Daily Times Herald (Newspaper) - May 17, 2004, Carroll, Iowa Times Herald Weather I Message Center Carroll High School Reading Celebration Program 5-8 Tonight at Graham Park Tonight Thunderstorms Low 52 Tomorrow Thunderstorms High 71 Carroll's Company Deployed Iowa 17, 2004 Single Copy 500 IPTV to feature local company An feature from Iowa Public In series will feature a company in its Educating program that will air on May 18 at 6:30 p.m. Acuto owned by 2003 Carroll High School graduate Mark and current CHS junior class member Irene Nissen is a relatively new businesses that produces audio and The company specializes in Daily Times Herald Photo by Jeff Storjohann digital taping of wedding and family live audio CD recordings and in house film and VHS tape conversions to CD or Kerwood has completed his freshman year at ISU and the series explores the work being done at the Center for Entrepreneurship and also takes a look at the Youth Marketplace The program will be replay on May 20 at 7:30 p.m. and on May 21 at 8:30 p.m. Suicide bomb kills head of Iraqi Council Iraq - The head of the Iraqi Governing Council was killed in a suicide car bombing near a checkpoint outside the coalition headquarters in central Baghdad on dealing a blow to U.S. efforts to stabilize Iraq ahead of a handover of sovereignty on June 30. A roadside bomb containing sarin nerve agent also exploded recently near a U.S. military convoy in Gen. Mark Kimmitt confirmed saying two explosives experts were treated for but no other casualties were Kimmitt said he believed it was the first case in which U.S. forces had found an artillery shell containing also known as was the second and of the council to be He was among nine including the who were Iraqi officials A suicide bomber was the military A previously unknown the Arab Resistance claimed responsibility for the saying in a Web site posting that two of its fighters carried out the operation against traitor and The car bomb had the hallmarks of terrorist Abu Kimmitt but he acknowledged that the claim of responsibility meant that U.S. authorities will have to investigate further before a militant with links to is believed responsible for many of the vehicle bombs in recent months and for the death of U.S. civilian Nicholas whose decapitation was videotaped and posted on the Web last L. Paul the U.S. administrator of called Saleem's killing a and tragic terrorists who are seeking to destroy Iraq have See IRAQ on Page 9 dies in vetoes Pentagon to shift troops in South Korea to Iraq By DOUGLAS BURNS Times Herald Staff Writer In a move Carroll's two state legislators are calling a major blow to Catholic education in the Gov. Tom Vilsack Friday afternoon vetoed a assistance The would have provided credits for taxpayers who contribute to funds for nonpublic The program is modeled on a similar one in Arizona that has allowed private schools there to raise millions of dollars to defray with financially challenged families getting Kuemper Catholic Schools officials have said the is vital to the future of nonpublic schools in and State Steve Kettering says he's never seen a more significant for private schools in his political and business is a big hit for this said a Lake View of Democrat thought it was extremely This is just a huge Added State Rep. Rod a Carroll terms of this this it takes us Under the couples annually could have donated and individuals to tuition funds with a 75 percent tax Vilsack cited the state's fiscal situation in killing the reduces state revenue at a time when the Legislature is struggling to find adequate resources for the health care and public safety that Iowans Vilsack St. John's and Fairview damaged by vandals Police suspect children reward offered sense suggests that you do not reduce revenue by any amount until you have adequate revenue to meet priority Vilsack vetoed another 17 bills late last a purging of legislative work some Republicans are calling the afternoon On the Roberts pointed out that the plan had support from both Republicans and means you had a very bipartisan piece of Roberts you have to go back to square who played a pivotal role in shepherding the through the says the governor's arguments about the effect on public school funding ring is it ever he Some Republicans and lobbyists are speculating that who is being vetted as a running mate for Democratic presidential candidate John didn't want to alienate the powerful public school lobby by signing trailblazing Kettering doesn't buy that don't think you can read that into this particular Kettering He just thinks the governor made a poor Sara executive director of the Iowa Catholic said the governor's staff told private school lobbyists Vilsack was being pressured by national groups on the still dealing with it we're Eide Kettering and Roberts are committed to bringing the legislation back in coming think we ought to resurrect it and take a look at it next Kettering Roberts said the bipartisan backing in the Legislature is would think we would still have a similar he WASHINGTON - In a sign of the Iraq war's increasing strain on the U.S. the Pentagon is planning an extraordinary shift of troops to Iraq from their garrisons in South where they have stood guard for decades against a feared invasion by forces of communist North officials President Bush said in a telephone conversation Monday South Korean President Roh that the move was related to the June 30 transfer of sovereignty to an interim Iraqi government and that it in no way reduced America's treaty commitment to the defense of South officials in Seoul A statement issued by office said the South Korean leader The two presidents also discussed South Korea's plan to send 3,600 of its troops to The move reflects not only the Army's difficulty in finding enough soldiers for the next rotation of forces into Iraq later this year but also Defense Secretary Donald H. push for greater flexibility in deploying troops based anywhere in the including the Korean The U.S. commitment to defending South Korea is the most enduring of its after the collapse of the former Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact that threatened Europe until it dissolved in 1991. U.S. forces saved South Korea after the North invaded without warning in June 1950. South Korean officials offered the first word Sunday that the United States wanted to move some of the 37,000 U.S. troops stationed there to and Pentagon officials confirmed that talks were under way to shift as many as 4,000 Jack a former State Department point man See TROOPS on Page 9 By BUTCH HEMAN and LARRY DEVINE Times Herald Staff Writers Kids are suspected of burglarizing and vandalizing Elementary School and St. John Evangelical Lutheran Church over the Police were called to East 18th Street church Sunday morning and discovered the damage to nearby Fairview while canvassing the Kuemper senior receives one of two Bishop DiNardo Scholarships in Page 2 4 Life & 5" 13-16 Page 10 Page 11 for further An estimate of damage to St. which was also vandalized four months has yet to be determined but will reach thousands of Damage to Fairview has been estimated at more than Pastor David Mancuso said the vandalism to his church - Painted graffiti with satanic messages written several places in the using both paint with brushes and hobby paint On the vandals wrote the word next to an inverted On the wall behind they altar the wrote looked like they started to paint and misspelled Mancuso had and either ran out of paint or realized they'd screwed up the The symbol the supposed mark of the was also written on the and pentagrams were painted on the back wall of the church and on including the pastor's office was painted on a wall in a storage room near the secretary's and paint was blotched on Jesus' face in See VANDALISM on Page 9 Sunrise or Track and field athletes from 16 area teams competed in district or regional events over the weekend where some runners saw the sun set on their season while others saw the sun rise by advancing to the upcoming state On Carroll High School's teams ran at Storm Lake while entries competed at Atlantic and five Daily Times Herald Photo by Jeff Storjohann of the six Class 1A schools from the area took part in a meet in Jefferson on The state meet is May 21 at Drake Stadium in Des Moines while the state meet is May 28-29. Coverage of the competitions begins on Page 13. Vol. 135, No. 97 Daily Times Herald 792-3573
