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College minority numbers risepage A4 Woman recounts cave experiencepage A5 Area The Sioux City Journal Thursday, Oct. 26, 1 989page A3 Report: Open riverboat licensing process Si ing riverboat gambling license applications is a provision that "nothing in this rule shall be construed to require the commission to grant access to any record which the commission or its staff considers confidential." Royce said that is virtually a blanket guarantee the commission can close the entire process to public scrutiny. "We want to make sure that doesn't happen," said Royce. The Rules Review Committee is a House-Senate panel that oversees state agencies. Royce wants revisions to make sure the public has access to the application process.

He said racing officials should specify what they will keep secret and limit that to "bona fide trade DES MOINES (AP) Regulations governing applications for riverboat gambling licences allow too much secrecy, a legislative report issued Wednesday said. The licensing procedure "seems to imply that most information in the applications will be treated as confidential" and that is dangerous in dealing with the gambling industry, the report said. i "I want them to define what's confidential and why," said Joe Royce, a staffer for the Administrative Rules Review Committee. "That's stuff that needs to be made public, particularly when you're talking about the gambling industry." Included in state Racing and Gaming Commission procedures for tak committee to demand that the process be opened. The competition for licenses is hot because it is not clear how many the commission will allow the first year.

Royce also said the commission should set up a formal licensing procedure because it may have to go to court to defend its choice. "Iowa is rarely faced with a situation where only a limited number of licenses can be issued while applications may be numerous," he said. The Racing and Gaming Commission next year will begin issuing licenses, and the boats are scheduled to be launched in April 1991. Royce said a court battle could set back those times. secrets." He said officials should spell out procedures for handling disputes about what will be public and what will be secret.

One of the biggest fears voiced by critics of the riverboat gambling law is that organized crime will infiltrate boat operations. Royce said officials need to make it clear that lists of investors will be disclosed. While state officials are required to conduct background investigations of those seeking licenses, public scrutiny is also needed to assure confidence in the operators of the boats, Royce said. The licensing procedures already have produced disputes about what should be public. Under the law, a non-profit group must sponsor the floating casinos and that group is free to pick a company to operate the boats.

The groups must get a license from the Racing and Gaming Commission. Non-profit groups along the Mississippi and Missouri rivers are taking proposals from potential operators. Franklin Fried, a San Diego-based developer, complained that Dubuque officials were keeping secret almost everything about the proposals, robbing residents of the chance to help make a decision about an operator. Royce said that type of dispute is inevitable if the proceedings are secret. He urged the legislative Ed Porter Professor's hymn will help college celebrate birthday DYSLEXIA A disturbance of the ability to read.

With school conferences just around the corner there is a good chance that some parents are going to hear the word dyslexia used by teachers when explaining why their student is having trouble learning in school. Studies in different parts of the country have found that of the 10 percent of students who have learning disabilities, 2 percent of them will have dyslexia. I have it and so do a couple of our kids. I didn't realize that I had dyslexia until one of our children was tested in school after he showed signs of being unable to read or spell in about the third grade. It was then that I recognized thef symptoms they were finding in him were the same problems I have had for years.

I thought it was normal for words and letters to sometimes appear to be backwards. I have trouble with the letters of words switching around or of appearing to be reversed. Many times I will write the letter when I mean the letter When reading, I will say the word "saw" as the word "was" or as something that isn't a word at all such as "aws." When I was in grade school, the teachers would tell my parents that "I wasn't trying or that I was just being lazy or daydreaming" when I was unable to finish written reports. They couldn't understand why I hated to read orally in class. Only in recent years have-educators found that there is a disorder that can cause a child to be unable to read as well as most of their classmates and that he or she isn't just being lazy.

The word dyslexia can't even be found in most dictionaries that are more than 10 years old. By Cindy De Glopper Journal correspondent SIOUX CENTER, Iowa Professor Dale Grotenhuis has put to use his musical expertise by composing a new hymn to help Dordt College celebrate its 35th anniversary as a Christian, liberal arts college. An accomplished song writer, Grotenhuis was commissioned by the college for the choral work titled "Lord, You Have Been Our Dwelling Place" last spring. Grotenhuis is a senior faculty member at Dordt and has published more than 30 musical works. Grotenhuis was given the freedom to select his own theme and chose Psalm 90 for the anniversary piece.

It speaks of God's love to His people in the past and His faithfulness in the future. "An anniversary is not only a look back at history but a springboard to the future, which makes the words of this psalm fitting," Grotenhuis explains. Once he selected the lyrics, Grotenhuis began the process of wedding them to the score. "Well-wedded means they are at home with each other," he says of the process of setting the words to music. It took three long days to compose the hymn.

"I do my creative work in the morning when I'm freshest and use ii ll Jj Dordt College professor Dale Grotenhuis rehearses with some college students in preparation for this week's festival concert in honor of Dordt's 35th anniversary. (Photo by Cindy De Glopper) the afternoon to touch up my work, Grotenhuis says, adding that in taiking with other composers, he's found that to common. "For many, originality comes best in the morning." The four-stanza hymn is written for a full band and choir. The opening measures of the work feature the pulsing of timpani drums and the lower band instruments symbolizing a heartbeat or measuring man's life and motion through time. The rest of the work builds as the upper register of the organ is used.

The audience joins the band and choir for the third stanza. Grotenhuis says he hopes that people feel sober, yet hopeful when they hear the hymn. He says it is intended to be an "upbeat" song. "Thirty-five years is something to be grateful for and gratitude makes for joy," he says. Writing music is both a professional and a personal experience for Grotenhuis.

"I cannot study God's word as intensely as I need to for such an undertaking without experiencing spiritual growth in my life," Grotenhuis says. "Lord, You have Been Our Dwelling Place" will be featured at the 35th Anniversary Festival concert to be presented at 8 p.m. Friday in the Dordt College chapel. The concert also will include selections by Dordt's chorale, choir and band. A public reception will be held in the gym sifter the concert, including a display of historical documents and photos.

Dordt College had its beginnings in 1937 with proposals and recommendations for a Christian college. World War II delayed the plans, but after the war, the movement gained strength due to the critical shortage of teachers for Midwest Christian schools. Organized in 1953, the Midwest Christian Junior College began instruction in September 1955. Five faculty members taught the 35 students of the first class. In 1956, the name Dordt College was adopted, and in 1963 the college became a four-year institution able to grant bachelor of arts degrees.

Today, the college offers more than 40 majors. Injury suit filed against Turbo-Slide The parents of a teen-ager who was injured on a set of bleachers are suing the bleacher owners. niv Marjeanne Ann Gastro and Dwaine Francis Gastro of Sioux City filed suit in Woodbury County District Court individually and as parents of Kari Lynn Gastro, 15. Defendants are Turbo-Slide Inc. of Sioux City and Keith Magee, Jerry Magee, Joel Magee and Marco Glisson, owners andor employees of the amusement business located just northwest of the intersection of Highway 75 and Leech Avenue.

According to the suit, on June 21, Kari was at the business when, at the invitation of its employees, she assisted them in removing bolts from bleachers that had been constructed by the defendants on the site. In manufacturing the bleachers, the defendants used a chop saw or similar abrasive-wheel saw on iron parts, which left the bottom of the iron "extremely sharp, rough, jagged and dangerous to anyone coming in contact with said surface," it is claimed in the suit. Kari was leaving the bleacher area "when the inside of her leg came in contact with said rough and jagged portion of said angle iron cutting and injuring (Kari) in a painful and permanent condition," the suit states. Kari's parents allege in the suit that, as a result of the defendants' negligence in the manufacture of the bleachers, Kari sustained severe and permanent personal injuries, pain, physical disability, medical and hospital expenses and other damages. They are suing for a judgment of an unspecified amount as will justly compensate Kari for her injuries and damages.

The Gastros are also suing individually for medical expenses they have incurred as well as loss of companionship of their daughter they ciaim to have suffered as a result of her injuries. Voman wins $12,650 in Keno Lottery SOUTH SIOUX CITY Penny Smith of Sioux City won $12,650 Tuesday evening in the South Sioux City's Keno Lottery. Smith won the prize while playing Keno at the Attic Lounge in South Sioux City. She bet 50 cents and the eight numbers which she had picked won the biggest prize ever awarded to date in the 13-month-old lottery. Dick Pruehs, operator of the lottery, said Smith would have won the lottery's maximum prize of $25,000 had she wagered a dollar.

The lottery prize was presented to Smith Wednesday at the Attic. Disabilities Act to be discussed U.S. Sen. Tom Harkin has announced his staff will conduct a meeting on the Americans with Disabilities Act at 7 p.m. Saturday at the Machinists Hall, 1720 W.

First St. The meeting will be one of six the Democratic senator's staff will conduct around the state to discuss provisions of the legislation authored by Harkin and expected to be signed into law by year's end. The meetings, scheduled in cooperation with the Iowa Coalition for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Persons, will explore the implementation of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and the ways the new law will affect hearing-impaired or deaf persons. A deaf interpreter will be present at each of the six meetings. In addition to Sioux City, meetings also will be held in Des Moines, Davenport, Council Bluffs, Fort Dodge and Cedar Rapids.

Harkin, who is chairman of the Senate Subcommittee on the Handicapped, said a member of his staff will make a presentation on the ADA at each meeting and answer questions. The ADA has passed the Senate and is awaiting final action in the House. The bill extends civil rights protection to the 43 million Americans who are disabled. If signed by President Bush, it will prohibit discrimination on the basis of disability in the areas of private sector employment, public accommodations, services provided by state and local governments, telecommunications and transportation. Acting North Sioux police chief named NORTH SIOUX CITY The North Sioux City Council has approved a recommendation by Mayor Robert C.

Davis that part-time police Officer Gregg Barnes serve as temporary acting police chief. Davis made the recommendation because Police Chief Dan Knight has submitted his resignation. As yet, however, the council has neither accepted nor rejected Knight's resignation. The six council members present at a Monday night meeting failed to accept or reject Knight's resignation on a 3-3 tie vote. Acceptance or rejection of his resignation would have required a five-vote majority of the eight-member city council.

The council is planning to meet in special session Monday night. In addition to Barnes, the city has one full-time police officer, Jim Clark, and two part-time officers. Clark, who has been with the department for approximately one year, is in Pierre attending the South Dakota Law Enforcement Academy for certification. The two part-time officers are David Smith, who has been with the city's police department since July, and Richard Andrews, who was hired this month. Radio station sale awaits FCC OK The sale of local radio station KMNSKSEZ by a Connecticut corporation to a Maryland partnership is awaiting approval of the Federal Communications Commission.

Station Manager George Pelletier said Wednesday that Sage Broadcasting sale of the station at 901 Steuben St. to Legend Communications of Iowa Limited Partnership has been filed with the FCC. Once the FCC approves the sale, which it is expected to do, the sale becomes final. Pelletier said that the change in ownership will not affect the station's personnel or format: "We'll stil be playing country on the AM and still be rocking 'n' rolling on the FM." An application was filed Oct. 13 with the FCC in Washington, D.C., to assign the broadcast station licenses of KMNS-AM 620 and KSEZ-FM 98 from Stamford, Sage Broadcasting to Columbia, Legend.

The general partner of Legend Communications of Iowa Limited Partnership is Legend Communications Corp. of Ohio, whose officers, directors andor more than 10 percent shareholders are James H. Wallace W. Lawrence Patrick, Stuart Carwile and John C. Quale.

Legend owns other radio stations throughout the country. Sage has owned the Sioux City stations for approximately three years. Air Guard plane lands safely Emergency crews and law enforcement officers responded to an "Alert Two" call from Sioux Gateway Airport Wednesday afternoon, but the aircraft involved landed without incident. Lt. Col.

Tom Considine of the 185th Tactical Fighter Group of the Iowa Air National Guard reported a Guard plane was having trouble with wing flaps shortly after it took off on a training mission. "We believe it is best to have an aircraft with such a problem return immediately from the mission, and put the plane on the ground where we can deal with the problem," Considine said. "There was no damage to the aircraft, no parts were missing, and the engine worked fine," he said. As teachers become more aware of the reading problems they are also becoming more understanding. If a dyslexic child spells the word "bad" as "dab" they know what he was try-r ing to write.

Very little is known about the disorder except that it is more common in boys than girls and is most likely, to be found in a left-handed person. The person doesn't outgrow it, he or she only learns how to cope with it. Our, kid will never be able to read much above a third- or fourth-grade but he is still going to college and is getting B's and C's in all his classes. He has received a great amount of help from a group of people whom we have never met. They are readers for a non-profit volunteer organization based out of.

Chicago called Educational Tape Recording for the Blind Inc. It was started nearly 25 ago by Vivette Riskin, a mother who helped her partially sighted daughter, Jerejyn, get through college by.tape recording all her college textbooks. WJth a $500 check from her husy band, she bought three tape1 recorders, 50 reels of tape and opened an office in the front bedroom of her home. She then wrote to 75 of her friends and acquaintances asking theiti tfrhelp with money and to read, Seventy of the people responded. At thatlime all of their help was to the blind or partially blind.

85 percent of the students they help are in some way learning disabled; Twelve of the students they-have helped have received Ph.D. degrees. If aStudent wants to have a book ref; corded, he or she can write to Educational Tape Recording for the Blind, 3915.W. 103rd Chicago, 111., 60655, or can call (312) 445-3533. The organization has many books alr4dy recorded in its library so that the tapes can be sent out right away.

Council schedules hearing on resurfacing 11 streets unleaded fuel but that leaded gasoline will no longer be available for city vehicles and equipment. If necessary, additives will be used for older vehicles that would otherwise be harmed by unleaded fuel, he said. Heard City Manager Hank Sinda report that police will be asked to fuel By Bob Gunsolley Journal staff writer The City Council has decided to hold a hearing on whether to resurface 11 streets with less than standard asphalt paving and assess the cost against abutting property, owners. The city normally resurfaces existing concrete streets without assessing property owners, but has been discussing this week what to do about deteriorating streets outside In other cases where the organization the city normal maintenance re- the citys doesn't have the b()oVn filet the stuft denfc must send in a boofe and have sponsibility. someone record it on tape and then'- when the 11 streets were paved a mail back both the book and the tape.

number of years ago with asphalt Then all the student has to do then less than the standard thickness, is put the cassette tape jf property owners, in return lor reauc-playfer and listen to theoot' ed assessments, agreed to take re read. sponsibility for maintaining them on standard paving with curb and gutter. Councilwoman Joanne Grueskin said it would be setting a bad precedent to reduce city standards on those streets, while Councilman Bob Scott said light, surfacing would reduce city maintenance costs. Although the council ordered that the streets be included in a paving hearing to take place after the first of the year, it put off until the hearing a decision as to what type of resurfacing to require. In other business, the council Approved the, purchase of two 1,250 gallon-a-mihute pumper fire trucks from Smeal Fire Equipment Co.

of Snyder, at a net cost of $208,024 after a total trade-in of $15,000. They will replace a 16-year-old pumper and a 22-year-old pumper. Authorized the issuance of $4.7 million dollars worth of bonds to finance a long list of capital improvements previously ordered by the council. The bonds were sold last week to Hutchinson, Shockey, Erley and Co. of Chicago on its low interest bid of 6.45 percent, or $2,124,000.

The bonds will be paid off from several revenue sources, including property tax increment on new development and water, sewer and parking funds. Awarded Lessard Contracting Inc. of Sergeant Bluff a $152,617 contract to install two 1,200 gallon underground fuel tanks at the Central Maintenance Garage to replace five existing tanks. It then' reduced that cost by $29,000 with a change order. Fleet manager Curt Miller said the two tanks will contain diesel and their vehicles at the beginning or end of their shifts so that they will not have to leave their disttricts during their shifts to go to the central maintenance garage.

The Murphy, Mayo report on the police department had suggested that they fill up at commercial pumps in. their districts, but city fleet manager Curt Miller said the CMG charges city departments six or seven cents a gallon less than commercial pumps. Appointed Mayor Loren Calendar and Councilman David Paulsrud to represent the city on the board of the new non-profit corporation that will operate a riverboat here. Referred the proposed vacation or lease of Sanford Exchange Park at West 17th and Geneva streets to the new Parks and Recreation Advisory Board for review before council action. Voted to place the Sioux City Youth Commission under the direction of the city's recreation director and authorized the appropriation of $10,000 to the commission for use in planning youth recreational activities.

Awarded Grandy-Pratt Co. a contract for property insurance covering city buildings and personal property. The policy will provide $100,000 deductible insurance up to a maximum of $300,000 a year for a premium of $58,265. At the end of the school year, the tapes must be sent back to Chicago so thewcan be used by someone else. TJe cost to belong to this non-profit group is only $25 per year The group has readers all over the United States and is looking for more.

It is, in need of readers in the fields of computers, math and chemistry. AH of its readers are matched to the Subject they are reading and are required to take a voice test. Recordings for children under the fifth grade are made from January to June. From June to January they work at recording books for fifth grade through Ph.D. If know of anyone who can use this service please tell them about it.

They may not be able to read this to find out for themselves. fyj Porter is a Journal their own alter mree years or so. The result, as told to the council by Public Works Director Mike Dooley, is that the streets have had little or no maintenance for a number of years and are beginning to deteriorate. The streets are Plum Creek Road west of Broken Kettle Road; Blair and Colon from Fifth to Sixth; Washington from South Fairmount to South Rustin; Chicago from South Rustin to South Irene; Country Club Boulevard from the 4600 to the 4800 blocks; West Kings Highway; 28th east of Prospect; Ruby south of West 17th; Avery Way from Laurel to Davis, and Walker from Lorraine to Hayworth. The council was divided over whether to resurface the streets with a "light type surface" of less than three inches of asphalt or require i.