Waterloo Courier Cedar Falls (Newspaper) - December 31, 1991, Waterloo, Iowa TUESDAY DECEMBER 31 1991 targets for department losing Waterloo Copyright 1991 Waterloo Courier Inc Save money with home delivery Iowa population shows slight Zale Corp to close 400 Cedar Falls SHOWING Pheasant other 46 sections Waterloo Iowa WHERE'S THE Holiday Bowl tie a defensive Some stories you might have missed in 1991 Scripps Howard News Service It was the year the Soviet Union got a divorce William Kennedy Smith got arrested and the economy went bust With all of that excitement there was little room in the newspaper for the rest of the news So here's what you missed in 1991 YOU WANNA WHAT? A defense attorney in Dover Del objected to a juror in a December because her last name is pronounced You want a witch The juror Dorothy Uwanawich listed her pation as psychic reader and adviser WE DELIVER postal worker in bus Ohio who was fooling around with an optical scanner in December managed to print You Bitch on Christmas cards instead of Happy Holidays He was facing some fied disciplinary action At the end of a motivational course supervisors at the ton Department of Ecology got the satisfaction of smashing a board with their hands Curt Eschels broke his right arm in two places Gary Hanson broke his wrist It sounded like a neat exercise but two guys getting hurt is too high a price to said Eschels HAPPY HOLIDAYS A woman in North Little Rock Ark shot her son on Thanksgiving after he threw her ham to the floor stomped on it and threw the pan at her police said Octavia Overton 73 wasn't charged because of her age and the relatively minor injuries suffered by her son George police spokesman Steve Canady said BAD TO THE BONE A police officer in Mishawaka Ind admitted in November stealing two rock concert tickets off the body of a motorist killed in a traffic accident Leroy said he took the tickets for the show by rocker George Thorogood while gating the March 26 death of Jody L White 30 of Osceola I acknowledge that my conduct in the matter of the theft of Jody White's concert tickets has brought discredit upon myself my family and the Mishawaka police said in a letter of resignation TUITION WASTING 101 was released this fine year an honor roll of most notoriously easy courses In The Mind in Sleep at Macalester College students sleep in class in German Folk Songs at the University of Connecticut they sing in class in Surfing at Pepperdine University they surf in class which is held at a Southern California beach In New York University students learn walking and trapeze ics AN AMERICAN Vol I In 53 percent could Only 9 percent could identify trie chief justice of the U.S Supreme Court IN THE MAIL Daniel Luksetich of m wrote a check for his water on a pair jtf men's It was a real said a found the check for 44 back demanding a legitimate Though the underwear was legal offered in dimes nickels and village refused He finally sent 88 dollar bills and 44 cents Republic of Mongolia in June issued a set honoring Fred and Barney Rubble The goal was to get more foreign currency in the country i.e getting suckers like us to buy Mongolian stamps PARTY LIKE IT'S 1999 For most June was a normal day but for the folks of Woosung ni the residents of ZIP code 61091 it was I's only once in a said Bette Kuhn postmaster in this northwestern Illinois town To celebrate she handed out cookies soft drinks and balloons I'VE FALLEN South Bend firefighters heard a woman's voice pleading for help when they arrived at a burning home in June And 40 See REVIEW I page A2 WEATHER Wednesday Show High 35 Low 25 Details on A2 D5 Dally Record A7 Horoscopes D5 Obituaries A7 r Crossword Markets B7 Theaters C7 Metro 10 B5 By AMY DAVIS Courier Staff Writer TAMA The leader of the Mesquakie Indian tribe is refuting critics allegations that the tribe's bingo operation is losing money and that the tribe will be unable to finance a gambling casino Tribal Chairman Keith port said Monday the bingo ation is turning a profit and has been a sound investment His comments come on the heels of complaints from tribal members who have claimed that 95 percent of enrolled members have yet to receive the first red penny from our bingo Casino possible business since it beean in 1087 business since it began in according to Peters and Harvey Davenport Sr two tribal members They have expressed concerns about where the tribe will get the finances to establish a gambling casino In a referendum Saturday the tribe voted to allow casino gambling by a margin Davenport has said information on all tribal business is available to tribal members but he doesn't know of any members who have asked to review it The legal counsel confirmed that the tribe had the financial ability to fund the new venture As far as their financial ability and whatever skill needed to develop and operate a casino I've never had any doubt at their ability to do attorney Bertram Hirsch of Floral Park said They are one of the most stable tribes in this try Annual financial audits will be required of all tribes that run bingo operations starting this summer said Tony Hope man of the National Indian ing Commission in Washington Each tribe will be required to hire a certified public accountant See page A2 State signs limited contract for Omaha Tribe's casino DBS MOINES AP A contract that goes into force today allows a Nebraska an tribe to develop casino gambling on land the tribe owns south of Sioux City The five-year agreement was signed Monday by Chuck Sweeney head of the ment of Inspections and Appeals and by leaders of the Omaha Tribe of Nebraska The pact could lead to construction of a casino near Onawa aimed at luring gamblers from throughout the Midwest The contract can be automatically extended for another two years Tribal officials have said See CASINO I page A2 On track rp With dog railroad tracks that run under North Union i GREG staff photographer visited relatives in the area Economic indicators down 0.3 WASHINGTON AP The government's chief forecasting gauge of future economic activity fell 0.3 percent in November its biggest setback in 10 months as consumer confidence and a ber of other business barometers turned down sharply The Commerce Department said the drop in its Index of Leading Economic Indicators marked the fourth consecutive month that the collection of 11 statistics has flashed signs pf widespread weakness The index which had been ing ahead earlier in the year posted no gain in dropped 0.2 percent in September and edged up a tiny 0.1 percent in October If October's small gain had been a negative it would have marked three consecutive declines often an ominous sign of an impending recession Economists are split over whether the economy which fell into recession in July 1990 and appeared to be emerging from the slump last spring has toppled into another downturn Pessimists cite such monitoring gauges as the leading indicators to support their view that overall growth as measured by the gross domestic product turned tive in the October-December quarter and will be negative again in the first three months of the new year However other forecasters have taken heart in recent days at the big runup in stock market Koreas sign pact on nukes SEOUL South Korea AP South Korea and North Korea today initialed a pact that would forbid the manufacture of nuclear weapons and allow each side to inspect the other's nuclear ties officials said However question of how to carry out joint inspections of suspected nuclear weapons sites on both sides one of the most contentious issues between the rival nations still is not resolved Without agreement on this the pact would be no more than an expression of said Lee a South Korean delegate to the talks The agreement came after nearly eight hours of talks in the border village of Panmunjom officials said A formal ment is to be signed by the two Koreas prime ministers in uary they said Experts believe North Korea one of the last hard-line nist states could have the ability to make a crude atomic bomb in See KOREAS I page A2 Index of Leading Indicators Seasonally adjusted 100 Commonwealth agrees on forces MINSK Belarus prices which they hope will shore up sagging business and consumer confidence in the early months of 1992 and help to avert a recession Wall Street days has chosen to dismiss evidence of a renewed recession and instead focused on the dramatic moves by the Federal Reserve to lower interest rates to boost economic prospects The lowest mortgage rates in nearly two decades were credited for a 5.4 percent jump in sales of existing single-family homes in November the second tive monthly gain However other analysts worry that the Fed's efforts have come too late to avert another down- turn They noted that the biggest decline in November's leading index was in consumer dence which fell to a level below the steep sion MINSK Belarus AP The new Commonwealth of dent States has passed a major test of durability by reaching compromise on military issues but it now faces lough hurdles over resuscitating the states economies The 11 former Soviet republics in the commonwealth on Monday established a permanent joint command over former Soviet nuclear warheads but they failed to preserve unified control over all conventional forces The status of the forces was the most divisive issue facing the leaders at their first meeting since establishing the commonwealth Dec 21 There were differences of opinion but we found Russian President Boris Yeltsin told reporters after day of meetings in the sian capital and administrative seat of the commonwealth Each state will be allowed to decide in the next two months whether it will have its own army or let the unified commonwealth forces under Yevgeny command the former et troops on their territory The compromise will go a long way toward ensuring order among the estimated 3.7 million former Soviet troops The commonwealth members with state stores and well-stocked but expensive private markets remain divided over the speed of scrapping seven decades of communism Violence has broken out in recent days due to shortages Russia is to free its prices Thursday Belarus on Friday will free prices excluding dairy baked goods most meat day before stores were to close for the New Year's holiday products and baby food Tass said Other states complain the abrupt moves will induce pressed Russian and Belarussian consumers to come to their tories to buy up cheaper Ukraine the agricultural of the commonwealth protested Russia's price plans but on Monday announced it will free most prices on Jan 10 The Ukrainian government said Monday that it will issue coupons that can be used in tial payment for goods to its zens before prices arc freed
