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Argus Leader, Sioux Falls, S.D. Saturday, Dec. 1 8, 1 993 2b Sioux Empire FamieD debases eairliieir bydlgjeft mmeeiiaongs Committee proposes ban on smoking in Capitol building behind the House chamber and in a hallway outside a committee room. House Republican Leader Larry Gabriel of Cottonwood said it made sense to ban smoking entirely because the smoke got too thick in the lobby behind the House chamber last year. "We either had to do the ban or we had to put in fans and ventilation systems," Gabriel said, adding he wasn't willing to spend money for the equipment.

PIERRE (AP) Smoking should be banned during the 1994 session in all areas of the South Dakota Capitol controlled by the Legislature, a legislative committee decided Friday. With little debate, the Legislative Procedure Committee recommended that smoking be prohibited in all areas during the legislative session that begins Jan. 11. A final decision on the smoking issue will be made when the House and Senate vote on legislative rules, probably during the first week of the session. Smoking already is banned in the parts of the Capitol and other state buildings controlled by the governor's office.

The Legislature has been reluctant to forbid smoking entirely in the legislative portion of the Capitol, but lawmakers have gradually restricted smoking in recent years. In the 1993 session, smoking was allowed only in a lobby Dakota Datelines Snowstorm hits western S.D. Western South Dakota got the worst of a snowstorm that moved across the state Thursday evening and Friday. The southwest got 4 inches to 10 inches of snow, while 3 inches to 8 inches fell in the northwest. Extreme northeastern South Dakota recorded up to 8 inches.

A snow advisory issued Friday for northern South Dakota was allowed to expire, although forecasters said between 1-2 inches of snow was possible Friday night. Five inches was in the forecast Friday for the northern Black Hills. "It's been snowing hard all day," Rhenda Studer, an officer worker at Terry Peak Ski Area said Friday. "But it never snows hold a special meeting Jan. 25 to discuss whether committees should be allowed to meet before sessions start in future years.

Special study panels, called interim committees, routinely meet when the Legislature is not in session. Standing committees, which operate during annual sessions, almost never meet outside the session dates. The only panels that have started work before session in the past decade or so have been the Appropriations committees, which have started early only a few times. Republican members of the Legislative Procedure Committee said Friday that starting the Senate Appropriations Committee early will not cause the budget to be finished any earlier. Democrats said early meetings could help lawmakers examine the state budget in more detail.

PIERRE (AP) The 1994 South Dakota Legislature would deal with the state budget earlier than in past sessions, under a proposal endorsed Friday by a legislative panel. But the Legislative Procedure Committee delayed a decision on whether House and Senate committees, particularly the Appropriations panels, should be allowed to start meeting before the annual legislative session opens. Current rules require the House and Senate Appropriations committees to finish writing the budget and send it on for House and Senate floor debate by the 32nd day of a legislative session. The panel recommended Friday that committee work on the budget be completed by the 29th day of the 1994 session, which runs for only 35 days. However, much of Friday's debate centered on a decision by cedures Committee agreed Friday that they can do nothing to stop Symens from convening his committee early next month.

But the panel, which recommends lawmaking rules and procedures, will committee needs to get an early start. The House Appropriations Committee, which is controlled by Republicans, will not start work until after the session opens. Members of the Legislative Pro Senate Appropriations Chairman Paul Symens, D-Amherst, to have his committee start hearings on the budget a full week before the Legislature convenes Jan. 11. Symens has said the Senate too much to keep skiers away." About 14 inches fell Thursday Be wise! Advertise! Call 551-2545 night, said btuder.

The National Weather Service said 25 mph-hour winds would develop in the northwest Friday and produce areas of blowing I 1 1 I If 'l Ei III. -if and drifting. Democrats preparing tax-system reforms The Argus Leader Classified MADISON Legislation that would lower property taxes and implement a state income tax is being prepared by state Sen. Gerald Lange and Rep. Bill SEHVK Johnson.

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Outgoing Lottery Chairman Gary Richards of Spearfish asked if compulsive gambling could be defined. "It's someone who's really having a problem or someone who's in the early stages," Joy said. "It's something that really needs addressing." Legislators have appropriated $200,000 for treatment of addicted gamblers. "When we have scarce resources, is it better to spend the money assisting those with a problem or studying the costs of the problem?" Walker asked. 4525 Signs higher math to show what it's doing," she said.

A state-ordered study of gambling in 1991 concluded that South Dakota's over-18 population of 497,542 included 5,620 to 12,290 problem gamblers. Gov. Walter D. Miller has said that study should be updated in 1994 or 1995. Lottery officials said they couldn't initiate the kind of study Joy proposed without approval from the Legislature.

"We would need funding," Lottery Director Susan Walker said. "For us to say we're going to do this without the authorization, we couldn't." Walker said estimates of social costs related to compulsive gam- By TERRY WOSTER Argus Leader Staff PIERRE Compulsive gambling in South Dakota could cost the state three times as much as video lottery brings in, JoDean Joy of Miller said Friday. Various studies of gambling addiction peg the annual social costs of the problem at $30,000 to $110,000 a person, said Joy, who led an unsuccessful attempt to repeal video lottery in the 1992 general election. On Thursday, Joy asked the state Lottery Commission to study the extent of compulsive gambling and its social costs. "It could be costing $150 million annually, and if we're taking in $65 million from lottery, it doesn't take The Auto Club said 36 percent of the stations it surveyed would be open Christmas Day, but only 2 MAGNETIC Signs for $19.80 tax, Also recycled new signs made.

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"For a few hundred dollars, they can rake in thousands," Himrich said. By MIKE TRAUTMANN Argus Leader Staff Police are looking for two men involved in a scam to cheat Sioux Falls area banks of thousands of dollars. The two men, between 20 and 30 years old, floated bad checks and deposits Thursday and Friday at six banks as part of a scam similar to check kiting, Detective Robert Himrich said. The men opened small accounts at several banks and then withdrew out more money than they had deposited. He did not release the names of the banks or the total amount taken The problem is aggravated during the holidays when bank traffic increases beyond harried tellers' abilities to keep close track.

Most check-kiting incidents result from legitimate account holders who juggle funds because they need cash, Himrich said. Catching professional scam artists is more difficult because they enter and leave a city so quickly. Eventually, the law enforcement network snares them after they try one too many scams. "Time catches these guys," Himrich said. "Normally they get caught because they can't stop." 4600 TVStereoCBVCR Sales Service DASHBOARD ELECTRONICS HOME, CAR CB Sales, Service installation on most makes.

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Each count, a federal misdemeanor, carries a maximum punishment of a $10,000 fine. The companies are accused of violating the Migratory Bird Treaty Act. A lawyer for Richmond Hill, Pete Fuller, said his clients did not believe they had violated federal law. Mickelson exhibits open at Capitol PIERRE (AP) Two exhibits were placed in the state Capitol on Thursday to commemorate the late Gov. George Mickelson and the effort he helped start to reconcile racial differences in South Dakota.

The exhibits are in cases next to the Capitol's front doors in the second-floor rotunda. The displays are a joint project of the governor's office and the South Dakota State Historical Society. The exhibit on Mickelson's life and career features photographs on loan from the Mickelson family and from the Historical Society. "This display is a most appropriate tribute to George Mickelson, who contributed so much to South Dakota and its citfcens," Gov. Walter D.

Miller said. He became governor after Mickelson died in an April plane crash. The other case displays photographs and objects related to the effort to reconcile differences between Indians and non-Indians. I 4610 Tree Service WILL Cut Haul away trees, uncollected garbage, etc. 338-9967 Reforms: HHS approach unfair, Gov.

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Creating a "social contract" with recipients, who pledge to work toward financial independence. Limiting benefits to two years for people who receive job training and five years for those going to school. Taking away AFDC benefits from those who begin a job and then quit. Allowing teen-agers in AFDC households to earn and save up to $1,000 a year for future education. Miller asked.

"I'd probably move out of that county and go to another one," he said. Miller also said he was concerned that charges of racial discrimination could be leveled, depending on the counties selected and who is denied benefits. Arguing in favor of implementing the reforms statewide, the issue should come down to whether "we can show we can reduce our caseload," he said. South Dakota's caseload has gone up a total of 9 percent in the last three years, compared with 31 percent nationally, Ellenbecker said. Continued from 1 will recommend to Shalala that the evaluation not put "an undue burden on the state." Accommodating such welfare reform plans is important to Clinton because he pledged to work with governors on experimental programs and has made welfare reform one of the priorities in Congress.

Waivers have been granted to a few states, including Iowa, Wyoming, Wisconsin and Virginia. Miller said the HHS approach of evaluating the reform plan is being used in Wisconsin. But he said he does not consider it fair. "How do you tell someone, 'You're in the wrong 4690 WindowsDoors STAR ART GLASS. Stained Glass, Bevelled, etched, lamp shades.

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