Estherville Daily News (Newspaper) - August 4, 1994, Estherville, Iowa Dally * Spirit Classified Ads Days - Up to 20 Classified Page for sunny Upper 80s Mid 60s ' No precis this weekend Upper 80s baseball named to 8 NORTH SEVENTH IOWA - 35 CENTS - AUGUST 4,1994 - VOL. 123 - Iowa State racing and pulling rumble MOINES - Two track events are heading back to the Iowa State Fair this month a few years including blistering NASCAR auto racing and earth-shaking Pabst Grand National Tractor and Truck Winston Cup competitor Kenny Schroder will lead a field of about 60 drivers August in the Dandy NASCAR All-Star his own late will be contending with defending champion Bob Omaha's Kosiski Winston Racing Series Central region champ Steve United Midwest Promoters late model leader Jim and dozens more top drivers from across the country including Jay Johnny and Jay Gus Sonny Findling 50-lap feature on the Fair's famed dirt will pay to the plus lap money for will also paying to win plus lap Time trials start at 7 Schrader will sign autographs beginning at 4;30 p.m. in the Fans must hold a ticket for the 7 p.m. once no will be Grand National Tractor and Truck Pulling returns for two sessions August 17, paying more than in collides with resistance as pullers using high-tech vehicles attempt to pull weighted sleds 300 ft. on a dirt The nation's fastest an estimated 3 million spectators will turn out for tractor pulling this year in the U. S. and Budweiser Motor Sports featuring million worth of high-tech race cars and including the fabled Budweiser Racing makes a four-day stop at the Iowa State August 11-14. Sports Pavilion has than 3 million visitors in its five years on The simulator lets visitors experience the feel and speed of professional auto The Pavilion will be located north of the Horseshoe admission is free with gate more Fair call the State Fair's toll-free 1-800-545-FAIR, Monday - 8 a.m. - 4 Fun Day DAVID and everyone seeking fun should consider travelling to Terril on August 13 for the community's Fun is actually the 2nd annual Fun said coordinator Julie had a Fun Day last year to raise funds for the 1995 centennial and the turn out was very This year we hope it will be noted that Fun Day has expanded this year with more games for Daigel will be the Master of Ceremonies during the evening entertainment which will be provided by local activities begins at 8 a.m. with the Terril Centennial Steering Committee serving a pancake and sausage breakfast outside the American Legion building until 10 at 10 a.m. the pedal powered action of two mini tractor pulls will take is required for this even 8-9:30 Young and old alike will enjoy this event First and second place medals will be 1 p.m. the Main and State Streets will begin with the Little Miss Terril and Junior Miss Terril This contest is open to girls ages 5 to 12 attending Terril Ages 5 through 8 will be competing in the Little turato Page 2 DAILY was both clowning around and serious business at the Wednesday evening performances of the Franzen Brothers Circus under the big top at the Emmet County Pictured one of the circus tigers thrills the crowd with a leap through a flaming At one of the clowns hams it much to the delight of the assembled by Greg continuing excellent DAVID County like those found in most of the continue to develop at a rapid pace according to ACSC director Lany sure could use a nice inch or two of Niles it would help add test weight to the in the Iowa's crops continued to improve in spite of drier and weather last Timely rainfall should speed crops toward maturity said Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Dale percent of the corn and 96 percent of the soybeans are now in excellent or good remaining 2 percent of the com and 4 percent of the soybeans are rated as This is a slight improvement from last week when 96 percent of the corn and 94 percent of the soybeans were in excellent or good percent of the com crop has now reached the milk stage and 12 percent has reached die dough only 19 percent of the of the com would be at the milk stage and 2 percent would be in the dough stage at the end of Last year at this time only 6 percent of the corn had reached milk stage and none had reached the dough turn to Page 2 ditch repair price 4, 1994 is the 216th day of 1994 and the 45th day of On this day in 1735, a jury acquitted publisher John Peter Zenger of establishing the precedent for freedom of the press in Percy Bysshe Shelley Hamsun Helen Thomas is 74; Maurice Richard hockey is 70; Mary Decker Slaney track is 36; Roger Clemens baseball is 32. TODAY'S Oq this day in 1945, golfer Byron Nelson won the Canadian his nth straight tour old we are like a batch of letten that someone has sent We are no longer in the we have knut On this day in 1666, a violent hurricane raked the island of Guadeloupe In the West Every boat on the coast was dashed to a 17-ship fleet with 2,000 troops went down in the THE Between last quarter 30) and new moon 7). NEWSPAPER ENTERPRISE TRAVIS RIDOUT Staff area resident who appeared before the Emmet County Board of Supervisors Wednesday the price tag for a six-mile long drainage ditch repair project planned for eastern Emmet who owns pedal to victory at county hundred thirty-three children competed in the annual Emmet County Fair Pedal Tractor Pull held on July 30 at the Emmet County pull was sanctioned by the Swea City Betterment Club from Swea and the top two pullers in each class qualified for the state pull to be held in 1st in the 4-year-old group was Clay and placing 2nd was Joey both are from The 5-year-old class was won by Kyle Mahiney from Sioux Falls place going to Chad Prust from The 6-year-old class was won by Trent Prather erf Estherville and 2nd place went to Seth Larsen of Adam Kenny finished 1st in the 7-year-okl while Cotton Carnes of 2nd. In the 8-year-old class Dan Schneekloth of was 1st and Kristin Cooper of HanlontoWn placed 2nd. The 9-year-old class was won by Erk Heard and 2nd place went to Chris both of the 10-year-old Ezra Blighton placed 1st and Megan klingbeil placed 2nd, both of The 11-year-old was won by Ronnie Cooper from Hanlontown and 2nd place went to Amy Andre were provided by the Emmet County Fair Board for first and second place in each All participants received a participation ribbon aad a can of compliments of Pepsi-Cola Workers for the Pedal Tractor Pull provided by the Estherville EPA Drainage District 2, urged supervisors to back away from the estimated project near have about per acre in taxes already on You shouldn't asses to per quarter section Fitzgibbons the project also involves farmland in Kossuth supervisors from both counties will meet in Algona next Tuesday to discuss whether to begin chair Don Heerdt said he understood concerns and stated that supervisors have not made a final a the hands are to Iowa the board is forced to bring up the ditch to its original Heerdt to spend money any better than anyone you vote it it will get decided up here in this Emmet questioned the necessity of removing trees both sides of the ditch as called for in the engineer's report He felt if trees were removed from only one equipment would still have access tum to Page 2 cable TV survey is subscribers express their RON only 7 percent of the respondents to the recent Estherville Cable Television Survey rated the performance of Triax Cablevision as nearly 45 percent rated the service 34 percent rated it fair and 14 percent rated it survey was conducted by the city's cable commission last month as part of the review portion of the cable franchise agreement between the city and Triax which is due to expire in 1997. 444 households responded to the survey which was included in the monthly billing from The company provides cable television service to approximately 2,700 customers in SO percent of the survey 222, reported that they have experienced poor TV signal with cable channels 4, 8, 12, 13, HBO and Showtime identified as the problem incidence of individual channels or the entire system going off the air was reported by 73 or 16 percent of the total problems reported included high price repair service poor programming and delays in restoring interrupted service the suggestions for improvement made by 103 or 23 percent requested that a FOX network channel be added to the local 35 want an NBC station to be 28 want better repairs to the 14 suggested changing cable an equal number want more channel 13 want to drop the MTV 12 want to drop the Home Shopping 10 want to drop Channel 8 and 5 want to drop additional comments made on the surveys dropping a local telephone number to call for the local Triax office staff and repairman are helpful and and that the company needs more employees to handle the local cable commission has scheduled a open meeting for August 24, beginning at 5 p.m. in city council chambers to review the survey results and receive additional public comments and cable hearing Estherville Cable Commission will hold an open hearing on August 24, beginning at 5 p.m. in city council chambers in order to receive comments from residents concerning the past performance of Triax Cablevision or future cable television needs in the according to commission president Larry city of Estherville will be making a request for a proposal from Triax conceiving the local Cable Television Franchise which will expire in 1997," Stine cable commission is charged with determining the extent to which Triax has compiled with the material terms of the existing franchise agreement with the We will consider the quality of the operator's service including signal billing practices and whether it has been reasonable in light of the community commission will be making a report to city council in September about its findings and provide council with commission has completed a public survey of Triax subscribers in the city and will use this information along with that received through die public hearing in its report to are urged to bring their comments to the attention during this portion of cable television franchise agreement review of tk recent subscriber survey will be discussed during the
