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A1 2 The Sioux City Journal, Thursday, May 30, 1 991 Tribe planning casino gambling Love for Barbie becomes profitable Sibley woman designs, makes clothes 5 5 1 AJ- sewing machine working on the miniature clothes. Rollefson does use patterns, but sometimes she designs her own outfits to keep the clothes up-to-date and fashionable, she said. If she tries something that doesn't quite fit Barbie, she can tailor it to fit Skipper, who is shorter than Barbie. Rollefson has been sewing the Barbie clothes to sell for about a year, she said. Prices vary by the outfit, but most of the costumes cost less than $5.

Her most popular outfits are a wedding dress for Barbie and a tuxedo for Ken. Rollefson sells many of the clothes she makes at craft shows and by word of mouth, she said. tribes with land in Iowa. Iowa officials have to negotiate with Indians all forms of gambling offered on riverboats, Delaware said. One issue is whether high-stakes can be offered on tribal and.

"We've always considered they should have the same kinds of access that's available to people on the river," said Richard Vohs, Gov. Terry Branstad's press secretary. "But that includes the same limits and other regulations." The "Winn-a-Bingo" center, located about 20 miles south of Sioux City, opened in 1984. Before it closed in October 1990, the parlor offered bingo and video gaming. St.

Cyr would not identify the management firm with whom the tribe has been dealing. The tribal office is based in Winnebago, but tribal land is located on both sides of the Missouri River. A land-based casino has been proposed by another Nebraska tribe, the Santee Sioux. The tribe and a Nevada casino hope to operate a high-stakes casino and hotel in Council Bluffs. However, Iowa is not required to negotiate with the Santee Sioux because the proposed site is not tribal land, said Chuck Sweeney, director of the state's department of inspections and appeals.

By Dave Dreeszen Journal staff writer A leader of Nebraska's Winnebago Indian Tribe said Wednesday they have reached an agreement with a management firm to operate a casino on tribal land near Sloan. "We're agreed in principal to certain items," said Terry St. Cyr, the tribe's vice-chairman. "We're not giving out any details until we meet with the state and come up with a compact." Interest in reopening the "Winn-a-Bingo" center has developed since Iowa legalized riverboat gambling. Limited-stakes casino betting on floating casinos became legal April Federal law requires Iowa to negotiate with Indians about offering gambling on tribal land, said Bob Delaware, a tribal relations officer at the Bureau of Indian Affairs in Washington, D.C.

Tribal leaders are set to meet with state officials Monday, St. Cyr said. If the two sides are unable to reach a compact, federal officials would step in to settle the issue, Delaware said. A pact would need the approval of the secretary of the interior. The Mesquakie Indians near Tama also are reportedly interested in expanding their bingo operations to include casino gambling.

The Mes-quakies and Winnebagos are the only By Rachelle Barnum Journal staff writer Charlotte Rollefson loved playing with Barbie dolls as a girl. She still loves Barbie, but now the 11-inch doll is a business for the rural Sibley, Iowa, woman. Working out of her home, Rollefson sews and sells outfits for Barbie, Ken and Skipper dolls. "I have two little girls. They like Barbie a lot," she said.

Rollefson started sewing the doll clothes for her daughters Amanda, 6, and Heather, 5, because she said store-bought Barbie clothes can be expensive and aren't always durable. Each outfit takes about an hour and a half to make, she said. She spends 20 to 30 hours a week at the yS Charlotte Rollefson of Sibley, Iowa, uses a mini-ironing board to work on the Barbie clothes she designs. (Staff photos by Gary Anderson) i 1 s- XL Materials for the Barbie clothes Charlotte Rollefson is making. Riverboat backers see casino as threat 7l Un' 1 are outfitted in by Charlotte Rollefson.

She uses some patterns for her work, but also makes some original creations. By Dave Dreeszen Journal staff writer A land-based casino near Sloan could pose a threat to a Sioux City riverboat casino, backers of the boat say. Nebraska's Winnebago Indian Tribe hopes to offer gambling at its "Winn-a-Bingo" center, located on tribal land about 20 miles south of Sioux City. Those plans are being monitored by Steamboat Casino River Cruises, a Bcttcndorf firm that plans to dock a riverboat in Sioux City next spring. "They have concerns should it turn out to be a full-blown casino," said Betty Strong, president of the local non-profit group that is sponsoring riverboat gambling.

"They feci they would have a hard time competing with that." Carol Heaton, a Steamboat spokeswoman, said few details are known about the proposed Sloan casino, making it difficult for the company to comment on it. "It's difficult to make any evaluations right now about what kind of impact it will have," Heaton said. The tribe has been negotiating with a management firm to operate a casino and bingo parlor. Federal law requires Iowa officials to negotiate a compact with Indians to allow some Making job Fourteen areas in city report power outages Sot 7 form of gambling. Representatives from the tribe and the state are scheduled to meet Monday in Des Moines.

Charles Patton, director of riverboat gambling for the state's Racing and Gaming Commission, said floating casinos could be placed at a competitive disadvantage if a compact would allow Indians to offer high-stakes gambling. Iowa's riverboat gambling law limits individual bets to $5 and daily losses to $200. But Patton said a riverboat and a land-based casino could co-exist in the same region if they have the same stake limits. "All things being equal, I think competition is he said. Arlen Wiggs, Sioux City's community development director, said the city is optimistic the riverboat project will proceed despite plans for the Sloan casino.

"I think it will jeopardize it only to the extent that the developer sees it having an effect on the investment," Wiggs said. Steamboat officials are reportedly ready to begin construction of the Sioux City boat, which is estimated to cost up to $10 million. Plans call for the 1,200 passenger boat to begin operation next April. little over two hours, and another 227 without power for more than an hour. In the 1900 block of Boies Street, 16 customers were off for five hours.

"Around the 3500 block of Aspenwood Street, 72 customers were off about four hours. Trees were taking out our fuses. "In the 1900 block of Ingleside Avenue," Ferrari continued, "90 customers were off for three hours, and on Maple wood Street we had 99 customers out about four hours. In the 2100 block of Jackson street, 100 customers were out of power. At 18th and Irene streets, a tree tripped the line, putting 170 customers out of power for five hours." At 2014 McKinley Leonard and Dorothy March were awakened shortly after 1 a.m.

by the sound of a tree smashing the covered patio attached to the house. "It was a huge maple on a neighbor's property that split and came down. Part of it fell on his boat. The tree stretched for at least 40 feet," she said. "This is the third time this has happened to us," she said, "and each time it was a neighbor's tree." "This is not a bad problem to have.

But where we're really feeling the shoe pinch is (in the area) of people to take care of, for instance, plants in the biology lab, equipment in physics and (similar details) in fine arts," Hazlett said. "When we don't have enough staff to take care of these things. Faculty members end up doing it, and that's not a good use of faculty." New faculty members will be divided among seven departments. The college of arts and sciences will receive 10 positions; the school of education, 10; the school of business, four; the college of fine arts, three; I.D. Weeks Library, one; school of .4 Barbie, Ken and Skipper dolls the latest fashions, all made Victim claims her apartment lacked security from page one Iowa Supreme Court but said Conlin would decline further comment until she had studied the opinion.

The case began in 1985 when the woman, then 20, was raped in her Sioux City apartment building. She filed a lawsuit, claiming the building's landlord, Gerald L. Weiner, didn't provide adequate security. She also said the building wasn't air conditioned, which meant windows often were left open at night. After the rape, the woman quit her night job as a supervisor and took lesser employment during the day because of her fears, court records said.

In addition, a long-standing romantic relationship was ended. She blamed the breakup on "her feelings about the rape," court records said. During a trial, Weiner argued the woman had never complained about security at the apartment building. But in the most explosive issue at the lower court, his lawyers sought to question the woman about her sexual activities after the rape. Iowa has a "rape shield" law that prohibits evidence about a rape victim's sexual history during a criminal trial.

Weiner's lawyers, however, said a civil case is a different issue. The Appeals Court also said landlords must provide "reasonable security" and juries should be free to decide if that's the case. "A landlord is not an insurer against every conceivable act of a third party and his responsibility is limited to providing reasonable security against crimes," Donielson wrote. law, one; and the school of medicine, one. Hazlett said the Board of Regents is aware of the need for more staff members, but changes will not be made overnight.

"The same formula that is used to determine faculty needs is used to determine staff needs. There are pro cesses and procedures to go through and that all takes time," Hazlett said, adding that getting the necessary sian members could take two more years. Although it is late in the year to nire new taculty members, Hazlett 'said he believes it may be easier to tind faculty members than staff members. Brandon Cox, left, Tyson Kahler and Jeff Kunkel, right, move library books from the East using the hydraulic lift they made (Staff photo by Gary Anderson) easier 1 5-. "i teachers to encourage students to return their library materials as soon as possible.

She said she would need time to complete the annual spring inventory before boxing and moving all of the books. Rubis examined the bookshelves and gave the matter some thought before presenting the problem to Metals 2 students Cox, Kahler and Klemme. "We just sat down all together one day about two or three weeks ago. I posed the problem to them, took them up and showed them the stacks and told them what had to be done," Rubis said. "Through the process of just talking out ideas this is what we came up with.

Nobody can take credit for it. Everybody worked along," he said. Cox built the orange engine hoist and the three students together designed the apparatus needed to modify the machinery to lift the bookcases, Rubis said. To move the bookcases, a framework comes down on top of the case and hooks onto a bar which is slipped underneath the High library for the project. from page one from a house to the south.

Beeck's lawn chairs flew off to the west "and limbs from trees next to us flew to the south. There was a circular pattern right there." Lloyd Eichacker, Akron's director of public works, said, "We've been busy all morning repairing broken electric wires. I just haven't kept track of how many homes were damaged." Ray Ferrari, Iowa Public Service Co. regional manager, said the wind that snapped off the eight power poles played havoc with trees all over Sioux City, resulting in 14 areas with power outages. By mid-afternoon Wednesday, linemen called out at 3 a.m.

had tiprighted the broken poles and were about to put new poles in the ground and transfer all the wires and hard-Ware from the old to the new. "We had about $20,000 in damage on those eight poles," Ferrari said. "In all, we had about 1,000 cus-Jomers who were without power for a East students create device to move books from library USD gets 30 new faculty positions By Rachelle Barnum Journal staff writer The day after their graduation, Brandon Cox and Tyson Kahler were back at work in the East High School library. Their task: Help move the library's 20,000 volumes into an art room. The books, along with all the shelves, card catalogs, tables, chairs, computers and carpeting must be moved out of the media center before crews can begin work removing asbestos from above the library's ceiling, said Peg Brady, media director for the school.

The task isn't as overwhelming as it might seem, thanks to the combined efforts of Cox, Kahler, fellow 1991 graduate Brian Klemme and teacher Jerry Rubis. The four built and modified an engine hoist to lift and move the library's bookcases shelves and books still intact. "Originally we were going to have to box all the books," Brady said. At a staff meeting earlier this spring, she urged the school's top of the case. A hydraulic cylinder is used to lift the bookcase.

"We pick it up from the top, rather than try to lift it from the bottom. We're pulling it up like a crane would," Rubis explained. "Then we roll it down the hall and set it down where we want it to be." Because a bar was placed under the top of the bookcase, books on the top shelves had to be boxed, but all other books remained on the shelves. "I'll have about 140 boxes of books from the top shelves I hate to think what it would have been like if all the books had to be boxed," Brady said. The plan had only one flaw.

Loaded with a bookcase, the hoist was too tall to fit through the library and art room doorways. The problem was solved by cutting a small rectangular hole in the tops of the two doorways. Once the library's 80 bookcases are moved to the art room, safe from the asbestos removal project, Cox will take the machine home and use it as an engine hoist, he said. By Loretta Sorensen jJournal correspondent VERMILLION, S.D. Three straight years of increased enroll-Inent has allowed the University of South Dakota to get approval to add new faculty positions.

The new positions will bring to 70 the number of new faculty members added over the last three years. Dr, Stephen Hazlett, vice president of academic affairs, said while the school is appreciative of state Board of Regents' approval of the faculty additions, the university. is concerned about the need it brings for additional staff support..