Hawk Eye (Newspaper) - July 13, 1994, Burlington, Iowa City & Mediapolis voters approve dual school 3A The Hawk Eye 158th year 4 IOWA WEDNESDAY JULY 13, 1994 50 cents Network's final cost not known The state communications net work is already the most expensive capital project in Iowa Its final cost is still not The state borrowed million for the first two phases of the network - installing 2,800 miles of underground cable reaching into all 99 erecting a state command center and linking the cable to colleges and It will cost million to retire the The cost of the final phase of the network - local hookups to high schools - is not yet known but has been estimated at up to The Legislature voted this year to rather than the local fiber optics lines and transmission Bids will be available for legislative approval next State officials have estimated lease payments could be million a The state also is paying a private contractor million over 10 years for maintenance of the - The Associated Press Fiber-optic network gets little use By Steven Rosenfeld The Associated Press DES MOINES - For less than the price of a National Basketball Association the state of Iowa has bought its 2.8 million residents the foundation of a world-class communications The 2,800-mile network of fiberoptic cable links all 99 It provides two-way picture and computer communication for government emergency health care and education with greater clarity and reliability than traditional copper telephone Perhaps more than anything the system is being touted as a saviour for rural already disappearing as a result of the one-two punch of declining enrollment and limited course It offers even the smallest school system access to advanced mathematics and science choices in foreign language instruction and an entree to computer networks that extend beyond classroom walls to the ends of the Yet while the first two phases of the most costly capital investment in state history have been with the million system up and running since only 53 of Iowa's 397 community school districts have hooked Some have yet to offer or receive courses on the still - waiting for final have yet to plan train teachers or prepare for the new Little training Fiber optics time educators in the only about 2,000 have trained in fiber Of only about 700 have received as much as a three-day course in how to teach on the got a piece of equipment but no one's provided us the background on how to use says Richard superintendent of the Community School Dis- - in eastern high school is part of the Iowa Communications but so far uses the system only to Out of 42,000 full-time or nate meetings of superintendents to plan for future use of the The district is considering receiving advanced math and foreign language courses next fall from another While Iowa colleges and community colleges are off to a running start with adult industrial degree credit and postgraduate courses on the school districts struggle with basic Among says can we be sure the type of program offered is the kind that will be successful to Colleges were better prepared because of their in-house computer and research departments and teacher-training faculty who have been familiar with so-called technologies for In colleges are motivated to make the system work because it represents a new source of revenue and See Fiber page 7A>- Building bridges Expulsions bodies found John Hawk Eye Dan Lane of Shipley Construction operates a D8 Caterpillar while moving dirt for bridge berms east of U.S. 61 just south of the Skunk River on U.S. 61 widening costs climbing By Jeff Lehr Hawk Eye ' Project costs for the of U.S. 61 from Keokuk to Burlington appear likely to top almost double the original currently in its third was priced at million in the planning Delays due to a snafu with an archeological site at Wever and more ordinary inflationary factors have combined to drive up Payments to date and adjusted estimates total according to the Department of and that does not include the expense of a sible bypass at Fort going to do a study on that in a year or IDOT development engineer Tom McDonald The southernmost leg - from Keokuk city limits to the junction with U.S. 218 - is complete and has been open to traffic for a It cost The grading will be finished on the Fort leg in the next few weeks and paving will begin soon four lanes should be open to Wever by this McDonald That leg of the new highway now is expected to cost About or almost half of the entire project's will be spent building nine miles of roadway between the U.S. 218 junction and the intersection with Iowa 2 Fort Still under the leg presents the most difficulty in terms of terrain and McDonald says it will require three dual bridges over railroad tracks and five creek Right-of-way acquisition on that leg is expected to start in one Construction should begin in 1997 or 1998. The Wever now priced at See Highway page 14A> Critics say report of 12 young men found shot proves human rights monitors The Associated Press Haiti government's order to expel human rights monitors ignited blazing international criticism just as reports surfaced that 12 people were found shot to death west of the One U.S. official warned Haiti's repressive army rulers that talk of invading Haiti is not a The de facto government threatened to punish Haitians who call for an Colin chief of the of American States said as his bosses bowed to Monday's expulsion order that the observers were leaving with feelings of indignation and because we find that a handful of hungry for for whom power is based only in the barrel of their have chosen to divert national sovereignty for their to the detriment of the well-being of an entire On 12 young men were found shot to death near a hamlet 19 miles west of the the private Haitian Press Agency The victims were people who were intending to flee Haiti by independent Radio It said the bodies apparently were taken to the site and The reports couldn't be immediately confirmed and underlines the importance of an observer said frustrated U.N. officials hours before their expulsion from comes as a media and we're not able to verify the veracity of and it could very well just fall through the U.N. spokesman Eric Fait said as he was packing up his President Clinton again raised the possibility of U.S. intervention to return exiled President who was toppled in a 1991 coup and is Haiti's first democratically elected anyone thinks they're going to outbluff the international community or the United this time they're not going U.S. Embassy spokesman Stanley Schrager declared later in the said in an interview with Knight-Ridder Newspapers that he opposes military intervention and would prefer to use an agreement signed last summer as the basis for negotiating his The departure of the estimated 100 observers was expected the said departure will signal a turning point in the Haitian He did not but many of his colleagues believe invasion is New evidence for appeal By Steve Sands The Hawk Eye A 111., woman found guilty last month in County of reckless homicide was sentenced Monday to 50 days in Tonya 19, will appeal her conviction with new evidence suggesting she was not the driver of a car involved in a fatal accident Sept. 14, according to her defense A passenger in Penney's Tabitha 15, of 111., died four days after the accident from head injuries she suffered when the car collided with a van driven by Kathy J. 37, of rural 111., at the intersection of two county In a grand jury indicted alleging she ran a stop sign and failed to yield to Fisher's The grand jury also said she failed to maintain a proper See Appeal page 14A> Lives washed away by flood The Associated Press Ga. - The numbers from Georgia are grim Billions of losses likely in in in homes and in But behind the harshest statistic - 28 people swept away by roiling brown water - are sad stories full of Life just beginning - a toddler and young mother drown as a father watches helplessly while the car's taillights sink below the Rich life of love and laughter - a woman just short of her 51st wedding a cook whose husband loses his grip on her arm as a flash flood smashes their Life full of promise - the young quarterback helping out a line crew with his telephone company when the lake In where 15 of the victims died 25 See Flood page 14A> Inside July 13,1994 64 6 sections City & Region 3A Classified 7B Comics 13B Corrections 2A Crossword 12B Dear Abby 13B Deaths 12A Food 8A For the Record 12A Happenings 14B Iowa & Illinois 10A Nation & World 5A Opinions 4A People 2A Reader services 2A Sports IB TV listings 12B Weather Considerable cloudiness with a 50 percent chance of thunderstorms today and High in the 80s. page 2A Nation & World Breyer breezes through first day of Senate confirmation 5A Sports National League stays perfect in All-Star games with 8-7 IB Iowa & Illinois Lawmaker asks review of bills submitted by former top 10A
