Waterloo Courier (Newspaper) - December 3, 1996, Waterloo, Iowa Metro Sport of snowmobiling gaining wider appeal Paged for technology infrastructure Page A3 WATERLOO FALLS 50 cents 88 pages 6 sections Sports UNI cagers dish up defeat to Oral Roberts Tuesday December AP PHOTO i of British Library Is shown at the Road ln Monday as the first of win Sf move from will take two years and some crate loads British to transfer 12 million books i LONDON AP Playwright Harold Pinter was there So was the mystery writer James And not just on the shelves Some of Britain's top literary names showed up Monday as the British Library began transferring 12 million books from their present home at the British Museum to the library's new building The nation's priceless collection of books which is scattered across a score of buildings in London includes a copy of the Magna Carta Britain's 13th century constitutional charter and a bible printed in the 15th century by the German Johann Gutenberg The largest item to be moved will be the Hencke Atlas which is more than tall the smallest item will be a edition of the New Testament It will take three years to move all the volumes onto 190 miles of shelves in the library's new home near London's St Pancras Station The move will take some time and is a complex process it's not like stacking the shelves of a super- said Dr Brian Lang the British Library's chief executive The new building which will vide more reading rooms has ated controversy over its design expense and construction problems Created by architect Colin St John Wilson the modern red-brick ing with a six-story glass tower will be fully open by June 1999 six years behind schedule Prince Charles who laid the library's foundation stone in 1982 has likened the new building's lar structure with its small windows and large slabs of unbroken wall to an academy for secret police Much delayed and altered the ject has cost million nearly three times early estimates It has been further marred by flooding and the discovery that movable shelving in the basements was prone to ling and rust Some miles of electrical wiring had to be changed along with thousands of ceiling brackets air conditioning ducts and sprinkler heads Even the quality of bricks used has been a subject of dispute The British Library used by sands of people annually in its rent quarters at the museum rivals the world's other three great national the Library of Congress in Washington the Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris and the Lenin Library in Moscow Groping The quest for public accountability Second of a series By BARRY SIEGEL Los Angeles Times REXBURG Idaho Late on Aug 25 1995 the phone began ringing in the office of Patricia Day Hartwell director of the Rape Response and Crime Victim Center in Idaho Falls Her were some of the 23 women who had filed com- plaints against a local physician Dr LaVar Withers accusing him of fondling their breasts and genitals during office exams For years these women had watched as doctors prosecutors police detectives church leaders and hospital administrators dismissed their claims For years they'd watched as authorities failed to stop Withers Now finally they were calling Hartwell with what seemed to be favorable news They'd ali received letters from the Idaho State Board of Medicine reporting that Dr ers had permanently surrendered his Idaho license to practice medicine Dr Withers will not practice in this or any state in the future When a copy of the medical letter reached her office she studied it The board she knew was obliged to send this notice to those who had filed formal complaints But it obliged to report such a der to the public and it had not Nor had it explained why Withers was giving up his license The letter to the 23 women just six sentences long provided no details That wasn't enough for Hartwell particularly since the medical board in words literally true but ly misleading was telling reporters it had taken no formal action against Withers Validation for women Hartwell wanted authorities to hold Withers publicly accountable She wanted this not just to punish the doctor but also to validate the See DOCTOR page A8 law tonight near 10 High upper 20s Wednesday's Forecast Cloudy Page Dl B6 Cipher Comics Markets B7 D3 B5 Crossword D8 Daily Horoscopes D6 lows A3 Metro A2 Obituaries Opinion BT iv is Ru DAT v Waterloo Cedar Falls iowa By PAT Courier Business Editor WATERLOO The president of Allen Memorial Hospital has vowed to fight a plan for Sartori Memorial Hospital's tion with Covenant Health System The proposed lease of Sartori Memorial Hospital by the Covenant Health System is clearly a further move on the part of Covenant and the Franciscan Sisters of Wheaton 111 to monopolize this Allen dent Dairy Pugh said Tuesday And the Sartori trustees are in this monopolistic activity Covenant Health System which owns Covenant Medical Center is a comPany by Wheaton Franciscan Services of Wheaton 111 and Schoitz Health Resources the former holding Com- pany of Schoitz Memorial Hospital Covenant is clearly in a listic position which came about from the earlier Pugh said ring to the series of events 10 years ago which led to the merger of St Francis Hospital and Schoitz to form Covenant Medical services were eventually moved from the Schoitz facility on Kimball Avenue and incorporated into a major expansion project at the St Francis site on West Ninth Street Pugh and Allen fought that merger which became a divisive community issue Monopolies aren't really supposed to exist and Allen has a willingness and a desire to continue to provide people a choice in this Pugh said adding that the hospital offers a number of unique breaking services to the area such as health care education through Allen College and open heart surgery We believe that's an important Pugh said And so when other institutions try to get in a further monopolistic position that's taking market away from us we're going to Larry Pugh resist it Asked what actions Allen might take Pugh responded I'm not going to say what I may or may not do He suggested that federal officials could become involved on antitrust grounds Pugh said Sartori had been geo- graphically and traditionally more closely aligned with Allen than Covenant until recent years sharing radiology and pathology groups and the initiating Golden Care Plus gram for senior citizens We've done many things we thought would enable Sartori to con- to serve the community over there so we didn't make any moves to try to take over the hospital he said They Sartori have done all Pugh said They've done well And here's clearly Covenant taking that over taking that market away from Allen Sartori was drawn closer to Covenant in the 1990s because of health care changes implemented by major insurers such as John Deere Health Care which selected Covenant and Sartori over Allen as its provider See PUGH page A9 iplan Covenant officials respond to comments In response to Allen Memorial Hospital President Larry Pugh's Covenant System Covenant and Sartori officials released the bring joint prepared statement The Sartori Memorial Hospital and Covenant Health System tion has been thoroughly reviewed by attorneys representing all parties It is consistent with other affiliations taking place in health care today After the affiliation agreement is signed area residents will continue to have local health care choices between Iowa Health System of Des Momes with which Allen Hospital is affiliated and Covenant Health tem includes Sartori Memorial Hospital and Covenant Medical Center Covenant Health System and its member hospitals and organizations are directed by voluntary community boards whose purpose is to provide community based care This approach is supported through membership in Wheaton Franciscan The economics of health care today suggest that elimination of duplicating services and tion is in the best interests of the community Sartori Memorial tal and Covenant Hearth System trustees have recognized this tial and are proceeding to take essary steps to implement this plan Covenant System has been created by forward-looking community volunteers Sartori pital has been serving the ty of Cedar Falls since 1914 and Covenant Medical Center's former institutions of St Francis Hospital and Schoitz Medical Center have been serving since 1912 and 1903 respectively Covenant Health tern enables these long histories of community service to be carried out in a more efficient manner Pugh calls for unified ambulance system By PAT KINNEY The metro area ought to have a uni- fied publicly operated ambulance system coordinated through the ty's central dispatch operations Allen Memorial Hospital President Larry Pugh says Pugh said Allen representatives have made that proposal at joint ings with Waterloo Fire Rescue and Covenant Medical Center tives to a lukewarm response Currently the fire department Covenant and Sartori all have their own ambulance operations with Waterloo fire ambulances serving Allen We Allen officials believe there ought to be a totally unified Black Hawk County emergency and trans- port system like the one in Pugh said It should not be run That time again Snowplows hit the roads after 2.3 inches of snow fall in Waterloo By TIM JAMISON Courier Staff Writer WATERLOO A mild winter storm blew through the state Monday night forcine the Waterloo Street Department to blow the dust off its The National Weather Service in DCS reported that 2.3 inches of snow fell in Waterloo overnight The top reading statewide was 4 es in Marshalltown and several other locations Large blanketed ways causing more than a dozen minor traffic accidents in the Falls area and forcine salt and sand trucks to hit the streets No serious injuries were reported Central Garage tendent Larry Cunningham said he decided lo send the plows out this morning after driving on the roads himself Two inches is kind of he said But we decided to send them out anyway This is the first time the plows have been out this year so there was a little confusion this ham said That's why I like these tle snowstorms first because it doesn't create a panic situation A decision had not been made this morning on whether to call in private contractors to clean up snow in the downtown business district A lot of people are their snow out into the curbs which they're not supposed to do Cunningham said We might have to call in a ple of pieces of equipment but it won't be a full-blown effort in Cedar Falls snowplows hit the streets from 8 p.m to p.m Monday night and returned in force at 5 today The Iowa Department of Trans- reported local highways in good shape this morning and ed the sun traffic and salt to make them dry by noon Sheriff's dispatchers across cast Iowa were reporting between and had no car accidents or injuries this morning The counties to the west were hit the hardest with 4 inches on the ground in Hardin and Grundy counties But the storm had lost its by the time it reached County which only got 1 inch Weather Service forecasters were predicting warmer weather by the weekend Highs in the upper 30s by Saturday should help melt away day's snowfall Staff Writers Brian Barber and Jacobs contributed to this cle by Covenant but it should be serving the entire area and I think it ought to be part of the Waterloo ambulance department Pugh said he believes Covenant Health System which owns the cal center wants to take over lance services for the entire metro area and is taking a step toward that with its proposed affiliation with tori Bringing ambulances under Covenant's wing with the ation is the most serious tic move on their part of all under that proposed agreement Pugh said Covenant Medical Center President Ray Burfeind declined to respond to any of Pugh's statements or tions except to say that the status quo of ambulance service at both See SERVICE page A9 Scientists find ice in moon WASHINGTON AP dream that humans someday may live on the moon has taken a giant leap forward now that scientists say they've found frozen water deep inside a lunar crater The Pentagon said Monday that the unmanned Clementine craft located a small mass of ice in a giant crater near the south pole of the moon which long had been thought to be bone dry The discovery of water on the moon perhaps deposited there by a comet increases chances that humans in the future may be able to take up residence on the lunar surface If you could wish for any one thing there to make it easier to explore with it would be said Anthony Cook astronomical observer at the Griffith ry in Los Angeles Ice on the moon saves the mous expense of having to haul heavy loads of water in spacecraft Cook explained With water there you could have enclosed areas to grow plants grow your own food make your j own fuel make your own he said You don't have to launch all I that stuff from big rockets on the 1 Earth Not only have scientists ed there is ice on the moon have agreed that the ice is frozen water not some other frozen liquid i or gas said Rick Lehner spokesman for the Pentagon's listic Missile Defense I tion j The Pentagon called a news con- I ference for today to detail the dis- covery by Clementine which used radar signals to examine the depths of the moon's deep craters The radar detected an ice for- mation the size of a small lake See MOON page A9
