Daily Times Herald (Newspaper) - May 5, 2003, Carroll, Iowa Weather | Message Center Herald Iowa May 5, 2003 Tonight Partly Cloudy 48 Tomorrow Partly Sunny High 68 Catholic Grade School's Spring Band Concert 7 p.m. Tuesday at St. Lawrence Single Copy 500 PIERCE Mo. - Swarms of violent thunderstorms and tornadoes crashed through the nation's killing at least 32 people in Missouri and Eight people were missing in this hard-hit Houses across the region were blown apart by Sunday's trees were uprooted and power lines and other debris blocked Travelers were evacuated from the terminals at Kansas City's main airport and given shelter in In Pierce not a home or business was left untouched in the town of nearly 1,400, and wreckage made it impossible to walk the Two bodies had been pulled from the rubble of the town's nearly leveled National Guard Officials initially feared the eight missing were killed in the where several people had taken After sunrise Monday authorities had found no sign 32 people in three states of anyone and regional emergency official Glenn Dittmar said he was 1/2 sure that no one else would be found never been in anything like It was absolutely said Pierce City clerk Julie who rode out the storm in the armory The storms were blamed for at least 14 deaths in seven in Kansas and 11 in One tornado carved a 65-mile path across West said meteorologist Gene Rench at the National Weather Service in They were part of a huge weather system that rolled across the Midwest and parts of the and also spawned twisters in South Dakota and Damage in Arkansas included wrecked homes and power outages and overturned Hail as big as baseballs hammered parts of South By midmorning thunderstorms were racing eastward through the Ohio and Tennessee Some 24,000 homes and businesses lost power in utility officials In a state of emergency was declared in Madison including the hard-hit city of Eleven bodies had been taken to County General said spokeswoman Jan Much of Jackson had no power Monday and the hospital was operating off a Boud like downtown lawyer Joe Byrd said of the damage in Kansas Gov. Kathleen declared seven counties disaster Eighty homes were damaged or destroyed in Crawford at least 20 of in the Franklin said ' county emergency See TORNADOES on Page 8 rt - 5. The 19th annual Friends of Kuemper Ball broke the raising The fundraising total was announced at the Ball Saturday night at the Carrollton The ball featured Dally Times Herald Photo by Larry a tropical Knight in Pictured are the to Joe and Claudia Dave and Sylvia Sporrer and Tim and Jane Kuemper Ball sails to record Using a sailboat sail to reveal the results of the 2003 Friends of Kuemper Ball fund-raising campaign proved to be very a wave of support of Catholic education for this year's campaign created quite a topping the 1 The raised this the previous record of last 19,;years, the Kuemper Ball has now raised a total Net income 1985 through 2002 is and organizers estimate 90 percent profit from ing achievement is even more considering the Kuemper Ball lacks any donors and this year a record of nearly 2,300 people made Joe Halbur said Sunday Halbur and his Tim and Jane Renze and Dave and Sporrer served as for this year's Halbur noted that the largest donation was a memorial for Norbert Renze and the next largest donations were and a Halbur said of the goal this year was to reach the Sylvia Sporrer said The campaign put on a final push after reaching the previous year's fund-raising total nearly two weeks before the In the had a last-minute change to the numbers Saturday shortly before showing the results to an enthusiastic crowd that filled the Carrollton Centre A friend of Dave the late gave Dave a check as the greeting people arriving at the The man is listed in the Ball donation book as a but he decided to up his donation because Daves dad was such a good Regents eye nearly in IOWA Iowa at the state's three public universities will worry about be nearly million puts as they begin talks year's going to be a said Greg executive director of wfl to manage with the personnel Are going with the had in the get suggestions to the university The presidents will budget questions at the state Board of May 21.and May 22. The regents are expected to complete most of the budget during the June with final details ironed out at the July University officials hope that Gov. Torn VilsacK can convince the i course and fund ary increases this the money for rles tq estimate ties would have to find savings About 70 of. the budget for the regents institutions is in personnel In salary increases ' are determined by leaving no wiggle room for Another worry is that the Legislature has approved million in cuts to the institutions as part of its That means about cuts for the an example of how special things Sylvia Sporrer was she said of the had such a good effort from Irs nice to see everybody pull There's only one big fundraiser a and this shows how the Kuemper family The area Catholic elementary schools will consolidate into one system under the Kuemper name next school ( hoping school just grows from Sporrer Income from the Ball will go for such things as tuition assistance and textbooks and other classroom Halbur estimates will go into the Kuemper Sw KUEMPER on Page 8 inside Kuemper girls golf team lures own invitational Page 13 3 ' Life & 5, 13-.16' Comics Storm causes minor flooding in central Iowa Iowa - Strong rains in central Iowa ended early Monday as authorities worked to stem minor flooding throughout the creeks and streams have been out of their banks Brad a meteorologist with the National Weather said been minor flooding along the River and the Skunk as well as the Four Mile Creek and Walnut Creek in Des As of 1 a.m. the weather service office in Johnston had received 2.73 inches of rain in the past 24-hours, making it the wettest May 4 since 1886, when 1.39 inches had some flooding on some of the and those are now beginning to meteorologist Jeremy Grams said early is just minor nothing Drier weather is in the forecast for the next few There weren't any reports of weather significantly affecting the state's roadways late said Lt. Rob spokesman for the Iowa State In Marion County in central a tree was uprooted and tree limbs were reported down Sunday In Des there was standing water in several western parts of the city and in low-lying areas along Interstate 235, where construction work may have made problems said Public Works Director Ron and Barb Carpenter watched water flow into the basement of their home in east Des sump pump is pretty much running nonstop and it's getting so it's starting Vol. 134, No. 80 Weekend rainfall amounts Radio ' - 2.57 2.30 2.00 to said Barb who was wearing rubber last time it did this was during the floods of but this because of the construction what's coming in is said Ron In two inches of water covered the floor of Renatta She lives there with her two their their their crayons - everything is ruined in their said 22. In eastern there will be some showers and thunderstorms could be some locally heavy but they didn't get the worst of the rains from earlier Small adding that there could be minor Totals for central Iowa rainfall Sunday night were between two inches and three which was Small There were no reports of tornadoes in meteorologists A series of tornadoes pummeled Kansas and Missouri on killing as many as 19 people as storms left a swath of destruction a quarter-mile wide in some v Coalition forces capture biological weapons scientist H WASHINGTON - Coalition forces have captured one of Iraq's top biological weapons defense officials said Huda Salih Mahdi among the 55 most wanted members of Saddam Hussein's fallen was taken into custody on a Defense Department official He had no other details about her Officials have not yet found any weapons of mass It was how much cooperation they would get from since all other high-ranking officials have denied under interrogation that there was a program in recent With her the United States has now acknowledged holding 19 of the 55 most U.S. intelligence officials said that 49, is believed to have played a key in rebuilding Baghdad's biological weapons capability since the first Persian Gulf War in 1991. Born in 1953 her father was a former defense minister and member of the Baath Party's Saddam reportedly ordered his execution in 1983. Ammash was trained by Nassir described by United Nations inspectors as the father of Iraq's biological weapons officials She has served as president of Iraqi's microbiology society and as dean at University of Ammash and are among Iraq's top weapons Others include Amir a chief chemical weapons and Dr. a woman who was dubbed by Ammash is the only women on the In 2001, she became the first and only woman elected to the highest policymaking body in the Baath the regional after working closely with Saddam's youngest American officials say Ammash is among a new generation of leaders named by Saddam to leading posts within Iraq's Baath 9e*HW>Wfrfrge8
