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jkgXHES 1100010)1111, Argus Leader, Sioux Falls, S.D. Saturday, July 17, 1982 1 Janklow says Reagan agrees the feds meddle in state courts From Argus Leader Wire Services Gov. William Janklow and three other Republican governors running for re-election met with President Reagan Friday to explain their ideas for combating crime and to endorse an anti-crime bill sought by the president. Janklow said he asked Reagan to help reduce federal interference in state court proceedings, and said the president agreed that changes are needed. "He said, 'I agree with you, and let's get to work on improving Janklow said, in a telephone interview from Washington shortly after his half-hour meeting with Reagan at the White House.

Janklow said he also criticized federal White House meeting lawsuits and court orders designed to force states to make prison improvements. Meeting with the president and Attorney General William French Smith in the Oval Office were Janklow and his counterparts from Nevada, Pennsylvania and Illinois. Polls in scattered states from Florida to California indicate that crime is near the top of the list of voters' concerns. But the governors, all of whom have backgrounds in law enforcement, refused to tie any rise in crime to the nation's economic problems or to admit that Republicans will have more trouble getting elected House meeting. However, one South Dakota Democrat state Sen.

Roger McKellips of Alcester, and Janklow's 1978 opponent said he thought Friday's meeting was designed to help the participants politically. He saw it as an attempt to merely show the Republicans were concerned about crime. "That's a political maneuver if I ever saw one," McKellips said. Janklow said the federal government could aid states by using its authority to apprehend criminals who flee states to avoid prosecution and return them to the state where the crime was committed. Janklow said such federal action would save the time and money of appeals from suspects who fight extradition.

Janklow claims he has deported 93 individuals arrested for nonviolent crime to California because Gov. Jerry Brown wouldn't extradite a suspect to South Dakota. Janklow also said he urged Reagan and Smith to coordinate better federal law enforcement on Indian reservations especially in dealing with drugs, which he said are used by large numbers of Indian people. List and Thompson said they would welcome Reagan campaigning for them. But Janklow said it "doesn't make any difference who does or does not come on my behalf" from the administration because he said his state's governor's race would be decided on local issues.

Janklow Reagan this fall than Democrats. "The nation faces a greater crime problem than it has ever faced," Nevada Gov. Robert List said Friday after the White Roberts leads Daschle in campaign collections St- PIERRE, S.D. (AP) Republican Rep. Clint Roberts has collected almost $37,000 more than Democratic Rep.

Tom Daschle this year in the race for South Dakota's single U.S. House seat. Roberts has also outspent Daschle, but Daschle has a bigger campaign chest going into the middle of the rare battle of incumbents. Federal redistricting will cost South Dakota one of its two U.S. House seats next year, forcing the Roberts-Daschle showdown.

Campaign spending reports filed Friday with the secretary of state's office show that as of June 30, Roberts had collected $155,599 this year. Daschle picked up $118,988. The reports show Roberts spent $110,865, while Daschle spent $74,730. Daschle had $98,977 in cash on hand on June 30, compared with $52,313 in Roberts' treasury. However, Daschle's campaign had $27,625 in unpaid bills and Roberts didn't have any.

Almost half the money Daschle has collected has come from political action committees set up by special interest groups. Almost all the $58,500 in PAC money has come from outside South Dakota. Roberts has picked up 54,461 from PACs this year, almost all of them based outside the state. While many of the PACs contributing to Daschle are affiliated with labor unions, many of the PACs contributing to Roberts are affiliated with business, professional and conservative groups. Roberts has collected $78,671 in contributions from individuals this year, while Daschle has picked up $47,665.

Political party committees have donated $21,514 to Roberts and $8,042 to Daschle this year. Seven people contributed the maximum allowable contribution of $1,000 to Roberts in the most recent reporting period. Daschle didn't get any single contributions that large. One of Roberts' big individual contributors was Leo Thorsness, now of Santa Monica, who narrowly lost to Daschle in the 1978 1st District congressional race. Thorsness gave Roberts $901.

Daschle has said he expects to spend about $300,000 on his re-election race, while Roberts has estimated he'll spend $400,000 or more. I State departments must let bids on all insurance pacts It: I 4' if Argus Leader photo by PAUL HORSTED Joshua todayJoshua Dieters, who gets to go home today, is a healthy 9 pounds, four ounces. After struggling to survive, Joshua going home today By JANE VANDERPOEL Argus Leader Staff Sioux Falls insurance agent John Gridley Jr. lost a state Supreme Court decision this week, but he says he's happy because the taxpayers of the state won. The State Supreme Court this week turned down Gridley's complaints that a state deparment improperly advertised, bid for and kept an insurance contract that Gridley lost.

But it left unchanged the lower court's language that said state departments must obey the state law that requires public bodies to let bids on all insurance contracts. "We are delighted with the decision of the Supreme Court regarding insurance bidding. with this decision, the court has strengthened the position of the taxpayers of the state," Gridley said in a press release Friday. "This is a landmark decision for which we are grateful." Gridley said for years state departments have avoided the law, based on an old Attorney General's opinion written when premium costs were low. "Today, it isn't unusual for insurance premiums on political bodies State Supreme Crt.

to run into the medium and high six figures," his press release said Friday. Insurance contracts with the state should always be bid these days to save tax dollars and get the best buys, he said. John Gridley III, Gridley's son who is also a Sioux Falls lawyer, said Friday Circuit Judge Robert A. Miller's decision from the first time the issue was in court agreed that state departments should obey the law. In a unanimous decision, the court also agreed with then-Circuit Court Judge John B.

Jones' decision a year ago to give $86,600 used as evidence in William Cody's murder trial to the family of his victim, Edmund H. Brown. About $100,000 was used as evidence in Cody's September 1980 trial. Jones said the Tripp County Clerk of Courts office should keep $12,916 that was tested as evidence. The rest, Jones ruled, should go to Brown's estate.

Cody objected the Jones giving the cash away, because, he said, Jones didn't have the authority to decide who owned the money. 'i though, is the clear plastic tube that delivers oxygen to his nostrils. Joshua's lungs still need help breathing. Undeveloped and extremely delicate, the lungs were damaged from the enriched oxygen pumped into them from the ventilator he was on for his first two and a half months. In his room in Larchwood, Iowa, there is an oxygen tank waiting for him.

Jim and Nancy Dieters will have to be careful to make sure that he doesn't catch cold. The couple are looking forward to the homecoming. "We just really want him to be part of the family," Jim said. "It's time. We're lust like any couple bringing a baby home.

He's just a normal baby now." There won't be a big party and a lot of hoopla, though. That's because Joshua's health is still fragile, and he's susceptible to respiratory problems. "Wait until we get a couple of three months down the road and then we'll have a big shindig," Jim said. By PAT SPRINGER Argus Leader Staff Today, when they pin Joshua Dieters' picture on a bulletin board with all the other graduates of Sioux Valley Hospital's intensive care nursery, his smiling face will stand out among the Polaroid cluster of infants. That's because Joshua is a very lucky baby among lucky babies.

Doctors said his chances of survival were one in 100 when he was born Vk months ago. He was more than 3 months premature. Now, it looks like Joshua will grow up to be a normal baby. He weighs 9 pounds, 4 ounces. Tests show that he is like other 4 12-month-old babies, which is how old Joshua would be if he had been born on time.

Jim Dieters had thought of his son as being like a pound of butter. He weighed a mere 1 pound, 5 ounces the smallest premature baby in Sioux Valley Hospital's history to have his picture hung on the wall. His parents credit the specially Argus Leader photo by LLOYD B. CUNNINGHAM Joshua in January, 1382At less than two pounds, he was fighting for his life. care of him.

"We thought that was a pretty big deal. "Right now we're working on feeding him cereal with a spoon. And he doesn't like it very much, which is pretty much normal." One thing that isn't normal, equipped intensive care nursery and the highly trained staff for his survival. "He coos and smiles and does all the things that babies do. The other day he even rolled over for the first time," said LeAnn Rausch, one of the nurses that has been taking I I Families reject ETSI right-of-way offers St.

Onge 3r I -TCmmj iiMMmwiiMiiiii hiiuliiililj 3 4 New EROS satellite launched successfully A new satellite for the EROS Data Center north of Sioux Falls was launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California Friday. "The launch was successful and the satellite is in orbit," Phyllis Wiepking, EROS community affairs officer, said. "About 400 people out here are breathing a lot easier." The satellite called Landsat 4 will begin sending information to the EROS center in four days, and will be fully operational within 15 days, she said. EROS stands for Earth Resources Observation Systems. Since 1972, Landsat satellites have By The Associated Press Negotiations between ETSI and Lawrence County landowners have come to a halt, Save Our Soils attorney Jaqueline Huber says.

Fifteen familes met in St. Onge Thursday night and unanimously rejected what Energy Transportation Systems Inc. called its last offer for a right-of-way agreement. The agreement was sent out by ETSI representative Ron Mon-heiser July 13. "ETSI is telling us they have closed negotiations," Huber said, "and we're sending them a letter that we regret they broke negotiations but there is no agreement without a full agreement." She said SOS will take legal action if ETSI tries to use the right of way agreement.

Monheiser said Wednesday ETSI: will not meet with SOS again. "Our position is that there are no other terms negotiable, and I see no reason to meet. As far as I'm con-; cerned the July 13 agreement sub-: mitted to Huber is our final Now it's a matter of negotiating wtb; the individual landowners," he said. Payment of attorney fees was another point of contention, Huber said, as well as depth of the right of way. Artist's conception of Landsat 4 been beaming back information about the Earth to receivers at EROS.

About 60 percent of the more than $26.5 million worth of information sold by EROS since 1972 was generated by landsat satellites, Wiepking said. The satellites produce about one-third of the information processed through EROS, she said. Earlier satellites were launched in July 1972, January 1975, and March 1978. Aunt Jurea plans to go home after war, Abdnor says One of the first things Abdnor did when he returned to Washington, D.C., from a 10-day European trip late Wednesday was to place a telephone call to his Iowa relatives. He found out Aunt Jurea is handling the exhaustive episode well.

"Great, just great," he said. "She never had a bit of sickness and she's having a great time and enjoying herself." Abdnor said he hopes to visit his aunt a week from Sunday. Jurea Abdnor is staying with another Abdnor aunt in Cedar Rapids, he said. "Neither my sister or I can understand her," Abdnor said. "We have interpreters (but) she grabs the phone every once in a while and tries to talk to me, but I don't know what she's saying." By The Associated Press Jurea Abdnor will return to Ayn-Arab, Lebanon, as soon as the war in that strife-torn nation ends, says her nephew, Sen.

Jim Abdnor, The elderly woman was spirited out of her native country by Israeli soldiers last month after Palestine Liberation Organization guerillas took over her home, made an arsenal out of it and forced her to live in one room. Jurea Abdnor is staying with relatives in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, after the Israeli government sent her to the United States. "Once this gets settled, she's going back," Abdnor said. "I'm sure she doesn't want to stay in this country and she shouldn't. All her life has been spent over in this little tiny town with her friends and her home." Argus Leader photo by PAUL HORSTED Grandma on wheels? Joel Opland appears to be carting grandma around the downtown mall during Crazy Days Friday, but in reality the person in the rocking chair is a dummy.

It was a promotion for Joel's mother's store, Grandma's Attic, 214 S. Main Ave..