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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 />

Do you have a story to tell or<br />

know someone who does? kjreusser@adamswells.com<br />

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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Tuesday, July 2, 2013<br />

(24-hour observations<br />

at 7:49 a.m.)<br />

High: 68<br />

Low: 59<br />

Precipitation: 0.37”<br />

(rain)<br />

Wabash River Level<br />

(at the White Bridge): 9.61<br />

feet at 5:45 a.m.<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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