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Court orders Councilor Ehmsen
to appear for financial review
By AUen Seidner
SlaH Wrll.,
miln ar~ "a a
lesture of goodwill and In return for a
personal leiter of apology," to aliow the
fJunlens to repay the debt In monthly
In lallments beginning In August 11180
and ending In February 1982, the agree·
m nt tates.
To date, ourt record show Sando and
Schloeman have received ,I,goo from
the Ehm8en who have fallen behind in
their monthly payment schedule anum·
ber of Urn s.
Sando said he was upset the Ehmsens
had not yet paid back the full amount.
"The bankruptcy was a year ago. We
gave him the grace of this year, " to
resume making paym nts."
Although Ehms n told The Dally
Iowan he did not expect the two elderly
wom n to m ult agai n t him, he
declined to say why the legal action took
him by urprls .
Ehm n Id h "certainly" intends to
~y th women, but would not say how
Ion II wlii take him to do so.
Sando and Schloeman commissioned
M idw I Au tioneer 's 10 sell 80m of
their hou hold oods In 1979, so they
could move to th Oaknoll R tlrement
Home, 701 Oakno\l Drive. Midw t Auc·
tioneer'. was to receive a 15 percent
omm ' Ion for th goods they sold.
MIDW T AUCTIONEER' sold
me of th women's item "Including
lumber (mo Uy walnut and weil·
ned oak) , a F ranklJn stove, Bnd a S·
drawer dr r," at an auction on Oct.
20, 1979. The r l of their property,
" Indudlng original painting , fine fur·
nlture, per on I effect , hou ehold
ood • and anllqu ,It was sold at an
IUction h Id at the now·defunct
Coralville Holiday 1M on Nov. :N, 1979,
court records state. The original suit
claims the auctions grossed ~,444 .
The suit alleges the EhmseDi . gave
them two checks on Feb. I, 18IKl; one In
the amount of '1,000 post~ted July 30,
1980, and the other for '1,454,42 dated
Feb, 7, 11180. The suit also states the ad·
vance date on the checks were not
brought to the attention of Sando and
Schtoeman. The ~hmsens denied nolln·
forming the women of the post-dated
checks, court records state.
The two women deposited the checks
and then wrote a $5,000 check to the
Oaknoll Retirement Home on Feb. 13,
11180. BUt the home did not honor the
check from the women because one of
the Ehmsens' checks was still post·
dated and the other was returned for In·
surrlclent funds, the suit states.
The Ehmsens filed for bankruptcy
protection in U.S. Bankruptcy Court on
March 2, 1982, but the July 11180 agree·
ment contained a stipulation that the
debt to the two elderly women would not
be dischargeable should the Ehmsens
ever file for bankruplcy.
Arter the case was first reported by
the weekly newS of Coralvltie In March
1981, more than 100 people signed a peti·
tion calling for Ehmsen's resignation
from the Coralville City Council. Two
councilors also told the newspaper they
thought Ehmsen should re,ign, but he
refused to give up his seat.
Ehmsen, 45, was first elected to the
Coralville City Council in 1975, and an·
nounced la t month he will not seek a
third term in office. He is currently em·
ployed by Iowa City Office Products.
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"He told Senator Baker he felt like the
meeting Tuesday with Republican senators
was the telling point where he realized his
upport had evaporated," Griscom said.
" The senator responded he was
genuinely sorry it had to come to this, but
he fully un