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The Sioux City Journal, Tuesday, September 30, 1 986 A 5 Farmers sort debris after central Iowa tornado BAXTER, Iowa (AP) Bulldozers and tractors rumbled Monday as farmers sorted through debris left by a tornado which swept through central Iowa, leveling farm homes and uprooting trees. "It just kind of rained and the wall shuddered and it just tumbled and then it was gone," said Donna Cross, 72, whose 100-year-old farm home and a dozen other buildings were destroyed. i "You could hear it kind of hissing and then you felt it in your ears," said her husband, Wade. "Then the house was gone." On Monday, Cross, his wife and 50 friends and neighbors picked through the debris. A bulldozer piled up wreckage.

i "It just started blowing and that's all there was," said a neighbor, Dale Smith, 38. "When it started blowing, I got out of here." Smith also was sifting through the rubble of his home that was flattened by the tornado. "I don't know what I'll do," Smith said. "Clean up and go from there, I reckon." Gov. Terry Branstad on Monday night signed a declaration declaring Jasper County a disaster area because of the storm damage.

The declaration makes residents whose property was damaged eligible for help from the state. In addition, the state will seek assistance from federal farm disaster programs on behalf of those who suffered storm damage. Branstad said the storms caused $1,623,000 worth of property damage in Jasper County and damaged $350,000 worth of crops. Seven homes were destroyed, five sustained major damage and 30 homes had minor damage, he said. The governor also said 65 other buildings and 60 pieces of farm equipment were damaged by the tornado, strong winds and hail that roared through the area.

The Cross family and several relatives had a harrowing escape. The group of seven had fled to the basement of the home when weather turned sour, but retreated even further to a reinforced concrete coal bin in the basement. When the tornado struck, it leveled the house around the bin, leaving the seven huddled inside. "Without it, we wouldn't have made it," Mrs. Cross said.

"There was an air vent in the top and we could see out. We could look out when we were down there and see the house flying around." She said the bin was added to the house in the 1920s. Clean up crews were trying to salvage whatever could be found, as workers picked through debris and some reached into trees to retrieve kitchen utensils and other items which were left high in the branches of remaining trees. Near the home, an aluminum canoe was bent double around a tree. Authorities said the tornado cut from northern Polk County through Jasper County, in addition to twisters reported in Tama, Benton and Clay counties.

There were no reports of any serious injuries. David Cole, director of disaster services in Jasper County northeast of Des Moines, said storms caused damage along a path five-to-seven miles wide south of Baxter. Strewn along that swath were pieces of farm buildings, overturned tractors and flattened crops. The scene was the same in other parts of Iowa, where residents were cleaning up after storms. If Bill and Val Biwer and their three children had made it to the basement of their two-story house near the northeast Iowa town of Col-well Sunday night, they probably would not have survived the tornado that destroyed their home.

The Biwers and their son, Roy, 4, were watching television at 9:45 p.m. when the wind swirling around their home suddenly became very loud. "I thought I should go get the girls (daughters Jody, 8 and Jill, 6,) who were in their upstairs bedrooms," Val said. "I brought them to the living room and we were heading for the basement. The next thing we knew, we were on the floor." The tornado pushed the house off its foundation and it collapsed into the basement.

Donna and Wade Cross stand atop the survived a tornado that destroyed their rural' underground coal bin where they and six others Baxter home on Sunday night. (AP Laserphoto) City OKs switchboard change for auditorium Janklow criticizes drinking age rules SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) The federal government should concentrate on handling defense, foreign affairs and the budget, and let states worry about their legal drinking age, Gov. Bill Janklow said Monday. In an appearance on NBC-TV's "Today" news program, Janklow told viewers it might be legal for the federal government to withhold highway money from states that don't comply with a law calling for a 21-year-old drinking age, but it's wrong.

"They can't handle any of those (other) things without screwing them up," Janklow said. South Dakota is one of seven states that stands to lose 5 percent of its highway funds, effective Wednesday, because it hasn't set a 21-year-old drinking age. Janklow said he personally likes the higher drinking age but not the way the government is forcing the issue. "People like myself happen to be in favor of 21-year-old drinking. I'm not opposed to that," Janklow said.

"But I'm violently opposed to the federal goverment thinking it's their responsibility and their duty and their obligation to impose it on the can people." Janklow was interviewed at NBC studios in Denver. In Washington, D.C., Philip City lawmakers agreed Monday to replace the switchboard at the Mun-cipal Auditorium, a system that is critical to the auditorium's operations. The council agreed to advertise for bids tq replace the switchboard, which broke down Sept. 17 when a pipe leaked onto the gear and shorted out the system. Auditorium personnel rigged 'a temporary system, David White, assistant to City Manager J.R.

Castnersaid. Vlt could fail at anytime. If it did, we'd have to shut the auditorium down. We couldn't make ice, for instance, so we would just have water on the floor and that would mean no hockey," White said. He said he didn't have an estimate of the cost to replace the switchboard.

The council will hold a hearing Oct. 13. and open bids Oct. 14 on the project In other business, the council named Orlyn A. Swartz to the Board of Trustees of the Sioux City Municipal Airport, for a term expiring June 30, 1987: T)ie' council took action in spite of a request from Chuck Long, a member of the board of trustees, who asked the council to delay action one week.

Long said the board of trustees was Change of venue is denied By Mark Reinders Jcurrtalstaff writer yuJLLi3i3.A.lll hours" gCjft. 1 1 fTSr- SUN.1:00to5:00 'ABffiS? MMr iBfli t'l-ftjpggs Hr3i other days unaware that a candidate had been named to fill the vacancy. Long said the board would have liked an opportunity to review the appointment and make a recommendation to the council. Mayor Loren Callender said delaying action would be a mistake. "To me, it's like a slap in the face of the individual.

We already released his name to the news media and public." Councilman Bob Scott asked if it were common practice for the council to refer the name of a possible appointee to the board of commission on which he or she would serve. "It is customary to touch base with them," Councilwoman Joanne Grueskin answered. "In the spirit of good communication, I think we should do that." The council, however, voted on the application Monday. In another appointment, the council named Dale Nelson to the Skywalk System Board of Trustees to complete the unexpired term of Kirk V. Clausen.

The term will expire Aug. 3, 1987. Smokers face hiring ban CLINTON, Iowa (AP) The Clinton City Council is considering a proposal to ban the hiring of smokers. Council member Darrell Smith has proposed that smokers be barred from consideration for city jobs because of escalating disability payments to former employees who smoked. Smith said five Clinton employees recently were awarded disability payments due to heart or lung ailments.

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Late Monday, Judge Edwin Mitchell overruled motions to delay the trial or move it out of county based on news reports over the weekend about the federal bank robbery charges which name Johnson as defendant. Mitchell said, however, that he would reconsider his' decision today if jury selection was proving too difficult. Johnson's attorney, J. Keith Rigg, filed motions Monday arguing that news accounts about his client in the past three days made it impossible to select ah impartial jury. Hfc said, "The potential jurors haVen't: been in a cave for the last few days.

I can't remember a case where so much pre-trial publicity has resulted so close to trial." On'FJriday, Johnson was arrested and charged with robbing the First Interstate Bank in Sioux City. Police said the arrest was made after a fingerprint on a bank-teller's drawer matched those in Johnson's file. Court documents accuse Johnson of leaning over the counter at the bank, located on the corner of West Seventh and Hamilton Boulevard, and scooping up about $5,600 in cash. Local television reporters and The Journal covered the arrest in news stories Friday and Saturday. In denying Rigg's motions, Mitchell ruled the accounts to be factual and not prejudicial against Johnson.

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