Waterloo Courier (Newspaper) - March 23, 1979, Waterloo, Iowa 40 pages 4 sections Friday March Waterloo Iowa 25 cents Ozark cutbacks stirring dump Waterloo fears Sandbag Armed Kurdish tribesmen crouch behind a sandbag barricade in Sanandaj Iran of Ayatollah Khomeini con- negotiations Friday to try to check the AP Kurdish rebellion in western Iran as army troops and the guerrillas besieging them ob- served an uneasy cease-fire and shops and restaurants reopened By MIKE KELLY Courier Staff Writer Is Ozark Airlines trying to dump That question is being asked with in- creasing frequency by metro area civic leaders and just people who'd like to fly over To Chicago some weekend and see Uncle Charley A look at Ozark's latest system timetable shows a cover adorned with color photos of such destinations as Florida Atlanta and Philadelphia While Ozark is reaching for a new to turn itself from a trunk feeder for larger airlines into one of the biggies in its own right the smaller cities in its are being relegated to an orphan status and are seemingly bearing the brunt of the overall route cutbacks A RECENT shortage of aviation fuel has forced virtually all commercial air carriers to cancel numerous flights on a temporary basis and Ozark is no tion The airline has canceled more than 300 flights through the end of March and isn't sure what the situation will be with those flights in April Nine weekend flights in and out of Waterloo were on Ozark's March hit list but Charles Ehlert a spokesman for the airline in St Louis said they should all be reinstated Just this week Ozark announced that three flights would be canceled for the month of April They are the daily flight to Denver the p.m daily flight from Denver and the p.m Saturday flight to Denver That will leave just one flight to Denver on weekdays at p.m one flight in from Denver at p.m no service at all on Saturdays and a single flight in from Denver on Sundays at p.m ALONG WITH the flight cancellations Ozark has been forced to lay off five of its 28 ticket agents in Waterloo for the month of April Without the flights we don't have a need for all the Ehlert said The agents who will be taken off the job can apply for open posts at other Ozark stations he added In early 1978 Ozark had 19 flights daily into and out of Waterloo This week that number has dropped to 14 a day on weekdays nine in and 10 out on Saturdays and 12 on Sundays Airport officials have been trying to convince the Civil Aeronautics Board that minimum essential service for Waterloo is the level it had at the ning of 1978 namely the 19 flights a day To say Ozark has abandoned Waterloo is an overstatement at this point since an air traveler can still hop a plane heading in any direction just about any day of the week How long that will remain true however is another matter AS OF FRIDAY Ozark's Waterloo schedule was as Flight 525 ex Sun to Cedar Rapids Moline Fort Worth Flight 980 daily to Dubuque and Chicago Flight 877 ex Sun to Mason City Fort Dodge and Omaha Flight 981 daily to Denver Flight 876 p.m daily to Chicago Flight 978 p.m daily to Madison Rockford Chicago and St Louis Flight 710 p.m daily to Rochester and Flight 889 p.m ex Sal to Mason 1 City and Omaha Flight 972 p.m ex Sat to Moline See OZARK Continued on page 2 col 3 Price jump is worst in years WASHINGTON AP Sharply higher prices for food housing and gasoline pushed consumer prices up 1.2 percent in February the biggest monthly increase in inflation in years the government said Friday Food prices rose 1.6 percent during the month and were up 12.7 percent for the period ended in February The government said meat prices rose another 4.9 percent and were up 26.4 percent for the period Overall consumer prices for the 12 Gilbert to head Guard DBS MOINES AP The Iowa tional Guard by problems for the past 20 months officially got a new commander Friday Brig Gen Roger W Gilbert Gilbert has been acting adjutant general since January The appointment was made by Gov Robert Ray who also named Col Warren G Lawson of Fort as deputy adjutant general Lawson a native of Fairfield Iowa has spent 24 years in the regular Army and will retire June 30 to return to Iowa and enter the National Guard with the rank of brigadier general GILBERT replaces on a fulltime basis Col Junior Burkhead who was fired on Dec 29 after a National Guard officer posed as a news reporter to monitor the governor's press conferences Burkhead succeeded Maj Gen Joseph May who resigned under fire in August 1977 after news reports of flights he took in Guard airplanes allegedly to visit his fiancee in Florida May who was indicted by a federal grand jury on 18 charges in months ended in February were up by 9.9 percent The sharp one-month rise in the Con- sumer Price Index was more ing news for the Carter administration's already badly battered gram President Carter is known to be considering additional measures to try to hold down the surge in prices which is now about double what he has predicted for the year The 1.2 percent rise in the price index in February compared with a 0.9 percent rise in January and was the highest since a 1.2 percent in September 1974 a year in which inflation was at a postwar high of 12.2 percent IF CONTINUED for a full year the February rise in prices would mean a total inflation of 15.4 percent double the administration's 1979 target of a 7.4 cent inflation rate Alfred E Kahn Carter's chief inflation adviser disclosed after the report was issued that the administration's tion program will be tightened with stepped-up monitoring of businesses especially small businesses and more active involvement by the president He said details would be announced next week Kahn told reporters it is too early to say that the wage and price guidelines gram has failed although he added I surely did not expect that inflation would be as bad as it has now become I am still confident the rate will slow as the year goes Kahn said He predicted food price increases will taper off and that a economy will ease over-all pressures on prices Kahn said he remains strongly opposed to mandatory wage price controls saying they would probably hurt the economy more than they would help it I would not administer such a he said Another presidential adviser Lyle E Gramley of the Council of Economic Advisers said there is a clear risk that inflation this year will exceed the administration's 7.4 percent forecast He said he could give no new figure but doubted it would exceed 10 percent The biggest factors in rising inflation have been food and energy costs which the government has felt it can do little about But February's wholesale price rises occurred in almost all industries When the Commerce Department re- ported Tuesday that corporate profits rose 9.6 percent in the fourth quarter of 1978 compared to the third quarter and 26.4 percent over the fourth quarter of the preceding year Kahn questioned aloud whether business was doing its share to hold down inflation Block's will become Brig Gen Roger W Gilbert lion with the flights is scheduled to stand trial next month I would like to restore credibility and integrity in Guard leadership Then the real number one priority is to get our troop strength back said Gilbert 55 who served as commander of the Iowa Air National Guard before stepping up to the state top post Ray said Gilbert is being appointed to fill out the unexpired term of May and Burkhead which ends June 30 But the governor said he will reappoint Gilbert for a full four-year term on July 1 We're quite well satisfied these two people will do a good job for us These two together are going to make a one-two punch to lead the men and women of the Iowa National Ray said a retail chain has announced plans to build a new store in Cedar Falls and give its name to the four metro area stores now run by the James Black Co Officials of the Minneapolis chain were in Waterloo Friday for a luncheon and formal announcement of their plans Mayor Leo Rooff one of several Waterloo officials invited to the lunch told the gathering executives had assured him the new Cedar Falls store did not signal an imminent closing of the downtown Waterloo store Charles James president and chief executive officer of clarified what Rooff said by adding We are continually evaluating our unit stores and the downtown be no exception Black's which has been located in downtown Waterloo within a block of its present location since 1892 was with last June has been a retailer since 1881 Both and Black's are owned by Allied Stores Corp a New York City retail chain with 175 stores across the country The new store in Cedar Falls will be part of the million Thunder Ridge Mall to be built along Highway 20 east of Magnolia Drive A building permit for the new shopping center was issued Wednesday to de- Garth Huffman IN ADDITION TO store it is also expected to contain an Eagle supermarket and an Osco Drug store Black's which operates a landmark department store in downtown Waterloo as well as at Crossroads Center College Square Shopping Center and the Black Hawk Village Shopping Center in Cedar Falls has been owned by Allied for decades and became associated with in June of 1978 operates seven stores in Minnesota including those in downtown Minneapolis St Paul and Rochester and in four suburban shopping centers The new store is expected to be ready for operation by the fall of 1980 The Thunder Ridge store as well as the other four newly named out- lets in the metro area will be under the direction of Robert Daughton regional manager BLACK'S DEPARTMENT Store has been a Northeast Iowa landmark in downtown Waterloo for many years The store was founded by James Black who quit his peddling business to open a store in 1892 The company was incorporated in 1902 as the James Black Company In 1928 Allied Stores took over operation of the Waterloo store and purchased the building in the early Many believe fuel crisis is a hoax By The Associated Press Elizabeth Sullivan of South Boston keeps her thermostat set at 60 degrees I can't afford the prices any she explained Concern about the increasing cost of heating oil electricity and gasoline has prompted many Americans to cut back their use of energy according to Press interviews in a random selection of cities And a big majority believe the reported oil and gasoline shortages are a hoax to drive up prices MOST people say they have been ed more by economics than by President Carter's appeals for conservation although a few indicate they also are worried about supplies An Associated News poll conducted separately from the in- showed that most Americans do not think there is an oil or gasoline shortage One person in five has not made an effort to cut energy use the poll indicates And one in four won't drive less even if gasoline goes to a gallon Among the findings of the telephone poll of persons questioned earlier this majority of people believe reports of shortages are a hoax to up prices Sixty-eight percent said the oil shortage was a hoax 70 percent felt the same way about a gasoline shortage whether they had trimmed energy consumption in the past month or two 19 percent said no Thirty-seven percent said they had lowered the thermostat 20 percent said they did not drive as much and 16 percent said they used lights or appliances less would happen if gasoline went to a Twenty-six percent of those polled said they would continue to use their cars as they do now 44 percent said they would drive less and 19 percent said they would buy a smaller car four out of 10 people blamed oil companies for recent rises in the price of gasoline and heating oil Twenty-five percent blamed oil-producing countries and 19 percent blamed the U.S ment Four our of five said the price increases were unjustified The Iron Duke School spankings I have a letter from an educator in a neighboring community expressing displeasure with an article carried in the Family Weekly Sunday magazine supplement dis- with this newspaper He asserts that this piece entitled Teachers Who Beat Up Kids is a gross misrepresentation of teachers I'm inclined to think he is right This piece laid it on pretty strong tending to give the impression that youngsters of school age are in daily peril of having some teacher give them 40 lashes for some minor indiscretion The question whether spanking should be allowed in the public schools has attracted considerable interest Severin because of the recent decision of the Dubuque School Board not to ban corporal punishment COINCIDENTALLY while many bleeding hearts were deploring the Dubuque decision the CBS Sunday night documentary 60 attempted to portray a directly opposite kinds of physical violence imposed on teachers by students I strongly doubt that teachers anywhere in Iowa are inflicting any serious physical punishment on students Teachers I know tell me they are afraid to lay a hand on the little darlings for fear they will wind up in court where in recent years the judiciary has been coming down regularly on the side of the kids instead of on the side of justice and common sense One woman became so carried away by the horrible thought of a youngster getting spanked that she asserted the Dubuque School decision had pushed education back 100 years Not quite It was only a couple of decades ago that it was rather common practice for both parents and teachers to resort to spanking a recalcitrant youngster when other forms of persuasion failed THERE HAS been a steady decline in the practice in recent years partly as a result of court decisions and partly due to propaganda by child care experts holding that spanking might cause a youngster to take a jaundiced view of society later on in life It is difficult to prove who is right and who is wrong in the argument over corporal punishment But one thing is sure The number of juvenile delinquents winding up in our courts has increased in direct proportion to the decline in discipline in homes and schools Inside Henry and Lynn Cutler have accepted President Carter's in- to an historic event at the White House Page 10 Weather Partly cloudy Saturday with high in upper 30s Complete weather page 2 Capitol quips These days no matter what happens anywhere in the world one result is a rise in the price of gasoline
