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Iowa City PresCitizen Wednesday, December 13, 1989 STATEREGION n.i I i i i 1 -t jm .1 i IT Charges dropped in fatal crash DAVENPORT Davenport police and citizen groups are aghast that misdemeanor charges of speeding, reckless driving and possession of alcohol were dismissed against a 17-year-old involved in a May 29 car crash that killed a passenger in his car. This is nothing more than a slap in the face to everyone who worked on this case," Sgt. Phil Yerington said. 'This la a case that first fell through the cracks in juvenile court and now it i 1 fx City repeals ban on vodka from U.S.S.R. By The Associated Press HUTCHINSON, Minn.

-Warmed by the thaw in East-West relations, the City Council Tuesday unanimously voted to repeal a local ban on Russian vodka imposed in 1983 after a Korean passenger jet was shot down by the Soviets. Mayor Paul Ackland said the city would write a letter to the Soviet Embassy to inform them of the action. "We want them to know that we as a community support the changes being made," Ackland said, "and hope our relationship will continue to improve." He said the city would send a gift of goods made In Hutchinson as a token of friendship. Michael Carls, the council member who introduced the ban six years ago, said it was also his idea to lift it. "It's not a stunt We take it seriously," Carls said.

He teaches American government to high school students in the town of 10,000 about 45 miles west of Minneapolis. "It was first outrage over their denial of life to those passengers on the jet and today it's a feeling of pleasure over the extent of democratization over there," he said. iida laucu uiruugn uie craciis in aauu court. The charges against Brian Reinhardt, who has a history of driving violations, were dismissed Monday in Scott County magistrate court at the request of the county attorney's office. Reinhardt was the driver of a car that crashed shortly after midnight last May, killing Judy Wright, 18.

Police said Reinhardt was driving between 67 miles an hour and 76 miles an hour in a 50-mile-an-hour zone with an open container of alcohol in the car when it spun out of control and overturned. Reinhardt also had been charged in Juvenile court with homicide by vehicle and five traffic offenses. A Juvenile court judge sentenced Reinhardt to 14 months of probation on the homicide by vehicle charge. Terms of the probation required him to be home every night by 7 p.m., unless he was out with a parent, and that he perform 200 hours of community service. According to the magistrate court's (lismlssal order, the speeding and reckless driving charges were dismissed after being merged with the vehicular homicide case settled in Juvenile court eight weeks ago.

Charges filed in alcohol poisoning death PRIMGHAR Two people who allegedly urged 19-year-old Travis Ebel of Paullina to drink a bottfe of whiikey, which caused his death, face criminal charges. Greg Feltman, 20, and Brian Shea, 17, were charged Tuesday in Magistrate's Court in Paullina with supplying liquor to a Derson under the lppnl HHniHno ooa rvB-i. Tt Auwloitd PrtM Oil spill Joe ond Hottie Nye of Elk Mound, wait wai razed after about 300 gallon of fuel oil was eagerly Tuesday for the arrival of their new aceidently pumpsd into the basement instead of prefabricated house. The couple'i former house an oil tank. Value of Iowa crops dropped By The Associated Press at Iowa State University who riculture also showed Iowa farmers held on to a significant 7 Attorney Bruce Green said.

A third person was charged in Juvenile court with stealing a bottle of liquor, he said. Ebel died of alcohol poisoning Nov. 23 after swallowing a bottle of whiskey at a party the night before, authorities said. V. DES MOINES The value of Iowa's corn crop dropped 10.7 percent in the marketing year ended in August, while the value of the soybean crop slid 11.4 percent.

But the decline in the value of Iowa's two most important crops was not as severe as the plunge in production caused by last year's drought, when the corn crop shrank by 31.4 percent and the soybean crop fell by 27.8 percent. The figures released Tuesday by the UJ5. Department of Ag Ira mSneciai touows grain markets, said the reduced production in the 1988 drought helped push corn and soybean prices higher. The average price of corn was $1.89 a bushel in Iowa in 1987, but rose to $2.45 a bushel in 1988. The average soybean price in Iowa rose from $5.97 a bushel In 1987 to $7.25 a bushel in 1988.

Along with higher prices in grain markets, government disaster payments and insurance also helped farmers make up for 1988 drought losses. portion of their 1988 corn harvest until late in the marketing year, even as prices fell. Preliminary figures indicate the 1988 Iowa corn crop was worth $2.20 billion in the marketing year that began in September 1988, down from almost $2.47 billion in the previous 12 months. The 1988 soybean crop was worth $1.82 billion in the last marketing year, against $2.05 billion a year earlier. Robert Wisner, an economist Oc Or tyudt Simple Jun! Parents object to award-winning book otiai0a rress contained offensive material A pre-adolescent bov uses the I ilUU Prison officials: Spending plan not enough DES MOINES Even if the legislature approves an almost 40 percent increase in prison spending, the state will be short of space to house its inmates, a prison official said.

"I believe that when we're done, there will still be overcrowding, there will still be triple-bunking, there will still be inmates sleeping on the Correction Department head Paul Grossheim told a legislative spending committee Tuesday. Grossheim said that, as of Tuesday, there were 556 more inmates than Iowa's prison system was designed to hold. If lawmakers approve every request that has been made, he said, the state would still have a jammed prison system. Officials need another 360 prison guards and almost 200 community corrections officials just to deal with the current inmate population, Grossheim said. Grossheim asked for $122.4 milUon to run the prison system and $10 million i as the down payment on a $54 million expansion to make room for 1,161 more prisoners.

This year's budget for the prison system is $96.9 million. Farmstead Foods lays off 83 workers CEDAR RAPIDS The cut and kill departments at Farmstead Foods in Cedar Rapids has laid off 83 people. Plant Manager Robert Alex blamed the layoffs on a buildup of inventoryfor the holidays. He said the layoffs were strictly seasonal. "The pipeline is full.

So we have to back off of production," Alex said. The Cutback redlires nrnritittnn nn1mmuit 1 4tc Li words "frigging" and "damn" in the 90-page book, and another character uses the word "hell." "It's not just the book, but the issue itself," Carol Eagan said. "Is the book good if it undermines a parent's value utfMK FALLS The parents of a fourth-grader have asked the Cedar Falls School Board to take an award-winning book off a class reading list. Jim and Carol Eagan said On My Honor, a 1986 Newberry Honor award-winning book written by Marion Dane Barber, Warm it up with an electric space heater. Now you can work on that special project or job in clean, cozy comfort A typical 1000 watt electric space heater will help keep your workshop or garage warm for only about 7 to 10 an hour.

And you can turn it off when you're not using the area. This winter, get a warmer workshop with an No Assembly Required. GiHs, Infant-1 4 Boys, lnfanl-7 Young Juniors ond Maternity the white house 1921 lower Muscatine 338-7201 v.tipiuj infill, xfoi tU Farmstead, and overall employment to 1,550. Panel warned hunger a growing crisis DES MOINES The number of poor Iowans grew by 60 percent during this decade's farm-based recession, a congressional subcommittee warned Tuedsay. It said poverty had made hunger as a serious and immediate problem in the nation's hrearihaclrpt electric space heater.

Warm up a cold spot. Christmas Hours: Mon. 10-9 A X. Sat, 10-4: 12-4 A I Si A ft ffi ft Village Inn pies come with Grand Opening Iowa City's First Video Superstore! Over 10,000 videos for rent and sale all the pieces together. 10 Inn Villas At participating restaurants mm mm Though the Iowa economy is improving, and the state remains the nation's breadbasket, "hunger is here and hunger is very the subcommittee was told Tuesday.

Witnesses said donations to food banks were dropping sharply, and they said bureaucratic snarls and government cutbacks had left nutritional needs unmet. opto00' re is a serious problem of hunger in our state, James Thomas, head of the Advocator Welfare An-sweruig Service in Waterloo, said. "When you combine all these factors, the result is that many people are going without the food they need to maintain an adequate diet." Board lets 1 bank move, denies another DES MOINES The state Banking Board recommended that a Hopkinton bank be allowed to move its headquarters to Monticello while maintaining a branch office at its current (Swbank bani Tuesday reiected a similar request by an The directives now go to State Banking Superintendent Robert Rigler, who has two weeks to make a decision on separate applications by the Citizens State Bank of Hopkinton and Onslow Savings Bank to move their charters to Monticello and maintain only offices in their current hometowns. Belle Plaine rejects high school additions A GIFT AW I diliaju iOAUNU Bene piaine school district voters rejected a high school building program in a special election Tuesday. "I really don't have the foggiest idea what we should do next, but we still need the things we were asking for," Belle Plaine Superintendent Rich Hobart said after two proposals each received only 29 percent of the vote.

The first proposal called for $1,996,000 in bonds to pay for a new auditorium, locker rooms, a music room, a wrestling practice room and an agriculture education shop and classroom at the high school. The second part called for adding six lunior high classrooms to the high school so both junior and senior high students could be housed at the high school. Brooklyn man dies in bulldozer accident Raymond Hawkins, 58, of rural Brooklyn was killed Tuesday afternoon when a bulldozer he was operating fell down the side of a mound at the Poweshiek County Landfill. The accident was discovered by a co-worker at the landfill which is just north of Malcom in central Poweshiek County according to Sheriff's Deputy Marty Duffus. Hawkins was moving garbage when his bulldozer "got off the side of the garbage and slid down the side of a pit," Duffus said.

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