Daily Times Herald (Newspaper) - April 24, 2000, Carroll, Iowa Portion case Page 3 Key abortion case focuses on Nebraska SPORTS Page 6 Yankees show slump Page 12 Legislature needs more time to iron out WEATHER Low Tuesday's High 43 65 Iowa Daily Times Herald 8i_______I APRIL 24,2000 Cop county hit 80% with Census By DOUGLAS BURNS Times Herald Staff Writer Both the city and county of Carroll have hit the 80 percent mark with response rates to the U.S far outpacing the 65 percent nationwide The posted statewide average as of this morning was 73 According to the U.S. Census Bureau Halbur ranks the highest of area towns with an 89 percent response Several other cities also were over the 80 percent Only one community - Lake View - had a lower response 61 than the national average as of the last posing on the Census Bureau's Lake View City Administrator Scott Peterson said his community has a lower response rate because of the relatively high number of seasonal residents who have not filled out the forms Census officials also have just started the follow-up process for those who have not been The Census numbers represent more than just an informational population City officials estimate that a municipality will receive about in state and federal funding over the next decade for each person counted in the The Census is so vital in terms of funding that a special committee was formed in Carroll to promote a Carroll city officials want a 100 percent but the Census Bureau has targeted 89 percent for the are very happy that people are Carroll City Manager Gerald Clausen is very important that we show A fair amount of Iowa is not going to show Clausen said in far more than hinges on each person Besides government private charities and organizations often use population data to determine where their money are other items over and above the Clausen He said he anticipates that Carroll will go over the 10,000 mark in But he says there is nothing the number - and no truth to the rumor that once Carroll officially passes that 10,000 threshold that a full-time fire department will be Response rates for other area communities are as 82 77 83 Coon 75 80 83 89 Lake 71 Lake 61 72 79 78 Vail 74 and 80 Census officials are pleased with the initial response percent of the households in America have returned Census said Census Bureau Director Kenneth Prewitt on the Internet is a serious achievement and it is news to country has stopped in its tracks a decline in our civic The country is saying that democracy is about obligation as well as about responsibility as well as. In Carroll people wanting more information on the Census and how they can be sure to be counted may contact city hall at 792-1000, Clausen White House blames Elian's Miami family for forcing seizure WASHINGTON - The White House today blamed Elian Gonzalez's Miami relatives for forcing government into the armed seizure of the asserting of this had to if they had respected the law and allowed him to be reunited with his The administration also said it was proper for federal agents to carry weapons when they stormed the was information that there might be guns in the out in the presidential spokesman Joe Lockhart President Clinton felt the raid was right thing to do and was the only alternative Lockhart of this could have been None of this had to This happened because the family did not respect the legal process here that dictated the father should be reunited with the young Earlier Attorney General Janet Reno refused to second-guess the government's have no regrets she tried my level best to make sure we avoided this situation and if I bent over so be she said on satisfied with the Armed agents broke into the Miami home of the boy's relatives early Saturday only after negotiations with the family there produced mixed Reno were told we would have a deal if we did certain things and we did it and it The White House accused Republicans - in particular House Majority Whip Tom DeLay of Texas - of playing politics with the case and making inaccurate ' DeLay went on television yesterday and said there was no warrant in this that they didn't get a search Lockhart factually not and easily if you're not trying to play The federal government worked hard to make sure the young Cuban refugee was reunited with his father in a peaceful and voluntary Reno tried and In the did what we had to do and we now need to move forward and to give this little boy and his father a chance to A longtime friend of Aaron was brought into the negotiations with the Miami relatives on Thursday and was on the phone with the attorney general just before the raid was carried believe a deal was within minutes or an hour he told was I was I couldn't believe what I was looking at on said he talked to Reno shortly afterward and told her of his was as sad as I've ever seen he Elian and his father are staying at Andrews Air Force Base outside where some of their Cuban relatives are demanding a The custody battle that has made headlines around the world is also getting renewed attention from members of Congress while the family awaits the next court action on the On Easter the boy's Juan Miguel tried to create a hometown aura at the Force They shared a meal of black beans and walked on the grounds of the base with Elian's See Page 2 Seizure sparks bitterness against Reno in her hometown MIAMI - Depicted as the called a traitor and Attorney General Janet Reno has taken the brunt of the blame from the community for her decision to use force to return Elian Gonzalez to his Protesters and community leaders in Reno's hometown were offering up a bitter judgment against the nation's top law enforcement official after long supporting the former prosecutor who grew up She has become the No. 1 target for Signs and angry words targeting her have multiplied following Saturday's raid to snatch Her actions - President Clinton said the Elian case was handled by her - have been criticized by the governor and Miami's is a sense that this was personal that this person the community helped in her career would do something so said Dario a political science professor at Florida International University in raid on this family's house was symbolic of a raid on everybody's The scene at the house was quiet on Easter a day after protesters poured into the streets of Little Havana after federal agents grabbed the 6-ycar-old boy and took him to D.C. More than 350 people were arrested and protesters started more than 200 mostly burning tires and trash As they many carried signs with a See Page 2 Daily Times Herald Photos by Larry Devine it's big day for the kids The Easter bunny visited with children Saturday afternoon following the hunt at Swan Lake State With sunny hundreds of children participated in the sponsored by the Carroll Lions Knights of Columbus and Jack son of Joel and Melissa of Des Moines and grandson of Elmer and Bernice Bluml and Debbie all of enjoyed his first meeting with the Easter Lauren 10-month-old daughter of Keith and Dusty Stork of feasts her eyes on one of her Supreme Court rejects Iowa's ATM restrictions WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court today refused to let Iowa impose certain restrictions on machines operated by nationally chartered The without turned away state argument that a federal law allows Iowa to exercise such regulatory A 1976 Iowa law set a number of restrictions on requiring banks that operate them to have an in-state tell state officials the location of their machines and promise to comply with Iowa ATMs not located at a bank are barred from displaying advertising for the The National Bank Act requires national bank branches to comply with state But Congress amended the law in 1996 to specify that an ATM is not a bank Bank based in Salt Lake challenged the Iowa rules after it was required in 1997 to shut down ATMs it had installed at Sears stores in A federal judge ruled against the saying the federal banking law did not pre-empt the Iowa The 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals reversed the decision and said the Iowa laws were trumped by the federal By en- See Page 2 Value-added is boosting farm value 111. - Farmers talking shop over lunch and a cup of coffee is a ritual as old as But these some of the conversations at hamlet's lone cafe go far beyond traditional there's talk about the the mechanics of planting and harvesting the good-natured ribbing that comes naturally in an area where most everybody knows how much work goes into scratching a living from the But on a recent members of Prairie Premium Agricultural Coalition talked instead of of joint market research and of crops tailored for specific of ways to harvest more profit from the corn and soybeans that grow so well That's because Prairie Premium's members are among farmers in Illinois and elsewhere who have embraced the concept of value-added agriculture in the hope they can make their farms more profitable by taking greater control of their financial Value-added agriculture abandons the historic view of crops as commodities to be harvested and it focuses on methods farmers can use to retain ownership of their harvest further up the processing hopefully gleaning a greater return once their crops have been converted to products more valuable than simple soybeans or other a way to preserve small and farms are basically small said Larry Prairie Premium's Ken who works on value-added issues full-time for the Illinois Corn Growers said farmers increasingly are banding together in generation Today's average he is getting pushed into a shrinking corner of the marketplace by large and low The value-added concept is a way for them to expand their share of the marketplace and maintain Kindler compared the situation See Page 9 Ward meetings set this week The Carroll City Council and Mayor Ed Smith will be conducting ward informational discussions this week in an effort to seek to inform and be informed about concerns of the city and All discussions are scheduled for one but city personnel will be available for further City department heads will briefly present Printed information will be distributed and the plans and goals of the city will be Open and informal discussion will be encouraged. Carroll residents are encouraged to attend any of the discussions near their home or convenient to their These discussions are one of several methods the mayor and city Council will be exploring to communicate with the Other methods are planned for the near The informal discussions will be held as Ward 1 - 6:30 p.m. April 25, Northeast Park 12th Sreet and Capistrano Ward 2 - 6:30 p.m. April 26, Northwest Park east of the Carrollton Ward 3 - 6:30 p.m. May 2, Southside Park Main and Bluff Ward 4 - 6:30 p.m. May 3, Graham Park 11th Street and Grant
