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E student. female . in two bedrOOlT1, rtmen!. 354 ·3956 File ,uit with Johnson Count" court 7·n Residents petition to st~p Old Cap renewal project By SCOTT WRIGHT with Iowa law. revenue from the project. Staging the construction of the ramp to the developer two additional sections of In order to obtain immediate relief, he Staff Writer In renegotiating the contract without The suit was filed by Ardis Kat would enable the city to finance the con alley in the blocks bounded by Madison, laid, It would be necelslry to obtain a one bedroom~ .. Ir rebidding the project, the council Ignored zenmeyer, 918 E. Washington St., a struction with revenue bonds, because Court and Clinton streets. temporlry inJunction, In which case the • basement a MI.' Three plalntUs might be required to poet a "good utilities Incl dcd . Iowa City residents filed a petition the advise of City Attorney John Hayak, student; Robert O'Conner, 1025 E. revenue from the first level could be used A 1Y.! block area of these two blocks is . 3373337. 7·'8 1\IeSday In Johnson County District Court who recommended that the project be Davenport, a physician's assistant at to pay for construction of the higher level. slated for a townhouse-condominium faith" bond. seeking a permanent inlunction to prevent rebid while renegotiations with Old Capitol Veterans' Hospital; and Marthal Wiel, Another change In the renegotiated complex, revenues from which Old capitol But the option of seeking a temporary Iowa City and Old Capitol Associates from ' were being conducted. 514 Iowa Ave, a UI librarian. Their at contract provides for the pOlllbUity that must use as a major source of capital for injunction will be left open , be sa id. pruceedlng with the city's urban renewal The renegotlltlon WII deemed torney is David A. Elderkin of Cedar the city rna)' be unable to construct a the entire project. Elderkin expects the case to move quickly project under an amended contract. neeellny by the council beCiuse of the Rapids. second SIO-car ramp adjoining a hotel on The amended contract also changes into hearings, "I would think this fall ." The suit bas been expected since April failure to obtain voter approval In a March The mosl significant amendment to the the block bounded by Burlington and LinD from July 1 to August 1 the time at which Elderkin emphasized that the case may II, when the Iowa City Council voted 3-2 to 28 general obUgltion bond referendum to urban renewal contract, coming after the streets. either party can rescind the contract due be amended as evidence is accumulated renegotiate a contract with Old Capital IInlnce the city's part 01 the project. renegotiation with Old Capitol, changes U the city fails to construct the ramp, the to legal delays. prior to trial. without going through a rebidding By renegotiating the contract, the city the city's construction commencement amended contract provides that the Attorney Elderkin told The Dlily Iowan Areas of further investigation, he said, proceedure. would be able to finance it's part of the date for the second level of a 1,OO<k:ar developer may instead use th.e land for that the injunction he is seeking for his will be the city's bidding procedure itself, I The suit was filed in an effort to force the project using revenue bonds. Such bonds parking ramp atop Old Capitol's proposed retail, service or office construction . clients will not stop the city from and changes between the city's bid city to reopen the bidding to potential do not require voter approval but carry University Mall structure from as early as Another change in the renegotiated proceeding with the project prior to full speclficatlons, Old capitol's bid proposal, Ifban renewal developers in accordance high interest rates and must be repaid with 1~5 to 1~8. contract benefits Old capitol by conveying hearings. and the original contract. / Wednesday, July 17, 1974 Iowa City, Iowa 52240 Vol. 107, No. 31 10· Dismissed UI administrators see removals from posts as 'matters of general policy' . in older houle furnished for four; 724 By JIM FLEMING Upper Midwest Association of Is determining the definition of either term. the rules," Chisholm said. • nine months - aDd ALLEN KEELER Collegiate Registrars and "sick" and what constitutes Les Chisholm, AFSCME A paper was circulated at the bedroom furnished utilities inc luded. 12 Former UI Registrar Jack CoUege Admissions Officers. "satisfactory evidence" that a business manager, said the meeting asking those who 7880 ; 6 p.m. 9 Demitrolf and former Leahy, after conferring with the penon has been sick. The Board usual procedure for deter wisbed to press the matter 7 11 --- Admissions Director Robert group, remains president of of Regents Procedures Manual mining sickness, made by the further to sign . Barnett and WO'OD-- WESTSI DE Leahy said Tuesday that they that organization. allows payment for sickness II department bead, was not used Chisholm said AFSCME would kcrest were removed from their jobs Meanwhile, employees In the satisfactory evidence I. in this case. file a collective grievance one bedroom. hree bedroom "on matters of general policy," two offices say they are con pl:oduced to demonstrate "What we're really arguing petition in accordance with the houses From and declined to comment fur- cerned that a "bad precedent" IIIness_ There Is no definition 01 for is a correct application of Board of Regents rules. 9,11 ther. has been set by the events "We were doing what we resulting from last Friday's perceived our jobs to be, " alleged "sick-out. Leahy said. "If that means a re- One of the employees who Nixon reaffirms innocence assignment, that is the central called in sick said, "We don't administration's decision to care about our pay. It is the SAN CLEMENTE, Calif. (AP) - President Royalties from the book, authored by the make." principle that is involved here." Nixon, terming Watergate "the thinnest scandal rabbi, will go to the committee, Korff ,aid. While refusing to specify what " The administration has in American history," says that if the charges In the question-and-answer session held in Ute points of contention were assumed way 100 much power ," against him were true, "I wouldn't serve for one Nixon's oval office, the President criticized the !kat led to Ihelr dismissal last another employee said. minute." news media, accused subordinates of Watergate Thlll'sday, Leahy Slid that "It Those statements came at a The President's comments were made in a special prosecutor Leon Jaworski of abusing the was Dot • matter thaI would meeting Tuesday called by the broad-ranging interview with Rabbi Baruch investigative process and declared, "It would be necessarily hurl them, or us." American Federation of State, Korff, a Nixon supporter from Providence, R.I. extremely difficult for anyone to get a fair trial" Leahy added that he thougbt County and Munlcl pal In the interview , recorded at the White House on in th~ District of Columbia in a Watergate their new UI positions were Employees (AFSCME) . Th~ May 13, Nixon said : related case. "nol ones we will be at (or very meeting was the first step in an " I wouldn't serve for one minute if they were I The interview was conducted nearly two long." He indicated that they effort to organize employees 01 true. But I know they are not true and therefore, . months before Friday's verdict by a federal would begin to seek positions al the two offices who wish to file a I will stay here, do tbe job that I was elected to do court jury in Wasbington convicting fQrmer other universities c!omparable grievance petition. as well as r can and trust to the American con Nixon aide John D. Ehrlichman of conspiracy 10 those that they previously ' Pauline Barnett, AFSCME stitutional process to make the final verdict." and perjury charges. AP Wirephoto occupied. president, said there may be The interview with Korff, chairman of the However, Korff said Nixon stands by his The two men returned serious repercussions it no National Citizens ' Committee for Fairness to the assessment of prospects fOr a fair trial in the Smile, tho your heart is breaking Tuesday night from Min- challenge is made of the ad Presidency, Inc., was published Tuesday in a nation 's capital. The rabbi met Tuesday morning Former presidential lawyer Herbert KBlm- Judiciary Committee in Washington. Kalm neapolis, Minn ., wbere they bad ministration's action. paperback volume called, "The Personal Nixon: with the President at the Western White House to bach walts to testify Tuesday before the House bach's testimony followed that of Charles Colson, 'attended a conference of the Barnett said the major issue Staying on the Summit." present a copy of his book. which took ten hours In closed session. VI prof likes being told to go fly a kite III By MICHAEL ADAMS that the system isn 't restricted to any stream and lift 2,000 Ibs. of wind dimensions for any purpose. the Taipei (Taiwan) Institute of generating equipment. "The altitude Staff Writer geographical location. The so-called superklte. according Technology and his Ph.D. from the ,,";ru,;oll8 is no problem," he says. "We can fly a He has flown three kite models. The to Chen, will be more Itable, have the Case Institute I of Technology in kite 24,000 feet and just leave it Ching Jen Chen felt no ill will first two, a box kite and a three·angle ability to generate thousands of Cleveland, Ohio, and has taught at UI there." towards his colleagues when they kite , proved unwieldy .