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LOUISVILLE — Even as the Army faces shrinking budgets, an audit shows it paid out $16 million in paychecks over a 2 ½-year period to soldiers desig-nated as AWOL or as deserters, the second time since 2006 the military has been dinged for the error.
A memo issued by Human Resources Command at Fort Knox found that the Army lacked suffi cient controls to enforce pol-icies and procedures for reporting deserters and absentee soldiers to cut off their pay and benefi ts immediately. The oversight was blamed primarily on a failure by commanders to fi ll out paperwork in a timely manner.
The payments from 2010 to 2012 repre-sent only a fraction of the Army’s nearly $44 billion projected payroll for 2013, but auditors and a watchdog group derided the waste as government agencies grapple with the automatic federal spending cuts known as sequestration.
“In this current environment of scarce resourc-es, this is unacceptable,” auditors wrote in a July memo sent by the Department of Defense across the Army, including to the U.S. Army Deserter In-formation Point and Human Resources Command.
Audit: Army paid AWOL soldiers $16M
BY BRETT BARROUQUEREAssociated Press
“In this current environment
of scarce resources,
this is unacceptable.”
Auditors in a July memo sent
by the Department of Defense across
the Army
WASHINGTON — Time running short, the Dem-ocratic-controlled Senate passed urgent legislation Friday to avert a government shutdown early next week, and President Barack Obama lectured House Republicans to stop “appeasing the tea party” and quickly follow suit.
Despite the presidential plea — and the urgings of their own leaders — House GOP rebels showed no sign of retreat in their drive to use the threat of a shutdown to uproot the nation’s three-year-old health care law.
“We now move on to the next stage of this battle,” said Sen. Ted Cruz, the Texas Republican who is a face of the “Defund Obamacare” campaign in the Senate and is in close contact with allies in the House.
First effects of a shutdown could show up as early
As shutdown looms, weekend showdown expected at Capitol
BY DAVID ESPOAssociated Press
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Champions, hopefuls come out for festival
19th Ever Barbecue on the River
CORIANNE EGAN | The Sun
James Stovall, pit master of Larry, Darrel & Darrell’s barbecue team, talks to friends at a table in the team’s eating area at the 19th Ever Barbecue on the River. Behind him sits trophies from all of the competitions Stovall has won with his team, including six Barbecue on the River Grand Champion nods.
LAUREL BLACK | The Sun
Steve Gann of Memphis-based barbecue team The Basty Boys works at the team’s booth Thursday during Barbecue on the River in downtown Paducah. The team gave up circuit cooking, but Gann says they continue to bring a taste of Memphis-style barbecue to Paducah because the festival offers them a chance to vend their food and mingle with the crowds.
Barbecuers wear their trophies like a badge of honor at the Bar-becue on the River festival. If it’s not a big, gold statue, it’s a ban-ner proclaiming the team’s wins, informing Barbecue on the River customers just how good the bar-
becue they’re tasting is.The trophy section of Larry, Dar-
rell & Darrell is one of the biggest.“We won the fi rst three years,”
said James Stovall of Mayfi eld, one of the team’s pit masters. “Then we took two years off to
Former circuit cooker Steve Gann says Barbecue on the River offers something that even one of the world’s largest pork barbecue competition doesn’t.
“It’s the friendliness of it. We sit down at the tables and mingle
with people,” said Gann, a mem-ber of the Memphis-based barbe-cuers The Basty Boys.
Gann and his team are no strangers to the barbecue circuit. They’ve competed in the World Championship Barbecue Cook-
LD&D ready for competition
Friendliness sets Paducah apart
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Paducah catches the BBQ bug
Cohen Clark, 3, of Symsonia shoots bubbles at Freddie the Fire Truck at Barbecue on the
River on Friday afternoon, above. Freddie is used by the Paducah Fire Departments to help teach fire safety to children throughout the area.
Syra Roark, 9, of Metropolis points to a fish that catches her eye inside the Fishes of the
Ohio River Aquarium on Friday at the 19th Ever Bar-becue on the River, right. Cincinnati-based Orsanco brings the portable aquarium to the event to edu-cate people on the marine life in their own areas. The tank was filled with 24 species of fish that were caught humanely and will be released back into the river on Sunday morning.
Brittany McClure (right) and Brittany Uptain, both of Paducah, dance and sing song lyrics
to each other while listening to Shoveldog play live in the background at Barbecue on the River on Fri-day afternoon, below. McClure’s father, Troy Holler, is the lead singer of the band.
In the Volume 2 Progress publi-cation insert in Friday’s Paducah Sun, an article on pages 57 and 58 regarding the medical boom at Strawberry Hill implied Dr. Jay Cun-ningham owned the building where his dental practice is located. The building was developed and is owned by David Sanders, owner of U.S. Development. A reporter erred.
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McCracken jail inmate accused of assaulting deputy
Police say an inmate at the Mc-Cracken County Regional Jail assault-ed a deputy sheriff Friday morning.
The assault happened around 8:15 a.m. after inmate Robert A.
Powell, 33, inten-tionally flooded his cell and other parts of the jail, according to a press release from the McCracken County Sheriff’s Department.
Several deputy jailers were trying to gain control of Powell, and Sher-
iff’s Deputy Lindsey Miller stepped in to assist them. Powell bit Miller on the arm, breaking the skin and causing an injury that required she be taken to the emergency room at Baptist Health Paducah, police said.
Deputies then used a Taser to bring Powell under control, police said.
Powell is serving a 320-day sentence for first-degree criminal trespassing. He was charged Friday
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with third-degree assault.— Staff report
Local man arrested, charged with theft
A Paducah man was arrested Friday on charges re-lated to burglary.
Jerome M. Kelley, 39, was arrested after the Marshall County Sheriff’s Office received a complaint that he was looking into vehicles at the Pepsi plant on U.S. 641, Public Information Officer Trista Lovett said in a news release.
Deputy Tim Reynolds responded and noticed that Kel-ley was wearing a small backpack and his pockets were bulging, Lovett said.
Kelley said his truck would not start and he was trying to find someone to give him a jump. He gave consent to a search, which revealed gloves, a small light, a utility tool, cash and various keys, including the key to a truck in the lot and a key fob to a Pepsi machine, Lovett said.
Police say a wire hanger, a small pry bar, a straight screwdriver and wire cutters were found in Kelley’s back-pack. There was a Pepsi MidAmerica bank bag and a clear plastic bag containing coin rolls that totaled $140 in plain view.
Police also found another bank bag and a plastic bag with empty coin rolls, as well as a large set of vending machine keys, in Kelley’s truck, Lovett said.
Kelley was arrested and charged with possession of burglary tools, theft by unlawful taking, criminal tres-passing and receiving stolen property, police said.
— Staff report
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judge, and won the year we came back. Last year was our sixth win, and we’ve been down here for all 19 years.”
Larry, Darrell & Darrell is a reference to the Bob Newhart Show and three brothers who lived in a country shack. The name just stuck, Stovall said. The group has grown with the festival, and has steadily become one of the most popular booths at Barbecue on the River. In the festi-val’s — and LD&D’s — 19th year on the riverfront, they consistently see massive lines and thousands of fans.
“We are cooking around the clock,” Stovall said. “It’s
just constant. There’s al-ways people here.”
The Larry, Darrell & Dar-rell team has won the most of any team at the festival, a record six times. JMACK Cookers has fi ve wins. Buz-zard Brothers and Waldon Hunting Lodge have both won twice. Good Ole Boys, Big Daddy’s Barbecue and Cookies Grill have all also been named Grand Cham-pions.
“They’re part of the lore of Barbecue on the River,” festival founder Susie Coin-er said. “They’ve helped us build our brand, and have given the festival consumer confi dence.”
The team hasn’t just won in Paducah. They’ve com-peted at Mayfi eld’s barbe-
cue competition, Benton’s Tater Day and Metropo-lis’ Blues & Cues, where they’ve brought home simi-lar hardware. Every year, Larry, Darrell & Darrell is featured somewhere on the list of winners — its chick-en has won fi rst place two years in a row — but Stovall said that he’s always sur-prised to win.
“Nothing is guaranteed,” Stovall said. “It’s blind judging, and the competi-tion is always so strong, so you never know. The key is consistency. When nothing is broke, don’t fi x it. Stick with it and see it through.”
Contact Corianne Egan, a Paducah Sun staff writer, at 270-575-8652.
ing Contest at Memphis in May, one of the larg-est and most well-known barbecue competitions.
The Basty Boys once participated in up to 25 events a year, but it be-came too costly and time-consuming to continue. Now, they’re more focused on fundraising, and Bar-becue on the River marks the only competition the team has been involved in over the past four years.
Part of the reason they still attend, Gann said, is that Barbecue on the River is a different kind of event. It allows cookers to sell food to the public and get to know their customers.
“Where we’re from, it’s a complete no-no to give food to anyone,” Gann said. “Memphis in May is nothing but a closed party. People from out of town get upset when they realize you can’t purchase barbecue from a team.”
The team brings a taste of Memphis to Paducah with their barbecue na-chos, which Gann says are a staple in the area.
The ingredients, Gann said, are no secret. It’s a base of chips, a layer of barbecue, cheese, sauce and a sprinkle of rub.
“But it’s a combination of the right ingredients,” he added. “Not just any sauce will work, and not just any rub will work.”
The team fi rst became involved in the event when Gann’s sister, Lor-rie Hunley, asked them to barbecue to raise money for Community Christian Academy. Over the past 10 years or so, Basty Boys Barbecue has participated in Paducah to raise money for Family Service Society and Easter Seals West Ken-tucky, their current charity.
The barbecuers make the nearly 3 1⁄2-hour trek from Memphis every year, staying on-site in a camper for the course of the three-day event. Gann says their biggest chal-lenge is always sleep.
“It is almost a 24-hour event. I would say sleep is one of the biggest hur-
dles,” he said. “When you start getting into Friday night, with whole hog, ribs and chicken, you have to meticulously prepare and plan, and time manage-ment is an issue. You end up sitting up all night.”
But for Gann and team, participating is worth the effort.
“It is probably one of the most fun events. If other cities would orga-nize or run an event like Barbecue on the River, it’d be so much different,” Gann said.
Contact Laurel Black, a Paducah Sun staff writer, at 270-575-8641 or fol-low @LaurelFBlack on Twitter.
The McCracken County Clerk’s offi ce was compliant and strong in 2013 accord-ing to its annual state audit.
State Auditor Adam Edelen recently released the report that reviewed the offi ce’s revenues, ex-penditures and excess fees.
The clerk’s offi ce runs on a calendar year as opposed to
a fi scal year like most county offi ces and the reporting pe-riod ended Dec. 31. Accord-ing to the report, the results were completed on July 16.
The only slight issue found, according to Edelen’s synopsis, was that the fi nan-cial statement of the clerk did not follow the format of a recently enacted require-ment. The requirement was that the auditor’s letter com-
municate whether the fi nan-cial statement presents fairly the revenues, expenditures and excess fees of the clerk in accordance with gener-ally accepted accounting principles of the county. The synopsis said that the clerk’s fi nancial statement is pre-sented fairly in conformity with the regulatory basis of accounting, which Edelen deemed acceptable.
Edelen also said in the summary that the report did not detect any instanc-es of noncompliance within the offi ce. It also said that no matters involving inter-nal control over fi nancial reporting and its opera-tions were considered to be material weaknesses.
The clerk’s offi ce is in the process of switching from a fee system to a fee pool un-
der a recently enacted coun-ty ordinance. The change, fi -nalized after a lengthy court battle, requires preapproval from the Fiscal Court for of-fi ce expenses, directs that County Clerk Jeff Jerrell and his staff cannot write any checks except when handing over excess fees and requires that the Court approve bill payments.
The clerk’s responsibili-
ties include collecting certain taxes, issuing licenses, main-taining county records and providing other services. The offi ce is funded through stat-utory fees collected in con-junction with those duties.
Contact Mallory Panuska, a Paducah Sun staff writer, at 270-575-8684 or follow @MalloryPanuska on Twitter.
McCracken clerk’s office gets clean state auditBY MALLORY [email protected]
CORIANNE EGAN | The Sun
Red Cross volunteer Nicholas Bottoms (left) and Larry, Darrell & Darrell employee Jamie Wallace fix up an order of barbecue nachos at the 19th Ever Barbecue on the River competition at Paducah’s riverfront. The lines at Larry, Darrell & Darrell are notori-ously long, mostly because the team has been with the festival since its inception.
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CONTINUED FROM 1A “It is almost a 24-hour event. I would say sleep is one of the biggest hurdles. When you start
getting into Friday night, with whole hog, ribs and chicken, you have to meticulously prepare and plan, and
time management is an issue.”
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No one hopes to spend their final days in a sterile hospital room. But in the end, many with terminal illnesses require more medical assistance than can be provided at home.
Two hospitals in the region are planning facilities that will offer the comforts of home with access to full medical services.
Lourdes in Paducah and Murray-Calloway County Hospital are raising funds to build hospice care centers to provide a comfortable atmosphere for dying patients and their families. Similar facilities exist in bigger cities but have never been available before in this region.
The Lourdes Hospice Care Center will be a 10,000-square-foot facility with 10 large patient suites. The Hospice House at Murray will be a six-bed facility. Both will allow 24-hour visitation for family, friends and even pets. The facilities will feature private patios, gardens, gathering spaces and a kitchen for preparing meals in a homelike atmosphere.
Lourdes has provided hospice services for 30 years, but the Hospice
Care Center will fill a void. The center, which will be 100 percent donor funded, is close enough to raising the $7 million necessary to build the facility that it has already scheduled a 2015 opening date. The effort is only $600,000 short of its goal.
The facility itself will cost $5 million, with the remainder
going into an endowment to cover care for families of limited means.
The Murray Hospice House is also closing in on its $3.5 million campaign goal, holding a fundraising telethon this week.
The centers will not only benefit the patients at the end of their lives but their
families as they go through the emotionally difficult final days of loved ones. Family members will be able to stay at the centers round-the-clock to provide support and attend to their loved ones’ personal needs.
The Lourdes center, which will be built adjacent to the hospital’s ICU, will have a nursing staff of eight or nine. Oxygen tanks and other medical equipment will be readily accessible but kept out of sight when not needed.
Lourdes President and CEO Steven Grinnell said the center fits the hospital’s purpose: “We truly are an extension of Christ’s healing ministry, and there is no better demonstration of that than this project.”
Lourdes defines the mission of hospice as: “To make the last months and days of one’s life as serene, peaceful and pain-free as possible, neither prolonging life nor hastening death.”
The Hospice House and the Hospice Care Center will strengthen both hospitals’ ability to carry out that mission.
Ted Cruz is no Joe Mc-Carthy, as so many liberals bizarrely claim. But he might be the conservative Barack Obama.
The charge that he’s the new McCarthy is something of a compliment from liberals. It means they don’t like him, can’t really explain why and need to demonize him instead. In other words, he must be doing something right.
For conservatives, the com-parison to Obama probably stings more than the McCar-thyite smear.
But think about it. Both men have impeccable edu-cational credentials. Obama went to Occidental College, transferred to Columbia Uni-versity and got his law degree from Harvard. Cruz went to Princeton University, where he was a national champion debater, and got a law degree from Harvard. Cruz’s legal career was objectively more impressive than Obama’s. He clerked on the appellate court and for Chief Justice William Rehnquist on the Supreme Court. He held numerous prestigious jobs in and out of government. Like Obama, he taught law, but Cruz was also the solicitor general of Texas and argued before the Su-preme Court nine times.
National Review editor Rich Lowry identifi ed one plausible source of elite liberal hatred for Cruz: betrayal. “Cruz is from the intellectual elite, but not of it, a tea party con-servative whose politics are considered gauche at best at the storied universities where he studied. He is, to borrow the words of the 2009 H.W. Brands biography of FDR, a “traitor to his class.” (I hate to correct my boss, but Brands didn’t coin that phrase).
What liberals hate in Cruz, they love in Obama: a prod-
uct of an elite education who confi rms all their feelings of superiority. Obama took the desiccated ideas of campus liberalism and made them seem vibrant, stylish and even populist.
There are other similarities. But the most relevant one comes in their similar ap-proach to politics (not political philosophy, where they are light years apart).
Both landed in the U.S. Sen-ate, running with larger ambi-tions in mind and promising to be unstinting champions of their party’s principles. More-over, both grasp that histori-cally the Senate whittles away presidential timber. Like John F. Kennedy, Obama was there just long enough to run for president. And while Obama was there, his chief goal was burnishing his presidential image, not racking up legisla-tive accomplishments. Cruz has been a senator for eight months, and he already looks like a presidential contender.
In 2012, Obama said the “most important lesson” of his fi rst term was that “you can’t change Washington from the inside.” You need populist pressure from the outside. This was an odd claim on two counts. First, it’s not true. His signature achievement, the Affordable Care Act, was an entirely inside affair, an ugly partisan one involving mercenary horse-trading and countless backroom deals with industry and unions.
Second, Obama, the commu-nity organizer, always believed salvation lay in organizing a movement. It was the premise at the heart of his 2008 cam-paign in which he told ador-ing throngs, “We are the ones we’ve been waiting for.” It says something about Obama’s ar-rogance that his biggest lesson from his fi rst term was that he was right all along.
Still, this conviction led Obama to turn his presidential campaign into a private politi-cal army intended to rally his base for his legislative agenda. That effort has failed utterly. Organizing for Action couldn’t even organize a congressional vote on gun control, never mind a win.
Cruz’s fi ght to defund Obamacare rests on a similar outsider approach using the Tea Party and allied groups. As he recently told radio host Hugh Hewitt, “The strategy on this all along has been direct-ed not towards Washington but towards the American people. It has been directed towards building a grassroots tsunami.”
If Cruz’s effort fails — and I fear it will — it will be for the same reasons that Obama’s second term has been such a legislative dud. The way you bring change to Washington is through elections. After the elections, change comes from the unsightly process of consensus-building (aka sausage-making). Both Cruz and Obama have shown little interest in that approach.
Of course, there are huge differences between Obama and Cruz — the most impor-tant is that they have com-pletely divergent philosophies. That matters most, but it isn’t everything. The inside game matters too. Cruz likes point-ing out Obama’s failures; he should also learn from them.
BERLIN — For a visitor from the land of win-at-any-cost elections and cease-less partisanship, the election that just concluded here, resulting in a triumphant third term for Chancellor Angela Merkel, offers a glimpse of politics from another planet.
On the most technical level is the fact that the campaign, by American stan-dards, was fl eetingly short and bargain-basement cheap. No surprise there, except the magnitude of the fi nancial gulf. Merkel spent about $27 million, mostly in public funds, during the six-week campaign — and that was for the entire slate of her Christian Democratic Union (CDU). By contrast, the Obama re-election campaign alone spent $700 million — not includ-ing extra cash from the party or outside groups.
More surprising, as emerged in the course of a visit organized by the German Marshall Fund, was the relative absence of the modern arsenal of high-tech campaign weaponry. It has become common for other countries to import the techniques and even the operatives of American po-litical campaigns, but the German way is creakily old-fashioned.
The notion of data-driven micro-target-ing is offensive to Germans, for whom the idea that a political party would purchase information about voters’ preferences and behaviors evokes unwelcome history of
overbearing government. Even the most rudimen-tary of information — vot-ers’ party preferences and records of participation — is unavailable here.
Two days before the election, Thorben Albre-cht, director of policy planning for the left-of-center Social Democratic Party, Merkel’s likely partner in a new coalition government, proudly described his party’s plan to knock on 5 million doors, even if they didn’t know what voters they were con-tacting. “It’s never been done here before,” he said of the canvassing.
Likewise, another staple of modern American politics — negative advertising — was absent, for the simple reason that it would be certain to backfi re. “We don’t attack each other,” Stefan Liebich, a mem-ber of parliament from the Left Party said as he campaigned in a gentrifying district in East Berlin. “Germans wouldn’t like it.”
Indeed, braced for an avalanche of pre-election television advertising, I channel-surfed in vain for a single Ger-man campaign commercial, only to be informed that each party is given a set amount of time, based on voter share, on the two public networks. Ads from the two main parties — Merkel’s CDU and the left-
of-center Social Democrats — ran eight times on each channel; smaller parties were consigned to four.
The parties can purchase time on private networks as well, but the relative paucity of funds limits such airings; the Merkel ad was slated to run 140 times, while the Obama campaign ran more than 100,000 ads in Ohio
alone.The Merkel ad, by the way, offered a fas-
cinating glimpse of cross-cultural gender politics. With 90 seconds of the chancellor speaking directly to the camera, it featured close-ups of jowls and wrinkles that no fe-male politician in the United States — in-deed, that no female politician’s opponent in the United States — would dare risk.
And for U.S. visitors inured to tight se-curity, campaign events here were discon-certingly open; even at Merkel’s fi nal rally, supporters did not have to pass through the metal detectors ubiquitous at Ameri-can campaign events.
But perhaps the most astonishing for those immersed in the polarized American political landscape is the edges-rounded-off nature of the German political debate. U.S. voters may say they want their politi-cians to cooperate and compromise, but a system built on party primaries and ger-
rymandered districts pushes relentlessly toward division.
In theory, a multi-party arrangement accommodates and refl ects a wider range of political views. In Merkel’s Germany, it has resulted in a race to the middle— not just in forming a coalition government but in the campaign itself.
Merkel has been so unabashed in co-opting the positions of her opponents that she makes Bill Clinton look like an amateur triangulator. On nuclear energy, long opposed by the Green Party, Merkel, post-Fukushima, abandoned her sup-port. On establishing a national minimum wage, a key difference with Social Demo-crats, Merkel declined to go that far but endorsed the concept.
Meanwhile, the debate roiling Europe about the continent’s struggling econo-mies was mostly a non-issue during the campaign, as the major parties backed Merkel’s tough-love approach.
Merkel frustrated opponents but reas-sured voters with endless campaign plati-tudes. “Merkel has many good slogans. They’re all empty bubbles,” Peer Stein-bruck, the Social Democrat candidate, lamented at his closing rally in East Berlin.
Such election froth would, no doubt, be maddening to cover. But it offered a soothing respite from the arrows-fl ying atmosphere of divided Washington and the permanent campaign.
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CHICAGO — Gov. Pat Quinn lost two attempts Friday to stop legislators from being paid while he appeals a court ruling that determined it was uncon-stitutional of him to freeze the money in an effort to get lawmakers to solve Illinois’ pension fund problem.
The fi rst payments since July went out Fri-day morning to lawmak-ers with direct deposit, but the state had held up paper checks for 21 lawmakers and bonus money for those in leadership positions un-til Cook County Judge Neil Cohen decided whether the money could be with-held pending the outcome of Quinn’s appeal.
Cohen said Quinn vio-lated the Illinois Consti-tution by withholding the checks when he used his line-item veto to cut $13.1 million for lawmaker sala-ries from the state budget.
Quinn had said he was angry that legislators hadn’t found a fi x for Il-linois’ nearly $100 billion pension shortfall. He also refused to accept his own paychecks. But Cohen said during Friday’s hearing that Quinn had no right to violate the constitution, no matter how benevolent his intentions.
“I do understand where his heart is,” Cohen said. “But that’s politics. That’s not the law.”
Immediately after the ruling, Quinn’s attor-neys fi led an emergency request to the appellate court asking it to do what Cohen would not — stop any checks from going in the mail and halt any fu-ture paychecks while the
appeal is being consid-ered. But in a one-sen-tence order late Friday, Appellate Judge Mau-reen E. Connors denied Quinn’s motion.
A spokesman for Comp-troller Judy Baar Topinka said the checks for the past two months already were being sent and the offi ce had begun pro-cessing the next monthly
check, scheduled to be paid Monday.
Quinn said that regard-less of the ruling, he be-lieves public opinion is on his side.
“If you don’t get (pen-sion reform) done ... then they shouldn’t be paid,” he said. “I think that’s what the public feels. That’s what the taxpayers feel. That’s what I feel.” — AP
Appeals court denies Quinn bidBY SARA BURNETT
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Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn speaks at a news conference Friday in Chicago after Cook County Judge Neil Cohen refused Quinn’s request to stop legislators from being paid. Quinn is appealing a court ruling that determined it was unconstitutional of him to freeze the money in an attempt to get lawmakers to solve Illinois’ pension crisis.
DENVER — Criminal charges against two canta-loupe farmers over a deadly food-borne illness send an emphatic message to fruit and vegetable growers to crack down on safety, fed-eral regulators said Friday.
Colorado farmers Eric and Ryan Jensen appeared in shackles in a Denver fed-eral court this week and pleaded not guilty to charg-es of introducing adulter-ated food into interstate commerce.
The federal Food and Drug Administration has said con-ditions at Jensen Farms in southeast Colorado led to a 2011 listeria outbreak that killed 33 people. Offi cials said people in 28 states ate the contaminated fruit, and 147 required hospitalization.
The criminal prosecution “sends the message that ab-solute care must be taken to ensure that deadly patho-gens do not enter our food supply chain,” the FDA said in a statement Friday.
Criminal charges are rare in food-borne illnesses, but the FDA under President Barack Obama has been more aggressive in pursu-ing farmers and food pro-
cessors for alleged lapses, said Michael Doyle, director of University of Georgia’s Center for Food Safety.
“I think the FDA is send-ing a strong message that the produce industry is go-ing to have to raise the bar to ensure the safety of the,
basically, ready-to-con-sume foods,” he said.
It’s the second such warn-ing from the agency, Doyle said. In February, four for-mer employees of a peanut company were charged in Georgia federal court with scheming to manufacture
and ship tainted peanuts. A 2009 salmonella outbreak blamed on the peanuts killed nine people and sick-ened hundreds.
The four pleaded not guilty.The listeria epidemic
traced to Jensen Farms
was the nation’s deadliest outbreak of foodborne ill-ness in 25 years.
The FDA concluded the melons likely were contam-inated in Jensen Farms’ packing house. It said dirty water on a fl oor, and old,
hard-to-clean equipment probably were to blame.
The Jensens’ trial is scheduled to start Dec. 1. The brothers could face up to six years in prison and $1.5 million in fi nes each if convicted. — AP
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FORT CAMPBELL — The U.S. Defense Department says a Fort Campbell sol-dier has died after being struck by enemy fi re in
Afghani-stan.
T h e m i l i -tary says 31-year-old Staff S g t . T h o m a s A. Bay-sore Jr. of Mil-ton, Pa.,
died Thursday in Paktya Province, Afghanistan.
The Army says Baysore was killed by an enemy combatant wearing an Af-ghan National Army Uni-form who opened fi re on a group of soldiers.
He was struck on the left side of his neck.
Baysore was taken to taken to his post aid station where he succumbed to his wounds.
Baysore was assigned to Charlie Company, 1st Bat-talion, 506th Infantry Regi-ment, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Di-
vision, Fort Campbell as a squad leader.
He joined the Army in June 2001 and was sta-tioned at Camp Ederle, It-aly, where he had a variety of assignments, including vehicle driver, rifl eman, au-tomatic rifl eman, and fi re team leader. He was also assigned to the Harrisburg Recruiting Battalion., in Harrisburg, Pa., as a re-cruiter.
Following his assignment there, Baysore arrived at Fort Campbell in August 2010.
This was his third de-ployment to Afghanistan. He deployed once prior to arriving to Fort Campbell in 2005, and again with the Division in 2010. He also deployed to Iraq in March 2003.
Baysore is survived by his spouse, Jamie L. Baysore of Clarksville, Tenn., his son, Jamie L. Baysore, age 5, of Clarksville, Tenn., his mother, Sandra Hacker-berg of Winfi eld, Pa., and his father, Mr. Thomas Baysore of Milton, Pa.
A memorial ceremony will be conducted in Af-ghanistan.
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The national average price of gasoline has fallen throughout the month, sliding to $3.42 per gallon from $3.59 at the start of the month. The price is at its lowest level since Jan. 31. It’s the lowest it’s been at this time of year for three years, and it is expected to fall further in the coming days.
NEW YORK — Gasoline prices have fallen steadily throughout September, and drivers should look forward to even cheaper fi ll-ups in the weeks ahead.
The national average price for a gallon of gasoline is now $3.42, down from $3.59 on Sept. 1. The price is the lowest it’s been at this time of year since 2010 and is likely to keep falling.
“It’s a layup for me to pre-dict lower prices until Co-lumbus Day weekend,” says Tom Kloza, chief oil analyst at GasBuddy.com and Oil Price Information Service, which tracks retail and wholesale gasoline prices.
Wholesale gasoline pric-es have fallen faster in re-cent days than pump pric-es, so drivers can expect to pay even less as the pump prices catch up.
Gas prices tend to decline soon after Labor Day, but last year they didn’t start going down until mid-Oc-tober. There are a number of reasons for this fall’s drop in price, experts say:
■ Refi ners can switch to cheaper blends of gasoline in the winter months as clean-air rules are relaxed.
■ Gasoline demand de-clines in the fall after the summer driving season ends. At the same time sup-plies rise, because refi ners are still making gasoline as they keep operations hum-ming to make heating oil for winter and diesel and jet fuel for shippers.
■ This year, refi neries have been relatively prob-lem-free. There have been no hurricanes, and few un-expected problems at re-fi neries or pipelines, unlike last year.
Even high oil prices haven’t stopped gasoline’s decline. Oil briefl y topped $112 in late August as a U.S. threat of military ac-tion against Syria made the
market nervous about Mid-dle East supplies. The price of oil has since fallen, but remains above $100 per barrel. Still, gasoline has dropped to its lowest price since Jan. 31.
Friday, oil fell 16 cents to close at $102.87 per barrel on the New York Mercan-tile Exchange.
Last year at this time driv-ers were paying 37 cents per gallon more than they are this year, on average, because Hurricane Irene and refi nery and pipeline problems disrupted gaso-line production in August and September. California prices rose sharply in late September, then hit a re-cord $4.67 per gallon in early October.
There are no such prob-lems this year, though California drivers are again paying the highest average price outside of Hawaii and Alaska, at $3.95 per gallon, according to AAA, OPIS and Wright Express. South Car-olina drivers are paying the least, at $3.11 per gallon.
For the year, the national price is on track to average $3.56 per gallon, 7 cents less than last year’s record of $3.63. That would save U.S. drivers $9 billion this year.
Despite the recent drop, the national average is un-likely to fall back to $3.29 per gallon — this year’s low, set in early January — un-less the price of oil falls un-der $100 per barrel, Gas-Buddy’s Kloza said.
That could happen if ten-sions in the Middle East don’t fl are up again and the hurricane season remains tame. U.S. oil production is expected to hit a monthly rate in October that the country hasn’t reached since 1989. Also, Saudi Ara-bian exports typically rise in late fall and winter as the country uses less of its oil to generate electricity for air conditioning, pushing glob-al supplies higher. — AP
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New Jersey is unconsti-tutionally denying federal benefi ts to gay couples and must allow them to marry, a judge ruled Friday.
Superior Court Judge Mary Jacobson sided al-most entirely with a group of same-sex couples and gay rights groups who sued the state in July days after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down key parts of a law that blocked the federal government from granting benefi ts to gay couples.
Gov. Chris Christie, a Republican in the midst of a re-election campaign and a possible presidential
contender, said through a spokesman Friday he plans to appeal the decision, which he believes should be determined by a popular vote rather than a court.
The judge made the rul-ing effective Oct. 21, giving Christie time to appeal and likely ask a court to delay implementation of her or-der.
Christie spokesman Mi-chael Drewniak said the governor “has always main-tained that he would abide by the will of the voters on the issue of marriage equal-ity and called for it to be on the ballot this Election Day.” — AP
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The Defense Department says 466 service members across all branches were listed as absent without leave or as deserters in 2012; the agency did not have a tally specifi c to the Army. However, the $16 million repre-sents 9,000 individual direct deposit payments, sug-gesting at least some of the soldiers received several paychecks before the problem was corrected.
The audit marks the second time in the past seven years the Army has come under scrutiny for paying soldiers who did not report for duty when called up. The audit outlines what steps should be taken across the Army to ensure deserters and soldiers who are ab-sent without leave don’t get pay or benefi ts.
A more narrowly focused 2006 audit by the Govern-ment Accountability Offi ce found the Army paid 68 soldiers about $684,000 while the soldiers were con-sidered deserters. That review, by Gregory D. Kutz, the managing director of forensic audits and special investigations for the GAO, focused on the 1004th Quartermaster Company in Greensburg, Pa.
The audit issued in July called on Human Resources Command to establish standards for commanders to provide status updates of AWOL soldiers and desert-ers on a regular basis. The message also directs com-manders throughout the Army to follow up on all in-transit soldiers who do not arrive on their report dates and to place a strong emphasis on the status of absentee soldiers.
Auditors found that commanders weren’t fi lling out paperwork on absent soldiers in a timely manner, so the orders to stop pay weren’t being processed and absent soldiers were still being paid. The latest au-dit comes as the Army, Navy, Air Force and Marine Corps are projected to slash $52 billion from the de-fense budget for the 2014 fi scal year under automatic spending cuts that kicked in March 1.
The Army classifi es a deserter as someone who drops from the rolls of a unit after being absent with-out authority for 30 or more consecutive days. Sol-diers who join the military of another country, seek political asylum or live in a foreign country are also considered deserters.
Kutz included in the audit recommendations that the Army develop a strategy for tracking possible de-sertion cases and possibly initiating criminal actions against deserters who took unearned pay. The note in July reiterates some of Kutz’s recommendations and points to new regulations requiring stricter tracking and processing of soldiers who don’t report for duty.
U.S. Rep. C.A. “Dutch” Ruppersberger, who was among four congressmen to request the 2006 audit, said he was troubled to see the problem persist partic-ularly in light of the current fi nancial and budget chal-lenges the government faces. Ruppersberger, D-Md., said Army leadership has assured him that corrective actions are being taken, including efforts to recoup the money paid.
“Deserting our military is a serious offense, and these men and women — and the unit commanders in charge of the personnel paperwork — need to be held accountable,” Ruppersberger said. “It’s also unfair to the vast majority of troops putting their lives on the line and honorably serving our country every day.”
An Army spokesman said AWOL soldiers or soldiers considered deserters must repay any earned benefi ts if they are dismissed from the military. Refusing to do so could lead to the debt being turned over to a col-lection agency. Soldiers who return to duty may have their wages garnished to cover the debt. A Defense Department spokesman knew of no similar audit for other branches of the military.
Sean Kennedy, director of research for the watch-dog group Citizens Against Government Waste, said the audit results were “pretty crazy.” It appears there’s little incentive to fi x the problem, even though it has been pointed out multiple times, Kennedy said. — AP
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WASHINGTON — Presi-dent Barack Obama and Iranian President Hassan Rouhani spoke by tele-phone Friday, the fi rst con-versation between Ameri-can and Iranian presidents in more than 30 years. The exchange could refl ect a major step in resolving global concerns over Iran’s nuclear program.
Obama told reporters at the White House that he had a constructive con-versation with the Iranian leader.
“While there will surely be important obstacles to moving forward and suc-cess is by no means guaran-teed, I believe we can reach a comprehensive solution,” he said.
Obama said he and Rou-hani have directed their teams to work quickly to pursue an agreement. He said the U.S. will coordi-nate closely with its allies — including Israel, which considers an Iranian nucle-ar weapon capability to be an existential threat.
The fact that it had been so long since American and Iranian presidents had traded words refl ected the “deep mistrust between our countries,” Obama said. But he added that it also indicated the opportu-
nity for moving forward.“I do believe there is a ba-
sis for a resolution,” he said.The conversation came
hours after Rouhani, wrap-ping up a trip to the U.S., called the United States a “great” nation, a sharp re-versal from his predecessors that buoyed hopes that the two governments can stop the escalation of tensions.
“I want it to be the case
that this trip will be a fi rst step, and a beginning for better and constructive re-lations with countries of the world as well as a fi rst step for a better relation-ship between the two great nations of Iran and the United States of America,” Rouhani told a news con-ference at a hotel near U.N. headquarters.
Rouhani has pledged to
reduce nuclear tensions, and U.N. offi cials said they have seen encouraging signs from Tehran. Iranian and U.N. offi cials agreed to meet again Oct. 28 to con-tinue talks on how to inves-tigate suspicions that Iran worked secretly on trying to develop nuclear weap-ons. Tehran denies that it wants to build a weapon.
— AP
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President Barack Obama gestures during a statement from the White House briefing room Friday in Washington. The president announced that he spoke with Iranian Pres-ident Hassan Rouhani (inset) by phone and that the presidents have directed their teams to work quickly to pursue an agreement about Iran’s nuclear program.
NAIROBI, Kenya — Ke-nya’s military caused the collapse of three fl oors of the Westgate Mall in the deadly terrorist siege, a top-ranking offi cial disclosed Friday, while the govern-ment urged patience with the pace of an investigation that has left key questions unanswered.
Seven days after 67 people were killed in the attack on the upscale shopping center, there is still no clear word on the fate of dozens who have been reported missing and no details on the terrorists who carried it out.
The account of the roof collapse raises the possi-bility that the military may have caused the death of hostages in its rescue at-tempt. An undisclosed number of people are feared
to be buried in the rubble.The offi cial said autop-
sies will be conducted on any bodies found to deter-mine the cause of death — from the militants or the structural collapse. The high-ranking government
offi cial spoke to The Asso-ciated Press on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to divulge sensitive information.
The offi cial also con-fi rmed that Kenyan troops fi red rocket-propelled gre-
nades inside the mall, but would not say what caused the fl oors to collapse, if the action was intentional, or if it was an accident.
The account at least par-tially backs up information given to AP on Wednesday by another offi cial who said RPGs fi red by soldiers cre-ated a gaping hole in the mall’s roof and caused the fl oors to collapse.
Four huge explosions had rocked the mall Mon-day and dark smoke poured out — the likely time that the fl oors collapsed.
A soldier who was re-turning from the mall Tuesday while carrying a rocket launcher told the AP reporter that he had fi red it inside. The soldier spoke on condition of anonymity because he was ordered not to talk to the media. — AP
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LONDON — Palace officials say Britain’s youngest royal, Prince George, will be christened next month in the Chapel Royal at St. James’s Palace.
George — whose full name is His Royal Highness Prince George Alexander Louis of Cambridge — was born July 22. He is the first child of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and third in line to the throne.
Kensington Palace announced Friday that George will be christened on Oct. 23 by the Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby.
The palace said close members of both families will be present for the event, but did not elaborate.
— Associated Press
Jon Hamm on vocal cords: ‘I’m fine’
WEST HOLLYWOOD, Calif. — “Mad Men” star Jon Hamm says he’s “fine” despite an upcoming proce-dure to remove a polyp on his vocal cord.
In an interview Thursday, a raspy sounding Hamm said the “simple injury” was from overuse of his voice. “Because I talk a lot,” he added.
Besides the polyp, the 42-year-old actor insisted that he’s “healthy as a horse.”
Hamm’s publicist Erica Gray said he will undergo a routine outpa-tient procedure.
Up next Hamm stars opposite Daniel Radcliffe in the miniseries, “A Young Doctor’s Notebook,” pre-miering Oct. 2 on Ovation.
It is based on a collection of short stories by Rus-sian playwright Mikhail Bulgakov.
Hamm described the series, which originally aired in the U.K., as “darkly comic,” ‘‘gory” and “fun.”
— Associated Press
Anderson to star in London ‘Streetcar’
LONDON — Former “X-Files” star Gillian Ander-son is returning to the London stage next year as Blanche DuBois in “A Streetcar Named Desire.”
Anderson will play the fading beauty who relies on the kindness of strangers in a Young Vic production of Tennessee Williams’ steamy southern drama.
The theater said Friday that the production, direct-ed by Benedict Andrews, will open in summer 2014. Dates have not been announced.
Anderson was nominated for an Olivier Award — British theater’s highest honor — for her perfor-mance in Henrik Ibsen’s “A Doll’s House” at Lon-don’s Donmar Warehouse in 2009.
She recently played a police officer in TV thriller “The Fall.”
Anderson remains known to millions as Agent Scul-ly in the supernatural detective series “The X-Files.”
— Associated Press
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Prince William and Catherine, Duchess of Cam-bridge, hold the Prince of Cambridge, on July 23 outside St. Mary’s Hospital’s exclusive Lindo Wing in London. Kensington Palace announced Friday that Prince George will be christened Oct. 23.
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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The southwestern New Mexico city that’s played home to “Breaking Bad” is preparing for the end, with the Emmy-award winning series airing its last episode on Sunday.
As the AMC fi nale ap-proaches, Albuquerque is planning on celebrating with watch parties and red carpet casting events in a city still benefi ting from a tourism boost thanks to the drama’s popularity.
Despite the show’s dark themes of drug traffi cking and violence, tourism of-fi cials say “Breaking Bad” highlighted neighborhoods around the city and gave viewers a sense of Albu-
querque. The show dis-played the city’s downtown Route 66, its various stores and restaurants, and even took audiences to Latino barrios and nearby Ameri-can Indian Pueblos — plac-es rarely seen in Hollywood.
“Before the show, Al-buquerque didn’t have an image,” said Ann Lerner, Albuquerque’s fi lm liaison. “When I started this job in 2003 and I mentioned New Mexico, people would say, ‘Oh, I love Santa Fe.’ No one thought of Albuquerque.”
That has changed in the fi ve seasons that “Break-ing Bad” has aired on AMC, growing its reputation and buzz as Netfl ix users raced to catch up on previous epi-sodes. Since then, trolley and private limo tours of
scenes from the show have sold out and created waiting lists that go on for weeks. A city-run website detailing locations of scenes — from seedy motels to the one-time headquarters of a now de-ceased drug lord — has seen tens of thousands of visitors.
The series, she said, has boosted inquiries to the city’s fi lm offi ce. And two more television series are currently under produc-tion, Lerner said.
Albuquerque businesses also have taken advantage by selling “Breaking Bad” themed products like “blue meth” candy and character-related clothing. One art store, Masks y Mas, contin-ues to sell statues of La San-ta Muerte, the Mexican folk saint of death. That under-
ground saint was shown in one season opener and was the spiritual protector of the show’s cartel assassins, cousins Leonel and Marco.
Meanwhile, the show has become a weekly social media event during every airing as Albuquerque resi-dents and visitors post pho-tos and links of sites they’ve visited. Often, a character’s death or a single quote can spark a hashtag on Twitter to trend worldwide.
“We expect this craze to continue for a while,” said Tania Armenta, a vice-president for the Al-buquerque Convention & Visitors Bureau. “All this has translated into more visitors who come here and then enjoy all aspects of the city.” — AP
City, ‘Bad’ set to say goodbyeBY RUSSELL CONTRERAS
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Bryan Cranston as Walter White walks away from the Los Pollos Hermanos, a set from the series “Breaking Bad.” A few nondescript locations around Albuquerque have become famous in just the last few years thanks to AMC’s hit television series. The last episode will air Sunday.
NEW YORK — Robin Williams has early brag-ging rights over Michael J. Fox in the competition be-tween two sitcom veterans returning to network TV — with an asterisk.
The Nielsen company said Friday that Williams’ new CBS comedy, “The Crazy Ones,” debuted be-fore 15.6 million people on Thursday night. It com-peted directly at 9 p.m. Eastern with “The Michael J. Fox” on NBC, which was seen by 7.2 million people.
W i l -l i a m s , w h o plays an advertis-ing ex-e c u t i v e working in a fi rm with his d a u g h -ter, had
a huge advantage. His new sitcom directly followed a new episode of television’s most popular comedy, “The Big Bang Theory,” which was seen by 19.5 million people in the second of a
two-part s e a s o n premiere.
By con-trast, the s e c o n d half hour of “Parks & Rec-reation” on NBC, which pre-
ceded Fox’s new show, had less than 3 million viewers.
CBS succeeded in get-ting people to sample Wil-liams’ new show by sched-uling the extra “Big Bang” episode. Moving forward,
however, “The Crazy Ones” will be preceded by another new show, “The Millers,” on the schedule.
“I really think you have to sit and wait to see what happens,” said Brad Adgate, researcher for Ho-rizon Media.
NBC ran two separate episodes of “The Michael J. Fox Show,” where the star plays a newscaster coming back to work with Parkin-son’s disease, which Fox also suffers from. The second, at 9:30 p.m., had a larger audi-ence of 7.4 million people, Nielsen said. — AP
Williams tops Fox in return of sitcom vetsBY DAVID BAUDER
Associated Press
FoxWilliams
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MARKET SUMMARY
STOCKS OF LOCAL INTERESTYTD
Name Div PE Last Chg %ChgYTD
Name Div PE Last Chg %Chg
15,709.58 12,471.49 Dow Industrials 15,258.24 -70.06 -.46 +16.44 +13.556,754.81 4,838.10 Dow Transportation 6,597.59 -39.92 -.60 +24.32 +34.85
537.86 435.57 Dow Utilities 482.19 -3.18 -.66 +6.42 +1.359,906.32 7,841.76 NYSE Composite 9,684.17 -42.09 -.43 +14.69 +17.372,509.57 2,186.97 NYSE MKT 2,382.16 -3.59 -.15 +1.12 -2.273,798.76 2,810.80 Nasdaq Composite 3,781.59 -5.84 -.15 +25.24 +21.351,729.86 1,343.35 S&P 500 1,691.75 -6.92 -.41 +18.62 +17.43
18,409.85 14,036.94 Wilshire 5000 18,072.74 -69.92 -.39 +20.52 +20.131,082.00 763.55 Russell 2000 1,074.19 -4.22 -.39 +26.47 +28.27
MOST ACTIVE ($1 OR MORE)
AT&T Inc 1.80 26 33.98 -.25 +.8AirProd 2.84 23 107.00 -2.07 +27.4AEP 1.96 17 43.44 -.20 +1.8AmeriBrgn .84 21 61.28 +.12 +41.9Aon plc .70 22 75.07 -.35 +35.0ATMOS 1.40 16 42.30 -.28 +20.4BB&T Cp .92 14 33.97 +.03 +17.5Comcast .78 18 44.74 +.64 +19.8CrackerB 3.00 21 103.07 -.83 +60.4Dillards .24f 10 79.12 -.08 -5.6Dover 1.50f 17 89.36 -.65 +36.0EnPro ... 32 60.27 -.08 +47.4FredsInc .24a 21 15.71 -.29 +18.0FullerHB .40 21 43.62 +.34 +25.3GenCorp ... ... 16.20 -.06 +77.0Goodyear .20 19 22.46 -.14 +62.6HonwllIntl 1.64 21 83.58 -.47 +31.7Jabil .32 12 21.42 -.20 +11.0KimbClk 3.24 20 94.79 -.67 +12.3
Kroger .66f 14 40.69 -.27 +56.4Lowes .72 24 47.77 -.12 +34.5MeadWvco 1.00 47 38.69 -.34 +21.4MotrlaSolu 1.24f 17 59.75 -.12 +7.3NiSource 1.00 20 30.67 +.01 +23.2OldNBcp .40 15 14.13 -.06 +19.0Penney ... ... 9.05 -1.37 -54.1PilgrimsP ... 14 17.30 +.50 +139.0RadioShk ... ... 3.44 -.43 +62.3RegionsFn .12 11 9.30 +.12 +30.4SbdCp 3.00 14 2796.92 -8.06 +10.6SearsHldgs ... ... 59.05 -1.33 +42.8Sherwin 2.00 26 180.43 -2.10 +17.3TecumsehB ... ... 8.89 -.11 +93.3TecumsehA ... ... 9.24 -.10 +100.0Total SA 3.23e ... 58.91 +.46 +13.3USEC rs ... ... 10.66 -.19 -19.5US Bancrp .92 12 36.50 -.04 +14.3WalMart 1.88 14 74.36 -.26 +9.0WestlkChm .90f 16 104.75 -1.41 +32.1
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NYSE
INDEXES
Name Vol (00) Last Chg
Penney 1996662 9.05 -1.37S&P500ETF 882282 168.91 -.78BkofAm 761566 13.90 -.18iShEMkts 604272 41.24 -.49RiteAid 505464 4.70 -.08
GAINERS ($2 OR MORE)Name Last Chg %Chg
ChiCBlood 4.16 +.70 +20.2TrinaSolar 14.83 +1.99 +15.5CtrySCkg 9.74 +1.12 +13.0YingliGrn 6.73 +.63 +10.3ReneSola 4.84 +.39 +8.8
LOSERS ($2 OR MORE)Name Last Chg %Chg
52-Week Net YTD 52-wkHigh Low Name Last Chg %Chg %Chg %Chg
Penney 9.05 -1.37 -13.1EnduroRT 12.05 -1.80 -13.0DxIndiBl rs 43.22 -5.49 -11.3RadioShk 3.44 -.43 -11.1UtdContl 30.91 -3.16 -9.3
DIARYAdvanced 994Declined 2,019Unchanged 144Total issues 3,157New Highs 70New Lows 29
DIARYAdvanced 195Declined 208Unchanged 33Total issues 436New Highs 13New Lows 4
DIARYAdvanced 943Declined 1,527Unchanged 139Total issues 2,609New Highs 104New Lows 17
GAINERS ($2 OR MORE)Name Last Chg %Chg
Medgen wt 4.22 +1.22 +40.7SwedLC22 25.00 +5.28 +26.8UnvSecInst 4.61 +.42 +10.0FstWV 17.00 +.97 +6.1Lannett 21.40 +1.05 +5.2
LOSERS ($2 OR MORE)Name Last Chg %Chg
FAB Univ 7.82 -.85 -9.8Tofutti 2.05 -.18 -7.9AmShrd 2.63 -.18 -6.3OrionEngy 3.86 -.21 -5.2ASpecRlty 2.09 -.11 -5.0
GAINERS ($2 OR MORE)Name Last Chg %Chg
PingtanM 2.38 +.89 +59.7CancerGen 21.00 +4.75 +29.2ChinaSun h 4.21 +.95 +29.1IntriCon 4.13 +.68 +19.7MontageT n 15.15 +2.35 +18.4
LOSERS ($2 OR MORE)Name Last Chg %Chg
NektarTh 10.54 -3.31 -23.9NwLead hlf .15 -.04 -21.1NetElem n 4.39 -.82 -15.7TowerGp lf 6.91 -1.26 -15.4CharmCom 4.01 -.69 -14.7
MOST ACTIVE ($1 OR MORE)
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Name Vol (00) Last Chg
EmrldO rs 67237 7.27 +.15FAB Univ 62162 7.82 -.85AlldNevG 32332 4.30 -.05InovioPhm 30169 2.16 -.06NwGold g 27550 6.07 -.02
MOST ACTIVE ($1 OR MORE)
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15,720Dow Jones industrialsClose: 15,258.24Change: -70.06 (-0.5%)
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Spotlight on constructionThe Commerce Department reports on Tuesday its latest tally of spending on U.S. construction projects.
Spending rose 0.6 percent in July from June, to the highest level since September 2008. The increase was led by strong gains in housing and nonresidential projects. Total construction was 5.2 percent higher than it was in July last year. Spending on construction projects has been uneven this year partly due to tight budget cutbacks for public construction.
Wider loss?Wall Street expects that Monsanto’s latest quarterly results will show that its loss widened from a year ago.
The maker of genetically engineered seeds and the herbicide Roundup is due to report fiscal fourth-quarter results on Wednesday. Analysts project Monsanto will turn in an adjusted loss per share of 0.43 cents for the three months ended Aug. 31. That would be slightly bigger than its loss of 42 cents per share a year earlier.
Jobs reportThere have been signs of late that the U.S. job market may be strengthening.
The number of Americans seeking unemployment benefits is down to its lowest point in six years, as fewer companies lay off workers. But did the trend help bring down the national unemployment rate below 7.3 percent in September? Find out on Friday, when the govern-ment reports its latest jobless rate figure. Source: FactSet
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Ryan Nakashima; J. Paschke • AP
CBS scored a big ratings win with the premiere of “The Crazy Ones,” a comedy featuring Robin Williams on Thursday night. It’s one of five new shows on the network’s hit-stacked prime-time TV schedule. ABC, NBC and Fox are each trying out about a dozen programs this fall. The low program turnover at CBS is one reason its stock is up almost 46 percent this year
Status as the No. 1 network ensures strong advertising revenue. It also provides leverage to win fee disputes with pay TV distributors, like Time Warner Cable — which largely relented to CBS’s terms after a monthlong blackout in several major cities in early September.
CBS has estimated fees from distributors will reach $1 billion by 2017, but investors have latched onto CEO Les Moonves’ comments this month that the goal is “probably very conservative” and may easily be exceeded as existing deals are renewed in 2015 and 2016.
Those fees, plus the looming conversion of its U.S. outdoor billboard business into a real estate investment trust, are expected to generate billions in revenue that the company is expected to use to buy back shares.
Last week, Evercore financial analyst Alan Gould estimated CBS could reduce its outstanding shares by 34 percent by 2015, prompting him to lift his price target to $65 from $55.
Eye on CBS
CBS is trading at levels last seen in August 2000.
Total return: YTD 5-yr^ 10-yr^ CBS 47% 32% 9%
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Source: FactSet Data as of Sept. 27 *Based on trailing 12 month results ^Annualized
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10A • Saturday, September 28, 2013 • The Paducah Sun Obituaries/World paducahsun.com
Funeral noticesPaid obituaries furnished to The Paducah Sun by mortuaries.
Edward Allen Steger, 88, of Reidland passed away on Thursday, September 26, 2013, at 4:16 p.m. at Baptist Health Paducah. Ed was born in McCracken County, Ky., on December 24, 1924.
He was a member of the Central Church of Christ in
Paducah. E d g r a d u -ated from H e a t h H i g h S c h o o l a n d served in the U.S. A r m y for two y e a r s .
He retired from GAF after working there for 33 years. He enjoyed gardening, tell-ing jokes, reading and serv-ing others.
He is survived by his lov-ing wife of 66 years, Thel-ma Peck Steger of Paducah; his sons, Rhodes Steger and wife Jennifer of Ger-mantown, Tenn., Randy Steger and wife Christina of Lebanon, Tenn., and Rod-ney Steger and wife Sara
of Huntsville, Ala.; seven grandchildren; nine great-grandchildren; and special friends, Mats and Anna-karin Mehrstedt of Ham-burg, Germany, and Roger and Laura Thompson of Paducah, Ky.
He was preceded in death by his parents, Dr. John Thomas Steger and Effi e Allen Steger; a sister, Edra Steger Gholson; and a brother, Louis Steger.
The funeral service will be at 1 p.m. Sunday, Sep-tember 29, 2013, at the Mil-ner & Orr Funeral Home of Paducah. Burial will follow at Hartsfi eld Cemetery in Marshall County, Ky.
Visitation will be from 5 to 8 p.m. Saturday, Sep-tember 28, 2013, at the fu-neral home.
Expressions of sympa-thy may take the form of contributions to Healing Hands International, 455 McNally Drive, Nashville, TN 37211 or New Pathways for Children, P.O. Box 10, Melber, KY 42069.
You may leave a message of sympathy at www.milne-randorr.com.
Edward Allen Steger
Lois “Bunny” G. Coo-per, 93, of Paducah passed away at 5:30 p.m. on Wednesday, September 25, 2013, at her residence.
Mrs. Cooper was a mem-ber of First Presbyterian
Church. She was r e t i r e d f r o m W P S D -TV and a member of Beta S i g m a Phi.
M r s . C o o p e r is sur-
vived by three nieces, Lois Anaple and husband John of Cincinnati, Ohio, Sh-eryl Cooper of Pittsburgh, Ohio, and Annette Mills of El Paso, Texas; three nephews, George Gregg and wife Sharon of Tucson, Ariz., William F. Cooper of Union Town, Ohio, and David M. Cooper of Pitts-burgh, Ohio; two great-nieces, Lynne Fiala and
Dawn Fiala; and one great-nephew, Greg Fiala.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Robert L. Cooper; one sis-ter, Katheryn Rinehart; one nephew, George B. Gregg. Her parents were George and Ada Bence Gregg.
A funeral service will be held at 10 a.m. on Mon-day, September 30, 2013, at Milner & Orr Funeral Home of Paducah with Rev. Lynn Shurley offi ci-ating. Burial will follow in Mt. Kenton Cemetery.
The Cooper family will receive friends from 5 p.m. until 8 p.m. on Sun-day, September 29, 2013, at Milner & Orr Funeral Home of Paducah.
Expressions of sympa-thy may take the form of contributions to: Lourdes Hospice, P.O. Box 7100, Paducah, KY 42002-7100.
You may leave a message of sympathy and light a candle of remembrance at www.milnerandorr.com.
Lois ‘Bunny’ G. Cooper
METROPOLIS, Ill. — Mr. Kevin A. Brannon. 59, of Harrisburg, Illinois, for-merly of Metropolis, died Tuesday, September 24,
2013, at his resi-dence.
Grave-side ser-vices will be held Monday, Septem-ber 30th, 2013, at 10 a.m. at Metropo-
lis Memorial Gardens with Father Michael Mujule of-fi ciating.
A reception will be held at 11:30 a.m. in the River Room at Harrah’s Hotel in Metropolis by his family,
for friends and family fol-lowing the service.
He is surviving by his mother, Mary Ruth Bran-non and husband James Ronald Walker of Metropo-lis; two sisters, Kerian R. Brannon of Metropolis, Il-linois, and Kelyn J. Bran-non of San Francisco, Ca-lif.; and niece and nephew, Caitlyn Riley Ahn and Liam Brannon Ahn, both of San Francisco, Calif.
He was preceded in death by his father, Willis Brannon; his stepfather, Edward Dean Powell; and his daughter, Ashley Marie Brannon.
Visitation will be held Sunday, September 29th, 2013, from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. at Miller Funeral Home in Metropolis, Illinois.
Kevin A. Brannon
Steger
Cooper
Brannon
Graveside services for Amoline Amy Vancil, 89, of Blandville, formerly of Cairo, Ill., will be at 2 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 29, 2013, at Hillcrest Cemetery in Blandville. Larry Jackson will offi ciate.
Mrs. Vancil died at 8 a.m. Wednesday, Sept. 25, 2013, at Vanderbilt Medical Cen-ter in Nashville, Tenn.
She was a member of Shady Grove Baptist
Church and was a former board member at Security Bank in Cairo.
She is survived by several cousins.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Ralph Vancil, and one sister. Her parents, Terrell and Adele Hammonds Sullivan.
Friends may call af-ter noon Sunday, Sept. 29, 2013, at Milner & Orr Fu-neral Home in Wickliffe.
Amy Vancil
Vera Ann Botts, 91, of Paducah died Wednesday, Sept. 25, 2013, at Lourdes
hospital.M r s .
B o t t s was a pri-vate duty n u r s e and a member of Grace E p i s -c o p a l Church.
M r s . Botts is survived by her hus-band, Donald Travis Botts; her son, Marvin Woodrow
Botts of Paducah; her sister, Iris Jean Parmenter of New York; and one grandchild.
She was preceded in death by her daughter, Christine Louise Skoutelis; and one sister. Her parents were Fletcher F. and Virgil Hatley Ezzell.
A memorial service will be at 5 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 29, 2013 at Grace Episco-pal Church of Paducah. The Rev. Libby Wade will offi ci-ate.
The Lone Oak Chapel of Milner & Orr Funeral Home is in charge of ar-rangements.
Vera Botts
Botts
Delbert J. Gipson, 79, of Paducah, died at 6:51 a.m. Wednesday, September 25, 2013, at Baptist Health Paducah.
He was r e t i r e d f r o m K r o g e r . He was a member of First C h u r c h of Naz-erene.
H e is sur-vived by
his wife, Jo Lena Gipson of Paducah; his son, Alan Gipson of Atlanta; daugh-ters, Rita Browning of
Paducah and Karen Dowell of Paducah; brother, James Gipson of Paducah; and one grandchild.
He was preceded in death by one daughter, Debra Jo Gipson; one grandson; three brothers; and two sisters. His parents were Harley and Ella (Holder) Gipson.
Services will be at 11 a.m. Monday, September 30, 2013, at Hughes Funeral Home of Paducah with the Rev. Russ Frazier offi ciat-ing. Burial will follow at Maplelawn Park Cemetery of Paducah.
Friends may call from 5 p.m. - 8 p.m. Sunday, Sep-tember 29, 2013, at the fu-neral home.
Delbert Gipson
Gipson
GOLCONDA, Ill. — Rick Bouman, 60, of ru-ral Golconda, died Thurs-day, September 26, 2013, at his home.
He was a retired dep-uty for the Pope County Sheriff’s Department. He was a U.S. Army Vietnam veteran. He was an ac-tive member and elder of New Liberty Church in Eddyville.
He is survived by his wife, Patricia Bouman; three daughters, Ashley, Alisha and Alexia; one grandson; two brothers, Allen Bouman and Dave Bouman; and two sisters, Joan Winters and Mary Maldenado.
He was preceded in
death by a daughter, Amanda Bouman; and one sister. His parents were Donald and Doro-thy Bouman.
Services will be at 2 p.m. Sunday, September 29, 2013, at New Liberty Church near Eddyville. Burial will follow with military honors at New Liberty Cemetery in Ed-dyville. Visitation will be from 1 p.m. until time of service at the church. Aly Funeral Home in Gol-conda is in charge of ar-rangements.
Memorials may be made to: New Liberty Youth Building Fund, C/O Linda Aly 20 Zan Lane, Eddyville, IL 62928
Rick Bouman
MAYFIELD — James P. “DaddyJames” Man-grum, 79, of Mayfi eld died Thursday, Sept. 26, 2013, at Jackson Pur-chase Medical Center.
He retired from May-fi eld Electric and Water Systems and was of the Baptist faith.
He is survived by his wife of 61 years, Jeanette Mangrum; two daugh-ters, Glenda Workman of Sedalia and Cheryl McK-inney of Mayfi eld; one sister, Brenda Hardy of Mayfi eld; four grandchil-dren, Kevin Workman, T.J. McKinney, Shawna
McKinney Allison and Amy Turnbow, all of Mayfi eld; and fi ve great-grandchildren.
He was preceded in death by one brother and one grandson. His par-ents were Wilbur Louis Mangrum and Celia Sanderson Chilcutt.
Graveside services will be at 2 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 2, 2013, at Highland Park Cemetery with the Rev. Steve Burkeen offi -ciating.
There will be no visita-tion. Byrn Funeral Home is in charge of arrange-ments.
James Mangrum
The obituary for Marion Henderson which ran in the Friday, September 27, 2013, Sun incorrectly listed New Hope Baptist Church Cemetery in Joppa, Ill. It should have stated New Hope Baptist Church Cem-etery in New Columbia, Ill. Incorrect information was furnished to The Paducah Sun.
Henderson correction
BARLOW — Harmon F. Negley, 92, of Barlow died Friday, September 27, 2013, at Baptist Health Paducah.
Services will be at 11 a.m. Monday, September 30, 2013, at Barlow First Baptist Church. Visitation will be after 5 p.m. Sunday, September 29, 2013, with a masonic service at 7 p.m. at Morrow Funeral Chapel in La Center.
Other arrangements were pending.
Harmon Negley
SALEM — Leona Belt, 71, of Salem, died Friday, Sep-tember 27, 2013, at Livingston Hospital and Healthcare Services in Salem.
Arrangements were incomplete at Boyd Funeral Direc-tors in Salem.
Leona Belt
VIENNA, Ill. — Hiram W. Dunn, 89, of rural Vienna, Ill., died at 1:27 p.m. Friday, September 27, 2013, at his home.
Arrangements were incomplete at Bailey Funeral Home in Vienna, Ill.
Hiram Dunn
SALEM — Donald Tabor of Salem died Friday, Septem-ber 27, 2013, at his home.
Arrangements were incomplete at Boyd Funeral Direc-tors in Salem.
Donald Tabor
STOCKHOLM — Top scientists have a better idea of how global warm-ing will shape the 21st century: In a new report, they predict sea levels will be much higher than previously thought and pinpoint how dangerously hot it’s likely to get.
In its most strongly worded report yet, an in-ternational climate panel said it was more confi -dent than ever that global warming is a man-made problem and likely to get worse. The report was welcomed by the Obama administration and envi-ronmental advocates who said it made a strong and urgent case for govern-ment action, while skep-tics scoffed at it.
“There is something in this report to worry ev-eryone,” said Chris Field, a Carnegie Institution scientist who is a leader of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change but wasn’t involved in the report released Friday.
Without any substantial changes, he said the world is now on track for sum-mers at the end of the cen-tury that are hotter than current records, sea levels that are much higher, del-uges that are stronger and more severe droughts.
The Nobel Prize-win-ning panel’s report called the warming of the planet since 1950 “unequivocal” and “unprecedented” and blamed increases in heat-trapping greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide from the burning of coal, oil and gas.
The United Nations cre-ated the panel of climate researchers in 1990 to tell world leaders what sci-ence is saying about global warming and how bad it will get. This is the group’s fi fth major state-of-the-science report, approved by nearly 200 nations at the end of a weeklong meeting in Stockholm.
In its last massive re-port in 2007, the panel said it was “very likely” — or 90 percent certain — that global warming was due to human activity, particularly carbon diox-ide from things like coal-burning power plants and car exhaust. The new re-port moves that to 95 per-cent or “extremely likely.”
The panel also fi ne-tuned its predictions for temperature changes and sea levels by the end of this century. Their worst case scenario previously put sea levels increase at just shy of 2 feet by 2100; now they put it at slightly more than 3 feet. They cite better understand-ing of how much glaciers
and ice sheets are melting and how water expands as it warms.
Unless the world dras-tically cuts emissions — an event scientists called highly unlikely to happen — the panel said Earth will warm by at least 2 more degrees Fahrenheit this century in all but one of the four scenarios they outline.
That 2-degree thresh-old is “where the risks start piling up,” including food crises in developing countries, people forced to move from coastal cit-ies because of rising seas
and more extinctions, said Princeton Univer-sity climate scientist Mi-chael Oppenheimer, a co-author of an upcoming IPCC report on impacts of climate change. “This is a point where any sensible person would look and say the risks are just getting too high.”
One of those IPCC emis-sion scenarios — the one that scientists say is clos-est to what is now happen-ing and has no projected reduction in pollution — has Earth hitting the 2-de-gree mark by mid-century.
Climate change panel forecasts higher seas and temperatures
BY KARL RITTER AND SETH BORENSTEIN
Associated Press
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This time of year among the most asked questions is, “When do I plant my spring blooming bulbs?” The simple answer is when the ground is 55 degrees, but how many of us has soil thermometers.
Tim Schipper of Colorblends Bulbs says it is time to plant “when the crickets cease to chirp and dogs lie in the sun.” That is easy to remember.
“How do I plant?” is the next question. It is surprising how many people do not know the pointed end points up. Look for a fl at coarse scab-like area on the bottom. It is the basal plate where the roots emerge. Amend clay soil with equal parts of per-lite (exploded volcanic ash) and sand. Thoroughly work in the soil bone meal and bulb fertil-izer. Depth depends on whether you want bulbs to rapidly expand (plant shallow) or stay in one location (plant deeper). The planting depth depending on standard planting charts is too deep for bulbs in our area.
For a more pleasing effect
plant bulbs in a sweeping curved line or cluster rather than in round groups.
I never had much luck in hav-ing catalog-like standard tulip blooms but wanted tulips among the daffodils so began plant-ing species. Eric Breed’s Tulips in the Wild reinforced what I should have remembered. Daf-fodils and tulips originated on mountain ridges in crevices and on rocky soil. A few of the spe-cies have adapted to our gardens but only when not pampered.
Among those that have sur-vived, therefore, favorites in the garden are: bright yellow tulip sylvestris; t. bakeri grows in loose soil along fence rows; orange-red t. praestans the most popular of the species; and t. fosteriana that was crossed with cottage tulips to create Darwin hybrids, the most popular tulips in the world. Darwin-like pure red t. clusiana is named for the scientist who introduced tulips to Holland, later resulting in Tulipmania.
Things to do
■ 15-minute gardening — Drop plastic-potted mums into containers for instant decora-tion. If the container is more than a couple of inches wider than the pot, line it with moist-ened moss to stabilize the plas-tic pot.
■ Garden — cut back peony foliage to three to four inches when it begins to yellow. Add compost six inches from the stems and work into the soil
bone meal, slow release fertil-izer or seaweed emulsion. Tree peonies do not need to be mulched as they need the cold. Remove dahlia side buds for larger blooms. Allow rudeckia to go to seed. Cut money plant to the ground, scatter some seed, package the rest for planting in the spring.
■ Trees and shrubs — Check out nursery sales. Prepare the planting hole by filling it with water a couple of days in ad-vance to thoroughly saturate the ground. Plant and water, add more soil and water the next day, if needed. Plant with the root ball surface even with the ground if planting in a non-irrigated yard. In irrigated yards, plant six inches above ground and mulch. Mulch should not touch the trunk as it softens the bark inviting insects and burrow-ing animals to dine.
■ Vegetables — Tomatoes exposed to 50 degrees or less lose their flavor and won’t ripen properly. Pick mature fruit. If there is some red showing, it
will continue to ripen. To test whether the fruit will ripen, cut open a sample fruit, if the seeds are in a gel sac, it will ripen.
■ Catalogs — Renee’s, www.reneesgarden.com,1-888-880-7228, introductions include heirloom burgundy poppies and red-pink stemmed chard Pepper-mint Stick.
✔ Bulbs: Colorblends, www.col-orblends.com, 1-888-847-8637; Van Engelen, vanengelen.com, 1-860-567-8734 (wholesale quantities) and John Scheepers, www.johnscheelers.com, 1-860-567-0858 (smaller quantities).
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Time is nearing for planting your spring blooming bulbs
S UFFIELD TOWNSHIP, Ohio — Memories fl ourish among the hostas and cor-
al bells in Kathy Roby’s garden.This summer, Roby turned a
fenced plot near her house into a memory garden to honor friends and family members — mostly people who have died, but also people who have served in the military. But there’s nothing mor-bid about the spot. It’s a serene space, a place for pleasant recol-lections and quiet refl ection.
Roby decided to start the gar-den after losing her parents, her in-laws and a friend, all of whom had lived with and been cared for in their fi nal days by her and her husband, Mark Pollock. In all, six people have occupied the couple’s two in-law suites since 1997 — at one point, four people at once, Roby said.
The sixth, a friend of her mother’s, recently moved to an assisted living facility after hav-ing lived with Roby and Pollock for 13 years.
“Kathy fi nally got done after 16 years of taking care of these people, so I think she wanted a memorial garden,” her husband said.
Roby’s work as a funeral direc-tor with Hopkins Lawver Fu-neral Home played into the plan. She is comfortable with death and understands the importance of celebrating the lives of people who have passed on.
And it helped that she had the perfect spot for the garden, a former vegetable patch that had struggled because of too much shade.
A paver walkway divides the memory garden into four sec-tions, each with a theme. At the center is an angel statue and a weeping cherry tree, chosen because of its name.
One section of the garden is devoted to her family, one to her husband’s family and one to veter-ans. The fourth is an undedicated space that Roby has fi lled with plants and garden art that support the theme of remembering.
All through the garden are artifacts that remind Roby and Pollock of their loved ones. The green post that holds a birdhouse came from the porch of Pollock’s great-grandfather’s house in the Belmont County community of Neffs, Ohio. The barnstone at its base was from his grandfather’s farm in St. Clairsville, Ohio. A bell that was a long-ago gift from Roby’s mother is mounted on a yoke and pole Pollock had made for it, which the couple erected
near rocks from her great-grand-parents’ farm in LeRoy, W.Va.
Roby even had signs made to hang from the fence in both sec-tions, listing the family members who are memorialized there.
The section of fence that edges the veterans’ section is hung with plaques honoring family mem-bers and friends who have served in the military — some still living, others deceased. An American fl ag and a fl ag bearing symbols of the military branches fl utter over the garden, which has as its focal point a small bench displaying a pair of vintage Army helmets.
Scattered throughout the
memory garden are art pieces that speak to the cycle of life _ a birdbath to attract feathered visitors, a stone carved with Ecclesiastes 3 (”To everything there is a season ...”), a likeness of Roby and Pollock’s aging Shih Tzu, Conway. There are also antiques and mementos the couple has gathered, such as the corn grinder from Pollock’s fam-ily, the small iron pot that once stood on Roby’s grandmother’s porch and the Hopkins Lawver advertising sign that once hung at Paradise Lake Country Club and now honors the late Robert Lawver, the man under whom
Roby served her apprenticeship.It’s appropriate that Roby and
Pollock have fi lled the garden with heirlooms. They share a deep respect for their families’ history, and they’ve decorated their house with family antiques and memorabilia — among them, Pollock’s old bike, which hangs from the rafters of their living room ceiling, and a bench that incorporates the ends of a pew from the church where his parents were married.
The garden was inspired by one the couple saw that was decorated with old grave mark-ers. Roby wanted to do some-
thing similar but settled on statuary when she couldn’t fi nd headstones.
It’s a work in progress, she said.
“We’re still looking for relics from people in our family,” she said. “We’ll add things as we fi nd them.”
In the meantime, the garden serves as a reminder of the people Roby and Pollock have loved and a place where they can come to think about them.
“I think part of them is here,” she said.
Mary Beth Breckenridge writes for the Akron Beacon Journal.
Memory garden honors family, friendsBY MARY BETH BRECKENRIDGE
McClatchy-Tribune News Service
MCT photo
Kathy Roby reflects on building her memory garden at her home in Suffield Township, Ohio.
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as Tuesday if Congress fails to approve money to keep the government going by the Monday-midnight start of the new fi scal year.
“Think about who you are hurting” if government services are interrupted, the president said at the White House, as House Speaker John Boehner pondered his next move in a fast-unfolding showdown — not only between Repub-licans and Democrats but between GOP leaders and conservative insurgents.
Despite Obama’s appeal, the Senate-passed measure faces a swift demise in the House at the hands of tea party conservatives who are adamantly opposed to funding that the measure includes for the three-year-old health care law.
The Senate’s 54-44 vote was strictly along party lines in favor of the bill, which would keep the gov-ernment operating rou-tinely through Nov. 15.
The immediate impacts of a shutdown would be felt unevenly. Soldiers, air traf-fi c controllers and many other federal workers would remain on the job. Social Security payments would still go out. But na-tional parks would close to visitors. There would be problems for homebuy-ers seeking government-backed mortgages and for people applying for some other programs. Delays and closings would spread if a shutdown last for long.
Friday’s Senate vote masked a ferocious struggle for control of the Republican Party pitting Boehner and Senate Leader Mitch Mc-Connell against rebels led by relatively junior lawmakers, Cruz and Mike Lee of Utah and a few dozen allies in the House among them.
The outcome of that contest — more than dif-ferences between the two political parties — is likely to determine whether the government shuts down for the fi rst time in nearly two decades.
Cruz told reporters he had had numerous conversa-tions with fellow conserva-tives in recent days, adding, “I am confi dent the House of Representatives will contin-ue to stand its ground, con-tinue to listen to the Ameri-can people and ... stop this train wreck, this nightmare that is Obamacare.”
The House is scheduled to
be in session both Saturday and Sunday, but it is unclear when it will vote on a new bill to avert a shutdown, and what health care-related items it will include.
Obama spoke more than an hour later at the White House, where he said it was up to House Republicans to follow the Senate’s lead and prevent a shutdown. He said the struggle has nothing to do with budget defi cits, and said if Republicans “have specifi c ideas on how to gen-uinely improve the (health care) law rather than gut it, rather than delay, it rather than repeal it, I am happy to work with them.”
He also said even a shut-down would not prevent the scheduled opening of so-called health care ex-changes next Tuesday through which millions of Americans will be able to shop for coverage. “That’s a done deal,” he said
Brendan Buck, a spokes-man for Boehner, issued a statement in response that said, “The House will take action that refl ects the fun-damental fact that Ameri-cans don’t want a govern-ment shutdown and they don’t want the train wreck that is Obamacare. Grand-standing from the presi-dent, who refuses to even be a part of the process, won’t bring Congress any closer to a resolution.”
Republican lawmakers said Boehner had made it clear he would continue to seek health care-related concessions from the White House when the House passes its next shutdown-prevention legislation. But the rank and fi le rebelled on Thursday when leaders suggested moving the main focus of the effort to defund Obamacare to a separate bill rather than continue to fl irt with a shutdown.
There is little or no dis-agreement between the House and Senate over spending levels in the leg-islation now moving from one side of the Capitol to the other, and except for health care, passage might well be routine. The bill provides funds at an annual rate of slightly more than $986 billion, in keeping with an agreement Obama and Re-publicans made two years ago to restrain the growth of a wide swath of government spending from the Penta-gon to the nation’s parks.
Without separate legis-lation to make further re-ductions, across-the-board
cuts will automatically take effect early next year that will reduce the level to $967 billion, and Republicans are fond of pointing out that the government is on track to spend less on those pro-grams for the second year in a row — for the fi rst time
since the Korean War.But Republicans voted
unanimously against the health care law when it passed Congress, backed lawsuits to challenge its constitutionality, and some now seek to strangle it be-fore its fi nal implementa-
tion begins next Tuesday.Cruz, Lee and several tea
party groups seized on the issue during Congress’ fi ve week summer vacation, turn-ing “Defund Obamacare” into a rallying cry backed by television commercials, pub-lic rallies and emails.
The result was a bruising week in the Senate in which Cruz spoke for slightly more than 21 hours straight in hopes of swaying some votes his way, only to lose by far on the showdown that he described as the crucial one. — AP
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Five-Day Forecast for PaducahShown is today’s weather. Temperatures are today’s highs and tonight’s lows.
Almanac
UV Index Today
Sun and Moon
The higher the AccuWeather.com UV Index™ number, the greater the need for eye and skin protection.
0-2 Low; 3-5 Moderate; 6-7 High; 8-10 Very High; 11+ Extreme8 a.m. 10 a.m. Noon 2 p.m. 4 p.m.
River and Lake Levels
Ohio River
Full Pool
Regional WeatherCity Hi Lo W Hi Lo W
World Cities
National CitiesCity Hi Lo W Hi Lo W City Hi Lo W Hi Lo W
Weather (W): s-sunny, pc-partly cloudy, c-cloudy, sh-showers, t-thunderstorms, r-rain, sf-snow fl urries, sn-snow, i-ice.
Regional Cities
The Region
St. Louis
Cape Girardeau
Paducah
Owensboro
Cadiz
Union CityNashville
MemphisPulaski
Blytheville
Evansville
City Hi Lo W Hi Lo W
Carbondale
Clarksville
Jackson
Elevation 24 hr. Chg
Precipitation
Temperature
Flood stageMississippi River
Stage 24 hr. Chg
National Weather
TODAY TONIGHT SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY
82/63
82/62
82/62
84/62
82/61
84/62
84/6384/59
82/60
86/68
84/61
83/54
84/62
84/62Mostly sunny, nice
and warm
High 84°
Some clouds, showers around
late
Low 62°
Cloudy with a shower or t-storm
High79°
Low59°
Mostly cloudy, a shower possible
High82°
Low60°
Partly sunny and warm
High83°
Low60°
Very warm with clouds and sun
High85°
Low61°
Paducah through 2 p.m. yesterday
New First Full Last
Oct 4 Oct 11 Oct 18 Oct 26
Sunrise today ................................. 6:47 a.m.Sunset tonight ................................ 6:42 p.m.Moonrise today ............................. 12:41 a.m.Moonset today ................................ 2:53 p.m.
24 hours ending 2 p.m. yest. .................. 0.00”Month to date ......................................... 1.82”Normal month to date ............................. 3.33”Year to date .......................................... 42.59”Last year to date .................................... 21.11”Normal year to date .............................. 35.81”
High/low .............................................. 81°/55°Normal high/low .................................. 78°/53°Record high .................................. 93° in 1998Record low .................................... 37° in 1991
Through 7 a.m. yesterday (in feet)
Forecasts and graphics provided by AccuWeather, Inc. ©2013
Kentucky: Sunny and comfortable today. Partly cloudy tonight; a couple of showers in the west.
Illinois: Warm today. A thunderstorm in western parts of the state; increasing cloudiness in northern parts of the state. Mostly sunny elsewhere.
Indiana: Mostly sunny and pleasant today. Periods of rain tonight, except dry in the south.
Missouri: Some sun today. Thunderstorms in the west and central parts of the state; a little rain in the north. Increasing clouds in the south.
Arkansas: A couple of thunderstorms in the west today; increasing cloudiness in the north. Mostly sunny elsewhere.
Tennessee: Brilliant sunshine today. Areas of fog in the east in the morning; pleasant elsewhere.
Today Sun. Today Sun.
Albuquerque 70 47 s 76 53 sAtlanta 78 57 s 78 62 sBaltimore 76 53 s 76 54 pcBillings 65 47 s 75 51 pcBoise 72 54 s 70 51 cBoston 70 54 s 69 54 pcCharleston, SC 79 61 s 81 59 sCharleston, WV 78 53 s 76 57 pcChicago 82 59 s 72 50 pcCleveland 74 58 s 72 58 cDenver 70 43 s 78 48 sDes Moines 71 47 r 77 54 sDetroit 76 59 s 70 51 shEl Paso 82 62 s 84 64 sFairbanks 44 33 c 43 33 cHonolulu 88 75 pc 88 74 pcHouston 90 75 t 89 71 tIndianapolis 82 60 s 76 55 shJacksonville 81 66 t 82 64 pc
Las Vegas 78 61 s 83 65 sLos Angeles 90 61 s 86 59 sMiami 86 76 t 87 75 pcMilwaukee 78 55 s 68 50 pcMinneapolis 68 49 r 75 56 sNew Orleans 86 69 s 86 68 pcNew York City 72 56 s 73 56 pcOklahoma City 78 60 r 81 59 sOmaha 72 49 r 78 53 sOrlando 87 70 t 87 69 pcPhiladelphia 75 56 s 74 56 pcPhoenix 90 69 s 94 72 sPittsburgh 76 53 s 74 55 pcSalt Lake City 67 50 s 80 55 sSan Diego 84 61 s 80 61 sSan Francisco 74 55 s 71 61 pcSeattle 62 54 r 60 51 rTucson 87 63 s 91 62 sWashington, DC 76 59 s 76 60 pc
Today Sun.
Belleville, IL 83 61 s 78 54 tBowling Gn., KY 83 60 s 77 58 tBristol, TN 78 52 s 78 53 pcC. Girardeau, MO 82 62 s 79 56 tCarbondale, IL 82 62 s 78 54 tCharleston, WV 78 53 s 76 57 pcChattanooga, TN 81 58 s 81 61 pcClarksville, TN 82 60 s 74 60 tColumbia, MO 78 55 t 77 53 sEvansville, IN 84 62 s 77 59 tFt. Smith, AR 86 68 t 82 64 pcHopkinsville, KY 82 61 s 73 60 tIndianapolis, IN 82 60 s 76 55 shJackson, KY 80 58 s 76 59 pcJackson, TN 84 61 s 77 59 tJoplin, MO 80 57 t 79 57 sKansas City, MO 73 52 t 77 54 sKnoxville, TN 76 57 s 80 60 pcLexington, KY 80 60 s 73 58 tLittle Rock, AR 88 69 s 82 66 tLondon, KY 80 56 s 77 56 pcLouisville, KY 82 63 s 75 61 tMemphis, TN 86 68 s 81 67 tNashville, TN 84 59 s 78 61 tPeoria, IL 83 56 pc 75 52 pcSt. Louis, MO 82 63 s 77 56 pcSpringfi eld, IL 82 56 s 76 48 pcSpringfi eld, MO 80 59 t 79 58 pcTerre Haute, IN 82 60 s 76 49 c
National Summary: Except for spotty downpours in Florida and a stray shower along the Carolina coast, the eastern half of the nation will be dry today. Drenching showers and gusty thunderstorms will reach from Minnesota to Texas. A storm will slam the Northwest with heavy rain, strong winds and rough seas. The balance of the West will be dry and sunny.
Cairo 40 13.44 +0.58
Paducah 39 16.39 +0.66Owensboro 38 10.90 noneSmithland Dam 40 13.03 -0.38
Lake Barkley 359 356.85 -0.10Kentucky Lake 359 356.83 -0.13
Shown are today’s noon positions of weather systems and precipitation. Temperature bands are highs for the day.
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