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The Des Moines Reoister Monday, March 2, 1)0S 3M Iowa News Legislative bills rlfflCTfofilei Dateline Iowa Where fanners dominate Assi I rui I'KKV- INTRODUCED in house HF 2444 Requiring outside audits of nonprofit corporations created by the Iowa Finance Authority. By Economic Development Committee. HF 2454 Revamping a new state lave-guirmg that motorists have proof of financial responsibility By Commerce Committee. HF 2455 Requiring state officials to develop a protocol tor working with military officials in child abuse investigations. By Human Resources Committee.

The map shows the number of acres in farms in 1996. Counties in white and gray have fewer cultivated acres because of a variety of factors. Some, such as Ida, Humboldt and Bremer are smaller geographically than other counties. Polk and Scott counties are more urbanized, so they have fewer acres devoted to crop farming. Counties in southern Iowa are hillier and more heavily wooded, so land is less suitable for row crop production of com and soybeans.

Counties in northeast Iowa tend to have more dairy operations, which require large amounts of hay or pasture ground for feeding to their dairy herds. Likewise, in northwest Iowa, a heavier concentration of beef cattle production means fewer acres are devoted to com and soybean production and more land is in pasture and hay crops. Iowa has 92 percent of its land in farms, the highest percentage in the U.S. HF 2456 Changing the designation of me judicial department to the judicial Judiciary Committee. anclv By the sJate By Jurt- branch.

By the HF 2457 Creating civil action for to recover from the tobacco industry. ciarv Committee. Three people killed in accident Orange City, la. (AP) Three people died after 1 njv orange city the driver of their car struck the rear of a manure DES MOINES spreader before swerving into the path of an oncoming semi-trailer truck. The accident occurred Saturday on a snow- and ice-covered Iowa Highway 10 about 10 miles west of 0 Miles 200 Orange City in northwest Iowa, Sioux County sheriffs authorities said.

'The names of the victims were being withheld pending notification of family members. 111 01 ownaiafc vlHumoow i. 1 tkerw 1 I 3 6ay r- I I '-)''' II i I i Miimmiawi -ilT rifeifMian 1 I 1 1 LJ 1 fc'. I tiMWmitf; MutcalKie I I I Louisa Burlington man found in Illinois dies Burlington, la. (AP) An eastern Iowa man died iwv, aner Deing iouna unconscious in a creeK in Illinois, DES MOINES state police officials there said.

Michael D. Bolander, 28, of Burlington was found Burlington. fi', Saturday near a Gulfport, 111., bar at about 8 a.m. I i Monroe WapuHo Jerturson Hunry MM i Montgomery Ademi union Ulante Lucas i Apf-anooss Oavrj 'AnBurtn wearing only jeans and shoes. He had apparently been in an altercation with another person, authorities said.

Bolander was taken to Burlington Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead. Authorities said Bolander had suffered from hypothermia and blood loss from a broken nose and had been drinking, said Dawn Bolander, the man's sister-in-law. "It is all suspicious, the police did tell us that," she said. Authorities were awaiting the results of toxicology and tissue samples sent to the Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation. An autopsy Saturday was inconclusive, said Eugenio Torres, the Des Moines County medical examiner.

Apartment fire kills Iowa City man Up to 275,000 "I 276,000 to 326,000 or i Qi-rae nun arroe mnra arrac" acres" 'Lowest county Des Moines County (216,400 acres) State total 33,200,000 acres Highest county Kossuth County (596,700 acres) SQURCE; owa S(a(e Unversty Census ServCes Tiik HF 2458 Establishing early childhood education imperatives. By Education Committee. HF 2459 Creating a certified schooi-to-career program. By Economic Development Committee. A HF 2460 Calling for licensing of prqfes-sional midwives.

By Doderer, Murphy Sand Reynolds-Knight. HF 2461 Using economic development transportation financing tor value-added agriculture proiects. By Vande Hoef. HF 2462 Setting price regulation procedures for local access carriers. By Jacobs and others.

HF 2463 Setting liability for treatment decisions tor insurance carriers. By Schrader and others. HF 2464 Requiring motorists to have financial responsibility. By Warnstadt fid Whitead. HF 2465 Changing the name of the Division of Industrial Services to the Divisiortpf Worriers' Compensation.

By Labor Committee. HF 2466 Requiring public notice of annexation applications. By Local Govemrrjupt Committee HF 2467 Adding a shirt to the standwd uniform tor sheriffs or deputy sheriffs. By Looel Government Committee. HF 2468 Establishing an electronic benefits transfer program at the Department of Ju-man Services.

By Commerce Committee. HF 2469 Spelling out reinsurer liability. By Commerce Committee. HF 2470 Requiring drug testing of public safety employees. By Labor Committee.

HF 2471 Reducing the number of Supreme Court justices. By Judiciary Committee. INTRODUCED IN SENATE SF 2341 Requiring the health department to develop a plan to protect people agairtst Hepatitis B. By Human Resources Committee. SF 2342 Establishing an early childhgod grant program.

By Human Resources Committee SF 2343 Authorizing a licensed physical therapist assistant to perform physical therapy under regular direction of a licensed physical therapist By Human Resources Committee. SF 2344 Requiring the Department of Natural Resources to conduct long term monitoring of surface water and groundwater. By Natural Resources and Environment CommittPe. SF 2345 Relating to the juvenile justice system and involving toster care, termination of parental riRhts and adoption pre placemenMrv vestigations. By Human Resources Committee.

SF 2346 Changing the process tor tirfrlg a teacher By Education Committee. KJ SF 2347 Establishing an early childhcjod grant program. By Education Committee. SF 2348 Allowing public school services to be provided to nonpublic school students. By Education Committee.

SF 2349 Requiring county jails to for cost of keeping prisoners for other states. By Gronstal. iu SF 2350 Establishing a state employee deferred compensation trust fund. By State Government Committee. "4 SF 2351 Extending the time for review pf a reorganization of a public utility by the lewa Utilities Board.

By Commerce Committee. SF 2352 Establishing another option for found property. By Commerce Committee. SF 2353 Continuing allocation of at-mk funds to school districts. By Education Committee.

SF 2354 Amending campaign finance laws. Py Neuhauser. SF 2355 Relating to the Iowa Public Employees Retirement System. By Kibble. SF 2356 Creating two new revolving funds under the Department of General Services.

By State Government Committee. SF 2357 Updating references to the Internal Revenue Code. By Ways and Means Committee. SF 2358 Changing economic development enterprise zone legislation. By Small Business, Economic Development and Tourism Committee.

SF 2359 Directing the citizens' aide to conduct a review of the state's child protection system. By Human Resources Committee. SF 2360 Amending various provisions of the state tax law. By Ways and Means Committee. SF 2361 Amending provisions of the motor vehicle financial responsibility law.

By 1 Lundby. SF 2362 Amending provisions of the dp-eralion and regulation of certain business entities By I undby. i SF 2363 Amending requests and hearing for corrections of child abuse information. By Human Rpsources Committee. SF 2364 Providing state sales tax Exemptions tor nonprofit organizations sellirlg tood and drink.

By Ways and Means Committee. SIOUX CITY Iowa City i Iowa City, la. (AP) An Iowa City man is dead from a fire in his apartment caused by discarded smoking materials. Authorities say Mark Turner, 34, was overcome by smoke in his second floor apartment about 3:30 Saturday morning. He was taken to University Hospitals I DES MOINES 1 0 Miles 200 City budget on council agenda in Iowa City, where he died.

The fire spread to other parts of the building, with damages estimated at about $25,000. 1 Icy roads create havoc in eastern Iowa '50's television news director Wayman dies BUDGET Iowa City Iowa City, Ia. (AP) Cars slid into guardrails and into each other in the eastern part of the state as icy conditions overtook the state's mild winter. Complete figures were not immediately available. But at least two vehicles slid into ditches on every Interstate Highway 80 interchange between Dubu- DES MOINES 0 MileTSxi By SHUVA RAHIM Kkcistkk Staff Wkitkr lque and Coralville, officials said.

That was in addition to various other incidents on area roads. Local television stations in Cedar Rapids reported as many as 70 greeks between 5 p.m. and 7 p.m. Saturday. An Iowa State Patrol officer was injured while investigating a wreck east of Waterloo.

He was treated at an area hospital and released, There were no fatalities reported in the six-county area covered by phe Cedar Rapids division of the State Patrol, said Sgt. John Quinn. No Cmajor accidents were reported in the Des Moines area. JMan sentenced for drug charges jt Cedar 1 1 Rapids ia J. DES MOINES Tut; Rkcistf.k's Iowa Nkws Skrvick Cedar Rapids, Ia.

A Cedar Rapids man faces 10 years in prison, five years' supervised released and a $100 fine for distributing pharmaceutical drugs. David Ralph Latham, 33, was sentenced Friday. He pleaded guilty to one count of possession with intent Continued from Page 1M said administrators were poring over revenue estimates on Friday in hopes of meeting the library's request for an additional $100,000 for books. Council members "have indicated they'd like to do that," Anderson said. "Now we have to find out whether it's possible." Council woman Christine Hensley said her colleagues are reluctant to OK Anderson's proposal for the sewer upgrades, which would increase sewer fees 25 percent over the next six years.

Shelving that recommendation Could mean modifying the proposed list of repairs or just slowing down the pace of the upgrades, she said. "We're going to have to prioritize and figure out where the focus is going to be," Hensley said. "I'm not hearing a great deal of support for raising the rates." The average residential sewer bill would gradually rise from $24.69 now to $30.63 in 2004 under Anderson's plan. "It just seems like we're nickeling and diming people to death," Councilman Gene Phillips said. "Over time, that's bad enough.

But if you do (several of) them all in the same year, it becomes a $1 or $2 increase, and that bothers a lot of people." Council members have to certify the 1998-99 budget to state officials by March 15. 0 Miik 200 St. broadcasting stock and business reports for KCAU-TV Channel 9 and then KTIV-TV. "I knew Ken as a broadcast newsman and a good one. He was a very popular newscaster for quite a period of time," said Jack Shelley, a retired Iowa State University journalism professor and former news director of WOI Radio and TV.

Wayman served in the U.S. Army during World War II as a member of Gen. Douglas McArthur's staff in the Philippines and Japan. In 1953, he married Mary Sidner in 1953 in Lincoln, Neb. Wayman also had been president of the Sioux City Symphony Association, a member of the city's planning and zoning commission, the Rotary Club and Sioux City Art Center board, among other things.

Robert Wilson, a former sports director at KTIV-TV, said: "I don't think he had an enemy in the world. They talk about the crown jewels. He was one of the jewels in the crown." Besides his wife, Wayman is survived by three daughters, Mary Kay Wayman of Omaha, Carolyn Way-man of Orlando, and Nancy Wayman of Des Moines. Arrangements are being handled by Nelson-Berger Northside Funeral Home. Iowa Deaths Kenneth C.

Wayman, a former Sioux City news director and stockbroker, died at home Friday morning after a yearlong battle with cancer. He was 71. A memorial service will be held at 11 a. m. today at the First Congregational Church United Church of Christ in Sioux City.

Funeral services will be at 2 p.m. Tuesday at the Spicer City Cemetery in Spicer, Minn. A 1951 graduate of the University of Nebraska, Wayman was the former news director of KTIV-TV Channel 4 in Sioux City from October 1954, when the station first went on the air, to December 1961. A Wilber, native, Wayman received a national award in 1955 from the Radio Television News Directors Association for being the first reporter to take a still camera into an Iowa courtroom. It happened during the Earnest Triplett murder trial in LeMars.

After Wayman left KTIV-TV, he became a stockbroker, and in 19M5 was named a general partner with Pecaut Co. In 1985 he helped open the Sioux City office of AG. Edwards Sons where he was as-sociate vice president of investments. However, Wayman continued jfcQ distribute, and one count of aiding and abetting possession with intent to distribute controlled substances. Latham burglarized the Shepley Pharmacy in Mount Vemon on April 23, July 13 and Aug.

14, 1997, and the Mount Vernon Family Medical "Association on Feb. 10 and July 13 last year. He also burglarized the medical association on Feb. 29, 1996. Clinton man guilty of drug charges I Cedar 1 DES MOINES Tiik Rkiiistkr's Iowa Nkws Skrvick Cedar Rapids, Ia.

A Clinton man faces 25 years in prison for drug charges. Patrick Murphy, 41, was indicted Jan. 22, 1997, and later pleaded guilty to conspiracy to distribute more than five kilograms of cocaine between 1987 and ARNOLDS PARK Thomas Leslie Beeolfc, 86. AYRSHIRE Alice Rose Overmire, 92. BLUFTON Paul W.

Henry, 93. CALMAR M.ine Mandorfield, 84. CEDAR FALLS Peter Berends, 81; Harriett J. Shannon, 84; Billy C. Smith, 74; Wil-ma F.

Hcitlund, 93; Esther L. Bores, 89; Walter L. Wheaton, 78; loyd W. Paisley, 92; George C. Ball, 87; Lois M.

Holdiman, 80. CEDAR RAPIDS Norman Bischof 71; Emma RiRRins, 81); Bernicn Zavoral, 90; Esther Donnan, 90; Alda Jones, 90; Oscar Ketchum, 71; John liriehan, bb; Erma Reitnr, 90; Noel Newell, 87; Helen Fritz, 73; Theodore Froeberg, 87; William Holmes, 74; Jennifer Rathjen, 20; Floyd Thompson, 88; Jerome Hoopes, 80; Mary Keele, 85; Arlene Straub, 77; Libbie Trpkosh, 98; ThelmaKarr, 79; Leon Pankey. 80; Slanley Travnicek, 69; Virginia Barta, 73; Garth Thomas, 78; Crystal Taber, 44. i COLUMBUS JUNCTION Harold Shelfe-barger. 8b.

CORALVILLE Aritta Ella Robinson. 94. DECORAH Olaf S. Hendrickson, 82; Gerald D. Nnrdheim, 58.

0 Miles 200 996. Because Murphy was found to be a career offender, he also was sentenced to 10 years of supervised release and fined $100. 1 Murphy allegedly made at least 10 trips from Iowa to Florida to 'purchase cocaine, which he sold from Clinton. Meth conviction for E. Dubuque man Jeff Eckhoff can be reached at eckhoffinews.dmreg.com or (515) 284-8271.

Shuva Rahim can be reached at rahimsianews. dmreg.com or (515) 699-7043. DES MOINES Irene L. Andersen, 81; Robert G. Brewer.

77; Olive L. OoHman, Sharon L. Hill, 57; Florence E. Mirkens, Robert C. Miller.

79; Ernest Penheo, 79; 'Peacemaker' bids farewell to school Vernon P. Rasmussen, 78; Blanche C. Stork. Cedar HapKfi DES MOINES Tiik Rki ustkk's I wa Nkws Skuvick Cedar Rapids, Ia. An East Dubuque, man was convicted here of possessing nearly 550 grams of methamphetamine.

Jeffrey Bingham, 39, admitted he picked up a pound of methamphetamine at his sister's home in SIMPSON 6 Milh 200 Dubuque in June 1996 and stored it for her and her husband. The couple, Judith and Edgar Newcomer, pleaded guilty in September to conspiring to distribute more than four kilograms of methamphetamine in the Dubuque area. They currently are serving federal prison sentences. Jeffrey Bingham faces up to one year in prison, a mandatory fine of and up to $5,000 in other fines. I to speak at of I ff Iowa City DES MOINES i 0 MiielHwO Tiik fto.iSTr.tt's Iowa Nkws K.rvix Iowa City, Ia.

Archeologists involved in excavations of Greek and Roman levels at Troy, Turkey, will present a lecture Wednesday at the University of Iowa. C. Rrian Rose, associate nrofessor of classical ar- 79; Emma Trurnbo, 66. ESTHERVILLE Arlene King. 72.

EVANSDALE John Klostcr. 73; Marvfi Ketterer, 73; Lena A. Johnson, 80. EVERLY John E. Busse, 54.

1 FAIRFAX Maurice VauKhan, 5b. HUDSON Alice M. Brjndhorst, 72. HULL Henry Funck, 88; Lillian Kaster, 85. IOWA CITY Mary Ellen Moore.

78; Nonii A. Nordyke, 73; Richaid "Dick" A. Weddle, 73; Blanche: H. Knox. 87; Elwood Opstad, 75; Lottie Susan Whitesel, 85; Ronald Nielsen, 46; Raymond G.

Bunge, 89; Jack Stoner, 77. KALONA David C. Sitler. 51. LONE TREE Laura Bnnkmeyer, 76.

MARION Frances Lafler, 93; Donald Stenzel. b5. MILFOHD Harry Claus Willi. 93; Nyle Marenus Johnson, 73; Denise Frances Benz-kofer, 91. NEW ALBIN Edmund O.

Smerud, 82. OKOBOJI Gerry Berchenhriter, 74. ORANGE CITY Ardean Te Haan, 56. PALO Ceha Packmgham. 90; Hattie Owens.

85 RUTHVEN George Nicholas Geelan. 82. ST. LUCAS Lillie M. Franzen, 88.

SHELL ROCK Betty J. Loonns, 73. SIOUX CENTER William Van Voorst, 80. SIOUX RAPIDS Donald I. "Chink" Petty, 83.

SPIRIT LAKE Lowell Joseph Green, 85; WiHard I aV-rne Ellis, 86. SPRINGVILLE F. Hiram Cumminps, 86r SUMNER Laura Potratz, 95, Marie emor. 98 i SWISHER Joseph J. Marak.

84. WATERLOO Mary L. Henderson, 84; Dortha G. Fisher, 77; Joseph M. McDaniel, Fern G.

Pushee, 99; Harnett G. Jensen, 83; Gladys R. King, 94; Katie King, 8 Jennifer L. Rathen, 20; Donald E. Ball, 68; Mark Crecelius, 81; Eileen A.

Silver. 52, Leona M. Webber, 93; Geraldine L. Wallace, 79; Rnlitj F. Pietan, 79; Frances O.

Parsons, 78; LarrV J. Paterni, 58; Jessie Mae Campbell, 7rf; Coila A Buchanan, 60; Crystal L. T.iber, 44. WAUKON Louis Groezinger, 99; Lestar E. Busness, 86; John E.

"lack" Wadswortll, 83; Jeanette 0. Deeney. 81; Irene M. Palrri-er, 74; Cora E. Decker, 89; Agnes B.

Hawi-ms, 95 WAVERLY Irene Abell. 82. WEU.MAN Geneva F. Swartzendruber Hooley, 94 WELLSBURG Claus A. Janssen.

76; Jeanetle d''Nrmi. 85. WEST DES MOINES Irene Sticken, 74. had greater impact on the 138-year-old liberal arts college. Under his leadership, Simpson increased its presence in the Des Moines area.

Jennings said he sometimes spends every day of the week there visiting alumni or business leaders. How important are Des Moines and its suburbs? A hird of Simpson's full-time students come from just up U.S. Highway 65-69. Almost all the 600 students enrolled in the school's division of Adult Learning classes in West Des Moines are from there, too. Jennings said the Des Moines area represents a continuing challenge for his successor.

The growing competition in Des Moines from other private colleges and the state universities is one of the key emerging Issues for the college. So are keeping privale college affordable and equipping classrooms with the most up-do-date technology, he said. There also is talk of expanding the college's curriculum to include a master's degree program. And Simpson must decide how much it can grow without losing its small-college appeal. But those will be someone else's concerns.

Jennings' last day at Simpson is to be July 10. "It's been a very good 11 years to be here," he said. "I just hope my next 11 are like this." Clinton to last year's national championship in women's softball. Jennings went to Eau Claire, to deliver diplomas to team members unable to attend commencement because of the tournament. Behind Jennings' desk sits a white construction helmet It's symbolic of the most visible changes on campus during his tenure.

In the past decade, the college has renovated Carver Science Hall, Wallace Hall and the Amy Robertson Music Center. But it might be his 1992 decision to change the athletic teams' name that more college alumni and outsiders will remember him for. Jennings had studied how other schools handled the issue of Indian-related team names, and he decided that appointing a committee would do nothing to bridge the two opposing viewpoints. So, after cheqking with some key trustees, he simply announced the change. The old names could be considered racist and sexist, he argued, and they should be changed voluntarily before someone else forced the issue.

"It's still a lightning rod for some people who think I caved in to political correctness," Jennings said. "I've got alumni who won't talk to me." But Walt and other observers say other decisions he made as president olieology at the University of Cincinnati, will speak about examining Jtfll phases of habitation from the Bronze Age through the Byzantine Continued from Page 1M fight with Jennings as like trying to punch cotton candy; there's just too much give. "I call him the peacemaker," said Walt, who wrote a history of Simpson that chronicles the years before Jennings' arrival. "One of the ways Steve has done it, I think, has been his remarkable ability to broker situations that could have led to dispute. He tended to find a proper ground for compromise," Walt said.

Jennings, a 51-year-old native of St. Louis, crisscrossed the country to earn liis educational stripes. His bachelor's degree is from Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas, his master's is from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, and his doctorate in counseling and human development is from the University of Georgia, After stints on the staffs of Southern Methodist University, Tulane University and Furman University, Jennings became president of the College of the Ozarks in Point Lookout, Mo. Then Simpson called. Jennings sat in his second-floor office in Hillman Hall last week and talked about the memorable moments of the past 1 1 years from the 1996 visit by first lady Hillary Jpiiriod.

-Jhe lecture presents the results of the most recent Greek and Ro-riim excavations at the site. The lecture will be presented at 8 p.m. in the E109 Arts Building. Cancer support group meets this week low. City) Tiik Rkc.istkr's Iowa Nkws Skrvick Iowa City, Ia.

The Leukemia Society of America is sponsoring an ongoing free patient and family support group on the first Wednesday of every month at University Hospitals and Clinics at the I Tnitrorcitv nf Tnwa 1 sf DES MOINES if 0 Miles 200 The support group, which meets next at 3 p.m. on Wednesday, helps "famines ana inaiviuuais cope wun uiagiiusia ui wuneiiua, yiuiiuuio, Jijodgkin's disease or myeloma..