Apr. 29, 1981 The Billings Gazette Rush FROM PAGE 1) Evans said a January Geological Survey report of "significant metal content" found in the oil shale deposits in central Montana prompted his firm to file more than 100 claims on federal land and acquire mineral leases on some contigious state land. Most of the Heath Formation which contains the metaliferous oil shales lies beneath private lands. But many minerals on federal lands can be claimed. "Instead of paying royalties and buying the land, you get the resource free," one of the USGS scientists said.
The minerals are "free," but prospectors must pay a $5 filing fee for each 20- acre claim and are required to do $100 worth of work on each claim each year. "We don't know done what is there," Evans but said. "We haven't any drilling yet, we want to be sure we have enough property to protect our investment if we find The USGS startled other government agencies when it announced Jan. "long-known oil shales underlying 2,700 square miles of central Montana also conal tain significant amounts of zinc, nickel, molybdenum, vanadium and selenium as well as an estimated 180 billion barrels of recoverable synthetic crude." The Associated Press at the time reported the crude would be "enough to supply the nation's petroleum needs for 28 years." One of the authors of the report, George Desborough, who now runs a consulting firm in Golden, later said the oil in the low -grade oil shale was not "recoverable" in the sense that it would ever be converted to gasoline but could fuel a retort process which would free the precious metal from the rock. Tuesday, Evans said U.S.
Energy was "in it for the metal." U.S. Energy is a mining-exploration firm headquartered in Riverton, Wyo. The Wyoming secretary of state reported the firm to be "a Wyoming corporation in good standing." A Riverton chamber of commerce spokesman said, "They have their finger in a lot of things." According to Evans, U.S. Energy Corporation: Recently sold the world's largest molybdenum holdings to Amax. (The press reported it as a "billion-dollar Evans said U.S.
Energy and a subsidiary have received $25 million and will receive the equivalant of $3.1 million to $4.2 million this year and up to $9 million per year for the next 20 to 30 years from the deal. Has sold uranium properties to Atlantic Richfield and Western Nuclear. Owns the Brunton Company, which manufactures compasses. Owns American Zeolite Company, which has a pilot plant that demonstrated a process (now patented) to remove ammonia from sewage. Holds more than 1,700 claims in the Colorado mineral belt where the company will be' doing deep-drilling this summer, looking for molybdenum, gold and silver.
U.S. Energy Corporation is also the defendent in a multi-million dollar suit in which a Detroit firm, Washtengaw Energy Corporation, claims the Riverton firm entered into a contract for the joint development and mining of 2,336 uranium claims (46,700 acres) near Kaycee, Wyo. Washtengaw claims U.S. Energy allowed the claims to lapse, then claimed the 46,700 acres itself. Evans said his firm's lawyers are examining the complaint and the company is not ready to comment on the Washtengaw suit.
Evans said a U.S. Energy crew is still in the field in Fergus County near Lewistown and may file more claims. While Montana's state geologist, Sid Groff of Butte, echoed other geologists in saying "it will be at least the 1990s before these deposits are developed," former USGS scientist Desborough claimed a mine could be developed in five years. Desborough said Tuesday he knew of two companies that have the technology to extract the minerals from the central Montana oil shale but said he could not reveal their names. The other large holder of oil shale claims disagreed.
Tom Elliott said, "As far as we are concerned, nothing will happen with this stuff in the next 20 years." Elliott is the son of Frank O. Elliott of the New Mexican firm, Elliott Oil Co. The company produces gas and oil and owns two ranches in New Mexico and one near Grass Range. "But we are serious farmers and ranchers. We don't want to give anyone the impression we are an oil company dabbling in ranching.
We have been ranching in Montana for 17 years. "We filed the claims out of self-defense. We had all sorts of unauthorized people digging ruts in our best pasture (on land leased from the federal government)." Doris Cole of Spokane was listed on 35 of the claims filed this week. She could not be reached for comment. Reagan (FROM PAGE 1 Republicans were jubilant.
Sen. William Roth, coauthor of the tax cut proposal Reagan has adopted, said the speech "was one of the most dramatic events I have ever witnessed in my 14 years in the Congress. The Gipper gave us a locker room speech that would make Knute Rockne His color was good and he raised his arm in response to the applause, smiled, winked, waved and appeared mistyeyed he spoke of the love that Americans showed him after he was shot. "The warmth of your words, the expression of friendship and, yes, love, meant more to us than you can ever know," Reagan said. "You have given us a memory we'll treasure forever.
you've provided the answer to those few voices that were raised saying that what happened was evidence that ours is a sick society." Reagan spoke on the eve of his 100 days in office. His appearance also was designed to demonstrate to the nation that he has made a quick comeback from the gunshot wound and to push for his economic package working its way through Congress. Texaco rumors had any substance and were told several times that Texaco had no intention of leaving Montana, the complaint said. The Bozeman pair was also told stories te that effect published in two oil magazines in February of 1977 were not true. Judge Battin wrote in his findings of fact that some Texaco officials were told the decision to pull out of Montana was made in June of 1976 about the time Alexander and Meisner were purchasing the franchise in Bozeman.
The judge found that company officials "deliberately concealed knowledge of Texaco's market withdrawal plans." Part of the withdrawal plan, Battin wrote, was to reduce the company's profile in Montana by increasing its prices to wholesalers, making Texaco products noncompetitive with the products of other oil companies. to some very fine people, my health is much improved," Reagan said. "I'd like to be able to say that with regard to the health of our economy. But the fundamental nature of our economic mess has not changed." "I believe it is essential that the Congress approve this package which I believe will lift the crushing burden of inflation off of our citizens and restore the vitality to our industrial machine," he said. Reagan timed his speech to the upcoming crucial votes on a series of budget proposals.
He strongly endorsed a budget plan which cuts $6 billion more from federal spending than he proposed. The Senate Budget Committee Tuesday approved Reagan's proposals but there were indications Democrats were regrouping to provide major opposition in the House. Reagan said the House Budget Committee measure, proposed by the Democrats, "quite simply falls far too short of the essential actions that we must take." He said that the Democratic proposal an echo of the past rather than a benchmark for the FROM PAGE The plaintiffs claimed the creases reduced Texaco's share of tana petroleum market from 11 1976 to percent in November of Don Molloy, attorney for the men, said he expects that the case appealed to the Ninth Circuit Court peals. His clients won't collect until peals have been settled. Other Texaco distributors in have shown considerable interest outcome of the Bozeman case, the attorney said.
He said his firm has approached by others with an Texeco, but does not rule out the ity that more suits may be filed. Since Alexander and Meisner of Texaco's plans to pull out of they have switched to an Exxon Molloy said. Civil war FROM PAGE chine guns. Security forces already have more power to deal with rioters than any other Western European country they can shoot anyone seen tossing a firebomb but Paisley claimed that for political reasons they had been ordered to take restrained approach. Paisley told a news conference that Sands' death would be the signal for widespread violence.
Sands' family said the IRA leader was given the last rites of the Roman Catholic Church for the second time Monday night. Earlier Tuesday a meeting of British loyalist paramilitary leaders resulted in creation of Protestant vigilante patrols. Protestant Member of the British Parliament Robert Bradford said: "A ring of steel must be thrown around the Catholic ghettos to fence in those Irish Republicans who carry out these attacks from within Local and area deaths and funerals Local and FROM PAGE 1) "As these things go, perhaps the quantity is not great, but the size of the country is not large," Volz said. "It was possible that they could succeed in some ways." Dominica, 29 miles long and 16 miles wide, is one of several small islands of the Windward group of the Lesser Antilles, separating the Atlantic from the Carib-. bean Sea.
It is populated by 70,000 people, most of whom cultivate tropical and citrus crops. The island, discovered by Columbus in 1493, is about 300 miles southeast of Puerto Rico. It became a British colony in 1783 and remained part of the British empire, and later the Commonwealth, until 1978, when it became an independent nation. The government is headed by Prime Minister Eugenia Charles, who was informed by the U.S. State Department of the threat to his government, Volz said.
"It's safe to say that the people who were leaving here felt that they had sufficient contacts on the island, including someone to place in power if the coup were successful," he said. One of the men, Stephen Don Black, 27, Birmingham, has been grand dragon of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan since David Duke resigned last summer to head another white supremist group. Stanley McCollum, grand titan of the north Alabama chapter of the organization, said Black, who had taken a 60-day "personal" leave earlier this month, called their headquarters early Tuesday to ask someone to contact his wife. comes as somewhat of a surprise, but I- guess it is a fact," McCollum said. "He doesn't talk about his personal business.
I wish he had; maybe I could have talked him out of this." McCollum also said another of the arrested men, Michael Stanley Norris, 21, Tuscaloosa, was a former member of their group. The suspects were charged under federal neutrality statutes with conspiracy to injure the property of a foreign government and expedition against a friendly nation. The maximum penalty is 12 years imprisonment and $12,000 in fines. They also were charged with various federal firearms violations, with maximum combined penalties of 20 years confinement and $10,000 in fines. Oil imports show drop in March WASHINGTON (UPI) Oil imports dropped sharply in 1 March, shrinking the U.S.
trade deficit to the lowest level in more than five years, the Commerce Department reported Tuesday. The figures show an enormous cutback in oil imports for the month to 5.5 million barrels a day, two million barrels less than in February. "The extremely low deficit may have been due to a confluence of favorable factors which may not be repeated," said Deputy Secretary of Commerce Joseph Wright Jr. A senior Commerce Department analyst said the "confluence" mainly consisted of catching up to previously unrecorded February oil import declines, plus an increase in exports to Third World countries. Energy Department figures showed a much less pronounced drop in March oil imports, as did those computed by the oil industry's trade association.
But both agreed the monthto-month drop was considerable. The total trade deficit for the month dropped to $451.4 million, listed by the department as the lowest since November 1975. Since deficits then were computed differently, the department said the dollar figures could not be directly compared. The drop in oil imports overshadowed a large increase in U.S. exports, which also helped shrink the deficit.
Exports were up 8.5 percent with sales of aircraft, space hardware, electrical generating equipment, organic chemicals and soybeans contributing the most to the total. LOCAL DEATHS Henry J. Brock, 31, of Route 3 Virginia J. Vivian, 82, of Glendeen of Butte Samuel J. Powell AREA DEATHS Mark K.
Helvik, 29, Sheridan, Wyo. Dr. Eloise Larson Fisher, 74, Livingston Robert E. Watson, 82, Livingston Doris Jeanne Cronin, 31, Bozeman Esther H. Doyle 59, White Sulphur Henry Brady, 42, Lame Deer Samuel J.
Powell, 19, Ashland Ethel Gotth, 91, Glendive, formerly Anna Marie Peters, 83, Lewistown Arthur C. Siebrecht, 78, Malta Robert A. O'Brien, 64, Saco Brian E. McAnally, 56, Poplar Samuel J. Nursing Home, formerly Springs of Omaha, Neb.
ASHLAND Samuel J. Powell, 19, died Monday i in Lame Deer Clinic as the result of a gunshot wound. His death is under investigation. He was born in Crow Agency, a son of Lillian Weasel Bear and George A. Powell.
He moved to Ashland in 1974 where he attended school and played football. He worked in Colstrip at the mines for three months as a carpenter's helper and in the Ashland Saw Mill. He was also employed at St. Labre Mission as a carpenter. He was to be married to Sheila Pickett of Crow Agency on May 16.
Survivors include his fiance; his mother and stepfather, Mr. and Mrs. Teddy Woodenthigh of Ashland; his father, George A. Powell; a brother, Joseph Weasel Bear Ashland; four sisters, Anna Liersemann of Yakima, Wash. and Germaine and Iola Woodenthigh and Juanita Weasel Bear all of Ashland; an adopted sister, Crystal MorAshland; his grandfather, Wilbur Wolfname of Lame Deer; his grandmother, Nancy Weasel Bear of Ogalala, S.D.; and an adopted father, Daniel Foote of Lame Deer.
Mass will be celebrated at 10 a.m. Saturday in St. Labre Catholic Mission. A wake will be Friday in the Woodenthigh home at Ashland. Burial will be in Mission Cemetery with Bullis Mortuary in charge.
Esther H. Doyle WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS Esther H. Doyle, 59, widow of Willard Doyle, a 20-year resident of White Sulphur Springs, died Monday in the Mountainview Memorial Hospital. She was born in Rugby, N.D., a daughter of William and Ora DePriest, and was married in White Sulphur Springs. Her husband died in 1978.
Survivors include two daughters, Mrs. Fred (Donna) Wilson of Wilsall and Mrs. Richard (Jacque) Gray of White Sulphur Springs; three sons, Daniel and Douglas Ellsworth, both of White Siphur Springs and Terry Joe Ellsworth, of Belgrade; two brothers; two sisters; nine grandchildren; and a great grandchild. Services will be at 2 p.m. Friday in the Twichel Funeral Home.
Burial will be in the Mayn Cemetery. Brian E. McAnally HELENA Brian E. McAnally, formerly of Poplar, was, superintendent of the building and grounds department for Poplar School District before moving to Helena in 1978 where he was a painting and carpenter contractor. Mr.
McAnally, 56, died Monday evening in a Helena hospital following an extended illness. He was born in Poplar, a son of Mr. and Mrs. James E. McAnally.
In 1947 he married Louise Forest. A veteran of World War II, he was a life member of American Legion 55 of Poplar where he was also a member of the Firing Squad. He was a retired volunteer fireman and enjoyed fishing and golfing. Survivors include his wife; two daughters, Mrs. Diana Strauser of Poplar and Mrs.
Gwyn Nordwick of Sidney; two sons, Donald B. of Sacramento, Calif. and Larry A. of East Helena; his mother, Mrs. Ida M.
Roe; his step-father, Emmitt Rowe; two brothers, James W. and Richard and a sister, Mrs. Betty Kelsey all of Poplar; and five grandchildren. Services will be at 11 a.m. Thursday in Hagler Chapel.
Burial with Military rites will be in Forestvale Cemetery. Doris Jeanne Cronin BOZEMAN Wife and mother Doris Jeanne Cronin, manager at the Montgomery Ward Paint Department, died Monday at a age 31 at her Bozeman home. Coronor Doris Fisher said death was due to natural causes. She was born in Prairie DuChien, a daughter of Robert R. and Mary Robijick Rau.
Her family settled in Janesville, where she attended schools. She married Larry Gronin in 1968 in Milton, and they moved in February, 1977 to Bozeman. Survivors include her husband and a son, Jeffrey, 10, at home; her parents, two brothers and a sister, Michael Rau in the Army in Korea, Bruce Rau and Sandra Rau, and a grandmother Helen Rau, all of Janesville. Private family services will be in Janesville. Cremation has taken place, with the Dahl Memorial Chapel in charge.
Prisoner pleads guilty to escape By LORNA THACKERAY Of The Gazette Staff A prisoner who pushed a deputy aside and ran from a courtroom following his sentencing on a robbery charge Jan. 19 pleaded guilty Tuesday in District Court to a felony count of escape. William Scott Dahl, 22, of 1115 N. 26th was tured by deputies about two blocks from the Courthouse. Dahl was wearing a green jail uniform, but was not handcuffed when he bolted from the sixth floor courtroom.
Judge Charles Luedke sentenced Dahl to five years on the escape count. The sentence will run concurrently with a 15-year sentence Dahl received for robbing the SuperAmerica gas station on Broadwater Avenue. In other District Court activity Tuesday, Ralph Roland Best, 42, of Shepherd, pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge of sexual assault. Best had originally been charged with felony sexual assault, but the charges were reduced during plea bargaining, with the Yellowstone County Attorney's Office. Best was sentenced to six months in the county jail.
He was charged with assaulting an 11-year-old girl in her mother's trailer home March 18. Beverly J. Hammeren, 42, of 1948 Lake Elmo Road, pleaded guilty to a charge of aggravated assault and was given a one year deferred sentence. As part of her probation, Mrs. Hammeren was ordered to perform 30 hours of community service by participating in the lunch program in the jail.
Mrs. 'Hammeren was arrested for aiming a rifle at her husband during a scuffle March 7 on Duck Creek Road. Edward L. Heidema, 42, was fined $500 after he pleaded guilty to a charge of driving after having been adjudged an habitual traffic offender. Heidema lost his driver's license for three years after accumulating several traffie violations.
He was arrested March 12 while driving on Fourth Avenue North near 14th Street. Virginia J. Vivian Virginia J. Vivian, 82, who taught school in Butte for 34 years, died Tuesday in Glendeen Nursing Home where she had been a resident since 1972. She was born in San Jose, a daughter of Sylvanus and Alice Masel.
She moved to Butte as a child where she attended school. She also attended school in Dillon and graduated from the University of Washington in Seattle. In 1936 she married George F. Vivian. He died in 1944.
Survivors include a son, George of Idaho Falls, Idaho; a daughter, Virginia E. Davis of 919 Nutter and four grandchildren. Services will be held Saturday in Dugan-Merrell-Dolan Mortuary in Butte with burial in Mount Moriah Cemetery. Michelotti-Sawyers Mortuary is in charge of local arrangements. Henry Joseph Brock Henry Joseph Brock, who Hager Brother Eggs, died from Monday evening at age 31.
Mr. Brock, a son of Ralph and schools in 1 Billings and Shepherd. He in 1975. Survivors include his wife; two and six daughters, Stacy, Jeannea, Kathy all of the family home; five berry of Roundup, Jack Brock of of Billings and Kraig Brock and Shepherd; two sisters, Harriet Brock and Mrs. Eugene (Joyce) Dean of parents of Shepherd; and his Brock of Billings.
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Bozeman will be of Apthe ap- Montana in the Billings not been interest in possibil- learned Montana, franchise, the In west Belfast, on the Catholic side of the peace line, defense plans were in effect for several days. Not only were vigilante patrols organzied but a roster of Catholic doctors and nurses has been drawn up to man field hospitals established in community centers. In an apparent and likely futile effort to undermine any planned backlash in the event of Sands' death, police arrested 60 prominent members of the Campaign Committee in towns and villages across Northern Ireland. A statement from the committee's Dublin headquarters described the roundup of activists as "mini-internment" and compared it to the first internment swoop in 1971 that sparked widespread street violence and prolonged gun battles between the IRA and British troops. Bozeman 586-5298 300 Switzler Sewing off faiths with digaty) Michelotti Sawyers Mortuary 1001 ALDERSON AVE.
252-3417 Parking lot Adjacent KELLY Cora A. Kelly of Great Falls, formerly of Billings, widow of Dell M. Kelly. Memorial service 1 p.m. Wednesday, April 29, in MichelottiSawyers Mortuary.
Interment of the ashes will be at Custer Battlefield National Cemetery. Memorials to the Humane Society or to the charity of one's choice. RAHRER Francis J. "Rip" Rahret, 70, of Fromberg. Graveside committal services 2 p.m.
Thursday, April 30, at Rockvale Cemetery. Visitations at Michelotti-Sawyers Mortuary Wednesday morning until Thursday noon. Memorials to the Fromberg Volunteer Fire Dept. Equipment Fund. VIVIAN Virginia, 82, of 4001 Rosebud Lane.
Mother of Virginia E. Davis of 919 Nutter Blvd. Funeral Mass will be held 10 a.m. Saturday in Immaculate Conception Church Rosary will be conducted 6:45 p.m. Friday in the Dugan-Merrell-Dolan Mortuary in Butte.
Interment in Mount Moriah Cemetery, VAN BUREN Sandra 27, of 2951 Georgina Drive, formerly of Joliet. Funeral Mass 11 a.m. Thursday, April 30, with Rosary 7:30 p.m. Wednesday in St. John's Catholic Church in Joliet.
Interment in Joliet Cemetery. Memorials to VFW Auxiliary Cancer Aid Research, Joliet. Mont. 59041 or the charity of one's choice..
