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B-2 Times-News, Twin Falls, Idaho Wednesday, October 13, 1993 Search expanded for Challis girl either lost or the victim of a "possible stranger abduction." A search and rescue team was summoned from Blaine County. State and county officers joined in, using tracking dogs and riders on horseback. An aerial search was started in the mountainous Challis area. Officials said the FBI might be asked to join the investigation on Wednesday. The girl, who turned age 9 CHALLIS (AP) The search for a missing 9-year-old Challis girl expanded to all of central Idaho's Custer and Lemhi counties Tuesday afternoon.

Stephanie Crane, daughter of Ben and Sandy Crane of Challis, hasn't been seen since about 6 p.m. Monday when she left a local bowling alley. Authorities said the girl had to cross Garden Creek on her way home, and feared she may have fallen in. The stream feeds into the Salmon River. But a day-long search turned up nothing.

"My person opinion is that Garden Creek isn't deep enough and strong enough," said Custer County spokeswoman Vicki Armbruster. A local search was started about three hours after the girl was last seen. Authorities thought it possible that she stayed overnight at a friend's house. But when she didn't show up for school Tuesday, the search intensified. Mel Hawkins, Custer County sheriff's department spokeswoman, said officials believed Stephanie was Crane Good luck 't Ir photo The Boeing 747 is blessed for good luck with a traditional lion dance after its delivery to Singapore Airlines at a ceremony at the Boeing plant in Everett, Tuesday.

about two weeks ago, was described as 4-foot-2, 65 pounds and when last seen was wearing maroon sweat pants and a hooded sweat top with a light stripe. Custer County officials said they were looking for a small brite yellow pickup truck with red INEL firemen end 48 IDAHO FALLS (AP) After 48 days on strike, union firefighters at the Idaho National Engineering Laboratory have agreed to a three-year contract. Although firefighters will get a 9.5 percent raise over three years, they didn't win a key element of their battle with management, a reduction in the current 72-hour work week. Only six of 37 firefighters voted against the settlement, said Terry Perez, president of the Idaho Falls local of the Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers Union. "I don't think there was any advantage to holding out any longer," said Bill Flagler, a firefighter for 9A years who voted for the contact.

"They would have starved us out." Federal audit says tiny U.S. Nuclear Waste Negotiator's office doing job Ex-Aryan speaks out against racism BOISE (AP) Federal auditors a tiny federal agency based in Boise is doing its job properly, despite the fact it has spent more than $4 million in the last three years without achieving its objective. The objective of the U.S. Nuclear Negotiator's office is to find "an Indian tribe or state willing to be- come a repository for nuclear waste tor a place where it could be tem-tporarily stored. It has awarded grants to Indian Iribes and counties totaling more than $1.5 million, but so far hasn't found a home for unpopular radioactive I waste.

But after a week-long federal audit in May, the Government Accounting Office concluded the agency is carry- ing out the job it was given. The agency, which currently has seven employees in Boise and Wash-f ington, D.C., was set up during the administration of Republican President George Bush and has been staffed mainly by Republicans. Nuclear Waste Negotiator David Leroy, the former attorney general and lieutenant governor, resigned ef-; fective June 1 1 at the request of the new Democratic president. Since then, Energy Secretary Hazel O'Leary has been nominal head of the agency. Former Democratic congressman Richard Stallings was recommended for the job by Rep.

Larry LaRocco, but President Clinton has not formal- Waste Negotiator's office were consistent with the administrative provisions of the legislation that created the office the report said. Lempesis has resigned effective Friday and is opening a private law practice in Boise and Post Falls. That leaves the agency with four employees in Boise and three in Washington, D.C. Pat Sullivan, former top aide to GOP senator James McClure, also is paid $60,000 in a part-time job. Vern Nelson, director of communications, said "The thorough and unbiased GAO audit found absolutely no operational, procedural or fiscal irregularities." He said the "clean bill of health" will assure that when Stallings is confirmed by the Senate, he will take over an agency with no problems.

He also said that although the agency was authorized by Congress to spend $2.5 million per year, it spent only $1.6 million in fiscal 1991 and $1.7 million the next year. The agency was authorized by 1987 congressional action for no more than five years. In 1992, it was given a two-year extension and currently is authorized to operate until the start of 1995. Leroy received $123,100 per year in what was supposed to be a part-time job while he maintained a private law practice. Stallings has said he plans to make it a full-time job at that salary level.

The objective of the U.S. Nuclear Waste Negotiator's office is to find an Indian tribe or state willing to become a repository for nuclear waste or a place where it could be temporarily stored. ly approved the nomination. Stallings has been working under a consulting contract with the Department of Energy. An aide to Stallings said he hasn't seen the audit report and declined comment.

Since Leroy and his chief of staff, Chuck Lempesis, were top Republicans, that prompted some critics of the agency to look for a partisan angle. Rep. George Miller, chairman of the House Natural Resources Committee, asked GAO to review the agency. A GAO report made available this week and signed by Victor S. Rezen-des, director of energy and science issues, said no irregularities surfaced in the audit.

"The expenditures of the Nuclear BOISE (AP) Floyd Cochran is a "race traitor" to followers of the Christian Identity movement because he publicly attacks white-supremacist activities. But the former spokesman for the Church of Jesus Christ Christian-Aryan Nations in Hayden Lake said he is only revealing the "crimes" and "exploitations" of white supremacy. "Where I can feel useful is in educating people. People have to reconsider how they think about the racist movement," Cochran said before speaking Tuesday at Boise State University. "They think white supremacists are just morons and idiots.

They're people, and society must effectively deal with them." Cochran, 36, left the northern Idaho compound in July 1992 after nearly two years of working as a youth recruiter and spokesman. Now a public ISU, Utah near cooperative agreement day strike bargaining. Perez estimated that the workers lost an average of $2,900 in wages while on strike. "Overall, it's not really a bad contract," Perez said. "There are still some concerns that need to be addressed and we're not through addressing them yet." Perez said union officials will continue pressuring the Department of Energy to reduce the number of hours firefighters must work.

But Walsh said was adamant about that. "That was one of the key parts of the contract and our proposal that we felt very strongly about," he said. overnight. I taught myself to be a racist. It's been difficult getting over those beliefs." But the Rev.

Richard Butler, founder of the Aryan Nations, said Cochran likely was sent to the group "as an informer" for the "liberal left." "He appeared to be on our side, but now we know he was sent up by the Jews," Butler said Monday. "He uses us as part of his scenario. He's a race traitor. I say let the left wing have him." Cochran said attacks by his former cohorts often in the form of messages on the answering machine at his upstate New York home or at protests where Cochran speaks don't deter his efforts. "Intellectual arguments don't appeal to the masses.

Emotions do," he said. "Society still has to make some strides." He called the proposal "a very attractive deal" for both schools. "Seldom do you get a lot of win-win opportunities that come along and this is one of them," Nelson said. He and Bowen said the program would be thoroughly reviewed by administrators and faculty on both campuses before being submitted to the state Board of Education. To celebrate our secmi snnmsari) and to fn-stoc furniture: durim our fwnmrsttry Sale My QmndjathefsMIKitestied in the heaAol (MTovne Twfa Falls, salutes ttS exploring Ihatkerilagti Saturday, October 23 dufoq the "OUjowtf TrrtTie winner wiS remit a $200rfter(ikife.

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"I think it's OK for now." With the settlement, one 14-member fire crew is expected to head back to work on Friday. Crews struck Aug. 26. John Walsh, spokesman for the firefighters' employer, INEL contractor Idaho, said the company is satisfied with the new contract. "There was some compromise," Walsh said.

Replacement workers from Rocky Flats, should be removed from the Idaho nuclear facility by the end of the week, he said. The breakthrough came Monday night after more than seven hours of speaker and volunteer for human rights groups, Cochran travels the country denouncing racism and the activities of the Christian Identity movement. It's a movement that, he contends, continues to gain ground among youth and others who are dissatisfied with the economy, government and a changing society. An estimated 25,000 white supremacists live in the United States about 13,500 of whom are affiliated with the Christian Identity movement, according to data obtained from the Southern Poverty Law Center in Montgomery, Ala. Cochran hopes to discourage "susceptible" people from joining and to educate everyone against discrimination.

It's an education he says he also continues to gain. "It's not easy changing everything in your life," he said. "You can't change to get their first three years of training at Idaho State. The students would receive degrees listing both schools. Dr.

Arthur Nelson, dean of Idaho State's College of Pharmacy and the school's chief representative in talks with the Utah medical school, said students would spend their first two years on the Pocatello campus, mainly studying biomedical sciences. In the third year students would receive additional clinical training throughout Idaho, Nelson said. exploitation of everything our native people held sacred," Boyer said. Indians are acutely aware on Columbus Day and throughout the year of how their cultural history is being destroyed, said Boyer, a doctoral student in political science. She likened being a Native or Aboriginal American in the United States today to being a Jew in Germany during the 1940s, "except the war hasn't ended." concerns about Stoneybrook's proposal.

Avatar owns the property bordering Stoneybrook's to the south and the east. Hutchison said that the proposed zoning would put professional offices and possible multi-family housing alongside the high-priced homes Avatar plans to build in his River Ridge subdivision. "We feel this is incompatible with what we want to do" at River Ridge, she said. The preliminary blueprint for the residential subdivision was considered later Tuesday night by the commission. Look Better, Feel Better 13 WQNWttcr M.

Inc. omw ot rgwrd narnnrnk nghu mtrnH. By Margaret Jones Times-News writer I HANSEN Two people are run-', ning for city council seats in the up-; coming November election. City Clerk Darlene Miller said that incumbent Galen Stimpson plans to run again and Joseph Ratto filed as a new candidate for a city council seat. I Larry Bourn, who has served eight years, is retiring.

I Police Chief Jeff Miller recom-i mended the city of Hansen observe I Halloween "trick or treat" night Sat-' urday instead of Sunday night. Indians see Columbus as destroyer Death notices Miller said other towns were celebrating Halloween on Saturday instead of Sunday to avoid conflict with church activities and a before school night. The council voted to pay $4-per-household water testing fees to the state Division of Environmental Quality on a quarterly basis. These tests for lead and copper in the drinking water will probably be run every three years. Mayor George Urie said some minor repairs had been made on the city pickup truck, and he felt it would serve the city through the the Cassia Memorial Hospital in Burley.

The funeral will be held at 1 1 a.m. today at the Rupert 1st Ward LDS Chapel on F. Street. Interment will fol- Services William A. Bower, of Burley, graveside service 1 1 a.m.

today, Pleasant View Cemetery, Burley, (McCul-loch's Funeral Home in Burley). Lee R. Daniels, of Rupert, 2 p.m. today, Joseph Payne Memorial Chapel in Burley. Marge Anne Karcher, of Boise, graveside service 1 p.m.

today, Morris Hill Cemetery, Boise, (Relyea Funeral Chapel in Boise). Victor Williams Masters, of Mur-taugh, graveside service 1 p.m. Saturday, Pleasant View Cemetery, Burley, winter, he said. The council decided to put off buying a new truck until next spring. The next regular meeting on Nov.

8 will include a zoning hearing on the vacation of street allowances in the older part of Hansen. Railroad Avenue and Third Street West will not be included in this change. The proposed ruling will vacate ten feet from each side of the street. The present street width is eighty feet, this will reduce the width to sixty feet. The change will help residents meet set-back requirements.

low at the Rupert Cemetery. Friends may call one hour before the funeral at the church. Arrangements are under the direction of the Hansen Mortuary in Rupert. (McCulloch's Funeral Home in Burley). Lawrence E.

Fuston, of Twin Falls, graveside service 1 p.m. Friday, Sunset Memorial Park, Twin Falls, (White Mortuary in Twin Falls). Severe Grimmett Bandy, of Burley, 2 p.m. Thursday, Joseph Payne Memorial Chapel in Burley. Iness Opal Brown, of Gooding, memorial graveside service 4 p.m.

Friday, Elmwood Cemetery, Gooding, (Demaray's Gooding Chapel). POCATELLO (AP) LaNada Boyer, an Indian graduate student at Idaho State University, says she didn't know whether to be insulted or honored by an invitation to speak at the school's observance of Columbus Day. She spoke at ISU's Ethnic Diversity Week which started Monday. "This day in history represents the genocide of our people the destruction of our Mother Earth, the Zoning Continued from B1 for Stoneybrook Partners, said that Stoneybrook could commit to single-family housing for a proposed residential area just north of where Locust Street dead-ends. That 37-acre parcel would be de-.

veloped into 114 residential lots, with a greenbelt running through the site. Approval of this parcel would also require the extension of Cheney Drive west to Madrona Street. Commercial and professional zoning would front Pole Line, and an additional residential development would be built east of Madrona Street. A professional zone would act as a buffer between the commercial property and the two residential subdivisions. Jan Hutchison, representing Michael Avatar of Beverly Hills, said that they had several Eat Better, I James E.

Kissell BURLEY James Edward Kissell, 47, of Burley, died Monday, Oct. 11, 1993, in Twin Falls. The funeral will be held at 4:30 p.m. today at the Joseph Payne Memorial Chapel, 221 W. Main St.

in Burley, with Pastor B.G. Stumberg officiating. A graveside service and burial will be held at 4 p.m. Thursday at the Valley View Cemetery in Sunnyside, Wash. Arrangements are under the direction of the Payne Mortuary in Burley.

Wilma E. Wirsching TWIN FALLS Wilma E. Wirsching, 82, of Twin Falls, died Tuesday, Oct. 12, 1993, at the Twin Falls Clinic Hospital. Arrangements are pending and will be announced by Reynolds Funeral Chapel in Twin Falls.

DonStaker RUPERT Don Staker, 72, of Rupert, died Monday, Oct. 11, 1993, at hospitals MAGIC Ethel VALLEY REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER Admitted Bull and Pierce Roan, both of Twin Falls. Released Joan Bailey of Buhl..