Journal Tribune, The (Newspaper) - August 30, 1990, Williamsburg, Iowa The NEWSpapers of Iowa Countys Journal Tribune Football guide special section COPY Iowa 91 35 t 0 W A 3 T A T E HI B T f R I C A L NEWSPAPER LIBRARY E 12TH AND GRAND AVE DEP August 1990 Inside Hawk wrestling preview Hawkeye wrestling Coach Dan Gable gives preview of 199091 wrestling page In brief Shortage of Girl Scout leaders Those who have been looking for a way to positively influence girls in the community have an opportunity through Girl Because of natural there is a shortage of leaders both in the Williamsburg and Marengo says Pam Girl Scout field manager for Johnson and Iowa There are a number of girls in the Williamsburg and Marengo areas who will be out of a program if they dont get Both men and women are needed as she although Girl Scouting insists that at least one of the troop leaders be a woman to aging positive role The only other requirements are that the leaders take a sixhour training course within six months of their joining Girl they receive an induction orientation from the troop organ izer and they become a member of Girl Scouting and agree to abide by the Girl Scout promise and Cost for joining Girl Scouting is but schol are available both for adult leaders and Golden Applicants will be asked to furnish three references which will be To contact Golden at Iowa Troop organizers are Corrine and Doris Swindlers will exploit Mideast crisis The states acting insurance David cautions investors to expect swindlers to use the Mideast crisis to hype phony gas and precious metals investment Investors are promised high profits resulting from rising oil The standard scheme of the con artists is to pay initial investors dividends not from oil well revenues but form new With gold prices hovering around the an ounce level on the spot swindlers ask investors to put up 20 percent or more of the precious metal make arrangements for a bank to finance the Superintendent of Securities Craig Goettsch urges investors in Iowa to check out telephone sales promoters by calling Under Iowa any seller of investments or securities must be licensed or registered with the Iowa Bureau of Beverly Montross wins rolling pin toss Beverly rural won the age 50 and over title in the Ladies Rolling Pin Toss last week at the Iowa State Des Montross won the title with a toss of She said she was walking past Pioneer Hall where the contest was held when a friend from Keswick talked her entering the For her she won a blue and a jar of apple She says until last week she had never tossed a rolling pin in her not even at my In other fair Dan won the lefthanded fly weight title in the 12th annual Monster Arm Wrestling Iowa Electric seeks gas rate increase Iowa Electric Light and Power Cedar is asking the Iowa Utilities Board an percent or million increase in prices for natural gas IE said about 75 percent of the increase will support environmental protection efforts related to the disposition of former manufactured gas plant byproducts located in lEs service The remainder of the re quested increase will cover the increased costs of providing natural gas In the late and early manufactured gas plants were used to produce gas for heating and They were dismantled after World War II when gas pipelines were extended to serve new The last gas plant operated by IE was closed in late During gas plant many byproducts were disposed of at or near the plant Only recently it has been discovered these byproducts could have environmental If approved as the average IE residential customer would pay an additional per month for natural gas The proposed effective date is The Iowa has 10 months to consider the Carson Memorial will be dedicated The Tim Carson Memorial Wall dedication ceremony will take place during halftime of the first English Valleys home football game Carson was the former English Valleys football coach who died of a heart attack in September Historical Society will meet at school The Iowa County Historical Society will meet at 5 at Critter Creek North Visitors should bring chairs and a dinner bucket The Gus Quartet will After the business there will be a show and People planning to attend are asked to bring a memento or plan to share a school Index Coming Family Public For the Sections B pages L Challenges certain in Census Bureau numbers IA 50319 Likely jump in Wburg population seen By Ken Sweeney Iowa Countys population has de creased over 5 percent in the last according to preliminary figures re leased last week by the United States Census In every incorporated city in the county showed a decrease in popula tion over the last 10 years except for Wil whose population climbed nearly 7 Kim spokesperson for the Census Bureaus regional office in Kansas emphasized last week the figures were very preliminary and likely to change before final figures are made public sometime early next Many officials not happy And many Iowa County public say theyre not buying those pre liminary bolstered by an annex ation in the late showed the only increase from in 1980 to an estimated in That coupled with an estimated percent decrease in Marengos al lowed Williamsburg to surpass Marengo as the countys largest Victors apparent loss of population the most modest of all the cities in Iowa Preliminary census figures were not available for Conroy and the Amana which are Reaction to the census figures from most Iowa County public officials was Marengo plans challenge Marengo Mayor Spurrier de to comment on the Census Bureaus preliminary report except to say the city is planning to question I think most towns that lost population will do he State Robert D said his district has some of the fastest growing areas of the particularly Coralville and North Lib He said he thinks that trend is going to continue in the The he has put some money into the Iowa Rapids such as for the University of Iowa Oakdale Campus research center and the addition at the Iowa Medical Classification facility in Im hopeful we can do something in the area of the research he Dvorsky anticipated his legislative district will shrink in size when the 1991 Legislature tackles reapportionment because of the increasing population of his He think the Legislature will be downsized be cause it will hurt representation in rural I think Williamsburg has really made an effort to get economic development going in their Dvorsky and its starting to bring in some fruits of that effort and I hope that will He said he foresees continued move ment back into cities such as Williamsburg where you have a pretty good quality of Dvorsky said his own experience has been that the state has a better handle on population figures than the federal Cen sus Heand his wife had to make five calls to the Census Bureau before his family was I think well pick up some more population when the final census fig ures are Dvorsky Too soon to analyze State Phil En said nobody has had an to analyze what impact the popula IOWA COUNTY North English 876 Preliminary Census Bureau 1990 figures lion figures if they dont change will have on legislative This if the same people are running the Legislature as were running it the last time it was Im sure theyll do everything they can to gerry mander the he A major population decrease would have a dramatic impact on state funds to counties and cities based on popula such as road use Tyrrell Given the extent of the I cant think of a single town that wouldnt challenge those population Tyrrell said he didnt feel the popula tion in North English has declined as much as the preliminary census figures indicate I dont think the figures are accurate at I have no proof of it but I cant believe that it We have an increase in our school population Headcount in schools English Valleys Superintendent Alan Jensen said funding for public schools in Iowa is based partly on the student head which is taken the third Friday in not the he Please turn to page 2 COMING SOON TANGER Factory Outlet Center 9192741666 Grading landscape Workers are working feverishly to grade land on the site proposed for the Tanger Factory Outlet The center will be located just east of the McDonalds j Council gives informal OK to Tanger private drive The Williamsburg City Council informally agreed to allow a private drive to be part of the development for Tanger Factory The factory outlet center is proposed for the area just east of the McDonalds Tanger officials have said they would like to be open for business by this coming At its 13 city council members had expressed concern over the private drive planned at the north end of the Council members had wondered aloud whether the drive should be a city street A Boyd Street had once been platted there but was later Project engineer Ralph Land mark Surveying and Iowa said Tanger was not happy with the citys request for a secondary access but was willing to accept the private drive at the north end of the development be tween ODonnell and Stone City officials had recalled when Boyd Street was the city had received a promise that the street would be relo further At the 13 the council asked City Attor ney Ron Say lor to research the record to see if there was any written record of such a Very I dont have anything in my file about Saylor reported Stoffer than repeated the offer to pro vide a drive at the north end of the development to which council Approval of the would be subject to the city obtaining a perpetual easement from Tanger for emergency access in the event Evans main access into the devel is Mayor Terry Stone said he had met recently with developer Stanley Tanger and Tanger reiterated his desire to have the factory outlet by Thanks giving to take advantage of holiday Please turn to page 2 Possehl grills Hillside Estate By Bob Helle Iowa County Supervisor Jim Possehl Monday grilled Hillside Estate Coad Jim and Jeanne Garringer about the bookkeeping system the cou ple employed while serving in similar capacities at the county farm and the former Iowa County Care The old care facility was privatized earlier this year and is now known as Hillside a private As he clutched a thick file containing old county farm and care facility Possehl criticized the for maintaining the records in a haphazard Iowa County Attorney Ken Martens told Possehl he should have broached the subject years if he had con cerns about recordkeeping at the care I wasnt here years Pos sehl The were asked to meet with the board after Possehl presented a copy of a section of the Iowa Code to fellow Supervisors Jim Sauter and Read last The section states that county care facilities must present a de tailed list of receipts and expenditures each year and that the list must be pub The code section also says a de tailed inventory must be along with a comparison to the previous An itemized list of care facility re has never been Possehl questioned the and a Hillside Estate for nearly two The questioning focused on the care bookkeep ing methods in general and the source of a handful of deposits made over the past three including the sale of two Payment in Kind PIK The way the PIK certificates were Possehl doesnt tell the complete it just raises more ques Possehl said the source of such rev enue could only be found by searching Please turn to page 2
