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bFarmers warned on fertlizer salespage A4 BSenate settles window tintingpage A5 'Field of Dreams' land openspage A5 The Sioux City Journal Thursday, March 28page A3 Cutshall trial won't help find body "Phelps was trying to put the blame on someone else, like a child does." Prosecutor Jim Smith Murderer's sentencing next month A 22-year-old Sioux City man convicted of first-degree murder Tuesday night will be sentenced on April 19. A jury convicted Elias Waller Wanatee of murdering Kelton "Kelly" Williams Tuesday night. Wanatee faces a manditory sentence of life in prison without possibility of parole. Wanatee was also convicted willful injury and assault while participating in a felony for the Nov. 4 death of Williams.

He remains in custody in the Woodbury County Jail. Two other defendants, Shawn Eugene Denney, 21 and Phillip Henry Creek, 28, were cleared of all three charges in the same trial. Dave Yoder NORFOLK, Neb. (AP) The prosecutor in the Jill Cutshall kidnapping said Wednesday a grand jury investigation turned up new evidence in the case that helped convict a former Norfolk resident. But special prosecutor Jim Smith of Hastings said the evidence is not likely to lead authorities to the body of the girl, who disappeared when she was 9 years old and has never been found.

"If we could have produced a body, that's not the kind of evidence we would have held back for strategic reasons," Smith said from Hastings. David Phelps was convicted March 20 of kidnapping the girl with the intent of sexually molesting her. He was indicted after Jill's mother, Joyce, forced a grand jury investigation by petition. Much of the prosecution's case was based on a videotaped statement Certain statements made by Phelps helped the prosecution's case because they contained clues as to what really may have happened, Smith said. Norfolk Detective Steve Hecker testified that Phelps told him Jill would never get into a car with someone she didn't know.

Hecker also testified that Phelps had said he knew Jill. "It was amazing to me that Phelps would volunteer that. He also told Hecker that he might have had something to do with it, but he couldn't remember. How could you kidnap a kid and then forget?" Smith said. The videotaped interview of Phelps helped the prosecution's case, but it was not the key, Smith said.

There was no one piece of evidence or bit of testimony that was the key to the trial, he said. said. As a witness for the defense, Baumgartner testified he had no part in the abduction and said he didn't even know Jill. "The part about Baumgartner never made sense. Phelps was trying to put the blame on someone else, like a child does.

I was always more than willing to concede that Baumgartner had nothing to do with it," Smith said. Smith said Phelps probably made up a story to get Jill into a car, drove to the Wood Duck Wildlife Management Area and sexually molested her. in which Phelps describes how he and another man, Kermit Baumgart-ner of Lodi, abducted and molested the girl. Baumgartner has never been charged and Smith said he believes Phelps acted alone. Miss Cutshall was last seen the morning of Aug.

13, 1987. Her clothes were found in a wildlife management area about three months later. "Phelps builds stories out of half-truths. Phelps inserted Kermit Baumgartner into the story so it would look like he played a passive role. But that just doesn't fit," Smith olivia poverty affects Volin volunteer Nurse returns to S.D.

work By Loretta Sorensen Journal correspondent VOLIN, S.D. After three years of volunteer service with the Men-nonite Central Committee in eastern Bolivia, Lianne Hovden of rural Volin is home, for awhile anyway. Hovden, a registered nurse, presently is working at Sacred Heart Hospital in Yankton, in obstetrics and delivery. She worked with the Peace Corps in Guatemala for three years after graduating from college. She also spent three years working in a hospital in Texas before going to Bolivia.

"I became interested in working in a Spanish-speaking country when I took Spanish classes in high school," she says. "I went to school with the idea that they probably needed nurses and worked toward that. "It's been an enriching experience because of the variety of people I've worked with. My co-workers in Bolivia were from all over the States and Canada. It's been interesting to see how different people view the world, how other countries view the United 1 the world situation.

It's a stimulating experience to be in another culture." The Mennonite Central Committee, a Christian development organization, does Peace Corps-type work. Its volunteers are made up of various denominations. MCC went to Bolivia in the '50s when Mennonites arrived in the country to colonize lands opened by the government. The migrants had difficulty adjusting to the tropical environment and needed assistance. After helping the Mennonites become established, MCC saw a need to assist Bolivians struggling to live on the edge of the rain forest, Hovden says.

It now works almost exclusively with Bolivians, she says. Hovden says Bolivian workers who lost their jobs when the country closed down a large number of tin mines are the latest migrants in need of assistance. "The western part of the country where the tin mines are is very mountainous," she says. "The capital city is located at 13,000 feet. Around 25,000 to 30,000 lost their jobs five or six years ago when the government closed most of the mines because world tin prices no longer made it feasible to keep them open.

Many of them came to Santa Cruz. They're highland people trying to live in the lowlands." Hovden says lack of basic mental health skills, illiteracy and slash-and-burn farming methods the people practice lead to many of the difficulties they experience. "There were no doctors in the community so we taught the lay people how to stitch a machetti wound, vaccinate kids, and basic skills. (They aren't as skilled) as nurses. They would be similar to our emergency medical technicians.

They know the very basics," Hovden says. MCC did not establish community clinics because lay people are not equipped to maintain them once MCC volunteers move on to a new location. MCC did establish small pharmacies in the houses of lay workers, however. Hovden says MCC also works with educational, technological and agricultural programs in Bolivia. "The main focus of the agricultural program is to establish an economically and ecologically feasible farm system in rain forests that aren't supposed to be farmed," Hovden says.

"When you look at the rain forest, you see all the lush vegetation. You think it should really be unteer work In Bolivia, South America. (Photo by Loretta Sorensen) Registered nurse Lianne Hovden of Volin, S.D., is home after spending three years doing vol Columnist's life follows path of quotes One thing you face when you try Jo write for a living is that the cleverest thing you can come up with has usually been said before and a lot tetter. There's a lot of wisdom in the old "If by Rudyard Kipling is poetic stack of good advice. But wisdom is like strong whiskey: by Ihe time you're old enough to realize how good it is, you're too old to drink it.

There are a few quotes that keep coming up again and again in my life. Here is the list: "When you are up to your hip pockets in alligators, it is sometimes difficult to remember your original intention was to drain the swamp." This is not only the job description of a copy editor, it also tomes in handy in home repair. Everything's fine until you cut a board a quarter inch too short. Rather than cut another board and waste the first, you adjust the board it attaches to. This throws off each joint in turn until you've compensated and corrected and fudged your way into something that looks that it was designed by Picasso in a hall of mirrors.

"Dare to be stupid." Duck's Breath Mystery Theatre. Writing this column, for instance. Don't be afraid to look foolish. The people that will think you look foolish probably think you are already. Just don't make it a way of life.

"The opera ain't over until the fat lady sings." First brought to popularity by coach Dick Motta of the Washington Bullets who came from way behind to win an NBA championship. It means there's always hope, especially since aerobics and diet fads have made fat ladies scarce. For a shorter version, seg Yogi Berra's "It ain't over till it's over." "Don't die stupid." If you have toigo, die peacefully in bed or while saving a 2-year-old from a tree chipper. Don't wrap a golf club around a trie, let the head come around and knock you cold into the sprinkler where you drown. good death is one that appears only in the obituaries not in L.M.

Boyd. This is also relevant in home repair. There are nobler ways to die than to fall off a stepladder because ycju were too lazy to move it and decided the big warning sticker on th top step was directed at people did not possess your finely-honed sense of balance. i 'Nobody goes there anymore. It's too crowded." Yogi Berra, an underrated philosopher.

Sounds dumb but I recall it every time I try to get to a restaurant before or after the noon rush. J'No matter where you go, there you are." Buckaroo Banzai. You can run away from home, you can run away from problems, but you can't run away from yourself any more than you can lift the chair you're sitting on. If we could run away from ourselves, who would we leave behind? "It gets late early out there." Yogi again. Most people spend their lives making the wrong thing sound right.

Yogi always said the right thing but made it sound wrong. "There's no 'there' there." Gertrude Stein. The perfect description of west Texas, Kansas, western Nebraska and other places where, on a clear day you can see forever, but there's nothing worth watching. "It's not the end of the world, but you can see it from there." Garrison Keillor for one. Also the basis of for the last of the Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker series.

The perfect description for central Texas, northeast Nebraska and Missouri, i "Whenever you go somewhere, remember to come back." Kathy Aduddell Yoder and her friend Sue Roe. Good advice for the absent-minded, the feeble-minded and shoppers. i "Oh, mama, can this really be the end. Stuck inside of Moville with the Memphis Blues again? Bob Dylan. It's really Mobile but I don't live in Alabama.

Dave Yoder is a Journal copy ed itor. good, but the soil is really poor and it's the large amounts of vegetation coming off the trees that supports the growth. Once that's gone you don't have the nutrients for the soil and the -moisture that it held in the soil. It's a real fragile system." Hovden says lack of health care for poor Bolivians whose average in-. come is $300 per year posed problems for volunteers.

When people became sick, they would often ask for loans from the volunteers because they knew volunteers had access to money. "They're supposed to have a national health care system, but the country's basically bankrupt," Hovden says. "When you see these people with nothing trying to make it and sometimes it's a matter of life and death, it's wearing." Hovden says the most frustrating thing for her was the fact that the loan for medicine did not solve the basic problem. The farmer's earning power did not increase and the living situations that led to the illness in the first place were not improved, she says. She says many countries and organizations provide volunteers and money for Bolivians, yet living conditions in the country don't seem to improve.

'Sometimes you wonder what we're doing wrong, what we should change," Hovden says. "I'll admit that was frustrating. It seems like it ge ts in your blood to do those kind of things. If the opportunity came I would like to go back. It was very enjoyable work." Nebraskans taking part in huge troops' celebration Pair draw prison terms for drugs Two Sioux Cityans arrested following a raid on their apartment have been sentenced to up to five years in prison each on drug charges.

Randy Dean Grant, 26, and Vonice Lou Ann Macklem, 20, both formerly of 707Vi Ross were fined $1,000 and sentenced to up to five years in prison each this week by Woodbury County District Court Judge Gary E. Wenell. The sentences came after the two persons, originally charged with possession with intent to distribute marijuana and possession with intent to distribute methamphetamines, pleaded guilty as part of a plea agreement to the marijuana count only. The arrests came after police executed a search warrant on their apartment on Jan. 24, 1990 and allegedly found evidence of illegal drug activity.

Man sentenced for failing to appear Sioux Cityan Kenneth Earl Robinson has been sentenced to up to five years in prison for failing to appear for trial on a felony drug charge. Robinson, 18, who lists his address on court records as 2020 W. 19th received the maximum five-year term this week from Woodbury County District Court Judge Gary E. Wenell. Robinson was charged with the class felony of failure to appear after he did not show up for trial March 6, 1990 on felony cocaine charges.

As part of a plea agreement, the cocaine charges, stemming from an incident Feb. 4, 1989, are to be dismissed. He said a huge crowd was expected at the base, where a four-day celebration is planned. President Bush and singer Whitney Houston are scheduled to make appearances on Sunday as part of the program. When the ship arrives, the family will display a large white banner with red lettering which reads, "Welcome Home USS J.F.K.

and Duane." The family received news of Buell's return when his sister, Julie Lundstrom, called a toll-free information service for family members of troops in the Gulf. Buell has been in the Gulf since Operation Desert Shield began in August. He won't be formally discharged until April. A doctor back home in Grand Island, said he's grateful for what didn't happen in the Persian Gulf: major allied war casualties. FREMONT, Neb (AP) A Fremont, family will participate in what may be the country's largest celebration yet to honor troops returning from the Gulf.

Petty Officer 3rd Class Duane Buell, of Fremont, will be on board the aircraft carrier, USS John F. Kennedy, when it pulls into port today at Norfolk Naval Base in Norfolk, Va. Buell's mother, Pat Wheeler, and stepfather, Bob Wheeler, will be two of nine family members attending the national celebration. "We haven't seen the boy since June," said Bob Wheeler. "We're glad that most of us can get out there and see him and celebrate his return.

We're just very Buell's twin brother, David, who completed an enlistment with the Navy last year, said his brother's ship would carry the largest number of troops yet to return from the Gulf. Disney World wants potato LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) -Mickey Potato, a spud resembling Mickey Mouse that popped out of a bag bought by a Lincoln woman, will be preserved and displayed in a place of distinction at Walt Disney World Magic Kingdom. Michelle Lachance bought a 10-pound bag of potatoes Feb. 24 and, to her surprise, found one that bore a resemblance to the famous rodent.

Since then, she and her husband, Joe, have sold the potato to the Walt Disney people for an undisclosed sum. The famous potato is under wraps, literally, after having been sealed in plastic by the Demma Fruit Co. It is in the Lachance refrigerator, awaiting departure. "It's my understanding the Disney people will have it permanently waxed," said Michelle Lachance. John Dreyer, spokesman for Walt Disney World Magic Kingdom in Orlando, said, "Last summer, we bought a cow in Minnesota that has an emblem of Mickey Mouse on her side.

Then a farmer in Iowa had two pigs with the same mark. "Since then people are sending us pictures of dogs, cats, horses, you name it, and now the potato. It's an interesting phenomenon and our guests get a big kick out of it. So, where it makes sense and we find the right match, we've begun collecting the natural occurrences that look like Mickey," Dreyer said. Sioux City native killed in robbery Pay For Your WANT AD In Advance And SAVE In Cash! 3 Lines 7 Days Only 1 300 Extra Llrw Are M.00 Each.

When Paid In Advance MasterCard, Visa or Discovery CALL 279-5092 OR CALL TOLL FREE 1-00-397-3330 store about 10 o'clock Saturday evening. After the shooting, the assailant grabbed the cash register and ran out the front door of the store. The witness said he grabbed his" pistol and fired four shots at the robber who ran behind the store where he dropped the cash register. Hart said Peterson was shot one time in the heart with a 9mm weapon. The coroner reported death was "sudden and instantaneous." As far as authorities know, Hart continued, all of the store's cash was recovered from the cash register which was locked.

Hart said Peterson's death shocked everybody. "He was a good businessman and very friendly." Peterson was born in Sioux City and was a graduate of East High School. He worked at Frosty's on West Seventh Street before moving to Colorado Springs, Colo, in the 1960s. He operated an automotive repair shop there before moving to Albany in 1973. Survivors include his wife, La-Juana Jean, and 19-year-old son, Paul Douglas Peterson, both of Albany.

He was preceded in death by his mother, Eunice M. Daseke. Services will be today in Camilla, Ga. Burial will be in Leesburg, Ga. Sioux City native Douglas L.

Peterson, 57, was shot and killed late Saturday evening during an attempted robbery at his store near Albany, Ga. Capt. Woody Hart, chief investigator for the Dougherty County Police Department, said Wednesday his department is actively investigating the case, but no arrests have been made. A witness told authorities he saw a black man shoot Peterson and then saw Peterson fall down behind the counter in his store, the Bottle Shop. The witness, a longtime friend of Peterson, reported witnessing the shooting as he was driving up to the Tha rm tor non-commtwo agwwn ontf tnftmmot pMf atfranot Sorry, no nrtjnaH an mlf canniiftons.