The Daily Dispatch - Wednesday, August 5, 2009 by The Daily Dispatch

CMYK FGV Partnership for Children changes name, offers same services Our Hometown, Page 2A

Governor Perdue to sign $19 billion budget after some changes From Page one, Page 3A

Local ‘soulful hip-hop’ artist working on second album Local & State, Page 7A

Official: Arena football’s folding ‘inevitable’ after 22 years Sports, Page 1B

Good Taste, Page 1C

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Lt. Irvin Robinson directs traffic around an accident scene at the intersection of Dabney Drive and Exchange Street Monday afternoon. The vehicle at right was transporting a gunshot victim to the hospital.

Gunshot victim in wreck on way to hospital W. Spring Street in reference to someone being shot. Investigators said Bowers was shot in the back with a handgun. At the accident scene, a bystander in another vehicle took Bowers to the hospital for treatment. The Uniform Patrol Division investigated the head-on collision. Its report listed Essecen Wykia Gill, 28, of 204 Fairway Drive in Oxford as the driver of the 2000 Ford that was carrying Bowers to Maria Parham before the wreck occurred. Damage to the Ford was estimat-

By AL WHELESS Daily Dispatch Writer

Detectives are investigating the shooting of a man who was then transported from the 500 block of W. Spring Street Monday afternoon in one of two cars that wrecked at Dabney and Prosperity drives. Henderson Police reported that the victim — Albert Bowers, 21, of Plum Nutty Road — was already enroute to Maria Parham Medical Center when officers were dispatched shortly before 3 p.m. to 548

ed at $3,000. The other driver was identified as Charlie Lee Harris, 60, of 657 Daniel St. in Henderson. Damage to his 1992 Chevrolet was estimated at $3,000. According to police, the Chevrolet was turning onto Dabney Drive from Exchange Street. The Ford was traveling straight on Dabney Drive, and did not come to a halt at the stop light. Contact the writer at awheless@hendersondispatch.com.

Council to decide if property can be used for bank By WILLIAM F. WEST Daily Dispatch Writer

A woman’s request to rezone her family’s deteriorating, empty residential property at the corner of Parker Lane and Dabney Drive to allow for a future bank will go to the Henderson City Council with a 4-1 recommendation of denial by the Planning Board. Diana Moore Mann, executrix of the estate, on Monday afternoon said an unnamed financial institution would like to invest between $1.5 million-$2

million in the slightly more than two acre site, but Planning Board member Horace Bullock, who made the motion in favor of recommending the denial, cited concerns expressed moments earlier by residents about decreases in their property values. Residents moments earlier additionally cited concerns about increased traffic along an already busy Dabney Drive and at the already congested intersection of Dabney, Parker and Parham Street. Mann asked for the property to be rezoned from moderate-to-lowdensity residential to office and institutional. Mann and her husband, Stacy, were the only two persons to speak in favor of the proposed rezoning Please see REZONING, page 4A

Sign up, community meetings follow setting of water use rates Phase 1A of the rural water district can move into the sign up and community meeting phases as soon as customer rates are established, County Manager Jerry Ayscue told Vance Commissioners Monday night. He said discussions related to the project continue between County staff and engineers with the City of Henderson. They focus on coming up with arrangements for Vance to purchase water in bulk rates from the City and to contract with Henderson for operation and

maintenance of the system. Ayscue said the County continues to seek additional grant funds for Phase 1A and the remaining phases of the project. He also mentioned that USDA Rural Development has indicated the possible availability of funds for at least part of the remaining phases in the current federal fiscal year. In other business Monday night, the county manager told the board that the Warrenton Road sewer project was put out to bid after John Hamme, project engineer, completed the design work. The bids will be received and opened Aug. 20 at 2

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Our Hometown . . . . . 2A Business & Farm. . . . 5A Public Records . . . . . 6A Opinion . . . . . . . . . . . 8A Light Side . . . . . . . . . 9A Sports. . . . . . . . . . 1-4B Comics . . . . . . . . . . . 2C Classifieds. . . . . . . 3-5C

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Deaths Henderson George C. Edwards Maria P. Faulkner, 83 Patsy T. Fort, 65 Mary P. Higgs, 78 Oxford Mary K. Davis, 86

Lois S. Vaughan, 86 Wise Milton S. Jones, 72 Warrenton Luther J. Kimball, 83

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p.m. The commissioners will then be asked to award bids during their September meeting, which will be on the eighth, instead of on Labor Day. Ayscue said construction should be completed within 90 to 120 days after contracts are signed. Also Monday night, the board approved filling these position vacancies: • Social Worker IAT in Social Services’ Children’s Services Unit. • Income Maintenance Supervisor II in Social Services’ Adult Medicaid Unit. • A deputy in the Sheriff’s Office. Please see WATER, page 3A

Raise the tree?

Daily Dispatch/ASHLEY STEVEN AYSCUE

City workers weigh their options on how to take down a large branch that this Averitt Express tractor-trailer snagged while attempting to turn onto Granite Street from Chestnut Street Tuesday afternoon. Granite Street between Chestnut and Garnett Streets has a sign prohibiting oversized trucks, but a resident of Granite said that she has complained about oversized trucks traveling Granite for over three months but the City says it cannot enforce the restriction.

Historian Tyson agrees rebel statue is divisive By WILLIAM F. WEST Daily Dispatch Writer

OXFORD — Tim Tyson was among the latest to take to the speaker’s podium at a Granville County Commission meeting about the presence of the Confederate monument near the entrance of what will be an expanded and renovated Richard H. Thornton Library. Tyson Tyson, an author and a historian who teaches at both Duke University and UNC, agreed with the Rev. Curtis Gatewood’s argument moments earlier that the statue of the likeness of

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the rebel soldier is a divisive symbol. And Tyson, a former Oxford resident who presently lives in Chapel Hill, on Monday evening offered the commissioners the following advice, based on what he used to hear from Ben Averett while working for Averett years ago on a farm in the county: “Just do it right the first time and you won’t have to do it again.” “I think it’s fine to celebrate the Confederacy if that’s what you hold dear. As a Southerner myself, I prefer biscuits and barbecue and our music to the lost cause,” Tyson said. “It doesn’t, though, make sense, I think, to use the marker of the Confederacy at the front door of the

OXFORD — Persons wanting to address the Granville County Commission in the future will have to do so realizing they will be timed. The seven-man panel on Monday evening unanimously approved rules regarding the public comment period of commission meetings. The major changes are that each speaker will be limited to three minutes at the podium and that the total public comment period will be held to a maximum of 30 minutes per commission meeting. The policy additionally states the following:

Please see STATUE, page 10A

Please see SPEAKERS, page 3A

By WILLIAM F. WEST Daily Dispatch Writer

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Mark It Down Today Clean-Up Henderson — The Clean-Up Henderson Committee meets at 8 a.m. at the City Operations Center, 900 S. Beckford Dr. The public is invited to attend. Caregiver support group — meets monthly at Granville Medical Center, 1010 College St., Oxford, in the education classroom from noon to 1:30 p.m. Participants are asked to bring their own bag lunch and soda and cookies will be provided. This group is open to the public and hosted by the Harold Sherman Adult Day Care. For more information, contact Melissa Starr, MSW, at (919) 690-3273. Lake Gaston meeting — The Lake Gaston Association will hold its monthly meeting at 9:30 a.m. at Lake Gaston Baptist Church on Route 903, one mile north of Eaton Ferry Bridge, near Littleton. Guest speaker will be Gus Best, president of the Lake Gaston Computer Club. The meeting is open to members and non-members. For further information, call 586657, or toll-free 1-888-586-6577. Redevelopment Commission — The Redevelopment Commission will meet at 10 a.m. in the City Council Chambers of City Hall, 134 Rose Ave. Land Planning committee — The Henderson City Council’s Land Planning and Development Committee will meet at 3 p.m. in the large conference room of City Hall, 134 Rose Ave. The subject of the session will be the former Beacon Light apartment complex.

Thursday Shriners’ meeting — The Henderson Shrine Club meets at 6:30 p.m. at the Henderson Masonic Lodge #229, 401 Brodie Road, Henderson. Dinner will be served, followed by the business meeting. Genealogical society — The Granville County Genealogical Society #1746 Inc. will meet at 6:30 p.m. in the County Commissioner Meeting Room, 145 Williamsboro Street, Oxford (please note change in meeting location). Everyone in attendance will have an opportunity to “show and tell” some of their genealogical experiences. Monthly meetings are open to the public and visitors are cordially 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 6:30 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). Film showing — The PBS “Frontline” documentary, “Sick Around The World,” will be shown at 6:30 p.m. in the Community Meeting Room of the Warren County Memorial Library at 119 Front St., Warrenton. This 60-minute film shows the different ways that five other advanced, capitalist countries provide health care for all their people at lower cost and with better results than the U.S. The event is sponsored by the Warren County Senior Democrats and the public is invited to attend. Granville Museum — Dawn Shamp, a Roxboro native and author, will discuss her novel “On Account of Conspicuous Women” at 4 p.m. in the Harris Exhibit Hall of the Granville County Historical Museum. Stories of her “Grimma Lizzie” inspired this novel about Roxboro women in the 1920s. Books will be available for sale and signing. Seating is limited so register early. To register, call (919) 693-9706 or e-mail pam@ granvillemuseumnc.org. Childbirth classes — Prepared childbirth education classes are held at Granville Medical Center, 1010 College St., in Oxford, every Thursday night from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. in the first floor conference room. For more information, call (919) 690-3208.

FGV Partnership for Children changes name, but offers same services The Franklin-GranvilleVance Partnership for Children has formally changed its name to Franklin-Granville-Vance Smart Start Inc. The name change reflects the agency’s affiliation with North Carolina’s nationally recognized and award-winning early childhood initiative which is designed to ensure that young children enter school healthy and ready to succeed. FGV Smart Start administers Smart Start funds to support programs to benefit children ages birth to five years and their families. The organization is a catalyst for bringing different groups together for the sake of children, educates the community on the critical needs of young children, and helps develop solutions. Smart Start funds are used to improve the quality of child care, make child care more affordable and accessible, provide access to health services, and offer family support. Some of the FGV Smart Start local programs are: • The Child Care Resource & Referral program is designed to improve the

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Shown are noon positions of weather systems and precipitation. Temperature bands are highs for the day. Seattle 77/56 Billings 86/59

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• Speakers will have to register on a sign-up sheet at the podium and write down their contact information and the topic of their comments. The sheet will be RALEIGH (AP) — North available 30 minutes before Carolina Gov. Beverly the start of the meeting, with Perdue said she’s no hapno one allowed to make a pier than legislators about request by telephone to have a state budget that raises his or her name written on taxes and cuts spending, the sheet. However, she’s going to • While each person sign the spending plan into signed up to speak will be under the three-minute time law. limit, one additional time Perdue said Tuesday period may be yielded to the that lawmakers have speaker by another individuraised taxes as far as al who signed up to speak on they’re willing to go to a particular topic. maintain education spend• Speakers will be acing. knowledged by the commisShe said she’s willing to sion chairman in the order in sign the $19 billion budget which the names appear on with the traditional school the sign-up sheet, with each year starting soon. speaker to begin by providThe governor said she ing his or her name and was pleased that lawaddress. • The commissioners will makers pulled back from not be required to answer spending cuts that would have led to broader teacher any spur-of-the-moment questions. Speakers will layoffs. Perdue said a a one-pen- address all comments to the commission as a whole and ny sales tax increase was not to an individual commisbetter than higher income sioner. taxes for working families. • Discussions between And the governor said speakers and those in the only about 13 percent of audience will be forbidden. households will face a new, • Speakers will have to be added surtax on their taxcourteous in their language able income. and presentation and will

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have to refrain from “personal attacks” and the use of profanity. • One speaker will be acknowledged at a time. If the 30-minute limit expires before all persons who have signed up get to speak, then those names will be carried over to the next public comment period. • Applause will be forbidden before the end of the public comment period. The regulations were presented in draft form at the July 6 commission meeting. County Manager Brian Alligood after that meeting told the Dispatch he had borrowed the details from another county and that the specifics were “pretty standard.” The commission, however, has been receiving much commentary since June 1 from speakers on both sides of the issue about whether the Confederate monument should remain near the entrance to what will be the expanded and renovated Richard H. Thornton Library. On June 15, the commission, with one member absent, voted without dissent to move ahead with transforming the Thornton Library building and grounds, but with the likeness of the

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Deaths Mary K. Davis OXFORD — Mary Della Kingsbury Davis, 86, of 611 Granville St., died Saturday, Aug. 1, 2009, at her home. She was the daughter of the late Buck Kingsbury and Josephine Parker Kingsbury. Funeral services will be conducted at 2 p.m. today at Wright Funeral Home Chapel by the Rev. James M. Lawson. Burial will be in Meadowview Memorial Park. She is survived by a son, Clarence “Butch” Kingsbury of the home; five grandchildren; and 17 great-grandchildren. The family received friends Tuesday from 7-8 p.m. at Wright Funeral Home. Arrangements are by Wright Funeral Home of Oxford.

George C. Edwards HENDERSON — George C. Edwards, a former resident of 680 Mabry Mill Road, died Tuesday, Aug. 4, 2009, in a local nursing home. Funeral arrangements will be announced by J.M. White Funeral Home.

Maria P. Faulkner HENDERSON — Miss Maria Parham Faulkner, 83, of 921 Faulkner Town Road, died Monday, Aug. 3, 2009, in Cherokee, N.C. Born in Vance County on July 23, 1926, she was the daughter of the late Howard Vernard Faulkner Sr. and Bessie Faulkner Faulkner. She was a retired nurse anesthetist in Greensboro where she worked for four years and at Newnan Hospital in Newnan, Ga., for 38 years. She was a former member of First Baptist Church in Newnan, Ga., and was a member of New Sandy Creek Baptist Church where she was a member of the Edward Blue Sunday School Class, the Senior Club, and chairperson of the Cemetery Committee. She was also a member of the United Daughters of The Confederacy and the Newnan Coweta Art Association in Newnan, Ga. Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. Friday at New Sandy Creek Baptist Church by the Rev. Tim Burgess. Burial will follow in the church cemetery. She is survived by a brother, Jerry A. Faulkner of Oxford. She was preceded in death by two sisters, Evelyn F. Ayscue and Doris F. Ayscue; and three brothers, Allison R. Faulkner, Howard V. Faulkner, Jr. and Cecil U. Faulkner.

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Patsy T. Fort HENDERSON — Patsy Tart Fort, 65, of 105 Orchard Road, Henderson, died Tuesday, Aug. 4, 2009, at Maria Parham Medical Center. Funeral arrangements will be announced by Flowers Funeral Home.

Mary P. Higgs HENDERSON — Mary P. Higgs, 78, of 469 Deer Field Run, died Saturday, Aug. 1, 2009, at Maria Parham Medical Center. She was the daughter of the late Garland Higgs and Pearl Fogg Higgs. Funeral services will be conducted at 1 p.m. Thursday at Concord Baptist Church by the Rev. Samuel Bullock. Burial will be in the church cemetery. She is survived by two daughters, Ruth HiggsAllen of Farmville, Va., and Ruby Higgs of Henderson; a sister, Ogeechie Mae Crews of Oxford; two brothers, McArthur Higgs of Henderson and Samuel M. Higgs of Greensboro; and five grandchildren. The family will receive visitors today from 7-8 p.m. at Wright Funeral Home of Henderson. Arrangements are by Wright Funeral Home.

Milton S. Jones WISE — Milton Samuel Jones, 72, a former resident of 488 U.S. 1, died Tuesday, Aug. 4, 2009, at the Durham VA Hospital. Graveside services will be held at 3 p.m. Thursday at Sunset Gardens. The family will receive friends at the home of Margaret and A.C. Coghill at 401 Coghill-Dickerson Lane. Other arrangements will be announced by J.M. White Funeral Home.

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of the property, which is located at 1408 Parker. Five others spoke in opposition. WARRENTON — LuDiana Mann emphasized ther Joseph Kimball, 83, her family’s roots in Henderdied Sunday, Aug. 2, 2009, son, noting her father was at Community Memorial Retired Army Col. Robert Healthcenter. Simeon Moore and noting her He was preceded in death maternal grandfather owned by his parents, Thollis D. the first drug store in Henderand Mollie Kimball; his wife, son. Her mother died in 1996 Vera Lynch Kimball; and a and her father died in 2003. daughter, Peggy Kimball. Of the property, Diana He was a U.S. Army Mann said, “It may be zoned World War II veteran and a residential, but it’s not resicharter member of Drewery dential.” Fire Department. Mann cited noise from the He is survived by three Exxon/Snackers convenience children, Larry Kimball, store across Dabney, along Charles E. Kimball and with trash, drug parapherLinda Faye Day; a sister, nalia and even sawed off Elsie Brooks; and three shotguns ending up on the grandchildren. family property. No funeral service is Mann said that she has planned at this time. neither the energy nor the Arrangements are by financial means to care for Blaylock Funeral Home of the property and that her Warrenton. husband underwent a liver transplant. And Mann said the family has no desire to Lois S. Vaughan bring in a 24-7 business. The prospective buyer OXFORD — Lois S. would like to keep a park-like Vaughan, 86, died Monday, atmosphere and as many Aug. 3, 2009. She was a of the old trees as possible, native of Granville County and the daughter of the late Mann said. “We want to add to the Ossie and Lizzie Culbreth property values and not Young and the widow of decrease them,” she said, Woodis L. Vaughan. presenting a petition and Before she was diagnoting she will continue living nosed with Alzheimer’s in her grandfather’s old house disease in 2003, she was next door. an active member of Amis Peace Street resident Bill Chapel Baptist Church and Grissom countered, “This is always visited shut-ins at my home and my neighbors’ home and in the nursing homes. This is one of the homes. She retired as office largest investments we will manager from Farm Credit probably make.” Service after 35 years of And Grissom said he service. believed the rezoning would Funeral services will be cause property values to drop conducted at 11 a.m. Thurs- “considerably” and cited conday at Amis Chapel Baptist cerns about traffic. Grissom Church by the Rev. Terry presented a petition against Howard. Burial will follow the proposed rezoning. at Meadowview Memorial Attorney Jonathan Care, Park. a Peace Street resident, quesSurviving are a son, tioned whether Mann’s petiEnhart “Ernie” Sherrell of tion was properly presented Wake Forest; three grandto the Planning Board. children; and four greatCare argued the propgrandchildren. She was erty is owned by at least six preceded in death by two people, with the public papersisters, Mary Helen Smith work showing an executrix and Ruby Elliott. who has neither control nor Flowers are accepted or power over real estate. memorials may be made Care additionally seconded to Amis Chapel Baptist Grissom’s concerns about Church, 9189 Amis Chapel traffic and said the problems Road, Oxford, N.C. 27565. Diana Mann complained The family will receive about will not go away. friends from 7-8:30 p.m. This is a residential area, today at Gentry-Newell and Care said. Vaughan Funeral Home “The fact that the curand at other times at the rent owners are not able to home. maintain or keep the property Arrangements are up is not an encouragement or a reason to allow higher or by Gentry-Newell and Vaughan Funeral Home of more burdensome uses upon this real estate,” Care said. Oxford.

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Peace Street resident Jim Hamlett, concerned about depreciation, asked: “If you allow this to go through, what would stop the next person down or across the street from coming back and making some deal with whatever business and keep going and keep going like that and keep going all the way to over to the country club, for crying out loud?” Peace Street resident Jim Populorum echoed his fellow residents’ concerns about traffic, saying, “It’s a domino effect.” Tommy Roberson, of Parker Lane, in expressing his concerns about the traffic in detail, cited the Parker’s Peace swimming pool being open in the summertime. Mann rebutted that while she did not have “the legal experience or the smooth talking” of Care, the will allows her to sell and make investments. And she said she has the authority to speak for the other five siblings. “So, if I am correct in my assumptions, then I think he may be mistaken in his,” she said. Stacy Mann said the family has tried for at least eight years to sell the property as residential, but has not found any buyers. And he said everyone in the room knows the property eventually will be rezoned, adding, “I mean, that’s just a matter of progress.” “We’re just trying to do what’s best for the family and for the neighborhood because we plan to live there, too,” he said. Planning Board member Jimmie Ayscue expressed surprise at the list of people bordering Parker Lane who signed Diana Mann’s petition. Ayscue questioned whether the Planning Board needed the legal advice of City Attorney John Zollicoffer, who was not present.

Planning Board Chairman Michael Rainey made clear he was satisfied that the paperwork submitted by Diana Mann was legitimate. Planning Board member Michael Inscoe said he wished this was one of the times Henderson had conditional zonings specific to a particular location. An example would mean only an office building could be at the location, with a certain amount of square footage, and could only operate between 9 a.m.-5 p.m., Inscoe said. Rainey emphasized that a decision to rezone or not to rezone is not made based on what goes on the site. Rainey said office and institutional is open to more than just financial institutions if the deal falls through at that location. City Planning Director Erris Dunston read aloud the list of business that could be located on property zoned office and institutional, with the list being so long she took approximately three minutes to do so. In addition to Bullock, those voting against the recommendation were Rainey, Inscoe and Ayscue. Planning Board Vice Chairwoman Marchita Vann cast the lone vote in favor of recommending the proposed rezoning. Vann afterward told the Dispatch she believes the Mann family has the right to sell the property for a business “just like anybody else.” “I mean, it’s happening in other neighborhoods,” Vann added. Planning Board members Linda Allen and Phil Walters were absent, but they could not have voted anyway because the two are Vance County appointees. Contact the writer at bwest@ hendersondispatch.com .

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Duke Energy’s 2nd quarter profit hurt as energy demand declines By MARK WILLIAMS AP Energy Writer

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Power company Duke Energy said Tuesday that its second-quarter earnings fell as demand for power from industrial customers continues to slide because of the recession. Charlotte, N.C.-based Duke said Tuesday that it made $276 million, or 21 cents per share, for the quarter ended June 30 compared with profit of $351 million, or 28 cents a share, in the year ago quarter. Revenue fell to $2.9 billion from $3.2 billion. Discounting one-time charges, Duke said it made 26 cents a share. Analysts surveyed by Thomson Reuters expected Duke to report profit of 25 cents a share on revenue of $3.17 billion. Duke said industrial sales in the Carolinas were

off 18.5 percent in the quarter. In the Midwest, industrial sales fell 20.9 percent. Like other utilities, Duke has been working to manage costs during the recession. Operating expenses were down $181 million during the quarter compared with a year ago. “Sales have been off. Controlling our costs has allowed us to perform as well as we did,” Jim Rogers, Duke’s chairman, president and CEO, said in an interview. Industrial demand has been particularly weak nationwide with sales falling 12 percent in the first quarter of this year from a year ago, according to the Energy Information Administration. Total consumption nationwide is expected to fall 2 percent this year and rise 0.8 percent next year. Chief Financial Officer

Lynn Good said Duke’s industrial customers are indicating that business is stabilizing. Automaker BMW is ramping up production at its plant in South Carolina in September and some steel customers suggest business is beginning to improve, she said. Year to date, Duke has made $620 million, or 48 cents per share, compared with profit of $816 million, or 63 cents, per share in the first half of 2008. Revenue has fallen to $6.2 billion this year compared with $6.6 billion for the first half of 2008. Duke is one of the largest electric power companies in the United States with about 4 million customers in the Carolinas, Ohio, Kentucky and Indiana. It also has about 500,000 gas customers in Ohio and Kentucky and generates electricity in Latin America.

Pending home sales index rises for fifth straight month WASHINGTON (AP) — Pending U.S. home sales rose in June for the fifth straight month, another encouraging sign of life for the embattled U.S. housing market, the National Association of Realtors reported Tuesday. For June, the Realtors group said its pending home sales index rose 3.6 percent to 94.6, from an upwardly revised reading of 91.3 in May. The last time there were five consecutive monthly gains was July 2003. The results were far better than analysts expected. Economists surveyed by Thomson Reuters expected the index to come in at 91.2. The report tracks signed contracts to purchase previously owned homes and is considered a barometer for future home sales. Typically there is a one- to twomonth lag between a sales contract and a completed deal. The jump in pending home sales coincides with

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HENDERSON POLICE DEPARTMENT Arrests • Rondrell Eaton, 17, of 1513 Maple St. was arrested on Aug. 3 at 10:30 p.m. for possession of stolen motor vehicle. Eaton was placed under a $2,000 secured bond. • Roger Rondell Henderson, 41, of 520 Watson Drive, Norlina, was arrested on Aug. 3 at 9:39 p.m. for driving while license revoked. There was a secured bond for $1,500. Henderson was also charged with possession of stolen tags. He was arrested in the 100 block of Williams St. • Percy Lee Williams, 28, of 820 Eaton St. was arrested on Aug. 3 at 11:04 a.m. for a failure to appear in court charge. There was a secured bond for $1,200. • Frederick Bullock, 31, of 500 North Clark St. was arrested on Aug. 3 at 8:38 p.m. for second degree trespass. There was an unsecured bond for $1,000. • Travis Montel Boyd, 28, of 908 David St. was arrested on Aug. 3 at 6:26 p.m. for simple assault. There was a secured bond for $1,000. • Montrelas Henderson, 36, of 1114 Washington St. was arrested on Aug. 3 at 7:28 p.m. for a failure to appear in court charge. Henderson was placed under a $500 secured bond. • Ryan Adam Englerth, 22, of 205 Erica Lane was arrested on Aug. 3 at 6:13 p.m. for driving while license revoked. Englerth was issued a citation.

Larceny • Robert Rainey, 84, of Maria Parham Apartments on 406 S. Chestnut St. Apt. 207 reported on Aug. 3 at 2 p.m. that someone took a billfold without her permission. Items taken included currency valued at $300 and a Social Security card and driver’s

license of unknown value. • Ofelia Lopez, 37, of 1504 Maple St. reported on Aug. 3 at 12:49 p.m. that someone took her purse from a businss on 1654 N. Garnett St. Items taken along with the purse included currency valued at $200 and three Bank of America debit cards of unknown value. • Jesse Clopton, 62, of 480 Hunter Road reported on August 3 at 11:37 a.m. that someone stopped him in his 1994 Ford in the roadway of the 100 block of Belle St. and took some money. The value of the currency was unknown.

Breaking & Entering • Steve Satterwhite, 61, of 2150 S. Cokesbury Road reported on Aug. 3 at 3:48 p.m. that someone damaged the driver’s side door handle of his 1997 Ford F250 and entered the vehicle. Damage to the door handle and lock estimated at $200. Items taken included a miter box saw valued at $500, a socket set valued at $89, a handheld sander valued at $60 and a box of heavy duty trash bags valued at $15. The incident occured in a parking lot on 566 Ruin Creek Road.

Property Damage • Gail G. Ivey, 55, of Holden Moss on 514 Dabney Drive reported on Aug. 3 at 9:11 a.m. that someone spray painted graffiti on the glass of the back door of the business. Damage to the door estimated at $250. • Melissa Elliott, 31, of RK&B Plumbing Inc. on 215 Yadkin St. reported on Aug. 3 at 12:52 p.m. that someone painted graffiti on the rear door to a 2001 GMC truck belonging to the business. Damage to the rear door of the

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Assault • Katrina Hargrove, 30, of 270 S. Vance Drive reported on Aug. 3 at 2:38 p.m. that someone punched her in the face at a residence on 833 Water St. No further information was given. • Terrell Comer, 19, of 628 E. Montgomery St. reported on Aug. 3 at 8:03 p.m. that someone argued with him and struck him at his residence. No further information was given. • Melonie Williford, 41, of 321 E. Andrews Ave. Apt A reported on Aug.t 3 at 10:52 p.m. that someone struck her in the head with a telephone base at her residence. No furhter information was given.

Miscellaneous • Carol Wilkes of 1205 Colston Court, Kernersville, reported on Aug. 3 at 9:02 a.m. that someone gained access to her credit line and made purchases at a business on 166 Dabney Road. The gift cards were valued at $4,000. • Barbara Gooding, 49, of 425 Winder St. reported on July 31 at 10:15 a.m. that her dog left her residence. The pitbull was valued at $500.

Ex-N.C. death row inmate waives detention hearing CHARLOTTE (AP) — A former death row inmate charged with kidnapping a North Carolina family will be held without bond until his trial. Multiple media outlets report that an attorney for 52-year-old Jerry Douglas Case waived a detention hearing, which was scheduled for Monday in federal court in Charlotte.

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and bottles of Oxycotin and Percacet all of unknown value. • Thomas Dudley Clement, 63, of 6219 Whitt Drive, Durham, reported on July 31 at 8:13 p.m. that someome pried open the front door of a residence on 26 North Waters Edge Road. Items taken included a refrigerator, a gas grill and a bed set, all of unknown value.

Larceny • Curtis Gupton Jr., 41, of 335 Tower Road reported on Aug. 3 at 3:45 p.m. that his four-wheeler ATV and generator were missing from his residence. The ATV was valued at $8,000 and the 550 watt generator was valued at $1,800. • Sandra Perry, 35, of 1461 Perry Ave. reported on Aug. 4 at 2:02 a.m. that someone removed a bicycle valued at $120 from the yard without permission from a residence on 80 Vicksboro Road. • Anthony Bryant, 36, of 1303 Vicksboro Road Lot 10 reported on August 2 at 6:52 a.m. that someone took a 1995 Plymouth Acclaim from a yard on 3490 Raleigh Road. The value of the vehicle was unknown.

• Tomeka Nicole Cooper, 26, of 1005 Long Creek Court, Kittrell, reported on Aug. 1 at 9:49 a.m. that someone forced a door open of her residence and hit her in the face. No further information was given.

Miscellaneous • Carolyn Laverne Williams, 58, of 10015 N.C. 39 Hwy North reported on Aug. 2 at 9:31 a.m. that someone fired shots into her residence. No further information was given.

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Breaking & Entering • Robert Williams, 83, of 2925 Vicksboro Road reported on July 31 at 3:56 p.m. that someone entered his shed and took items that included a generator, a hydraulic jack, gas cans, battery charges, cases of motor oil, saws, drills, assorted tools and a cultivator all of unknown value. • Grace Carroll, 49, and Thomas Michael Carroll, 45, of 111 Railroad Ave., Oxford, reported on Aug. 1 at 3:45 p.m. someone broke glass, entered a residence on 232 Fern Lane, Kittrell, and took items that incldued a kitchen stove, two T.V.s, a ladies wardrobe and window blinds all of unknown value. Damage to the door window was unknown. • Brittany Simmons, 23, of 156 Mabry Mill Road reported on Aug. 1 at 9:29 a.m. that someone cut the chain link fence and pried open the front door of the residence of Dwight Simmons Sr., 62, of 370 Fawn Drive. Items taken included assorted guns, jewelry, silver dollars, cameras

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Assault • Chris Wortham, 58, of 313 Cheatham Mabry Road reported on Aug. 3 at 4:55 p.m. that her son assaulted her by pushing her down at her residence. No further information was given. • Joann Clements, 39, of 913 Goshen reported on Aug. 1 at 6:20 p.m. that her boyfriend hit her with a chair and hands at a residence on 151 Bunn St. No further information was given.

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Many on Myspace know him as Tre Dot, but local hip-hop artist Corey Henderson goes by his real name around here. After moving back to North Carolina from Maryland about two years ago, Henderson began writing and compiling songs which he released on several mix tapes. Henderson AP Photo/The News & Observer, Chuck Liddy says the response from Daniel Patrick Boyd is escorted by U.S. Marshals to the fed- the tapes Henderson eral courthouse in Raleigh on Tuesday. Federal prosecutors and current say a North Carolina terrorism case may involve classified album has been signifimaterial that will raise national security issues. Authorities cant, but he realizes many have charged seven North Carolina men with plotting terror- people in the area are still ism abroad. An indictment pegs the ringleader as 39-year-old unaware of his stage name Daniel Patrick Boyd, who was arrested last week along with or his music. two sons. This is also true for a portion of Henderson’s dug under the Boyd’s deck your heart doesn’t mean we’re aliens,” said 37-year- that a witness described as family, but for different reasons. According to Henold Shagufta Syad, one of a place to hide weapons. Boyd’s supporters. “I just derson, he likes to keep his Authorities are still want justice to be served. personal life separate from looking for an eighth I’m here concerned as a suspect, 20-year-old Jude his dealings in the music Muslim, as an American, I Kenan Mohammad of world. need to know what’s going Raleigh. However, Henderson on.” Mohammad was says everyday life, along Boyd’s wife has said detained in Pakistan in with the personal experiher husband and two October after he was acences of others are the sons were not involved cused of trying to enter a bases of his songs. in any terrorist activity, militant stronghold near “I hear a story and I and neighbors and friends the Afghan border that think of how I can turn it were shocked last week to is off-limits to foreigners. into a song,” Henderson learn of the accusations. Kenan’s family said he said. Sutton, the FBI agent, was in the country to visit Describing his music as said Boyd told authorities his Pakistani father. “soulful hip-hop,” Henderthat during his time in Ejaz Khan, a police son says his music appeals Pakistan and Afghanistan official in the region that two decades ago he battled to those who are 25 and had jurisdiction in the Russians for 23 days when above. case, said Mohammad Soviet troops attacked a Henderson’s first album, was taken into custody training camp he was at“Carolina Feel Good Muand booked on charges of tending. sic,” was released earlier weapons possession for Sutton said some of this year on Amazon. A allegedly carrying a dagthe men recently had ger, and traveling without few of the albums songs scheduled trips, and that are also on Henderson’s proper documents. Zak Boyd said at some Myspace page, which He was granted bail point that he planned to Henderson says has later that month, Khan travel to the Bosnia area helped gain him exposure. said. in search of a place for the Henderson’s three music family to relocate. videos are also featured Associated Press writ“I think that all of them on his Myspace page and are a risk to flight,” Sutton ers Alysia Patterson in Raleigh and Riaz Khan in have become some of his said. Peshawar, Pakistan, conpopular songs, according An attorney for one of tributed to this report. the suspects, Hysen Sherto Henderson. The music ifi, said his client planned to travel to Kosovo because Henderson’s Raleigh Road that’s where his wife lives. Federal officials said they seized from Boyd’s home and cars more than 27,400 rounds of ammuHuge Selection! nition, 26 weapons, gas masks and a handbook on Check For New Items Each Week! how authorities respond to Every Friday, Saturday & Sunday acts of terrorism. Sutton Friday 10:00am-5:00pm • Saturday 8:00am - 5:00pm • Sunday 11:00am - 5:00pm said there was a trench For Booth Rental Info Call

RALEIGH — Federal authorities said Tuesday the accused ringleader of a group of North Carolina terrorism suspects talked about loving jihad, fighting for Allah and loathing a U.S. military presence at Muslim holy sites. During a hearing on whether the seven men will be held until trial, officials played recordings of Daniel Boyd talking to his family and to a witness about what authorities called plans to carry out attacks overseas. “I love jihad. I love to stand there and fight for the sake of Allah,” a voice identified as Boyd said on a recording made in June at Boyd’s home. “Muslims must be protected at all costs.” FBI Special Agent Michael Sutton said Boyd wanted the men, including two of his sons, to engage in violent jihad, train on firearms and travel overseas. Sutton said Boyd repeatedly spoke of armor-piercing ammunition and a year ago told a witness about his dislike of the U.S. military being in some Middle Eastern lands. “They’re over there killing our brothers,” Sutton quoted Boyd as saying. The seven men were arrested and charged last week with plotting attacks in a foreign country. An eighth is being sought. Officials have not named their alleged targets. The indictment named 39-year-old Boyd as the suspected ringleader, saying he bought guns, and Boyd’s two sons — 20-year-old Zakariya and 22-year-old Dylan. It said some of the men took trips over the past three years to Jordan, Kosovo, Pakistan and Israel “to engage in violent jihad.” Supporters and members of the suspects’ families packed the courtroom Tuesday. The handcuffed men nodded and waved to the crowd. People who couldn’t get seats waited outside. Some said they believed the men were innocent or being unfairly targeted. “Maybe there’s some bad Muslims in there, but just because you have a head scarf and faith in

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Daily Meditation Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world: For I was an hungred, and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink: I was a stranger, and ye took me in: Naked, and ye clothed me: I was sick, and ye visited me: I was in prison, and ye came unto me. Then shall the righteous answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungred, and fed thee? or thirsty, and gave thee drink? When saw we thee a stranger, and took thee in? or naked, and clothed thee? Or when saw we thee sick, or in prison, and came unto thee? And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me. Matthew 25: 34-40

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Prayer for our schools The Henderson-Vance Ministers’ Community Partnership is making progress on its agenda to beat poverty, hunger and homelessness. The coalition of area churches and community groups has announced a “Day of Prayer for Education” in Vance County, and the group reports its only months away from opening an emergency shelter for men in the downtown area. Those two concerns – educational opportunities for area students and the lack of shelter for homeless men – are among issues that have risen to the top as the three-yearold partnership has staged summits for local congregations and members of the community at large. The day of prayer, scheduled for Sunday, Aug. 23, just two days prior to the start of public school in Vance County, will be reminiscent of the National Day of Prayer activities held annually in May – only the backdrop for this event will be community churches rather than the courthouse or city hall. The partnership is urging all churches in the county to use a portion of their worship service or some other time during the day to pray for students, teachers and school administrators. If pastors can, they are encouraged to preach on themes related to the importance of education in a person’s faith. The Rev. Dr. Paul Baxley of First Baptist Church, who serves as chairman of the partnership, explained the coalition’s approach: “We issue this challenge because we believe it is essential that we begin a new school year with focused prayer, and because we know that healing and renewal in our city and county will require a stronger commitment to outstanding education opportunities for all students in our communities.” Are we a better community for our time spent in prayer at the various events organized by the partnership during the National Day of Prayer this past spring? The answer is a resounding Yes! “A community that prays together, stays together – and it could work for nations, too” was the message heard in May. There’s no better way to start a new academic year for students, parents, teachers and administrators alike than a community coming together with a central focus of asking for divine assistance. Besides praying, churches are also being asked by the partnership to collect used books for children from birth through fifth grade to be distributed throughout the school year to youngsters whose parents may be unable to purchase books for them to read at home. Add to this effort the partnership’s scheduling of another community meeting to discuss the emergency men’s shelter. An Aug. 10 meeting at First Baptist will provide information about the shelter and how people can help. Volunteers will be needed to supervise the shelter and provide meals, among other needs. The partnership’s list doesn’t stop there. The coalition is also addressing a concern over the lack of affordable housing both for renters and for home owners. This group has demonstrated that it is serious about its missions. What are the possibilities if all of our churches, organizations and the community at large get on board with them to help make Henderson and Vance County a better place to live? Endless!

President Obama has been faltering of late, but I still hope he turns America into France. I have been to Paris — ah, Grand Paree! I have sat for hours at sidewalk cafes sipping cafe au lait (that’s milk and coffee, you uncultured Americans) and nodding approvingly as pretty women stroll by. There is plenty of time to do such things in France. The French know better than silly Americans what life is really about. It is about pleasant thoughts and sipping Courvoisier and knowing that no matter what happens, your government will take care of you. French politicians made this promise during the 1970s. They massively expanded government entitlements of every kind. Unions are ultra-strong in France, where many people work for the government and everyone enjoys five weeks or more of paid vacation — and 22 paid holidays on top of that! French employees need not worry about much. It is nearly impossible to be fired in France. Even if an employee screws up royally, he cannot be canned until an exhaustive and costly dismissal process is carried out.

Even now, months after the world economy has tanked and demand for products has crashed, French employers are still struggling to adjust their work force; French labor laws make it difficult to lay off employees. Employers are wary of hiring for these reasons. Even when Tom the world Purcell economy was boomCagle Cartoons ing, French unemployment rates were still hovering between 8 and 11 percent. Sure, I know France’s high taxes and high regulation have hampered economic growth for years — and growth and wealth generation are the only ways any government can meet its lofty promises. I know, too, that the world has changed. Advances in technology have ushered in a truly global economy. Manufacturing plants and service centers can be set up and run efficiently almost anywhere in the world.

Every country is now in competition with almost every other, which doesn’t bode well for places such as France. If you needed to build a plant, would you choose a place where the tax rates, regulations and costs are reasonable, or France, where you’ll face burdens, costs and obstacles of every kind? It is true that most European nations know they are on an unsustainable path. They have begun to turn back government spending. They are reducing taxes to attract badly needed investment and growth. I know it is odd that just as Europe turns away from big-spending policies that have proven not to work, Obama is eager to rush America toward similar policies. I know Americans should pay closer attention to what he is up to — and, if they don’t like his proposals, be more active in stopping or shaping them before they become law. But I hope he succeeds. I hope he does cap carbon emissions — essentially taxing the bejeezus out of them — which will drive up the cost of utilities and everything that is manufactured and transported. I hope he and Congress

succeed in getting their mitts around the throat of our health care system — and borrow a trillion dollars more in the process. I hope he succeeds in raising tax rates much higher — beyond those currently paid in many European countries. Such measures will drive investment out of the United States. They will kill innovation and invention. They will damage our economy. And then we can be more French! Sure, I may find myself without gainful employment, but it will be OK. My government will take care of me. I will enjoy free health care, food, housing and generous stipends. I’ll never be rich, but I’ll have enough to sit at sidewalk cafes sipping cafe au lait and nodding approvingly as pretty women stroll by. Before Obama became president, America already was on an unsustainable path (big deficits, Social Security, Medicare). There is no way we can take on trillions in new debt to support European-style programs. But I prefer not to worry about the future. I prefer to live in the moment. C’est la vie, America!

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United we stand, divided we pay During the run-up to the election, candidate Obama said again and again, “If you are a family making less than $250,000 a year you will not see your taxes go up. Not your income tax, not your payroll tax, not your capital gains taxes, not any of your taxes.” It was a catchy statement. He was aiming it straight at the middle class, the bulk of the voters at the only time we really have any power, which is right before an election. President Obama then proposed a multi-billion dollar bailout of banks and corporations that were deemed too big to fail or too necessary to bring the economy back from the edge of collapsing altogether. This past Sunday, eight months after inauguration, the Obama administration’s Treasury Secretary, Timothy Geithner and National Economic Council Director, Lawrence Summers started laying the groundwork for the middle class to foot the bill for not only the deficit but proposed health care reform by saying that someone’s going to have to step up to the plate. Apparently that someone is still the middle class and small business owner. There has got to be some way for the middle class to come together and refute the bill without having to wait for another election cycle and a pile of promises from a new group of candidates. We need to figure out how to

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become too big to ignore instead of just writhing in frustration as the larger corporations use tax loopholes to avoid taxes and threats about collapse to avoid failure. All of it sounds more like taxation without representation. It speaks to our optimism as Americans that we can go through election cycles listening to candidates make promises that are later broken and still believe the next guy that comes Martha along. Carr History seems to dicCagle Cartoons tate that if the candidate is young, relatively good looking and well-spoken we’ll lap up the platitudes even more and start repeating them as our own. We’ll even make posters splashing the pithy sayings across the bottom. But then reality comes around and the promise we hung our hopes on gets caught in the back of the politician’s throat with the usual explanations pouring out instead. The ones about a tough time or economic realities or that something has to be done. Granted, the economic collapse occurred after all of the promises to not raise taxes and America was staring down a

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Great Recession, which we fell into to varying degrees. Things happened that were so large they couldn’t be foretold or factored into the promises. However, it’s not a solution to finally getting better health care for the middle class by telling us to pay for it. If we could do that in greater numbers, we would be doing it already. We promise, cross our hearts, that we’re not holding out. And, it’s not what we elected the agents of change and hope for when they decided to bail out everyone else and leave the middle class way behind. It’s one thing to take on our share of the responsibility, which we’ve always done whether it was fighting the wars or rebuilding the economy. It’s quite another to expect the masses who get up every day and go to work without any promise of a golden parachute or stock options or even decent health care to rescue everyone else. This is the Obama administration’s chance to live up to all of the cool posters that just say, ‘Change’ and fulfill the promise. Raising taxes on the middle class is an obvious idea but it’s not a solution anymore. Think again. Martha Randolph Carr is the author of the novel, The Sitting Sisters. Martha can be found on Twitter at MarthaRandolph or email at Martha@ caglecartoons.com or visit www. martharandolphcarr.com.

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We’re nowhere near out of the woods on this festering economic downturn. Still, we welcome some encouraging signs that, to paraphrase Winston Churchill, if we haven’t reached the beginning of the end, we might at least be approaching the end of the beginning. Nationally, the government reported late last week that the economy, while still shrinking, was shrinking more slowly. In fact, the contraction in the economy in the second quarter of this year was only one percent, less than economists had projected and well under the six percent decline in the previous six months. In this environment, it is good news that things aren’t getting worse more quickly. Meanwhile, the “cash for clunkers” program seems to have exceeded the most ambitious hopes of its originators. Buyers are flooding auto showrooms which for months have been islands of loneliness, as customers have been eager to turn in their older, low-mileage cars and trucks for new, higher-mileage (and thus more environmentally friendly) vehicles with the government kicking in up to $4,500 off the purchase price. Locally, home sales numbers are beginning to see a revival, and auto dealers here, as elsewhere, are benefiting from the cash for clunkers bonanza. There are still plenty of clouds on the economic horizon. Jobs continue to vanish. Most economists predict that job creation, of utmost importance to the legions of the newly unemployed and the legions of young men and women entering the workforce for the first time, will be slow. The commercial real estate market, which sustained some viability longer than the residential market, is now struggling. Still, we welcome the glimmer of good news in the second-quarter economic activity report. Said Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moody’s Economy.com: “It sets the stage for a stronger recovery. The subsequent recovery will be modest, but better than I had thought before today’s numbers.” Here’s hoping he’s right. The Herald-Sun

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