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2MTHE PES MOINES REGISTER Tuesday, October 23, 1990 BOB NANDELUThe Register Simulator car lets students 'drink, drive' Independents seen as key to winning race The IsSnl In THE CANDIDATES p' Polk County Supervisor District 5 JOHN MAURO AGE: 49 STANLEY RUPP AGE: 63 ADDRESS: 120 26th Court ADDRESS: 3021 Stanton St. 1 PROFESSION: Owned and operated Mauro Insurance Agency for 25 years. EDUCATION: Attended Casper Junior College In Casper, and Grand View College. PERSONAL: He end hit wife, Grace, have three grown tons. PROFESSION: Semi-retired vice president of Brooks-Lussem Insurance Agency.

EDUCATION: Attended Drake University for two years. PERSONAL: He and his wife, "Buzz, have six grown children and five grandchildren. Continued from Page One rhetoric is short on specific proposals. "It's so hard for me to tell what the problems of Polk County are without being in there," Mauro said. What both men have in common Is that neither carries the albatross of responsibility for Prairie Meadows race track.

In fact, both men campaigned against the track. In the June primary, voters expressed their displeasure with the track by throwing three Incumbent Democrats out of office. Supervisors Rasmussen and Richard "Red" Bran-nan, a 20-year veteran, were defeated. Polk County Attorney James Smith, whose legal opinion influenced the supervisors in their decision to commit county money to underwrite the track, also was defeated by his primary challenger, John Sarcone. But the issue of the track still looms.

Although Rupp said he would have been able to wage a stronger Prairie Meadows campaign against Rasmus-sen had the Incumbent survived the primary, he still believes voters will make the track the issue by denying Democrats a majority on the Board of Supervisors. If he's right, it will be the first time In more than 40 years that Democrats have not controlled the board. "My sense is that people all over Polk County are still incensed about Prairie Meadows, and that's one of the primary reasons the voters will clean house in November," Rupp said. Mauro responded: "I don't know so much about the right thing. I think we need the right people, and I feel I'll do a much better job than Stan." But Mauro acknowledges that Democrats are nervous at the possibility of losing control of county government, especially because 1991 is the year supervisors will redraw their political districts.

"The Democrats see that they have a chance to lose Polk County, and By KELLYE CARTER Register Stall Writer Under the influence of four beers in one hour Monday morning, 17-year-old Dave Healy sideswiped both sides of a red sports car and then ran over two children. It could have been worse. could have been real. Healy of 3712 Aurora Ave. was one of more than 100 Hoover High School students who slid behind the wheel of a Dddge Daytona ES that uses a computer to simulate for a sober driver the impaired steering and braking abilities of a drunken driver.

"If that's the way it was when you drove drunk, I wouldn't do it," Healy, a senior, said afterward. Although the students laughed at themselves and each other as they crushed orange pylons and failed to brake for metal "children" who popped up along the route, they said the ultimate message was sobering. "It's kind of scary if you imagine those cones as people," said Bruce Paulson of 3405 59th a 16-year-old junior. "You wouldn't want to end up with a loss like that. It would be your fault and in your hands if you did something you can't take back." Laura Cooley, 17, agreed.

"It's deceptive because you think you can turn, but you can't," said Cooley of 3810 Bel-AIre Road. "You just run right into things." Students with driver's licenses were eligible to drive the car around a curving course marked by pylons and white lines on the school's west parking lot. The students drove the course, about an eighth of a mile, once to get the feel of it and again "under the influence" of the simulator. Jerry Barnhart, one of two program instructors for Dodge, sat in the front passenger seat and punched into the computer the driver's weight and the number of drinks necessary for the student to be legally drunk. He also offered a play-by-play.

"You just put major damage to the front of your car," he told senior Corey Coogan as he veered off, crunching pylons beneath his wheels. "Oh! And you ran Barney over!" Barnhart said as Coogan failed to brake for a fake and social services departments than any other large county In the state, Rupp said he believes those departments are not being operated effl-' clently. Rupp also believes that the county should be a catalyst to encourage the unification of more than 250 agencies and political entitles It hires to pro-' vide $14 million in human services to county residents. "The administrative costs of these 250 sgencies must be enormous. I think if there was unification of a lot of these programs, there would be more dollars delivered to the poor and needy Instead of being spent in administration." Mauro's position on the track Is that the county should give the voters a number of options and let them vote -on whether to close the track, continue to operate it or sell it.

And while he generally agrees that Polk County's administrative costs are high, "until you get in there and get your feet wet and walk around, it's pretty tough to say where It's at" Rupp also has attended several charter commission meetings and believes that the county's governments should move toward some form of metropolitan government. Mauro, who was a member of the city charter commission, said he believes state laws must be changed before a new charter commission can chart a course for merging county and city governments. Hoover High School student Tanya Joseph, It, folds down one of the "pop up" pedestrians along the course that simulates the effects of drunken driving. "I don't think all the lecturing works at all," she said. "We need to find new ways to tell people not to drink and drive." Developed in 1988, the car currently is on a tour of 40 high schools throughout the Midwest, said Steve Moschetti, the other Dodge program Instructor.

Students at North, East and Johnston high schools also will drive the car at their schools this week. Chrysler Motors Corp. and Mothers Against Drunk Driving sponsor the car. The activity is part of the nationwide Red Ribbon week, sponsored by The National Federation of Parents for Drug Free Youth to raise awareness about the harmful effects of illegal drugs and alcohol. Polk County has been Democratic for years.

If we lose, it won't be from lack of effort," said Mauro, noting that Democratic activists are working diligently In all three supervisor races to elect their candidates. The question is: How much In county government will voters want to change In next month's election? Mauro said that he thinks voters didn't object to the way Democrats were running the county, except for the track decision. And he thinks voters will appreciate the fact that Democrats cleaned their own house In the primary. "I think the Democrats have shown Polk County that they're not going to tolerate someone coming in making bad judgments." Rupp disagrees. "Many people realize that a vote for Mauro, even though he's not an incumbent, will be a vote for continued Democratic control and will not be a vote for change," Rupp said.

Rupp wants a number of things changed in county government. First, he does not believe the track can ever be profitable under the current situation and advocates its sale, even at a loss. He accuses the current supervisors of doing little more than rubber-stamping the budget requests of county department heads. Citing a survey by the Polk-Des Moines Taxpayers Association that found that Polk County spends more on administrative costs in Its roads ily and personal history of depression." University Chaplain Lincoln Hartford and counselors from the Plains Area Mental Health Center met with students Monday to help them cope with the death. Academic Dean Leon Scott said the university's students met Monday afternoon to discuss the tragedy.

Scott told students and faculty to "be caring for each other" and "watchful of each other." Services for Ochiai will be held Wednesday or Thursday, Scott said. Teikyo Westmar senior Jim McPartland said the suicide was difficult for some students to handle. "The student body was pretty much Campaign spending for governor Japanese student hangs himself in dorm pedestrian. "Steering was just almost impossible and the brakes didn't work. You were helpless," said Coogan, 18, of 4300 Holland Drive.

"You slammed on the brakes totally and it didn't stop." Coogan, a 240 pound football player, needed eight beers in an hour to become drunk, according to the car computer. Michelle Kepner, the 100 pound president of Hoover's Students Against Drunk Driving chapter, needed three. "A lot of people laugh when they see their friends hitting all the pylons, but I think it makes them think," said Kepner, a 17-year-old senior. Kepner, of 3125 Valdez Drive, said she thought the car provided a valuable lesson. The bond Issue, said to be the largest in the state's history, will provide additional classroom space and other Improvements necessary to keep pace with growing enrollment in the rapidly developing western suburbs.

Monday's action included approval of three "fast-track" priority items: A new $5.5 million elementary school northwest of South 39th Street and Fuller Road, where construction already has begun. The addition of six classrooms at Crestview Elementary at 8355 Franklin Ave. in Clive. Construction VV.D.r.1. School Board approves building schedule In shock for a while," he said.

Scott said he thought the Japanese students were adjusting well since their arrival in April. "There Is a lot of Interaction for the students. A lot of them have American roommates," he said. "They get out In the commu- nity." But McPartland said the approximately 200 Japanese students and the 450 Americans have not mixed as much as administration officials had hoped. "I don't think the Interaction has been plentiful as what they thought it would be," McPartland said.

Language continues to be a barrier between the students, McPartland said. for fund-raising, Branstad leads challenger Avenson The Register Commlstlon The Reghtor Money raleed Total lor I Cash on hand Unpaid bill July 16 -Ocl. 18 campaign Oct IS and loans I'HnlWlt I Donald Avenson $426,939 $1,087,305 $117,032 $12,766 Terry Branstad $651,057 $3,772,487 $263,936 $11,070 By JEFFREY BRUNER Register Stall Writer LE MARS, IA. A Japanese student at Teikyo Westmar University committed suicide over the weekend in his dormitory room. Takayuki Ochiai, 19, of Obaraki, Japan, had been dead at least 24 hours before he was discovered around 12:30 a.m.

Monday by his roommate, officials said. Ochiai had told a Register reporter after arriving in April that "I am very glad to see many welcome people. Very happy." Dr. Daryl Doorenbos, Plymouth County medical examiner, said Ochiai probably died Saturday. "He apparently hung himself in his room while his roommate was gone this weekend," he said.

"There was a fam TIRRV BRANSTAD 3M PAC. St. Paul, ABC of Iowa PAC, Des Moines, $1,500, Richard A. Adams, Des Moines, Dale Albrecht, Wall Lake, Robert W. All-sop, Cedar Rapids, $1,300, Harroid W.

Annett, Des Moines, Dr. Amir Arbisser, Davenport, $1,000. Dr. J. Leonard Aineer, Des Moines, Banks of Iowa PAC, Des Moines, S2.S00; Hans W.

Becherer, Molina, Carl A. Bluedorn, Waterloo, $1,400. Or. Robert F. Breedlove, Des Moines.

$2,000, Mike Brooks, Knonvllle, Ernest J. Buresh, Anamosa, $2,000. John E. Butler, Dubuoue, Campaign America, Washinglon, Cam F. Campbell, Iowa City, Dr.

James Caterlne, Waukee, $1,000, Constitution Club, Bettendorf, Construction Industry PAC, Des Moines, Lynn Crabtree, Fort Madison, $1,000. George Crouse, Carroll, SI, 125, Davenporl Al- coans PAC, Davenport, Gunda and Jim Davis, Ceder Rapids, $1,000, Deere PAC, William T. Oible, Sioux City, $1,000, Du Pont Good Government Fund, Wilmington, Jay R. ENason, Cumming, $2,000. Dr.

Steven Eyanson, Cedar Rapids, Lao E. Fitigibbons, Esther vine, Rod French, Des Moines, Lynn S. Fuller, Dubuoue, GROPAC of Iowa, Des Moines, GTE Corp Grinnell, Charles Gabus, Des Moines, Dr. Vincent J. Glowackl, Bellen-dorf, $1,000.

John Goodenow, Okoboll, $2,500, Dr. Ronald K. Groolers, West Des Moines, Donald Hat-lery, Cedar Rapids, Hawkave BANPAC, Des Moines, Robert H. Helmlck, Des Moines, Dr. and Mrs.

Edward J. Hertko, West Des Moines, Donald Hess, Clear Lake, $1,150. Dr. William R. Hornaday Des Moines, Ted M.

and Susan S. Hutchison, Des Moines, Independent Insurance Agents of Iowa PAC, West Des Moines, Iowa Farm Bureau PAC, West Des Moines, Iowa Industry PAC, Des Moines, Iowa Health PAC, Des Moines, Iowa Southern Utilities Co. Belter Government Committee, Cenlerville, Iowa Lite Insurance PAC, Des Moines, Iowa Medical PAC, West Des Moines, Iowa Osteopathic PAC, Des Moines, $3,000, Iowa Resources Employees PAC, Des Moines, Evangeline K. Jensen, Dubuoue, Leon J. Johnsrud, Ankeny, Thomas F.

Juckette, Des Moines, Robb Kellev, Lisbon, $2,000, John W. Kintilnger, Grinnell, $1,000, Ernest J. Kreti, Dubuoue, $1,000, Dale Larson, Brookings, Lennox Industries PAC, Dallas, $2,000, Ron Ludvigson, Holsteln, Ralph L. MacDonald Armonk, N.Y., R. Michael McCoy, Dubuoue, $1,150.

Edwin Meredith III, Des Moines, Midwest Energy Co. Employees Government Committee, Sioux Cllv, John Miller, Johnston, Lerry Miller, Des Moines, Motor Carriers PAC. Des Moines, Kevin W. O'Brien, Iowa City, $1,500. Gerald Pearson, Okoboil, Pepsi-Cola General Bottlers PAC, Rolling Meadows, $1,000, Jerry J.

Perpich, Des Moines, $1,000, Robert M. Plunk, West Des Moines, Marvin A. Pomeranli, West Des Moines, $5,000, QuikTrlp PAC, Tulsa, Realtors PAC, Des Moines, Republican National Slate Elections Committee, Washington, $4,000. John B. Rigier, Muscatine, Wlnthrop S.

Risk, Cedar Rapids, $1,000, Joseph b. Ryan Des Moines, $2,525, Chung Ryu, Cedar Rapids, 81 000; Chan Rvu, Ceder Rapids, 81,000, SMCI PAC, West Oes Moines. James L. Schenck, Algona, $1,150. Jerry A.

Schiller, Newlon, William G. Smith, Fort Dodge, $1,000, Cerl T. Schwab, Des Moines, $1,000, Edwerd F. and Marian Seiljinger, Des Moines, $1,000, Ray T. Townsend, Des Moines, Robert T.

Townsend, Altoona, US West Iowa PAC, Des Moines, $2,500. Vernon Van Wyk, Grinnell, $1,000, Petrick J. Storev, West Des Moines, Des H. Stowe Moline, $1,000, Robert Sturgeon, Jack P. Taylor, Oes Moines, $2,000, Arian Van Wyk, Sheldon, Earl M.

Yoder, Iowa City, $2,000. By VANCE HAWTHORNE Resetter Staff Write The West Des Moines School Board on Monday formally approved an extensive construction schedule to complete projects that district voters approved in last month's record $29.7 million bond issue. Although the board authorized no specific dollar figures, it ensured that a new elementary school and other improvements would be finished within budget limits and target dates for completion, deputy superintendent Arlis Swartzendruber said. The schedule would have all work finished by fall 1993. In the race By JONATHAN ROOS Register Stiff Writer With their race costing nearly $5 million and climbing Gov.

Terry Branstad has padded his already large campaign spending lead over Democratic challenger Donald Avenson. Between mid-July and mid-October, when campaigning in the governor race intensified, Branstad, a Republican, raised another $651,000 compared with about $427,000 for Avenson, according to campaign finance reports filed Monday. Branstad also dipped into his huge campaign chest to outspend Avenson during that period by a 3-to-l margin. While both candidates allocated about 60 percent of campaign expenses to television advertising, Branstad spent nearly $1 million to advertise his candidacy on television; Avenson's media effort cost about $337,000. But after falling far behind in the carlf stages of the campaign, when he was fighting for the Democratic nomination for governor, Avenson has done better in recent months.

In fact, Avenson is the first Democratic candidate to have raised more than $1 million, said Barry Piatt, a spokesman for Avenson's campaign. "We're keeping a good pace and setting records," Piatt said. Avenson's pace has not been brisk Share the Joy of Live Theater With four Kids! Dorothy and the Wizard ofOz Saturdays ponsored by Dubuque Hot Dogi and Weaver Potato ChiP CALL 274-4686 it is expected to begin In December with completion by August 1991. Adding another 40,000 square feet of rooms in a two-story addition to house 250 more students at Stilwell Junior High, 16th and Vine streets in West Des Moines. Construction would begin next June and be completed by fall 1992.

Other plans include converting Phenix Elementary to a kindergarten through third-grade primary facility, with the addition of a media center. The project would be ready for occupancy by August 1993. Washington, Sl.000 John Rlccolo, Ceder Raolds, SI, 500; Nancy Riley, Marion, 1,000, 2300 Leadershio Fund, Minne-aoolis, Machinists Non-Partisan Political Action League, Washington, Democratic Governors' Association, Washington, 82.500, Machinists Non-Partisan Political Action League, Washington, 15,000. Iowa Statt Building and Construction Trades Council PAC, Des Moines, Tom Whitney, Des Moines, Ned Chiodo. Des Moines, Sally Pederson, Des Moines, $1,000, Holmes Foster, Des Moines, Banks of Iowa PAC, Des Moines, $2,500, Iowa Committee of Automotive Retailers.

West Des Moines, $1,500. Welsh for Slate Senate Committee, Dubuoue, Ron and Nancy Masters, Mason City, Democratic Governors' Association, Washington, Saulene Richer, Chicago, Sieve Grubb, West Des Moines, Clark and Mary McLeod, Cedar Raoids, $2,000, Effective Government Committee, Washington, $5,000. Kinlev for Senate, West Des Moines, Service Employees International Union COPE, Washington, International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Education Committee, Washington, $1,000, Iowa Committee on Political Education, AFL-CIO, Des Moines, $5,000. Denny Elwell, Ankenv, $1,000, Merlin Peterson, Des Moines, William Ludwlg, West Oes Moines, Iowa State United Aulo Workers PAC, Des Plaines, Seafarers Political Activity Donation Soeclal Account, Camp Springs, Md Gerald Kuehn, Nevada, $1,000. Communication Workers of America District 7 Political Education Committee, Englewood, US West Iowa PAC, Des Moines, Bill Peters, Des Moines, Mark and Glnny Havlland, West Des Moines, $2,000.

David and Elizabeth Kruldenler, Des Moines, Terry Mots, Des Moines, Jon Gas-kali, Des Moines, Paul Knapp, West Des Moines, William C. Knapp II, West Des Moines, Sandra K. Rasmussen, Des Moines, Roy Rohlln, Eslhervllle, Nancy Bundv, Ames, Ronald Kenvon, Des Moines, Ed Skinner, Altoona, Karen Ohl, Waukee, 14,000, Michael Lohmeier, Altoona, Kenneth Grandaulst, West Des Moines, Dorothy Kirsner, Des Moines, K.M. Cosgrove, Des Moines, R. Michael Knapp, Des Moines, $2,000.

Thomas Urban, Des Moines, Jared Johnson, Des Moines, $2,000, Richard Margulies, Des Moines, Communication Workers of America District 7 Political Education Committee, Englewood, Operating Engineers Local 234 Political Fund, Des Moines, $1,000. Iowa State Building and Construction Trades Council Political Education Committee, Des Moines, 81,000, United RuDBer Workers Local 310 COPE Account, Des Moines, 81,000 United Food and Commercial Workers Local 230, Oltumwa, $5,000. Or. Steven Phillips, Des Moines, United Food and Commercial Workers Local 22, Sioux City, $1,000, Sally Pederson, Des Moines, $1,000, Aluminum Brick and Glass Workers Local 150 COPE, Bettendorf, Central Iowa Building and Construction Trades Council, Des Moines, $1,000 Albert Ichelson Des Moines, $2,000, Bakery, Confectionary and Tobacco Workers PAC, Kensington, Ed Skinner, Altoona, $1,000, Northwest Illinois District Council of Carpenters PAC, Sterling. $2,500, Iowa Committee on Po-lilical Education, AFL-CIO, Madison County Democratic Central Committee, Wintersel, $2,500, Carpenters Local lot LIC, Des Moines, S2.0O0, Drive Political Fund, Washington, Wallace Rosenthal, Siouk City, $1,000, Roberta Till Rett.

Iowa Clly, $1,025. Fred and Charlotte Hubbell, Des Moines, Iowa State Building and Trades Construction Council Political Education Committee, Des Moines, $1,000, Iowa Health PAC, Des Moines, Mike Heller, West Des Moines, Sl.000, IBEW State Conference, Ceder Rapids, Charles Long, Sergeant Bluff, $2,000, IBEW Educational Committee, Washinglon, $5,000, Tom Urban. Des Moines, Laborers' Political League Educalionai Fund, Washington, $1,000, Ed Skinner, Alloona, $1,000. 'SO: hi- 7 ISSUES Fi 1 enough, however, to gain ground on Branstad's fund-raising effort, which is approaching $4 million. And there still are two weeks left before the Nov.

6 election. "We still have much to do, so we've got some money to raise yet," said David Roederer, Branstad's campaign manager. As of Oct. 15, Branstad had about $264,000 in his campaign chest, compared with $117,000 for Avenson. Both candidates have received money from many individual contributors, but Branstad has developed a much more extensive network of supporters with the help of a massive telephone and mail fund-raising effort.

Since the beginning of the campaign, his list of donors totals about 37,000, Roederer said. About 25 percent of Avenson's contributions for the latest reporting period were from labor unions. Also Monday, Branstad said he will go beyond the requirements of Iowa law and disclose all contributions he receives on the day after he gets them. Often in campaigns, large donations are given after the reporting deadlines so they do not have to be disclosed until after the election, but Branstad said he would disclose his contributions on a daily basis. Avenson said he would try to do that, but that he might not have the staff available to compile the data as quickly as Branstad.

Here is a list of contributors who gave $1,000 or more to the candidates for governor between July 16 and Oct. 15: DONALD AVENSON David and Patricia Hurd. Oct Moines, $5,000, Chanet Mathv, Lacrosse, SI. 000, Zimmerman for Lieutenant Governor, Dei Moines, 11,000. Laborer's Political League.

Washington, DC. SI, 000, Biiignano for State Representative, Des Moines, SI. 000 A Arthur Davis, Des Moines, SI. OOO, Democratic Governors Association, Washington, Internahonal Brotherhood of Painters and Allied Trades, Washington, Don Heniev, Los Angeles. SI, 000, District Union 432, United Food and Commercial Workers PAC, Davenporl, $1,000 National Aoorlion Rights Action League PAC, West Des Moines.

8 10 OOO. Iron Workers Local 67, Des Moines, 12,000, United Food and Commercial Workers Ballot Club Fund, Washington. SS.000; Iowa Democratic PaMv. Des Momes, SI. 000, Helen Urban, Des Moines, SI, 000 Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union COPE, New York City.

Sl.000, Junius Brenton, Des Moines, SI.000, Iowa COPE, AFL-CIO, Des Moines, $3,000. international Union of Electronic, Electrical, Salaried, Machine and Furniture Workers, Washington, 12.0O0, Democrats tor me 'Ms, SOURCE: low Ctmptlgn Flnvtct Diidosuri Child 1NW jt a Donald Avonaon (Dam.) Would create pilot project at Capitol complex to show employers the benefits of providing ii- child care. Would spend more for child care grants and provide tax breaks to encourage businesses to build child care centers and to enable people to afford ttiem. liStSrtata Tom Harkln (Dem.) Favors federal grants I for child care centers and grants to tow Income parents who need child care. Favors inspection of centers.

Favors unpaid child care leave for people working in businesses employing more than 50. SOURCE: Regular staff writer David Yepsan's CAMPAIGN THE care Terry Branstad (Rep.) Favors tax credits for low income parents to enable them to pay for child care. Instead of spending, money to build child care centers, he wants flexibility for local efforts and care providers. Tom Tauke (Rep.) Authored bill to provide tax credits for parents so they can pay for child care. Believes businesses would respond by creating more child care services.

Opposes federally required surprise Inspections of child care centers located in homes. Interview with candidates. I WWIrfflWfSf.