Oelwein Daily Register (Newspaper) - November 20, 1989, Oelwein, Iowa Monday November 201989 Cutback DBS MOINES AP Iowa Board of Regents president Marvin Pomerantz accused Northern Iowa President Constantine Curris of error in judgment for saying tuition should be lowered by a year at state universities I suppose he Curris did it in an attempt to be all things to all people to appeal on a populist basis to the Iowa public and to set himself apart from regents policy said Pomerantz Saturday I look upon it as an unfortunate error in judgment and I would hope that a quality oriented sophisticated president would use better judgement in the future Curris in comments made Friday during taping of Iowa Public Televisions Iowa Press program said he would support a tuition reduction The regents this fall ap proved a 3 percent tuition boost for Iowa State and Iowa students and a 39 percent boost for Northern Iowa students meaning that instate students at all three schools will pay a year tuition beginning next fall I think it is feasible for Iowa to once again become a state he said Record river ALTON 111 AP worst barge jam ever at this Mississippi River town had more than 100 towboats and 1000 barges waiting to get through a newly repaired lock gate this weekend of said A string of barges stret ched 35 miles from St Louis to Grafton on Friday said Billie Sanna a US Army Corps of Engineers worker at Altons Lock and Dam 26 We have never had one that ever got close to this This is our record Ms Sanna said As many as 70 towboats pushing 800 barges have been backed up at Alton previously she said She could not recall the date On Sunday an employee at the lock said barges were still backed up for miles even though traffic was proceeding through the lock at the normal rate of about hours for a typical load of 15 barges and one towboat Weve got more tows than weve got hours in the day said the employee who would not give her name The congestion is caused by replacement of a lock gate and heavy traffic carrying grain shipments to New Orleans for export said Ken Kruchowski a corps spokesman in St Louis Hot shopping DES MOINES AP Got money to spend this holiday season think lowans may be getting ready to part with hefty sums of cash this year and inventories have been built to take on the crowd Things are in place to support a pretty good Christmas said Ken Stone Iowa State University economist We had tough times in the 1980s but the last couple of years have been pretty good and I would say weve got the worst of the farm situation behind us Weve had a better year than many people thought Merchants expect to do as much as a fourth or a third of their annual business during the years final six weeks but national forecasters are predicting a sluggish season That wont have much impact on Iowa Stone said Weve had so much bad news over the last several years that most consumers seem optimistic red FOREST CITY AP The safety net companies purchased by Win Industries to offset losses during slow years for the major product motor homes dragged the company into red ink this fiscal year but Winnebago leaders say the subsidiaries are diamonds in the rough Winnebago chalked up a loss of in the final quarter producing a yearlong loss of Part of the reason was sluggish motor home and recreation vehicle sales which dropped to the lowest number since 1983 during the fiscal Aug 26 according to annual report Stagnant sales an problem spawned a million rebate program last summer to clear the inventory lot of unsold motorhomes But the company would have shown a profit of million without and North Iowa Electronics the two subsidiaries involved in beaming TV commercials via satellite THE OELWEIN DAILY REGISTER OELWEIN Tonight clear with a low of 15 to 20 North wind 15 to 25 mph diminishing to around 10 mph after midnight Tuesday sunny in the morning increasing cloudiness during the af High near 40 Outlook for Thanksgiving cool with little or no precipitation Highs in the lower 30s Lows in the teens Sugar Spice See page 3 Quilts on display graders at the Readlyn Elementary brought quilts for a Friday display Theyre standing and sitting next to the quilt brought by Ryan Cox handmade by his greatgrandmother Schutte for his uncle in 1984 Not sur display Standing from left are Ryan Cox Julia Lewis Amy Wilder Ann Donna Zier Jill Leistikow Brooke Fettkether Amity Clark Mandy Buhr Rosanna Traeger Amanda Albrecht and Audrey An derson Sitting again from left are Aaron Destival Mark Tiedt Bobby Lewis Matthew Lewis Aron Sander and Eddie Pavelec Photo by Readlyn students learn history through quilts oro civ nr seven occasions and teach television that featured the READLYN First graders in Mrs Joyce Withers classroom at Readlyn Elementary put what theyve been learning about on display Friday Each brought a quilt adding a description of its history and displayed them in a quilt show of their own on chairs in the gym Most of the quilts are ones made for them at birth or for their baptism said librarian Karen Matthias I wanted the kids to appreciate the work that went into making them Most of the quilts made by relatives are six or seven years old The oldest was made a ago another 21 years ago and a third 17 years ago The descriptions about them told who gave the quilt the name of the pattern and any background the students and their parents knew about them The Readlyn community has a rich heritage of quilting Matthias said and a quilt won in a church raffle is quite a prize There are still women who get together regularly to make quilts sometimes for special occasions and teach classes First graders have been learning how quilts can tell a story or represent a special event as well as keep them warm during their weekly library period To learn more about the talent and love that goes into making quilts theyve read The Patchwork Quilt Sam Johnson and the Blue Ribbon Quilt The Josefina Story Quilt and The Quilt Story The idea for the quilt show came from the Reading Rainbow Series on public television Flournoy book The Patchwork Quilt An information on quilt making was set up with a story bibliography examples and pictures of quilt patterns enrichment activities and books about quilts and how to make them displayed The first grade quilt show may become an annual event one Matthias hopes will in crease the appreciation of in the community while telling new stories of first graders and their families Sumner voters decide Tuesday By MARTIN Register News Editor SUMNER Voters in the Sumner School District go to the polls Tuesday to decide a bond issue The issue would pay for an foot addition to the Durant Elementary School A media center or library and computer teaching lab would be housed in that addition Polls are open from noon to 8 pm at city hall Sixty percent approval is needed the district has about 2000 registered If approved the issue would add 29 cents per valuation to present school taxes Thats an annual increase of on the average home and between 20 and 25 cents per acre for farmland A study committee was formed last spring and proposed to the Sumner School Board that the addition be made to Durant Elementary The board accepted that proposal unanimously in May New school standards require each center in a district to have a media center Durant does not have such a center at this time The media would help students learn and develop library skills supporters said developing individual interests through reading and independent work habits Along with the improved education backers of the addition believe the addition would give better accessibility of current materials and the economical purchase of computer technology and materials If defeated Tuesday the bond issue could be held again in six months Alternatives to the medica addition include the purchase of portable buildings at a cost estimated now at the reduction of two primary grades to two sections and more than 30 students in a class or sharing with a neighboring district that has a media center That second alternative would provide the space for a small media center but not for the computer lab The Sumner School District made a four room addition at the high last year with site levy funds A 1980 bond issue for additions at the elementary and other buildings was rejected by district voters The bond issue for the addition of the gymnasium auditorium art and industrial arts room and kitchen was approved in Czech students begin to protest attacks PRAGUE Czechoslovakia AP Students today began a strike at Prague universities to protest police at tacks on demonstrators and a Communist leader for the first time condemned the bloody crackdown About 100000 demonstrators packed downtown Wenceslas Square today in the largest antigovernment protest in this Communist nation Police did not in Hundreds took to the streets of Prague again today to demand more freedom from hardline Communist rulers And banned playwright and prominent activist Vaclav Havel canceled a trip to Sweden in protest of the beatings strikes began in most of Prague s universities student sources said At least three official Prague theaters went on a de facto strike refusing to put on shows and terminating cooperation with official media actors told The Associated Press by telephone They spoke on con dition of anonymity A statement of the official Socialist Union of Youth called Friday nights police crackdown on student demonstrators politically irresponsible The communique was endorsed by Vasil the unions chairman and Communist Party central committee secretary It was the first time a Com munist official publicly condemned such police action Many people were injured Friday in clashes with the police who used trun tear gas and attack dogs to disperse the largest demonstration in 20 years Hospital officials said 100 people required treatment The socialist daily Svobodne joined in the condemnation of the official han dling of the demonstration The paper gave full coverage to the events even quoting witnesses of bloody beatings Such police action only creates tension in society and causes natural resistance especially of those who are the future of our country the youth the daily said By contrast the Communist Party daily Rude Pravo in an editorial today called for resolute action against provocations About 30000 people demonstrated in Prague again Sunday to protest police brutality and demand that government and top Communist officials resign On Sunday authorities arrested 10 dissidents The state news agency CTK said Uhl was charged with the crimes of harming the interests of the republic abroad and spreading alarming news Archbishop Army to J blame for massacre SAN SALVADOR El Salvador AP As leftist rebels withdrew from around the capital the Catholic leader predicted a backlash of repression and witch hunting and was himself threatened with assassination After the fiercest offensive of their 10 yearold insurgency on Sunday pulled out of most areas of the capital they seized nine days ago returning to mountain strongholds Army patrols moved through streets strewn with the rubble of fighting On some several burned bodies could be People began returning to their what was left of them but thousands remained in warfare about 40000 of the capitals 1 million people to evacuate homes in neighborhoods About 800 mourners attended the funeral of six Jesuit priests their cook and her teenage Daughter who were slain and mutilated early Thursday in an attack widely blamed on rightwing death squads The United States has pressed rightist President Alfredo Cristiani for a full investigation In Washington Sen Christopher Dodd warned Sunday that US aid could be curtailed if Cristiani cannot stop such killings The rebels said they launched the offensive hi response to a resurgence of death squad activity and many people think Cristiani has lost control over the military and extremists in his party the Republican Nationalist Alliance Buck Helms death grim quake reminder OAKLAND Calif AP The death of Buck Helm who amazed rescuers by surviving four days beneath tons of con crete in a collapsed freeway was a grim reminder of the destruction wrought by the Northern California earthquake Just 20 hours earlier residents cheered the reopening of the San Francisco Oakland Bay Bridge as a symbol of recovery from the Oct 17 quake which toppled a section of the span killed 67 people and caused billion in damage Im sure this will hit a lot of people hard said Steve Whipple the state Department of Transportation engineer who found Helm in the early hours of Oct 21 I was under the impression that he was going to make it Whipple said It was just going to take a long while Helm who turned 58 on Nov 10 died of respiratory failure at Kaiser Permanente Medical Center on Saturday evening 28 days after his rescue The rescue of the burly clerk buoyed spirits of rescuers depressed by the rising death toll in the collapse of Interstate 880 in Oakland and cheered people across the country who watched the drama on television Im still glad we found him and gave him a better fighting chance than he would have had otherwise Whipple added It picked our spirits up and made all our work worth it In a statement Helms family said To many Buck had become a symbol of survival and hope For the Helms the thousands of cards and letters from all comers of the world gave Buck and the family strength and encouragement and for that they are forever grateful said the release issued by Gary Frischer a Beverly Hills spokesman hired by the family after Helm was rescued He represented more than just a per son I think to many people he very much represented the event of the earthquake said Ron Congress snags as Thanksgiving nears t 1 Page Daily Funeral Hospital Entertainment5 WASHINGTON AP Congress race to adjourn for 1969 by Thanksgiving is running into problems from two measures that have proven intractable all year deficit reduction and eliminating Medicare benefits for longterm illnesses Lawmakers planned to search for solutions to those standoffs today following an unusual Sunday session dominated by negotiations but little floor action I remain determined we will be able to complete action in order to adjourn by Thanksgiving Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell told his colleagues But judging from the path in front of them that might not prove easy The House planned action today on a new version of the billion foreign aid which President Bush vetoed Sunday He complained that the measure provided funds for a United Nations agency that financed forced abortions in China but liberals and conservatives were expected to clash over aid to El Salvador bargainers renewed their effort to decide how to roll back the 1968 catastrophic health care law The legislation provides coverage to elderly patients with longterm medical problems that otherwise could lead to financial rum When enacted the measure had bipartisan and popular support But well organized lobbying by seniors objecting to the surtaxes they must pay to finance the program reaching WOO this year for the most has convinced lawmakers to undo the program The House wants to repeal the entire measure but the Senate wants only to eliminate the surtax and most benefits leaving coverage of hospital costs and other minor provisions Intact The two chambers agreed Saturday to terminate the program but that deal unraveled Sunday Legislators remained determined to reach a new compromise rather than returning home to angry constituents We cant leave here without final disposition of this issue said Senate Republican leader Bob Dole of Kansas Negotiators trying to strike a deal on a separate reducing this years federal deficit also made scant progress as disputes arose over the savings in the measure and some of its provisions President Bush has threatened to veto any measure failing to achieve at least billion in legitimate savings Congressional experts project that the shortfall for fiscal 1990 which began Oct 1 will be about billion Bargainers from the House and Senate agreed to a deal early Saturday But talks resumed Sunday after many lawmakers said the measure fell well short of the savings target with Dole saying he thought it was insufficient by billion to billion There seemed no disputing certain aspects of the package that it contains about billion in new tax revenues and billions in concocted savings achieved by shifting various payments out of the fiscal year All sides agreed it also would have to be supplemented by several billion dollars in savings by retaining until at least January the balanced budget laws cuts in federal programs Those reductions began Oct 1 REX CUE After running this for rent ad in the classified section of The Oelwein Daily Register Rex rented out his apart ment 1 hour after the paper wos out FOR RENT Apartment for rent T bedroom Water heat garbage and cable furnished Close to 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