daily courier july 24 2010

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Saturday, July 24, 2010, Forest City, N.C.

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Ellenboro man charged with sex offenses

By JEAN GORDON Daily Courier Staff Writer

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FOREST CITY — An investigation initiated by the Rutherford County Sheriff’s Office in June has resulted in the arrest of an Ellenboro man on charges of sexual offenses involving children.

Bruce Wayne Moore, 36, of 207 Amanda Drive in Ellenboro, was arrested Thursday afternoon in the parking lot of the Cleveland County Department of Social Services. The Shelby Police Department made the arrest.

He is charged with four felony counts of taking indecent liberties with a child,

three felony counts of first-degree sexual offense and one count of felony crimes against nature.

He is being held in the Cleveland County Jail under a $1 million bond.

Shelby Police Capt.

Jeff Clevenger said the crimes occurred against Moore two children in Shelby between August 2008 and September 2008. Clevenger said the children are now 5 and 6 years old.

Rutherford County Sheriff Jack Conner

said his department initiated an investigation last month and learned the alleged offenses occurred at Ford Street in Shelby, and officials contacted law enforcement in Cleveland County.

Clevenger said after receiving information from Rutherford County, they contacted DSS there and in Cleveland counties, and continued the investigation.

He said the department thinks it has a solid case.

“We had looked at him or some other things but could not tie him to things here,” Conner said.

New year, new building

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Thomas Jefferson Kindergarten Teacher Pam Metcalf sets up her classroom at the school’s new building on Broadway Avenue.

Mark Martin is uncertain about his future

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Vol. 42, No. 176

School prepares; celebrates AYP

By SCOTT BAUGHMAN Daily Courier Staff Writer

FOREST CITY — Thomas Jefferson Classical Academy’s new grammar school building is getting shipshape for the new school year, and the school staff is celebrating scoring 100 percent on adequate yearly progress goals from the federal government, or 17 out of 17 goals.

“The key to our success is of course the strong curriculum. Most people know that we use core knowledge, and it is great,” said Jason Cole, principal. “It exposes the kids to such a rich variety of content and it strengthens them across the board. We cover history, science, literature and we incorporate math into all those discussions.”

The 2010-11 school year will be the first for the new 57,000-square-foot building

on Broadway Avenue, at the site of the former Alexander Mills Town Hall. Combined with the Thomas Jefferson Classical Academy high school campus, TJCA is a K-12 school, serving 1,120 students in the new year.

“We’re accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools and TJCA-CFA (Thomas Jefferson Classical Academy - a Challenge Foundation Academy) was recently named one of America’s best high schools by U.S. News & World Report,” Headmaster Joe Maimone said. “In addition, TJCA-CFA earned the highest North Carolina recognition this past year as an Honors School of Excellence, achieving proficiency of 95 percent and meeting high growth expectations.”

The new facility will host kindergarten through sixth

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A state of the art computer lab — complete with flat screen workstations and software tailored to each student — is just one of the features of the new Thomas Jefferson Classical Academy grammar school.

grade this year. The former location, at the former Dunbar Community Center on Hardin Road, brought some traffic issues with parents picking up children and

backing up traffic late in the day.

“Our traffic is going to be a big challenge for us this year Please see School, Page 3A

Police charge man with taking golf clubs

By LARRY DALE Daily Courier Staff Writer

FOREST CITY — A Rutherford County man is charged with taking golf equipment and trying to sell it around the county.

Shane Laxton Ferguson, 32, of 351 Old Caroleen Road, was charged Thursday with two counts of breaking and/or entering a motor vehicle, three counts of felony larceny, two counts of obtaining property by false pretense and a single count of simple possession of marijuana.

He was arrested by the Forest City Police Department and was placed in the Rutherford County Jail under a $60,000 secured bond.

Ferguson is accused of taking golf equipment from three people and offering it for sale at four locations.

William Skinner, a Tennessee man, and

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Robert Combs of Spring Lake Drive in Forest City, both reported items taken from vehicles, which were parked Tuesday behind the former Cool Springs School gym on Memorial Drive.

Skinner reported the theft of assorted golf clubs, clothes and shoes. Ferguson His truck had a bed cover with a lock on it. The lock reportedly had been damaged to gain access to the items.

Combs reported the theft of a set of golf clubs, golf balls, clothing and fishing rods.

A third person reported the theft of golf equipment in Forest City. Jake Watson of Arlington Street reported the theft of

a set of golf clubs, gloves and shoes from the back of his truck Monday night or early Tuesday morning.

Ferguson was arrested at Cleghorn Plantation Golf Club, where officers say he was trying to sell clubs. The Rutherford County Sheriff’s Office was called about the suspicious activity. Officers report that they recovered a number of items from the trunk of Ferguson’s car.

Ferguson allegedly sold clubs at B&D Thrift and Loan on South Broadway Street and at Wally World Trading Post on Frontage Road, both in Forest City.

Forest City Police Department Assistant Chief Bob Ward said Friday that officers recovered parts of each set of clubs stolen.

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Church News VBS

The following churches have announced Vacation Bible School: West Memorial Baptist Church, VBS, July 24, 6 to 8:30 p.m.; Bible study, games and snacks.

West Point Baptist Church, “Egypt: Joseph’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.

Green Hill Baptist Church, “Saddle Ridge Ranch,” July 25-30; classes for toddlers through adults (nursery provided for infants of adults in adult class and teachers); mission study, Bible study, crafts, snacks and recreation; kick-off July 24 from 6 to 8 p.m.

Spindale United Methodist Church, “Kid’s Bible Day Camp,” July 31, 9 a.m. to noon; for children in kindergarten through fifth grades; activities, crafts, fellowship, story and snack.

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 25, 2 p.m., Harris Baptist Church, featuring the Rogers.

Gospel singing: July 25, 6:30 p.m., Oak Ridge Baptist Church;

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Special singing: July 25, 2 p.m., Full Gospel Revival Church; featuring Truly Blessed.

Singing: July 25, 6 p.m., Bostic Missionary Methodist Church; featuring Strings of Joy. Concert: July 25, 6 p.m., Fellowship Holiness Church, Spindale; featuring Brenda Braswell Concert: July 25, 6 p.m., Mount Vernon Baptist Church; featuring The Golden Valley Crusaders; love offering will be received; www.mountvernonbaptistchurch.org.

Gospel singing: Aug. 1, 7 p.m., Riverside Baptist Church, Harris; featuring Chapel Grove Quartet of Gastonia.

Gospel concert: Aug. 8, 6 p.m., Corinth Baptist Church, Ellenboro; featuring The Ruppe Sisters; a love offering will be received; for information, call 248-3559.

Gospel singing: Aug. 14, 2 p.m., Village Chapel Curch; featuring The Hamptoms of Blacksburg, S.C. Concert: Aug. 29, 6 p.m., Mount Vernon Baptist Church; featuring Gaither Homecoming’s Ann Downing; love offering will be received; www.mountvernonbaptistchurch.org.

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Winners Either Way will perform tonight at 7 at Bald Mountain Baptist Church in Lake Lure.

Special services

97th Homecoming: July 25, 10:30 a.m. wor127th Annual ship service (no Sunday Homecoming and school), Missionary Revival: Homecoming, Wesleyan Church; July 25, 4 p.m., New Pastor Steve Beam will Zion Missionary Baptist bring the morning worChurch, 619 Ledbetter ship message and there Road, Spindale; revivwill be special music; al, July 26-29, 6:30 covered dish meal after nightly, with Pastor A.J. the service.

Smith of Mount Nebo Baptist Church of Lake Fellowship service: Lure as guest speaker.

July 25, 4 p.m., Faith Temple Church; speaker Apostle Bobby Hogue Church anniversary: of Spartanburg, S.C. July 25, 4 p.m., St. Paul AME Zion Church; Youth Revival: July theme colors are black 26-29, 7:30 nightly, and red; any former Holy Temple No. 2; difchoir members interferent speakers each ested in singing in the night. reunion choir are invited to come to rehearsHomecoming: Aug. 1, als on Thursdays eve11 a.m., Gilboa United nings at 6:30 p.m.

Methodist Church;

Be charitable in your judgment of others Judge not, that you be not judged. For with the judgment you pronounce you will be judged.

— R.S.V. Matthew 7.1 One of the definitions of the word “charity,” according to the American Heritage dictionary (fourth edition), is “forbearance in judging others.” However, when most of us think of the word “charity,” we probably first think of the primary meanings, such as, “help or relief given to the poor,” or of “an organization of fund that helps the needy.” (American Heritage dictionary, 4th ed.) But, there is an important lesson in the use of the word meaning forbearance in judging others.

This is the use of the word where we might say that “the charitable interpretation of his not responding to our invitation was that he was on an extended vacation.” We are often inclined to judge another’s actions unfavorably, attributing their actions to malice or lack of consideration, when in fact we really don’t know why people do the things they do.

It is difficult enough to correctly judge our own motivation, let alone try to define someone else’s. Forbearance in judging others or judging their actions in the most favorable light is almost always a good policy. For one thing, people are then more likely to return the factor and forbear judging us.

For another thing, people tend to live up to (or down to) our judgments and expectations; so, judging others in the best possible light raises the moral bar. And finally, since most communication is miscommunication, the charitable forbearance of judgment allows us to ask others what they really meant, and thus not jump to uncharitable conclusions.

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worship service followed by a fellowship meal at Gilkey United Methodist Churh’s fellowship hall, beginning at approximately 12:30 p.m.

Homecoming: 11 a.m., Aug. 1, Brittain Presbyterian Church; the Rev. Carter Blaisell will deliver the message and lunch will follow the services.

Church anniversary: Aug. 1, 2:30 p.m., Wells Spring United Methodist Church; revival Monday, Aug. 2-Wednesday, Aug. 4, 6:30 nightly.

Revival: Aug. 2-6, 7 nightly, Ross Hill Baptist Church; guest speaker John Parker; special singing nightly.

Revival: Aug. 8, 6 p.m., Aug. 9-11, 7 p.m., Mount Pleasant Baptist Church, Golden Valley; guest speaker Preacher Robert Hensley of Sandy Level Church in Bostic.

Yard and bake sale and car wash: July 24, 6:30 a.m. until, Green Hill Volunteer Fire Department; breakfast served starting at 6:30 a.m. with biscuits, sausage, gravy, coffee and juice; lunch served starting at 11 a.m. with hamburgers, hot dogs, chips, homemade ice cream and drinks; special T-shirts available with purchase; all proceeds will go to Faye Pruette to help with medical costs associated with her stomach cancer; sponsored by Pleasant Grove Baptist Church, Polk County.

For information, call Katie Thompson, 4479694 or Matt Bailey, 429-4025.

Yard sale: July 24, 7 a.m., East Rutherford Church of God (next to Frank’s Store in Elelnboro); hot dogs and drinks will be sold during the event.

Yard and bake sale: July 31, 7 a.m. until, Carolina House Assisted Living; sponsored by Fork Creek Baptist Church Relay for Life Team.

Yard sale and car wash: 7 a.m. to 2 p.m., First Wesleyan Church, Forest City; breakfast biscuits, $1.

Other Tickets are on sale for the gospel play “After the Pain” by Pamela Harrison, to be presented Sept. 3 at The Foundation; sponsored by the Carver Alumni Association; see an alumni member for tickets or call The Foundation box office at 286-9990.

07242010courierA02Youth night: Fridays at 6 p.m. at East Rutherford Church

Church leaders are invited to faith-based mentoring Aug. 3 Church pastors, staff and leaders are invited to attend a faith-based mentoring and school service workshop and training session Aug. 3 from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. at Forest City-Dunbar Elementay School.

The purpose of the training is to explore opportunities for the faith community to work with Communities in Schools of Rutherford County to accomplish more for the children of Rutherford County Schools.

The mission of Communities in Schools is to surround students with a community of support, empwering them to stay in school and achieve in life.

There is no charge for this workshop. To reserve a spot, call or e-mail 288-0228 or execdir@rutherfordcis.org.

Gift cards will help clothe children in Lutheran Family Services Advent Lutheran Church will receive a gift card love offering for Lutheran Family Services of the Carolinas and the foster care children that are placed through LFS Sunday. LFS no long receives assistance from DSS for clothing. Gift cards to Wal-mart, Target, JC Penney and other retailers are preferred to individual clothing donations.

Advent has offered its members two ways to respond to the love offering. They can purchase gift cards and place them in the offering. The amount of the card should be noted somewhere on it. The second way is to give cash and the church treasurer will purchase gift cards for LFS use. All donations will go to the foster care program administered

by LFS. Community residents are invited to participate in the love offering. Donations should be sent to Advent Lutheran Church, 118 Reveley St., Spindale, NC 28160.

Life Line Screening is planned Aug. 12 at Calvary Baptist Church

Calvary Baptist Church will host Life Line Screening Aug. 12. Appointments will begin at 10 a.m.

Screenings identify potential cardiovasular conditions such as blocked arteries and irregular heart rhythm, abdominal aortic aneurysms and hardening of the arteries in the legs, which is a strong predictor of heart disease. A bone density screening to assess osteoporosis risk is also offered and is appropriate for both mena nd women.

Packages start at $139. All five screnings take 60 to 90 minutes to complete. For more information or to schedule an appointment, call 1-877-237-1287 or visit ww.lifelinescreening.com. Pre-registration is required.

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Report: Death cases showing race disparity

RALEIGH (AP) — A convicted killer is three times more likely to get a death sentence in North Carolina if the victim is white rather than black, according to researchers who have found similar results in other states.

The report comes weeks before a deadline for death row inmates to challenge their status under the Racial Justice Act, a state law that allows statistical evidence to be used to support a claim that race was a key factor in a death penalty decision.

North Carolina is the second state after Kentucky to adopt such a law. It aims to prevent black defendants from being punished more harshly than whites.

The study was conducted by Michael Radelet, a sociology professor at the University of Colorado at Boulder, and Glenn Pierce, criminology researcher at Northeastern University in Boston.

They studied reports to the FBI on 14,749 North Carolina homicides between 1980 and 2007 in which victims and suspects were identified as black or white. The researchers compared those cases against 352 death sentence cases.

A little more than 1 percent of those suspected of killing blacks were sentenced to death, compared to nearly 4 percent of those suspected of killing whites, said Radelet. He has found similar results in studies involving capital cases in Florida and Louisiana.

Race remained an important predictor of who was sentenced to death even after statistically separating the effect of other factors, such as whether a killer took the lives of multiple victims and whether a murder was accompanied by other felonies such as rape or robbery, Radelet said Friday.

“What it means is like so many other things in our society, race matters — explicitly or implicitly,” he said. “What this shows is the death penalty is a government program like the post office, and as a government program it’s administered by lessthan-perfect people. I think that’s what’s going on.”

The president of the North Carolina Conference of District Attorneys decried the study after a brief review. Prosecutors balance many factors when deciding whether to pursue a capital case, said Seth Edwards, the top prosecutor in Martin, Washington, Tyrrell, Hyde and Beaufort counties.

“I strongly disagree with the implication that prosecutors base their decision to seek the ultimate punishment on the race of the victim or the defendant,” Edwards said in an e-mail to The News & Observer of Raleigh. “Prosecutors do not look at skin color. We consider lots of things, but race is not one of them.”

Radelet said he and Pierce have studied the effectiveness of the death penalty for 30 years, often finding it wanting. They decided to study race in North Carolina capital cases after the state’s General Assembly approved the Racial Justice Act last year and there were few studies available on the subject, Radelet said.

He admits that not every factor used by prosecutors in decisions to seek death was included in his study. He said the racial disparity in death penalty convictions could be explained by other factors including prior criminal records, or whether the defendant and victim were family or strangers.

A broader study might also examine the races of the prosecutors involved in death penalty decisions, the races of the trial judges, and the races of jurors who serve in capital cases, Radelet said.

SAYING GOODBYE

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Hundreds of friends, including Rutherford Hospital’s therapy dog, Reynard, bid good-bye to Karen Moore Friday afternoon. The hospital hosted a reception for Moore who has resigned her position after 23 years and will begin a new job soon. Former hospital administrators, doctors, nurses and community friends, including Cassandra Parton of Rutherfordton, wished her well.

DMV workers disciplined over gifts RALEIGH (AP) — Allegations that dozens of state Division of Motor Vehicles employees improperly took gifts and meals from a state contractor were significantly exaggerated, according to the results of a state probe released Friday.

Commissioner Michael Robertson said that while the extent of unethical gift-giving wasn’t as bad as initially feared, 14 employees have been disciplined, with sanctions ranging from required counseling to five-day suspensions without pay.

No employees were fired, and all 14 must undergo ethics training.

“The actions and activities of a very few, coupled with false accusations, have dishonored the entire division,” he said.

When the probe was launched last fall, contractor Verizon Business, which has a $51.5 mil-

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lion computing contract with the agency, produced documents alleging that 62 people had taken 206 meals or snacks for free, at a combined worth of nearly $8,900.

The DMV investigation, though, found that 19 of the 62 weren’t employees of the division. Another 12 employees were exonerated by the probe, while the allegations against 10 others couldn’t be proved or disproved.

All told, the report found that 20 employees got free meals or snacks in 80 separate incidents.

Six of them have since retired.

The allegations against the DMV workers prompted Gov. Bev Perdue last fall to expand a ban on the receipt of gifts from outside firms with state business.

Although the current contract has been revised and expanded, it has largely been in place since the mid-1990s, Robertson

said. The commissioner doesn’t believe the meals affected the terms of the contract, but he said the appearance of impropriety is bad enough.

“The relationship of the contractor and the division was obviously too close,” he said.

Robertson became commissioner in March 2009, after the vast majority of meals in question had already taken place.

Verizon Business fired four of its employees after conducting its own review of how the contract with the DMV was handled, spokesman Peter Lucht said.

“Integrity is a core value for Verizon,” he said.

The Verizon Business contract with the DMV is set to expire in October 2012.

The State Bureau of Investigation is still investigating the matter.

Duke scientist’s research questioned

RALEIGH (AP) — Gov. Beverly Perdue has picked the team she wants to lead the way in overhauling North Carolina’s troubled Highway Patrol.

Perdue announced the appointment of six people Friday to a panel that’s supposed to report its findings

by Sept. 1.

The members include a former chief justice of the state Supreme Court, a former appeals court judge, a former high-ranking FBI official, two University of North Carolina professors and the Mecklenburg County district attorney.

The panel is tasked with making recommendations on the policies and structure of the patrol and on naming a new commander.

Col. Randy Glover is leaving as commander at the end of August after a series of scandals in the department tarnished the Highway Patrol’s reputation.

DURHAM (AP) ­— Concerns are The journal said two of Potti’s cobeing raised about the validity of authors had contacted them this research done by a Duke University week on behalf of 15 European scicancer scientist who recently was entists involved in the study with placed on leave while the school “grave concerns about the validity of The British are coming investigates whether he falsely their report.” claimed to be a Rhodes scholar.

Statisticians at the University of by sea to train in state The editor of a British journal, Texas’ M.D. Anderson Cancer Center CAMP LEJEUNE (AP) — The had questioned methods used in the British are hitting the beach to train Lancet Oncology, issued an “expression of concern” Friday, citing a study, the co-authors wrote. Potti with North Carolina-based Marines.

December 2007 study it published could not be reached via e-mail for More than 2,000 British troops from Dr. Anil Potti and others.

The comment, and a home telephone from the Third Commando Brigade study described gene patterns that number could not be found. Duke are scheduled on Friday to practice a might help predict a breast cancer officials did not reply to e-mails or beach assault and seizure of a mock patient’s response to chemotherapy. phone calls requesting comment. enemy airfield and village at Camp Lejeune.

The British will be joined by nearly 4,000 Marines and sailors from the USS Kearsarge Amphibious Ready Group and the 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit. For the last ten weeks, British and U.S. forces have trained together, including landing American Harrier jets on British ships, and coordinating artillery and West on Charlotte Rd, Take right on Cleghorn St air strikes on mock enemy positions. at the John Deere place, 2nd left The Royal Navy has been training off the eastern seaboard and in the western Atlantic since April.

N.C.-based support unit gets new commander

Military police return from Afghanistan

Gov. names panel to help overhaul Highway Patrol

FORT BRAGG (AP) — The former commander of the 82nd Airborne Division’s rear detachment at a North Carolina base is taking over a massive logistics unit that supported relief efforts in Haiti.

Col. Johnny Jay Johnston will take command of the 406th Army Field Support Brigade from Col. Kenneth Charles Dyer on Friday. The ceremony takes place on Fort Bragg’s Main Post Parade Field.

The 406th consists of more than 1,500 military and civilians responsible for providing units with logistics and maintenance support. The unit deployed earlier this year in

support of the 82nd’s 2nd Brigade Combat Team.

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Approximately 100 soldiers from the 16th Military Police Brigade are scheduled to return on Friday to Pope Air Force Base. The soldiers were part of 1,300 man task force charged with running two prisons, including a massive complex at Bagram Airfield.

The soldiers also ran a training program aimed at teaching Afghan National Army soldiers how to be correctional officers.

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Our Views Economy stalled by lack of action

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he American economy continues to waffle as solid signs of growth one day are met by signs of retreat on the next. This uncertainty is taking a heavy toll.

Wall Street surges then plunges.

Consumers start buying, then they pull back. Companies, with stronger earnings becoming more common, are torn between expanding operations or holding the line.

The Federal Reserve chairman this week said no new actions will be taken now to stimulate the economy. He did reserve the option to take such actions if there were a significant change.

The reason for the wait and see approach is that the economy is currently growing albeit slowly.

What all this adds up to is that everyone is waiting for something to happen or someone else to act.

This lack of momentum is not helping, and until there is movement, nothing will change.

Maybe Obama should try tax cuts The economy is weak and the public is angry. What should President Barack Obama do? He could do what Richard Nixon did: Go to China.

I don’t mean take a trip to Beijing. I mean do something unexpected and out of political character. In this case, listen to Republicans and the business community (and a few Democrats) and try using tax cuts to get the economy moving.

He could call for Congress to postpone the scheduled repeal of most or all of President George W. Bush’s 2001 and 2003 tax cuts and also call for a cut in the corporate tax rate, now secondhighest in the world.

He also could call for a payroll tax holiday to encourage hiring and possibly win bipartisan support for some stimulus spending, daring Republicans to make a fuss about the danger of enlarging the federal deficit.

He could address the deficit in next year’s budget after the bipartisan debt commission comes up with a comprehensive solution, which should include tax and entitlement reform plus recommendations for new revenue sources.

Obama clearly is a Keynesian and so are his economic advisers. Their 2009 stimulus plan was heavy on government spending to fight the recession.

Obama claims it’s working, but the public doesn’t believe it.

The president, most of his allies in Congress and liberal outside economists — also devout believers in John Maynard Keynes’ “demand side” economics — think that more spending is the answer, plus some targeted tax cuts.

But, by 51 percent to 40 percent, according to a just-released

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Pew poll, the public prefers reducing the federal deficit to spending more on job creation.

Republicans are relying on that kind of polling to say “no” to new spending, or at least to demand that any outlays be offset with other budget cuts.

Enough conservative and moderate Democrats — or just nervous ones — are of the same opinion that there’s no chance of getting big spending through Congress.

So what should Obama do? He should do as Harvard economist N. Gregory Mankiw recommends: Have some intellectual humility and see if something else might work — namely, tax cuts.

Mankiw was President George W. Bush’s former chief economic adviser, but — writing in the current issue of the journal National Affairs — he does not come off as a doctrinaire “supply side” ideologue.

Rather, he admits that economists and policymakers “have no way of knowing for sure” if their economic models are correct in coping with a crisis.

But he makes a good case for trying tax cuts to see if they might have better results than Obama’s stimulus, which was sold on the basis that it would hold unemployment below 8 percent, whereas it’s now almost 10 percent.

Mankiw cites several academic studies — including one by Obama’s own chief economist, Christina Romer (written before

she went to work for Obama) — showing that tax cuts have a bigger growth “multiplier” effect than government spending.

That is, each dollar of tax cuts — particularly business and income tax cuts — produces (depending on the study) from $3 to $5 in economic growth, up to four times the effect of increases in government spending.

In a Nixon-goes-to-China move, Obama could adopt some of the recommendations recently made by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce at its Jobs for America Summit.

An “open letter” to Obama and Congress issued in conjunction with the conference asserted that “our precariously weak economy — and especially our all-important small-business sector — simply cannot sustain (the) massive tax hikes” that automatic expiration of the Bush tax cuts will impose next year.

What are the chances that Obama could “go to China”?

Liberals will howl that he’s buying “voodoo economics,” going over to the “supply side” and benefiting the rich.

Supply-sider Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., the ranking member on the Budget Committee, told me that Republicans have quietly offered to help Democrats pass a two-year extension of the Bush cuts. “There are no bites,” he said. “The problem for them is that they would have to concede that lower top tax rates are good for growth.”

But it’s worth a try. And what’s better -- ideological purity or a fast reduction in the jobless rate?

Morton Kondracke is executive editor of Roll Call, the newspaper of Capitol Hill.

Education union a hurdle in school reform plans RALEIGH – Almost everyone agrees that improving the quality of the educational workforce is an indispensable element of any program to improve school performance.

I use the term “almost” because there is a significant player in North Carolina’s school-reform debate that doesn’t agree: the N.C. Association of Educators, the state’s largest teacher union.

Oh, I know that the NCAE and its allies say they favor measures to attract and retain good teachers. But as a practical matter, they oppose virtually all policies that would accomplish the goal – from ending tenure and paying for performance to parental-choice measures that would give parents freedom to choose schools based on the quality of teachers and academic programs.

As a theoretical matter, this shouldn’t be surprising. As a labor organization seeking to advance the interests of the majority of its members, a teacher

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union can’t be expected to conclude that mediocre education is caused by mediocre educators. It can’t embrace policies based on the assumption that schools would improve if they had the tools they need to replace current teachers with better ones.

Teacher unions like the NCAE simply want the existing public-school workforce to receive higher salaries, richer benefits, and better working conditions. But as serious education analysts across the political spectrum would agree, raising overall teacher pay – or raising pay based on union-backed criteria such as longevity and advanced degrees – will not improve the average quality of teachers. It pays bad and mediocre teachers at least as

much as the good ones.

If you’ve ever been tempted to believe the union spin that it’s impossible to design a fair and accurate process for distinguishing the good teachers from the bad ones, check out a forum on teacher quality in the Summer 2010 edition of EducationNext (available online at EducationNext. org). Hoover Institution economist Eric Hanushek and Education Trust CEO Kati Haycock approach education policy from different points of view, but they both agree that teacher quality is measurable and important.

Based on research Hanushek and his colleagues have conducted, he argues that while objective measures such as valueadded assessments of teaching performance have value, the result doesn’t different much from a more subjective process based on principals watching and evaluating the teachers they manage. His conclusion is worth quoting in full: The long-run hope would

be that we develop both better quantitative measures of a teacher’s value added and better subjective evaluations by principals, supervisors, and peers. This approach is unlikely to satisfy a regulatory view of allocation of quality teachers, but if we are truly interested in improving student achievement, we cannot shy away from incorporating performance information of all sorts into our management decisions.

Unfortunately, state education officials defer to the teacher union on such matters, and the union will never go along with any proposal to allow for large differences in tenure status or pay based on teacher quality – measured either through value-added tests or principal evaluation.

That puts the union squarely opposed to policies embraced by the vast majority of North Carolina voters. In a January Civitas Institute poll, for example, only 26 percent favored the current practice of basing

teacher pay on longevity and equality while 61 percent favored a merit system with differentiated pay and principal discretion. The NCAE’s position also puts it squarely opposed to any policy offering a real prospect of improving education for the poorest-served students.

Keep in mind, however, that in few other industries or professions would it be assumed that the interests of producers and consumers are always aligned. If our goal is helping youngsters learn, we should adopt policies likely to result in a significant turnover in the teaching profession – as bad teachers are fired, mediocre teachers improve or depart, good teachers are rewarded and retained, and new teachers are brought into the profession by the creation of new schools.

The teacher union will never stand for that. It cannot be persuaded. It must be bypassed.

Hood is president of the John Locke Foundation.

The Daily Courier, Forest City, NC, Saturday, July 24, 2010

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In a Sept. 15, 1976 photo, television reporter Daniel Schorr, center, with his wife beside him, appears before the House Ethics Committee in Washington. Veteran reporter-commentator Daniel Schorr, whose hard-hitting reporting for CBS got him on President Richard Nixon’s notorious “enemies list” in the 1970s, has died. He was 93.

Journalist Schorr dead at 93

Diane Ashley

Elizabeth Martin

Diane Ashley, 62, of 496 Hollis Road, Ellenboro, died Thursday, July 22, 2010, at Rutherford Hospital.

A native of York County, S.C., she was a daughter of the late Arvil Sanford and Mattie Mae Ashley Sanford.

She worked as a certified nurse’s assistant (CNA) for more than 40 years and enjoyed playing bingo.

Elizabeth Bailey Martin, 73, of Columbus, died Thursday, July 22, 2010, at her home.

A native of Polk County, she was the daughter of the late Pharis Bailey and the late Florence Whiteside Bailey.

She was a member of Fork Creek Baptist Church.

Survivors include her husband, Clifford “Bud” Martin; two daughters, Kathy Arnold of Lakeland, Fla., and Rebecca Pace of Columbus; a sister, Janis McSwain of Rutherfordton; four brothers, Hix Bailey, Leon Bailey and Adin Bailey, all of Rutherfordton, and Harold Bailey of Conover.

Survivors include a daughter, Sue Starnes of Cleveland County; two sons, John Harvell of Fort Mill, S.C., and Jonathan Ashley of Ellenboro; two sisters, Helen Smiley of Bostic and Mary Freeman of Fort Mill; three grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren.

A memorial service will be held Saturday at 10 a.m. at 13 Ozzie Drive in Bostic.

The family will receive WASHINGTON (AP) — Veteran reporter my name on an ominous-looking list, but I and commentator Daniel Schorr, whose count this one of the most trying experiences friends following the service.

Memorials may be made hard-hitting reporting for CBS got him on in my television career.” in care of Harrelson Funeral President Richard Nixon’s notorious “eneSchorr’s stories pointing out weaknesses mies list” in the 1970s, has died. He was 93. of the administration’s programs so angered Home, 1251 U.S. Highway 221-A, Forest City, NC Schorr died Friday at a Washington Nixon that he ordered an FBI investiga28043, to help defray funeral hospital after a brief illness, said Anna tion of the reporter — saying he was being costs.

Christopher, a spokeswoman for National considered for a top federal job. That invesHarrelson Funeral Home is Public Radio, where Schorr continued to tigation was later mentioned in one of the in charge of arrangements. work as a senior news analyst and commenthree articles of impeachment — “abuse of tator. a federal agency” — adopted by the House Schorr’s career of more than six decades Judiciary Committee against Nixon.

Online condolences may be made spanned the spectrum of journalism — He said he figured he became such a thorn at www.harrelsonfuneralhome. beginning in print, then moving to televiin Nixon’s side because his newspaper back- com sion where he spent 23 years with CBS News ground gave him a bluntness rare on televiand ending with NPR. He also wrote sevsion and an antagonism to the “stage-craft, eral books, including his memoir, “Staying image-making and slogan-selling” that Tuned: A Life in Journalism.”

Nixon favored. Schorr became part of the From staff reports Schorr reported from Moscow; Havana; story once again in 1976, when he arranged RUTHERFORDTON — An Bonn, Germany; and many other cities as for the publication of an advance copy of a 81-year-old Rutherfordton a foreign correspondent. While at CBS, he suppressed House Intelligence Committee woman reportedly fell vicbrought Americans the first-ever exclusive report on illegal CIA and FBI findings. tim to a scam, and $449 television interview with a Soviet leader, At the time, Schorr called it “an inescapwas taken from her banking Nikita Khrushchev, in 1957. able decision of journalistic conscience” to account.

During the Nixon years, Schorr not only see that the report ended up in print. To his The woman’s daughter covered the news as CBS’ chief Watergate surprise, reaction from his own colleagues called the Rutherfordton correspondent, but he also became part of in the media was negative, because Schorr Police Department on the story. Hoping to beat the competition, he had handed the report over in exchange for rushed to the air with Nixon’s famous “enea donation to a group that aids journalists in Thursday and said the vicmies list” and began reading the list of 20 First Amendment issues. The idea of “selling tim received a telephone call from a man who told her she to viewers before previewing it. As he got to any document is intolerable for a newsman needed to buy an insurance No. 17, he discovered his name. whether it’s for personal profit or for char“I remember that my first thought was that ity,” Peter Lisagor, chief of the Chicago Daily card for her health insurance. The woman reportedly I must go on reading without any pause, or News’ Washington bureau, said at the time. gasp or look of wild surmise,” he wrote in his Many reporters also found Schorr’s silence gave out personal informabook “Clearing the Air.” troubling when another CBS correspondent, tion and her account number “I do not know how well I carried off my Lesley Stahl, was wrongly accused of leaking to pay for the alleged purchase. effort to appear oblivious to the discovery of the report.

Using the information obtained over the phone, the thief then took $449 from the woman’s bank account at Fifth Third Bank.

The RPD is still investigatobtaining property by false card theft and two counts of Sheriff’s Reports pretense. obtain property by false pren The Rutherford County n Raymond Scott Biddy tense; released on a $20,000 Sheriff’s Office responded to reported damage to properunsecured bond. (RCSD) 129 E-911 calls Thursday. ty.

The incident occurred on n Michael Glenn Bradley, n Thomas Franklin York Wilkie Street.

53, of 1411 W.V. Thompson III reported the theft of tools n An employee of Hickory Road; charged with unauand other items.

Charlotte Robertson, 75, of Log Barbecue, on West Main thorized use of motor vehin Barbara S. Beaver Asheville, NC passed away Street, reported a breaking cle; released on a $1,000 reported the theft of a rotary Tuesday, July 20, 2010 at and entering and larceny. unsecured bond. (RCSD) brush cutter.

Elizabeth House Hospice in n Thomas Roach reported n Rhonda Jean Epright Hendersonville, North Carolina a felony larceny.

EMS/Rescue reported the theft of jewelry/ after an extended illness. precious metals. n The Rutherford County Born Dec. 16, 1934 to Earl and Arrests n Hope Jessica Cardwell EMS responded to 32 E-911 Sis Binegar in Clarksburg WV. reported the theft of video n Denise Baron, 47, of Red calls Thursday.

She moved with her husband game systems.

Bud Lane, Bostic; charged n The Volunteer Life and children to Asheville in n James K. Whitlock with drunk and disrupSaving and Rescue, Hickory 1964 and had a fulfilling career reported the theft of tools. tive and resist, obstruct Nut Gorge EMS and of over 35 years at Wachovia. n Martha Morrow Parker and delay an officer; placed Rutherford County Rescue Later she enjoyed working at reported a breaking and/ under a $3,000 secured responded to 13 E-911 calls Israel's Garden Center until her or entering and damage to bond. (FCPD) Thursday. full retirement in 2001. She was property. n Ronnie Wood, 57, of an avid reader, enjoyed crossn Jennifer Lynn Jones Oakridge Drive, Forest City; Fire calls word puzzles, and created many reported damage to a vehicle arrested on warrants for treasured cross-stitch items for n Bill’s Creek firefighters windshield. possession of marijuana, her family. Although she was responded to a motor vehicle n Julianne Caroline possession of drug paraan only child, she maintained accident.

Kramer reported a lost walphernalia and possession of a close relationship with her n SDO firefighters let. schedule four controlled subsisters-in-law Jane Stonko and responded to a motor vehicle n C.F. Reese, at 831 N. stance; released on a $1,000 Jill Hutchinson both of WV. accident and to a power line Main St., Rutherfordton, unsecured bond. (FCPD) Admired by family and friends, fire. reported the theft of metal n Preston Wood, 23, of Charlotte truly lived by the shelves.

Oakridge Drive, Forest City; "Golden Rule" and was a very arrested on warrants for dear soul to everyone whose life THE DAILY COURIER possession of schedule IV Rutherfordton she touched. controlled substance and In addition to her parents, n The Rutherfordton Published Tuesday through Sunday possession of drug paraphershe was preceded in death by Police Department mornings by Paxton Media Group nalia; released on a $1,000 LLC dba The Daily Courier USPS her husband of 54 years, Jack, responded to 29 E-911 calls unsecured bond. (FCPD) 204-920 Periodical Postage paid in in 2004 Thursday. n Lindsey Facemyer, 20, Forest City, NC. Surviving are son, Bill n Elizabeth Samantha Company Address: 601 Oak St., P.O. of Gunns Road, Ellenboro; Robertson and wife, Kathy of Coleman reported animal Box 1149, Forest City, NC 28043. charged with provisional Rutherfordton, NC; two daughcruelty. Someone gave her Phone: (828) 245-6431 licensee violation and underters, Sylvia Ledbetter and husFax: (828) 248-2790 dog antifreeze. age possession of malt bevSubscription rates: Single copy, daily band, Lynn of Candler, NC erage; released on a $1,000 50¢ / Sunday $1.50. Home delivery and Laura Robertson Paintiff Spindale $11.75 per month, $35.25 for three unsecured bond. (FCPD) and husband, Jim of Arden, months, $70.50 for six months, $129 n Michelle Lynn Rippy, n The Spindale Police NC; four grandsons Gabriel per year. In county rates by mail Department responded to 22 29, of 111 Acorn Park Drive; and Joshua Blankenship, Jesse payable in advance are: $13.38 for charged with driving while E-911 calls Thursday. one month, $40.14 for three months, Paintiff, and Walker Robertson impaired and failure to wear $80.27 for six months, $160.54 per and three granddaughters, seat belt by driver; no bond year. Outside county: $14.55 for one Lake Lure Tosha Ledbetter, Kira Paintiff, month, $43.64 for three months, listed. (NCHP) and Rose Robertson. n The Lake Lure Police $87.28 for six months, $174.56 per n Adam Paul Gibson, There will be an inforyear. College students for school Department responded to 16, of 331 Highland Ave.; mal gathering of friends and year subscription, $75. nine E-911 calls Thursday. charged with breaking and/ The Digital Courier, $6.50 a month family at the North Carolina or entering, larceny after for non-subscribers to The Daily Arboretum on Sunday, August 1, Forest City Courier. Payment may be made at break/ enter and injury to 2010 at 2:00. Rather than flowthe website: www.thedigitalcourier. real property; released on a n The Forest City Police ers donations may be made to com Department responded to 57 $25,000 unsecured bond.

Four Seasons Compassion For The Daily Courier is not responsible (RCSD) E-911 calls Thursday. for advance subscription payments Life, 571 South Allen Road, Flat n Darlena Ann Dupree, made to carriers, all of who are inden An employee of Collins Rock, NC 28731.

53, of 183 Golden Oaks pendent contractors.

Metal, on East Main Street, Paid obit.

Lane; charged with financial reported an incident of

Funeral services will be held Saturday at 2 p.m. at Fork Creek Baptist Church with the Rev. Billy Cogdell officiating. Burial will follow at the church cemetery. The family will receive friends one hour before the service at the church. Memorials may be made to the Fork Creek Baptist Church Building Fund, 2741 Camp Creek Road, Union Mills, NC 28167.

McMahans Funeral Home and Cremation Services is in charge of arrangements.

Online condolences may be left at www.mcmahansfuneralhome. com

Woman loses money in scam

Police Notes

ing the incident.

Both law enforcement offiThe Daily Courie cers and banks urge consumers to use extreme caution when dealing with someone you don’t know.

The Fifth Third Bank website recommends these steps to avoid becoming a victim: n Do not carry your Social Security card in your wallet. n Don’t have your Social Security number or driver’s license number printed on your checks. n Beware of giving information to anyone over the phone or the Internet unless you initiate the call. n Do not keep PIN’s attached to credit, debit or ATM cards.

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Charlotte Robertson

Annie Mae Freeman Lane Annie Mae Freeman Lane, age 86, of Sandy Level Church Road, Bostic, North Carolina died Thursday, July 22, 2010 at Rutherford Hospital.

She was a native of Washington, DC and a daughter of the late Joseph Graham Freeman and Gertie Ensley Freeman; a homemaker and the widow of the late Richard Lewis Lane who died in 1996. She was also a member of Sandy Level Baptist Church where she taught Sunday School for 63 years and a graduate of Mt. Vernon High School Class of 1943. She was also preceded in death by her brothers, Walter Freeman, Gilmer Freeman, and Bobby Freeman and a son-inlaw, Dale Hammond.

Survivors include a son, Don Lane and his wife, Sandra of Spindale; two daughters, Shirley Ramsey and her husband, James of Spindale and Brenda Hammond of Forest City, a sister, Nettie Sue Murray of Bostic. There are seven grandchildren, Donna Mills, Darla Stokely, Darren Lane, Connie Huss, Julie Greene, Shannon Dillard, and Kelli Hammond, and ten great grandchildren, Allison Stokely, William Stokely, Jonathan Mills, Michael Mills, Gracey Lane, Daniel Lane, Cameron Greene, Connor Greene, Callie Greene, and Laynli Mae Dillard.

Funeral services will be held at 3PM Sunday in the Sandy Level Baptist Church with the Reverend Robbie Hensley, Reverend Chad Dillard, and Reverend Matt Mills officiating. Interment will follow in the church cemetery. The family will receive friends from 6 until 8 pm Saturday evening at The Padgett and King Mortuary.

An online guest registry is available at: www.padgettking.com Paid obit.

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Ongoing Foothills Harvest Ministry: This week, ladies’ slacks buy one get two free.

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

Washburn Community Outreach Center: Open Thursdays and Fridays, noon to 6 p.m., and Saturdays from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.; in store special posted at the store each day; this Saturday from 10 a.m. to noon there will be a backyard Bible school for children.

Red Cross Benefit: Spindale Drug is partnering with the Rutherford County Chapter of the American Red Cross by donating $5 to the Red Cross until the end of July with new prescriptions on certificates available at Spindale Drug or at the Red Cross Chapter House.

Rutherford County Adult Baseball League: Adult baseball registration for those 30 and older online at www.leaguelineup.com/ rcabl.

Youth football and cheerleading sign-ups: For the Rutherfordton Raiders, Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays at Crestview Park from 6 to 8 p.m.; for information, call Tammy, 980-2059.

Saturday, July 24 Car wash: To benefit Rutherford Early College High school’s yearbook staff; at McDonald’s in Spindale.

First Aid class: 8:30 a.m. until, American Red Cross Rutherford County Chapter House; topic is preventing disease transmission; 287-5916.

Annual car wash fundraiser: 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., Bills Creek Volunteer Fire Department; hot dogs, chips, sodas and desserts will be sold; proceeds will go toward the refurbishing efforts at the Mary B. Mullen Bible Camp.

here at our new location, too,” Cole said. “I’m a little worried about how busy U.S. 221A (Broadway Avenue) is during the day. A few things we have going for us is that our release and the release at Forrest Hunt Elementary — just down the street — will be staggered. They get out earlier than us. There will be a lot of cars going in and out of the street down there at 2:30 p.m. every day.”

For Maimone, the big goal for the upcoming year is about money — and making it stretch.

“The most important thing is handling very tight budgets,” Maimone said.

“It is going to be a difficult year and we’ll have over 1,100 students on two campuses, and we’ll have to make the best use of funds we have available to us.

“We have brought in some excellent new teachers this year as well, and we want to run that budget as lean as we can and maintain all the great programs we offer like drama and ballet.

Those are programs that are special to our school and we want to hold on to those.”

On the education side, reading is in the cross hairs.

“We have a new reading system that is different than your traditional system in that it uses phonics, but instead of learning the letter symbols right off the bat students are learning the sounds,” Cole said.

“The readers we use are not traditional books.

“They are all designed to build student confidence because they use a lot of decode-able words or words that a student can sound out using the rules they’ve learned.

“It is a great system that core knowledge came up with and we’re happy with it.”

Maimone said he’s pleased with the progress but hopes it doesn’t breed overconfidence.

“There’s so much excitement about not only this new building, but the

great track record we’ve had and the goals we’ve met this past year,” Maimone said.

“There is not that anxiety that we have to do something additional this year.

“Our toughest thing is to make sure we don’t sit back and rest on our laurels.”

Contact Baughman via e-mail at sbaughman@thedigitalcourier.com

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

Monday, July 26

Thomas Jefferson Classical Academy grammar principal Jason Cole and TJCA Headmaster Joe Maimone are set to unveil a new plaque that is a collection of Bradford Pear tree dedication plates from the former Alexander Mills Town Hall.

The hall once occupied the same land where the new grammar school campus sits.

Democrat Club meeting: 7 p.m., Main Street headquarters in Forest City.

Tuesday, July 27 Relay for Life fundraiser: Courtside Steaks will donate 10 percent of its proceeds today to Pink Ladies for Mammograms, sponsored by the Rutherford Hospital Cancer Resource Center.

For more information, call Jaime Ingraham at 245-4596.

HOPE Support Group: Tuesdays, 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.

Scott Baughman/Daily Courier

R-S Youth Football and Cheerleading sign-ups: 6 to 8 p.m., Spindale House; open to all children ages 5 to 12; cost is $50 for first child and $25 for each additional child for football and cheerleading; please bring a copy of your child’s brith certificate; last registration of the season, after July 31 late fees will apply.

Little Detroit Museum meeting: 6:30 p.m, Bennett Classics Antique Auto Museum.

Isothermal Amateur Radio Club meeting: 7 p.m., Rutherford County Annex; all amateur operators are invited; if you would like information on how to become a ham radio operator you are welcome as well; for information, call Don Whisnant 453-1698.

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.

Homeschool meeting: 7 p.m., Cornerstone Fellowship Church; Classical Conversations of Forest City is holding an informational meeting for any parent interested in home-schooling thte classical way. Topics will include a curriculum that supports parents in their attempt to educate their children using the classical method, the opportunity to view books and guidebooks and meet next year’s tutors. For more information, call Lisa Eppinette at 245-4672.

Wednesday, July 28 Children’s summer reading program: Every Wednesday, 9 a.m., through Aug. 4, Union Mills Learning Center; for preschool and early readers as well as older children; poetry reading and storytelling will be featured as well; each week will feature a different subject and guest; everyone in attendance will receive at least one free book (all ages and reading levels).

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Also in connection with the case, a Rutherfordton police incident report

says Ferguson sold a blue UNC Nike golf bag to the Rutherfordton Golf Course for $5.

The report says the bag, valued at $125, was taken during a vehicle breaking and entering in Forest City.

Ward said breaking and entering is a felony charge; larceny becomes a felony charge for thefts in excess of $1,000.

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

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NEW YORK (AP) — A man dubbed the “bouquet bandit” because he held fresh flowers while robbing a Manhattan bank was arrested Wednesday at a home in Brooklyn, police said.

The publicity generated by a security photo — including frontpage headlines in the city’s tabloids — led to tips naming 44-yearold Edward Pemberton, Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said.

The New York Police Department released the photo on Monday amid a manhunt for a robber who walked into a bank last week carrying a bouquet neatly bundled in pink tissue paper and plastic. Hidden inside the arrangement was a note that read, “Give me all your $100s, $50s. Don’t be a hero.”

Florida slaying suspect caught in South Carolina

MANNING, S.C. (AP) — A Florida man has been arrested in South Carolina and accused of stabbing and critically injuring his parents.

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Randall and Kristin Schmidt of the “Kristin Says” tend to an injured survivor they pulled aboard their 42-foot Tiara Friday morning in Lake Michigan. A medical transport plane carrying five people to the Mayo Clinic crashed into Lake Michigan on Friday and one person was rescued, officials said.

Cocoa, Fla., was stopped Thursday morning on Interstate 95 near Summerton.

The Brevard County, Fla., Sheriff’s Office says Clifton is accused of stabbing his parents during an argument at their home in Cocoa early Thursday morning.

Town Council faces voter ire on excessive salaries BELL, Calif. (AP) — City Council members who make nearly $100,000 a year for governing this small, poverty-plagued suburb of Los Angeles must resign immediately or face a recall campaign, a community group warned Friday.

The threat came hours after it was announced that the city manager, assistant city manager and police chief were stepping down following a public outcry over their salaries, which total more than $1.6 million a year.

In the wake of that scandal, residents have lost trust in Mayor Oscar Hernandez and three other council members.

The group, whose acronym is Spanish for “enough,” said if the council members don’t step down

by Monday’s council meeting, it will begin working for their recall.

LUDINGTON, Mich. (AP) — The pilot of a small plane on its way to the Mayo Clinic with four others on board was rescued by a boater in Lake Michigan on Friday hours after the plane lost power and crashed just a few miles from shore, authorities said. A search for the four passengers was under way.

The pilot, who was not identified, told the boater who pulled him from the water that the others — three men and one woman — were still in the water, Mason County Undersheriff Tom Trenner told reporters. Authorities will search for the four “as long as we can,” Trenner said.

U.S. Coast Guard Petty Officer Nathaniel Parks said the plane went down shortly after 10 a.m. a few miles off the shore of Ludington, a resort town on Michigan’s west coast. The pilot was pulled from the water by the boater about two hours later and was taken to a local hospital where he is in good condition.

Water temperatures and conditions will have a lot to do with whether other survivors are found, Ludington Coast Guard Station Chief James Hendricks said. Waves in the area of the crash were 2 to 4 feet high, and the wind speed was about 18 mph.

Hendricks said the temperatures likely were in the 70s.

“They can survive for a while.

There’s always a chance to make rescues,” he said.

The Cessna 206 left Alma, about 150 miles northwest of Detroit, Friday morning en route to Rochester, Minn., said Federal Aviation Administration spokeswoman Elizabeth Isham Cory. Parks said the crash was reported by a witness as well as a distress signal from the plane via satellite.

About 10 minutes before the plane went down, the pilot reported a loss of power to an air traffic controller at the Minneapolis Center, the FAA said. At the time, it was overcast with light winds and visibility of about 10 miles, the National Weather Service said.

A map of the plane’s flight path from flightaware.com suggests prob-

lems developed about one-third of the way into the flight when the westbound plane doubled back over Lake Michigan. It then made a steep decline in altitude near Ludington.

“They turned around because they had a strong head wind,” Trenner said. “With a tail wind, they thought they would make it back to land.”

Carol Freed, who owned the plane along with her husband, Jerry, said her husband that was on the plane with friend Earl Davidson. She said the two, both pilots, regularly flew people to the Mayo Clinic in Rochester on a volunteer basis.

“We’ve all been to Mayo Clinic for various reasons,” Carol Freed, of Alma, told The Associated Press. “A lot of people cannot get a flight there due to time constraints and cost.”

She said she could not provide more information on the crash, including details on the search efforts. She said everyone on the plane was from the Alma area.

Davidson’s stepson, Zach Everett, declined to speak with about the crash when reached at Davidson’s home until the family had information confirmed by the Coast Guard.

The small plane took off about 9 a.m. Friday from Gratiot Community Airport south of Alma, said airport assistant manager Lucas Locke, who was not sure whether Freed or Davidson was piloting the craft.

“Both were in the front seat of the airplane,” Locke said, adding that he didn’t know who else was in the plane.

Friday’s crash was unsettling for many pilots in the area because they know one another, he said. Freed and Davidson had been volunteering with organizing an upcoming airport open house, “A lot of people have been coming out to see what’s been going on; coming in to see if we’ve heard any news yet,” Locke said.

Friday’s crash wasn’t the first time a medical flight has plummeted in Lake Michigan.

A Survival Flight plane carrying donor organs for a double lung transplant operation crashed in June 2007 into the lake near Milwaukee on its way to the University of Michigan Health System hospital in Ann Arbor. All six people on board the Cessna 550 Citation were killed.

Man wearing Darth Vader costume robs N.Y. bank SETAUKET, N.Y. (AP) — Times must be tough back at the Empire.

A bank robber dressed as “Star Wars” villain Darth Vader made off with an undetermined amount of cash after pointing a handgun at startled tellers inside a Chase bank branch on Long Island.

Detectives say the stickup man walked into the bank shortly before noon Thursday wearing a full head mask and a blue cape. The only part of the uniform that was out of place were his camouflage pants. And that handgun — no light saber.

Suffolk County police Detective Sgt. William Lamb told reporters at least one customer at the time didn’t think the theft was legit. The customer, whose identity was not released, can be seen cowering on the floor in a surveillance camera Associatws Press photo, moments after the holdup In this photo released by the Suffolk County Police Department, a person wearing man shoved him away. a Darth Vader mask and cape is captured on surveillance camera robbing a Chase “The customer thought it might bank in Setauket, N.Y. have been a joke and not a serious

attempt at a robbery,” Lamb told the Daily News.

The only other description of the suspect was his height: between 6 feet and 6-foot-2. He was last seen running across a parking lot.

“I thought it was pretty comical, but I guess this guy was pretty serious about needing some money,” Michael Aloisio, who works at a nearby restaurant and saw the bandit run past, told the New York Post.

“It was pretty crazy. He had the whole outfit on,” added Louie Lin, who works at a Chinese restaurant in the shopping center where the bank is located and saw the robber.

Mike Fusco, a Chase spokesman, declined to comment other than to say bank officials were cooperating with the investigation. The holdup was the 15th in Suffolk County this year; 30 bank heists were reported in 2009.

The robbery comes about a week after a so-called bouquet bandit held up a Manhattan bank.

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Washington Notes Congressman: Stop horsing around with sports votes

WASHINGTON (AP) — House Democrats and Republicans have put aside their differences this year to honor the likes of golfer Phil Mickelson, the Chicago Blackhawks hockey team, NASCAR driver Jimmy Johnson and the Penn State women’s volleyball team.

But when it came time this week to memorialize the start of the 142nd season of the Saratoga race course in New York, one freshman lawmaker decided he’d had enough.

“It’s an absolute embarrassment,” said Rep. Jason Chaffetz of Utah, announcing on the House floor a vow to vote against all future sports resolutions.

He worried that there were kids in the visitors’ gallery who would go back home and, asked whether Congress was talking about war or debt, reply: “Oh no, they were honoring a race course.”

“It’s terribly frustrating,” Chaffetz said.

Congressman Rangel says he’s ready to fight ethics charges

WASHINGTON (AP) — Rep. Charles Rangel, who has spent half of his 80 years as a member of Congress, says he looks forward to fighting ethics charges. Other Democrats won’t be so pleased.

The ethics trial sought by the New York congressman and former Ways and Means Committee chairman will coincide with campaign season. Democrats will have to defend their party’s conduct. If enough of them lose, the party could cede control of the House.

Republicans are already going negative, reminding voters that Speaker Nancy Pelosi promised to “drain the swamp” of ethical misdeeds in Congress.

Rangel had a choice.

His lawyer had been negotiating with the House ethics committee to settle his case. But to end it, Rangel would have had to accept the allegations. Rangel had been willing to accept some, but that didn’t satisfy the committee, according to a person familiar with the talks but not authorized to be quoted by name.

Pay czar chose not to go after $1.6B in bank compensation

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration’s pay czar said Friday that he did not try to recoup $1.6 billion in lavish compensation to top executives at bailed-out banks because he thought shaming the banks was punishment enough.

Kenneth Feinberg said 17 banks receiving taxpayer money from the $700 billion financial bailout made “ill-advised” payments to their executives. But he stopped short of calling them “contrary to the public interest” — language that would have signaled a fight to get the money back.

Feinberg couldn’t force the banks to repay the money. But the law instructed him to negotiate with banks to return money if he determined that allowing them to keep it was not in the public interest.

White House predicts record $1.47 trillion deficit this year

WASHINGTON (AP) — New estimates from the White House on Friday predict the budget deficit will reach a record $1.47 trillion this year. The government is borrowing 41 cents of every dollar it spends.

That’s actually a little better than the administration predicted in February.

The new estimates paint a grim unemployment picture as the economy experiences a relatively jobless recovery.

The unemployment rate, presently averaging 9.5 percent, would average 9 percent next year under the new estimates.

The Office of Management and Budget report has ominous news for President Barack Obama should he seek re-election in 2012 — a still-high unemployment rate of 8.1 percent.

That would be well above normal, which is closer to a rate of 5.5 percent to 6 percent.

Private economists don’t think the unemployment rate will drop to those levels until well into this decade.

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From left to right, Georgina Sanchez, Maria Uribe, and Rosalinda Macias, all of Phoenix, sing as they join dozens to protest the SB1070 Arizona immigration law in front of U.S. District Court Thursday in Phoenix. U.S. District Judge Susan Bolton is holding multiple hearings on whether the new Arizona immigration law should take effect on July 29.

Judge has pointed questions on immigration law challenges PHOENIX (AP) — The judge who will decide whether Arizona’s new immigration law is constitutional hasn’t indicated whether she’ll put the statute on hold before it takes effect next week and had some pointed questions Thursday for challengers at two court hearings.

U.S. District Judge Susan Bolton also went beyond dry legal analysis to point out some of the everyday realities of illegal immigration and how that applies to the new law.

Without prodding from attorneys, the judge noted that the federal government erected signs in a wilderness area south of Phoenix that warn visitors about immigrant and drug smugglers passing through public lands. She said the stash houses where smugglers hide immigrants from Mexico before bringing them into the country’s interior have become a fixture on the news in Arizona.

“You can barely go a day without a location being found in Phoenix where there are numerous people being harbored,” said Bolton, who didn’t issue a ruling after the two hearings.

Bolton has been asked to block the law from taking effect as she hears seven lawsuits by the U.S. Department of Justice, civil rights groups and others that question the constitutionality of the measure, which has reignited the national immigration debate.

Opponents say the law will

busy thoroughfare and unfurled a massive banner that said “We will not comply.”

Some drivers honked their horns as they passed by, before police shut down the street.

Some supporters of the law waved signs and clutched American flags, and about a half dozen had handguns hanging from their hips.

Brewer, who attended one of the two hearings, said afterward that she’s confident the state will prevail, adding that Bolton “certainly understands the dangers that Arizonans face in regards to harboring illegals.”

Most of the controversy about the law centers on provisions related to stops and arrests of people, new crimes related to illegal immigrants and a requirement that immigrants carry and produce their immigration papers.

Bouma told Bolton that those challenging the law haven’t demonstrated that anyone would suffer actual harm if it takes effect, and that facts — not mere speculation — must be shown.

The law requires officers, while enforcing other laws, to check a person’s immigration status if there’s a reasonable suspicion that the person is here illegally. It also bans people from blocking traffic when they seek or offer day-labor services on streets and prohibits illegal immigrants from soliciting work in public places.

Senate slices war funding bill WASHINGTON (AP) — After a take-it-or-leave-it vote by the Senate, House Democrats face little choice but to drop more than $20 billion in domestic spending from a mustpass bill funding President Barack Obama’s troop surge in Afghanistan.

The Senate rejected the House measure, passed earlier this month, by a 46-51 vote that fell short of a majority, much less the 60 votes required to defeat a filibuster.

Instead, the Senate Thursday stripped out the $20 billion in House add-ons and returned to the House an almost $60 billion measure passed by a bipartisan vote in May. The Senate measure is limited chiefly at war funding, foreign aid, medical care for Vietnam War veterans exposed to Agent Orange, and replenishing almost empty disaster aid accounts.

Eleven Senate Democrats and Independent Joe Lieberman of Connecticut voted against the

House version of the bill. Not a single Republican supported it.

The moves repel a long-shot bid by House Democrats earlier this month to resurrect their faltering jobs agenda with $10 billion in grants to school districts to avoid teacher layoffs, $5 billion for Pell Grants to lowincome college students, $1 billion for a summer jobs program and $700 million to improve security along the U.S.-Mexico border.

The House bill fell to a 46-51 tally that was short of a simple majority, much less the 60 votes required to defeat a filibuster.

The Senate is instead insisting on its almost $60 billion version of the measure, passed on a bipartisan vote in May. The Senate measure is likely to be grudgingly accepted by House Democrats next week despite opposition by many liberals to the war in Afghanistan, which many of them view as unwinnable.

Defense Secretary Robert

Gates has been agitating for the money and warned lawmakers this week that unless the measure is enacted into law before Congress leaves for its August recess, the Pentagon could have to furlough thousands of employees.

The House bill also attracted a White House veto threat over $800 million in cuts to education programs to help pay for the additional domestic spending under a “pay-as-you-go” culture that the administration itself advocates.

The Senate measure blends about $30 billion for Obama’s 30,000-troop surge in Afghanistan with more than $5 billion to replenish disaster aid accounts, as well as funding for Haitian earthquake relief, and a down payment on aid to flooddrenched Tennessee and Rhode Island.

The war funding would bring the amount of money appropriated for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan above $1 trillion.

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Supporters say the law is a necessary response to combat the litany of problems brought on by illegal immigration and the federal government’s inability to secure the border.

Bolton, an appointee of former President Bill Clinton, repeatedly questioned Justice Department attorney Edwin Kneedler to explain how specific provisions of the law intruded on federal authority as he had argued.

“Why can’t Arizona be as inhospitable as they wish to people who have entered the United States illegally?” she asked.

Kneedler said the law’s requirements that law enforcement check on people’s immigration status set a mandatory policy that goes beyond what the federal government requires and would burden the federal agency that responds to immigrationstatus inquiries.

Attorney John Bouma, who is defending the law on behalf of Gov. Jan Brewer, said the federal government wants to keep its authority while turning a blind eye to illegal immigrants.

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Coffey In Hot-lanta Brewers pitcher talks baseball

Tickets are available for Wheeler’s visit RUTHERFORDTON — The Rutherford County Chamber of Commerce is selling tickets for the group’s annual dinner and this year the guest speaker is Humpy Wheeler.

Wheeler, a long-time promoter of NASCAR, will deliver his address as the Carolina Event and Conference Center on Hudlow Road in Forest City.

Tickets for the July 30 event are $25 for members and $35 for non-members. The event will begin at 6 p.m.

Wheeler will be signing copies of his new book, ‘Growing up NASCAR.’ The Chamber will have NASCAR related door prizes and Dale Earnhardt, Jrs famed No. 8 car will be on display.

For additional information please visit: www.rutherfordcoc.com; or, call Debbie Gettys, at the Chamber office (828) 287-3090.

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Reutimann gets extension with MWR INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — NASCAR driver David Reutimann has signed a contract extension with Michael Waltrip Racing that will keep him in the No. 00 Toyota through the 2012 Cup season.

Reutimann, who called the deal a relief, had been driving on a year-to-year basis.

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Milwaukee Brewers pitcher Todd Coffey poses for a photo with Daily Courier sports reporter Jacob Conley outside of Turner Field in Atlanta prior to a baseball game between the Brewers and Atlanta Braves recently.

ATLANTA, GA. — A classic fatherson baseball talk recently took place at Turner Field in Atlanta.

“That’s the guy that runs to the mound,” the father says to his son, during the middle of the 7th inning when Todd Coffey’s name flashes on the scoreboard.

Sitting five seats to left of the duo, a smile crossed my lips as my mind flashes back to earlier that afternoon when Coffey used that same trademark sprint to cross a nearly empty parking lot to meet for an interview.

But instead of the road gray uniform of the Brewers, he was sporting a blue and purple striped shirt, jeans and cowboy boots.

Coffey flashed a smile as he slid into the driver’s side of my friend’s Mazda.

“This is the strangest place I’ve ever done an interview,” said Coffey. “But I guess you can talk about baseball anywhere.”

While Coffey is happy to talk about baseball anywhere, the former Chase Trojans’ standout is even more thrilled to be back toeing Major League pitching rubbers again after a stint on the disabled list.

“I cracked a bone in my thumb during batting practice,” said Coffey, of his injury. “It’s just one of those fluke things that happen that is just part of the game.”

According to Coffey the pain of the injury was not nearly as tough as being

Please see Coffey, Page 3B

BASEBALL Coastal Plain League 7 p.m. Martinsville Mustangs vs Forest City Owls at McNair American Legion 2010 NC State Finals at McCrary Park, Asheboro 9:30 a.m. Rocky Mount (24-6) vs. Rutherford County (18-9) 12:30 p.m. Cherryville (25-14) vs. Cary (21-8) 4:30 p.m. Kernersville (22-13) vs. Whiteville (16-10) 7:30 p.m. Wilmington (22-3) vs. Randolph County (17-15) Tony Stewart drives into the first turn during practice for the NASCAR Brickyard 400 auto race at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway in Indianapolis, Friday.

On TV 10 a.m. (ESPN2) NASCAR Racing Sprint Cup: Brickyard 400, Qualifying.

Noon (ESPN) Golf Senior British Open, Third Round.

12:30 p.m. (ESPN2) NASCAR Racing Nationwide Series: Kroger 200, Final Practice.

1:30 p.m. (ESPN2) ATP Tennis U.S. Open Series: Atlanta Championships, Semifinals.

3 p.m. (WBTV) (WSPA) PGA Tour Golf RBC Canadian Open, Third Round.

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

Colorado Rockies at Philadelphia Phillies or Minnesota Twins at Baltimore Orioles or New York Mets at Los Angeles Dodgers.

4 p.m. (ESPN) Softball Men’s Slow-Pitch: Canada vs.

United States.

5 p.m. (ESPN2) NASCAR Racing Nationwide Series: Kroger 200, Qualifying.

7 p.m. (FSCR) MLB Baseball Cincinnati Reds at Houston Astros.

7 p.m. (TS) MLB Baseball Atlanta Braves at Florida Marlins.

8 p.m. (ESPN) NASCAR Racing Nationwide Series: Kroger 200.

8 p.m. (ESPN2) Softball 2010 World Cup: Japan vs. United States.

10 p.m. (ESPN2) Basketball USA Exhibition: Blue vs.

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Edwards not buying Keselowski’s story

By JENNA FRYER AP Auto Racing Writer

INDIANAPOLIS — Carl Edwards and Brad Keselowski are content with the hand-slapping they received from NASCAR this week for their latest on-track altercation.

That’s about the only thing the feuding drivers agreed upon Friday at Indianapolis Motor Speedway.

Keselowski insisted he did not intentionally hit Edwards’ car — it was a mistake, he said — as he moved

the leader out of his way on the final lap of last weekend’s Nationwide Series in St. Louis.

Edwards wasn’t buying it, though.

“I believe that he did not make a mistake,” Edwards countered. “I’m telling you that as a race car driver, and any other race car driver will tell you, that that wasn’t a slip-up, and if it was a slip-up, which, hey, he might convince himself that it’s a slip-up, you have a little bit of insurance that you leave yourself when you go down in the corner like that.

“I believe he’s not being completely honest that that was a mistake. He’s too good of a race car driver, and I know that.”

And so it went in the latest round between a pair of drivers who have tangled on the track dating to last season. Although most of their incidents went largely unnoticed in the second-tier Nationwide Series, it’s escalated of late into a several spectacular crashes.

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Pavin, Langer share lead at Senior British Open CARNOUSTIE, Scotland (AP) — American Ryder Cup captain Corey Pavin shot a second straight 2-under 69 Friday to share the secondround lead with Bernhard Langer of Germany at the Senior British Open.

Pavin and Langer (71) have 4-under totals of 138 and are one shot ahead of a quartet that includes Ian Woosnam (67) and Jay Haas (69).

Pavin was among the early starters and looked set to take a commanding lead before finishing with a double bogey 6 at the 18th after hitting his second shot out of bounds.

Langer had to deal with a biting cold wind later in the day but also got

to 6 under before bogeys on two of the par-3 holes. At the short 13th, his tee shot landed in a deep pot bunker, and he then missed the green at the 16th with a 5-iron and was unable to get up and down.

Langer has 10 wins in three years on the Champions Tour, but is still looking for his first victory in a senior major.

“I could have putted a bit better,” Langer said. “The ball did not drop for me like it did in the first round.”

Americans Dan Forsman (71) and Larry Mize (70) were also tied for second.

Tom Watson, who missed the cut in

his last British Open appearance at St. Andrews last week, had no problem making sure he will be around for the weekend this time. He sank a 15-foot birdie putt on the last green for a par 71 to remain 3 over.

However, Bob Charles of New Zealand — the first left-hander to win the British Open in 1963 — bid farewell from the tournament after he shot a 78 to miss the cut.

At the age of 74 and after a career that brought him 64 tournament victories, he announced that it was his last round of competitive golf.

Unfortunately for him, he signed off with a double bogey at the 18th.

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sports Owls at McNair; Post 423 plays in Asheboro

FOREST CITY — The Forest City Owls will return to the diamond at McNair Field for the first time in eight days, as the Rutherford County Legion team hits the field in Asheboro.

The Owls will host the Martinsville Mustangs at 7 p.m., tonight. Forest City (29-16) defeated Thomasville, 8-2, on the road, Friday.

The Owls’ Cade Stallings hit a Grand Slam and Grant Buckner followed with a solo shot to lift Forest City.

Post 423 (18-9) will begin play in the American Legion NC State Tournament, today, at 9:30 a.m.

Rutherford will face Rocky Mount at McCrary Park in Asheboro.

Former NC State DT Dennis Byrd dies, 63

RALEIGH (AP) — Dennis Byrd, a former defensive tackle at North Carolina State who was to be inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in December, has died. He was 63.

N.C. State spokeswoman Annabelle Myers said Byrd died Friday in Charlotte. Myers said the family told the school that Byrd suffered a heart attack on July 15 while undergoing back surgery and never regained consciousness.

Scientist criticizes HGH test for minor leaguers

NEW YORK (AP) — A scientist who has worked to develop a urine test for human growth hormone says the blood test baseball plans to use for minor leaguers can only detect the substance for 6 to 12 hours.

Don Catlin says the test, announced Thursday by baseball commissioner Bud Selig, is of limited use.

He says that because only one player has tested positive, the test only detects HGH that remains in the blood for a short period.

Gary Wadler, who leads the World Anti-Doping Agency committee that determines the bannedsubstances list, says the test serves as a deterrent and is valuable because HGH users are likely to take the substance on a daily basis.

Scoreboard BASEBALL

Cleveland

National League East Division W L Pct 56 39 .589 49 46 .516 49 47 .510 47 48 .495 42 54 .438 Central Division

W L Pct St. Louis 54 43 .557 Cincinnati 53 44 .546 Chicago 44 53 .454 Milwaukee 44 53 .454 Houston 39 56 .411 Pittsburgh 34 61 .358 West Division

W L Pct San Diego 55 39 .585 San Francisco 53 43 .552 Colorado 51 44 .537 Los Angeles 51 45 .531 Arizona 37 59 .385

Atlanta Philadelphia New York Florida Washington

GB — 7 7 1/2 9 14 1/2 GB — 1 10 10 14 19 GB — 3 4 1/2 5 19

Thursday’s Games Florida 3, Colorado 2 Washington 7, Cincinnati 1 Atlanta 8, San Diego 0 Philadelphia 2, St. Louis 0, 11 innings Milwaukee 3, Pittsburgh 2 San Francisco 3, Arizona 0 L.A. Dodgers 2, N.Y. Mets 0 Friday’s Games Chicago Cubs 5, St. Louis 0 Philadelphia 6, Colorado 0 San Diego at Pittsburgh, late Atlanta at Florida, late Cincinnati at Houston, late Washington at Milwaukee, late San Francisco at Arizona, late N.Y. Mets at L.A. Dodgers, late Saturday’s Games St. Louis (Hawksworth 4-5) at Chicago Cubs (Gorzelanny 5-5), 1:05 p.m.

Colorado (Jimenez 15-1) at Philadelphia (K.Kendrick 5-4), 4:10 p.m.

N.Y. Mets (Pelfrey 10-5) at L.A. Dodgers (Monasterios 3-2), 4:10 p.m.

Cincinnati (Cueto 9-2) at Houston (Oswalt 6-11), 7:05 p.m.

San Diego (Latos 10-4) at Pittsburgh (Karstens 2-5), 7:05 p.m.

Atlanta (Medlen 6-2) at Florida (Ani.Sanchez 7-6), 7:10 p.m.

Washington (J.Martin 1-5) at Milwaukee (M.Parra 3-7), 7:10 p.m.

San Francisco (Bumgarner 3-2) at Arizona (I.Kennedy 5-7), 8:10 p.m.

Sunday’s Games Atlanta at Florida, 1:10 p.m.

Colorado at Philadelphia, 1:35 p.m.

San Diego at Pittsburgh, 1:35 p.m.

Cincinnati at Houston, 2:05 p.m.

Washington at Milwaukee, 2:10 p.m.

N.Y. Mets at L.A. Dodgers, 4:10 p.m.

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

St. Louis at Chicago Cubs, 8:05 p.m.

Monday’s Games Colorado at Philadelphia, 1:05 p.m.

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

Cincinnati at Milwaukee, 8:10 p.m.

Florida at San Francisco, 10:15 p.m.

American League

New York Tampa Bay Boston Toronto Baltimore

Chicago Detroit Minnesota Kansas City

East Division W L Pct 60 34 .638 57 37 .606 54 42 .563 48 48 .500 30 65 .316 Central Division W L Pct 52 42 .553 50 44 .532 51 45 .531 41 54 .432

GB — 3 7 13 30 1/2 GB — 2 2 11 1/2

Texas Los Angeles Oakland Seattle

40 55 .421 West Division W L Pct 56 40 .583 51 47 .520 48 47 .505 37 59 .385

12 1/2 GB — 6 7 1/2 19

Thursday’s Games Detroit 5, Toronto 2 N.Y. Yankees 10, Kansas City 4 Minnesota 5, Baltimore 0 Texas 3, L.A. Angels 2 Boston 8, Seattle 6, 13 innings Friday’s Games Kansas City at N.Y. Yankees, delayed, rain.

Baltimore 3, Minnesota 2 Tampa Bay at Cleveland, delayed, rain.

Toronto at Detroit, ppd., rain.

L.A. Angels at Texas, late Chicago White Sox at Oakland, late Boston at Seattle, late Saturday’s Games Kansas City (Davies 4-6) at N.Y. Yankees (Mitre 0-1), 1:05 p.m.

Chicago White Sox (F.Garcia 9-3) at Oakland (Mazzaro 5-2), 4:10 p.m.

Minnesota (S.Baker 7-9) at Baltimore (Matusz 3-10), 7:05 p.m.

Tampa Bay (Price 12-5) at Cleveland (Talbot 8-8), 7:05 p.m.

Toronto (Cecil 8-5) at Detroit (Bonderman 5-6), 7:05 p.m.

L.A. Angels (E.Santana 8-7) at Texas (Feldman 5-8), 8:05 p.m.

Boston (Lester 11-4) at Seattle (Pauley 0-2), 10:10 p.m.

Sunday’s Games Kansas City at N.Y. Yankees, 1:05 p.m.

Tampa Bay at Cleveland, 1:05 p.m.

Toronto at Detroit, 1:05 p.m.

Minnesota at Baltimore, 1:35 p.m.

Chicago White Sox at Oakland, 4:05 p.m.

Boston at Seattle, 4:10 p.m.

L.A. Angels at Texas, 8:05 p.m.

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

Baltimore at Toronto, 7:07 p.m.

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

Minnesota at Kansas City, 8:10 p.m.

Seattle at Chicago White Sox, 8:10 p.m.

Boston at L.A. Angels, 10:05 p.m.

TRANSACTIONS Friday’s Sports Transactions BASEBALL Major League Baseball MLB_Suspended Baltimore 1B Ty Wigginton for three games and fined him an undisclosed amount for for bumping umpire Gary Darling during an argument in a July 22 game against Minnesota. Suspended Washington minor league RHP Juan Diaz (Dominican Summer League) and RHP Jorge Hernandez (Dominican Summer League); Florida RHP Yeims Mendoza (Dominican Summer League) and RHP Andy Parra (Dominican Summer League) and Cleveland RHP Luis Morel (Arizona League) 50 games each for positive drug tests.

American League BALTIMORE ORIOLES_Reinstated 2B Brian Roberts from the 60-day DL. Designated INF Scott Moore for assignment.

CLEVELAND INDIANS_Activated OF Shin-Soo Choo from the 15-day DL. Placed LHP Aaron Laffey on the 15-day DL, retroactive to July 20.

KANSAS CITY ROYALS_Placed OF David DeJesus on the 15-day DL. Recalled OF Alex Gordon from Triple-A Omaha. Activated RHP Sean O’Sullivan. Designated RHP Anthony Lerew for assignment.

OAKLAND ATHLETICS_Agreed to terms with C Kurt Suzuki on a four-year contract extension through 2013.

TORONTO BLUE JAYS_Signed LHP Sean Nolin.

National League CHICAGO CUBS_Activated RHP Brian Schlitter

from the 15-day DL. Optioned RHP Jeff Stevens to Iowa (PCL).

NEW YORK METS_Designated RHP Fernando Nieve for assignment. Recalled RHP Manny Acosta from Buffalo (IL).

PHILADELPHIA PHILLIES_Fired hitting coach Milt Thompson. Named Greg Gross hitting coach.

ST. LOUIS CARDINALS_Recalled RHP P.J. Walters from Memphis (PCL). Optioned OF Allen Craig to Memphis.

WASHINGTON NATIONALS_Placed RHP Luis Atilano on the 15-day DL, retroactive to July 21.

American Association GRAND PRAIRIE AIRHOGS_Signed LHP Ryan Riddle and INF Steve Carrillo.

LINCOLN SALTDOGS_Signed RHP Jacob Marceaux.

SHREVEPORT-BOSSIER CAPTAINS_ Released RHP Carlos Peralta.

SIOUX CITY EXPLORERS_Released INF Jeff King and INF Paul Bridenbaugh.

Can-Am League NEW JERSEY JACKALS_Signed C Angel Flores.

United League AMARILLO DILLAS_Acquired RHP Earl Oakes from Laredo to complete an earlier trade.

EDINBURG ROADRUNNERS_Traded OF Vincent Blue to Sussex (Can-Am) for future considerations.

BASKETBALL National Basketball Association NBA_Fined Minnesota president of basketball operations David Kahn $50,000 for inappropriate comments about F Michael Beasley. The organization was $50,000 for Kahn’s remarks.

CLEVELAND CAVALIERS_Signed G-F Christian Eyenga.

SACRAMENTO KINGS_Signed G-F Antoine Wright and G Pooh Jeter.

SAN ANTONIO SPURS_Signed G James Anderson.

Women’s National Basketball Association TULSA SHOCK_Traded C Kara Braxton to Phoenix for F-C Nicole Ohlde and a 2011 firstround pick.

FOOTBALL National Football League CINCINNATI BENGALS_Signed CB Brandon Ghee.

CLEVELAND BROWNS_Signed QB Colt McCoy to a multiyear contract.

PITTSBURGH STEELERS_Signed coach Mike Tomlin to a two-year contract extension through the 2012 season.

HOCKEY National Hockey League DALLAS STARS_Agreed to terms with F Fabian Brunnstrom on a one-year contract.

TAMPA BAY LIGHTNING_Named Wayne Fleming assistant coach. Signed C MarcAntoine Pouliot to a one-year contract.

American Hockey League WORCESTER SHARKS_Named Chris Davidson-Adams equipment manager.

SOCCER Major League Soccer SKY BLUE FC_Named Jesse Kolmel assistant coach.

COLLEGE HIGH POINT_Named Geoffrey Staton assistant athletic trainer.

LEES-MCRAE_Named James Goodridge men’s volleyball coach.

MASSACHUSETTS_Promoted Tim Kenney to executive associate athletic director for external relations and Garrett Waller to assistant athletic director/executive director. Named Rocko DeLuca associate athletic director/director of development for athletics.

NEW JERSEY CITY_Named Marc Brown men’s basketball coach.

OTTERBEIN_Named Brenda Buffington women’s cross country coach and Scott Alpeter men’s cross country coach.

PENN STATE_Named Mike Fenwick women’s assistant tennis coach.

SACRED HEART_Named Jen Wedo women’s assistant basketball coach.

NCAA committee pitches rules to speed up games OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Play ball! And hurry up!

The NCAA Baseball Rules Committee has unanimously approved two new rules intended to speed up the game. The eight-member committee, which met this week in Indianapolis, set a 20-second limit between pitches when no runners are on base and a 90-second limit between innings during nontelevised games.

Barring major objections from coaches and administrators, the NCAA Playing Rules Oversight Panel will adopt the changes next month, said Ty Halpin, the NCAA associate director for playing rules administration.

Anything that helps acceler-

ate games is welcome, said Ray Tanner, the coach at national champion South Carolina.

“I’m very much a traditionalist. However, the game needs to speed up,” Tanner said Friday.

“Most coaches would agree with that. We may not always agree on the way it should happen, but we all agree that the games sometimes get a little too long.

This is a step in the right direction.”

Halpin said the betweeninnings time limit would be flexible. One of the base umpires would be in charge of monitoring the pitch and between-innings clocks.

The recommendations basically mirror the rules used on an experimental basis during the

Southeastern Conference tournament in May. A pitcher risked having a ball added to the count if he violated the 20-second rule. A batter who stepped out of the box within five seconds of the clock expiring risked having a strike added. A team offending the between-innings limit — set at 108 seconds to accommodate television — also faced having a ball or strike imposed.

“There are unintended consequences to that, and the torn-up cars that weren’t mine or Brad’s, that’s a bad result,” Edwards said. “It really struck home for me.”

Beyond that, Edwards seemed unrepentant for anything he did at Gateway and held firm in his belief that Keselowski’s history of hard racing against him warranted the payback.

“I will not be walked on. I won’t be stepped on,” he said.

“It’s not OK to move me out of the way. If somebody else wants to let people move them out of the way for the win, that’s OK with me. I can’t allow myself to be run over like that.”

Keselowski, who like Edwards was placed on probation through the end of the year, was somewhat grateful for the NASCAR punishment because it eliminated the speculation that he’ll have to retaliate this weekend. He will race against Edwards twice, first in Saturday night’s Nationwide event at

O’Reilly Raceway Park and then in the Sprint Cup Series main event Sunday at the Brickyard.

“What that says is NASCAR doesn’t want me to go out there and intentionally retaliate against Carl, which is great,” Keselowski said. “I don’t want to. I’m glad that they took that away. Now I don’t have to worry about that.”

And that raised an entirely different debate, this one over the limits of NASCAR’s loosened “boys, have at it” policy.

Denny Hamlin said the whole idea of self-policing drivers began as a “gimmick” by NASCAR for restrictor-plate races but has since grown out of control.

“I think we took it in our own hands and thought we could just do anything we wanted on the race track,” Hamlin said.

“I think the line has definitely been moved. I think what’s accepted out there is different than what it was a few years ago.”

No violations were reported at the SEC tournament, but just the threat of a penalty helped play move along.

“Having experienced it, it does not affect the integrity of the game,” Tanner said. “It just speeds the game up.”

Pittsburgh Steelers coach Mike Tomlin.

Steelers extend Tomlin Edwards

PITTSBURGH (AP) — The Pittsburgh Steelers have signed coach Mike Tomlin to a two-year contract extension through the 2012 season, with an option year in 2013.

The extension was expected because the Steelers’ policy has been to sign a coach before he begins the final season of a contract. Tomlin is only the Steelers’ third coach since 1969, following Chuck Noll (1969-91) and Bill Cowher (1992-2006).

Tomlin is 31-17 in three seasons, with two division titles, an AFC championship and a Super Bowl victory. During the 2008 season, he became the youngest coach — he was 36 — to win the Super Bowl when the Steelers beat Arizona 27-23.

“Mike Tomlin has proven to be one of the top head coaches in the National Football League in a relatively short time,” Steelers president Art Rooney II said in a statement. “His unique ability to lead the team and motivate individuals have been key factors in our success.”

The Steelers were 9-7 and missed the playoffs last season. They open training camp July 30 at Saint Vincent College in Latrobe, Pa. Tomlin made an average of $2.5 million per season under the contract he signed upon succeeding Cowher in January 2007. His new contract is expected to at least double that.

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Keselowski sent Edwards’ car flying into the Talladega catchfence in a Sprint Cup Series race last year, and Edwards’ intentional wrecking of Keselowski at Atlanta this spring sent Keselowski’s car airborne.

Then came Saturday night at Gateway, when Edwards refused to allow Keselowski to take the win away from him. He admitted to wrecking Keselowski as payback for moving Edwards moments before and was unapologetic in Victory Lane.

But that wreck collected multiple other cars, and after mulling it over for several days, NASCAR decided the antics of Edwards and Keselowski had to be punished because of the other drivers who were caught in the carnage.

For that, Edwards, who was docked 60 points and fined $25,000, was apologetic.

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forced to watch games from the bench.

“Oh man, that was the toughest thing I’ve ever done in my career,” Coffey said. “All I could do was clap, when I wanted to be out there with my teammates, but I’m back now and I’m feeling great. I’m ready to start the second half.”

Before starting the second half though, Coffey got a chance to “hit the reset button” during the All-Star Break.

“I got to spend two days at home with family and just relax and unwind,” said Coffey. “That was nice and I feel refreshed.”

Even with the break from baseball, Coffey admits that he could not resist the allure of the Mid-Summer Classic.

“Yeah, I watched it and it was nice to see the NL win one,” said Coffey. “Everyone says that the Associated Press American League has better Driver Mark Martin is reflected in the mirror of his car players and I think we showed as he waits for the start of practice for the NASCAR that they don’t necessarily. They Brickyard 400 auto race at the Indianapolis Motor just get lucky sometimes.

Speedway in Indianapolis.

“Having said that, I don’t like the fact that the game decides home field advantage for the World Series. Players view the All Star game as an exhibition and to me that is all it is. The World Series is the World Series, though, and we are going to do everything we can as a team to get back in the race and hopefully take advantage of the NL’s win.”

While some may consider it INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — NASCAR veteran a stretch for the Brewers to Mark Martin said Friday he has no idea what his climb back into the Central divifuture holds and calls speculation about where sion race (Milwaukee is nine he’ll be driving in 2011 “disrespectful.” games under .500 as of July 21), Martin is under contract to drive the No. 5 Coffey is confident that he and Chevrolet for Hendrick Motorsports through the his teammates can make a late end of next season. He’ll be replaced in the No. 5 season push and qualify for the in 2012 by Kasey Kahne. post season.

Kahne’s current deal with Hendrick, however, “Nine games under .500 is not leaves him without a Cup ride in 2011. Martin has a great place to be, so, our first said repeatedly he has no plans to step aside to goal is to get back to .500 and make room for Kahne. go from there,” said Coffey “It’s The normally reserved Martin grew angry when been done before and not insurpressed on the situation Friday, saying the specumountable.” lation “makes it look like I’m going to get fired.”

Always the consummate team Martin, who finished second in points last year, player, Coffey’s personal goals is 14th in the standings heading into Sunday’s race don’t consist of lowering his at Indianapolis Motor Speedway.

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Hornish facing uncertain future

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Sam Hornish Jr. still doesn’t know where he stands with Penske Racing for next season.

Going into Sunday’s Brickyard 400 at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, Hornish says he wants to continue racing NASCAR for Penske but doesn’t know if he’ll have a ride.

Hornish, the 2006 Indianapolis 500 winner, has had mixed results since moving to NASCAR and is 29th in the Sprint Cup points standings.

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“I just want to pitch to the best of my ability and put the team in a position to win baseball games,” Coffey said.

Standing in the way of Coffey’s team and personal goals to start the 2nd half of the MLB season were the Atlanta Braves, a series that always has had special significance for Coffey.

“I love coming to Atlanta and seeing friends and family,” said Coffey. “I’ve also come here to watch games since I was 10 and coming back in Bobby’s final year as manager it’s just amazing.

“I’ve always wanted to play for Bobby,” Coffey continued.

“But, now it doesn’t look like I’m going to, so, I’m going to make the most of this opportunity to pitch in front of him one last time.”

And he did.

Coffey entered the third game of the series in the 7th inning, striking out David Ross and then turning the same trick against Brooks Conrad on three pitches to “put his team in a position to win.”

Crossing the same nearly empty parking lot after the game, I think about the day’s events and remember Coffey’s final words to me as he disappeared toward the visiting players’ entrance at Turner Field — “You make sure you tell the folks back home I said hello and that I miss them.”

In an era of athletes that often display a ‘me-first’ mind-set, it is nice to know that athletes like Todd Coffey are still playing the game.

Guys that take pride in their profession and their uniform — but, the proverbial striped shirt, jeans and cowboy boots are always just underneath.

Contador closing in on Tour title

BORDEAUX, France (AP) — Even without his most important teammate, Mark Cavendish showed yet again that few can touch him when it comes to sprinting.

The British rider captured the 18th stage of the Tour de France on Friday while Alberto Contador of Spain drew closer to victory. The defending champion leads Luxembourg’s Andy Schleck by eight seconds enterCHARLOTTE (AP) — Armed men broke into ing Saturday’s decisive time trithe home of Charlotte Bobcats player Stephen al, a day before the three-week Jackson, holding his wife at gunpoint before lock- race ends in Paris. ing her in a bathroom, police said.

Cavendish won a stage for the Three men broke into the home in a gated com- fourth time in this Tour and the munity of two dozen million-dollar homes around 14th time in just three years of 2:45 a.m. Wednesday, police said. competing in cycling’s premier Jackson was in Texas for a basketball camp and event. his wife was not injured, multiple media organizaHe surged to the front in the tions reported. final couple of hundred yards.

Charlotte-Mecklenburg police had made no He gave himself such a lead that arrests as of Friday morning, Officer Rosalyn he was able to look behind him Harrington, a department spokeswoman, told The a couple of times and then cross Associated Press. the line with his fist in the air.

Police did not release any other details about the Some Hollywood star powincident. er was there to greet him.

Jackson is a shooting guard who helped lead Cameron Diaz and Tom Cruise, the Bobcats to their first playoff appearance last on hand to promote their latest spring. film in France, joined Contador Public records list Jackson and his wife, Renata, as occupants of the $1.7 million home where they’ve lived since December, The Charlotte Observer reported. Jackson arrived in Charlotte the previous month after the team acquired his contract rights in a trade with the Golden State Warriors.

The 6,300-square-foot tan stucco home with three garages is owned by former Bobcats guard Jason Richardson, who was traded to the Phoenix Suns during the 2008-09 season.

Jackson, 32, could not be reached for comment.

A Bobcats team spokesman declined comment Friday.

Armed men rob home of Bobcats’ Jackson

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on the podium to receive his yellow jersey. Cruise raised the Spaniard’s hand and patted him on the back.

Cavendish won without his usual leadout man and roommate. Mark Renshaw was expelled from the race after the 11th stage for head-butting an opponent, and Cavendish dedicated his latest victory to Renshaw. He says the Australian rider made life easy, bringing him to the front.

“I’ve missed Mark,” Cavendish said. “I missed him in the Pyrenees, I missed somebody suffering more than me.

I missed somebody to laugh about, about how hard it is.”

Second place went to Julian Dean of New Zealand and third to Alessandro Petacchi of Italy.

Petacchi took the green jersey given to the leading sprinter from Thor Hushovd of Norway.

Hushovd acknowledged that his fight to retain the sprint title he won last year was over.

“It’s a big disappointment, but I realized step by step during the sprints that I’m suffering,”

said Hushovd, speaking after ducking into his team bus to take off the green jersey he had been wearing. “I don’t have the same level as Cavendish and Petacchi, and today was just another sprint that didn’t work out.”

Although Contador hold what appears a slender lead, he is expected to easily outpace Schleck in the 32-mile time trial from Bordeaux to Pauillac. Last year, he won the time trial held late in the Tour and took 1 minute, 45 seconds off Schleck.

Contador, as the leader, also has the advantage of riding last, allowing him to know how all his rivals have done.

Saturday is the last stage in which the positions at the top can change. Sunday’s final stage into Paris is traditionally a sprinters’ stage and a daylong victory procession for the overall winner.

“This is a hard stage that comes after 20 days in the Tour, and this isn’t a race for specialists” Contador said. “I will really have to fight a lot to win.”

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In this Jan. 26 file photograph, Ford Motor Co. President and Chief Executive Officer Alan Mulally, applauds while talking about Ford’s progress during the economic recession, at the Washington Auto Show in Washington. Ford Motor Co. posted a strong second-quarter profit Friday but trimmed its U.S. sales forecast and predicted weaker results in the second half as the economy slowly recovers.

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Ford now reaping solid profits DEARBORN, Mich. (AP) — Four years ago, Ford mortgaged everything down to the blue oval logo to save itself. Now, even as Americans remain skittish about the economy, it’s reaping big rewards and stealing business from stumbling rivals.

Ford said Friday that it made $2.6 billion from April through June, its fifth straight quarterly profit. The company, which reported record losses last year, now predicts it will end 2011 with more cash than debt.

With its two longtime Detroit rivals still finding their way after spending time in bankruptcy last year, Ford, which never took government bailout money, extended its success story.

President and CEO Alan Mulally said the company is ahead of where he thought it would be in its turnaround.

It now sells the most popular pickup truck in the U.S., the F-Series, and the most popular crossover SUV, the Escape.

“Our performance this year gives us great confidence going forward,” he said.

In the past year, Ford has gained a bigger share of the American market, the equivalent of about 154,000 cars and trucks. Rivals Toyota, General Motors and Chrysler have all lost ground.

Toyota stumbled this year because of safety-related recalls.

GM and Chrysler’s precarious financial positions had some people shying away from their cars.

Mulally, a tough manager masked by a boyish face and gee-whiz demeanor, joined Ford in October 2006, a year into a turnaround plan that called for closing plants, cutting jobs and dropping some of its models.

He removed obstacles, put new managers in place and forced feuding parts of the company to work together. He had cards printed out for every employee exhorting people to work together and accelerate development of new products — and carries one in his own pocket.

In weekly management meetings, he holds people accountable but also greets success with applause.

Michael Robinet, an analyst for the consulting firm IHS Automotive, credits Mulally with motivating the work force.

But he said the biggest reason for Ford’s success is a complete overhaul of its factory and sales strategies.

When the company was losing billions last decade, it kept cranking out cars and trucks even if they weren’t selling, because high labor costs made it too expensive to shut down production.

But late in 2008, the United Auto Workers union gave up a provision known as the jobs bank, in which automakers had to pay laid-off workers even if their plants were closed.

Now, workers have to take jobs at other factories or risk losing wages and benefits. With 12 fewer factories and a North American work force that is half the 140,000 people it was five years ago, Ford can limit production when demand is slow.

“It’s not about the moving metal any more. It’s about moving the metal profitably,” Robinet said.

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Positive Euro bank tests give markets a lift

NEW YORK (AP) — Investors bought stocks again on the latest reassuring news about the economy. This time, it was about European banks.

European regulators, who issued the results of what are called “stress tests” on the banks, said Friday that only a handful would struggle if the continent’s economy weakens. That helped send the Dow Jones industrial average up more than 100 points, which gave the index a two-day gain of more than 300.

The latest second-quarter earnings reports also convinced investors that the economic recovery is proceeding. So did announcements that General Electric Co. is raising its dividend and reports that French drug maker Sanofi-Aventis is interested in buying Genzyme Corp.

Investors were initially cautious about the stress tests, which measure how well banks would fare if government debt problems and the region’s economy worsened. Europe’s debt issues have sent stocks falling worldwide since April amid concerns they could slow the global economic recovery.

Financial stocks, which had struggled early in the day, started to climb after the results were released at midday.

Investors who have shuttled between buying and selling for weeks on uneven economic and earnings numbers have now had two straight days of upbeat news. On Thursday, stocks surged after Caterpillar Inc., UPS Inc. and other companies released results and forecasts that reassured investors who were disappointed by the first wave of second-quarter announcements. The latest reports, including results issued Friday by companies including Ford Motor Co. and Verizon Communications Inc., convinced investors that the economic recovery may not be as shaky as feared.

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The Daily Courier, Forest City, NC, Saturday, July 24, 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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Guilt keeps couple trapped Dear Abby: I’m 25 and live in my mother’s basement apartment with my boyfriend. We would like to be married soon, now that we’re out of school and have stable careers.

The problem is my mom, who is divorced, is unemployed and a social phobic, with few friends. We provide her with financial support by paying several hundred dollars a month in rent, in addition to other bills.

She helps me with a loan when the rare emergency arises. Every time I mention moving out, she becomes angry with me. Please help, Abby. — Mama’s Girl Dear Mama’s Girl: You are not the solution to your mother’s problems. The time has come for you to spread your wings and fly the nest.

Before you leave, be sure the apartment is in the freshest condition possible so it can be rented and your mother will have some income. She will probably need professional help to overcome her ingrained social insecurities — so encourage her to get it. (Some licensed psychotherapists specialize in phobic disorders.)

It will change her life — and yours — for the better.

Dear Abby: If a girl ever needed advice, it’s me. My father walked out 20 years ago, leaving four children and a disabled wife. He just vanished. We grew up and I searched

Dear Abby Abigail van Buren

for him. Because of the power of the Internet, I was contacted by his family, and Dad was found. He had reunited with his sister, who updated me.

Now I’m faced with the dilemma of how to speak to him for the first time since I was in diapers, and I am angry. I guess what I’m asking is how to talk to this stranger who altered my life.

Most of what I have are questions.

How am I not entitled to answers?

— Stressed in Texas Dear Stressed in Texas: Your anger is justified. Unless he was locked in a mental ward, a man who would leave a disabled wife and four small children and “just vanish” is someone with no concern for anyone other than himself.

Approach him with the same caution you would any other stranger, because that’s what he is. Because this is stressful, list your questions in advance so you won’t forget any.

But I’m warning you: Do not allow him to make you feel sorry for him.

Benign tumor causes concern Dear Dr. Gott: Fifteen years ago, I was diagnosed with a pituitary prolactin producing adenoma. I was told it is not cancerous and isn’t operable. I was on a medication called Permax for 13 years until it was taken off the market.

My endocrinologist then prescribed bromocriptine. I suffer from headaches at times and don’t know whether it is some sort of swelling of my pituitary. I’m hoping you may know more than my doctor.

Dear Reader: Prolactinomas are the most common form of benign tumor of the pituitary gland.

The pituitary is located in the base of the brain and plays an important role in metabolism, reproduction, growth and development. A hormone known as prolactin in the pituitary stimulates the breasts to produce milk during pregnancy. Symptoms of prolactinoma are caused by pressure of the tumor on surrounding tissue or too much prolactin in the bloodstream.

The bromocriptine you were prescribed appears to have a well-estab-

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Ask Dr. Gott Dr. Peter M. Gott lished safety record, even though side effects such as nausea and dizziness can occur.

To combat possible unwanted effects, the medication is commonly begun slowly with 1/4 to 1/2 of a 2.5-milligram tablet taken at bedtime with a snack.

Cabergoline is newer and more expensive.

Surgery should be considered only if conservative methods of treatment fail to produce effective results.

If a tumor must be removed surgically, the procedure is commonly performed through the nasal cavity.

If the tumor is so large this cannot be accomplished, access will be made through an opening in the skull.

IN THE STARS Your Birthday, July 24; A new friendship might be developed.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) - Just because something you’ve learned doesn’t work out well today, don’t think the premise is wrong.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept.

22) - You are likely to be paid today for a job you’ve done.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23) - Someone you know could be somewhat helpful to you.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 22) - You might get bogged down in irrelevant details.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. 21) - Something on which you’ve been working could be pilfered.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) - Try not to make too much of an infraction.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 19) - You might not take a commitment to another as seriously as you should.

PISCES (Feb. 20-March 20) - When it comes to selling, you shouldn’t have trouble.

ARIES (March 21-April 19) - You’re apt to be far weaker than your will today.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) - Usually you’re quite self-reliant, but today you are apt to depend on others.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) - Something you thought had been resolved satisfactorily might continue to produce side effects today.

6B — The Daily Courier, Forest City, NC, Saturday, July 24, 2010

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Insurers stop writing new coverage for children WASHINGTON (AP) — Some major health insurance companies will no longer issue certain types of policies for children, an unintended consequence of President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul law, state officials said Friday.

Florida Insurance Commissioner Kevin McCarty said several big insurers in his state will stop issuing new policies that cover children individually. Oklahoma Insurance Commissioner Kim Holland said a couple of local insurers in her state are doing likewise.

In Florida, Blue Cross and

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2 FAMILY Shiloh Community: 1794 Poors Ford Rd. Sat. 7A-until Clothes for men/women & children, household items, furniture, toys, etc.

2 YARD SALES Union Mills: Coney Island Rd. (near UMFD) Fri. & Sat. 8A-until Clothes, household, furniture, and lots more!

BIG YARD SALE Rfdtn: 213 Youngs Dr. (behind Farm & Garden Center off 64) Saturday 7A-until Books, toys, clothes, etc.

Danieltown: off 221 beside fire dept. Sat. 8A-Noon. Name brand clothes (mens 28-31, womens 10-14), household items, air hockey table, grill DRIVEWAY SALE Rfdtn: 116 Fox Meadow Dr. Saturday 7:30A-3:00P Furniture, household, kids games/toys, clothes, camping and exercise equipment, outdoor furn. lots more items!

Huge Yard Sale Shiloh: 4633 Poors Ford Rd. (approx. 1 mile past river bridge) Sat. 6A-til Lots of brand new & used items, new Halloween costumes & items, etc.

Blue Shield, Aetna, and Golden Rule — a subsidiary of UnitedHealthcare — notified the insurance commissioner that they will stop issuing individual policies for children, said Jack McDermott, a spokesman for McCarty.

The major types of coverage for children — employer plans and government programs — are not be affected by the disruption. But a subset of policies — those that cover children as individuals — may run into problems.

Even so, insurers are not canceling children’s coverage already issued, but refusing

0151 Garage/Estate Sales Big Yard Sale: Ellenboro, 828 Beams Mills Rd. Sat. 7A-until Children's clothes, books, what knots, misc items HUGE 3 FAMILY Harris: 144 Harris-Henrietta Rd. (behind post office) Sat. 7A-until Baby girl clothes, household items, furniture and more!

Huge moving Sale: Rftdn. Fri. & Sat. 8A-5P. Furniture, men and women clothing, antiques, dishware, quilts, patio furn., everything in great cond, misc.

From Rfdtn take 221N to Gilkey School Rd turn left and follow signs.

HUGE FC: Lakeside Dr. (Near Bethany Church Rd) Sat. 7A Golf clubs, curio, plus size futon, games, DVD's lots more!

Huge Yard Sale FC: 135 Laurel Ave. (across from Chase High) Sat. 7A-til All types of merchandise!

Everything must go!

Huge: Yard Sale, FC, 158 South Ridge Dr., Fri. & Sat. 6A-1P. Call James for directions. 828-305-5228

Moving Sale: 1758 Chase High Rd near high school, Sat. 6:30A-until. Antiques, exercise equip., crystal, furn., toys and much more Multi-family: 2120 Oakland Rd. Fri. 8A-until & Sat. 6A-until Too much to list!

Multi-family: Gilkey, 1953 Hwy 221, Sat. 7A-until. Baby items, name brand clothing, furn., household and lots more Multi-family: Spindale, Main St. across from North State Gas, Sat. 7A-until. Furniture, clothes, books, much more.

Help support our travel ball team

Rfdtn: 177 Cherry Mountain St., behind RS Middle School, Fri. & Sat. 8A-Noon Bassinet, kids clothes, furniture, bedspread, pictures, etc Six Points Flea Market on Hwy 120 now open every Fri. & Sat. Dealers welcome.

YARD SALE Rfdtn: 225 Woodridge Dr. Sat. 7A-2P Clothes, toys, youth dirt bike, Nascar items, Princess House

NORTH CAROLINA RUTHERFORD COUNTY IN THE GENERAL COURT OF JUSTICE DISTRICT COURT DIVISION FILE: 09 JT 65 FILE: 09 JT 66 In Re: RMR and JLR, Minor Children, Stephanie Ingle Ruppe, Petitioner, v.

Michael Wayne Ruppe, Respondent.

NOTICE OF SERVICE OF PROCESS BY PUBLICATION To: Michael Wayne Ruppe: TAKE NOTICE that a petition seeking relief against you has been filed in the above entitled proceedings for Petition for Termination of Parental Rights of: R.M.R., born the 30th day of December, 2000 and J.L.R., born the 12th day of November, 2004.

YOU ARE HEREBY NOTIFIED that you must make your defense to such pleadings no later than 40 days following the 24th day of July 2010, the date of first publication of this Notice upon you, in order to participate in and receive further notice of the proceedings. If you fail to do so, the petitioner will apply to the court for the relief sought. Any parental rights you may have will be terminated upon entry of the Judgment. Respond to the Clerk of Superior Court, 229 N. Main Street, Rutherfordton, NC 28139.

This the 21st day of July 2010.

T. Brandon Jaynes, Attorney for Petitioner King, Crotts and Associates 610 Oak Street Forest City, NC 28043 828-286-3332

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to write new policies.

The administration reacted sharply to the pullback.

“We’re disappointed that a small number of insurance companies are taking this unwarranted and unnecessary step,” said Jessica Santillo, a spokeswoman for the Health and Human Services department.

Starting later this year, the health care overhaul law requires insurers to accept children regardless of medical problems — a major early benefit of the complex legislation. Insurers are worried that parents will wait until kids get sick to sign them up,

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saddling the companies with unpredictable costs.

Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Florida issues about 9,000 to 10,000 new policies a year that only cover children. Vice president Randy Kammer said the company’s experts calculated that guaranteeing coverage for children could raise premiums for other individual policy holders by as much as 20 percent.

“We believe that the majority of people who would buy this policy were going to use it immediately, probably for high cost claims,” said Kammer. “Guaranteed issue

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Willow Ridge Rehabilitation Center needs a strong RN Staff Development Coordinator full time M-F Strong long term care management and SDC experience required. Must be an RN and demonstrate leadership, organizational ability and excellent interpersonal skills. Apply in person at 237 Tryon Rd., Rutherfordton, NC fax resume to 828-287-3668 or e-mail to admin@willowridge rehab.com EOE

Volunteer Firefighter Opportunity Cliffside Area Fire Dept. which has served its community for more than 50 years is seeking to add volunteer firefighters to its roster. If you seek volunteering to serve your community in this area and willing to train as a firefighter, emergency rescue or emergency medical responder. Send resume to: Volunteer Firefighter, PO BOX 727, Cliffside, NC 28024 Requirements: Must be 21 years of age, have a valid NC Drivers license, and live within Cliffside Fire Tax District.

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Trucking

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means you could technically buy it on the way to the hospital.”

Kammer said the company did not make the decision lightly. “We were looking at all our other individual policy holders who pay a lot for coverage, and we didn’t think it was fair to given them that kind of an increase to benefit a small population that receives a greater advantage than they do,” she said.

Industry officials estimate that children’s policies account for 8 percent of single coverage plans sold directly to consumers.

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0554 Wanted to Rent/Buy/ Trade Junk Cars Wanted Paying $200 per vehicle.

Call Jamie Fender (828) 286-4194 Want to Buy used mobile home in good condition!

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0563 Misc. Items for Sale For sale: Canning Jars Quarts, Pints, Half Pints. No lids. Best offer! 828-657-6380 Used factory built cabinets, vanities, microwaves, sinks, kitchen stoves, oak tables.

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NOTICE TO CREDITORS Having qualified as Administrator of the estate of INA ELNORA ARROWOOD HARDIN of Rutherford County, North Carolina, this is to notify all persons having claims against the estate of the said INA ELNORA ARROWOOD HARDIN to present them to the undersigned on or before the 10th day of October, 2010 or the same will be pleaded in bar of their recovery. All persons indebted to said estate will please make immediate payment.

This is the 10th day of July, 2010.

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Sunroom, small fenced area, bsmt storage. $550/mo. + $550 dep. 828-584-0923 3BR/1.5BA FC Cent. h/a. No pets. $650/mo. + $500 dep.

Call 245-9311 3BR/1BA, 274 Carolina Ave., FC. $400/MO. + $400 DEP. 245-3919 Beautiful 2BR/1BA cottage on 3.5 ac. Lg. eat in kitchen, lg. LR $500/mo. 704-376-8081 Brick 3 bedroom home Central gas heat and air Large rooms, garage, laundry room in partial basement, fenced back yard. Within walking distance to town and shopping. Excellent family home. $795/mo. Rentals Unlimited 245-7400

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nation/world World Today Swiss Glacier Express derails

GENEVA (AP) — Authorities say a popular Alpine tourist train has derailed in southern Switzerland, injuring dozens of people.

The accident occurred Friday afternoon on the Glacier Express train that travels through the spectacular scenery of the Swiss Alps between the towns of Zermatt and St. Moritz.

Police said there were some serious injuries and that most of passengers were likely tourists.

The Swissinfo Web site reported that most of the injured were Japanese. Rescue workers were seen loading some of the injured onto medical helicopters to be flown out for treatment.

Valais authorities said two of the train cars drove off the tracks and a third tipped over.

The cause of the accident wasn’t immediately known.

Singer Al Jarreau hospitalized

PARIS (AP) — Grammy-award winning singer Al Jarreau was in intensive care in a French hospital Friday after suffering breathing problems in the Alps, forcing him to cancel four concerts.

Jarreau’s manager, Joe Gordon, said the 70-year-old singer “is awake and he’s concerned” about missing concerts. When he said he wanted to eat, the doctors did a little dance, Gordon said.

“He’s only canceled one concert (due) to his health in his entire career,” Gordon, who was at Jarreau’s side, told The Associated Press in New York. But he also said, “It was life threatening” and “he’s doing well, considering.”

Gordon said the Thursday concert at a jazz festival in the French mountain town of Barcelonnette, in the southern Alps was canceled in the middle of his warmup routine.

Jarreau, who started out in jazz before crossing over into pop and R&B, canceled two shows in Germany and another in Azerbaijan besides the one in France, his agent said.

China sentences Uighur writer

BEIJING (AP) — A Chinese court sentenced a Uighur journalist to 15 years in jail Friday for critical writings and comments he made to foreign media after last year’s deadly ethnic riots in China’s western Xinjiang region, a friend said.

Halaite Niyaze was found guilty of “endangering national security” and sentenced following a one-day trial in Urumqi, the capital of Xinjiang, said Ilham Tohti, an economist based in Beijing who is a friend of Niyaze. A man surnamed Wen who answered the phone at the Urumqi Intermediate People’s Court’s criminal affairs department confirmed that Niyaze stood trial but said he could not confirm the verdict.

Long-standing tensions between Xinjiang’s Uighurs, a largely Muslim ethnic group, and China’s Han Chinese majority flared into open violence in Urumqi in July 2009. The government — which accused overseas Uighur groups of plotting the violence, something they deny — said 197 people were killed. Hundreds of people were arrested, about two dozen were sentenced to death and many Uighurs remain unaccounted for and are believed to be in custody.

Niyaze’s 15-year sentence is among the harshest handed down for someone who committed no violence during last year’s riots or for a Uighur airing dissenting opinions in recent years. Endangering state security is a vaguely worded charge that China’s authoritarian government often uses to silence political critics.

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Ri Tong Il, center, spokesman for North Korean Foreign Minister Pak Ui Chun’s delegation is surrounded by the media at the main venue of the ASEAN Regional Forum in Hanoi, Vietnam, Thursday.

North Korea issues threats HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — North Korea inflamed tensions over the deadly sinking of a South Korean warship by threatening the United States and South Korea on Friday with a “physical response” if they carry out naval maneuvers this weekend. The U.S. refused to back down.

The latest threat came four months after the sinking of a South Korean warship that killed 46 sailors. The North has been blamed, but vehemently denies any involvement.

In Vietnam for a Southeast Asian regional security forum, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and a North Korean official traded barbs over the sinking, the four-day military drills beginning Sunday and the imposition of new U.S. sanctions against the North.

Also Friday, the U.S.-led military command monitoring the cease-fire on the Korean peninsula confronted the North about the March 26 sinking of the Cheonan, calling it a violation of the armistice that ended the 1950-53 Korean war. Colonels from the U.N. Command, who met at the border with counterparts from the North’s army, reminded them of the U.N. Security Council order to honor the truce. Officers also proposed a joint task force to discuss armistice violations, the military commission said in a statement.

A team of international investigators concluded in May that a North Korean submarine

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fired the torpedo that sank the Cheonan. The U.N. Security Council approved a presidential statement this month condemning the sinking, but did not directly blame Pyongyang.

The U.N. Command, however, blames North Korea and considers the sinking a violation of the cease-fire, a command official said Friday, speaking on condition of anonymity because the results of the command’s own investigation have not been released.

At the Association of Southeast Asian Nations meeting in Hanoi, North Korean spokesman Ri Tong Il repeated Pyongyang’s denial of responsibility for the sinking. He said the upcoming military drills — to be conducted in the Sea of Japan off Korea’s east coast and in the Yellow Sea closer to China’s shores — were a violation of its sovereignty that harkened back to the days of 19thcentury “gunboat diplomacy.”

The exercises will be “another expression of hostile policy against” North Korea. “There will be physical response against the threat imposed by the United States militarily,” Ri said.

Clinton responded by saying the U.S. is willing to meet and negotiate with the North, but that this type of threat only heightens tensions.

“It is distressing when North Korea continues its threats and causes so much anxiety among its neighbors and the larger

region,” she told reporters. “But we will demonstrate once again with our military exercises ... that the United States stands in firm support of the defense of South Korea and we will continue to do so.”

Shortly before Ri spoke, Clinton had lashed out against belligerent acts by the North, warning Pyongyang must reverse a “campaign of provocative, dangerous behavior” if it wants improved relations with its neighbors and the U.S. She said stability in the region, particularly on the Korean peninsula, depends in large part on persuading an “isolated and belligerent” North Korea to alter course and return to nuclear disarmament talks which it pulled out of last year.

On Wednesday, Clinton announced in the South Korean capital that the U.S. would slap new sanctions on the North to stifle its nuclear ambitions and punish it for the sinking of the South Korean ship. The penalties will target the country’s elite by taking aim at illicit activities, such as counterfeiting cigarettes and cash and money laundering.

On Friday, the European Union said it will also consider imposing new sanctions.

In addition to North Korea’s behavior and its nuclear program, Clinton raised concerns about potential atomic collaboration between the North and Myanmar, also known as Burma, which is restricted by U.N. agreements.

Pakistan army chief will stay on job ISLAMABAD (AP) — The decision to extend the term of army chief Gen. Ashfaq Parvez Kayani leaves a respected soldier at the helm of Pakistan’s most powerful institution just as the U.S. looks for a reliable partner in the war in against the Taliban and al-Qaida.

Kayani, 58, is known to be popular among U.S. and NATO generals who have visited him regularly since he took the top job in 2007, trying to enlist his help in battling mili-

tants along the country’s border with Afghanistan.

At home, he is praised as a professional solider who has led successful campaigns against extremists in the frontier region, steered the army away from politics after a divisive period of military-backed rule and improved the morale and welfare of the nearly 600,000-strong force.

The announcement late Thursday of a three-year extension in his term was mostly welcomed on Friday.

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