Opinion Tribune (Newspaper) - May 1, 1991, Glenwood, Iowa Welcome The city of Glenwood shows its appreciation for returning veterans of the Gulf War with a 2. Rams win Glenwood's boys track team sets several records en route to an impressive win at Lewis 16. Inside Schools and organizations in Glenwood celebrated Arbor Day last week with tree and flower The Our 126th Year 18th Issue One 22 pages plus Inserts 50* Mills Iowa May 1, 1991 Co. board sets budget Arbor Day celebrated in Glenwood Arbor Day was observed last week In Glenwood with a large array of tree and flower officials of Hills Glenwood and the Chamber of Commerce plant a Newport plum In the Pictured from the left are Jim Don Keith Robert Jeanle Patti Terry and Gene More Arbor Day photos can be found Inside today's by Jeff City named in lawsuit By Jeff De Young Editor GLENWOOD - The City of Glenwood has been named as a third-party defendant in a lawsuit filed In connection with the clean up of the former Corporation plant northwest of A federal court trial date of April 30. 1992. was set last week to determine who was liable for the cleanup of the contamination caused by the chemical The cost of the clean-up is at nearly million right and additional cleanup work is estimated at over Defendants in the lawsuit are Aceto Agricultural Chemicals Corp. of Dow Chemical Co. of Farman Companies Inc. of Chemical Corp. of Platte Chemical Co. of Chemical Corp. of Mobil Oil Corp. of New and Ciba-Geigy Corp. of Glenwood Mayor Gene Schatz said the city was named as a third-party defendant along with former owners Arthur Lorenz Jr. and Arthur Lorenz as well as stockholders Donald Barnett and George C. Schatz said at least two of the defendant are these companies have named us in this lawsuit because if they they may want us to help with the cleanup Schatz Schatz said the city on the recommendation of city attorney Ken will be Whitacre resigns as county attorney Mills County Attorney Ken Whitacre has effective June 30. Whitacre submitted his resignation to the Board of Supervisors Monday He will take a position as an attorney with a corporation in Tex. Whitacre came to Glenwood in 1971, and became assistant county attorney in July 1981. A he was elected county attorney last November and took office in His successor will be named at a later Appreciation Week planned Glenwood State Appreciation Week will be held May 5-11. with an open house planned for May 9. The event is sponsored by the Glenwood Chamber of the Citizen's Advisory and the Parents and Family open house will be held from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the Falls located in the lower level of Lacey Hall's clinical The Chamber will be serving refreshments to clients and Tours will also be given for the recycling By Jeff De Young Editor GLENWOOD - Mills County taxpayers will face a slight tax Increase as a result of the 1991-92 budget approved by the Mills County Board of Supervisors last The new budget will Increase the basic tax levy rate for the third straight The 1991-92 budget comes In at an Increase of about from 1990-91. The Increase will be funded through an eight cent increase In the supplemental This will bring the urban tax levy to per up from Just under In the last And although the rural services rate decreases from to the overall rate for rural property owners will increase from to due to the raise in the general supplemental Of the budget about will be raised through property An Increase mental health budget Is cited by board members as the major reason for the mental health costs will Increase about up to over board chairman Kenton of the increases are mandated by the state and federal Supervisor Don Brantz said Mills County is still lagging behind when it comes to mental health one of the few counties in the state who has a mental health budget under he we went case by case to determine what was It's something that still needs to be Roenfeldt said the county will put the increased funding to good not raising taxes to put money We're going to put it to he reserve will be substantially lower than it was in the Mills County hopes to enter the new fiscal year with a reserve fund of Just under By the end of the it will decrease to need to be concerned with that reserve so we're not caught without enough money to fund an unexpected Roenfeldt back on our reserve is a but it was something we felt needed to be Roenfeldt said the county is anticipating few major purchases during the coming Soviets on the right track retaining an attorney with some expertise in federal The city is required to answer its summons within 20 Corp. was located on 15 acres on the southeast corner of the Interstate 29/Hlghway 370 It was a pesticide formulation plant from 1974 until a fire In 1976. It then resumed operation until the company was declared bankrupt in 1981. Federal clean-up operations began In 1983. Thus more than 4,000 barrels of chemicals have been along with over 18,000 cubic yards of A spokesman for the Environmental Protection Agency said the agency will wait until mid-summer to conduct additional Those tests will help the EPA determine the rest of the clean-up Schatz said the city's Involvement stems from the construction of the He said industrial revenue bonds were issued through the 1976, a law was passed that no longer required the municipalities issuing the bonds to have the real property as security the bonds were issued Schatz went their insurance company didn't want the property to help recoup their The city said we didn't want but apparently we had no At the time the bonds were Iowa law shielded the city from under that the city apparently owns the plant Schatz said he and the city council are optimistic there will be no action taken against the Is some precedent In the courts that would be In our so we're hopeful this will work Itself he it could get very By Jeff DeYoung Editor GLENWOOD - As far as John Dean Is the Soviet Union might be a nice place to but he wouldn't want to live president of Glenwood State recently returned from an extended trip to the He went with a delegation headed by Dr. Neat Harli a professor Iowa State * ' The group went to Moscow to participate in the Conference on Food and Russian equivalent of the national bar association asked Dr. Harl if he could bring 10-11 attorneys to discuss agricultural and economic Dean were attorneys there from several including Spain and Dean said the Soviet Union is beginning to restructure its outlook on its law concerning agriculture and but are a long way from any Soviet Union is basically starting on the ground floor in this and it will take them a while to get things figured he have no background in any laws as we know it. They have no history to no concept of real estate or long-term They know very little in this At the Dean and the U.S. group listened to several and later broke down into sections on different went to a session on financing fanners and how the courts work In that Dean was very and there were a lot of questions back and Dean said the lack of any private banking system will hurt the Soviet Union in its trying to privatize the banking but they can't privatize if people can't borrow and who will loan money if a customer has no he have absolutely no confidence in the and that will make this that much After the four-day conference in Dean and his group traveled to the Republic of Kazakhstan in eastern The republic Is located about 100 miles from and Is Inhabited primarily by people of Mongolian While the group met with economic for nearly two They also met parliament's leader and the Society of quite * of freedom in the 1 think Russia Is basically and we were allowed to go wherever we he weren't Dean said the Soviet Union has some major obstacles to overcome If It hopes to succeed with these major as I see Is that the bureaucrats are not much in favor of changing things because they would lose their he the person wants but they aren't willing to suffer any to achieve that Dean said he feels the reform efforts of Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev can If given Is very unpopular In he says he needs some tune to make his reforms but the people don't want to He may be able to get things changed within 10 but everyone wants It done Despite Dean thinks the Soviet Union is on the right working to improve their standard of and when they look at more affluent they realize those countries operate under the free enterprise he couldn't go back to their former ways without a terrible they've learned that socialism doesn't Dean said he enjoyed his trip to the but was glad to come back was a very Interesting but I was glad to get on that he Just no better place than Glenwood woman dies in accident Maria R. 57, of Glenwood died from Injuries she received In an April 23 accident on a gravel road one-half mile south of Glenwood near Highway 34. The 1990 Ford Tempo driven by Vollmar was northbound around 6:15 a.m. when she was struck nearly head-on by a southbound 1971 Ford pickup driven by Jeffrey 19, of Mrs. Vollmar was taken to St. Joseph tal in Omaha by Life Flight where she died later Felos was taken to Jennie Edmundson where he was treated for A third Rozann 25, of Missouri Valley suffered minor injuries when debris from the accident struck her 1990 Chevrolet by Jeff
