Daily Times Herald (Newspaper) - April 27, 2000, Carroll, Iowa TEXTBOOKS Page 2 Educators criticize algebra SPORTS Page 13 The city's two greatest milers Iowa INFECTIONS Page 17 ^ WEATHER stronger infections are global Low Friday's High 43 65 Volume 131, No. 84 Daily Times Herald 1 Thursday 1 APRIL 27,2000 Cop Single Copy 50 Cents names Litterer new principal By BRET HAYWORTH Times Herald Staff Writer Manning social studies teacher and coach Kevin Litterer will serve as 7-12 principal and athletic director at beginning in 2000-01. Litterer said this morning that he was offered the position on April 17 following a three-hour interview at the school that He will be leaving the school at which he has spent his entire educational which started in August 1990. School Board president Douglas Stidham said this morning that hiring will be officially acted and the salary at the May 15 board Stidham said he had reviewed resume and that he is to have He comes with wonderful For his Litterer said he very much liked what he saw when he interviewed at And the size of the school is similar to the Manning so that is a good he The enrollment is about 440, while Manning has approximately 550 Litterer will be assuming a combined position of tasks that formerly had been performed by two Former 7-12 principal Jean Beeler resigned her position on March 22 after two and Gary Holmes retired after serving as athletic director for many Litterer said he knows the position is a new job configuration and that it certainly will be but that when he spoke with superintendent Dale assured me that if they realize it is too much for one person to they would look for somebody to It will come down to being Litterer graduated in 1985 from Clarksville High School in northeastern He earned a social studies education degree from the University of Northern Iowa in 1990 and is working on his master's in secondary administration from He has taken summer school and ICN courses and should have his degree by 2001. The state will grant a temporary license for two pending his completion at Litterer Superintendent Johnson could not be reached for comment this morning but previously said that a committee reviewing applicants would interview at least two from the several who had Litterer heard about the opening from friends and saw a print He said Johnson called him for an interview on April 14, and he was hired by the following He spent that day interviewing with two high school about a half-dozen teachers and Leaving about 6 Litterer said Johnson offered him position right figuring the board had already reviewed his credentials and would approve it. Litterer said he called Johnson the next morning to just seemed like a real good position to walk he What sold him on Litterer was the pride evinced by the students and teachers with whom he particularly what he heard from the two high school were very proud of what they were showing very See Page 7 Adjourn for year Lawmakers solve spending disputes DES Iowa - Lawmakers now turn their eyes to the campaign trail after wrapping up this year's 108-day legislative session with a billion-dollar agreement on higher education Both Republicans and Democrats said they compiled a record that will pay off in November's and they would quickly begin making that take credit for it said House Speaker Brent Lawmakers worked deep into the night sorting through the details of complex spending disputes that had snarled them all The Senate adjourned for the year at 9:50 p.m. The House followed at 10:31 p.m. The total budget approved by the Legislature for the year starting July 1 is an increase of 2.3 That's the smallest increase since 1993. Gov. Tom Vilsack gave lawmakers a mixed conceding the Legislature worked with us in a bipartisan we accomplished great things for the Vilsack said that legislators too often instead to listen to the special He chided lawmakers for failing to tighten controls of big hog pass trigger lock requirements for guns and boost ethanol am disappointed that the Republicans chose to put the long wish list the special interest groups ahead of the best interests of Iowa said Trie biggest budget piece was a million package financing higher education that Republicans said was adequate and Democrats argued would force tuition increases for middle-class education budget is extremely Siegrist clear Republicans are balancing this year's budget on the backs of said Senate Democratic Leader Michael are the ones who will be feeling The Senate approved the plan on a 44-4 vote and the House quickly went Republicans running the Legislature bargained the package with Gov. Tom who has pledged to sign it into It's million more than Republicans want to but considerably smaller than the million extra that Vilsack The partisan sniping over the school spending issue sets the stage for what is certain to be a campaign See Page 2 Daily Times Herald Photo by Jeff Storjohann Wishman to give Storytelling course Greenspan predicts rural areas will benefit from tech boom WASHINGTON - The technological boom that is transforming the nation's cities is also providing greater job opportunities and a better life in rural Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan said Greenspan said that just as electricity and better highways transformed rural America in the last the technological revolution involving computers and the Internet is certain to have an impact in the new citizens are gaining access to a broader range of goods and services and the already existing goods and services are available more expeditiously and at lower Greenspan said in remarks to a conference on rural America sponsored by the Federal Reserve regional bank in Kansas Among the Greenspan noted television and other electronic products that helped to counter the remoteness of many rural He said rural areas also stand to benefit from innovations just now being developed such as which allow urban doctors to diagnose illnesses in rural areas through television and computer Greenspan predicted that farmers would also benefit from the tion under way in information producers are turning to innovations such as electronic including those linked to to attain greater precision in fertilization and he said in his prepared copies of which were released in discoveries that should raise productive potential for both crops and livestock are being reported with greater he noting that many of the changes are likely to increase farm which would mean further declines in the number of farms as the size of those farms continues to Helping to offset this loss of employment Greenspan the expansion of agriculture service industries should continue to be a source of employment growth in rural all the previous episodes of technical the revolution in information technology already has improved living conditions in numerous and it will likely bring future benefits to rural communities that we now can only scarcely he June a professional storyteller from of Sioux will present a at 10 a.m. May 10, at the Carroll Public With the help pf the Carroll Arts the Carroll Public Library and the Friends of the has been donated to help cover the cost of enabling Retired Senior and Volunteer Program to offer the course free of RSVP has been the driving force behind a that has visited more than 560 kindergartners in schools throughout Carroll In this hand puppets created by RSVP are given to the students during a storytelling or Wishman grew up near Lanesboro and currently teaches a storytelling course at Morningside College in Sioux and she was one of three storytellers featured at the 1999 Glidden Chamber The course is limited to 20 and reservations can be made by contacting RSVP Helping promote the course are from Laura Comito Carroll Arts Marie Friends of the Nancy children's librarian Carroll Public and Sharon RSVP On rainy water is issue at 2nd Ward city meeting By DOUGLAS BURNS Times Herald Staff Writer More than a dozen Carroll residents met with city officials in the Northwest Park Wednesday night in of four scheduled ward The rainy weather was appropriate because one of the main lines of questioning for city officials at the Ward 2 meeting had to do with the city's water One gentleman wanted to know why the wastewater treatment plant was costing so much - at least Residents of 15th Street and Adams Street expressed frustration over the water that pools in their neighborhood after And some Carroll citizens said they had with flooding in their problems they be- lieve were in to sump pumps being illegally hooked up to sanitary do not want to be the city manager when we have the INS and a man with a gun go into your house and tell you that can't pump info a sanitary City Manager Gerald Clausen on illegal pumps When additional water is sent into the sewer from the sump pumps it can overfill the sanitary which generally run in the ground under the middle of City Engineer Randy Krauel explained after the That can result in basement he Krauel said he isn't certain how many water problems are connected to illegal don't know what the extent of it is - either the number of pumps or the volume of he it's difficult to enforce the law because it is costly to send city employees on random checks for sump And searches create problems as do not want to be the city See Page 7 NY mayor announces he has cancer NEW YORK - Mayor Rudolph Giuliani announced today he has prostate and said the disease could affect his campaign for U.S. Senate against first lady Hillary Rodham a treatable form of prostate It was found at an early the 55-year-old Giuliani sounding upbeat and frequently smiling during a news He said a biopsy was performed 2 1/2 weeks after a screening test indicated the test was Treatment which include radiation and have not yet been Asked how it would affect his run for the the Republican have no I hope that I'd be able to but the choice that I'm going to make is going to be based on the treatment that's going to give me the best chance to have a complete When pressed on whether he would continue his campaign he don't think it's fair to answer questions about the Senate race right Should I do Would I be able to do it the right I hope that's the case but I don't asked upstate today how the announcement might affect the ' all New my prayers and best wishes are with the mayor for a full and speedy recovery and I. hope everyone joins me in wishing him well as he undergoes the treatment that is The mayor noted his father died of prostate cancer in 1981, before the latest screening brings up very painful and I miss my father every day of my he Cancer of the a gland involved in semen is the See Page 7 Families say they're hurt by tape's release Colo. - On a desk is an open book with charred A calculator and pencil lie near a pockmark in the Pools of blood have seeped across the beige carpet of the library floor and folded yellow cards show where students were wounded - or For anyone can buy a video showing an Columbine High School after the massacre a year The footage comes with a pop music Despite outrage from Jefferson County authorities on Wednesday released the video of scenes inside the school at least a day after the rampage left 15 including the two student The tape is nearly three hours long and is primarily aerial footage from the day of the April 20, showing the wounded and the bodies of two slain Jefferson County Attorney Frank Hutfless said the tape was distributed to families under a court order and offered to the public ' avoid additional lawsuits by the public or news County officials have not said what the fee will be used The tape opens with the humming sound of helicopters as rescue police and firefighters take up positions outside the school on the day of the They move students who either were killed or critically The graphic images were a sharp blow to families of the coming less than a week after the first anniversary of the the first time I saw my daughter being dragged over to See Page 6
