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1 JL. IOWA NEWS More News Important News Excluilve News Local News Section Cenyrteht, 170. Dm Meines RHitttr and Tribune Company Des Moines, Iowa, Sunday Morning, March 29, 1970 nn Li fin IA I rr LEASING OF HIGH IN SOME IOWA CITIES, DEPLORE USE OF COACHES AS TEACHERS Early Liquor Law Asked Temperance By George Mills The State of Iowa started opening state liquor stores in 1934 to "promote temperance" and to "control the liquor traffic." take his liquor and leave. No questions asked. Contrast this with the 1934 situation: Then a customer first had to procure a liquor permit book issued in his name for $1 a year.

Purchases Listed Each time he bought liquor the purchase was recorded in the permit book, listing the kind and quantity of liquor, the price and the date. All that information was kept to prevent an Iowan from purchasing too much liquor, either to drink REGISTER PHOTO BY LARRY NEIBERGALL Easter in Bloom Mrs. Franklin Weymiller, left, and Mrs. Robert Leppert arrange Easter lilies, tulips and azaleas nn tfie altar of the United Methodist Church in Lansing while the Rev. A.

W. Ebert, pastor, goes over his Easter sermon in background. The rerently-merged church, consisting of members of Presbyterian and Methodist churches, will observe its first Easter Sunday today. STORY: Page 8-S. GRAY'S LAKE IS ASSAILED Oppose Deal With Water Skiers A proposal to lease Gray's Lake to a private water skiing group this summer "is' in absolute conflict" with the wishes of the Chamber of Commerce, Jack H.

Wesenberg, general secretary of the chamber, said Saturday. The chamber and the federal government are splitting the $615,000 cost of buying the lake for the city. The proposal to lease the lake to Ski Hawks, violates conditions imposed by both the federal government and the chamber. Wesenberg said that the chamber proposed buying the lake for the city as early as 1966 in a letter to the mayor of PICTURE: Page 4 Des Moines. The first letter stated as a condition of the offer that the lake be used as a public park.

The Ski Hawk proposal would limit the lake's use on weekends and holidays this year to 60 boaters buying dock space for a $200 seasonal rent. Others could use the lake during the week for a $5 charge. Wesenberg said the chamber wants to see power boats banned from the lake. "It should be left in a rough state with only sailboating and canoeing. The park board should make arrangements to put in trails and clean up the area for park use," he said.

Tom Quick, a member of the park board, said he and other board members will oppose the Ski Hawk proposal. "We need an over-all plan," Quick said. "If we let them build docks in there, that's it. Once something gets built, it usually stays." Quick also favors banning power boats from the lake. Chamber members, city councilmen and park board members will meet at 2 p.m.

Monday in the Armory Auditorium at E. First and Des Moines streets to discuss the Ski Hawk proposal. JACK WESENBERO Chilly Weather Stays in State Iowa gradually warmed up Saturday after record-breaking lows in the morning, but tem peratures remained well below seasonal normals throughout the day. In the southwest, high read ings were in the lower 40s while the northeast and extreme north sections only had temperatures in the mid-20s. Skies were mostly clear in the west and south and partly sunny northeast.

to assure townspeople a good or Jim Watkins said. "Whoever turned it on was somebody who knows the ropes they went through the station to the con trol panel. "It was, the trick of some pranksters I don't like it, though. It could destroy people's confidence in our storm alert system," Watkins said. TOM QUICK LOW IN OTHERS Industry Seen As Key Factor By Jon Van Iowans living in different parts of the state pay vastly different property taxes for roughly equal services, a survey of tax millage rates in Iowa shows.

A $20,000 home in Urbandale or Ottumwa will cost its owner about $800 in taxes this year to support schools, city and county government. The same home in Fort Madison would only cost about $500 in taxes this year. Despite the. lower taxes in Fort Madison, teacher salaries there start at $6,500 a year compared to $6,600 in Urban-dale and $6,400 in Ottumwa. Tax Base The difference is largely accounted for by what accountants call "tax base" how many industries and businesses in a community help homeowners pay for schools and local government.

Fort Madison School Supt. Arthur C. Hansen says Fort Madison has low taxes because of new industries moving into the area and old industries expanding. Last year Fort Madison homeowners paid about $95 for every $1,000 worth of property valuation on their house 95.190 mills. This year the rate dropped to 92.978 mills largely because of new and expanded industry.

There are more people paying for local government, so each of them pays at a lower rate than before. In Ottumwa things are just the opposite. Last year the rate was 141.721 mills, and this year it's up to 148.454 mills. "It's anybody's guess what's going to happen," Bob Stamp, the finance manager for Ottumwa schools says. The city's largest taxpayer and employer John Morrell Co.

is scheduled to shut down oper ations. "We need more industry to help with our taxes," Stamp said. "We've had a problem before. The Morrell situation just compounds it." Mull Solution In Urbandale, with a millace rate of 152.339 this year, there MILLAGE Please turn to Page Three Engagement Ring A spectator at a drive-in theater here Saturday night somehow manipulated a flexible-band ring onto the steering wheel of his car and could not remove it. His finger was still inside the ring.

Despite on-the-spot efforts of police, Dale Stover, 18, of 1211 Amos st. could not get loose. Police removed the steering wheel and took Stover to a nearby service statidn where the steering wheel was cut. Authorities said Stover suffered a swollen finger. Knoxville G.l.

Dies in Vietnam KNOXVILLE. IA. (AP)-The parents of Army Pfc. John W. fcams, 21, of Knoxville, have been notified of their son's death in Vietnam.

Mr. and Mrs. John W. Sams said Saturday the Defense De partment told them their son was killed in action Mar. 21.

Other details were not immediately available. Council Topic: 1969 City Audit The Des Moines City Council is scheduled to meet at 6:30 p.m. Monday in City Hall at E. First and Locust streets. One item to be considered is the 1969 city audit which criticizes Municipal Court Clerk Russell Lundgrens management practices and calls for total reor ganization of his office.

Time Cruel to Iowa Hotel By Frank Lloyd Wright By Stephen Seplow (Register Staff Writer) MASON CITY, IA For $3 a night, you can stay here in the only hotel still standing in America designed by Frank Lloyd There was no thought when the new law was written of making a lot of money for the Tnwa statp treasury. Xyf UJ in tact, Gov. Clyde L. Herring said state store customers should be charged only enough to cover wholesale cost of liquor plus operating expenses of the state Liquor Control Commis sion. Profit From Bread The late Gov.

Herring's origi nal ideas about operating "no- prof it state liquor stores were never adopted. Bernard Manley of Mason City, a former mer chant, was flatly opposed. Man-ley, one of the three original state liquor commissioners, maintained it was not right to allow the sale of liquor at cost when bread the "staff of life" was sold at a profit. Today "temperance" and "control" have taken a back seat in the business of the 198 state monopoly liquor stores. The Iowa Senate last week voted to reduce the controls by allowing some private sale of liquor by the bottle in smaller towns.

This bill has gone to the House. The principal reason for ex istence of the state liquor stores now is to provide close to $16 million a year in revenue for state and local treasuries. With out liquor profils the Iowa gov erning bodies would have to raise taxes. The original strict limits on the sale of liquor in Iowa have all but disappeared. Now all a person has to do to buy liquor by the bottle or by the case is fill out an unsigned order in a state store, pay his money, Over the Service With A Smile LAST WEEK was Pony Express Rider Week and, with a characteristic sense of the appropriate, the nation celebrated by staging a postal strike.

Nothing elaborate, you understand, just a haphazard work stoppage that gave Richard (The President) Nixon a chance to call out the troops, thereby raising the possibility of a new commemorative stamp "Join the Army and Be a Scab," or something like that. The remarkable aspect of the strike was that it didn't seem to interfere with mail service. The service was slow before the strike and during the strike, and it's slow now. One suspects that the postal employes went back to work not so much out of fear of punishment but because they were afraid the soldiers would improve the service. The ineptitude of the postal department is not unique, of course.

All elements of our communications network telegraph, air travel, telephones seem to be grinding to a halt. Our system has become so technologically sophisticated that it is on the verge of collapse. TF THE TREND continues, 1 business executives will be playing out scenes like this: A corporation president calls out to his secretary, "Get me New York, quick!" "Have you flipped your cork?" she answers. "I can't even get you on the waiting list for a dial "We'd better send a tele-, gram, This is urgent." "You mean a telegram, like Western Union?" "Yes. You know, those CLYDE HERRING i i Lack of Training in Subjects Cited By Jerry Knight Many Iowa high school pupils are learning about American government from teachers who know more about the Split-T than the split ticket.

Their economics teacher is apt to be more familiar with an E.R.A. (earned run average) an G.N.P. gross a tional product). And their American history teacher may be as likely to remember an end run in the Blue-Gray Game as Bull Run in the Civil War. Only one-seventh of the government and economics teachers in Iowa high schools have degrees in either field, reports the State Department of Public Instruction.

Teaching government and economies were twice as many physical education majors (166) as political scientists (62) and five times more P.E. graduates than economics majors (32). Only 42 per cent of the history teachers were history majors in college. Cause for Concern The small portion of teachers with major college training in these areas and the large contingent of coaches is cause for concern to educators like Dr. Walter Rundell, head of the department of history at Iowa State University.

History, Rundell points out, provides "the background on which the present and the future are based." He said many high school students aren't learning the lessons of history because the lessons are so poorly taught. "The usual assumption is that one needs no special background to teach history, only to be able to keep a few pages ahead in the text," he lamented. It is not merely an Iowa problem, but a nationwide one, said Rundell, who before coming to I.S.U. last fall, worked for the American Historical Association on improving the quality of history teaching. Little Training The basic principles of American government are likewise often taught by teachers with little professional training in government, added Dr.

Clair Keller, who supervises student teachers in government and history at Iowa State. More than 100 school districts in the state don't have a single history major on their faculty, said Eldert Groenendyk of the department of public instruction's statistical division. He said the 235 smallest school districts in Iowa have only 131 history majors between them. Groenendyk's figures show there are 860 teachers in the state teaching American gov: crnment or economics, which are often taught together. Only 62 of these teachers were government or political science majors and only 32 were economics majors, but 166 COACHES- Please turn to Page Three Studded Tires Illegal Apr.

1 Studded tires will be illegal for use on state highways beginning Wednesday, Apr. 1... Public Safety Commissioner Jack M. Fulton said the only exceptions allowed by Iowa law apply to school buses and fire department emergency apparatus, which may use the metal-studded tires- at any time of the year. Studded tires were legalized in Iowa three years ago.

WALTER RUNDELL The hotel is now owned by Clarence Ellingson, who bought it in 1945. Some townspeople, including himself or to dispose of illegal- Actually, many used their permit books as memo pads. Others objected to the system because they were em barrassed to have their liquor purchases known to others when they lost their permit books. Buying even one case of liquor was forbidden unless the purchaser could prove it was needed for a special occasion such as a wedding. Sale of liquor by the drink was forbidden.

The saloon was "never" going to come back. The state store system did not put the bootlegger out of business, as hoped. He often continued to get his supplies of alcoholic' beverages from out side the state, which was and is contrary to law, and he obtained a lot of liquor permit books These books were purchased for relatives and friends, but liquor they bought was for the bootlegger. The law required that the liq uor permit be canceled if the holder was convicted of driving while intoxicated. Also, the per mit was revoked if the custom- LIQUOR- Please turn to Page Four Coffee little yellow things that say 'Stop' every so often.

You can send a telegram, can't you?" "Oh, sure, I can send one. It's getting it delivered that's the problem. They like to do it by telephone, which puts you right back where you started." "How about a special delivery letter?" "We got one just the other day. It was postmarked last July." "Who was it from?" "The Post Office. They wanted to remind us to use the zip code to speed up.

delivery." COULD WE send a special courier by plane?" "Possibly, but the last one we sent hasn't come back yet. He set out for Boston but the airport was fogged in, so he was rerouted to Syracuse. The plane he caught out of there was hijacked by an Eskimo and taken to Greenland. That's the last we heard of him." "We'll send a messenger by bus if we have to." "Good. I'll have a man get in line right now.

With luck he'll be able to buy a ticket by next' Thursday." "Miss Ampersand, there must be a 'way to get this message through. The future of the company depends upon it." "There is one way." "How?" "I happen to know an ovei-the-road truck driver who will deliver messages to New York. All you have to do is write it on a $100 bill. He pauses at a New Jersey rest stop and transmits it by semaphore 'to an accomplice, who then delivers it personally." "Great! When can he take it?" "As soon as the Teamsters strike is over." Donald Kaul Mayor Thomas Jolas, say they wish some organization would buy and restore it. "It still really has possibilities," says Dr.

James McCoy, an orthopedic surgeon here who has written about the hotel and its history in The Prairie City Review Quarterly. He believes the building could probably be used profitably as a museum or cultural center. If the Park Inn's present is less than glorious and its future is at best a hopeful possibility, its past is fascinating. Wright in Wisconsin That history, according to Dr. McCoy's account, dates to 1902, when J.

E. E. Markley, a director of City National Bank, sent his daughter to the Hillside Home School in Hillside, Wis. Much of Wright's early work was done in Hillside and Wright's mother helped run the school. It was on a visit to Hillside HOTEL- Please turn to Page Three LEONARD WOLF, 44, DIES IN D.C, WASHINGTON, D.C.

(AP) -Leonard G. Wolf, 44, executive director of the American Free dom from Hun-. ger Foundation ana a iormer ratic U.S. enneress-r man Iowa, died of cancer Saturday at the a i ngton Hospital Cen ter. LEONARD Wolf.

wolf whose Iowa home was at Elka- der, was elected to Congress in 1958. He served a two-vear term and was defeated in a bid for re-election. A native of Mazomanie. Mr. Wolf received a bachelor's degree in agriculture economics from the University of Wiscon sin.

He served in the Pacific with the U.S. Navy during World War II. In 1968 he was appointed executive director of the American Freedom from Hunger which is the American link in the worldwide Freedom from Hunger Campaign, providing information to the American public concerning world food needs. Mr. Wolf was responsible for the direction of the Agency for International Development's War on Hunger in Latin America.

Under a presidential appointment he directed the Food for Peace program in Brazil-between 1961 and 1965, after which he was the co-ordinator for the child feeding program for all of Latin America. In 1967, Mr. Wolf was called to India to co-ordinate famine relief activities following the worst droughts in that country's history. Surviving are his wife, Marilyn Margaret; a son, Steven Michael, 19; two daughters, Ann Marilyn, 16, and Jennifer Elizabeth, 12, and four sisters and three brothers. Services will be at Mazo manie, Wis.

Wright. If your taste runs to the more luxurious, you can get a single room with shower for $7 or a double with bath for $11. But you've got to hurry, hpranco nnlv 14 of the 45 rooms y.f at me ranc innw Hotel come with bath. "The Park Inn," raved the Mason City Globe Gazette FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT in reporting the hotel's opening on Sept. 10, 1910, "is a model, whether in the domain of eatery or sleepery, or perhaps, to be more correct, and the which 4 MUn a0o stands just south of Central Park, has deteriorated to the point that many Mason City residents say, "Don't stay there." Its stately exterior is marred by gaudy signs advertising "Pabst Blue Ribbon," "Cocktails," "Lounge," and "Cafe." The lounge is a large, not very inviting tavern, with a circular bar and dance floor.

The cafe's menu features 69-cent specials. The lobby is like a penny arcade, cluttered with pinball machines and a popcorn maker. Still striking, however, are the overhanging roof and the second-floor porch that protrudes over the street. Vantage Point In the summer, says Marie Nicewarmer, who has been cleaning rooms at the Park Inn for seven years, the elderly men who rent rooms by the month "sit on the porch and watch the parades from there." if in cuisine Mum City comfort 1db monk- Today, I Tnn idlA 11111, For a Good Night's Sleep -Keep the Storm Siren Off! (The Register's Iowa News Service) KINGSLEY, IA. Town officials have installed double locks on the fire station doors here night's rest.

A week ago pranksters entered the unlocked fire station and turned on the new storm warning siren, waking just UKingsley about everyone in town at 2:30 a.m. I DES MOINES IQO "It was on about five minutes before we got around to shut it off," May-.