Daily Times Herald (Newspaper) - February 27, 2003, Carroll, Iowa Times Center Partly Cloudy 15 Tomorrow Mostly Cloudy High 32 Carroll Corridor Commerce Meeting 6:30 p.m. Monday at Carrollton Centre Iowa February 27, 2003 Single Copy 500 Legislature approves 2% school spending growth DES Iowa - School districts in Iowa will get the 2 percent additional funding recommended in Gov. Tom The funding level was approved by the House Thursday morning following Senate approval Wednesday The passed the House 96-0 without It passed in the Senate 48-1. It now goes to Vilsack for his Iowa law requires the Legislature to set the rate no later than 30 days after receiving the governor's budget recommendation which was received Jan. 31. Two percent will give school districts per pupil in new state increasing the state cost per pupil from to The Legislative Fiscal Bureau has estimated the new cost to the state's general fund will be about there will still be budget but at least school boards and administrators now have a number with which to said Rep. Jodi chairwoman of the education like to provide some consistency rather than set a figure that is too high and have to cut School district have expected 2 percent from the but that amount does little more than help most districts maintain current said Ben director of government relations for School Administrators of a dozen or more school districts the insurance in- crease is more than what the 2 percent will said the retired superintendent of the Ankeny Some district may be forced to cut staff at that level of but administrators also realize the financial condition the state is Norman f j i See Come home safe Jerry Riesgaard waves an American flag to members of the Iowa National Guard 1168th Transportation Co. as they head east on Highway 44 near Audubon this The 47-member unit was driving its 20 and other vehicles to Fort to be processed into active duty for up to one year in Operation Enduring Freedom and the war on Riesgaard adorned his pickup with flags and parked at the intersection of County a few miles from his Saddam's ouster would help build Dally Times Herald Photos by Jeff Storjohann rural Audubon His goodbye was a special as Riesgaard was saying farewell to his older who's a sergeant with the 1168th. The convoy of Guard trucks paraded through Audubon before heading to Students at Audubon Elementary School braved freezing temperatures to show their More photos from this morning's farewell parade appear on Page 3. WASHINGTON - A day after declaring that removing Saddam Hussein from power would pave the way toward Middle East President Bush defended his father for stopping short of ousting the Iraqi leader in the 1991 Persian Gulf was not the mission in 1991," the president was to liberate Bush addressed the issue in the Oval Office while sitting alongside Afghanistan's Hamid who thanked Americans for their support in rebuilding his also here to ask you to do more for Karzai told Karzai fears that the United States will lose sight of reconstruction efforts in his country as it takes on There were new signs from Iraq that war was U.S. intelligence has detected Iraqi President Saddam Hussein moving some elite army troops into new In recent trucks have been sent to the north to pick up members of his Republican Guard and reposition them around Saddam's hometown of 100 miles north of the two defense officials said on condition of Bush said he was closely watching the discussion over whether Saddam complies with an order to start destroying his Al 2 missiles by A panel of inter- See IRAQ on Page 3 host dies of cancer at 74 PITTSBURGH - Fred who gently invited millions of children to be his neighbor as host of the public television show for more than 30 died of cancer early He was 74. Rogers died at his Pittsburgh said family spokesman David who played Mr. McFeely on the Rogers had been diagnosed with stomach cancer sometime after the Newell was so genuinely a wonderful Newell mission was to work with families and children for That was his his and he did it from day From 1968 to 2000, an ordained Presbyterian produced the show at Pittsburgh public television station The final new which was taped in December 2000, aired in August 2001, though PBS affiliates continued to air back Rogers composed his own songs for the show and began each episode in a set made to look like a comfortable living singing a beautiful day in the as he donned sneakers and a have really never considered myself a TV Rogers said in a 1995 always I was a neighbor who just came in for a His message remained telling his viewers to love themselves and On each he would take his audience on a magical trolley ride into the Neighborhood of where his puppet creations would interact with each other and Rogers did much of the puppet work and voices He also studied early childhood development at the University of Pittsburgh and consulted with an expert there over the was certainly a There was a lot more to Fred than I think many of us said Joe a guitarist who on the show played the royal handyman in the Neighborhood of Make-Believe and owner of Music Negri said Rogers refused to accept shoddy by guests who may have thought they could slack off during a kid's But Rogers could also enjoy taping as if he were a child Negri he the two of them fell into laughter because of the difficulty they had putting up a tent on the Rogers taught children how to deal with anger and even why they shouldn't fear the bathtub by assuring them they'll never go down the During the Persian Gulf Rogers told youngsters that children shall be well taken care of in this neighborhood and beyond - in times of war and in times of he asked parents to promise their children they would always be live in a world in which we need to share See on Page Supervisors at stalemate oyer tax ballot language Soil and Water Conservation District asks for slice of the pie By BUTCH HEMAN Times Herald Staff Writer The question of how to divvy the Carroll County unincorporated area's portion of a 1-cent local option sales and service tax finally came to a vote by the Board of Supervisors on but two motions failed when each drew a 2-2 Carroll and Glidden voters will go to the polls again May 13 to decide whether a 1-cent tax will be imposed in those All other 11 cities in Carroll County passed the tax in a July 2002 election and began collecting it Jan. 1. The supervisors are charged with writing the ballot explanation to rural voters on how the new tax would be The verbiage has to be decided no later than March 7. A proposal to use 25 percent of sales tax levied in the unincorporated area for relief and the remaining 75 percent for essentially any other lawful purpose was defeated by a margin of nearly in the 2002 None of the approximately 15 in attendance at Wednesday's special meeting at the courthouse spoke against the sales Officials from the Carroll Soil and Water Conservation District constituted most of the audience. They and several supervisors described the money Carroll County's unincorporated area would receive from the sales tax - estimated to be as high as annually - as a and a a massive return for a jurisdiction that would levy just through the The rift on the Board of Supervisors regarded whether a percentage of the revenue the sales tax generates for the rural area should be designated for relief of property taxes assessed solely on rural Supervisor Neil Bock said the board should designate as much sales tax as possible for relief on rural property He suggested 75 percent of the tax be earmarked for that and the remaining 25 percent go for other lawful Supervisor Neil Trobak proposed a 50-50 split but that the half used for relief be applied to all not just the rural The 50 percent for tax relief should be designated for rural property the vote won't pass in the unincorporated supervisor Del McDermott adding that if rural voters went with idea they'd be a lot of money The 11 cities collecting the 1-cent tax currently aren't sharing it with the entire county for McDermott In seven cities that passed it last year designated none of the revenue for want ballot worded so it McDermott Board chairman Gene Meiners said he agreed with See SUPERVISORS on Page 8 Southern Cal eyeing new shop By DOUGLAS BURNS Times Herald Staff Writer LAKE CITY - An organization that has long supported Southern Cal High School has launched a fund-raising drive to replace the current With a new Cal supporters say they can offer more like computer-assisted drafting and intensive trade Matt FFA adviser at Southern said the new building would have real-life benefits for as it helps Southern Cal to prepare them for trade schools are busting at the seams right Carlson Added Kevin president of the Chapter Farm & Fruit still takes physical labor to build houses - bricklaying and metal The Farm & Fruit Association is working on the project to replace the shop with a 40-by-100 all-steel Built in the 1940s, the current shop was once the bus It was made of bricks and is showing signs of wear and an old brick Poen roof is It's inefficient as far as heat is Students at Southern Cal say they can see the value of the new think it will help because you can have better equipment and teach more said senior Chris Another Kate said the vocational programs are good for students who enjoy working hard but aren't drawn to traditional classroom big on the Block not much of a classroom Seniors Marc Hardy and See FFA on Page 3 Inside Manning and win boys district basketball Page 6 3 4 Life & 5 6 and 7 9 and 10 10 Vol. 134, No. 41
