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Burlington Hawk Eye (Newspaper) - August 2, 1979, Burlington, Iowa Thursday August 2, 1979 143rd year a no. 21 30 pages three sections Price 15 Burlington Iowa City gears for invasion related stories Page 3 Burlington is gearing up for rag-bra1 Vii. Starting about 7 saturday morning the Vanguard of the estimated 5,000 bikers who started bicycling across Iowa at Rock rapids last sunday will reach the City. The main body of the troops will be along in due course with stragglers arriving until noon or later. City Crews Are working in anticipation of the arrival of the registers annual great Bike ride across Iowa. Streets workers have been Patching the bicyclists route through the City and Parks workers have been sprucing up the riverfront. The party will ride a Short distance saturday a from Wapello via Iowa 99, a distance of 30-Odd Miles. The route is under the ninth St. Viaduct to Mosquito Park to Register. From there two options Are offered to reach the riverfront. The less adventuresome will re turn to fifth and go South to Washington. For those made of sterner stuff there a Snake Alley where Burlington Federated women club will hand out homemade cookies. Recognizing the hazards of negotiating the twisting Brick paved Alley Clifford Dodson executive vice president of the chamber of Commerce has arranged to have an ambulance on standby duty at the foot of it. The Des Moines county red Cross office reported thursday that none of its Volunteer first Aid stations will be downtown saturday. The red Cross will be covering the Des Moines county fair and the aau swim meet at the Dankwardt Park Pool. Dodson also reported the boat ramps will be closed from 8 . To 2 . To accommodate the bikers and their friends and relatives who will be in the City to meet them. Flow Ever last Friday when the City Council discussed closing the boat ramps mayor Tom Diewold favored closing Only one of the ramps and no official decision was made. Ten organizations will have food stands at or near the North memorial auditorium parking lot. The chamber has hired the Kors sound and Light show a disco group to play at the riverfront. Herbie and the Little German band May also enliven the scene Dodson said. Dodson and mayor Thomas Diewold Are reminding Burlington ians that they can witness the bikers arrival from the Bluffs and by staying on the Bluffs reduce downtown crowding. At i ., at the auditorium site Diewold chamber president Durhl Fouke and other Community leaders will present Burlington mementos to the founding fathers of rag brai John Karras Donald Kaul and Donald Benson All of the Des Moines Register which sponsors the annual great Bike ride across Iowa. The gifts will include thermometers and paperweights bearing the Burlington logo. Radioman for Board off and running by Brent Schondelmyer sportscaster Don Brandt will temporarily sign off and run for re election to the Burlington school Board. Brandt will be off the air at Kors and Bur until the school election on sept. La so the stations do not have to provide equal Opportunity for air time to other candidates. Last Friday Brandt said he might not be Able to run because three candidates refused to waive their rights for equal Opportunity provided by the Federal communication act of 1934. Under the acc rules the radio station would have been obligated to provide those not signing the waiver time on the air to discuss their candidacy even if Brandt did not discuss school issues while on the air. Brandt was prepared not to run but station personnel agreed to cooperate and assume Brandts on the air responsibilities until after the election. A a i feel that an incumbent school Board member should have the Chance to put his record of service to the school District before the voting Public and let them decide who they want to serve on the school Board a David Steinle president of Bur Kors said in a prepared statement thursday. Brandt will continue As an advertising Salesman and will supervise the sports department but will be off the air Between now and the election. Other station employees will handle Brandts sportscast commercials and other special programming. Among the programs Brandt will miss is the first Burlington High school football game of the season sept. 7 at Dubuque Hempstead. A without that cooperation i could not have been a candidate a Brandt said. Now the issues of my candidacy have been decided lets end the turmoil and turn our attention to the real Brandts voice has been removed from All commercials and station personnel have been told not to mention Brandts name on the air. However shows like problems and solutions or newscasts Are not subject to the a equal Opportunity provisions. The station management made the decision after consulting acc attorneys in Washington do. It was their opinion Steinle said that taking Brandt off the air would comply with the Law. The three candidates who refused to sign waivers Are sue Smith Craig Corn ick and of Kemm Dixon. Two other candidates a Mark Sellergren and Martha sue Smith signed waivers. Since Brandt announced he might not run last Friday other candidates joined the race for the three seats. Brandt said there was no Point in asking the new candidates to sign the waivers since the refusal of any candidate would obligate the station to provide a equal since last Friday incumbent Fred Kleis Milton Mueler and George Rogerson filed nomination papers. When Brandt files his paper there will be nine candidates for three three year terms. Filing deadline is 5 . Thursday. Phantom votes in House Gas rationing plan stalls / w in a Quot West / a a pm bad let us not be a profane i m Sake or. Onto has an afle amp Kle a Duflon he web xx1 congressional Roundup Washington up a House Republican Leader John Rhodes fears phantom votes counted for absent congressmen May raise serious questions about the integrity of a is million electronic voting system installed in 1973. Two House committees ethics and administration Are looking into the matter. Rep. Morgan Murphy d ill., requested an investigation tuesday when he found he had been recorded As voting six times monday although he was in Chicago on official leave of absence to conduct a hearing on narcotics. House speaker tip of Neill said thursday another matter had told him of a similar occurrence within the last two weeks. House members vote electronically by inserting plastic cards a on which their identities Are coded a into a a yes or a a not slots. A computer keeps a running score on View in the House and keeps a record of How each member voted. Murphy told up he believes he had his card with him in Chicago precluding its misuse by someone else. A i think i did a Murphy quickly added. A i had no occasion to bring it Rhodes pointed out that if six phantom votes could be cast without being noticed until a Day later there is no Way of knowing How Many other times a similar error May have occurred without Ever being noticed. It it it the House wednesday passed a gasoline rationing Bill but final congressional approval before the summer recess seems virtually impossible. A High administration official indicating a new a get Tough attitude by the White House said the legislation a is loaded with amendments that Are unacceptable in the presidents a it appears that now that the Gas lines have disappeared Congress is returning to business As usual a the official said. The Bill combines authority for the president to order gasoline rationing with a fuel conservation Section that sets up a partnership Between Federal and state officials to combat fuel shortages. Hie House added a list of amendments chiefly to the conservation Section with possible exemptions for those who would suffer a hardship by forced conservation hic House approved a a a trigger that specified that rationing could not be ordered until there was shortage or the likelihood of a shortage of 20% for 30 Days. Hie White House objects to the rationing a a trigger and to a a a trigger for mandatory Federal conservation plans the one House veto Congress could use to Block conservation the Broad loophole for exemptions from the thermostat control Law and other minor amendments. Its unlikely the House version could be reconciled with a similar measure now before the Senate. Amtrak half axed Washington up a a 20% slash in the nations passenger train system now is assured the first general cutback in Amtrak service since the system was formed fight years ago in Hope of saving the trains. But it could have been worse a the Cut was Only about half of what president Carter seeking to Stem rising subsidies had recommended. On oct. I unless there Are unforeseen changes passenger trains will leave for the last time from Oklahoma City Roanoke a. Butte Mont. Indianapolis Columbus and Dayton Ohio Louisville by. Nashville Tenn. Montgomery Ala. Bismarck and dozens of other cities. But Many cities that had been in danger of losing trains under the administration plan will be spared partly because the gasoline crisis sent millions of motorists Back to the trains but often because their congressman was an influential committee chairman or Leader. Among those cities keeping their trains Are Charleston and Keyser . Atlanta Charlotte . St. Albans it. Little Rock Ark. Texarkana Texas Albuquerque n m. Flagstaff Ariz. And Boise and Pocatello Idaho. The Senate agreed 89-11 wednesday night to almost the same criteria set earlier by the House for passenger train operation. Among the trains to be Cut is the Lone Star which runs on Santa be tracks through it. Madison Iowa. Amtrak must make the final decision on train cuts but experts in Congress and the transportation department say these six trains will be the ones to go a the Chicago Florida a the Chicago Seattle a North coast a the Chicago Houston a alone a the Boston Catlettsburg ky., a the new York Kansas City a National inside Story swimming Pool use report contains some surprises. Page 3. Former Cardinal hurler will be Star at it. Madison sports festival. Page 14. Diabetics get new Hope with drug development. Phil Crane figures on joining the front runners. Page 9. Two Star witnesses rebut Gen. May a claims. Page 8. For the record and obituaries Page 16. Hawk Eye happenings Page 14. Panel rips a Power safety Washington up a a House committee thursday overwhelmingly approved a report critical of the nuclear regulatory commissions role in planning for reactor accidents but softened some of the documents abrasive language. Rep. Toby Moffett d-conn., whose Energy subcommittee investigated emergency planning after the three mile Island Accident offered to delete most of the harsh wording his panel had written and approved. The full government operations committee then voted 29-2 to accept the 68-Page document. The thrust of the report was not changed and All but two republicans on the panel went along with it. The report recommended the arc abandon its current basis of emergency planning a a a flow population zone surrounding plants a and upgrade existing standards. Specifically it said no reactor should be allowed to operate in a state that does not have an arc approved evacuation plan and that utilities should pay for better radiation monitoring. The report still unpublished but obtained by Ufi will go to the Printer without a 400-word a a abstract that accused the arc of creating a an illusion of Protection and having a misled the american people by relying on a an irrational basis for emergency Moffett a amendments proposed after his subcommittee report first became available to the press made dozens of other wording changes for example the final report changed a a a a the commissions receptiveness a to a the confusion the commission a a a a the a Rcd a self deceptive style of leadership has infected the Industry to a the a Rcd a attitude has influenced the Industry a a a the commission demonstrates the height of human arrogance to a the commission reveals an unwarranted Faith in Many a technological a a a a the commission is not completely mesmerized to a it is not led a a a a it is a question which will not go away to a it is a question that demands the most careful a a a fhe commission has misled the Public to a the commission has not fully advised the Gwan Ayoup forecast partly Cloudy with a slow warming trend tonight and tomorrow a Chance of widely scattered showers Low tonight 64, High Friday 85. Saturday Outlook variable cloudiness and warmer a Chance of showers. River stages Burlington 9.1, Down .1 Davenport 6.7, up .3 Quincy 11.5, steady. War eco getting a firm footing crewmen from Shipley and Melter construction co. Are Down and up As they trowel and cure Concrete curb being Laid in the 1500 Block of Osborn St. The work is part of a five month resurfacing program for Osborn from we a to Sunnyside

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