The Daily Dispatch - Saturday, September 5, 2009 by The Daily Dispatch

CMYK Friday Night Football Ticker ... Warren County 22, Northern Vance 17 … South Granville 26, J.F. Webb 8 … Man held for beating ex-girlfriend

U.S. August jobless rate at 9.7 percent

Coalition leader Reed seeks redemption

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Business & Farm, Page 5A

Faith, Page 1C SATURDAY, September 5, 2009

Volume XCV, No. 208

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Special I-85 tangles, both northbound and south Granville accident projects Woman thrown manager from vehicle in

serious condition

Position shared with foundation still not filled

By WILLIAM F. WEST

Daily Dispatch Writer

By WILLIAM F. WEST Daily Dispatch Writer

The city of Henderson continues to remain without a special projects manager. City Manager Ray Griffin told the Dispatch that advertising has not yet begun for a replacement. The City Council, in preparing a frugal budget that took effect on July 1, agreed to allocate $27,600 for the city’s half of the special projects manager position. This is provided the Embassy Square Cultural Center Foundation provides the same amount. The council, in budget deliberations, cited a need to have contacts in Washington, D.C., and in Raleigh and a need to obtain grants. During the June 8 budget session, local government watchdog Lewis Edwards said he believed that funding the special projects manager position and that Henderson

Dispatch photos/ASHLEY STEVEN AYSCUE

What was first reported as a five-car accident tied up traffic on Interstate 85 just south of Satterwhite Point Road in the northbound lane Friday afternoon. The number of people injuried and the extent of their injuries was not known at press time. That accident occurred at around 5:30 p.m., about 90 mintues after another multi-car accident had tied up southbound I-85 traffic for some time in the vicinity of the Andrews Avenue/N.C. Highway 39 interchange. Below, a firefighter talks wth witnesses from the southbound I-85 accident. At left, traffic backs up to the north as vehicles wait for the crash to be cleared from the southbound lanes so travel can resume. Henderson police said a report on that crash would not be filed until Saturday.

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

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VGCC kicks off 40th anniversary celebration College chartered as Vance County Technical Institute From STAFF REPORTS

Today Sun ‘n’... High: 86 Low: 58

Sunday ...clouds High: 87 Low: 65

Details, 3A

Deaths Henderson Russell J. Buesker, 39 Bettie D. Person, 72 Warren Willie H. Hargrove, 80

Obituaries, 4A

CREEDMOOR — A 23-year-old Oxford woman on Friday evening was in serious condition at Duke University Medical Center after being injured earlier in the day in a one-vehicle wreck on N.C. 50 on the Granville County side of the Granville County-Wake County line. Erin Gore, who was not wearing a seatbelt, suffered a blackout while driving a 2006 Chevrolet Equinox north on the hilly, two-lane highway between Old N.C. 21 and Beaver Dam Road, state Trooper Mitchell Gordy told the Dispatch. The vehicle went to the left of center and off the pavement, Gore came to, overcorrected, the vehicle overturned and Gore was ejected, Gordy said. “She ended up in the roadway” and the vehicle went to the right and came to rest upright in a ditch, Gordy said. “She’s got some pretty severe injuries” to her head, neck, back and ribs, along with lacerations and road rash, Gordy said.

Vance-Granville Community College turned 40 years old on Friday, kicking off a series of celebrations to mark the milestone and rededicating itself to service to the people who will walk through the buildings’ arches over the next four decades. The first of four Student Appreciation Days was held at the college’s main campus between Henderson and Oxford. Future appreciation days will follow at each of the three satellite campuses, and the activities will spill over into October with an anniversary ball and a festival. It is a time for “Reflecting on our past, looking ahead to our future,” noted President Randy Parker in his remarks to a gathering of school trustees, administrators, instructors, students and guests.

“We should all be grateful to the forward-thinking people who founded Vance-Granville Community College,” Parker said. “It was not one person or even a small handful of people. It was a collective effort by so many people in Vance County, later followed by the people of Granville, Warren and Franklin counties. They worked together toward a common goal – a better future in which all the people of our area could access higher education and obtain better jobs and opportunities. “In 1969, these leaders faced a time of economic change, just like we do today. They responded with hope and determination,” he said. Citing a recently discovered copy of minutes from a Henderson-Vance County Chamber of Commerce meeting 45 years earlier, Parker traced the college’s origins. The official request for a college was made to the state in 1968, he said. “The request stated that the county wanted ‘a low cost Technical Institute that will provide local industries, both new and old,

with workers who have been trained in some actual vocational skills that will provide the highly skilled workers so much in demand by our local employers,’” Parker said. The state department of community colleges gave the OK and the General Assembly made Vance

County Technical Institute an official member of the statewide system on July 1, 1969. Friday’s celebration day fell on the 40th anniversary of the issuance of the official charter. “By rededicating our outstanding facilities, we declare that they are set

apart for activities that are special and extraordinary – teaching, learning, starting new careers and making dreams come true,” said Parker. “We re-commit ourselves to serving all the people who walk through Please see VGCC, page 3A

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VGCC President Randy Parker, left, and Board of Trustees Chairman Donald Seifert prepare to cut the cake at a reception celebrating the 40th anniversary of the college on the main campus Friday morning. Vance County Technical Institute was officially chartered on Sept. 4, 1969.

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Mark It Down Today Fundraiser — The Warren County Chapter of the WCTSNWHS Alumni & Friends Association Inc. will hold a fundraiser from 7 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Warren County Training School/ North Warren High School campus, 430 Paschall Station Road, Wise. Rental space is available for $10 ($15 with a table). For more information, call 456-0076. 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. Sign unveiling — The executive board of the John R. Hawkins Alumni and Friends Inc. will unveil a commemorative sign on the former site of the John R. Hawkins High School, 426 W. Franklin St., Warrenton, at noon. Refreshments will be served on the lawn.

Tuesday Appearance Commission — The City of Henderson’s Appearance Commission will meet at 3 p.m. in the City Council Chambers of City Hall, 134 Rose Ave. Granville Commission — The Granville County Commission will meet at 7 p.m. in the commission meeting room, 145 Williamsboro St. Oxford Commission — The Oxford City Commission will meet at 7 p.m. in the commission meeting room of City Hall, 300 Williamsboro St. Mental health meeting — The Five County Mental Health Authority’s Consumer and Family Advisory Committee (CFAC) will meet at 6 p.m. at the Vance-Granville Community College, Warren campus, Building 4, Room W432, 210 W. Ridgeway St., Warrenton. Consumers can sign-up to discuss issues with the CFAC from 6:15-6:30 p.m. The committee meets monthly to assist in developing and revising the mental health plan that drives mental health, developmental disability and substance abuse services for the five-county area. For more information, call 430-1330, ext. 3035 and ext. 3050. Board of Elections — The Vance County Board of Elections will meet at 11 a.m. in the Elections Office in the Henry A. Dennis Building, 300 S. Garnett Street.

Wednesday Economic Development Commission — The Downtown Oxford Economic Development Commission will meet at 8 a.m. in the mayor’s conference room on the second floor of City Hall, 300 Williamsboro St. Wednesday Farmer’s market — The Wednesday Farmer’s Market, located near the track behind the Henderson Family YMCA, 380 Ruin Creek Road, is open from 7:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. selling local produce. The market is sponsored by the YMCA, the Vance County Cooperative Extension Service and Maria Parham Medical Center. Venders interested in selling at the market should contact Wayne Rowland at 438-8188. Oxford Farmers’ Market — The Oxford Farmers’ Market, located on the corner of McClanahan and Lanier streets across from the police station in Oxford, is open from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Guidelines The “Mark It Down” calendar announces events happening in the community that are sponsored by civic organizations, nonprofit groups, government organizations and similar groups. The Daily Dispatch staff asks that items intended for inclusion in the calendar be submitted in writing at least five days in advance of the event. Please include a contact person’s name and phone number in case there are questions. Items for this listing can be e-mailed to communitynews@hendersondispatch.com. Due to the overwhelming number of churches served by the Dispatch, church events cannot be listed in the “Mark It Down” calendar.

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Don’t let your landscape be an eyesore When I decided to write an article about landscape design, it dawned on me that I am wholly unqualified to tell you anything about landscape design. I have no formal training and no experience. Then again, that never stopped me from writing Paul about McKenzie other topics! Cooperative What’s Extension more, I am highly qualified to tell you what I don’t like! Follow these tips and you won’t win any awards, but maybe your yard won’t look like an eyesore. Hey, maybe that could be the slogan for my landscape design company — “Hire

me and maybe your yard won’t look like an eyesore!” Right, best for me to keep my day job. The first thing I don’t like is evergreen shrubs that have been sheared into odd shapes. Now, a neatly clipped hedge can be attractive. But too often shearing is used to try and control a shrub that is simply too large for the location. A better solution? Use a bow saw to prune the trunk six inches above ground level. Another annoyance is old, misshapen, half-dead trees. Yes, I understand that your great-grandmother planted that dogwood from a seed she brought on the wagon when she moved from New Bern. But your greatgrandmother would be embarrassed to see it in your yard today! Again, prune by making a single cut to the trunk six inches above the ground. Plant a new tree in her honor.

Tips ‘Scrambling’ to fix breakfast? Do you like the continental breakfasts that many hotels serve? Adapt their idea! Create a “continental” space where children can

Vance County Parenting Task Force

make their own breakfasts. Stock cereals in easy pour and closed containers, muffins, packaged fruit cups, fresh fruits, bread, tortillas, peanut butter and tarts. Place boiled eggs, cheese, squeeze margarine and jelly, milk and juice in the

On Sept. 10, Dr. Dennis Myers of Care Chiropractic & Acupuncture Clinic will be at the Vance County Senior Center to discuss how seniors can benefit

from chiropractic care. In addition, Myers will explain how chiropractic care can also help dementia. The seminar will take place at 11:15 a.m. in the

Warren County Free Clinic to hold appreciation banquet Inn and Suites, 197 Parham Road/I-85 Exit 215, in Henderson. Those wishing to attend should RSVP by Sept. 18 via fax to 257-1142 or by phone to 257-1904.

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away that bow saw just yet! Are you starting to see a theme here? I guess my design expertise boils down to this: cut out all the ugly stuff and replace with something pretty. I’m gonna make a fortune with this idea! Yes, I clearly have a secret agenda here. I’m trying to convert all of you into gardeners. Have you ever noticed how, in each neighborhood, there’s one yard that outshines the others? The one where you pause each day on your walk or drive to see what’s blooming? The one where someone is always in the yard to wave at? Now imagine if a third or half of the yards looked like that. It would be a different world.

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Next is an over-reliance on a few evergreen shrub species. Boxwoods, Japanese hollies and ligustrums are fine, but if that’s all you’ve got going on, it’s time to spice things up. Evergreens should be the backdrop of your landscape, not the main attraction. Another oversight is failure to plan for beauty in all seasons. A lot of yards look great in the spring when the daffodils and azaleas and forsythias are blooming. But they simply fade into the background for the rest of the year. There is such variety available today in the plant industry, that you can easily have interesting colors, shapes and textures in your yard year round. Also disfavored are plants that are overcrowded. When two shrubs of different species are growing so close that you can’t tell where one ends, it’s time to make a choice. That’s right, don’t put

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Raymond Stone, left, a past president in the North Carolina Community College System, chats with VGCC Trustees L. Opie Frazier Jr., center, and John King Nelms at Vance-Granville Community Collegeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 40th anniversary and college rededication on the main campus. Frazier is the veteran among the active current trustees, having served from 1971 through 1996 and from 2002 to the present time. Nelms, a trustee emeritus, served as a trustee from 1973 through 2004. Frazier and Nelms both are former board chairmen. ed the cutting of a cake to commemorate the occasion and an historical display of artifacts, photographs and scrapbooks filled with newspaper articles. Student Appreciation Days are also planned for

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participating in the Vance County Economic Development Commission with no real or solid forecast return or results would show poor fiscal responsibility. Edwards is a candidate for the City Council in the Oct. 6 election. The previous special projects manager, Kathy Powell, had doubled as executive director of the Embassy foundation, which is the non-profit fundraising arm of the redevelopment project that resulted in the McGregor Hall Gallery and the relocated H. Leslie Perry Memorial Library in 2006 along Breckenridge Street. The second phase of

the project called for an adjoining $8.3 million, 1,000-seat performing arts center. The state on Aug. 14 turned down the councilâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Nov. 24 request for a $1 million Community Development Block Grant to help with paying for the proposed cultural focal point. Griffin has told the Dispatch that the nationwide economic downturn and the changes in the banking industry had impacted the Embassy foundationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ability to raise funds. Powell, of Oxford, bid farewell to Hendersonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s government and the Embassy foundation on

Anniversary Ball on Oct. 3 followed by a â&#x20AC;&#x153;Festival for the 40thâ&#x20AC;? on Oct. 10. Those two events will be held on main campus. Send comments to news@ hendersondispatch.com.

Correction Nov. 28 to begin on Dec. 8 in Raleigh as the development officer for the stateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Energy Office. On July 18, she married Phil Walters, who is a member of the Planning Board.

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ACCIDENT, from page one No one was riding with Gore at the time of the wreck, Gordy said. The vehicle was totaled, with the airbags having not deployed because there was no frontal impact, Gordy said. Gordy said he is citing Gore, of 604 E. Spring St., for careless and reckless driving and for failing to wear a

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our arches over the next 40 years and beyond, so that our four counties may continue to have a highly trained workforce, educated citizens and a better quality of life for all,â&#x20AC;? he added. The main campus architecture features a number of archways. Donald Seifert, chairman of the VGCC Board of Trustees since 2003, noted VGCCâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s continuing role in education and economic development in reference to the announcement Friday that ACS â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Affiliated Computer Services â&#x20AC;&#x201C; located across the interstate from the college â&#x20AC;&#x201C; is expanding its call center by 100 jobs. ACS is recommending that potential employees attend pre-employment classes at VGCC later this month. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Today is a great day to celebrate our 40th anniversary,â&#x20AC;? Seifert said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;while we are enjoying record-breaking enrollment, and while the community college plays a key role in promoting economic recovery. This day of re-dedication is an opportunity to begin our work anew and a time to prepare ourselves for even greater success.â&#x20AC;? The celebration includ-

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Man held for beating ex-girlfriend, another man By WILLIAM F. WEST Daily Dispatch Writer

OXFORD â&#x20AC;&#x201D; A 23-yearold man was charged with felony assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill and felony burglary after breaking into an apartment on the south side of the city and using a fan to attack his ex-girlfriend and a man who was at the residence, Police Detective Sgt. Mark

Blair told the Dispatch. The accused, Calvin Foy III, additionally is charged with misdemeanor Foy assault with a deadly weapon, misdemeanor assault and misdemeanor communicating threats, Blair said. The incident occurred ap-

proximately two weeks ago, Blair said. An unknown telephone caller tipped off the Police Department as to Foyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s whereabouts, Blair said. Foy was booked on Aug. 29 and bond was set at $85,000, according to the weekly booking list, which the Police Department emails to the Dispatch. Of the incident, Foy â&#x20AC;&#x153;actually beat the guy sense-

Montana mom pleads guilty, drove son to break-ins GREAT FALLS, Mont. (AP) â&#x20AC;&#x201D; A Montana woman charged with driving around her 16-year-old son and six others while they broke into cars in April has changed her plea. Lisa Dilley pleaded guilty Thursday in District Court to accountability to theft. Court records say Dilley drove a group of teens around while they stole more than $3,600 worth of items from vehicles. Dilleyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s husband called police the next morning after finding a pile of items in his back yard that he suspected had been stolen, including a set of golf clubs and power tools. Five juveniles were arrested in the case, including Dilleyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s son, along with two 18-year-olds.

Philly DA hopeful dons monitoring bracelet PHILADELPHIA (AP) â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Voters in Philadelphia will have an easy time telling where one candidate for district attorney stands â&#x20AC;&#x201D; with the help of a GPS ankle bracelet. Republican district attorney candidate Michael Untermeyer is wearing an electronic monitoring bracelet for the next month. Visitors to Untermeyerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Web site, www. untermeyerforda.com, can track the his movements minute-by-minute for the next 30 days. Untermeyer said Thursday the city could save millions of dollars by moving nonviolent defendants out of the prison system and keeping tabs on them electronically instead. Untermeyer says it costs $98 a day to keep someone locked up but just $8 a day to monitor them electronically. Democratic opponent Seth Williams says the ankle bracelet is just a gimmick and the prison overcrowding issue has no quick fix.

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Man who called 911 charged with mobile home deaths BRUNSWICK, Ga. (AP) â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Police have arrested a family member who called 911 on eight counts of first-degree murder in the slayings of people found in a Georgia mobile home. Guy Heinze Jr. was arrested Friday on charges that he killed the people whose bodies were found last weekend near the coastal community of BrunsHeinze wick. Among those killed were seven of Heinzeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s relatives. In a frantic 911 call early last Saturday, Heinze had told a dispatcher â&#x20AC;&#x153;My whole familyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s dead!â&#x20AC;? Hours after the bodies were found, the 22-yearold was charged with evidence tampering and drug possession. But police didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t say until Friday that they suspected him of the killings. He had been briefly

less and then went after the girl and beat her up real bad with the fan and then drug her out the door and did some other things to her,â&#x20AC;? Blair said. There was no listed address for Foy. â&#x20AC;&#x153;From what we were told, heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s kind of like in-between places,â&#x20AC;? Blair said.

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HENDERSON â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Russell James Buesker, 39, of 705 Gun Club Road, died Thursday, Sept. 3, 2009, at Maria Parham Medical Center. Born on Jan. 25, 1970, in College Point, N.Y., he was the son of Raymond Buesker of Henderson and Alice Sparling Buesker of Douglaston, Contact the writer at bwest@ N.Y. hendersondispatch.com. In addition to his parents, he is survived a brother, Raymond News Briefs by Buesker of New York; and released on bond related to three sisters, Patricia Ann the lesser charges and ar- Buesker and Deborah B. rested again later Friday. Moore of College Point, N.Y., and Alyson B. Harris of Roanoke Rapids. Animal cruelty No services are planned. A private burial will be complaint filed held by the family at a against Ariz. man later date. Arrangements are by PHOENIX (AP) â&#x20AC;&#x201D; J.M. White Funeral Home. Arizona prosecutors have filed felony animal cruelty charges against a man who Willie H. Hargrove allegedly tried to feed a kitten to a python and later WARREN â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Willie killed the feline by dropHazel Hargrove, 80, of 201 kicking it. Church St., Warren, died Maricopa County Friday, Sept. 4, 2009, at sheriffâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s deputies arher residence. rested 28-year-old Jeremy Funeral services are inTuffly at his Mesa home on complete at this time, but Monday. He has since been will be announced later by released. Boydâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Funeral Service of Tufflyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s arrest came Warrenton. after deputies received a DVD of the incident from a person they havenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t identi- Bettie D. Person fied. HENDERSON â&#x20AC;&#x201D; BetThe video shows a man the sheriffâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s office identitie Thomas Davis Person, fied as Tuffly smiling while 72, of 944 Southerland repeatedly and roughly St., died Sunday, Aug. 30, throwing the kitten at a 2009, at Senior Citizen python in a backyard. Home. She was born in It then cuts to a nighttime scene with the man drop-kicking the animal into the street, killing it.

Yellowstone fire grows to 110 acres YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK, Wyo. (AP) â&#x20AC;&#x201D; A lightning-caused fire in Yellowstone National Park had grown to about 110 acres. Fire officials say that the Butte fire has been burning since Sunday near the summit of Druid Peak, along the Northeast Entrance Road, about 16 miles southwest of Cooke City, Mont. It is well away from any park attractions, roads and structures and so park managers are letting it burn for now. No trails are closed because of the fire. The National Park Service reports 15 fires in Yellowstone this summer. Thirteen of them were caused by lightning. So far, all but the Butte Fire have been less than a half acre in size.

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Man arrested on marijuana charges; plants destroyed From STAFF REPORTS

Vance County sheriffâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s officers have arrested a 54-year-old local man for manufacturing and trafficking marijuana. According to a press release from Sheriff Peter White, officers arrested Jerry Owen Satterwhite of 1424 Abbott Road. Authorities reportedly eradicated marijuana plants valued at an estimated $300,000 from the property. Satterwhite was charged with one count of trafficking

in marijuana/possession, one count of trafficking marijuana/manufacturing, and one count of misdemeanor possession of drug paraphernalia. In a separate finding, another 50 marijuana plants were eradicated from a property in the Bobbitt community. Those plants were valued at an estimated $125,000. No arrests have been made in that case, but the investigation continues. Send comments to news@ hendersondispatch.com.

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Two call centers in North Carolina are closing, affecting about 180 workers. The Sun Journal of New Bern reported that Embarq will lay off about 100 workers when it closes its call center in November. The closing is the result of Embarq’s recent merger with CenturyTel Inc. An Embarq spokesman says the New Bern employees can apply for jobs in the new company, Century Link, or relocate to available positions. Workers who stay with Embarq until early

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Employers shed 216,000 jobs in August; jobless rate at 9.7 percent WASHINGTON (AP) — The nation’s unemployment rate climbed last month to 9.7 percent — the highest in nearly a generation — but the number of job losses was less than expected and the smallest monthly total in a year. Employers shed 216,000 jobs in August, the Labor Department said Friday. That was 9,000 fewer than expected but a far cry from the job creation required to rejuvenate the economy: about 125,000 new jobs each month just to keep the unemployment rate from increasing. The unemployment rate rose three-tenths of a percentage point since July, reaching its highest level since 1983, when it was 10.1 percent. Economists predict that the jobless rate will peak above 10 percent by the middle of next year. At the same time, many analysts say the economy should grow by a healthy 3 to 4 percent in the third quarter, pulling the United States out of the longest recession since World War II.

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Lessons in sportsmanship An opening weekend intended by the American Football Coaches Association to foster sportsmanship got off to an inauspicious start Thursday night when a game between ranked opponents — No. 16 Oregon at No. 14 Boise State — ended with a victorious and trash-talking BSU player dropped to his knees by a vicious right cross thrown by Ducks running back LeGarrette Blount. The teams had complied with an AFCA request that each game this weekend begin with a midfield handshake between opponents. The goodwill apparently didn’t last all the way to post-game. And pleasantries won’t be extended pre-game in Stillwater, Okla., today, where Oklahoma State coach Mike Gundy sent word earlier in the week to the University of Georgia that his Cowboys won’t meet the Bulldogs at midfield for a handshake before kickoff. Gundy says the situation is just too volatile. “Our first concern was (we’ll) have 115 guys out there and they’ll have 70 (and) it just takes one guy to pop off,” said the coach. Meanwhile, AFCA Executive Director Grant Teaff wonders whether maybe the handshake actually helped a bit in Boise Thursday. “It was sad as I watched, but the good news is nobody joined in,” Teaff said. “… I thought to myself, ‘What would have happened if they hadn’t shaken hands before the game?’ This wasn’t a fight. This wasn’t a brawl. I was impressed by the coaches and players who showed restraint and self-control last night.” We actually understand both positions. Gundy and coaches around the country have spent the last few weeks preparing their charges for the season-opener by whipping them into a frenzy to manhandle the competition. Asking them to turn that intensity down about six notches — just long enough to shake hands and retreat to the sidelines, where the frenzy resumes — is indeed a tall order. But sportsmanship does need a jump-start in college sports, especially football. Oregon has responded to its player’s actions by suspending Blount for the entire season. As a senior, that means Blount’s college football career is over. Commendably, the school has not revoked his scholarship; Oregon expects Blount to continue attending classes (we’ll see whether he complies, as he’s been slack academically in the past) and to fulfill his practice commitments to the team as path toward a little redemption. Meanwhile, we aren’t as pleased with Boise’s response to its player’s role in the altercation. While Broncos defensive end Bryan Hout didn’t throw a punch, he did start the whole nasty business by seeking out Blount, razzing him and tapping him on the shoulder pads, to the point that BSU coach Chris Petersen was already rushing in to pull his own player away before Hout ever got decked. Boise State says Hout will be disciplined, but said the action is an “internal” matter and Hout will not miss any playing time. Per NCAA rules, throwing a punch results in ejection from the current game and suspension from the next. Oregon banned Blount for the year because he struggled against his own teammates and coaches who escorted him to the locker room after the altercation and even tried to get at fans who taunted him while he was leaving the field, with police and stadium security ultimately getting involved. “We do not and will not tolerate the actions that were taken by our player. Oregon’s loyal fans expect and deserve better,” university President Richard Lariviere said in a statement. Boise State could send an equally strong message to its players and to athletes around the country by sitting Hout down for next week’s home game against Miami of Ohio. Hout didn’t take a swing at Blount, but his poor sportsmanship rang the bell that started the one-punch bout. Did Bryan Hout deserve to be punched by LeGarrette Blount? No. But, whatever was said in the press pregame, did Blount deserve to be bad-mouthed for playing on the losing team? Likewise, no. Blount’s vicious punch and his total loss of control afterward merit the season-long suspension he received. But secretly (slightly?) punishing the player who ignited the debacle by running his mouth leaves this a sportsmanship lesson only half-taught.

RALEIGH — As the latest unemployment figures make clear, North Carolina’s economy remains one of the weakest in the United States. If it were a runner in a footrace, it would be that pale, wheezing fellow near the back of the pack. You know the guy I mean. Back in the day, he was a champion. But then he got lazy and indulged his appetites. His muscles shrank. His waistline exploded. Now, he’s just not a contender anymore — except in his own mind. Like the self-deluded runner, North Carolina’s political class has yet to adjust its regimen to reality. Rather than slimming down and toning up, most politicians in power seem to think that the way to make North Carolina competitive again is to slow down, eat more, and tie heavy weights to its ankles. Do I exaggerate? Consider their agenda. For example, having just enacted state and local tax increases well in excess of $1 billion in 2009, they hope to pass local referenda in 2010 and 2011 to raise sales taxes again. Most of these same politicians supported recent expansions of state regulation than have already made it more expensive to live, work, and create jobs in North Carolina.

One such expansion was the 2007 bill setting a “renewableportfolio” standard. It will raise North Carolina electric bills by hundreds of millions of dollars a year and eliminate thousands of jobs. Their energy itch not yet scratched, most of these same John politicians Hood support Special to The Daily Dispatch

a federal cap-andtrade bill or some state regulatory equivalent to limit carbon dioxide emissions, which would slash private investment in North Carolina, shrink the state’s economic product by billions of dollars, and eliminate tens of thousands of additional jobs. It gets worse. Many of these same politicians celebrated when the federal government inflated the currency and borrowed trillions of dollars to bail out bloated banks, insurers, automakers, and state governments. Then they cheered when Congress and the Obama administration began devising a federal takeover of the health-insurance market, a policy that will

again raise taxes, tighten regulation, and eliminate jobs. With each successive increase in the tax, regulatory, and debt burden, it gets harder for the economy to recover. The odds move a little more against taking new risks, investing in new companies, hiring new talent. Scarce resources flow towards less productive uses. Take a look at the issue of transportation. It’s no secret that North Carolina’s roads and bridges are in a severe state of disrepair, and that for all the billions of dollars collected in car and gas taxes in recent years, the state has failed to invest effectively in new highway capacity. The result has been massive and costly traffic congestion. To return to our runner analogy, the state’s economy can’t keep pace because its circulatory system is clogged. Transportation expert Dave Hartgen, a professor emeritus at UNC-Charlotte, has done more than anyone else to diagnose North Carolina’s circulatory problems and prescribe the necessary remedies. His latest work, published by the Reason Foundation, estimates the future economic costs of congestion in eight metropolitan areas, including Charlotte. Hartgen found that unless

Charlotte chooses the right transportation policies to address five problem areas in and around the city — the airport, UNCC, downtown, and two major commercial and residential developments north and south of town — the region’s economic output will be $22 billion lower than it could be. Charlotte is hardly alone. Hartgen’s previous research demonstrated similar problems with transportation plans in many other North Carolina cities. Nor is the problem one of inadequate taxes. There’s enough money in the system. It’s just being poorly spent on projects with low rates of return, such as rural road paving and urban rail transit, rather than on projects that will actually ease congestion, such as trafficsignal modernization and new road capacity. So here’s my plan to get North Carolina’s economy back into the race. First, tie no more tax or regulatory weights on our ankles. Second, focus on the basics — make North Carolinians safer and better educated. Third, unclog our transportation arteries. Let’s start winning again. John Hood is president of the John Locke Foundation and publisher of CarolinaJournal.com.

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Happy Labor Day: An oxymoron Labor Day. The Rodney Dangerfield of holidays. Nobody knows why it’s treated like the runt of the celebration litter. Maybe it has to something to do with our biological clocks being stuck on elementary school time. Deep down in our bones, we’re anticipating the first Monday of September pounding the final nail into the coffin of our vacation, signaling a return to whatever Will scholastic Durst institution Distributed by we’ve been C agle Cartoons consigned to that semester. Making it as endearing as thunderheads on a picnic morning. Labor Day. The last plastic souvenir sports bottle of lemonade on the dying coals of summer. The beginning of the end of the bright light, and harbinger of the darkness. Swimming pools close. Ice cream trucks tie up their bells and convoy back into hibernation, and Dad suffers his last second-degree hissing bubble burn from the BBQ grill for at least nine months. The dividing line between baseball’s endgame and football’s chrysalis from two-a-day drills into hardcore bowl envy. The solstice is dead. Long live the autumnal equinox. Labor Day. As a kid, I was too busy recoiling from the looming specter of the end of my freedom to pay much attention to the meaning or even the name of the holiday. One 24-hour period carved into the almanac to honor the American worker. Seems a bit of an

archaic sentiment these days. A gesture almost as empty as the candy counter at a Cineplex after a Labor Day weekend Harry Potter festival, especially what with lean and mean being all the rage. And trust me, there is a lot of rage out there. Labor Day. Now might be the perfect time to trot out that old chestnut that if it weren’t for the blue collars there wouldn’t be any white collars, much less $4,500 Brioni grey pinstripe merino wool suit collars. Without labor and the labor movement, we might still be nomads, camping on a frontier, boiling river water to wash down our nightly meal of beans and mush and roots and moss. Getting way too friendly with the livestock. Not that there’s anything wrong with that. Labor Day. Admittedly, not the sexiest holiday: There’s no fireworks to watch or ugly birds to cook or chocolate covered bunnies to steal marshmallows from. Just one Monday off for all those ordinary guys and gals trying to make ends meet; raising 2.3 kids, juggling a mortgage while trying to cover the monthly cable bill with at least one premium

channel thrown in. The lifeblood of America’s body politic has always been its workforce, the people (claimants before Judge Judy not included). I’m talking about real folks who don’t think “work ethic” is a dirty word. Or a dirty two words. Or whatever. Labor Day. A calendaric conundrum. A day we celebrate what it is we do for a living by taking the day off from work. Paying tribute not to fancy movie stars or stodgy founding fathers or rich and bloated athletes, but us. The real American heroes. You and me. Okay, mostly you. But allow a guy who memorized his Social Security number at the age of 12 wish you a happy Labor Day. Go out and buy a new notebook and a couple of pens. And a ruler. Nobody buys rulers anymore. Will Durst is a San Francisco-based political comic who writes sometimes. This is one of them. Please catch his new one-man show “The Lieutenant Governor from the State of Confusion,” appearing at a theater near you. Durst is also familiar pundit on television and radio. E-mail Will at durst@caglecartoons.com.

Why is there such an uproar about Obama going nationally Tuesday to speak to all young people in public schools? President Bush did it in 2001. He told the youth to study and work hard to make a positive contribution to our nation. So why the fuss about Obama going on air in our schools? It’s simple. Fear. In just nine months we have seen the government trying to take over more and more of every aspect in our lives. This administration is trying to bulldoze and bully its policy changes on the American people, not taking a hint from what has been said at the numerous town hall meetings across the country. They just keep pushing and pushing. That’s why there is an uproar against him going into the school system. Obama has created a tremendous atmosphere of fear on the hard working American people. Those who are milking our welfare system are not worried. They only stand to benefit from all these changes. It’s those of us who have worked all of our lives to have a decent life who will suffer for these changes. We should not fear our government. We elected these people to serve us, not to beat us down every way they can think of by taking more and more from us. Our government has become an elite society who work every day on ways to stay in office, not to serve us. Thank you, Mr. Obama. Dale Roberson, Oxford

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