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Man dies when tree falls on him Windy conditions cited in 84-year-old’s accident From STAFF REPORTS

WILTON — An 84-yearold man died on a windy Friday afternoon after a large pecan tree fell on him while he was on a tractor at a farm off Grove Hill Road near the Wilton community in the southeastern part of Granville County, Sheriff Brin Wilkins said. L.B. Strother was bushhogging with a 135 Massey Ferguson and was beside a tobacco packhouse when the accident occurred, Wilkins said. One of the neighbors found Strother, Wilkins said. Emergency 911 received the call at approximately 3:40 p.m. This is the second time a county resident has died as a result of an accident involving a tree. The previous one happened Feb. 23 west of Oxford and claimed the life of 65-year-old James Duke Bradsher. He had sawed down a pine tree when the top of another tree popped out, fell and struck him. Send comments to news@ hendersondispatch.com.

Vance man shot at home in burglary From STAFF REPORTS

David Lee Hargrove, 44, was shot about 3 a.m. Friday during a burglary attempt at his home at 2697 Morgan Road, according to a Sheriff’s report.. Sheriff Peter White had not returned a reporter’s phone call by press time, and other details are unknown. Send comments to news@ hendersondispatch.com.

Index Our Hometown . . . . . 2A Business & Farm. . . . 5A Opinion . . . . . . . . . . . 6A Light Side . . . . . . . . . 7A Sports. . . . . . . . . . 1-4B Faith. . . . . . . . . . . . 1-5C Comics . . . . . . . . . . . 6C Classifieds. . . . . . . 7-9C

Weather Today T-storms High: 90 Low: 69

Sunday Stormy

High: 85 Low: 70

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Deaths Henderson Ernestine C. Cannady Warrenton Ernestine B. Moore, 76

Obituaries, 4A

Daily Dispatch/ASHLEY STEVEN AYSCUE

Gang graffiti litters the side of the former Burkart Carolina building on J.P. Taylor Road Friday morning. Owners of the building found the graffiti Wednesday and reported it to the Vance County Sheriff’s Office. Vulgar writing has been purposely blurred.

Graffiti marks gang territory Former owner: Defaced building case closed day after report

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Panel passes on EDC choices Filling 6 seats goes to board By AL WHELESS Daily Dispatch Writer

Instead of coming up with recommendations Friday, a Vance Commiswork until the business’ From STAFF REPORTS sioners’ committee will recent closure. With a let the full board make “For Sale” sign in front, The former owner of a choices next Monday night Chastain believes, thugs local business that closed to fill six seats on the new up shop March 31 couldn’t must have considered the Economic Development building to be completely believe her eyes when Commission. vacant and moved in to she returned this week The original list of leave their mark. to the building where she candidates could be shorter “It is horrible,” Chastain continues to maintain a when presented at the part-time office. said Friday. “It is beyond board meeting, if two of the Patricia Chastain found horrible.” potential EDC members that graffiti had been The vandalism was are determined not to live spray-painted along two reported Wednesday. in Vance. sides of the large strucWhen Chastain went to Questions raised at the ture. She said sheriff’s ofthe Vance County SherPlanning and Environmenficers told her the painting iff’s Office on Thursday to tal Committee session Friwas probably the work of get a copy of the report, day focused on Claiborne gang members marking it reflected that the case Woods, who has a Manson their territory. — in which there were no address, and Curtis White, And then the case was known suspects — was who has no known local closed. already considered closed. residence. The former Burkart “I turned it in WednesThe other names up for Carolina facility at 254 Daily Dispatch/ASHLEY STEVEN AYSCUE day and by Thursday it consideration next Monday J.P. Taylor Road was sold was an inactive case,” night are Sam Watkins, about two years ago to a Gang graffiti covers a wall near the office entrance to the Chastain said. Dennis Tharrington, Curtis foreign company for which former Burkart Carolina building on J.P. Taylor Road Friday Tyndall, Tom Anderson, Please see GRAFFITI, page 3A morning. Chastain continued to Richard Brand, John Bunch, Tommy Hester, Thomas Church, John Foster, Paul Harris, Donald Matthews, Allison Rivers, George Rush and Charles Teeter. The Planning and Environmental Comseven weeks of negotiations would found spending cuts by increasing By GARY D. ROBERTSON mittee — consisting of signal this year’s session is about to the average class size by three stuAssociated Press Writer Chairman Dan Brummitt, end. dents, saving as much as $323 milTerry Garrison and Danny The final sticking point worked lion annually by eliminating money Wright — wants all of the RALEIGH — House and Senout publicly stemmed around public for 6,000 teacher positions. ate Democrats completed a tentaVance Commissioners to school spending cuts, which fellow But those offers were replaced tive budget agreement for the next draw names out of a hat Democratic Gov. Beverly Perdue with Friday’s final decision. two years Friday evening, almost to determine which of the demanded needed to minimize damThe level of those spending reduca month after a plan to run North County’s EDC members age to classroom operations. Perdue tions weren’t immediately available Carolina state government was supwill have three, two or onewill be asked to sign the budget into Friday night. More details — such posed to be in place. year terms. law. It wasn’t immediately clear if as how many hundreds of state posiLawmakers said they had The committee will tions would be eliminated — would wrapped up their work on a proposal she was ready to support the final recommend that Garrison, product. be provided Monday when the budexpected to spend roughly $19 bilwho was on the County lion for the fiscal year that started The agreement by Democrats get is finalized and the bill released. EDC, will serve the threeJuly 1, not including more than $1 controlling both chambers wouldn’t The agreement would give schools year term on a sixth seat billion in federal stimulus money require class sizes to increase in flexibility to use other pots of money set aside for a commissionthat would help ease the state’s kindergarten through sixth grade — to hire as many teachers as possible, er on the new Hendersonworst fiscal crisis in a generation. meaning districts would get money such as state money for textbooks. Vance Economic Develop“It’s really been a hard year, and to hire teachers this fall using the Perdue had said for weeks she ment Commission. that’s why it’s taken us so long,” said same student-teacher ratio as last wouldn’t accept a budget that damThe date of the organiSen. Linda Garrou, D-Forsyth, one year. But the 115 school districts aged the public schools. zation’s first meeting will of the Senate’s top negotiators. and charter schools would be responIn a statement late Friday, also be chosen by the entire The first of two required votes on sible to find spending cuts in grades Perdue said there were still some board next Monday night. the final budget bill in each chamber 7-12. negotiations this weekend and “I Brummitt and Garrison could come as early as Tuesday. The The budget proposals approved Please see BUDGET, page 3A went along with Wright’s budget’s passage after more than by the House and Senate each had opinion that it would be more democratic to let all of the commissioners make choices, instead of voting on recommendations from the committee. Daily Dispatch/William F. West Watkins — the current EDC chairman — and Interstate 85 northbound Tharrington, Hester and traffic was slowed on FriTeeter — three current day evening after the two EDC members — were vehicles, shown here, among those overlooked ended up in a wreck just last Monday night when north of the I-85/U.S. the Henderson City Coun158/Oxford interchange. cil chose James Kearney No information was and Andrea Harris for immediately available, two of its three Economic but state troopers at Development Commission the scene said there seats. was no fatality. Antioch Kearney’s name was and Oxford firefighters submitted by Mayor Pro responded to the wreck, Tem Lonnie Davis. Michael which happened at apRainey, a member of the proximately 6:30 p.m. Please see EDC, page 3A

Dems’ budget agreement tentative K-6 class sizes would remain same; districts to find cuts in grades 7-12

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Mark It Down Today Farm photo contest — The second annual Franklin County Farm Life Photography Awards reception will be held from 2-4 p.m. at the Louisburg College Auditorium on Main Street in Louisburg. Contest winners will be named and cash prizes awarded. The event is free and open to the public. Dee’s Music Barn — Dee’s Music Barn, 3101 Walters Road, Creedmoor, will be featuring Illegal Limits at 7 p.m. For more information, call (919) 528-5878. Warren County Farmers’ Market — The Warren County Farmer’s Market is open from 8 a.m. to noon at the corner of Market and Main streets in historic downtown Warrenton. All produce is locally grown by the vendors. For more information or to receive a vendor application, contact the Warren County Extension Center at 257-3640. Vance County Farmers’ market — The Vance County Farmers’ Market is open from 7-11 a.m. The market is located at the intersection of Williams and Arch streets in downtown Henderson. Vendors interested in selling at the market should contact Wayne Rowland at 438-8188. Oxford Farmers’ Market — The Oxford Farmers’ Market, located on the corner of McClanahan and Lanier streets across from the police station in Oxford, is open from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. Henderson Institute — The Triad Chapter of the Henderson Institute will hold its regular meeting at 11 a.m. at the Henderson Institute Museum on Rock Spring Street. The guest speaker will be George Henderson, dean at Vance-Granville Community College’s Warren County Campus. Attendees are also asked to bring back-to-school supplies to be donated to needy students. Night Out Against Crime — The 11th annual Night Out Against Crime will be held from 5-8 p.m. at the Henderson Police Department in the 200 block of Breckenridge Street. A number of activities are planned for children as well as adults.

Monday Greenway committee — The Granville County Greenway Technical Coordinating Committee will hold a policy subcommittee meeting from 2 to 5 p.m. at the Wilton Emergency Medical Services Building off N.C. 96 and next to Wilton Elementary School. Book signing — Elizabeth Carroll of Henderson will speak and sign her new book, “The Secret Keeper,” from 6-7 p.m. at the H. Leslie Perry Memorial Library. Carroll is an English teacher at Southern Vance High School. Granville Board of Education — The Granville County Board of Education will meet in regular session at 6 p.m. at the administrative offices, 101 Delacroix St., Oxford. Henderson Planning Board — The City of Henderson’s Planning Board will meet at 3:30 p.m. in the City Council Chambers of City Hall, 134 Rose Ave. Oxford Recreation Committee — The Oxford City Commission’s Recreation Committee will meet at 6 p.m. in the first floor training room of City Hall, 300 Williamsboro St. This is a change from plans to meet in the commission meeting room. Granville County Commissioners — The Granville County Commission will meet at 7 p.m. in the commission meeting room, 145 Williamsboro St., Oxford. Oxford Zoning Board — The Oxford Zoning Board of Adjustment will meet at 7:30 p.m. in the City Commission’s meeting room on the third floor of City Hall, 300 Williamsboro St.

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Most young children are eager to go to school. They constantly talk about the special day when they will go to school for the first time. Although they are eager to go, when the time comes, they often begin to get “butterflies” inside. They may be worried about being away from Vickie parents, Jones nervous about Cooperative being Extension with strangers or scared about going to a new place. Parents, too, feel excited. They’ve looked forward to this time as well. Yet, parents may be apprehensive and have concerns about leaving their child, nervous about their child’s health and safety, and unsure about their new responsibilities as parent of a child in a formal school. To reduce apprehensions of both parent and child, prepare. Before the start of school, a child

needs to learn new skills. They should learn waiting in turn and being tested, sharing and cooperating with others and solving problems without hitting. Your child should learn to listen in a group and follow directions and routines. Preparing your child for school will give you and your child the confidence and direction to make the transition to school as smooth as possible. To make the change easier for you and your child: • Visit the school your child will attend. • Walk or ride the route to school. • Look around the classroom and point out different things. • Find the bathroom and the nurse’s office. • Introduce your child to the principal and his or her teacher • Find out what the school expects of you. Learning about your child’s school program and your new role as a school parent may help ease your worries and fears. It also may help you do a better job preparing your child. While preparing your child for school, teach him/ her the following:

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Explore language — • Recognize and make words that rhyme, including silly words. • Identify beginning sounds in words, like “s” in “sand.” • Recognize separate sounds in words, like “c” and “at” in “cat.” • Speak in complete sentences. • Hold a book • Use their finger to follow words across a page from left to right; top to bottom. • Match words in print with spoken word. • Look at pictures to tell what is happening in the story Know letters, numbers, colors and shapes — • Recognize their own name in print. • Write a few letters of their name. • Recognize letters of the alphabet. • Recognize and count numbers from one through 10. • Recognize colors and shapes. Do things themselves — • Use buttons and zippers. • Dress and undress themselves. • Use the bathroom and wash hands with minimal help.

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Board of Elections — The Vance County Board of Elections will meet at 12:30 p.m. in the Board of Elections office at 300 S. Garnett Street, Henderson. Kiwanis Club — The Kiwanis Club Of Henderson meets at 6:30 p.m. at the Dabney Drive Restaurant on West Andrews Avenue. Walter Martin, director of logistics technology at Vance-Granville Community College, will speak on how the new program will affect the Vance County area and impact services provided to major companies — from suppliers to consumers. Interested non-members may call Opie Frazier at 430-1111 for reservations or membership information. Fall garden workshop — A workshop on “Producing Your Fall Garden” will be held at 6 p.m. in the upstairs conference room of the Vance County Cooperative Extension Center, 305 Young St., Henderson. Topics covered will include how to care for fall vegetables to get the best production, special insect control practices, nutrient requirements of the fall garden and season-extending frost protection techniques. Contact Wayne Rowland at 438-8188 to register and for more information. Zoning Board — The City of Henderson’s Zoning Board of Adjustment will meet at 3:30 p.m. in the City Council Chambers of City Hall, 134 Rose Ave.

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NATIONAL WEATHER

Shown are noon positions of weather systems and precipitation. Temperature bands are highs for the day. Seattle 86/60 Billings 88/61

San Francisco 67/56

Denver 84/56

New York 86/72

Detroit 82/61

Minneapolis 70/56

Chicago Washington 76/56 88/73

Kansas City 84/59

Los Angeles 84/66 El Paso 97/74

Atlanta 88/70 Houston 97/79

Fairbanks 66/50

Anchorage 68/54

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Honolulu 89/78

Hilo 84/73

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Raleigh-Durham through 6 p.m. yest. High .................................................... 93° Low ..................................................... 73° Normal high ........................................ 89° Normal low ......................................... 69° Record high .......................... 104° in 1999 Record low .............................. 59° in 1997

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24-Hr. Capacity Yest. Change 240 214.51 +0.02 264 250.16 -0.02

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opportunity for (districts) to assess their faculty and which faculty they should keep.” The final agreement also didn’t contain a House proposal that would have eliminated funding for teacher assistants in third grade. Legislative leaders also said late Friday the budget: • Would close seven small or aging prisons, leaving open an eighth threatened with closure in Haywood County. Lawmakers said many correction officers would find work in other nearby prisons. • Would close the Samarkand Youth Development Center for female delinquents in Moore County but keep open the Dobbs Youth Development Center in Lenoir County. • Doesn’t touch a program that discounts

Council, will be its representative on the new EDC. In other business Friday, the Planning and Environmental Committee decided to recommend Monday night that the Board of Commissioners pick Entasis Design of Kannapolis as the apparent low bidder at $27,800 to do a reuse feasibility study of the former Vance Manor building in the Flint Hill area. The company is proposing a 90-day turnaround with a maximum of five end uses. Their cost figure is under the $29,000 that the County has to spend on the project. The money the commissioners have to work with includes a $25,000 North Carolina Rural Center planning grant and a required $4,000 local match. The committee members were told Friday that Entasis is recommended by the City of Henderson as very “thorough and knowledgeable.” The company was recommended to the City of Henderson by the N.C. Rural Center. According to the County’s Planning and Development Department, Entasis’ design drawings, marketing and presentation are subpar when compared to Kilian Engineering and

Vance County Sheriff Peter White said he had no additional information on the case. But the plot thickens. By the time Chastain came back to the property on Friday, a second gang apparently had moved in to mark over the first group’s work with a different color of paint: blue. Some of the words are clear and vulgar. Many seem to be code words or symbols that mean something to the gangs, Chastain suggested, but not to anyone else. Chastain said she was surprised that the sheriff’s office was so quick to stop investigating the case. “I was told there are gang experts on their staff, but they haven’t been here yet” to see the building and the graffiti, Chastain said. The businesswoman said she was unaware that gangs were so prevalent — and so brazen with their activity — in the local area. And while spray-painting is a non-violent act, she said, it seems clear that there is hostility brewing if one group is so quick to move in and paint over the marked territory of another. A more violent retaliation could be in the offing, she suggested. “I think parents and citizens need to know,” Chastain said. Send comments to news@ hendersondispatch.com.

The Freelon Group which also submitted bids. Besides Entasis, the other bidders included: • The Freelon Group of RTP at $39,250 with a proposed eight-week turnaround and three proposed end uses. • Kilian Engineering of Henderson at $38,800 with a proposed 45-day turnaround and three proposed end uses. • Major S. Sanders Jr. of Greensboro with a proposed eight-week turnaround, but with no final price given and no examples of work. “Our funds are dictating our actions,” Garrison said. Contact the writer at awheless@hendersondispatch.com.

The budget agreement came a few hours after Perdue signed into law a stopgap spending measure — the third since July 1 — that directs state agencies how and what to spend while the final budget is worked out. The previous spending plan was to expire at 11:59 p.m. Friday. Republicans have complained the budget gap is smaller than Democrats characterized and higher taxes aren’t necessary because government has operated without them under the stopgap plan.

university athletic and academic scholarships for out-of-state residents, with taxpayers picking up the difference. The tentative deal comes a day after tax negotiators agreed on a way to raise $990 million in additional taxes and $1.3 billion next year to close the budget gap, which Democrats calculate at $4.7 billion. The revenue package would raise the sales tax rate by a penny so that most consumers would pay 7.75 percent through mid-2011. An income tax surcharge would be placed upon individuals whose taxable income is as little as $60,000 and all profitable corporations. Cigarette and alcohol excise taxes would go up, although a handful of House Democrats were still trying to find a way this week to block them.

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must have confidence (lawmakers) will end up doing what’s right for North Carolina’s children.” Rep. Mickey Michaux, D-Durham, the House’s chief budget negotiator, said he was worried that Perdue wouldn’t like the final package. “I don’t think she’s going to like it because it doesn’t protect (grades) seven through 12. That may be a problem. If we find more money we can probably work it out.” Garrou said she believed only a couple of districts could lose teachers under the proposal. She expected high schools to cut from nonessential services or not teach certain classes that have few interested students this year. “I can’t promise any teacher that they’re going to have a job,” Garrou said. “This has been an

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Deaths Ernestine C. Cannady HENDERSON â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Ernestine Cottrell Cannady, a resident of 300 Willowood Drive, died July 31, 2009, at home. Born in Franklin County, she was the daughter of the late Otha Samuel Cottrell and Ada Florence Tharrington Cottrell, and was the widow of John F. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Jackâ&#x20AC;? Cannady II. Ms. Cannady was a housewife and homemaker and a member of First Baptist Church, Henderson. Graveside funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. Monday at Elmwood Cemetery with the Rev. Rusty Edwards officiating. She is survived by two sons, John F. Cannady III and Samuel H. Cannady, both of Henderson; two grandchildren, John F. Cannady IV and Susan C. Martin; and two great-grandchildren, Alexander and Graydon Martin. She is also survived by a sister, Annie Lee Pernell of Warrenton. The family wants to thank her special caregivers, Tamika Willis, Phareign Neal, Tanisha Neal and Louise Hargrove for their years of continued compassion and devotion. The family will receive friends after the service at the graveside. In lieu of flowers memorial contributions may be made to First Baptist Church Henderson or to the N.C. Stroke Association, 409 South Hawthorne Road, P.O. Box 571002 Winston Salem, N.C. 27157-1002. Arrangements are by J.M. White Funeral Home.

Watchers track butterflies for environment signs By GREG BLUESTEIN Associated Press Writer

HILLSBORO, Ga. â&#x20AC;&#x201D; The rusty van creaks to a halt and two men jump out, binoculars in hand, heads pivoting. Quickly, questioningly, they call out evocative names: Is that a Pearl Crescent? A Carolina Satyr? A Sleepy Orange? A Swarthy Skipper? Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s butterfly counting time at a central Georgia wildlife refuge. That means a sweaty but fun outing for these two men, one a retired entomologist, the other the abbot of a Roman Catholic monastery. But it has a serious side: Some researchers worry butterfly populations may be in decline, possibly signaling a worsening environment. The flying insects are often viewed as canaries in a coal mine because they are sensitive to changes in their habitats. â&#x20AC;&#x153;When you see the absence of butterflies, you know something is wrong,â&#x20AC;? says Jerry Payne, the entomologist on the recent counting expedition to Piedmont National Wildlife Refuge, about 70 miles (112 kilometers) south of Atlanta. Payne has tracked butterfly habitats for years. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Unfortunately, we have met the enemy â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and he is us,â&#x20AC;? Payne says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Man is the biggest reason for declining butterfly populations. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re taking away their land.â&#x20AC;? Butterflies play a key environmental role as a pollinator, fertilizing wild and cultivated plants by carrying pollen from one flower to another. In human eyes, butterflies are also a powerful symbol because of their transformation from caterpillar to graceful flight. That makes them a good standard-bearer for raising public awareness about Paid Obituary habitat decline and species preservation, says Jaret Ernestine B. Moore Daniels of the Butterfly Conservation Initiative. WARRENTON â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Erâ&#x20AC;&#x153;They are that very visible, charismatic organism nestine Brown Moore, 76, that can really rally the of 2090 Lickskillet Road, troops behind the imporWarrenton, died Friday, tance of insects overall,â&#x20AC;? July 31, 2009, at Maria Parham Medical Center in Daniels says. Roughly two dozen of Henderson. Americaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hundreds of butArrangements are interfly species are listed as complete at this time, but will be announced later by endangered or threatened. R.H. Greene Funeral Home The initiative is setting of Warrenton.

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sions team up annually with butterfly groups to plan hundreds of counts â&#x20AC;&#x201D; including a handful of new sites that sprout up each year. The counts arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t exactly scientific, as they largely depend on the talents and know-how of the volunteers. And it depends on how many enthusiasts show up to scout a park. But they help give researchers an idea of the diversity and relative numbers of butterflies in a given area. They also help bring together enthusiasts like Payne and Francis Michael Stiteler, the abbot, who have been counting butterflies for years. Stiteler started out following dragonflies, but turned to butterflies soon after arriving at the Monastery of the Holy Spirit in Georgia in the 1970s. He says he was â&#x20AC;&#x153;like a kid in a candy shopâ&#x20AC;? roaming the monasteryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 2,000 acres (800 hectares) with binoculars and a camera to log the areaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s butterfly tenants. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s become a handy way to relieve the stress that comes with running the 40-monk

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Racial discrimination lawsuit filed against auto dealership By JOHN McCANN The (Durham) Herald-Sun

DURHAM â&#x20AC;&#x201D; A discrimination lawsuit has been filed in Durham County Superior Court against Ellington-Brim Chevrolet in Creedmoor. The lawsuit claims that Durham resident Charles Jackson, who is black, was working in the dealershipâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s repair shop and that racial epithets were common, creating such a hostile work environment that he needed medication. The lawsuit also claims that while Jackson was working in the repair shop, one of the dealershipâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s owners, Ronnie L. Ellington, who is white, threatened to cut him. In addition to the dealership, John Larry Brim and Onnie Gore are named as defendants in the lawsuit. Both

Brim and Gore are white and listed in the lawsuit as owners of the dealership. Brim said that the lawsuit would be challenged, but that he had no further comment. Durham attorney Michael Kornbluth is representing Jackson. According to the lawsuit, in July 2007, Jackson was eating in the dealershipâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s lunchroom when Ellington looked at him and said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;I got to eat with a n-----.â&#x20AC;? Ellington, according to the lawsuit, walked out, returned just a couple of minutes later and, while pointing in the direction of the auto shop, said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;N-----s eat out here.â&#x20AC;? Jackson said he had heard from co-workers that racially disparaging comments about black people were common. A white employee at the dealership, according to the suit, told Jackson that

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The real clunker As government ideas go, this one was a clunker. And yet we, the taxpayers, are going to fund the lunacy to the tune of an extra $2 billion. Word began to spread Thursday night that the $1 billion federal “Cash for Clunkers” program that had only just begun, was already broke. So many cars had been traded in — many of them hardly “clunkers” at all, but eligible for government tax rebates anyway — that the billion Congress had set aside for this particular hunk of pork in a hog farm of a stimulus bill wasn’t enough to cover even the early demand. The very popularity of the program is the first clue that the plan was far too generous with taxpayer money. If so many people are so willing to take advantage, the government is clearly giving too much away. Called the Car Allowance Rebate System (or “CARS,” aren’t the feds clever?) the program allegedly offers owners of “old cars and trucks” either $3,500 or $4,500 toward a “new, more fuel-efficient vehicle.” This in exchange for turning the “old” car over for scrap. Call us old-fashioned, but the program is open to vehicles built in 2001 or before, and an eight-year old vehicle in decent shape never really struck us as either particularly “old” or a “clunker.” Yet dealerships have been flooded with shoppers (we’re sure dealers are thrilled) and Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.) reports that about 40,000 vehicles had already been processed under the program with dealers already trying to get another 200,000 trade-ins through the red tape and low funds. The more we witness this program, the more ridiculous it becomes. Photographs from the Associated Press illustrate just how stupid and wasteful — both of decent vehicles and taxpayer dollars — the “Cash for Clunkers” program is. In one photo, a South Carolina man is seen celebrating his trade-in of a 1998 Dodge Ram pickup for a new, “fuel-efficient” … Dodge Ram pickup. The government will hand this motorist $3,500 of your hard-earned tax dollars and ours as a reward for upgrading his fuel mileage from about 15 mpg highway to about 20. Meanwhile, his shiny, white Dodge pickup (the old one) is now federally mandated scrap, though it could be a nice, useful vehicle for someone who is truly driving a “clunker.” In another photo, a shiny compact SUV was pictured dropped via crane or forklift into a dumpster. In yet another, a glimmering red 2001 Dodge Durango — a gas-guzzler but potentially a safe hauler for a family that has no reliable car — was parked in line of vehicles waiting to be destroyed on government order. In the last photo, a close-up shows a note stuck to the engines of every “clunker” being taken in trade by one dealer. It reads: “This engine is from a vehicle that is part of the Car Allowance Rebate System (CARS). It has significant internal damage caused by operating the engine with a sodium silicate solution (liquid glass) instead of oil.” Even if the scrap is being recycled, is this a wise, “green” use of resources? Aren’t we scolded all the time for being a “throwaway society?” The plan all along had conflicting goals. It allegedly was intended to get old, unsafe, and inefficient vehicles off the road. But it was also intended to boost new vehicle sales for failing U.S. manufacturers. What were the Big Three having trouble selling? Their glut of comparatively inefficient heavy trucks and SUVs. By permitting vehicles as new as 2001 to qualify for the program, the government is actually removing thousands of very safe vehicles with modern features — anti-lock brakes, air bags, etc. — from the roads. By allowing rebates for trade-ins that result in pathetic increases in mileage, the rise in overall efficiency of the U.S. vehicle fleet will be minimal. And so that many heavy trucks can be purchased under the program, the fuel-hike requirements for each trade-in are dismal — just a 5 mpg improvement is required for a $3,500 kickback. So this rebate program run amok is accomplishing but one goal — helping U.S. dealers sell more cars, including their inefficient models. Bully for them, we suppose, and for the buyers who can afford to take advantage and will benefit next April from taxpayer generosity to the tune of another $3,500 to $4,500. But the program is bad for used car dealers. It is bad for mechanics who make their living repairing these “clunkers” that are now being destroyed instead. It is bad for the usedpart business, which is watching its future inventory being crushed to smithereens. It is bad for the poor, who might dearly appreciate owning one of the many reasonably good cars that are being crushed instead of resold. And it is one of the most egregious squanderings of resources we’ve ever seen.

You don’t need to read all of this column to get its message. For North Carolinians it is simply this: Food is the new tobacco. Here’s why. We have known all along that using tobacco products was bad for health. But North Carolina people, as a group, resisted government regulations, restrictions on places it could be consumed, taxes, and even educational programs designed to discourage their use. We argued that people should be free to make their own choices about what kinds of products they enjoy for relaxation and pleasure. For a long while we argued, too, that there was not real proof that tobacco was causing the cancers, heart attacks, and strokes that were destroying the quality of life (and killing) smokers at higher rates than non-smokes. We would not admit it, but deep down inside we knew that our beliefs and our arguments in defense of tobacco use had something to do with the great economic benefits tobacco growing and manufacturing were to our state. Now our smoky rhetoric has been blown away. We say out loud what we should have

known all along. Smoking causes bad health. It kills. And it costs the public lots of money in covering the health care expenses of those made sick by their tobacco habits. Over the last few years in North Carolina, most campuses, workD.G. places, and Martin other public Special to places have The Daily Dispatch come to prohibit or severely restrict smoking. Recently, the last hospital joined the trend and prohibited smoking. We no longer argue that the government should not be involved or that it should not limit individual choice when the health impact of a product like tobacco is so great. What does this have to do with food? Read UNC-Chapel Hill professor Barry Popkin’s new book, “The World is Fat,” and I think you will come to the conclusion that our eating habits are destroying our good

health and quality of life in much the same way the habitual use of tobacco does. Increasingly the high caloric liquids and food we consume are driving up our weight dramatically. Our agricultural subsidy policies have made high calorie food relatively cheap compared to the higher costs of the healthier fruits and green vegetables. Commercial food products, fast food outlets, restaurants, and school and college cafeterias increase our problem with their added sugars and syrups, their suppersized large portions, and their pandering to our individual inability to resist. Keeping a healthy weight is an individual challenge. The consequences of not meeting that challenge are clear: higher incidences of diabetes, strokes, heart attacks, and early death. But most of us eat on. We eat and eat and create in ourselves a life of bad health that will require extensive and expensive health treatments that others (taxpayers) will have to cover. So does government have a role? Should it restrict or tax high calorie foods? Should it discourage, rather than

subsidize, the growing of high calorie food products? Should it penalize those of us who won’t eat healthy or reward those of us who do? Popkin says the government has to act. He suggests it start with a tax on high calorie drinks, which he calls “super negatives.” He says that “Juice, soft drinks, fruit drinks, energy drinks, all caloric beverages except skim milk” have little nutricional value other than calories. But their empty calories may add 500 calories to an individual’s daily intake and make the difference, over time, between healthy weight and obesity. For legislators looking for new revenue, the health argument provides the same kind of rationale that first led to a tax on cigarettes. But an additional soft drink tax will be just a start. Watch out. Food is the new tobacco. D.G. Martin is the host of UNCTV’s North Carolina Bookwatch, which airs Sundays at 5 p.m. Check his blog and view prior programs at www.unctv.org/ncbookwatch/

Letters to the Editor Does Heath Shuler have a secret? To the editor: Rep Heath Shuler has a Secret! Rep. Shuler’s office in Washington would not confirm a report that he resides at the infamous “C Street” location where the ultra-secret organization “The Family” offers housing and fundamental religious practices to several politicians. Besides Shuler, Sen. Ensign and Sen. Coburn live there. South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford stated he has been undergoing counseling from this group as well. Why won’t Shuler confirm that he lives there and whether he is a practicing member of “The Family?” how can a political conversation I urge all readers to continue? learn about this organiSome might object that it’s zation and demand that inconsistent for me, an avowed Shuler tell the people of believer in the natural liberty his district about his living of all humanity, to support any arrangement while he is government, given that it is in- in Washington and his reherently forceful and contains ported membership in this inherent limits on personal most radical organization. liberty. There are, indeed, some libertarians who follow this Skip Edwards, argument all the way over into Asheville anarchy, but I’m not one of them. Human beings have never lived without government of some kind. That is, humans have never lived without an authority who used physical force to impose his will and compel some kind of collective action. Given human nature, such a condition is inevitable. And an honest reading of human hisThe Daily Dispatch weltory suggests that any so-called comes letters to the editor. anarchy devolves rapidly into Letters must be signed, irresolvable conflicts among armed camps, which end up include the author’s city monopolizing the first use of of residence, and should force in their respective territobe limited to 300 words. ries — voila, government! Please include a telephone To say that government is innumber for verification. evitable, however, is not to say We reserve the right to that government will inevitably edit comments for length, be large, costly, and tyrannical. clarity, libelous material, Human beings have, indeed, personal attacks and poor lived for centuries under governtaste. We do not publish mental authorities that imposed anonymous letters, form low taxes, regulated with a light letters, letters with names hand, provided truly valuable withheld or letters where public services, and otherwise we cannot verify the left their citizens alone to make writer’s identity. their own decisions. Writers should limit Advocates of liberty should themselves to one letter identify and press for policies every 30 days. and institutions that maximize freedom and minimize governLetters can be acment coercion. That’s a plenty cepted by e-mail, but city lofty goal. of residence and a phone number for verification John Hood is president of the John purposes still must be Locke Foundation and publisher of included. CarolinaJournal.com.

The basic truth of government RALEIGH — I think it’s okay to boss people around at the point of a gun. Sound extreme? Well, unless you are a true anarchist, you agree with me because you believe there should be a government. By definition, any government exists for the purpose of carrying out certain tasks through the use of forceful taxation and regulation — that is, by issuing edicts enforceable at the point of a gun. The basic conflict in politics is about the number of those certain tasks. For which tasks is it just to compel your fellow human beings to surrender the fruits of their labor to finance a government program? For which tasks is it just to compel your fellow human beings to follow governmental rules they would not voluntarily set for themselves? If your answers to these questions create a short list, then you and I see eye-to-eye. Whether we call ourselves classical liberals, libertarians, conservatives, constitutionalists, or konk-eared splorks, we essentially believe that government is instituted among human beings to perform only a few basic tasks that can’t be left to voluntary action, such as national defense, the legal protection of individual rights, and certain public goods that, for technical reasons, cannot be effectively priced and delivered through markets. We’re in good company. Most of the Founders of our country had the same view of government. It’s evident throughout the letters, speeches, and official documents of the Founding Era. However, if your answers to these questions about the just

use of force create a long list, then you and I are in opposition. If you think it is just to compel taxpayers to subsidize sports stadiums, convention centers, banks, insurance companies, automakers, medical schools, opera companies, aquatic centers, passenger trains, or any other business venture or nonprofit enterprise, then you and I don’t agree. If you think it is just to compel John your fellow Hood citizens to conform with Special to The Daily Dispatch your preferences — in housing, lifestyle, transportation mode, business relationships, or personal relationships — then you and I don’t agree. That doesn’t mean we can’t be civil. That doesn’t mean we can’t agree to disagree, or perhaps even agree to agree on a particular issue and work together despite our fundamental difference. But the difference remains. Let me offer some replies to objections I can readily foresee. Some might object that I’m just playing word games. Well, I agree that there’s a semantic distinction at play here, but it’s no game. Definitions are critical elements of any meaningful dialogue. Unless we can come to some agreement about the definition of basic terms such as “government,” there is no way we can resolve specific issues of application. If you and I mean totally different things when we say “government,”

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