Oelwein Daily Register (Newspaper) - November 20, 1981, Oelwein, Iowa Senate OKs more cuts SNOW FUN Thursdays weather in Northeast Iowa may have been miserable for adults especially those who were on the roads For the younger set though the day was perfect for building snowmen and having snowball fights Making the snowman in photo at left are left to right Heather Thomas Wants to run Nikki Adam Brand Thomas and Spring Rasper In the photo at the right Kelly Heard with back to camera and sister Kristi take aim at each other with snowballs Photos by Richard Wilkinson WASHINGTON AP The Senate facing a veto threat gave President Reagan about billion in new cuts in domestic programs today as it passed an emergency spending that would keep the government operating midnight tonight Passage came just before 7 am EST on a 6926 vote that ended a rare allnight session The key was a carefully crafted compromise amendment by Senate Majority Leader Howard H Baker Jr thai incorporated the new budget cuts The stopgap now goes to a conference committee that will work out differences between the House and versions The House had refused to make the cuts Reagan wanted in the it passed Monday but House Republican leaders are hopeful that position can be changed Any compromise worked out by conferees must be ap proved by the House and Senate DES MOINES Iowa AP Former Iowa Gov Harold Hughes has decided he wants to run for governor again but whether he can do so eventually will be a matter for the courts At a press conference said he reached the decision to run within the last two weeks but earlier Thursday a staff member pointed out an Iowa Constitutional provision requiring the governor to live in the state for two years prior to the election Hughes said he would seek resolution of question in the courts at the earliest possible moment The Iowa Constitution requires a governor to be a resident of the state for two years prior to the election Other Democrats said theyll continue what theyre doing while waiting for the outcome and Republicans said it will only highlight claims they are making that Hughes is out of ouch with the state Hughes who also served in the US Senate before bowing out of politics in 1974 moved back to Iowa in May after living for several years in Maryland and Virginia I had reached a conclusion in my own mind to become a candidate Hughes said at a press conference He said he had planned to announce his intentions in January However a member of his exploratory committee staff Thursday morning pointed out the residency requirement and Hughes said no announcement could come until that was resolved A spokesman for Iowa Gov Robert Ray said Ray wouldnt comment on the legal questions involved The governor feels this is a question that is apparently going to be taken to court and probably settled there said Rays press secretary John McCarroll The answer will come from the courts McCarroll said and The governors not going to speculate Meanwhile US Sen Charles Grassley said even if Hughes overcomes the legal problems hes confident another ticket is going to defeat any combination the Democrats put together Beating incumbent Gov Robert Ray if he decides to run again would be a Mission Impossible Grassley said Tim Hyde of the Iowa Republican Party said raising the legal question will further bring into focus claims that Republicans make that hes out of touch with the state because he lived away for some time I suspect that it may come up as a political issue Hyde said but he said he didnt know if the Republicans would have raised the legal question had Hughes not done so We have been assuming that Harold Hughes is going to be their gubernatorial candidate Hyde said Former US Attorney Roxanne Conlin contacted in Cedar Rapids where she was testing the water for a potential bid for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination said I will continue with what I am doing Ms Conlin said she has decided to continue making soundings until Hughes makes a formal decision and she will stick with that course Ms Conlin said shes actively con running for Lieutenant Governor if Hughes seeks the gover She conceded that the legal questions complicated the issue Ms Conlin said she had no opinion about whether Hughes had a strong legal case that he is legally a resident of Iowa The key to the determination will be legal definitions of residency Hughes staffers said Also to be raised is Hughes intent and Hughes said he has con himself an Iowa resident since 1922 when he was born I have always considered myself an Iowa resident Hughes said His intention has been and is to be a resident of Iowa said Lome Wor of an exploratory committee studying a potential Hughes candidacy Hughes was reluctant to discuss details of the issue since he said it would be decided by the court VOL 300 FRIDAY NOVEMBER 201981 PER COPY OELWEIN IOWA 50662 before it can be sent to Keagan for his signature The Senate was passed after a session that featured 25 separate roll call votes and the consideration of dozens of amendments Baker revised his proposal several times during the night in an effort to pick up the necessary votes The Republican leader told his weary colleagues early today that the president will sign the if it would cut more than billion on an annual basis from domestic programs while sparing the Defense Depart ment the additional spending cuts an average of 4 percent in hundreds of programs Reagan would undoubtedly veto the measure Baker said Thursday as the Senate began what became an allnight session Republicans and Democrats in both houses said Reagan had enough support to sustain a veto Following adoption of Bakers plan the Senate continued to consider several more amend ments before moving to a final vote on the stopgap spending The House has refused to make the reductions Reagan is seeking It was unclear whether negotiators could work out the differences before midnight The Senate Appropriations Committee brought its version to the floor as a billion spending package Dozens of minor floor amendments changed that figure but a new total was not immediately available The stopgap spending would keep almost the entire government in business after existing legislation expires at midnight The is necessary because except for its own operations Congress has not yet approved any of the regular money bills for fiscal which began Oct 1 Bakers plan would exempt the Pentagon revenue sharing to the states the judiciary and benefit programs such as food stamps and Medicare from the newest round of spending reductions Its official the Oelwein Area United Way drive like many others this year has fallen short of the goal it sought to reach The drive officially wound up Thursday and the members of the board of directors of the organization were told at a noon luncheon meeting that the drive had raised a total of 9351 percent of its announced The Oelwein residential drive which was conducted recently by telephone raised a total of including in cash donations In addition Stanley residents contributed to the United Way effort and Hazleton added according to board of Rex McCoy president of the United Way told the board members at Thursdays meeting that the agencies included in Champion wins MERANO Italy AP Anatoly Karpov of the Soviet Union won a decisive sixth victory and retained his title as world chess champion today when challenger Viktor Kor resigned game 18 chief arbiter Paul Klein said Klein made the announcement in a telephone call to the press room in the conference center where the match was held When the 18th game was ad Thursday night Kor was in an impossible position experts said and a resignation was expected The closing ceremony for the match was scheduled for Saturday evening Karpov won the series 62 The match had fewer games 18 any other 20th century world title match After play adjourned Thur sday night on he move some chess experts predicted Korchnoi a Soviet defector would give up rather than resume the game They agreed Karpov was certain to win One of aides British grandmaster Michael said the challengers position was awful Going into the 18th game Thursday the champion held a 52 lead in the match which began Oct 1 in this resort in the Dolomite alps near the Austrian border Ten games were drawn but draws do not count this years drive will receive 100 percent of the amount approved earlier by the budget com The amount needed in ad dition to the total raised this year will come from the United Ways contingency fund ac cording to McCoy McCoy also paid special recognition to drive co chairmen Mike Kennedy and Carol Tousley who he stated did an excellent job The board discussed plans for the annual appreciation coffee which is held to show the United Ways appreciation to everyone in the community who actively worked to help the drive The coffee will be held at the Oelwein Area Chamber of Commerce building from 5 to 7 pm on Feb 2 with invitations to be sent out late in January The board also set the annual meeting for Feb 1C at 7 pm at the Chamber of Commerce The annual meeting is open to anyone interested Appointed as a nominating committee to select candidates for six board positions to be filled were Ken Schmith Kathy Kotscher and Madeline Sell The committee will name candidates for five threeyear terms on the board and one to complete the remaining two year term of office of Phyllis Suchy who has moved out of the community The threeyear terms are currently held by Jean Lincoln Kathy Kolscher Madeline Sell Mike Baumgartner and Ken Schmith IOWA RANKS HIGH IN HEALTH CARE according to a study by the Iowa Department of Health when compared with other states See story on 10 A HOMELESS CAT has drawn the concern of an Oelwein couple who are former deputy sheriffs in Texas See story on page 2 REPRESENTATIVE TOM TAUKE failed in his bid to further deepen budget cuts See story by the REGISTERS Washington Bureau on page 2 OELWEIN MEN are featured on the cover of a FRAZERS BATS AND will be found national trade magazine See copy of the magazine cover with the two Interstate Power Co employees on page 9 KAYE BITS BOUQUETS on page 5 City Funeral Hospital Sports Today in Daily By The Associated Press The first snow of the season that cruise across Iowa Thursday claimed at least two lives and brought an injury to Lt Gov Terry Branstad in a traffic accident The storm dumped as much as three inches of snow in some areas after pelting much of the state with rain and sleet Beyond a few flurries the snow had moved on to the east by Friday morning leaving sharply colder temperatures behind Branstad was slightly injured en route from Des Moines to his home in Lake Mills Thursday night when his car skidded on a patch of ice on Interstate 35 four miles south of Clear Lake went off the road and hit a bridge pillar The lieutenant governor was released after treatment at a Mason City hospital fora cut on the chin A truck driver Richard Ray Ferguson 42 of Newton was killed when his double bottom truck hit a patch of ice on In 80 two miles east of Walnut and rolled sideways down an embankment The Iowa Highway Patrol said an eye witness reported Fergusons truck was hit by a strong gust of wind just as it reached the icy stretch and appeared to move sideways off the road A accident in northwest Iowa claimed the life of an Iowa minister and injured three other people The Iowa Highway Patrol said the Rev Roderick Jackson 49 pastor of the Central Reformed Church of Sioux Center was killed when one car skidded on icy US Highway 75 and slid broadside into another car near Maurice A travelers advisory was in effect for all of Iowa except the extreme northwest Thursday night as the storm entered the state from the northwest and had covered Iowa by nightfall Only a few scattered flurries remained in the northwest late Thursday Fort Dodge received three inches of snow Thursday and Des Moines Sioux City and Waterloo each had an inch with snow still falling Thursday night A pileup on the Veterans Memorial Bridge spanning the Missouri River between Sioux City and South Sioux City SD caused the span to be blocked for about 90 minutes Elsewhere drivers were being cautious Theyre doing pretty good here said a spokesman for the Iowa Highway Patrol at Spencer Motorists were assisted he said by Iowa Department of Transportation sanding crews Predictably businesses selling and installing snow tires were doing a brisk business Thursday although a worker at the Bernie Marks Discount Tire Center in Des Moines said his business was actually heavier Wednesday Yesterday we were super busy Once they start talking snow we get all the We wont get the rest until its actually on the ground he said The storm moving east at about 10 miles an hour was caused by a strong low pressure system located over Illinois ELKADER Special An employee of the Iowa Depart ment of Transportation Susan Lenker 24 of Iowa City died in a traffic accident Thursday at am a quarter of a mile north of Elkader on county road In a report from the Iowa State Patrol Lenker was reportedly southbound when she lost control of her car on the 100 percent road She crossed the center line and collided headon with a nor pickup driven by Rosena Palas 23 of St Olaf Lenker was taken by Elkader ambulance to Central Com munity Hospital in Elkader where authorities said she was dead on arrival Palas also taken to the Elkader hospital was flown by Air Care helicopter to University Hospitals in Iowa City She was listed in critical condition Friday morning LEG INJURIES An Oelwein man James Hamilton 36 and a passenger Dennis Annis also of Oelwein were treated and released at Mercy Hospital in Oelwein for leg injuries following an ac at pm east of Highway 63 on county road According to the Black Hawk County sheriffs department Hamilton was eastbound when he crossed the center line and collided nearly headon with a westbound vehicle driven by Robert Dart Sr Waterloo Hamilton and Annis were transported to Mercy Hospital and Dart along with his three passengers were taken to Schoitz Memorial Hospital in Waterloo where they were treated for multiple injuries Hamilton was charged with driving left of center TWO INJURED Two men were injured Thursday at am in an accident three and a half miles west of Independence on US Highway 20 According to the Iowa State Patrol an empty Ruan gas transport driven by Robert Staub 45 of Dickeyville Wis was eastbound when it was hit headon by a westbound car driven by Kenneth Rasmussen 20 of Independence Reports indicate Rasmussen was following two cars when for some unknown reason he crossed the center line striking the transport Rasmussen was taken to Peoples Memorial Hospital in Independence for treatment of a head laceration and concussion then transferred to Memorial Hospital in Waterloo for further observation Staub was treated and released at Peoples The accident remains under investigation BUNDED BY LIGHTS A Jesup woman was not in jured Tuesday in an accident Tuesday at Highway 150 pm on According to authorities Connie 23 was northbound when she was partially blinded by the headlights from an unidentified vehicle She lost control of her car driving onto the gravel The unidentified vehicle reportedly did not stop There were no charges filed UNITED WAY IS AT 9351 HAVE YOU GIVEN Postpone extradition hearing DES MOINES Iowa AP An extradition hearing for Ron Calder a Des Moines air traffic controller charged with murder in a Puerto Rican case was postponed Thursday and tentatively rescheduled for Jan 21 The delay was the sixth in the case and was requested by Calders attorney William Kutmus The Polk County attorneys office offered no objections to the request Kutmus said he asked for the delay partly because Gov Robert Ray has not issued a decision on whether Calder should be returned to Puerto Rico to stand trial No cuts DES MOINES Iowa AP State agencies apparently need not fear another budget cut like those of last year Iowa Comptroller Ronald Mosher said Thursday Mosher said he believes the state will end the year with a million budge balance And he said for those who depend on slat funds that probably means no budget cutbacks He made the statements at the Iowa Association of School Boards convention Mosher however told the convention delegates not to expect any funding either and definitely not to expect to return to the days when there was plenty of money for school districts Rath loses WATERLOO Iowa AP Rath Packing Co had a net loss of or per share in the year that ended Oct 3 1981 Herbert S Epstein president and chief executive officer said Thursday The comparable amounts for the preceding year were net earnings of or a share including a credit of or 63 per share from utilization of a net operating loss carryover Net sales zere for the current year and last year Fewer injuries illnesses DES MOINES Iowa AP injuries and illnesses in Iowa declined in 1980 Labor Commissioner Allen Meier said Meier said there was a drop of more than 10 percent in the overall incidence rate of work injuries and illnesses in Iowas private industries in 1980 dropping to 95 per 100 fulltime workers from 106 in 1979 He said the total number of occupational injuries and illnesses in Iowa dropped from 82470 in 1979 to 72450 in 1980 Experimental plane crashes HAMPTON Va AP An experimental plane said by one ol its builders to have a very clean test record crashed in Chesapeake Bay and broke in two killing its designer and two NASA employees Dennis Harms a builder and spokesman for the plane s owner Inc of Wichita Kan said the plane safe and offer optimum per unknown reason during a Piper Advanced Technology was built to be extremely It crashed for an demonstration flight Thursday Maurice Parker spokesman for the National Aeronautics and Space Administrations Langley center here said it is common for aircraft companies to demonstrate new planes at aviation research facilities Investigate steel imports WASHINGTON AP Formal investigations will begin next week to determine why imports of certain types of steel from Spain and Canada increased earlier this year the Commerce Department has announced The new probes follow a department statement last week that it had started five similar probes after US steel companies complained they are being hurt by unfair trade practices by foreign producers The two sets of investigations reaffirm the Reagan ad ministrations commitment to fair trade in steel a statement released Thursday quoted Commerce Undersecretary Lionel H Olmer as saying Recalling 98000 baby cribs WASHINGTON AP Plastic brackets used to suspend the springs on about 98000 Baby Line cribs have been recalled by the manufacturer because they may break or bend the Con sumer Product Safety Commission says The agency said Thursday that the recall by Questor Juvenile Furniture Co of Los Angeles was prompted by reports of minor injuries to three infants The recall covers brackets used on 29 Baby Line models with date codes from June 1977 through September 1978 About 34000 of the 98000 cribs are subject to a previously announced recall for the problem The cribs affected have these date codes on the inside bottom of the headboard 677 777 877 977 1077 1177 1277 178 278 378 478 578 678 778 878 and 978 Owners of them should write Baby Line at 9235 South Street Andrews Place Los Angeles Calif 90047 Attention Corrective Program Free replacement kits containing brackets and in instructions will be provided the company said Court upholds jury award ALBANY NY AP A jury award has been upheld for a grocery chain that said several of Consolidated Edisons backup power sources were unjustifiably out of service the night lightning hit transmission lines in blacking out New York City and suburbs The Court of Appeals in upholding the award to bond Pageant Inc ruled Thursday that the states largest electric utility was The grocery chain had sued Con Ed for food spoiled and business lost in the wake of the July 13 1977 Con Ed spokesman Herb Hadad said utility officials hadnt studied the decision and had no immediate comment on it Its womens own fault CHICAGO AP A researcher says lack of on the part of women and discrimination are to blame for a finding that female physicians are promoted more slowly in some medical colleges The research published today in the Journal of the American Medical Association says it takes female doctors about twice as long as men to be promoted in those medical colleges and the percentage of women on medical faculties is smaller than it was in 1965
