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By LARRY DALE Daily Courier Staff Writer

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By JEAN GORDON Daily Courier Staff Writer

CHIMNEY ROCK — A North Carolina Department of Transportation crew has been doing repair work on the bridge over the Rocky Broad River leading to Chimney Rock at Chimney Rock State Park.

The crew has replaced the bridge’s decking and to prevent disrupting the park’s normal operating hours, the crew worked from 4 p.m. until 2 a.m. so the park could remain open during repairs. The team began the construction job on April 12 and continues to work, painting beams underneath the bridge and

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FOREST CITY – Elfreda Bone doesn’t usually leave home without her makeup, but on Monday morning, she came out bare faced, planning to learn a new regimen for caring for her skin.

Bone, as well as Kim Amos, took part in a monthly Look Good ... Feel Better class offered through a partnership between the American Cancer Society and Rutherford Hospital.

The class, which is a free program that teaches beauty techniques to women cancer patients in active treatment, is offered the first Monday of each month at 10 a.m. at the Rutherford Cancer Resource Center located at OneSource Healthcare. The purpose of the class is to help them combat the appearance-related side effects of cancer treatment.

The class is open to any woman with cancer, said American Cancer Society Community Manager

Cuttin’ Up on Main stylist Wendy Hodge demonstrates how to use an eye pencil to draw in brows when they are thinning.

Hodge led women through a recent class of Look Good ... Feel Better, a skin care class for women cancer patients offered through a partnership between the American Cancer Society and Rutherford Hospital.

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also installing new handrails.

The Rutherford County crew is led by Scott Bailey, supervisor and team Steve Guffey, Brian Lowery, Randy Roper, Danny Ruff and Philip Walker.

This project is one of several capital improvements planned for Chimney Rock by the N.C. Division of Parks and Recreation and supported by the N.C. Parks and Recreation Trust Fund, said spokeswoman Meghan Rogers.

Other completed projects include an elevator maintenance project and installation of an emergency generator. A project to replace the park’s reservoir is slated to begin soon.

RUTHERFORDTON — A hearing on a complaint filed against Rutherford County Clerk of Court Robynn Spence scheduled for Friday did not occur, but a May 21 hearing date has been set.

Judge Vance Bradford Long, who has been assigned to look into the complaint, set the new date and appointed an independent counsel, or prosecutor, in the case.

David B. Freedman, of the Forsyth County Bar, has been appointed as prosecutor. Long will continue as the judge in the hearing.

Judge Long’s pretrial conference order states, “The evidentiary hearing shall determine if the facts of the complaint are established and if established should the Respondent be removed from office.”

Instead of holding an evidentiary hearing in the Rutherford County Courthouse on Friday, Judge Long held a pretrial conference by telephone on Thursday.

Long is senior resident Superior Court judge in Judicial District 19B. His offices are in Asheboro.

Long conferred with Roger W. Knight and K. Edward Greene, attorneys for Spence, and Harrell G. Canning III, counsel for the complainant, Anthony “Tony” McClellan, and then filed the order that the case proceed.

Court personnel in Rutherford County on Friday reportedly

SPINDALE – Want to learn to speak Spanish or French? How about Chinese, Tagalog or Urdu? If you have a library card, then you can – free of charge.

The Rutherford County Library is the first library in the county to offer an online language learning system through Mango, a simple, easy-to-use language

Now on the Web: www.thedigitalcourier.com

learning program. The library purchased the software using money from a grant provided by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. The software costs $3,600 per year.

“This was something we knew we wanted to use that money for,” said Kenneth Odom, information technology specialist with the library. Money from the grant, he said, will also be used to purchase six new laptops for in-house use in the three

libraries.

Using Mango is the equivalent of going and taking a foreign language course, Odom said.

“It’s really designed to be user friendly and easy-to-use,” he said. “I’ve been told it works as well on dial-up as it does on high speed.”

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local Church News Revival: May 12-14, 7 nightly; Willing Workers Clubhouse, Doggett Grove community; different speakers each night.

The Royal Quartet

100th anniversary: Sunday, May 16, 10:45 a.m., First Baptist Church, Bostic; service begins at 10:45 a.m., covered dish lunch and singing afterwards.

Memorial Day service: Sunday, May 16, 3 p.m., Willing Workers Headquarters, Doggett Grove community; guest speaker, Rev. Jamal Edwards, pastor of Oak Grove Missionary Baptist Church.

The Royal Quartet will be in concert Sunday, May 16, at Sandy Level Baptist Church. Singing begins at 6 p.m. Public invited.

Music/concerts

The Pathfinders will be in concert Sunday, May 16, at Piney Knob Baptist Church. Music begins at 6 p.m.

The Chuck Wagon Gang will be in concert Friday, May 21, at Concord Baptist Church, Bostic. Music begins at 7 p.m. Other guest singers include The Royal Quartet, Miles Cooper, Buster Kendrick and Ernie Phillips. Barbecue dinner beginning at 5 p.m.

Cost $8 per person.

Singing program: Sunday, June 13, 4 p.m., Angel Divine Faith Church, Rutherfordton; featuring the Kings of Joy from Forest City, and other groups

from North and South Carolina.

Sherman Memorial COGIC in Charlotte.

Special services

100 Women in White program: Sunday, May 9, 3 p.m.; Mt. Pleasant CME Church, Union Mills; guest speaker, Bettye Owens.

Mother’s Day program: Sunday, May 9, 3 p.m., St. Paul AME Zion Church; guest speaker, Pastor Beverly Jarrell of Greensboro.

Memorial Day service: Sunday May 9, Centennial United Methodist Church; special music with Living

By Faith and Sandy Helton; a covered dish lunch will follow the 11 a.m.

Mother’s Day program: Sunday, May 9, 11 a.m.; Angel Divine Faith Church in Rutherfordton; guest speaker, Evangelist Tasha Parham from

Family and Friends Day: Sunday, May 9, 3 p.m., Hopewell AME Zion Church; guest speaker, Rev. Larry Whiteside, assistant pastor of Wells Spring UMCG; lunch will be served.

Revival: May 10-14, 7 nightly; Harriett Memorial Free Will Baptist Church, Caroleen; guest speaker, Rev. Nathan Jennings, pastor of Keystone Free Will Baptist Church, Johnson City, Tenn.

Guest speaker: The Rev. Stencil Quarles will speak Sunday, May 16, at Owens Chapel in Union Mills. The service begins at 3 p.m.

Revival: May 16-19, Goode’s Creek Baptist Church; guest speaker, Rev. Wayne Toney; Sunday services 11 a.m. and 6 p.m.; MTW, 7 nightly.

Revival: May 16-21, Sisk Memorial Free Will Baptist Church; guest speaker, Rev. Dean Cox; Sunday service 6 p.m.; Monday-Friday, 7 nightly; Special music each evening.

Revival: May 16-19, Harris Baptist Church; Sunday service 6 p.m.; MTW, 7 nightly; different speakers each night including Tim Hodge on Sunday; Ronald Roberts, MondayTuesday; Jonathan Watson, Wednesday.

The virtues of motherhood My son, do not regard lightly the discipline of the Lord, nor lose courage when you are punished by Him. For the Lord disciplines him who he loves, and chastises every son whom he receives.

R.S.V. Hebrews 12:5-6 We can learn much from our mothers besides such wise advice as to eat a good breakfast and to wash our hands often. While it is true that mothers usually know a lot of good practical stuff, infinitely more important than their practical wisdom is their solicitous care and unconditional love. Across most of the animal kingdom, and almost universally among mammals, we see in motherhood an instinctual care and protection of their young.

For example, think of the mother bear and the warning to never come between a bear and her cubs. Good mothers will defend their young against almost any threat, often at great risk to themselves, and usually attend to their children’s care and feeding before they attend to their own. Good mothers too, love their youngsters even when they have gone astray; this unconditional maternal love is perhaps the clearest reflection of God’s unconditional love. In the same way that a good mother will tell a child that is being punished that this doesn’t mean they are loved any less, so too does God chastise His children, telling us that God is love and everything He does is a manifestation of that love, including His punishment.

This Mother’s Day, we should reflect on how our mother’s love mirrors God’s love for us, even in those times when she is correcting us.

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Pastor’s appreciation: In honor of Rev. Beauford Brown; Sunday, May 16, 3 p.m.; guest speaker, Rev. Donald Martin, pastor of Upper Room Ministries, Columbia, S.C.; church located at 200 Lawing Road, Forest City.

Spring Fling: United Sisters meeting Saturday, May 22, 2 p.m.; First Baptist Church fellowship hall, 144 Stewart St., Spindale; bring a finger food snack to share; activities planning luncheon; all denominations welcome.

Memorial Day service: Sunday, May 23, Robertson Creek Free Will Baptist Church, Pea Ridge Road, Bostic; Sunday School 10 a.m., worship service 11 a.m.; Pastor Timmy Hodge will speak; a covered dish lunch will follow the service.

Fundraisers Hot dog lunch: Saturday, May 8, 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., Mt. Hebron United Methodist Church; proceeds for a community family in need.

Yard sale: Saturday, May 8, begins at 7 a.m., in the U-Haul parking lot, US 221, Rutherfordton, (near McMahan’s Funeral Home); large number of miscellaneous items; sponsored by New Beginnings Church.

Hot dog lunch: Saturday, May 8, 10:30 a.m. to 2 p.m., Sandy Mush Baptist Church; $3 per person; hot dog, chips, drink and dessert; homemade ice cream, lemonade and snow cones also available.

Hamburger, hot dog sale: Saturday, May 15, 4 to 7 p.m., at Gantt’s Grove Baptist Church; adults $5; children $3; proceeds for the charity fund.

Food sale: Saturday, May 15, begins at 11 a.m., Mt. Pisgah United Church of God; fish, chicken or pork chop plates; $7 per person; hot dog plates $3 each.

Church-wide yard sale: Saturday, May 15, begins at 7:30 a.m., at Green River Baptist Association, 668 North Washington St., Rutherfordton; large number of yard sale items, bake sale, car wash; sponsored by the youth of Pleasant Grove Baptist Church; all proceeds for summer camp at Fort Caswell.

Yard sale, hot dogs: Saturday, May 15, begins at 8 a.m., at Rosia Flower & Crafts, US 64/74, Green Hill; laege number of yard sale items, hot dogs and baked goods; proceeds for Missionary Society youth.

Church-wide yard sale: Saturday, May 15, 7 a.m. to 2 p.m., First Wesleyan Church, Church Street, Forest City, (beside Hardin’s Drug); breakfast available in the church fellowship hall.

Annual bazaar: Saturday, June 5, begins at 7 a.m.; Imma-culate Conception Catholic Church, Forest City; food, baked goods, children’s games, rummage sale items, music, and a motor scooter raffle.

Fish fry, chicken: Saturday, June 5, begins at 10 a.m.; Sponsored

by Angel Divine Faith

Church; the sale will be held at Temple of Jesus Church in Lake Lure; $8 per plate, include drink and dessert.

Other Fun in The Sun Day: Saturday, May 15, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.; Henrietta First Baptist Church; grilled hot dogs and the trimmings, playground, games and inflatables; community residents welcome.

Chase Corner Ministries is now open the first Saturday of each month from 8 a.m. to noon. The community is also welcome to bring yard sale items and set up in the parking lot on these Saturdays. The store is located on Chase High Road, directly across from the high school.

Color Craft Studio is coming to Mt. Pleasant CME Church, Union Mills. At least 30 families are needed to sign up for a 10x14 family portrait. Call 828-3058817 to sign up.

Clothing giveaway: Tuesday, May 11, 4 to 8 p.m.; High Shoal Baptist Church, 284 High Shoals Church Road, Henrietta; children and adult clothes will be given away free to those in need; for additional information call 6576448.

NA/AA meetings: Every Monday at 7 p.m., at New Life Christian Fellowship Church of God, 601 E. Main St., Spindale; contact James Keeter at 247-4681 for more information.

Monthly food giveaway: First Baptist Church in Spindale holds a food giveaway the third Thursday of each month. Devotion and prayer service between 6 and 6:30 p.m. Bags of food given away afterwards.

Open support group: “Let’s Talk About It” meets every Monday from 7 to 8 p.m., at New Life Fellowship Church, 601 E. Main St., Spindale. This group is for anyone who needs to talk about any issues.

Preschool registration: Spindale United Methodist Church is now accepting fall registration for ages 2-5.

Contact Gail Jones at 429-5598, or the church office at 286-2281.

Preschool registration: The kindergarten preschool of First United Methodist Church, 341 East Main St., Forest City, is now taking fall registration for ages 2-5. Limited openings. Contact Preschool Director Jill Smith at 245-6446, or drop by the church office.

Fall registration: The Tot Learning Center at First United Methodist Church, Rutherfordton, will begin registration for fall classes on March 1. Contact Cathy Watson at 287-3704 for more information.

Mom’s Hope is a ministry that offers hope and support for mothers who face daily struggles and fears when their children are addicted to drugs or alcohol.

The group meets at 6:30 p.m. the second Thursday of each month at Missionary Wesleyan Church, 811 Doggett Rd., Forest City. Next meeting Feb. 11. For more information contact Chris at 287-3687.

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were informed less than an hour before the scheduled 10 a.m. hearing that it would not be held.

David F. Hoke, assistant director of the Administrative Office of the Courts in Raleigh, e-mailed information that “Judge Long will not be coming to Rutherfordton today. He will be entering an Order, so I will leave the commission in place for that purpose.”

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Isothermal Community College hosted the American Welding Society CarolinaVirginia Welding Competition Friday.

Welding Society brings competition event to ICC

By ALLISON FLYNN Daily Courier Staff Writer

SPINDALE – Before the sparks began to fly, a roar went up among the masses Friday at Isothermal Community College.

The college hosted the 10th Annual American Welding Society CarolinaVirginia Welding Competition Friday.

During the orientation portion of the event, Isothermal Vice President of Community and Workforce Education and Institutional Advancement Thad Harrill asked the competitors if they thought they would win. The response was cheering, cat calls and shouts.

It was the first time the college hosted the event, but students and staff have taken part in the competition in the past, said welding instructor Nathan Fisher.

“Central Piedmont Community College started this and did it for a number of years,” Fisher said. “They started sharing the responsibilities with Rowan-Cabarrus Community College.”

ICC was chosen this year to host the event by AWS Chapter in Charlotte.

Fisher said the welding department at the college has been undergoing renovations and had been unable to host the event until now.

“Our shop has the capacity and equipment to host an event such as this,” he said. Because of the location of CPCC and RCCC, not many teams from the Western part of the state had attended. Isothermal’s location is ideal for those teams to take part.

“We participated in the event for three to four years and have a team this year,” Fisher said.

Isothermal Director of Marketing and Community Relations Mike Gavin said the college hosting the event is a testament to the work done by the welding department.

“It’s become a state-of-the-art facility, and with the outdoor shed it gives a real-life job site to train in,” Gavin said.

Welding, he added, is one area that has consistently produced jobs.

Teams had to take five pieces of steel and put them together according to a blueprint, Fisher said. In addition to receiving prizes, Fisher said teams would receive certificates.

“To win is a big thing to put on your resume,” Fisher said. “This event tests their ability to read a blueprint, measuring skills, the ability to lay parts out and whether they weld properly.”

Prizes included welding accessories, such as goggles and gloves, donated

by Welders Spot, Airgas, Shaw, Andy Oxy Company and Catawba Valley Community College.

Teams who took part in the event came from Central Piedmont, Cleveland, Wilkes, Craven, Catawba Valley, Rowan-Cabarrus, Davidson County and Isothermal Community Colleges.

Winners from Isothermal were Jamie Davis, second place and Ivan Graudzvus, fifth place.

Contact Flynn via e-mail at aflynn@thedigitalcourier.com.

Priest abuse case settled

CHARLOTTE (AP) — The Roman Catholic Diocese of Charlotte has agreed to pay $1 million to a man who had sued, saying a priest sexually abused him when he was an altar boy in 1999.

The Charlotte Observer reported that the diocese also agreed to pay for counseling for the man, who is now 25. The man, who was an altar boy at Charlotte’s St. Matthew Catholic Church when he was molested, had filed a civil lawsuit alleging that church officials covered up the sex crimes of the Rev. Robert Yurgel.

Yurgel was sentenced last year to nearly eight years in prison after pleading guilty to second-degree sex offense. Officials with the diocese have said they didn’t learn of any sexual misconduct allegations until

Yurgel’s arrest in 2008.

Seth Langson, an attorney for the plaintiff, said his client “was unable to even speak of the abuse to his parents for many years. At the end of 2007, he courageously came forward and began telling others what happened to him. He wanted then to make sure that Father Yurgel never hurt another child.”

The diocese said its insurance company will pay the settlement, adding that an additional $47,500 will pay for counseling and medicine for the victim.

The Charlotte bishop, the Rev. Peter Jurgis, said his “prayers continue to go out to the plaintiff in this case and to all victims of sexual abuse in the hope that they may find the healing they seek.”

A formal complaint was filed April 9 of this year by Tony L. McClellan of 158 Dorothy Glen Drive, Forest City, that concerns a child custody case with his former wife, Pamela Luckadoo. The events occurred Easter Sunday, April 4.

McClellan had visitation rights with his son on that Sunday afternoon, and the issue of when McClellan had to return the boy to his mother was disputed. Spence, looking at a 2006 order, reportedly told officers with the Rutherford County Sheriff’s Office that the boy should be taken from the father’s house on that Sunday afternoon and returned to the mother. McClellan, however, was holding a 2008 order that said the boy did not have to be returned until the start of school on Monday morning, if school was in session, or until noon Monday if school was not in session.

Judge Laura Bridges, senior resident Superior Court judge in District 29A, which includes Rutherford County, said on Friday morning that she could not comment on pending court matters, and added that, in any case, she is not the judge in the proceedings.

Bridges, who looked into the matter before referring the complaint to the AOC for its direction, on Thursday morning filed amended probable cause papers at the courthouse in Rutherfordton.

The four-page document finishes by saying: “From the above findings, I conclude that there is sufficient probable cause to believe that the allegations in the McClellan complaint are true and that a hearing should be had on the matter of the willful misconduct and on conduct prejudicial to the administration of justice which brings the Clerk of Superior Court into disrepute in that: 1. Clerk of Court Robynn Spence used the influence of her office and

had exparte contact with a district court judge to influence said judge to have the McClellan custody order changed.

2. Clerk of Court Robynn Spence used the influence of her office by misrepresenting to a law enforcement officer the 2006 custody order instead of the 2008 custody order was the correct order to influence the officer to take custody of the McClellan child from his father and return him to his mother on Easter Sunday. (Earlier in the amended probable cause paperwork, Bridges said, “On reviewing the file, I found the 2008 order has a neon colored tab on it and would be hard to miss.”)

3. Clerk of Court Robynn Spence used the influence of her office by misrepresenting Judge Davis’ instructions to her and leading officers to believe that there was an order for DSS to take custody of the McClellan child.

4. Clerk of Court Robyn Spence used the influence of her office by misrepresenting to law enforcement that a new custody order had been signed by a judge the week before that stated that McClellan was to return the child by 2 o’clock.”

The District Court judge referred to in the amended probable cause papers is Judge Thomas Davis, who has been subpoenaed in the case.

In the telephone pretrial conference, Spence’s attorneys objected to Judge Bridges determining probable cause.

The attorneys also retained the discretion to object to the hearing not being completed within 30 days of the filing of the complaint.

At the time the complaint was filed, Spence told a Daily Courier reporter that the matter was pursued for political reasons, since Spence was opposed in the clerk of court race by Edna Walker in the primary. Walker is Judge Bridges’ daughter-in-law.

An attempt to contact Spence for comment on Friday afternoon was unsuccessful.

Spence, a Republican, defeated Walker in the May 4 primary.

Judge Bridges has been subpoenaed for the hearing. Others subpoenaed for the hearing, in addition to Judge Davis, are: Lorie Horne, of the Department of Social Services; magistrate Rhonda Alexander; and Rutherford County Sheriff’s Office officers Joshua Johnson, Trey Hooper and Ronald Shelton.

Contact Dale via e-mail at ldale@thedigitalcourier.com.

SAVING WITH THE COUPON QUEEN Jill Cataldo saves hundreds on groceries by making the cost of the common coupon count. You can, too.

Where Do All Those Coupons Come From?

JILL CATALDO

Q: “I have been following your column, and a lot of what you have discussed I have implemented. You often talk about the number of coupons you use.

Where and how are you obtaining so many duplicate coupons? I know I can print out multiple copies online from some of the coupon Web sites.”

A: There are a few reasons I have a good amount of coupons available to me when a good sale comes along. I save all of my newspaper coupon inserts in their entirety each week. Many coupons often repeat every few weeks or months, especially for common items like cereal, bread, juice and personal care products.

One of the most common myths about coupons is that they all expire quickly. But the truth is that most of them have, on average, a three-month window for redemption; others may not expire for nine months or more.

When a sale comes along, I usually have multiple coupons for a single item simply because I’ve saved all of my inserts. When the item goes on sale, I may be using coupons from several different “appearances” of that coupon in the inserts. Some may be several weeks old while others may be months old or even older. I will save my coupon inserts until everything inside expires.

Doing this, it’s possible to build what amounts to a library of coupons at our disposal. Then, when we need them, those coupons are waiting to be looked up, cut out and used.

As you mentioned, most printable Internet coupons do allow multiple prints of the same coupon. The average print limit is two per computer, but I will always try to click the “back” button in my web browser and print again until I receive the message that the print limit for the coupon has been reached. It’s important to do this because companies do offer higher print limits at times.

I can recall a major cereal manufacturer that offered $1 coupons with a print limit of 14! That was a high limit and it allowed me to really stock up on that item at a low price because I had so many coupons.

Along the same lines, having as many coupons as possible definitely helps!

People often ask how many newspapers I get. I currently have two different newspapers delivered on Sunday, a smaller, local paper and our big Chicago newspaper, because the coupons inserts in the two newspapers are different. In some areas, papers may offer “double inserts” for a very low rate. You might also see if your local newspaper offers a reduced rate to get a second, identical newspaper delivered on the day the coupons appear.

I did this recently after numerous people in my Super-Couponing classes told me that they were able to add a second copy of the large Sunday newspaper to their existing subscription for just 50 cents a week. Fifty cents is a small price to pay for double the coupons. On a good day, a coupon insert may contain $75 worth of coupons or more!

If you go through your coupon inserts when they arrive, take note of any high-value coupons. We’ve recently seen $5 and $10 dog food coupons in the inserts! If your dog eats that variety of food, it may well be worth spending a dollar or two to pick up a second copy at the newsstand that week, just to get another copy of that high-value coupon. And you’ll have doubles of all the other coupons, too.

Lastly… get creative! I have a friend who treats herself to a cappuccino on Sunday afternoons at her favorite coffeehouse shortly after lunchtime and offers to “clean up” the restaurant each week for them. She then takes home all the Sunday papers (and coupons) that numerous patrons have left behind!

One person’s trash may very well be your means to a lower grocery bill.

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Our Views Good news, but more work to do

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t seems strange to see that the national unemployment rate went up a couple of tenths of a point and hear that characterized as good news. Yet, it is true.

The key numbers in Friday’s labor report were the 290,000 new jobs created and the increase in the labor force by more than 800,000. The first shows that more jobs are available and the second means that many people who had quit looking for jobs have begun to seek work again.

Of course, 290,000 jobs does not come close to reversing the job losses of the past three years, but it is a good sign. On Thursday, a report on productivity revealed that employers are reaching a point where they will have to begin adding workers.

The key is going to be keeping the economic recovery going.

Meanwhile, the effort to identify the factors which led to the near financial collapse that created the recession must continue.

Our readers’ views Says Spring Fling at park a big success To the editor: The Spring Fling/Fun Day that was held on Saturday, May 1, at the Frank West Park in Caroleen was a success.

There was good food, good music, activities for the kids and the weather was nice. It was a great day to be outside.

We would like to thank the Caroleen United Methodist Church for sponsoring this event and for choosing Frank West Park to have the event at.

We would also like to say a big thank you to the Ellenboro Fire Department and the Forestry Service.

Also, the American Legion Post 423 for allowing the use of their building.

We also need to thank the Rutherford County maintenance crew for coming down and mowing the park grounds. It really looked great.

Last, but not least, we need to thank all the people who came out to make this event such a great success.

Again thank you everyone for making the day a special day for so many people.

Johnny Lowery Henrietta

Cheers for Arizona immigration law To the editor: Hooray for Arizona! My father was a legal immigrant and legal is the operative word.

Nationality and color of skin has nothing to do with it. Either

you abide by the law or you break the law and if it is the latter, there has to be consequences.

If not, why have a law to begin with?

Peggy Jaski Rutherfordton

Offers her thoughts on school lawsuit To the editor: I completely agree with Jackie Treehorn’s recent comments about the charter school lawsuit.

Has it occurred to anyone that the parents of the TJCA students are taxpayers and deserve equal consideration when it comes to appropriation of tax funds?

We have seen actions from the Rutherford County School Administrators that range from childish to absurd.

I would hope mature educated adults would see the wisdom in seeing what TJCA is doing so well and incorporating it into the county school system.

While having dinner in Barley’s a couple of weeks ago I met a woman who works in the corporate office of an international food company.

A rain storm brought five young men into Barleys who were about the same age as my oldest son.

These boys had multiple facial piercings, all had their underwear showing by belting their pants around their thighs, and their hats were turned in various directions and were not removed when they entered the room.

The executive looked at my 14-year-old son and said I would hire 10 of you to one of them on first impression alone.

Fair or not the facts are simple.

How you appear matters. How well you articulate matters. You

want your children to be successful, teach them how to be succesful. Try uniforms in the public school and see how many problems would be solved.

We all need to look at the children in this community as our future and take seriously our role as their mentors.

Joan McGraw Rutherfordton

Thanks all for helping Housing Authority To the editor: On behalf of Forest City Housing Authority, I want to thank the following individuals and businesses for bringing the residents into the 21st century with technology.

We greatly appreciate the generous donation Tom Roberson of City Computers made of four computers.

Rutherford Weekly published a free ad indicating our need for computer monitors.

Matthew Nanney answered the ad and brought us four monitors.

Northland Cable installed high speed internet for free.

Now the residents can access the World Wide Web to look for a job. Many job applications are online so the residents have the opportunity to do this.

Residents can also use the internet to educate themselves on subjects of interest, such as health, nutrition, financial information, etc. Students can use the computers to complete homework assignments.

Thanks again to the individuals and businesses that made this all possible.

Sally Claroni Forest City Housing Authority

Perhaps standing still would be the best option RALEIGH – There’s a big difference between incrementalism and gimmickry.

Someone ought to advise Gov. Beverly Perdue of the distinction.

Hey, maybe that someone should be me!

Look at what the governor is proposing to encourage job creation in North Carolina’s still-shaky economy. When the General Assembly convenes for its 2010 session, Perdue will reportedly propose a multi-million-dollar package of subsidies and tax incentives for employers. It will include: n $15 million in state money to give small companies $1,000 for the hiring of each person unemployed for at least 60 days. n $15 million for the One North Carolina Fund – the governor’s incentive kitty (which is kind of puzzling, given the news that fewer than a third of the 247 companies awarded grants out of the fund since 2005 have ended up claiming them). n A $1 million guarantee of small-business loans

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issued by the Self-Help Credit Union. n Another $7 million in separate grants to biotech, biofuels, and “green jobs” projects. n The extension of a $5 million tax-credit program for small companies that offer health-insurance coverage. n Some $3.5 million in other tax credits, including extra money for hiring in distressed NC counties.

In a state economy that encompasses hundreds of billions of dollars in transactions every year, the dollar amounts in Gov. Perdue’s plan may seem trivial.

Indeed, the plan won’t have a discernible effect at all on economic activity in North Carolina, unless you happen to be in the business of

lobbying the legislature on behalf of certain business groups or distressed counties. But that’s not the real problem with the governor’s proposal.

Some tax policies can actually have economic consequences far greater than the readily apparent fiscal impact – for example, if the policies unlock investment dollars trapped in tax shelters or create stronger incentives for individuals to work, save, invest, and take risks.

Think of these policies as levers that can, if placed strategically, move a surprisingly large mass of economic activity in the right direction.

More importantly, however, incremental steps in favor of a worthy long-term goal are always worth encouraging even they aren’t likely to make a major dent in a problem in the short run.

Unfortunately, Perdue’s plan largely consists of incremental steps taken in the wrong direction, towards fiscal gimmickry rather than fiscal reform.

There is no question that North Carolina would be more prosperous under a tax system that maintained low marginal tax rates, broad tax bases, and a benign neutrality when it comes to how, where, and why private businesses make decisions to advance their viability and profitability.

The state shouldn’t try to monkey around with makeor-buy decisions – whether companies produce certain inputs in-house or purchase them from vendors – or decisions about allocating company resources among workforce expansion, workforce improvement, capital purchase, debt retirement, or other needs.

Finally, and this may be the hardest for politicians to accept, the state shouldn’t favor small businesses over larger ones when it comes to tax and spending policies.

North Carolina needs to be more hospitable to businesses of all shapes and sizes. It shouldn’t try to plan its economy or stack the deck. It is true that current incentive

policies actually favor large firms – they are the ones most likely to capture the attention of politicians and meet the threshold of significance justifying private negotiations for incentive packages. This is a problem.

The solution, however, is not to set up parallel subsidy programs for small firms.

The solution is for the state to stop subsidizing firms, period.

I don’t believe in making the perfect the enemy of the good. Because it would be impractical to expect North Carolina immediately to replace its rickety tax code with a flat-rate income tax or abolish all corporate subsidies during the 2010 legislative session, I’d settle for incremental steps in each direction. For now, it seems, the best that can be hoped for is that the legislature take no steps at all.

In other words, don’t just do something, stand there.

Hood is president of the John Locke Foundation.

The Daily Courier, Forest City, NC, Saturday, May 8, 2010

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Obituaries Sheriff’s deputies launch warrant round-up in county Pauline Self

From staff reports

RUTHERFORDTON — Personnel with the Rutherford County Sheriff’s Office set out on an arrestwarrants roundup Friday.

About 20 people had been arrested by the middle of the afternoon, Friday.

Sheriff Jack Conner said officers from the Interdiction Team and the detective division, as well as off-duty officers, were going out two to a vehicle to serve the warrants, some of which had been backlogged. Detective Sgts. Leon Godlock and Jeff Hamrick were leading the operation.

The sheriff said, “It was a good job today.”

Among those arrested by the RCSO officers and their charges are: n William Frank Carson, 44, of 153 Industrial Drive; failure to appear; placed under a $500 securedf bond. n Joseph Scott McKinney, 46, of 110 Railroad Circle; injury to personal property; placed under a $500 secured bond. n James Coston Jr., 42, of 951 Oakland Road; failure to appear on misdemeanor failure to comply on child support; placed under a $1,000 cash bond. n Billy Paul Biggerstaff, 32, of 154 Chase Highway; charged with failure to comply; placed under a $250 cash bond. n Bobby George Camp,

71, of 675 Durham Road; charged with assault with a deadly weapon, communicating threats and failure to appear; placed under a $3,000 secured bond. n Randy Keith Putnam, 20, of 3108 Ramseur Church Road; charged with failure to appear; placed under a $1,000 secured bond. n Laverne G. Blanton, 46, of 1892 Harris Henrietta Road; charged with obtain property by false pretense; placed under a $10,000 secured bond. n Brandon Eugene Branch, 21, of 117 Daly Road; charged with second-degree trespassing; no bond listed. n Ida Nichole Guffey, 27, of 465 Old Caroleen Road; charged with misdemeanor larceny; placed under a $500 secured bond. n Christopher George Mullinax, 31, of 191 Park Drive; charged with possession of stolen goods/ property; released on a $10,000 unsecured bond. n Teresa Ann Hamrick, 53, of 114 Talent Drive; charged with breaking and/ or entering, injury to real property, first-degree trespassing, assault and battery and assault on a child under 12; placed under a $15,000 secured bond. n Steven Paul Toney, 29, of 131 Odyssey Lane; charged with injury to real property; released on an unsecured bond. n Brooklyn Shante Watkins, 24, of 192 Wilkins

Police Notes Sheriff’s Reports

n The Rutherford County Sheriff’s Office responded to 166 E-911 calls Thursday. n Rutherford County Schools reported the theft of a laptop computer. n Andrew Tisdale reported damage to flooring and wall material. n William Thomas Watson III reported the theft of a motorcycle. n Chris Nelson-Vandette reported the theft of a motor vehicle. n Duke Energy reported vandalism. n David Lee Reno reported the theft of a firearm. n Cool Springs Rental reported the theft of a flatpanel television. n Cane Creek Baptist Church reported the theft of a well pump cover. n Paulette Griffin Mintz reported the theft of a tiller. n Anna S. Barnett reported the theft of medication. n Joshua Clay Ferguson reported damage to a vehicle.

Rutherfordton

n The Rutherfordton Police Department responded to 26 E-911 calls Thursday. n John Mark Roper reported the theft of a motor vehicle.

Spindale

n The Spindale Police Department responded to 30 E-911 Thursday.

Lake Lure

n The Lake Lure Police Department responded to three E-911 calls Thursday.

Forest City

n The Forest City Police Department responded to 64 E-911 calls Thursday. n An employee of Dollar General, on West Main Street, reported three incidents of shoplifting/ larceny and damage to property. (See arrest of McEntire.) n Joseph Goodwin reported two incidents of breaking and entering to motor vehicles and larceny. n Louise Holland reported a breaking and entering to an auto. n An employee of WalMart, on Plaza Drive, reported a larceny. (See arrest of Duggins.)

James Suttle reported a

breaking and entering to an auto and larceny. n An employee of WalMart, on Plaza Drive, reported an incident of concealment. (See arrest of Craig.) n An employee of Murphy USA, on Plaza Drive, reported a larceny.

Arrests n Dennis McEntire, 52, of Spindale Street, Spindale; charged with three counts of larceny and two counts of damage to property; placed under a $7,500 secured bond. (FCPD) n Jamie William Dempsey, 18, of 962 Cliffside Road; charged with shoplifting/ concealment of goods; placed under a $500 secured bond.

(FCPD) n Antonio Bilotta, 52, of 139 Cove Road; charged with assault and battery; released on a $1,000 unsecured bond.

(RCSD) n Dawn Brooke Ferguson, 18, of 351 Old Caroleen Road; charged with assault and battery; released on a $1,000 unsecured bond.

(RCSD) n Dana Lee Patterson, 29, of 158 Joe Hamlin Road; charged with driving while impaired; no bond listed.

(RCSD) n Kasey Marie Gilbert, 17, of 142 Powell Road; charged with breaking and/or entering and larceny after breaking/ entering; freed on a custody release. (RCSD) n Barbara Jean Shipp, 49, of 202 Thermal Drive; charged with worthless check/ fourth subsequent offense; released on a written promise to appear. (RCSD) n Fred Alfred Bradley, 47, of 207 Spencer St.; charged with assault and battery; released on a written promise to appear. (RCSD) n Lester Lee Cash, 51, of 1142 Oakland Drive; charged with possession of drug paraphernalia and possession with intent to manufacture, sell and deliver schedule VI controlled substance; released on an unsecured bond. (RCSD) n Ashley Nicole McDaniel, 18, of 1140 Ellenboro/ Henrietta Road; charged with assault and battery; released on an unsecured bond. (RCSD) n Valencia Lovette Williams, 47, of 147 Marshall St., Forest City; charged with speeding 56 in a 35

Pauline Johnson Russell Self, 81, of Forest City, died St.; charged with failure Thursday, May 6, 2010, at to appear on misdemeanHospice House in Forest City. or driving while license A native of Rutherford revoked; placed under a County, she was a daughter $500 secured bond. of the late John and Millie n Albert Ray Hipp, 57, of Melton Johnson.

3791 Hudlow Road; charged She was a member of with assault on a governHarvest Time Pentecostal ment official; placed under a Church and was a retired $5,000 secured bond. cafeteria worker for the n Terry Wayne Dawson, Spartanburg County District 19, of 111 N.C. 120; charged 2 School System. with felony larceny/ obtain In addition to her parents, property by false pretense; she was preceded in death released on an unsecured by her first husband, Jesse bond.

Russell. n Jeffrey Shawn Baynard, She is survived by her hus32, of 568 Harris Henrietta band, William Monroe Self of Road; charged with nonsup- the home; a daughter, Paula port of a child and failure Russell Camp of Lenoir City, to appear on misdemeanor Tenn.; two sisters, Mittie failure to wear seatbelt, ficHutchins of Rutherfordton, titious/ canceled/ revoked and Myrtle Miller; five registration card/ tag; placed grandchildren; and eight under a $1,000 cash bond great-grandchildren. and a $500 secured bond.

Funeral services will be n Richard Douglas Pack, held at 3 p.m. Saturday at 56, of 122 Earnhardt Drive; Crowe’s Chapel with the charged with assault on a Rev. Gary Binning officiatfemale/ misdemeanor proba- ing. Interment will follow in tion violation; placed under a Byers Baptist Church cem$15,000 secured bond. etery. The family will receive n Brian Joel Jennings, 31, friends one hour prior to the of 261 Maple Creek Road; service at Crowe’s Mortuary. charged with manufacturIn lieu of flowers, memoriing schedule II controlled als may be made to Hospice substance, carrying a conof Rutherford County, P.O. cealed weapon and simple Box 336, Forest City, NC possession of schedule III 28043. controlled substance; placed under an $11,000 secured Online condolences www. bond. crowemortuary.com. n Donnie Wayne Wells, 36, of 283 Old Wagy Road; Ovedia Justice charged with obtain propOvedia Rhom Justice, 81, of erty by false pretense and felony larceny; placed under Marion, died Thursday, May 6, 2010, at Sunrise Rehab a $10,000 secured bond. and Care Center.

A native of McDowell County, she was a daughter of the late Robert Rhom and Lela Edwards Rhom, and a homemaker.

In addition to her parents, mph zone, no insurance and she was preceded in death revoked license; freed on a by her husband, William custody release. (RPD) n Dennis Glenn Welch, 42, Haskale Justice Sr. Survivors include four of 112 Oxford St.; charged children, Betty Jean Smith, with felony larceny; placed Delores O’Connor, Robert under a $15,500 secured Lee Justice, and Willie bond. (SPD) Edward Justice, all of Marion; 11 grandchildren; Citations and 11 great-grandchildren. n Monica Duggins, 26, of A funeral service will be Withrow Road, Forest City; held at 6 p.m. Sunday in cited for larceny; released on the Westmoreland Chapel a written promise to appear. with Pastor Tony Cochran (FCPD) officiating. The family will n Jennifer Craig, 27, no receive friends from 5 to address listed; cited for lar6 p.m., prior to the service ceny; released on a written at Westmoreland Funeral promise to appear. (FCPD) Home. Interment will be Monday at 10 a.m. in the Barnes Cemetery.

EMS/Rescue Memorials may be made to n The Rutherford County Hospice of McDowell County, EMS responded to 35 E-911 575 Airport Road, Marion, calls Thursday.

NC 28752. n The Volunteer Life Saving and Rescue, Hickory Online condolences www.westmoNut Gorge EMS and relandfuneralhome.com.

Rutherford County Rescue responded to four E-911 calls Thursday.

Fire Calls n Bostic firefighters responded to a motor vehicle crash. n Forest City firefighters responded to a motor vehicle crash and to a fire alarm. n SDO firefighters responded to a motor vehicle crash. n Spindale firefighters responded to a motor vehicle crash. n Sandy Mush firefighters responded to a motor vehicle crash and to an unknown type of fire. n Union Mills firefighters responded to a motor vehicle crash.

Feds investigate deaths of red wolves ENGELHARD (AP) — The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is investigating the deaths of two red wolves found in different parts of a North Carolina county.

The wildlife service says one wolf was found April 23 near Engelhard in eastern Hyde County, and the second one was found four days later near Scranton, in the west.

Both wolves were wearing radio collars.

The wildlife service didn’t say how the wolves died. The special agent investigating the case said she couldn’t comment beyond what was in the news release.

Deaths

Patricia Rico INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Patricia Rico, the first female president of USA Track and Field, has died. She was 76.

The governing body of track and field said she died Sunday of respiratory failure in Sleepy Hollow, N.Y. Rico spent more than 50 years in track and field and was USATF president from 1996 to 2000. She championed equality for female athletes and played a key part in restructuring the governing body in the late 1990s.

Rico competed in discus at the 1960 U.S. Olympic trials.

She later co-founded Track Mirror, the first American publication for women’s track and field. She officiated at the 1996 Atlanta Games.

Pete Witbeck PROVO, Utah (AP) — BYU says former athletic administrator and assistant basketball coach Pete Witbeck has died. He was 81.

Witbeck spent 47 years at BYU, where he earned his undergraduate and master’s degrees. He joined the physical education faculty in 1954 and coached the Cougars’ freshmen basketball team for six years.

Basketball coach Stan Watts made Witbeck assistant head coach of the varsity team in 1964 and he was part of the staff when the

Cougars won the 1966 NIT. During his career, Witbeck was also a senior associate athletic director and the school’s NCAA compliance officer.

Joe Kearney EAST LANSING, Mich.

(AP) — Joe Kearney, who saw Michigan State win the national men’s basketball championship and 11 Big Ten titles while serving as athletics director from 1976-80, has died. He was 83.

Kearney came to Michigan State after serving seven years as athletics director at the University of Washington. He hired Jud Heathcote, who coached the Spartans to the 1979 NCAA basketball championship, and Ron Mason, who went on to become the winningest coach in college hockey history.

Kearney served as commissioner of the Western Athletic Conference from 1980-94.

Robin Roberts PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Long before pitch counts, setup men and closers, Robin Roberts usually finished what he started.

Roberts, the tireless Hall of Fame pitcher who led the Philadelphia Phillies to the 1950 National League pennant as part of the famed “Whiz Kids,” died Thursday.

He was 83.

The right-hander was the most productive pitcher in the National League in the first half of the 1950s, topping the league in wins from 1952 to 1955, innings pitched from ‘51 to ‘55 and complete games from ‘52 to ‘56.

He won 286 games and put together six consecutive 20-win seasons. Roberts had 45 career shutouts, 2,357 strikeouts and a lifetime ERA of 3.41. He pitched 305 complete games, but also gave up more home runs than any other major league pitcher.

Roberts played in an era when pitchers expected to go the distance. Put it this way: In the past 25 years, Phillies pitchers threw a total of 300 complete games — five fewer than Roberts all by himself.

Roberts made 609 career starts, finishing more than half.

Long after his career ended, Roberts followed the Phillies closely and was still popular in Philadelphia, drawing boisterous applause from fans each time he came back.

A statue of him outside the first-base gate at Citizens Bank Park was adorned with a wreath Thursday, one of several tributes the Phillies planned.

Roberts’ No. 36 jersey, which the team retired in 1962, was hung in the dugout before an afternoon game with St. Louis. It will remain there the rest of the season, at home and on the road.

Players will wear No. 36 on their sleeves, starting Friday night.

Roberts was the leading pitcher on the 1950 squad that won the franchise’s first pennant in 35 years. Roberts put together a 20-11 season with a 3.02 ERA and five shutouts.

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Calendar/Local

Red Cross The following blood drives are scheduled: May 11 — Harris Elementary School, Forest City, 1:30 to 6 p.m., call 248-2354; May 12 — Rutherford Hospital, 288 S. Ridge Crest Ave., Rutherfordton, noon to 5 p.m., call 286-5338; May 17 — Red Cross Rutherford Chapter, 838 Oakland Road, Forest City, 2 to 6:30 p.m., call at 2875916; May 24 — Spindale United Methodist Church, 3 to 7 p.m., call 245-8554; May 27 — Rutherford County Government, 289 N. Main St., Rutherfordton, noon to 4:30 p.m., call 287-6145; May 31 — Lowe’s, 184 Lowes Blvd., Forest City, 10 a.m. to 2:30 p.m., call 351-1023; All presenting donors will be entered in a drawing for a chance to win a cruise for two.

Classes Adult CPR: May 10, 6 p.m.

Child, Infant CPR: May 11, 6 p.m.

First Aid: May 15, 8:30 a.m.

Preventing Disease Transmission All classes must be paid in advance.

Call 287-5916 for further information.

Meetings/other Booster meeting: Forest City Owls Boosters will meet Thursday, May 13, 6 p.m., special guest, Owls Coach Matt Hayes; membership $25 per person; for information, contact Cecil Geer at 919-0000.

Miscellaneous Memorial Day service: Sunday, May 9, 2 p.m., Spindale City Cemetery; Rev. Terry Howell will lead a brief service.

Early sign ups: The Rutherfordton Raiders Football Team will hold early sign ups for football players and cheerleaders (Saturdays) May 15, 22 and 29, at Crestview Park in Rutherfordton. The cost is $45 per child, and $35 for two in the same family. For more information contact Tammy at 980-2059.

Foothills Harvest Outreach Ministries will hold a storewide, half-price sale May 10-15. The store is located at 120 E. Trade St., Forest City.

Open House: Friday, May 14, 4:30 to 7:30 p.m., at Dance ‘n Play in Spanish, 189 E. Main St., Forest City; the public is invited to visit the new Spanish Language School and sample a variety of ethnic foods, music, a drum clinic, and learn some Latin dance moves; Pinata for the kids.

Fundraisers Community yard sale: Saturday, May 15, 8 a.m. to 2 p.m., Red Cross Chapter House; set up begins at 6:30 a.m.; spaces available, $10 each (tables not included); firstcome, first served basis; donations of yard sale items for the ARC Disaster Team to sell (no clothes please) may be brought to the Chapter House through May 14; call 287-5916 for further details.

Dance fundraiser: Friday, May 21, 8 p.m., at Bubba’s Fun Park; music

by DJ “Catdaddy” Mike McDaniel”; sponsored by the Little Warriors Relay for Life team; all proceeds for the ACS. Golf tournament: Sponsored by VFW Harold Hawkins Post 5204; Saturday, June 5, shotgun start 1 p.m., Dogwood Valley Golf Course, 328 Dogwood Valley Road, Forest City; captain’s choice; entry fee $40 per player; contact Jimmy Reynolds at 657-5645 to sign up; rain date June 12; all proceeds will be used to assist local veterans.

4th Annual yard sale: Saturday, June 12, 6 to 11 a.m., at Big Dave’s Family Sea Food; Wayne Rollins of Rollins Cafeteria will be selling pancake breakfast for $6 per person (plus tax); ages 3-10, $3; all you can eat; sponsored by Eaton Croporation and Rollins; all proceeds go toward ACS Relay For Life.

ICC classes Introduction to Microsoft Word 2007: Tuesdays and Thursdays from 6:30 to 9 p.m., May 13 - June 3; must have basic computer skills; fee $65; course #17116.

Introduction to Scuba Diving: Tuesdays and Thursdays from 6 to 9 p.m., May 13-27; classroom and pool instruction; all equipment and supplies provided; see web site for full information; fee $260; course #17239.

Beginner Golf Instruction: Mondays from 7 to 8 p.m., May 17 June 28; instructor Golf Pro Denny West; fee $100; course #17198.

Summer classes are also listed at www.isothermal.edu/learnstuff. To register for any of the above classes, call 286-363, ext. 346.

Elfreda Bone and Kim Amos took part in a recent Look Good .... Feel Better Class, learning skin and make up tips from stylist Wendy Hodge (back). The class is designed to help women cancer patents combat appearance-related side effects of cancer treatment.

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Debbie Buchanan. Bone has had lung and uterine cancers, which were surgically removed, and now is undergoing treatments for liver cancer. Amos is going through treatments for breast cancer. Bone was diagnosed with her first cancer in October 2007, and Amos in November 2009.

Cuttin’ Up on Main salon stylist Wendy Hodge led the women through the class, identifying measures to help them care for their skin during treatments. Before getting started, Hodge passed around a bottle of hand sanitizer, telling Bone and Amos “Sanitation’s a big thing.”

“Any time you do your makeup you need to use something clean and sani-

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by anyone, but in order to access it from your home, you have to have a library card. To reach Mango, patrons should go through the library’s website at www.rutherfordcountylibrary. org.

Odom said the library decided to purchase the software after hearing repeated requests to offer a wider variety of language learning.

“We have offered cassettes, but because of a lack of funding and space, we couldn’t offer all that was requested,” he said.

Mango’s primary focus is on providing software for libraries, Odom said, unlike other software programs like Rosetta Stone, which are designed for

tary,” Hodge said, suggesting using cotton balls or pads and cotton swabs for application. “You don’t ever want to put your fingers on the ends of the tube.”

Bone and Amos each received cosmetic kits filled with foundation, concealer, mascara, eyeliner, eye shadow, lipsticks and more to suit their skin tone. The products are donated by the cosmetic industry, Buchanan said, and are put together and provided free of charge, as is the class, to cancer patients.

As Bone and Amos applied moisturizer, Hodge reminded them of the need to wear sunscreen.

“Make sure and put sunscreen on under your makeup. With radiation and chemo, you are more susceptible to sunburn,” she said. individual use.

“We have heard Mango is the leading vendor of language learning to public libraries in North Carolina,” he said.

Mango is available in two versions – Mango Complete, a 100-lesson course designed to provide a full understanding of an entire language and its culture and Mango Basic, which teaches everyday greetings and helpful phrases and is designed to appeal to a beginner in a new language.

Odom said there are a variety of ways the community could utilize the software – from EMS and law enforcement using it to learn a language to help better communicate with non-English speakers to students who are taking a foreign language at the high school or college level.

“The courses are taught by instruc-

Hospital phones knocked out From staff reports

RUTHERFORDTON — If you tried to call Rutherford Hospital Friday between 10 a.m. and 2:45 p.m., and didn’t get through, there’s a reason.

According to Director of Marketing Matt Webber, the hospital’s phone system operates on a card that routes outside calls to the various departments throughout the hospital.

“This morning there was an error light showing on it,” Webber said.

“The card did not have an appropriate power supply.”

Mitel, who is the phone vendor for the hospital, replaced the piece of equipment, and phones were back up and running by mid-afternoon.

“We weren’t in any danger of not communicating with the outside,” Webber said. Police and the sheriff’s

department, EMS and the communication center and local physician practices were notified immediately of the problem, as was local news media.

“We have a number of emergency lines that are not tied to that system,” Webber said. “We were able to tell those entities ‘Here is a number if you need to call.’”

Patients were notified room-to-room that there might be delays in receiving calls from friends or family wanting condition updates and hospital staff offered to call out for them and give alternate ways for people to call in, Webber said.

“It was more of an inconvenience than anything,” he said. “We were blessed it was just a straight-forward problem we were able to take care of quickly.”

Hodge also offered the tip of using a disposable mascara wand for each application as cancer patients are more susceptible to infections, including eye infections.

Prior to her cancer diagnosis, Amos said she wore makeup more often.

The class gave her suggestions on dealing with treatment-related issues, like hair loss. Bone signed up for the tips as well.

“I knew my skin was going to get bad throughout the process and I wanted to do what I could to keep it looking good,” she said.

For more information or to register for the class, call Debbie Buchanan at 305-3595.

Contact Flynn via e-mail at aflynn@thedigitalcourier.com.

tors who are native speakers of the language,” he said.

You can log in to the program anonymously or create an account for free.

“The benefit to creating an account is it will remember where you were,” Odom said.

Since it’s launch in the county a few weeks ago, Odom said there have been 35 sessions with a total of 4.8 hours of learning time. The average session length is a little over eight minutes, which he said is probably people logging in to see the offerings.

“So far people have looked at Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, French, German, Greek, Spanish, Russian, Italian, Irish and English for Spanish speaking,” he said.

Contact Flynn via e-mail at aflynn@the-

U.S. 221 clean-up delayed for a week Plans for the NCDOT to temporarily close a section of U.S. 221 between Harris-Henrietta Road (State Road 2125) and Chase High School Road (S.R. 2210) near Harris have been moved back a week to Monday, May 17 at 8 a.m., weather permitting.

Motorists traveling south on U.S. 221 towards South Carolina should use the following detour: Harris-Henrietta Road to Chase High School Road to U.S. 221.

Motorists traveling north on U.S. 221 towards Rutherfordton should use the following signed detour: Chase High School Road to Harris-Henrietta Road to U.S. 221.

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Big Day & Night On Diamonds

East’s Trent Dorsey (11) races toward third as the throw is on its way. Dorsey arrived safely at the bag. Chase hosted the Cavaliers in the conference finale for both schools, Friday.

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East thumps Chase n Cavaliers

secure 3A/2A SMAC crown with win

By KEVIN CARVER Daily Courier Sports Reporter

HARRIS — East Rutherford, which already owns the SMAC No. 1 seed for the playoffs and over 20 wins this season, notched the 2010 conference baseball title with a 10-0, five-inning win over rival Chase, Friday.

The Cavaliers’ Drew Reynolds was superb as the starting pitcher.

Reynolds faced just 16 batters, surrendered one hit and struck out eight to claim the first South Mountain Athletic Conference title.

“We wanted to go out there and win this by ourselves and not tie for

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The Lady Trojans return to the dugout after a quick inning of softball against East Rutherford, Friday.

Lady Trojans spill East; share conference title

By JACOB CONLEY Daily Courier Sports Reporter

HARRIS — The Lady Trojans scored early and often en route to an 8-2 win over East Rutherford that captured the 2A conference crown Friday.

The win allowed Chase to share the overall South Mountain Athletic Conference crown with R-S Central.

The SMAC is a split 3A/2A conference. The Lady Trojans will also have a home playoff game on Tuesday, May 18 as a result of Friday’s win.

“Scoring those runs early on a quality team like East was huge,” said Chase coach Daniel Bailey. “But it was not just our offense — we played excellent defense and had great pitching. I’d say without question this is the best game we have played all year.”

Chase threatened in the first as Please see Cavaliers, Page 8 Sam Carpenter led off the game with a walk, alertly moved to third on a sacrifice bunt and scored on an error.

The Trojans tacked on two more runs on a Lady Cavs’ throwing error to put

a co-championship,” East Rutherford baseball coach Bobby Reynolds said.

“Drew pitched well again, and we struck the ball well today with some hard-hit line drive singles to open the game early.”

East came out swinging in the first inning off Chase’s starting pitcher Mitchell Parris. The Cavs pounded out nine hits in the first inning as Lucas Owens walked to begin the game and Derek Deaton lined a single to put runners on the corners.

Drew Reynolds lined a single to center to score Owens and Dakotah Thomas blooped a single into right to cross Deaton for a 2-0 lead.

Chip Helton added an RBI single to short left and Mark McFarland bat-

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Chase’s Mitchell Parris looks in for the sign from his catcher during the baseball game against East Rutherford Friday.

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Lady Trojans, above, cheer on their teammates from the dugout during the softball game against East Rutherford, Friday.

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Chase’s Jessie Alexander, right, slides into home plate safely during the softball game against East Rutherford Friday. East’s pitcher Sally Harrill (19) awaits the throw.

Three B list drivers wish to repeat Grade A success

By KEVIN CARVER Daily Courier Sports Reporter

FOREST CITY — Coming down to the sandhills from Charlotte and into Darlington Raceway this weekend, there are some happy faces that welcome what the 1.366-mile facility has in-store for them Saturday night.

While there is a long list of those who want to get-in and get-out as quickly as they can, three NASCAR drivers are hoping to duplicate last year’s Darlington’s stripeless effort.

Of all people, how could Martin Truex Jr., Brad Keselowski and Joey Logano be excited about Darlington.

Well, they are for good reason.

Truex, who finished sixth in the Southern 500 last year, actually

has more experience at this track than Logano or Keselowski, and ended up capturing the first of his two Nationwide Series titles at “The Track Too Tough To Tame” in 2004.

While the New Jersey native drove for Dale Earnhardt Incorporated last season, that doesn’t deter what he thinks he can accomplish with Michael Waltrip Racing on Saturday.

“Darlington is a special place because of the history and the things that have happened there over the years.” Truex said. “It really challenges you as a driver, and I like it.

You really have to be up on the wheel and concentrate all day and all night long.”

Keselowski on the other hand,

finished seventh for Hendrick Motorsports as part-time Sprint Cup pilot. Keselowski doesn’t have a top ten result so far this season in ten events, but has finished 16th or better in five of the last six races.

Logano, who paced around the track with NASCAR legend Cale Yarborough last year gathering track tips, went on later that week to come home an ecstatic ninth.

More impressive, last year truly was Logano’s and Keselowski’s first ever trip to “The Lady in Black.”

Still, two big factors stand in the way of completing consecutive good results.

Darlington, whose rugged pavement wears tires out quicker than

cheese pushed across a grater, may be the most weather sensitive track on the NASCAR circuit. To keep from running into the wall and getting that famous Darlington stripe, drivers and crews must stay atop of what the unfriendly skies are dictating in track temperature.

Also, NASCAR had rear wings on the cars last year, but they have now been replaced by the formidable spoilers.

Those two facts combined could have all three drivers, pushing the radio button and yelling about their cars being a handful.

Sponsors, Napa Auto Parts, Penske Products and the Home Depot, they will be wishing otherwise.

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Scoreboard BASEBALL National League

East Division W L Pct 18 11 .607 16 13 .552 15 14 .517 14 15 .483 12 17 .429 Central Division

W L Pct St. Louis 18 11 .621 Cincinnati 14 14 .500 Pittsburgh 13 15 .464 Chicago 13 16 .448 Milwaukee 12 16 .429 Houston 9 19 .321 West Division

W L Pct San Francisco 17 11 .607 San Diego 17 11 .607 Colorado 14 14 .500 Arizona 14 15 .483 Los Angeles 12 16 .429

Philadelphia New York Washington Florida Atlanta

GB — 2 3 4 6 GB — 3 1/2 4 1/2 5 5 1/2 8 1/2 GB — — 3 1/2 4 5 1/2

Thursday’s Games Philadelphia 7, St. Louis 2 Washington 3, Atlanta 2 Pittsburgh 11, Chicago Cubs 1 San Francisco 6, Florida 3 Arizona 6, Houston 3 L.A. Dodgers 7, Milwaukee 3 Friday’s Games Philadelphia 7, Atlanta 0 Florida 4, Washington 2 St. Louis at Pittsburgh, late Chicago Cubs at Cincinnati, late N.Y. Mets 6, San Francisco 4 San Diego at Houston, late Milwaukee at Arizona, late Colorado at L.A. Dodgers, late Saturday’s Games Florida (Jo.Johnson 3-1) at Washington (Undecided), 1:05 p.m.

San Francisco (Wellemeyer 1-3) at N.Y. Mets (J.Santana 3-2), 1:10 p.m.

Atlanta (Medlen 1-1) at Philadelphia (Blanton 0-1), 3:10 p.m.

San Diego (Garland 3-2) at Houston (F.Paulino 0-4), 7:05 p.m.

St. Louis (J.Garcia 3-1) at Pittsburgh (Karstens 0-1), 7:05 p.m.

Chicago Cubs (Gorzelanny 1-3) at Cincinnati (Harang 1-4), 7:10 p.m.

Milwaukee (Wolf 2-2) at Arizona (C.Valdez 1-0), 8:10 p.m.

Colorado (Chacin 1-0) at L.A. Dodgers (Haeger 0-3), 10:10 p.m.

Sunday’s Games Chicago Cubs at Cincinnati, 1:10 p.m.

San Francisco at N.Y. Mets, 1:10 p.m.

Atlanta at Philadelphia, 1:35 p.m.

Florida at Washington, 1:35 p.m.

St. Louis at Pittsburgh, 1:35 p.m.

San Diego at Houston, 2:05 p.m.

Colorado at L.A. Dodgers, 4:10 p.m.

Milwaukee at Arizona, 4:10 p.m.

Monday’s Games Cincinnati at Pittsburgh, 7:05 p.m.

Washington at N.Y. Mets, 7:10 p.m.

Florida at Chicago Cubs, 8:05 p.m.

Atlanta at Milwaukee, 8:10 p.m.

Philadelphia at Colorado, 8:40 p.m.

L.A. Dodgers at Arizona, 9:40 p.m.

American League

Tampa Bay New York Toronto Boston Baltimore

Minnesota Detroit Chicago Kansas City Cleveland

Oakland Texas Los Angeles Seattle

East Division W L Pct 21 7 .750 20 8 .727 17 13 .567 15 15 .500 8 21 .276 Central Division W L Pct 19 10 .655 16 13 .552 12 17 .414 11 18 .379 10 17 .370 West Division W L Pct 15 14 .517 15 14 .517 12 18 .400 11 17 .393

GB — 1 5 7 13 1/2 GB — 3 7 8 8 GB — — 3 1/2 3 1/2

Thursday’s Games Boston 11, L.A. Angels 6 Texas 13, Kansas City 12 Baltimore 2, Minnesota 0 Toronto 2, Chicago White Sox 0 Tampa Bay 8, Seattle 0 Friday’s Games Detroit at Cleveland, delay, rain N.Y. Yankees 10, Boston 3 Kansas City at Texas, late Baltimore at Minnesota, ppd., rain Toronto at Chicago White Sox, late Tampa Bay at Oakland, late L.A. Angels at Seattle, late Saturday’s Games Detroit (Verlander 2-2) at Cleveland (Masterson 0-3), 1:05 p.m.

Baltimore (Guthrie 0-4) at Minnesota (S.Baker 3-2), 1:10 p.m., 1st game N.Y. Yankees (Sabathia 4-1) at Boston (Buchholz 3-2), 3:10 p.m.

Tampa Bay (W.Davis 3-1) at Oakland (Sheets 1-3), 4:05 p.m.

Toronto (Cecil 2-1) at Chicago White Sox (Peavy 1-2), 7:05 p.m.

Kansas City (Meche 0-3) at Texas (Harden 2-1), 8:05 p.m.

Baltimore (Undecided) at Minnesota (Undecided), 8:10 p.m., 2nd game L.A. Angels (Saunders 1-5) at Seattle (Fister 2-1), 9:10 p.m.

Sunday’s Games Detroit at Cleveland, 1:05 p.m.

Toronto at Chicago White Sox, 2:05 p.m.

Baltimore at Minnesota, 2:10 p.m.

Kansas City at Texas, 3:05 p.m.

Tampa Bay at Oakland, 4:05 p.m.

L.A. Angels at Seattle, 4:10 p.m.

N.Y. Yankees at Boston, 8:05 p.m.

Monday’s Games N.Y. Yankees at Detroit, 7:05 p.m.

Toronto at Boston, 7:10 p.m.

Tampa Bay at L.A. Angels, 10:05 p.m.

BASKETBALL National Basketball Association Playoff FIRST ROUND

EASTERN CONFERENCE Cleveland 4, Chicago 1 Cleveland 96, Chicago 83 Cleveland 112, Chicago 102 Chicago 108, Cleveland 106 Cleveland 121, Chicago 98 Cleveland 96, Chicago 94 Orlando 4, Charlotte 0 Orlando 98, Charlotte 89 Orlando 92, Charlotte 77 Orlando 90, Charlotte 86 Orlando 99, Charlotte 90 Milwaukee 3, Atlanta 3 Atlanta 102, Milwaukee 92 Atlanta 96, Milwaukee 86 Milwaukee 107, Atlanta 89 Milwaukee 111, Atlanta 104 Milwaukee 91, Atlanta 87 Atlanta 83, Milwaukee 69 x-Sunday, May 2: Milwaukee at Atlanta, 1 p.m.

Boston 4, Miami 1 Boston 85, Miami 76 Boston 106, Miami 77 Boston 100, Miami 98 Miami 101, Boston 92 Boston 96, Miami 86 WESTERN CONFERENCE L.A. Lakers 4, Oklahoma City 2 L.A. Lakers 87, Oklahoma City 79 L.A. Lakers 95, Oklahoma City 92 Oklahoma City 101, L.A. Lakers 96 Oklahoma City 110, L.A. Lakers 89 L.A. Lakers 111, Oklahoma City 87 L.A. Lakers 95, Oklahoma City 94 San Antonio 4, Dallas 2 Dallas 100, San Antonio 94 San Antonio 102, Dallas 88 San Antonio 94, Dallas 90 San Antonio 92, Dallas 89 Dallas 103, San Antonio 81 San Antonio 97, Dallas 87 Phoenix 4, Portland 2 Portland 105, Phoenix 100 Phoenix 119, Portland 90 Phoenix 108, Portland 89 Portland 96, Phoenix 87 Phoenix 107, Portland 88 Phoenix 99, Portland 90 Utah 4, Denver 2 Denver 126, Utah 113 Utah 114, Denver 111 Utah 105, Denver 93 Utah 117, Denver 106 Denver 116, Utah 102 Utah 112, Denver 104 CONFERENCE SEMIFINALS EASTERN CONFERENCE Cleveland 2, Boston 1 Cleveland 101, Boston 93 Boston 104, Cleveland 86 Cleveland 124, Boston 95 Sunday, May 9: Cleveland at Boston, 3:30 p.m. x-Tuesday, May 11: Boston at Cleveland, TBD x-Thursday, May 13: Cleveland at Boston, TBD x-Sunday, May 16: Boston at Cleveland, TBD Orlando 2, Atlanta 0 Orlando 114, Atlanta 71 Orlando 112, Atlanta 98 Saturday, May 8: Orlando at Atlanta, 5 p.m.

Monday, May 10: Orlando at Atlanta, 8 p.m. x-Wednesday, May 12: Atlanta at Orlando, TBD x-Friday, May 14: Orlando at Atlanta, TBD x-Sunday, May 16: Atlanta at Orlando, TBD WESTERN CONFERENCE Phoenix 2, San Antonio 0 Phoenix 111, San Antonio 102 Phoenix 110, San Antonio 102 Friday, May 7: Phoenix at San Antonio, late Sunday, May 9: Phoenix at San Antonio, TBD x-Tuesday, May 11: S. Antonio at Phoenix, TBD x-Thursday, May 13: Phoenix at S. Antonio, TBD x-Sunday, May 16: San Antonio at Phoenix, TBD L.A. Lakers 2, Utah 0 L.A. Lakers 104, Utah 99 L.A. Lakers 111, Utah 103 Saturday, May 8: L.A. Lakers at Utah, 8 p.m.

Monday, May 10: L.A. Lakers at Utah, 10:30 p.m. x-Wednesday, May 12: Utah at L.A. Lakers, TBD x-Friday, May 14: L.A. Lakers at Utah, TBD x-Monday, May 17: Utah at L.A. Lakers, 9 p.m.

HOCKEY National Hockey League Playoff Glance FIRST ROUND EASTERN CONFERENCE Montreal 4, Washington 3 Montreal 3, Washington 2, OT Washington 6, Montreal 5, OT Washington 5, Montreal 1 Washington 6, Montreal 3 Montreal 2, Washington 1 Montreal 4, Washington 1 Montreal 2, Washington 1 Philadelphia 4, New Jersey 1 Philadelphia 2, New Jersey 1 New Jersey 5, Philadelphia 3 Philadelphia 3, New Jersey 2, OT Philadelphia 4, New Jersey 1 Philadelphia 3, New Jersey 0 Boston 4, Buffalo 2 Buffalo 2, Boston 1 Boston 5, Buffalo 3 Boston 2, Buffalo 1 Boston 3, Buffalo 2, 2OT Buffalo 4, Boston 1 Boston 4, Buffalo 3 Pittsburgh 4, Ottawa 2 Ottawa 5, Pittsburgh 4 Pittsburgh 2, Ottawa 1 Pittsburgh 4, Ottawa 2 Pittsburgh 7, Ottawa 4 Ottawa 4, Pittsburgh 3, 3OT Pittsburgh 4, Ottawa 3, OT WESTERN CONFERENCE San Jose 4, Colorado 2 Colorado 2, San Jose 1 San Jose 6, Colorado 5, OT Colorado 1, San Jose 0, OT San Jose 2, Colorado 1, OT San Jose 5, Colorado 0 San Jose 5, Colorado 2 Chicago 4, Nashville 2 Nashville 4, Chicago 1 Chicago 2, Nashville 0 Nashville 4, Chicago 1 Chicago 3, Nashville 0 Chicago 5, Nashville 4, OT Chicago 5, Nashville 3 Vancouver 4, Los Angeles 2 Vancouver 3, Los Angeles 2, OT Los Angeles 3, Vancouver 2, OT

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Los Angeles 5, Vancouver 3 Vancouver 6, Los Angeles 4 Vancouver 7, Los Angeles 2 Vancouver 4, Los Angeles 2 Detroit 4, Phoenix 3 Phoenix 3, Detroit 2 Detroit 7, Phoenix 4 Phoenix 4, Detroit 2 Detroit 3, Phoenix 0 Detroit 4, Phoenix 1 Phoenix 5, Detroit 2 Detroit 6, Phoenix 1 CONFERENCE SEMIFINALS EASTERN CONFERENCE Pittsburgh 2, Montreal 2 Pittsburgh 6, Montreal 3 Montreal 3, Pittsburgh 1 Pittsburgh 2, Montreal 0 Montreal 3, Pittsburgh 2 x-Saturday, May 8: Montreal at Pittsburgh, 7 p.m. x-Monday, May 10: Pittsburgh at Montreal, 7 p.m. x-Wednesday, May 12: Montreal at Pittsburgh, TBD Boston 3, Philadelphia 1 Boston 5, Philadelphia 4, OT Boston 3, Philadelphia 2 Boston 4, Philadelphia 1 Philadelphia 5, Boston 4, OT x-Monday, May 10: Philadelphia at Boston, 7 p.m. x-Wednesday, May 12: Boston at Philadelphia, TBD x-Friday, May 14: Philadelphia at Boston, 7 p.m.

WESTERN CONFERENCE Chicago 2, Vancouver 1 Vancouver 5, Chicago 1 Chicago 4, Vancouver 2 Chicago 5, Vancouver 2 Friday, May 7: Chicago at Vancouver, late x-Sunday, May 9: Vancouver at Chicago, 8 p.m. x-Tuesday, May 11: Chicago at Vancouver, 9:30 p.m. x-Thursday, May 13: Vancouver at Chicago, 8 p.m.

San Jose 3, Detroit 1 San Jose 4, Detroit 3 San Jose 4, Detroit 3 San Jose 4, Detroit 3, OT Detroit 7, San Jose 1 x-Saturday, May 8: Detroit at San Jose, 10 p.m. x-Monday, May 10: San Jose at Detroit, 7:30 p.m. x-Wednesday, May 12: Detroit at San Jose, TBD

RACING NASCAR-Sprint Cup Showtime Southern 500 Lineup (Car number in parentheses) 1. (1) Jamie McMurray, Chevrolet, 180.37.

2. (24) Jeff Gordon, Chevrolet, 180.323.

3. (83) Brian Vickers, Toyota, 179.987.

4. (00) David Reutimann, Toyota, 179.252.

5. (5) Mark Martin, Chevrolet, 179.148.

6. (39) Ryan Newman, Chevrolet, 179.056.

7. (47) Marcos Ambrose, Toyota, 179.037.

8. (11) Denny Hamlin, Toyota, 178.919.

9. (12) Brad Keselowski, Dodge, 178.835.

10. (9) Kasey Kahne, Ford, 178.802.

11. (31) Jeff Burton, Chevrolet, 178.789.

12. (43) AJ Allmendinger, Ford, 178.569.

13. (20) Joey Logano, Toyota, 178.549.

14. (2) Kurt Busch, Dodge, 178.433.

15. (42) J. Pablo Montoya, Chevrolet, 178.277.

16. (82) Scott Speed, Toyota, 178.238.

17. (16) Greg Biffle, Ford, 178.045.

18. (55) Michael McDowell, Toyota, 177.942.

19. (88) Dale Earnhardt Jr., Chevrolet, 177.89.

20. (98) Paul Menard, Ford, 177.858.

21. (6) David Ragan, Ford, 177.588.

22. (48) Jimmie Johnson, Chevrolet, 177.55.

23. (71) Bobby Labonte, Chevrolet, 177.467.

24. (14) Tony Stewart, Chevrolet, 177.403.

25. (77) Sam Hornish Jr., Dodge, 177.39.

26. (7) Robby Gordon, Toyota, 177.326.

27. (33) Clint Bowyer, Chevrolet, 177.313.

28. (66) Dave Blaney, Toyota, 177.166.

29. (17) Matt Kenseth, Ford, 176.676.

30. (46) J.J. Yeley, Dodge, 176.562.

31. (26) David Stremme, Ford, 176.245.

32. (78) Regan Smith, Chevrolet, 176.094.

33. (56) Martin Truex Jr., Toyota, 176.075.

34. (38) David Gilliland, Ford, 176.031.

35. (29) Kevin Harvick, Chevrolet, 175.999.

36. (32) Reed Sorenson, Toyota, 175.987.

37. (64) Todd Bodine, Toyota, 175.981.

38. (19) Elliott Sadler, Ford, 175.76.

39. (18) Kyle Busch, Toyota, 175.698.

40. (34) Travis Kvapil, Ford, 175.359.

41. (99) Carl Edwards, Ford, Owner Points.

42. (37) Kevin Conway, Ford, Owner Points.

43. (13) Max Papis, Toyota, 175.484.

TRANSACTIONS Friday’s Sports Transactions BASEBALL American League CLEVELAND INDIANS—Activated RHP Kerry Wood from the 15-day DL. Optioned RHP Jensen Lewis to Columbus (IL).

LOS ANGELES ANGELS—Selected the contract of OF Michael Ryan from Salt Lake (PCL).

Optioned RHP Matt Palmer to Salt Lake.

Designated RHP Fernando Rodriguez for assignment.

National League CHICAGO CUBS—Selected INF Starlin Castro from Tennessee (SL). Optioned INF Chad Tracy Iowa (PCL).

FLORIDA MARLINS—Designated INF Mike Lamb for assignment. Selected the contract of OF Bryan Petersen from New Orleans (PCL).

FOOTBALL National Football League NFL—Suspended Houston LB Brian Cushing for four games for violating the league’s policy on performance-enhancing substances.

ARIZONA CARDINALS—Signed FB Charles Ali to a one-year contract.

CINCINNATI BENGALS—Waived CB Antonio Smith.

NEW YORK GIANTS—Signed QB Riley Skinner and LB Micah Johnson. Waived QB Dominic Randolph.

WASHINGTON REDSKINS—Signed LB Chris Draft.

COLLEGE CONNECTICUT—Signed men’s basketball coach Jim Calhoun to a five-year contract.

C.W. POST—Named Chris Casey men’s basketball coach.

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East Rutherford’s Sally Harrill, left, prepares to deliver a pitch during the softball game at Chase Friday.

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the home team up, 3-0.

Jaclyn Boever garnered a walk for East in the second, but the next hitter lined a shot that caromed off the shortstop’s glove right to the second base bag for the out and Chase escaped the frame with no damage.

The Trojans added another run in their next turn at-bat when Jessie Alexander was plunked and came around to score on a hit by Carpenter. The Trojans later turned in a stellar defensive play as Ali Ruppe looked to have a hit, but Katlyn Smart fielded a ball that had found grass in right and gunned the runner out at first.

Smart had herself quite an inning as the freshman hit a bullet to the fence that resulted in a tworun, home run to put Chase up, 6-0.

The Trojans then added single runs in the fifth and sixth to push the bulge, 8-0.

East refused to go quietly, however, as Kelly Brooks lined a two-run single to left in the seventh to cut the deficit to 8-2. But, it was too little too late as the Trojans captured the 2A SMAC title with the win.

The Trojans will take on the No. 4 seed out of the Rocky River Conference in the first round of the playoffs.

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ted in two more Cavs with a base hit for a 5-0 lead.

Taylor Peyton singled and Trent Dorsey smashed a two-run triple into the right field gap for a 7-0 lead. Owens rounded out the frame with an RBI groundout that put the Cavaliers at an 8-0 advantage.

The Trojans’ Parris was lifted, with two outs, for Jared Allen. Allen recorded the final out of the opening frame, but the damage had been done.

East Rutherford added a lone run on an RBI single from Trent Dorsey (3 RBI) to go up 9-0.

Chase’s Tyler Gaffney broke up Reynolds’ perfect game and no-hitter in the fourth with a sharp single to right, but Chase couldn’t get him across the plate.

The big hit of the night came in the fifth for East as Dorsey smashed a stand-up triple into the right field gap and Reynolds’ sacrifice fly posted a 10-0 lead for East.

Reynolds, who had 2 RBI with the bat, struck out two of the last three batters to earn the win.

Coach Reynolds acknowledged that East Rutherford (22-2, 11-1) will be at home against Forest Hills either next Thursday or Friday in the first round of the playoffs.

Chase (8-11, 5-7) will be on the road against the No. 2 seed from the Rocky River Conference when the playoffs start next week.

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DARLINGTON, S.C. (AP) — Jamie McMurray set a track record at Darlington Raceway to lead qualifying for the Southern 500 on Friday.

McMurray made it around the 1.366-mile eggshaped superspeedway at 180.370 mph to surpass Matt Kenseth’s record run from a year ago.

Jeff Gordon was second fastest and Brian Vickers was third for Saturday night’s Sprint Cup event.

McMurray came out relatively unblemished on a day when racers spun out and hit the walls in practice and qualifying.

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The Players Championship Assistant Ray follows Brownell to Clemson CLEMSON, S.C. (AP) — New Clemson coach Brad Brownell has named former Purdue assistant Rick Ray as his associate head coach.

Brownell made the announcement Friday. Ray spent the past four seasons with the Boilermakers.

Brownell says he and Ray have similar philosophies on the game. Also, Brownell said Ray’s ties to the Midwest will let the Tigers spread their recruiting base.

Ray has also coached at Nebraska-Omaha, Indiana State and Northern Illinois.

Tiger Woods takes his second shot on the 18th fairway during the second round of The Players Championship golf tournament, Friday, in Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla.

Haynesworth absent again at minicamp ASHBURN, Va. (AP) — Albert Haynesworth is staying away from another Redskins minicamp.

Haynesworth was absent again Friday when Washington opened its second voluntary minicamp under new coach Mike Shanahan. The twotime All-Pro defensive tackle is unhappy with the Redskins’ switch to a 3-4 defense and would prefer to be traded.

He’s also irked Shanahan by working with his own trainer and staying away from all of the team’s voluntary offseason conditioning sessions.

Shanahan said last month that Haynesworth “will not be traded.”

Haynesworth stayed away from the first minicamp in April, but he will be required to attended the mandatory minicamp next month.

Weatherspoon learning from Peterson FLOWERY BRANCH, Ga. (AP) — Mike Peterson, the selfproclaimed “Daddy Lion” of the Atlanta Falcons’ linebackers, has a new protege.

First-round draft pick Sean Weatherspoon is staying close to Peterson, a 12-year veteran, in the team’s minicamp. When Weatherspoon comes off the field, he stands beside Peterson on the sideline, listening as the veteran reviews reps.

Peterson says he’s calling Weatherspoon “Baby Lion.”

Weatherspoon could cut into his mentor’s playing time, but Peterson says he doesn’t mind.

Weatherspoon, the former Missouri star, has been assigned No. 56 — the number previously worn by former longtime Falcons linebacker Keith Brooking.

On TV 12 p.m. (ESPN) College Softball LSU at Tennessee.

1 p.m. (FSS) College Baseball Wake Forest at North Carolina.

2 p.m. (WYFF) PGA Tour Golf The Players Championship, Third Round. From Tournament Players Club at Sawgrass in Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla. 3 p.m. (WHNS) MLB Baseball Regional Coverage.

Atlanta Braves at Philadelphia Phillies or New York Yankees at Boston Red Sox. 4 p.m. (TS) College Baseball Florida at Alabama.

7 p.m. (WHNS) NASCAR Racing Sprint Cup: Southern 500.

7 p.m. (ESPN2) College Volleyball NCAA Tournament, Final: Teams TBA. 7 p.m. (FSS) College Baseball South Carolina at Kentucky.

7 p.m. (WGN-A) MLB Baseball Toronto Blue Jays at Chicago White Sox. From U.S. Cellular Field in Chicago.

8:15 p.m. (WSOC) (WLOS) NBA Basketball Conference Semifinal, Game 3: Teams TBA. 9:45 p.m. (HBO) Boxing Kermit Cintron vs. Paul Williams, Junior Middleweights.

10:30 p.m. (ESPN) NBA Basketball Conference Semifinal, Game 3: Teams TBA.

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Westwood holds lead at Sawgrass PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Lee Westwood tries to peak for the biggest tournaments. And while he doesn’t put The Players Championship in his top five, it’s big enough that he is playing some of his best golf going into the weekend.

Westwood ran off three straight birdies to start his back nine Friday on his way to a 7-under 65 to build a one-shot lead over Heath Slocum, Francesco Molinari of Italy and Ryuji Imada.

“As you get older, it gets harder to peak all the time when you want to,” said Westwood, a 37-year-old Englishman. “You have to pick and choose your ones, and you want to play well in the biggest tournaments.

And this is one of the biggest tournaments.”

There’s a chance it might finally start playing like one.

Westwood was at 12-under 132, the lowest score to lead after 36 holes at The Players Championship since 1994, when Greg Norman was at 14 under on his way to setting the 72-hole record.

But as the wind picked up and the temperatures rose late in the afternoon, there were signs that the TPC Sawgrass was starting to get firm after two days of relatively soft conditions.

Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson will be around for the weekend, which is about all that could be said for golf’s two biggest stars. Woods overcame one tee shot that flew off to the right at a 45-degree angle and gave him double bogey for a 1-under 71.

Mickelson flirted with the cut line late in the day until making a tough chip look easy for birdie on the 16th. He shot a 71.

They were at 3-under 141, nine shots behind.

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Lee Westwood chips to the 18th green during the second round of The Players Championship golf tournament Friday, in Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla.

That might be too far back on a course where there already have been 73 rounds in the 60s, the most after two days on the Stadium Course since 1993. But with more heat and more wind, the final two days could be as unpredictable as ever.

“Because the character of the course is changing so much from the morning to the afternoon, the guys that are 2-, 3-, 4-under par are in the tournament,” Mickelson said. “Because if they shoot 6-, 7-, 8-under par, they’re going to move right up the leader-

Feds: Lawrence Taylor admitted to paying NEW YORK (AP) — Disgraced gridiron great Lawrence Taylor admitted paying for sex at a suburban Holiday Inn where police say he raped a 16-year-old runaway, federal prosecutors said Friday in a criminal complaint against the girl’s alleged pimp.

The papers filed in federal court in Manhattan refer to Taylor only as “Client-1.”

In the paperwork, authorities claim the Pro Football Hall of Famer told police following his arrest on Thursday that he had taken a car service from Newark International Airport to the hotel north of New York City to meet “Victim-1.”

Taylor told investigators that after “engaging in sex acts” with the victim, he paid her $300 in cash, the complaint says. The man charged in the complaint, Rasheed Davis, had told the Giants legend that the girl was 19, the court papers say.

Taylor, 51, was charged Thursday in Suffern, N.Y. with third-degree rape and patronizing a prostitute. His lawyer, Arthur Aidala, has denied the charges.

Davis was to appear in federal court later Friday on a charge of

board. And it’s going to be difficult for the leaders to pull away.”

It’s going to be really hard for major champions like Angel Cabrera, Stewart Cink, Vijay Singh and defending champion Henrik Stenson to make any move at all. They were among 15 players poised to make the cut on the number at 1-under 143 until John Merrick make a birdie putt just outside 12 feet on the final hole to knock them out.

That tied the tournament record for the lowest cut at 142.

Mr. Track & Ms. Field

sex trafficking of a minor.

The girl, who was reported missing by her family in March, met Davis at a Bronx bus stop two to three weeks ago. The federal complaint says she told investigators that the 36-yearold parolee offered her a place to live and a way to make money.

She said that Davis gave her Ecstasy and marijuana before causing her “to engage in multiple commercial sex acts” for prices ranging from $80 to $150. He advertised her services by sending cell phone photos of her and posting ads on Web sites, the complaint says.

On Wednesday, Davis sent the girl a text message in which he said he wanted her to have sex with “Client-1” for $300, the complaint says. When she refused, Davis assaulted her, drove her to the hotel against her will and waited outside while she had sex with Taylor, it says.

Late Wednesday and early Thursday, the girl sent text messages to her uncle saying she was in trouble. The uncle called police, who arrested Davis once he returned to the Bronx with the teenager.

Contributed Photo

Chase’s Rene Escalera, left, and Claudette Miller each returned from the 2010 South Mountain Athletic Conference Track & Field Championships in Patton with new medals. Escalera was named SMAC Male MVP and Runner of the Year. Miller earned SMAC Female MVP honors.

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Nation Today Newton’s tree will orbit

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Sir Isaac Newton’s famous apple tree is about to leave gravity behind.

Flying aboard space shuttle Atlantis next week will be a 4-inch sliver of the tree from which an apple fell nearly 350 years ago and inspired Newton to discover the law of gravity.

British-born astronaut Piers Sellers is flying the piece of wood for The Royal Society of London.

“I’ll take it up into orbit and let it float around a bit, which will confuse Isaac,” Sellers said in an interview with The Associated Press earlier this week.

The small slice of Newton’s apple tree they offered is “from THE apple tree, from the one that he was looking at when the apple fell down and he got the idea,” stressed Sellers.

What’s that name?

NORTHAMPTON, Mass. (AP) — The victim might have forgiven the woman who ran him down in a Massachusetts crosswalk, but police haven’t.

Police say a Pittsfield woman has been cited for running down a man named Lord Jesus Christ as he crossed a street in Northampton on Tuesday.

The 50-year-old man is from Belchertown. Officers checked his ID and discovered that, indeed, his legal name is Lord Jesus Christ. He was taken to the hospital for treatment of minor facial injuries.

Police say 20-year-old Brittany Cantarella was cited for failing to yield to a pedestrian in a crosswalk.

Two charged in bus scare

PORTSMOUTH, N.H. (AP) — Two passengers have been arrested in connection with a daylong bomb scare on a Greyhound bus in

Portsmouth, N.H. Police say John Smolens, of Lewiston, Maine, was charged with resisting arrest for his behavior after he got off the off the Maineto-New York bus. Another passenger, Calvin Segar, of New York City, was charged with obstructing officers.

Both are to be arraigned in Portsmouth later Friday.

The bomb scare and standoff began Thursday morning when a passenger reported hearing another passenger say a bomb was on the bus and called 911, prompting police to surround the bus.

The overheard man was from Burundi and refused to get off the bus for many hours. He will not be charged.

Man posed as officer WILMINGTON, N.C. (AP) — A man who pleaded guilty last year to altering an identification card after he was spotted in the uniform of a three-star Marine general is under suspicion of posing at an April ceremony as a highly decorated Marine colonel, authorities say.

Michael Hamilton, 67, of Richlands wore a Marine uniform at Jacksonville’s Vietnam Memorial during a military recognition day ceremony last month, Marine investigators said this week. Authorities added Hamilton was photographed wearing several rows of medals including the Navy Cross, the second highest award for valor.

Investigators from Camp Lejeune said they searched Hamilton’s house on April 26, two days after his picture was published in the Jacksonville, N.C., Daily News. An evidence report said they recovered a blue dress uniform blouse with seven service ribbons and 18 medals. The report didn’t specify the medals recovered.

Associated Press

This image provided by the U.S. Navy shows gathered, concentrated oil, burning during a controlled oil fire in the Gulf of Mexico. The U.S. Coast Guard working in partnership with BP PLC, local residents, and other federal agencies conducted the “in situ burn” to aid in preventing the spread of oil.

Methane gas bubble caused oil rig disaster ON THE GULF OF MEXICO (AP) — The deadly blowout of an oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico was triggered by a bubble of methane gas that escaped from the well and shot up the drill column, expanding quickly as it burst through several seals and barriers before exploding, according to interviews with rig workers conducted during BP’s internal investigation.

While the cause of the explosion is still under investigation, the sequence of events described in the interviews provides the most detailed account of the April 20 blast that killed 11 workers and touched off the underwater gusher that has poured more than 3 million gallons of crude into the Gulf.

Portions of the interviews, two written and one taped, were described in detail to an Associated Press reporter by Robert Bea, a University of California Berkeley engineering professor who serves on a National Academy of Engineering panel on oil pipeline safety and worked for BP PLC as a risk assessment consultant during the 1990s.

He received them from industry friends seeking his expert opinion.

Seven BP executives were on board the Deepwater Horizon rig celebrating the project’s safety record, according to the transcripts.

Meanwhile, far below, the rig was being converted from an exploration well to a production well.

As the workers removed pressure from the drilling column and introduced heat to set the cement seal around the wellhead, the chemical reaction created heat, destabilizing the seal and allowing a gas bubble to form inside the pipe.

Deep beneath the seafloor, methane gas is in a slushy, crystalline form.

But as the bubble rose up the drill column from the high-pressure environs of the deep to the less pressurized shallows, it intensified and grew, breaking through various safety barriers, the interviews said.

“A small bubble becomes a really big bubble,” Bea said. “So the expanding bubble becomes like a cannon shooting the gas into your face.”

Up on the rig, the first thing workers noticed was the seawater in the drill column suddenly shooting back at them, rocketing 240 feet in the air.

Then, gas surfaced. Then oil.

“What we had learned when I worked as a drill rig laborer was swoosh, boom, run,” Bea said. “The swoosh is the gas, boom is the explosion and run is what you better be doing.”

The gas flooded into an adjoining room with exposed ignition sources, he said.

“That’s where the first explosion happened,” said Bea, who worked for Shell Oil in the 1960s during the last big northern Gulf of Mexico oil well blowout. “The mud room was next to the quarters where the party was.

Then there was a series of explosions that subsequently ignited the oil that was coming from below.”

The executives were injured but survived, according to one account.

Nine rig crew on the rig floor and two engineers died.

“The furniture and walls trapped some and broke some bones but they managed to get in the life boats with

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assistance from others,” said the transcript.

The reports made Bea, the 73-yearold industry veteran, cry.

“It sure as hell is painful,” he said.

“Tears of frustration and anger.”

BP spokesman Daren Beaudo said he could not immediately comment on the report.

On Friday, a BP-chartered vessel lowered a 100-ton concrete-andsteel vault onto the ruptured well, an important step in a delicate and unprecedented attempt to stop most of the gushing crude fouling the sea.

“We are essentially taking a fourstory building and lowering it 5,000 feet and setting it on the head of a pin,” BP spokesman Bill Salvin told The Associated Press.

Underwater robots guided the 40-foot-tall box into place in a slowmoving drama. Now that the contraption is on the seafloor, workers will need at least 12 hours to let it settle and make sure it’s stable before the robots can hook up a pipe and hose that will funnel the oil up to a tanker.

“It appears to be going exactly as we hoped,” on Friday afternoon, shortly after the four-story device hit the seafloor. “Still lots of challenges ahead, but this is very good progress.”

By Sunday, the box the size of a house could be capturing up to 85 percent of the oil. So far about 3 million gallons have leaked.

The task became increasingly urgent as toxic oil crept deeper into the bays and marshes of the Mississippi Delta.

A sheen of oil began arriving on land last week, and crews have been laying booms, spraying chemical dispersants and setting fire to the slick to try to keep it from coming ashore. But now the thicker, stickier goo — arrayed in vivid, brick-colored ribbons — is drawing ever closer to Louisiana’s coastal communities.

There are still untold risks and unknowns with the containment box: The approach has never been tried at such depths, where the water pressure is enough to crush a submarine, and any wrong move could damage the leaking pipe and make the problem worse. The seafloor is pitch black and the water murky, though lights on the robots illuminate the area where they are working.

If the box works, another one will be dropped onto a second, smaller leak at the bottom of the Gulf.

At the same time, crews are drilling sideways into the well in hopes of plugging it up with mud and concrete, and they are working on other ways to cap it.

Investigators looking into the cause of the explosion have been focusing on the so-called blowout preventer. Federal regulators told The Associated Press Friday that they are going to examine whether these lastresort cutoff valves on offshore oil wells are reliable.

Blowouts are infrequent, because well holes are blocked by piping and pumped-in materials like synthetic mud, cement and even sea water. The pipes are plugged with cement, so fluid and gas can’t typically push up inside the pipes.

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Business/finance

THE MARKET IN REVIEW

STOCK EXCHANGE HIGHLIGHTS

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NYSE

6,916.18 -95.74

GAINERS ($2 OR MORE)

Name Last DB BGLC 9.54 ProUPacex24.36 Stanley 36.79 BarcShtD n48.20 FthChrstn n26.28 SantFn pfA 21.70 BkA BM RE 3.18 FTActDiv 11.73 DB BGTM 10.88 MFV 7.90

Chg +4.54 +7.75 +7.79 +9.64 +4.49 +3.66 +.43 +1.48 +1.31 +.89

%Chg +90.8 +46.7 +26.9 +25.0 +20.6 +20.3 +15.6 +14.4 +13.7 +12.7

LOSERS ($2 OR MORE)

Name Last E-TrcGld 33.10 MaguirePr 2.70 GLG Ptr un 2.95 MI Homes 11.80 Valhi 23.38 BrkfldH 9.07 ChinaMM 2.12 iStar 6.19 ProsHldg 7.10 CIBER 2.93

Chg -7.16 -.51 -.50 -1.79 -3.40 -1.28 -.28 -.81 -.93 -.38

%Chg -17.8 -15.9 -14.5 -13.2 -12.7 -12.4 -11.7 -11.6 -11.6 -11.5

MOST ACTIVE ($1 OR MORE) Name Vol (00) Last Chg Citigrp 11426753 4.00 -.04 S&P500ETF5762994111.26 -1.68 BkofAm 3822363 16.18 -.10 SPDR Fncl 3446144 15.09 -.17 FordM 2505714 11.51 -.27 iShEMkts 1856530 38.19 +.20 iShR2K 1788697 65.36 -1.94 GenElec 1637351 16.88 -.43 DirFBear rs1524264 14.81 +.52 Pfizer 1059852 16.46 -.28 Advanced Declined Unchanged Total issues New Highs New Lows Volume

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900 2,253 63 3,216 17 60 9,533,234,563

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1,792.36 -19.44

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Chg +.34 +1.64 +.92 +.54 +.22 +.43 +.32 +.17 +.35 +.15

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Chg -.97 -1.05 -.63 -.37 -.51 -.20 -.35 -.23 -1.89 -.30

%Chg -12.9 -12.4 -12.3 -9.6 -8.5 -8.2 -8.0 -7.4 -7.3 -7.1

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Rentech 42293 1.16 -.10 NovaGld g 40485 7.69 -.30 KodiakO g 37527 3.49 -.37 VantageDrl 31603 1.60 -.05 Taseko 29264 5.00 -.06 NA Pall g 26249 3.94 -.05 BootsCoots 24834 2.94 ...

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Advanced Declined Unchanged Total issues New Highs New Lows Volume

190 310 40 540 1 11 135,166,701

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Close: 10,380.43 Change: -139.89 (-1.3%)

2,265.64 -54.00

GAINERS ($2 OR MORE)

Name Last Tongxin un 9.13 NthnStat 3.45 CmtyCntrl 2.60 MdwstB pf 5.50 Digirad 2.49 DoverSadl 3.85 Forward 4.14 CalumetSp 17.48 RivrvwBcp 3.13 TxCapB wt 9.71

Chg +1.63 +.60 +.42 +.80 +.31 +.45 +.48 +1.99 +.34 +1.05

%Chg +21.7 +21.1 +19.3 +17.0 +14.2 +13.2 +13.1 +12.8 +12.2 +12.2

LOSERS ($2 OR MORE)

Name Last DragnW g n 6.01 AtlBcGp 4.41 Genoptix 27.89 Primoris wt 2.45 EnrgyRec 4.28 CntlVyCm 6.05 Harmonic 5.42 CalAmp 2.11 FCtyBFL 2.46 SciGames 11.31

Chg -1.96 -1.42 -8.37 -.66 -1.11 -1.44 -1.28 -.49 -.50 -2.25

%Chg -24.6 -24.3 -23.1 -21.2 -20.6 -19.2 -19.1 -18.8 -16.9 -16.6

MOST ACTIVE ($1 OR MORE) Name Vol (00) Last Chg PwShs QQQ2684462 45.41 -1.16 Microsoft 1706631 28.21 -.77 Intel 1368016 21.31 -.20 ETrade 1069252 1.50 -.06 SiriusXM 1055309 1.01 -.01 Cisco 940957 24.71 -.78 MicronT 639904 8.57 -.18 Oracle 627879 23.41 -.50 Apple Inc 586842 235.86-10.39 Popular 453255 3.30 -.29 Advanced Declined Unchanged Total issues New Highs New Lows Volume

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Dow Industrials 10,380.43 -139.89 Dow Transportation 4,298.12 -114.00 Dow Utilities 370.85 -1.19 NYSE Composite 6,916.18 -95.74 Amex Market Value 1,792.36 -19.44 Nasdaq Composite 2,265.64 -54.00 S&P 500 1,110.88 -17.27 S&P MidCap 756.64 -19.57 Wilshire 5000 11,620.68 -203.33 Russell 2000 653.00 -19.23

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Sales figures are unofficial.

CI 128,736 LG 67,975 LB 65,222 LG 59,228 IH 57,634 WS 55,402 LB 51,508 MA 50,350 LB 49,825 LB 48,636 LV 43,365 FB 39,521 LV 39,349 FV 38,799 WS 32,886 CI 32,666 LB 32,183 CA 31,694 LB 31,416 MA 30,732 LB 30,360 FG 30,024 MA 29,838 LG 29,370 MB 27,372 CI 27,146 FB 27,032 LB 26,786 LV 16,648 LB 10,065 LB 4,492 GS 1,476 LV 1,235 SR 502 LG 195

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In this March 10 photo, a job seeker enters an unemployment center in Menlo Park, Calif. The economy got what it needed in April: A burst of hiring that added a net 290,000 jobs, the biggest monthly total in four years.

Report: Jobs count growing WASHINGTON (AP) — The economy got what it needed in April: A burst of hiring that added a net 290,000 jobs, the biggest monthly total in four years.

The improving picture caused so many more people to pour into the labor force in search of employment that the jobless rate rose from 9.7 percent to 9.9 percent.

The hiring last month of 66,000 temporary government workers to conduct the census added to overall job creation.

But private employers — the backbone of the economy — contributed the most: A surprisingly strong 231,000 jobs, the most since March 2006, the Labor Department said Friday.

The new jobs, generated by sectors across the economy, are the first sign that the recovery is adding significant numbers of new jobs — even if not enough to absorb the influx of jobseekers.

That’s why the unemployment rate rose.

The encouraging message in Friday’s report, though, is that employers are finally hiring again.

“Companies have a newfound confidence in the future of the economic recovery and on the part of their own business prospects,” said Joel Naroff, of Naroff Economic Advisors. “The broadbased job gains are an indication that businesses are feeling more comfortable about expanding their work forces,” he said.

President Barack Obama called the addition of 290,000 jobs in April “very encouraging news.”

But he said much remains to be done to get Americans back to work.

“This week’s jobs numbers comes as a relief to Americans who found a job,” Obama said.

“But it offers obviously little comfort to those who are still out of work.”

The unemployment rate rose in April, mainly because a flood of 805,000 jobseekers — perhaps feeling better about their prospects — resumed their searches

for work.

Many economists have predicted the unemployment rate would rise as people come back into the labor force. The jobless rate hit 10.1 percent in October, a 26-year high. The rate could climb back up to the 10 percent range in the months ahead, Naroff said.

Friday’s employment report sketched out a picture of a healing jobs market and an economy picking up momentum in the early spring.

The surprisingly high number of jobs added in April offered the latest evidence that businesses are feeling more confident in the recovery. Consumers increased their spending in March by the largest amount in five months.

Factory production grew in April at the fastest pace in nearly six years and demand grew briskly for a variety of services in that same month.

Job gains in April were widespread. Manufacturers, construction companies, retailers, professional and business services, education and health services, leisure and hospitality, and government all showed gains.

Among the weak spots: transportation and warehousing, and information companies, which all cut jobs last month.

Also encouraging: The employment picture in both February and March turned out to be stronger than previously thought. Payrolls grew by 230,000 in March, better than the 162,000 first reported. And, 39,000 jobs were actually added in February, an improvement from the previous estimate of 14,000 losses.

The 290,000 net job gains in April come from a survey of businesses. The government also does a separate survey of households. The household poll found far larger job gains last month: 550,000 more people said they were employed. The household survey is used to calculate the jobless rate.

Many economists are encour-

aged by the sharp jump in employment in the household survey: It’s shown a net 1.6 million jobs created over the past four months. By contrast, the business payroll survey has shown 573,000 jobs added in the same period.

The difference is encouraging because the household survey often detects employment trends earlier than the payroll survey in an economic recovery. Some economists say that’s because the household survey can better pick up hiring trends at small and start-up companies. After the 2001 recession, for example, the household survey showed job gains before the payroll survey did.

The household poll is also more inclusive. It covers agricultural workers, the self-employed, domestic employees and people who work in family businesses without pay — none of whom are included in the payroll survey.

Friday’s report showed that all told, 15.3 million people were out of work in April.

Counting people who have given up looking for work and parttimers who would prefer to be working full time, the so-called underemployment rate rose to 17.1 in April. That’s close to the record high of 17.4 percent in October and shows just how difficult it is for jobseekers to find work.

Another grim statistic: The number of people out of work six months or longer reached 6.7 million in April, a new high.

These people made up 45.9 percent of all unemployed people, also a record high.

Hiring isn’t expected to be robust enough anytime soon to lower the unemployment rate much.

Just 21 percent of Americans consider the economy in good condition, according to an Associated Press-GfK Poll conducted April 7-12.

Nationwide, average hourly earnings edged up to $22.47 in April, from $22.46.

NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks had another volatile day Friday, swinging widely before closing sharply lower.

The Dow Jones industrials closed with a loss of about 140 points, having been down almost 280 earlier. That followed a brief plunge of nearly 1,000 points on Thursday, the biggest one-day drop in the Dow’s history. The erratic trading Friday was no surprise — stocks often fluctuate sharply right after the market suffers a big slide.

Traders were still anxious amid lingering questions about what caused Thursday’s sudden drop.

Several possibilities were being investigated, but as of late Friday no clear explanation had emerged.

The market looked past a surprisingly strong report on the U.S. jobs market and focused instead on the harrowing plunge the day before and the latest moves in Europe’s spreading debt crisis that had helped trigger Thursday’s big drop.

Technology stocks were particularly hard hit following reports that Nokia Corp. was broadening its legal fight against rival cell phone maker Apple Inc. to include the iPad, Apple’s new hit product.

Apple shares fell 4.2 percent in heavy trading.

Meanwhile, Germany’s parliament approved Berlin’s share of the rescue package after a boisterous debate. However, investors still fear that Greece may not make a May 19 deadline to make a debt repayment.

The concerns go far beyond Greece, the smallest economy in the European Union. A further loss of confidence in European government debt could have an impact on other weak countries like Portugal, potentially requiring another difficult bailout process. The debt crisis has already badly undermined Europe’s shared currency, the euro.

According to preliminary calculations, the Dow closed down 139.89, or 1.3 percent, at 10,380.43 The Standard & Poor’s 500 index fell 17.27, or 1.5 percent, at 1,110.88, while the Nasdaq composite fell 54, or 2.3 percent, to 2,265.64 Falling stocks outpaced gainers two-to-one on the New York Stock Exchange, where volume was a heavy 2.4 billion shares.

Friday’s trading left the Dow down 5.7 percent for the week and erased its gains for the year. The S&P fell about 6.4 percent, while the Nasdaq was off 7.9 percent for the week. The S&P and Nasdaq also went into the red for 2010.

The week’s losses would put the market about well toward what experts call a “correction,” usually defined as a drop of between 10 percent and 20 percent following a sustained rise. The Dow is now 7.4 percent off its recent high of 11,205.03 reached on April 26. The S&P 500 is down 8.7 percent from its recent high of 1,217.28 reached April 23.

Stocks have been on a nearly uninterrupted upward path since March of last year, when indexes hit 12-year lows. Analysts have been predicting a correction for months, only to see the market bounce back after brief periods of decline.

Long-term market watchers actually welcome occasional pullbacks in stocks, saying that gives investors opportunities to pick up shares at bargain prices.

Oil fell, and gold rose. The dollar was mostly lower against most currencies.

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Love child feels mom’s regret

Dear Abby: My mother became pregnant with me in 1965 when she was 20 and divorced from her husband. My father was a married man who knew about me, but made no effort to see me. I know my mother believed he would leave his wife for her, and because I closely resemble him — according to family members — she must have felt terrible when I was growing up. I always felt she didn’t love me as much as she loved my brothers. I have grown up with a hole inside me where a dad was supposed to be. I have never felt worthy or deserving of anything in my life, and now my mother has cut me off from the family. Should I try to see if my father wants to know me now?

Maybe time has mellowed him. I feel like he is a great big unfinished spot in my life. What should I do? — Alone and Unloved Dear Alone and Unloved: Life has dealt you a difficult hand through no fault of your own. You are hurting right now, and that is why I’m urging you to talk to a counselor about what you have been through and how you feel about yourself BEFORE reaching out to your father. You deserve love and nurturing, but before you try to make contact it’s important that you have more inner resources than you have now — just in case he doesn’t turn out to be the man you would like him to be. Contacting him

Dear Abby Abigail van Buren

through a third party might also be wise.

Dear Abby: Before my husband died, we used to enjoy visiting with “Frank” and his wife, “Julie.” They were happy get-togethers between couples.

After my husband’s death, Frank said he wanted to stay in touch. As time went on, we’d meet for holidays and home visits, which were as pleasant as before. But as time passed, Julie became bored and the visits became awkward.

Frank and I had a lot in common. I enjoyed his company more and more.

Anyone who has lost the love of his/ her life knows it’s a gift to take a break from the heartache once in a while. Frank and I have done nothing wrong. If he were a woman there would be no question of impropriety.

Should I leave well enough alone, or enjoy the only peace I have had after such a great loss? — Anonymous Dear Anonymous: My advice is to leave well enough alone and look for “peace” with someone who is available.

Can you get fever from a cat scratch?

Dear Dr. Gott: I have been diagnosed with cat-scratch fever. Could you explain the disease and its side effects?

Dear Reader: Cat-scratch disease (CSD) is the result of a bacterial infection known as Bartonella henselae. Surprisingly, about 40 percent of all cats carry the bacteria in their saliva at some point in their lives, with kittens being more likely to be infected than adult cats; however, neither commonly show any signs of illness.

Most people contract CSD through bites and scratches; however, it is also possible to contract it by petting an infected feline and then rubbing your eyes.

Symptoms include fever, nausea, chills, headache, poor appetite, fatigue, vomiting and inflammation of the lymph nodes.

People with a compromised immune system such as HIV/AIDS,

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organ-transplant patients and those receiving chemotherapy are at greater risk of developing abnormal bloodvessel growths that resemble tumors after becoming infected. These masses can cause severe organ inflammation and lead to a host of other issues. In the healthy person, however, CSD should resolve on its own without treatment. If lymph-node involvement remains, a patient might require prescription antibiotics for up to a month. The key is to have your physician make a correct diagnosis, receive antibiotics if appropriate, and take precautions at home by preventing all cats from licking a scratch or open wound on your body.

IN THE STARS

Your Birthday, May 8;

Fortunately, your feelings of self-worth could be exceptionally strong in the year ahead.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) - An important endeavor may turn out to be far more complicated than was anticipated.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) - An important objective can be reached today.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) - It behooves you to be as honest as possible with a friend who has always been candid with you.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) - Knowing in advance that not everything will go perfectly prepares you to handle those little hurdles.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept.

22) - You’re likely to go along with what you know is a wrong opinion in order to keep the peace.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23) - Even though you are totally aware of what your priority must be, you could get sidetracked.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 22) - Even when others do things that displease you, you won’t become unduly unwound.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. 21) - Poor behavior only loses the support of others, so take care to be as tactful as you can.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) - Be particularly careful when it comes to handling competitive situations.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 19) - You have excellent earning abilities today, but unfortunately you also could have a strong streak of extravagance.

PISCES (Feb. 20-March 20) - You could lack the tolerance to properly handle those with whom you have dealings. Be on guard.

ARIES (March 21-April 19) - Get your mind off of someone who has disappointed you and get it on making money.

The Daily Courier, Forest City, NC, Saturday, May 8, 2010 — 13 The Daily Courier, Forest City, NC, SATURDAY, May 8, 2010 — 13

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‘Don’t buy’ rating for Lexus has been lifted

DETROIT (AP) — Consumer Reports magazine is lifting a “Don’t Buy” recommendation for a Lexus sport utility vehicle that failed an emergency handling test.

The magazine said Friday that the 2010 Lexus GX 460 luxury SUV passed the test after a dealership updated software that runs its electronic stability control system.

Toyota Motor Corp. recalled about 10,000 of the SUVs in the United States in April after the magazine told readers not to buy them. The automaker also stopped selling them.

Consumer Reports said the rear of the GX 460 slid sideways when testers lifted their feet off the gas pedal during a high-speed turn on the magazine’s test track. The magazine told readers not to buy the SUV because its rear wheels could slide into a curb or off the pavement, raising the risk of rolling over.

Under normal circumstances, the electronic stability control should quickly correct the loss of control and keep the SUV on its intended path. But with the GX 460, the stability control took too long to react, the magazine’s engineers said.

Consumer Reports said it was not aware of any injuries caused by the problem.

The magazine said in a statement that it took the GX-460 it had purchased for the test to a dealership for the software update, then returned to the test track.

“This time, the ESC system intervened earlier and its rear did not slide out in the lift-off oversteer test,” the magazine said. “Overall, CR did not experience any safety concerns with the corrected GX 460 in CR’s handling tests.”

But while the fix made the GX 460’s handling secure, Consumer Reports said it is still “ponderous and ungainly,” which is typical of traditional body-on-frame SUVs.

Associated Press

Freshway Foods in Sidney, Ohio, has helped guide federal investigators tot a farm in Yuma, Ariz., as a possible source of a widespread E. coli outbreak in romaine lettuce, according to the distributor.

Freshway Foods of Sidney, Ohio, said Thursday it recalled lettuce sold in 23 states and the District of Columbia because of a possible link to an E. coli outbreak.

E. coli outbreak may be from Arizona lettuce farm WASHINGTON (AP) — Lettuce grown in Yuma, Ariz., may be the source of a widespread E. coli outbreak in romaine lettuce that has sickened at least 19 people and prompted a recall in 23 states.

Federal investigators are looking at a farm in Yuma as a possible source for the outbreak, according to the distributor who sold the lettuce.

Freshway Foods of Sidney, Ohio, said Thursday it recalled lettuce sold in 23 states and the District of Columbia because of a possible link to an E. coli outbreak that has sickened at least 19 people — three with lifethreatening illness.

College students at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Ohio State in Columbus and Daemen College in Amherst, N.Y., are among those who were affected by the outbreak, according to health departments in those states. The health officials said most of the victims were sickened in April and have already recovered.

Vice president Devon Beer said Freshway Foods worked with the Food and Drug Administration to trace the contaminated lettuce to a Yuma grower, whom he would not identify.

The recall only applies to romaine lettuce with “best if used by” date before or on May 12, when Freshway Foods stopped buying its romaine from Yuma, Beer said.

Officials in Arizona also confirmed the investigation. Laura Oxley, a spokeswoman for Arizona’s agriculture and health departments, said federal officials contacted them

and told them they suspected the source of the E. coli outbreak was lettuce grown in the state. She said there were no additional shipments to stop because the winter lettuce season has mostly ended for the year.

The Yuma area is the source of much of the nation’s winter lettuce crop, but farmers switch to other crops at the end of winter.

Freshway Foods said Thursday it was recalling romaine lettuce sold under the Freshway and Imperial Sysco brands. No contamination was found at the company’s processing plant, according to the FDA. New York state’s Public Health Laboratory discovered the contamination in a bag of Freshway Foods shredded romaine lettuce on Wednesday after local authorities had been investigating an outbreak for several weeks.

The CDC said the strain linked to the lettuce, E. coli 0145, is more difficult to identify and may go unreported.

E. coli infection can cause mild diarrhea or more severe complications, including kidney damage. The three patients with lifethreatening symptoms were diagnosed with hemolytic uremic syndrome, which can cause bleeding in the brain or kidneys.

Most of the recalled lettuce was sold in states east of the Mississippi River. It was sold in Alabama, Connecticut, the District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Missouri, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia and Wisconsin.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Lawmakers are trying to learn the causes of the drastic stock market sell-off to ensure that high-tech trading is monitored and average investors are protected in the wilds of Wall Street.

Sens. Ted Kaufman, D-Del., and Mark Warner, D-Va., are working with Senate Banking Committee members to use a pending financial regulation bill to address the Dow Jones industrial average’s sudden, brief drop of almost 1,000 points Thursday. The House has scheduled a hearing on the sudden plunge for Tuesday.

President Barack Obama said Friday that regulatory authorities are evaluating the “unusual market activity” with an eye toward protecting investors and preventing a recurrence. He said regulators would make their findings and recommendations public.

Warner and Kaufman want to use the financial overhaul bill moving through the Senate to insist that the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission undertake a thorough study of highfrequency trading and other tools that move markets in the blink of an eye.

“We saw a living, breathing, real-time example today of the potential catastrophe that takes place if we don’t have an ability to make sure we adequately use this technology,” Warner said late Thursday. “We must have safeguards and really realize how some of these firms are using this technology to get an advantage over the everyday main street investor.”

In the House, Rep. Paul Kanjorski, D-Pa., has called for a Tuesday hearing of a subcommittee to examine the causes of the sudden freefall and partial rebound, some of the most volatile trading in market history.

Kerry, Lieberman press ahead on climate bill WASHINGTON (AP) — The leading sponsors of a long-delayed energy and climate change bill said Friday they will press ahead despite losing the support of their only Republican partner.

Sens. John Kerry, D-Mass, and Joe Lieberman, I-Conn., said they plan to introduce a bill on Wednesday. The pair made the announcement just hours after Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., said it’s impossible to pass the legislation now because of disagreements over offshore drilling and immigration reform.

Graham has been negotiating with Kerry and Lieberman for months, but said Friday that he doubts the climate bill has much chance of success.

“Regrettably, in my view, this has become impossible

have given everyone with a stake in this issue a heightened understanding that as a nation, we can no longer wait to solve this problem which threatens our economy, our security and our environment,” Kerry and Lieberman said.

They cited a growing and unprecedented bipartisan coalition from the business, national security, faith and — Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C. environmental communities in support of the legislation.

“We look forward to ... passing the legislation with Sixty votes are required in the support of Senator the Senate to overcome filiGraham and other Repubbusters. licans, Democrats and indeKerry and Lieberman said pendents this year,” they they plan to introduce the said. bill on Wednesday.

White House Press “We are more encouraged Secretary Robert Gibbs said today that we can secure the President Barack Obama necessary votes to pass this remains committed to the legislation this year in part energy bill. because the last (few) weeks

I believe there could be more than 60 votes for this bipartisan concept in the future. But there are not nearly 60 votes today and I do not see them materializing until we deal with the uncertainty of the immigration debate and the consequences of the oil spill.

in the current environment,” Graham said. “I believe there could be more than 60 votes for this bipartisan concept in the future. But there are not nearly 60 votes today and I do not see them materializing until we deal with the uncertainty of the immigration debate and the consequences of the oil spill.”

“We’re also at a time of the year in which gas prices traditionally go up, which I think will be a very public impetus for getting an energy bill done,” Gibbs said. “... I know there are a lot of people that have worked long and hard on this that don’t want to see the great progress that’s been made walked away from.”

Last month, Graham threatened to withhold his support for the climate and energy legislation because he was angry that Democrats said they would take up a rewrite of immigration policy. That forced Kerry and Lieberman to postpone the long-awaited unveiling of the legislation, which aims to cut emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases 17 percent below 2005 levels by 2020.

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Female Jack Russell Lost 4/18 from Sulphur Springs Church Rd., near 221. Family pet!

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Having qualified as Administrator of the estate of ROBERT LEE PETTY SR. of Rutherford County, North Carolina, this is to notify all persons having claims against the estate of the said ROBERT LEE PETTY SR. to present them to the undersigned on or before the 17th day of July, 2010 or the same will be pleaded in bar of their recovery. All persons indebted to said estate will please make immediate payment.

This is the 17th day of April, 2010.

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Female Mini Schnauzer Lost 4/13 in Ellenboro/Walls Community area.

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Verline B. Petty, Administrator 217 Shady Branch Trail Forest City, NC 28043

NOTICE TO CREDITORS Having qualified as Co-Administrator CTA of the estate of MICHAEL STEVEN SKIPPER of Rutherford County, North Carolina, this is to notify all persons having claims against the estate of the said MICHAEL STEVEN SKIPPER to present them to the undersigned on or before the 17th day of July, 2010 or the same will be pleaded in bar of their recovery. All persons indebted to said estate will please make immediate payment.

This is the 17th day of April, 2010.

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NOTICE TO CREDITORS Having qualified as Executor of the estate of THELMA H. WARDRUP of Rutherford County, North Carolina, this is to notify all persons having claims against the estate of the said THELMA H. WARDRUP to present them to the undersigned on or before the 17th day of July, 2010 or the same will be pleaded in bar of their recovery. All persons indebted to said estate will please make immediate payment.

This is the 17th day of April, 2010.

Leslie Steven Wardrup, Executor 9560 Old Preserve Trail Ball Ground, GA 30107

NOTICE TO CREDITORS Having qualified as Executor of the estate of JAMES RAY SEARS SR. A/K/A JAMES RAY SEARS of Rutherford County, North Carolina, this is to notify all persons having claims against the estate of the said JAMES RAY SEARS SR. A/K/A JAMES RAY SEARS to present them to the undersigned on or before the 24th day of July, 2010 or the same will be pleaded in bar of their recovery. All persons indebted to said estate will please make immediate payment.

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Sandra Lynn Sears Haney, Executor 463 Pilgrim Road Ellenboro, NC 28040

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nation/world World Today Russia says pirates are freed

MOSCOW (AP) — The pirates seized by a Russian warship off the coast of Somalia have been released because of “imperfections� in international law, the Defense Ministry said Friday, a judgment sharply questioned by a prominent Russian shipping expert.

Authorities initially said the pirates would be brought to Russia to face criminal charges for hijacking a Russian oil tanker. But Defense Ministry spokesman Col. Alexei Kuznetsov told The Associated Press on Friday that the pirates have been released.

Kuznetsov declined to elaborate on the purported legal flaws that prompted the release.

Britain’s Conservative opposition leader David Cameron walks past the media as he arrives to give a press conference in London Friday.

Associated Press

Gunmen kill four at checkpoint

PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — Authorities say gunmen have attacked a police checkpoint in northwest Pakistan, killing four officers.

Local police chief Amin Shah says one officer was also wounded when assailants opened fire Friday on the checkpoint in Mansehra district.

The motive of the attack was not known, but militants have been targeting police in the region in recent months.

On Feb. 20, militants attacked two police stations in the region, killing one officer and wounding four others.

’Massive’ ash cloud closes airports

DUBLIN (AP) — Iceland’s volcano has produced a 1,000-mile-wide (1,600 kilometer-wide) ash cloud off the west coast of Ireland that will force western Irish airports to shut down again Friday, the Irish Aviation Authority announced.

The authority said shifting winds, currently coming from the north, had bundled recent days’ erupted ash into a massive cloud that is growing both in width and height by the hour.

Eurocontrol, which determines the air routes that airliners can use in and around Europe, says the ash accumulation is posing a new navigational obstacle — because the cloud is gradually climbing to 35,000 feet (10,500 meters) and into the typical cruising altitude of trans-Atlantic aircraft. Until recent days, the ash had remained below 20,000 feet (6,000 meters).

Israel ready for deal on statehood

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel is ready to negotiate the terms of Palestinian statehood, although it wants its security concerns addressed in the initial stages of indirect talks, the Israeli president said Friday after meeting with the U.S. Mideast envoy.

Former U.S. Senator George Mitchell is in the region for the start of four months of indirect talks between the Israelis and Palestinians that aim to bridge vast differences between the sides on the contours of a future Palestinian state.

The Palestinians want a state in the West Bank, Gaza and east Jerusalem — territories Israel captured in the 1967 Mideast War — but have said they are willing to make some minor land exchanges.

Wooing begins after UK vote LONDON (AP) — Britain’s inconclusive election turned into high political drama Friday, with the Conservative and Labour parties wooing the same potential ally while the markets pressed for results and a public accustomed to clearer outcomes watched transfixed.

Conservative leader David Cameron, ahead but shy of a majority, seized the initiative with a “comprehensive offer� to the ideologically dissimilar but possibly willing Liberal Democrats.

Labour incumbent Gordon Brown, beaten but still battling, dangled before the Lib Dems their dream of major electoral reform.

A weekend of frantic negotiations loomed — but momentum seemed to be with the youthful Cameron. “We have to accept that we fell short of an overall majority,� said Cameron, 43.

Results showed the Conservatives won 306 of the 650 seats in the House of Commons; 326 were needed for outright victory. Labour won 258 seats, the Liberal Democrats 57 and smaller parties 28. “Britain needs strong, stable, decisive government, and it is in the national interest that we get that on a secure basis. ... I want to make a big, open and comprehensive offer to the Liberal Democrats,� Cameron said.

But Cameron promised only a “committee of inquiry� to look into Lib Dems’ major goal:

reform of the electoral system so that the number of seats gained is based on the percentage of vote a party achieves. They say that is fairer than the current system, in which a party can win a parliamentary majority by getting only a third of the votes.

The Conservatives won 36 percent of votes cast Thursday, Labour 29 percent and the Liberal Democrats 23 percent.

The Conservatives also held out the tantalizing prospect of Lib Dem seats in a Tory government.

Senior Conservative lawmaker William Hague said Cabinet posts for Liberal Democrats were not “off the table.�

Cameron also left open the option of trying to form a minority government if the Liberal Democrats turned him down.

Brown, too, appealed to the Lib Dems to make a deal, and went further than Cameron by promising quick legislation on electoral reform. “There needs to be immediate legislation on this to begin to restore the public’s trust in politics,� Brown said. “The question for all the political parties now is whether a parliamentary majority can be established that reflects what you, the electorate, have told us,�

Brown said in a statement delivered outside 10 Downing St. — still his home, at least for now.

Even a deal with the Liberal Democrats would leave Labour a few seats short of a majority, meaning they would have to turn to Scottish and Welsh national-

ists for further support.

Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg did not immediately respond in public to his opponents’ overtures. He said earlier that the party winning the most seats and the most votes — the Conservatives — should have the first right to try to govern. “I think it is now for the Conservative Party to prove that it is capable of seeking to govern in the national interest,� he said.

The closely fought election was the first since 1974 to produce a hung Parliament, in which no party has overall control.

The prospect of days — possibly weeks — of political horsetrading unsettled the financial markets. As the pound and the FTSE-100 index fell sharply, pressure mounted for a quick solution. “It’s vital that this political vacuum is filled as quickly as possible,� said Miles Templeman, director general of the Institute of Directors business group. “The country simply can’t afford an extended period of political horse-trading which delays much needed action to tackle the deficit.�

White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said President Barack Obama looks forward to working with whomever is the next prime minister.

Cameron and Clegg held talks by telephone, kicking off a furious round of negotiations. Faceto-face talks were expected later in the day, the BBC reported.

Another day, another scare in NYC

Associated Press

Supporters of the youth wing of the Pakistani religious party Jamat-e-Islami rally to support Faisal Shahzad, the suspect accused of the failed Times Square car bombing, in Karachi, Pakistan on Thursday.

NEW YORK (AP) — Police cleared the streets around Times Square on Friday and called in the bomb squad to dismantle what turned out to be a cooler full of water bottles. Earlier in the day, police were called in to check a suspicious package that turned out to be someone’s lunch.

Since a Pakistani-American tried unsuccessfully to set off a car bomb in the heart of the city last weekend, false-alarm calls are up dramatically, nerves are jangled, and media and law enforcement are rushing to the scenes to make sure the reports aren’t something bigger.

More than 600 calls came in since Saturday’s attempted car bombing of a busy street near Times Square — about 30 percent higher than normal, police said. “This is something that happens fairly regularly,� Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said Friday.

Bombing suspect Faisal Shahzad remained in custody and did not appear in court Friday. Kelly said he continued

to cooperate, while Gen. David Petraeus debunked theories that Shahzad had help, saying he apparently worked alone and did not have contact with foreign terror groups.

On Friday, cable news channels went live with images of the false alarm on Times Square, focusing in on the light green cooler as police officials hauled it away from the area. Police don’t know who left the cooler behind. The streets opened within an hour, and workers weren’t told to evacuate.

But Times Square vendor Walter “Candyman� Wells said the constant scares aroused more suspicion. “I think they’re testing us, whoever is doing this,� Wells said Friday, sitting on a stool near his table of T-shirts. “They’re playing chess with us right now, but they ain’t gonna win.�

A day earlier, authorities pulled an Emirates airlines plane back from the runway after spotting a passenger’s name they mistakenly thought to be on the “no-fly� list. Two passengers were released within an hour.

On Wednesday, the bomb squad looked at an empty truck reeking of gasoline on the Robert F. Kennedy Bridge; nothing dangerous was found inside.

Shahzad, who was pulled off a Dubai-bound plane at Kennedy Airport on Monday and hasn’t appeared in court, continues to cooperate with investigators, Kelly said Friday. Police have surveillance images of Shahzad around Times Square and video that shows his car traveling to the spot where they say he left the smoking SUV rigged with a gasoline-and-propane bomb.

Kelly declined to discuss what Shahzad is telling investigators.

Law enforcement officials have said they are trying to find links between Shahzad and possible financing sources, including the Pakistani Taliban, which has both claimed responsibility for and denied roles in the botched bombing. A money courier is being sought who may have funneled the 30-year-old budget analyst cash, an official told the AP, speaking on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the investigation.

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