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SPORTS: Huskers, Irish tangle in Lincolnpage Bl SIOUX I T' Yf Mostly cloudy High 64 Sept 8 2001: 50 cents "Celebrating Sioiixland Pride' Vol. 138 No. 6 Sioux City, Iowa METRO EDITION Saturday IP t) vv JRJ- 'ltii pudget chief says Social Security may be tapped News alarms GOP leaders -i the House where lawmakers face re-election next year, are nervous that Democrats would use the turn of events against them. Democrats have blamed the problem on the price tag of the 10-year, $1.35 trillion tax cut Bush pushed through Congress. Budget director Mitchell Daniels told House GOP leaders that the bite out of Social Security could be about $9 billion, said several Republicans speaking on condition of anonymity.

One aide said Daniels told them SEE SOCIAL continued on page A3 Aguilan ready for interment at Evergreen Memorial Park in Merced, six were found slain In their home at 311 West St. in Sioux City on Aug. 30. (AP Photo) Maria Valesquez, left, of Firebaugh, grieves over the caskets of Leticia Aguilar, 32, and her five children, Claudia Saldana, Zacarias Saldana, Larry Saldana, Lisa Saldana and Michael Slain Sioux City family is buried in California WASHINGTON (AP) The White House budget chief warned top congressional Republicans Friday that the Social Security surplus is on track to be tapped for other programs this year, a politically perilous event that President Bush and law-makers from both parties have repeatedly promised to avoid. The; -news prompted an alarmed House Speaker Dennis Hasten, and Senate Minority Leader Lott, to discuss options for avoiding that scenario with Bush at an abruptly called White House meeting.

Republicans, particularly in After long coming to By Bruce Miller Journal staff writer The wait will soon be over. The WB, the network that campaigned two years ago to get a spot on the CableONE lineup, is coming to Sioux City. Jeff. Olson, general manager of, the, cable company, said the fifth-rated network will begin airing Oct. 1 on Channel 13.

both knew that our cus-. tomeiSi'warited it," he said. "But it had to work for the WB and it had to work for CableONE. (The agreement) is something we can live with." When WB programming was pulled from WGN two years ago to avoid duplication, network officials lobbied cable companies to add a channel they had created for places like Sioux City which did not have WB affiliates. CableONE, however, was not "willing to give space to a channel that didn't have the MERCED, Caiif (AP) Family members and friends attending the burials of a woman and her five children, all bludgeoned and stabbed the last week of August in their Sioux City home, said they cannot Comprehend how.

someone could have committed such- a- crime. jtt About. 200 people attended Friday morning's services at St. Patrick's Catholic Church, which were Conducted in English and Spanish. The six white caskets featured pictures of the victims; the two for the youngest victims also had teddy bears.

Leticia Aguilar and the children were killed at her Sioux City, home. Aguilar's boyfriend, Adam Matthew Moss, 24, is accused in the killings of Aguilar, 32, and her children, Claudia, Saldana, 12; Zach Saldana, Larry Saldana, Lisa Saldana, 1 and Michael Aguilar, 6. in .1,1,11 iiii, ja' in, 111 IMjfti "We ask ourselves what could have made him do something so gruesome to innocent children," said Joe Cortez, a cousin from La Puente, "to take his anger out on them." Moss also is charged with killing Ronald E. Fish, 58, co-owner of a tire store; Fish's body was found at his about at the same time Aguilar and her children were found dead by the family's baby sitter. At Friday morning's service, family members tried to come to grips with the violent 'way Aguilar and her children" died.

"pur whole community suffers because evil touches the world in unspeakable ways," said Jean Michael Lastiri, the priest at St. Patrick's, during the service. "They will be forever young. They will be forever with God. They will be forever a SEE SLAIN continued on page A3 kets to children with life-threatening illnesses and trauma," Deb Wolf, coordinator of the Iowa chapter of Project Linus, said Friday "I think the killings of all those children from that school qualifies for our blankets." Last Thursday, the bodies of Leticia Aguilar and her five children were found slain in their home at 311 West St.

Authorities said they believe they were killed sometime between Aug. 27 and Aug. 28. A suspect, Hector Saldana, father of four of the five children who along with their mother were found slain in their Sioux City home Aug. 30, places flowers on each of the six caskets during an interment ceremony in Merced, Friday.

(AP Photo) Worid War II pilots' reunion Group will give Everett pupils blankets to help comfort them wait, WB Sioux City viewership to warrant inclusion. Olson, at the time, suggested WGN continue to carry WB shows so that places like Sioux City would still have access, But Jamie Kellner, head of the WB, said there were cities where cable companies didn't want his network's shows on two channels a WB affiliate and WGN, thus the change. To press the issue, Kellner and stars of two his shows, Bryce Johnson, a former Sioux Cityan, and Shannen Doherty, came to Sioux City Oct. 15, 1999, to rally support for The WB. They held a protest of sorts at the i Southern Hills Mall and got residents to sign petitions asking for the network.

While CableONE officials indicated that the requests were minimal, WB officials told a different story. Now, according SEE WB continued on page A3 Michigan, Wisconsin, Colorado, Oregon, Florida and other states. Sulzbach said he is amazed by the raw power generated by the modern fighter jets. "We watched the jets fly down at the air base, and we marvel at the power that those airplanes SEE REUNION continued on page A3 Historical site Historical artifacts will be on hand when Clay County Fair guests stop at the Clay County Fair Museum located just inside the main entrance of the grandstand at the fair, which starts today. page A4 Adam Moss, 24, of Sioux City, has been charged with first-degree murder for their deaths as well as for the killing of businessman Ron Fish of Sioux City.

1 Three of the children went to Everett Larry Saldana, Lisa and Michael Aguilar, 6. Their older sister, Claudia Saldana, 12, had gone to Everett and had just started SEE BLANKETS continued on page A3 Stories fly at By Mike Koehler Journal staff writer Members of the 346th Fighter Squadron are meeting this weekend in Sioux City to remember their wilder years during World War II. lj 'There aren't many of us left anymore," Rrichard Sulzbach Sr. of Sioux City said. are the tail end of the people in World War II." Sulzbach is the host for the reunion held annually for 25 years at different locations across the country.

He flew a P-47 Thunderbolt fighter stationed in Italy. Sulzbach, 77, enlisted in the U.S. Army Air Corps in September 1942 and was called to duty on Feb. 1, 1943. He arrived in Italy in September 1944 to fly 118 combat missions.

"I was scared, tut I always felt I was going to make it home," he said. After World War II Sulzbach was in the National Guard where he was also activated for 21 months during the Korean War. He is now the senior partner at Sioux City Engineering. Sam Burton, left, of La Crescent, and Bob Davis of Homer, listen to Tom Caroselll of Philadelphia, right, tell a story during Friday's reunion of pilots who flew in the 346th Fighter Squadron of 350th Flight Group in World War II. (Staff photo by Jerry Men- nenga) By Lynn Zerschling Journal staff writer Every child at Everett grade school will get to pick out his or her own security blanket in the wake of the slayings of three classmates.

The colorful quilts and blankets will be donated by Project Linus, named after the "Peanuts" cartoon character who never goes anywhere without his own blanket in tow. "We make and donate blan Water', He and his wive, Frances, at- tended Central. High rand they took a tour bus past the structure Friday. On Friday, the group of squadron, members and their wives, totaling 53 people, toured the 185th Fighter Squadron of the Iowa Air tional Guard. People came from California, Utah, South Dakota, Last Saturday Nebraska jousted with that football giant, Troy State.

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There will be a parade at 6:30 p.m. today of vintage and modern fire trucks from around Iowa as part of the convention. (Staff photo by Tim Hynds) Mavis Sybesma works the nozzle with teammates, right to left, Gail Swanberg, Marleen Schipper and Kathy Hargens during the women's water fight Friday as part of the Iowa Firemen's Association Convention in Le Mars,.