Hawk Eye (Newspaper) - June 4, 1995, Burlington, Iowa Weather Index Local Lions celebrate with parade in Burlington PAGE Lifestyle Group anxious to save piece of farm history SECTION C grab win in softball classic SECTION b Business SCORE looks to recruit new members SECTION 111 a i ill 158th year - No. 330 ��HEEHSBBSl Latest plan for Hotel Burlington in jeopardy Communication Texas firm hopeful despite sticking By Mitch Martin The Hawk Eye The latest plan to rehabilitate the Hotel Burlington is The city of Burlington and a Texas development firm are expressing with each other over a lack of a The hotel is owned by the one-man corporation of the Rev. John Weishar of Weishar took title to the property from Burlington businessmen Jack Archer and Arnie Arledge in December 1990 for from a delinquent tax The city and Maddox Bauer Interests that they are far apart on key issues in the rehabilitation plan - who will pay for The two sides nonetheless expressed a willingness to work on the dollar plan to restore the city would be ecstatic if it would City Manager Jane Wood what is becoming clear is that the private sector has difficulty financing something like In early Maddox Bauer proposed a million plan to fix the 84- year-old Frederick Maddox said Saturday it will cost approximately million to turn the building into apartments for Maddox is the latest in a long line of developers to plan a new life for the He expressed concern about the city's willingness to work with his question is do they want the Hotel Burlington Maddox The architect and developer said he originally had hoped to a deal on the plan around the time of Burlington Steamboat but says it will take six months of tions to hammer out a There are several sticking Parking garage - Maddox said the project needed 100 parking spaces for See Hotel page 10A> Henry County to decide sales tax Local Communities plan property tax relief if voters approve on By Kathleen Sweeney The Hawk Eye MOUNT PLEASANT - Some Henry County residents could see property tax relief from a 1 percent local option sales tax this fall if the vote passes on are proposing to use 50 percent of the proceeds for property tax and the other half would be used to construct a new swimming Mount Pleasant City Administrator Scott Neal The vote would increase sales tax from 5 to 6 percent on October 1. If the tax is the tax levy on property would drop from to per assessed valuation in Mount If some area communities decide to vote against they would not receive relief Mount Pleasant residents will vote on the proposed local tax option for the first If it would be used for 10 seriously didn't consider the sales tax until it was effective in Des Moines Neal didn't want to See Tax page 9A> Tension high as Serbs attack again Damn Hawk Eye Jenny manager of the Henry County cleans the pool Thursday in Mount Pleasant If the local option sales tax a new pool will be built beginning in August at the same several leaks in the current pool have been It will open on More Search for pilot continues as European defense ministers form force to deter The Associated Press Bosnia-Herzegovina - Bosnian Serbs made contradictory statements Saturday about a downed American leaving his fate Video of his wrecked fighter shot down over a area of northern showed no sign of the The rebel Serbs released 121 U.N. soldiers but still held more than 250 and they attacked peacekeepers in eastern Losing NATO and European defense ministers agreed Saturday to form a new combat force of 7,000 to 9,000 troops to bolster peacekeepers in Bosnian Serb military sources in Pale told The Associated Press the U.S. pilot was alive and in Bosnian Serb A Western military speaking on condition of said there was Serbs page 9A>- Deploying U.S. troops The Associated Press WASHINGTON - Trying to allay concern about the potential use of U.S. troops in President Clinton narrowed the terms Saturday under which American forces would help U.N. peacekeepers Clinton said American troops would help restructure U.N. forces only in the highly unlikely that peacekeepers became stranded in a particular area and needed help moving to a U.N. unit needs an emergency we would assist after consulting with Clinton said in his weekly radio think it is highly unlikely that we would be asked to do Earlier in the Clinton opened the door to See Troops page 9A> Earlier Alzheimer's diagnoses mean more worry for patients By Andrea Hamilton The Associated Press NEW YORK - Frank MacShane opens the bewildered but He doesn't know who his visitor but ushers her in anyway and immediately asks for He's misplaced his and he has a handful of cash and credit cards he needs to put The wallet is located 10 minutes later in the He tries but he cannot insert the so the visitor That 67, pauses to smooth his adjust his blazer and ask the visitor to remind him what she's doing in his And who is she? he in the deep professorial voice that discoursed on literature and writing for 25 years at Columbia She is there to discuss life and how Alzheimer's disease is slowly overtaking it. Of he discomfort re- cedes as he settles into a chair and proceeds to talk engagingly about his years as a professor and the books he has including biographies of Raymond Chandler and John He pauses frequently in midsentence to grope for the words that he says run around corners and hide from this damned you he of these people cant work Friends have Maybe they've begun to feel like a nuisance around the More and more Alzheimer's victims are like people who fall into a Yale new category Yaie called clinical Social worker who are very much aware they are shells of their former In the senility was a term used to describe older people who had memory and thinking problems; when they could no longer take care of many were shipped off to nursing But Alzheimer's is a very specific See Disease page 10A> Hawk Eye Finishing in a flurry Dwayne Haley of St finishes cutting a log with Ms partner as John Crouch of times them during the Southeastern Antique and Gas Engine Show Saturday at the Southeastern Community College The team finished In one 20