Oelwein Daily Register (Newspaper) - November 30, 1989, Oelwein, Iowa Thursday November 301989 No more oil CEDAR FALLS Used oil may no longer be sent to Iowa landfills after July 1 1990 as another portion of the comprehensive Iowa Waste Reduction and Recycling Act kicks into effect City and county governments who operate landfills should begin now to design alternative methods of disposal according to John director of the Iowa Waste Reduction Center at the University of Northern Iowa The new regulation will force homeowners and garage owners to collect and recycle that oil Konefes said nationwide in 198312 billion gallons of used oil were generated Of that amount 50 percent was burned 5 percent was and onethird was or dumped into storm drains by private citizens Konefes said enforcing the new used oil law will not be easy Each operation will have to address this enforcement problem The collectors and handlers of the trash will have to keep an eye on it he said Sweat shirt DES MOINES AP A Des Moines man was charged with murder for allegedly shooting his roommate to death during an argument over a sweat shirt Wednesday evening Police said they charged David Lee Wright with shooting Jeff Vestal 24 at their home on Des Moines east side Vestal died during emergency surgery at Iowa Methodist Medical Center in Des Moines about an hour after the pm shooting Sergeant Jerry Jones of the Des Moines Police Department said the two men were good friends He said they were arguing over a sweat shirt Vestal had loaned Wright and which Wright apparently had soiled Jones said the two exchanged words and Wright allegedly shot Vestal once in the chest Power SPRINGFIELD 111 AP Illinois customers of the Interstate Power Co could receive a million refund and a rate reduction under a plan filed Wednesday with the Illinois Commerce Commission The plan an agreement hammered out between the utility and CUB seeks to pass on to consumers the savings under the 1986 tax reform measure CUB said Under the agreement which still must be ap proved by the ICC a typical residential customer would receive about a refund and annual reduction on future electric bills CUB said Liver CHICAGO AP All roads point toward recovery for Alyssa Smith say doctors who per formed the nations first liver tran splant from a living donor earlier this week Shes making progress gradual and steady said Dr Peter Whitington director of pediatric transplant services for the hospital 1 What we do now is just wait The liver has a recovery capacity that is profound Alyssa remained in critical but stable condition under constant surveillance after the operation Monday and should be able to go home within a month doctors said Wed Her mother Teresa 29 who donated the segment of her liver to her daughter is progressing well enough to be released next week hospital of said Both are looking forward to seeing each other an event that could occur by weeks end said spokesman John Easton at University of Chicago Hospitals Grain Elevator BEAMAN AP A fire destroyed a wood and metal structure at the Coop grain elevator causing more than in damage said grain elevator manager Bob Shatava No one was injured in the Wednesday morning fire The fire destroyed a storage bin containing about 20000 bushels of corn and damaged nearby concrete and metal buildings Shatava said The fire was discovered by Beaman Postmaster Louise at am Ms was sweeping snow off the sidewalk when she noticed smoke coming from the elevator said Beaman Fire Chief Tom Ash ton Tonight clear with a low around 20 Northwest wind becoming light and variable before midnight Friday sunny in the morning partly sunny during the afternoon High 40 to 45 Page Daily Funeral Hospital Entertainment5 WHAT PO yOU MEAN I PONT KNOW HOW TO SPELL CLAWS 25 shopping days to Christmas 20 REGISTER advertising days Bush heads to summit Nice check K Mart coworkers Merri Heath at the left and Joe Higgins right congratulate Randy Streeter center on the good news he received Wednesday Seven years ago Streeter dropped an envelope containing his weekly salary outside the Oelwein K Mart store It was returned to him this week in the form of a money order A letter accompanied the money order Photo by Martin Returned money Itll be a better Christmas for at least one Fayette family By KAYE FRAZER Register Family Editor The Christmas season brings out the best in most people Oh sure there are a few grouches but most people are cheerful and kind to a fault Randy Streeter of Fayette thinks this will be one of his best Christmases yet He had the nicest surprise the other day when he opened his mail and tucked inside a letter with a Sumner post mark was a money The letter explained that the money order was for the cash Streeter had lost seven years ago Streeter who is with the receiving department at the Oelwein K Mart store said that it was about this time of the year seven years ago that he lost his paycheck He apparently had dropped it when he left the store after working hours Streeter and his wife Holly who is employed at Upper Iowa University at Fayette have three children Streeter says I really do thank the person who sent it back Its a real surprise and a nice Christmas present To me its a miracle that it happened I looked all over when I lost it and K Mart was good enough to give me an advance on my next check That experience makes you think twice about making sure your check is in your billfold The letter reads Dr Mr Streeter A few years ago as I was coming out the K Mart Store in Oelwein I found an envelope and I picked it up and inside I found I also found inside a payment slip with your name Needless to say I did not return the envelope to you This was a very selfish and dishonest thing to do Obviously I was thinking only of myself and not of what that money meant to you which was your p I guess I never thought about it much until recently as I have been thinking about many things I never forgot the name that was inside the envelope and I guess this is my conscience telling me what I did was very wrong That is why I could not go ahead with many things until I made this right and myself I have forgiven myself by finally doing what should have been done that day and I know that God has forgiven me also I can understand if you will always be angry about the person that did not return the money to you I guess I would probably be angry too There are so many dishonest and criminal people in the world today and when I kept that money I was no better than the worst criminal I kept what was not mine That is why after all this time I had to write this and send you back the money If your faith in mankind was lessened in any way by what I did I hope that now this will restore it Again I am sorry for what I did to you and your family and hope this makes up for even a portion of your hurt and pain that I caused Sincerely Sorry The typed letter will become part of the Streeter family scrapbook and happy Christmas memories WASHINGTON AP President Bush is off today to a saltwater summit with Soviet leader Mikhail S Gorbachev bearing pledges of US support for sweeping reform in Eastern Europe and a complaint about the flow of Soviet arms to leftist rebels in El Salvador Harnessing nuclear and conventional weapons also is on Bushs agenda And while Secretary of State James A Baker III says the sessions aboard US and Soviet warships Saturday and Sunday will not amount to an arms control summit two sets of negotiations could get a shot in the arm The eventual result might be completion of treaties to reduce NATO and Warsaw Pact troops tanks and artillery across Europe and to slash US and Soviet ar senals of bombers missiles and nuclear submarines by 30 percent to 50 percent by the time Gorbachev visits Washington next summer for a more formal summit Negotiations are proceeding briskly in both arenas in Vienna and Geneva and the easing of tensions across the European landscape serves as a catalyst for even speedier resolution of the pacts Still Baker stressed at a White House news conference Wednesday that the president would conduct no negotiations behind the backs of US allies Immediately after the summit Bush will fly to Brussels to brief leaders of the 15 other North Atlantic Treaty Organization governments And in unprecedented coordination with other US friends around the world senior American diplomats will be dispatched as far away as South America and the Middle East with the summit results Heads of state have held their summits in unusual locales and even at sea During World War II for instance President Franklin D Roosevelt pledged US sup port to Prime Minister Winston Churchill aboard a warship in the Atlantic for a British empire struggling to beat back Nazi Germany America reform not as an ad seeking advantage but as a people offering support President George Bush But the sessions secretly proposed by the president in July still are extraordinary by contrast to the usual summit fare The leaders will meet aboard the Soviet cruiser Slava on Saturday and on the Belknap a command ship for the US Sixth Fleet on Sunday The warships will be anchored in Maltas Marsaxlokk Bay an area far removed from international crosscurrents Gorbachev will use the summit to provide Bush with a very frank assessment of his domestic woes and try to commit States to rapid progress on nuclear and conventional disarmament The Washington Post reported today quoting unidentified Soviet officials The officials the newspaper said dont expect Gorbachev to make any grand unilateral gestures but hinted that he might announce the withdrawal of some warships from the Mediterranean and call for the region to be declared a zone Baker stressed Wednesday that US Soviet relations are on the upswing and that US support for perestroika or restructuring program to reform the Soviet economy was firm Gorbachev who inspired the change has expressed concern the West would exploit the uncertainty of a region in rapid But in a nationally televised speech last Wednesday night Bush offered our assurance that America welcomes reform not as an adversary seeking ad vantage but as a people offering support REGISTER unveils new column today OELWEIN The Oelwein Daily Register introduces a new medical column to readers today It is on page 3 Healthful Hints written by Frank A Bures MD is a column about common medical maladies mingled with musings of a lighter mood according to an article about the column Dr Bures is a Winona Minn der The Des Moines native is a graduate of Drake University He also attended the University of Iowa School of Medicine interned in Denver Colo and did his dermatology residency at the of Wisconsin at Madison He and his wife Ruth have three sons ages 1814 and 10 Dr Bures column appears weekly in about 25 newspapers in Iowa Minnesota and Wisconsin Gorbachev hails end to curtain of Consumer spending down ROME AP Italy and the Soviet Union declared today that the curtain of mistrust between East and West is coming down and they promised to sup port the dramatic movement in Eastern Europe for democratic reform In a joint statement issued during Soviet President Mikhail S state visit the countries cited the changes toward democracy taking piace in countries such as Poland Hungary East Germany Bulgaria and Czechoslovakia The statement reiterated the Kremlins willingness to let the Warsaw Pact nations set their own courses It is necessary for the principles of democracy to be present in every society together with the respect for the sovereign right of each and every people to choose their own way to development the statement said The statement was issued in conjunction with the signing of accords by foreign ministers Eduard A Shevardnadze of the Soviet Union and Gianni De Michelis of Italy pledging cooperation in converting military plants to civilian use combating drug trafficking protecting business in vestments and saving the environment WASHINGTON AP Consumer spending fell 02 percent in October its largest decline in nearly three years despite a 09 percent gain in personal in comes the Commerce Department reported today The drop in consumer spending reflecting plummeting auto sales followed a 03 percent advance in September But auto sales have continued to fall foretelling continued sluggishness in the spending sector this quarter Consumer spending is watched closely as a barometer of economic health because it accounts for about twothirds of the nations economic activity The reports provided fresh evidence that the economy is continuing to slow As measured by the gross national product the economy grew at a 27 percent rate in the third quarter but analysts expect a sharp decline in the current three month period that began in October Personal income in October totaled trillion at a seasonally adjusted annual rate following a 09 percent gain in Sep tember It was the largest gain since a 1 percent advance last March Although the San Francisco Bayarea earthquake reduced incomes by about billion at an annual rate in October that decrease was offset by increases in farm subsidies and bonus payments in the auto industry Park reorganization plan in works DES MOINES AP After battling for most of the 1989 legislative session lawmakers and leaders of the Iowa Department of Natural Resources are hoping for better relations in 1990 As evidence of the change a legislative committee agreed Wednesday to allow DNR to proceed with a controversial plan to reorganize the state park system and remove rangers from some parks The Legislature blocked the plan last spring during a legislative session marked by clashes between lawmakers and the Department of Natural Resources On Wednesday Sen Jim Riordan said relations should improve when the Legislature convenes in January Riordan is cochairman of a legislative interim committee on parks and recreation issues On Wednesday the committee voted to recommend that the Legislature lift a moratorium on the state park reorganization plan that was initiated by DNR a year ago The plan called for cutbacks in personnel facilities and services at some parks with some of the savings to be used on other parks that attract more people Plagge efforts hurt farmers DES MOINES AP Misguided ef forts by some environmental groups are making it difficult for farmers to assure a safe food supply the president of Iowas largest farm organization said today This not only hinders efficient production of our food supply but it Is also very detrimental to the American con sumer Merlin Plagge of Sheffield said in his annual report at the convention of the Iowa Farm Bureau Federation The speech was interrupted once by applause when Plagge called on govern ment to place less reliance on property taxes if it wants to keep young lowans on the farm and encourage farming operations At a nearby exhibit hall a Farm Bureau booth was doing a brisk business in gar nering signatures on petitions to Gov Terry Branstad asking him to make property tax replacement the No 1 goal of the 1990s Delegates wore stickers depicting a volcano with the acronym ERUPT for Encourage Reduction of Unfair Property Taxes Honor band members Six students from Oelwein Junior High will participate in the Northeast Iowa Bandmasters Association Honor Band to be held this Saturday December 1 In Oelwein The concert will be at 7 pm at Oelwein Senior High The event features 80 area schools in three bands There will be piece Junior High bands and a Senior High band Pictured are the Junior High participants In front from left Caleb Rushing saxophone Brandie VandeVorde trombone Robin and Travis McFarlane bassoon In back are Robb Beane and Ben Rushing percussion Senior High students will be featured In Friday tomorrows Oelwein Dally Register Photo by An drew D
