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lie's running a peace race Vcjrant held in fircbombing ft Tampa police charge a man with throwing gasoline Into a crowded market and igniting it. Two have died so far. Details: 4A. fer jt 1:1 Wi4mfnrilillliiiiilillTrmjn1T-f1l III HI 111' iwall (Slje Dos jllotncs -i m. (k Cm iIn NEWSPAPER IOWA DEPENDS UPON Des Moines, Iowa, Monday, Pfe At 58, Sioox City's Carrol McLaoghlia decided to fight the arms race, taking a $5,060 pay cat to lead PEACE People Encouraging Arms Control Efforts.

Details: IT. 1983 Des Moines Register and Tribune Iowa's silent new settlers: illegal aliens (Second of three articles) By JERRY PERKINS Border guards barely noticed when a little boy named Juan left his native Mexico and entered the United States. Early on, be found migrant work in farm fields, following the harvests across Colorado and North Dakota. Then he settled in Minnesota, mopping floors and washing dishes at a hospital for five years. Later, he worked in a Wisconsin corn canning factory.

Now Juan has grown and, with his wife and infant daughter, has settled in Des Moines. Jobs are sometimes hard to find, but Juan is able to pay the rent on his $185-a-month apartment. He has friends here, including his landlord, who is trying to get rid of the cockroaches in Juan's apartment. Juan pays his taxes on time and, except for his daughter's childbirth, has refused to accept government welfare. He would like to stay in Iowa.

But because he entered this country illegally years ago, Juan is a target for the Immigration and Naturalization Service, known as La Migra by those who dodge it. In fact, he was picked up by immigration authorities recently and returned to the border. But he came right back and is applying for resident-alien status. Each year, thousands of illegal aliens travel across Iowa on the way to safe havens in Chicago. But a few, like Juan, come to Iowa to stay.

Immigration officials say a "rough guess" is that about 6,000 illegal aliens live in Iowa. But they say they have no way of knowing for sure. No one knows how many have taken jobs in Iowa or bought houses and cars. No one knows how much they pay in taxes or how much they receive in government aid. But officials say they do believe their ranks are swelling.

Juan, who asked that his real name not be used, thinks his recent run-in with La Migra was a result of high unemployment in the United States. "Only when jobs got tight did they bother me," he said. "Before I was picked up, I didn't know I needed papers. We heard people talk about the INS, but I never thought it applied to me since I had been here so many years." Juan has worked as a house painter ALIENS Pleose turn to Page 2A THE index: Buwiess fcS Editorials fc CUssifitd ds 4T Today IT Comics 7T TV schdules 2T THE WEATHER Partly sunny today, a chance of morning ihowen in cut High today In to lower 80i. Fair tonight.

Sunrise: onset: DeUUs: ST. THE Dance unfolds into Whiting street fight 35 officers disperse crowd, arrest seven By TOM DAYKIN RvchMr Stiff tffrttw A Fourth of July weekend street dance in Whiting became a street fight early Sunday morning, resulting in one injury to a Whiting sheriff's deputy and 1 seven arrests, authorities said. IDES MOINES 1 "Any time you get 0 M.iti 300 a lot of beat and people are drinking, you're going to have problems," Monona County Sheriff Dennis Smith said about the disturbance that eventually took 35 law enforcement officers to quell. One of those officers, Woodbury County Sheriffs Deputy Craig Logan, was treated at Marion Health Center in Sioux City after he was hit on the head with a beer bottle. He later was released.

His was the only injury. The trouble began, Smith said, when two men began fighting a few minutes after midnight in a street about 50 yards from the dance. Two Monona County sheriff's deputies and about eight reserve deputies on the scene tried to stop the fight, but some couldn't get through the crowd of about 200 while others were assaulted by members of the crowd, officials reported. Smith arrived at the scene a few minutes later and worked his way through the crowd to the fight Smith said someone in the crowd grabbed his revolver but couldn't get it out of the holster. "I decided the best thing to do was to go back to my car, get on the P.A.

and tell them I was going to use tear) gas," Smith said. "Except I wasn't going to use it." Smith said he had only one tear gas canister and doubted whether it would be effective. Meanwhile, a deputy managed to break up the original fight by using Mace, but other fights broke out. Smith called for help from Iowa State Patrol posts in Denison and Cherokee, from Woodbury and Ida county sheriff offices, and from Sioux Gty, Anthon, Sloan, Sergeant Bluff and Onawa police departments. State troopers began arriving around 12:30 a.m.

and started splitting the crowd into smaller groups. Meanwhile, Smith said, he summoned a fire truck from the Whiting Fire Department. It was not needed, he said. The sheriff said he stopped the dance on a vacant lot at about 1 a.m. WHITING Please turn to Page 3A ill 1 $2 Company Teachers debate stand on merit pay NEA delegates delay study of concept PHILADELPHIA, PA.

(AP) The National Education Association appeared to be stiffening its resolve against merit pay Sunday as the union's 7,000 delegates mapped strategy for dealing with the escalating demand for improvements in public schools. The delegates to the 1.7 million-member union's convention reaffirmed a policy that there should be "no discrimination in pay as to grade or subject taught." Some school systems have considered offering math and science teachers bonuses to help meet shortages in those areas. The delegates also approved an "action plan for education excellence," proposed by outgoing president Willard McGuire, that includes spending $250,000 to set up a task force to monitor school reforms over the next year. The resolution creating the watchdog group stated that the NEA "is categorically opposed to any plan, whether designated a merit pay plan, a master teacher plan, or by some other name, that bases the compensation of teachers on favoritism or subjective evaluation." But the NEA leaders who drafted the resolution succeeded after a brief but heated debate in blocking an attempt to bar the task force from even considering or offering advice on merit pay. President Reagan has denounced the NEA for helping block a plan in Tennessee that would have offered annual raises of up to $7,000 for 15 percent of the teachers there.

Several panels have endorsed merit pay, and Reagan maintains that pegging teachers' salaries to performance rather than seniority is essential to improving schools. Don Cameron, in his inaugural address as the union's executive director, said, "Ronald Reagan is attempting to distract the nation's attention from his abominably poor education record by pulling a merit pay rabbit out of his hat." Reagan will address the convention of the rival American Federation of Teachers in Los Angeles on Tuesday. AFT President Albert Shanker has said his union, too, has trouble with the concept of merit pay, but is willing to consider it. In recent weeks, with Reagan keeping the issue alive, the NEA has softened its position, saying the group would be willing to consider merit TEACHERS Please turn to Page 8A volume, plus quick and complete payment of medical bills. Such concepts have been a little slow in reaching Iowa's capital city.

HMOs in Waterloo, the Quad-Cities and Dubuque already are approaching a combined membership of 70,000 most of tbem John Deere employees and dependents. In Des Moines, employees of many larger firms probably will be offered multiple-choice health care: the two HMOs, the PPO and a traditional health Insurance plan. That's common in Minneapolis. There, workers periodically gather for sales pitches from four competing health plans in one sitting. "I think we're entering an era of pluralism," said Stephen Tiwald, president of SHARE in Des Moines.

"I think that's good for the consumer, in the sense that competition will draw out good performance." Important to Consumers Just as important to consumers, said James Kenworthy, who heads Methodist's plan, is that the new schemes will offer "first dollar," HMO Please turn to Page 2A July 4, 1983 Price 25C Copyright Ilevton tired of 'bum rap' in 4th concert WASHINGTON, D.C. (AP) -Singer Wayne Newton said Sunday he's tired of the "bum rap" he'itaken because he will perform at a Fourth of July concert at the Washington Monument instead of a pop group like the Beach Boys. "I feel like I've gotten a bum rap because of this whole thing. It's sort of like getting the old pie in the face," the Las Vegas entertainer said as he prepared for his free show today. The "whole thing" Newton referred to is a flap that arose three months ago after Interior Secretary James Watt said he invited Newton because previous July 4th concerts featuring rock bands had attacted the "wrong element." Watt's remarks touched off a storm of criticism from fans of the Beach Boys, one of the nation's most enduring pop groups, who had attracted hundreds of thousands of FOURTH Please turn to Pape 4A WAYNE NIWTON I inrni iiiMii--Tiun --'niritir nr'l! Lighting up 'Cradle of Liberty' Fireworks explode over historic Faneuil Hall during a July celebration.

The hall, completed in 1742, is called celebration Saturday night in Boston. The fireworks were the "Cradle of Liberty" because patriots met there impart of the city's Harborfest '83, a three-day Fourth of mediately before the Revolutionary War. III if riVtX IMIl '0 f. which was built and fired by the Ruggieris family, one of the great names in Italian fireworks. By this time, Italy had come to lead the world in pyrotechnic displays and the great "firemasters" of the day had names like Zambelli, Grucci and Serpico.

Fireworks were bright and loud but colorless until early in the 17th century when a French chemist suggested adding copper sulfate to the mixtures to produce a green flame. It greatly will increase the pleasure of those around you at the fireworks display tonight if you will quickly announce the metal salts used to produce the various colors that will be seen in the fire bursts. Here is a handy list: For red shout, "Sodium!" For blue shout, "Barium!" For gold shout, "Steel!" For white shout, "Aluminium!" People probably will thank you when it is all over, and say they have never enjoyed a fireworks display more. Sex Angle And now to the sex angle: There has long been a popular belief among males that saltpeter, FIREWORKS Please turn to Page 2A A snappy history of fireworks New health care group gets a jump on the field By ROBERT HULLIHAN Perhaps you thought that an article on the history of fireworks would be quite interesting, and you always hoped to find one, especially on a Fourth of July. Well, you have found one now, but you will discover that, except for the sex angle and the British colonel, it is no more interesting than a history of potassium nitrate.

That's saltpeter, and saltpeter was one of the key ingredients in the first fireworks that may have fizzled and popped in China a thousand years ago. The saltpeter was combined with carbon and sulfur and that was actually gunpowder except that no one knew It Guns hadn't been Invented yet. Saltpeter means, literally, salt of the rock, by the way. Fireworks scholars are divided on the question of the source of gunpowder. It could have been China, India, Germany or England.

Some say an Arab Invented gunpowder and first used it to fire an arrow out of a bamboo tube. Apparently, he felt so ridiculous after doing that that he never did it again and left the Invention of the gun to a monk named Schwartz in Germany In the 14th century. The scholars are agreed, however, that the first step toward fireworks and gunpowder must have been the result of a cooking accident. They speculate that someone spilled saltpeter into a cook fire and noted how brightly it flared up. Thereafter, they combined saltpeter with powdered charcoal as a portable tinder to start other cook fires.

That means that some unknown woman, stuck with starting the cook fires and doing the cooking, probably did most of the developmental work in the Invention of fireworks and, incidentally, gunpowder. It also seems fairly certain that when that Arab first used explosive powder to fire an arrow out of a bamboo tube, there was a woman standing nearby advising him not to do such a stupid and dangerous thing. She was right, of course, and he knew it. Fireworks Celebrations Oddly enough, the invention of the gun seems to have given great impetus to the creation of complicated fireworks displays. As wars became bloodier slaughters, the need became greater for the state to sponsor greater fireworks displays to celebrate peace.

A historic display took place in London in 1749 when 10,650 rockets were fired from a huge wooden machine to celebrate the peace treaty ending the War of the Austrian Succession. Handel wrote "Music for the Royal Fireworks" to go with the display, (Second of two articles) By GARY HEINLEIN Rvvhtac Staff Wrtlw SHARE Health Plan of Iowa, Des Moines' first Health Maintenance Organization, opened last Friday with 1,300 subscribers and a few months' head start on competitors. That marks the beginning of what could become a rivalry among new health care schemes paralleling, on a smaller scale, the competition between six HMOs in Minneapolis, Minn. Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Iowa and Iowa Methodist Medical Center are hustling to get their own plans up and running before SHARE grabs too much of the health care market among the 330,000 Des Moines area residents. Quite Similar The Iowa Blues hope to unveil their own Des Moines HMO, tentatively named I -Care and quite similar to Blue Cross-run HMO Minnesota in the Twin Cities, at the start of 1984.

Iowa Methodist, the state's largest private hospital, will launch Mid-Iowa Medical Associates a preferred provider organization (PPO), this fall. Iowa Methodist and the doctors in the PPO will offer companies and their workers lower-cost care in return for guarantees of business.