FOURTH OF JULY
FOUR HITTER Creston senior Nate Haley tosses a compete game four-hitter in a 3-1 victory Monday over state-ranked Martensdale St. Marys. For more on the game, see SPORTS, page 7A.
Jon Carroll with Creston Elks Clowns has pedaled a unicycle in more than 200 parades across SW Iowa over the past 37 years. How did he learn to ride the one-wheel vehicle? Find out in our Fourth of July special section in today’s newspaper.
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Arnold Lewis of Stuart loses the roof of his house after a storm with damaging winds moved through Adair County Monday.
Severe thunderstorms bringing large hail and strong winds punished northern Adair County Monday afternoon. ■
By SARAH BROWN
CNA staff reporter sbrown@crestonnews.com
A storm system with severe thunderstorms moved across Iowa Monday, unleashing damaging wind, hail and flooding. In the Creston News Advertiser coverage area, the towns of Stuart and Adair in Adair County suffered the brunt of the damage. Bob Kempf, emergency management coordinator for Adair and Guthrie counties, said the city of Adair was the hardest hit by hail, which broke windows, punctured siding on houses and left the town covered in tree limbs and leaves. Other damage reported are flattened or flooded crops and the possibility of a tornado near Stuart. Kempf and State Climatologist Harry Hillaker said
the National Weather Service will survey the extent of the damage in Adair and surrounding counties and determine if any was caused by a tornado. The information will be made available online at www.crh.noaa.gov/dmx/. Six miles South of Stuart, David Doud and his son Vince Doud emerged from their basement after the storm Monday to find a 30foot tree limb had narrowly Please see STORMS, Page 2
Above, windows on the home of Bob and Laurel Lehman are boarded up after a severe thunder storm moved through Adair Monday. The Lehman’s home was punctured with quarter-sized hail produced by the storm. CNA photo by SARAH BROWN
CNA photo by SARAH BROWN
(MCT) — There was time when a majority of Americans were confident in their Supreme Court, but those positive feelings have been eroding in the last quarter of a century so that just 30 percent now say they have confidence in the institution, according to a Gallup poll. The poll, released Monday, had good news and bad news for the high court, a unique institution that serves as a check and balance in the United States. People have more confidence in the court than in any other arm of government, but that may not be saying that much when confidence in the presidency stands at 29 percent and in the Con- ■ Poll results gress at 7 percent. Judges on the Supreme also show Court are appointed for confidence life and, unlike mem- in the presibers of Congress or the president, do not have dent at 29 go through the rigors of percent and elections. But as national Congress at attitudes change on controversial issues including 7 percent. abortion, racial segregation and same-sex marriage, so too does the legal system’s response. The Supreme Court may not follow polls, but changing attitudes can have an impact. Further, when the high court rules on key issues it creates space for more politics. For example, the tough decisions on its last day — on Hobby Lobby’s right to deny women contraception and limiting the ability of unions to collect fees from reluctant public employees — are already echoing through the political sphere. While bemoaning the Hobby Lobby ruling, top Democrats have already pushed it into the arms of the “GOP’s war on women,” a frequent meme by Democrats. Both conservatives, who generally support the court’s rulings in both cases, and liberals are sure to use the issues when raising money for this year’s congressional elections and the 2016 presidential cycle. The Gallup poll is based on telephone interviews with a random sample of 1,027 adults conducted
Wilma Fagan of Adair rakes leaves and debris off her front lawn after a severe thunder storm Monday.
Please see POLL, Page 2
ISU VEISHEA task force asks for extension AMES (MCT) — A task force charged with studying the historic but troubled annual VEISHEA celebration at Iowa State University has asked for an extension on its final report, which was due to President Steven Leath on Monday. The 20-member task force was supposed to deliver its findings and recommendations to Leath by the end of June, but the group now is asking to have until July 11 to file its report, said ISU spokeswoman Angie Hunt. She said Tom Hill, vice president of ISU student affairs and chairman of the task force, expects Leath will allow the extension.
The 20-member task force was supposed to deliver its findings and recommendations to President Steven Leath on Monday.
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Leath convened the task force in April after a late-night riot erupted during this year’s event, causing thousands of dollars in damage and sending one student to the hospital with life-threatening injuries. The student survived, but Leath canceled the rest of the week’s VEISHEA activities and said the unlawful behavior associated with the event must stop. He hinted that this year’s melee
involving thousands might have been the final straw, and the task force during one of its final public discussions said they believe — at the very least — that administrators should drop the event’s name. VEISHEA, which started in 1922 as a way to showcase the community, was named after the first letters of each of ISU’s original colleges — veterinary medicine, engineering, industrial science, home economics
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and agriculture. Despite its familyfriendly roots, VEISHEA has developed a legacy of “ugly” incidents, including riots in 1988, 1992, 1999, and 2004, a fatal stabbing in 1997, and a cancellation in 2005. On day two of this year’s event, which began April 7, thousands of revelers took to the streets, shouting a police, overturning cars, toppling light poles and causing thousands of dollars in damage. One student was hit by a falling light pole, landing him in the hospital with critical injuries. Authorities filed charges against 12 students in connection with the disturbance. Some of those cases have been finalized and include
sanctions that involve suspension, written apology letters, community service and financial restitution, according to the task force. Other cases still are pending. The task force’s specific charges included assessing the role, relevance, and appropriateness of VEISHEA in the future, understanding what caused this year’s disturbance, identifying how it was different from past problems, and recommending how to move forward — if at all — with future VEISHEA celebrations. —————— ©2014 The Gazette (Cedar Rapids, Iowa) | Distributed by MCT
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