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Severe storms Sabine Hill zoning
rake state
NASHVILLE (AP) — A band of severe thunderstorms
swept eastward across Tennessee Tuesday night, carrying
hail, high straight-line winds and causing tornado watches to
be issued for more than half of the state’s 95 counties.
The storms caused moderate damage across much of the
state, but no serious injuries were immediately reported Tuesday
night.
The storms formed the leading edge of a cold front expected
to drop temperatures significantly going into the weekend,
forecasters said.
A mobile home park in Claiborne County north of
Knoxville was hit by high winds and 55 residents were taken
to a shelter overnight by the American Red Cross, said Jeremy
Heidt, spokesman for the Tennessee Emergency Management
Agency in Nashville.
In Cumberland County, three homes were destroyed by
high winds. A dispatcher was not able to provide details.
There were no confirmed tornadoes anywhere in the state,
Heidt said.
“We had storms come across the entire state. Other than
normal storm-related damage, it doesn’t appear to be severe
at this time,” he said.
A tornado warning was issued for Henderson and Decatur
counties after the National Weather Service reported that
radar indicated a tornado near Darden, but authorities there
said no damage or injuries had been reported.
Millington, a suburb north of Memphis, received pea-sized
hail and had flooded streets, WMC-TV reported. In Tipton
County north of Memphis, horizontal rain and hail were reported.
Hail up to the size of golf balls was reported across Middle
Tennessee and trees were knocked down across roads and
power lines in some Nashville-area neighborhoods, WSMV-
TV in Nashville reported.
About 400 Nashville customers were without power, the
television station reported. Straight-line winds in the area
were recorded up to 60 mph.
A house in Nashville near Fisk University that was believed
abandoned caught fire during the storms Tuesday
night, and caused minor damages to the occupied home next
door, WTVF-TV reported. No injuries were reported.
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EHDA to complete
improvement project
By Ashley Carden
STAR STAFF
acarden@starhq.com
The Elizabethton Housing and Development Agency is
set to finish a community improvement construction project
this summer.
EHDA started the project last year to replace all of the
old porches and stairs made of concrete and brick with aluminum
stairs and a split block base. EHDA did not receive
enough funding last year to complete the project which left
six buildings to be completed this year.
Funds for construction projects come from the Department
of Housing and Urban Development’s capital funds
project. The funds have to be used for the improvement of
the housing authority. This year’s construction budget was
$316, 657.
Because the EHDA has ranked as a high performing
housing agency, a bonus of $39,000 was added to the funds.
This was very helpful to the agency because the lowest bid
for the project came in at $348,265.
Executive Director Kelly Geagley said this is the first
time in the 11 years he has worked for the agency that an
Elizabethton construction firm has competed for and won
the low bid for a construction project. The W.A. Taylor
n See EHDA, 11
From Staff Reports
Elizabethton Herb & Metal Co., a
city business, has been sold to
Shredded Products II, LLC, an Indiana
company with principal offices
located in Fort Wayne.
The sale price listed on the deed
registered at the Carter County Register
of Deeds office was $800,000.
The sale included five tracts of
lands at the Elizabethton site located
on Race Street, the Bristol Highway
and Lynn Avenue, consisting
of 5.09 acres.
The sale includes companyowned
sites in both Elizabethton
and Johnson City. The $800,000 sale
price does not include the Johnson
City properties. The Johnson City
property sale, registered at the
Washington County Courthouse in
Jonesborough, listed the sale price
of Johnson City properties at
$3,800,000.
The principal offices of the business
were located in Johnson City
with David A. Wilson listed as president
of the business.
Together, the two scrap yards
request denied
Developer plans to proceed
with purchase, construction
of single-family dwellings
By Ashley Carden
STAR STAFF
acarden@starhq.com
After several member residents
of the community
made an appeal on behalf of
saving the historic Sabine
Hill house, the Elizabethton
Regional Planning Commission
voted unanimously to
deny the request to rezone
the Taylor House property.
However, the developer,
John Molder, said he plans to
proceed with the purchase of
the property and the construction
of single family
homes on the land.
Molder, along with his
partner Dan Bailey and their
company Elite Properties Development,
had requested
that the commission rezone
the property from single
family use to multiple family
use. The original plans were
to build 48 condominiums
on the 4.42 acre property.
The historic home on the
property will either be
moved or razed with either
of the plans.
The commission looked at
numerous issues before
typically process in excess of
225,000 tons of ferrous scrap per
year.
The local scrap-metal operation
will be operated by Steel Dynamics,
Inc., a subsidiary of Shredded Products.
According to a news release
from Steel Dynamics, the company
plans to use scrap steel produced by
Elizabethton Herb & Metal to help
supply a “mini mill” in Roanoke,
Va. “These yards will likely supply
a portion of the ferrous scrap requirements
to Steel Dynamics’
Roanoke Bar Division. The Ten-
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denying the request. Items
taken into consideration
were zones of the surrounding
properties, the density of
the proposed development,
benefits or harms it would
bring to the community, traffic
flow and if the proposed
plans “preserve and enhance
the historic culture.”
The commission first determined
that while the request
was not technically
spot zoning, if it was looked
at in the strictest sense it
could be.
All of the homes in the
surrounding area are zoned
R-1 which means that single
family dwellings are allowed
to be built there. Molder had
requested that the Sabine
Hill property be re-zoned to
R-2 which would allow for
higher density housing such
as condominiums or apartment
buildings.
As local planner Charles
Alley pointed out, when a
property is zoned R-2 it can
be used for more than multifamily
housing. Office
spaces, funeral homes, charitable
organizations, real estate
offices, boarding houses,
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bed and breakfasts, and
nursing homes can all be
constructed under an R-2
zone.
Before the commission
would make a decision or allow
the public to speak during
the public hearing time,
Molder had the opportunity
to address the group and explain
his plans and what he
wanted to accomplish.
Molder stated the condominiums
would be well-built
Photo by Hannah Bader
The Elizabethton Regional Planning Commission Tuesday evening voted to deny a zoning
request for the Sabine Hill property. A Jonesborough developer had requested that the land
be re-zoned to allow for condominiums to be built on the property.
Photo by Eveleigh Hatfield
Developer John Molder explained his plans for the Taylor
House property to the Planning Commission Tuesday evening.
nessee yards will augment the steel
scrap supplied to the Roanoke mill
by company-owned Shredded
Products, LCC, which operates facilities
in Montvale, Va., and Rocky
Mount, Va. After the close of the acquisition
of the Tennessee facilities,
the four company-owned yards are
expected to be able to supply more
than half of the ferrous scrap consumed
by the Roanoke Bar Division,”
the news release said.
The news release stated that both
Johnson City Herb & Metal and
Elizabethton Iron & Metal will con-
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structures that would be
well-maintained and beautifully
landscaped. He said the
condos would be built in the
traditional style and would
only house one family. He also
stated that the development
would increase the tax
base. He was not sure by
what exact amount but he
knew it would be substantial.
He said he was willing to
remove two of the condominiums
placed closer to the
entrance so a community
pavilion could be built there.
A walking trail could also be
placed around the development
that could connect into
West G Street.
He also said that if the
commission did not approve
the rezoning request he
would have to proceed with
development using single
family homes instead.
“If it can’t be rezoned, I
would be forced to subdivide
into the smallest lots
possible and build single
family homes,” Molder said.
“One way or another the
house will have to be moved.
I have offered $3,000 to put
toward the moving costs.
“It would take a quarter of
a million dollars to renovate
this house. The property has
been for sale for two years.
No one took an interest until
I took an interest. No one has
n See ZONING, 11
Elizabethton, JC Herb & Metal properties sold for $4.6 million
tinue to sell ferrous and non-ferrous
materials on the open market.
Steel Dynamics’ Web site says the
Roanoke Bar Division melts scrap
steel in electric furnaces and casts
the molten steel into bullets. These
bullets are rolled into merchant
steel products consisting of angles,
plain rounds, flats and channels.
The business was begun by his
father, Lester D. Wilson. Neither
Lester Wilson or David Wilson were
available for comment.
The sale of the business was effective
April 1.
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Ethics Commission
director pledges
open meetings
NASHVILLE (AP) — Tennessee Ethics Commission Executive
Director Bruce Androphy said Tuesday that the commission
is aware it must adhere to the state’s open meetings and
open records laws and has fully complied with laws.
A bill that sought to place the commission under the socalled
“Sunshine Laws” was assigned to a general subcommittee
within the Senate and has been taken off notice in a House
committee, essentially killing the bill.
“(Androphy) stated their intent on record, and that’s good
enough for me,” bill sponsor Sen. Tim Burchett, R-Knoxville,
said.
Androphy told the Senate State and Local Government Committee
that the commission sent a letter to Burchett saying commissioners
were fully aware of the state’s open meetings law.
“We have complied with it. We will continue to comply with
it,” he said. “This bill is not necessary in light of our affirmation
that we are fully subject to the open records and open meetings
law.”
The bill’s House sponsor, Rep. Rob Briley, D-Nashville, had
cited a dispute last year between the Ethics Commission and the
Tennessee Bar Association over access to e-mail correspondence
among commissioners.
Androphy said in October that the e-mails in question had
to do with a draft of an opinion the commission planned to issue.
Those communications fell under attorney-client privilege,
he said.
Briley has said he intended to exempt discussions with attorneys
about pending litigation only.
The Open Meetings Act prohibits deliberation of public
business in closed meetings or electronic communication. The
Public Records Act requires all state, county and municipal
records to be available for inspection by anyone unless the
record is specifically exempt, such as medical records and investigative
records of the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation.
Allan Ramsaur, executive director of the Tennessee Bar Association,
said he thinks lawmakers lost interest in the bill because
they have more substantive issues and concerns to deal
with.
“We still have questions about their compliance since we
don’t have an answer to our records request that dates back to
Nov. 11,” he said. “But it’s good that they have acknowledged
they are covered by the law.”
The Ethics Commission is seeking an attorney general’s
opinion on whether it can release those records.
Photo by Larry N. Souders
A U.S Forestry Service Lockheed P-3A Orion makes a pass dropping fire retardant on Holston Mountain’s Cannon Place
Gap fire Tuesday afternoon.
Brush fire burns more than 50 acres
From Staff Reports
A brush fire that got out of
hand ignited a forest fire on
Tuesday afternoon and destroyed
more than 50 acres of
forest land in the Stoney
Creek community.
According to James
Heaton with the Tennessee
Division of Forestry, the fire
started around 2:15 or 2:30
p.m. when a resident of the
Stoney Creek Community
started a fire to burn off some
brush and debris on his
property. Heaton stated that
winds began to push the fire
which eventually got out of
control.
Heaton stated that several
acres of forest land were
burned in the fire. “We’re
speculating over 50 acres,”
he said, adding that once the
fire is contained that number
could go up as high as 75 or
100 acres.
Approximately 10 to 15
firefighters with the Tennessee
Division of Forestry
responded to fight the fire on
Tuesday along with 60 to 70
firefighters from the United
States Forestry Service and
several volunteer firefighters
from Carter County. A helicopter
was also brought in to
dump water on the fire.
On Tuesday firefighters
were using fire lines to try to
contain the blaze and keep
the fire from spreading to
residential areas. At around
NASHVILLE (AP) — Tennessee
would have five more
positions subject to statewide
elections under a proposed
constitutional amendment
advanced by the Senate Judiciary
Committee on a 5-4
vote on Tuesday.
The measure sponsored by
Sen. Rosalind Kurita would
call for the statewide election
of the lieutenant governor, attorney
general, treasurer, secretary
of state and comptroller.
The governor is currently
the only state officeholder
elected in a statewide vote.
Proposals to amend the
constitution must pass in
consecutive two-year General
Assemblies before going
before the voters in a gubernatorial
election year.
Currently, the speaker of
the Senate serves as the lieutenant
governor, the attorney
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10:30 p.m. Tuesday, firefighters
had the blaze approximately
80 percent contained.
Heaton stated that he hoped
the fire would be fully contained
by the early morning
hours on Wednesday.
Heaton stated that one
camper trailer was threatened
by the fire and that two
or three homes were in a
moderately threatened area.
“We’re keeping a watch on
them right now,” Heaton
told the STAR late Tuesday
night.
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Forestry technician James Heaton (L) discusses a plan of
attack Tuesday afternoon with U.S. Forestry agent Eddie
Dykes as they prepare to fight the Cannon Place Gap fire
on Holston Mountain.
Proposal would add
five more offices
to statewide elections
general is appointed by the
Supreme Court and a joint
session of the House and Senate
elects the other three constitutional
officers.
Kurita, D-Clarksville, said
supporters of her proposal
“feel like the people of Tennessee
should have the opportunity
to voice their opinion
on if this new way is the
way they want to do it, or do
you want to keep the old
way.”
Attorney General Bob
Cooper told the committee he
opposes the measure because
it would politicize his office.
Sen. Doug Jackson, D-
Dickson, added that special
interest money would dominate
the elections — especially
in the more obscure races.
Sen. Paul Stanley, R-Memphis,
disagreed with Jackson’s
point, arguing that
most legislative races could
be captured by the same reasoning.
Jackson responded that
that’s why he supports public
financing of campaigns.
All four votes against the
measure were by Democrats,
while the Republicans on the
committee voted for it. The
resolution must still cycle
through three more committees
before it can reach a full
Senate vote.

WASHINGTON (AP) —
President Bush denounced “irresponsible”
Democrats on
Tuesday for going on spring
break without approving money
for the Iraq war with no
strings. He condemned House
Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s trip to
Syria, too, accusing her of encouraging
a terrorism sponsor.
With Congress out of town,
Bush tried to take the upper
hand over Democrats who are
making increasing forays into
foreign policy as his term
dwindles and his approval ratings
remain low.
Democrats, buoyed by recent
Republican defections
from Bush on Iraq, shot back
that they are the ones pursuing
effective solutions overseas in
response to a national desire
for change from his approach.
“We are not going to allow
the president to continue a
failed policy in Iraq. We represent
the American people’s vision
on this failed war,” Senate
Majority leader Harry Reid, D-
Nev., said at a ceremony for a
new Nevada National Guard
armory near Las Vegas. “We
have said time and time again
the troops will have everything
they need.”
Speaking a day before he
heads out of town for six days
for events in the West and an
Easter break at his ranch, the
president said Democrats are
failing their responsibility to
the troops and the nation’s security
by leaving for their own
recess after passing bills to
fund the war that contain timelines
for American withdraw-
al.
Given his promised veto of
anything containing a deadline
— and the likelihood that
his veto would be sustained on
Capitol Hill — Bush said Democrats
are merely engaging
in games that “undercut the
troops.”
“Democrat leaders in Congress
seem more interested in
fighting political battles in
Washington than in providing
our troops what they need to
fight the battles in Iraq,” Bush
said. “In a time of war, it’s irresponsible
for the Democrat
leadership — Democratic leadership
in Congress to delay for
months on end while our
troops in combat are waiting
for the funds.”
Nearly two months ago,
Bush asked for more than $100
billion to pay for the wars in
Iraq and Afghanistan this year.
Congress has approved the
money, but the Senate added a
provision also calling for most
U.S. combat troops to be out of
Iraq by March 31, 2008. The
House version demands a September
2008 withdrawal.
These bills still must be reconciled
before legislation can be
sent to the president.
“They need to come off their
vacation, get a bill to my desk,
and if it’s got strings and mandates
and withdrawals and
pork I’ll veto it,” the president
said. “And then we can get
down to the business of getting
this thing done.”
Not so fast, Democrats responded.
“Americans want compro-
mise, not a cowboy-style showdown,”
said House Majority
Whip James Clyburn, D-S.C.
Fresh from a briefing by Defense
Secretary Robert Gates, the
president sought to put pressure
on Democrats by detailing ways
that delaying the money could
harm troops and their families.
After the current $70 billion
war appropriation runs out in
mid-April, Bush said, the military
would have to consider cutting
back on equipment, repairs
and training for National Guard
and reserve forces. After mid-
May, he said, more steps would
be considered, such as delaying
or curtailing the training of
some active duty forces.
Despite Bush’s warnings,
dire consequences can be avoided
even after the money starts to
run out. It has become routine in
recent years for Pentagon accountants
to move money
around in the department’s halftrillion-dollar
budget to make
sure operations in Iraq and
Afghanistan are not disrupted.
The money is repaid, usually
with minimal disruption, when
the president signs a new war
spending bill.
According to the nonpartisan
Congressional Research Service,
Bush and Congress have about
three months to resolve their
standoff before Iraq operations
would actually be affected.
Democrats told Bush to stop
blaming them for being the
ones to keep money from soldiers,
and to start negotiating.
“If President Bush vetoes
funding for the troops, he will
be the one who is blocking
funding for the troops. Nobody
else,” said presidential
candidate John Edwards.
On another topic, the president
took issue with a two-day
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Bush calls Democrats ‘irresponsible’ on Iraq
MARYVILLE (AP) — U.S.
Sen. Lamar Alexander, who
has always liked to begin
campaigns from his hometown,
came home Tuesday to
say he plans to run for reelection
in 2008.
“While I’m not starting a
campaign today, I wanted to
make it clear to the people of
Tennessee that I would be a
candidate next year when
the time comes,” he said.
“That is great news,” Bob
Davis, chairman of the Tennessee
Republican Party, said
in a telephone interview
from Nashville.
“There is no question in
my mind that he will be reelected,”
Davis added. “I
don’t see anybody on the
other side of the aisle (Democrats)
that will be able to
mount a serious campaign
against Sen. Alexander, and
it would be a futile attempt if
they did.”
Democratic officials did
not immediately return calls
for comment.
The revelation came dur-
ing a breakfast meeting in a
greenway park pavilion with
about 50 local officials, sponsored
by the Blount County
Republican Women.
Alexander said it was important
to make his plans
known in Maryville, where
his family has lived since the
1820s.
“It is my home. It’s where
I’m coming from,” he said of
the community in the
foothills of the Smoky Mountains
south of Knoxville.
The former governor, U.S.
education secretary and university
president is completing
his first term in the Senate.
Susan Williams of
Knoxville, a longtime supporter
and former state Republican
chairwoman, was
one of those attending the
breakfast who was surprised
at the timing, but not the
content of the announcement.
“Clearly, we all want him
to run, and I am glad he is
running again. He has been
good for Tennessee,” she
said, adding that she expects
he will face little opposition.
“Lamar has always enjoyed
really broad support
from Republicans and independents,
and quite frankly,
he has had some good Democratic
support in the past.
I think he will be re-elected.”
Blount County Mayor Jerry
Cunningham, a former
U.S. attorney and boyhood
friend of Alexander, introduced
him by saying, “The
cream always rises to the top.
We have so much pride that
he is a native son.”
Washington needs some
people up there who are
“...willing to work across
party lines on big problems,”
Alexander said. “I know how
to do that and I’m willing to
do it.”
He specifically cited war
on terrorism, the war in Iraq,
government spending and
the need for affordable
health insurance for everyone.
“Those are problems that
Rules loosened for special ed
students under No Child Left Behind
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Bush administration
wants to loosen the rules so that
many more disabled children can take tests
that are simpler than those required by the
president’s signature No Child Left Behind
law.
The changes would triple the number of
those children who could take simplified
tests.
Roughly 10 percent of special education
students — those with the most serious cognitive
disabilities — currently can take easier,
alternative tests and have the results count
toward a school’s annual progress goals under
the law. Under final rules the administration
was to unveil today, about another 20
percent of children with disabilities would be
allowed to take alternative tests.
The No Child Left Behind law is up for renewal
in Congress this year and lawmakers,
educators and the public have pushed for
many changes. The law imposes sanctions on
schools that don’t meet certain goals.
The new tests are for children who are not
severely disabled but who have been unable
to work on grade level because of disabilities,
such as some forms of dyslexia.
The new tests won’t be as easy as those
given to the children already exempted from
the regular tests, but they won’t be as hard as
those given to typical students.
Put together, the change means 3 percent
of all children — or roughly 30 percent of all
children with disabilities — will be allowed
to be tested on standards geared for them.
“No Child left Behind has put the needs of
students with disabilities front and center,
and this regulation helps continue to drive
the field forward in developing better tests
for students with disabilities,” Education Secretary
Margaret Spellings said in a statement.
The department said $21 million would be
available to help states come up with the new
tests.
The administration is responding to cries
from states for more flexibility in how they
test special education students.
The 2002 No Child Left Behind law re-
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President George W. Bush discusses the emergency supplemental
bill with the press Tuesday in the Rose Garden.
quires that all students be tested in reading
and math in grades three through eight and
once in high school. When enough students
miss annual progress goals, schools can face
consequences such as having to overhaul
their staffs. Schools can face sanctions even
when just one subgroup of children, such as
those with disabilities, fails to meet the
benchmarks.
That has focused more attention on the
progress of children with disabilities, says
Doug Fuchs, a professor of special education
at Vanderbilt University.
“It includes them in the same accountability
framework as kids without disabilities,”
Fuchs said. “Educators feel as compelled to
work with kids with disabilities as they are
compelled to work with kids without disabilities.”
Several advocacy groups for children with
disabilities have raised some concerns about
the change, saying they worry it could weaken
the promise to leave no child behind.
“Most of these kids surprise us in what
they can do,” said Katy Neas, a lobbyist for
Easter Seals. “When we set the bar higher,
more kids do better than we ever thought
they could.”
Neas said she hoped the federal government
would provide states and districts a lot
of help in coming up with high-quality tests
as well as help in implementing the new policy
to ensure the right students are given the
right tests.
“That’s one place where the department
really needs to step up to the plate,” she said.
Lawmakers have said there needs to be
more flexibility in how special education students
are tested and accounted for under the
law.
Lawmakers also are considering loosening
the testing rules for students learning English
and are considering giving states more flexibility
in how they measure student progress.
Schools that fail to meet progress goals by just
a little are treated the same as schools that
miss those goals by a lot, something lawmakers
say is unfair.
one party or the other can’t
solve,” he said.
Alexander said he hopes
to continue pressing for bipartisan
solutions, as he did
when he was a Republican
governor working with a Democratic
legislature.
“So that’s why I want to
run. I think I can make a real
contribution,” he said.
Alexander hasn’t officially
launched his campaign, but a
5-minute campaign video
was to be posted on the Web
Tuesday. Later in the day,
Alexander, an accomplished
pianist, was going to rehearse
with singer Patti Page
in hopes she would agree to
sing “Tennessee Waltz” at a
Wednesday fundraiser at
Nashville’s new symphony
hall.
Just a few months ago,
Alexander considered retiring
after one term when he
lost a bid to become Senate
Republican whip, deputy to
Senate Minority Leader
Mitch McConnell of Kentucky.
“After the whip race, we
asked ourselves, ‘Is it worth
staying up here or should we
go do something else?”’ said
Tom Ingram, Alexander’s
chief of staff. “And he came
to the conclusion that there is
still plenty to do and he can
stay in Syria by Pelosi that began
Tuesday.
As the speaker donned a
head scarf and mingled with
Syrians at a mosque and a market
in Damascus’ Old City,
preparing for meetings
Wednesday with Syrian President
Bashar Assad, Bush said
she was sending dangerous
signals. State-run newspapers
in Syria published news of the
visit on their front pages, with
one daily publishing a photograph
of Pelosi next to the
headline: “Welcome Dialogue.”
Bush said meetings with
many high-level Americans
have done nothing to persuade
Assad to control violent elements
of the militant groups
Hamas and Hezbollah, to halt
efforts to destabilize Lebanon
or to stop allowing “foreign
fighters” from flowing over
Syria’s border into Iraq.
“Photo opportunities
and/or meetings with President
Assad lead the Assad government
to believe they’re part
of the mainstream of the international
community when, in
fact, they’re a state sponsor of
terror,” he said.
When she visited Lebanon
on Monday, Pelosi noted that
Republican lawmakers had
met Assad on Sunday without
comment from the Bush administration.
“I think that it was an excellent
idea for them to go,” she
said. “And I think it’s an excellent
idea for us to go as well.”
The bipartisan Iraq Study
Group recommended that the
do it from the role of an independent-minded
senator.”
Alexander has been particularly
pleased by the response
he and Sen. Joe
Lieberman, I-Conn., have received
in hosting regular bipartisan
breakfasts with Senate
colleagues to discuss major
issues. Up to 40 senators
at a time have attended.
Meanwhile, McConnell
mitigated the whip loss by
appointing Alexander to the
Senate Environment and
Public Works Committee and
the Appropriations Committee.
The panels carry clout and
responsibility over issues in
which Alexander has keen
interest, including clean-air
legislation, the Tennessee
Valley Authority and the
Great Smoky Mountains National
Park.
The appointments reflected
Alexander’s “extraordinary
contribution” to the
Senate, McConnell said at
the time, and were intended
“to make it possible for him
to be even more effective
during his next term.”
Sources said McConnell
wanted to avoid spending
GOP resources in Tennessee
in 2008, two years after Republican
Bob Corker’s expensive
victory over Democ-
U.S. begin direct and extensive
talks with Syria and Iran over
Iraq. The Bush administration
has long rejected that idea, but
recently agreed to allow U.S.
representatives to talk with
Syrian officials at an international
conference in Baghdad.
Pelosi’s office said her trip
was appropriate.
“The Iraq Study Group recommended
a diplomatic effort
that should include ‘every
country that has an interest in
avoiding a chaotic Iraq,”’ said
deputy press secretary Drew
Hamill. “This effort should certainly
include Syria.”
On other matters, Bush:
—Said his administration
“had a right to remove” eight
U.S. attorneys. Bush added a
note of concern about damage
to the prosecutors’ reputations:
“I’m sorry it’s come to this,” he
said.
—Refused to say whether
he believes homosexuality is
immoral, a characterization
made recently by Gen. Peter
Pace, chairman of the Joint
Chiefs of Staff. “I will not be
rendering judgment about individual
orientation,” he said.
—Rejected any “quid pro
quo” to win the release of 15
British sailors captured by Iran,
such as exchanging five Iranians
arrested by the U.S. military in
Iraq in January. At the State Department,
spokesman Sean
McCormack said there was no
link “as far as we know” between
the captured Britons
and the release Tuesday of an
Iranian diplomat missing for
two months in Iraq.
Alexander says he plans to run for second U.S. Senate term
rat Harold Ford for the seat
of retiring Senate Majority
Leader Bill Frist.
Ingram said Alexander,
who will turn 67 on July 3, isn’t
ready to retire. “He is still
very healthy, very active,”
Ingram said, and he likes the
physical and mental stimulation
of Washington. “And, I
don’t know, he is not the
kind of guy that would sit on
a porch and rock.”
Alexander left a teaching
engagement at Harvard University’s
John F. Kennedy
School of Government in
2001 to run for the Senate
seat vacated by Republican
Fred Thompson. He beat former
U.S. Rep. Ed Bryant in
the GOP primary and former
U.S. Rep. Bob Clement, a Democrat,
in the general election.
After his election, Alexander
resigned from the boards
of nearly 20 corporate and
nonprofit organizations to
avoid conflicts of interest.
A protégé of former Sen.
Howard Baker Jr., Alexander
was a two-term governor of
Tennessee, 1979-1986; president
of the University of Tennessee,
1988-1990; and President
George H.W. Bush’s
secretary of education, 1990-
1993. He ran for president in
1996 and 2000.
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Page 4 - STAR- WEDNESDAY, APRIL 4, 2007
The calendar says it’s Easter,
but if the weatherman is
right, Easter egg hunts this
year may have to be moved
indoors as there is a snowflake
on the weather map for Saturday.
After near record high temperatures
this week, the area
could experience record lows
Saturday and Sunday. Oldtimers
would call this kind of
weather “Easter squalls.” But,
it could be dogwood winter as
well.
The rural people of Appalachia
— Northeast Tennessee,
Western North Carolina
and Southwest Virginia —
are keen observers of nature
and weather. Over the years
they’ve accumulated a wealth
of knowledge concerning seasonal
weather lore. One of
these legends concerns a natural
phenomenon that occurs
each spring known as “dogwood
winter.” In April, and it
happens to be at Easter this
year, the landscape is starred
white by the blossoms of the
dogwood trees. But during
this blooming there is always
Elizabeth Edwards is the
wife of a Democratic presidential
candidate and Tony
Snow is the chief spokesman
for a Republican president,
but they are on the same side
of the battle against cancer.
Both recently announced
that cancer for which they
had previously been treated
had come back.
Mrs. Edwards, the wife of
John Edwards, and Mr. Snow,
President Bush’s press secretary,
have access to excellent
medical care. The Edwards
family is rich, and surely the
White House has a fine employee
health insurance plan.
Not everyone is so fortunate.
Almost 50 million
Americans have no health insurance.
While everyone supposedly
is entitled to minimal
health care regardless of abili-
Do not abandon yourselves to despair.
We are the Easter people and
hallelujah is our song.
—Pope John Paul II
And he departed from our sight
that we might return to our heart,
and there find Him. For He departed,
and behold, He is here.
—St. Augustine, Confessions
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Dogwoods and Dogwood Winter
a cold spell, which brings a
dramatic drop in temperature
and an occasional snow flurry.
This became known to
old-timers as dogwood winter.
And, it occurs almost
OPINION
every year without fail.
Farmers and gardeners expect
it and curtail planting
until warmer weather returns.
To describe dogwood winter
in a few words: It’s spring
then suddenly winter returns.
It’s a shame to saddle the
beautiful dogwood with such
a negative event, but perhaps
the tree is used to such treatment.
Legend holds that the
dogwood provided the wood
for the cross on which Jesus
Christ was crucified. The once
strong, tall tree, the legend
tells us, was ashamed for its
role in Christ’s suffering and
begged His forgiveness.
Christ absolved the tree of
ty to pay, uninsured people
are less likely to get preventive
care that may keep them
from becoming seriously ill.
Once they get sick, their options
are limited.
For most people, health in-
surance is linked to employment
— a marriage of convenience
rather than logic.
For employers, cost has become
a burden. Workers find
that health care influences decisions
about what jobs to
take and keep.
Health care reform ought
to be a major issue in the 2008
presidential campaign.
As it happens, John Edwards
offered one of the
guilt and altered its shape so
that forever after it would
grow slender and twisted,
wood unsuited for a cross of
crucifixion. To remind all of
the dogwood’s suffering, He
formed the tree’s blossoms into
a four-petaled cross with a
central “crown of thorns”
petal stained with red.
The dogwood is revered in
this section for more than the
mythology. Its beauty and
flower have long been celebrated.
John Muir, the naturalist,
writer and conservationist,
who formed the Sierra Club,
described the dogwood best.
He wrote: “The flowering
dogwood when in flower
looks as if covered with snow.
In the spring when the
streams are in flood, it is the
whitest of trees. In Indian
summer the leaves become a
bright crimson, making a still
grander show than the flowers.”
Both, the dogwood and the
winter it brings are natural
phenomenons. April, it seems,
is the most capricious of the
months.
We all get sick, need health care
ANOTHER OPINION
EDITORIAL & COMMENTARY
day were just three days apart!
—Susan Coolidge
Turn your eye, the eye of faith, to
the cross and see these two things —
the crucifiers and the Crucified. See
the crucifiers, the haters of God and
of His Son. They are yourself. Read
in them your own character. See the
Crucified. It is God Himself; incarnate
love. It is He who made you,
more detailed proposals (before
his wife’s cancer came
back). Mr. Edwards wants to
involve businesses, government,
insurers and individuals
in a plan to make health
insurance available, affordable
and mandatory. Private
insurers would compete
against government-sponsored
coverage, and “this
American solution will reward
the sector that offers the
best care at the best price,”
says the Edwards plan, which
you can read on his campaign
Web site.
We hope Mrs. Edwards
and Mr. Snow will return to
good health and enjoy long
life. And we hope their illnesses
will remind Americans
that health care is an urgent
bipartisan problem.
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and decisively ordered
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an invading Argentine force.
It was a military and political
triumph widely
supported
by the public,
leading to conservativevictories
at the polls
for another 15
years.
Today, Tony
Blair presides
over a much
different
Britain. After
Iran seized 15 British soldiers
and sailors in what it says
were Iranian, not Iraqi waters,
the Daily Mail called it
“a humiliating week for
Britain: a week that saw Iran
get away with piracy, kidnap
and blackmail, a week fanatics
played cat-and-mouse
with (Britain); a week exposing
feebleness at home and
impotence abroad.”
In 1980, Jimmy Carter’s
failed rescue of American
diplomats held hostage by
Iranian religious fanatics
added to the perception of
American weakness, as has
America’s inability to bring a
quick end to the conflict in
Iraq, thanks in part to Iran’s
support of terrorists there.
The one calculation made
then is the one Iran is making
now: the West is weak
and will allow itself to be humiliated
before Muslim
states in order to preserve
the lives of and win freedom
for its citizens, and that it
doesn’t have the staying
power to persevere in Iraq
and other places should its
nose get bloodied.
The Falklands victory is
being used by much of the
British media to mark Tony
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Blair as weak and indecisive.
Blair, who has been a stalwart
supporter of American
efforts in Iraq and the battle
against Muslim fanatics in
Britain, is pilloried in the
Sunday Telegraph for his
“unquestioning support of
the United States,” which
has “made us the easy target
for Middle Eastern countries
who want to take action
against America, but fear
that country’s military
might.”
This gets it exactly backward.
Britain is not an easy
target of fanatics because of
Blair’s support of the United
States. Britain is a target because
it is Britain, just as
France, Germany and the
rest of Europe are targets for
their openness, freedom and
democracy. For not banding
together as free people, we
all risk hanging individually;
as Tehran and others prepare
the noose from which the
weak and indecisive will
hang. This is not a war any of
us can escape. It is a war that
can only be won or lost.
The need for a strong response
to Iran is underscored
in a recent London Sunday
Times editorial, which calls
for Britain to return to the
United Nations to ask for
tougher sanctions. In addition,
the paper says, “We
know (Iran’s) people are divided.
If Germany and France
will not end the valuable export
credits for Iran, perhaps
Britain and America can give
them a helping nudge. Those
companies that trade so profitably
with Iran might suddenly
find a chill breeze in
their relations with London
and Washington.”
British ministers are said to
be preparing a compromise
offer this week to allow Iran
to “save face” by promising it
will never “knowingly” enter
Iranian waters without permission.
But why should Iran
Easter thoughts from men known and unknown
“Loveliest of trees, the cherry
now Is hung with bloom along the
bough, And stands about the woodland
ride Wearing white for Eastertide.”
—A. E. Housman
“The cross is the only ladder high
enough to touch Heaven’s threshold.”
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stop there if its intention is the
continued humiliation of the
West? Why should Iran,
which extracted maximum
propaganda value from holding
Americans hostage for 444
days, give up British hostages
after less than two weeks?
The Iranian leadership understands
the power of coercion
and military might. It is
prepared for people to die en
masse for its apocalyptic beliefs,
concluding the West is
not. Iran is pursuing nuclear
weapons in hopes of increasing
its ability to withstand
pressure from other countries
when it engages in outrageous
acts, such as kidnapping.
Britain and the United
States had better get the support
of all of Europe, or Iran
will conclude it can get away
with anything. It also would
help if the United States and
Europe united in an effort to
become energy independent,
which we can do if we are
willing to make the commitment.
Starving the Iranian
regime of oil and gas profits
would be the fastest way to
sink it. Anything less will
prove, in Iranian eyes, that today’s
Britain is nothing like
the Britain of 1982 and will
encourage Iran to pursue
strength while Britain and
much of the West embrace
weakness.
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Sena “Betty” Edens
Sena “Betty” Elizabeth Horton
Edens, 509 3rd Avenue,
Hampton, passed away peacefully
Monday, April 2, 2007, at
her residence as the result of
heart disease.
Mrs. Edens was born in the
Burnsville area of Western
North Carolina, moving to
Hampton in 1920. She married
her childhood sweetheart,
Wilbur H. “Toby” Edens.
Mrs. Edens worked at
North American Rayon Corporation,
the Postal Service
and as an aide at Hampton Elementary
School. She also took
pride in being a homemaker,
mother and grandmother. As a
very active member of Hampton
First Baptist Church, she
was recently honored with a
special recognition for her
years of service as a church pianist
and Sunday School Secretary.
Betty enjoyed her town of
Hampton, as she bicycled
through the streets, sat on her
porch, talked on the telephone
and visited with family and
friends. Those who entered
her house were made to feel
special and welcome. Anyone
from the present generation
could admire her as a role
model for her character, her
purity, her pride and her true
sense of being a lady. She was
also an avid Lady Vols Basketball
Fan.
Betty was ministered to by
special friends, Jean Trivett,
Jean Cox, Opal Odom and
Monica Odom among others.
She was preceded in death
by her husband of 49 years,
Wilbur “Toby” Edens; her parents,
J.W. “Will” and Lora
Hensley Horton; a sister, Maxine
Cates; and a brother, Har-
Obituaries
lan Horton.
Survivors include her loving
daughter, Lisa Mixon and
husband Rick of Knoxville; devoted
grandchildren, Andy
and Ashley Mixon; and her
nephews, Bill Horton, David
Horton and Mack Cates and
their families.
A funeral service to celebrate
the life of Sena “Betty”
Elizabeth Edens will be conducted
at 2 p.m. Thursday,
April 5, at Hampton First Baptist
Church with the Rev. Mike
Hyder officiating. Interment
will follow at Happy Valley
Memorial Park. Active pallbearers,
who are requested to
assemble at the church at 1:50
p.m. Thursday, will be Terry
Brumitt, Mike Nash, Wayne
Smith, O.J. Roberson, Vick
Harrison, Albert Deloach, Teddy
Trivett and D.C. Simerly. To
those who prefer, memorials
may be sent to the “Women’s
Missions” of Hampton First
Baptist Church, 407 First Avenue,
Hampton, TN 37658.
The visitation will be from
12:30 to 2 p.m. Thursday at
Hampton First Baptist Church
or friends may also call at the
home at anytime. You may call
at the funeral home after 3
p.m. Wednesday. Online condolences
to the Edens family
may be e-mailed to mfc@chartertn.net.
Memorial Funeral Chapel is
in charge of the arrangements.
Robert B. Barnes
Robert Burket Barnes, 84,
Cedar Street in Emerald Isle,
N.C., and McQueen Street in
Butler, died at home in North
Carolina on the morning of
April 3, 2007, with his family
present.
A native of Nash County,
N.C., he was a son of the late
Robert Wesley and
Mary Ellen
Cole Barnes.
In addition to
his parents, he
was preceded in death by a
brother, Mearl Barnes, and a
brother-in-law, Joe Nowaski.
Mr. Barnes had lived most
of his life in North Carolina,
having retired as an auditor
for the North Carolina Department
of Transportation. He
loved the beach, being able to
fish and sharing the beach
home with many over the
years. He also enjoyed spending
time with his wife and
family.
Bob (or Burke to some)
served in the U.S. Army Air
Force during World War II.
Survivors include his wife
of almost 60 years, Lida Cable
Barnes; a son and daughter-inlaw,
Tom and Linda Barnes of
Raleigh, N.C.; a daughter and
son-in-law, Patricia and Robert
Smith of Marion, N.C.; a sister,
Elizabeth Nowaski of
Durham, N.C.; his granddaughters,
Jennifer Snyder
and husband Kevin of
Huntersville, N.C., Nikki Leggins
of Morganton, N.C., and
Stacy Gantt of Jacksonville,
N.C.; several nieces and
nephews, Linda and Phil Babb
and J. David Johnson, all of
Chuckey, and Brenda and
Leroy Saunders of Brookneal,
Va.; and many other caring
friends and relatives who have
helped to share his life and love.
A graveside service for Mr.
Barnes will be conducted at 11
a.m. Saturday, April 7, in the
Butler Memorial Cemetery
with Rev. Waymon Pritchard
officiating. Interment will follow
the service. The family will
receive friends from 6 to 8 p.m.
Friday at Memorial Funeral
Chapel. Online condolences to
the Barnes family may be emailed
to mfc@chartertn.net.
Memorial Funeral Chapel is
in charge of the arrangements.
Jean P. Perry
Mrs. Jean Pierce Perry, 80, of
Butler, died Tuesday, April 3,
2007, at Sycamore Shoals Hospital.
Mrs. Perry was born in Butler
on August 15, 1926. She
was the daughter of the late
William Crumley and Cora
Presnell Pierce. In addition to
her parents, she was preceded
in death by her husband,
Edgar Tate Perry, in 1993; a
stepson, Edgar Tate “Sonny”
Perry Jr.; and by eight sisters
and four brothers.
Mrs. Perry was a member
of Pierce Baptist Church.
Survivors include four sons,
Steve Pierce of Bristol, Eddie
Perry, Raymond Perry and
Todd Perry, all of Butler; two
daughters, Ruby Mast of Butler
and Diane Johnson of Laurel
Bloomery; three daughters-inlaw,
Barbara Perry, Audrey Perry
and Faye Perry; and eight
grandchildren, Carrie Mast Osborne,
Angella Perry Graybeal,
Tracy Johnson, Stacey Johnson,
Holly Mast Johnson, Robert
Perry, Shohn Perry and Brittany
Perry. Eight great-grandchildren
also survive.
Graveside services for Mrs.
Perry will be conducted at 11
a.m. Thursday, April 5, in the
Butler Memorial Cemetery
with the Rev. Harvey White officiating.
Music will be provided
by Sandy White and Kathy
Pierce. Active pallbearers, who
are requested to assemble at
the cemetery at 10:50 a.m.
Thursday, will be Montie
Pierce, Johnny Ray Pierce,
Wesley Garland, Ronald
Shupe, Arthur Smith and
Jackie Pierce. Honorary pallbearers
will be B.J. Horne,
John Hammett, Russ Bonde,
Stephen Miller, James Dean
Forrester, Richard Moody, Jim
Moody and Carroll Fletcher.
Friends may call at the residence
of a son, Eddie Perry,
151 Cove Ridge Road, Butler.
Online condolences to the
Perry family may be e-mailed
to mfc@chartertn.net.
Memorial Funeral Chapel
is in charge of the arrangements.
James Smith
James Smith, 73, 268 Slagle
Road, Elizabethton, died
Tuesday, April 3, 2007, at his
residence.
Funeral arrangements are
incomplete and will be announced
at a later time by Tetrick
Funeral Home of Elizabethton.
Ruby M. Hathaway
Ruby Marie Hathaway, 80,
132 Ralph Hathaway Road,
Hampton, died Monday,
April 2, 2007, at Sycamore
Shoals Hospital following an
extended illness.
Funeral arrangements are
incomplete and will be announced
at a later time by
Hathaway-Percy Funeral
Home.
Gov’t tries to recover looted pension fund
CHATTANOOGA (AP) —
Federal collectors are trying to
recover millions of dollars
looted from a former yarn
company’s pension fund to
support a Las Vegas man’s lavish
lifestyle and a planned
“gentleman’s club” in Nevada.
Daniel S. Geiger is serving a
nine-year sentence at a prison
in California for taking the
money from the federally insured
pension funds of nowdefunct
Standard-Coosa-
Thatcher Yarns Inc.
The company sponsored
two retirement plans covering
771 participants and had
$65,801 in assets, according to
a U.S. Labor Department statement.
The Pension Benefit
Guaranty Corp. has taken over
the retirement plans for hourly
and salaried employees and
will pay benefits to retirees.
The company’s former
owner and president, Kenneth
H. Combs Jr., pleaded guilty in
the case and killed himself just
before his April 2004 sentencing.
Prosecutors have said pension
funds were used when
Geiger organized Bugsy Malone’s
Speakeasy LLC with intentions
of building a “casinogentleman’s”
club in Nevada.
The club was never built.
Prosecutors have said
Geiger bribed Combs, who
was also fiduciary of the employee
retirement plan, with
kickbacks of pension money
loaned to or invested in
Geiger’s company, USA Mining
in California.
In January 2000, Geiger
formed USA Bullion, which became
the parent company of
USA Mining. During that time,
Combs became chairman of
the board of USA Bullion.
In 2004, the Labor Department
sued Geiger for misusing
assets of the plans. From 1999
to 2001, Geiger participated in
numerous loans, transfers and
investments from the pension
plans to various companies
and individuals affiliated with
them, including USA Mining
Inc. and USA Bullion Inc., the
Labor Department statement
said.
A federal judge has ordered
Geiger as former chief executive
officer of USA Mining Inc.
to restore $4.7 million to the
pension plans of SCT Yarns to
repay improper loans, transfers
and investments made to companies
in which he owned an
interest. The yarn company’s
pension plans made significant
investments with USA Mining
Inc., USA Bullion Inc. and
Bugsy Malone’s Speakeasy, all
companies owned by Geiger.
“Workers counted on these
pension plans, and the department
is pursuing every legal
avenue to recover the stolen
funds,” said Secretary of Labor
Elaine L. Chao. “This nearly $5
Local Red Cross
sets April classes
The Carter County Red Cross has scheduled the following
April classes:
• April 9, adult, child, and infant CPR, 6-10 p.m.
• April 10, standard First Aid Training, 6-9 p.m.
• April 14, standard First Aid Training, 9 a.m.-12 p.m.
• April 17, CPR and First Aid Challenges, 9 a.m.-12 p.m.
• April 28, adult, child, infant CPR and First Aid, 9 a.m.-4
p.m.
Other classes may be scheduled on an “as needed” basis.
For more information or to register for these classes, call 542-
2833.
million court order is an important
step in the ongoing effort
to replenish the pension
plans.”
Geiger’s attorney, Daniel J.
Ripper of Chattanooga, could
not be reached by telephone for
comment Tuesday.
At his sentencing in 2005,
Geiger cried as he read a statement
saying he suffers from
terminal “connective tissue disease”
and asked for time to organize
his finances and make
arrangements to repay some of
the money.
He said bad advice led to his
illegal dealings.
“I am extremely remorseful
for any errors in judgment,”
Geiger said.
Assistant U.S. Attorney
Gary Humble asked after
Geiger’s statement “if he was
weeping” when he was buying
$50 shots of liquor and spending
thousands of dollars on a
stripper who later testified at
his trial.
Humble said Geiger spent
$275,000 on charter airplanes
and $171,000 on limousines.
After Geiger’s trial, jurors
ordered him to forfeit his personal
residence that prosecutors
said was bought with
$590,000 in pension funds.
Records show the government
collected a total of $618,208 in
the criminal forfeiture.
Three teens killed
in Clarksville wreck
CLARKSVILLE (AP) — Family and Northwest High
School classmates mourned on Tuesday for three teenagers
who were killed in a collision.
Police said the three victims were the occupants of a BMW
sedan that was traveling north on a Clarksville road Monday
night when it crossed the median and struck an oncoming
GMC pickup truck head-on, The Leaf-Chronicle reported.
The cars caught fire and the three victims were dead when
paramedics arrived.
Matthew L. Partington, 18, Thomas J. Perry, 16, and Chance
L. Smith, 16, were killed. The occupant of the second vehicle,
Tammy R. Jackson, 17, was not injured.
The wreck is under investigation. Police did not immediately
say who was driving the BMW. Trooper Wayne Tidwell
said speed may have been a factor.
Partington was a former Northwest High School student,
while Perry and Smith were current students. Jackson is also a
Northwest student.
Smith, a junior baseball player, had played a game at Dickson
High School earlier in the night. A second game scheduled
Tuesday night hosting Dickson was canceled.
“He was the best kid,” Smith’s mother, Elaine, told WKRN-
TV in Nashville. “He came home at 10:30 p.m. from Dickson
County playing baseball and got a fine hit.
“These boys went out of the driveway and I heard something,”
she said of the wreck that occurred down the hill from
their home.
Church sets fundraiser
BLUFF CITY — Oakdale Free Will Baptist Church, 873 Oakdale
Road, will host a breakfast fundraiser for their building
fund on Saturday, April 8, at 8 a.m.
For more information, call 725-4325.
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First Christian Church will
begin taking Angel Food orders
today.
Angel Food is a program
for everyone, with no forms to
fill out and no qualifications
to meet. You can purchase as
much or as little as you like.
You must purchase a unit to
get any of the specials.
The Angel Food Menu for
April is as follows: Basic Unit
(valued at $80) for $28 — (6) 4ounce
hamburger steaks with
bacon; (4) 6-ounce pork chops;
2 pounds of breaded breast fillets;
1 pound of ground beef;
16-ounce fully-cooked meatballs;
2 pounds of breaded
chicken tenders; 12-inch
supreme pizza; 16-ounce corn
dogs; 20-ounce French fries;
16-ounce corn; 16-ounce
green beans; 15-ounce pork
and beans; 16-ounce pinto
beans; 10-ounce gravy; 16ounce
rice; 6-ounce pancake
mix; and a 30-ounce pie.
The specials are: No. 1: 5pound
giant grill box (New
York strip steaks, baconwrapped
fillets, sirloin steaks,
boneless center cut pork
chops and Italian sausage) for
$19; No. 2: 5-pound meat
combo box (ribeye steaks,
beef back ribs and hamburger
patties) for $19; No. 3: 10pound
chicken combo box
(chicken wings, breaded ten-
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Arrests
• Michael Lee Carr, 27, with known addresses of 1712 Anderson
St., Bristol, and 132 Sandmine Road, Elizabethton, was arrested
Monday afternoon by Carter County Sheriff’s Department
Sgt. Patrick Johnson on a warrant charging him with violation of
probation. He was additionally served with a capias charging
him with failure to appear in court early Tuesday morning by
CCSD Sgt. Tim Lowe.
• Danny Dewayne Davis, 2807 S. Roan St., Johnson City, was
arrested Monday afternoon by CCSD Deputy Brent Baker on a
warrant charging him with violation of probation.
• Kimberly Renee Cooper, 33, 3105 Highway 107, was arrested
Monday afternoon by CCSD Inv. Jan Black on a capias charging
her with failure to appear in court.
• Harvey Dale Campbell Jr., 38, 802 Highway 91, was arrested
Monday afternoon by CCSD Deputy Jeff Markland on a warrant
charging him with violation of probation.
• John Junior Bryant, 40, 160 Sneed Hill Road, was arrested
Monday afternoon by CCSD Lt. Forrest Sharpe on a warrant
charging him with violation of probation.
• Alvin Clifford Hicks, 26, 168 Bluegrass Road, Roan Mountain,
was arrested Monday morning by CCSD Sgt. Patrick Johnson
on a warrant charging him with violation of probation and a
capias charging him with failure to appear in court.
NC man charged
with passing over
$3K in bad checks
By Abby Morris-Frye
STAR STAFF
amorris@starhq.com
A North Carolina man has
been arrested and charged
with theft and writing multiple
worthless checks at a city business
over a period of five
months.
David L. Bailey, 43, 5701
Howard Gap Road, Flat Rock,
N.C., was arrested Monday by
officers of the Elizabethton Police
Department on warrants
charging him with one count
of worthless check over $1,000;
one count of theft of property
over $1,000; two counts of
worthless check over $500; two
counts of theft of property over
$500; one count of worthless
check under $500; and one
count of theft of property under
$500.
According to information
released by the EPD, Bailey
was also charged with being a
fugitive from justice after officers
discovered that “Bailey
was wanted by multiple jurisdictions
in the state of Virginia.”
Police initially began their
investigation into the passing
of the worthless checks on
February 13 when officers
were dispatched to Wal-Mart.
“A total of four checks had
been passed at the Elizabethton
Wal-Mart between September
2006 and January
2007. The checks were drawn
on CPM Federal Credit Union
in Greer, S.C.,” states a report
by EPD Sgt. Michael Merritt.
“The investigation revealed
that David L. Bailey had
passed the checks at the Elizabethton
store as well as at other
locations in Tennessee, Virginia,
South Carolina and
North Carolina. The checking
account had been closed since
January of 2005 for non-sufficient
funds. Bailey indicated
that he had passed the checks
in order to obtain electronics
which he sold at undisclosed
locations for monies to support
a gambling habit.”
According to police reports,
Bailey wrote two checks
to the Elizabethton Wal-Mart
on Sept. 27, 2006: one in the
amount of $1,157.46 and the
other in the amount of
$889.42. On Sept. 29, 2006 Bailey
wrote a third check, this
one in the amount of $612.23.
On Jan. 31, 2007, Bailey returned
to the Elizabethton
Wal-Mart and wrote the
fourth check in the amount of
$484.32.
Police were able to obtain a
surveillance video of Bailey
passing the fourth check at
Wal-Mart and compared the
video footage to a photograph
of Bailey obtained from the
Hendersonville, N.C., Police
Department in order to identify
Bailey.
First Christian begins
taking Angel Food orders
ders, boneless/skinless
breasts) for $19; No. 4: gourmet
coffee box (house blend,
hazelnut cream, Brazilian
Amizade) for $15.
The office is open from 8
a.m.-4 p.m., Monday-Friday
(except closing Friday, April 6,
and Monday, April 9, for Easter
holiday). Orders will be
taken until 4 p.m. on April 13.
Distribution day for pick-up
of food is April 28 from 9:45-
10:45 a.m. only.
For more information, call
542-5651.
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Pickin Porch will present exhibit
honoring late William ‘Billy’ Sage
BRISTOL, Va.-Tn. — The
Appalachian Cultural Music
Association (ACMA) and the
Mountain Music Museum invites
the public to attend the
ACMA Pickin Porch at the
Bristol Mall on Thursday,
April 12, at 7 p.m. for a special
program and unveiling
of a new exhibit. The late
William “Billy” Sage will be
honored with the unveiling
of a shadowbox exhibit
showcasing his fiddle, stage
hat and tie along with a photo
of him performing on
stage.
Billy Sage was the son of
Giles and Alpha Sluder Sage
of Bristol, Va., in the Cleveland
community. Billy was
actually born in Rhodefield,
W.Va., when his father went
there for work in the coal
fields but later moved back
to Bristol.
Billy later moved to Kirkwood,
Delaware and played
fiddle in the Baltimore, Md.,
area in the 1950s and 1960s
when that area was a hot bed
for bluegrass music.
First starting with his
brothers, Bob and James, in
the First State Bluegrass
Band, Billy went on to later
play with some of the greats
in bluegrass including Bill
Monroe, Del McCoury, Red
Allen, Jack Cook, David
Davis and the Warrior River
On Sunday evening, April
22,, at 7:30 at the Paramount
Center for the Arts in Bristol,
Tn./Va., Symphony of the
Mountains will perform the
Fiddlin’ Violins: Sounds of
Our Roots concert in celebration
of the region’s rich
heritage of Bluegrass and
Ole Time Music.
Special guest artists will
be Raymond W. McLain and
the McLain Family Band, a
world class Bluegrass group.
The concert will celebrate
the connection and similarities
between bluegrass and
classical music. The McLain
Family Band is unique, in
part, because the founder of
the Band, Raymond K.
McLain, had a background
in classical music theory as
well as his understanding of
traditional music and culture.
Raymond K. wrote
many original musical
pieces and arranged other
classical and popular compositions
for the band, one
of the most stunning being
his arrangement of the third
movement of Bach's Second
Brandenburg Concerto.
The McLain Family will
perform Concerto for Bluegrass
Band and Orchestra
which was commissioned by
the National Endowment for
the Arts and Kentucky Arts
and composed by Phillip
Rhodes. This was the first
major work ever written for
a bluegrass band and symphony
orchestra. Phillip
Rhodes wrote orchestral
arrangements of original
McLain songs, commissioned
by the Cincinnati
Symphony Orchestra and
the McLain Band will be
performing some of these
with Symphony of the
Mountains. As the first bluegrass
band to perform with
symphony orchestras, the
McLain Family Band performed
in over 200 concerts
with more than 100 orchestras
nationwide, including
Cincinnati, Louisville, Atlanta,
Detroit, Pittsburgh, St.
Louis, Anchorage,
Rochester, Houston, Denver,
Phoenix and the National
Symphony Orchestras. They
will also be performing
many favorites as a solo
group separate from the orchestra.
Raymond K. McLain
formed the McLain Family
Band in 1968 when they began
performing and doing a
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Proceeds from the Picking Porch will benefit the ACMA’s Mountain Music Museum on the
lower level of the Bristol Mall, which is open seven days a week during mall hours.
Boys and many others.
Billy Sage also traveled to
many foreign countries including
Germany, Belgium,
England, Japan, Holland and
British Columbia.
Billy resided in Confluence,
Pennsylvania with his
wife Karlyne until his death
on July 21, 2002. Billy lived
his entire life as a bluegrass
musician and passed away
on the band’s bus traveling
home after a weekend of
performing at festivals.
Many of Billy’s family
members are traveling to
Bristol from Pennsylvania on
© DISNEY
April 12 for this special
event at the ACMA’s Pickin
Porch. “This is another example
of the importance of
the Mountain Music Museum
and what it means to
people from all across America
and the world”, states
Tim White, president of the
ACMA. “We hope that our
community will turn out for
this special night of music,
tribute and memorial to Billy
Sage.”
On stage at the Pickin
Porch at the Comfort Systems
USA Performance Center
at the Bristol Mall on
weekly show at WKYH-TV
in Hazard, Ky. He began the
country’s first university
level Bluegrass and Appalachian
music courses in
1970 at Berea College in
Berea, Ky. In 1972 composer
Gian Carlo Menotti was so
charmed by the band that he
invited them to play at his
Spoleto Festival in Italy and
they also had musical engagements
in Germany and
Belgium that year. This tour
began the McLain Family
Band’s European tours over
the next 18 years. They made
14 overseas tours performing
in a total of 62 foreign
countries. Between 1969 to
1989, they performed in all
50 US states, and venues
such as Carnegie Hall, the
Grand Ole Opry, the Lincoln
Center in New York City and
the Kennedy Center for the
Performing Arts in Washington,
D.C.
Raymond W. McLain, the
son of Raymond K. and Betty
McLain, has spent over 40
years entertaining audiences
in all 50 states and 62
foreign countries, including
touring as a musical ambassador
for the U. S. State Department.
He was with The
McLain Family Band for 21
years and also had over 230
appearances with orchestras.
He performed with Jim
and Jess’s Virginia Boys for
over 10 years. He currently
performs with five time
“Entertainer of the Year”
winner, Mike Stevens, as
well as, still performing solo.
In addition to performing,
producing and recording,
he is Director of the
April 12 will be Tommy
Freeman & Skyline. Tommy
Freeman is a veteran bluegrass
musician who was like
a second son to Billy Sage.
Tommy Freeman & Skyline
play traditional-style bluegrass
music.
Admission to the Pickin
Porch is free but donations
are accepted. Proceeds from
the Pickin Porch shows go to
underwrite the costs for the
ACMA’s Mountain Music
Museum on the lower level
of the Bristol Mall which is
open 7 days a week all mall
hours.
Symphony of the Mtns. will celebrate
Bluegrass and Ole Time Music at concert
Bluegrass and Country Music
Program at East Tennessee
State University,
sharing his knowledge and
music with students interested
in bluegrass and traditional
music, culture, instruments
and performance
In the weeks preceding
this concert an outreach program
will be presented to
regional middle schools.
Staying with the theme of
this concert, this outreach
program will explore the
similarities and the differences
between familiar blue
grass music and European
classical music. The origins
of these two kinds of music
will be explored, including
the different evolutionary
effects of the oral and the
written traditions. The different
techniques used on
the instrument (whether we
call it a fiddle or a violin) to
create the desired sound
will be demonstrated. Two
musicians, one representing
the blue grass tradition, the
other the symphony, along
with a trained volunteer
will present this program in
regional schools throughout
Southwest Virginia and
Northeast Tennessee.
Tickets are $22 for adults
and $10 for students with
IDs. Tickets will be available
at The Paramount Center for
the Arts, Bristol, Tn./Va.,
Phone 423-274-8920; Zazzy’s
at 380 East Main Street,
Abingdon, Va., 276-698-
3333; and the Symphony of
the Mountains office at 1200
East Center Street,
Kingsport, TN (423) 392-
8423, fax 423-392-8428.
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DEAR ABBY
Mourner who pays
respects is asked to
buy something else
DEAR ABBY: Within the
last two months, my dear 75year-old
friend, “Margery,”
lost her 51-year-old daughter
and her 29-year-old granddaughter
to cancer. (They
were mother and daughter.)
At the funeral home there
was a table at the entrance to
the viewing
room with a
printed card
asking for
your name, address
and
phone number
if you wanted
to receive an
obituary and
memorial card
encased in plastic. (I did.)
Two days after the funeral,
I received a call from the
funeral home asking me
what my thoughts were
about the funeral. I told the
man I had been to many funerals
in my life, but had
never been called and asked
my thoughts about any of
them. However, since he was
asking, I told him I had been
upset to hear from Margery
that he tried to charge her
$1,000 more for her granddaughter’s
wake then he did
for the daughter’s identical
wake.
And then, this insensitive
jerk proceeded to ask me if I
had any thoughts about
making “prearrangements”
for my OWN demise and funeral!
Abby, I couldn’t believe
my ears! A funeral
home trolling for business
from grieving friends and
relatives of the deceased
mother and daughter two
days after the granddaughter’s
funeral? And to use the
signed book (to receive memorials)
for names, addresses
and phone numbers to
“promote business” is, in my
eyes, unconscionable! Your
thoughts, please. — DORIS
L. IN FLORIDA
DEAR DORIS: Just when
I think I have seen it all, a
letter like yours lands on
my desk. Whether the person
who called you was the
funeral director or a salesman,
that person is his own
worst enemy. Margery
should consider herself fortunate
that he didn’t approach
any mourners who
appeared to be under the
weather and try to sign
them up then and there.
People with such little
sensitivity for the feelings
of others should not be in a
people-oriented profession.
Appalachian State University
celebrates Diversity the
week of April 14-21. The Sixth
Annual Diversity Celebration
will feature ethnic food from
every continent; songs, stories,
craft and clothing from
Mexico to Japan, from Germany
to New Zealand.
The family-friendly culture
fest will also feature hands-on
activities, nibbles and fun,
and a cultural safari at the
Unity Festival on April 14.
The First Annual People of
If that man’s employer reads
this, I strongly recommend
that he be relegated to the
back room, where the individuals
he deals with are far
beyond the cares and concerns
of this world.
Readers, in case you’re
under the impression that
most people are this insensitive
and cynical, read on
for a change of pace:
DEAR ABBY: Please print
my letter about an act of
kindness. I was having a
rough day at school. I had
left some medication at
home, but only had enough
bus fare for one way. So I
borrowed money from a
friend and went home at
lunch. The heat was terrible,
but I still had to walk back to
school.
After I returned to school,
I fainted in my fourth period
class. My teacher said I could
go home.
The bus came right away.
The driver told me to get on
and look for my money afterward.
Well, I couldn’t find it.
It must have fallen from my
pocket when I fainted. I told
the driver why I didn’t have
the fare and even offered him
two fares for the next day.
He didn’t believe me. I
was so upset I started to cry
while I was getting off the
bus. Then I heard a woman
say, “Wait!” She took out her
wallet and looked for
change. She didn’t have any,
so she offered the driver a
$20 bill. The driver couldn’t
accept the money, but I
thought it was so kind of her
to offer to pay the bus fare
for a total stranger.
I was just about off the
bus when another woman
offered me a bus ticket. I
don’t know how to express
how grateful I was to those
two women.
So if you are these
women who took the Route
43 bus and helped me out
that day, please know I will
always remember the kindness
you showed me. You
are the two nicest people
ever — and I don’t even
know your names. —
THANKFUL FOR THE
KINDNESS OF
STRANGERS, ONTARIO,
CANADA
DEAR THANKFUL:
Thank you for an upper of
a letter, which proves that
angels don’t always fly —
sometimes they ride the
bus just like the rest of us.
Appy State schedules
Diversity Celebration
the Planet Soccer Tournament
will be held on April 15. On
April 17, Diversity Day will
be held with an extravaganza
of ethnic entertainment, edibles,
exhibits, and crafts.
Everything is free and
everyone is invited. The Diversity
Celebration is funded
in part by the Watauga County
Arts Council and Grassroots
funds from the North
Carolina Arts Council, the
ASU Parent Association, and
ASU Staff Council.
ETSU to host Upper E-T
Science Fair Thursday
JOHNSON CITY — The Upper East Tennessee Science Fair
will be held Thursday, April 5, at East Tennessee State University’s
D.P. Culp University Center ballroom.
Approximately 350 exhibits submitted by fourth- through
eighth-grade students from 45 schools in Northeast Tennessee
will be on display from 10 a.m.-4 p.m. in this event, which is
sponsored by ETSU and the Johnson City Kiwanis Club.
Professional scientists from ETSU and various local companies
will judge the competition. More than $5,000 in prize
money, donated by the Kiwanis Club and Eastman Chemical
Co., will be awarded to student winners and their schools. In
addition, the Tennessee Academy of Science will give four
$100 prizes, and ETSU’s Center for Appalachian Studies and
Services will provide two $100 prizes. Winning exhibits will
be displayed at Johnson City’s Hands On! Regional Museum
during the month of May.
For more information or for special assistance for those
with disabilities, contact Dr. Gary Henson in ETSU’s Department
of Physics, Astronomy, and Geology at (423) 439-6906 or
hensong@etsu.edu.

(Family Features) I’m nuts
about nuts, and my favorite is
the all-American pecan. So, I’m
pleased to celebrate National
Pecan Month by using this
sweet, buttery nut in many
ways.
Spiced for cocktail nibbling,
folded into rice pilaf or tossed
into a salad, I find a place for
the Native American pecan in
every part of my menu. But
there’s no question that my favorite
place for this nut is
tucked into something sweet.
Whether it’s pralines, fudge,
pecan pie or shortbread, pecan
desserts are as American as,
well, pumpkin pie!
Make a dreamy combo of
two all-American favorites -
pecan pie and pumpkin pie —
in these Pumpkin Pecan Pie
Squares. Sweet and nutty, these
squares are full of spicy pumpkin
atop an oat crust. Served on
small plates, garnished with a
cloud of whipped cream, this
dessert will secure your reputation
as a creative baker.
I almost can’t think of a dish
that isn’t improved by this
crunchy nut. Here are some of
my favorite ways of using
pecans:
—Adding some to my favorite
quick bread or muffin
batter before baking
—Topping pancakes or waffles
with toasted pecans
—Sprinkling pecans on oatmeal
or any favorite cereal
—Adding crunch to chicken
salad with toasted pecans
—Garnishing a creamy
bisque or pumpkin soup with
chopped pecans
—Stirring pecans into a rice
pilaf, or topping steamed green
beans with chopped pecans
—Tossing toasted pecans into
a mixed green salad
—Making a summertime
pesto with fresh basil and
pecans to toss with hot pasta
Toasting pecans brings out
their rich flavor. I place pecans
on a shallow rimmed baking
sheet in a 300°F oven and bake
for 10 to 15 minutes, stirring occasionally,
until the nuts are
golden brown.
Check out the nutty and
nice ideas for inspired baking
and cooking at www.VeryBest-
Baking.com.
Pumpkin Pecan
NEW YORK (AP) — “NBC
Nightly News” weekend anchor
John Seigenthaler, who
started his television news career
in Tennessee, signed off
for good this weekend after the
network decided not to renew
his contract due to budget cuts.
NBC said Monday it would
name a successor soon; someone
whose duties will also include
weekend work at NBC
or MSNBC.
NBC bosses decided that a
newsman whose primary duties
were anchoring on the
weekend was a luxury they
could no longer afford.
Seigenthaler had been with
NBC News for 11 years, joining
after local news stints in
Nashville, Tenn., and Seattle.
Pumpkin Pecan Pie Squares
Go nuts for pecans
Pie Squares
1 cup all-purpose flour
1/2 cup old-fashioned or instant
oats
1/2 cup packed brown sugar
1/2 cup butter or margarine,
softened
3/4 cup granulated sugar
1 can (15 ounces) Libby’s
100% Pure Pumpkin
1 can (12 fluid ounces)
Nestlé Carnation Evaporated
Milk
2 large eggs
2-1/4 teaspoons pumpkin
pie spice
1/2 cup chopped pecans
1/4 cup packed brown sugar
Whipped cream
Preheat oven to 350 degrees
F.
Combine flour, oats, brown
sugar and butter in small mixer
bowl. Beat at low speed 1 to 2
minutes or until crumbly. Press
on bottom of ungreased 13 x 9inch
baking pan.
Bake 15 minutes.
Combine granulated sugar,
pumpkin, evaporated milk,
eggs and pumpkin pie spice in
large mixer bowl. Beat at medium
speed 1 to 2 minutes; pour
over crust.
Bake 20 minutes. Combine
pecans and brown sugar in
small bowl. Sprinkle pecan
topping over filling. Continue
baking 15 to 25 minutes or until
knife inserted in center comes
out clean. Cool completely in
pan on wire rack. Cut into bars.
Top with whipped cream.
Makes 12 servings
Nutrition Information per
serving: 350 calories; 160 calories
from fat; 18g total fat; 9g
saturated fat; 80mg cholesterol;
105mg sodium; 43g carbohydrate;
3g fiber; 30g sugars; 6g
protein.
Jenny Harper is Senior Culinary
Specialist for the Nestlé
Test Kitchens and VeryBest-
Baking.com.
Seigenthaler leaving
as weekend anchor
He was named anchor of the
weekend editions of “NBC
Nightly News” in 1999. He is
the son of the former editor
and publisher of The Tennessean
newspaper, John
Seigenthaler.
NBC’s weekend newscast
tops its rivals in the ratings.
During weekdays, “NBC
Nightly News” has been
eclipsed by ABC’s “World
News” during the past two
months.
Seigenthaler announced his
departure on Sunday night’s
show. He thanked NBC News
and his viewers for being loyal.
“And thanks to my dear
family,” he said. “Finally, we
have our weekends back.”
Niswonger PAC will
host ETSU Wind Ensemble
The East Tennessee State University Wind Ensemble, conducted
by Dr. Christian Zembower, Director of Bands at ETSU, will
present an evening concert at the Niswonger Performing Arts
Center in Greeneville on Monday, April 16, at 7:30 p.m. Admission
is free and the public is invited to please attend.
This concert will be the third performance (of a one-day regional
performing tour) for the ETSU Wind Ensemble on that
date. The wind ensemble will be performing at Rye Cove High
School in Clinchport, Va., in the morning, and at Bristol, Virginia
High School that afternoon before traveling to Greeneville in the
evening to perform at the Niswonger PAC. The concert will last
an hour in length and will consist of classic and contemporary
wind band literature. One selection on the concert will feature Dr.
Rande Sanderbeck, percussion instructor at ETSU, on a piece by
composer David Gillingham.
Consisting of primarily music performance and education
majors, along with other non-music majors, the ETSU Wind Ensemble
numbers around 40 performers.
Dr. Christian Zembower is in his first year as Director of Bands
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Uninsured and dead...
Doctor contrasts his cancer care
with uninsured patient who died
By LINDSEY TANNER
AP Medical Writer
Frustrated by the U.S.
health care system, an Oklahoma
doctor being treated for
colon cancer decided to write
an essay for a medical journal.
But it’s not his own care
that upset him. It’s the plight
of the uninsured — specifically
a patient of his who was
the same age, had the same
disease, yet couldn’t afford
the treatment he got.
Today, Dr. Perry Klaassen,
67, is still working part-time
in an Oklahoma City clinic,
six years after his diagnosis.
Shirley Searcy, his patient,
died 18 months after hers.
Klaassen’s treatment included
surgery two days after
diagnosis and costly new
drugs that have kept him going
despite cancer that has
now spread to his lungs, liver
and pelvis.
“I received the most efficient
care possible. I was 61
years old and had good
group health insurance
through my workplace,” he
wrote in the essay.
The doctor didn’t name
Shirley Searcy in his March 14
article. After all he’d been
through, he couldn’t remember
her name. But for days he
dug through old medical files
searching for her identity after
he was interviewed by
The Associated Press. He realized
he could shine a more
powerful light on the plight
of the uninsured if her story
could be told more fully.
And it is a story that’s far
from unique. The widowed
mother of eight grown children,
Searcy had little money.
When she began to sense she
might be sick, she put off going
to the doctor for a year
because she knew she couldn’t
pay the medical bills.
Deeply religious, she put her
faith in God, according to her
family.
By the time she saw
Klaassen, her cancer had
spread from her colon to her
liver. She had surgery but rejected
chemotherapy.
“She just really didn’t feel
like she wanted to endure
what that would cost physically
or financially,” said her
daughter-in-law, Karen
Searcy.
Shirley Searcy died Dec.
22, 2003, about 18 months after
her diagnosis.
———
While recent attention has
focused on high-profile cancer
patients like Elizabeth Edwards
and Tony Snow, who
have the means and insurance
to pay for the best treatment,
there are tens of thousands
of tragic, unseen cancer
cases like Searcy’s — people
whose lack of insurance stops
them from seeking care when
they should.
An estimated 112,000
Americans with cancer have
no health insurance, according
to Physicians for a National
Health Program.
And that’s only cancer.
Among the 45 million Americans
who have no health insurance,
there are countless
people with chronic and developing
health problems
who are risking the same
kind of fate that took Shirley
Searcy’s life.
Klaassen’s essay in the
Journal of the American Medical
Association illustrates the
issue “right there up close
and personal,” said editor Dr.
Catherine DeAngelis.
It underscores that insurance
can be a life or death issue,
said Paul Ginsburg, president
of the Center for Studying
Health System Change, a
nonpartisan policy research
organization. “The cost of
health insurance has been going
up faster than people’s incomes,”
he said.
U.S. spending on health
care totaled $2 trillion last
year and economists in February
projected it will nearly
double by 2016.
Said DeAngelis: “We have
the richest country in the
world and I think the poorest
health delivery system in the
developed world. It’s really
sad.”
Klaassen no longer sees
patients but works part-time
as medical director of an Oklahoma
City group that recruits
doctors to give free care
to needy patients.
Always healthy and vigorous,
his diagnosis in 2001
came as a shock.
He went to his family
physician after experiencing
an annoying pain in his lower
abdomen for a few weeks. A
CT scan showed possible inflammation,
but his doctor
recommended a colonoscopy,
the gold-standard test for detecting
colon cancer.
Klaassen had the test within
two weeks. When the specialist
ready with the results
asked, “Is your wife with
you?” Klaassen wrote, “I
knew immediately that I had
colon cancer.”
His wife was out of town,
and needing someone to
share the awful news with, he
turned to a physician friend
“and I broke down and
cried.”
Surgery two days later
showed the disease had
spread outside the colon wall
and to nearby lymph nodes.
It was not quite as advanced
as Mrs. Searcy’s, whose disease
had spread to the liver.
———
Shirley Searcy married
young and had her first child
in her teens. Her mechanic
husband died in a 1978 car
crash, leaving her to raise the
family alone. Social Security
helped, but the Searcys never
had anything extra, family
members said.
“Life dealt her more I
guess than some people have
been dealt,” her daughter-inlaw
said.
She didn’t work outside
the home, didn’t venture often
beyond her four acres and
the frame ranch house where
she raised her children in the
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Nearly 45 million Americans uninsured
The number of people in the U.S. without health insurance rose nearly
45 percent, between 1987 and 2005.
U.S. population without By age, in millions (rounded), 2005
health insurance, 1987-2005 Under 18 8.1
46 million
44 31.0
(12.9 %
44.8
(15.3)
18 to 24
25 to 34
8.2
10.2
42 of total
35 to 44 7.9
40
population)
45 to 64 10.1
38
65 and older 0.5
36
34
32
By income
Under $25,000
$25,000- $49,000
$50,000-$74,999 7.8
14.5
14.7
30
’89 ’93 ’97 ’01 ’05 Over $75,000 7.9
SOURCE: U.S. Census Bureau AP
humble town of Blanchard,
about 30 miles from Oklahoma
City. In her later years,
reading stories to her dozens
of grandchildren was a favorite
pastime, family members
said.
She’d figured she’d live
long enough to qualify for
Medicare at age 65, they said,
but she missed it, by just a
year.
She’d had symptoms for at
least a year before going to
the doctor, her family said.
“She put off going because
of no health insurance and
she wanted to trust the Lord.
She was hoping to be
healed,” said her daughter,
Melba Spalding.
A relative referred her to
Klaassen, a primary care doctor
in the city, because she’d
had abdominal pain, lost
weight, and had bloody
stools. She’d been hospitalized
several months before
and urged to get a
colonoscopy, but still hadn’t
had one when she went to see
Klaassen.
With his own diagnosis
fresh in his mind, Klaassen
knew immediately that it was
colon cancer. A colonoscopy
weeks later confirmed the diagnosis
and the family
learned the disease was incurable.
The diagnosis was “heartbreaking
to all of us,” said
Spalding, 50, the oldest of
Mrs. Searcy’s children. The
family had always been close,
and Mrs. Searcy “was pretty
well the hub of it,” she said.
With her colon diseased,
Mrs. Searcy had a colostomy,
surgery that creates an opening
in the abdomen for waste
removal, and worried about
how to pay for all her medical
supplies, Karen Searcy
said. She didn’t want to burden
her family, but Karen
said she and her husband,
Kenneth, lived nearby and
helped out.
Still, their own finances
have sometimes been a
struggle.
Karen said they had no
health insurance when the
first two of their four children
were born. They needed
help to pay for the births.
Now they’re covered
through Kenneth’s job as a
plywood salesman — a godsend
since he has diabetes,
high blood pressure and
high cholesterol and co-payments
alone for his medicine
have totaled $90 a month.
“There’s a lot of mixed
emotions about health care
in my mind,” Kenneth
Searcy said. “You really can’t
afford it, but you can’t afford
not to have it.”
With insurance, Mrs.
Searcy would have sought
treatment sooner, family
members said.
“I believe with all my
heart that if she had gone to
a doctor early on, that she
would still be living,” Karen
Searcy said.
She said her mother-inlaw
held up pretty well after
her surgery in January 2003.
But by that Thanksgiving,
when she could no longer
make her holiday pies, the
gravity of her situation finally
hit her.
“She broke down and
cried and she realized that
her strength was gone,” her
daughter-in-law said.
Shirley Searcy died a
month later.
Klaassen last saw his patient
several months before
her death, but kept in touch
by phone, and her children
said that was a comfort to
her.
“Shirley spoke very highly
of him,” Karen Searcy
said. “He was not just a doctor,
he was a friend. Their situations
being the same, I’m
sure created a bond between
them.”
Klaassen also thinks
things would have turned
out differently for Mrs.
Searcy if she’d been insured.
“If she had survived at
least a year more, she would
have had new pills available
to her,” the same ones that
have helped control his disease,
Klaassen said.
“People think that everybody’s
taken care of, that
there’s a safety net,” he said.
“People say ... nobody
ever dies because they don’t
have insurance, and I say,
‘Yeah, they do.”’
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GOOD OL’ ROCKY TOP: Lady Vols win seventh NCAA title
CLEVELAND (AP) —
Everyone is gazing up at
good ol’ Rocky Top again.
After a nine-year title
drought, Tennessee and
coach Pat Summitt are
NCAA champions.
The Lady Vols captured an
elusive seventh national title
Tuesday night, beating Rutgers
to the ball for second
and third shots in a 59-46 win
to reclaim their customary
place above all other programs.
Rutgers coach C. Vivian
Stringer had hoped to win
her first title, 25 years after
her first national title appear-
Happy Valley beats
Johnson County for
2nd time this season
By Rick Sheek
STAR STAFF
rsheek@starhq.com
Happy Valley completed
the regular-season sweep of
Johnson County, and climbed
above .500 in the Watauga
Conference baseball race.
The Warriors rolled 13-5 on
Tuesday at Cannon-Gouge
Park.
“It’s good to get a conference
win,” Happy Valley
coach Travis Hurley said.
“It’s always nice to get that.
We really needed it.”
The Warriors improved to
6-4, 4-3 in the league.
“We’re needing wins right
now,” said catcher Garrett
Dykes, who batted 3 for 4
with two RBIs. “We just need
to come out and play ball,
and that’s what we’re trying
to do. The last two games
we’ve come out and played
ball.”
Happy Valley assumed
control early, surging to a 3-0
advantage in the first inning.
Shortstop Tyler Blevins got
the rout going with a runscoring
single before later
stealing home.
“We came back with our
bats,” Blevins said. “I figured
we’d get our bats started early
in this game. Everybody
was hitting the ball today,
everybody was fielding it
well – so it was just an allaround
good victory.”
Bradley McVey tagged a
Lady Cyclones take down the Lady Bulldogs
By Wes Holtsclaw
SPORTS EDITOR
wholtsclaw@starhq.com
Five innings of perfect
baseball on the mound allowed
Elizabethton to pull
away with its second nonconference
win of the week
ance. Instead, Summitt won
her seventh, 20 years after
her first.
“I can’t even describe it,”
said Tennessee’s All-American
Candace Parker. “This is
what everyone came to Tennessee
to do, and we did it.”
Parker scored 17 points to
lead the Volunteers (34-3),
but the most outstanding
player got plenty of help
from Shannon Bobbitt and a
supporting cast of less-heralded
teammates, who too often
this season stood around
and watched her.
Not this time.
The Lady Vols, trophy-less
sacrifice fly in the first. In the
second, Brandon Burchfield
and Craig Sheets each rapped
run-scoring singles, Daniel
Shankle hit a sacrifice fly and
Cody Hyder scored on a double
steal. The Warriors were
in charge 7-0.
The Longhorns had left the
bases loaded in the first. In
the third, Ryan McQueen
belted a run-scoring double
and Ronnie Roark’s run-scoring
single cut the gap to 7-2.
Though they left the bases
juiced in the fifth, the Warriors
increased their cushion
to 11-2. Dykes and Hyder
each hit run-scoring singles
and two crossed on an error
in the outfield.
Happy Valley’s play in the
field got sloppy in the sixth,
committing three errors as the
lead was cut to 11-5. The onslaught
was completed when
McVey legged out a triple and
scored on a throwing error,
and Dykes singled in the final
run.
Sophomore ace Logan
Bowling hurled six innings,
allowing two earned runs. He
struck out four and walked
four. Blevins closed and
fanned two, sending the
Longhorns (2-8, 0-9) down 1-
2-3.
“I’ve got to give big ups to
Logan,” Dykes said. “He
threw 104 pitches tonight,
and Tyler came in and finished
it up for him.”
Hyder batted 2 for 5, with
Tuesday.
Summer Smith and Taylor
Bellessa combined for
eight strikeouts without a
hit or walk in the first five
defensive stanzas to lead
the Lady Cyclones past rival
Hampton 7-0 at home.
Photo by Eveleigh Hatfield
Summer Smith got the win on the mound for the Lady
Cyclones yesterday against Hampton. Smith also had two hits
for Elizabethton.
in their past five tournament
visits, wanted this title —
badly. Almost from the outset,
they outworked the
young Scarlet Knights (27-9),
who waited until
the final game of
an improbable
tournament run
to show their inexperience.
After building
a 16-point
lead and then holding
off a late push by Rutgers,
the Lady Vols could finally
celebrate, dribbling out
the final 30 seconds under
the Rutgers basket. When the
a double. The Warriors
rapped 11 hits.
Blevins stole three bases.
Hyder and Sheets also
recorded steals.
“They know they’ve got to
come play in conference
games,” Hurley said of his
players. “I think we made a
Elizabethton broke loose
for four runs in the third inning,
and held Hampton at
bay in the later innings to
secure the win.
“We played a good
game,” said Elizabethton
coach Kenny Hardin. “We
played good defense. I
wanted to play the full seven
innings because we
needed the work right now,
and Hampton’s a much improved
team.
“We hit it a little bit better
today. We’ve got a long
ways to go. We’re going to
come back and practice
hard the next two days and
see what we can do next
week.”
Hampton held its own
defensively until the third
inning.
Brittney Eggers led off
with a double for Elizabethton
and reached on a wild
pitch following a hit by
Leah Henson. After Taylor
Bellessa and Tia Nave
walked to load the bases,
Brittany Smith smacked a
two-run hit for Elizabethton.
The Lady Bulldogs
thought they had the second
of the two runners out
at the plate and later com-
final horn sounded, Dominique
Redding flung the
ball high enough to hit the
scoreboard as Tennessee’s
players, some in tears,
danced at midcourt
as orange, blue
and gold confetti
fell from above.
“To win anything
you have
to be a tight
team,” Summitt
said. “They believed
in each other and they
all had one goal, to be here in
Cleveland and cut down the
nets. I’m real, real proud of
this team.”
few too many errors, definitely.
It could have come back
and bit us, but it didn’t.
“I thought we actually put
it in play in the first and second
innings, then we took a
couple of innings off again
when you shouldn’t, and
came back out and hit it in the
mitted an error, scoring
Nave to give Elizabethton a
4-0 lead.
Eggers and Henson
scored again in the fourth
thanks to RBI singles from
Mary Edgar and Summer
Smith. Madison McKinney
added Elizabethton’s final
run in the fifth inning when
she reached on an RBI single
from Jasmine Treadway.
Hampton found its first
hit in the sixth inning,
thanks to Kelli Bradley who
planted one in the gap between
second and short.
However, Elizabethton
senior Mary Edgar shut
down the side limiting
Hampton’s offensive opportunities
to the seventh
inning.
Kayla McGuire and Mikki
Oliver reached base for
the Lady Bulldogs to open
the final stanza, but Amanda
Peters, Brittany Crabtree
and Megan Hazelwood
found very little luck with
balls hit to defenders.
“It’s one of those days
where you hit right at
them, but I’ll take that over
a strikeout anyday,” said
Hampton coach Pat Kelly.
INSIDE
Masters • 9
Scoreboard • 9
Titans Caravan • 10
Rutgers, which knocked
off No. 1 Duke earlier in the
tournament, was attempting
to become the third straight
first-time winner following
Baylor in 2005 and Maryland
in 2006.
Summitt’s 947th career
win could be one of her
sweetest. The Hall of Fame
coach — joined on the floor
afterward by her mother,
Hazel Head, in a wheelchair
— had captured six national
titles from 1987-98, but had
been shut out for No. 7 despite
having some of her
most talented teams.
“I think when we lost to
Photo by Hannah Bader
Logan Bowling (18) throws a pitch from the mound in Happy Valley’s 13-5 win over Johnson
County on Tuesday at cannon-Gouge Park.
n See SOFTBALL, 10
fourth, fifth and sixth. You
can never take a break in the
Watauga Conference.”
————
Happy Valley, 13-5
Johnson County 002 003 0 – 5 6 7
Happy Valley 340 041 1 – 13 11 5
McQueen, Roark (5) and Shelton. Bowling,
Blevins (7) and Dykes. W—Bowling (3-
1). L—McQueen.
By Ben Davis
STAR STAFF
bdavis@starhq.com
After taking down University
High 4-0 at Brown Childress
Stadium on Tuesday
evening, the Cyclones sit
alone at the top of their conference
standings.
“All in all we’re pretty
happy,” Cyclones coach Bill
McClay said of his teams performance.
“It’s a good conference
win and that was the
huge part today.”
Elizabethton (2-3, 2-0) and
the Jr. Bucs (3-2, 2-1) each entered
a game without a conference
loss; however it was
the Cyclones who prevailed
after getting exceptional performances
from a couple of
seniors in Chris Wilson and
E.J Crowe.
Taylor Hodge scored the
Cyclones first goal off an assist
from Wilson at the 20:00
minute mark of the first half.
Wilson then scored a goal
himself 6:09 before halftime
to give the Cyclones a 2-0 advantage.
“You can’t really be greedy
on the team,” Wilson said of
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LSU in the SEC tournament it
was the best thing that happened
to us,” Summitt said.
“You never like to lose, but
we really came together as a
team. I’d say they held each
other accountable. They
called each other out.”
Parker, too, had been looking
to solidify her place
among the best to ever wear
UT’s orange and white. She
knew only a title would fulfill
her legacy and allow her
to be mentioned along with
Chamique Holdsclaw, Tamika
Catchings and Bridgette
Gordon.
n See LADY VOLS, 10
Cyclones
down
Chuckey
Doak
By Tim Chambers
STAR STAFF
tchambers@starhq.com
Like the S.S. Minnow,
Chuckey-Doak was cruising
along in a scoreless game
with two outs in sixth inning
until two base hits by Elizabethton
turned the pleasant
cruise into disaster. Behind a
spectacular pitching performance
from Scott Burleson and
a two-out single from Preston
Smith, the Cyclones prevailed
1-0 on Tuesday afternoon at
Joe O’Brien Field.
“Offensively we’ve struggled
these past two games,”
said Elizabethton head coach
Gil Payne. “Scott threw well.
He stays around the plate
with three different pitches
and encourages contact.
That’s what pitchers have to
do.”
Hits was hard to come by
in this game. Weston Issac led
off the game with a single, the
only hit for Elizabethton until
the sixth.
Chuckey-Doak found the
going just as tough getting an
infield single from Cody
Haun and a hard hit single off
the bat of Thomas Dearstone.
Burleson pitched out of
n See CYCLONES, 10
Seniors Wilson and
Crowe lead Elizabethton
past University High
his assist to Hodge. “If someone
has a better option then
you gave to give it up.”
Crowe got into the action
with just over 2:00 left in the
opening half when he scored
a goal off on an assist from
Bandon Woodby.
It didn’t take long for
Crowe and Wilson to strike
again in the second half. Less
than 3:00 in Crowe got his
second goal of the game via
Wilson’s second assist of the
evening.
“We did good, but we
could have played better,”
Wilson said. “We need to finish
more and we need communicate
more. I am satisfied
with the way it went, but
Thursday is going to be a lot
rougher at Science Hill.”
Cyclones goal keeper
Miles Ratliff came up with
eight saves while the Jr. Bucs
Wesley Frost had eleven.
Elizabethton outshot University
High 20 to 13.
“Early on we had some decent
shots,” said Coach Mc-
Clay. “Their keeper stopped
n See SOCCER, 10

Masters turning into
the Tiger & Phil show
AUGUSTA, Ga. (AP) —
Daybreak at Augusta National
brought together the two
most prominent figures at the
Masters, the first showdown
of the week between Tiger
Woods and Phil Mickelson.
OK, so it was only Tuesday.
And it lasted only a split second.
Woods showed up on the
first tee and looked back toward
the putting green in
Mickelson’s direction.
“Let’s go,” he said.
He was talking, of course,
to Mark O’Meara, who picked
up his golf balls and joined
his buddy for a practice
round.
It is easy to exaggerate the
rivalry of Woods and Mickelson,
especially at the Masters.
Snapshots on late Sunday afternoon
the last few years
have been Mickelson slipping
the green jacket on Woods, or
vice versa. And while there
are 97 players in this year’s
tournament, at times it seems
as though there are only two.
Woods won in 2001 — oddly
enough, the only time he
has played with Mickelson in
the final group at the Masters
— and in 2002. Mickelson
won his first major at the
Masters in 2004. Woods answered
with a playoff victory
in 2005, Mickelson won in a
walk in 2006.
It is reminiscent of the early
1960s, when Arnold Palmer
and Jack Nicklaus traded
green jackets.
“I hope not,” Mickelson
said, “because that would
mean what I don’t want it to
mean this week.”
Woods is favored to continue
the cycle this week based
on recent history outside of
the Masters. He already has
won twice this year, in the
Buick Invitational and the CA
Championship at Doral, and
he is going for his third
straight major championship.
The days leading up to the
opening round Thursday are
mostly about memories, not
only of his 12-shot victory 10
years ago when Woods became
the youngest Masters
champion, but all the putts he
missed last year in a desperate
attempt to win one for his
ailing father, who died three
weeks after the tournament.
“Last year was a lot more
difficult than I was letting on,
because I knew that was the
last tournament he was ever
going to watch me play,”
Woods said. “I just wanted to
win one for his last time, and
didn’t get it done, and it hurt
quite a bit.”
Happier memories come
from 10 years ago, when he
walked into his father’s arms
after a watershed moment in
golf. Woods obliterated the
course and his competition,
finishing at 18-under 270, a
score that probably won’t be
touched for a long time considering
how much Augusta
National has been super-sized
since then (from 6,925 yards
to 7,445 yards).
Arnold Palmer and Jack
Nicklaus saw it coming after a
practice round with Woods
the year before, Woods’ last as
an amateur.
“We both marveled at the
way he was playing, and how
good we thought he was,”
Palmer said. “Let’s just be up
front about it. He hasn’t dis-
appointed us. If he puts his
whole life into the future of
his game like he has to this
point, there’s no telling what
he might do.”
Mickelson, however, presents
a serious obstacle to
Woods at Augusta National, if
he is not already an equal.
Woods is 2-up in green
jackets, but Mickelson has a
more consistent record over
the last 10 years. Lefty hasn’t
finished out of the top 10 at
the Masters since 1998, while
Woods has had three years
since that year when he never
seriously contended.
Proof for Mickelson came
in 2003, his worst season on
the PGA Tour. He still only
finished two shots behind.
“It’s certainly a course that
I feel comfortable on and have
played well here, whether I’ve
played well going in or not,”
Mickelson said. “I remember
in ’03, I was playing terrible
and was able to finish third.
And when I’ve entered it
playing well, like last year,
I’ve been able to win. It’s a
course I feel very good on.
“But so does Tiger,” he
quickly added. “He plays this
course very well. He’s very
tough to beat out here.”
It’s hard to take inventory
of Mickelson’s game at this
point. He was unstoppable at
Pebble Beach, where he
missed only one fairway in
the final round. He was leading
at Riviera until a bogey on
the 18th hole, which led to a
playoff loss to Charles Howell
III.
Mickelson played a practice
round two weeks ago
and, despite missing putts inside
15 feet on the last three
holes, shot 65. He ate lunch,
played nine holes in the afternoon
and shot 31. But at Doral
and Bay Hill, his scoring suffered.
Woods has not been unbeatable
in recent weeks.
Sure, he won for the third
straight year at Torrey Pines
(his seventh straight PGA
Tour victory) and for the third
straight year at Doral, but his
putting cost him at Dubai,
Bay Hill and Match Play.
His biggest concern at Augusta
National, naturally, is
with the flat stick.
“I just have to get the speed
of these a little bit better,” he
said. “They have changed
every day. Come Thursday,
they are always a little bit different.
They just turn the vacuums
on these greens and
suck all the moisture.”
As much as Woods and
Mickelson have dominated
the Masters this decade (for
trivia buffs, it was Mike Weir
who interrupted their reign
by winning in 2003), they
rarely go head-to-head. The
only occasion was in 2001,
when Woods won by two.
Of the U.S. majors, the
Masters has the most players
who have won at least three
times — Nicklaus, Palmer,
Woods, Gary Player, Nick
Faldo, Sam Snead and Jimmy
Demaret.
“Once you figure it out,
you see the same guys up
there at the top of the board,”
Woods said. “Phil has been
up there many a times, and
once he won a few years ago,
all of a sudden it gave him
the confidence to do it again
last year.”
BASKETBall
NCAA Women’s Glance
GREENSBORO REGIONAL
First Round
Saturday, March 17
At The Galen Center
Los Angeles
Louisville 80, BYU 54
Arizona State 57, UC Riverside 50
Sunday, March 18
At The Breslin Student Events Center
East Lansing, Mich.
Vanderbilt 62, Delaware State 47
Bowling Green 70, Oklahoma State 66
Michigan State 69, Delaware 58
Rutgers 77, East Carolina 34
At The RBC Center
Raleigh, N.C.
Duke 81, Holy Cross 44
Temple 64, Nebraska 61
Second Round
Monday, March 19
At The Galen Center
Los Angeles
Arizona State 67, Louisville 58
Tuesday, March 20
At The Breslin Student Events Center
East Lansing, Mich.
Rutgers 70, Michigan State 57
Bowling Green 59, Vanderbilt 56
At The RBC Center
Raleigh, N.C.
Duke 62, Temple 52
Regional Semifinals
Saturday, March 24
At Greensboro Coliseum
Greensboro, N.C.
Arizona State 67, Bowling Green 49
Rutgers 53, Duke 52
Regional Championship
Monday, March 26
At Greensboro Coliseum
Greensboro, N.C.
Rutgers 64, Arizona State 45
DAYTON REGIONAL
First Round
Saturday, March 17
At Frank Erwin Center
Austin, Texas
Oklahoma 74, Southeast Missouri State
60
Marquette 87, Louisiana-Lafayette 58
At Maples Pavilion
Stanford, Calif.
Middle Tennessee 85, Gonzaga 46
Marist 67, Ohio State 63
Sunday, March 18
At The Hartford Civic Center
Hartford, Conn.
Mississippi 88, TCU 74
Maryland 89, Harvard 65
At The Petersen Events Center
Pittsburgh
Tennessee 76, Drake 37
Pittsburgh 71, James Madison 61
Second Round
Monday, March 19
At Frank Erwin Center
Austin, Texas
Oklahoma 78, Marquette 47
At Maples Pavilion
Stanford, Calif.
Marist 73, Middle Tennessee 59
Tuesday, March 20
At The Hartford Civic Center
Hartford, Conn.
Mississippi 89, Maryland 78
At The Petersen Events Center
Pittsburgh
Tennessee 68, Pittsburgh 54
Regional Semifinals
Sunday, March 25
At UD Arena
Dayton, Ohio
Tennessee 65, Marist 46
Mississippi 90, Oklahoma 82
Regional Championship
Tuesday, March 27
At UD Arena
Dayton, Ohio
Tennessee 98, Mississippi 62
DALLAS REGIONAL
First Round
Saturday, March 17
At Williams Arena
Minneapolis
Iowa State 79, Washington 60
Georgia 53, Belmont 36
Georgia Tech 55, DePaul 54
Purdue 63, Oral Roberts 42
At The Galen Center
Los Angeles
Texas A&M 58, Texas Arlington 50
George Washington 76, Boise State 67
Sunday, March 18
At The Petersen Events Center
Pittsburgh
Notre Dame 62, California 59
North Carolina 95, Prairie View 38
Second Round
Monday, March 19
At Williams Arena
Minneapolis
Georgia 76, Iowa State 56
Purdue 76, Georgia Tech 63
At The Galen Center
Los Angeles
George Washington 59, Texas A&M 47
Tuesday, March 20
At The Petersen Events Center
Pittsburgh
North Carolina 60, Notre Dame 51
Regional Semifinals
Sunday, March 25
At Reunion Arena
Dallas
Purdue 78, Georgia 65
North Carolina 70, George Washington 56
Regional Championship
Tuesday, March 27
At Reunion Arena
Dallas
North Carolina 84, Purdue 72
FRESNO REGIONAL
First Round
Saturday, March 17
At Frank Erwin Center
Austin, Texas
West Virginia 65, Xavier 52
LSU 77, North Carolina-Asheville 39
At Maples Pavilion
Stanford, Calif.
Florida State 85, Old Dominion 75
Stanford 96, Idaho State 58
Sunday, March 18
At The Hartford Civic Center
Hartford, Conn.
Wisconsin-Green Bay 59, New Mexico 52
Connecticut 82, UMBC 33
At The RBC Center
Raleigh, N.C.
N.C. State 84, Robert Morris 52
Baylor 68, Chattanooga 55
Second Round
Monday, March 19
At Frank Erwin Center
Austin, Texas
LSU 49, West Virginia 43
At Maples Pavilion
Stanford, Calif.
Florida State 68, Stanford 61
Tuesday, March 20
At The Breslin Student Events Center
At The Hartford Civic Center
Hartford, Conn.
Connecticut 94, Wisconsin-Green Bay 70
At The RBC Center
Raleigh, N.C.
N.C. State 78, Baylor 72, OT
Regional Semifinals
Saturday, March 24
At Save Mart Center
Fresno, Calif.
Connecticut 78, N.C. State 71
LSU 55, Florida State 43
Regional Championship
Monday, March 26
At Save Mart Center
Fresno, Calif.
LSU 73, Connecticut 50
FINAL FOUR
At Quicken Loans Arena
Cleveland
National Semifinals
Sunday, April 1
Rutgers 59, LSU 35
Tennessee 56, North Carolina 50
National Championship
Tuesday, April 3
Tennessee 59, Rutgers 46
NBA Glance
EASTERN CONFERENCE
Atlantic Division
W L Pct GB
x-Toronto 41 33 .554 —
New Jersey 34 39 .466 6.5
New York 31 42 .425 9.5
Philadelphia 29 44 .397 11.5
Boston 23 50 .315 17.5
Southeast Division
W L Pct GB
Miami 40 34 .541 —
Washington 39 34 .534.5
Orlando 34 40 .459 6.0
Charlotte 29 46 .387 11.5
Atlanta 27 47 .365 13.0
Central Division
W L Pct GB
x-Detroit 48 26 .649 —
x-Cleveland 45 30 .600 3.5
x-Chicago 44 31 .587 4.5
Indiana 32 42 .432 16.0
Milwaukee 25 48 .342 22.5
WESTERN CONFERENCE
Southwest Division
W L Pct GB
x-Dallas 61 12 .836 —
x-San Antonio 53 21 .716 8.5
x-Houston 47 27 .635 14.5
New Orleans 34 40 .459 27.5
Memphis 19 57 .250 43.5
Northwest Division
W L Pct GB
y-Utah 48 25 .658 —
Denver 36 36 .500 11.5
Minnesota 31 43 .419 17.5
Seattle 30 44 .405 18.5
Portland 29 44 .397 19.0
Pacific Division
W L Pct GB
y-Phoenix 56 18 .757 —
L.A. Lakers 39 34 .534 16.5
L.A. Clippers 36 37 .493 19.5
Golden State 35 39 .473 21.0
Sacramento 30 42 .417 25.0
x-clinched playoff spot
y-clinched division
———
Tuesday’s Games
Detroit 100, Indiana 85
Charlotte 122, Washington 102
Miami 92, Toronto 89
Phoenix 116, Memphis 111
San Antonio 110, Seattle 91
New Orleans 119, Milwaukee 101
Cleveland 101, Minnesota 88
Dallas at Sacramento, late
Denver at L.A. Lakers, late
Wednesday’s Games
Toronto at Orlando, 7 p.m.
Charlotte at Washington, 7 p.m.
Chicago at Detroit, 7:30 p.m.
Atlanta at New Jersey, 7:30 p.m.
Philadelphia at New York, 7:30 p.m.
Boston at Milwaukee, 8 p.m.
Seattle vs. New Orleans at Oklahoma City,
8 p.m.
Golden State at Houston, 8:30 p.m.
Utah at Portland, 10 p.m.
Sacramento at Denver, 10 p.m.
L.A. Lakers at L.A. Clippers, 10:30 p.m.
Thursday’s Games
Miami at Cleveland, 7 p.m.
Phoenix at San Antonio, 9:30 p.m.
NBA Game Caps
Suns ..................................................116
Grizzlies ............................................111
MEMPHIS— Amare Stoudemire scored 27
points, including 11 in the fourth quarter to hold
off a Memphis rally, and the Phoenix Suns
beat the Grizzlies 116-111 on Tuesday night.
Stoudemire was one of five players in
double figures for the Suns, who won their
third straight. Leandro Barbosa scored 24
points, while Shawn Marion added 17
points and 12 rebounds. Steve Nash had
15 points and 17 assists.
Pau Gasol led Memphis with 23 points
and 11 rebounds, while Hakim Warrick finished
with 22 points and 16 boards. Reserve
Chucky Atkins scored 19 points.
Memphis remained short-handed with
guard Mike Miller, its second-leading scorer,
and starting point guard Damon Stoudamire
both sitting out with achy knees.
Heat .....................................................92
Raptors................................................89
MIAMI — Shaquille O’Neal had 16 points
and 12 rebounds, Udonis Haslem added 16
points and the Miami Heat got a critical
boost in postseason positioning by beating
the Toronto Raptors 92-89 on Tuesday night.
Pistons .............................................100
Pacers................................................. 85
INDIANAPOLIS — Tayshaun Prince
scored 24 points, and Detroit beat to guarantee
the Pacers their first losing season
in a decade.
Bobcats ............................................122
Wizards............................................. 102
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Gerald Wallace
had 34 points and 14 rebounds, and Charlotte
beat Washington in the Wizards’ first
game without injured forward Caron Butler.
Cavaliers ...........................................101
Timberwolves .....................................88
MINNEAPOLIS — Two nights after an
achy right knee kept him out of the lineup,
LeBron James returned with 31 points, 12
rebounds and six assists in Cleveland’s
victory over Minnesota.
Spurs ................................................110
SuperSonics ......................................91
SAN ANTONIO — Bruce Bowen made six
3-pointers and scored 18 points, and San
Antonio beat Seattle to sweep the fourgame
season series.
Hornets............................................. 119
Bucks ................................................101
MILWAUKEE — David West scored 24
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points, Desmond Mason added 21, and
New Orleans handed Milwaukee its seventh
straight loss.
BASEBall
Prep Game Cap
Cloudland split a doubleheader with Providence
Academy yesterday in Roan Mountain.
The Highlanders dropped the first game 10-7,
but bounced back for a 7-5 win in the nightcap.
Taylor Lanthorn picked up the win on the
mound for Cloudland in the second game
while Beecher Holtsclaw was a perfect 3-3
at the plate.
Jacob Honrey added a 2-3 effort to help
guide the Highlanders to victory.
Tyler Ballard led Cloudland was 2-3 at the
plate in the opening game loss.
Brad Boswell was 3-4 with two steals to
lead Providence their one win on the day
while Jackson Farmer went 2-2 with two
rbi’s and also was the winning pitcher.
——
Game 1
Providence, 10-7
Providence 316 10 — 10 8 3
Cloudland 000 43 — 7 5 3
Farmer and McQuain. Baker and Palm.
W—Farmer (1-2). L—Baker.
Game 2
Cloudland, 7-5
Providence 200 03 — 5 3 2
Cloudland 301 3x — 7 10 1
Smith and McQuain. Lanthorn and Horney.
W—Lanthorn. L—Smith (1-2).
MLB Glance
American League
East Division
W L Pct GB
New York 1 0 1.000 —
Toronto 1 0 1.000 —
Boston 0 1 .000 1.0
Tampa Bay 0 1 .000 1.0
Baltimore 0 2 .000 1.5
Central Division
W L Pct GB
Minnesota 2 0 1.000 —
Cleveland 1 0 1.000 0.5
Kansas City 1 0 1.000 0.5
Chicago 0 1 .000 1 0.5
Detroit 0 1 .000 1 0.5
West Division
W L Pct GB
Los Angeles 1 0 1.000 —
Seattle 1 0 1.000 —
Oakland 0 1 .000 1.0
Texas 0 1 .000 1.0
———
Monday’s Games
Toronto 5, Detroit 3, 10 innings
N.Y. Yankees 9, Tampa Bay 5
Cleveland 12, Chicago White Sox 5
Kansas City 7, Boston 1
Seattle 4, Oakland 0
Minnesota 7, Baltimore 4
L.A. Angels 4, Texas 1
Tuesday’s Games
Minnesota 3, Baltimore 2
Oakland at Seattle, late
Texas at L.A. Angels, late
Wednesday’s Games
Toronto (Burnett 10-8) at Detroit (Robertson
13-13), 1:05 p.m.
Tampa Bay (Seo 1-8) at N.Y. Yankees (Pettitte
14-13), 1:05 p.m.
Cleveland (Westbrook 15-10) at Chicago
White Sox (Garland 18-7), 2:05 p.m.
Texas (McCarthy 4-7) at L.A. Angels
(E.Santana 16-8), 3:35 p.m.
Boston (Beckett 16-11) at Kansas City
(Perez 2-4), 8:10 p.m.
Baltimore (Wright 11-7) at Minnesota (Ortiz
11-16), 8:10 p.m.
Oakland (Harden 4-0) at Seattle (Batista
11-8), 10:05 p.m.
Thursday’s Games
Toronto at Detroit, 1:05 p.m.
Cleveland at Chicago White Sox, 2:05 p.m.
Boston at Kansas City, 2:10 p.m.
Tampa Bay at N.Y. Yankees, 7:05 p.m.
Oakland at L.A. Angels, 10:05 p.m.
National Glance
East Division
W L Pct GB
Florida 2 0 1.000 —
New York 2 0 1.000 —
Atlanta 1 0 1.000 0.5
Philadelphia 0 1 .000 1.5
Washington 0 2 .000 2.5
Central Division
W L Pct GB
Milwaukee 2 0 1.000 —
Pittsburgh 2 0 1.000 —
Cincinnati 1 0 1.000 0.5
Chicago 0 1 .000 1.5
Houston 0 2 .000 2.0
St. Louis 0 2 .000 2.0
West Division
W L Pct GB
San Diego 1 0 1.000 —
Arizona 1 1 .500 0.5
Colorado 1 1 .500 0.5
San Francisco 0 1 .000 1.0
Los Angeles 0 2 .000 1.5
———
Monday’s Games
Florida 9, Washington 2
Atlanta 5, Philadelphia 3, 10 innings
Milwaukee 7, L.A. Dodgers 1
Cincinnati 5, Chicago Cubs 1
Arizona 8, Colorado 6
Pittsburgh 4, Houston 2, 10 innings
Tuesday’s Games
San Diego 7, San Francisco 0
Florida 9, Washington 3
Pittsburgh 3, Houston 2
Milwaukee 4, L.A. Dodgers 3
N.Y. Mets 4, St. Louis 1
Colorado 4, Arizona 3, 11 innings
Wednesday’s Games
Florida (A.Sanchez 10-3) at Washington
(Chico 0-0), 1:05 p.m.
Arizona (Davis 11-11) at Colorado (Lopez
9-18), 3:05 p.m.
Atlanta (T.Hudson 13-12) at Philadelphia
(Hamels 9-8), 7:05 p.m.
Chicago Cubs (Lilly 15-13) at Cincinnati
(Arroyo 14-11), 7:10 p.m.
L.A. Dodgers (Schmidt 11-9) at Milwaukee
(Suppan 12-7), 8:05 p.m.
Pittsburgh (Gorzelanny 2-5) at Houston
(Williams 12-5), 8:05 p.m.
N.Y. Mets (Maine 6-5) at St. Louis (Looper
9-3), 8:10 p.m.
San Diego (Young 11-5) at San Francisco
(Cain 13-12), 10:15 p.m.
Thursday’s Games
Chicago Cubs at Cincinnati, 12:35 p.m.
Atlanta at Philadelphia, 3:05 p.m.
Arizona at Washington, 7:05 p.m.
San Diego at San Francisco, 10:15 p.m.
MLB Game Caps
American League
Twins .....................................................3
Orioles...................................................2
MINNEAPOLIS — Jason Bartlett’s brokenbat
single drove in the go-ahead run in the
seventh inning, and the Minnesota Twins
rallied to beat Daniel Cabrera and the Baltimore
Orioles 3-2 on Tuesday night.
Cabrera (0-1) struck out nine and gave up
six hits and three runs in seven innings
while walking four. He lost a 2-0 lead that
Baltimore built on Melvin Mora’s home run
and Aubrey Huff’s RBI single in the third.
Pat Neshek (1-0) pitched a scoreless seventh
for the victory, and Joe Nathan
earned his second save after three Minnesota
relievers worked out of a two-on
jam in the eighth.
National League
Padres ...................................................7
Giants ....................................................0
SAN FRANCISCO— Jake Peavy upstaged
both superstar Barrys — and his
former manager.
Peavy (1-0) sparkled in six shutout innings
and the San Diego Padres beat the San
Francisco Giants 7-0 on Tuesday in the
season opener for both clubs, giving rookie
skipper Bud Black a win in his debut
against predecessor Bruce Bochy.
Barry Bonds resumed his pursuit of Hank
Aaron’s home run record with a single,
stolen base, walk, groundout and fly ball to
the warning track in a 1-for-3 showing on a
day when the Giants matched their most
lopsided loss in an opener in 75 years.
Mets ...................................................... 4
Cardinals .............................................. 1
ST. LOUIS — Orlando Hernandez’s arm,
and surprising bat, helped New York spoil another
championship ceremony for St. Louis.
The right-hander, who missed the 2006 postseason
with a calf injury, threw seven innings
of five-hit ball and hit a two-run double that
matched his career RBI output.
Marlins ..................................................9
Nationals ..............................................3
WASHINGTON — Scott Olsen had a double,
a single and an RBI, all while taking a
two-hit shutout into the sixth inning and
helping Florida beat Washington to improve
to 2-0 for only the second time in its
15 seasons.
Olsen (1-0) lasted 5 1-3 innings. He was
charged with two runs, two hits and five walks.
Brewers ................................................4
Dodgers ................................................3
MILWAUKEE — Kevin Mench hit a goahead,
two-run homer off Randy Wolf in
the sixth inning, sending Milwaukee to a
victory over Los Angeles.
Prince Fielder also homered off Wolf (0-
1), who gave up four runs and seven hits in
six innings. Brewers reliever Brian Shouse
(1-0) came in with the bases loaded in the
sixth and got Juan Pierre to ground into an
inning-ending forceout.
Pirates ...................................................3
Astros ...................................................2
HOUSTON — Xavier Nady homered for
the second consecutive night and singled
home the go-ahead run in the eighth inning,
leading Pittsburgh past Houston.
In Monday’s opener, Nady hit the tying
homer with two outs in the ninth inning off
Astros closer Brad Lidge. The Pirates won
4-2 in 10 innings.
CALENDAR
BASKETBALL
• 7th-ANNUAL TWISTERS SPRING BAS-
KETBALL CLASSIC: April 13-15 at four
gyms in Elizabethton. For boys and girls
teams, ages 10-under through high school.
Entry fee is $100. Call 423-747-0831 or
423-543-5454.
OFFICIALS
• The Region One Officials Association is
currently seeking individuals to officiate
high school and middle school baseball and
softball games this spring. For more information,
contact Joel Pierce at (423) 543-
2084.
SOFTBALL
• Registration is currently underway for the
Elizabethton Parks and Recreation’s open
and church softball leagues. If you have a
team that would like to participate in the
2007 season, you need to be registered before
March 30th. There will be a coaches
meeting for the church league at 6:30 p.m.
on March 15th, while the open league
coaches’ meeting takes place at 7:30 p.m.
on the same date. Information packets are
available at the Recreation Center. Call
547-6440 for more information.
• The Ragin’ Fury 14U fastpitch team announces
open tryouts for the upcoming
travel ball season. Tryouts will be held on
March 31, 2006 at 1 p.m. at Blackbottom
Softball Field in Elizabethton. The rainout
date will be April 1, 2007 at 2 p.m. Call Mike
Shultz at (423) 483-1158 or Treb Faulkner
at (423) 737-0802 for further information.
SWIMMING
• Milligan College head swim coach Ron
Goehring and Assistant Science Hill swim
coach Jonell Johnson will be offering swimming
lessons at Milligan College in the
month of April for pre-school aged children
all the way up to adults. The dates for the
first session will be April 3, 4, 5, 10, 11and
12. The second sessoin will be on the dates
of April 17,18, 19, 24, 25 and 26. Times will
be at 5:30 p.m. -6:00 p.m. and 6:00 p.m. to
6:30 p.m. The cost is $50 and part of the
proceeds will be going to the new Milligan
College Swim Team.
WALKING
• The Recreation Center is now open for
walkers who need to move indoors because
of bad weather. The Center is located on
300 W. Mill Street. We have a full size gym
and restrooms. Those who are interested
may walk from 7:30 am till 10:30 am and
12:30 pm till 3:30 pm, Monday through Friday.
If you would like to know more about
this program please call (423) 547-6440.
TRANSACTIONS
Tuesday’s Deals
COLLEGE
ARKANSAS—Announced the resignation
of Dana Altman, men’s basketball coach,
to return to Creighton.
SPORTSCAST
Television
MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL
8 p.m. — (ESPN2) N.Y. Mets at St. Louis
NBA
7:30 p.m. — (ESPN) Chicago at Detroit
10 p.m. — (ESPN) Sacramento at Denver
Radio
COLLEGE BASEBALL
6:30 p.m. — (WJCW 910-AM) ETSU at
Tennessee
MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL
6:05 p.m. — (WXSM 640-AM) Atlanta at
Philadelphia
PREP BASEBALL
5:45 p.m. — (WGOC 1320-AM)
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Cyclones
n Continued from 8
jams in the third and fifth
frames, leaving both runners
that had gotten hits in the innings,
stranded at third.
The senior righty struck
out four and never walked a
batter. He threw only 76
pitches in his complete game
performance.
I’m going to have to step
up even more now with Josh
Guinn out, and accept the
challenge. I’m comfortable
with that role.
Smith had the defensive
play of the game in the third,
turning an unassisted double
play after committing the
games only error two batters
before. His big hit three inning
later won the contest for
‘Betsy.
“I knew he was coming at
me so I just tried to find
something to hit hard and
drive it up the middle,” said
Smith. “He threw a fastball
and I was able to drive it
through.”
Elizabethton learned five
minutes before game time
that senior ace right-hander
Josh Guinn would miss the
rest of the season because of
Tommy John surgery.
He was 10-0 the past two
years on the mound.
Softball
n Continued from 8
“We’ve got some younger
girls in the lower part of
the rotation. Getting them
to understand that is a
work in progress.”
Hampton entered the
game following its first
win over Johnson County
in eight years.
“That was a good win
for us,” the coach said.
“We were real happy with
that, we played well.”
Coach Kelly noted that
games against Johnson
County and Elizabethton
help his team improve for
conference games and the
tournaments.
“You play a team like
Elizabethton you can only
get better. Elizabethton’s a
great team. We played
four, five real strong innings,”
he said. “The third
inning got us there. We
made a mistake, thought
we had a runner out at
“It’s hard to replace someone
like Josh but I’ve got confidence
in our arms,” Payne
said.
Mike Alexander was just
as impressive allowing only
five Cyclone baserunners.
Burleson had only three runners
reach.
With two-outs in the sixth,
Corey Hilton smashed a double
to the wall down the left
field line then scored on a
line drive up the middle
from Smith.
“I’ve struggled the past
two games at the plate so I
was looking for a fastball to
drive,” added Hilton. “I hadn’t
seen many lately but he
threw the one I was looking
for.”
Added Hilton, “this game
was all Scott Burleson. He
kept his composure and
threw us a great game.”
The league leading Cyclones
(7-1 16-4) will be back
in action on Friday at Joe
O’Brien Field in a non-conferenc
game with Rutledge.
——————
Elizabethton 1-0
Chuckey-Doak 000 000 0— 0 2 0
Elizabethton 000 000 1— 1 3 1
M. Alexander and Haun. Burleson and
Anderson.
WP- Burleson LP- Alexander
home, made a mistake and
they were able to get four
more runs after that. I
don’t make that call. The
guy behind the plate does,
and we’ve got to be able to
recover from our mistakes.”
Summer Smith picked
up the win on the mound
and led the Lady Cyclones
at the plate with two hits,
along with Brittany Smith.
Eggers and Henson led the
squad with two runs
apiece.
Each team committed
two errors.
The Lady Bulldogs face
Mitchell, NC today, while
Elizabethton’s game with
Johnson County scheduled
for this afternoon has been
cancelled.
———
Elizabethton, 7-0
Hampton 000 000 0 — 0 1 2
Elizabethton 004 210 x — 7 9 1
P—S. Smith. LP—Peters.
Pacman, Chris Henry meet
with NFL Commissioner
and league officials
NEW YORK (AP) — NFL
commissioner Roger Goodell
and league officials met with
Adam “Pacman” Jones Tuesday
as the Tennessee Titans’
cornerback attempted to avoid
a long suspension following a
series of arrests.
Goodell and his staff also
met with Cincinnati wide receiver
Chris Henry and members
of the NFL Players Association
executive board as he
prepared a tougher policy on
NFL players who violate the
law.
Goodell has said he will announce
his decision on suspensions
or other disciplinary action
before the draft on April
28 and perhaps in the next 10
days.
The NFL had no comment
and lawyers for the players
had no immediate response.
The meeting with the players
was held away from the NFL
offices where six television
cameras stationed themselves
with no one to interview.
The Titans couldn’t add
much either Tuesday night.
“We have not heard anything
from the NFL office,” Titans
general manager Mike Reinfeldt
said.
Goodell also met with Gene
Upshaw, executive director of
the NFLPA and other union officials
as he tried to get a consensus
for his policy. Upshaw
also has been critical of player
misbehavior.
Henry is one of nine Bengals
who were arrested last
season, leading to calls for a
crackdown on player behavior.
But Jones has become the focus
for Goodell, who took over as
commissioner in September
and has been preoccupied by
the issue almost from the start
of his tenure.
“It went pretty good, to
have the chance to meet the
commissioner face to face,”
Henry told The Cincinnati Enquirer.
“I just wanted to explain
my situation to the commissioner
and move on. I told
him I was learning from my
mistakes and how to handle
myself in a better manner.”
Since being drafted in April
2005, Jones has been arrested
five times and questioned by
police in 10 episodes. Last
week, Las Vegas police recommended
he be charged with a
felony and two misdemeanors
for his role in a Feb. 19 strip
club fight that led to a triple
shooting.
His lawyer, Manny Arora,
did not return calls or e-mails
from The Associated Press.
However, he told the Nashville
Tennessean on Monday: “I fully
expect him to be part of that
team when the season kicks off
in September.
However, Jones’ former
agent, Gary Wichard, told the
AP that he thinks Goodell
could be hard on Jones. “In the
commissioner’s mind, he’s trying
to make a statement because
the league needs this,”
Wichard said.
That seems to be the general
consensus around the NFL —
that the problems have gone
too far. Henry, Jones’ teammate
at West Virginia, was suspended
by Goodell for two games
last season and could face
more discipline after serving
two days in a Kentucky jail for
letting minors drink in a hotel
room he had rented.
———
AP Sports Writer Teresa
Walker in Nashville contributed
to this story.
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like three that he had to deflect
over the bar.”
The Cyclones next conference
game will be next
Tuesday at home against
Chuckey Doak, however,
Elizabethton has a couple of
non-conference challenges
sandwhiched around that
starting with the Hill Toppers
tomorrow night.
“We have a tough out of
conference schedule,” said
Coach McClay. “We have
got Science Hill Thursday
and then we are in the D-B
tournament next weekend.
We have our work cut out
for us.”
————
Elizabethton, 4-0
University 0 0 -- 0
Elizabethton 3 1 -- 4
Shots: EHS 20, UH 13.
Saves: Ratliff 8, Frost 11.
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She belongs in their class
now. And she’s not going
anywhere.
“Why wouldn’t I? Why
wouldn’t I?” said Parker,
when asked if she would
wear orange next season. “I
just wanted to win a national
championship, and this team
did that. Our banner is going
to be in the rafters forever,
and we left our mark at Tennessee.”
Bobbitt scored 13 points
— 9 of them on three 3pointers
in a lightning-quick
span in the second half —
and Nicky Anosike, who
made her teammates sign a
pact in January to reinforce
their commitment to winning
it all, had 16 rebounds
for the Lady Vols, who had
24 offensive boards.
Kia Vaughn had 20 points
and 10 rebounds to pace Rutgers.
But the Scarlet Knights
made far too many mistakes
Titans Caravan X scheduled to appear in Johnson City
From Staff Reports
NASHVILLE — Celebrating its 10th year of visiting the
NFL’s best fans, the Allstate “Good Hands” Titans Caravan
hits the road Wednesday, April 18.
“As a big fan of anniversaries, I’m very excited
about this being the 10th year of our annual
Titans Caravan,” said team Owner and
Founder K.S. “Bud” Adams, Jr. “The Caravan
is one of the most important fan initiatives
we have throughout the year and its mission
remains the same – to thank the best fans
in the NFL for the tremendous support given
to the Titans.”
This year’s Caravan focuses on those special
moments in neighborhoods across the region,
when Titans fans young and old get to meet
a Titans player. As part of that emphasis, the Allstate
“Good Hands” Titans Caravan X will feature
five days when a second group of players and staff are on the
road to visit with fans.
“The 10th Titans Caravan represents a special milestone
for the organization,” said Titans Executive Vice President
Don MacLachlan. “We have so many outstanding young
players on our roster. We wanted as many fans as possible
Titans interested in getting Chargers running back Turner
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) —
The Tennessee Titans are interested
enough after visiting with
San Diego running back
Michael Turner that they have
talked with his agent and the
Chargers about how much he
might cost.
Turner met with the Titans
on Monday, and general manager
Mike Reinfeldt said they
Going For The Tag
Photo by Eveleigh Hatfield
Elizabethton’s Chris Wilson (4) tries to get a shot past University High goalie Wesley Frost in
a game at Brown Childress Stadium on Tuesday night.
to challenge the Lady Vols
down the stretch.
Several times, Stringer,
back in the championship
game for the first time since
leading Cheyney to the 1982
game, put her hands to her
head in disbelief at seeing
unforced turnovers and lackluster
defense.
Stringer had called her
senior-less squad of five
freshmen, three juniors and
two sophomores, a “team of
destiny.”
As it turned out, only Tennessee
will leave Cleveland
fulfilled.
Trailing by 11 at halftime,
Rutgers, trying to become
the lowest-seeded team to
win the women’s tourney,
settled down early in the second
half by matching Tennessee’s
intensity and closed
to 35-28 on Vaughn’s putback
with 13:33 left.
That’s when Bobbitt, a 5-
gave him a physical that went
well. Turner also met with
coach Jeff Fisher to help him get
a feel for the restricted free
agent best known as LaDanian
Tomlinson’s backup.
“We’ve had some general
discussions with Bus as far as
compensation and with San
Diego to see what they might
want,” Reinfeldt said of Turn-
foot-2 bundle of New York
City playground moves and
energy, hit the first of three
3-pointers in a span of 2:43.
The first one came after two
offensive rebounds by the
Lady Vols.
After a Rutgers turnover,
Bobbitt drained another 3.
As the Scarlet Knights
brought the ball up the floor,
Bobbitt was waiting for
them. She forced a turnover
that led to a layup by Alexis
Hornbuckle, and for the first
time all evening, Tennessee’s
fans sensed this might be the
Lady Vols’ night.
They were feeling even
better one minute later when
Bobbitt hit another 3.
Still, the Scarlet Knights
weren’t going to quit on
Stringer, who earlier this season
kicked her team out of
their locker room and took
away anything with “Rutgers”
written on it because
this year to have the chance to get an autograph and shake the
hand of one of the players they enjoy watching every Sunday.”
The Allstate “Good Hands” Titans Caravan features public
visits in major mid south communities Birmingham, Chattanooga,
Clarksville, Florence, Huntsville, Johnson
City, Knoxville, Memphis, and Paducah.
All told, Titans fans in some 29 communities
will have the chance to meet Titans players,
including first-time public stops in Ashland
City, Waynesboro and Woodbury, TN and
Cadiz, KY.
The public stops will again be presented by
Titans Radio partners across the region. Allstate
Insurance Company agents will co-host
the public stops as the company joins the Caravan
family as the Allstate “Good Hands” Titans
Caravan X title sponsor.
The Tri-Cities area stop will take place Tuesday,
April 24th at Embarq on North Roan Street in Johnson City
sponsored by the Xtreme Sports Monster (AM 640) from 3:30
p.m. until 4:45 p.m.
Once Titans Caravan X begins April 18, fans can follow daily
news / photos of the Caravan at www.titansonline.com
and www.titansradio.com.
er’s agent, Bus Cook. “Everything
is under discussion.”
The Titans reportedly aren’t
the only team interested in
Turner, a three-year veteran out
of Northern Illinois. San Diego
tendered Turner at the highest
possible rate, and he would
cost any team first- and thirdround
picks in the draft April
28.
Photo by Hannah Bader
Happy Valley shortstop Tyler Blevins attempts to tag out a Johnson County base runner
who is trying to steal second base.
she felt they weren’t playing
up to the school’s standards.
A 3-pointer by Matee
Ajavon ended a 7-0 run that
brought Rutgers to 50-42,
but Parker made six straight
free throws in 37 seconds to
make it 56-44 with 1:08 left.
As she went down the floor,
Parker looked at the bench
where senior Sidney Spencer
was crying, knowing all the
hard work during the offseason
would end the best way
possible.
Seconds later, Stringer,
who dropped to 0-6 in
NCAA tourney matchups
against her close friend Summitt,
began clearing her
bench.
And so this tournament
ended the same way it has
nearly one-third of the time
since it started — with Tennessee
setting up ladders to
cut down the nets.
But the Chargers would get
nothing for Turner if he plays
out this season and leaves as a
free agent in a year, so a trade
also is possible. Reinfeldt said
he is not working on a
timetable.
“It would seem to behoove
everyone to get something
done well before the draft,” he
said.
The 5-foot-10, 237-pound
Turner has put up impressive
numbers but has only one start
in his three seasons. He has 157
carries for 941 yards and five
touchdowns. He has had a run
of at least 30 yards in each of
those seasons, including a 73yarder
last year against Tennessee.
Reinfeldt said part of the
challenge in valuing Turner’s
potential is figuring out if he is
the kind of running back who
can handle a heavy workload
for two or three years.
The Titans, who released
veteran Travis Henry in March,
have three on the roster including
last year’s second-round
draft pick in LenDale White.
Veteran Corey Dillon also will
be visiting the Titans either later
this week or early next week.
“(Dillon has) had an amazing
career. He’s had some huge
years ... He’s still a good player,
someone who understands the
game well. It might be he’s
looking for a good situation,
and I think the Titans interest
him,” Reinfeldt said.

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offered to donate any funds
to help pay for the renovation
of this house.”
After Molder finished his
presentation, members from
the community were given
an opportunity to speak. Because
of the large number in
attendance wishing to express
their feelings about the
house, Chairman Haynes Elliott
requested that comments
be limited to five minutes.
Helen Wilson, representing
the Elizabethton Historic
Zoning Commission, gave
three reasons why the commission
should deny rezoning.
Her first reason was because
the people did not
want it to happen. Her second
reason was because the
Taylor House is one of the
most historic homes in Elizabethton.
The third reason
was because the state is interested
in purchasing the
home.
She said the reason why
more interest was not shown
early on was because the
community assumed that because
the home was on the
National Historic Register, it
would be protected. She said
the community also assumed
that when the house was put
up for sale that it would be
sold to someone who was interested
in historic dwellings
and would preserve the
home.
Wilson also read a letter
from Jaycee Augustus, leader
of the Cedar Grove Foundation,
who could not attend
due to illness in the family.
Augustus requested that the
request be denied because of
possible archaeological findings
that may occur.
Augustus’s letter also stated
that because the Taylor
family was a huge slave
owning family it is possible
there are numerous unaccounted
for slave burial
grounds on that property.
This belief is supported by
the fact that many of the Taylor
family’s slaves’ final
whereabouts are unknown.
Penny Constantine asked
why the community didn’t
do something before to protect
the site.
“Why didn’t we as a community
protect and build up
the site as Sycamore Shoals
was done when we had the
chance before it came to
this?” she asked.
She also expressed con-
Visitors, employees flee
as 2 shot in CNN building
ATLANTA (AP) — Gunfire at the CNN Center sent employees
and visitors to the landmark scurrying for cover as a domestic
dispute turned violent, leading to the fatal shooting of a
hotel employee and the wounding of her former boyfriend.
Police said the couple argued inside the lobby of the Omni
Hotel, which is part of the CNN complex in downtown Atlanta,
then he dragged her down an escalator and shot her. A
CNN security guard who witnessed the altercation then shot
the man, critically wounding him as lunchtime wound down
Tuesday.
“All of a sudden we heard a big boom. We thought it was an
explosion,” said Trina Johnson, 44, of Atlanta, who was with
her daughter in the food court in the CNN atrium. “We didn’t
see the gun. Everybody just started running.”
Don Shields, manager of the Atlanta Braves Clubhouse
store, just down a hall from the shooting, said when he heard
the “bang, bang, bang,” he immediately yanked down the
store’s entrance gate and escorted about two dozen customers
into a back room.
“I always said to myself I’m going go back there if anything
happens,” Shields said. “Since 9/11, everyone has to think that
way.”
The Omni employee was identified as Clara Riddles, 22, of
College Park, according to Caryn Kboudi, a spokeswoman for
the Irving, Texas-based Omni Hotel chain. Kboudi said Riddles
checked and restocked honor bars in the hotel rooms.
She was transported to Grady Memorial Hospital after the
shooting and was pronounced dead on arrival, hospital
spokeswoman Denise Simpson said. The man, identified by
police as Arthur Mann, in his late 30s, was in stable condition
at the hospital’s detention center. He is being charged with
murder, Atlanta Police officer James Polite said.
CNN reported that the offices of its Internet operations,
CNN.com, were immediately evacuated. Video footage
showed police pointing guns at a man lying on the ground at
the bottom of the escalator going from CNN Center to Omni
Hotel lobby.
An announcement over the building’s public-address system
said there had been gunfire “with potential casualties.”
Police cordoned off an area by the escalators near the main entrance
of the building, facing Centennial Olympic Park.
“I heard four or five shots. I really didn’t see it. I got out of
there quick,” said Jas Stanford, 27, who had been helping take
down a temporary stage in the park used for college basketball’s
Final Four festivities.
Besides CNN, the complex includes the Omni Hotel, a large
atrium, food court, a book store and some souvenir shops. It’s
connected to Philips Arena, home of the NBA’s Atlanta Hawks
and NHL’s Atlanta Thrashers. Nearby is the Georgia Dome,
the home of the NFL’s Atlanta Falcons and where college basketball’s
national championship game was played Monday
night.
The security guard, 10-year veteran Odell Adams, saw the
couple arguing, and when the man fired his gun, Adams shot
the man, said Lisa Tobias, director of corporate responsibility
for Turner Broadcasting System, which operates CNN.
Tobias said Turner officials were satisfied with the rapid response
of Adams and the Atlanta police. She said the company
does not discuss its security publicly but “we are constantly
evaluating our procedures to make sure that we have ensured
the safety of CNN employees and visitors.”
The CNN Center also is just across the street from Centennial
Olympic Park, where a bomb exploded during the 1996
Summer Olympics, killing a woman and wounding more than
100 people.
Jacques Richard, 60, of Paris was part of a group touring the
CNN studios when he heard the gunfire. He said the group
was immediately brought down an elevator and dispersed.
“We had our guide with us and everyone was calm,” he said.
Soon afterward, CNN’s own coverage of the shooting was
being shown on large-screen televisions inside the atrium,
near where the shooting had just taken place.
CNN employees are barred from commenting publicly by
company policy. After the shots, many ran toward the
CNN.com area, farthest from windows that overlook the atrium
where the shooting occurred in what one producer described
to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution as a “human
tsunami.” He did not want to give his name because of the
policy.
Victoria Opalach and Laurie Bogue, both Atlanta Journal-
Constitution employees, were in line at Starbucks when shots
rang out, about 20 yards from where they were standing.
“The whole food court behind us was completely filled, it
was just jammed,” Opalach told the newspaper. “All of a sudden
hundreds of people stood up at once. You heard pop, pop,
pop. There was an eerie silence for a millisecond.”
“I did think it could be a terrorist attack,” Bogue said. “I
thought, we’ve got to get out of here.”
“Since 911, the fear’s always in the back of your mind,”
Opalach said.
cern about disrupting the
residents of the Golf Course
Acres subdivision.
Art Miller stated that the
request should be judged on
its merits and not the merits
of the historical issues. He
said he was passionate about
history but that the issue to
be discussed was a zoning issue,
not a history issue.
“Where were all these
folks before?” Miller said.
“The time to address the history
issue was a long time
ago. No one has put forth
any dollars or pockets to
help make this happen.
There is nothing wrong with
(Molder’s plans) except that
the density may be an issue.”
Many other community
members spoke and expressed
concern about saving
the house because of the
historical aspects of it. Most
agreed that Molder’s plan
was a good plan but that the
Taylor House property was
not the right place for it. The
community as a whole asked
Molder to withdraw his offer
to develop and to “not be
selfish, and to do the right
thing.”
After citizens spoke,
Molder had a chance to re-
NICKEL MINES, Pa. (AP)
— A bell summoned Amish
students to a new, more
cheerful and more secure
one-room schoolhouse Monday,
six months to the day after
a gunman shot 10 of their
classmates, killing five.
The building replaces the
West Nickel Mines Amish
School, which was torn down
10 days after the Oct. 2 attack
by a neighborhood milktanker
driver who killed himself
as police closed in. Blacktop
was installed on the
driveway instead of gravel,
Bart Township zoning officer
John Coldiron said, because
the children remembered the
sound of the gunman’s tires
spitting rocks.
“They’re elated that they
have a new school, but nevertheless
it’s going to bring
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group will be doing the
work.
Officials from EHDA began
to worry about the safety
of the residents in the Rolling
Hills Estates apartments,
which is where the stair replacements
are being completed.
The cement, which
formed the walking surface
on the steps, had begun to
chip and flake.
Another concern came
from the setup of the stairway.
The stairs had a landing
which turned the bottom half
of the stairs into a different
direction than the top half of
the stairway. This made delivery
of furniture or appliances
difficult. The curve in
the stairs also acted as a retaining
area for snow or rainwater
puddles.
“Whenever it would snow
or rain it would stay right
there in the corner of the
spond to their comments. He
said that none of this was
aimed at any particular person,
but that it was simply a
business decision.
“I have yet to hear one
scenario where anyone is
willing to donate to renovate,”
he said. “I do hear
your passion, but I have yet
to hear anyone with a solution
to fix the situation. It
was available for two years
and nobody expressed interest
until I did. I started to stir
the pot and now everybody
wants to see what is in the
pot.
“If it is so sacred to the
Taylor family then why did
they get rid of it? No one can
answer that. Not even members
of the Taylor family. I
don’t want to build single
family dwellings. I have no
other option than to build
single family dwellings and
that will not include Sabine
House.”
Commissioner Ken Markland
stated that Molder had
other options but he just did
not want to accept them. To
which Molder stated he
could not afford to renovate
the house. Molder said it was
his choice and he chooses to
back forcefully that day six
months ago,” said retired
teacher Dan Baughman, 81, a
longtime neighborhood resident.
On Monday morning, children
carried multicolored
lunch coolers as they walked
past state troopers guarding
the school’s private lane for
the start of classes. A few
were accompanied by adults.
“This is going to be a redletter
day in their life, because
it is a school of their own,”
Baughman said.
The New Hope Amish
School has a steel door that
locks from the inside. It has
no phone, but its location behind
a row of non-Amish
homes provides a way to
quickly summon help in an
emergency, Coldiron said.
During the rampage, a
steps,” Geagley said. “Either
we or the residents would
salt the snow but we were
told that is the worst thing
you can do for cement because
that makes it crack and
flake more.”
The new construction has
straightened the path of the
stairs which will make deliveries
easier. Also, the new
stairs do not retain water or
snow because of open spaces
between the stairs.
Geagley says the residents
are happy with the new
stairs and have experienced
only minimal disruption due
to the construction. He hopes
to have the project completed
by August 17 but realizes
that date is dependent on
weather and the availability
of supplies.
Only the Rolling Hills
apartments will have the
new steps because that is the
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develop that property.
Sycamore Shoals Park
Manager Jennifer Bauer stated
that she had tried to call
the real estate agent “10 or
12” times, at which she said
she always left messages, but
she never received a call
back. Helen Wilson said no
one expressed this level of interest
because they assumed
the house would be protected.
Commissioner Sam Shipley
asked Molder what
would happen and who
would be responsible if a
burial site was found on the
property.
“I would be responsible to
make sure everything would
be handled correctly,” Molder
said. “If a burial site is
found then construction will
stop. I am a businessman, not
a beast.”
At this point, Ornduff
stated that he recommended
the request be denied because
the use of condominiums
would not complement
the surrounding neighborhoods.
He said the development
would generate too
much traffic.
He stated that the single
family homes would be a
teacher had to run to a neighboring
farm to call 911.
“For an Amish one-room
schoolhouse, this one is spectacular,”
said Coldiron, who
inspected it last week.
The building, within sight
of the old school’s location,
lacks electricity, per Amish
custom, but skylights and
windows make it bright inside,
Coldiron said. It is
propane-heated, with bathrooms
in an outbuilding. Sod
was purchased so the students
don’t have to wait for
grass to grow before they can
play in the school yard.
In a touch of modernity,
the traditional blackboard
was replaced by a whiteboard
that Coldiron said adds to the
cheery atmosphere. A religious
message hangs near the
front door.
only complex that features
upstairs apartments. South
Hills Estates and Walnut-
Hemlock Manor have already
received renovations
to make those apartments
handicap accessible.
The agency is required to
have a one-year and a fiveyear
plan as part of their federal
funding requirements.
Possible future projects for
the EHDA communities include
improvements to parking
and lighting, fencing behind
some of the buildings
and enclosing the dumpster
areas.
Geagley would like to see
a community center added to
the housing community one
day. However, because of recent
funding cuts from HUD
it would take approximately
three years worth of funding
to complete the project.
“My rough estimate is that
better option for the area.
The homes would be standard
to city codes and regulations
The most amount of
homes that could be placed
on the 4.42 acre lot would be
16 houses.
“It is a sad thing to lose
the house,” Ornduff said.
“However, the single family
homes would be a better alternative
than condominiums.”
Commissioner Victor Deloach
said he agreed with the
developer that no one had
talked money during last
evening’s meeting. He told
the crowd they needed to get
busy with how to take care of
matters.
“As long as he meets code
we can’t deny him anything,”
Deloach said. “I love
the old house and hate to see
it go.”
Molder stated he does
plan to proceed with purchasing
the property and
that he sees no other way
than to demolish the home.
“I have offered to donate
to help with the moving expenses,”
he said. “I can’t get
any cooperation. It’s like if
you scratch my back then I’ll
scratch yours.”
New schoolhouse welcomes Amish
students who survived rampage
“I guarantee you, it (cost) a
good deal more than they
normally spend,” Coldiron
said.
The school’s construction
was paid for in part with a
portion of more than $4 million
in donations to the Nickel
Mines Accountability Committee,
the primary organization
collecting donations on
behalf of the 10 victims. Donations,
some sent directly to
the school board, have also
helped provide care for the
five wounded girls who survived.
Four of the five have returned
to school. The fifth, a
6-year-old, needs a feeding
tube and is not able to communicate,
according to Mike
Hart of the Bart Township
Fire Department, who is also
a committee member.
it would take approximately
$1 million to build a no frills
block building,” he said.
“The only way we could do
that would be to build it in
stages and commit at least
three years funding to complete
the project.”
The negative side to that
would be that no other construction
or repairs would be
able to occur in the time it
took to build the center if
that method was chosen.
Geagley noted that the structures
in the communities are
at least 30 years old and will
be needing some major renovations.
“I don’t know how we
will get enough money to do
the center,” Geagley said.
“The idea is always there sitting
on the backburner. It is
my dream.”
Photos by Eveleigh Hatfield
The old steps in the Rolling Hills community looked like the ones on the left. The stairs were constructed of cement and
brick. The new stairs feature an aluminum walking surface and a split-block base.

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On The Lighter Side
Peanuts
Blondie
Garfield
Dilbert
Sally Forth
Cryptoquip
Crossword Fun
By: Eugene Sheffer
For Wednesday
April 4, 2007
ARIES (March 21-April
19) — Your imagination is a
vital factor in whether things
work out to your satisfaction or
not. Strive to visualize important
dealings or events in ways
where they end up in a positive
manner.
TAURUS (April 20-May
20) — A desire for having
some of the nice things in life
will supply you with the incentive
you need to be an achiever.
Setting stakes will enhance
your surge for success.
GEMINI (May 21-June
20) — You are not likely to be
afraid to make some big,
important decisions if you
have faith in your judgment. If
your first thoughts are negative,
negate that with a positive
attitude.
CANCER (June 21-July
22) — Your compassionate
nature will have an aptitude for
sorting out the problems of
others in ways that restructure
their affairs positively.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) —
Involve yourself as much as
possible in activities that stimulate
your mental faculties but
also give you the freedom to
move around physically as
well. You’ll soar in these cases.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22)
— If you feel conditions can
be improved upon considerably
where your job is concerned,
take the initiative to
implement these changes
yourself instead of waiting for
co-workers to do so.
A Look at the Stars
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23)
— It is OK to temporarily set
aside your worldly needs and
focus instead on conditions
that have an effect on your
social life. This will be where
your greatest opportunities lie.
SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov.
22) — Don’t leave situations
that are meaningful to you
financially. If you put forth the
effort on situations that are
threatening to show losses, you
can conclude them to your satisfaction.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-
Dec. 21) — Your greatest ability
will be concerning issues
that call for leadership qualities.
You’ll instinctively know
how to get what you want for
yourself and others without
creating chaos.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-
Jan. 19) — Heed your hunches,
especially if you come up
with some bright ideas regarding
ways and means to add to
your resources. Your instincts
in financial or material matters
are better than usual.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb.
19) — Even though things
may start a bit sour, the possibilities
for fulfilling your aspirations
look very hopeful
because you’ll view things
realistically and not through
rose-colored glasses.
PISCES (Feb. 20-March
20) — When it comes to competitive
developments, you’ll
have much more reserve upon
which to draw than your competitors
do. This is the critical
difference that will give you an
edge.
WHAT’S ON TONIGHT
Snuffy Smith
Hi and Lois
Zits
Dick Tracey
Annie
Mickey Mouse
Donald Duck
Henry

David Wortman AAMS
Financial Advisor
NYSE
AMEX
u 9,381.46 +75.91 u 2,190.09 +9.82 u
GAINERS ($2 OR MORE)
Name Last Chg %Chg
Valhi s 17.93 +3.03 +20.3
KronosWd 35.02 +3.05 +9.5
DucatiM 18.24 +1.54 +9.2
ChicB&I 32.97 +2.76 +9.1
AcMtg pfA 18.49 +1.48 +8.7
MarshIls 49.83 +3.97 +8.7
Navios wt 2.88 +.23 +8.7
CtlAir B 39.08 +3.03 +8.4
HFF n 16.37 +1.23 +8.1
RussBerrie 15.16 +1.08 +7.7
LOSERS ($2 OR MORE)
Name Last Chg %Chg
JacksnHew26.53 -5.87 -18.1
Theragen 5.95 -.64 -9.7
NoAmEn gn18.87 -1.78 -8.6
WstnRefin 37.54 -2.12 -5.3
Sun-Times 5.07 -.28 -5.2
Mirant wtA 20.60 -1.05 -4.8
Goldcp wt 10.54 -.46 -4.2
Coachmen 10.40 -.43 -4.0
DoverDG s 12.21 -.51 -4.0
ArenaRes 45.65 -1.77 -3.7
MOST ACTIVE ($1 OR MORE)
Name Vol (00) Last Chg
Kraft 533440 30.33 -.52
FirstData s 477271 32.33 -.12
Hallibtn s 434304 32.76 +.49
FordM 405232 8.08 -.01
TimeWarn 343757 20.52 +.45
EMC Cp 307408 14.29 +.20
GenElec 305812 35.32 +.03
Pfizer 298084 25.67 +.33
Motorola 257772 17.67 +.11
Altria s 250876 69.65 +1.43
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3 ARTICLES
LOST & FOUND
LOSTOrange, white
male cat. Hwy. 143,
near Roan Mountain
State Park. Very
friendly. (423)772-3018,
336-340-8653.
5 SPECIAL
ANNOUNCEMENTS
CARTER County will be
accepting bids for Hall
Locker replacement.
For spec’s & information
call Kevin Ward
547-4020 or Phil Nave
547-4053.
Bid opening will be
held at Carter County
Board of Education,
305 Academy St. Elizabethton,
TN 37643.
Date of bid opening:
April 10, 2007 @ 2:00
p.m. E.S.T.
THE DEPARTMENT OF
CHILDREN’S SERVICE is
now offering FREE Foster/
Adoptive Classes
in Elizabethton, starting
April 17th. Please
call for more information
423-854-5022.
8 OFFICE SPACE
LEASE/RENT
FOR rent: 1431 West G
St. Great office space,
remodeled. 2 rooms
and bath.
(423)543-6120.
Joseph C. Miller
Financial Advisor
STOCK EXCHANGE HIGHLIGHTS
GAINERS ($2 OR MORE)
Name Last Chg %Chg
RaserT nya 6.51 +1.27 +24.2
AlmadnM g 2.37 +.30 +14.5
EnovaSys n 5.15 +.57 +12.4
MC Shp 11.60 +1.25 +12.1
CVD Eqp 6.43 +.64 +11.1
PolyMt ghn 3.40 +.31 +10.0
EgyM g nya13.03 +1.06 +8.9
Taseko 2.82 +.23 +8.9
SulphCo 3.76 +.28 +8.0
WilshrE s 5.29 +.39 +8.0
LOSERS ($2 OR MORE)
Name Last Chg %Chg
PhxFoot 3.50 -.99 -22.0
InterlknG 3.56 -.74 -17.1
ADairy nya 17.25 -3.25 -15.9
BootsCts 2.61 -.29 -10.0
PRB Egy h 2.78 -.26 -8.6
Baldw 4.60 -.40 -8.0
NwGold g 7.24 -.62 -7.9
AMtgAc 8.02 -.59 -6.9
AmTelcm 3.50 -.25 -6.7
IntlAbsorb 3.75 -.25 -6.3
MOST ACTIVE ($1 OR MORE)
Name Vol (00) Last Chg
SPDR 755342 143.69 +1.53
iShR2K nya429617 80.53 +.78
SP Engy 148719 61.25 +.38
SP Fncl 134682 35.74 +.44
PrUShQQQ n13385452.35 -1.51
SemiHTr 112423 33.57 +.12
Crystallx g 79615 4.01 -.03
DJIA Diam 72565 124.99 +1.34
OilSvHT 60002 148.75 +.19
US OilFd n 43831 52.46 -1.10
10 HELP WANTED
GENERAL
AWESOME opportunity
national company, all
natural beef jerky, no
competition, free
website. www.topflavorjerky.jerkydirect.co
m
CAREGIVER!Fulltime!
Prefer day shift or
evenings. No nights!
Experienced, qualified,
references available.
LOT’S TLC.
423-647-7306.
COMPANY now accepting
applications
for telephone verification
representatives
for all shifts. Apply at
Lead Power, located
across from Ritchie’s
Furniture in downtown
Elizabethton.
EARN money with
AVON. Startup only
$10.00!!! if interested
e-mail
Avoninfo4You@aol.com
web site
www.youravon.com/ohyder.
(423)474-2674.
EARN over $200.00 per
month easily by donating
Plasma. Call
Plasma Biological
Services @ 926-3169
GET Your GED!
Gain Job Skills!
Get paid
while training!
18-24 & serious about
your future
547-7515 Ext. 135
EOE/ Prpgram. Auxiliary
aids/ services
available to individuals
with disabilities
and/ or limited English
proficiency
IMMEDIATE openings
for out of town construction
work, lodging
and transportation furnished,
must be dependable
and able to
pass drug test. Dixie
Const 423 538 749
JOHNSON City Press
routes available. 816
Hampton $650.month
817 Roan Mountain.
$600.month. For application
or information
call Jimmy Pierce,
Johnson City Press
423-483-3314.
LANDSCAPERS
needed, full time,
must have commercial
mowing experience,
valid drivers license,
be hard working,
dependable, and
drug free with good
references.
423-772-9447.
LOCAL HVAC company
now hiring experienced
refrigeration
mechanic and helper.
We offer competitive
wages, health insurance,
dental insurance,
life insurance,
paid vacations, holidays
and 401K retirement
plan. Call
928-6168. Valid drivers
license and drug testing
required.
NASDAQ
GAINERS ($2 OR MORE)
Name Last Chg %Chg
IDM Phrm 5.25 +1.45 +38.2
KellySB 35.85 +9.76 +37.4
CellGens 5.70 +1.39 +32.3
OpexaTh n 5.31 +1.16 +28.0
Cimatrn 4.09 +.87 +27.0
AccHme lf 10.04 +1.56 +18.4
DGSE 2.91 +.44 +17.8
ImperInds 9.00 +1.17 +14.9
iRobot 14.88 +1.69 +12.8
FoodTc rs 2.71 +.30 +12.4
Classifieds
542-1530 928-4151
10 HELP WANTED
GENERAL
ATTENTION! DRIVER
TRAINEES NEEDED! Excellent
pay plus great
benefits as a first year
driver with Werner. No
experience needed!
15 day CDL training by
C.D.I., 6201 Epps Mill
Rd., Murfreesboro, TN.
Get your career in
gear! 1-888-892-7364
LOVE FASHION?
PT Sales Opportunities.
Plato’s Closet® is a
new and exciting retail
concept that buys
and sells gently used
BRAND NAME ........
teen
apparel and accessories.
We are seeking
customer-service oriented
people to be a
part of this fun, new
concept.
PART TIME SALES AS-
SOCIATES responsibilities
include buying
and selling, customer
service and merchandising
the store. Prior
retail experience preferable
but will train
the right person.
We offer a fun place
to work, excellent
benefits including a
generous employee
discount and competitive
wages. If interested,
stop by and fill
out an application or
send a resume to: Plato’s
Closet®, Attn:
Store Manager, 1805
North Roan Street,
Suite G-10, Johnson
City, TN 37601. No
Phone Calls Please.
NEED money? Avon’s
Easter line has arrived.
Make-up to 50%. Only
$10.00. Call Lisa
542-0057.
NOW hiring dependable,
energetic people
to work Subway in
Elizabethton, Hampton
locations. Apply in
person.
NOW HIRING: Companies
desperately
need employees to
assemble products at
home. No selling any
hour. $500 weekly potential
Info.
1-985-646-1700 Dept.
TN-138.
WAITSTAFF, bartenders,
kitchen help
needed. Bridges Café,
630 Broad Street. Apply
in person, be-
tween 2-4pm.
2,450.33 +28.07
LOSERS ($2 OR MORE)
Name Last Chg %Chg
OccamNt n 8.51 -2.59 -23.3
Iridex 7.01 -1.85 -20.9
SBE rs h 3.29 -.71 -17.8
RainingDta 2.42 -.36 -12.9
InPhonic 9.15 -1.21 -11.7
CapCros pf 9.50 -1.12 -10.5
Cohesant 7.10 -.83 -10.5
ChinAuto 8.08 -.82 -9.2
Catuity 2.39 -.24 -9.1
PokerTek 8.91 -.89 -9.1
MOST ACTIVE ($1 OR MORE)
Name Vol (00) Last Chg
SPDR 755342 143.69 +1.53
iShR2K nya429617 80.53 +.78
SP Engy 148719 61.25 +.38
SP Fncl 134682 35.74 +.44
PrUShQQQ n13385452.35 -1.51
SemiHTr 112423 33.57 +.12
Crystallx g 79615 4.01 -.03
DJIA Diam 72565 124.99 +1.34
OilSvHT 60002 148.75 +.19
US OilFd n 43831 52.46 -1.10
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YOUTH COUNSELOR
Picture the mountains,
great weather,
and time off to enjoy
them. Picture yourself
making a difference
in the lives of children
who have suffered
trauma. Picture
yourself answering
this ad. Contact Thomas
Harrison
828-898-5465 and
visit our website at
www.grandfatherhome.org
504 East “E” Street
543-7848
THE MARKET IN REVIEW
YTD
Name Ex Div Yld PE Last Chg %Chg
AT&T Inc NY 1.42 3.6 21 39.74 +.28 +11.2
AMD NY ... ... ... 12.90 +.07 -36.6
Altria s NY 3.44 4.9 12 69.65 +1.43 +11.5
Amgen Nasd ... ... 22 55.73 +.18 -18.4
Anheusr NY 1.18 2.3 20 51.06 +.36 +3.8
Apple Inc Nasd ... ... 34 94.50 +.85 +11.4
ApldMatl Nasd.24 1.3 16 18.35 -.01 -.5
ATMOS NY 1.28 4.1 16 31.50 +.20 -1.3
BP PLC NY 2.36 3.6 10 65.18 +.14 -2.9
BkofAm NY 2.24 4.4 11 50.86 +.43 -4.7
Boeing NY 1.40 1.6 32 89.90 +1.07 +1.2
BrcdeCm Nasd ... ... 29 9.56 -.15 +16.4
CMGI Nasd ... ... 45 2.25 +.09 +67.9
CSX s NY .48 1.2 15 41.19 +.71 +19.6
CVS Care NY .24 .7 21 34.29 -.13 +10.9
CellGens Nasd ... ... ... 5.70 +1.39 +68.1
ChartCm Nasd ... ... ... 2.70 -.09 -11.8
ChesEng NY .24 .7 7 32.07 +.53 +10.4
Chevron NY 2.08 2.8 10 75.34 +.51 +2.5
Cisco Nasd ... ... 25 25.85 +.45 -5.4
Citigrp NY 2.16 4.2 11 51.41 +.36 -7.7
CocaCl NY 1.36 2.8 23 48.99 +.47 +1.5
Comcast s Nasd ... ... 33 26.24 +.50 -7.0
Comc sp s Nasd ... ... 32 25.65 +.32 -8.1
DaimlrC NY 1.82 2.2 ... 82.95 -1.07 +35.1
Dell Inc lf Nasd ... ... 19 23.07 +.05 -8.1
Dndreon Nasd ... ... ... 14.65 +.35 +251.3
Disney NY .31 .9 17 34.92 +.45 +1.9
DowChm NY 1.50 3.3 12 45.56 -.04 +14.2
eBay Nasd ... ... 43 33.80 +.80 +12.4
EMC Cp NY ... ... 26 14.29 +.20 +8.3
EastChm NY 1.76 2.7 13 64.68 +.82 +9.1
EKodak NY .50 2.1 ... 23.34 +.32 -9.5
EmersnEl s NY 1.05 2.5 19 42.78 +.07 -3.0
ExxonMbl NY 1.28 1.7 12 76.80 +.64 +.2
FirstData s NY .12 .4 17 32.33 -.12 +26.7
FstHorizon NY 1.80 4.4 11 40.50 +.26 -3.1
FleetEn NY ... ... ... 8.03 +.34 +1.5
FordM NY ... ... ... 8.08 -.01 +7.6
GenElec NY 1.12 3.2 18 35.32 +.03 -5.1
GnMotr NY 1.00 3.2 ... 31.47 +.64 +2.4
GlaxoSKln NY 1.80 3.2 ... 55.73 +.54 +5.6
Hallibtn s NY .30 .9 15 32.76 +.49 +5.5
Heinz NY 1.40 2.9 21 47.56 +.56 +5.7
HewlettP NY .32 .8 19 40.89 +.58 -.7
HomeDp NY .90 2.4 13 37.63 +.84 -6.3
HonwllIntl NY 1.00 2.1 19 46.74 +.59 +3.3
iShJapan NY .10 .7 ... 14.61 +.12 +2.8
iShR2K nya Amex.82 1.0 ... 80.53 +.78 +3.2
11 PROFESSIONAL
HELP WANTED
COMCARE, INC.
COME GROW WITH US
CAREERS IN HELPING
PEOPLE WITH MENTAL
RETARDATION LIVE
MEANINGFUL LIVES IN
THE COMMUNITY
The following Full Time
Direct Support Positions
are available in
Johnson City and Erwin:
Day Shift Positions (40
hours) $8.55/hr. working
Monday - Friday
7:30am to 3:30 pm.
Second Shift Position
(40 hours) $8.55/hr.
working Monday-Friday
2:30
p.m.-10:30p.m.
Shared Sleepover Position
(40 hours) $10.55/
hour working Monday
- Friday 3:30 p.m. -
11:30 p.m. and sleeping
over in our home
every other week.
Applicant must be 19
years of age, have a
clean driving record
and pass pre-employment
physical, drug
test, TB test and FBI/
TBI background
check. Comcare is a
Drug Free Workplace
and we have an excellent
benefit plan.
Apply on THURSDAY,
APRIL 5th from 3:00
p.m. to 4:30 p.m. and
bring Social Security
Card. Tennessee
Driver License, Proof of
Vehicle Liability Insurance,
and High
School Diploma or
GED - Comcare Vocational
Training Center,
3018 South Roan
Street, Johnson City,
TN (EOE) No phone
calls please!
LPN’S
Ivy Hall Nursing Home
is recruiting LPN’s for:
Second shift
(2pm-10pm)
Weekend shift
(6am-11pm)
Join our caring and
committed team
and receive competitive
wages,
health insurance
and benefit package,
shift and weekend
differential pay
and biweekly attendance
bonuses.
We’re looking for
Nursed that successfully
blend skill, commitment
and compassion
to our residents.
Apply in person
at 301 Watauga
Ave., Elizabethton,
fax resume:
423-542-9311 or
email to:
astadm@ivyhallnursinghome.com.EOE
STOCK OCK
REPOR EPORT
Edward Jones
www.edwardjones.com
STOCKS OF LOCAL INTEREST
11 PROFESSIONAL
HELP WANTED
CURRENT and former
CNAs needed locally
for part-time and PRN
in home visit.
423-443-3880.
DRIVERS START NOW!
OTR-Regional,
Dedicated
2-5K Sign On Bonus
Training Available
1-800-356-1802
DESKTOP PUBLISHER/
GRAPHIC DESIGNER,
knowledge of Adobe
Creative Suite 2, Microsoft
Office 2007.
Salary commiserate
with experience.
423-543-6566.
ASSISTANT FACILITY
POOL MANAGER
The Elizabethton Parks
and Recreation Department
is now accepting
applications
for Assistant Pool Manager
at Franklin Pool.
Applicants may apply
at Elizabethton Recreation
Center - 300
West Mill Street, Elizabethton,
TN 37643. Application
Deadline:
April 13, 2007. For
more information call:
423-547-6441. - An
Equal Opportunity Employer
-
LIFEGUARD POSITIONS
The Elizabethton Parks
and Recreation Department
is now accepting
applications
for Lifeguard positions
at Franklin Pool. Individuals
must provide
required lifeguard certifications.
Applicants
may apply at the
Elizabethton Recreation
Center - 300 West
Mill Street, Elizabethton,
TN 37643. Application
Deadline:
April 13, 2007. For
more information call:
423-547-6441.
POSTAL JOBS
$17.33 to $27.58hr,
now hiring. For application
and free government
job info, call
American Asso. of Labor.
1-913-599-8226,
24hrs. emp. serv.
REALTY Executives in
Elizabethton is looking
for a responsible and
experienced person
for full time administrative
assistant position.
All inquiries call
423-547-2740, Monday
through Friday.
SEA DOO Mechanic
needed. Apply East TN
ATV Sales & Service,
500 Railroad Street,
Elizabethton
12 WORK WANTED
GEN./PROF.
SPRING CLEANING?
Southern Comforts!
Offices, houses, yard
work, cleaning, demo,
hauling. Licensed, references.
542-5309,
213-7937.
YTD
Name Ex Div Yld PE Last Chg %Chg
Intel Nasd.45 2.3 22 19.31 +.18 -4.6
IBM NY 1.20 1.2 16 96.10 +.89 -1.1
JPMorgCh NY 1.36 2.8 12 48.56 +.66 +1.3
JohnJn NY 1.50 2.5 16 60.64 +.54 -8.1
KBR Inc n NY ... ... ... 20.69 ... -20.9
Kellogg NY 1.16 2.2 21 52.07 +.17 +4.0
Kennmtl NY .84 1.2 10 67.40 -.34 +14.5
Kraft NY 1.00 3.3 16 30.33 -.52 -15.0
LSI Inds Nasd.52 3.2 20 16.39 -.51 -17.4
LSI Log NY ... ... 24 10.20 -.03 +13.3
Level3 Nasd ... ... ... 6.00 -.07 +7.1
Libbey NY .10 .7 ... 14.47 +.12 +17.3
Lowes s NY .20 .6 16 31.70 +.62 +1.8
MarvellT slf Nasd ... ... ... 16.58 -.10 -13.6
McDnlds NY 1.00 2.2 16 45.26 +.44 +2.1
MeadWvco NY .92 2.9 62 32.08 +.69 +6.7
Merck NY 1.52 3.3 22 45.38 +.37 +4.1
MicronT NY ... ... 17 12.23 +.10 -12.4
Microsoft Nasd.40 1.4 24 27.87 +.13 -6.7
Motorola NY .20 1.1 12 17.67 +.11 -14.1
Nasd100Tr Nasd.13 .3 ... 44.16 +.57 +2.3
OCharleys Nasd ... ... 26 20.68 +.67 -2.8
Oracle Nasd ... ... 36 18.36 +.22 +7.1
PepsiCo NY 1.20 1.9 19 63.40 +.01 +1.4
Pfizer NY 1.16 4.5 10 25.67 +.33 -.9
PrUShQQQ n Amex.91 ... ... 52.35 -1.51 -3.9
ProctGam NY 1.24 2.0 22 62.90 -.12 -2.1
Qualcom Nasd.56 1.3 30 43.71 +.63 +15.7
RF MicD Nasd ... ... 28 6.22 +.04 -8.4
SaraLee NY .40 2.3 16 17.15 +.30 +.7
SiriusS Nasd ... ... ... 3.09 -.06 -12.7
SnapOn NY 1.08 2.2 29 48.44 +.39 +1.7
SwstAirl NY .02 .1 25 15.08 +.33 -1.6
SprintNex NY .10 .5 45 19.40 +.10 +2.7
SPDR Amex2.60 1.8 ... 143.69 +1.53 +1.5
SP Engy Amex.75 1.2 ... 61.25 +.38 +4.5
SP Fncl Amex.80 2.2 ... 35.74 +.44 -2.7
SunMicro Nasd ... ... ... 5.79 -.01 +6.8
Symantec Nasd ... ... 39 16.99 -.05 -18.5
TaiwSemi NY .39 3.6 ... 10.90 +.12 -.3
TempleIn NY 1.12 1.8 15 61.82 +.76 +34.3
TexInst NY .16 .5 11 30.07 +.17 +4.4
TimeWarn NY .22 1.1 13 20.52 +.45 -5.8
Tribune NY .72 2.2 15 32.68 -.13 +6.2
ValeroE NY .48 .7 7 64.60 -.33 +26.3
VerizonCm NY 1.62 4.2 18 38.12 +.29 +2.4
WalMart NY .88 1.8 18 48.10 +.70 +4.2
Wendys s NY .68 2.1 40 31.68 +.78 -4.3
Wyeth NY 1.04 2.0 17 51.56 +.95 +1.3
Stock Footnotes: g = Dividends and earnings in Canadian dollars. h = Does not meet continued-listing standards. lf = Late filing with SEC.
n = New in past 52 weeks. pf = Preferred. rs = Stock has undergone a reverse stock split of at least 50 percent within the past year. rt =
Right to buy security at a specified price. s = Stock has split by at least 20 percent within the last year. un = Units. vj = In bankruptcy or
receivership. wd = When distributed. wi = When issued. wt = Warrants. Gainers and Losers must be worth at least $2 to be listed in tables
at left. Most Actives must be worth at least $1. Volume in hundreds of shares. Source: The Associated Press. Sales figures are unofficial.
15 SERVICES
OFFERED
*Handy Andy Home
Improvements for all
your interior, exterior
repairs, pressure washing,
painting.
(423)543-1979,
(423)895-0071.
A Cut Above Mowing
Service. For all your
yard work needs. Free
estimates.
542-5097
213-6663,
AFFORDABLE LAWN
CARE Mowing and
Trimming, FREE ESTI-
MATES, AFFORDABLE
RATES. (423)213-5101
please
sage.
leave mes-
Affordable Lawn Service,
Quality work, Local
references available.
Please call
423-773-6559 for an estimate.
All types of Home Repairs.
Hauling, painting,
gutters, landscaping,
pressure washing...
Mo’s Handyman
Service 423-383-4211
ALMOST any yard up
to an acre $30. Professional
equipment.
BB Lawn Services.
(423)773-9588.
BACKHOE front loader,
septic systems, field
lines, land cleared,
basements. Demolition.
Affordable.
22yrs. experience.
542-3002.
Berry’s Lawn Service.
No job too big or
small. Free estimates.
542-3185, 213-1706.
BRIAN’S STORAGE
BUILDINGS! For sale.
Display lot in Hunter
on Hwy. 91. 647-1084.
CMT Lawncare. Chris
Collins. Expert lawncare.
Licensed & insured.
Free estimates.
957-9288
ELIZABETHTON:Construction,
Trackhoe,
backhoe, frontloader,
landcleared,
site work septic systems,
dirt, shale for
sale. (423)547-0408,
895-0499.
FREE first mowing. Free
estimates. Providing all
lawncare services.
Call LawnMasters for
details. (423)543-8873.
HAUL gravel for driveways,
dirt for sale,
also backhoe work of
any kind. Call
423-542-2909.
HOMES & MOBILE
HOME IMPROVEMENTS.
Additions, sunrooms,
textured ceilings,
porches, carports, garages.
Work guaranteed.
(423)542-9483
Immaculate Mowing,
Dependable service,
reasonable rates, references,
(423)
542-6911
April 3, 2007
15 SERVICES
OFFERED
JLJ HOME IMPROVE-
MENT, remodeling,
room additions & vinyl
siding. Licensed &
Insured. 423-543-2101.
KY CONSTRUCTION
Specializing in finished
grade work and
demolition. All types
of front end loader
work. Dirt for sale.
Quality, honest work
at the best price. Will
beat any other estimates,
guaranteed.
Keith Younce,
(423)543-2816.
423-341-7782
LAWNCARE, commercial
or residential work,
free estimates, reasonable
prices, licensed,
ensured, call Daniel
McInturff,
423-957-6074
Need a residential
electrician at a reasonable
rate? Licensed,
insured.
423-483-5451,
423-928-1858.
PAINTING interior, exterior,
minor carpentry
and repair. 20yrs. experience.
FREE ESTI-
MATES. William Richardson
423-474-3216
T & J Electrical, Inc. Installation,
Service, Licensed,
Insured. Commercial,
Residential.
25 years experience.
725-2885.
Tolleys Mobile Home
Moving. 1900 Bristol
Hwy. Watauga.
423-542-2533, Mobile
360-0196 Bonded, Licensed,
Insured, Certified.
WILL mow and trim
yards. Free Estimates.
Senior Citizens Discount.
Ask for Lon,
423-543-2981
WILL stay with elderly,
home or live in. Experience,
references. Shift
or week-ends. 423-
542-5790.
WILLOW Springs Landscaping:
Mowing, trimming,
landscaping in
Tri-Cities area. Free
estimates. (423)
474-3668.
16 BUSINESS
OPPORTUNITIES
9477 Hwy 67
Butler
Motel, Restaurant and
private residences located
in four buildings
on 1 acre.
$459,900
Leeann Baker
Century 21
Whitehead Woodson
725-4000
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830.01 668.58 Russell 2000 811.77 +8.55 +1.06 +3.06 +6.49
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MUTUAL FUNDS
Total Assets Total Return/Rank Pct Min Init
Name Obj ($Mlns) NAV 4-wk 12-mo 5-year Load Invt
American Funds GrowAmerA m LG 83,868 33.68 +4.0 +8.6/A +9.2/A 5.75 250
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Fidelity Contra LG 68,713 66.27 +4.3 +8.9/A +11.7/A NL 2,500
Fidelity Magellan LG 43,379 92.53 +4.4 +4.3/D +4.6/C NL 2,500
Oppenheimer DiscoverA m SG 522 48.54 +4.7 -1.3/E +4.9/E 5.75 1,000
Putnam GrowIncA m LV 11,774 20.22 +2.9 +12.8/D +6.9/E 5.25 500
Putnam VoyagerA m LG 5,275 18.41 +2.4 +3.6/D +2.0/E 5.25 500
Vanguard Wndsr LV 14,450 18.96 +3.3 +15.4/C +9.2/B NL 3,000
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19 BUILDINGS
SALE/RENT
Office space for rent,
plenty of parking,
great for car lot. City
location.
647-4993
$375.mo.
STEEL BUILDINGS -
Spring Sale Starts Now!
Save Thousands! Call
today for best prices
and selections. 25’ x
30’ x 44 ‘ Top Quality.
866-352-0469.
STEEL BUILDINGS FROM
2006 INVENTORY.
30X30 OR 40X40
FREIGHT PAID TO TENN.
ALL STEEL, KIT DELIV-
ERED TO YOUR JOB
SITE! CALL
1-800-552-8504
20 ARTICLES
FOR SALE
! ! ! ! ! $250 NASA
Memory Foam Mattress
with Quilted top
new wwith warranty,
$250, 972-5513
! ! ! ! ! $499 100% NASA
Memory foam Queen
Mattress set, with
quilted top, new in
plastic with warranty,
Sacrifice $499, Retail
$2K, 972-5512
! ! ! ! ! $570 5 PC
CHERRY BEDROOM
SET, New in box, Value
$1,495, must move,
972-5513
! ! ! ! ! $60 Full size
Queen size - $70
King size - $95 2006
Mattress Closeouts
972-5512
! ! ! ! ! $69 QUEEN Pillow
Top Mattress, new
in plastic, retail $600,
must sell 972-5514
! ! ! ! ! $975 BEDROOM
SET 8 PC, Cherry
Queen size, new in
box, retail $1795, must
sell, 972-5512
! ! ! ! ! $99 NEW KING
Pillow Top mattress
unopened with warranty,
value $650,
972-5512
GE Range $125.; Maytag
washer $125.; SxS
refrigerator $100. 30
day warranty.
(423)547-9123.
23 YARD
SALES
728 JORDAN ROAD,
Friday, April 6,
8:00AM-1:30PM. F-250
camper top, furniture,
bikes, powerwheels,
kids clothes.
MOVING SALE SAT.
APRIL 7TH. Rain or
Shine 7:30-? 130 Morton
Rd. Hampton on
way to Watauga
Lake. Everything must
go.... Furniture, Piano,
Refg., stove, dishes all
kinds of household
items, 4 wheeler, car
parts, and misc. items.
Old and New
Curt Alexander CFP
12,800
12,600
12,400
12,200
12,000
11,800
Record high close: 12,786.64
Feb. 20, 2007
23 YARD
SALES
2-FAMILY Friday, Saturday
8a.m.-? 922 De-
Jarnette St. (EastSide).
Novelties, books,
clothing, furniture, exercise
equipment,
misc.
MOVING/ YARD SALE,
Friday, April 6 and Saturday,
April 7. 905
Gap Creek Road,
Elizabethton, 1 3/4
miles off West “G”
Street. Furniture, electronics,
tools, clothes
and antiques.
25 PETS
& SUPPLIES
AKC male miniature
Schnauzer, born
1/5/07, first shots,
wormed and hair cut,
$325. (423)647-4749.
AKC Registered Weimarner
Puppies $350.
each Call
(423)257-4622
ECLECTUS Parrot,
male, large cage and
carrying cage, good
talker, very tame. $800
firm. 423-543-7909.
For Sale AKC Pomeranian
puppies,
423-768-3222.
For Sale; Chinchilla!
No reasonable offer
turned down. Can be
domesticated. Includes
cage, wheel,
house & any other
supplies left.
423-474-2642
TO GOOD HOME
ONLY! 8 week black
lab mixed puppy,
423-213-0112, 423-
547-3031.
29 TOWNHOUSES
CONDOS FOR
SALE/RENT
2BR, 1.5BA Townhouse.
W/D hookup, appliances,
carpet, D/W,
deck, paved driveway.
$475.mo. plus
deposit. 423-483-4875.
31 APARTMENT
FOR RENT
**ALL Real Estate advertising
in this newspaper
is subject to the
Fair Housing Act which
makes it illegal to advertise
“any preference
limitation or discrimination
based on
race, color, religion,
sex, handicap, familial
status, or national origin,
or an intention, to
make any such preference,
limitation or discrimination.
”Familial
status includes children
under the age of
18 living with parents
or legal custodians;
pregnant women and
people securing custody
of children under
18. This newspaper will
not knowingly accept
any advertising for
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word rates:
15 WORDS OR LESS
1 DAY - $4.75 2 DAYS - $7.00
6 DAYS - $10.00
31 APARTMENT
FOR RENT
Our readers are
hereby informed that
all dwellings advertised
in this newspaper
are available on an
equal opportunity basis.
To complain of discrimination
call HUD
Toll-free at
1-800-669-9777. The
Toll-free telephone
number for the Hearing
Impaired is:
1-800-927-9275
1BR, appliances furnished.
Allen Ave.
$275.mo. $100.dep.
423-647-4178,
423-647-1040.
1BR, Hampton. Gas
heat, electric air, W/D
hook-up, private.
$200. deposit, $350.
month. (423)725-2504.
1BR, stove, refrigerator,
water, garbage
pickup furnished,
mini-blinds. Call
(423)542-9200.
2BR, stove, refrigerator
furnished, W/D
hook-up, 409 Brandon
Street, close to
Watauga River, 3
blocks from downtown.
$365.mth., $300.
deposit. No pets.
423-542-5726.
2BR, 1BA, CH&A, appliances,
W/D
hookup, 800sq.ft., 5yrs.
old, $450.mth. References.
No pets.
423-773-3281,
547-0408.
2BR, 2BA. kitchen, LR,
office space, nice outside
deck, utilities furnished,
$750month
423-542-2843,
542-8221.
423-
2BR. upstairs, great location,
appliances,
washer/ dryer
hook-up, garbage
pick-up, no pets,
$360month $300deposit,
423-543-3626.
3BR, 1BA, water furnished,
no pets,
$475month,
423-647-4993,
423-833-4059.
Alexander Apts 112 S.
Watauga Ave Large
2br, 1ba. $400.mo
$200.dep. Water, garbage
paid. Ref's required
542-8493 or
956-0068 before 5p.m.
APPLICATIONS for persons
62+ or mobility
impaired are being
taken for Village East
Apartments. Well
maintained building,
convenient to grocery
store and drug store.
Pick up an application
at 200 North East
Street M-F
8:00AM-noon, For further
information call
(423)542-5478.
CONVENIENTLY located.
1BR, furnished,
CH&A, paved parking,
laundry mat
on-site. $450mth. 423-
957-4847.
EASTSIDE, 1BR Apt.,
appliances, CH&A,
$300month
423-543-1626
ELIZABETHTON: Large
remodeled 2BR apartment.
Great location.
Parking, W/D included.
$400. Sherry,
423-512-0598, Mark
(800)511-6711.
ELIZABETHTON: Large
remodeled 3BR apartment.
Great location.
Parking, W/D included.
$460. Sherry,
423-512-0598, Mark
(800)511-6711.
LARGE 2BR, 1BA,
$375.mo, or $500. furnished,
$375.dep,
water furnished. No
pets. 423-647-4993,
423-833-4059.
NEW 2BR townhouses,
Hunter, CH&A, water
furnished, $450. mth.
$400. dep. 542-8172
anytime.
VARIETY of 1BR and
2BR apartments available.
Rent starts at
$225month. Call property
manager,
(423)547-2871.
32 HOUSES
FOR RENT
2BR, 2BA, bungalow,
East Side, deck,
CH&A. NO PETS.
$500.mth, small yard.
(423)542-0090.
ASSORTMENT of rentals:
Farm, brick, frame,
pets, rent to own, furnished
and unfurnished.
282-6486.
GREAT Location! Milligan
area. 3BR, 2FBA,
unfinished basement.
$850. month, Call
(423)547-2871.
36 LAND
FOR SALE
13 wooded acres, located
off Stateline Rd.
$16,000 each acre.
(423)543-3303 or
360-7569.
37 LAND W/PHOTO
FOR SALE
0 HWY 19E,
Stateline Rd.
Prime location
2.755 Acres with a
high traffic count,
Subdivide possible,
This property would
be great for a Restaurant,
Hotel, Shopping
center $899,900
C21 Whitehead
Realty
Linda Whitehead
543-4663
00 Mayfield.
Approx. 13.50 acres
per deed. Adjacent
to, but not part of
Mayfield Subdivision.
Great parcel to subdivide.
$125,000
C21 Whitehead
Sherree Holt
543-4663
1279 Goose
Bradley Road
$250,000.
Watauga Lake front in
a desirable location
with investment potential.
Water and
electricity tap fees already
paid. Great
view and 187 feet of
lakefront.
RAINBOW REALTY
423-547-2800
134 Rufus Taylor Rd.
Emily Dr.
4.4 level acres in the
Hunter community
with easy access.
$150,000.
Call Dale,
423-957-0069
RAINBOW REALTY
423-547-2800
Friday 8:00 - 12:00
Saturday 8:00 - 12:00
4-Family Garage Sale
You Won’t Believe!
2 - Queen Beds, Large Rugs,
Couch, Recliner, Luggage,
Lots of Kids Stuff, 2 - Cribs,
2 TV’s, Shelving,
Men & Women’s Clothes,
Kids Swimming Pool,
Computer Desk w/Nice
Chair, Home Decorations.
Everything Must Go!
654 Woodland Drive
Golf Club Acres
Elizabethton
Classifieds
542-1530 928-4151
37 LAND W/PHOTO
FOR SALE
314 Sunrise
Partially cleared 3.09
acres. No restrictions.
Across from Hunters
Ridge Subdivision.
$75,000.00
C21 Whitehead
Sherree Holt
213-9634.
BROAD STREET
2.7 acre level lot with
123 feet of Watauga
River frontage. Convenient
to Elizabethton
and the Elizabethton
Airport.
$110,000.
RAINBOW REALTY
423-547-2800
CHARITY HILL ROAD
Farm land just outside
the city limits of Elizabethton.
Lots of pasture
with stream and
barn. Mostly fenced.
$196,000.
RAINBOW REALTY
423-547-2800
Cross Mountain
3 Lots available in
subdivision in
Shady Valley
Lot 4, 2.51acres
$139,900
Lot 10, 2.16acres,
$110,000
Lot 15, 1.23acres
$94,500
Tom Payne
Century 21
Whitehead Woodson
725-4000
DEER RIDGE LOT 8
Magnificent view of
Watauga Lake,
Cherokee National
Forest
7.06 acres, Cleared
building site, private
gated community,
Underground utilities.
$429,000.00
C21WHITEHEAD
LISA POTTER
543-4663
HIGHWAY 91
4.38 acres of level
land with 300 ft. of
Watauga River frontage.
$250,000.
RAINBOW REALTY
423-547-2800
37 LAND W/PHOTO
FOR SALE
Hunters Ridge
Elizabethton
$135,000
13.4 acres at the end
of the road, with privacy
and county
road frontage.
Realty Executives
Julian Real Estate
423 547 2740
Hwy. 11E
$255,000.
587 feet of road frontage
on U.S.11E. Ideal
site for zoned B4
commercial usage
that would conform
well to the Piney Flats
area.
RAINBOW REALTY
(423)547-2800
Stockton Rd.
$25,000
There are six lots
available ranging in
size from .351 to .687.
Deed restrictions being
processed. Taxes
to be determined -
parcel ID # will be determined.
RAINBOW REALTY
423-547-2800
38 LOTS
FOR SALE
TWO BEAUTIFUL LOTS
IN SIAM COMMUNITY.
0.55 acres each.
Ready to build or
doublewide’s
allowed.
Call for information
TOBY
423-725-4145 or
423-895-1159.
39 LOTS W/PHOTO
FOR SALE
00 Hwy 91
Prime 4.5 +/- acres.
Corner lot with many
possibilities. $139,900.
C21 Whitehead
Lisa Potter
543-4663
1205 Hillside Drive
Elizabethton
Two vacant lots for
the price of one inside
the Elizabethton
city limits. $23,900
Century 21
Whitehead Woodson
Penny Woodson
725-4000
Security Federal Bank
has employment opportunities for
PART-TIME and FULL-TIME EMPLOYEES
with Bank Experience preferred.
Please call 543-1000 to schedule an interview.
Security Federal Bank is an equal opportunity employer.
NOTICE TO FURNISHERS OF
LABOR AND MATERIALS TO:
Bill Ledford & o, Inc.
PROJECT NO.: 98015-4188-04
CONTRACT NO.: CND390
COUNTY: Carter
The Tennessee Department of Transportation
is about to make fi nal settlement with the
contractor for construction of the above numbered
project. All persons wishing to fi le claims
pursuant to Section 54-5-122, T.C.A. must fi le
same with the Director of Construction, Tennessee
Department of Transportation, Suite
700 James K. Polk Bldg., Nashville, Tennessee
37243-0326, on or before 5/11/07.
40 LOTS
FOR RENT
NEW mobile home
park, Stoney Creek,
paved driveways,
level lots, 1 lots available,
call
(423)474-2704.
SPACIOUS mobile
home lot, parking
and garbage furnished.
Restricted lot,
references, near town.
(423)542-4597.
42 HOUSES
FOR SALE
PURCHASING or Refinancing?
Call Ivan @
423-920-2220. 100%
LTV programs available.
Free pre-qualifications!
43 HOUSES
W/PHOTO
119 Journey's End
2BR 1BA home with a
view of Doe River.
Great starter home or
rental property!
$59,900.00
C21
Whitehead Realty
Lisa Potter
543-4663
1209 BLUEFIELD AVE.
2BR, 1BA home, vinyl
siding, great location
near Eastside
School. 2 acres
imagination, paint,
and a hammer and
you could have a
charming home.
$54.900
CALL RAYMOND
423-914-8195
SHELL AND
ASSOCIATES
423-543-2393
122 GARLAND
New 3BR, 2Ba Home,
open floor plan, stainless
steel appliances,
deck, Full basement,
2 car drive under garage,
$174,900.00
C21 WHITEHEAD
TRISH GRAYBEAL
543-4663
125 WILLIAM STREET
HAMPTON
Nice starter home or
rental property, with
fenced yard,
screened in front
porch and second
residence located in
back that could be
restored for living
space or would make
a great workshop.
2BD, 1BA, CH&A,
hardwood flooring
under carpet everywhere
except bath.
Located just minutes
form Watauga Lake.
$53,900
RUSS SWANAY
REALTY
543-574
130 Blevins Hollow
Road
$139,900
Unique custom built
cabin with hardwood
flooring, oak kitchen
cabinets, and cathedral
ceilings. Cabin is
located on +1 acre
with a private shooting
range.
RAINBOW REALTY
(423)547-2800
43 HOUSES
W/PHOTO
134 RUFUS TAYLOR
RD.
Nice 3BR, 2BA brick
home on level 4.92
acres. Land can be
purchased separately.
$250,000.
RAINBOW REALTY
423-547-2800
160 Carden.
Cute 3BR, 2Ba, house
on half acre lot.
Great neighborhood!
In ground saltwater
pool, fruit trees,
grapevines. $149,000
C21 Whitehead
Sherree Holt
543-4663
176
ROBINSON HOLLOW
Private 3 or 4BR,
9.03acres! Mountain
views, barn, detached
30x36 heated
garage with half
bath, outbuildings!
Sold “as is.”
$129,900.00
C21 WHITEHEAD
TRISH GRAYBEAL
543-4663
180
Windsong Mountain
Hampton
3BR 2BA Cabin private
with awesome
mountain views, but
within minutes to everything.
$159,000
Century 21
Whitehead Woodson
Leeann Baker
725-4000
180 HART ROAD
Immaculate 3BR, 2BA
home on permanent
block foundation with
concrete patio on
back and side.
$92,000.
RAINBOW REALTY
423-547-2800
200 RIVERVIEW
Overlooking
Watauga Lake Custom
designed log
home, 3BR, 3BA, gorgeous
views, workshop,
lake access
with boat ramp! Adjoins
National Forest,
MUCH MORE!
$695,000.00
C21 WHITEHEAD
TRISH GRAYBEAL
361-1766
NOTICE TO FURNISHERS OF
LABOR AND MATERIALS TO:
Summers - Taylor, Inc.
PROJECT NO.: 10003-4259-04
CONTRACT NO.: CNC151
COUNTY: Carter
The Tennessee Department of Transportation
is about to make fi nal settlement with the
contractor for construction of the above numbered
project. All persons wishing to fi le claims
pursuant to Section 54-5-122, T.C.A. must fi le
same with the Director of Construction, Tennessee
Department of Transportation, Suite
700 James K. Polk Bldg., Nashville, Tennessee
37243-0326, on or before 5/11/07.
43 HOUSES
W/PHOTO
2021 Ridgefield
Road
For Sale By Owner
3BR, 2BA home in established
subdivision,
Happy Valley School
District, 1600 sq.
ft., huge deck, pool,
screened-in porch
with hot tub, flat
150X 200 lot, 2 car
garage.
Realtors Welcome At
a 2% Commission
Asking $189,900.
Call (423) 213-9827
View Pictures Of
House On Line @
www.2021ridgefield.com
204 Aviation Drive
SELLER SAYS
MAKE OFFER
Escape to this retreat.
Just minutes from the
city with relaxed atmosphere
including a
fish pond, nature’s
best shade trees and
greater landscaping.
$125,000.
RAINBOW REALTY
423- 547-2800
265 Rockhouse Rd.
5BR 3BA country setting
with a lot of storage.
Work shop, garage,
and lots of extras!
$224,900.00
C21 Whitehead
Lisa Potter
543-4663
310 Charles
Smith Rd.
Watauga
1st Right After
Barn Shoppe
Good Location
3BR with 8 acres,
CH&A, outbuildings.
$220,000.
(423)543-3821
346 BOWERS LANE
Classic 1.5 story farmstyle
home on 1.31
level acres. Circa
1935 home carefully
restored and in immaculate
condition.
Hardwood floors
throughout. CH&A.
New windows. Natural
woodwork. Main
level with living room
with stone fireplace,
formal dining, kitchen
with breakfast nook, 2
bedrooms, bath and
beautiful staircase.
Upper level with sitting
area. 2 Bedrooms
and large bath with
hardwood floors and
claw foot tub. Detached
garage has
workshop and loft
above for storage.
Rocking chair front
porch offers mountain
views. $159,900
RUSS SWANAY
REALTY
543-5741
NOTICE TO FURNISHERS OF
LABOR AND MATERIALS TO:
East Tennessee Turf and Landscape
PROJECT NO.: 98015-4189-04
CONTRACT NO.: CND391
COUNTY: Carter
The Tennessee Department of Transportation
is about to make fi nal settlement with the
contractor for construction of the above numbered
project. All persons wishing to fi le claims
pursuant to Section 54-5-122, T.C.A. must fi le
same with the Director of Construction, Tennessee
Department of Transportation, Suite
700 James K. Polk Bldg., Nashville, Tennessee
37243-0326, on or before 5/11/07.
LINE AD DEADLINES
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THURSDAY------WEDNESDAY 2:00 P.M.
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43 HOUSES
W/PHOTO
$119,900
1614 Gap Creek
Road
One level brick home
with a knotty pine
wood kitchen, full
basement, large den
& laundry room, in
ground pool, and 2+
car attached carport.
RAINBOW REALTY
(423)547-2800
363 Piney Grove
Road
$155,000
Mostly remolded
home sitting on 26.5
acres. Home offers his
& her master closets,
laundry room with
built in shelving, and
a beautiful stream
thatflows through the
property.
RAINBOW REALTY
(423)547-2800
375 Toll Branch Road
This 4BR 4BA Home sits
on Approx. 27.834
acres, Beautiful land
and views, Nice Area!
Must See! Like New!
$695,000
C21 Whitehead
Realty
543-4663
409 SOUTH ROAN
Doll House!
New vinyl siding. New
kitchen, bath, berber
carpet and vinyl and
new central heating
and air conditioning.
New electrical service.
Restored, 1927 cottage
in a very good
neighborhood in
town. House has
been completely updated
and renovated.
2BD, 1BA. Perfect
starter, retiree or
empty nester home.
Hard to find nice
home with rocking
chair front porch and
level lot for only
$64,900
RUSS SWANAY
REALTY
543-5741
420 SABINE
ELIZABETHTON
Everything you could
want, this 3BD, 2BA
Split Foyer has it.
Great location on
West end of town,
many updates, including
hardwood
floors, ceramic tile in
kitchen, tilt windows,
new entry door and
newly paved driveway.
New cook-top
stove, built in microwave,
dishwasher,
and all window blinds
are to stay. Very nice
10 x 21 foot back
deck to relax on after
your dip in the new
hot tub that is in the
downstairs family
room. This house is
move in ready and
wont last long.
$153,900
RUSS SWANAY
REALTY
543-5741
43 HOUSES
W/PHOTO
116 Rich Hollow
Built 2002.
Custom 2BR, 2BA,
2Car garage.
1632sqft. Brick, vinyl,
Hardwood floors.
Sunroom, Private
country setting, 3
miles NE Elizabethton.
$187,500.
423-542-8615(H),
423-741-8900(C)
431 Grover Reece
3BR 2BA house that
needs to be completed.
3 acres with
beautiful views. Great
price! $89,000
C21 Whitehead
Deborah
Sutherland
543-4663
461 Piercetown Rd
Butler
3BR 1.5BA charming
home with a 2 car
garage attached,
walking distance of
Watauga Lake
$139,900
Century 21
Whitehead Woodson
Tom Payne
725-4000
471 Watauga
3BR 1BA Ranch on 2.4
acres with fenced
pasture and barn.
Country kitchen, new
windows, and more!
$94,900.00
C21 Whitehead
Deborah Sutherland
543-4663
473 Watauga
Private Retreat!
3BR 2BA on approx
2.5 acres. Airy floor
plan with stone FP in
LR. $169,900.00
C21 Whitehead
Deborah Sutherland
543-4663
507 South Roan
Remodeled! 2 or 3BR
1BA. Yard with privacy
fence. Convenient
to schools, hospital,
and shopping!
Kitchen appliances
stay. $89,900.00
C21 Whitehead
Sherree Holt
543-4663
574 Leason
Gregg Road
$212,900
Enjoy the views from
the pool, balcony,
and deck of this private
retreatthat sits
on over 2 acres.
Home offers nice décor
throughout.
RAINBOW REALTY
(423)547-2800
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43 HOUSES
W/PHOTO
606 BIRCH STREET
2BR., 1BA cottage
style home, new
roof, gutters, vinyl in
kitchen and BA. New
stove and refrigerator,
refinished hardwood
floors. Newer
HP & WH. Walk to
Harold McCormick
Elementary or Downtown.
$54,900.
CALL RAYMOND
OWNER/ AGENT
423-914-8195
423-542-8014
SHELL AND
ASSOCIATES
423-543-2393
617 Hwy 91
Condo 4
2BR, 1.5BA, Condo.
Only three years old.
Gas fireplace, hardwood
& tile floors.
Large rooms, walk-in
closets. Open floor
plan, 1300 sqft.
423-213-5442
$109,900.
701 Sunnyview
Kingsport
3Br 1Ba Beautifully Restored
Home. Move in
ready!!! Must see to
appreciate! $89,900
Leeann Baker
Century 21
Whitehead Woodson
725-4000
858 Blue Springs.
3BR with new windows,
HW, fireplace
in country setting. Garage,
workshop, barn,
fenced lot, and more!
$109,900.00
C21 Whitehead
Lisa Potter
543-4663.
Anderson Chapel
Johnson City
$168,000
Perfect Country Setting.
3BR, 2BA, Cape
Cod conveniently located
to I 26.
Realty Executives
Julian Real Estate
423 -547-2740
AVIATION DR.
Elizabethton
Gorgeous 3BR, 2BA,
brick ranch, contemporary
mix . Beautifully
landscaped
yard. $143,000.
Realty Executives
Julian Real Estate
423 -547- 2740
BY OWNER
522 Golf Course Dr.
West Side School
District
Nice location on
wooded lot. Brick, vinyl
siding. 3BR, 2BA,
hardwood & carpet
flooring, FP, 2 car garage.
Asking
$169,900.
(423)542-3232
(423)542-6419
43 HOUSES
W/PHOTO
Cloudland Drive
Roan Mtn
$365,000
Brick home, fully
rented duplex,
32x32 work garage
and three
rented mobile home
spaces.
Realty Executives
Julian Real Estate
423 547 2740
Contract Pending
324 Highway 321
HAMPTON
ALL OFFERS
CONSIDERED!
Business or home near
Watauga Lake AT.
Commercial building
with residence.
$129,500
Brian Davis
CENTURY 21
Whitehead Woodson
725-4000
DAWN DRIVE
Beautiful condos just
outside city limits.
2BR, 2BA, Firewall between
units, custom
cabinets, ceramic,
Hardwood & Carpet,
whirlpool appliances,
Trane HP, Heartland
Siding, and Cedar
Shake.
$114,900.00 Each
C21 WHITEHEAD
SHERREE HOLT
543-4663
Elizabethton Hwy.
$ 117,500.
Spacious modular
home on 3/4 acre lot.
Realty Executives
Julian Real Estate
423 -547-2740
FOR SALE
BY OWNERS
Beautiful brick home
on level 3/4 acre lot.
The house has 7
rooms, 3BR. Two storage
buildings.
Price $125,000.
Call 423-474-2212
after 5:00
FOR SALE BY OWNER
9.25 acres. Updated
3BR, 1BA, CH&A, gas
log, outbuildings,
fenced fescue pasture,
good timber,
spring.
252 Liberty Hollow
Road $149,000.
423-474-3933.
In Walking Distance
To Downtown
2BR, 2BA with large
kitchen, dining area
and mountain views.
Realty Executives
Julian Real Estate
423 547 2740
Classifieds
542-1530 928-4151
43 HOUSES
W/PHOTO
Lakeview Terrace
Watauga Lake
Cape Cod with stone
fireplace , 7 tranquil
acres. Borders National
Forest.
Fall and Winter
Lake Views
Realty Executives
Julian Real Estate
423 547 2740
Nave Street
Elizabethton
$ 72,000.
Very nice cottage
style. 2BR, 1BA home
in EastSide.
Attention First Time
Buyer or Investors
Realty Executives
Julian Real Estate
423-547-2740
Quail Run
Elizabethton
295,900.
Beautiful traditional
home arch windows,
hardwood, ceramic
tile, gas fireplace and
more.
Realty Executives
Julian Real Estate
423-547-2740
Call Nikki
423-895-0192
SPEARBRANCH
ROAD
4.39 beautiful acres
with split-rail fencing
in a restricted mountain
development.
Additional 4.36 acre
tract available.
$120,000.
RAINBOW REALTY
423-547-2800
44 MOBILE HOMES
FOR SALE
14x70 singlewide, 3BR,
2BA, CH&A $13,500.
4BR doublewide.
$35,000. Delivery,
setup included. Refurbished.
(423)542-2533,
(423)360-0196.
BIGGER is Better! We
have in stock today,
the largest singlewide
homes East of the Mississippi.
Call
276-225-4181 to get
more for less.
GETTING Married in
May or June? Don’t
wait, buy your new future
home now and
move in after the honeymoon.
Call
276-225-4181 today.
We Can Help!
HANDYMAN SPEICAL,
2001 Giles, 14’x70’,
3BR, 2BA, heat pump,
need interior work.
Best offer.
423-474-3410
HAVE Land? Want
zero down financing?
Well we can go one
better! How about
zero down plus reduced
interest rates?
Call 276-225-4181 today
to see if you qualify.
Save Time, Gas and
Money! Call our Credit
Hotline today and get
pre-approved for your
new Clayton Home.
We have many loan
programs available to
help you. Call
276-225-9138.
45 MOBILE HOMES
W/PHOTO
149 Jack Bradley
Cute 2BR 2BA mobile
home on 5.8 acres.
Property fenced with
barn. Offers unfinished
apartment.
$104,900.00
C21 Whitehead
Trish Graybeal
543-4663
45 MOBILE HOMES
W/PHOTO
2522
ELIZABETHTON HWY
Mobile home basically
gutted and rebuilt.
A1 zoning could
be used for different
commercial uses, garage,
workshop building.
C21 WHITEHEAD
KATHRYN TURNER
543-4663
28 x48 NORRIS
3BR, 2BA. Stacked
stone fireplace with
raised hearth. 8' flat
ceilings, drywall in
furnished living area.
Skylights.
Own Land?
Use It For Your
Downpayment!
www.smithhomes.info
(423) 542-2131
5 BEDROOMS!
2006 CLAYTON
"Pine Brook", 32' x
68'. 3BA, Dream
Kitchen with stainless
appliances! Fireplace
with bronze
accents!
Own Land? Use Your
Deed As Your Down
Payment!
We Can Develop
Your Land!
www.smithhomes.info
(423) 542-2131
Blue Ridge
"Anglebrook"
By CLAYTON
New! 3BR, 2BA. Spacious
16x80! Furnished.
Must see!
Floorplans Available
online at
www.smithhomes.info
Stock # 21
We Have Lots
Available for rent!
(423) 542-2131
Cash Hollow
Elizabethton
$94,000
Doublewide on acre
of land with extra
building with bath
and another for storage.
Realty Executives
Julian Real Estate
423 547 2740
CLOSEOUT!
2006 CLAYTON
"Spirit VI", 16X80. 3
BR, 2BA. Furnished.
Vinyl Siding, Shingles.
Thermal Zone III insulated.
We Have Lots
Available For Rent!
www.smithhomes.info
(423) 542-2131
PERFECT STARTER
HOME!
24X44 Clayton
"River Run"
3BR, 2BA. Furnished
living space with appliances
included.
Zone III insulated.
We Have Land!
www.smithhomes.info
(423) 542-2131
47 WANTED
TO BUY
Duplex in or near Elizabethton
city limits. Single
level preferred.
725-2770. leave message.
55 BOATS
FOR SALE
1998 21Ft. Voyager
Pontoon, 70HP Mercury,
trailer, cover, garage
kept, must see.
$8,700 (423)474-3189,
423-895-1958.
Sun-Tracker, 21’ pontoon
fishing boat,
bought new 2004,
trolling motor, fish
finder, radio tape
deck, sun roof, cover.
Sale or take over payments.
423-772-3284
56 BOATS
W/PHOTO
FOR SALE
1973 QUACHITA
16’ FIBERGLASS
FISHING BOAT
50HP Evinrude with
trailer and cover.
New carpet, new
wiring, very good
condition.
Asking $2000.
423-768-3709
59 AUTOS
FOR SALE
2002 FORD SPORT
TRAC, 4dr., auto.,
gold, 59K, excellent
condition.
(423)542-6206.
$12,750.
2001 PT Cruiser,
non-smoker, automatic,
PW, PL, cruise
control, rear defroster,well-maintained,
155K. $5,950.
213-0931.
1997 Cavalier, 4DR,
automatic, new rebuilt
2.4 motor, CD, A/C.
$2,500. Nice condition.
(423)542-4417.
1989 FORD ECONO-
LINE VAN, 79,000 miles.
$2500. Phone
423-542-2803.
1990 Buick Regal; 1985
Ford 4x4, F150; 1973
F100 XLT Ford Ranger
Truck 360-V8,
423-725-4792.
2002 Chevy S10, 4 cylinder,
automatic, 68K.
$9,000. (423)542-2677.
61 CAMPERS &
RV’S
1999 Holiday Rambler,
13K, self-contained,
generator, sleeps 6.
Make offer or trade for
land. (423)542-3135.
65 TRUCKS &
SEMI’S
1988 Ford truck. Partially
rebuilt, good
body, new tires. $2,400
O.B.O. (423)543-6120.
PUBLIC NOTICES
SUBSTITUTE
TRUSTEE'S SALE
WHEREAS, default having
been made in the
payment of the debts
and obligations secured
to be paid by
that certain Deed of
Trust executed on
September 1, 2004, by
Eddie R. Lewis and Lisa
Lyons Lewis to C. Thomas
Cates, Trustee, as
same appears of record
in the Register's
Office of Carter
County, Tennessee,
under Book T713,
Page 633, (“Deed of
Trust”); and
WHEREAS, the beneficial
interest of said
Deed of Trust was last
transferred and assigned
to Saxon Mortgage,
Inc; and
WHEREAS, Deutsche
Bank Trust Company
Americas formerly
known as Banker's
Trust Company, as
Trustee and
Custodian by: Saxon
Mortgage Services,
Inc. f/k/a Meritech
Mortgage Services,
Inc. as its
attorney-in-fact, the
current owner and
holder of said Deed of
Trust, (the “Owner and
Holder”), appointed
the undersigned, Priority
Trustee Services of
TN, L.L.C., as Substitute
Trustee by instrument
filed for record in the
Register's Office of
Carter County, Tennessee,
with all the
rights, powers and
privileges of the original
Trustee named in
said Deed of Trust;
and
NOW, THEREFORE, notice
is hereby given
that the entire indebtedness
has been declared
due and payable
as provided in
said Deed of Trust by
the Owner and
Holder, and that the
undersigned, Priority
Trustee Services of TN,
L.L.C., Substitute Trustee,
or his duly appointed
attorneys or
agents, by virtue of
the power and
authority vested in
him, will on Thursday,
April 26, 2007, com-
PUBLIC NOTICES
mencing at 1:00 PM at
the front steps of the
Main entrance of the
Carter County Courthouse,
Elizabethton,
Tennessee, proceed
to sell at public outcry
to the highest and
best bidder for cash,
the following described
property situated
in Carter County,
Tennessee, to wit:
Situate in the Sixth
(6th) Civil District of
Carter County, Tennessee
and being
more particularly described
as follows: beginning
at an Old
Metal pin on the
northerly boundary
line of Cash Hollow
Road corner to Jerry
Lyons (DB 440, PG 94);
thence along Cash
Hollow Road South 73
degrees 55 minutes 07
seconds West, a distance
of 65.75 feet to
a new Metal Pin;
thence North 13 degrees
04 minutes 00
seconds west, a distance
of 260.05 feet to
a new metal pin;
thence North 20 degrees
12 minutes 00
seconds West, a distance
of 50.06 feet to
a new metal pin;
thence South 90 degrees
50 minutes 31
seconds West, a distance
of 171.92 feet to
a new metal pin;
thence North 00 degrees
52 minutes 19
seconds East, a distance
of 341.80 west
to the Point of Beginning.
Being the same
property conveyed to
Lisa Lyons and Pauline
Lyons, as to a Life Estate
by Warranty
Deed from Pauline Lyons
dated April 23,
1999 and recorded in
Book 445, Page 408, in
the Register's Office
for Carter County,
Tennessee.
PROPERTY ADDRESS:
338 Cash Hollow
Road, Elizabethton, TN
37643
CURRENT OWNER(S):
Lisa Lyons Lewis
The sale of the
above-described
property shall be subject
to all matters
shown on any recorded
plan; any unpaid
taxes; any restrictive
covenants, easements
or set-back lines
that may be applicable;
any prior liens or
encumbrances as well
as any priority created
by a fixture filing; and
any matter that an
accurate survey of the
premises might disclose.
SUBORDINATE LIEN-
HOLDERS: N/A
OTHER INTERESTED
PARTIES: N/A
All right and equity of
redemption, statutory
or otherwise, homestead,
and dower are
expressly waived in
said Deed of Trust,
and the title is believed
to be good, but
the undersigned will
sell and convey only
as Substitute Trustee.
The right is reserved to
adjourn the day of the
sale to another day,
time, and place certain
without further
publication, upon announcement
at the
time and place for the
sale set forth above.
THIS LAW FIRM IS AT-
TEMPTING TO COLLECT
A DEBT. ANY INFOR-
MATION OBTAINED
WILL BE USED FOR THAT
PURPOSE.
Priority Trustee Services
of TN, L.L.C., Substitute
Trustee
c/o imreid
Morris, Schneider &
Prior, L.L.C.
1587 Northeast Expressway
Atlanta, GA 30329
(770) 234-9181 (ext. )
MSP File No.:
604.0615497TN
Web Site:
http://www.msplaw.com
3/28, 4/4
SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE’S
SALE
WHEREAS, default having
been made in the
payment of the debts
and obligations secured
to be paid by
that certain Deed of
Trust executed on July
17, 2003, by Samuel G
Todaro to Wesley D.
Turner, Trustee, as
same appears of record
in the Register’s
Office of Carter
County, Tennessee,
under Book T670,
Page 635, (“Deed of
Trust”); and
WHEREAS, the beneficial
interest of said
Deed of Trust was last
transferred and assigned
to Deutsche
Bank National Trust
Company, as Trustee
of Ameriquest Mortgage
Securities Inc.,
Asset Backed
Pass-Through Certificates,
Series 2003-9
under the Pooling &
Servicing Agreement
dated as of September
1, 2003, Without
Recourse; and
WHEREAS, Deutsche
PUBLIC NOTICES
Bank National Trust
Company, as Trustee
of Ameriquest Mortgage
Securities Inc.,
Asset Backed
Pass-Through Certificates,
Series 2003-9
under the Pooling &
Servicing Agreement
dated as of September
1, 2003, Without
Recourse, the current
owner and holder of
said Deed of Trust,
(the “Owner and
Holder”), appointed
the undersigned, Priority
Trustee Services of
TN, L.L.C., as Substitute
Trustee by instrument
filed for record in the
Register’s Office of
Carter County, Tennessee,
with all the
rights, powers and
privileges of the original
Trustee named in
said Deed of Trust;
and
NOW, THEREFORE, notice
is hereby given
that the entire indebtedness
has been declared
due and payable
as provided in
said Deed of Trust by
the Owner and
Holder, and that the
undersigned, Priority
Trustee Services of TN,
L.L.C., Substitute Trustee,
or his duly appointed
attorneys or
agents, by virtue of
the power and
authority vested in
him, will on Thursday,
April 19, 2007, commencing
at 1:00 PM at
the front steps of the
Main entrance of the
Carter County Courthouse,
Elizabethton,
Tennessee, proceed
to sell at public outcry
to the highest and
best bidder for cash,
the following described
property situated
in Carter County,
Tennessee, to wit:
Situated in the Fifteenth
(15) Civil District
of Carter County,
Tennessee, and being
more particularly described
as follows,
to-wit: Being Lot 116
of the Colonial Acres
Subdivision, Unit II of
Carter County, Tennessee
as shown on
plat of record in the
Register's Office for
Carter County at Elizabethton,
Tennessee in
Plat Cabinet A, Slide
292. Being the same
property conveyed to
Samuel G. Todaro, by
Quit Claim Deed from
Eleanor L. Todaro,
dated July 18, 2003
and recorded July 29,
2003 in Book 478,
Page 705, Register's
Office for Carter
County, Tennessee.
PROPERTY ADDRESS:
113 Saratoga Circle,
Elizabethton, TN 37643
CURRENT OWNER(S):
Samuel G Todaro
The sale of the
above-described
property shall be subject
to all matters
shown on any recorded
plan; any unpaid
taxes; any restrictive
covenants, easements
or set-back lines
that may be applicable;
any prior liens or
encumbrances as well
as any priority created
by a fixture filing; and
any matter that an
accurate survey of the
premises might disclose.
SUBORDINATE LIEN-
HOLDERS: N/A
OTHER INTERESTED
PARTIES: N/A
All right and equity of
redemption, statutory
or otherwise, homestead,
and dower are
expressly waived in
said Deed of Trust,
and the title is believed
to be good, but
the undersigned will
sell and convey only
as Substitute Trustee.
The right is reserved to
adjourn the day of the
sale to another day,
time, and place certain
without further
publication, upon announcement
at the
time and place for the
sale set forth above.
THIS LAW FIRM IS AT-
TEMPTING TO COLLECT
A DEBT. ANY INFOR-
MATION OBTAINED
WILL BE USED FOR THAT
PURPOSE.
Priority Trustee Services
of TN, L.L.C., Substitute
Trustee
c/o JTWilson
Morris, Schneider &
Prior, L.L.C.
1587 Northeast Expressway
Atlanta, GA 30329
(770) 234-9181 (ext.
1273)
MSP File No.:
333.0707510TN
Web Site:
http://www.msplaw.c
om
3/21, 3/28, 4/4
IN THE CHANCERY
COURT, PROBATE
DIVISION OF CARTER
COUNTY, AT
ELIZABETHTON,
TENNESSEE
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
per
§TCA 30-2-306
PROBATE NO. P070043
ESTATE OF
Marjorie Gabinet
DECEASED
Notice is hereby given
that on the 26th day
of March, 2007 Let-
STAR - WEDNESDAY, APRIL 4, 2007 - Page 15
LINE AD DEADLINES
MONDAY------------FRIDAY 2:00 P.M.
TUESDAY-------------MONDAY 2:00 P.M.
WEDNESDAY--------TUESDAY 2:00 P.M.
THURSDAY------WEDNESDAY 2:00 P.M.
FRIDAY------------THURSDAY 2:00 P.M.
SUNDAY---------------FRIDAY 2:00 P.M.
PUBLIC NOTICES
ters of Testamentary,
in respect to the Estate
of
Marjorie Gabinet
deceased, were issued
to the undersigned
by the Chancery
Court Clerk and
Master, Probate Division,
of Carter County,
Tennessee.
All persons, resident
and non-resident,
having claims, matured
or un-matured,
against the Estate of
Marjorie Gabinet
are required to file the
same with the Clerk
and Master of the
above Court within
four (4) months from
the date of the first
publication of this Notice;
otherwise, their
claims will be forever
barred.
All persons indebted
to the above Estate
must come forward
and make proper settlement
with the undersigned
at once.
This the 26th day of
March, 2007.
Paul Gabinet
Executor
Deceased:
Marjorie Gabinet
Allen, Nelson & Bowers
BY: John L. Bowers, Jr.
and Gregory H. Bowers
Attorneys
Melissa Moreland
Clerk and Master
3/28, 4/4
IN THE CHANCERY
COURT, PROBATE
DIVISION OF CARTER
COUNTY, AT
ELIZABETHTON,
TENNESSEE
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
per
§TCA 30-2-306
PROBATE NO. P070036
ESTATE OF
ALTJANE H. CAUDILL
DECEASED
Notice is hereby given
that on the 2nd day of
April, 2007, Letters of
Administration, C.T.A.
in respect to the Estate
of
AltJane H. Caudill
deceased, were issued
to the undersigned
by the Chancery
Court Clerk and
Master, Probate Division,
of Carter County,
Tennessee.
All persons, resident
and non-resident,
having claims, matured
or un-matured,
against the Estate of
AltJane H. Caudill
are required to file the
same with the Clerk
and Master of the
above Court within
four (4) months from
the date of the first
publication of this Notice;
otherwise, their
claims will be forever
barred.
All persons indebted
to the above Estate
must come forward
and make proper settlement
with the undersigned
at once.
This the 2nd day of
April , 2007.
Frank D. Newman
Administrator C.T.A.
Deceased:
AltJane H. Caudill
Frank D. Newman
Attorney
Melissa Moreland
Clerk and Master
4/4, 4/11
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT
FOR
CARTER COUNTY,
TENNESSEE
IN RE: ZOIE DANIELLE
ROBERTS
DOB: 12/9/96
DEBORA ROBERTS,
DAVID SCOTT
ROBERTS,
KIMBERLY REBECCA
BARTER (nee)
ROBERTS
Petitioners
vs.
UNKNOWN FATHER OF
ZOIE DANIELLE
ROBERTS
Respondent
No. C10595
ORDER OF
PUBLICATION
In this cause, it appearing
that a Petition
to Terminate Parental
Rights and For Adoption
is filed and after
diligent search, the
present whereabouts
of the Defendant are
unknown, therefore,
the ordinary process
of law cannot be
served upon him.
IT IS, THEREFORE, OR-
DERED that non-resident
publication be
made for four (4) consecutive
weeks in the
local newspaper published
in Carter
County, Tennessee,
notifying Respondent
to file an Answer with
the Circuit Court Clerk
of Carter County, Tennessee,
within thirty
PUBLIC NOTICES
(30) days of last publication
or a Judgment
by Default will be
taken against the Defendant
and the
cause set for hearing
ex parte.
This 7th day of March,
2007.
Jean A Stanley
Judge
3/14, 3/21, 3/28, 4/4
LEGAL NOTICE
IN THE CIRCUIT
COURT AT
ELIZABETHTON,
CARTER COUNTY,
TENNESSEE
Kimberly Carol Russell
vs.
Donald Adam Russell
Civil Action
No. C10603
In this cause it appearing,
from the
Plaintiff’s Bill that the
address of the Defendant
Donald Adam
Russell is unknown; it is
Ordered by me that
publication be made
for four successive
weeks, as required by
law, in the Elizabethton
Star, a newspaper
published in
Elizabethton, Tennessee,
in said County,
notifying said Defendant
to appear before
our said Circuit
Court, at the Courthouse
Annex in Elizabethton,
Tennessee
within (30) days after
this notice has been
published for four successive
weeks in said
newspaper, and
make defense to said
complaint, or the allegations
thereof will be
taken for confessed
and this cause set for
hearing ex parte as to
Defendant.
This March 12 , 2007.
JOHN PAUL MATHES
Circuit Court Clerk
3/14, 3/21, 3/28, 4/4
NON-RESIDENT
NOTICE
IN THE CHANCERY
COURT AT
ELIZABETHTON,
CARTER COUNTY,
TENNESSEE
IN RE: DYLAN BRNDON
SAWYER
CHASSITY DAWN LOONEY
SAWYER AND CHAD
CURTIS HYDER
VS
DANNY BRUCE
SAWYER, JR.
CAUSE NO. 26535
In this cause, it appearing
from the Plantiff’s
bill, which is
sworn to, that the Defendant,
Danny Bruce
Sawyer, Jr. address is
unknown, it is ordered
by me that publication
be made for four
successive weeks, as
required by law, in the
Elizabethton Star, a
newspaper published
in Elizabethton, Tennessee,
in said
County, notifying said
Defendant to appear
before our said Chancery
Court, at the
Courthouse, 801 East
Elk Avenue, Elizabethton,
within thirty
(30) days after this notice
has been published
for four successive
weeks in said
newspaper, and
make defense to said
complaint, or the allegations
thereof will be
taken for confessed
and this cause set for
hearing ex parte as to
Danny Bruce Sawyer,
Jr.
This the 26th day of
March, 2007.
Melissa Moreland
CLERK AND MASTER
3/28, 4/4, 4/11, 4/18
PUBLIC NOTICE
The Financial Management
Committee
of the Carter County
Commission will meet
Wednesday, April 11,
2006, 12:30 p.m. in the
County Mayor’s Conference
Room, Carter
County Courthouse.
Jo Ann Blankenship,
Chairman
4/4
PUBLIC NOTICE
The Parks and Recreation
Committee of the
Carter County Commission
will meet Tuesday,
April 10, 2007,
5:30 p.m. in the 2nd
Floor Conference
Room, Carter County
Courthouse.
Dale Colbaugh,
Chairman
4/4
The board of commissioners
of the Hampton
Utility District of
Carter County, TN.,
Inc., will meet in regular
session on Tuesday,
April 10, 2007, at 6
p.m. in the utility office.
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Clouds and
sun, breezy
and cooler
64° 30° 48° 30°
Bristol Almanac
Statistics are through 6 p.m. yest.
Temperature:
High yesterday ........................ 79°
Low yesterday ......................... 46°
Precipitation:
24 hrs. ending 6 p.m. yest. ... 0.00"
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Memphis
66/40
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Shown is today’s weather. Temperatures are today’s highs and tonight’s lows.
Sunrise today ....................... 7:11 a.m.
Sunset tonight ...................... 7:53 p.m.
Moonrise today ................. 10:04 p.m.
Moonset today ..................... 7:49 a.m.
Moon Phases
Union City
58/30
Camden
60/30
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THURSDAY
A.M. flurries,
then a few
showers
FRIDAY
Cold; a.m.
flurries, then a
shower
46° 24°
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Thursday ...................................... 40°
Friday ........................................... 40°
Saturday ....................................... 34°
Sunday ......................................... 40°
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of temperature, wind, humidity, sunshine,
precipitation and elevation on the human
body. Shown are the highest values for each
day.
Nashville
60/35
Murfreesboro
62/29
Waynesboro Chattanooga
64/27 64/39
The State
Today Thu. Today Thu.
City Hi Lo W Hi Lo W City Hi Lo W Hi Lo W
Athens 66 30 pc 57 29 pc
Bristol 62 32 c 47 30 sh
Chattanooga 64 39 pc 58 34 pc
Clarksville 58 31 pc 53 27 pc
Cleveland 64 32 pc 58 32 pc
Cookeville 60 28 pc 53 29 pc
Crossville 62 31 pc 49 27 pc
Erwin 64 29 pc 47 30 sf
Franklin 62 35 pc 52 32 pc
Greeneville 62 29 pc 50 30 pc
Johnson City 64 32 pc 47 30 sh
SATURDAY
Partly sunny,
breezy and
cold
41° 19°
Knoxville
62/34
SUNDAY
Partly sunny
and cold
45° 24°
UV Index Today
The higher the AccuWeather UV IndexTM 8 a.m. .............................................. 0
Noon ............................................... 6
4 p.m. .............................................. 4
0-2: Low 8-10: Very High
3-5: Moderate 11+: Extreme
6-7: High
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64/30
Kingsport 62 31 c 48 29 sh
Knoxville 62 34 pc 54 31 pc
Memphis 66 40 pc 57 38 pc
Morristown 62 31 pc 55 30 pc
Mountain City 62 28 c 42 29 sf
Nashville 60 35 pc 52 32 pc
Newport 62 30 pc 55 31 pc
Oak Ridge 62 32 pc 57 29 pc
Pigeon Forge 64 34 pc 54 31 pc
Roan Mtn. 64 28 pc 44 29 sf
Sevierville 62 34 pc 54 31 pc
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55/44
San Francisco
Francisco
67/49
WARM
Los Angeles
Angeles
72/56
Billings
43/28
Denver
52/35
El Paso
Paso
83/54
Cold front
Warm front
Stationary front
National Summary
Today Thu.
City Hi Lo W Hi Lo W
Atlanta 70 40 pc 63 37 s
Boston 40 33 r 47 30 pc
Charleston, SC 87 50 t 69 42 s
Charlotte 78 40 pc 61 35 s
Chicago 42 29 sf 40 26 pc
Cincinnati 50 26 pc 43 25 pc
Dallas 66 47 pc 64 45 c
Denver 52 35 c 57 32 r
Honolulu 82 66 s 84 66 s
Kansas City 50 27 s 48 28 c
Los Angeles 72 56 pc 74 56 pc
New York City 52 35 r 48 32 pc
Orlando 86 60 pc 81 53 pc
Phoenix 93 65 s 94 65 pc
Seattle 55 44 c 64 48 pc
Wash., DC 64 38 t 50 31 s
BREEZY
Minneapolis
34/19
Houston
76/55
Chicago
42/29
Kansas City
City
50/27
COOLER
Showers
T-storms
Rain
Atlanta
70/40
Detroit
42/24
New York
York
52/35
Washington
64/38
Miami
85/69
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Barcelona 58 50 sh 64 49 c
Beijing 55 41 s 63 48 c
Berlin 50 32 pc 52 39 pc
Dublin 55 41 pc 59 43 pc
Hong Kong 67 65 pc 68 67 sh
Jerusalem 60 43 pc 75 55 s
London 55 41 pc 63 39 pc
Madrid 50 39 r 54 41 sh
Mexico City 73 50 t 70 48 t
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Paris 54 34 pc 57 39 s
Rome 64 48 c 64 48 c
Seoul 55 27 s 55 39 s
Singapore 90 77 t 87 76 c
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Stretched Army sends units back
to Iraq early to support troops
WASHINGTON (AP) —
For just the second time since
the war began, the Army is
sending large units back to
Iraq without giving them at
least a year at home, defense
officials said Monday.
The move signaled how
stretched the U.S. fighting
force has become.
A combat brigade from
New York and a Texas headquarters
unit will return to
Iraq this summer in order to
maintain through August the
military buildup President
Bush announced earlier this
year. Overall, the Pentagon announced,
7,000 troops will be
going to Iraq in the coming
months as part of the effort to
keep 20 brigades in the country
to help bolster the Baghdad
security plan. A brigade is
roughly 3,000 soldiers.
The Army will try not to
shorten the troops’ U.S. time,
“but in this case we had to,”
said a senior Army official,
who requested anonymity because
of the sensitivity of the
issue. “Obviously right now
the Army is stretched,” the official
said.
The 4th Infantry Division
headquarters unit from Fort
Hood, Texas, will return to
Iraq after a little more than
seven months at home — the
largest departure to date from
the Army’s goal of giving units
at least a year’s rest after every
year deployed. The 1st Brigade
of the 10th Mountain Division,
based at Ft. Drum, N.Y., will
go back to Iraq after just 10-
1/2 months at home.
The only other major unit to
spend less than one year at
home was the Georgia-based
3rd Brigade of the 3rd Infantry
Division, which returned to
Iraq 48 days short of a year
and is there now, according to
the Army.
Pentagon spokesman Bryan
Whitman acknowledged that
the Texas unit’s 81 day shortfall
in rest time, “is not insignificant.”
“There’s only so many division
headquarters,” he said. “It
reflects that this is a military
that is in conflict. We’re obviously
using a significant portion
of the combat units of the
force. And it’s a reflection of
the realities that exist right
now.”
Whitman said the latest deployment
orders released
Monday would also require
the Hawaii-based 25th Infantry
Division Headquarters
unit to stay in Iraq for about 46
days longer than its planned
year.
Defense officials and military
leaders disagreed last
week over how long it will
take to determine if the latest
buildup — which added five
brigades to what had been a
fairly consistent level of 15
brigades in Iraq — is working.
Maj. Gen. William B. Caldwell,
the military’s chief
spokesman in Iraq, said commanders
won’t know until at
least autumn when they can
begin to bring troop levels
back down. A day later Defense
Secretary Robert Gates
told a congressional committee
that he was disturbed to hear
that comment, and he said
commanders should be able to
make the evaluation by summer.
So far two of the five Army
brigades planned for the
buildup are in Baghdad, and a
third is moving in now. All five
will be there in June.
The Army’s stated goal is to
give active-duty soldiers two
years at home between overseas
combat tours. But that has
been largely impossible because
the Army does not have
enough brigades to meet the
demands of simultaneous
wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
The latest buildup increased
the demands, but until recently
the Army had been able to
give units at least a year break.
Military leaders say the 12
months are needed so the units
can rest and then become adequately
trained and equipped
to go back.
Throughout the war, some
smaller, more specialized units
have had to deploy without 12
months rest. The Pentagon is
currently developing a policy
that would provide additional
pay to units that don’t get the
year break.
Other deployments announced
Monday include:
—The 18th Airborne Corps
Headquarters unit, based at
Fort Bragg, N.C., will go to
Iraq in November
—The 1st Armored Division
Headquarters, based in
Wiesbaden, Germany, will go
in August
In addition to the 7,000
newly announced deployments,
Whitman said about
2,000 military police have gotten
their orders to go to Iraq.
Gates announced last month
that commanders requested
about 2,200 military police.
About 200 were already there
and had their tours extended
to meet the request, according
to the Army.
Also, the 2nd Brigade, 82nd
Airborne Division from Fort
Bragg, which is currently in
Iraq, will serve a full year there
and return home in January
2008 rather than in September
as originally planned.
Cherokee expands food storage
rules to limit bear encounters
KNOXVILLE (AP) — A
section of the Cherokee National
Forest in Monroe
County has adopted stricter
regulations on food storage
to limit encounters between
people and black bears.
Parts of the Tellico Ranger
District, which covers
160,000 acres in Monroe
County, have been under the
restrictions since 2002 and
seen a drop in black bears
coming in contact with people.
The rules will now cover
the entire district.
Visitors are required to
keep food stored in bear-resistant
containers such as a
closed hardtop vehicle or
suspended at least 10 feet off
the ground and 4 feet from
tree limbs. Trash must be put
in bear-resistant garbage containers
in the forest or inside
a vehicle.
Black bears are coming out
of their dens this time of year,
and natural foods are scarce.
“Bears are opportunistic in
nature and will feed on whatever
is readily available,”
said Keith Lannom, Tellico
District ranger. “Properly
storing food and trash reduces
the likelihood that
bears will be tempted to enter
areas where people are
present.”
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DENVER (AP) — The 2007
Atlantic hurricane season
should be “very active,” with
nine hurricanes and a good
chance that at least one major
hurricane will hit the U.S.
coast, a top researcher said
Tuesday.
Forecaster William Gray
said he expects 17 named
storms in all this year, five of
them major hurricanes with
sustained winds of 111 mph or
greater. The probability of a
major hurricane making landfall
on the U.S. coast this year:
74 percent, compared with the
average of 52 percent over the
past century, he said.
Last year, Gray’s forecast
and government forecasts
were higher than what the Atlantic
hurricane season produced.
There were 10 named Atlantic
storms in 2006 and five
hurricanes, two of them major,
in what was considered a
“near normal” season. None of
those hurricanes hit the U.S.
Atlantic coast — only the 11th
time that has occurred since
1945. The National Hurricane
Center in Miami originally reported
nine storms, but upgraded
one storm after a postseason
review.
Gray’s research team at Colorado
State University said an
unexpected late El Nino contributed
to the calmer season
n Continued from 1
The cause was unknown,
but there were reports of lightning
and downed power lines
in the area, neighbors said.
As the storms moved into
East Tennessee, a tornado
warning was briefly issued
for Cumberland County and a
flash flood warning was issued
for Roane County, west
of Knoxville.
Power was knocked out to
Family Night
Leading storm forecaster
predicts ‘very active’
hurricane season
last year. El Nino — a warming
in the Pacific Ocean — has farreaching
effects that include
changing wind patterns in the
eastern Atlantic, which can disrupt
the formation of hurricanes
there.
A weak to moderate El Nino
occurred in December and
January but dissipated rapidly,
said Phil Klotzbach, a member
of Gray’s team.
“Conditions this year are
likely to be more conducive to
hurricanes,” Klotzbach said
Tuesday. In the absence of El
Nino, “winds aren’t tearing the
storm systems apart.”
The team’s forecasts are
based on global oceanic and atmospheric
conditions.
Klotzbach advised coastal
residents along the Atlantic
and Gulf of Mexico to have
hurricane plans and preparedness
kits in place, but he
added, “You can’t let the possibility
of a hurricane coming ruin
your summer.”
The Atlantic hurricane season,
which runs from June 1 to
Nov. 30, averages 9.6 named
storms, 5.9 hurricanes and 2.3
intense hurricanes per year.
The devastating 2005 season
set a record with 28 named
storms, 15 of them hurricanes.
Four of those hurricanes hit the
U.S. coast, the worst among
them Katrina, which devastated
New Orleans.
some customers in Morgan
County northwest of
Knoxville after a transformer
blew in Deer Lodge, WATE-
TV in Knoxville reported.
State Highway 25 between
LaFollette and Jellico was
blocked by debris. There were
various reports of knocked
down trees and debris in
Scott, Fentress, Grainger and
Union counties.
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