednesday, October 12, at the Ballard Funeral Home, Cody, Wyoming. by the warden department which she said was "part of the plans of the Central Intelligence Agency," a Foreign Ministry communique said. In Honduras, the Democratic Nicaraguan Force, a CIA-backed rebel group, claimed responsiblity for the attack in a news release. It said its objective was to "paralyze the war apparatus of the leftist regime." A leading businessman who asked not to be identified said the destruction of fuel tanks and the port facility would cripple the country.

About 15,000 of the town's 25,000 residents were evacuated to areas north of about 6:50 p.m. along Highway 6 near Cedar Creek, Department of Public Safety spokesman Larry Todd said in Austin. The three people in Hempstead, which included two dead and the critically injured woman, were shot a short time later, Todd said. He said investigators also believe the shootings could be connected to the killing of two people earlier Tuesday in College WIER Phone 323-2604 Home Roundup, Montana SEGER Ola age 81. Memorial services 1 11 a.m.

Friday at the Wier Chapel. Committal of ashes at the family plot in the Roundup Cemetery. For those who wish memorials may be made to the Roundup Memorial Hospital. CEBULL Edward, 64. Graveside committal services 10 a.m.

Thursday, Oct. 13, at the Roundup Cemetery. Serving all faiths with 1 dignity Michelotti Sawyers Mortuary 1001 Alderson Ave. Ph 252-3417 Mortuary Parking Adjacent MEMBER BY INVITATION -NATIONAL SELECTED MORTICIANS DAVEY Robert 50, of 4438 Mitchell Ave. Funeral services 1 p.m.

Wednesday in Michelotti-Sawyers Mortuary. Interment Mountview Cemetery. Memorials: Billings Vo-Tech Automotive Training Scholarship. Smith Chapels Funeral Crematory, Cemetery and Mausoleum 2 Locations in Billings 245-6427 TERRACE GARDENS-304 34th St. W.

ROGERS R.C. Rogers, 67, of 917 25th St. W. Memorial services 11 a.m. Wednesday, Oct.

12, in Smith Terrace Gardens Chapel. Cremation has taken place. Memorials: Northern Rockies Regional Cancer Treatment Center, Poly Drive and N. 28th Billings 59101. DOWNTOWN-120 N.

26th (parking adjacent) KEIFER Margaret 78, of San formerly of Billings. Rosary 7:30 Bernardino, p.m. Thursday, Oct. 13, in Smith Downtown Chapel. Funeral mass 10 a.m.

Friday, Oct. in St. Piux Church. 14, Interment in Mountview Cemetery. RED LODGE-0lcott Chapel 1-446-1121 1-628-4821 1-628-4821 Station, about 40 miles north of Hempstead, and a manhunt was launched for a suspect believed armed with a shotgun and a revolver.

Police in Weslaco in southern Texas said they received a bulletin from the DPS in Houston identifying a 24-year-old Donna man as the suspect in the trooper and College Station killings and saying the man was believed to be headed toward Donna..