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Argus Leader Section Wool winner USD student gets 1st place in national competition, will represent group for year. 2B Celebrations Obituaries Opinion OUXMMPIRE 8-9 10 12-13 Sunday Feb. 8, 2004 Assistant managing editor: Patrick Lalley 331-2291 plalleyargusleader.com; Assistant city editor: Kyle Heim 331-2301 kheimargusleader.com argusleadercom Stan Fata' IWab tit Group allegedly-used threats, misinformation 20A04 Other lawmakers questioned the way the group framed issues involving the emergency powers law and criticized it for including home telephone numbers of legislators on mailings. Ray Lauten- Affairs Committee members criticized the officials of the South Dakota Gun Owners. "We count on lobbyists to get us good information," Republican Rep.

Chris Madsen said. He said the gun A m. i rv Chris Madsen BY TERRY WOSTER twostermidco.net PIERRE Several angry legislators on a House committee told leaders of a state gun-rights group on Saturday they had lost credibility through inaccurate information and threatening lobbying tactics. The outbursts punctuated a hearing on bills dealing with emergency powers of the governor in times of disaster or crisis. During the two-hour meeting, several House State South Dakota Legislature 'MORE online For legislative stories, log on to www.argus leader.com schlager, executive director of Gun Owners, sat silently through much of the outburst He was accompanied by Zach Lautenschlager, the organization's communications director.

After the meeting, the two men denied they'd used improper tactics or inaccurate information. See GUNS, page 5B group information was inaccurate and "no more than carefully crafted propaganda to play on the concerns of people." Madsen, who lived, in Spearfish when he was elected in 2002 but has since moved to Sioux Falls, said he planned to vote against the group's bill, "not as a vote against freedom; if a vote against you." DOW MEYER AP Ray Lautenschlager and Zach Lautenschlager, lobbyists for South Dakota Gun Owners, sit quietly at the State Capitol In Pierre as members of the House State Affairs Committee chastise them Saturday for allegedly using lies and threats In their lobbying activities. 2004 SIOUX EMPIRE BOAT AND MARINE PRODUCT SHOW Dealers lure in dreamers KELO sued over UPN contract Snow can't deter anglers wishing it were summer il- i I I w' A k- 4 PHOTOS BY DAVE EQQEN FOR THE ARGUS LEADER Joey Waldner walks out of the front hold of a $83,000, 26-foot Sea Ray Sundancer at the 2004 Sioux Empire Boat and Marine Product Show at the Convention Center on Saturday. This sport cruiser Is equipped with a bathroom and sleeping quarters In the front hold. Travis (left) and Dustln Steffen of Sioux Falls look over the boat as well.

Augustana group boosts charity fund Augustana College's Student-Athlete Advisory Committee is raising money through "Head-Honcho Seats" for the Make-A-Wish Foundation of South Dakota. 1 At each of the school's remaining North Central Conference home basketball games, committee members will sell raffle tickets for $1 each. Two drawings will be held during the night, and the winners will watch a portion of the women's and men's games from a court-side love seat, which will be raffled at the Feb. 21 game. 2 Lake Preston men drown The Kingsbury County Sheriffs Department is expected to release information today on the drowning deaths of two rural Lake Preston men.

Sheriff Charles Smith could not be reached Saturday night for more information. Seminar to help counselors Psychotherapist Yvonne Dolan will speak Feb. 27 at the Ramkota Hotel in Sioux Falls. The lecture from 7 to 8 p.m. is free, with donations accepted for agencies that work with survivors.

The lecture is part of a Feb. 27-28 seminar, "Helping Clients Move Beyond the Survivor Identity." The seminar, sponsored by the Counseling and Human Resource Development Department at South Dakota State University, is designed to help professionals work with clients with chronic despair and the effects of trauma or abuse. There is a charge for the seminar, which is open to both professionals and students, with one graduate credit available. For information, call 688-4190 or e-mail TraciKnuth sdstate.edu. Libraries plan system update Siouxland Libraries will upgrade its computer system Feb.

18-25. The current system is 16 years old and out of date. All libraries in the Siouxland system will remain open throughout the upgrade. Customers can continue to check out materials, use the Internet, ask for reference help and get new library books. Some services will be limited.

Customers will have to ask a staff member to place holds on books. Computer functions will return to normal Feb. 26. NAACP to meet Monday night The Sioux Falls chapter of the NAACP will have a membership meeting at 6:30 p.m. Monday in Room 201 of the Multi-Cultural Center, 515 N.

Main Ave. The public is invited. Use the west entrance. LOTTERIES POWERBALU 31-34-35-39-46; Powerball PP2 DAKOTA CASH: 2-4-18-30-34 $100,000 CASH: 7-9-22-24-25 WILD CARD: 9-13-18-22-24 Wild Card: Queen of Clubs HOT LOTTO: 1-11-16-27-33 Hot Ball 1 NORTHSTAR CASH: 1-4-5-14-15 DAILY 3: 68 IOWA PICK 3: 9-4-8 IOWA PICK 4: 7 BY JOHN-JOHN WILLIAMS IV jjwilliamsargusleader.com Gene Young, who has watched most episodes of UPN's "Enterprise" since the series began in 2001, was surprised to turn on his television Jan. 28 and see that a skiing show had taken its place.

"They ran a crawl that said we should contact CBS and UPN," he said. Young soon learned his Wednesday night ritual would not be the same. KELO-TV, which now owns the right to UPN programming, is currently running shows such as "Enterprise" in different late-night slots until its station with UPN programming launches March 15. The switch not only has confused viewers KELO general manager Mark Antonitis reports the station has received 30 complaints about the change it also has spawned a lawsuit A local broadcasting company that worked to expand UPN programming See KCPO, page 11B Suspect caught after second crime BYJIUCALUSON jcallisoargusleader.com A Baltic man was arrested less than 48 hours after he was videotaped burglarizing a Canton convenience store. Canton Police Chief Al Warnock said Robbie Douglas Krell of Baltic was arrested in Dell Rapids on Saturday afternoon after an attempted burglary in that town.

The videotape from the Canton Pump Pak was broadcast on a Sioux Falls television station Friday, and tips began coming in after that Krell was easily recognized by those who knew him. "We're lucky," Warnock said. "We've got a good video system." Among those who called in a report on Krell were members of his family. "Part of their concern was he may have hurt himself," Warnock said. Krell faces charges of grand theft and intentional damage to property, the police chief said.

The burglary at the Pump Pak involved more than $3,300. He is also a suspect in connection with a burglary at Larry's 1-29 in Tea. Sioux Falls police and Minnehaha and Lincoln county authorities want to talk with Krell. Krell is being housed in the Minnehaha County Detention Center. BY JILL ALLISON jcallisoargusleader.com Walk into the Sioux Falls Convention Center today, and on first glance it will appear to be filled with speedboats, pontoons andJetSkis.

However, what the building actually contains this weekend is dreams. Dreams of catching a record-setting walleye. Dreams of a lazy Sunday afternoon drifting on a sky-blue lake. Dreams of summer days that can't be obliterated by the two feet of snow on the ground. The 2004 Sioux Empire Boat and Marine Product Show, which concludes today, drew three generations of dreamers to a Glas-tron SX195 at the Soo Sports display.

Bill Pranger, his son, Ty, and his 7-year-old grandson, Tarn Hunt, looked at the boaf sleek lines and didn't let the $18,290 price tag dash their dreaming. "He's waiting for me to buy one so he can use it," Ty Pranger joked about his father. Currently, the Ocheyedan, Iowa, family is without a boat. But someday soon, they hope, that will change. "Us guys would just be happy with getting a fishing boat, then we think, well, it would be nice to have a little extra power if you ever want to ski with the kids and grandkids," Bill Pranger said.

Alisa Heath didn't have to wait until the ice melts off the lakes to try her luck with a fishing pole. For she bought seven minutes of time to try to draw trout out of a fish tank. She caught the limit of two, the Sioux Falls 11-year-old said, and almost had a third f. A'. I If you're going WHAT: 2004 Sioux Empire Boat Marine Products Show.

WHEN: 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. today. WHERE: Sioux Falls Convention Center. COST: $5 for adults, $2.50 for children 6 to 12, free for preschoolers.

"He's grown up with the lake as his front yard," his wife, Kathy, said. During cold weather, they travel to boat shows, offering lures that will draw in everything from walleye to muskie to salmon. Most people come down with fishing fever in January. That's when they start rooting around in their tackle boxes, making an inventory of what's needed. Bill Pranger (left) and his son, Ty, of Ocheyedan, Iowa, check out a new $14,000 boat at the boat show.

found lining one wall at the Convention Center. Jerry Haegele and his wife operate a hardware and sporting goods store in Algoma, and he has been a charter captain on Lake Michigan for more than 20 years. one on her hook. "You can keep them, but I just put mine back in," Alisa said. Alisa fishes a couple times every summer.

Should she ever get more serious about it, every lure imaginable could be See BOAT SHOW, page 11B Thune spells out differences with Daschle in talk show agenda, the chief antagonist, and be consistently day-in and day-out bashing the president and the leadership in the United States Senate and then expect to be able to get things done for your state." Steve Hildebrand, ing also entered the discussion. Thune said he would continue lobbying for interests that meant jobs in the state but said he didn't think Daschle would bring it up: "You know, Senator Daschle has a lot of DAVID KRANZ Politics life judges needed to uphold it," she said. "Ultimately, South Dakota would be spending millions of dollars on a court battle that we currently do not have the votes to win." The loser of the battle has to pay for the lawyer fees of the winner. Hansen says that unless there is a change in the composition of the courts, most of the money spent by the state will likely go directly to help lawyers for Planned Parenthood, National Abortion Rights Action League, and other pro-abortion entities. David Kranz ha covered South Dakota polltlca tor 31 year.

Write to him at the Argu Leader, Box 5034, Sioux Fall, SO 5TU7-S034. South Dakota Right-to-Iife. "We are not involved in the bill, neither for or against it," says Rachel Hansen, director of the organization. The group looked carefully at the bill, consulted with professionals and communicated with RTL regional directors. "After having discussions with the attorney general's office and other legal experts.

South Dakota Right-to-Life decided not to be involved in this bill," she told them. "Although SDRTL supports the idea, we believe it is the right bill at the wrong time, due to the fact that the constitutionality of HB 1191 will certainly be challenged, and we do not have the pro- failed while John Thune was in the House, country-of-origin labeling which passed without Thune's help in the House and which the Bush administration refuses to implement, and TRICARE for National Guard members, and so on," he said. As for Thune's statement about lobbying in Daschle's family, Hildebrand said, "It is clear that John Thune plans not just to attack Tom, but Tom's family." Right-to-Life stance One voice absent in support for House Bill 1 191, legislation that would completely ban abortions in the state, with the sole exception of saving the mother's life, is Former Rep. John Thune took his case against Sen. Tom Daschle to a Washington, D.C., talk show last week.

During his interview on "Jeff Gannon's Washington," Thune labeled Daschle as an obstructionist and antagonist to President Bush, one who can't throw stones about lobbying, and unable to get things done for the state as a member of the minority party. Thune talked about the White House role in his decision to run for Senate again, the White House was encouraging." But he added, "They sort of let me make my own decision on my own time." Controversy over lobby Daschle's campaign manager, took issue with the suggestion, saying there is a long list of Daschle's accomplishments and Thune's failures while in the House that refute Thune's charges. "We'd be happy to list hundreds of things Daschle has gotten done while in the minority including Lewis Clark funding, indemnification of Homestake, which lobbying interests of his own that I think he probably doesn't want to talk about." Asked if he meant Daschle's wife, Linda, Thune said. "Family, family interests, correct." Thune said it is becoming increasingly difficult for Daschle to get things done while being the "primary obstacle to the president's A Vetified Leader in Ttouma Cam Avera McKennan Trauma Center is Verified Level II by the American College of Surgeons Specialty physician support, 24-hour coverage, special care units, critical care, surgery and more give you an extraordinary level of confidence. McKenmn Trauma Center.