BY TOM AND RAY MAGLIOZZIKing Features Syndicate, Inc.

Dear Tom and Ray:Remember those Datsun mini-trucks

that used to be around? Where did thatclass of trucks go? It seems like all youcan get now is a full-size F-150 or simi-lar. Is there anything like those oldJapanese mini-trucks still on the mar-ket, or should I start shopping for aclassic El Camino? What happened tothe small trucks? — Bryant

RAY: People stopped buying them.TOM: There still is a class of pickup

truck smaller than the full-size F-150s,Silverados and Ram 1500s. But they’renot much smaller.

RAY: Toyota still makes the Tacoma.Nissan still makes the Frontier. AndChevy is coming out with a redesignedColorado for 2015.

TOM: But these are not mini-trucks.The trucks you remember were, essen-tially, compact Japanese cars withpickup-truck beds. They were cheap,lightweight and utilitarian.

RAY: Not enough people want thatanymore. Pickup trucks have becomelarge, luxury cars. The smallest two-door Toyota Tacoma these days, for ex-ample, is only about a foot and a halfshorter than the smallest full-size Toy-ota Tundra. And that Tacoma is still 208inches long — only a little shorter thanthe old Lincoln Town Car land yachtsthat used to ply the airport terminals.

TOM: And even though you canorder it with a four-cylinder engine andget a little better mileage than the full-size Tundra, it’s a cheaper and less-ca-

pable vehicle. So unless maneuverabil-ity or parking is an issue, most buyerschoose the larger, more comfortable,more up-to-date Tundra.

RAY: The problem for manufactur-ers is that, once you design and build asmaller pickup truck and equip it witheverything a modern vehicle needs tohave, it doesn’t cost much less than afull-size pickup. And the mileage isn’tthat much better. So most people go forthe bigger truck.

TOM: You should have a look at theChevy Colorado when it comes out.That’ll be the most modern and up-to-date of the less-than-full-size pickuptrucks out there.

RAY: You can look at the HondaRidgeline (which is more carlike thanother pickups, but not much smaller).

TOM: You can look for a used Sub-aru Baja, which was the most recent ElCamino-ish vehicle that failed to selland was killed off. It was last made in2006.

RAY: You can look for a used FordExplorer Sport Trac, which was lastmade in 2010. That’s a Ford Explorerwith a pickup-truck bed. Again, notsmall, but smaller than a full-sizepickup.

TOM: You can look for a classic ElCamino, or even a really old Toyota orDatsun truck, if you’re willing to give upsafety and reliability.

RAY: But what you’re really lustingafter just isn’t for sale anymore, Bryant.At least not in the United States.

TOM: If you’re willing to relocate,then we can help you out. Go to anythird- or even second-world country,and you can have your pick of cheap,small pickup trucks. Just don’t look tooclosely at the body panels, because youmay see the words “Hungry Man Din-ner” stamped into them.

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BY TED KOOSERU.S. Poet Laureate

I’d guess that a number of our readers have had MRIs.One of my neighbors, a gravel hauler in rural Nebraska,told me that his test sounded as if he were on the inside ofa corn sheller. Jackie Fox, also a Nebraskan, has a differenttake on the experience. Would you rather find yourself con-fined in a corn sheller or a dryer? It’s no wonder we callourselves patients.

MRI It thuds and clanks like tennis shoes in a dryer, only I am the shoe, sour, damp and wedged intothe narrow metal tube, heart clanging.

American Life in Poetry is made possible by The PoetryFoundation (www.poetryfoundation.org), publisher of Po-etry magazine. It is also supported by the Department ofEnglish at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Poem copy-right ©2013 by Jackie Fox. Poem reprinted from BellevueLiterary Review, Volume 13, no. 2, Fall 2013, by permissionof Jackie Fox and the publisher. Introduction copyright ©2014 by The Poetry Foundation. The introduction's author,Ted Kooser, served as United States Poet Laureate Consult-ant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 2004-2006.We do not accept unsolicited manuscripts.

American Life In Poetry

MRI Sounds CanBe Unnerving

Where Have All TheSmaller Pickups Gone?

PIERRE — Gov. DennisDaugaard has proclaimedSept. 7-13 as “Suicide Pre-vention Week” in SouthDakota. Suicide occursacross all age, economic,social and ethnic groups,and is now the tenth lead-ing cause of all deaths inthe United States and theninth leading cause of alldeaths in the state of SouthDakota.

This year’s theme, Sui-cide Prevention: One WorldConnected, “emphasizesthe need to raise awarenessthat suicide is a major pre-ventable cause of prema-ture death on a globallevel,” said Gib Sudbeck,program manager, of thestate Department of SocialServices’ Prevention Pro-gram. In 2011 there were39,518 suicide deaths in theUnited States with 125 ofthese suicide deaths inSouth Dakota. To help pre-vent suicides, it is criticalthat everyone learn thesigns and risk factors forsuicide and learn what pre-vention, early intervention

and treatment resourcesare available in their localcommunity.

Suicides may be pre-vented when suicidal behav-iors are detected early andindividuals are referred toservices and supports. Helpcan be obtained in SouthDakota communities for theassessment and treatment ofsuicidal behaviors and theirunderlying causes. If you be-lieve there is a suicide risk,contact a professional imme-diately. Call the suicide crisishotline at 1-800-273-TALK(8255), a family physician, apsychiatrist, a medical emer-gency room or a communitymental health center in yourarea.

For more informationabout suicide prevention inSouth Dakota or the SouthDakota Strategy for SuicidePrevention log on to www.sd-suicideprevention.org/.

For more informationabout behavioral health serv-ices in your area, contact theDepartment of Social Serv-ices’ Division of BehavioralHealth at 605-773-3123 or logon to www.dss.sd.gov/behav-ioralhealthservices/.

Sept. 7-13Declared SuicidePrevention Week

Janklow ArchivesProject Expanded As the result of support

by the Great Plains Educa-tion Foundation, the Univer-sity of South DakotaLibraries will be among thefew institutions in the U.S.to provide online public ac-cess to an extensive body of20th century gubernatorialrecords.

The gift, made throughthe University of SouthDakota Foundation, will re-sult in an online searchablecollection of the late Gov.William Janklow’s fourterms in office.

“As early as 2006, Gov.Janklow envisioned all ofhis gubernatorial recordsbeing available online,” saidDaniel Daily, dean of li-braries. “The support of theGreat Plains EducationFoundation and the legal

and techni-cal expert-ise at USDare key tocarryingout Mr. Jan-klow’s vi-sion.”

The giftalso sup-ports work

in progress that includesgathering oral history inter-views with Janklow’s formerstaff members and others.Those, along with therecords and speeches, arebeing prepared for accessthrough the Digital Libraryof South Dakota.

The interviews are su-perb, and will complementthe archival records,” Dailysaid.

Daily

Beadle Elementary students wereencouraged to participate in summerreading activities along with using tech-nology sites that the Beadle PTA pur-chased for the school. To meet thegoal, students had to spend at least 12hours reading and/or using the technol-ogy programs that were purchased forthem. Students in the upper gradescould use IXL.com which helps stu-dents practice math standards, and stu-

dents in K-2 could useeducationcity.com which helps stu-dents practice language and mathskills. One other site students usedwas Think Central which is an onlineprogram from our current textbook se-ries in Math, Reading and Science. Thefollowing students all spent at least 12hours this summer and were recog-nized at school on September 3, 2014.Congratulations to Hannah Cihak, Olivia

Hunhoff, Adelia Parker-Brooks, ToriHansen, Christian Weier, Oliver Dooley,Haley Luke, Mitchel Zimmerman, CurtisHansen, Christopher Opbroek, AveryReifenrath, Mya Gilbertson, Keaton Roth,Ava Gilbertson, Isabella Opbroek, ElliottDooley, Mason Kotalik, Davis Walsh, CaleHaselhorst, Maggie Schaefer, Sophie Mon-tagne, Haley Lande, Paige Mitzel, CollinPatrick, Ryan Schulte, Gavin Haselhorst,Keaton List, and Conner Brunick.

Summer Readers

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Beadle Students Reach New ReadingAnd Technology Program Goals