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News Tip HOTLINE Quad-City Times City Editor: Mark Ridolfi (563) 383-2450 Tuesday, April 24, 2001 Section Pages: C6-12 o) Region Ifi) SMSpONSG pDn annual salary of $73,868, plus $700 in longevity pay, to a starting salary of $94,000, which will increase to $97,000 at the end of for 10 years. I've had the support of the mayor, city manager, City Council and the community. I have a fantastic staff, this is a fan because she has wanted to return to New England, where he formerly worked and lived. That was the largest factor, he added. But, Scott Schwiebert Phillips Briefly Shooting injures 2, police investigating Two people were taken Monday night to Genesis Medical Center, Davenport, after a shooting incident in the 400 block of East 9th Street in Davenport.

A police spokesperson could not release any other information about what had happened or what condition the victims were in. The investigation continues. Lee Nelson Anthony Scott announces he's headed back East By Thomas Geyer QUAD-CITY TIMES After spending several days agonizing over whether he should stay or go, Rock Island Police Chief Anthony Scott said Monday that an offer to become police chief in Holyoke, is an opportunity he cannot pass up. "It was a very difficult decision," he said. "I've been here pay.

Additionally, the city offered to pay 5 percent of Scott's base salary, or $3,952, to his deferred compensation account. But, he added, Scott's decision is understandable, given his and his wife's desire to move back east. "It is not often that you have the opportunity to pick and choose where you want to go," Phillips said. "When the opportunity comes along, it's hard to pass it up." A national search for a new SCOTT Please turn to Page C3 using an old tastic police department and this is a great community. "But I had to make a decision and I made it." He will begin his new duties in Holyoke on May 21.

In the process, Scott said, he made his wife, Helene, happy, Scott's three-year contract, Holyoke Mayor Michael Sullivan said. Rock Island City Manager John Phillips said the city tried hard to keep Scott, offering him an increase in base salary to $79,742, including longevity Louisiana phrase, the 55-year-old New Orleans native added, "I'm getting a little lagniappe, which means 'a little something extra for Part of that "something extra" will be a raise, from an NEWSCAST EXPERIMENT UNDER WAY IN DAVENPORT Farm auction nets for Humane Society rcrr.ccc:c II 7.1 By Chris Youngqulst QUAD-CITY TIMES The Scott County farm of a long-deceased animal lover has brought a $1.4 million windfall to the Humane Society of Scott County, which plans to build a new shelter on 53rd Street with some of the money. The nonprofit agency was the secondary beneficiary of the estate left by Margo Lamp when she died in 1990. First priority went to maintenance of her pets, a dog named Calamity Jane and a pig called Mr. Pig, who is said to have followed Lamp around the farm and eaten cat food straight from the can.

"It was so secret I didn't know anything about it," Humane Society executive director Pamela Arndt said of the care arrangements for the animals, which she said died several years ago. For the last decade, the land has been rt wa farmed, with It was SO income not secret I used for didn't Lamp pets going to the know Humane Soci- tWc Photo by Craig ChandlerQUAD-CITY TIMES Greg Wilson and Ellen Chang, the anchors for the 9 p.m. weeknlght newscast shown on KUB-TV In the Quad-Cities, work with a different set of call letters Monday evening. Under a new arrangement made possible by modern technology, the production company for the Fox 18 newscast did the same thing for Fox Channel 46 In West Virginia. Q-C TV news crew makes news in West Virginia Media expert calls remote newscast a sign of the times ety's spay and neuter pro about it' By David Burke QUAD-CITY TIMES iMl '-ii- Aledo.

III. Marine pleads guilty to sexual assault A U.S. Marine faces six to 30 years in prison after pleading guilty Monday in Mercer County Circuit Court to a sex offense. Randy Wayne Hooper, 36, of Matherville, entered an open plea to one Class felony count of predatory criminal sexual assault of a child. In exchange for his guilty plea, two Class 1 felony counts of criminal sexual assault and child pornography were dismissed.

The charges were filed in connection with three separate incidents involving the same 13-year-old girl in December 1999 and in January. Hooper, a gunnery sergeant stationed at Arsenal Island, will be sentenced June 11. He also could face military court martial proceedings. He was arrested in January by the Mercer County Sheriff's Department after a complaint was filed by the victim's family and a videotape was found. J.C.

Taylor Pavenport Oldies rock show postponed by flood Flood conditions have forced the postponement of "Let the Good Times Roll," a rock 'n' roll oldies show featuring The Grass Roots, Gary Puckett and The Bucking-hams at the RiverCenter Adler Theatre. The concert, originally set for Sunday, has been moved to Oct. 28. All previously purchased tickets will be honored on the new date. It is the second flood-related postponement for an Adler show: A grand opening concert for the Rhythm City Casino featuring Ray Charles and Moline nativefamed jazz drummer Louis Bellson has been moved from Thursday to July 3.

Rock Island Tour historical homes on Arsenal Island The Rock Island Arsenal Women's Club, or RIAWC, will sponsor a tour of historic homes on Arsenal Island from 11a.m. to 4 p.m. May 5. The cost is $10. Homes will include Quarters One.

In addition, the Rock Island Arsenal Museum will be open at no cost and the Col. Davenport House will be open admission. Tickets are available at the gift shop, golf club, outdoor recreation office, RIAWC thrift shop and special events office at the, Rock Island Arsenal. Tickets also will be available at the event. Tickets can be purchased by mail, no later than Wednesday by sending a letter to: Historic Homes Tour, 2123 N.

Myrtle St, Davenport, IA, 52804. Include a self-addressed, stamped envelope, the number of tickets you want and $10 for each ticket, payable to RIAWC. The event is open to adults and children ages 12 and older. It is a walking tour. Residences are not handicapped-accessible.

For more information, call (319) 332-8958 evenings. Chad Schneider wheels his chair out Into the hallway to ask an editing question of a co-worker as a Quad-City production crew readied its first nightly newscast for a West Virginia TV station Monday evening. The Clarksburg-Weston W.Va. market is the 165th-largest in the nation (the Quad-Cities is No. 90), and the WVFX newscast faces competition from CBS and NBC-TV affiliates.

"There are people all over the country watching this experiment. You've got a lot of stations now that are looking at something like this," Boggs said. "This may be a way for markets this size to get in the news game, effectively and rather quickly." Al Tomkins, who is on the faculty of the Poynter Institute, a journalism training center in Florida, said a local newscast produced several states away is a sign of the times. Some newscasts, including KLJB, have their weather forecast produced far away, and radio stations have no qualms about weather or news coming from a distance. "The truth is, technology allows us to decentralize everything," Tomkins said.

"It really doesn't matter from a technical point of view who's where." Tomkins worries that anchors seen on a TV screen in a small West Virginia city will not have the identity of being "local" in that town. "The idea is that we're the newscast for their town. That's NEWS Please turn to Page C3 gram. PAMELA ARNDT With Lamps Humane Society pampered four- executive legged friends director also gone and plans for a new Humane Society building proceeding, more than 300 acres of agricultural land in northwest Davenport went on the auction block Saturday. An 11.7-acre parcel that can hold one house sold to Dennis Congdon for $120,500.

Neighboring farmer Kenneth Klindt bought the remaining 313 acres for $4,100 an acre, or about $1.28 million. The property is zoned to be preserved as agricultural land, but a restrictive covenant on the property would prevent a farming operation with more than 500 animals. The combined proceeds are more than twice the estimated value of the estate in 1990. "We're wanting to utilize half of the money for a new facility and with the rest we're going to continue to support the spayneuter program and other programs to help the animals," Arndt said. "(Humane Society officials) were very happy people," said HUMANE Please turn to Page C3 From the studios of EBI Video in Davenport, Greg Wilson and Ellen Chang looked into the cameras, smiled and gave Monday's headlines.

A murder suspect on the run in Ritchie County. A visit by U.S. Sen. Jay D. Rockefeller.

A push for technology by Gov. Bob Wise. The first day of turkey hunting season. That doesn't sound like the news from the Quad-Cities, and it's not. It's the debut of the WVFX-TV "Fox 46 News at Ten," a half-hour newscast for viewers in Clarksburg, W.Va.

EBI, which has produced KLJB-TV 18's "Fox 18 News at Nine" with Wilson and Chang since New Year's Eve 1999, launched its second local newscast Monday albeit in a market that's a 700-mile drive away "Startup operations for television news can be expensive," said co-anchor Wilson, who's also the news director. "They don't have these up-front costs. They don't have to build a set or hire anchors. "It's a nice niche for us." Two it eventually will be three reporters are stationed in Clarksburg, a city of credible talent and just as much information with real bodies there," Lyle said. "The cost just isn't as high." George Boggs, the general manager of WVFX, said a combination of economic reasons and a need to get a newscast on his station made the EBI package attractive.

"If we were to go ahead and do it ourselves, we couldn't put it on this quick, get all the equipment installed, get all the people trained," he said. "News is such an important product, we wanted to get to it as soon as possible with as good of a product as we could get." about 20,000 people in the north-central part of West Virginia. Several stories are sent on a satellite uplink, but within a few weeks they will be e-mailed to the Quad-Cities, then e-mailed back for broadcast. The West Virginia news is taped to air at 10 p.m. Eastern time, 9 p.m.

Central. The less-expensive cost is a reason such a newscast can be attractive to stations such as Fox, WB and UPN affiliates that cannot afford a newscast of their own, EBI president Jeff Lyle said. "For the most part, we give them a show that's better produced than in their market, Federal grant starts industrial clean up process vent industrial expansion. Removing them allows current businesses to expand or new businesses to move in. "Those will probably be industrial jobs since that area is zoned for industrial," he said.

"Those jobs generally are higher-paying." Caldwell said that being selected for the study also gives Davenport access to the EPA's revolving loan fund, from which it can draw up to $500,000 for private or public development. Cedar Rapids, Waterloo, Clinton and Sioux City also received Brownfields pilot study funds. estimated 100 sites that have possible environmental problems. The site that probably could receive the most attention lies under the Crescent Railroad Bridge, where the old Davenport City Dump was located from 1942 to 1972. "There's no telling what problems are buried under there," said Alderman Roland Caldwell, 3rd Ward, in whose jurisdiction the old dump is located.

"Those problems will prevent us from using or selling the ground for business expansion." The brownfields, he said, pre Homeshield, Ralston Purina and Kraft," Adams said. "We want to ensure they are able to stay here and expand as they need to." The study area, he said, also includes the region surrounding Nahant Marsh, the largest urban marsh on the upper Mississippi and a recently completed EPA Superfund project. In years past, the study area was the city's economic base. Most of those businesses and industries which included a now-idle coal gasification plant, closed packing houses and lumber and rail yards moved away decades ago, leaving an development specialist with the city, said the assessment project includes most of west Davenport in the vicinity of the Mississippi River, including older industrial areas and open areas to be restored for greenspace and recreation. There are about 8,270 residents in and near that area.

All told, the grant will allow inspection of about 2,450 acres along the river from Marquette Street west down Rockingham Road and River Drive all the way out to Utah Avenue. "Some of our biggest industries are located within the selected zone of study, Nichols- Westside riverfront targeted for federal program By Thomas Geyer QUAD-CITY TIMES Davenport has been awarded a $250,000 federal grant to study cleanup of industrial areas along the city's west-side riverfront. The grant is from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Brownfields Economic Redevelopment Initiative. Len Adams, an economic.