Iowa City Press-Citizen from Iowa City, Iowa • Page 10

10 A Iowa City Press-Citizen Thursday, June 9, 1983 i wints to rent Fire forces 3,000 out of Carnegie Hall NEW YORK (AP) A smoky fire broke out in a basement area of Carnegie Hall this morning, forcing evacuation of 3,000 people including Mayor Edward Koch who were attending graduation ceremonies. No injuries were immediately reported. A spoksewoman at the building said she believed the fire was under control shortly before 11 a.m. Koch had been scheduled to address the commencement ceremonies of Polytechnic Institute of New York. Continued from page 1A Mahon said UI would like to rent the library for two years, with an option to rent for two more years.

By then, space needs will diminish because enrollment is expected to decline and because several campus buildings now under construction will be ready for occupancy, she said. Although a final agreement hasn't been reached, Mahon told the regents that the rent would be about $1 per square foot on an annual basis. The building has about 27,000 square feet. Glasgow, asked if the $1 rental figure was low for downtown space, replied, "Sure is." But he said that if UI spent money on repairs and renovation, the rental fee could be less than $5 a square foot. In January, Glasgow and his partners, Joseph Glasgow and Allen Wolfe, bought the 80-year-old library from the city for $165,000.

Glasgow said his group has until next January to decide whether to buy a 78-space parking lot behind the building for $205,000. Glasgow said today that plans to renovate the space for offices have been abandoned for now. "Most fell through when we couldn't give them (immediate) parking," he said. "Everything we had planned went down the drain." Mahon said UI officials contacted Glasgow's group when it became apparent UI could not get a commitment to rent space at Central Junior High School for this fall. The school, now closed, is the focus of an ownership dispute between the city and the Iowa City School District.

UI wants take over the library on July 1 so renovation work can be completed before the fall semester begins. "That would be a good use for (the building)," Glasgow said. "If we can help out the university, that's our aim. It's the biggest industry in town." Neuhauser, though disappointed with the prospect, said she'd rather see the building used than sit idle. "As far as I know, there's nothing the city can do to stop them," she said.

4 JOHN ROBERT STEVENS y4 1968 photo. In recent years, he wouldn't allow his picture to be taken. i Family, church split over Stevens Continued from page 1A 15, and trial has been set for Aug. 1. The suit charges that John Robert announced in April 1980 that he was taking over the church.

"He belittled Fred E. Bickhart and William J. Stevens in the presence of said congregation and said he was firing all the pastors of the church," the suit says. Then, the suit charges, his group attempted to take control of the church "physically and financially." Then came months of infighting. It included an incident in TWO WAYS TO SAVE FROM SEALY AND TOWN COUNTRY! Quilt Ease Supreme bySealy You wouldn't expect such quality at this special price.

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Stevens. Finally, Bickhart and W.J. Stevens changed the locks and took over the church. The law suit followed. a i 11 Across me country, uisuiu- i i i i i i sionea cnurcn memoers cnarneu I lhat John Robert Stevens' church had used brainwashing techniques to control members and the church had become a cult.

Stevens began preaching at the age of 14, working with his father at what was then a Foursquare Gospel Church in Washington. "The Foursquare Church was very, very fundamental. I owe to them," the elder Stevens in an interview a year ago. rT'It hasn't changed. But I changed." He turned the church pacK to ine denomination me 1940s, then bought it back and established his own Christian Tabernacle.

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The facility would be used primarily for the training of ministers, he said. The work at Shiloh was done primarily by volunteers. Church members, many from California, moved there. Many were young Special order WiVir. vv.

Jv jwW' t' people, but others brought their iamuies. He denied that Shiloh was a rnlt. "For nvpr 4(1 veaw. we'vp 1 Deen preacnmg against uiem, ne "But while we've been lib preaching against the cult lead- 5 m. 1 'ijMk'lZk iiJiK ers, we ve been preaching against the traditional churches at the same time that created the vacuum that opened the door to those cults.

"We're different. I think we're different from most of you, and to you the truth, I thank God we are. Because I'm so against pas- sive living." I n-ssasaJLa CkL-MJgSTUBEPtPIC $IEEP CENTER JL. 1-77 Anlnvitation ut nis own role, btevens said 4 SEALY POSTUREPE --1 just a voice. 1 don hold any official position at all.

Just I love to preach the word. I've been devoted to it, addicted to it." He visited Iowa in 1981, but generally has avoided the public in recent years. He consistently refused permission to take his pic-. ture. "It was a very real thing to me in prayer that never, at any time, should I seek any publicity for myself I don't want them to be drawn to me as a person.

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