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Toxic chemical p. Woman's Club County landfills contain jL 4 7 Group's tradition dates poisonous waste 1 rI back to 1 879 1 Liberty loses IJ Australia II sails away with America's Cup 1 i 7X sidlcBir USPS 030240 25c 1983 Argus Leader September 27, 1983 Sioux Falls, South Dakota A Gannett newspaper Tuesday morning Business leaders: Paif cult is better tthan 930 layoffs Forecast Weather, 2A Stocks million into the economy, we certainly feel it," Charles Rogness, president of Sunbank of South Dakota, said. Rogness said Morrell workers probably will have to cut back spending on items such as second cars and travel. He said he doesn't expect a rash of mortgage foreclosures or repossessions, however. "Sure, maybe there's some who will be selling some boats, snowmobiles, guns and campers, but I don't really see the basics being hurt or a lot of foreclosures coming off it," he said.

Jerry Johnson, director of the University of South Dakota's Business Research Bureau, said that the wage cut will take money out of the economy, and that discretionary spending is the first to go. That means less money being spent on entertainment, luxuries and durable goods, such as furniture and major appliances. Rogness said, "They establish their lifestyles according to their income, so they're going to have to reassess their budgets." After the initial announcement of By JON HOLTEN Argus Leader Staff Workers at John Morrell and Co. will have to tighten their financial belts in the future, and Sioux Falls businesses could feel the pinch. The Sioux Falls economy will miss the wages cut from Morrell workers' paychecks, but better that than the loss of 930 jobs, business leaders said Monday.

Based on an average reduction of 2.19 an hour and a guaranteed 36-hour work week, the revised contract will trim more than $9.8 million from the annual payroll for Morrell's 2,400 union workers. But the actual loss in wages could be less than that, Jack Smith, president of the union local, said. "We might get more hours now that the wages are more competitive," he said. Although wage and benefit concessions by the United Food Commercial Workers prevented the layoff of 930 workers, the local economy didn't escape unscathed. "Anytime you equate a loss of $10 layoffs by Morrell, Ralph J.

an economics professor at the University of South Dakota, said that the loss of 930 jobs could cost up to an equal number of jobs elsewhere in the local economy. Brown said Monday that he could not estimate how many jobs the pay cut could cost the economy. "As it spreads out through the Sioux Falls economy, I suppose it will haVe a dampening effect, but I don't think it will be overwhelming. The Sioux Falls economy isn't nearly as dependent on John Morrell as it was 10, 15 or 20 years ago," he said. Evan Nolte, executive vice president of the Sioux Falls Chamber of Commerce, said local business people are satisfied and relieved by the contract agreement: "It's a wage cut, but more important is that the plant continues to work.

I think obviously the alternative is what we have to look at." A shutdown of pork operations would have cut Morrell's payroll by about $20 million a year and left 930 people jobless. New closing high Dow Standard Jones and Poor's Ho Mi Reagan challenges Soviets on arms Pressler: Soviets must match Reagan's initiative Reagan's latest arms control initiative is a big step forward and an agreement could be reached if the Soviet Union will match the Reagan's concessions, Sen. Larry Pressler, said Monday. But Pressler said it takes two sides to make a deal: "This U.S. offer is of little value unless the Soviets come off their pedestals and negotiate in earnest." Pressler, who is chairman of the Senate Arms Control Subcommittee, said he is encouraged by the president's proposals.

UNITED NATIONS (AP) Declaring that a nuclear war cannot be won and must never be fought, President Reagan offered Monday to make proposals to limit medium-range nuclear weapons in Europe, and he challenged the Soviet Union to make comparable concessions. Reagan told the General Assembly of the United Nations that if the Soviets make. concessions, the United States will consider a new ceiling on the number of U.S. missiles in Europe, reductions in planned deployment of Pershing 2 and cruise missiles, and companion curbs on numbers of aircraft. "The door to an agreement is open," Reagan said.

"It is time for the Soviet Union to walk through it." Soviet Ambassador Oleg Troyan-ovsky sat quietly as Reagan denounced the Kremlin's explanation of the shooting down of a Korean airliner as "a timely reminder of just how Argus Leader photo by LLOYD B. CUNNINGHAM Sweet summer returns Loralye, 2, sheds her winter coat Monday to celebrate another brush with summertime in Sioux Falls. Loralye is the daughter of Donald and Susan Larson, 412 N. Cliff Ave. Unfortunately, not just anyone is the right size to fit in Loralye's quickly inflatable pool.

But older residents are appreciating a few days of warm relief in other ways, from hanging clothes on the line to reading books in the park. Chilly temperatures last week forced Sioux Falls folks to resignedly pull out sweaters and face the promise of the snowy, cold days ahead. sures do not represent anything new. Reagan said his proposals are intended to reply to concerns raised by the Soviets, but he gave no missile or aircraft numbers. "I believe that if governments are determined to deter and prevent war, there will not be war," Reagan said.

"Nothing is more in keeping the spirit of the U.N. Charter than arms different the Soviets' concept of truth and international cooperation is from that of the rest of the world." Reagan was applauded warmly by most United Nations delegations, even though he accused member nations of 'straying from the original ideals of the world body. The Soviets, who heard Reagan's proposals Friday in closed talks in Geneva, Switzerland, said the mea Marketplace, 4D Minnesota tire firm moving to Watertown WATERTOWN (AP) Nutting Tire and Caster Co. of Faribault, board of directors has formally approved plans to move the tire operation to Watertown despite some employee objections. A company spokesman said the Minnesota plant has been put up for sale and the move is planned for early next year.

Faribault-area reporters said some Nutting employees are upset because of lower wages to be paid in Watertown and because families will have to be uprooted and moved west. Watertown Mayor Herb Jenson said he understands the concern, but added it's a sign of the times. "It's about time some of these people wake up to the fact that if they want a job, they'd better take a cut," Jenson said. Fiddle while you work, British professor says LONDON (AP) People who cheat on the job work harder and enjoy it more, a Cambridge University sociologist says. When a worker steals office pens or gets the company to pay tor a mistress's apartment, the results are nothing but good, Dr.

Gerald Mars said. In a book published called "Cheats at Work: An Anthology of Workplace Crime," Mars advised workers to carry on cheating or fiddling as it's called in Britain. Mars said cheating is a vital part of Britain's hidden economy. "I know some people will be shocked, but we have been listening to the moralists too long," he said. "Fiddles are real.

People have got to realize unless they understand fiddles they will never understand workers." Witness: Fatal plane crash followed attempted stunt Part of interchange linking 1-29 and 1-229 will open this week From staff reports The first link of the revamped interchange for Inter-states 29 and 229 will be open for traffic by the end of the week. Jim Olson, project engineer, said the lane carrying traffic from 1-229 southbound onto 1-29 is done, except for work on the shoulder. That lane will replace an existing lane indicated in the diagram with dotted lines in carrying traffic onto 1-29. Olson said a new lane allowing traffic southbound on 1-229 to swing north onto 1-29 nearly is complete, also. The third lane to be added to the interchange one which allows traffic southbound on 1-29 to swing around and head northbound on 1-229 still must be built.

New 1-229 southbound lanes on the approach of the 1-29 viaduct also have been completed. Those changes will make the intersection a full interchange, meaning all turning movements will be possible. In the past, only two turning movements were possible. Olson said Sweetman Construction Co. of Sioux Falls, the contractor on the $1.7 million project, believes it can complete the project yet this year, if weather stays dry.

The scheduled completion date is Nov. 1, but a wet spring caused early delays. If all the concrete is poured, Olson said the full interchange could be opened for traffic this winter even though grading and seeding would not be By LISA RYAN Argus Leader Staff An ultralight pilot who died during an air show near Sioux Falls this weekend was trying perform a trick that put too much stress on his aircraft, another pilot who flew in the show said Monday. Jack Zierke, 42, was killed Saturday when his plane collapsed and crashed to the ground during an airshow at the EROS Data Center. Observers said they heard something snap, and the wings appeared to fold as the plane fell.

Bob Brock, who also flew an ultralight during the show, said Mr. Zierke was trying to do a manuever called a whip stall, which the plane is not designed to do. Mr. Zierke had done the trick successfully several times before the show, he said. "It was just one of those things that happened," he said.

"He was doing something he really shouldn't have been doing." To do a whip stall, the pilot puts the plane into a dive to gain speed and then pulls out of the dive, Brock said. Because the plane is going faster than normal, it takes more force to pull the plane out of the dive and that puts too much stress on the plane, he said. Verlin Tranter, an investigator for the National Transportation Safety Board in Denver, said acrobatics played a role in the crash. "I understand the gentleman was doing some maneuvers that came pretty close to being acrobatic," he said. The safety board took over the investigation from the Federal Aviation Administraton because Congress is interested in finding if there are any trends in ultralight crashes, Tranter said.

Mr. Zierke also made some alterations in his ultralight, which was made by Eipper Aircraft that could have contributed to the crash. Tranter said. He had added a 10-pound weight to the nose of the plane; a tube from the landing gear to the lower tail; and a reduction drive system to the engine. "I don't know what he was trying to do with it," Tranter said.

"It takes it out of the class of being an Eipper creation and makes it the pilot's creation." Mr. Zierke's wife, Chery, said her husband never talked about altering the plane. She said she wasn't involved much in his flying and wasn't at the show Saturday. Tranter said he will not come to Sioux Falls to see the crash site; instead, parts of the plane will be sent to him for inspection in Denver. Two Federal Aviation Administration investigators were at the show and examined and photographed the wreckage, he said.

Tranter also said that Eipper has a good record for making ultralights, and that the planes are safe if flown within their structural limits. Tranter said the investigation won't be finished until December or January, when he sends a report to the board's Washington office. The Washington office determines the cause of the crash. Tranter said the safety board is interested in hearing about eyewitness accounts of the accident from people who were at the air show. Anyone who wants to give an account can send a signed statement to the National Transportation Safety Board, 10255 E.

25th Suite 14, Aurora, 80010. Today Washington High School hosts cross-town rival O'Gorman in girls' basketball. The game begins at 8 p.m. Leaders from 10 Sioux tribes will decide how much of the Black Hills they will ask Congress to return to them. 1C Argus map by LINDA RECHNAGEL This map shows the new configuration of the 1-229 and 1-29 interchange.

The lane in dotted outline is an existing southbound lane which will be abandoned. Inside Callers aren't amused by Rivers' comments Sen. Barry Goldwater tells his fellow lawmakers not to legislate America's Marines out of Lebanon. 3A Columnist Art Buchwald says the reaction to a recent comment by Interior Secretary James Watt shows that nobody can take a good bad joke any more. 2C i 1 St Nsfe'-'- A.

VV la it Local NBC affiliate gets half-dozen complaints KDLT-TV of Mitchell, the local NBC affiliate, received six complaints about Joan Rivers' conduct during the Emmy awards. Pam Sitzmann, KDLT's program director, said Monday that the station received the calls from viewers who didn't approve of Rivers' remarks. "They just weren't too happy with some of her statements," he said. Sitzmann said she responded to the complaints by thanking the callers and telling them that it is their right to complain. Sitzmann had spoken to NBC executives in New York Monday afternoon and said the network received 100 calls.

"Compared to the size of that market, it's not that big a deal," she said. "It's not a significant number. You just have to know Joan Rivers." and Catholic, while she is white, Jewish and female. "If you had a limp, we could be the committee appointed by James Watt," she said, adding, "Is he an idiot." Discussing her many dress changes. Rivers said she appreciates how exhausting it must be to be a prostitute.

Joan Crawford, whose daughter said in the book "Mommie Dearest" that the actress beat her with a wire coat hanger, was another target. "I just got it off the rack," Rivers said after another costume change. "That's what Joan Crawford used to say about her daughter." LOS ANGELES (AP) Comedian Joan Rivers' caustic cracks, costumes and a curse while co-hosting the Emmy Awards lit up the switchboards at several major NBC affiliates. One of the many gowns that Rivers wore during the Sunday night program had a neckline that plunged to her navel. The lithe, blond comic also let an obscenity slip for the prime-time audience, and she joked about prostitutes, gays, herpes and Interior Secretary James Watt.

NBC affiliates in Los Angeles, New York and Chicago reported 365 complaint calls by midday Monday. An NBC spokesman in New York Index 24 pages Amusements 4-5C Obituaries 3C Classifieds 5-8C Opncn 2C Comics 2B Sioux Empire 1-4C Ann Landers 4B Sports 1-30 Life Sec. Television 28 Marketplace 4D Weather 2A said some of Rivers' comments were deleted from the West Coast showing but said the network would have no comment about her performance. While bantering with co-host Eddie Murphy, Rivers noted that he is black Joan Rivers.