Queen City Mail from Spearfish, South Dakota • Page 1

I lii vwwi I. y4iitoi ar Siir uov shoivi 'Spearllsh's hometown newspaper for 94 years' 0 00 ic supports Spearfish, Lawrence County, South Dakota Wednesday, January 18, 1984 Vol. 96 Number 3 18 pages 25 cents proposed facility ByBfflKanerBi Surrey result concerning th proposed physical education facility at Black HUli State Coilef were tabulated thi put week, with tt majority at xwyuura waring to city Pjug a portion of Sit buUsg costs. According to th surrey, resident alio indicated overwhelming support for th community naa of an Indooroutdoor wtmmlng pool la Cm (acUlty. These and other survey result wart made public during Monday night' city council moating.

Councilman md Romkema reviewed the reeulta and commented that the number of survey returned waa axcaDcnl Ha said that out of MOO surveys lent out about month ago, 1,31 were returned, an everell response rate of Sf percent A breakdown concerning the question whether the dry hould help fliwiceth coat of the facility abowed that 731 residence, or 44 percent, ware In favor, with 171 ar X7.t percent opposed. A total of 342 people, or 11 percent did not know. The highest priority for the facility wai lifted aa the iwimniing pool with HO responses. Following that came the weight room and wurdae equipment with 804 poalUve reepeneee and third place was the need for meeting room lor community evente and convention with 471 response. Th other prioritiea, listed in order, art aa follow: facillUei for a conwnmny-wlda program of Individual health and Ktneee; baaketball court; enior dtHenaadult eierclae and physical fttnaaa facilltlea and program; dance area; Indoor track; tacouet-ball and handball court and volleyball court.

Seventy-nine percent of the answering the questionnaire indicated that they would on the facility, with 42 percent earing they would ue ttts or more time a month. The aenior ciUxen were the largeet contingent to reepond with percent of the survey tent in from thi eefment of the population. (CeeJhaaed oa page I) Two local men indicted I in shooting incident poaching," Juo (aid. "They war going to take it upon themselves to stop Two St. Ong men were Indicted by a grand jury earlier thi month connection with a ahooting Incident Involving three Spearfish resident.

Lawrence E. Hartley, 36, and David Trexona, 31, were each indicted for two counta of aggravated aaaault and one count of poaaeeaion of a controlled weapon The two men will be arndgoad Jan. 3 la Eighth Circuit Court, Deadwood. The Indictment waa handed down Jan. f.

According to Lawrence County Deputy Sheriff Nell Juto, one of the investigating officer, thi 1 what allegedly happened: Shortly after midnight. Dm. 31, Hartley and Tmon were driving on county road near St Onge when they saw people In a vehicle ahead of them using spotlight "Allegedly, they (Hartley and Trexona) had thought they were them." The defendent' vehicle then drove along dd the other car and tired a lawed-off shotgun a they pasted by. A (hot went through the left side of the car In which Todd Marshall, 30, and his brother Shawn, 17, and ICtvin, 13, were sitting. Hartley and Trexon than triad to turn around and drive wck toward the Marshall boys' car but got stuck.

Stunned, but not Injured, the Mar-ahalla drove Into Spearflih, and contacted the police. A highway patrolman wa the Brat of-flcer or the cene. Hartley and Trexona were still stuck. They were arrested and detained overnight In the Lawrence County Jail In Deadwood. They were released the next morning on $20,000 unsecured bond.

0 Meet five-year-old Beth Axevedo. She attends school it the Spring of Life Christian Education Center outside of Spearfish. Springs of Life la one of four private school that offer alternatives for area parents who want something different for their children than public education. reatiish Chinook wind made record booh in 1943 -v Tv been t.r;mdt:2. It I havtattnadescydM EaJe Bell's mum tLs w- the qnestka, "Do yon 1 1-.

assk the bx tor Sooth Dikota I'sd I representative in the primary eteciiaaf" ta and htt wire, Vv' reiiirBtd to trem Denver to bean living whEe B-1 in, ml i -director efpofcUcer efft UA Department of Hamao Service' K0onal eee. re. Job effective Jsst M. The O-yeajvoU nfattstrstion arcoicte "anespected career tatties tod aaresesn a tmnem ha reaigiiatiQa, baa res assnaga fe2's r.r I fessSswa bt I ir 1 11 FsSa iV tahsisn ortir gr I lxd acd iJsrtift Bsixaon ts na a cto? a vice ta South -ITSdsy by Cart Ladsea and Eaoeaaa 1 statewide darter operate the service 1 efsacetSen berl -9 Jock RabU ti.4, at tht pamut S'TB to aad Pimm mpmt i 9m PUC tofci to a ttatemsnt of Lad I Csancce. ilii fSssndal rfrt iw name tf c.

bPfJnse title, Leo's la Btaktaf, Us i weak, the Si 'rwwiC--Bisaacitii koorrabUa htlssn was as3si a. taw to grant tut etartar. Awatar resceoce te laid T-' of the Nertharn t.sU 1 dlactsaa the pri Iwy r-the gittnd watir 'i 1 doneintbeKiAatl I'. The rnfati is a cerr- fort of th UJS. Swrey, the Ks IT- fancy SrW3U-4 a-'-t Natisral Resoaim Ks to evalaate the nsj ef i Za sn of t-1 rs, LnwinaBa a Kadi If wSsnfesCa ai't en-r, Ht IWfvftf.

"Thai I fSow oaths, Soever psrsaa tn tr Vvfm tostefer waaafcsovv. utt are gsSng teds le 1 i Jatti JjlU J-a. IS 41 9 Christian schools fulfill an area need Bv Mike Springer In the Spearfish area, three new religious acbool have opened In the last several year. In all, there are four local Christian school. Some parents send their children to those school because they want them to be taught religious or moral value, or to they can receive more Individual attention.

"I think people need to be taught what'a right and wrong," said Spearfish resident Bob Chord "There need to be some absolute and aome value. America wss built on some of those things." Chord' belief spurred him to help establish the Northern Hill Christian School, the newest of the new wsve of private, Bible-based school. Chord 1 the primary teacher at the Northern Hill School, which began teaching last fall Eight-year-old Gary Peter la one of Chord' student. His parents, Bert and Betty Peters, transferred him from public school this month. "In the early history of our country," Peters said, "moral valuee were taught in all school, even in the universities.

Now it has become impossible to teach moral value, Christian moral value. Everything In our (public) education I (Coathwed a page 7) turned white with frost Car windowa Iced up and drivers bad to top In the middle of the street because they couldn't see. By the time Thompson arrived at work, a crowd wa gathering In front of the MDU office to watch the thermometer. Marion Vaughn was working a cashier at MDU. She said, "People crowded the window ail day and there was lota of excitement Finally we took the recording and laid it down in the window so people could see it easier.

It wa really a phenomenon, almost eerie. People couldn't understand it" Thompson remembers the fluctuating temperature damaged many pine trees in the Spearfish area. A student st Black Hill Teachers College called the Queen City Mail and said his meterology textbook said the Black Hills hss more weather In one week than other part of the United State has in a month. "Seeing is believing," be said. "I'm convinced my textbook is right" Jerry Junek remembers the change In the weather.

He and a buddy, Billy Davis, were home on leave. "It was my first and only leave during the four years I was in the Air Force. What a hornecomlng," he said. For yean Junek has had a copy of the famous weather chart under the glass counter at Juneks' Service. Someone moved the chart the other day when they were cleaning and Junek was "scared to death I'd lost tt," he said.

"I'll put it back on the counter because it ha been a conversational piece for years." Betty Junek, then Betty Burgess, wss working in a defense plant In Wisconsin. "A couple of young fellows heard about the freak weather over the radio and said tt happened in some little town named Flahville in South Dakota. Immediately I knew they meant Spearfish, so I straightened them out about the name," she said. Spearfish wasn't the only Black Hill town that experienced the temperature variance but it 1 the only town that made the Guinness Book of World Records. According to "Black Hills Believable" a recent book compiled (Ceatbned aa page :) By Evelya Helobangh Ask the question: "How do you like the weather?" and you'll get a variety of answers.

But nobody really enjoys sudden extremes In temperatures, unless it might have been back in 1943 when Spearfish weather went haywire and ended up making the Guinness Book of World Record for "the world' greatest variance in temperature." The date: Jan. 22, 1943. The time: approximate! 7:30 in the morning when most people were going to work, Including Tommy Thompson of Montana-Dakota Utilities, Joe Fassbender of Black Hills Studio, and Mute Hein-baugh, publisher of the Queen City Mail. A Fassbender unlocked the door of his business establishment located across the street from Montana-Dakota Utilities, he was struck by a blast of hot air that sent him racing to the gas company's window to examine it recording thermometer. From a minus four degrees the temperature had shot up 49 degrees in less than two minutes.

An old-timer, who remember the incident, said Fassbender was Jumping up and down In front of hi studio pointing to the thermometer, which recorded temperatures minute by minute throughout the day. He wss motioning to Heinbaugh, who was headed for coffee, to look at the recording. Heinbaugh postponed his coffee break, rushed back to the Queen City Mail and grabbed his camera. "I don't know what's going on out there, but something is happening," he said. Records show that after the temperature made its sudden climb, it dropped again from 55 degrees above to five below tero.

Fifteen minutes later it popped back to 55 above. At 9:30 a.m. it was back down to tero, only to rise again to 55 above where it stayed until 4 o'clock in the afternoon. It then went back down to 10 above and ended the day at midnight near xero. Thompson was walking to work and was coming up the alley back of Spearfish Motor now Johnson Ford when he felt the blast of hot air.

"My first thought was that there must be a fire someplace close and the air around me was getting hot" He said tht IOOF building immediate i- mi Raeckhetm, C.R. McCain, Odell Edwards, Marion Vaughn, Tommy Thompson and L.H. Schmeltser. Notary was Charles R. Cooper.

Although many saw the official recording, the six witnesses' sigHatures were recorded so there would be no doubt in future years that the temperature variance really happened. See tug la believing. Tht original thermometer reading that recorded Spearflih'i bizarre temperature variance Jan. 13, will be on display this weekend In the window of KSsstssa-CsIsta Utilities' eff.ee at 135 E. Hadsoo.

On the back of the record can be seen de signatures of tlx people who "wltDesoed" fiie official temperatsre recordiag: A.C.