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WEDNESDAY, January 27,, 2010

Volume XCVI, No. 22

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Henderson police have placed charges against a city man in connection with an August 2009 breaking and entering. The arrest on Monday is the second in less than a week for Freddaire Hargrove of 507 Hillside Ave., who has been in the Vance County jail since the first arrest on Jan. 21. Police said that evidence found at the crime scene on Aug. 27, 2009, has linked Hargrove to the break-in at 200 Wester Ave. In addition to breaking and entering, the 20-yearold is charged with felony larceny and injury to real property. Bond in the second arrest was set at $50,000 secured. In the Jan. 21 arrest, Hargrove was apprehended after an anonymous caller to 911 reported that a man was seen breaking into the residence at 657 Charles St. When officers arrived, they saw a subject running down Cherry Street removPlease see BREAK-IN, page 3A

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Nurses Dana Browning, left, and Jackie Ross will be heading to Haiti this weekend to help provide medical care to those injured in the earthquake Jan. 12.

Henderson natives taking nursing skills to the hurting By AL WHELESS Daily Dispatch Writer

Jackie Ross and Dana Browning — two Henderson natives who will take their nursing skills to Haiti this weekend — know they are in for a lifetime experience. The plan to fly together took shape after Ross telephoned Browning to borrow some snow ski equipment, and learned that her niece was getting ready to go there on a medical mission. “My comment was I’d love to do that if I didn’t have kids,” Ross said Tuesday in an interview. Her three daughters are 7, 9 and 10. “The thought of doing something like this was something you see somebody else doing, but not necessarily yourself,” she explained.

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Deaths Henderson Uzziah S. Dunston, 6 days Cynthia A. Hicks, 48 Roanoke Rapids Joseph Taylor, 85 Southern Pines Vivian M. Dorsey, 83

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and an emergency department nurse at Wayne Memorial Hospital in Goldsboro. Ross, her 34-year-old aunt, is a registered nurse who works as a lactation consultant and Lamaze educator at Maria Parham Medical Center in Henderson. Employed there since 1996, Ross has also gained experience in medical surgery and ICU (intensive care unit). She graduated from Southern Vance High School in 1993. Ross got her diploma from the Watts School of Nursing in Durham two years later. Browning’s husband, Wayne, works in construction. They have no children. She said he has been helping with the flight schedules and obtaining the itinerary for Please see HAITI, page 3A

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Asked how the decision came RDU on Feb. 10. about to occupy the seat next “I think no matter how many to Browning on the plane, Ross mission trips you’ve been on, replied: “The Lord just laid it on there’s no way to prepare yourself my heart. ‘You can be the one for the devastation we’re going to that goes.’” see,” said Browning, a 27-year-old Her husband, Marc, who is a registered nurse who works in lieutenant with the Raleigh Fire the adult emergency department Department, at Wake Med told Ross: “If Raleigh. ‘There’s no way to prepare in She you feel like graduatyou need to go, yourself for the devastation ed from Norththen go.” ern Vance High we’re going to see’ As Ross put School in 2001. it, “Two days Brownis the longest my children have ing, who lives in Princeton, been without me.” near Goldsboro, graduated from Their flight, with stops in MiEmmanuel College in Franklin ami and the Dominican Republic, Springs, near Athens, Ga. is scheduled to begin Saturday She completed the registered morning at Raleigh-Durham Innurse program at Wayne County Community College in 2006. ternational Airport, and end four Before joining Wake Med, hours later at Port-Au-Prince. Browning was a cardiac nurse They will be flying back to

The City Council agreed to request $200,000 in stimulus funding to reduce power usage at the municipal operations and service center, but deleted the third part of a three-part plan after Councilman Michael Inscoe said the federal dollars would not cover the cost of the entire project. Public Works Director Linda Leyen said the first part of the plan calls for replacing the lighting system and the second part of the plan calls for replacing the heating, ventilation and air conditioning units. Replacing high-energy lights with more efficient, fluorescent ones could result in an approxi-

mately $6,600 yearly savings, Leyen said. There are nine heating, ventilation and air conditioning units, which are mounted on the roof. Replacing the units could result in an approximately $3,200 yearly savings, Leyen said. The heating, ventilation and air conditioning units are more than 20 years old and date back to when the building, located at 900 S. Beckford Drive, was a Lowe’s Home Improvement store, Leyen said. Both of these parts of the plan are eligible for an approximately $17,000 rebate from Progress Energy to reduce power usage, with approximately $14,000 being an Please see HENDERSON, page 6A

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OXFORD — Granville County Commissioner Ron Alligood will not be campaigning for another four-year term in office. “I feel like it’s time for me to start enjoying myself a little bit,” including spending quality time with family members, Alligood said Tuesday afternoon. “And that’s what’s behind it Alligood all,” Alligood said, noting he made the decision “after a lot of soul searching” and talking with his family over the weekend.

Alligood, 71, has been a commissioner since 1992. He becomes the second of three commissioners up for election to announce his intention to bow out, with Commissioner James Lumpkins saying Jan. 20 that this year would his last in nearly three decades of public service. Lumpkins, 68, has been a commissioner since 1998 and served on the County Board of Education from 1978-96. Commissioner Pete Averette said Tuesday afternoon that he has not made a decision but that “I’ll let you know when I do.” Averette, 77, has been a commissioner since 1980. The county’s seven commisPlease see ALLIGOOD, page 3A

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Today Stroke support group — The Maria Parham Medical Center Stroke Support Group will meet from 3 to 4:30 p.m. in the Center for Rehab Conference Room of the Brodie Waddill Building at Maria Parham Medical Center. The group follows the National Stroke Association Discovery Circles program, a nationally recognized stroke support group format. Stroke survivors, families, friends and caregivers are invited to attend. Please contact Liz Karan at 436-1604 with any questions. Weed Control Council — The Lake Gaston Weed Control Council will meet at 7 p.m. at the Roanoke-Wildwood Volunteer Fire Department on Lizard Creek Road at the corner of Quail Ridge.

Earlier this month, the Henderson Police Department swore in two new police officers. Brandon Logue (left) and Graham Woodlief were administered the oath of office by Executive Assistant Diana Pendergrass. They are both recent graduates of Vance-Granville Community College’s Basic Law Enforcement Training Program.

Thursday Forum on census — The Nu Chi Omega Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Inc. will sponsor a forum entitled “Be Counted: The Importance of American Participation in the 2010 Census” at the Granville County Commissioners’ meeting room, 141 Williamsboro St., Oxford at 6:30 p.m. The panel will include N.C. Rep. James Crawford, member of the Granville County Complete Count Committee and a representative from the Census Bureau. Flag presentation — The Soul City Volunteer Fire Department, 103 Crescent Dr., will be presented with U.S. and North Carolina flags by N.C. Sen. Doug Berger and N.C. Rep. Michael W. Wray at 4 p.m. Citizens, civic leaders and public officials in Franklin, Granville, Vance and Warren counties are invited to attend. Chess Club — The Henderson/Vance Chess Club, affiliated with the U. S. Chess Federation, meets at the First United Methodist Church from 6 to 9:30 p.m. All are welcome, adults and youths, novice or experienced. For more information, call Rudy Abate at 438-4459 (days) or 738-0375 (evenings). Pancake supper — A pancake supper will be held in Crossroads Christian School’s Cafetorium from 3-7 p.m. Tickets are $6 in advance, $7 at the door. Each plate includes sausage and drink. Eat in or take out. Call (252) 431-1333 for tickets. The school is located at 583 Old County Home Road. Lions Club —The Henderson Lions Club will meet at 6:30 p.m. at the Henderson Country Club. The guest speaker will be Dr. John Owens, First Vice District Governor-Elect. The Lions Club’s mission is to help the hearing and visually impaired. If you have questions or would like to become a member, please contact Randy Oxendine at oxendine@nc.rr.com. Community watch — The Henderson/Vance Community Watch Association will hold an organizational meeting at 7 p.m. in the auditorium at Maria Parham Medical Center. Everyone is invited to attend that is involved in a community watch or is interested in becoming involved in a community watch. For more information, please contact Lt. Irvin Robinson at (252) 438-4141 or Rev. Frank Sossamon at (252) 438-3322.

Friday Blood drive — The American Red Cross will sponsor a blood drive at Creedmoor United Methodist Church from 1:30 to 6 p.m. Registration deadline — Call today to reserve a seat at a health seminar sponsored by Granville Health System on “Breast Cancer and Stereotactic Biopsy” on Feb. 2 from 6-7 p.m. in the South Campus Meeting Room 133 at Vance-Granville Community College’s South Campus, 1547 South Campus Drive, Creedmoor. Dr. Michael Wegener will be the guest speaker. A free dinner will be served at 6 p.m. To reserve a seat, please call (919) 690-3447 or e-mail sgmealandmore@granvillemedical.com and leave a name, daytime phone number, and the number of people in your party (please include the names). Weight loss group — TOWN (Take Off Weight Now), a non-profit weight loss group, will meet at Aycock Recreation Center at 11:30 a.m. Everyone is invited to attend.

Saturday Blood drive — The American Red Cross will sponsor a blood drive at St. James Catholic Church in Henderson from 9 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Archaeology Day — The Piedmont North Carolina Chapter of the Authentic Artifacts Collectors Association (www. theaaca.com) will sponsor its annual Archaeology Day from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Warren County Memorial Library in Warrenton. The event is free and open to the public. There will be regional displays of ancient Indian artifacts, and discussions and identification of relics found in the region. For more information, contact Cliff Jackson at (252) 257-2654.

Monday Vance Commissioners — The Vance County Board of Commissioners will meet at 6 p.m. in the Commissioners’ Conference Room, 122 Young St., Henderson. Childbirth classes — Childbirth classes taught by a Lamaze certified instructor at Maria Parham Medical Center will begin at 6:30 p.m. and continue for the next six weeks. Expectant moms who are between their fifth and eighth month of pregnancy are eligible to take the class. Participants do not have to be Vance County residents. Cost is $50 and anyone who is interested in taking the course must call (252) 436-1881 to register. If you have questions about the class, please contact the class instructor, Jackie Ross, at (252) 436-1414. Board of Education — The Granville County Board of Education will meet at 6 p.m. at the school system’s Administrative Offices, 101 Delacroix St., Oxford.

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Curriculum specialists working with teachers in math, science and language arts join Vance County Schools Dana Bowden and Ann Hancock, both experienced educators, joined Vance County Schools this past fall as curriculum specialists in the Instructional Services Department. Since that time, both have been extremely busy going into local schools and working with classroom teachers to enhance the educational experiences of their students. Bowden serves as a math and science curriculum specialist, while Hancock is a language arts curriculum specialist. They both draw on their wealth of experience in the classroom and as school administrators to work with teachers, especially novice teachers, to assist them in a variety of areas. Bowden and Hancock also play a prominent role in working with their colleagues in the Instructional Services Department to provide staff development for faculty members in local schools.

Correction The Vance County Sunday School Convention Choir will practice at Mt. Olive Baptist Church at 7 p.m. on Thursday. The location for the practice was incorrectly printed in Tuesday’s newspaper. A representative from each church is requested to participate. For more information, call Patricia Ellis at (252) 9157462 or Mark Ellis at (252) 915-7068.

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Bowden is working with teachers at all grade levels in math and science instruction and is focusing on developing relevant professional development and efficient benchmarks that will encourage data driven instruction in both math and science. “I serve as Bowden a resource for teachers and administrators to assist with providing instruction that will encourage problem solving skills for students in math and science,” Bowden said. Bowden was an assistant principal at the City of Medicine Academy, a specialized high school with concentrations in medical science in Durham, before joining Vance County Schools. She is a North Carolina-licensed

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sioners are all Democrats who serve staggered terms. Each represents a district. The party primaries are May 4, with the general election to be Nov. 2. The opening for filing by candidates seeking to enter the primaries is noon Feb. 8, with the qualifying deadline being noon Feb. 26. Those seeking to campaign as unaffiliated candidates must file a petition at or before noon June 25. Alligood said Tuesday afternoon that he is not endorsing a candidate to succeed him. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m going to stay on the

sidelines and let the best man win, the same way I had to do it,â&#x20AC;? he said. Alligood serves District 7, which includes Butner. He is retired from the N.C. Department of Crime Control and Public Safety. He was a state trooper from 1961-83 and directed Butner Public Safety from 1983-92 and when Butner was a state-run municipality. He additionally is a Navy veteran, having served two years on a destroyer, the USS Stickell. Contact the writer at bwest@ hendersondispatch.com.

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about seven miles north of the center of Port-AuPrince. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll be doing medical and water-filtration, as well as ministering to the people down there,â&#x20AC;? Browning said. If she and her niece arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t close now (which they are), Ross joked, â&#x20AC;&#x153;We will be by the time we get back. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re going to be sleeping on the roof of a house with nothing over our heads.â&#x20AC;? Ross also mentioned the lack of running water and electricity. â&#x20AC;&#x153;And no shower,â&#x20AC;? Brown-

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ing items of clothing. The subject was caught after a short foot chase. Hargrove was charged with felony breaking and entering. A secured bond of $10,000 was set. Hargrove will have a hearing for both arrests on Feb. 8.

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the trip. Ross and Browning will be part of a nine-member Med Mission Group that is being sent to Haiti by Spirit-Led Expeditions, which is in Georgia. It is linked with PeopleTo-People Ministries in Oklahoma. About three-fourths of the 200 pounds of medical equipment the two women are required to take with them is being donated by Maria Parham. They will be working in a field hospital set up in a compound that People-ToPeople has in a community

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ing added. Besides medical supplies, they also have to take their own food. A lot of it will consist of peanut butter, breakfast bars, and foil pouches containing tuna. Browning has been on mission trips with the International Pentecostal Holiness organization to Costa Rica and New York City. â&#x20AC;&#x153;My heart breaks for the people of Haiti,â&#x20AC;? she said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I feel God has given me skills to be of help to the people down there, not only physically, but spiritually.â&#x20AC;? She is a member of the

Siler City Pentecostal Holiness Church. Ross belongs to South Henderson Pentecostal Holiness Church in Henderson. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think it is going to be a very humbling experience,â&#x20AC;? she said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re not rich folks, but weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re definitely not going to be able to fathom what we are getting ready to see, or what we are going to experience,â&#x20AC;? Ross added. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We have to laugh to keep from crying.â&#x20AC;?

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Elizinel Martinez, 9, of P.S. 192 touches a wax figure of President Barack Obama during the initial viewing Tuesday of a wax figure of first lady Michelle Obama at Madame Tussaudsin New York to kick off Black History month. Students from PS 192 are among the first to see the wax figure and continue their lesson on black history by going on Madame Tussauds’ Black History Month scavenger hunt, featuring over 20 wax figures of prominent African American icons. The scavenger hunt will be available free to attraction guests through the end of February.

News Briefs Condor nearly 80 years old dies in Connecticut zoo BRIDGEPORT, Conn. (AP) — A Connecticut zoo says an Andean condor believed to be the oldest one living in captivity has died at nearly 80 years old. Thaao arrived at the Beardsley Zoo in Bridgeport in 1993 after living most of his life at the Pittsburgh Zoo. He was the only endangered animal at the zoo to be born in the wild. A necropsy proved inconclusive. The zoo says an Andean condor lives to about 50. The zoo believes Thaao was one of the original animals to have been tracked using a breed registry, a list of the known individual animals in a breed. Biologists estimate that there are only a few thousand Andean condors in the wild.

Janitor indicted in fatal stabbing of N.J. priest MORRISTOWN, N.J. (AP) — A New Jersey grand jury has indicted a church’s longtime janitor in the fatal stabbing of a Roman Catholic priest. The indictment handed up Tuesday in Morris County charges Jose Feliciano with murder, robbery, weapons offenses and hindering apprehension. Feliciano had worked for St. Patrick Parish in Chatham for 17 years. He is being held on $1 million bail. Prosecutors say he stabbed the Rev. Edward Hinds 32 times in the rectory kitchen. The indictment alleges the October attack took place during a robbery. Police have released an abbreviated 911 call in which a man believed to be Hinds is heard trying to give the

operator his address. No officers were dispatched to the scene. The county public defender’s office, which is representing Feliciano, did not return a message seeking comment.

Police: Remains likely missing Va. Tech student CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) — Police say they are confident that skeletal remains found on a Virginia farm are likely those of a Virginia Tech student who vanished after attending a Metallica concert. State Police Superintendent Steve Flaherty said Tuesday an autopsy will be conducted to confirm that the remains are Morgan Harrington. Authorities say they found significant items and evidence at the scene. The 20-year-old Roanoke woman became separated from friends Oct. 17. after she left a concert arena and was denied re-entry. The remains were found Tuesday morning by a farmer about 10 miles from where Harrington attended the concert at the John Paul Jones Arena in Charlottesville.

Probe into Harvard University coffee poisoning stalls CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) — Harvard University says a four-month investigation into possible coffee poisoning at the medical school has failed to turn up any suspects. Harvard police interviewed 150 people during the investigation that began when six researchers fell ill Aug. 26 after drinking from a coffee machine in a lounge. The school later determined the coffee was laced with sodium azide, a toxic chemical used in school labs.

Officials said in a Dec. 23 memo to the Harvard Medical School Community that police were concluding the “active phase” of the investigation, but that the case remained open. The development was first reported Tuesday by the Boston Herald. The memo says campus police will “actively and fully pursue” any new leads and details security enhancements.

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HENDERSON — Uzziah Shaniyiah Dunston, six days old, died Sunday, Jan. 24, 2010, in Duke Medical Center. She was born in Vance County and was the daughter of Tia Roni Jeffries and Marshall Dunston of Henderson. Private graveside services will be at 2 p.m. Thursday at Blacknall Cemetery. Survivors include her parents, Tia Jeffries and Marshall Dunston III of Henderson; a sister, Teri’yonce T. Dunston of Henderson; and grandparents, Henrietta Durham of Henderson and Marshall Dunston II of Henderson. The family will receive friends at the residence of Henrietta Durham, 1035 S. William St. Arrangements are by Davis-Royster Funeral Service.

SOUTHERN PINES — Vivian Mann Dorsey, age 83, of Southern Pines, passed away Saturday, January 23, 2010, at the Penick Village. A memorial service will be held Saturday, January 30, 2010, at 11 a.m. at Community Congregational Church in Southern Pines. The family will receive friends Friday, January 29, 2010, from 7-8:30 p.m. at Boles Funeral Home in Southern Pines. Mrs. Dorsey was born January 5, 1927, in Mooresville, N.C., to the late Ben and Robbie Swann Mann. Mrs. Dorsey was a member of Community Congregational Church of Southern Pines. She also enjoyed playing bridge and tennis. Mrs. Dorsey was preceded in death by

Cynthia A. Hicks

HENDERSON — Cynthia Anstead Hicks, 48, of 490 Fern Lane, Henderson, died Sunday, Jan. 24, 2010, at Maria Parham Medical Center. Born in Vance County, she was the daughter of the late Willie Howard Anstead and Georgiana Edwards Anstead Roberson. Mrs. Hicks was a homemaker. She was a member of the Salvation Army. Funeral services will be Grenade launcher, held Thursday at 2 p.m. at maps seized after Flowers Funeral Chapel, conducted by the Rev. man’s arrest Frank Sossamon. Burial will follow in Sunset BRANCHBURG, N.J. (AP) — Authorities in central Gardens. Surviving are her husNew Jersey have seized a cache of weapons and ammu- band, James Lee “Jimmy” nition including rifles, a gre- Hicks; a daughter, Lorilea nade launcher and a night Denise Anstead of Henvision scope from the motel derson; a son, Jamie Lee room of a Virginia man. Hicks of Henderson; a Somerset County Prosecu- sister, Deborah Anstead tor Wayne Forrest says Lloyd Matthews of Henderson; R. Woodson, a 43-year-old and three grandchildren. from Reston, Va., also had She was preceded in death maps of a U.S. military facil- by a brother, George Howity and a town in another ard Anstead. state. The family will receive He was arrested in Branchburg early Monday by officers responding to a report of a suspicious person. Forrest says Woodson was RALEIGH (AP) — North wearing a bulletproof vest Carolina Gov. Beverly Perand carrying a semiautomatic Bushmaster rifle under his due has signed an executive jacket when he was arrested. order widening communiThe weapons and maps were cation lines between state found in a later search of his agencies and employee groups beyond an order her motel room. predecessor approved. Woodson was being held Perdue spokesman Tim at the Somerset County Jail on charges including unlaw- Crowley said Tuesday last week’s order seeks input ful possession of weapons.

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ROANOKE RAPIDS — Joseph Taylor, 85, of 819 Roanoke Ave., died Monday, Jan. 25, 2010, at Halifax Regional Medical Center. Mr. Taylor was a member of Calvary Baptist Church and retired from Champion International after 36 years. He served in the U. S. Army during World War II in the European Theater. He was born to the late Joseph Pender Taylor and Nancy Bass Taylor on March 19, 1924, and was

also preceded in death by a sister, Gracie Crowder. He is survived by his wife, Hazel C. Taylor; his daughters: Martha Bradshaw of Benson, Sarah Taylor Christenbury of Greenville and Judy Taylor of Roanoke Rapids; his brother, Robert Taylor of New Braunfels, Texas; his sisters: Adele Taylor Fox of Roanoke Rapids, Eileen Rowland of Rocky Mount, and Kathleen Gupton of Henderson; four grandchildren and two greatgrandchildren. Funeral services will be held Thursday at Calvary Baptist Church at 11 a.m., conducted by the Rev. Randy Martin. Burial will follow in Crestview Memorial Cemetery. The family will receive friends at Hockaday Funeral & Cremation Service on today from 6 to 8 p.m. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to Calvary Baptist Church, 1405 Bolling Road, Roanoke Rapids, N.C. 27870. Online condolences may be made to www.hockadayfs. com.

from state workers that are members of as many as five unions or organizations. The order replaces a 2006 executive order by Gov. Mike Easley giving employee groups of at least 2,000 members — at least 500 of them state workers — the ability to meet annually with his office.

Perdue’s order goes further by allowing the groups to meet quarterly with the state personnel director and with agency heads in some cases. The order doesn’t grant collective bargaining rights to state workers, which is illegal. Perdue remains opposed to that idea.

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her husband Frank M. Dorsey Jr.; a daughter, Joan Dorsey Fuller; and one brother, Tennyson Mann. Mrs. Dorsey is survived by her daughter, Anne Dorsey of Southern Pines, N.C.; one brother; Benny Mann of Mooresville, N.C.; and five grandchildren, Anne Westwood Fuller, Edward Dorsey Fuller, Claire Cameron Fields, Shelly Fields Dalton and Ashley Fields Brown. In lieu of flowers memorials can be made to Community Congregational Church Music Fund, 141 N. Bennett St., Southern Pines, N.C., 28387 Online condolences may be made at www. bolesfuneralhome.com Boles Funeral Home of Southern Pines is serving the family.

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Harrah’s in N.C. betting on live card games at Cherokee CHEROKEE (AP) — The expansion of Harrah’s Cherokee Casino and Hotel in western North Carolina will include a room reserved for poker card games, even though such games aren’t allowed now. The Asheville CitizenTimes reported Tuesday that Michell Hicks, principal chief for the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, said he was confident talks with the state will resume soon on allowing live card games. The casino now offers video poker and digital card games. The tribe is waiting to see if the video poker industry appeals a court ruling allowing gambling in Cherokee but nowhere else in the state, Hicks said. “You can anticipate that if they decide not to appeal, I’ll be turning up the heat

at the governor’s office,” he said. The expanded casino will include a new 20-story hotel tower with 532 rooms and a 3,000-seat event center. Some parts of the nearly $600 million expansion could be open as early as April, project manager Erik Sneed said during a briefing on the work Monday. The addition, expected to be complete by 2012, will double the floor space to 150,000 square feet and provide twice the number of gambling machines, with 5,200 slots. Putting in tables for live poker follows the casino managers’ plan to put bars in the new casino, even though the tribe had not approved the sale of alcohol when construction started, Sneed said. Then, in June, voters in June agreed to sell

beer, wine and liquor at the casino. Casino officials wouldn’t comment on the status of negotiations between the tribe and Gov. Beverly Perdue on getting live dealers, but Sneed said, “The outlook is positive.” Talks between Hicks and former Gov. Mike Easley fell apart in 2006 after the two couldn’t agree on how much tax money would go to the state if card dealers were allowed. At the time, the tribe said western North Carolina could see 430 new jobs with a payroll of more than $15 million if the state allowed live poker, craps and blackjack. The casino now brings in about $225 million a year, which is split between the tribe’s government and its 14,000 members.

VGCC offers free seminar on government contract work Vance-Granville Community College’s Small Business Center will host a free seminar explaining how to do business with state and federal government agencies. The seminar is planned for Tuesday, Feb. 9, from 9 a.m. until noon in Building 7, Room 7107, on the college’s Main Campus in Vance County. Seminar participants will find out if their businesses can make money through government contract-

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Alligator River Refuge to get visitor center MANTEO (AP) — The Alligator River National Wildlife Refuge near North Carolina’s coast will have a visitor center next year. The Virginian-Pilot of Norfolk, Va., reported that an almost $5 million contract has been awarded for the construction of a visitor center and headquarters at the refuge on Roanoke Island along the Outer Banks. Construction is scheduled to be finished within 18 months. Deputy refuge manager Scott Lanier says the visitor center will help the refuge provide information to

the public. He says there’s little to tell people about the 154,000-acre refuge now other than a few signs and kiosks off U.S. 64. The refuge was established in 1984 and

straddles mainland Dare and Hyde counties. It attracts about 45,000 visitors annually. It’s home to large populations of bear, red wolves, raptors and, birds.

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HENDERSON, from page one incentive for changing the lights, Leyen said. The approximately $17,000 would be used to supplement the investment, Leyen said. The third part of the project called for enclosing the administrative part of the building, including with heating, ventilation and air conditioning and including lowering the ceiling tile, the lights and the fire sprinklers. Leyen said there would Daily Dispatch/WILLIAM F. WEST not be as much of an One of Henderson City Council’s grant requests for state funding would transform the amphi- energy savings in the third part of the plan, noting theater at Fox Pond Park into an observation platform. there would be an approximately 118-year payback on the investment. Inscoe asked about the cost to replace the building’s lighting system. Leyen said $49,635. Inscoe asked about the cost to replace the building’s heating, ventilaa recreation donation acDirector Alan Gill said. By WILLIAM F. WEST count. Additional hopes are to tion and air conditioning Daily Dispatch Writer Inscoe told The Daily tie into a countywide greensystem. Dispatch that, if the city way trail plan, Gill said. Leyen said that the The City Council agreed pulled funds from the dona- first quote the city looked Councilman Michael to request $75,000 from the tion account to help pay for at was $153,000, but that Inscoe asked whether the N.C. Recreational Trails the project, then the city request has been presented Program for the Fox Pond the company does not could not ask the county for participate in the Progress to the county commissionPark-Aycock Nature Trail the county’s part of the local Energy rebate program ers for their approval of the Improvements Program, match. county’s 50 percent of the with the requirement that and that the city went to The council, which met Vance County share equally local match. Gill said the another company that gave Monday evening, quickly commissioners have inforin a $25,000 local match. a quote of $98,000. “I think this is a very im- mally discussed the matter. approved a request by Inscoe, citing figures as Police Chief Keith Sidwell Gill said contract portant component for Fox part of his notes, wanted to seek $59,937 from the documents would not be Pond, particularly opento know where Leyen came available until late October, Governor’s Crime Commising up Fox Pond and the up with $389,683 as the sion for the Community (Aycock) recreation complex so there is time to iron out Revitalization Initiative. details. together,” Mayor Pro Tem The initiative includes Inscoe successfully asked Lonnie Davis said in leadSidwell, Fire Chief Danny Davis to amend his motion ing the unanimous vote. Wilkerson, Code Complito seek the grant to include Davis noted this has ance Director Corey WilBy DISPATCH STAFF that the request be subject been on the table for “quite liams and the city’s water to the county commission a while” due to a lack of service, along with Progress approving the county’s 50 A 34-year-old Vance funding. Energy and several internal man has been arrested by percent of the local match. Fox Pond Park, which Inscoe called for the city’s and external customers. was dedicated in 1976, is off the Sheriff’s Office Vice/ The police chief said the part of the local match to be Vicksboro Road and near Narcotics Unit on drugs in the form of in-kind equip- grant, if approved, would N.C. 39/Andrews Avenue. charges. mean the ability to use law The Aycock Recreation Cen- ment, gifts, materials and Joel Gardner Kearney enforcement officers beyond supplies. ter, which was completed Jr. of 128 Fox Pond Road normal working hours. City Manager Ray Grifin 2002, is off Carey Chapel has been charged with: The grant, if approved, fin said that, in discussions Road. • Trafficking in cocaine. would require a local match The project, in addition to with the grant writers, • Possession with intent of $19,979. The grant, if ap“while we can hopefully improving the trails at Fox to manufacture, sell and proved, would not take effect reduce the out-of-cash, outPond Park, would include deliver cocaine. of-pocket match significant- until Fiscal Year 2010-2011. constructing a connector • Possession with intent trail from the Aycock center ly, it is not feasible to think to manufacture, sell and Contact the writer at bwest@ it can get to zero. There is to tie in with trails at the deliver marijuana. hendersondispatch.com. still a potential for having park. Approximately 6,700 feet $5,000-$8,000 in cash that simply cannot be matched of trail would be renovated otherwise. or constructed, along with “And if we put the other replacing existing bridges on it, I don’t think the grant or constructing new ones, will be feasible,” Griffin installing fishing platforms said. and clearing out brush and Griffin said those workundergrowth. ing on the grant have been Additionally, the plans contacting businesspeople include converting the “and providers of things” amphitheater at Fox Pond 1904 Graham Ave. that are in the process of Park into an observation (Next door to The Silo Restaurant) agreeing to donate certain platform, improving the materials that can go to a day use campground and match. installing controls to keep And Griffin said those out all-terrain vehicles. working on the in-kind part “We’re going to be workof the match “are welling towards a lot of in-kind materials, equipment usage skilled at getting donations from people.” operations and those sorts City Finance Director of things that are allowable” Sandra Wilkerson told the as a local match to pay the council that the city has least amount of cash posapproximately $52,000 in sible, Parks & Recreation

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total project cost. Leyen said she was including the work on the administrative part of the building, which would additionally involve erecting walls. Councilman Michael Rainey led the unanimous vote to seek the $200,000. The vote included an amendment at Inscoe’s request to withdraw the part regarding the administrative part of the building so the city would not have to spend any municipal money replacing the lighting and the heating, ventilation and air conditioning system. The request for the stimulus funding will be made through the state’s Energy Office. The stimulus is a reference to the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, which is the Obama administration’s effort to boost the weak national economy with massive spending. The council met Monday evening. During the session, the council heard a request from Assistant City Manager Frank Frazier to seek funding through the N.C. Main Street Energy Grant program. The funding would help pay for a new roof with insulation at City Hall, 134

Rose Ave., and would help pay for replacing 49 light fixtures at Fire Station No. 2., 180 S. Beckford Drive. The estimated cost of the work at City Hall is $62,000 and the estimated cost of the work at Fire Station No. 2 is $10,000. The grant, if awarded, would require a 50 percent match, that is, $36,000, from the city. Frazier, under questioning from Inscoe, said rebates from Progress Energy cannot be used in seeking Main Street funding. Inscoe asked about where the city would be able to come up with $36,000. City Manager Ray Griffin said from the fund balance, that is, the municipal piggy bank, or from the yet-to-be prepared Fiscal Year 2010-2011 municipal budget. Griffin said the application for the Main Street funds, if approved, would have to be brought back to the council for receipt and approval. “Let the application go and then weigh that at the budget time and see how things look at that time if we can or cannot do it,” Griffin advised the council. Inscoe said that would be fine. Contact the writer at bwest@ hendersondispatch.com.

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HENDERSON POLICE DEPT. Arrests • Sylvester Deon Burton Jr., 24, of 449 Chavasse Ave. was arrested Jan. 19. Felony possession with intent to manufacture, sell and deliver a schedule IV substance. Felony manufacturing marijuana. Misdemeanor possession of drug paraphernalia. Secured bond was set at $15,000. Court date Feb. 15. • Roman Gabriel Brown, 41, of 1061 N. Pinkston St. was arrested Jan. 19. Felony possession with intent to sell and deliver marijuana. Felony manufacturing marijuana. Misdemeanor possession of drug paraphernalia. Secured bond was set at $40,000. Court date Feb. 15. • Quamay Person, 18, of 204 Zollicoffer Ave. was arrested Jan. 25. Misdemeanor simple assault. Secured bond was set at $500. Court date March 8. • Cedric Antwon Neal, 23, of Foster Road Lot 49 was served Jan. 25 with an order for arrest. Misdemeanor failure to appear on a charge of possession of marijuana. Secured bond was set at $500. Court date Feb. 23. • Terrance Tyrell Giddings, 24, of 223 Gholson Ave. was arrested Jan. 25. Misdemeanor assault on a female. No bond. Court date Feb. 25. • Samuel Smith Jr., 24, of 148 N. Shank St. Lot A was arrested Jan. 25. Misdemeanor possession of drug paraphernalia. Misdemeanor driving while license revoked. Misdemeanor produce false license. Secured bond was set at $500. Court date March 23. • Crystal Nicole Bullock, 29, of 120 N. Shank St. Lot 21 was served Jan. 25 with an order for arrest. Misdemeanor failure to appear. Secured bond was set at $4,000. Court date March 19. • Charles Hayes, 31, of 425 Bobbitt St. was served Jan. 25 with an order for arrest. Misdemeanor failure to appear. Secured bond was set at $500. Court date Feb. 16. • Freddaire Leemon Hargrove, 20, of 507 Hillside Ave. was arrested Jan. 25. Felony breaking and entering. Felony larceny after breaking and entering. Misdemeanor injury to real property. Secured bond was set at $50,000. Court date Feb. 8.

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VANCE COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE Arrests • Larry Darnell Jefferson, 39, of 2370 Thomas Road was served Jan. 24 with an order for arrests. Misdemeanor failure to appear on charge of no operator’s license. Secured bond was set at $600. Court date March. 9. • Kenneth Lee Hunt, 42, of 561 Welcome Ave. was arrested Jan. 24. Misdemeanor injury to personal property. Unsecured bond was set at $500. Court date Jan. 25. • Sharita A. Harris, 19, of 64 Maryland St. was served Jan. 24 with an order for arrest. Misdemeanor failure to appear on charge of noise ordinance violation and show cause order. Cash bond was set at $126. Court date Feb. 11. • Michael Brian Hennessey, 33, of 1295 Oakridge Church Road, Kittrell, was served Jan. 24 with a criminal summons. Misdemeanor failure to return rental property. Court date Feb. 22. • Eric Bates Sr., 47, of 1842 S. Clearview Drive was served Jan. 24 with a criminal summons. Misdemeanor failure to return rental property. Court date Feb. 15. • Almad Chkeen Judkins, 30, of 221 Hawkins Drive was arrested Jan. 23. Misdemeanor fraud—unauthorized use of a conveyance. Secured bond was set at $500. Court date Feb. 8. • Jermaine Bullock, 23, of 4381 Warrenton Road was arrested Jan. 24. Misdemeanor assault on a female. No bond. Court date Feb. 15. • Kalvin Keith Alston, 33, of 593 Plum Nutty Road was served Jan. 23 with an order for arrests. Misdemeanor contempt order/child support. Cash bond was set at $200. Court date Jan. 27. • Tywann Marcel Williams, 32, of 1402 S. Williams St. was served Jan. 23 with an order for arrest. Misdemeanor failure

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assault. Misdemeanor communicating threats. Unsecured bond was set at $300. Court date was Jan. 25. • Joseph Wayne Collins, 30, of 195 Carter Lane, Kittrell, was arrested Jan. 25. Misdemeanor larceny. Unsecured bond was set at $1,500. Court date Feb. 18. • Gregory Wells Clayton, 44, of 249 Red Clay Lane was served Jan. 25 with an order for arrest. Misdemeanor failure to appear on a charge of felony possession of a stolen vehicle. Secured bond was set at $10,000. Court date March 11. • Robert Andrew Yancey, 34, of 218 Beechnut Creek Road, Lasar, was served Jan. 25 with an order for arrest. Misdemeanor failure to appear on charges of shoplifting/concealment of goods and carrying a concealed weapon. Secured bond was set at $1,000. Court date March 10. • Nestor Daniel Pere Almaguer, 31, of 100 Carnel Drive, Franklinton, was served Jan. 25 with an order for arrest. Misdemeanor failure to appear. Secured bond was set at $600. Court date Feb. 9. • Kervin L. Kersey, 43, of

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to appear on charges of driving while license revoked and giving fictitious information to an officer. Secured bond was set at $750. Court date Feb. 9. • Michael Anthony Henderson, 17, of 100 W. Spain-Middleburg Road, Middleburg, was served Jan. 22 with an order for arrest. Misdemeanor failure to appear, 2 counts. Secured bond was set at $2,200. Court date Jan. 26. • Keith Antione Thorpe, 33, of 3263 Hwy. 158 Business was served Jan. 22 with an order for arrest. Misdemeanor failure to appear on charges of driving while license revoked and unlawful use of a highway. Secured bond was set at $2,000. Court date Feb. 24. In another report, subject was served Jan. 22 with an order for arrest. Misdemeanor failure to appear on charges of driving while license revoked and probation violation out of county and show cause order. Secured bond was set at $5,000. Court date March 11. • Demond Seward, 31, of 219 Pettaway Lane was served Jan. 22 with a criminal summons. Misdemeanor secreting lien property. Court date Feb. 8. • Casey Thomas Stokes, 31,

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Hats off to Doan, Bette Laursen Congratulations to Doan and Bette Laursen. The couple was honored with the John Penn Award at Monday night’s Granville County Chamber of Commerce meeting and banquet. Harry Mills presented the Laursens with the award, but not before telling the crowd just why they deserved it. “I, as well as their biological children, call these people ‘mom’ and ‘dad’,” Mills said. “The real strength of these people is as a team. These folks just like to see others grow and realize their God-given potential. To that end, they have devoted themselves.” Mills listed the couple’s contributions to the community, including: Bette’s role as church-worker, teacher, housewife, mother and cattle farmer. Doan has given time and leadership across Granville County, and was president of the Chamber in its formative years. Doan’s other contributions and accomplishments include: • Former board-member and president of the Oxford Kiwanis Club. • On the steering committee for Leadership Granville. • “A stalwart” in Oxford United Methodist Church, leading many committees and spending many hours serving. • Doan and his good friend, Dr. John Hardy, developed the Church’s “Helping Hands Ministry.” They have built many wheel chair ramps and have done remodeling for their church and communities “far beyond its walls.” • As missionaries for their faith and the Red Cross, they have answered many calls for service where the needs of people are critical. Mills wrapped us presentation on a personal note: “I am personally appreciative of the time Doan has spent with me, teaching, mentoring and letting me know there are people who care,” he said. “He has assisted in opening many doors and created many opportunities for me that without him, might not have been possible. For this, dad, I say ‘thank you.’” Needless to say, the Laursens are special people who make Granville County a better place, and for that they are certainly deserving of the award.

Quotable “We unfortunately believe there will be continued efforts by the terrorists, by al-Qaida in particular, to try to upend the commitment of the Iraqi people to a democratic future.” Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in a statement condemning suicide bombing attacks at three Baghdad hotels favored by Western journalists that killed at least 37 people and wounded more than 100. “What we need is somebody at the Federal Reserve who can make sure that the progress that we’ve made in stabilizing the economy continues. I think Bernanke is the best person for that job.” President Barack Obama in an interview showing his support for Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke’s bid for a second four-year term.

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Taking aim at Bible verses Have you heard about the Jesus rifles? ABC News broke the story last week. It seems there was this fellow named Glyn Bindon, who used weapons of war to speak for his faith. Bindon, who lost his life in a 2003 plane crash, was the founder of Trijicon, a Michigan company that has a $600 million contract to provide gun sights to the U.S. military. Apparently he had a policy, which survived him, of inscribing coded references to Bible verses on the gun sights he manufactured for highpowered rifles used by U.S. service personnel. So that, for instance, one sight is marked, 2COR4:6, i.e., 2 Corinthians 4:6: “God said, ‘Let light shine out of darkness.’ He made his light shine in our hearts. It shows us the light of God’s glory in the face of Christ.” Tom Munson, Trijicon’s director of sales and marketing, told ABC there was nothing wrong or illegal about the inscriptions and noted pointedly that the issue was being raised by a group (presumably meaning the Muslims who have complained) that is “not Christian.” On Thursday, the company agreed to discontinue the practice.

Still, Munson’s remarks deserve a riposte. Here it is: In the first place, the gun sights actually seem a clear violation of a regulation specifically prohibiting service personnel from proselytizing in Iraq and Afghanistan. In the second place, the revelation Leonard is a fresh embarrassPitts ment for Distributed by the United Cagle Cartoons States, which has labored for nine years to convince the Muslim world that it is not leading a Christian crusade against Islam. In the third place, the coded scriptural references provided a recruiting tool to warlords and terrorists who could truthfully tell followers they were being shot at by Jesus guns. In the fourth place, Munson’s airy dismissal of his critics as “not Christian” (e.g., we can ignore them) speaks volumes about the smug, insular fundamentalism at

work here. In the fifth place, there is a rather jarring cognitive disconnect involved in seeing weapons of war used to lionize the prince of peace. And finally, in the sixth place: is this not one of the cheesiest expressions of religious faith you’ve ever seen? Not that that would make it unique. On the contrary, we specialize in cheesy expressions of faith here in God’s favorite country. Indeed, you could build a tower unto heaven itself out of all the roadside Jesuses, prayer cloths, Ten Commandments rocks, and other trinkets of a cheap, disposable faith that says nothing, costs nothing, does nothing, “risks” nothing, that speaks not of God, external and eternal, but only of the grubby, temporal perspectives and fears of ground-bound women and men. Last November, the University of Chicago published a study quantifying the blazingly obvious: people tend to create God in their own image, to ascribe to the deity their own opinions, interests and beliefs. But is that really faith, when you reduce God to a bigger version of you? Mother Teresa’s faith

drove her to foreswear material riches and spend half a century working to uplift the wretched poor of Calcutta. Martin Luther King’s faith drove him to gamble his very life in a dangerous campaign to win human and civil rights for African-American people. And then there’s Glyn Bindon, whose faith led him to inscribe coded Bible verses on his gun sights. The point is not that he or we can do what Martin Luther King did or be who Mother Teresa was — we all suffer in that comparison. No, the point is that truest faith is not seen in a secret code on a gun sight, a trinket from a store or words on a rock. Rather, faith is seen in the substance of a life lived in service to others, lived as if God were “not” in fact one’s personal echo chamber in the sky. I submit that this is the only kind of faith that matters. And that it speaks for itself. Leonard Pitts is a columnist for the Miami Herald, 1 Herald Plaza, Miami, Fla., 33132. Readers may contact him via e-mail at lpitts@ miamiherald.com

Letter to the Editor The Silver Meteor As a young man growing up on a small tobacco farm in rural Vance County (Warrenton Road, Oliver Drive North) working the field next to the Seaboard Railway (where Earl Dickerson’s Garage and NC Baptist Men Disaster Relief Storage Facility are located) plowing that field with a mule, a streamline train would fly by and the passenger train was called “The Silver Meteor.” This train left Maine and headed to Florida. I would dream of being on that train one day going to Florida. A country and western song would come to mind entitled “The Orange Blossom Special.” In later years I realized that dream and went to Florida on that same train. I am not too old now to still have dreams. Another Silver Meteor is on the way. This time it is named were long serving members “Conservatism.” It has of the University’s Board of left Massachusetts, New Governors, and each served Jersey and Virginia. Not as chair, standing by Friday only will it proceed on to in the toughest of times. Florida, but all over the Another member of the study United States. The people group, William Aycock, taught of this great country will law and, at Friday’s request, again elect politicians that served as chancellor of UNCwill believe in a strong Chapel Hill during the tumul- military and protect our tuous 1960s. Another member, borders, no amnesty for Dickson Phillips, was dean of illegal aliens and above all the UNC Law School before put God first in all things. becoming a judge on the U.S. These are just a few of the Court of Appeals. actions that need to be put Acknowledging the Bar in place. Association’s honor, Friday I did not mention any explained how the members of political party, all we need the study group were part of is to be conservative. the World War II generation that Tom Brokaw described Julian Oliver as “The Greatest Generation.” D’Hanis, Texas “We grew up in the depression and after four years in the military, we knew we were the lucky ones that got to come home…and we just decided to contribute.” Then, Friday looked out over the group of lawyers and said that North Carolina lawThe Daily Dispatch welyers, like the ones in his study comes letters to the editor. group, were part of a profesLetters must be signed, sion with a long tradition. include the author’s city “There is an added ingredient. We must do something extra of residence, and should to leave this place a little betbe limited to 300 words. ter.” Please include a telephone If more of us followed number for verification. Friday’s admonition and the Writers should limit example of the class of 1948 themselves to one letter study group, North Carolina every 30 days. could look forward to another long season of progress. Letters can be accepted by e-mail, but city of residence and a phone number D.G. Martin is hosting his for verification purposes still final season of UNC-TV’s must be included. North Carolina Bookwatch, which airs Sundays at 5 p.m.

President Friday and the class of 1948 study group About 65 years ago in the winter of 1946, a group of World War II veterans enrolled in the class of 1948 at UNC Law School and formed a study group that, some of us believe, had a important and positive influence on North Carolina’s history. One of the members of that group, former state senator John Jordan, explained some of that history the other day at a luncheon hosted by the North Carolina Bar Association. The Bar Association invited its Board of Governors and other leaders to honor former UNC President William Friday. These days most North Carolinians know President Friday not as the university president, but as host, since 1971, of UNC-TV’s interview program, “North Carolina People.” Every week Friday introduces us to prominent and interesting fellow citizens, most of whom we would otherwise never get to know. Even more important, Friday’s interviews and the way he conducts them makes his guests into our neighbors. His program builds on and maintains a sense of community that is one of North Carolina’s important strengths. It is a precious asset that is increasingly threatened by modern pressures that tend to drive us inward and away from connections to a statewide community. If there were nothing else on Friday’s list of contributions, this weekly gift would be enough. But there is so much more

— too much to try to summarize here, including 30 years as a university president and another post retirement career as the leader of the Kenan Trust and William Rand Kenan Fund. What does all this have to do with the law school class of 1948 study group? And what does it have to do with the Bar Association’s honor for Friday? D.G. Something very Martin few North One on One Carolinians know is that William Friday was a lawyer and that he was a member of that class of 1948 study group. John Jordan explained that, although Friday had passed by a career in law, he used the skills of advocate and mediator over and over again to meet the challenges that faced the university. There were many, including several that could have ruined the University like the Speaker Ban Law, a season of scandal in collegiate athletics, and a battle with the Federal Government about the management of the desegregation of the university’s multiple campuses. Another thing that many North Carolinians do not know is that Friday could always call on members of the study group for help. Jordan and the late William Deese

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