The Cedar Rapids Gazette: Sept. 2, 1992 LINN COUNTY Leola P. Palmer, 80, of Columbia, formerly of Center Point, died Monday morning in University of Missouri Hospital, Columbia, of injuries suffered in an automobile accident Aug. 19. Services: 10 a.m.
Thursday, Center Point First Christian Church. Burial: Lafayette Cemetery. Friends may call from 5 to 7 tonight at Murdoch Funeral Home, Center Point. Survivors include a daughter, Sue Johnson of Columbia, and a brother, Gerald Heefner of Broomfield, Colo. Also surviving are a granddaughter, Julee Johnson; and nieces and nephews.
She was preceded in death her husband, Allen, parents and a brother, Harold. She was born June 7, 1912, in Troy Mills to George and Edna Neighbor Heefner. Mrs. Palmer graduated from Iowa State Teachers College and was a dedicated teacher in the Center Point area for 34 years, retiring in 1978. She was a member of First Christian Church.
The casket will be closed at all times. The Rev. Earl Luginbuhl will officiate. A memorial fund has been established for the Center Point and First Christian Church libraries. Hanoria "Nancy" Boye, 62, of Long Branch, N.J., formerly of Cedar Rapids, died Sunday in Monmouth Medical Center, Long Branch, after a long illness.
There will be private services and burial. Arrangements by Worden-Hoidal Funeral Home, Red Bank, N.J. Survivors include her husband, William a son, William L. of Long Branch; and a daughter, Naun of Dallas. Ruth Helen Hamer, 87, of Sun City, formerly of Cedar Rapids, died Aug.
20 in a Riverside, nursing home after a sudden illness. Memorial services were -Aug. 26 in Sun City. A private burial will be at a later date in Oak Hill Cemetery. Survivors include her husband; a daughter, Patricia Stites of Anaheim, and two brothers, George White of Cedar Rapids and Robert White of Waterloo.
Also surviving are four grandchildren and eight EASTERN ELKADER V. Uecker, 84, died Tuesday morning in Elkader Care Center after a long illness. Arrangements are pending at Leonard-Witt Funeral Home. HOMESTEAD Edgar H. Roemig, 89, died Sunday evening in Mercy Medical Center, Cedar Rapids, after a short illness.
Services: 1 p.m. Thursday, Homestead Community Church, where friends may call from 4 to 8 p.m. today. Burial: Homestead Cemetery. Hoover- Valentine Funeral Home, Marengo, is in charge of arrangements.
Survivors include his wife, Minnie; two sons, William of Williamsburg and Charles of Omaha, two daughters, Doris Burke of San Antonio, Texas and Wilma Jones of Orlando, and a sister, Henritte Roemig of Homestead. Also surviving are seven grandchildren and nine great grandchildren. IOWA CITY Donald George Horstmann, 72, of 1851 Mel- rose Apt. 101, died of heart failure Tuesday in University Hospitals. Memorial services: 11 a.m.
Friday, St. Andrew Presbyterian Church. Burial: Memory Gardens Cemetery. There will be no visitation. George L.
Gay Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements. Survivors include his wife, Lois; a daughter, Deborah Horstmann Primmer of Cedar Rapids; two sons, Randall and Eric, both of Des Moines; and a sister, Helene Lampman of San Jose, Calif. Also surviving are six grandchildren and two great Born May 25, 1920, in O'Brien County, he graduated from the University of Iowa and was a sales manager for Northrup King Seed Co. He married Lois Breese on June 9, 1946, in Iowa City. He was a member of St.
Andrew Presbyterian Church in Iowa City, Sharon Center Masonic Lodge, Iowa City Commandery, Sharon Center Order of Eastern Star, Elks Club and American Former Prisoners of War. An Air Corps veteran, he was a bomber pilot during World War II. He was shot down over Italy in 1944 and was a prisoner of war in Germany for one year. He received the Purple Heart. Memorial donations to American Heart Association.
JESUP Leonard John Even, 64, died of cancer Monday in Covenant Medical Center, Waterloo. Services: 10:30 a.m. Thursday, Athanasius Catholic Church. Burial: church cemetery. Friends may call anytime at White Funeral Home, where there Ex-teacher is sentenced NEVADA (AP) A former Roland-Story Middle School teacher was sentenced Tuesday to four years in prison for the sexual abuse of one of his students.
Gary Jensen, 47, resigned last month after pleading guilty to four counts of lascivious conduct with a minor in exchange for having seven similar charges dropped. Jensen, who is to begin serving his sentence Thursday, admitted to sexually abusing the boy, who is now 19. Jensen had been a friend and next-door neighbor of the boy's family for the last 20 years. The boy's father testified that his son told him he had been sexually abused. "Gary Jensen I wanted to kill him.
He's not worth talking to, he's not worth looking at, the father said. Jensen testified he felt bad for the boy. great-grandchildren. She was preceded in death by two brothers, James White and John White; and a sister, Esther Eicherly. She.
was born in Cedar Rapids, where she married Ralph Hamer. A homemaker, she moved to Arizona with her husband, a 26-year employee of Iowa Electric, in 1949. She was a member of the United Methodist Church of Sun City, United Methodist Women's Club and National Society of Flower Arrangers. SERVICES Sara "Sally" Sauer: 10:30 a.m. Thursday, Murdoch Funeral Home, Central City, where friends may call from 4 to 8 p.m.
today. Burial: Mount Clark Cemetery, Central City. Mary Valandingham: 11 a.m. today, Gloria Dei Lutheran Church, by the Rev. Randy Kasch.
Burial: Cedar Memorial Park Cemetery. ARRANGEMENTS PENDING U.S. Army Capt. Maria J. Perez, 30, of Fort Bragg Army Base, Fayetteville, N.C., formerly of Troy Mills, died Friday in Walter Reed Hospital, Washington D.C.
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For further information about The Gazette's guidelines call 398-8221. will be a parish rosary at 3, Foresters rosary at 7 and vigil service at 8 p.m. today. Survivors include his wife, Bernice; five sons, Robert, William, Daniel and Randy, all of Jesup, and Paul of Waterloo; four daughters, Nancy Menuey of Las Vegas, Judy Clayton of Fairbank, Patricia Even of Jesup and Margaret Even of Waterloo; two stepsons, Kenneth Rottinghaus of Waterloo and Donald Rottinghaus of Jesup; five brothers, Cletus of Jesup, Anthony, Norbert and Gerald, all of Gilbertville, and Theodore of Waterloo; and sisters, Therese Even of Fridley, Monica Even of St. Paul, and Mary Fischels of Gilbertville.
Emil H. Bral, 67, died Tuesday morning in Marengo Memorial Hospital after a short illness. Arrangements are pending at Hoover-Valentine Funeral Home. MILLERSBURG Arnold W. Grimm, 83, died Tuesday in University Hospitals, Iowa City, after a short illness.
Services: 1 p.m. Thursday, Millersburg United Methodist Church. Burial: Millersburg Cemetery. Friends may call from 4 to 8 p.m. today at Powell Funeral Home, North English.
Survivors include his wife, Fern; two daughters, Bonnie Schaffner and Vonda Netser, both of Millersburg; a son, Keith of Marion; three brothers, Harold and Lloyd, both of North English, and Everett of Williamsburg; and a sister, Vera Middlekauff of North English. MORLEY Gifford J. Hansen, 81, died Tuesday in St. Luke's Hospital, Cedar Rapids. Services: 11 a.m.
Friday, Hayden Funeral Home, Olin, where friends may call from 2 to 8 p.m. Thursday. Burial: Rose Hill Cemetery, Mechanicsville. Survivors include his wife, Frances; two daughters, Betty Austin of Streator, and Shirley Reinert of Cedar Rapids; and a son, "Chuck" of Morley. TAMA Albert V.
Brandt, 73, died of pneumonia Monday in Marshalltown Medical Surgical Center after a lengthy illness. Services: 10:30 a.m. Thursday, Henderson Funeral Home, Toledo, where friends may call after 11 a.m. today and the family will greet friends from 6 to 8 tonight. Buripal: Woodlawn Cemetery, Toledo.
Survivors include a brother, Carl, and three sisters, Beatrice McCollister, Edith Zhorne and Mildred Backen, all of Tama. VITAL STATISTICS BIRTHS MERCY Sept. 1 Donna and Steve Husak, Mount Vernon, a daughter; Cindy Flanders-Brown and Patrick Brown, lowa City, a daughter. ST. LUKE'S Aug.
31 Sharron and Roger Konzen, P.O. Box 386, Marion, a daughter. Sept. 1 Kathleen and Alan Bechtold, 1624 Wenig Rd. NE, a son; Wendy and Mike Daugherty, 221 10th St.
NW, a son; Kathy Lusk, Chelsea, a son; Melissa Mulholland, P.O. Box 833, Cedar Rapids, a son; Kathryn and Thomas Richmann, 3475 Collie Marion, a daughter; Terri and Raoul Schloeman, 1716 Ave, NE, a daughter; Lorene and George Thullen, Mount Vernon, a son. MARRIAGE LICENSES Rodney R. Williams and Lori A. Castorf, George J.
Skvor and Marie Project would extend cable TV in rural areas David Lynch $700, and Hughes officials esti- after Congress returns from its By mated a basic package would summer vacation next week and Gazette Washington reporter, WASHINGTON Rural cost subscribers $15 to $20 a has started a letter -writing camAmericans are becoming a bar- month. paign against the legislation. gaining chip in the on-going war The backyard dishes that dot The NRTC is considering hold-: between satellite and cable tele- the countryside are much larger, ing its own rally here, and a vision. cost more than $2,400 and have letter-writing campaign is alHughes Communications and to be adjusted to assure clear ready under way. the National Rural Telecommu- reception.
The NCTA is especially opnications Cooperative (NRTC) The only hitch to the Hughes- posed to the provisions that it have announced a $1 billion pro- NRTC proposal seems to be cable says would force cable program ject to provide satellite televi- re-regulation bills passed earlier networks such as CNN and Nicksion for the estimated 12 million this year by the House and the elodeon to sell their product to rural Americans who live out- Senate. A conference committee "all comers at governmentally side the cable network. is attempting to iron out differ- mandated prices, terms and conHughes and NRTC held a press ences between the bills that ditions." conference Tuesday to give re- would cap cable fees to subscribporters a progress report and to ers and outlaw programming ac- THESE PROVISIONS are lobby for controversial legisla- cess and price discrimination "designed to benefit the cable in-: tion that would re-regulate the against satellite distribution sys- dustry's business rivals, such as direct broadcast satellite cable industry. It also would tems. the give the home satellite and the Hughes and NRTC favor the venture that is being launched so-called wireless cable industry cable re-regulation legislation.
by the Hughes Aircraft subsidgreater access to programs pro- While they acknowledged it iary of the General Motors duced by cable-affiliated pro- would allow the Hughes system Corp." grammers. to transmit programming Hughes and NRTC officials de-: NRTC predicts that if every- throughout the market, not just nied they are offering satellite: thing continues on schedule, the the rural market, they said they television service to rural Amer-: typical rural family will be en- would go ahead with the $1 bil- ica in order to gain entry to the' joying "more than 60, 70 chan- lion 1 rural project even if the ca- television market, which innels of crystal-clear television ble legislation is stalled in Con- cludes more than 90 million programming received over a gress or is vetoed by President households. satellite dish so small that it can Bush. They said they are going be attached to a window sill." The National Cable Television ahead with the "with or; Bob Phillips, with the NRTC, Association (NCTA), the lobby- without the and said the basic package would in- ing arm of the cable industry, is while they expect 10 million subclude only about 20 channels in stepping up its lobbying efforts scribers by the end of the dethe beginning. against the legislation.
The asso- cade, they only need 3 million to The 18-inch dish would cost ciation plans a rally here shortly break even. 25-year term for shootings Body found; may in Coralville not be Zywicki's C.R. man shot 2 at apartment complex IOWA CITY Anthony DeWayne Harris was sentenced to 25 years in prison Tuesday in connection with shootings at a Coralville apartment complex that sent two men to the hospital early in May. Harris, 24, of Cedar Rapids, pleaded guilty in Johnson County District Court to two counts of willful injury, one count of perjury and one count of failure to appear. He originally was charged with four counts of attempted murder, two counts of willful injury and one count of terrorism.
Coralville police responded May 2 to a call that 20 to 30 shots were fired after a dispute erupted at the apartment complex, 201 Fifth St. Antonio Jones of Iowa City was shot in the abdomen. He was released from University Hospitals in June. Antjuan Holcomb was treated and released the day of the shootings. Participants after the shootings said the argument was fueled by bad blood that had been brewing between Tyrone Hall and Darnell Williams, members of local rap group RDC and Black.
Coralville police arrested Harris, who had been hiding in a culvert, a short time later. TUESDAY LOTTERIES IOWA LOTTO $100,000 CASH GAME: 2-15-19-28-30 ILLINOIS LOTTO DAILY GAME: 1-2-6 PICK FOUR: 0-8-1-1 6-of-54 JACKPOT: $8 million Former lowa woman dies A former Center Point woman involved in a traffic accident Aug. 19 in Columbia, died Tuesday in Columbia. Police officials said Leola Palmer, 80, of Columbia, had stopped for a stop sign but then failed to yield to an oncoming, pickup. Palmer's car collided with the truck, then swerved and accelerated.
The car ran over a stop sign and through a chain link fence before veering across a street, where it struck a utility pole and a tree. It finally stopped after crashing into another tree in a front yard. Palmer was taken to the University of Missouri Hospitals, where she died. (See obituary notice on this page.) The driver of the pickup was not injured. MOUNT VERNON, Mo.
(AP) Lawrence County authorities were working to identify the body of a woman found Tuesday along Interstate 44 in southwestern Missouri. Tammy Investigators notified the Il- Zywicki linois State Police because of the search for Grinnell College student Tammy Zywicki, 21, who disappeared 10 days ago while traveling through LaSalle County. She was traveling from her home in Marl- souri was described as in her ton, N.J., to College. early 20s with auburn hair Grinnell Illinois State Police said an reveal the and brown eyes. autopsy today may Zywicki has blond hair and identity of the victim, but declined to say if they green eyes.
they Sheriff's Lt. Doug Seneker think there is any connection in Lawrence County, with the Zywicki disappearance. (For other developments said the woman apparently was stabbed several times in in the search for Zywicki, see the Iowa the chest area. The body was East Journal, page 1B.) wrapped in a sheet and a FBI agent Bob Long in Chi- blanket in a ditch about 12 said three young women miles west of Mount Vernon. cago are missing from southwest- She was wearing a "GCRC ern Missouri.
Eastside Eagle Soccer Club Also, the hair and eye color 1989 County Runners Up" of Zywicki does not match the T-shirt. description given for the vic- He said the body appeared tim. to have been at the roadside The woman found in Mis- for three days. Graduate-program size at of I is questioned By Lyle Muller Gazette Johnson County Bureau IOWA CITY Some University of Iowa graduate programs could be pared in size, under plans being developed by Graduate College administrators, a of I official said Specific programs have not been identified and there is no timetable for doing so. But college officials eventually are to report recommendations to administrators about the right size of the graduate studies program, said Peter Nathan, vice president for academic affairs.
"Part of what we're doing involves trying to find the rightsized graduate program for a university with our financial resources and our aspirations," Nathan said. "I suspect that that will mean some graduate programs will become smaller, others may become larger. But I think the net effect will be a somewhat smaller and leaner set of graduate programs that will permit us to be more selective of graduate students." NATHAN SAID there is no timetable for making another round of cuts. Any trimming would follow a series of program cuts made this past year to curb of I spending. Nathan told leaders of the of I faculty council Tuesday about the attention being given graduate programs.
Some of those council members warned that cutting graduate programs too far could harm undergraduate education and the general strength of the university. Nathan agreed but said some of I graduate programs might not have enough student demand to warrant keeping them. "It is always a balancing act," Nathan said later. "You can't cut TAs (graduate teaching assistants) beyond a certain point in some departments because you need those TAs to provide undergraduate instruction." Clay Tess, Gary A. Bloxham and Karen M.
Hleiva, Douglas B. Moershel and Susan M. Allie, Thomas L. Haring and Cynthia A. Shedenhelm, Westan R.
James and Carolyn J. Lyon, Glenn R. Gray and Holly D. Edwards, Gary L. Swartz and Connie S.
Cruise, Daniel K. Novak and Diane L. Gulick, Douglas W. Rossow and Christine M. VanWoert, Alan G.
Olson and Laura A. Buwalda, Garry W. Copeland and Becky L. Shedenhelm, all of Cedar RapRyan D. Jeffery, Marion, and Sherl L.
Carson, Cedar Rapids. Brian W. Suthers, Fairfax, and Amber J. Sanford, Cedar Rapids. Kenneth L.
Schreder, Hiawatha, and Lynette C. Duke, Cedar Rapids. Steven L. Miller and Cheryl K. Simonds, 'Dennis J.
Baughman and Susan L. Wilson, all of Marion. Ronald F. Phillips and Jennifer L. Tharp, Solon.
Timothy L. Wallander and Angela L. Wortman, Anamosa. David E. Mattingly and Lisa M.
Smith, Coralville. J. Dillon, Winnetka, and S. Johnson, Chicago. FACULTY COUNCIL members told Nathan that any future program cuts should receive more deliberation than last year's cuts got.
A of I steering group consisting of President Hunter Rawlings, his vice presidents and faculty representative Edward Lawler recommended the cuts in September and the State Board of Regents began adopting them in December. Lawler is now president of the Faculty Senate as well as its faculty council. Regents' orders put the group under fire to make cuts last year, but the same urgency does not appear to be there this year, Nathan said. Even so, Regents President Marvin Pomerantz said in July that more cuts could be made. "It's not going to go away," Nathan told the faculty council.
The steering group is to meet next week, he Faculty council members were interested Tuesday in regents' demands to measure teaching time and show ways that time can be increased. Some said Pomerantz was be-' ing unrealistic last July when he said the of I should increase faculty teaching time 30 percent to 40 percent. The of I must. report to the regents in December its plans for increasing teaching time..
