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r. If t't I i I 1 1 4 1 I ill i f. I 1 )k it- 1 II Ml I I 2 I i I 1 BIS MOIIIS Section Sept. 5, 1984 if 'i Li Jr LA 1 REGISTER PHOTO BY SCOTT SEID DATEIIJI lay iiDnier tri D.M. won't rehire City Venture witi i ir II 1 li a lit A UL L' it e-i 1 4 101'JA New Iowa City hotel expects to open today IOWA CITY, IA.

(AP) The down town Holiday Inn, the centerpiece of Iowa City's urban renewal, is expec ted to open today in time for the Iowa State University-University of Iowa football game this weekend. "We'll definitely be open," hotel manager Robert Bray said Tuesday as workers hurriedly readied the $12 million, 178-room hotel. Finishing touches such as wiring, carpet trimming and installation of ceiling tile were still to be done Tuesday. But after a weekend of long days and nights, Bray was optimistic about finally opening by the weekend. All of the hotel's rooms are reserved for weekends of the Hawkeyes' home football games, except for this weekend.

Hotel sales director Nancy Goldsmith said Tuesday "a handful" of rooms remain for the ISU game. Ames man injured in rock-climbing fall VIOLA, IA. (AP) An Ames man was injured Monday afternoon when he fell 20 feet while climbing a cliff in Mount Hope Park, north of here. Kevin Wyatt, 25, was admitted to Mercy Hospital in Cedar Rapids with wrist and foot injuries. He was listed in good condition Tuesday.

According to a report from the Linn County Sheriff's Department, Wyatt was holding a rock for support when it broke loose, causing him to lose bis balance and fall. Laurens boy injured; hit with golf club TIM Rtsbtar't wwi Nawt Snric LAURENS, IA. A 6-year-old Laurens boy was injured seriously Monday morning when he was hit in the neck with a golf club. John Scharff was not breathing when an Albert City ambulance crew, arrived at his Pocahontas County home. The crew performed cardiopulmonary resuscitation to revive the boy.

Scharff was taken by helicopter ambulance, first to a Spencer hospital and later to Iowa Methodist Medical Center in Des Moines. A spokeswoman there said Tuesday night the boy was in critical condition in the pediatric intensive care unit with serious head injuries. The incident reportedly occurred when the boy approached his sister from behind while she was swinging the golf club. Creston girl killed when thrown from horse CRESTON, IA. (AP) Melissa Scadden, 14, of Creston, Iowa, died Monday after falling off her horse two miles south of the Iowa-Missouri border, near Hatfield, Mo.

Authorities said the girl was thrown when her horse was apparently spooked. David arrives earlier to By STEPHEN BUTTRY Rwhtar Staff Wrttar CHARITON, IA. Raymond Chandler tried to have his wife, Lisa, killed about four weeks before she actually was murdered, according to records in Lucas County District Court. Chandler, who hanged himself in his cell Saturday, the day after his arrest in last week's strangulation slaying, earlier had tried "to set in motion a chain of events ft RAYMOND CHANOLIR which would cause the death of Lisa Chandler," according to a records filed in court Friday that charged him with attempted murder. The attempt at killing Lisa Chandler took place from July 31 to Aug.

2, according to the charges. Lucas County officials would provide little elaboration on the circumstances surrounding that attempt Strangled to Death On Aug. 28, Lisa was found strangled to death, possibly by a telephone cord, at the couple's farmhouse northwest of here. Her 20-year-old husband and Mark Morgan, 22, of Indianola, were arrested Friday and charged with first-degree murder in her death. Friends and relatives reported knowing of no marital troubles between the couple.

"They were like a couple of kids who hadn't even been married yet," said Raymond's mother, Naomi Chandler of rural Chariton. Officials would not say which man they believe actually strangled Lisa Chandler. County Attorney Paul Goldsmith would not confirm or deny any of the many reports and rumors circulating in town about the slaying and Raymond's subsequent suicide. While Morgan was appearing before District Judge Richard Morr in the courthouse here Tuesday morning, friends and relatives of Raymond Chandler's gathered a couple of blocks away, packing a chapel at Fielding Funeral Home to pay their last respects and hear words of comfort from the Rev. Melvin Miller.

Brief Appearance Morgan's court appearance was fairly brief. He appeared with his uncle, John McKinney, a Des Moines lawyer, who said Morgan is indigent and wants a court-appointed attorney. Judge Morr postponed the arraignment until Sept. 17 and told McKinney to assist Morgan in applying for the court-appointed counsel. Morgan was returned to the Lucas County Jail, where he is being held on $115,000 bond.

He and Chandler were separated in the jail, which is standard procedure when two people are arrested in the same case, said Sheriff Larry Lowe. Chandler was being held in a second-floor cell following his arrest Friday afternoon. He was found by a Chariton police officer at 7:20 p.m. Saturday, Lowe said. He apparently had hanged himself with a piece of his mattress, the sheriff said.

Raymond Chandler was last seen alive at 5:19 p.m. Saturday when he was given his dinner, Sheriff Lowe said. Prisoners normally are checked every half hour the first 24 hours they are in custody, Lowe said. He said subsequent checks depend on who is in the county law enforcement center and how busy they are. tilled, reeo Younken employees look on as a statue of Michelangelo's David arrives for display in the newly remodeled downtown store.

Employees are, from left, Kurt Christensen, director of planning, Dick Felse, head carpenter, and Norman Melzer, director of advertising. STORY: Page 6M. 1 in March. Herbert estimates there were nearly 40 applications received, and Ryan's was the first Six applicants were invited to Des Moines for interviews in May and June. Three were invited back for second interviews in July.

Ryan was offered the job in mid-August, but because of some problems coordinating the schedules of search committee members, negotiations were delayed and an agreement couldn't be reached until this week. Ryan will officially take his position on Nov. 1, but is expected to make at least one get-acquainted visit to Des Moines within the next three weeks. Of his replacement, Demetrion said, "The Des Moines Art Center is very fortunate to get someone with his experience and knowledge. He has a good mind and will be good for the art center." Herbert noted Ryan's ability to reach out into the community and attract people and money to the museum as well as his numerous acquisitions at Fort Worth, including works by Morris Louis, Claes Oldenburg, Ul-rich Ruckreim, Michael Singer, Alan Saret, Roy Lichtenstein and Andy Warhol.

The search committee members were Herbert; Robert Helmick, the president of the center's board of directors; Melva Bucksbaum; Jacqueline Blank and Elizabeth Kruidenier. ik rc3s sEiovj No full-time jailers are employed at the jail, the sheriff said. Chandler's body was found when the officer came to move him from his cell to a visitation area, where he was to meet with members of bis family, Lowe said. In the Dark Naomi Chandler, his mother, said the family is totally in the dark about the investigation. "The DCI has not told us one blooming thing," she said.

Relatives of Lisa Chandler's also said they knew little about the case or any connection between Morgan and Chandler. The couple's son, Brandon, is staying with Raymond's parents, who are talking to a lawyer about adoption procedures, Naomi Chandler said. Brandon, who celebrated bis first birthday in a small party with the family Sunday, is unaware of all that has happened, his grandmother said. The boy visited regularly with his grandparents, she said. "This is like a second home to him," she said.

"He just thinks he's with Grandma." Average pay in lova trails U.S. average By GENE ERB Rtgtstar ButJntu Wrttar Average annual pay in Iowa last year was $15,214, about 3 percent more than the $14,766 a year earlier but more than 13 percent below the $17,544 national average, according to a U.S. Labor Department report. The report also shows that the state's workers lost ground on other U.S. workers, who averaged 4.8 percent year-to-year pay increases.

Iowa ranked 41st among the 50 states and the District of Columbia, and was sixth among the 10 states in the labor department's Mountain-Plains region, finishing behind Colorado Wyoming Missouri Utah ($16,511) and Kansas States in the region finishing lower than Iowa were Montana North Dakota Nebraska ($14,762) and South Dakota which had the dubious distinction of being ranked 51st. The region's year-to-year increases in annual pay ranged from 2.9 percent in North Dakota to 5.1 percent in Missouri. The labor department said much of the Missouri increase was due to higher than average annual pay increases in the finance, insurance and real estate, manufacturing and government sectors. North Dakota's modest advance was attributed to small gains in most major industry divisions, especially manufacturing, trade and government. Wyoming recorded the only decline in average annual pay among the 50 states and the District of Columbia and fell from a rank of fifth to 14th.

Much of the 0.8 percent decline was caused by lower annual average pay in construction and wholesale trade and only small gains in the manufacturing, retail trade and service sectors. REGISTER PHOTO IT Des Moines Art Center tabs Texan to become director ByRICKJOST Rwhtar Staff Wrttar The City Council voted Tuesday night not to rehire City Venture a group that was both criticized and praised after it was hired a year ago to help stimulate the inner-city economy. Dealing with a range of issues, the council also: Gave initial approval to a law banning dangerous or so-called "exotic" animals in Des Moines. Approved a settlement for buying a building at East First and Des Moines streets, which removes the last barrier to a major east side office project planned by The Bankers Life. Heard plans for protecting youths from kidnappings, in light of the apparent abductions of missing newsboys Eugene Martin and Johnny Gosch.

Kept on the back burner a simmering debate over Drake University's plans to buy and close a portion of Twenty-ninth Street for a block-wide parking lot at the campus. On a vote of 4-2, the council sided with City Manager Richard Wilkey's recommendation not to renew the city's contract with the Minneapolis-based City Venture. Wilkey proposed a locally run inner-city economic development program to replace City Venture, saying his plan would cost $492,390 over a three-year-period, compared with $535,000 "plus direct service and other contractual costs" over 18 months for remaining work by City Venture. The council heard arguments on both sides of the issue, though most speakers Tuesday night urged the council to rehire City Venture. Bob Mann, acting chairman of the City Venture Project Advisory Board, said the board believed City Venture had accomplished all the tasks assigned it and more in its first phase of operation.

Mann and other supporters of City Venture said they doubted whether local people can accomplish what the consultant was hired to do, because there is "no expertise" locally to do it. But council members George Flagg, John "Pat" Dorrian and Marie Wilson followed the lead of Councilwoman Elaine Szymoniak in voting not to extend the contract with the consultant. They were opposed by Archie Brooks and George Nahas. Wilkey's program for replacing City Venture will be reviewed by people in the inner-city area before the council takes final action on it. The dangerous animal law stems from two recent incidents the suffocation of an Ottumwa infant by a pet python owned by the child's parents, and a case where a Des Moines girl was bitten by a pet cougar.

Last month the council approved a temporary law requiring that "dangerous" animals be securely confined by their owners. The new law flatly COUNCIL Please turn to Page 6M Third suspect held in shotgun murder case By TOM ALEX and NICK LAMBERTO Rtvfttar Staff Wrifvrt Des Moines police have arrested a third man on first-degree murder i 1 II 1 A. cnarges in connection wun me snoi-gun slaying Monday morning of Juani-ta Weaver. Arrested Tuesday afternoon was William Lester Lane, 23, of 4000 In-dianola Road. Arrested earlier and charged with murder in the case were James E.

Dorsey, 18, of 3807 E. Kinsey Ave. and Todd G. Hoffer, 23, of 1447 E. Seventeenth St.

Weaver, 51, of 512 Clark St. was killed in the bathroom of her apartment during the early morning hours. The cause of death, said police, was a shotgun blast to the face. Three Involved Police were called to the scene at 2:49 a.m. Monday and found the body.

Police reports say that witnesses said three persons forced their way into the residence and were involved in the shooting. The reports say witnesses identified one of the three about 4 a.m., and investigators arrested Dorsey on the east side of Des Moines. Police say they determined from other interviews that Dorsey, Hoffer and Lane were at a party at 1447 Seventeenth Court early Monday morning. About 2 a.m., the three men left the party, indicating that they were going to the west side of town, the reports say. The men returned to the party about an hour later with a shotgun.

All three told people at the party that they had just been involved in a shooting in which Dorsey had shot a woman in the WARRANT By ELIOT NUSBAUM RNtetar Art Crtttc A six-month search to find a director for the Des Moines Art Center ended late Tuesday afternoon with the naming of David Ryan, director of the Fort Worth Art Museum in Fort Worth, Texas. Ryan, 44, replaces James Deme-trion, who in January announced he was leaving the Des Moines Art Center after 15 years to direct the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C. Charles Herbert, an architect who headed the search committee, described Ryan has having "a cracker-jack background to do things with this museum. He has experience and proven expertise in both administration and connoisseurship." Ryan has been director the Fort Worth museum one that Demetrion describes as "one of the more exciting museums in the area of modern art" since March 15, 1979. Before that he was assistant director of the National Endowment for the Arts museum program in Washington, D.C, assistant director of The American Federation of Arts in New York, curator of exhibitions at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts and curatorial assistant at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis.

The search committee placed an advertisement in AVISO, a museum trade publication, and sent letters to museum directors across the country Liquor boss: Law too tough on state clerks By CHARLES BULLARD RvflfotflT Staff WHtar The director of the Iowa Beer and Liquor Control Department wants the Iowa Legislature to soften a new state law that requires him to fire employees who sell liquor or wine to minors. Rolland Gallagher said Tuesday the penalty is too severe, and he would prefer that lawmakers enable him to reduce the punishment to a two-week suspension without pay. Waterloo Crackdown Gallagher's request was prompted by the arrest last week of three state liquor store clerks in Waterloo on charges of selling liquor or wine to a minor. They were among 39 most of them employees of Waterloo taverns, convenience stores, service stations and grocery stores, who were charged in a crackdown by Waterloo police on alcohol sales to minors. Police officials sent a 17-year-old boy into the establishments to buy beer, wine of liquor because of complaints from parents and others that it is too easy for teen-agers to obtain alcoholic beverages in the city.

The three liquor store clerks were identified as Donna Lee Snapp and John Douglas Guenther, who worked at the 2020 Bopp St store, and Violet Elsie Hinz, who worked at the 818 Lafayette St store. "Our stores handle 22 million bottles a year and some mistakes are bound to be made," Gallagher said. The new law, which went into effect July 1, gives him no discretion, Gallagher said. If the three employees are convicted and if they did not ask the 17-year-old to fill out an age verification form, be must fire them. The age form was created by the liquor department to protect store LIQUOR Please turn to Page 6M 31 Yii 1 Worker loses job; keeps spot on adoption list By WILLIAM PETROSKI R99ttftr Staff Wrttar FORT DODGE, IA.

A state employee has been fired because he refused a job transfer that he said would have cost him and his wife their places on an adoption list. Ray Franklin, 32, a social worker in Fort Dodge with the Iowa Department of Human Services, said be refused to move to Mason City, as his supervisors wanted, because accepting the reassignment would have meant moving out of the Sioux City Roman Catholic Diocese and losing his family's place on the diocese's adoption list "We don't want to wait the rest of our lives to have a child," said Franklin, who has appealed his firing to the Iowa Merit Employment Department "And we're getting up there in age, so we better get started." His wife, Debra, 31, said: "I don't understand why the Department of Human Services wouldn't take this into consideration before terminating my husband. They are supposed to be a human services agency, and my husband has been an excellent worker for them. There was nothing wrong with his job performance." Adopting an infant has become of vital interest to the Franklins: Mrs. Franklin remembers the time she had to leave a band concert because she could not stop crying when someone sat next to her holding a baby.

She and her husband have spent thousands of dollars on medical tests trying to resolve the infertility problems that have prevented her from conceiving child. Franklin said the move to Mason City would have cost the couple their place on the adoption list of Catholic Social Services of Sioux City, and they would have had to start the long wait for a child over again with another adoption agency. Larry Jackson, deputy commissioner of the department declined to comment on Franklin's case. But be said: "In general, we do everything we can to be sensitive to problems of a personal nature. In the final analysis, we must be responsible first to our clients." Debra and Ray Franklin of Fort Dodge When firings occur, it is only after serious consideration has been given to the circumstances and after top officials In the department have been consulted, Jackson said.

Franklin got a blunt letter on July 9 from Dale Schmitz, district administrator for the department in Mason City, telling him his job was being moved to Mason City. The letter told Franklin he had five days to decide whether to accept the move. The letter warned: "If you do not wish to accept this reassignment you will be terminated and will receive no layoff rights or benefits." Franklin said he discussed his adoption problems with three supervisors ADOPTION Pleose turn to Page 6M Please turn to Page 6M.