Burlington Hawk-Eye (Newspaper) - November 10, 1982, Burlington, Iowa The Iowa November 1982 319 7548461 48 pages Rigdon on riverfront Lets channel those eddies By Tom Seery Development of downtown for years merely a finally appears to be nearing And as reality is posing some problems that werent fore seen in the planning and Mayor Jerry Rigdon warned Tuesday that the growing number of groups and individuals that have a hand in various riverfront projects might hamstring development if their activities cant be Rigdon asked the Plan Commission at its regular meeting to consider taking Rigdon said conflicts have arisen between two groups citys Riverfront Advisory formed to advise the City Council on riverfront matters and devise a comprehensive devel plan and Chamber of Commerce riv development which is steering the Chamber into an active role in spurring and or Rigdon said the committees should move along together in stead of going in different busy protecting their What Im trying to forestall here is this problem of competitive Work on a comprehensive riv development plan is needed before the city starts spending mon ey in the area next The Coun cil has agreed to spend 25 of ho FORECAST Cloudy Variable winds around 10 Low Cloudy with 60 chance of showers High Chance of rain rain or snow on Jim Braadh tax revenues on riverfront about an The which voters approved last will go into effect April The city hopes to receive the first installment of tax funds by July taxes will also help repair Memorial Auditorium on the riverfront and establish of a tour ism and convention bureau an other group that could play a role in the But Rigdon said the amount of tax funds going to the riverfront will be small compared to every thing that needs to be so I would be very reluctant to spend any money in any of those areas without some type of a going to have to come up with a recommendation for using these funds on the riverfront or its going to be a hodgepodge a curse instead of a he Rigdon asked the Plan Commis sion to work something out thats acceptable to Commissioner David Wittmer asked if Rigdon envisioned the Plan Commission as an umbrella group over the various riverfront in with the city advisory com becoming a subcommittee of the Plan Such a Rigdon should come from the Plan Commis because if I recommended I would get in a lot of The mayor did suggest an organi along those lines earlier this but his fellow councilmen re the idea 6 and the com Monday voted its unanimous The Plan Commission agreed to discuss a role in riverfront devel at its 14 Radio personality dies Death has stilled one of Hawk popular James Jim 44year old morning radio an was pronounced dead at Burlington Medical Center at five days after marking his 19th anniversary with the He suffered a heart attack at his home in Beaverdale Heights shortly after Though he did other Braadh was for his morning including and repartee with other station A conspicuous figure in the com he joked about his 360 He once told a Hawk Eye Im a selfmade man and I used too much material on the Hell be news director who worked closely with Braadh for five told The Hawk He had a sharp sense of Henry and was if there was the slightest defect in stereo hed detect He owned expensive viedo and stereo equipment anything elec tronic intrigued He loved elec tronic games and gadgets he had an computerized clock that would talk to He also en joyed driving compact cars and vis iting antique Braadh was born March in Waterloo to Arne and Marion He graduated from West High and attended the University of He was a member of the United Presbyterian He lived in Beaverdale Heights with his who Funeral 10 Friday in the Clifford Haskins Midwest Garden of Hawk Eye digest THE DRAMA IS BUILDING at James Madison Middle Why See page ROBIN Milwaukee Brewer shortstop has been named the American Leagues Most Valuable See todays SPORTS sec page Todays Index Classified Dr Editorial For the Hawk Eye Local And by the UPI Police Chief Charles Gruber arrested a young man allegedly smoking marijuana in the mens room at police head police said who also heads the Illinois Association of Chiefs of an odor coming from a nearby stall and arrested the man smoking a The offender was not formally because he assisted police in another Gruber warned the never smoke marijuana in the cop A police chief may be sitting in the next Reagan to face reporters on TV WASHINGTON UPI President Reagan will hold his 14th presidential news the first since last weeks at 7 CST Thursday in White House East The Veterans Day session will be televised on all major It will be his first nationally broadcast news conference since The armies of autumn Burlington streets department workers were out In force Wednesday sweeping Prospect Hill streets and picking up residents bagged leaves In the annual attempt to elimi nate autumns Frank Clarence Mark photos Jim Mark Cameron and Don Carpenter are working in the southeast part of the city this Dates for other pickups ap In The Hawk Eye 7 and may be ob by calling City Changes for cable Cable television subscribers in West Mid and Danville will notice five channel changes Tom Graves of Heritage Commu Des manager and of Burlington Cable said three changes will be tempo rary and two They in volve Federal Communications Commission regulations and pos sible interference with federal avia tion Sometime late Wednesday or early there will be two permanent changes at Danville and Middletown Home Box Office HBO will move to channel 2 and the Southeastern Community Col lege access to channel Since 13 will remain the city gov access channel for Bur Middletown and Danville residents will no longer be able to watch Burlington City Council The temporary changes affect all four probably for 68 Graves said they are the is moving from channel 28 to now on 27 but scheduled to fold nationally in mid will be discontinued early a public access channel whose coverage includes live tele casts of the House of Repre moves to channel Channel which has been car program guides for The Movie Channel and will be Canvass its Thompson CHICAGO UPI Republican James Thompson has won re election to an unprecedented third straight term in the closest guberna election in modern Illinois figures released today Democratic challenger Adlai Ste venson gained only votes in the canvass of votes cast in Chicago That left Thompson with a lead of with only six down state counties still to report their canvassed The margin is less than of the more than million votes cast in the gubernatorial STEVENSON AND his legal advis ers planned to meet later today to discuss the possibility of a legal I think any reasonable person would have to seriously consider a recount when youre talking about a margin that is equal to or of the total Stevenson attorney John Schmidt said late No legal action can be taken until the State Board of Elections cer the vote totals reported by the That is set for 22 in Thompson led a for mer by votes when complete but unofficial totals first were compiled The count was delayed by wet com puter breakdowns and other pre he would reverse as counting errors were corrected during the Chicago While he in steadily gain on Thompson during the Chicago can he ran out of precincts before he could catch the STEVENSONS CHANCES were dimmed still further when Cook County Clerk Stanley Kusper an Tuesday that Thompson had gained 35 votes during the can vass of suburban Cook a Democrat who last week used estimated returns to pre dict a Stevenson said Mon day it appeared even before the re lease of the Chicago canvass that Thompson had won the Knowing what we know it would not seem there are sufficient numbers of uncanvassed ballots outstanding to change the out come of this It appears Governor Thompson has won re election by one of the smallest mar gins in the history of the state of Il Kusper THE RACE was not expected to be Polls showed consistently throughout the last two months of the campaign that Thompson would win reelection P combination of circumstances led to an exceptionally heavy turnout in providing Stevenson a huge cushion of votes that had not showed up in preelection Pneumonia hitting area kids Hundreds of Burlington area children have become victims of a nationwide outbreak of pneumonia in re cent health officials confirmed this week but most local cases can be treated at Burlington pediatrician Donald McCabe said there is a minor epidemic of pneumonia affecting chil dren this most of them mild bacterial infections there are many types of an inflammation of the lung tissue that causes chest pain and DIRECTOR OF THE Burlington Medical Center Neonatal said one of the most com mon drugs used to treat these cases is the antibiotic Des Moines County Health Unit di said such an outbreak is not uncommon at this time of School has started Children who have been apart all summer are gathered together Younger ones who have never been in school are starting kind And with the warm days and cold nights weve been children are sent to school all bundled either too hot or too Cowles McCABE ALSO CONFIRMED three area cases of a f more serious disease sometimes related to the season spinal But he said each case has been traced to a different organism and the three cant be regarded as an which can be is an in of tissues around the spinal cord and it can be fatal but prognosis is good with prompt diagnosis and Vietnam vets recite the toll WASHINGTON UPI The shunned warriors of Americas long est and most unpopular war today began honoring name by name their comrades who died in At a candlelight vigil at the Na tional the veterans sa luted their war dead by reading the names of the Americans killed and missing in It will take about 56 hours to read the alphabetical list of The dignified ceremony marked the start of activities leading to the dedication of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Gerald called out Sandie who read the first She is director of the Nation al Salute to Vietnam Veterans or by the Vietnam Veterans Memorial 4 of died May His name and the others of the American war dead are inscribed on the black granite built on the Mall with million in private contribu tions raised by the Memorial AT THE which a decade ago rang with the war protest chant of Hell we wont the fence came down around the memorial for the belated welcome home estimated to draw about DPI DISABLED VETERAN Fred Strother of Maine was among vis to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial In Washington Harold of who said he was spat upon when he returned from the viewed the memorial today along with 57 other a medic in the found the name of one of his lieu tenants on the He died in a medivac I found his name on the and I saluted that said adding it was nice they finally did something to recognize the Vietnam VETERANS DAY was originally called Armistice marking the cessation at the hour of the day of the month of World War 1 hostilities in It became a day to honor all vet erans after the Korean Local rites set Veterans Day observances in Hawk Eyeland will be highlighted by traditional rites at Thursday at Memorial Fred retired Army ant colonel and a former command er of the Iowa Army Ammunition will speak at the ceremony sponsored by Burlington Veterans Council local American Veterans of Foreign Wars and Dis abled American Veterans The Burlington public library will be but the day will be a holiday for most cy government workers at all Postal service will be on holiday schedules state Iowa liquor courthouses and city halls will be Burlington sanitation crews cov ered Thursdays trash pickup routes on Wednesday Friday garbage service will be Des Moines Countys landfill will be In the private Hawk Eye land financial institutions will be but most other businesses and industries will be on normal schedules and The Hawk Eye will
