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Argus Leader, Sioux Falls, S.D. Friday, April 22, 1988 South Dakota Digest 3 Classified 6-12 I wtJk Briefly LaOTsmakeirs phasEd for tax data FeiSNDirt pare or analyze future tax bills. The board plans to make a decision on the issue at its May meeting. Terry Anderson, director of the Legislative Research Council, called the proposed report a tax data base that would give lawmakers basic information on such things as South Dakota personal income. He told the board two Michigan tax consultants are interested in performing the study.

One is Robert Cline, a professor at Hope College in Holland, Mich. The other is Robert Kleine, a consultant with Public Sector Consultants in Lansing, Mich. Both men will be invited to the board's May meeting for interviews. Board members asked that the Business Research Bureau at the University of South Dakota also be invited to consider the work. The bureau already has agreed to work with a tax advisory committee created by Gov.

George Mickelson. Legislators have never had solid tax information, Shanard said, not even when former Gov. Richard Kneip was pushing state income tax bills in the 1970s. Last session lawmakers killed a bill proposing a state corporate income tax and another proposing both a corporate and personal a on tlhe me income tax. "Last year the estimates from the two bills were as far apart as could be," Shanard said.

"We ought to have a tax data base for the general welfare of the Legislature. Next year we're going to see those types of bills again. We need to know where the burden will fall. That's a key question. Are we shifting the tax or relieving the burden?" Rep.

Larry Gabriel, R-Cotton-wood, co-sponsored the 1988 corporate income tax proposal. Sen. Walt Bones, R-Parker, was prime sponsor. "I told Senator Bones the esti- I Arqus Leader photo by FRANK KLUCK Valley Stables. rups but she wanted to ride real bad." Showing horses is expensive.

The Arabian riders' tailored suits cost $700 to $1,000 and the native costumes as much as $5,000. Horses sell from $1,000 to more than $25,000. "The cost of the horse doesn't necessarily mean you'll have a winner," Derrick said. "What the horse is after you get it to the show is what counts." Airaboara By TERRY WOSTER Argus Leader Staff PIERRE Legislators lack accurate tax information and often simply guess at the effect of various proposals on South Dako-tans, Sen. George Shanard, R-Mitchell, said Thursday.

"The figures they present are nothing more than a really'unedu-cated guess at what various proposals would raise," Shanard told other members of the Legislative Research Council's executive board. The board is trying to decide whether to spend $25,000 or more to have a tax expert make a report that legislators could use to pre Taken Man overcomes fear to train show horses By BRUCE CONLEY Argus Leader Staff Pat Derrick, who once feared horses, now trains them to respect their riders and impress judges. Some of Derrick's students riders and horses will compete this weekend at the Arabian Horse Society All-Arabian Spring Show in Sioux Falls. The show, which is free to the public, began Thursday and continues each day and evening through Sunday at the W.H. Lyon Fairgrounds Expo Building.

Entries are expected from Minnesota, Nebraska, Iowa, South Dakota, Kansas and Missouri. Derrick, 34, has been training horses since he graduated from Lincoln High School in 1972. He has handled many breeds but is especially fond of the Arabian, a breed originating from Arabia and known for its grace, speed and intelligence. "Basically I stay with Arabians," Derrick said. "They have a real arrogant way about them.

You lead them out of the stall and you can tell they are for show." Derrick said the Arabian is versatile, adapting to the different classes of competition western, hunt, halter and native costume with equal effectiveness. Tracing his introduction to horses back to the days his dad raised Shetland ponies, Derrick said the relationship got off to a slow start. "Believe it or not, I was scared to death of them. I didn't ride or have anything to do with them. I fell off them when I was younger and that's probably what scared me.

Then one day I rode and it was all over." He began showing horses at the 4-H level and entered the bigger meets when he was in high school. He started training horses the day he graduated. "In fact, on graduation night I jerked off the cap and gown about five minutes after it was over and headed for a show in Des Moines," he said. Derrick, who has shown about 150 horses, said it takes about nine months to a year to have a horse ready for a major meet, but he has prepared in them in 60 days. As a riding teacher, Derrick has had seven of his students advance to national competition, which are in alternate years at mates were a shot in the dark," Gabriel said.

"I told him it couldn't pass without this kind of study." Gabriel said the tax information will be especially important next year if Dakota Proposition II, a property tax-limiting ballot measure, wins voter approval in November. Eight years ago voters rejected a measure to limit property taxes. Lawmakers didn't initiate a special tax study then, and they don't need to this year, said Rep. Don Ham, R-RapidCity. "I don't see that it's much different now," he said.

"I don't know why we're panicking." KELO plans to expand coverage By ART HOVEY Argus Leader Staff Midcontinent Broadcasting Co. of Sioux Falls will put a CBS affiliate in Rapid City this fall. Company Vice President Evans Nord said the move will allow Midcontinent to reach 92 percent of the South Dakota population. The company is already in Rapid City through microwave transmission of the KELO signal from Sioux Falls. Nord said the new station would carry Channel 15 service 30 miles farther out.

The new affiliate will be called KBLO. A transmitter will allow locally initiated programming, a capacity not available at other Midcontinent outlets in Aberdeen and Garden City. Until now, Channel 15 has carried only the Sioux Falls signal. "We have a lot of faith in western South Dakota," Nord said Thursday. "We think the economy out there is good, and it's going to get a lot better.

And basically it's a 'white area' for CBS. There's no CBS out there." Nord said KBLO news operations would "be part of KELO, but we'll also do some things on our own out there, too." He said meetings were still being held on staffing and other operating strategies. "We'll be on the air this fall, I'm sure. When this fall, I can't really tell you. There are a number of problems, Mountain Time not being the least of them." KELO newscasts at 6 and 10 p.m.

are now seen at 5 and 9 p.m. in the Rapid City area. The network news is aired at 4:30 p.m. Nord said delaying transmission for an hour would be one way of solving the time-zone problem. KEVN is the current NBC affiliate in Rapid City.

KOTA is the ABC entry in the market. KOTA sales manager Wes Haugen said that KBLO would not reach 30 miles farther in all directions. He said its UHF signal would be weaker than the VHF signals put out by the other two stations. "UHF does not go anywhere in mountains," he said. "Increasing the power on UHF is not going to get them much farther than they are already," Ray Moser, president and general manager at KEVN, said he didn't see the situation as a new station entering the market.

"What they're doing is just upgrading their power, but they've been out here a couple of years." But Nord said previous service has been only an extension of KELO. "Those stations out there have switched affiliation from time to time, but there's never been a third station out there." I A AN, -ill fl I fi It 'M "4 6 Inouye to tour reservations Sen. naniol JUUUJfC, chairman or the Qonov w.uubi, 0 lect Committee on Indian Af fairs, will tour four South Dakota Indian reservations Maw 4 and 5 with Sen. Tom Daschle oi fcoutn Dakota. The two Demrvfrnto will ko looking at problems in health care ana education on the reservations among other things, said Mark Ulven, uascme press secretary.

TheV Will tour the Pino Ridge and Rosebud Sioux reservations May 4, and the cneyenne Kiver and Standing Rock reservations May 5. Farm bankruptcies drop 331 percent Farm bankruptcies dropped 331 percent during the first quarter of 1988, the Federal Bankruptcy Court in Sioux Falls reported. There have been 51 farm filings through March; a year ago, there had been 220. Overall bankruptcy filings have dropped 40 percent, Judge Peder K. Ecker said.

Early-release inmate pleads guilty An inmate given early release March 1 pleaded guilty Thursday to one count of aggravated assault and one count of first-degree burglary. Ronald Gayle Eskildsen, 48, had faced four assault charges and five counts of burglary in connection with an April 8 incident. In 1985, Eskildsen was sentenced to four years in the South Dakota State Penitentiary for aggravated assault. He was one of 77 prisoners released March 1 under Gov. George Mickelson's early-release program.

Anderson to seek commission seat Kenny Anderson will make his second run for City Commission. Anderson, owner of a Sioux Falls cleaning busi ness, will run for the 2-year commission term. He made the announcement Thursday at a news confer- Kenny ence at the Anderson Holiday Inn City Centre. Commissioner Dick Peterson resigned his position but then was appointed to fill out his term. Anderson was a candidate for City Commission two years ago when the government body was expanded to five members.

Clyde Twiggs also has an nounced his candidacy for that position. Canton man found guilty of arson A Canton man was con victed Wednesday of first-de gree arson and burglary in connection witn an Aug. zi blaze at a home near Harris-burg. Christopher Maier, 19, and two other men were charged with robbing a home owned by jean and Kevin Kroeger and then torching it to cover up the crime. A juvenile who was involved in the crime testified against Maier in exchange for a lesser sentence, said Lincoln County State's Attorney Jeff Masten.

The maximum sentence for first-degree arson is life in prison. March of Dimes walkathon Saturday State Poster Child Justin Martz and Captain 11 will lead Walk-America Saturday, an event to raise money for the March of Dimes. A balloon launch will begin at 9 a.m. at the mart parking lot on West 12th Street. Two teams participating in the event are Whit-tier Junior High School and Centerville's kindergarten class, who are Martz's class- mates.

SDina bifida qroup to hold popcorn sale The Spina Bifida Association of South Dakota will be selling noncorn from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Saturday and 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Sunday at mart, juuu s.

Minnesota Ave. All proceeds go to the Spina Bifida Associa tion. Yesterday Ten vears ago on this date, the United States Postal Rate Commission voted 3-1 to raise the cost of posting a letter from 13 cents to 15 cents. i Trainer Pat Derrick works out an Arabian Wednesday evening at Hidden Louisville, and Albuquerque, N.M. Derrick gives his students one lesson a week and encourages them to ride five to six times a week.

Each session lasts about two hours, including about 45 minutes riding time. "It helps to be a natural, and I've had kids who were able to ride from the first day. I like to start when the kids are 10 or 12 because by then they have the Board wants sewage to be found guilty of Television anchor quits job with KSFY Minnesota to help in cleanup 4 1 strength to handle any situation. They need to start showing at 4-H and open shows and work their way up." One of Derrick's top students was Leigh Wieman, now a professional rider and trainer in Sioux Falls. "She was easy to train and very much a natural," Derrick said.

"She went to the nationals with a cast on her leg. She couldn't put one foot in the stir- ash firms contempt cite any of the corporations or individuals for contempt," Robbenolt said. Assistant Attorney General Larry Donovan said the firms were very uncooperative with state requests for information. Sewage ashSee 2C Kl il'. ST.

PAUL, Minn. (AP) Minnesota plans to cooperate with South Dakota officials in the cleanup of 275,000 tons of sewage sludge ash shipped from the Twin Cities area to that state, a Minnesota official says. South Dakota Gov. George Mickelson sent a letter April 14 to Twin Cities sewer officials, asking them to clean up the ash. "We have been very patient but now we feel it is time to make plans to dispose of the ash," Mickelson wrote to the Metropolitan Waste Control Commission.

"When the state granted a permit for the recycling of sewage from Minnesota, it was not envisioned the state would be providing a disposal site for your wastes." Mickelson urged the commission to accept responsibility for cleaning up the site and disposing of the ash. Louis Breimhurst, chief administrator of the waste control commission, said the commission is drafting a letter saying it will cooperate with South Dakota officials. However, Breimhurst repeated earlier statements that the ash no longer is the waste commission's responsibility, but that it belongs to Consolidated Management Corp. of Reno, Nev. Breimhurst also confirmed that the commission last week hired Sioux Falls lawyer Jeremiah Murphy to represent the agency on the matter.

"If there is any litigation or debate in South Dakota, we want someone who is familiar and someone who can practice law there," Breimhurst said. "We hope it doesn't come down to that" parent she also wanted to spend more time with her 10-year-old son, Jeffrey. Her schedule at KSFY was to go to work in the afternoon and Joan Russell work through the 10 p.m. news. She said she saw her son when she took him to school in the morning and during her dinner break in the evening.

"I got tired of leaving softball games halfway through because I had to go back to work," she said. Before starting as a reporter at KSFY in January 1982, Russell worked at KQHU FM radio in Yankton. She also did a cable television show about college events while a student at Yankton College. She was graduated in 1981 with a degree in speech communications. She started announcing the 6 p.m.

news for KSFY in September 1982 and began appearing on both evening news shows two years ago. During that time, she continued reporting. In 1986, Russell won the South AnchorSee 2C By BRENDA WADE Argus Leader Staff Television anchor Joan Russell quit her job Thursday to take a position with a Sioux Falls video production company. Russell, 29, and a native of Scotland, was a co-anchor on the evening news at KSFY-TV for nearly six years. She will begin working Monday as a writer and producer at Ovenden Rustad Productions, 1908 W.

42nd St. Hers was the longest stint of any Sioux Falls anchorwoman during the 1980s. Russell said the job change comes at a time when she has been looking for new career challenges. "I wanted to stay in television, working with words and putting pictures together." She said she had offers from stations in other cities but wanted to stay in Sioux Falls. Ovenden Rustad produces corporate videos, advertising and some local television programming.

One of the shows produced is McKennan Sports Magazine, which runs every third Friday of the month. "She's a self-starter and a hard worker," said Mark Ovenden, one of the owners. Russell said that as a single PIERRE (AP) Two Nevada-based companies that were involved in stockpiling 270,000 tons of sewage ash in southwestern South Dakota should be found guilty of contempt, the state Board of Minerals and Environment decided Thursday. Consolidated Management Celar System Inc. and various officials connected with the firms acted contemptuously by refusing to cooperate with state requests for information, said Bill Taylor, a board member from Sioux Falls.

"If I had my druthers, I'd see the state gun them down on the street rather than worry about a con tempt citation, Taylor said. He said the Board of Minerals and Environment cannot itself find the firms guilty of contempt but must submit its request to a state court. The sewage ash was shipped from Minnesota to an abandoned ammunition depot at Igloo. Although it was supposed to be stripped of gold, silver and other valuable metals and then processed into a construction material, no such processing operation has begun. The attorney for Consolidated Management and Celar System, Jim Robbenolt of Pierre, said there is no basis for a contempt citation because the companies have withdrawn their request for a state permit to build a waste recovery plant.

"Technically, there's nothing before the board at the present time to give the board any jurisdiction to.