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How dangerous can going to church be? By AL WHELESS Daily Dispatch Writer

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Starr Barbaro, a State crime specialist, speaks Thursday at Church Watch at South Henderson Pentacostal Holiness on Americal Road.

Basketball court tops Rec agenda

Some pastors, members of their congregations and other community leaders in Henderson got a dose of reality Thursday when they encountered Starr Barbaro. “I’m going to say some things that make some people angry today,” she said after being introduced. The head of the State’s Crime Prevention Unit gave the group which met at South Henderson Pentacostal Holiness Church a two-hour “overview” on how to avoid or minimize violence there or at other places of worship. “Make sure your law enforce-

State crime prevention chief helps local congregations under the risks ment officers are armed during church.” Barbaro was the guest speaker at Church Watch, a quarterly information program concerning numerous safety issues such as fire prevention, insurance, break-ins, larcenies and murder. This one was called “Securing The Faith-Based Community.” Besides displaying photos of known killers and details about their crimes, Barbaro conducted a running monologue consisting of facts, humor, anecdotes and challenges.

“Remember I said I was going to offend everybody. I’ve got a shooter for every reason, every purpose.” If a church has the potential for more than 250 casualties in the event of a bombing or some other unforeseen method of attack, Barbaro revealed, it is at high risk. Some of her statistics, such as the locations of shootings in churches between 1999 and 2008, were chilling: • Sanctuary — Eight instances or 38 percent.

• Offices — Three instances or 14 percent. • Parking Lot — Five instances or 24 percent. • Basement — One instance or 5 percent. • Temporary Church — Two instances or 10 percent. • Dormitory — One instance or 5 percent. • Other — Five instances or 24 percent. As for times of shootings during the same years: • During Service — Eight instances or 40 percent. • Before Service — Two instances or 10 percent. • After Service — Two in-

Remembering a fallen comrade

By WILLIAM F. WEST Daily Dispatch Writer

OXFORD — The Oxford City Commission’s Recreation Committee today is set to discuss a subject that was much talked about at the Aug. 11 full commission meeting: The Belle Street basketball court. The committee meeting will be at 9:30 a.m. in the mayor’s conference room of City Hall, which is located at 300 Williamsboro St. Commission committee meetings are open to the public. The full commission, in a 4-3 vote on Aug. 11, rejected a request by Mayor Pro Tem Howard Herring to prohibit parking on city grounds adjacent to the court in an attempt to stop loitering in vehicles by illegal drug dealers and in the aftermath of instances of disorder. Mayor Al Woodlief told Herring his idea was a Please see AGENDA, page 4A

Index Our Hometown . . . . . 2A Business & Farm. . . . 5A Opinion . . . . . . . . . . 12A Light Side . . . . . . . . 13A Sports. . . . . . . . . . 1-4B Comics . . . . . . . . . . . 5B Classifieds. . . . . . . 6-9B

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Deaths New York Cloe Benjamin, 93 Warrenton Emma Mason, 53

Obituaries, 4A

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Police to complete transition to VIPER By WILLIAM F. WEST Daily Dispatch Writer

The Henderson City Council earlier this week approved two financial amendments, with one of them being to create a budget for the Police Department to use $93,064 in federal Justice Department grant funding to complete a transition to having two-way radios compatible with the statewide VIPER system. Police Capt. Perry Twisdale said officers will AP Photo/Julie Jacobson be able to communicate more securely and without U.S. Marines listen to comments by commanding officers during a memorial service Thursday for Lance Cpl. Joshua Bernard having to overwork the at a forward operating base with Golf Company, 2nd Battalion, 3rd Regiment, 2nd MEB, 3rd MEF, in Now Zad in the Helmand Henderson-Vance County Province of Afghanistan. Bernard was killed in action during a Taliban ambush on Aug. 14. July and August have been the deadEmergency 911 system. liest months for U.S. forces in Afghanistan. See story, page 11A The Police Department’s new hookup went on the air on Aug. 17. Twisdale on Monday evening told the council that, “The coverage is times, times better than nated the vestiges of its school systems in recent Zullinger said the By EMERY P. DALESIO what we had with our local past (legal) discrimination years have not sought to 3,000-student district Associated Press Writer repeater and ensures that, to the extent practicable.” close desegregation cases wanted to close the case if we were needed by the Judge Terrence Boyle that are echoes of an earRALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — which periodically needed county, we could go anyagreed Thursday to sign lier generation. A federal judge is about to management attention where in the county now the order, Bertie County “The orders were dealclose the book on a 1967 and incurred legal fees. and our portables would ing with circumstances in civil rights lawsuit against schools superintendent “You’ve had this 40-year work and our car radios Chip Zullinger and atplace in the 1960s,” said the rural Bertie County drain on legal expenses,” would work.” torney Carolyn Waller Crowell, who has advised schools that dates back he said. “We actually could go as said. Boyle’s signed order several North Caroto the days of separate Officials at the state far as Raleigh and anyschools for black and white had not been filed with the lina districts on handling Department of Public where in the eastern part court clerk’s office Thursvestigial desegregation students, the school disInstruction nor the North of the state and talk back day. cases. “The reason a school Carolina School Boards trict’s superintendent and and forth,” Twisdale said. Michael Crowell, a district wouldn’t go to attorney said Thursday. Association say they don’t “Obviously, we don’t professor of public law at court (to close the case) is The school district and know how many of the make that a regular habit. the University of North the order’s old, it doesn’t the U.S. Justice Departstate’s more than 110 That’s just in case there’s Carolina School of Govern- say much about what the ment had earlier agreed school districts still operan emergency situation ment, suggested the move school system is currently on language declaring the where we have officers Please see SCHOOL, page 8A is a little unusual because doing.” school board had “elimifrom other agencies come here or vice versa,” with an example being an incident along Interstate 85, Twisdale said. Councilman Michael Infamily’s compound in For many, it was hard he loved about his home By STEVE LeBLANC scoe asked Twisdale asked Hyannis Port, along the to untangle Kennedy’s state and everything he Associated Press Writer whether a citizen would Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy larger-than-life role as was outside the Senate.” no longer be able to use a Greenway, past the John statesman from his role The motorcade started BOSTON — Sen. Edscanner to listen to what is F. Kennedy Federal Build- as neighbor and local its trip in Hyannis Port, at being said over the police ward M. Kennedy began ing and by the JFK stop on celebrity, whether he was the Cape Cod home where channel. his final journey Thursthe city’s subway system. taking a turn conducting Kennedy’s family held a day, first past landmark “For right now, if you Finally it came to the the Boston Pops or throwprivate Mass. Eighty-five after landmark bearing his want to buy a really expenJohn F. Kennedy Library ing out the first baseball Kennedy relatives traveled sive one, you can, but the family’s famous name and and Museum, where his pitch for the Red Sox. with the senator’s body to VHF/UHF scanners, no,” then to his slain brother’s body lay in repose. As “It was Teddy’s home the John F. Kennedy Lipresidential library where Twisdale said. “They canmany as 12,000 people team. It just seemed apbrary and Museum, where not scan on this.” mourners lined up by the waited in line to file past propriate to leave him the the Senate’s third-longestthousands to bid farewell “Well, I think that’s a his closed casket and cap,” said James Jenner, serving member will lie in good thing,” Inscoe said. to him and an American mark the end of a national 28, placing a Sox cap he repose. political dynasty. “And that was my point.” political chapter that was was wearing near the Among those accompaCrowds assembled The council in April apequal parts triumph and entrance to the library. “It along the 70-mile route Please see KENNEDY, page 4A Please see VIPER, page 8A tragedy. symbolizes everything that that snaked from the

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Mark It Down Today Health seminar — The registration deadline is today for a health seminar on Sept. 1 sponsored by Granville Health System on the topic “How do I know if there is something wrong with my heart?” The seminar will be held from 6-7 p.m. in Meeting Room 133 at Vance-Granville Community College’s South Campus in Creedmoor and the guest speaker will be Dr. L. Allen Kindman. A free dinner will be served. To make a reservation, call (919) 690-3447 or e-mail sgmealandmore@ graanvillemedical.com. Truck/tractor pull — The Vance County Fire & Rescue’s third annual National Truck & Tractor Pull will be held today and tomorrow at the Vance County Fairgrounds off U.S. 1 Bypass at N.C. 39. Admission for adults is $15; children 6 - 12, $5; under 5, free. Gates open at 4 p.m. For more information, call (919) 291-9501. Weight loss group — TOWN (Take Off Weight Now), a non-profit weight loss group, will meet at Aycock Recreation Center at 11:30 a.m. Everyone is invited to attend. Recreation Committee — The Oxford City Commission’s Recreation Committee will meet at 9:30 a.m. in the mayor’s conference room on the second floor of City Hall, 300 Williamsboro St. The committee will discuss the basketball court, a water splash park, summer activities for inner city youths and other items. Commission committee meetings are open to the public.

Saturday Back to School Bash — Crossroads Christian School’s Back to School Bash will be held from 10 a.m. until 4 p.m. Bring your family and friends. There will be many fun activities, games, food and fellowship. 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 8 a.m. to noon. 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 7 a.m. to noon.

Tuesday Black Caucus — The Henderson-Vance Black Caucus will hold a called meeting on election planning and action matters at 6 p.m. at the Elks Lodge, 326 W. Rockspring Street. Members are urged to attend. Parenting class — “Parenting Matters,” an eight-week parenting class for parents of any age child, will have its first meeting from 10 a.m. to noon at the Vance County Extension Center, 305 Young St. The teacher will be Anne Williams with Five County Mental Health. There is no charge to attend. For more information, call Williams at 430-3077 or Mary Helen Jones at 438-8188. Nutrition class — “Families Eating Smart and Moving More,” an eight-week series targeting families with children, will meet from noon to 1 p.m. at the Vance County Extension Center, 305 Young St. Extension nutrition assistant Arnetta Wilson will be the instructor. The class focuses on planning healthy meals, shopping carefully, family meal time, and moving for health. There is no charge. The class will also be held tomorrow at the same time and place. Call 438-8188 for more information. Kiwanis Club — The Kiwanis Club of Henderson meets at 6:30 p.m. at the Dabney Drive Restaurant on West Andrews Avenue. Gary Morgan, executive director of Gateway Development Corporation, will speak on the present vision of Henderson and the role Gateway Development Corporation will play in the future of Henderson and Vance County. Interested non-members may call Opie Frazier for reservations or membership information at 430-1111. Painting event — Art du Jour, 209 E. Nash St., Louisburg, will sponsor a “paint in” from 6-9 p.m. All area artists are welcome to join in the fun and camaraderie with fellow artists. Suggested donation fee is $5. For more information, please call Art du Jour at (919) 496-1650.

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Early College High School recognized The Vance County Early College High School is anticipating a successful school year in 2009-2010 for its 139 students after completing its first year of operation in the spring and being recognized as a North Carolina School of Distinction. The Early College High School has been recognized as one of the top high schools in the state with 85.8 percent of its 70 ninth graders scoring at or above grade level on state end-of-course tests in English I, Algebra I and Geometry taken in May. Principal Michael Bullard attributes the school’s early success to the hard work of the students and staff members. “We focus on student learning,” Bullard said. “If you have this in your school, the teaching will follow. A big difference for our school is that our students want to be here. They don’t miss school. Our teachers also really work well together. It’s a total team effort. The teachers coordinate their instruction from class to class and grade to grade.” The Vance County Early College High School is a grant-funded program, administered through the state, and is a partnership between Vance County Schools and Vance-Granville Community College. The school is located on the third floor of Building 2 on the main campus of the community college located in Vance County near Henderson. Eighth-grade students apply for admission to the school, which allows them during a five-year period to complete their high school education and a two-year college associate’s degree or two years of college credits to go on to a four-year college or university. All of the services are offered to them free of charge. The program already has proven to be a popular choice among Vance County students. With 70 spots available for the ninth-grade class, there were almost 300 applicants. Bullard admits that with the beginning of the school’s second year on Aug. 5, the challenges to continue student success are more difficult. He noted that now with 70 10th graders and 69 ninth graders enrolled in the high school, not only is the student population larger, but there are more academic standards for students to meet. There also are additional state endof-course tests in Algebra II and Civics & Economics. “Certainly, we’ll be challenged this year to see if our students can be as successful,” Bullard said. “Everyone will be looking at us to see if the great success we had last year was real. They want to see if we can build on the success in year two.”

Principal Michael Bullard talks with students about their classroom work at the Vance County Early College High School after the school was recognized as a North Carolina School of Distinction. Bullard said he and his faculty also are interested to see if their success can continue. He believes the mechanics and process are in place for the students to continue to do well academically. “Our students are not necessarily the top achievers,” he added. “Some of them are, but most are not. But, our students are ones who want to achieve. Their parents want to be involved.” The principal says he meets with each student and their parents after they are accepted for enrollment in the school. “I talk to them about what they need to do to be here. We all sign a contract and everyone knows what the expectations are. Quite simply, we don’t allow students to fail. If a student isn’t getting their work done in the classroom or doesn’t do well on a classroom test, the teacher works with them until they get it. We retest them on course work until they master the material.” The Early College setting, which exists in several other counties throughout the state, each year seeks 35 applicants from EatonJohnson Middle School and 35 applicants from Henderson Middle School. A new 70-student ninth grade will be added each year, so that in its fifth year of operation the high school will have full enrollment with 350 students. In the spring of 2013, it also will have its first graduating class. The purpose of the school is to serve mostly lowwealth students who have never had anyone in their family attend college. The Early College mission is to have its students be successful, receive their high school diploma and complete two years of college work so that they receive that degree or go on to receive a four-year college degree. “Every day, we are working toward our goals,” Bullard said. “We have

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a great partnership with Vance-Granville Community College. They are very supportive in providing us with facilities and with the college course work our students need.” Beth Brockhouse, a member of the staff at Vance-Granville Community College, serves as the college liaison to the Early College High School. While students are taking their high school core courses in English, mathematics, science and social studies from the seven teachers on the faculty, they also are taking two college courses each semester. The college courses are taught by members of the community college’s faculty. Most of the students are transported to and from the school by Vance County Schools’ school buses. Some are transported by car by family members. The students eat lunch in the student break room on the ground floor of the building. The lunches are prepared by the Child Nutrition staff in the cafeteria at nearby Dabney Elementary School and brought to the Early College. The school is establishing clubs for the

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sponsibility of locking it.â&#x20AC;? During her 15-year law enforcement career which included being a police officer â&#x20AC;&#x153;in the armpit of Broward County in Southern Florida,â&#x20AC;? Barbaro was taught how to pick the lock of a Saturn with a pair of scissors. â&#x20AC;&#x153;If I can learn how to steal a car, I can learn how to break into your church,â&#x20AC;? she said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We recommend dead-bolt locks. They are probably the most successful. A lock is only as good as how it is installed.â&#x20AC;? Churches tend to rely too heavily on alarms to signal that evil is afoot and not enough on other preventive measures, according to Barbaro. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t install an alarm system thinking it is going to solve all your burglary problems at night,â&#x20AC;? she cautioned. â&#x20AC;&#x153;You need to switch to wireless alarms so they canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t just cut the wires to deactivate them.â&#x20AC;? If the faithful inside a church canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t prevent an attack from occurring, Barbaro said, there are ways to reduce the number of people hurt or killed. She pointed out that the level of awareness among church leaders and the congregation is extremely important when it comes to considering what can go wrong. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Watch out for that eccentric person who you think is harmless and is just a little odd,â&#x20AC;? the speaker urged. â&#x20AC;&#x153;You really need to know who your ay yd r e Ev

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Deaths Cloe Benjamin NEW YORK — Cloe “Coppedge” Benjamin, 93, died Thursday, Aug. 20, 2009, in New York. Funeral services will be conducted at 11 a.m. Saturday at Boyd’s Funeral Service Chapel in Warrenton. The Rev. Douglas Harris, pastor, will officiate. Burial will follow in the family cemetery in Louisburg. She is survived by a sister, Lillie Florence Jackson of Frederick, Md.; and two brothers, Oscar Dee Coppedge of Newport News, Va., and Luther Coppedge of Raleigh. The body will be on view Friday from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. at Boyd’s Funeral Service Chapel in Warrenton. Arrangements are by Boyd’s Funeral Service of Warrenton.

Emma Mason WARRENTON — Emma Mason, 53, of 1558 Baltimore Road, Warrenton, died Friday, Aug. 21, 2009, at Duke University Medical Center in Durham. Funeral services will be conducted at 3 p.m. Saturday at Shocco Chapel Missionary Baptist Church by the Rev. Lennis Thorpe, pastor. Burial will follow in the church cemetery. She is survived by her husband, Vernon Mason of Hampton, Va.; her son, Myco Jamaal Foy of Danbury, Conn.; her mother, Mary Eaton of Warrenton; four sisters, Marie Mason, Frances Dowtin and Cartes Newell, all of Warrenton, and Gale Williams of Rochester, N.Y.; and three brothers, Marlee Hawley of Centerville, Garland Gordon of Warrenton and Rodger Gordon of Jackson, Tenn. The body will be on view Friday from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. at Boyd’s Funeral Service Chapel in Warrenton. Arrangements are by Boyd’s Funeral Service of Warrenton.

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KENNEDY, from page one nying Kennedy were nieces Caroline, daughter of former President John F. Kennedy, and Maria Shriver, daughter of his late sister Eunice; and his son Patrick Kennedy, a Rhode Island congressman. On Main Street in downtown Hyannis, flags, flowers and personal notes lay at the base of a flagpole outside the John F. Kennedy Museum, where about two dozen people gathered. Someone had placed an old Kennedy campaign sign with a new inscription: “God bless Ted, the last was first,” referring to his ascension to political greatness after his two older brothers were assassinated. Several enlarged photos showed events in Kennedy’s life — meeting with Martin Luther King Jr., reading to a school girl. A rosary hung over a picture of Kennedy standing in his office. Echoes of the Kennedy

history were hard to miss as the motorcade traveled through the city. Kennedy’s wife, Vicki, put her hand over her heart as the procession rolled down Hanover Street in the North End neighborhood, past St. Stephen’s Church, where his mother, Rose, was baptized and where Kennedy later eulogized her. The crowd applauded, and his niece Caroline and other family members acknowledged them with a wave from their cars. After leaving the church, the motorcade traveled across the Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Greenway created by the Big Dig highway project, which Kennedy helped shepherd through the Senate. The park occupies the same stretch of land once dominated by an elevated expressway named after John F. “Honey Fitz” Fitzgerald, Rose’s father and a patriarch of the Kennedy-Fitzgerald clan.

Kennedy’s motorcade then paused at Faneuil Hall, where the historic bell rang 47 times — once for each of Kennedy’s years in the Senate. From there the motorcade passed the Massachusetts Statehouse with its life-size statue of John F. Kennedy, which was accessible to tourists Thursday for the first time since just after the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks. There, too, onlookers watched silently, waiting for the motorcade to turn and pass 122 Bowdoin Street, where Kennedy opened his first office as an assistant district attorney and where John Kennedy lived while running for Congress in 1946. After passing by the John F. Kennedy Federal Building in the city’s Government Center complex, the motorcade headed to the library, where Kennedy’s body will remain until his Saturday funeral. Just before arriving at the

museum, the motorcade passed the JFK stop on the city’s subway system. The family planned an invitation-only private memorial service for Friday evening at the library. All the living presidents were expected to attend the funeral Mass on Saturday at Our Lady of Perpetual Help Basilica — commonly known as the Mission Church — in Boston’s working-class Mission Hill neighborhood. President Barack Obama is scheduled to deliver the eulogy. Shortly before the Mass, 44 sitting senators and 10 former senators will be among a group of about 100 dignitaries who will pay their respects to Kennedy at the library before making their way to the church. Included in the group is former Sen. Birch Bayh of Indiana, who pulled Kennedy from the wreckage of a small plane that crashed near Springfield, Massachusetts, in June 1964. The

pilot and a legislative aide were killed, and Kennedy suffered a broken back that caused him pain the rest of his life. “The Impossible Dream,” Kennedy’s favorite song, from the musical “Man of La Mancha,” will be played at one of the services, according to the person familiar with the arrangements. The city may soon have one more Kennedy landmark. Planning is already under way for a building to house a new Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the Senate. Kennedy will be buried Saturday evening near his assassinated brothers — former President Kennedy and former Sen. Robert F. Kennedy — at Arlington National Cemetery in northern Virginia.

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Officers found what appeared to be drugs on the ground in the area of the court, along with approximately 15-20 empty plastic bag corners used to sell drugs and spread around the court. The committee at today’s meeting additionally is scheduled to discuss having a water splash park and to discuss summer activities for inner city youths. The committee at the Aug. 3 committee meeting discussed a splash park, but did not take any action. The county has a new water spray park at the countymaintained athletic park off Belltown Road near the Interstate 85/U.S. 15 interchange southwest of Oxford.

The cost was $126,000, with the county having saved $5,000 by reducing the size of the project from 2,800 to 2,000 square feet. During the Aug. 3 committee meeting, City Recreation Director Mary Caudle reiterated her belief that the minimum cost for a city splash park would be $100,000. The committee on June 17 agreed to work toward having a water splash park, but emphasized there will be additional intentions of moving in the future toward having a swimming pool as part of what will be a developing recreational facility.

Associated Press writers Ray Henry in Hyannis Port and Denise Lavoie, Jeannie Nuss and Russell Contreras in Boston contributed to this report.

REC, from page one good one, but needed simplifying and to be worked out with the Police Department. Specifically, Woodlief said he believed City Manager Mark Donham and Chief John Wolford needed “to discuss the ramifications of cars parking too long — and if they suspect something, get ‘em moving.” Committee Chairman Steve Powell at the Aug. 11 meeting, as he had at the Aug. 3 committee meeting, continued to emphasize the argument he made about a need for monitoring by adult volunteers. Herring at the Aug. 11 meeting recommended the commission ban parking from 1 p.m.-7 a.m., which would be timed to follow the noon closure of the adjacent Area Congregations in Ministry (ACIM) building. And Herring recommended that parking from 1-7 be

restricted to governmental employees. The parking off Belle Street is adjacent to ACIM, City Hall and the Granville County Economic Development Commission. During the Aug. 11 meeting, a police detective, Jason Tingen, said he and fellow officers had found illegal narcotics on persons and around vehicles parked in that area and said those driving up were from outside Oxford. “They’re from Henderson,” Tingen said. Tingen said the Police Department has been closing the court at dusk and said Wolford issued a memorandum saying the court is to be closed at 7 p.m., but Commissioner Chance Wilkinson said there were times where he saw the court was not locked after hours. The court was opened in

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U.S. awash in natural gas; prices hit new 7-year lows By CHRIS KAHN AP Energy Writer

NEW YORK — Natural gas prices slumped to their lowest level in seven years Thursday after the U.S. government reported that salt caverns, aquifers and other underground storage areas are filling up. Levels of natural gas, a key energy source for power plants around the country, has been building because power-intense industries, like manufacturing, have cut back severely on production. Natural gas tumbled 4.5 cents to $2.865 per 1,000 cubic feet. The price dropped as low as $2.692 per 1,000 cubic feet earlier in the day, a price not seen since Aug. 7, 2002. The contract is scheduled to end Thursday, however, and most of the trading already has switched to the October contract that gave up 4.6 cents to trade at $3.248. Meanwhile, crude and gasoline futures were tugged higher as equities markets rose and the dollar fell among other major currencies.

Benchmark crude for October delivery added $1.06 to settle at $72.49 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange. Still, oil prices have been tumbling since they touched $75 a barrel on Tuesday, and analysts said they expect it will fall further as the summer driving season ends in a few weeks. Retail gas prices peaked in late June at around $2.69 per gallon and have been falling slowly since, giving consumers a bit of a break in the tough economy. Gas prices gave up twotenths of a penny to $2.62 a gallon, according to auto club AAA, Wright Express and Oil Price Information Service. A gallon of regular gasoline is 11.5 cents more expensive than last month, but it’s $1.047 cheaper than the same time last year. Oil remains above $70, largely because it is bought in the U.S. dollar. That means when the dollar falls, like it did Thursday, investors can get more crude for less money. Crude supplies grow this week, however,

and they remain well above seasonal norms. “It’s getting harder and harder to justify it at these prices,” PFGBest analyst Phil Flynn said. Natural gas prices plunged early in the day when the Energy Information Administration reported that natural gas placed into storage surged again. There is so much natural gas in storage, it has begun to test the country’s storage capacity. But EIA economist Jose Villar told The Associated Press that storage facilities have added about 100 billion cubic feet of extra space, giving suppliers more places to put it. The EIA will include details of the added capacity in a report to be published in the next few weeks, Villar said. In other Nymex trading, gasoline for September delivery increased 1.49 cents to $1.9975 a gallon and heating oil added less than a penny to $1.8615 a gallon. In London, Brent crude climbed 49 cents to $72.14.

FTC addresses ‘robocall’ annoyance By DEBORAH YAO AP Business Writer

Americans tired of having their dinners interrupted by phone calls touting car warranties or vacation packages will soon get some relief. The Federal Trade Commission said Thursday it is banning many types of prerecorded telemarketing solicitations, known as robocalls. Currently, consumers must specifically join a do-not-call list to avoid them. Starting Sept. 1, telemarketers will first need written permission from the customer to make such calls. Violators will face penalties of up to $16,000 per call. Don’t expect phone solicitations to disappear completely, though. Calls that are not trying to sell goods and services to consumers will be exempt, such as those that provide

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A DAY ON WALL STREET August 27, 2009

Dow Jones industrials +37.11 9,580.63

Pct. change from previous: +0.39%

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MARKET ROUNDUP 082709: Market urrencies etals charts show Dow, S&P 500, and Nasdaq; stand-alone; 2c x 4 1/2 inches; 96 mm x 114 mm; staff Aluminum -$0.8650 per lb., N.Y. Merc spot NEW YORK (AP) — Key currency exEditors: 5:25:08 PM EST change rates Thursday: All figures as of: Thu. close; Coppermay -$2.8888 Cathode full plate, U.S. NOTE: Figures reflect market fluctuations after not match other AP content Dollar vs: ExchgRate PvsDay destinations. Copper $2.8455 N.Y. Merc spot Thu. Yen 93.45 94.20 Lead - $2057.00 metric ton, London Metal Euro $1.4371 $1.4240 Exch. Pound $1.6285 $1.6239 Zinc - $0.8547 per lb., delivered. Swiss franc 1.0575 1.0687 Gold - $943.00 Handy & Harman (only daily Canadian dollar 1.0842 1.0984 quote). Mexican peso 13.2255 13.1615 Gold - $945.50 troy oz., NY Merc spot Thu. Silver - $14.205 Handy & Harman (only Metal Price PvsDay NY Merc Gold $945.50 $944.30 daily quote). Silver - $14.216 troy oz., N.-. Merc spot Thu. NY HSBC Bank US $947.50 $945.00 NY Merc Silver $14.216 $14.251 Mercury - $640.00 per 76 lb flask, N.Y. Platinum -$1244.00 troy oz., N.Y. (contract). Nonferrous Platinum -$1240.50 troy oz., N.Y. Merc spot NEW YORK (AP) — Spot nonferrous metal Thu. prices Thursday: n.q.-not quoted, n.a.-not available r-revised

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Fed Chairman Bernanke, wife victims of identity theft scheme By BRETT ZONGKER Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON (AP) — An elaborate identity theft scheme has reached the highest levels of the U.S. financial system, striking the personal bank account of Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke and his wife. According to a D.C. police report, Anna Bernanke’s purse was stolen last August from her chair at a Capitol Hill Starbucks. It contained her Social Security card, checkbook and IDs. From there, the Bernankes’ checking account was swept up into a larger

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N.C. neo-Nazi conference prompts protest

RALEIGH (AP) — A 17-year-old who said a North Carolina state senator gave him money for a home is facing two charges, including one that accuses him of setting that house on fire. The State Bureau of Investigation said 18-year-old Allen Wayne Strickland was arrested Thursday and charged with fraudulent burning of a building and attempting to obtain property by false pretense. SBI spokeswoman Noelle Talley said the charges stem from a July 29 incident at Strickland’s home in Tabor City. He was released from the Columbus County jail on $100,000 bond. Strickland has told reporters that state Sen. R.C. Soles provided him with money for the home, and Soles said he’s also helped the teenager by giving him money for clothing and education. An officer at the jail said Strickland doesn’t have an attorney.

STATESVILLE (AP) — Authorities say two men posing as IRS agents convinced neighbors to help them burglarize a North Carolina home. WCNC-TV of Charlotte reported that Statesville police said the men broke into the home earlier this month, telling neighbors the house had been foreclosed and they were repossessing all the property. The men said all the items in the house had to go and they told neighbors to “come help themselves.” Police said more than half a dozen neighbors made off with property in the home, while the two robbers stole a trailer from the backyard, hitched it to their sport utility vehicle and loaded it with a lawn mower, a hand gun and other items. Police were notified several hours after the robbers left. Neighbors returned most of the stolen items.

GREENSBORO (AP) — A neo-Nazi group is hosting a regional conference in North Carolina and many Greensboro residents are protesting. The News & Record of Greensboro reported Thursday that churches are organizing a ribbon campaign to protest the National Socialist Movement’s regional 2009 meeting Saturday. Places of worship will hand out ribbons in support of diversity, rather than organizing an open protest. The National Socialist Movement plans to host its regional party business meeting at an undisclosed location. On its Web site the group bills itself as the largest and most active of its kind. The Movement says its core beliefs include the promotion of white separation and the preservation of European culture and heritage. Messages left for the group were not returned.

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Hagan willing to consider health co-op alternative By MIKE BAKER Associated Press Writer

RALEIGH — North Carolina Sen. Kay Hagan said Thursday she is willing to consider health care co-ops as an alternative to a government-backed public option, signaling that she’s receptive to some of the same compromises as her GOP counterpart. Hagan said in an interview with The Associated Press Hagan that she continues to support a plan to provide a government alternative to private insurance. But the freshman Democrat said a co-op may also have benefits, noting that it could be more agile if offered on a state or regional level. “The states can respond quicker to citizens versus, in many cases, the federal government,” Hagan said. “So I would be open to looking at a co-op plan.”

The comments could prove a source of middle ground for Hagan and fellow North Carolina Sen. Richard Burr, a Republican who has been adamantly opposed to more government involvement in health care. Burr has also said that he would consider a co-op plan, so long as it covers all Americans, stresses prevention and doesn’t increase taxes. Both lawmakers stressed that they haven’t seen any specific proposals on what the co-op plans would look like. The plans are generally designed as nonprofit, member-run systems for providing insurance. The White House has pushed for a governmentrun health insurance option, but the administration seemed to back off the idea in recent weeks, suggesting that it wasn’t the key component of the overhaul. Hagan continued Thursday to promote the government-backed public option that she voted for

in her health committee before returning to North Carolina for the August recess. She wants it to come with a variety of other changes: incentives to get students into primary care, rules to prevent insurance companies from denying coverage for those with pre-existing conditions, a focus on wellness and prevention, and the adoption of electronic medical records. She insisted that the private market would remain vibrant despite the newfound competition. She has insisted that any government-backed option have the same solvency rules so that private insurers can still keep pace. “If I know the marketplace, the market is going to figure this out,” she said. “That’s why I’ve never been in support of a singlepayer system. I don’t think we ought to put private industry out of business. I strongly believe in competition and a strong market,” she said.

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â&#x20AC;˘ Kevin Cheatham, 36, of 4480 Old Watkins Road reported Aug. 26 the theft from the residence of a Dell laptop computer valued at $500 and a Remington 1100 auto with wood stock valued at $250. â&#x20AC;˘ Palm Harbor Homes Inc. of 2000 Sterling Road, Albermarle, reported Aug. 26 the thft from 4955

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Property Damage â&#x20AC;˘ Rashad Hauter, 23, of 1438 Nicholas St. reported Aug. 26 that an LCD screen and money receiver were damaged at the car wash at 585 Bear Pond Road. Damage estimated at $1,000.

Ex-copâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s training paid off in California heists SANTA ROSA, Calif. â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Police say a former Santa Rosa officer used his law enforcement experience to pull off four armored car holdups in Sonoma and Marin counties. Robert Stephen Starling was charged Wednesday with armed robbery and

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Arrests â&#x20AC;˘ Wanda Evette Owens, 34, of 115 S. Clark St. was arrested Aug. 26. Order for arrest/failure to appear. Bond was set at $700. Court dte Sept. 10. â&#x20AC;˘ Lahmad Kingsberry, 29, of 728 Southerland St. was arrested Aug. 26. Order for arrest/ failure to appear. Bond was set at $166. Court date Sept. 22. â&#x20AC;˘ Daryl Bernard Williams, 20, address unknown, was arrested Aug. 26. Order for arrests/failure to appear. Bond wa set at $30,000. Court date Sept. 1. â&#x20AC;˘ Stacy Williams, 28, of 920 David St. was arrested Aug. 26. Failure to appear/driving while license revoked. Bond was set at $2,000. Court date Sept. 11.

an armored car carrier. Sgt. Steve Fraga says investigators had suspected the robbers had law enforcement training because they placed Breaking & Entering bogus crime calls before holdups to divert police. â&#x20AC;˘ Alice Yarborough, 43, of Starling is being held on 200A Wester Ave. reported Aug. $1 million bail and has not 27 the theft of a refrigerator entered a plea. valued at $800, a safe valued at

values not listed. â&#x20AC;˘ Verreatha Barnett, 59, of 125 Sycamore St., Oxford, reported Aug 26 the theft of $300 from her purse at a business at 1549 Dabney Drive. â&#x20AC;˘ Sharal Thompson, 29, of 871 Lamb St. reported Aug. 26 the theft from the residence of a Jimenez 22LR semiautomic pistol valued at $200.

$30 and an amount of cash. According to the report, a suspect broke into the residence with the use of a firearm.

Larceny â&#x20AC;˘ Safety Kleen Systems, 125 Sommerville Park Road, Raleigh, reported Aug. 26, the theft from 1421 E. Andrews Ave. of the following items and their values: Dell laptop computer, $1,500; cell phone, $100; wallet, $50; Black & Decker 18-volt battery charger, $85; cell phone charger, $60; State Employees Credit Union debit card and credit card,

Stolen Vehicle â&#x20AC;˘ Mangone Silver, 27, of 628 East Ave. reported Aug. 26, the theft of a 1990 Oldsmobile 98 valued at $500.

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Sheriff sentenced for helping drug cartel By CHRISTOPHER SHERMAN Associated Press Writer

McALLEN, Texas — A former Texas sheriff was sentenced to more than five years in federal prison Thursday for helping Mexican smugglers move drugs through his county on the U.S.-Mexico border in exchange for thousands of dollars in bribes. U.S. Dis- Guerra trict Judge Randy Crane sentenced former Starr County Sheriff Reymundo “Rey” Guerra to 64 months in prison and four years of supervised release. The sentence was less than the eight to 10 years recommended under federal sentencing guide-

lines, but Guerra admitted his guilt early and cooperated with authorities, Crane said. FBI agents arrested Guerra at his office in October. Prosecutors termed Guerra a “minor participant” in a drug trafficking conspiracy busted by operation “Carlito’s Weigh.” Twenty-eight people have been indicted so far in the investigation stretching from South Texas to Houston and into Mexico. Prosecutors say Guerra made it easier for people tied to the Gulf Cartel to move drugs into the United States and, at least once, intervened in one of his own department’s investigations to try to throw deputies off. He pleaded guilty in May to conspiring to distribute narcotics. Guerra apologized to his

family, community and “to the men and women who wear the badge. I’m sorry I let them down.” Crane told Guerra that “it’s a stain on the badge when somebody in your high position engages in organized crime like this.” “For really pennies, nickels, you were influenced by these people,” the judge said. Guerra received one payment of $3,000 and several more payments of $3,000 to $5,000, but authorities aren’t sure how much he actually earned in bribes. Since late 2006, more than 80 law enforcement officers working on the border at the local, state and federal level have been convicted of corruption-related charges, according to an Associated Press tally.

VIPER, from page one plied for the grant, which was accepted in June. The amount was $141,946, with $48,882 going to the county. Twisdale said he believes the Sheriff’s Department and the firefighters are working on migrating toward the VIPER system. VIPER stands for Voice Interoperability Plan for Emergency Responders. VIPER is an outgrowth

of efforts throughout North Carolina to put emergency and law enforcement agencies on a more uniform radio network and avoid the kind of communication breakdowns experienced on Sept. 11, 2001, at the World Trade Center. The council moments earlier on Monday evening quickly approved a financial amendment to transfer $9,500 from asset forfeiture

room race barrier, a federal judge agreed the following year, and in 1969 the school board adopted a plan bringing students of both races into common buildings. The case was dormant for most of the next three decades until 2001, when the Justice Department reported that an elementary school in a white neighborhood had a disproportion-

Ash Mountain Helitack Supervisor Carrie Vernon attaches hazardous material equipment to a helicopter for pesticide removal Thursday at a marijuana grow site near Crystal Cave at Sequoia National Park, Calif. Authorities said the proximity of the pot plants to such a heavily trafficked tourist site was unusual and reflects a newfound boldness among growers, who are now planting marijuana near trails and access roads at an increasing number of parks.

Tourists at national park rerouted due to pot garden By GARANCE BURKE

funds so the Police Department could spend $5,000 to purchase five .45-caliber semi-automatic pistols and ammunition and could spend $4,500 for canine supplies. The department had planned to spend the money the last fiscal year, but the orders were not completed in time. Contact the writer at bwest@ hendersondispatch.com.

SCHOOL, from page one ate under federal desegregation oversight. Bertie, which is about 60 percent black, operated two school systems for a decade after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in 1954 in the Brown vs. Board of Education case that segregating students by race was unconstitutional. The Justice Department went to court in 1967 to dissolve the class-

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ate percentage of white students. In 2006, the school board agreed to close the school, shutter a second elementary school that had been historically black but had only about 80 students, and redraw school attendance zones. The remaining four elementary schools enrolled an average of 84 percent black students last year.

Associated Press Writer SEQUOIA NATIONAL PARK, Calif. (AP) — A section of this Sierra Nevada national park was closed to visitors Thursday while rangers helicoptered in to destroy a sizable marijuana growing operation just a half-mile away from a crystal-filled cave popular with tourists. Authorities said the proximity of the pot plants to such a heavily trafficked tourist site was unusual and reflects a newfound boldness among growers, who are now planting marijuana near trails and access roads at an increasing number of parks. “We’ve really seen an expansion of the types of sites where people are growing marijuana,” said Scott Wanek, chief ranger for the Pacific West region of the National Park Service. “There are some that are very close to trails and much closer to where visitors are.”

The National Park Service received an additional $3.3 million this year to combat marijuana growers across the nation, said Jeff Olson, a spokesman for the park service. Yosemite, Kings Canyon, Redwood and Sequoia national parks in California and North Cascades National Park in Washington are among the recipients of the funding. In Sequoia National Park on Thursday, rangers lowered down on ropes from a helicopter into Yucca Creek Canyon to investigate at least four grow sites. There, among the oaks and conifers, they found trash, propane tanks and miles of hose to irrigate the pot plants, law enforcement officials said. About three-quarters of the marijuana already had been harvested. Authorities said the value of the pot plants grown at the site, including what was already harvested, was at least $20 million. “The real tragedy about

this is that visitors won’t have access to an attraction some have traveled hundreds of miles to see,” said Adrienne Freeman, a spokeswoman for the park. “And what’s worse, this pot has been growing next to a sensitive area where there are dozens of species at risk that are only in this park.” While the park is best known for its giant sequoia trees, the caves contain hundreds of unique species, at least a couple of dozen of which were discovered over the last few years. Some visitors to the park Thursday said they were disappointed at the caves’ closure. “I’m fine with the trees, but I really wanted to see the caves,” said Beth Fritsch, 41, who traveled to the park from Olney, Maryland. It was the first time Sequoia National Park had shut down a public exhibit for a drug bust. Park officials say they will lose about $50,000 in revenue from ticket sales.

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Man charged in ID thefts in plea talks By DEVLIN BARRETT and TAMARA LUSH Associated Press Writers

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A fire broke out Thursday at Sterling Services in Hamtramck, Mich., sending flames and black smoke hundreds of feet into the air.

Fire tears through fuel storage plant in Mich. By COREY WILLIAMS Associated Press Writer

HAMTRAMCK, Mich. — A fire that started Thursday near a rail tanker car at a chemical plant spread quickly to silos holding gasoline, causing an inferno that sent huge plumes of black smoke billowing into the sky above Detroit and forcing the evacuation of hundreds of people from the area. The fire at the Sterling Services Ltd. plant in Hamtramck broke out at about 11:30 a.m., and city officials quickly called in help from the Detroit and Highland Park fire departments. Hamtramck is surrounded by Detroit. An evacuation order was lifted at mid-afternoon as firefighters worked to put out remaining hot spots. The company stores gasoline, jet fuel and biofuels at the plant, so authorities evacuated residents from about a half-mile area around the fire, said Kevin Kondrat, executive director of the Hamtramck Housing Commission. That included a nearby complex of 36 buildings containing 300 apartments and some 700 to 800 residents, though Kondrat said not all were home at the time of the blaze. There were no injuries reported, City Manager Bill Cooper said. He said it wasn’t known

what caused the spark. Amtrak passenger rail service was suspended between Pontiac and Detroit, about 20 miles apart. Amtrak spokesman Marc Magliari said passengers will be shuttled between the cities by charter bus. An evacuation center was set up at a nearby senior center, Kondrat said, with water available for evacuees. About 75 people were there about 4 p.m., shortly after the evacuation order was lifted. The plant is in an industrial area with several small factories, and workers from nearby businesses paused to watch the blaze. Robert McCann, a spokesman for the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality, said Sterling Services Ltd. has no history of violations with the state. The company is registered as a bulk petroleum facility that stores large quantities of gasoline or other fuels, he said. State or federal environmental officials will monitor air quality at the scene, McCann said. Sterling Services is a subsidiary of Southfield-based Sterling Oil & Chemical Co. Inc., according to a company Web site. The Hamtramck facility is on more than five acres and has a storage capacity of about 5 million gallons.

MIAMI (AP) — An accused computer hacker charged with stealing millions of credit and debit card numbers has been negotiating a plea deal with the federal government, people close to the case said Thursday. Albert Gonzalez, who once helped the U.S. Secret Service hunt hackers, has been weighing a deal to plead guilty on two of the three cases against him, two people told The Associated Press. They spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the plea talks. Gonzalez, 28, is charged with swiping the details of more than 170 million accounts in what prosecutors call the largest cases of identity theft in U.S. history. Gonzalez’ lawyer, Rene Palomino Jr. of Miami, said that he is “intending to finalize the case as early as Friday.” The two sides are working on a plea that would resolve charges filed against Gonzalez in New York and Boston. When the Boston charges were filed last year, prosecutors called it the largest single corporate

Accused claims a computer addiction identity theft ever: stealing the details of some 40 million accounts. Yet even after he was jailed, authorities continued to unravel his alleged scams. Earlier this month, federal prosecutors in New Jersey filed new charges against Gonzalez, accusing him of a separate identity theft swindle that dwarfed the others: some 130 million customer accounts. Gonzalez was arrested in 2003 for hacking but not charged because authorities said he became a Secret Service informant. Over the next five years, authorities said, Gonzalez continued to hack into the computer systems of Fortune 500 companies even while providing assistance to the government. A judge allowed him to move from New Jersey back to Florida in 2004, and court documents alleged that Gonzalez hacked into the national restaurant chain Dave & Buster’s. He was arrested again in 2008 in Miami, as he was staying at a luxury hotel on the beach. Officials said Gonzalez devised

a sophisticated attack to penetrate computer networks, steal credit and debit card data, and send that information to computer servers in California, Illinois, Latvia, the Netherlands and Ukraine. Prosecutors allege Gonzalez was the ringleader of hackers in the first round of stealing 40 million credit card numbers from retailers like T.J. Maxx, Barnes & Noble, Sports Authority and OfficeMax. One of their techniques apparently involved “wardriving,” or cruising through different areas with a laptop computer and looking for retailers’ accessible wireless Internet signals. Once they located a vulnerable network, the hackers installed “sniffer programs” that captured credit and debit card numbers as they moved through a retailer’s processing computers — then tried to sell the data. In the latest charges against Gonzalez, authorities said he and two Russian conspirators used a different technique to hack into corporate networks and secretly place “malware,” or malicious software, that would allow them backdoor access to the networks to steal data later. Palomino, his defense lawyer, has said his client had a computer addiction.

News Briefs Shaq gets ticket for stopping on Hollywood street LOS ANGELES (AP) — Basketball player Shaquille O’Neal has gotten a ticket in Hollywood for stopping his car in the street. Los Angeles police Officer April Harding says officers spotted O’Neal’s dark blue Ford F-350 pickup truck on a street shortly before 2 a.m. Thursday. Harding says O’Neal was talking to some people. There are several nightclubs in the area. O’Neal was cited for impeding the reasonable movement of traffic and allowed to drive off. The Cleveland Cavaliers acquired O’Neal from the Phoenix Suns in June, but the former Los Angeles

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Researchers: Ocean trash possibly killing fish, birds SAN DIEGO (AP) — Researchers say a Texassized garbage patch in the Pacific Ocean is possibly killing marine life and birds that are ingesting the trash. Scientists at Scripps Institution of Oceanography on Thursday announced findings from an August expedition to the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, about 1,000 miles west of California. The patch is a vortex formed by ocean currents and collects human-produced trash.

Among researchers’ findings were confetti-like plastic shards and barnacles clinging to water bottles. The scientists say they will analyze the trash to determine the density of the patch and its consequences for sea creatures. They worry marine life is dying from ingesting plastic, which does not biodegrade but breaks into small pieces.

N.J. woman’s death leads to neglect charge for mom GARWOOD, N.J. (AP) — New Jersey authorities say a woman is to blame for years of neglect that led to her adult daughter’s death from malnutrition.

Ermina Errico was booked Thursday on a third-degree neglect charge in the death of 25-year-old Emily Errico. She was released on her own recognizance. Union County Prosecutor Theodore Romankow says Emily Errico was 97 pounds when she died in 2007 at her parents’ home. The prosecutor says an investigation revealed her mother controlled the amount of food her daughter ate, forced her to wear trash bags and never allowed to leave the house. Errico’s attorney did not return a message seeking comment Thursday. A man responding to a knock on the door of the family’s house did not answer questions.

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Blueprints of Auschwitz death Poland marks 65th anniversary camp given to Israeli leader of deportations of Lodz Jews By DAVID RISING Associated Press Writer

BERLIN â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Architectural plans for the Auschwitz death camp that were discovered in Berlin last year were handed over to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday for display at Israelâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Holocaust memorial. The 29 sketches of the death camp built in Nazioccupied Poland date as far back as 1941. They include detailed blueprints for living barracks, delousing facilities and crematoria, including gas chambers, and are considered important for understanding the genesis of the Nazi genocide. The sketches are initialed by the head of the SS, Heinrich Himmler, and Auschwitz commandant Rudolf Hoess. â&#x20AC;&#x153;There are those who deny that the Holocaust happened,â&#x20AC;? Netanyahu said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Let them come to Jerusalem and look at these plans, these plans for the factory of death.â&#x20AC;? The Axel Springer Verlag, publisher of the mass circulation Bild newspaper, obtained the plans from a private person who said he found them when cleaning out a flat in what was formerly East Berlin. The company and Germanyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s federal archive have confirmed blueprintsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; authenticity. But the publisher said the numbering found on the backs of the plans indicate they may have been taken from an archive, possibly the collection of documents on the Third Reich kept by the East German secret service, the Stasi. Axel Springer Verlag said several other documents from the same archive had surfaced after the 1989 fall of the Berlin Wall. Bild editor Kai Diekmann told Netanyahu and Avner Shalev, the chairman of Israelâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Holocaust memorial Yad Vashem, decided to give them the sketches because they wanted to ensure that as many people as possible could see them. â&#x20AC;&#x153;These plans have an important function â&#x20AC;&#x201D; they remind us of a crime that, with the passing of time, seems ever more incomprehensible,â&#x20AC;? Diekmann said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It is of the utmost importance to continue to be reminded of it.â&#x20AC;? While they are not the only original Auschwitz blueprints that still exist â&#x20AC;&#x201D; others were captured by the Soviet Red Army and brought back to Moscow â&#x20AC;&#x201D; they will be the first for Israelâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Yad Vashem memorial, its chairman told The Associated Press. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This set is a very early one, which was found here in Berlin, from the autumn of â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;41,â&#x20AC;? Shalev said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It brings a better understanding of the whole process, and the intention of the planners of the complex, and from this perspective it is important.â&#x20AC;? Shalev said the sketches will be on display at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem beginning Jan. 27, 2010, as part of a special exhibit marking the 65th anni-

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LODZ, Poland â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Aged Holocaust survivors commemorated the 65th anniversary of the last deportations from the Lodz ghetto to Nazi death camps on Thursday, and Polandâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s president recalled their suffering and praised Poles who risked their lives to save Jews. President Lech Kaczynski dedicated a memorial incorporating a Polish eagle into a Star of David to remember Polish Christians who rescued Jewish neighbors during the World War II occupation of Poland by Nazi Germany. Lodz was the secondlargest city in prewar Poland, after Warsaw, and AP Photo/Rainer Jensen, Pool home to the second-largest Jewish population, with 231,000 Jews representing Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, and â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Bildâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; newspaper chief editor, Kai Diekmann look Thursday at origi- more than one-third of the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s population. nal blueprints of the Nazi concentration camp in Auschwitz, â&#x20AC;&#x153;The liquidation of the Poland, in Berlin. Lodz ghetto, the murder of Hundreds of thousands versary of the liberation of some 70,000 people, was the of Jews had already been Auschwitz. last act in the annihilation murdered by the time 15 The blueprints include of Polandâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Jews, who have civil servants, SS and party lived here at least since the general plans for the officials met at Wannsee. original Auschwitz camp It is now believed by many and the expansion of the that Reinhard Heydrich, Auschwitz-Birkenau camp, the Nazi Security Service where most of the killings and Security Police head, were carried out. CARACAS, Venezuela called the meeting to make More than 1 million (AP) â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Venezuelan soldiers sure everybody knew what people, mostly Jews, died have destroyed four cocaine Hitler wanted done and to in the gas chambers or labs near the countryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s borestablish SS oversight of through forced labor, der with Colombia. Justice the process. disease or starvation at the Minister Tareck El Aissami Shalev said the bluecamp, which the Nazis built says troops in western Zulia prints showing that the after occupying Poland. state also seized 660 pounds construction of Auschwitz Netanyahu is in Berlin was already being planned of cocaine and 880 pounds of for meetings with German in 1941 help to reinforce Chancellor Angela Merkel, that argument. Foreign Minister Frankâ&#x20AC;&#x153;The Wannsee conference Walter Steinmeier and ... was a kind of coordinaother officials. SAO PAULO (AP) â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Talk tion,â&#x20AC;? Shalev said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The proLater, the Israeli leader about making a stink. is scheduled to visit a house cess of the Final Solution A grenade-shaped bottle started to be implemented a on Berlinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Wannsee lake left under a busy bridge few months before it, so the that was the site of the plans that were found from closed a major thoroughfare Jan. 20, 1942 â&#x20AC;&#x153;Wannsee late â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;41 are more evidence.â&#x20AC;? and brought police to investiConferenceâ&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x201D; a watergate â&#x20AC;&#x201D; only to discover that A large yellowed plan, shed in Nazi policy against it contained French cologne. dated April 30, 1942 and Europeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Jews. The black bottle of Arsenal titled â&#x20AC;&#x153;general building The building now houses cologne by the design house a museum documenting the plan concentration camp of Gilles Cantuel looked realHolocaust and the notorious Auschwitzâ&#x20AC;? provides a wider view, showing the meeting, which was once Contact our barracks but also roads, thought to be when the NaCLASSIFIED DEPT. zis decided to stop deporting other buildings and the outlying area. and randomly killing Jews about placing Another drawing dated and instead to industrialize Happy Ads Oct. 14, 1941, shows the their murder. for that special Though debate continues, plans for construction of a someone â&#x20AC;&#x153;Waffen SS prisoner of war most historians now agree 436-2810 the decision was made some campâ&#x20AC;? with rows of what appear to be barracks. A months earlier â&#x20AC;&#x201D; by Adolf Hitler himself, even though notation in the bottom right says it was drafted by a no written order from him prisoner, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Nr. 471.â&#x20AC;? has ever been found.

12th century,â&#x20AC;? Kaczynski told a crowd of hundreds, many who had come from as far as Los Angeles and Israel. Thursdayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s commemorations began at the brown wooden Radegast train station, where about 145,000 Jews began their final journey to Nazi death camps. Wooden cattle cars with flaking rust-colored paint, still stamped with the Nazi-era â&#x20AC;&#x153;Deutsche Reichsbahn,â&#x20AC;? sit in the station as grim reminders of the death trains. The survivors, many accompanied by grown children, then marched one mile to Survivorsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Park, where the president unveiled the memorial: a concrete eagle, Polandâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s national symbol, on a pedestal that forms one corner in a giant Star of David. The starâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s edges are inscribed with the names of the Poles who saved Jews from extermination. Lodz Mayor Jerzy Kropiwnicki stressed the role played by non-Jewish Poles who hid Jews or smuggled them to safety. He noted that it was not only those

caught directly aiding Jews who faced death, but their families as well. In recent years, Polish officials have sought to honor such people as part of an effort led by Kaczynski to dispel the stereotype that Poland was a deeply antiSemitic country. Thomas Blatt, 82, a survivor of the Sobibor death camp, said he welcomed efforts to honor such Poles, and considers any person who rescued Jews during the war a â&#x20AC;&#x153;holy man.â&#x20AC;? The Nazis invaded Poland in September 1939. In April of the following year, the Germans sealed the Lodz ghetto with barbed wire, concentrating Jews in a tightly packed section cut off from the world. About 45,000 Jews from other parts of Nazi-occupied Europe, including Luxembourg, Austria and Germany, as well as about 5,000 Gypsies, were forced into the Lodz ghetto. Used as forced labor, many ghetto residents died from the horrific conditions. The Nazis decided to kill those remaining in August 1944.

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July, August deadliest months of war for U.S. By JASON STRAZIUSO Associated Press Writer

KABUL (AP) — A roadside bomb and gunfire attack killed a U.S. service member in southern Afghanistan on Thursday, a death that pushed August into a tie with July as the deadliest months of the eight-year war. The death brought to 44 the number of U.S. troops who have died in Afghanistan this month with four days left in August. More than 60,000 U.S. troops are in the country — a record number — to fight rising insurgent violence. The number of roadside bombs deployed by militants across the country has skyrocketed, and U.S. forces have moved into new and deadlier areas this summer, in part to help secure the country’s Aug. 20 presidential election. The top U.S. commander in Afghanistan released his new counterinsurgency strategy Thursday, telling troops that the supply of militants is “effectively endless” and that U.S. and NATO forces need to see the country through the eyes of its villagers. Gen. Stanley McChrystal said troops “must change the way that we think, act and operate.” McChrystal hopes to install a new approach to counterinsurgency where troops will make the safety of villagers the top priority, above killing an endless supply of militants. “An insurgency cannot be defeated by attrition; its supply of fighters, and even leadership, is effectively endless,” the new guidelines said. When U.S. and NATO troops battle a group of 10 militants and kill two of them, the relatives of the two dead insurgents will want revenge and will likely join the insurgency, the guidelines say, spelling out the formula: “10 minus 2 equals 20 (or

more) rather than 8.” “This is part of the reason why eight years of individually successful kinetic actions have resulted in more violence,” McChrystal said. He called on troops to think of how they would expect a foreign army to operate in their home countries, “among your families and your children, and act accordingly,” to try to win over the Afghan population. Violence is on the rise in Afghanistan even as it falls in Iraq, where nearly twice as many U.S. troops are still based. Five U.S. troops have died in Iraq this month, three fewer than in July. A statement from the NATO-led force in Kabul said the U.S. service member died in southern Afghanistan when a patrol responded to the bombing and gunfire attack. No other details were released. Militants unleashed a wave of attacks in southern Afghanistan last week that helped suppress voter turnout there. Afghan election officials have released two batches of vote tallies that show President Hamid Karzai with 44.8 percent of the vote and top challenger Abdullah Abdullah with 35.1 percent, based on returns from 17 percent of polling stations. The next partial results are expected Saturday. Meanwhile, U.S. and Afghan forces battled Taliban militants at a medical center in eastern Afghanistan after a Taliban commander sought treatment there, and a U.S. helicopter gunship fired on the clinic after militants put up resistance. Reports of the militant death toll from Wednesday’s firefight varied widely. The spokesman of the governor of Paktika province said 12 militants died, while police said two were killed. It wasn’t clear why the tolls differed. The fighting began after a

wounded Taliban commander sought treatment at a clinic in the Sar Hawza district of Paktika. Afghan forces went to the center and got in a firefight with militants. U.S. forces later provided backup. Hamidullah Zhwak, the governor’s spokesman, said the Taliban commander was wounded Aug. 20. Militants brought him and three other wounded Taliban to the clinic Wednesday. Afghan forces were tipped off to their presence and soon arrived at the scene, he said. Insurgent snipers fired from a tower near the clinic, and troops called in an airstrike from U.S. forces, Zhwak said. Fighting between some 20 militants and Afghan and U.S. forces lasted about five hours, and 12 Taliban were killed, he said. “After ensuring the clinic

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U.S. Marine Gen. Lawrence Nicholson, second from right, walks through the bazaar in the village of Dahaneh during a visit Thursday to see progress by Marines and Afghan security forces in the Helmand Province of Afghanistan. was cleared of civilians, an AH-64 Apache helicopter fired rounds at the building ending the direct threat and injuring the targeted insurgent in the building,” a U.S. military statement said. A U.S. military spokeswoman, Lt. Cmdr. Christine

Sidenstricker, said the clinic’s doctor gave U.S. troops permission to fire on the clinic. Villagers expressed “disgust” that militants used the medical center to fire from and that they understood that the action by Afghan and coalition forces was necessary, the

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Daily Meditation Remember, O Lord, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach. Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens. We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows. … Our necks are under persecution: we labour, and have no rest. Lamentations 5:1-3, 5

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Kennedy’s death leads to debate on democracy Sen. Edward M. Kennedy’s death leaves a vacancy in the United States Senate — one of seven that have will take place since the last election (two senators are retiring early), prompting questions about whether the current system or systems for replacing members of that august body are fair and democratic. In many states, the sitting governor holds the right to appoint a new senator. Of course the process then becomes quite politicized — albeit only within one party. Certainly if a senator quits or dies, regardless of his party, should a Republican hold the governorship there is almost no way a Democrat will be selected to fill out the term. Same would be true in reverse. But politics can get nasty and corrupt even within one’s own party. Witness Illinois, where former Gov. Rod Blagojevich is accused of attempting to sell Barack Obama’s U.S. Senate seat when Obama ascended to the presidency in January. And in Alaska, when Frank Murkowski left the Senate to run for and win the governorship, he appointed his own daughter to fill out his Senate term. The Murkowski incident prompted Alaska to pass a law requiring a quick special election to fill such vacancies on the state’s D.C. roster. And with FairVote, a nonpartisan group that encourages greater access to the political process, noting that all the recent vacancies will mean that more than one in four Americans will be represented in Washington by unelected senators, a call is starting to rise for all states to hold such elections. Well, a call is rising in some quarters. Before he died, Kennedy asked that Massachusetts actually rescind its law allowing the public to vote for a replacement senator. That law was instituted only five years ago, in 2004, when Massachusetts Democrats realized that if John Kerry won the White House and had to vacate his Senate seat, then Gov. Mitt Romney, a Republican, would be choosing the replacement. Now, Massachusetts is led by Democratic Gov. Deval Patrick. So the late Sen. Kennedy would be more proud of his state if it revoked the voters’ rights so that Patrick could choose his favorite Democrat. While it seems logical that voters should get a choice in who represents them, cost can’t be ignored. Statewide elections aren’t cheap. And if new elections are coming soon anyway, the person being elected in the special race might only serve a few weeks or short months. Is the added democracy in that brief term of elected representation worth the considerable cost of polling the public? It might be, especially for a state where voters are inspired (or fed up) enough not only to choose a new person, but to hand the seat over to the other party. But it also is not unreasonable to believe that — as the man or woman elected to be chief executive of an entire state — the power to select a new senator to serve a partial term is not too much authority to invest in a governor.

Quotable “Me hanging up the spurs 16 months out, as comfortable as that would be, as much as I might like to do that on a personal basis, it is wrong.” — South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford, responding to his lieutenant governor’s call to resign, two months after he admitted an affair.

A test of Kennedy currency If you read the newspapers or watch the news, you will encounter a long list of accomplishments by the late Sen. Edward M. Kennedy. One thing you’re less likely to hear, however, is that in his death, Kennedy proved Rush Limbaugh right. In March, the talk-show host and bete noir of progressives everywhere said that the health care bill wending its way through Congress would eventually be dubbed the “Ted Kennedy Memorial Health Care Bill.” At the time, the official position of the Democratic Party was outrage and disgust. The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee initiated a petition drive demanding that the Republican Party formally denounce Limbaugh for his “reprehensible” and “truly outrageous” comments. Fast-forward to a few hours after the announcement of Kennedy’s death. Suddenly, naming the bill after Kennedy would be a moving tribute. ABC News reports that “the idea of naming the legislation for Kennedy has been quietly circulating for months” but was kicked into overdrive by Sen. Robert Byrd, the Democratic Party’s eldest statesman. Intriguingly, this suggests that either Democrats already had the idea when Limbaugh floated it, which would mean their protests were just so much opportunistic and cynical posturing, or they actually got the idea from Limbaugh himself, which would be too ironic for a Tom Wolfe novel. But that Kennedy’s death should be marked by cynicism, opportunism and irony is not shocking, given that these qualities are now the hallmarks of the party he largely defined. The determination of the Democratic Party to exploit Kennedy’s death for political gain

puts the political commentator who doesn’t wish to speak ill of the dead in something of a bind. So let us be clear that there is no evidence whatsoever that Kennedy himself — or any Kennedy — would object to such a ploy. Whether one calls it exploitation or heroic perseverance, the Kennedy dynasty’s longevity is best Jonah understood as Goldberg a response to fatal tragTribune Media edies. When Services Jacqueline Kennedy learned of her husband’s murder, she lamented Lee Harvey Oswald’s inconvenient political views. “It had to be some silly little Communist.” Fortunately, her husband’s handlers had things well in hand, orchestrating with a compliant media the grand fiction that Kennedy had somehow been a martyr to civil rights, taken out by right-wing “hate.” The real JFK, who cut capital gains taxes and only reluctantly supported Martin Luther King Jr.’s March on Washington, had never been nearly as liberal as the posthumous legend created to give new life to liberalism — and the Kennedy name. According to the mythmakers, JFK would have pulled us out of Vietnam (and the Oliver Stones say that’s why he was killed). Meanwhile, the real JFK boasted — mere hours before his murder — that he’d massively boosted defense spending and ordered a 600 percent increase on counterinsurgency special forces in Vietnam. The prior March he’d asked Congress to spend 50 cents

out of every tax dollar on defense. Hence one of the great ironies of Ted Kennedy’s career. He was the chief beneficiary of an inheritance from a brother whose views he didn’t share. Such contradictions never bothered Ted Kennedy, nor his fellow Democrats, when he was alive, so why should there be compunction now? After all, the Kennedys and the Democrats have mythologized and exploited the deaths of three brothers (and minimized the deaths of Mary Jo Kopechne and Martha Moxley) in order to protect the Kennedy brand. Naming a massive expansion of the federal government after Ted Kennedy, particularly when it was indeed his life’s cause, seems entirely fitting and fair. My only objection is the notion that somehow anyone but partisan Democrats should be expected to cave in to the “Do it for Teddy” bullying. To listen to some liberals, one gets the sense that conservatives should surrender to something that violates their fundamental principles out of deference to the very man liberals celebrate for never abandoning his fundamental principles. No one expected Ted Kennedy to become a champion of free markets out of deference to Ronald Reagan’s memory. Now, if liberals want to rally their own troops by putting Kennedy’s name on the bill, that is their right, even if it will likely result in an even more unpopular bill than the ones now under consideration. I suspect, however, that they will be disappointed to discover that the currency of the Kennedy name purchases far less than it once did, thanks in large part to what Ted Kennedy did with it. You can write to Jonah Goldberg by e-mail at JonahsColumn@aol.com.

Once again, members of our medical community pitched in to offer free physicals on June 3 for the student/athletes in our county. These physicals are required annually by the state athletic association and without the assistance of medical professionals, many young people would not be able to participate. Special thanks and acknowledgment goes out to Drs. Negron, Neunkirchner, Tucker, Mills, Dennis, Vijaya, Pruitt, WiggsGrimes, PA Will Valentine, nurse practitioners Estena Hawkins and Mishew Franklin, and nurses/assistants Becky Janssen, Kim Twisdale, Suzanne Crumpler, Eileen Grissom, Jane Ryan, Vanessa Denton, Tammy Roach, and Cindy Faulkner. These people dedicated their services and time to make athletics a safer environment this coming year. They met a need without hesitation. Our community should be PROUD of our No. 1 medical professionals. David Hicks, athletic director, Northern Vance High School Ed Wilson, athletic director, Southern Vance High School

Pastor not jailed To the editor: I am writing the newspaper to correct the newspaper report of Aug. 26, which stated I was arrested for a misdemeanor. I wish to have the paper report that I was not arrested, however a warrant for my arrest was issued. The reason for the warrant for my arrest was because I failed to appear in court on Aug. 10 for the purpose of showing proof that I had complied with North Carolina Law to purchase and place the proper sticker on my automobile. Pastor Gordon Marshall, Henderson Editor’s note: Pastor Marshall did miss a court date for a ticket related to his vehicle’s license plate sticker. He reported to the magistrate’s office afterward when a warrant was issued; he was not booked into jail.

Less government would solve more problems In times of crisis too many Americans look to the federal government to save them without considering that it was that same government which caused the problems in the first place. I guess it’s comforting to think that big daddy has all the answers and that we are not alone, but that’s a false security blanket only likely to lead to greater disappointment. Politicians, at least on a national level, never solve anything. They might shift around our problems trading one crisis for another or delaying a disaster, but they have no real solutions because speeches and political posturing rarely offer any answers. The federal government needs to stop manipulating the financial markets, stop getting involved in issues like health care, education or anything else that can be accomplished on a local level. Congress and the President should essentially worry about national defense, highways and refereeing the inevitable disputes between states. Democracy works best on a local level. My hometown holds a yearly town meeting

where elected citizens debate everything from whether to buy new police cars to exactly when dogs need to be on leashes. At these meetings, citizens discuss things that they have a vested interest in. If they Daniel B. increase the school Kline budget Special to their taxes The Daily Dispatch will go up. If they decrease the budget their kids might lose art class or sports programs. These aren’t rich folks playing with the lives of others in some hallowed hall, these are neighbors agonizing over how to do the right thing for as many people as possible. At these meetings, real people make tough decisions and live with the consequences. Town meeting met at a theater in the high school and debates were often spirited because what happened in those few days decided what type of

town we would have for the next year. Government works when we make as many decisions as we can on a local level. Why can’t a town vote to increase taxes but offer all residents health care? If a municipality made such a bold move it would cause some people to move out and others to move in. Like picking a condo because the complex has a pool, we could choose our place of residence based partially on its combination of taxes, amenities and laws. What, except our entrenched politicians who like their jobs and power, stops us from making the decisions that actually impact our lives? I would choose to live someplace with low taxes and high personal responsibility. Health care would be my problem as would paying for my son’s education. You might prefer to live someplace where the local government takes a huge bite our of your income but covers health care, schooling and other areas. We deserve to have the choice and have for too long ceded power over our lives national politicians

who care more for ideology and agendas than individual people. I’d rather have the friendly couple that lives next door to me voting on important issues in my life than anyone in Congress. To my neighbors I am not just a line item or a potential voter. They actually have to see me each day and live with the consequences of their votes. Forget stimulus packages, universal health care and all the other national debates that draw attention away from the fact that we must stop expecting government to have the answers. The people need to take the power back and realize that in times of crisis we must rely on ourselves not wait for the politicians to save us. Daniel B. Kline’s work appears in over 100 papers weekly. When he is not writing Kline serves as general manager of Time Machine Hobby New England’s largest hobby and toy store, www. timemachinehobby.com. He can be reached at dan@notastep. com or you can see his archive at dbkline.com or befriend him at facebook.com/dankline.

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