Daily Times Herald (Newspaper) - September 24, 2001, Carroll, Iowa Weather Message Center Carroll High i Celebrates Homecoming This Week Iowa September 24, 2001 Single Copy 500 Money would be raised through fee hike and general taxes By DOUGLAS BURNS Times Herald Staff Writer A Carroll Municipal Golf Course committee tonight will recommend that the city spend to improve the 18-hole tract over the next year with an irrigation ground work and other These recommendations likely are only the first wave of work in what could be an ongoing facelift to Carroll's public The committee plans on studying the possibility of even more improvements in future some of which would require the city to buy more In the current city officials have earmarked for but that money would have to be raised from a bond It's not just sitting in an account waiting to be The council can issue up to in bonds without a public meaning the council has the power to implement the course plan as soon as tonight if members Money to repay the bonds would come from fee increases at the golf course and general tax The golf course committee is recommending that the city begin work immediately on a well and pump An irrigation system for the entire course would then be installed in the fail of 2002, under the committee's plan of Next holes 11 and 14, both would be and areas would be excavated north of No. 3 and near 11 and 14. Fill from that excavation would be used to raise the fairways on 11 and 14. The committee's plan also calls for cart paths to be installed from 11 to 14. committee's recommendations are primarily for the short states a report that will be presented to the recommendations attempt to immediately impact the two most pressing control and The committee notes that the plan will not eliminate but alleviate problems associated with rains and allow See GOLF Page 11 targeted WASHINGTON - President calling for a on the financial of demanded today that foreign banks follow America's lead and freeze the assets of 27 individuals and Osama bin Laden accused Bush of leading a new crusade against Islam the flag of the standing in the Rose said the order that took effect one minute after midnight applied to terrorist a corporation that serves as a front for terrorism and several nonprofit He conceded they operate primarily adding that as a putting banks and financial institutions around the world on If they fail to he the Treasury Department has the authority to freeze their assets and transactions in the United Bush spoke nearly two weeks after the worst terrorism attack on American when terrorists hijacked jetliners and flew them into the World Trade Center twin towers and A fourth plane Kuemper cross-country teams win 7 3 4 Life & 5 6-8 12 and 13 13 Volume 132, No. 187 crashed in the Pennsylvania countryside after doomed passengers apparently struggled with the More than 6,000 people are dead or Halfway around the bin Laden urged Pakistani Muslims to fight American The Saudi exile has been named repeatedly by administration officials as the chief culprit behind the Sept. 11 In a statement dated Sunday and broadcast he said some Pakistanis died opposing American plans to use Pakistan as a springboard in the battle against hope that they are the first martyrs in Islam's battle in this era against the new crusade and Jewish campaign led by the big crusader Bush under the flag of the he said of the The statement was broadcast by the Qatar satellite The leader of Afghanistan's ruling Mullah Mohammed said the United States should withdraw from the Persian Gulf and an end to the biased attitude on the issue of In a faxed he said the death of bin Laden would do little to remove any threat to the United Administration officials indicated a continuing concern about more terrorism directed at the United Concerned about possible chemical weapons the Federal Aviation Administration extended Sunday's ban on crop-dusting from airplanes in domestic Bush coupled his remarks about the financial network of terrorists with a fresh Bin Laden urges holy war against 6American Pakistan - Osama bin Laden called on Muslims to join a holy war against American and the United Nations said today that Afghanistan's ruling Taliban militia have virtually shut down its humanitarian operations by threatening to kill its remaining In a statement provided today to Qatar's satellite bin Laden - the suspected mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks in Washington and New York - are steadfast on the path of jihad with the faithful Afghan Bin Laden also expressed sorrow for the deaths of Pakistanis killed for protesting aggression of the American crusade forces and their allies on Muslim lands in Pakistan and He called them martyrs in the which the TV station said was signed by bin Laden and dated In other the Taliban's leader said today that the United States should withdraw its forces from the Persian Gulf and end its against Palestinians if it wants to eliminate the threat of global The United States is gearing up for military strikes on Afghanistan because of the Taliban's refusal to hand over bin Laden and his Bin Laden has used Afghanistan as headquarters of his Al-Qaeda terrorist network since 1996. Faced with the prospect of the Taliban said they were dispatching 300,000 fighters to defend Afghanistan's borders - even as of Lights gets new shine See TERRORISTS Page 11 LADEN Daily Times Herald Photos by Jeff Storjohann Volunteers began replacement of the wiring and bulb fixtures of the of display located at the downtown business district this past The lights have been an annual fixture during Carroll's holiday season since the early and the original wiring had deteriorated to the point that it was easier to replace the strings than repair The old strings were removed Saturday and new replacements were laid along the rooftops and overhang Rainy weather forced the volunteers to quit early on but work resumed the volunteers will start replacement of the strings along Thomas Plaza and the theater and more than 4,300 bulbs will be installed into Carroll fireman Larry Feltner uses a cordless drill to drive sheet metal screws into the overhang on Main Street while stringing wire Sunday Members of the fire electricians Monte Kevin and those from Menninga along with boom trucks from the city of Carroll and Energy are helping with the Cork and Sam's Sodas and East Side Texaco and Pizza Hut all donated food for the The lights are purchased by the foot downtown by When the downtown area will have more than 4,300 feet of and they will be turned on during a ceremony on Nov. 23. Spin Laundromat scene It's just a light shower Rainfall didn't hinder the enthusiasm of participants in Saturday's seventh annual Memory Walk at Swan Lake State After launching balloons during a kickoff about 60 walkers warmed up then took a lap on the park's trail - much of it during light to moderate The walkers raised for the Big Sioux Chapter of the Alzheimer's which has programs and services in Carroll and Sac The family of Irene Vasos was the honorary family for Saturday's event Major sponsors Were the Knights of Daily Times Herald Photo by Butch Heman Food Stone Printing and The Graphic are very happy with the outpouring of support this past said Marsha outreach specialist for the Alzheimer's Association in The association does family and caregiver support community and family family in-home respite a safe return advocacy and a 24-hour help Further donations to the Memory Walk can be arranged by calling Boes at 792-9540. By BRET Times Herald Staff Writer In a world in which the majority of homeowners have washing there are still lots of people who use self-serve The places have a culture all their and those who ever went off to college or rented a home without a or whose units went on the blink know the drill all too - Making sure to have roll of quarters or at least some unwrinkled dollars to gingerly insert into the change Forgetting your detergent at home and thus buying 2.1-ounce boxes of Tide or Cheer for 50 Debating just how long you will wait for someone to return and take out the clothes that are languishing in the dryer you need to The notion of doing one's laundry publicly in coin-operated laundromats arose decades and since that time it has proven to be a and profitable business for A Web site of the California Coin Laundry Association holds that laundromat customer loyalty is usually but most businesses in town Iowa have a captive since there are no other competitors in The Web site goes on to explain ad infinitum the pros and cons of versus machines and their return on as well as the supposed flaws of dryers that recirculate air and the ways to compute profits via revenue per gallon of water By making sense of such trade several local owners have made their niche in the business - those quarters and dimes deposited can really add of runs itself Midwest Dry Cleaning and Coin Laundry is located at 101 E. Sixth St. in and other are located in Lake Lake Manning and Coon Glidden's self-service laundromat went out of business in the late 1990s. Former owner Shirley Thompson said that used which she attributed to Glidden being too small of a town and its close proximity to But those who still are in the business say they are turning a Denny Kasperbauer owns Manning Laundry on north Main Street in downtown Kasperbauer acknowledges he didn't know much about operating a laundry six years ago when he bought looking for a new income source after giving up the hog-raising part of his farming just kind of runs Kasperbauer pays its it makes It is a pretty Kasperbauer said his understanding is that the Manning laundry has been in its current location for about three decades and had a stable history of prior The machines were in workable order when he bought the so there were no big start-up The main upkeep is making sure the washers and dryers are operating adequately and then paying the monthly utilities on the Kasperbauer As for the aspects of the Kasperbauer hires a person to open and close and clean up the something that requires less than an hour a day in Kasperbauer himself is in the laundromat for just a couple of hours a can usually rely on the * See LAUNDRIES on Page 11
