Tuesday, October 20, 2009, Forest City, N.C.

The good & the badThe Carolina Panthers do have two wins in their last two games, but they have come against poor teams

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RutherfordtonBen Wall, Jr.

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Visitors study farm projects

Stokes County visitors look at the new green-house at R-S Central High School.

By STEVE PARHAMDaily Courier Staff Writer

SPINDALE — Town com-missioners worked through a busy agenda Tuesday night that included filling a vacant commis-sion seat, receiving the town audit report, agreeing to update the animal control ordinance and dis-cussing festivals and events.

The Board voted 2-1 to appoint current council member Carl Bailey to serve the two years remaining on the term of the late Bob Ensley.

That appointment did not occur without a bit of debate as Mayor Mickey Bland repeatedly asked commissioners to defer acting until they could get the town attorney to research the legality of the process.

Bailey, who has suffered from some health problems, had not filed for re-election to his seat in the upcoming town election. On Tuesday night, he announced that his health was better and that he was putting himself up for consid-eration to fill Ensley’s unexpired term.

Commissioner Toby Tomblin moved to appoint Bailey to that post. The motion was seconded by Commissioner Tommy Hardin.

Mayor Bland repeatedly sug-gested that a legal opinion on how to proceed was needed and town attorney John Crotts urged the board to err on the side of caution because he would rather the action be correct than for the board to do something that it would have to undo later.

Tomblin declined to withdraw his motion and after a snappy exchange between Bland, Tomblin

Please see Spindale, Page 3

By LARRY DALEDaily Courier Staff Writer

RUTHERFORDTON — Visitors from Stokes County came to Rutherford County on Monday to take a look at the farming efforts being fostered by Foothills Connect Business & Technology Center.

One of the stops for the visitors was at the R-S Central High School farm to see the agri-cultural operation there.

Teacher Brandon Higgins talked about the process of clearing land and improving the soil through the rotation of goats, pigs and chickens across the land and the selective cutting of timber.

The R-S Central operation was once “all cotton farming land,” Higgins explained, and has only two to three inches of topsoil, so an

Please see Visitors. Page 6

Scott Baughman/Daily CourierIncumbent Bostic Councilman Mike Hollifield speaks to the crowd at a Meet the Candidates forum Monday night at East Rutherford Middle School.

By SCOTT BAUGHMANDaily Courier Staff Writer

FOREST CITY — Unseason-ably low temperatures made for a chilly weekend in Rutherford County over the last three days, with parts of the area still under a frost

advisory until 9 a.m. Tuesday.The frost advisory means

that outdoor plants may be killed if they are left uncov-ered.

But seeing the mercury dip into the 30s will be a more common occurrence in late October when such tempera-

tures become more normal and expected. The National Weather Service in Greenville, S.C. will not issue further frost advisories for the area this Fall.

Sunday’s high of 57 and low of 39 were both below average. But the low didn’t approach

the record low of 30 degrees, set back in 1977. The record high was 81, set in 1996.

Several days of back to back rain last week also boosted the area’s total precipitation for the month of October, with an average rainfall of 3.68 inches month-to-date.

Spindale acts to fill vacancy

By SCOTT BAUGHMANDaily Courier Staff Writer

BOSTIC — Five candidates for the five open council seats here came to address voters Monday night at East Rutherford Middle School for a meet the candidates forum. And Mayor Mitch Harrill learned he was run-ning unopposed as Freddie Euten announced earlier in the day he was withdrawing from the race.

Incumbent candidates Keith Dobbins, Mike Hollifield, Bill Lattimore and David Wright were

joined on stage by newcomer Jeff Swink.

This is not Swink’s first attempt to be elected to Bostic council. In 2007 he tied with veteran council member David Pinson for votes.

“A lot of you may remember me from last time,” Swink said. “And since David and I tied they were going to draw ping pong balls out of a hat to break that tie. David had served for 30 years, so I didn’t think he deserved to lose to a ping pong ball so I dropped out of the race. I think that will help me when it comes to getting people’s support this time around.”

Please see Bostic, Page 6

Forest City approves grant applicationsBy LARRY DALEDaily Courier Staff Writer

FOREST CITY — Commissioners voted to seek grant funding from two sources during the board’s regular meeting Monday night, but hesitated to commit to a risk management program until more information can be obtained.

The town board unanimously agreed to seek $20,000 for a water mapping project

and to ask for $70,000 to run a 16-inch waterline within the River Stone Business Park if an industry can be attracted to the facility.

Of the water mapping project, Finance Director Pruett Walden said the town had its sewer system mapped several years ago, but not the waterlines.

The town will be applying to the N.C. Rural Center for the $20,000 grant, with a town match of $4,000 required.

Board member Chris Lee asked if the town had its $4,000 in place if the grant is approved. Walden said there was not a specific line item for it, but the money is in the water budget.

The board members were informed that $24,000 should cover the cost of the mapping project that would indicate

Please see Grant, Page 6

Bostic candidates speak

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n Town’s incumbent mayor unopposed after challenger withdraws from race

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State

RALEIGH (AP) — Only one of the violent North Carolina crim-inals set for release next week will have official supervision outside prison, and the state is rushing to establish community connections to transition them back to society.

Nine of the convicts will be immediately free of the state’s watch when they are released Oct. 29 in the wake of court rulings on a 1970s law that lim-ited the length of life sentences from that era. Ten others are sex offenders who will have to reg-ister with the state and abide by laws limiting their activity but will not have regular contact with correction officials.

One of the convicts, Faye Brown, faces two decades of fed-eral parole.

Department of Correction spokesman Keith Acree said Monday all the prisoners plan to stay with family, friends or in transitional housing. He said the state is going through a crash course to get the convicts ready for public life, reaching out to community groups who could help them find jobs or provide support.

Each will be given the name

and phone number for a proba-tion and parole officer that can be used as a resource, but those officers won’t have any legal role in their lives.

The group set to be released is made up primarily of murder-ers and rapists, some of whom targeted young girls. Seven were once on death row. North Carolina frequently tracks sex offenders with monitoring bracelets, but those laws came long after the decades-old sen-tences. State law simply requires offenders to keep their addresses up to date.

The state is notifying local law enforcement about the releases, but that’s as far as officials can go to keep tabs on the inmates.

“Legally, there’s nothing we can do to supervise them,” Acree said.

It’s another legal quandary that state attorneys have encoun-tered. One of the inmates, Bobby Bowden, had pointed to a law in place for several years in the 1970s that appears to describe a life sentence as only 80 years long. He said a variety of credits that prisoners can apply to their sentences mean his time behind bars is now complete.

The Attorney General’s office

argued before the Supreme Court last month that the law was “ambiguous,” but justices were clearly unconvinced, grill-ing the state’s attorneys with questions.

“This is such a straightforward issue from a legal point of view, it’s too easy for a first-year law exam,” said Staples Hughes, the state appellate defender, whose office handled Bowden’s appeal. He said the state has had every chance to come up with an argu-ment to keep the inmates behind bars but has not been able to.

Gov. Beverly Perdue’s office continues to hope there may be a legal avenue to prevent the release. But attorneys for the state don’t seem to know what that would be.

“Our lawyers certainly argued everything they could think of to stop this from happening, and the North Carolina Supreme Court does have the final say,” said Noelle Talley, a spokeswom-an for Attorney General Roy Cooper.

State officials believe dozens more inmates convicted three decades ago could soon be eli-gible for release.

ASHEVILLE (AP) — A veterans hospital in the mountains of North Carolina is building a massive anti-terrorism fence.

The Asheville Citizen-Times report-ed Monday that the Charles George Veterans Affairs Hospital is building a $750,000 fence around the hospi-tal’s perimeter to prevent a suicide bomber. Officials say the hospital could be a target because military facilities are harder to hit.

“If you look at Sept. 11, you realize that it’s about attacking civilians and going after targets like a pediatrics hospital,” the VA’s Chief Engineer Robert Cornell told the paper. “We need to harden some of these ’break-your-heart’ targets.”

Security of federal buildings

became an issue after the 1995 bombing in Oklahoma City and it gained prominence after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. Security improve-ments at the hospital started five years ago after a 2004 Department of Homeland Security report suggest-ed that the hospital’s “aged” six-foot perimeter fence should be replaced.

The new fence is part of the sec-ond phase of security upgrades. The first phase was completed in 2007. It included barricades around liquid oxygen tanks and a new door-locking system. The upgrades cost more than $500,000.

Some Asheville residents think the security measures are “excessive” and doubt the hospital will be attacked by terrorists.

Caregiver faces chargesKANNAPOLIS (AP) — A 3-month-old North

Carolina girl is hospitalized with multiple injuries, and her caregiver is jailed on an abuse charge.

The Salisbury Post reported Monday thet 23-year-old Sandra Gallardo Petatan is being held in the Cabarrus County Jail under $200,000 bond on a charge of child abuse inflicting serious injury.

The infant is at Carolinas Medical Center-NorthEast in Concord.

Kannapolis Police Lt. Steve Belk said Monday that NorthEast staff contacted police early Saturday morning after the child was brought to the hospital.

Belk said the child has a skull fracture, bleeding on the brain, bruises and a broken arm.

Utilities panel takes commentRALEIGH (AP) — Advocates for conservation

and the poor want regulators to block or temper a proposed rate increase upon Duke Energy custom-ers in North Carolina.

They spoke Monday to the North Carolina Utilities Commission on Duke Energy’s request before a formal hearing later this week.

The Charlotte-based utility asked in June to raise rates by an average of 12.6 percent. Consumer attorneys said Duke deserves a 4.7 percent increase. Duke hasn’t had a general rate increase in the state in 18 years.

A proposed compromise could be unveiled Tuesday.

Dan Conrad with the North Carolina Conservation Network said Duke shouldn’t be rewarded while it keeps investing in coal-fired plants.

Troopers targeting school zonesRALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina troopers

are beginning an operation to target drivers who fail to stop for school buses.

The North Carolina Highway Patrol said Monday that Operation Stop Arm will be conducted throughout this week. Troopers plan to patrol school zones and follow school buses on the road.

State law requires drivers on both sides of a four-lane road to stop for school buses. Drivers on the opposite side of the road can continue driving only if the four-lane road has a turning lane or a median.

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Carolina Today FUN AT THE FAIR

Associated PressHannah Sturm, 8, left, and her sister Abigail Sturm, 10, experience some hang-time on the Ring of Fire ride Monday at the North Carolina State Fair in Raleigh.

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and Hardin, just prior the vote was cast. Tomblin and Hardin voted in favor, Commissioner Nancy Walker, expressing some concerns about Bailey’s health, voted against,

Commissioners also gave the own-ers of a house at 702 Maryland St. as reprieve.

Mildred Parker, speaking for herself and her husband, presented the com-missioners with estimates from con-tractors on what it would cost to get the house up to code.

The commissioners were also told that at least one group that works with homeowners to renovate and restore properties had looked at the house and determined that it was beyond repair.

Town manager Cameron McHargue told the board that he had found an amendment to the town’s ordinance that would allow the Parkers to rebuild their house on the site even though the area is now zoned for commercial use. That had been one of the issues the couple had brought to the board last month when they faced the possible demolition of the house.

After discussion, Commissioner Hardin moved to give the Parkers 45 days to begin the renovation process on the house and an additional six months to complete the project with the stipulation that if at any time the building inspections did not pass, the town would proceed with the process to demolish the house.

The town also received a clean audit report and were praised for keeping expenditures under control even as revenues dipped.

Gaye Dagenhart of Martin, Starnes & Associates presented the annual audit report.

She noted that the town had man-aged under difficult circumstances to grow its fund balance slightly.

Dagenharrt did bring one caution to the Commission. She noted that the town was spending its water and sewer fund balance rapidly and that they would have to act soon.

“... (This) indicates that you need to have a rate increase and the sooner the better,” she said. “You are eating up your cash at a rapid rate.”

Commissioner Bailey also brought the town’s animal control ordinance up for discussion.

Bailey said that the current town

ordinance has “no teeth.” He present-ed the recently developed Forest City ordinance for comparison and moved that the town instruct the manager, police chief and attorney to develop a new animal control ordinance for presentation to the board in January.

That motion passed unanimously.The board also agreed to allow

the dairy goat festival organizers to schedule that event for May 22 of next year.

The approval came with the stipula-tion that the group continue work-ing with the American Dairy Goat Association and mend any rifts that had developed between itself and the town Merchant’s Association as they proceeded in their efforts to bring the festival to fruition.

Commissioners also heard from Brenda Watson concerning the antique festival and holiday open house.

Watson said that the event plans were coming along well and that the Merchants Association was work-ing with organizers to have a holiday open house at the same time as the antiques show.

She asked that the town consider holding its tree lighting service that same weekend (Nov. 21-22) and not-ed her group would work with area churches to help make that commu-nity event happen.

Spindale merchants offical Myra Cowan reported that the merchants had resumed regular meetings and that they were working on their project list which would be focused on beautifying the town. One proj-ect they wanted some help from the town with was letting people know that there was parking available across the Rails-to-Trails path in town.

The commissioners also voted to donate $100 to the county’s Census Committee for advertising and pro-motion efforts and noted they would consider more if additional requests were made. They also agreed that the town need to do all that it could to promote the census because of the impact those population numbers could have on the town and its fiscal health.

The commissioners also voted to scheduled the December meeting for the first Monday of the month (Dec. 7) for the swearing of newly elected commissioners so there would be no lag time between the time current terms expire and the new commis-sioners take office.

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Sheriff’s Reportsn The Rutherford County Sheriff’s

Office responded to 188 E-911 calls Saturday and Sunday.

Rutherfordtonn The Rutherfordton Police

Department responded to 34 E-911 calls Saturday and Sunday.

Spindalen The Spindale Police Department

responded to 32 E-911 calls Saturday and Sunday.

Lake Luren The Lake Lure Police

Department responded to 14 E-911 calls Saturday and Sunday.

Forest Cityn The Forest City Police

Department responded to 94 E-911 calls Saturday and Sunday.

n An employee of Colonial Manor Healthcare reported an incident of obtaining property by false pretense. The incident occurred on Hardin Road.n An officer of the Forest City

Police Department reported an inci-dent of possession of toxic vapors substance and inhalation of same. The incident occurred on Plaza Drive. (See arrest Mullinax.)n Michael Fortune reported an

incident of common law robbery.n Sherri Jones reported an incident

of breaking and entering and larceny.

Arrestsn Nathan Allen Mullinax, 23, of

Cliffside Street, Mooresboro; charged with possession of toxic vapors sub-stance and inhalation of same; freed on a custody release. (FCPD)

n Leslie Scott St. Clair, 31, of 4804 Canipe Rd.; charged with driving while impaired and driving left of center; released on an unsecured bond. (LLPD)n Douglas Allan Duncan, 61, of 687

High Shoals Church Rd.; charged with assault on a female; released on an unsecured bond. (RCSD)n Geraldine Duncan, 59, of 231

Seaboard Rd.; charged with simple assault; released on an unsecured bond. (RCSD)

n Rodney Allen Brown, 23, of 170 Patches Lane; charged with break/enter a motor vehicle, misdemeanor larceny, injury to personal prop-erty and second-degree trespassing; placed under a $6,000 secured bond. (RCSD)n Johnny Robert Willis, 31, of 132

Sparks St.; charged with second-degree trespassing and harassing phone call; released on an unsecured

bond. (RCSD)n Amanda Brooke Conner, 21, of

2518 U.S. 221 South; charged with breaking/entering and larceny and resisting a public officer; placed under a $31,000 secured bond. (RCSD)n Anthony Michael Mott, 24, of

Rock Road; charged with break-ing and/or entering, felony larceny, resisting a public officer and three counts of failure to appear; placed under a $36,000 secured bond. (RCSD)

n Susan Powell Byers, 45, of 1190 Hemphill Rd., Union Mills; charged with attempted larceny; placed under a $1,000 secured bond. (RPD)n Robert Lee Gray Jr., 47, of 261

Rock Hill Rd., Asheville; charged with driving while impaired, driving while license revoked, fictitious tag, no liability insurance, no registration card, drive/ allow motor vehicle with no registration, failure to apply for new title, driving without two head-lamps and resisting a public officer; placed under a $5,000 secured bond. (RPD)

Citationsn Donta Dion Laney, 21, of Groce

Street, Forest City; cited for second degree trespass. (FCPD)n Antonia Ray Suber, 18, of Gold

Medallion Street, Bostic; cited for possession of schedule VI controlled substance and possession of drug paraphernalia.

EMS/Rescuen The Rutherford County EMS

responded to 36 E-911 calls Saturday and Sunday.

n The Volunteer Life Saving and Rescue, Hickory Nut Gorge EMS and Rutherford County Rescue respond-ed to 39 E-911 calls Saturday and Sunday.

Fire Callsn Bill’s Creek firefighters respond-

ed to a motor vehicle crash, assisted by Lake Lure firefighters.n Chimney Rock firefighters

responded to a fire alarm.n Forest City firefighters responded

to a structure fire.

n Green Hill firefighters responded to a motor vehicle crash.n Rutherfordton firefighters

responded to a fire investigation.

n SDO firefighters responded to a fire alarm, and to a smoke report, assisted by Spindale and Rutherfordton firefighters.n Spindale firefighters responded

to a fire investigation.n Sandy Mush firefighters respond-

ed to a structure fire, assisted by Forest City and SDO firefighters.

Police Notes SpindaleContinued from Page 1

Urban Center will unveil its plan to house Charlotte area homeless

CHARLOTTE (AP) — The Urban Ministry Center wants the city of Charlotte to change how the state’s largest city deals with the chronically homeless.

The Charlotte Observer reported that center will unveil a $10 million project that includes apart-ments for up to 85 of the city’s most troubled homeless people and training needed to build a life.

Moore Place will be based on similar programs in a half dozen cities that who that it’s cheaper to house the chronically homeless than to continue paying for their frequent trips to jail or the emer-gency room.

Center officials say that from that perspective alone, the project could save the city an estimated $2 million in its first year.

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Should we rant against the reality TV shows or just the hair-brained dad in Colorado who concocted a

crazy scheme to become the subject of a reality show?

It wasn’t bad enough that Richard Henne took his wife and children with him when he chased bad storms and tornadoes.

Nope, he wanted his own reality show, and news from Fort Collins Monday indicated a media outlet had contacted Henne about the stunt. Investigators are trying to determine if the media outlet — so far, unnamed — was involved in getting the stunt off the ground, so to speak.

What are people thinking? This is crazy and is taking Andy Warhol’s com-ment about “everyone getting 15 min-utes of fame” to a dangerous extreme.

We encourage authorities to prosecute the people responsible for this danger-ous stunt to the fullest extent of the law.

Our Views

Crackdown onthe crazy stunts

Our readers’ viewsSays all who live here should have a voice

To the editor:My family moved to Rutherford

County three years ago, this past June.

We moved from Pembroke Pines, Fla. (a suburb of Miami).

We did, in fact, have an “agen-da” when we escaped Florida.

Our agenda was simple: Get our children as far away from South Florida as possible. Find a small town that was safe to raise them. Get enough land that they could run around and enjoy the fresh air. Find other home-schooling families that believed the same things that we believed and wor-shipped the same God we wor-ship.

We did not come here because we had to. It was not because of a job relocation.

My husband works from home, and could have chosen any-where to live. However, we chose Rutherford County.

We looked at homes in South Carolina and in surrounding North Carolina communities. But nothing compared to the “Small Town Friendly” atmo-sphere of Rutherfordton.

I remember calling my mom the day I walked into the Green Hill Store and Lisa called me by name.

“I’m a local!” I told her. I was thrilled!

Shortly after arriving, we joined Cornerstone Fellowship Church and were blessed and amazed at how quickly we were adopted into their family.

I love to tease my dear friend,

Kassie Wilson (who is a native to Rutherford County ) for the “funny” way she says things. She always reminds me that I’m the weird one around here!

I love Rutherford County. Imagine my shock at being told Monday evening that I cannot speak up for my family because “I’m not from here.” And then, to read it in the Letters to the Editor the next day. Especially after finding out that the man who said that to me isn’t from here either!

I am a Christian, a wife, a home-schooling mom, a director of a local soup kitchen, and lead-er of the Rutherford 912 group. If that makes me a radical, then so be it. At what point have I lived here long enough to be able to speak for myself, my children, and my community?

To quote a native: “Day One.” Thank you, Rutherford County

natives, for your “Small Town Friendly” attitude. It is a blessing to my family and I am proud to say I live here!

Jennifer NaskovRutherfordton

Objects to changes at convenience centers

To the editor:Regarding the decision by the

county commissioners to close the trash convenience centers on Sundays beginning Nov. 1: Big Mistake!

Taking note of our pristine roadsides here in the county, we should be looking for more opportunities to collect trash, not less.

I have to think that even more trash will become litter by limit-ing access to these facilities for an entire weekend day. With this change, anyone entertaining on Saturday night, or cleaning their house on Sunday afternoon, will now be forced to wait until Monday to get rid of the resulting trash.

For many, this will result in a trip to the convenience center on Monday evening, but be sure to get there by 7, since they are also shaving an hour off of the week-day schedule. What about anyone who spends a weekend at Lake Lure and wants or needs to take trash to the Bill’s Creek conve-nience center on their way out of town?

Maybe they can pack a little lighter so they will have room in their cars to carry their trash to wherever they live.

I personally feel that this is one of the worst decisions I have seen local government make.

Let’s find that $46,000 savings anywhere else but here.

Bill CoxeEllenboro

North Carolina’s growth brings gains and pains“It is like you picked up the

entire population of the state of South Carolina and moved them into North Carolina.”

This is the way Ferrel Guillory, director of UNC-Chapel Hill’s Program on Public Life, begins to talk about the impact of popu-lation growth in North Carolina since he moved here in 1972.

In 1970 North Carolina had a little more than 5 mil-lion people. In 2010, we will have more than 9.5 million, up from about 8 million in 2000.

The growth rate for the recent 10-year period is 19 percent. Since 1970, our state has almost doubled its popu-lation.

Some parts of North Carolina are growing like gangbusters.

Here for example are the 23 counties that will have grown over the 10-year period at a rate in excess of North Carolina’s 19 per-cent average: Union (69.7 percent), Brunswick (50.8 percent), Wake (49.1 per-

cent), Camden (44.1 percent), Johnston (43.5 percent), Cabarrus (40.1 percent), Hoke (39.0 percent), Pender (34.3 percent), Iredell (32.6 percent), Mecklenburg (31.0 percent), Chatham (29.8 percent), Harnett (27.8 per-cent), Currituck (27.4 per-cent), Franklin (27.1 percent), Lincoln (23.2 percent), New Hanover (23.2 percent), Durham (22.9 percent), Clay (22.7 percent), Pitt (22.0 percent), Davie (21.7 per-cent), Lee (21.7 percent), Onslow (21.1 percent), and Henderson (20.4 percent).

Although some of the grow-ing counties are in moun-tain or coastal resort and retirement areas, big growth comes around the state’s growing urban regions.

By themselves, Wake and Mecklenburg will have

added more than a half mil-lion people, accounting for about one-third of the state’s growth.

Look at the growth in the counties touching Wake and Mecklenburg, Union and Johnston, for instance, and you see that the state’s urban and suburban areas are fill-ing up with people.

In the just released edition of Data-Net, Guillory calls this development the “met-ropolitanization” of North Carolina.

Look again at the above-average growth rate counties. There are only 23, meaning that the other 77 counties are average or below average in growth—19 percent or under.

Some 14counties are losing population or not growing: Edgecombe (-7.3 percent), Martin (-7.2 percent), Hyde (-6.5 percent), Northampton (-4.7 percent), Washington (-4.7 percent), Halifax (-4.0 percent), Lenoir (-3.7 per-cent), Caswell (-1.2 percent), Jones (-1.0 percent), Pamlico (-0.5 percent), Warren (-0.5 percent), Bladen (-0.1 per-cent), Anson (0.1 percent),

and Rockingham (0.2 per-cent).

The state’s rapid and uneven growth has conse-quences. Several of them are political.

After the 2010 census, the legislature will redistrict itself and the state’s congres-sional districts.

The political party that controls the legislature after next year’s election will do the job—and give it the opportunity to draw district lines that will give it a com-petitive edge for the next 10 years.

As a result, next year’s par-tisan battles in competitive legislative races will be wild.

Another result will come about regardless of partisan politics. It will be a shift of political power to the faster growing areas, especially Wake and Mecklenburg and the nearby counties.

Guillory projects that Wake and Mecklenburg together will have about 23 seats in the state House and about 10 Senate seats—or about 20 percent of each house. Add to that total the rep-

resentation from the sur-rounding counties and the smaller urban areas in the Triad, Asheville, Fayetteville, Wilmington, and Greenville. When you do, you will have a legislature that is incremen-tally, but significantly, more “metropolitanized” than the one that it will replace.

Finally, the state’s 10-year growth means that the popu-lation of every legislative dis-trict will be about 19 percent higher than it was in 2000.

For example, the average number people in a house district will have grown from about 67,000 to about 80,000 and a senate district from about 160,000 to about 190,000.

All this means an increased workload of constituent service for every legislator. With the increased work-load will come more calls for more staff support and for a change from part-time to full-time legislators.

D.G. Martin is hosting his final season of UNC-TV’s North Carolina Bookwatch, which airs Sundays at 5 p.m.

D.G. Martin

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LocaL/obituaries/state

Mal MathenyMal Matheny, of Cliffside,

died Monday, Oct. 19, 2009 at his residence.

Arrangements are incom-plete and will be announced by McKinney-Landreth Funeral Home.

Ben Wall Jr.Ben Evans Wall Jr., 79,

of Rutherfordton, died Saturday, Oct. 17, 2009 at Hospice House in Forest City.

A native of Wallburg, he was a son of the late Ben Evans Wall and Annie Giles Wall.

He was an active mem-ber of Rutherfordton Presbyterian Church, an Army veteran of the Korean War, and served on the board of trustees for Lees McRae College.

He is survived by his wife of 55 years, Joan Deviney Wall; two daughters, Mary Ann Wall Joyce of Clemmons, and Jane Evans “Jody” Wall of Charlotte; one sister, Anne Wall Mallgraf of Southern Pines; and one brother, Dr. George Wall of Roanoke, Va.

A memorial service will be conducted at 2 p.m. Wednesday at Rutherfordton Presbyterian Church with Dr. Don Scofield officiat-ing. The family will receive friends following the service in the church fellowship hall.

In lieu of flowers, memo-rials may be made to Lees McRae College, Advancement Office, Ben Wall Scholarship Fund, P.O. Box 128, Banner Elk, NC 28604; or Rutherfordton Presbyterian Church, P.O. Box 1133, Rutherfordton, NC 28139.

McMahan’s Funeral Home & Cremation Service is serv-ing the Wall family.

Online condolences www.mcmah-ansfuneralhome.com.

Martin ConnerMartin Conner, 76, of

Spindale, died Sunday, Oct. 18, 2009 at Hospice House in Forest City.

A native of Rutherford County, he was a son of the late Willie Ray Conner and Dottie Murphy Conner.

He worked in furniture manufacturing with Wright’s Veneering Company and Broyhill Industries for 27 years before his retirement. He was a member of Mt. Creek Baptist Church.

Survivors include three daughters, Deborah Ann Conner Simpson, Dorothy Sue Conner Elliott, and Dale Ramona Conner Gosnell, all of Forest City; three sons, Danny Jay Conner of Fletcher, Donald Gene Conner of Forest City, and Douglas Ray Conner of Bostic; three sis-ters, Oneida Camp of East Flatrock, Winnie Hensley of Rutherfordton, and Hope Brenn of Akron, Ohio; one brother, Clyde Conner of Saluda; 12 grandchildren; and 10 great-grandchildren.

Funeral services will be conducted at 2 p.m. Wednesday at Mt. Pleasant Baptist Church with the Rev. Bob Philbeck officiating. Interment will follow in the Sunset Memorial Park. The family will receive friends Tuesday from 7 to 9 p.m. at Harrelson Funeral Home.

Online condolences www.harrel-sonfuneralhome.com.

Jerry Bradley

Jerry Dean Bradley, 70, of 2490 Gaffney Rd., Mooresboro, died Sunday, Oct. 18, 2009 at Cleveland Regional Medical Center.

A native of Rutherford County, he was a son of the late Barney and Ruleen Ray Bradley.

He was a retired truck driv-er and formerly employed by Turner and J.B. Hunt Trucking.

He is survived by his wife, Avis Street Bradley; four daughters, Rebecca B. Canipe of Boiling Springs, Sarah B. Terry of Swainsville, Anita Bradley of Swannanoa, and Tina B. Couch of Ellenboro; one

brother, James Bradley of Ellenboro; one sister, Shirley Hardin of Forest City; 15 grandchildren; 21 great-grandchildren; and one great-great-grandchild.

Funeral services will be held at 3 p.m. Thursday at The A.C. McKinney Memorial Chapel of McKinney-Landreth Funeral Home with the Rev. Joe Sparks officiat-ing. Burial will follow in the Sunset Cemetery in Shelby. Visitation will be held Wednesday from 7 to 9 p.m. at the funeral home.

Online condolences www.mckin-neylandrethfuneralhome.com.

Mittie HordMittie Conner Hord, 92,

of Shelby, died Sunday, Oct. 18, 2009 at Cleveland Pines Nursing Center.

Born in Iredell County, she was a daughter of the late George William Conner and Hattie Gantt Conner, and also preceded in death by her husband, Jesse R. Hord, and a son.

She was a retired seam-stress and homemaker, and a member of Trinity Baptist Church.

She is survived by one son, Steve Hord of Shelby; one daughter, Diane Kenney of Gainesville, Va.; a daugh-ter-in-law, Polly Hord of Mooresboro; four grandchil-dren and six great-grandchil-dren.

Funeral services will be conducted at 3 p.m. Tuesday at The A.C. McKinney Memorial Chapel of McKinney-Landreth Funeral Home with the Revs. Brian Johnson and Buddy Morehead officiat-ing. Visitation will be held one hour prior to the ser-vice. Burial will follow in the Trinity Baptist Church cem-etery.

Memorials may be made to Cleveland Pines Nursing Center, 1404 N. Lafayette St., Shelby, NC 28150.

Online condolences www.mckin-neylandrethfuneralhome.com.

Megan SandersMegan “Baby Girl” Nicole

Sanders, 18, of 1616 Chatfield Road, Shelby, died Saturday, Oct. 17, 2009 at Carolina Medical Center, from injuries sustained in an automobile accident.

Born in Cleveland County, she was a daughter of Ashley Blanton Sanders and Grady Philip Sanders of Shelby.

She was a student at Cleveland Community College and a member of Union Baptist Church, where she was formerly active in GAs.

In addition to her par-ents, she is survived by three brothers, William Lee Sanders, Philip Coleman Sanders, and James Marshall Cole; a sis-ter, Leah Christine Cole of Shelby; her grandmothers, Carol Frances Watson of Shelby, and Patricia Goins of Boiling Springs; her grand-father, Richard Coleman Blanton and wife Linda of Cherryville; and her great-grandmother, Mildred S. Blanton of Shelby.

A memorial service will be held at 6 p.m. Thursday at Cecil M. Burton Funeral Home in Shelby with the Rev. Mike Shumate officiat-ing. The family will receive friends from 5 to 6 p.m., prior to the service at the funeral home. Burial will be private.

Memorials may be made to the Boys and Girls Club of Cleveland County, 412 W. Sumter St., Shelby, NC 28150; or to Union Baptist Church, Youth Fund, 3800 Polkville Rd., Shelby, NC 28150; or to the charity of the donor’s choice.

Online condolences www.cecilm-burtonfuneralhome.com.

Renee EdwardsVickie “Renee” Allen

Edwards, 60, of Myrtle Beach, S.C., formerly of Forest City, died Friday, Oct. 16, 2009 at her home.

A native of Cleveland County, she was a daugh-ter of the late William “Bill” Allen and Addie “Charleen” Allen. She graduated from Crest High School in 1967 and was a member of Beta Sigma Phi sorority. She was an auxiliary police offi-cer in Forest City, and also helped with the ownership and operation of Edwards Carpet and Floor Covering in Myrtle Beach. She was an active member of The Beach Church in Myrtle Beach.

Survivors include her hus-band, Michael Edwards of Myrtle Beach; two sons, Chris Jolley of Spartanburg, S.C., and Chad Jolley of Cliffside; two stepsons, Chris Edwards of Fort Bragg, and Adam Edwards of Ellenboro; three brothers, Ronny Allen, Danny Allen and Terry Allen, and sisters, Pamela Greene and Sherry Hawkins, all of Shelby; six grandchildren; and a host of extended family and friends.

Memorial services will be conducted at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday at Cleveland Funeral Services with the Rev. Keith Dixon officiating. Visitation will be held from 5 to 6:30 p.m., prior to the ser-vice at the funeral home.

Online condolences www.cleve-landfuneralservice.com.

Obituaries

DeathsHoward Barton UnruhTRENTON, N.J. (AP) —

Howard Barton Unruh, who killed 13 people as he walked the streets of Camden in a psychotic 1949 shooting spree that was the nation’s worst mass murder at the time, died Monday. He was 88.

Unruh had been confined in a state psychiatric hospi-tal since the killings, which became known as the “Walk of Death.” Diagnosed as a paranoid schizophrenic, he confessed to the killings and was judged mentally compe-tent but never tried for the Sept. 6, 1949, massacre.

Unruh, then a 28-year-old honorably discharged World War II combat veteran and pharmacy student, planned the killings for more than a year. He kept a meticulous journal on his intended vic-tims.

He killed five men, five women and three children. Some Unruh knew and inten-tionally targeted; others were simply strangers he encoun-tered on the street that morn-ing.

A recluse who read the Bible and loved guns, he was con-vinced his neighbors were ridiculing him behind his back and plotting against him. He was also depressed about his homosexual liaisons in a Philadelphia movie the-ater.

By ALLISON FLYNNDaily Courier Staff Writer

FOREST CITY — If you’re looking for seasonal flu vac-cine, you might have to look a little longer.

Rutherford-Polk-McDowell District Health Department is currently out of adult sea-sonal flu vaccines, said Helen White, district clinical super-visor.

As of Friday, White said, the only seasonal flu vaccines left in the department were doses for children ages 35 months and younger. When a new shipment of seasonal flu vac-cines for adults could come, she said, is anybody’s guess.

“I don’t know for 100 per-cent sure if we will have another clinic or we won’t,” she said.

White said the health department was advising those seeking a seasonal flu shot to check with the physi-cian’s offices and pharmacies, but that many patients had said they had contacted the health department because their own doctor’s office didn’t have any either.

At least two locations in the county have seasonal flu vac-cination clinics scheduled for today – CVS in Rutherfordton will hold a clinic from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. and Food Lion in Forest City during the same hours.

According to Lesley Koonce, a pharmacist/owner of Spindale Drug, you may want to call ahead to verify the clinic will still be held.

“We called ourselves around various places last week so our employees could get one, and even places that had clinics scheduled were out,” Koonce said.

Spindale Drug currently can’t get any seasonal flu vac-cines, in part because a prob-lem with production for one of the vaccine manufacturers.

“I think it’s been declared a national shortage,” she said. “We were told by our whole-saler that we might get more in November and December.”

Koonce said national news coverage of H1N1, she believed, had made people more aware of flu in general and had lead to more people seeking vaccines this year. H1N1 vaccines could be avail-able at Spindale Drug as early as this week. The health department is also offering H1N1 flu nasal mist vaccine Monday through Friday from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. The mist is approved for people ages 2 through 49 who are not pregnant and do not have certain health conditions. For more information on the vac-cine, call the health depart-ment at 287-6100.

As for seasonal flu vaccine, “We keep being told there will be enough later,” Koonce said.

Contact Flynn via e-mail afly-nn@thedigitalcourier.com.

WINSTON-SALEM (AP) — A middle school drama teacher in North Carolina once convicted of embezzle-ment now faces 10 charges of sexual misconduct with a student.

The Winston-Salem Journal reported Monday that 57-year-old Ralph David Surridge was being held on a $2 million bond. Surridge has worked at Mineral Springs Middle School seven years.

Court records show that Surridge had been convicted of embezzlement in New Hanover County in 1985.

School system spokesman Theo Helm said someone convicted of embezzlement would be able to work as a teacher but would not be considered for positions that involved handling money.

Flu shot supply running short

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Vickie EdwardsVickie Renee Allen Edwards,

age 60, of Myrtle Beach, SC, formerly of Forest City, NC died Friday, October 16, 2009, at home.

Born on January 30, 1949 in Cleveland County, she was the daughter of the late William “Bill” Allen and Addie “Charleen” Allen.

Renee graduated from Crest High School in 1967 and was a sister in the Beta Sigma Phi sorority. She was an Auxiliary Police Officer in Forest City, NC and also helped with the owner-ship and operation of Edwards Carpet and Floor Covering in Myrtle Beach, and was an active member in The Beach Church of Myrtle Beach, SC.

She is survived by her hus-band, Michael Edwards of Myrtle Beach, SC; two sons, Chris Jolley and wife, Carla of Spartanburg, SC and Chad Jolley and wife Tracy of Cliffside, NC; two step-sons, Chris Edwards and wife, Valerie of Ft. Brag, NC and Adam Edwards of Shelby, NC; three brothers, Ronny Allen, Danny Allen and Terry Allen all of Shelby; two sisters, Pamela Greene and Sherry Hawkins both of Shelby and six grandchildren, Campbell, Daylan, Hunter, Tyler, Katalyn and Aedan. Also sur-vived by a host of extended fam-ily and friends.

Visitation will be Wednesday, October 21, 2009 from 5-6:30PM at Cleveland Funeral Services. A memorial Service will be held on Wednesday, October 21, 2009 at 6:30 PM at Cleveland Funeral Services Chapel with Rev. Keith Dixon officiating.

Cleveland Funeral Services is serving the family.

A guest register is available at:www.clevelandfuneralservice.com

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Ben Evans Wall, Jr.

Ben Evans Wall, Jr., age 79, of Rutherfordton, NC, died Saturday, October 17, 2009, at Hospice House of Rutherford County. Born October 28, 1929, in Wallburg, N.C. he was a son of Ben Evans Wall and Annie Giles Wall.

He served as Ambassador in-Chief, Hickory Conclave, Royal Ambassadors of the Baptist Church. Ben was a member of the first football team following the war at R-S Central High School. He also played on the basketball team and baseball teams.

On the College level at Mars Hill College and Gardner-Webb College he continued to play football. As an adult he was an avid golfer. He was a mem-ber of the all County Band of Rutherford County and Boy Scouts of America.

He was a U.S. Army veteran of the Korean War, recipient of the Purple Heart and other coveted military citations.

He was married to Joan Deviney on June 26, 1954. He became an active member of Rutherfordton Presbyterian Church. He served as Sunday School teacher and superinten-dent, a member of the Board of Deacons, Board of Elders and Clerk of the Session; President of the men of the church and youth leader. He served as a representat-ing elder with Rev. Pete Preston to develop Fairfield Mountains Chapel, from the Rutherfordton Presbyterian Church.

He was a member of the Lees McRae Board of Trustees, Banner Elk, NC.

He served as president of the Rutherford County Farm Bureau and president of the Rutherford County Historical Society.

He was preceded in death by sister, Elizabeth Wall Connelly and his parents, Ben Evans and Annie Giles Wall.

He is survived by his wife of 55 years, Joan Deviney Wall, and two daughters, Mary Ann Wall Joyce and her husband, Walt of Clemmons, NC and Jane Evans (Jody) Wall of Charlotte, NC; two grandchildren, Elizabeth Evans Joyce of Chapel Hill, NC and Benjamin Alexander Joyce of Clemmons, NC; one sister, Anne Wall Mallgraf and her hus-band, William of Southern Pines, NC, one brother Dr. George Wall and wife, Billie of Roanoke, Va.

The family will receive friends following the service Wednes-day in the church fellowship hall.

A Memorial service will be held at Rutherfordton Presbyter-ian Church at 2:00 PM Wednes-day, October 21, 2009 with Dr. Don Scofield officiating.

In lieu of flowers memorials may be made to Lees McRae College, Advancement office, Ben Wall Scholarship Fund, PO Box 128, Banner Elk, NC 28604 or Rutherfordton Presbyterian Church; PO Box 1133, Ruther-fordton, NC 28139.

McMahan's Funeral Home & Cremation Service is serving the Wall family.

Guest register at:www.mcmahansfuneralhome.com

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effort has to be made to build the land back up. The animal manure adds nitrogen and helps build the soil, and sales of the animals are a money-maker for the school.

The visitors got to see Billy Ray, the Ossabaw Island pig, and the teacher explained how the “red meat” hog is being crossed with other breeds to produce leaner meat, since the Ossabaw naturally is a fatty animal. Ideally, he explained, the school would like to have six sows and breed one a month with the Ossabaw. “It looks like Billy Ray has a home for life,” Higgins noted.

The teacher said he is in his fourth year at R-S Central, and the number of students in the program has grown from 75 to more than 200, a testi-mony to the growing popularity of the program.

Higgins spoke with pride of the successes of the farm program at the school, but he warned his visitors that soil building and the effort to become sustainable is “a long-term process.”

“This is an animal science facil-ity,” he said, with the livestock being raised for meat and milk. He noted, for example, that 35 chickens were sold to a county restaurant as broilers.

The Stokes visitors also were shown the school’s two greenhouses, includ-ing the one that was recently com-pleted.

“I would like Stokes County to learn

what Rutherford County has taken from this,” said Kaye Moorefield, treasurer/ secretary for the farmers market of Stokes County, on Monday at R-S Central. “They have seen what needs to be done, they’re doing some-thing about it, they’re getting the kids involved, and I think that is fantastic. In Stokes County, we are hurting as badly as Rutherford, and I think if we can get some programs set up and get the education in the schools and get the younger kids interested, I think we’ll be OK in the future.”

Among the other visitors from Stokes County were: Michael Hylton, interim director of the N.C.

Cooperative Extension Service in Stokes County; Harvey Moser, presi-dent of the King Farmers Market and Stokes County Economic Development Director Alan Wood.

“There’s a variety of people from the county to see what we can do to help Stokes County,” Moorefield said.

She said that in many ways, Stokes is “a sister county to Rutherford, with job losses, farmland usage, loss of farms. I think it is the same, or very similar.”

Farmers Fresh Market has linked Rutherford County farmers to the lucrative Charlotte market and the Stokes County visitors are hope-ful that their farmers can likewise be linked to Winston-Salem and Greensboro markets.

When the Stokes County group arrived, they were welcomed by Jim Brown, chair of the Foothills Connect board. During introductions, the con-tingent met County Manager John Condrey, regional heritage tourism official Frankie McWhorter and Liz Rose, owner of Café at the Mall in Forest City.

Rose, an enthusiastic supporter of the Farmers Fresh Market project, urged the visitors to get local res-taurants involved in buying from the local producers. She showed them what she places on her tables to pro-mote the local producers and to let her customers know she is buying from local sources.

Contact Dale via e-mail at ldale@thedigi-talcourier.com.

Swink’s presence will mean a new member of the board for the first time in many years.

“I used to be the youngest on the council, but I’m glad to see Jeff want-ing to get involved,” said Wright. “There’s still a lot for us to learn, but I’m glad to be serving with all of these men. A lot of people have asked me about the surplus we have and said that is a lot of money to keep around. But there are new laws that require us to keep four months worth of operat-ing expenses on hand so we’re meet-ing our obligations.”

The town has about $800,000 in the bank.

“Financially we’re doing pretty well,” Lattimore said. “And we now have an emergency generator for use if a storm comes through and knocks out power again. I’d also like to say how good it is to see some new folks com-

ing and participating in our meetings and to say thank you to the new ladies auxiliary that has been formed.”

Hollifield compliment his fellow board members and the mayor.

“Most of us have been on this board for a while now,” Hollifield said. “Now, we don’t always agree on every-thing, but we usually work it out to the betterment of Bostic. Our finan-cially stability is the best it has ever been. I suppose that means folks are happy with us as no one else is run-ning against us. When I first started, the state would sometimes send us letters and complain about our finan-cial situation. But through the years we’ve worked it out.”

During his remarks, Dobbins dis-cussed some buildings that had been demolished over the years and some well-known landmarks he hopes to keep in the town.

“Many of the buildings we tore down were very old and couldn’t really be renovated,” Dobbins said. “A lot of those buildings had bricks that were from the old Bostic Brickyard.

But many of the old buildings still around are still in use. The old bank is Town Hall, the Bostic Lincoln Center is in the old depot. These buildings are still occupied and will be for quite some time.”

Finally, Mayor Harrill mentioned some long range plans he hopes to accomplish in his next term.

“I want to thank my board,” Harrill said. “As mayor you need a good board to get anything done and sometimes in the paper, I get all the credit for their hard work. We do have some plans we’re working on. First, we might acquire some new property for the town that could be a place to store another fire truck. And we might make some changes to our parks to make them more focused on children.”

The forum was sponsored by the Chamber of Commerce and Courtside Eatery.

Contact Baughman via e-mail at sbaugh-man@thedigitalcourier.com.

Meetings/otherHabitat dedication: Habitat for Humanity will dedicate two homes (54th and 55th homes) in Rutherford County on Thursday, Oct. 22 at 6 p.m. The homes, located side-by-side at 242 and 248 Flack Rd. in Forest City will belong to Latasha Hampton and Sharon Harmon. Built by the Habitat Volunteer Construction Crews, FaithWorks Coalition of Churches and the Women Build team.

Lost Playwrights meeting: Lost Playwrights of Western North Carolina will meet Saturday, Oct. 24, beginning at 4 p.m., at Doc’s Deli, on the corner of Grove and Barnwell streets in Hendersonville. Performance of short works at 7 p.m. A $5 donation appreciated. Those interested in any aspect of theatre are invited.

Regular meeting: Rutherford County Democrat Club will meet Monday, Oct. 26, at Democrat Headquarters, downtown headquar-ters. The meeting begins at 7 p.m.

Financial Aid Workshop: Wednesday, Oct. 28, 6 to 8 p.m., at R-S Central High School for seniors and their parents.

Annual meeting: Forest City Little League; Wednesday, Oct. 28, 6 p.m., at Mooneyham Library, Forest City; election of officers will be held; all coaches, parents and interested par-ties urged to attend.

MiscellaneousCosmetology specials: ICC’s Cosmetology Department will offer perm specials Nov. 3-6, Tuesday - Thursday appointments at 9 a.m., 4:15 p.m. and 6:30 p.m.; Friday appointments 8:15 a.m. and 11 a.m. only; includes shampoo, hair cut, perm or relaxer and style for $10. Call 286-2319 for an appointment.

Arts Exhibits: Pottery by Cindy Streib and paintings by Fran Brooks are on display at the Visual Arts Gallery, 173 N. Main St., Rutherfordton. Hours are Tuesday-Saturday, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Paintings by Evelyn Roberson are on display at the Norris Library, 132 N. Main St., Rutherfordton. Hours are Monday-Friday, 9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., Saturday 10 a.m. to noon.

FundraisersTailgate/trunk yard sale: Friday, Oct. 23, 8:30 a.m. to 1 p.m., Rutherford County Senior Center, 193 Callahan-Koon RD., Spindale; more than 30 vendors, large variety of items.

Auction, hot dog supper: Friday, Oct. 23, S.D.O. Fire Department; hot dog supper and auction pre-view from 5 to 6 p.m.; no set price, donations accepted; auction starts at 6 p.m. (cash only); sponsored by Long Branch Road Baptist Church; proceeds for Team Kids and a new fellowship hall.

Poor man’s supper: Saturday, Oct. 24, 5 to 7 p.m.; Sunshine United Methodist Church, DePriest Road., off Bostic-Sunshine Highway; adults $7, children $2.50.

Fall Bazaar: Saturday, Oct. 24, 7 a.m. to 1 p.m., Long Branch Road Baptist Church crafts, bake sale, Christmas decorations, White Elephant sale, and much more; biscuit breakfast at 7 a.m.; hotdog/chips, or soup/cornbread at 11:30 a.m.

Poor man’s supper: Saturday, Oct. 24, 4 to 6:30 p.m., High Shoal Baptist Church, 284 High Shoals Church Rd., Henrietta; adults $5, kids $2.50, under 6 free; all you care to eat; proceeds go toward the needy family Christmas fund.

Silent auction: Yokefellow Service Center, 102 Blanton Rd., Spindale. Items include Madame Alexander Dolls, 10 karat gold ring, sterling bracelet, Home Interior pictures and much more can be viewed through Oct. 24.

Music/concertsSinging: Sunday, Nov. 1, 2 p.m., Village Chapel Church, 141 Huntley St., Forest City; featuring the Green River Boys from Polk County.

16th Choir anniversary: Sunday, Oct. 25, 4 p.m., Doggett Grove AME Zion Church.

religionRevival: Through Oct. 21, 7 nightly, Little Bethel Church in Rutherfordton; speaker, Minister Dwayne Lytle, associate pastor at Mountain View Baptist Church.

Pastoral celebration: In honor of the Rev. Jerry Ruppe for 25 years as pastor of Long Branch Road Baptist Church; Sunday, Oct. 25; Sunday School 10 a.m., worship service 11 a.m., covered dish meal afterwards.

Homecoming: Sunday, Oct. 25, Grace Missionary Methodist Church, corner of 221A and Kelly Road, Caroleen; special music with the Gospel Travelers at 10 a.m.; Pastor Frank Lewis will preach at 11 a.m.; Danny Bumgarner, pastor of the church.

exactly where all meters, hydrants and lines are located.

Walden said the “prospects are pret-ty good” for receiving the grant, and the board voted to proceed with the grant effort.

The board also agreed to apply to the N.C. Department of Commerce for $70,000 to run the waterline inside River Stone. There is no match-ing portion required on this project.

Walden informed the board that there is an industrial prospect for the site, so the town needed to move on the waterline matter. The possibility of being able to run the waterline is intended to help the recruiting pro-cess for the unnamed industry move forward.

Mayor Jimmy Gibson noted that a 16-inch waterline already runs to the River Stone Park, so the grant would fund work inside the park. The board unanimously agreed to seek the grant.

Walden also suggested that the

board contract with East Coast Risk Management for a risk management program for the town.

The town once had a full-time risk manager, but the position fell to bud-get cuts. Walden said he had talked to the town’s insurance carrier and East Coast was recommended. He noted that the company would provide employee safety training monthly and monitor the town’s workmen’s com-pensation insurance.

Walden said the town is not try-ing to prevent access to workmen’s compensation with the program. In fact, he said, it should prove to be an employee benefit by raising the con-sciousness of all employees to be safe.

The cost of the program is $3,000 per month, Walden said, but added that the town’s insurance premiums likely will be reduced by more than that because the “insurance company will recognize this as they set rates.”

But Walden said he could not guar-antee any savings. Board member Shawn Moore said, “$3,000 is a lot of money based on ‘think’ or ‘hope’ (insurance rates will go down). That’s

$36,000 a year.”Commissioner Lee asked if the

$36,000 a year could be used to cre-ate a job. But Walden said that it would take three to five years for a new employee to reach the level of expertise that the risk management company could provide now. “These are professional people in their field,” Walden said.

Moore suggested that it might be better to “get other quotes and talk to other towns for feedback.”

David Lloyd, the town’s attorney, said, “In principle, I am very much in favor of a program like this. You have a formalized program in place.”

City Manager Chuck Summey com-mented that the program may cost $36,000, but it could save the town $60,000 or $80,000 or more.

The board asked Walden to come back with comparative rates and other towns’ experiences with the company, and tabled the issue until at least the next board meeting.

Contact Dale via e-mail at ldale@thedigi-talcourier.com.

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I would like Stokes County to learn what Rutherford County has taken from this. They have seen what needs to be done, they’re doing something about it, they’re getting the kids involved, and I think that is fantastic. In Stokes County, we are hurting as badly as Rutherford, and I think if we can get some programs set up and get the education in the schools and get the younger kids interested, I think we’ll be OK in the future.

— Kaye MoorefieldTreasurer/secretary for the farmers

market of Stokes County

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Forest .City .Owls .announce .schedule

FOREST CITY — The Forest City Owls have announced their 2010 season schedule.

The schedule features 56 Coastal Plain League contests with two exhibition games. Opening Day for the Owls is Wednesday May 26 versus the Gastonia Grizzlies at McNair Field.

All home games are set for 7:05 pm.

Season tickets are now on sale by calling (828) 245-0000. A complete schedule is avail-able at www.forestcitybaseball.com.

The regular season starts on Wednesday, May 26th and runs through Monday, August 2nd. The league’s annual All-Star Fan Fest and All-Star Game will be on July 19th and 20th. The location of the 2010 CPL All-Star Game will be announced soon.

The 15 teams will be broken into three divisions.

The Marlins, entering the Coastal Plain League for the 2010 season, will enter the league’s South Division, join-ing the Columbia Blowfish, Fayetteville SwampDogs, Florence RedWolves and Wilmington Sharks. Meanwhile, the Wilson Tobs will move from the South to the North Division.

Joining the Tobs will be the Edenton Steamers, the Outer Banks Daredevils, the Peninsula Pilots and the Petersburg Generals.

Finally, the West will stick with the same look as they had in 2009, and will be made up of the Asheboro Copperheads, the Forest City Owls, the Gastonia Grizzlies, the Martinsville Mustangs and the Thomasville HiToms.

All together, each team will play a 56-game schedule, with a large concentration on divi-sional games. In addition, the schedule will remain a split-format one, with 28 games per club in the first half and anoth-er 28 in the second half.

The Petitt Cup Playoffs will consist of three rounds begin-ning on August 4. The play-offs were a big hit for fans and teams alike in 2009, and fans will notice that the first round of the 2010 Petitt Cup Playoffs has moved from a single-elim-ination game to a best two-of-three series.

Pistons .donating .1k .pairs .of .new .shoes

AUBURN HILLS, Mich. (AP) — The Detroit Pistons are teaming up with charity to donate 1,000 pairs of new shoes and socks to kids.

The team is scheduled to be on hand Tuesday to help dis-tribute the shoes at a Detroit event. It’s part of the NBA Cares “Week of Service,” where NBA teams are giving a day of community service.

The team is working with Charlotte-based Samaritan’s Feet on the project.

CROSS COUNTRY4 p.m. Chase, E. Rutherford and R-S Central at Freedom

VOLLEYBALL4:30 p.m. Owen at Thomas Jefferson

10:15 a.m. (ESPN2) Soccer FIFA U-20 World Cup — Semifinal. 1:45 p.m. (ESPN2) Soccer FIFA U-20 World Cup — Semifinal. 8 p.m. (ESPN2) College Football Arkansas State at Louisiana-Monroe.

East .Rutherford .Breaks .Ground .For .Facility

Scott Baughman/Daily CourierEast Rutherford athletic director and head baseball coach Bobby Reynolds is joined by Forest City councilman Steve Holland (to coach’s left), Monica Lee (to coach’s right), and second row (l to r) Ferrell Hamrick, Terry Self, Kevin Helton, and Danny Myers all join the 2009-10 Cavaliers Baseball team as they break ground on the school’s new baseball training facility.

CHARLOTTE (AP) — There are reasons for Carolina to feel confident. The dominant running game from 2008 has reappeared, Julius Peppers is on perhaps the best two-game stretch of his career and the Panthers have won two straight after an 0-3 start.

But the negatives are piling up, too. Jake Delhomme keeps throwing inter-ceptions, Steve Smith is upset and the narrow, ugly victories of the past two weeks have come against the NFL’s doormats.

Through five games, it’s still tough to figure these Panthers.

Sunday’s 28-21 win over winless Tampa Bay provided the contra-dictions. DeAngelo Williams and Jonathan Stewart helped the Panthers (2-3) rush for 267 yards and the defense, led by Peppers’ two sacks, allowed only one touchdown.

Yet the passing game remains one of the league’s worst. After being held to one catch for four yards — the only passing play on Carolina’s 16-play, game-winning drive — Smith let out his frustrations in the locker room.

“I’m no longer an asset to this team,” he said.

Coach John Fox on Monday said he

hadn’t talked to Smith about his com-ments, but said the constant double-teams he’s faced helped get the run-ning game going.

“I can’t call the opponent up and ask them not to do that. They get to do what they want,” Fox said. “That opens up other things for our football team and gives us an opportunity to win.”

The Panthers ran the ball 48 times and passed 17 against the Buccaneers, with Williams (152 yards, 2 TDs) and Stewart (110 yards, 1 TD) looking like

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By JENNA FRYERAP Auto Racing Writer

CHARLOTTE — Nobody is trying to sugarcoat the trainwreck that is Dale Earnhardt Jr.’s season.

He knows it’s bad. His car owner knows it’s bad. All of NASCAR knows it’s bad.

Only nobody knows how to fix it.And as the most prolific pairing in

NASCAR history teeters on the brink of disaster, car owner Rick Hendrick is in a race to figure out what to do with his No. 88 team before Earnhardt loses what’s left of his crumbling confidence.

“I’m as frustrated as those guys are,” Hendrick said of Earnhardt’s team. “But I can tell you this ... I’m as committed as I know how to be, and we’re all com-mitted to each other. We’re just going to keep digging.”

It’s bizarre how bad things are for Earnhardt, who is stuck in a madden-ing slide at the same time his Hendrick Motorsports teammates hold down the

Please see NASCAR, Page 9

Tampa Bay Buccaneers linebacker Geno Hayes (54) falls over the top of tight end Jeff King (47) as King scores a touchdown dur-ing the third quarter of an NFL football game in Tampa, Fla., Sunday.

Pros, cons of Panthers 2-game streak

Earnhardt in the dumps over season

Dale Earnhardt Jr. is shown dur-ing practice for Saturday’s NASCAR Banking 500 auto race at Lowe’s Motor Speedway in Concord, Friday, Oct. 16, 2009.

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BASEBALLPostseason Baseball

LEAGUE CHAMPIONSHIP SERIESAmerican League

NEW YORK 2, LOS ANGELES 1Friday, Oct. 16New York 4, Los Angeles 1Saturday, Oct. 17New York 4, Los Angeles 3, 13 inningsMonday, Oct. 19Los Angeles 5, New York 4, 11 inningsTuesday, Oct. 20New York (Sabathia 19-8) at Los Angeles (Kazmir 10-9), 7:57 p.m.Thursday, Oct. 22x-New York at Los Angeles, 7:57 p.m.Saturday, Oct. 24x-Los Angeles at New York, 4:13 or 8:07 p.m.Sunday, Oct. 25x-Los Angeles at New York, 8:20 p.m.

National LeaguePHILADELPHIA 2, LOS ANGELES 1

Thursday, Oct. 15Philadelphia 8, Los Angeles 6Friday, Oct. 16Los Angeles 2, Philadelphia 1Sunday, Oct. 18Philadelphia 11, Los Angeles 0Monday, Oct. 19Los Angeles (Wolf 11-7) at Philadelphia (Blanton 12-8), lateWednesday, Oct. 21Los Angeles at Philadelphia, 8:07 p.m.Friday, Oct. 23x-Philadelphia at Los Angeles, 8:07 p.m.Saturday, Oct. 24x-Philadelphia at Los Angeles, 8:07 p.m.

FOOTBALLNational Football League

AMERICAN CONFERENCEEast

W L T Pct PF PANew England 4 2 0 .667 163 91N.Y. Jets 3 3 0 .500 114 104Miami 2 3 0 .400 112 106Buffalo 2 4 0 .333 93 129

South W L T Pct PF PAIndianapolis 5 0 0 1.000 137 71Jacksonville 3 3 0 .500 120 147Houston 3 3 0 .500 143 137Tennessee 0 6 0 .000 84 198

North W L T Pct PF PACincinnati 4 2 0 .667 118 118Pittsburgh 4 2 0 .667 140 112Baltimore 3 3 0 .500 169 130Cleveland 1 5 0 .167 69 148

West W L T Pct PF PADenver 5 0 0 1.000 99 43San Diego 2 2 0 .500 101 102Oakland 2 4 0 .333 62 139Kansas City 1 5 0 .167 98 144

NATIONAL CONFERENCEEast

W L T Pct PF PAN.Y. Giants 5 1 0 .833 178 119Dallas 3 2 0 .600 122 98Philadelphia 3 2 0 .600 136 99Washington 2 4 0 .333 79 96

South W L T Pct PF PANew Orleans 5 0 0 1.000 192 93Atlanta 4 1 0 .800 123 77Carolina 2 3 0 .400 85 125Tampa Bay 0 6 0 .000 89 168

North W L T Pct PF PAMinnesota 6 0 0 1.000 189 121Green Bay 3 2 0 .600 130 93Chicago 3 2 0 .600 119 99Detroit 1 5 0 .167 103 188

West W L T Pct PF PASan Francisco 3 2 0 .600 112 98Arizona 3 2 0 .600 112 92Seattle 2 4 0 .333 118 109St. Louis 0 6 0 .000 54 169Sunday’s GamesGreen Bay 26, Detroit 0New Orleans 48, N.Y. Giants 27Pittsburgh 27, Cleveland 14Houston 28, Cincinnati 17Kansas City 14, Washington 6Carolina 28, Tampa Bay 21Jacksonville 23, St. Louis 20, OTMinnesota 33, Baltimore 31Arizona 27, Seattle 3Oakland 13, Philadelphia 9Buffalo 16, N.Y. Jets 13, OTNew England 59, Tennessee 0Atlanta 21, Chicago 14Open: Indianapolis, Miami, Dallas, San FranciscoMonday’s GameDenver at San Diego, lateSunday, Oct. 25Minnesota at Pittsburgh, 1 p.m.San Francisco at Houston, 1 p.m.Indianapolis at St. Louis, 1 p.m.San Diego at Kansas City, 1 p.m.New England at Tampa Bay, 1 p.m.Green Bay at Cleveland, 1 p.m.Buffalo at Carolina, 4:05 p.m.N.Y. Jets at Oakland, 4:05 p.m.Atlanta at Dallas, 4:15 p.m.Chicago at Cincinnati, 4:15 p.m.New Orleans at Miami, 4:15 p.m.

Arizona at N.Y. Giants, 8:20 p.m.Open: Denver, Seattle, Detroit, Jacksonville, Baltimore, TennesseeMonday, Oct. 26Philadelphia at Washington, 8:30 p.m.

South Mountain 2A/3A Conf. Overall W L W L PF PAR-S Central 4 0 8 1 262 90 Shelby 3 0 7 1 203 79Burns 3 0 3 5 241 251East Ruth. 1 2 3 5 166 191 Patton 1 3 4 5 131 174Freedom 0 3 2 6 134 203Chase 0 4 2 7 67 219

Friday’s gamesShelby 27, Chase 0Burns 48, East Rutherford 30Hickory 20, Freedom 9 R-S Central 23, Patton 7Oct. 23 gamesR-S Central at Shelby, 7:30 p.m.Freedom at East Rutherford, 7:30 p.m.Patton at Burns, 7:30 p.m. Chase bye week

R-S Central 23, Patton 7RS — 7 3 13 0 — 23PT — 0 7 0 0 — 7

First QuarterRS — J. Kinlaw 18-yard run (C. Owens PAT)

Second QuarterRS — C. Owens 24-yard field goalPT — J. Reed 9-yard run (K. Stone PAT)

Third QuarterRS — C. Green 10-yard run (2-point conv. no good)RS — J. Kinlaw 79-yard run (C. Owens PAT)

RUSHINGRS — C. Green 19-76-TD; J. Kinlaw 11-121-2 TD; C. Jimerson 4-4; T. Abrams 3-9; L. Brown 2-8; D. Petty 1-6; W. Lynch 2-(-8).PT — B. Bethel 24-87; Z. Cole 9-23; T. Buchanan 6-5; J. Bristol 4-18; J. Reed 2-13-TD; D. Flowers 1-3.

PASSINGRS — J. Kinlaw 5-11-74.PT — T. Buchanan 1-12-INT-12.

RECEIVINGRS — C. Jimerson 3-50, T. Abrams 1-15, L. Brown 1-9.PT — Z. Holden 1-12.

Shelby 27, Chase 0SH — 20 7 0 0 — 27CH — 0 0 0 0 — 0

First QuarterSH — K. Key 1 yard run (PAT blocked)SH — M. Beam 61 yard run (B. Cheaney PAT)SH — K. Key 3 yard run (B. Cheaney PAT)

Second QuarterSH — D. Fuller 44 yard pass to C. Hines (B. Cheaney PAT)

RUSHINGSH — E. Boyd 6-37; K. Key 5-17-2 TD; G. Jennings 4-36; D. Cooper 4-4; B. Moss 3-21; S. Clark 3-(-7); J. Farrar 1-(-8); Q. Hopper 1-(-1); D. Fuller 2-(-4); Team 4-(-17).CH — T. Gossett 17-34; D, Hines 9-22; J. Miller 8-99; R. McDaniel 2-5; T. Gaffney 2-(-3); T. McMullins 1-(-1).

PASSINGSH — D. Fuller 1-1-44-TD; S. Clark 0-2.CH — T. Gossett 1-9-INT-10.

RECEIVINGSH — C. Hines 1-44-TD.CH — D. Gossett 1-10.

Burns 48, East Rutherford 30ER — 3 7 7 13 — 30BN — 6 29 0 13 — 48

First QuarterBN — Blake Pressley 10 pass from Brandon Littlejohn (kick failed)ER — 27 FG Ryan Bailey

Second QuarterBN — Darius Ramsey 7 run (Andrew Toney kick)ER — 92 kickoff return Tyler Hamilton (Bailey kick)BN — Joe Ross 13 pass from Littlejohn (Toney kick)BN — Q. Littlejohn 1 run (Ramsey run)BN — Pressley 60 run (Toney kick)

Third QuarterER — 88 kickoff return Adrian Wilkins (Bailey kick)

Fourth QuarterBN — 77 interception return Joe Ross (Toney kick)BN — Travond Ross 3 pass from Littlejohn (pass failed)ER — A. Wilkins 15 run (kick failed)ER — O’Darren Wilkins 12 pass from Mikhail Baxter (Bailey kick)

RUSHINGER — Hamilton 20-107, Wilkins 9-59.BN — Pressley 9-141, Ramsey 14-49.

PASSING ER — Baxter 7-16-2-87. BN — Littlejohn 9-16-2-122.

RECEIVING ER —Wilkins 3-68. BN — Ager 2-39; Pressley 3-42; Ross 2-21.

HOCKEYNational Hockey League

EASTERN CONFERENCEAtlantic Division

GP W L OT Pts GF GAN.Y. Rangers 8 7 1 0 14 32 15Pittsburgh 8 7 1 0 14 28 18New Jersey 7 4 3 0 8 18 19Philadelphia 6 3 2 1 7 21 19N.Y. Islanders 6 0 3 3 3 13 23

Northeast Division GP W L OT Pts GF GAOttawa 7 5 2 0 10 22 16Buffalo 6 4 1 1 9 18 12Boston 7 3 4 0 6 20 23Montreal 7 2 5 0 4 15 24Toronto 7 0 6 1 1 14 32

Southeast Division GP W L OT Pts GF GAWashington 8 4 2 2 10 29 24Atlanta 5 4 1 0 8 20 13Tampa Bay 7 2 3 2 6 17 27Carolina 7 2 4 1 5 15 22Florida 6 2 4 0 4 14 22

WESTERN CONFERENCECentral Division

GP W L OT Pts GF GAChicago 8 5 2 1 11 29 23Columbus 6 5 1 0 10 18 12St. Louis 6 3 2 1 7 19 15Detroit 7 3 3 1 7 22 25Nashville 7 2 4 1 5 10 23

Northwest Division GP W L OT Pts GF GAColorado 8 6 1 1 13 28 18Calgary 8 5 2 1 11 30 28Edmonton 7 4 2 1 9 28 21Vancouver 7 3 4 0 6 22 23Minnesota 7 1 6 0 2 15 25

Pacific Division GP W L OT Pts GF GAPhoenix 7 5 2 0 10 18 10Dallas 7 3 1 3 9 24 20San Jose 8 4 3 1 9 25 23Los Angeles 8 4 4 0 8 24 28Anaheim 7 3 3 1 7 16 21

Monday’s GamesSan Jose, 7, N.Y. Rangers, 3Los Angeles at Dallas, lateVancouver at Edmonton, lateTuesday’s GamesSt. Louis at Pittsburgh, 7 p.m.Atlanta at Montreal, 7:30 p.m.Columbus at Calgary, 9:30 p.m.Wednesday’s GamesNashville at Boston, 7 p.m.Carolina at N.Y. Islanders, 7 p.m.Buffalo at Florida, 7:30 p.m.Colorado at Minnesota, 8 p.m.Vancouver at Chicago, 8:30 p.m.Dallas at Anaheim, 10 p.m.

BASKETBALLNational Basketball Association

EASTERN CONFERENCEAtlantic Division

W L Pct GBBoston 5 1 .833 — Philadelphia 5 1 .833 — New York 2 2 .500 2 Toronto 2 5 .286 3 1/2New Jersey 0 5 .000 4 1/2

Southeast Division W L Pct GBOrlando 5 0 1.000 — Atlanta 3 1 .750 1 1/2Washington 3 2 .600 2 Miami 1 4 .200 4 Charlotte 1 5 .167 4 1/2

Central Division W L Pct GBChicago 5 1 .833 — Detroit 3 3 .500 2 Milwaukee 3 3 .500 2 Cleveland 2 3 .400 2 1/2Indiana 2 3 .400 2 1/2

WESTERN CONFERENCESouthwest Division

W L Pct GBDallas 4 1 .800 — Houston 3 3 .500 1 1/2San Antonio 2 2 .500 1 1/2Memphis 2 4 .333 2 1/2New Orleans 2 4 .333 2 1/2

Northwest Division W L Pct GBUtah 3 2 .600 — Portland 3 3 .500 1/2Oklahoma City 2 2 .500 1/2Denver 2 3 .400 1 Minnesota 1 4 .200 2

Pacific Division W L Pct GBL.A. Lakers 4 1 .800 — L.A. Clippers 4 2 .667 1/2Golden State 3 3 .500 1 1/2Phoenix 2 3 .400 2 Sacramento 1 3 .250 2 1/2

Monday’s GamesAtlanta, 113, Washington, 95Orlando at Chicago, lateOklahoma City at Houston, lateTuesday’s GamesMilwaukee at Charlotte, 7 p.m.Washington at Philadelphia, 7 p.m.Dallas vs. Cleveland at Pittsburgh, 7:30 p.m.Boston at New York, 7:30 p.m.San Antonio vs. Oklahoma City, 8:30 p.m.Minnesota at Denver, 9 p.m.Utah at Portland, 10 p.m.Sacramento at Phoenix, 10 p.m.Golden State vs. L.A. Lakers, 10 p.m.Maccabi at L.A. Clippers, 10:30 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 21New York at New Jersey, 7 p.m.Indiana at Orlando, 7 p.m.Boston at Cleveland, 7 p.m.Memphis at Miami, 7:30 p.m.

Scoreboard

Associated PressNew York Yankees’ Johnny Damon hits a solo home run during the fourth inning of Game 3 of the American League Championship baseball series against the Los Angeles Angels Monday, in Anaheim, Calif.

Angels win Game 3 in 10th

ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) — Jeff Mathis hit a two-out double in the 11th inning to drive home the winning run and the Los Angeles Angels survived a second straight thriller for a 5-4 victory over the Yankees on Monday, trimming New York’s lead in the AL championship series to 2-1.

Howie Kendrick homered, tripled and then sin-gled with two outs in the 11th. Mathis followed with his drive up against the left-field wall, and Kendrick slid home well ahead of a desperate throw.

Mathis, the Angels’ backup catcher, came up with his third late-inning, extra-base hit of this crazy series.

Vladimir Guerrero also homered as the Angels overcame a midgame 3-0 deficit and four solo homers by the Yankees’ stars, including Jorge Posada’s tying solo shot in the eighth.

By KEVIN CARVERSports Reporter

RUTHERFORDTON — Nobody could in the regulation, nor in overtime, nor in double overtime.

Two of the top tier teams in SMAC play, R-S Central and Patton went through 100 min-utes of soccer on Monday night and both schools had to settle for a scoreless tie, 0-0.

“We have to find somebody that is willing to step up and put away a goal,” R-S Central soccer coach Jason Hipp said. “Patton has a good side, but I think we

should have had this one.”In the first half, Central domi-

nated midfield Following the half, it was

Patton that seemed to take advantage for the first 20 min-utes of the second half, but R-S Central (7-2-3, 5-1-2) was relent-less in the back half of the peri-od.

Patton (10-6-3, 5-1-3) flung 5 shots in the from the 40th to the 60th minute, but Central did the same during the final 20 min-utes of regulation.

Central best chances came when Brett Thompson passed off

to Matt Simmons, but Simmons missed just wide right of the post in the 80th minute.

With the two teams going into overtime, Central controlled the way and Dylan Owens had the most legitimate shot of the four tries they got and yet it was saved as well.

In double overtime, R-S had five more chances, but couldn’t find the back of the net. Owens put the game away when Patton tried in the 98th minute, but he gained control with the header and then cleared it out.

J.T. McClain had 15 saves.

CHAPEL HILL (AP) — The off week came at the right time for North Carolina and its struggling offense.

It allowed the Tar Heels to put the struggles of the first six games behind them and examine more closely what they’ve been doing wrong. It also gave them time to focus on Florida State in advance of Thursday night’s nationally televised matchup, which will be the first in Kenan Stadium history.

Coach Butch Davis has described it as self-scout-ing, though to listen to him there weren’t too many surprises at the end of the review period.

“All the things that hurt you as a football team, those are pretty self-evident,” Davis said Monday. “If you turn the ball over, you really hurt your offense’s opportunity to find out what might work. If you’re going three-and-out and turning the ball over and not having success, you don’t have a chance to go out there and experiment and find a play that works and get the chance to call it again.”

That certainly has hindered the development of North Carolina’s young offense this season. Injuries have as well, though the off week following a 42-12 win against Georgia Southern has given the Tar Heels (4-2, 0-2 Atlantic Coast Conference) a chance to heal a bit.

Tight end Zack Pianalto returned to practice last week and might return against the Seminoles (2-4, 0-3) for the first time since suffering a dislocated foot while celebrating a touchdown in the second game. For guys like offensive lineman Jonathan Cooper, who missed almost four full games with a sprained right ankle, it allowed him to get to about “90 percent” while playing with a brace — which can only help a line that is still playing without injured center Lowell Dyer.

That’s not to say all the injury news was good Monday. The school said freshmen A.J. Blue and Jamal Womble would miss the rest of the season after having surgery to repair injuries suffered against Georgia Southern.

Blue needed reconstructive surgery on the ACL and PCL in his left knee.

Tar Heels hope off week leads to gains against FSU

Hilltoppers, Panthers play to scoreless tie

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By The Associated Press

Tom Brady finding his form could be bad news for the rest of the NFL.

A few other quarterbacks were at their Sunday best, too.

Brett Favre and Drew Brees helped their teams remain unbeaten. Ben Roethlisberger and Kurt Warner, who met in last season’s Super Bowl, each won to put their teams into first-place ties.

Brady threw six touchdown passes — including an NFL-record five in one quarter — and the Patriots sent the Titans plummeting to a new low in their winless season with a 59-0 win on a snowy day in Foxborough.

Brady threw five scoring passes in the second quarter and the Patriots built the biggest half-time lead in league history, 45-0. The six touchdown throws tied Brady’s own Patriots record. And the 59-point victory mar-gin matched the league’s largest since the NFL-AFL merger in 1970.

“Every week we’re learning something more about ourselves and what we can do,” Brady said. “There’s no doubt a game like this can give you a lot of confi-dence.”

The Patriots (4-2) gained a club-record 619 yards, with Brady completing 29 of 34 pass-es for 380 yards and matching the number of scoring passes he totaled in his first five games. In 2007, he set an NFL record with 50 touchdown passes and was the league’s MVP.

Sunday’s performance was, by far, his best of an inconsistent comeback year after a knee inju-ry ended his 2008 season in the opener.

It was the worst game in what has become an increasingly ter-rible season for the Titans (0-6), who have lost their last three by 20, 22 and 59 points after going an NFL-best 13-3 last year.

Vikings 33, Ravens 31At Minneapolis, Brett Favre’s

58-yard completion to Sidney Rice set up Ryan Longwell’s fourth field goal, and Baltimore’s Steve Hauschka missed a 44-yard field goal as time expired, allowing Minnesota to remain undefeated.

Favre threw for 278 yards and three touchdowns, but the Vikings (6-0) nearly blew this one when they let the Ravens erase a 17-point deficit with 10 minutes to play.

Joe Flacco threw for 385 yards and two touchdowns for the Ravens (3-3), who scored twice on drives that totaled just 56 seconds to take a 31-30 lead with 3:37 to play. But Hauschka pushed his field goal wide left.

Saints 48, Giants 27At New Orleans, Drew Brees

ended his two-game streak with-out a touchdown throw by com-pleting 23 of 30 passes for 369 yards and four scores, and the Saints easily remained unbeaten by torching the Giants’ league-leading defense.

The Giants (5-1) came into the game giving up averages of 210.6 yards and 14.2 points. The Saints (5-0) had 34 points and 315 yards by halftime, as Brees threw three TD passes.

Steelers 27, Browns 14At Pittsburgh, Ben

Roethlisberger threw two touch-

down passes before the Steelers’ offense began stopping itself with turnovers, and Pittsburgh (4-2) benefited from a curious first-down measurement to beat the rival Browns (1-5) for the 12th time in a row.

Roethlisberger, first in the league in passing and on pace for what would easily be the best statistical season of his career, was 23 of 35 for 417 yards in his second career 400-yard game. Hines Ward made eight catches for 159 yards and a touchdown and Santonio Holmes had five for 104.

Cardinals 27, Seahawks 3At Seattle, Arizona moved into

a tie for the NFC West lead as Kurt Warner completed 32 of 41 passes for 276 yards and two touchdowns.

Warner tied an NFL record as the fastest to throw for 30,000 yards in a career and Larry Fitzgerald tied his career high with 13 receptions for 100 yards and a touchdown.

Texans 28, Bengals 17At Cincinnati, Matt Schaub

tied his career high with four TD passes — two to tight end Owen Daniels — and Houston pulled away to deny the Bengals anoth-er chance to win one at the end.

The Bengals (4-2) had won three straight games in the last 22 seconds, pulling off one improbable drive after another.

Raiders 13, Eagles 9At Oakland, Calif., Louis

Murphy threw two key blocks to spring Zach Miller’s 86-yard touchdown catch, Justin Fargas ran for 87 yards and the Raiders’ defense harassed Donovan McNabb all day.

The result was one of the more shocking ones so far this sea-son as the Raiders (2-4) had lost three straight games by at least 20 points for the first time in franchise history, while the Eagles (3-2) were second in the league in points per game.

Packers 26, Lions 0At Green Bay, Wis., Aaron

Rodgers got sacked five times but still managed to have a big day against Detroit’s defense, throwing for 358 yards with two

touchdowns.Donald Driver became the

franchise’s career receptions leader with a first-quarter catch and rookie outside linebacker Clay Matthews III had two sacks as the Packers (3-2) turned in a dominant defensive effort against an undermanned Lions offense.

Bills 16, Jets 13, OTAt East Rutherford, N.J., Rian

Lindell kicked a 47-yard field goal with 2:44 left in overtime, making up for a miss at the end of regulation.

The Bills (2-4) took advantage of Mark Sanchez’s fifth intercep-tion of the day to snap a three-game losing streak, and send the sputtering Jets (3-3) to their third straight loss.

Ryan Fitzpatrick stepped in ably for Trent Edwards, who left early in the second quarter with a concussion.

Chiefs 14, Redskins 6At Landover, Md., Ryan

Succop’s four field goals, includ-ing the go-ahead 46-yarder with 3:36 to play, plus a last-minute safety were all the Chiefs need-ed.

They earned rookie coach Todd Haley his first win and Jim Zorn another week of questioning about the future of his job with the Redskins (2-4).

Jaguars 23, Rams 20, OTAt Jacksonville, Fla., Torry

Holt had 101 yards receiving in his first game against his former team, Maurice Jones-Drew ran for 133 yards and three touch-downs for the Jaguars.

Josh Scobee provided the win-ner, a 36-yard field goal.

St. Louis (0-6) extended the NFL’s longest current losing streak to 16 games.

Falcons 21, Bears 14At Atlanta, Michael Turner

scored the go-ahead touchdown on an otherwise forgettable night, powering over from 5 yards with 3:06 remaining, and the defense held at the end to preserve a victory.

Matt Ryan threw two touch-down passes for the Falcons (4-1), who matched the best five-game start in franchise history.

The NFL: Week 6

Chicago Bears defender Danieal Manning (38) breaks up a first half pass to Atlanta Falcons receiver Tony Gonzalez (88) during their NFL football game at the Georgia Dome in Atlanta Sunday.

Brady hits on six TD passes

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the duo that dominated the second half of last sea-son. Williams’ game-winning 1-yard TD run with 29 seconds left capped an 8-minute drive that showed Carolina’s might up front.

“There were some times where they had nine in the box and we were still getting seven or eight yards because they were just moving guys out there,” Williams said.

But it could also be argued it was the only way the Panthers could win, with Delhomme ineffec-tive again. He ran his season interception total to an NFL-high 10 when Tanard Jackson returned a pick 26 yards for the tying touchdown in the fourth quarter.

Delhomme completed 9 of 17 passes for 65 yards, one touchdown and two interceptions. Delhomme and his Pro Bowl receiver Smith still haven’t con-nected for a touchdown or a pass longer than 30 yards.

Smith has only 21 catches, 20 behind the other Steve Smith with the New York Giants, who is tied for the NFL lead.

“Out of the 10 years I’ve been playing, I don’t think I’ve been on one team where all 53 guys are happy. Not one year,” linebacker Na’il Diggs said. “I’m not surprised that a couple of guys are upset or feel like they’re not an asset. I can kind of understand where Steve is coming from but he wears his heart on his sleeve, as everybody knows.”

Linebacker Jon Beason said Monday the defen-sive players have played with vigor since the 0-3 start had them ranked last in the league against the run. Washington managed 198 yards of offense and the Bucs had 245.

And while Beason created a story by calling out Peppers on a radio show and then apologizing for doing so, Peppers is on a tear. He’s recorded four sacks, five tackles for a loss, four quarterback hur-ries and one forced fumble in the two games since the incident.

“I think he’s played as well the last two games as I’ve seen him play, really, that I can remember,” Fox said. “He’s played exceptionally well.”

Newly signed Hollis Thomas continues to impress at nose tackle, clogging the middle and allow-ing the linebackers to make plays. Thomas Davis recorded eight more tackles and an interception Sunday as he continues his best pro season.

It’s just all those other problems are fighting for attention. The special teams not only gave up another touchdown — a 97-yard kickoff return in which Fox claims the Bucs had an illegal 3-man wedge — but gunner Dante Wesley was suspended one game Monday for a vicious hit on defenseless punt returner Clifton Smith.

“It was just a judgment error,” Fox said. “It’s not intentional. It’s not done maliciously. You’ve got to make a split-second decision.”

top three spots in the Sprint Cup standings.When he runs well, it’s still not good enough to

compete with points leader Jimmie Johnson, Mark Martin or Jeff Gordon. And when he runs bad, it’s really, really bad. Throw in all of the bad luck and broken parts, and it’s a wonder he’s still able to show up at the race track each weekend.

Earnhardt did everything asked of him last week-end at Lowe’s Motor Speedway, although it seemed as if NASCAR’s most popular driver was at times just going through the motions. He thought he had a decent race car, but instead qualified a humili-ating 39th while his teammates all grabbed spots inside the top nine.

It might as well have been the straw the broke the camel’s back.

Earnhardt appeared defeated the rest of the weekend and said little to contradict that assess-ment:

Is he trying to change himself? “I don’t even know what I used to do.”

Is he second-guessing everything? “No. I’ve passed all of that. I’m over it, to be honest with you.”

How does he keep his head up? “I don’t know. We just need to run better. It’s not happening.”

Does he feel like he’s in a tough spot? “I feel like I’m in ... I feel like I don’t have any ... I feel like I don’t have any control, you know?”

He chose his words carefully, but was unable to hide the mounting frustration of a disastrous second season driving for the best organization in NASCAR. He’s won just one race since joining Hendrick Motorsports, in June of 2008, and has just five top-10 finishes all season.

Earnhardt is 22nd in the standings, hasn’t fin-ished higher than 17th in the past seven races, and an electrical problem Saturday night at Lowe’s sent him to the garage early and a 38th-place finish.

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Associated PressRichard Heene is photographed by a television crew as he leaves his house with his family in Fort Collins, Colo., Monday. Heene is accused of perpetrating the bal-loon boy hoax to promote a reality show.

FORT COLLINS, Colo. (AP) — Authorities investigating the family accused of perpetrating the balloon boy hoax to promote a reality show said Monday they don’t expect pos-sible charges to until at least next week.

Larimer County sheriff’s spokes-woman Eloise Campanella said that investigators don’t anticipate fin-ishing their reports and presenting them to the district attorney’s office until next week. It will then be up to prosecutors to decide whether to file charges against Richard Heene or his wife, Mayumi.

The couple’s lawyer, David Lane, said earlier in the day that he expect-ed charges to be filed by Wednesday. With television cameras and report-ers set up outside the Heene home, Lane has stressed that the Heenes are willing to turn themselves in to avoid the spectacle of a public arrest.

Lane declined to say directly whether he believes the incident was a hoax but said the Heenes are innocent unless convicted. The fam-ily remained in seclusion Monday at their home.

“If they (prosecutors) can prove their case beyond a reasonable doubt, that’s one thing. If they can’t prove their case beyond a reasonable doubt, that’s another,” he told The Associated Press.

Investigators also say they want to question an associate of his after e-mails surfaced showing the two had discussed a balloon hoax months ago as part of a public relations cam-paign for the reality show.

Robert Thomas of Denver claimed Heene had told him he was plan-ning a media stunt to promote a pro-posed reality show. Thomas, a self-described researcher, sold his story to Gawker.com and provided the Web site with e-mail exchanges between him and Heene. Thomas said the show would feature Heene as a mad scientist who carries out various sci-entific experiments.

“This will be the most significant UFO-related news event to take place since the Roswell Crash of 1947, and the result will be a dra-matic increase in local and national awareness about The Heene Family, our Reality Series, as well as the UFO Phenomenon in general,” according to a copy of the show’s pro-posal provided to the site by Thomas.

Gawker.com editor-in-chief Gabriel Snyder confirmed the New York-based Web site paid Thomas, but declined to say how much for the story billed with the headline: “Exclusive: I Helped Richard Heene Plan a Balloon Hoax.”

Snyder said Thomas was plan-ning to meet with investigators but Larimer County sheriff’s spokeswom-an Kathy Messick wouldn’t comment

on whether he had been interviewed. Messages left for Thomas by The Associated Press were not returned.

Thomas, 25, said in his Gawker.com story that the plan he knew about did not involve Heene’s children.

The emergence of the e-mails is the latest twist in a story that played out live on national television on Thursday when a silver helium-filled balloon floated away from the Heenes’ home with 6-year-old Falcon believed to be aboard. But he was never in the balloon.

Some flights at Denver International Airport had to be changed to a different runway, but the airport remained open during the balloon’s flight, airport spokes-man Chuck Cannon said Monday. Previous reports said the airport was temporarily shut down.

The National Guard provided two helicopters in an attempt to rescue the child, costing several thousand dollars. When the balloon landed without the boy, officials thought he had fallen out and began the grim search for his body.

Sheriff Jim Alderden announced Sunday that he’s seeking charges, including felonies, against Richard and Mayumi Heene. Alderden said the stunt two weeks in the plan-ning was a marketing ploy by the Heenes, who met in acting school in Hollywood and have twice appeared on ABC’s reality show “Wife Swap.”

“We certainly know that there’s a conspiracy between the husband and wife, you’ve probably seen some of the e-mails and some of the things on the Internet suggesting that there may be other conspirators,” Alderden said.

Alderden said documents show that a media outlet has agreed to pay money to the Heenes with regard to the balloon incident. Alderden didn’t name the media outlet but said it was a show that blurs “the line between entertainment and news.”

It wasn’t clear whether the deal was signed before or after the alleged hoax, or whether the media outlet was a possible conspirator.

“Let’s call it (my statement) short of speculation that a media outlet was in on the hoax, but let’s not discount the possibility,” he said.

In an e-mail Sunday to the AP, Snyder said editors at Gawker.com had not contacted the Heene family or offered them money for their story, referring to Alderden’s reference to a deal being struck by a media outlet.

“No, that wasn’t us,” Snyder said.The sheriff said he expected to

recommend charges of conspiracy, contributing to the delinquency of a minor, making a false report to authorities and attempting to influ-ence a public servant. Federal charg-es were also possible.

CHICAGO (AP) — Prosecutors in Chicago have dropped the first-degree murder charge filed against one of four teens accused of beating a stu-dent to death after school last month.

The state’s attorney’s office had charged 18-year-old Eugene Bailey, but authorities announced Monday they’ve dropped the charge and he’s being released from custody.

The state’s attorney’s office did not immediately return calls for comment.

Charges dropped for one

Marine to plead guiltyHAGERSTOWN, Md. (AP) — A

Marine sergeant charged with fak-ing battle injuries to get freebies intended for wounded warriors will plead guilty, a Marine Corps spokes-woman said Monday.

Sgt. David W. Budwah, 34, of Springhill, La., will enter the plea at a court-martial hearing Wednesday at the Marine Corps Base in Quantico, Va., 1st Lt. Joy Crabaugh wrote in an e-mail.

Mistress loses in courtATLANTA (AP) — The Georgia

Supreme Court ruled unanimously Monday against the mistress of a millionaire, saying she is not enti-tled to receive $7,900 a month for the rest of her life as provided under amendments to his will.

The court ruled 7-0 that Anne Melican should not receive the monthly payment, and that she also is not entitled to property in Florida and Cape Cod, Mass., as provided by the late Harvey Strother in amend-ments to his will signed between 2000 and his 2004 death.

The ruling overturns a decision last summer that had upheld the monthly allowance, despite his fam-ily’s insistence that when he died, Strother was a fragile alcoholic who

Melican conned into changing his will.

Part of the case hinged on the testimony of two home nurses who cared for Strother and signed as witnesses to the amendments, but later confessed they hadn’t wit-nessed anything.

Lots more planets found WASHINGTON(AP) — European astronomers have found 32 new planets outside our solar system, adding evidence to the theory that the universe has many places where life could develop.

Scientists using the European Southern Observatory telescope didn’t find any planets quite the size of Earth or any that seemed habitable or even unusual. But their announcement increased the num-ber of planets discovered outside the solar system to more than 400.

Six of the newly found planets are several times bigger than Earth, increasing the population of so-called super-Earths by more than 30 percent. Most planets discovered so far are far bigger, Jupiter-sized or even larger.

Two of the newly discovered plan-ets were as small as five times the size of Earth and one was up to five times larger than Jupiter.

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395.11 288.66 Dow Utilities 387.70 +5.67 +1.48 +4.57 +.917,204.09 4,181.75 NYSE Composite 7,222.21 +88.25 +1.24 +25.45 +14.861,867.37 1,130.47 Amex Market Value 1,878.84 +18.23 +.98 +34.44 +24.542,173.95 1,265.52 Nasdaq Composite 2,176.32 +19.52 +.91 +38.00 +22.951,096.56 666.79 S&P 500 1,097.91 +10.23 +.94 +21.55 +11.42

714.65 397.97 S&P MidCap 715.60 +7.73 +1.09 +32.94 +23.4811,355.49 6,772.29 Wilshire 5000 11,368.00 +111.31 +.99 +25.10 +14.32

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PIMCO TotRetIs CI 107,798 10.91 +1.0 +19.0/B +6.8/A NL 5,000,000American Funds GrthAmA m LG 63,925 27.05 +3.1 +26.1/B +4.6/A 5.75 250American Funds CapIncBuA m IH 57,511 48.01 +1.7 +19.1/D +5.2/C 5.75 250American Funds CpWldGrIA m WS 55,088 34.26 +3.7 +32.4/B +8.6/A 5.75 250Fidelity Contra LG 53,656 56.73 +3.8 +19.9/D +6.3/A NL 2,500Vanguard TotStIdx LB 53,496 27.10 +2.7 +21.9/C +2.7/B NL 3,000American Funds IncAmerA m MA 47,865 15.25 +2.8 +20.7/C +3.7/B 5.75 250American Funds InvCoAmA m LB 47,348 25.41 +3.0 +20.6/C +2.9/B 5.75 250Vanguard 500Inv LB 46,574 101.28 +2.9 +19.9/C +1.9/C NL 3,000Vanguard InstIdx LB 41,003 100.64 +2.9 +20.0/C +2.0/C NL 5,000,000American Funds EurPacGrA m FB 40,009 39.47 +4.0 +42.8/A +10.6/A 5.75 250Dodge & Cox Stock LV 39,993 95.54 +1.5 +24.7/B +1.8/C NL 2,500American Funds WAMutInvA m LV 37,864 24.07 +3.0 +13.6/E +1.2/D 5.75 250Dodge & Cox IntlStk FV 35,309 33.31 +4.7 +48.3/A +9.3/A NL 2,500American Funds NewPerspA m WS 31,930 25.57 +3.3 +34.0/B +7.8/A 5.75 250Fidelity DivrIntl d FG 31,833 28.69 +3.3 +30.5/D +6.6/C NL 2,500American Funds FnInvA m LB 29,549 32.38 +3.4 +27.1/A +5.8/A 5.75 250American Funds BalA m MA 28,943 16.00 +2.4 +17.3/D +2.9/C 5.75 250PIMCO TotRetAdm b CI 28,858 10.91 +0.9 +18.7/B +6.6/A NL 5,000,000FrankTemp-Franklin Income A m CA 27,764 2.01 +2.2 +34.0/A +4.2/B 4.25 1,000American Funds BondA m CI 27,411 11.79 +1.3 +15.2/C +2.6/E 3.75 250Fidelity GrowCo LG 27,170 66.62 +2.7 +29.2/B +6.3/A NL 2,500Vanguard Welltn MA 27,044 28.68 +2.4 +25.3/B +6.0/A NL 10,000Vanguard 500Adml LB 26,919 101.29 +2.9 +20.0/C +2.0/C NL 100,000Vanguard TotStIAdm LB 25,590 27.10 +2.7 +22.0/C +2.8/B NL 100,000Vanguard TotIntl FB 24,646 14.97 +3.7 +40.6/A +8.2/A NL 3,000Vanguard InstPlus LB 24,229 100.64 +2.9 +20.1/C +2.1/C NL 200,000,000Fidelity LowPriStk d MB 23,586 31.51 +2.2 +37.1/A +5.9/A NL 2,500T Rowe Price EqtyInc LV 14,741 20.85 +2.0 +20.2/C +2.6/B NL 2,500Hartford CapAprA m LB 9,356 30.00 +3.2 +32.8/A +5.9/A 5.50 1,000Pioneer PioneerA m LB 4,080 34.80 +3.3 +17.4/D +2.6/B 5.75 1,000Goldman Sachs ShDuGovA m GS 1,232 10.48 +0.3 +6.9/B +4.6/A 1.50 1,000Alliance Bernstein GrowIncA m LV 1,214 2.93 +3.2 +24.1/B 0.0/E 4.25 2,500DWS-Scudder REstA m SR 408 12.94 -3.8 +2.3/D +0.9/C 5.75 1,000Hartford GrowthL m LG 185 14.96 +3.4 +28.0/B +1.7/D 4.75 0

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NEW YORK (AP) — Investors are seeing the kind of earnings numbers that make them feel confident about stocks.

The stock market stepped to new highs for the year Monday after a handful of earnings reports bolstered hopes that the economy is coming back sooner than many analysts had thought.

That is helping some investors move past a bout of nerves about whether expectations for the econ-omy are stretched too far. The Dow Jones indus-trial average rose 96 points, while the Standard & Poor’s 500 index rose but ended just shy of 1,100, having topped that level during the day.

Industrial equipment maker Eaton Corp. said it was seeing improvement in key markets and raised its full-year profit forecast. Newspaper publisher Gannett Co. managed to post a profit despite a sharp fall in revenue.

The gains came ahead of quarterly earnings released after the closing bell from Apple Inc. and Texas Instruments Inc. Both wound up beating forecasts.

Apple blew past expectations because of increas-ed sales of the iPhone, while Texas Instruments’ profit and sales came in above the improved fore-cast the chip maker issued just last month. Share of both tech companies gained in after-hours elec-tronic trading.

The reports are adding to investors’ expectations for the technology industry. Last week, Google Inc. and chipmaker Intel Corp. posted solid earnings. Many tech companies have strong balance sheets have large amounts of cash that have enabled them to weather the recession better than companies in other industries.

A drop in the dollar also helped push commodity prices higher, which in turn helped stocks of mate-rials and energy companies.

Investors are relieved to see better results in a broad range of industries following some downbeat news last week from major banks, which reported rising loan delinquencies.

The Dow rose 96.28, or 1 percent, to 10,092.19. The broader S&P 500 index rose 10.23, or 0.9 per-cent, to 1,097.91. For both indexes, it was the high-est close since Oct. 3 last year.

The Nasdaq composite index rose 19.52, or 0.9 percent, to 2,176.32.

The day’s advance came on the 22nd anniversary of the 1987 stock market crash known as “Black Monday,” which saw the Dow plunge a record 22.6 percent on worries about interest rates and slowing economic growth.

Bond prices were mixed. The yield on the bench-mark 10-year Treasury note fell to 3.38 percent from 3.42 percent late Friday.

Investors grew hopeful that Federal Reserve policymakers would be able to withdraw some of the money supporting the economy as conditions improved. That could help prevent inflation.

The dollar mostly fell against other major curren-cies, while gold prices rose. The ICE Futures U.S. dollar index, which tracks the dollar against other major currencies, fell 0.3 percent. Light, sweet crude rose $1.08 to settle at $79.61 per barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Even with an economic revival, many U.S. jobs lost during the reces-sion may be gone forever and a weak employment market could linger for years.

That could add up to a “new normal” of higher joblessness and lower standards of living for many Americans, some econo-mists are suggesting.

The words “it’s different this time” are always suspect. But economists and policy makers say the job-creating dynamics of previous recoveries can’t be counted on now.

Here’s why:n The auto and construction

industries helped lead the nation out of past recessions. But the carnage among Detroit’s auto-makers and the surplus of new and foreclosed homes and empty commercial properties make it unlikely these two industries will be engines of growth.n The job market is caught in

a vicious circle: Without more jobs, U.S. consumers will have a hard time increasing their spending; but without that spending, businesses might see little reason to start hiring.n Many small and midsize

businesses are still struggling to obtain bank loans, impeding their expansion plans and con-straining overall growth.n Higher-income households

are spending less because of big losses on their homes, retirement plans and other investments. Lower-income households are cutting back because they can’t borrow like they once did.

That the recovery in jobs will be long and drawn out is some-thing on which economists and policy makers can basically agree, even as their proposals for remedies vary widely.

Retrenching businesses will be slow in hiring back or replacing

workers they laid off. Many of the 7.2 million jobs the economy has shed since the recession began in December 2007 may never come back.

“This Great Recession is an inflection point for the econ-omy in many respects. I think the unemployment rate will be permanently higher, or at least higher for the foresee-able future,” said Mark Zandi of Moody’s Economy.com.

Even before the recession, many jobs had vanished or been shipped overseas amid a general decline of U.S. manufacturing. The severest downturn since the Great Depression has acceler-ated the process.

Many economists believe the recession reversed course in the recently ended third quarter and they predict modest growth in the nation’s gross domestic prod-uct over the next few years. Yet the unemployment rate is cur-rently at a 26-year high of 9.8 percent — and likely to top 10 percent soon and stay there a while.

“Many factors are pushing against a quick recovery,” said Heidi Shierholz, an economist at the labor-oriented Economic Policy Institute. “Things will come back. But it’s going to take a long time.”

At best, many economists see an economic recovery without a return to moderate unemploy-ment. At worst, they suggest the fragile recovery could lose steam and drag the economy back under for a double-dip recession.

“We will need to grind out this recovery step by step,” President Barack Obama said this month.

The White House credits the president’s $787 billion stimu-lus plan passed in February for keeping job losses from becom-ing even worse. Since Obama took office in January, the econ-

omy has lost 3.4 million jobs.Republicans argue that the

stimulus program has not worked as a job producer and is a waste of tax money. And last week, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce launched a multimil-lion advertising campaign to celebrate small business entre-preneurs — and to argue that further government intervention will not spur job growth.

Chamber leaders called for cre-ation of more than 20 million new private-sector jobs over the next decade, saying it’s needed to replace jobs lost in the recession and to keep pace with popula-tion growth.

To many economists, such a goal seems unreachable given today’s altered landscape.

“It’s a new normal that U.S. growth is going to be anemic on average for years. Right now, the prospect is bleak for any-thing other than a particularly high unemployment rate and a weak jobs-creating machine,” said Allen Sinai, president of Decision Economics Inc. He says he doubts that unemployment will dip below 7 percent anytime soon.

Many economists consider a jobless rate of 4 to 5 percent as reflecting a “full employment” economy, one in which nearly everyone who wants a job has one. After the 2001 recession the rate climbed to 5.8 percent in 2002 and peaked at 6.3 percent in 2003 before easing back to 4.6 percent for 2006 and 2007.

Will unemployment ever get back to such levels?

“I wouldn’t say never. But I do think it’s going to be a long time,” said Bruce Bartlett, a former Treasury economist and the author of The New American Economy: The Failure of Reaganomics and a New Way Forward.”

Higher jobless rates may linger

Stocks climb with strong earnings news

In this March 5 file photo, job seekers join a line of hundreds of people at a job fair sponsored by Monster.com in New York. Even with an economic revival, many U.S. jobs lost during the recession may be gone forever and a weak employment mar-ket could linger for years.

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke on Monday called for the United States to whittle down its record-high budget deficits and for countries like China to get their consumers to spend more, moves that would help combat skewed global trade and investment flows that contributed to the financial crisis.

Bernanke’s remarks to a Fed conference in Santa Barbara, Calif., comes just days after the federal govern-ment on Friday reported a $1.42 trillion deficit for 2009 budget year that ended Sept. 30. The previous year’s defi-cit was $459 billion.

The Fed chief’s comments were aimed at reducing global imbalances, and echo pledges made by leaders of

the Group of 20 nations at their summit in Pittsburgh last month.

“As the global economy recovers and trade vol-umes rebound, however, global imbalances my reas-sert themselves,” Bernanke warned. For the United States’ part, “the most effec-tive way” to boost national savings in this country “is by establishing a sustainable fiscal trajectory, anchored by a clear commitment to substantially reduce federal deficits over time,” Bernanke said. He didn’t suggest ways to do so.

And, for trade surplus countries like China and most Asian economies, they need to get their consum-ers to spend more and rely less on export-led growth, Bernanke said.

“In large part, such action

should focus on boosting consuption,” Bernanke said.

The bulk of Bernanke’s remarks largely offered a scholarly assessment of Asia and how it fared during the global financial crisis, the focus of the Fed’s conference. The Fed chief didn’t discuss the state of the U.S. economy or the future course of inter-est rates.

Bernanke and his col-leagues last month held a key bank lending rate at an all-time low near zero and pledged to hold it there for an “extended period.” Many economists believe that means through the rest of this year and into next year.

Deciding when to boost interest rates and reel in the unprecendented amount of money plowed into the U.S. economy will be one of the

biggest challenges facing the Fed in the coming months. Remove the supports too soon and the recovery could be derailed. Leave the sup-ports in place for too long risks unleashing inflation.

In terms of the world economy, “Asia appears to be leading the global recovery,” Bernanke said. “Recent data from the region suggest that a strong rebound is, in fact, under way.”

Many economists predict the U.S. economy — the epi-center of the financial crisis — started growing again in the third quarter at a pace of at least 3 percent, and is still expanding in the cur-rent quarter. Economic activ-ity contracted in the second quarter at an annualized rate of 0.7 percent, marking a record four straight quarters of decline.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration is unveil-ing a new program to provide support to state and local hous-ing agencies to provide help to thousands of home buyers and renters.

The administration said the new program would help to sup-port low mortgage rates and expand resources for low and middle income borrowers who want to buy or rent a home.

The program will feature two parts — a new bond purchase program to support new lending by housing finance agencies and a temporary credit and liquidity program to improve access by housing agencies to credit sourc-es for their existing bonds.

The new program will oper-ate under a law that Congress

passed in 2008 to bolster the housing industry, which has been battered by the worst slump in decades, a downturn that saw home sales and home prices plunge and mortgage defaults soar to record levels.

The government said the new effort was designed to provide hundreds of thousands of afford-able mortgages for working families and enable the develop-ment and rehabilitation of tens of thousands of affordable rental properties.

Treasury, the Department of Housing and Urban Development and the Federal Housing Finance Agency said in a joint news release that the new program would provide tempo-rary support to local housing financing agencies and encour-age them to return to relying on market sources for their capital

as quickly as possible.The local and state housing

finance agencies, which provide loans to people with low or mod-erate incomes, have had a hard time raising money to fund loans due to the housing crisis and credit crunch.

“This initiative is critical to helping working families main-tain access to affordable rental housing and homeownership in tough economic times,” Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said. “Through this initiative, the administration aims to help (the housing finance agencies) jump-start new lending to borrow-ers who might not otherwise be served and to better support the financing costs of their current programs — key components in stabilizing the housing market overall.”

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Scientist arrested on spy charges; worked for DoD

WASHINGTON (AP) — A Maryland scien-tist who worked for the Defense Department and other agencies has been arrested on espio-nage charges.

The Justice Department said Monday that 52-year-old Stewart David Nozette of Chevy Chase was charged in a criminal complaint with attempt-ing to communicate, deliver and transmit classified information to an individual he believed to be an Israeli intelli-gence officer.

The complaint does not allege that the govern-ment of Israel or anyone acting on its behalf vio-lated U.S. law.

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Visiting a loved one in the hos-pital? Better check on new flu limits first. Hospitals around the country are turning away visiting children and tighten-ing restrictions on adults, too, in hopes of limiting spread of swine flu in the hallways — although there’s little science the limits work.

Utah and Colorado are recom-mending visitor limits for hos-pitals statewide. But mostly it’s a hospital-by-hospital decision, meaning clinics in the same town can have different rules.

The result? Huge variation. The large Stanford University Hospital in California on Monday barred anyone under 16 from visiting, while the small Central Vermont Hospital turned away the under-12 crowd. Other hospitals have settled on 14 or 18.

The Indiana Heart Hospital announced it isn’t checking for age but for symptoms: Visitors are supposed to answer some questions and wear a green sticker showing they were cleared to enter.

In the Washington, D.C., sub-urbs, the Inova Health System hospital chain is warning preg-nant women they can have just one visitor during their stay in the maternity ward, and it has canceled its popular what-to-

expect tours for the soon-to-deliver.

Still other hospitals are trying education instead of rules, post-ing signs that urge people of any age to postpone that visit if they have a sniffle or cough. Atlanta’s Emory University is discourag-ing but not barring children — while stocking lots of hand sani-tizer and face masks for visitors that, judging by frequent refills, are getting used.

“There’s no perfect way,” said Dr. William Schaffner, a flu spe-cialist at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, which is going with the signs but reassesses weekly. “We cannot hermetically seal the institution.”

It makes for a confusing time as hospitals struggle to balance the recuperative effects of hav-ing loved ones visit with the fear that they’ll carry in swine flu to people already weakened from something else.

But Dorothy Powers of Overlea, Md., was thrilled with the change. When her 9-year-old son Tyler underwent another round of chemotherapy for leukemia last week, for the first time the halls at the University of Maryland Hospital for Children weren’t full of other patients’ siblings and friends. New rules bar visitors under 12, limit each patient to two visitors — and require those people to stay

inside the child’s room.“It forces parents to be aware

of how they can carry germs,” said Powers, who added that the new policy also made it easier to explain to her just-over-the-limit 12-year-old daughter that she couldn’t visit, either, because of a cold. “It’s hard on the family when you can’t be together, but if you can’t be together because of germs. ...”

On the other side, nurses describe some tears when new mothers learn they’ll have to go home before introducing all the relatives to the newborn. And hospitals hasten to say they make exceptions if, for instance, a family member is dying.

This isn’t about patients admit-ted for flu treatment; hospitals are supposed to follow specific infection-control steps for them.

The problem: There’s been little study of whether curb-ing visitors, or screening them for symptoms, keeps flu from sneaking into other parts of the hospital.

Visitors aren’t the only risk. Health care workers might wear masks while caring for a flu patient, but they can catch the virus at home and bring it back to work. One major difficulty in fighting flu is that people can spread it up to 24 hours before their own symptoms appear.

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The Postal Service has been im-plementing rate increases annually in recent years.

The rate went from 42 cents to

44 cents this year. But Postmaster General John E. Potter announced in an internal postal memorandum that there will be no rise in prices next year for products in which the agency dominates the market, such as first-class mail.

Hospitals restricting visitors

No postal rate increase for next year

A sign is seen in the hospital lobby of Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital at Stanford in Palo Alto, Calif., Monday. Hospitals around the country are turning away child visitors at the door, restrictions that aim to limit spread of swine flu to patients sick from other causes.

Associated Press

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SHOE by Chris Cassat and Gary Brookins

BROOM-HILDA by Russell Myers

ARLO AND JANIS by Jimmy Johnson

THE GRIZZWELLS by Bill Schoor

DILBERT by Scott Adams

THE BORN LOSER by Art and Chip SansomGIL THORP by Jerry Jenkins, Ray Burns and Frank McLaughlin

FRANK AND ERNEST by Bob Thaves

Dear Dr. Gott: Everywhere I have looked, all I can find about hepatitis C is that it is fatal. I have not seen anything in your column about this condition before.

Is there any progress in treating this disease or even curing it? What about protection from catching it? How are hepatitis C and kidney dis-ease related to each other?

Dear Reader: Hepatitis C is one of six types of hepatitis. The others are A, B, D, E and G. Each type is caused by a virus that attacks the liver, caus-ing inflammation and damage. In the case of hep C, the virus is most often contracted by direct contact with contaminated blood products.

Those most commonly at risk are people who received a blood transfu-sion or organ transplant before 1992. Following that date, all donated blood and organs have been screened for hepatitis C, thus reducing the risk of exposure from donation. Other risk factors include sharing needles

and undergoing dialysis for kidney failure. Uncommonly, babies born to infected mothers can contract the infection. Rarely, it can be sexually transmitted. There are also many cases in which a risk factor can-not be identified. Most people don’t know they are infected because liver damage may not show up for several decades and many don’t have symp-toms. In fact, most are diagnosed with hep C following routine lab test-ing during a physical examination or blood work for another condition.

Early-stage symptoms can include slight fatigue, muscle and joint pain, liver tenderness, nausea and poor appetite.

Hepatitis C needs liver specialist

Dear Abby: I was thrilled to read “Sober in Scottsdale’s” (July 28) letter about drinking. I’m a 21-year-old col-lege student who has also struggled with choosing to be sober amidst the majority of my drunken peers. Most people my age drink only to get drunk and appear to be unable to have fun without the aid of alcohol. Every activity must be performed under the influence.

While at a nightclub, one friend asked me how I was able to “dance and have a good time without being drunk.”

Abby, in your response to “Sober,” you said that drinkers should “mind their own business” because “there is usually a good reason why a person doesn’t drink.” For me, there is no medical, metabolic or addiction prob-lem that prevents me from consum-ing alcohol.

But I have seen the effects it has on my peers — putting them in drunken stupors, using awful judgment, and being taken to the hospital after blacking out.

I sure hope this stage is one that will pass with age. I often long for the days when I was younger, when playing board games and sipping juice was considered a good time. — Not Drinking

Dear Not Drinking: Apparently binge drinking is still a rite of pas-sage for some college students. I

would like to address one comment you made in your letter. With some young people, binge drinking is a phase that passes as they learn their limit — but with others it can be a pattern that begins in their teens and sometimes even younger. Read on for more comments from readers who feel as you do:

Dear Abby: I chose to be a non-drinker when my children became teenagers.

I wanted to show them that I could have a good time without drinking, and I think it was an important les-son.

Parents need to seriously con-sider the messages they convey. I’m shocked that some allow underage drinking in their homes.

One mother who had a party in her home told me the kids were drinking there for the “learning experience.”

I got so annoyed I asked her if she was also providing hookers, since many of the teens were probably sexually inexperienced too.

She didn’t know what to say. — Venting

If you don’t want to drink, don’t

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16 — The Daily Courier, Forest City, NC, TUESDAY, October 20, 2009

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Having qualified as Co-Executor of the estate of PATRICIA BONDS of Rutherford County, North Carolina, this is to notify all persons having claims against the estate of the said PATRICIA BONDS to present them to the undersigned on or before the 6th day of January 2010 or the same will be pleaded in bar of their recovery. All persons indebted to said estate will please make immediate payment.

This is the 6th day of October, 2009.

Dane Edward Wurster, Co-ExecutorPO Box 792Forest City, NC 28043

Stealie A. Griffith, Co-ExecutorPO Box 792Forest City, NC 28043

TOWN OF FOREST CITYPUBLIC NOTICE

The Board of Commissioners of the Town of Forest City has considered a waiver of competitive bidding under G.S. 143-129(g) and will use the Piggy Back process as approved at its regular meeting on September 29, 2009 for the purchase of one Sutphen Pumper from Sutphen Corporation. The seller has agreed to extend to the Town of Forest City the same or more favorable prices and terms set forth in its contract with the Town of Bozeman, Montana, dated March 17, 2009. For additional information, contact Mark McCurry, Forest City Fire Chief at 828-245-2111.

Sandra P. MayseCity Clerk

RESOLUTION OF THE RUTHERFORD COUNTYBOARD OF ELECTIONS CONCERNING THE

COUNTING OF ABSENTEE BALLOTS

On October 13, 2009 the Rutherford County Board of Elections met at the Board of Elections Office, Spindale, North Carolina and adopted the following resolution:

BE IT RESOLVED by the Rutherford County Board of Elections that:

1. The Rutherford County Board of Elections shall meet at 2:00 PM on Election Day, Tuesday, November 3, 2009 at the Board of Elections Office at 298 Fairground Rd. Spindale, NC to count absentee ballots.2. Any voter of the county may attend this meeting and observe the count.3. The results of the absentee ballot count will not be announced before 7:30 pm on that day.

Syble T. Scruggs, ChairmanRutherford County Board of Elections

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Having qualified as ADMINISTRATOR CTA of the estate of ROBERT LEONARD SMITH of Rutherford County, North Carolina, this is to notify all persons having claims against the estate of the said ROBERT LEONARD SMITH to present them to the undersigned on or before the 29th day of December 2009 or the same will be pleaded in bar of their recovery. All persons indebted to said estate will please make immediate payment.

This is the 29th day of September, 2009.

Robert Wayne Smith, Administrator CTA313 Mt. Pleasant Church Rd.Forest City, NC 28043

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PUBLIC NOTICE OF INTENT TO ISSUE AN AIR QUALITY PERMITSTATE OF NORTH CAROLINA

DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENT AND NATURAL RESOURCESDIVISION OF AIR QUALITY

RALEIGH, NORTH CAROLINA

The North Carolina Division of Air Quality (DAQ) hereby gives notice of its intent to issue an Air Quality Permit to:

Duke Energy Carolinas LLC573 Duke Power RoadCliffside, North Carolina 28024Rutherford CountyApplication No. 8100028.08A, Air Quality Permit No. 04044T30

This facility applied for an Air Quality Title V Operation Permit which meets the requirements specified in 15A North Carolina Administrative Code 2Q .0500.

Persons wishing to submit written comments or request a public hearing regarding the Air Quality Title V Operation Permit are invited to do so. Requests for a public hearing must be in writing and include a statement supporting the need for such a hearing, an indication of your interest in the facility, and a brief summary of the information intended to be offered at such hearing.

Written comments or requests for a public hearing should be postmarked no later than November 19, 2009 and addressed to Michael Gordon, Division of Air Quality, 1641 Mail Service Center, Raleigh, North Carolina 27699-1641.

All comments received prior to this date will be considered in the final determination regarding the Air Quality Permit. A public hearing may be held if the Director of the DAQ determines that significant public interest exists or that the public interest will be served.

Interested persons may obtain additional information, including copies of the permit, application, all other relevant supporting materials, and all other materials available to DAQ that are relevant to the permit decision by writing to the above address or calling Michael Gordon at (919) 715-6243.

Interested persons are encouraged to review these materials during normal business hours at either of the following locations.

NC DENR Ashville Regional OfficeDivision of Air Quality or 2090 Highway 702728 Capital Boulevard Swannanoa, NC 28778Raleigh, NC 27604

Donald van der Vaart, Ph.D., P.E.Chief

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West Bank barrier draws protestsJERUSALEM (AP) — The separation barrier

Israel started building in the West Bank seven years ago amid a deadly wave of suicide bomb-ings has been a lightning rod of controversy from day one.

Israel says the barrier is essential to its secu-rity. But Palestinians claim it to be a land grab and have been holding weekly demonstrations ever since.

The 680-kilometer (425-mile) barrier is a combination of concrete walls, fences, trenches and patrol roads. It runs along the line between Israel and the West Bank but in certain parts cuts into Palestinian territory, leaving almost 10 percent of the West Bank on the Israeli side.

UN says Iran talks started wellVIENNA (AP) — Talks to persuade Iran to

move most of its enriched uranium out of the country have gotten off to a “good start,” the head of the U.N. nuclear agency said Monday.

The comments by Mohamed ElBaradei, who heads the International Atomic Energy Agency, were significant because Iran earlier had sig-naled it would not meet Western demands for a deal under which it would send most of its enriched material abroad — a move that would delay its ability to potentially make a nuclear bomb.

Tehran has said it needs enriched uranium for nuclear fuel. But the West fears it could be used to make weapons, and the U.S. says Iran is now one to six years away from being able to do so.

Somali pirates seize Chinese shipNAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — The naval spokesman

for the European Union’s anti-piracy force says Somali pirates have seized a Chinese cargo ship with 25 people onboard.

Cmdr. John Harbour says that coalition forces had observed at least two pirates onboard the deck of the De Xin Hai. He says the cargo ship also was towing two light skiffs used by the pirates behind it.

Darfur case to reach HagueTHE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) —

Prosecutors on Monday accused a Sudanese rebel leader of planning an attack that killed 12 African peacekeepers, in the first Darfur case to reach an international tribunal.

The charges against Bahr Idriss Abu Garda came at a hearing to establish whether International Criminal Court prosecutors have enough evidence to warrant a trial.

Deputy Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda said Abu Garda, 46, ordered an attack on African Union peacekeepers because he was hoping it would win his breakaway rebel faction a spot at peace talks scheduled for the following month in Libya.

KABUL (AP) — U.N.-backed fraud investigators on Monday threw out nearly a third of President Hamid Karzai’s bal-lots from Afghanistan’s disputed August election, setting the stage for a runoff.

The rulings dropped Karzai’s votes to 48 percent of the total, below the 50 percent threshold needed for him to avoid a runoff with his top challenger, accord-ing to calculations by indepen-dent election monitors.

It was unclear, however, wheth-er the Afghan-led Independent Election Commission would accept the findings of the fraud panel and announce a runoff. Karzai’s spokesman said it was too soon to make a judgment based on the figures released by the panel.

That could mean a further delay in forming a new govern-ment that the U.S. believes is needed to help combat the grow-ing Taliban insurgency. A pro-tracted crisis could also lead to political unrest.

“It’s going to be incredibly important for the world to see that Afghan leaders are will-ing to make this process legiti-mate,” White House press sec-retary Robert Gibbs said in Washington on Monday.

The White House has also said no decision on sending more

U.S. troops to Afghanistan would be made before the elec-tion crisis is resolved — a stance reiterated Monday by the civil-ian chief of the NATO military alliance.

U.S. Sen. John Kerry, chair-man of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, who was among a host of international envoys in Kabul on the weekend urging the president to accept the fraud rulings, returned Monday to resume meetings with Karzai, the U.S. Embassy said.

Two international officials familiar with the investigation by the U.N.-backed Electoral Complaints Commission told The Associated Press that the findings showed Karzai falling below the 50 percent required to avoid a runoff with his chief rival, former Foreign Minister Abdullah Abdullah.

An independent calcula-tion by an election monitoring group, Democracy International, showed Karzai with 48.3 per-cent, or about 2.1 million votes, after more than 995,000 of his votes were thrown out for fraud.

Overall, about 1.3 million votes of the more than 5 million bal-lots cast were voided. Abdullah lost more than 201,000 votes, but his percentage rose to 31.5 percent from 27.8 percent previ-

ously.Preliminary results released

last month showed Karzai win-ning the Aug. 20 election with more than 54 percent. However, allegations of voter coercion and ballot box-stuffing prompted the fraud investigation and held up a final proclamation of a winner.

Abdullah campaign spokesman Fazel Sancharaki welcomed the fraud panel’s findings and said they showed Karzai’s percentage of the vote was 48 percent.

“This is a step forward, now it is up to the IEC to announce the final results,” Sancharaki told The Associated Press. He said it would be illegal for the IEC to reject the fraud panel’s findings.

Karzai campaign spokes-man Waheed Omar said, “I don’t think we can make any judgment based on the figures announced today.”

Investigators only released raw data from their findings, but it was clear that hundreds of thousands of Karzai votes were voided.

Afghan law declares the U.N.-backed panel the final arbiter on fraud allegations. However, Karzai supporters on the elec-tion commission have argued that the partial recount is beyond the normal complaint process and that they must have a say in whether the findings are

KASESE, Uganda (AP) — For years, Charles Wesley Mumbere worked as a nurse’s aide in Maryland and Pennsylvania, caring for the elderly and sick. No one there sus-pected that he had inherited a royal title in his African homeland when he was just 13.

On Monday, after years of politi-cal upheaval and financial struggle, Mumbere, 56, was finally crowned king of his people to the sound of drumbeats and thousands of cheer-

ing supporters wearing cloth printed with his portraits.

At a public rally later in the day, Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni officially recognized the 300,000-strong Rwenzururu Kingdom. Museveni restored the tra-ditional kingdoms his predecessor banned in 1967, but has been ada-mant that kings restrict themselves to cultural duties and keep out of politics.

One-third of Afghan votes voided

Former nurse’s aide becomes a king

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Chairman of the U.N.-backed Electoral Complaints Commission Grant Kippen speaks during an interview with The Associated Press in Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday.

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