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Bismarcktribune.com I Bismarck Tribune Saturday, October 1, 2005 I Page 9A DEATHS Elsie Saville Elsie Saville, 96, Bismarck, died Sept. 29, 2005, at Missouri Slope Lutheran Care Center. Services will be held at 2 p.m. today at the Hazelton Presbyterian Church, with the Rev. Dale Nabben officiating.

Burial will be i in the Hazelton Cemetery. Elsie Saville Visitation will be held from 9 to 11 a.m. Saturday at Eastgate Funeral Service and one hour prior to the service at the church. Elsie Bier, oldest daughter of Floyd and Marian (Bailey) Bier, was born in Bismarck on Sept. 9, 1909.

She grew up on her parents' farm and attended a country school in Lincoln School District and also in Braddock, where she graduated from Braddock high School in 1928. She attended Valley City State Teachers College and taught in the rural schools of Highland and Tell school districts. Frank Saville and Elsie were married on May 29, 1938, at the Bier farm. They farmed one mile east of Elsie's childhood home. Elsie and Frank enjoyed traveling throughout the U.S.

and eventually after their retirement in 1970 began spending their winters at Weslaco, Texas. Elsie liked playing the piano and organ and enjoyed reading her entire life. Farm life and her family were most important to her. Frank died in April 1993 and Elsie entered the Missouri Slope Lutheran Care Center apartments later that year, where she has since resided. She was a member of the Hazelton Presbyterian Church, Presbyterian Women and the Order of Eastern Star.

Elsie is survived by her sons, Claude (Clarice) Saville of rural Hazelton, and Keith (Joanne) Saville, Grafton; three grandsons, Mitch (Darcie), Bryan, and Brad (Holly); two great-grandsons, Ryan and Casey; her sister Mabel Larvick, and her brother, Howard (Melvena) Bier, Bismarck. She was preceded in death by her husband and her parents. Visit the guest book at bismarcktribune.com Harry Oukrop DICKINSON Oukrop, 90, Dickinson, died Sept. 28, 2005, at his home. Services will be held at 10 a.m.

MDT Tuesday, Oct. 4, at St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church. Burial will be at Dickinson Cemetery. He is survived daughter, Henrietta Tweeten, Albuquerque, N.M.; one son: Daniel, Dickinson; two grandchildren; and one great -grandchild.

(Stevens Chapel, Dickinson) Kenneth Bergsgaard MADDOCK Kenneth A. Bergsgaard, 79, Maddock, died Sept. 30, 2005, at Heart of America Medical Center, Rugby. Services will be held at 11 a.m. Monday, Oct.

3, at Viking Lutheran Church, rural Maddock. Further arrangements are pending with Nelson Funeral Home, Maddock. Minnie Eagle Shield Minnie Eagle Shield, 85, McLaughlin, S.D., died Sept. 27, 2005, at Mobridge Regional Hospital. Services will be held at 11 a.m.

Monday, Oct. 3, at St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Little Eagle, S.D. (Oster Funeral Home, Mobridge, S.D.) Lawrence Byington NEW TOWN Lawrence C. Byington, 77, New Town, died, Sept.

29, 2005, in a Minot hospital. Further arrangements are pending with Perry Funeral Home, Mandan. Mabel Kuntz HAZEN Mabel Kuntz, 83, Hazen, died peacefully Sept. 28, 2005, at Sakakawea Medical Center Hospice Room, Hazen. Services will be held at 10 a.m.

MDT, Monday, Oct. 3, 2005, at St. Martin Catholic Church, Hazen, with the Rev. Johnson Kuriappilly officiating. Mabel Kuntz Visitation will be held from 3 to 6 p.m.

MDT Sunday at Seibel Funeral Home, Hazen, with a wake service starting at 6 p.m. MDT. Mabel was born on the home place, south of Beulah, Nov. 15, 1921, the second of five children of Christian and Mary, (Veitz) Flemmer. Mabel was raised and educated south of Beulah.

On June 14, 1952, she married her loving husband of 53 years, Joseph Kuntz, at the St. Martin Catholic Church, Hazen. They lived in Hazen, where they raised their son and daughter. Mabel was a devoted wife and mother. She enjoyed outdoor activities such as gardening and fishing.

Mabel also enjoyed cooking. Her children have fond memories of their mother's love for bingo and animals. She was considered very lucky when it came to winning raffles. Mabel was a wonderful and loving sister who loved her home, her friends and the community of Hazen. She is survived by her husband, Joe; one daughter, Shari, Lakeside, one son, Joel, Ham Lake, and one sister, Ruth, Bismarck.

She was preceded in death by her parents; and three brothers, Ray, Clarence and Walter. Visit the guest book at bismarcktribune.com Gordon Myran TAYLOR Gordon H. Myran, 83, rural Taylor, died Sept. 29, 2005, at his home. Services will be held at 1 p.m.

MDT, Monday, Oct. 3, at Taylor Lutheran Church, Taylor. Burial will be in Ridgeway Cemetery, rural Taylor. He is survived by his wife, Joyce, rural Taylor; Pollestad, two daughters, Louise Halliday, and Lanell Greff, Dickinson; one son, Milton Myran, Gladstone; five grandchildren; five greatgrandchildren; and three sisters, LaVern Dubrall, Pico Riveria, Laura Zweifel, Bereford, S.D., and Margaret Nolte, Hebron. (Price-Murphy Funeral Home, Dickinson) Lorraine Radtke BOTTINEAU Lorraine Radtke, 95, Bottineau, merly of Hazen, died Sept.

28,2005, in a Bottineau nursing home. A memorial service will be held on Tuesday at 11 a.m. MDT at Salem United Methodist Church, Hazen. She is survived by one daughter, Elaine Crookston, Lake Metigoshe; one granddaughter; and a Dorothy Foss, Hazen. (Nero Funeral Home, Bottineau) Janet Culpepper WILLISTON Janet Culpepper, 84, Williston, died Thursday, Sept.

29, at Mercy Medical Center, Williston. Services will be held at 10:30 a.m. Tuesday, Oct. 4, at First Lutheran Church, Williston. Further arrangements are pending with Everson Funeral Home, Williston.

Leona Deloy Leona Deloy, 83, Lemmon, S.D., died Sept. 30, 2005, at Five Counties Nursing Home, Lemmon. Services will be held at 10:30 a.m. MDT Tuesday, Oct. 4, at Calvary Lutheran Church, Lemmon.

Further arrangements are pending with Evanson-Jensen Funeral Home, Lemmon. Elaine Richter HAZEN Elaine Richter, 78, of Hazen, died Sept. 29, 2005, at Knife River Care Center, Beulah. Services will be held at 10 a.m. MDT Tuesday, Oct.

4, 2005, at Trinity Lutheran Church, rural Hazen, with the Rev. Dean Hartley, officiating. Burial will follow at the church cemetery. Elaine Richter Visitation will be held from 3 to 7 p.m. MDT Monday, at Seibel Funeral Home, Hazen.

Elaine was born Nov. 8, 1926, at rural Manhaven to John and Ella (Baerwald) Baszler. She lived most of her life on the farmstead where she was born and raised. On June 30, 1946, Elaine married Willmar Richter. Willmar passed away Jan.

4, 1990. Elaine was a member of Trinity Lutheran Church, rural Hazen and was active in the LWML. Her favorite hobby was quilting. Elaine entered the Knife River Care Center in August 2001, where she was lovingly cared for by their dedicated staff. She is survived by one son and daughter-in-law, John and Karin Richter, Hazen; two daughters and sons-inlaw, Judy and Eldon Hintz, New Salem, and Peggy and Barry Voeltz of Seneca, S.C.; seven grandchildren; five great two brothers, Vernon Baszler, Bismarck, and Jim Baszler, DeSmet, S.D.; and one sister, Betty Daly, Mesa, Ariz.

Elaine was preceded in death by her parents; her husband, Willmar; and two brothers, Myron and Wayne. Visit the guest book at bismarcktribune.com Eulalie Hodges Eulalie Hodges, 89, Garrison, died Friday, Sept. 30, 2005, in a Garrison Hospital. Services will be held at 10:30 a.m. Tuesday, Oct.

4, at St. Nicholas Catholic Church, Garrison. Further arrangements are pending with Thompson Funeral Home, Garrison. STATE DEATHS BELCOURT Rose Slater, COOPERSTOWN Pauline Fors, 95. FARGO Gladys Ophaug, 95.

GRAND FORKS Mary Kozojed, 68; Joseph Mozinski, 89. MINOT Ryan Brekke, 38; Laila Schmidt, 76. WAHPETON Alice Shockman, 90. FUNERALS TODAY Mortuary, Longmont. Don Ghylin, 79, Regan, 11 a.m., Sunne Lutheran Church, rural Wilton.

(Bismarck Funeral Home) Bill Harris, 66, Springfield, 10 a.m. PDT, Rest Haven Memorial Park, Eugene, Ore. (Buell Funeral Chapel, Springfield) Julia Jansen, 97, Shakopee, 2 p.m., Trinity Lutheran Church, Steele. (Eastgate Funeral Service, Bismarck) Bernadine Knoll, 58, Jamestown, 10 a.m., St. Mary's Catholic Church, Hague.

(Myers Funeral Home, Linton) Jacob Paul, 89, Bismarck, 10 a.m., Church of St. Mary, Bismarck. (Parkway Funeral Service, Bismarck) Elsie Saville, 96, Bismarck, 2 p.m., Hazelton Presbyterian Church. (Eastgate Fuenral Service, Bismarck) Charles Siders, 83, Grand Forks, 1:30 p.m., Parkwood Place Chapel, Grand Forks. (Stennes Funeral Home, East Grand Forks, Minn.) Selma Treude, 98, Fruita, 11 a.m., Peace Church, New Salem.

(Buehler-Larson Fuenral Home, Mandan) Angeline Dugo, 80, Longmont, 3:30 p.m., Howe MIX Perumonia AP Paul Slayton clears debris from the entrance to the Mirage clothing store Friday on Canal Street in New Orleans. The store lost 95 percent of its merchandise to flooding and looting during Hurricane Katrina. Big Easy welcomes back more residents By MARY FOSTER Associated Press Writer NEW ORLEANS The sounds of power saws and wood chippers filled parts of New Orleans on Friday as the French Quarter and other neighborhoods that were spared the worst of Hurricane Katrina were officially reopened to residents, a month after the storm hit. Along St. Charles Avenue, its famous streetcars still idled, Maury Strong and her husband were elated to return home and find they had electricity.

"I came back to air conditioning and CNN, so I'm happy. The fridge is on, the beer is cold," she said. "I've been sobbing back in California for two or three weeks. I thought it was going to be much worse." Despite the misgivings of state and federal authorities, Mayor Ray Nagin threw open the French Quarter and the Uptown section as part of an aggressive plan to get the city back on its feet. Algiers, a neighborhood across the Mississippi River from the French Quarter, reopened to residents on Monday.

Altogether, the neighborhoods account for about onethird of New Orleans' halfmillion inhabitants. Most of "This is my home. I will never leave New Orleans." Virginia Darmstadter, the reopened areas have electricity, but only Algiers has drinkable water. Serious hazards remain because of bacteria-laden floodwaters, a lack of clean water and a sewage system that has not been fully repaired. The stench of garbage piled up in some areas is overpowering, and stretches of the city are pitchblack at night.

Some residents came back only to pack and leave. "We're moving out of this stinking city," Billy Tassin snarled as he loaded his daughter's belongings into a truck, a day after finding his home fouled with knee-deep mud. "They can finish destroying it and burning it down without announced us." Nagin a 17- member commission to draft a rebuilding plan for New Orleans, tapping business owners and others, including Roman Catholic Archbishop Alfred Hughes and jazz musician Wynton Marsalis. The mayor said he has e- Mystery bombs leave Lebanese frightened BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) A recent string of bombings particularly the last brutal attack that maimed a prominent TV anchorwoman has left many Lebanese frightened over who could be next and increasingly puzzled about what can be done to stop the mysterious attacks. Sunday's bombing that injured TV personality May Chidiac the first woman to be targeted was the 14th explosion to hit Lebanon in the past year.

The bombs have killed 28 Lebanese, including billionaire Rafik Hariri, the former prime minister. Politicians are bracing for more violence as a U.N. investigation into Hariri's Feb. 14 assassination that is targeting Syria and its Lebanese allies nears its end. "There is an atmosphere of terror in the country," said Ramonda Jalbout, a 33-yearold mother of two and a lawyer.

"One feels afraid of everything, there is absolutely no sense of security, no protection. I've come to feel afraid even of driving my own car and parking it on the street. "If Hariri and all his power and he could not protect himself, there is nothing I can do to protect myself," the woman said resignedly. Four security generals are held on suspicion of involvement in Hariri's assassination, in which 21 people were killed, but not a single arrest has been made in any of the other bombings, which have targeted politicians, journalists and other prominent Lebanese. Controversial grazing rules won't be reintroduced The U.S.

Forest Service does not plan to reintroduce new grazing management proposals that drew the ire of North Dakota ranchers, this delegation summer, said Friday. the state's congresThe new policies, including one that barred ranchers who lease land or livestock in the national grasslands from obtaining grazing permits, were withdrawn for more public comment after ranchers and North Dakota politicians protested. Sens. Byron Dorgan and Kent Conrad and Rep. Earl Pomeroy, I said U.S.

Department of Agriculture Undersecretary Mark Rey told them the agency will not move forward with the controversial changes. The delegation said Rey told them the 75 mailed the White House outlining his top priorities, including rebuilding and improving the levee system; seeking help with a rail link to Baton Rouge that could be used for emergency evacuation; and getting federal tax breaks and incentives for businesses and residents. "New Orleans is not asking for a handout; we're asking for a hand up," Nagin said. The Louisiana congressional delegation I has called for $250 billion in federal aid to help the state recover from hurricane damage. At the Red-Thread dressmaker's shop on Magazine Street, Ilona Toth wept as she began packing up to leave 15 years after opening her business.

"It's just too hard," said Toth, a Hungarian immigrant. "Every year a hurricane is always coming. We always have to evacuate, then clean up. It's too much trouble." Some were intent on coming back. "This is my home.

I will never leave New said Virginia Darmstadter, 75, who has lived in the Uptown section's Garden District for 21 years and left her husband in a Houston nursing home to check their home. Future Youth AP Lebanese protesters hold pictures of TV anchorwoman May Chidiac as they observe a silent prayer Thursday for Chidiac's recovery, during a sit-in in the Martyrs' Square, downtown Beirut. Forest Service also is group to develop long The group would tion officials, ranchers, federal officials. considering creating a term grazing policies. include grazing associaand local, state and Associated Press State sending more officials to aid with Katrina relief The state Department of Emergency Services is sending two more people to Louisiana to help in the Hurricane Katrina recovery.

Gov. John Hoeven said Friday that the officials include specialists in mitigation and recovery, and emergency planning. An emergency operations specialist from North Dakota recently returned from Louisiana, Hoeven said. Associated Press.