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INSIDE: AGRIBUSINESS MARCH 14,1990" FEATURES Aiming high-United States Air Force and Janesville share a recruiting coupC1 SPORTS UNI basketball-Missouri coach Norm Stewart has fond memories of his days as a coach in Cedar Falls B1 METRO Grant received-The Salvation Army receives major challenge grant from the Kresge Foundation A6 lilt Thursday's forecast; Cloudy Cedar Falls Waterloo 50 cents Save money with home delivery Copyright 1990 Waterloo Courier Waterloo, Iowa 50 pages5 sections Friends implicate alleged gunman i AY v. 4 Proposed route goes through metro area By PAT KINNEY Courier Staff Writer A proposed four-lane road from St. Louis to St. Paul will run through Waterloo and Cedar Falls, under the recommendation of a multi-state planning committee. In a conference call monitored at U.S.

Sen. Charles Grasslcy's office, Iowa transportation officials told members of Iowa's congressional delegation Tuesday that the recommended route for the so-called "Avenue of the Saints" will generally follow: U.S. Highway 61 north from St. Louis to Hannibal, Mo. U.S.

Highway 218 north to Iowa City. Interstate 380 north through Cedar Rapids to Waterloo-Cedar Falls. U.S. Highway 218 north to Charles City. U.S.

Highway 18 west to Mason City. Interstate 35 north to Sl Paul. "I think you've heard what is very good news for all of Iowa, especially for eastern Iowa, and very good news for the Waterloo-Cedar Rapids area," Grassley said. "I think that we ought to look ahead tolhis being a major route leading to a great deal of economic development for Iowa, in particular eastern Iowa," he said. Highway planning officials indicated the recommended route is shorter than others, requires the least travel time, is the least expensive to complete at $359 million because 1-35 and 1-380 are already constructed, and would provide the greatest rate of return in terms of economic development Grassley said the interstate highway substitution plan in Waterloo-Cedar Falls and Black Hawk County would remain a separate program and be completed regardless of the "Avenue of the Saints." "I think I would look at that as two distinct and separate things," he said.

'The substitution plan will be completed before there is any work done on so-called Avenue of the And it might be that some of See AVENUE Continued on page A2 rt By JOY POWELL Courier Staff Writer Bond was set at $1 million for a teen-ager implicated in a fatal shooting by three friends who admitted their own guilt, court papers show. Criminal complaints show Daniel Maurice Claybon, 18, of 710 W. Ninth refused to give police a statement about the shooting. He apparently is accused of pulling the trigger in the first-degree murder of a 24-year-old Waterloo man. Jeffrey Wood of 2111 Lafayette' St.

died Sunday night shortly after he was shot in the chest while walking with his fiance in the 300 block of Maryland Avenue. The three other suspects gave police statements admitting their involvement, the complaints show. Held in lieu of $500,000 bond on the first-degree murder charges arc Keith Christopher Walker, 18, of 407 Bratnober; Harry Bernard Johnson, 18, of 402 Newell and Richard Lamont Smith, 19, of 350 Irving St. The teens were brought into the courthouse under heavy guard. police and deputies crowded into the courtroom where the four appeared before Black Hawk County District Court Judge James Bauch.

Lt. Bob Greenlee said police originally believed three suspects were involved, and then learned of a fourth. Another person in a car involved in the incident was too far away to be charged, Greenlee said. He said he could not confirm reports that seven people originally Were believed to be involved. Greenlee also said he could not release information about whether the crime was gang-related.

He said he could not confirm reports that robbery was a motive in the shooting. Greenlee said the first the couple knew of the assailants was when they turned around and noticed the men behind them. He said the couple did not know the suspects. Three of the four defendants have had prior brushes with the law. 11 Courier photo by DAN NIERLtNG, Four unemployed teen-agers are shown going from the Waterloo Police Station to the Black Hawk County Courthouse Tuesday where they were charged with the first-degree murder of Jeff Wood.

The man on the far left, Daniel M. Claybon, is suspected of pulling the trigger. From left to right, the other suspects are Harry Johnson, Keith C. Walker and Richard L. Smith.

Decision brings praise from those along route ance. She and other relatives said Claybon does not belong to a gang. "He hasn't been involved in a trouble before, except for a little bit since he got up here, but it wasn't no gang-related thing. He was not mixed up in no gangs," she said. "I trust my son, and I'm going to keep trusting my son." Before police brought the teens to the courthouse from the city jail, a large crowd of other young teens gathered in front of the police station.

Many wore the same hats, including those sporting the team Claybon, who has spent rnost of his life in Mississippi, was on supervised probation in connection with an October assault. He also is being held without bond on a complaint of probation violation. Sandra Brockney of Pre-trial Services told Bauch that Claybon has been in the area since last summer and gave her conflicting addresses. He also has lived in Missouri and Chicago, she said. He lives with his mother, Rosie, who adamantly defended her son's innocence after his court appear "L.A.

Kings." The suspects appeared in court in orange jail jumpsuits. They each had notches cut in their eyebrows in the same fashion. Minneapolis police say that within the last two months they have seen members of the Black Gangster Disciples Nation with four notches cut into their eyebrows. Court documents show Smith led police to a location where a 22-cal-iber handgun and bullets were See SUSPECTS Continued on page A2 By JACKIE YOUNG and SARA SUMMERHAYS Courier Staff Writers ocal politicians Tuesday praised a steering committee's recommendation for the route of the proposed four-lane freeway known as Avenue of the Saints. 0.

MMinmi fm fnAnr Hnttr rt fViii rlram nn nnnlnmi knhnnnn Storms leave path of destruction DES MOINES (AP) As many as a dozen tornadoes were reported 3 across Iowa Tuesday, destroym homes, businesses and farm buil the rain and highway construction. "This last week we've had hopefully an end to the drought agriculturally, and the ending part of the drought in highway construction in Northeast Iowa," he said. "Indeed it is a red letter day, not only for the people here in Waterloo-Cedar Falls but indeed all of Eastern Iowa," said U.S. Sen. Tom Harkin.

"We think it's a good, solid recommendation," Harkin said. "Now the next step is the U.S. DOT sends down to us its final report, which has to be submitted by April 30." 'There's no precedent ever for them going against something like this," Harkin said. Harkin said the next step is to proceed on a "bipartisan, multi-state basis" to get the authorization for the recommended route in the highway reauthorization bill. Jim Lawrence of the Waterloo Chamber of Commerce praised the cooperative effort of local chambers in getting businesses to show their support for the project here.

"We did ask our businesses to send letters of support. From what I understand from the consultants, they got more support as far as volume of letters and this type of thing from this metro area than from any other part of the state that was interested in the Avenue of the Saints," Lawrence said. Lee Miller of the Cedar Falls Chamber of Commerce said the new route adds to the area's ability to become a regional center for cultural, educational, and recreational opportunities. Waverly Mayor Keith Schuldt said, "We've been on the upswing, and I can see us moving right out of sight now." Schuldt added, "We're looking forward to good things." Shclda Hcrtzke Beener, an Iowa Department of Transportation See REACTION Continued on page A2 ings but apparently causing no serious injuries. llyi Tornado sightings were reported from Pottawattamie County in far western Iowa, to Boone and Poll counties in central Iowa, to and Dubuque counties in far eastern Iowa.

A National Weather Service spokesman said about a dozen tornadoes had been reported by 1 p.m., but not all had been com firmed. Severe thunderstorm watchej were extended until 4 a.m. much of Iowa while driving rail added more water to already swollen creeks and the National Weather Service issued flash flood warnings. Apartment houses, homes and a church were reported damaged ia Ankeny, just north of Des Moines i See STORMS Continued on page A2 AP PHOTO This is all that remains of the Don Lueck home in Worthington after a tornado ripped through town Tuesday. 3 UNI business dean leaving Experts call for parental leave plan PI? Bridge win i i ''i at the University of Toledo.

He makes $92,560 at UNI. Uselding was in Ohio this morning and unavailable for comment Patton said Uselding was chosen because he is a nationally known figure, a scholar who C7 B5 C9 C5-9 B7 C9 C1-4 C7 A10 A3 A7 B8 B1-3 C3 B7 By NANCY RAFFENSPERGER Courier Assistant City Editor CEDAR FALLS The dean of the University of Northern Iowa College of Business Administration has accepted a position as dean of the College of Business at the University of Toledo in Ohio. Paul Uselding, who has been dean of the business college at UNI for three years, was selected this moming by the Board of Trustees at the University of Toledo as the new dean there. He will make $102,450 in his. new position, said Dr.

Carl Patton, vice president for academic affairs Celebrity Comics Crossword Daily Record Features Horoscopes Iowa MetroNE NationWorld Obituaries Opinion Sports Theaters TV care issues for two years at the request of the Department of Health and Human Services. The panel also recommended in a report that the federal government: Work with states to expand child-care subsidies for low-income parents; Expand Head Start and other programs aimed at helping preschoolers at risk of failure in school; and Encourage better training and higher wages for caregivers, and help expand referral services and improve planning and coordination. These recommendations, the panel estimated, would cost the federal government between $5 billion and $10 billion annually. National standards and mandatory leave policies "can be implemented at much more modest cost, much of which could be borne by the private sector," the panel's report said. The National Research Council is the research arm of the National Academy of Sciences, which was established by Congress to advise the federal government on policy issues involving science.

Scripps Howard News Service WASHINGTON The federal government should mandate a one-year, unpaid leave for working parents of infants and help develop national standards for child care, an expert panel of the National Research Council said Wednesday. Substantial scientific evidence suggests that such steps are needed for the healthy development of children of working parents, concluded the committee. The 19-member panel, made up of prominent child-development specialists and representatives from labor and industry, studied child- Uselding See DEAN Continued on page A2.