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Page 2 • The <strong>News</strong>-<strong>Banner</strong> • TUESDAY, JULY 2, 2013<br />
<strong>Bluffton</strong> man ‘critical’<br />
(Continued from Page 1)<br />
Lindsay Clements said<br />
she was sleeping before the<br />
crash and did not know what<br />
happened.<br />
Zerkle voluntarily submitted<br />
to a blood draw at<br />
Parkview. Bradley contacted<br />
a judge and obtained<br />
<strong>Berry</strong> <strong>nice</strong><br />
(Continued from Page 1)<br />
“We picked about 300<br />
quarts,” he said.<br />
He plants the breed of<br />
strawberry called Honeye.<br />
“They are sweet and produce<br />
well,” he said.<br />
He staggers the growth<br />
of the strawberry plants to<br />
maintain a steady production.<br />
While a strawberry<br />
plant may last up to five<br />
years, it does not usually<br />
produce well the first or<br />
second years. By the third<br />
year it is productive, then it<br />
begins tapering off the following<br />
two years. A plant<br />
Same-sex divorce?<br />
(Continued from Page 1)<br />
Kathy Harmon, the attorney<br />
for Donald Schultz Lee,<br />
said laws need to change in<br />
Indiana or Massachusetts in<br />
order for her client to dissolve<br />
his marriage.<br />
“If we’re successful, my<br />
client gets a divorce, which<br />
a search warrant to obtain a<br />
sample of Daniel Clement’s<br />
blood.<br />
Both were sent to the<br />
Indiana Department of Toxicology<br />
for testing; the investigation<br />
is pending until<br />
results are returned.<br />
The Indiana State Police,<br />
Ossian Police and Ossian<br />
usually must be replaced<br />
after the fifth year.<br />
Although the strawberries<br />
are nearly done for this<br />
year, Shady has plenty of<br />
work in caring for the rest of<br />
his plants. He plants green<br />
beans, potatoes, onions, lettuce,<br />
radishes. In the fall<br />
there are pumpkins. Besides<br />
weeding, Shady hand waters<br />
each plant, using jugs he<br />
fills at home and transports<br />
to the garden in the back of<br />
his truck.<br />
Shady has worked in the<br />
food industry most of his<br />
life. After working at his<br />
is what he’s seeking,” Harmon<br />
said. “If that makes<br />
new law, then that makes<br />
new law.”<br />
Harmon said she expects<br />
Judge David Shaheed to<br />
reject the divorce petition<br />
but plans to appeal if that<br />
happens.<br />
Fire Department also<br />
responded to the accident.<br />
Firefighters had to extract<br />
Daniel Clements, who was<br />
pinned for about 10 minutes,<br />
Fire Chief Ben Fenstermaker<br />
said.<br />
Damage exceeded<br />
$5,000.<br />
chetb@news-banner.com<br />
family’s store in <strong>Bluffton</strong> —<br />
Farling’s Finer Foods — he<br />
later worked for Maloley’s<br />
Supermarkets, Wiseguy<br />
Foods in northern Indiana<br />
and another grocery store in<br />
Wisconsin. Upon retiring in<br />
2005, Shady has put his love<br />
for produce into his garden<br />
The labor-intensive work<br />
might intimidate another<br />
gardener but Shady is content.<br />
“I’ve thought about<br />
reducing the size of the garden,<br />
but it gives me something<br />
to do,” he said.<br />
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Donald Schultz Lee said<br />
he doesn’t want to be a pioneer<br />
and simply wants to<br />
end his marriage.<br />
“Unfortunately, my marriage<br />
didn’t work out,” he<br />
said. “That happens, and<br />
I’m just proceeding with my<br />
life the way anyone would.”<br />
U.S., World Roundup<br />
NSA leaker Snowden ends<br />
asylum request to Russia,<br />
faces hurdles in Europe<br />
MOSCOW (AP) — NSA leaker Edward<br />
Snowden’s attempts to seek refuge outside<br />
the United States hit hurdles Tuesday, after<br />
Russian media reported he canceled his<br />
asylum bid in Russia and several European<br />
countries said such applications wouldn’t be<br />
considered if they were made from abroad.<br />
Russian news agencies Tuesday quoted<br />
President Vladimir Putin’s spokesman Dmitry<br />
Peskov as saying that Snowden withdrew<br />
his request when he learned about<br />
the terms Moscow has set out. Putin said<br />
on Monday that Russia is ready to shelter<br />
Snowden as long as he stops leaking U.S.<br />
secrets.<br />
At the same time, Putin said he had no<br />
plans to turn over Snowden to the United<br />
States.<br />
Several of the other countries where the<br />
WikiLeaks says Snowden has applied for<br />
asylum have said he cannot apply from<br />
abroad. Officials in Germany, Norway, Austria,<br />
Poland, Finland and Switzerland all<br />
said he must make his request on their soil.<br />
WikiLeaks said requests have also been<br />
made to Bolivia, Brazil, China, Cuba, Ecuador,<br />
France, Iceland, India, Italy, Ireland,<br />
Netherlands, Nicaragua, Spain and Venezuela.<br />
Egypt’s military says it will<br />
intervene unless Morsi<br />
meets protester demands<br />
CAIRO (AP) — Egypt’s military issued<br />
a “last-chance” ultimatum Monday to President<br />
Mohammed Morsi, giving him 48<br />
hours to meet the demands of millions of<br />
protesters in the streets seeking the ouster<br />
of the Islamist leader or the generals will<br />
intervene and impose their own plan for the<br />
country.<br />
The military’s statement, read on state<br />
TV, put enormous pressure on Morsi to step<br />
down and sent giant crowds opposing the<br />
president in Cairo and other cities into delirious<br />
celebrations of singing, dancing and<br />
fireworks. But the ultimatum raised worries<br />
on both sides the military could outright<br />
take over, as it did after the 2011 ouster of<br />
autocrat Hosni Mubarak.<br />
It also raised the risk of a backlash from<br />
Morsi’s Islamist backers, including his powerful<br />
Muslim Brotherhood and hard-liners,<br />
some of whom once belonged to armed militant<br />
groups. Already they vowed to resist<br />
what they depicted as a threat of a coup<br />
against a legitimately elected president.<br />
Pro-Morsi marches numbering in the<br />
several thousands began after nightfall in a<br />
string of cities around the country, sparking<br />
clashes in some places. An alliance of the<br />
Brotherhood and Islamists read a statement<br />
at a televised conference calling on people<br />
to rally to prevent “any attempt to overturn”<br />
Morsi’s election.<br />
“Any coup of any kind against legitimacy<br />
will only pass over our dead bodies,”<br />
one leading Brotherhood figure, Mohammed<br />
el-Beltagi, told a rally by thousands of<br />
Islamists outside a mosque near the Ittihadiya<br />
presidential palace.<br />
Obama defends U.S. spying<br />
on Europe and others as<br />
normal for all nations<br />
WASHINGTON (AP) — President<br />
Barack Obama had a simple answer to<br />
European outrage over new allegations that<br />
the U.S. spies on its allies: The Europeans<br />
do it too.<br />
Obama said Monday during his trip to<br />
Africa that every intelligence service in<br />
Europe, Asia and elsewhere does its best<br />
to understand the world better, and that<br />
goes beyond what they read in newspapers<br />
or watch on TV. It was an attempt to blunt<br />
European reaction to new revelations from<br />
National Security Agency leaker Edward<br />
Snowden that the U.S. spies on European<br />
governments.<br />
“If that weren’t the case, then there’d be<br />
no use for an intelligence service,” Obama<br />
told reporters in Tanzania.<br />
“And I guarantee you that in European<br />
capitals, there are people who are interested<br />
in, if not what I had for breakfast, at least<br />
what my talking points might be should I<br />
end up meeting with their leaders,” Obama<br />
said. “That’s how intelligence services operate.”<br />
European spies have been spying on the<br />
U.S. for years, according to two former<br />
intelligence officials who spoke on the condition<br />
of anonymity because they weren’t<br />
authorized to discuss espionage programs.<br />
They said such spying includes tracking<br />
senior U.S. officials to see what they are<br />
doing in countries like France and Germany,<br />
which have both complained bitterly about<br />
the EU reports.<br />
Kerry: U.S., Russia want<br />
transitional government<br />
for Syria ‘sooner than later’<br />
BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN, Brunei<br />
(AP) — U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry<br />
says both the U.S. and Russia are seriously<br />
committed to holding an international conference<br />
to set up a transitional government<br />
to end the Syrian crisis.<br />
Kerry says the two countries both believe<br />
the meeting should take sooner rather than<br />
later, but acknowledged it might not be possible<br />
until August or later.<br />
Kerry spoke outside the U.S. Embassy in<br />
Brunei after a 90-minute-plus meeting with<br />
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov on<br />
the sidelines of an Asian security summit.<br />
Russia has been a key backer of Syrian<br />
President Bashar Assad regime’s in the twoyear<br />
civil war that has claimed more than<br />
93,000 lives.<br />
Kerry said the objectives of both countries<br />
remain the same — to “save the state of<br />
Syria and to minimize destruction.”<br />
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Urban-rural alliance does not<br />
stay intact for farm bill vote<br />
By THOMAS BEAUMONT<br />
Associated Press<br />
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — For<br />
decades, country and city interests had come<br />
together every few years to pass the farm<br />
bill, a measure that provided billions of dollars<br />
in subsidies to farmers and businesses in<br />
rural areas and food stamp money for urbanites.<br />
No more.<br />
The recent defeat of this year’s farm bill<br />
— traditionally a sturdy, albeit lonely pillar<br />
of cooperation in Washington — highlighted<br />
how the country-city political marriage<br />
became yet another victim of partisan politics<br />
in polarizing times. The divorce throws<br />
into doubt the future of sweeping agriculture<br />
and nutrition spending.<br />
Here’s how the breakdown of a longtime<br />
coalition happened: Newly emboldened<br />
conservative groups pressured rural-state<br />
Republicans — many representing agricultural<br />
districts — with radio ad campaigns to<br />
oppose the five-year $940-billion bill, calling<br />
its proposed cuts to food stamps too little.<br />
Hardly faultless, Democrats, whose districts<br />
mostly encompass urban areas home<br />
to food-stamp recipients, refused to budge<br />
on cuts they considered too deep. Each party<br />
was fearful of angering their core supporters.<br />
It was the height of partisanship over a<br />
measure that long had been devoid of it.<br />
“That kind of thing wouldn’t have happened<br />
at another moment in time,” said Rep.<br />
Allyson Schwartz, a Pennsylvania Democrat<br />
who opposed the measure.<br />
Rep. Steve Daines, R-Mont., voted for it,<br />
and bemoaned the result of House failure to<br />
pass it: “Doing nothing is worse than doing<br />
something.”<br />
Traditionally, Democrats and Republicans<br />
have worked closely together to pass<br />
farm bills.<br />
Long ago, conservative rural lawmakers<br />
whose numbers in Congress were shrinking<br />
became aware that they alone couldn’t<br />
muster enough votes to pass a measure paying<br />
for farm programs. So they agreed to<br />
include food-stamp money in the farm bill<br />
in exchange for support from their more liberal<br />
urban peers.<br />
It was a mutually beneficial relationship.<br />
Conservative lawmakers were mindful that<br />
the measures included subsidies for farmgrowing<br />
regions home to their core constituents,<br />
while liberal lawmakers were keenly<br />
aware that they contained dollars for food<br />
assistance that largely went to their bedrock<br />
voters in big cities. Each party needed the<br />
other to pass the measure that melded both<br />
farm and food money, and it almost always<br />
passed with bipartisan support.<br />
But this year, when House Speaker John<br />
Boehner urged lawmakers to support the<br />
bill and put it up for a vote, it failed to get<br />
enough support, shocking longtime congressional<br />
observers and lawmakers alike. Tea<br />
party-backed conservatives refused to budge<br />
in their demands for even deeper cuts to the<br />
food stamp program, which has doubled in<br />
cost over the last five years to almost $80<br />
billion annually and now helps feed 1 in 7<br />
Americans.<br />
The House version already had proposed<br />
slashing the $955 billion version of the bill<br />
that the Democratic-controlled Senate had<br />
passed by $20.5 billion in food-stamp cuts.<br />
That wasn’t enough for some Republicans<br />
and their allies, who were looking ahead to<br />
the 2014 midterm congressional elections<br />
and worried about the impact of supporting<br />
the measure.<br />
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