Waterloo Courier Cedar Falls (Newspaper) - December 3, 1984, Waterloo, Iowa ce Attorney's pay Waterloo's city attorney who works on a contractual basis received twice what the mayor is paid per year See page A2 Rooney takes took at problem? have had wWi relatives See Tax proposal The winners and he losers among in- and corporations under the proposed tax simplification plan are sorted out on page A9 Lights Urry ly lights up sky war each year with a massive Christmas light dis- play Seepage Bt Waterloo 25 cents 30 PAGES Couple is kitted in two car mishaps By YVONNE BEELER Staff Writer PROTIVIN Even though Jimmy Dale Bouska wasn't a member of the Protivin American Legion the group's members have nonetheless planned to perform full military rites at his funeral That's just the way our spirit is around said Father Louis Trzil pastor at Protivin's Holy ty Catholic Church Jimmy Dale had served in the but had never joined the legion It just matter now though Bouska 35 of rural Ft Atkinson was killed late Saturday afternoon in a accident mile north of Protivin on Howard County road His wife Deborah 32 was killed in September in a crash two southwest of St Lucas Jimmy Dale Bouska had been driving the car when he ran into a truck at an uncontrolled intersection Despite the tragic situation Trzil doesn't believe the couple's children Kerri 4 and Rachel a will suffer from the sudden absence of their parents INSTEAD TRZIL believes Kerri and Rachel will think their memories will be of a daddy and a mama who loved them took them in and did everything together From the time of the first accident until the present Trzil said the two children were staying with the father's sister Polly Haskovec in Cresco Bouska had been injured in the first accident and had recently been released from the hospital Trzil said The children have been taken well care Trzil said That'll continue I'm sure Trzil fondly recalls Debbie Bouska because she had been dent of the ladies group at Holy Trinity She and her husband were members of the Holy Trinity parish and had both volunteered in various positions for the church Debbie was a good worker never put pressure on any of the Trzil began Actually she was just the opposite of her husband Jimmy Trzil explained that Bouska was a pusher whereas Debbie was a puller when it came to designating jobs Debbie would always lead the group it seemed but Bouska would push em more to keep working without any kind of said BUT THE two opposite attracted each other Trzil recalled Bouska was a big guy 200 pounds and six feet But it was Debbie a little petite thing who could always talk to Jimmy Dale and get him to listen After the couple lost two children at birth Trzil said they decided to adopt two girls Kerri and Rachel The girls always understood they were Trzil said and they always understood how much Debbie and Jimmy Dale loved them That's what will always be in their memory Trzil added the girls handled their mother's funeral very and thinks the same will occur at their father's funeral TRZIL SAID he and a few others drove to the scene of the accident waiting for authorities to arrive A Calmar man and member of parish Dale Fenske was ping at his home when he heard a crash nearby He came to the scene of the accident immediately while his wife notified the authorities Mr Fenske thought he could have done something if he had acted Trzil said But nothing could have been done not even by Mr Fenske According to the Iowa Highway Patrol Bouska was negotiating a curve when his automobile went off the right shoulder The car went back onto the road crossed the center line to the left shoulder and slid sideways hitting the left side bridge railing Bouska was pronounced dead at the Howard County Hospital in Cresco He was alone in the vehicle The accident remains under in- MONDAY DECEMBER 3 1984 1984 Waterloo Courier Falls Cyanide leak claims 269 lives in India Forming a human wall New firemen recruits in their legs stretched out on a high wall AP during a ceremony Soviet leaders cracking down on corruption in high places By WILLIAM SEXTON The Los Angelas Times MOSCOW For Kursk an trial city about 250 south of Moscow it was a major scandal The deputy police chief for the district went to the home of his mistress words were exchanged and she plunged to the ground from the balcony of her ment gravely injured However the deputy chief proved to be untouchable despite his part in what was described as a night of debauchery Instead of being ished he was granted a paid leave then retired from the force with full honors and maximum pension Later he moved into a job that was created especially for him by a Kursk packaging company Belatedly a year afterwards the Kursk Communist Party committee gave him a reprimand the mildest possible for exceeding his authority as a police officer THE STORY was retold recently in Pravda the official newspaper of the Communist Party to denounce the traditional tolerance for duct by the political and bureaucratic elite in the Soviet Union It under- scored the seriousness of the current drive first launched by the late Soviet President Yuri V Andropov and carried on with vigor by his successor Konstantin U Chernenko Revelations of graft and theft of state property in the Soviet newspapers are hardly new In the past however high-ranking of- caught in corrupt dealings were rarely prosecuted and were usually just transferred to another high-level job Now the media are focusing on those who protect wrongdoers and are demanding action against ups as well as the In fact the newspaper Soviet Russia went so far as to suggest that the sacrosanct nomenklatura the ruling elite of the Soviet Union of- with the highest privileges and status often shelters wrongdoers The system the newspaper argued allows corrupt officials to avoid demotion or punishment by simply transferring to another post with the same pay and valued THE NEW TONE and wide reports in the Soviet press indicate that the authorities may be taking a tougher approach Following the ment of the execution of a black market operator in Astrakhan who obviously had enjoyed official protection nine members of the local police force were dismissed In Uzbekistan a major purge of top Communist Party bosses took place after an investigation of cor- ruption Regional party secretaries as well as the traditionally ful first secretaries of district parties were ousted in the clean-up Nine deputies of the Supreme Soviet were also removed NEW DELHI India AP Poisonous cyanide gas leaking from a Union Carbide insecticide plant seeped through a sleeping central Indian city during the night leaving 269 confirmed dead thousands in- jured and the death toll expected to rise Arjun Singh the chief minister of the state of Madhya Pradesh said in a radio broadcast that 269 people were confirmed dead in Bhopal the state capital He told reporters at least people were injured He said people remained and others were treated at hospitals and released Singh said the number of con- f i rmed deaths was expected to cli mb The United News of India said the unofficial death toll was more than 300 UNI correspondents said bodies of men women and children bad piled up outside the main morgue in capital of Madhya Pradesh state about 370 miles south of New Delhi Several thousand were taken unconscious to hospitals UNI said Many people were found dead in their houses and many survivors fled in panic to neighboring towns after the gas leak occurred late Sunday night Dead water buffalo and other animals lay in the streets POLICE ARRESTED four of- of the Union Carbide plant in connection with the leak from an underground storage tank UNI said The news agency quoting official sources said those ar- rested were the assistant works ager the production manager the plant supervisor and another super- visor It said the charges were not disclosed Police and state officials in India conld not be reached for comment because telephone exchanges were engaged this morning At Union international quarters in Danbury Conn Ed Van Den Ameele the manager of ate media relations wa in a meeting and unavailable to reporters his secretary said The factory was closed the leak sealed and a judicial inquiry was j ordered A team of investigators from the Central Bureau of In- rushed to the scene All government offices and schools in were closed and markets and businesses were shut for the day Union Carbide managing director Y P Gokhale was quoted by UNI as saving the gas methyl iso cyanide leaked when a valve on the under- ground storage tank broke under ing pressure inside It spread to an area of about 25 square miles The leak was controlled by Gokhale was quoted as saving He described the leak as an un- fortunate UNI said UNI REPORTED that a factory siren was sounded two hows after people in the nearby slum area had been affected It said police and medical personnel did not reach the area until 7 Community leaders charged that police the fire department and main hospital emergency room did not respond immediately after being notified of the incident They also said they would launch a campaign to get the factory removed from the area The government approved ment equivalent to for each of the families of those who were killed and f 100 to those who were New heart a thrashing machine LOUISVILLE Ky AP liam Schroeder the second person ever to receive a permanent artificial heart says the plastic pump beating in his chest feels like an old-time thrashing machine but he thinks life is fantastic Meanwhile doctors announced day they have upgraded his c edition from critical to serious In a interview with Dr William C DeVries the surgeon who performed the implant on Nov 25 Schroeder said that he had ex- no pain no discomfort with his heart He thanked bis family and dents of his hometown for their port Dr Allan M Lansing said today that Schroeder had a great weekend the blahs are gone completely His condition was upgraded and his heart and vital signs are stable said Lansing chairman and medical director of the Humana Heart In- DOCTORS ARE still looking for potential signs of infection and will be for the next few days he said Depending upon Schroeder's strength they may begin a series of tests with three drugs to gauge his response to the substances They would like to experiment with the power systems that drive the heart increasing'and decreasing the speed of blood through the circulatory tem Lansing said interview was conducted at p.m Sunday at the Humana Heart Institute and released today by medical officials At the time Schroeder's heart was being powered by his portable Heimes driver Before surgery the Jasper Ind man said his heart had weakened so much that I just could barely make it in and out of the house Schroeder said that he had to be helped into the hospital by his sons when he was admitted Nov 11 and had to place his head between his legs to conserve his strength ASKED BY DeVries how the mechanical organ felt he Just like a thrashing machine an time thrashing machine While his wife Margaret Dr Peter Heimes developer of the portable power unit and Dr Robert Jarvik developer of Schroeder's mechanical heart looked on Schroeder said he feels well enough now that he thinks he could remove the oxygen tube running into his nose When Schroeder entered the Louisville hospital he knew he had just 40 days to live Since this operation I think I have 10 he said Schroeder told DeVries that he hoped one day to return to a normal lifestyle going fishing and watching My goals are just to be the same way I was when I was 40 Artificial heart recipient William Schroeder puts a hand on the AP shoulder of Dr William DeVries Food aid isn't reaching Ethiopian rebel region BOSTON AP Little of the massive amount of foreign and medicine ing Ethiopia is reaching the the northwestern province of Tigre where as many as three million people face starvation according to a newspaper re- port The supplies that do make it into are jammed into trucks that roll out of Sudan under the cover of night and in defiance of Ethiopia's Marxist military government which has been either ing or unable to channel food relief into areas of the country The Boston Globe reported Sunday rebels occupy at least 80 percent of Tigre province If the back door is the only way we can reach these people then the back door it will be one relief agency field worker in Tigre told The Globe ALTHOUGH A MASSIVE international relief effort has brought hundreds of thousands of tons of food into stricken Ethiopia over the past two months almost none of it is reaching Tigre where an estimated people a week are dying of hunger AP c Boston Globe Tears mark the faces ol a woman and her son after being denied ride out of Tigre t
