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Tiiursday, September 14, 1995 Rapid City Journal A2 People Inside today (EVN FOX Switch? People Continued from page A1 Journal also was unable to reach officials at Heritage. Ed Parker said Blackstar was restructured and renamed last year, but he said the original company was founded in 1987 by John Oxendine. Blackstar owns three television stations: WBSF in Orlando, KBSF in Salem, and WBSX in Ann Arbor, Mich. Those stations are affiliates of the Home Shopping Network, Parker said. Blackstar also bought KHGI in Kearney, and three affiliated stations that run the same program ming.

They are currently ABC stations. Blackstar does not now own a station with a local news operation, but Parker said Blackstar would keep the news department at KEVN, which he said was "extremely important" to the company's plans. "We want to be good citizens," he said. Variety pointed out that if KEVN switches to Fox, Rapid City will not have an NBC affiliate. "The Peacock web will either go after CBS affiliate KCLO or KOTA (ABC) or face being shut out of the market," the paper said.

Plump: Thin is best O'Grady Johnson Lake: Continued from page A1 dais, he said, and children could fall off the bridge. Johnson complained that city engineers should have presented alternatives to the island and bridge after earlier objections from aldermen. "The whole thing has been rammed down my throat," Johnson said. O'Grady said he had been involved with the lake project since 1991. Only a few objections to the bridge and island had been raised until last spring when new aldermen took office, he said.

The bridge and island were part of Vision 2012 projects that city voters approved twice, O'Grady said. Alderman Grace Mickelson said she had talked to engineers who said the island was not necessary. She didn't give details. Alderman Jim Kissel provided the crucial swing vote to keep the bridge and island. Kissel recently voted against the project, saying the island obscured views of the lake.

As far as altering stream flows, "I trust the (city) engineers' judgment," Kissel said Wednesday. Recent changes in the island design have lessened its visual obstruction, he said. The current 9-foot-high island will dip to 2.5 feet in the center and rise to 10 feet on the ends. The higher ends will protect the gazebo and bridge footings during most floods. Voting to approve project funding were aldermen O'Grady, C.C.

"Buzz" Knapp, Karen. Bulman, Ken Meisner, Stan Petrik and Jim Kissel. Voting against were aldermen Johnson, Mickelson, Don Kennedy and Vess "Babe" Steinburg. Reeve's Challenge: Dana Reeve, wife of paralyzed actor Christopher Reeve, tells reports Wednesday that her husband is in good spirits but faces the challenges of disabled men and women. She said Reeve, who broke his neck in a fall from a horse, is talking to his agents about directing jobs and hopes to appear at a benefit dinner next month.

TV's 'Sherlock Holmes actor Jeremy Brett, dies Heeding warnings that a national welfare "family cap" would drive up abortions and punish poor families, the Senate derailed a conservative push to deny additional cash payments to single mothers who have more children. NationWorld, Page A3 A Rapid City businessman wonders who left his father's World War I footlocker in his driveway. Page C2 Spearfish's Harvest Festival begins today with the Taste of Spearfish and runs through this weekend. Hometowns, Page C3 A four-day week at Custer schools will be evaluated by a task force named by the school board. Hometowns, Page C3 A former high-ranking official of the Los Angeles Police Department says Rapid City should hang on to the moral high ground now or go the way of other U.S.

cities. Page C7 Attorneys for two South Dakota Penitentiary inmates one convicted in Pennington County asked the state Supreme Court Wednesday to overturn their convictions. State, Page D5 South Dakota locks up criminals at a higher rate than most of its neighbors. The state has 240 inmates per 100.000 population. Page D8 Lotteries Wednesday, Sept.

13 Powerball 11-19-31-32-39 Powerball 9 Doubler: no Estimated jackpot: $5 million Dakota Cash 3-6-13-19-25 Estimated jackpot: $38,782 Tri-West Lotto 1-2-14-20-24-27 Estimated jackpot: $275,000 Cover photo) A golden leaf, fallen from an aspen bordering Grace Coolidge Creek, slowly drifts downstream. Journal photo by Steve McEnroe percent higher than the that of the thinnest women for those who weigh 150 to 160, and it was 60 percent higher for those who weigh 161 to 175. For women this height who weigh more than 175, the risk, of death is double that of the thinnest women. Just how fat is too fat is controversial. The government issued weight guidelines in 1990 that were up to 20 pounds higher than those listed in the Metropolitan Life tables, which had been the standard since 1959.

The federal guidelines are being revised, and the recommended weights are likely to fall. But staying lean is tough. In the nurses' study, only 13 percent of the women were in the healthiest thin category. Dr David Williamson of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention worried that the latest findings will trigger crash dieting among people who are a few pounds too heavy. "Because wis ride to work, and we are not ill with infectious diseases that lower ouir weight, and we don't work nine hours a day in the fields, it may be very difficult to get down to some ideal," he said.

"We should all try to walk more, eat more fruits and vegetables and watch our weight." $3 AP Photc Rebecca Eaton, executive producer of "MYSTERY!" and "Masterpiece Theater." "He'll be missed terribly by us and by millions of viewers who loved him in this roll." Brett's portrayal of Holmes was regarded as one of the finest ever. Tall and dark, with a hawk-like profile and piercing eyes, he seemed made for the part. "A finer Sherlock Holmes has never, and will never, exist," said Sally Head, Granada's controller of drama. 1996! inn limamnia rrn I I net -r -w, -tw ia Hi ir jar.iKii Continued from page A1 Manson said this makes weight second only to cigarette smoking as a cause of untimely deaths among Americans. The report suggests that weight kills largely by increasing the risk of heart attacks and cancer, especially cancer of the colon, uterus and breast.

In the study, nearly one-third of the cancer deaths among the middle-aged women were due to being overweight. "This is a good study 'that demonstrates Americans have an even bigger problem than they thought they did," said Dr. Theodore Vanltallie of Columbia University. The report, published in today's issue of the New England Journal of Medicine, was based on the Nurses' Health Study, which has followed 115,195 women nurses since 1976. The new work challenges the belief, held by some, that very lean people die sooner than those who have more average builds.

Some earlier research found that when mortality figures are put on a chart, they follow a J-shaped curve. In other words, the death rate is a bit elevated for the thinnest folks, drops and levels off for ordinary-size people and then climbs steeply as people approach obesity. The new study concludes that the hook on the is a mistake. The only reason very thin people appear to have a somewhat higher risk is that they are more likely to smoke or to have illnesses that made them lose weight. When only healthy non-smokers are followed over time, the thinnest live the longest.

Of course, death is rare among middle-aged women, no matter what their size. In this study, there were just under four deaths for each 1,000 participants each year. However, the researchers believe that the health risks of being overweight will become even more pronounced as the women get older. In this study, the researchers found that the death rate for a 5-foot-5 woman is lowest if she weighs below 120. If she weighs 120 to 149, the risk of death rises 20 percent.

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