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ready to go with zero deficit, noincreased tax, no spending onthe reserves budget, both beforeand after our final negotiationswith the governor.”

Knudson said the administra-tion could put more focus onprojects, as well — especiallyroad maintenance.

“The governor has sent outhis secretary of transportationto tell us our roads are going toheck, that the revenues aredecreasing because there arefewer gallons of gas being sold… and then he doesn’t comewith any proposal to give themmore resources, both at thestate and local level,” Knudsonsaid. “To me, that is just notleadership.”

He said roadwork could beaccomplished through a slightincrease of gas taxes and licenseplate fees.

“I’m the only candidate that’swilling to ’fess up on that,” hesaid. “I think the public wouldrather pay four cents a gallonmore and have good roads thanhave bad roads. Today, gas

prices fluctuate at least a dimefrom the first of the month tothe 30th of the month.”

Knudson said the mostimportant issues of the upcom-ing election may be economic.He said the state’s current stand-ing could be improved by reor-ganizing the Department ofTourism and State Development,and he has submitted a bill(SB140) to do just that.

“I think that what we have isa very inefficient departmentthat has economic development,tourism, tribal affairs, culturalaffairs, division of the arts, thearcheology center all jumbled

together,” he said. “I think wewould be much better servedwith a stand-alone, laser-focusedeconomic development office, astand-alone tourism depart-ment.”

Knudson said the state’s eco-nomic development could alsobe bolstered with $36 million inMedicaid assistance that wouldfree up $36 million in statemoney, which would then beused for development. He saidvisiting with economic develop-ment offices and businessescould help to decide how themoney could best be spent.

“In the end, your jobs really

come from existing small busi-nesses that are expanding a littlebit,” he said. “I think that’s veryincremental. You just have towork with the local folks andfind out who’s thinking aboutexpanding.”

The other South Dakotagubernatorial candidates areRepublicans Dennis Daugaard,Gordon Howie, Ken Knuppe andScott Munsterman, andDemocrat Scott Heidepriem.

BY TOM AND RAY MAGLIOZZI

Dear Tom and Ray:There is a teacher in our community who

regularly can be found pouring buckets ofcool water over his vehicle before starting iton warm days. His claim is that the watercuts down on the time needed for the airconditioner to lower the temperature in hiscar to a comfortable level. Is there any truthto this claim? He drives a full-size car fromthe ’90s era. I would think that the time andwater needed to cool the car significantlywould negate the environmental and fiscaladvantages of this unorthodox practice.What do you think? If this is a good idea, thelocal hardware store will need to stock up onbuckets. -- J.D.

TOM: I don’t think the country has toworry about a bucket shortage, J.D.

RAY: Does the cool water do anything?Yes. The metal roof and doors of the car doabsorb heat. And if you cool them off, youwill reduce the amount of heat they transferinto the passenger compartment.

TOM: But as you say, J.D., the amount ofwater you’d need to make a significant differ-ence would be absurd. You’d really need agarden hose, and you’d need to play it on

the car for several minutes to have anyeffect at all. And in many parts of the coun-try, we can’t afford to waste water by pour-ing it over our cars.

RAY: Besides, in that amount of time, orless, you could open the windows, turn onthe fan or the AC, or -- even more effective --just start moving with the windows open,and create just as much heat reduction, ormore.

TOM: Here are some even better, andmore environmentally friendly, ideas to helpthe air conditioner cool your car more quick-ly in the summer. You can share these withyour teacher friend:

RAY: Use a sunshade. Or two. A card-board or microfiber sunshade in back of thewindshield will keep the sun’s rays frombeaming right into your passenger compart-ment. Side benefit: You won’t sear the shiftpattern into your palm when you go to putthe car in gear.

TOM: Better yet, use a sunscreen on therear window, too. That window often is evenmore steeply raked than the front wind-shield, and can let even more heat in.

RAY: You also can install rain guards onyour windows. Those are little metal awningsthat allow you to leave your windows openan inch or two to let hot air out without wor-rying about letting rain in.

TOM: And the easiest and most effectivesolution of all: Park in the shade.

Got a question about cars? Write toClick and Clack in care of this newspaper,or e-mail them by visiting the Car TalkWeb site at www.cartalk.com.

© 2010, King Features Syndicate, Inc.

A Unique, If Misguided, Attempt To Cool A Car

CLICK & CLACK

BY TED KOOSERU.S. Poet Laureate

Tell a whiny child that she sounds like a broken record, and she’slikely to say, “What’s a record?” Jeff Daniel Marion, a Tennessee poet,tells us not only what 78 rpm records were, but what they meant tothe people who played them, and to those who remember the peoplewho played them.

78 RPMIn the back of the junkhouse

stacked on a cardtable coveredby a ragged bedspread, they rest,black platters whose music once

crackled, hissed with a staticlike shuffling feet, fox trot or two-step,

the slow dance of the needleriding its merry-go-round,my mother’s head nestled

on my father’s shoulder as they turned, lost in the sway of sounds,

summer nights and farawayplaces, the syncopation of time

waltzing them to a worldthey never dreamed, danceof then to the dust of now.

American Life in Poetry is made possible by The Poetry Foundation, publisher ofPoetry magazine. It is also supported by the Department of English at the University ofNebraska-Lincoln. Poem copyright ©2009 by Jeff Daniel Marion. Reprinted from hismost recent book of poems, Father, Wind Publications, 2009, by permission of JeffDaniel Marion and the publisher. The introduction's author, Ted Kooser, served asUnited States Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 2004-2006. We do not accept unsolicited manuscripts.

AMERICAN LIFE IN POETRY:

‘You Sound Like A BrokenRecord’ Loses Its Meaning

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A night of fun and entertainment,

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Advance Tickets: Only $15

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Come and enjoy this year’s speaker

Paula Damon“Celebrating The Chapters of Our Lives”

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Dinner includes Teriyaki Chicken Breast,Wild Rice, Green Beans Almondine,

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6 th Annual

Riverfront Event Center, Historic Downtown YanktonThursday,April 29, 2010

Doors Open 4:30pm

Dinner Served 5:00-6:30pmBooths Open 4:30-7:00pm

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Card ShowerThe Family of

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50th Wedding Anniversary on April 30th, 2010

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40th AnniversaryOpen House

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LIFE/REGION DIGESTGavins Point Road Closure Moved To Tuesday

Due to weather concerns, the Gavins Point Dam Crest Road closurescheduled for Monday has been moved to 8 a.m.-4 p.m. today(Tuesday).

The scheduled road closure for Wednesday, April 28, is also cancelled.

Student-Directed Plays To Be PerformedStudents of the STH 361-Play Directing class at Mount Marty College

will be presenting their final projects on Wednesday, April 28. The three short plays include: • “Funeral Parlor” by Christopher Durang, directed by Mitchell Zenk; • “While the Auto Waits” by Walter Wykes, directed by Stephanie

Stech; • and “The Hardy Boys and the Mystery of Where Babies Come

From” by Christopher Durang, directed by Aaron Steward. The shows will begin at 7 p.m. and 9 p.m. and be held in the Bistro,

located in Bede Hall on the first floor. The plays are free and open to the public. (The Bistro is not wheel-

chair accessible and the entrance to the Bistro includes stairs.)

Another ‘Purse Party’ April 29 In CroftonCROFTON, Neb. — The Eastern Township Library of Crofton, Neb.,

will be hosting another “Purse Party” on Thursday, April 29, runningfrom 3-7 p.m. The fundraiser will be held at the Crofton CityAuditorium, with items for sale on a cash and carry basis with proceedsgoing toward the library.

Purses, jewelry, wallets, and handbags in all shapes, colors and sizeswill be offered.

Door prizes along with refreshments will be available. Everyone isinvited.

‘Dining For Disaster’ Event Throughout Week“Dining for Disaster” is a fundraising event for the Yankton County

American Red Cross. Restaurants in the area have agreed to donate aportion of their sales for a day to the Yankton Red Cross for disasterrelief. The event coincides with Severe Weather Awareness Week, April26-30.

The following restaurants are participating in this benefit event: 81Seafood Chophouse, Arby’s, Burger King (ask for coupon), Godfather’sPizza, Hy-Vee Kitchen, McDonald’s, Mexico Viejo, Minerva’s Grill & Bar,Murdo’s, Pizza Ranch, Quizno’s, Starbuck’s, Waterfront Gourmet Grilland Yesterday’s Cafe.

The Yankton County American Red Cross Facebook page will carryan updated listing of participating restaurants.

Class Of 1970 Info Sought For ReunionThe Yankton High School Class of 1970 is planning a 40th class

reunion that will be held Aug. 20-21 during Riverboat Days. Some classmates cannot be located. If you have information on any-

one included in the following list of people, contact Carol (Cookie)Mattern at (214) 906-7892, or e-mail cmattern7@yahoo.com. Susan FlintCremer can also be contacted at jscremer@nvc.net.

The following individuals cannot be located: Dave Basnett, BonnieBiesman, Larry Biesman, Dan Corr, Rick Cuka, Dennis Dobesh, DougDobesh, Karla Fiedler, Matt Fitzgerald, Jennifer Griffith Heineman,Chuck Gust, Scott Haffner, Sue Hagberg, Tim Hunt, Laura Ingraham,Palmer Iverson, Joe Kleinschmit, Dave Knau, Cindy Kuchta, CarolynLaw, Mike Law, Dan McLaughlin, Tim Miller, Helen Negge, Jim Nelson,Joe Nelson, Nancy Nelson, Kathy Nielson Polifka, Dave Nilson, JerryRohrig, Larry Schulte, Mike Smith, Jim Stengle, Larry Stogsdill, KathyYonke Osborn and Fred Zephier.

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consideration in an electionyear. The House has alreadypassed its version of new bankregulations.

Following the vote, the presi-dent said he was “deeply disap-pointed” and urged Senators toput the interests of the countryahead of party.

“Some of these senators maybelieve that this obstruction is agood political strategy, and oth-ers may see delay as an opportu-nity to take this debate behindclosed doors, where financialindustry lobbyists can waterdown reform or kill it altogeth-er,” Obama said in a statement.“But the American people can’tafford that.”

In a statement, Nelson, a con-servative Nebraska Democrat,said his vote reflected concernsabout the bill raised byNebraska businessmen. Nelsonand Sen. Chris Dodd, D-Conn.,the chairman of the BankingCommittee, huddled before thevote discussing the eliminationof a provision supported byNebraska billionaire investor

Warren Buffett to exempt exist-ing derivatives from new regula-tions.

The legislation would requirederivatives, previously unregu-lated exotic securities, to betraded in open exchanges andcleared through a third partythat would guarantee the instru-ments. A legislative agreementstruck Monday would exemptexisting derivatives from theclearing requirements but wouldstill demand collateral for thosetrades.

“I was prepared to grandfatherexisting derivatives that have notbeen cleared, but I can’t say youcan’t have margin requirements,”Dodd said, explaining his discus-sion with Nelson.

Both the House and Senatebills, aimed at heading off anyrecurrence of the near collapse ofthe financial system in 2008,would create a mechanism for liq-uidating large firms that get intotrouble, set up a council to detectsystemwide financial threats andestablish a consumer protectionagency to police lending. The leg-islation also would require invest-ment derivatives, blamed forhelping precipitate the near-melt-down, to be traded in openexchanges.

Senate Republicans have beensolidly opposed to the legislation

so far, but Democrats are deter-mined to force them to block thebill time and again until theirunity cracks.

“I don’t think it’s a tenablepolitical position for theRepublicans to be in,” WhiteHouse spokesman Robert Gibbssaid.

And Reid mocked theRepublicans’ cohesion.

“As far as I can tell, the onlything Republicans stand for isstanding together,” he said.

In a move designed to createmore Republican discomfort,Reid kept the Senate in sessionafter the vote and forced a voteinstructing the sergeant-at-armsto demand the presence ofabsent senators.

Richard Shelby, the topRepublican on the BankingCommittee, said Monday beforethe vote, “Most Republicans wanta bill, but they want a substantivebill.”

The Alabama senator has beennegotiating with Dodd.

Shelby aides said he wants totighten language that he believeswould give the Federal Reserveand the Federal DepositInsurance Corp. too much flexibil-ity to assist large banks and theircreditors. Shelby also wants torestrict the rule-writing powersthat Dodd would give a consumer

financial protection bureau withinthe Federal Reserve.

Shelby aides have been writ-ing an alternative to Dodd’s leg-islation in the event negotiationsfail.

Shelby, emerging from a meet-ing with Dodd, said they plannedto meet again, with their respec-tive aides, to hammer out someareas of agreement.

The U.S. Chamber ofCommerce, which has been lead-ing a lobbying effort against thelegislation, sent senators a letterMonday urging them to voteagainst Democratic efforts tomove on the bill.

Polls show the public increas-ingly eager to slap restrictionson financial institutions.Moreover, a lawsuit by theSecurities and ExchangeCommission accusing GoldmanSachs of fraud has gotten atten-tion at this critical time.

To drive that point home, aSenate investigative subcommit-tee plans a hearing Tuesday onthe role of investment banks inthe financial crisis. Scheduledwitnesses include Goldmanchairman and chief executiveLloyd Blankfein and FabriceTourre, the Goldman Sachs trad-er at the center of the SECcharges.

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