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Stutzman defends Farm Bill changes BY DENNIS NARTKER dnartker@kpcmedia.com
Hoosiers Feeding the Hungry plan fundraising event HUNTERTOWN — Hoosiers Feeding the Hungry will sponsor a fundraising bow shoot, barbecue and auction Sunday, Aug. 25, at Izaak Walton League of America, 17100 Griffin Road, Huntertown. The bow shoot will run from 7:30 a.m. to 2 p.m., with the barbecue from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. and a live auction at 2 p.m. The event will feature games of chance, a silent auction, live auction and mystery blind. Hoosiers Feeding the Hungry is a nonprofit organization that has provided more than 1 million meals to Indiana families in need. All shooters will be entered in a drawing with a chance to win a .12 gauge Mossberg shotgun. Organizers said the event will feature more than $14,000 worth of auction, silent auction and raffle items.
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U.S. Rep. Marlin Stutzman, R-Ind., addresses a constituent’s question during Saturday’s legislative forum at the Kendallville Public Library.
KENDALLVILLE — U.S. Rep. Marlin Stutzman, R-Ind., told constituents Saturday morning Congress is dysfunctional due to ideological differences, but he’s optimistic Congress will pass a Farm Bill when it returns to Washington, D.C., in September after a five-week recess. “It’s a mess,” he said at the Kendallville Public Library. “I’m optimistic we will work through our differences. I think a Farm Bill will pass.” Stutzman spoke at a legislative forum sponsored by the library’s legislative committee. He qualified his comments about various issues, saying the national debt at $17 trillion and
growing is always on his mind when reviewing legislation. “The national debt is the greatest threat to our country,” he said. Much of the two-hour session with about 25 people in attendance dealt with the Farm Bill and agriculture issues. In July, the U.S. House of Representatives defeated a five-year $939 billion farm-andfood bill after lawmakers adopted food-stamp amendments opposed by Democrats, including $20.5 billion in cuts to the food stamp program over a decade. Just before Congress took a five-week recess this month, the Republican-controlled House pushed through a Farm Bill
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The company’s website said it provides manufacturing capability for medical assemblies, power cords, cord sets and various types of electrical assemblies for medical, appliance, truck and trailer, electronics, telecommunications, recreational vehicles and agriculture. The company was founded in 1972 and has doubled its sales in the last five years. On a tax abatement scoring sheet, the city rated Eletric-Tec a 98 on a 265-scoring sheet, which
CAIRO (AP) — Egyptian security forces stormed a Cairo mosque Saturday after a heavy exchange of gunfire with armed men shooting down from a minaret, rounding up hundreds of supporters of the country’s ousted president who had sought refuge there overnight after violent clashes killed 173 people. The raid on the al-Fath mosque on Ramses Square was prompted by fears that deposed President Mohammed Morsi’s group, the Muslim Brotherhood, again planned to set up a sit-in, security officials said, similar to those that were broken up Wednesday in assaults that killed hundreds of people. The arrest of the brother of al-Qaida chief Ayman al-Zawahri came in connection to the raid on the mosque. Officials said that he planned to bring in armed groups to provide support to those holed up inside the mosque. Mohammed al-Zawahri, a Morsi ally, is the leader of the ultraconservative Jihadi Salafi group which espouses al-Qaida’s hardline ideology. He was detained at a checkpoint in Giza, the city across the Nile from Cairo, the official said. The official spoke on condition of anonymity as he wasn’t authorized to brief journalists about the arrest. The Egyptian government meanwhile announced it had begun deliberations on whether to ban the Brotherhood, a long-outlawed organization that swept to
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Campground festival continues today The Moore Brothers play the main stage Saturday afternoon at the Folky Fish Fest at Lake Luther Camp off C.R. 450W near Nevada Mills. The festival started with continuous folk music acts on
multiple stages Friday afternoon and continues today. Workshops, activities for children and demonstrations are also on tap.
City to hear Electric-Tec tax abatement Monday BY JENNIFER DECKER jdecker@kpcmedia.com
ANGOLA — The Angola Common Council will consider a five-year tax abatement for Electric-Tec LLC at Monday’s meeting that begins at 7 p.m. at City Hall, 210 N. Public Square. Electric-Tec, 509 Growth Parkway, is requesting the tax abatement on $650,000 in real property improvements and $45,000 in new manufacturing equipment and might add five jobs. In its application to the city, Eletric-Tec officials said they are
planning to complete a 69-foot by 225-foot metal building addition to add manufacturing and storage space. The addition will add 15,570 square feet, including additional restroom facilities, an enclosed air compressor room and high efficiency lighting. The tax abatement’s request application said the company will add terminal applicators, new molds, wire cutter and a dereeler. Eletric-Tec has 36 employees and hopes to add five additional positions.
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Security forces storm mosque
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Police checking new information on Diana’s death LONDON (AP) — British police say they are examining newly received information relating to the deaths of Princess Diana and Dodi Fayed, and that officers are assessing the information’s “relevance and credibility.” Scotland Yard declined to provide details about the information, only saying Saturday in a statement that the assessment will be carried out by officers from its specialist crime and operations unit. The force stressed that it was not reopening the investigation into the 1997 deaths of Diana and Fayed, who were killed in a car crash in Paris.
without the food stamp program by a 216-208 vote. A Senate version of the Farm Bill includes the food stamp program, and only about $4 billion in cuts. The current agriculture legislation passed in 2008 expires Oct. 1. Stutzman voted against the initial Farm Bill and supported the version without the food stamp program. He said he favors separation because of the impact the food stamp program is having on the national debt. “I support giving food to people who need it, but the food stamp program is out of control with a lot of abuse,” he said. Food stamps and nutrition make up 80 percent of the Farm Bill’s cost. In 2008,
Five decades later, JFK probe files still sealed BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Five decades after President John F. Kennedy was fatally shot and long after official inquiries ended, thousands of pages of investigative documents remain withheld from public view. The contents of these files are partially known Joannides — and intriguing — and conspiracy
buffs are not the only ones seeking to open them for a closer look. Some serious researchers believe the off-limits files could shed valuable new light on nagging mysteries of the assassination — including what U.S. intelligence agencies knew about accused assassin Lee Harvey Oswald before Nov. 22, 1963. It turns out that several hundred of the still-classified pages concern a deceased CIA agent, George Joannides, whose activities just before the assassination and,
fascinatingly, during a government investigation years later, have tantalized researchers for years. “This is not about conspiracy, this is about transparency,” said Jefferson Morley, a former Washington Post reporter and author embroiled in a decade-long lawsuit against the CIA, seeking release of the closed documents. “I think the CIA should obey the law. I don’t think most people think that’s a crazy idea.” Morley’s effort has been joined by others, including G.
Robert Blakey, chief counsel for a House investigation into the JFK assassination in the 1970s. But so far, the Joannides files and thousands more pages primarily from the CIA remain off-limits at a National Archives center in College Park, Md. Others say the continued sealing of 50-year-old documents raises needless questions and encourages conspiracy theories. “There is no question that in various ways the CIA obfuscated, SEE JFK, PAGE A6