Daily Times Herald (Newspaper) - December 19, 2003, Carroll, Iowa * Weather | Message Center Times Herald Tonight Partly Cloudy Low 23 Sunny High 46 Wrestling Meet 10 a.m. Saturday at CHS Iowa December 19, 2003 Single Copy 500 Sac Golden opportunity or bad Restaurant others debate merits as referendum looms By DOUGLAS BURNS Times Herald Staff Writer WALL LAKE - Although their businesses are just feet from each other in Wall Gary Faber and Anne are miles apart in their opinions about a proposed casino in Sac a barber in Wall Lake Friday Feature for 43 has heard ideas come and go like so many strands of cut hair on the shop But the gambling plan has captured his and Faber is now one of the vocal proponents in a coalition seeking to develop a casino on the Hallett Materials sand and gravel pits outside of County has a little trouble with people coming to Sac County to spend Faber with the lake would give us a real reason to come to Sac Added sitting here with nothing going on especially when the winter The lake shuts down and we're in We need buses to come to the county instead of leaving the up Main Anne the owner of said she's concerned the bright lights and buffet lines at a casino will lure away even her most loyal it could draw people Jacobsen As she finished up serving a lunch special of fried chicken and potato casserole to the last of the lunch crowd Jacobsen said she has concerns about a casino's possible impact on the economically disadvantaged people in the Times are tough for many will see lots of signs on the Early This is a golden Sac It's hot like or Blue Bunny lined owner of Early Mansion people in Sac said the second-generation business not going to say they are Jacobsen they act like they are really Then you throw something like that into our What money they do have I'd like them to spend here in town rather than in a Jacobsen said she could be persuaded to reverse her opinion if presented with evidence that a casino would benefit the Fritz owner of the Early a restaurant in Sac is one person intent on changing the minds of Jacobsen and a native of many who spent years investing in casinos and developing gaming operations in Nevada before getting involved with the Early is an outspoken advocate of the casino ' will see lots of signs on the Early Bachmeyer said in an interview with the Daily Times is a golden opportunity for Sac It's not like we have Microsoft or Blue Bunny lined He said restaurant owners like Jacobsen should recognize that a rising tide lifts all rather than worry about buffet lines and senior citizen you're hearing there is the inexperience on their Bachmeyer really don't understand the whole If you have an antique one antique shop feeds off the Bachmeyer also challenged widely held assumptions about the social impacts of Casinos in the 21st century are more highly regulated than the wide-open gaming houses of old West and people's he have to be a little bit more Catholic than the Pope to get a gaming Bachmeyer Faber and whose businesses are full of said the casino issue is pretty Jacobsen sure it will probably Faber said that in a day to day surveying of customers See CASINO on Page 10 St. Anthony Regional Hospital's The Birth Place Wednesday celebrated the arrival of its 300th baby this The Carroll hospital has not reached that milestone since 1986, when 313 babies were born at St. The 300th baby to be born at The Birth Place in Daily Times Herald Photo by Jeff Storjohann 2003 was Parna Ochan a daughter of Nichole Parker and Ochan Toang of Pictured with are her brother Mut her father and and Parker's physician Julie of McFarland Clinic in Hospital celebrates 300th baby The arrival of Parna Ochan Toang Wednesday morning marked the 300th birth at St. Anthony Regional Hospital's The Birth Place this The Carroll hospital had been anticipating since late November that it would deliver more than 300 babies in 2003, a level it has not reached since 1986, when 313 babies were born A daughter of Nichole Parker and Ochan Toang of was born at 8:21 weighing in at 7 pounds 9 ounces with a length of 19 She has an older Mut who is 3 For her part in helping St. Anthony achieve its long-awaited received a commemorative blanket featuring her name and birth Parker and Toang received a celebratory and cake was also provided for all the hospital staff Wednesday Staff members at The Birth Place estimating that eight to 12 more babies will be born there by Dec. 31. Since the data began being more than 37,000 babies have been born at St. The births accounted for over the years include 71 babies in 1919, an average of 732 births per year in the 1940s and a peak of 1,075 births in 1951. the earlier the hospital nursery was almost always hosting up to a dozen babies at a and two or three babies could be born the same said The Birth Place director and registered nurse Pat In succeeding the number of births at St. An- Gary a long-time barber in Wall says a proposed casino plan in the county makes sense from an eco- Dally Times Herald Photo by Jeff Storjohann nomic development He's urging Sac County residents to vote on a Jan. 6 gaming Bremer survives blast at Shiite office kills one Iraq - U.S. administrator L. Paul Bremer escaped a rebel ambush on his convoy two weeks authorities said An struck the office of a major Shiite killing an Iraqi Also on a roadside bomb exploded near a U.S. military truck outside wounding two U.S. the military Nobody was injured in the attack on Bremer's convoy on Dec. 6, the same day as a visit by Defense Secretary Donald a spokesman Bremer was riding in an armored car near the Baghdad airport when a roadside bomb exploded and guerrillas attacked with small arms but his convoy sped said Dan a spokesman for the you can it didn't Bremer told reporters Friday in The attack was not believed to have been a planned assassination attempt on Bremer but merely another in a series of strikes against U.S. convoys on that heavily traveled road near the Bremer has not curtailed his schedule of touring Iraq since and he traveled to the southern city of Basra on Senor Friday's predawn attack on the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution Party which also wounded five came a day after Shiites buried a senior party politician assassinated Wednesday as he left his home in Party officials blamed both attacks on loyalists of Saddam who was captured by U.S. forces on Rahim who lives in the building in western said his sister was killed and five other residents were wounded in the which brought down half of a one-story residential building that also housed a party branch Supreme Council members rushed to the and an rally was planned in the capital later The blast that wounded the two American soldiers was caused by a homemade said Capt. Tammy Galloway of the U.S. Army's 82nd Airborne The tanker truck blew up about 7:50 near Abu about 20 miles west of sending flames and clouds of smoke rising from the One 19-year-old Jassim said he saw the bodies of two Iraqis in a damaged civilian On the military reported that rebels had killed a U.S. soldier in the first fatal ambush for the U.S. military since Saddam's The soldier was killed late Wednesday when a 1st Armored Division patrol came under fire in northwest the military A second soldier and an Iraqi interpreter were According to official 314 U.S. soldiers have See IRAQ on Page 10 Court rejects subpoenas to identify downloaders thony averaging just over 600 in the 1960s and only 381 in 1970s. The birthrate at the hospital reached a low in 1996 with 227 babies born that According to recent years have seen the number of births at St. Anthony hold steady and even She said the remodeling of The Birth Place three years ago has coincided with gains in the number of babies born each again a full nursery at St. Anthony is not an unusual Hogan The Birth Place is a recovery and postpartum with all four services provided in the same patient Located on the third The Birth Place is designed to create a homelike atmosphere for mothers and their WASHINGTON - A federal appeals court ruled Friday the recording industry can't force Internet providers to identify subscribers swapping music dramatically setting back the industry's The panel from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia overturned a trial ruling that enforced a type of copyright under a law that predated the an incredible a blow for the little said Bob a grandfather in who was targeted by one of the earliest subpoenas from the Recording Industry Association of America but isn't among the hundreds who have been sued so The ruling does not make it legal to distribute music over the but it removes one of the most effective tools used by the recording industry to track such activity and sue The appeals court said the 1998 copyright law doesn't cover the popular file-sharing networks currently used by tens of millions of Americans to download The law no awareness whatsoever that Internet users might be able directly to exchange files containing copyrighted the court The appeals judges said they sympathized with the recording noting are But the judges said it was not the role of courts to rewrite the 1998 matter how damaging that development has been to the music industry or threatens being to the motion picture and software Legal experts said the appeals ruling probably would not affect the 382 civil lawsuits the recording industry already has filed since it announced its campaign nearly six months It will make identifying defendants for future lawsuits much more difficult and The ruling forces the recording industry to file Inside Preview of Kuemper vs. No. 1 6 4 Life & 5 6-7 13-18 19 Weekly 19 20 Vol. 134, No. 248 right lawsuits against based on their Internet then See MUSIC on Page 10_ In Today's Paper FOR SUBSCRIBERS ONLY Sponsored CARROLL COUNTY STATE Carroll Arcadia Auburn Carroll Member
