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2 the Rapid City Journal Sunday. December 3. 1978 Future seen for Indian voting block ther until 1980, the Samuelson aide said, could only be determined the day after that election. But even if the heavily Democratic reservations shatter Into more equitably distributed party lines, Katus continued, the 1978 elections gave Indians an Insider's knowledge of how to register and turnout the vote. The United Sioux Tribes-directed voter registration Katus said, provides "core" for the election two years away and Indians "now know the mechanism of federal elections." McKellips receiving 5,074 votes to Janklow's 1.295 In heavlly-Indlan precincts on the four reservations.

This spread shows, despite earlier reports, Indian voters were a Democratic windfall and opposed to the governor-elect's candidacy. But while the 53 percent average turnout on the four major reservations was greater than In past years, the numbers did not prove to be a decisive factor In Janklow's 147,118 to 112,879 victory over McKellips. Katus, who Is preparing an analysis of recent election, the Republican landslide was not caused because Indian voters failed to show up In the predicted numbers but that the white Democratic voters didn't. Katus said President Carter's agriculture policies was a factor In the "lack of substantial turnout In rural areas. "The traditional Democrat sat on his hands," Katus said, "and didn't come out." While the addition of an estimated newly registered Indian voters did not prove to be the predicted bombshell in South Dakota's political arena, Katus said, the tribal coalition retains the potential to be "real persuasive" in the next election.

Whether the coalition can hold toge- larities In Shannon County, saying "I don't live down on the Pine Ridge, so I only get to vote once." Means, currently on work release from the South Dakota Penitentiary In Sioux Falls where he Is serving a four-year riot conviction, called the preelection drive "an asslnlne attempt that In the end proved futile." "I don't think that's the case," said Tom Katus, a campaign aide for defeated 2nd District congressional candidate Bob Samuelson. "They did as much as could be expected." Pre-election predictions guessed Indian voters would turn out, making the Indian bloc a potent political force In the state election. At A)k m''Z, vehicle was stopped on Interstate 25, about 30 miles north of where Largent's car was found at the highway's Intersection with U.S. 28. Authorities said the man merely confirmed he had been issued a warning by Largent.

Snow began to fall in the area Friday and had blanketed the prairie by Saturday morning. Hoff said a limited search Saturday turned up nothing. Platte County Sheriff Elner Mickelson left on a vacation trip and Hoff said state criminal investigators returned to Cheyenne virtually empty-handed. "We wrapped it up last night as far as the on-site investigation goes," Sheriff's Deputy Keith Roberts said. Mayor Robert Johnson said Largent moved to the Guernsey area from Georgia in May.

He said the town hired him as a member of its four member police force several weeks ago. Largent moonlighted at a Guernsey filling station and left work there early Thursday evening, Mickelson said. A Guernsey bar where Largent worked before becoming a policeman was burglarized and damaged by fire Friday morning, but authorities said they believe the incidents were unrelated to his disappearance. Policeman's disappearance a mystery GUERNSEY, Wyo. (AP) Authorities said Sunday they were perplexed about the disappearance of a Guernsey policeman soon after his warning to a speeding motorist.

"We don't have a thing," said Guernsey Police Chief Tim Hoff. Rick Largent, 28, has been missing since he stopped a pickup truck driven by a Nebraska man about 6 a.m. Friday and issued him a warning, Hoff said. Largent's patrol car was found at a highway intersection about 12 miles west of Guernsey. The motor was running and the empty holster for Largent's .357 magnum service revolver was in the car, a Wyoming Highway Patrolman said.

Hoff said there was no sign of a struggle and laboratory specialists from the Wyoming attorney general's Criminal Investigation Division could detect no fingerprints. The car was on the asphalt and neither footprints nor tire tracks could be seen beyond the highway's shoulder, Hoff said. When Largent failed to make a followup call over the police radio after stopping a 1976, tan pickup with Nebraska license plate, the state patrol and Platte County sheriff's deputies launched a ground and aerial search of the surrounding prairie. A Scottsbluff, man driving the But while the turnout fell far short of the prediction by one youthful voter registration campaigner, It did fulfill two other prognoses: Indian voters would be heavily Democratic and antl-Janklow. Post-election breakdowns of the major Indian reservations showed Democratic gubernatorial candidate Roger McKellips leading the successful team of Janklow and Lowell Hansen by only 2,408 votes, 5,925 to 3,517.

These figures, Katus said, fall to take Into account votes of white residents of the Pine Ridge, Rosebud, Cheyenne River and Standing Rock reservations. Further breakdowns of the vote from the county to the precinct level shows for vandalism. might prove difficult since victims say most of the damage occurs late at night and in the early hours of the morning. "We had a couple of leads. We sat out there (west of Rapid) for two weeks," said a sheriff's deputy.

The vandals failed to appear. If they are ever caught, the penalty could be stiff. Although the boxes are owned by the resident, they are protected by federal statutes. Willfully damaging or destroying a mailbox is a federal offense and can carry up to a three year sentence and a $1,000 fine. The vandal could also face a civil suit brought by the victims who can ask for up to three times the cost of the damages.

That could be a tidy sum when the damage is totaled for a one-night spree of 20 boxes. Apprehending the vandals could put a damper on Incidents, but until then mailbox owners may be stuck with the cost and inconvenience of putting the boxes back up in order to receive their mail. Although the postal inspector doesn't think any mail has been lost because of the vandalism, it could happen in the future, if it hasn't happened already. Mrs. Rumpza said she thinks it is very possible mail could have been lost.

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Dial 348-3500 to reach one of our friendly ad-visors. (W EDS (001 Hugh O'Gara Stuff Writer Dismissal of the Indian voting bloc after the recent election Is premature, according to one Democratic campaign worker connected with the state wide drive. The four-month campaign to register Indian voters on reservations and urban areas has been the focus of jibes by persons from such opposite ends of the political spectrum as Bill Janklow and American Indian Movement activist Russell Means. Attorney general Janklow speaking before supporters In Pierre, cited alleged voter registration Irregu 7 Mary and Ray Meyer's mailbox on Berry Country mailboxes favorite targets for vandals Penny Aslesen Staff Writer If you live In the country surrounding Rapid City or have a mailbox on the street, chances are good it will become a target for vandals. Many of them ilready have not just once, but as many as six times for some people.

It isn't that law enforcement agencies haven't tried to yit an end to the destruction. They have set up patrols to watch an area where the vandalism has repeatedly occurred, but have been unable to catch the vandals In the act. When the law shows up the vandals disappear only to show up later In another location. They leave behind a long line of battered, beaten boxes. Last fall they took on 25 to 30 of them one night, according to a Pennington County Sheriff's Department spokesman.

They have hit the Rimrock Highway area, Sheridan Lake Road, developments along and near Nemo Road to the west and Rapid Valley areas to the east. The Eugene Rumpza residence west of Rapid City has been hit five or six times, according to Mrs. Rumpza. "It started happening a year ago," she said. "We just kept putting up the old one (mailbox) until the postal theRapidCityJoumal The Journal Policy Report the news fully and impartially in the news columns Express the opinions of the Journal in but only in editorials on the editorialopinion pages Publish all sides of important controversial issues.

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Second Class Postage Paid at Rapid City. 67701 SD. "5: Pine Road was one of the latest targets department told us we would have to get a new one. It wasn't up two weeks before they got it." She added the last attack on mailboxes in her area occurred last fall. Who are the vandals? Most likely kids, according to law officials, the postal inspector and victims.

Some are old enough to drive and use a vehicle to escape after the destruction. Others are probably younger who walk from mailbox to mailbox tipping, twisting and hitting as they go along. One group of vandals used a sledge hammer or a bar and methodically went from one box to the next and hammered Another group simply and quickly tried to level them with a vehicle. The younger ones used their hands at times, twisting the lid off. Stanley DeBolt's mailbox was hit four times in a two week period.

"We just kept pounding out the dents and holes," Mrs. DeBolt said. "Our neighbor is a well driller and he finally put his box on a 6-inch steel pipe. They came along and actually put a gouge in the steel." After the Sheriff's Department patrolled the area west of Rapid last fall, the rash of vandalism slowed down. But last weekend vandals hit again.

In one incident boxes were damaged on and around Berry Pine Road. In another a group walked along a Rapid Valley road and damaged nearly 20 boxes, according to Mrs. Frank Nachtigall. "It's been the fourth time this year," she said. "I just don't know what one is going to do about it." Mrs.

Nachtigall and the other victims are frustrated by the continuing problem. So are officials. "You just have to be there to catch them," said Postal Inspector Gene Gram. "I don't know what' the customer can do but be alert." That Assistant named PIERRE (AP) Morris Magnuson, Brandon, has been appointed assistant superintendent for instructional services at the Division of Elementary and Secondary Education. In a prepared statement, the division said Magnuson was selected by the state Board of Education earlier this week.

Magnuson, presently employed by Sioux Valley Electric, previously served as executive secretary of the School Administrators of South Dakota. Death. ruled suicide WATERTOWN (AP) A three-member coroner's Inquest Jury has rule that Ray Torguson, 43, Watertown died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head. The incident occurred in October at a parking lot In the presence of Torguson's wife. The inquest was held behind closed doors.

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