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5 SPARED Aid keeps family in home 1 UNPROVEN Scholar debunks prophecies 5A TOURNEY SCOREBOARD CLASS SEMIFINALS: CLASS AA SEMIFINALS: Baltic 72, Harding Co. 62 Watertown 58, Mitchell 50 Warner 85, Stickney 63 Huron 58, 0'Gorman, 55 Complete coverage. 1C, 3C The Saturday 6 Tni7nTY March 20, 1993 5S out fa Dakotans tapped for A Gannett Newspaper Dallas Tonsager Nominated for FmHAjob 1 Karen Schreier Nominated U.S. federal Charles Kornmann Nominated for Mike O'Connor Nominated 5" li5 Sioux Falls, South Dakota Peter Waletich of Webster as ASCS committee members, a part-time position. The appointments will not be subject to FBI checks before getting administration and Senate approval.

Daschle said he accepts full responsibility for the choices and for the disappointment of those who applied and were not selected. More than 500 South Dakotans submitted applications for the jobs. Piersol, 53, practices with the Davenport, Evans, Hurwitz and Smith law firm. If approved, he would succeed retiring Judge Donald Porter. Piersol served as Daschle's lawyer in 1978 when Daschle won a recount against Leo Thorsness in South Dakotans See 2A Looking for By DAVID KRANZ Argus Leader Staff Sen.

Tom Daschle has submitted Larry Piersol's name to President Clinton for appointment to the federal judgeship in Pierre. Daschle offered Charles Korn-m arm's name as an alternate for that job and also as a candidate for any federal judgeship vacancy that might occur in South Dakota during the Clinton administration. Piersol is a Sioux Falls lawyer, and Kornmann practices law in Aberdeen. Daschle also named Karen Schreier, a Sioux Falls lawyer, as his choice for U.S. attorney.

Schreier served during the Clinton campaign as chairwoman of the South Dakota Democratic Party. If approved, she will be the first woman in the state to hold that for for attorney NOT PICTURED: Bob Ecoffey, gems in the mud ououe seen i je-. 1 1 i 1 993 Argus Leader 35t jobs Larry Piersol Nominated for federal judge job U.S. marshal S.D. man missing Guardsman's status after canoe mishap in Panama unknown By ANNE-MARIE OTEY Argus Leader Staff A South Dakota National Guardsman from Brookings has been missing since a canoeing accident Wednesday in Panama, a spokeswoman said Friday.

Spec. Mark Loren Hulderson, 25, disappeared during a canoe trip Wednesday morning on the Chi-riqui River, Maj. Nancy Wetherill said. His boat capsized in rough waters at 7:45 a.m. Two U.S.

soldiers and one Panamanian civilian escaped, but Hulderson hasn't been seen since. The U.S. Army is leading the search, Wetherill said. The spokeswoman said she couldn't remember any similar cases of missing Guard members. "It's a tragic situation, and we hope for the best." Hulderson is a specialist in Company 153rd Engineer Battalion of Brookings.

His unit is setting up medical services for Panamanians. He has been in Panama since Nov. 29, 1992. Hulderson's older sister, Gena Hulderson of Brookings, said the Guard told her Thursday morning about the disappearance. She received a letter from her brother a week and a half ago.

"He was doing fine," she said. Her brother was in good physical condition, but that wouldn't help him in choppy waters, she said. "From what I understand, the currents were strong. Even in the calmest water, it's dangerous." Other Guard members are contacting her to offer support. "The National Guard, especially around here, has been very supportive.

I've gotten a million calls from different officers who've assured me it's a very intense search, an investigation to find out as quickly as possible." Until last fall, Hulderson was a full-time student at South Dakota State University, studying chemistry and history, his sister said. He has been in the Guard for six years. AP photo Justice Byron White On page 3A: ABORTION'S FUTURE. Justice's retirement is seen as a guarantee that abortion rights laws will be safe from challenges. iiViirh.

AAjiVt i V- -1 r' -'A 3, On page 2A: REACTION. Senator's choices praised and appraised. position. Other recommended appointments announced Friday include: Bob Ecoffey, head of the Bureau of Indian Affairs in Pine Ridge, nominated for U.S. marshal.

Dallas Tonsager of Oldham, head of the South Dakota Farmers Union, to lead the Farmers Home Administration. State Rep. Mike O'Connor of Alcester as Agriculture Stabilization and Conservation Service director. Gene Robbennolt of Gettysburg, Doris Miner of Dallas and We have an individual who saw Ruby and Arnold get in a car after the accident, and the car headed Tim Whalen state's attorney Whalen said investigators have interviewed a number of people but would not say whether they have any suspects. "We've not ruled out foul play, but we haven't ruled out other theories," he said.

Bruguier and Archambeau's clothes are being analyzed at the state crime lab, as are blood and fluid samples, Whalen said. "What was under their fingernails, we don't know yet," he said. Ken Honomichl, Archambeau's uncle and vice chairman of the Yankton Sioux Tribe, asked Whalen if he has found a motive. "That's one thing we're going to look for as to why someone would want Ruby and Arnold dead," Whalen said. "It's just as logical to theorize, 'Were the deaths an accident? Did they go someplace and get caught in a When Bruguier and Archambeau disappeared, their names were not placed on a nationwide computer search as other missing people are.

"What we're dealing with is two local individuals who would more than likely be in the area," Whalen said. "You want to go back and point fingers I don't think that's Couple seen See 2A White to WASHINGTON (AP) Supreme Court Justice Byron White said Friday he will retire this summer, giving President Clinton a quick opportunity to begin reversing the high court's Reagan-era conservative tilt Appointed 31 years ago by President Kennedy, the 75-year-old White had sided with court conservatives on many issues, especially on such divisive matters as abortion and church-state relations. He told Clinton in a letter he had an "interesting and exciting" tenure and it was time to give someone else a chance. Clinton praised White and pledged to nominate an outstanding replacement but offered few clues as to the qualifications he would seek. White's departure almost certainly will begin to move the court rash, say Travis Stephens, 1 1 (right) uses a stick to dig up rocks in a creek that runs by the Countryview Mobile Park in west Sioux Falls, as his friend Bill Johnson, 11, examines a small rock that they picked up.

The two are studying fossils at Jane Addams Elementary School, and the subject has sparked their interest, so they spent Friday after school looking for them. Regents approve tuition, fee hikes after officia By CARSON WALKER Argus Leader Staff LAKE ANDES Two young people who disappeared three months ago were seen several times before their bodies were found last week in a ditch, the Charles Mix County state's at-" torney said Friday. Ruby Ann Bruguier, 19, and Arnold Archambeau, 20, disappeared after a car accident Dec. 12, 1992, in the same ditch where their bodies were found. Authorities have said that the bodies were not in the ditch when the accident was investigated or in the following days when they and family members searched for the couple.

At a news conference Friday, relatives of the couple asked officials as many questions as reporters. They are skeptical. "How come nobody took pictures of the wreck and walked in the water in the ditch?" asked Mike Archambeau, Arnold's cousin. Deputy Bill Youngstrom of the Charles Mix County Sheriff's Department said he took photographs, but they didn't turn out. "Through whatever error, every negative was blank," he said.

Mike Archambeau said: "It sounds like you're trying to cover your butt. It sounds like you didn't investigate in the first place." Tim Whalen, the state's attorney, said a thorough investigation was done after the accident and officials continue to check every lead, including six people who say they saw Bruguier and Archambeau alive after they disappeared. "We have an individual who saw Ruby and Arnold get in a car after the accident, and the car headed east," Whalen said. The most recent reported sighting was of Bruguier on Jan. 20 in nearby Wagner, he said.

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Monday-Wednesday: Dry. Highs 30s Monday warming to 50s by Wednesday. Full report. 2A 27- judge alternate ASCS BIA administrator, nominated for TTTT7! 1L 2 Argus Leader photo by PAUL BUCKOWSKI states," Regent Max Gruenwald of Milbank said. Mikkonen said it doesn't matter what other states are doing with their rates, but rather whether students are getting what they need out of higher education for the price.

The fee package includes the $l-a-credit increase and several new science lab fees. Gruenwald said the fees would be used to pay for building repairs and to help improve equipment at the schools. Mikkonen said it isn't fair to force students to bear the burden of improvements by themselves. "These are state buildings, and if students are willing to fork over a dollar of their money, then the state should be willing to put forth some of their money as well," she said. ground.

If he does, we assure him it will turn into a judicial Armageddon." The last Democratic president to make a Supreme Court appointment was Lyndon B. Johnson, who picked Thurgood Marshall in 1967. On the current court, White is the only member appointed by a Democrat, Kennedy in 1962. "After 31 years, Marion (his wife) and I think someone else should be permitted to have a like experience." White said he will retire at the end of the current court term, in June or July. White voted to let states outlaw most abortions.

He opposes broad juse of affirmative-action hiring to 'remedy past bias in employment, and he favors greater government accommodation of religion in ways some consider a violation of church-state separation. AVy, AA, i mi i kf-wf i it if I Ai: I 1 From staff and wire reports VERMILLION The South Dakota Board of Regents on Friday approved boosting tuition and fees at six state universities next fall. The board unanimously supported a proposal forwarded by its Budget and Finance Committee that would increase tuition by about 3 percent. Regents also endorsed a package of fee increases that includes a $l-a-credit charge to finance building maintenance. The regents proposed the increase in September and had to wait for the Legislature to approve the universities' appropriation before giving final consent to the hike.

An undergraduate student taking 16 credits will pay $54 more a semester. Tuition and fees are now $1,072 a semester, plus room and board of about $1,000. The tuition increase will generate retire from Supreme Court $1.25 million. Universities will share $250,000 of that, and $1 million will go to the state general fund, officials said. The schools will keep an additional $3.7 million brought in by higher fees.

"As we all know, students are never in favor of increases," said Krysti Mikkonen, president of the South Dakota Student Federation. "As long as the increases are within reason and within justification, we don't mind paying that." Under the tuition increase, student costs will rise 2.5 percent for undergraduate residents, 3.5 percent for graduate residents, 5 percent for undergraduate nonresidents and 5.5 percent for graduate nonresidents. "That's a moderate increase in comparison to the double-digit increase in many surrounding paign, Clinton promised to appoint justices who share his support of abortion rights. He shied away from offering names, but once said he thought New York Gov. Mario Cuomo would make a superb Supreme Court justice.

Clinton on Friday thanked White for giving so much advance notice and said he would get to work on choosing a successor this weekend. Interest groups served notice that they'd be watchful. "A new appointment will give the president a chance to assure that women have both the legal right to choose abortion and the ability to exercise that right," said Kathryn Kolbert of the Center for Reproductive Law and Policy. Clinton Bolick of the conservative Institute for Justice said, "We hope Bill Clinton will not use this nomination as an ideological battle rt A Hi r' mt rfftfi'n back from its rightward swing of the past dozen years. But the replacement of a single justice is likely to bring changes that are more subtle than profound.

There had been much speculation recently that Justice Harry Blackmun as well as White would retire soon. Speaking to law students in Boston earlier this month, the 84-year-old Blackmun said, "I know how old I am and I don't intend to stay there very much longer." Five of the court's other seven members are conservatives appointed since 1981 by Presidents Reagan and Bush. And a sixth, Chief Justice William Rehnquist, was promoted by Reagan in 1986 after establishing himself in 14 years as the court's leading conservative. During his presidential cam 1 rtt" inside 28 pages Business 5-6B Lotteries IB Classified Sec, Movies 4B Comics 6A Opinion 8A Crossword Sec. Sioux Empire Sec.B Deaths 3B Sports Sec.C Landers 7A Stocks 5B Life OA Television 6A niVjfrn-V,.