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nouns South Dakota Digest 3 Classified 5-12 Argus Leader, Sioux Falls, S.D. Friday, Aug. 25, 1989 sffimpiiF Briefly back 'to low yidter may a poQSoii Sheriff: We'll take better care security status, which has allowed him to go on supervised outings outside the prison. Wednesday, Mulder's wife, Gwen Mulder, 31, of Steen, said Mulder fathered a child while he was a maximum-security inmate at the prison. They sneaked away while at a prison banquet, she said.

Mulder refused to respond when asked about the incident Thursday. $10,000 fine. A dispositional conference was set for Sept. 1. No bond was set because he is in custody at the prison.

Tuesday, Mulder slipped aurav frnm turn South Dakota Jonn Walter prison em- Mulder ployees while on work detail outside the prison. He was transferred to the penitentiary in lj)82. Since February, he has been on medium- t) 1 1 lnat place is running loose at the seams," Schwiesow said of the prison. "I'd like to see him come back. John and I have covered a lot of miles together during this apologize Jim Schwiesow said Thursday.

Mulder, 28, of Alton, Iowa, likely will return to his native state after facing charges for his escape in Minnehaha County Circuit Court. Warden Walt Leapley says he will ask Iowa corrections officials to take Mulder back after his case is resolved. Mulder made his initial appearance Thursday in Magistrate Court on a complaint charging him with escape, which carries a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison and a 3 jt VW ft 5 V. wiwVW 7.j Mulder is serving a life sentence for the 1976 murder of an Iowa woman, who was sleeping when she was shot' through the heart. Mulder, then 14, tried to shoot her husband, but the gun jammed.

The two prison employees who accompanied Mulder when he escaped have been suspended with pay by Leapley pending a disciplinary hearing Wednesday. Gov. George Mickelson has ordered Secretary of Corrections Lynne DeLano to investigate the escape and have her report and recommendations to him by Monday. Services cut weighed. 2C The alliance represents more than 400 families of mentally ill people in the state.

"We've seen people we dearly love become totally different persons," Yocum said. During Wollmann's time in the Human Services Center, he was put into restraints and in seclusion, Podhradsky said. "I don't think he was mistreated," he said Thursday. "When I looked at that clinical file, there was no evidence he was mistreated." Podhradsky said the staff at the Yankton facility is dedicated to helping patients. "I wasn't going to hang them out to dry," he said.

"What happens consistently is nobody ever wants to hang anybody out to dry," Yocum said. Yocum and other alliance members said the center frequently fails to use medication, even though the same medication is being given successfully to mentally ill peoplein other states. Podhradsky said he's working on legislative proposals in that area. "I'm trying to find something not totally objectionable to people who oppose forced medication," he said. He promised to show any proposed bills to the alliance well before the next legislative session.

Alliance members have an opportunity to help the public understand more about mental illness, Podhradsky said. 7'' By TODD NELSON Argus Leadef Staff At least one Iowa official would welcome the return of convicted murderer John Walter Mulder, who escaped for two hours this week from the South Dakota State Penitentiary. "I want him back because I want him in maximum security where he belongs, because I don't want him cavorting around with the general public as he has been there," Sioux County (Iowa) Sheriff Outside cut if 5 1FS XI it i 0p, perena Schroeder, 12 gets her by friend Joe Buchholz, 14, on 1 I I A 1 wasn't trying to be insensitive' By TERRY WOSTER Argus Leader Staff PIERRE State Human Services Secretary Bill Podhradsky apologized Thursday for comments he made about a mental patient facing murder, charges, then asked an advocacy group to help people understand mental illness. Podhradsky had characterized patient James V. Wollmann as "a heck of a lot of trouble" after Wollmann said last week he'd been mistreated at the Human Service Center in Yankton.

Wollmann, who walked away from, a group outing in June, is charged in the shotgun deaths of a Yankton woman and her 12-year-old daughter. "I wasn't trying to be insensitive," Podhradsky told members of the state Alliance for the Mentally 111 at a meeting in Pierre. "If I offended you, I apologize. In fact, James Wollmann was a lot of trouble." The alliance had requested the meeting with Podhradsky. The group considered Podhrad-sky's remarks an attack on a person with an illness, President Donna Yocum of Brookings said.

"We felt it showed a lack of understanding of what it means to be seriously mentally ill," she told Podhradsky. "When a person is acutely mentally ill, he does things he wouldn't normally do. That doesn't make bad people; it makes sick people." Police still looking for rape suspects Police continued the search Thursday for two men involved in a rape reported Wednesday afternoon in southwest Sioux Falls. A woman reported at 3:20 p.m. Wednesday that she had been raped in a wooded area by Drake Springs pool.

Police have no suspects, Capt. Mark Thorstenson said. One of the assailant was described as a white male in his mid-20s with light-colored hair and a full beard. He was about 5 feet 8 inches tall with a medium build and was wearing camouflage Army pants and a red and black flannel shirt. The second was described as a dark-skinned male with black hair.

He was wearing jeans, a black T-shirt and some kind of black leather mask. Authorities seize 13 marijuana plants Police confiscated 13 marijuana plants Wednesday afternoon from a Sioux Falls residence. No arrests have been made, but an investigation is continuing, Sgt. David Kull said. Police had obtained a search warrant for the 1114 N.

Prairie Ave. residence. They had received information that led them to the address, Kull said. City plans to move airport fire station The city fire station at the Sioux Falls Regional Airport may be moved across the runway to the department's training center, an official said Wednesday. The department currently shares the station with the Air National Guard and the Airport Authority, but it's getting too crowded, Fire Chief Kirk Anderson said.

The crash, fire, rescue vehicles maintained at the fire station are used in case of an airplane crash. The Air Guard would keep its equipment at the current station. The Airport Authority and fire department personnel would move to the training center, which also would remain in the building. Fire captain named new battalion chief Capt. Bob Bray, a 17-year-veteran of the Sioux Falls Fire Department, has been promoted to battalion chief, Fire Chief Kirk Anderson said Wednesday.

He replaces Anderson, who was promoted to fire chief after former Chief Randy Clark was killed in a boating accident Aug. 5. Bray has been a captain since 1981. Means heckled by Navajos during rally Amid shouts of "Russell go home," Indian activist Russell Means on Thursday led about 35 marchers through Window Rock, to a rally in front of the Tribal Court building to show what he called tribal solidarity. However, most of the marchers were Means' Lakota Sioux supporters from South Dakota and were outnumbered by about 100 Navajos who stood in the background and yelled for Means to stay out of Navajo tribal concerns.

Means, a former leader of the American Indian Movement, currently lives on the Navajo Reservation and is married to a Navajo woman. Means had been scheduled for a hearing in Navajo Tribal Court on Thursday on charges from an incident July 5 during which he pinned Bureau of Indian Affairs Area Director James Stevens to the floor in what he said was an attempt to make a citizen's arrest. Two represent S.D. at literacy congress Judy Sawyer of Pringle and Lenriart Anderson of Redfield will represent South Dakota at the National Adult Literacy Congress in Washington D.C next month. The event is Sept.

9-11. Two adult literacy students from each state, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico will discuss the problem and make recommendations on how in can be eliminated. Yesterday On this date in 1804. Lewis and Clark took nine men and walked six miles from the Missouri River to visit Spirit Mound near Vermillion Tn. dians believed the mound was haunted, but the explorers found no evidence of spirits.

Minister: All teens face same problems think this guy knew these guys were lawyers or prosecutors." Lebeau is in the Minnehaha County Jail on $50,000 cash bond. Lebeau has been charged with two counts of aggravated assault, a Class III felony carrying a maximum penalty of 15 years in state prison and a $15,000 fine. He also is charged with possession of a firearm while intoxicated and carrying a concealed weapon. Class. I misdemeanor charges are punishable by a maximum of a year in jail and a $1,000 fine.

Argus Leader photo by DIANE DULTMEIER hair cut Thursday 22nd Street. They said they did it outside so the hair a sidewalk along would blow away and they wouldn't have to clean up. Sailor indicted on gun charges By TODD NELSON Argus Leader yart A Minnesota man accused this 'week sf pulling a Magnum on two Minnehaha County prosecutors at a downtown Sioux Falls bar faces arraignment today onfour criminal counts. Jason Duane Lebeau, 23, of Wyoming, was indicted Thursday by a grand jury. Lebeau.

on leave from the Naw. pointed the gun at deputy state's attorneys MarK Keedstrom and Donald Hanson about 9 p.m. Crash near Tea By VALOREE ARMSTRONG Argus Leader Staff There's good news and bad news where the teen-agers of Sioux Falls are concerned, youth minister Dawson McAllister said Thursday. Compared with Los Angeles, Sioux Falls has many strong homes and strong churches to reach out to troubled youth, he said. That's the ood news.

"The bad news is there can be an attitude that it can't happen here," McAllister said of the larger-scale problems elsewhere. To make sure that doesn't happen, 200 people from about 10 Sioux Falls denominations listened as McAllister gave instructions on how to fight "the war for the mind of the American teen-ager." Low self-esteem, promiscuity, drugs and suicidal tendencies all threaten Louis Avs. New Interchanges start construction earlier 2Under consideration Existing Argus Leader graptiic by JOEL BROWN 1-90 I Benson Rd.fn 1-29 I 1229 Russell St. I RlceSt.Q Al2thSt. 10th St.

A I Tst I 26th A41stSt. ijjj st- to take them over, he said. McAllister, from Shepherd Ministries in Irving, Texas, spoke to the group at First Baptist Church, 22nd Street and Covell Avenue. Here's the group's list of tactics that it came up with Thursday night for the "war" in Sioux Falls: Prayer. Get 500 people in the city to pray five minutes a day for the youth ministry here.

"We're not even going to walk across the street and be successful without prayer," McAllister said. Aggressive evangelism. Three-fourths of youth would respond positively to the Gospel if it was shared in a culturally relevant way. Recruit more people to minister, especially college students. Begin an adoptive parents program.

3 exits approved By TERRY WOSTER Argus Leader Staff PIERRE The state Transportation Commission approved three new interstate exits for Sioux Falls after city officials Thursday called the project vital to future economic growth. "It's imperative to the economic welfare of South Dakota that we make provisions for growth in this area and for movement of goods in and out," Mayor Jack White told the commission in Pierre. "We don't come here often, but we're in a position where we could stymie growth unless improvements are made." Gov. George Mickelson joined White and City Commissioner Bob Jamison to pitch the city's case. On a 6-1 vote the transportation board decided to: Place on its 1991 construction schedule a $2.6 million interchange at Interstate 229 and Benson Road.

Construction could begin then as early as next fall, Transportation Secretary Richard Howard said. Move a proposed interchange at Louise Avenue and 1-229 ahead a year, from the fiscal 1994 con-ExltsSee2C I Wednesday outside After Five, 201 E. 10th said Dave Nelson, Minnehaha County state's attorney. The incident occurred after a bachelor party at the bar for Hanson, who is to be married this weekend. Nelson and most of the others had left before it happened.

"Apparently, there was some conversation between (Lebeau) and the group who was there," Nelson said. "During the course of the conversation, he pulled a gun and pointed it at these guys. I don't 0 A a tSSa SYSr Sft Checlks 01 Tea The and a van One person was wreckage of a car about 10:30 Thursday night west killed; four others were injured. Details. 1 A.