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A regional n e w s p a p e r # s e r v i n g Eastern Iowa

Welcome to Iowa, tops in gambling

But expert fears turbulent waters lie ahead for casinos
By Rod Boshart
Gazette Des Moines Bureau

DES MOINES Monday's startup of riverboat gambling moves Iowa to the top of the nation's gambling heap a No. 1 ranking that some Iowans could do without. The arrival of blackjack, roulette and other wagering options aboard the floating casinos means Iowa offers the most forms of legal gambling anywhere in the United States.

"It's amazing. I think it shows how gambling has become so respectable that there are more forms of legal gambling in Iowa than in any other state, including Nevada and New Jersey," said I. Nelson Rose, a law professor at Whittier College School of Law in Los Angeles. "Iowa's got it all," said Rose, one of the nation's foremost gaming authorities. He also hinted that the state may be getting more than it bargained for in embarking on a meteoric rise from legalizing social gambling like bingo in 1970 to a rapid-fire expansion in the 1980s that ushered in a state lottery and four parimutuel tracks.

Illinois and other states prepare to plunge into riverboat gambling, page 21A Two counties in northeast Iowa may give riverboat gambling a second chance, page 21A

Gaming opponents in Iowa say it's appropriate that the riverboat gambling revival officially launches on April Fools' Day because the state has invested part of its stake in future development on "fool's gold." "It's a dubious distinction," Sen. William Dieleman, D-Pella, said of Iowa's national standing. He warned that the seemingly insatiable appetite for

wagering won't stop at the current limitations that cap single casino bets to $5 and total losses at $200 per cruise. Rose agrees. He sees Iowa's voyage into floating casinos as running a boom-bust course that opens a "Pan dora's box" of requests to raise the stakes, expand promotions for competing gambling forms and locate high-stakes casinos on Indian-owned landed. "Be prepared for a meteoric rise followed by a severe recession," Rose said. "I think Iowa's going to do very well for a couple of years and then when
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Preparing for Easter

Community split over new school

Supporters and opponents say they lack information on project
By Kurt Rogahn
Gazette education writer

were still designing the school as they asked for money and thus couldn't answer mounting questions about it.

Cedar Rapids Catholics had hoped to unify their community by consolidating their east-side and west-side high schools. Instead the project has become divisive, and money hasn't come in the way backers had hoped. Construction recently was put off a year. Supporters say they underestimated the task of raising $8 million toward the project's $12.5 million total cost. Only $2 million has been raised so far, the result, they say, of war in the Persian Gulf and recession emerging after their plans were announced. They're gearing up for a revitalized appeal with far more personal contacts.

Gazette photo by Annie O'Neill

Alan Holmes of Cedar Rapids tends to the flowers on the altar at St. Jude's Catholic Church on Saturday. Holmes and 15 other parishioners were preparing the church for Easter Mass.

NOW PLANNED TO open in fall 1993 on a 60-acre site on the northeast edge of the metropolitan area near 42nd Street and Ushers Ferry Road NE, the new school is to replace Regis and LaSalle. The school is not yet named: That honor is reserved for a donor offering a $1 million "lead contribution." Building the school is so divisive an issue, many people weren't willing to be quoted for publication especially if they oppose it. This sometimes confusing picture emerged from conversations with nearly 30 people last week: Much of the fuss can be traced to "tradition," a euphemism for the east side-west side schism that has long OPPONENTS SAY plagued Cedar Rapids the money won't come (and puzzled newcom PROPOSED CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL ers). in because this is the only way to vote in the That could account Catholic Church: With for why Cedar Rapids closed wallets. Objec has two Catholic high tions cited include: schools now: Regis, at The non-central lo Prairie Drive and K Av cation in far northeast enue NE, opened in 1958 Cedar Rapids. to replace former parish The cost. high schools at Immacu Being forced to ac late Conception and St. cept something they Wenceslaus. LaSalle, didn't ask for in the first 3700 First Ave. NW, fol place. lowed five years later to Fear that the nearreplace St. Patrick's $3 million debt incurred High School. in building the school Southeast siders com will eventually sink it, plain the new school is leaving the area without too far from their Catholic secondary edu homes. West-side sup cation. porters counter that its Supporters, however, location will be farther feel the school is needed away for them than La to ensure continuation Salle is now, and some of Catholic secondary Marion supporters say education here. They they already travel long cite the following: distances to get to Regis, Contributors to an so distance is a false nual school fund drives issue. for years have com Says Dave Gearhart, a Gazette graphic by Chris Wolf plained about the ex project supporter on the pense of running two high schools. LaSalle board, "You'd have to build it on pontoons in the Consolidation would save $300,000 in operating costs middle of the Cedar River" to make everyone happy. each year and ensure a student body large enough for more The east-west split makes for amusing contradictions, too. diversified class and activity offerings. Catholic educators admit they cannot claim the same It is stalled, suggests one west-side opponent, because "1 kind of superiority over public schools as is common in don't think the east side wants to condescend to accepting other U.S. cities. Not only are schools here good, they say, the west side on equal terms." But another west-side but they have added new gyms and programs. A new school opponent says, "Regis is full of termites. Why shouldn't they would help the Catholic system here compete. want to get out of that school?" But, opponents and supporters alike complain they lacked information about the project. Planners, however, say they Please turn to 10A: High school

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C.R. rolls out the red carpet for women bowlers

By Dick Hogan
Gazette staff writer

TODAY'S CHUCKLE
Electric bill: charge of the light brigade.

eady or not Cedar Rapids, here they come. With four years to pre pare, area businesses and resi dents are ready to heartily wel come some 75,000 people during the next three months. Nearly 50,000 will be women bowlers participating in the 72nd Women's International Bowling Congress. The rest will be family and friends and people attending other conventions. The WIBC Tournament is the largest women's sporting event in the world. This year's WIBC tourney the first held in Iowa begins Thursday and runs through June 20. It will be the ninth largest with 8,892 teams,

How bowling has evolved over the years, page 1C Area merchants gear up (or bowling tournament, page 1E

WIBC unpacks equipment, sets up shop

Ifficiency. A place for everything. Every thing in its place. That description came to mind Satur day as 35,000 pounds of equipment belonging to the Women's International Bowling Congress was unloaded from a semi-trailer truck at Westdale and Cedar Rapids bowling centers. WIBC officials bring with them nearly every thing they need to run the annual national bowling tournament. That includes computers, desks, chairs, tables, records and ball-weighing equipment. All of it is packed and labeled in individual boxes or crates. And every item is checked off a master list as it's rolled off the truck. With all that equipment, Janis Chase, tourna ment director, said the two offices would be

while the $992,552 prize fund ranks fifth on the all-time list. Opening ceremony will be at 7 p.m. Thursday at Cedar Rapids Bowling Center. Cedar Rapids hugged its way to the tournament in 1987 in Hart ford, Conn. Using the theme, "Bowlers Hug Better," conven tion officials and community leaders proved their friendliness by giving thousands of hugs to bowlers in Hartford. Cedar Rap ids won the 1991 tourney by a
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ready to go in less than eight hours. The WIBC Tournament gets rolling Thursday night in Cedar Rapids. It's expected that about 45,000 women will bowl here before the tourna ment ends June 20. Chase and Anne Simone, WIBC group execu tive-tournaments, were ecstatic over Friday night's turnout of residents wanting to work the tournament. An overflow crowd snowed up at the Sheraton Hotel one of the best crowds they've seen. Chase expects 1,000 people will be employed for minimum wage at various times during the tourney to help with score keeping, ball weighing and other tasks. The tourney takes nine months of planning and will cost WIBC more than $100,000.

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