Burlington Hawk-Eye (Newspaper) - May 18, 1982, Burlington, Iowa The of Iowa Eye 145th Year 265 25 May 1982 319 7548461 48 pages Being the leader could be costly The Delta Queen rests side ways against Dam By Tom Seery Burlington may face a long and expensive legal battle if it wants to take the lead in trying to stop shipments of radioactive mate rial on the Burlington Northern main line through the The City with that thought in Monday postponed a June 1 public hearing on an ordinance to regulate the ship The hearing is now set for June to give residents and city officials more time to consider its Fred of the Environmental Pol icy Institute in tried to calm the Councils He said that al though the proposed ordinance would chal lenge federal authority over interstate com a district judge in New York re cently upheld a New York City ban on truck shipments of radioactive Millar said the New York dealing with shipments in a densely populated area where alternate modes of transport were is not directly applicable to But its useful because for the first time the federal government has been successfully challenged on its right to preempt local ordi nances regulating interstate said who specializes in nuclear transport is sues for the nonprofit His trip to Burlington was financed by local groups opposed to the proposed shipment of spent nuclear fuel from a Nebraska Public Power District plant at to a General Electric temporary storage site in Opponents say the radioactive shipments would endanger people along the route per haps twice if permanent storage sites are built in the West and that the wastes can be kept in an existing storage pool at the Nebraska Youre in the luxurious position of know ing that storage pool has room until Millar told the I frank ly would not expect that the Nebraska Public Power District would want to be the heavy in trying to crush an ordinance of the city of Millar said residents want their City Council to take but said Burlington could be the first on the route to pass an The first to pass and the first to be Councilman Lowell Bauer Local attorney Dan Cahill urged the Council not to pass hastily an ordinance which might challenge federal The ensuing court battle would be tremendously at least he I with all the pressing problems this city that to mount a horse and charge this problem is probably foolhardy at this Cahill said in asking the hearing be Roy 2504 advised the Council to let the state file any legal protests and take the But State Clay Spear said resolutions opposing the shipments failed to pass either house in the past legislative so I cant assure you that the state will take any effective I am concerned about the kind of com we and whether well be able to back it Councilman Wayne Hogberg City Attorney Ken Rittmer will work on the issue with attorney Frank who is writ ing a proposed ordinance on behalf of local opponents of the said he will have a draft ready by said the ordinance would not ban shipments of radioactive but would require shippers to obtain a certificate of emergency transport from the The Council would issue the permits only for the most compelling reasons of urgent public policy and would set safety standards for the shipments and charge permit fees to fund emergency re sponse Tows save None protest TV From local and UPI repots COSI From local and UPI repots The Delta pronounced seaworthy despite a gaping hole in its cruised to ward Louis today for repair of damages caused by a runin with a Mississippi River The 55yearold boat had been wedged against the dam 8 miles south of from late Saturday until two towboats hauled it free With a triumphant blast of its it headed down stream to Louis for About 70 spectators jamming the narrow road to Lock and Dam 22 cheered as the Hershey and Del Butcher pulled the majestic boat The towboat Magnolia tried to free the Queen but a cable snapped and injuring a crewman on each Stan president of the com pany that owns the said the Queen is seaworthy and in good operating condition despite a 3by 4foot gash in its wooden hull above the water The 285footlong boat is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and received national pub several years ago when Presi dent Carter chose the vessel for a family vacation that included a town meeting in The accident apparently will not affect the Queens scheduled stops in Burlington 13 and ac cording to the Chamber of Com Her sister the newer Mississippi is to dock at Burlington 4 and The Delta Queen was attempting to pass Lock 22 downstream when it bounced off one dam hit er and came to rest against the One crewman suffered a broken collarbone in the but no passengers were The 187 dressed in formal wear for their interrupted and the crew evacuated by climbing up ladders and a portable gangplank to the The crew reacted said passenger Ida McKinley of Al By the time I got out of the dining there was a guy in a chefs hat already standing at post by a The passengers and their luggage were taken by buses to a Louis where they were boarded at the expense of the Delta Queen FORECAST Partly cloudy through Chance of showers Low High Wednesday Partly cloudy with little no precipitation Thursday through RIVER STAGES down no change down voiced little oppo sition to a proposed cable television rate hike it a public hearing at Mondays City Council Burlington Cable under its must receive Council per mission to raise Company officials said high inter est rates and increased costs of insurance and wages jus raising the 29channel fee from to monthly the fee for addi tional sets from to and the FM radio service from to The basic 12channel rate of would not Even with these modest increas youve got a very good said Tom vice president of Heritage Communications of Des a partner in Burlingon Cable We think it can be ac by our Reinhard said the firm lost on operations last but stressed that is not unusual for a cable system in its early Burlington Cable TV wired its first home in January and now serves about of a possible homes in The Council more in terest in the firms service than its and Mayor Jerry Rigdon asked why some areas of the city do not have cable Burlington Cable TV manager Jim Scofield said the firm is only required to serve areas with at least 50 homes per mile of All major areas are Scofield but individual houses are just not economically feasible to No one protested the proposed rate but Larry 1910 asked if the Council would accept a petition opposing the hike after the hearing The Coun cil agreed to accept comments and petitions before making a While little talk centered on the firms Councilman Wayne Hogberg said the Council has re some financial data from Burlington Cable and were going to be asking for additional in Reinhard said the firm has filed some financial statements with the and well to discuss with the Council our audited finan cial Mayor Jerry Rigdon said the Council will be seeking more information on the operations of Burlington Cable TV before rul ing on a rate The Council will schedule a vote on the increases The higher fees would begin in In other action the Council again heard arguments on the proposed development of a 36 acre tract south of West Avenue and west of Roosevelt The Council will vote on the re zoning at its June 1 Help from above Local Salvation Army commander Eugene Sharp leans over Travis son of Darlene 225 to help with a Salvation Army Week activity of the SA Lloyd organization for Other Ranger are James son of Linda 229 Union and Terrence son of Dorothy 112 Hawk Eye digest UNITED NATIONS talks with Britain and Argentina on the Falklands dispute have been put off for 24 Meanwhile the British fleet is in position for assault if force is Page BIOFEEDBACK HELPS PEOPLE learn how to See todays LIV ING page THE GIRLS GOLF SECTIONAL and Madisons Thompson Open tournament are detailed in todays SPORTS page Todays index Classified Editorial For the Hawk Eye Local And by the mmm LAKE UPI Two police officers recoiled at the sight of a boa constrictor wrapped around the neck of a drunken driving sus sleeping in his The officers spotted the car its motor running stopped in the middle of a John slumbered peacefully inside while his 5footlong pet boa also fast was wrapped around his While Caputo slept the officers got the snake off his neck and put it in a pillow When the officers eventually he was arrested for drunken USSR makes nuke pitch MOSCOW UPI President Leonid Brezhnev today rejected President Reagans proposed nucle ar arms freeze as insincere but offered to halt deployment of all new nuclear weapons if the United States would do the One can hardly avoid drawing the conclusion that the position stated by the president is ori not to searching for an agree ment but to providing conditions for the continuation of Washingtons at tempts to achieve military superior ity over the Soviet nev said in a speech to mem bers of the Young Communist League at the It was first direct re sponse to Reagans proposal made May 9 at his alma mater Eureka to reach a equal and verifiable onethird re duction in atomic warheads and a cutback in intercontinental THE SPEECH was first in two during which there had been speculation about his He appeared alert and healthy although at one point Brezhnev berates US he stumbled while walking across the Vice President George Bush said he was somewhat encouraged by but at the White House deputy press secretary Larry Speakes said only Our posi tion is well We cant freeze at a Secretary of State Alexander in Luxembourg for a NATO said he did not want to comment in detail on proposals until he had studied but his initial reaction was that nuclear freezes do not pro mote effective arms and SOVIET arms negotia arrived in to resume talks on limiting nuclear weapons in looking healthy and alert in his first speech in public in nearly two welcomed Rea gans overture but claimed the pro posal was designed to guarantee military superiority over the Brezhnev said Reagans bargain ing stance was unrealistic and THE KREMLIN LEADER said the United States is willing to talk about missiles in Europe where the Soviet Union now holds a stra edge by Western estimates but refuses to negotiate limits on nuclear warheads and other weapons systems where America is more Natures twisting tantrum spares Hawk Eyeland Fran local and DPI report A violent afternoon of weather finally dissipated shortly before sunset but not before several tornadoes chewed a path through some farms from north cen tral Iowa to the Minnesota tornadoes marched through one farm near Fort Dodge while twisters tore up another farmstead near the central Iowa city and then pounced on the ground in Kossuth County and near Forest City There were no reports of injuries as the line of violent thunderstorms finally left the state around 6 HAWK EVELAND HAD 1EEN under tor nado watches for most of the but those cautions were canceled by 9 The Burlington area received only a few Wind gusts knocked some limbs onto power but no widespread dam age or power outages were reported in the area The northern twisters were fueled by vio fastmoving thunderstorms that belted Ames with Winds hit 68 mph in Vinton and 5060 mph at Hampton as the storms The Spencer area was also drenched dur ing the Petersons 24hour rain total was FUNNEL CLOUDS OK tornadoes were re ported at several including Jef Lohrville and a community midway be tween Jefferson and Webster County Sheriff Chuck Griggs said tornadoes mauled two farms near Far Two of them came side by side at the Dale Hanson Griggs They took out took out side walls on a machine shed and blew trees on the house and He said a witness estimated the tips of the dual twisters were only 2630 feet You can see by looking at the Griggs They werent too but just side by A STRONGER tornado struck the Darwin Carlson the sheriff It knocked down a large mangled a corn crib and bounced a couple of steel grain bins off the Pieces of one bin were strewn for more than one Funnel clouds were reported at Callendar and two other small communities in Web ster Winnebago County authorities said a twister first touched down near a farm on the Hancock County damaging a ma chine It then skipped to a farm near Thompson where it toppled a windmill onto a barn and then hit another damaging another machine before fleeing into FORECASTERS HAD ISSUED a tornado watch for 45 counties in eastern and north ern Iowa because of the Temper atures varied widely between the line of At late it was in Spencer and in Causing all the trouble was a low pres sure cell centered over southeastern Min and extreme northwestern The low has been stalled for several dumping rain and spawning funnel clouds as it Forecasters say it will finally move on by Wednesday but unsettled conditions remain in the outlook for
