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The Sioux City Journal, Thursday, October 7, 1 999 A 3 eainiers mm ror soiut By Julie Weeder Journal staff writer listening to similar issues other cities have dealt with." Doorenbos participated in a leadership workshop conducted by Tim Shields of the University of Iowa's Institute of Public Affairs. "I'm not here to tell you what every city should do," said Shields, who has worked with city governments for 20 years. "Each city has to do separate things. I generally have an ear to the ground and know what kinds of problems each city faces." The group of more than 50 mayors, city council members and city administrators generated suggestions of issues facing Iowa city governments. Areas of discussion included: relations with county, state and federal governments, the prominence of Internet, land use, right of way regulations, legislative issues and teamwork with city council and underlying committees.

The challenges that face city government provide a unique leadership opportunity, said Shields. "There are chances for greatness at every level of leadership we are involved in and one of the most exciting places to be a leader is city government," Shields said, "because one, you're close to the people. Two, you can deal with the achievable." Shields said 90 percent of the city government members he works with want to make a difference in the community. "My goal is to have them come away from here with usable ideas," Shields said, "ideas that leaders can use in their communities." George Maybee, president of the Iowa League of Cities and mayor of Boone, Iowa, said he thinks the biggest challenge facing city governments today is trying to complete tasks without raising taxes. "We try to spend citizens" money frugally," said Maybee, who has been mayor for 10 years.

"And sometimes citizens don't think we do." Maybee also identified drue abuse, absence of youth activities and legislative issues as other major problems. "We always say we're glad when the legislature goes into recess because then we're safe for about eight months," Maybee said. "They think they have to be watch dogs. We're elected like they are and we have to respond to the citizens' needs." Tom Bredeway, executive director of the Iowa League of Cities, said the conference has many missions to fulfill. "This is an opportunity for networking and showing others how to do things," Bredeway said.

"The challenges are so great and the solutions are so few. They can talk to each other and help each other." During the conference, formal business will be conducted and policies will be identified for the next legislative session. The convention also provides education on issues affecting Iowa city governments. The Iowa League of Cities represents 870 Iowa cities, mostly as lobbyists for legislative bills affecting city governments. The conference continues today with William H.

Hudnut, former mayor of Indianapolis, delivering a keynote address at 9 a.m. Workshops will continue with a tour of the Sioux City City Hall and Woodbury County Courthouse in the afternoon. The conference will end Friday morning with workshops, the annual business meeting and an address from Clarence Anthony, president of the National Leaauc of Cities. Elaine Doorenbos came to Sioux City looking for solutions to issues facing the Le Mars, Iowa, city government. Doorenbos, a Le Mars city council member, found some suggestions Wednesday at the 101st annual convention of the Iowa League of Cities at the Sioux City Convention Center.

One of the challenges Doorenbos said the council faces is the future of the former Westmar University campus. "Our job is to redevelop the campus and find what best contributes to the quality of life in Le Mars," Doorenbos said. "So I've been sty I Grazing method saves time, money Baby Jessica's parents divorce i I i list of the benefits of rotational grazing, ranging from the flexibility of the operation, the nutritional superiority of grass-finished beef and creative marketing ideas. 'That's why it's catching Gould says. "If anything's a win-win in farming, this is." To those who say rotational grazing doesn't work, Gould answers that 40 percent of the people doing it don't move their herds often enough.

He admits that there are some times rotational grazing is not the best choice. To hobby farmers with small herds, Gould says, why bother? For livestock operations with rough or wooded terrain, the necessary fencing isn't feasible. Weaver says, "You don't get tremendous results, you get gradual results." He rotationally grazes because it's easier than feeding with machinery and cows like to forage. They also seem to enjoy getting to go someplace new, he says of the frequent pasture changes. "The co ws are kind of my employees.

When they're happy and not fussing, my life is easier," he notes. The grazing plan also keeps his herd healthier and heavier. And with other operations near Moville and Oto, Iowa, rotational grazing is more convenient for him than daily feeding. Weaver's father had established some separate pastures because of on his rural Anthon, Iowa, of time a birth parent has to make a claim on a child in an adoption proceeding. The Schmidts finally won custody in August 1993 when the Supreme Courts in Iowa and Michigan sided with them.

A throng of photographers and TV cameras captured the screams and tears of the 2 -year-old girl as she was taken from the DeBoers to the Schmidts. Baby Jessica, once again Anna Schmidt, is an 8-year-old third-grader, and she has had no contact with the DeBoers since moving to Iowa. The Schmidts have another child, 6-year-old Chloe. "This is not good, and I think most adults would look at the situation and say, 'This is not said Ennio Cipani, a professor at the California School of Professional Psychology in Fresno. "Children vary in terms of how they respond to certain unfortunate events in their life.

A fair number of kids are actually resilient. It's certainly not something that is pleasant. "But for this child, she seems to have to have to adapt to changes on a momcnt-by-momcnt basis," Cipani said. The DeBoers, who adopted another child in 1994, and their supporters founded an organization Hear My Voice, which lobbies for "safe and permanent homes" for children not kept by their birth parents. Janet Snyder, executive director of the organization, said the DeBoers had no comment on the Schmidts' divorce.

"Obviously we would never wish family difficulty on anyone," she said. Custody battle took girl from adoptive parents Six years after winning a long and bitter battle for custody of their biological daughter, the parents of the girl once known as Baby Jessica are divorcing. Dan and Cara Schmidt, who were married in 1992 during the custody battle against the Michigan couple who had adopted the girl, are living apart and contesting details of their divorce in court, The Gazette of Cedar Rapids reported Wednesday. The Schmidts refused to comment. In Iowa, divorce proceedings are not public record until decrees are granted.

In February 1991, Mrs. Schmidt, then Cara Clausen, gave birth in Cedar Rapids to a girl she named Anna. Two days later, she signed papers giving her child up for adoption. When the child was just two weeks old, her parental rights were terminated, and Jan and Roberta DeBoer of Ann Arbor, were granted legal custody of the baby as her adoptive parents. The DeBoers named her Jessica.

But then two weeks later, Ms. Clausen filed papers to revoke her initial decision. Dan Schmidt filed an affidavit of paternity. During the ensuing legal battle, the girl lived with the DeBoers. A national debate raged over the rights of biological and adoptive parents, and the case led to changes in the laws of Iowa and other states on the amount 'Buffy' will vanish Newseum teaches public about media from page one "What's going to happen here in the spring? Nothing! There's no root.

But, if you put in some brome, red clover, orchard Gould is the "science guy" who has the studies and figures to make his case for rotational grazing, which he says comes down to common sense. "My watchword is economics," he says. Every other good thing for the land improved water quality, more wildlife habitat follows from doing what is most profitable, Gould says. And that is constantly rotating a herd through a series of small pastures. 'With rotational grazing, you custom manage the foraging.

The utilization rate can be 80 to 85 percent. That's huge!" he says with near-religious fervor. "Con-tinuously grazed pasture utilization is about 30 percent. 'It's an easy increase to 60 percent and you've precluded the need to buy more pasture at 1 ,000 an acre." Fencing is much cheaper than land, and forage is cheaper than feed, he notes. And water is easy to get to each cell using a pressure tank and snap-together above-ground water line system developed by the NRCS.

Gould has tables showing other economic advantages and recites a Indian activist says he'll fight any beer store OMAHA (AP) An American Indian activist working to close beer retailers in Whiteclay vows to target plans by fellow activists to open their own beer store in the village near the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. Tom Poor Bear, an Oglala Sioux from Wanblee, S.D., said he will fight to shut down all of Whiteclay's beer stores, regardless of who owns them. "We want to shut Whiteclay down and if they have a store we will shut them down," said Poor Bear, who has helped organize weekly protest marches in the village of 22 people along the South Dakota border. The village's four beer stores sell 4 million cans of beer annually to mainly residents of the Oglala's nearby reservation, where alcohol is banned. Activists Russell Means, an Oglala from Porcupine, S.D., and co-founder of the American Indian Movement, and Frank LaMere, a Winnebago from South Sioux City plan to seek a license to sell beer in Whiteclay.

They want to form a nonprofit corporation to open the liquor store and use the proceeds to build an alcohol rehabilitation center. LaMere said an Ipdian-owned store is the only way to drive the village's four beer stores out of business and restore sobriety to the reservation in South Dakota. Poor Bear, Means and LaMere were among nine activists arrested July 3 during a protest march in Whiteclay. The three have led the marches to protest the beer sales and the deaths of Poor Bear's half-brother Wilson Black Elk, Jr. and his cousin Ronald Hard Heart.

Both men were found slain June 8 in a culvert near the Nebraska line on the reservation. Activists claim alcohol was involved and the FBI is not doing enough to solve the murders. The Oglala also claim that under an 1868 treaty, Whiteclay is part of the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation and therefore alcohol sales are illegal in the town. A Sheridan County judge plans to hear arguments Nov. 17 on whether Whiteclay should be under the tribe's jurisdiction.

The hearing was requested by the attorneys for Poor Bear, Means, LaMere and other pro-testers arrested in Whiteclay. If Whiteclay is found to be part of the reservation, beer retailers will only move off tribal land, and alcohol sales will continue, LaMere said. Instead the area's dynamics need to change, and the only way to do that is drive the beer stores out of business, LaMere said. frnrn nnrin TrOm page One we get about a Nebraska football game on the weekend. Considering the radio and TV time that has been purchased, the response has been light." Demand, he said, continues to be greater for other programming like the Home and Garden channel.

In the coming months, Cable ONE viewers will be able to sample more than a dozen channels, enabling the company to determine which ones it should add. Meanwhile, both sides in the WB battle appear unwilling to budge. Each side has urged viewers to call the other protesting its moves. Russell Myerson, executive vice president and general manager of the WB100 plus, said he has received thousands of calls from viewers wanting to know how to get WB Brian Weaver uses rotational farm. (Staff photo by Jim Lee) the lay of the land.

Weaver said he realized it was easier to check cows on 40 acres than on 200 acres. He adapted to the smaller pastures for convenience, moving the herd as needed. 'You know the old saying, the grass is always greener on the other side of the fence? Pretty soon I realized, Wow! The grass is greener." Weaver said Gould came along with his science at the right Doherty Johnson shows after Oct. 7. "We care about our fans and so do our stars, so we decided to go to Sioux City and meet with the people directly." Although the Phoenix-based Cable ONE has systems throughout the country, Sioux City is the only place where Kellner and company will be pleading their case.

The move which will include prizes and autograph sessions seems reminiscent of another campaign to save programming. Harkin said the measure which was passed Tuesday night on a voice vote is a partial victory for Iowa air travelers. "The amendment which was included in the bill was not as good for Iowa as our proposal, but it is a step in the right direction," Harkin said. "Now we can move this measure to conference where I am hopeful it will be strengthened." Both Harkin and Grassley want the slot rule eliminated in two phases to prevent major carriers from absorbing all of the capacity of the airports. "We need to provide for service by new entrant carriers that can provide fpr real competition on the price of tickets, increased ability to provide for turboprops so our smaller cities can have proper service and regional jets for improved service to mid-sized cities," Grassley said.

John Conrad, a policy staffer on airline issues for Grassley, said both Grassley and Harkin believe the slot rule should be eliminated by 2007. "Atlanta, which handles more flights in and out than any other airport, has no slot rule and no prob prison farm, officials said Wednes- day. Kenneth D. Williams was back behind bars Wednesday and is the prime suspect in two deaths that oc- xy ILL grazing time and he has since adapted some of those ideas to his operation. High tensile, non-barbed fencing wire and some other recent technologies make rotational grazing easier to do than before.

Even children can safely help string the fence wire, Gould says. Weaver says when his children are older he'll send them out to do some of the busy work of the grazing system. In 1993, KMEG-TV refused to air "The Late Show with David Letter-man." Local residents staged rallies and letter-writing campaigns and, for their efforts, earned Sioux City the first "Home Office" designation. Until the CBS affiliate changed its position, local residents got to see the program on an undesignated cable channel. For Johnson, who stars on "Popular," a new WB show, the rally is particularly bittersweet.

He's returning to the mall where he once worked but folks there probably haven't seen the show he's on. "There were so many people cheering me on and giving me their support when I came to L.A. to try my luck. It will be great to tell my hometown 'thank he said. "Now if we could just get Cable ONE to put The WB on their system my mom and grandparents would actually be able to watch my lems," he said.

The House bill, passed in June by a wide margin, would eliminate slots by 2002. It also takes the Airport Trust Fund, money which comes from airport user taxes, out of the budget and bars using the money for anything but airport improvement projects. The Senate has opposed that, Bender said, because it makes it easier to balance the general budget. That move also is opposed by the Clinton administration. For several years, Grassley and Harkin have been working together on ways of eliminating slots and other means to improve competition thereby lowering prices for Iowa air travel.

The conference committee is likely to begin meeting within the next few weeks, Conrad said. If the slots are not eliminated and only 30 new slots are created at O'Hare, the decision on which cities would receive them would be made by the FAA. There is no guarantee Sioux City would be among those to receive a slot. curred during the day and a half he was on the run. The 20-year-old convict escaped Sunday morning when the table scraps were being moved.

Senators can't abolish slots; O'Hare agrees to add 30 spaces from page one between the news media and the public. We hope NewsCapade can do the same all across the USA." Jack Marsh, director of the traveling NewsCapade exhibit, said the idea to have the mobile display came from visitors to the Newseum. "Shortly after we. opened the Newseum, people said they wished there could be something like this closer to home," Marsh said. "So we came up with the idea of this mobile exhibit that we would tour the country with." Among the exhibits are more than 150 historic newspaper front pages from the 20th century.

The mobile display has news artifacts representing the evolution of news gathering including an early typewriter that helped revolutionize newspaper reporting, cameras that captured award-winning photographs, a microphone used by "Tokyo Rose" to spread propaganda during World War II, and Bill Gates' computer keyboard representing today's availability of on-line news. The display area features "Breaking News" where visitors can watch historic moments in live television news, including Walter Cronkite's announcement of President Kennedy's death and the explosion of the space shuttle Challenger. The display room also has a video presentation examining media mistakes. "Flaws of the Press" shows how competitive pressures and tight deadlines can sometimes lead to inaccurate reporting. Interactive touch-screen computers allow visitors to edit the front page or photograph a breaking story for the Newseum' fictional newspaper.

The Daily Miracle. "You can simulate what it's like to be a newspaper photographer," said Marsh. "You go to the scene of a river rescue of a child that is trapped." He said the computer shows the view up and down the riverbank and allows the user to take photos and pick which ones to use for the front page of the newspaper. A similar interactive computer gives visitors an opportunity to act as editor to assign reporters and select stories for the front page. "We have several different ethical case studies from journalism," said Marsh.

"You get the opportunity to see what you would have done and then find out what happened in real life." Those who want to try their hand at TV news reporting can go in front of a camera and read the news with either the White House or a baseball stadium as a backdrop. "We then tape it and play it back for them," said Marsh. The most popular exhibit, according to Marsh, is a computer terminal called "The Birthday Banner." "You put in your date of birth and you get a make-believe front page with news headlines from the day you were born," said Marsh. Dan Genzler, media relations director for USD, said NewsCapade offers something for both students at the school and the general public. "It's a great opportunity for students and the public to learn about the news and to get hands-on experience in how the news is put together," he said.

NewsCapade will be open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. today, through Saturday. Admission is free. House Republicans have been considering a 2.7 percent cut to achieve that.

The White House budget office said it would really take a percent reduction, and pro- duced a five-page memo asserting that such cuts would have a "severe impact" on defense, education and other programs. from page one gram, we may do significant harm to the transportation infrastructure of our country," said McCain, chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee. The measure will provide about $45 billion over four years for airport safety, modernization and competition programs. Several cities in Iowa would likely benefit from the grants although Sioux City, which has received earlier grants, may not be among them this year. The controversial high density rule was established in 1969 to limit flights out of New York's Kennedy and LaGuardia airports.

Sen. Peter Fitzgerald, filed more than 300 amendments to the bill at the last minute that effectively blocked the measure from moving. "He ultimately agreed to remove those amendments once other senators agreed to keep the slot rule in place for O'Hare, but he did agree to increase slots by 30. House considers across-the-board cuts j.jjy fU1JS from page one cannot be found. "Do my colleagues really want to go on record cutting education?" asked Sen.

Frank Lautcnberg, following that with anti-crime, health research, and other programs no pol- itician wants to be seen as slashing Amid some internal grumbling, congressional Republicans especially in the House are considering across-the-board reductions to keep from eating into Social Sccu- Convicted killer escapes in barrel of hog slop LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) A convicted killer crawled into a 500-gallon barrel of hog slop in a prison kitchen and escaped while the mush of table scraps was being towed to a So far. President Clinton has signed only four of the 13 bills for fiscal 2000, vetoed one and threatened to veto five others. i.