Anita Tribune (Newspaper) - March 3, 1994, Anita, Iowa Single Copies Historical Society 600 Locust Des IA 50319 Anita Home of Lake Anita State Park Including Massena and Wiota Sections USPS 025940 Volume 9 Anitas Hometown Newspaper Since 1883 Iowa 50020 March New Management At Anita Cafe Kim Jensen and Troy Pedersen took over management of the Anita Cafe on They are here to please their customers and will be glad to hear suggestions from their Iowa Telephone Companies Announce Long Distance Dialing Changes Iowa telephone users can now begin dialing its for all long distance calls made within their own area The change is the first step in making more tele phone prefixes available to meet Iowas growing demand for telecommunications ser With increasing numbers of customers adding lines for computers and FAX ma chines in both businesses and additional lines for business growth and fam ily and expanding lar phone phone companies must constantly add new Iowas new dialing plan was approved last year by the Iowa Utilities Board Work began at that time to reprogram the cations network in Iowa to begin the transition to the dialing The dialing change will be mandatory beginning May and applies to all customers of Iowas 153 telephone compa The new dialing plan will freeup number combinations to be used as either area codes or The ex dialing plan allows Iowa phone companies to continue adding new numbers and lines for The plan is part of a national re scheduled for completion throughout the United States and Canada by January Both residence and busi ness phone users should change speed dialing pro computer FAX call forward alarms and private phone systems to be compatible with the dialing The new dialing plan does not change the way local 911 emergency 411 directory assistance calls or 0 for operator assisted calls are Area codes were added to phone numbers in the late 1940s so customers could use direct long distance dial eliminating the need for operator assistance on most area with either a 0 or 1 as the middle digit were reserved for that specific use and were not permitted for use as the prefix or first three digits of the local telephone With the current area codes are being ex to include any three digit number rather than the present It is now possible for an area code and a telephone prefix to be iden The members of the Iowa Telephone Association ITA have worked cooperatively to make the dialing changes a smooth transition for tele phone customers across the The avoid the ITA reminds all telephone customers in Iowa to now dial the area code on all long distance calls they World Day Of Prayer Women throughout the Anita area will gather at the Anita United Methodist Church on March 1994 in observance of the an World Day of Prayer service sponsored by Church Women This years part of a global cele bration observed by Christian communities throughout the has been prepared by Christian women in Palestine and explores the theme See and Act Local women participating in this service will be from the United Methodist Marys Catholic Congregational Church and the Christian Church of All women in the area are Refreshments and a social time will be held after the Call Your News To 7624188 School Reorganization Questions Answers Compiled by Gene Publisher Anita Tribune Rites Held For Cecil 77 The funeral service for Cecil Bing of was held February at at the Anita Church of Duskin passed away 24 at the Me Allen Medical Center in Officiating at the service was Alan Hook of Des Music was provided by Mary Pallbearers were Dan Doug Dennis Dave Steve Foster and Varel and Paul and Coryell Dorsheimer and and Bruce Brown were in charge of Interment was in the Atlantic Roland Funeral Service of Atlantic was in charge of The son of Benjamin Harris Harry and Elsie May Turpin Cecil was bom April north of Atlantic and attended rural He was united in marriage to Evelyn Irene June in Cecil served in the Army during World War II and received a Purple He fanned near Lewis and Anita and also worked at American Buildings for sev eral They moved into Anita in 1966 and they have wintered in Texas for the last ten Cecil was a member of the Church of Christ in He was also an elder and a dea con in the church in Lewis and He is survived by his Evelyn one Sandra Schmeling and her Bruce of Casey two Gary Duskin and his Karen of Prospect and Roger Duskin of Atlantic five Jennifer and Jolene Schmeling of Casey and Craig and Scott Duskin of IL two Loretta Foster of Atlantic and Viola McCullough of Griswold one Harry Short and his Lois of He was preceded in death by his parents an infant Diana Marie one Helen Brown and two Lawrence and Leland Anita Community Theatre To Present The Death Life Of Sneaky Fitch and March 1820 0 ll Anita Community Theatre group is well on their way with their latest production of The Death and Life of Sneaky Fitch and will be performed on March and 20 Place in a mythical town called Gopher Gulch in the Old Some of the typical Old West characters are Rackham Dave the most deadly gun in the West Mervyn Vale Tom the busy undertaker and his wife Carol Maroon Rosemary the friendly dance hall girl Jack Oglesby Jeff the brave sheriff Doc Burch Phil Rabe the town a bit too fond of the bottle the local Reverend Stanley Blackwood Kirk Mathis Sneak of course very Old West town had its town Gulch These plus extra make up the cast of The Death and Life of Sneaky Fitch t0 be three Performances of ex Facts you should know concerning the upcoming School Reorganization In the Petition for Reorganization filed with the Board of Directors of the Loess Hills Area Education Agency paragraph states That the Anita Community School District and the Community School District be merged and consolidated into a new community school district to be known as the CAM Community School District to include all of the current area of the two existing school The proposed effective date of this reorganization is July How will the reorganization effort affect open enrollment Iowa law provides that parents may enroll their children in a school district other than their district of residence by filing appropriate forms on or before October 30 of the year preceding the year of When a reorganization issue either passes or the deadline for filing is changed from October 30 to June The effect of a reorganization vote is that the parents have an additional eight months to utilize the open enrollment regardless of whether the issue passes or NOTICE Karns Karns will no longer have lock boxes available for their cus tomers once they move to their new The boxes at their present location will be available from Union National Bank on a rental ba sis once the building changes ownership and will be acces sible during the remodeling Birth Troy and Antoinette Rhodes of 2751 Vassar Grand Michigan are the parents of a baby boy born February He weighed 6 7 and has been named Isaac He is their first Grandparents are Warren and Peggy Tom and Clures Rhodes and parents from Did You Know by Dana Larsen A 747 jet bums 185 gal lons of kerosene a minute on Ive been read ing comments in the paper regarding and decided to respond to some of those concerns Guaranteed was a word used quite frequently in a recent Letter to the Guaranteeing con stant use of existing keeping staff and guaranteeing a better educa tion were the authors con Facilities At the recom of a recent study by the Iowa Department of facilities will probably remain in both Anita and A Middle School or 68 facili ties would probably go in and 912 in This would utilize aH existing Staff Guaranteeing posi tions for all current staff members was another con We now have 1 teacher teaching perhaps 3 different courses per as an exam After that same teacher would then teach only 1 or 2 different but teach them twice a For instance Algebra 1 is now offered in each school once per After it would be offered twice per This would not only allow the teachers to participate in their areas of but also give that teacher an added hour or so per day to prepare the next days It would also allow greater flexibility in al lowing our students to take the subjects they want theres a strong possibility that a major staff reduction would not oc Guarantees There are staff reduc tion is inevitable with the de clining enrollment which now occurs in both Education Guaranteeing a better education is the one thing I feel most certain How By offering more flexibility in schedul a larger selection of courses for our students who are not approximately 80 of to days high school graduates never finish a four year col and with more students in the classroom there would be greater interpersonal communication and competi Also the teachers will be better prepared and teaching in their areas of ex Is bigger better Id like to know the definition of a When I gradu ated from Anita High School some years there were approximately 50 stu dents in my graduating its probably safe to say that had approximately that same number of Were either of these schools considered BIG back then I dont think CAM classes will be about the same as ei ther of these schools were 20 years Will property taxes in crease Guaranteeing no in creases in taxes would be sui cidal to Remember George Read my this much I can guarantee property taxes aill rise dramatically in the next few years without Will reorganization save us money I feel getting a better education for our students with the same amount of money we are now spending is a value we cant afford to pass Small school districts around the state keep looking at the fiber optics network as a life The state guaran teed accessibility to all the school districts in the They the state then ran the cabling into each county Some of the largest school districts in the state are not hooked up to the fiber optics network because they are not county Ask your ad how much it would cost to hook up to the fiber optics network in your school I think youll find that it is not an afford able The question was also asked if a farmer would sell his farm knowing he would not be able to produce a crop in a few If that farmer had been losing money every year and had a buyer with a reasonable wouldnt he be a fool not to sell it In a few that same buyer may be settled quite comfortably on another Iowa CAM Cougar Shirts CAM Cougar tshirts and sweatshirts are still available at Connies Flowers Antiques These would make great birthday presents and show your school support as There are still a va riety of sizes Track season fast approaches so support those CAM To Meet The Anita Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 8766 will hold their regular monthly meeting on March 2 at 8 at the Legion Library Meeting The Anita Public Library Board of Trustees will hold their regular monthly meeting on March 1 at 6 at the Four Generations Four generations of the Barber family of Anita bagged their deer this season Shown left to right are Larry Zack Brad Barber and Paul
