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Weather 2A Argus Leader, Sioux Falls, S.D. Sunday, Dec. 13, 1987 College: Prison proposal divides city Today's highlow, conditions Huron 28-32 10-15 Brookings 22-28 10 Sioux Falls 2913 Mitchell 28-33 10-15 Yankton Sioux City 28-32 10-15 Bismarck Fargo MINN-'N--7 IS rb DuluthCi I La 22UU4 2319 icr -2518 Paul Rapid City Di hE3 I area lOWAk 301 5 3016 LjDes Moines Omaha I Four-day outlook for Sioux Falls vicinity Monday Tuesday Wednesday 20 25 I 20-25 15-20 lH15'20 Chance Of SnOW rhani-o nf cnnw continue operating," says Peterson, who served on an ad hoc committee in 1975 to solve the debt problems. "That was the worst mistake that was made. It was the beginning of the end." During its final year, administrators were using contributions from supporters to keep the college operating.

But the frantic efforts were mostly unnoticed by Yankton residents. More attention was being paid to University of South Dakota Springfield's conversion to a state prison school. The faculty and students at USD-Springfield were important to Yankton's economy. City leaders in Yankton were vocal opponents to the conversion. Hamiel penned several strongly worded editorials criticizing the decision to close USD-Springfield.

"Short-term the plant may seem more cost efficient. Over the long term we seem to think the impact would be negative and that would not be in the state's or Springfield's best interest," he wrote during the controversy. Peterson, then a state senator, said converting the college to a prison was unthinkable. He asked a reporter at the time: "What is the value of destroying a town destroying citizens of a small community?" The first prisoners were moved into Springfield about a month after Yankton College was closed. Hamiel and Peterson say the situations in Springfield and Yankton are incomparable.

"This campus hasn't been used for three years. If we had had 850 kids running around the campus like they did in Springfield, the Bureau of Prisons wouldn't even be looking at Yankton College," Peterson says. Representatives of both sides agree that their ideas about Yankton's future are vastly different. "Money and hopelessness in the current situation seems to be their theme. They're saying 'we've got a solution.

Let's cash in and move on to something different," says Rod Nohr, a member of Citizens for a Better Alternative. "It's obvious from everything they've said that they have no concern about economics. The state spends thousands of dollars each year to bring in industry. We have something like this offered to us and we thumb our nose at it," Peterson says. A Nov.

14 poll in the Press and Dakotan suggests that 60 percent of the people in Yankton are in favor of the prison proposal. But Nohr said the support for an alternative is growing. "I really don't believe people feel great about the prison. Deep in their hearts, I don't think they really believe a prison is right for Yankton." Nohr says the debate about the issue has been intense, but he doesn't think it will affect friendships in Yankton following the election. "What is it they say? Politics are politics and friends are friends.

The two really don't mix." Says Peterson: "You and I can disagree but that doesn't mean we have to disagree forever." 3 20s 10-20 Chance of snow State SOUTH DAKOTA: Mostly cloudy through Monday. Chance of light snow in the south and west Monday. Highs today in the low 20s to low 30s. Lows tonight mostly, in the teens. Highs Monday in the 20s.

MINNESOTA: Today, cloudy with flurries in the norm. Mostly to partly cloudy south. Not quite as windy. Highs from the lower 20s north to near 30 south. Tonight, cloudy northeast.

Partly cloudy west and south. Lows from 5 north to 15 south. Monday, partly cloudy north. Increasing clouds south. IOWA: Partly cloudy today, high in low 30s to around 4fc Mostly cloudy tonight with a chance of snow south, low again mainly in 20s.

Sunny liil Snow Cloudy Rock Rapids 28-32 10-15 Partly cloudy Rain 20 Thursday 20-25 5 Chance of snow Databank Sioux Falls Saturday 3 am 34 3 p.m.... 6a.m 32 6p.m.... 9a.m 31 9p.m.... noon 33 Midnight. High Saturday 35, low 29 Relative humidity 63 at 9 p.m.

Precipitation. trace inches 24 hours preceding 9 p.m. Total for year to date 17.45 Normal for year to date 23.74 Today's data, Dec. 13, 1987 Sunrise 7:52, 4:51 30, km Year ago high 23, low 1 Record high. 60, 1921 low.

-28, 1917 State temperatures Saturday at 7 p.m. CST: hi lo pre Aberdeen ...33 28 trace Chamberlain 42 29 Custer 23 18 0 Huron ...35 32 0 Mobridge ....34 27 0 Pickstown 42 28 0 Pierre 39 26 0 Rapid City 38 29 trace Redig 33 23 0 Watertown 31 26 trace currents while four salvage tugboats trailed it to put out the fire. Kontogiorgos and three other Greek officers refused to abandon the Pivot. The rescued crewmen were identified only as 27 Filipinos, 10 Indonesian, and two Indians, in addition to the woman. The Pivot was the latest victim of the Iranian strikes on neutral commercial shipping in the gulf in retaliation for Iraqi raids on Iranian tanker routes.

Luverne 28-32 10-15 Extended Tuesday through Thursday: SOUTH DAKOTA: Chance of snow. Especially southeast, on Tuesday. Chance of snow east Wednesday and southwest Thursday. Highs in the upper teens northeast to upper 20s southwest. Lows in the upper teens southeast to 5 to 10 northwest Tuesday and Wednesday and zero northeast to 10 above southwest Thursday.

MINNESOTA: Good chance of snow Tuesday and into Wednesday, mainly south and east. Highs in the teens north and 20s south. IOWA: Snow likely Tuesday, partly cloudy and cold Wednesday and Thursday. Highs in the 20s and 30s Tuesday, dipping into the teens and 20s Wednesday and Thursday. 36 14 28 25 38 27 34 24 71 69 66 53 42 35 67 43 73 46 40 34 46 33 49 41 67 53 60 46 35 32 31 25 59 39 70 61 53 42 42 20 52 39 43 32 77 52 56 38 65 47 40 34 62 40 35 16 60 41 55 44 48 37 dr sn sn cdy dr cdy rn cdy cdy cdy dr cdy 02 cdy SaltLakeCiry 34 San Diego 63 San Francisco 55 Seattle 40 Spokane 37 Tampan 76 Topeka 47 Tucson 71 60 National outlook and temperatures Continued from 1A time." Allowing a prison in the center of Yankton would hurt property values and discourage new companies from locating in Yankton, says Michael Lemon, a spokesman for the group.

"The way we feel has to do with the respect we have for Yankton College," he says. "We don't feel that turning the college into a prison shows much respect." The sale of bonds or creation of a 1 cent sales tax could raise money necessary to buy the campus, Lemon says. City officials say that property taxes might increase slightly to finance maintenance to the real estate until a buyer is found. The memories of Yankton College's final days are still fresh in the minds of most people here. "It was a very emotional day," says Noel Hamiel, who supports converting the campus to a prison.

Hamiel, editor and publisher of the Yankton Press and Dakotan, a daily newspaper, helped cover the closing in 1984. "I was on the campus helping the news department cover the story. I watched girls weeping and holding on to each other for moral support. I saw students and faculty members who were dazed. I saw a lot of broken hearts that day." People in Yankton knew that the college had financial troubles.

Nine years earlier, its assets had been reorganized in bankruptcy court. "The court gave us permission to use our endowment funds to Shoplifting: Continued from 1A brought with her. She carried out more than $350 in clothing. Said she needed it because all her friends were dressed nicely." Upper Midwest retailers, some in Sioux Falls, that participated in a recent survey cited shoplifting over inflation, labor costs and local economic conditions as their main concern in keeping profits up. More than $3 billion in shoplifting is reported in the United States annually.

Some stores accept shoplifting as a risk of business. "They just choose to say, 'This is the cost of doing said Sgt. Mark Moberly of the Sioux Falls Police Department. Other stores actively combat shoplifting using TV monitors, electronic sensing systems and trick mirrors. They also use detectives.

One store even pays employees when they catch a shoplifter. Felton could not reveal numbers but said Dayton's has an increase in shoplifting during the holiday season. "Certainly, the more people you have in the store, there is a greater loss that occurs," he said. One loss prevention employee overheard a 2- or 3-year-old girl 3 Purchase a For Flagstaff Great Falls Hartford Helena Honolulu Houston Indianapolis Jxkson.Miss. Jacksonville Juneau Kansas City Las Vegas Los Angeles Memphis Milwaukee Mpls-StPaul Nashville New Orleans New York City North Platte Oklahoma City Omaha Orlando Philadelphia Phoenix Portland.Ore.

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For each item shoplifted at Dayton's, the store must sell as many as 16 similarly priced items before the store makes any profit, Felton said. Many shoplifters caught at Dayton's are women who take clothing, Felton said. "I'm sure all of them could've paid for what they stole. Many of them have Dayton's credit cards." When someone is caught shoplifting at Dayton's, the person is usually approached as he leaves the store, Felton said. The person is escorted to the loss-prevention office and the police are notified.

Occasionally, suspects are stopped inside the store if they have concealed the product and has foregone several opportunities to pay. South Dakota law states that an attempt to conceal merchandise is sufficient for arrest on shoplifting charges. "Just stick something in your pocket or under your coat, that's enough," Moberly said. City police in 1986 made almost 23 cdy Wchita 49 31 54 dr 57 39 dr 50 dr National Temperature Extremes for 33 .14 Saturday: 23 cdy 54 7c. 35 sn 41 cdy High 83 degrees at Fori Lauderdate 37 dr Beach, Ra.

quarters and the engine room, said the Pivot's Greek captain, Alexander Kontogiorgos. Pizzey said the one rocket punched a hole the size of a football. "Coming out of it was a jet of flames, oil spewing out in fire, hitting the sea and leaving a trail behind the ship about half a mile long of fire," he said. The crew could not get to the engine room to halt the tanker, which drifted in circles with the Gulf rescue Continued from 1A have fired rockets from a frigate. They punched holes in two tank holds of the Pivot, which was loaded with a million barrels of crude oil from the Saudi Arabian port of Ras Tanura and bound for Indonesia.

Oil gushed out from the holds and the flames, whipped by strong winds, crept to the stern, the crew ia Business Is At Lotii! -Kit holidays 800 shoplifting arrests, about half were juveniles. The numbers represent only a fraction of the shoplifting that occurs in Sioux Falls, because a majority of shoplifters are not caught, Moberly said. Two out of five adults arrested for shoplifting in Minnehaha County make an appearance in magistrate court. Guilty first-time offenders usually pay a $50 fine for the misdemeanor crime and may be put on probation, said Larry Kelso, who oversees the Circuit Court's division of court services. Repeat offenders can be sentenced to jail.

A recent repeat shoplifter was sentenced to 30 days in the county jail. If a shoplifter is a juvenile, a court officer meets with the offender and his parents. Repeat offenders may be assigned to a support service, such as Threshold Youth Services, and put on probation. Some spend time at the Juvenile Detention Center. They can be fined, also.

The experience of talking with store security, police and court service officers is usually enough to make the initial shoplifting arrest, the only one. "I think it's an error in judgment they made. I don't think most of them are career criminals," Felton said. Home Reg. 2199 If I 111C UllC The Holidays.

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