Waterloo Courier (Newspaper) - July 15, 1996, Waterloo, Iowa NE Iowa Lake Meyer Park has several prairie planting grounds NBA players total nearly a in new deals Page Cl WATERLOO FALLS Sports Martin Brothers earns spot in Iowa Games Paged 50 cents 24 pages 4 sections Monday July Waterloo Cedar Falls Iowa Waterloo officer shoots man after traffic stop New Hartford man allegedly tried to flee the scene By CHRISTINE WILLMSEN Courier Staff Writer WATERLOO A New Hartford man is still at Allen Memorial Hospital after being shot by a police officer early Sunday morning while allegedly trying to flee a traffic stop in downtown Waterloo Sieven Wayne Rains 28 is ing at Allen Memorial Hospital surgery Sunday for a gunshot wound to tie upper body police said Rains initially was listed in critical but condition Sunday but refused to haw his condition released today An investigation into the incident ils continuing Officer Andrew Dark 28 t- ly shot Rains after he attempted lo flee during a traffic stop with Clark clinging to the vehicle through the driver's window Clark ordered the guy to stop aj d when he didn't he had shooting him or falling off the car getting Waterloo Police Bernal Koehrsen said I Clark was treated and released at Allen Memorial Hospital for arm and leg injuries suffered during the dent which started when officers stopped Rains about day in the 200 block of Street Police said Rains attempted to flee by driving several blocks through alleys and parking lots with Clark hanging onto the driver's door The vehicle stopped near West Second and Washington ly Bluff streets after Rains was shot The Black Hawk County Sheriff's Office is ing the criminal case Seven investigators and County Attorney Tom Ferguson were at the scene talking with other officers searching the police car and Rains car Sunday morning Sheriff's Sgt Steve Petersen said the investigation will take two or three days I Departmental policy requires the police to ask a neutral agency to investigate shootings involving police Clark ordered the to stop and when he he had the choice of shotting him or ng off the car and getting Bernal Koehrsen Waterloo Police Chief Officer Andrew Clark 1995 photo intoxicated in November 1995 This isn't the first time officer Clark has been injured in the line of duty He suffered minor injuries but didn't need medical attention during a riot where shots were fired on East Fourth and Dane streets in ber 1994 Also in November 1992 Clark's police car was damaged after a man allegedly rammed a stolen vehicle into Clark's The officer also was Police shooting -A New Hartford man fas while attempting a Waterloo officer early I I Mart 53 Commercial Street is W r fli By GREG BROWN Courier Staff Photographer An Investigation continues into an Incident at Second and Washington Bluff streets early Sunday A Waterloo police officer shot a New Hartford man after the man reportedly pulled away from the officer and carried him following a traffic stop officers We're unsure of the circum- stances Koehrsen said The reason for the traffic stop and the incident is being investigated by the county he added Koehrsen said the police department will conduct an inter- nal inquiry to make sure Waterloo police procedures were lowed after the office has ished According to Iowa Code if an officer feels life is being threatening and endangered can shoot Rains was issued a citation for possession of drug paraphernalia in 1987 pleaded guilty to driving while his license was revoked in 1989 and also pleaded guilty to interference with official acts in 1991 Rains was for domestic abuse after ing Angela Rains in November 1992 and pleaded guilty to operating while i i i I j j i -J Iowa DK Mokes assaulted by a man at the Mitchell Avenue sand pits in July 1991 Clark originally from Alden has been with the force for at least six years and has earned a reputation as one of its toughest officers on ing while intoxicated offenses Clark is certified to teach field sobriety tests and techniques for OWI COURIER graphic detection to other officers and he also teaches law enforcement classes at Hawkeye Community College The last time a Waterloo police cer shot a citizen was in July 1990 when officer Gary fatally shot Albert Geiger who was suicidal and had lunged at the officer room was later exonerated i Yeltsin postpones meeting with Gore health again questioned MOSCOW AP Boris Yeltsin focused attention once again on his health problems postponing a meeting today with Vice President Al Gore and retreating to a health resort Aides said the Russian president was well and had started a vacation Sunday at a government resort outside Moscow They said he likely would meet with Gore there Tuesday The president's tired He's really very tired and he just needs a good proper chief spokesman Sergei Medvedev told reporters in the Kremlin He has not gotten sick Medvedev said the president worked and days during his tion campaign and now faces pressures to form a new government Yeltsin won re-election on July 3 and his office said he wanted to take a break before his Aug 9 inauguration But the vacation in was not announced until this morning after reporters had already gathered at the Kremlin for scheduled meeting with Gore Gore arrived in Moscow on Saturday mainly for meetings on economic issues with Prime Minister Viktor The two met Sunday and today when the joint commission they head began its two-day session Asked by reporters about his missed meeting with Yeltsin Gore said I learned this morning that it would be postponed until tomorrow Yeltsin largely disappeared from view before the final round of presidential elections and his energetic campaign clearly took a hard toll on his health He has appeared only rarely since his re-election mainly in television footage Yeltsin was hospitalized twice last year for acute ischemia a heart problem He also has suffered in recent years from back trouble and other ailments A statement from his office On the eve of the official assumption of duties Boris Yeltsin felt that now was the most appropriate time for a vacation with the goal of restoring his strength after a tense election campaign Boris Yeltsin 1995 file photo John Deere to change retirement programs Employees to learn more at meetings in the next several months By PAT KINNEY Courier Business Editor Some salaried John Deere employees in Falls will face major changes and decisions regarding their retirement programs in the coming months Deere has devised a new retirement plan for salaried workers hired after Nov which would be tive Jan By November rent salaried employees will have to decide whether to enroll in the new plan or keep their existing plan with one hitch Company contributions to a ings and investment component in both the existing and new retirement plans will change and be based on the financial performance of the company and the division employees are ing in Your plan for achieving personal success will be based partly on the success of the company officials stated in a brochure to salaried employees last week ally outlining the retirement plan changes The new plan also offers the ability of employees to take their accumulated retirement benefits with them if they leave the company possibly an important tion if Deere continues downsizing its operations and outsourcing work o other plants Details are sketchy and local hesitate to discuss implications of the changes More details will be released at a series of employee ings in a month or two It was only very preliminary said Dave Juon a local Deere spokesman who works in the personnel department of the Falls operations I believe in August or September there will be some meetings and then we'll give employees an opportunity to select the plan they want There's some retirement plan regulatory implications there's the portability issue There's an educational process that will go Juon said Each person will have some individual opportunity to look at their own personal situation and decide which is best for them The changes apply to salaried ers throughout Deere's industrial manufacturing operations Juon said The salaried workers in Falls represent more than a third of Deere's work force The current retirement plan consists of a traditional pension plan and a savings and investment plan added See DEERE page A5 60s For Partly sunny Complete weather Bridge D2 C5 Cipher D4 Comics C6 Crossword IM Markets C5 Metro B2 j Sports Horoscopes D2 Iowa A3 Opinion Theaters TV C6 North Carolina residents go home to deal with blues Preliminary estimates show million in damages SURF CITY AP dents returned home to find sand dunes in the street and waterlogged belongings after Hurricane Bertha tered die Carolina coast Damage mates shot into the tens of millions More than residents of sail Island part of North Carolina's Outer Banks were allowed to return to their evacuated homes Sunday but vacationers were being steered away Some residents were kept waiting on the single road to the island said there were still some loose electrical lines and that sewage pumps were clogged with sand I've been here since Bobby Harrelson of said Sunday as he waited to get to his vacation home By Saturday assessment teams in several southeastern counties had lied close to million in damage estimates including million in coastal Onslow County Tourism estimated a loss of million to businesses over the weekend Property damage in Topsail Beach was million including major age to 40 residential units Town Manager Eric Peterson said The island's southern end was under more than a foot of water at one point ing the storm Towering drifts of sand covered streets of Surf City The town's two major piers had partially collapsed leaving broken pilings jutting from the surface of the water Richard Erickson a spokesman for Insurance Co which has about policyholders in coastal North Carolina said Sunday the com- pany had received more than claim notices We expected by this time to have four times the number of claims we've he said So it looks like we dodged the bullet By Sunday evening the American Red Cross estimated that nearly North Carolina homes had been aged by the hurricane Of those ly 180 were destroyed and another 000 were uninhabitable an Elizabeth Quirk said A team of agricultural officials were to survey the damage today We have extreme crop damage on our said Cecil Logan gency management coordinator for Brunswick County Logan estimated the lost 75 percent of its co crop and 50 percent to 60 percent of its com AP PHOTO had spared her from damage slM went outside and found tor truck
