Burlington Hawk-Eye (Newspaper) - May 20, 1988, Burlington, Iowa now a friend 2A Iowa preps top Soviets IB Friday May 20, 1988 The Hawk Eye Forecast Partly 58; Saturday 83. Page 10B Iowa's Oldest Newspaper 151st year - No. 267 Iowa 52601 36 pages - 35 Parched Drought worries area farmers By Steve Delaney with AP reports Although the National Weather Service says there is a slight chance for showers on Sunday it will take more than a few showers to achieve normal precipitation levels normal for Rainfall in Des Moines County is 78 percent below normal for the and the area's farmers are extremely About 100 Wapello County farmers and townspeople gathered at the fairgrounds in Eldon Thursday night to pray for About six preachers and lay ministers led the crowd in choruses of and pleas for holy intervention in the weather The prayer session also become somewhat of a media event as television cameras and still photographers crowded into the need the rain and we need to demonstrate to people our source is said who farms 670 acres west of Those attending the service said they didn't expect immediate though that's what they got from a similar effort a year Choir director Dick Langford said only true believers were in wouldn't be here unless you believe God is greater than our he Des Moines County's Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation county committee is seeking help from a a the federal The committee on Monday asked state officials to request permission from the federal government to allow farmers to use their set-aside acres for harvesting hay and Don said 10 states have already been denied a release on the set-aside putting Iowa's application in precipitation and temperatures between March 1 and May 12 have damaged county hay and pasture according to the Craig Iowa State University extension said a rainfall average of an inch per per week would return the growing season to He said fields he has observed have not yet been damaged by the lack of he said the situation is nearing Planted crops cannot survive much longer without good soaker is what's said getting to the point of a lot of Williams we get some rain here pretty we'll be in good It's at this point in the when some crops are struggling to at in mid-summer during when precipitation is needed Williams Williams said he has not observed any crop loss and has not heard any reports from within the county concerning crop crops look surprisingly well for the lack of Williams According to statistics provided by official weather observers at rainfall for the year is 64 percent below Through 4.15 inches of rain has been recorded in the Normal rainfall is 11.5 Only 0.52 inch of rain has been recorded this 1.82 inch below Classified Dear For the If you do not receive your copy of The Hawk Eye by 5:30 please call 754-8461 before 7 p.m. Hawk Eye Fageol Susan Burlington Public Library student papers the Stalking better readers The winning grade school in the Burlington Public Library's summer reading program will receive more than a An 8-foot, papier-mache now on display in the children's will be the In students who participate are bound to maintain - and even increase - their reading skills over the summer according to Linda director of the children's is the theme of reading which runs from June 6 to July 30. The program features five activities designed to reinforce reading according to they read a book a they can advance a reading she noting that reading skills can decrease over the summer break if reading isn't a regular Last summer students were eager to Fowler Students checked out nearly 42,000 books from the children's library over a period last Participants earn individual prizes for themselves and points for their schools during the summer reading North Hill Elementary School won first place last Special events planned this summer include the library's 90th birthday celebration June 29, and a book party July 26 for David author of a Red Parents may register their children for story Which begins June 23. Movies will be shown each Thursday at 2 p.m. from June 9 to July 28. Schedules for the movies may be picked up at the library after May 27. Drug task force recommended Taxes dominate election By Ron Parker The Hawk Eye Gov. Terry Branstad and the Iowa Legislature used small tax increases and a dose of fiscal magic this year to solve the state's budget They may not get off as easy in 1989. House Speaker Don Avenson predicted earlier this year that it is inevitable that the Legislature will increase the state's sales but not until after the 1988 think the next increase in taxes will be a sales tax a said at the beginning of this State senate year's legislative think it will be accepted by the people of the I think it will be passed by Republicans or Democrats and I think it will be used to fund the basic infrastructure of state government to fill the gap of the deficit that we're looking at right blunt forecast will be among the top issues that will face the next Senator from District 30 when he takes office in 1989. The hopefuls are Democrats Clyde Norrgard and Bob Summers and Republicans Mark Hagerla and The winner of the race also faces an agenda that includes several controversial including a proposed amendment to the Iowa Constitution that is designed to strictly limit a Burlington describes himself as fiscal basic reaction to increased taxes is he Ruther said he favors the concept of a Rights Please turn to page 10A Price climb fuels inflation fears WASHINGTON - Consumer prices rose 0.4 percent in April as clothing costs gained for the second straight month and grocery prices climbed at their fastest pace in 20 the government said Energy prices were up sharply as reflecting the steepest rise in gasoline prices since The overall only marginally better than March's 0.5 percent meant that for the first four months of 1988 retail prices were up at an annual rate of 4.5 While this was little changed from the 4.4 percent for all of 1987, economists were concerned because much of the inflationary pressure has shown up in the last two Analysts noted that the March rise had been the most severe since January 1987. Last month's 0.4 percent overall gain was equivalent to an annual inflation rate of 5.3 Grocery store prices rose 0.8 By Dena Bennett The Hawk Eye In the early 1970s, several Fort Madison were killed in an car Soon the mayor activated a drug task force that still battles Fort Madison drug Will it take a similar tragedy for Burlington to create a drug task David 405 S. Central said that may be the case if schools and law enforcement ignore the local drug began drinking alcohol in seventh grade and has since completed chemical dependency does have to take responsibility for Mark when six or seven of them get then maybe we'll do something about Mark and his four local drug and a West Point couple whose son is being treated for a drug problem in a drug forum Thursday at Southeastern Community Councilwoman Marcia Walker asked what the city could do about the drug The counselors agreed that formation of a drug task force would Diane Alcohol and Drug Dependency Services prevention said schools and law enforcement must work can make this community what we Fulknier takes interest at local and community Julie Woodlands assistant said one group pointing fingers at another will accomplish must feel responsibility at every she course it isn't just store Of course it isn't just Of turn to page 10A Would the real Banana Republic please stand up By George Gedda The Associated Press WASHINGTON - Just a few weeks Gen. Manuel Antonio Noriega seemed to be another hapless dictator teetering on the about to suffer the same fate as Haiti's Jean Claude and the Ferdinand But not only has the Panamanian strongman he also has been an unsettling presence on the U.S. political causing George Bush to break with established policy and producing a degree of interagency turmoil which is unusual even by this administration's contentious At administration bureaucrats seem angrier with each other than with Ideas aired within the administration and the Congress on how to deal with Noriega have gone from one extreme to the Why not kidnap How about a trade embargo against Let Noriega think the United States will maybe that will scare him into Since Noriega is not inclined to listen to the United perhaps other Latin American governments can talk him into step- Analysis ping Almost nothing has gone The State after being accused of winking at Noriega's alleged drug smuggling activities for found itself on the defensive when its efforts to remove him came up Noriega even has Bush turning on the administration these Bush said Wednesday if he would not with drug dealers whether they are on U.S. or foreign - criticism of government attempts to use dismissal of drug smuggling indictments to get Noriega out of Bush seems intent on not allowing the Democrats to outflank him on the drug His comment followed polls showing him trailing Democratic front-runner Michael Dukakis and a Senate vote that reflected strong opposition to lettin indicted drug smugglers off the State Department turn to page 10A percent in the biggest advance since August 1986. Leading the way were sharply higher prices for beef 2.3 fish 2.9 and and vegetables 1.4 Fears of inflation have stirred up financial markets in recent days and Slocks barely broke a two-day losing streak Thursday after worries about inflation and rising interest rates pushed the Dow Jones industrial average down sharply Tuesday and Tainted medicine found here Area residents taking the drug should check the lot numbers on the cans and Contaminated batches of the drug have surfaced in according to Dr. Garrett president of the Des Moines County Medical Earlier this week Bristol Laboratories voluntarily begin replacing potentially contaminate was taken after the company learned that one of the ingredients in the drug - supplied by an Italian manufacturer - may have been contaminated by agricultural chemicals made by the same Ridgely said people taking should be aware that the contaminated batches have surfaced in Lot numbers on containers of the drug should be checked determine if the contents are The recalled cans and packets bear an expiration date of between August im end October 0h 88" through I OCT 91" or have the following The contaminated medicine surfaced from two Burlington Some had been distributed as samples by s and om local pharmacy reported having one of the affected batch numbers in Bristol's action is listed by the food and Drug Administration a a category in which the risk of serious adverse health consequences is considered
