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rabr Unicameral nixes education hikepage A5 0 Nebraskans flock to state parkspage A7 Sioux Center men face chargespage A26 Area The.Sioux City Journal May 2, 1987page A3 Sioux Falls meatcutters honor pickets I i is Dennis Foster, Local 304A president, said Morrell is trying to destroy its workers. He and other union officials said Morrell wants more wage concessions in Sioux City and that the union decided now was the time to fight. "They've taken millions of dollars away from us, and now they're back for a second round of concessions," Lyons said. The Sioux Falls contract expires in November 1988. Lyons said his local will honor the picket line as long as it's in place, and DeRochie said the line will stay up until Morrell makes a decent con 1 1 ti 77, 777 I i-V' i 5 r.

"tw "jFxJ J- -tf, 1 M. r. 1 T- ''iff I raj 1- 1 rat i a I I SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) Meat-cutters will stay off their jobs at the John Morrell Co. plant here as long as striking union members from Sioux City keep walking a picket line at the local plant, union leaders said Friday.

United Food and Commercial Workers Local 1142 of Sioux City expanded its picket line to Sioux Falls about 2 a.m. Friday. Fellow union members from Local 304A honored the picket line, shutting down the Sioux Falls plant. The Morrell plant in Sioux Falls slaughters and processes hogs, cattle and sheep. It employs more than 2,500 union production workers.

About 750 union members have been on strike at the Morrell pork plant in Sioux City since March 9, Ron DeRochie, Local 1142 president, said. The next talks are set for May 13. Morrell started advertising for replacement workers in Sioux Falls about mid-morning Friday, using radio and television commercials. "The workers do feel like they're putting their jobs on the line," said Jim Lyons, Local 304A business agent. "But when they've (Morrell) crushed Sioux City like a peanut, they're going to come here" and demand more wage concessions, he said.

Union leaders said UFCW lawyers are hard at work, that sympathy strikes are legal and that it's not entirely clear whether hiring replacement workers is legal. Union leaders know that sympathy strikes cost the company dearly, said Jeremiah Murphy of Sioux Falls, a lawyer representing the Illinois-based meatpacker. Morrell can't continue to operate under such conditions, he said in an interview. Murphy said he didn't know if the sympathy strike will become part of a damage suit Morrell has filed against the union for earlier strikes or if it will be a separate action. "I think it's a breach of their contract.

You are responsible in damages and otherwise if you break a contract," Murphy said. "That attorney must not have read our contractual language," Lyons told reporters. sx Mel Hulleman, longtime Hawarden police chief, turns in one of ti) Jast reports from his patrol car. Hulleman retired Friday. (Phbto by Bill Landau, Journal correspondent) Police chief retires following 27 years oh Hawarden force 1 p- Rli Doug Utech, left, and Mike Sieverding of Sioux City stand along an informational picket line outside the John Morrell Co.

meatpacking plant Friday in Sioux Falls, S.D. (AP Laserphoto) Two more arraigned in drug-making case By Bill Landau Journal correspondent 'HAWARDEN, Iowa Mel Hulleman says he feels safer now than when he was first hired as a Hawarden police officer 27 years ago. enforcement has definitely changed. It used to be that you could pick any guy off the street, hang a badge on him and call him a police officer. But the police academy in Iowa changed all that.

Things are niuch calmer now and we have better trained officers," said Hulleman, who ended his duties Friday as police chief. Hulleman credits the news media for educating the public. "Through newspaper and television coverage, the public has become aware of what tlte law actually says you can or can-net do. We no longer have so much of af 'officer vs. the public' feeling that brought about so many problems be-fdre.

enforcement has become more strict, but the people now know what the law is and that makes it miuch easier to deal with them." ilulleman explains that problems oij the national scene can even effect attitudes toward the local police. "Puring times of war, the draft, and robellion, you could just feel the tension in the town. For whatever raasons, the citizens tend to blame tte police in times of trouble, and fraction developed," he said. jAs he gave an interview recently during one of his last days on the job, it! was evident that Hulleman has no rsgpete about sticking around his lifelong home of Hawarden. "I've always been happy in this town," he only time I ever left for any extended time was for three years during World War II.

But otherwise, I've never, ever consid-efed living else where never. the straight law enforcement' duties, over the years, ilulleman has had to perform some extracurricular activities as chief. Vita Name: Mel Hulleman Age: 62 Birthplace: Hawarden Employed with police department: 27 years Best part of career: Interaction with citizens Worst part: Serving as dog-catcher One such incident created a lasting impression in Hulleman's memory when then Gov. Robert Ray was to be given an official police escort to a parade on Main Street. After meeting Ray on the edge of town and traveling less than a quarter of a mile, the escort came to an abrupt halt when Hulleman's patrol car had a flat tire.

The Highway Patrol had to be radioed in to finish the convoy. "That was really embarrassing, but comical. The governor was a real sport though. He got a big bang out of it." Looking to the future of law enforcement in Hawarden, Hulleman says he is comfortable about turning over his authority to officer James Landau, 34, a 13-year veteran of the force. "I'm certain in my mind that I'm turning the department over to someone who is very competent, very conscientious, and will do a good job." To occupy his retirement time, Hulleman plans on spending more time in his garden, which sprouts everything from vegetables to trees.

That's where visitors can find Hulleman and Mary, his wife of 35 years, nearly every night until sunset. As for the rest of his leisure time, Hulleman plans to continue building model ships, flying radio controlled planes and traveling around the country. "The Good Lord willing, I'm going to have a bunch of years to have some fun," he said. utticials seized equipment in the; process of making a batch of am- protamines with a potential value of $220,000. Also seized were several barrels of phenyl acetone (phenyl-2- propanone) with the of manufacturing 400 pounds of am- phetamines.

One officer said the manufacturer's price would be $16,000 per pound or $6.4 million. Other items seized included $20,000 in cash, equipment used in the manufacturing process, three vehi- cles inside and outside of the garage, a trailer, and the garage itself which was estimated to be worth $10,000. Officers said the factory was sup- plying amphetamines to a three-state area, including Sioux Falls, Fort Dodge and Omaha. Lester Paff, assistant U.S. attorney, made public the federal in- dictment Friday after the arrests of Johnson and Bekish.

The indictment charges that on March 17 Kepka, Trice and Johnson picked up a barrel of acidic anhydride, a chemical used in the manufacture of amphetamines. It also charges that Johnson helped pick up chemicals April 23; that Rasmussen was in the garage overseeing manufacture of the chemicals on April 23, and that Bekish carried two bags of chemicals into the garage and was present during the manufacture of amphetamines. 1 tract offer. When asked if anyone had reported for work Friday, Lyons said he didn't think so. "Good union people honor picket lines," Lyons said.

Morrell got wage concessions of $2.44 an hour from its Sioux Falls workers in 1983 and $3.23 an hour in wage and benefit cuts in Sioux City, Lyons said. Many workers lost their houses and went through personal turmoil because of wage cuts while the company then sped up production lines and ignored safety standards, he said. People in Sioux Falls know what Morrell workers have gone through and won't try to take their jobs, Lyons predicted. When asked if union leaders took into account the possibility that Sioux Falls union members might lose their jobs, Lyons said, "We don't see it thatway." He said he thinks it would take "a tremendous amount of people" to run the Sioux Falls plant during a work stoppage. If the company tried to run just one part of the plant, it would lose lots of money because of the overhead costs to keep the plant open, Lyons said.

Ted Steadman, a Morrell vice president from Chicago, was not available for comment Friday. Sioux Falls union members also honored a picket line set up last August by striking Morrell workers from Arkansas City, Kan. At the request of the company, a federal judge ordered the union back to work, but higher courts later ruled that sympathy strikes cannot be stopped by injunctions. Sgt. Jeff Paulsen, who confronted Hamilton and the brothers and subsequently arrested McKettrick at the Ross Street residence, said he read all three men their rights.

After doing so, he said, he heard McKettrick stating he stabbed someone, but had done so in defense of his brother. A knife found in the bushes next to the Ross Street residence has been identified by Andrea Uehling as the weapon with which she was stabbed. No iron bar or pipe was found by police, who walked Hamilton through the route he took while chasing McKettrick. Prosecuting County Attorney Michael Hobart is expected to continue presentation of his case Tues day before District Judge Richard Vipond. I i Agency honors foster parents Lutheran Social Services honored foster parents Friday night at its annual Foster Parent Recognition dinner in Sioux City.

Speaking on "Why a Commitment to Foster Parenting" were Wayne and Sue Lundgren; Sheldon and Roxanne Hamann discussed "When a Child Goes Home," and Harvey and Delores DeBoer talked on "When a Child Leaves in Anger." The Lundgrens, Hamanns and DeBoers are foster parents. Foster parents who were honored for 10 years of service were Jim and Barb Bobier and Bob and Marene Meeves. Bill and Cheryl Ellis also were honored for their 12 years of involvement in the foster parents program. Smoke detector averts tragedy A working smoke detector alerted an apartment dweller Friday morning to an arson-caused fire, and helped avert injury and major damage to property, firemen said. Lt.

James McCrory of the Fire Prevention Bureau said Evelyn Dahl, who lives in an upstairs apartment at 1222 Douglas heard the upstairs smoke detector alarm, smelled smoke, and phoned the emergency number 91 1 at 10 minutes past midnight. Firemen contained the fire on the first floor of the two-story frame dwelling, and said there was some smoke damage in the first-floor hallway, and a small amount of carpeting was burned. McCrory said a person or persons unknown set fire to two cardboard boxes and a spare tire stored under the enclosed staircase. The investigation is continuing. Prison terms for Sioux Cityan Sioux Cityan Martin Raymond Schon has been sentenced to two five-year prison terms after pleading guilty in Woodbury County District Court Friday to two drug-related felonies.

Schon, 29, 111 17th was originally charged with five felonies three counts of delivering a controlled substance, marijuana, and two counts of delivering a controlled substance, LSD and pleaded guilty as part of a plea agreement to one count each of delivering marijuana and delivering LSD. The three other counts are to be dismissed. District Judge Dewie Gaul sentenced Schon to five years on each count, to be served concurrently. He also ordered Schon to pay $930 restitution, court costs and attorney fees. Mittimus is set to begin June 9.

Construction workers OK contracts "The bricklayers settled today, and that wraps everything up," Tim Swanson, director of the Master Builders Association said Friday of contract negotiations between six major Siouxland construction unions and the area's three general contractors. The bricklayers union was the last to complete negotiations. The other five unions had ratified their two-year contracts prior to the start of Friday's work day. Reconstruction will close street Fourth Street from Wesley Way to Water Street will be closed for about six weeks, beginning Monday, for street reconstruction. Appropriate detours will be posted and motorists are asked to drive with caution in the area.

The closure begins at 8 a.m. Plane la wsuit settled By Harvey M. Sanford and Kathy Hoeschen Massey Journal staff writers Police nabbed two more men Thursday in connection with the local manufacture of amphetamines with a potential value of $6.5 million. Hazen Arvid Johnson, 41, 1012 11th and Michael Max Bekish, 39, 1308 Dace were arraigned before U. S.

Magistrate Paul Deck Jr. on charges of knowingly or intentionally conspiring to manufacture amphetamines, and on possession of chemicals with intent to manufacture controlled substances. Each count carries a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison, a $1 million fine or both. Johnson and Bekish were released on $10,000 signature bonds, awaiting trial June 29. On April 24, city detectives, uniformed policemen and federal agents swooped down on a garage at 330 W.

27th St. and arrested Rudolph Kepka, 52, the property owner, Roger Rasmussen, 32, of Titonka, Iowa and William Trice, 30 of Sergeant Bluff. Kepka, Rasmussen and Trice were charged with conspiring to manufacture amphetamines, and with possession of chemicals with intent to manufacture controlled substances. They also have been freed on $10,000 signature bonds. DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) Here is a record of action in the Iowa Legislature on Friday, May 1, the 110th calendar day and 78th session day of the first session of the 72nd General Assembly.

EXPENSES Lawmakers collected their last $40 daily expense check Friday and learned a list of about 20 "must do" measures that top legislative leaders will require them to pass before this year's session ends, probably next week. REGENTS The House approved and returned to the Senate a $64.6 million contruction program at Iowa's three major public colleges. SPEEDING A House-Senate conference committee agreed to a compromise plan boosting the speed limit to 65 mph on most of Iowa's interstate highway system. BUDGET The House Appropriations Committee approved and sent to the full House a measure authorizing $1.7 billion in state spending. Lawmakers said the plan major changes when the measure gets to the floor for debate early next week.

BUDGET The Senate approved 32-14, and returned to the House for consideration of an amendment, a bill YANKTON, S.D. (AP) Tom S.chrpder's $2.1 million lawsuit against an airplane manufacturing company has been settled out of court after Schroder won a verdict in federal court. Schroder, of rural Yankton, was piloting a chartered Cessna 210 that crashed June 16, 1981, shortly after taking off from the Sioux Falls airport. A pregnant woman on board was. killed.

Two other passengers vere injured. Schroder, who was left with permanent injuries, sued the Cessna company for negligence in design of Cts model 210 aircraft. Last September, a jury ruled in his favor the lawsuit. The aircraft company appealed, Uehling armed with pipe, accused testifies but an out-of-court settlement was reached this week. Schroder's attorney, Mike Stevens, refused to disclose terms of the settlement, but said, "It wasn't much less than the original award." Schroder said Wednesday he was pleased the case was finally settled, but offered little other comment.

just as soon keep this as quiet as possible," he said. "Most people do not understand what is involved and it would take too much explaining to make them understand." During the trial, Stevens argued that the crash was caused by two defects in the plane that prevented fuel from getting to the engine. Cessna's attorneys argued that Schroder ran out of fuel. Sgt. William Zellers took the witness stand Friday and related information from the statement McKettrick made at the police station hours after his arrest.

In the statement, McKettrick said that while at his house late Jan. 31, the 16-year-old girl was asking for a knife and saying, "they're coming," according to Zellers. McKettrick looked out the window, saw the trio coming toward the house, and pushed the girl and his brother, Randy Bugh, into the bedroom. 0 Shane Uehling entered first, carrying a pipe or bar about 20 inches long and an inch in diameter, according to McKettrick's statement, and McKettrick grabbed a baseball bat in defense. In the scuffle, both were struck with the instruments, McKettrick told the officer, and he thought setting next yea's budget for social services, public health and prison programs.

TRAPPING The Senate refused to accept the House version of a bill setting hun- ting and trapping regulations, sen- ding the bill to a House-Senate conference committee. BUSINESS The Senate Business and Labor I Relations Committee approved a bill creating a new unemployment com- pensation payment system for businesses, to replace the existing! system that has been criticized by the U.S. Department of Labor. APPOINTEES I The Senate approved 44-0, and! returned to the House for con sideration of an amendment, a bill requiring future gubernatorial appointees to reflect gender balance on state boards and commissions. courts The Senate approved 44-0, and; returned to the House for con-; sideration of an amendment, a bill" providing office space and other; physical facilities for the district court administrator.

REAL ESTATE The Senate approved 43-0 and sent to the governor a bill specifying persons who are to be served notice of forfeiture of real estate. he saw a knife. Andrea Uehling has testified that Shane Uehling entered the house unarmed, he was attacked by a bat-wielding McKettrick, and all three were sprayed with Mace by Bugh. Referring to the statement, Zellers said when he questioned McKettrick about Mace, the defendant said the trio must have brought it with them. Hamilton has told jurors how he and the Uehlings were not armed when they entered the house.

He said he chased Bugh out of the house, then turned to see Andrea Uehling coming out with a wound to the stomach, followed by her brother, who was being stabbed in the back by McKettrick. Hamilton then chased McKettrick and Bugh to a residence at 1410 Ross St. BKathy Hoeschen Massey Journal staff writer A. police officer testifying in Kenneth McKettrick's first-degree jnurder trial said Friday the defendant stated Shane Uehling entered Jils house armed with an iron bar the nightof the fatal stabbing. The 19-year-old McKettrick is on Irial for allegedly murdering 22-yearold Shane Uehling with a knife Feb.

'l after Uehling, his sister, and his roommate, DeWayne Hamilton, came looking for Uehling's girlfriend. McKettrick is also charged with attempted murder, willful injury and )wo counts of assault while participating in a felony for allegedly tabbing Andrea Uehling in the abdomen and threatening Hamilton With a knife..