Burlington Hawk-Eye (Newspaper) - October 7, 1982, Burlington, Iowa 146th Year 76 The of Iowa Eye 25 October 1982 319 7548461 40 pages Fruehauf calls 165 off layoff MADISON The Fruehauf citing an increase in said Wednesday 165 workers will be recalled from layoffs dating as far back as June Frank industrial rela tions manager at the said the workers will begin returning to work sometime this By he the plant will be employ ing about 300 Its most re cent layoffs were in December 1981 and last Powers told The Hawk Bye Thursday that the which assembles truck will be working two Fruehauf now is running a single He said it appears there will be no difficulty finding employees ready to be even those who have been out more than a One board takes work seriously By John Stewarl Many public boards hold work sessions to prepare themselves for regular But for the Des County Conservation the REAL work session came Quickly concluding their regular meeting board mem rolled up their sleeves and went to work cleaning up the new Starrs Cave Park and Nature Cen ter off Irish Ridge Road for its grand opening 15 THE building was originally a then the rustic Sycamore then idle for some and now a nature Its interior has a appearance with exposed Staff naturalist Gail George showed board members the exhibits on the second floor mounted ducks and an tree a slide natural science experiment packets and the first floors two class rooms for lectures and The boards eight staff Conservation Explorer Scout Post 171 and volunteers have handled much of the renovation work over the past two Groups may reserve the facility by calling The board asked George to draft a policy for groups that may want to meet regularly in the EVEN THOUGH the structure is protected by a visitors will be asked to douse their smokes on a ban proposed by board member Dick Lewis Most of the board members and chairman Sherman Lun day observed that theres nothing worse a reformed But the board still agreed to adopt the Fourth trial underway in slaying MADISON The gree murder trial of the fourth Iowa State inmate charged with the death of another prisoner is under way in Lee County District Jerry Williams went on trial accused of killing fel low prisoner Gary Tyson during an ISP riot So two prisoners have been convicted in the murder and one has been ac Prosecutor Bruce McDonald said the state will show Tyson was killed because members of the Almighty and Unknown Vice a prison suspected he was an inform ant 12 other prisoners and one former inmate have been in in Tysons His stabbed more than 20 was found in a kitchen FORECAST Increasing ness late Southerly winds around 10 Not so High Cloudy Friday with 30 chance of High Fair Saturday through SCHOOLS SUPERINTENDENT con fers with personnel director Jim White possibly about placing In the library aides Job Ecker son held until Thursday and will return to Schools have new boss By Jane Sutler Burlington schools Superintend ent Irene desk this morning was adorned with Anacin and down in the high school aide James tried to figure And if associating those names with those titles confuses regular worry not things will be back to normal SMITH SPENT Thursday working as a high school library aide as part of a job switch Eckerson won in a raffle a recent employee For it meant a day of meetings with Jim personnel to discuss contract nego and grievances Ken business to plan the 18 board meeting agenda and Chuck school board presi to review that But before those could a more pressing matter was waiting My first duty was to take the school car and drive Smith to Eckerson said in an in at the White House the staff term for the administration Although she wasnt wear ing Smiths usual Eckerson maintained the executive look quite The day also had some light ac Eckerson was to accompany board member Milton Meuler to Kiwanis Club Smith informed me Ill prob ably have some so well negotiate that Before her day colleagues had made their requests They all want raises siz able The custodians want ex tra vacation and as a mem ber of the clerical we could all use a Eckerson But remembering she was she added The Gnm BURLINGTON HIGH SCHOOL library aide James who has a doctorate Mea to figure out the typewriter at his new way the country we all have to tighten our BACK AT THE high Smith was learning his new duties of proc essing and checking out as sembling information and helping teachers in compiling His Librarian Lennis had Smith writing to em bassies to learn of social habits of foreign Lange said Smith has caused me no problems but that was before hed checked on Smiths Lange said Smiths skill or lack thereof might force him to use words per hour to define his Smith looking forward to coffee with the girls where he could use his new appropri ately labeled and a lunch break in the faculty Smiths presence had not gone un noticed students had asked Lange who the new aide some stu dents have given me the eye as theyve walked and some teach ers wanted some information I couldnt Smith He said his only problem was finding the and he threat ened to file a grievance about But the aide was saying Im pleased to see how well the facilities are used and theyre students generally Stock trade heady NEW YORK UPI Fueled by a record turnover of million shares in the first three Wall Streets revived ral ly roared into high gear today with prices surging while interest rates began to The Dow Jones industrial av which soared a cord points was ahead points to at noon Wednesdays rise was second only to the point surge on 17 at the outset of the recent The Dows close Wednesday of was the highest since it hit on 1981 and put the closely watched barometer points in the plus column since skidding to a 27month low of on NEW YORK STOCK Exchange volume amounted to about million shares at up from the previous mark of million set on The million traded in the first two hours erased the old record of million set The million shares sur passed the previous standard of million set The NYSE transaction tape was running 36 minutes late because of the heavy WEDNESDAYS TURNOVER of million shares was the ninth busiest on The mil lion traded 26 was the heaviest Many major stocks were delayed in opening because orders for them were so heavy brokers could not meet them Activity in brokerages houses and on exchange floors was Many investors ac counts that are coming due might were putting their cash into the stock some analysts sugges The bluechip Dow average soared 23 points in the final 90 minutes of trading Wednesday as the rally snowballed with institutional in who missed out on the Au gust surge bought TREASURY SECRETARY Donald Regan predicted interest rates would move lower though the course might be rocky at And Rich ard Federal Home Loan Bank forecast as drop in mort gage rates within a matter of Chester vice president at Tsai in Los said an ar ticle in The New York Times about Morgan Stanley analysts recom mending bluechip stocks triggered a lot of Pado says Wednesdays rally might have been the second stage of a bull General Electrics higher earnings and IBMs strong showing helped the psychological outlook for the Some foreign investors appeared to be placing money in quality stocks because of concern about in financial How much their investing counted in the rally was Big banks cut prime NEW YORK UPI Several ma jor headed by New Yorks Manufacturers Hanover today cut their prime lending rate to 13 from amid widespread speculation the Federal Reserve will allow the nations money supply to grow to help the ailing Manufacturers Hanover became the second bank to cut its bench mark rate within the past nine Until Manufacturers Hanover Bankers Trust had been the only major bank to have a 13 Bankers Trust adopted the 13 rate on Chase Chemical First National Bank of Chicago and the small Southwest Bank of Louis joined Manufacturers Hanover in lowering their rates to Federal funds rates banks charge one another for overnight loans dropped below 10 Wednesday and triggered rallies both in the stock and bond Those rates opened at Wall Street was rife with specula tion the Federal Reserves Open Market committee earlier this week decided to allow the nations money supply to expand at a planned rate Hawk Eye digest QUEEN ELIZABETH is said to be angered by Prince Andrews choice of vacation See todays LIVING page SCCS LEARNING CENTER offers diverse See page SOUTHERN HIGH SCHOOL of has switched its foot ball from former strong to present de See todays SPORTS page THE 51ST YEAR for the Players Workshop opens tonight with Wil For a turn to page Todays index Classified Dr Editorial For the Hawk Eye Local TV Mayor tries to trim gets splinters By Tom Seery Mayor Jerry effort to restructure city advisory boards and committees met unanimous opposition Wednesday from Bur other four After almost two hours of the Coun cil decided to only trim the Mats and terms on the Plan Commission something Rigdon had not THE MAYOR WANTED advisory groups dealing with the Memorial Auditorium and Flint Hills Golf Course re placed with temporary groups that would be given specific tasks and Some of them are just flat and with citizens put In a great deal of time discussing and planning and theres a great deal of frustration with things not get ting Rigdon Rigdon proposed associating the Riverfront Advisory Committee with the Commis with some membership on the riverfront Wayne Hogberg replied that you might just as well do away with the riverfront committee and let the Plan Commission do it not the way to be The other councilman agreed to leave the riverfront committee although Hogberg admitted it has bean in existence two years without forming a master development THINK Ift JUST LEADERSHIP from the Council Councilman Richard Eckhardt damn wed better give them the tools to do the said complaining that riverfront panel members are concerned about activities rather than the total the and now it integrates into thf rest of the gone to three of their Rig don and ended up getting cussed out about the boat That s its stu ill W le and Hogberg did agree that the com should apt be overwhelmed by Rigdon lost similar battles to disband the parks and golf course He wanted to replace the golf course adviso ry board with an informal similar to Friends of the that would work with the course BUT DOING WARNED Councilman Lowell would be asking for a lot of uneasiness and hard Theyve been working for a number of years and I just dont think it should be changed at this City Manager Lawley added that one of the advantages of a board like this is it does organize public But said if were doing this just to avoid were making a great The mayor then moved to the Parks Adviso ry saying that panel should be restructured and told to come up with a mas ter plan for our through the Plan Com I don t want to spend any money in the parks without an approved When his colleagues balked at the mayor said you guys just dont want to bite the Im trying to do is commit to im proving these and if you have to step on toes to do so be Youre going to have to offend somebody sometime to get something Hogberg insisted the Council had not shied from such I think when we came in office 2 these committees were Hogberg said and thats why we shouldnt fire them Bauer THE ONLY CHANGE to result from the meeting will be reduction of the number of plan commissioners from 15 to and their terms from five years to three with a limit on consecutive The new rules will be implemented next The Council also delayed consideration of the Memorial Auditorium Advisory Board un til after the 2 tax The Council plans to allocate part of the new tax income to the Auditorium and creation of a tourism which Lawley said could be combined with the advisory board if the tax
