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IOWA CITY pity region SATURDAY, AUGUST 15. 1987 Page 3A Iowa City Press-Citizen Towing contender gets extension Wrecker, said Friday that he did not submit that information because he still has not found a backer. He said he now has a potential backer. "I'm working on a very good possibility," Gerot said. Gerot said he lias had two previous backers, both of whom have withdrawn their promised financial support.

Even though he has run into some difficulties, Gerot has no plans to give up his bid for the contract, Hanna Weston, lawyer for Iowa City Wrecker, said. "Dale will keep fighting until the last gong rings," Weston said. By Kent Schuelke The Press-Citizen By not submitting key financial information Thursday, Iowa City Wrecker missed a deadline in the bid to win Iowa City's towing contract. But City Manager Stephen Atkins has given Iowa City Wrecker an extension. The tow company has until noon Monday to prove it can fullfill the contact's requirements.

However, this is the final deadline, Atkins said. "I'm not going to wait forever on them," he said. Iowa City Wrecker, 1222 Gilbert Court, and Holiday Wrecker Crane Service of Coralville have bid on the city's towing contract, a deal worth about $200,000 that the City Council is expected to award Aug. 25. Iowa City Purchasing Agent Cathy Eisenhofer is coordinating a committee that will examine the bids next week and make a recommendation to the City Council.

Eisenhofer wrote both businesses a letter last week explaining that the city would need some additional financial information: Recent balance sheets and operating statements. Written agreements for required equipment. A letter of intent from the provider to supply $75,000 financial backing. A letter of intent from the provider to supply officestorage area. A letter of intent from the provider to secure insurance in the specified amounts.

All of that information was due at 2 p.m. Thursday. Holiday submitted the information on time. Iowa City Wrecker gave the city four out of the five requested items, Eisenhofer said. Eisenhofer said Iowa City Wrecker did not turn in a letter naming a financial backer willing to supply the tow service $75,000.

Dale Gerot, owner of Iowa City Prtlt Cllnen David Creamer Detected last long. Ranger John Holt told her and her husband, Wayne, to leave. He said metal detecting in a national park is illegal. Dorothy Warner of Andalusia, searches for coins and other metals Friday in the Herbert Hoover National Park, West Branch. The mission didn't Drum and bugle corps takes a first in world meet By Lynda Leldlger The Press-Citizen The Emerald Knights Drum and Bugle Corps, a group with members in Cedar Rapids and Iowa City, participated in the annual Drum Corps International Competition this week in Madison, Wis.

In the preliminaries Monday, the 60-member group placed first among the 24 entries in its class. The class, smallest of the three categories, is for corps with 60 or fewer members. "Last year they were second to the last, so it was quite an improvement," Judy Jensen-Treiber, mother of corps member Marcus Jensen, said. Tuesday, the competition narrowed to six corps. The Emerald Knights placed second with its 11-minute presentation.

Jensen-Treiber said the Emerald Knights are one of two drum and bugle corps in Iowa. The second is in Dubuque. The young men and women in it range from 14 to 21 years old. The Iowa City members are Dan Coulter, Dave Dinsmore, John Higgins, James Hingtgen, Marcus Jensen, Laura Mitchell and Don Wunder. Amana Woolen Mill full now that it has Right Stuff By the Press-Citizen AMANA Amana Woolen Mill is full.

Right Stuff Woodworks of Iowa City will move to the Woolen Mill building by Oct. 1. Right Stuff, which manufactures store fixtures and furnishings, has two locations in Iowa City. The move will allow the company to consolidate and expand by about 4,500 feet. Right Stuff owner David Meade said he hopes to have about 10,000 square feet.

The Amana Society has agreed to bring the portion of the building that will be occupied by Right Stuff up to the company's specifications. The company currently employs six people and Meade said another four or five employees would be hired within a year. The company's three-year plan calls for 14 or 15 employees. A sportswear manufacturer and leather belt and accessory manufacturer announced earlier this year plans to move into the Woolen Mill building. Both of those operations should begin in September.

Meade opened Right Stuff Woodworks in 1981. The company produces custom cases and store fixtures for restaurants and commercial businesses. "We had been looking for a location to expand for more than a year," Meade said. "Amana was very cooperative and a pleasure to work with. I feel the area is right for us.

I prefer being a little bit out of the city and Amana is centrally located to Iowa City, Cedar Rapids and Des Moines." Gore's dad will speak at lunch By the Press-Citizen A former senator from Tennessee, Albert Gore will speak at a lucheon today at the Iowa City Holiday Inn. Gore, 79, is campaigning for his son, Sen. Albert Gore who is running for president. The Dutch-treat luncheon will be from noon to 1:30 p.m. today at Swans restaurant in the Holiday Inn, 210 S.

Dubuque St. The luncheon is sponsored by the Gore For President campaign. The senior Gore served in the Congress for 32 years. Break might be near in Cedar Rapids murder By The Associated Press CEDAR RAPIDS Almost eight years after the brutal murder of Michelle Martinko, 18, of Cedar Rapids, police said Friday they might have a break in the case. Television station KGAN reported in a copyright story that Cedar Rapids police have renewed their interest in the rabbit fur coat Martinko was wearing the night she was killed.

Martinko was found stabbed to death in December 1979 in the parking lot of a shopping center. Police said a suspect in the murder had "fur all over him," but the technology to compare that fur with fur from Martinko's coat was not available until recently. However, KGAN said it was unable to learn if tests on the fur had been conducted. Linn County Attorney Denver Dillard would not confirm if investigators had tested the fur. "We don't have all we'd like to have to go to court at this time," Police Chief Gary Hinzman said.

Hinzman said he did not want to give the impression that a solution was "just around the corner," but added "we may be closer than people think." Dillard said taking the case to court now would require a complete review of all the evidence and reports, a task he said would be monumental. In the first television interview since her daughter's death, Janet Martinko told KGAN she fears the longer the case goes unsolved, the less chance there will be of finding the person who killed her daughter. Avenue will be closed By the Press-Citizen The Iowa City Public Works Department will replace water services and repair the street at several locations on Lincoln Avenue Tuesday through Friday. Lincoln Avenue will be closed to traffic 6 a.m. to 5 p.m.

from the alley north of Newton Road. Weather permitting, the street will be reopened Friday. Seventh Avenue will remain closed By the Press-Citizen Seventh Avenue will remain closed to vehicular traffic from Muscatine Avenue to Sheridan Avenue so that a water main may be installed by city crews. Weather permitting, construction is anticipated to be completed and the street reopened to traffic within three weeks. Iowa City, Coralville staffs discuss joint animal shelter "The location near the transit office is a little remote," Atkins said.

"One of the real issues in animal control is to promote adoption. We have to give the building a high profile and make it accessible." Atkins said the ideal situation would be to build a new shelter directly behind the existing facility and then tear the old one down to make room for a parking lot. The Coralville Animal Shelter is on Second Avenue, and Bluestone said it could be in better shape. Bluestone said the Coralville City Council likely will discuss the issue at its meeting Aug. 25.

Bluestone said an agreement could be ready for council action sometime in September. The issue arose last year when the proposed Coralville budget included $50,000 for a new animal shelter. The Iowa City Council looked at its needs for an animal shelter and realized there wasn't enough money. A suggestion that the two cities share a center has been discussed since. Atkins said two sites are being considered the present location of the Iowa City Animal Shelter, at the intersection of Kirkwood Avenue and South Clinton Street, and a lot near the Iowa City Transit Office.

By the Press-Citizen Iowa City and Coralville soon might share an animal shelter. According to Steve Atkins, Iowa City manager, the two cities' staffs are almost ready to present a proposal to the city councils. Atkins and Coralville City Administrator Fred Bluestone agreed that a proposal would include a joint impounding operation but separate animal control officers. Atkins said the agreement also could include shared licensing procedures and other changes to save more money. School supplies donations sought By the Press-Citizen Children going to school Sept.

1 without supplies will be able to get what they need thanks to the School Children's Aid Office. The office, 509 S. Dubuque is asking people to buy a set of school supplies that cost about $15 for children whose parents are unable to provide them. Supplies needed are listed on posters in several stores throughout the city. Contributors should mark the grade level on the bag on drop it off at the School Children's Office.

School nurses, who administer the program through the United Way, have agreed to distribute the school supplies. Doderer named to panel State Rep. Minnette Doderer, D-Iowa City, has been appointed to a Tax Reform Study Committee. The committee will study state income tax reform and make recommendations for consideration for the legislature in 1988. Doderer also is chairwoman of the Ways and Means Committee and serves on the Judiciary and Law Enforcement, Rules and Administration and State Government committees.

She is serving her fifth term. which along with other factors will ultimately lead to reorganization. The fourth plan called for the establishment of a restructuring commission to establish guidelines, carry out implementation of those guidelines and oversee implementation of reorganization. The plan would go into effect in 1992 and the commission would end at the same time. Schools Continued from page 1A go into effect in 1992.

"You'd probably want to build in some sort of opting in and opting out process," Benton said. All but two districts in Ringgold and Adams counties would have at least 1,000 students enrolled under the county-like plan, and almost all districts in the state would be affected. The third plan, called the "Natural Progression Plan," would let nature take its course in reorganization by utilizing incentives already in place. The report said some local districts are currently sharing superintendents and engaging in whole grade sharing, Bakker board game coming Rabbis promote Judaism in city company because of her small initial order," Salat said. "It scared them to do the small order." But Salat said sales have taken off.

"She's off selling them right now. Not one person has refused the game. We are going to do over 100,000 games, at least. "It could be one of the biggest sellers of the year in board games. The sales have become astronomical" for the game which will retail for about $20, he said.

Dreiling said the idea for the game came to her while watching news reports about the scandal surrounding the P.T.L. ministry of Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker and the ministry of TV evangelist Oral Roberts. "It was just one of those things. It just clicked," she said. She said she was afraid that people would be angered or offended by the game and not take it as satire.

"I haven't had any negative response. I was shocked about that. I probably will get some." A disclaimer packaged with the game said Dreiling is a Christian. "We certainly believe that God has a sense of humor and want all of you to have a good time!" the disclaimer said. By The Associated Press CEDAR RAPIDS To win the Praise The game, players must make their way past the Tammy-Go-Round, the Sinner Slide and the air-conditioned doghouse while buying four possessions and amassing $6 million in cash.

The game, designed by Debi Dreil-ing, 33, of Kansas City, is manufactured in Cedar Rapids by the Orange Alps company, maker of games such as Hawkeye Mania, the BASS-Masters trivia game and the Outdoor Life trivia game. It is expected to appear in stores by Sept. 1. Although players can buy their way into the White House and get fined when their 900-foot vision causes street damage, Dreiling said she intentionally left out some real-life incidents she had seen about TV evan-gg lists. "I wanted it to be fun.

I didn't want it to be tacky," she said. Dreiling brought Praise the to Orange Alps after being turned down by larger game companies, Ron Salat, Orange Alps vice president, said. "She was referred to us by a large families and 900 Jewish students at the University of Iowa, Rabbi Jeffrey Portman said. He is the rabbi at the local synagogue, Ag-udas Achim Congregation. The visiting rabbis presented a videotape about Judaism to public school officials to educate them about Judaism and propose some ideas that people from all religions can live by.

Chabad is a Hebrew word for wisdom, understanding and knowledge. Lubavitch is Yiddish and means city of love. There is a city in the Soviet Union by this name where the organization started 250 years ago. "The people in Iowa City have been very warm and responsive," said Block. The two are traveling throughout Iowa in the next two weeks.

There are 80 other pairs of rabbis visiting different states. By Carol McConeghey The Press-Citizen Two members of the Chabad Lubavitch International group have been visiting Iowa City families and civic leaders to promote Judaism. Rabbi Mennachem Block and Rabbi Levi Shentov are from Brooklyn, N.Y., where they are studying Judaism. The two rabbis visited about 10 Jewish Iowa City families and Mayor William Ambrisco. "A lot of families in Iowa City asked the representative from Chabad Lubavitch in Des Moines to send rabbis to the community," Shentov said.

The rabbis also said Iowa City has a warm Jewish community and that is another reason they wanted to visit. Iowa City has about 160 Jewish.