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Higgins to retire from crisis center, Printup to step in 

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Betty Higgins believes she has 

a calling to work with “disadvantaged” 

women and children. 

But after almost 29 years, 

Higgins says she has “completed 

her work” as director of the 

Northwest Georgia Family Crisis 

Center, which provides a safe 

haven for victims of domestic violence. 

At the end of the month, 

Higgins will retire, leaving the 

center in the hands of Katora 

Printup. Printup has been assistant 

director for about a year and a 

half. 

“Working and being the leader 

of an agency that deals with that 

critical of an issue is tiring sometimes,” 

Higgins said. “It’s very 

rewarding too... I’m ready to relax 

and move on to a more relaxed 

lifestyle. I think the agency needs 

some new strength and new 

blood.” 

The center, which is in an 

undisclosed location,supports victims 

of domestic violence from 

Whitfield, Murray and Gordon 

counties by providing them with a 

safe shelter, counseling and legal 

advice. The annual budget is 

approximately $900,000, and it is 

primarily funded through the 

United Way and federal and state 

grants. The director oversee just 

under 20 full-time and part-time 

employees, as well as several volunteers. 

Higgins has been the center’s 

only director since it opened in 

1980. 

Reception 

Aa reception for Betty 

Higgins, retiring director of 

the Northwest Georgia 

Family Crisis Center, will be 

held Thursday, March 26 

from 4 to 6 p.m. at Dalton 

City Hall. At 5:30, Mayor 

David Pennington will make 

a presentation to Higgins. 

The public is invited. 

F ROM S TAFF R EPORTS 

“One of the comments I always 

hear is I have some big shoes to 

fill,” said Printup, a 33-year-old 

Calhoun native who has a master’s 

degree in public administration 

and a background in social work. 

“I think Betty will be a great role 

model for me. I know I have a lot 

of work ahead of me and a lot to 

learn.” 

Anita Thornton, who is on the 

center’s board of directors, said 

she is “sad” to see Higgins leave. 

“She’s been with the shelter for 

a long time and has a real heart for 

it,” Thornton said. “Change is 

always difficult especially when 

During the two months leading 

up to the 2008 presidential election, 

The Daily Citizen published 

a series of mini-biographies of the 

first 43 American presidents. The 

series was so popular, the newspaper 

combined the material into a 

single book, “U.S. Presidents.” 

which is now being sold at the 

newspaper office at 308 S. 

Thornton Ave. 

“The main reason we did the 

magazine was we had so many 

people coming in to buy copies of 

the paper for the president page 

that we sold out of a lot of issues,” 

said Gary Jones, advertising 

director of The Daily Citizen. 

“Putting them together allowed us 

to make them available to all our 

readers. 

Rhett Orr of Allstate Insurance 

stepped in as the prime sponsor, 

which allowed the newspaper to 

print enough copies to distribute 

the magazine to every fifth grader 

in the city and county school systems. 

Copies were also provided 

for home schoolers. 

“Rhett Orr and the other advertisers 

really made this possible,” 

said Jones. “They stepped up 

because they knew it was a good 

publication for young people and 

M ATT H AMILTON /T HE D AILY C ITIZEN 

Katora Printup, left, goes over a file with children’s advocate 

Kim Harrison at the N.W.Ga. Family Crisis Center Friday. 

you have a really strong leader... 

but we’re excited for Katora.” 

Printup doesn’t have any 

changes planned for the center,but 

hopes employees and volunteers 

will be open to new ideas. 

“I want the agency to not 

become stagnate,” she said. “I 

want us to continue to strive to end 

violence in the home... I want us 

to be open to new ideas, whether 

it’s fundraising or providing services.” 

Printup worked for the 

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for older folks, too.” 

Copies of “U.S. Presidents” are 

available at The Daily Citizen 

office for $1. 

Gov. Sony Perdue’s plan to overhaul 

state transportation planning 

barely made it out of the Senate, 

and some local members of the 

House of Representatives say it 

may not make it out of that chamber. 

“There’s mixed emotions among 

my colleagues I 

have talked to. I 

haven’t heard anyone 

come out 

strongly in favor 

of it,” said Rep. 

Williams 

Roger Williams, 

R-Dalton. 

Senate Bill 200 

would strip the 

G e o r g i a 

Department of Transportation 

board and State Transportation 

Board of much of their authority 

and place it in a new board that 

would be selected by the governor, 

lieutenant governor and speaker of 

the house. 

Perdue and other supporters say 

the move is needed to clean up a 

dysfunctional department that has a 

been plagued with red ink and long 

delays in projects. 

The current board has a member 

from each of the state’s congressional 

districts, and each of those 

members is selected by the members 

of the General Assembly from 

his district. Transportation board 

members select the transportation 

commissioner who heads GDOT. 

SB 200 passed the Senate 30-25, 

just one more vote than the minimum 

29 votes it needed. 

“I personally don’t think we 

need to create another authority. It 

will just be another layer of bureaucracy. 

I feel that the problems at the 

DOT can be solved,”Williams said. 

“I hate to see all this taken away 

from the DOT.” 

“It would basically strip the 

board of all its power,” he added. 

“We depend on our board member, 

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2A Monday, March 16, 2009 

Editor’s note: Please 

keep your comments as 

brief as possible. Get to the 

point! Longer comments 

should be submitted as letters 

to the editor. If you 

include a name, please spell 

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reach Today’s Forum. 

“If those had been black 

people stopped with all that 

dope on I-75 the DA would 

have been jumping for joy. 

200 pounds and these people 

were let go.” 

“Who were the idiots who 

let those people with the 200 

pounds of pot go?” 

“They let those drug dealers 

on the Interstate go. 

That’s comical.” 

Editor’s note: Do a little 

thinking here, folks. Do you 

really think that investigation 

is concluded?” 

“Who is the county 

administrator, Mr. McLeod 

or Mr. Brooker?” 

“Let me get this right. 

Harold Brooker is deciding 

what kind of asphalt needs 

to be used by the road 

department. Bob McLeod is 

dancing to Harold’s tune 

and Mike Babb doesn’t have 

any idea what happened. 

Business as usual.” 

“The article on the county 

commissioners and the man 

run off from the roads department 

is the kind of article the 

newspaper needs to be 

doing.” 

“If I had a job I could 

stimulate the economy. 

Everything I have is worn 

out.” 

“Ford Motor Co. has been 

frugal enough that they are 

not accepting the bailout 

money. I am buying Ford.” 

“They’ve been wondering 

what to do with the trade center 

in Dalton. At least for a 

short time it would be a great 

place to help the homeless. It 

might not make any money 

for the city of Dalton but oh 

what a star it would put in 

your crown!” 

“Maybe it’s time to ask 

the question, was I better off 

under Republican capitalism 

or Democrat communism?” 

“Before all you 

Republicans cry about pork 

and wasteful spending in the 

stimulus bill, remember that 

there were 24 Republican 

senators who put their own 

pork in that bill.” 

Lloyd remembers: I 

haven’t been superstitious 

about Friday the 13th since I 

was on a troop ship going to 

Europe to fight the enemy in 

1943. Nothing happened to 

the ship, so I quit thinking it 

was unlucky.” 

“Teens need to practice 

self control,then they wouldn’t 

need the Teen Resource 

Center.” 

“How many of those people 

living in the tent camp are 

alcoholics who refuse treatment?” 

“I get it now. Unless you 

are a Southerner your contribution 

to the forum is not 

T ODAY ’S FORUM 

H e a r W h a t 

Y o u ’v e B een 

M i ssing 

printed in its entirety or at 

all.” 

Editor:Why Lil’ Yankee 

missy,that’s a load ah sheer 

balderdash! Now, someone 

pass me that mint julep. 

“What about all the kids 

who are going to have to stay 

in that ‘lousy Murray High 

School’? It’s not fair to build 

a new school for some kids 

and leave the other kids 

behind.” 

“I would like to comment 

on all the comments to the 

editor. They just show you 

are doing your job. Keep up 

the good work.” 

“Some people don’t want 

to know the truth. That’s 

why they don’t like Bill 

O’Reilly.” 

“I’d like to see the 

Whitfield County superintendent 

and the principals 

work at a bachelor’s degree 

with five years of experience 

level.” 

“How about we don’t 

legalize illegals. Send them 

back and open up jobs for 

legal citizens who can then 

pay taxes.” 

“I’ll give Mr. Espy some 

free advice. If he keeps harping 

on this amnesty for illegal 

aliens all of the white people 

are going to stop subscribing 

to his paper.” 

Editor: So, you are the 

official spokesperson for 

“all the white people?” 

“Churches are non-profit 

organizations. People choose 

to give their money and it is 

used to keep the church 

going. If you are going to tax 

churches, you need to tax all 

non-profit organizations.” 

“No job is secure. Our 

only security is trusting in the 

Lord.” 

“I am sure Mayor 

Pennington told the DDDA 

to get rid of Sarah Harrison 

or funds would have been 

cut.” 

“Mr. Espy you want to 

give amnesty to all the illegals 

in this country? Yet you 

will not set the example by 

sponsoring one. Are you just 

another liberal hypocrite? 

Editor: I have never 

made that argument. You 

dreamed that up. Also, I 

think we should win the 

war in Iraq, but I don’t 

plan on parachuting in with 

an M-16. There are different 

ways to support an idea. 

“I have been working on 

Corporate Drive for the last 

two weeks and I totally agree 

with the callers who have 

been saying you need a red 

light at that intersection. It is 

horrible.” 

“Why are we pumping 

money into these failing 

financial institutions? If a 

person is bankrupt they don’t 

loan them a dime.” 

“I read in the paper about 

that Tunnel Hill policeman 

making that drug bust on the 

Interstate. Maybe the dumdums 

complaining about 

them patrolling there will 

shut up now.” 

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GDOT 

➣ From page 1A 

who is closest to us, to get 

things done. If all the 

power goes to this new 

authority, I don’t know 

what we would do.” 

Under SB 200, GDOT 

would remain responsible 

only for maintaining existing 

roads and bridges. 

“Creating plans and 

authorizing projects 

would be done by the new 

board,” Williams said. “It 

would give the governor a 

lot more power.” 

Rep. John Meadows, 

R-Calhoun, says he also 

has doubts about the bill. 

“I’m 

not a big 

fan of it. 

We’ve 

got to do 

s o m e 

m o r e 

work on 

t h a t 

Meadows thing,” 

he said. 

Meadows said he fears 

the members of the proposed 

board, unlike the 

State Transportation 

Board, might represent 

just a handful of areas. 

“Those appointments 

need to come from across 

the state,” he said. “They 

are going to have to work 

a lot harder to get me to 

come on board.” 

Members of both the 

Whitfield County Board 

of Commissioners and the 

Dalton City Council have 

criticized the plan, saying 

it would centralize transportation 

decisions. They 

have also expressed concern 

about a part of the 

bill that would end current 

state law requiring 80 percent 

of all federal transportation 

dollars to be 

divided equally among 

each of the state’s congressional 

districts. They 

say that could lead to the 

metro Atlanta area sucking 

up all of that money. 

“That’s the type of sentiment 

I’ve heard pretty 

much all over the 9th 

Congressional District 

from city and county officials,” 

s a i d 

Dalton 

attorney 

Steve 

Farrow, 

Farrow 

the 9th 

District 

representative 

to 

the State 

Transportation Board. 

The 9th District, which 

includes Whitfield and 

Murray counties,stretches 

from Dade County to 

White County and as far 

south as Forsyth County. 

“The only people I’ve 

heard who are really in 

favor of (of the plan) 

would primarily be 

Republican members of 

the state Senate,” said 

Farrow. 

Farrow said the transportation 

board has moved 

to clean up problems in 

the department and prioritize 

projects 

Meadows said he isn’t 

opposed to changes in 

GDOT or the transportation 

board, just the particular 

changes that have 

been proposed. 

“It seems like we are 

just jumping into this. I’d 

like to see a lot more study 

of what we can do,” he 

said. 

T ODAY ’S C ITIZEN 

NAME: Brittany 

Chastain 

AGE: 15 

HOME: Chatsworth 

FAMILY :Mom, Kim 

Chastain; dad, Steve 

Chastain;sister, 

Kaitlyn Chastain 

SCHOOL: Murray 

County 

PLAY :Cheerlead, 

dance 

SHE SAID: “With 

God, all things are 

possible.” 

Transition: 

➣ From page 1A 

Department of Family and 

Children Services for several 

years before joining 

the staff at the crisis center 

as the assistant director. 

She said she loves social 

work because of a “passion” 

to help others and 

“see that I can make an 

impact on someone.” 

“I think we are so fortunate 

to have someone 

already on staff, that has 

qualifications and the ability 

to step in,” Higgins 

said. “I think she will 

bring some new energy 

and a new vision.” 

The center’s employees 

not only provides shelter 

and counseling for people 

trying to escape domestic 

violence, but they help 

victims begin their lives 

again, Higgins said. 

There are times victims 

come through the center 

who have only the clothes 

on their backs’, she said. 

“Whatever they need at 

the time they come to us, 

we try to help them,” 

Higgins said. The victims 

“may need clothes, may 

need to get their birth certificates, 

Social Security 

cards. They have to start 

over.” 

Employees help victims 

find permanent housing 

and put them in touch 

with support groups or 

other social service agencies. 

“I believe every (victim) 

who comes through 

the shelter is a success 

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story,” Higgins said. “It 

takes an average of five to 

eight times before (a victim) 

leaves permanently. 

It’s a process people go 

through getting ready to 

get out” of an abusive 

relationship. 

Victims don’t typically 

want to end the relationship, 

but the violence they 

are experiencing, she said. 

“When they see they 

are not going to end the 

violence, they have to 

decide if they’re going to 

live with it or if they’re 

going to get out,” Higgins 

said. “I was at a meeting 

one time with some nurses, 

and someone said she 

(victim) had come through 

the shelter and she is now 

a nurse. She said she was 

really glad to have the 

help when she needed it. 

I’ve had women come 

back and say they had just 

bought their first house. I 

see them and they say how 

their lives have changed... 

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Need help? 

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whether you need 

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Monday, March 16, 2009 3A 

Immigrants face long detention, few rights 

B Y M ICHELLE R OBERTS 

Associated Press 

America’s detention system 

for immigrants has 

mushroomed in the last 

decade, a costly building 

boom that was supposed to 

sweep up criminals and 

ensure that undocumented 

immigrants were quickly 

shown the door. 

Instead, an Associated 

Press computer analysis of 

every person being held on a 

recent Sunday night shows 

that most did not have a criminal 

record and many were 

not about to leave the country 

— voluntarily or via deportation. 

An official Immigration 

and Customs Enforcement 

database, obtained under the 

Freedom of Information Act, 

showed a U.S. detainee population 

of exactly 32,000 on 

the evening of Jan. 25. 

B Y M ARY L ANDERS 

Savannah Morning News 

SAVANNAH, Ga. — 

Margaret Kincaid revels in the 

way her chickens strut across 

her lawn like they’re holding 

their skirts up, the way they 

dodge her lab-mix puppy 

Sumter, how they cackle 

when they lay (“As would I,” 

she says). 

And of course, there are 

the eggs. 

“There’s just something 

about a warm egg,” said 

Kincaid, holding a brown one 

straight from the converted 

doghouse where the hens 

nest. “You know it’s good, it’s 

organic; you know it’s fresh 

and not filled with antibiotics.” 

Her urban chickens are 

still something of an oddity, 

but less so as the economy 

slides and a movement to eat 

locally grown food gains 

momentum, said Alice Rolls, 

executive director of the 

Atlanta-based nonprofit 

Georgia Organics. 

The data show that 18,690 

immigrants had no criminal 

conviction, not even for illegal 

entry or low-level crimes 

like trespassing. More than 

400 of those with no criminal 

record had been incarcerated 

for at least a year. 

Nearly 10,000 had been in 

custody longer than 31 days 

— the average detention stay 

that ICE cites as evidence of 

its effective detention management. 

Especially tough bail conditions 

are exacerbated by 

disregard or bending of the 

rules regarding how long 

immigrants can be detained. 

Based on a 2001 ruling by 

the U.S. Supreme Court,ICE 

has about six months to 

deport or release immigrants 

after their case is decided. 

But immigration lawyers say 

that deadline is routinely 

missed. In the system snapshot 

provided to the AP, 950 

“People are reconnecting 

to their food source and shortening 

the distance from farm 

to fork,”Rolls said. “Just as 

they’re learning, ’Hey, I can 

grow that,’they’re learning, ’I 

can raise that.”’ 

Georgia Organics co-sponsors 

a popular “Chicks in the 

City” annual tour in the 

Atlanta metro area. 

Participants are more than 

idly curious. Last year, many 

of them became backyard 

chicken owners themselves, 

said Rolls, whose two Rhode 

Island reds — Lotus and Lima 

— and their pre-fab coop are 

on the tour. 

Kincaid brought her chickens 

with her when she and her 

husband, Gerry,moved to the 

Parkside neighborhood of 

Savannah from a marshfront 

Richmond Hill home about 

two and a half years ago. 

She was leery of what her 

city neighbors would think, a 

fear that worsened when Scott 

Smith from next door 

approached Gerry shortly 

after the Kincaids moved in 

 

More than half of all immigrants imprisoned by 

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) 

for immigration violations have not been 

convicted of acrime. 

Los Angeles 

Seattle 

San Francisco 

San Diego 

Salt Lake City 

Phoenix 

El Paso 

SOURCE: Department of Homeland Security 

MEXICO 

CANADA 

Aurora 

people were in that category. 

The detainee buildup 

began in the mid 1990s, long 

before the 2001 attacks on 

the World Trade Center and 

the Pentagon. Since 2003, 

though, Congress has doubled 

to $1.7 billion the 

and asked, “Did I hear chickens?” 

Nervous, he said the birds 

were just his wife’s pets. 

Smith persisted, though, and 

finally revealed that his 

curiosity sprang not from a 

complaint but a shared interest:The 

Smiths were thinking 

of getting chickens,too. 

Now they also have five 

black-and-white barred rocks. 

Five is the legal limit in 

Savannah. Roosters are a nono 

because of their noisy 

ways, but most backyard 

chicken owners don’t want 

them anyway because they’re 

more aggressive than the 

docile hens. (City slickers 

should note that while roosters 

are indispensable to making 

baby chicks, they’re not needed 

for eggs, which are produced 

in response to daylight 

patterns regardless of whether 

they’re fertilized or not.) 

Chatham County’s rules 

are similar to Savannah’s,said 

Animal Control Lt. Brenda 

Boulware. Residents can keep 

up to four hens with almost no 

St. Paul 

Darker red shows 

detainees without 

conviction 

Immigrantsbeing held at ICE detention 

centers on Jan. 25, 2009 

Dallas 

200 1,000 2,000 

Chicago 

Detroit 

3,000 

New Orleans 

4,000 

amount dedicated to imprisoning 

immigrants, as furor 

over “criminal aliens” intertwined 

with post-9/11 fears 

and anti-immigrant political 

rhetoric. 

But the dragnet has come 

to include not only terrorism 

Backyard chickens provide eggs, fun 

Houston 

San Antonio 

Buffalo 

Philadelphia 

Atlanta 

D.C. 

Miami 

Boston 

New York 

Newark 

restrictions in unincorporated 

parts of the county. 

With five or more hens, 

their housing is supposed to 

be at least 100 feet from an 

occupied building. Nuisance 

laws also apply,she said, but 

as with any animal if they’re 

kept clean (and there’s no 

noisy rooster) it would be 

hard to prove they were a nuisance. 

Ellen Harris keeps her five 

“ladies” — including two 

Easter Egger varieties that lay 

pale blue and green eggs — in 

her southside backyard. 

“I got them mainly for the 

eggs,”she said. “But it turns 

out chickens are a lot of fun. 

They’re fun to watch; they’re 

goofy and silly. They all have 

different personalities.” 

And they’re easy to care 

for, chicken owners say. Like 

Smith and Kincaid, Harris 

feeds her hens kitchen scraps 

plus commercial chicken feed 

and allows them to free range 

for insects. She estimates it 

takes about an hour a week to 

care for them. 

AP 

suspects and cop killers, but 

an honors student who was 

raised in Orlando, Fla.; a 

convenience store clerk who 

begged to go back to Canada; 

and a Pentecostal minister 

who was forcibly drugged by 

ICE agents after he asked to 

contact his wife, according to 

court records. 

Immigration lawyers note 

that substantial numbers of 

detainees,from 177 countries 

in the data provided, are not 

illegal immigrants at all. 

Many of the longest-term 

non-criminal detainees are 

asylum seekers fighting to 

stay here because they fear 

being killed in their home 

country. Others are longtime 

residents who may be eligible 

to stay under other criteria, 

or whose applications for 

permanent residency were 

lost or mishandled, the 

lawyers say. 

ICE says detention is the 

best way to guarantee that 

immigrants attend court 

hearings and leave the country 

when ordered. 

“It’s ensuring compliance, 

and if you look at the stats, 

for folks who are in detention, 

the stats are pretty darn 

high,” said ICE spokeswoman 

Cori Bassett. 

By comparison though, 

most criminal suspects, even 

sometimes those accused of 

heinous offenses, are entitled 

to bail. 

Based on the amount budgeted 

for this fiscal year,U.S. 

taxpayers will pay about 

$141 a night — the equivalent 

of a decent hotel room 

— for each immigrant 

detained, even though paroling 

them on ankle monitors 

— at a budgeted average 

daily cost of $13 — has an 

almost perfect compliance 

rate, according to ICE’s own 

stats. 

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Serving Northwest Georgia since 1847 

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Publisher 

Unsigned editorials represent the view of The Daily Citizen. Members 

of the newspaper’s editorial board are William Bronson, Jimmy Espy, 

Wes Chance and Victor Miller. Columns and letters to the editor are 

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L E TTERS 

W ORDS OF W ISDOM 

Mark Pace 

Editor Emeritus 

Political opposition a patriotic duty 

Patrick Henry once proclaimed, “Give me liberty or give 

me death”. Did this mean that he wasn’t a man of virtue? Was 

he simply being too extreme? No, to the contrary,he was one 

of our greatest American patriots. 

America, I would like to inform you that there is an alternative 

plan and believe it or not, it is out there in the world of 

our political discourse, even if it isn’t considered or covered 

on the 6 o’clock news or by those who hold the majority view 

point in Washington. The alternative to the Obama federal 

power grab would simply be to reduce the size and cost of the 

federal government,while keeping taxes low as to allow commerce 

to develop without the shackles of higher taxation or 

restraint by the government. However, to consume the wealth 

created by those who came before us rather than preserving it 

is stealing from all who will follow. Socialism always fails 

and constitutionally limited government is the only answer to 

maintaining our Nation’s prosperity. 

How is that? 

Did you know that when we were faced with a very similar 

situation in the late 70s,early 80s Reagan dramatically cut 

taxes to foster growth and it worked. Unemployment was dramatically 

reduced! It worked so well that even with lower tax 

rates, federal revenue coming in more than doubled in 

Reagan’s eight years, all while the economy took off and the 

people of this country pulled us out of the quagmire of recession. 

However,what President Obama has chosen to do is to follow 

in the footsteps of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, to use the 

opportunity and promotion of national crisis to grow the size 

and scope of the federal government. 

Contrary to today’s public opinion, FDR’s government 

growth policies were a failure, as unemployment remained in 

the teens and twenties from the time he took office even 

throughout his third term in office. It wasn’t until the mass 

private mobilization of free enterprise to produce materials 

and goods for the WWII that these numbers began to turn. 

That and the fact that a huge percentage of the work force was 

deployed to the European and Pacific theaters of war. 

Many today view the public discord and the public opposition 

to President Obama’s policies as being detrimental, or 

at least unproductive, but we should be reminded that to voice 

opposition against bad policy and to stand in opposition to 

leaders who seek to diminish our liberty with greater federal 

control and restraints, is the epitome of our patriotic duty. 

Chuck Payne 

Dalton 

First Steps needs community volunteers 

To the editor: 

There is always a need for volunteers in many different 

places. 

I taught school for 32 years and when I retired I thought I 

would now have time to travel, read, volunteer some and 

work more at my church. Then I received a phone call from 

the director of the former Northwest Georgia Council on 

Child Abuse about a part-time job which was to recruit and 

train volunteers for a program called First Steps. 

This program involves trained volunteers visiting moms at 

Hamilton Medical Center one day a week. The volunteer is a 

support person for these moms and gives them educational 

material about being a new mom and a community resource 

list plus other goodies. I spent some time thinking about 

doing this job and decided I would try it. 

Now the Northwest Council on Child Abuse has become a 

part of the Family Support Council. This First Steps program 

is a great volunteer opportunity as well as other programs that 

are under the Family Support Council. 

Since that time I have trained a lot of volunteers. It would 

be wonderful if they all wanted to volunteer forever but realistically 

that is impossible. Therefore, there is a constant 

turnover which leaves the program with about 5 to 10 volunteers 

per month. I am in desperate need for more volunteers 

who have one day each week or every two weeks that they 

could visit after they are trained. The schedule is very flexible 

for the amount of time. 

This First Steps program is a part of the Family Support 

Council which works to educate, intervene and prevent the 

cycle of child abuse. If you are interested in being a part of 

this wonderful Council — a United Way agency — please 

call me at (706) 272-7919 or visit us at 1529 Waring Road in 

Dalton. 

You will be amazed at the pleasure you receive by helping 

others as a volunteer. Your help is greatly needed, so think 

about it and give me a call. 

Rita Wagers 

Director, First Steps 

To suggest a Bible verse, 

call (706) 272-7735 or e-mail 

jimmyespy@daltoncitizen.com 

Bible Text: “ So do not fear, for I am with you; do 

not be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen 

you and help you; I will uphold you with my righteous 

right hand.” 

Isaiah 41:10 

Thought for Today: “Until we lose ourselves there is 

no hope of finding ourselves.” 

Henry Miller 

American author (1891-1980) 

Evasive maneuvers 

Jacob 

Sullum 

Do not bother to tell me even if forensic 

historians incontrovertibly prove by 

DNA that Thomas Jefferson, when he 

authored the Declaration of 

Independence, was under the influence 

of performance-enhancing pharmaceuticals. 

Not this week, thank you. This is 

the opening of “March Madness,”when 

65 men’s college basketball teams begin 

the play-off tournament that will eventually 

determine one national champion. 

More importantly,it is when just about 

the whole country seems to be consumed 

with the “office pool” and trying to predict 

the winner. 

The “office pool” is more than a celebration 

of spring. It is close to being a 

totally shared national experience. In 

businesses and institutions across the 

continent, co-workers and colleagues 

spend countless hours making their picks 

— or, more accurately, their guesses, 

investing a few dollars and then rooting 

for teams from schools the campuses of 

which they could not find on a map with 

the help of Google. 

In hopes of saving my gentle readers 

countless hours of researching the teams 

and players in this year’s tourney,I offer 

a few simple guidelines for winning the 

respect of your colleagues, if not the 

pool,itself. 

1) When in doubt in choosing 

between two teams, pick the team that 

competes all season in the tougher conference. 

For example, the Big East 

Conference and the Atlantic Coast 

Conference are much tougher conferences 

than are the Big South Conference 

and the Ivy League. Generally speaking, 

if a conference has five or more of its 

teams in the national tournament, then it 

is stronger than the conference that only 

has one team in the dance. 

2) Favorites are favorites for a reason: 

Justice Department 

memos released last week 

paint a picture of a post-9/11 

America where the military 

censors, searches and seizes 

people at will. Explaining 

why he sought to rationalize 

something akin to martial 

law, John Yoo, the memos’ 

main author, says he was 

asked “unprecedented questions 

under the most severe 

time pressures” during a 

period when many people 

feared more terrorist attacks 

were in the offing. 

Yet civil liberties do not 

mean much if they are abandoned 

whenever the government 

thinks it has a good reason 

to violate them. It is precisely 

in times of crisis, 

when politicians are most 

tempted to take legal shortcuts 

and the public is most 

inclined to go along, that 

constitutional protections are 

most needed. Although 

Attorney General Eric 

Holder claims to understand 

this, his embrace of Yoo-like 

rhetoric and reasoning suggests 

his differences with the 

former Office of Legal 

Counsel (OLC) lawyer may 

be a matter more of circumstance 

than of principle. 

In a March 7 Wall Street 

Journal op-ed piece, Yoo, 

now a Berkeley law professor, 

says the recently 

released memos, which were 

written in 2001 and 2002, 

were part of an effort “to 

plan for worst-case scenarios.” 

But his argument that 

the military could pursue terrorists 

domestically without 

regard to the Fourth 

Amendment’s guarantee 

against unreasonable searches 

and seizures did not hinge 

on additional attacks, let 

alone a situation resembling 

invasion or open warfare. It 

was an invitation to reclassify 

all terrorismrelated 

l a w 

enforcem 

e n t 

activities 

as matters 

of national 

security 

and hand 

them over 

to the 

Pentagon, 

thereby 

avoiding inconvenient constitutional 

constraints. 

In an October 2001 memo, 

Yoo and OLC lawyer Robert 

Delahunty suggested that if 

the military does something, 

even something that looks 

like police work, it is ipso 

facto a military operation,not 

a criminal investigation. “Our 

forces,”they said, “must be 

free to ‘seize’enemy personnel 

or ‘search’ enemy quarters, 

papers and messages 

without having to show 

‘probable cause’ to a neutral 

magistrate, and even without 

having to demonstrate that 

their actions were constitutionally 

‘reasonable.’” 

As Yoo sees it, if the 

Defense Department searches 

Americans’ homes, reads 

their mail or listens to their 

phone calls,it is not carrying 

out an investigation; it is 

waging the War on Terror. “If 

the government’s heightened 

interest in self-defense justifies 

the use of deadly force,” 

Yoo wrote in a September 

2001 memo, “then it certainly 

would also justify warrantless 

searches.” 

Likewise, according to 

Yoo,the military must be free 

to indefinitely detain anyone 

suspected of involvement 

with terrorism, including 

U.S. citizens arrested on U.S. 

soil, and neither Congress 

nor the courts have any business 

imposing limits on such 

detentions or dictating how 

the prisoners should be treated. 

In a gratuitous and therefore 

revealing aside, Yoo and 

Delahunty suggested that 

censorship aimed at defeating 

terrorism would be legal, 

too, since “First Amendment 

speech and press rights may 

also be subordinated to the 

overriding need to wage war 

successfully.” 

The Obama administration 

is not likely to go as far 

as Yoo did in asserting the 

president’s unilateral, unconstrained 

authority to fight terrorism. 

The courts have 

rejected key aspects of Yoo’s 

position, and the OLC itself 

renounced some of his more 

alarming claims (rather belatedly 

— just five days before 

George W. Bush left office). 

Yet Attorney General 

Holder has endorsed Yoo’s 

view that the U.S. is engaged 

in a never-ending, 

omnipresent War on Terror 

that justifies extraordinary 

measures such as preventive 

detention. He also has continued 

the Bush administration’s 

efforts to suppress lawsuits 

related to rendition and 

warrantless wiretapping on 

state secrecy grounds. 

The day he released the 

OLC memos, Holder said 

viewing the fight against terrorism 

as “a zero-sum battle 

with our civil liberties” is 

“misguided.” I’m not sure 

about that. There is a tradeoff 

here, but it is better understood 

as a tradeoff between 

the dangers of terrorism and 

the dangers of tyranny. The 

Obama administration 

should be judged by how 

well it strikes that balance. 

■ Jacob Sullum is senior editor 

at Reason magazine. 

That reason is that 

favorites win more 

often than do underdogs. 

Still, in the first 

round of the tournament 

No. 10 seeds 

often do defeat No. 7 

seeds. It’s not a crazy 

idea to pick a No. 12 

seed in that first 

round. 

3) Do not get carried 

away with upsets. 

In the entire history of 

these national basketball 

tournaments, no 

team seeded eighth or lower has ever 

won the championship. 

4) If you’re still stumped, make your 

picks (guesses) based upon the originality,appeal 

or humor of the schools’ basketball 

mascot. 

If this were the sole, determining criterion,anumber 

of teams that will not be 

asked to the tournament would be the 

overwhelming favorites, beginning with 

my personal pet mascot, the University 

of California at Santa Cruz’s banana slug. 

Nothing racially or ethnically offensive. 

No gratuitous violence. The banana slug 

was chosen,let it be noted, in a campuswide 

referendum at the university and 

succeeded the sea lion. 

For a real team mascot brimming with 

energy and enthusiasm, none can really 

compete with the Hawk of St. Joseph 

University in Philadelphia. It’s not the 

outfit,which is fine. It is that the St. Joe’s 

Hawk NEVER stops flapping its wings, 

or arms,from the beginning of the game 

until the end. Literally the Hawk’s wings 

are flapped thousands of times in a twohour 

game. 

But here are the outstanding mascots 

of teams in the 2009 tournament: 


T ODAY IN H ISTORY 

Winning ‘March Madness’ office pools 

Mark 

Shields 

Today is Monday, 

March 16, the 75th day of 

2009. There are 290 days 

left in the year. 

Today’s Highlight in 

History: 

On March 16,1968, during 

the Vietnam War, the 

My Lai Massacre of 

Vietnamese civilians was 

carried out by U.S. Army 

troops; estimates of the 

death toll vary between 347 

and 504. The same day, in 

Washington, D.C., Sen. 

Robert F. Kennedy of New 

York announced his candidacy 

for the Democratic 

presidential nomination. 

On this date: 

In 1802, President 

Thomas Jefferson signed a 

measure authorizing the 

establishment of the U.S. 

Military Academy at West 

Point, N.Y. 

In 1915, the Federal 

Trade Commission began 

operations. 

In 1926, rocket science 

pioneer Robert H. Goddard 

successfully tested the first 

liquid-fueled rocket, in 

Auburn, Mass. 

In 1935, Adolf Hitler 

decided to break the military 

terms set by the Treaty 

of Versailles by ordering 

the rearming of Germany. 

Ten years ago: The 

Dow Jones industrial average 

briefly topped the 

10,000 level, reaching a 

high of 10,001.78 before 

retreating. The entire 20- 

member European 

Commission resigned following 

publication of a critical 

report on sloppy management 

and cronyism. The 

Nebraska Cornhuskers beat 

Chicago State 50-3 in an 

NCAA baseball game. 

Five years ago: China 

declared victory in its fight 

against bird flu, saying it 

had “stamped out” all its 

known cases. 

One year ago: Protests 

spread from Tibet into three 

neighboring provinces; the 

Dalai Lama decried what 

he called the “cultural 

genocide” taking place in 

his homeland and called for 

an international investigation 

into China’s crackdown 

on demonstrators. 

Today’s Birthdays: 

Comedian-director Jerry 

Lewis is 83. Country singer 

Ray Walker (The 

Jordanaires) is 75. Game 

show host Chuck Woolery 

is 68. Actor Erik Estrada is 

60. Actor Victor Garber is 

60. Actress Kate Nelligan is 

58. Rock singer-musician 

Nancy Wilson (Heart) is 55. 

Rapper-actor Flavor Flav 

(Public Enemy) is 50. Rock 

musician Jimmy DeGrasso 

is 46. Actress Lauren 

Graham is 42. Actress 

Brooke Burns is 31. 

a) Otto the Orange of Syracuse 

University. Literally a round orange — 

with human legs and a little Syracuse cap 

on top. A more chunky earlier model 

basically covered the legs with his costume, 

creating a striking resemblance to 

the huge fruit. In defiance of mascots and 

cheerleaders who perform cartwheels or 

make human pyramids, the laid-back 

orange often just rolls on the floor. 

b) The West Virginia Mountaineer. A 

student,selected on the basis of class performance, 

among other factors, dressed 

in coonskin hat,sporting a beard and carrying 

a long rifle. It works for West 

Virginia University. 

c) Chief Osceola of Florida State 

University. A fierce Seminole brave 

ready for real conflict whose existence 

has been officially sanctioned as not 

being offensive by Florida’s Seminole 

tribe. 

d) Western Kentucky University’s Big 

Red, which is a huge red blob that looks 

like it might be the issue of an illicit 

union between PBS’s Clifford and the 

architects and engineers that produce 

Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade. Still, 

Big Red is likable. 

e) Wake Forest University’s Demon 

Deacon, which qualifies on the basis of 

creative contradictions. This historically 

Southern Baptist school, long before 

there was a Jimmy Swaggart or a Jim 

Bakker or a Father Geoghan,had its own 

Elmer Gantry mascot. I like him. 

There you have the keys to the office 

pool and your sanity in “March 

Madness.” Don’t take my picks. Look 

those mascots over,and then make your 

own choices. Good luck. 

■ To find out more about Mark Shieldss 

and read past columns, visit the Creators 

Syndicate Web site at www.creators.com.

T M 


Stores, food makers compete on prices 

B Y E MILY F REDRIX AND 

S ARAH S KIDMORE 

AP Retail Writers 

Retailers, who begrudgingly 

went along when food 

makers pushed up prices to 

recoup record-high costs, are 

flexing newfound muscle and 

demanding price cuts to 

match the recent steep retreat 

in ingredient costs. 

Food makers are resisting, 

saying the uncertain economy 

and volatile costs make price 

cuts unwise. But retailers 

aren’t backing down. 

Consumers — who 

responded to the higher prices 

by favoring grocers’ in-house 

products over national brands 

and by shopping more at discounters 

— may end up with 

fewer choices all around. 

“We don’t have to carry 

three brands,” Costco 

Wholesale Corp.’s Chief 

Financial Officer Richard 

Galanti told investors earlier 

this month. “We can choose 

between brands that are going 

to be more aggressive, that 

help us help our members.” 

Costco has been lowering 

its prices, Galanti said, and is 

prepared to sacrifice profit 

margins and cut national 

brands that won’t negotiate on 

pricing — if that’s what it 

takes to drive sales. 

“We are not the only ones 

out there pressuring manufacturers,”he 

said. 

Steven Burd, president of 

grocery chain Safeway Inc., 

recently told investors that it 

has gotten some vendors to 

roll back their prices. Like 

many retailers,it is finding its 

new strength in its in-house 

brands, including Safeway 

Select, O organics and Primo 

Taglio deli products. 

“We’re going to chew 

them up on corporate brands,” 

S UBMITTED BY D ALTON 

S TATE C OLLEGE 

A Dalton State College 

club, “Students United for 

Peace,” will sponsor “The 

Cost of War: Six Years Later 

— A Speaking Tour on the 

Cost of the Iraq War” today 

at 12:15 p.m. in the Pope 

Student Center. 

The program will be presented 

by the American 

Friends Service Committee 

and Georgia Peace and 

Justice Coalition, which is 

taking its speaking tour to 

college campuses across the 

state to mark the sixth 

anniversary of the Iraq War. 

“The goal of this tour is to 

educate Georgians on the 

■ Michael Wayne Best, 

33, 4731 S. Dixie Highway, 

Resaca, was charged Sunday 

by the Whitfield County 

Sheriff’s Office with DUI 

and a turning violation. 

■ Dusty Zane Hall, 25, 

277 N. Henderson Bend, 

Calhoun, was charged 

Sunday by the Dalton Police 

Department with possession 

of methamphetamine and 

possession of tools for the 

commission of a crime. 

■ Jared Patrick 

Henriquez, 26, 3793 Old 

Dixie Highway, Dalton, was 

charged Sunday by the 

Whitfield County Sheriff’s 

Office with sale of cocaine, 

possession of cocaine, possession 

of less than an ounce 

of marijuana, use of a community 

facility while committing 

a felony and possession 

of tools for the commission 

of a crime. 

■ David Dewayne 

Isenhower, 29, 562 Jim Petty 

Road, Crandall, was charged 

T r ace y R . Dailey ,RPH 

706- 226- 6000 

Sunday by the Murray 

County Sheriff’s Office with 

simple battery, battery, false 

imprisonment and furnishing 

alcohol to a minor. 

■ Carlos Cesar Ortega, 

26, 2013 Brookhaven Drive, 

Dalton, was charged Sunday 

by the Whitfield County 

Sheriff’s Office with DUI, 

driving too fast for conditions, 

driving without a 

license, littering and improper 

lane change. 

■ Manuel de Jesus 

Ramirez, 27, 714 Olivia 

Drive, Dalton, was charged 

Sunday by the Dalton Police 

Department with possession 

of cocaine. 

■ Tara Celestina Tibbs, 

33, 1221 Nelson St., Dalton, 

was charged Sunday by the 

Dalton Police Department 

with possession of methamphetamine, 

failure to maintain 

lane, possession of tools 

for the commission of a 

crime and a child support 

arrest order. 

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Burd said of food makers that 

don’t lower prices. “And 

we’re just going to keep driving 

corporate brands.” 

The situation grew so tense 

last month that grocer 

Delhaize SA in Belgium said 

it would no longer stock at 

least 250 Unilever products 

because the food maker was 

making “unprecedented” 

demands that would force 

retail prices up 30 percent. 

The grocer,which operates 

Food Lion and Sweetbay 

stores in the U.S., said 

Unilever also was demanding 

it carry some products consumers 

did not want. The two 

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reached an agreement this 

month, though the terms are 

unclear. 

Food makers,which raised 

prices last year after fuel and 

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as a translator, interpreter, 

consultant and political 

analyst. Hurd is the 

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some ingredient costs hit 

record highs in the summer, 

are leery of dropping their 

prices in case commodity 

costs come back up and pinch 

their profit margins. They say 

they’re still catching up with 

last year’s costs, even as they 

confront tougher competition 

from the retailers they rely on 

to sell their products. 

Producers are making 

some changes that can provide 

relief to both consumers 

and retailers,said Frank Luby, 

a partner with Simon-Kucher 

and Partners who consults 

with companies on pricing. 

Some are changing package 

sizes, often shrinking 

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steady so shoppers don’t pay 

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White House says economy 

is sound despite ‘mess’ 

B Y P HILIP E LLIOTT 

Associated Press Writer 

WASHINGTON — The 

economy is fundamentally 

sound despite the temporary 

“mess” it’s in, the White 

House said Sunday in the 

kind of upbeat assessment 

that Barack Obama had 

mocked as a presidential candidate. 

Obama’s Democratic 

allies pleaded for patience 

with an administration hitting 

the two-month mark this 

week, while Republicans 

said the White House’s plans 

ignore small business and the 

immediate need to fix what 

ails the economy. After 

weeks projecting a dismal 

outlook on the economy, 

administration officials — 

led by the president himself 

in recent days — swung their 

rhetoric toward optimism in 

what became Wall Street’s 

best stretch since November. 

During the fall campaign, 

Obama relentlessly criticized 

his Republican opponent, 

Sen. John McCain, for 

declaring, “The fundamentals 

of our economy are strong.” 

Obama’s team painted the 

veteran senator as out of 

touch and failing to grasp the 

challenges facing the country. 

But on Sunday,that optimistic 

message came from 

economic adviser Christina 

Romer. When asked during 

an appearance on NBC’s 

“Meet the Press” if the fundamentals 

of the economy 

were sound, she replied: “Of 

course they are sound.” 

“The fundamentals are 

sound in the sense that the 

American workers are sound, 

we have a good capital stock, 

them targets of their competitors 

— as ice cream maker 

Haagen-Dazs learned when it 

announced recently that it will 

shrink some of its containers. 

Rival Ben & Jerry’s, owned 

by Unilever, said on its Web 

site — without naming 

Haagen-Dazs outright — that 

consumers are hurting just 

like food makers and they 

deserve a full pint of ice 

cream,not just 14 ounces. 

Another change food companies 

are making is to focus 

promotions — which they 

negotiate with grocers — on 

staples like dairy, cereal and 

soup, BMO Capital Markets 

analyst Kenneth Zaslow has 

said. 

Eggland’s Best Inc., the 

nation’s largest branded egg 

company,is asking supermarkets,“If 

we give you so many 

we have good technology,” 

she said. “We know that — 

that temporarily we’re in a 

mess,right? We’ve seen huge 

job loss, we’ve seen very 

large falls in GDP. So certainly 

in the short run we’re in a 

— in a bad situation.” 

Just a week ago, White 

House Office of 

Management and Budget 

director Peter Orszag 

declared that “fundamentally, 

the economy is weak.” Days 

later, Obama told reporters 

he was confident in the economy. 

“If we are keeping 

focused on all the fundamentally 

sound aspects of our 

economy,all the outstanding 

companies, workers, all the 

innovation and dynamism in 

this economy, then we’re 

going to get through this,” 

Obama said, striking a tone 

that his top aides mimicked. 

Despite the new enthusiasm 

at the White House and 

on Wall Street, there was little 

solid evidence to suggest 

an end was in sight to the 

severe recession that has 

already cost 4 million 

American jobs, driven down 

home values and sent foreclosures 

soaring. Meanwhile, 

Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao 

said he was concerned about 

the safety of the estimated $1 

trillion his country has invested 

in U.S. government debt. 

Obama sought to downplay 

the worries. 

“There’s a reason why 

even in the midst of this economic 

crisis you’ve seen 

actual increases in investment 

flows here into the 

United States,”Obama said 

Saturday in the Oval Office. 

“I think it’s a recognition that 

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cents off, would you give that 

to the customer,” said Chief 

Executive Charlie Lanktree. 

At the same time, many 

retailers are increasing their 

promotions of house brands, 

Zaslow said. 

Some 64 percent of shoppers 

in 2008 said they often or 

always buy a store brand 

rather than a national one, 

according to the Food 

Marketing Institute, an industry 

trade group. That’s up 

from 59 percent the prior year. 

Kroger Co., owner of 

Ralphs, Fred Meyer, Food 4 

Less and other chains in 31 

states, saw sales of its inhouse 

brands hit a record 27 

percent of total sales in the 

most recent quarter. 

The company’s CEO, 

David Dillon, said after its 

most recent earnings report 

that Kroger is pushing producers 

back on prices. But he 

also said high pricing of 

national brands is helping 

bring customers to store 

brands — “so we are quite 

happy in either scenario.” 

Food companies say they 

are cooperating with retailers 

to the extent they can. 

Both Kraft, maker of its 

eponymous macaroni and 

cheese and Jell-O, and 

General Mills expect their 

ingredient costs to remain 

volatile and neither is offering 

broad price cuts. 

Luby,the pricing consultant,said 

cost volatility is a big 

concern amid other variables, 

like weak consumer confidence 

and the stronger dollar, 

which has dragged down 

overseas sales by U.S. companies. 

“Every penny that I would 

want to roll back, I’d like to 

know what I’m going to get 

for it,”he said. “That’s a complicated 

question.” 

the stability not only of our 

economic system, but also 

our political system, is 

extraordinary.” 

The seesaw message from 

the new administration drew 

sharp criticism from Senate 

Republican leader Mitch 

McConnell, who said 

Obama’s team was exploiting 

the economic situation 

for political gain. 

“They’re taking advantage 

of a crisis in order to do 

things that had nothing to do 

with getting us into the crisis 

in the first place,”McConnell 

said. 

Democratic lawmakers 

promoted a potential plan to 

help move so-called toxic 

assets off bank ledgers. Rep. 

Barney Frank, D-Mass., said 

discussions were under way, 

but would not be rushed. 

“If they wait a week or 

two more, no one ought to 

get all in a twitter about that. 

It’s very important to do it 

right,”he said. 

Also Sunday, the president’s 

team largely rejected 

suggestions that officials 

were considering taxing 

employees’ health benefits. 

As a candidate Obama had 

called such a proposal a 

“multitrillion-dollar tax 

hike.” 

“I’m not leaving the door 

open,”said Austan Goolsbee, 

a senior White House economist 

with a broad portfolio 

and a personal friendship 

with Obama, responding to a 

report in Sunday’s New York 

Times. “The president has 

laid out a series of clear principles 

on the health plan that 

we will do whatever it takes 

to get affordable quality coverage 

to all Americans.” 


B riefs 

Child porn probe 

nets 25 suspects 

ATLANTA — A 

roundup of child porn suspects 

continues in 

Georgia, with the latest 

arrests in Cobb County. 

That brings the total 

number of arrests to 25 

suspects in the Georgia 

Bureau of Investigation’s 

“Operation Shattered 

Innocence.” 

Police said 17-year-old 

Daniel Patrick Cohen, and 

24-year-old Justin Croy, 

both of Marietta, surrendered 

to authorities Friday, 

and each was charged with 

computer pornography. 

Outrage expressed 

on AIG bonuses 

WASHINGTON — 

Leaders of the White 

House economic team and 

the Senate’s top 

Republican bellowed about 

bonuses at a bailed-out 

insurance giant and 

pledged to prevent such 

payments in the future. 

On Sunday talk shows, 

they tore into contracts that 

American International 

Group asserted had to be 

honored — about $165 

million and payable to 

executives by Sunday — 

part of a larger total payout 

reportedly valued at $450 

million. The company has 

received more than $170 

billion in a federal rescue. 

Bomb kills 4 

U.S. soldiers 

KABUL — A roadside 

bomb killed four American 

soldiers in eastern 

Afghanistan on Sunday — 

new evidence of rising violence 

in a region where 

clashes and attacks in the 

first two months of 2009 

more than doubled from 

the same period a year ago. 

The spike in violence 

along the border is an 

early indication that roadside 

bombs and other 

ambushes are likely to 

surge as thousands of new 

U.S. forces arrive in 

Afghanistan this year. 

Cheney: U.S. is 

less safe now 

WASHINGTON (AP) 

— Former Vice President 

Dick Cheney said Sunday 

that Americans are less 

safe now that President 

Barack Obama has overturned 

Bush terrorismfighting 

policies and that 

nearly all the Republican 

administration’s goals in 

Iraq have been achieved. 

“There is no prospect” 

that Iraq will return to producing 

weapons of mass 

destruction or supporting 

terrorists,Cheney asserted, 

“as long as it’s a democratically 

governed country,as 

long as they have got the 

security forces they do 

now and a relationship 

with the United States.” 

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B RIDGE 

Famous hand 

This astonishing 

deal occurred during 

a match in the 1997 

Vanderbilt Teams, 

and had a direct 

effect not only on the 

outcome of that 

match, but also in 

determining the ultimate 

winners of the 

event. 

The serendipitous 

result on the deal 

grew out of a bidding 

misunderstanding 

between Bobby 

Goldman and Paul 

Soloway, a longstanding 

partnership 

comprised of two of 

the best players in 

the United States. 

After Fred Stewart and Steve Weinstein, East-West, had 

quickly arrived at five diamonds, Soloway elected to bid 

five notrump, which he intended as a takeout for the three 

unbid suits. He apparently felt a double at this level would 

have been construed as primarily for penalties. 

However, Goldman read the five-notrump bid as 

“unusual notrump,” asking him to choose between clubs 

and hearts, the two lower-ranking unbid suits. He therefore 

bid six hearts,and everyone passed, leaving North-South in 

their 4-2 heart fit rather than their 11-card spade fit! 

Weinstein led the diamond ace, and Goldman could see 

that if he ruffed in dummy, whichever defender held four 

trumps would then have a trump trick. So instead of ruffing, 

Goldman discarded a spade! 

Now,as anyone can plainly see, all Weinstein had to do 

to beat the slam was to cash the club ace. But he reasoned 

that if South had no clubs, leading the ace might help 

declarer make the slam,while if South had a club, he would 

have to lose a trick to the ace eventually. 

So at trick two, Weinstein led another diamond, a play 

that no doubt has caused him many sleepless nights since. 

Goldman won the diamond with the king, drew trumps in 

four rounds and then ran seven spades to score the rest of 

the tricks! 

At the other table, six spades was duly bid and made by 

Weinstein’s teammates to achieve a tie. But if Weinstein 

had cashed the club ace at trick two, his team would have 

won the match and eliminated the team that went on to win 

the Vanderbilt that year. 

Tomorrow: Gain versus loss. 

C RYPTOQUIP 

Happy Birthday: Too 

much to deal with and not 

enough time to make things 

go the way you want will be 

challenging. This is a year 

when you must focus, concentrate 

and tunnel in, getting 

to the point that will 

make the biggest difference 

to your future. Set a pattern 

that will allow you 

to speed up the 

process of completion. 

Your numbers 

are 4, 12, 13, 26, 

29, 33, 48 

ARIES (March 

21-April 19): Be 

careful with your 

money. A contract 

or chance to negotiate 

a better deal 

or even barter for a 

good price will all 

be necessary if you 

want to put a little 

aside. Make some improvements 

that will help you to 

market your talents. 5 stars 

TAURUS (April 20-May 

20): Don’t let your stubbornness 

keep you from 

accomplishing what needs 

to be done. Put your feelings 

aside and work alongside 

others, even if you don’t 

necessarily agree with them. 

Anger will get you nowhere. 

3 stars 

GEMINI (May 21-June 

20): Do whatever has to be 

done without hassle. As soon 

as you let others meddle or 

interfere, you will lose your 

pace and end up foregoing 

your original plan. Make 

decisions that can affect your 

professional outlook without 

letting your emotions take 

over. 3 stars 

CANCER (June 21-July 

22): Don’t get all upset about 

what’s happening around 

you. In the end, it will be to 

your benefit to accept and 

adapt to the changes that 

unfold. Emotional outbursts 

will lead to mistakes and 

mishaps, setting you back 

financially and possibly 

physically. 3 stars 

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): 

You may feel like spending 

but you shouldn’t. Love and 

adventure are likely to overpower 

you, making for an 

exciting but expensive day. 

Think before you decide to 

go overboard in any way. 

Excess will be your enemy. 5 

stars 

H OROSCOPE 

Eugenia 

Last 


VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 

22): Stick to your own 

devices and let others do as 

they please. A service or idea 

you have that brings more 

leisure time or comfort to 

others will turn out to be a 

lucrative investment. Explore 

the possibilities. 2 stars 

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 

22): You can talk 

your way in or out 

of anything. Your 

opinions will be 

taken seriously and 

help to get things 

underway will be 

offered. You have 

lots to gain from 

interacting with 

people from different 

backgrounds. 4 

stars 

SCORPIO (Oct. 

23-Nov. 21): Use 

your ingenuity to 

come up with whatever solution 

you need to move forward 

with a project. Talk is 

not going to get things done 

but actions will. Put your ego 

aside, admit if you need help 

and finish what you began so 

long ago. 3 stars 

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 

22-Dec. 21): Emotional 

issues will be difficult to 

avoid and upsetting to deal 

with. It’s best to let others do 

the talking while you sort out 

what you must do. End any 

relationships that aren’t 

working. 3 stars 

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22- 

Jan. 19): Pull together all the 

people whom you feel can 

contribute to what you want 

to do. You will be able to 

shape the ideas you have into 

something tangible and stabilize 

your own future. 4 

stars 

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20- 

Feb. 18): Everyone who 

knows you is proud of what 

you have accomplished. Take 

your time to enjoy a little 

peace of mind. Love is in the 

stars so make a gesture to 

spend more time with someone 

and you will get the 

response you want. 4 stars 

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 

20): Don’t get angry, get 

moving. Someone is waiting 

for you to waffle so he or she 

can step in and take over. Get 

your act together and your 

mind set on making gains. 

Don’t show your weakness. 2 

stars 

T O Y OUR G OOD H EALTH 

Cardiomyopathy is a disease of the heart muscle 

DEAR DR. DONO- 

HUE: I have some questions 

about cardiomyopathy. They 

say mine was caused by a 

viral infection, but I never 

had symptoms similar to a 

heart attack. My heart is now 

functioning at a low level. I 

also had a defibrillator put 

in. Does the heart heal itself 

after a while, or is this chronic? 

Do diet and exercise 

help? My wife and I do outdoor 

art fairs, and it requires 

some heavy lifting. Should I 

continue? — R.B. 

A N S W E R : 

Cardiomyopathy is a heart 

problem where the focus of 

attention is on heart muscle 

(“cardio” — heart,“myo” — 

muscle),not on heart arteries 

or heart valves, the more 

common kinds of heart problems. 

Cardiomyopathies 

come in different varieties. 

What I am about to say 

applies only to viral-caused 

Paul G. 

Donohue 

cardiomyopathy. 

Many 

viruses 

attack the 

h e a r t 

muscle 

and prod 

u c e 

heartmuscle 

inflammation 

— 

myocarditis. 

For 

most, it gets better in time, 

and for some, the initial 

attack produces no symptoms. 

For a few, it persists 

and negatively affects the 

heart’s functioning. The end 

result is cardiomyopathy. 

The heart isn’t able to pump 

blood efficiently. Usually, 

this is a chronic condition. 

The result is breathlessness 

when people are active. 

They can’t manage to do 

what they used to do. 

They’re tired most of the 

time. They often develop 

abnormal and dangerous 

heart rhythms, the reason 

you have a defibrillator. This 

is a state of heart failure. 

Cardiomyopathy heart 

failure is treated in much the 

same way heart failure from 

other causes is treated. 

Diuretics are often prescribed 

to rid the body of 

excess fluid. ACE inhibitors 

are used to rest the heart. The 

only diet is a low-salt diet. 

Exercise generally is kept to 

a minimum. However, it’s 

your doctor who has to 

decide how much exercise 

you can do and how much 

lifting is permitted. 

In spite of some of the 

restrictions people face, they 

usually can lead a good life 

with viral cardiomyopathy. 


HUE: My wife manages a 

healthy food regimen in our 

house: fish, chicken without 

skin, beans, no soft drinks 

and lots of veggies and 

fruits. In addition, I take half 

a cup of bran cereal every 

day. Is there such a thing as 

too much fiber? The real 

issue is the gaseous consequence 

of fiber. Is there anything 

I can take to counteract 

it? No pills, please. — R.R. 

ANSWER: Fiber does 

promote gas production. 

Why not cut back on the 

amount you’re eating? Then, 

when the problem ends, you 

can start adding more fiber 

into your diet and slowly 

increase the amount of it. 

That gives your digestive 

tract a chance to learn how to 

cope with the increased fiber 

load. 

Eat very slowly to minimize 

gas production. Stay 

away from foods that are 

notorious for promoting gas 

— beans, peas, lentils, 

onions, cabbage and broccoli. 

They’re all wonderful 

sources of fiber, but they’re 

also wonderful gas producers. 

Eggs, meat and cauliflower 

impart an unpleasant 

odor to flatulence. Cutting 

back on those foods makes 

the passage of gas less offensive 

to those in your vicinity. 

Can you get too much 

fiber? Not really. If taken 

together with calcium and 

iron, fiber can lessen their 

absorption. 


HUE: My wife and I occasionally 

get nighttime leg 

cramps. A friend told us to 

put a bar of soap under the 

sheets. It seems to work. Is it 

just a coincidence, our imagination 

or an old wives’ tale? 

— B.B. 

Carpet 

apprecia tion 

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letters, but he will incorporate 

them in his column whenever 

possible. Readers may write 

him or request an order form 

of available health newsletters 

at P.O. Box 536475, 

Orlando, FL 32853-6475. 

ANSWER: It might be 

all three. I have stopped writing 

about the soap solution 

to leg cramps because it 

doesn’t have a shred of scientific 

proof. All the same, 

many people say it works. 

The soap can be any brand; it 

doesn’t have to be 

unwrapped; it can be put 

anywhere between the 

sheets, but most put it near 

the legs. 

This is one treatment that 

is guaranteed not to hurt. I 

can’t say if it will help. It 

sounds a little quirky to me. 

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Lopez and Kaley McElwee. Not pictured are Tristen 

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■ MUTTS 

■ WIZARD OF ID 

■ CATHY 

■ GARFIELD 

DEAR ABBY: I am a new mom who 

works in a high-tech start-up company that 

does not provide a mother’s room. I’m the 

first employee here to have a baby. The corporate 

plaza in which my office is 

located also doesn’t provide one. 

Therefore, I must resort to using the 

restroom to pump my breast milk, 

which must be done every few hours. 

Some of the women using the 

restroom have wondered aloud about 

the “weird noise” they hear, while 

others walk back and forth searching 

for the source of the “sound.” 

How should I respond to them? 

— PRIVACY PLEASE IN SANTA 

CLARA, CALIF. 

DEAR PRIVACY PLEASE: 

You’re reacting as if pumping breast 

milk is something to be ashamed of. It isn’t. 

While you may be the first woman at the company 

to have given birth, I guarantee you 

won’t be the last. So start communicating with 

the other female co-workers. It might be good 

to talk with your supervisor or your boss. 

And as to the “pacers” and “wonderers” in 

the restroom — try to understand that they 

are merely curious. Consider printing a sign 

you can tape to the door of the stall you occupy 

that reads: “Breast Pumping Station.” It 

will stop the questions and save you from 

yelling out, “It’s my breast pump!” 

DEAR ABBY: I was a stay-at-home mom 

for many years and enrolled in college when my 


D EAR A BBY 

Mom pumps milk in bathroom 

■ HOCUS FOCUS 

Jeanne 

Phillips 

youngest entered kindergarten. I held various 

part-time (and later full-time) dead-end jobs to 

supplement my husband’s income. It took 15 

years,but I finally graduated with a B.A. in history,although 

I have since discovered 

there isn’t much I can do with it. 

After almost 30 years of marriage, 

my husband decided he wanted 

a divorce. I am now on my own 

and struggling. I have no marketable 

skills, can’t afford to attend school 

full-time, and don’t have the money 

to pay for more training without 

going into further debt. 

My current job pays $10 an hour, 

the benefits are good, but I don’t 

really like my job or see myself ever 

earning a higher wage. If it wasn’t 

for alimony, I’d be even worse off, 

but that won’t last forever. 

I’m thankful that my kids are on their own 

and don’t need my support, but they can’t 

help me either. What options are there for 

someone in my situation? — FRUSTRAT- 

ED IN NORTH CAROLINA 

DEAR FRUSTRATED: You are an educated, 

literate, mature college graduate. You 

could make some executive an excellent,competent 

personal assistant. Depending upon 

what the requirements are in your state, you 

might also be able to be a teacher’s assistant. 

Contact an employment agency and ask if 

you can get a skill assessment. I am sure you 

could find a job where your attributes would 

be appreciated if you start looking. 

■ SNUFFY SMITH 

■ PEANUTS 

■ HAGAR THE HORRIBLE 

■ ROSE IS ROSE 

■ FOR BETTER OR WORSE 

■ ZITS 

■ BLONDIE 

■ BABY BLUES 

■ BEETLE BAILEY 

■ FAMILY CIRCUS 

■ CLOSE TO HOME 

■ TUNDRA



O BITUARIES 

• Alaysha Nicole Irie 

Ford, Dalton 

• Eva Messer,Dalton 

• Edith McLaurin Owens, 

Rocky Face 

Obituary notices are 

posted online at 


Alaysha Nicole 

Irie Ford 

Little Alaysha Nicole Irie 

Ford, infant daughter of 

Whitney Nicole McClure 

and Donnye Ford Jr., of 

Dalton, Ga., departed this 

life Wednesday, March 11, 

2009. 

She is also survived by 

her grandparents, Alvin and 

Twana McClure of Rocky 

Face, Ga., Eyvette Roberts 

of Rockmart, Ga.; greatgrandparents, 

John and 

Brenda Brooks of Tunnel 

Hill, Ga.; brothers, J’dun 

Hill and Kidron Ford; 

uncles, Tyler McClure of 

Rocky Face, Ga.,Trika Ford, 

Kelsey Roberts of Rockmart, 

Ga., several other aunts, 

uncles and cousins. 

Services will be today at 

11 a.m. at the Melrose 

Chapel of Ponders Funeral 

Home with the Rev. Clyde 

Painter officiating. Interment 

will follow in the United 

Memorial Gardens. 

The family will receive 

friends at the funeral home 

from 10 until 11 a.m. today. 

Arrangements by locally 

owned and operated Ponders 

Funeral Home, 138 Melrose 

Drive, Dalton. (706) 226- 

4002. Your selected independent 

funeral home. 

www.legacy.com 

Eva Messer 

Mrs. Eva Messer, of 

Dalton, died Sunday, March 

15, 2009. 

Survivors and arrangements 

will be announced 

later by Love Funeral Home, 

1402 N. Thornton Ave., 

Dalton. 


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Funeral Home 

Family Owned Since 1935 

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Edith McLaurin 

Owens 

Mrs. Edith McLaurin 

Owens, 76, of Rocky Face 

and formerly of North 

Carolina, passed away 

Friday, March 13, 2009, at 

Hamilton Medical Center in 

Dalton. 

She was the daughter of 

the late Baxter and Garphelia 

Stubbs. 

McLaurin and was preceded 

in death by her three 

brothers. 

Edith was an active member 

of the Dug Gap Baptist 

Church. 

She is survived by her 

loving husband of 57 years, 

William Owens of Dalton; 

children and their spouses, 

Lynn (Randy) Owens 

Cochran of Kernersville, 

N.C.; Hugh (Melanie) 

Owens of Rossville and 

Kenneth Owens of 

Ringgold; sisters, Betty 

Axsom, Dee Caudle and 

Barbara Owens all of North 

Carolina; brother, J.R. 

Mclaurin of North Carolina; 

six grandchildren and eight 

great-grandchildren; nieces 

and nephews. 

Services will be Monday 

at 11 a.m. from Dug Gap 

Baptist Church in Dalton 

with the Rev. Bob Bagley 

officiating. 

Burial will be in Pinecrest 

Cemetery in Gibson, N.C. 

The family will receive 

friends at Love Funeral 

Home today from 5 to 8 

p.m. 

In lieu of flowers, memorials 

may be made to the 

American Cancer Society, 

300 W. Emery St.,Suite 106, 

Dalton, GA 30720 or to the 

Dug Gap Baptist Church, 

2301 Dug Gap Riad, Dalton, 

GA 30720. 

Words of comfort may be 

sent to the family at 

www.lovefuneralhomega.com. 

Love Funeral Home, 

1402 N. Thornton Ave., 

Dalton (across from 

Hamilton Medical Center) is 

in charge of arrangements. 


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Funeral Home 

Family Owned Since 1935 

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Taking a bite out of peanut allergies 

WASHINGTON (AP) — 

Scientists have the first evidence 

that life-threatening 

peanut allergies may be 

cured one day. 

A few children now are 

allergy-free thanks to a scary 

treatment — tiny amounts of 

the very food that endangered 

them. 

Don’t try this at home. 

Doctors monitored the 

youngsters closely in case 

the patients needed rescue, 

and there is no way to dice a 

peanut as small as the treatment 

doses required. 

But over several years,the 

children’s bodies learned to 

tolerate peanuts. Immunesystem 

tests show no sign of 

remaining allergy in five 

youngsters, and others can 

withstand amounts that once 

would have left them wheezing 

or worse, scientists 

reported Sunday. 

Are the five cured? 

Doctors at Duke University 

Medical Center and 

Arkansas Children’s 

Hospital must track them 

years longer to be sure. 

“We’re optimistic that 

they have lost their peanut 

allergy,” said the lead 

researcher, Dr. Wesley 

Burks, Duke’s allergy chief. 

“We’ve not seen this before 

medically. We’ll have to see 

what happens to them.” 

More rigorous research is 

under way to confirm the 

pilot study, released Sunday 

at a meeting of the American 

Academy of Allergy,Asthma 

and Immunology. If it pans 

out,the approach could mark 

a major advance for an allergy 

that afflicts 1.8 million 

people in the United States. 

For parents of these little 

allergy pioneers, that means 

no more fear that something 

as simple as sharing a 

friend’s cookie at school 

could mean a race to the 

emergency room. 

“It’s such a burden lifted 

off your shoulder to realize 

you don’t have to worry 

about your child eating a 

peanut and ending up really 

sick,” said Rhonda Cassada 

of Hillsborough, North 

Dr. Wesley Burks MD, left, speaks with 4-year-old Ashlyn Chadwick and her 

mother Karen about Ashlyn’s peanut allergies during a clinic at the Duke South 

Clinic at Duke University in Durham, N.C., March 10. Medical student Sean 

Prater looks on along with Dr. Edwin Kim, center. 

Carolina. Her 7-year-old son, 

Ryan, has been labeled allergy-free 

for two years and 

counting. 

It’s a big change for a 

child who could not tolerate 

one-sixth of a peanut when 

he entered the study at age 2 

1/2. By 5, Ryan could eat a 

whopping 15 peanuts at a 

time with no sign of a reaction. 

Not that Ryan grew to like 

peanuts. “They smell bad,” 

he said matter-of-factly. 

Millions of people have 

food allergies and peanut 

allergy is considered the 

most dangerous, with lifethreatening 

reactions possible 

from trace amounts. It 

accounts for most of the 

30,000 emergency-room visits 

and up to 200 deaths 

attributed to food allergies 

each year. Although some 

children outgrow peanut 

allergy,that’s rare among the 

severely affected. 

There’s no way to avoid a 

reaction other than avoiding 

peanuts. Those allergy shots 

that help people allergic to 

pollen and other environmental 

triggers reduce or 

eliminate symptoms — by 

getting used to small 

amounts of the allergen — 

are too risky for food allergies. 

Enter oral immunotherapy. 

Twenty-nine severely 

allergic children spent a day 

in the hospital swallowing 

minuscule but slowly 

increasing doses of a specially 

prepared peanut flour, 

until they had a reaction. The 

child went home with a daily 

dose just under that reactive 

amount, usually equivalent 

to one-thousandth of a 

peanut. 

After eight months to 10 

months of gradual dose 

increases, most can eat the 

peanut-flour equivalent of 15 

peanuts daily, said Burks, 

who two years ago began 

reporting these signs of 

desensitization as long as 

children took their daily 

medicine. 

Sunday’s report goes the 

next big step. 

Nine children who had 

taken daily therapy for 2 1/2 

years were given a series of 

peanut challenges. Four in 

the initial study report — and 

a fifth who finished testing 

last week — could stop treatment 

and avoid peanuts for 

an entire month and still 

have no reaction the next 

time they ate 15 whole 

peanuts. Immune-system 

changes suggest they are 

truly allergy-free, Burks 

said. 

Scientists call that tolerance 

— meaning their 

immune systems did not forget 

and go bad again — and 

it is a first for food allergy 

treatment, said Dr. Marshall 

Plaut of the National 

Institutes of Health. 

The treatment remains 

experimental, Burks 

stressed,although he hopes it 

will be ready for prime time 

in a few years. 

He is not taking chances 

with the first five allergy-free 

kids. They are under orders 

to eat the equivalent of a 

tablespoon of peanut butter a 

day to keep their bodies used 

to the allergen. 

On the Net: 

American Academy of 

Allergy, Asthma and 

Immunology: 

www.aaaai.org 

F a t cat 

AP FILE PHOTO 

Turnersville resident 

Donna Damiani, center, 

and her children 

Melissa, left, 12, and 

Vince, 17, hold the cat 

named “Prince Chunk,” 

at their home in 

Washington Township, 

N.J. in August of 2008. 

The Damiani family 

finalized the paperwork 

for the cat’s adoption in 

February 2009, though 

they’ve been caring for 

the cat since Summer 

2009. The cat was rescued 

by the Damiani 

family when his previous 

owner was struggling 

financially. 

How much fat? 

Bill would require chain 

restaurants to post fat, 

calorie intake totals 

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that double-cheeseburger? 

Soon, the gut-busting 

details could be staring you 

in the face. 

Lawmakers introduced a 

bill this week requiring 

chain restaurants with 20 or 

more locations to post 

nutrition information in 

plain sight, following an 

E.W. Scripps media investigation. 

With the obesity rate 

hovering at 60 percent of 

the adult U.S. population, 

the Labeling Education 

and Nutrition (LEAN) Act 

is meant to help diners 

make better-informed 

choices when eating out. 

The measure calls for calories 

to be posted on or near 

menus and menu boards. It 

allows for flexibility, so 

that fast-food restaurants 

and sit-down eateries can 

post the information differently. 

The legislation comes 

after a 2008 Scripps investigation 

found that popular 

chain restaurants touted 

“healthy” dishes that actually 

contained more calories 

and fat than the eateries 

claimed. 

Dishes targeted to 

health-conscious consumers 

at chains including 

Chili’s, Taco Bell and 

Applebee’s contained as 

much as twice the calories 

and eight times the grams 

of fat than the restaurants 

claimed in their nutrition 

information. 

While mandating that 

chains provide information, 

the new legislation would 

also protect chains if they 

display incorrect information. 

“The bill aims to provide 

the nutrition information 

that is important to 

consumers, and is clear and 

concise while at the same 

time protecting restaurants,” 

said David French, 

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Introduced with bipartisan 

support in both the U.S. 

Senate and House, the bill 

would give the U.S. Food 

and Drug Administration 

oversight of restaurant 

nutrition labeling. The 

sponsors are Sens. Tom 

Carper, D-Del., and Lisa 

Murkowski, R-Alaska, and 

Reps. Jim Matheson, D- 

Utah, and Fred Upton, R- 

Mich. 

But don’t expect to see 

new nutrition information 

signs quickly: The bill 

gives up to two years from 

the time its passage for federal 

officials to develop 

rules about the nutrition 

labeling. 

While calorie information 

would be posted on or 

near menus or menu 

boards, information about 

other nutrients, like sugar 

and sodium, would be 

available. 

“Healthy nutrition and 

obesity are national concerns 

that cry for national 

attention,” Carper said. 

“Our job is to give consumers 

the tools they need 

to make smart choices in 

their everyday lives.” 

While nutrition information 

is mandatory for packaged 

foods, there’s no federal 

rule on nutrition information 

for restaurants. 

Instead, municipalities 

scattered from New York 

City to Seattle’s King 

County require nutrition 

specifics posted at certain 

types of restaurants. The 

bill would provide a unified 

reporting standard. 

“There’s a patchwork of 

standards across states and 

localities,” said Matheson 

spokesman Alyson 

Heyrend. “It creates a 

national standard for 

restaurants.” 

The National Restaurant 

Association also cited the 

current patchwork of rules 

in its endorsement of the 

bill. 

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Almanac 

Chattanooga through 3 p.m. yest. 

Temperature: 

High/low . . . . . . . . . . . 57°/47° 

Precipitation: 

24 hrs.to 3 p.m. yest. . . 0.36" 

RealFeel Temperature ® 

The patented AccuWeather.com 

RealFeel Temperature is an exclusive 

index of effective temperature based on 

eight weather factors.Shown is the highest 

values of the day. 

55 56 59 62 63 63 

72 71 68 

Georgia Weather 

Dalton 

Gainesville 

60/45 

Atlanta 

62/47 

Athens 

60/45 

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by AccuWeather,Inc. ©2009 

Augusta 

60/44 

National Weather for March 16, 2009 

-10s -0s 0s 10s 20s 30s 40s 50s 60s 70s 80s 90s 100s 110s 

Seattle 

47/38 

Billings 

48/29 

San Francisco 

63/50 

Denver 

71/35 

Minneapolis 

58/43 

Chicago 

61/45 

Kansas City 

75/51 

New York 

Detroit 

50/39 

57/39 

Washington 

51/39 

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Sun and Moon 

Sunrise today ........... 7:49 a.m. 

Sunset tonight .......... 7:48 p.m. 

Last New First Full 

Mar 18 

Mar 26 

Apr 2 

Weather History 

Apr 9 

A giant storm on March 16, 1843, 

dumped heavy snow from the 

Mississippi Valley to New England.Little 

Rock, Ark., had 10 inches. New York City 

received more than 12 inches. 

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ice stored? 

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Antarctic ice cap. 

Columbus 

65/48 

Albany 

70/50 

Macon 

65/46 

Cordele 

69/47 

Shown is today’s weather. Temperatures 

are today’s highs and tonight’s lows. 

Valdosta 

74/53 

Dublin 

65/47 

Savannah 

68/50 

Brunswick 

75/54 

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Atlanta 62/47/r 72/47/pc 69/50/s 

Athens 60/45/r 74/45/pc 69/46/s 

Augusta 60/44/r 72/43/pc 72/45/s 

Brunswick 75/54/t 69/53/pc 69/54/pc 

College Park 62/47/r 72/47/pc 69/50/s 

Columbus 65/48/r 76/48/pc 74/50/s 

Gainesville 60/45/r 72/47/pc 67/45/s 

La Grange 61/43/r 73/43/pc 71/45/s 

Macon 65/46/r 77/45/pc 72/46/s 

Marietta 63/44/r 73/42/pc 69/44/s 

Newton 72/52/r 77/49/pc 76/50/pc 

Rome 66/46/r 77/44/pc 71/44/s 

Savannah 68/50/t 70/50/pc 71/47/pc 

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Billings 48/29/r 50/30/c 53/31/pc 

Boise 54/39/r 56/35/c 58/38/pc 

Buffalo 52/36/c 57/41/pc 50/33/r 

Charlotte 51/42/r 66/44/pc 70/45/s 

Cheyenne 64/36/s 64/35/c 53/30/pc 

Chicago 61/45/pc 68/40/s 53/30/r 

Cincinnati 63/41/r 70/49/s 67/42/pc 

Cleveland 52/38/r 61/44/s 52/38/r 

Dallas 78/54/s 81/55/s 81/53/s 

El Paso 

73/48 

Houston 

74/52 



Denver 71/35/pc 70/36/pc 59/31/pc 

Detroit 57/39/pc 65/42/s 51/33/r 

Indianapolis 62/47/s 71/48/s 63/39/c 

Kansas City 75/51/s 72/47/s 61/36/c 

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Miami 84/66/s 81/68/pc 81/67/pc 

Milwaukee 58/44/pc 65/39/s 48/27/r 

Minneapolis 58/43/pc 53/31/s 44/26/pc 

New Orleans 70/58/sh 73/55/pc 76/57/s 

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Atlanta 

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Miami 

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MEN’S COLLEGE BASKETBALL: SELECTION SUNDAY 

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The Big East put up a big number 

Sunday: Three No. 1 seeds in 

the NCAA tournament. 

Louisville, Pittsburgh and 

Connecticut helped the Big East, a 

group originally created for basketball 

only, become the first conference 

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line. North Carolina, the regularseason 

Atlantic Coast Conference 

champion, was the other top seed. 

Louisville was the top overall 

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play in the Midwest. The Cardinals 

will open against the winner of an 

opening-round game Tuesday 

between Alabama State and 

Morehead State. 

The rest of the tournament starts 

Thursday and Friday. The Final 

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Pitt was the top seed in the East, 

Carolina in the South and UConn in 

the West, the region the Huskies 

were in when they won their championships 

in 1999 and 2004. 

Of the four top seeds, coach 

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tournament. Louisville entered the 

Big East conference tournament as 

the top seed, though Pitt and 

UConn were more highly regarded 

throughout the regular season, each 

spending time at No. 1 in The 

Associated Press poll. 

But there was a lot of switching 

in the top spot this season — it 

changed hands seven times, to be 

exact — so it was no surprise there 

would be some debate about the 

No. 1 seeds. 

For instance, Duke wound up a 

second seed despite winning the 

ACC tournament, beating the 

Florida State team the Tar Heels 

➣ Please see NCAA, 2B 

AP P HOTO 

Virginia Commonwealth players celebrate on Sunday after VCU's seeding in the NCAA men's 

college basketball tournament was announced in Richmond, Va. For a complete listing of tournament 

seedings, please see page 2B. 

Mississippi 

State celebrates 

its 64-61 win 

over Tennessee 

in the 

championship 

game of the 

Southeastern 

Conference on 

Sunday in 

Tampa, Fla. 

AP P HOTO 

B Y FRED GOODALL 


TAMPA, Fla. — When Mississippi State 

finished its surprising run through the 

Southeastern Conference tournament, Twany 

Beckham grabbed an SEC sign and hoisted it 

high above his head. 

One problem: It was upside-down, which 

may have been fitting considering it was the 

Bulldogs celebrating the league title and an 

automatic berth in the NCAA tournament,not 

regular-season winner LSU, co-East Division 

champion Tennessee or perennial powerhouse 

Kentucky. 

“The only thing I know is we don’t have to 

sit here and worry about being on a bubble,” 

Mississippi State coach Rick Stansbury said. 

“We busted that bubble. That’s all that matters.” 

The Bulldogs showed the rest of the SEC 

teams that were waiting for the decision of the 

NCAA selection committee that the best way 

to get in is take care of your own business. 

Phil Turner scored seven of his 12 points in 

the final 1:35 Sunday, and No. 3 West seed 

Mississippi State knocked off East No. 1 seed 

Tennessee 64-61 for their first bid since 2005. 

Turner, who had 10 rebounds, hit a big 3- 

pointer to put Mississippi State (23-12) in 

front for good, then made two free throws 

with 8 seconds left to help the Bulldogs hold 

SEC CHAMPIONSHIP 

Dawgs win SEC tourney 

off the Volunteers (21-12) in a wild finish. 

Cameron Tatum’s long 3-pointer bounced 

off the rim and Mississippi State’s Barry 

Stewart rebounded as time ran out on 

Tennessee’s hopes of winning the tournament 

for the first time in 30 years. 

Wayne Chism led the Volunteers with 15 

points, but he missed seven of nine 3-points 

attempts a day after going 4-of-6 to key a victory 

over Auburn in the semifinals. J.P Prince 

had 14 points and leading scorer Tyler Smith 

had 12 on 2-of-14 shooting. 

The victory was the sixth straight for 

Mississippi State, which entered the tournament 

needing a strong run to improve its 

chances of making the NCAA field. The 

Bulldogs’ first SEC title since 2002 ensures 

the league at least three spots, with Tennessee 

and LSU considered locks. 

Auburn, South Carolina and Florida all 

entered the tournament trying to improve their 

postseason resume. 

Tennessee had hoped winning the SEC 

tournament for the fifth time would improve 

its seeding in the NCAA tournament. 

“I told our guys that first of all, we obviously 

didn’t help our seed, so the road to the 

Final Four will be much more difficult, much 

➣ Please see SEC, 2B 

B Y P AUL N EWBERRY 


ATLANTA — A year ago, as they 

walked off the court after another early exit 

from the NCAA tournament, Jon Scheyer 

and Gerald Henderson made sure to soak it 

all in. They didn’t want to forget how much 

it hurt. They didn’t want to forget how it 

felt to be denied a championship. 

On Sunday,they finally got their title. 

Led by its two junior stars, No. 9 Duke 

swamped upstart Florida State with a barrage 

of 3-pointers on the way to a 79-69 

victory in the Atlantic Coast Conference 

championship game, giving the Blue 

Devils their eighth ACC crown in 11 years. 

Scheyer scored 29 points and was 

named tournament MVP, Henderson had 

27 and Duke (28-6) turned in one of its 

most complete performances of the season 

to keep their Tobacco Road heirloom from 

heading down to the Sunshine State. It 

couldn’t have come at a better time, with 

NCAA bids going out a couple of hours 

later. 

How complete? Duke had more steals 

(five) than turnovers (four), outrebounded 

the taller, bulkier Seminoles 35-34 and 

buried Florida State with a 12-of-25 showing 

from beyond the arc. 

The Blue Devils claimed the second 

ACC CHAMPIONSHIP 

Duke claims ACC crown 

seed in the East Regional and will face 

Binghamton on Thursday in Greensboro, 

N.C., not far from their Durham campus. 

The genesis of this championship can be 

traced to the final game last season. After 

losing in the ACC tournament and survived 

a first-round scare from Belmont, the Blue 

Devils were eliminated in the second round 

of the NCAAs by West Virginia. 

“We wanted to remember that moment. 

We wanted to remember how it felt,” 

Scheyer said. “That was something we 

never wanted to experience again. We 

wanted to do whatever we could to never 

let it happen again.” 

The Blue Devils watched hated North 

Carolina celebrate at the last two ACC 

tournaments. Now they’re back in a more 

familiar position. 

Break out the scissors! It’s time to cut 

down the nets. 

“We put in a lot of work to build this 

team to where it is today,”Henderson said. 

“This is such an accomplishment for us. 

We’ve waited a long time for it. It feels 

good.” 

Toney Douglas led the No. 22 

Seminoles (25-9) with 28 points but that 

➣ Please see ACC, 2B 

Duke’s Kyle 

Singler,left, 

reaches for a 

rebound with 

FSU’s Jordan 

DeMercy,right, 

during the 

championship 

game of the 

ACC 

tournament in 

Atlanta on 

Sunday. 

AP P HOTO 

COMMENTARY 

Christian Heritage re-starts golf, softball programs 

J 

ust a couple weeks after 

Christian Heritage’s basketball 

teams ended their seasons in the 

Georgia Independent School 

Association’s Class 2A state tournaments, 

the Lions and Lady Lions are 

busy in athletic arenas outside the 

school’s walls as the spring sports 

season revs up. 

Varsity softball is back for the first 

time in a few years, with the season 

opening later this week as the Lady 

Lions tune up for their first GISA 

season this fall. Varsity girls soccer 

made its debut on Saturday with a 2-0 

victory and varsity girls tennis is in 

action, too. The boys soccer team, 

which advanced to the state semifinals 

last season, is already competing 

and so is the baseball team, which 

also earned a state berth in 2008. 

Marty 

Kirkland 

And today — 

weather permitting, 

anyhow — 

the Lions take 

the links as a 

varsity team for 

the first time. 

After two years 

without a golf 

team of any 

type, Christian 

Heritage travels 

to Bentwater 

Golf Course in 

Acworth to face 

Furtah Prep in a nine-hole match, 

the first varsity golf outing for the 

Lions. 

Christian Heritage had a boys 

middle school golf team in both 2005 

and 2006, with Gary Whaley handling 

the coaching duties that last 

season. Now he’s back to lead a varsity 

team that includes his son, Ty. 

“I’ve never been a golf teacher or 

anything like that,”Whaley said. “I 

said to my son, I’ve got a horrendous 

swing, but I know what a good one 

looks like. So I’ve been working on 

getting their shoulders square, their 

feet lined up. I can do that.” 

Ty Whaley,now a junior, was part 

of the last middle school team and 

played enough on the Atlanta Junior 

Golf Association circuit last summer 

to qualify for its season-ending tourney 

for the top 50-ranked participants. 

Cole Townsend, an eighth 

grader whom coach Whaley believes 

has a bright future ahead of him, has 

some limited junior golf experience. 

Outside of that, the Lions will be 

W W W . D A L T O N D A I L Y C I T I Z E N . C O M 

green on the green. 

“We’re very inexperienced,” coach 

Whaley said. “But a lot of them compete 

otherwise, they’ve played other 

sports, so they have competitive 

natures. The past two practice rounds, 

when it’s been getting to crunch time, 

they’ve all been real competitive.” 

Whaley,Townsend, eighth grader 

A.J. Hooper, junior Will Clark and 

sophomore Trevor Maffetone are 

expected to take the course today in 

the five-play,four-score match. For 

Clark, abaseball player in 2008 who 

picked up the clubs last June, it will 

be by far the most serious golf he’s 

played yet. 

But he’s among those who have 

impressed the Lions coach with quick 

progress. 

“Will comes out this week, our 

first full week and shoots two pretty 

good rounds to get himself tied for 

the third spot on our team,”Whaley 

said. “He’s already breaking 50 for 

nine holes.” 

The Lions will play four other 

matches, including two home dates at 

Nob North, the competitive Fields 

Ferry Invitational and the Region 4- 

2A tourney this season. Whaley 

would like to schedule another tourney 

for his team, but said that’s it 

tough to get into invitationals when 

you’ve yet to lift off. 

Still, with a little practice, he 

believes the Lions might turn heads 

sooner than later. 

“This year we’re really looking to 

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2B Monday, March 16, 2009 

First Round 

1 Louisville (28-5) 

16 Play-in-game winner 

8 Ohio St. (22-10) 

9 Siena (26-7) 

5 Utah (24-9) 

12 Arizona (19-13) 

4 Wake Forest (24-6) 

13 Cleveland St. (25-10) 

6 W. Virginia (23-11) 

11 Dayton (26-7) 

3 Kansas (25-7) 

14 N.D. St. (26-6) 

7 Boston C. (22-11) 

10 USC (21-12) 

2 Michigan St. (26-6) 

15 Robert Morris (24-10) 

1 Connecticut (27-4) 

16 Chattanooga (18-16) 

8 BYU (25-7) 

9 Texas A&M (23-9) 

5 Purdue (25-9) 

12 N. Iowa (23-10) 

4 Washington (25-8) 

13 Miss. St. (23-12) 

6 Marquette (24-9) 

11 Utah St. (30-4) 

3 Missouri (28-6) 

14 Cornell (21-9) 

7 California (22-10) 

10 Maryland (20-13) 

2 Memphis (31-3) 

15 Cal St. N ridge (17-13) 

Second Round 

Regionals 

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Detroit 

April 4 

National 

Semifinals 

Championship 

Game 

Detroit 

April 6 

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Alabama St. 

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Play-in-game 

Dayton, Ohio 

Morehead St. 

16 

Detroit 

April 4 

Regionals 

Second Round 

First Round 

Pittsburgh (28-4) 

1 

E. Tenn. St. (23-10) 16 

Dayton, Ohio – March 20 Dayton, Ohio – March 20 

Miami – March 20 

Minneapolis – March 20 

Minneapolis – March 20 

Philadelphia – March 19 

Portland, Ore. – March 19 

Boise, Idaho – March 20 

Kansas City, Mo. – March 19 

MIDWEST 

WEST 

Indianapolis 

Glendale 

Ariz. 

Boston 

Memphis, 

Tenn. 

EAST 

SOUTH 

Oklahoma St. (22-11) 8 

Tennessee (21-12) 

Florida St. (25-9) 

Wisconsin (19-12) 

Boise, Idaho – March 20 

Xavier (25-7) 

Portland St. (23-9) 

UCLA (25-8) 

VCU (24-9) 

Philadelphia – March 19 

Villanova (26-7) 

American (24-7) 

Texas (22-11) 

Minnesota (22-10) 

Greensboro, N.C. – March 19 

Duke (28-6) 

Binghamton (23-8) 

9 

5 

12 

4 

13 

6 

11 

3 

14 

7 

10 

2 

15 

North Carolina (28-4) 1 

Radford (21-11) 

Greensboro, N.C. – March 19 

LSU (26-7) 

Butler (26-5) 

Illinois (24-9) 

Western Ky. (24-8) 

Portland, Ore. – March 19 

Gonzaga (26-5) 

Akron (23-12) 

Arizona St. (24-9) 

Temple (22-11) 

Miami – March 20 

Syracuse (26-9) 

S. F. Austin (24-7) 

Clemson (23-8) 

Michigan (20-13) 

Kansas City, Mo. – March 19 

Oklahoma (27-5) 

Morgan St. (23-11) 

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AP 


Purdue 

wins Big 

Ten title 

B Y M ICHAEL M AROT 

Associated Presss Writer 

INDIANAPOLIS — 

Robbie Hummel looks 

healthy,and Purdue is playing 

like the team that was picked 

to win the Big Ten title. 

Hummel finished with 19 

points and 12 rebounds 

Saturday,and JaJuan Johnson 

had 20 points and three 

blocks to lead the 

Boilermakers past Illinois 

66-56 Saturday and into the 

Big Ten tournament championship 

game. 

The victory ends thirdseeded 

Purdue’s three-game 

losing streak to the Illini (24- 

9) and sets up a rematch with 

fifth-seeded Ohio State, an 

82-70 upset winner over No. 

7 Michigan State. The 

Boilermakers and Buckeyes 

split the first two games this 

season, each winning at 

home. 

It’s the first time since 

1998 that Purdue (24-9) will 

play for the tourney title. 

Second-seeded Illinois 

was again without senior 

guard Chester Frazier, who 

missed his second straight 

game after having surgery on 

his right hand Thursday. And 

unlike Friday night’s quarterfinal 

win over Michigan, the 

Illini struggled without him. 

NCAA: Defending champs KU get No. 3 seed 

➣ Continued from page 1B 

had lost to the day before; but 

North Carolina swept Duke 

in the regular season. 

Meanwhile, Memphis (31- 

3) got snubbed, taking the 

second seed in the West 

despite a 25-game winning 

streak. The Tigers are often 

downgraded for playing in 

the less-than-steller 

Conference USA, but John 

Calipari’s team proved people 

wrong last year,making it 

to the national title game. 

“If we’re a 1, we’re a 1; if 

we’re a 2, we’re a 2. We just 

want to play,” Calipari said 

before the bracket came out. 

In the West, it’s Memphis 

vs. Cal State-Northridge; 

Missouri vs. Cornell; 

Washington vs. Mississippi 

State; Purdue vs. Northern 

Iowa; Marquette vs. Utah 

State; California vs. 

Maryland; BYU vs. Texas 

A&M. 

Last year’s national champion, 

Kansas, is almost completely 

revamped this year 

and was seeded third in the 

Midwest with an opening 

game against North Dakota 

State. 

Arizona extended its 

string of tournament appearances 

to a quarter century, 

and the 25th bid will be 

among the most debated. The 

Wildcats were thought by 

many to be off the bubble 

after an early loss to Arizona 

State in the Pac-10 tournament, 

but made it as 12th 

seed in the Midwest. 

In the Midwest,No. 2 seed 

Michigan State will face No. 

15 seed Robert Morris. In 

other games: Kansas vs. N. 

Dakota State; Wake Forest vs. 

Cleveland State; Utah vs. 

Arizona; West Virginia vs. 

Dayton; Boston College vs. 

Southern California; Ohio 

State vs. Siena. 

Conference tournament 

wins by Southern California 

in the Pac-10 and Mississippi 

State in the Southeastern 

Conference cost a couple of 

bubble teams spots among in 

the 65. Among the last teams 

to make it were: Wisconsin,a 

12th seed in the East; 

Maryland,asurprisingly high 

10th seed in the Midwest; and 

Dayton, one of only four 

teams from small conferences 

to earn an at-large bid. 

The so-called mid-major 

conferences have gone from 

nine at-large bids in 2005 to 

less than half that this year. 

The most notable mid-major 

to get snubbed was St. 

Mary’s,which won 26 games 

but lost by 25 to Gonzaga in 

the West Coast Conference 

final, with star guard Patty 

Mills just rounding back into 

shape after missing 10 games 

with an injury. 

“We look at teams, we 

don’t use a label,”said Mike 

Slive, chairman of the selection 

committee. “It’s not 

about mid-major teams and 

major teams. It’s about teams. 

In the final analysis,it’s about 

who you play,where you play 

and how you do. It’s about 

teams, not about conferences.” 

In the East, it’s No. 2 seed 

Duke vs. Binghamton; 

Villanova vs. American; 

Xavier vs. Portland State; 

Florida State vs. Wisconsin; 

UCLA vs. Virginia 

Commonwealth University; 

Texas vs. Minnesota; and 

Oklahoma State vs. 

Tennessee. 

In the South, it’s No. 2 

seed Oklahoma vs. Morgan 

State; Syracuse vs. Stephen F. 

Austin; Gonzaga vs. Akron; 

Illinois vs. Western 

Kentucky; Arizona State vs. 

Temple; Clemson vs. 

Michigan; LSU vs. Butler. 

Other teams that were left 

out included San Diego State, 

Creighton and Penn State. 

The Nittany Lions had the 

311th-ranked non-conference 

strength of schedule — certainly 

not a help in the selection 

group’s meeting room. 

“We tried to deliver a message 

that it’s the entire body 

of work,”Slive said. “It starts 

in November and December 

and goes through the conference 

tournament.” 

The ACC, Big East and 

Big Ten all placed seven 

teams in the tournament, 

the Big 12 and Pac-10 six 

each, while the A-10 and 

SEC had three. Florida 

missed for the second 

straight year after winning 

two consecutive titles, and 

Auburn also was left out 

after a strong finish. 

Also absent will be 

Indiana and Kentucky — the 

first time both traditional 

powerhouses have been missing 

in the tournament since 

1979. 

SEC: MSU shocks world ACC: FSU’s hasn’t danced since ‘98 


more challenging.” coach 

Bruce Pearl said. 

“We’ve been consistently 

inconsistent. If we can get it 

going again, because we’ve 

been playing great basketball 

here in March, we’ll forget 

about the disappointment 

of not winning this tournament. 

But if we’re not able 

to pick us up again, this 

missed opportunity will hurt 

for a long time.” 

Mississippi State’s run 

was reminiscent of 

Georgia’s stunning march 

through the SEC tournament 

last year. Georgia won four 

games in three days to earn 

an improbable NCAA berth 

after finishing last in the regular-season 

conference 

standings. 

Stewart and Ravern 

Johnson both scored 11 

points for Mississippi State, 

which also got 10 points, 

seven rebounds and six 

blocks from tournament 

MVP Jarvis Varnado. The 

Bulldogs held Tennessee to 

29 percent shooting and 

forced two of the Volunteers’ 

14 turnovers with the game 

on the line. 

“There’s a guy that found 

a way to dig deep when 

there’s absolutely nothing 

left in that tank to help us 

win the game,” Stansbury 

said of the exhausted 

Varnado, a 6-foot-9 junior 

from Brownsville, Tenn. 

Prince made one of two 

free throws to cut 

Tennessee’s deficit to 62-61 

and the Vols got a break 

when the rebound went out 

of bounds off Varnado with 

9.6 seconds left. But Smith 

was unable to inbound ball, 

leading to a 5-second call 

that gave the ball to 

Mississippi State. 

The Bulldogs turned it 

right back when Dee Bost 

took the inbound pass and 

dribbled out of bounds, giving 

Tennessee another 

chance that the Vols squandered 

when Stewart tipped 

an inbound pass that landed 

in Turner’s hands. 

Tennessee immediately 

fouled the sophomore guard, 

who made both free throws, 

setting the stage for a celebration. 

AP P HOTO 

Mississippi State’s 

Jarvis Varnado cuts the 

nets after beating UT. 

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wasn’t nearly enough to 

give the school its first ACC 

championship. Florida State 

had to be content with 

knocking off top-ranked 

North Carolina in the semifinals 

and earning its first 

NCAA bid since 1998. 

The Seminoles also were 

placed in the East as the No. 

5 seed. They will face 

Wisconsin on Friday in 

Boise, Idaho. 

Duke’s 

Mike 

Krzyzewski, following up 

his gold-medal triumph as 

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coach of the U.S. Olympic 

team,captured the 11th conference 

championship of his 

career. Now he’ll turn his 

attention to the quest for a 

fourth national title. 

“I’m really, really happy 

for these guys, especially 

the guys in the junior class,” 

Krzyzewski said. “They had 

to go a couple of years without 

any upperclassmen. I’m 

really pleased they were 

able to win their championship. 

“Hopefully it’s just their 

first championship.” 

The Blue Devils put this 

C oming Mar c h 27th 

one away early. After 

Douglas hit a 3-pointer to 

give Florida State its final 

lead, 11-9, Duke ripped off 

14 points in a row — all but 

two of them coming from 

long range. 

Henderson worked off a 

pick and sank a 3-pointer, 

then Kyle Singler hit three 

straight treys to complete 

the run. 

He swished one out of 

the corner and came behind 

a screen for a wide-open 

look from the top of the key 

that gave the Blue Devils a 

23-11 lead. 

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Exhausted and Dehydrated 

Mickelson 

closes in on 

No. 1 ranking 

B Y D OUG F ERGUSON 


DORAL, Fla. — No 

longer the best player without 

a World Golf 

Championship, Phil 

Mickelson won a spirited 

duel at Doral on Sunday to 

win the CA Championship 

and put himself in position 

to reach No. 1 in the world. 

Mickelson, taken to a 

hospital on the eve of the 

final round with heat 

exhaustion and dehydration, 

survived seven lead 

changes in 11 holes against 

Nick Watney before hanging 

on with seven pars for a 

3-under 69 and a one-shot 

victory. 

Mickelson won for the 

second time in three starts 

and moved to No. 2 in the 

world ranking, as close to 

Tiger Woods as he has ever 

been. Depending on how 

Woods fares at Bay Hill, 

Mickelson might have a 

chance to go to No. 1 when 

he plays again. 

Winning this tournament 

was all that mattered. 

Mickelson finished at 

19-under 269 and earned 

$1.4 million, the biggest 

check of his career. 

Four years ago, 

Mickelson lost a two-shot 

lead against Woods in a 

duel that ranks among the 

best ever at Doral. He didn’t 

get his revenge against the 

world’s No. 1 player, but 

GOLF: PGA-CA CHAMPIONSHIP 

AP P HOTO 

Tiger Woods hits out of the sand on the second 

hole during the final round at the CA 

Championship in Doral, Fla., on Sunday. 

Watney gave him all he 

could handle. 

“It took a lot out of me,” 

said Mickelson, who sipped 

on energy drinks throughout 

the round. “I haven’t 

eaten much in three days. I 

fought hard. I’ve been playing 

some of my best golf, 

and I’m very excited to 

have finished it off.” 

Watney closed with a 2- 

under 70,holing an unlikely 

chip for birdie from behind 

the ninth green, then making 

an eagle on the 10th to 

pull into a tie for the lead. 

Needing a birdie on the 

18th hole, which yielded 

only three in the final 

round, Watney thought his 

30-footer was good until it 

stopped one turn away. 

He pulled his cap over 

his face, and could only 

watch as Mickelson took 

two putts from 25 feet away 

for par and the victory. 

“I’ll get over this,” 

Watney said. “It’s a positive 

week. I played really well. 

Beat 78 of the best players 

in the world. Beat Tiger, 

which is always good. I’m 

very pleased with the way 

I’m playing.” 

Woods, in his first 

stroke-play event since winning 

the U.S. Open, closed 

with another 68 to finish 

eight shots behind in a tie 

for ninth, but at least kept 

one streak alive. He has 

never finished out of the top 

10 on the Blue Monster. 

“I didn’t get anything out 

of my rounds,”Woods said. 

“I hit the ball a lot better 

than my scoring indicates.” 

Jim Furyk shot 31 on the 

back nine for a 67 to finish 

alone in third. Jeev Milkha 

Singh had a 70 and was 

alone in fourth, his best 

result in a PGA Tour event. 

But the show throughout 

a steamy afternoon on the 

Blue Monster belonged to 

Mickelson and Watney,who 

went into the final round 

tied for the lead, both pupils 

of swing coach Butch 

Harmon, both having won 

over the last few months. 

They said this wouldn’t 

be match play, but it sure 

looked like it. 

Including ties, the lead 

changed seven times over 

the first 11 holes, with 

momentum swinging in 

both directions. 

No one made a serious 

run at the leaders until 

Furyk’s late charge, but 

there was plenty of action in 

the final group. What set the 

stage for the back-nine duel 

was a stunning turnaround 

at the par-3 ninth. 

Mickelson, who fell 

behind for only one hole 

with a bogey at No. 4, built 

a two-shot lead when 

Watney made bogey from 

the bunker on No. 7 and 

Mickelson ripped a 3-wood 

from 256 yards over the 

water just over the par-5 

eighth green for a birdie. 

Mickelson was safely on 

the green at No. 9 when 

Watney pulled his tee shot 

over the green and down a 

ramp between the television 

toward and the grandstand. 

With nearly a dozen practice 

swings for a delicate 

shot, he flopped it up the 

slope, onto the green and 

charged up the hill when it 

dropped for birdie. 

Just like that, he was 

only one shot behind. And 

with two beautiful swings 

on the par-5 10th, he had an 

8-foot eagle putt. Walking 

toward the green, Watney 

rolled his shoulders and 

pushed his palms toward 

the ground, reminded himself 

to stay calm. 

He holed the eagle putt 

and was tied for the lead, 

but that was as sharp as he 

got. 

B Y G EORGE H ENRY 


ATLANTA — Joe 

Johnson scored 35 points, 

Josh Smith had 19 points and 

eight rebounds, and the 

Atlanta Hawks beat the 

Portland Trail Blazers 98-80 

on Sunday for their fifth consecutive 

victory. 

Brandon Roy finished with 

29 points for the Blazers,who 

have lost two of three. 

Portland dropped a half-game 

behind Denver for the 

Northwest Division lead and 

fell out of a three-way tie with 

the Nuggets and New Orleans 

Hornets for fourth place in the 

Western Conference. 

Johnson, who scored 15 

points in the third quarter,shot 

15-for-27 from the field in his 

fourth straight 30-point game. 

He handed out six assists, but 

missed all four of his 3-point 

attempts. 

Atlanta improved to 25-7 

at home. The Blazers have 

lost seven of eight on the road. 

LaMarcus Aldridge had 13 

of his 19 points in the third for 

Monday, March 16, 2009 3B 

PRO BASKETBALL 

Hawks 

guard Joe 

Johnson 

(2) drives 

against 

Trail 

Blazers 

center Joel 

Przybilla, 

rear, 

during the 

fourth 

quarter 

Sunday’s 

game at 

Philips 

Arena in 

Atlanta. 

AP P HOTO 

Johnson powers Hawks 

Portland, which had won 

three straight and 12 of 13 

against Atlanta. 

Roy hit seven straight 

shots from the beginning of 

the second quarter until he 

missed a layup that led to 

Aldridge’s turnover late in 

the third. The Hawks then 

began to pull away, with Al 

Horford’s three-point play 

with 9:44 left in the period 

giving them their first double-digit 

lead at 50-39. 

Smith drove past Aldridge 

and Nicolas Batum for a hard 

dunk from the left baseline 

late in the third to give the 

Hawks an eight-point lead. 

Notes: The Hawks 

improved to 12-1 with G Mo 

Evans in the starting lineup. 

... Atlanta coach Mike 

Woodson, who improved to 

2-8 against Portland, had no 

update before the game on 

the status of F Marvin 

Williams. After sustaining a 

severe lower back injury in a 

March 7 win over Detroit, 

Williams has missed four 

straight games. 

PRO FOOTBALL 

Cutler to 

meet coach 

T HE A SSOCIATED P RESS 

ENGLEWOOD, Colo. 

— Jay Cutler finally met 

face-to-face with Josh 

McDaniels over the weekend, 

but nothing was 

resolved, leading to doubt 

the quarterback will show 

up for the new coach’s first 

team meeting Monday. 

The Denver Broncos’ 

coach 

and Pro 

B o w l 

quarterback, 

who are 

involved 

in a simmering 

Cutler feud over 

t r a d e 

talks, met Saturday at the 

team’s training facility, and 

both sides agreed to 

regroup and continue conversations, 

team spokesman 

Patrick Smyth told The 

Associated Press. 

It wasn’t clear if the 

sides planned to meet again 

Sunday. 

On Saturday, Cutler and 

his agent, Bus Cook, met 

with McDaniels and general 

manager Brian Xanders in 

what the Broncos described 

as mild-mannered conversations 

at Dove Valley. 

Denver station KCNC- 

TV reported that the meeting 

didn’t go well, however, 

and The Denver Post reported 

that words were 

exchanged between Cutler 

and McDaniels. 

Cook didn’t return phone 

messages left by The AP on 

Sunday. 

McDaniels isn’t scheduled 

to address the media 

until the annual owners 

meeting in Dana Point, 

Calif., March 22-25. 

But the Broncos insist 

they’re not going to trade 

Cutler, who just played in 

his first Pro Bowl. 

Cutler has deepened the 

drama by putting his 7,516- 

square foot home in suburban 

Parker on the market 

for $2 million. And a smaller 

home owned by Cutler 

and his parents, Jack and 

Sandra Cutler, two miles 

away, is for sale for 

$835,000. Cutler, however, 

is keeping his downtown 

Denver penthouse — at 

least for now. 

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start the program and get a 

good foundation,”Whaley 

said. “We’ve got 11 kids and 

five are eighth graders, so 

it’s a great foundation to 

build something on. ... Next 

year, we could be a pretty 

good team.” 

■ Former Northwest 

Whitfield pitcher Emily 

Headrick wasn’t someone 

most Region 7-4A batters 

looked forward to facing 

when she was inside the circle 

for the Lady Bruins. 

As it turns out, she might 

be gaining that same reputation 

in college softball, but 

any lack of love she feels by 

opponents is probably made 

up by popularity among 

teammates — after all, who 

doesn’t love having someone 

on the roster who can go out 

and throw the program’s first 

no-hitter in five years? 

According to Armstrong 

Atlantic State University’s 

Web site, that’s just what the 

freshman righty did, striking 

out six and allowing just 

two baserunners (one on a 

walk, the other on an error) 

in an 11-0 win against fellow 

Peach Belt Conference 

foe Lander University in 

AASU’s home opener last 

month. 

On the season, Headrick 

has a team-best six wins 

against four losses and also 

leads the Pirates with 58 

strikeouts in 55 1/3 innings. 

And while she’s likely 

making lots of new friends 

on the team with her early 

success, she already had a 

familiar face there in 

Savannah with fellow freshman 

and former Lady Bruin 

Morgan Herbort. A first 

baseman/outfielder, Herbort 

has earned some on-field 

time as well, playing in five 

games and notching her first 

college start. 

The Pirates (15-15, 3-3) 

will be in the neighborhood 

on Saturday,playing at 

North Georgia College and 

State University in 

Dahlonega in another Peach 

Belt matchup. 

■ In a best of times, 

worst of times moment on 

the basketball court, the 

Carden family recently had 

a tough ending to a couple 

of very good hoops seasons. 

A few hours after 

Northwest girls basketball 

assistant coach Carrie 

Brown (formerly Carden) 

watched her Lady Bruins 

come up short in the quarterfinals 

of the Georgia 

High School Association’s 

Class 4A state tournament, 

brother Allen Carden’s 

Clearwater Tornadoes lost in 

the Class 5A championship 

of the Florida High School 

Athletic Association’s state 

tourney. (Carden is himself 

a former Northwest athlete 

and coach.) 

The Tornadoes fell, 53- 

46, to a Gainesville 

Hurricanes — yes, the two 

natural disasters most familiar 

to Florida residents created 

a perfect storm on the 

basketball court — squad 

with which they’d traded the 

top two spots in the state 

poll all season long. 

Still, both Northwest and 

Clearwater had nice seasons, 

and there’s no doubt the 

Carden family reunion will 

have plenty of good basketball 

stories spun next time 

around. And with both teams 

bringing back much of their 

talent, including Carden’s 

son Cory,there might also 

be a few ruminations on 

waiting ‘til next year. 

■ High school basketball 

game I’d have loved to seen 

this year? Northwest’s girls 

against Lakeview-Fort 

Oglethorpe, which lost 51- 

31 to Carrollton on Saturday 

night in an all-Region 6 

matchup for the Class 3A 

crown. 

With LFO’s Kayla 

Weaver finally able to enjoy 

an injury-free season after 

being forced to watch much 

of the past two from the 

sidelines, seeing those two 

programs playing some of 

their best basketball in 

recent years would have 

been a lot of fun. 

■ A shame to see Jeff 

McDonald have to give up 

his duties as coach of the 

Southeast girls basketball 

team, but his reasons for 

doing so are more than 

understandable. 

I remember chatting with 

McDonald last fall about the 

heart attack he suffered over 

the summer, aincident he 

chalked up as getting a hold 

of some bad catfish until he 

went to the doctor for a regularly 

scheduled appointment 

a few days later and 

found out it was something 

much more serious. 

With teaching positions 

filled the last time the Lady 

Raiders were without a 

coach, McDonald’s hire was 

a nice job of mining some 

homegrown talent who 

already knew the players 

well from his experience at 

the Whitfield County 

Recreation Department. (It 

would be less than surprising 

to see a similar type of 

hire this time around, too, 

considering the economy 

and its potential effects on 

the availability of teaching 

positions locally.) 

You could sense 

McDonald really enjoyed 

seeing the progress made by 

his players in his time with 

them, and I know he was 

looking forward to seeing 

them take an even bigger 

step next season. 

He’ll still be around as a 

teacher and to support the 

team, but it will be different 

not having the veteran U.S. 

Marine standing straight and 

tall on the Southeast sideline 

during the national anthem. 

■ The weekend’s weather 

was much more suited to 

watching basketball than 

doing any of the outdoor 

spring sports whose seasons 

are now upon us, but we did 

have a nice window of 

pleasant climate conditions 

recently. 

Dalton’s Tom Bivens was 

among those who took 

advantage, and it’s a safe bet 

he might have enjoyed his 

trip to the golf course more 

than usual — and not just 

because the weather a week 

ago was some of our most 

hospitable so far this year. 

Bivens used an 8-iron to 

ace the 145-yard, par-3 No. 

12 at Nob North Golf 

Course in Cohutta, sinking 

his first hole-in-one. The 

shot was witnessed by 

Preston Bivens and Jeff 

Brock. 

Whether you’re looking 

forward to participating in 

some outdoor sports soon or 

just watching others play, 

hang in there — it won’t be 

too long before we’re complaining 

about it being too 

sunny,too hot and too dry to 

do either. 

Marty Kirkland is a 

sports writer for The Daily 

Citizen. You can write to 

him at martykirkland@daltoncitizen.com. 

S COREBOARD 

L OCAL 

Prep Schedule 

Monday 

Varsity baseball 

Pope John Paul vs. Northwest Whitfield at 

Heritage-Catoosa, 5 

Varsity tennis 

Murray County at Southeast, 4 

Christian Heritage at LaGrange Academy, 5 

JV baseball 

Dalton at Fannin County, 4:30 

JV soccer 

Northwest Whitfield at Dalton, 4:30 

Gilmer boys at Murray County, 5:30 

Middle school baseball 

Dalton at McCallie, 4:30 

Christian Heritage vs. St. Jude at Dupont Park, 

Chattanooga, 5:30 


Dalton JV at McCallie, 5 

Middle school soccer 

North Whitfield at Christian Heritage, 4:30 

Middle school tennis 

TCPS vs. Christian Heritage at DGCC, 4:15 

——— 

Tuesday 


Murray County at Gordon Lee, 4:30 

Ringgold at Northwest Whitfield, 5 

Dalton vs. Heritage-Catoosa at AT&T Park, 

Chattanooga, 5:55 

Pope John Paul, Tenn. at Southeast, 6 

Christian Heritage at Harvester 

Varsity golf 

Dalton, Northwest Whitfield boys at North Georgia 

Invitational at Barnsley Gardens, 3 

Dalton, Murray County, Northwest Whitfield, 

Southeast girls at Indian Trace, 4 

Varsity soccer 

Northwest Whitfield at Gordon Central, 5 

Southeast at Ringgold, 5 

Christian Heritage boys at King’s Ridge Christian, 6 


Northwest Whitfield at Notre Dame, 4 

Ridgeland at Southeast, 4 

Varsity track and field 

Northwest Whitfield, Heritage-Catoosa at Baylor, 4 

Dalton at Murray County 

JV baseball 

Murray County at Gordon Lee, 6:30 

Ringgold at Northwest Whitfield, 7:30 

JV golf 

Dalton vs. Murray County, Spring Lakes, 3:30 


Rome at Dalton, 4:30 

New Hope at North Whitfield, 4:30 

Valley Point at Eastbrook, 4:30 

Gladden at Westside, 4:30 

David Brainerd vs. Christian Heritage at 

Lakeshore Park, 6:30 


Eastbrook at Valley Point, 4:30 

North Whitfield at New Hope, 4:30 

Gladden at Westside, 4:30 

——— 

Wednesday 



Calhoun girls at Northwest Whitfield, 6:30 

JV soccer 

Calhoun girls at Northwest Whitfield, 5 


——— 

Thursday 


Northwest Whitfield at Southeast, 5 

Murray County at LaFayette, 5 

Varsity golf 

Dalton, Northwest Whitfield boys at North Georgia 

Invitational, The Farm, 3 

Southeast vs. Ringgold at Windstone, Ringgold, 

3:30 


Gilmer girls at Murray County, 5 

Rome girls at Dalton, 5:30 


Dalton at Northwest Whitfield, 4 

Southeast at LFO, 4 

Murray County at Rome, 4:30 

Varsity track and field 

Northwest Whitfield, Pepperell, Chattooga at 

Gordon Central, 4 

Southeast at Dalton, 4 

JV baseball 

Murray County at LaFayette, 7 

JV golf 

Murray County, Heritage-Catoosa, LFO boys, 

Battlefield, 3:30 

Murray County, Heritage-Catoosa, LFO girls, 

Spring Lakes, 3:30 

JV soccer 

Dalton boys at Rome, 6 

JV tennis 

Northwest Whitfield at Dalton, 4 

Freshman baseball 

Northwest Whitfield at Southeast, 7:30 


Gladden at New Hope, 4:30 

North Whitfield at Eastbrook, 4:30 

Westside at Valley Point, 4:30 


Eastbrook at North Whitfield, 4:30 

New Hope at Gladden, 4:30 

Eastbrook at North Whitfield, 4:30 

——— 

Friday 


LaGrange Academy at Christian Heritage, 4 

Dalton vs. Science Hill, Red Bank at Red Bank, 4 

Darlington at Murray County, 6 


Christian Heritage girls at LaGrange Academy, 5 

Northwest Whitfield at Rome, 5:30 

North Hall at Dalton, 5:30 

LFO at Southeast, 5:30 

Murray County at Woodland, 5:30 

Holy Spirit Prep boys at Christian Heritage, 5:45 

Varsity softball 

Christian Heritage at David Brainerd, 6 


Christian Heritage at Griffin Christian, 4 

Dalton at Cass, 4 


Northwest Whitfield at Heritage-Catoosa, 5:30 


Christian Heritage at Dalton, 5:15 

New Hope at Valley Point tournament 


Gladden at Christian Heritage, 4 

Middle school softball 

Christian Heritage at David Brainerd, 4:30 

Middle school tennis 

St. Jude vs. Christian Heritage at Lakeshore Park, 

4:15 

——— 

Saturday 

Varsity golf 

Dalton, Northwest Whitfield boys at Warrior 

Invitational, Mossy Creek GC, Cleveland, 1 


Sequoyah at Northwest Whitfield, 1 

Christian Heritage girls at LaFayette Christian, 2 

Osborne at Dalton, 6 

JV baseball 

Dade County at Northwest Whitfield, Noon 

JV golf 

Northwest Whitfield at Warrior Invitational, 1 

JV soccer 

Woodland at Murray County, noon 


Dade County at Northwest Whitfield, 2 


New Hope at Valley Point tournament 

T RANSACTIONS 

Sunday’s Moves 

BASEBALL 

American League 

BOSTON RED SOX—Agreed to terms with LHP 

Jon Lester on a five-year contract. 

CLEVELAND INDIANS—Assigned RHP Tomo 

Ohka and LHP Ryan Edell to their minor-league 

training camp. Optioned LHP Rich Rundles to 

Columbus (IL). 

SEATTLE MARINERS—Placed LHP Ryan 

Feierabend on the 60-day DL.Claimed RHP Jesus 

Delgado off waivers from Florida (NL). 

TEXAS RANGERS—Optioned LHP Thomas 

Diamond, LHP Kason Gabbard, RHP Guillermo 

Moscoco, RHP Omar Poveda, 2B Jose Vallejo to 

their minor league camp. Assigned RHP Casey 

Daigle, C Manny Pina and C Kevin Richardson to 

their minor league camp. Added C Emerson 

Frostad to the major league spring training roster. 

National League 

ATLANTA BRAVES—Released RHP Phil 

Stockman. 

HOUSTON ASTROS—Optioned RHP Samuel 

Gervacio, LHP Tyler Lumsden, LHP Polin Trinidad, 

OF Yordany Ramirez and INF Drew Sutton to 

Round Rock (PCL). Reassigned INF Mark 

Saccomanno to their minor league camp. 

MILWAUKEE BREWERS—Optioned RHP Tim 

Dillard and RHP Nick Green to Nashville (PCL). 

Optioned RHP Omar Aguilar and RHP Alex Perard 

to Huntsville (SL). Optioned RHP Mark Rogers to 

Brevard County (FSL). Optioned RHP Cody 

Scarpetta to Wisconsin (MWL). 

SAN DIEGO PADRES—Agreed to terms with 

RHP Duaner Sanchez on a minor league contract. 

HOCKEY 

National Hockey League 

WASHINGTON CAPITALS—Recalled D Brian 

Pothier and G Simeon Varlamov from Hershey 

(AHL). Assigned G Michal Neuvirth to Hershey. 

T ELEVISION 

On Today 

BASEBALL 

8 p.m. 

ESPN — World Baseball Classic, round 2, 

Venezuela vs. Puerto Rico, at Miami 

11 p.m. 

ESPN2 — World Baseball Classic, round 2, South 

Korea-Mexico loser vs. Cuba- Japan loser, at San 

Diego 

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Noon 

TGC — Tavistock Cup, first round, at Orlando, Fla. 

NHL HOCKEY 

7 p.m. 

VERSUS — Washington at Atlanta 

TENNIS 

4 p.m. 

FSN — ATP/WTA Tour, BNP Paribas Open, early 

round, at Indian Wells, Calif. 

10:30 p.m. 

FSN — ATP/WTA Tour, BNP Paribas Open, early 

round, at Indian Wells, Calif. 

WOMEN’S COLLEGE BASKETBALL 

7 p.m. 

ESPN — NCAA Division I tournament Selection 

Show, at Bristol, Conn. 

P RO B ASKETBALL 

NBA 

EASTERN CONFERENCE 

Atlantic Division 

W L Pct GB 

y-Boston 50 17 .746 — 

Philadelphia 33 31 .516 15 1/2 

New Jersey 28 37 .431 21 

New York 28 37 .431 21 

Toronto 24 43 .358 26 

Southeast Division 

W L Pct GB 

y-Orlando 48 17 .738 — 

Atlanta 39 28 .582 10 

Miami 36 30 .545 12 1/2 

Charlotte 28 38 .424 20 1/2 

Washington 15 51 .227 33 1/2 

Central Division 

W L Pct GB 

x-Cleveland 52 13 .800 — 

Detroit 33 32 .508 19 

Milwaukee 31 38 .449 23 

Chicago 30 37 .448 23 

Indiana 28 40 .412 25 1/2 

WESTERN CONFERENCE 

Southwest Division 

W L Pct GB 

San Antonio 44 21 .677 — 

Houston 43 25 .632 2 1/2 

New Orleans 41 24 .631 3 

Dallas 40 27 .597 5 

Memphis 17 48 .262 27 

Northwest Division 

W L Pct GB 

Denver 42 25 .627 — 

Portland 41 25 .621 1/2 

Utah 41 25 .621 1/2 

Minnesota 20 46 .303 21 1/2 

Oklahoma City 18 48 .273 23 1/2 

Pacific Division 

W L Pct GB 

x-L.A.Lakers 53 13 .803 — 

Phoenix 35 31 .530 18 

Golden State 23 42 .354 29 1/2 

L.A.Clippers 15 50 .231 37 1/2 

Sacramento 14 51 .215 38 1/2 

x-clinched playoff spot 

y-clinched division 

——— 

Saturday’s Scores 

Miami 140, Utah 129, 3OT 

Minnesota 108, Charlotte 100 

Chicago 97, New Orleans 79 

San Antonio 88, Houston 85 

Denver 107, L.A.Clippers 94 

Phoenix 106, Oklahoma City 95 

Sunday’s Scores 

Toronto 110, Indiana 87 

Milwaukee 86, Boston 77 

Philadelphia 85, Miami 77 

Atlanta 98, Portland 80 

Memphis 89, Detroit 84 

L.A.Lakers 107, Dallas 100 

Utah at Orlando, late 

Sacramento at Washington, late 

New York at Cleveland, late 

Phoenix at Golden State, late 

New Jersey at L.A.Clippers, late 

Today’s Games 

Toronto at Charlotte, 7 p.m. 

Portland at Memphis, 8 p.m. 

Houston at New Orleans, 8 p.m. 

San Antonio at Oklahoma City, 8 p.m. 

New Jersey at Denver, 9 p.m. 

Tuesday’s Games 

Sacramento at Atlanta, 7 p.m. 

Orlando at Cleveland, 7 p.m. 

Boston at Chicago, 8:30 p.m. 

Detroit at Dallas, 8:30 p.m. 

Minnesota at San Antonio, 8:30 p.m. 

Washington at Utah, 9 p.m. 

Philadelphia at L.A.Lakers, 10:30 p.m. 

L.A.Clippers at Golden State, 10:30 p.m. 

Parts r t s C i ty 

AUTO 

AUTO 

PARTS 

PARTS 

P ennz oil C onv ent iona l 

M o t o r O il 

Aceit edemo t o r c onv enc ion a l P enn z oil 

PEN 5-20 , 5-30 , 1 0 - 30, 1 0 -40 

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5Quarts 

2 49 

H OCKEY 

NHL 

EASTERN CONFERENCE 

Atlantic Division 

W L OT Pts GF GA 

New Jersey 45 20 3 93 213 167 

each 

Philadelphia 37 21 10 84 218 196 

Pittsburgh 37 26 8 82 222 216 

N.Y.Rangers 36 26 8 80 177 190 

N.Y.Islanders 24 38 8 56 176 224 

Northeast Division 


Boston 45 17 9 99 237 167 

Montreal 36 25 8 80 205 206 

Buffalo 34 27 8 76 203 193 

Toronto 28 29 13 69 209 249 

Ottawa 28 30 10 66 177 198 

Southeast Division 


Washington 43 21 6 92 228 205 

Carolina 36 28 7 79 200 203 

Florida 34 25 10 78 194 196 

Atlanta 28 35 6 62 209 233 

Tampa Bay 23 32 14 60 181 227 

WESTERN CONFERENCE 

Central Division 


Detroit 45 15 9 99 257 207 

Chicago 37 21 9 83 220 178 

Columbus 36 27 6 78 194 192 

Nashville 34 30 5 73 175 189 

St. Louis 31 29 8 70 190 202 

Northwest Division 


Calgary 40 23 6 86 229 214 

Vancouver 35 23 9 79 202 187 

Edmonton 32 27 9 73 192 210 

Minnesota 32 28 8 72 174 167 

Colorado 31 37 1 63 183 214 

Pacific Division 


San Jose 44 13 10 98 218 167 

Dallas 33 28 8 74 199 211 

Anaheim 32 30 6 70 190 200 

Los Angeles 29 29 10 68 179 199 

Phoenix 28 35 6 62 168 212 

Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss or 

shootout loss. 

——— 

Saturday’s Scores 

Boston 2, N.Y.Islanders 1 

Philadelphia 4, N.Y.Rangers 2 

Detroit 5, St. Louis 2 

Ottawa 4, Pittsburgh 3, SO 

Atlanta 4, Buffalo 3, SO 

New Jersey 3, Montreal 1 

Toronto 8, Calgary 6 

Washington 5, Carolina 4, SO 

Tampa Bay 4, Florida 3, SO 

Dallas 3, Minnesota 2, OT 

Colorado 3, Edmonton 2, OT 

Nashville 2, Phoenix 0 

San Jose 2, Los Angeles 1, SO 

Sunday’s Scores 

N.Y.Rangers 4, Philadelphia 1 

Pittsburgh 6, Boston 4 

N.Y.Islanders 4, Chicago 2 

Detroit at Columbus, late 

Minnesota at St. Louis, late 

San Jose at Anaheim, late 

Colorado at Vancouver, late 

Today’s Games 

Washington at Atlanta, 7 p.m. 

Nashville at Los Angeles, 10:30 p.m. 

Tuesday’s Games 

Chicago at New Jersey, 7 p.m. 

Buffalo at Ottawa, 7:30 p.m. 

N.Y.Rangers at Montreal, 7:30 p.m. 

Atlanta at Pittsburgh, 7:30 p.m. 

Philadelphia at Detroit, 7:30 p.m. 

Washington at Florida, 7:30 p.m. 

Toronto at Tampa Bay, 7:30 p.m. 

Colorado at Minnesota, 8 p.m. 

St. Louis at Edmonton, 10 p.m. 

San Jose at Phoenix, 10 p.m. 

Dallas at Vancouver, 10 p.m. 

AP S PORTLIGHT 

Mar. 16 

2001 — A record number of low-seeded teams 

advance in the NCAA men’s basketball tournament. 

Indiana State, Butler, Temple, Charlotte 

and Fresno State join 12th-seeded Gonzaga in 

advancing, meaning 13 of the tournament’s 32 

first-round games were won by underdogs. 

2003 — Svetlana Feofanova reclaims the pole 

vault world record from Stacy Dragila by clearing 

15 feet, 9 inches at the World Indoor 

Championships at Birmingham, England. The 

Russian betters the mark of 15-8 1/4 Dragila set 

at the U.S. Indoor Championships on March 2. 

2005 — Norway’s Robert Sorlie wins his second 

Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race in one of the closest 

races in years. Sorlie completes the 1,100-mile 

race across Alaska in nine days, 18 hours, 39 

minutes and 31 seconds. He’s still in the winner’s 

circle when Ed Iten of Kotzebue crosses the line 

34 minutes later. 

2006 — The U.S. squad loaded with All-Stars 

loses 2-1 to Mexico to be eliminated from the 

World Baseball Classic. 

2007 — Kobe Bryant scores 33 of his 65 points 

in the fourth quarter and overtime to lead the Los 

Angeles Lakers to a 116-111 win over Portland. 

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Teacher needed for 4 year old 

classroom. Flexible hours M-F. 

CDA required with previous 

experience. Fax resumes to: 

706-226-7751 email 

dmrector@optilink.us 

WANTED: Retired person or 

couple, part time sitting w/ male 

person. Private home to live in 

w/free rent and utilities with 

service rendered. 706-537-5137 

311 Health Care 

RN / CASE MANAGER PRN 

Experienced RN with GA license 

needed for busy family oriented 

hospice in the North Georgia 

area. Hospice or Home Health 

experience a plus. Compeitive 

benefits and compensation. Fax 

your resume to 706-272-1036 or 

email 

to: 

heartlitegeorgia@aol.com 

YARD SALES 

DON'T MISS SATURDAY 

March 21st 7 a.m.- 4 p.m 

Multi-Family Yard Sale 

Dollar General Store- 

Old Winn Dixie Parking Lot on 

Cleveland Hwy. 

Hot Dogs -- Hamburgers -- --- 

Hamburgers -- Home Made 

Cakes 

"Come See the Easter Bunny" 

TIP 

OF 

THE 

DAY 

SIGNS 

Some towns regulate the size, 

quantity or location of yard sale 

signs. check your local 

ordinances. 

List your address and sale 

date(s) on all signs. 

Post your signs at main 

intersections, street corners 

and at the end of your driveway. 

Put a few signs up several 

days before the sale to raise 

awareness. 

Be consistent. Use the same 

colors and writing on your signs 

so people recognize them at a 

glance. 

Keep a list where you posted 

your signs. It will be helpful 

when it’s time to take them 

down. 

To place an ad in the Yard 

Sale Section of this newspaper: 

Call Laura 706-272-7707 

or 

Jennfier 706-272-7703 

PETS/LIVESTOCK 

502 Free Pets 

Female Chihuahua free to a 

good home. Call 706-259-2377 

Free beautiful chow to a good 

home. Very sweet dog. Call 706- 

271-6569. 

611 

ITEMS FOR SALE 

Misc. Items 

For Sale 

50 gallon aquarium with stand. 

$50. Call: 706-537-9637 or 706- 

581-7544 

Misc. Baby items for sale. $2.00 

to $5.00. 706-537-9637 or 706- 

581-7544 

ITEMS FOR RENT 

704 Land & Lots 

Must Sell! Make Offer! 40 acres 

can be divided. 8 acres 

minimum. 1/4 mile across state 

line in Bradley Co. (Austin Lane). 

706-965-5810 / 406-868-3764. 

705 Homes For Sale 

$2,000Dn. Starting at $700/mo. 

OWNER FINANCING. Several 

3Bd/2 Ba. homes in Whitfield & 

Murray Remodeled, very nice. 

Owner/Broker706-529-0650 

3 bdrm 2 bath foreclosure only 

$19,900. For listings call 800- 

536-8517 ext 1383 

Calhoun - Dews Pond area. 

4acres w/ 3br, 2ba, brick home, 

unfinished basement. $119,900. 

obo. Call 706-264-1932 

IN THE 

CLASSIFIEDS! 

705 Homes For Sale 

No Credit Check. Owner 

Financing. Rent to Own or 

Lease Purchase. 

STOP RENTING TODAY MOVE 

IN TOMORROW!!!! 

Don Babb 706-463-2333 

hhf@vol.com or 

Mark Burnett 706-529-5901 

DALTON 

1211 Nelson St , Fixer upper. 

2BR 1BA, $69,900, $1,000 

as low as$425 mon 

126 Magaughey Chapel RD 

2BR 1BA, $79,900, $1,000 

down as low as $550 month 

722 Timberlake. $89,900 

3BR 1BA $1,000 down. Pmyt as 

low as $750.00 per mon. 

1102 Brookwood #9 -3 BR 2BA 

Condo, $84,900, $1,000 down 

$600 per month 

1827 Swanson N Dalton 2 br 

1ba, $69,900 $1000dn $495 mn 

4200 Mount Pleasant - 

Beaverdake.5BR 2BA - not in 

subd. $159K $1100 dn, $1100 

month 

726 

Commercial 

Buildings 

*19,000 sq.ft. - 2105 E. Walnut 

Ave. Retail space, Next to 

Hobby Lobby, across from Mall. 

*97,000 sq. ft., 454 Hwy 225 

(Bretlin) 

*Retail space - Dalton Place 

Shop. Ctr. 2518 Cleveland Hwy. 

1200, 1400, 44,000 SF avail. 

706-279-1380 Wkdys 9-5:30 

12,500 sf bldg. for sale or lease 

& 10,000 sf bldg for sale by 

owner. Dalton. Docks. Suitable 

for light manfg. or wrhg, offices 

w/ c/h/a. Perry 706-275-0862 

728 

Commercial 

Rental 

* 302 S. Thornton 5,500 SF, 

includes utilities, between 

Newspaper office & Bank of Am. 

* 1515 Abutment Rd. 10,000 sq. 

ft. includes utilities. Many sizes 

or suites. 1.3 mi. S. of Walnut 

* Camelot Bldg, Near I-75. 1514 

W. Walnut Ave. Between Long 

John Silvers & Burger King. 

5,500 S/F. 

706-279-1380 wkdys 9-5:30. 

31,000 sq ft. Masonry building, 4 

loading docks & offices. 1 block 

off 4 lane Abutment Rd. on 

Callahan Rd. 706-226-6245 

Doctor’s Offices for Rent 

Medical Suites, 2500 SF avail. 

1008 Professional Blvd., 

Dalton. Distinctive Modern 

Bldg., 3rd floor w/elevator. 

706-279-1380 wkdays 9-5:30 

Restaurants for rent: *410 S. 

Hamilton (fmrly Bailey’s Diner) 

Incl. equipment $3,495 mo. 30 

day setup time - Free Rent . *801 

E. Walnut Ave. Barrett 

Marketplace $2995/Mo. $2000 

dp. (fmrly El Taco) fully furnished. 

706-279-1380 wkdys 9-5:30 

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The Daily Photo 

Commercial 

Rental 

Lakeland Rd, Dalton - 51,000 

SF. West Industrial Dr., Dalton - 

300,000 SF. Gi Maddox Pkwy., 

Chatsworth - 31,500 SF. Duvall 

Rd., Chatsworth - 175,000 SF. 

Watson St., Rome - 8,100 SF. 

All property is privately owned. 

Visit www.tmarealty.com for 

additional information or call 

706-876-1108 . 

Office space for lease. 

Available Now! 1400 sq. ft. suite 

and 2,500 sf. suite. 800 College 

Dr. 706-226-6245 8:30a-5:00p 

Office: 2700 S.F. Excellent 

condition. 1143 E. Walnut Ave. 

Call: 706-581-1037 

Retail Shop for Lease. 3000 SF 

total. Chatsworth Area, Great 

Location. 706-483-9187 

Warehouse for lease in Dalton 

20,640 dq. ft. & 25,800 sq. ft. 

Call: 706-278-1566 

RENTAL HOUSING 

751 Apartments 

$ 1st WEEK FREE! 

$120/wk. 1bd, new carpet & 

paint, close to hospital. 

Also 1 & 2 bd S. 41 Hwy. 

Power, water & cable 

furn’d. Deposit Required. 

Denise 706-463-1598 or 

En Español 706-463-0945. 

$100 Move-In Special !! 

2 bd 1 bath apartments Dalton 

& Murray Co. Spacious Kit. 

w/dishwasher, stove & refrig. 

Washer/dryer hookup. CHA 

706-278-6485 

1 STORY completely furn. effic. 

Cable TV, phone, microwave, 

kitc. supplies, linens, utilities 

furniture North Tibbs Road. 

$149/weekly, 278-7189. 

1 STORY, 1 bedroom, low utility 

bills. Water furnished, washer/ 

dryer connection, utility room, 

attic storage. N. Tibbs Rd. 

(706)278-7189 

1, 2, & 3 Bd Apt’s - Starting at 

$100/week. Power, water, 

cable, furnished. 

For details. 706-463-0672, 

706-463-0671 & Español 

706-463-0945 

1130/1132 Burleyson $485mon 

$240dep. 2BR 1BA. *707-2 

Lance 2BR 1.5BA Newly 

remodeled, 1st wk free w/1 yr. 

lease. 726-279-1380 wkdy 9-5:30 

1st WEEK FREE!! 2 bd, 2 ba. 

A/C, cable, parking, $155 wk. 

No Pets! Renovated. 706-263- 

0743 or 484-225-4212 

2 & 3 bedroom apt. starting at 

$140/wk. Utilities included. 

706-260-9183 

2 BR 1 BA -*503B Colter, 2BR 

1.5BA $445 mth, $220 dp. 706- 

279-1380 wkd 9-5:30 

Sara Olivia-Jean Workman of Harrison, TN 

To submit your photo, email photo, name 

and city to: lauramartin@daltoncitizen.com 

Look for the solution to today’s Sudoku Puzzle 

on page 6B of the classifieds. 

751 Apartments 751 Apartments 

2 br, 1 ba, stove, refrigerator. 

washer/dryer. $575/mo. 

$350/dep. Dug Gap area. 

Mineral Springs Apartment. 706- 

313-2128 

271 Broadacre Rd. NW. 2 br, 1.5 

ba., Central H/A, W/D hook ups, 

water furnished. $470 month. 

Call: 706-508-4158 

2br./1ba. Duplex, Hwy 225 

North. C/ H/ A, W/D hook-up, 

appliances, water furnished. No 

pets. $375/mo., $200/dep. 706- 

581-2062 

3 bdrm 2 ba apt. 1/4 mile rom 

Hospital Hardwood, jacuzzi tub, 

walk-in closet. $700 mon $250 

dep No Pets! 706-313-9636 

3bd/1ba Duplex off Cleveland 

Hwy. All appls, dishwasher, w/d 

hkup, c/h/a, $550/mo. $250/dep. 

706-581-2062. No pets. 

A SWEET DEAL FOR YOU!! 

Well maintained. 

Convenient location! 

Call PARK CANYON APTS 

706-226-6054 

Email: parkcanyon@optilink.us 

Apartment for Rent. 2BR/1 BA 

located in Chatsworth. $435.00 

mth $300.00 Deposit. NO PETS 

706-483-9187 

Apartments For Rent - Unit #23 

@ Rosewood Condo on Mineral 

Springs Rd. 2 stories, 1 1/2 bath, 

2 bedrooms, Ready to move in. 

$500/month, $300/deposit. 

Positively no pets. 706-517-1641 

Chatsworth. 2 bd 1 bath Apt. All 

appliances. furnished w/ washer/ 

dryer. C/H/A. $450 mon.Also 2 

bd, 1.5 ba Townhouse. $550 

mon. Water furnished. No 

deposit. 706-517-2589 or 706- 

264-0066 

City west near Creative Arts 

Guild. 2bd 2ba, CHA, WD conn. 

Lease, references req’d $550 

mon $300 dep. 706-463-3171 

MARCH ON IN! 

1st MONTH 

FREE! 

BEST 

APARTMENTS IN TOWN! 

HUGE, LUXURY UNITS 

OPEN 7 DAYS A WEEK! 

706-279-1801 

Motel Rooms For Rent: 2107 S. 

Dixie Hwy. 41. Standard - 

$95/wk. Lg.- $125/$135wk. 

Dep.= 2 wks. rent. Furnished + 

TV, basic cable, private phone. 

706-279-1380 wkdys 9-5:30 

We are currently screening applicants for additions to 

our working family in our Tufting and Extrusion 

Divisions. If you have experience in any of the 

following positions please stop by to apply: 

Applications are accepted 

Monday through Thursday 9:00am-12:00pm 

Apply in Person. No Phone Calls Please. 

Enhanced Graphic Loop 

Machine Operators 

A stable work history with at least two years of continuous employment 

is a must. A qualified applicant must also understand English 

instructions and identify English letters and English numbers. 

Cherokee Carpet Industries is a locally owned 

Carpet Manufacturer doing business since 1994. 

We offer Competitive wages, Medical and Dental Insurance, 

Life Insurance, Disability, Paid Holidays, Vacation Pay, 401k , 

Credit Union, and many other benefits. 

APPLY IN PERSON OR FAX RESUME 

601 CALLAHAN ROAD 

DALTON, GA 30721 

FAX (706)260-2798 

Located East off Lakeland Rd.


751 Apartments 

MOVE RIGHT IN, 1 & 2 BD 

efficiency apts, furnished, all 

util’s, w/d furnished, TV, In 

Chats., & Dalton, near hospital. 

706-313-1733 or 695-0625 

Secluded Townhouse 2br/ 

1.5ba, off Hwy 2 between Dalton 

& Ringgold. No pets, $450 mo 

$250 dep 706-581-2062. 

STAY LODGE 

Effic. Apt. with kitchen. Furn w/all 

utilities. Laundry fac., basic 

cable. Private phones furn. 

Starting at $129.99/wk plus tax 

Suite Deals 1BR $175.00 per 

week. Call 706-278-0700 

STAYLODGE - WILLOWDALE 

MOVE IN SPECIAL 

1st Week $100.00 

706-278-0700 

STRAWBERRY COMMONS: 

All utilities included w/washer 

& dryer hookup. 1 & 2 bd apts. 

$550-625 *$100 off off-1st 

months rent. (706) 271-0020 

UNDERWOOD LODGE 

Furnished Efficiency with 

kitchenette. All Utilities & 

Cable!! Laundry Facility 

Available. 

Move In Specials $70-$90 

for first week! 

706-226-4651 

Furnished 

Furn’d garage Apt. in quiet city 

west neighborhood. Utilities & 

cable, internet included. $450/ 

mo. Dep. & ref. req’d. No pets. 

706-278-5915 or 706-313-6603 

752 Homes For Rent 

$ Simple Management 

Services LLC 

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Se Habla Español 

Over 40 Homes With Pictures 

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FOR RENT 

**LAFAYETTE – 404 Glenn St. 2 

Br 1.5 BA $400 Dep $595 a Mth 

**COHUTTA – 2 BR / 1 BA 

Duplex $100 Deposit $100 Wk. 

or $160 a Wk w/ Power-Water 

**TUNNEL HILL /VARNELL 

3971 Lake Kathy Rd, 3 BR / 1 

BA Mobile $230 Dep. $115 wk 

RENT TO OWN 

**COHUTTA – 4036 Parliament 

Dr. 5 BR / 3 BA $2500 Down, 

$1200 a Mth $160,000. 

**ROCKY FACE – 208 Ina Dr. 3 

BR / 2 BA $2500 Down, $950 a 

Mth, $130,000 

**DALTON – 704 Chattanooga 

Ave. 2 BR / 1 BA $1000 Down, 

$625 a Mth. $88,000 

**LAFAYETTE – 404 Glenn St. 2 

Br1.5 BA $1000 Down $625 Mth 

**CHATSWORTH - 30 Sun Mtn 

Spur. 2 BR / 1 BA Vacation 

Rental / Lake Home $1200 

Deposit, $1200 A Mth. 

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2 bedroom, 1 bath Duplex. 

212 Ezzard Ave. $395/mo. + 

Deposit. 706-463-2332 706-397- 

2087 

2 bedroom, 1 bath. $450/month 

or $105/week, $500/dep. Call: 

706-259-4334 or 706-264-4452 

3 bedroom 1.5 bath home for 

rent, 1 mile off I-75 in Tunnel Hill. 

$685 month, $300 deposit Call 

423-580-9454. 

3 bedroom 2 bath home in S. 

Whitfield area on 2 acres. New 

carpet & paint. 706-217-7233 

3 bedroom only $220 month. 

Buy 5% down, 30 yrs at 8% 

APR. For listings 800-536-8517 

ext R200 

For Lease, 2-story house, Quiet 

country setting. 5 minutes from 

Mall. living rm, dinning rm 

combo, kitchen,bdrm, bath, & 2 

full porches, main floor. 2BR, 

bath, utility room & full porch 

down stairs. Large yard, quiet 

street. $500/dep $750/mon. 278- 

8130 or 278-3631, for appoint. & 

application. 

NGEMC area, *3 bdrm. $575 

month. $350 dep. Cable & water 

furnished. *1 bd $140 wk. utilities 

furnished. 706-694-8010 

Winter Special- 1st wk. FREE - 

1 yr. lease - Sweetwater Rd. 3 

BR 2 BA, $145wk, $290dep. So. 

end of Murray Co off Hwy 225 S 

1/2 + acre lots, beautiful country 

setting. Several to choose from. 

Sweetwater Rd., Chatsworth Hwy. 

225 Fm Chats Hwy. Take Hwy 225 

S 13 mi. Fm Calhoun, take Hwy 

225 N, 6 mi past Elks Golf 

Course, 1 mi N. of 4-way at 

Nickelsville. 706-279-1380 wkdys 

9-5:30 

753 Condos For Rent 

2 & 3 bd. New Luxury condo/apt 

for rent or sale 2 bd starting at 

$795 per mo. senior disc. avail. 1 

level, large rooms cable/int 

wired, walk in closets Crow 

Valley Rd area Appointment 

Avail 706-259-7474 

776 

MOBILE HOMES 

Mobile Homes 

For Sale 

3 bedroom 2 bath home with 

land only $69,900. Will NOT 

last! 423-476-3605 

Govt. Stimulus Mortgage 

Programs Available for a limited 

time. No credit/limited credit OK. 

2 yrs job time. 423-476-9309 

NEW 3 bedroom 2 bath 

doublewide fully furnished for 

only $69,900. Call 423-476- 

2350 

778 

Mobile Homes 

For Rent 

*House, Mobile Homes water & 

garbage serv. provided, off S. 

Bypass between Chatsworth 

Hwy & Riverbend Rd., wkly or 

mthly rates. Ref. & dep req’d. 

706-260-6097. No calls after 

8:30pm or 278-8130 

1 & 2 bdrm mobile homes & 

Apartments in Whitfield & Murray 

Co. $85 per week & up. Utilities 

furnished. 706-278-4048 

2 BR 1 BA 2012 -1 Abutment 

Rd. 2 BR 2 BA - 2111 B Dixie 

Hwy. $120 wk, $240 dep. 706- 

279-1380 wkdys 9-5:30. 

HUGE DISCOUNTS! 

2 & 3 BD homes, many w/ hdwd 

floors. Country setting. Large lots 

& private pond. Carbondale 

area. $100-$135/wk. 706-383- 

8123 

Move in Special! 1/2 Price. 

Quiet community. From $95 to 

$135 week. Utilities included. 

706-506-3561 or 678-910-5776 

Owner Finance. Flexible down 

payment. $650/mo. 3 bdrm 2 

bath, 1 acre lot in Tunnel Hill. 

Call Steve 706-270-1342. 

Owner Finance: Lease purchase 

or rent. 3 bd 2 ba, doublewide on 

1 acre. Good area in Chatsworth 

Steve 706-270-1342 

Rent / Rent to Own. $450 and 

up. 2 & 3 bedroom. Ashley 

Brooke. S. Hwy 41. Clean and 

safe! Call 706-279-1553 

Westside Area: 1 and 2 

bedroom mobile homes. 

Call 706-673-4000 

801 

TRANSPORTATION 

Antiques 

& Classics 

1968 Dodge Charger, Vibrant 

Red, Completely Restored, 454 

High Perf. Engine, Very Sharp 

$29,500. Call 706-618-7899 or 

706-695-8643. 

806 Domestic Autos 

1997 Ford Taurus with V-6, 

automatic, power windows and 

locks, power seas, cd player. 

This car looks and runs great. 

Asking $1,900 or best offer. 

706-218-8021 

2001 Ford Taurus, automatic, 

V6, power windows & locks, 

power seats, CD player, and also 

has new tires. This car looks and 

runs great. Asking $2,900. 

Financing is available. Call 706- 

218-8021 

2006 Cadillac STS, 6 cycl, nav. 

sunroof, heated & cooled seats, 

fully loaded, white diamond. 

29,000 miles. $19,900. 

706-277-3729 

807 Import Autos 

1991 Mercedes Benz 420 SEL 

white w/ Lt. gray int., sunroof, 

Michelin Tires, Fully Loaded. 

Excellent Cond. Great Price. 

$3950. OBO. Call: 706-264- 

1932 

2000 Mercedes Benz E320. 

Silver, auto, leather, clean 

condition, like new. Great on 

gas. 35K miles. $10,500. 561- 

512-7521. 

2001 - Jaguar, 4.0, S-Type. 

67,458 Miles. $ 12,200. 

Call: 706-217-8171 

2006 Suzuki Forenza Station 

wagon. Automatic. Power 

windows, cassette/CD, new tires 

& brakes. 116k. Excellent 

transportation $4,500. OBO 706- 

581-1837 anytime. 

807 Import Autos 

2005 BMW M3 Cabriolet, 36k 

miles, 6 sp., still under factory 

warranty, carbon black on black, 

Harman/Kardon sound, 

navigation, heated seats, 

xenon headlights, garage kept, 

one owner, asking $43,000. 

Call: 706-260-1673 

2005 Super Charged Mini 

Cooper. 6 speed. Convertible. 

Premium Sport Package. One 

owner, 40,000 miles, 

Harmon/Kardon parking 

sensors, cruise control, auto air. 

Price $21,000. 

Call: 706-313-1119. 

Mercedes Benz 1999, Mint 

condition. Very clean. Model 

S320, black. $7,500. 561-676- 

3335 or 706-370-4649. 

Reduced. 2006 Honda Accord 

EXL. Like new. Gray. Full 

warranty. 36k miles. Loaded. 

Leather seats, XM radio, 

sunroof, 34mpg. Like new. Great 

Cond. Must sell! No tax! 

$17,999. obo. 

706-614-7719 

Reduced. 2006 Honda Accord 

EXL. Like new. Gray. Full 

warranty. 36k miles. Loaded. 

Leather seats, XM radio, 

sunroof, 34mpg. Like new. Great 

Cond. Must sell! No tax! 

$17,999. obo. 

706-614-7719 

Well Maintained! Local Car! 

2004 Mercedes CLK 320 Coupe 

with 80,000 miles. Black ext., 

Beige int., 2DR, Semi- 

Automatic, Rear WD, 6 Cylinder, 

Sunroof, 6 Disc Changer, Push 

Button Start/Stop, ASKING: 

$21,000/obo. 

Call 706-463-1561 

808 4-Wheel Drive 

1989 Ford Bronco XLT. Red and 

white two tone. 4x4. Very clean. 

$3,300. New BFG tires. Call 

706-260-6547 

809 Trucks 

1999 Dodge Ram 3500 flat bed. 

Diesel. $7,500. Call: (706)673- 

4410 

809 Trucks 

2000 F-350 Crew Cab Dually. 

7.3 Power Stroke. 4x4. New 

tires. Choo Choo custom 

package. Only 74k miles. Very 

nice truck. $17,500. 706-280- 

8268 

2003 F-250, 4 door- crew cab. 

6.0 diesel, 94k miles. 4x4. 

Automatic, Excellent condition. 

Asking $18,500. 706-264-7883 

or 706-629-4000. 

2006 GMC 16 ft box truck Yellow. 

6.0 V8 Unleaded engine w/ 

300 hp. Auto. Transmission, 

A/C, ABS brakes, Power 

Steering, 2 Bucket Seats, 

AM/FM radio, 10 ft loading ramp 

w’ 1000lb capacity. Mileage 

ranging from 40,000 – 75,000 

miles. Sale price is $12,000 - 

$14000. Only method of 

payment accepted is certified 

check or money order. Sorry no 

financing Contact Josh Hall @ 

Penske, Day- 706-277-9477, 

Night- 423-304-6669 

2006 Ford F150 GTR show 

truck West Coast Customs 

conversion. American Racing 

chrome wheels. Each with 5 

wheel locks for theft prevention. 

Bed tauno cover. Only 1000 of 

these trucks were made in 

2006. "GTR" stitched into 

leather seats and floor mats. 

XM radio, 6 disc CD changer. 

5.6L V8 engine. Dual exhaust. 

Sunroof. Rear sliding window. 

Keyless entry. Female driven. 

No wrecks. 35,000 miles. Only 

used Full Synthetic Oil. 

$28000/negotiable. Please call 

for more info. Please leave a 

message and we will return 

your call. 706-695-9095 

811 Utility Trailers 

6x10 ft. Heavy Duty Trailer. 2’ 

high sides. Tie down ready. 

$700. Call:706-980-2674 after 

5pm. 

811 Utility Trailers 

2009 40 ft. goose neck flat bed 

trailer. Only used one time. 

$7,500. Call: 706-280-8268 

Mobile Concession stand (log 

cabin), great for carnival or fair, 

completely self contained, AC, 

Espresso cart, $15,000. 

Call: 706-581-4122 for details. 

812 Sport Utility Vehicle 

2005 GMC Envoy SLT. Loaded 

with every option available. 47K 

miles, 1-owner, garage kept, non 

smoker, $15,500. Call 706-280- 

8268 

2006 FORD Expedition - Eddie 

Bauer 2WD, leather, 3rd row 

power fold down, 6 disc CD 

changer, 22K miles, like new. 

Excellent condition. $24,900. 

706-422-8617 - 706-260-1029 

Asking $2,350 for this 96 Jeep 

Grand Cherokee with 6 cyl., 

4x4, CD player, power windows 

and locks, and also has new 

tires. This jeep looks and drives 

great. Call 706-218-8021 

Like new. 2004 Explorer. V8 

engine with 3rd row seat. Well 

maintained. Many extras. Only 

$9,500. Call: 706-280-1431 

RECREATION 

851 Boats 

2002 -18 1/2 Bass Boat. 90 HP 

Merc w/trim. 3 bank charger. 

$7,500. Call 706-226-2161 

851 Boats 

2001 21’ Bullet Bass Boat. 

225 Optimax. $15,500. 

Call: 706-226-2161 

2004 17' Generation John Boat 

Heavy duty trailer, 60 HP 

Johnson (97), tilt & trim, 55 

thrust Minn Kota. $4500 OBO. 

706-934-4757 or 

tathazar@yahoo.com .Will 

consider motorcycle cruiser 

trades. 

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Got Stuff? 

If you’ve outgrown your hard drive, given up your 

golf game, ditched your diamond, stored your 

stereo or garaged your guitar... 

Don’t Stash it - Cash it! 

Sell it in the classifieds 

Call Us! 

706-272-7703 or 

706-272-7707 


Motorcycles 

& Bikes 

2004 Kawasaki Vulcan 2000. 

Fully loaded, Maroon, 1 owner, 

garage kept, 10K miles. 5 

helmets, extra back seat & road 

pegs. New tires. Price 

Reduced $500. to $7,500 obo. 

706-218-9183 

2006 CBR 600 F4I, blue. 5,300 

miles, jardine slip on pipe. 2 

years warranty remaining. Never 

been laid down. Excellent 

condition. $5,.400 or best offer. 

Call: 706-508-3955 

2006 Honda CRF230, electric 

start, excellent condition, like 

new, rode very little, Aftermarket 

pipe and stock pipe. $2,100. Call 

day 706-673-3500 or 

evening 706-259-9584. 

JUST LIKE NEW!! 

2006 FLHXI Harley Davidson 

Street Glide, vivid black, full 

Rinehart exhaust, passenger 

detachable back rest, AM/FM 

radio & CD player, security 

system, garage kept, only 4,300 

miles. Please call 706-581-3516. 

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SERVICE DIRECTORY 






Automotive 

Are you tired of looking at 

those junk cars ( buses, 

dumptrucks) in your yard? 

We can solve your 

problem! 

You call, we haul.. 

also scrap metal! 

Jim and Sondra Lockhart 

home: 706-694-8675 

cell: 423-400-1302 

J & S Salvage 

and Towing 

Construction 

CONSTRUCTION 

We Do All Types of 

Interior/Exterior 

Remodeling 

*Flooring *Painting 

*Ceiling Textures 

*Walls and many more 

Best prices in Dalton 

and surrounding areas 


Call Salvador 

(706) 508 8334 

J&M Power Digging 

Top Soil 

Dozer 

Track Hoe 

Back Hoe 

Dump Truck 

Lots cleared 

Footings 

Drive Ways 

Rock (hauled) 

Septic Tanks 

Field Lines 

Fill Dirt 

706-217-9531 

706-275-0578 

Excavating 

EATON DIRT 

SMALL BACKHOE 

DUMP TRUCK 

LANDSCAPING 

MOWING 

CONSTRUCTION 

Call: ANDY EATON 

706-537-1219 

Monday - Friday & most 

Weekends 

Home Improvement 

DOC’S HOME REPAIR 

& REMODELING 

Ceramic Tile- Decks- Textured 

Ceilings- Additions- Flooring- 

Custom Building 

Free Estimates 

“ NO JOB TOO SMALL” 

20 Years Experience 

References Provided 

Tim Dockery 

Cell: (706) 264-6918 

HOMESTYLES 

The Professionals for all your 

home remodeling and 

repairs. 

Room Additions Decks 

All types of siding 

Windows Home repairs 

Drywall Painting 

Ceramic tile floors 

& counters 

Hardwood Floors & 

laminates Garages 

For Free Estimates 

706-673-7675 

Terry L. Scrivner 

Cell Phone 706-260-1284 

Rogers 

Roofing and Siding 

Shingles 

Torch down modified 

Metal roofing. 

Vinyl replacement windows 

Siding of all kinds. 

All jobs are in writing. 

All work is guaranteed. 

For a free estimate call 706- 

271-6967 

TRI-STATE 

FLOORING 

& 

REMODELING 

All Your Flooring Needs 

Hardwood, Tile, & Laminate 

Free Prompt Estimates 

Insured 

Call 

423-260-8603 

Home Repair 

 

**Home Repair** 

New window and door 

installation 

Bath and kitchen remodels 

Electrical & plumbing 

repairs 

Decks 

COMPLETE HOME REPAIR 

WITH TOTAL CUSTOMER 

SATISFACTION 

35 Years Experience 

Call Dave @ 

706-537-1549 

 

Langford Brothers 

Construction 

Residential & Commercial 

All Types Masonry Work 

Remodeling 

Decks 

Painting 

Plumbing & Wiring 

All Types of Home & 

Commercial Care 

Over 40 Years Experience 

Locally owned & operated 


Fully Insured 

No job to small or big!! 

706-280-0961 

*Are you tired of sloppy 

work, no shows, 

overcharging, no return 

phone calls? 

We specialize in quality work, 

dependability, reasonable rates 

AAA DALTON REPAIRS & 

IMPROVEMENTS for your 

home & commercial repairs & 

improvements. Plumbing, 

Electrical, Carpentry, Painting, 

Roofing, Floor Replacement, 

Handyman Work, Remodels & 

much more! 

AAA DALTON REPAIRS & 

IMPROVEMENTS 

receives compliments from past 

customers. No one needs to be 

overcharged in this economy. 

Free, detailed estimates sent 

out or delivered quickly. We can 

also be found in the Yellow 

Pages under 

Home Improvements. 

Call Mike 706-280-2357 

Jewelry 

DO YOU WANT TO SELL 

YOUR GOLD or SILVER 

JEWELRY AND COINS 

PRIVATELY? 

We Will Come To You.... 

Confidentially and 

discreetly or we can set 

up a meeting at our 

office. 

Top dollar paid in cash. 

706-277-0012 

Landscaping 

AAA Lawn Care 

& Landscaping 

Will beat any competitor’s 

written contract by 10%! 

“Save Today with AAA!” 

Mowing, Trimming, Blowing 

Edging, Fertilizing, Pressure 

Washing, Plant / Flower installs, 

Shrub Trimming, 

Mulch, Trash and Debris 

Removal w/ Dump Truck, 

Tree Planting, Trimming, and 

Pruning, Lot Clearing, 

Decks, Storage Buildings & 

Bobcat Work. 

Fully Insured, Free Estimates 

AAA Lawn Care 

& Landscaping 

Call 706.280.9557 

ESCAPE YARDWORK! 

If You’d 

Rather Be 

Relaxing, Leave 

the Yard Work to 

Us! 

Mowing Mulching 

Trimming Seeding 

Gutter Cleaning 

Pressure Washing 

Painting Handyman 

Work, and more 

Call Michael For Your 

Free Estimate 

GUESS LANDSCAPING 

Cell: 706-280-4250 

MITCHELL 

LANDSCAPING 

Removal of unwanted 

leaves and shrubs 

Mulching 

Mowing & Edging 

Spring Flower Bed Prep 

All Spring & Summer 

Planting 


Save $$$ 

No 

Contracts 

Handy 

Man Odds & 

Ins 

Brent 

Mitchell 

706-537-7532 

Ryan Mitchell 

706-537-7717 

MUNGUIA 

LANDSCAPING 

All Your Landscaping Needs 


We trim trees too 

much to your house! 

Cement Driveways 

Mowing Trimming 

Blowing Edging Fertilizing 

Plant & Flower installs 

Shrub Trimming Mulch 

Pea Gravel & Rock installs 

Cut trees Tree planting & 

Trimming, Lot Clearing, 

Decks Storage Building 

All Bobcat Work 

706-618-6708 

706-483-9641 

Masonry 

C.W. MASONRY 

All Phases: 

Brick, Block, Stone, 

Cement, & Stucco. 

No job too small! 

I’ll beat any local job . 


Call 226-6963 or 

706-280-1341 

Painting 

#1 M&M 

Painting & Decorating 

Interior & Exterior 

Deck Building and Sealing 


Popcorn & Texture 

Ceilings 

Texture Walls 

Roofing & Roof Leak 

Repairs Metal Roofs 

45 Years of experience 

No Job Too Big or Too 

Small. 

Call Marty 706-847- 

0106 

Simon Trujillo 

706-264-4495 



ELROD’S 

PRESSURE 

WASHING 

Residential & Commercial 

Houses/ Mobile Homes 

Concrete Cleaning 

Vinyl/ Brick/ Masonite 

Prep for Painting 

Mold Removal 

References Available 

Exterior /Gutters Cleaning 

ROOF CLEANING (Black 

streak removal, algae removal) 


Call Scott 706-264-9482 

Tree Service 

A & A TREE 

SERVICE, 

LLC 

& STUMP 

GRINDING 

Insured - $1 Million Liability 

Trees Pruned 

Bucket Truck and 

Chipper 

Removal & Clean-up 

Experienced 

Hazardous Tree 

Removal 

Lot Clearing 


706-260-9573 

COLLINS TREE 

SERVICE 

Crane Service. 

No Job Too Small, 

No Tree Too Tall! 

Stump Grinding 

Specializing In Dangerous 

Tree Removal. 

Full Equipment: 

Fully Insured - Free Estimates 

ALL MAJOR CREDIT 

CARDS ACCEPTED. 

For More Information 

Call: 259-3792 

706-483-6496 

“Jesus Loves You - John 3:16 

Danny’s Tree 

Removal 

Planted 

Storm Damage 

Mulch 

Shrubbery 

Trim 

Fully Insured 

Senior Citizen Discount 

Call: 706-270-2697 

Tree Service 

Lanning’s 

Outdoor 

Services 

Tree Service 

Stump Grinding 

Storm Cleanup 

Bucket Truck Service 

Bobcat Service 

Lot Clearing 

Free Estimates. 

Cell: 706-260-6169 

(leave message) 

Darren Lanning 

Insured/Owner 

Firewood For Sale 706-217-9966 

Larry’s 

Trees To Dirt 

Full Line of Equip. Available. 

Complete Tree 

Removal Service. 

including 

Hazardous & Dangerous 

Storm Clean-Up 

Lot & Land Clearing 

Stump Grinding, 

Any Size, Any Where 

Firewood For Sale 

FULLY INSURED 


706-581-3870 

Years of Expereince 

Merv’s Tree Service 

Trees Trimmed & removed 

Hazardous Tree Removal 

Lots cleared 

Insured 

Best Prices! 

706-260-7859 

Windows 

W INDOW 

W ORKS! 

New Vinyl 

Replacement 

Windows 

Decks 

Carpentry 

FREE ESTIMATE 

Call David at 

706-264-1284 

Our Windows Qualify for 

30% Stimulus 

Rebate

8B Monday, March 16, 2009 T HE D AILY C ITIZEN 

Ariana Becerra 

2nd Grade 

Jenny Jimenez 

1st Grade 

Brogen Ballew 

1st Grade 

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2nd Grade 

Taylor Smith 

3rd Grade 

Fabian P 

1st Grade 

Juan 

Kindergarten 

Carlos Patlan 

2nd Grade 

Erin 

Kindergarten 

Jenna Dillingham 

4th Grade 

Brian Lopez 

4th Grade 

Kevin 

Kindergarten 

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