Waterloo Courier (Newspaper) - April 10, 1983, Waterloo, Iowa Sunday 140 Pages 13 Sections April 10 1983 Waterloo Iowa 75 cents Floods ease but damage in By The Associated Press Floodwaters closed off part of a major highway and prompted new evacuation warnings Saturday after storms claimed 13 lives and forced people to flee in Louisiana and Mississippi A tornado in Florida killed three people President Reagan who telephoned Louisiana Gbv Dave Treen and Gov William Winter on pledged financial aid for areas awash after four days of rain The flooding forced authorities at I dusk to close a section of Interstate iO Louisiana's main east-west hughway near the sippi line Other highways were threatened and dozens of bridges re- mained closed while inspectors checked for stress from flooding I Thirteen deaths in the lower i sippi Valley were blamed on the i storm Six people died in Mississippi two in Tennessee and five in Louisiana including one Saturday The evacuees in Louisiana and in Mississippi have begun returning home BUT RESIDENTS of Slidell La a New Orleans suburb and one of the areas of the state were asked to leave Saturday because their turn had come to fight the waters of the raging Pearl River The river was expected to crest around noon Sunday at the town of Pearl River and the crest was not expected to pass Slidell until Tuesday National Weather Service hydrologist Bob Stucky said Nevertheless the sun broke out in the afternoon for the first time in- days And Jim Thornhill the civil defense director of Columbia Miss where the Pearl consumed a levee said We're definitely on the road to recovery Alabama residents also saw the sun on Saturday but rivers remained swollen and farmlands flooded Rural flood warnings were most of the rivers in central and western parts of the state At Inverness Fla north of Tampa acar was picked up and slung to the ground about 200 to 300 feet from the roadway by a tornado Saturday and three travelers were killed Citrus County sheriff's Capt Jim Hill The National Weather Service said there were two confirmed twister touchdowns in Florida's Citrus ty In one south of Lecanto a tanker was overturned and a mobile home and four structures were aged IN WASHINGTON deputy White 1 House spokesman Larry Speakes said Reagan telephoned Winter and Treen to tell them the Federal Emergency Management Agency would expedite any emergency aid it could provide Hard hit was Hattiesburg Miss where three people died after the Leaf River jumped its banks About homes and 250 businesses were aged in Hattiesburg homes across the river in Petal and people were evacuated Out for a spring walk Courier photo by Mike Weber Raymond and Beverly Thompson of 576 Pioneer Rd in Waterloo don't let a little thing like a spring storm deter them from a brisk walk along Prospect Boulevard Many Northeast lowans who had visions of soon being on the golf course or in the garden had their spirits dampened by the moist snowfall Saturday BASEBALL TIME Bishops deny yielding to pressure by Reagan WASHINGTON AP Two ing Roman Catholic bishops took the unusual step Saturday of denying that a bishops committee yielded to pressure from the White House in softening a proposed church ment that originally denounced use of nuclear weapons Following Reagan administration praise for the new version of the proposed pastoral letter the two churchmen stressed that the ment still finds much to fault in dent Reagan's policies Archbishop John R Roach of neapolis president of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops and Cardinal Joseph Bernardin of cago chairman of the committee that drafted the letter said they could not accept any suggestion that there are relatively few and insignificant differences between U.S policies and the policies advocated in the pastoral In the final analysis the third draft is far more the product of re- flection and dialogue within the community than of dialogue be- tween the drafting committee and the Roach and Bernardin said The State Department expressed pleasure Wednesday with the final third draft of the letter on which the nation's 285 Catholic bishops will vote at a special meeting in Chicago on May If approved by the required two- thirds majority of the bishops it will represent official policy of American Catholics and will move the American church far from its customary hard line on issues of national security return cheered EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE Calif AP Challenger ship No 2 in America's fleet came home Saturday break-in flight of 2.1 million miles More than cheered the pinpoint landing on a splashed desert runway Paul J Weitz a retired Navy cap- tain and Air Force Lt Col Karol Bobko guided the ship to a centerline landing on time to the predicted ond It was 42 seconds after in California Astronauts Story Musgrave and Donald Peterson were only passengers for the final phase of Challenger's five-day flight have been an unqualified success had not a satellite gone astray after it was ejected from the ship Musgrave and Peterson spent 3 hours 47 minutes in the ship's open cargo bay on Thursday making the first U.S spacewalk in nine years as they practiced techniques that will be needed when the shuttle goes up to retrieve and repair satellites The foursome left the shuttle a hour after landing and walked around the ship which appeared little worse for wear Challenger is one hell of a flying said Weitz at a ing ceremony attended by Gov George Deukmejian of California Being here today and having you folks be here kind of makes us feel a little bit like the Academy Awards we stand up front and take all the bows and credit Bobko called the flight a fantastic voyage and Musgrave We hope we have started another era in the space program by getting Challenger off to a good start And We had really a good time We had a really fine mission We really enjoyed ourselves The problem that marred Challenger's debut lay not with the spacecraft but with its cargo The million Tracking and Data Relay Satellite carried aloft by Challenger was ejected properly at the end of the ship's seventh orbit on Monday launch day But the attached rocket did not fire long enough for reasons yet unexplained and the TDRS went into a misshapen orbit Branstad hopes for cooperation in Legislature to avoid disputes By BOB CASE Courier Staff Writer DES minority Re- publicans in the Iowa Legislature ob- even when it comes to issues favored by GOP Gov Terry Is the governor becoming inflexible in his dealings with majority De- in the Senate majority leader Junkins of Montrose answers both questions in the affirmative The Senate minority leader Calvin Hultman of Red Oak says on many key issues Republicans strongly port the the governor And Branstad says he continues to stand ready to cooperate with Democrats in finding com- promise solutions to problems To support his contention Junkins points to the increase in the sales tax fromS to 4 increase by the governor but which received the support of only a of Republicans The majority leader also points to the court reorganization by the governor and passed by the Senate last week The measure was opposed by 10 of whom were Republicans On legislation to establish a tax study committee Junkins points to an amendment offered by Sen David Readinger Moines to have the study conducted bythe Legislative Fiscal proposal strongly opposed by the governor It was a party line vote with only Republicans the See BRANSTAD Continued on page A3 col 1 briefly Tank truck spews oil on highway CHEVERLY Md AP -A aged tank truck spewed gallons of heating oil on a major highway in this Washington suburb Saturday threatening the local water supply and prompting state police to close part of the highway for hours The truck operated by a ton oil distributor Oil suffered a ruptured tank near the border between the District of Col- and Prince George's County Md leaving a trail of oil nearly three miles long according tb Maryland State Police Aggravated by a steady rain the oil leak made eastbound traffic oh U.S 50 hazardous and the two bound lanes were closed One lane was reopened at 5 p.m Volcano silent but lava flows VOLCANO Hawaii AP -e Kilauea volcano fell silent Saturday but lava from its latest eruption continued flowing through a remote hillside subdivision where it destroyed several homes authorities said We can't really say the eruption is said Jon Erickson spokesman for Hawaii Volcanoes National Park When it stops it stops About 150 residents of the Royal Gardens subdivision routed Friday and Saturday for the third time since the volcano began its eruption Jan 3 had been ordered evacuated day as an high wall of lava approached their homes on the volcano's slopes Baby Stephanie is MINNEAPOLIS AP A month-old Texas girl was in critical condition at a hospital here day one day after receiving an ex- bone marrow transplant doctors say is her only hope of survival Stephanie Garcia of was transferred from John Sealy Hospital in Galveston Texas to the University of sota Hospital in Minneapolis where doctors performed the transplant Friday The infant suffers from severe combined immune deficiency a dis- order that leaves her body less against infection Condor chicks gaining weight SAN DIEGO AP A third fornia condor egg taken from a nest to the San Diego Zoo is being ed closely by officials who are con- cerned that it may not live to hatch a zoo spokesman said Saturday Meanwhile two chicks hatched in captivity are gaining weight and the oldest is now being fed a diet of adult mice at the San Diego Wild Animal Park The two chicks are ed from an egg at the San Diego Zoo on March 30 and hatched last Tuesday has graduated to eating whole adult said Martha Baker a spokeswoman for the animal park He's no longer eating minced pinkie mice is still eating the mice California condors with a wing span of feet are the largest birds in North America and have been threatened with extinction Biologists believe only remain in the wild Five are in captivity including the two chicks and Inside the Sections Also 4 Cedar 8 6 Theater Leonard Katoski on the eve of retiring as Waterloo parks di- says a world without parks would be a drab existence Page Bl Leonard Katoski Black Hawk County youth groups will be involved in such crime prevention methods as ing identification numbers on tractors Page C7 Lt Robert Webber and Anthony Brown Weather Sunny and warmer Monday with a high in the 50s Weather details on page A2 Priestly A look at an sue receiving attention since the recent showing of The Thorn Iowa in an effort supported by Gov Terry Branstad is developing a strategy to bring tourist dollars to the state Page C3 EPA officials say that former chief Anne Burford may have slowed the agency's toxic waste cleanup Page
