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Coffee maker causes fire page A5 on pumpkin Hispanic population grows page A7 bcJ -y up East title MATIQDus OPOLTtTGs 17 (aiiys) i'l Nrii ittA Phils wrap Batcheller Benson ments for Piper Jaffray was the only board member nominated for Benson take seats won in election Food Batcheller, ByLynnZerschllng Journal staff writer Sioux City stockbroker Mark Stuck was elected president of the Sioux City school board Tuesday night and Flora Lee was elected vice president during a meeting marking several changes for the district. The board annual reorganization meeting followed the swearing into office of newly elected board members Barbara Benson and G. R. Bob" Batcheller. By Pat Mack Journal staff writer Here's a hint on how badly negotiations are going to allow Jones tatercable and aooland Cablecom to continue to carrying KMEG's signal.

KMEG General Manager Bruce Lewis installed an antenna Monday night at his home so he is assured of being able to receive his station's signal after midnight Oct 5. Tuesday is the deadline for net work affiliates to give cable companies retransmission consent to continue to carry their signals. If agreements are not reached by then, the cable companies will no longer be able to carry the signals. I not very encouraged at this point in time," Lewis said of reaching an agreement KCAU will be on all area cable systems after the deadline because the ABC affiliate has reached agreements with the two cable companies If foreablttelks Double checking yjW i the president's post. He succeeded hannah Brewer.

Board member Cynthia Deck cast the only dissenting vote against Stuck's election. She did not submit another name for consideration. Following his election, Deck congratulated Stuck and pledged to work with him. Lee, supervisor of prevention and community service for St. Luke's Gordon Recovery Centers, was unanimously elected to serve as vice president.

technicians were 99.8 percent accurate. That error rate is not statistically different, he said. "What we were frying to prove was that the technicians were at least as accurate as the pharmacists, and we did," he said. The key, he added, to designing an effective distribution system is to ensure that three or four people would have to make errors before a mistake could get to a patient. Not only are medications and doses checked by at least two people in the pharmacy, they are checked again on the hospital floor by at least one nurse, Olthoff said.

Now, a pharmacist must check page B1 Cnc Vol. 130 No. 46 Sioux City, Iowa Today's readers: 120,853 CITY EDITION Batcheller, owner and general manager of Concrete Products and Benson, director of finance for Aalfs Manufacturing Co. were elected Sept. 14.

They defeated incumbent Peggy Anderson, who came in third in the five-person race. Rosenthal did not seek re-election. Batcheller presented the board with a check for $712, which he said was left over from his election cam- SEE AUSTIN continued on page A1 4 the work of a technician, which takes two to three hours every day, Olthoff said. If technicians were allowed to check other technicians, it would free the pharmacist for other duties, he said. That's the goal of Olthoff proposal to the Iowa Board of Medical Examiners.

It would also reduce the costs of operating the pharmacy since technicians' salaries are lower than those of pharmacists. St. Luke's employs 16 techni- cians and 1 1 pharmacists. The SEE TASK continued on page A1 4 sulin are key predictors for diabetes, Smith said. Studies have shown that more than 32 percent of the school children in the Winnebago and Omaha tribes are overweight, and that these children have a 34 percent rate of overproduction of insulin.

With intervention, however, they can avoid diabetes, Smith said. Four programs are organized for Winnebago, Walthill, St. Augustine and Macy public schools. Students will first be screened for height, weight, blood pressure and glucose level, Smith said. They will be led through a walking wellness program, weight control classes and school lunch intervention.

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Page A7 2 KOOIKER WILL START Aaron Kooiker of Sioux Center has been moved from backup left guard to starting left tackle In Iowa's starting lineup. Page B1 WU 'I' I 2 Today, mostly sunny with south winds at 5 to 1 0 mph. High 60 to 65. r-iyrlf-fliVHiit Here are the numbers drawn Tuesday in the $1 00,000 Iowa Cash Game: 2-5-8-12-16 Someone fed the wrong speech Into the teleprompter, so the first nine minutes of President Clinton's speech last Wednesday were given from memory and off the cuff. No matter how much you liked Reagan, can you Imagine him being able to do that? How about Quayle? Debra Frees 20C3 Summit St.

No. 208 Sand your mini with your nam, addresa and dayttma talephon numbar to Mini Editor, Tna Journal, Box 118, Sioux City, IA SI 102. 3 SECTIONS 34 PAGES Abby Ann Landers Boyd Bridge Classified Ads Comics Editorials Markets Horoscope Movies Obituaries Puzzle Sports TV Listings Weather A11 A12 A12 A1 B9-B13 A11.A12 A10 B6.B7 A9 B5 B3 A12 B1-B4 B5 A2 in i. mil. i a 4 They will sue- ceed boards membersPeggy Anderson and I James Rosenthal.

The meetine also was the first for new Superintend- ent James Austin, who immediately oegan 10 put nis Stuck own stamp on district operations. Stuck, vice president of invest- from which it wanted compensation, Jones and Cablecom. But KMEG and KTIV have not reached agreements with Jones and Cablecom. KMEG is seeking com- Sensation for providing its signal to ones' subscribers in Dakota City, Homer and South Sioux City, while KTIV wants compensation for Jones' subscribers in Walthill and Wayne as well. KTIV also is seeking cash from more than 100 cable companies in the area.

It has agreements with more than 20 of them. KTIV presented Jones a new offer Tuesday afternoon, and KTIV General Manager Bill Turner said he its continuing to negotiate with Jones and Cablecom. "We're talking," Turner said. "But it's tough sledding." KMEG and KTIV want cash from SEE AOS continued on page A1 4 "We have a couple potential locations, but nothing concrete yet," Kilstrom said. "We'll know more by the end of next week." Disaster Services will use two buildings in Climbing Hill storing its three emergency vehicles in the secondary roads maintenance shed, and setting up office space in the former Woodbury Central School.

The Sheriffs office currently uses the school as an substation. The Board of Supervisors approved the plan Tuesday on a 4-0 vote. Supervisor Larry Clausen was absent. Brown said he was pleased with the temporary solution. Using two buildings should work, he said, since they are less than one block apart.

"We have some painting and cleaning that needs to be done, but we can get moved in within the time allotted, he said. The secondary roads department was in favor of sharing the Climbing Hill shed, Brown added, since it wouldn't displace any critical snow removal vehicles. sales and picture-taking with a Letterman cutout. Mayor Jim Wharton will proclaim Letterman an honorary citizen of Sioux City in recognition of the recent renaming of the abandoned City Hall at Sixth and Douglas streets as the Late Show's new home office. The mayor's proclamation along with newspaper articles, television stories, gifts and Siouxland-made products will be placed in a box for shipment to Letterman at Sioux City's branch office in New York.

A Top Ten List of reasons why Siouxland is glad to be the Home Office also will be read during the party. It's speculated Sioux City was selected for the Home Office honor Curtis Olthoff, chief pharmacist at St. Luke's intravenous doses for patients. The role of Regional Medical Center, checks the work of technicians is under discussion by a new state Colette Turgeon, a technician, who is preparing task force. (Staff photo by Gary Anderson) Study proves accuracy of pharmacy technicians By Stacy M.Casey Journal staff writer Woodbury County Disaster Services will have a new office in Climbing Hill by Nov.

1. Faced with eviction in less than five weeks, Disaster Services Executive Director Gary Brown has been trying to find a new location for the emergency agency. Disaster Services was leasing space at 1432 Leech but the owner recently sold the building and ended its lease. Brown's answer came last week when he negotiated a deal with the Secondary Roads and Sheriff's departments, which both operate buildings in Climbing Hill. Siouxland Health Services, which also lost its lease at 1432 Leech has been unable to find a new location, said Steve Kilstrom, executive director.

The ambulance service stores one ambulance in the Disaster Services building to serve the south side of Sioux City. Slow: Oiy will elebrate with 'Home Office' partv Winnebago Hospital wins grant for diabetes program By Kate Thompson Journal staff writer Pharmacy technicians are as accurate as pharmacists in verifying that proper doses of medicine are delivered to hospital patients, said Curtis Olthoff, chief pharmacist at St. Luke's Regional Medical Center. A study performed at the hospital examined the accuracy of technicians in checking the work of other technicians who prepared the "unit dose carts" that are sent to the hospital floor. Olthoff said the pharmacists were 98.9 percent accurate and because it is the nation's only network television market where the Letterman program is not aired by a CBS affiliate.

Instead, KMEG-TV has been filling Letterman's time slot with syndicated shows while Sooland Cablecom has been carrying the program since its Aug. 31 debut. It will no longer do so after Oct. 5. "So the timing is right to have a first and final Home Office party," said Miller.

Noting that petitions will be signed by local Letterman fans for presentation to KMEG to air the program, Miller said the "real purpose of the party is to have a lot of fun and celebrate all of the national recognition Sioux City's been getting." WINNEBAGO, Neb. Diabetes prevention programs will start in four area schools this week after the Winnebago Hospital received a $717,000 grant. The grant, from the National Institute of Health, will fund a four-year program of preventing diabetes in children. Diabetes among Northern Plains Indians is an epidemic, said Michele Smith, coordinator of the diabetes program at the Winnebago Hospital. In the Winnebago and Omaha tribes, she said, one-third of adults have the disease.

"With this grant, we hope it means that children of the future can enjoy health and well-being without diabetes," Smith said. Obesity and overproducing in Letterman designation brings bash A Home Office party is planned Oct. 6 to celebrate Sioux City's recent designation as Home Office for the new CBS program, "The Late Show with David Letterman." The party is scheduled from 5 to 7 p.m. at the Sioux City Convention Center and all Siouxlanders are invited, said Bruce R. Miller, chairman of the Sioux City Convention CenterAuditoriumTourism Bureau.

The celebration will feature live entertainment, a cash bar, T-shirt.