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Feds: N.C. terror suspects targeted U.S. military By MIKE BAKER Associated Press Writer

RALEIGH — Two North Carolina terrorism suspects plotted to kill U.S. military personnel and one of them obtained maps of a Marine Corps base in Virginia to plan an attack, prosecutors said Thursday. A superseding indictment returned against Daniel Patrick Boyd and Hysen Sherifi is the first time authorities have said the homegrown terrorism ring had specific targets. Prosecutors said Boyd “undertook reconnais-

sance” of the base located about 30 miles south of Washington. “These additional charges hammer home the grim reality that today’s homegrown terrorists are not limiting their violent plans to locations overseas, but instead are willing to set their sights on American citizens and American targets, right here at home,” U.S. Attorney George Holding said in a statement. Authorities have previously said the men went on training expeditions in the weeks leading up to their arrest in July, practicing military tactics with armor-

piercing bullets on a property in rural North Carolina. Seven men are awaiting trial in the case, and investigators say an eighth suspect is believed to be in Pakistan. An initial indictment had accused the men of plotting international terrorism and conspiring to support terrorism, and investigators have said some of the men took trips to Jordan, Kosovo, Pakistan and Israel “to engage in violent jihad.” There was never any sign that the suspects had considered any targets in the United States. The new indictment adds

charges for conspiring to kill military personnel. It also adds weapons charges for Boyd, Sherifi and Zakariya Boyd. Prosecutors say Daniel Boyd, a drywall contractor and the father of suspects Zakariya and Dylan Boyd, was the ringleader of the aspiring terrorist group. In lengthy speeches at his home south of Raleigh, he decried the U.S. military, discussed the honor of martyrdom and bemoaned the struggle of Muslims, according to audio tapes played during a detention hearing in August. The FBI has said agents

seized some two dozen guns and more than 27,000 rounds of ammunition from Boyd’s home. The superseding indictment says Boyd possessed the armorpiercing ammunition “to attack the Americans,” according to the U.S. attorney’s office in Raleigh. Prosecutors did not immediately release the complete indictment and did not explain Sherifi’s role in planning to kill military personnel. Attorneys for Daniel and Zakariya Boyd and Sherifi did not immediately return calls seeking comment.

Farmers’ Not letting a little deportation stop him Vance market water fever district By AL WHELESS Daily Dispatch Writer

You could see farmers’ market fever spread quickly Thursday among the Planning and Environmental Committee’s three county commissioners. It didn’t take long for Danny Wright and Chairman Dan Brummitt to begin sharing Terry Garrison’s vision of Vance having a scaled-down version of the open air market enjoyed by residents of Charleston in South Carolina. Garrison had nothing but praise for the event which includes the sales of produce, crafts and other items found in the world of agriculture. Pete Burgess of the Vance County Farm Bureau estimated that a suitable building for a local farmers’ market would cost $400,000. The commissioners agreed to recommend that their board appoint a committee to help get grants for the project and to find a location for the market. Contact the writer at awheless@hendersondispatch.com.

Index Our Hometown . . . . . 2A Business & Farm. . . . 5A Opinion . . . . . . . . . . . 8A Light Side . . . . . . . . 11A Sports. . . . . . . . . . 1-5B Comics . . . . . . . . . . . 6B Classifieds. . . . . . . 7-9B

Weather Today Showers High: 80 Low: 55

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Panel draws schedule for early '10 start By AL WHELESS Daily Dispatch Writer

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Mexican Antonio Ocampo, 30, a recently deported migrant from Seattle, waits Thursday for a chance to cross to U.S. near the U.S.-Mexico border fence in Tijuana. U.S. authorities shut down the nation’s busiest border crossing on Tuesday after federal agents fired shots at three vans filled with illegal immigrants whose drivers tried to storm past inspectors, officials said.

N.C., others call for jobless benefits extension By CAROLYN THOMPSON Associated Press Writer

NIAGARA FALLS, N.Y. — Labor commissioners from 18 states — including North Carolina — urged the U.S. Senate on Thursday to act immediately to extend unemployment benefits for 300,000 people who will exhaust theirs in another week. “We’re here because we are facing an unemployment crisis of epic proportions,” said New York Labor Commissioner M. Patricia Smith, surrounded by counterparts from around the country. “Families are suffering. Unless further action is taken, more suffering is on the horizon.” The group urged the Senate to follow the House’s lead and agree to give the jobless in states with unem-

Deaths Dunn Mary M. Taylor, 81 Stem Melvin M. Boyd, 55 Warrenton Willie M. Turner, 85

Obituaries, 4A

Workforce Agencies, whose leadership passed a resolution seeking even broader extensions of benefits as a way to keep the unemployed from ending up on welfare. “The cost then will shift from the federal government to the state and local governments, and we know how difficult times are,” Smith said. The resolution asks Congress to eventually expand the 13-week extension to all states and provide a 20-week extension for high unemployment states. It also would preserve through 2010 the $25 that was added to people’s weekly unemployment checks by the stimulus act passed last February. Said Keith Kelly, commissioner of the Montana Department of Labor Please see JOBLESS, page 3A

Please see WATER, page 3A

N.C. data: Swine flu already rivaling seasonal flu By MIKE BAKER Associated Press Writer

Details, 3A

ployment rates topping 8.5 percent an additional 13 weeks of benefits. The immediate effect would be to keep help flowing to 300,000 of the 400,000 people whose benefits would stop this month. Through the end of the year, it would protect more than 1 million people. “These are not faceless people,” said Stephen Geskey, director of the Unemployment Insurance Agency in Michigan, where unemployment is 15.2 percent, the highest in the nation. “They are our mothers, our fathers, our brothers, our sisters, our sons and daughters. My staff ... are already receiving calls from desperate people wondering, ‘What are we going to do next?’” The labor officials were in Niagara Falls for the annual meeting of the National Association of State

Construction of Vance County’s proposed water district would begin Feb. 1 of 2010 under a progress schedule that the Planning and Environmental Committee will recommend Oct. 5 to the Board of Commissioners. Other steps would include: • Appoint from Oct. 5-19 a citizens’ advisory committee to obtain sign-ups on a local level. It would report to County Manager Jerry Ayscue. • Send out water bills on Oct. 1 to Phase 1A service area residents at the beginning of mass mailings of sign-up forms that will stop on Oct. 15. If approved, the contracts would specify estimated monthly rates of $35 to $45 for 5,000 gallons of water. • Start conducting sign-up drives on Oct. 15 in public meetings at locations in Phase 1A and door-to-door. Participation is not mandatory. • Door-to-door surveys for sign-ups will be done by members of the Citizen Advisory Committee and possibly part-time hired staff. They will take place from Oct. 15 to Nov. 30.

RALEIGH — North Carolina is already seeing one of the most active flu seasons in recent record keeping, an early indication of how widespread the swine flu pandemic could become. Dr. Zack Moore, a respiratory disease epidemiologist for the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services, said officials were prepared for a spike in flu cases but were surprised at how quickly the numbers climbed. The number of reported flulike patients has spiked since the beginning of the school year, officials said. “You don’t like to see a curve go-

ing up that steeply,” Moore said. For three consecutive weeks, health providers have been reporting that more than 5 percent of patients have influenza-like symptoms. Those figures rival the peak of other flu seasons during this decade. During the week ending Sept. 12, nearly 7 percent of people who sought care at facilities in the health reporting network had flulike illnesses, defined as a fever of at least 100 degrees along with a cough or sore throat. That was up from less than 2 percent just two weeks prior. Of available figures dating back to 2001, only one other week recorded a higher percentage of sick patients — a

week in December 2003 at the height of that winter’s exhausting flu seasons. North Carolina is asking clinicians to submit samples of flu cases only when the patient requires intensive care, a push that allows the state lab to focus on the critical issues. The state had previously gathered samples for all people that were hospitalized. Most of the flu cases confirmed in lab tests have been the swine flu, according to the state. The flu problem appears to be radiating out of the South with the start of the school year. Now, nearly half of states have “widespread” flu activity, according to the CDC.

Moore said the flu is difficult to predict, and health officials aren’t sure whether flu reporting levels are going to stay elevated or whether the data shows a temporary peak. The seasonal flu typically peaks during the middle of winter. “It’s not unexpected,” Moore said. “We are in a pandemic.” Health officials are preparing to distribute a swine flu vaccine in the coming months, first targeting health workers and high-risk groups such as young children and pregnant women. Health fficials have also said that many people will do well without the vaccine, noting that most people infected have mild illness and recover by themselves.

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Mark It Down Today Ridgeway Opry House — Ridgeway Opry House will have a special show featuring The Willow Branch Band at 7 p.m. Weight loss group — TOWN (Take Off Weight Now), a nonprofit weight loss group, will meet at Aycock Recreation Center at 11:30 a.m. Everyone is invited to attend.

Saturday 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. Ridgeway Opry House — Performing are Matt Nelson, Evelena Norwood, Allen and Betsy Reid, Ronald Puett, Verlin Bailey, Linburg Tudor and Julia Morton. Doors open at 6 p.m. Music starts at 7 p.m. Appreciation picnic — The Sandy Hill Hunters will hold their annual pig pickin’ appreciation picnic at 3 p.m. at 421 Perrytown Road in Warren County for all the Perrytown landowners who allow the group access to their property for deer hunting. All landowners are invited to attend. Community dance — The Epsom Country Club will sponsor a community dance starting at 7:30 p.m., featuring The Lite Country Band. For more information and directions, contact Curtis Strickland at 492-6834. Dee’s Music Barn — Dee’s Music Barn, 3101 Walters Road, Creedmoor, will be featuring Johnny Goodman & The Hard Living Band at 7 p.m. For more information, call (919) 528-5878. Fireman’s Day — The Epsom Fire and Rescue Association will sponsor its 10th annual Firemen’s Day starting at 11 a.m. Combination barbecue and chicken plates will be for sale for $7 at the fire station on N.C. 39 South. Raffle tickets are on sale for a variety of prizes. Games and a variety of activities are planned for the entire family. Middleburg Fun Day — The annual Middleburg Fun Day will be held from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. The festivities will be held in Rowland Memorial Park (take I-85, Exit 220, and follow the signs). Mark Martin’s #5 CarQuest Chevrolet Impala SS will be on display, and activities are planned for the children to adults, including a puppet show and horseshoe competition. Alpha Phi Alpha — The brothers of the Rho Lambda Chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity Inc. of Henderson will meet at 10 a.m. at 2555 Raleigh Road, Henderson. All area Alphas are invited to attend.

Monday Masonic meeting — Beacon Light Masonic Lodge #249 will hold its stated communication at 7 p.m. at the lodge, located at 1204 West Andrews Ave. For more information, contact Michael Edwards at 767-3672. Henderson City Council — The Henderson City Council will meet at 6 p.m. in the City Council Chambers of City Hall, 134 Rose Ave. A work session will follow.

Tuesday NAACP — Sen. Doug Berger and Charmaine Cooper, executive director of the Carolina Justice Policy Center, will address the Vance County Branch of the NAACP at its meeting at 7 p.m. The group meets at The Gateway Center, 314 S. Garnett St. Members and guests are invited to attend.

‘Aging With Gusto’ Conference attracts 153 participants If you have to age, you might as well do it with gusto! That was the theme of the “Aging With Gusto” Conference held on Sept. 15 in Oxford. The annual event attracted 153 participants from Granville and surrounding counties. Julie Brockman is pictured leading participants in seated exercises, one of a number of classes offered. A new feature this year was the silent auction, sponsored by the Extension Volunteer Association to fund its scholarship fund. This was the eighth year for the conference, jointly sponsored by the Granville County Center of the N.C. Cooperative Extension and Granville County Senior Services.

VGCC Scheduled Classes (south Several Vance-Granville Community College courses scheduled in October and November at the college’s South Campus, located on N.C. 56 between Creedmoor and Butner, offer area residents the chance to learn new skills for on-the-job or personal use. Many are offered at night for the convenience of working adults. One course focuses on QuickBooks, the powerful accounting system for small businesses. David Richardson teaches the course, which is offered from 6 until 10 p.m. on Thursdays, Oct. 1 through Nov. 12. The cost of the course is $65. The Human Resources Development (HRD) department will offer “Be Ready for Employment,” on Mondays and Wednesdays between 6:30 and 8:30 p.m., Oct. 5 through Oct. 28. HRD classes are free to qualified applicants, including those who are unemployed. The “Beginners’ Guide to Computers and the Internet” course will be offered on Wednesdays from 6 until 10 p.m., Oct. 21 through Nov. 25. Michael Bacon is the instructor. The cost of the course is $65. “Medical Coding,” the second of four courses required for the Medical Coding certificate program, will be held on Mondays and Wednesdays from 6 until

9 p.m., Oct. 26 through Feb. 17, 2010. Frances Pettiford is the instructor for the course, which costs $175. Another course will focus on the popular Microsoft Word and Excel software programs, which were extensively revamped for their 2007 versions. Classes meet on Mondays from 6 until 10 p.m., Oct. 26 through Nov. 30. Michael Bacon is the instructor for the course, which costs $65. Area residents will be able to save money this holiday season by making their own cards to send to friends and family after taking a course taught by Ophelia Staton. “Holiday Card-making” will be offered on Tuesday evenings from 6 until 9 p.m., Oct. 27

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Friday, September 25, 2009

News Briefs

NATIONAL WEATHER

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Cowell: Pension funds investor didn’t resign

Seattle 69/52 Minneapolis 68/54

Billings 82/53

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Chicago 74/56 San Francisco 79/57

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Raleigh-Durham through 6 p.m. yest. High .................................................... 90° Low ..................................................... 71° Normal high ........................................ 79° Normal low ......................................... 58° Record high ............................ 91° in 1946 Record low .............................. 39° in 1963

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RALEIGH (AP) — North Carolina officials have sent an e-mail to the state’s Highway Patrol employees reminding troopers that behavior on- and off-duty reflects on the organization. WRAL-TV reported that the secretary of crime control and public safety and the commander of the Highway Patrol sent the e-mail Wednesday to the agency’s more than 1,800 state

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CURRITUCK (AP) — Tours of off-road areas of some parts of North Caro-

lina’s Outer Banks face the possibility of more regulations in Currituck County. The Daily Advance in Elizabeth City reported Wednesday that commissioners voted to restrict businesses that provide the tours. The plan allows commissioners to set a maximum number of vehicles for each tour operator, set their hours of operation and limit the duration of their permit. The amendment increases the fine for violations from $100 to $500. Residents of off-road areas had complained about vacationers crowding roads and blocking driveways. They say visitors also get too close to Corolla’s wild horses, despite a requirement that people stay at least 50 feet away.

of six unemployed workers are competing for every job, according to government data. “There are so many qualified, good, hardworking people out there,” Lasky said, “and you’re going against all of them.” The unemployment rate is now 9.7 percent, and economists see it topping 10

percent next year. The 18 states seeking immediate extensions of unemployment benefits are Arizona, Idaho, Iowa, Kansas, Maine, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nevada, New Hampshire, New York, North Carolina, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Washington and Wisconsin.

Currituck looks to limit tours

JOBLESS, from page one and Industry, “8.5 percent is just a number. There are people behind all of those numbers stacked up and that help is needed universally, wherever you’re at in the United States.” John Lasky, 48, of Lewiston, north of Buffalo, said his unemployment check has allowed him to keep his home since losing his job as

a district manager last November. Despite being willing to accept a job that pays considerably less than the more than $50,000 he was earning before, the father of two said the competition for work is fierce. The recession, which began in December 2007, has eliminated a net total of 6.9 million jobs and an average

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E-mail reminds N.C. troopers to behave

troopers and 300 civilian employees. Troopers have been demoted or fired in the past two years for drunken driving, profiling young women for traffic stops, having sex on duty and animal abuse. The e-mail advises that an organization can be judged by the acts of a few and that employees should be “morally and ethically beyond reproach.” The e-mail is signed by Secretary of Crime Control and Public Safety Reuben Young and Col. Randy Glover.

• Evaluate sign-ups to date and provide recommendations from Nov. 1 to Dec. 30. • Additional evaluation of sign-ups to date and provide recommendations to the County on Dec. 30. • Continue sign-up period, if needed, from Jan. 1 to Feb. 28 in 2010. Ayscue told the three commissioners Thursday that negotiations are going on with the USDA Rural Center for grants and loan rates for all phases of the project. Design work on Phase 1A, which is Sandy Creek, has been completed, according to Tim Carpenter of the engineering firm of Hobbs, Upchurch & As-

sociates of Pinehurst. “We’re now at the juncture where sign-ups are what we need,” he added. Fred Hobbs, the principle partner in the company, told the Commissioners that the USDA Rural Center is eager to hand out grants to qualifying counties wanting to undertake proposed projects such as theirs because of a recent shortage of applicants. Contact the writer at awheless@hendersondispatch.com.

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Deaths Melvin M. Boyd STEM — Melvin M. Boyd, 55, of 3522 E. Thollie Green Road, Stem, died Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2009, at his residence. A native of Granville County, he was the son of the late Syndey M. and Elva Lee Elliott Boyd. No visitation or funeral is planned at this time. He is survived by his wife, Mary Leathers Boyd, and a son, Dylan Minor Boyd, both of the home, and one brother, Johnny of Durham. Eakes Funeral Home of Creedmoor in charge of arrangements.

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PARSIPPANY, N.J. — Astrid Thoenig got dressed, went to work and sat at her desk smiling Thursday as she slid her finger gently under the envelope flap of yet another identical birthday card. They don’t make that many that say “Happy 100th.” Thoenig was interrupted by a steady stream of deliverymen bringing bouquets, chocolate-dipped strawberries and stacks of cards to the Thornton Insurance Co. in Parsippany where she’s been answering phones, keeping financial records, handling payroll and typing up documents for more than 30 years. “It’s another day — it’s hard to explain,” Thoenig said of turning 100. “I don’t feel old, and I don’t think old.” Born Sept. 24, 1909, in Bloomfield, N.J., Thoenig’s earliest memories start in 1918, when she witnessed something so traumatic, “it erased all memories of my childhood before that.” “I remember coming down the stairs from my bedroom and saw these two coffins in the living room: one white, for my sister, and the other for the grown person,” she said, recalling how the flu pandemic of 1918 killed her father and her 10-year-old sister within hours of one another. “To see my father and sister — of all the things I can’t remember — that’s very vivid in my mind.” Thoenig, her remaining sister, and her mother also

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Astrid Thoenig works Thursday as the receptionist for the Thornton Agency in Parsippany, N.J. Thoenig is celebrating her 100th birthday. were infected but survived. Her mother lived until 101 and her sister, who suffered permanent hearing loss from the illness, was 95 when she died. A few years ago, scientists tracked Thoenig down and took blood samples from her as one of the few remaining survivors of the pandemic of 1918-1919 that killed an estimated 30 million to 50 million people worldwide, including thousands in New Jersey. As Thoenig turns 100, her grandson, 43-year-old Peter Thornton, said she couldn’t have picked a better era. “If you had to pick a dramatic century to live, it has to be Astrid’s,” he said. “The invention of the automobile and the airplane, television and computers, the moon landing and two world wars. 1780 to 1880 would have seen changes from a musket to a rifle.” Thoenig says “thinking young” has helped her take a century’s worth of techno-

logical changes in stride. The daughter of Swedish immigrants, she credits her strong constitution, a wonderful family and getting up every day to get dressed and go to work with keeping her mind sharp. Thoenig once sewed all her own clothes and still dresses elegantly, accenting with gold jewelry, colorful glasses and a full head of blond hair that makes her look decades younger. Her strong, agile hands come from a lifetime of typing, knitting and embroidering. Married twice — her first husband died from injuries that earned him a Purple Heart in World War II — Thoenig started working shortly after high school, and has held positions at banks, lawyer’s offices and for the borough of Caldwell. Her current job is her favorite — working alongside her son, John Thornton, and grandson Peter at the family-owned insurance company. “I’m 67, and one of our

jokes is: ‘How can I retire before my mother does?’” John Thornton said. He says his mother is a meticulous worker, reviewing contracts, preparing the payroll, making sure bills are paid, and is always pleasant company. Thoenig credits her son for giving her the job, taking her to work — although she still drove until age 98 when a botched hip operation made it difficult to get around — and always being patient. The growing stack of birthday cards may have identical motifs, but the messages inside them each touched her in their own way. Some, sent by people she’s never met, were from seniors who continue to work and are inspired by her example: “I’m at my job 37 years and still love it,” someone wrote. She took special delight in a bouquet from her dentist with the message: “This is only the beginning!”

Mary M. Taylor DURHAM — Mary M. Taylor, 81, of 5106 Cheek Road, Durham, died Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2009, at Duke University Medical Center in Durham. A native of Granville County, she was the daughter of the late Luther Thomas and Hettie Brogden Taylor.

She was a member of Roberson Grove Baptist Church in Durham County and was a homemaker. Funeral services will be conducted at 2 p.m. Saturday in the Eakes Funeral Chapel in Creedmoor by the Rev. Donald Maynard. Burial will be in Creedmoor Cemetery. She is survived by a sister, Sue Sauls of Smithfield; and a brother, Dennis Warren Taylor of Franklinton. Visitation will be from 7 to 8:30 p.m. today at Eakes Funeral Home in Creedmoor. Arrangements are by Eakes Funeral Home of Creedmoor.

Willie M. Turner WARRENTON — Willie Mae Turner, 85, of Warrenton, died Thursday, Sept. 24, 2009, at Warren Hills Nursing Facility in Warrenton. Funeral services are incomplete at this time but will be announced later by Boyd’s Funeral Service in Warrenton.

Police seize mafia boss’ pet crocodile ROME (AP) — Here’s another of the Mafia’s trademark offers-you-can’t-refuse: pay or be eaten by a crocodile. Italy’s anti-Mafia police unit said Wednesday it has seized a crocodile used by an alleged Naples mob boss to intimidate local businessmen from whom he demanded protection money. Officers searching for weapons in the man’s home outside the southern Italian city last week found the crocodile living on his terrace, said police official Sergio Di Mauro. The crocodile, weighing 88 pounds and 5.6 feet long, was fed a diet of live rabbits and mice, Di Mauro said. He said the suspect, an al-

leged boss in the Naples-based Camorra crime syndicate, used to invite extortion victims to his home and threaten to set the animal on them if they didn’t pay or grant him favors. The man was not arrested but placed under investigation for illegal possession of an animal, Di Mauro said. Investigators are also working on extortion charges against him. Di Mauro said the animal is believed to be a caiman, a species that lives in Central and South America, and it is not yet clear how it got to Italy. The crocodile was placed in the care of Italy’s forestry service.

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Polling places for tobacco referendum announced Polling places have been established in Warren and Vance counties for the Nov. 19 N.C. Tobacco Research Check-Off Referendum, Paul McKenzie, Agricultural Extension Agent, announced. The polling locations are Warren County Extension Center, 158 Rafters Lane, Warrenton, and Vance County Extension Center, 305 Young St., Henderson. McKenzie explained that the referendum is being held to let tobacco growers

decide if they wish to continue the self-assessment program. This program has been in place since 1991, and the law requires that a new referendum be held every six years. A two-thirds favorable vote will mean that growers are willing to continue to assess themselves to support tobacco research and education. The assessment is 10 cents per hundred pounds of tobacco produced in North Carolina.

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Duke, FPL to switch to hybrid, electric vehicles COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Two of the nation’s largest power generators said Thursday that they plan to begin switching their company cars and trucks to plug-in hybrid vehicles or all-electric vehicles starting Jan. 1 to help cut greenhouse gas emissions. The commitment by Charlotte, N.C.-based Duke Energy and Juno Beach, Fla.-based FPL Group Inc. represents more than 10,000 vehicles and potential revenue of $600 million or more for manufacturers. The goal is that by 2020, 100 percent of all new fleet vehicles will be plug-in

electric vehicles or plug-in hybrid vehicles. The companies say plugin cars will reduce carbon emissions by up to 70 percent — 100 percent if a vehicle is charged by zerocarbon renewable energy sources — and lower fuel costs by 80 percent. They say it also will help jump start the market for these vehicles. “We should work together. We benefit the same way,” FPL Vice President Chris Bennett said. He said electric vehicles will provide lower-cost transportation and move the country away from dependency on foreign oil.

The companies made the announcement during the annual meeting of Clinton Global Initiative, started by former President Bill Clinton that brings together the public and private sector to discuss solutions to problems in four areas — climate change, poverty, global health and education. Duke has 4 million electric customers in five states and FPL is the parent of Florida Power & Light, which has 4.5 million customers in Florida. Duke shares were up 7 cents to $15.79 in trading Thursday morning. FPL shares rose 3 cents $53.90.

Livestock disease, biosecurity are meeting topics Prevention and control of livestock diseases and starting a biosecurity program to protect livestock will be topics for farmers at a meeting Monday, Sept. 28, at the Cooperative Extension Vance County Center. Wayne Rowland, Agricultural and Natural Resource Technician with North Carolina Coopera-

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Home sales drop 2.7 percent WASHINGTON (AP) — Home resales dipped last month after a four-month streak of gains, providing evidence that the housing market recovery remains fragile. The National Association of Realtors said Thursday that sales dropped 2.7 percent to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 5.1 million in August, from a pace of 5.24 million in July. Sales had been expected to rise to an

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N.C. Marine calm in 911 call reporting wife’s death JACKSONVILLE (AP) — A former Camp Lejeune Marine charged with killing his wife calmly told 911 dispatchers that he had written a suicide note but was unable to kill himself. In the recording released Wednesday — the same day that he was discharged from the U.S. Marine Corps — former Cpl. Cody Daniel Richardson also answers a dispatcher’s questions and follows her instructions on what to do when police arrived. The 22-year-old from Wolfeboro, N.H., was arrested Monday and charged with first-degree murder in the slaying of his wife, Jessy. Richardson tells the dispatcher the suicide note describes what happened to his wife. But Richardson said he was unable to kill himself. “I was going to follow through on it last night, but I just couldn’t bring myself to do it,” he tells the dispatcher. When police responded to Richardson’s call, they found him waiting outside his apartment and his wife dead in the bedroom. A death certificate by the Onslow County

medical examiner says Jessy Richardson died of asphyxiation due to strangulation. Cody Richardson was calm throughout the call, staying on the phone with the dispatcher until police arrived. After the dispatcher advises him to leave through the front door, he tells her that he is walking down the stairs and, when she asks, describes what he’s wearing — “all blue and a striped shirt.” In a second 911 call released Wednesday, a man who identifies himself as being in the military with Richardson, said Richardson came to his house and confessed to the crime. “I don’t know if he’s joking or if he’s telling the truth, but he has completely freaked me out and told me that he has killed his wife,” the caller said. “He had this note that appeared to be a suicide note, saying that he did it and that he had strangled her.” The caller continued: “He said he wasn’t joking, and I said, ‘Just get out of my house,’” the caller continued. Jessy Richardson’s death and her husband’s arrest shocked his family.

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Sara Lauer, Jessy Richardson’s mother, told the New Hampshire’s WMURTV that she doesn’t want Cody Richardson to serve prison time if he is found responsible in her daughter’s death. She said that he needs help. Richardson, whose next court appearance is scheduled for Oct. 13, is in jail under a $1 million bond.

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The battle against breast cancer continues today and Saturday with “Cruizin’ for a Cure.” A joint project of the Instruments of Shining Hope Cancer Ministry of South Henderson Pentecostal Holiness Church and Maria Parham Medical Center Oncology Center, the battle begins at 3 p.m. today when two Henderson policemen are “jailed” for 24 hours and have to raise their own bail. The “cell” will be located at the City Operations Center on Beckford Drive, which will be the location for Saturday’s events. The benefit continues Saturday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. with raffles, games, food and music. The policemen, Lt. Charles Pulley and Detective Kendall Riddick, will use their cell phones to call for help. According to Pulley, the pair of Henderson’s finest want to raise

$3,000 each. Other activities for the day include: • The firemen’s pink boot drive from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Firemen will take donations at various intersections in the city. • Dunk a fireman. The dunking booth will be open from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. • Generator raffle by the Vance County Sheriff’s Office. • Fire engines will be on dispaly. • Enter for a chance to win a recliner donated by Sams Furniture. • Raffle for a chance to ride along with a deputy. • Bid for a chance to shave the head of Emergency Operations Director Brian Short. Music will be provided by Steve Wilson of Wildlife Entertainment. According to organizers, proceeds from the benefit will be used to raise awareness and funds for breast

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cancer prevention, detection and support. Sandra Currin, president of the church group, said the goal is $10,000, a portion of which will be used to provide mammograms for women who cannot afford them. Cash will be accepted during the benefit, and checks should be made to the Maria Parham Health Care Foundation. Another battle against breast cancer is the Second Annual Bike Ride on Saturday, Oct. 3, from Maria Parham Medical Center to the church. Registration will be from 9:30 to 10:30 a.m., with the ride from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Entry fees for the ride are $20 per bike or $25 for bike and rider. The fees ibnclude a pork barbecue dinner. Send comments to news@hendersondispatch.com.

Data-storage firm EMC to add nearly 400 N.C. jobs RALEIGH (AP) — Data storage equipment maker EMC Corp. said it will add about 400 jobs, build a new research center and expand existing operations in North Carolina if it receives expected incentives. Gov. Bev Perdue’s office said Thursday that EMC was offered up to $7.4 million in state incentives over nine years if the data storage technology provider creates the jobs, invests

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Daily Meditation I sought the Lord, and he heard me, and delivered me from all my fears. They looked unto him, and were lightened: and their faces were not ashamed. This poor man cried, and the Lord heard him, and saved him out of all his troubles. The angel of the Lord encampeth round about them that fear him, and delivereth them. O taste and see that the Lord is good: blessed is the man that trusteth in him. Psalm 34:4-8

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National Public Newspapers? The Hill — a news organization covering Washington politics — reports this week that President Obama would be “happy to look at” bills coming before Congress that would give struggling news organizations a tax break if they would restructure as nonprofit businesses. Dubbed the “Newspaper Revitalization Act,” so far only Sens. Ben Cardin and Barbara Mikulski — both Maryland Democrats — have signed on. Obama has said that good journalism is “critical to the health of our democracy.” And he’s right. Michael Reagan — in a column published by this newspaper — has questioned whether profitable newspapers are necessary to this country’s democracy. There is no question about it; they are. But it is not government’s responsibility to ensure a newspaper’s profitability. And there isn’t a newspaper in America that should take government bailout money to survive — though we can’t guarantee that all newspapers would refuse such cash. Frankly, it would be impossible for a news organization to convince the public of its journalistic independence on one hand if it has the other hand extended toward Uncle Sam. That actually doesn’t appear to be the angle that Cardin and Mukulski have taken with their bill. Their legislation appears directed at assisting newspapers in becoming a localized, dead-tree version of National Public Radio — in it for information, but not for profit. We’re not sure what newspaper company would be interested in accepting tax credits in exchange for becoming a nonprofit entity. Or, if a company did bite at that apple, whether you could really trust that organization’s “nonprofit” status.

Quotable “Those who used to chastise America for acting alone in the world cannot now stand by and wait for America to solve the world’s problems alone. Now is the time for all of us to take our share of responsibility for a global response to global challenges.” — President Barack Obama, addressing a packed U.N. General Assembly hall. “We are right in the middle of an unprecedented financial and economic crisis. We are on the threshold of a planetary ecological disaster. We must right now invent a new world where the follies of yesterday will no longer be possible.” — French President Nicolas Sarkozy, in his speech to the U.N. General Assembly. “It gives me cautious optimism about the possibility of improving this result and developing a more effective AIDS vaccine. This is something that we can do.” — Dr. Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases in a telephone interview after the announcement that an experimental vaccine has prevented infection with the AIDS virus.

The Eaves household doesn’t awaken to a rooster’s crow, or to the repetitive ring of an alarm clock. We have Tippy. Imagine a ham, with four small sticks protruding from its underside, all covered in white fur, plus whiskers and pointed pink ears. Aesthetically speaking, you have Tippy. Tippy was born late one January evening in a Carolina blue clothes hamper, inside Mama’s and Daddy’s bedroom closet. The faint meows of Tippy and the other kittens of her litter awakened my parents with smiles — and some late-night washing of clothes. There’s always one in every litter whose tiny paws push aside all siblings as — eyes still glued shut from birth — the hungry one horns in for seconds before the others have finished their firsts. Tippy was that kitten. The result was a round, “aboutto-pop” belly, the type that

often sends kittens tumbling because their weak, newborn legs are unable to hold up the heap. Tippy’s belly, 13 years later, is still out of proportion, just as it was in her kitten days. Said one visiting Gina family Eaves member, Daily Dispatch “That cat Columnist should be walked on a leash daily!” “Do you think Tippy swallowed a large hairball?” asked another. Due to such uproar, Tippy was placed on a diet — which has become the object of her feline fury. Now, Tippy is fed twice daily. The diet, so far, has

been unsuccessful. Thus, the wake-up calls. A recent morning’s wake-up call was 2:30. The hungry cat, climbing the steps to Mama’s bedroom, began her scratchy, deep meow — the type of sound you’d expect from a lifelong cigar-smoker. Succumbing to Tippy’s cries, Mama gave her a spoonful of diet cat food as a snack and returned to bed. But Tippy did not rest. By 4:30, Tippy’s big belly was again her compass, guiding her to Mama’s bedside. A sleepy Mama, hoping Tippy would leave the bedroom if ignored, watched the white mound of fur try to leap onto the bed. With a failed attempt, and Tippy’s claws stuck in the mattress, an exasperated Mama relented, this time giving Tippy her breakfast. Tippy’s diet has raised a moral dilemma for the Eaves household. Tippy’s health has been the primary factor in

controlling her eating habits. Mealtime surveillance is now mandatory to ensure Tippy doesn’t eat the mama cat’s food, as well, which our family came to realize was a contributing factor in Tippy’s obesity. Yet, Tippy’s a cat. And Tippy is old. And if Tippy lives for her dinner, it’s shameful to suddenly halt her normal buffet-style banquet. With the love of food the women of my family share, the term “mandatory diet” is synonymous with “fighting words.” Cats are wise creatures, and with such early morning wake-up calls, Tippy just may regain her old eating habits. If so, the Eaves household will either invest in a rooster or a new alarm clock. But for now, we’ll just depend on meows. Gina Eaves is an Epsom native, a graduate of Peace College and an advertising sales representative at The Daily Dispatch.

Letters to the Editor Editor’s note: Recently the manager of a Bank of America branch in Gaffney, S.C., cited corporate policy in refusing to allow American flags to be planted along the route that a fallen Marine’s casket would be taking to a local cemetery. The decision has prompted an outcry and backlash against Bank of America, and the corporation has apologized for what it calls a “terrible mistake.”

Consider flag incident before banking with BoA To the editor: For an organization such as Bank of America to refuse to fly our sacred United States flag for a fallen Marine serving our country to protect the freedom we have and enjoy every day, is despicable and disgraceful to every member of our armed forces, our veterans, and to the citizens of this country. This bank does would have been better to keep not deserve the business of it up than lose that struggle. a single American citizen. Of course, Obama’s objecAs the mother of a U.S. Marine who is leaving on tion isn’t to physical walls but his fourth deployment, figurative ones. His real point three in Iraq and this one is that the cult of unity that to Afghanistan, I could only marked the worst excesses wish that the employee of of his presidential campaign Bank of America whose deshould go global. “Old argucision not to fly our flag in ments are irrelevant to the challenges faced by our people,” honor of this fallen Marine would have to serve beside he says. Rather, “the interests these service men everyday of nations and peoples are and experience the danger shared.” and sacrifices they make The problem with this nojust for our freedom. tion of shared interests is not Our brave men leave that it’s untrue, but that it’s a behind their families, miss half-truth. Some interests are the holidays with them, live shared, others not. It was in in substandard conditions, Poland’s interest for us to honor risk their lives, and are willour commitment on missile ing to give their life as this defense. Obama concluded that Marine did, only to have the it was better for us to appease despicable Bank of America Russia’s interests. refuse to honor him with A core attitude unites such a small show of respect Obama’s domestic and foreign- as flying our flag. May you people who policy visions: Principled have accounts with Bank disagreements are not legitiof America stop and think mate if they do not conform to what a disgraceful organithe president’s agenda, be it zation you are dealing with on health care domestically or and realize there are reglobal warming and nuclear spectable banks that would disarmament internationally. welcome your business. Call it a progressive version of “if you’re not with us, you’re Drucilla Matea, against us.” Henderson According to Obama, a highlight in his nine months of redemptive accomplishments was his decision to join the Human Rights Council, a corrupt, farcically bureaucratic carbuncle designed to vilify Israel and The Daily Dispatch welwhitewash the abuses of evil comes letters to the editor. regimes. Critics say we should Letters must be signed, not lend it more authority. But include the author’s city by Obama’s logic, such concerns of residence, and should are rooted in old arguments be limited to 300 words. and ancient, irrelevant cleavPlease include a telephone ages. number for verification. Meanwhile, 53 paragraphs Writers should limit into a 63-paragraph speech, themselves to one letter Obama said that we should not every 30 days. view the principles of democLetters can be accepted racy as an afterthought. by e-mail, but city of residence and a phone number You can write to Jonah Goldberg by still must be included. e-mail at JonahsColumn@aol.com.

Afterthoughts from Obama’s United Nations address It was the most Obamaesque address to date. “For those who question the character and cause of my nation,” the president pronounced Wednesday, “I ask you to look at the concrete actions we have taken in just nine months.” America is 233 years old. Some think that there are ample accomplishments speaking to our character and cause that predate Obama’s ascension to the presidency. Feh, Obama seems to be saying. Look instead to our new greatness, for we have elected a man like him! Having anointed himself America’s vindicator and redeemer, Obama’s real purpose seems to be to become the leader not of the free world but, simply, the world. “No world order that elevates one nation or group of people over another will succeed,” Obama said. “No balance of power among nations will hold. The traditional divisions between nations of the South and the North make no sense in an interconnected world; nor do alignments of nations rooted in the cleavages of a long-gone Cold War.” The United Nations is an odd venue to say such things. The Security Council is premised on nothing if not a balance of power, and the U.N.’s roots go nowhere if not deep into the chilled soil of the Cold War. It is odder still for the president of the United States of America to say such things. Is NATO — currently fighting what until recently Obama defined as a “war of necessity” in Afghanistan — now obsolete? What do the South Koreans or the Japanese think of such rhetoric? More important, our alliances weren’t merely the balancing of power, they represented a contest of values. The Cold War was informed by America’s principled support for free

nations over tyrannical ones. Compromises were made, to be sure, but our values were never abandoned. The president’s defenders say that there is realpolitik behind the U.N. boilerplate, that he is pursuing America’s interests even if he sounds like he’s agreeing with our enemies about pre-Obama Jonah America’s Goldberg flaws. Specifically, they Tribune Media argue that Services he is laying the necessary groundwork to contain and isolate Iran, coaxing the Russians into a new round of sanctions against the Iranians. If he succeeds in that regard, Obama should be congratulated. The problem with this analysis, however, is that most of what Obama said Wednesday was a repeat of what he has said many times before, on the campaign trail, in Berlin and in Cairo. He has said this stuff so often, some might be forgiven for thinking they are more than just words. The greatest danger, Obama declared in Berlin, is not terrorism or global warming or even nuclear war. No, the “greatest danger of all is to allow new walls to divide us from one another.” This week he rehashed the same rhetoric. “The time,” Obama assured us again, “has come for those walls to come down.” Walls often exist for a good reason. They mark clear lines between peoples and nations. The Berlin Wall was not built by us, but by those who could not tolerate liberty. It is good that it came down with our victory in the Cold War. But it

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G-8: Iran has 3 months to stop uranium enrichment By PETER JAMES SPIELMANN Associated Press Writer

UNITED NATIONS — Pressure deepened against Iran on Thursday when the world’s eight top economic powers gave Tehran until year’s end to cease enriching uranium or face new sanctions, but resistance from China could undermine the effort. Washington has been pushing for heavier sanctions if Iran does not agree to end enrichment, which many nations believe is part Ahmadinejad of Tehran’s drive to build a nuclear weapon. Iran says its nuclear program is designed to generate electricity. The U.S. hand was strengthened Wednesday when Russian President Dmitry Medvedev suggest-

ed he could now back such sanctions if they became necessary. But, the prospects of pushing a new sanctions resolution through the Security Council were undercut Thursday when China, one of the veto-wielding permanent members, rejected the idea. Instead, more diplomatic efforts are needed, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Jiang Yu told reporters in Beijing at a news conference, reiterating a long-held stance. Current U.N. sanctions on Iran are meant to prohibit exports of sensitive nuclear material and technology. They also allow the inspection of cargo suspected of carrying prohibited goods, tighter monitoring of financial institutions and the extension of travel bans and asset freezes if linked to its nuclear program. Iranian President Mah-

moud Ahmadinejad, in his Wednesday speech to the General Assembly, did not mention the nuclear matters issue and the push by the U.S., Britain and France for heavier sanctions. On Thursday, Italian Foreign Minister Franco Frattini said the Group of Eight nations has given Iran until the end of the year to commit to ending uranium enrichment if it wants to avoid new sanctions. Frattini, who’s nation holds the rotating chair of the club of wealthy nations known as the G-8, said that member foreign ministers agreed Wednesday night “to give Iran a chance.” But Frattini said that the informal agreement will be re-examined each month, “And after the end of December, I strongly hope we will have at that time practical moves from Iran.”

“That’s why together we decided — while not excluding further measures, as even Russia apparently said — we have to give Iran a serious chance,” he said. “If we give a chance, let’s give a chance. Don’t, I would say, immediately put another option on the table. This would be counterproductive to the eyes of our counterpart. This is our strategy for the moment.” The maneuvering comes ahead an Oct. 1 meeting of diplomats from Iran, the U.S., Britain, France, Russia, China and Germany on Tehran’s nuclear program. The key to new sanctions would require agreement among all five permanent Security Council members. The United States, Britain and France lean toward more sanctions. Russia now appears open to the measure, but China still is refusing.

Beijing is heavily reliant on Iranian oil imports. “We believe we need to help Iran to take a right decision,” Medvedev said Wednesday night after he met President Barack Obama on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly. The U.S., Britain and France all mentioned Iran, along with North Korea, as obstacles to a safer world during a Security Council meeting Thursday that approved a U.S.-drafted resolution that commits all nations to achieving a nuclear weapons-free world. The resolution does not mention any country by name but it reaffirms previous resolutions that imposed sanctions on Iran and North Korea for their nuclear activities. It did not call for any new sanctions. Since Iran’s nuclear program was discovered seven years ago, it has

put thousands of centrifuges online to churn out enriched uranium. But the International Atomic Energy Agency says the more than a ton of enriched material it has amassed is all below the 5 percent level and well below the 20 percent highly enriched mark. Still Iran’s accumulation of well over (2,200 pounds) of low-enriched uranium gives it more than enough material to produce enough weaponsgrade uranium through further enrichment for one nuclear weapon. Associated Press Writer John Heilprin contributed to this story.

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Geithner: G-20 near agreement on bankers’ pay By TOM RAUM Associated Press Writer

PITTSBURGH — Struggling with a contentious issue, world leaders have reached basic agreement on limiting the bonuses of bankers whose risky behavior contributed to the global financial meltdown, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said Thursday at a summit of the world’s largest economies. In the streets outside, protesters tussled with police on the opening day. At a news conference, Geithner also expressed optimism that summit partners would endorse the broad outlines of a U.S. proposal to deal with huge imbalances in the global economy such as large trade surpluses in China and record budget deficits in the United States. He also said the U.S. supports China’s efforts to gain greater voting rights in the International Monetary Fund over the reservations of European nations, who would lose influence. Given the rise of China’s economic powers, “it’s the right thing,” and Europe recognizes that, Geithner said. World leaders descended on the comeback city of Pittsburgh to debate how to nurture a recovering but still-wobbly global economy. Nerves are still on edge, but this summit of the world’s 20 leading economies seems free of the crisis atmosphere that hung over the past two — despite the clashes between protesters and police. The treasury secretary said the G-20 countries had reached a consensus on the “basic outline” of a proposal to limit bankers’ compensation by the end of this year. He said it would involve setting separate standards in each of the countries and would be overseen the Financial Stability Board, an international group of central bankers and regulators. Until now, European countries had pressed harder than the U.S. for limits. “We want to have very strong standards to limit the risks that compensation practices” encourage, Geithner said. The issue of compensation has been one of the more difficult ones facing the summit. Europeans in particular pressed for strict limits on salaries and bonuses for executives of financial institutions to keep them from being rewarded for

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