Le Mars Daily Sentinel (Newspaper) - March 3, 1983, Le Mars, Iowa * Department of History & Archives 72.2? Des In 50319 Iowa's only completely local daily newspaper Thursday Le Iowa - March 3,1983 111th No. 44 Two Sections - Section A - 25 Cents 1983 Mars Daily Sentinel Inside the Vienna Bakery are tiny baked goods The bakery was operated by and Bessie Lane Van de tavern has a back bar and Lynch's News Stand contains magazine racks and Hansen Hardware operated by Art Hansen features displays All of the opera house business people are Thoma creates opera house By Glada Koerselman The creative genius of Le Mars matchstick artist Fritz Thoma has reached a new mastery - a replica of the Dalton Opera House complete with interiors of four steet level business Thoma spent 900 hours this winter building the historic building from 10,000 Ohio Blue Tip Le opera house built in 1883 was demolished in 1974. The once elegant building had contained 1,200 upholstered opera chairs and a crystal Chandelier on the third Steet level floor of the 100-foot square building of cut limestone had been occupied by a tavern and retail The four stores were 100 feet deep and 21 feet The central grand staircase led to second story apartments which at one time had been the Masonic The decorative facade featured iron columns manufactured by a Dubuque Commerical buildings with iron columns spang up all over the United States between 1850 and 1880, the Iron in The iron columns remain as part of the one-story replacement building constructed by Roger Le Mars The 3-story structure was built at a cost of by two English H. L. Hoyt and John It was later named Dalton Opera House after ownership passed to an early day Le Mars P: F. The last First National Bank in Le Mars and Lane Van de Steeg heirs offered the building to Le Mars for during the summer of 1973. A whirlwind campaign to raise funds failed and the property was purchased Thoma began constructing matchstick buildings as a retirement hobby years He was a longtime Le Mars Among his efforts are the Le Mars round barn and other historic of his current projects is an amusement Supports nuclear arms freeze in Senate resolution By Douglas Ritsema State Orange City ' The news from the Senate last week has more to do with bills coming up in the future than with the we actually In the issue perhaps receiving the most debate last week wasn't a at It was a resolution calling for a freeze on the production of nuclear The nuclear arms race is a terrifying proposition for many A halt in weapon production with a move toward arms reduction seems to be the only logical way to if indeed you can deal with this issue in a logical I supported the Having been passed by both the House and the the resolution is now being forwarded to the president and the The bills coming up for debate in the next couple or weeks cover a Update y PIK deadline South Dakota Tom Daschle has called on Secretary of Agriculture John Block to extend the current March 11 deadline for enrollment in the 1983 payment in kind He cited possibility that legislation the tax treatment of PIK payments might not be signed into law by the president before the broad range of important Let me mention some of The first deals with our income tax When Congress changes federal income tax Iowa has to decide which provisions it should conform to and which ones Iowa will differ Other changes in state income tax may also De provisions should be noted this As recommended by the the minimum tax for those with certain tax preference items would be As recommended by legislative the would limit the amount of federal income taxes paid that could be deducted on one's state income Note that this only affects those already paying large amounts of federal income It would not affect those who do not pay any federal And the would not require withholding from savings accounts for state Starting July 1, the federal government wiD require withholding on taxable A second deals with health care It sets up a data commission which will try to gather information enabling us to know what health care costs are and allowing individuals the opportunity to do some what its actual effect wiO be on cost containment is uncertain at this A third deals with local option This has been around for a while and I don't know how much support it has at the present p. 12 Photos Dick Koerselman Le historic opera house on Plymouth St. dominated the business district for over 90 The matchstick replica by Fritz Le is 18 inches 20 inches wide and 14 inches The building has tiny lights and interiors of four longtime street level business Vienna Lane's Lynch's News Stand and Hansen Thoma says he used Daily Sentinel newspaper photos to create his Big Sioux and Floyd flood lowland fields A winch and door on the east alley side were used to hoist baggage and stage equipment to the opera house Later uses of the third floor included a National Guard drill floor and basketball Lowlands are flooded along the Floyd River around Le Mars and the Big Sioux River from to Sioux Pastures and fields on the north edge of Le Mars were awash Wednesday afternoon as the Floyd flowed with snowmelt from up Readings on the Big Sioux had been in a gradual dip since with river stages fluctuating just above the 17 foot mark at Akron where flood stage is 16 - The spring surge came Wednesday at 19.9 feet on the Big Sioux at with 19.5 feet Lowland flooding will continue between Akron and Sioux City as unseasonably warm temperatures arrive a month Record readings in the 70s were pre- Thursday for the Le Mars The high Wednesday was 68 as northwest Iowans basked in warmth and thought about golfing and Low Thursday morning was 35 A partly cloudy sky was to brew up a 40 percent chance for showers and thundershowers by with the percentage up to 50 percent Friday along with some cooling to the 60s. The rain will come from a storm system which lashed the West Coast earlier in the week when tornadoes ripped a 4-mile swath through Los The spring warmth in northwest Iowa is swelling buds and residents at the Plymouth County Home in Le Mars reported Wednesday they saw a flock of robins on the Iowa school boards relax this year pondering budgets By Harrison Weber Iowa Newspaper Assn. It's budget time for school boards across the state and there is quite a contrast this year with previous Tranquility seems to be the In the past school boards would have been scurrying to keep up with changes in the school aid formula recommended by the or The deadline for adopting a school budget is March 15. a budget estimate must be made ten days prior to so for practical a school board has to present a in the first week of The increase in the state sales tax from 3 to 4 percent is the reason why school board budget sessions have been so of the proposals that Gov. Terry Branstad has made will have an impact on the school year that starts July 1. what the governor's proposals do is to allow us to meet the commitments that were made last September when the allowable growth rate was said Max an aide to Gov. Iowa schools are financed through the school foundation a system of legislatively controlled spending limits with revenue coming from state aid as well as local property The foundation plan was enacted by the Legislature in 1971 and provided for increased aid to local school districts while decreasing the reliance on local property The sources of funds for schools have changed since the formula was Aid from the state has become increasingly more Under the per pupil spending is allowed to increase Each year districts can increase their spending per pupil by the state allowable growth The Legislature determines what the allowable growth in school budgets will be from one year to the In fiscal year 1982-83 state aid to public including area education totaled while local property tax for schools amounted to The state guaranteed funding for 77 percent of the foundation spending Each school district must levy per thousand dollars of assessed This is known as the uniform levy because every school district must levy it and the rate is the same across the This levy will of course raise different amounts in different districts depending on the property wealth of the Whatever the amount of district state aid will pay each district the difference between that and 77 percent of the state cost per Under Gov. state aid to schools would be increased by million to million for fiscal year 1983-84. This is predicated on an allowable growth rate of 6.1 percent and a foundation level of 78 It How does the foundation raise these School boards p. 12 Canoe overturns in flood swollen 2 men but suffer hypothermia By Rita Starzl John 23, and Billy 23, are sate andwell after a harrowing experience in a canoe late Wednesday afternoon in the chilled Big Sioux River near Their canoe has not been Akron policeman Lyie Steckelberg and Union County Sheriff Bud said the two men were on the river about 4 p.m. Their destination was the River Sioux bridge at One canoeist was rescued in South the other in They never reached the The story unfolded after the canoe overturned in whirling spring flood waters as pie river stood at flood stage of 19,9 feet at The Big Sioux had been on the rise since It was reported the same two men had taken a canoe ride but returned home The near tragedy began on a river bend where the canoe MaCombs grabbed a tree where he was hung up until he was rescued by David Higman of Higman Sand and Gravel on the Iowa side of the Finding a canoe for rescue took some Both men were wearing life Higgins floated downstream about a quarter mile until he reached a dike and climbed out at the Darrell Kiewel farm where there was no The said Higgins warmed up near their stove while they ran to the nearby Cray farm and telephoned for help for McCombs trapped like a racoon in the Both men were chilled to the suffering from was taken by Akron ambulance to the Akron He was treated and McCombs was also hospitalized and complained of a dislocated Some ice which Akron residents watched Sunday broke up and floated away before the
