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BUSINESS, 8C Shop owner's bracelets send message A ST THURSDAY IOWA EDITION The Newspaper Iowa Depends Upon DesMoinesRegister.com 0 Price 50 Cents May 5, 2005 IOWAUFE, 7B Best places in Iowa to TAKE A HIRE Perfect mom, perfect wife 12 fid Sm perfect i A An prentice Tana Goertz tois ij aid Competitive streak keeps W.D.M. woman in thick of TVs Trump test IWU i inpiHUWMUII WW TW, in: By ERIN CRAWFORD REGISTER STAFF WRITER Tana Goertz puts it, life seems at once simple and very, very hard. A i I i 1 it Tm trying to be the ill- 7 "Si. 10 applicants hopeful after public hearing By WILLIAM PETR0SKI REGISTER STAFF WRITER A majority of Iowa gambling regulators signaled Wednesday they are ready to approve at least three to five new riverboat casino licenses, but they didn't specify who might be the winners. The five members of the Iowa Racing and Gaming Commission expressed their sentiments after a daylong public hearing on casino proposals in Johnston.

The commission is considering 10 applications for licenses in seven communities, including three in Waterloo, two in Emmetsburg and one each in Ottumwa, Fort Dodge, near Riverside, and in rural Worth and Franklin counties. Commission Chairwoman Diane Hamilton of Storm Lake was joined by Commissioners Gerald Bair of An-keny and Joyce Jarding of Farley in expressing support for awarding three to five new licenses. Commissioner Michael Mahaffey of Montezuma said he couldn't see granting more than two or three licenses, while Commissioner Kate Cutler of Honey Creek favored awarding two to six new licenses. "We don't want to issue so many licenses that a year down the road we have a casino in trouble," Hamilton said. The regulators didn't express their preference publicly for any specific casino projects, and each of the five See CASINOS, Page 6A mm -vr perfect mom, the perfect wife, and now this," she said.

"This" is the 37-year-old West Des Moines resident's run at being the first female winner of NBCs ultimate corporate contest, The Apprentice." Tana, who's never wanted to work for anyone but herself, now wants a job with Donald Trump. The final goal is the easiest to analyze. The current season began with 18 contestants, divided into a "Street Smarts" team and a "Book Smarts" team. Tana, who never finished her final semester of college, was placed with the "Street Smarts" group. She must make it through two more of the show's boardroom eliminations to be the big winner.

Tonight, Tana and two other finalists will be interviewed by top CEOs, and one will be fired. Next week, the last two will go head-to-head on two projects: competing in a PlayStation video game tournament and working on New York City's bid for the 2012 Summer Olympics. The conclusion is May 19, when Trump hires one of the two contestants. See GOERTZ, Page 4A ON TV "The Apprentice" airs at 8 tonight on NBC. WHAT'S NEXT? The final three contestants will be interviewed by top CEOs tonight, and one will be fired.

Tana Goertz of West Des Moines is one of the contestants. On May 12, the last two will be pitted against each other in two tasks competing in a PlayStation video game tournament and working on New York's bid for the 2012 Olympics; THE FINALE The final episode is May 19. The conclusion of the previous tasks will be shown first. Then, in a live boardroom, Donald Trump will hire one of the finalists. ik lb Race officially is on to build Newton track Governor signs tax break measure hi .5 What's in store? Race fans can expect to see anything from stock cars to open-wheel cars to motorcycles.

Page 6A Marc Hansen For a change, almost everybody at the Statehouse seemed excited about Newton's track. Page 1B By TIM HIGGINS REGISTER STAFF WRITER Newton, la. The governor's signature Wednesday on a 10-year sales tax break for a $70 million Iowa Speedway project raised the green flag for developers, who said they will break ground later this month. The auto-racing track should open next summer for its first race, investor and Newton lawyer Dennis Cha-lupasaid. The investor group wants to have the seven-eighths-mile asphalt track in place before winter.

"We are hoping still this month yet to start in i Mwi-irinnriirir ii i MARY CHINtYTHE REGISTER construction," Chalupa said. "We hope to have our first race in July of '06. That's an aggressive construction schedule." He said negotiations are See SPEEDWAY, Page 6A Mirth mother: Tana Goertz has her whole family laughing during a commercial break as they watch "The Apprentice" in their West Des Moines home. With Tana are her daughter, Tori; her son, Myles; her husband, Kurtis; and her mother-in-law, Pauline Goertz. Suicide bomber kills 60 at hiring center in Iraq A militant group says the attack was revenge for Kurds' cooperation with U.S.

forces. AIDS drug test put kids at risk ASSOCIATED PRESS Research paid for by the National Institutes of Health tested AIDS drugs on foster children in at least seven states over two decades, often without providing them protections prescribed by federal law, an Associated Press review has found. The practice ensured that the children received care from qualified researchers at government expense, extending their lives. But it also exposed them to risks and sometimes to side effects. No deaths were directly attributed to the treatments.

Related article, Page 2A police said. Sixty Iraqis were killed and 150 wounded. The explosion, part of an escalation of violence aimed at destabilizing the country's new democratic government, left pieces of flesh spattered on the outside walls. Nails and shards of metal were packed in with the explosives to maximize casualties. A Sunni Muslim militant group, Ansar al-Sunnah Army, claimed responsibility, saying the attack was revenge for Kurdish cooperation with U.S.

forces. Militants frequently target security forces and recruits, leaving Iraq's government grappling with how to stabilize the country. As of Monday, 616 Iraqi police had been killed this year, according to statistics compiled by the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C. In Irbil, 215 miles north of Baghdad, some 250 job seekers were waiting to be searched outside the recruitment center when the bomb went off, Police Capt. Oth-man Aziz said.

An Iraqi See IRAQ, Page 3A CONSTANT? By YAHYA BARZANJI ASSOCIATED PRESS Irbil, Iraq A suicide attacker slipped into line at a police recruitment center in this usually tranquil northern Kurdish city and blew himself up Wednesday, leaving the streets slick with blood in the deadliest insurgent attack in more than two months, 77.. w. MAil See some of Duffy's cartoons online: DesMoinesRegister.comduffy A WEATHER LOW INDEX 8C Marc Hansen 1B 1C Editorials 8A 9B Letters 8A 8B Lotteries 2A Printed with SOY INK FOR DELIVERY CALL: (515) 284-8311 (800) 365-4692 A GANNETT NEWSPAPER HIGH 70- 75 Partly cloudy. Breezy and mild. Details, Page 10B "40901" 15006 Obituaries 6A, 7A People in the News 2A TV Guide 9B David Yepsen 9A 50- 55 Copyright 2005 Des Moines Register and Tribune Company Dear Abby.