Waterloo Courier (Newspaper) - May 1, 1997, Waterloo, Iowa injunction California doctors can't be punished for prescribing marijuana Luther professor adds novel to his list of accomplishments Page C5 On the run Steve Forbes has never really stopped campaigning for presidency Page B8 Sweep victory Bulls stop the Bullets in three with win Page Bl Low 40 High SS Showers likely Complete weather on Dl WATERLOO CEDAR FALLS THURSDAY May 50 cents 50 pages 6 sections Jesse Wasson La Porte City will honor its founder in sculpture By ANN McGLYNN Courier Slaff Writer LA PORTE CITY Jesse Wasson was a noticeable man He frequently donned a wig and a silk top hat carried a gold-headed cane and a black suit Physically he was quite dominating at 400 pounds And Wasson founder of La Porte City was a pretty good businessman as well If there had been no Dr Jesse son there would probably never have been a La Porte states the La Porte City history published in bration of the city's centennial in 1971 To honor Wasson well-known and well-liked resident John Comstock left the city among other ments when he died in Octo- ber to build a monument That monument is starting to take shape City officials and residents have asked a sculpting company from Lincoln Neb to make ings of what a monument depicting Wasson and several area landmarks could look like Brickstone Studios salesman Dale Preston toured La Porte City last week to visit potential locations for the monument and to gather tion about the history of the town 1 The company has a national tion for its murals and sculptures Its creations are located under the Gateway Arch in St Louis in a baseball museum in Van Meter and in Memphis Tenn work is said Larry Fuson who saw the mural in Van Meter I think it's the way to go It needs to be in a location where it'll catch the eye of people coming through town One of the suggested locations is the parking lot on Main Street across from the fire station The lot is next door to where Wasson's house for- merly stood and a brick home now stands The monument may include a depiction of Wasson's home the first building constructed in La Porte City which now houses Ken's Electronics and the Hotel Terry It could also include the iron bridge that spanned Big Creek on Main Street and the old fire house which now is home to the FFA agriculture museum The company could create a ment approximately 10 feet by 20 feet within the budget Preston said The money is part of more than donated by Comstock to the See SCULPTURE page A5 Mayors seek more control over dispatch center H Stachovic wants small towns to pay more By TIM JAMISON Courier Staff Writer WATERLOO The Black Hawk County Board of Supervisors and local mayors are planning to exert more control over a countywide emergency dispatching center And Cedar Falls Mayor Ed has proposed that county pay all cost of the center or set a minimum rate smaller cities must pay to receive dispatching services Mayors from seven area cities met with the supervisors Wednesday to discuss concerns about the center which was created when dispatching operations for the county Waterloo and Cedar Falls were consolidated in the basement of the county jail The key questions Who is responsible for setting the center's And who sets the salary for the center's director John I don't think we ever had the intention of turning a board loose to tell us what we're going to said Waterloo Mayor John Rooff The people in this room are calling the shots on this thing When the county and cities created the center they also established the Central Consolidated Dispatch Board to oversee it That board consists of Sheriff Mike Kubik police chiefs from Waterloo Cedar Falls Hudson La Porte City and Evansdale and fire chiefs from Waterloo Cedar Falls and another fire chief representing other departments The dispatch board sets a budget for the center that is approved by each city resented on the board Smaller cities are simply presented with a bili their share of the annual costs The ment is unclear about which agency set the salary for the center's director Dunkerton Mayor Mike Schares said it's unfair that his com- munity wasn't involved in setting the budget He also believes the mayors should have a say in the director's pay Hudson Mayor Sam agreed adding that all the mayors should review the budget together Ed Stachovic Small towns should pay more The problem is com- Herkelman said A lot of small towns don't know what's going on at that center The group agreed to meet annually to review the center's budget and director's salary as proposed by the dispatch board before the get is sent to the cities for adoption The sors and mayors would set the tor's salary I don't want the dispatch board setting Rooff said We should be setting it There was considerably more dis- agreement about al The center is currently financed by the cities and county based on a for- mula weighing population tax base and calls for service Stachovic said smaller cities might not be paying their fair share Dunkerton and Gilbertville for example pay about a year while Cedar Falls pays more than I believe there should be some minimum level of said That would raise the cost to the smaller towns We may want to weigh the ber of calls higher than he said I would just ask that that weight be looked at to see if it's equi- table and if it's a fair amount for the cities to pay to have all this See DISPATCHING page A5 AP PHOTO Two Texas Highway Patrol officers are silhouetted against the evening sky at a security checkpoint in Fort Davis Texas as negotiations broke off with a group of secessionists Wednesday The leader of the group broke off talks when surrender seemed Imminent Details A2 H Idea of what makes a neighbor has changed sociologists say AMES AP Neighborliness is on the decline in rural Iowa as farms grow larger and more people are forced to take off-farm jobs an Iowa State University sociologist We have seen a dramatic change in what I call neighboring said Paul Lasley a sociology professor who conducts Iowa State's annual farm and rural life poll People are so pressed for time that they have little time for com- munity he said I think it challenges the image of farming that most people hold Lasley and other experts spoke Wednesday at an Iowa State con- ference on the new rural culture in Iowa Lasley said his poll of farmers shows rising feelings of isolation in the countryside Increasingly rural people don't know their Lasley said Therefore it sets up a basis of trust A growing rift exists between farmers and those gling to stay on the farm by taking off-farm jobs he said Just as the farm crisis had an uneven impact the recovery has been Lasley said Lasley spoke of one case in which an Iowa farm family was ostracized at its church because it was expanding into large-scale hog farming People will not sit with this he said See FARMERS page A5 Defense blasts testimony of McVeigh Mend Los Angel es Times DENVER One day she was the government's star witness escorted to the stand to help prosecutors convict and put to death the men responsible for the bombing of the Oklahoma City federal building The next day she was a liar a dope user a careless mother a gun runner an militant and a desert woman not above committing perjury to save herself from prison Wednesday was the defense's turn to show that side of Lori Roberta Fortier Stephen Jones tlie attorney for othy J McVeigh did that in the room repeatedly challenging er's credibility and her motives for turning against her one-time friend and if she is to be believed for allowing 168 people including 19 children to die when she knew all along that the bomb was coming He told All you had to do to prevent the deaths of these 168 people was to pick up the phone and you didn't do that And in an impromptu press ence in front of the courthouse Michael attorney for ry L Nichols the second man accused in the bombing castigated Fortier and her desert community of Kingman Ariz for having the gall to portray herself now as righteous Welcome to the world of Kingman he said Terry Nichols had nothing to do with that world Even by the admission of the star witness Terry Nichols wasn't involved in it Fortier and her husband Michael had been close friends with McVeigh They often opened their house to him Welcome to the methamphetamine world of Kingman Ariz Michael Tigar Terry Nichols lawyer for long periods of time He was the best man at their wedding When they went away on their honeymoon he stayed at their home But according to Fortier's ny for the government Tuesday McVeigh changed dramatically after the failed FBI raid on a religious com- pound in Waco Texas where about 80 people were killed He became in his tics and he warned that the time had come to take action against the Fortier described how McVeigh a former Army pal of her husband laid out his plans to rent a truck stockpile ammonium nitrate and then blow up the Alfred P Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City The Murrah building was destroyed on April 19 1995 exactly two years after the FBI assault at Waco Along with the 168 people killed another 500 were injured Under gentle questioning from chief prosecutor Joseph Hartzler Fortier spoke with certainty Tuesday about McVeigh's drive to punish the for the Waco raid She said See BOMBING page A5 Bosnian children in dire need of expensive dental care By STACI SCHMIT Courier Staff Writer WATERLOO Dental health has been identified by the Black Hawk County Health Department as the number one care problem among immigrant children entering the school system The immigrants are children of Bosnian refugees being recruited by IBP Gary Mickelson manager of communications at IBP said the plant currently employs 170 Bosnians and it is possible 100 more will be hired by the end of June As a result Lutheran Social Services projects 700 more Bosnians resettling in Waterloo in the next two months The nursing staff reports more than 90 percent of children screened have significant dental problems that need to be addressed soon and the county Board of Health discussed a egy Wednesday Many of the children have lived in refugee camps for years and they don't just need said Ann Bostwick program manager for Child Health Most need major dental work and a cap on each child will not cover it Dental work is being paid for with ey from the state's Child Health grant which only allows to be spent per child County Relief is picking up the rest of the tab along with local dentists who may be eating some of the cost said county health director Tom O'Rourke So far County Relief is keeping up but I don't think they will be Funding is running Bostwick said Both Rhonda Bottke Child and cent Health Division manager for the department and Chris Atchison director of the Iowa Department of Public Health plan to explore options in dealing with the problem at the local and state levels We're going to have to identify some significant resources because they're going to have to solve significant O'Rourke said Community groups and social service See DENTAL page A5 Tom O'Rourke Refugees don't pose a public health threat INDEX Bridge H D5 I Cipher Classified a I Comics a A8 Crossword B D8 H B6 I Daily Record a C2 I Horoscopes ra D4 1 Iowa n A4 E Lifestyles Markets a B7 I Metro a C14 I B A2 Obituaries B C2 I Opinion B Sports I Theaters m
