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South Dakota Digest Regional Briefing Argus Leader, Sioux Falls, S.D. Sunday. Sept. 28, 1986 mm mmm? Aid Presidential seal could leave different impressions Visit prompts mixed reaction i 1 i i. guy.

That's all I need," Mark Meier-henry, South Dakota's attorney general, said. The Abdnor supporters interviewed said that, despite some of his unpopular agriculture policies, Reagan is still liked here. And a popular president coming here and encouraging South Dakotans to re-elect Abdnor will give the campaign a boost. Frank Brost, a Presho lawyer and long-time Abdnor friend, said of Reagan: "I think he is a good pepper- meant to help Abdnor's re-election campaign against Democrat Tom Daschle. And, despite a possible crowd of 1,000 farmers demonstrating against Reagan's farm policies outside the Arena policies even Abdnor and other state Republican candidates have criticized Abdnor's supporters say the visit Will help their candidate.

"What we have to above all enjoy is he came to the state to stump for our can Sen. James Abdnor, the incumbent running against Democratic Rep. Tom Daschle. "I think whether you're a Republican or a Democrat, it's a great occasion," Kit Murray of Sioux Falls said. "I wish it would make us feel like he's coming because he's concerned about farm problems, but I don't think he's coming for that.

It's a purely political visit, but I welcome him." Visit See 2C By TODO MURPHY Argus Leader Staff They would like to hear a few words about agriculture; they would like to hear a few more about a hard-working and tenacious Jim Abdnor. But most of all, Sen. James Abd-nor's supporters are just happy that the words whatever they might be will come from the president of the United States. President Reagan's l-hour stop Monday at the Sioux Falls Arena is By JIM RASMUSSEN Argus Leader Staff Some South Dakotans are excited about President Reagan's visit to Sioux Falls, but others say they would prefer he stayed away. Asked Saturday for their reaction to Reagan's visit, area residents said they're glad the president is coming, but that his visit won't accomplish much.

Reagan is scheduled to spend I2 hours Monday in Sioux Falls. The president will campaign for Republi Reagan visit upper, and he's going to be doing that Monday." PresidentialSee 2C fJeiv avenue Abdnor ads '1! add sparks campaign HJXJfX fv if I 1 with Tom and other Democrats in Hollywood. "These days, more and more people are realizing that Tom's song and dance for South Dakota's farmers is just like a Hollywood prop: a lot of show and little substance." Daschle said the election campaign has taken a negative turn. "The more desperate you are, the more negative you become," he said. "And clearly this Abdnor race is becoming one of the most negative that I've seen and I think it's unfortunate." But Freeman said the ads just point out facts and the difference between the candidates.

Daschle just doesn't like it, Freeman said. "There's no desperation," he said. "In fact, this is a very, very tight race. There's no reason to even be desperate." Daschle said that although Abdnor was criticizing him for accepting campaign contributions from California and New York, few candidates have received more money from defense contractors, oil companies and J.G. Boswell than Abdnor has.

Bos-well is a California agribusiness firm that will get $11 million in farm subsidies this year, Daschle said. By The Associated Press Tom Daschle, a U.S. Senate candidate, said Saturday that his opponent, Republican Sen. James Abdnor, is showing desperation by running what Daschle called a negative ad campaign. Daschle, a Democrat and South Dakota's congressman, said the advertisements, which have appeared on television and in newspapers, are Abdnor's attempt to take a short cut to election.

But an Abdnor aide, Mike Freeman, said the Abdnor camp is not desperate and that it is Daschle who is nervous because of the ads and commercials that tie him to actress Jane Fonda. A television commercial criticized Daschle fotfinviting Fonda to testify last year about the farm problem at a U.S. House hearing. She has warned people about eating red meat, one of South Dakota's biggest farm products, the Abdnor commercial said. A newspaper ad paid for by Abdnor said Fonda "seems to like Tom's liberal style.

She and her Hollywood friends have a strong agenda for the United States, and she believes Tom ni help see it through. "That's why just a month ago Jane Fonda paid $2,500 just to have dinner I i 11 Argus Leader photo by DEAN CURTIS Chris Malmin (right) and Lori Soderholm, of the Washington High School Mime Troupe, dance Saturday on Phillips Avenue. City celebrates rebirth of downtown with Phillips' reopening Cmj to oDDsBdleir fooftel o'ssdoe dozen years later, the mall was removed for about $555,000. The project isn't finished yet. Crews still have to install decorative lighting and colorful banners.

Tom Jacob-sen, a city planner involved in the project, said he thinks business will benefit from the new street. "In my opinion, the key to downtowns is activity," he said. About 250 people attended the ribbon-cutting ceremony Saturday morning. Harvey Nelson, 61, a Sioux Falls resident since 1946, said he is glad to see the street reopened. "I think it's great," he said.

"I always thought the mall was a waste of money." an office center. That's the kind of future expansion we're looking at. I think this is the end of phase one and the kickoff for phase two." Susan Scott, owner of Scott's Limited, a clothing store at 204 S. Phillips said the opening of Phillips Avenue has helped business downtown. "We've already seen an increase in traffic," she said.

"I think it's a tremendous boon to downtown. It will never be what it was 20 years ago, but that's not our point. It's a financial district, with locally-owned specialty shops." The pedestrian mall was installed at a cost of $500,000 to help downtown compete with shopping malls. A "This is really the heart of the city. We're getting more traffic.

So many people come in and say this is the first time they've been downtown in two or three years." O'Connor owns The Prairie Star, a store at 233 S. Phillips Ave. that offers American Indian art. As the Sioux Falls Municipal Band played in front of an abandoned downtown landmark, Shriver's Department Store, business owners and city officials talked about the new downtown and its future. "It's a different downtown," City Commissioner Loila Hunking said.

"It's not the retail center it was. It's a law center, a financial center and By JIM RASMUSSEN Argus Leader Staff Downtown merchants Saturday celebrated what they hope is the beginning of a new era as they joined city officials for the grand opening of Phillips Avenue. Speeches, music and a ribbon-cutting marked the official reopening of the street from 10th Street to 12th Street. The two blocks were converted to a pedestrian mall in 1974. This year, crews removed the mall, re-establishing an open street with 68 new parking spaces.

"I think it's exciting," Barb O'Connor, president of the Downtown Business Association, said. Consider awarding a $18,742 contract to Kriens Construction Co. for renovation of the Old Courthouse Museum clock. The contract includes repairing the clock faces and cleaning the clock mechanism. Consider awarding a $39,121 contract to W.M.

Construction for renovation of the Japanese Gardens in Terrace Park. The work is part of an agreement between the city and a citizens group for renovation of the gardens, which are in the southwest corner of the park. Solicit bids for cleaning and disposing of PCB-contaminated oil from one city electrical transformer and disposal of a second contaminated! transformer. PCBs, or polychlorinated biphen-yls, commonly were added to the lubricants used in electrical delivery equipment. The chemical was found to cause cancer in laboratory animals and its use now is discouraged.

The city was fined $2,000 in August by the federal Environmental Protection Agency for not properly storing PCB-contaminated transformers and other contaminated objects. By JAMES GRASS Argus Leader Staff The City Commission Monday will consider whether to approve issuing $20 million in economic development revenue bonds so a company can buy and renovate Sioux Falls' two Holiday Inn hotels. The commission meeting will begin at 9 a.m. in City Hall, 224 W. Ninth St.

The Landmark Hotel Corp. of Tope-ka, wants the city to authorize two bond sales, each for $10 million. Money from the sales would be used, along with money from Landmark, to buy the Holiday Inn City Centre, at 100 W. Eighth for $7.8 million and the Airport Holiday Inn for $4.5 million. Money from the bonds also would pay for $3.5 million in expansion and renovation on the City Centre and $3 million in renovation on the Airport Holiday Inn.

The commission only can authorize issuing the bonds. The city would not be financially responsible for them, Dave Knudson, Landmark's lawyer, said. In other action, the commission will: Observation balloon raises questions, early-risers' eyebrows into anti-matter, so not much is known about the tiny particles, Golden said. The unmanned balloon was 340 feet in diameter inflated and 550 feet long when stretched out on the ground deflated, a worker at Raven Industries in Sioux Falls said. The balloon was made in Sioux Falls, the worker said.

The gondola was 15 feet high, 5 feet wide and had a payload, tude balloon on a scientific experiment. The balloon, launched Friday evening from Ainsworth, part of an experiment by the University of New Mexico and NASA to gather antimatter particles and investigate how stars evolved and how they are changing, Bob Golden, an electrical engineering professor at the university in Albuquerque, N.M., said. There hasn't been much research including a computer, Golden said. A 12-member crew at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration launched the craft. The ground team included researchers from the God-dard Space Center in Maryland.

The balloon was expected to land today but scientists weren't sure where it would come to rest. Golden said it will take from three to 12 months to analyze the data gathered by the balloon. By The Associated Press The telephone at the air traffic control tower at Sioux Falls Regional Airport was ringing off the wall early Saturday with callers reporting a bright silver light in the predawn sky. There were so many calls that tower personnel began answering the telephone, "UFO Watch Center." But it wasn't an unidentified flying object. It was a 340-foot-tall high-alti Area briefing From staff and wire reports Ariz, lawmaker aids Daschle cause U.S.

Rep. Morris Udall, D- Saturday visited South Dakota to campaign for Tom jDaschle, the Democratic candidate for the U.S. Senate. Udall, chairman of the 1 House Interior and Insular Affairs Committee, said the Reagan administration is one I. Iof the most anti-environment administrations in U.S.

his- torv- I At a Sioux Falls news con- IS I ii i climbing technique during a class at the park, when equipment he was using for support gave way, Dave Fischer, the park's manager, said. The man was taken by ambulance to the hospital. College set for homecoming week The theme of this year's Sioux Falls College homecoming is Home for the Holidays. Each day of homecoming week has been declared a certain holiday, such as St. Valentine's Day and Easter.

The week-long festivities begin at 6:15 p.m. Monday in the Salsbury Student Union with a competition patterned after television's The Newlywed Game. Tuesday will feature a chapel service at 10 a.m. in the Jeschke Fine Arts Center Auditorium, and a concert at 7:30 p.m. in the Coliseum.

Wednesday highlights include a dinner theater of three one-act plays at 6:30 p.m. in the Salsbury Student Union. The king and queen will be crowned at 7:30 p.m. in the Jeschke Fine Arts Center. A hay ride, bonfire and pep rally will follow the crowning ceremony.

The homecoming dance will be at 9 p.m. Friday at the Westward Ho County Club. Saturday is kicked off with royalty's and parent's day at 9:30 a.m. in the Salsbury Student Union. Graduates from 1961 and 1962 will gather for their 25-year reunion at 10:30 a.m.

in the Jeschke Fine Arts Center Green Room. Sioux Falls College plays Black Hills State at 1:30 p.m. Sunday concludes the celebration with a joint service between Sioux Falls College and First Baptist Church. Morris Udall ierence, uaan saia it would be a big loss to the nation if the administration sells public lands and other Argus Leader photo by DEAN CURTIS assets that future generations will need just to make the federal budget look good. Daschle, South Dakota's congressman, is running against Sen.

James Abdnor, Daschle and Udall also planned to attend campaign events in Vermillion and Aberdeen. Rock climber fair after fall in park A man was listed in fair condition Saturday at McKennan Hospital after he fell from a cliff at Palisade State Park near Garretson. The man, whose name was not released pending notification of relatives, was demonstrating rock- Shining band Horns in this band from Sartell, blared and glared in the sun Saturday in the field competition of the 36th annual Tri-State Band Festival in Luverne, Minn. Results for area bands in the parade division: Brandon Valley High School, sec ond place, Class O'Gorman High School, third, Lincoln High School, first, AA. In the field competition: Dell Rapids, second, Class O'Gorman, third, Lincoln, first, AA.

Lincoln also won overall sweepstakes trophy..