Daily Courier July 3, 2010

Two artists featured in exhibit — Page 3A Sports Laying it all down Rutherford County Post 423 looked to take a 2-0 series lead over Pineville in the Legion Playoffs Friday

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Saturday, July 3, 2010, Forest City, N.C.

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School Board field set for vote

NATION

By JEAN GORDON

Many cities lose celebrations to money woes

Daily Courier Staff Writer

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SPORTS

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Michael Henderson checks out the stock at the fireworks sales tent at the Tri-City Mall. Sales have been good so far and Henderson is expecting them to get better this weekend.

Little League All-Star action continued Page 1B

GAS PRICES

Low: $2.59 High: $2.65 Avg.: $2.62

DEATHS Forest City

Catherine Hines Spindale

Safety key to fireworks fun

By JOHN TRUMP

Holiday weekend events

Daily Courier News Editor

Things were quiet Wednesday afternoon at a tent in the parking lot of the Tri-City Mall, where Michael Henderson and his mother, Kathy, sold TNT fireworks.

Michael Henderson said sales were OK, though he expected business to pick up closer to the Fourth of July weekend.

“We normally don’t get a whole lot (of customers) until the second, third and fourth (of July),” said Henderson, a teacher at Chase High School who works in the tent part-time. North Carolina’s rules regarding fireworks are more restrictive than those across the border in South Carolina, so families and people seeking a little less bang make up a good portion of TNT’s customers, who can choose from a variety of sparklers, fountains, poppers and snakes.

People looking for a bigger blast on the Fourth will head to South Carolina where the rules are more liberal. Rockets, explosive or aerial fireworks and Roman candles are prohibited, according to N.C. Please see Safety, Page 6A

Saturday n Freedom Celebration; Festival & Fireworks; 1 p.m. to 10:30 p.m.; Tri City Mall area n Big Day Ellenboro; 9:15 a.m. to 2 p.m.; Parade, car show, vendors Sunday n Car Show & Fireworks; 5 to 10:30 p.m.; Old Gilkey School; Gilkey School Road; Also live music n Fireworks at Lake Lure Beach and Rumbling Bald, starting about 9:30 p.m. n Chimney Rock State Park will be holding Fourth of July events throughout the weekend. For more information, visit chimneyrockpark.com

FOREST CITY —Filing ended noon Friday, resulting in a three-way race for District 2 and a two-way race for District 3 on the Rutherford County Board of Education. No one is opposing the District 1 seat, and two incumbents are running for two available seats as supervisors for the and Rutherford Soil and Water Conservation.

The races are non-partisan.

Chuck Hill, a former county commissioner, threw his hat back into the political ring, filing for the District 2 East Rutherford seat. The seat is held by Sherry Hodge Bright, who also filed Friday for the District 3 seat. Bright and her family moved from the East district into the Chase District last year and is seeking reelection on the board. She is seeking the Chase district seat.

Bright was given permission by the board to complete her term in the East district. Incumbent Scott Morrow did not seek reelection.

“I am real excited about this, and the reason I filed is I believe I can bring some experience to the Board of Education in a different prospective,” Hill said. “As a county commissioner for 12 years, I can see some of their issues as far as the budget presentations, and now it will be good to see the flip side and how the county can work with the school board.

“Also as an employer, I’m very concerned about the drop-out rate,” Hill said.

Please see Filing, Page 6A

Duke’s air quality permit renewed

PATRIOTIC PARADE

William Houk Elsewhere

Todd Guffey Page 5A

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By JEAN GORDON Daily Courier Staff Writer

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Tonight, clear.

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A red, white and blue clad Bernice Mitchell leads a parade of senior citizens Friday during the annual Patriotic Parade at the Rutherford County Senior Center. Mitchell and Charlotte McDaniel, Bill Wells and Sam Berger were the Judge’s Choice for most patriotic for the event. Each received small gifts for their participation.

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FOREST CITY — The N.C. Department of Air Quality has renewed the air quality permit for Duke Energy’s Cliffside power plant.

The permit includes the controversial 825-megawatt coalfired unit under construction at the site; however, air quality officials said when the sixth unit is up and running it will face additional state and federal permitting reviews.

Andy Thompson, Duke Energy’s media specialist, said Friday afternoon the target date for completion of the sixth unit is 2012.

Thompson agreed with DAQ officials, and added that when the sixth unit is finished it will undergo its own review before a permit is granted for the new unit. He said the construction project is about 67 percent complete and is at peak construction with about 2,200 workers on site.

“Duke Energy Carolinas is Please see Permit, Page 6A

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Church News VBS

The following churches have announced Vacation Bible School: Mount Lebanon Baptist Church, “Saddle Ridge Ranch,” July 10, 6 to 8 p.m. and July 11-15, 5:30 to 8:30 p.m., with small meal served at 5:30; commencement July 15 at 6:30 p.m.

Spindale Church of the Brethren, “Hero Headquarters,” July 11-15, 5:45 to 7:55 p.m.; classes for ages 3 through adult; supper will be served Monday through Thursday.

West Point Baptist Church, “Egypt: Jospeh’s Journey from Prison to Palace,” July 25-29, 6 to 9 p.m.; family night July 30 at 6 p.m.; call 287-0165 for more information.

Cornerstone Fellowship Church, “Around the World,” Aug. 14, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.; for all children ages 2 to 11; for information, contact Kassie Wilson 980-5041.

Music/concerts

Gospel singing: July 4, 2 p.m., Village Chapel Church, Forest City; featuring the Morgan Family from South Carolina.

Singing: July 4, 7 p.m., Riverside Baptist Church; featuring Living by Faith.

Gospel singing: July 4 ,2 p.m., Bible Way Baptist Church, Green Creek; featuring Winners Either Way and the Lamberts.

Concert: July 4, 10:45 a.m., Misionary Wesleyan Church, featuring Rick Strickland; free admission, love offering taken.

Grove Baptist Church, Rutherfordton; 11 a.m., Hunter Park; 6 p.m., the Rev. Tom Frady.

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.

ten preschool of First United Methodist Church, 341 East Main St., Forest City, is now taking fall registration Street ministry: July for ages 2-5. Limited 10, 4 p.m., Holy Temple openings. Contact NA/AA meetings: Singing: July 11, 6 No. 2, Forest City.

Preschool Director Jill Every Monday at 7 p.m., Smith at 245-6446, or p.m., Temple Baptist at New Life Christian Church, Henrietta; Cowbell Revival: drop by church office.

Fellowship Church of featurin The Royal July 10, 6 p.m., New Quartet; hot dog supper Beginnings with Jesus, God, 601 E. Main St., Mom’s Hope is a Spindale; contact James ministry that offers from 4:30 to 5:45 p.m.; next to the Armory.

Keeter at 247-4681 for all donations go to the hope and support for more information. building fund.

Revival: July 15-16, mothers who face daily 7 p.m., Holy Temple struggles and fears Hispanic Baptist Gospel singing: No. 2 Church, Forest when their children Church “Cristo Vive:” are addicted to drugs July 25, 2 p.m., Harris City; guest speaker, Services on Sunday Baptist Church, featur- Penny McSwain of or alcohol. The group ing the Rogers.

Victory Temple Church, afternoons in English, 6 meets at 6:30 p.m. p.m., every Sunday. The the second Thursday Rutherfordton. church is located at 929 of each month at Special services Oakland Road. Contact Missionary Wesleyan Fellowship serSpecial services: the Rev. Jairo Contreras Church, 811 Doggett vice: July 21 7 p.m., July 4, 9 a.m., Spencer at 289-9837.

Faith Temple Church, Rd., Forest City. Next Baptist Church; serSpindale; guest speakmeeting Feb. 11. For vice will be in place of Monthly food giveer, the Rev. Leander more information conthe 11 a.m. worship but Lynch. away: First Baptist tact Chris at 287-3687. will still be broadcasted Church in Spindale on WCAB at the reguholds a food giveaway “The Way Home”: A Fundraisers lar time; service will the third Thursday of support group for anyFree car wash: include special patriotic each month. Devotion one recovering from July 3, 9 a.m. until, music. and prayer service an addiction; meetings McDonald’s in between 6 and 6:30 are held each Monday Two-night service: Rutherfordton; sponp.m. Bags of food given at noon, in the baseJuly 9 and 10, 7 each sored by Victory Temple away afterwards. ment of Harvest House night, Temple of Jesus Bible Way Church; benChurch, Big Springs Church; featuring the efits the church’s conOpen support group: Ave., Forest City; call Rev. Webby Williams vention trip.

“Let’s Talk About It” Sheila at 828-447-1880.

Jr.; other special sermeets every Monday vices July 18-23, 7 each Yard sale and car from 7 to 8 p.m., at “Celebrate Recovnight, featuring the wash: July 3, 7 a.m.

New Life Fellowship ery” is a weekly ChristRev. George T. Wright until 1 p.m., Heaven Church, 601 E. Main centered program that of Dayton, Ohio.

Bound Baptist Church; St., Spindale. This meets every Friday proceeds go toward group is for anyone who from 6:30 to 9 p.m., at Praise and worVBS. needs to talk about any Cornerstone Fellowship ship service: July 11, 3 issues.

Church, 1186 Hudlow p.m., New Salem CME Rd., Forest City. The Church, Rutherfordton; Other Preschool registragroup is open to anyguest speaker, the Rev. Chase Corner Minition: Spindale United one who wishes to find Phil Forney. stries is now open the Methodist Church is healing. For more inforfirst Saturday of each now accepting fall regmation call 245-3639.

Third anniversary: month from 8 a.m. to istration for ages 2-5.

July 18, 3 p.m., Wheat noon. On June 22, the Contact Gail Jones at Creek Baptist Church, ministry will hold a 429-5598, or the church Soup Kitchens Rutherfordton; featur$4 bag sale from 8:30 Community Outoffice at 286-2281. ing choirs. a.m. to 2:30 p.m. The reach: “Give By Faith community is also welMinistries” of Piney Guest speakPreschool registracome to bring yard sale tion: The kindergarMountain Baptist ers: July 11, Pleasant

Do Good Work and Serve The Lord So I saw that there is nothing better than that a man should enjoy his work, for that is his lot...

R.S.V. Ecclesiastes 3:22 It is fairly common, and almost a cliché, to note that the Protestant work ethic fueled capitalism, giving capitalism such guiding virtues as hard work, frugality and efficiency.

While honest labor and thriftiness may still be virtues held in high regard, it is tempting to feel that capitalism has somehow lost its soul. Instead of producing high-minded, hardworking Christians who value work, it has produced dispirited automatons who dread work and mindlessly consume whatever the market has to offer. Even Adam Smith, capitalism’s first and foremost theorist, warned in “The Wealth of Nations” that specialized labor would tend to make work boring and alienate labor from its product.

So, is there a way to keep work from being so stultifying? Of course, it depends somewhat on the work in question, but any labor that is interesting is redemptive, whether it is figuring out what is wrong with someone’s car that won’t start, planting a garden, or cleaning house. Another way to redeem work is to do it in a craftsman- like way. There is something inherently pleasurable in doing something well, especially if there is some product to behold or savor at the end of our work. Consider how God Himself beheld His handiwork on the seventh day, and declared that it was good. So, perhaps we should figure out a way to take genuine interest in our work and devote ourselves to doing it well, however humble it may be. Do good work; God is watching.

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Church provides a soup kitchen, clothes closet and food pantry to those in need the second Saturday of each month from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Samaritan Breakfast: Thursdays from 6 to 8 a.m., at St. Francis Episcopal Church, 395 N. Main St., Rutherfordton. Carryout breakfast bags.

St. Paul AME Zion Church, Forest City, each Monday at 6 p.m.

St. Gabriel’s Episcopal Church, Wednesdays from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., 330 N. Ridgecrest Ave., Rutherfordton.

First Baptist Church in Spindale, 11:30 to 12:30 p.m. each Tuesday.

New Beginnings Soup Kitchen, Thursdays from 4:30 to 6 p.m. at Green River Baptist Association, 668 N. Washington St., Rutherfordton.

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Victims: Abuse suit may bring healing LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — It had been more than 80 years since James O’Bryan stepped inside a Roman Catholic church. He hadn’t attended Mass since the late 1920s, when he says he was fondled at age 7 by a priest at Saint Cecilia Catholic Church in Louisville.

O’Bryan is one of three men who filed a U.S. lawsuit regarded as having the best chance of discovering whether the Vatican holds any liability in sexual abuse by American priests. He and others not involved with the suit also see an opportunity for Rome to reconnect with American victims who lost their faith after being abused.

“I’ve been trying to reconcile this thing in my head all these years,” said O’Bryan. “I’ve completely lost my faith, until recently.”

At age 89, O’Bryan just recently began attending services at a tiny Catholic church near his Mendocino, Calif., home after his wife died in January.

“We need to know the truth, and maybe more important than us needing to know the truth, the hierarchy needs to know that secrecy is not acceptable — it’s not God’s way,” said Colleen Powell, who was abused by her Catholic priest at her childhood church near Dayton, Ohio.

The Vatican has asked that the suit be dismissed, arguing in May that Rome does not exercise “day-to-day control” over U.S. bishops.

“After six years of litigation, it is time to put this case to rest,” Vatican attorney Jeffrey Lena wrote in the motion. Last week, Lena argued in another filing that a suit against the Archdiocese of Louisville — settled in 2003 for $25 million — had turned up no connection between the archdiocese’s handling of abusive priests and the Vatican.

The suit remains in court at a time when Rome has taken more public steps to address the scandal and a fresh wave of reports of abuse around the world.

Earlier in June, Pope Benedict XVI asked for absolution from abuse victims while in a significant setting: in front of thousands of Roman Catholic priests attending Mass in St. Peter’s Square.

The Kentucky suit argues in part that U.S. bishops should be considered employees or officials of the Holy See. The church has countered with court filings from officials in the Louisville archdiocese that seek to demonstrate independence from Rome.

“The Holy See in no sense exercised the requisite operational day-to-day control over the Archbishop, including the Archbishop’s supervision of the priests at issue,” the Vatican argued in the May 17 motion filed in U.S. District Court.

Louisville attorney William McMurry, who reached the $25 million settlement with the Louisville archdiocese, also filed the Kentucky suit against the Vatican.

McMurry says he is “doing what any lawyer trained in representing injured people would do: that is, hold the perpetrator accountable.”

“In the case of sexual abuse of children in the Catholic Church in the United States, the buck stops with the policy maker, and that’s the Holy See,” he said.

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Local/state

N.C. ferry chief fired after 2 months on job

Contributed photos

Nikki Hicks paints enchanting landscapes, highly detailed animals and has an exhibit at the Visual Arts Center this month.

Arts center highlights work of painter, potter

RALEIGH (AP) — The man hired to get North Carolina’s ferries back on track after a federal investigation into illegal dredging said he was fired after just two months for doing his job.

The News & Observer of Raleigh reported that Harold Finch, 58, came out of retirement with the Coast Guard on May 1 to lead the 500-employee ferry division. The agency’s former director had been convicted of lying to investigators about illegal dredging in the Currituck Sound.

Finch said his firing June 25 from the $92,500 job shows the Transportation Department, which oversees the ferry division, lacks the courage of its convictions. “I thought I was brought in to fix it, but I guess I tried to fix too much,” Finch said, adding that he told the agency’s top officials about nepotism, payroll padding and questionable spending.

The DOT’s inspector general is investigating several of Finch’s allegations about the division, which is based in Morehead City, officials said. That investigation began before Finch was fired, DOT spokeswoman Greer Beaty said Friday.

DOT officials said they fired Finch because of personality conflicts with staff. They also said he fell behind on a 60-day business plan for the division.

“In the end, was Buddy going to be able to meet the expectations that I gave him for this job?” said Jim Trogdon, the DOT’s chief operating officer. “My determination was no.”

North Carolina’s ferry division is the second-largest state operation in the country. It transports 2.5 million people a year on two dozen boats on seven routes.

Among the things he learned after taking the job was that the division had no detailed budget, Finch said.

He said he ordered his staff to estimate expenditures for the coming fiscal year.

Trogdon and Jim Westmoreland, a deputy DOT secretary in charge of the ferry division, disputed Finch’s claim.

But state lawmakers give it some credence.

They said the division underreported its actual spending in recent years, and an additional $11.3 million in this year’s budget reflects the division’s true needs.

Woman charged in threat released

CHARLOTTE (AP) — A woman addition, the flight on which she was who is facing charges after she alleg- booked took off about 20 minutes edly told security workers at a North late, they added.

Carolina airport that she had a An affidavit from Roland bomb was released on bond Friday, Morneault, a federal air marshal, From staff reports Asheville and is now displayed in the authorities said. said a body scan indicated anomaVisual Arts Center in Rutherford, The U.S. Attorney’s Office conlies on Smith so they asked if she RUTHERFORDTON — Painter where she teaches drawing and firmed Danielle Shanese Smith, had anything in her pockets. “I Nikki Hicks and potter Michael painting classes. Hicks lives in 25, of Virginia Beach, Va., had have a bomb,” the affidavit said she Suttle are July’s featured artists for Spindale. been released, adding Smith is not responded. the Rutherford County Visual Arts In his “Mud and Metal” window, allowed to fly commercially or enter She repeated the statement, with Center.

Michael Suttle of Bostic has both an airport until her case is concludan expletive added, when asked a The featured paintings by Nikki pottery and intricate silver jewelry ed. second time, the marshal said in the Hicks include landscapes, animals with clay pendants featured at the Smith was arrested Wednesday affidavit. and humorous portraits—includVisual Arts Gallery during July. night at Charlotte-Douglas When asked to repeat her stateing one of her favorite detectives, A Rutherford County native, International Airport and charged ment in front of second officer, Hercule Poirot.

Suttle is a relatively new face in with giving false information.

Smith did so, the affidavit states.

“I apprenticed for a year with the pottery community. Already an Authorities said Smith told secuThe officers requested a supervisor, the Washington D.C. artist Danni accomplished photographer, Suttle rity workers several times that she who asked her again if she had anyDawson, who had apprenticed with decided in 2009 to extend his artis- had a bomb as she another person thing in her pockets.

Nelson Shanks, gaining a classical tried to board a US Airways flight to Smith replied: “a bomb, cuz I am education in portraiture progressing tic skills into the art of pottery and has received training at Good Earth Norfolk, Va. a (expletive) terrorist,” according to through drawing, charcoal, pastel Pottery under the professional guidSmith’s attorney did not return a the document. and, finally, to oil painting,” Hicks ance of Kiowa Cilone and John and phone call seeking comment.

Although officers found no explosaid.

Donna King.

The statements caused airport sive, they said Smith had “an intense “I found that this progression Suttle enjoys creating a variety of police to close the checkpoint where stare” and “a non-joking demeanor” helped prepare a solid background pottery forms from functional vases, the threat was made and evacuate that made theme believe her threat and the discipline for producing any coffee mugs, trays, wall hangings all passengers, authorities said. In was credible, the affidavit said. work of art, but it was particularly and goblets, to his specialization in helpful for portraiture. I find people intricately carved art pieces. He has endlessly fascinating, and I enjoy painting commissioned portraits and also found a niche in pottery jewelry, designing necklaces and earrings. teaching portrait work. In recent In addition to works on disyears I have been doing landscapes play at the Visual Arts Center in in both pastel and oil. I love the Jill Cataldo saves hundreds on groceries by making Rutherfordton, his work can also freedom of ‘playing’ with the colors the cost of the common coupon count. You can, too. be seen at Bostic Florist, which is and rendering the emotions of a day owned by his wife Sherri. spent in nature.”

The “Art of Clay” exhibit opens at Hicks has a broad background in graphic arts. “I have done newspaper the Arts Center on July 8 at 6 p.m. with a reception for artists and preillustration, package design, carJILL CATALDO sentation of awards. The Visual Arts toons for computer programs and JILL CATALDO Center at 160 N. Main Street is open shop-window design.”

I received lots of feedback from readers concerned about advice I Her work has been exhibited in from 10 to 3 p.m. Tuesday through passed on: to maximize savings by purchasing as many sale items as posthe Biltmore Gallery Downtown in Saturday. sible with your coupons. Here’s one letter: “In reading your column, I’m concerned that you may be encouraging people to take more than their share. Countless times I’ve gone to buy a product with a coupon and had to get a rain check. Meanwhile, I have witnessed people buying cases upon cases of the same product. I know people may feel they are just out for themselves and their families, but how greedy can you get?”

It’s true that when we buy on a price-based basis versus a needs-based basis, the items that are on the best sales at the store deplete quickly. So what’s a shopper to do? This reader is definitely on the right track by getting a rain check. While it may be a minor inconvenience to have to get a rain check when the store is out of a particular sale item, it can also work to our advantage as shoppers. Most rain checks are good for thirty days.

That’s a nice, long time to check back at the store, at your convenience, and pick up sale items when they’re back in stock.

You can even use rain checks to “extend the sale” for yourself! During a great sale on dog food, our store was having trouble keeping bags in stock. I bought the last three bags that were on the shelf - and of course, I used my coupons on them. Then, I asked for a rain check for six more Michael Suttle enjoys creatbags. Over the next few days, I got in touch with friends and family who ing a variety of pottery forms also save their coupons, but don’t own dogs. I asked them if I could have from functional vases, coffee their dog food coupons. A week later, I went back to the store and picked mugs or trays. His work is up more with the coupons I’d just acquired. The shelves were full again also on exhibit this month in and I was still able to enjoy the sale price because of the rain check.

Rutherfordton.

With regard to this reader’s comment that he’s seen people buying up every single item in stock during a sale, I do sympathize. I’ve never been a “shelf-clearer,” nor do I advocate being one. I’m certainly aware that at times, if something’s a fantastic deal, it’s tempting to buy every one of them in sight! And I know there are two schools of thought when it comes to great sales. Either you feel you’re “first come, first served” and are entitled to buy whatever you want, or you will buy in moderation and leave some behind for others.

I’ve found that a third option works well, too: special orders. Most major grocery stores (drugstores too) order and receive stock every single day.

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SAVING WITH THE COUPON QUEEN

Is it selfish to stock up on sales items?

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Our Views Freedom comes with hard work

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his year, as we celebrate our nation’s Independence Day, we hope all Americans will remember that freedom require working together.

Our Founding Fathers and the men and women who waged the long war for independence from Great Britain came to the fight from many different backgrounds and perspectives.

Some fought so that they could be free as individuals to live their lives. Some fought so they could do business as they saw fit. Some fought to be able to govern themselves.

These first American heroes did not always agree with each other, but they managed to develop a government that has lasted for more than two centuries.

We Americans still do not always agree with each other. But if we keep working together we can stay free.

Our readers’ views Offers thoughts on freedom and America To the editor: Merriam Webster defined freedom as the quality or state of being free; liberation from slavery. But is that all freedom means?

No! To me, freedom means,sacrifice. It does not come free.

We have to earn it! We have to fight for it! Our freedom was purchased by the blood, the sweat, and the tears of our heroes, The American Soldier.

Sarah Palin reminded us during her 2010 Memorial Day speech, that “We must remember the past and present sacrifices made by our heroes.”

This September will mark the ninth anniversary of a day that will like Pearl Harbour, “live in infamy”.

The attacks on the World Trade Centre and the Pentagon are the reason why our troops are in Afghanistan today.

Their sacrifices are the reason the Taliban are no longer in power and why recent elections took place in that benighted land.

I am hopeful that the sacrifices they are making will help bring stability to a country that has in the past harboured those who wish to do us the greatest harm.

I leave you with words of wisdom spoken by George W. Bush, “Americans are a free people, who know that freedom is the right of every person and the future of every nation.

The liberty we prize is not America’s gift to the world; it is God’s gift to humanity.”

It was purchased and is maintained by the sacrifice of our soldiers. Freedom is sacrifice!

Nichole Stoehrer Rutherfordton Editor’s note: Essay was written for Pre-Teen America Scholarship & Recognition Program.

The freedoms we hold dear today, freedom of speech and religion, right to vote and bear arms we owe to the sacrifices of our soldiers not to the politicians, and poets. It is the soldier who proudly salutes the flag, who serves beneath the flag and who is willing to have their coffins draped by the flag that fight for our freedom, my freedom. In search of freedom for all, their sacrifices reach far beyond our borders.

At this very moment American Soldiers are in the Middle East fighting for freedom.

Two views on handling recessions are clashing RALEIGH – From Brussels and London to Washington and Raleigh, politicians are debating about how governments should respond to persistent economic woes.

There are far more than two identifiable opinions, I’ll grant you, but they can be grouped into two general categories. If you want to wax philosophical, you can affix a variety of labels to the two teams: Keynesians vs. free-marketeers, authoritarians vs. libertarians, Left vs. Right.

Being the cheeky champion of advertising that I am, however, I’ll suggest slightly different labels: Tastes Great vs. Less Filling.

In general, the Tastes Great team believes that recessions occur when consumers stop buying enough goods and services to sustain economic production.

Whatever valid reasons individual consumers might have for paying down debt and becoming thriftier, the macro effect on the economy is seen as unwelcome.

The Tastes Great team concludes that more government expenditures are

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needed to prop up aggregate demand, keeping current workers employed.

Furthermore, they tend to believe that increasing government budgets boosts long-term economic growth anyway, because only government officials have the requisite knowledge and incentives to invest in education (human capital), infrastructure (physical capital), science (intellectual capital), and other assets that pay future returns.

The tasty policy brew that advances both their shortrun belief in macroeconomic tinkering and their long-run belief in government investment is a mix of higher taxes, higher spending, and higher debt.

Because they believe that the immediate economic problem is inadequate private consumption, they must inevitably believe that there

is too much private savings and investment (remember that consumption plus investment equals total income).

Instead of leaving income in private hands, where it might just be saved, they favor taxing and redistributing it to lower-income households, who are more likely to spend than save.

To offset the resulting loss of private investment, they favor public investment – i.e. more government spending.

In general, the Less Filling team argues that terms like “aggregate demand” obscure more than they reveal. This team believes that recessions occur when production and consumption get misaligned.

That is, the problem isn’t so much a lack of consumer demand as it is a surplus of particular goods that consumers no longer want and a deficit of particular goods (including investments and capital goods) that they’d rather buy.

Businesses must draw down inventories of lesspopular goods and retool to produce more-popular goods. As a result, some plants, stores, and divisions

are closed. Some employees and vendors are displaced.

Each economic bust reflects a supply-demand disconnect that originated during the prior boom. Most recently, government policies favored spending on housing over spending on other capital goods, creating an artificial bubble of demand for new homes that eventually popped.

The best thing policymakers can do to shorten the length and depth of a recession, says the Less Filling crowd, is to avoid blocking the necessary adjustments.

Allow prices and wages to adjust to reality. Don’t make the adjustments more expensive by raising taxes, erecting trade barriers, bailing out failed enterprises, or increasing the subsidy for remaining unemployed.

As for long-term growth, the Less Filling crowd agrees that investment in human, physical, intellectual, and other capital is valuable – but disagrees that government monopolies should dominate such investment. Before collecting more taxes or issuing more debt to finance still more

government spending, they prefer to reform existing education and infrastructure programs to increase their productivity – by encouraging competition and innovation, reducing cross-subsidies that distort economic decisions, and eliminating low-priority spending that does little more than feather the nest of well-represented special interests.

Yet another way to think about the difference is this: both teams know that government can only spend to the extent that it reduces private spending, either through raising taxes or issuing debt.

But the Tastes Great team thinks that it can trick the general public out of a recession by “priming the pump” with government stimulus apparently concocted out of thin air.

The other team thinks that such gimmicks may taste great politically, but are less economically filling than letting those who earn income spend it as they see fit.

Hood is president of the John Locke Foundation.

The Daily Courier, Forest City, NC, Saturday, July 3, 2010

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Carolina Today Body of woman found near base

Boat of missing man washes ashore

FAYETTEVILLE (AP) — The body of a woman was found near a North Carolina Army base and police are calling it a homicide.

Multiple media outlets reported Friday that Fayetteville Public Works Commission workers found the body near an abandoned dirt road close to Fort Bragg.

The crew was working on a road project near the base.

Fayetteville police did not release the woman’s name.

They said she appears to be in her early 30s, and investigators said she likely died after midnight. They wouldn’t say how the woman died.

The death is the tenth homicide in Fayetteville this year.

MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. (AP) — Authorities are searching for a 55-year-old North Carolina man whose boat washed ashore near Myrtle Beach.

Coast Guard Lt. Commander Ryan Rhodes said Friday that Thomas “Andy” Richmond of Ocean Isle Beach, N.C., left Shallotte Inlet sometime Thursday in his 28-foot boat named “Heads or Tails.” The boat was found on the beach about 30 miles away with its engines running at 11:20 p.m. Thursday.

Rhodes said Richmond was alone when he left, and he frequently takes the boat out to fish all day.

The state Department of Natural Resources and South Carolina Law Enforcement Division are assisting the Coast Guard in the search. Anyone with information on Richmond is asked to call the Coast Guard command center in Charleston at 843-740-7050.

Search for missing man suspended

WILMINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Coast Guard has suspended its search for a 54-year-old man who fell overboard off the North Carolina coast.

The Coast Guard said Friday that its crews searched 3,210 square nautical miles for Bobby Barbers of Englehard, a crewmember aboard the fishing vessel Gallant Fox. Barbers was reported missing on Thursday, 30 miles east of Oregon Inlet.

According to a statement, the search is suspended pending further developments.

Officials said Barbers had been wearing a black T-shirt, denim shorts, and no life jacket.

The crew of the Coast Guard Cutter Cochito of Norfolk, Va., joined an airplane and a helicopter in the search.

Woman not killed where body found ASHEVILLE (AP) — Authorities say a pregnant woman whose body was found last year along the Blue Ridge Parkway in North Carolina probably died elsewhere.

Multiple media outlets reported that authorities think 21-year-old Misty Lynn Carter of Mountain Home died in Henderson County, not in Buncombe County where her body was found. Henderson County authorities have taken over the investigation.

Capt. Jerry Rice of the Henderson County Sheriff’s Office told that Times-News of Hendersonville that investigators have a person of

interest, but no charges have been filed.

An autopsy showed Carter had been about six weeks pregnant when a driver found her body on Oct. 19.

She suffered blows to the head and apparently was set on fire after being killed.

Arthur G. “Todd” Guffey, 50, of Marion, died Thursday, July 1, 2010, at his home.

A native of McDowell County, he was a son of the late Larry and Christine Harklerode Guffey.

He was the owner of Guffey Woman charged Appliance for more than 25 and was an avid garwith murder in fire years dener.

ELIZABETHTOWN (AP) Survivors include his — A North Carolina woman wife of 28 years, Betty has been charged with mur- Vail Guffey; two sons, der in the deaths of her aunt Robert Guffey and Larry and cousin, who died in a “Bubba” Guffey, both of house fire.

Marion; three brothers, The Fayetteville Observer Donald Guffey of Old Fort, reported 49-year-old Linda the Rev. Bryan Guffey of Jacobs Brown was charged Marion and Rick Guffey with first-degree murder of Rutherfordton; two sislate Thursday in the deaths ters, Becky Fulenwider of 49-year-old Marcia Wright Morganton and Beth Wilson and 12-year-old Yolanda of Concord; and five grandWright of Elizabethtown. children.

Bladen County Chief Funeral services will be Deputy Phil Little says held Tuesday at 3 p.m. in Brown originally was Westmoreland Chapel with charged with first-degree the Revs. Bryan Guffey arson in the fire Wednesday and Mitch Wilson officiatat the mobile home where ing. The family will receive the Wrights and Brown friends one hour before lived. the service at the funeral Authorities did not talk home. Burial will be at the about a motive.

Chapel Hill Baptist Church It wasn’t clear if Brown had Cemetery. an attorney.

Memorials may be made to the family at 436 Cherokee Way, Marion, NC 28752.

Prosecutors will Westmoreland Funeral seek death penalty Home is in charge of arrangements.

CHARLOTTE (AP) — Prosecutors say they’ll seek Online condolences at www.westa death sentence if they get a conviction against a North morelandfuneralhome.com.

Carolina man accused of killing a toddler.

William Houk The Charlotte Observer William Edward Houk, 69, reported that prosecutors of Spindale, died recently at said Thursday they will seek Rutherford Hospital. a death sentence if 32-yearHe was a native of Akron, old Michael Walker is conOhio. victed.

He is surived by a brother, The Charlotte man is Wayne E. Keyser; and a sischarged with murder and ter, Cyntha Johnson of Ohio. child abuse inflicting seriAsheville Mortuary Service ous injury in the April 12 handled arrangements. death of 18-month-old Zione Washington.

Condolences may be e-mailed to brid1263Wbellsouth.net.

Police Notes Sheriff’s Reports

n The Rutherford County Sheriff’s Department responded to 129 E-911 calls Thursday. n Chasity Morris reported larceny and breaking and entering of a motor vehicle. n Justin Mulawka reported larceny of a vehicle. n Daisy Laughter reported breaking and entering and larceny. n Donna Femster reported an attempted breaking and entering. n Dorothy Hyder reported misdemeanor larceny.

Rutherfordton

n The Rutherfordton Police Department responded to 29 E-911 calls Thursday. n David A. Leslie reported vandalism to property. n An employee of N.C. Tractor Farm Supply reported damage to a chain link fence. n Amy Wilson reported breaking and entering into a motor vehicle. n Belinda Brooks reported a breaking and entering into a motor vehicle.

Spindale

n The Spindale Police Department responded to 33 E-911 calls Thursday.

Lake Lure n Lake Lure Police

Department responded to nine E-911 calls Thursday.

Forest City

n The Forest City Police Department responded to 57 E-911 calls Thursday. n An employee of Enterprise Leasing Company reported a stolen rental vehicle on their lot. The vehicle was reported stolen from Enterprise in Durham. n An employee of Wal-Mart reported an incident of larceny. (See arrest of Liggins) n Anagine Burns reported an incident of fraud. n An employee of Rose’s Department Store reported

an incident of larceny. (See arrest of Hardge)

Arrests n Thomas Eric Smathers, 40, of 586 Gilmer Edwards Road; charged with three counts possession of a schedule IV controlled substance, trafficking opium or heroin and simple possession of a schedule III controlled substance; released on a $105,000 unsecured bond.

(RCSD) n Reginald Van Hardge, 62, of New Hampshire St.; charged with larceny and second-degree trespassing; released on a $5,000 bond.

(FCPD) n Brent William Cook, 23, of 2165 US Hwy 64/74A; charged with possession of drug paraphernalia and driving while license revoked; released on a $10,000 secured bond.

(RCSD) n Johnny Willard Boone, 64, of 500 Cleghorn Mill Road; charged with driving while impaired and driving left of center; released on a $500 unsecured bond.

(NCHP) n Timothy Scott Brown, 40, of 310 Pink Dill Mill Road; charged with disorderly conduct; released on a $1,000 unsecured bond.

(RCSD) n Desmond Hykeem Jefferson, 17, of Farmside Drive; charged with consuming alcohol under age; released on a $1,000 unsecured bond. (FCPD) n James Freeman, 56, of Settlemyer Street; charged with driving while impaired, careless and reckless driving and flee to elude; released on a $2,000 unsecured bond. (FCPD) n Justin James McKinney, 19, of 115 One Sixth EM St.; charged with two counts misdemeanor larceny; released on a written promise to appear. (RCSD) n Jimmy Hayes Lynch, 54, of 706 Penn Ave.; charged with obtaining property by false pretense; released on

Todd Guffey

Catherine Hines a $10,000 unsecured bond.

(SPD) n Jordan Nicole Carroll, 20, 1340 Hopper Road; charged with failure to appear on misdemeanor driving while license revoked; released on a $11,000 secured bond. n Matthew Robert Allen, 30, 183 N. Cleghorn St.; charged with misdemeanor probation violation, driving while license revoked; released on a $12,000 secured bond. n Deon Cash, 32, of 571 Poors Ford Road; charged with misdemeanor probation violation, assault on a female; placed under a $8,000 secured bond.

(Probation) n Michael Edward Colbert, 37, of 333 Forest St.; charged with simple possession of a schedule VI controlled substance; released on a $500 secured bond. (FCPD)

Catherine Hames Hines, 82, of Chesnee, S.C., died Friday, July 2, 2010, at the Hospice House in Forest City.

Funeral arrangements are incomplete and will be announced by Harrelson Funeral Home

Deaths

Don Coryell SAN DIEGO (AP) — Don Coryell, one of the founding fathers of the modern passing game, has died. He was 85.

The San Diego Chargers confirmed Coryell died Thursday at Sharp Grossmont Hospital in suburban La Mesa. “We’ve lost a man who has contributed to the game of pro football in a very lasting way with his innovations and with his style,” Hall of Famer Dan Fouts, the quarterback who made Air Coryell fly, said from Oregon. “They say that Citations imitation is the highest form Carmin Liggins, 21, of of flattery — look around, it’s Hemphill Road, Union there.”

Mills, was cited with larceny.

The coach’s Air Coryell (FCPD) offense produced some of the most dynamic passing attacks in NFL history — EMS and affected how defenses n Rutherford County play even to this day.

Emergency Medical Services After he went 104-19-2 at responded to 31 E-911 calls San Diego State from 1961and rescue crews responded 72, he left the Aztecs for the to one call Friday.

St. Louis Cardinals in 1973.

With Jim Hart at quarterFire Calls back, the Cardinals won division titles in 1974 and ‘75 n Bill’s Creek, Hudlow, behind Coryell.

Ellenboro and Forest City Fouts said he became firefighters were dispatched friends with Coryell after to a vehicle accident in their the two were finished with respective districts. football. n Forest City firefighters Coryell returned to San responded to a grass fire and Diego when he was hired a motor vehicle accident. by the Chargers on Sept.

25, 1978, the same day a n Lake Lure fire departPacific Southwest Airlines ment was dispatched to a jet crashed into a North Park power line fire and a gas neighborhood after colliding leak. with a small plane, killing all n SDO responded to a 137 people on the two planes brush fire and a woods and seven people on the assisted by the N.C. Forest ground.

Service.

“It’s crazy that when you n Sandy Mush responded look back at the history of to a grass fire also assisted by this city, he got hired on the the N.C. Forest Service.

same day as that PSA crash,” said Hank Bauer, who was a running back and special teams star with the Chargers then. “That really was one of the darkest days in this city’s history and it became one of the brightest days in the history of sports.

“He walked in and met our team for the time and he was just this little bundle of energy, flying around the meeting. He said, ‘You know what? We’re going to have fun, and we’re going to cry and laugh and battle our (behinds) off, but we’re going to have fun.’ We had fun for a lot of years.”

From 1978-86, Air Coryell — led by Fouts — set records and led the NFL in passing almost every season. Coryell guided the Chargers to the AFC championship game after the 1980 and ‘81 seasons, but he never reached the Super Bowl.

The lack of a Super Bowl on his resume may have hurt Coryell last winter in voting for the Pro Football Hall of Fame. He was a finalist for the first time, but was not selected for induction.

“He revolutionized the game of football, not only in San Diego, but throughout the entire NFL,” Chargers president Dean Spanos said in a statement. “Don Coryell was a legend not only with the Chargers but throughout San Diego. Though unfortunately he did not live long enough to see it, hopefully one day his bust will find its proper place in pro football’s Hall of Fame. He will be missed.”

The big stars of the Air Coryell years — Fouts, tight end Kellen Winslow and wide receiver Charlie Joiner — all ended up in the Hall of Fame. Winslow was used more as a pass catcher than a blocker, and sometimes would be split out wide, as would running backs.

One of the lasting images of the Coryell years was an exhausted Winslow being helped off the field by two teammates after the Chargers’ epic 41-38 overtime victory in the playoffs over the Miami Dolphins on Jan. 2, 1982. Despite cramping up in the heat and humidity, Winslow caught 13 passes for 166 yards and one touchdown, and also blocked a potential game-winning field goal.

Bauer said Coryell changed the way opponents had to play defense, “Because of Air Coryell, nickel and dime defenses became an every-game proposition,” Bauer said. “He changed the way the game is played today.”

Fouts said Air Coryell meant many things.

In 14 NFL seasons, Coryell had a record of 111-83-1.

Coryell is the first coach to win 100 games in college and pro football and is a member of the college Hall of Fame.

“Here’s the secret to Don — outside of the Xs and Os, his players and his family were the most important things in the world,” Bauer said. “It had nothing to do with money or fame. It was all about family, team and winning and the game, and respect.”

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Ongoing Buy one, get one free sale: Through Saturday, Yokefellow Service Center; buy any clothing item, get one of equal or lesser value free, floor restocked daily; store hours, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.; cash, credit and debit only.

Book sale: Monday-Friday, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., Rutherford EMC; hardback books, $1, paperback books 50 cents and some miscellaneous books four for $1; proceeds go to benefit Relay for Life.

Saturday, July 3 Rutherford County Animal Control Facility and the Community Pet Center Office: Closed through Monday; reopening Tuesday at noon for public adoptions.

Kids’ Computer Corner: Every Saturday, 10 a.m. to noon, Union Mills Learning Center; free to the public and geared twoard children preschool through third grade who may not have access to a computer or the Internet at home; educational software and adultsupervised access to the Internet.

Big Day in Ellenboro: Beginning at 9 a.m.; free entertainment for children – bouncy house, face painting, basketball shooting gallery, balloon art, sliding boards, swings; parade begins at the old school grounds at 9:15 a.m.; food, crafts, music, “pitch burst,” cake walk, Depot Museum, car show and more. American Legion Post 74 will be on hand with raffle tickets for a Rutherford County Limited Edition Historical Rifle, of which only 25 were made.

Limited number of tickets to be sold.

statutes. South Carolina prohibits small rockets less than a half-inch in diameter and three inches long.

“The hard-core fireworks folks, they’re the ones who are going to South Carolina, and they know it,” Michael Henderson said. “They don’t even stop here.”

A new law in North Carolina, which went into effort in February, could limit celebrations and should result in an increased awareness when dealing with pyrotechnics, fire officials say.

Operators and assistants are required to have a state license to put on a pyrotechnic or proximate fireworks display, according to the Office of the State Fire Marshal. About 350 people have completed the necessary training, submitted an application and passed an exam to receive the three-year license, a news release said. Experienced operators also have an opportunity to obtain a one-time, 30-day license. Those people are required to pursue permanent certification by taking the course and passing the exam to conduct future pyrotechnic displays after the temporary license expires.

The new rules come after four fireworks handlers were killed and another was injured after an explosion on Ocracoke Island last year. The previous law required local jurisdictions to define a fireworks expert. The new rules set a minimum benchmark of expertise for all operators and assistants working in North Carolina.

An investigation of the Ocracoke Island blast led to nine state citations of serious workplace safety violations and fines of $44,800 against Melrose

Filing

Barbecue sale: 11:30 a.m. to 6 p.m., Green Hill Fire Department.

Monday, July 5 Chase Athletic Booster meeting: 6:30 p.m., Chase office conference room.

Storewide half-price sale: Through Saturday, Yokefellow Service Center; store hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.; cash, credit and debit only.

The Rutherford County Landfill and all convenience centers will be closed today for the July Fourth holiday and will reopen for regular hours on Tuesday.

Rutherford County offices: Closed today in honor of the Independence Day holiday. Offices will reopen on Tuesday.

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Any rate is unsatisfactory, he said.

“In trying to hire people to come to work, they need a minimal high school diploma.

“I have seen, as a commissioner, how hard the commissioners worked with the Board of Education to provide additional technical and vocational training for students. Not everyone is geared toward college courses,” he said, adding that he hopes to see an expansion of technical and vocational courses.

Bright is serving her first four-year term. “It has been a privilege to serve on the Rutherford County Board of Education. Over the past 3 1/2 years, I have seen first-hand how hard the teachers, administration and faculty have worked to make our schools the

Right now, as dry as it is, you can get a fire going pretty easy. Anyway you look at it, legal or not, a lot of fireworks will be set off this weekend.

And somewhere along the line, someone will set the grass on fire.

— Charles Vassey Deputy Fire Marshal

South Pyrotechnics Inc. of Catawba, S.C., the Associated Press reported.

The company contested the citations and fines and a review is pending.

Charles Vassey, Rutherford County deputy fire marshal, said the dry conditions create a major problem this year. Fireworks could lead to grass fires, which may spread to trees and structures. Sunday, he said, someone setting fireworks off along N.C. 74 sparked a fire in Ellenboro and two fires in Cleveland County.

“Right now, as dry as it is, you can get a fire going pretty easy,” Vassey said.

“Anyway you look at it, legal or not, a lot of fireworks will be set off this weekend. And somewhere along the line, someone will set the grass on fire.”

Leave the fireworks to the professionals, says Vassey.

“There’s a lot less danger of someone being hurt and less danger of fires being started and accidents happening,” he said, adding that safety is the reason N.C. statutes are more restrictive on fireworks.

Lake Lure Fire Chief Ron Morgan agreed, saying if people plan to buy fireworks they should legally buy them in North Carolina. People using fireworks from other states could be cited with a misdemeanor, he said.

“We absolutely deter people from getting the illegal fireworks from South Carolina because of the safety issue,” said Morgan. “We do strongly recommend that people attend one of the professional shows.”

All fireworks can be dangerous, the National Fire Protection Association says.

best they can be,” she said. “This is an ongoing process, and I am excited about the future of our school system.

I want to continue to be a part of helping Rutherford County Schools meet the needs of all children.”

Millwood, who filed last week, said Friday morning that he has been thinking about running for the school board for quite a while. “As a parent, and a concerned parent, I think I could be more involved and I have something to offer the board.

“I don’t have any complaints about anything,” he said. “But I believe we can always raise the bar and keep the standards high in anything.”

Seeking the District 2 seat are Keith Price and Matt Stamey. Seeking the District 3 seat is Greg Millwood.

District 1 incumbent Carolyn Keever is running unopposed for re-election for the R-S Central district seat, and Shannon Buckley and DeWalt Koone

are running unopposed for their seats as supervisors for Rutherford County Soil and Water Conservation.

The General Election is Nov. 2.

rules for controlling particulate matter, sulfur dioxide, carbon monoxide, nitrogen oxides, visible emissions, volatile organic compounds and hazardous air pollutants. The plant will use various air pollution control devices, including a wet scrubber, electrostatic precipitators and a selective catalytic reduction system to meet those requirements.

According to the release, the renewed permit requires that Duke: n Monitor air pollution control equipment. n Conduct periodic stack testing of emissions from recovery furnaces and boilers annually. n Operate continuous emission monitors for nitrogen oxides, sulfur dioxide and visible emissions.

The state agency based its renewal decision on the state’s determination of Duke Energy Carolinas’ ability to meet state air quality regulations

based on the particular emission sources and air pollution controls as well as written and verbal comments made during a January public hearing and subsequent comment period.

In 2008, some 7,000 people were treated in emergency rooms across the country for fireworks-related injuries, according to the NFPA. Of those, 32 percent suffered injuries from sparklers, fountains or novelty fireworks. The risk of injury was highest for teens 15 to 19 and children 5 to 9, the news release said, and sparklers burn at 1,200 degrees.

Safety regulations for handling pyrotechnics is regulated on a stateby-state basis and varies widely, Julie L. Heckman, executive director of the American Pyrotechnics Association, told the AP. Twenty states have no licensing requirement, she said. About 87 percent of the 213 million pounds of fireworks Americans fired off in 2008 were backyard firecrackers and rockets, the group said.

Contact Trump via e-mail at jtrump@thedigitalcourier.

Candidates are: Rutherford County Board of Education District 1 Carolyn Keever (I) District 2 Chuck Hill Keith Price Matt Stamey District 3 Sherry Bright (I) Greg Millwood Soil and Water Conservation Supervisor -- Two seats Shannon Buckley Dewalt Koone

Tuesday, July 6 GRACE support group for anyone caring for a loved one: GRACE is conducted the first Tuesday of each month from 4 to 5:30 p.m. at Rutherford Life Care and the third Friday of each month from 1 to 2:30 p.m. at the Rutherford County Senior Center.

Adult Care services are available on Tuesday evenings. Hosted by Hospice of Rutherford County.

Relay For Life Team Captain’s meeting: 5:30 p.m., ICC Library theater; points will be given for a prize.

HOPE Support Group: Mondays beginning July 6, at 6 p.m. at the Center of Living for any adult in the community who has lost a loved one. Offered at no cost by Hospice of Rutherford County.

Alanon meetings: Lake Lure Alanon Family Group meets every Tuesday at 7:30 p.m., at Lake Lure Mountains Branch Library, 150 Bills Creek Road, Lake Lure; call 625-0456 for additional information.

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required by state and federal air regulations to submit an application for an operating permit for the sixth unit within 12 months of beginning operation,” the state Division of Air Quality says in a press release. “That permitting process will include an opportunity for public comments and (Environmental Protection Agency) review of the operating conditions for the unit.”

Units 1 through 4 will be shut down after Duke starts operating Unit 6.

Construction of the new facility is expected to cost about $1.8 billion, with financing expenses adding about $550 million to the price.

To approve the permit renewal, state officials had to determine that Duke can comply with state and federal

Saturday, July 10 Kids’ Computer Corner: Every Saturday, 10 a.m. to noon, Union Mills Learning Center; free to the public and geared twoard children preschool through third grade who may not have access to a computer or the Internet at home; educational software and adultsupervised access to the Internet.

Benefit for Charles Wilkie: 6:30 p.m., Sunshine Elementary School; hamburger and hot dog supper at 5 p.m. followed by “Memories of Elvis” with Michael Hoover; admission $1 person, with a lov eoffering to be taken; Wilkie is in need of a kidney transplant and monies raised will go to him.

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Children’s summer reading program: Every Wednesday, 9 a.m., through Aug. 4, Union Mills Learning Center; each week will feature a different subject and guest.

Town of Rutherfordton Town Council meeting: 5:30 p.m., Rutherfordton Town Hall.

Duke Energy Carolinas submitted its application for renewal of the air permit on Jan. 22, 2008. A draft permit was proposed by the N.C. Division of Air Quality and a public hearing on that draft was held Jan. 14. A hearing officer’s report was submitted to Keith Overcash, director of the N.C. Division of Air Quality.

On April 13, Overcash recommended issuing the renewed permit after the required 45-day review period from the Environmental Protection Agency.

The permit is good for five years.

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In this 2007 file photo, Megan Moye, 11, plays with a sparkler as she watches the City of Akron July 4th fireworks display. Expect fewer booms this July Fourth because of financial busts in some cities and towns.

For many communities it’s no bucks, no booms That is the story in Clayton, N.C., where Mayor Jody McLeod says he can’t remember a year the town of 16,000 didn’t have fireworks — until this year.

Clayton is facing layoffs and spending $30,000 for fireworks just didn’t seem right.

Donations from a father-son team saved fireworks from fizzling in Cedar Grove, N.J., where Mayor Robert O’Toole and his son, State Sen. Kevin O’Toole, are splitting the $7,000 cost.

“People always seem to step up in times of need,” said Township Manager Thomas Tucci.

In Boston, Liberty Mutual Insurance Company ran an online contest complete with a history quiz and then awarded $10,000 grants to 10 cities, including Cincinnati and Montclair, N.J., to help them continue their July Fourth celebrations.

While some communities struggled to find donors or had to cancel altogether, the fireworks industry itself is ... well, booming.

“The fireworks industry tends to be recession resistant,” said Julie Heckman, executive director of the American Pyrotechnics Association.

“I think that’s because these community celebrations are so important.”

Industry sales last year were just under a billion dollars, at $945 million — with steady annual increases over the last decade.

About two-thirds of the revenue last year was for consumer fireworks, said Heckman. Consumer fireworks are sold most commonly at neighborhood stands versus the display fireworks that are used at large community events by licensed professionals.

The Consumer Product Safety Commission urges people this holiday weekend to play it safe with sparklers, firecrackers and aerial fireworks. The agency knows of two deaths and nearly 9,000 emergency room visits for injuries from fireworks related incidents last year.

Most injuries were to people younger than 20 and in many cases resulted in the loss of a limb.

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Expect fewer booms this July Fourth because of financial busts in some cities and towns.

As many folks pack up picnics and head to see the fireworks this holiday weekend, the skies over a couple-dozen cash-strapped communities will be missing the spectacular crackle of color that Americans associate with the nation’s birthday.

Blame the economy.

Cities and towns including Antioch, Calif.; Louisville, Colo.; Akron, Ohio; Stamford, Conn.; and Jersey City, N.J., were forced to pull the plug on their local fireworks shows because of tight budgets.

In Antioch, Mayor James Davis said it was a tough call to cancel the city’s nearly $80,000 fireworks show and festivities. It’s a celebration he and his wife brought back to the area 15 years ago. But even more difficult, he says, is laying off 18 people this year.

“You get to know a lot of these employees on a one-to-one basis,” said Davis. “How can we spend money on the fireworks when we’re making these cutbacks?”

It is the same story in Clayton, N.C., where Mayor Jody McLeod says he can’t remember a year the town of 16,000 didn’t have fireworks — until this year. Clayton is facing layoffs and spending $30,000 for fireworks just didn’t seem right.

“It’s devastating,” said the mayor.

“But because of the economy, this is just what the town has to do.”

McLeod has received a few letters and e-mails asking how he could cancel the fireworks — “a piece of Americana,” said one; “insane,” cried another. But most residents “understand that you can only spend what you have, just like a family,” said McLeod.

Dallas almost lost its fireworks when organizers couldn’t find enough corporate sponsors. After they canceled, a last-minute donation from a scrap metal recycling company, Gold Metal Recyclers, saved the show, although it’ll be held on July 5.

Gold Metal and Dr Pepper are contributing $80,000 for the fireworks show and a performance by the Dallas Wind Symphony.

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Nation Today Man who kept body on ice is deported NEWPORT BEACH, Calif. (AP) — Federal officials have deported a New Zealand drug dealer who kept his dead girlfriend’s body on dry ice in a swanky Newport Beach hotel after she died of an overdose.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement says Stephen David Royds was deported June 25.

The 49-year-old Royds was paroled in May after serving about 1 1/2 years of a four-year prison sentence on felony drug charges.

He was arrested in 2008 for allegedly selling cocaine and pleaded guilty to drug charges. Investigators who searched his room at the Fairmont Hotel found the body of 33-year-old Monique Trepp in a plastic box filled with dry ice.

Acquaintances said she died of an accidental drug overdose nearly a year earlier.

Lake’s algae dangerous to swimmers, economy ST. MARYS, Ohio (AP) — Water warnings at what’s called “Ohio’s other Great Lake” are causing economic and environmental distress for the hundreds of residents who depend on tourists.

Boaters and others are canceling trips, leaving cottages and camp sites empty during what normally would be a bustling Independence Day weekend.

The warnings went up a week ago at Grand Lake St. Marys in western Ohio, where pollution from nearby farms has caused an algae outbreak. State officials say it’s no lonThe Best Local Sports Coverage

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ger safe for swimming and skiing.

Tests on the lake water show it contains dangerous toxins with the potential to cause rashes, vomiting or even liver and nerve damage.

There are no reports of anyone getting sick from the water.

Des Moines levee springs small leak DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A leak in a vulnerable levee protecting an Iowa neighborhood from a swollen Des Moines River was characterized Friday as “seepage” by the Army Corps of Engineers, but experts said the flood barrier remained stable as the river continued to rise.

Officials spotted a crack late Thursday in the same part of the levee that gave way in 2008 and flooded the small, working-class Des Moines neighborhood of Birdland.

Crews walked the levee early Friday, careful to avoid the cracked area, and noticed no other damage, said Tom Heinold, an Army Corps flood-risk management coordinator.

No evacuations have been ordered, but the river was expected to crest Friday afternoon and storms were forecast to return Sunday.

“The water has found a path through the rock layer from the wet side to the dry side. It looked like last night it took some material with it, but it looks like it has stabilized,” Heinold said. “We don’t know how much material might be missing.”

The river is forecast to crest Friday at 26.5 feet, which is 3.5 feet above flood stage.

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Spy suspects used off-the-shelf technology

By PETER SVENSSON AP Technology Writer

NEW YORK — Before James Bond heads out on a mission, he has to stop in Q’s laboratory for custom-made gadgets like an exploding watch. Life wasn’t so dashing for the suspected Russian spies arrested this week: They allegedly relied heavily on off-the-shelf consumer electronics.

“In the old days, they’d have special KGB-type equipment. Now they use normal computers, normal laptops,” said Sujeet Shenoi, professor of computer science at the University of Tulsa and a frequent consultant to the FBI. “Technology is so powerful now that you don’t have to have specialpurpose equipment anymore.”

According to the FBI’s complaints that sought the arrest of the 11 suspects, the array of tools included laptops, flash memory cards and at least one prepaid cell phone. The suspects are accused of backing that up with old-fashioned spy technology like short-wave radios, invisible ink, and a classic, manual encryption method known as a “onetime pad.”

Short-wave radios were once relatively common in homes. Today, they’re a bit of a giveaway if the FBI already suspects you’re a spy. Not so with laptops, cell phones or flash drives. But that doesn’t mean spies can feel safe.

The way the Russian suspects used these gadgets was revealing to FBI agents who followed them for years.

The use of “spy-fi” is a case in point.

The FBI said that one of the suspects, Anna Chapman, would go to a coffee shop in Manhattan on Wednesdays and set up her laptop. A little while later, a minivan the FBI knew was used by a Russian official would drive by. To the naked

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Television cameras line up outside federal court in Alexandria, Va., Friday, where Patricia Mills, Michael Zottoli, and Mikhail Semenko, northern Virginia residents accused of being illegal spies for Russia, were appearing in court.

eye, there was no contact between them.

But the FBI said it figured out that Chapman’s computer was set to link wirelessly to a laptop in the minivan, using a standard, built-in Wi-Fi chip. In the short time the computers were close, they could transfer encrypted files between each other.

The agency figured this out with commercial Wi-Fi analysis software, not with something from Q’s lab.

Glenn Fleishman, editor of the Wi-Fi Net News blog, said that from a technical standpoint, the Wi-Fi link appeared to be fairly amateurish and laughably easy to sniff out. He pointed out that there’s at least one other commercially available technology for short-range transmissions, known as ultrawideband radio, that would likely have been impossible for the FBI to pick up.

On the contrary, Keith Melton, who co-authored the book “Spycraft” with the

former director of the CIA’s Office of Technical Service, said the use of Wi-Fi could have been “very smart” because no data passed through the Internet. The connection would have been impossible to trace — if the FBI hadn’t been smart and dogged enough to have Wi-Fi analysis equipment in place at the right time.

Melton said the technique is reminiscent of a precursor to today’s BlackBerry, developed by the CIA in the 1970s to give its spies in Russia some way to pass messages unseen to receivers close by.

The downfall was that being caught with the equipment could lead to a death sentence.

In another example of an everyday item allegedly being used for secret communications, the FBI said Chapman bought a cell phone last Saturday under a fake name. This was probably a “prepaid” phone, which doesn’t come with a

contract. Because there’s no long-term commitment from the buyer, the sellers don’t check the IDs of the buyers.

That means law enforcement don’t know which numbers suspects are using, making wiretapping very difficult.

Not surprisingly, prepaid phones used once or twice and then thrown away are a favorite tool of criminals and terrorists. Faisal Shahzad, who admitted to trying to bomb New York’s Times Square on May 1, used a prepaid phone. A proposed Senate bill would require buyers to show ID. In the FBI’s documents, there is no mention of the agency intercepting a call from Chapman’s disposable cell phone. She bought it just after meeting an undercover FBI agent posing as a Russian official. He told her to meet another spy the next day, but she didn’t show up.

Presumably, she had been suspicious of the “Russian,” called her handler on the cell

phone and was warned to stay away.

But again, her behavior was a giveaway, according to the FBI. She bought the phone in a Brooklyn store, then immediately threw away the bag containing the charger and the customer agreement. The FBI retrieved the bag, and found she’d given her name as “Irine Kutsov,” living on “99 Fake Street.”

Another person charged in the case, Richard Murphy, received a bag with cash and a memory card from a Russian official at a White Plains, N.Y., train station in 2009, according to the FBI. That would be a classic “brush pass,” where conspirators walk by each other and quickly pass an item from one to the other. The FBI said it caught this exchange on surveillance video. It was only later that the agency figured out, by eavesdropping, that the bag contained a memory card.

For more than a century, spies have employed methods to miniaturize documents, usually by photographic means that require special equipment. Flash memory chips, the kind used in cameras, phones and USB drives, make it child’s play to stuff thousands of documents in a tiny, concealable area.

It’s surprising, then, that the spy ring is also alleged to have used one of the oldest ways to conceal writing: invisible ink. Its height of popularity in intelligence circles was World War I, Melton said. Now, it’s mainly found in the toy aisle, but that doesn’t mean it’s obsolete.

“The beauty of it is that no one is looking for it. It’s so old that it’s been forgotten,” Melton said.

Indeed, the FBI’s complaint doesn’t mention that it found any documents written in invisible ink.

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By KEVIN CARVER Sports Reporter

Rain washes out NASCAR qualifying DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Kevin Harvick had no chance to start from the pole at Daytona International Speedway — until the rain came.

Harvick, the Sprint Cup points leader, was awarded the pole for Saturday night’s Coke Zero 400 when rain washed out qualifying Friday.

“Obviously, that’ll make things a little easier at the beginning of the race to get things going,” Harvick said.

Harvick was one of only 12 cars that completed qualifying laps Friday before showers, but the best he would have started the race was ninth. Sam Hornish Jr. turned the fastest lap, but he will start 30th based on owner’s points.

The field was set by points for the third time this season.

Qualifying at Martinsville and Talladega also was rained out.

It also was the third time in the last four years that rain wiped out qualifying at Daytona in July. It happened in 2007 and 2009.

Four-time defending series champion Jimmie Johnson will start on the outside of the first row. Kyle Busch, Denny Hamlin, Jeff Gordon and Kurt Busch round out the first three rows.

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Driver Ricky Weeks, of Rutherfordton, stands in victory lane as he is interviewed over the public addess system after winning the Carolina Clash at Harris Motorspeedway, late Thursday night. Weeks, who is a 5-time Clash points champion, is 3-for-3 at Harris in the super late model series.

HARRIS ­— The Carolina Clash Series has visited the Harris Speedway on three different occasions in the last four years ­— and Ricky Weeks has won all three races.

The “Rutherfordton Rocket,” Weeks gained command of the 35-lap main in the early stages and cruised to victory in the super late model event, Thursday night.

“The crew and I are jacked right now since we have been running so well lately,” Weeks said. “It’s incredibly special to win in your own backyard with my family and friends here.”

Only 11 machines from the Carolina Clash took part in Thursday’s event, but there were a few good cars that seemed to have a chance early on.

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BASEBALL American Legion Playoffs Game 3 7 p.m. Rutherford Post 423 at Pineville, Audrey Kell High American Legion Junior Playoffs, Game 2 2 p.m. Caldwell at Rutherford Post 423, RS Middle Coastal Plain League 7 p.m. Forest City Owls at Martinsville Mustangs SOFTBALL Little League All-Stars at Cliffside Park, Seniors 6 p.m. Single Elimination Round — Chase, Forest City, Polk Co., Rutherfordton

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Post 423’s Kyle Holmstrom (3) is greeted by teammate Jonathon Hamlet (32) and Head Coach Sam Hooper (5) after scoring on a double by Danny Fraga during the game against Pineville Friday at R-S Central. Post 423 is playing in the first round of the American Legion Playoffs. Rutherford County held a 1-0 lead in the Best of Five Series. See story, Page 2B.

On TV 9 a.m. (WYFF) Tennis Wimbledon, Women’s Final.

9:30 a.m. (WSOC) (WLOS) World Cup Soccer Third Quarterfinal: Teams TBA. 2 p.m. (WSOC) (WLOS) World Cup Soccer Fourth Quarterfinal: Teams TBA. 3 p.m. (WBTV) (WSPA) PGA Tour Golf AT&T National, Third Round.

3 p.m. (ESPN2) MLL Lacrosse Chicago Machine at Long Island Lizards.

3:30 p.m. (WYFF) Motorcycle Racing AMA Motocross Series.

4 p.m. (WHNS) MLB Baseball Regional Coverage.

Florida Marlins at Atlanta Braves or New York Mets at Washington Nationals or Tampa Bay Rays at Minnesota Twins.

4:30 p.m. (WYFF) Track and Field Nike Prefontaine Classic.

5 p.m. (ESPN2) WNBA Basketball Seattle Storm at Los Angeles Sparks.

7 p.m. (TS) WNBA Basketball Chicago Sky at Atlanta Dream.

7:30 p.m. (TNT) NASCAR Racing Sprint Cup: Coke Zero 400.

8 p.m. (WGN-A) MLB Baseball Chicago White Sox at Texas Rangers.

10 p.m. (FSCR) Boxing Michel Rosales vs. Mark Melligan.

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Rutherfordton’s Colton Snethen (5) and Dylan Boyd, left, play in the Little League All-Star tourney in this photo from Optimist Park, Belmont.

Rutherfordton falls in title tilt From staff reports

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Forest City’s Amber Sayres delivers a pitch during the Senior All-Star Softball Tournament at Cliffside Park Friday. Sayres and her Forest City teammates battled the Chase All-Stars.

BELMONT — Rutherfordton’s 11- and 12-year old baseball All-Stars fell in the District 1 Championship game to Boiling Springs, 11-0, Friday.

All-Star action continued at Cliffside Park, which hosted the Senior Softball District 1 All-Stars Tournament.

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Putnam tosses 10; Scoreboard Owls end skid BASEBALL

FOREST CITY — The Owls produced some fireworks on the field, prior to the ones that lit up the night sky.

Forest City (20-12) ended a four game losing streak with a 3-2 win over Asheboro in 10 innings.

In a unique twist, the Owls’ Grant Buckner scored the game-tying run and the game-winning run — on wild pitches by the Copperheads.

Buckner scored in the eighth to knot the game at 2, and crossed with the winner, with one out, in the 10th.

Forest City’s Kyle Putnam worked 10 innings for the win. Putnam scattered four hits, surrendered two runs, both earned, and struck out seven as he improved his record to 3-1 on the year.

The Owls be on the road this 4th of July weekend. Forest City plays at Martinsville, tonight, and in Thomasville on Sunday.

Pineville evens series

By KEVIN CARVER Sports Reporter

RUTHERFORDTON — Rutherford County and Pineville engaged in a pitcher’s duel, but Post 337 starter Ryan McLintock held a lead after seven innings and John Case kept it for the final two innings as Post 423 lost, 4-2, in game two of the American Legion Playoffs, Friday.

Down 4-1, Kyle Holmstrom (2-for-4) smashed an RBI double in the bottom of the ninth to cut the Pineville lead to two, 4-2.

However, that was the only run Post 423 could scratch out as they left the bases-loaded to end the game.

Post 423 didn’t help themselves stranding 11 runners in the contest, while Pineville left 12 on the bases.

Dylan Hipp took the loss on the mound despite giving up just six hits in seven innings of work.

Pineville unknotted a scoreless game in the top of the second.

Following a Chase Carbone double and an error off the bat of Deuce Wright, Post 337 had runners at the corners.

Ben Brown tried the squeeze play, but Post 423’s Hipp flipped home as catcher Dakotah Whitaker tagged Carbone out at the plate. Although that was the second out of the inning, Derek Ham’s grounder through the hole in right scored Wright for the 1-0 visitor lead.

Rutherford County evened the score in the top of the third as Kyle Holmstrom led off with a double into the right field gap. Whitaker’s sacrifice bunt moved Holmstrom to third base and Danny Fraga’s base hit crossed Holmstrom for the 1-1 tie.

Pineville retook the advantage in the top of the fifth as Brown began the inning with a walk. A fielding error by Holmstrom went into right field off the bat of Ham which allowed two Brown to reach third base.

A sacrifice fly to right crossed Brown as Pineville claimed a 2-1 lead.

In the seventh, Pineville added two runs in the seventh, one off a Ham walk and the other from a Post 423 error to push the lead to 4-1.

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As of press time Friday, no scores had been reported from the Senior All-Star Tournament at Cliffside.

The Senior tourney featured All-Star teams from Chase, Forest City, Rutherfordton and Polk County.

At the 11- and 12-year old tourney, Rutherfordton’s Dylan Boyd worked four innings, with Brandon Riggs and Zach Parks working in relief.

Rutherfordton had an early opportunity go awry.

The All-Stars loaded the bases in the 2nd inning, but Boiling Springs was able to convert a 1-2-3 double play to end the threat.

Rutherfordton 5, Chase 0

BELMONT — Rutherfordton 11- and 12-year old baseball All-Stars got a shot at the District 1 title after defeating Chase, 5-0, Thursday.

In Thursday’s action, Colton Snethen tossed a dominating 2-hitter with 10 strike outs. Dylan Boyd stroked a double and a two run, home run in the win.

Rutherfordton’s only loss had came to Boiling Springs on Wednesday, 10-0.

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W L Pct Cincinnati 45 35 .563 St. Louis 43 36 .544 Milwaukee 36 43 .456 Chicago 34 45 .430 Houston 32 48 .400 Pittsburgh 28 51 .354 West Division

W L Pct San Diego 46 33 .582 Los Angeles 43 35 .551 Colorado 42 37 .532 San Francisco 40 38 .513 Arizona 31 48 .392

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Thursday’s Games Cincinnati 3, Chicago Cubs 2, 10 innings Washington 2, N.Y. Mets 1 Pittsburgh 3, Philadelphia 2 Milwaukee 4, St. Louis 1 Colorado 7, San Francisco 3 Houston 6, San Diego 3, 10 innings Friday’s Games Cincinnati 12, Chicago Cubs 0 N.Y. Mets 5, Washington 3 Pittsburgh 2, Philadelphia 0 Florida at Atlanta, late San Francisco at Colorado, late Milwaukee at St. Louis, late L.A. Dodgers at Arizona, late Houston at San Diego, late Saturday’s Games Cincinnati (Cueto 8-2) at Chicago Cubs (R.Wells 3-6), 1:05 p.m.

Florida (Ani.Sanchez 7-4) at Atlanta (Hanson 7-5), 4:10 p.m.

N.Y. Mets (Dickey 6-1) at Washington (Strasburg 2-2), 4:10 p.m.

Milwaukee (M.Parra 2-5) at St. Louis (Carpenter 9-1), 6:35 p.m.

Philadelphia (K.Kendrick 4-3) at Pittsburgh (Maholm 5-6), 7:05 p.m.

San Francisco (Zito 7-4) at Colorado (Jimenez 14-1), 8:10 p.m.

Houston (Norris 2-5) at San Diego (Correia 5-6), 8:35 p.m.

L.A. Dodgers (Kershaw 7-4) at Arizona (R.Lopez 4-6), 9:40 p.m.

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Philadelphia at Pittsburgh, 1:35 p.m.

Milwaukee at St. Louis, 2:15 p.m.

Cincinnati at Chicago Cubs, 2:20 p.m.

San Francisco at Colorado, 3:10 p.m.

Houston at San Diego, 4:05 p.m.

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Florida at Atlanta, 5:05 p.m.

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San Francisco at Milwaukee, 4:10 p.m.

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

Florida at L.A. Dodgers, 9:10 p.m.

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Oakland (Braden 4-7) at Cleveland (Westbrook 5-4), 7:05 p.m.

Seattle (J.Vargas 6-3) at Detroit (Verlander 9-5), 7:05 p.m.

Baltimore (Guthrie 3-9) at Boston (Lester 9-3), 7:10 p.m.

Chicago White Sox (Danks 7-6) at Texas (Tom. Hunter 4-0), 8:05 p.m.

Kansas City (Chen 4-2) at L.A. Angels (E.Santana 8-5), 9:05 p.m.

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

Seattle at Detroit, 1:05 p.m.

Toronto at N.Y. Yankees, 1:05 p.m.

Baltimore at Boston, 1:35 p.m.

Tampa Bay at Minnesota, 2:10 p.m.

Chicago White Sox at Texas, 8:05 p.m.

Kansas City at L.A. Angels, 8:15 p.m.

Monday’s Games Baltimore at Detroit, 1:05 p.m.

L.A. Angels at Chicago White Sox, 7:05 p.m.

Boston at Tampa Bay, 7:10 p.m.

Cleveland at Texas, 8:05 p.m.

N.Y. Yankees at Oakland, 10:05 p.m.

Kansas City at Seattle, 10:10 p.m.

RACING NASCAR-Sprint Cup Coke Zero 400 Powered By Coca-Cola Lineup Field set by owner points; rain.

(Car number in parentheses) 1. (29) Kevin Harvick, Chevrolet 2. (48) Jimmie Johnson, Chevrolet 3. (18) Kyle Busch, Toyota 4. (11) Denny Hamlin, Toyota 5. (24) Jeff Gordon, Chevrolet 6. (2) Kurt Busch, Dodge 7. (17) Matt Kenseth, Ford 8. (31) Jeff Burton, Chevrolet 9. (14) Tony Stewart, Chevrolet 10. (16) Greg Biffle, Ford 11. (5) Mark Martin, Chevrolet 12. (99) Carl Edwards, Ford 13. (88) Dale Earnhardt Jr., Chevrolet 14. (39) Ryan Newman, Chevrolet 15. (33) Clint Bowyer, Chevrolet 16. (20) Joey Logano, Toyota 17. (1) Jamie McMurray, Chevrolet 18. (56) Martin Truex Jr., Toyota 19. (00) David Reutimann, Toyota 20. (9) Kasey Kahne, Ford 21. (43) A J Allmendinger, Ford 22. (42) Juan Pablo Montoya, Chevrolet 23. (98) Paul Menard, Ford 24. (83) Reed Sorenson, Toyota 25. (6) David Ragan, Ford 26. (12) Brad Keselowski, Dodge 27. (82) Scott Speed, Toyota 28. (47) Marcos Ambrose, Toyota 29. (19) Elliott Sadler, Ford 30. (77) Sam Hornish Jr., Dodge 31. (78) Regan Smith, Chevrolet 32. (7) Robby Gordon, Toyota 33. (34) Kevin Conway, Ford 34. (37) Robert Richardson Jr., Ford 35. (71) Mike Bliss, Chevrolet 36. (26) David Stremme, Ford 37. (09) Bobby Labonte, Chevrolet 38. (38) Travis Kvapil, Ford, Attempts.

39. (36) Steve Park, Chevrolet, Attempts.

40. (13) Max Papis, Toyota, Attempts.

41. (46) J.J. Yeley, Dodge, Attempts.

42. (87) Joe Nemechek, Toyota, Attempts.

43. (66) Dave Blaney, Toyota, Attempts.

NASCAR-Nationwide Subway Jalapeno 250 Powered

By Coca-Cola Lineup (Car number in parentheses) 1. (22) Brad Keselowski, Dodge, 183.031.

2. (26) Parker Kligerman, Dodge, 182.242.

3. (3) Dale Earnhardt Jr., Chevrolet, 182.238.

4. (12) Justin Allgaier, Dodge, 181.873.

5. (18) Kyle Busch, Toyota, 181.811.

6. (6) Ricky Stenhouse Jr., Ford, 181.686.

7. (88) Greg Sacks, Chevrolet, 181.671.

8. (1) Ryan Newman, Chevrolet, 181.594.

9. (33) Kevin Harvick, Chevrolet, 181.474.

10. (20) Joey Logano, Toyota, 181.444.

11. (60) Carl Edwards, Ford, 181.433.

12. (99) Trevor Bayne, Toyota, 181.364.

13. (21) Clint Bowyer, Chevrolet, 181.236.

14. (98) Paul Menard, Ford, 180.97.

15. (7) Steve Arpin, Chevrolet, 180.926.

16. (70) Shelby Howard, Chevrolet, 180.694.

17. (15) Michael Annett, Toyota, 180.574.

18. (16) Brian Ickler, Ford, 180.527.

19. (62) Brendan Gaughan, Toyota, 180.476.

20. (38) Jason Leffler, Toyota, 180.469.

21. (09) Ken Schrader, Ford, 180.198.

22. (56) Kevin Lepage, Toyota, 180.058.

23. (11) Brian Scott, Toyota, 179.968.

24. (05) David Starr, Chevrolet, 179.939.

25. (10) Tayler Malsam, Toyota, 179.709.

26. (01) Mike Wallace, Chevrolet, 179.505.

27. (66) Steve Wallace, Toyota, 179.48.

28. (40) Mike Bliss, Chevrolet, 179.379.

29. (24) Eric McClure, Ford, 179.354.

30. (07) Danny Efland, Chevrolet, 179.283.

31. (81) Michael McDowell, Dodge, 179.254.

32. (32) Reed Sorenson, Toyota, 179.251.

33. (73) Derrike Cope, Dodge, 179.219.

34. (35) Jason Keller, Chevrolet, 179.151.

35. (87) Joe Nemechek, Chevrolet, 179.112.

36. (04) Jeremy Clements, Chevrolet, 178.955.

37. (89) Morgan Shepherd, Chevrolet, 178.919.

38. (34) Tony Raines, Chevrolet, 178.703.

39. (23) R. Richardson Jr., Chevrolet, 176.724.

40. (43) Johnny Chapman, Chevrolet, 174.341.

41. (27) Jennifer Jo Cobb, Ford, Points.

42. (28) Kenny Wallace, Chevrolet, Points.

43. (49) Mark Green, Chevrolet, 177.852.

SOCCER 2010 WORLD CUP QUARTERFINALS Friday, July 2 At Port Elizabeth, South Africa Netherlands 2, Brazil 1 At Johannesburg Uruguay vs. Ghana, 2:30 p.m.

Saturday, July 3 At Cape Town, South Africa Germany vs. Argentina, 10 a.m.

At Johannesburg Paraguay vs. Spain, 2:30 p.m.

SEMIFINALS Tuesday, July 6 At Cape Town, South Africa Uruguay-Ghana winner vs. Netherlands, 2:30 p.m.

Wednesday, July 7 At Durban, South Africa Germany-Argentina winner vs. Paraguay-Spain winner, 2:30 p.m.

THIRD PLACE Saturday, July 10 At Port Elizabeth, South Africa Semifinal losers, 2:30 p.m.

CHAMPIONSHIP Sunday, July 11 At Johannesburg Semifinal winners, 2:30 p.m.

TRANSACTIONS Friday’s Sports Transactions

BASEBALL American League BOSTON RED SOX_Placed RHP Manny Delcarmen and C Jason Varitek on the 15-day DL, retroactive to July 1. Called up RHP Robert Manuel and INF Niuman Romero from Pawtucket (IL).

CHICAGO WHITE SOX_Reinstated RHP Bobby Jenks from the bereavement/family medical emergency list.

DETROIT TIGERS_Recalled the contract of LHP Daniel Schlereth from Toledo (IL).

NEW YORK YANKEES_Selected the contract of RHP Dustin Moseley from Scranton/WilkesBarre (IL). Optioned LHP Boone Logan to Scranton/Wilkes-Barre.

TEXAS RANGERS_Optioned C Max Ramirez to Oklahoma City (PCL). Added C Bengie Molina to the roster.

TORONTO BLUE JAYS_Placed RHP Shaun Marcum on the 15-day DL. Optioned 3B Jarrett Hoffpauir to Las Vegas (PCL). Recalled LHP Marc Rzepczynski from Las Vegas. Selected the contract of 3B Edwin Encarnacion from Las Vegas. Announced OF Jeremy Reed refused his outright assignment and elected free agency.

National League PITTSBURGH PIRATES_Agreed to terms with 1B Matt Curry.

ST. LOUIS CARDINALS_Placed OF Ryan Ludwick on the 15-day DL. Recalled INF Tyler Greene from Memphis (PCL). Optioned RHP Fernando Salas to Memphis.

Eastern League READING PHILLIES_Announced RHP Ryan Madson was assigned to the team.

American Association FORT WORTH CATS_Traded INF Mike Bell to Quebec (Can-Am) for future considerations.

Signed RHP Aaron Jackson.

GRAND PRAIRIE AIRHOGS_Signed OF Nook Logan.

LINCOLN SALTDOGS_Signed RHP Noel Baca.

Traded RHP Ben Paxton and INF Chris Brown to Grand Prairie for INF Juan Camacho.

PENSACOLA PELICANS_Signed RHP Austin Chambliss.

SIOUX CITY EXPLORERS_Acquired OF Tim Alberts from Windy City (Frontier) for a player to be named.

ST. PAUL SAINTS_Released RHP Todd Mathison and RHP Joe Woerman. Signed LHP Ashton Norris.

WICHITA WINGNUTS_Released OF Adam Godwin.

Can-Am League PITTSFIELD COLONIALS_Signed RHP Reymond Cruz and INF Daniel Barbero.

QUEBEC CAPITALES_Signed OF Brendan Rowland.

WORCESTER TORNADOES_Signed INF Michael Baillargeon. Released INF Thomas DiBenneto.

BASKETBALL National Basketball Association BOSTON CELTICS_Signed G Avery Bradley.

FOOTBALL National Football League DETROIT LIONS_Signed CB Dre’ Bly to a twoyear contract. Released CB Paul Pratt.

HOCKEY National Hockey League CAROLINA HURRICANES_Named Doug Bennett assistant athletic trainer.

CHICAGO BLACKHAWKS_Signed D John Scott to a two-year contract.

COLUMBUS BLUE JACKETS_Signed D Nate Guenin, F Trevor Frischmon and F Kyle Wilson to one-year contracts.

EDMONTON OILERS_Signed D Jason Strudwick and D Richard Petiot to one-year contracts.

FLORIDA PANTHERS_Signed LW Chris Higgins, RW Bill Thomas and LW Triston Grant to one-year contracts.

MINNESOTA WILD_Signed C Warren Peters to a two-year contract and D Drew Bagnall to a one-year contract.

NEW YORK ISLANDERS_Agreed to terms D Mark Eaton on a two-year contract and Milan D Jurcina and G Nathan Lawson on one-year contracts.

PHOENIX COYOTES_Re-signed D Sami Lepisto and G Al Montoya to one-year contracts. Signed C Andrew Ebbett to a one-year contract.

PITTSBURGH PENGUINS_Signed F Ryan Craig.

ST. LOUIS BLUES_Re-signed F Brad Winchester.

TAMPA BAY LIGHTNING_Signed D Pavel Kubina to a two-year contract and F Niklas Persson to a one-year contract.

WASHINGTON CAPITALS_Signed G Dany Sabourin to a one-year contract.

American Hockey League HAMILTON BULLDOGS_Signed F Jimmy Bonneau to a one-year contract.

NORFOLK ADMIRALS_Signed F Tim Marks to a one-year contract.

COLLEGE ARKANSAS-LITTLE ROCK_Promoted Jeremy Haworth to full-time assistant baseball coach.

Named Brandon Rowan assistant baseball coach.

AUGUSTA STATE_Announced 2B Jeff Rice has transferred to the school from Mercer.

BRYN MAWR_Named Jason Hewitt cross country and track and field coach.

CHATTANOOGA_Named Katie Galloway Burrows women’s assistant basketball coach.

CONNECTICUT_Named Kevin Ollie men’s assistant basketball coach and Glenn Miller, director of men’s basketball administration.

DUKE_Named Jomar Wright graduate assistant football coach.

FURMAN_Named LaCheryl Smith women’s assistant basketball coach.

GEORGE MASON_Named Lucas Jones assistant baseball coach.

HARDIN-SIMMONS_Named Dan Sheppard softball coach.

ILLINOIS_Announced the resignation of tight ends coach Greg Nord, to take the same position at Kentucky.

SOUTH CAROLINA-UPSTATE_Named Ollin Dunford women’s assistant basketball coach.

WENTWORTH_Announced the resignation of assistant baseball coaches Billy Sitig and Brian Nelson. Named Matt Dannenhoffer and Pete Oggeri assistant baseball coaches.

WINTHROP_Fired baseball coach Joe Hudak.

Junior wins Nationwide in No. 3

By JENNA FRYER AP Auto Racing Writer

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — Dale Earnhardt Jr. raced to his first NASCAR victory since 2007, driving a retro paint scheme to Victory Lane at Daytona International Speedway.

Earnhardt entered Friday night’s Nationwide Series race

in a No. 3 Chevrolet with a Wrangler paint scheme to honor his father’s induction into the NASCAR Hall of Fame.

Dale Earnhardt was killed in a last-lap accident in the 2001 Daytona 500.

Earnhardt Jr. bided his time most of the race, then moved to the lead following a pit stop under yellow with 26 laps

remaining. He did not pit when Paul Menard brought out the final caution with four laps remaining.

Earnhardt then held off Joey Logano over a two-lap sprint to the finish to win his first Nationwide race since Michigan in 2006. It was Earnhardt’s first victory in any NASCAR race since a Sprint Cup Series win at Michigan in 2007.

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sports Moose Vending wins Habitat tourney

Contributed Photo

Habitat for Humanity’s “Holes for Houses” 2nd Annual Charity Golf Tournament was held on Friday, June 25.

The men’s winners were Moose Vending’s Wayne Ruppe (l to r), Gene Wilson, Ray Haynes and Jackie Rowe.

The women’s winners were Shirley Koone, Helen West, Patsy Johnson and Lois Huskey.

2010 World Cup

Associated Press

Spain’s Rafael Nadal waves to the crowd after defeating Britain’s Andy Murray in their men’s semifinal at the All England Lawn Tennis Championships at Wimbledon, Friday.

Nadal advances to Wimbledon final

WIMBLEDON, England (AP) — Rafael Nadal took apart Andy Murray in straight sets Friday to reach his fourth Wimbledon final and prolong Britain’s 74-year wait for a homegrown male champion.

The top-ranked Spaniard was at his relentless best, whipping topspin forehands from corner to corner, as he beat the fourth-seeded Murray 6-4, 7-6 (6), 6-4 to move within one win of a second Wimbledon title and eighth Grand Slam championship.

Nadal will be a heavy favorite in Sunday’s final against 12th-seeded Tomas Berdych of the Czech Republic, who defeated No. 3 Novak Djokovic 6-3, 7-6 (9), 6-3 to reach his first Grand Slam title match.

Nadal won Wimbledon in 2008, beating Roger Federer in an epic five-set final, but was unable to defend his title last year because of tendinitis in both knees.

By returning to the final in his fourth straight appearance, Nadal ended Murray’s hopes of becoming the first British player to win the men’s title since Fred Perry in 1936. No British man has even reached the final since Henry “Bunny” Austin in 1938, and British men have now lost in 10 Wimbledon semifinals since then.

Tiger struggles to a 70 in 2nd round at AT&T

NEWTON SQUARE, Pa. (AP) — Tiger Woods figures he’ll be playing on the weekend, just a lot earlier than he wanted.

Woods again played well from tee-to-green Friday in the AT&T National and had hardly anything to show for it in a round of even-par 70 that left him flirting with the cut line, yet still not out of the picture.

Jeff Overton didn’t make a bogey until his final hole and shot a second straight 68 to reach the halfway point at 4-under 136. He was the leader in the clubhouse, with the four players who opened at 4-under 66 — Nick Watney, Joe Ogilvie, Jason Day and Arjun Atwal — playing in the afternoon at Aronimink.

Woods had five consecutive one-putt greens — two of them for birdie, one for a bogey — until he missed a 30-inch par putt on his 17th hole and did not give himself a reasonable birdie chance on the par-5 ninth to end his round. He was at 3-over 143.

That was barely outside the cut line when he signed his card, yet he was inside the cut an hour later and likely to be safe.

“I drove the ball on a string for the most part the last two days and haven’t gotten anything out of it,” Woods said. “I’ve just got to put together two good rounds and see where it leaves me.”

Woods played before a large and enthusiastic gallery in the Philadelphia suburbs, which hasn’t seen a PGA Tour event in eight years.

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Parton Lumber car grabbed the pole in qualifying with a new track record (15.2 seconds), but choose the outside spot of the front row with Johnny Pursley positioned on the inside, alongside the hometown favorite.

On the start, the front two stayed neck-and-neck until Weeks, holding outside lane prevailed off turn four of the threeeighths of a mile facility to finish the fourth circuit.

Dennis “Rambo” Franklin began to make a charge from the back and went for third on lap 10. However, Franklin spun out on the same lap as he went in to deep to try and pass Mike Gault on the inside of turn one.

Franklin’s spin was the second

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Netherlands’ Wesley Sneijder celebrates after scoring a goal during the World Cup quarterfinal soccer match between the Netherlands and Brazil at Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium in Port Elizabeth, South Africa, Friday.

Dutch shock Brazil; Uruguay survives Ghana PORT ELIZABETH, South Africa (AP) — Soccer’s perennial World Cup underachievers from the Netherlands knocked off mighty Brazil on Friday, stamping the Dutch as a strong contender to finally win that elusive title.

Wesley Sneijder, one of the shortest players on the field, scored in the 68th minute on a header for a stunning 2-1 quarterfinals win over the five-time champions.

“It just slipped through from my bald head and it was a great feeling,” Sneijder said.

Top-ranked Brazil, which also went out in this round four years ago against France, lost its composure after it fell behind and defender Felipe Melo was ejected in the 73rd minute for stomping on the leg of Arjen

caution of the night and was running times just as quick as Weeks before the spin.

Only two others posed a threat to Weeks, but Pursley’s night ended when he stalled on the 17th lap in turn one for the fourth and final caution of the night.

Weeks built a big lead after the final restart and Gault closed in during the remaining five laps, but couldn’t get within range to make a charge at the frontrunner.

“Picking the outside lane to start wasn’t as good as I thought it would be,” Weeks said. “It had to be a good show for the fans, because I was having fun.

Considering we have no radios or mirrors, (all) I could hear was Pursley’s car.”

Gault was second, third went to Ross Bailes, Jay Sessoms was fourth and Franklin rounded

Robben.

Uruguay 1 (4), Ghana 1 (2) JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Uruguay survived when Ghana missed a penalty kick at the very end of extra time, then won the shootout 4-2 after a 1-1 draw in their World Cup quarterfinal Friday. The wild win sent the South Americans into the semifinals for the first time in 40 years. It sent the final African team home in tears.

Sebastian Abreu chipped in his penalty kick to give Uruguay a spot opposite the Netherlands in the final four.

Ghana missed twice in the shootout, but wouldn’t have been there had Asamoah Gyan, who made two penalty kicks earlier in the tournament, not hit the crossbar on the final play

out the top five.

Furman Parton, of Union Mills, also took to the track and crept to sixth place before falling out midway through the event with an ill-handling race car to finish eighth.

In other action at Harris: Bubba Smith’s outside line proved to be the difference as he beat Timmy Smith to the line by a car length in a furious Street Stock 8 battle for a $1,000 prize.

In the nightcap, Josh Ayers, who led every lap, held on to beat Chris Jones by six inches for his fourth Pure Stock win this season.

Brandon Lambert was victorious in Street Stock 4 after leader Bradley Weaver fell out of the race with three laps remaining.

Dustin Morris picked up the win in Renegades and Scott Morgan did so in Super Stock 4.

of overtime.

As extra time ticked down, a scramble in front of the Uruguay net caught goalkeeper Fernando Muslera out of position. Dominic Adiyiah’s header was cleared off the goal line by Luis Suarez — using his arm.

That drew an immediate red card for the striker, who will miss the semifinal, and sent Gyan to the penalty spot.

With the noise seemingly at a supersonic level, Gyan calmly eyed Muslera, then struck the ball off the crossbar.

So Uruguay, once a soccer power, most recently an afterthought, travels to Cape Town for Tuesday’s semifinal. The last nation to make the tournament, it needed a playoff against Costa Rica just to get in. Now it is one step from the title match.

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Sales figures are unofficial.

Demand for Treasurys weakened after spiking earlier in the week as investors sought a safe place for their money. The yield on the 10-year note, which moves opposite its price, rose to 2.98 percent from 2.95 percent late Thursday. Its yield is used as a benchmark for interest rates on some mortgages and other consumer loans.

Crude oil fell 81 cents to $72.14 per barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange. Gold rose.

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Stocks falling as jobs news adds to worries

NEW YORK (AP) — A disappointing jobs report sent stocks falling Friday and gave the Dow Jones industrial average its longest losing streak since the worst days of the financial crisis.

The Dow dropped 46 points Friday for its seventh straight loss and its longest slide since October 2008. The Dow and other major indexes posted big losses for a second straight week.

Investors found new reason to worry that the economic recovery is losing momentum after the government said private employers added only 83,000 jobs last month, fewer than the 112,000 analysts had forecast.

Light trading ahead of the long Independence Day weekend brought choppy moves, particularly in the final hour. The Dow was essentially flat in the last five minutes before sliding just before the close.

Reports on jobs earlier in the week had diminished expectations for the latest and most important snapshot of the labor market. Payroll company ADP said private employment was weaker than expected, while the government said initial claims for unemployment benefits rose unexpectedly.

Investors are focused on business hiring because that makes up the bulk of the country’s work force.

Also, overall jobs numbers have been skewed in recent months by temporary census workers. With many of those jobs gone, it was again clear that businesses aren’t adding to payrolls as quickly as most investors would like.

The government also reported that factory orders fell in May for the first time in nine months. The 1.4 percent drop was the biggest since March 2009, when major stock indexes hit a 12-year low.

The Dow fell 46.05, or 0.5 percent, to 9,686.48, its lowest close since Oct. 5 2009. The Dow hasn’t fallen for seven straight days since an eight-day loss that ended Oct. 10, 2008.

The Standard & Poor’s 500 index fell 4.79, or 0.5 percent, to 1,022.58.

The Dow is now down 13.6 from its 2010 high of 11,205.03, while the S&P 500 is down 16 percent from its high of 1,217.28.

The Nasdaq composite index fell 9.57, or 0.5 percent, Friday to 2,091.79.

For the week, the Dow dropped 4.5 percent. The S&P 500 index lost 5 percent, while the Nasdaq dropped 5.9 percent.

The S&P 500’s two-week drop is the worst since early May.

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Job seekers look online for job listings at the at the Oakland Career Center Friday, July 2, 2010, in Oakland, Calif.

A weak June jobs report offered the latest evidence that the economic recovery is slowing.

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Job market saps recovery WASHINGTON (AP) — A second straight month of lackluster hiring by American businesses is sapping strength from the economic rebound.

The jobless rate fell to 9.5 percent in June, still far too high to signal a healthy economy. It came in slightly lower than the month before only because more than a half-million people gave up looking for work and were no longer counted as unemployed.

The private sector added just 83,000 jobs for the month.

Looked at from that angle or almost any other, from a teetering housing market to falling factory orders, the recovery is limping along as it enters the year’s second half. And that is when the benefits of most of the government’s stimulus spending will begin to wear off.

The fate of the economy will hinge on whether it can stand on its own. President Barack Obama acknowledged the slow pace of the recovery and used the new jobs figures to argue for more stimulus spending and extended unemployment benefits.

“We’re not headed there fast enough for a lot of Americans,” the president said.

Overall, the nation’s total payroll actually shrank last month by 125,000, the first decline in six months, the Labor Department said Friday.

The loss reflected the end of 225,000 temporary jobs helping the U.S. Census Bureau complete its 10-year head count.

The 83,000 jobs added by

the private sector was a better performance than in May, when private job creation nearly stalled. But it fell far short of what the economy needs — at least 200,000 jobs a month — to bring down the unemployment rate.

Nobody, from Obama to Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke to private economists, expects that anytime soon. And the government has mostly exhausted its realistic options for nudging the economy along faster.

Benchmark interest rates, which at low levels can encourage borrowing to spur economic growth, are already near zero.

Republicans in Congress object to additional stimulus spending.

Unemployment is expected to stay above 9 percent through the midterm elections in November.

And the Fed predicts joblessness could still be as high as 7.5 percent two years from now.

Normal is considered closer to 6 percent, and economists say it will probably take until the middle of this decade to achieve that.

The jobless rate did come down in June from 9.7 percent the month before. But that was mainly because 652,000 people abandoned their job searches.

Even among Americans with secure jobs, confidence is fading. One gauge of consumer confidence fell in June to about 53, down nearly 10 points in a single month. And it’s well below the reading of 90 typically seen in a healthy economy.

Add to that jitters over Europe’s debts, an edgy stock market and cautious consumer spending, and the result is an economy essentially moving sideways. It’s no surprise that businesses are reviewing their orders and seeing no reason to add to payrolls.

Few big companies say they plan to step up hiring in the second half of the year. Most auto, airline and railroad companies, for example, say they expect little or no job growth, blaming weak demand.

One that does plan to hire, Chrysler Group LLC, expects to add engineers and other workers as it updates its aging line of cars and trucks. The company has announced 1,000 factory jobs in Detroit to meet demand for the new Jeep Grand Cherokee SUV. But other companies, like American Airlines, have no plans to significantly boost hiring this year. And major railroads, which have furloughed thousands since the recession, say they have no plans to add employees in the coming months.

In June, manufacturers, the leisure and hospitality industries, temporary staffing agencies, and education and health services providers all added jobs. Retailers, construction firms and financial service providers cut payrolls. So did state and local governments, which are wrestling with budget shortfalls.

Beleaguered Toyota will recall 270,00 vehicles

TOKYO (AP) — Toyota Motor Corp. will recall 270,000 Lexus and other vehicles worldwide to fix faulty engines in the latest quality lapse at the world’s No. 1 automaker.

Flaws in valve springs, a crucial engine component, could make the vehicle stall while it’s moving, Toyota spokesman Hideaki Homma said Friday in announcing the recall.

Lexus General Manager Mark Templin said contaminated materials had been used for valve springs during manufacturing.

Toyota has received about 200 complaints over faulty engines in Japan but no accidents were reported there or abroad, Homma said. Some drivers told Toyota that engines made a strange noise.

The global recall that

starts Monday affects seven luxury Lexus sedan models as well as the popular Crown, Toyota spokesman Paul Nolasco said. Of the 270,000 recalled cars, some 180,000 were sold overseas, including the United States, and 90,000 in Japan.

The automaker was already scrambling to repair its reputation after 8.5 million vehicles were recalled beginning in October because

of problems with sticking accelerator pedals and other issues.

Toyota was slapped with a record $16.4 million fine in the United States for acting too slowly to recall vehicles with defects.

Japan’s major daily Asahi said Friday the latest recall of 270,000 vehicles could cost Toyota around 20 billion yen ($227 million).

Toyota could not confirm

the report, which gave no sources.

Toyota will inform Japan’s transport ministry of a recall of 90,000 vehicles on Monday. Nolasco said it was unclear how many vehicles would be recalled in the United States.

Lexus said Thursday about 137,000 vehicles could be affected by the engine problem in the U.S.

The Daily Courier, Forest City, NC, Saturday, July 3, 2010 — 5B SHOE by Chris Cassat and Gary Brookins

THE GRIZZWELLS by Bill Schoor

BROOM-HILDA by Russell Myers

DILBERT by Scott Adams

GIL THORP by Jerry Jenkins, Ray Burns and Frank McLaughlin

THE BORN LOSER by Art and Chip Sansom

ARLO AND JANIS by Jimmy Johnson

FRANK AND ERNEST by Bob Thaves

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Girl resents brother’s attention Dear Abby: I’m 13, the youngest of three children, but I am treated with no respect. My parents (mostly my dad) treat my brother like he’s a prince. Even if he loses a football game he is praised. I just started playing volleyball and my team won, but my parents haven’t said anything to me. Dad treats me and my sister as if we are in the 18th century.

We’re supposed to work all the time while our brother is spoiled. Abby, I feel so disrespected. Please help me.

I have talked to them about it, but it doesn’t seem to get through. — Needs Respect Dear Needs Respect: Does your sister feel the same way you do? If so, you should approach your mother together and discuss it. Even if your father doesn’t, she should be praising you when you do something right.

I hope you and your sister continue to strive to excel and be recognized, because you may find that while your father isn’t capable of giving you the affirmation you need, others will as you achieve your goals. So bide your time and persevere. If you do, you won’t be sorry.

Dear Abby: A friend of mine, “Ashley,” is being married in September. She invited me to be one of her bridesmaids and my two children to be ring-bearers. I accepted because I felt obligated and didn’t

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want to hurt her feelings, but now I regret my answer. Abby, I cannot stand there beside her and support her marrying the man she has chosen.

He is dishonest and in debt because of his poor decisions.

After three years of dating, Ashley gave him a deadline to propose, and he waited until the last minute. I understand this is her choice — I just cannot support it.

She continues to say how she misses spending time with me, but makes no effort to get together. My question is, how do I back out now, before it’s too late? And how do I explain things without creating an enemy? — Mommy of Two Dear Mommy: Tell her immediately, and here’s how: “Ashley, I can’t be in the wedding. I don’t think this man is good enough for you, and I think you are doing something you will regret later. Please don’t think I don’t care about you because I do, but the children and I cannot be a part of this.”

Post-polio syndrome no joke Dear Dr. Gott: In 1955, at the age of 2, I contracted polio. I was immediately put in isolation in a children’s hospital, where I remained for several weeks in casts and braces. My mother and sister now claim they too suffered from polio and have PPS. My mother now has arthritis, and my sister has bad feet. Do they really have a claim?

Dear Reader: The polio virus can be transmitted through contaminated food or water, or through direct contact with a person infected with the virus. So anyone in close proximity to you at the time you contracted it could have also become infected.

And large majorities of people are never aware they’ve become infected, because some people develop a nonparalytic form of the disease.

A diagnosis of PPS is made only if certain criteria are met. This includes documented evidence of a positive diagnosis of paralytic polio followed by an extended period (typ-

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ically 15 years or more) of improvement or stability. Symptoms must begin gradually but be progressive and persistent, lasting for at least one year.

You appear to be in a no-win situation. Your mother and sister are convinced they suffer from PPS, and unless they are willing to undergo confirmatory testing, you will likely never convince them otherwise. I don’t know their medical histories, but based on your information, it does not seem likely that they had polio. Even if they did, it was likely so mild that it caused few or no symptoms. This drastically decreases their risks of developing PPS.

IN THE STARS Your Birthday, July 3; A number of opportunities to improve your position may present.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) - Be careful you aren’t paying too high a price.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) - Consider using some new techniques.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept.

22) - If you feel someone is trying to pull something over on you, don’t hesitate.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23) - Bring out into the open what is disturbing you.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 22) - Don’t think you can rely on others to protect you.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. 21) - You are likely to be lucky in a number of ways.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) - It wouldn’t be wise to begin a project that you wouldn’t have enough time to complete.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 19) - Be careful about discussing a confidential matter.

PISCES (Feb. 20-March 20) - There are indications that your finances are in trouble.

ARIES (March 21-April 19) - As long as you and your mate are in complete agreement all will go well.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) - Don’t let the past influence your thinking now.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) - Maintain a distance concerning your personal affairs.

6B — The Daily Courier, Forest City, NC, Saturday, July 3, 2010

Nation

Tools limited for fighting a double-dip recession pain and nurturing a recovery are no longer available or are just not working: n Unemployment benefits for hundreds of thousands of Americans are running out or have already expired.

Successive congressional attempts to extend them anew have failed. n Lower taxes, often used as a quick remedy for economic distress, have already been tried. Now taxes are probably going up. The special homebuyer tax credit expired on April 30, and a wide range of income and investment tax breaks are due to expire in 2011 without congressional action to extend them. n Mortgage rates have sunk to their lowest level in more than five decades.

That should be good news for the battered housing industry and put cash into the hands of homeowners as they refinance. But a wave of refinancing hasn’t materialized. Some homeowners who qualify refinanced last year, but the many Americans who owe more than their homes are worth can’t easily do so. n The Federal Reserve, in holding a key short-term interest rate that it controls at near zero percent since December 2008, has lost its

An AP News Analysis

By TOM RAUM Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON — Just when they might be needed the most, the rescue ropes that hauled the nation out of the Great Recession have become badly frayed.

A much-feared “double dip” economic downturn would find interest rates already slashed to near zero by the Federal Reserve and lawmakers leery of voting for billions of stimulus dollars as they face re-election.

Friday’s government jobs report added to the gloom and the sense that the recovery is losing steam. The Labor Department said private employers added about 83,000 jobs last month, considerably fewer than the 112,000 analysts had forecast.

That signals that could be years — not months — before the employment rate returns to pre-recession levels.

“We’re adding jobs but at an excruciatingly slow pace,” said labor market economist Heidi Shierholz of the Economic Policy Institute, a think tank. “Double dip or no, this is going to be an enormously long slog.”

The traditional mechanisms for blunting economic

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GOING BROKE SALE Thomasville-Broyhill-Stickler 7ft. all wood entertainment center $375, 7ft. curio display case $350, 7ft. stickler dining table with large china cabinet $750, old antique vanity with mirror $65, large mirrors, nice designer rugs, other household goods, plus 2 nice wooden outdoor rockers, twin bed frame, child's play mat, bike. 828-429-1234 9A-7P Nelson Crawford

HUGE MULTI FAMILY 3001 Cove Rd. (6 miles on left at Tint Shack) Sat. 7A-until Plus women's to 7 boys MOVING SALE Cliffside: 111 Cliffside St. Fri. & Sat. 8A-til Too much to list, everything must go!

Multi family yard sale.

Bostic, 180 Hillbrook Dr off Puzzle Creek Rd., Fri and Sat. 7A-until.

Too much to mention

MULTI-FAMILY FC: 480 Griffin Rd. Fri. & Sat. 7A-until Household items, books, toys, pictures and frames. Too much to mention!

Multi-family garage sale, Rfdtn. Gilbert Town Subdivision. Follow signs.

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Six bombers attack USAID compound

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Six suicide bombers stormed a USAID compound in northern Afghanistan before dawn Friday, killing at least four people and wounding several others, officials said. At least two of the dead were foreigners.

The brazen attack came on the same day that Gen. David Petraeus landed in the Afghan capital to take command of U.S. and international forces fighting the nearly 9-year-old war. Petraeus arrived from Brussels where he sought to reassure allies that the war against the Taliban was on track despite rising casualties and problems regaining control over key parts of the country.

The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack, which began about 3:30 a.m. in Kunduz when a suicide car bomber blew a hole in the wall around a building used by Development Alternatives Inc., a Washington, D.C.-based global consulting company on contract with the U.S. Agency for International Development, or USAID. The company is working on governance and community development in the area.

At least five other attackers then ran inside the building, killing or wounding security guards and others inside before dying in a gunbattle with Afghan security forces who raced to the scene.

Afghan authorities said the five were all wearing explosive vests.

Black smoke poured from the windows of the four-story building. The bodies of the victims were found inside amid rubble, pools of blood and broken glass. Stunned aid workers were led from the scene as NATO troops carried bodies wrapped in black plastic out on stretchers.

Gen. Abdul Razaq Yaqoubi, police chief in Kunduz province, said those killed included an Afghan policeman, an Afghan man who worked as a security guard at the house and two foreigners. The German Foreign Ministry told The Associated Press in Berlin that a German citizen was killed in the attack. Britain’s foreign ministry said one British national was killed and the other was critically wounded in the attack.

“It was 3 o’clock in the morning, close to the morning prayer time, when a suicide bomber in a 4x4 vehicle exploded his vehicle,” Yaqoubi said as Afghan national security forces were battling to kill the last surviving attacker. “There is no way for him to escape.”

Taliban spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid told The Associated Press in Kabul that six suicide bombers attacked a “training center” for Afghan security forces in Kunduz and killed 55 foreigners. The Taliban often exaggerate their claims.

The attack appeared part of a Taliban campaign against development projects at a time when the U.S. and its allies are trying to bolster civilian programs to shore up the Afghan government. On Wednesday, militants rocketed a base for South Korean construction workers in Parwan province but caused no casualties.

In April, a gunman killed an 18-year-old woman working for Development Alternatives as she left her job in the southern city of Kandahar. Police believed the killing was part of a Taliban campaign against Afghans working for foreign development organizations.

Afghan President Hamid Karzai condemned the attack and called on government authorities to investigate and prosecute those responsible.

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Jesus Ernesto Chavez, known as “El Camello”, second from left, stands as he is guarded by a federal police officer during a presentation to the press in Mexico City Friday. According to the federal police Chavez ordered the March 13 attack that killed a U.S. consulate employee and her husband as they drove in the violent border city. The other two detained men are unidentified.

Mexico arrests slaying suspect MEXICO CITY (AP) — A top drug gang enforcer says he ordered the killing of a U.S. consulate worker because she helped provide visas to a rival gang in the border city of Ciudad Juarez, federal police said Friday.

Jesus Ernesto Chavez, whose arrest was announced on Friday, leads a band of hit men for a street gang tied to the Juarez cartel, said Ramon Pequeno, the head of anti-narcotics for the Federal Police.

Pequeno said Chavez ordered the March 13 attack that killed U.S. consulate employee Lesley Enriquez and her husband as they drove through the violent city toward a border crossing to the U.S. Pequeno said Chavez told police that Enriquez was targeted because she helped provide visas to a rival gang.

The suggestion that drug gangs may have infiltrated the U.S. diplomatic mission runs counter to previous statements

by U.S. Embassy officials that Enriquez was never in a position to provide visas and worked in a section that provides basic services to U.S. citizens in Mexico.

Officials with the U.S. Embassy in Mexico City and U.S. State Department in Washington declined to comment Friday.

The attack on Enriquez — within view of the Texas border

— and a nearly simultaneous attack that killed the husband of a Mexican employee of the consulate raised concerns that Americans and U.S. government personnel were being caught up in drug-related violence.

Enriquez was four months pregnant when she and husband Arthur H. Redelfs, were killed by gunmen who opened fire on their vehicle after the couple left a children’s birthday party.

Their 7-month-old daughter was found wailing in the back seat.

Jorge Alberto Salcido, the husband of a Mexican employee of the consulate, also was killed by gunmen after leaving the same event in a separate vehicle.

Chavez told police that gunmen opened fire on Salcido because the two cars were the same color and the hit men did not know which one Enriquez was in, Pequeno said.

Investigators also have looked at whether Redelfs may have been targeted because of his work at an El Paso prison that holds several members of the Barrio Azteca, believed to be responsible in the attacks.

In March, U.S. federal, state and local law enforcement officers swept through El Paso, picking up suspected members of the gang in an effort to find new leads in the killings.

A suspect detained in Mexico shortly after the shooting con-

fessed to acting as a lookout as the Azteca gang supposedly hunted down Redelfs, but he was never charged and was released without explanation.

Officials also have speculated that both attacks could have been a case of mistaken identity.

Pequeno said Chavez belongs to Barrio Azteca.

The Juarez cartel’s turf war against the Sinaloa cartel has made Ciudad Juarez one of the deadliest cities in the world.

More than 2,600 people were killed last year in the city of 1.3 million people across the border from El Paso, Texas.

Mexican police say Chavez also confessed to participating in the Jan. 31 killing of 15 youths at a party that was mistaken as a gathering of drug-gang rivals. That massacre fueled outrage over innocents killed since President Felipe Calderon launched an all-out offensive against drug gangs in 2006.

More than 23,000 people have been killed in Mexico’s drug related violence since then.

Mexico’s central intelligence database says the 41-year-old suspect served five years in a Louisiana prison on drug distribution charges. Chavez was detained in Mexico in 2008 by the Mexican army on drug trafficking allegations and released, only to be promoted within the Azteca gang, Federal Police said.

Pakistanis blame U.S. for deadly attack at Shrine

ISLAMABAD (AP) — A twin suicide attack that killed 42 at Pakistan’s most popular Sufi shrine has angered and frustrated Pakistanis, with some saying Friday that the solution to the country’s terror threat is a U.S. exit from Afghanistan.

Most of some two dozen Pakistanis interviewed said that even if Islamist extremists were behind the slaughter at the Data

Darbar shrine in Lahore, the root cause of the violence was America’s war in Afghanistan, its missile strikes in Pakistan’s tribal regions, and its alliance with Islamabad.

The sentiments underscored the low standing of the U.S. here. The wariness of the U.S. was all the more remarkable considering Thursday’s attack was a direct assault on the moderate, Sufi-influenced Islam

most Pakistanis still practice, and which the Taliban and allied Islamist extremists despise.

“America is killing Muslims in Afghanistan and in our tribal areas, and militants are attacking Pakistan to express anger against the government for supporting America,” explained Zahid Umar, 25, a frequent visitor to the Lahore shrine.

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others saw an American hand in the attacks. Arifa Moen, 32, a teacher in Multan, said Washington “is encouraging Indians and Jews to carry out attacks” in Pakistan.

The targeted shrine was that of an 11th century Sufi saint, Ali bin Usman, commonly known as Data Ganj Bakhsh Hajveri, who traveled throughout the region spreading Islam with a message of peace and love.

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city of Karachi, said the attacks that have occurred in Pakistan are “directly linked with the situation in Afghanistan and the American aggression there.

“There should be efforts to start negotiations with all the stakeholders in Afghanistan, especially those disgruntled elements who are resisting the American occupation there,” he said.

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