Estherville Daily News (Newspaper) - June 1, 1976, Estherville, Iowa EMMET Jt % g iowa * 5 of History Archives Pea Iowa 50316 Copy Official Newspaper For All Emmet County 105th NO. 167 AILY NEWS JUNE 1, 1976 IOWA 51334 15* Engineer Testifies Saves Land Mohn Addresses Memorial Services Nation That Forgets Honored Dead Is Lost ESTHERVILLE - can count that nation lost which forgets its honored was a comment made by Estherville Attorney Maynard Mohn at Memorial Day Services held Monday at the Library Mohn noted that Memorial Day is the traditional opening of recreational activities in the Lakes area and he predicted that the crowd at Arnolds Park is probably larger then the crowd gathered here to honor our nation's war Mohn pointed out that since the Memorial Day holiday was established 108 years ago to honor the Civil War over 632,000 men and women have given their lives in the service of their x knows what persons would have accomplished if their lives had not been prematurely questioned He said the nation's war dead represents the wealthy and and all colors of the human He noted they came from every ethnic background and represent every religious He urged persons at the Memorial Day service to remember the true purpose of the holiday and to help the nation honor its war RON BALDWIN Donovan Appeals Drainage Ditch Problems Face Supervisors ESTHERVILLE - Drainage attorney Leo Fitzgibbons and Drainage Engineer Ken Westergard are expected to make recommendations regarding the maintenance of Drainage Ditch Seven at the weekly meeting of the Emmet County Board of Supervisors scheduled for 8:30 a.m. The meeting will be the Emmet County Drainage Ditch Seven is in the process of being cleaned and supervisors are attempting to establish a continuing maintenance program for Drainage Ditch Seven that might be adapted for other drainage ditches within the A representative of the Soil Conservation Commission will address the board concerning Drainage Ditch 70. board may discuss the county's role in the Emmet County Council of Governments The board may also take a stand on the county's the landfill The county board will meet 8:30 a.m. Thursday to approve bills for Accidents Hospitalize Three Youths ESTHERVILLE - Three area residents were hospitalized as the result of accidents this William 15, fractured his lower left leg in a motorcycle accident Friday and is in Holy Family James 6, son of the Duane was hospitalized Monday for observation after he fell off a Curtis 5, son of the Ernest I was hospitalized Monday with a fractured right arm sustained in a fall from a All three are listed in good ESTHERVILLE - Lawrence T. has appealed a decision not to bus his children to school to the Iowa State Department of Public The on file in the Third Judicial District Emmet said that bus transportation for his children was denied by the local school Lakeland Area Education III and the Department of Public The petition cites the danger factor of walking along the road to school and says that the decision is in violation of the equal protection The Donovans live on Park near the east entrance of Fort Defiance State ESTHERVILLE - Ken the former Allis-Chalmers engineer who worked with the design of the Emmet County Council of Governments testified during the Friday afternoon session of the trial concerning the location of the pulverizer at the South Fifteenth Street gravel pit a witness for the defendant told the court that during the process the facility would use the following decomposition and stabilization of materials over a three to six-month Partial stabilization convention takes from 20 to 100 said He said that he felt the purchase of a pulverizer was the appropriate thing for Hartz added that after the process is the material is normally leveled and that more windrows for the process can be put on He said that the life of a landfill could be extended almost HARTZ TESTIFIED that during the process the temperature of the materials inside the windrow may reach 150 degrees and will destroy many A slight earth odor may accompany the said but in the pulverizer and operations he has worked with he has not observed rats or Under cross-examination by Francis Fitzgibbons of the Fitzgibbons Brothers law attorney for the Hartz estimated that with today's the price of operating pulverizer may be per ton and that a conventional landfill about a ton to not including Fitzgibbons asked if Hartz in that case might recommend using a conventional but Hartz said it would depend upon the potential for creating life expectancy of the the costs of buying more engineering studies on a new site and the cost of getting a permit for the new He testified under redirect examination by Ruth of Fillenwarth and Fillenwarth law attorney for that it would be hazardous and difficult to estimate the cost of operating a landfill without some study of the WHILE BEING questioned by told the court that the price bid on the pulverizer was lowered from August 15, 1974 and that the lowered price was accepted by Aug. 16. He said he was not aware that the Heil Company bid had been accepted Aug. 15. He said the agreement that and Allis-Chalmers made included a series of time a nonrefundable engineering fee and an escalator clause locking the price of certain equipment into a federal It was also based on the conditions that the Department of Environmental Quality approve the project and that a suitable site was IN OTHER TESTIMONY Estherville City Councilman Dr. Lawrence Donovan told the court that he had been appointed to a committee in 1974 to negotiate the sale of land to After the gravel pit site was abandoned for the landfill the committee was apparently disbanded and never reformed for negotiations in 1975 when the gravel pit was again said He could not recall that the council sought outside but seemed to receive information from Steve city planner and construction and Ed city superintendent of public ' Under Donovan did say that Dale Jacobson of and Associates did present some O. C. a resident of South 15th Street for about 30 related the development of the area and were real proud of the neighborhood and still said are well maintained and owned by average income In his said a pulverizer would tend to depreciate the value of homes in the are human beings and have a right to dignity in their and in their Every man has a right to live in a residential area that is not full of maintained Gibson testified that he felt that persons taking garbage to the pulverizer would naturally take South 15th Under cross-examination by he said he did not realize that a haul route had been designated when the permit was sent to the DEQ and that the haul route did not include South 15th WOODLEY WAS CALLED back to the witness stand testified that a haul route had been approved as part of the DEQ permit although the city of Estherville has not officially designated the haul route as He told Fitzgibbons that has not yet approached the city because there is nothing to Fitzgibbons asked about the route that would be used to haul sewage sludge from the new sewage treatment plant on Iowa Highway 4 south of Estherville to the pulverizer and Woodley answered that it would be the same Under cross Woodley testified that the city is currently hauling sewage sludge from its present plant across from John Morrell and Co. and that no complaints have been filed concerning that DAVE a real estate broker with Baker Real and Insurance testified the Estherville realtors comprising the multiple listing service had passed a resolution against putting a pulverizer in the gravel pit area or any other area that devalued He said that the property in the general area has been harder to and that at least one resident of the area has said she will sell her house if a pulverizer is put in. He said another house that was listed for sold for and said that the pulverizer issue had definitely not increased the value of homes in the In response to cross Johnson said that possibly four residents of the gravel pit area had attended a meeting to present their views to the Estherville Realtors about the He said that he had never seen a pulverizer and did not TRIAL Continued on Page 6 Emmet Museum To Open ESTHERVILLE - The Emmet County Historical Society will start its summer schedule June 3. Located at 107 South Sixth the museum will be open from 2 to 5 p.m. each week during July and qi the Emmet County Historical Society suggest that parents bring their children to the and show them items used when they were Face Natural Gas Hikes ESTHERVILLE - Area cities face natural gas rate increases from 12.98 percent to percent on lines served by People's Division of Northern Natural Gas under a rate case now before the Iowa Commerce And cost which affect all of People's are not included in the rate Rate increases for area cities include 11.40 percent for 9.09 percent for Spirit Milford and Gruver Mayor Presented on Birthday Gruver Mayor Clyde Hall celebrated a birthday Friday and some friends presented him with a new city which was placed on front Mayor shown with the says the city jail la in the of the new city hall and indicated those responsible for presenting the gift may be the first to be housed in the he can prove who left the - by Ron Baldwin 12.98 percent for and 196 percent for Fostoria and Arnolds THE WHICH has been submitted to a commission for a final marks the first time Northern retail sales division has requested a general rate increase since 1963 and contains a fight between the commission staff and company over the amount of money utilities can recover from customers in connection with acquisition of - The requested which are currently being are subject to refund if the commission denies the new rate Under People's newly designed a city is charged a rate based on its the amount of gas customer size of the and age of the PEOPLE'S PROPOSED rate increases include an average of 6.3 percent for residential an eight percent increase for customers and a 9.08 percent increase for customers or customers who receive a set amount of gas each month plus Commerce Commission who represents the says people's rate increases should be trimmed to If the staff People's customers could receive a refund from the rates now being PAGE 12 - veteran organizations hold i PAGE 6 - Golden Sun employe PAGE 7 - New memorial hovers deceased PAGE 14 - Final 1M yards cestly to Scott Vc PAGE 10 - W at Lakes Art
