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fi: Cityn W-VP High set students vva campuses le r-i r- 10 i id r- CO 03 r- u. JeWcs, lead 3-2 Black Hiils Information and Perspective Since 1878 CO ui 10 ox oa CO 'Got str .1 xTx ti Tni UN PA C-1 r'Vv'b III rescue ILoin By Kevin Woster Capital Bureau safely IVW li Pressler Swanson But Swanson said he simply was trying to build a landfill that was found to be environmentally safe and in the public interest by a state environmental board that regulates such operations. Lonetree was granted a disposal permit by the state Board of Minerals and Environment in 19S9. But the permit and a five-year renewal never were used. Opponents took the issue to court and brought it to the 1990 general election, where SDDS lost.

The project is on hold facing a second public vote this November. Swanson said he did not plan to fight any more political campaigns. "I think we're going to be clogged up with initiatives and referendums that could stretch on to the horizon," he said. "And I'm just not going to play that game." Instead, the tribes could help build Lonetree and SDDS could help the tribes with a growing trash disposal problem, Swanson said. And the $3 a ton disposal fees that SDDS would See Lonetree on page A2 Pressler said the proposal was a "diabolical" scheme to deny the public control over whether millions of tons of trash from other states should be buried in South Dakota.

He said it targeted Indian reservations because of their special jurisdictional status and troubled economic conditions. "The trouble is, this circumvents the law," Pressler said. "It's a sneaky, backhanded way. They're feeding on a problem. They say they're trying to help economic development, when all they're trying to do is get a dump.

"They're rather greasy types who are trying to do a deal," he said. AP Photo Endeavour shuttle astronauts, from left, successfully capturing the wayward Richard Hieb, Tom Akers and Pierre satellite in this NASA television photo Thuot hold onto the lntelsat-6 after Wednesday afternoon. it's showtime Satellite 1 PIERRE Beaten at the election box and stymied in the courts, developers of the controversial Lonetree landfill near Edgemont now are looking for help in their development plans from Sioux Indian tribes. But what they got on Wednesday was strong opposition from Sen. Larry Pressler, Pressler said his office had learned that South Dakota Disposal Systems (SDDS) President Hunter Swanson had contacted officials of the Lower Brule, Rosebud and Oglala Sioux tribes with a proposal to save Lone-tree.

In it, Pressler said, the tribes could purchase hundreds of acres of SDDS land south of Edgemont for $1, then contract with SDDS to operate the landfill and share in the revenue. If the land were placed in Indian trust status, it essentially could be outside state jurisdiction and free of the initiative and referendum process that has stalled the project so far. City doctor disputes report on Caesareans By Paulette Tobin Journal Staff Writer A local obstetrician disputes a report claiming doctors sometimes form unnecessary Caesareans for their own convenience and financial gain. "In our area, where we are really lacking in physicians, we are all so darn busy we don't want to do any more," said Dr. Raymond Burnett, chairman of the department of obstetrics and gynecology at Rapid City Regional Hospital.

In addition, a good number of Caesareans are performed at the request of women who have had one previously and who want them for subsequent births, Burnett said. Burnett was responding to a report by Public Citizen's Health Research Group, founded by consumer activist Ralph Nader. It said half a million unnecessary Caesareans were done in the U.S. each year, sometimes just for the convenience and financial gain of doctors and hospitals. See Doctor on page A2 Elks Theater back; 1 st show is Friday By Dan Daly Journal Staff Writer to steady it while they attached a bar that could be used as a handle for the shuttle crane.

The crane, operated by Bruce Melnick from inside the cabin, gently lowered the 12-by-17-foot satellite onto a rocket motor that was to be used to propel theasUU infa itiiroper It was the first three-man spacewalk ever, and NASA's reputation as a can-do agency had been riding on it. It was a victory that NASA needed in its defense of humans in space. Success had eluded Endeavour's seven-member crew on two previous days. But the emergency plan, executed by Thuot, Thomas Akers and Richard Hieb, worked beautifully. The three spacewalkers stood in a triangular formation.

Thuot was on a platform held by the shuttle crane, Hieb was on a sill at the edge of the cargo bay, and Akers was balanced on a pole straddling the bay. All three men were anchored to their posts by foot restraints. Hieb locked the capture bar onto one side of the satellite, and then Thuot clamped on the other end. The handle, called a capture bar, failed to work on the two earlier rescue attempts, on Sunday and Monday. The capture was accomplished just before 6 p.m.

MDT. The Endeavour had just passed to the southwest of Hawaii, 225 miles high and traveling at 17,500 mph. After waiting for almost a half hour for the satellite to come into the right position, Hieb said, "Let's do it!" Almost as one, the three put their hands on the Rescued lntelsat-6, it's new booster rocket in place, was to be shot into a higher orbit today. Sy Marcia Dunn AP Aerospace Writer CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. Three space shuttle astronauts reached up with their gloved hands Wednesday and caught a 4'i-ton, slowly spinning satellite in a risky but successful effort to save the craft.

"Got it!" shouted one of the spacewalkers, Pierre Thuot. "Houston, I think we got a satellite," shuttle commander Daniel Brandenstein said from inside Endeavour. At the last minute, there was a hitch in the long salvage effort. When it came time to release the satellite from the shuttle early today, the electrical latches did not release at first. On the third try, they did.

"I tell you, that old boy didn't want to go, did he?" said South Dakotan Sam Gemar of Mission Control. "I'm not sure what happened. This has been one heck of a day." The rocket booster on the satellite was to be fired later today, sending the errant craft into its proper orbit. The satellite had been stuck at a uselessly low altitude for more than two years. Earlier, the spacewalkers had held onto the Intelsat-6 satellite fcr 1 Vi hours one complete circle of Earth been completely remodeled, from new theater seats to an "ultra-stereo" sound system.

The opening night lineup begins at 7 p.m. with "Stop or My Mom Will Shoot," starring Sylvester Stallone. At 9 p.m., "Medicine Man," with Sean Connery, will hit the old theater's 40-foot screen. Saturday afternoon's 12:30 matinee will be the animated film, "An American Tail: Fievel Goes West." Then "Mom" and "Medicine Man" will alternate at 3 p.m., 5 p.m., 7 p.m. and 9 p.m.

On weeknights, each feature will be shown once, with the first show at 7 p.m. and the second at 9 p.m. Andrews said that schedule would continue, with most movies generally running about a week. Some, like "Beauty and the Beast," which starts May 22, will stay on longer, Andrews said. "Prince of Tides" also is scheduled to be shown during the Elks' second week.

A staff of 16 has been hired out of nearly 350 who applied, he said. After nearly 2'A years of silence, the downtown Elks Theater will come to life again Friday night, reviving a big-theater tradition in Rapid City. The Elks closed as a first-run movie theater on Dec. 31, 1989. Its new owners, a group of local investors, will reopen it as a "sub-run" theater.

As a sub-run, the Elks will sell tickets for $1.50 and concessions for discount prices. Its films already will have made the rounds of first-run theaters but are not yet out on video cassette. This theater will be somewhat of a throwback to the pre-shopping mall days, with balcony seating, room for 600 people and the largest screen in South Dakota. For an old theater, however, just about everything is new, according to Doug Andrews, the Elks' new owner. Since it closed, the theater has Mmmrmu a have to raise $50,000 to $60,000 to move and restore the B-36.

Fund-raising already has begun, said Walt Roetter, a former chief of staff at Ellsworth and a member of the foundation's board. Moving the B-36 will be no small task. With only two of its engines left, the aircraft is unflyable, and it weighs 162,000 pounds. It also is 160 feet long and 47 feet high at the tail, and its wingspan is 230 feet, which is even wider than the Air Force's giant C-5 cargo plane. Ironically, a C-5 might transport the B-36 to Ellsworth, probably in eight huge chunks.

If the C-5 is unavailable, the B-36 will be shipped by rail. See B-38 on page A2 for the Air Space Museum at Ellsworth. The museum's B-36 is now at the Southwest Aerospace Museum at Fort Worth, Texas. Ron Alley, curator of the museum here, recently visited Fort Worth. He said the Texas museum had been unable to raise enough money to maintain and display the B-36.

Some Texans have objected to shipping the B-36 out of state, including a Fort Worth newspaper columnist, but Alley said he thought the deal hfld been completed. The Air Force Museum Program decides where to display its historic aircraft. The Ellsworth Heritage Foundation, which operates the museum here, will Only four of the bombers made still survive. By Bill Harlan Journal Staff Writer A rare B-36 Peacemaker bomber soon will be moved from Texas to the South Dakota Air Space Museum probably this summer. Only four B-36s remain of the 383 that were built.

The rest were scrapped. About 30 of the giant 10-engine bombers were stationed at Ellsworth Air Force Base from 1949 to 1956, so a B-36 was at the top of the wish list Photo courtof of Walt Roottof the South Dakota Air Space Museum at Ellsworth Air Force Base. This giant B-36 Peacemaker, seen here in Fort Worth, Texas, will be moved to conomic'news od IMm Tcmgrrsw) Qutsidi price spike in March and, according to analysts, left the Federal Reserve with room to cut interest rates to ensure a sustained economic recovery. "Retail sales are not quite as favorable as they look on the surface," said economist Lyle Gramley of the Mortgage Bankers Association of America. He is a former Fed board member.

"The Fed has got to be worried that this recovery doesn't have enough steam to carry it through the second half of the year," he said. WASHINGTON (AP) The government delivered a double dose of better-than -expected economic news Wednesday: a retail sales rebound accompanied by mild inflation in April. Retail sales jumped 0.9 percent to $158 billion, nearly making up for sharp 1 percent decline in March, the worst in 15 months, (ha Commerce Department said. Consume! prices edged dp only 02 percent, held back by falling grocery store prices, the Labor Department said. The report eased concern over a Partly cloudy: Today will be partly cloudy with highs in the upper 70s and overnight lows in the 40s.

Northwest winds will be 10 to 20 mph. Friday will be in the 70s with a 30 percent chance of showers. See map, details on page C8. JOURNALWeather Far current WMfMr Informal Ion noun oar 4 sections People A2 Editorial page A4 Local B1 Obituaries B2 Markets B4 Sports C1-3 Amusements C4 Television C5 Hills notebook CS Comics Living D1 Classified ads D3-8 El Group Theatre will present its final production of the season this weekend. For a preview of "The Merry Wives of Windsor," see Friday's Weekend.

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