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TUESDAY, JULY 2, 2013
Vol. 100, Number 129
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South Williamson accident injures one
Rachel Baldwin
Staff Writer
S. WILLIAMSON, Ky. — Law enforcement and EMS
personnel responded Monday afternoon to an accident in
South Williamson, Ky., in which a vehicle slammed into a
car and a truck sitting on the lot of a used car dealership.
Loretta Wilson May, of McAndrews, KY., was operating a
2002 Ford Taurus in the northbound lane of Central Avenue
when it left the roadway and struck two metal barricade
poles before making contact with a 2007 Pontiac G6 and a
2001 GMC Sonoma belonging to Chris Hensley of Hensley’s
Body Shop, resulting in substantial damage to both vehicles.
Appalachian First Response transported May to the
South Williamson Appalachian Regional Hospital for
evaluation and treatment for chest, shoulder and right leg
injuries. There was no passengers riding with May.
Members of the Belfry Volunteer Fire Department responded to the accident and assisted with patient care
as well as scene clean up and traffic control. The wreck
remains under investigation by Pikeville Post 9 of the
A one-car wreck in South Williamson Monday afternoon sent Loretta May to the hospital.
Kentucky State Police.
Mingo arrests
Portion of Highway named after MCHS coach
keep officers busy
Rachel Baldwin
Staff Writer
MATEWAN — Approximately one year
ago, Mingo County lost
John Jacob Fry II, who
was said by all who knew
him to be a valuable asset to Mingo County.
Fry was a lifelong citizen of the county who
dedicated his life to help
the youth of the area.
He was a football coach,
teacher, and mentor
to many at the Mingo
Central Comprehensive
High School. He also
assisted with the Matewan Little League and
coached in the HatfieldMcCoy Senior Bowl. Fry
passed away after what
was thought to be complications from a surgical procedure. He was
only 28 years of age.
On June 19, Delegate
Justin Marcum (D-20)
and Delegate Harry Keith
White (D-21) dedicated
a one mile section of
highway that will forever
be called the John J. Fry,
II Memorial Highway.
Signs were erected along
the roadway near the old
Matewan High School
with the center portion being located exactly where
the football field sits.
Delegate
Marcum
spoke first and talked
about the life of John Fry.
“This is a time where
we can come together
to remember just a great
public servant. As our
hearts still mourn the
passing of John, we can
use this as a time to celebrate his life. John was
an amazing man who
always tried to help. I
still miss him,” stated
Delegate Marcum.
Rachel Baldwin
Staff Writer
WILLIAMSON — Multiple arrests on a variety of both
misdemeanor and felony charges have been recorded in
Mingo County Magistrate Court over the last week.
James Bailey, 31, of Delbarton, was taken into custody
by Delbarton Police Chief D. Nunley and Patrolman G.D.
Ford and D.R. Davis on one count of battery that occurred
after an altercation between the defendant and Micah
Baisden, who was also arrested.
Bailey was arraigned on the battery charge before Magistrate Pam Newsome and was released from custody on a
$1,000 personal recognizance bond.
William Wolford, aka “Shaky”, of Hampden, was placed under arrest by Mingo County Sheriff’s Department (MCSD)
Deputy N. Glanden and Deputy J.R. Fitch on charges of burSee ARRESTS ‌| 3
Submitted Photo
Pictured are WV House of Delegate members Harry Keith White and Justin Marcum, as
they gathered with members of the John Fry family and students and faculty members
from Mingo Central High School to unveil the signage designating a 1 mile section of
Rt. 49 in Matewan as the “John Jacob Fry II Memorial Highway”. Fry was a former coach
and teacher at Mingo Central who passed away in 2012.
Next, Delegate White
spoke and read the Legislative Proclamation that
dedicated this portion of
highway in remembrance
of Fry. The proclamation
noted how the former
educator gave his entire
life to helping the youth
of Mingo County. It also
read that he will be remembered forever in the
hearts and minds of those
who knew and loved him.
Mingo County Commissioner Greg “Hootie” Smith was on hand
for the dedication and
led the group in prayer.
Assistant Mingo Central
Football Coach, Hady
Ford, sang “Go Rest
High On That Mountain”, as many tears
were shed. Also there
were many of the Fry
From support to victory rally
Martha Sparks
Civitas News Service
A support rally for 14-year-old Jared Marcum was renamed a victory rally Friday following disclosure that criminal charges had been dropped against him on Thursday.
Marcum was charged with obstructing following an incident in April over a National Rifle Association (NRA)
T-shirt with the wording “Protect your right” and a picture of a gun that he had worn to attend classes at Logan
Middle School. Charges against Marcum were dropped
by the Prosecuting Attorney’s Office on Thursday.
A small crowd gathered in front of the Logan Courthouse where a truck displaying a banner “Sons of the
Second Logan County” was parked. Emceeing the
rally was Shaun Adkins.
There were several speakers during the rally, which
lasted almost an hour. Two speakers came from out of
state to attend, Wayne Dupree of Maryland and Shannon
Wright of New Jersey. Dupree is described as a conservative blogger, radio host and founder of the News Ninja
website. Wright is described as a pastor, community activist, blogger and webcast program host and someone
who takes interest in constitutional matters.
First to speak was Marcum’s stepfather, Allen Lardieri.
See RALLY ‌| 3
family members and the
MCHS football coaching
staff, as well as many
others. In total there
were almost 200 persons
present to witness the
sign dedication.
School board members Mike Carter, Orville
Messer and Stephen
“Cheetah” Marcum were
also in attendance. The
Mingo County Sheriff’s
Department, Matewan
Police Department, and
the Matewan Volunteer
Fire Department helped
to manage traffic as so
many persons were present to witness this monumental occasion.
“John Fry was a great
man, a humble friend
and a loyal coach,” stated Yogi Kinder, the head
football coach at Mingo
Central. “He will be
dearly missed.”
WV State Senators
Art Kirkedoll and Ron
Stollings were not
present, but they sent
their regards. They
were instrumental in
getting the resolution
to name this section of
highway after Fry.
Delegate
Marcum
closed by saying, “John
Fry was a true friend who
left a great impression on
the lives of so many of today’s youth. I commend
him for his work and may
God be with him and his
family during this time.”
He also added that this
“was the least he and
Delegate White could do
to honor such a great person who passed away at
such an early age.”
Rachel Baldwin | Daily News
Pictured left to right are Tyler Hodge, the Finance Manager for
“Team Moore” and Robert ‘Radar’ Ferris, of the Belfry Volunteer Fire Department, during a check presentation. The money will be used toward the cost of the annual Fourth of July
fireworks display scheduled for Wednesday, July 3, at 10:05
p.m. at the South Side Mall. The public is invited to attend.
Fourth of July donation
for celebration announced
Rachel Baldwin
Staff Writer
WILLIAMSON — The
cost of putting on a quality fireworks extravaganza
comes with a hefty price
tag, a reality that the Belfry
Volunteer Fire Department
(BVFD) knows all too well.
Since April of this year,
Robert “Radar” Ferris and
Charles Maynard of the
BVFD have been hitting
the pavement and burning up the phone lines in
an effort to gain sponsorship for the 2013 Fourth of
July Fireworks Show that
attracts large crowds each
year. The cost of the pyrotechnics increase each year
and without the generous
donations from area businesses and local residents,
the annual firework display at the Southside Mall
Martha Sparks | Civitas News Service in Goody, Ky. would be a
An unidentified man holds a sign during a rally in support thing of the past.
“I know that the economy
of Jared Marcum and the Second Amendment held Friday
afternoon in Logan.
has resulted in everyone
having to watch what they
spend, but it was very important to the BVFD to
raise enough money to be
able to afford a great fireworks display. With the
donation we received today
from the Team Moore Car
Dealership, we are well on
our way to that becoming a
reality,” said Ferris, a BVFD
board member and fireman.
Ferris was speaking of
a check in the amount of
$8,000 he accepted on
behalf of the fire department from Tyler Hodge,
the Team Moore Finance
Manager for the Goody,
Ky. dealership. The money
will help with the cost of
the fireworks show that
is scheduled to take place
on Wednesday evening,
July 3, beginning at 10:05
p.m. The much-anticipated
pyrotechnics show will follow an evening of fun at
the Southside Mall that
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2 ■ TUESDAY, JULY 2, 2013
WILLIAMSON DAILY NEWS
Obituaries
Richard A. Hess
VARNEY, WV — Richard A. “Harley” Hess 87 of
Varney, WV passed away
July 1, 2013 at his home.
He was born Nov. 3, 1925
at Lando, WV. He was
preceded in death by his
loving wife of 62 years,
Marie Edwards Hess and
a daughter, Jackie Blevins.
Richard was a retired
coal miner and a faithful
member of the Crossfire
Assembly of God. He was
a Past Master of the Hugh
C. Boyd Lodge 119 of Red
Jacket, WV and was also
a Navy Veteran having
served in WWII.
Those left behind to
cherish his memories include his sons, Larry and
Ida Hess of Sheffield Lake,
OH and Randal and Pam
Hess of Cuyohago Falls,
OH. His special caregivers, granddaughter, Terri
and Everett Fields, Jenny
and Harold Scott, Beth
and Jeff Gibson, Larry
Hess Jr. Great grandchildren, Colton and Mason
Hess, Kaitlyn and Jacob
Gibson, Kenzie and Kylee
Scott and a host of friends
and family.
Masonic services will be
performed by the Gibson
Lodge 301 of Wakeman,
OH.
Funeral services will be
held Friday July 5, 2013
at 12:00pm at the Chafin
Funeral Home Chapel with
the Rev. David Robinette,
Rev. Dallas Rife and Rev.
Bill Snodgrass officiating. Burial will follow in
the Mt. View Memory
Gardens at Maher, WV.
Visitation will be Thursday
evening from 6-9pm. Pallbearers will be Larry Hess,
Larry Hess Jr., Everett
Fields, Colton Hess, Mason Hess, Jeff Gibson, Jacob Gibson, Harold Scott
and Mark Edwards. Online
Condolences can be made
at
ChafinFuneralHome.
Com.
Terry Joe ‘Joe
Bob’ Holcomb
HANOVER, W.Va. —
Terry Joe “Joe Bob” Holcomb, 50, of Hanover, son
of the late Robert “Bobby” and Judith “Nookie”
Withrow Holcomb, died
Sunday, June 30, 2013.
Services will be held at 1
p.m. Wednesday, July 3, at
Hanover Missionary Baptist Church. Burial will follow in the Cline Cemetery
at Hanover. Visitation will
begin after 6 p.m. Tuesday at the old Baileysville
High School. Mounts Funeral Home of Gilbert is in
charge of arrangements.
Floydetta Runyon
CANADA, KY — Floydetta (Poochie) Runyon,
71 of Canada, Ky. passed
away Monday, July 1, 2013
at the Pikeville Medical
Center.
She was born January
26, 1942 at Canada, Ky. the
daughter of the late Floyd
B. and Gracie Smith. She
was also preceded in death
by several brothers and sisters.
Poochie was the secretary at Bevins Elementary
School for over 30 years.
She was also a member of
Stone Chapter #533 O.E.S.
and the Highland Presbyterian Church.
Survivors include her
husband, David I. Runyon
of Canada, KY; daughters,
Teressa Runyon (Roger
A.) Gibbs of London, KY
and Melissa Runyon of
Paris, KY; son, David (Jennifer) Runyon II of Canada, KY; six grandchildren,
James David Gibbs, Hannah Rose Gibbs, Samantha
Paige Blair, Stephanie Nicole Blair, Zachary David
Runyon and Emma Grace
Runyon and a host of other
family and friends.
Funeral services will
be held Wednesday, July
3, 2013 at 1 PM in the R.
E. Rogers Funeral Home
Chapel with Rev. John
Lattimore and Rev. Bill
VanZant officiating. Burial
will follow in the Smith
Cemetery, Sidney, Ky.
with James David Gibbs,
Zachary David Runyon,
Benjamin Smith, Madison
Thornsbury, Paul Cochran,
Joey Cochran and Franklin
D. Smith serving as pallbearers. Honorary pallbearers are Michael Ritz,
Charles Ritz, Benjamin
Russell, Billy Smith, Tevis Branham and Charles
Fuzzy Keesee. Visitation
will be held after 7 PM
Tuesday, July 2, 2013 at
the Funeral Home Chapel.
R. E. Rogers Funeral Home
of Belfry is in charge of arrangements. Online condolences at www.rerogersfuneralhome.com.
Harold
Lloyd Williams
RAGLAND, WV — Harold Lloyd Williams, 68,
of Ragland (formerly of
Belo), WV, died Friday,
June 28, 2013, at Pikeville
Medical Center in Pikeville, KY.
Born November 14,
1944 in Holden, WV, he
was the son of the late
John and Myrtle Williams.
He was also preceded in
death by his sister, Iris
Newsome.
Harold was a former
carpenter,
construction
worker, factory worker and
coal miner. He was of the
Baptist faith.
Survivors: Long time
companion Vicie Kolfe,
Ragland; daughters, Beverly (Billy) Williams, Delbarton, Crystal (Keith
Nichols) Williams, Lenore;
son, Harold “Boo” (Jennifer) Williams Jr., Sarasota, FL; siblings, Joyce
(Donnie) Marcum, Belo,
Dale (Bonnie) Williams,
Reynoldsburg, OH; grandchildren, Billy (Cemonet)
Williams Jr., Milton, WV,
Jessica (Rick) Braswell,
Raleigh, NC, Bryce Nichols, Lenore, Torrin Williams, Sarasota, FL; great-
grandchildren, Taylyn and
Azara Williams, Milton,
WV; special family, Anetta
and Jordan Kolfe, Ragland.
Funeral: 11 a.m. Monday, July 1, 2013, at Little
Dove Baptist Church with
Rev. Jimmy Maynard officiating.
Burial: Williams Family
Estate, Belo.
Pallbearers: family and
friends.
Visitation: 6-9 p.m. this
evening, Sunday, June
30 at Little Dove Baptist
Church.
Online condolences can
be made at ChafinFuneralHome.Com.
Pearl Ross
Williamson
WILLIAMSON — Pearl
Ross Williamson, 94 of
Williamson, WV passed
away Monday, July 1, 2013
at the Appalachian Regional Hospital.
She was born March
2, 1919 in Pike County,
Ky. the daughter of the
late Tom and Idella Fields
Taylor. She was also preceded in death by her first
husband, Victor Ross; her
second husband, K.H. Wil-
liamson; son, Leroy Ross;
daughter, Janet Bowling;
brothers, Julius Taylor,
Thomas Taylor Jr. and Oscar Taylor; sisters, Bertha
Lowe, Opal Sesco, Ruth
Maynard, Maxie Maynard and Birdie Burchett;
daughter-in-law, Maxine
Ross and a granddaughter,
Delores Ann Ross.
Pearl was a retired employee of the Appalachian
Regional Hospital as a
dietician and a member
of the Pilgrim Home Old
Regular Baptist Church.
Survivors include five
grandchildren;
Linda
(Gerry) Heschel and Sharon (Mike) Sears of Port
Clinton, Ohio, Tina (Jamie) Forrest of Columbus,
Ohio, Della (Thomas)
Tinch of Dandridge, TN
and LouAnn Justice of
Williamson, WV; son-inlaw, Thomas Bowling of
Turkey Creek, KY; several
great grandchildren; several great great grandchildren and a host of nieces
and nephews.
Funeral services will be
held Wednesday, July 3,
2013 at 10 AM in the R. E.
Rogers Funeral Home Chapel with Old Regular Baptist Ministers officiating.
Burial will follow in the
Mountain View Memory
Gardens, Huddy, Ky. with
the Old Regular Baptist
Minister serving as pallbearers. Visitation will be
held after 6 PM Tuesday at
the Funeral Home Chapel
with special services at 7
PM. R. E. Rogers Funeral
Home of Belfry is in charge
of arrangements. Online
condolences at www.rerogersfuneralhome.com.
Districts rush to approve higher dropout age
Bruce Schreiner
The Associated Press
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — The
rush among Kentucky school
boards to raise their school
dropout age turned into an early
stampede — set off at least partly by a cash enticement.
Local school boards started
voting last week to increase
the dropout age from 16 to 18,
and within the first two days a
whopping 54 school districts
did so. By Monday morning, 78
districts were on board, closing in on the number needed to
guarantee the policy change is
applied statewide.
Gov. Steve Beshear’s office
and education officials dubbed it
the “Blitz to 96” — the number
of districts needed to sign on to
the change to make it effective
statewide.
A compromise that helped get
the measure through the General Assembly allows districts
to make their own decisions
on raising the dropout age, but
with a provision that once 55
percent of the districts did so,
the change would be made statewide within four years.
“I’m ecstatic that so many
school districts are taking immediate steps to help students
build a better future by encouraging them to stay in school
through graduation,” said Beshear, whose wife, Jane, championed the legislation to increase
the dropout age.
Jane Beshear, a former teacher, said districts approving the
change are “putting faith in their
students and placing a high value
on education.”
Among districts voting to
raise their dropout age, the
change takes effect in the 201516 school year.
The cash enticement to embrace the change came in the
form of $10,000 state grants,
meant to help districts with the
costs of raising the minimum
dropout age.
At the outset, the one-time
grants were offered to the first 57
districts embracing the change.
The $570,000 pool of money
came from a federal dropout-prevention grant.
There were reports some
school boards planned midnight
meetings to make sure they
would receive the grant, which
compelled the Kentucky Department of Education to reassure
districts that such extraordinary
action wasn’t necessary.
Then Beshear last week kicked
in an additional $390,000 from
planning funds appropriated to
the governor in the state budget.
That expanded pool of money guarantees that the first 96
districts accepting the higher
dropout age will receive the
$10,000 payments — coinciding with the number of districts needed to kick in statewide implementation.
Beshear spokeswoman Kerri
Richardson said the planning
funds are meant for projects
“that are of long-term benefit to
the state.”
House Republican Floor
Leader Jeff Hoover had previously questioned the propriety of providing the initial
$570,000 of grants, especially
at a time when the state lacks
sufficient funds to purchase
enough textbooks for students.
Beshear responded at the time
that the money was coming from
a fund for dropout prevention, so
the money wouldn’t have been
used for textbooks.
Rebecca Blessing, a state education department spokeswoman, acknowledged the grants
played a role in the groundswell
of acceptance for the policy
change, but said she hoped local school officials “aren’t doing
it just for the money.” The size
of most school boards’ budgets
makes the $10,000 offer “fairly
minimal,” she said.
“We’d like to think that districts are doing it for the right
reason, and that is to make sure
that all of the kids in their districts are prepared for life after
high school,” she said.
The Leslie County school district in southeastern Kentucky
was part of the initial wave of
districts that approved the higher dropout age.
“We think the right thing to
do is to try to keep our kids in
school, and try to ensure they
have the best chance to be successful,” said Anthony Little, the
director of pupil personnel in the
Appalachian district.
Little said the grant would be
helpful but added, “I don’t know
that it will go very far.” The district plans to use the $10,000 grant
to bolster programs meant to help
keep struggling students on a path
toward earning high school diplomas in four years, he said.
Leslie County’s dropout rate
was under 2 percent for the 201112 school year, below the statewide high school dropout rate.
“We can certainly improve and
we’re striving every day to …
keep kids in school,” Little said.
“Hopefully this is one more tool
that will help keep kids in school
and keep them on track to graduate on time.”
State officials said that high
school graduates live longer, are
less likely to be teen parents and
are more likely to raise healthier,
better-educated children.
Kentucky had a 2.5 percent
dropout rate among public
school students in grades 9
through 12 in the 2011-12
school year, amounting to
4,922 students, according to
state education department statistics. In the 2007-08 school
year, the dropout rate was 3.3
percent, or 6,472 students.
Community Calendar
July 4
Rezo Church will will
hold a community yard
sale on 3rd Ave., at the former location of the Daily
News. Spots are available
for 10 with all proceeds
going to charity. Call the
church at 304 235-1230 or
on Facebook at facebook.
com/Rezochurch.
July 8
Action in Mingo (AIM)
will meet at 4 p.m. on the
Hotline 831-3450
6/28 - 7/2
$5.75 ALL SHOWS BEFORE 6PM
THE HEAT (R)
12:00 - 2:15 - 4:35 - 7:15 - 9:45
WHITE HOUSE DOWN (PG-13)
1:00 - 4:00 - 7:00 - 9:40
WORLD WAR Z 3D (PG-13)
12:05 - 2:20 - 4:40 - 7:20 - 9:50
WORLD WAR Z 2D (PG-13)
1:05 - 4:05 - 7:05 - 9:35
MONSTERS UNIVERSITY 3D (G)
12:20 - 2:40 - 5:00 - 7:25 - 9:45
MONSTERS UNIVERSITY 2D (G)
12:00 - 2:45 - 4:45 - 7:00 - 9:25
MAN OF STEEL 3D (PG13)
4:00 - 7:00
MAN OF STEEL 2D (PG13)
12:30-10:00
THIS IS THE END (R) 12:10-2:20-4:35-7:30-9:55
FREE KidsFlix Weds. 7/3 10 am
BIG MIRACLE (PG)
$2.50 Surcharge On 3D Tickets
second floor at the Williamson Fire Deparment
to discuss the upcoming
King Coal Festival in September. For more info call
vice president Jada Hunter
at 304-235-0909.
July 13
The annual Chattaroy
Junior High Reunion
will be held at the West
Williamson Community
Center (swimming pool)
starting at 6 p.m. All CJHS
alumni are encouraged to
attend. For more info call
304-235-2190.
The Mingo Central Girl’s
Basketball Boosters will
be holding its 2nd annual
Car, Truck and Bike Show
on Saturday, July 13 at the
parking lot of the school.
For more information call
Bob Hammond at 304784-8599, Kim Mayanrd at
475-4216 or Skeeter Runyon at 475-2747.
July 20
The 39th Bower-Belcher
Family Reunion will be
held at Twin Falls State
Park, Shelter #1. Registra-
tion will begin at 10:30
and dinner at 12:30. Please
bring covered dishes to
share. The Reunion committee will furnish drinks,
paper and plastic ware.
The drawings for door
prizes and gifts for children will be after dinner.
July 21
The Bailey Family reunion will be held at Glenwood Park 4H camp
between Princeton and
Bluefield. Registration begins at 10 a.m. A covered
dish dinner will be held at
12:30. For more information call Ronald Bailey at
304 425-0415 or Gene Bailey at 304 887-1183.
July 30 - 31
The Mingo Career Center will hold GED testing
for candidates who have
passed the Official Practice
Test. For more information, contact John Webb at
304-235-3347, ext. 13. To
register for Adult Basic
Education to take the Official Practice Test, contact
Mary Oliver at 304-235-
2022 or email mingoabe@
gmail.com
Aug. 2, 3
The Matewan High
School 1950’s class reunion committee has finalized plans for their annual
reunion. The reunion will
be held Friday and Saturday, August 2 and 3. All
activities will be held at
the Belfry Fire Department, Belfry, Ky. Anyone
that is interested in attending needs to contact one of
the committee members.
They are Hester Keatley
at 304-426- 8077, Dimple
Allara at 304- 426 -4622,
Bill Browning at 304- 4266369, or Chris Atkins 304235-5500.
Oct. 4, 6
The Burch High School
Alumni Association has
set its next reunion date.
According to spokesperson Mary Lake Farley, the
Burch High School Reunion is scheduled for October 4-6, 2013 at the Marriott, Columbus Airport
Hotel, 1375 North Cassady
Ave., Columbus, Ohio. The
fee is $60 per person and
covers all BHS Reunion
activities. To make a room
reservation call 614-475755. Contact Mary Lake
Farley, PO Box 123, New
Albany, OH 43054 or call
614-736-0290 or email
marylfarley2@aol.com for
additional information.
Ongoing
Celebrate
Recovery
meets every Tuesday at
7 p.m. at the Chattaroy
Church of God.
Mingo County Extended
Learning Center at Rt. 2,
Box 52-A, Delbarton, WV
25670 is applying to become a candidate for accreditation with the Commission of the Council on
Occupational Education.
Persons wishing to make
comments should write to
the Executive Director of
the Commission, Council
on Occupational Education, 7840 Roswell Road,
Building 300, Suite 325,
Atlanta, GA 30350. Persons making comments
must provide their names
and mailing addresses.
In preparation for a 50
year class reunion, the
1963 class of Belfry High
School is in need of a current mailing address for
several members of the
class: Thelma Bowen, Redia Scott Liebee, Penny
Smith Holbrook, Brenda
Stafford Tingler, Bonnie
Thompson Davis, Donald
Evans, Billy Bryan Hatfield
and Robert Allen. Please
call if you can assist with
this information 606 2374339, 237-5896, 237-6094
or 606 432-9704.
TOPS (Take Off Pounds
Sensibly) meets Saturdays
at the Jacob’s Well in the
old Cantee’s location on
3rd Avenue in Williamson.
Weigh in is 10 - 11 a.m.,
the program is 11 - noon.
The first visit is free of
charge. For more information call 304 235-3025 or
606 353-6777.
Williamson Public Library preschool story hour
is held every Wednesday at
11 a.m. For more information call the library at 304
235-6029.
TUESDAY, JULY 2, 2013 ■ 3
Nation
Is search for Snowden turning into sideshow?
Sharon Cohen
AP National Writer
Edward Snowden’s continentjumping, hide-and-seek game
seems like the stuff of a pulp
thriller — a desperate man’s
drama played out before a worldwide audience trying to decide if
he’s a hero or a villain.
But the search for the former
National Security Agency contractor who spilled U.S. secrets
has become something of a distracting sideshow, some say,
overshadowing the important
debate over the government’s
power to seize the phone and
Internet records of millions of
Americans to help in the fight
against terrorism.
“You have to be humble on Day
1 to say, ‘This isn’t about me.
This is about the information.’…
I don’t think he really anticipated
the importance of making sure
the focus initially was off him,”
says Mike Paul, president of
MGP & Associates PR, a crisis
management firm in New York.
“Not only has he weakened his
case, some would go as far as to
say he’s gone from hero to zero.”
Snowden, he says, can get
back on track by “utilizing whatever information he has like big
bombs in a campaign,” so the
focus returns to the question of
spying and not his life on the run.
Snowden’s disclosures about
U.S. surveillance to The Guardian newspaper and The Washington Post have created an uproar
in Washington that shows no
signs of fading.
A petition asking President Barack Obama to pardon
Snowden has collected more
than 123,000 signatures.
But the head of the Senate
Intelligence Committee, Sen.
Dianne
Feinstein,
D-Calif.,
meanwhile, has called Snowden’s
disclosure of top-secret information “an act of treason.” House
Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio,
is among those who’ve called
Snowden a “traitor.”
The president has dismissed
the 30-year-old Snowden as a
“hacker” and he had pledged that
the U.S. won’t be scrambling military jets to snatch Snowden and
return him to the U.S., where he
faces espionage charges.
Snowden is possibly holed up in
the wing of a Russian airport hotel
reserved for travelers in transit who
don’t have visas to enter Russia. He
might be waiting to hear whether
Ecuador, Iceland or another country might grant him asylum. He
fled Hong Kong last weekend after
being charged with violating American espionage laws.
Some say Snowden is losing
ground in the battle for public
opinion by cloaking his travels
in secrecy, creating more interest in his efforts to elude U.S.
authorities than his allegations
against the government.
By disappearing in Russia,
he loses “access to rehabilitate
himself in the public’s mind,”
says William Weaver, a professor
at the University of Texas at El
Paso who has written about government secrecy.
“You have to keep selling yourself, if you will, and do it in a smart
way so people don’t get tired of
you. … His only hope was to hit
a grand slam home run with the
public and make it stick. For every
hour that he’s not doing something
like that, he’s in trouble.”
Others say Snowden’s personality is irrelevant and doesn’t
change his major argument —
that U.S. intelligence agencies
have lied about the scope of its
surveillance of Americans.
Gene Healy, a vice president of
the libertarian Cato Institute, recently wrote an essay denouncing
pundits who’ve labeled Snowden
a “grandiose narcissist” and a “total slacker.” He maintains that the
former contractor’s revelations
are all that matters. “The content of the message is far more
important than the character of
the messenger,” he wrote in the
Washington Examiner.
Healy said “the most disturbing” part of Snowden’s disclosures was the massive amounts of
data collected on citizens. “The
potential abuse of that information represents a grave threat to
American liberty and privacy regardless of Snowden’s character
and motivations,” he wrote.
David Colapinto, general
counsel at the National Whistleblowers Center, says it’s not surprising Snowden has become an
“easy target’” facing harsh criticism from those at the highest
levels of government — people
“who have a bigger megaphone
than he does.”
“The name-calling and whatever may happen in the future —
we don’t know what he’s going
to do,” he adds. “We don’t know
what the government is going to
do. … It’s pretty hard to pull out
a crystal ball.”
So far, America seems to be
divided, according to polls taken
in the first days after Snowden’s
leak of top-secret documents.
Many people initially applauded
the former contractor for exposing what they saw as government
spying on ordinary Americans.
Since then, though, government
officials have responded with
explanations of the program and
congressional testimony attest-
ing to the value of surveillance in
thwarting terrorist attacks.
In one poll, a June 12-16 national survey by the Pew Research Center and USA Today, 49
percent of those surveyed said the
release of classified information
about the NSA program serves
the public interest, while 44 percent found it harmful. For those
under 30, the gap was dramatically larger. That group said it’s good
for the public by a 60-34 percent
margin, according to the survey.
Still, 54 percent also said the
government should pursue a
criminal case against someone
who leaked classified information about the program.
A second survey taken in that
same five-day period found a
similar split. The Washington
Post-ABC news poll found that
43 percent support and 48 percent oppose criminally charging
Snowden. But the survey also reported that 58 percent of Americans support the NSA’s sweeping
surveillance program.
Snowden has acknowledged
taking highly classified documents about U.S. surveillance
and sharing the information with
the papers in Britain and Washington. He also told the South
China Morning Post that the NSA
hacked Chinese cellphone companies to seek text message data.
Continued from front
Arrests
Donation
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glary, grand larceny and destruction of property. According to the criminal complaint,
the defendant allegedly cut the telephone
line connected to the residence of Jimmy
Wolford, and then proceeded to throw a
landscaping stone through the glass of the
back door and gained entrance. Once inside, the defendant is reported to have stolen more than $500 in currency and change,
a Ruger .22 caliber match pistol valued at
$250; a Ruger 9 mm pistol valued at $549;
a Remington 870 shotgun valued at $300
and a Fuji Digital Camera with an estimated
value of $250.
Wolford was arraigned before Chief Magistrate Dallas Toler and was released from
custody after meeting the stipulations and
requirements of his $5,500 bond.
Doug Hunt, 39, of Delbarton was arrested on charges of battery and brandishing a deadly weapon by Delbarton Chief
D. Nunley and Patrolmen D.R. Davis and
G.D. Ford. The arrest stemmed from an
altercation that occurred between the
defendant and another man. During the
fight, Hunt was reported to have pulled a
firearm on Julianna Hensley, putting her
in fear for her life.
Hunt was arraigned before Magistrate
Pam Newsome and was released after
posting a $1,500 bond.
Jordan Belcher, of North Matewan, was
taken into custody by MCSD Lt. J. Ferris
on a charge of domestic battery, 3rd offense, after responding to a domestic disturbance call. Belcher is accused of going
to the residence of his ex-wife in an intoxicated state, where he allegedly turned over
her grill, hit her, cursed her and physically
shoved both her and her daughter. The defendant had prior convictions of domestic
battery on 06-16-06 and 07-02-07.
Jordan was arraigned by Chief Magistrate Toler and was transported to the
Southwestern Regional Jail at Holden
where he remains on a $3,000 bond.
From Page 1
will include musical entertainment, door prizes and
special sales in all of the
participating stores.
The BVFD will be in
place at all entrances
to the Southside Mall
throughout the day on
Wednesday,
collecting
money at the roadblocks
that will be utilized to
pay for the celebration.
The firemen invite everyone to come out and
be a part of the holiday
celebration that has been
enjoyed throughout the
past years.
Also on the evening of
July 3, Team Moore encourages everyone to stop
by their Goody, Ky. loca-
tion beside of Food City
with your family to see
their new showroom and
to take advantage of many
free activities planned for
all age groups.
“We’re going to be
serving free food and
drinks, and we’re going
to have inflatables for
the kids and a dunking
booth,” said Hodge. “We
plan on having two different bands that will be
entertaining the crowd,
plus we will be giving
away gas cards at 7 p.m.
and 8 p.m., plus a flat
screen television at 9
p.m. You do have to be
present to win.”
Hodge spoke with the
Daily News about his employer’s generous dona-
tion that will pay a good
portion of the fireworks
display, stating that Team
Moore is very community
oriented and said they
were happy to be a part of
the celebration.
“We know that with the
declining job market, there
are a lot of families that
can’t afford to take vacations,” said Hodge. “With
that being said, it pleases
us to know that we have
done our share to make
sure that everyone has the
opportunity to come out
and spend a cost-free evening that includes state-ofthe-art fireworks.
“Giving back to the
communities that keep
our doors open is what
it’s all about.”
his future, his prospects
for a job, for college.”
Following Dill was Pastor Wright who urged the
crowd to what was correct.
“My Bible says marriage
is between a man and a
woman. My Bible says parents raise their children.
We teach children from
a young age which way
to go and when they get
older they will not depart.
It does not say sent them
to school to be indoctrinated with a whole bunch
of stuff that you know is
not right,” Wright said. “As
Americans, as parents, as
people… we have too… it
is imperative, that we stand
up and do what we know to
be correct. Not politically
correct, but biblically and
constitutionally correct.”
Marcum’s attorney, Ben
White, was the final speaker.
“Yesterday was a great
day for Jared. Yesterday
was a great day for all of
you,” White said. “Frankly,
we couldn’t have done it
without all of the support
from people like you and
all the different groups.
We really, really appreciate
your support and your continued fight.”
White said Thursday
brought closure to what, in
his opinion, was ridiculous
charges over a 14-year-old
who was just trying to explain his side of the story.
“The big fight begins today. We want, mostly, for
your continued fight for
Jared and his family and
our office and our fight
to take this to the school
board to deal with policy
issues…,” White said.
White said he had
watched the video of the
incident several times with
Jared’s family and with the
news media.
“Jared didn’t act out. We
have witnesses that may collaborate that,” White said.
Marcum did not make a
public appearance.
Rally
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“People, we are under
invasion,” Lardieri began.
“I’ve spoken with several
parents who contacted
me with stories like you
wouldn’t believe.”
Lardieri said events
like Marcum’s happening
on the average 12 times a
month. Reports of children
being suspended for bringing a squirt gun to school,
bring cupcakes to school
with images of army soldiers and for drawing a
picture of his father, who
is in the military service,
holding a rifle.
“The worse one I have
heard so far is the hearing
impaired kid, a kid by the
name of Hunter, is asked
to have his name changed
because the universal sign
for his name is this motion,” Lardieri said, as he
formed his hand into the
shape of a pistol.
Lardieri said that there
is a systematic invasion
going on in our educational system.
“Controlling the school
system is called social engineering,” Lardieri said.
“It is instilling and forcing
the mindset on a youth so
that as they grow up it becomes their ideology.
Lardieri urged parents
to talk with their children
and to keep abreast of what
was going on with them at
school and what they were
being taught.
“Watch, be observant
and listen to your kids,”
Lardieri said. “We are under invasion. Be ever vigilant, be vocal and let the
school board know ‘no’ we
don’t want you social engi-
neering our kids. We don’t
want you to take away our
(parents) values and put in
your own. Just stick with
the curriculum.”
Adkins then told the
crowd that he had been told
that it wasn’t very appropriate for Marcum to have
worn that shirt to school.
“Let me ask you this…
are you going to ban the
West Virginia University mascot on shirts in
schools? What are we going to do about the West
Virginia state flag? Are we
going to ban the flag from
schools because it has
cross rifles on it?” Adkins
said. “The Marine emblem, the Army emblem…
they all depict rifles.”
Dupree said that Marcum should not have
gone through what he
went through.
“The liberals have decided they can do what
they want to because our
voice is small,” Dupree
said. “…we need to take
back our schools. We need
to take back jobs. We need
to take back our churches.
We need to take back our
lives. Because right now,
the Democrats, the liberals
— even some Republicans
— think they can infringe
on our rights. Our rights
shall not be infringed.”
Dupree said Marcum
stood for freedom of
speech and an attempt was
made to shut him up.
“We cannot accept
that, and just because
the charges have been
dropped doesn’t mean
that it isn’t going to happen to somebody else,”
Dupree said. “That’s why
this is important today.”
Dupree said that our children are being destroyed.
“They are doing it
through pop culture, they
are doing it with these
reality shows and they’re
doing it through their music,” Dupree said.
Dupree said what had
happened in Logan was a
template.
“America needs to see this
template. You all stood behind Jared and the more cities and towns see you standing up then they will stand
up,” Dupree said. “Show
America that we stand together… and that we are
going to stand together to
protect this country.”
Delegate Joshua Nelson
was the next to speak.
Nelson said he became involved in the Marcum incident because of his son.
“How is it going to be in
10 years when my boy is
14? If some teacher tries to
tell my boy to turn his ‘protect your rights’ T-shirt inside out, that isn’t going to
fly with me,” Nelson said.
Nelson told the crowd to
stand up, get involved, and
stay involved.
“And the next time they
try to tell a 14-year-old kid
he can’t stand for his Constitutional right, they will
think twice,” Nelson said.
Also attending the rally
was Sean Dill with the West
Virginia Civilian Defense
League (WVCDL). The
WVCDL describes itself
as “West Virginia’s largest
pro-gun lobbying group, is a
non-partisan, non-profit, allvolunteer, grassroots organization of concerned West
Virginians who support our
individual right to keep and
bear arms for defense of self,
family, home and state, and
for lawful hunting and recreational use, as guaranteed
by Article III, §22 of the
West Virginia Constitution
and the Second Amendment of the Constitution of
the United States.”
“This past year has been
huge for gun rights. We’ve
had ups and we’ve had
downs,” Dill said. “We got
a record number of pro gun
bills signed into law… five
pro gun bills are now law.”
Dills said that every time
a tragedy happens that involves a firearm, like the
Connecticut shootings, anti-gun “vultures” that start
stand on top of the dead
people’s bodies and use
them to push their agenda.
“Vultures like our own
Joe Manchin. Hours after
this tragedy, he gets his
ugly mug on TV, he says
now nobody needs more
than three shells in their
rifle for deer hunting,” Dill
said. “You know what Joe?
It’s not about deer hunting,
brother. Not one line in the
Second Amendment mentions deer.”
Dills, recalling the numerous accounts of children being suspended from school,
said he was glad that he
lived in West Virginia.
“I used to be glad I like in
West, by God, Virginia, because that won’t happen in
my state,” Dill said. “Folks,
I am here today because it
did happen here. This time
the anti-gun folks I mentioned is the Logan County school board. Now we
have a teacher and city officials harassing a 14-yearold boy all because he wore
a shirt they didn’t agree
with. They are threatening
Congratulations 2013 South Point Ohio Graduate
Jordan Scott Marcum
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wonderful young
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WE LOVE YOU!
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Editorial
Clearer educational
standards are a must
West Virginia’s continued progress toward
implementing educational goals known as Common Core State Standards is the right move, despite complaints of critics who allege ominous
motives for the program.
The main criticisms, advanced by tea party
groups, appear to be unfounded and basically
discard the logical benefits of implementing
the Common Core Standards in West Virginia.
Fortunately, the state’s Department of Education is moving ahead in developing, adopting and implementing the standards.
The Common Core State Standards initiative
is a state-led effort to establish clear educational
standards for kindergarten through 12th grade in
English language arts and mathematics. The initiative was launched and continues to be led by the
National Governors Association and the Council of
Chief State School Officers, with input from teachers, parents, school administrators and experts
from across the country along with state leaders.
States can voluntarily adopt the standards,
and 45 have done so already. The end goal is
to provide clear year-to-year objectives about
what students should learn, as well as seeing
that they are adequately prepared to continue
their education or enter the workforce after
graduating from high school.
Critics contend, however, that the Common
Core State Standards represent an attempted
takeover of education by the federal government. In addition, they allege that gathering
information about students and their performance in meeting the standards amounts to
“data mining” for improper purposes, such as
profiteering. Some fear that the system is — or
will be — used to collect information related to
religious and political backgrounds or leanings.
State education officials contend that’s not
true — that collection of information will be
the same as it has been in the past. …
There’s no question that West Virginia’s
schools and students must improve their performance. The state lags most other states in most
educational achievement rankings. Adoption
of the Common Core State Standards should
allow the state’s educational system to benefit
from best practices and proven strategies from
around the country. To reject that opportunity
based on so-far groundless fears of a national
takeover or “data mining” would only shortchange the state’s children.
— Distributed by The Associated Press
■
What Jefferson wrought
such thing as a natuIf only all congressioral ruling class. Put
nal committees were so
another way, it tells
inspired.
us, as Jefferson wrote
The
committee
near the end of his
charged with putting to
life, “that the mass of
paper the reasons the
mankind has not been
Continental
Congress
born with saddles on
had resolved to declare
their backs nor a faindependence from Britvored few booted and
ain turned to Thomas Jefspurred, ready to ride
ferson to do its drafting.
them legitimately by
If the reasons for that
the grace of God.”
choice weren’t particuIn spelling out our
larly profound — Jeffer“unalienable right” to
son’s talents as a writer
Rich Lowry
“life, liberty, and the
were widely recognized,
Syndicated
pursuit of happiness,”
and no one thought the
it anchors our very
declaration as important
Columnist
humanity in the right
as other pressing revoto self-determination.
lutionary business — its
Jefferson amended the traditional
consequences assuredly were.
Jefferson’s work of a few days was trinity of “life, liberty, and property”
for the ages. John Adams had hand- by inserting the pursuit of happiness
ed the writing over to the Virginian in recognition that property is only
while he led the floor debate over a means to that larger end. “What is
independence — and came to regret important is the colonists’ liberty to
do what they believe necessary and
the missed opportunity for glory.
But Jefferson’s words were more useful with their lives,” historian
than rhetorical theatrics; they laid Robert Webking writes.
In saying that “governments are
the philosophical bedrock of the
American republic. In the space of instituted among men” in order “to
three magnificent sentences in its secure these rights,” it grounds the
preamble, the declaration packs authority of government in the proenough content to fill volumes of tection of our freedom.
Finally, in stipulating that
treatises on political theory.
In declaring that “all men are cre- “whenever any form of governated equal,” it insists that there’s no ment becomes destructive to these
ends, it is the right of the people
to alter or abolish it,” it asserts the
right to revolution. The rest of the
document details the long train of
abuses by the British government
that justifies the colonists’ assertion of this right.
All of this was a direct steal from
the natural-rights philosophy of John
Locke. These Lockean premises
were so widely accepted among revolutionary leaders that the preamble
— which has never lost its power
to awe and to command the reader’s
assent — was adopted by the Continental Congress with nary a peep of
protest. “Neither aiming at originality of principles or sentiments,” Jefferson later wrote of the declaration,
“it was intended to be an expression
of the American mind.”
“All honor to Jefferson,” Lincoln
once proclaimed, “to the man who,
in the concrete pressure of a struggle for national independence by
a single people, had the coolness,
forecast, and capacity to introduce
into a merely revolutionary document, an abstract truth, and so to
embalm it there, that today and in
all coming days, it shall be a rebuke
and a stumbling block to the very
harbingers of reappearing tyranny
and oppression.” Amen.
Rich Lowry is editor of the National Review.
(c) 2013 by King Features Synd., Inc.
Editorial opinions from around Ohio
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Excerpts of recent editorials of statewide and national interest from
Ohio newspapers:
The Columbus
Dispatch, July 1
Wasn’t the Affordable Care Act
supposed to be so necessary and
sought-after that it would sell itself?
The Obama administration is
taking no chances: It is embarking
on a multimillion-dollar marketing push, particularly directed at
younger people.
Federal officials hope to involve
the NFL and NBA in its propaganda campaign, and states are
enlisting helpers to canvass — labor unions, community-organizing
groups and other traditional liberal
supporters — which also involves
awarding them millions of dollars
in grants….
In addition to this outreach, enrollment “assisters” at community
organizations, unions and health
clinics will be paid $58 for each
enrollee, and also will aid people
in signing up for welfare and food
stamps. As required by the Motor
Voter Act signed by President Bill
Clinton in 1993, enrollees in state
exchanges also will be asked if they
want to register to vote.
These groups are going to have a
tough job persuading the public of
the virtues of the law.
A new Gallup poll released
last week found that 52 percent
of Americans disapprove of the
health-care overhaul versus 44 percent who approve….
With public opinion downbeat
and some of the worst news about
climbing costs and premium rates
just coming out, backers are now
turning to a program of shaming
and hectoring people — especially
the young, who will be stuck with
the largest increases in individual
premiums, with little to gain —
into buying insurance. And many
of the groups doing the hectoring
just happen to be political allies of
the administration.
The Marietta
Times, June 29
Basic freedoms — the ones
cited in the Declaration of Independence and guaranteed by the
Constitution and Bill of Rights
— were given a lot of thought by
our nation’s founders. For the first
few decades of the United States
of America’s existence, whether
actions by presidents and congresses met the strict tests of liberty the founders used was a primary consideration among both
national and state leaders.
That does not seem to be the
case now. For many years, freedoms
once taken for granted by Americans have been traded, sometimes
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security. Much of the erosion of our
liberties came as result of the Sept.
11, 2001, terrorist attacks. The executive branch of government was
given enormous power, beyond
even what has been granted during
some of our declared wars, in the
name of national security.
But as U.S. Sen. Joe Manchin
pointed out, the same commission
that investigated the 9/11 attacks
and recommended new security
measures also stressed they should
come with safeguards for our liberties. The panel recommended
creation of a White House Office
of Civil Liberties. Neither former
President George W. Bush nor incumbent President Barack Obama
followed through….
Some of the worst infringements
of civil liberties brought to light
during recent weeks have originated in that Cabinet department,
with Attorney General Eric Holder’s approval.
A new, independent office of
civil rights, functioning somewhat
as inspectors general do in uncovering and publicizing other types
of abuses in government, should be
established.
The Cincinnati
Enquirer, June 28
1,138.
That’s the number of federal
benefits, rights and privileges
granted to married people or af-
fected by marital status. Things
like lower estate taxes and increased veterans’ benefits, breaks
on immigration status and the
right to family medical leave.
Wednesday’s Supreme Court
decision striking down the Defense of Marriage Act makes
those benefits available to
same-sex couples who are married in states that recognize
their unions….
The question of whether or how
the decision affects local couples
is trickier. Ohio, Kentucky and Indiana all ban marriages between
two people of the same sex, so local
couples won’t automatically receive
any federal benefits. As for local
couples who marry in a state that
recognizes same-sex marriages, the
status of the benefit depends on
who’s granting it….
In the meantime local residents
will continue to debate the issue. It’s worth noting that, while
Ohio, Kentucky and Indiana all
ban same-sex marriage, Ohio’s is
by far the most sweeping of the
three, and indeed one of the most
sweeping in the nation….
Have
(attitudes)
changed
enough to support upending laws
that govern who can marry here?
A group called FreedomOhio is
gathering signatures to place the
issue on the ballot, but organizers
expect it will be 2014 before they
can launch a campaign….
So while the Supreme Court’s
decisions Wednesday are hailed as
milestones, they are not the end of
the debate. In Ohio and Kentucky,
at least, the issue seems destined to
be with us for a while.
Lancaster
Eagle-Gazette, July 1
July 1 marks the 150th anniversary of the beginning of the battle
of Gettysburg, widely regarded as
the turning point in the Civil War.
On one level, it’s difficult today
to imagine such deep divisions
that led to Americans fighting with
themselves, sometimes with brothers fighting on opposite sides. But
in many ways, America today has
divisions every bit as deep as those
the country experienced in the mid1800s. The question is, what are we
going to do about it?
There are many symptoms. Any
hint of the federal government
attempting to regulate firearms
sends some to talk about rebelling
before giving up a gun, even when
taking guns isn’t the suggestion.
Outrage wars with frustration every time a new tax is passed. Recent scandals involving the IRS
and the monitoring of cell phones
by the government leave many
with a cold chill, wondering what
they don’t yet know about.
The root of the problem is that
most Americans no longer trust
their government….
Region
White House has coal country on the defensive
Matthew Brown
COLSTRIP, Mont. — After several years of taking a beating from
the poor economy, new pollution
rules and a flood of cheap natural
gas, the coal industry was on the
rebound this year as mining projects moved forward in the Western U.S. and demand for the fuel
began to rise, especially in Asia.
But almost overnight, coal is
back on the defensive, scrambling to stave off a dark future amid President Barack
Obama’s renewed push to rein
in climate change.
The proposal, with its emphasis on cuts in carbon dioxide
emissions from new and existing
power plants, would put facilities
like the 2,100 megawatt Colstrip
electricity plant in eastern Montana in regulators’ cross hairs.
That has profound spin-off implications for the massive strip
mines that dot the surrounding
arid landscape of the Powder
River Basin and provide the bulk
of the nation’s coal.
Montana’s sole member of the
U.S. House of Representatives
bluntly declared that the administration had decided to “pick
winners and losers” in the energy
sector with its plan. “He wants to
move toward shutting down the
coal industry,” Republican Rep.
Steve Daines said of the president.
Energy Secretary Ernest
Moniz and representatives of
the Environmental Protection
Agency rejected claims that the
administration’s plan would exclude coal. They pointed to billions of dollars being spent by
the government on technologies
to decrease emissions by capturing and storing carbon dioxide
from coal plants.
Yet widespread application
of those technologies is years
away, and Obama made clear
in announcing his proposal that
he intends to halt the “limitless
dumping of carbon pollution”
from power plants. He directed
the Environmental Protection
Agency to craft rules to make
that happen.
The Colstrip plant, which
dominates the skyline of a coalcentered town by the same
name, burns about 10 million
tons of coal a year from a nearby
mine and provides power to customers as far away as Seattle.
According to the EPA, the
plant churned out more than
15 million tons of carbon dioxide in 2011, the latest year for
which data was available. That’s
roughly equivalent to the emissions from about 3 million cars
running for a year.
On Monday, as Colstrip’s tow-
ering smokestacks poured out
a constant plume of steam and
smoke into otherwise blue skies,
pipefitter Joe Ashworth, 60, was
nearby packing up his RV. He
spent the past two months working on a maintenance project at
the plant. The traveling union
worker said people in the coal industry were nervous that efforts
to curb emissions could cost jobs
and drive up electricity prices.
“Go green sure. But do you
have an electrical vehicle that
will pull my trailer so I can make
a living?” he asked.
Despite a frequently heard boast
that the state has more coal than
anywhere else in the U.S., antipathy
toward the administration’s plan is
not universal in Montana. One of
Daines’ predecessors, former Rep.
Pat Williams, said last week that
warming temperatures pointed to
a “doomsday” scenario if carbon
emissions were not addressed.
Others maintain that the worries over lost jobs are overstated.
On Tuesday, the Natural Resources Defense Council plans
to release a report detailing new
jobs that would be created because of all the work needed to
retrofit plants such as Colstrip.
The environmental group said
its analysis of the administration’s plan shows 3,600 jobs in
Montana alone.
W.Va. boy crafts Lego projects
Charlotte Ferrell Smith
Charleston Daily Mail
CHARLESTON — David Blessing,
9, already has a good background for
his dream career.
“I want to design Legos,” he said.
David would rather build things
with Legos than play video games.
His favorite class is math, a plus because it’s important to have the correct number of pieces before a Lego
construction project begins, he said.
For those who would like to see
some of his elaborate projects, David
is holding Lego workshops at several
area libraries along with assistance
from his family.
He has already held workshops at
two branches of the Kanawha County
Public Library, including Cross Lanes
and Elk Valley. Upcoming events will
be 6 p.m. July 1 at St. Albans; 6 p.m.
July 8 at the main library in downtown
Charleston; 6 p.m. July 15 at Sissonville; and 6 p.m. July 22 at Riverside.
Attendees may see David’s Lego
trains, which are motorized and run
along tracks made of Legos.
David got his love for trains from
his father, Andrew Blessing, and
grandfather, Ron Blessing, of Sissonville. Both are interested in regular
model railroading.
David lives in Charleston with his
parents and sister, 7-year-old Emily.
His mother, Olivia Bradshaw, is branch
children’s manager at Cross Lanes.
His family is helping move all the
Lego creations from one branch to the
other as the workshops continue. The
family works together to construct
elaborate Lego trains, buildings, airplanes, people, vehicles, animals, and
various other items. Some of these
items will be displayed along with the
trains to add interesting detail.
The Grand Emporium is a threelevel structure with 2,182 pieces.
David said his Dad helped with this
structure that includes things like a
toy department, revolving door, escalator, ice cream stand, mailbox, house
wares section, and numerous other
miniature details.
David began collecting Legos when
he was just a toddler. They come in
various sizes and complexities to fit
different age groups.
“Part of David’s collection was
handed down from when I was a
child,” his mother said.
Some of his newest sets are fairly
complicated but he can work with
them as long as he follows instructions. He rarely needs help.
David, who will be 10 on Aug. 24,
will be a fifth-grader at Ruffner Elementary in the fall.
Those who attend the workshops
will gain tips for building and may
see his elaborate completed projects.
They will also get a chance to build.
An 18-gallon tub filled with Legos
will be available for attendees to try
their hand at construction.
Bradshaw said the Lego program
fits nicely with the summer library
theme “Reading is Math Magical.”
Check the site www.kanawhalibrary.
org for activities.
Space is limited in the Lego workshops. To register, call the local
branch where you wish to attend.
Grimes to challenge Sen. McConnell in ‘14
Roger Alford
FRANKFORT, Ky. —
Kentucky Secretary of State
Alison Lundergan Grimes
said Monday she will seek
to challenge Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell
next year, ending the long
search by Democrats to find
a competitive challenger to
the five-term Republican.
Grimes, who had been
touted as the Democrats’
best hope of unseating McConnell, began seriously
considering the race after
actress Ashley Judd opted
out in March.
The 34-year-old Grimes
launched her bid with
stinging criticism of the
71-year-old McConnell, the
longest-serving U.S. senator in Kentucky history.
“I agree with thousands
of Kentuckians that Kentucky is tired of 28 years of
obstruction, that Kentucky
is tired of someone who
has voted against raising
the minimum wage while
all the while quadrupling
his own net worth,” Grimes
told reporters. “Kentucky
is tired of a senior senator
that has lost touch with
Kentucky issues, voters
and their values.”
McConnell, meanwhile, released a statement saying he
looks forward to “a respectful exchange of ideas” with
Grimes, whom he described
as President Barack Obama’s
Kentucky candidate.
“The
next
sixteen
months will provide a
great opportunity for Kentuckians to contrast a liberal agenda that promotes
a war on coal families
and government-rationed
health care with someone
who works every day to
protect Kentuckians from
those bad ideas,” McConnell said. “Together we’ve
invested a lot to ensure
that Kentucky’s voice in
the U.S. Senate is heard
from the front of the line
rather than the back-bench
and I intend to earn the
support to keep it there.”
A lawyer whose father
once headed the state
Democratic party, Grimes,
a lawyer, was first elected
in 2011, when she won
61 percent of the vote.
Former Democratic Party
Chairman Bill Garmer and
Kentucky environmental
attorney Tom FitzGerald
had also eyed the race on
the Democratic side, had
both had said they would
run only if Grimes didn’t.
Three longshot Democrats already have declared
their intentions to run.
Defeating McConnell
would be the Democrats’
biggest prize of the 2014
election. He has been an
outspoken critic of Obama
and would move up to Senate majority leader should
Republicans recapture the
Senate in 2014. His seat is
one of 14 that Republicans
are defending next year,
while Democrats try to
hold onto 21.
Grimes met privately
with supporters, including
two former Democratic
governors and several
state lawmakers, before announcing her decision.
The
announcement
came just days after the
conservative group Kentuckians for Strong Leadership began running a TV
spot attacking Grimes as
a cheerleader for Obama.
The ad began airing in the
Louisville, Lexington and
Paducah markets last week
and was scheduled to continue through July 11.
Among utilities elsewhere in
the country, the trend away from
coal has been well underway over
the past several years. Rock-bottom natural gas prices — coupled
with huge price-tags to clean up
mercury and other pollutants
from burning coal — drove many
utilities to simply switch fuels.
Those pressures finally started
to ease this year: Demand from
utilities started to rise as coal
stockpiles dwindled. Proposals
for major new mines by Cloud
Peak Energy and Arch Coal, Inc.
gained traction. And coal finally
started to reclaim its competitive
edge as gas prices rose.
Colstrip is among those plants
that have remained open, in
part due to heavy capital investments. That includes $88 million
spent on air pollution controls
since 2000, according to PPL
Montana, which co-owns the
360-employee plant and operates
it on behalf of five other utilities.
Carbon dioxide controls would
cost far more: $430 million to install the equipment, plus annual
operating and maintenance costs
of $900 million, according to a
PPL study from several years ago.
That would equate to $53 for
every ton of coal burned, the
company said. That’s about five
times the price of the fuel itself
in the nearby Powder River Ba-
sin, according to pricing information from the Energy Information Administration.
Still, PPL representatives and
others in the industry see room
for maneuvering before carbon
capture becomes mandated. Key
details of the administration’s plan
still must be worked out, including
the scope of emissions cuts and
their timetable. The broad goal is
to achieve a 17 percent reduction
in greenhouse gas emissions below 2005 levels by 2020.
Assuming the goal doesn’t
shift, the key question will
be how those reductions are
spread among different sectors
of the economy, from transportation and power production,
to manufacturing.
Even without the president’s latest announcement, the Supreme
Court ruled five years that carbon
dioxide and other greenhouse
gases are pollutants that the government must regulate, said Quin
Shea, vice president of the Edison
Electric Institute, which represents
investor-owned utilities in the U.S.
and has worked with the administration on the climate issue.
“A lot of our friends in other industries and states and on (Capitol) Hill miss the fact that this
isn’t optional,” Shea said. “At the
end of the day, we will be protecting as much coal as we can.”
Red Cross issues safety tips
Staff Report
It’s time for Fourth of
July celebrations – fireworks, a backyard barbecue, maybe a trip to the
pool, river or lake. Whatever people have planned,
the American Red Cross
wants them to enjoy their
holiday and has steps they
can follow to be safe.
“We want everyone to
have a great holiday, and a
safe one,” said Erica Mani,
CEO of the West Virginia
Region. “Whether the weekend will involve fireworks,
grilling or spending time in
the water, we have safety
tips everyone can follow.”
• Fireworks Safety — The
safest way to enjoy fireworks
is to attend a public fireworks
show put on by professionals. Stay at least 500 feet
away from the show. Many
states outlaw most fireworks. If someone is setting
fireworks off at home, they
should follow these safety
steps: Never give fireworks
to small children, and always
follow the instructions on the
packaging. Keep a supply of
water close by as a precaution. Make sure the person
lighting fireworks always
wears eye protection. Light
only one firework at a time
and never attempt to relight
“a dud.” Store fireworks in
a cool, dry place away from
children and pets. Never
throw or point a firework
toward people, animals, vehicles, structures or flammable materials. Leave any
area immediately where
untrained amateurs are
using fireworks.
• Grilling Safety — Every year people in this
country are injured while
using backyard charcoal
or gas grills. Follow these
steps to safely cook up
treats for the backyard barbecue: Always supervise a
barbecue grill when in use.
Never grill indoors – not in
your house, camper, tent,
or any enclosed area. Make
sure everyone, including
the pets, stays away from
the grill. Keep the grill
out in the open, away from
the house, the deck, tree
branches, or anything that
could catch fire. Use the
long-handled tools especially made for cooking on
the grill to keep the chef
safe. Never add charcoal
starter fluid when coals
have already been ignited.
Always follow the manufacturer’s
instructions
when using grills.
• Water Safety — If
someone’s holiday includes
swimming in the lake, river
or pool obey the following
safety tips: Keep alert for
local weather conditions.
Swim sober and always
swim with a buddy. Have
young children and inexperienced swimmers wear a
Coast Guard-approved life
jacket. Protect the neck –
don’t dive headfirst. Keep
a close eye and constant
attention on children and
adults while near water.
Additional water safety
tips are available at redcross.org/watersafetytips
• Sun Protection — Limit exposure to direct sunlight between 10 a.m. and
4 p.m., and wear a broadspectrum sunscreen with a
protection factor of at least
15. Reapply sunscreen often. Remember to drink
plenty of water regularly,
even if not thirsty. Avoid
drinks with alcohol or caffeine in them. Protect the
eyes by wearing sunglasses
that will absorb 100 percent
of UV sunlight. Protect the
feet - the sand can burn
them and glass and other
sharp objects can cut them.
During hot weather,
watch for signs of heat
stroke — hot, red skin;
changes in consciousness;
rapid, weak pulse; rapid,
shallow breathing. If it’s
suspected someone is suffering from heat stroke:
Call 9-1-1 and move the
person to a cooler place.
Quickly cool the body by
applying cool, wet cloths
or towels to the skin (or
misting it with water) and
fanning the person. Watch
for signs of breathing problems and make sure the
airway is clear. Keep the
person lying down.
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Nation
Deadly heat continues in west; wildfire danger high
(AP) A punishing and deadly
heat wave is roasting the Western
U.S., toppling all-time high temperature records in a wide area
extending from Arizona to the Pacific Northwest. On Sunday, Las
Vegas tied its all-time mark with
a high temperature of a sizzling
117°F, and the heat is expected to
last at least through midweek.
The heat wave is affecting areas that are already coping with
extreme drought conditions, and
the hot and dry weather, combined with dry thunderstorms,
has helped set off deadly wildfires — including the deadly Yarnell Hill fire in Arizona. That fire
has destroyed at least 200 homes
and led to the deaths of 19
specially-trained firefighters on
Sunday, in the deadliest wildland
firefighting event since 1933,
when 29 firefighters were killed
battling a blaze in Los Angeles.
The National Weather Service is
warning that the heat, combined
with more thunderstorms, may
spark additional wildfires this
week across the West, and may
also contribute to extreme wildfire
behavior, such as the conditions
that overtook the firefighters.
The heat wave is threatening the
all-time world-high temperature
record of 134°F, set at Death Valley, Calif., in 1913. Forecasts show
high temperatures flirting with
130-degrees there on Monday and
Tuesday, but probably not reaching or exceeding the all-time mark.
On June 30, the 129°F at Death
The heat wave is threatening the
all-time world-high temperature record
of 134°F, set at Death Valley, Calif., in 1913.
Valley tied the record for the highest temperature on record there in
the month of June. Records there
extend back to 1911.
The heat wave is also making
its presence known in national
temperature statistics. During
the June 24-29 period, there were
46 monthly high-temperature records set or tied in the U.S., along
with 21 records for the highest
overnight minimum temperature.
During the same period there
were 13 all-time high temperature
records set or tied across the U.S.,
along with three all-time marks
for the highest overnight low
temperature. With more records
set on June 30 and likely to come
through July 4, the national numbers are bound to increase.
In Las Vegas, the National
Weather Service called the
117°F on June 30, “The jackpot of Las Vegas record-high
temperatures.” It was Las Vegas’ highest temperature in
the month of June, topping the
old mark of 116°F set on June
15, 1940. Las Vegas also had
its warmest June on record,
with an average temperature of
91.5°F. Official records in Las
Vegas date back to 1937.
Record-high
temperatures
have also been set in California’s
Central Valley, Oregon, Washington, and Utah, among other
states. For example, Sacramento,
Calif., reached 107°F on Saturday, its daily high record. Other
parts of the West are also roasting, with Salt Lake City seeing
back-to-back days of the hottest
temperature on record there,
with highs on Friday and Saturday reaching 105°F.
At Needles, Calif., the 122°F
on Sunday set a record for the
first time that location has ever
had three straight days of 120°F
or greater heat in the month of
June. The previous day, Needles
reached a high of 123°F, which
broke its all-time mark for the
month of June. Records for Needles date back to 1888.
A similar record was set in
Kingman, Ariz., where the
June 28-30 period was the first
time it recorded three straight
days with high temperatures of
100°F or greater.
The heat wave is the result of
a massive dome of high pressure
that has rerouted the jet stream
from the Pacific Ocean northward
into Canada, preventing storms
and cooler air from surging south,
and locking the already drought-
stricken West into an extended
bout of sizzling temperatures.
While each heat wave has ties
to short-term weather variability, increasingly common and
intense heat waves are one of
the most well-understood consequences of manmade global
warming, since as global average surface temperatures increase, the probability of extreme heat events increases by
a greater amount.
Data already suggests that
heat waves have are becoming
more common worldwide, and
the Western U.S. in general has
been warming faster than the
rest of the country in recent decades. In fact, Arizona was the
fastest-warming state in the continental U.S. since 1970.
One study, published in the
Proceedings of the American
Academy of Sciences in 2012,
found that the odds of extremely
hot summers have significantly
increased in tandem with global
temperatures. Those odds, the
study found, were about 1-in-300
during the 1951-1980 timeframe,
but that had increased to nearly
1-in-10 by 1981-2010.
Another study to be published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters found that
manmade global warming has
increased the chances of Australians experiencing extremely
hot summers by more than five
times, and is likely to raise the
odds by even more in the coming
decades. Australia experienced
its hottest summer on record in
2012-2013, which also featured
destructive wildfires and floods.
Extreme heat also poses a major public health threat, since
extreme heat is the No. 1 weather-related killer in the U.S. The
NWS has warned that little relief
from the hot temperatures can
be expected at night, especially
in urban areas, and at least one
heat-related death has been recorded in Las Vegas.
Heightening public health
concerns is the lack of any
nighttime relief from the heat.
On June 30, for example, the
low temperature in Phoenix was
91°F, which tied the record-high
minimum temperature for the
date. In Las Vegas, the temperature only fell to 89°F on June 30,
which tied the all-time record
high minimum temperature for
the month of June.
In addition to the threat to
public health, the hot weather is
also complicating transportation
in parts of the West. According
to the New York Times, Phoenixbased US Airways grounded 18
of its regional flights because the
manufacturer of the jets had not
produced performance statistics
for the aircraft at temperatures
above 118°F. Extreme heat affects aircraft performance, increasing the amount of runway
required for aircraft to take off
because warm air has less density than cold air.
Judge tosses 3 NY
$110 billion price tag for extreme weather events
lawsuits against
ex-Elmo actor
Lindsay Harmon
When it came to extreme
weather and climate events, 2012
was a colossal year for the U.S. It
was the warmest year on record
in the lower 48 states, featuring a
massive drought and deadly heat
waves that broke thousands of
temperature records. Hurricane
Sandy devastated parts of the
Mid-Atlantic and Northeast, and
one of the most intense and longlasting complexes of severe thunderstorms, known as a “derecho,”
plunged 4 million people into
darkness from Iowa to Virginia.
Now the National Oceanic and
Atmospheric
Administration
(NOAA) has totaled the losses
caused by the 11 most expensive
extreme weather and climate disasters in 2012, each of which cost
upwards of $1 billion. According
to NOAA’s National Climatic Data
Center in Asheville, N.C., these
billion-dollar events cost the U.S.
a total of $110 billion, which puts
2012 behind only 2005 on the list
of costliest years since 1980.
Credit: NOAA/National Climatic Data Center
The billion-dollar events in 2012
included seven severe weather
and tornado events, including the
Midwest to Mid-Atlantic derecho,
two hurricanes, and the yearlong
drought and related wildfires.
Those 11 events alone killed more
than 300, NOAA reported. Hurricane Sandy was by far the deadliest and most expensive event, according to NOAA, costing about
$65 billion and causing 159 fatalities. The yearlong drought cost
about $30 billion.
NOAA found that the drought
and related heat waves caused
more than 100 direct deaths and
an unknown number of indirect fatalities. Heat is the No. 1 weatherrelated killer in the U.S., according
to the National Weather Service.
The drought was the most expansive in the U.S. since the Dust
Bowl era of the 1930s, and in some
places it rivaled the Dust Bowl in
intensity. Wildfires fed by the hot
and dry conditions burned more
than 9.2 million acres nationwide
in 2012, which was the third-highest total since 2000. The wildfires
caused an estimated $1 billion
and resulted in 8 deaths, according to the report.
According to NOAA, the U.S.
has seen 144 weather and climate
disasters since 1980 where overall
costs reached or exceeded $1 billion. The total cost of those 144
events exceeds $1 trillion, and costs
are increasing in large part due to
population growth and the sheer
number of people and buildings in
harm’s way now. But the increasing
frequency and severity of some extreme events due to climate change
may also be boosting costs.
During the past year, NOAA
has been reviewing its methodology to ensure that its estimates are
accurate and unbiased by changes
in prices, population, and other
sources. “In performing these disaster-cost assessments, these statistics were taken from a wide variety of sources and represent, to the
best of our ability, the estimated
total costs of these events — that
is, the costs in terms of dollars that
would not have been incurred had
the event not taken place,” NOAA
said. The report incorporated both
insured and uninsured losses and
estimates from other federal agencies, state governments, insurers,
and other sources.
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Records: Dolan warned Vatican of sex abuse scandal
M.L. Johnson
MILWAUKEE — As
the Archdiocese of Milwaukee prepared to file for
bankruptcy amid dozens of
claims by victims of clergy
sex abuse, then-Archbishop
Timothy Dolan sought and
received permission from a
Vatican office to move $57
million from a cemetery
fund into a trust to provide
“improved
protection,”
according to documents
made public Monday.
The 2007 letter by Dolan,
who is now cardinal of the
New York archdiocese, and
the Vatican’s response were
included in thousands of
pages of documents the
archdiocese released as part
of a deal reached in federal
bankruptcy court between
the archdiocese and clergy
sex abuse victims suing it
for fraud. Victims say the
archdiocese
transferred
problem priests to new
churches without warning
parishioners and covered up
priests’ crimes for decades.
The victims’ attorneys
have accused Dolan of trying to hide the money as
the Milwaukee archdiocese
planned for bankruptcy.
The archdiocese denies
those allegations.
In a statement, Dolan
called any suggestion he
was trying to shield money
from victims an “old and
discredited” attack. Jerry
Topczewski, chief of staff
for current Archbishop
Jerome Listecki, said the
money was always set aside
in a separate fund for cemetery care and moving it to
a trust just formalized that.
The release of about
6,000 pages of documents
has drawn national attention because of the involvement of Dolan, who is
president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops and the nation’s most
prominent Roman Catholic
official. Dolan, who has not
been accused of transferring problem priests, took
over as Milwaukee archbishop in mid-2002 after
many victims had already
come forward. But there
have been questions about
his response to the crisis.
In his June 4, 2007, letter to the Vatican, Dolan
said the cemetery fund
money would still have to
be used to care for cemeteries if placed in a trust.
But, he added: “By transferring these assets to the
Trust, I foresee an improved protection of these
funds from any legal claim
and liability.”
Church law requires
bishops to seek Vatican
approval for any property
sale or asset transfer in
the millions of dollars. The
bankruptcy judge will ultimately decide whether any
transfer amounts to fraud.
The documents also
show that Dolan sought to
push problem priests out of
the priesthood to avoid further scandal after sex abuse
victims began coming forward in the early 2000s.
In July 2003, Dolan wrote
to then-Cardinal Joseph
Ratzinger, the future Pope
Benedict XVI, asking to
dismiss Daniel Budzynski,
who had sexual abuse allegations against him stretching back to the 1970s.
Dolan told Ratzinger
that the archdiocese had
yet to identify all Budzynski’s victims, but “as victims
organize and become more
public, the potential for
true scandal is very real.”
Other documents made
public include the depositions of Dolan and his
predecessor, Archbishop
Rembert Weakland, along
with the personnel files of
42 of the 45 archdiocese
priests with verified abuse
claims against them. Allegations against one priest
came to light only after
the archdiocese filed for
bankruptcy and his file
will be released later, once
it is complete, Topczewski has said. Two other
priests’ files aren’t being
released because they involve single victims who
could easily be identified.
Clergy sex abuse victims
have criticized the archdiocese for releasing only part
of the priests’ files. The
documents made public
represent about 10 percent
of what was turned over
to victims’ attorneys during litigation. Attorneys
for both sides agreed on
which ones would be posted. Along with the actual
documents, the archdiocese published a narrative
about each priest and a
timeline of his career.
Larry Neumeister
NEW YORK — Three lawsuits brought by men who
said former Elmo puppeteer Kevin Clash sexually abused
them when they were underage were tossed out by a
judge who said in a decision published Monday that the
men waited too long to sue.
U.S. District Judge John G. Koeltl said the claims must
be barred because they came more than six years after
the men reasonably should have realized that the physical
and emotional injuries they’re suing over were caused by
alleged encounters with Clash. The judge also noted that
each man had been over the age of 18 for more than three
years before the lawsuits were filed.
Clash was the man behind Elmo, the popular furry red
monster, for 28 years.
Attorneys for the men promised an appeal while Clash
said through his lawyer that he hoped the ruling would
help him recover personally and professionally.
One other lawsuit is pending in Pennsylvania.
Clash resigned from “Sesame Street” in November
after college student Cecil Singleton sued him for more
than $5 million, accusing Clash of having sex with him
when he was 15.
At the time, Clash said he was leaving his job because
“personal matters have diverted attention away from the
important work ‘Sesame Street’ is doing.”
Singleton’s lawsuit was among those thrown out
Monday. Koeltl also rejected lawsuits brought by Kevin Kiadii, who claimed that Clash initiated contact
with him on a gay chat line in 2004 when he was 16,
and a third person, a Florida resident, who remained
anonymous in his lawsuit as he claimed that Clash
befriended him in late 1995 or early 1996 when he
was 16 or 17.
The Associated Press generally doesn’t identify people
alleging sex crimes, but both Singleton and Kiadii have
widely publicized their accusations, including giving several interviews and, in Singleton’s case, a news conference.
Sex with a person under age 17 is a felony in New York
if the perpetrator is 21 or older.
Koeltl said Singleton’s claim expired in 2009, Kiadii’s
claim became time-barred at some point between 2008
and 2010 and the case brought anonymously would have
expired between 2000 and 2002.
Adam D. Horowitz, an attorney for the men who
brought the lawsuits, noted that the case was dismissed
only on statute of limitations grounds.
“It should not be viewed as a vindication for Kevin
Clash or a determination that he is innocent,” Horowitz said. He added that lawyers were “still hearing from
more of his alleged victims.”
Jeff Herman, another lawyer for the plaintiffs, said in a
statement: “This is the first battle. We plan to appeal the
decision and continue the fight to be a voice for victims.”
Herman called the statute of limitations “an arbitrary
timeline that silences victims” and demonstrates “the
need for a window in New York to allow victims to have
their day in court.”
Michael G. Berger, Clash’s attorney, called the ruling an
“important step” for helping Clash to move on. He said
Clash was pleased.
“As we have maintained all along, our goal has been to
put these spurious claims behind him, so that Kevin can
go about the business of reclaiming his personal life and
his professional standing,” Berger said in a statement.
The lawyer noted that Clash, a native of Dundalk, Md.,
won three Emmys last month.
“Kevin is looking forward to a time in the near future
when he can tell his story free of innuendo and false
claims,” he said.
In the ruling, the judge said that the time in which
someone must bring a lawsuit accumulates after the victimization rather than when the individual realizes subsequent psychological harm.
Otherwise, he said, plaintiffs could make claims decades later. He also said the plaintiffs cannot retroactively
benefit from a change in law in March that extends the
statute of limitations to 10 years.
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Kenseth wins NASCAR race at Kentucky
SPARTA, Ky. (AP) — Matt
Kenseth has raced long enough
to know that rough starts can
still have good outcomes.
Especially when his crew chief
takes chances.
Case in point was Kenseth’s
fuel-only pit stop gamble that
helped him beat Jimmie Johnson late to win the rescheduled
400-mile NASCAR Sprint Cup
Series race Sunday at Kentucky Speedway.
A race that was Johnson’s to
lose ultimately became Kenseth’s
series-high fourth victory of the
season — and third on a 1.5-mile
track — after crew chief Jason
Ratcliff passed on putting new
tires on the No. 20 Toyota following the race’s ninth caution.
“I thought he was slightly
crazy when that happened,” said
Kenseth, who widened his lead
when the field went four-wide
after the restart on lap 246 and
saw Johnson’s No. 48 Chevy spin
from second place on a day he led
three times for 182 of 267 laps.
“I didn’t think there was any
way that we were going to hold
on for that win. He made the
right call at the right time and
those guys got it done.”
Kenseth led twice for 38 laps,
including the final 23. Johnson,
the five-time champion and series points leader, finished ninth
and leads Carl Edwards by 38.
The restart bothered Johnson, who accused Kenseth of
breaking the pace car speed. But
Johnson took solace in salvaging
his 11th top-10 despite between
sandwiched in the logjam that
could have been worse.
“We were kind of in an awkward situation in that restart
there,” he said. “We were like
three- and four-wide going in
the corner, then something
happened with the air and just
kind of turned me around. Unfortunate, but at least we rallied
back for a good finish.”
Second was Jamie McMurray
in a Chevy, followed by Clint
Bowyer (Toyota), Joey Logano
(Ford) and Kyle Busch (Toyota).
Rain Saturday night forced
NASCAR officials to postpone
the race to a daytime start.
The event was red-flagged for
18 minutes following a seven-car
wreck involving defending race
and Sprint Cup winner Brad Keselowski, who returned to finish
33rd. It was the biggest incident
of 10 cautions for 42 laps, but
things were clean after Johnson
brought out the final yellow flag.
The checkered flag crowned
Kentucky’s
third
different
champion in as many events
though Kenseth, like Johnson,
was due for a breakthrough on
the 1.5-mile oval.
He finished seventh here last
year and sixth in the 2011 inaugural race. However, victory
didn’t seem likely for the 2003
Cup champion after qualifying
16th and running outside the
top 20 during the first quarter
of the event.
“I thought our first run, we
were all right and I guess probably after the second run, we
were able to move forward pretty
good,” Kenseth said. “I felt pretty good about what we had. I
thought we need to get it better.”
From then on, the first-year
Joe Gibbs Racing driver was a
perennial top-five contender.
Trouble was, he and other hopefuls seemed to need Johnson to
suffer misfortune to have any
shot of catching him. The way
he was running, that appeared
unlikely.
Turns out, Kenseth needed
to rely on the left-side tires Ratcliff ordered the previous stop.
Taking fuel only the final time
allowed him to gain the lead
coming off pit road, and the rubber held up on the rough, bumpy
track, both on the restart and
through the final laps.
Ratcliff was shocked that more
teams didn’t follow suit with that
strategy.
“I felt like more guys would
make that call, and so I thought
it was worth a shot to get out
there,” the crew chief said.
“When we rolled off pit road
and saw what everybody did, I
looked to the guy beside me and
I’m like, ‘I can’t believe we are
the only ones that did that.”
The decision led to a surprising late turn of events, and the
tense finish in which McMurray
and Bowyer took turns trying to
chase down Kenseth provided
a nice makeup after Saturday
night’s washout.
In a season of struggles, McMurray was just happy with his
first top five.
“Every week it’s been something,” he said, “so it’s nice to
have some good luck.”
Colts safety arrested W.Va. junior golfers to
on gun charge in DC play in Greenbrier events
WASHINGTON (AP) — Indianapolis Colts safety Joe Lefeged was arrested
early Saturday after officers found a semiautomatic pistol in the car he was riding
in, police said.
Lefeged was a front-seat passenger in a
Chevy Camaro that fled a traffic stop for
speeding in northeast Washington just after midnight. Officers smelled marijuana
in the car and found a plastic bottle of
vodka and orange juice in the center console and a semi-automatic pistol under the
front passenger seat, police documents
show. A receipt and purchase paperwork
showed Lefeged bought the gun this year
for about $900, police said.
Lefeged and another passenger were
caught when they tried to run from the
car in different directions, police said.
The driver ran away and was not immediately caught.
Lefeged was being held without bond
at D.C. jail on a weapon charge. He faces
a preliminary court hearing Tuesday. A
lawyer listed as representing him did
not return a call seeking comment Saturday afternoon.
“We are aware of the reports regarding Joe Lefeged in Washington, D.C. At
this time, we will have no further comment on the pending matter until we
gain more information,” the Colts said
in a statement Saturday.
Police say officers stopped the car for
speeding and because another passenger
in the car was standing completely upright in the backseat. After police repeatedly told the driver to put the car in park,
the driver sped off, nearly striking officers
who had surrounded the white convertible, police said.
Police say they recovered the car nearby and arrested Lefeged as he tried to
run away.
Officers found a .40-caliber semiautomatic handgun “in plain view
sticking out from underneath the front
passenger seat,” as well as a clear, plastic container of alcohol, according to
charging documents.
Prosecutors aren’t pursuing charges
against the other passenger, a spokesman
for the U.S. Attorney’s office said.
Authorities say Lefeged had Maryland
State Police purchase paperwork for the
pistol but was not authorized to carry the
weapon in D.C., which has strict gun laws.
Lefeged, 25, grew up outside of Washington and was a star high school football player in the region. Now entering
his third NFL season, he played college
football for Rutgers and was signed by
the Colts as an undrafted free agent in
July 2011. He started four games last
season and recorded two tackles and a
forced fumble in a playoffs loss to the
Baltimore Ravens in January.
The arrest comes as the NFL grapples
with gun violence.
Tight end Aaron Hernandez was
charged this week with orchestrating the
execution-style slaying of a semi-pro football player and was swiftly released by
the New England Patriots. Last year, former Kansas City Chiefs linebacker Jovan
Belcher fatally shot his girlfriend and then
turned the gun on himself.
After beauty of Corsica,
the brunt of Tour awaits
John Leicester
AP Sports Writer
CALVI, Corsica — A
funny thing about the Tour
de France is that it can
give competitors the most
fabulous terrain on which
to ride, but it cannot force
them to race.
Instead of being the
tricky day full of traps
and surprises that Tour
teams feared and organizers hoped for, Stage 3 of
the 100th edition proved
a bit of a dud.
Yes, there some of the
most riveting coastal scenery ever visited by the
110-year-old race. The drama, however, was in short
supply. Corsica may be
France’s “island of beauty,”
but the riders were just as
happy to whiz past it.
“Twisty roads like that
along the coast, stunning
scenery, and I’m sure it
made for great shots from
the helicopter,” race favorite Chris Froome said.
“But that’s not what we
were interested in.”
In a three-week test of endurance, not every stage can
be a classic. There are days,
such as Monday, when the
peloton decides the priority
is to get from A to B safely,
get back to the hotel, massage, eat and sleep. To have
success at the Tour, survival
comes first.
“The race is always what
the riders make of it,” Tour
director Christian Prudhomme said.
Jan Bakelants was happy. The Belgian started
the day in the yellow jersey
that he won with a clever
and gutsy spurt of riding
Sunday. He will wear it
again for at least another
day during Tuesday’s team
time trial in Stage 4. The
teams will race against the
clock, heading off one after
the other in aerodynamic
helmets, on a pancake-flat,
15-mile course in Nice,
past the coastal town’s airport and along its famous
beachside avenue, the
Promenade des Anglais.
With that technical and
quick ordeal awaiting
them, and because coastal headwinds slowed the
riders, none of the 21
other teams could be
bothered Monday to really try to take the lead
from Bakelants.
His RadioShack teammates did a grand job
protecting him. They
rode much of the stage
at the front of the pack,
not letting breakaway
riders get too far ahead
and discouraging other
teams from any thoughts
of making a concerted assault. Their management
of the stage helped make
for dull racing, but it
kept Bakelants in yellow.
“We never panicked,”
he said. “We managed
the gaps.”
But Tuesday will more
than likely be his last day
in the leader’s jersey. There
are 71 riders just a second
behind him in the standings. One of them on a
team that time trials better
than RadioShack will be in
yellow next.
“We have good riders
but haven’t really trained
for the team time trial,”
Bakelants said. “It will be
tough to keep the jersey,
but I’ve already had it
two days and that’s special. … It’s extraordinary
to have worn it.”
At the end of the stage,
in the final 9 miles, the
racing picked up. Several
riders tried and failed to
get away from the chasing
pack. It came down to a
sprint in the last 500 yards.
Simon Gerrans, an Australian, threw his front wheel
over the line just before Peter Sagan, a Slovakian.
On paper, Stage 3 looked
daunting — 91 miles of
narrow roads as sinewy as
a blood vessel, with very
little flat. On television,
the coves, the white beaches and cliffs plunging into
turquoise seas looked incredible. The riders strung
out like a necklace of colored pearls as they sped
along the coastline on a
succession of twisting and
breathtaking bends.
WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS
(AP) — They won’t compete in the
actual tournament, but two junior
golfers from West Virginia will play
alongside some of the top golfers in
the world in two events leading up to
The Greenbrier Classic.
Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin says 15-yearold Alex Hamrick and 18-year-old Caleb Lee have been invited to participate in Monday’s practice round and
Wednesday’s pro-am event in White
Sulphur Springs. Tomblin made the
announcement Saturday.
Hamrick plays on the golf team at
Poca High School. Lee recently graduated from North Marion High School.
Both participate in West Virginia
Golf Association junior golf events.
The PGA Tour’s Greenbrier Classic
runs next Thursday through Sunday
on the Old White TPC Course.
Carter looks forward
to Greenbrier
HUNTINGTON (AP) — Eye problems and all, 13-time West Virginia Amateur champion Pat Carter is looking
forward to playing in a PGA Tour event.
With plenty of fans expecting to
back him, Carter will tee off at The
Greenbrier Classic next Thursday in
White Sulphur Springs.
“They’ll be pulling for me,” Carter
said. “That gives me added incentive.”
Carter earned an exemption by
winning the state Amateur last year
at The Greenbrier. But he suffered an
orbital fracture in his left eye during
an assault in April that caused muscle
damage and blurred vision.
He tells The Herald-Dispatch that
the golf ball can appear hazy at times.
“Sometimes it’s fine. Sometimes
you have to bear with me,” Carter
said. “There’s no reason to whine
about it. I have to learn to live with it.”
Carter is known for his strong
short game and solid putting. To play
well at the Old White TPC course, he
said he needs to improve his driving,
which has been inconsistent.
“I’ll try to get some practice in,”
Carter said. “I hope I can keep this
feel going.”
For PGA players, Old White plays
at 7,287 yards — several hundred
yards longer than what Carter is accustomed to at the Amateur.
Carter said he’ll be “happy with
pars” on three long par fours that
could give him trouble — the 488yard second hole, the 492-yard 13th,
and the 444-yard 16th that golfers
must carry their drives over water.
Carter also will return to the resort
in early August to try to move within
one win of Bill Campbell’s record 15
state Amateur titles.
Haas wins AT&T
BETHESDA, Md. (AP) — Bill Haas
keeps winning the right tournaments to
position himself on the periphery of the
elite in golf.
His three-shot victory Sunday in the
AT&T National was his fourth straight
season with at least one PGA Tour title,
joining a short list with Phil Mickelson,
Dustin Johnson and Justin Rose. Some
of that is good timing, though to suggest
it’s merely a coincidence would be to ignore an abundance of natural talent.
The trick is getting to the next level,
and Haas knows the way.
“Work a little harder,” he said. “This
year I think I put in a little bit more work
than I have in the previous years — easy
to say now that it’s paying off. But all the
best players, they’re working hard. And
the best players … there is a level, and
I’d love to be a part of that. But the way
you guys and the golf world ranks us, it’s
by the majors. And I have not had that
much success in the majors.”
Indeed, Haas has never had a top 10
in a major.
For now, he keeps winning on major golf courses. Faced with a rugged
test at Congressional, which has hosted four major championships, Haas
pulled away from a crowd of contenders with three straight birdies, two
good pars and one good hop out of the
rough by the 14th green that turned
potential bogey into birdie.
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ACC welcomes Pitt,
Syracuse, Notre Dame
the presidential level, at the AD level, institution to institution and to the league itself.
“When you lose one, you kind of look
sideways a little bit about the trust factor.
But I never had any reason not to trust
any of our other schools or the people representing those schools.”
The ACC has sued Maryland for payment of an exit fee of nearly $53 million,
set after the Notre Dame announcement
that also allowed the league to renegotiate
its TV deal with ESPN.
The 14 football members will receive an
average of more than $20 million annually, a
person familiar with the situation said. The
person spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because the league isn’t
releasing the financial details of the TV deal.
Notre Dame will get a basketball share
worth about 20 percent of the ACC’s TV
package — roughly between $3 million
and $4 million — because of its football
partnership with NBC.
The per-school payouts are up from an
average of $16.9 million for 12 teams for
the 2011 tax year with adjustments for
bowl revenue and other compensation, according to the league’s Form 990 tax filing.
The league is also researching the creation of its own TV channel.
Florida State President Eric J. Barron
said the changes bolster football before
the College Football Playoff begins in
2014, and make men’s basketball — long
the league’s most tradition-rich sport —
even tougher.
“I think that it provides fresh opportunities,” Barron said. “I think that we’re moving more and more into a phase in which
who you play (in football) is critical as you
start to compete for a national championship. You’re getting Notre Dame on your
schedule, and Pittsburgh and Syracuse
are solid schools. I think the conference is
scary in terms of basketball.”
Mike Krzyzewski, the Duke basketball
coach with a men’s Division I record 957
career wins, has said the league should
aim for 10 NCAA tournament bids.
“All I see is the fact that we can do that,”
he said. “And if we couldn’t do it, then you
wouldn’t talk about it. … When is the last
time ACC coaches have talked about number of bids boldly? Tell me. I don’t know
if that’s ever been done. So we should do
that. And maybe it will get everybody in
the conference to think as the conference
and not to think individually.”
That could mean changes for the ACC
tournament, which had been held in North
Carolina for 49 of 60 years. The league is
considering whether to hold the tournament
in New York, and could move the championship from Selection Sunday to Saturday
night for the prime-time audience.
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GREENSBORO, N.C. (AP) — Atlantic Coast Conference Commissioner John
Swofford has spent nearly two years working to bring in new schools, refuting reports
of departures and securing a media rights
deal to pump the brakes on realignment.
The end result came Monday when
Pittsburgh, Syracuse and Notre Dame officially arrive to form a 15-team ACC.
“It’s a very exciting time to be a part
of this league,” Swofford said. “In a lot of
ways, it feels like Pitt and Syracuse and
Notre Dame are already in the league.
They just haven’t been in it competitively
but they’ve been in our meetings and been
a part of our discussions and the decisions
that will move us forward. … We’re just in
a really good place right now.”
The changes began with the ACC inviting Pitt and Syracuse in September 2011.
A year later, Notre Dame said it would
join in all league sports except football,
though it will play five games annually
against ACC teams and gain access to its
bowl tie-ins starting next fall.
Then, after Maryland’s surprise defection to the Big Ten for 2014, the league
reached out to Louisville as a replacement
and secured a grant-of-rights agreement
giving the ACC control of TV money for
schools that leave before the broadcast
deal ends after the 2026-27 season.
The changes have strengthened the
ACC’s East Coast presence, expanded its
footprint west into Indiana and offered
protection from future realignment.
That’s why Notre Dame athletic director
Jack Swarbrick said there’s excitement in
South Bend about the move for the Fighting Irish, who will remain a football independent. He said a man stopped him on the
way to his office Friday to say it was “the
best thing Notre Dame could have done.”
“You want to go into a conference where
you know the members are fully committed
to the conference,” Swarbrick said. “They
were saying that publicly, they were saying that privately, but (the grant of rights)
was a very significant manifestation of that
commitment. That’s a great place.”
It’s the second ACC expansion in 16
years under Swofford, who lured Boston
College, Miami and Virginia Tech from
the Big East a decade ago.
This time, he expanded campus visits
with presidents and athletic directors to
include university trustees during stops
at Florida State, Clemson and Virginia to
answer questions about the ACC’s future.
“The Maryland move was disconcerting in the sense that it caught all of us by
surprise,” Swofford said. “But on the other
hand, I’ve always been confident about
the future and the stability of this league
because I see firsthand the commitment at
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by Dave Green
HAPPY BIRTHDAY for Tuesday,
July 2, 2013:
This year marks an important time
in your life. Expect good fortune and
opportunity to meet. Make choices
that suit you. You are initiating a
12-year cycle, so make sure that you
are keeping your eye on the long-term
as well as the short-term. If you are
single, you will meet someone who
will enrich your life. What type of relationship evolves from there depends
on you. If you are attached, you enter
one of those warm, connected years
where your bond grows stronger.
TAURUS is loyal.
The Stars Show the Kind of Day
You’ll Have: 5-Dynamic; 4-Positive;
3-Average; 2-So-so; 1-Difficult
ARIES (March 21-April 19)
HH Be careful with any type of
spending, even if it is something
as basic as doing someone else’s
budget. The wise Ram will make no
commitments right now. Focus on a
recent assessment you’ve made, and
figure out what you need to get rid of.
Tonight: A must appearance.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20)
HHHHH You have the skill set to
manage many different interests, but
you might feel overwhelmed. You’ll
want to manage a situation differently
and move forward with a project.
Prioritizing will help diminish your
to-do list more efficiently. Tonight:
Happiest at home.
GEMINI (May 21-June 20)
HHHH Listen to what someone
wants to share; help this person form
a game plan to get there. You suddenly might discover that there is a
change in how you proceed. Your
sense of humor will emerge regarding
a discussion involving money. Tonight:
Fun doesn’t have to cost anything.
CANCER (June 21-July 22)
HHHH You know which way to go
and why you are heading in that direction. You can explain only so much
to others; otherwise, you might miss
the opportunity. Timing is critical right
now. A sense of humor goes far when
dealing with a problem. Tonight: What
would make you happy?
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22)
HHH Know how to say “no.” Your
wittiness might be best kept to yourself for the time being. Make a point
of saying “hello” more often to that
acquaintance who makes a difference
in your life. Understand what must
happen in order to get a project off the
ground. Tonight: Out late.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22)
HHHH Keep reaching out to some-
one whose opinion you trust. You
need to get feedback, but it needs
to come from someone who is not
involved in the outcome. Be willing to
put out ideas that you typically would
judge as not workable. Tonight: Let
your imagination lead the way.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22)
HHHH Examine what you want
and expect from a family member.
This person often becomes very
innovative when dealing with you.
Maintain a good attitude, but find a
different approach. One-on-one relating is not that easy for this person.
Tonight: Have a long chat with a
friend.
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21)
HHHH Someone seems to command more attention and decides to
take the lead in a situation. Generally,
center stage is your turf. How you
handle this reversal will be telling of
who you are. You can’t control others,
so stop any manipulative thoughts.
Tonight: Go with a suggestion.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21)
HHH Not everyone is as determined or focused as you might be
at the moment. How you speak to
someone, and your expectations
for this person’s responses, might
need revision. Choose to allow your
feelings and thoughts to flow more
openly. Tonight: Schedule some more
free time.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19)
HHH Build on an existing bond.
You know what to expect, and you’ll
find it easy to be open with this person. Open up to new possibilities,
and test them out on this friend, who
just might come back with yet another
idea. Let the brainstorming session
begin! Tonight: Ever playful.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18)
HHHH You might discover that the
best path right now is the tried-andtrue. Though normally you are more
unconventional, if you want to succeed, you’ll need to bend a little more.
Real estate, a parent and security all
are factors that need serious consideration. Tonight: Stay close to home.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20)
HHHH You know what you like,
and you’re capable of creating it.
Get on the phone or send out some
emails to initiate conversations with
those whom you might impact by
deciding to move in a new direction.
Brainstorm away. Tonight: You might
be amazed by what emerges.
Jacqueline Bigar is on the Internet
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DAILY NEWS
Sports
TUESDAY,
JULY 2, 2013
2013 WHS Hall of Fame inductees announced
Kyle Lovern
Sports Editor
A football player from all
the way back in 1940 and
one as recently from the
class of 2003 are just two
of the eight newest members of the Williamson
High School Hall of Fame.
The WHS HOF Committee recently released its
2013 inductees.
The late Robert “Bob”
Pauley, who was an AllState football player in
1939 is the oldest to be inducted. He was the captain
of his Wolfpack team that
season. Pauley graduated
in 1940. He was also a veteran of World War II.
Matt Lovern, a 2003
graduate, was an All-State
football player his senior
season. He was also a
3-time Williamson Daily
News All-Area selection.
He led his Wolfpack team
in tackles his senior season. Lovern played four
years of varsity football
and helped lead the team
to four straight playoff appearances. He was a team
captain in the 2002 season.
He had 14 career fumble
recoveries. He also played
basketball, tennis and
baseball while at WHS. He
graduated from Marshall
University in 2008.
Ronnie Johnson, WHS
class of 1978, was a three
year letterman from 197678. He was a first team
Daily News All-Area selection his senior season.
He won the Tony Gentile
110% Award at WHS. He
was also an assistant football coach at WHS from
1990 to 1995. Johnson also
coached at WJHS.
Garland
“Rabbit”
Thompson, who graduated in 1976, was the
captain of his football
team at WHS his senior
season. Thompson was
an assistant basketball
coach at WHS when the
team won its last state
title in 2001. Before that
he helped coach three
state Class A state championship teams at University Heights in Kentucky.
More recently he led
Tug Valley High School
to back-to-back titles in
West Virginia as the head
coach of the Panthers.
Jeff Jackson, WHS class
of 1976, played football
and basketball for the
Wolfpack while in high
school. He won the Kentucky Sweet 16 state basketball championship as
head coach in 1992. He
also won four Class All A
State championships in the
Bluegrass State in 1996,
1998, 1999 and 2002. He
is a Ky. Region 12 member
of the Basketball Hall of
Fame.
The late Steve Maynard,
WHS class of 1975, was
also inducted. He played
football and baseball for
the Wolfpack. He was a
Williamson Daily News
All-Area selection for three
seasons. Maynard was also
an All-State baseball and
football selection his senior seasons.
John Moses was known
as “The Voice of the Wolfpack” back in the 1950s
and 1960s when he broad-
Ronnie Johnson
Robert Pauley
Matt Lovern
Jeff Jackson
Steve Maynard
Garland “Rabbit” Thompson
Ralph Caudill
John Moses
cast games on the local
radio station WBTH. He
began his broadcasting
career in 1956 and left
that field in 1969. Moses
was a sports broadcaster
for all WHS sports and
the local American Legion
Post 49 games. He was
also the scoreboard operator for WHS from 1969 to
1976. All four of his sons
– Larry, Scott, Danny and
Billy were WHS athletes.
Moses actually graduated
from a WHS rival, Logan
High School.
Ralph Caudill, WHS
class of 1969, was the
captain of the Daily News
All-Area baseball team
in 1967-68. He was an
All-State selection his
senior season. Caudill, a
pitcher, went on to play
at Marshall University in
1970 and 1971. He also
played American Legion
baseball and was a former
coach and director of the
local Babe Ruth League.
He graduated from Marshall in 1972 and has
worked 40 years in news-
paper and television.
The WHS Hall of Fame
reception and inductions
will be held the weekend
of August 16 and 17 at the
Williamson Community
Center, which is located at
the West End pool.
A ‘Meet the Pack Night’
will be held on Friday
starting at 6:30 p.m. The
Saturday event will start
with a social hour at 12
noon, followed by the dinner and induction ceremony at 1 p.m.
The cost for the tickets
will be $50 per person
for Friday and Saturday.
Some may not be able
to attend Friday nights’
gathering. Thus the cost
of the Saturday only induction dinner is $35.
This year’s inductees will
receive one free ticket.
If anyone has questions
they can call Joyce Roddy
at 606-237-1087 or Cecil
Hatfield at 304-235-4001.
Contributions for the
WHS Hall of Fame are also
being accepted from past
members and graduates.
Michael Cuddyer runs hitting streak to 27 games
Pat Graham
AP Sports Writer
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Cuddyer’s scruffy beard
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more gray. It’s becoming
quite scratchy, too.
The Colorado Rockies outfielder wants so badly to take
a razor to the whiskers, but
that will just have to wait.
For the moment, he
doesn’t want to change
anything since he’s in such
a groove at the plate.
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With his single in the
eighth on Sunday, Cuddyer
extended his hitting streak
to a team-record 27 games.
It’s the longest same-season
streak in the majors since
Atlanta’s Dan Uggla hit in
33 straight two years ago.
Even more, Cuddyer has
reached base safely in a
franchise-best 46 consecutive contests. The last time
he failed to get on base
through a hit, walk or being plunked by a pitch was
April 21, back when there
was still a chill in the air.
Since then, there’s really been no chilling his bat.
Ask Cuddyer the reason for
his recent scorching success at the plate, though,
and he will just shrug.
“It’s one day at a time,
one at-bat at a time, one
pitch at a time,” said the
34-year-old Cuddyer, who
will try to extend his
streak on Tuesday when
the Rockies host the Los
Angeles Dodgers in a
three-game series.
That simple?
“Yep,” he said. “Look,
you’re doing your homework, you’re getting your
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work in. You’re not going
up there blind, like you do
in a little league game. You
still have to put your work
in to hit these guys.
“But this is definitely fun.”
Before the season, firstyear manager Walt Weiss
didn’t know all that much
about Cuddyer. It hasn’t
taken him long to appreciate his slugger’s patient approach in the batter’s box.
“He’s a very smart hitter,” Weiss said. “He’s very
good at thinking along
with the pitcher.”
Especially now, in the
midst of this streak. Cuddyer is hitting .372 during
the stretch, bumping his
average to .344, which is
quite a bit higher than his
career mark (.271).
“This is a good feeling,”
said Cuddyer, who broke hitting coach and former Rockies standout Dante Bichette’s
team-best hitting streak of
23 games. “Anytime you can
put your name in any type of
record book for a good thing
is a good thing.”
Like many baseball
players, Cuddyer is all
about routine. He arrives
at the ball park about the
same time each day, goes
through the same pregame
rituals. A typical game day
for Cuddyer starts with a
quick bite to eat inside the
clubhouse (but not necessarily the same meal).
After a visit to the hot
tub, he heads for the cages
to smack about 40 baseballs
off a hitting tee in various
positions of the strike zone.
Then it’s even more hitting as he goes through
round after round of batting
practice. About 50 minutes
prior to first pitch, he will
hit the hot tub again.
Only then is he ready to
go about his business of
bashing baseballs.
His streak started on
May 28 with a double to
center off Houston starter
Jordan Lyles. From there,
the hits just kept on falling for Cuddyer, usually
early in games, too. More
than half of the time he
prolonged his streak on his
first at-bat of the game.
On Sunday, Cuddyer
waited a bit longer, lining
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going 0-for-3 against starter Madison Bumgarner.
“I squeaked one up the
middle,” Cuddyer explained.
It’s been that kind of season for Cuddyer, who’s seeing plenty of juicy pitches
with Carlos Gonzalez batting ahead of him. Cuddyer
has moved up in the order
with Troy Tulowitzki out
because of a broken rib.
“(Cuddyer) is a very
good hitter, gives me good
protection,”
Gonzalez
said. “I’m pulling for him.
I want him to keep the
streak alive.”
The streak hasn’t really
received all that much national fanfare, something
that Weiss just can’t understand because, “It isn’t
easy to keep the streak
alive in this league.”
Giants manager Bruce
Bochy has certainly taken notice.
“You have to be really
good to run off a streak
like that,” Bochy said. “If
you look at his numbers
he’s done a lot of damage in
this streak, too. He’s a great
hitter. You appreciate a guy
that can do something like
he’s doing right now, to run
off a streak like that.”
Cuddyer has accomplished this through an array of bumps and bruises.
He missed time earlier
in the season when an inflamed cervical disk landed him on the disabled list.
He has missed some
games during his streak, too,
sitting out several contests
after hurting his ribs following an awkward tumble at
first base against San Diego
on June 6. That was after hitting in 10 straight games.
Once his ribs were
healed, Cuddyer quickly
found his rhythm and
picked up where he left off.
“You go through a
streak and you’re feeling
good, get some lucky hits,
too,” said Cuddyer, who
spent 11 seasons with the
Minnesota Twins before
signing a three-year deal
with Colorado on Dec.
20, 2011. “I go up there
and try to put together
a good at-bat. I’m trying
to focus on every single
pitch, every single at-bat.
I’m trying not to look too
far in advance.”