Argus-Leader from Sioux Falls, South Dakota • Page 19

5B Argus-Leader, Sioux Falls, S.D. Friday, October 13, 1978 31 TV I rip Captain I continued from page IB "Back then, TV was in its infancy. I was on the same tube as Ed Sullivan. We were all movie stars. There was so much glamour.

Now I've been there so much that everybody knows me. I'm like a cousin; I'm one of the family. There's no mystique anymore. I'm just ol' Dave." Most politicians in South Dakota, it has been said, would give their campaign strategists for the ability to work a crowd the way Dave De-drick does as Captain 11. "I love it.

The individual is so darned important to me. I can turn off the crowd and focus on the individual. I'll stop and talk to little Johnny and he's the only one I see. I don't pretend to remember him for the rest of my life but, for that moment, he's the only one I'm aware of. The kids they're so important to me." Dedrick, who is divorced and has three children, agreed nine years ago to handle the nightly weather spot on the 6 and 10 p.m.

news, in addition to his Captain 11 duties. "Dave was eager and capable, so when our regular weatherman left, he was there and ready to do it," Floyd said. "It was like Captain 11 we gave him a chance and he took off with it." "I'm the liaison between the National Weather Service and the viewer," Dedrick said. "If the NWS had its way, all weather shows would be a minimum of 10 minutes. I get a maximum of three and a half minutes.

"I know my responsibility; so many lives depend on the weather. I never run into animosity. If something happens and my forecast is correct well, I don't create the weather, I anticipate it. When I give a bum forecast, that's when I hang my head." If there has been anything that has marred Dave Dedrick's career, it has been the rumors and stories of his bouts with alcohol. "I didn't have a drinking problem," Dedrick said.

"I had a quitting problem." Dedrick is not hesitant to discuss his alcoholism, yet he is not comfortable with the notion of going public to serve as an example, as reformed alcoholics like Dick Van Dyke and Garry Moore have done. "I've been on the wagon for a year," he said. "I don't foresee a time when I'll get off the wagon. I replaced boredom with an abundance of excitement. The world's biggest enemy is boredom." "I wouldn't say that it was affecting his performance," Floyd said.

"The thing that disturbed us more than anything were the rumors. We told him we thought he should get help. I've' never known him to take a drink since." Dedrick spent a month last year at River Park, an alcohol rehabilitation center in Pierre; his co-workers at KELO have been "supportive and totally encouraging. "My friends don't walk on eggshells with me. I don't have that kind of monkey on my back.

"My job wasn't in jeopardy my LIFE was in jeopardy. I just looked down the road at where my life was leading and I didn't see a helluvalot. I said to myself, 'Let's get off Now I have a dignity that I have never known before. "I like to make this analogy. Everybody has a party side say it's a little red sports car.

You have this sports car for the 5 o'clock cocktail, for parties, for New Year's Eve. All it says on the tachometer is, 'Don't exceed 3,000 r.p.m.' "I found 3,000 r.p.m. unfulfilling. So I tried 8,000 r.p.m. I blew a couple of gaskets, I threw a rod PING! Now my party car is up on jacks in the garage.

If anyone wants to take a ride in it, I tell them there aren't any spare parts. "But, before I bailed out, I saw things the astronauts never saw. Now I know I never have to go back and look again. I no longer have the curiosity. It's like playing with matches.

Once you get burned, you don't want to hold the dynamite in your hand." Dave Dedrick cuts a commercial. (Argus-Leader staff photo by Frank Klock) LUTHERAN HOUR RALLY Rev. Wallace Schulz Speaker MITCHELL CORN PALACE (BflngingCh'hlVPy I J7 UWUUCI LJ, 130 I 3:00 p.m. I ri Only candidate with over five years Private Law business experience. A I.

4f i if li wr I vKtv Wv Uv 1 I i rtr A 'A i ft i I i FAMILY TREES The perfect gift for any occasion A beautiful living gift of the entire family NAMES, DATES and BIRTHSTONES HORWITZ jewelers THE EMPIRE DOWNTOWN Sioux Falls I-29 41st 120 S.Phillips Jerusha Ara, above and below, demonstrates the movements of Oriental dance to her YWCA class. (Argus Leader staff photo by Mike Sierra) Legitimizing 'Oriental dancing' An open letter to the people of Sioux Falls, from Candidate Earl McCart to "Tax Fighter" Dick Flynn. A grerjf Amcrtrriti viki "teis fofe sense fo the American peore." As you' for thf Souffi Dnhita Slole Snnatn, I fee that you ore 'jross misrepresenting your mferes' to thn people of Minim-fj'jhrj County. your duty to let' I'lern I'i'jt in acklition to being a fVjMer" you ore ako l'ie ow." of one of ffie hri(tt Outdoor Bi'boo'r Companies in Dnhto of by your cjiifrjlure wiffi the low of t'e lo'i'j on Higfio South Dakota stonris to lose milliard of dollar's Hi'jbwiy unoV Are you in "Tox fajhtinq" or in prole' tmq your own yeste-y ol ffie rost of milions of dollars fo tfie ofiens of South OA'ri? By MARSHALL FINE Entertainment Writer HARTFORD, S.D It takes some looking to find Jerusha Ara's frailer near downtown Hartford. It occupies a hidden corner behind a body shop, in the shadow of the town's grain elevator.

The trailer itself gives some indication of the occupation of the occupant. Busts of King Tut rest beside large, shiny swords. Hardwood castanets hang from the wall, next to a baubled, bangled blue and silver costume. Ms. Ara teaches the ancient art of Oriental dancing, a form which has fallen into a certain state of infamy since being transported from the Middle East to the United States and re christened "belly dancing." "I don't care for the term," said Ms.

Ara, 27, who teaches three classes a week at the Sioux Falls YWCA in the terpsichorean style. "That's a nickname Americans gave it," she said "A lot of people don't feel like that's a good term to describe the dance. And a lot of people have a wrong idea about what the real thing looks like. "Some people have the impression that it like being a stripper. But my costume covers my entire body.

A lot of people just don't understand what it is. They think it's some kind of obscene thing. Like, 'Oh, you're a belly Ms Ara, a California native, became interested in Oriental dancing a year ago; she says she is not "an expert expert" on the subject, but notes, "I consider myself to be very good. "A lot of women get into it for the physical fitness aspect," she said. "When they find out how difficult it is is, a lot drop out.

Some come out of curiosity. "I was curious. I've always liked the exotic. Anything from the Middle East is exciting to me. I thought this would be easy, but it was difficult.

Still, I enjoyed it immensely. The mu sic is so beautiful; it keeps you going. Some people say the music itself can teach you to dance. And dance is the visual interpretation of music. But, like any art form, it takes a lot of years to learn this." When she started, Ms.

Ara practiced eight hours a day; "Now I don't have that much time. I guess you could call my teaching time practice, so I still do about two hours a day." Oriental dancing began in the Middle East as a story telling form. It gradually spread, with variations coming from Greece, Turkey and In dia. "When I dance, I use a little of each," Ms. Ara said.

"Each person has her own style." Ms. Ara has 25 students in Sioux Falls, an attempt at starting a class in Hartford proved less than successful. "We didn't have a real good turn out, "she said, she said. "There's so much apathy and so little understanding of what it is. I try to be as positive as possible about it.

Sometimes that's not easy. "People think of it as a joke. It's been a little difficult since we've been here I guess maybe people aren't real interested." The people deserve to know! When e'er fed S'ote intend lo introduce leqisafion ffiof ill prohib'' billboard ndverfisioq that glamorizes liquor and tobacco fo our youfb. The problems fhof these addictive drugs generate have been ivifi us for en'unes, but if is unforgivable to make them attractive to Our young people have bee') jamed that as a result of fh is letter, liquor, totyicco and billboard money will come into South Dakota like snow in a prrjine blizzard, for fhose vvho beieve that if is not in the best interests of our youth fo glamorize liquor and tobacco on our outdoor bilnoords. I need both your support and contributions.

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