Argus-Leader from Sioux Falls, South Dakota • Page 1

'1 Graham crusade adds music to message Salon owner juices up her business by adding healthy drinks, sandwiches Business 6D 1 Newsboys, Michael W. Smith among those to join evangelist in Sioux Falls 1B Today Scattered T-storms High 81 Low 66 Full report, 2A. Pro golfers win cash for Sioux Falls charity Sports 1C TUESDAY, JULY 22, 1997 SIOUX FALLS. SOUTH DAKOTA 50 CENTS L8Qdksnr Indians fear Blood Run developers will desecrate burial sites I L. TT I llStoux Falls rJz llTlU'n I Luverne i 3ig d.

IN S.D.yQai I iQWA "As long as it remained in private hands, there was no chance," said Dennis McFarland of Harrisburg, a longtime advocate for preserving the site. "If something wasn't done when it was, there would be nothing but housing lots out there in five or 10 years." A National Park Service study of the site and its future will solicit comments from everyone interested, including tribal members, said Doug Hofer, South Dakota's parks director. Public meetings could be held as early as this fall or winter. McFarland and Hofer said they think a historic park can be developed in a way that's sensitive to Indian tradition. So far, it's been impossible to find Indians who want to be involved, McFarland said.

"The day somebody talks about neon lights or something like that is the day I'm gone," said McFarland. "The reason I'm interested is more to use that site to understand what happened in this area and tourist attraction. "I look at the plan and think, 'Wait a said Leonard Bruguier, director of the Institute of American Indian Studies at the University of South Dakota in Vermillion. 4 "I consider the site almost a cemetery, and my first reaction is just to get mad that people should be so calloused to make it a commercial site." But advocates of the plan say that without the Sioux Falls groups' purchase of the land, the By GRANT GROSS Argus Leader Stat! HARRISBURG An American Indian educator says he's uncomfortable with the emphasis Blood Run developers have placed on making money from visitors to the ancient village. The Sioux Falls Area Chamber of Commerce and Forward Sioux Falls purchased 200 acres of the former Indian village earlier this month.

They plan to preserve the village and its burial sites and turn it into an education center mi Linda Smith Argus Leader historical village would have been lost to urban development. 411 in the past." Historians believe Blood Run, which straddles the Big Sioux River between Lincoln County and Lyon County, Iowa, was a major trading village between 1300 and 1750 for the Oneota culture, including the Omaha, Ioway, Oto and Yankton Sioux tribes. The village, which covered 1,260 acres, once held nearly 300 mounds used as lodges, storage and burial sites. Only 75 remain Blood run See 3A DNA testing buoys mom's belief that newborn was kidnapped By JENNIFER GERRIETTS Argus Leader Staff Genetic test results from an infant's grave in Worthington, might support a Sioux Falls woman's belief that her baby was taken from her at birth 35 years ago. Through DNA testing, Marlys Thomas learned earlier this year 'I used poor ex-sheriff says after being sentenced 1 1 r-i AN- laundering, fraud Hawkey won't do time in Yankton By JEFF EWOLDT Argus Leader Staff Contrary to his wishes, Les Hawkey will not be allowed to serve his 41-month prison sentence at the Federal Prison Camp in Yankton.

U.S. Attorney Karen Schreier said Monday that the former Minnehaha County sheriff will be sent to a federal prison in another state "for his own safety." When Hawkey was sentenced Monday afternoon for money laundering and mail fraud, lawyers on both sides said they were worried that other inmates would retaliate against him because he is a former law officer. Schreier said there are fears that Hawkey would be at greater risk in Yankton because more inmates at the prison camp are familiar with him. Yankton is about 80 miles southwest of Sioux Falls. But Hawkey's lawyer, Tom Wilka, said prison grapevines throughout the country would inform other inmates of Hawkey's career in law enforcement.

If Hawkey were incarcerated at Yankton, his family wouldn't have to drive hundreds of miles to visit him, Wilka told U.S. District Judge Lawrence Piersol. A commission from the federal Bureau of Prisons, not the judge, will decide where Hawkey serves his sentence, said Lyle Swenson, head of the U.S. Marshal Service in Sioux Falls. Swenson speculated that Hawkey will be sent to a "very minimum-security" facility with other so-called white-collar criminals.

Even there, however, he might be at risk. If Hawkey needs special protection, segregating him from the general prison population is an option, Swenson said. But that isn't expected to happen. "They're treated just like any other prisoner," Schreier said of former law officers who are incarcerated. Concerns about Hawkey's health might alone determine where he is sent, Swenson said.

Because of his heart condition, the former sheriff could be sent to the federal prison in Springfield, which has a medical facility. By JEFF EWOLDT Argus Leader Staff Vowing to someday restore his credibility with the people of Minnehaha County, former Sheriff Les Hawkey was sentenced Monday to nearly 3'j years in federal prison for money laundering and mail fraud. Hawkey, 59, remains free until Aug. 18, when he will surrender to the U.S. Marshal Service at U.S.

District Judge Lawrence Piersol's orders. After the 90-minute sentencing, Hawkey hugged his wife, Dixie, outside the courtroom and met with other family members, some of whom were in tears. A swarm of reporters gathered around him to ask his reaction as he left the federal building in downtown Sioux Falls. The 41-month sentence was at the lower end of the mandatory sentencing guidelines, he said, "so we're fortunate there." Asked if he was nervous about going to prison, he responded, "Who wouldn't be?" "It's not going to be a picnic, but I'm going to live through it." A jury convicted the five-term sheriff in April on 38 of 40 charges, which carried maximum penalties ranging from three to 30 years each. More than half of the offenses involved annual concerts he organized in the early 1990s.

The events were promoted as fundraisers for youth programs and other charities. Some of the money much of which was collected through the mail did go to charity. But prosecutors charged that Hawkey borrowed and spent more than $100,000 from the Hawkey time line 1962: Hawkey is hired by the Sioux Falls Police Department. 1972: Hawkey, a Republican, loses the election for Minnehaha County sheriff to Democrat Gene Gruhlke. 1974: Hawkey is appointed sheriff by county commissioners to replace Gruhlke, who resigned.

Later the same year, Hawkey is elected to the position. 1978: Hawkey is re-elected, beating Mike Stowsand. 1982: Hawkey is unopposed for re-election and serves another term. Greg Latza Argus Leader Former Minnehaha County Sheriff Les Hawkey and his wife, Dixie, leave the federal courthouse Monday after Hawkey was sentenced to 41 months in federal prison for money laundering and mail fraud. to prison for money .1 r.

XV with rare cruise up the rigging. "But it's something you overcome. If someone were shooting a cannonball at me, it would make it a lot harder to do." Launched on Oct. 21, 1797, as one of the Navy's first warships. Old Ironsides was undefeated in 30 engagements.

Its victory over the HMS Guerriere in 1812 signaled America's arrival as a naval power. A 3'ryear effort to restore the ship cost $12 million. Modern sailcloth and computers aided the crew Monday, who worked in dress whites as officers in costume shouted orders. The Constitution originally carried 36 sails and could reach a top speed of 13 knots under its full set. Residents react Les Hawkey was sentenced to 41 months in prison Monday, but many people in Minnehaha County still believe the ex-sheriff is a good man who simply made a big mistake.

Story: Page 3A concert accounts for personal purchases, such as equipment for his private auto business. He readily admitted that he didn't tell anyone about the loans and paid no interest. In his own defense, he testified he paid all of the money back. Since the charges first surfaced, Hawkey has asserted that he had been the victim of a conspiracy. He elaborated on that belief after receiving his sentence.

"If I wasn't targeted, there's not one offense that would have been pursued," he said, adding that an unnamed individual "sicced" the federal government on him because that person wanted his job. He pledged to reveal that person's name in the future. "We'll put it all in writing," he said. "The public wants to know. I'm going to write the story up and it'll be published." As he did at his trial.

Hawkey denied doing anything wrong. "I used poor judgment in handling the money," he told Piersol. "There was never any intent to deprive anybody of any money, nor do I believe anybody was deprived of any money." While invoking the memory of his late father, former Sioux Hawkey See 3A 1986: Hawkey is re-elected, beating Bob Steenholdt. 1990: Hawkey wins a fifth term, beating Steenholdt again. 1994: Federal investigation begins.

Hawkey beats four challengers and is re-elected sheriff. 1996: Hawkey is indicted by a federal grand jury and suspended by Gov. Bill Janklow. April 1 997: Hawkey is convicted in U.S. District Court of 38 counts and resigns.

July 1 997: Hawkey is sentenced to 41 months in prison. Warship marks By RICHARD LORANT Associated Press ABOARD THE USS CONSTITUTION Its masts and six billowing white sails towering above the New England waters it once protected, the oak warship nicknamed 'Old Ironsides' set out Monday under its own power for the first time in 116 years. An estimated 100,000 people on land and sea watched as the USS Constitution left its temporary anchorage at Marblehead, on a one-hour voyage commemorating its 200th anniversary. The ship normally is docked at Boston's Charlestown Navy Yard, where it has been a floating museum for generations. that the baby buried in the grave marked with her daughter's name Mary Agnes Gross was not her daughter.

Hospital officials told 1I1UI1I03 U1C Kill TU died on the day Marys Tnomas she was born, June 12, 1962. Thomas believes the child was put up for adoption. Thinking that Mary Agnes' grave might have been switched with the infant buried next to her, that child's mother agreed to offer a blood sample for a DNA test. Those results, released Monday, indicate that the excavated remains are not the daughter of Margaret Dickey of Worthington. Dickey's baby, Pamela Rae, died within hours of Mary Agnes.

The headstones for the two infants are next to each other in St. Mary's Cemetery in Worthington. "I knew it wasn't hers," Thomas said. "I knew all the time that it couldn't have been Mrs. Dickey's daughter." Dickey did not return a message Monday seeking her comment.

Conflicting memories and medical records have led Thomas this far in trying to find out what happened to her daughter. Thomas said she doesn't know what her next step will be. "I'm not leaving this go. It's been awful hard on me, but from the very start I had a mother's instinct that something was not right," Thomas said. Thomas' lawyer, Scott Heide-priem of Sioux Falls, said Monday's results lead him to believe that either the child is buried elsewhere or she didn't die.

"Every step along the way where we can eliminate another possibility is positive in this case. But I'm not sure we're any closer to an answer," Heidepriem said. Associated Press The Blue Angels fly over the USS Constitution as the warship sails off the coast of Marblehead, on Monday. The voyage celebrated the 200th birthday of the frigate. lt fey -TnV Greg Latza Argus Leader Les Hawkey discusses his sentencing with reporters.

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