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Monday, May 4, 2009 • Dalton, Georgia • www.daltondailycitizen.com • 50 Cents
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Enough stimulus for schools?
BY RACHEL BROWN
rachelbrown@daltoncitizen.com
UGA coach Mark Richt
speaks to Daily Citizen
sports writer Adam Krohn,
defending Matt Stafford.
See page 1B
The Swine Flu is revamping Mexican tourism.
See page 9A
Bladder cancer treatment
stimulates cells to prevent
new cancers from growing
and to treat cancer that’s
escaped detection.
See Donohue, page 4B
FROM TODAY’S
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In this file photo from March of this year incoming eighthgrade students get their first look at Dalton High during orientation.
“I would like to encourage everyone to recycle grocery plastic bags and dry
cleaning plastic covers.
Walmart, Lowe’s, Kroger
and Home Depot have collection barrels.”
Beauty US flu tally
and the jumps to
Beast
241 as labs
catch up
“The only way to get people into this town is to turn
the trade center into a casino.
There isn’t anything else
happening.”
MISTY WATSON
THE DAILY CITIZEN
Belle, played by
Devin Dover, holds
the Beast, played by
Chris Deal, just
before a spell is broken and he turns
back into a prince
during Murray
County High
School’s production
of the musical
“Beauty and the
Beast” on Sunday.
See page 2A
WEATHER
Forecast: Isolated storms
Today’s High: 72
Tonight’s Low: 59
Details, Page 12A
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Federal “stimulus” funding is
helping school systems balance
their upcoming budgets, but in
some situations still isn’t enough to
ward off layoffs and program cuts.
Whitfield County Schools is set
to receive $3.9 million in funding
under the federal American
Recovery and Reinvestment Act
that is designed to offset state budget cuts. The state Board of
Education approved allocation of
the funds last week. Some $1.8 million is available for Dalton Public
Schools and $2.2 million is available for Murray County Schools.
“The stabilization funds mean
the school district should only
receive a $2.3 million cut in state
funding instead of the $6.2 million
cut that was already expected,” said
Whitfield
County
Schools
spokesman Eric Beavers.
Dalton school system spokeswoman Deana Farmer said the
stimulus funding will be discussed
at the next Board of Education
meeting on May 11.
“We are continuing to gather
input and have not made final decisions about this yet,” she said.
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Expansion adds
larger exercise and
billards rooms,
bathrooms, storage
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Lanell Silvers says the Murray
County senior center has become
her “home away from home.”
“I play pool every day. I play
pool, play on the computer, then
bowl on the Wii (video game console made by Nintendo),” said
Silvers, who was showing off the
senior center’s new 2,300-squarefoot expansion to some of her
friends during an open house on
Sunday. She paused in the newly
added exercise room to bowl a couple of games.
The expansion, which cost
approximately $280,000, was paid
for with funds from the 2007
Special Purpose Local Option Sales
Tax (SPLOST), said Matt Sanford,
project coordinator for sole commissioner’s office.
The addition includes a larger
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Martha Sue Ridley bowls on the Wii gaming system as other
people watch during an open house at the Murray County
senior center on Sunday.
exercise room and a larger billiards
room, as well as more bathrooms
and storage space. The Murray
County transit office, which is
located at the senior center, was
also expanded.
“We have so much more room,”
said Joan Dooley, senior center
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BY MALCOM RITTER
NEW YORK — The tally of confirmed swine flu cases in the United
States jumped Sunday to 241 in 34
states, but officials said that’s largely
from catching up on a backlog of lab
tests rather than a sudden spurt in
new infections.
The new count reflects streamlining in federal procedures and the
results of tests by states, which have
only recently begun confirming
cases, said Dr. Anne Schuchat of the
Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention in Atlanta.
Because states are now contributing their results, and because there
are many cases to analyze, “I expect
the numbers to jump quite a bit in the
next couple days,” she told reporters
Sunday.
Beyond eating into the backlog,
the new number also reflects that “we
do think this virus is fairly widespread,” she said.
“Virtually all of the United States
probably has this virus circulating
now. That doesn’t mean that everybody’s infected, but within the communities, the virus has arrived.”
Early Sunday, the CDC updated
its number to 226 cases in 30 states,
up from 160 in 21 states. Later, four
more states reported confirmed cases.
Mexico’s health secretary said
Sunday that his country’s outbreak is
“now in its declining phase,” but
Schuchat noted that the United States
got off to a later start. “We believe we
are just in the upswing here,” she
said.
Scientists are still gathering information on how severe the nation’s 30
hospitalized cases are, she said. They
are mostly older children and young
adults, in contrast to ordinary flu,
which tends to send the elderly and
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Murray County Schools finance
director Steve Loughridge said the
stimulus money is welcome.
“The stimulus money will help
our budget,” he said. “We are using
all the money for salaries to the
extent allowed by the grant guidelines. It will help in instruction
greatly.”
All three school systems face
budget cuts for the coming year.
Whitfield officials have outlined
plans to cut some staff and employee benefits and have also decreased
expected spending in almost every
budget category. The proposed
budget, which would go into effect
July 1, is $107.9 million vs. the current budget of $108.69 million.
Murray officials haven’t publicized a preliminary budget but said
they expect to have to cut $6.8 million from a $60 million budget this
year.
In Dalton, school leaders have
trimmed salaries and paid time for
employees and have also cut costs
in almost every budget category for
a budget reduction of about $5 million. The current budget is $60 million.
School board members normally finalize the budget in June or
later.
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“I think Michelle Obama
is the most unattractive
woman I’ve ever seen in my
life.”
“We Americans don’t
believe in waterboarding, we
just believe in shooting the
pirates out of the water.
Sounds like a little hypocrisy
to me.”
tration’s cap and trade legislation to decrease CO2
admissions would cause the
increase. If you have a problem with that, you need to
contact your senators and
congressmen.”
“Heaven forbid Joe Biden
ever becomes president ...”
“It may not excuse the
battery charges against that
teacher, but I guarantee
there’s a reason why the
mother would rather not say
what the child said.”
“Did anybody actually
read the article about pro
wrestling? Come on, give us
a break.”
“I would like to encourage
everyone to recycle grocery
plastic bags and dry cleaning
plastic covers. Walmart,
Lowe’s, Kroger and Home
Depot have collection barrels.”
“The Martin family would
like to thank Judy and her
staff at Love Funeral for taking such loving care of us in
a time of need.”
“With all the bad news
about the economy and the
swine flu, it was good to read
something funny: Nathan
Deal for governor.”
“Has
anybody
ever
Googled Katie Brochu?”
“I am so thankful Nathan
Deal is running for governor.
He’s a good man and will
help you. I know that from
experience.”
“Can we get another good
Christian bookstore in
Dalton? What happened to
them?”
“If you have a dog, make
sure it’s got plenty of water.
It’s getting hot.”
“One reason this pandemic is spreading is people
won’t take the time to wash
their hands.”
“Kasey Carpenter should
run for mayor of Dalton.”
“Thank you David Ridley
and Tommy Parker for mowing the grass at Spring Place
Elementary on your own
time and with your personal
equipment. Our teachers
appreciate it very much.”
“We have the Center for
Disease Control near us in
Atlanta. This type of flu
broke out in the ‘70s, why
can’t we find a cure for it.
Looks like we’ve made no
advancements at all in the
medical field.”
“Could someone tell me
what’s the best way to cook
an eggplant?”
“The only way to get people into this town is to turn
the trade center into a casino.
There isn’t anything else happening.”
“Let’s recall Trew and fire
Brochu!”
“Between King David and
Queen Brochu, Whitfield
County and the city will be in
bad shape.”
“If you think the BCS is
screwed up now, just wait
until Congress gets through
with it.”
“A
do-nothing
Congressman wants to be a
do-nothing
governor.
Fantastic.”
“Steve (Postal worker on
Highway 225 South) is the
most wonderful person and
the best Postman we have
ever had.”
“Apparently no one who
calls into the forum actually
reads the paper. Dalton
Utilities would not be tripling
utility rates. Obama adminis-
very young to the hospital, Schuchat said.
The only swine flu
death in the U.S. is that of a
Mexican toddler who was
visiting Texas.
Local
authorities
announced more school
closings Sunday, including
all 24 schools in a district
west of Detroit after a high
school student came down
with an apparent case of the
illness.
On Sunday’s talk
shows, U.S. health officials
said they were cautiously
optimistic that the swine flu
isn’t as dangerous as first
feared, but urged people to
keep taking commonsense
precautions. They said they
can’t predict if the virus
will roar back in the fall.
“The good news is when
we look at this virus right
now, we’re not seeing some
of the things in the virus
that have been associated in
the past with more severe
flu. That’s encouraging, but
it doesn’t mean we’re out of
the woods yet,” said Dr.
Richard Besser, acting
CDC chief.
With swine flu, or the
H1N1 flu as the government prefers to call it, now
in more than 30 states and
counting, authorities say
it’s spreading just as easily
as regular winter flu. But,
as Besser appeared on talk
shows with the president’s
health and homeland security chiefs, they said that it
doesn’t seem to cause as
severe a disease as it did in
Mexico.
FROM STAFF REPORTS
The National Weather
Service has issued a flood
warning for Whitfield and
Murray counties through
Wednesday morning as the
Conasauga River is expected to continue rising for the
next few days.
The river was measured
at 12 feet at 3 p.m. Sunday
and was still rising, according to the National Weather
Service. The river is expected to reach 18 feet — its
flood stage — by this afternoon. There is a 50 percent
chance of rain today.
Estimates from the
National Weather Service
show parts of Whitfield and
Murray counties received
up to 2 inches of rain
between 7 p.m. Saturday
and 7 p.m. Sunday.
Despite the recent heavy
rainfall, there were no
major problems reported in
either county, 911 operators
said. A few roads in
Whitfield County had water
across
them
Sunday,
including Waring Road and
Lower Kings Bridge Road
and several roads had
patches of flash flooding
during the showers, but the
water quickly receded
when the rain stopped.
Adding: For seniors
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people who use the facility
daily, Dooley said. The center is open Monday through
Friday beginning at 7 a.m.
“A lot come to exercise
and to use the computers,”
she said. “With more space,
we were able to open a computer room.”
The room has three computers, but Dooley hopes to
add five more and begin
hosting computer classes for
seniors.
“Now that we have computers, we can go and play
solitaire,” said Martha Sue
Ridley.
Ridley says she spends so
much time at the senior center she doesn’t have much
time left to garden.
Ridley and Silvers say
they take advantage of most
of the activities and facilities
the center offers.
“We love it,” Ridley said.
“We don’t miss too many
days.”
The former billiards
room, which had room for
one table and a few chairs
along the wall, is now a
library and sitting area,
Dooley said. The room is
also used for quilting and for
putting puzzles together, she
said.
The expansion, which
took approximately six
months to complete, opened
in December, Sanford said.
Dooley said the open
house was postponed from
the beginning of this year
until a leak in the roof of the
older portion of the building
could be repaired.
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“Maybe someone can
donate a dumpster to help out
the poor at ‘tent city.’”
“Umpire Junior Cooper is
a great human being and a
wonderful, fair umpire.”
“There’s about 10 of us at
the barber shop discussing
why we don’t go to Dalton or
Varnell anymore. It’s these
fee-grabbing cops. We get
tired of going to town and
seeing so many blue lights on
the way. I wanted a biscuit
this morning, so I went to
Ringgold.”
Flooding possible
➣ From page 1A
“A gentlemen’s club in
Dalton would make a ton of
money as long as the parking
was in the back.”
“Lloyd Gulledge has
returned to Peachtree for further recovery. Please keep
praying for him.”
“What this country needs
is a get-even day. Each year,
there is one day designated to
get even with someone who
wronged you. If people knew
there was a day they could
get even on, maybe people
would be nicer to each other.”
Flu:
“We’ve had Swine Flu
spreading in our country,
wars getting worse around
the world, Iran is threatening
with nuclear weapons, and
our Congress was debating
whether there should be a
football playoff. Why did we
send them to Washington?”
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Electric cars rolling
off assembly line soon
BY MICHAEL TAYLOR
San Francisco Chronicle
The all-electric car — which had
a brief heyday less than a decade
ago before the car companies killed
it — is about to make a comeback.
Charged up with lighter, more
efficient batteries and competitively
priced with gasoline-driven vehicles, the new offers will be marketed and sold primarily as second
cars.
These silent electric autos will be
plugged into home outlets and will
be able to travel 100 miles or more
without stopping for a charge.
Nissan said recently it has developed a mass-market electric car, due
out by the end of next year, that will
seat five and can have its battery
charged to 80 percent of capacity in
26 minutes. It will have all the
amenities buyers want, Nissan says,
such as navigation, super stereo and
heated seats, and will cost between
$20,000 and $30,000.
The company is not alone. Ford,
Mitsubishi, Chrysler and Subaru,
among others, are planning to introduce electric vehicles over the next
year, according to the Electric Drive
Transportation Association, a trade
group.
“The electric car is clearly on its
way back,” said Ron Cogan, editor
and publisher of the magazine
Green Car Journal, which covers the
alternative-energy-auto industry.
“Every automaker and battery company has been making incremental
breakthroughs” in technology.
Several major automakers produced electric models at the beginning of this decade to satisfy a
California law mandating that a
small percentage of new cars sold in
the state be pollution-free. Perhaps
the best-known was General
Motors’ EV1, which was sleek and
fast and attracted a cult-like base of
fans.
The GM cars — along with other
electrics made by Honda, Ford,
Nissan, Chrysler and Toyota —
were for the most part available only
on leases of about $500 a month.
These vehicles were powered by
heavy, inefficient batteries that cost
as much as $30,000 apiece.
When the law was changed,
Monday, May 4, 2009
Senators: Next
justice should have
wide experience
DOUGLASS K. DANIEL
Associated Press Writer
AP
PHOTO
The chassis of the EV Innovations 2010 Inizio EVS electric
sports car, foreground, and 2010 Wave electric car are displayed at the 2009 New York International Auto Show April 9.
manufacturers recalled the cars,
crushed many of them and offered
a smattering of gasoline-electric
hybrids instead.
Electric-car aficionados were
outraged — they were given voice
in the popular 2006 documentary
“Who Killed the Electric Car?” —
but that was the end of it. Until
now.
The car companies, allied with
battery manufacturers, say they
have figured out how to mass-produce an electric car that will fit into
most people’s lives in the same way
as ordinary cars. Modestly priced,
you can buy one, charge it at home
and use it for commuting. But one
thing the automakers have learned
is that it helps to have widespread
field-testing before selling to the
public.
To that end, automakers have
joined with public agencies around
the United States to provide electric vehicles for government fleets.
Selling to the government allows
automakers to monitor closely the
performance of their new cars. It
also gives them a built-in market.
In the San Francisco Bay area,
for example, Nissan will provide
1,000 all-electric cars to Sonoma
County within the next year.
“Nissan will get a lot of data on
use patterns (of the cars),” said
Cordell Stillman, the county’s
point man for the project. “It’s a little research laboratory for them.”
Nissan plans to sell electric cars
to the public by the end of 2010.
“We believe the market exists
for these cars,” said Mark Perry,
Nissan North America’s director of
product planning, “and we’ll be
making about 100,000 cars.”
Perry said the secret to making
the cars efficient and affordable lies
in the batteries, developed jointly
by Nissan and battery maker NEC.
“Batteries now are getting twice
the power for half the weight and
half the size,” Perry said. The new
batteries will be made of laminated
lithium ion, an improvement, Perry
said, over the nickel metal hydride
and lead acid batteries of old.
Batteries still need to be
charged, however. That is the ultimate tether, compared with the relative freedom of a gasoline-driven
car.
That problem could be eased by
a 2-year-old California law providing as much as $120 million a year
over seven years to set up charging
stations around the state. The idea
is that if these stations were at, say,
every rest stop drivers could pull in,
take a half-hour break while the car
is being recharged, then continue
along for another 100 miles.
3A
WASHINGTON
(AP)
—
President Barack Obama’s search to
replace retiring Supreme Court
Justice David Souter should extend
beyond the current roster of federal
judges, senators from both political
parties said Sunday.
“I would like to see more people
from outside the judicial monastery,
somebody who has had some reallife experience, not just as a judge,”
said Vermont Sen. Patrick Leahy,
chairman of the Senate Judiciary
Committee that will hold hearings
when Obama makes his nomination.
Noting that all nine sitting justices
came directly from the federal appeals
court, senators on the committee said
someone with a wider breadth of
experience would be a plus.
When he was discussing the qualities he would seek in Souter’s successor, Obama said last week he
wanted someone with empathy for
average Americans. Conservatives
fear that means the president would
consider “judicial activists” for the
seat.
Conservative and liberal groups
are quickly laying the groundwork
for a nominee fight that could
reignite contentious debate on issues
from abortion and immigration to
gay rights that are likely to come
before the high court.
The departure of Souter, part of
the court’s four-member liberal
wing, is unlikely to change the ideological balance of a court that
became more conservative during
George W. Bush’s presidency. The
nine justices are appointed for life.
Leahy said he expects the next
justice to be confirmed by the court’s
new term in October and that the
president will consult with lawmakers from both parties.
“I would like to see, certainly,
more women on the court. Having
only one woman on the Supreme
Court does not reflect the makeup of
the United States. I think we should
have more women. We should have
more minorities,” Leahy said.
Sen.
Arlen
Specter
of
Pennsylvania, a committee member
who last week switched from the
Republican to the Democratic Party,
suggested someone in the mold of a
statesman or stateswoman, and said
he could imagine a nominee who
was not a lawyer, if that person had
the right credentials.
“I would like to see somebody
with broader experience,” Specter
said. “We have a very diverse country. We need more people to express
a woman’s point of view or a minority point of view, Hispanic or
African American ... somebody
who’s done something more than
wear a black robe for most of their
lives.”
Obama said Friday he would
nominate a person who combines
“empathy and understanding” with
an impeccable legal background
“who understands that justice isn’t
about some abstract legal theory or
footnote in a case book. It is also
about how our laws affect the daily
realities of people’s lives.”
Utah Sen. Orrin Hatch, a senior
Republican on the Judiciary
Committee, said he hopes Obama
will choose someone of “great
dimension.” At the same time, he
said that Obama’s criteria raise concern and he contended that the president says he will select a nominee
according to that person’s politics,
feelings and preferences.
“Those are all code words for an
activist judge, who is going to, you
know, be partisan on the bench,”
Hatch said.
“We all know he’s going to pick
a more liberal justice. Their side will
make sure that it’s a pro-abortion
justice. I don’t think anybody has
any illusions about that,” he said.
“The question is, are they qualified?
Are they going to be people who
will be fair to the rich, the poor, the
weak, the strong, the sick, the disabled.”
Sen. Richard Shelby, an Alabama
Republican who is not on the committee, said empathy should be only
part of the criteria for a nominee and
that a justice should follow the law,
not make it.
Shelby spoke on CNN’s “State of
the Union” while Leahy and Hatch
appeared on ABC’s “This Week.”
Specter spoke on CBS’ “Face the
Nation.”
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‘Winnow’ enough and
GOP will disappear
Sen. Arlen Specter’s defection to the Democrats was in
some respects a special case — naked political opportunism,
or so his former GOP colleagues sniffed — but in other
respects it is an early warning that the Republican Party
nationally is in danger of being marginalized.
It is becoming smaller, more conservative and more and
more of a Southern regional party. This is not a good place to
be in a nation with an electorate that is generally moderate
and where elections are fought and won in the political middle.
The Republicans, whether by luck or design, are ceding
large areas of the country to the Democrats. The Northeast
was once Republican territory. Even 10 years ago, the 11
states of the northern I-95 corridor provided the GOP with
nine senators. With Specter gone, that number is down to
three and one of those is retiring.
In the Senate, Republicans will lose what little institutional leverage they now have — the filibuster — assuming Al
Franken of Minnesota becomes the 60th Democrat, giving
Senate leader Harry Reid a filibuster-proof majority.
In the House, Speaker Nancy Pelosi has a comfortable
256-to-178-seat majority, increased by one this week with the
swearing in of the Democratic victor in a special election in a
traditionally Republican New York congressional district.
Perhaps baffled by President Obama’s popularity, congressional Republicans seem unable to craft viable alternatives to
his initiatives. That has allowed Democrats to successfully
paint them as obstructionists, “the party of no.”
As the party grows smaller, the number of litmus tests its
candidates must pass grows. Here the Specter defection is
instructive. The Pennsylvania lawmaker, despite his years of
service to his home state, wouldn’t have won the Republican
primary. His opponent, an anti-tax conservative, will likely be
unable to win the general election.
American political parties, to the bafflement of our
European friends, have always been broad enough to accommodate conflicting viewpoints and flexible enough to co-opt
the best ideas of third parties.
Some people don’t think this is such a bad thing. Rush
Limbaugh, whose growing role as spokesman for the
Republicans speaks to the party’s lack of forceful national
leaders, said of Specter’s defection, “He’s not a moderate. He
is a liberal Republican, and this is a natural winnowing
process that is taking place ... Within the Republican Party,
people who are really not Republicans are leaving.” So a liberal Republican, then, is not really a Republican?
That “winnowing” can only go so far. Said moderate Sen.
Olympia Snowe of Maine, “Ultimately, we’re heading to having the smallest political tent in history.”
Our politics are predicated on a vigorous two-party system. Obama’s popularity, like that of all presidents, will ultimately fade and the Democrats may lapse into their traditional infighting. The question is: Will the Republicans be around
when that happens?
Routine searches
In August 1999, police
saw Rodney Gant pull into
the driveway of his Tucson
home and arrested him for
driving with a suspended
license. After handcuffing
Gant and locking him in a
cruiser, Officer Todd Griffith
searched his car and found a
bag of cocaine in the pocket
of a jacket on the backseat.
When he was asked at an
evidentiary hearing why he
searched the car, Griffith
replied, “Because the law
says we can do it.”
Not anymore. Last week,
the U.S. Supreme Court said
police may no longer routinely search the vehicles of
recently arrested people. It
was a refreshing departure
from a long line of cases in
which the Court has whittled
away
at
the
Fourth
Amendment’s prohibition of
unreasonable searches and
seizures to make the war on
drugs easier to wage.
Among other things, the
Court has ruled that a search
warrant can be granted
based on information from
an anonymous (and perhaps
nonexistent) informant; that
evidence obtained with an
invalid search warrant can be
used in court as long as
police acted in “good faith”;
that police do not need a
warrant to monitor homes
and backyards from low-flying helicopters; that police
may use dogs to inspect luggage and cars without probable cause; and that government employees and public
school students may be subjected to random drug testing.
The rule that police may
search a vehicle without a
warrant whenever they arrest
someone who has recently
been in the vehicle also
came from a drug case. In a
1981 decision that,
l i k e
Gant’s
c a s e ,
i nvo l ve d
cocaine
found in a
jacket, the
C o u r t
declared,
Jacob
“When a
policeman
Sullum
has made
a lawful
custodial arrest of the occupant of an automobile, he
may, as a contemporaneous
incident of that arrest, search
the passenger compartment
of that automobile.”
That broad rule had the
advantage of clarity, but it
went well beyond the goals
the Court had cited in allowing warrantless “searches
incident to arrest”: preventing arrestees from grabbing
weapons or hiding evidence
of their crimes. Neither concern is plausible when an
arrestee, like Gant, has been
handcuffed and locked up
before the search takes
place.
Yet that is by far the most
common scenario when
police search the vehicles of
people they’ve arrested. In
other words, for 28 years
police throughout the country have been routinely conducting searches that are
completely unconnected to
their constitutional rationale.
Last week, in an opinion
by Justice John Paul
Stevens, the Court said
police may “search a vehicle
incident to a recent occupant’s arrest only when the
arrestee is unsecured and
within reaching distance of
the passenger compartment
at the time of the search.” It
added that a search also can
be justified if police are
looking for evidence of the
crime that led to the arrest —
a rationale that did not apply
to Gant and does not apply
to the millions of other
Americans who are arrested
for traffic violations each
year.
“A rule that gives police
the power to conduct such a
search whenever an individual is caught committing a
traffic offense creates a serious and recurring threat to
the privacy of countless individuals,” Stevens wrote for
the five-justice majority, noting the danger of “giving
police officers unbridled discretion to rummage at will
among a person’s private
effects.”
Notably, Stevens’ opinion
was joined by Clarence
Thomas and Antonin Scalia,
two justices who are often
unfairly portrayed as hostile
to civil liberties. In fact,
Scalia wrote a concurrence
that was less generous to the
police than the majority
opinion, calling routine car
searches “plainly unconstitutional” and saying the
Court should abandon the
“charade” of pretending
they’re necessary to protect
officers
from
hidden
weapons, since “police virtually always have a less
intrusive and more effective
means of ensuring their safety” — i.e., restraining the
arrestee.
This is the sort of case
that should make leftish civil
libertarians rethink their
reflexive antipathy to Scalia
and make law-and-order
conservatives rethink their
reflexive support of the
police.
■ Jacob Sullum is senior
editor at Reason magazine.
— Scripps Howard News Service
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TODAY IN HISTORY
Today is Monday, May
4, the 124th day of 2009.
There are 241 days left in
the year.
Today’s Highlight in
History:
Fifty years ago, on May
4, 1959, the first-ever
Grammy Awards ceremony
was held at the Beverly
Hilton Hotel. Domenico
Modugno won Record of
the Year and Song of the
Year for “Nel Blu Dipinto
Di Blu (Volare)”; Henry
Mancini won Album of the
Year for “The Music from
Peter Gunn.”
On this date:
In 1904, the United
States took over construction of the Panama Canal.
In 1932, mobster Al
Capone, convicted of
income-tax
evasion,
entered the federal penitentiary in Atlanta. (Capone
was later transferred to
Alcatraz Island.)
In 1961, a group of
“Freedom Riders” left
Washington, D.C., for New
Orleans to challenge racial
segregation on interstate
buses and in bus terminals.
In 1970, Ohio National
Guardsmen opened fire on
anti-war protesters at Kent
State University, killing
four students and wounding
nine others.
Ten years ago: Five
New York City police officers went on trial for the
torture of Haitian immigrant Abner Louima. (One
officer later pleaded guilty
to civil rights violations; a
second later pleaded guilty
to perjury; the remaining
three were acquitted of brutality charges. Two of those
three were later convicted
of conspiring to obstruct
justice; those convictions
were overturned.)
Five years ago: The
Army disclosed that the
deaths of 10 prisoners and
abuse of 10 more in Iraq
and Afghanistan were
under criminal investigation, as U.S. commanders
in Baghdad announced
interrogation changes.
One year ago: President
George W. Bush visited
Greensburg, Kan., where he
hailed the resilience of the
town and its tiny high
school graduating class,
one year after a tornado
barreled through with
astonishing fury.
Today’s Birthdays: The
president of Egypt, Hosni
Mubarak, is 81. Opera
singer Roberta Peters is 79.
Jazz musician Ron Carter is
72. Rock musician Dick
Dale is 72. Country singer
Randy Travis is 50. Actress
Mary McDonough is 48.
Comedian Ana Gasteyer is
42. Actor Will Arnett is 39.
Contemporary Christian
singer Chris Tomlin is 37.
Republicans saw off Atlantic seaboard
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WORDS OF WISDOM
Bible Text: “Jesus replied, ‘What I’m about to tell
you is true. No one can see God’s kingdom without
being born again.’
‘How can I be born when I am old?’ Nicodemus
asked. ‘I can’t go back inside my mother! I can’t be born
a second time!’
Jesus answered, ‘What I’m about to tell you is true.
No one can enter God’s kingdom without being born
through water and the Holy Spirit.
John 3:3-5
Thought for Today: “When your work speaks for
itself, don’t interrupt.”
Henry J. Kaiser
American industrialist (1882-1967)
You call Tom Rath, the former New
Hampshire state attorney general and
longtime Republican national committeeman, because he is smart and he is
quotable. Rath was upset that, after five
terms in the U.S. Senate as a Republican,
Pennsylvania’s Arlen Specter — for his
own political survival — had left their
party to join the Senate Democratic
majority: “Forty-five years ago, Barry
Goldwater so disliked the Eastern establishment that he proposed sawing off the
Atlantic Seaboard. In 2009, that’s what
the Republican Party is finally doing.”
Don’t just take his word for it. Listen
to this from a prominent national
Republican: “You can walk from Canada
to Mexico and from Maine to Arizona
without ever leaving a state with a
Democratic governor. ... And on the East
Coast, you can drive from North Carolina
to New Hampshire without touching a
single state in between that has a
Republican in the U.S. Senate.”
Those are not the musings of an academic — they are the blunt words from a
speech to the Republican National
Committee by the GOP’s Senate leader
Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, who
warned: “(T)he Republican Party seems
to be slipping into a position of being
more of a regional party than a national
one. In politics there’s a name for a
regional party — it’s called a minority
party.”
McConnell’s concerns were rejected
by the nation’s most popular radio talkshow host, Rush Limbaugh, who upon
receiving news of the conversion, urged
Specter to take Sen. John McCain and his
daughter Meghan with him.
Contrast this with
what a Democratic
Party leader told me in
1995 when thenColorado U.S. Sen.
Ben
“Nighthorse”
Campbell,
the
Senate’s
only
Cheyenne tribe member with a fondness
for bolo ties and drivMark
ing a motorcycle
around Washington,
Shields
deserted
the
Democrats for the
GOP: “When the one Indian in the
Senate with a ponytail and a Harley
leaves your side to become a Republican,
you know your party’s in real trouble.”
Lindsay Graham of South Carolina
apparently believes, unlike Limbaugh,
that politics is a matter of addition and
not subtraction. Graham told Fox’s Greta
Van Susteren: “Here’s the challenge for
the Republican Party. Can the person
running in Pennsylvania win? ... I can’t
win in Pennsylvania. Rush Limbaugh
can’t win in Pennsylvania. If you’re worried about turning the country over to the
Democratic Party and not being a
vibrant, relevant Republican Party, we
need to find somebody that can win in
Pennsylvania.”
Which brings us to an iron rule: The
vitality of a political party, or any organization to which people voluntarily
belong, can be accurately measured by
whether that party is spending its time,
effort and energy seeking and welcoming
converts or exposing and banishing
heretics.
In 1980, the Republicans under
Ronald Reagan’s leadership were
recruiting with open arms disaffected
members of the opposition. Remember
“Reagan Democrats”? In 2008, Barack
Obama repeatedly courted Republicans
and other non-Democrats to his campaign and cause. His efforts were
rewarded in November when he carried
independents, suburbanites and Catholic
voters.
Those avenging Republicans who
might prefer the recreation of another
Salem tribunal must first confront these
numbers. In 2005, there were 55
Republicans in the U.S. Senate. And with
Democrat Al Franken of Minnesota
almost certain to eventually be seated,
there are now only 40 Republican senators. In 2005, there were 232
Republicans in the U.S. House. Today,
there are 178.
Barely five years ago, according to the
authoritative Pew national poll, 33 percent of voters identified themselves as
Democrats and 30 percent self-identified
as Republicans — just a three point difference and almost within the margin of
error. In 2009, 35 percent proclaim themselves Democrats, while Republican
identification has slipped badly to 22 percent — opening up a 13-point gap.
Rath and Graham, two grown-up
politicians, understand from personal
experience in the arena what too many in
their party do not: Politics is always a
matter of addition, not subtraction.
■ To find out more about Mark Shieldss
and read past columns, visit the Creators
Syndicate Web site at www.creators.com.
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GEORGIA
Missing Ga. prof
no show at airport
ATLANTA — The missing former University of
Georgia professor suspected
of killing his wife and two
others did not show up at
Atlanta Hartsfield-Jackson
International Airport for a
flight to Amsterdam.
Authorities monitored the
airport Saturday for George
Zinkhan.
The FBI revealed that
Zinkhan had a Delta Air
Lines flight Saturday to
Amsterdam. He also has a
home in the Netherlands,
where he has taught part time
at a university since April
2007.
Zinkhan has avoided a
manhunt since the April 25
shootings. Authorities on
Friday found his red Jeep in a
ravine a few miles from his
home, but police said the
vehicle didn’t lead to him.
Woman slain,
suspect arrested
MACON — Police have
arrested and charged 36year-old Courtney Kelly of
Macon with burglary and
murder in the beating death
of 48-year-old Elaine Knott.
Police
found
the
woman’s body in her Macon
home on San Juan Avenue
about 9 a.m. Saturday and
had Kelly in custody about
six hours.
Macon Police Capt.
Jimmy Barbee says Knott
was a civilian employee at
Robins Air Force Base. It
was not immediately clear if
she knew her attacker, but
jail records indicate he lived
nearby.
Ala. fugitive caught
in Columbus
COLUMBUS — A fugitive in an east Alabama murder case has been captured in
Columbus, Ga.
Police said 27-year-old
Michael Barren Stowe is
wanted on murder and
assault charges in a stabbing
death Saturday night in
Goodwater,
Ala.,
near
Alexander City. The victim’s
name and details of the incident were not available
Sunday.
Stowe
was
arrested
Saturday night following a
brief foot chase with
Columbus police. Goodwater
police are expected to begin
his extradition to Alabama
today.
Agency targets
safety at river Site
RALEIGH, N.C. — An
audit of a nuclear weapons
complex in South Carolina
says the Savannah River Site
did not meet several safety
standards when constructing
a new facility.
The 31-page Department
of Energy report released last
month also found that one of
the mistakes at the site near
the South Carolina-Georgia
border could have resulted in
a spill of high-level radioactive waste.
The safety issues involved
a facility being built to convert weapons-grade plutonium into fuel for commercial
nuclear reactors.
Officials
with
the
National Nuclear Security
Administration disputed the
findings by the Energy
Department’s inspector general.
Monday, May 4, 2009
5A
Saga continues for Edwards
BY MIIKE BAKER
RALEIGH, N.C. — His
once-prominent political
career is buried and the turmoil of his marriage is playing out in public. Now, John
Edwards is facing a federal
inquiry.
The two-time Democratic
presidential
candidate
acknowledged Sunday that
investigators are assessing
how he spent his campaign
funds — a subject that could
carry his extramarital affair
from the tabloids to the
courtroom. Edwards’ political action committee paid
more than $100,000 for
video production to the firm
of the woman with whom
Edwards had an affair.
The
former
North
Carolina senator said in a
carefully worded statement
that he is cooperating.
“I am confident that no
funds from my campaign
were used improperly,”
Edwards said in the statement. “However, I know that
it is the role of government
to ensure that this is true. We
have made available to the
United States both the people and the information nec-
AP
FILE PHOTO
Former
Democratic
presidential candidate
John Edwards speaks
at Indiana University in
Bloomington, Ind., in
November of 2008.
essary to help them get the
issue resolved efficiently
and in a timely matter.”
While Edwards focused
his comment on campaign
funds, he also had a range of
other fundraising organizations — including two nonprofits and a poverty center
at his alma mater — that
have come under scrutiny.
Chief among them was
the PAC that paid Rielle
Hunter’s company for several months in 2006 for Web
videos that documented
Edwards’ travels and advocacy in the months leading
up to his 2008 presidential
campaign. The committee
also paid her firm an additional $14,086.50 on April 1,
2007.
Edwards acknowledged
the affair with Hunter last
year, months after dropping
his presidential bid.
At the time of the 2007
payment, the PAC only had
$7,932.95 in cash on hand,
according to records filed
with the Federal Election
Commission. That day,
according to the records,
Edwards’ presidential campaign paid the PAC
$14,034.61 for what is listed
as a “furniture purchase.”
Willfully
converting
money from a political
action committee for personal use is a federal crime.
The furniture money was
one of just five contributions
to the political action committee between April 1 to
June 30, 2007. The other
four were on June 30, the
last day of the reporting
period, including a $3,000
Economy buffeting student
pilots and flight schools
BY JAMES HANNAH
DAYTON, Ohio — Ivan
Nogalo can often hear small
planes buzzing over his
machine shop in Cleveland.
“You want to be up
there,” the 33-year-old said.
But Nogalo can’t be. The
would-be pilot has been
grounded because the economy has forced him to tighten his belt.
It’s the same for Ryan
Fisher, who spent an estimated $10,000 on flying
lessons before losing his job
with a real estate developer.
The 37-year-old was two
weeks short of being certified as a private pilot when
he couldn’t afford further
training.
“It’s frustrating,” said
Fisher,
of
Cleveland
Heights. “I miss being up in
the airplane, that sense of
freedom. It’s kind of transcendental.”
The slumping economy
has forced some student
pilots to put their dreams of
flying on hold, threatened to
accelerate the decline of the
U.S. pilot population, and
put a financial chokehold on
flight schools.
The number of U.S.
pilots has fallen more than
25 percent from a 1980 peak
of about 827,000 to about
590,000 at the end of 2008,
according to the Federal
Aviation Administration.
While there are no more
recent figures, the Aircraft
Owners
and
Pilots
Association is seeing some
anecdotal evidence that the
economy is taking a toll,
said
Chris
Dancy,
spokesman
for
the
Frederick, Md.-based organization.
“Flight training is done
with disposable income,”
Dancy said. “It is very common in economic down
times for flight training to
fall off.”
It usually costs between
AP
members. President Dick
Willis blames the economy
and uncertain financial
futures of the students.
this is just one more problem
for them to deal with.”
Edwards, 55, powered
onto the national scene in
1998, when he won a seat
for the U.S. Senate in his
first political campaign.
With smooth speech and
good looks, the former trial
lawyer ran for the White
House in 2004 and was
tapped as Sen. John Kerry’s
running mate. He returned to
the campaign trail in a 2008
presidential bid but was
largely overshadowed by a
duel
between
Hillary
Clinton, vying to be the first
female
president,
and
Barack Obama, who did
become the first black president.
Since announcing the
affair,
Edwards
has
remained largely secluded,
and he canceled all his public appearances before the
November election because
he said he didn’t want to be
a distraction for Obama.
His wife, Elizabeth, who
is terminally ill with cancer,
will soon be releasing a
book talking about the affair.
In it, she writes that news of
the affair made her vomit.
She also describes Hunter as
“pathetic.”
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airports say the number of students taking
lessons is shrinking because of the recession.
$6,000 and $9,000 to get a
private pilot’s license,
according to Dancy.
Economic
conditions
have also forced some pilots
who already have licenses to
give up flying.
Marty Helms, of Wake
Forest, N.C., got his license
in 2006 and would fly to
visit family and friends in
Virginia and Pennsylvania.
Last May, Helms began
to re-evaluate the money he
was spending on aviation as
the economy began to sour,
the price of fuel began to
skyrocket and his friends
started losing their jobs. The
40-year-old hasn’t flown
since.
Flying lessons are down
50 percent from a year ago
at
the
New
Flyers
Association, a flight club at
the Ohio State University
Airport in Columbus that
has seven airplanes and 120
contribution from the wife
of Edwards’ finance chairman, Fred Baron.
Baron, Edwards’ national
finance chairman and a
wealthy Dallas-based trial
attorney, said last year that
he quietly began sending
money to Hunter to resettle
in California. He said no
campaign funds were used
and that Hunter was not
working for the campaign
when he started giving her
money.
Edwards has said he was
unaware of the payments.
Baron died of cancer in
October.
U.S. Attorney George
Holding has declined to
comment and said he won’t
confirm or deny an investigation.
Kate Michelman, a former head of the abortionrights group NARAL who
advised the Edwards campaign, said she hopes there
was no wrongdoing.
“All of us remain very
saddened by what has happened to John, because he
was right on the policies,”
Michelman said Sunday. “It
remains a very sad occurrence for all of us. It’s sad
for John and Elizabeth, and
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Monday, May 4, 2009
Performing
‘Beauty and
the Beast’
Murray County High School performed their
final production of the musical, “Beauty and
the Beast” on Sunday. See more photos at
thedailycitizen.zenfolio.com.
Murray County High School students perform “Be Our Guest.”
Gaston, played by Zac Dills, hits his sidekick Le Fou, played by
Trenn Carnes, during a scene.
The Beast, played by Chris Deal, watches as
Belle, played by Devin Dover, reacts as she
sees in the Beast’s mirror that her father is in
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Canine search assistance
Dog helps find
endangered
turtle nests
That’s where Ridley
comes in.
“He can do things, of
course, humans can’t do ...
his nose takes over,” Kurtz
said.
Jill Marie O’Brien, cofounder of the National
Canine
Scent
Work
Association, said a dog’s nose
is its biggest asset, allowing it
to detect almost anything.
“If it has an odor and that
odor can be identified, you
can teach the dog to locate
it,” she said.
“The dog’s nose is like a
machine,” O’Brien said.
“Nature has created something that human beings
can’t duplicate artificially.”
And it’s work that dogs
like because it’s an outlet for
natural habits such as sniffing or digging.
“Detection dogs are usually some of the happiest
dogs you’ll see,” she said.
Kurtz, who usually handles Ridley on searches, said
Ridley displays his excitement before a search by sitting in Kurtz’s lap as he
drives his Jeep Cherokee
along the beach.
At times, Ridley even
places his paws on the steering wheel, Kurtz said.
“That’s just Ridley,” he
said with a laugh. “If I let
him, he would ride on the
hood.”
Ridley even likes the pay:
a pat, some praise and the
occasional piece of antelope
jerky.
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turtle nest.
They found tracks of an
endangered turtle, but winds
blew away part of the trail to
the nest.
They dug, but couldn’t
find it.
Then they called in a 2year-old who has a nose for
this business.
Ridley, a Cairn terrier,
found it within minutes. The
result: 101 eggs to be incubated and 92 hatchlings
later returned to the wild.
That nest on June 7, 2007, is
one of two located by the
now-30-pound, 3-year-old
terrier.
Ridley’s owners, Donna
Shaver and Stephen Kurtz,
began training him for this
work when he was a puppy.
Shaver, the National
Seashore’s sea turtle science
and recovery division director, said she thought to train
Ridley in 2005 when she
realized it was difficult to
track nesting sea turtles on
windy days.
Shaver and Kurtz trained
Ridley as a puppy to sniff for
dog treats around their Padre
Island house.
His training quickly progressed to sniffing out empty
sea turtle nests on the beach,
discarded turtle egg shells
and hatchlings so he could
recognize the scent, Shaver
said.
The couple uses keywords, such as “nest” or
“find,” with Ridley so he can
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hone in on his search objectives, said Kurtz, who also is
a Turtle Patrol volunteer.
That training has landed
Ridley an on-call gig assisting the Turtle Patrol when
humans can’t locate nests.
Patrol members typically
locate a nest by seeing the
turtle, or by following tracks
and then sifting through sand
with a pole or digging with
their hands, Shaver said.
Finding nests is a crucial
endeavor because Kemp’s
ridley sea turtles are endangered, and the eggs can fall
prey to coyotes or raccoons,
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tides, Shaver said. “We just
don’t want to go away
empty-handed.”.
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Some sticking with
Chrysler, others skeptical
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Monday, May 4, 2009
Art illusions
BY JOHN PORRETTO
AP Business Writer
HOUSTON — The stalwart. The bargain-hunter. The
skeptic.
As Chrysler dealers across
America try to sell vehicles
with the auto manufacturer in
bankruptcy, they’re meeting
different types of customers:
loyalists who aren’t fazed by
the troubles, those simply
seeking the best deal in a bad
economy, and some who are
willing to look, but aren’t sold
on the company’s prospects.
“People hear the word
bankruptcy and it makes them
nervous,” said Richard Engel,
a Chrysler dealer in Wyckoff,
N.J. “We just hope it doesn’t
scare too many people away.”
Chrysler, the nation’s thirdlargest automaker behind
General Motors and Ford,
filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection Thursday after
months of surviving on government loans. The company
hopes to emerge in as little as
30 days, allied with Italian
automaker Fiat to build leaner,
cleaner cars.
Some customers who
spoke to the Associated Press
in recent days said they were
encouraged by President
Barack Obama’s pledge that
the government will back warranties issued by Chrysler —
an attempt to reassure consumers their purchases will be
protected even if the company
fails.
Others say the government’s backing is a plus, but
that survival will be tough in
today’s ultra-competitive car
market.
It’s hard to say, yet, if the
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Sunday by the Whitfield
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DUI and driving without a
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Office with terroristic threats
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■ John Patrick Mixon,
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see the company’s straits as an
opportunity. Some dealers
said they saw better-than-average traffic over the weekend,
while others said it was slow.
Looking farther out, dealers say they’re not sure what
the coming months hold.
For now, though, they’d all
love to have a client like
Donald Powell. The pastor of
East Houston Trinity Walk of
Faith Ministries bought his
fourth vehicle from River
Oaks
Chrysler-Jeep
in
Houston a few weeks ago, a
silver, 2009 Chrysler 300 he
calls his “baby Bentley.”
Powell, 59, even serves as
an adjunct salesman: He was
back at the dealership
Saturday to discuss potential
purchases by four of his
parishioners.
Like other automakers,
Chrysler — whose brands
include Jeep and Dodge —
has used cash rebates, zeropercent financing and other
incentives to attract buyers.
For some, a good deal on a
new car trumped the possibility that Chrysler may not survive.
Rebecca Jeffries wasn’t
even looking to buy when she
went for an oil change Friday
at Day’s Baum Boulevard
Dodge-Chrysler-Jeep
in
Pittsburgh.
The 66-year-old computercompany clerk has always
loved the looks of Chrysler’s
Crossfire convertible, but the
$40,000-plus tab was out of
her price range. Not these
days. When a sales representative made her a deal for
$27,900, Jeffries said so long
to her Sebring sedan and drove
off in a new silver sports car.
Jeffries acknowledged a little anxiety about the warranty
— even with the government’s
backing — but said “it looks
like I’m getting a good deal
here.”
“If they want to get rid of it,
I’ll take it,” she said.
Not everyone is so optimistic, and that’s not surprising given the state of the automotive industry. Overall U.S.
auto sales fell 34 percent in
April from a year earlier, and
Chrysler had the worst showing among Detroit’s Big
Three, down 48 percent.
Paul O’Dell was checking
out a new Chrysler Pacifica on
Saturday at Balzekas Motor
Sales Inc., a Chrysler dealership on Chicago’s southwest
side. The retired truck driver
has been looking for a bigger
vehicle to replace his
Chevrolet HHR, but the deals
just aren’t enticing enough.
“Right now to me, all cars
are too expensive,” O’Dell
said.
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Monday, May 4, 2009
Swine flu reshapes Mexican tourism
BY NATALIA PARRA
ACAPULCO, Mexico —
Acapulco’s mayor is telling
tourists from Mexico City to go
home, and residents are stoning
their cars. Cancun’s hotels are
pleading for visitors to fill their
empty rooms. The swine flu
outbreak is remaking tourism in
strange ways in a country heavily dependent on it.
Tourism to Mexico has
plummeted since the swine flu
outbreak was declared a week
ago, causing the tourism secretary to say Friday that he’s
shelving funds earmarked for a
publicity campaign until after
the epidemic subsides. Rodolfo
Elizondo acknowledged it isn’t
the best time to promote
Mexico as a vacation spot.
Treasury Secretary Agustin
Carstens said the flu will be a
heavy blow to tourism,
Mexico’s third-largest legal
source of foreign currency.
Mexico’s resorts, however,
are experiencing the crisis in
very different ways.
The
top
destination,
Cancun, caters largely to for-
eigners, who are steering clear
of Mexico. The city has lost an
estimated $2.4 million in the
past week as occupancy
dropped 40 percent below usual
levels for this time of year, said
Rodrigo de la Pena, president
of
the
Cancun
Hotel
Association.
Businesses are doing everything they can to woo tourists,
he said: Restaurants are offering
two-for-one dinners and bars
two-for-one drinks, while handicraft stores have $1 specials on
dolls and necklaces.
“It’s imperative that our
hotels have tourists,” Pena said.
“We are in a serious economic
crisis.”
Occupancy is down similar
levels in Acapulco, but the city
seems to want it that way for
now.
Acapulco caters more to visitors from Mexico City, a fivehour drive away, but residents
are afraid the tourists are bringing swine flu from the capital,
where most cases have
occurred.
“Someone who has flu
symptoms shouldn’t think they
can come to Acapulco for the
weather and get better — that
some fresh air and tequila and
discos are going to make them
forget about everything,” Mayor
Manuel Anorve said. “So we
ask them to be responsible and
not come.”
Acapulco officials are putting out the word that bars,
restaurants and tour boats are
closed, and that the only things
open for business are hotels.
Some residents were going
further to drive home the message: Federal highway police
said at least four vehicles with
Mexico City license plates have
been stoned as they entered
Acapulco.
Those who do make it to
Acapulco are getting a chilly
reception — though there’s
already a bias against residents
of the capital, considered loud
and pushy by many in Mexico’s
interior.
Visitor Martha Rubio said
employees at a beach restaurant
laughed at her when she walked
by on the beach in a bikini and
a surgical mask.
“I don’t let it affect me,” she
said, watching her children, 12
and 16, build sand castles.
Gas
station
attendant
Miriam Arizmendi said many of
her fellow workers were refusing to fill the tanks of Mexico
City cars. She wasn’t joining
them, but said she understood.
“They can infect us,” she
said, wearing a mask and rubber
gloves. “They shouldn’t come.
The Mexico City government
should declare a quarantine so
they don’t leave.”
Mexico has said it will take
an intense publicity campaign
to win back tourists. Elizondo
said he’ll send officials to China
and Canada to learn how those
countries revived their industries after being slammed by
bird flu six years ago.
But for now, U.S., Canadian,
Japanese and European tour
operators are canceling trips,
and cruise ships are changing
routes to avoid Mexico.
Continental Airlines Inc. said
Friday it will halve flights to
Mexico because planes are taking off empty.
That’s no wonder as T-shirts
hit the market with a new spin
on the tourist cliche: “I went to
Mexico and all I got was swine
flu.”
AP
PHOTO
Wearing protective face masks as a precaution
against swine flu contagion, Kevin Solis plays with
his mother Abdi Santoyo at a beach in Cancun,
Mexico, on April 30. While Mexico fights to contain
a swine flu outbreak, the tourism industry is hurting
nationwide.
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Each year, Whitfield County students
can participate in the Young Georgia
Authors’ Writing Contest sponsored by
the Georgia Department of Education.
Each school can submit one entry per
grade level. Tilea West, a sixth-grade
student at Valley Point Middle School,
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poem titled “Three Way Love.” Tilea’s
poem now moves to the district level
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speech on Marie Curie. Julie Watkins, center, took third place for her speech on
Juliette Gordon Low, founder of the Girl Scouts. They will compete for county level
awards on Tuesday at Northwest Elementary School.
■ Hannan A. Qureshi of
Dalton, a student in the
Weinberg College of Arts and
Sciences at Northwestern
University, has been named to
the dean’s list for the winter
quarter of the 2008-2009 academic year. Students on the
dean’s list must have a grade
point average of at least 3.7.
■ Felipe Sosa-Gonzalez of
Dalton was recognized during
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College’s
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OBITUARIES
• The Rev. Charles
Brock, Dalton
• Marvel ‘Pat’ Godwin,
Dalton
• Marsha Anne
Hammock, Resaca
• Viola Jo ‘Polly’ Ingle,
Chatsworth
• Annie Lou Ellis
McCurdy, Tunnel Hill
• Vera Ellen Myers
McNeese, Cohutta
• John W. ‘Jack’ Tudor,
Dalton
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posted online at
The Rev. Charles
Brock
The Rev. Charles Brock,
age 74, of Calhoun and formerly of Dalton, passed away
Sunday, May 3, 2009 at his
residence.
Funeral arrangements are
incomplete and will be
announced later by Julian
Peeples Funeral Home, 2801
Cleveland Road, Dalton.
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Marvel ‘Pat’
Godwin
Mr. Marvel “Pat” Godwin,
87, of Dalton, passed away
Saturday, May 2, 2009.
He was the son of the late
John Noye and Mae Powell
Godwin and was preceded in
death by his wife Ruth
McCarley Godwin; son,
Jimmy Godwin; brothers,
Johnny, Jay, Clark, Bill and
Russell.
Pat is survived by his children, Hurley Godwin, Roy
Godwin, Melvin Godwin,
Annett Godwin and Lynn
Brand; sister, Rosetta Flowers;
brother Stan Godwin; several
grandchildren; nieces and
nephews.
Services will be at 2 p.m.
Tuesday from the Chapel of
Love Funeral Home with the
Rev. Dan Hocker officiating.
Burial will be in Tilton
Cemetery.
The family will receive
friends at Love Funeral Home
today from 6 to 8 p.m.
Words of comfort may be
sent to the family at www.lovefuneralhomega.com.
Love Funeral Home, 1402
N. Thornton Ave., Dalton
(across
from
Hamilton
Medical Center) is in charge
of arrangements.
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Marsha Anne
Hammock
Mrs.
Marsha
Anne
Hammock, age 55, of
Resaca, departed this life
Saturday evening, May 2,
2009 at the local hospital,
surrounded by her loving
family. Marsha was born
May 24, 1953 in Whitfield
County, a daughter of the late
Charles and Sally Mullins
Ray. She was also preceded
in death by her first husband,
Charles Cross; step-son,
Chuck Cross and a brother,
Billy Ray. Marsha was
employed at Beaulieu of
America where she worked
as a shipping clerk.
She is survived by her
husband, Melvin Hammock
of the residence; sons and
daughter-in-law, Ronnie and
Shannon Cross of Calhoun,
Steve Cross of Dalton;
daughter, Amanda Cordell of
Resaca; step-son and daughter-in-law, Scott and Kathy
Hammock of Dalton; stepdaughters and son-in-law,
Misty and John Ballew of
Chatsworth, Denise Cross of
Klamath Falls, Ore.; sisters,
Kay Edwards of Dalton, and
Annette Powell of St.
Mary’s; 11 grandchildren,
several nieces and nephews.
Services to celebrate the
life of Mrs. Marsha Anne
Hammock will be held
Tuesday, May 5, 2009 at 2
p.m. at the Melrose Chapel of
Ponders Funeral Home with
the Revs. Robert Beavers and
Ronald Guffey officiating.
She will be laid to rest at the
Fairview Cemetery in Resaca
with her family serving as
pallbearers. The family will
receive friends at the funeral
home from 6 until 9 p.m.
today.
Thoughts and memories
may be shared with the
Hammock
family
at
www.pondersfuneralhome.c
om.
Arrangements by locally
owned and operated Ponders
Funeral Home, 138 Melrose
Drive, Dalton. (706) 2264002.
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Viola Jo ‘Polly’
Ingle
Miss Viola Jo “Polly”
Ingle, 81, of Chatsworth, died
Saturday, May 2, 2009.
She was the daughter of
the late, Roy and Tennie
Beckler Ingle and was preceded in death by her infant
brother.
“Polly” made her home
with her cousin, Maxine
Stafford, Shirley Evans, Ruby
Collett and Tammy Collett;
other cousins surviving,
Randy Beckler, Lyndal
Masters, Betty Kennemer,
Cathy Masters, Rodney
Beckler, Barbara Von Helms,
D.K. Smith, Eloise Smith and
Joyce Ward.
Services will be Tuesday at
4 p.m. in the chapel of Love
Funeral Home with the Rev.
Eddie Craig officiating.
Burial will be in the Center
Valley Cemetery.
The family will receive
friends at the Love Funeral
Home today from 6 to 9 p.m.
sent to the family at
www.lovefuneralhomega.com.
North Thornton Ave., Dalton
(across
from
Hamilton
of arrangements.
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Annie Lou Ellis
McCurdy
Mrs. Annie Lou Ellis
McCurdy, 90, of Tunnel Hill,
died Saturday, May 2, 2009,
surrounded by her loving family.
She was the daughter of the
late Henry Thad Ellis and
Savannah Lou Ellis and was
preceded in death by her husband, John W. “J.W.”
McCurdy;
sons,
Paul
McCurdy, John McCurdy,
Darrell McCurdy, David
McCurdy and Henry James
“Bud” McCurdy; granddaughter,
Gina
Renee
Summey; five brothers and
four sisters.
Annie is survived by her
daughters and son-in-law,
Carolyn Pulliam of Dalton,
Nancy and Larry Staton of
Tunnel Hill; 18 grandchildren;
36 great-grandchildren; 23
great-great-grandchildren;
nieces and nephews.
Services will be today at 2
p.m. in the chapel of Love
Funeral Home with the Revs.
Ronnie Shadwick and Charlie
Bagley officiating.
Burial will follow in Bethel
Church Cemetery.
sent to the family at
www.lovefuneralhomega.com.
N. Thornton Ave., Dalton
(across
from
Hamilton
of arrangements.
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278-3313
Docs: Primary care takes too
much time for too little money
BY LEE BOWMAN
Primary care by
the numbers:
Scripps Howard News
Why is the doctor “out”
for millions of Americans?
Family doctors and
experts say there are not
enough primary care doctors
for two main reasons: time
and money.
Despite widespread calls
for each American to have a
primary care doctor, neither
government programs like
Medicare and Medicaid nor
private insurance generally
pays doctors for quarterbacking patient care, or pay
for visits addressing multiple
medical issues.
Family doctors, pediatricians and general practitioners end up being paid less,
because the reimbursement
system assumes what they do
is less complex than specialists.
With an aging population
of patients, at least half with
one or more chronic conditions and a growing list of
recommended preventive
care, good primary care
takes a lot of time, both from
the doctor and support staff.
Yet primary care doctors
often earn $150,000 or less a
year, about half as much as
specialists.
Not surprisingly, only
about 7 percent of medical
students in a recent survey
said they were pursuing primary care, especially when
they graduate with an average debt of $140,000.
Physician dissatisfaction
with primary care is high.
The Physicians Foundation
found that most family docs
are unhappy with their long
hours, high patient loads and
relatively low pay. Few
would recommend their field
to new doctors, and only 40
percent would choose their
career path again if they
could do it over.
“It’s the tyranny of the
15-minute visit. You come
into your practice in the
morning and you see you
have 12 to 15 15-minute vis-
MCG
its in the morning and another 12 to 15 15-minute visits
in the afternoon, and you
know you can’t do it all in 15
minutes,’’ said Dr. Thomas
Bodenheimer, a primary care
expert at the University of
California-San Francisco.
The impacts are widespread:
■ Many busy offices are
trying to keep up with
patient demand by hiring
physician assistants or nurse
practitioners to handle
appointments.
■ Some, frustrated by noshows and unrealistic scheduling, have abandoned
appointments entirely, just
letting patients walk in first
come, first served.
■ Family medicine is
aging. A third of family
physicians are 55 and older,
and many are winding down
their practices.
■
The
Physicians
Foundation survey found
that 49 percent of primary
care doctors said they expect
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to reduce the number of
patients they see, or stop
practicing entirely, within
the next three years.
■ Family medicine is
feminizing. The majority of
new primary care doctors are
women — a third of the total
and soon to be two thirds.
Female doctors are more
likely to seek limited work
hours or part-time practices
to accommodate their children.
■ Many younger doctors,
male and female, reject a
lifestyle that requires working 60 to 80 hours a week
and being on-call.
“There’s a lot of demoralized people in the trenches,
and a lot of young doctors
are wondering if they want to
go into primary care or stay
in it,’’ said Dr. Ted Epperly,
president of the American
Academy
of
Family
Physicians. “A lot of them
are choosing more lucrative,
less demanding paths in and
out of medicine.”
326,000 — Primary
care doctors in 2006
633,000 — All doctors
in U.S
49 percent —
Proportion of primary
care doctors who
expect to cut back or
stop practicing in the
next 3 years
2 percent —
Proportion of medical
school grads trained
for internal medicine
planning to enter primary care
251 million —
Americans in areas
underserved for primary care
60 million —
Americans who lack a
relationship with a family doctor
6,000-plus —
Community health center clinics delivering
primary care
18 million — Mostly
low-income Americans
served by community
health centers
135,000 — Advanced
nurse practitioners, a
majority working in primary care
70,000 — Physician
assistants
1,100 — Convenient
care clinics operating
inside pharmacies and
retail stories
Sources: Federal Health
Resources and Services
Administration; American
Medical Association; The
Physicians Foundation; The
Commonwealth Fund;
American Hospital Association;
National Association of
Community Health Centers;
American Academy of Nurse
Practitioners; American
Association of Physician
Assistants; Convenient Care
Association.
Vera Ellen Myers
McNeese
Vera Ellen “Blondie”
Myers McNeese, age 62, of
Cohutta,
passed
away
Saturday, May 2, 2009, at
her home.
She was preceded in
death by her parents and siblings.
She was a member of Mt.
Calvary Baptist Church.
Survivors include her
husband, Bruce “Mickey”
McNeese of the residence;
son, Brian Morgan McNeese
of Indianapolis, Ind.; sistersin-law, Daisie and husband,
Lester Bruce, Judy Frost and
Ruth McNeese, all of
Dalton; brother-in-law, Joe
and wife, Betty McNeese of
Crandall; nieces, nephews
and special caregivers, Linda
Woods and Nancy Brown.
A private memorial service will be held at a later
date.
Julian Peeples Funeral
Home, 2801 Cleveland
Road, Dalton is in charge of
funeral arrangements. For
further information, call
(706) 259-7455.
www.legacy.com
John W. ‘Jack’
Tudor
Our Heavenly Father has
called Mr. John W. “Jack”
Tudor home to his loving
arms on Friday, May 1,
2009.
He was born in Pikeville,
Tenn., April 26, 1921, the
son of the late Isaac Bradley
Tudor and Mary Louise
Frady Tudor, “The Perfect
Mother.” He was also preceded in death by his sisters,
brothers-in-law, Stella and
Gene Livengood, Ethel and
George “Red” Brown, Elsie
and Windel Bigham, and
brother, Charles Logan
“C.L.” Tudor.
He joined the CCC in
1935, serving from Oregon
to Grassy Mountain and Fort
Mountain, to help support
his family. John was honored
to serve his country during
World War II in the U.S.
Army Air Force. He served
as an airplane mechanic in
England and France. He was
a Maytag mechanic who
could fix anything. You may
remember him from Cordle’s
and Economy Furniture or
picking his guitar. He was a
member of Freedom Baptist
Church, American Legion
Post 112, DAV and the VFW.
He is survived by his children, John R. and Johnnie
Tudor, Pamela S. and David
Morris, Karen E. and
Michael Foote, and Phillip
W. and Stacy Tudor; grandchildren, Amy and Derek
West, Michael and Maliya
Tudor, Chyna and Dusty
Phillips; great-grandchildren, Ashley Jett, Kaleb
Tudor, Nakia West and
Hunter Lane Walker; several
nieces, nephews and cousins.
He loved us all. He had
many special friends and
helped many people.
Services to celebrate the
life of Mr. John W. “Jack
Tudor” are today at 4 p.m. at
the Melrose Chapel of
Ponders Funeral Home with
the Rev. Doug Hasty officiating.
He will be laid to rest at
the Whitfield Memorial
Gardens with American
Legion Post 112 providing
military graveside honors.
Thoughts and memories
may be shared with the
Tudor family at www.pondersfuneralhome.com.
Arrangements are by
locally owned and operated
Ponders Funeral Home, 138
Melrose Drive, Dalton, (706)
226-4002.
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Jack Kemp, football star
turned politician, dies
CAROLYN THOMPSON
Associated Press Writers
WASHINGTON — Jack
Kemp, the former pro quarterback who turned fame on
the football field into a
career in
national
politics
and a crusade for
l o w e r
taxes, has
died
of
cancer at
Kemp
age 73.
Family spokeswoman
Marci Robinson said Kemp
died shortly after 6 p.m.
Saturday, surrounded by his
family and pastor. Kemp
died at his home in
Bethesda, Maryland, in the
Washington suburbs, friends
said.
Kemp’s
office
announced in January that
he had been diagnosed with
an unspecified type of cancer. By then, however, the
cancer was in an advanced
stage and had spread to several organs, former campaign adviser Edwin J.
Feulner said. He did not
know the origin of the cancer.
Kemp, a former quarterback for the Buffalo Bills,
represented western New
York for nine terms in
Congress, leaving the House
for an unsuccessful presidential bid in 1988.
Eight years later, after
serving a term as President
George H.W. Bush’s housing secretary, he made it
onto the national ticket as
Republican
presidential
candidate Bob Dole’s running-mate.
With that loss, the
Republican bowed out of
political office, but not out
of politics. In speaking
engagements and a syndicated column, he continued
to advocate for the tax
reform and supply-side policies — the idea that the
more taxes are cut the more
the economy will grow —
that he pioneered.
Praise rolled in from fellow politicians.
“Jack Kemp’s commitment to public service and
his passion for politics influenced not only the direction
of his party, but his country,”
President Barack Obama
said in a statement issued
Sunday.
Former President George
W. Bush said Kemp “will be
remembered for his significant contributions to the
Reagan revolution and his
steadfast dedication to conservative principles during
his long and distinguished
career in public service.”
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C M Y K
SPORTS
Monday, May 4, 2009
COMMENTARY
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NBA PLAYOFFS
Richt: ‘What
does it matter
if Stafford had
an outburst?’
Atlanta Hawks
Josh Smith,
left, Joe
Johnson,
second from
right, and Mike
Bibby (10)
react as Smith
leaves the
court in the
final seconds
of Game 7 of
the Eastern
Conference
playoff series
on Sunday.
Atlanta won
91-78 and will
play the
No. 1-seeded
Cleveland
Cavaliers on
Tuesday in the
conference
semifinals.
L
ast Monday, yours truly was
at the Coosa Country Club
in Rome, where the Rome
Bulldog Club hosted University of
Georgia football coach Mark
Richt, who was in town for a
meet-and-greet with fans.
Richt, as we all know, is an
inspirational speaker and master of
using motivational tactics to get
results from his players on the
football field.
Even Traditions of Rome, Inc.
was aware of Richt’s motivating
ways and set up shop at the country
club with memorabilia to capitalize
on some of his classic moves. There
was a print titled “Blackout” of the
Dawgs’ 2007 win over Auburn in
which the players were motivated by
wearing a different color jersey. And
there was another print titled “The
Celebration,” which beautifully captures the entire
Bulldog team
rushing to the end
zone to celebrate
the game’s first
touchdown
against Florida,
also in 2007.
I couldn’t
find any prints of
the “Blackout”
or Florida games
Adam
from 2008,
Krohn
though. They
must have sold
out.
Anyway, as Richt entered the
country club, I caught up with him
to ask what everyone in Dalton
wants to know: Will there be any
new Carpets of Dalton commercials coming out this year?
Folks, I’m sorry to be the bearer
of bad news, but Richt confirmed
to The Daily Citizen that there will
be no new commercials. It looks as
though us Daltonians are stuck
with the same commercial we’ve
seen for the past year that uses the
same theme song we’ve heard for
the past three decades.
Not to pick on Carpets of Dalton
too much though, because it has
nothing on Dalton Utilities-Optilink
and Chattanooga’s WRCBTV
Channel 3. The two have teamed up
to torture Optilink cable subscribers
for over a year now by looping the
same commercial at every commercial break on every other station. If
I hear news anchor Cindy Sexton
say “It’s 11:07” one more time, I’m
going to throw my TV set through
the window.
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Bourn fuels
Astros win
AP PHOTO
Next stop: Cleveland
Hawks advance to conference semifinals
BY ADAM KROHN
ATLANTA — Joe Johnson was
tired of all the double- and tripleteaming. So he put up a shot
before Miami could get an extra
defender on him.
From about 30 feet away.
Swish.
After a mostly disappointing
series, Johnson finally showed up
when
the
Hawks needed
him most, making six 3-pointers and scoring
27 points to lead
Atlanta into the
second round of
the
playoffs
with a 91-78
Johnson
victory
over
Dwyane Wade
and the Heat in Game 7 Sunday.
Atlanta got past the first round
for the first time since 1999. Their
reward? A matchup with LeBron
James and the top-seeded
Cavaliers, beginning Tuesday
night in Cleveland.
Johnson, the Hawks’ top scorer
during the regular season, was
held under 20 points in five of the
first six games by the Heat. It
looked like more of the same when
he missed his first five shots of the
decisive contest.
Then, suddenly, he found his
range. First, a 3-pointer from just
outside the line. Then, on Atlanta’s
next possession, he pulled up near
the tip of the winged logo at center
court — a good 7 to 8 short of the
arc — and launched another one.
Nothing but net, even after he got a
bit of a hip check from a startled
Wade, who looked off toward the
stands in disbelief after the ball
went through.
“I was just trying to be more
aggressive,” Johnson said. “I
haven’t put up a 3 that long in a
while. I said, ’Forget it,’ and just
launched it. Making that got me
into a little rhythm.”
He finished 6-of-8 from beyond
the arc, leading the Hawks to the
final blowout in a series that was
totally devoid of any drama. Every
game was decided by at least 10
points.
“When Joe is hitting 40-foot
3s,” Wade said, “it’s one of those
nights.”
After a back-and-forth first
quarter that ended with Atlanta
ahead 20-18, the Hawks pulled out
to a 49-36 lead by halftime. They
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O’Hair rises to victory
BY DOUG FERGUSON
BY CHARLES ODUM
AP PHOTO
Houston Astros catcher Ivan Rodriguez (12) tags out Atlanta
Braves' Jeff Francoeur at home plate while he was trying to
score off a Martin Prado line drive to left field during the fourth
inning of their baseball game Sunday in Atlanta.
Johnson’s grounder, and fell over
first base. He was taken away on a
cart.
The Astros may place Brocail on
the disabled list to clear a roster
spot for Brian Moehler, who is
coming off the DL to start Monday
night at Washington.
“We think of it as one of us is
down,” said Geoff Geary (1-3),
who gave up three hits and one run
in 1 1-3 innings.
Cooper said the team would
“find out tomorrow” about
Brocail’s status.
The Astros took two of three for
their first series win at Turner Field
W W W
season for Wade and the Heat,
which bounced back from a dismal
15-67 record to make the playoffs
as the fifth seed in the East.
“I’m very encouraged by this
season,” said Wade, who scored 31
points. “The team that won 15
games last year came back to win
43 games this year and took
Atlanta to seven games in the playoffs. We’ve got something to build
on.”
Wade scored 31 points but the
majority of those came after the
Hawks had already built a comfortable lead. Bothered by back
spasms throughout the series, he
didn’t have enough help from his
young teammates to get through to
a matchup against James in the
second round.
Instead, it’s the Hawks moving
on. Red and silver streamers fell
from the roof of Philips Arena as
the horn sounded, celebrating the
team’s first playoff series win since
a five-game triumph over Detroit in
1999. That team was swept by New
York in the next round and then
drifted into irrelevance, enduring
nine straight losing seasons before
GOLF: QUAIL HOLLOW CHAMPIONSHIP
ATLANTA
—
Houston’s
bullpen picked up the Astros’ starting pitchers in two weekend wins
over the Braves. Now the relievers
may have to find a way to pick up
one of their own.
Michael Bourn had three hits,
including
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a seventhPage 2B
inning
single to
drive in the go-ahead run, as the
Astros beat the Braves 7-5 Sunday
and won a series in Atlanta for the
first time in five years.
The bullpen gave up one run in
eight innings following a rain delay
in Saturday’s 5-1 win, and six
relievers allowed two runs in four
innings on Sunday.
“The bullpen kind of bailed us
out,” said manager Cecil Cooper.
“What was it, 12 innings? That’s
pretty good.”
The win may have been costly,
as right-hander Doug Brocail left
the game in the eighth after straining his left hamstring on a play at
first base.
Brocail took a throw from first
baseman Lance Berkman, who
made a diving stop of Kelly
might as well have started the celebration right then. There were
only 15 lead changes in seven
games — not one of them after the
opening period.
The Hawks turned the contest
into a laugher in the final quarter.
Flip Murray hit a 3-pointer to give
Atlanta its biggest lead, 85-66, and
both teams cleared their benches in
the closing minutes.
Things got ugly late while the
Hawks fans chanted “Hey, hey,
hey, goodbye!” Zaza Pachulia,
who provided more quality minutes off the bench, drove to the
hoop and was collared around the
neck by Udonis Haslem. The
Miami forward was tossed out of
the game for a flagrant foul, while
Atlanta coach Mike Woodson
charged onto the court to make
sure no punches were thrown.
The Hawks will need everyone
for the Cavaliers, who have lost
only two games at home all season.
Miami is done, its finale epitomized by Haslem’s inglorious exit.
He ripped off his jersey on the way
to the locker room, throwing it into
the crowd before he disappeared
down the tunnel.
Still, it was quite a comeback
.
since May 7-9, 2004. Houston has
won two straight road series.
LaTroy Hawkins said it’s too
early to suggest the last-place team
has turned a corner.
“We’ve only had like two-game
winning streaks,” said Hawkins,
who recorded the final four outs for
his third save. “To really get on
track we need to put together four,
five or six straight wins.”
The Braves have lost four of six
in an eight-game homestand that
continues with a two-game series
against the New York Mets.
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CHARLOTTE,
N.C.
—
Standing on the 18th tee, Sean
O’Hair asked his caddie where he
stood in the Quail Hollow
Championship and got word that
he had a one-shot lead.
“Over who?” O’Hair replied.
It wasn’t Tiger Woods. It might
not have mattered.
Five weeks after blowing a
five-shot lead at Bay Hill against
the world’s No. 1 player, O’Hair
was determined to keep putting
himself in contention until he figured out how to win down the
stretch.
That time came Sunday against
one of the strongest fields of the
year, with Woods in his rearview
mirror.
O’Hair, 26, closed with a 3under 69 — the only player from
the last nine groups to break 70 —
and made enough key birdies that
finishing with consecutive bogeys
on the two toughest holes at Quail
Hollow didn’t cost him.
He wound up with a one-shot
victory over Lucas Glover and
Bubba Watson to become only the
third player in his 20s with at least
three PGA Tour victories. The
others are Sergio Garcia and
Adam Scott.
“Losing (stunk) at Bay Hill,”
O’Hair said. “Even though it’s
D A L T O N D A I L Y C I T I Z E N
.
C O M
tough to lose like that, to lose a
five-shot lead against Tiger, you
still learn from it. I talked to my
coach. I talked to my caddie, Paul
(Tesori). And we just all said all I
have to do is keep putting myself
in those situations, and at some
point I’m going to learn how to
win. It’s just nice to win as quickly as I did after Bay Hill.”
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AP PHOTO
Sean O'Hair pumps his fist
after making a birdie on the
16th hole Sunday.
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AP PHOTO
University of Georgia football coach Mark Richt
told The Daily Citizen there are no new Carpets of
Dalton commercials in the works. He also came to
the defense of former Bulldog quarterback
Matthew Stafford, who was selected by the Detroit
Lions in the 2009 NFL draft.
Krohn: Stafford
Where was I? Oh yeah,
Richt at the country club. I
figured it was a good time to
pick his brain about quarterback Matthew Stafford’s
decision to forgo his senior
season at Georgia to enter
the NFL draft. Stafford
ended up being chosen by
the Detroit Lions, by far the
worst franchise in league
history.
Richt was very candid
and honest in his assessment
of Stafford’s decision, first
pointing out Stafford’s obvious motive for leaving
Athens.
“From strictly a business
point of view, he certainly
maximized his ability to be
a high draft pick,” Richt
said. “I mean, he was the
highest pick in the draft.
Now that he’s made the
decision, he’s got to make it
a good one.”
With a $41.7 million
guaranteed contract, there’s
no way for Stafford can
make the decision a bad one,
but Richt probably means
Stafford should live up to
his contract by performing
on the field. That might be
hard to do, given the Lions
are in the midst of a 17game losing streak.
But Richt realizes that
too.
“He’s going to have a lot
on his plate,” Richt said.
“He’s in a city that is struggling mightily with unemployment and he’s going to
be making a ton of money.
And he’s playing for a team
that hasn’t been able to
bring the fans much joy lately. So he’s going to have to
really be able to handle a lot
more pressure than even
playing in the Southeastern
Conference.”
Stafford wasn’t always
able to handle pressure well
playing in one of the country’s better conferences. In
2006, the Dawgs suffered
four SEC losses to
Tennessee, Vanderbilt,
Florida and Kentucky. In
those losses, Stafford threw
just one touchdown to six
interceptions.
In a 2007 loss at home to
South Carolina, Stafford’s
first of two interceptions —
this one at the goal line with
5 minutes left — essentially
ended the Bulldogs’ national
championship hopes. A few
weeks later in a lopsided
loss to Tennessee, he completed less than 50-percent
of his passes and threw an
interception in a game the
Bulldogs were losing 28-0
by halftime.
Last year against Florida,
Stafford threw 3 picks to 0
touchdowns in a 49-10 loss.
And in his final game at
Sanford Stadium, a non-conference contest against
Georgia Tech, Stafford threw
a first-half pick that was
returned for a touchdown, a
mistake that proved to be
more than significant, as the
Dawgs eventually lost 45-42.
With Stafford’s demonstration to fold in big games,
coupled with his recent outburst during a 49ers psychological interview, questions
were recently raised about
his temper/attitude.
When I forwarded those
questions to Richt, asking
him if Stafford ever had an
outburst during his time at
Georgia, Richt’s tone
changed and he immediately
went on the defensive.
“What does it matter if
he had an outburst or not?”
asked Richt. “Do you want
an outburst? Do you not
want an outburst? What do
we want here? Everybody is
human, I can’t sit here and
say that he won’t ever get
frustrated, or that he won’t
ever get mad.”
So the jury is still out
about Stafford’s attitude.
Maybe he will keep his cool.
After all, he’s got 41.7 million reasons to do so, none
of which have to do with
winning football games.
Adam Krohn is a sports
writer for the Daily Citizen.
You can write him at
adamkrohn@daltoncitizen.c
om, or you can follow him
on Twitter @adamkrohn.
Hawks: Win series
this year’s 47-35 mark was
good enough for home-court
advantage in the opening
round of the playoffs.
A year ago, the Hawks
learned the benefits of playing Game 7 at home. After
taking the eventual NBA
champion Celtics to the
limit, Atlanta was blown out
in the decisive game at
Boston. This time, the
Hawks got to play at home,
and they doled out the same
treatment to Miami.
Mike Bibby might have
been the Hawks most valuable player in the series. He
averaged just under 15 points
and 5 assists in the seven
games. He even stood up to
Woodson when the coach
Hawks guard
Mike Bibby
shakes a
Miami
defender
during
Sunday’s
first-round
playoff game
at Phillips
Arena in
Atlanta.
AP PHOTO
complained about Josh
Smith (21 points) putting up
an errant 3-pointer from the
corner.
When Woodson called his
point guard over, Bibby shot
back with an expletive.
“Y’all tell him to move,”
Bibby growled. Woodson
simply turned away, rubbing
his goattee and smiling
slightly.
This was the first Game 7
ever played in Atlanta. As if
that wasn’t unusual enough,
the Hawks had not won a
Game 7 since 1961 — when
the franchise was still in St.
Louis.
“It feel like the monkey’s
off Atlanta’s back,” Smith
said. “Not just the team’s
back. The whole city.”
O’Hair took the outright
lead with a two-putt birdie
from 70 feet on the 15th,
then seized control with an
8-iron to 8 feet for birdie on
the 16th hole, allowing him
some room for error on the
frightening finishing holes.
“I just hit it as hard as I
could and tried to flight it,”
O’Hair said, “and hit really
a perfect golf shot.”
Glover, who bogeyed the
par-3 17th, had a chance to
force a playoff until his
approach bounded over the
firm green and his birdie
chip turned away to the left.
He closed with a 71 to join
Watson (70) in a tie for second.
Woods struggled with his
game throughout the final
round, but he still had a
chance to tie for the lead
when he drove the par-4
14th green and had an eagle
putt from just inside 25 feet.
He three-putted for par, then
failed to birdie the par-5
15th. Woods finished with
10 straight pars for a 72 to
finish alone in fourth, two
shots behind.
“I had my opportunity
there at 14. I made a mistake
there,” Woods said. “I knew
the green was baked out. It
was downwind, and I didn’t
heed my own warning, and
AP PHOTO
Tiger Woods hits from a bunker on the 17th green
during the final round of the Quail Hollow
Championship in Charlotte, N.C. on Sunday.
ended up putting too hard.”
Watson, who has never
won on the PGA Tour or
Nationwide Tour, was atop
the leaderboard for most of
the back nine until he couldn’t make the short putts
required of champions. He
missed from 6 feet for birdie
on the 15th, and the same
distance on the 16th.
Glover also missed a 5foot birdie putt on the 15th
that ultimately cost him.
O’Hair allowed for a few
nervous moments with a
three-putt bogey from 25
feet on the 18th, one of the
fastest putts on the course.
He was spared when
Glover’s shot was too strong.
“I thought it was good, I
really did,” Glover said of
his pitching wedge. “It was
either wind or adrenaline,
probably a little of both.”
O’Hair, who finished at
11-under 277, will move up
to No. 12 in the world ranking, his highest position
ever. He also earned $1.17
million, giving him just
short of $3 million for the
year, more than he has ever
made in any one season.
Not bad for a guy who
once traveled the mini-tours
with his wife in a 40-foot bus,
at times having to sit out tournaments because he couldn’t
afford the entry fees, playing
others under pressure to
make money to eat.
Now they have two children, with another one due
next month.
“I think that’s the stuff
that makes this so sweet,”
O’Hair said. “It makes the
hard work worth it, and it’s
just really nice to enjoy it
with her, especially where
we came from.”
Zach Johnson, who had a
two-shot lead to start the
final round, imploded on the
par-3 second hole with a
triple bogey from the trees.
He wound up with a 76.
O’Hair recalls running
into Woods on Monday at the
Masters, eight days after the
Bay Hill fiasco, nodding to a
friend but grumbling under
his breath at the reminder of
what went wrong.
On Sunday, Woods hung
around long enough to congratulate O’Hair, who was
holding 4-year-old daughter
Molly. O’Hair said Woods
sent him a text message
after Bay Hill with “some
nice words.”
Woods had more for him
on Sunday.
“He’s got all the talent.
We know that,” Woods
said. “We’ve seen how
well he’s played. He’s been
through a lot off the golf
course, and it’s just a matter of time before all that
settles in.”
Braves: Reyes hasn’t won since 2008
Braves manager Bobby
Cox said the struggles to
drive in runs shows the team
misses Brian McCann and
Garret Anderson, who are
on the disabled list.
“They’re
our
big
thumpers. That’s a lot to
overcome,” Cox said.
McCann, the regular
cleanup hitter, is hoping
new glasses solve his problems with blurred vision. He
can come off the disabled
list on Friday. Anderson, out
with strained left quadriceps, is eligible to be activated on Tuesday.
Bourn’s bunt single was
the first of four straight hits
for the Astros in a three-run
sixth inning. He broke a 4-4
tie by driving in Geoff Blum
with a single off Peter
Moylan (1-2) in the seventh.
Bourn then stole second
and third and scored on
Carlos Lee’s sacrifice fly.
Atlanta’s Matt Diaz
drove in Yunel Escobar with
a seventh-inning single to
cut Houston’s lead to 6-5,
but Geary struck out Jordan
Schafer with the bases
loaded to end the inning.
Ivan Rodriguez doubled
off Rafael Soriano in the
Houston eighth and scored
on Blum’s sacrifice fly.
Russ Ortiz took over for
Brocail and walked two batters. Hawkins struck out Jeff
Francoeur to end the inning
and pitched a perfect ninth
for his third save.
Jo-Jo Reyes gave up six
hits and four runs with three
walks in 5 1-3 innings and
still hasn’t won since June
18, 2008.
“I’ve just had no luck so
far,” Reyes said. “But our
time is going to come. This
can’t last all season.”
Houston’s
Wandy
Rodriguez gave up six hits
and three runs in five
innings.
The Braves took a 3-1
lead with two runs in the
fifth. A balk by Rodriguez
allowed Reyes, who walked,
to score from third. Omar
Infante
scored
on
Francoeur’s sacrifice fly.
Reyes lost the lead in the
sixth. With one out, Bourn’s
bunt single started a string
of four straight hits, including run-scoring singles by
Lee and Miguel Tejada, as
the Astros pulled even at 3all. Reyes left the game after
walking Hunter Pence to
load the bases.
“I was getting ground
balls, but they weren’t going
to anybody,” Reyes said.
Greg Norton, who had
been 1 for 15 as a pinch-hitter, tied the game at 4-all
with his pinch-single in the
sixth off Wesley Wright.
Norton’s two-out hit drove
in Diaz, who led off the
inning with a triple.
AP PHOTO
Braves pitcher Jo-Jo
Reyes hands the ball off
to manager Bobby Cox
in the sixth inning.
Cincinnati’s Cueto dominates Pirates
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
PITTSBURGH —
Johnny Cueto limited the
Pirates to four singles while
striking out nine during
eight dominating innings,
and Ramon Hernandez
drove in three runs to lead
Cincinnati past Pittsburgh
5-0 on Sunday for another
road series
victory.
BASEBALL
The Reds
ROUNDUP pitched
shutouts in
each of their
two victories in the threegame series and now have
won each of their four
series on the road, where
they are 9-4. Their five
shutouts in 24 games lead
the majors and are only one
fewer than last season’s
total.
Cueto (2-1) was in control from the start, striking
out three of the first four
batters he faced. He now
has allowed two runs in 26
2-3 innings over his last
four starts — an 0.67 ERA
that lowered his season’s
ERA to 1.65.
■ Brewers 4,
Diamondbacks 3: In
Milwaukee, Prince Fielder
and Mike Cameron hit
back-to-back homers, and
the Brewers beat the
Diamondbacks to split their
four-game series.
■ Cubs 6, Marlins 4: In
AP PHOTO
Cincinnati Reds starter Johhny Cueto pitches
against the Pittsburgh Pirates in the second inning
of the baseball game in Pittsburgh on Sunday.
Chicago, Derrek Lee hit a
grand slam shortly after
Cubs ace Carlos Zambrano
hurt himself beating out a
bunt single, and Chicago
beat the Marlins.
Zambrano strained his
left hamstring and left the
game in the fifth inning.
Lee connected four batters
later for a 6-2 lead.
■ Giants 1, Rockies 0:
In San Francisco, Rich
Aurilia drove in Steve
Holm with a 10th-inning
single to end a pitchingdominated afternoon with
the Giants’ victory over the
Rockies.
Barry Zito pitched seven
innings of two-hit ball in
another outstanding start
for the Giants, retiring 15
straight batters and allow-
ing just one runner to reach
second base.
■ Dodgers 7, Padres 3:
In Los Angeles, Chad
Billingsley completed seven
innings for the third straight
start, Orlando Hudson
drove in three runs with a
pair of doubles and the
Dodgers beat the Padres to
set a franchise record for
the best home winning
streak to begin a season.
American League
■ Tampa Bay 5,
Boston 3: In St. Petersburg,
Fla., Carl Crawford tied a
modern major league
record with six stolen bases
to help Tampa Bay beat
Boston for its first series
win in nearly a month.
James Shields (3-2)
shrugged off a shaky start
to pitch into the eighth
inning, and Tampa Bay won
three of four, outscoring the
Red Sox 30-15 and improving to 5-2 against its AL
East rivals. The Rays had
dropped six consecutive
series since taking two of
three from Boston when the
teams met at Fenway Park
the opening week of the
season.
Brad Penny (2-1) took
the loss.
■ Tigers 3, Indians 1:
In Detroit, Justin
Verlander struck out 11
and Curtis Granderson
delivered another goahead hit as the Tigers
beat the Indians.
Verlander (2-2) allowed
one run and two hits in
seven innings. Last Monday,
he fanned nine in seven
shutout innings against the
New York Yankees.
■ Blue Jays 4, Orioles
3: In Toronto, Vernon Wells
hit a two-run homer, Alex
Rios added a solo shot and
the Blue Jays completed a
three-game sweep of
Baltimore.
■ Royals 7, Twins 5: In
Minneapolis, Jose Guillen
homered and drove in four
runs, rallying the Royals
past Minnesota after Twins
starter Scott Baker carried a
no-hit bid into the seventh
inning.
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Nene delivers career game for Nuggets
DENVER (AP) — Nene
kept Denver in it until his
teammates could turn this one
into another runaway.
Nene scored 18 of his
career playoff high 24 points
in the first half and the Denver
Nuggets raced past the Dallas
Mavericks 109-95 Sunday in
the first day game in the Pepsi
Center’s 10-year history.
Carmelo Anthony scored
23 points, including a dunk
off J.R. Smith’s behind-theback assist that rocked the
arena in the closing minutes.
Smith added 15 points, leading a bench that outscored
Dallas’ celebrated reserves
38-24 before both teams emptied their benches in the
meaningless final minutes.
Dirk Nowitzki led Dallas
with 28 points and 10
boards and Josh Howard,
Jason Kidd and Jason Terry
each scored 15.
Game 2 is Tuesday night
at the Pepsi Center, where
the Nuggets have won 14
straight, including four in
the playoffs.
THE DAILY CITIZEN
Monday, May 4, 2009
Athlete of Week
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Prep Schedule
Monday
Varsity golf
GHSA Class 4A boys state tournament at Nob
North
GHSA Class 4A girls state tournament at Dalton
Golf and Country Club
GISA Class 2A boys state tournament at Rocky
Creek Golf Course, Vidalia
Varsity track, field
Region 6-3A girls meet at Carrollton, 4
Region 7-4A girls meet at Woodland-Bartow, 4:30
Middle school softball
Christian Heritage at ISC tournament
Middle school tennis
Boyd Buchanan vs. Christian Heritage at DGCC,
4:15
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Tuesday
Varsity soccer
Christian Heritage at Colonial Hills, 4:30
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Wednesday
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Thursday
Varsity track and field
Boys state meet at Jefferson
Middle school baseball
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Friday
Varsity baseball
GHSA Class 4A state playoffs
First round
Winder-Barrow at Dalton (DH), TBD
Middle school baseball
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Saturday
Varsity baseball
GHSA Class 4A state playoffs
First round
Winder-Barrow at Dalton, if necessary, TBD
Varsity soccer
GISA state playoffs, first round
Christian Heritage boys vs. TBD
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On Today
MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL
7 p.m.
PEACHTREE TV — New York Mets at Atlanta
ESPN — Boston at N.Y. Yankees
NBA BASKETBALL
8 p.m.
TNT — Playoffs, conference semifinals, game 1,
Orlando at Boston
10:30 p.m.
TNT — Playoffs, conference semifinals, game 1,
Houston at L.A. Lakers
NHL HOCKEY
7 p.m.
VERSUS — Playoffs, Eastern Conference semifinals, game 2, Pittsburgh at Washington
PRO HOCKEY
NHL Playoffs
Conference Semifinals
(Best-of-7)
Saturday
Washington 3, Pittsburgh 2, Washington leads
series 1-0
Chicago 6, Vancouver 3, series tied 1-1
Sunday
Anaheim 4, Detroit 3, 3OT, series tied 1-1
Carolina at Boston, late
Today
Pittsburgh at Washington, 7 p.m.
PRO BASKETBALL
NBA Playoffs
First Round
(Best-of-7)
Saturday
Boston 109, Chicago 99, Boston wins series 4-3
Sunday
Atlanta 91, Miami 78, Atlanta wins series 4-3
CONFERENCE SEMIFINALS
(Best-of-7)
Sunday
Denver 109, Dallas 95, Denver leads series 1-0
Monday
Orlando at Boston, 8 p.m.
Houston at L.A. Lakers, 10:30 p.m.
PRO BASEBALL
AL Glance
East Division
W
L Pct GB
18
9 .667
—
15
10 .600
2
13
11 .542 3 1/2
11
15 .423 6 1/2
9
16 .360
8
Central Division
W
L Pct GB
Kansas City
14
11 .560
—
Detroit
13
11 .542 1/2
Chicago
12
11 .522
1
Minnesota
12
13 .480
2
Cleveland
9
16 .360
5
West Division
W
L Pct GB
Seattle
14
10 .583
—
Texas
11
12 .478 2 1/2
Los Angeles
10
13 .435 3 1/2
Oakland
9
12 .429 3 1/2
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Saturday’s Scores
L.A. Angels 8, N.Y. Yankees 4
Toronto 5, Baltimore 4, 11 innings
Detroit 9, Cleveland 7
Boston 10, Tampa Bay 6
Kansas City 10, Minnesota 7, 11 innings
Texas 9, Chicago White Sox 6
Oakland 3, Seattle 2
Sunday’s Scores
Detroit 3, Cleveland 1
L.A. Angels at New York, ppd., rain
Toronto 4, Baltimore 3
Tampa Bay 5, Boston 3
Kansas City 7, Minnesota 5.
Oakland at Seattle, late
Chicago White Sox at Texas, late
Today’s Games
Boston (Lester 1-2) at N.Y. Yankees (Chamberlain
1-0), 7:05 p.m.
Minnesota (Liriano 0-4) at Detroit (E.Jackson 1-1),
7:05 p.m.
Cleveland (Carmona 1-3) at Toronto (Tallet 1-1),
7:07 p.m.
Baltimore (Eaton 1-3) at Tampa Bay (Kazmir 3-2),
7:08 p.m.
Chicago White Sox (Colon 2-1) at Kansas City
(Greinke 5-0), 8:10 p.m.
L.A. Angels (Loux 1-2) at Oakland (Bre.Anderson
0-2), 10:05 p.m.
Texas (Millwood 2-2) at Seattle (F.Hernandez 4-0),
10:10 p.m.
Tuesday’s Games
Cleveland at Toronto, 12:37 p.m.
Baltimore at Tampa Bay, 4:08 p.m.
Texas at Seattle, 4:40 p.m.
Boston at N.Y. Yankees, 7:05 p.m.
Minnesota at Detroit, 7:05 p.m.
Chicago White Sox at Kansas City, 8:10 p.m.
L.A. Angels at Oakland, 10:05 p.m.
Toronto
Boston
New York
Tampa Bay
Baltimore
NL Glance
East Division
W
L Pct GB
14
11 .560
—
12
10 .545
1/2
11
13 .458 2 1/2
10
13 .435
3
6
17 .261
7
Central Division
W
L Pct GB
St. Louis
17
8 .680
—
Chicago
13
11 .542 3 1/2
Cincinnati
13
11 .542 3 1/2
Milwaukee
13
12 .520
4
Pittsburgh
12
12 .500 4 1/2
Houston
11
14 .440
6
West Division
W
L Pct GB
Los Angeles
18
8 .692
—
San Francisco
12
11 .522 4 1/2
Arizona
11
14 .440 6 1/2
San Diego
11
14 .440 6 1/2
Colorado
9
14 .391 7 1/2
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Saturday’s Scores
Washington 6, St. Louis 1
Chicago Cubs 6, Florida 1
Houston 5, Atlanta 1
Philadelphia 6, N.Y. Mets 5, 10 innings
Colorado 5, San Francisco 1
Arizona 4, Milwaukee 1
Pittsburgh 8, Cincinnati 6
L.A. Dodgers 2, San Diego 1, 10 innings
Sunday’s Scores
Houston 7, Atlanta 5
Cincinnati 5, Pittsburgh 0
N.Y. Mets at Philadelphia, ppd., rain
St. Louis at Washington, ppd., rain
Milwaukee 4, Arizona 3
Chicago Cubs 6, Florida 4
San Francisco 1, Colorado 0, 10 innings
L.A. Dodgers 7, San Diego 3
Today’s Games
Houston (Moehler 0-2) at Washington (Olsen 1-3),
Florida
Philadelphia
Atlanta
New York
Washington
7:05 p.m.
Milwaukee (Gallardo 3-1) at Pittsburgh (Maholm 30), 7:05 p.m.
Cincinnati (Harang 2-3) at Florida (Jo.Johnson 20), 7:10 p.m.
N.Y. Mets (L.Hernandez 1-1) at Atlanta (J.Vazquez
2-2), 7:10 p.m.
San Francisco (J.Sanchez 1-1) at Chicago Cubs
(Dempster 1-1), 8:05 p.m.
Philadelphia (Hamels 0-2) at St. Louis (Wainwright
3-0), 8:15 p.m.
Colorado (De La Rosa 0-2) at San Diego (Correia
0-2), 10:05 p.m.
Arizona (D.Davis 2-3) at L.A. Dodgers (Stults 2-1),
10:10 p.m.
Tuesday’s Games
Houston at Washington, 12:35 p.m.
San Francisco at Chicago Cubs, 2:20 p.m.
Milwaukee at Pittsburgh, 7:05 p.m.
N.Y. Mets at Atlanta, 7:10 p.m.
Cincinnati at Florida, 7:10 p.m.
Philadelphia at St. Louis, 8:15 p.m.
Colorado at San Diego, 10:05 p.m.
Arizona at L.A. Dodgers, 10:10 p.m.
GOLF
Quail Hollow
Sunday
At Quail Hollow Club
Charlotte, N.C.
Purse: $1.17 million
Yardage: 7,442; Par: 72
Final Round
Sean O’Hair
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Bubba Watson
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Lucas Glover
68-71-68-71 —
Tiger Woods
65-72-70-72 —
Jonathan Byrd
72-72-70-66 —
Phil Mickelson
67-71-75-67 —
Tim Petrovic
71-70-71-68 —
Ted Purdy
70-69-72-69 —
Ian Poulter
71-70-70-69 —
Jason Dufner
67-71-71-71 —
Boo Weekley
71-70-72-68 —
Fredrik Jacobson 71-70-70-70 —
Jim Furyk
71-66-73-71 —
Martin Kaymer
71-70-69-71 —
Y.E. Yang
72-71-66-72 —
Retief Goosen
68-68-72-73 —
Zach Johnson
70-67-68-76 —
Shaun Micheel
74-69-73-66 —
Charles Warren
69-71-71-71 —
David Toms
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George McNeill
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Hunter Mahan
68-72-75-68 —
Matt Bettencourt
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Rocco Mediate
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Camilo Villegas
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Bill Haas
69-71-71-72 —
Nick Watney
71-71-69-72 —
Davis Love III
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Cameron Beckman 73-71-72-68 —
Bo Van Pelt
69-71-71-73 —
Ross Fisher
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John Senden
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Ben Curtis
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Cliff Kresge
69-72-72-72 —
Geoff Ogilvy
71-73-68-73 —
Joe Ogilvie
71-72-69-73 —
Jeff Klauk
69-71-70-75 —
Tom Pernice, Jr.
72-69-77-68 —
Ken Duke
70-72-73-71 —
Brian Davis
72-71-72-71 —
Michael Allen
70-73-72-71 —
Steve Marino
67-72-74-73 —
Danny Lee
71-69-70-76 —
Mathew Goggin
71-71-74-71 —
John Huston
73-71-69-74 —
Brendon de Jonge 72-69-67-79 —
Robert Allenby
67-74-77-70 —
Kevin Sutherland
71-72-75-70 —
Anthony Kim
70-69-78-71 —
Will MacKenzie
70-74-71-73 —
Martin Laird
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AUTO RACING
134, $118,448.
11. (21) Marcos Ambrose, Toyota, 400, 79.8, 130,
$96,798.
12. (17) Kurt Busch, Dodge, 400, 108.4, 132,
$93,475.
13. (35) Matt Kenseth, Ford, 400, 65.7, 124,
$121,390.
14. (3) Denny Hamlin, Toyota, 400, 126.5, 131,
$101,050.
15. (1) Brian Vickers, Toyota, 400, 85.4, 123,
$109,498.
16. (36) Robby Gordon, Toyota, 400, 66.6, 115,
$95,060.
17. (20) Greg Biffle, Ford, 400, 68.9, 112, $90,525.
18. (12) Clint Bowyer, Chevrolet, 400, 86.2, 114,
$82,100.
19. (13) Joey Logano, Toyota, 400, 63, 106,
$119,126.
20. (23) Reed Sorenson, Dodge, 400, 63.9, 103,
$112,851.
21. (31) AJ Allmendinger, Dodge, 400, 60.2, 100,
$73,475.
22. (4) Martin Truex Jr., Chevrolet, 400, 89.9, 102,
$113,815.
23. (22) David Ragan, Ford, 400, 64.8, 94,
$82,225.
24. (30) Michael Waltrip, Toyota, 400, 52.7, 91,
$80,675.
25. (32) Elliott Sadler, Dodge, 400, 51.4, 88,
$80,925.
26. (37) Carl Edwards, Ford, 400, 63.2, 85,
$118,056.
27. (25) Dale Earnhardt Jr., Chevrolet, 399, 60.3,
82, $87,050.
28. (9) David Reutimann, Toyota, 399, 66.9, 79,
$94,498.
29. (18) Kasey Kahne, Dodge, 399, 51.7, 76,
$111,248.
30. (33) Paul Menard, Ford, 398, 43, 73, $102,531.
31. (40) Bobby Labonte, Ford, 398, 46.2, 70,
$98,629.
32. (42) John Andretti, Chevrolet, 397, 33, 67,
$77,350.
33. (8) Scott Speed, Toyota, 396, 46.2, 64,
$80,298.
34. (19) Kevin Harvick, Chevrolet, 394, 81.6, 61,
$106,403.
35. (38) Jeremy Mayfield, Toyota, 371, 34.9, 58,
$67,975.
36. (15) Jimmie Johnson, Chevrolet, 368, 62.4, 55,
$121,976.
37. (6) Mike Bliss, Dodge, 368, 60, 52, $67,700.
38. (11) David Stremme, Dodge, accident, 324,
68.4, 49, $100,065.
39. (34) David Gilliland, Chevrolet, electrical, 92,
32.4, 46, $67,450.
40. (24) Joe Nemechek, Toyota, brakes, 90, 34, 43,
$67,325.
41. (43) Tony Raines, Chevrolet, brakes, 74, 24.4,
0, $67,175.
42. (39) Scott Riggs, Toyota, electrical, 54, 30, 37,
$67,050.
43. (26) Dave Blaney, Toyota, accident, 8, 25.8, 34,
$67,424.
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Race Statistics
Average Speed of Race Winner: 90.627 mph.
Time of Race: 3 hours, 18 minutes, 37 seconds.
Margin of Victory: 2.751 seconds.
Caution Flags: 15 for 79 laps.
Lead Changes: 21 among 8 drivers.
Lap Leaders: B.Vickers 1-6; J.Gordon 7; B.Vickers
8-22; J.Gordon 23-72; D.Hamlin 73-95; Ku.Busch
96; J.Gordon 97-98; R.Newman 99-100; D.Hamlin
101-116; C.Bowyer 117-123; D.Hamlin 124-144;
Ku.Busch 145-151; D.Hamlin 152-213; M.Truex Jr.
214-235; R.Newman 236-248; D.Hamlin 249-274;
R.Newman 275-299; Ky.Busch 300-302;
R.Newman 303-307; Ky.Busch 308; J.Gordon 309351; Ky.Busch 352-400.
Leaders Summary (Driver, Times Led, Laps Led):
D.Hamlin, 5 times for 148 laps; J.Gordon, 4 times
for 96 laps; Ky.Busch, 3 times for 53 laps;
R.Newman, 4 times for 45 laps; M.Truex Jr., 1 time
for 22 laps; B.Vickers, 2 times for 21 laps;
Ku.Busch, 2 times for 8 laps; C.Bowyer, 1 time for
7 laps.
Top 12 in Points: 1. J.Gordon, 1,441; 2. Ku.Busch,
1,431; 3. T.Stewart, 1,402; 4. D.Hamlin, 1,321; 5.
Ky.Busch, 1,314; 6. J.Johnson, 1,290; 7. J.Burton,
1,257; 8. C.Bowyer, 1,212; 9. C.Edwards, 1,204;
10. R.Newman, 1,198; 11. G.Biffle, 1,193; 12.
M.Kenseth, 1,187.
NASCAR Sprint Cup
Russ Friedman 400
Results
Saturday
At Richmond International Raceway
Richmond, Va.
Lap length: .75 miles
(Start position in parentheses)
1. (14) Kyle Busch, Toyota, 400 laps, 129.4 rating,
190 points, $257,248.
2. (16) Tony Stewart, Chevrolet, 400, 107.1, 170,
$172,773.
3. (5) Jeff Burton, Chevrolet, 400, 96.5, 165,
$177,906.
4. (10) Ryan Newman, Chevrolet, 400, 113.6, 165,
$142,829.
5. (7) Mark Martin, Chevrolet, 400, 114.4, 155,
$112,350.
6. (28) Sam Hornish Jr., Dodge, 400, 90.3, 150,
$121,035.
7. (27) Jamie McMurray, Ford, 400, 88.2, 146,
$102,425.
8. (2) Jeff Gordon, Chevrolet, 400, 117.5, 147,
$127,001.
9. (41) Casey Mears, Chevrolet, 400, 71.5, 138,
$97,125.
10. (29) Juan Pablo Montoya, Chevrolet, 400, 81,
AP SPORTLIGHT
May 4
1935 — Omaha, ridden by Willis Saunders, wins
the Kentucky Derby by 1 1/2 lengths over Roman
Soldier. Omaha goes on to win the Triple Crown.
1940 — Gallahadion, a 35-1 long shot ridden by
Carroll Bierman, wins the Kentucky Derby by 1 1/2
lengths over favorite Bimelech.
1946 — Assault, ridden by Warren Mehrtens, wins
the Kentucky Derby by eight lengths over Spy
Song. Assault goes on to win the Triple Crown.
1957 — Iron Liege, ridden by Bill Hartack, wins the
Kentucky Derby by a nose when jockey Willie
Shoemaker, on top of Gallant Man, takes the lead
but misjudges the finish line. Shoemaker stands up
in the saddle before the finish, which allows Iron
Liege to win.
1968 — Dancer’s Image, ridden by Bob Ussery,
wins the Kentucky Derby by 1 1/2 lengths over
Forward Pass. Three days later, Dancer’s Image is
disqualified when traces of a painkiller are found in
tests; Forward Pass, ridden by Ismael Valenzuela,
is declared the winner.
AUTO RACING
Busch’s birthday wish? 200 victories
BY JENNA FRYER
RICHMOND, Va. —
Kyle Busch raised a few eyebrows when he casually
mentioned he’d like to collect 200 victories in his
NASCAR career.
That’s a mighty big number, associated only with
Richard Petty’s unreachable
record of 200 Cup Series
wins. It was once thought
Jeff Gordon might challenge
the mark, but he fell off the
pace long ago and currently
has 82.
But if Busch is flexible
with the goal he revealed
before this season, he’s got a
shot at reaching Petty’s
mark.
With an asterisk, that is.
Busch’s win Saturday
night
at
Richmond
International Raceway was
the 50th of his career spanning NASCAR’s top three
series. It came on his 24th
birthday, and Busch believes
he
could
reach
200
NASCAR wins if he maintains his desire to race in
every event possible.
“But I know the older I
get I’ll start slowing down
some way,” he said.
“Hopefully I can achieve that
goal. It would be sure nice to
get that. I know it’s not 200
Cup victories like Richard
Petty has, but it will still be a
phenomenal mark for me.”
A mark few thought he
could ever reach just two
years ago. His talent level
has never been questioned,
but there’s a reason Busch
AP PHOTO
Kyle Busch celebrates winning the Crown Royal 400
on his 24th birthday at Richmond International
Raceway in Richmond, Va. on Saturday.
has often been called “Wild
Thing.”
He was ready for
NASCAR when he was just
16, but an age minimum sent
him back to the sidelines for
a two-year wait. Once admitted to the big leagues, he
came full of unbridled
desire, fearlessness and a
lack of maturity.
Busch pushed his cars
beyond the limit, taking risks
that often ended in a wad of
crumpled sheet metal. He
pouted when he didn’t win
and threw temper tantrums
when things went against
him. Team owner Rick
Hendrick tried to tame the
wild child, but finally cut
him loose at the end of the
2007 season to make room
for Dale Earnhardt Jr.
So Joe Gibbs Racing
snapped him up, and Busch
has steamrolled his way
through NASCAR since. He
won 21 races last season
3B
spanning the Sprint Cup,
Nationwide and Truck
Series.
His pace has slowed a bit
this season — partly because
of a monthlong slump he
brought into Richmond —
but he’s only struggling by
his own lofty standards. He
now has eight wins on the
year: A series-leading three
in both Cup and Nationwide,
and a series-leading two in
the trucks.
“He’s pretty good,” said
Jeff Burton, who finished
third Saturday night. “You
are what your record says
you are. I just saw that stat
most wins before the age of
25 and that’s pretty impressive. Everything he sits in, he
goes fast in. That’s a sign of
a really good race car driver.”
Busch is also one of
NASCAR’s best at capitalizing on momentum, which he
now takes into Darlington
Raceway as the defending
race winner. He tends to
knock down wins in bunches, each victory nudging him
closer to a feeling of invincibility. When he gets on a roll,
the competition knows
Busch is tough to beat.
“When you’ve got that
confidence going, it carries
a long way,” said Tony
Stewart, who spent one
year as Busch’s teammate
at Gibbs. “I know what he’s
been driving ... (but) we all
drive for good race teams
and we all have good equipment. There’s just guys that
got that momentum on their
side and got that confidence, that little extra that
you need to be on top right
now.”
But Busch is not
immune to setbacks, and
spent the last month trying
to recapture his mojo. A
week after winning Bristol,
he wasn’t competitive in
Martinsville and finished
24th. Driver error put him
two laps down in Texas,
where he finished 18th. He
was flagged for speeding
off pit road on the final stop
at Phoenix, dropping him
from contention to 17th,
and, appeared to have the
car to beat last week in
Talladega until a late accident left him 25th.
A month without winning is enough to drive
Busch mad.
“Four or five weeks does
feel like an eternity, and
that was bad,” he said. “We
didn’t like it at all. At least
just not finishing well.”
MATT HAMILTON/The Daily Citizen
Northwest Whitfield’s Drew Allen sent the Bruins
into the Class 4A state playoffs with a game-winning RBI single in the bottom of the seventh
inning for a 6-5 win over Sequoyah on Friday, April
24. For his efforts, Allen is The Daily Citizen’s
Athlete of the Week for the week of April 19-25.
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THE DAILY CITIZEN
Monday, May 4, 2009
CROSSWORD
BRIDGE
HOROSCOPE
Famous hand
Happy
Birthday: hold back if something is
Different lifestyles and bothering you. A change in
philosophies may entice you finances will occur. Whether
but, in the end, you have to it is positive or negative will
follow your heart and what depend on how you handle
works for you. This is not the the situation. A clean slate
year to take chances but it is will help you get ahead in the
a good time to take advan- future. 3 stars
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct.
tage of opportunities. Greater
involvement with children, 22): There are skeletons in
the closet that must
elders and the peobe let out. A money
ple to whom you
proposition
will
are closest will
help you get a hanbring you your
dle on your finangreatest joy and
cial situation. Make
insight. Your numsure you aren’t
bers are 3, 9, 14,
repeating a mistake
16, 20, 32, 45
you made once
ARIES (March
before. 3 stars
21-April 19): Your
SCORPIO
precision coupled
(Oct. 23-Nov. 21):
with detail will help
Eugenia
Your creative plans
you show everyone
will allow you to
why you reign
Last
undermine someone
supreme. Set your
who has been workgoals and standards
high and you will find peace ing hard to hold you back. A
of mind. Your experience new partnership will bring
will outshine impersonators you added strength and the
ability to use positive force
and imposters. 3 stars
TAURUS (April 20-May in order to get your way. 4
20): Your knowledge and stars
SAGITTARIUS (Nov.
experience depends on interacting with people from dif- 22-Dec. 21): An emotional
ferent backgrounds who can problem will influence your
inspire and motivate you. A work performance, if you
serious approach and in- aren’t careful. A sudden
depth talks will help you sta- change at home will leave
you wondering what to do
bilize your life. 5 stars
GEMINI (May 21-June next. Seek advice from
20): Don’t give in to a bully someone with more experibut do listen to someone ence or insight. 2 stars
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22offering wise suggestions.
Love is on the rise and, by Jan. 19): You can successfulgetting involved in some- ly apply for a loan or close a
thing you enjoy, you will deal or even ask for a debt to
enhance the relationship you be repaid. A chance to work
are already in or meet some- from home may entice you
but chances are good that
one new. 2 stars
CANCER (June 21-July you’ll miss important details
22): You have to be proactive if you do. 5 stars
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20in order to maintain what you
have worked so hard to accu- Feb. 18): Consider a partnermulate. An older or more ship with someone a little
experienced individual will older and with more experished light on a situation you ence. You can incorporate
face. Don’t let someone who your originality and youthful
claims to love you push you. outlook. Your charm will
help you win favors as well
4 stars
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): as bring about a new friendProblems with authority will ship. 3 stars
PISCES (Feb. 19-March
require you to make a fast
decision. Do what’s in your 20): A change of heart by
heart and you won’t be dis- someone you have worked
appointed. Your knowledge with in the past will allow
and past experience will you to move forward with an
come in handy when it old idea. Be open to suggescomes to professional gains. tions and you can come up
with workable solutions for
3 stars
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. any problems. Compromise
22): Be upfront and don’t will pay off. 3 stars
This deal occurred at
the 1985 world team
championship in the
round-robin
match
between Israel and
Venezuela. The declarer
was Michael Hochzeit
of Israel, who took
advantage of a subtle
slip by an opponent to
bring in a seemingly
impossible
threenotrump contract.
After taking East’s
queen of hearts with the
king at trick one,
Hochzeit could count
four spades, a diamond
and two clubs to go with
the heart already in the
bank, but a ninth trick was nowhere in sight.
Undaunted, he began by cashing all four spades, on which
East let go of a diamond and a heart. While this last discard
seems harmless enough, declarer proceeded to prove otherwise. The ace of diamonds was cashed, producing this position with South needing three more tricks:
Even with all the cards exposed, it isn’t easy to spot the
winning play, but Hochzeit found it looking at only two
hands. At this point, he led the nine of hearts!
This play rendered the opponents helpless. Regardless of
which defender won the heart, declarer was sure to make his
game. If West overtook the ten to run his hearts, he would
then be forced to lead a club, allowing South to score the
jack.
Alternatively, if East’s ten of hearts held and he cashed his
two high diamonds, dummy’s last diamond would become
good. And if he didn’t cash his diamonds, his club return
would trap West’s queen.
In practice, West elected to overtake the heart, and
Hochzeit scored three club tricks to make his game. Observe,
though, that had East discarded a club or a diamond instead
of a heart on the fourth spade, the contract would have failed.
Tomorrow: Haste makes waste.
CRYPTOQUIP
TO YOUR GOOD HEALTH
Treatment for bladder cancer stimulates immunity
DEAR DR. DONOHUE: I have been diagnosed
with a malignant tumor of
the bladder. The treatment I
am getting is BCG. Please
tell me about it. — G.P
ANSWER: BCG —
bacillus Calmette-Guerin —
is a very weak version of a
germ closely related to the
TB germ. In some countries,
BCG is given as a vaccine to
prevent tuberculosis. How
does it figure into cancer
treatment? Instillation of
BCG into the bladder stimulates the immune response of
bladder cells to prevent new
cancers from growing and to
treat any cancer that has
escaped detection.
In the United States,
around 67,000 new cases of
bladder cancer are diagnosed
yearly. The average age
when it appears is 65. It is
three times more common in
men than in women.
Cigarette smoking is an
important
factor in
leading to
it.
Blood
in
the
urine is a
sign
of
bladder
c a n c e r.
Cancer
Paul G.
isn’t the
Donohue m o s t
common
reason for
blood in the urine, but it is
the most important cause of
it. Increased frequency of
urination and a great urgency
to promptly empty the bladder are two additional signs.
However, more often than
not, bladder cancer produces
no signs or symptoms in its
early stages.
Quite often, this cancer is
detected early, but one of its
sinister traits is its tendency
to recur. That’s where BCG
comes into the picture and
that’s why regular scope
examinations of the bladder
are such an important aspect
of treatment after the diagnosis has been made.
DEAR DR. DONOHUE: I am an 87-year-old
man, and I have had vertigo
for about two months. I have
been to two doctors who
have not been able to help
me so far. I had this condition five or six years ago. I
went to a doctor in my
hometown, and he cured me
right away. He laid me down
on a table and then turned
my head to both sides and
then back to the middle and
had me get up quickly. I was
better immediately. I have
been trying to find that doctor again, but to no avail. So
I am stuck. Can you help? —
V.M.
ANSWER: The doctor
who cured you performed
the Epley maneuver on you.
It works for one kind of vertigo (dizziness), benign positional vertigo. It’s a common
cause of dizziness. What
happens is that crystals in
one part of the inner ear are
dislodged from their normal
position and find their way
into a part of the inner ear
that has to do with balance.
There they trigger nerves
that transmit a mishmash of
signals to the brain with the
result being an attack of
dizziness. The Epley maneuver coaxes those inner-ear
crystals into returning to
their own home.
Ear, nose and throat doctors know this procedure
cold. So do many other doctors. Keep in mind that
benign paroxysmal positional vertigo is only one cause
of dizziness. The Epley
maneuver doesn’t work for
other causes.
Why not see an ear, nose
and throat doctor? Such a
specialist is an expert in fer-
reting out the causes of
dizziness and treating them.
The booklet on dizziness
explains the various causes
of this annoying condition
and how they’re treated. To
obtain a copy, write: Dr.
Donohue — No. 801, Box
536475, Orlando, FL 328536475. Enclose a check or
money order (no cash) for
$4.75 U.S./$6 Can. with the
recipient’s printed name and
address. Please allow four
weeks for delivery.
DEAR DR. DONOHUE:
I would like to add to your
answer to the person who had
water dripping from the nose.
I had the same problem 15
years ago. One side of my
nose constantly ran, especially when I bent down. A
friend told me her sister-inlaw had the same condition
and it turned out to be a leak
of cerebrospinal fluid. My
family doctor had me tested
for spinal fluid, and sure
ASK THE DOCTOR
Dr. Donohue regrets that he is
unable to answer individual
letters, but he will incorporate
them in his column whenever
possible. Readers may write
him or request an order form
of available health newsletters at P.O. Box 536475,
Orlando, FL 32853-6475.
enough that’s what it was. An
ear, nose and throat doctor
sealed the leak. — F.Z.
ANSWER: I don’t want
everyone with a runny nose
to think they are leaking
cerebrospinal fluid, but it can
be a rare cause of it. The
nose and the brain are in
close proximity. Fractures of
the nose or sinuses, surgery
in that area or a birth defect
can cause such a leak. The
fluid can be tested, and the
diagnosis is then made.
Healthy eating
CONTRIBUTED PHOTOS
To inspire students to develop heart-friendly eating habits, Sharon Lichey, a representative of the
University of Georgia Extension Office’s 4-H
Program, and Whitfield Health Department intern
Joe Allen, who is studying to become a registered
dietitian, taught Spring Place Elementary fifthgraders how to prepare nutritious snacks. Far left,
from left, are Allen, Abby Martin, Maria Leon and
Lichey preparing a pumpkin smoothie. Near left,
are Wyatt Green, Roberto Bautista, Jeff Welch and
Emanuel Arias preparing sandwich shish kabobs.
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Monday, May 4, 2009
5B
DEAR ABBY
■ MUTTS
Woman ponders ending long
alienation at friend’s funeral
■ WIZARD OF ID
■ CATHY
DEAR ABBY: A former longtime
elementary school. There is a lot to
friend, “Gladys,” and I have been
do, and I am frequently interrupted.
estranged for the past 10 years. It is a
While I enjoy conversations with parcomplicated situation, but generally
ents and students, my problem is a
it involved her divorce and later
few parents who want to engage in
involvement with a married man.
lengthy conversations — usually
While I am not a prude, there were
detailing personal problems.
some moral and ethical breaches on
One parent comes in daily, and I
her part which made it uncomfortable
haven’t found an effective way to
for me to be in her company. We
extricate myself from these conversastopped calling or seeing each other.
tions. Walking out of the office is not
Jeanne
Gladys has now become quite ill
an option. A ringing phone is not a
and may not survive. My dilemma is
Phillips deterrent as some parents will just
whether I should pay my respects to
stand there, wait until I finish and
her family at the time of her death. I
continue talking.
have known them all for many years. —
Have you any suggestions on how to
REMAINING NAMELESS IN VIRGINIA politely let these parents know I have a job to
do? — JOB INTERRUPTED OUT WEST
DEAR REMAINING NAMELESS:
Funerals are supposed to provide comfort for
DEAR JOB INTERRUPTED: Allow me
the living, and I don’t see how the presence of to offer one: How about telling them you’re
someone who describes herself as a “former” behind in your work and you haven’t the time
friend of their loved one would achieve that. to talk that day. Period. Unless you become
I have a suggestion. Why not pick up the more assertive, these people will continue to
phone, call Gladys and tell her how sorry you monopolize your time, make you less effecwere to learn of her illness? Whether you tive and possibly jeopardize your job.
approved of her divorce and affair, you have
years of history together, and it would be betDear Abby is written by Abigail Van Buren,
ter for both of you to make peace while there’s also known as Jeanne Phillips, and was
still time.
founded by her mother, Pauline Phillips. Write
Dear Abby at www.DearAbby.com or P.O.
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with tiny diamonds on each side.
In Green Spot parking lot.
Heartbreaking
sentimental
value. Nice reward. 706-2590031 or 706-259-9262
EMPLOYMENT
310
311
General
Auto Sales Trainees and
Management Trainees
No experience needed
-- will train.
Apply today at Pye Honda, 2704
E Walnut Avenue, Dalton
Computer Operator: Need to be
very good at Excel, make some
phone calls, work at Dalton
Furniture Distributor. $11 per
hour. Send resume to fax 706281-2880 or email to
sal30722@yahoo.com
RN’s needed for Private Duty
Homecare in Chatsworth, GA
Our benefits Include:
Health, Vision, Dental 401k,
Weekly pay and Direct Deposit.
Call Anna or Kevin for more
details @ 423-553-5530
320
Country Inn & Suites now
accepting applications for parttime housekeepers.Must be able
to pass a background check
/drug screen. No phone calls
please. Apply in person at:
903 West Bridge Road
Dalton, GA 30720
(Behind Red Lobster)
Do you have experience in
designing bath rugs, scatter
rugs, and area rugs? Job would
require the ability to design
using table top machines, wide
width tufters, machine weaving
and hand weaving equipment.
This is a “part time, piece work”
type of job. Work can be done in
“off hours”. Or, if you are a free
lancer, this could be of special
interest. If interested and
qualified, contact me at 423-8927832 or by fax a 423-499-0261.
Experienced
HVAC
service
technician needed. Minimum of 5
yrs experience. Must have
drivers license and pass drug
screen. Excellent employment
opportunity. 401k and insurance
benefits. Call Air Comfort HVAC
for appt. 706-278.6362
Growing
real
estate
Title
Company now hiring full-time
title abstractor with a minimum of
3-5
years
experience
for
northwest
Georgia.
Please forward
confidential
resume and salary history to
DJohnson@BridgeWaterInc.com
for immediate consideration.
Excellent and rare
opportunity.
Help Wanted. Experienced meat
cutter. Serious inquires only. Call
Vic Hartman at 706-673-2351
Long existing, medium size
carpet manufacturer looking for
a shipping clerk. Experience in
carpet shipping, working with
freight lines, export papers,
computer skills necessaryAS400 preferred, fast paced
environment. Send resumes to:
Blind Box T-7
c/o The Daily Citizen
PO Box 1167
Dalton GA 30720
Health Care
LPN’s needed for private duty in
the Dalton area full time position
available, first & second shift, &
PRN. Please contact Accord
Services @ 1-866-922-2673
M.D./D.O. NeededGeneral
Practice/Weight Loss clinic in
Ringgold, GA. Regular hours,
excellent pay, no hospital, no on
call hassles. Temp or perm
position. 423-315-1522.
Trucking
Opportunities
**Truck Driver Training**
Low Cost Opportunity. Get your
professional career started
today. 706-624-9461.
322
Sales
Top local company seeks top
sales reps. Only 2 spots open.
$50K+/yr. possible. Commission
only. Call today 706-508-4370
PETS/LIVESTOCK
502
311
Health Care
MAXIM HEALTHCARE SERVICES
Lost
Free Pets
6 grey kittens need a home.
Mainly outdoors. Very cute and
loves to play apx. 10 wks old.
Call Jenny 706-517-9064
Free to good inside home only. 2
beautiful kittens, has had 1st
vaccines and dewormed. 706313-0310
ITEMS FOR SALE
610
Lawn & Garden
Cub Cadet Hydrostatic Zeroturn. 23HP Z-Force 50. Has just
been fully serviced.
Only used 200 hours. Excellent
condition. $2,800.
Call: 706-980-8032
705
Homes For Sale
$2,000Dn. Starting at $700/mo.
OWNER FINANCING. Several
3Bd/2 Ba. homes in Whitfield &
Murray Remodeled, very nice.
Owner/Broker706-529-0650
$8,000 TAX REFUND!!
No Credit Check. Owner
Financing. Rent to Own or
Lease Purchase.
STOP RENTING TODAY MOVE
IN TOMORROW!!!!
Don Babb 706-463-2333
hhf@vol.com or
Mark Burnett 706-529-5901
DALTON.
1211 Nelson St, Fixer upper.
2BR 1BA, $49,900, $1,000 dn,
as low as $425 mon
722 Timberlake. $89,900
3BR 1BA $1,000 down. Pmyt as
low as $750 per mon.
1827 Swanson N Dalton 2 BR 1
BA, $69,900 $1000 dn $495 mn
4200 Mount Pleasant - 5 BR 2
BA Beaverdale- not in subd.
$159K $1100 dn, $1100 month
WESTSIDE
3038 Hurricane Rd. 2 BR 1 BA.
$69,900, $1,000 dn, $615 mon
3286 Hurricane Rd. 5 BR 3 BA
$135,000. $1,000 dn $1,000 mn
TUNNEL HILL
123 Lake Rd. 2 BR 1 BA
w/fenced yard. $75,000. $650
month $1.000 down
961 D. Old Cottonwood Mill Rd.
5 BR 3 BA. $115,000. $1,000
down, $987 month.
309 W Tyler St. 4bd/2ba house.
New carpet and paint, Garage.
$95,000. Seller pays $5,000
toward closing. Possible lease
purchase. 706-260-9183
316 Falcon Cir. Near Eton
Elem. 4bd/2ba house. 2432 SF
1.2 acre lot. $75,000. Seller
pays $5,000 toward closing.
Possible lease purchase. 706260-9183
706
Condos For Sale
726
Commercial
Buildings
Hammond Creek Condo for
sale. 3 bedroom, 2 1/2 bath.
$141,900. 706-217-8335
*19,000 sq.ft. - 2105 E. Walnut
Ave. Retail space, Next to
Hobby Lobby, across from Mall.
*97,000 sq. ft., 454 Hwy 225
(Bretlin)
*Retail space - Dalton Place
Shop. Ctr. 2518 Cleveland Hwy.
1200, 1400, 44,000 SF avail.
706-279-1380 Wkdys 9-5:30
12,500 sf bldg. for sale or lease
& 10,000 sf bldg for sale by
owner. Dalton. Docks. Suitable
for light manfg. or wrhg, offices
w/ c/h/a. Perry 706-275-0862
For sale or lease 15,000 sq. ft. &
8,000 sq. ft. commercial bldgs.
Suitable for light or heavy
manufacturing. Office in each.
Chatsworth. 706-695-6404 Nora
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Commercial
Rental
751
Apartments
1st month, 1/2 off! 2 bd, 1 ba,
w/d hookup, c/h/a. Power, water,
& cable furnished. Close to
downtown. $175/wk or $650/ mo.
$200/dep. 706-581-4615
1st WEEK FREE!! 2 bd, 2 ba.
A/C, cable, parking, $155 wk.
No Pets! Renovated. 706-2630743 or 484-225-4212
2 bedroom 1 bath. Patio, ceiling
fan, c/h/a, W/D hook-up, water
furnished. $400 month, $150
deposit No pets. 706-695-3288.
2 BR 1.5 BA -*503B Colter, 2BR
1.5BA $445 mth, $220 dp. 706279-1380 wkd 9-5:30
2 BR 1.5 BA apart. Great
Location. 1/2 mile from Dalton
High & Westwood Elem. $475
mn., utilities not include. 706581-3931
2 Months
Free Rent!!!
Super Deluxe Townhome
2 Bedroom, 1 1/2 bath
huge closets, pool
w/ cabana.
BEST DEAL IN DALTON
BEST LOCATION
TRUE LUXURY
706-279-1801
*302 S. Thornton 5,500 SF,
includes
utilities,
between
Newspaper office & Bank of Am.
*1515 Abutment Rd. 10,000 sq.
ft. includes utilities. Many sizes
or suites. 1.3 mi. S. of Walnut
*Camelot Bldg, Near I-75. 1514
W. Walnut Ave. Between Long
John Silvers & Burger King.
5,500 S/F.
706-279-1380 wkdys 9-5:30.
271 Broadacre Rd. NW. 2 br, 2
bath., Central H/A, W/D hook
ups, water
furnished. $480
month. Call: 706-508-4158
3 bdrm 2 ba apt. 1/4 mile rom
Hospital Hardwood, jacuzzi tub,
walk-in closet. $700 mon $250
dep No Pets! 706-313-9636
5000 sq. ft. warehouse space.
211 W. Gordon. Also 2400 sq. ft.
office space. 1604 Chattanooga
Rd. Call: 706-278-6339
3bd/1ba Duplex off Cleveland
Hwy. All appls, dishwasher, w/d
hkup, c/h/a, $550/mo. $250/dep.
706-581-2062. No pets.
Doctor’s Offices for Rent
A SWEET DEAL FOR YOU!!
Well maintained.
Convenient location!
Medical Suites, 2500 SF avail.
1008 Professional Blvd.,
Dalton. Distinctive Modern
Bldg., 3rd floor w/elevator.
706-279-1380 wkdays 9-5:30
Office: 2700 S.F. Excellent
condition. 1143 E. Walnut Ave.
Call: 706-581-1037
Restaurants for rent: *410 S.
Hamilton (fmrly Bailey’s Diner)
Incl. equipment $3,495 mo. 30
day setup time - Free Rent. *801
E.
Walnut
Ave.
Barrett
Marketplace $2995/Mo. $2000
dp. (fmrly El Taco) fully furnished.
706-279-1380 wkdys 9-5:30
Warehouse for lease in Dalton
20,640 dq. ft. & 25,800 sq. ft.
Call: 706-278-1566
RENTAL HOUSING
751
Apartments
$120/wk. 1bd, new carpet &
paint, close to hospital.
Also 1 & 2 bd S. 41 Hwy.
Power, water & cable
furn’d. Deposit Required.
Denise 706-463-1598 or
En Español 706-463-0945.
*New 2 bd 1.5 ba townhomes,
located on Barbara Ave. $170
week. $200 deposit. 706-2701360.
1 STORY completely furn. effic.
Cable TV, phone, microwave,
kitc. supplies, linens, utilities
furniture North Tibbs Road.
$149/weekly, 278-7189.
1, 2, & 3 Bd Apt’s - Starting at
$125/week. Power, water,
cable furnished.
For details. 706-463-0672,
706-463-0671 & Español
706-463-0945
1130/1132 Burleyson $485mon
$240dep. 2BR 1BA. *707-2
Lance 2BR 1.5BA Newly
remodeled, 2 weeks free w/1 yr.
lease. 706-279-1380 wkdy 9-5:30
Call PARK CANYON APTS
706-226-6054
Email: parkcanyon@optilink.us
City west near Creative Arts
Guild. 2bd 2ba, CHA, WD conn.
Lease, references req’d $550
mon $300 dep. 706-463-3171
DUPLEX: 890 W. Addis, Tunnel
Hill. Apt. 2 BR 1 BA, $125 wk,
$250 dep 706-279-1380 wkdays
Motel Rooms For Rent: 2107 S.
Dixie Hwy. 41. Standard $95/wk. Lg.$125/$135wk.
Dep.= 2 wks. rent. Furnished +
TV, basic cable, private phone.
706-279-1380 wkdys 9-5:30
Secluded Townhouse
2br/
1.5ba, off Hwy 2 between Dalton
& Ringgold. No pets, $450 mo
$250 dep 706-581-2062.
STAY LODGE
Effic. Apt. with kitchen. Furn w/all
utilities. Laundry fac., basic
cable. Private phones furn.
Starting at $129.99/wk plus tax
Suite Deals 1BR $175.00 per
week. Call 706-278-0700
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Homes For Rent
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NGEMC area, *3 bdrm. $575
month. $350 dep. Cable & water
furnished. *1 bd $140 wk. utilities
furnished. 706-694-8010
Nice 3 BR 1 Bath brick home
Eton. $150 week, $375 deposit.
(706)673-4847
Winter Special- 2 weeks.
FREE - 1 yr. lease Sweetwater Rd. 3 BR 2 BA,
$145wk, $290dep. So. end of
Murray Co off Hwy 225 S 1/2 +
acre lots, beautiful country
setting. Several to choose from.
Sweetwater Rd., Chatsworth Hwy.
225 Fm Chats Hwy. Take Hwy 225
S 13 mi. Fm Calhoun, take Hwy
225 N, 6 mi past Elks Golf
Course, 1 mi N. of 4-way at
Nickelsville. 706-279-1380 wkdys
9-5:30
753 Condos For Rent
2 BR, 1.5 ba. Condo. 1411
Rosewood #3. & Mineral Springs
#7 off Dug Gap Rd. C/H/A &
appliances. $300/dep., $550/mo.
Call 706-275-0460
MOBILE HOMES
776
Mobile Homes
For Sale
1997 Bellcrest Double Wide
Mobile Home for sale. 26x44
706-695-8351 or 706-280-9490
STAYLODGE - WILLOWDALE
MOVE IN SPECIAL
1st Week $100.00
The Daily Photo
706-278-0700
UNDERWOOD LODGE
Furnished Efficiency with
kitchenette. All Utilities &
Cable!! Laundry Facility
Available.
Move In Specials $70-$90
for first week!
706-226-4651
Unfurnished
NEAR MALL 2 BR 1.5 BA
townhouse, newly remodeled.
$485/ mo. $400/ dp. No pets. 6
mos. lease, ref. req’d. 706-2262548
Submitted by:
Karen Twiggs of Smyrna, GA
To submit you photo, email photo, name
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776
Mobile Homes
For Sale
778
Mobile Homes
For Rent
5
MONTHS
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mobile home LOTS for rent.
Private pond. Carbondale area.
706-383-8123
1 & 2 bdrm mobile homes &
Apartments in Whitfield & Murray
Co. $85 per week & up. Utilities
furnished. 706-278-4048
2 BR 1 BA 2012 -1 Abutment
Rd. 2 BR 2 BA - 2111 B Dixie
Hwy. $120 wk, $240 dep. 706279-1380 wkdys 9-5:30.
FIRST WEEK FREE ! Very nice
2br 2bt MH on private lot in
Northwest High School Tunnel
Hill area. No pets. $130 wk /
$250 dep. 706-260-9988
807
Import Autos
TRANSPORTATION
806
Reduced. 2006 Honda Accord
EXL. Like new. Gray. Full
warranty. 39
k miles.
Loaded. Leather seats, XM
radio, sunroof, 34mpg. Like new.
Great Cond. Must sell! No tax!
$16,999. obo.
706-614-7719
2000 Mercedes Benz E320.
Silver, auto, leather, clean
condition, like new. Great on
gas. 35K miles. $10,500. 561512-7521.
809
Trucks
2006 Cadillac STS, 6 cycl, nav.
sunroof, heated & cooled seats,
fully loaded, white diamond.
29,000 miles. $19,900.
706-277-3729
Import Autos
2006 Nissan 350Z, convertible,
loaded, white with frost leather.
New
tires.
30,000
miles.
$26,500. OBO. 706-463-0672
809
2006 GMC 16 ft box truck Yellow. 6.0 V8 Unleaded engine w/
300 hp. Auto. Transmission,
A/C, ABS brakes, Power
Steering, 2 Bucket Seats,
AM/FM radio, 10 ft loading ramp
w’ 1000lb capacity. Mileage
ranging from 40,000 – 75,000
miles. Sale price is $12,000 $14000. Only
method
of
payment accepted is certified
check or money order. Sorry no
financing Contact Josh Hall @
Penske, Day- 706-277-9477,
Night- 423-304-6669
810
2001 - Jaguar, 4.0, S-Type.
67,458 Miles. $ 12,200.
Call: 706-217-8171
2005 BMW M3 Cabriolet, 36k
miles, 6 sp., still under factory
warranty, carbon black on black,
Harman/Kardon sound,
navigation, heated seats,
xenon headlights, garage kept,
one owner, asking $43,000.
Call: 706-260-1673
2005 Super Charged Mini
Cooper. 6 speed. Convertible.
Premium Sport Package. One
owner, 40,000 miles,
Harmon/Kardon parking
sensors, cruise control, auto air.
Price $21,000.
Call: 706-313-1119.
Trucks
Vans
1996 International 18' carpet
spec. box truck. No CDL's
required, low mileage, diesel,
a/c, 7500.00 firm. Contact 706259-4989 ext. 102.
Domestic Autos
1999 Ford Taurus with V6,
automatic, 157K miles, power
windows & locks, power seats,
cd player & cruise control. This
car looks and runs great. Asking
$1,500. Call 706-218-8021
807
Import Autos
1998 MB 500 SL Convertible.
Sport Package. Both tops. White
w/ gray leather/ Books &
records. Low miles. Good
condition. Only $17,850. OBO.
Will accept trades. Phone 706264-1932
GREAT DEALS! 2 & 3 BD
homes, many w/ hdwd floors.
Large lots & private pond. Pets
welcome. Carbondale area.
Cable/water/garbage
service included $125/wk. 706383-8123
Near connector 3. Furnished 1
bdrm including Utilities & cable.
$110 week, or $440 mon.
deposit required. 706-537-2309.
807
2002 Tundra V-8, 4x4, Tan
leather
interior,
power
everything. Loaded. Excellent
condition. 64,000 miles. Never
been off road. $12,500. Call:
706-397-2288
1982 VW WESTFALIA
“BULLDAWG MOBILE”
Tailgater. Refrigerator, stove,
sink w/running water, sleeps 4,
flat screen TV, DVD player , GA
fight song/ext speaker. $7,500.
706-278-1817 or 706-264-9063
811
Utility Trailers
Mobile Concession stand (log
cabin), great for carnival or fair,
completely self contained, AC,
Espresso cart, $15,000.
Call: 706-581-4122 for details.
812Sport Utility Vehicle
Monday, May 4, 2009
Like new. 2004 Explorer. V8
engine with 3rd row seat. Well
maintained. Many extras. Only
$9,500. Call: 706-280-1431
RECREATION
851
Boats
2001 21’ Bullet Bass Boat.
225 Optimax. $15,500.
Call: 706-226-2161
2005 Yamaha Waverunner(s)
160 HP High Output Motors
Adult Ridden/Fresh water
Very Low Hours $6500 each
with extras 706-313-4295.
856
2003 F-250, 4 door- crew cab.
6.0 diesel, 94k miles. 4x4.
Automatic, Excellent condition.
Asking $18,500. 706-264-7883
or 706-629-4000.
2004 Ford Ranger XLT step side
pickup. Approx. 30K miles, 4
cycl.
manual
transmission.
AM/FM CD, locking tool box,
mounted hitch & wiring for a
trailer. $7,500. OBO 706-2777777.
2006 FORD Expedition - Eddie
Bauer 2WD, leather, 3rd row
power fold down, 6 disc CD
changer, 22K miles, like new.
Excellent condition. $24,900.
706-422-8617 - 706-260-1029
2006 Honda CRF230, electric
start, excellent condition, like
new, rode very little, Aftermarket
pipe and stock pipe. $2,100. Call
day 706-673-3500 or
evening 706-259-9584.
2009 Piaggio- Vespa Scooter
250. 70 mpg, 85 mph. 3 yr
warranty,
touring
case.
$4,600.00. Call 706-980-2674
JUST LIKE NEW!!
2006 FLHXI Harley Davidson
Street Glide, vivid black, full
Rinehart exhaust, passenger
detachable back rest, AM/FM
radio & CD player, security
system, garage kept, only 4,300
miles. Please call 706-581-3516.
858
Recreational
Vehicles
2002 Suzuki Volusia. Excellent
condition. Garage kept. N
w tires. Asking $3700. obo.
Call: 706-264-9482
2003 Suzuki Savage 650. Low
miles, like new, always garage
kept. Teal green. $3,500 OBO.
706-275-7035.
2008 Montana Mountaineer 36'
5th wheel RV. Queen master
BR with shower, two flat screen
TVs, 4 bunks in rear area, can
sleep 10 total. 4 slide-outs with
awnings. Immaculate and
comes with all necessary
accessories to hit the road.
Cost $39,000 - yours for
$30,000. Call 706-226-9433.
More info and photos at
www.rvtraderonline.com/find/listi
ng/2008-Montana-Mountaineer345DBQ-94988661.
2004 Kawasaki Vulcan 2000.
Fully loaded, Maroon, 1 owner,
garage kept, 10K miles. 5
helmets, extra back seat & road
pegs. New tires. Price
Reduced $500. to $7,500 obo.
706-218-9183
2006 Suzuki Forenza Station
wagon.
Automatic.
Power
windows, cassette/CD, new tires
& brakes. 116k. Excellent
transportation $4,500. OBO 706581-1837 anytime.
Motorcycles
& Bikes
2006 CBR 600 F4I, blue. 5,300
miles, jardine slip on pipe. 2
years warranty remaining. Never
been laid down. Excellent
condition. $5,.400 or best offer.
Call: 706-508-3955
Motorcycles
& Bikes
812Sport Utility Vehicle
2005 GMC Envoy SLT. Loaded
with every option available. 47K
miles, 1-owner, garage kept, non
smoker, $12,000. Call 706-2808268
856
7B
· Feels big, plays big ·
Costs little.
Golf Digest calls Alabama’s Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail “#1 for Value in the U.S. ”
This spring, it’s four days for the price of three on the Trail. Play three days and add Tuesday FREE! Choose from
26* courses at 11 different sites and get ready to swing. Come see why The Wall Street Journal also says the Trail
“may be the biggest bargain in the country.” Visit rtjgolf.com or call 800.949.4444 to book your getaway.
Two RTJ Golf Trail sites, Grand National and Capitol Hill, named #1 and #2 best public facilities in the country by Golf World.
*Free Tuesdays must be combined with three other consecutive days of golf. Free Tuesdays do not include cart, tax or lodging. Free Tuesdays do not include play at Ross Bridge or
Lakewood Golf Club. In order to reserve a tee time at Lakewood Golf Club, a corresponding room night at the Grand Hotel is required. There is a $10 surcharge for each round on
the Judge at Capitol Hill. Reservations must be arranged at least 15 days prior to arrival. Some restrictions may apply. Valid March 1, 2009-May 10, 2009.
8B
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Monday, May 4, 2009
Reach over 39,150 readers
for around $4.00 per day!
Call for details 706-272-7703 or 706-272-7707
SERVICE DIRECTORY
SERVICE DIRECTORY
SERVICE DIRECTORY
SERVICE DIRECTORY
SERVICE DIRECTORY
SERVICE DIRECTORY
Roofing
Home Improvement
Landscaping
Landscaping
Painting
Tree Service
New Roofs and repairs.
DOC’S HOME REPAIR
& REMODELING
*Ask for Senior Citizen Discount
*Ceramic Tile
*Decks
*Textured Ceilings
*Additions *Flooring
*Custom Building
*Roof Repairs
Free Estimates
“NO JOB TOO SMALL”
VELASQUEZ
LANDSCAPE
T&M
Painting and
Remodeling
C & M LANDSCAPING
"Mowing "Edging
"Weed Eating
"Trimming "Mulching
*Painting *Roofing, *Sheet
rock *Additions
*Decks & Porches
*Plumbing *Electrical
Free estimates.
25 years experience.
706-517-6941
706-483-7293
Automotive
Are you tired of looking at
those junk cars ( buses,
dumptrucks) in your yard?
We can solve your
problem!
You call, we haul..
also scrap metal!
Jim and Sondra Lockhart
home: 706-694-8675
cell: 423-400-1302
J & S Salvage
and Towing
Carpentry
Carpentry Service
24 years experience
Licensed
Insured
Plenty of References
No Job Too Small or Too Big!
Kitchen Cabinets
** Free Estimates
**Insured
CUSTOM COMPUTER
DESIGN CABINETS
Spring Special
All Wood Finished Cabinets
1 week delivery & installation.
11’ Gallery Oak $530, Cherry
$654, Maple $743
15’ L- Shape Oak $786, Cherry
$953, Maple $1372
22’ U-Shape Oak $988, Cherry
$1250, Maple $1993.
Financing available.
90 days same as cash.
Free Estimate
Will beat any price!
706-673-9592 office
706-581-7112 cell
Affordable Cabinets
$300 discount with this ad!
Senior Citizen discount!
Construction
$$$$$$$$$$$$$
Dozer
Track Hoe
Back Hoe
Dump Truck
Lots cleared
Footings
Drive Ways
Rock (hauled)
Septic Tanks
Field Lines
Fill Dirt
706-217-9531
706-275-0578
Excavating
"Lawn care
"Landscaping
"Dirt,mulch,rock
"Construction
"Storage buildings
"Small backhoe-$35HR
"3ton dump truck
Call
EATON DIRT
1-706-537-1219
Home Improvement
HOMESTYLES
The Professionals for all your
home remodeling and
repairs.
(Room Additions (Decks
(All types of siding
(Windows (Home repairs
(Drywall (Painting
(Ceramic tile floors
& counters
(Hardwood Floors &
laminates (Garages
For Free Estimates
706-673-7675
Terry L. Scrivner
Cell Phone 706-260-1284
Professional Quality Service,
At the best price in town!
Tim Dockery
Cell: (706) 264-6918
20 Years Experience
References Provided
Home Repair
Top Soil
COMMERCIAL RESIDENTIAL
#MOWING #TRIMMING
#MULCHING #PLANTING
#WEED REMOVAL
#LEAF GATHERING
#GUTTER CLEANING
#PRESSURE WASHING
AND MUCH MORE
706-971-3392
J&M Power Digging
*Insured
**Home Repair**
New window and door
installation
Bath and kitchen remodels
Electrical & plumbing
repairs
Decks
COMPLETE HOME REPAIR
WITH TOTAL CUSTOMER
SATISFACTION
35 Years Experience
Call Dave @
706-537-1549
$$$$$$$$$$$$$
Allstate Home Improvement
If you have a house that needs
help Call the professionals. BBB
approved.
Check our prices 1st.
Windows & doors
Siding, soffit
Interior & exterior painting
Bath & kitchen
Remodels
Flooring
(carpet, hardwood & tile)
Electrical & Plumbing
A/C repairs on all models
Decks & additions
Sun room, all roofing & repairs.
All work done in writing.
Free estimates. 36 yrs exp.
Call now 706-263-2466
Langford Brothers
Construction
Residential & Commercial
%All Types Masonry Work
%Remodeling
%Decks
$Painting
%Plumbing & Wiring
%All Types of Home &
Commercial Care
Over 40 Years Experience
Locally owned & operated
Call Cameron Cox
706-581-9656
cmlandscapedalton.webs.com
AAA Lawn Care
& Landscaping
Mowing & Trimming
Weekly, Bi-Weekly, or 1 Time
No Contract Required
Mowing, rimming, Blowing
Edging, Fertilizing, Pressure
Washing,
Plant / Flower
installs, Shrub Trimming,
Mulch, Trash and Debris
Removal w/ Dump Truck,
Tree Planting, Trimming, and
Pruning, Lot Clearing, Decks
Storage Buildings & Bobcat
Work.
Serving with Quality Work
Any type of yard work!
*Ask For a Free Estimate
*Any size job
Will do your work for you, just
call Mario!!
706-508-2164 or 762-2011058
Licensed - Insurance
Lawn Care
Carlton’s Lawn
Care
(Lawn Cutting (Trimmings
(Weed Eating (Edging
(Blowing
(Weekly or Bi-Weekly
(No Contracts
Call Carlton Mire for free
estimates in surrounding
Dalton and Chatsworth areas.
706-259-3356 or cell
706-537-6145
or e-mail
carltonslawncare@yahoo.com
Fully Insured, Free Estimates
AAA Lawn Care
& Landscaping
If You’d
Rather Be
Relaxing, Leave
the Yard Work to
Us!
(Mowing (Mulching
(Trimming (Seeding
(Gutter Cleaning
(Pressure Washing
(Painting (Handyman
Work, and more
Call Michael For Your
Free Estimate
GUESS LANDSCAPING
Cell: 706-280-4250
MITCHELL
LANDSCAPING
+Removal of unwanted
leaves and shrubs
+Mulching
+Mowing & Edging
+Spring Flower Bed Prep
+All Spring & Summer
Planting
+Free Estimates
+Save $$$
+No
Contracts
+Handy
Man Odds &
Ins
Brent Mitchell
706-537-7532
Ryan Mitchell
706-537-7717
MW5
Your Affordable
Lawn
Care Solution!
706-694-0056
706-271-8639
Licensed & Insured
Masonry
C.W. MASONRY
All Phases:
Brick, Block, Stone,
Cement, & Stucco.
No job too small!
I’ll beat any local job.
FREE ESTIMATES
Call 226-6963 or
706-280-1341
Painting
#1 M&M
Painting & Decorating
Interior & Exterior
'Deck Building and Sealing
'Pressure Washing
'Popcorn & Texture
Ceilings
'Texture Walls
'Roofing & Roof Leak
Repairs Metal Roofs
45 Years of experience
No Job Too Big or Too
Small.
Free Estimates
Call Marty 706-8470106
No job to small or big!!
706-264-4495
Fully Insured
706-280-0961
Free estimates.
40 years expereince.
Will beat any price.
706-271-7160
or 706-229-0555
Pressure Washing
ELROD’S
PRESSURE
WASHING
$Houses/ Mobile Homes
$ Concrete Cleaning
$Vinyl/ Brick/ Masonite
$ Prep for Painting
$ Mold Removal
$References Available
$ Exterior /Gutters Cleaning
$ROOF CLEANING (Black
streak removal, algae removal)
FREE ESTIMATES
Call Scott 706-264-9482
Tree Service
Call 706.280.9557
ESCAPE YARDWORK!
Big or samll.
No job turned down.
Simon Trujillo
Free Estimates
A & A TREE
SERVICE,
LLC
& STUMP
GRINDING
Insured - $1 Million Liability
&Trees Pruned
&Bucket Truck and
Chipper
&Removal & Clean-up
&Experienced
Hazardous Tree
Removal
&Lot Clearing
FREE ESTIMATES
706-260-9573
COLLINS TREE
SERVICE
Crane Service.
No Job Too Small,
No Tree Too Tall!
Larry’s
Trees To Dirt
Full Line of Equip. Available.
Complete Tree
Removal Service.
including
Hazardous & Dangerous
Storm Clean-Up
Lot & Land Clearing
Stump Grinding,
Any Size, Any Where
Firewood For Sale
FULLY INSURED
FREE ESTIMATES
706-581-3870
Years of Expereince
Whitfield
EvergreenArborist
1037 Keith Mill
Rd. Dalton, Ga
30720
“CUTTING DOWN
YOUR WORRIES”
“All Types of Tree Work”
Free Estimates
Fully Insured
20 years experience with
climbing & bucket truck
stump removal
Firewood For
Sale
Phone
706-275-7017
Cell 706-463-6108
Windows
WINDOW
WORKS!
New Vinyl
Replacement
Windows
Decks
Carpentry
$FREE ESTIMATE$
$
Call David at
706-264-1284
Our Windows Qualify for
30% Stimulus
Rebate
Stump Grinding
Specializing In Dangerous
Tree Removal.
Full Equipment:
Fully Insured - Free Estimates
ALL MAJOR CREDIT
CARDS ACCEPTED.
For More Information
Call: 259-3792
706-483-6496
“Jesus Loves You - John 3:16
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Outdoor
Services
(Tree Service
(Stump Grinding
(Storm Cleanup
(Bucket Truck Service
(Bobcat Service
(Lot Clearing
Free Estimates.
Cell:706-260-6169
(leave message)
Darren Lanning
Insured/Owner
Firewood For Sale 706-217-9966
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