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1830 Rummage Sales2510 Mulligan Dr.

Thursday, 9/6, 5pm-8pmFriday, 9/7, 5pm-8pm

Saturday, 9/8, 7am-1pmNewer Washer, Dryer, camp-ing gear, TVs, Entertainment Centers, tables, chairs, buffet, bookcases, dresser, futon, home décor, kitchen items, sump pump, tools, games.

2809 Kentucky Ave.Friday, 9/7, 7am-6pm

Thousands of baseball cards, luggage, stereos, vacuum, lawn and home furniture, mi-crowaves, 55x84 EZ Breeze windows, books, Shop Vac, home accessories, queen box spring and frame, retro-style bike.

504 Green St.(in the alley)

Friday, 9/7, 5pm-8pmSaturday, 9/8, 8am-2pm

Washer, TV’s, furniture, crib, bunkbed, boy’s clothing 0-2T. Exersaucer, and other toys, highchair, and other baby furni-ture. Household items, lots of miscellaneous 1/2 price sale on most stuff after 12pm on Saturday.

809 Jason Way(Corner of Peninah

and Jason Way)Friday, 9/7 9am-5pm

Rummage Sale: Southern liv-ing at Home, Flat-screen TV, bike, queen mattress, golf hit-ting net. Radio Flyer, rugs, scooter, jogging stroller, John Deere Riding Tractor, Polly Pockets, clothes, and house-hold miscellaneous.

1840 Lost and FoundBowling ball found at north end of alley between 17th & Walnut and 17th & Cedar St. in Yankton. Call to identify (605) 660-0890. Leave message.

Lost: At Memorial Park Green Bay backpack with DS & games on Sunday, 8/26. (605)857-0601.

Lost: Black handled dip fish net on Sunday 8/26, on Hwy. 52 between West City Limits Rd. and Midway. (605)661-5564.

1870 Ag Equipment300 Dual Loader, nice straight unit $900/OBO. 13.9x36 Trac-tor Tire. $100. (605)760-5801 or (605)665-2113 message.

Want to rent: JD combine 9660 or bigger, I have the heads. (605)360-5687 Mon-trose, SD.

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8+23+30 9+6In Circuit CourtFirst Judicial Circuit

State of South DakotaCounty of Yankton }ss.

Pro# 12-35NOCREPR

Estate of Ruth Elaine Fischer,Deceased.

Notice to Creditors and Notice of Informal Probate and

Appointment of Co-Personal Representatives

Notice is given that onthe 17 day of August, 2012, Warren Placek, whose address is Box281, Tyndall, South Dakota 57066 and Rodney Fischer whose address is 610 North Broadway, Hartington, Nebraska 68739 were appointed as co-personal representatives of the estate of Ruth Elaine Fischer.

Creditors of decedentmust file their claimes within four months after the date of the first publica-tion of this notice or their claims may be barred.

Claims may be filedwith the co-personal representatives or may be filed with the clerk, and a copy of the claim mailed to the co-personal representatives.

Dated this 17 day ofAugust, 2012.

/s/ Warren PlacekBox 281Tyndall, SD 57066

/s/ Rodney Fischer610 North BroadwayHartington, NE 68739

Jody JohnsonYankton County Clerk410 Walnut; Ste 205Yankton, SD 57078(605)668-3080

Zieser & Rothschadl Law OfficeP.O. Box 476Tyndall, SD 57066(605)589-3333

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9+6NOTICE OF HEARING TO

REVIEW FUTURE USE WATER PERMIT NO. 1688A-3

Notice is given that the Water Management Board will review Future Use Permit No. 1688A-3 held by Lake Andes-Wagner Irri-gation District, Chuck Eitemiller, Chairman, PO Box 818, Wagner SD 57380 for progress made in the development of the water re-served by the Permit and future plans for development of the wa-ter reserved by Permit No. 1688A-3. This permit has a prior-ity date of July 1, 1969 and cur-rently reserves 96,000 acre feet from the Missouri River. The fu-ture use area is within Charles Mix County with diversion from the east bank of the Missouri River within that county. The wa-ter will be used for irrigation, mu-nicipal, stock watering, fish cul-ture, fire protection, industrial and public recreation purposes.

Pursuant to SDCL 46-2A-2 the Chief Engineer of the Water Rights Program recommends that Permit No. 1688A-3 REMAIN in EFFECT for 96,000 acre-feet an-nually because 1) the reserved wa-ter may be developed, 2) there is need for the reserved water 3) the proposed use will be a beneficial use and 4) it is in the public inter-est.

The Water Management Board will conduct the hearing to review Future Use Permit No. 1688A-3 at 10:00 am, October 3, 2012 in the Floyd Mathew Training Center, Joe Foss Bldg, 523 E Capitol, Pi-erre SD.

The recommendation of the Chief Engineer is not final or binding upon the Board and the Board is authorized to 1) allow the permit to remain in effect, 2) amend the permit by adding qualifications, 3) cancel the permit for no develop-ment or no planned future devel-opment, or 4) take no action after it reaches a conclusion based upon facts presented at the public hear-ing. Any interested person who may be affected by a Board deci-sion and who intends to partici-pate in the hearing before the Board and present evidence or cross-examine witnesses accord-ing to SDCL 1-26, must file a written petition with BOTH the permit owner and the Chief Engi-neer by September 21, 2012. The Chief Engineer's address is “Wa-ter Rights Program", Joe Foss Building, 523 E Capitol Ave, Pi-erre SD 57501 (605 773-3352) and the permit holders mailing ad-dress is given above. The petition may be informal, but it must in-clude a statement describing the petitioners interest in the future use permit, the reasons for peti-tioner's opposition to or support of continuing the future use permit, and the signature and mailing ad-dress of the petitioner or his legal counsel if legal counsel is ob-tained. The permit owner need not file a petition.

The hearing to review Future Use Permit No. 1688A-3 will be con-ducted pursuant to the provisions of SDCL 46-1-14, 46-2-5, 46-2-9, 46-2-11, 46-5-38.1; Board Rules ARSD 74:02:01:25.01 thru 74:02:01:25.03 and contested case procedures contained in SDCL 1-26.

This hearing is an adversary pro-ceeding. The permit owner or any person, after filing a petition, has the right to be present or to be represented by a lawyer. These and other due process rights will be forfeited if they are not exer-cised. Decisions of the Board may be appealed to the Circuit Court and State Supreme Court as provided by law.

Any person wishing a copy of the Chief Engineer's recommendation, further information on this permit, to assure access to the hearing by the handicapped or obtain an in-terpreter for the hearing impaired may contact Eric Gronlund, Water Rights Program, (605 773-3352) by September 21, 2012. The time of the hearing will be automati-cally delayed for at least 20 days upon written request of the permit owner or any person who has filed a petition to oppose or support continuance of the Future Use Permit. The request for a delay must be filed with the Chief Engi-neer by September 21, 2012. Ste-ven M. Pirner, Secretary, Depart-ment of Environment and Natural Resources.Published once at approximate cost of $44.02.

9+6NOTICE OF PUBLIC

HEARING

Notice is hereby given that a pub-lic hearing will be held before the City Commission, Yankton, South Dakota at 7:00 PM on the 24th day of September, 2012 in the Community Meeting Room at the Technical Education Center, 1200 West 21st Street. Said hearing is to consider the following city ini-tiated rezoning proposal:

Rezoning from I-1 Industrial to B-3 Central Business:The north 100 feet of Lots 5 and 6, all of Lot 7, Block 3; and Lots 1, 2 and 3 of the T.W. Thompson Replat of Block 3, all in Todd's Addition to the City of Yankton, South Dakota. Location, NE of the intersection of Riverside Drive and Cedar Street.

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Dave Mingo, AICPCommunity Development Director

measures, adding more remote controlshut-off valves and inspections, the com-pany said.

Nebraska regulators said they would re-view the new proposal and hold a publichearing on it before submitting a recom-mendation to the governor, possibly by theend of the year. The governor will decidewhether to approve the new route for thepipeline.

“An initial scan of the report indicatesthat it responds to some of the commentsraised by the NDEQ and the public, but afull evaluation will now begin,” said MikeLinder, director of the state agency.

Environmental groups have long op-posed the pipeline project because of con-cerns that it could contaminateunderground and surface water supplies,increase air pollution around refineriesand harm wildlife.

Bold Nebraska’s Jane Kleeb said the lat-est new route doesn’t go far enough to ad-dress her group’s concerns about potentialerosion of the Sandhills and groundwatercontamination, so she believes state andfederal officials should block the pipeline.

“The route still crosses the aquifer andit still crosses sandy soil, so all of the same

concerns remain,” Kleeb said.TransCanada spokesman Grady Sem-

mens said only 36 miles of the 275 miles ofpipeline in Nebraska would cross sandysoils, and the new route entirely avoids thearea Nebraska defined as the Sandhills.

Joe Mendelson of the National WildlifeFederation said the Keystone XL pipelineputs too much natural habitat at risk.

“The best approach is to ditch Key-stone XL entirely and embrace clean en-ergy solutions that don’t spill or explode,”Mendelson said.

The pipeline is designed to carry oilfrom Canada across Montana, SouthDakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma andTexas. TransCanada also has proposedconnecting it to the Bakken oil field inMontana and North Dakota.

President Barack Obama rejected Tran-sCanada’s original application for a federalpermit to build the pipeline in Januaryafter congressional Republicans imposed adeadline for approval that didn’t allowenough time to address questions aboutthe route through Nebraska.

Since then, TransCanada has split theproject into two pieces. The companybegan construction last month on thesouthern section of the pipeline betweenOklahoma and the Gulf Coast. ———

Nebraska Department of Environmental Quality:http://www.deq.state.ne.us

TransCanada: http://transcanada.com/keystone.html

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documented about the group, A.M. English,who served with Company A in the cav-alry, wrote a history about the organiza-tion and its people in 1899. He wrote aboutwhat the people did and where they allwent.

“We took that information that he wroteand set out to try to find descendants ofthe group for the reunion,” Nelson said.“We sent out letters to potential descen-dants, and we got a pretty good response.”

Nelson added she expects about 20 de-scendants and their families to attend thereunion on Sunday. However, she knewthere were some descendants of the cav-alry around because some were askingabout what they did.

“Knowing they came from an importantpart of Yankton’s history, I could tell therewas still a sense of pride around descen-dants of the cavalry,” Nelson said. “Wesaid, ‘Let’s get them all together and try tofind other descendants as well.’ We wantedto have the opportunity to bring them to-

gether again and honor their heritage.”She added a lot of people did not know

much about the cavalry before the letterswere sent out, so museum officials offeredto help research families’ lineage to see ifthey are descendants of the cavalry.

“We put it out there and asked if theyare interested in finding out more,” shesaid. “It’s been interesting and a lot of funto hear back from all the descendants. Wewanted to be able to keep the history ofthe Dakota Cavalry alive.”

The reunion will feature a special socialhour from 1-2 p.m. for descendants only.Afterwards, at 2 p.m., there will be a pres-entation on the history of the Dakota Cav-alry that is open to the public.

If you or someone you know is a de-scendant, contact the Dakota TerritorialMuseum at 605-665-3898 by Friday. Reser-vations for descendants are required.

“If there was no Dakota Cavalry, wouldYankton have developed like it did? Wouldthat Midwest have developed?,” Nelsonquestioned. “They provided protection forpeople to know that it is OK to settle in theDakota Territory. They were pivotal in theexpansion of the Midwest.”

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Iraq’s Role In Syrian WarPoses Problems For The U.S.

BY BRADLEY KLAPPER ANDLARA JAKESAssociated Press

WASHINGTON — Iraq’sacquiescence in possibly al-lowing Iranian weapons de-liveries to the Syrian regimedemonstrates Washington’slimited influence in postwarIraq, its inability to haltSyria’s 18-month conflictand its continued struggleagainst Tehran for su-premacy in the region.

U.S. officials saidWednesday that Iraq hadshut down the movement ofIranian aid to the regime ofSyrian President BasharAssad earlier this year, butthat suspected arms deliv-eries resumed in July. Andthree U.S. senators warnedBaghdad that it risked dam-aging relations with the U.S. if it is al-lowing Iran to use Iraqi airspace todeliver weapons to Syria.

The officials spoke on condition ofanonymity because they weren’t au-thorized to discuss the informationpublicly.

Iraq’s government said Iran had as-sured it that the flights to Syria weredelivering only humanitarian aid, andchallenged the U.S. to proveotherwise.

It was the latest example of Bagh-dad’s warming relations with Tehranand weakening ties with Washington,after a decade in which the U.S. spenthundreds of billions of dollars and lostalmost 4,500 lives after the 2003 inva-sion that toppled Saddam Hussein’sdictatorship and tried to stabilize thecountry.

“The Iranians have been so ex-plicit, so clear about their unyieldingsupport for the murderous Assadregime,” State Department spokesmanPatrick Ventrell said. “All of this de-structive assistance should stop,whether it’s materiel, whether it’s di-rect training and assistance to helpstage manage the repression.”

Ventrell declined to delve into thedetails of diplomatic discussions, butthe U.S. official said the issue of Iran-ian weapons transfers to Assad’sforces has been a bone of contentionfor several months, with American in-telligence noting a significant increasein the number of flights over Iraq asthe Syrian regime has gotten moredesperate.

The resumed flights were first re-ported by The New York Times.

White House spokesman Tommy

Vietor said Iraq has taken steps in thepast to meet its U.N. Security Councilobligations to prevent Iran from ex-porting weapons. “It must continue todo so,” he said in an email.

On a visit to Baghdad, Sen. JoeLieberman, I-Conn., was far blunter,calling into question the long-termpartnership Iraq and the United Statesagreed to in 2008.

“This kind of problem with theseIranian overflights can make it moredifficult to proceed with the StrategicFramework Agreement in the mannerthat the prime minister and we wouldlike to see happen,” Lieberman told re-porters in Baghdad. “So I hope this iscleared up quickly.”

Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C.,blamed the Obama administration forletting U.S. influence in the MiddleEast slip. Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz.,also was on the trip.

“This region is about to explode,”Graham said. Iraqi leaders, he added,are “probably not pushing back onIran ... because they don’t see howthis ends. There’s an amazing lack ofAmerican leadership, and it’s begin-ning to show on all fronts.”

The issue of the overflights reflectsa trifecta of worries for the UnitedStates. Iraq is a fragile democracysandwiched by long-time Shiite alliesIran and Syria, a country in the midstof a brutal civil war that has nowkilled at least 23,000 people, accordingto activists.

The Obama administration hasbeen touting Syrian rebel advances inrecent weeks, insisting that the tide ofthe war is turning against Assad. ButIranian support for Assad is one of thefactors that could greatly prolong the

conflict, especially as theU.S. and other Western pow-ers insist on staying out ofthe conflict militarily andnot providing weapons tothe anti-Assad opposition.

Responding to the U.S.accusations, Ali al-Mous-sawi, media adviser to IraqiPrime Minister Nouri al-Ma-liki, confirmed that Iranianplanes are flying over Iraqto deliver goods to Syria.But he said Tehran assuredal-Maliki the flights are car-rying only food and humani-tarian aid to help warvictims.

Al-Moussawi said VicePresident Joe Biden prom-ised to send al-Maliki evi-dence that the flights areferrying weapons. But proofnever arrived, he said.

“The Iranian governmenthas said that it respects our

decisions,” al-Moussawi told The As-sociated Press. “Until now, there is noevidence of any violation in this re-gard, and if anyone has any evidencethey should bring it to us and we willtake the needed measures.”

U.S. officials confirmed that Bidenbrought up the issue in a conversationwith Iraq’s leader two weeks ago, butwouldn’t speak about any evidencethat may have been provided.

Ventrell said the easiest solutionwas for Iraq to require Iranian aircraft“to land and to be inspected in Iraqiterritory.”

Yet it’s unclear how Iraq would en-force that rule, with an air force thathas few planes and no fighter jets toprotect its skies. That mission waspreviously handled by the U.S. mili-tary before American troops withdrewfrom Iraq last year.

While Iran may be sending theweapons as part of a region-wide bat-tle for influence with the UnitedStates, the passivity of Iraq’s Shiiteleaders may reflect more parochialconcerns and the history of decadesof minority Baathist domination, saidAram Nerguizian, a Middle East spe-cialist at the Center for Strategic andInternational Studies.

He said it made sense that Iraq washedging its bets at a time of dwindlinghopes for Syrian peace and the possi-bility of another hostile Sunni stateemerging one day on its borders.

“It’s not just about helping Iran,”Nerguizian said. “This is also abyproduct of an Iraqi political environ-ment where the leaders are far moreworried about threats to Shiite rule.”

U.S. ProductivityGrew At 2.2 Pct.Rate In Spring

BY MARTIN CRUTSINGERAP Economics Writer

WASHINGTON — U.S.companies got more out-put from their workersthis spring than initiallythought. Productivityrose at a modest 2.2 per-cent annual rate in theApril-June quarter, largelybecause employers cutback sharply on hiring.

Most economists ex-pect productivity willslow later this year, atrend that could boosthiring.

The Labor Depart-ment said Wednesdaythat productivity in thesecond quarter was bet-ter than its initial esti-mate of a 1.6 percentgain.

The main reason forthe increase was the gov-ernment revised growthin the second quarter toan annual rate of 1.7 per-cent, up from an initial es-timate of 1.5 percent.

That led to more out-put, which boosted pro-ductivity. Productivity isthe amount of output perhour worked.

Labor costs rose at anannual rate of 1.5 percent,slightly lower than the 1.7percent initiallyestimated.

Rising productivity canboost corporate profits. Itcan also slow job creationif it means companies aregetting more from theircurrent staff and don’tneed to add workers.

Still, there are limits tohow much companies cansqueeze from their staffs.When that happens, pro-ductivity slows and com-pany typically must hiremore workers to keeppace with demand.

Economists said theyexpected productivity willslow from the spring pacefor the rest of this yearand through 2013.