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Monday, January 9, 2017 Pg 4 BLACK HILLS PIONEER Overwhelmed? You are not alone. We'll walk you through your choices. 605-892-4827 wilenmonument.com Obituaries Lucille Lutz, 89, of Spearfish, passed away on Jan. 6, 2017, at Sandstone Manor in Spearfish. Memorial services will be held at 10 a.m.

Tuesday, Jan. 10, 2017, at United Methodist Church in Spearfish. Lucille is survived by her children, Beverly Clark, Les Lutz, Linda Stratton, Jannet Lutz, Rita Zastrow, and Robert Lutz; 12 grandchildren; 12 great-grandchildren; two great-great-grandchildren; and siblings, Donald Merriman, Roger Merriman, Marvelyn Bratton, and Elizabeth Wacker. She was preceded in death by her son, Scott Lutz. Arrangements are under the care of Fidler- Isburg Funeral Chapels and Crematory Service of Spearfish.

Online condolences may be written at www.fidler-isburgfuneralchapels.com. Lucille Lutz, 89 Erik A. Caudill, 28, of Spearfish died Friday, Jan. 6, 2017, at his home. Arrangements are pending with Fidler- Isburg Funeral Chapels and Crematory Service of Spearfish.

Erik A. Caudill, 28 NEW YORK (AP) Nat Hentoff, an eclectic columnist, critic, novelist and agitator dedicated to music, free expression and defying the party line, died Saturday at age 91. His son, Tom Hentoff, said his father died from natural causes at his Manhattan apartment. Schooled in the classics and the stories he heard from Duke Ellington and other jazz greats, Nat Hentoff enjoyed a diverse and iconoclastic career, basking in freedom to be infuriating on a myriad of He was a bearded, scholarly figure, a kind of secular rabbi, as likely to write a column about fiddler Bob Wills as a dissection of the Patriot Act, to have his name appear in the liberal Village Voice as the far-right WorldNetDaily.com, where his column last appeared in August 2016. Ellington, Charlie Parker, Malcolm and I.F.

Stone were among his friends and acquaintances. He wrote liner notes for records by Aretha Franklin, Max Roach and Ray Charles and was the first non-musician named a Jazz Master by the National Endowment of the Arts. He also received honors from the American Bar Association, the National Press Foundation, and, because of his opposition to abortion, the Human Life Foundation. steadiest job was with the Voice, where he worked for 50 years and wrote a popular column. He wrote for years about jazz for DownBeat and had a music column for the Wall Street Journal.

His more than 25 books included works on jazz and the First Amendment, the novels the and for Charles and the memoirs and The documentary Pleasures of Being Out of Step: Notes on the Life of Nat was released in 2014. Jazz was his first love, but Hentoff was an early admirer of Bob Dylan, first hearing the then-unknown singer at a Greenwich Village club in 1961 and getting on well enough with him to write liner notes two years later for landmark second album, Bob irrepressible reality of Bob Dylan is a compound of spontaneity, candor, slicing wit and an uncommonly perceptive eye and ear for the way many of us constrict our capacity for living while a few of us Hentoff wrote. At a time when the media alternately treated Dylan like a prophet or the latest teen fad, Hentoff asked well-informed questions that were (usually) answered in kind by the cryptic star. Hentoff also was willing to be partner in improvisation. A 1966 Playboy interview, he later revealed, had been made up from scratch after Dylan rejected the first conversation that was supposed to be published by the magazine.

As a columnist, Hentoff focused tirelessly on the Constitution and what he saw as a bipartisan mission to undermine it. He tallied the crimes of Richard Nixon and labeled President anti-terrorism legislation all-out assault on the Bill of He even parted from other First Amendment advocates, quitting the American Civil Liberties Union because of the support for speech codes in schools and workplaces. Left-wing enough to merit an FBI file, an activist from age 15 when he organized a union at a Boston candy chain, Hentoff was deeply opposed to abortion, angering many of his colleagues at the Village Voice and elsewhere. In 2008, he turned against the campaign of Barack Obama over what he regarded as the extreme views, including rejection of legislation that would have banned partial birth abortions. Hentoff was born in 1925, the son of a Russian-Jewish haberdasher.

Thrown out of Hebrew school, he flaunted his unbelief, even eating a salami sandwich in front of his house on Yom Kippur, the Jewish day of fasting and atonement. In 1982, his opposition to invasion of Lebanon led to a trio of rabbis declaring he had been excommunicated. only wished the three rabbis really had the authority to hold that Hentoff later wrote. would have told them about my life as a heretic, a tradition I keep precisely because I am a He was educated as a boy at Latin School, alma mater to Ralph Waldo Emerson among others. But his best lessons were received at a local jazz joint, where Ben Webster and Rex Stewart were among those who took a liking to the teenage fan and became, Hentoff recalled, itinerant foster Back in the classroom, Hentoff would hide jazz magazines inside his textbooks.

In college, Northeastern University, Hentoff found a home at the Savoy Cafe and befriended Ellington, drummer Jo Jones and others. Ellington not only lectured him on music, but enlightened young Hentoff (who eventually married three times) on the loopholes in monogamy. likes to be Ellington told him. After graduating, Hentoff worked as a disc jockey and moved to New York to edit DownBeat, from which he was fired in 1957, because, he alleged, he had attempted to employ an African-American writer. A year later, he joined the Village Voice and remained until he was laid off in December 2008.

came here in 1958 because I wanted a place where I could write freely on anything I cared Hentoff wrote in his final Voice column, published in January 2009. the years, my advice to new and aspiring reporters is to remember what Tom Wicker, a first- class professional spelunker, then at The New York Times, said in a tribute to Izzy Stone: never lost his sense of Neither have ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service released its plan Monday for the recovery of threatened polar bears, acknowledging it will take no direct action for addressing the primary threat greenhouse gases that contribute to the decline of sea ice habitat. Polar bears, the first species to be declared threatened or endangered because of climate change, rely on sea ice for hunting seals and raising their young. Climate models project that continued rising temperatures will continue to diminish sea ice throughout the century.

The plan calls for reduced greenhouse gas emissions but focuses actions to be taken by the agency only on other conservation strategies, such as preventing con tamination from spills, protecting dens or reducing conflicts with humans. Shaye Wolf, climate science director for the Center for Biological Diversity, which filed the petition to list polar bears in 2005, called the recovery plan toothless. The plan, she said, acknowledges polar bears will not survive without cuts in large-scale greenhouse gas pollution. Science in the plan shows the need to keep global temperature rise well below 2 degrees Celsius for polar bears to have any reasonable chance of survival, she said. The job, she said, was to call out the steps needed to be taken for polar bears to survive.

acknowledges the problem but fails to put the solution in the core strategy for the she said. The agency in its plan said addressing increased atmospheric levels of greenhouse gases that result in Arctic warming will require global action. Until that happens, the focus of recovery will be on U.S. wildlife management actions that will contribute to polar bear survival in the interim that they are in a position to recover once Arctic warming has been the plan said. Dirk Kempthorne, who was Secretary of the Interior under President George W.

Bush, announced in 2008 that polar bears would be listed as threatened under the Endangered Species Act. But he added immediately that endangered species law would not be used to set climate policy or limit greenhouse gas emissions. Columnist Nat Hentoff dies at 91 Nat Hentoff US announces polar bear plan; critics call it toothless.