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Iowa City Press September 10, 1981 Cedar County in prospects for lowa Beef plant New plant would employ about 600 with $10 million-plus annual payroll DES MOINES (AP) The chairman and chief executive officer of Iowa Beef Processors Inc. announced today the meet processing firm has taken options on sites in eastern Iowa and western Illinois as possible locations for a major new pork plant. Robert L. Peterson said the options are in Clinton County, Low Moor area, Cedar County, Stanwood area, and near Princeton, Sheffield area. He said each site is about 1,500 acres.

In revealing the three options, Peterson emphasized that specific discussions with appropriate officials of both states will soon be set up to discuss the locations in more detail. He also said that IBP is willing to consider additional sites in eastern Iowa and western Illinois. Post office lobby may be locked up Repeated vandalism at Coralville may force off-duty hours closing By LYLE MULLER Press-Citizen Reporter CORALVILLE The lobby of the post office here will be closed when there is not a clerk on duty if recent vandalism continues, a postal official warned Wednesday. Cheryl Wernimont, manager of customer services at the Iowa City Post Office, said vandalism has been discovered at the Coralville branch on three different occasions during the past three months. The most recent occurred last week when someone pried open a private mailbox at the lobby.

"That's what prompted the notice," Wernimont said. Notices were placed in each mailbox in Coralville this week, warning that if the vandalism continues, the lobby will Anyone with information about other sites in the area that might be considered by IBP may contact Charles Jennings, vice president for public affairs at IBP's Dakota City, headquarters, Peterson said. IBP is the nation's leading beef processor and had previously announced plans for a major expansion in Pork. In making the announcement today, Peterson said no firm time schedule for a start of construction of a new pork plant has been established. He said the timing depends on final clearances with government officials as well as the general state of the economy.

When in full production, the new pork plant would employ about 600 people at an annual payroll in excess of $10 million. It would be capable of killing about four million hogs a year. While the project is still in the design stage, Peterson said the cost of the plant will be in the "multi-million dollar Peterson and Jennings flew to Des Moines this morning to brief Gov. Robert Ray and Iowa development COATS Myers Doors locked, racks empty The doors have been locked and the racks and on Wednesday. Wards, a fixture in the local shelves are empty at Montgomery Ward business community since 1929, has closed a which closed its Iowa City branch permanently number of stores across the nation.

close when the clerk leaves in the evening and on weekends. Private mailboxes have twice been pried open by vandals, according to Coralville Police Detective Mike Trimble. It is unknown if any mail was stolen in the two breakins, he said. On the third occasion, the padlocks on two mail drop boxes were broken. Police have increased their patrol of the area, he said.

Merrimont said the matter has also been turned over to the postal inspections department. "It's a federal offense to tamper with anybody's mail, whether it's mail that's in the drop box or mail that's in the lock box," she said. Currently, clerks are on duty in Coralville from 7 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. on weekdays and 7 a.m.

to 1:30 p.m. on Saturdays. The post office lobby is open 24 hours. Start early, Hawkeye fans Wee Weekend's not A host of events are planned for this weekend at the University of Iowa as 60,000 football fans converge on Iowa City for the first home game. There's a wide variety of activities planned, so whether you're a football fan or not, there will probably be something to interest you.

Here's a brief rundown of some of what's going on: Start early, Hawkeye fans. University of Iowa officials are advising fans who plan to attend home football games in Iowa City this fall to allow plenty of time to make their way through the heavy traffic to parking lots and ramps. UI home football games start at 1 p.m. and all university parking areas will be open at 9:30 a.m. on game days.

Fans bound for Iowa City on Interstate 80 are urged to follow the special "Football Stadium Exit" signs erected for football Saturdays by the Iowa Department of Transportation. Westbound I-80 traffic should use exits 244 or 246, while eastbound I-80 traffic should use exits 240 or 242. Football fans southbound on I-380 or Highway 218 from the Cedar Rapids area should follow Highway 218 into Coralville. Mormon Trek Road will be one-way southbound from approximately 9:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.

on football Saturdays. After the game, fans westbound from Kinnick Stadium to the Des Moines area should stay on Melrose Ave. and County Road F46 for 12 miles Friday 9 a.m. Activities for Dental Alumni Weekend get under way in Galagan Auditorium at the College of Dentistry. A daylong slate of programs will conclude with a 7:30 p.m.

dinner at the University Athletic Club. 4 p.m. Women's Field Hockey versus Purdue at the Iowa Memorial Union field. 6:30 p.m. Bed races, City Hawkeye CableVision outage About 5,000 customers of Hawkeye CableVision of Iowa City were without cable TV service for about five hours this morning because of a transformer failure.

Bill Blough, manager of the firm, said a power supply on a transformer in the 300-400 block of North Linn Street burned out, apparently because of a power surge, about 3:30 a.m. today. The power supply was repaired about 8:30 a.m., Blough said. The outage affected primarily east Iowa City and Coralville, he said. The faulty transformer has been replaced with a "hybrid" model, Blough said, which should be able to handle power surges.

School board to select AEA delegate The Iowa City School Board will meet in special session at noon Friday to select a board member to vote at the Grant Wood Area Education Agency convention Wednesday in Kalona. The meeting will be in the Board offices at 1040 William St. The AEA convention will begin at 8 p.m. in the conference room of the Mid-Prairie Junior High School. Part of the Iowa City School District precinct 4 is included in Director District 6 of the Grant Wood AEA.

A person from that director district will be elected to serve on the AEA's Board of Directors at the convention. Other school districts included in Director District 6 are Clear Creek, Highland, Lone Tree, Mid-Prairie and Washington. Although the deadline for applications for the board of directors position has passed, persons residing in Director District 6 that are interested in being a AEA director can submit their nominations from the floor at the convention. officials. They also met with the National Pork Producers Council and Iowa Pork Producers Association.

Similar meetings were scheduled for this afternoon at Springfield, Ill. There are no negotiations in progress at this point on the sites, Peterson said, adding, however, that with today's announcement, they would begin. Clear Creek billing TV for services OXFORD The superintendent in the Clear Creek Community School District says he is billing ABC-TV and WMT-TV for what he calls inconveniences caused at the school during coverage of the "Bible referendum" there. Superintendent Jon Baker said he would be charging the network and Cedar Rapids station a "reasonable amount." Baker said the bill to ABC-TV may be about $5,000. He said he would mail the bill today or Friday to KCRG-TV in Cedar Rapids, the local ABC affiliate, with instructions to forward it to New York.

He did not elaborate on the bill he plans to send WMT, except to term it "slight" along the lines of a room rental fee. WMT asked a custodian to open a vacant room Tuesday night to allow a reporter to interview Ian Johnson of Coralville, Baker said. Johnson wrote a proposal to allow the Bible to be used as a supplementary text in the district. Voters soundly defeated the issue in Tuesday's school board election. Mark Casey, assistant news directo the I-80 Oxford interchange.

Interstate 80 signs will be posted along County Road F46 to guide motorists to I-80. Free parking is available on the west side of the Iowa River in Iowa City in the 850-car lot at Hancher Auditorium off Park Road. Free Cambus service will shuttle fans to and from the stadium. Other free university parking includes the large lot near the Iowa Memorial Union and the lot near the Main Library along the river. In addition, fans may find it convenient to use Iowa City's 900-car municipal parking ramp south of the Pentacrest.

Free Cambus service for east-side parking areas will be available on the Washington. Street side of the Pentacrest. On the west side of the campus, free parking for 700 cars will be available at Finkbine Golf Course just west of the University Athletic Club on Melrose Avenue, a seven-block walk to the stadium. Motorists who prefer to park close to Kinnick Stadium will be charged $2 for access to the 1,000 university parking spaces just for sponsored jointly by the Iowa City Chamber of Commerce and the UI Panhellenic Association, at the corner of Iowa Avenue and Clinton Street. 6:30 p.m.-midnight "Arts Overture '81" at Hancher Auditorium.

The first annual kick-off for the arts on the UI campus will include food, films, fiction and poetry readings, play exerpts, dance and music. 7-10 p.m. Activities fair in the Memorial Union, including display tables and a dance in the Wheel Room. Saturday 9-11 a.m. Pre-game professional program in Galagan Hall at the College of Dentistry in connection with Dental Alumni Weekend.

10 a.m. Women's cross country, track meet (Iowa Triangular, UI versus Iowa State University and the Uni- campaign. The contributions came primarily from United Way's "Pacesetters" group, which involves corporate contributions from 26 of the largest firms in the county, Baldridge said. The figure also includes a few early contributors, he said. A story in Wednesday's Press Citizen about the United Way fund drive inaccurately quoted Baldridge as saying volunteers were able to attain only half their goal last year.

What Baldridge actually said was that United Way officials set last year's goal about 20 percent higher than the previous year's, and that volunteers attained about half that 20 percent increase. Also, the story was inaccurate in inferring the process of consultation between the University of Iowa administration and its faculty and staff councils had been completed. Mary Jo Small, assistant vice president for finance and university services, said today: "Representatives of the (UI) Faculty Senate and Staff Council had participated in discussions last spring in which it was agreed a plan for providing faculty and staff with additional information on United Way would be developed, and that the plan would include oncampus informational sessions. "Both groups are now being consulted to insure that the United Way campus committee's proposal is consistent with their understanding of the earlier agreement," she said. Max Yocum pleads innocent Iowa City house mover Max Yocum pleaded innocent today in Johnson County Magistrate's Court to a charge of tampering with a motor vehicle.

Magistrate Leon Spies scheduled an Oct. 1 trial. Yocum is free on his own recognizance. Yocum, 57, of Route 4, was accused on Sept. 2 of moving a car in the 1300 block of South Gilbert Court so he could transport a house down the street.

According to court records, Yocum and several other persons lifted the car by hand and moved it out of the way. United Way already at $32,320 Johnson County's 1982 United Way fund drive has already raised $32,320, according to Tom Baldridge, executive secretary of the local on unsurfaced areas, weather permitting. The UI Department of Security and Parking will maintain an information center south of the stadium on Woolf Avenue during home football games. Assisting with traffic control will be units from the Iowa City and Coralville police departments, the Johnson County Sheriff's office and the Iowa State Patrol. Traffic officers will be stationed along all major routes before and after the games to assist the traffic flow.

more versity of Northern Iowa) at Finkbine Golf Course. 1:05 p.m. Iowa versus Nebraska, Kinnick Stadium. 7:30 p.m. Letterman's Day banquet at the Carousel Inn, social hour 6:30 p.m.

Sunday 1-5 p.m. Mini-olympics, sponsored by the Association of Residence Halls, on the IMU Field. Deaths tor at WMT, said today the station has not received any bill. But WMT has paid rental fees in the past to rent rooms for interviews and would do so in this case if the fee were reasonable, Casey said. "We are looking at it as a room rental fee.

If it is a reasonable amount of money, that is if it is in line with what we've paid before, then we'll pay it." WMT has paid between $25 to $50 in the past to rent rooms for interviews, Casey said. Tuesday's referendum drew national attention to the Clear Creek district and Baker. "They were very polite," he said of the army of reporters, "but an inconvenience. Any time you have a lot of strangers running in and out it is an inconvenience." Among the inconveniences, Baker said, were running telephone lines into classrooms to accommodate the media; ABC placing a tower atop the school gym to relay a scheduled "Nightline" report which was later scrapped and the frequent interruption of administrators and staff for interviews during the past two weeks. In addition, classrooms were disrupted at various times by videotape crews, he said.

If the school district gets the money it is seeking, Baker said it may be used to build a new athletic room. George Koudelka George Koudelka, 79, of 126 Memler Court, died Wednesday morning at Mercy Hospital after a long illness. Services will be at 10 a.m. Saturday at the Beckman-Callahan Funeral Home with the Rev. Edward Heinninger officiating.

Masonic services will be Friday at 7:30 p.m. at the funeral home. Friends may call at the funeral home after 7 p.m. Thursday. Burial will be in Oakland Cemetery.

Mr. Koudelka was born Dec. 24, 1901, in Cedar Rapids, a son of George and Josephine Hotka Koudelka. He attended Iowa City schools and graduated from City High in 1921. He also attended the University of Iowa.

He married Muriel Peacock in October 1923, in Davenport. He was employed by Iowa-Illinois Gas and Electric Co. as a service superintendent, retiring in 1967. He was a member of the Congregational United Church of Christ, Iowa City Masonic Lodge 4, and the Elks. Survivors include his wife; a daughter, Mrs.

Betty (Dean) Williams; three grandchildren; and five great-grandchildren. He was preceded in Audrey Crain Nelson lifted the car by hand and moved it out of the way. by a VENTURA, Calif Audrey Crain Nelson, 65, of Ventura died this week, according to word from Iowa City relatives. Her husband, Carl J. Nelson, also of Ventura, also died recently.

Both are formerly of Iowa City. Survivors include a son, Richard of Santa Maria, Calif; four sisters, Ardis Brown of Potlatch, Idaho; Hilda Howell of Iowa City; Dolores Ransdall of Bodfish, and Dorothy Self of Palos Verdes Penninsula, three brothers, Frank E. Crain of Caldwell, Idaho; Robert Crain of Ione, and William Crain of Cottonwood, Calif; six grandchildren; and sister-in-law, Adelaide Nelson Stevens of Iowa City. She was also preceded in death by a brother. 6.