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tlX I THE DES MOINES REGISTER Sat May 3, 1986 'iETilOiOWi! REGISTER PHOTO BY JIM SHAFFER DATELIilE IOWA pponents trade Junkms 4 item 0 vWTT I 'il L. 1 Jerry Enzler, director of the Dubuque Society, is dwarfed by a paddle wheel V. 1 -f-; A County Historical site of the National Rivers Hall of Fame. The museum near the proposed will be a repository of data for the nation's rivers. jabs with at party By DAVID YEPSEN Rtsiittf Staff Wrrttr Two Democratic gubernatorial candidates started ganging up on the front-runner at a debate Friday.

George Kinley and Robert Anderson attacked Lowell Junkins at a party breakfast in Des Moines Friday, accusing him LOWELL JUNKINS of wanting to borrow too much money for many unspecified economic development projects. Junkins, a former senator from Montrose, returned the jabs during the joint appearance at the Hotel Savery. Junkins said Anderson doesn't have any economic development plans and accused Kinley of wanting to raise taxes. And he warned his opponents not to get too critical of him because they might be crippling his effort against Republican Gov. Terry Branstad in the fall.

About 150 Democrats showed up for warm coffee, cold Danish and hot politics at the breakfast. They weren't disappointed. When the Legislature adjourns, the state's political attentions turn to the campaigns in the June 3 primary. The top race is the bid for the Democratic nomination for governor. Junkins has taken an early lead in the polls and has picked up endorsements from organized labor and citizen action groups.

Kinley, a senator from Des Moines, and Anderson, the lieutenant governor, believe the race is wide open because those polls also show many Democrats are undecided. But Friday's debate showed Kinley and Anderson believe it is time to cut Junkins' lead. They started by attacking Junkins' plan to borrow $500 million in bonds and invest it in economic development and education programs. "Lowell, you said you have a plan. Well, where is it? It's two pages long," said Anderson, adding that Junkins' position on education "is two sentences long.

There is nothing new here." Anderson also attacked Kinley for trying to "run government like a business. Business runs on a profit motive and I think we want a little more heart and soul in state government." Kinley outlined his plan to raise the sales tax by 1 cent for four years to retire the state's deficit and provide money for education and economic development projects. He said Junkins' bonding program "will cost you half a million dollars a week in interest," and "you still haven't told us how you'll pay it back." Junkins has proposed to use lottery revenues to retire his bonds, but Kinley said the lottery "isn't raising enough money just to pay the interest. Neither one of my opponents has spoken to the debt in this state." Junkins defended himself by noting how "Democrats tend to line up like a firing squad in a circle. We all tend to turn the gun on each other." He told Anderson: "Let's not distort the truth.

Let's be very, very careful in these last days of the primary. There's a difference between an outline and a plan. I want to make sure you understand the difference. Bob, you've got an outline." Anderson has said he wants to raise the income taxes Iowans pay by limiting the deductibility of federal income taxes on the state tax return. Kinley told Anderson that such a move would "be a negative" on the state's economy because it would raise taxes on the business people who make business location decisions.

Another candidate, Dr. Clinton Berryhill of Readlyn, did not participate in the debate. r.l''''gHi'',). uf River hall of fame, museum to Dubuque breakf as ROBERT ANDERSON CEOROI KINLEY Estes concert to raise money for study of arts By JOAN BUNKE BMt Mtd Art! EdHw Bass-baritone Simon Estes, a Cen-terville native and international opera star, says he wants to "do something for my state, for the future." With that goal in mind, the singer and a committee of volunteers Friday announced the "Simon Estes Concert for Iowa." Set for Oct. 11 in the Des Moines Civic Center, the benefit concert styled by its backers as a statewide arts version of "Farm Aid" and "Live Aid" is aimed at establishing an arts endowment of $100,000.

The fund, to be administered by the Iowa Arts Council, would provide scholarships for young Iowans in college or bound for college who want to study the arts music, dance, theater, writing, art or "another area that is judged to be related to the arts." Sue Schroeder, coordinator of the concert committee, said patron tickets, which might range from $50 to $500, would help establish the fund to which Estes will donate his performing fee. That fee is estimated at about $30,000. On Friday, Estes was at his home in Zurich, Switzerland, Schroeder said, and is "completely recovered" from the vocal indisposition that caused him to cancel his three scheduled performances last weekend in the title role of "Boris Godunov," produced I the University of Iowa Opera Wori shop. Schroeder said Estes called hit having to drop out "one of the most traumatic experiences" of his life. The October Estes concert program will focus on spirituals and songs from American musicals.

The size of the scholarship grants will be determined after the fund-raiser. Guidelines specify that recipients must be Iowa residents, must demonstrate a special aptitude for the arts and must attend an educational institution that awards an arts degree. In addition, the guidelines say that "special attention will be given to students interested in art(s) degrees from Iowa colleges or universities." Simon Estet "Doing something for my state" passed around dozens of teen-age boys for sexual favors. "Very Sorry" Graham "categorically denied" that allegation Friday but told the judge: "I'm just very sorry for any troubles I've caused. "I hope you know I do regret what I have done," Graham said.

"By paying the price, I hope that I can lead a new life and again be a valuable person to society." As Graham was led to jail, his lawyer, Lawrence Scalise, said Graham did not want to appeal the sentence. "He's sincere about what he said in court today. He's accepted what the court did today and is going to make the best of it," said Scalise. "In many ways, he's a victim, too of his own weakness." Graham was indicted with four other Des Moines men including former Jackson Elementary School teacher Stephen Woodcock, who last month was sentenced to 20 years In prison. Two of the men, Patrick Baird, 44, and Jerry Wlntz, 47, each pleaded guilty to three felony charges of sexually abusing teen-age boys.

IK A'W 4r u.i.i s.tfc uv-t-ri John Bickel 'Dubuque is just right' Mississippi River folk concert is scheduled for tonight. A ceremonial mingling of waters from all 50 states is planned at 12:30 p.m. Saturday at Ice Harbor, where the combined waters will be poured into the Mississippi. A concert by the 34th Army National Guard band will follow. "Nominations to the Hall of Fame may be submitted by anyone.

The nominees may be living or dead. They don't have to be famous. In fact, one of our objectives is to give recognition to deserving people who have been missed by history," Enzler said. The initial four inductees were selected by a vote of the 113 founders of the National Rivers Hall of Fame. The inductees' names are a closely guarded secret until about 8:30 p.m.

Saturday, when the announcement will be made at Dubuque's Five Flags Theater. If the old-time Mississippi river-boat gamblers were still around, however, chances are they'd be laying big money on Mark Twain to be one of the four. Ian gets prison By ANNE CAROTHERS-KAY Rt9tsttr Staff Wrlttr A former Des Moines schoolteacher, whom police describe as the "main cog" in a ring of pedophiles, was sen tenced to five years in prison Friday after he pleaded guilty of arranging a sexual encounter between a 15-year-old boy and a 44-year-old man. Polk County Dis trict Judge Jack Levin gave David M. david Graham, 49, the graham maximum prison sentence possible and lectured him about violating the public's trust in educators.

"Society entrusted you with the honorable task of educating our youth," said Levin. "It is unfortunate that you, of all people, violated that position of trust and placed our youth in an unsafe environment. "You, of all people, helped men prey on our youth," Levin told Graham, who stood with his hands at his side, nervously opening and closing his fists. Graham taught at Roosevelt High School for many years. But he was a Weeks Transitional School teacher (I mii wi hi imm ii 'I.

mi jWmiiiinnQi wummnw a Youjig Davenport hero to receive commendation Tht Reflilttr'l low Ntws Strvtct DAVENPORT, IA. A Davenport boy will receive a lifesaving medal from the American Automobile Asso- ciation for his bravery in pulling a kindergarten student out of the path of a speeding car last year. Brent Hagen, a student at Johnson Elementary School, is one of six school safety patrol members in the United States who will be honored May 23 in Indianapolis, officials "of the AAA's Motor Club of Iowa said. Hagen was on duty on April 10, 1985, at an intersection on busy Locust Street. As a youngster crossed the street while traffic stopped for a red light, Hagen spotted a speeding car approaching.

Officials said Hagen, the son of Dawain and Judy Hagen, dashed into the street and pulled the child out of the way as the car ran through the red light. Dubuque woman appointed to head 23-hospital chain Tht Rtgisttr'i Iowa Ntwi Strvtct DUBUQUE, IA. Sister Mary Cor-ita Heid of Dubuque was appointed president of Sisters of Mercy Health Corp. Friday. The religious order, based in Far-'mington Hills, runs 23 hospitals in Indiana, Michigan, New York and Iowa, including Mercy Health Center in Dubuque, where Heid has been president since 1981.

She will oversee the billion-dollar hospital chain. Heid, 48, grew up on a farm near Barnum. Body discovered in car parked at auto dealership From Tht Rtgitttr't Cedar RapMt twnu CEDAR RAPIDS, IA. The decomposed body of a Hiawatha woman was found Friday in her car parked at the rear of an auto dealership here. The body was found by an employee of Cedar Rapids Dodge.

Police said Marilyn Freytag, 42, apparently had been in the car since April 21. Investigators were treating her death as a suicide. Elsewhere: The body of Dwight D. Alborn, 39, of Curlew, who has been missing since April 21, has been found on the shore of Silver Lake near Ayrshire. Palo Alto County Sheriff Albert Neary said Alborn apparently drowned.

Runners to raise money for Iowa farm scholars Tht Rwiittr's Itwi Ntws Strvtct DECORAH, IA. A benefit run to raise money to help the children of financially depressed Iowa farmers attend college will be held today in Decorah, Waverly and Clinton. "Run for the State of Farmers" was the idea of Michael Peterson, a stu- dent at Luther College here. The races are being organized by students at Luther, Wartburg, Mount St. Clare, and Clinton Community colleges.

Money raised by the participants will be used by the Iowa College Aid Commission to pay for interest-free school loans for needy farm youths. Donations to the scholarship fund also can be mailed to the Luther College treasurer's office, Decorah, la. 52101. School principal sentenced to community service Tht Rttttttr'i Iowa Ntws Strvtct BLOOMFIELD, IA. Ronald Rubin of Bloomfield, principal of Davis County High School here, was sen-' tenced Friday to perform 50 hours of community service work for stealing $500 from a school fund.

Rubin pleaded guilty last week to third-degree theft a charge that was filed after a special state audit found financial irregularities at the high school. He has resigned, effective at the end of the school year. Former postmaster guilty of falsifying postal records Tht Rtetiter'i low Ntwt Strvtct POCAHONTAS, IA. A former Po- cahontas postmaster was found guilty Friday of three counts of falsifying postal records so they did not reflect a I $2,900 shortage. Patricia E.

Krapp, 48, faces up to 10 I years in prison and a $250,000 fine on I each count when she is sentenced on May 29, an official said. Death of former lowan leads to arrest of pair OSKALOOSA, IA. (AP) Two Phoenix, Ariz men, Charles Amator and Edward West, both 22, have been I arrested for investigation of murder in the shooting death of a former Os- kaloosa man near Florence, Ari- zona officials said. I The body of Larry Thompson, 25, who had been living in Phoenix, was I found on a dirt road Tuesday evening. Thompson is the son of Jerry Dean and Sharon Thompson of Beacon.

By JACK HOVELSON 01 KM RHMtfl Wlttflot BUTMU DUBUQUE, IA. John Bickel's 25-year dream will come true here this weekend when the National Rivers Hall of Fame inducts its first four members. "Over those years," said the 67-year-old McGregor man, "I've visited river cities and museums all over the country, but I never found one that served as a repository and filing system for all available information and collections of inland waters historical items. Nowhere has this all been combined and cap-sulized." Such a facility is envisioned for Dubuque, a city that Bickel maintains is the perfect setting for the National Rivers Hall of Fame. "First of all, it's fitting that it be on the country's main river, the Mississippi.

We looked at Memphis real hard, and also at St. Louis. But in both of those cities it would be overshadowed by other attractions. Dubuque is just the right type of city for it," Bickel said. The Hall of Fame will be housed temporarily in the Dubuque County Historical Society's Woodward Riverboat Museum, a former railroad frcighthouse converted to a museum at a cost of $1.5 million.

Historical Society director Jerry Enzler said a new building costing $4 million to $5 million is envisioned for the hall. It will be adjacent to the Woodward museum on Dubuque's Ice Harbor. When completed, the building will be a national museum and repository for data pertaining to all inland waters of the United States, including lakes and canals, Enzler said. Among its collections will be the bulk of Bickel's 50-year accumulation of river artifacts. Enzler said inductees in the Hall of Fame "will range from river pilots to poets, engineers to inventors." He foresees development of the Hall of Fame-Ice Harbor complex in Dubuque into an attraction along the lines of Connecticut's Mystic Seaport and Baltimore's Harbor Place developments.

The development hinges on financial help from the federal government, several states, Dubuque city and county governments, and private contributions, especially from corporations associated with inland waters, he said. The Dubuque County Historical Society began working on its museum seven years ago. Fund drives in 1979 and 1984 netted $2 million for renovation of the railroad freight building and the paddlewheeler William M. Black, which is moored in Ice Harbor and is part of the museum. Adjacent railroad tracks are to be removed to allow construction of the new Hall of Fame building, planned to have 20,000 to 28,000 square feet of floor space, Enzler said.

"We will have a fund drive this summer and fall. We've raised $50,000 to get this far. Construction is a year to 18 months off, but we think that five years from now the new Hall of Fame will be a reality," Enzler said. Festivities in connection with the Hall of Fame induction begin today with opening sessions of a two-day Inland Waters Seminary, sponsored by The Smithsonian Institution and The Maritime Department of the National Trust of Historic Preservation. Speakers include experts on steamboats, fur trade, canal history, preservation, conservation and waterway tourism.

A term, lecture for child-sex ring Woman charged in death of 18-month-old niece By ANNE CAROTHERS-KAY Rtenttr staff Wrfftr A functionally illiterate 46-year-old woman was charged with first-degree murder Friday and accused of killing her 18-month-old niece last month by striking the child's skull with a blunt object. Annie Ruth Findley of 1801 S.E. Kirkwood Ave. appeared before Polk County District Judge Jack Levin on a charge of murdering Shena Findley, the niece she apparently had cared for since birth. Court records show that Findley brought the child to Blank I Children's Hospital on April 8.

The child "received a severe head trauma, which was caused by being forcefully struck in the head with a blunt object earlier that day," court papers show. The child died two days later of a skull fracture, said Dr. R.C. Wooters, Polk County medical examiner. Wooters said the child also had several bruises on her buttocks and face.

when he was suspended last May after police named him in an investigation of a network of pedophiles. Graham formally resigned in March after pleading guilty to a felony conspiracy charge in a plea bargain with prosecutors. Plea Bargain Graham, who also allegedly led a local witches coven, originally was charged with felony sexual abuse of a 14-year-old boy. That charge carries a mandatory 10-year prison sentence. But Polk County Attorney James Smith allowed Graham to plead guilty to a lesser conspiracy charge in March and agreed to recommend that he be granted probation.

Levin, however, disregarded Smith's recommendation and sent Graham to prison "to protect society from further offenses." Prosecutor Greg Biehler said Graham probably will be eligible for parole in 1 years. Biehler said tie county attorney's office "abided by the plea agreement" and recommended probation for Graham. But Des Moines police submitted a 10-page report to the judge that described Graham as the "main cog" in a pedophile network, which ANNII findley "The type and number of injuries and the force used indicate that Annie Findley did this with malice aforethought," wrote Juvenile Court investigator Paul Houston. "Annie Findley admitted to several people, including this officer, that she had sole care and custody of Shena on April 7 and 8, 1986, and that no other person touched or harmed Shena in any way," wrote Houston. Levin allowed Findley to be released without bond through a supervised county release program.

Release counselor Pat Thompson said Findley does not pose a threat to the community and has no previous felony convictions. He said Findley, who was raised in the South, moved to Des Moines from Chicago a year ago with her niece. He said she cannot read or write, is unemployed, and lives on food stamps and financial aid from her daughter, who lives next door to her. Polk County Attorney James Smith said Findley's sister and brother gave her custody of their daughter shortly after her birth. However, Smith said he didn't believe Findley was the child's legal guardian.

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