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MOINES REGISTER DECORAII SUED fOne Dissent Seems Likely at Meeting to Rally 'Round Rapp Claim 10 of Trucks Violate Law Toll It Like It Is Masters of Mason City and Jim By Jerry Szumski Democratic Party leaders in the Third Congressional District where the nominee for U.S. presentative is still in doubt plan a unity NEWS meeting Thurs- ANALYSIS day night, but one dissent seems guaranteed. Nicholas Johnson, the upset loser in the June 4 primary election, isn't about to concede to the ostensible winner, State Representative Stephen Rapp. To concede, Johnson said in an interview by telephone Tuesday, would be to slight the Tama Indians, who were deprived of voting in the June 4 primary. 1973 Law Johnson calls himself "the gracious loser" and yet insists that to concede would be premature until the Indians vote.

The Mesquakie Triabal Council of Tama has asked a federal court to let them vote late because county officials failed to set up a polling place on their settlement, as required by a 1973 lawv Votes counted so far in the district's 18 counties give Rapp, 25, a Waterloo lawyer, a 62-vote edge over Johnson, 38, a Waterloo lawyer, Kesley farmer and former Federal Communications Commission member. But up to 300 Indians reportedly are qualified to vote in the Mesquakie settlement enough to shift the victory to Johnson if a federal judge orders a special election. To Democratic Party leaders, the thing for Johnson to do is concede and join the two other primary losers in fully backing Rapp's candidacy against the GOP nominee, State Representative Charles Grassley of New Hartford. That's the main purpose of a meeting Thursday night in the Rural Electrification Co-op office at Allison. Does Johnson think a vote by the Indians might give him victory? Johnson was asked that after an extended philosophical explanation of his position in the interview Tuesday.

"No Way" "There's no way of predicting," he said. He said he did not campaign among the Indians, did not encourage their lawsuit and won't offend the Indians with a gaudy campaign if Judge Edward McManus winds up calling a special election. "If my guts were boiling and I really wanted to be the Third District congressional nominee, I wouldn't be out transplanting cabbages," he said from his farmouse at Kesley. Meanwhile, back at Rapp headquarters, the putative nominee said he'll go to Allison expecting that Johnson and the other two June 4 losers, Ron i Emc High Winds, Hail, Rain Hit Ames DES were made to pay his fine. "I'll tell you this; I won't have nearly as much trouble getting from Iowa to New York as I did from Des Moines to Davenport." State officials estimate that about 10 per cent of all trucks on Iowa highways are in some kind of violation of the laws, either weight and length or by having improper carrier permits.

Iowa's truck laws are enforced primarily by the 76 highway commission traffic weight officers and the 21 Commerce Commission officers. The Highway Patrol custom arily enforces speed limits, although troopers are not gener ally called upon to check trucks for weight, length or permit violations. In 1973, Iowa collected slightly more than $14 million in revenue from truckers. This includes money from both permits and fines. Officials Check Radio Licenses WILTON, IA.

"There's Smokey Bears all over, and they're checking everything." That cryptic message crackled over citizens' band (CB) radios about 4 p.m. Tuesday, informing truckers running on Interstate Highway 80 that they would run into a solid enforce ment wall, at Wilton, about 25 miles east of Iowa City. When truckers arrived at the Wilton 1-80 weigh station, they were met not only by "Smokey Bears" (Iowa Highway Patrol troopers), but also by two officials of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). The FCC men, Mike Freeman and Bob Atkinson, both of Kan sas City, politely asked each trucker whose vehicle car ried a radio antenna if he could produce a valid radio operators license. Atkinson reported that as of 10 p.m.

Tuesday, he and Freeman had stopped and checked 61 trucks and found that 40 of those trucks were in violation of radio laws. "This is actually an educa tional program, to get the truckers to go through the procedures and get a license," Atkinson explained. He said the citations given Tuesday were just warnings, but that a violation of federal radio law carries a penalty of six months in jail or a $10,000 fine. Atkinson said it is against the law to carry a CB transmitter in a car or truck without a valid radio operators license. But despite this, many truckers carry such radios and use them to inform each other of June 19.

1974 WORDS OF WISDOM FttW IHH in TRUCKS- Continued from Page One Harding Road in Des Moines, a driver for Vitalis Truck Lines. Taylor's truck was measured eight inches longer than the 55-foot allowable limit for semi trailer trucks in Iowa. "Why don't they crack down on the steel workers or the in surance salesmen?" Taylor asked. "They're just doing this to bring in more money," he said. At rest stops and truck stops on both sides of the weigh station, located about midway be tween Iowa City and Daven port, trucks began to gather late in the afternoon to wait out the crackdown.

Word Spreads within minutes, word was spread among truckers via citizens' band (CB) radios that a heavy crackdown was in force, and those drivers in violation of truck laws had best stay off the roads. In western Iowa, there was little traffic on the citizen band radios during the first hour of the crackdown. But shortly after 5 p.m. truckers traveling eastbound on Interstate 80 from Council Bluffs began hearing the following message from westbound truckers: "Smokey (the nickname truckers give to Iowa Highway Patrol troopers) is getting real legal at Avoca." By 5:30, a rest area 20 miles west of the Avoca weigh station was filled with trucks. Many of the drivers were stripping CB antennas from their cabs.

"I've got a CB license applied for, but it hasn't come through yet," said one Sioux City trucker who declined to give his name. "I'm taking the CB out and putting it under the seat to be sure I don't have no hassle." That trucker termed the crackdown "pure harassment" of drivers by Highway Commission officials. "They aren't going to catch many weight or length violations along the interstate," he said. "Anybody who's running illegal like that will be taking the back roads. "Smokey Upset" "The only thing they'll find on the interstate is illegal radios.

These truckers have been able to get away with speeding because- of them, and I think that's made Smokey a little upset." -v Weigh stations on state highways north and south of Interstate 80 in eastern Iowa also were opened late Tuesday af ternoon as part of the effort to check all heavy vehicles in this part of the state. Howe said he and other officials hoped the crackdown would be particularly effective in cutting into the use of CB radios by truckers to avoid lawmen. "A Federal Communications Commission (FCC) check is great, but why are they doing it for 18-wheelers only?" asked Chicago (111.) trucker Ronald Carpenter, while Highway Commission officials checked his rig at the Avoca weigh station. "I've got $300 invested in my radio, and the only reason it's there is to help me put more bread on the table for my wife and family. I can make one hell of a lot more money driving 75 than I can 55, and the radio lets me know where Smokey is, so I can go 75.

"The FCC is doing right by trying to get the crap off the air but you will find that truck ers aren't the ones who are abusing the FCC rules. It's all these people in cars and campers asking where they can get a cheap meal." Top state officials, including Commerce Commission Chairman Maurice Van Nostrand, Drake A Touch of I FOR $100,000 (Tht Ret ister'i lowi News Service) DECORAH, IA A Minneapolis shopping center devel oper Tuesday filed a $100,000 lawsuit in Winneshiek County District Court here against the City of Decorah after the City council refused to rezone a 23- acre tract for a proposed $5- million shopping center here. In the suit, Ross K. Peterson seeks a judgment against the city for alleged damages result ing from what he described as "arbitrary, unreasonable, dis criminatory and capricious ac tion." Local officials opposed the rezoning request and contended that the tract was needed for industrial development. In the suit, Peterson lists sev en reasons for challenging the denial of rezoning, alleging the City Council acted contrary to the law governing rezoning.

Peterson and an associate, Len Petersen, of Edina, said they planned to spend up to $5 million in developing the shopping center featuring a closed mall, expansive parking facilities and about two dozen stores. URGES INVESTIGATION WASHINGTON, D.C. (AP) Senator Frank Church Idaho) said Tuesday the Justice Department should investigate a proposal by Mobil Oil Co. to acquire 51 per cent control of Marcor Corp. from trees and downed power lines in the area.

The Story County town, of Gil-bert also reported downed limbs and lines, the sheriff's office said. But no injuries had been reported, officers said. Baseball-sized Hail Baseball-sized hail fell southeast of Ames, and smaller hailstones fell throughout north-central Iowa. Marshall County authorities said a reported tornado touched down at the Marshalltown airport about three miles north of Marshalltown but there were no reports of injuries or damage. A tornado touched ground at Rickardsville, according to the Dubuque County sheriff's department.

No damage was reported. A funnel rcloud also was sighted by the public three miles east and three miles north of Ankeny about 9:30 p.m., but there were no reports of it touching down. The storms followed one of the warmest days of the sum mer season when the mercury soared to 96 degrees at Council Bluffs and to 95 at Sioux City. Other highs ranged down to 80 at Dubuque. Des Moines' high was 87.

PUSHES END OF TAX DEBATE WASHINGTON, D.C. (AP) -Senate Democratic Leader Mike Mansfield stepped up his efforts Tuesday to choke off a filibuster blocking action on major tax-cut and tax-reform measures. He filed a cloture petition designed to bring a quick vote on an amendment preventing sponsors of the tax cut-tax reform package from even offering their proposal. Then he won agreement to vote on his petition this afternoon instead of waiting until Thursday as the rules provide. The vote would be to cut off debate on an amendment sponsored by Senator James B.

Allen who has been discussing it for two days. The amendment would hold the increase in the debt limit to $490 billion instead of $495 billion as the House voted. Once the Allen rider is disposed of, the Senate will vote on a second cloture petition filed by Senator Wallace F. Bennett and other Republicans. It would cut off debate on the entire bill and provide that all amendments have to be germane.

This would put the tax t-tax reform amendment sponsored by Senator Edward M. Kennedy Mass.) and other liberals out of order. IRA Says Bombing Will Be Intensified BELFAST, NORTHERN IRELAND (AP) The Provisional wing of the Irish Republican Army (IRA) Tuesday admitted responsibility for a new bombing blitz in Ulster, but denied prior knowledge of Monday's bomb attack on the British Par liament. The IRA's mid-Ulster brigade issued a statement that it was intensifying its bombing campaign Northern Ireland "to force acceptance of previous IRA demands for a just peace." the whereabouts of troopers and Iowa Highway Commission weight officers, and whether the next weigh station down the road is open or not. One chagrined trucker, Jef frey Krouch of Mason City, found that his radio was not licensed and was given a citation by Atkinson.

"The guy I bought this thing (the radio) from told me it was licensed and everything was in order," said Krouch. "But I guess the thing wasn't. I like to listen to the radio to find out what's going on farther down the road." Another trucker, Fred Ellis of Waukcgan, 111., produced a val id radio operators' license for Atkinson. "I keep everything legal," said Ellis, an independent driv er who was headed for Des Moines. "I usually listen to the radio all the time, but today my generator has been out, and so I had to turn it off." "The idea is to show these guys that we're out here and will bring them in for illegal use of those radios," Iowa Commerce Commission Chair man Maurice Van Nostrand said.

Dan Filler LOCAL VOICE IN SCHOOLS URGED The Iowa Legislature will be asked next year to provide funds to transport all students and to give local school dis tricts more control over their budgets. Dr. Robert Creighton, presi dent of the Iowa State Education Association (ISEA), told the State Board of Public Instruction Tuesday those pro grams would be prime issues supported by teachers. Despite Advances "Despite the advances made in the last two years in the foundation plan for state aid to schools, many other changes need to be made in the area of school financing if we expect to retain present educational programs and competent staff to carry out those programs," Creighton said. He told the state board that 8-per-cent growth rate school districts will be allowed in the 1975-76 school year may fall short of meeting inflationary needs.

Creighton said the Legislature should increase the allowable growth rate for schools, and place more local autonomy into the school budgeting proc ess. "Local educators and school board members can better determine the needs of youngsters they work with and the kind of program needed to meet those needs than can the Iowa General Assembly," the ISEA official said. "Because the Legislature controls the purse strings, they also to a large extent control the program offering and staffing pattern for local schools," he said. Transporting Costs Creighton said the state should take over the cost of transporting children to and from school at a cost of $25 million to $30 million a year. "Since the cost of transporta tion has no bearing on the educational program a school offers, this cost should not be included in the school district budget," he said.

Creighton said the financial squeeze on local scnooi districts is resulting in many persons leaving the teaching profession for higher paying jobs other fields and more teachers taking second jobs to make ends meet. rodEca. LINDEN, N.J iORDol Vodka mh.mmmV Skaine of Cedar Falls, will ral ly 'round his campaign. "The main emphasis is that the three candidates who lost will get up and endorse the winner," said Rapp. Other business includes discussing strategy against Grassley and for Democrats running for the Legislature in marginal districts.

Rapp, like Johnson, supports the move to give the Indians the chance to vote. County officials claim they tried but failed to get the Tribal Council to approve setting up a polling place at the Indian School in the Mesquakie settlement. Rapp said one young Indian leader, Don Wanatee, has said the tribe is prepared to appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court to get the vote. The suit also asks $250,000 damages from county and state officials for denial of rights.

Such an appeal if it keeps the official certification of the Democratic nominee in limbo could take months and that's what worries Democratic officials. But until Johnson is formally out as a rival, Rapp's campaign carries an air of tentativeness. A hearing in the Indians' suit is scheduled at 10 a.m. Monday in the federal court in Cedar Rapids. was northern Polk County where the entire towns of Ankeny, Altoona, Alleman, Bondu-rant, Elkhart and Polk City were darkened.

He said other outages were scattered throughout rural Polk County and Des Moines. Hot Wires The spokesman said crews reported Interstate 35 just north of its interchange with Interstate 80 was blocked by hot electrical wires. He said one side of Interstate 80 also was blocked. He said the power company was calling in extra repair crews and by this morning should have crews from other parts of the state helping. He said some areas might remain without power for most of today.

r' Police Reports Des Moines police also received these damage reports: The building housing Cash Credit Corp. at 200 Euclid Ave. was reported to have its plate glass windows blown out. The plate glass windows also were blown out of the buildings housing the Mitchell Transmission Co. at 1440 Locust St.

and the Denny Elwell Pay-less Tire at 105 E. Euclid Ave. Trees were reported ripped down and blocking the streets on E. Thirteenth Street south of Cleveland Avenue, on Douelas Avenue in the 3100 block and at E. Thirtieth Street and Madison Avenue.

Hot elec trical wires also were reported to be down at those locatons. Water was reported to wind shield deep on some cars on University Avenue at one point during the storm. At Ames earlier in the night high winds, hail and torrential rains' swept through the city and caused extensive property damage. No injuries were reported, police said. Police said a number of trees were downed, blocking streets, They said several roofs were damaged with large sections ripped off.

The Sevde Transfer and Stor age Co. reportedly had a large portion of its roof torn away, The winds were clocked at 56 miles oer hour on the Iowa State University campus, police said. Six mobile homes were re ported demolished at the inter section of Interstate 35 and U.S. Highway 30. None of the mobile homes residents was at home at the time.

One resident said one or two mobile homes were overturned and others had been slammed together. Several Ames street intersec tions had water two to three feet deep. Hail two to three inches in diameter smashed into cars, breaking several windshields. In some places, water was reported running curb deep after heavy downpours of rain soaked the area. Phone and power lines were also knocked out by the storm.

A spokesman at WOI-TV and radio said the station was op erating on reduced emergency generated power and was using several "hand-held" lights. Story County sheriff's office said high winds accom- panying a tornado which touched down east of Kelley Tuesday night reportedly damaged a barn and tore limbs gathered at Highway Commission weigh stations late Tuesday to witness the beginning of the enforcement effort. Highway Patrol troopers, Highway Commission traffic weight officers and Commerce Commission officers carried out the enforcement. They were assisted by observers from the U.S. Department of transportation, the Interstate Commerce Commission and the FCC.

The Iowa Army National Guard based three helicopters at the Atlantic airport in western Iowa early Tuesday afternoon. Guard officials said two of the helicopters would be used to enable Iowa Highway Commission weight enforcement officers to spot trucks that might attempt to leave Interstate 80 to avoid the checks being conducted at the Avoca weigh station. Guard officials said the helicopters would be used to carry! law enforcement officials for up to three days. Guardsmen at Atlantic said the force of lawmen participating in the truck crack down was using radio fre quencies too high to be picked up by truckers using citizens band radios. In recent months, truck law enforcement has become not only a subject of dispute within state agencies, but a political issue as well.

Object of Crackdown The object of the Tuesday crackdown was not so much enforcement of the 55-mile-per- hour speed limit, but to check trucks for violations of weight and length limits. Iowa law limits trucks to a gross weight of 73,280 pounds, and 18,000 pounds per axle. Semi-trailer trucks may be no longer than 55 feet, and double-bottom (twin-trailer) trucks are limited to 60 feet. Legislation to extend those limits five feet to conform to most states surrounding Iowa passed the Iowa Legislature last year but was vetoed by Gov. Robert Ray.

However, a rider in a bill creating a new Department of Transportation gave the authority to the new transportation commission to change truck limits. The new commission will begin work sometime after July 1. Taylor, the Des Moines truck er arrested on interstate 8( near here, said Iowa compounds truckers' problems by limiting semi-trailer lengths to 55 feet, rather than the 60-feet allowed in most adjoining states and also engages periodically in the kind of crackdown that be gan here Tuesday afternoon. "I'm headed for New York," said Taylor, after arrangements Summer Sunshine session classes and workshops begin Curriculum July 15-26 July 13-26 the Summer Session Office at DrakeJ Or call toll free 1 800-362 2416. University Professional Leadership 10 residents of the 18-unit apart ment complex who sat out the storm in a downstairs hallway.

There were unconfirmed reports of persons trapped in their homes. Polk County sheriff's officers said there was severe damage to a mobile home court located on N.E. Fifty-sixth St. However, they did not have an estimate of damage or injuries. High winds, heavy rains and some hail also hit Polk City during the height of the storm and power was out, possibly posing a threat to the community's water supply.

Officials there said the water tower was very low on water, and none could be pumped to the tower because of the lack of electricity. Pleasant Hill Damage 'Initial reports from Pleasant Hill indicated that the Elks' Club and Des Moines Police Recreation Building both brick structures were severely damaged by the storm that swept through Pleasant Hill. Porters OK Hardware Store at 4207 Avenue Frederick M. Hubbell suffered severe damage as high winds whipped building late Tuesday. Front windows of the building were blown out and the roof of the store caved in, according to witnesses at the scene.

Knocked Down Mrs. Dee Zeadabaesi of 4111 Avenue Frederick M. Hubbell said she was knocked down by high winds when she stepped out of her residence to bring some plants inside hef home. A church at the intersection of East Forty-second Street and Avenue Frederick M. Hubbell had the roof blown off.

A truck also got stalled between downed power lines at the intersection, blocking traffic. Pleasant Hill police said several injuries were reported from the storm but no names were available. Trees and power lines were strewn across streets blocking thoroughfares and power was out. Bill Cole of 4978 N.E. Fifty-sixth St.

in Altosna said about a fourth of the roof off a square bulding on his property was blown off. He also said a barn on his acreage was knocked off the foundation. He said he lives just west of the Adventureland Inn near Al toona. Mrs. Ethel Fisher said the roof off the back porch of her home at 2740 N.E.

Fifty-second Court was blown off. She said her neighbors also had dam ages, and big cottonwood trees in the neighborhood were ripped down. Tree Hits D.M. Car At 3801 Bowdoin in Des Moines Pam McCrea said a tree fell on top of her car. She said trees were down all over the neighborhood, and the porch at a next-door neighbor's home was smashed when a tree fell on it.

Mrs. Lee Routson of 4007 Tif fin Ave. in Des Moines said the garage at her home was blown away. She said a nearby home had the roof blown off. A spokesman for Iowa Power and Light Co.

said early today that "somewhere in the neighborhood of 25,000" customers had lost electrical power. He said the hardest-hit area I WEATHER Continued jrom Page One store on the northern edge of town. Home Hit Mrs. Phil Grove of 313 E. Seventh St.

in Ankeny said the Grove family went to the base ment of the home when the storm hit. She said water was pouring through the walls in the basement of the home fol lowing heavy rains and hail, "but we didn't realize how bad it was out here." She said there were downed Dower lines throughout the area. Mrs. Grove said she was told the roof was blown off the Hy-Vee Store and the Henry's Drive-In restaurant was demolished. An Ankeny church was also seriously damaged, she said.

Ankeny police and fire de- partment officials said they were handling only emergency calls late Tuesday and" early today and refused to comment on damage or injuries. A witness said there was "a car in the side of the Dairy Queen" store along U.S. Highway 69. Someone's Boat Mrs. Allen Bell of Ankeny said someone's boat had blown into her back yard during the storm.

At the Interstate 35 between Des Moines and Ankeny, highway signs were reported to be twisted around their poles from the wind. A portion of the Music Building roof at Faith Baptist College in Ankeny was ripped loose by the wind and hurled about a block away into the house of College President David Nettleton. Dr. Nettleton was out of town on i business and no one was injured, according to Oswald H. Morley, dean of students.

Morley said the debris crashed into the northeast cor ner of the president home at 224 Abilene Road, breaking glass doors leading to a ground- level workshop ana allowing ine torrential rains to pour in. The music building, a two-story frame structure at 1903 N. Fourth contained classrooms, practice rooms and offices. Damage Estimate Dr. Patten, a theology Instructor and former president of the college, estimated damage" at $50,000.

Morley also said the Gymnasium-Convocation Building at Faith Baptist Bible College suffered damage. Both Patten and Morley said they thought the damage was caused by gusting high winds and not a tornado. Patten de scribed the sound of the storm as a "steadv roar." He said the winds lasted about 15 to 20 minutes. Tammy Tighe, 20, an Ankeny Community College student, said residents of the Teilein Apartments gathered in a downstairs hallway as the storm raged through the town about 10:30 p.m. She said she walked through the' area after the storm and found houses demolished, power poles down and tree limbs strewn across streets.

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