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1 fi-V 1.7 Accused robber testifies B3 Coping with cutbacks Agencies fear cutbacks in United Way allocations may jeopardize some services. -A9 Friday's weather: Clear and cold A2 mm Ceatr Jails atoll 0o WATERLOO, IOWA "35 CENTS 54 PAGES 5 SECTIONS 1986.. WATERLOO COURIER INCCEDAR FALLS RECORD Four new school options call for closing Orange fry hS ''a rl i X- A By NANCY RAFFENSPERGER Courier Assistant City Editor The Board of Education has been presented with four additional options to the school reorganization plan, all of which propose the closing of Orange Elementary. In three of the options, Cresthaven Elementary which has been the subject of heated debate by parents who don't want it closed would remain open. In addition, in three of the options, more money would be saved by the district than the current proposal under consideration.

A fourth option increases the expenditures to the district by $90,000. The four options will be considered by the board, as well as the current plan devised by a committee of the Task Force on Declining Enrollment, said Sally Turner, coordinator of public relations for the district. The board is scheduled to vote on the three-year plan to reorganize the district on Jan. 21. Current plans call for the closing of eight elementary schools Castle Hill, Devonshire, Crest-haven, Elk Run, Greenbrier, Jewett, Krieg and Washburn.

In addition, the current reorganization plan proposes converting Central High School to an intermediate school and converting Edison and Bunger intermediate schools to elementary facilities. Faced with declining enrollment and a projected deficit of $900,000 by 1990, the district is taking steps to save money. A steering committee of the Task Force on Declining Enrollment came up with the current reorganization plan, a proposal which was not fully endorsed by the full 46-member task force. Turner said that small groups of the task force came up with three of the four new options and school board members asked for figures on the fourth option. "Initially they were ideas out of small group recommendations that we put figures to on paper," Turner said.

A series of school reorganization hearings gets off to a quiet start. A9 The four options are: OPTION ONE: Keeps Cresthaven and Washburn schools open, closes Orange and assigns the 234 Orange students to Kittrell. Compared with the steering committee plan, this option increases costs by $90,002. OPTION TWO: Keeps Cresthaven open while closing Orange and Washburn schools. Washburn students would be assigned to three schools Cresthaven (60), Lowell (78) and Bunger (87).

Compared with the steering committee plan, this option saves the district an additional $16,107. OPTION THREE: Keeps Cresthaven open while closing Orange and Washburn. Washburn students would be assigned to three schools Cresthaven (63) Irving (93) and Lowell (81). Irving students residing west of Fourth Street, would be assigned to Longfellow. Compared with the steering committee plan, this option saves the district an additional $34,623.

OPTION FOUR: Closes Orange and assigns the 234 Orange students to Washburn. The 81 Washburn students residing in and around Cedar Terrace are assigned to Lowell making room for the Orange students at Washburn. Compared with the steering committee plan, this option saves the district an additional $9,857. Terry Sparks, who has been a vocal opponent to the closing of Cresthaven School, said she is "definitely" in favor of the third option. "It's exactly what my husband and I have been saying for the past six months.

You can save money by filling Cresthaven to capacity," she said. She said there will be a group of parents at Tuesday' public hearing at Hoover Intermediate' voicing opinions on the newest options, specifically the third one. "We've got several prepared statements ready'; to read," she said. l-itti tiilf'fw -n AP LASERPHOTO meeting and shot three people, killing Mayor Ed King and wounding two council members. Ralph Orin Davis, 69, of Mount Pleasant, Is pinned to the floor of the city's council chambers Wednesday night.

According to police, Davis walked into the council Man kills Mt. Pleasant mayor; two council members wounded Businessman reportedly told Casey of arms money diversion the only government aides who had known of A 1 Mayor Edward King Ralph Orin Davis Bill Dowell gunned down at meeting faces murder charge wrestled with gunman MOUNT PLEASANT (AP) A 69- year-old man who had complained about i backed-up sewer was formally charged with murder and two counts of attempted murder today after he walked into a city council meeting and opened fire, killing the mayor and wounding two council members. I Ralph Orin Davis of Mount Pleasant appeared before Magistrate David McCoid. McCoid set bond at $100,000 on each of the attempted murder charges and on the murder charge. Davis laughed when McCoid asked him if he could pay the cash bond.

A preliminary hearing was set for Dec. 19 at 9 a.m. Mayor Edward King, 53, was killed and council members JoAnn Sankey, 39, and Ronald Dupree, 44, were seriously wounded when the gunman entered the room, muttered an obscenity and began shooting at around 9:25 p.m. with a pistol. WITNESSES SAID King was shot at point-blank range in the head.

He was pronounced dead at University Hospitals in Iowa City at about 12:30 a.m. today, hospital spokesman Dean Borg said. Mrs. Sankey was listed in critical condition today at University Hospitals with a head wound and two chest wounds, while Dupree was in serious but stable condition after being shot in the head, neck and arm, Borg said. During this morning's 10-minute court appearance, Davis stood with arms folded ami answered "Yes sir" twice when asked if he understood the charges against him.

When McCoid asked him if he needed a cpurt-apointed attorney, Davis replied, "I got. ahold of my daughter and she will come down. We'll try to work that out." Deputies and police officers brought WASHINGTON (AP) CIA Director William Casey told a House committee that a New York businessman, not his own intelligence operation, tipped him in October to a diversion of profits from Iranian arms sales, says a published report. Casey, who testified in private before the House Intelligence Committee for less than 30 minutes today, told the House Foreign Affairs Committee Wednesday he received the tip from businessman Roy M. Furmark on Oct.

7, The Washington Post reported in today's editions, citing congressional sources. That was about six weeks before Attorney General Edwin Meese III says he turned up the scheme in late November. Committee members in the closed session were said to be stunned when Casey asserted that his conversation with Furmark was the first hint he had that funds from the sale of U.S. arms to Iran might have been diverted to Central America. The Wall Street Journal, quoting two anonymous administration officials described as knowledgeable about the Iran operation, said today that Casey knew as early as last spring that profits from the Iran sales were being funneled to Nicaraguan insurgents.

The sources said top-secret messages about the arms transaction were sent on the CIA's "privacy channel" and that all messages on that circuit are delivered automatically to Casey's desk. MEESE ON NOV. 25 said that up to $30 million in profits from the arms sales was diverted to aid the Contra rebels in Nicaragua. Meese said then that two National Security Council officials were scheme. The Post said Casey testified that he was called on Oct.

7 by Furmark, his former legal client in New York. Casey said Furmark told him he had learned from an Iranian involved with a group of Canadian businessmen in the secret arms deal that" -some of the money had ended up in Central America. The Canadians were threatening a lawsuit that; -would have exposed the arms deal because they had put up $20 million as middlemen in the sales and only received $10 million in return, the newspaper said. In the same closed-door session, Casey denied that any of theOA's money went to aid the Contrast adding that the money to pay for arms shipped to Iran came from four different sources, according to Rep. Gus Yatron, D-Pa, who did not say if Casey identified the sources.

Casey told the committee that after he spoke to Furmark he started an internal CIA inquiry and alerted Vice Adm. John Poindexter, who was then national security adviser, the newspaper said. The CIA director said he spoke to Furmark the next day in person in Washington, the Post said, and Furmark "described the whole operation." I The Post said Casey's disclosures suggested the following scenario: The CIA took possession of the U.S. arms from the Pentagon and transported them to Israel on privately chartered aircraft. At that point they were sold to middlemen, apparently See U.S.-IRAN Continued on page A2, col.

3 The shootings occurred as the council meeting was coming to a close. THE GUNMAN came into the meeting room from the back door, pointed his gun at the council members and said, "You sons of bitches" before shooting Dupree first, according to witnesses. He then pointed at King, shooting him once in the head and then turning the gun on Ms. Sankey. Council members Fred Wohlleber, Jim Carson, Larry Mihalevich and Chuck Fitzgibbons were not shot.

Mary Wittmer, a radio reporter from KILJ in Mount Pleasant, said she was covering the meeting when the gunman walked in. "It kind of appeared he was waiting for See SHOOTING Continued on page A2, col. 3 Davis into the courtroom, where he stood for about five minutes while news photographers took his picture. The photographers were ordered out before the hearing started. Davis did not respond when asked by reporters if he had anything to say.

Davis surrendered in the council chambers after the shootings and was initially charged with three counts of attempted murder as the three victims were rushed to Iowa City for emergency treatment. Henry County Medical Examiner Dr. Warren Scott said King was shot above the right eye. He said the bullet "almost certainly" pierced King's brain, though he said he didn't have X-rays to prove it. King was taken by ambulance to University Hospitals, about 60 miles from Mount Pleasant, while the other two victims were flown by medical helicopter.

I World Future Society again gazing into its crystal ball BusinessLabor D4 Classified C7-11 Cbmics C6 Daily Record A10 Features C1-4 Iowa B5-6 M.etro A9.11-12.B2 Northeast Iowa B3-4 Newswire A2-8 Obituaries A10 D6 Scene C5 Sports D1 -3 COURIER FINDS PEOPLE and can you by placing a Courier-Classified ad to sell your Items. Jeanette Culbertson sold her washer and dryer and was money ahead. Call 291-1411 for help in placing your next ad. explains that many homosexuals have become celibate because they fear AIDS, or acquired immune deficiency syndrome, and that heterosexuals are slow to realize it can affect them too. As for the bathtub: In some places a two-person tub already is the wave of the future and that will give way, the society says, "to a pool in which a whole family can bathe together or a group of children can play." The electronic prison guards will be devices that sound an alarm if the prisoner strays off the "By the end of the next century, a single city may have more than 100 million inhabitants" says forecast No.

1. Mexico City already leads all others with 18 million people and is growing, Cornish said. By the year 2000 that number is projected at 26 million, and Cornish said new technology will permit cities that will go as deep into the ground as they go high, to accommodate even more The sharp increases in sexually transmissible diseases will result in a new Victorianism "in which both men and women avoid casual sex," the forecast says. Cornish them had ever come true. He said the society hadn't been doing them long enough for a good reading on that it's only the third year but that futurists in general had been mighty wrong in the past as well as mighty right.

"Where they were wrong in recent years is in missing some very important developments," said Cornish, who edits the society's magazine "The Futurist." "As far as I know, no futurist anticipated AIDS. In common with the rest of society they didn't anticipate the development of the computer. "Even when it became clear that the computer was going to be an important instrument of society and a major impact in our lives in the 1960s, futurists failed to anticipate how powerful it would prove, how it was going to be shrunk from the computers in the 1940s to the tiny size and extreme power of today's microcomputer. And they didn't anticipate how rapidly prices would fall." But, Cornish said, futurists have been on the mark in other areas. For instance, they have long sounded the alarm concerning the problems of pollution.

This year's forecasts, for example, may not be so far-out: WASHINGTON (AP) There's a communal bathtub in your future. At least the World Future Society thinks so. It also believes that 100 years from now, a single city might have more than 100 million inhabitants and that cars will have a quarter-century lifespan and that prisoners will be guarded by robots. In short, the World Future Society true to its name is far out in its thinking. As the society issued its annual forecasts, the 10 determined to be the most thought-provoking submitted by its membership, founder Edward Cornish was asked if any of.