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4c StateRegion' Argus Leader, Sioux Falls, S.D. Saturday, April 20, 1985 Meeting looks info selling of Picksfown Republic announces plan to hire 300 in Twin Cities PICKSTOWN (AP) The Yankton Sioux Tribe might be interested in purchasing Pickstown from the federal government, although any intentions along that line did not surface this week at a special meeting. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers announced last month that it would declare Pickstown surplus property in the near future and would list it as no longer useful to the corps. The town developed in the 1940s and 1950s when construction workers moved to the area while Fort Randall Dam was built.

It once had 4,000 residents but now is home to about 125 people, 27 of whom have jobs with the Corps. About 100 people were on hand for a meeting Wednesday night involving the proposed sale of town property. Alvin Zephier, chairman of the Yankton Sioux Tribe, attended but made no statements during the meeting. In a March 20 letter to the Corps, Zephier inquired about the procedures for obtaining the property. The Yankton Sioux Tribe an nounced plans last month to find a location for a resort hotel along the river.

Representatives of the federal government and Corps of Engineers told those at the meeting that any interest in the town channeled through a federal agency, such as the Bureau of Indian Affairs, would have first chance at buying the town. Col. William Andrews, engineer for the Omaha, district of the Corps, told residents the purpose of the meeting was to encourage them to incorporate and try to negotiate to purchase the site when the Corps declares it excess, possibly next year. During the course of the 2-hour meeting, residents of the community saw little reason to incorporate because current procedure could have the town being awarded to a federal agency with a plan for development. Andrews said that if residents do not incorporate, they would not be in a position to negotiate directly with the government.

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) Republic Airlines said it will hire about 1,500 people in Detroit, Minneapolis-St. Paul and Memphis, in a reorganization and expansion move. Redmond Tyler, a public relations spokesman, said Thursday that about 1,000 of the new employees will be hired in Detroit, 300 to 400 in the Twin Cities area and 100 to 200 in Memphis. The three metro areas will be Republic's main service hubs under a new service pattern, Tyler said. He said that in addition to the new employees.

Republic will transfer another 1,000 employees to Detroit, the airline's largest hub. Most will come from Atlanta, where a reservation center will close, and other southeastern cities. The new job slots in Memphis will run to about 400 with some employees electing to transfer from Atlanta, Tyler said. Republic is expanding in response to a 30 percent increase in the number of daily departures from the three cities beginning April 28, along with a consolidation of flights around the hubs. "We're hiring furiously," Tyler said.

He said Republic had hired almost 100 reservation agents and 150 to 200 flight attendants in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area and would recruit another 150 to 200 flight attendants, as well as pilots, mechanics and secretaries. Similar jobs will be filled in Detroit and Memphis. Regional briefing. Ailment is killing men and baffling doctors MINNEAPOLIS iAP A mvsteri- went to bed.

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"It's called 20th century anxiety there's no alternative. You can't run away and you can't fight." The sudden death strikes Hmong men between ages 20 and 45 while they are asleep. Its cause is unknown, even after autopsies. "There were no signs before they was no pre-existing illness, Holtan, a specialist in internal medicine at St. Paul-Ramsey Medical Center, said.

"Usually the wife would be awakened by a gasping sound, and they would be unable to rouse the victim." The Hmong are mystified why men and not women are dying, Chris Thao, a Hmong who studies at William Mitchell College of Law in St. Paul, said. No such deaths have been reported in the Twin Cities in the past 12 months, Holtan said. He does not know why the deaths have seemingly stopped, he said. Holtan said researchers theorize that the deaths may result from sleep disorders.

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