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Faison ups offer for Southerland’s Mill Pond property

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imply, read my mind or anything else ... for him to submit bogus invoices.” The contradictions in testimony come as election board members are expected to decide Thursday at the close of an investigative hearing what actions to take, if any, against Easley’s committee and the state Democratic Party. The board could exonerate his campaign, order it to pay fines or refer the case to prosecutors for criminal charges. The ex-governor, a Democrat who left office in January after eight years, testified he told Campbell in 2005 to file an invoice for the campaign to advance him money to pay for expected

The counteroffer has gone up to $120,000 for the Southerland’s Mill Pond tract in the southeastern part of Vance County. State Rep. Bill Faison, D-Orange, submitted a bid at approximately 10 a.m. Tuesday, with the deadline being at 5 p.m. the same day, City Clerk Pam Glover told the Dispatch. Another 10-day bidding process will start, with Glover saying an official notice is expected to be in the Dispatch by the end of this week. Faison’s bid puts him ahead of Henderson attorney Randall Cloninger, who on Oct. 13 bid $110,300. Cloninger placed his bid the same day the city received a bid of $105,000 by Faison, an attorney who in 2008 had considered running for governor. Cloninger on Sept. 28 submitted a $95,000 counteroffer for the property. That topped a $90,000 counteroffer by Faison, who had topped a counteroffer of $73,500 by Cloninger. Robert Southerland, a former city councilman whose family once owned the land, made the first offer with a $43,000 bid. Elissa Yount, a former city councilwoman, made a counteroffer of $50,000. Bier Haus made

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Former Gov. Mike Easley, during his testimony Wednesday before the state Board of Elections, looks over a copy of an invoice for flights billed to his campaign by McQueen Campbell. The board is gathering information on possible campaign violations by Easley and the state Democratic Party.

Easley contradicts pilot friend on flights, home repair billing By GARY D. ROBERTSON Associated Press Writer

RALEIGH — Out of office for nine months, former Gov. Mike Easley appeared in public Wednesday to reject testimony from a friend and political ally about airplane flights and home repairs being investigated by the State Board of Elections. In more than four hours of testimony, Easley denied he told McQueen Campbell to use bills for campaign flights piloted by Campbell to hide thousands of dollars in reimbursements from campaign funds to pay for repairs Campbell took care of on the governor’s home. “I don’t know where he got that idea but he didn’t get it from me,”

Easley told the board. Campbell, a longtime family friend whom Easley appointed to the N.C. State University trustee board, testified Monday that the governor had suggested the idea to him and that he filed two false invoices totaling more than $11,000. The airplane flights, a car leased to the campaign and other issues surrounding Easley and his wife have drawn attention from state and federal investigators. Easley said Campbell, the board’s star witness, was wrong. “He never, ever mentioned anything about repairs to the house along with any invoices. They were all separate,” Easley told the board, adding there was no conversation “where he could

Reducing Framework laid for strategic plan school bus emissions Vision, purpose and Henderson-Vance Economic Development Commission retreat

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Neighbor indicted in man’s death

OXFORD — A 30-yearold Granville County man has been indicted for voluntary manslaughter resulting from an Aug. 20 fatal shooting east of Stem. The grand jury decided Otis Perry must answer to the court for the death of Jimmy Champion. The grand jury met on Monday and the indictPerry ment was not yet logged into the county courthouse’s public computer terminals as of Wednesday afternoon, but the Dispatch asked a deputy court clerk, who answered in the affirmative. Perry, of 600 E. B St., Butner, was booked Aug. 28 after he turned himself in at the Sheriff’s Department after being contacted at his home, with bond set at $50,000, Sheriff Brin Wilkins has said. Perry was released on bond the same day, jail records show. Although Perry has a Butner address, Wilkins has said that Champion and Perry were neighbors and that Perry was upset with Champion about a dog in Perry’s yard off Little Pond Road. Emergency 911 received the call at 6:54 p.m. Aug. 20. Little Pond is just off Sanders Road and near the Interstate 85 overpass of Sanders.

Members of the HendersonVance Economic Development Commission agreed Wednesday on the framework for a strategic plan set for approval as a document at the Nov. 18 meeting. If that happens, the proposed plan would then have to be adopted by both the county’s Board of Commissioners and the City Council. On Wednesday, the second day of the EDC’s retreat, Chairman Sam Watkins suggested that the organization’s marketing efforts be funded through five percent of any new tax base revenue it produces. A lot of the foundation work for the frame of the roughed-out plan was accomplished Tuesday by representatives of numerous stake-holder organizations in the community, as well as by members of the EDC Board, the City Council and the Board of Commissioners. On Wednesday the EDC members approved a list of strategic objectives, complete with action steps for each. 1) Create And Retain Jobs. • Develop existing business programs. • Develop and implement a strategy to serve existing businesses. • Make on-site visits to businesses, and create inventories of their needs. • Develop a business incubator.

mission statements are hammered out By AL WHELESS Daily Dispatch Writer

Proposed vision, purpose and mission statements — as well as some core values — were hammered out on paper Wednesday by members of the Henderson-Vance Economic Development Commission. Vision — “To be the most economically vibrant and socially responsible rural community in North Carolina, with widely shared prosperity. Purpose — “The EDC will be a facilitator and catalyst for business and value-added investment job-creation opportunities.” Mission — “To provide Please see VISION, page 12A

• Acquire high-speed rail. 2) Market The Community. • Develop a marketing strategy of the community. • Update websites. • Improve community appearance. • Alignments with Research Triangle Region, the Hub and

commerce. • Develop marketing to the community and stress the positive over the negative. • Establish a marketing budget. 3) Improve Education. • Partner with schools and work force development. • Develop education support programs. • Practical trade skills. • Explore on-the-job-training. • Innovative approach. • Academic support programs for disadvantaged youths. • Partnering with Work Force Development Board and the Hub to explore options. 4) Enhance Pro-business Environment. • Move at the speed of business. • Fast-tracking permits. • Board development and selection. • Teach employees to be customer-friendly to business. • Shovel-ready, move-in. • Incentives and financing. 5) Improve The Quality Of Life. • Market to ourselves, to our own community. Understand the history of cultural diversity. Understand your own history in order to overcome it. Understand who we are as a county and have honest action. • Partner with law enforcement and the juvenile system to address crime issues.

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Vance will retrofit 29 vehicles with help from stimulus funds By DAVID IRVINE Daily Dispatch Writer

The Vance County Schools district has received a grant of $46,000 to retrofit part of its school bus fleet to reduce exhaust emissions. Transportation Director Clay Owen told the Daily Dispatch that the funds will be used to retrofit 29 of the district’s older buses. These are buses that will remain in the fleet for the next few years. Seven buses that are due for replacement next year will not be retrofitted. “I don’t want to spend money to retrofit a bus that’s going to be replaced,” Owen said. The 29 buses represent about one-third of the school district’s fleet of 88 buses. Owen said some of the buses not being retrofitted are already in compliance with air quality standards. Owen said the district hopes to let a contract in the near future so that work on the buses can begin after Thanksgiving. The grant to Vance County Schools is part of a $344,000 grant Please see EMISSIONS, page 3A

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Mark It Down Today Health fair — The Vance County Senior Center will hold a health fair from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. A number of vendors will be present with information, printed materials and promotional items, plus door prizes. In addition, there will be diabetes screenings, blood pressure checks and spinal posture checks. The public is invited to attend. The senior center is located at 126 S. Garnett St. For more information, call (252) 430-0257. Childbirth classes — Prepared childbirth education classes are held at Granville Medical Center, 1010 College St., in Oxford, every Thursday night from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. in the first floor conference room. Women who are scheduled to deliver their babies at any hospital are welcome to attend. To register for the classes, call the Childbirth Education Department at (919) 690-3208. Business After Hours — The Hampton Inn of Henderson, in cooperation with the Henderson-Vance County Chamber of Commerce, will host a Business After Hours from 5:30-7 p.m. at the inn, located at 385 Ruin Creek Road. At the “Haunted Hampton Halloween Barbecue,” guests will be treated to barbecue and a variety of spooky treats as they network with other business owners and employees. Any Chamber member wishing to attend should RSVP to the Chamber at (252) 4388414 or by e-mail to membership@hendersonvance.org.

Friday Downtown trick or treat — The downtown Henderson merchants will sponsor trick-or-treat along Garnett Street from 4-5:30 p.m. with live entertainment, free face painting, balloon sculptures, cotton candy and popcorn. For children 12 and under accompanied by a parent. Weight loss group — TOWN (Take Off Weight Now), a non-profit weight loss group, will meet at Aycock Recreation Center at 11:30 a.m. Everyone is invited to attend. HIV testing — Maria Parham Medical Center and the Intimidator’s Bike Club of Oxford are offering free HIV testing from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. in two locations—the Walmart Shopping Center in Henderson and the new Walmart Shopping Center in Oxford. Come into the parking lot and look for the RVs. The first 100 people tested will receive a Walmart gift card.

Saturday Burlington employees’ reunion — Former employees of the Oxford Burlington Industries plant are meeting at 2 p.m. at the home of Robin Rice Wolford, 7034 Frederick Road, Oxford, to plan a reunion. For more information and directions, call (919) 692-1063. 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. The market plans a fall festival today. Walk-a-thon — Boy Scouts Troop 620 and the American Diabetes Association will hold a walk-a-thon from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. on the track at the YMCA on Ruin Creek Road in Henderson. Prizes and t-shirts will be raffled off at the event. For more information, call 433-6426. Trick-or-treat — The Kerr Lake Volunteer Fire Department will have a children’s Halloween party from 6-8 p.m. at the fire station at 5021 Satterwhite Point Road. Snacks, candy and punch will be served. All trick-or-treaters welcome! Henderson trick-or-treat — The official trick-or-treat hours for the city of Henderson are 6-9 p.m. Only trick or treaters 10 years and younger are permitted to trick or treat in the city limits. 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. 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. Dee’s Music Barn — Dee’s Music Barn, 3101 Walters Road, Creedmoor, will be featuring Ace In The Hole with James Protreat at 7 p.m. For more information, call (919) 5285878. Ridgeway Opry House — Performing this week are Julia Morton, Verlin Bailey, Matt Nelson, Alan & Betsy Reid, Joyce Chisenhall, Donny Gilliam and Ronald Puett & Frieda. Open mic night. Doors open at 6 p.m. Music starts at 7 p.m.

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Eleven Northern Vance High School newspaper and yearbook staff members and their advisers attended the 12th annual Journalism Day at UNC-Chapel Hill’s School of Journalism and Mass Communication on Oct. 22. Sponsored by the School of Journalism and Mass Communication and The News and Observer in Raleigh, the workshop offered three hours of classes on 20 journalistic topics, including photography, law and ethics, newspaper and yearbook design, writing and editing and broadcasting. Classes began after a general interview session, in which UNC journalism school graduate student Jed Williams talked with ESPN broadcasters who would be announcing and doing technical work with that night’s national ESPN telecast of the football game between UNC-Chapel Hill and Florida State University. Pictured (left to right) are (first row) Paula Terry, Ashleigh Blackmon, Dishon Cobbins and Crenicia Gaunt; (second row) Travis Egerton, Emily Ellington and Everette Faucette; (third row) Donna Adams, Shaquille Leonard, Marty Keeton and Danielle Cameron; and (fourth row) yearbook adviser Carolyn Powell and newspaper adviser Colette Harper.

Energy assistance programs taking applications for winter heating bills The Department of Social Services in both Vance and Warren counties will be taking applications Nov. 2-13 from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. for the Low Income Energy Assistance Program for this winter. The Low Income Energy Assistance Program is a federally funded program that provides a one-time cash payment to help eligible families pay their heating bills. Applicants must meet eligibility requirements. Anyone interested in applying should bring a picture ID;

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Easley said it was difficult to remember all the flights going back to the time he was elected attorney general in 1992. But he didn’t believe Campbell had flown him the dozens of times that Campbell portrayed in documents he presented to the board. Easley said the campaign was willing to pay for all of the flights not reported by the campaign but said they had no reminder to do so before because Campbell never filed paperwork with the campaign. According to Easley, Campbell told him on two occasions that he had been paid for all of his expenses, including before an October 2008 newspaper article was released about Campbell’s piloting. “I said, McQueen, if there are flights that you haven’t been paid for, I

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a counteroffer of $55,000, Yount made a counteroffer of $60,000, Southerland made a counteroffer of $63,500 and Bier Haus took the lead again with a$70,000 counteroffer. Paul Harris is a managing member of Bier Haus. Harris is president of the Budweiser distributorship, which is located off Warrenton Road, and Bier Haus, which is a limited liability company, owns the distributorship building.

The city acquired the Southerland’s Mill Pond tract in 1952 for $51,000, which prompted a dissent by Councilman Garry Daeke at the July 27 council meeting about the municipal government selling land at $8,000 less than what the city paid more than a half-century ago. The council on July 27 approved a resolution stating the city’s intent to sell the land, with Daeke

being made to nine counties in North Carolina. A total of 249 buses in those counties are scheduled for the retrofitting, according to information released by the N.C. Department of Public Instruction. State Superintendent June Atkinson said, “We already know that school buses are the safest way for children to get to and from school. We are pleased to be able to do our part in also helping to make the air healthier for students riding our buses.” Funds for the program were provided through the federal American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of

2009, popularly known as the Economic Stimulus Act. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Acting Administrator Stan Meiburg said, “This funding will go a long way in helping to bolster the economy [of North Carolina] and protect public health and the environment by creating green jobs that improve air quality.” Information provided by EPA stresses that the mobility diesel engines provide is critical to the nation’s economy. However, diesel exhaust contains large amounts of nitrogen oxides, particu-

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member Chuck Winfree of Greensboro. Easley said he was busy as chief executive and relied on campaign staff to deal with finances. The board also is looking at whether the state party ceded authority over how campaign funds given by Easley’s campaign to the party were used — something the party denies. “To my knowledge, I’ve never seen a campaign report,” Easley said. “I did not spend a lot of time with the campaign itself.” The board also had hoped to question Ruffin Poole, Easley’s former legal counsel, but a Superior Court judge on Wednesday signed an order quashing the board’s subpoena. The judge put Poole’s affidavit explaining why he shouldn’t testify under seal. The board has agreed to appeal the decision.

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don’t care if they go back to 1999, now is the time to tell somebody because they’re going to write a story,” Easley said. He recalled Campbell responded with “No, I’ve got everything, I’ve been reimbursed for everything.” Campbell’s attorney, Hill Allen, wouldn’t comment on Easley but said Campbell testified “to the best of his ability.” Board Chairman Larry Leake said there are no plans to recall Campbell as a witness. Other board members hearing testimony from Easley and his campaign finance advisers this week were concerned why no one in Easley’s campaign had information on Campbell’s flights. “I’m concerned about the fact that nobody recollects any of these ... flights by Mr. Campbell,” board

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Deaths Charles F. Taylor KITTRELL — Charles F. Taylor, 68, of 100 Kittrell Vance Ave., died Monday, Oct. 26, 2009, at Duke Medical Center. He was the son of the late Arch Taylor and Sarah Henderson Taylor. Funeral services will be conducted at 2 p.m. Saturday at Flat Creek Baptist Church by the Rev. William Everett. Burial will be in the Basin Field Cemetery. He is survived by two daughters, Annette T. Williams and Gail T. Hunter, both of Henderson; two sons, Tracy Darnell Taylor and Charles F. Taylor Jr., both of Henderson; four sisters, Myrtle Mayo and Frances Mayo, both of Hillsborough, Ularene Brown and Margie Fogg, both of Henderson; four brothers, Claude Taylor of Wilmington, Daniel Taylor of Henderson, Phillip Taylor of Arizona and Jackie Taylor of Georgia; nine grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren. The viewing will be Friday from 10 a.m. until 6 p.m. at Wright Funeral Home of Henderson. Arrangements are by Wright Funeral Home.

Loretta J. Terry KITTRELL — Loretta Johnson Terry, 39, of 55 Sumer Lake Road, died

Sunday, Oct. 25, 2009, at 234 W. Orange St., Henderson. She was the daughter of Alma L. Johnson and the late Bennie S. Johnson. She was an employee of Aetna insurance company and Vance County Schools. Funeral services will be conducted at 2 p.m. Friday at New Life United Church of Christ by the Rev. Myron Henderson. Burial will be in Sunset Gardens. She is survived by a husband, Timothy Leigh Terry Sr.; a son, Timothy Leigh Terry Jr.; a daughter, Kristina Donielle Terry; five sisters, Lillian Richardson, Alma Louise Haywood, Diane Macklin, Linda Hawkins and Jacqueline Yancey, all of Henderson; six brothers, James Lee Haywood Jr., Cleveland R. Haywood, Christopher Haywood, Bennie S. Johnson Jr., all of Henderson, Sgt. Lewis Haywood of Oklahoma City, and Leon Haywood of Cary. The viewing will be today from 11 a.m. until 6 p.m. at Wright Funeral Home of Henderson. The family will receive visitors at 55 Summer Lake Road in Kittrell and at 234 W. Orange St. in Henderson. Arrangements are by Wright Funeral Home.

David H. Shearin RICHMOND, Va. — David Hill Shearin, 70, of Richmond, Va., a native of Granville County, N.C., died Monday, Oct. 26, 2009. He was preceded in death by his parents, Maggie L. and Malvin Hill Shearin; and a sister, Dorothy Williams. Survivors include his wife, Norma Jean Shearin; two daughters, Terry Shearin Grogg and Susie Shearin; and four grandchildren. He was a furniture sales representative for 40 years and active in Moose Lodge No. 699. His remains rest at the Huguenot Chapel of Woody Funeral Home, 1020 Huguenot Road, where the family will receive friends 2 to 4 and 6 to 8 p.m. Friday and where funeral services will be held 12 noon Saturday. Interment will follow in Dale Memorial Park. In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to the American Lung Association in Virginia, P.O. Box 35010, Richmond, Va. 23235. Arrangements are by Woody Funeral Home.

Warrenton man, 20, indicted for statutory rape By DAVID IRVINE Daily Dispatch Writer

WARRENTON – Jonathan Lester Reams, 20, of 117 Marshall St. in Warrenton, was arrested on Sept. 20 and charged with statutory rape. The arresting officer was

Deputy K. Bailey of the Warren County Sheriff’s Office. Magistrate W. T. Hardy issued a magistrate’s order on Sept. 23 stating that there is probably cause that Reams had sexual intercourse with a 15-year-old female. Reams

was released on a $10,000 secure bond. On Oct. 10, a grand jury issued a true bill and referred the case to Superior Court. A hearing is scheduled for Nov. 30 at 9:30 a.m. Contact the writer at dirvine@ hendersondispatch.com.

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INDICTED, from page one Champion, 62, died at Durham Regional Hospital as a result of being struck by a discharge from a handgun, Wilkins has said. Perry was detained in connection with the inci-

dent and was released, with charges pending the outcome of the investigation. Voluntary manslaughter is defined as the killing of a human being in which the offender had no prior intent

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Smokies’ $800 million tops in visitor spending in 2008 GATLINBURG, Tenn. (AP) — A National Park Service study has ranked the Great Smoky Mountains as tops in visitor spending. The study estimates the Smokies’ 9 million visitors in 2008 spent more than $800 million on lodging, fuel, food, gifts and amusements in the park’s gateway communities, including Gatlinburg, Pigeon Forge and Cherokee, N.C. That’s nearly twice as much as the $423 million spent by visitors to Arizona’s Grand Canyon, which finished second behind the Smokies in a review of the park service’s 391 units. It also means that each visitor to the Smokies is worth, on average, about $88 to the local economy. The study said that level of spending supports some 14,569 jobs in Smokies communities.

“Over 75 years ago when community leaders in Tennessee and North Carolina sought to create this national park some were striving to preserve the last vestiges of old growth forest in the Southeast,” Smokies Superintendent Dale Ditmanson said in a statement Wednesday. “Many others saw that a national park in the Southern Appalachians could become a powerful magnet to attract tourists who would contribute to the local economy,” he said. Early Smokies planners recognized that nearly all the infrastructure to serve visitors could be developed outside the park, Ditmanson said. “By choosing not to build hotels, restaurants, gas stations and the like inside the park, we have been able to minimize the impact of those

facilities on the park while maximizing the opportunity for local communities to offer whatever goods and service visitors might want or need,” he said. The study by Daniel Stynes of Michigan State University provides a breakdown of each park unit’s visitation, visitor spending and local jobs supported. Joining the Smokies and Grand Canyon in the top five for visitor spending are Yellowstone in Montana, Wyoming and Idaho at $345 million, the Blue Ridge Parkway of Virginia and North Carolina at $342 million and California’s Yosemite at $292 million. The study said the Smokies’ 342 employees had the fifth highest payroll — $14.9 million — in the system in 2008. Yellowstone was first with $23.9 million.

$530 million paid to Madoff victims NEW YORK (AP) — Bernard Madoff’s victims have so far received $530 million in compensation — a record for a securities industry group providing the money, but only a fraction of what they lost in the disgraced financier’s epic swindle. The total being paid by the Securities Investors Protection Corp., also known as the Madoff SIPC, was announced Wednesday during a telephone briefing about the ongoing liquidation of the jailed money manager’s assets and the processing of thousands of claims from burned investors.

Stephen Harbeck, president of the SIPC, said the $530 million exceeded the combined amount from 321 previous brokerage liquidations since 1970. SIPC is authorized by Congress to guarantee brokerage accounts for a maximum $500,000. On the same call, courtappointed trustee Irving Picard said he had identified $21.2 billion losses in about 2,300 customer accounts. He also said he had approved $4.4 billion in claims, and located about $1.5 billion in assets that will help cover a portion of them. Madoff, 71, pleaded guilty earlier this year to charges that his secretive investment advisory operation was a multibillion-dollar Ponzi

scheme. The former Nasdaq chairman was sentenced to 150 years in prison. The trustee has sued Madoff’s family members and wealthy associates in bankruptcy court in Manhattan, claiming they made off with billions of dollars that should be returned to his clients. Among the defendants was Jeffry Picower, who drowned Sunday in a swimming pool after having a heart attack. A complaint filed in May accused Picower — a Florida philanthropist and friend of Madoff for decades — of being the biggest beneficiary of the fraud. It said he made $7 million through “implausibly high purported returns” — an allegation he had denied.

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VANCE COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE Arrests • Willie Morris Perry, 16, of 576 Lake View Road was arrested Oct. 23. Felony malicious conduct by a prisoner. Bond was set at $500. Court date Nov. 3. • Keith Lamont Epps, 32, of 141 Neal Lane was served with an order for arrest on Oct. 27. Child support, 1 count each in Vance and Warren counties. Bond was set at $5,200. Court date Nov. 6 in Warren and Nov. 13 in Vance. • Jalissa Monique Franklin, 21, of 1108 King St. was served with an order for arrest on Oct. 27. Failure to appear on a charge of driving while license revoked. Bond was set at $800. Court date Nov. 16. • John Howard Ellington, 39, of 110 McClanhan St., Oxford, was served with an order for arrest on Oct. 27. Misdemeanor failure to appear on a charge of injury to real property. Misdemeanor failure to appear on a charge of injury to personal property. Misdemeanor commu-

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Larceny • John Russell Hudson, 51, of 735 Boddie St. reported Oct. 26 the theft from the residence of the following items and theri values: Henry .22 caliber lever action rifle with wood stock, $200; gold and silver coins, $50; 14kt gold rope necklace, $200; 2 sterling silver rope necklaces, $200; yellow gold Blue Stone High School class ring with initials JRH, $400; Daisy BB gun, $50; Wrangler jeans, $20.

Lawyers seeking leniency for al-Qaida sleeper agent By DAVID MERCER Associated Press Writer

PEORIA, Ill. (AP) — Videotapes presented at the sentencing hearing for an al-Qaida sleeper agent show long days spent alternately pacing and reclining on a concrete floor during the nearly six years he was held as an enemy combatant. Lawyers for 44-yearold Ali al-Marri argued Wednesday that he was held under unusually tough conditions at a Navy brig in South Carolina. They contend that should be considered by a federal judge in Illinois who will

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of Henderson reported Oct. 26, the theft from 1630 Parham St. of a 14-foot dual axle utility trailer valued at $3,000. • George’s, 210 N. Garnett St., reported Oct. 26 the theft of an undisclosed amount of cash. Damage to a rear door in the break-in estimated at $500.

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at age 16, was one of nine women married to Jessop, including three who were reassigned to him after his brother was excommunicated from the sect by jailed leader Warren Jeffs. Jessop faces a bigamy charge, stemming from his alleged marriage to one of Jeffs’ daughters, but will be tried on that indictment later. Defense attorneys sought to bar prosecutors from talking about polygamy during the trial, but Texas District Judge Barbara Walther refused to prevent them from discussing the socalled “spiritual” marriages between men and multiple women in the community. Jessop is one of 12 FLDS men charged since authorities raided the ranch in April 2008 and swept 439 children into foster care. The children were later returned to their parents after an appellate court intervened, but documents and DNA seized during the initial raid resulted in criminal indictments. The charges range from failure to report child abuse to sexual assault and bigamy. All the men will be tried separately. Jeffs, already convicted in Utah as accomplice to rape, awaits trial on similar charges in Arizona before he can be tried for sexual assault of a child and bigamy in Texas.

FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Some Christians in Kentucky are angry over the governor’s yuletide terminology. A giant evergreen that will brighten the Capitol lawn this winter won’t be called a Christmas AP Photo/Haraz N. Ghanbari tree. Instead, Gov. Steve Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood, left, testifies Wednesday on Capitol Hill before a Sen- Beshear’s ad- Beshear ate Commerce, Science and Transportation hearing on combating distracted driving. At right ministration is Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski. has dubbed it a “holiday tree.” The Rev. Jeff Fugate of Lexington says the change is offensive to Christians. Beshear administration Transportation Committee. The pilots have 10 days to spokeswoman Cindy LanBy JOAN LOWY and KEN THOMAS During a hearing on appeal to the three-member Associated Press Writers ham says the holiday tree distracted driving before National Transportation reference is meant to be Rockefeller’s committee, Safety Board, the same WASHINGTON — The inclusive of Thanksgiving, LaHood did not immediately agency that investigates air two airlines pilots who Christmas, Hanukkah and overshot their destination by address the Northwest pilots crashes and makes safety New Year’s. People found recommendations. If an ap150 miles have prompted the but noted “the problem is not just confined to vehicles peal fails, they can apply for out about it Tuesday when U.S. Transportation Departa new license after one year. the state sent a letter lookment to expand its distracted on our roads — it affects all modes of transportation.” The pilots violated numer- ing for someone to donate driving initiative to include a tree. The Northwest Airlines ous federal regulations, in“distracted flying,” a spokesRepublican Senate Presipilots told safety investigacluding failing to comply with woman for the department tors they were using their air traffic control instructions dent David Williams of said Wednesday. laptops to work out crew and clearances and operating Burkesville says Beshear is Transportation Secretary putting political correctness schedules for more than an their aircraft carelessly and Ray LaHood is concerned ahead of Kentucky values. hour last week while flying recklessly, FAA said. about “distractions as they their Airbus 320 past their apply beyond cars — to rail, destination of Minneapolis, buses, and now, planes,” Jill Minn., in the upper Midwest. Zuckman told The AssociThe pilots acknowledged ated Press. losing track of time and place The Obama administra5:30 pm - 8:00 pm for 91 minutes while air tion and lawmakers have already expressed interest in traffic controllers and their airline’s dispatchers tried targeting distracted driving, vainly to reach them, federal including the use of mobile (does not include beverage) authorities said. devices while behind the Rockefeller, whose comwheel. A group of senators Ages 12 & under mittee oversees the Federal proposed legislation on Limit 2 children per adult Aviation Administration, Wednesday that would offer said the incident “raises seriincentive grants to states ous safety concerns.” that approve laws to combat The FAA said Tuesday distracted driving. that it had revoked the “Texting takes your eyes licenses of the pilots of Northoff the road — long enough west flight 188 — Timothy at high speeds to travel the Children’s Regular Buffet Cheney, the captain, and length of a football field,” $4.99 Richard Cole, the first officer. said Sen. Jay Rockefeller, a Democrat who leads the Senate Commerce, Science and

ELDORADO, Texas — Eight men and four women were selected Wednesday for the jury that will decide the first criminal case stemming from the raid of a polygamist group’s ranch in West Texas last year. Court officials called 300 jurors to get 12 jurors and two alternates in tiny Schleicher County where everyone knows one another and media images of the sect’s women wearing prairie-style Jessup dresses were impossible to avoid. The original pool included 17 residents of the Yearning For Zion Ranch, but none are on the jury panel for the trial of Raymond Jessop. The 38-year-old is accused of sexual assault of a child, a charge stemming from his alleged marriage to an underage girl in the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, a sect that believes polygamy brings glorification in heaven. Opening statements were scheduled to begin Wednesday afternoon. Prosecutors say the girl, who gave birth at the ranch

Family welcoming home remains of WWII airman ONTARIO, Calif. (AP) — The remains of a World War II airman missing for 65 years after his bomber crashed into the Pacific Ocean have arrived in Southern California. The remains of Air Force Sgt. Robert Stinson arrived Wednesday under military escort at Ontario International Airport on a flight from Hawaii. The remains were in a casket draped with an American flag. Stinson was a 24-year-old flight engineer when his B-24J Liberator bomber was shot down near Palau, a grouping of islands in the South Pacific. Divers from a nonprofit organization located the wreck-

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Was there not one good young man? On homecoming night at a high school in California, for more than two tortuous hours, a gang of boys brutally raped a 15-year-old girl right outside the school dance. A crowd gathered and watched; police say as many as 20 individuals either participated or watched. The girl was left semi-conscious under a bench. And during the entire despicable attack, nobody so much as called police. Is this the generation we have raised? Certainly there are good young men in the world; those who know how to respect young women. There are far from enough. And none apparently were present. And we would like to believe that there are enough good people in this world that at least one witness to such a crime would use a cell phone to call police or run to find a school official. But apparently we’re wrong. Psychologists call it “the bystander effect” when individuals stand idly by as a brutal crime takes place. The bigger the crowd, in fact, the less likely someone will be to step forward and do the right thing. We call it “the coward effect.” For whatever reason — their own fear of the attackers, most likely — no young man intervened to rescue this poor girl. Not by seeking help. Certainly not by stepping forward and fighting for her life and safety. Courage. Character. Chivalry. In this world, we fear, all in dangerously short supply.

Just as I begin to think that our society has outgrown ridiculous racial prejudices, some throwback comes along to try to prove me wrong. For example, you may recently have heard about Keith Bardwell, a justice of the peace in Tangipahoa Parish, Louisiana, who refused to marry a mixed-race couple. Why? He says he was worried about the children that such a marriage might produce. On what planet, I wondered, has this man been vacationing for, say, the past 40 years? As Bill Burton, deputy press secretary to this nation’s biracial president and himself the product of a racially mixed marriage, said to reporters aboard Air Force One, “I’ve found that actually the children of biracial couples can do pretty good!” Yes, they can. But we don’t need to wade into the rural South to find racial throwbacks to the nation’s bad old days. Look for example, at how students from Washington University in St. Louis recently set Chicago’s barhopping community abuzz by filing a civil rights complaint against a popular North Side nightclub. Six black students were denied entry to the Original Mother’s bar in the Division Street nightclub district. This prevented them from joining a pre-arranged party of more than 100 of their fellow

students inside. Why? The bar has a “no baggy pants” policy, they were told. That wouldn’t sound so unreasonable if the bar actually had a “no baggy pants” policy. But a white student who put on one of the black students’ jeans was admitted, no problem, according Clarence to the news accounts. Page A spokesTribune Media man for the Services Original Mother’s later pointed out that some other blacks were admitted that night, according to the Chicago Tribune, but that didn’t clear up the mystery. The bar cited security concerns based on Chicago police reports and baseball caps worn backwards by two of the black youths. Yet Regis Murayi, 21, treasurer of the university’s Senior Class Council, said his pleas and proper identification did no good. He was kept out of a party that he helped to arrange, apparently because of racial stereotypes. Sounds familiar. During my own young-and-single days in Chicago in the 1970s, reports of saloon segregation in

“singles bars” made occasional headlines and were investigated by a variety of state and local authorities, including Republican U.S. Attorney James R. Thompson, before he was elected Illinois governor. One whistleblower at the time, Gregory D. Squires, wrote a confessional story in the Chicago Sun-Times about how he was instructed as a white bouncer and waiter in a north side watering hole to politely shoo black clientele away. The bar was not on Division Street, but its owners had learned the art of singles-bar management in that street’s popular nightclub district before opening a little club of their own. The tricks included theme parties, T-shirts, softball teams, a ski club, a clean women’s room, free champagne for women on special nights — and keeping black men out. The Mother’s discrimination complaint sounded familiar to Squires, now a George Washington University sociology professor and author of six books on civil rights issues. One often-used ploy to turn somebody away, he wrote, was to pick out an item of clothing — like jeans — and tell the would-be patron that it wasn’t allowed. I knew Squires because the bar he wrote about happened to be one that I frequented at the time. Although he

changed the names of the bar and everyone involved, I can now report that I was the black guy in Greg’s account. The bar’s owners had given me an unofficial pass, Greg wrote, because he had not seen me hitting on the white women. He must not have been paying much attention. “He insisted later that he was not a racist,” Squires recalled. “But, he said, ‘Can you imagine what this place would look like if he let in every shine who wanted to come in?’” Right. That’s a funny thing about racism since the 1960s. Hardly anyone wants to admit to it, even as they express it. Yet, Squires was reluctant to make too much of the persistence of bias in bars. He would like for us to look beyond individual discrimination cases to understand historical roots and structural inequality that has built up huge racial disparities in wealth, education and income. That’s true. Unfortunately group inequalities too often bounce back as negative stereotypes against individuals — even in the age of our nation’s first black or, if you prefer, biracial president. E-mail Clarence Page at cpage@ tribune.com, or write to him c/o Tribune Media Services, 2225 Kenmore Ave., Suite 114, Buffalo, NY 14207.

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Quotable “It’s a weapon system that the enemy has figured out has strategic impact. It really hampers our ability to execute a counterinsurgency doctrine. And it’s a weapon system that has to be fought, and I don’t think we can back off or shy away from fighting it.” — Lt. Gen. Thomas Metz, in a statement after roadside bombs — the biggest killer of U.S. soldiers — claimed eight more American lives, driving the U.S. death toll to a record level for the third time in four months. “You engaged in conduct that put your passengers and your crew in serious jeopardy. Northwest Flight 188 was not in communications with controllers or the airline dispatchers “while you were on a frolic of your own. ... This is a total dereliction and disregard for your duties.” — FAA regional counsel Eddie Thomas, in a letter to pilot Timothy Cheney after the Federal Aviation Administration revoked the licenses of two Northwest Airlines pilots who overshot their Minneapolis destination by 150 miles. “This isn’t over until I’m standing with President Obama and he’s signing a bill into law that delivers what Nevadans are demanding — real health insurance reform.” — Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, in an e-mail message to political supporters in his home state after Democratic moderates who control the balance of power on health care legislation balked at a government-run insurance option for millions of Americans a day after Reid unveiled the plan as a consensus product.

Poking the cobra Now is the time for all good men to put their hands together, pull them apart and rapidly put them back together again, and repeat, to give props to the president for not curling up into a fetal position with a “Kick Me” sign taped to his butt. You know. Like a Democrat. He’s taking it straight to his perceived enemy, calling both Fox News and Rush Limbaugh radical and out of the mainstream, making the two crazier than a preacher at a whorehouse with a parishioner working the door. Because that is exactly what they say about him. Methinks there may be a bad case of “can dish it out but not take it” going around. Conservative commentators are retaliating by lobbing charges of extreme partisanship at the president. Claiming he totally ignored his campaign promise to be “a uniter, not a divider.” Oh wait, that wasn’t him. That was the other guy. Sorry. You remember the last guy. Now there was someone who reeked of non-partisanship. At least I think that’s what it was. No idea what the right-wing radio dudes expected Barack to do in response to their incessant taunting and baiting: clap his hands over his ears and make la-la-la noises until the bad people stop talking nasty about him? Lie down on a fireresistant, humanely braided

Persian rug and whimper himself to sleep? Or pull a John Kerry, who while being swiftboated in August ‘04, spent the entire month on his back waiting for a big, old tummy rub. You know. Like a Democrat. Though he lacks military service, Barack Obama Will seems to grasp the Durst concept Distributed by of “target Cagle cartoons acquired.” Obviously, this sustained adversarial offensive is all part of a choreographed campaign to marginalize critics. An effort to paint the GOP as a wee bit of a sliver of a party, chock full of pro-rape, white, Southern ditto-heads and fringe-licking extremists. Following the script perfected by that fabled wartime tactician: Karl Rove. If you’re going to steal, take from the best. It must be said that refusing to appear on Fox News does seem to fly in the face of the president’s official policy to open a dialogue with all evil-doers. Which normally, he does. Iran. Hamas. North Korea. Syria. Everyone it seems, except Rupert Murdoch. “If we want fair and balanced, we’ll get our fair and balanced

from MSNBC, thank you very much.” Not very Peace Prizeish if you ask me. It’s a tricky game, this riling the rabble that Obama is playing. You got to be awfully careful when you poke the cobra. Fortunately he’s got the extra long pointy sticks that are David Axelrod and Rahm Emanuel to do the dirty work. Another problem is both sides know that as the rhetoric ratchets up, so do the ratings. But studies prove helping Limbaugh hurts Republicans with Independents, so it’s a calculated gamble. On the order of picking the Raiders to cover, on the road. A final concern is all this fresh flummery could cause Rush to bloat up to dirigible size and then explode, which some experts say may force the evacuation of the entire Eastern Seaboard due to fears of Oxycontin contamination. But most importantly, Obama needs to keep in mind the advice my father regularly spouted after his third six-pack: never get in a fight with an ugly person; he’s got nothing to lose. You know. Like a Republican. Will Durst is a San Francisco-based political comic who writes sometimes. This is one of them. Catch his new, one-man show “The Lieutenant Governor from the State of Confusion,” appearing at a performing arts center near you. E-mail Will at durst@caglecartoons.com.

I can’t wait to go to the State Fair. My whole family is going. It’s going to be so much fun. I will ride all of the rides. I will play games. I will eat funnel cakes. They are my favorite. Then I will walk around. It will be a lot of people there. I will get on the roller coaster. I will take my cousin with me. Then I will eat some popcorn. I will buy my cousin a drink. We will stay until night. Then I could see all of the pretty lights. I will see a clown. My brother Matias is scared of clowns. I will get a lot of tickets. I will enjoy myself. I will watch the magic show. I love to watch the show. Me and my mom will get some cotton candy. It is so good. Everybody got to love cotton candy. That’s what I’m going to do when I go to the State Fair. Chantel Bryant, Vance County Learning Center Grade 7

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