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KaiminThursday, Jan. 10, 1980 Missoula, Mont. Vol. 82, No. 43 Labor dispute still unsettled

By ED KEMMICK pay raises of 90 cents per hour by Montana Kaimin Raporter the state, while the painters, elec­ tricians, plumbers and carpenters Unions representing 250 to 300 received offers of 62 cents. workers at colleges and univer­ As of yesterday, only the sities throughout Montana might machinists have formally accepted call for a walkout if contract the state’s offer, he said. agreements are not reached by The laborers’ union is bargain­ AFTER 10 INCHES of new snow yesterday, Kevin Hunt, senior, political science, and Ric Kumm, graduate Monday. ing primarily for an end to a student, find it easier to ski than walk. The National Weather Service at Johnson-Bell Field says more snow is That is the deadline set by six seniority-based pay plan. A expected today and tomorrow. (Staff photo by Barbara Miller.), craft unions and one labor union spokesman for the laborers said that for almost a year have been late last month that the plan is negotiating with the state for unfair and often results in low pay Stadium may replace River Bowl higher wages. Contracts for the and lack of equality in wages paid to starting and experienced seven unions expired June 30 and By DEBBIE KEHR Coffee said he was working with the students." workers. new contracts must be worked out Montana Kaimin Raportar Harley Lewis, University of Mon­ Ball also said he would support Sicotte said the laborers by the individual unions. tana athletic director, and ASUM whatever the students want. declared an impasse with the state Joe Sicotte, director of labor Construction on a large, multi­ Programming on the stadium idea, in a bargaining session in Helena relations for the office of the state purpose indoor stadium in Mis­ adding that he does not feel the Facilities for concerts yesterday, meaning they consider commissioner of higher educa­ soula, to be built near the Harry city stadium will compete with UM. Kelly Miller, director of ASUM negotiations to be at a stalemate, tion, said "about 50” workers at the Adams Field House on the “River Instead, he said the stadium, Programming, said he likes the at least for the time being. University of Montana are Bowl,” could be under way by late which would seat 15-20,000, would idea of the stadium and of the Richardson said the 62-cent represented by the unions. spring of 1981. be used for Grizzly sports events, performing arts theaters because raise offered to four of the craft Unions involved in the Bill Coffee* a commercial real such as football and track, and for he feels Programming would have unions is the state's final offer, negotiations are the laborers, estate broker and head of a five- ASUM concerts. less trouble bringing in top-notch adding that if the offer is accepted painters, plumbers, operating person city group called the The site, however, is a matter of players and big-name recording by the unions, the workers would engineers, carpenters, electricians "facilities steering committee," concern to Jim Ball, director of artists. and machinists. receive more than their counter­ said the stadium is part of a Campus Recreation. He added, though, that he would State Commissioner of Higher parts jn other state agencies. He package of recreation and perfor­ Ball said he does not oppose the like to see an arrangement Education John Richardson said said the 90-cent pay raise offered ming arts facilities being proposed stadium at this point, but is con­ between the university and the to the machinists and operating yesterday that the machinists and under the Missoula Urban cerned about where campus stadium that would allow ASUM, operating engineers were offered engineers will “catch them up” Renewal Program- recreation activities such as foot­ not the stadium operators, to with what he termed the “state In addition to the stadium, the ball and softball will be played if handle the concert bookings. blue-collar rate.” city is proposing a 2,000-seat the River Bowl is not used. The stadium and the theaters are Sicotte said that while he is not Correction performing arts theater and a 400- Ball said he has not been con­ in the early planning stages, certain the state will meet again seat performing arts theater, which tacted yet about the stadium, but Coffee said. The committee is in The Montana Kaimin in­ with union representatives in the Coffee said will be of great that the Students should be made the process of writing a grant correctly reported yesterday next few days, “the chances are economic benefit to Missoula in aware of what could happen to request from the National Endow­ that Will Putman is the “chief pretty good” the Monday walkout the long run. their campus recreation programs. ment of the Arts. push” of the Foresters’ Ball. can be averted. "I’m looking at it from the The grant request for $15,000, Putman is the president of He also said the state Board of Inadequate facilities students’ point of view,” he said. along with $10,000 already raised the Forestry Club and chief Regents is “prepared for a work "As of right now, facilities in "The stadium may serve the best by the committee, would be used push of the ball is Bill Stoppage if it occurs.” He declined Missoula for the performing arts interests of Missoula, but it may to bring in a team of experts to Crapser. to give more details, and said only and athletics are woefully inade­ not serve the best interests of the • Cont. on p. 8. quate,” he said. students and my main concern is • Cont. on p. 8. Colstrip towers may pass through Missoula valley Power lines could cost state $167 million By MIKE DENNISON But he said taxes can be Doherty also said the last Kalispell district manager for BPA, Montana Kaimin New* Editor collected only on the power lines handle” in preventing the gen­ said yesterday that BPA is current­ built by Montana Power Co. MPC erating plants’ construction is a ly revising and re-issuing a 1975 is building the power lines from case pending in the 9th U.S. environmental impact study, in an The almost inevitable construc­ Colstrip to Townsend. Circuit Court of Appeals in San effort to explore alternatives to the tion of the coal-burning Francisco. power line route which passes generating plants Colstrip 3 and 4 Double-decker towers The council and the Cheyenne through the Flathead Indian will place power lines close to BPA will construct the western Indians have filed suit against the Reservation. Missoula and may cost the state portion of the 500-kilovolt lines. Environmental Protection Agency “We don’t know if we want to go about $167 million in potential tax He said BPA plans to build double- for its 1979 decision granting a on the reservation,” he said. money, an opponent of the plants decker towers 175 feet high and permit to M PC and the consortium A corridor from Missoula to Hot said yesterday. able to carry three pairs of 500- of West Coast utilities to build Springs passing through the reser­ Steve Doherty, a staff member kilovolt lines. Colstrip 3 and 4. vation has been federally approved for the Northern Plains Resource The existing MPC-owned power In doing so, the EPA decided for the double-decker 500-kilovolt Council, said that if the Bonneville lines from Anaconda to Hot that pollution from Colstrip 3 and 4 lines, but has not been approved Power Administration, instead of Springs are 230-kilovolt lines. would not violate the Class 1 air by the Flathead tribe. A 230- Montana Power Co., builds the Doherty said he did not know if classification of the Cheyenne kilovolt line currently runs in this power lines, state and local any political or legal measures can Indian Reservation. corridor. government will lose potential tax be taken to prevent BPA from Doherty said this was an “in­ A possible alternative corridor money because BPA is a federal building the western portion of the correct decision,” because of would run directly west from agency and not subject to state or proposed power lines. He also did faulty modeling data. Missoula over Lookout Pass to local taxes. not know which corridor BPA A computer model of the plants Rathdrum, , Brandenburger The council is a group com­ would use: the state or federally was used to determine pollution said. posed mainly of eastern Montana approved corridor. contents, wind factor, height of the He said Water ranchers and landowners who The state corridor goes through smokestacks and other en­ Power plans to build a new substa­ oppose the construction of the Helena and Blackfoot valleys vironmental factors but Doherty tion at Rathdrum. Colstrip 3 and 4. The lines would near Helmville and Ovando while said the EPA did not look at the run from Townsend to Hot the federal corridor passes model correctly. Public awareness THIS 230-KILOVOLT tower Springs. through Boulder Basin, Deer He said the smokestacks will be Doherty was also concerned between Militown and East Mis­ "Proponents of the project have Lodge and then north to Garrison. 550 to 600 feet high, and that the about making the public aware of soula stands 175 feet tall — 75 feet been saying for years that the Both corridors converge a few plants will run 24 hours a day. the construction of the power shorter than the proposed 500- generating plants mean jobs, miles north of Missoula. He said he had no indication of lines. kilovolt double-decker towers to energy and tax benefits for Mon­ From Missoula, the route is yet the court case’s outcome. pass by Missoula. (Staff photo by tana," he said. to be decided. Gordon Brandenburger, • Cont. on p. 8. Barbara Miller.) opinion Make sure Montana needs the pipeline The Northern Tier Pipeline would vironmental analysis nor the project’s First, what's stopping West Coast there have been projections indicating run just north of Mount Jumbo. specifications gets to the real question refineries from altering their capacity those shortages will occur soon, it is It would cross the Blackfoot River. It surrounding the pipeline: is it needed? to process Alaskan crude? New federal also true that other projections in­ would cross Rattlesnake Creek and At the center of the need argument is incentives are making it more dicate the entire shortage problem is a Grant Creek, among others. a projected deficit of oil in the northern profitable to modify refineries so that mirage, it won’t happen. There is no doubt that the Northern tier states — Washington, Idaho, they can handle the Alaskan oil. Who to believe? How are we to Tier Pipeline would be in Missoula’s Montana, and If that happens, the West Coast oil know? backyard. — as Canada gradually phases out its glut will disappear — and so will some But we’d better be damn sure about But that is one of the few things oil imports to the United States. of the justification for the Northern Tier one thing — that the pipeline is needed about the pipeline that is not shrouded The oil loss to the United States has Pipeline. before we start digging part of that in doubt and confusion. been made up with Alaskan crude oil, Second, it is by no means certain that 1,500-mile trench just north of Mount Oh, of course, there are the basic but that oil is stranded on the West there will indeed be a shortage of oil in Jumbo. facts. The Northern Tier Pipeline is a Coast, where much of it cannot be used the northern tier states. While it is true Mike Mclnally 1,500-mile pipeline designed to since refineries there are not able to transport surplus West Coast crude oil handle sulfur-heavy Alaskan crude. At from Port Angeles, Wash., to Clear- present, about 400,000 barrels of oil a brook, Minn. It will cost about $1.2 day are shipped from the West Coast to billion to construct. the midwest through the Panama It would be the largest steel con­ Canal. struction project in American history, To ease the West Coast oil glut, which explains why U.S. Steel is one of pipeline supporters argue, a west-to- the pipeline’s supporters. east pipeline is needed. That way, they And there are environmental con­ claim, the projected shortage of oil in cerns: what will the effect be if an oil the northern tier states is taken care of spill occurs at sea? On land? But those at the same time. concerns tend to bog down in a swamp But at least two points must be given of statistics and probability analyses. careful consideration before any con­ But more important, neither en­ struction begins.

Take this simple test Bored with your present dead-end receptor from the noise source.” job? Pushed around and abused by b. “Audible interference will be your boss? Wish you had more contingent on the amount of dis­ money jingling in your pocket? tance (in meter units) between audio Well, there are big bucks to be occurrence and audio receiver.” made in the exciting, booming field c. “Hey! Could you guys muffle that Something else to worry over of environmental-impact statement jackhammer?" 3. “There will be no real effect” writing. Here’s something to worry about magazines should be censored. Only could best be rephrased as: Yes, more and more of these next time you’re trying to go to sleep. 19 percent advocated censorship in a. “No significant beneficial or multi-volume, oversized extrava­ A poll of the nation’s top high school 1970. adverse impacts would occur on the ganzas have to be produced every students — the people who will Finally, the survey, which was taken indicators of social well-being and year and the demand for qualified, presumably be running the nation during the summer, indicates that Sen. quality of life.” highly-paid impact statement when you and I are living off what's left Edward Kennedy is the teen-agers’ b. “Impacts should not and could writers is far outstripping the supply. of Social Security — shows a growing runaway choice for president. not be rated on a net positive or And the future for impact state-: conservative trend. You can make what you will of these negative pro-rated scale.” ment authors has never looked According to the poll, sex is down. figures, of course, but there is no doubt c. "No sweat. Take it easy. Care for a better! As environmental regulations Seventy-eight percent of the students that high school students have turned joint?” become more numerous and com­ said they had not had sex. In the 1975 to the conservative side. 4. “Some steps could be taken to plex, you can bet that more impact poll, only 68 percent of the students As a footnote, we should probably reduce adverse Impacts of the statements will be required. said they had not had sex. inform you that the survey was taken proposals” could best be rephrased By now, you’re probably saying to In addition, 49 percent of the boys by the nice people who put together as: yourself, “Gee. Environmental- and 69 percent of the girls intend to be each year’s edition of “Who’s Who a. “There would be measures which impact statement writing sounds virgins when they marry. Among American High School could reduce the incidence, intensi­ like an exciting, booming, highly And finally on the sexual front, 32 Students.” ty, magnitude and duration of paid field. But how can I be sure if it's percept of the girls and 26 percent of That’s the book that publishes the adverse effects resulting from any of right for me?" the boys do not think women and men highest achievers in high school, as the proposals." We’ll be honest. Not everybody is are of equal intelligence. selected by their principals. That’s b. “Action proposals that could cut out for this kind of work. But you Drugs are also down, the poll says. nice. effectively alleviate some of the net can take this simple test to discover Only 8 percent said they used mari­ Then the book’s publishers ask the negative-rated impacts have been if you have the potential to become a juana once a month, compared to the parents of the highest achievers to buy proposed.” highly-paid writer in this new, thrill- 25 percent who did in 1975. a volume of the book so they can see c. “Let’s just get rid of the little packed field. Forty-three percent said they never their dear high achiever. That’s what nasties.” The test is simple. Just select the drink beer and 60 percent claim never you call a built-in market. If you've selected “b” as your one answer to each of the following to have drunk hard liquor. That’ll At any rate, now you have an idea of answers, you undoubtedly have the questions that sounds best to you. probably change, however, once our what's gaining on you. Good luck. stuff needed to become a successful high school friends turn of age and environmental-impact statement 1. “An earthquake could damage make it to college. " ■"< writer. the pipeline” could best be rephras­ Sixty-five percent said that certain If "a” was your most common I m o n t a n a ed as: movies, TV programs, books and answer, you may be right for the job a. “An event of magnitude more after a little polishing. than 6.5 on the Richter scale could K a im in And if “c” was your preferred cause severe structural damage.” choice, better find a job writing for b. "Motion caused by abrupt shifts Rolling Stone. in underground geologic formations Published every Tuesday. Wednesday. Thursday and Friday of If you’ve done well on the test, l e t t e r s the school year by the Associated Students of the University of could have an adverse (net negative) Help us Montana. The School of Journalism uses the Montana Kaimin for congratulations. 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Institute for Peace Research 2. “How much noise you’ll hear And one final note: if you feel that Box 1412 depends on how far you are from you've got what it takes to carve out Miles City, Montana 59301 Letters Policy Thanks. where the noise Is coming from” a niche for yourself in this thrill-a- Letters should be: • Typed preferably tripled spaced. could best be rephrased as: •Signed with the author's name, class, major, telephone minute profession, please don’t K. Williams number and address; *No more than 300 words (longer a. ‘The intensity of the impact letters will be printed occasionally); • Mailed or brought contact us. We just do the testing. N. Brooks to the Montana Kaimin. J-206. 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