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1 Sunday, February 28, 1 988 the Rapid City Journal 3 tCELO to expand Rapid City operations and grow with it and bring CBS programming to the entire area out prime time, not an hour ahead as now, said Nord. 1 KELO's new $500,000 transmitter is 60 times more powerful than the one now on Skyline Drive. "The increased coverage Is 40 miles beyond that which we currently have," said Nord. KELO's current range is about 20 miles, said Lee Helsel, vice president of engineering of the Sioux Falls based broadcasting company. Helsel would happen within six months." KELO eventually plans "for a portion of the Big News to be not strictly Rapid City but western South Dakota," Nord said.

"Rapid City Is the second largest city in the state and Pennington County is the second largest county in the state, and we have great faith In the future of not only the Hills area but also all of western South Dakota," said Nord. "We would just like to be part of It added that the reception to the east was "pretty noisy." When the new transmitter goes on line, KELO will broadcast here under tentative call letters KBLO. According to Helsel, KELO Is working under this timetable: Mid-March, replace the top 100 feet of its tower; Mid-May. Install the new transmitter in a new 1,024 square feet building; Summer, expand offices at 2497 W. Chicago St.

for a broadcast studio, including a control room, to be be used for news broadcasts and some production of commercials; Sept. 1, the new transmitter is on line. Nord said the Sept. 1 date was not firm, "but It will be this fall." As for prime-time programming, Nord said, "There's a lot of things that have to happen and to be done. If it doesn't happen with the Inception of the operation of the transmitter, it Ken Baka Suff Writer KELO-Land Television of Sioux Palls is investing about $1.7 million to ex pand and improve Its Rapid City operations, said Evans Nord, com pany president and chairman.

The investment includes a new transmitter and building, new tower, and a studio. Also, by this time next year, KELO should be broad casting prime-time CBS programs at ii i 1 -y-" New computer enhances couple's printing business I v-C? Baka Staff Writer When Working Woman magazine asked its readers whether computers really helped small businesses, Linda Walters answered a loud yes. Walters reply touched off an editor's curiosity. So, in its March issue, Greg Walters the magazine profiled Walters and JGrelind PhotoGraphics ft Typesetters of Rapid City, the company she operates with her husband, Greg. Although the industry is often associated with mechanical presses and typesetting equipment," the Walters said they quickly realized the benefits of computers.

For instance, during July Greg spent 40 hours building a computerized pricing program for their said Linda. They also used programmed computers for accounting, direct mail and letters. The Walters' newest computer is a Macintosh S.E., a $6,000 device that makes desktop publishing less expensive and more creative than a $100,000 typesetting system bought earlier, she said. A Macintosh was used to publish a book about gold mining. The book also was written on a Macintosh by Joel Waterland of Lead.

Waterland 1 Linda Walters shows off a new computer that she says enhances thp capability of her printing business and does it less expensively. (Staff photo by Ken Baka) there," Nord said. The company also recently spent about $72,000 on a microwave site near New Underwood to reinforce KELO's feed from Sioux Falls, said Helsel. KELO began broadcasting here in 1981. KELO also operates KPLO-TV In Pierre and KDLO in Florence in northeastern South Dakota.

ShopKo opening March 2 ShopKo, which opened Its Rapid City store last Monday at 1845 N. Haines will have a grand opening at 9 a.m. March 2. Clowns and costumed characters will be on hand to entertain children. Adults may register to win one of five 10-speed bicycles that will be given away.

The first 1,500 people entering the store will receive ShopKo brand products. The first 50 people who visit ShopKo's optical center will receive $5 coupons. Attending the grand opening will be Mayor Keith Carlyle, Miss South Dakota Najla Ghazi and ShopKo officials. Customers can register to win a trip to Disneyland, said store officials. The winner will be selected at 10 a.m.

March 9. Also, customers can register to win $50 coupons for the store's optical center, a year of free drug prescriptions, seven black and white TVs, shopping sprees, and children's toys, including a child's wagon, a radio-controlled car, and a stroller. From 2 to 3 p.m. March 13, costume character Perfume Pretty Barbie will hand out Barbie tumblers and stickers. Portman likens his overhead walkways to canals in Venice, Italy, and once boasted that eventually "you will be able to get off a plane at the Hartsfield (Atlanta) International Airport, get on a train, get off at the Peachtree Center station, and go to any of these hotels without ever putting on a topcoat from plane seat to bed." His other landmarks Include the $375 million Embarcadero Center in San Francisco, the $500 million Renaissance Center in Detroit, and the $90 million Westin Bonaventure Hotel In Los Angeles, that, like the Peachtree Plaza in Atlanta, is often viewed as the city's signature.

There also are shopping complexes in Shanghai, Singapore, Jakarta and Malaysia. until 1983. Separately, it was learned that an attorney for the Free Evangelical Church, 1124 Kansas City is working to straighten out the legal status of the Snow White. The church owns the land. George Redenbaugh had leased the building and business from the church but sold it to Paul C.

Wiley, and the lease transferred, said Redenbaugh. Wiley, who could not be reached for comment, closed it Sept. 1. Information for the Business World column must be received by p.m. Wednesday.

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grand Architect's designs of downtowns puter world is to convert the Macintosh so it can set type on the Com-puGraphic machines, which spit out paper strips of photographically set type. "Some people In the industry are fighting changes like this," Linda told Working Woman. "I think that's foolish and limiting to the business. I've never had any fear of the equipment; rather, I've been scared that someone else would get there before us." The Walters, who previously operated printing businesses Pierre, Brookings and in Minnesota, consider Simpson's Creativ Printers of Rapid City their main competitor. Simpson's has a four color press.

Grelind's does not. The Walters are not in the quick-printing business. "It's well served already by other businesses in town," Linda said. Grelind PhotoGraphics Typesetters is the r.ult of a merger of Grelind PhotoOuohics and the former National Publishers, a textbook and marketing company for National College, said Linda. Greg "runs the backshop and I run the sales," said Linda.

Most of the business is devoted to commercial printing, but about 20 percent is in typesetting and between 5 and 10 percent is in book Linda said. Is the business successful? "Yes, we've been here for what's this? Our eighth year and growing every year," said Linda. changing Architect-developer John Portman poses behind a model of his latest project. (AP Laserphoto) Row Richards sales representative, has been promoted to local sales manager, responsible for all local sales. He supervises a staff of six Rushmore State Bank has promoted Sonla Andrews to assistant cashier in charge of data processing.

She joined the bank in 1981. Trained: John Ogllvte of Rapid City, a driver for Schneider National Carriers has successfully completed braining at the Schneider Na iqy- 9X in 1 xlfefB Apple to unveil storage device Scripps Howard News Service Apple Computer Inc. is about to introduce a new storage device that will dramatically increase the capability of its Macintosh computer, industry sources say. The product, which stores hundreds of times the data of today's disk drives, may turn personal computers into electronic libraries. The product is a CD-ROM (compact disc read-only memory) drive that resembles a typical home stereo compact-disc player.

In fact, Apple's drive can be used to play music as well as store data. Apple would be the first major computer company to sell a CD-ROM drive, which would give the industry a boost, say analysts and Industry participants. sent the copy over the phone to Grelind's Macintosh. The Macintosh permits the operator to design pages on a screen and works well for book publishing and long formats, said Grelind's next step into the com He has focused on saving cities from decay, battling the perception that cities are unsafe and congested. "What we've tried to do is take these land masses we call blocks, tie them together and open up the heart so that we have these great land masses that are orchestrated and developed for people to stroll with comfort and convenience and safety," he said in an "He'll be seen (by history) as terribly important for several reasons," said Tim Crimmins, a Georgia State University professor.

"I would guess that in the next 25 years, downtowns are going to be a major area of development, and John Portman will be one of the people we talk about," Crimmins said. Portman says his buildings, with their trademark indoor atriums, waterfalls, trees and artwork, are vlken Kennison i Gill's Sun Inn in Rapid City was one of 150 Best Western governors who attended a meeting at company headquarters at Phoenix to plan for the company's future marketing direction. Gill is an appointee of Best Western's board of directors and represents Best Western hoteliers in South Dakota and the immediate region. Promoted: Jim Dldler, KEVN-TV i John A. Bolt Associated Press Writer ATLANTA John Portman's career began by converting a parking garage into a showroom.

In the nearly 30 years since, he has shifted the center of downtown Atlanta six blocks, earned a place in textbooks -for his atrium hotel design and merged the roles of architect and developer. Now 63 years old, Portman has just paid $47.5 million for 9.5 more acres of downtown Atlanta land, adjacent to his showpiece Peachtree Center complex, where he plans another "very important building." 1 His projects, totaling more than $5 billion, have changed the face of Atlanta, and excited or appalled Detroit, San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York, Singapore and Shanghai. the look designed for people. Critics see uninviting concrete and glass giants, whose inconspicuous entrances shut out the world. He talks about "exploding space," bringing nature indoors and fulfilling mankind's desire to be free, yet controlled.

But urbanologist William H. Whyte sees Portman as the chief offender among modern architects whose work shuns the "messy and chaotic" city in favor of an "internalized, controlled environment." Such arguments inspired attacks on Portman's Marriott Marquis Hotel in New York City a mammoth new convention hotel that crowded out two stately theaters and shut out much of the natural chaos of Times Square. Andrews Unk tional Advanced Driver Training Center at Green Bay, Wis. Retired: Herbert M. Aslesen, architect and one of four owners of The Alliance of Architects and Engineers of Rapid City, has retired.

He will continue in private practice and be a consultant to the company but not an owner. Aslesen had been with the. company since 1981. John G. Link will assume the company's leadership.

Link is project architect for the tanU'Vi: One of the things that has set Port-man apart is his involvement as a developer in many of his projects, a dual role considered almost unethical In the '60s. Now it's accepted practice. The Atlanta Market Center is the foundation of his empire of 10 companies gathered together under family-owned and operated The Port-man Cos. The company does not normally release financial figures, but a spokesman said a 1985 estimate of $400 million in revenues from various interests wasn't out of line. The Market Center is a complex of two multimillion-square-foot buildings, with a third under, construction.

It is connected by above-ground walkways to the seven-building Peachtree Center. new airport terminal. i Business Changes Craig Timm, the food and beverage director at Alex Johnson Hotel, has bought the now-closed Bodega II restaurant, 3939 Canyon Lake and will reopen it as the Daisy Dell, a family restaurant. Timm tentatively plans to open the restaurant March 15. In the 1970s, he had worked at the restaurant when it was known as the Daisy Dell.

The restaurant seats 49 people. Timm will be the chef and will specialize in turkey dishes, he said. The menu will include take-outs. It will be closed on Mondays. Tentative hours for the rest of the week are from 11 a.m.

to 9 p.m., he said. Timm had operated the Snow White Drive Inn, 1123 St. Joseph Business world Elected: Jeffrey L. Vlken, a partner -in the law firm of Finch, Vikeii, Viken .4 Pechota, was recently elected president of the. Black Hills Criminal Defense Bar.

-i New: Larry Kennlson joined Dain Bosworth Inc. as an investment executive in the company's Rapid City office. Kennlson most recently was a loan officer with Norwest Bank of Rapid City. James Row also has joined Dain as an investment executive. Row had worked with the U.S.

Treasury Department and for former U.S. Sen. James Abdnor. Honored: Charles Richards of Rapid City, a marketing representative for Blue Cross of western Iowa and South Dakota, was honored for outstanding new group accounts for South Dakota in 1987. vf Returned: Jerry GUI of Best Western.