Williamsburg Journal-Tribune (Newspaper) - January 18, 1979, Williamsburg, Iowa TRIBUNE VOLUME 82 JANUARY 1979 NUMBER 3 May Get DOT Action BLOOD DRIVE Dale chairman of the bipod drive the off the promotion of the blood playing posters around the commun drive is ed for from 1 to at the United Pres The quota for the southern half of the county is again 150 pints of Bridge Alternatives Suggested Citizen concerns about the possibility of the high way 149 bridge over Old Mans creek being closed for an extended period dur ing the of the highway may result in alternative action by the state department of tran These concerns about the impact of the bridge clo sure were voiced at the Fri day dinner meeting of the Kiwanis club meeting by club members and various community James from the Cedar Rapids dis of the was the program speaker for the The meeting had been moved to Friday so Loy Loys purpose at the meeting was to explain the workings of a public hear A corridor design hear ing is scheduled for the highway on Tuesday 23 much of the on Friday was devoted to the bridge con cerns which Loy said he would take back to the DOT immediately following the He emphasize that the bridge concerns should be voiced also at the When the meeting be Loy said there was no plan for a temporary struc ture over the He said the bridge would be closed during be cause the new bridge would be on the same He guessed that traffic would have to be rerouted over the countys C Voice Concerns after the busi and Kiwanis members voiced their con he agreed that alter natives might be We might be able to put in a temporary or we might be able to do the bridge area at one said Marion acting as spokesman for the busi on the north side of the expressed con cern about the potential loss of business to these people with the He said it appeared that these businessmen were willing to work with the DOT to ar rive at an alternative men the possibility of donation for a temporary runaround if a temporary structure were placed over the Spencer Dursky also ex pressed concern for the businessmen within the city about the potential loss of customers from the north with the bridge He said this concern is espe high because of the future opening of a new mall on the west side of Cedar Loy compared the situ ation of the community to Oelwein where a new high way was built through the town with a bridge lying on the edge of the city He said a temporary run around was constructed over the creek in that situ because of the length necessary for a tem structure over Old Mans he said this al may be Give Principals 7 Percent Raise He said DOT has tem structures that are 80 feet The present bridge is over 100 feet and the new bridge is sche to be 140 feet Richard a Wii sug gested the possibility of moving the present bridge downstream for use as a temporary means of ac cess while the new bridge is being Loy agreed that this was a possibility that could be Possibilities insurance salesman Marvin dis suggested the ity of completing the bridge along with the paving and grading in that area all at once to at least shorten the Please turn to page 10 Accept Third Lowest Bus Bid The com munity school board ac the third lowest bid combination for the pur chase of two new school buses during its meeting The accepted bid com came from Sauter North for the Chevrolet bus chassis and School for the Bluebird bus Sau ter Motors was the low bid der for the chassis with a bid of per Buckwalter Well was the second low bidder for the chassis with a bid of followed by Wiiliams with a bid of School Bus Sales was the second lowest bidder for the Governor Declares Disaster Winter Storms Strike Again n Iowa county residents had barely gotten back to their normal pace when the county received its third major snow storm of the season which literally brought movement around the county to a stand still and caused Governor Ro bert Ray to declare a state of disaster emergency for eastern Iowa Clearing operations be gan early Sunday morning and continued into Monday as yet another storm threatened the Traf fic on main highways was nearly back 19 normal by Monday morning with the exception of a few high Friday night sporting events were held as usual except for the Sigourney versus HLV boys and girls basketball games slated for play at the storm which had begun to move into the county Fri day night wiped out all ex tra activities since with Mon day classes in area George with the department of transporta tions maintenance gar said state highways within the county were open to one lane of traffic by and ail highways were open to two lanes of traffic by 5 that night with the exception of high way 149 from Parnell to North Miller said parts of this highway are still open only to one lane traffic because of drifting caused by the in tense winds which accom the And we wont have that open to two lanes until we get a snow said Miller said the county maintenance shop has applied for the snow blow which is located in the Waterloo district of he said it may be a couple days before the snow blower arrives be cause of the need for it in other Other people have roads that dont even have one he Most of the main streets of were also cleared by Monday morn ing according to public works director He said the city crews were out at 3 Sunday morn ing and worked until 4 clearing city Backs biggest concern was future snow Everythings he I dont know where well go with the snow if we get any Assistant county engi neer Ray Tompkins said snow plows were sent out Saturday from 7 until Maintainers were called in at with truck plows coming in at 2 to because they were not making any he They were back out Sun day at 8 after winds had died down and worked until he conti when the addi tional one to two inches was Tompkins said they were trying to get services to people who needed He noted the roads were drifting shut school dis superintendent Dale Pierce had called off clas ses for Monday and said classes were questionable for Tuesday The invitational wrest ling meet which had been scheduled for Saturday was also canceled and will not be made Pierce said they couldnt find an open date in the future to make up the wrestling Pierce also said the junior varsity and junior high bas games with En glish Valleys which had been scheduled for Mon day were also The storm also delayed the delivery of many Sun day morning The DCS Moines Register did not get delivered to the customers until Sunday af about 3 As of the Cedar Rapids Gazette still had not been Snowmobiles were called out in emergency situa tions during the weekend one of the said the group had answered about a dozen They deliv ered milk to per sons with babies who were Please turn to page 10 Bluebird bodies with a price of however an delivery charge per bus made it the third lowest bid was the second lowest bidder at per body with no de livery charge The low bidder for the bus bodies was Ward Bus Sales with a base bid of the board decid ed to reject the bid on the basis of poor District transportation director Charles Klein meyer said the district still has not received delivery of a bus from Ward Bus Sales ordered last Klein meyer said the bid for last years order was accepted They could come in with the lowest bid they want said but if they cant I think we would be jus in not ordering from said board mem ber Flora Harold Heitshusen after the report on the bus ordered last year was After trade in allow ances and delivery char ges from Sauters to the School Bus Sales plant in Mount Pleasant were com pared to the same charges and allowances with the bid from the total difference between bus costs between the two body manufacturers was per the Bluebird bodies arid the Thomas bodies sold by Saf were good he said the dis still has 1967 Bluebird bodies which are in good Based on this past the board decided to accept the bid for the two Bluebird bodies at a total cost of plus the addition of plywood floors at a cost not to exceed Sauter Motors was also the successful bidder for a 12 passenger van also or dered by the board Mon day Sauters entered the low bid of for the van followed by Marengo Motors who entered a bid of and Grant Motors who entered a Principal Salaries The board also approved increases for school principals totaling 7 per cent of the total payroll for the three principals Mary elementary Terry junior high and Ro bert high The principals would al so be paid each for re imbursement of profes association and the board directed district superintendent to budget for next year for the principals at tendance at professional At the principals re the raises were com gy giving each prin cipal onethird of 7 percent of the total combined salar ies in an effort to equalize salaries paid to each prin This raise amounted to Please turn to page 10 This Week In The Jt 60 Pages For the Family Church C Suffered Heart Attack Clint Dies Friday Meet With Residents Petitioned To Pave Lake Road A petition asking that the road from the Ladora in on Interstate 80 to Lake Iowa be hard sur faced was received from a delegation of 14 people which met with the board of supervisors at a meeting The petition bore 69 sign In asking for the hard surfacing of the the petitioners said We feel the hazardous condi tions of this road is a dis grace to our county and should be given your im mediate Cynthia Dale section Pi lot said they wanted the road complete ly Alvin section asked that the road on the south side of section six be graded and the ditches They not been done since he He cited this as a reason for chuck holes in the saying water could not get away and soaked into the Dust was a major com plaint of the Char ges were made that in the summer when traffic to the lake is houses could not be seen from one to an and the color of yards and vegetables in gardens be Supervisor chairman Leonard Thys asked if two applications of calcium chloride applied two years ago had helped the dust pro Some said H One man said he didnt like to see calcium chloride ap plied because it rusted ma chinery and was not effec He asked about the chance of using oil and was told by Thys and sor Bead it was very Thys and Scandridge asked county engineer Frank Cmelik why cal chloride was not pled last Cmelik said the first application in the spring was not applied because they first had to correct frost boils in the shape it up and apply rock before the road could be Scandridge there had only been one bad frost boil on the Cmelik explained there should be two calcium chlo ride one in the spring and the other in the If the road were shaped up when the road would dry hard and smooth there would be no problems with dust or he Supervisor Robert Bue low noted that if the road were to be hard it would be three to five years before that could be fin In the meantime it would have to be main with rock and cal Those who attended the meeting said they knew it would not be done immediately but wanted he road put up with the Is our road a priority Scandridge asked near the end of the 1 would say it The supervisors said they would take the peti tion Ray assistant to the suggested a dirt road a mile north of the lake as an alternate road to hard surface which he be would be cheaper for the county to He also commented that when the lake was the engin eers department had to get the entrance on the east side of the lake along the main To his suggestion hat he dirt road benard members of the delegation said this would still not sol ve the problem of vehicles coming from the west on iho and thai people would not change their ra vel because of Park officer Earl OBrien opposed of loca ting an entrance on the east side of the lake saying that camping facilities were on the west and campers would tear up the roads in the park if allowed to drive over In answer to a question about what was originally intended for a road to the Tompkins felt noth ing had specifically been in tended as no one had ex the park to grow as it OBrien observed that the park had gone from 25 to 272 campers per The average number of cars using the road per according to a traffic count Please turn to page 10 Services for Clinton businessman were held Tuesday at at Pauls United Methodist with his the James Point Plea Libby died unexpectedly of a heart attack while hunt ing about two miles north east of on the Loren Folkmann farm about 2 County ambulance ser vice operator Keith Young said the ambulance got stuck in the entrance to the field in which Libby was ly Young said he walked across the field with a re to try and help Libby while a path was cut through the snow with blades on a farm tractor and a wrecker from service Williams Organist lor the service was Brad who accompanied Garth as she The Lords Pray Caring for the flowers were the Gary and the Duane Interment was in the English Casket bearers were Char les Thomas Robert DeDec Edgar John Lillis and Gerald VonAh Clinton Arthur Libby was born July at the son of Arthur Charles and Bir die Bradstreet The early years of his life were spent at He graduated from the Holton high school June 1952 and graduated from the Maine Vocational Tech June after completing a course in auto His marriage to Kay Lou Enfield took place at the Methodist Wii He spent 11 years with the Air Force and the National Guard before moving to where they have continued to make heir home since He owned and operated Trenching Serv Libbys Suzuki Cycle shop and at the time of his death was operating Libbys Leveling com He was a charter mem ber and of the member of the CLINTON LIBBY volunteer fire department for a number of years and was presently a member of the Survivors include his Kay a Kim Smart Heit South and a at home three Her bert Helen Lew and Ruth James Point He was preceded in death by his a Charles and and infant
