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2C State Argus Leader, Sioux Falls, S.D. Friday, Jan. 1, 1988 I 71 Lutheran church moraor bcoms effective today --ail IK 1 i r-: -1 8 12 EL 'I 1 ,1 1.1 4i By The Associated Press A newly unified Lutheran denomination, the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, is born today after months of preparations for serving 5.3 million members across the country. The work culminating with the arrival of the New Year involved dismantling three denominations the Lutheran Church in America, American Lutheran Church and Association of Evangelical Lutheran Churches and reassembling them as one. This has gone on since last May when a joint convention of the three branches in Columbus, Ohio, voted to constitute the new church, following five years of preliminary planning.

The denomination becomes the fourth largest Protestant denomination in the country, after Southern Baptists, United Methodists and the National Baptist Convention. Chicago was chosen as the new church's headquarters. it was set up, the past headquarters of the three merged bodies the LCA in New York, ALC in Minneapolis and AELC in St. Louis were closing down. That involved a large reshuffling of personnel, with the new central staff of 323 about a third the size of the three separate central staffs, which totalled 950.

Many of the employees have had to seek other jobs. Only about half the new central staff came from the old ones. Thursday in Minneapolis, an estimated 250 people jammed a tiny chapel and adjacent cafeteria for a service marking the closing of American Lutheran Church headquarters. "There are so many things to be thankful for and certainly that ought to be the hallmark of a gathering of this group of people, even on this last day," ALC Bishop David W. Preus told church employees.

Preus praised the work of the ALC and the 450 employees at church headquarters. About 30 to 40 of the employees are being transferred to the new church headquarters, according to Herb David, ALC director of communications. The presiding bishop of the new church, Herbert Chilstrom, 55, elected to the post last spring in Columbus, has moved to Chicago from Minneapolis, where he formerly was a regional LCA bishop. "The sheer size of the (new) church is an adjustment," he says. "The common prayer I pray these days is for vision," Since last spring, regional bishops also have been elected for the new church's 65 new synods, replacing more than double that number of bishops of the formerly separate, overlapping denominations.

Some former bishops sought other jobs or retired. Skeletal remains Argus Leader photo by LLOYD B. CUNNINGHAM Only the heavy steel framework remains Thursday of Northern State Ski Valley. Razing of the plant began in the fall. There was a small fire at Power's Lawrence Power Plant along the Brandon Road, near Great Bear the site Wednesday.

Survey shows support for proposition and two together, but if you support Dakota Proposition, what you're doing is supporting income tax." The proposition is a proposed constitutional amendment that would place a lid on property taxes. Unless a challenge to it succeeds, it will appear on the 1988 general election ballot. A supporter, Merlin Olson of Rapid City, said he didn't know if it would lead to a state income tax but that low-income people, the elderly and apparently some business people are suffering from oppressive property taxes. "I'm waiting to hear somebody where can we cut spending instead of going out and attempting to raise other taxes." RAPID CITY (AP) Some civic leaders say they are surprised by results of a recent questionnaire indicating that 59 percent of 330 business people responding support Dakota Proposition II, a proposal to limit property taxes. The Rapid City Area Chamber of Commerce sent questionnaires to 1,100 businesses a month ago, seeking opinions on Dakota Proposition II and several other issues.

The 330 replies was the largest response ever to such a chamber survey, off icials said. "I assumed our membership would not support it because they don't support an income tax," said John Schmit, chamber president. "Maybe no one else has put two Olson and Mayor Keith Carlyle, another proposition supporter, said they were not surprised by the results of the questionnaire. Car-ylye, however, said he thinks passage of Dakota Proposition II would lead to an income tax. "But let's first see what we can do to economize and reduce expenditures, then look for the least offensive tax.

Ask anybody if they're in favor of being taxed in any way, shape or form and they're going to say no. I don't think an income tax would necessarily be a bad thing, as long as it had its limits," Carlyle said. Charles Lein, a Rapid City businessman, is president of the Industry and Commerce Association of South Dakota, a statewide group that opposes Dakota Proposition II. He said the questionnaire reflects support for the proposition, but just in the Rapid City area. "It's almost a non-issue around the state," Lein said.

"Feelings are stronger and more deeply rooted in this corner of the state." The survey also revealed that 63 percent of the respondents opposed extension of the temporary 1 percent state sales tax added in 1987 for economic development, 60 percent opposed additional limitations on the mining industry, and 98 percent opposed the Bradley Bill, which would return 1.3 million acres of federal land in and near the Black Hills to Sioux Indians. City to consider raising street level i a wmmmm Opponents want to stop Deadwood mining lease DEADWOOD (AP) A petition drive has been started aimed at forcing a public vote on a lease that Mayor Tom Blair signed with Homestake Mining Co. The lease allows Homestake to explore for gold within the city limits and to mine 1,500 feet underground if ore is discovered. Betty Wright, who resigned as chairman of the Deadwood Historic Preservation Commission Tuesday, said the signatures of about 70 registered voters are needed. area, said senior planner Mike Cooper.

The hospital's parcel is in a 100-year flood plain, which means there is a rare chance of flooding from the Big Sioux River that would make the hospital inaccessible to ambulances and fire engines. City regulations require that buildings on the flood plain be constructed two feet above the flood elevation. Louise is below flood elevation, Cooper said. The problem of emergency access came up while the Sioux Falls City Commission was considering rezoning the parcel and issuing a conditional-use permit for the hospital. Those measures come up for possible final action Monday.

City officials are discussing emergency access through a nearby apartment complex property as a temporary solution. Charter Medical officials have said the $5.5 million hospital will cater to those requiring stays of three weeks and more. The firm also has discussed providing programs for adolescents and children under 12 years of age. McKennan Hospital officials have questioned the need for the hospital, saying it would duplicate services. UN By JULIE BOLDING Argus Leader Staff City agencies are asking for a cost and feasibility study of raising Louise Avenue north of 41st Street by several feet, a Sioux Falls Planning Office official said.

Raising the street could provide a solution to the problem of emergency access to a 50-bed psychiatric hospital planned on a seven-acre parcel north of 37th Street. It borders Louise on the west and the Big Sioux River on the east. The study would benefit not only the hospital, planned by Charter Medical Corp. of Macon, but also future development in the rasa Lii Idea of tourist loop draws interest of S.D. officials IT'S HAPPENING TOMORROW.

WAIT) SATURDAY HERE! T3 1 ML 1 1T I mil The topography is exciting, she said. "The upland prairies are really beautiful, with all the buffalo grass and pheasants and prairie chickens just beautiful." The first step would concentrate on car travel this summer and have signs posted in time for the 1988 tourist season, Brandt said. "The next stage of the plan calls for a tourist bus to give people a guided tour of the area." Some of the stops would be the St. Joseph Indian School and Roam Free Park near Chamberlain, the Big Bend Dam and Museum and the Crow Creek massacre site at Fort Thompson and the Wild West Museum in Reliance, Brandt said. tions and back to Chamberlain.

Car travel will be encouraged, and officials might try to organize bus tours later. "As a result of the governor's idea, we got together with the tribes and people from Oacoma, Chamberlain and Reliance as well as the Corps of Engineers and discussed the idea," said Susan Edwards, state tourism secretary. The groups took a bus tour of the proposed loop and plan to meet later this month to hold more talks. "I think it was an eye-opener for everybody involved," Edwards said. "The dam, the hunting facilities at Crow Creek, the farming operations, it's all very LA-Z-OOY ROCKBRS AND RECUNBRS Ovar 300 ihiM to ciioom hem.

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