The Daily Dispatch- Tuesday, December 22, 2009 by The Daily Dispatch

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Arrest on drugs charges

Federal court for area teen

By AL WHELESS Daily Dispatch Writer

Contact the writer at awheless@hendersondispatch.com.

Index Our Hometown . . . . . 2A Business & Farm. . . . 5A Opinion . . . . . . . . . . . 6A Light Side . . . . . . . . . 7A Sports. . . . . . . . . . 1-3B Comics . . . . . . . . . . . 4B Classifieds. . . . . . . 5-7B

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Deaths Bahama William B. Walker, 71 Creedmoor Donald E. McDowell, 50 Durham Johnnie M. Arrington, 58 Rodney R. Daniel, 30 Henderson Estella, P. Allgood, 87 Charles M. Barnett, 55 Virginia B. Bradsher, 92 Ruben Gilliam Jr., 73 Orlanda Small, 45 Kittrell William F. Fulcher, 52 New York Annie R. Jones, 68 Oxfdord Stephen W. Greene, 92

Obituaries, 3A, 4A

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Ashton Lundeby, his mother Annette

Kittrell man, 28, going to court on Dec. 28 A 28-year-old Kittrell man has been arrested on numerous drug charges by members of the Vice/Narcotics Unit with the Vance County Sheriff’s Office. Victor Levi Kearney of 1041 Bobbitt Road was charged with: • Felony possession with intent to manufacture, sell and deliver cocaine. • Felony possession with intent to manufacture, sell and deliver marijuana. • Selling and delivering cocaine. • Manufacturing marijuana. • Manufacturing cocaine. • Felony possession of cocaine. • Conspiring to traffic opiates. Bond was set at $30,000. A preliminary hearing was scheduled to be held Dec. 28 in Vance County District Court.

Site of new elementary school

March trial set in Internet bomb threats case

The Vance County Board of Education has filed a condemnation suit to obtain the highlighted area near the new elementary school off Garrett Road. The board said that the acre is needed for easier access to school property.

School board sues to gain acre at elementary school Strip said needed for ease of access to new site By AL WHELESS Daily Dispatch Writer

The Vance County Board of Education filed a condemnation lawsuit Thursday to obtain a one-acre strip of land to widen Garrett Road near the new elementary school being built. Southern Vance High School lies across the road from the strip. Reasons given in the plaintiffs’ complaint for taking the legal action included: “having access, ingress, egress and regress to the properties” owned by the board and/or operated as public schools in Vance. The document — which was submitted to the Clerk’s Office at Vance County Superior Court by Jerry Stainback, the board’s attorney — gave the listed owners the choice of an out-of-court settlement of $4,500 or $1,500 through condemnation. Named as defendants were: • Wesley D. Bowen and his wife, Cynthia Bowen, of 255 Roberts Ave. in Henderson. • Byron Calvin Brown Jr., executor of the Estate of Davis Hoyle Bowen, Byron Calvin Brown Jr. and Leatha A. Brown. The address given for all three was 6789 Vicksboro Rd. in Henderson.

• Citimortgage Corporation. • Select Portfolio Servicing, Inc. Wesley D. Bowen could not be reached by phone for comment on the lawsuit. Margaret Ellis, chairwoman of the Board of Education, declined Monday night to immediately comment when a reporter asked how much money the property owner wanted for the strip of land. The chairwoman said she would first have to talk with Jerry Stainback. The School Board’s attorney was not at his office Monday afternoon, said an employee at the law firm where Stainback is a partner. According to the complaint, the late Davis H. Bowen conveyed a lien on the property to Robert Ramseur, a trustee for Citimortgage Corporation, on Feb. 22, 1999, in exchange for a $52,800 loan. The complaint alleges that the debt is now being served by Select Portfolio Servicing, Inc. On Sept. 14, the Board of Education adopted a resolution authorizing condemnation to acquire the one-acre strip along Garrett Road. Contact the writer at awheless@hendersondispatch.com.

Finch family joins school name derby By AL WHELESS Daily Dispatch Writer

The Finch Family — which sold the Vance County Board of Education the Garrett Road site for the new elementary school — has entered the naming fray. In case the board decides to choose a name at its Jan. 11 meeting, the family plans to be represented by Jonathan S. Care, its attorney. Care also happens to be the attorney for the Vance County Commissioners, who voted to come up with the money needed for the new elementary school to be built. “Everybody else is being heard on this,” Chuck Finch, the family’s spokesperson, said Monday in a telephone interview. “We’d like our voice to be heard, too.” Finch called the Dispatch from his office in Live Oak, Fla., Please see FAMILY, page 3A

Currin to seek re-election in 2010 By WILLIAM F. WEST Daily Dispatch Writer

District Attorney Sam Currin said he will be seeking re-election to another four-year term in office. “Well, I think I’ve done a good job and I’d like to continue to do the job that I have,” Currin, 63, a Democrat, told the newspaper about being the chief Currin prosecutor for the district comprised of Vance, Granville, Warren and Franklin counties. “I enjoy doing it. I’m physically fit and mentally alert enough to be able to continue,” Currin said. Currin in November 2001 was elevated from an assistant district attorney position by then-Gov. Mike Easley. Currin replaced David Waters, who retired after

having been the district attorney since 1979 and who is presently in private practice in Oxford. Currin has a combined three decades of prosecutorial experience. Currin, of Oxford and a Granville County native, earned his undergraduate degree and his law degree from Wake Forest University. He was in private practice for half a decade and worked as special counsel for patients at what was John Umstead Hospital at Butner. Currin is an avid reader, with a particular interest in novels with legal plots. And Currin has long been interested in politics, having served on the Oxford City Commission from 1983-99. The primary election is set for May 4, with the general election to be Nov. 2. Contact the writer at bwest@hendersondispatch.com.

Election 2010 dates to remember • Noon Feb. 8 — Opening for filing by candidates in the May 4 primary • Noon Feb. 26 — Deadline for filing by candidates in the May 4 primary • One-Stop Early Voting before the May 4 primary — April 15-May 1 • One-Stop Early Voting before the June 22 second primary, if necessary — June 3-June 19 • One-Stop Early Voting before the Nov. 2 general election — Oct. 14-Oct. 30 Note: Those seeking to run as unaffiliated candidates must file a petition at or before noon on the last Friday in June preceding the general election.

By WILLIAM F. WEST Daily Dispatch Writer

A two-week trial is set to begin March 2 in federal court in Indiana for Ashton Lundeby, the Granville County teen accused of making bomb threats via the Internet. Chief Judge Robert Miller Jr., of the Northern District of Indiana, cited the complexity of the case and Lundeby’s need to obtain and review information and to subpoena witnesses. And Miller said issuing a continuance outweighed the public’s best interest and Lundeby’s constitutional right to a speedy trial. Lundeby’s mother, Annette, contacted Monday by the newspaper, blasted the government, saying that, “They’ve been trying to get him to plead since midsummer” and that, “He’s not guilty.” “And my son said that he would stay in there 30 years before he will plead guilty to something that he didn’t do,” she said, a reference to his having remained in detention in a facility in Indiana. She claimed the government has been intimidating and tampering with witnesses so they cannot have contact with her or with her son. “This is what they do,” she argued. “This is the nature of the beast.” Assistant U.S. Attorney Ken Hays, who is prosecuting, declined comment Monday when contacted by the newspaper. Miller, at a Dec. 3 hearing, set the date for the trial, which Hays said will be in South Bend, Ind. Lundeby, 16, was arrested in March by FBI agents at his home west of Oxford and was brought before a federal magistrate judge in Raleigh. The magistrate judge ordered Lundeby transferred to the Northern District of Indiana. Lundeby was indicted July 8. The grand jury charged that Lundeby, using the pseudonym “Tyrone,” and unnamed conspirators directed bomb threats to universities in the Hoosier State, to universities throughout the country, including UNC-Chapel Hill, and to two FBI offices, one in Louisiana, the other in Colorado. The grand jury additionally charged that, as part of the conspiracy, conspirators offered, for a nominal fee, to make bomb threat calls, often to high schools, to cause closures. Lundeby’s then-attorney, Robert Truitt, later argued his then-client needed to undergo dental work and to be released to complete classes for the spring semester and to be able to work ahead to receive credit for fall semester classes. Hays maintained he had been advised the U.S. Marshal’s Office was making sure Lundeby’s dental needs were attended to. Please see LUNDEBY, page 3A

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Tuesday, December 22, 2009

Garden club learns about growing herbs The Daisy Garden Club held its November meeting in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Lonnie Davis with Theretha Davis as hostess. Edith Carroll led the devotion with the group singing the Garden Club Song, followed with the group repeating Psalm 23 in unison. Carroll offered prayer. The flower of the month was the cactus. Carroll presented the following information: â&#x20AC;˘ Most cacti can be grown outdoors only in frost-free climates. Elsewhere, they have to be grown in containers under glass or as houseplants; in fact, they thrive in the warm dry conditions created by most modern central heating systems. â&#x20AC;˘ Good light is usually essential for all cacti. They can be placed in full light in winter. They all can be placed outside during the summer months. â&#x20AC;˘ Plants should be watered when in active growth, less frequently

when dormant. Carroll displayed a cactus plant that she had grown from rooting it. She showed pictures of the different kinds of cacti to the group. Barbara Carroll, president, conducted the business session. Bernice Price was installed as secretary of the club. Barbara Carroll gave highlights from the North Carolina Federation of Garden Clubs, District 9 meeting held in Oxford. Vivian Bullock gave a report from the Daisette Youth Club. Members brought in canned goods and nonperishable items to be given to a needy family for Thanksgiving. After the business session, Lonnie Davis presented a program on â&#x20AC;&#x153;Growing Herbs in your Garden.â&#x20AC;? He stated that you could grow herbs outdoors or indoors. You can grow them inside and then plant them outside in the spring. He had a piece of garlic and told

Lonnie Davis, featured speaker in November for the Daisy Garden Club, with a container of herbs he had grown. the group how to plant it. Davis also told the group the kinds of herbs to use in food to make it taste good (i.e., rosemary is tasteful in your soup!) He also said you can use herbs for borders around flowers, and concluded by saying he enjoys planting different herbs and watching them grow.

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from pedophile-level strip searches. Miller said the argument about an alleged lack of appropriate dental care and unreasonable searches would be more properly addressed in a civil rights lawsuit. Lundeby’s mother, a Kittrell native, told the newspaper for a story published May 1 that authorities used the Patriot Act to deny her son his legal rights. The post-Sept. 11, 2001, law allows federal officials greater authority in tracking and intercepting communications, including by searching telephone, e-mail, medical and financial records, for the purposes of law enforcement and foreign intelligence gathering. FBI Special Agent Wendy Osborne, spokeswoman for the bureau’s Indianapolis office, told the newspaper for the May 1 story that the bureau was under court order to refrain from commenting or answering any press and public questions about the Lundeby case. Lundeby’s mother first

went public with a story to Raleigh television station WRAL that aired April 29. Commotion followed on the Internet, with bloggers calling for the teen to be freed. U.S. Attorney David Capp issued a statement May 7 saying Lundeby was booked under a federal law prohibiting bomb and death threats, was represented by legal counsel at each of his court appearances and was being held in a facility permitting family visits. Lundeby’s mother, in response, told WRAL she assumed federal agents arrested her son under the Patriot Act based on jackets they wore that read “Terrorist Task Force” and because they have given her no information about the case. Lundeby’s mother, when asked by the newspaper Monday about her son’s health, said, “He’s not doing well at all,” but declined to be more specific. She said she last saw him in October. Contact the writer at bwest@ hendersondispatch.com.

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or anyone else who didn’t have a hand in getting the $13 million building to materialize. “C.H. Brown” was the second choice of a naming committee that gave its recommendations to the board Dec. 14. Brown, a Henderson native, founded the Palmer Institute — a prep school for African-Americans — in Sedalia in the early 1900s. Besides being the president of the school for 50 years, Brown was a nationally known lecturer, social worker and religious leader. The panel’s first pick was Clark-Carmel.

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Finch, who spoke at the ground-breaking ceremony earlier this year, said Monday that the family likes it for two reasons. The name reflects the site of the soon-tobe-closed Clark Street Elementary School, he explained, and carries the identity of Mount Carmel Church Road, which will be the entrance to the new building. Contact the writer at awheless@hendersondispatch.com.

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Hays argued that Lundeby, if convicted, faces up to 25 years in prison and NEW YORK — Annie fines of up to $750,000. Gray Royster Jones, 68, a And Hays argued that, resident of New York, died because of the potential Saturday, Dec. 19, 2009, penalties, the return of the at the University Hospital indictment dramatically in Newark, N.J. Funeral increased the motive to arrangements will be anflee. nounced later by DavisMiller disagreed with Royster Funeral Service. Lundeby’s then-legal that changed Donald E. McDowell counsel circumstances made such a discharge from detention CREEDMOOR — Donappropriate. ald Eugene McDowell, 50, Lundeby, subsequently of 3039 Highway 56, died representing himself, filed Sunday, Dec. 20, 2009, at his papers with the court home. A native of Sweetwaunsuccessfully seeking to ter, Tenn., he was the son of dismiss the government’s the late Hershel and Arline case against him and to Pridgette McDowell. He was of the Baptist faith dismiss the grand jury indictment of him. and medically retired. And Lundeby filed Memorial services will be conducted at 7 p.m. today at papers unsuccessfully Olive Grove Baptist Church seeking pretrial relief from by the Rev. Dr. Jack Holdetention and unsuccesslowell. fully seeking favorable Surviving are his wife, rulings through the federal Doris Keith McDowell of appeals court system. the home; three daughters, One of Lundeby’s arguMyrdia Jean McDowell of the ments included allegedly home, Rhonda Marie McDow- having suffering cruel ell of Hillsborough and Doro- and unusual punishment thy Carolyn McDowell of the because the court would home; a son, Donald Steven not let him undergo the McDowell of the home; two sisters, Shirley Neil Tharp of dental procedure and beRichmond, Va., and Cathleen cause he allegedly suffered Louise Green of Dalton, Ga.; two brothers, Robert Glenn McDowell of Dalton and Hershel Nathaniel McDowell, to say that the building both of Dalton, Ga.; and six under construction should grandchildren. be named after someone Visitation will follow the who “made a difference” in memorial service at the helping the facility become church and other times at the a reality. home. One of those possibiliArrangements are by ties, according to Finch, Eakes Funeral Home of would be Tommy Riddle, Creedmoor. the former School Board chairman who negotiated the purchase of the land Orlanda Small several years ago. Chuck Finch said he HENDERSON — Orlanda had wanted the name Small, 45, of 77 N. Barham Lane, in the Dabney commu- of his father — James Tyler Finch — to grace the nity, died Saturday, Dec. 19, building, but was told by 2009, in Durham Regional school system officials it Hospital. The family will receive friends at the residence. was against policy to use Funeral arrangements will be the names of people. That is apparently what announced by Davis-Royster the board might do now, Funeral Service. Finch added. He said the family no William B. Walker longer wants his father’s name associated with the BAHAMA — William Ber- structure because it would nard Walker, 71, a resident of not be considered an honor 2601 Bahama Road, died Sat- now, as it would have been urday, Dec. 19, 2009, at his back then. home. Funeral arrangements The school should not, are incomplete and will be Finch stressed, bear the announced by the J.M. White shortened moniker of Dr. Funeral Home of Henderson. Charlotte Hawkins Brown

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Deaths Estella P. Allgood HENDERSON — Estella Pendergrass Allgood, 87, of 1283 Walter Grissom Road, Henderson, died Sunday, Dec. 20, 2009, at Louisburg Nursing Center in Louisburg. Born in Vance County, she was the daughter of the late William Henry and Sally Reid Pendergrass. She was the widow of Charlie Thomas Allgood. She was a homemaker and a lifelong member of Plank Chapel United Methodist Church, where she was a member of the Allen Bible Sunday school class and sang in the church choir. She was also a member of the Epsom Country Club. Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. today at Plank Chapel United Methodist Church, conducted by the Rev. Carol Dean. Burial will follow in the church cemetery. Surviving are three daughters, Peggy Jean A. Brown of Fort Myers, Fla., Nancy A. Leonard of Kittrell, and Linda Rose A. Tillman of Louisburg; a son, Charlie Thomas Allgood Jr. of Henderson; a sister, Daisy P. Ayscue of Henderson; two brothers, Floyd E. Pendergrass and Wilson F. Pendergrass, both of Henderson; four grandchildren; and eight great-grandchildren. She was preceded in death by a grandson, Bradley Brown; a sister, Tempie P. Allen; and three brothers, Charlie T. Pendergrass, Raeford O. Pendergrass and Joseph W. “Tom” Pendergrass. The family received friends Monday from 7 to 8:30 p.m. at Flowers Funeral Home. All other times, they will be at the home of Renee and Steve Collins, 130 Trinity Church Road, Louisburg. Serving as active pallbearers will be Phillip Ayscue, Danny Allgood, Billy Allgood, Steve Pierce, Tony Collins, Charlie Pendergrass Jr., and Ronnie Pendergrass. Flowers will be accepted, or memorials may be made to Plank Chapel United Methodist Church, P.O. Box 507, Kittrell, N.C. 27544. Arrangements are by Flowers Funeral Home.

Johnnie M. Arrington DURHAM — Johnnie Mack Arrington, 58, of 2207 Farthing St., died Friday, Dec. 18, 2009, at Durham Regional Hospital. He was the son of Isabella Richardson Arrington of Whitaker and the late Albert L. Arrington. He was a native of Nash County. He was a former employee of C.R. England Inc. In addition to his mother, he is survived by two daughters, F. Bianca Arrington of Lafayette, Ala., and Renee Arrington of Atlanta, Ga.; four grandchildren; 10 sisters, A. Blanche Moody of Clinton, Md.,

Mamie Poles of Capital Heights, Md., Marie Spencer and Alice Hardy, both of Fort Washington, Md., Mary Winborn, Eldner A. Degraffenreidt, Easter Coppedge, Gloria Owens, Julia Ann Arrington and Phyllis Faye McGee, all of Durham; and four brothers, Albert Arrington of Mitcheville, Md., Lindsay Arrington of Lanham, Md., and Phillip Ray Arrington and Garland Arrington, both of Durham. Funeral services will be conducted at 2 p.m. today at Pleasant Grove Baptist Church, 4531 Highway 43, Hollister, by the Revs. Linda Taybron and Thomas Richardson. Burial will be in the church cemetery. The family will receive friends one hour before the funeral service at the church and at other times at 2125 Swift Creek School Road, Whitaker. Arrangements are by Wright Funeral Home of Oxford.

Marty Barnett HENDERSON — Charles Martin “Marty” Barnett, 55, of 346 Dabney Drive, died Friday, Dec. 18, 2009, at his home. Born Oct. 4, 1954, in Portsmouth, Va., he was the son of Charles Mason Barnett of Henderson and the late Edna Faulkner Barnett. He was a retired information technology computer tech with ITS, was a member of the Egypt Mountain Hunting Club, enjoyed skydiving, was an avid hunter, raised beagles, and was a saxophone player with the Vance-Granville Community Band. A private interment will be held by the family in the Columbarium Wall at the First Baptist Church. A memorial service will be held at 11 a.m. today in the J.M. White Funeral Home Chapel by the Rev. Dr. Paul A. Baxley and the Rev. David Barnett. In addition to his father, he is survived by a brother, Neil Barnett of Henderson. The family will receive friends immediately following the service at J.M. White Funeral Home. At other times they will be at the home of his father, Charles M. Barnett, at 221 Crestwood Road. Serving as honorary pallbearers will members of the Egypt Mountain Hunting Club. In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to the Vance County Humane Society, P.O. Box 1552, Henderson, N.C. 27536. Arrangements are by J.M. White Funeral Home.

William F. Fulcher KITTRELL — William Fenner “Dude” Fulcher, 52, of 75 Cherry Lane, Kittrell, died Saturday, Dec. 19, 2009, at his home. Born in Vance County, he was the son of Ruby Francis Fulcher Ferrell of Henderson and the late Edward Fenner Fulcher. He was a former employee of Kittrell Grocery and attended Hillcrest Baptist Church. Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. Wednesday at Flowers Funeral Chapel, conducted by the Rev. William Wagner. Burial will follow in Elmwood Cemetery. Surviving, in addition to his mother, are his wife, Dianne Hedgepeth Fulcher; a daughter, Angela Dawn Fulcher, of Henderson; a son, William Travis Fulcher, of Henderson; three sisters, Judy F. Horton, of Kittrell, Carolyn F. Bruner, of New London, and Shelia Marie Fulcher, of Henderson; and two brothers, Rufus Edward Fulcher, of Albemarle and Larry Daniel Fulcher, of Oklahoma City, Okla. The family will receive friends today from 7 to 8:30 p.m. at the home, 75 Cherry Lane, Kittrell. At William’s request he will be carried to his home on Cherry Lane until Wednesday morning. Serving as active pallbearers will be Robert Horton, Jimmy Hedgepeth, Adam Horton, Odie Pernell, Donnie Grissom, Martin Vega, David Woodlief and David Horton. Flowers will be ac-

cepted, or memorials may be made to the William F. Fulcher Funeral Fund, c/o Flowers Funeral Home, P.O. Box 138, Henderson, N.C. 27536. Arrangements are by Flowers Funeral Home.

Ruben Gilliam Jr. HENDERSON — Ruben Gilliam Jr., 73, of 320 Keene St., died Tuesday, Dec. 15, 2009, at Guardian Care in Henderson. He was born in Chester, Pa., and was the son of the late Ruben and Bertha Brown Gilliam Sr. He served in the U.S. Navy and received an honorable discharge. After living most of his life in Pennsylvania, he moved to Henderson and joined Cook’s Chapel A.M.E. Zion Church and later united with Shiloh Baptist Church in 1997. He served on the food bank and food service committee, men’s choir, usher board, laymen’s league ministry and was ordained as a deacon in 2000. Funeral services will be conducted at 1 p.m. today at Shiloh Missionary Baptist Church by the Rev. Joseph Ratliff. Burial will follow in Blacknall Cemetery. There are no immediate survivors. Funeral arrangements are by Davis-Royster Funeral Service.

Stephen W. Greene OXFORD — Stephen William Greene, 92, died Saturday, Dec. 19, 2009, at Irdell Memorial Hospital in Statesville. He was born Feb. 9, 1917, in Vance County and was the son of the late Iola Gooch

Virginia B. Bradsher HENDERSON — Virginia Briggs Bradsher, age 92, a former resident of 2354 Oxford Road, died Sunday, December 20, 2009, in a local nursing home. Born in Vance County on December 12, 1917, she was the daughter of the late James Washington Briggs and Annie Beulah Edwards Briggs. Mrs. Bradsher was a member of the First Baptist Church and was a member of the Business and Professional Women’s Club. She was manager of the former Village Gate, a women’s clothing store. Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. Wednesday in the Leathers Memorial Chapel at First Baptist Church by Dr. Paul A. Baxley. Burial will follow in Elmwood Cemetery. She is survived by a daughter, Vickie Bradsher Vollmer, of Henderson; two grandsons, Jason Hoyle, and wife, Stephanie, of Henderson, and John Hoyle III, and wife, Greene and Edward J. Greene. Funeral services will be held at 1 p.m. today at Dexter Baptist Church by the Rev. Eddie Nutt. Burial will be in the church cemetery. Surviving are two daughters, Judith G. Gregory of Augusta, Ga., and Brenda G. Baker of Statesville; four grandchildren; six great-grandchildren; and a great-great-grandchild. He was preceded in death by wife, Isobel O’Brien Greene; and a son, Steven Michael Greene.

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Daily Meditation John bare witness of him, and cried, saying, This was he of whom I spake, He that cometh after me is preferred before me: for he was before me. And of his fulness have all we received, and grace for grace. For the law was given by Moses, [but] grace and truth came by Jesus Christ. John 1:15-17

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Breast exams going digital Healthcare for women took a major step forward on Monday in Henderson and Vance County as Maria Parham Medical Center entered the digital age in performing mammograms. A new GE Healthcare Senographe Digital Mammography system went into operation, giving MPMC’s physicians “clear and precise” digital images, a “new and powerful” technological leap upward from x-ray images on film. It’s another strong example of how fortunate we are in our community to have such an advanced medical center. The American Cancer Society estimates that nearly 5,500 new cases of breast cancer will be diagnosed in our state during the current year. While mammograms provide one of the best means for early detection, the National Breast Cancer Foundation says nearly 13 million women age 40 and older have never had one. Early detection on the part of the patient and advanced digital imaging at the hospital will go a long way in fighting breast cancer. “Digital systems like this allow us to offer our patients state-of-the-art mammograms that are fast and easy,” said Mickey Foster, vice president of operations at MPMC, in making the announcement about the new equipment. The hospital has also purchased an iCAD Second Look device that performs a “computerized double read” and the system includes a piece of equipment called the Seno Advantage 2.2 Review Workstation. The new workstation will allow doctors ease in reviewing patient’s images, including information from “multi-modality studies,” at a single point of review. More comprehensive reviews of a patient’s medical history will be possible as physicians can look at previous mammography exams and see a variety of image types such as MRIs and ultrasound. Physicians will easily be able to share information and images with physicians and surgeons to whom patients are referred. The new equipment will also give physicians the opportunity to perform a biopsy procedure in the same area where the mammogram took place when a suspicious area is identified. What this means for the hospital and the patient are fast, clear and easily read images, improved views at various levels of the breast, less radiation exposure for the patient, and data that is easily shared with other sources should a second opinion be needed, among various benefits. The National Cancer Institute recommends that women age 40 and older have mammograms every one to two years. The older a woman gets, the risk of breast cancer increases gradually, the NCI says. It’s important to note, however, that the risk of developing breast cancer is not the same for all women. A number of factors can increase a person’s chances of developing the disease: personal history, family history, rare genetic changes, reproductive and menstrual history, longterm use of menopausal hormone therapy, breast density, radiation therapy, body weight and alcohol use, among others. The NCI offers a fact sheet on the Probability of Breast Cancer in American Women that provides more information about lifetime risk. This fact sheet is available at www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/factsheet/Detection/probabilitybreast-cancer on the Internet. The hospital encourages women to call for more information about digital mammography at (252) 436-1730. We encourage women to use this as an opportunity to make mammograms a priority if they are over the age of 40. There’s no time like the present to schedule an exam.

EDITOR’S NOTE: Mitch Albom is on vacation this week. In his place, we have a guest column by Garrison Keillor. I’ve just come from Cambridge, that beehive of brilliance, where nerds don’t feel self-conscious: There’s always someone nerdier nearby. If you are the World’s Leading Authority on the mating habits of the jabberwock beetle of the Lesser Jujube Archipelago, you can take comfort in knowing that the pinch-faced drone next to you at Starbucks may be the W.L.A. on 17th-century Huguenot hymnody or a niche of quantum physics that is understood by nobody but himself. People in Cambridge learn to be wary of brilliance, having seen geniuses in the throes of deep thought step into potholes and disappear. Such as the brilliant economist Lawrence Summers, whose presidency brought Harvard to the verge of disaster. He was the man who, against the advice of his lessers, invested Harvard’s operating funds in the stock market and lost the bet. In the cold light of day, this was dumber than dirt, like putting the kids’ lunch money on Valiant’s Fancy to win in the 5th. And now the genius is in the White House, two short flights

of stairs above the Oval Office. This does not make Cambridgeans feel better about our nation’s economic future. You can blame Ralph Waldo Emerson for the brazen foolishness of the elite. He preached here at the First Church of Cambridge, a Unitarian outfit I Garrison (where discovered Keillor that “Silent Night” Tribune Media has been Services cleverly rewritten to make it more about silence and night and not so much about God), and Emerson tossed off little bon mots that have been leading people astray ever since. “To be great is to be misunderstood,” for example. This tiny gem of self-pity has given license to a million arrogant and unlovable people to imagine that their unpopularity somehow was proof of their greatness. And all his hoo-ha about listening to the voice within and don’t follow the path, make your own path and leave a trail and so forth, encouraged people who might’ve been excellent janitors to become bold and innovative economists

who run a wealthy university into the ditch. Unitarians listen to the Inner Voice and so they have no creed that they all stand up and recite in unison, and that’s their perfect right, but it is wrong, wrong, wrong to rewrite “Silent Night.” If you don’t believe Jesus was God, OK, go write your own d--- “Silent Night” and leave ours alone. This is spiritual piracy and cultural elitism and we Christians have stood for it long enough. And all those lousy holiday songs by Jewish guys that trash up the malls every year, Rudolph and the chestnuts and the rest of that dreck. Did one of our guys write “Grab your loafers, come along if you wanna, and we’ll blow that shofar for Rosh Hashanah”? No, we didn’t. Christmas is a Christian holiday — if you’re not in the club, then buzz off. Celebrate Yule instead or dance around in druid robes for the solstice. Go light a big log, go wassailing and falalaing until you fall down, eat figgy pudding until you puke, but don’t mess with the Messiah. Christmas does not need any improvements. It is a common ordinary experience that resists brilliant innovation. Just make some gingerbread persons and light three candles and sing softly in dim light about the poor man gath-

ering winter fu-u-el and the radiant beams and the holly and the ivy, and you’ve got it. Too many people work too hard to make Christmas perfect, find the perfect gifts, get a turkey that reaches 100 percent of potential. Perfection is a goal of brilliant people and it is unnecessary where Christmas is concerned. The most wonderful Christmas of my life was 1997, a quiet day with no gifts and no tree, waiting in a New York apartment for my daughter to be born. And the second most wonderful was one in the Norwegian Arctic, where it rained every day and the sun came up around 11 and set around 1, not that you ever actually saw the sun, and the food was abominable, boiled cod and watery potatoes, and the people were cold and resentful, and there was no brilliance whatsoever. And I had the flu. Why was I there? Good question. But every year it gladdens my heart to know that I will not be going to Norway for Christmas. A terrific investment. Mr. Summers should be so smart. For one week of misery, I get an annual joyfulness dividend of at least 25 percent. Merry Christmas, my dears. Keillor is the author of “77 Love Sonnets,” published by Common Good Books.

What happened to Obama’s ‘mojo’? President Barack Obama returned from Oslo with his Nobel Peace Prize to receive a booby prize in the polls. Continuing disturbing trends reported by other recent surveys, a new NBC/ Wall Street Journal poll finds his approval ratings are down, public pessimism is up and faith in the Democratic-run Congress is on life support. For the first time, fewer than half of Americans surveyed approved of the job the president was doing. On the question of which party voters wanted to see in charge after the 2010 midterm congressional elections, Clarence Democrats slid to a Page virtual tie Tribune Media with ReServices publicans. And in a particularly troubling turn for Democrats, the poll confirmed an energized right, a dispirited left and a fed-up middle that have been detected in other polls looking ahead to the midterms: The tea party protesters who rose up in summer rallies against health care reform and government spending scored higher in popularity than either of the two major parties. I doubt the tea party protesters will coalesce into an alternative political party, as some overexcited conservative pundits have suggested. But they do threaten Democrats by doing something Republicans have not been doing well in recent years: They energize conservatives. That newly energized right might help explain why Americans who said they wanted to see Obama’s health care overhaul enacted were outnumbered in the NBC/WSJ poll by those who said they preferred that Congress did nothing on health care. Where, one wonders, is that old Obama mojo? Instead of the “hope,” “change” and bipartisanship that candidate Obama promised, quite a few voters are expressing fear, rage, cynicism and despair. And that’s just among Obama’s supporters. “If I were a senator,” former Democratic National Committee chairman Howard Dean

angrily wrote in a Washington Post op-ed, “I would not vote for the current health-care bill.” Markos Moulitsas Zuniga, founder of the influential liberal blog Daily Kos, twittered his followers, “Time to kill this monstrosity coming out of the Senate.” Both were steamed about concessions Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid had made in his desperate quest for a filibuster-proof 60-vote majority. Particularly enraging to Democrats was Sen. Joe Lieberman, the Democrat-turned-independent from Connecticut, who successfully blocked any form of government-run insurance option to compete with private insurers. After he got his way, Lieberman pressed further. He announced he no longer supported the idea of letting those 55 and older buy their way into the Medicare program. Curiously, he has supported that idea in the past, but Lieberman seemed to be enjoying his newfound power, even if it denied health insurance for millions of Americans. And Lieberman wasn’t alone. After he was appeased, conservative Democratic Sen. Ben Nelson of Nebraska withheld his vote, too. He wanted stricter abortion limits. Holding a big-tent coalition of diverse Democrats is about as easy as herding wet and angry cats. The left struck back. MoveOn.org said that it had raised $1 million in less than a week to hold Lieberman “accountable” for killing the

Medicare buy-in plan. Richard Trumka, head of the AFL-CIO, and Andrew Stern, head of the Service Employees International Union, were similarly upset, but stopped short of urging the plan’s defeat. That’s smart. Even in its stripped-down form, the bill offers important benefits. Democrats need to let the public know that. Among other attractions, the legislation expands Medicaid and permanently increases the federal government’s contribution to it. It puts badly needed dollars into public health, wellness and prevention programs. It extends the life of the Medicare trust fund and increases the Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement rates for primary-care physicians. It allows children to stay on their parents’ health-care plans until they turn 27. It helps small businesses with tax credits for their rising health-care costs. And, according to Congressional Budget Office cost projections, the Democratic proposal would actually help reduce the federal deficit if Congress can manage to stick to its own funding and spending targets. Despite strong Republican opposition, the Democratic Congress already has made the biggest advance toward health care coverage for all Americans since Medicare’s birth in the mid-1960s. Yet somewhere during the sausage-making process of legislation, the message of how this package might help

us ordinary Americans has gotten largely lost in right-left and far-right-versus-far-left disputes. David Axelrod, Obama’s chief political strategist, points out that support for the legislation surges when Americans are asked specifically about its proposed benefits. Taking the hint, Democrats eager to get their mojo back appear to be talking more about those benefits in recent interviews. It’s about time. We’ve heard a lot about the cost of this legislation. We need to hear more about its benefits. 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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