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Argus Leader, Sioux Falls, South Dakota, Saturday, June 1, 1996 CLASSIFIEDS HOW TO REACH US If you have a question or news tip concerning the features section, call Life editor Jon Walker at 331-2206 or Venture editor Bob Keyes at 331-2317. BEGIN ON PAGE 5 Emick takes the heat in Fox show 1LD I i -4 Show debuts Monday WHAT: Pilot television show "LA Firefighters." WHEN: 8 p.m. Monday. CHANNEL: Fox's KTTW. As crew members prepare for the next shot, the actors lounge in other parts of the hangar, gulping from bottles of water that are constant companions between scenes.

Lounge may not be the right word, considering the actors' cumbersome costumes, with oxygen tanks on their backs. "I'd estimate I have about 50, maybe 60 pounds of gear on," explains Emick, who won a Tony Award as Joe Hardy in "Damn Yankees" on Broadway. "It's all insulated, so you're very warm. Then when you take it off, you're very cold, so you gotta worry about catching pneumonia. "So I just keep it on and sweat it out.

Day before yesterday, I lost seven pounds." Emick believes the time is ripe for a firefighter series, reasoning, "It's about the "LA. Firefighters" See 3B By BOB THOMAS Associated Press LOS ANGELES Flames reach from the floor to the ceiling of the paint store, and cans begin to explode in the intense heat "Everybody out! Now! the leader yells, and four firefighters in protective gear race toward the exit as the flames begin to engulf the room. "Cut!" the director commands over the loudspeaker, and the flames obey, flickering down as a gas supply is shut off. All that is left is a blackened movie set and the odor of acrid smoke. Fortunately, everyone is breathing through masks, A portion of an unused airplane hangar at the Van Nuys Airport in the San Fernando Valley is the site for indoor shooting of "L.A.

Firefighters," a new Fox network series that debuts Monday. The outdoor scenes are filmed all over Los Angeles County. The one-hour action series is the creation of Gordon Greisman; the leading actors are Carlton Wilborn, Alexandra Hedison, Christine Elise, Jarrod Emick, Brian Leckner and Michael Gallagher. Emick is an Oral native, who attended South Dakota State University where he appeared in several shows. Dowlas i 1 1 fi I -A- 3 Sis i 017 Cancer kills icon of dropouts at 75 By DENNIS ANDERSON Associated Press OS ANGELES Drop by odorless, colorless drop, Timothy Leary splashed into the American consciousness in the 1960s like some crazed wizard.

He was to LSD what Barnum Bailey were to circuses, and on his advice, thousands of young Americans turned on, tuned in and dropped out. The foremost prophet and proselytizer of LSD and other psychedelia, Leary was working on a book about Leary used Web site to end. 3B dying when he succumbed to prostate cancer Friday. He was 75. At long last, the Moody Blues' song, "Legend of a Mind," made literal sense: "Timothy Leary's dead.

Oh, no no no. He's outside, looking in." It was quite a trip. From Harvard professor to outlaw, Leary was damned, jailed and chased by the authorities after the legal drug that he helped popularize lysergic acid dyeth-lamide became illegal. In his later years, hardly mellowed, he was followed by a new generation of inner space travelers on the internet His ashes are on schedule to be blasted into outer space. He died not long after midnight in the Beverly Hills home where in his final years he played host to a stream of visitors who listened to him toss out ideas on life, death and the mind.

Among those present when he died were friend and Spin magazine publisher Bob Guccione stepson Zachary and longtime friend Carol Rosin. "I had my finger on the pulse on his neck when he died," Rosin said. "What an experience to have that incredible mind and soul leave that body." In his living, he inspired reverence from rock musicians and acolytes of drugs as a way to freedom, and scorn from the academic community that he shed like an old, constraining skin. Timothy Leary is shown at the Art Rock Gallery in San Francisco on Aug. Jarrod Emick plays a firefighter in a Fox pilot that debuts Monday.

Associated Press 10, 1995. He died Friday. drop out." It was a phrase, and a mind-set, that would polarize two generations the flower children of the 1960s and their parents. Leary never gave up on the mind-expanding potential of drugs, even in a time when many of his fellow travelers had pulled off the psychedelic road. "We know a heck of a lot more in 1996 about negative potential for recreational drug use," noted Dennis McNally, publicist for the Grateful Dead and author of a book about Kerouac.

"But you can't judge the choices for 1960 in light of 1996." bye to KELO KELO at this point than it means to anybody else. It starts bringing them into line with where a lot of television stations are in 1996," Claycomb said. No one at the other stations is gloating the KELO shake-up, Claycomb said. "What's to gloat about? These people lost their jobs." Cable adds health channel After a few weeks of discussion, Sioux Falls Cable has decided to add America's Health Network to its basic cable package. The new station, on channel 53, went on air late Friday afternoon.

America's Health Network is designed health-conscious viewers. It has 16 hours of live programming daily, with expertise and perspectives provided by Mayo Clinic specialists. Bob Keyes compiles Media Watch. It runs periodically In the Life section. mmmmmimmmtmtKimmmmmMmmmiuiuummm 2) MICHAEL J.

McMANUS RELIGION AND ETHICS Enrichment more creative than therapy FORT WORTH, Texas June is America's favorite time to get married. On the surface, it is a happy time. But it is also a time of fear. For every bride and groom know that marriage is risky. Half of new marriages fail, plus 60 percent of second marriages.

The inescapable conclusion is that like other living things, marriages need care and attention. An entire industry has sprung up to help called "marriage therapy." In the 1960s there were only a few hundred therapists. Today there are 80,000. Sadly, many are incompetent. I Fortunately, mere are better an- swers.

-i One of the most creative is called "marriage enrichment." Its goal is to equip husband and wife with the communication skills to hold marriage together by their own actions. Unlike therapy, the basic cpst is free. The teachers are volunteers, mentoring couples willing to share how they built their own successful marriages. Last week in Fort Worth, 700 attended a Marriage Enrichment Conference. Effective couple communication on a marital issue is a three-step process, said leaders Genie and Preston Dyer, of Baylor University.

First, is a thoughtful awareness of the issue. Second, is a "forgotten part of communica- tion listening, which is more important than being able well," said Preston. Third, is speaking in a way the listener will understand. To have a thoughtful awareness, they suggested a person take notes on his or her point of view involving five elements, like the five fingers of a hand. Begin with your senses what you heard or saw.

Next are your feelings, which are not open to judgment. They are amoral such as anger or frustration and should be shared. Then your wants must be considered along with thoughts or interpretations. Finally, consider behavior or actions. Obviously, a woman's point of view is as important as a man's.

As Paul wrote: "Submit to one another out of reverence for Christ." The Association of Marriage Enrichment involved 13,000 couples last year who attended either a weekend retreat or monthly meetings where they learn to practice these skills. During these sessions and at the convention couples stand and share openly. Ron, who had been separated from his wife, Linda, rose in the last session, and courageously told her, "Even though we have had a tremendously rocky five years of marriage I want you to know that I have loved you from me beginning. I love you now and hope this conference is a step in our bonding process." She replied, "Thank you for not running away from me when I run away from you." Later he said, "My learning here was tremendous. It was very fulfilling." A marriage was saved.

To learn of ACME couples near you, call 1-800-634-8325. Michael McManus is a national columnist at 9500 Michael's Court, Bethesda, Md. 20817. carl "4 Hot tips for the weekend DROP A LINE Get the gear cleaned up for the Sioux Falls Morning Optimist Club's Ninth Annual Fishing Derby at Covell Lake. Registration begins at 11:30 a.m.

Sunday, with the fishing starting at 12:30. The derby is free for kids of all ages. KSFY adds weather forecaster; Floyd says From there, he earned a master's degree at Washington State University and a doctorate in psychology from the University of California at Berkeley before running off to live in Morocco after the suicide of his first of five wives. It was in 1959 that Leary joined the Harvard faculty as a psychology lecturer. There, he met professor Richard Alpert, who later changed his name to Baba Ram Dass, and began a series of controlled experiments with psychedelic drugs.

It was LSD, the relatively new product of a Swiss laboratory, that ignited their imaginations and inspired Leary's most famous aphorism: "Turn on, tune in, with the staff reductions already announced by KELO's new owners. To date, 13 people have been fired, said Deb McDermott of Young Broadcasting. She denied earlier reports that as many as 23 people have been let go: "We've downsized the 13 people and that was all. There have been no other changes." Gary Bolton, KDLT's general manager, said those changes may be enough to help competitors chip away at KELO's dominance. "Downsizing in the staff has to have an effect on morale in general and really draws the eyes in the community back to that station," he said.

"But our plans are continue to improve. Whether there was new ownership situation in the market or not, clearly this market has become more competitive in the last four months." Tom Claycomb, KSFY's news director, said essentially the same thing. "The ownership change means more to Family Stories at 2:30 p.m. Saturday, and Slices of Americana at 7 Saturday. Tickets cost $5 per session or $10 for all three, and tickets for children under 12 are half price.

fj On the tube Kids can learn about creatures those from exotic lands and those in their own backyards from a new series that will air at 5:30 p.m. Mondays on South Dakota Public Television. "Kratts' Creatures," follows the adventures of brothers Martin and Chris Kratt as they swim with sharks in the Caribbean, camp with baboons in Africa, and search at at the for He was a peculiarly American-style prophet with a flair for show business, said Todd Gitlin, a New York University professor who wrote "The Sixties: Years of Hope, Days of Rage." "He was like P.T. Barnum, except he was his own show," Gitlin said in a telephone interview. "It's as if he'd been sent from central casting to put a mirror in front of America." Leary was born the son of a dentist and schoolteacher in Springfield, in 1920.

He went on to attend West Point, enlist in the Army and earn an undergraduate psychology degree at the University of Alabama. MEDIA WATCH his honor Friday afternoon. The station's new owner, Young Broadcasting assumed control earlier in the day. After being presented with a silver plate, Floyd gave a brief and unplanned speech. "We know you will be successful, because you always have been," he told the staff.

"You've got heart and spirit You're the best." Floyd's father, Joe L. Floyd, started the station in 1953. Meanwhile, KELO's competitors have begun planning strategies to knock the top-rated news station down a notch. At KDLT and KSFY, those strategies amount to more aggressive promotion and programming. Officials at both stations acknowledge their task has probably been made easier Siouxland Libraries kicks off its summer reading program with "Tales to Tell," a 45 minute program of stories and tales by storyteller Gil Johnsson.The program will be presented three times on Wednesday: at 10:30 a.m.

at the Caille branch library, at 1 p.m. at the it Rnnnincr hranrh lihrarv. and at 3:30 p.m. at the main branch library. A Storytelling Festival will be next Friday and Saturday, June 7-8, at the Jeschke Fine Arts Center at the University of Sioux Falls.

The lineup includes Scary Stories at 7 p.m. Friday, to By BOB KEYES Argus Leader Staff KSFY's weather crew will get a boost beginning Monday, when North Dakotan Patrick Griesgraber joins the team as a full-time forecaster. A recent college graduate, Griesgraber is a certified meteorologist with a background in broadcasting. Since 1993, he's worked at the Regional Weather Information Center in Grand Forks, N.D. During that time, he also forecast the weather at KFME-TV jn Fargo and at KKXL-AM radio in Grand Forks.

Griesgraber graduated in May from the University of North Dakota with a bachelor of science degree in meteorological studies. Floyd says goodbye Midcontinent Media Inc. President Joe H. Floyd said an emotional goodbye to the KELO-TV staff during a surprise party in and beyond HEAR A STORY There will be several storytelling per-formances around town in the next week. "Adventures with Grandpa," by storyteller George Nelsen, will be at 2 p.m.

Sunday at The Inn on Westport at 4000 S. Westport Ave. The event is free. r- for Tasmanian Tigers in Australia. A teenage nature enthusiast keeps in touch with the brothers via video and helps viewers make the connections between the exotic creature kingdom and the backyard.

Tomorrow Benefit planned: Paul Van Vooren is struggling with VHL, a rare genetic disorder. OUR NUMBER'S OUT 605-331-2262 Call our hot line 24 hours a day for entertainment tips.