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PES MOINES SUNDAY REGISTER JUNE 7, 1981 3B Utility has enough water to fill lakes REGISTER PHOTOS BY BOB NANDELL Traffic tangle fatal to two Dubuque DUBUQUE, IA. Two people were killed and two others injured early Saturday in an accident involving three motorycles, a car and a semi-trailer truck on a Mississippi River bridge here. Police said John Sanderson and Mona Pickel, DES MOINES 6 Mil" 2oO MwrN8! Rltil- csvrar isrsgswr -s1 i ri Jll I I fi nm ttZ rr -i i both 21 years old and both of Dubuque, were killed. Listed in critical condition at a Dubuque hospital was Larry Loso, 29, of East Dubuque, 111. A passenger on Loso's motorcycle, Elizabeth Weig, 26, of Dubuque, was reported in fair condition.

Police said the wreck occurred about 4 a.m. when the three westbound motorcycles tried to pass a car on the Julien Dubuque bridge. The lead motorcycle got around the car, police said, but Loso saw an eastbound semi-trailer truck approaching and tried to dodge back behind the car. His motorcycle struck the rear of the car. Officers said the motorcycle carrying Sanderson and Pickel tried to go between the truck and the south bridge railing, but it struck the railing and then bounced off the truck several times.

The bridge was closed to traffic for more than an hour and a half as a result of the accident. Police did not release the names of the truck driver or the driver of the car, neither of whom was injured. Geology center to be dedicated T)w Rtgfsttr'i towl Ntwi Sanrtct AGS, 7 si 'u' -lT Mount Vrnon PES MOINES MOUNT VERNON, IA. The William Harmon Norton Geology Center and the Russell and Elizabeth Anderson Geology Museum at Cornell College here will be open to the public for the first time after a formal dedication Saturday. The center and museum are in the renovated VMM A pleasure boat tips past the Sioux City waterfront on the Missouri River.

Since 1950, the level of the river at Sioux City has dropped more than 8 feet and is still going down. Boating facilities on Winnebago Island, to the south, which was planned for development, were never created. Carnegie Library, which was built in 1904. The geology center houses offices, map and drafting rooms, a library, document repositories, a laboratory and classrooms. The three-floor museum is in the core of the geology center and houses among its exhibits Iowa minerals and fossils and an Iowa rock record representing a core of the Earth's crust from the Iowa region.

Clerk assaulted, run over Waterloo DES MOINES) WATERLOO, IA. (AP) A woman clerk in a Waterloo convenience store was assaulted and abducted and then a car ran over her early Saturday after she refused to sell beer after hours to a male customer. Barbara Roe of Waterloo was in a hospital here with a broken leg and other injuries. Authorities said the incident occurred about 4 a.m. when the man walked into the convenience store and demanded that the woman sell him beer even though it was after hours.

When the clerk refused, police said, the man attacked her, took a small amount of money from the cash register and dragged the clerk out of the store into his car. They said Roe jumped out of the car and was run over as the man drove away at high speed. Burlington school head named Tt KttMft lowi Nvwt Sarvtca Continued from Page One the park that afternoon last week. Two were fishing from shore, one was sunbathing. Since the the lakes dried up, Heiser said, water has come back into them once, in 1975.

"It looked like the old days for a while," he said. The area could be restored, he said, "if we could get water back in here. But it would take years." He and other Conservation Commission officials are pinning their hopes on a plan to divert cooling water from Iowa Public Service big Neal 4 electric generating plant into the lakes. Part of that cooling water is now used to keep up the level of Brown's Lake, another but smaller Missouri oxbow that was drying up. There would be more than enough cooling water to refill Snyder and Winnebago lakes, Heiser believes, but first some construction would have to be done to hold the water.

Concrete dams would have to be placed at the ends of each lake and a canal constructed from the plant to the upper end of Snyder Lake. A second canal would be needed to lead the water from Snyder into Winnebago lake. John Hardie, manager of environmental affairs for Iowa Public Service said the company would be "very willing to cooperate" in making water available for Snyder-Winnebago, "but we will not get involved in any political decisions." "If it's water they want, we'll give it to them," Hardie said. The Neal 4 plant uses 320,000 gallons a minute of cooling water from the river, less than 20,000 gallons per minute would be needed for the lakes. The water comes out of the plant at a temperature 17 degrees warmer than the river.

Some means would have to be found to cool it before it entered the lakes but that is not seen BURLINGTON, IA. Dr. James L. Smith, superintendent of the Lewis Central School District Council Bluffs, has been appointed head of the School District. 41, will replace Gordon Kniskern, who DES MOINES Burlington i lineton teachers' group.

in Burlington Smith, resigned in January after disputes with a Bur- The appointment is effective July 1. Burlington's public school enrollment is 6,400 students. Smith is leaving Lewis Central, with an enrollment of 2,800, after five years as superintendent Contract awarded for river bridge via Chinese envoy in Iowa today By JOHN CARLSON 01 TIM Knitter's Cadar RpM Bvtmu China's ambassador to the United States arrives in Mount Vernon today for a two-day visit to Iowa. While here he will receive an honorary degree, tour farms, businesses and colleges and meet with civic leaders. Chai Zemin, who became ambassador in 1979 when the People's Republic of China opened its Embassy in Washington, D.C., also is expected to visit West Branch, Iowa City, Cedar Rapids and Des Moines today and Monday.

Chai will be accompanied by Representative Tom Tauke on the Iowa visit. Chai will receive an honorary doctor of laws degree this afternoon from Cornell College. He also will attend a luncheon at the college, participate in a ceremony opening Cornell's new International Center, tour the campus, and visit the new William Harmon Norton Geology Center and Museum. From Cornell, Chai will drive to Iowa City, where University of Iowa President Willard Boyd will accompany him on a tour of the campus. He also is expected to meet with Chinese professors and students at the university.

He is scheduled to tour four farms this evening in the West Branch area and attend a picnic on the Richard Anderson farm, where he will spend the night On Monday, Chai will tour plants in Cedar Rapids, attend a luncheon and then travel to Des Moines, where he will meet Gov. Robert Ray and other state officials. iyf jt'-Ajfts lk as a big problem. The Corps has estimated the cost of diverting the water at 12 million, almost $2 million more than the estimated 1971 cost of developing the entire Snyder-Winnebago complex. Right now, it's money the Corps doesn't have, nor does the Iowa Conservation Commission, though it was included in the commission's askings for 1980.

The Iowa Legislature rejected all the commission's requests for general fund capital expenditures. But commission member Marian Pike, who lives not far south of Snyder-Winnebago at Whiting, wants to persuade the Corps to use some of its operations and maintenance money now that the channel stabilization work has been completed. Corps officials said they would consider it. Further complicating matters are the land claims along the river by the Omaha and Winnebago Indians. The Oman as have won some 2,500 acres on the Iowa side of the river below Snyder-Winnebago and are claiming an additional 8,000 to 9,000.

The Win-nebagos are seeking 6,000 to 8,000 acres, part of it in the Snyder-Winnebago area. It may be years before the claims are settled in court. The Snyder-Winnebago complex is Just one of 21 potential recreation sites identified along the Missouri River by the Conservation Commission in 1960. In the years since, only one, Wilson Island, has been developed. Wilson Island is adjacent to DeSoto National Wildlife Refuge and serves as a campground for persons visiting the refuge.

The roster of the others reads like an old steamboat pilot's map of the river Dakota Bend, Omadi Bend, Brower's Bend, Rabbit Island, Blackbird Bend, Tieville Bend, Deer Island, Tyson Bend, California Bend all the way down to the Iowa-Missouri line. They all are abandoned, waiting until the state and federal governments can decide what to do with them. sorry and we love you," he added. The next step for the brothers will be to try to mend fences with relatives who had warned them cryonics wasn't a promise their parents would come back to life. "It's taken quite a toll on the family.

We're trying to rebuild," said Harris. First in Iowa "The people from the Cryonic Society of California kept telling us to keep the plans for my parents confidential because family members would try to stop us from saving our parents' lives," said Harris. The brothers' mother was the first Iowan to be involved in cryonics. She died Sept. 20, 1970, of bone cancer and minutes later was injected with special chemicals and frozen in liquid nitrogen.

The brothers had discussed cryonics with their mother and had agreed that their bodies, and the body of their father, would be put in "animated suspension" in California until they could be thawed, resuscitated and brought back to life. They entrusted the bodies of both their parents to the Cryonics Society of California. In March 1980, however, the body of Mildred Harris was one of several decomposed bodies found in a crypt at Oakwood Memorial Park in Los Angeles. The liquid nitrogen supply to the crypt had been cut off in August 1976. Gaylord Harris, who was embalmed and buried nearly a year before his body was put in "suspended animation," was never given any liquid nitrogen.

"They assured us their science had Amt I DES MOINES AMES, IA. (AP) A $2.66 million contract has been awarded for the final major component of the new bridge over the Mississippi River at Dubuque, the Iowa Department of Transportation has announced. The successful bidder on the contract for in stalling the concrete deck and painting of structural steel is Lunda Construction Co. of Black River Falls, Wis. The work is scheduled to begin in August and is to be completed in July 1982, Ray Kassel, DOT director, said.

"We are continuing to meet the schedule in order to open the bridge to traffic in July, 1982." Contracts awarded so far for the bridge between Iowa and Wisconsin total $32.27 million. A group prepares for a ride on the Missouri River from the marina in Sioux City. The Snyder-Winnebago complex, to the south, is just one of 21 potential recreation sites planned along the Missouri River since 1960, bat only Wilson Island has been developed. The western part of Iowa has never been well endowed with recreational opportunities making the Missouri River near Sioux City a popular boating area. Resident: B-52 crash could Remorse after $862,429 award wipe out the Continued from Page One would be flying as low as 300 feet above Iowa cornstalks and bean fields on low-level training missions.

'It seems like it been going on for a year and we sort of got used to the B-52s," Mrs. Harris said. "They would rattle and shake our house and in winter I watched them blow snow off the roofs of Brighton houses but we kind of got used to them. The sound the other night was more like the scream of a fighter plane." Schaefer said about 650 SAC planes and "roughly 60 others, including National Guard and Tactical Fighters and Royal Air Force Vulcans" have flown the low-level routes over Iowa in the last 10 months. Schaefer said relief is in sight for the residents of Brighton, Fairfield, Lockridge and other Iowa communi ties subjected to the noise of the low flying jets: The route will be closed June SO.

"It was only a temporary route and we tried to avoid as many towns as possible and in some cases altered the course to do so after receiving complaints," Schaefer said. We had more complaints from Iowa than from less populated areas such as Wyoming or Montana or western Nebraska. A few farmers omplained about their cattle stampeding, but others said the cattle got used to the planes after a while. "We re sorry for any inconvenience and for the noise, but the crews needed the realistic training." whole town' some of the town's 832 residents "are irate about the low planes." "During the day, it's not so bad," Roth said. "But at 4 am, it seems a little ridiculous.

You would think with all their sophisticated equipment those planes would be able to stay on course. i "The course is supposed to be between us and Lake Darling, not over town. I know those people would be protecting us if this country got in trouble, but I'm telling you if one came down over town, it would be disastrous." Lee Schafer, 45, a flying farmer who lives on the south edge of Brighton, agrees with Mayor Roth. "If I crashed in Brighton in my single engine Cessna, I would probably ruin two houses, but if one of those B-52s crash, it could wipe out the whole er said. Lee Schafer and his wife, Karen, said they don't mind the daytime flights, though some coming from the south appear to be heading for their picture window.

"When you're asleep and half dead to the world, and you're awakened by a jet, it's different," she said. No one even knows who we can complain to," Mrs. Harris said. "Maybe they think we're so small it doesn't make any difference." Not true, said SACs CapL Schaefer. "We are concerned and we are sorry for the inconvenience and noise.

"Some people tell us, They're noisy but they sure are nice to By BARBARA BROOKER ft 4 tor Staff WflMf More than a decade after their parents' deaths, two Des Moines brothers Saturday made plans to give their mother and father a decent burial. Terry Harris, 38, and T. Makami, 34, were awarded $862,429 Friday by a California jury, which decided the brothers were defrauded by two practitioners of cryonics, the science of freezing dead bodies in the hope of later reviving them. In 1970, Harris and Makami had carried out the request of their mother, Mildred, to freeze her body after death and that of her husband, Gaylord, who had died several months earlier. But evidence at the Los Angeles trial showed that Robert Nelson, head of the now-defunct Cryonic Society of California, allowed Mildred's body to thaw in 1976 and never administered the liquid nitrogen supply to Gaylord's body.

Despite the large jury award, neither Harris nor Makami was celebrating Saturday. They said they were just relieved their nightmare was coming to an end. First Thing "The first thing we're going to do is get my parents a decent burial in a cemetery in Perry," said Makami, a plumbing and electrical tor, who has changed his former name of Dennis Harris. "My parents are still in a crypt 12 feet under the ground in California. We want to retrieve them from the grasps of the fiends that took them from us," said Harris, a licensed practical nurse at the Sidney Sands Mental Health Center.

"It's all we can do for them now. It's a feeble way of saying we're been perfected. They had the skills, the staff, the scientists, the doctors, the equipment and the facility to provide the services," said Harris. "They even sent a brochure showing someone from the staff in a white lab coat with a clipboard checking a capsule submerged in liquid nitrogen," said Harris. "It was well staged.

They were very clever at what they were doing," said Makami. "It was a real nightmare. Our parents did many wonderful things for us in their lifetime. We wanted to do everything we could for them," he said. The brothers spent $27,000 almost all their parents' estate on keeping the bodies in suspension until cures could be found.

Both brothers have decided their bodies will not be put in suspension when they die. "Will it ever work? Medically and scientifically, who's to say, who knows?" said Makami. "I'm extremely remorseful that all this happened. I can only warn others to try to be as objective as possible as far as death is concerned. I caution them to remember what happened to us." Nelson, who was ordered to pay the bulk of the judgment, and Buena Park, mortician Joseph A.

Klockgether the other defendant, said they have not decided whether to appeal School principal resits Th Rtftw'i tows Nowt $4TVtC4l BLOOMFIELD, IA. Donald Walton, Davis County Middle School principal for the past five years, submitted bis resignation, effective July 30, to enter private business..