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Page A2 Waterloo Courier Friday. October 30. 1987 WEATHER House FRONTS: 60-60V' 60 CONTINUED FROM PAGE Al the house and they didn't sit around worrying what might happen next. They were somewhat surprised to find out that the next door neighbors remembered an elderly woman had died in the house about 30 years ago After a while the two stopped try-ing to explain away things that happened, saying they might still be living there if the owners hadn't lost the house. Not surprisingly, their stories made for a rather restless evening for this first-time visitor.

I would sleep for awhile, then jolt awake by some imagined noise. I found myself whispering into the tape recorder to kill time. Why was I whispering? Twice I toured the entire house using the flashlight. I stood in the dark of the upstairs bathroom and looked in the mirror. Nothing.

Both women said they lived there awhile before anything happened. "I honestly think she liked us," says Gibson, now a firm believer there are just things that can't be rationally explained. "That's why it took her awhile to show herself, or whatever you want to call it," she continued. As I locked the door to the house the next morning I felt glad I had stayed. But I wasn't planning to spend enough time there to strike up any friendships or whatever.

the stairs to keep the dogs out of the basement and shut the kitchen door. They would come home to find one dog upstairs and the other still locked on the landing. On another occasion there were dog prints in the bathtub on the second floor yet the dogs were still locked on the landing. Even more strange, the two came home one evening to find the piece of plywood leaning against a wall at the bottom of the stairs and the dogs in the basement. "I dropped that thing 20 times, I bet," Dotzler said of her attempts to recreate how the tiny dogs might have knocked the plywood down the stairs into that position against the wall.

Then within a week of each other, both women felt sure they saw another person in the house. In both cases, they were looking into mirrors. "I was leaning up putting mascara on and I was sure somebody walked behind me," Gibson said. Gibson turned but there was no one there. LATER, DOTZLER CLAIMED the same type of incident occurred downstairs.

Both described what they thought they saw as an older woman in a beige robe. "It was a lady," Gibson says with certainty. "She was friendly, gentle," she added. Both say they never felt afraid in ficially purchased the house in a sheriff's sale last February. I could only assume the date of that sale Friday the 13th was a coincidence.

"I was a disbeliever from the first," Dotzler says in an effort to ward off allegations she might be wacky. "When I tell people about it, they try to rationalize it," Gibson says. "But I know different. I know what I saw, felt and heard In there." WITH A SLEEPING BAG, flashlight, tape recorder and notebook in tow I felt this was one potential story to experience firsthand. There was a certain anxious exhilaration involved.

The rush of being afraid of something and doing it anyway. The fear and fascination seem to be common. A mortgage company manager in Chicago first laughed at me on the phone then became interested and agreed to send me keys to the house on the condition I send them a copy of any story. I also informed the police I would be going in so neighbors wouldn't be calling 911. "I don't like that stuff," a veteran lieutenant at the station said of the supernatural.

Later, when I actually entered the house, two police cars showed up. The officers seemed as curious as I to look through the house before it got dark. In all those horror movies we want to yell and stop the stupid person who is going to open one more closet door, or raise the lid of that coffin-like box in the basement. I was about to open that last door, I thought to myself melodramatically. As stiff early evening breeze whispered outside and the sunlight waned, the recollections of the former tenants came back.

Early on, Gibson and Dotzler hadn't noticed anything unusual other than that the upstairs hall light would go on and off for no apparent reason. THEN ONE DAY GIBSON became sure she heard murmuring in the basement. She went down there and found nothing. The sounds would recur. "The dogs would start barking like there was something there," Gibson said.

More and more frequently the dogs, Benji and Hoho, would get up and run around the house barking not directing their attention to anything in particular. Nearly every day the women would shut the dogs in on a landing area on the stairs from the basement to the kitchen. They would wedge a large piece of plywood at the top of Warm Cold Stationary 70 Friday Tcmpcraturti Indicata Thursday's high and low to 7 a.m. CST. UPitOttt Ylbany.N tl cdy Albupmrjut.

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"Even the RAs take someone with them when they go up there," says Madsen, who has issued a standing invitation that she will accompany anyone who decides to venture into the loft. But Moen said, no student, past or present, has been given reason to believe that the the alleged presence of Augie means any real harm. Madsen agrees that Augie, fact or fiction, seems to be a benevolent character. students have been spooked, but no one's ever been hurt. He's sort of like Casper, you know?" she says.

"And the way I think of it," Madsen says, "he's the only male in group of 400 females. He's not about to do anything to get himself acity of the soldier story but does believe that Augie may have been a man who did die in the building. But she's not quite sure she believes in ghosts in general or what she thinks of her upstairs neighbor. "I do think its fun. People do like talk about him.

And it's fun to spook freshmen," says Madsen, who first hear of Augie when she was an incoming freshman herself. But some students have reportedly declined to live in the hall because of its infamous resident and Madsen says she has a friend who won't come into the building because of the alleged ghost. "When people find out I live in Lawther, they always ask about him," she added. MEANWHILE, MANY students and staff members have declined to go up to Lawther's fourth floor by dents have maintained they have heard, seen and even felt Augie's presence. The most famous 'Augie story' involved an alleged sighting some years ago.

As that particular tale goes, resident assistants (RAs) were living in the hall alone, busily preparing for the upcoming semester. One night, an RA saw a man wearing pin-striped suit walk past her door. She and other RAs called security and followed him, knowing that the hall's doors were locked and no strangers were allowed to be in the building. The RAs followed the well-dressed man up to the fourth floor loft. When they got there, there was no sign of him and the dust bad not been disturbed on the locked doors.

SINCE THAT TIME, there have been stories of someone entering the rooms and waking sleeping students while their roomates were away, voices coming from vacant rooms repeating a litany of female names, several reports of faucets that mysteriously turned on by themselves and sightings of a hovering black aura. Jane Moen, coordinator of the hall, says Augie, in fact, has had to bear the blame for more than his share of earthly sins. "Anytime someone loses or misplaces something, it's always Augie's fault," she says. The UNI student newspaper has run several articles on Augie in the last decade and the Iowa Public Television thought enough of the students' tales to send a team to film Lawther two years ago for a feature on Iowa's more notorious ghostly residents. And Lawther Hall residents commemorate Augie each year at Halloween with a haunted house called "Augie's Haunted Attic." This year the attic is open to the public for a 50-cent admission fee.

To tour the attic tonight, go the main lounge in Lawther Hall between 7 and 10 p.m. So it seems logical that no one knows Augie better than those stu- dents who live with him and actually seem quite fond of him, particularly around this time of year. "I LOVE TALKING about Augie." says UNI sophomore Vici Madsen, who lives directly below the now-vacant room in which Augie reportedly had died. That room and the building's fourth floor known as the loft or attic are no longer occupied to adhere to fire regulations. Madsen says she's doubts the ver- NATIONAL FORECAST Today's forecast called for show- srs and thunderstorms across the central and southern Rockies through the High Plains of Kansas and Colorado Into western Okla- noma and western Texas, and rain scattered along the northern Pacific through northern Michigan and from western Pennsylvania Into western and central New York.

Highs will be In the 40s to 50s from the upper Mississippi Valley through the Great Lakes region and jpper Ohio Valley Into New England. LOCAL FORECAST It will become increasingly cloudy tonight with a low anywhere from 35 to 40 degrees. There will ben east at five to 1 0 mph. On Saturday it will be cloudy with a 30 percent chance of showers and a high In the mid 50s. EXTENDED FORECAST Conditions will remain mild Sunday through Tuesday with a chance of showers on Sunday and Tuesday "with highs during the three-day period in the 60s and lows In the 40s or 50s.

OFFBEAT Mall exercisers get credit where it is due RICHMOND. Calif. (AP) Call it a Valley Girl's dream: college credit for walking around a shopping mall. "I used to walk Benicia State Park. Then the mornings got hard and chilly.

Here the temperature is controlled and you know what your mileage is," said Atha Petty during Thursday's one-credit, early morning exercise class at Hilltop Mall. The 24 students range from 45 to 75 years of age. Many signed up on the advice of doctors; others said they liked having company while exercising. The class, which costs $6 at Contra Community College, is the brainchild of Lance Lew, marketing director for the mall, located about 20 miles north of San Francisco. Loui Murillo.

dean of business, arts and science, said he liked the Tannery. WATERLOO TEMPERATURES ttaichluw i cMPcrtATUHcS CONTINUED FROM PAGE Al He said he's "immensely pleased that the investment of time and energy by so many of the local economic development officials is paying off." Nichols estimated 2,000 hours were devoted in the past year and a half to negotiations over the tannery. Albert Trostel since 1985 explored Waterloo and other possible sites, according to company officials. An economic-development spinoff of landing the tannery, said Nichols, is that "it has laid the groundwork for cooperation on other projects." Also, according to Nichols, the extension of water and sewer lines to the tannery might help attract development of food-processing companies in that part of the city. idea becausemall-walking offers old-Friday 7 a.m 31 The city also agreed to pay $48,000 toward the cost of an entrance road to the tannery and to build a $335,000 sewer line.

The city eventually will recoup the sewer expense through wastewater treatment fees from the company. The company will pay the $30,000 hookup charge. Another incentive is $8 million in industrial revenue bonds approved by the crty, but which result in no financial liability for the city. The company, also is seeking $590,000 in state job-training money through Hawkeye Institute of Technology. "As everyone knows, this has been a difficult set of negotiations," Nichols said.

Hlah Thiirrfw KQ i.cm uuimic, scvur- Kodak plans biotechnology plant for Cedar Rapids ity and ample parking. CEDAR RAPIDS (AP) East Grading for the twice-weekly course is based mostly on attendance and participation, with a few quizzes on computing pulse rates and naming different muscles. One loop around each of the mall's two levels is roughly a half mile. The circular ramp adds 180 feet to the route and the staircase 50 feet. Escalators are forbidden, as is shopping, but window shopping is not.

"Sometimes I stop," confessed Rose Andreotti. "If you get the idea you like something, you can come back and buy it." Most of the stores don't open until 10 a.m. anyway. That is, all but Donut World and McDonald's, but abstinence is the rule. slated for 1990.

Kodak officials have said that the proposed plant will serve as a manufacturing facility for large-scale production of industrial biotechnology products, such as industrial enzymes, pharmaceutical intermediates, food additives and specialty chemicals. In an earlier interview with the Gazette, a Kodak official said Cedar Rapids was considered as a possible site because of the proximity of suppliers of processed corn and soy products. Both commodities are required in the fermentation processes planned at the plant. man Kodak Co. today announced that Cedar Rapids has been selected as the site of a new biotechnology manufacturing plant to employ about 100 workers.

Sources told the Cedar Rapids Gazette that Kodak has purchased an 80-acre site owned by Iowa Electric Light and Power Co. adjacent to the utility's Prairie Creek Utility Station. Construction of the new plant expected to cost between $50 million and $75 million reportedly will begin next year, with completion Low Thursday 34 High year ago 56 Low year ago 33 PRECIPITATION DATA Precipitation since Jan. 1 27.34 Precipitation since Oct 1........ 0.51 "Precipitation Thursday 0.00 Normal October SUNRISE-SUNSET Sunset today: 5:06 p.m.

Sunrise Saturday: 6:42 a.m. MOON PHASES First quarter: Oct 29 Full moon: Nov. 5 Last quarter: Nov. 13 LNew moon: Nov. 20 MISSISSIPPI RIVER STAGES Friday "(Flood stages In parentheses) La Crosse (12) missing Lansing (18) 8.2 steady Dam 9 (29.5) 20.1 steady McGregor (18) 6.7 steady Guttenberg (15) 4.4 steady Dubuque (17) 7.2 ateady Clinton (16) 6.6 ateady i LAKE LEVELS Saylorville 838.4 outflow 51 Ocfps Red Rock 730.3 outflow 1920cfps Coralvllle 683.2 outflow 610 cfps Mollis Foir Umh Dei iff Mart Ono Published evening Monday through Friday and Sunday mornings by tt Waterloo Courier Inc.

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By mail: The rates for mail subscription! are: Cows spell relief b-o-v-i-n-e b-u-r-p CHAMPAIGN, HI. (AP) When dairy cattle get indigestion, scientists at Southern Illinois University know how to spell relief with antacids similar to those Madison Avenue promotes for people. The result: Elsie feels better and gives more milk, and her owner makes more money. "They don't mind," said Anthony Young, associate dean for research at the Carbondale campus. "We blend it with their food and they don't appear to even notice it." When dairy cattle are fed extra grain like corn and less forage like hay, acids build up in the animals' stomachs, Young said.

The problem crops up when grain is cheap and plentiful and farmers substitute corn for hay, he said recently. Excess acidity can lead a cow to stop eating, which results in lower milk production and lower butterfat levels, Young said. "That is economically important because the dairyman is paid not only on Ue pounds of milk but also on the percentage of butterfat," he said. Researchers tested on 32 cows several compounds similar to ingredients in antacid tablets that people chew or drop into a glass of water, Young said. "We got somewhere around a 10 percent improvement in milk production and a similar improvement in butterfat," said Young.

PeopiesWederal Statement of Condition September 30, 1987 ASSETS: First Mortgage Loans $105,320,966 All Other Loans 11,271 ,042 Real Estate Owned and in Judgement 8,378,811 Real Estate Sold on Contract 15,738,791 Cash on Hand and in Banks 646,462 Investments and Securities 10,220,661 Fixed Assets Less Depreciation 2,316,763 Deferred Charges and Other Assets 2,435,362 Deferred Losses on Securities and Loans Sold 1.191,894 TOTAL ASSETS $157,520,752 LIABILITIES AND NEW WORTH: Savings Accounts $141,753,914 Advances from Federal Home Loan Bank 17,500,000 Other Borrowed Money 2,922 Other Liabilities 773,131 Net Worth (2,509,215) TOTAL LIABILITIES AND NET WORTH $157,520,752 Inside Iowa $10.80 $27.30 $53.00 $103.00 Outside Iowa 15.60 538.50 75.60 $149.00 1 month 3 months 6 months 1 year If you live in Ward One I have probably knocked on your door and either met you or left a brochure about me for you to read. I hope you know I am most concerned about providing more jobs and a stronger economic climate for our city so my two sons and all our other young people inherit a home town with a healthy future. 1 know from my experience as a Waterloo businessman we have a lot to offer to keep our existing companies and to attract new ones. Won't you please help me on November 3 by voting for me and other members of the McKmley team. Our town is not dead; but if we are to continue to rebuild it, we need a positive approach.

We need council members who not only say they are for jobs, but who also vote for Jobs. 1 pledge if I'm elected to represent you. I will actively help the Cedar Valley Economic Action Company seek out and recruit new jobs-iota which pay living wages-and jobs which diversify our local economy. I also pledge I'll 1 work to keeptax bills down. I have experience working with the city's budget and I know specific areas where cuts can be made without effecting our quality of life.

I pledge to continue Mayor McKinley's efforts to make city services available to all city residenu-not just the special few. Finally, I pledge to continue to develop the area as a tourism destination with popular attractions such as the Greyhound Park. Star Clipper Dinner Train, Grout Museum and others. REMEMBER: Our current economic problemi won't be solved by Hons. Waterloo deserves better than what some others offer REMEMBER TOO, Waterloo has already started back from rock bottom; we've added 20 job.

in the metro is. since 1985 but the ey so utions have already been applied and future growth will require the best efforts of a mayor and council who understand business. YOUR VOTE NOVEMBER 3 IS IMPORTANT; It could make the dif- SuTvwS wrlo uke to your vote won 1 matter. Every vote counts when we want to send a messaae to those who would tear our city down and declare it dead PLEASE VOTE; WATERLOO'S FUTURE DEPENDS ON IT. WtMZ PAID FPU THE MMNLEr TEAM.

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