Burlington Hawk-Eye (Newspaper) - November 22, 1982, Burlington, Iowa Two charged in shooting death By Mark George and Jacquel ine both of 1213 Angu have been charged with gree murder in the shooting death of Cynthia Mae of 121 Maclaren waa last seen and she was reported missing Her body was discovered last Friday in a wooded area miles east of after the Des Moines County Sheriffs De received an anonymous An autopsy conducted Friday by Ralph Rettenmaier deter mined the probable cause of death was a gunshot wound to the Assistant County Attorney William Dowell the weapon used was a caliber BOTH SUSPECTS appeared before Judge Thomas Brown Monday wearing their sued orange Bond was set at for and for They are both being held in the Des Moines County jail pend ing further court Conviction for murder carries a mandatory life sentence in Dowell said investigators do have a possible but he declined to comment He said no oth er arrests are contemplated at this The arrests were made through the combined efforts of the Des Moines County Sheriffs Depart Burlington and the Iowa Division of Criminal In COURT RECORDS show that Seg her and Wales had been charged with burglary following the 10 breakin at the Apothecary 24 drug Sixth they were free on a pretrial release agreement at the time of the alleged Dowell said both suspects have been in custody since Thursday night Segler on a charge of oper ating a motor vehicle without the owners consent and al violating her pretrial re lease who is is rep resented by Bryan Bur who is also unem is being represented by Public Defender John Bur A BOND REVIEW hearing for Wales has been scheduled for A preliminary hearing for both Segler and Wales has been scheduled for A woman in Sperry said several people heard a woman screaming last but that area residents knew little more about the A police search party found Macl arens body about noon Friday in woods along county road north of Milk photo A crowd of bargain seekers stand at the east entrance to Woolco Monday morning as the store at Westland Mall began Its closeout when their merchandise runs perhaps as early as Jan The West Burlington outlet and 335 others nationwide will close per About 50 employees will lose their Library tax ruffles feathers By John Stewart A letter from Burlington public li brary Director Dan Zack ruffled some feathers Monday at the Des Moines County Board of Super visors Supervisors agreed that Zacks re cent letter to the in which he seeks a higher county tax to sup port the appeared to be a not a according to Supervisor Dick Laat week Zack wrote supervisors explaining why the Burlington Li brary Board wants supervisors to increase rural residents tax levies for library services from the present cents per in property val ue to 13V4 The library board also wants the revenue to be shared by Burlington and the smaller Mediapolis library on a 8020 ratio instead of the pre sent 6040 THE LIBRARY board both proposals Due to in and increased library use by residents of unincorporated the board wants library users from outside Burlington to share more of the library tax Zack said rural residents hold of library registrations but contribute only of library Supervisors first learned of the plan at a joint 1 session with the library But the tone of Zacks letter was not as friendly as the 1 meet Supervisor Chairman Dick Lewis In his Zack said if the county did not approve the tax increase for rural the library board would exclude those people from receiving Bur lington library Supervisor Irma Vance was curious as to how the library could legally carry out the SUPERVISORS decided to hold a meeting the first week of December with county township trustees to discuss the tax increase Supervisors also agreed they need a financial audit of the city library before making a final The Burlington Library Board es its tax proposal would not change the amount of money the Mediapolis library now receives from taxes on rural The Mediapolis library received from those taxpayers this The tax hike would raise an addi tional The Burlington Li brary received this year from taxes paid by residents of unincorporated Burlington residents paid this year to support its library about per city THE BURLINGTON Library Board also is asking West Bur and Middletown to double their library tax Those towns contract through the county for Burlington library serv 1 Thompson wins after Illinois vote canvass Funds sought to ensure safety of nuke fuel route By Ton Seery An Iowa legislative committee formed to study the shipment of spent nuclear fuel across southern Iowa will ask the legislature to allo cate an undetermined amount of money to ensure the safety of people living near the controversial The interim which met Friday in Des agreed that local police and other public safety agencies along the route need training and equipment to deal with possible accidents involving the highly radioactive State safety officials were asked to deter mine how much the effort will and that figure wUl be forwarded to the joint Appropri ation Committee next ELAINE Fridays meeting in cluded testimony from experts con of the safety of the ship Nebraska Public Power Dis plans to begin sending spent fuel in early 1983 from its Brown nuclear power plant to a General Electric storage site at shipments would travel the Burlington Northern Railroads main line through Local opponents have raised fears about the possibility of an and maintain the shipments are essary since the Nebraska plant has storage Baxter and other members of the 10member committee listened Friday as state experts assured them the shipments are They feel every precaution has been and its very unlikely there would be a Baxter After listening to I tend to believe on the other when an accident happens its usually Rigdon said his testimony at the daylong meeting was not intended to to stop the I think beyond our realm to stop he But I think can get the greatest degree of safety GE HAS ALREADY sent two spe shipment casks to the Nebraska We are in the process of beginning our training on site in handling the spent nuclear said a Nebraska Public Pow er The firm is waiting for the Illinois Supreme Court to rule on that states attempt to re fuse to accept spent nuclear fuel generated in other The spokesman said the case should be decided around the first of the Baxter said the interim committee might meet again in December to consider state inspection and regu lation of the She said a committee staffer will study laws in other states and report to the com If committee members feel legislation is they might make another recommendation to the BURLINGTON MAYOR Jerry Rig don was the only official from a community along the route to ad dress the He told the committee These shipments should not occur until emergency response officers or personnel are properly trained and emergency response procedures are in This train ing should be at the state level and also at the local In addition to asking for funds to train and equip local safety the committee recommend ed that the top elected official in each community along the route be notified of the timing of the ship Rigdon said that under present only the governors of fice would be notified of the ship Our safety people would not even know its coming he I find that un UPI Re publican James Thompson has won reelection to an unprecedented third straight term in the closest statewide race in modern Illinois the State Board of Elec tions said An official tally certified by the board showed Thompson beat Dem ocrat Adlai Stevenson III by out of more than 3 Vi million ballots The margin is less than percent of the total number of bal Thompson had votes to Stevensons Thompson declared victory short ly after the 2 election and was expected certified the winner in cial Stevenson has to concede and vowed to ask for a Board members called the certifi cation strictly ITS A said Elec tions Director Ronald but its an important formality be cause the results that are certified will be the benchmarks against any election contests that can and could be Both camps said Sunday they are ready for action Stevenson has five days to file for what is called the discovery a limited canvass in no more than 25 percent of the states precincts to prove that mistakes or evidence of fraud could change the vote We feel very Steven son Weve found enough vot ing irregularities already to justify a statewide recount to be con we will ask for a ery IN ADDITION to filing the ery requests with individual county Stevenson also must contest the results of the election by filing papers with the state Supreme Court within 15 days of the vote FORECAST Tonight colder with 60 chance of light No significant Northerly winds 1020 Low mid to upper Tuesday partly cloudy and cold with chance of snow High low Thanksgiving Day outlook Partly cloudy and Wednesday through Friday dry and RIVER STAGES no change Hawk Eye digest THE SOVIET POLITBURO membership was swelled by one today with the election of a longtime party Page READING COMES ALIVE for students at Middletown Elementary See todays LIVING page IT WAS OPENING DAY of the National Football Leagues second sea son Sunday and there were surprises and upsets and some fans stayed Details in todays SPORTS page Todays index Classified Editorial For the Hawk Eye Local And by the UPI Glamor Ivy may be the most expensive Holstein cow to ever straddle a milk She sold for The coveted for her high milk was sold at the Pear moot Farms auction Saturday of Tom and Linda to of The previous record price for a Holstein was believed to be paid for a cow in New York two years US deficit could hit billion WASHINGTON UPI Presi dent who had trumpeted a goal of balancing the federal budget by instead will preside that year over a record deficit of about internal administration estimates Administration officials said Sun day the broad budget plan now being worked out by Reagan and his top advisers would produce a deficit in the range of billion to billion without spending cuts or tax Although general parameters have been established for the budget Rea gan will submit to Congress early next one official said budget director David Stockman is pro on the basis of basic judg ments by the Its still said one but this appears to be the basic direction were headed DURING THE Rea gan promised to balance the budget a goal that steadily moved far ther out of his Officials said Stockman is work ing on billion to billion in domestic spending which still would produce a deficit substantially larger than the latest projections by either the adminis tration or Alice director of the Con gressional Budget said Stockmans latest figures suggest I seem to have lost my position as resident pessimist to Reagans own budget Rivlin said the latest CBO projec tion of a billion deficit in 1984 is clearly out of but de to speculate on what the next estimate will show in THE DEFICIT for fiscal which ended was a record billion and Martin chairman of the presidents Council of Economic said earlier this month the 1983 which the CBO projects at is now essentially beyond our con on Meet the said Sunday that deficits in the years immediately ahead will be billion to billion without significant action to cut domestic THE despite pres sure even from within his own par has refused to scale back the sharp growth he proposed in de fense spending or back away from scheduled tax the Republican leaders of the House and echoing the concern of many members of told reporters after a meeting with Reagan last week that few additional dollars can be wrung out of nonmilitary Token tiff turns to war NEW YORK UPI Ten middle class including two law were arrested Monday and charged with slipping Connecticut Turnpike tokens into New York City subway turnstiles in a police sweep dubbed Operation The suspects were arrested at Grand Central a major com muter by undercover Transit Authority TA spokes woman Jeanne Edelson Last Mayor Edward Koch called fare beaters who used the Connecticut tokens lepers and the police operation was thus dub bed Operation Edel son The Connecticut Turnpike recent ly introduced tokens worth cents that also fit into New York subway turnstiles requiring 75cent Officials of the Connecticut De of Transportation and the TA are now trying to work out a so lution to the Man dies from crash injuries A Burlington man who was in jured three weeks ago in a traffic accident in Lee county hat Curtis of was the driver of a car that crashed on Iowa 16 miles east of Denmark on He had been listed in critical condition since then in University Iowa where he died His Betty Jo 2017 Ridge was also injured but was released from Burlington Medical Center last
