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MVP Group International, a manufacturer of scented candles, is considering opening a plant in Fulton that would employ 150 people, according to documents on fi le with the Kentucky Eco-nomic Development Finance Au-thority.

MVP Group, based in Charles-ton, S.C., owns a plant in Mayfi eld and produces home fragrance goods and candles for private la-bel companies, such as Colonial Candle and Olde South Candle Company.

The state fi nance authority’s board passed preliminary ap-proval for $2 million in tax incen-tives on Thursday. The proposed Fulton plant would help the com-pany service a major retail cus-tomer, according to documents. That customer was not identifi ed.

The $2 million would be giv-en out in annual payments of $133,333 for 14 years, with a pay-ment of $133,338 coming in the 15th year, as long as MVP Group maintains 150 jobs at the plant paying an average hourly wage of $16.65 including employee ben-efi ts, according to fi nance author-ity documents.

The tax incentives would be provided through the Kentucky Business Investment program.

Representatives of MVP Group International did not return phone calls on Thursday. Ed-die Crittendon, director of the Fulton County-Hickman County Economic Development Partner-ship, and David Gallagher, Fulton County judge-executive, declined to comment.

MVP Group received $515,000 of performance-based incentives through the KBI program in 2011 that went toward a $2.5 million investment in the company’s Mayfi eld building and new equip-ment.

In 2011, MVP Group added 16 jobs to its 110-employee Mayfi eld operation.

News of a new employer in Ful-

ton is welcome to a community with one of the highest unem-ployment rates in the state and one that has been hit hard by em-ployers shuttering plants.

The Goodyear plant closed in nearby Union City, Tenn., be-fore many of the 200 workers at the Ferry-Morse Seed Company plant in Fulton were laid off in May. The plant moved to Fulton in 1959 and was a centerpiece of the community.

Fulton County recorded Ken-tucky’s second highest unem-ployment rate at 15.8 percent from December 2011 to Decem-ber 2012, trailing only Magoffi n County at 16.9 percent, according

MVP Group considering plant in Fulton

BY ADAM SHULLashull@paducahsun.com

Wacker Chemical Corp. seeks approval for incentivesWacker Chemical Corp.

requested final approval on Thursday for $2.7 million in tax incentives through the Kentucky Economic Develop-ment Finance Authority. The state authority’s board pre-liminarily approved the incen-tives on June 30, 2011.

The incentives were tabbed to help the company pay for a $27.4 million in-vestment in its Calvert City polymers plant — an invest-ment that would expand the plant’s production capacity but wouldn’t add jobs.

The local plant employs 114 full-time employees, up from the 106 working there in 2011. Wacker was re-quired to retain 90 percent, or 96, of its 106 full-time employees in 2011 to quali-fy for the incentives.

NEW YORK — Gasoline prices are getting an early start on their annual spring march higher.

The average U.S. retail price rose 13 cents over the past two weeks to $3.42 per gallon, and within a few days it will likely set a record for this time of year.

The culprits: Rising crude oil prices, slowing output at refi ner-

ies that are undergoing mainte-nance, and low supplies of gaso-line.

These are the kinds of thing that push gasoline prices higher every spring after what is nor-mally a lull in gasoline prices in the late fall and early winter. But a heavy schedule of January maintenance at West Coast re-fi neries has led to sharply higher prices there. Meanwhile, low

inventories have pushed prices higher on the East Coast.

And rising crude oil prices have pushed prices higher throughout the country.

“I’m not surprised at what I’m seeing, but I am surprised it’s coming early,” said Tom Kloza, Chief Oil Analyst at the Oil Price Information Service.

Gas price surge starts early

BY JONATHAN FAHEYAssociated Press

ALLIE DOUGLASS | The Sun

Sharelle Wilkinson pumps unleaded gas into her Kia Sorento on Thursday night at a BP gas station on Lone Oak Road. Wilkinson paid $3.39 per gallon.

Oil, supplies to blame; may see record seasonal high

Weather patterns running the gamut this week from spring-like warm temperatures to snows are expected to move closer to yearly averages today.

A fast moving storm system Tuesday brought strong winds and unseasonably warm temper-atures in the mid-60s.

Cold air returned Wednesday, bringing a small accumulation of snow Thursday night.

Meteorologist Dave Purdy with the National Weather Service in Paducah said nothing hazardous

is expected in upcoming forecasts and temperatures should begin to warm up to around 50 by Mon-day.

“We’re going to be going through a period where the tem-peratures are a little below nor-mal,” Purdy said. “Right now it’s pretty much just normal weather for this time of year. We could get fl urries or small amounts of snow over the next week.”

Temperatures today are ex-pected to be slightly below the 30-year average, the measuring stick meteorologists use to de-termine normal highs and lows.

Averages in the mid-30s are nor-mal for the fi rst week of February, Purdy said.

Purdy said little accumula-tion was expected across western Kentucky from Thursday’s snow-fall. Keith Todd, Transportation Cabinet information offi cer, said snow accumulated and restricted visibility in some of the 12 coun-ties making up the cabinet’s Dis-trict 1.

Area temperatures varied Thursday night from 37 degrees in Fulton to a low of 30 in Smith-

Temperatures to increase by weekendBY JODY NORWOOD

jnorwood@paducahsun.com

ALLIE DOUGLASS | The Sun

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LOUISVILLE — Efforts to re-establish industrial hemp in the state where it once fl ourished won support Thursday from U.S. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, who said its legalization would benefi t farm-ers and produce jobs to convert the plants into products.

Hemp supporters trumpeted the timely thumbs-up from Ken-tucky’s most powerful Repub-lican. It comes amid a lobbying campaign by hemp backers and detractors before state lawmak-

ers resume their regular 2013 session next week in Frankfort.

“I am con-vinced that allowing its production will be a pos-itive devel-opment for Kentucky ’s

farm families and economy,” McConnell said in a statement. “The utilization of hemp to pro-duce everything from clothing

to paper is real and if there is a capacity to center a new domes-tic industry in Kentucky that will create jobs in these diffi cult eco-nomic times, that sounds like a good thing to me.”

The Kentucky Senate Agri-culture Committee is scheduled to review legislation Feb. 11 to strictly regulate industrial hemp production in the Bluegrass state if the federal government lifts its decades-long ban on the crop.

A spokesman for McCon-

McConnell: Hemp would help stateBY BRUCE SCHREINER

Associated Press

McConnell

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tion of The Paducah Sun titled “Po-lice: Gambling ring appeared to run smoothly” incorrectly stated that Robert W. Cruse, 71, was arrested by Paducah police. Cruse was not arrested; he was cited for second-degree promotion of gambling and released. A reporter erred.

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Most of us are content just to munch on a box of Thin Mints or Samoas, but local chefs are taking these much-loved treats to the next level.

Chefs representing 12 local eateries will show off their cu-linary prowess in support of a good cause at Saturday’s Des-serts First.

The event, which benefi ts the Girl Scouts of Kentuckiana, will begin at 6 p.m. at the Julian M. Carroll Convention Center. Participants will create desserts and appetizers that incorporate at least one Girl Scout cookie into the recipe.

“It is a fun event because you get to see everyone’s creativity,” said Patrick Fletcher, culinary arts program coordinator at West Kentucky Community & Technical College. “You have to be very inventive when it comes to taking an existing item and turning it into a new and excit-ing dessert.”

Fletcher and his team of stu-dents took home the Best Appe-tizer award last year.

Karla Lawrence of Artisan Kitchen said the process of coming up with a recipe and creating about 300 desserts is time consuming, but worth the effort.

“The chefs are giving up quite a bit of their time for this. They put a lot of thought into it,” she said.

Lawrence, who has been par-ticipating in the event since its inception, said it takes her three or four days to decide which cookie she wants to use and to come up with a recipe. That doesn’t include the hours it takes to prepare and hand-decorate each miniature des-sert.

While her primary reason for

participating is to help raise funds for the Girl Scouts, Law-rence said she also enjoys the camaraderie at the event.

“Most of the time we (chefs) work so much we don’t get to see each other that often, un-less it’s at events like these,” she said.

Representatives from Jack-son Oaks, the Country Club of Paducah, Jade’s Natural De-sign, A Pampered Palate, Heav-enly Cakes & Cafe, Cass & Co., Etcetera Coffeehouse, bbQ & More, Whaler’s Catch, and Just Hors d’Oeuvres will also be competing.

Jennifer Humphreys, who coordinated this year’s event,

said that 2012’s Desserts First brought in about $14,000 for the Girl Scouts. The money goes toward the organization’s op-erational costs, she said. These include keeping up Girl Scout properties and gathering mon-ey to help aspiring scouts with low income pay their member-ship dues.

New to the event is a guest speaker, Meagan Musselman, who will share how her partici-pation in the Girl Scouts affect-ed her life. Musselman received a Gold Award — the highest honor for a Girl Scout — and is now an assistant professor at Murray State University.

Humphreys said this year’s

Desserts First will include a si-lent auction of items donated from western Kentucky busi-nesses. A cash bar will also be available.

Tickets to Desserts First are $30 for individuals. Corporate tables are available for $300. Tickets can be purchased by contacting Humphreys at jhumphreys@gskentuckiana.org, or by calling the Bear Creek Service Center at 270-443-8704. They are also available at the door on the evening of the event.

Contact Laurel Black, a Paducah Sun staff writer, at 270-575-8641.

Chefs gear up for dessert competitionBY LAUREL BLACKlblack@paducahsun.com

CORIANNE EGAN | The Sun

Last year’s Desserts First gave attendees selections from 15 local eateries, with menu items like Artisan Kitchen’s Savannah Sunset, which featured the Savannah Smile cookie under white chocolate cream cheese mousse, with lemon curd and raspberry on top. Artisan Kitchen will be participating in the benefit again on Saturday, alongside chefs from 11 other restaurants and ca-tering services.

Ashland Inc. plans to in-vest $15 million in its Cal-vert City chemicals plant in a move that will retain hundreds of employees and improve the facility’s oper-ating effi ciency.

Gov. Steve Beshear an-nounced Wednesday that the investment will ensure the current 500 full-time positions remain as the company plans to add three high-effi ciency heat recov-ery steam generators.

The generators will help reduce air emissions and improve overall energy ef-fi ciency.

“This is a major invest-ment in Calvert City and a tremendous step forward in the successful partnership

between Ashland and the commonwealth,” Beshear stated in a news release.

The three new steam generators will replace an aging and ineffi cient coal-fi red boiler, as well as two gas-fi red boilers at the Cal-vert City plant. The new generators could eventu-ally become integrated with turbine or generator sets that would create a co-gen-eration system for electric-ity. The system would be self-suffi cient and support plant operations despite power outages.

Ashland completed de-sign work on the project in December, with con-struction and installation of the generators to begin

Ashland commits $15 million to Calvert chem plant upgrades

BY WILL PINKSTONwpinkston@paducahsun.com

A McCracken County man was charged Thursday with selling crack cocaine after an investiga-tion by Paducah police.

Gary McDonald, 36, was ar-rested at 12:31 p.m. during a traffic stop at Wayne Sullivan and Locust drives. Officers stopped McDonald after he took part in a hand-to-hand transaction with an undercover officer, a news release said. McDonald had $600 in his possession at the time, with some of the bills marked by officers.

Sgt. William Gilbert said offi-cers conducted a month-long in-vestigation of McDonald after an anonymous tip indicated he was selling crack cocaine. McDonald was charged with first-degree trafficking in a controlled sub-stance, second offense.

Man faces trafficking charge

— Staff report

Local Briefs

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A Paducah man facing a 30-year-old rape charge will re-main in jail until his next court date after his attorneys withdrew

Arant withdraws bond motion

— Staff report

a bond reduction motion.Barry Arant, a former assistant

city fire chief, waived a preliminary hearing in McCracken District Court on Tuesday, thus sending his case to a grand jury for arraignment. He faces a charge of first-degree rape, victim under 12 years of age, stemming from allegations from a woman who said Arant raped her 30 years ago, when she was 11.

Arant was slated to have a bond reduction hearing on his $100,000 cash bond in McCrack-en District Court on Thursday but his attorney, Emily Roark, opted to withdraw the motion. She said that Arant and his family decided that it was in the best interest of the case to keep the bond set at the current amount.

If a grand jury indicts Arant, he is set for arraignment on Feb. 28 in McCracken Circuit Court.

Three McCracken County resi-dents face drug charges resulting

3 face trafficking charges

Please see BRIEFS | 3A

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in March. The company hopes to have the system operational by spring of 2014.

“We think this is a great announcement for our community,” said Calvert City Mayor Lynn Jones. “We’re delighted for Ash-land’s continued invest-ment in our city. Calvert City is moving as quickly as it can to become a green community, and Ashland has a commitment to help-ing meet that goal.”

Ashland purchased the nearly-60-year-old plant in Aug. 2011 when it com-pleted the purchase of ISP Chemicals. The plant pro-duces acetylene specialty chemicals.

According to Marshall County Economic Devel-opment statistics, Ashland is among the top manufac-turing industry employ-ers in Calvert City and the county.

“We’re really excited about Ashland’s announce-ment,” said Josh Tubbs, Marshall County Econom-ic Development director. “They’re committed to the community, to their work-force and to that location there in Calvert City.”

Ashland has received preliminary approval for tax incentives from the Kentucky Economic Devel-opment Finance Author-ity, for up to $5.5 million through the Kentucky Re-investment Act. KRA as-sists companies that need

to make signifi cant capital investment in state opera-tions to remain competi-tive, according to the Ken-tucky Cabinet for Economic Development.

“Calvert City will play an important role in Ash-land’s growth, particularly as we expand our presence in personal care products,” stated James J. O’Brien, Ashland chairman and CEO. “We are grateful for the support of Gov. Bes-hear and the Cabinet for Economic Development in this important investment in our workforce and in Kentucky’s future.”

Call Will Pinkston, a Paducah Sun staff writer, at 270-575-8676 or follow @WCPinkston on Twitter.

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from separate investigations.McCracken County Sheriff’s Depart-

ment detectives began an investigation in De-cember after allegedly purchasing doses of hy-drocodone from James Ronnie Ligon, 55, at his Littleville home, Detective Ryan Norman reported in a news re-lease.

Detectives alleged Ligon was keeping his brother’s medication so it would not get stolen and selling the pills for profit. Police returned to Ligon’s residence on Thursday to serve an ar-rest warrant. Ligon fac-es charges of trafficking a controlled substance and possession of a controlled substance.

Another investigation in December led detec-tives to purchase mari-juana from Shawn Harp-er, 41, of Palmer Street, Norman said. Harper was recently released from a halfway house in Paducah for prior drug charges, and Paducah police served an arrest warrant in mid-January.

Harper faces charges of trafficking marijuana, second offense.

In October, detectives purchased hy-drocodone doses from Deanna Sullenger, 34, of New Hope Road, according to the

news release. A McCracken County grand jury indicted Sullenger in January, and po-lice arrested her Monday.

Sullenger faces charges of trafficking a controlled substance.

— Staff report

Motorcycle, trailer thefts lead to arrest of Livingston County man

A Livingston County man was arrested Thursday following a multi-agency inves-tigation into stolen motorcycles, trailers and electronics.

Joseph Robinson, 38, was arrested at a residence on Duley Road near Hampton after agencies searched the property and found two Harley-Davidson motorcycles, motorcycle parts, an enclosed trailer and other items reported stolen.

The trailer had been reported stolen to the Crittenden County Sheriff’s Depart-ment, while one of the motorcycles had been reported to the Marshall County Sheriff’s Department.

The second Harley-Davidson was re-ported stolen in Ohio.

Personal items, including furnishings and electronics, reported in a Novem-ber theft in Kuttawa were also recov-ered.

Kentucky State Police, along with sher-iff’s deputies from Livingston, Lyon and Crittenden counties, executed the war-rant.

Trooper Jay Thomas said Robinson appeared to be operating a chop shop. Robinson was charged with four felony counts of receiving stolen property and taken to the McCracken County Jail.

Thomas said the investigation is ongo-ing.

— Staff report

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Harper

Sullenger

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land. Pavement tempera-tures in western Kentucky were above 40 degrees Thursday night.

Todd urged motorists to remain aware of changing

road conditions.Highway crews pre-treat-

ed bridges and overpasses Thursday morning to pre-pare for snow and dropping temperatures.

Todd said they would evaluate road conditions

this morning to look for icy or snow-covered roads.

Call Jody Norwood, a Paducah Sun staff writer, at 270-575-8658 or follow @jgnorwood on Twitter.

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to the Kentucky Offi ce of Employment and Training.

MVP Group’s Mayfi eld plant earned recognition from the Kentucky La-bor Cabinet in December. The cabinet presented the company with a plaque for obtaining certifi cation un-

der the Safety and Health Achievement Recognition Program.

The certifi cation recog-nizes employers that oper-ate exemplary safety and health managements sys-tems, a nod MVP Group earned by having a pour-ing facility accident rate 59 percent below the national

average for similar facili-ties when compared to the last three years average for close to 1 million hours worked.

Contact Adam Shull, Paducah Sun business editor, at 270-575-8653 or follow @adamshull on Twitter.

MVP

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nell, the top Republican in the Senate, said he sup-ports a “federal solution” to re-establish hemp and is discussing the best strat-egy with fellow Republi-can U.S. Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky and others.

Paul has pushed for federal legislation to lift restrictions on hemp. An-other option is to seek a federal waiver allowing Kentucky to grow the crop. McConnell said he took his pro-hemp stand after

discussions with Paul and state Agriculture Commis-sioner James Comer, who has championed the cause and revived a hemp com-mission.

Comer, a Republican, said Thursday that McCo-nnell’s support “adds im-measurable strength” to the campaign.

Kentucky once was a leading producer of in-dustrial hemp, a tall, leafy plant that thrived in the state’s climate and soils. During World War II, the U.S. government encour-

aged farmers to grow hemp for the war effort because other industrial fi bers were in short supply.

But the crop hasn’t been grown in the U.S. for de-cades, since the federal government moved to clas-sify hemp as a controlled substance related to mari-juana. Hemp and mari-juana are the same species, cannabis sativa, but are genetically distinct. Hemp has a negligible content of THC, the psychoactive compound that gives mari-juana users a high.

HEMP

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Hopes of stronger eco-nomic growth in the U.S. and abroad helped push the U.S. stock market to a fi ve-year high in January and sent crude prices up. When economies expand, more gasoline, diesel and jet fuel are consumed by shippers and travelers.

Crude oil has risen 14 percent since mid-December, to $97.49 on Thursday. Brent crude, the benchmark used to price oil that most U.S. re-fi neries use to make gaso-line, is up 9 percent since then to $115.55

But gasoline whole-sale prices are rising even

faster. That’s the price dis-tributors and service sta-tions pay to buy the gaso-line that they then sell to drivers. Wholesale prices in California are up 56 cents — a 20 percent jump — to $3.32 per gallon, in just two weeks, according to Kloza. Many California drivers will soon see $4 a gallon at local stations. Smaller but still substan-tial jumps are being seen throughout the country.

Retail gasoline prices have risen for 14 days straight, according to AAA. The average price for the month of Janu-ary was $3.32, the second highest January average ever.

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LOUISVILLE — At least three death row inmates could be nearing execution as Kentucky moves toward a new lethal injection method.

Execution requests for two of the condemned men were made to the gov-ernor’s offi ce in 2010, but a judge barred the state from carrying out any ex-ecutions until it switched to something other than a three-drug lethal injection method.

The state has revamped its method and now must go before Franklin Circuit Judge Phillip Shepherd to ask for the suspension to be lifted. Until then, the governor can’t take any action toward carrying out a death sentence.

Requests have already been made to execute Robert Karl Foley, 56, con-victed of six murders in Madison and Laurel coun-ties, and Ralph S. Baze, 57, condemned for shooting and killing a sheriff and deputy in 1992.

Also, 51-year-old Ben-ny Lee Hodge’s appeals based the trial record have run out in the August 1985 slaying of Tammy Acker, whose father was robbed of $1.9 million in Fleming-Neon in eastern Kentucky.

Kentucky is implement-ing lethal injection by one or two drugs, depending upon their availability. The change, which takes effect Feb. 1, brings Ken-tucky in line with at least seven states using the single-drug execution pro-tocol.

Kentucky moves closer to new execution method

BY BRETT BARROUQUERE

Associated Press

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Gov. Bill Haslam said Thursday that he would sign a bill seeking to allow wine to be sold in Ten-nessee supermarkets and convenience stores into law if lawmakers approve it this year.

The Republican gover-nor told reporters that he’s

neutral on the measure calling for cities and coun-ties decide by referendum whether to allow wider wine sales, but added that he won’t stand in the way of it becoming law.

“The whole allowing voting is an interesting concept,” Haslam said.

The governor’s stance on the issue appears to have warmed since the

2010 governor’s race, when he expressed reser-vations about the proposal that would directly affect the Pilot Flying J truck stop chain owned by the Haslam family.

“We’ve said all along it’s not one of the issues we would engage with,” Haslam said Thursday. “If it passes in that form would defi nitely sign it.”

Haslam would sign supermarket wine billBY ERIK SCHELZIG

Associated Press

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The McCracken County Fiscal Court and the county clerk’s offi ce share blame for failing to get the clerk’s 2013 budget to the Kentucky Department of Local Government by the Jan. 15 deadline.

Monday’s clash over the bud-get is in some ways an extension of a long-running feud between the fi scal court and clerk’s of-fi ce, or more precisely, county Judge-Executive Van Newberry and Clerk Jeff Jerrell. Face-to-face meetings between the factions remain tense, but both sides have legal responsibili-ties to meet while they await a judicial resolution.

At issue, if you have not fol-lowed this controversy, is the extent to which the fi scal court can/should exercise oversight of the clerk’s offi ce, particularly as it relates to fees and staffi ng.

After the fi scal court voted in 2011 to require the clerk’s of-fi ce to turn over excess fees to the county treasurer each month and run expenses through the fi scal court, Jerrell fi led suit challeng-ing the constitutionality of that ordinance. A special judge ruled in favor of the fi scal court, but Jerrell appealed. The Kentucky Court of Appeals is reviewing the case now.

T he immediate problem is a disagreement over the amount of detail Jerrell

should include in his budget submission to the fi scal court. Commissioners said Monday they want more specifi c infor-mation about expenditures before approving the budget. Commissioners also want to compare the clerk’s budget with clerk’s offi ces in similar Kentucky counties. Jerrell protested, saying he provided everything the fi scal court had previously requested. Commissioners say they expected more detail and would have requested it sooner if the

clerk’s offi ce had not waited un-til the last minute to submit its budget. Jerrell countered that the timing wouldn’t be an issue if commissioners had spelled out what they wanted earlier. Commissioners then noted the budgets for all the other county departments were submitted weeks ahead of the clerk’s bud-get. A deputy clerk replied that it was impossible to complete the budget until fi nal December receipts were calculated.

And so it goes, round and round.

F inal December fi gures shouldn’t be necessary for drafting a budget.

Public and private offi ces of all types complete budgets for the next year before the current year is over, based on actuals from the fi rst 11 months of the current year and the last month

of the previous year.

It is unrealistic to submit a bud-get right before the deadline and expect it to escape scrutiny. On the other hand, if the fi scal court

expects specifi c information, commissioners should make that clear early in the process.

Comparing the McCracken County Clerk’s Offi ce fi nancials with those of other counties makes sense. Comparisons could reveal the relative effi -ciency of the offi ce. If Jerrell’s offi ce is running as effi ciently as he maintains, he should wel-come the comparisons.

But it’s too late in the game to do that for 2013. It’s certainly worth pursuing with an eye toward 2014. The clerk’s offi ce is not obligated to gather data from other counties. The com-missioners can pursue that on their own.

Meanwhile the fi scal court is in violation of the state dead-line for submitting an approved budget. It may be best to con-cede on this one and sharpen the pencils for 2014 instead.

An old-time trial lawyer once said, “When your case is weak, shout louder!”

Secretary of State Hill-ary Clinton shouted louder when asked about the Obama administration’s story last fall that the September 11th attack on the U.S. ambassador’s quarters in Benghazi was due to an anti-Islamic video that someone in the United States had put on the Internet, and thereby provoked a protest that escalated into violence.

She shouted: “We had four dead Americans. Was it because of a protest or was it because of guys out for a walk one night who decided they’d go kill some Americans? What difference, at this point, does it make?”

Students of propaganda may admire the skill with which she misdirected peo-ple’s attention. But those of us who are still old-fashioned enough to think that the truth matters cannot applaud her success.

Let’s go back to square one.After the attack on the

American ambassador’s quar-ters in Benghazi that killed Ambassador Christopher Ste-vens and three other Ameri-cans, the Obama administra-tion immediately blamed it on the anti-Islamic video.

Moreover, this version of what happened was not just a passing remark. It was a story that the administration kept repeating insistently. U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice repeated that story on fi ve different television talk shows on the same Sunday. President Obama himself repeated the same story at the United Nations. The man who

put the anti-Islamic video on the Internet was arrested for a parole violation, creating more media coverage to keep attention on this theme.

“What difference, at this point, does it make?” Secre-tary Clinton now asks. What difference did it make at the time?

Obviously the Obama ad-ministration thought it made a difference, with an election coming up. Prior to the attack, the administration’s po-litical theme was that Barack Obama had killed Osama bin Laden (with an assist from the Navy SEALs), vanquished al Qaida and was now in the process of putting the terrorist threat behind us.

To have the attack in Benghazi be seen as a terror-ist attack — and a devastating one — would have ruined this picture, with an election com-ing up.

The key question that re-mains unanswered to this day is: What speck of evidence is there that the attack in Beng-hazi was due to the much-dis-cussed video or that there was ever any protest demonstra-tion outside the ambassador’s quarters?

If there is no evidence whatever, then the whole attempt to say that a protest

over a video escalated into an attack was a deliberate hoax by people who knew better.

There is no point in the administration saying that they did not have all the facts about the attack immediately. All the facts may never be known. But the real question is: Did you have even a single fact that would substantiate your repeated claims that some video led to a protest in Benghazi that got out of hand and led to the attack?

Interestingly, Hillary Clin-ton herself was not featured in this campaign, even though as Secretary of State she was a key fi gure. Hillary was not about to create video footage that could come back to haunt her if she runs for president of the United States in 2016.

In a larger context, the Benghazi attack showed that you cannot unilaterally end the “war on terror” or the ter-rorists’ war on us, by declar-ing victory.

For years, the Bush admin-istration’s phrase “war on terror” was avoided like the plague by the Obama admin-istration, even if that required the Fort Hood massacre to be classifi ed as “workplace violence.” But, no matter how clever the rhetoric, reality nevertheless rears its ugly head.

Once the September 11th attack in Benghazi is seen for what it was — a highly coordinated and highly suc-cessful operation by terrorists who were said to have been vanquished — that calls into question the Obama adminis-tration’s Middle East foreign policy.

That is why it still matters.

EDITOR:Democrat State Rep. Carl Rollins of Midway

has drafted a bill to abolish the death penalty in Kentucky.

If this bill should pass, does it mean that the murderers we send to prison will be good to the prison guards and non-violent prisoners and not try to harm them? I don’t think so. The guards and other inmates will be at risk.

Recently there was a man in New York named William Spengler who had beaten his own grandmother to death with a hammer. I cannot think of any reason why he didn’t deserve the death penalty, but he was allowed to plead down to manslaughter.

After he was released from prison, he killed his sister, set some houses on fi re and then killed two fi remen, Michael Chiapperini and Tomasz Kaeowka, who responded to the fi re. These three innocent people received the death penalty that Mr. Spengler could have received for killing his grandmother.

I have heard the arguments for and against the death penalty and I wish that I might be more convinced that the death penalty should be abolished. For some reason, you do not hear much talk about the danger that murder-ers who are sent to prison present to other

inmates, guards and even to fi refi ghters once they are released or escape from prison.

MICHAEL J. McGOWANKevil

Hillary’s shouting doesn’t change truth

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Thomas Sowell

Abolishing death penalty willplace others’ lives in jeopardy

EDITOR:If there was ever any doubt that Rand Paul

is an uncouth jerk, he proved once again that he certainly is by the uncalled-for attack he made on Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, a lady who has given more time and effort to better this country and the world than anyone I’ve heard of.

This woman who traveled more than a mil-lion miles trying to make the world safer and better for all of us to the point of hurting her health comes to the end of her time as Secre-tary of State, but instead of getting the praise that she deserves, Rand Paul tries to make her look like a traitor instead of a hero.

The reason some men and women hate Hillary is because she is more intelligent than they, and they, in their small minds, can’t accept that. I hope Hillary Clinton is the fi rst woman and the next president of the United States. She is more than qualifi ed for the job.

JOE BURCHARDPaducah

Clinton has done top-notch job,did not deserve Paul’s criticism

AT ODDSCourt, clerk display classic

failure to communicate

Comparing the McCracken

County Clerk’s Office financials

with those of other counties makes sense.

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WASHINGTON — Repub-lican senators hammered former GOP Sen. Chuck Hagel at his confi rmation hearing Thursday on issues ranging from Israel and Iran to his support for a group that advocates the elimina-tion of nuclear weapons. But with most Democrats in his corner, an unfl ustered Hagel seems headed for ap-proval as defense secretary.

Hagel, a former two-term senator from Nebraska, de-scribed his views as main-stream and closely aligned with those of President Barack Obama, the Demo-crat who nominated him. But several GOP mem-bers of the Armed Services Committee sought to por-tray him as radical and un-steady. Sen. Deb Fischer, R-Neb., called his ideas “ex-treme” and “far to the left” of Obama.

Hagel said he believes America “must engage — not retreat — in the world,” and insisted that his record is consistent on that point.

He pointed to Iran and its nuclear ambitions as an example of an urgent na-tional security threat that should be addressed fi rst by attempting to establish dia-logue with Iranian rulers,

although he said he would not rule out using military force.

“I think we’re always on higher ground in every way — international law, domestic law, people of the world, people of the region to be with us on this — if we have ... gone through every possibility to resolve this in a responsible, peaceful way, rather than going to war,” he said.

He pushed back on the notion — fi rst raised by one of his harshest Republican critics, Sen. James Inhofe of Oklahoma — that he favors

a policy of appeasement.“I think engagement is

clearly in our interest,” Hagel told Sen. Saxby Chambliss, R-Ga., who de-nounced the idea of negoti-ating with a “terrorist state.”

“That’s not negotiation,” Hagel said. “Engagement is not appeasement. Engage-ment is not surrender.”

After the daylong hear-ing, committee Chairman Carl Levin, D-Mich., said the panel could vote as early as next Thursday if Hagel quickly provides additional material requested by some members.

Republicans hammer defense nominee HagelBY DONNA CASSATA AND ROBERT BURNS

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Republican Chuck Hagel (center), a former two-term senator and President Barack Obama’s choice to lead the Pentagon, arrives at the Senate Armed Services Committee for his confirmation hearing Thursday on Capitol Hill in Washington. Two former committee chair-men, Democrat Sam Nunn (right) and Republican John Warner, introduced Hagel.

WASHINGTON — Chuck Hagel, President Barack Obama’s nominee for defense secretary, sparred Thursday with members of the Senate Armed Services Com-mittee over his record on a variety of national security issues. Below is a sum-mary of his past and current statements on Iran, nuclear weapons, and other key topics.

■ Iran: In the past, Hagel questioned the effectiveness of unilateral sanc-tions that the United States has imposed against Iran, arguing that penalties in conjunction with international partners made more sense. “I just don’t think the unilateral approach and giving war speeches helps the situation,” Hagel said in October 2007. “It will just drive the Iranians closer together.”

During his confirmation hearing, Hagel took a hardline on Iran that echoed the Obama administration’s position, but also defended his voting record on Iran dur-ing two terms as a U.S. senator. “When I voted against some of those unilateral sanctions on Iran, it was a different time,” Hagel told the committee. “For ex-ample, I believe, one was in 2001, 2002. We were at a different place with Iran during that time.”

■ Nuclear weapons: Hagel co-authored a study by the advocacy group Global Zero that called for an 80 percent reduction of U.S. nuclear weapons and the elimination of all nuclear-armed intercontinental ballistic missiles. “Getting to global zero will take years,” Hagel wrote in a March 2009 letter to Obama on behalf of the group. “So it is important that we set our course toward a world without nuclear weapons now to ensure that our children do not live under the nuclear shadow of the last century.”

Republicans in Congress said Hagel’s affiliation with the group was cause for concern because it suggested his views on nuclear weapons were markedly dif-ferent from previous defense secretaries. At Thursday’s hearing, Hagel said he’s never advocated making unilateral reductions in the size of the U.S. nuclear arse-nal. He described Global Zero’s recommendations as “illustrative possibilities.”

■ Israel: Hagel made waves several years ago by referring to pro-Israeli Ameri-cans as “the Jewish lobby” and suggesting they wield undue power in Washing-ton. “The Jewish lobby intimidates a lot of people,” Hagel said in a 2006 inter-view with former Mideast peace negotiator and author Aaron David Miller. “I’ve always argued against some of the dumb things they do, because I don’t think it’s in the interest of Israel.”

Hagel told the committee that he always been a strong supporter of Israel and that he regretted using the term “Jewish lobby” as well as the words “intimi-dates” and “dumb.”

Then and Now: Hagel on national securityAssociated Press

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PHOENIX — A man who shot and killed a call-center CEO and critically wounded a lawyer at a Phoenix office building

Gunman found dead of apparent suicide

— Associated Press

INDIANAPOLIS — An In-diana man has agreed to plead guilty to charges al-leging that he tricked more than a dozen teenagers into stripping or perform-ing sexual acts for him via webcam and then used re-cordings of those sessions to coerce them into making even more explicit videos.

Richard Finkbiner, who lives in the western Indi-ana community of Brazil, signed an agreement filed Wednesday in federal court in Terre Haute on Wednes-day to plead guilty to child exploitation, extortion and possession of child por-nography in exchange for a recommended sentence of 30 to 50 years in prison.

U.S. Attorney Joe Hog-sett previously said that his office would seek an effective life sentence if a jury convicted Finkbiner.

Indiana man to plead guilty to ‘sextortion’

— Associated Press

where they were meeting to discuss a contract dis-pute was found dead early Thursday, ending a nearly 24-hour manhunt that had area residents on edge.

A landscaper found the body of Arthur Douglas Har-mon among some bushes in the Phoenix suburb of Mesa. Harmon, 70, died of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound, police said.

A handgun was found near his body, and a rented Kia Optima sedan that he drove from Wednesday’s shooting scene was located in a nearby parking lot.

Authorities had been searching for Harmon since Wednesday morning, when they say he drew a gun and shot the two men at the end of a mediation session.

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa — Russ Wasendorf Sr. admit-ted last summer that his lavish lifestyle was a lie, built with money he stole from customers at Peregrine Financial Group, the Cedar Falls-based brokerage he founded. Prosecutors said he took $215 million over 20 years in the biggest fraud in Iowa history.

Wasendorf is now being held in isolation at a county jail in a tiny cell where he sleeps on a concrete pad without a pillow, his pastor said. And on Thursday, the 64-year-old learned he will most likely spend the rest of his life in federal prison.

A judge sentenced Wasen-dorf to 50 years in prison. Wasendorf, who must serve

Brokerage head gets 50 years for theft

— Associated Press

at least 42½ years of the sentence, appeared in frag-ile health, having lost weight and suffering from health problems that made him look nothing like the image of a confident financial whiz he once projected.

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WASHINGTON — Con-gress sent President Barack Obama drama-free legislation on Thursday raising the debt ceiling, averting a government default and putting off the next tax-and-spending clash between the White House and Republicans until later in the year.

The measure cleared the Senate on a vote of 64-34 after winning House ap-proval late last week. It permits the Treasury to borrow above the cur-rent $16.4 trillion debt limit through May 18. The White House has said Obama will sign it.

“Failure to pass this bill will set off an unpredict-able fi nancial panic that would plunge not only the United States but much of the world back into reces-sion,” Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont., said before the vote. “Every single Ameri-can would feel the eco-nomic impact.”

But Republican leader Mitch McConnell said in remarks on the Senate fl oor that “government spending is completely out of control - and it’s

projected to get much worse in years to come.” His offi ce issued a state-ment shortly after the vote saying he had opposed the legislation after Demo-crats torpedoed several GOP attempts to rein in spending before fi nal pas-sage.

The legislation refl ects a switch in strategy by Republicans, whose in-sistence on deep spend-ing cuts as a trade-off for a higher debt limit more than a year ago pushed the government to the brink of an unprecedented de-fault. With polls showing their public support lag-ging, they now look ahead to a new season of poten-tial showdowns, with a reshuffl ed batting order that moves the threat of a default to the back of a line that includes March 1 across-the-board spend-ing cuts and the March 27 expiration of funding for most federal agencies.

The debt limit measure came with only one string attached by House Re-publicans, a provision that would temporarily with-hold the pay of lawmakers in either house that failed to produce a budget this year.

Congress sends bill to Obama averting default

BY DAVID ESPOAssociated Press

MIDLAND CITY, Ala. — Speaking into a 4-inch-wide ventilation pipe, hostage negotiators tried Thursday to talk a man into releasing a kindergartener and ending a standoff in an underground bunker that stretched into its third day.

The man identifi ed by multiple neighbors and witnesses as 65-year-old retired truck driver Jimmy Lee Dykes was accused of pulling the boy from a school bus on Tuesday and killing the driver. The pair was holed up in a small room on his property that authorities compared to tornado shelters common in the area.

James Arrington, police chief of the neighboring town of Pinckard, said the shelter was about 4 feet underground, with about 6-by-8 feet of fl oor space and a PVC pipe that ne-gotiators were speaking through.

There were signs that the standoff could continue for some time: A state leg-islator said the shelter has electricity, food and TV. The police chief said the captor has been sleeping and told negotiators that he has spent long periods in the shelter before.

“He will have to give up sooner or later because (authorities) are not leav-ing,” Arrington said. “It’s

pretty small, but he’s been known to stay in there eight days.”

Midland City Mayor Vir-gil Skipper said he has been briefed by law enforcement and visited with the boy’s parents.

“He’s crying for his par-ents,” he said. “They are holding up good. They are praying and asking all of us to pray with them.”

The normally quiet red clay road was teeming Thursday with more than a dozen police cars and trucks, a fi re truck, a helicopter, offi -cers from multiple agencies, media and at least one am-bulance near Midland City, population 2,300.

Dykes was known around the neighborhood as a menacing fi gure who neighbors said once beat a dog to death with a lead pipe, threatened to shoot children for setting foot on his property, and patrolled his yard at night with a fl ashlight and a fi rearm.

The chief confi rmed that Dykes held anti-govern-ment views, as described by multiple neighbors: “He’s against the government — starting with Obama on down.”

“He doesn’t like law en-forcement or the govern-ment telling him what to do,” he said. “He’s just a loner.”

Authorities say the gun-man boarded a stopped school bus Tuesday after-noon and demanded two boys between 6 and 8 years old. When the driver tried to block his way, the gun-man shot him several times and took a 5-year-old boy off the bus.

The bus driver, Charles Albert Poland Jr., 66, was hailed by locals as a hero who gave his life to protect the 21 students aboard the bus.

No motive has been dis-cussed by investigators, but the police chief said the FBI had evidence suggesting it could be considered a hate crime.

Negotiators talking to captor through pipeBY PHILLIP RAWLS

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Authorities gather at the Dale County hostage scene Thursday in Midland City, Ala. A gunman holed up in a bunker with a young hostage has kept law officers at bay since the standoff began when he killed a school bus driver and dragged the boy away, authorities said.

WASHINGTON — The Obama administration is considering more asser-tive action against Beijing to combat a persistent cyber-es-pionage campaign it believes Chinese hackers are waging against U.S. companies and government agencies.

As The New York Times and Wall Street Journal re-ported Thursday that their computer systems had been infi ltrated by China-based hackers, cybersecurity ex-perts said the U.S. govern-ment is eyeing more point-ed diplomatic and trade measures.

Two former U.S. offi cials said the administration is preparing a new National Intelligence Estimate that, when complete, is expected to detail the cyberthreat, particularly from China, as a growing economic prob-lem. One offi cial said it also will cite more directly a role by the Chinese government in such espionage.

The offi cial said the NIE, an assessment prepared by the National Intelligence Council, will underscore the

administration’s concerns about the threat, and will put greater weight on plans for more aggressive action against the Chinese govern-ment. The offi cial was not au-thorized to discuss the classi-fi ed report and spoke only on condition of anonymity.

Secretary of State Hill-ary Rodham Clinton, in an interview with reporters, said the U.S. needs to send a strong message that it will respond to such incidents.

“We have to begin mak-ing it clear to the Chinese — they’re not the only people hacking us or attempting to hack us — that the United States is going to have to take action to protect not only our government’s, but our private sector, from this kind of illegal intrusions. There’s a lot that we are working on that will be deployed in the event that we don’t get some kind of international effort under way,” she said.

US looking at action against China cyberattacksBY LOLITA C. BALDOR

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WASHINGTON — Some tips to help business trav-elers protect their laptops and mobile devices from spying — or at least limit the damage of hacking — while in China or other nations that may want to steal company information:

■ Don’t take your work or personal laptop. That’s the best advice and a precaution used by major companies and agencies of the federal government, said Anup Ghosh, chief financial officer of Invincea, a software security company in Fairfax, Va. Instead, some employ-ers issue traveling laptops that are clean of proprietary corporate or government information and are scrubbed clean after the employee returns from the trip.

■ Don’t think you can just keep your eye on your equipment. Data can be captured while the laptop is in customs or if you step away from your hotel room briefly. “It takes five minutes or less to capture in-formation from the laptop,” Ghosh said. Lock it in a hotel safe. Use an encrypted drive.

■ Get a traveling phone as well, such as a pay-per-use phone. If you take your phone, it should be rei-maged on return. Use your screen password on your mobile device so if you lose it, no one can pick it up and read your email or other data.

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CHICAGO — Early in her pas-toral career, the Rev. Julie Harley encountered a woman with ALS, bent over in a wheelchair. It struck her as a particularly cruel illness — incurable, often hitting in the prime of life, immobilizing the body while leaving the mind intact.

It still strikes her that way, but now it’s her ordeal as well.

Harley, 52, until recently the lead pastor of First United Church of Oak Park, Ill., learned toward the end of November that she has amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease.

It has progressed with fearsome speed. She is using a motorized wheelchair, has around-the-clock caregivers and needs a breathing machine at night. Her speech is impaired, and she can barely hold a coffee cup.

The illness has robbed her of the ability to minister to church members in the way she had for 4 1/2 years. She retired in Decem-ber.

But ALS has not ended her ministry.

For church members, Harley’s illness is a tragedy but also a powerful lesson in facing adver-sity with faith, courage and even humor.

Though she has some diffi -culty speaking, she has no trouble thinking about matters of life, death and meaning. And the shortness of the time she has left has stripped many conversations with church members down to their essence.

To her joy, a number have told her how much she has meant to them.

“They speak to you very hon-estly and openly because they know there’s not much time left,” Harley said. “In a way, I’m listen-ing to my own eulogy.”

At the same time, another min-istry has blossomed:

Church members are now min-istering to her.

Some 125 former and cur-rent congregants have stepped forward to join Team Julie, a care effort organized by First United’s deacons.

Coordinating their efforts online, they are bringing Harley meals, staying with her for lunch or dinner, taking her to medical appointments and praying with her.

When Harley, a divorced moth-er of two daughters in college, could no longer navigate the steps to her second-fl oor condo, Team Julie found her an apartment in an elevator building across the street from First United, with a view of its meditation labyrinth. They furnished the apartment for her and moved her in.

Team members volunteer for tasks she posts online so quickly

that “if you don’t sign up the same day that possibilities become available, you can fi nd yourself shut out for a month or more,” church member Tom Wolford said.

For all the bedside visits she made over the years, the prayers she gave, the listening ear she offered, “We want to pay it back and pay it forward,” said church member Sandy Jefferson, recall-ing how Harley visited his dying partner every week.

“People came out of the wood-work,” said Harley’s daughter

Rachel, 21, who thinks that with-out all the help, she would have had to take a leave from Elmhurst College.

Harley had been fi t and healthy, a vegetarian, cyclist, swimmer and runner who had completed a triathlon and a half-marathon.

After serving at several church-es and a social service agency in suburban Chicago, she was four years into her position at First United and felt she was in the prime of her pastoral life. Her daughters, Rachel and Emma, 19, were in college but not far away.

Life was good.Then last May, Harley began

losing her balance when she ran. She couldn’t put her leg on the kitchen counter to stretch. She fell down in her bedroom.

By July, she was using a cane; by September, a walker.

She hid nothing from the con-gregation as she underwent a long battery of tests as doctors tried to determine what was wrong.

She asked for prayers and help. Through Team Julie and the Lotsa Helping Hands website, which coordinates caregiver support, she

got both.On Nov. 19, she was diagnosed

with ALS.And she knew exactly what it

meant.“It’s pretty much the worst one

you can get,” Harley said with dif-fi culty while sitting in her wheel-chair-accessible apartment.

“It’s a very cruel disease because you maintain your mind till the end of your life,” she said. “I know it’s going to be very brutal.”

Acquiescing to her daughters’

Pastor finds self in need of others’ supportBY BARBARA BROTMANMcClatchy-Tribune News Service

McClatchy-Tribune News Service

The Rev. Julie Harley (right), 52, is helped to her desk by her care-giver Shirley Hadley, Jan. 23 in Oak Park, Ill. Members of her flock have enlisted in Team Julie, helping her with chores, meals, shop-ping and a myriad of other things she used to do herself.

McClatchy-Tribune News Service

The Rev. Julie Harley (center), 52, leads a prayer with her daughters Emma (left), 19, Rachel (second from right), 21, and parishioner Ann Armstrong (right), who prepared the lunch meal, Jan. 23 in Oak Park, Ill. The pastor is stepping down as lead pastor at First United Church of Oak Park as she battles a fast-worsening case of ALS.

“She’s locked in this life-and-death struggle, in front of all of us,

so it’s very public, and she is exemplary.

It’s one thing to talk about all this, but she was talking about it as she was doing it, as her body

just gave way.”

Bob HaismanChurch member

Special services

St. James Christian Method-ist Episcopal Church, 800 Ten-nessee St., annual Youth and Young Adult Worship Service, 3 p.m. Sunday. Guest evangelist Sukreshia Bridgett of White Oak Missionary Baptist Church.

All men welcome to join the next Men’s Monthly Break-fast and Christian Devotional Meeting 8 a.m. Saturday at the Hutchen’s House in Benton. Topic for February is Unity in Christ. Ministers of different denominations will be focusing on what we have in common, our walk with Christ. Coffee and doughnuts will be served. Any questions, Trey Shelton at 270-703-4280.

Presiding Elder Ralph Johnson will hold a seminar for the of-ficers and class leaders of the

AME churches at 2 p.m. Satur-day at Burks Chapel, 635 Ohio St. Lunch will be served.

Missionary Societies and the Youth of Burks Chapel, Hills Chapel and St. John AME churches will observe “Souper Bowl Day” on Sunday. After morning worship service, each church will collect a donation and a food item to be given to a charity in the area.

ECKANKAR, the religion of the light and sound, will host an open discussion titled “Have You Had A Spiritual Experi-ence” at 11 a.m. Feb. 10, at the Paducah Yoga Center, 7th and Broadway.

Fellowship

Saturday featuring Maple Spring United Methodist Church, 9643 U.S. 68 E., Faird-

ealing, country ham breakfast, 6:30-9 a.m. country ham. sau-sage, eggs cooked to order, pancakes, home-made biscuits and gravy, orange juice and cof-fee. Proceed Men’s Club. Adults $4 and children under 12, $2.

Westminster Presbyterian Church, 2732 Broadway, will host a “Souper Bowl” meal im-mediately following morning wor-ship on Sunday. Proceeds from donations will go to feed the hungry in the community. Morn-ing worship begins at 10:15 a.m.

The Men of Broadway United Methodist Church, 701 Broad-way, will host Trivia Night, 6:30 p.m. Feb. 9. Registration begins at 6 p.m. Registration fee is $10 a person with proceeds going to provide scholarships to Lakeshore Summer Camps for kids in need. Refreshments,

grand prize, and door prizes.Newton Creek Baptist

Church, 12800 Ogden Landing Road in Kevil, will host its an-nual Men and Boys Breakfast, at 8 a.m. Saturday. There is no charge. All men and boys welcome. Ricky Russell, an avid bass tournament fisherman, and a member of C.A.S.T., Chris-tian Anglers Serving Together, will be the guest speaker.

Free health screenings, 5-8 p.m. Monday at Just By Faith, 1120 Johnson St., Metropolis. Workshop at 6 p.m. Screenings include blood pressure, choles-terol, glucose and HIV/AIDS oral testing, weight/BMI and respira-tory screenings.

 

Radio Ministry

First Christian Church, 415

Audubon, Paducah. Morning worship is broadcast every Sun-day 10:45 a.m. on 1560 A.M. WPAD or 99.5 FM.

“God’s Guide for Daily Liv-ing” is presented each Sun-day morning at 7:30 a.m. by Fairdealing Church of Christ, 8081 U.S. 68 East, Benton on Benton radio stations WCBL 99.1 FM and 1290 AM by Lexie B. Ray, minister of the church.

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paducahsun.com Faith & Family The Paducah Sun • Friday, February 1, 2013 • 9A

The large snowfl akes looked like hundreds of tiny crystal spider webs spread across the windshield of the car. It had spent a cold winter night outside at the home where we lived in the mountains several years ago. Like beautiful silvery lace, the frost formed a thin veil over the glass. I pushed the front defroster button, but was in a hurry, so I didn’t wait for the shimmer-ing shroud to melt.

I remember, as I drove down our narrow, little-traveled road, that when the glistening ice met the glaring sun, it blocked my vision. Although the windshield was completely cleared before I reached the

end of the short street, I re-alized that for a few seconds I might’ve been blinded had a dog or strolling neighbor entered my path.

The quiet lane was thank-fully empty, but it could’ve been a horrible mistake to allow that beautiful, icy veil to blind me as I rushed ahead to begin my day.

How many times in

our life are we blinded by beauty, ignoring a potential threat or danger?

Something can be so attractive to us that we lose sight of possible problems or we make errors in judg-ment. Beauty may only be skin deep, but it can hide dense ugliness or danger underneath. The frosty web was so dazzling that it wasn’t immediately obvious to me that when mixed with another element — bright sunshine — that lovely sheer curtain could appear as blinding as a dark drape.

When we talk about being blinded by beauty we automatically think of being blinded by love. But one can also be seduced by

an alluring car, house, or job — anything that catches our eye and fi lls our focus, blocking our sight to the potential negatives.

My husband and I fell in love with a house once and began elaborate machina-tions that would uproot our lives in order to make that house our home. There were numerous reasons not to pursue the purchase of the house, but we ignored them and reasoned and rationalized away the ob-stacles. We focused only on the positives and imagined ourselves living within the walls of a house that in hindsight would’ve surely encased us like a prison.

When the house sold

suddenly to other buyers, we were shocked into a reversal of our elaborate plans. It wasn’t long before we realized what a mistake it would’ve been to turn our infatuation into something more permanent. We were relieved and satisfi ed that strangers were living in our dream home and we re-mained comfortably settled in our own.

The book of Proverbs is loaded with warnings to avoid things that look too good to be true because they usually are. We can make big, and sometimes tragic, mistakes when attraction causes logic to fl y out the window and we fl y instead into danger, like a moth to

fl ame.Maybe just taking your

time — sort of like waiting a couple of minutes after turning on the defroster button — will allow the pos-sible problems or dangers to be revealed. Because the beauty of that person, house, job — whatever it is — may suddenly melt away if you pause for just a moment and let your vision and your mind clear.

Jaletta Albright Desmond is a columnist who writes about faith, family, and the fascinatingly mundane as-pects of daily life. She lives in North Carolina with her family. Contact her at jdes-mond@bdtonline.com.

Pluses of life often blind us to impending mistakes

Jaletta Desmond

concerns, she retired.“Mentally and spiritu-

ally, I’m still the same, but physically, I can barely answer the phone,” Harley said.

Her Dec. 6 open letter to her church commu-nity minced no words: “I will soon need a power wheelchair. It is likely that my breathing, speaking and eating will also be impaired. Most people with ALS die of respiratory failure within 3-5 years.”

“It all happened so fast,” church member Alison Valderrama said. “It just really shocked people.”

Church members strug-gled to make sense of it.

“You take this in a con-text of a religious institu-tion, and it becomes more diffi cult to process in a way,” Kevin Crowell said. “Bad things aren’t sup-posed to happen to good people. And Julie is a very good person.”

Harley wrestles with it herself.

“I don’t think God sends tragedy to people. I feel that physical illness is just one of the facts of life. I’m not angry at God,” she said.

Still, “I would say I am mystifi ed,” Harley said. “Here I am doing good work and living a good life and trying to do good. It’s hard to be cut off from that.”

The most painful part is thinking about her daugh-ters.

“I think it’s really harder on them than on me,” she said. “I’m an adult. I can deal with my mortality. They’re the ones who are going to miss me.”

She doesn’t complain. She is grateful for the out-pouring of help, the spiri-tual lesson of learning to accept help and the stream of visitors so constant that, she said with a grin, “every day is like an open house here.”

A few weeks ago, she went to Las Vegas with her older daughter. “We went to shows, we ate at great restaurants, we went shop-ping,” she said. “You only

live once; might as well have fun.”

Harley doesn’t fear death.

“I have been with so many people who are dy-ing and have conducted so many funerals that I’ve had a lot of time and op-portunity to think about what my own death will be like,” she said. “If anybody has dealt with their mortal-ity, I have.

“I do believe in life after death. I am not afraid.”

Church members have watched her response to her illness with awe.

“She has this really, re-ally strong sense of faith,” Crowell said. “She’s not afraid. She’s sorry, she’s sad — she has two young daughters — but death itself holds no fear for her. That to me is amazing.”

“I heard her say she didn’t fear death, and it wasn’t just talk,” church member Bob Haisman said. “She’s locked in this life-and-death struggle, in front of all of us, so it’s very public, and she is exem-plary. It’s one thing to talk about all this, but she was talking about it as she was

doing it, as her body just gave way.”

“She’s faced this thing with just an incred-ible amount of grace and dignity,” church member Wolford said. “For her to have the joy of living that she does, given what’s happened to her physically — it’s extraordinary.”

Harley is under no illusions about what lies ahead. She wrote a booklet about end-of-life care deci-sions in 1994, and now has been updating those deci-sions for herself. She plans to have a do-not-resusci-tate order and is wrestling with the grim question of whether she would want to be kept alive on a respira-tor if she loses the ability to breathe.

Probably not, she thinks.Until then, she is taking

her pleasures in life where she fi nds them, which she still does, and treasuring her friendships and serious conversations.

“It’s not like my ministry is over; it’s just taking a new form,” Harley said.

And after 27 years of ministering to others, “I’m getting it all back.”

PASTORCONTINUED FROM 8A

Daniel “Boscoe” France, the 2012 nationwide King of the Battle of the Blues, will be the featured artist Feb. 14 at Mayfi eld First Christian Church’s Blues Night.

The worship service and free concert will include a love offering to benefi t The Lighthouse Ministries of Mayfi eld, a shelter for women and children who are homeless or victims of domestic abuse.

“This is a rare opportu-nity for people from this area to hear one of the best blues singers and guitarists today,” said Rev. Randy Cook, senior minister. “This guy and his band are incredible, and we are so fortunate in that he heard about our Blues Nights from friends and contacted us and offered to play and sing here. We are so excited and blessed by this opportunity which we hope will greatly benefi t the Christian work of The Lighthouse.”

Last year France won the national 2012 King of the

Blues competition at the Memphis Blues Festival outplaying more than 4,000 guitarists. France, who hails from Madisonville, has only recently ventured into the gospel fi eld. He hails from a very musically inclined fam-ily. At age 3 he was given his fi rst guitar and by age 6 had graduated to playing a Gib-son Flying V. He founded his current band in 2001,

and they play throughout the U.S.

Doors will open at 5:30 p.m. with the FCC Pearl House Band playing fol-lowed by France and his band at 6 p.m. A reception will follow in the Fellowship Hall. If weather postpones the event, it will be held Feb. 28. For more information, call the church offi ce at 270-247-2204.

Blues Night concert for Mayfield shelter features musician France

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BENTON — W.J. Jeter, 94, of Benton, Kentucky died on Wednesday, January 30, 2013, at Lakeway Nursing & Re-habilitation in Benton, Kentucky.

Mr. Jeter was a vet-eran of the U.S. Army and served during World War II. He was a retired Heavy Equipment Op-erator for Reed Crushed Stone.

Born Tuesday, Decem-ber 10, 1918, in Wayne Co., Tennessee, he was the son of the late Neal Jeter and the late Verna (Churchwell) Jeter. He was the husband of the late Mary Edith (Ray) Jeter.

Surviving are sons, Terry Jeter of Benton, Ky., Randy Jeter, wife Lana of Benton, Ky., and Norman Jeter, wife Deb-ra of Clarksville, Tenn.; daughter, Linda Tolbert of Benton, Ky., sister, Jean Carroll of Mur-freesboro, Tenn., grand-children, Shelley Noles of Benton, Ky., Nikki Wilbanks of New Con-cord, Ky., Clay Jeter of

Los Angeles, Calif., Chris Jeter of Benton, Ky., Brit-tany Jeter of Benton, Ky., Shaun Holland of Ben-ton, Ky., Lindsey Holland of Benton, Ky., Clint Hol-land of Benton, Ky., and great-grandchildren, Au-drey Noles, Jack Noles, Lauren Noles, Ethan Tate Jeter, Kenzie Briggs, Grady Holland, and Finn Wilbanks.

He was preceded in death by his parents; his wife; his brothers, Arnold Jeter, Guy Jeter, Ray Jeter, Fay Jeter, Claude Jeter; and sisters, Eliza-beth Ann Brown and Johnnie Sue Jones.

A Funeral service will be at 1:00 p.m. on Satur-day, February 2, 2013, at Collier Funeral Chapel, located at 211 West 5th St., Benton, Kentucky 42025.

Interment will follow in Benton Cemetery, Benton, Ky.

Visitation will be held at the Collier Funeral Home between the hours of 5:00 p.m. and 8:00 p.m. on Friday, February 1, 2013.

W.J. Jeter

Carolyn Jones Walls, 44, of Paducah passed away at 4:04 p.m. Wednesday, January 30,

2 0 1 3 , at her r e s i -dence.

M r s . W a l l s w a s former-ly em-ployed as an LPN at

Paducah Care & Reha-bilitation Center and was of the Baptist faith.

She is survived by two daughters, Jessica Mi-chelle Roach and hus-band Charles Anthony Roach of Paducah, and Kari Georgia-Faye Walls of Paducah; one son, Joshua Ray Wallace of Paducah; two brothers, Ray Jones of Paducah, and John Jones of Paducah; one sister, Dal-erie West of Paducah;

three nieces, Amanda West, Courtney West, and Olivia Paige Jones; and one nephew, Allan West Jr.

She was preceded in death by her parents, Phillip R. Jones Sr. and Georgia L. (Turner) Jones, and one brother in-law, James West.

Funeral services will be held at 11:00 a.m. Satur-day, February 2, 2013, at Hughes Funeral Home of Paducah with Rev. Larry Rudesill offi ciating. Buri-al will follow at Maple-lawn Park Cemetery in Paducah.

Friends may call af-ter 5:00 p.m. on Friday, February 1, 2013, at the funeral home.

In lieu of fl owers the family requests dona-tions be made to a special account for Carolyn L. Jones Walls at any Re-gions Bank.

Condolences may be sent online at www.hughesfuneral.com.

Carolyn Jones Walls

Walls

Jennifer Lynn Moreland, 58, of Paducah died at 11:33 a.m. Thursday, Jan. 31, 2013, at Lourdes hospital.

Services will be at 2 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 2, 2013, at Central Church of Christ with Jim Faughn offi ciat-ing.

Friends may call from noon to 2 p.m. Saturday at the church. Other arrange-ments were incomplete at Milner & Orr Funeral Home of Paducah.

Jennifer Moreland

Mason Liam Yates, 6-month-old infant son of Charity Harper of Paducah, died at 8:46 p.m. Monday, Jan. 27, 2013, at Kosair Children’s Hospital in Lou-isville.

He is survived by two brothers, his twin Jaxon Yates and Blake Harper; and one sister, Ashlee Harper, all of Paducah; and his grandparents, Neil and Rhonda Yates of Smithland.

Services will be at 3 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 3, 2013, at Keeling Family Funeral Home with Rev. Joel Harp-er offi ciating. Burial will fol-low in Macedonia Church Cemetery in Lyon County. Friends may call from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. Sunday at the funeral home.

Mason Yates

VIENNA, Ill. — Carl T. Smoot, 83, of Vienna died at 10:07 a.m. Wednesday, Jan. 30, 2013, at Heartland Regional Medical Center in Marion.

Services will be at 1 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 2, 2013, at Bailey Funeral Home with Bill Littrell offi ciating. Burial will be in Christian Cha-pel Cemetery in Dongola. Friends may call from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the funeral home.

Memorial contributions may be made to Williamson County Humane Society, 913 S. 13th St., Herrin, IL 62948.

Carl Smoot

Ruby Valerie Henderson of Paducah died Sunday, Jan. 27, 2013, at Lourdes

hospital.S h e

w o r k e d in dietary at Massac Memorial Hospital in Me-tropolis, Ill., and was a graduate of West

Kentucky Vocational-Tech-nical School and a member of Crockett Street Church of Christ in Brookport, Ill.

She is survived by two sons, Terry Roach of Bur-gin, Ky., and Dwight Roach of Paducah; one brother, John Henderson of Los Angeles; and fi ve sisters, Gertrude Pride and Bernice Wilson, both of Malden, Mo., Joyce Henderson of Atlanta, Celestine Buford of East St. Louis, Ill., and Drusilla Chism of Jefferson City, Mo.

She was preceded in death by three brothers and three sisters. Her parents were Walter and Magnolia Henderson.

Services will be at 1 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 2, 2013, at Mundy Funeral Chapel with William Hensley offi ciating. Burial will be Monday, Feb 4, 2013, in Simmons Cem-etery in Catron, Mo.

Friends may call from 11 a.m. until the time of ser-vice Saturday, Feb. 2, 2013, at the funeral home.

Ruby HendersonPRINCETON — Rev.

James C. Gray, 77, of Princ-eton died at 2:50 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 31, 2013, at Caldwell Medical Center.

Arrangements were in-complete at Morgan’s Fu-neral Home.

Rev. James Gray

CUBA — Aubrey Darnell, 91, of the Cuba community died Thursday, Jan. 31, 2013, at Mills Health & Re-habilitation in Mayfi eld.

He was a member of Cuba Church of Christ, a retired dairy farmer and a veteran of the U.S. Army Air Force.

He is survived by one son, Michael Darnell of Cuba; two daughters, Sheila Clark of Mayfi eld and Susan Dub-lin of Nashville, Tenn.; one sister, Charlene Legate of Cuba; four grandchildren; and two great-grandchil-dren.

He was preceded in death by his wife, Eva Nell Mason Darnell; and three sisters. His parents were John and Pearl Bruce Darnell.

Graveside services will be at 11 a.m. Saturday, Feb. 2, 2013, at Cuba Community Cemetery.

Friends may call from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. Friday, Feb. 1, 2013, at Byrn Funeral Home in Mayfi eld.

Aubrey Darnell

Wilma Lee Starks, 86, of Paducah died at 1:25 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 31, 2013, at Culpepper Place.

Arrangements were in-complete at Milner & Orr Funeral Home of Paducah.

Wilma Starks

VIENNA, Ill. — Doris McKenzie, 94, of Vienna died at 3:55 p.m. Wednes-day, Jan. 30, 2013, at her home.

Services will be at 2:30 p.m. Monday, Feb. 4, 2013, at First United Methodist Church in Vienna. Burial will be in Vienna Fraternal Cemetery.

Friends may call from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 3, 2013, at Bailey Funeral Home.

Memorials may be made to First United Method-ist Church, P.O. Box 1349, Vienna, IL 62995; Eagle House Ministries, 3590 Ill. 37, Buncombe, IL 62912; or Faith Alive, P.O. Box 241, Vienna, IL 62995.

Doris McKenzie

MAYFIELD — Billy Ray Thompson, 61, of Mayfi eld died at 12:45 p.m. Thurs-day, Jan. 31, 2013, at Jack-son Purchase Medical Cen-ter.

Arrangements were in-complete at Brown Funeral Home in Mayfi eld.

Billy Thompson

Donnie R. Taylor, 55, of Paducah died at 11:15 a.m. Wednesday, Jan. 30, 2013, at Western Baptist Hospi-tal.

Arrangements were in-complete at Pettus-Row-land Funeral Home.

Donnie Taylor

Services for Mamie Tyler Austin, 59, of Paducah will be at noon Saturday, Feb.

2, 2013, at New G r e a t e r Love Mis-s i o n a r y B a p t i s t C h u r c h with the Rev. LaR-ita Hor-ton and the Rev. A l f r e d

Anderson offi ciating. Burial will be in Oak Grove Cem-etery.

Ms. Austin died at 2:58 a.m. Friday, Jan. 25, 2013, at Lourdes hospital.

Ms. Austin was a member of International Faith Min-istries where she sang in the choir. She was a gradu-ate of West Kentucky State Vocational School, attended Draughon’s Business Col-lege and retired from the Paducah Manpower Offi ce. Ms. Austin was a former Mary Kay Consultant.

She was preceded in death by her parents, Rob-ert Tyler Sr. and Katie B. Tyler Ragsdale; four broth-ers and one sister.

Ms. Austin is survived by her husband, the Rev. Wil-liam Austin; one son, Adri-an Caldwell of Paducah; one daughter, Felicia Tyler of Paducah; one grand-daughter; three brothers, Terry Ragsdale of Paducah, Edward Tyler and Leroy Ty-ler, both of Detroit, Mich.; six sisters, Deloris Rags-dale Elliott of Cincinnati, Frankie Ragsdale Drew, Connie Ragsdale, Edna Ty-ler Allen, Ellener Tyler De-boe and Ella Tyler Mayes, all of Paducah; and several nieces, nephews and cous-ins.

Friends may call at the church after 10 a.m. Satur-day, Feb. 2, 2013.

Pettus-Rowland Funeral Home is in charge of ar-rangements.

Mamie Austin

MARION — Deloris Jane Beard, 78, of Marion died Wednesday, Jan. 30, 2013, at Livingston Hospital and Healthcare Services in Sa-lem.

Mrs. Beard was a member of Lola Baptist Church.

She is survived by her husband of 58 years, Charles Beard; fi ve chil-dren, Carolyn Beard of Whitesville, Charlotte Fox of Marion, Brent Beard of Marion, Sherrie Pierce of Sturgis and Barry Beard of Marion; one sister, Shirley Fox of Salem; and several grandchildren and great-grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by one son, Greg Beard; and three brothers. Her parents were PY and Carmen Kim-sey Damron.

There will be no services. Boyd Funeral Home in Sa-lem is in charge of arrange-ments.

Memorial contributions may be made to Deer Creek Cemetery Fund, c/o Curt Buntin, 4736 Ky. 297, Mari-on, KY 42064.

Deloris Beard

Thomas E. McManus, 83, of Paducah died at 4:01 a.m. Thursday, Jan. 31, 2013, at Lourdes hospital.

Services will be at 2 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 3, 2013, at the Milner & Orr Funeral Home of Paducah, where friends may call from 5 to 7 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 2, 2013.

Other arrangements were pending.

Thomas McManus

MAYFIELD — Services for Grover Kenneth Hendrick-son, 80, of Mayfi eld will be at 2 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 2, 2013, at Byrn Funeral Home in Mayfi eld. Burial will be in Highland Park Cemetery, with military rites conducted.

Mr. Hendrickson died Wednesday, Jan. 30, 2013, at his home.

He was a member of High Point Baptist Church and worked in construction. He was a graduate of Mur-ray State University in 1958 and served in the U.S. Army and Army Reserves.

Mr. Hendrickson is sur-vived by fi ve sons, Kerry Hendrickson of Paducah, Greg Hendrickson and By-ron Hendrickson, both of Mayfi eld, Kevin Hendrick-son of eastern Kentucky, and Michael Hendrickson of Mis-souri; three daughters, Drina Russell and Rhonda Rice, both of Mayfi eld, and Carla Palmer of Bowling Green; 21 grandchildren, and seven great-grandchildren.

He was preceded in death by his wife of 51 years, Eliz-abeth “Betty” Wilson Hen-drickson, and one brother. His parents were Clint and Irene West Hendrickson.

Friends may call from 5 to 8 p.m. Friday, Feb. 1, 2013, at the funeral home.

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morial services for Cyril Miller Jr., 88, of Louisville, formerly of Cadiz, will be at 1 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 2, 2013, at Bogard Cemetery in the Land Between the Lakes with military rites.

Mr. Miller died Wednes-day, Dec. 19, 2012, in Lou-isville.

He retired from the U.S. Marine Corps, serving for 24 years including the Ko-rean War. Mr. Miller also served in the U.S. Navy dur-ing World War II.

He is survived by one daughter, Susan Rose of Louisville, and three grand-children.

He was preceded in death by his wife, Suziko Ozaki Miller; one son, John C. Miller, and two brothers. His parents were Cyril and Minnie Miller Sr.

Friends may call from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Sat-urday, Feb. 2, 2013, at Good-win Funeral Home in Cadiz.

Cyril Miller Jr.

MARION — Services for Ollie “Eugene” Tinsley, 77, of Marion will be at 2 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 2, 2013, at Gilbert Funeral Home in Marion. Burial will be in Whites Chapel Cemetery.

Mr. Tinsley died Tues-day, Jan. 29, 2013, at his home.

He is survived by four sisters, Helen Belt of Paducah, Bertie Meirs of Princeton, and Pauline Brown and Mary Gilland, both of Marion; two broth-ers, Hershal Tinsley of Woodstock, Ala., and Billy Tinsley of Marion; eight children, Gary Tinsley of Fredonia, Larry Tinsley of Salem, Pam Campbell and Roger Tinsley, both of Crayne, Cindy Wheeler, Mike Tinsley and Steve Tinsley, all of Marion, and Bradley Tinsley of Mur-ray; 14 grandchildren; and seven great-grandchildren.

He was preceded in death by two brothers and one sis-ter.

His parents were Elzie and Eddie Tinsley.

Friends may call from 5 to 8 p.m. Friday, Feb. 1, 2013, at Gilbert Funeral Home in Marion.

Ollie Tinsley

CADIZ — Jerry Wayne Hooks, 61, of Cadiz died Wednesday, Jan. 30, 2013, at Trigg County Hospital.

He was a self-employed plumber and electrician. He was of the Baptist faith.

He is survived by one son, Jerry Hooks of Cadiz; two daughters, Kelly Hooks of Cadiz and Marci Hooks of Indiana; his mother, Vir-ginia Hooks of Cadiz; three brothers, Larry Hooks, Wil-liam Hooks and Jeff Hooks, all of Cadiz, and four grand-children.

He was preceded in death by his father, Billy Joe Hooks, and a sister.

Services will be at 12:30 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 3, 2013, at Goodwin Funeral Home with the Revs. Norman Cot-ton and Paxton Redd of-fi ciating. Burial will be at Bogard Cemetery in Land Between the Lakes. Friends may call after 4 p.m. Satur-day, Feb. 2, 2013, at the fu-neral home.

Jerry Hooks

MURRAY — Shelva Bur-gess, 76, of Murray died Wednesday, Jan. 30, 2013, at Western Baptist Hospital.

She was of the Baptist faith.

She is survived by fi ve children, Rickie Burgess of Murray, Nickie Bur-gess, Sherry Rodgers and LuJeana Brooks, all of Paducah, and Bradley Bur-gess of Wingo; two brothers, Stevie Courtney of Reidland and Richard Courtney of Paducah; two sisters, Wan-da Green of Hardin and Pam Blalock of Mayfi eld; nine grandchildren; and 13 great-grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by two sisters. Her parents were Lloyd and Louise Guhy Courtney.

Memorial services will be at 2 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 2, 2013, at Imes-Miller Funer-al Home with Charlie Sim-mons offi ciating.

Shelva Burgess

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CADIZ — Memorial ser-vices for Richard Spain Shouse, 75, of Cadiz will be at 6 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 3, 2013, at Goodwin Funeral Home in Cadiz. The Rev. Reed Shepherd will offi ci-ate.

Mr. Shouse died Sunday, Jan. 27, 2013, at his home.

Mr. Shouse had worked in the trucking industry and was of the Methodist faith.

He is survived by four sons, Scott Shouse of Wadesville, Ind., Todd Shouse of Hopkinsville, Grant Shouse of Cadiz and Wade Shouse of Cincinnati; 15 grandchildren; and one sister, Marilyn Horrall of Indiana.

His parents were Marlin E. and Lucile C. Shouse.

Friends may call from 2 to 6 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 3, 2013, at the funeral home.

Memorial contributions may be made to the Richard Shouse Memorial Fund, c/o University Heights Acade-my Basketball, 1300 Acade-my Drive, Hopkinsville, KY 42240, Attn: Coach Grant Shouse.

Richard Shouse

paducahsun.com Nation The Paducah Sun • Friday, February 1, 2013 • 11A

NEW YORK — Propos-ing marriage has become an industry of its own with professional planners, fl ash mobs for hire and elabo-rate, homegrown surprises to make the moment mem-orable. And let’s not forget YouTube, and our steadfast resolve to share.

So what happens to the best laid plans when the ring goes missing, the liq-uid courage is out of control or romance is ruined by un-foreseen disaster?

“More complicated equals more possible prob-lems, and more pressure,” said Anja Winikka, director of the wedding site TheK-not.com.

Val Hunt Beerbower, 29, learned that the hard way. She was a hot, bothered mess the night her hus-band, Mike, proposed dur-ing what he envisioned as a special evening taking in the sights of Washington, D.C. The Labor Day week-end weather was swelter-ing, she was exhausted from a full day on her feet and she stepped in a huge stagnant pool of foul-smelling water on the National Mall.

Her jeans wet and stinky, they pressed on toward the Jefferson Memorial, the proposal site he had scout-ed days before. Halfway around the Tidal Basin, her allergies kicked in, her glasses steamed up from the heat and humidity — and she was begging to re-turn to their hotel.

“So in an unlit parking lot, within sight of the Jef-ferson Memorial, Mike popped the question,” Beerbower, who works for a conservation group in Day-ton, Ohio, recalled of their 2008 trek. While they were still basking in her “yes,” a driver pulled up, opened his car door and threw up all over the place.

“Mike was crushed, but I couldn’t stop laughing,” she said.

Pam Cosce’s disaster came in frigid Paris last March, when her husband,

Asa Sanchez, had it in his head that he would propose on top of the Eiffel Tower after dark, as close to mid-night as he could get to honor a special visit there years prior.

He carried the ring around for two and a half weeks but the tower was elusive. One night a boat ride returned them after it was closed. They were rained out another night. On and on it went.

“I didn’t even know what his obsession was because we don’t love Paris for its tourist attractions,” said 43-year-old Cosce, who owns a landscaping busi-ness with her husband in San Francisco. “After 10 years together, it never oc-curred to me that he might be considering popping the question.”

They eventually did make it to the top of the tower one night, but it was mobbed with people, including a rowdy rugby team and a chatty mother-daughter duo they couldn’t shake. Cosce and her beau escaped to the outside deck, straight “into a crazy, freezing wind-storm.” He was “positively verklempt” at the crowds and the weather, she said, so they made their way out and settled for a bench with a view of the Eiffel instead.

One thing that did go right: A little light he had installed in the ring box in

preparation for his evening proposal actually worked.

And there’s 30-year-old Hans Krauch, an aviation technician from Victoria, British Columbia. The AP hunted him down online, along with Beerbower, Cosce and others who agreed to interviews.

“I was totally hammered when I did it. I needed the liquid courage. Her reply

was, ‘Yes, but when you so-ber up you better still feel the same,’” he recounted of his mumbly, bumbling question he loosely calls a proposal. They now have a 2-year-old daughter.

“The plan was just do it and get it over with, kind of close your eyes and just run in, guns blazing,” said Krauch, who doesn’t neces-sarily recommend his with-out-a-plan approach. “Tak-ing the next step forward is always a challenge.”

Marriage proposals gone wrongBY LEANNE ITALIE

Associated Press

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Valerie Beerbower and husband Mike appear in 2009 at Maumee Bay State Park in Oregon, Ohio. Beerbower was a hot, bothered mess the night her husband, Mike, proposed during what he envisioned as a special eve-ning taking in the sights of Washington, D.C.

“I was totally hammered

when I did it. I needed the

liquid courage. Her reply was, ‘Yes, but when

you sober up you better still feel

the same.’”

Hans KrauchAviation technician

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Lawyers for a condemned man who fatally shot an adult bookstore secu-rity guard at the end of a multistate crime spree asked Ohio’s parole board Thursday to recommend mercy, saying he accepts responsibility for the kill-ing but that it was an unin-tentional consequence of a struggle for a gun while he was high.

The request Frederick Treesh comes a little more than a month ahead of his

scheduled March 6 execu-tion.

Prosecutors say Treesh, 48, and a co-defendant robbed banks and busi-nesses, committed sexual assaults, stole cars, com-mitted carjackings and shot someone to death in a Michigan robbery in crimes across Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Minneso-ta and Wisconsin. He was sentenced to die in Ohio for killing Henry Dupree during a 1994 robbery in the town of Eastlake on the shore of Lake Erie.

Condemned killer asks parole board for mercy

Associated Press

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