Waterloo Courier (Newspaper) - December 23, 1990, Waterloo, Iowa Sunday's forecast Parity Sunny Minus Minus 20s KWANZAA African-American holiday is a learning experience for Lowell students SUNDAY U CROOKS BEWARE The Police Department's Dragon Wagon nearly ready to roll Qj SIMPLE SHOPPING Hustle bustle missing at Amish gift shop in Littleton U GAS WAR New Independence station brings drop in improves with fan victory over visiting r Waterloo Courier Cedar Falls 100 Copyright Waterloo money with home delivery THE GETO BOYS Courier illustration by DAN Bad Music may have affected Wood killers By ANN LANGEL Courier Staff Writer The sight of blood excites me Shoot you in the Head sit down and watch you bleed to death I hear the sound of your last breath Shouldn t of been around Mind of a The Geto Boys Imagine a carload of youths tening to those lyrics as they cruise Waterloo on a Sunday night ine them so hyped that they decide to act out those lyrics Imagine them spotting someone blaming them for being at the wrong place at the wrong time and then stalking them Imagine them killing someone just like the acter in the song It couldn't Authorities say it did I'm sure it had an effect on says Assistant County Attorney Ray Walton It hyped them up It got them excited Richard L Smith 20 who is serving a prison term of not more than 50 years for second-degree murder in the shooting death of Jeffrey Dean Wood 24 of loo told Walton that he and three other young men serving time for Wood's murder were influenced by rap music in particular The Geto Boys Mind of a Lunatic When you listen to love songs all the time you're in the mood to make Smith said When you listen to songs about violence you want to make violence Just what part the song played in the events of be known but it's an interesting concept today music as a motive for crime You is in the right place for me at the wrong time Smith Daniel Maurice Claybon Keith Christopher Walker and Harry Benard Johnson were all convicted of the murder with Claybon and Walker being gered as the instigators But it was Smith who said in a recent interview at the Iowa State Men's Reformatory in Anamosa that Mind of a Lunatic may have triggered the murder Smith who pleaded guilty to a lesser murder charge in exchange for his testimony against the other three that the shooting wouldn't have occurred without the music but believes The Geto Boys words influenced them to a large degree We were drinking a little bit and we were weak-minded and in a sense it was telling us to ly just do Smith said In fact the shooter Claybon had on a T-shirt saying Just Do It sit alone in my four-cornered room staring at candles Dreaming of the people I've dismantled Waterloo Police Chief Bernal See Smith says he's learning lesson By ANN LANGEL ichard Lament Smith believes that if 50 years in prison doesn't teach him anything nothing will Though he doesn't believe he deserves to be at the Men's Reformatory in Anamosa and claims he was just in the wrong the wrong time he is making the best of his ence behind bars Right now I just want to go around and tell people about this kind of place tell younger ple that the place to be that what happened to us pens to people everyday and I'm going to try to prevent it he was picked up the night of March 11 by the carload of men who were ing for his friend Keith Walker Smith joined them claiming he thought they just ride around I just came back from neapolis and got caught in the mid- dle of this charade that Was going Smith said in a recent inter- view at the prison Smith had planned to move to live with this and returned to Waterloo care of some business See SMITH Smith Frigid weather grips area By PAT KINNEY and STEVE BOWERS Courier Staff Writers Power outages stalled cars nace failures and frostbite around Northeast Iowa didn't exactly have anyone humming the tune Winter Wonderland Saturday Biting double-digit sub-zero and wind chills in excess of 50 degrees below zero made it a good day to stay inside and finish Christmas wrapping or watch a game on TV However some people didn't have that option The emergency room at Covenant Medical Center at Kimball Avenue reported a steady stream of people coming in with frostbite or exposure late Friday and Saturday Those coming in had either been stranded in their cars or had been out walking and simply didn't realize how cold it would be an emergency room worker said A pair of separate power outages left some IPS Electric tomers in Waterloo Evansdale and rural Black Hawk County without power from a half hour to more than two hours Saturday Some IPS Electric customers in south Waterloo and nearby rural areas were without power from to Saturday when lines were downed along Highway 21 company spokesman Mark Jacobs said Several spans of wire were downed along the north-south road Jacobs said The number of customers affected by the outage were undetermined Jacobs said but it reportedly ed the Audubon Park and man's Addition residential areas along West Fourth Street south of relocated Highway 20 All but six rural customers had power restored by Jacobs said searched the area after they were unable to restore power at the East Shaulis Road sub- station Jacobs said I'll tell you I don't envy Jacobs said It's tough enough being out in this weather Dealing with being up in a bucket 30 or 40 feet in the air is no fun Downed lines near Orange and Dysart roads southeast of town also caused a second shorter outage that left some IPS customers in the Cedar Terrace area of Waterloo southern Evansdale and rural areas without power for about a half hour to 45 minutes between noon and 1 p.m Saturday Jacobs said One of those customers was the Crossroads store which was without full power for about 45 utes The store had backup power Courier photos by GREG BROWN Geese sleep geese stretch and geese swim amidst the zero mark at Meyers Evansdale Saturday morning At back rising off the that kept some lights on and tomers with holiday groceries patiently waited for a time as employees worked to get electronic cash registers operating on a central backup battery store shift manager Randy Beimer said Crossroads ter was not affected by the outage The weather forecast called for chilling winds to diminish Saturday evening but temperatures in Iowa were expected to stay frigid Highs Sunday were to range from 5 below in the north to 5 above in the south Highs through Wednesday are pre- to be zero to 15 degrees above with the lows from 5 to 15 degrees below zero The Iowa State Patrol reported that one traffic fatality has been attributed to slick roads caused by the weather See COLD A2 Besides the normal battery failure problems that plagued motorists Saturday Sharon Dunfee discovered radiator hoses leaking after driving Commercial Street Her son Douglas watches his mom while attempting to keep his ears warm Union sailor among ferry accident victims HAIFA Israel AP tors searched Saturday for clues as to why a chartered ferry capsized in choppy seas killing at least 19 ican sailors including a Northeast lowan who were in the Middle East as part of Operation Desert Shield Among the dead according to the U.S Atlantic Fleet is Jeffrey W Shukers 28 of Union a fire control chief INSIDE Celebrity Daily Home Survivors said the Israeli ferry went under almost instantly after it was swamped early Saturday while ferrying about 100 crewmen back to the aircraft carrier USS Saratoga from shore leave in Haifa All of a sudden I saw water just come flying in It was maybe two seconds and the boat rolled right said Chief Petty Officer Lance Vickery 33 of Jacksonville Fla Israeli divers retrieved six bodies from the sunken craft in 65 feet of water The others were found dead on the surface or died of injuries after being alive officials said Three dozen sailors were taken to hospitals but most were released The Saratoga and its three escort ships were in the Red Sea as part of the naval buildup in the Persian Gulf region in the wake of Iraq's Aug 2 invasion of Kuwait The accident was the involving U.S servicemen in lion Desert Shield and it raised number of Americans who have died to at least 73 Haifa is a frequent port of call for American sailors Last year more See CAPSIZE A4 Cheney talks of war shortly after Jan 15 EASTERN SAUDI ARABIA AP Defense Secretary Dick Cheney hopped atop a tank Saturday to tell but eager Marines war likely would come soon after Jan 15 if Saddam Hussein ignores an to withdraw from Kuwait Cheney did not say whether he meant days a week or longer but he said he and President Bush would not forget that United Nations line in favor of giving sanctions against Iraq more time to work With the press here I can't get too specific about dates but ly we want to gel it over with as soon as Cheney said while standing on an tank in the Saudi desert about 50 miles south of Kuwait Still Cheney on his second day of pre-Christmas visits some of the nearly American troops in the region did escalate the line rhetorical war by The president is deadly serious when he says the whole crisis cannot be resolved until Saddam Hussein goes back to Baghdad and withdraws his forces from Kuwait 1 would think that soon after Jan 15th if he has not withdrawn his forces from Kuwait then we will be in a position to take military action in conjunction with our allies As Cheney was visiting the Marines in the desert and then Navy personnel aboard a hospital ship and Aegis missile crusier in the Persian Gulf Chairman of the Joint Staff Gen Colin Powell was making separate visits to troops as well Cheney and Powell have been in Saudi Arabia since Wednesday meeting wilh senior and field com- manders to assess the readiness of the American forces less than a month from the The trip was thrown into See GULF
