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ALLIANCE — Former fourt
e rm U.S. Congressman Hal
Daub’s 93-county Nebraska
“Listening and Learning To u r ”
will stop at Alliance Tuesday
m o rning, June 5. He will open
a public listening session at
8:30 a.m. on the second floor
of Bank of the West sponsore d
by Wally Seiler.
Daub is conducting the
statewide tour to gather information
and opinions as he
considers becoming a candidate
for the U.S. Senate in
2008. He plans to visit all 93
Nebraska counties in the 93
days prior to Labor Day.
During his current swing
t h rough the Panhandle he is
Local Weather: Mostly sunny today with a 20 perc e n t
chance of thunderstorms this afternoon. Some may be severe .
Highs 75-80 and northwest winds 10-15 mph gusting to 25.
Tonight, partly cloudy, with a 20 percent chance of thunders
t o rms, lows around 50. Partly sunny with possible rain tom
o r row, highs 75-80.
For local and national weather go to:
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also visiting eight counties
with stops in Sidney, Lodgepole,
Kimball, Harrisburg ,
S c o t t s b l u ff, Harrison, Crawf
o rd, Chadron and Bridgep
o r t .
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Set June 5 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _8:24 p.m.
A L L I A N C E
OPEN WIDE — University Of Nebraska Medical Center College of Dentistry students Troy Knaub and Becky Ronkar take a
look inside the mouth of Brandon Smith during the fourth annual Dental Days Friday. More than 30 children visited the offices of
D r. D.N. Taylor and Dr. P.J. Maxwell, with some traveling to Box Butte General Hospital as well, over the three-day event.
Coal Industry Keeps Digging
W R I G H T, Wyo. (AP) — Every second of every day the oversized
shovels of the Black Thunder mine claw another thre e
tons of coal from the arid plains of eastern Wy o m i n g .
Sprawled across 20,000 acres, Black Thunder pro d u c e s
m o re coal than any other mine in the We s t e rn Hemisphere .
America’s thirst for the fuel it provides is larger still: more than
1.1 billion tons consumed in 2006, or almost four tons per pers
o n .
But after years of steady growth, spurred by the rising cost
of coal’s main competitor, natural gas, the industry faces an inc
reasingly uncertain future .
Each ton of coal burned emits more than two tons of carbon
dioxide, the prime contributor to global warming. Enviro n m e n-
talists and some policymakers are calling for the country to
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Former Congressman To Visit A l l i a n c e
Public Library
On Summer Hours
ALLIANCE — Summer
hours at the Alliance Public
Library are 8 a.m. until
6 p.m. Monday, Tuesday
and Thursday; 8 a.m. until
8 p.m. Wednesday; and
10 a.m. until 5 p.m. Friday
and Saturday.
Photo by Mark Dykes/Ti m e s - H e r a l d
Little Angels Preschool
Students Sing At Graduation
C e r e m o n y ;
FIELDS OF COLOR — Sheri Arevalo takes a picture of the irises blooming just south of the 10th Street overpass. A r e v a l o ’s
parents, Leonard and Kathie Jedlicka, who grow several acres of the flowers, have been buying irises since 1998, and have been
selling them for about six years. The couple went national with their sales three years ago. The public is welcome to walk or drive
through the fields.
S t reet Work Creates Closure
ALLIANCE — Peltz Construction will be re c o n s t r u c t i n g
a portion of Fourth Street, between Niobrara an Sweetwater
avenues beginning today.
That area of the street will be closed to traffic for several
weeks.
‘ I n f o r m a n t ’s Role
Crucial In Exposing
New York City Airport Plot’
By L A R RY McSHANE
Associated Press Wr i t e r
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ALLIANCE — The Rural
Enterprise Assistance Pro j e c t
(REAP) Women’s Business
C e n t e r, Historic Main Stre e t
Alliance and The Alliance
NEW YORK (AP) — Four
men accused of plotting to
bomb a fuel pipeline feeding
the city’s busiest airport were
so taken by an informant that
they were sure God had sent
him to them, authorities said.
The informant made several
overseas trips to discuss the
plot against John F. Kennedy
I n t e rnational Airport, even
visiting a radical Muslim
g roup’s compound in
Trinidad, officials said. He
also joined the plotters on airport
surveillance trips —
w h e re authorities were waiting,
they said.
The suspects were convinced
he was guided by a
higher purpose: The ringleader
believed the inform a n t
“had been sent by Allah to be
the one” to pull off the bombing,
according to a federal
c o m p l a i n t .
Authorities said the plot,
revealed Saturday, demonstrated
the growing importance
of informants in eff o r t s
to combat terrorism, particularly
as smaller radical gro u p s
become more aggre s s i v e .
Accused mastermind Russell
Defreitas, 63, is now in
custody in New York, where
he was due to have a bail
hearing We d n e s d a y .
But two other suspects,
K a reem Ibrahim and Abdul
K a d i r, a former member of
(See TERRORISTS on Page 2)
Al-Qaida Front Group
Claims 3 Captured Soldiers Killed
CAIRO, Egypt (AP) — Al-
Qaida linked insurgents killed
t h ree American soldiers after
capturing them last month in
Iraq, according to a militant
video released today that
claimed to show footage of the
ambush. The video off e red no
p roof for its claims.
The clip, which was made
available to The Associated
P ress by the Wa s h i n g t o n -
based SITE Institute, showed
confused and jerky night battle
scenes, and later off e re d
close-ups of two identification
c a rds. It did not show the sold
i e r s .
“The Americans sent 4,000
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Photo by Mark Dykes/Ti m e s - H e r a l d
Business Plan Basics:
Get Your Business On Tr a c k
Chamber of Commerce are
sponsoring a mini-course in
Business Plan Basics Tr a i n-
ing. The course will run 6:30-
9 p.m. nightly June 7, 14, 21,
18, and July 5 at the Alliance
L e a rning Center. There will be
a fee. There are scholarships
available based on economic
eligibility which will cover the
materials portion.
Registration forms will be
available at Historic Main
S t reet at 204 E. Third Stre e t
or the Alliance Chamber of
C o m m e rce at 111 W. Third
S t re e t .
For information contact
Jerry Te r w i l l i g e r, REAP Panhandle
Business Specialist at
308-247-9926. To re g i s t e r
please contact Denise Barker
at Historic Main Street Alliance
(308-762-1800) or the
Alliance Chamber of Comm
e rce at (308-762-1520).
BEAR HUGS — These 7th Street Dance Studio students, dancing with teddy bears, were only a few of the dancers that performed during the studio’s 23rd annual
dance recital Saturday. During the two performances, dancers of every age, both male and female, showed their talents in a variety of dance forms.
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Legals
• Trustee Sale
•Special Budget
Workshop Meeting
BBCo Visitors Committee
•Meeting Police/Citizen
Advisory Council
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C o a l
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wean itself from coal by investing
in wind, biofuels and
other energies and levying
new taxes on carbon emissions.
In the interim, they
want mandates for cleaner
power plants.
Yet coal could prove a habit
h a rd to bre a k .
Companies like Arch Coal,
the owner of Black Thunder,
supply the fuel for more than
half the country’s electricity.
And with the industry’s backing,
Capitol Hill lawmakers
led by U.S. Sen. Craig
Thomas, R-Wyo., and House
Natural Resources Committee
Chairman Nick Rahall, D-
W. Va., are pushing to re c a s t
coal’s image — from climate
change culprit to pro m i s i n g
“ a l t e rnative fuel” that could
ease dependence on fore i g n
oil and possibly provide an
exit plan for the global warming
quandary.
Think of it as diet coal: A
new wave of coal-fired power
plants would capture carbon
dioxide to prevent its re l e a s e
into the atmosphere. Other
plants would use a pro c e s s
p e rfected by the Nazis to convert
the black rock into diesel
or jet fuel, to reduce imports
of foreign oil.
Both technologies re m a i n
untested in the United States
on a wide commercial scale.
Thomas said that’s why the
g o v e rnment needs to step in
and spur their development
t h rough loans to industry and
a mandate for 21 billion gallons
a year of coal-derived liquid
fuels by 2022.
“ We ’ re going to be looking
at new sources of energy and
indeed we should be,” said
Thomas, whose state leads
the nation in coal pro d u c t i o n .
“What we need to be equally
c o n c e rned with is what we’re
going to do now, for the next
15 years or so. Coal is one of
the largest fossil fuel res
o u rces we have.”
Thomas’ efforts on behalf
of industry stumbled in April,
when his proposal was defeated
on a party-line vote
during a Senate Energy Committee
debate over an ethanol
bill. He plans to try again in
June when the bill hits the
Senate floor.
But a neighbor to the
north, Democratic Sen. John
Tester of Montana, is now
saying coal should not expect
a free ride. Tester said in a recent
interview that any coalto-liquids
plant supported by
federal dollars must include
technology to capture and
s t o re carbon. The plants are
p rojected to cost billions of
dollars, making federal backing
key to moving forward .
“They can do it with private
backing if they want. But if
they want public dollars they
have to do carbon capture
and sequestration. That has
to be part of the conversation,”
Tester said.
Tester said he also wants
coal-based fuels to be at least
20 percent cleaner than traditional
petroleum fuels. Environmental
groups say even
then coal-to-liquids pro p o s a l s
a re a distraction from the
need to convert to more sustainable
energy sourc e s .
Still, from the vantage of
the Black Thunder mine, it is
h a rd to imagine coal’s future
dimming anytime soon.
Out of a gaping pit gouged
deep into Wyoming’s Powder
River Basin, an endless procession
of house-sized dump
trucks haul away boulders of
coal extracted from a 70-foot
thick seam. From there, it is
crushed into smaller chunks,
loaded onto rail cars and
shipped to power plants
a c ross the country.
The mine is one of more
than a dozen along the easte
rn edge of the Powder River
coal seam, which accounts for
about 40 percent of the nation’s
coal pro d u c t i o n .
“In front of us are millions
and millions and billions of
tons of coal,” said Arch Coal
Vice President Greg Schaefer.
“ T h e re is 200 years worth of
coal here at present consumption.
It’s an incre d i b l e
re s o u rc e .”
The Department of Energ y
f o recasts coal’s share of the
e n e rgy market will increase to
almost 60 percent over the
next 25 years. Unless cleaner
technologies are adopted to
lower carbon emissions, that
will spur an enviro n m e n t a l
“ c a t a s t rophe,” said David
Hawkins, director of the climate
center at the Natural
R e s o u rces Defense Council
and a former senior official at
the Environmental Pro t e c t i o n
A g e n c y .
Yet to replace 90 gigawatts
of additional electricity — the
amount the Department of
E n e rgy says will come fro m
151 new or proposed coal
power plants — would re q u i re
60,000 wind turbines or 100
mid-sized nuclear plants.
“ T h e re’s just nothing that
comes in at the scale of coal
over the foreseeable future ,”
said James Bartis, a RAND
Corporation re s e a rcher specializing
in energy issues.
But Hawking said that argument
should not be extended
to coal-to-liquids,
which he described as a
worse polluter than conventional
fuels. He said it would
take up to 250 million tons of
additional coal pro d u c t i o n
every year to reach Thomas’
21 billion gallon annual mand
a t e .
In the last three years, lobbying
expenses by the coal industry
more than tripled,
f rom $2 million in 2004 to almost
$7 million last year, acc
o rding to the nonpartisan
Center for Responsive Politics.
Much of the money has been
funneled through Americans
for Balanced Energy Choices
and a related org a n i z a t i o n ,
the Center for Energy and
Economic Development
( C E E D ).
Until recently, one of
CEED’s main goals was to
cast doubt on global warm i n g
and coal’s contribution to the
p roblem. As the science behind
climate change has
gained traction with policy
makers and the public, that
message has shifted, said
CEED vice president Ned
L e o n a rd .
“ We can’t even get in the
door to speak to a governor or
a regulator if we’re saying,
’First of all, we don’t think this
is even happening,”’ Leonard
said. “You can no longer get
away with talking generically
about voluntary action.”
What that means for coal
p roduction, and the steady
m a rch of the Black Thunder
Mine across eastern
Wyoming, could be decided
by Congress in coming weeks.
“Over the next 20 years,
the question is not whether
the industry will go down,”
said Bartis. “It’s how much
will it go up.”
County Court
Speeding — Larry D. Bennett
Jr., 21, Glendale, Ariz.,
82/65, fined $125 and costs.
Mandi M. Clawson, 19, Lar
i m o re, N.D., 75/65, fined
$25 and costs.
Wa rner L. Yankton, 38,
C h a d ron, 79/60, fined $25
and costs.
Unless otherwise noted, all
court costs are $44.
Parole Hearings
Telly D. Standing Bear —
Sentenced for burglary; Sentence
began Mar. 2, 2006;
Hearing will be at 9:30 a.m.
Monday, June 18, at Te c u m-
seh State Correctional Institution,
Te c u m s e h .
Renee N. Johnson —
Sentenced for Forgery second
d e g ree; Sentence began Sept.
12, 2006; Hearing will be at
9:30 a.m. Wednesday, June
20, at Nebraska Corre c t i o n a l
Center for Women, Yo r k .
Mississippi is also known
as the Magnolia State.
The harmonica is the
world's most popular musical
i n s t r u m e n t .
S o l d i e r s
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soldiers looking for them,”
said an unidentified voice on
the video, which was made
available to The Associated
P ress by the Wa s h i n g t o n -
based SITE, which monitors
t e r rorist groups. “They were
alive and then dead.”
The video off e red no pro o f
for its claims that the soldiers
had been killed and buried.
The voiceover blamed their
deaths on “the American
A rmy and their leaders, who
do not care for the feelings of
the soldiers’ families.”
The body of one of the soldiers
was later found in Iraq’s
Euphrates River, but the other
two remain missing. Family
friends of the missing men
said the U.S. military briefed
relatives about the video over
the weekend.
At the end of the 10-
minute 41-second video, the
identification cards of the two
missing soldiers were shown,
with the headline: “Bush is
the reason of the loss of your
POWs” written on the scre e n
above the cards. SITE did not
say how it obtained the video,
which featured the logo of the
media production house of
the Islamic State of Iraq.
Along with the identification
cards, the footage also
showed credit cards, American
and Iraqi money and other
personal items that the militants
called “booty.”
The video also showed
footage, apparently taken bef
o re the ambush, of thre e
masked men standing
a round a stand displaying a
sketch of the area, mapping
out the attack plan. One of
the three men, who were all
d ressed in black, talked to the
camera and pointed to the
sketch. Another stood by him
carrying a gun.
“I have urged you to bring
me American prisoners,” said
the man, whose name was
not given but was identified as
one of the militant gro u p ’ s
l e a d e r s .
The body of one of the soldiers
was found on May 23 in
the Euphrates River and later
identified by the U.S. military
as Pfc. Joseph Anzack Jr., 20,
of Torrance, Calif. The missing
soldiers have been identified
as Spc. Alex R. Jimenez,
25, of Lawrence, Mass., and
Pvt. Byron W. Fouty, 19, of
Wa t e rf o rd, Mich.
Community Calendar
Golden Age Club — Wi l l
meet for a covered dish dinner
and cards at 6 p.m. Tuesday,
June 5, at the Senior Citizens'
C e n t e r. The hosts and hostesses
are Willy Wi l b r a n d ,
Ethel Varilek, and Dale and
Ellen Brown.
AHS Class of 1977 — Wi l l
meet at 7 p.m. Thursday,
June 7, at the Eagles.
Eagles Auxiliary No. 136
— Will meet at 7:30 p.m.
Tuesday, June 5, with Nancy
Sherlock as hostess.
Summer Reading Program
— Will feature a live
mystery theater pre s e n t a t i o n
at 1 p.m. and 2:30 p.m.
Wednesday, June 6, at the Alliance
Learning Center.
Hospital Notes
Box Butte General Hospital
— Admissions: 6-1-07 Alliance:
Arthur Schneider,
Marty Moody; 06-2-07 Alliance:
Marjorie Buskirk
Dismissials: 6-1-07 Alliance:
Ti ffany Elkins and
daughter; 6-3-07 Alliance:
Arthur Schneider
C h a d ron Community
Hospital — A d m i s s i o n s :
6-3-07, Gillette, WY: Ta n i e l e
S t o r b e c k .
Dismissals: N o n e .
The above have perm i t t e d
publication of their names.
Dorothy L. Reed, 83
ALLIANCE — Dorothy Lucille
Reed, 83, passed away
Friday, June 1, 2007, at
Highland Park Care Center
s u r rounded by her family.
She was born Jan. 26,
1924, at Pawnee City to Albert
and Florence (Gordon) Mangn
a l l .
She was married to Melvin
Reed on June 1, 1946, at
S t e i n a u e r. He preceded her in
death on May 1, 1996.
She took Nursing classes
while working as an aide and
a cook at Good Samaritan
Nursing Home. She also
worked as a cook at St. Agnes
Academy.
She had been a member of
Holy Rosary Catholic Churc h
at Alliance and St. Bridget's
Catholic Church at Hemingf
o rd .
She is survived by her child
ren Laura Beth (Craig)
Neuwirth of Gering, Jan (Bill)
Coleman and Roger (Sue)
Reed of Hemingford, Mary
Reed of Omaha, Chuck (Barb)
Reed of Alliance, and Linda
Te r ro r i s t s
Small Claims
D i rect Check, plaintiff, vs.
Kodee M. Burri, defendant.
P l a i n t i ff is entitled to judgment
for $500.
Fire & Emergency
S a t u rday, 6:57 p.m. —
The Alliance Emergency Unit
responded to the 600 block of
East Third. One patient was
transported to Box Butte
General Hospital.
S a t u rday, 1:22 a.m. —
The emergency unit re s p o n d-
ed to the 1200 block of East
T h i rd. One patient was transported
to BBGH.
S a t u rday, 9:54 p.m. —
The emergency unit re s p o n d-
ed to the 1000 block of East
Sixth. On patient was transported
to BBGH.
Sunday, 1:22 a.m. — T h e
e m e rgency unit responded to
the 700 block of West 11th.
One patient was transported
to BBGH.
Sunday, 1:52 a.m. — T h e
e m e rgency unit responded to
a motor vehicle accident at
the 6000 block of Knox Road.
One patient was transported
to BBGH.
Sunday, 1:56 a.m. — T h e
e m e rgency unit responded to
the 600 block of East Ninth.
One patient was transported
to BBGH.
Monday, 3:33 a.m. — T h e
e m e rgency unit responded to
the 100 block of West 21st.
One patient was transported
to BBGH.
Deaths & Funerals
( F red) Bagg of Estacada, Ore .;
15 grandchildren, and 15
g re a t - g r a n d c h i l d ren.
She also is survived by her
s t e p b ro t h e r, Joseph Smith of
Omaha; and many nieces
and nephews.
She was preceded in death
by her parents and two bro t h-
e r s .
A Mass of Christian Burial
will be at 10 a.m. We d n e s d a y ,
June 6 at Holy Rosary
Catholic Church, with Fr.
James Heithoff off i c i a t i n g .
Burial will be in the Calvary
Cemetery.
A Rosary will be at 7 p.m.
Tuesday, June 5, at the
c h u rc h .
In lieu of flowers, memorials
may be given to the St.
Agnes Academy Adopt a Student
Program, 1104
Cheyenne Ave., Alliance, NE
69301; or to the Hemingford
Scholarship Foundation, in
c a re of Johnson & Associates,
803 Box Butte Ave., Alliance,
NE 69301.
Bates-Gould Funeral
Home is in charge of arrangements.
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Guyana’s Parliament, were in
Trinidad and will fight extradition
to the United States, their
l a w y e r, Rajid Persad, told a
Trinidadian court today. The
two made their initial court
appearance there on one
count each of conspiracy to
commit a terrorist act against
the government of the United
States. The judge set a bail
hearing for June 11 and an
extradition hearing Aug. 2.
Authorities in Trinidad are
seeking a fourth suspect, Abdel
Nur.
Tom Corrigan, a form e r
member of the FBI-New Yo r k
Police Department Joint Te r-
rorism Task Force, said the
Kennedy airport case and the
recent plot to attack Fort Dix
illustrated the need for inside
i n f o rmation. Six men were arrested
in a plot to attack soldiers
at the New Jersey military
base after an FBI informant
infiltrated that gro u p .
“These have been two significant
cases back-to-back
w h e re informants were used,”
Corrigan said. “These terro r-
ists are in our own backyard .
They may have to reach out to
people they don’t necessarily
trust, but they need — for
guns, explosives, whatever. ”
Without informants, Corrigan
said, investigators are often
left with little more than
educated guesswork. “In most
cases, you can’t get from A to
B without an informant,” the
ex-NYPD detective said.
In the Kennedy airport
case, the informant was a
twice-convicted drug dealer
who found himself in the
midst of what investigators
called a terrorist plot conceived
as more devastating
than the Sept. 11 attacks.
“ Would you like to die as a
martyr” the informant was
asked, according to the indictm
e n t .
State Patrol
S a t u rday, 6:57 p.m. —
Nebraska State Patrol Tro o p-
er C. Kumpf responded 12
miles north of Alliance on
Highway 87. A male subject
was taken into custody on a
warrant from Therm o p o l i s ,
Wyo. and for driving under
s u s p e n s i o n .
S a t u rday, 11:18 p.m. —
NSP TRooper C. Kumpf responded
one mile south of
Bridgeport on Highway 88. A
male subject was taken into
custody for driving under
s u s p e n s i o n .
Sunday, 11:15 a.m. —
NSP TRooper M. Van Horn responded
five miles north of
Rushville on Highway 87. A
female subject was taken into
custody for driving while int
o x i c a t e d .
Alliance in Brief
Miscellaneous — B e t w e e n
4:14 a.m. Friday and 4 a.m.
Monday the Alliance Police
Department responded to the
following calls: 29 traffic, eight
animal, six assists to other
agencies, six disturbance, six
e m e rgency, six building
checks, four security, four
noise complaints, three driving
complaints, three possible
vandalism, three criminal
mischief, three accident, thre e
assault, two juvenile, two
parking complaints, one hit
and run accident, one possible
disturbance, one re q u e s t
for extra patrol, one possible
assault, one juvenile, one
theft, one found property, one
suspicious activity and one
stolen pro p e r t y .
Theft — Thursday at
10:34 p.m. the APD re s p o n d-
ed to the 600 block of East
T h i rd .
P rotection Order Vi o l a-
tion — Friday at 12:04 p.m.
the APD responded to the 200
block of East Eighth. An Alliance
male, 32, was taken
into custody.
Dogs At Large — Friday at
1:42 p.m. the APD re s p o n d e d
to the 1800 block of Box
B u t t e .
Driving Under The Influence,
Driving Under Suspension,
No Headlights,
Possession Of Marijuana
and Possession Of Paraphernalia
— S a t u rday at 2:12
a.m. the APD responded to
the 900 block of Potash. An
Alliance male, 36, was taken
into custody.
T h i rd Degree Assault —
S a t u rday at 5:49 a.m. the
A P D responded to the C-Row
of Meadows. Suspected are
an Alliance female, 26, and an
Alliance female, 23.
S a t u rday at 12:23 p.m. the
APD responded to the 1500
block of West Third. Suspected
is an Alliance male, 26.
S a t u rday at 11:56 p.m. the
APD responded to the 200
block of Box Butte. Suspected
is an Alliance female, 32.
E m e rgency Pro t e c t i v e
Custody — S a t u rday at 8:14
p.m. the APD responded to
the 700 block of Flack. An Alliance
female, 31, was taken
into custody.
Assist Other Agency —
Sunday at 2:18 a.m. the APD
responded to the 2100 block
of Box Butte. An Alliance
male, 24, was taken into cust
o d y .
Use Of Force — Sunday at
2:18 a.m. the APD re s p o n d e d
to the 2100 block of Box
Butte. Suspected is an Alliance
male, 20.
Sheriff’s Report
Miscellaneous — B e t w e e n
7 a.m. Wednesday and 7 a.m.
Monday the Box Butte Sheri
ff’s Office served 20 papers,
responded to three animal
complaints, issued three citations,
three warnings for traffic
violations, responded to
two accidents, one call of driving
under the influence and
one driving complaint and
p e rf o rmed one title inspection.
The Box Butte County
Jail population is 18.

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Kids Need Healing From ‘Heeling’
CHICAGO (AP) — Tre n d y
wheeled sneakers that let kids
zip down sidewalks, acro s s
p l a y g rounds and thro u g h
mall crowds could also send
them rolling into emerg e n c y
rooms on a stre t c h e r, say doctors
who blame a rash of injuries
on the intern a t i o n a l
c r a z e .
It’s called “heeling,” named
after Heelys, the most popular
brand. They’re sold in 70
countries and are so hot that
their Carrollton, Texas, make
r, Heelys Inc., recently landed
atop BusinessWeek’s annual
list of fastest gro w i n g
c o m p a n i e s .
But doctors from Ireland to
S i n g a p o re have re p o r t e d
t reating broken wrists, arm s
and ankles; dislocated elbows
and even cracked skulls in
c h i l d ren injured while wearing
roller shoes.
Over a 10-week period last
s u m m e r, 67 children were
t reated for injuries fro m
BAGHDAD (AP) — U.S.-led forces have cont
rol of fewer than one-third of Baghdad’s neighb
o rhoods despite thousands of extra tro o p s
nearly four months into a security crackdown,
a newspaper reported Monday — an assessment
that came as the U.S. casualty toll
s o a re d .
But military officials said they have warn e d
all along that the fight would not be easy.
Iraqi police also said at least six people were
killed and 14 were wounded in three separate
bombings Monday in Baghdad.
The New York Times said an American assessment
of the security plan through late May
found that American and Iraqi forces were able
to “protect the population” and “maintain
physical influence over” only 146 of the 457
Baghdad neighborh o o d s .
Troops have either not begun
operations aimed at ro o t-
ing out insurgents or still face
“ resistance” in the re m a i n i n g
311 neighborhoods, accord i n g
to the report, which cited a
one-page assessment along
with summaries from brigade
and battalion commanders in
B a g h d a d .
U.S. and Iraqi military off i-
cials played down the re p o r t .
“ We have stated all along
that this was going to be harder
before it gets easier,” military
spokesman Lt. Col. Christopher
Garver said. “It’s going to
Heelys or strap-on wheels
called Street Gliders at Te m-
ple Street Children’s University
Hospital in Dublin, Ire l a n d ,
a c c o rding to a report in the
June edition of Pediatrics.
F rom September 2005
t h rough December 2006, one
death and at least 64 ro l l e r-
shoe injuries were reported to
the U.S. Consumer Pro d u c t
Safety Commission, a
spokesman said last week.
And doctors in Singapore
reported last year that 37 child
ren had been treated for
similar injuries at a hospital
t h e re during a seven-month
period in 2004. None were
wearing protective gear.
The American Academy of
Orthopaedic Surgeons, based
in Rosemont, Ill., this week is
issuing new safety advice that
recommends helmets, wrist
p rotectors and knee and elbow
pads for kids who wear
wheeled shoes.
“As these shoes are sold in
Russia Will Retaliate If U.S.
P roceeds With Missle Defense Shield
MOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin, with
w o rds reminiscent of the Cold Wa r, warned Sunday that his
military would respond to a planned American missile defense
system near its borders by aiming its missiles at U.S. military
bases in Euro p e .
Putin assailed the White House plan to place a radar system
in the nearby Czech Republic and interceptor missiles in neighboring
Poland — two Eastern European countries that were in
the Soviet orbit during the Cold War era. He said if the U.S.
went ahead, Russia would have to take steps to re s t o re the
strategic balance in the world.
Putin said neither Iran nor North Korea have the ro c k e t s
that the system is intended to shoot down, suggesting it would
be used instead against Russia.
“ We are being told the anti-missile defense system is targ e t-
ed against something that does not exist. Doesn’t it seem funny
to you, to say the least” an irritated Putin told foreign reporters
days before he heads to Germany for a summit with
P resident Bush and other leaders of the Group of Eight.
Putin lamented that the planned system would be “an integral
part of the U.S. nuclear arsenal” in Europe — an unpre c e-
dented step. “It simply changes the entire configuration of int
e rnational security.”
He said he hoped that U.S. officials would change their
m i n d s .
“If this doesn’t happen, then we disclaim responsibility for
our retaliatory steps, because it is not we who are the initiators
of the new arms race which is undoubtedly brewing in Europe,”
Putin said.
“The strategic balance in the world is being upset and in order
to re s t o re this balance without creating an anti-missile defense
on our territory we will be creating a system of countering
that anti-missile system, which is what we are doing now,”
he added.
In an interview published in Italy’s Corriere della Sera on
Sunday, Putin suggested Russia could respond to the threat by
aiming its nuclear weapons at Euro p e .
Asked whether the planned U.S. missile defense shield
would compel Moscow to target its own missiles on U.S. military
sites and other locations in Europe, Putin replied, “Naturally,
yes.” “If the American nuclear potential grows in European
territory, we have to give ourselves new targets in Europe,”
he was quoted as saying. “It is up to our military to define
these targ e t s . ”
The White House had no comment Sunday on Putin’s new
w a rning. Last week, Bush invited the Russian leader to his
family’s summer compound on the Maine coast on July 1-2.
department stores, pare n t s
buying them may develop a
false sense of security — that
they are like any other shoe,”
said Dr. James Beaty, academy
president and a pediatric
orthopedic surgeon in Memp
h i s .
Heelys and their knockoff s
look like gym shoes, but with
wheel sockets in each heel.
They can be used for walking,
but the wheels pop out when
users shift their weight to
their heels. Balancing on the
wheels can be tricky, especially
for novices. In the Irish
study, most injuries were in
new users and occurre d
when kids fell backward while
trying to transfer their body
w e i g h t .
be a tough fight over the summer and the plan
is just in its beginning stages.”
It appeared to be the first compre h e n s i v e
analysis of the pro g ress of the operation that
began Feb. 14. Gen. David Petraeus, the top
U.S. commander in Iraq, is due to report in
September on whether the current troop inc
rease is working amid a fierce debate in
Washington over whether President Bush
should begin withdrawing American forc e s .
Lt. Col. Scott Bleichwehl, a military
spokesman for Baghdad, also stressed that
some of the extra American units ord e red to
Baghdad as part of a so-called surge of forc e s
had yet to start operations.
The Bush administration, which has ord
e red some 30,000 extra American troops to
Baghdad and surrounding areas as part of the
Weapons From Iran In A f g h a n i s t a n
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Iranian
weapons have begun flowing into Afghanistan,
Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Monday,
but he and Afghan President Hamid Karzai
a g reed involvement by Tehran cannot yet be
p ro v e d .
Gates told a news conference at the pre s i-
dential palace that he and Karzai had discussed
the Iranian weapons issue.
“ T h e re have been indications over the past
few months of weapons coming in from Iran,”
Gates said. “We do not have any inform a t i o n
about whether the government of Iran is supporting
this, is behind it, or whether it’s smuggling,
or exactly what’s behind it.”
The Iranian weapons are being supplied to
the Taliban insurgents, he said, adding that
some may also be headed to criminals involved
in Afghanistan’s drug trade. Gates did not
specify what types of weapons were involved.
A NATO spokesman told reporters last
week that a powerful type of roadside bomb
like those used in Iraq, was found recently in
Heroic Effort In Rescue
Of 40 Hit At D.C. Street Festival
WASHINGTON (AP) — Neighbors
and rescue personnel threw child
ren out of the path of a speeding
car that plowed through a cro w d e d
s t reet festival, preventing more serious
injuries than the 40 people
struck, Mayor Adrian M. Fenty said
S u n d a y .
A 4-year-old boy with a bro k e n
leg was the only person still hospitalized
a day after a woman’s car
sent people and strollers flying,
leaving debris and injured bodies
s t rewn in her wake.
“I can’t believe that we’re actually
saying that, right now, everyone
is going to pull through,” Fenty said.
He credited “some unbelievable
h e roism” by citizens and re s c u e r s .
Authorities believe the driver,
Tonya Bell of Oxon Hill, Md., was
going about 70 mph when she tore
t h rough Unifest, a churc h - s p o n-
s o red street festival in southeast
Wa s h i n g t o n .
Bell was treated for an ankle injury
and was in police custody
pending arraignment Monday, police
said. She was pre l i m i n a r i l y
c h a rged with aggravated assault
while armed. The “armed” designation
is because she used a vehicle.
M a rcellus Jackson’s father
saved the boy’s life by throwing him
out of the way of the speeding car,
Fenty said. The father, Vi n c e n t
Hayes, was then hit by the speeding
car head-on but was OK.
The boy was expected to be disc
h a rged Monday, said Emily
D a m m e y e r, a spokeswoman at
C h i l d ren’s National Medical Center.
Some questioned why Bell was
not stopped after she was seen driving
erratically and striking an unmarked
police cruiser 20 minutes
b e f o re the rampage. Police Cmdr.
Patrick Burke said officers had followed
Bell’s 1991 Volvo, but were
told to stop because the traffic violation
did not pose a threat to off i-
cers. They responded after people
w e re struck.
O fficials were still waiting for toxicology
results, but Burke conf
i rmed that some witnesses said
Bell may have been smoking something
and laughing as she dro v e
t h rough the cro w d .
Bell had a 7-year-old girl in the
car with her whose identity wasn’t
released. The child was not injure d
and was taken by Child Pro t e c t i v e
S e r v i c e s .
Burke said additional charg e s
expected Monday would likely include
assault on a police off i c e r
while armed.
WWII Fighter Pilot Dies, 83
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Retire d
Maj. Gen. George M. McWilliams, a
decorated World War II fighter pilot
who became the first federally re c o g-
nized Air Force general in the Mississippi
Air National Guard, died Saturday.
He was 83.
M c Williams entered the military in
1943, training to fly P-40 and P-47 aircraft.
He flew combat missions over
E u rope during World War II.
After the war, McWilliams re t u rn e d
to Mississippi and joined the Air National
Guard before being called back
to active duty during the Korean conflict
in 1951 and serving with the
Strategic Air Command Fighter
S q u a d ron. He aslo flew supply airc r a f t
during the Vietnam Wa r.
M c Williams was commander of the
172nd Air Transport Group in 1967
when he was promoted to deputy chief
of staff under then-adjutant general,
Maj. Gen. William P. Wi l s o n .
U.S. Military Plays Down Faltering Troop Drive Report
security crackdown, has warned that the
buildup will result in more U.S. casualties as
m o re American soldiers come into contact with
enemy forces and concentrate on the streets of
Baghdad and remote outposts. The U.S. military
announced Sunday that 14 American soldiers
had been killed over a three-day period in
a deadly start for June and raising to at least
3,493 members of the U.S. military who have
died since the Iraq war started in March 2003,
a c c o rding to an Associated Press count. May
was the third bloodiest month since the war
began, with 127 troop deaths reported. The
newly reported deaths included four who died
in a single roadside bombing Sunday northwest
of Baghdad and another who was struck
by a suicide bomber while on a foot patro l
southwest of the capital on Friday.
Kabul. The bomb, never before seen here, is
known as an EFP, or explosively formed projectile.
It was notable for its level of sophistication
and has characteristics similar to the type
in Iraq that have borne Iranian manufacturing
markings. Asked separately whether he believed
Tehran was behind the flow of weapons,
Karzai suggested it was unlikely.
“ T h e re’s no reason that any of our neighbors
should support the Taliban,” Karzai said.
“ We don’t have any such evidence so far” reg
a rding possible Iranian government involvement,
he said, adding that relations between
the two nations were impro v i n g .
“Iran and Afghanistan have never been as
friendly as they are today,” Karzai said.
At the news conference, Gates also said
U.S. commanders have been relieved that an
expected spring offensive by the Taliban has
been less intense than some feared. He said it
was thwarted by an “Afghan alliance off e n s i v e
that has put the Taliban off their game.”
Gates later flew to the southern city of Kand
a h a r, accompanied by Abdul Rahim Wa rd a k ,
the Afghan defense minister. They held closed
meetings with senior American commanders,
including Maj. Gen. Robert Durbin, who is in
c h a rge of training Afghan security forces, and
British Maj. Gen. Jacko Page, the top NAT O
commander for southern Afghanistan, where
the Taliban was expected to make a stro n g
push this spring. In their joint news conference
in Kabul, Gates and Karzai said they reg
retted the number of American air strikes.
F o r m e r Liberian Pre s i d e n t
Boycotts Wa r Crimes Tr i a l
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Form e r
Liberian President Charles Taylor boycotted
the opening of his war crimes trial and his assigned
lawyer walked out of the courtroom in
a dramatic opening to the landmark first int
e rnational tribunal of a former African leader.
Lawyer Karim Khan said Taylor had fire d
him and wanted to act has his own defense
a t t o rney. Khan walked out even though Presiding
Judge Julia Sebutinde of Uganda repeatedly
directed him to continue to re p re s e n t
Ta y l o r, if only for the opening day.
Apologizing and defying threats of contempt
of court, Khan gathered his files and
left the ro o m .
“This is not defense counsel making some
cheap trick,” Khan told The Associated Pre s s
outside the courtroom. Taylor “thought this
was a railroad to a conviction and in those circumstances,
he exercised his right to term i-
nate my re p resentation and to re p resent hims
e l f . ”
The court ord e red the trial to continue, and
Chief Prosecutor Stephen Rapp began outlining
the horrors inflicted on Sierra Leone villagers
by forces allegedly under Taylor’s cont
ro l .
The attackers would randomly murd e r
people and enslave others to use as fighters,
miners and farmers, Rapp said. Then “the attackers
would mutilate — amputating arm s ,
limbs, gouging eyes. Children conscripted by
the attackers killing their own parents,” he
a d d e d .
Ta y l o r, 59, has pleaded not guilty to 11
c h a rges of war crimes and crimes against humanity.
The court has no death sentence and
no maximum sentence if he is convicted.
The prosecution was making a four- h o u r
opening statement Monday, after which the
case was to adjourn for three weeks. It was
unclear who would be sitting on the defense
bench when it resumes June 25. The trial
was expected to last 18 months.
Taylor was not in court Monday, but in a
letter read to judges by Khan, he claimed he
had been prevented from seeing a court off i-
cial mandated with making sure he is pro p-
erly defended and that his one court-appointed
attorney was heavily outgunned by the
p rosecution team of nine.
“At one time I had confidence in this court’s
ability to dispense justice. Over time, it has
become clear that confidence has been misplaced,”
Taylor’s statement said. “I will not receive
a fair trial.”
Taylor’s supporters say he has been unfairly
targeted by prosecutors and that his defense
team has not had enough time to prep
a re. “He’s taking the blame for what others
did,” said his daughter, Charen Ta y l o r, who
g rew up in the United States and dropped out
of college to help organize his defense.
Rapp told the court Taylor had been assigned
a lawyer, assistant attorneys, a special
investigator and court funds.

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M o n d a y, June 4, 2007 – Alliance Ti m e s - H e r a l d
Views Throughout America...
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Excerpts from recent editorials in newspapers in the United
States:
The El Paso (Texas) Times,
On security problems posed by North Korea and Iran:
For its part, North Korea is dragging its feet on the agre e d
shutdown of its Yongbyon nuclear re a c t o r, allowing U.N. nuclear
inspectors on site, and stopping its production of nuclear
weapons, though no one seems to know for sure how extensive
that production is. ...
Then there’s Iran which, far from stopping its uranium-enrichment
program as demanded by the U.N. Security Council,
is actually expanding its nuclear activities.
A report from Mohamed ElBaradei, head of the U.N.’s International
Atomic Energy Agency, blamed Tehran for blocking inspection
efforts so that the agency could no longer monitor activities
and says that they were of a peaceful nature .
Particularly chilling was the IAEA’s expression of concern
about its “deteriorating” understanding of certain parts of Iran’s
nuclear program. ...
The U.N. is considering increasing sanctions against Iran,
which will do absolutely no good. Iran is obviously intent on
p roducing nuclear weapons, and nothing short of force will stop
i t .
As for North Korea, its intentions are the same, but its methods
are slightly diff e re n t .
Iran and North Korea pose significant security problems for
their areas of the world and for the United States. If their nuclear
ambitions aren’t checked, the world could pay a high price
later on.
C o u r i e r-Post of Cherry Hill (N.J.),
On the FDA:
Consumers should be able to rely on the Food and Drug Administration
to protect them from unsafe medicines.
A Cleveland cardiologist last week published an analysis
linking the diabetes drug Avandia with a 43 percent incre a s e d
risk of heart attacks for patients. Yet, a federal Food and Drug
Administration review of the drug several years ago deemed it
safe and millions of people have taken the diabetes pill.
The FDA hasn’t re q u i red the drug maker, GlaxoSmithKline,
Views Throughout The Wo r l d . . .
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Excerpts from recent editorials in newspapers abro a d :
Daily Star, Beirut, Lebanon,
On the root of violence in Lebanon:
The fighting, human suffering, political complications and
security threats that emanate from the recent events at Nahr
a l - B a red refugee camp in North Lebanon cannot be re s o l v e d
only in Nahr al-Bared. They neither originated nor will end
t h e re. They re p resent a legacy of political and security events in
the past half-century that will become a continuing trajectory if
they are not addressed in their full regional and global context.
... If there is a single thread that runs through the modern history
that has brought us to this point, it is the lingering pro b-
lem of Palestinian refugees and their unachieved rights, which
in turn has expanded over the years to become the wider Arab-
Israeli pro b l e m .
At the same time, the particular threats and tensions in
Lebanon today are widely linked by many people to the often
antagonistic relations between Syria and Lebanon. The ongoing
UN investigation into the murder of Rafik Hariri and many others
in this country in the past two years may shed light on who
is responsible for these crimes, and who may be behind the int
e rmittent bombs that terrorize, kill and maim innocent
Lebanese. Until then, the Nahr al-Bared crisis must not be allowed
to become yet another unresolved political dilemma
whose fundamental causes are swept under the rug. ...
The Hindu, Madras, India,
On amendments to Sri Lanka’s Citizenship Act:
The readiness shown by the Sri Lanka government to
amend the Grant of Citizenship to Persons of Indian Origin Act,
2003 to enable an estimated 28,500 ‘Ceylon Tamil refugees’ living
in various camps across Tamil Nadu to get Sri Lankan citizenship
is commendable. These poorest of the poor among the
refugees, who fled the north-east of the island in 1990 on account
of the ethnic conflict, could not become Sri Lankan citizens
because of an anomaly in the Citizenship Act as amended
in 2003. The legislation stipulates continuous stay in Sri
Lanka from 1964 as a condition for the grant of citizenship; and
does not provide for those who had to leave the country for re a-
sons beyond their control. ...
In one callous stroke, the Citizenship Act of 1948 re n d e re d
to put warnings on Avandia’s labels. And the drug maker disputes
the Cleveland Clinic’s study by Dr. Steven Nissen and
contends Avandia is safe.
But after apparently missing health problems associated
with the painkiller Vioxx and safety questions raised about a
F D A - a p p roved, drug-coated heart stent, it appears the federal
agency needs its own warning label: Consumers beware. ...
It is clear the FDA cannot always be relied upon to do its job,
as the case of Vioxx shows. That drug was pulled from the market
by its maker, Merck and Co., in 2004, although Merck had
told the FDA three years earlier that Vioxx doubled the rate of
c a rdiovascular problems in patients.
C o n g ress plans hearings on FDA safety issues and the conduct
of top agency officials. But lawmakers must go beyond fingerpointing.
It is vital the FDA receives the funding and authority
to uncover and enforce safety rules.
Northwest (Fayetteville) Arkansas Times,
On immigration re f o rm :
The more debate we hear, the more skeptical we become that
C o n g ress and the president have the capability to solve the political
quagmire that an estimated 12 million illegal immigrants
re p resent. ...
At stake is the security of America’s borders and the very way
this land of immigrants turns foreigners into U.S. citizens. Our
economy is a key part of this debate as well. ... President Bush
supports the current proposed legislation. ...
But aside from his signature, can he deliver enough votes in
C o n g ress to make a diff e rence ...
On Thursday, the Senate unanimously backed re q u i r i n g
that illegal aliens pay back taxes on earnings collected in the
United States while they were illegal. Senate Majority Leader
Harry Reid isn’t pleased, saying the legislation would create “a
p e rmanent underclass of people here to work in low-wage, lowskill
jobs, but do not have a chance to put down roots.” It’s a
very good point. And yet the dirty secret of too many American
businesses today is that they employ (knowingly or not) illegal
aliens who will do anything to stay in this county. ...
As long as illegal immigration is an open spigot, setting limits
on legal immigration is an exercise in futility. Control the borders,
then we can have a healthy debate over what our nation
should do about the millions of illegal immigrants whose migration
happened because our government allowed it to happ
e n .
nearly 90 per cent of a million-strong population of people of recent
Indian origin, overwhelmingly ‘plantation Tamils,’ stateless.
The Government of India, which unfortunately compromised
on this issue after taking a firm stand initially, must
s h a re responsibility with the Sri Lankan state for the long-term
injustice done to these hapless people. ... The real bre a k-
t h rough came with the Indo-Sri Lanka Agreement of July 1987,
when Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi persuaded President J.R.
J a y e w a rdene to agree to confer citizenship on those ‘stateless’
people who remained in Sri Lanka. But bureaucratic re s i s t a n c e
to the implementation of what was agreed on as well as some
residual legal issues remained. The JVP’s pro g ressive initiative
to win for the 28,500 ‘Ceylon Tamil refugees’ (possibly a slight
u n d e restimate) the citizenship rights they are entitled to should
bring to a close an unsavoury historical chapter in the India-Sri
Lanka re l a t i o n s h i p .
The Independent, London,
On politics and television:
Television has become the primary political battleground in
Venezuela. At midnight on Sunday, Radio Caracas Te l e v i s i o n
ended its final broadcast — a consequence of President Hugo
Chavez’s refusal to renew its public broadcasting licence. RCTV
has already been replaced with a new state-funded channel
that will, in the President’s words, “better reflect society”. The
channel’s closure brought some 5,000 anti-Chavez pro t e s t e r s
on to the capital’s streets. Ugly scenes followed as police tried to
scatter them. ...
We should be wary of re g a rding this as a typical case of autocratic
suppression. Venezuela has long been a deeply divided
country. And this is reflected in the public debate about bro a d-
casters’ rights. Many Venezuelans, like the President, genuinely
wanted the closure of the station. ...
Yet the Venezuelan President is quite wrong to suggest that
he is bolstering democracy by driving dissenting voices from the
airwaves. ...
All governments need media opposition to keep them honest.
But it appears that President Chavez does not have much
time for this concept.
Ominously, another Venezuelan TV station, Globovision,
was accused yesterday - on what appears to be flimsy gro u n d s
— of calling for Mr Chavez’s assassination. If this growing intolerance
of opposition voices is an indication of the shape of
things to come, Mr Chavez is taking his country down a dang
e rous road indeed.
Bush Nears Debacle In Iraq, But
Democrats Can't Be Trusted, Either
By M O RTON KONDRACKE
Barring a miracle, the United States faces a catastro p h i c
defeat in Iraq, with President Bush and both Republicans
and Democrats in Congress sharing in the blame.
Bush's new counterinsurgency strategy has yet to be fully
implemented, and yet the White House and Congress both
a re talking up a re t u rn to the recommendations of the bipartisan
Iraq Study Group — which is to say, the same strategy
Bush abandoned earlier this year as a failure .
Instead of stationing U.S. troops in urban neighborh o o d s
to prevent sectarian mayhem — as the U.S. commander,
Gen. David Petraeus, is trying to do — the ISG policy calls for
a re t u rn to secure bases, away from involvement in what
s u rely will be a renewed civil war.
F a i l u re to bring order and stability to Baghdad will disc
redit both the U.S. and the Iraqi government. Amid sectarian
chaos, it will lead to new calls for a total withdrawal of
U.S. troops and abandonment of the country to become a
haven for Al Qaeda and pro-Iranian Shiite militias.
The miracle that's needed is dramatic evidence this summer
that the Petraeus "surge" is working and swift movement
toward Iraqi political reconciliation. But miracles rare l y
happen and patience in America is running out. Democrats
a re beating the drum for withdrawal and Republicans are
g rowing shaky in their support for Bush's policies.
Those advocating "dusting off" the ISG report don't arg u e
for it as a strategic re t reat, but rather as a politically sustainable
means of keeping U.S. troops in Iraq for the foreseeable
future. As Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., stated on
the Senate floor on May 24, "the current surge of troops in
Baghdad, which we all hope is successful, is not by itself a
strategy for tomorrow. The Iraq Study Group report is a
strategy for tomorrow. "It would get the United States out of
the combat business in Iraq and into the support, equipping
and training business in a prompt and honorable way. It will
reduce the number of troops in Iraq. Those that stay will be
less in harm's way," he said.
Alexander is co-sponsoring, along with Sens. Mark Pryor,
D-Ark., Bob Casey, D-Pa., Ken Salazar, D-Colo., Bob Bennett,
R-Utah, and Judd Gregg, R-N.H., a resolution designed
to declare the ISG recommendations official U.S. policy.
The presence of conservatives Gregg and Bennett among
the co-sponsors indicates it may have the unspoken backing
of Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.) and Minority
Whip Trent Lott (Miss.).
Alexander contends that the ISG policy is not inconsistent
with Petraeus' counterinsurgency surge — there is a onesentence
mention of a temporary troop surge in the ISG's December
2006 report — but advocacy of it now certainly und
e rcuts Petraeus' efforts and signals that a U.S. pullback is
in the offing. The House and Senate voted by lopsided margins
last week to continue funding the war — 80-14 in the
Senate and 280-142 in the House — but it's significant that
a majority of House Democrats voted "no," as did Democratic
presidential candidates Sens. Hillary Rodham Clinton
( N . Y.), Barack Obama (Ill.) and Chris Dodd (Conn.)
If the United States leaves Iraq in chaos, the blame will fall
primarily on President Bush, who already is being branded
as one of the worst presidents in American history for the
Iraq misadventure .
Indeed, he went into the war on mistaken pretenses —
that Saddam Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction
— and allowed Vice President Cheney, former Defense
S e c retary Donald Rumsfeld and their "neoconservative" allies
to convince him that taking over Iraq would be easy.
Far too few troops were committed to the struggle, the
Pentagon and White House ignored advice from Middle East
experts and Bush overestimated the willingness of the American
people to stay with a difficult task. Bush bet his pre s i-
dency on Iraq and it looks as though he has lost.
Bush believed that a victory in Iraq would undercut Islamic
extremism in the world. Instead, his policy has fueled
it — providing a rallying cry and a training ground for jihadists
much as the Soviet Union once did in Afghanistan.
As re t i red CIA official Bruce Riedel wrote in the May/June
issue of Foreign Affairs, al- Qaida is re s u rgent in the world,
b a t t l e - h a rdened and encouraged by experience in Iraq and
now plotting terrorism in Europe, North Africa, India and the
Middle East.
On the other hand, the Iraq experience does not inspire
confidence in Democrats' ability to carry out foreign policy in
a time of grave danger, either. Most of them agreed with Bush
on the presence weapons of mass destruction and voted to
authorize the war — then quickly backed off when the going
got tough.
Now, despite the fact that Al Qaeda leaders have declare d
Iraq to be the central front in the jihadist war on America,
Democrats want to abandon that struggle. They say they
want to confront Al Qaeda in Afghanistan instead, but who's
to believe they would stay the course there if it became diff i-
cult Riedel, in his Foreign Affairs article, argues that Iraq
has become "more of a trap than an opportunity for the United
States" and that "Al Qaeda and Iran both want Wa s h i n g-
ton to remain bogged down in the quagmire" there. He re c-
ommends a "complete, orderly and phased troop withdrawal
that allows the Iraqi government to take the credit for the
pullout and so enhance its legitimacy."
After that, he said, "the objective should be to let the Iraqis
settle their conflicts themselves," while the United States
concentrates on combating Al Qaeda, primarily in
Afghanistan and Pakistan.
The problem with this argument is that Al Qaeda will int
e r p ret U.S. withdrawal from Iraq as another re t reat, more
evidence that the United States lacks the stomach for a longt
e rm struggle. It was that conviction that led to the Sept. 11,
2001, terrorist attacks. Riedel concluded that "a failure to adjust
U.S. strategy would increase the risk that Al Qaeda will
launch another 'raid' on the United States, this time perh a p s
with weapons of mass destruction.
"For the last several years, Al Qaeda's priority has been to
bleed the United States in Afghanistan and Iraq. Striking on
U.S. soil has been a lesser goal. If Al Qaeda survives, howeve
r, sooner or later it will attack the U.S. homeland again."
Is Al Qaeda more likely to hit America again if the U.S.
stays the course in Iraq and defeats the jihadists — which it
might do under the Petraeus strategy Or, if the U.S. turn s
tail and re t reats With Bush discredited, it looks as though
the United States will take the defeatist risk.
(Morton Kondracke is executive editor of Roll Call, the news -
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Family Ties An Issue In Immigration Debate
WASHINGTON (AP) — A dispute over
how heavily to weigh family ties in future
immigration is re - e m e rging as the Senate
resumes debate this week over legislation
giving legal status to millions of unlawful
i m m i g r a n t s .
Lawmakers, back from a weeklong
b reak where the measure was a hot topic
among their constituents, are under
intense pre s s u re to resolve lingering rifts
over key elements and complete the bill.
The White House is pushing hard for
passage of the measure, which Pre s i d e n t
Bush has championed, through the kind
of public relations and private lobbying
e fforts usually reserved for top priorities.
First, though, senators must maneuver
t h rough a minefield of partisan and intraparty
disagre e m e n t s .
Democrats are pressing to give family
connections higher priority in the meas
u re, which for the first time evaluates
f u t u re arrivals more on education, skills
and job experience than on blood ties.
Republicans say that could interf e re
with the “grand bargain” that allowed a
H.S. Grads May Hit
Legalization Fast Track
TB Patient
Not Aware
Of Risks
AT L A N TA (AP) — The parents
and in-laws of the man
who set off an intern a t i o n a l
health scare by flying to Europe
and back for his wedding
while infected with a drug-resistant
strain of tuberc u l o s i s
s t ressed that he would never
have traveled if he thought he
was contagious.
Speaker’s parents and inlaws
appeared in an interview
that aired Monday on ABC’s
“Good Morning America.”
“ We are not people of re c k-
less behavior, nor is Andre w , ”
said Andrew’s mother, Cheryl
S p e a k e r. If he thought he was
contagious, she said: “He
would have been the first one
not to go.”
Ted Speaker said he taped
a meeting in which a doctor
says three times that his son
was not contagious though
the doctors pre f e r red that he
not fly. The elder Speaker said
he will release the tape at
some point. While many people
were outraged by Speaker’s
actions, his father didn’t
seemed worried when asked
about possibly being served
with a lawsuit over the case.
WASHINGTON (AP) — At
23, Mariana should be caref
ree. She is finishing up her
u n d e rgraduate degree at the
University of California, Los
Angeles, and has been accepted
to a master’s pro g r a m
at Harvard University’s education
school.
But life is not so simple for
Mariana, who insisted that
only her first name be published
because she is illegally
in the United States and worries
she could be deported to
Guatemala, where she was
b o rn .
“I’m even afraid of eating
an apple in the library because
I’m afraid of getting
caught,” she said.
Mariana also worries
about how she will pay her
tuition and what kind of work
she will get after she completes
school. “What happens
next Without a work perm i t ,
how do you exercise your deg
ree” she said during a recent
interview.
Mariana is among an estimated
50,000 undocumented
students in U.S. colleges
today. These students would
be among the people who
would benefit from a part of
an immigration bill that the
Senate plans to resume work
on this week.
C h i l d ren born in the United
States to undocumented
p a rents are granted citizenship
automatically. A section
of the new legislation deals
with illegal immigrants who
came to the U.S. as childre n .
They would gain temporary
legal status when they graduate
from high school as long
as they agreed to enroll in college
or enlist in the military.
They would be put on a
fast, three-year path toward
getting their permanent re s i-
dent status and their gre e n
c a rds. While waiting for that,
the students would be eligible
for federal student loans and
could work legally — options
not available to them now.
The overall bill would help
roughly 12 million illegal immigrants.
For most, it would
take a minimum of eight
years to get a green card. The
l a rger group also would have
to pay fines that would not be
imposed on the high-school
graduates who came to the
U.S. as kids.
conservative-to-liberal alliance to cut the
d e a l .
C o m m e rce Secretary Carlos Gutierre z
w a rned that senators seeking changes to
the measure should first ask themselves,
“ Will this make the bipartisan coalition
crumble” Staff aides to the group negotiated
through the congressional bre a k
with an eye toward avoiding such potentially
fatal challenges.
The agreement melds conservatives’
top objectives — tougher border security
and an immigration system based more
on economic needs than family connections
— and that of liberals — the legalization
of an estimated 12 million unlawful
immigrants.
Key to the deal is an end to the practice
of giving extended family members of
U.S. citizens automatic pre f e rence for
g reen cards — a major gripe of Republicans
instrumental to the agreement, particularly
Sen. Jon Kyl of Arizona.
Instead, those who applied after May
1, 2005, would have to qualify through a
new point system that re w a rds education,
job qualifications and English pro f i-
ciency but gives relatively little credit for
family ties. Pre f e rences for parents of
U.S. citizens would also be strictly limite
d .
Several Democrats, led by Sen. Robert
Menendez of New Jersey, are pro p o s i n g
allowing the old, family based rules to apply
to hundreds of thousands of people
a l ready waiting in line for green card s .
His effort has attracted the backing of
t h ree of the party’s presidential hopefuls
— Sens. Hillary Rodham Clinton of New
York, Christopher Dodd of Connecticut,
and Barack Obama of Illinois — and
maverick GOP Sen. Chuck Hagel of Neb
r a s k a .
Menendez wants to allow an estimated
833,000 who had applied for perm a-
nent legal status by the beginning of the
year to get green cards based purely on
their family connections. That would
place them in line ahead of illegal immigrants,
who would be eligible for legal
status as long as they had been in the
U.S. by the beginning of the year.
Birds, Bats v s . Wind Power
WASHINGTON (AP) — Birds and bats have a powerful advocate
in the new Congress, and he is making the wind energy
industry nervous.
Rep. Nick Rahall, chairman of the House Natural Resourc e s
Committee, is pushing legislation that would more strictly re g-
ulate wind energy to protect birds, bats and other wildlife killed
when they fly into the giant turbines.
Wind energy advocates say the bill could significantly cripple
the burgeoning industry and they brand the measure as
“ a n t i - w i n d . ”
A release from the American Wind Energy Association last
month said Rahall’s plan could “essentially outlaw” the generation
of electricity from new wind power plants in the United
States. Political debate over wind projects has intensified as the
industry has seen major growth in recent years. According to
the association, wind power is growing 25 percent to 30 percent
annually.
C o n g ress has encouraged this renewable energy as oil
prices have skyrocketed, creating incentives for the industry
and promoting its benefits. But some lawmakers are conc
e rned about the effects on wildlife.
Rahall’s proposal, included in a larger energy bill, would direct
the Fish and Wildlife Service to publish standards for siting,
construction and monitoring of wind projects so that they
do not harm wildlife. Violators could go to prison.
After opposition from some members of his committee, Rahall
has said he will revisit the legislation. The wind pro v i s i o n s
a re “not locked in stone,” he said.
Still, Rahall, D-W. Va., believes more regulation would be a
good idea. “I suspect that wind projects are on a regular basis
in violation of the Migratory Bird Treaty Act and the Endang
e red Species Act, yet no enforcement action is being taken,”
he said at a recent hearing on the issue.
Bush — Tough Talks With Putin
WASHINGTON (AP) — Sharp diff e rences between the
United States and Russia over President Bush’s plan to
build a missile defense system on Moscow’s doorstep are
likely to dominate talk during Bush’s European tour.
Bush, who left Monday at the start of an eight-day trip
to the G-8 summit of industrialized nations and visits to
half a dozen countries, will see President Vladimir Putin at
the summit in Germany later this week. It likely will be a
d i fficult talk; relations between Washington and Moscow
a re strained almost to the breaking point, and Putin has
been harshly critical of U.S. foreign policy.
Bush’s message in advance of the trip has been to calm
down, reminding Russia that “the Cold War is over.” As if
to drive home that point, Bush was bookending his summit
stay with calls on the Czech Republic and Poland, former
Soviet satellites where he wants to base major parts of
the new defense shield.
Diplomatic niceties aside, Bush’s strategic defense plan
could hardly be seen as anything less than a poke in the
eye to Putin.
“This is a distinctive message that is as easily understandable
in Russian as it is in English,” said Simon Serfaty,
a senior adviser to the Europe program at the Center
for Strategic and International Studies. “The message is
that we’re going to do what we’re going to do, and your conc
e rns about the deployment of some marginal capabilities
designed for defense purposes in Central Europe are not
going to impress me.”
Speaking to foreign reporters before he travels to Germany
for the summit, Putin warned that Moscow could
take “retaliatory steps” if Washington goes forward with the
missile plan, including possibly aiming nuclear weapons at
t a rgets in Euro p e .
Putin said neither Iran nor North Korea have the ro c k-
ets the American system is intended to shoot down, suggesting
the system would be used instead against Russia.
Besides the Czech Republic, Germany and Poland,
Bush also has Italy, Albania and Bulgaria on his travel itinerary.
He has meetings planned with at least 15 fore i g n
leaders, plus the Pope, and his schedule isn’t final yet.
L i v e r C a n c e r Patients Get
Hope From Kidney Cancer D r u g
CHICAGO (AP) — For the
first time, doctors say they
have found a pill that imp
roves survival in liver cancer,
a notoriously hard to tre a t
disease diagnosed in more
than half a million people
globally each year.
The results in a multinational
study of 602 patients
with advanced liver cancer are
i m p ressive and likely will
change the way patients are
t reated, cancer specialists including
the study authors
s a y .
Patients got either two
Piggyback Credit Services Roil Homebuyer Industry
Vi rtual Fence To w e r s
Impact Border S e c l u s i o n
Democratic Candidates Square Off
MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) — Democratic presidential candidates
clashed on Sunday on Iraq and over the security of the
country since the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks.
F o rmer North Carolina Sen. John Edwards, trailing both
New York Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton and Illinois Sen. Barack
Obama in national polls, criticized their cautious approach in
f o rcing President Bush to withdraw troops from Iraq.
While some members of Congress spoke out “loudly and
clearly” last month against legislation to pay for the war thro u g h
September but without a withdrawal timetable, “others did
not,” Edwards said.
“They went quietly to the floor of the Senate, cast the right
vote. But there is a diff e rence between leadership and legislating,”
Edwards told his rivals.
TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) —
When Elizabeth Isaman
leaves the El Mirador Ranch
smack on the Mexican bord
e r, she can see a tall metal
t o w e r, packed with cameras,
radars and sensors about a
q u a r t e r-mile away.
It’s one of nine towers creating
a so-called virtual fence
s t retching along a 28-mile
segment of the Arizona-Mexico
bord e r, dubbed Project 28,
straddling the Sasabe port of
entry — the federal government’s
newest effort at deterring
illegal immigrants and
drug smuggling.
“It’s like Big Brother is
watching you. I don’t like that
part of it,” said Isaman, whose
son Roy runs the El Mirador.
The ranch, three miles west of
Sasabe, has been in the family
since 1929. Sasabe is about
80 miles southwest of Tucs
o n .
“I think it’ll help the Bord e r
P a t rol round up people that
they catch,” Roy Isaman said.
“But I would rather see boots
on the ground and have them
c o n f ront drug smugglers that
a re coming across, and bandits.
I would like a real fence
h e re, to cut cro s s - b o rder traffic
and real cows,” he said.
AP — Only a low cre d i t
s c o re stood between Alipio
Estruch and a mortgage to
buy a $449,000 Spanishstyle
house in Weston, Fla., a
few miles west of Fort Laude
rdale.
Instead of spending several
years repairing his credit rating,
which he said was
m a r red by two forgotten cell
phone bills and identity theft,
the 37-year-old real estate
agent paid $1,800 to an Internet-based
company to bump
up his score almost
o v e rnight.
The result was a happy
ending for Estruch, but the
g rowing practice is sending
shivers through the mortgage
industry. Federal re g u l a t o r s
a re also reviewing the practice.
And after being contacted
by The Associated Press for
this story, Fair Isaac Corp.,
the developer of the widely
used FICO score, said it will
change its credit scoring system
beginning later this year
in a way it contends will end
this little-known but potentially
high-impact mortgage
loan loophole.
I n s t a n t c re d i t b u i l d e r s . c o m ,
or ICB, helped Estruch boost
his score by arranging for him
to be added as an authorized
user on several credit cards of
people with stellar credit who
w e re paid to allow this coattailing.
Parents also use this
practice when they add their
c h i l d ren to their credit card s
to help them build solid cre d-
it.
The pitch to those who are
essentially renting their cre d i t
history for pay is seductive:
You don’t need to worry about
users of this service re c e i v i n g
duplicate copies of your cre d-
it cards, account numbers or
any of your personal inform a-
tion. It’s essentially free money,
they are told.
Brian Kinney, 44, a re t i re d
A rmy officer in Glendale,
Calif., pulls in more than
$2,500 a month by lending
out 19 credit card spots on
two old Citibank cards with
s t rong payment histories.
Kinney, whose FICO score is
above 800 on the scale of 300
to 850, quit his job and use
the ICB income to tide him
over until he starts his own
insurance agency.
tablets daily of a drug called
sorafenib or dummy pills in
the study, which started in
M a rch 2005. Some patients
a re still alive, although on average,
sorafenib patients survived
10.7 months versus almost
8 months for those on
dummy pills. That’s a diff e r-
ence of 44 percent, or about
t h ree months.
That type of survival advantage
“has never happened”
with liver cancer “and
is a major bre a k t h rough in
the management of the disease,”
said Dr. Josep Llovet,
the lead author.
“That may not sound like a
lot of time,” but for liver canc
e r, “this is actually a quite
i m p ressive gain,” said Dr.
Nancy Davidson of Johns
Hopkins’ Bloomberg School of
Public Health. “It is the first effective
systemic treatment for
liver cancer, which is such a
huge problem intern a t i o n a l-
l y . ”
Sorafenib attacks cancer
with a targeted double-barreled
approach. It zeros in on
malignant cells themselves
and cuts off the blood supply
feeding the tumor. It is believed
to work on tumors
within the liver and those that
have spread elsewhere .
In the study, tumors didn’t
shrink or disappear but in
many cases they also didn’t
g ro w .
“ You are not curing the disease
but you are delaying the
p ro g ression of the disease significantly
and strikingly,” said
Llovet, of Mount Sinai School
of Medicine in New York and
Hospital Clinic of Barc e l o n a ,
S p a i n .

6 S P O R T S
M o n d a y, June 4, 2007 – Alliance Ti m e s - H e r a l d
Pronger To Miss Game 4
Because Of Wayward Elbow
O T TAWA (AP) — Chris
P ronger sat next to his boss
and explained his latest miss
t e p .
The white hot lights didn’t
rattle the All-Star defenseman,
nor did the barrage of
questions about his wayward
elbow, the one that knocked
out Ottawa’s Dean McAmmond
in Game 3 of the Stanley
Cup finals and himself
out of Game 4.
P ro n g e r, one of Anaheim’s
two Norris Trophy finalists,
was given a one-game suspension
Sunday by NHL disciplinarian
Colin Campbell
for the second straight series.
The Ducks still lead the Senators
2-1, but without
P ronger they might head
home with a two-game losing
s t reak for the first time this
p o s t s e a s o n .
If they buck the odds and
win Monday night in re d -
bathed Scotiabank Place, the
Ducks will re t u rn to Anaheim
with a chance to win
the first Stanley Cup title in
team history.
After learning he would
have to sit out Game 4, the
same contest he missed
against Detroit in the We s t-
e rn Conference finals, he
joined Ducks general manager
Brian Burke for a news
c o n f e rence not far fro m
w h e re the infamous hit to
McAmmond’s head occurre d
S a t u rd a y .
“Now I’m a repeat off e n d-
e r,” said Pro n g e r, suspended
seven times in 13 NHL seasons.
“I’m sure that plays
into it as it normally does in
any situation. They did the
right thing here. It’s a situation
where there was a head
blow and that’s obviously
something that the league is
trying to crack down on.
“I don’t blame them in any
w a y . ”
The Ducks pride themselves
on being physical, but
have also proven to be undisciplined.
They absorbed the
most penalty minutes per
game in the regular season
and haven’t been much better
in the playoffs, racking up
the worst average of any
team to get out of the first
ro u n d .
Part of Pronger’s pro b l e m
is that his intimidating agg
ressiveness sometimes
c rosses the line. He believes
he is victimized by his 6-foot-
6, 220-pound frame that
makes him much bigger
than many of his puck-carrying
targ e t s .
“It’s tough when you’re
hitting shorter guys, whether
it be elbows or shoulders to
the head or whatever the
case may be,” Pronger said.
“It’s difficult to get down to
that level.
“I’ve got to play with a certain
edge and a certain style
of play to be effective and play
to the highest level I can.”
A L L - S TARS — The Western Nebraska Freshman All-Star basketball team posted a 5-1
record at the recent 40-team Bison All-Star Tournament at Lincoln. Following five straight wins,
the team was ousted in the semi-finals by an Omaha team, comprised of Millard North and Ralston
freshmen, 62-60. Members of the team are; Front Row, Ty Kreitman, Gordon, Brady Roes,
Chadron, Alec Holmquist, Chadron, Mike Peltz, Alliance, Heath Lee, Hay Springs; and top row;
Derek Janssen, Gordon, and Austin Danielson, Zac Bargen, Elliott Elliason, Zach Sandstrom, and
Coach Craig Nobling all from Chadron.
Onders Win Second
Consecutive Casper M a r a t h o n
CASPER, Wyo. (AP) —
Robert Onders set his own
pace but the outcome was the
same: He won the Casper
Marathon for the
second year in a
ro w .
Onders bro k e
away from the
field about eight
miles into the race,
deciding to battle
himself and the
clock instead of the other runn
e r s .
“It was a little harder this
y e a r, knowing that I had to defend
last year’s win,” he said.
“Last year I ran with some
other people a little bit longer.
This year, I set the pace on my
own for a while and that’s a lot
m o re diff i c u l t . ”
12 Soccer Fans
Crushed To Death
LUSAKA, Zambia (AP) — At
least 12 soccer fans were
crushed to death as a cro w d
rushed from the stadium after
Zambia’s victory in an African
Cup qualifier, official media
said Sunday.
Fans were in a hurry to
leave because the
match against Republic
of Congo,
which Zambia
won 3-0,
started an
hour late —
the Sudanese
re f e r-
ee arrived only three hours bef
o re kickoff, the state-owned
Sunday Times re p o r t e d .
The newspaper said thre e
women and nine men were
killed, all of them Zambian
team supporters, and five fans
w e re hospitalized after the accident
Saturday at Konkola
Stadium in the northern town
of Chililabombwe in Zambia’s
Copperbelt pro v i n c e .
He said his goal was to run
6-minute miles. He did that
most of the way, but slowed
over the last couple
miles, giving him an average
time of 6:14 per
m i l e .
He finished in
2:43:32, 13 seconds
faster than last
y e a r.
“Last year, nothing
was expected,” Onders
said. “This year, I expected to
do well and you feel like you’re
set up to do worse.”
Rockies Slip
Past Reds In
10 Innings
DENVER (AP) — Kaz Matsui
is finally comfortable in
A m e r i c a .
The 31-year-old Japanese
second baseman never lived
up to the hype in New York after
signing a $20.1 million,
t h ree-year contract in 2003
with the Mets, who traded
him to Colorado last summer.
He sure is cozy in Colorado,
w h e re the Rockies are 9-4
since his re t u rn from the disabled
list.
Matsui starred in the field,
on the bases and at the plate
Sunday in the Rockies’ 10-9
victory over the Cincinnati
Reds in 10 innings.
“He’s an exciting ballplayer
and he’s just starting to re k i n-
dle the skill set that was going
on in Japan,” Colorado manager
Clint Hurdle said. “I
mean, the Mets thought pre t-
ty highly of this guy, they
signed him to a nice contract
and things just never got untracked
for him there. This env
i ronment’s been good for
him. He’s been good for us.
The team has embraced him.
Courtesy Photo
Arizona State Halts
Huskers Of Title
TEMPE, Ariz. — Nebraska nearly overcame a six-run deficit,
but fifth-ranked Arizona State pulled away in the later innings
to post a 19-7 victory late Sunday in the title game of the NCAA
Tempe Regional.
The Sun Devils, who upped their re c o rd to 46-13, will now
take on Mississippi in a Super Regional matchup next weekend,
while the Huskers, who reached a regional title game for
the sixth time in the last eight years, finished the 2007 campaign
with a 32-27 re c o rd .
Trailing 9-3, the Huskers scored a run in the sixth and used
an RBI triple by Craig Corriston and a RBI single by Andre w
B rown off of ASU starter Josh Satow to pull within three runs.
After an error and a wild pitch put runners on second and third
with no outs, Sun Devil closer Jason Jarvis came and struck
out Andy Gerch before Jeff Tezak’s grounded the short made it
a 9-7 game. Jarvis, who struck out five in three innings of nohit
relief for his 11th save, escaped additional trouble by getting
Bryce Nimmo to ground out to end the thre a t .
That would be as close as Nebraska would get, as ASU salted
the contest away with six runs in the bottom of the seventh,
highlighted by CJ Retherf o rd’s grand slam, and added four
m o re runs against the Husker bullpen one inning later.
R e t h e rf o rd went 2-for-2 with five RBIs, while Kiel Roling had
a 2-for-4 night with four RBIs, including a three-run homer in
the first, en route to Regional Most Outstanding Player honors.
In all, ASU pounded out 23 hits, including four hits from Eric
S o g a rd and Petey Paramore .
H u s k e r s ’ Hopes In Reaching
Final Game Conquere d
TEMPE, Ariz. — Behind a
complete-game masterpiece
f rom Johnny Dorn, Nebraska
kept its season alive with an
11-1 victory over No. 14 UC
Riverside Sunday afternoon in
the NCAA Tempe Regional.
With the win, the Huskers
i m p roved to 32-26 and will
meet Arizona State in the regional
championship game
set for 9 p.m. (PDT). The
Husker will need to beat the
Sun Devils both tonight and
t o m o r row evening to earn a
Super Regional berth.
D o rn, who improved to 10-
3 on the season, scattered five
hits struck out a care e r- h i g h
12 batters, eclipsing his pre v i-
ous best of 11 set against
Tech in 2005. The right-hander
worked out of early tro u-
ble and allowed only one run,
an RBI single from Joey Gonzales,
as moved into sole possession
of second place on
NU’s all-time wins chart.
Johnny’s effort was one of
the best and guttiest perf o r-
mances in Nebraska baseball
history.” Nebraska baseball
coach Mike Anderson said.
“For this situation and being
in this stage of the NCAA Regional,
what he did for us today
was truly remarkable. He
not went out there and got us
the win, but also allowed us to
rest our bullpen for tonight’s
game. As a coach, you can not
ask for any more than that
f rom one of your team leaders
in this type of situation.”
Anderson said the key for
D o rn was to trust his defense
and throw strikes after he lab
o red through a rocky first inn
i n g .
“He really attacked the
zone and threw strikes,” Anderson
said. “Johnny got into
that bulldog mentality where
he knew if he threw strikes,
our defense was making plays
behind him. Once he started
attacking, he settled down
and really got in a groove. I am
p roud of him for the determ i-
nation he showed in battling
out there in these conditions.”
Andy Gerch gave the
Huskers the lead for good
with his second inning homer,
as the junior went 2-for- 5
with two RBIs, while Jake
Opitz had two hits and dro v e
in three runs.
Moya, Djokovic
Advance At French Open
PARIS (AP) — Carlos Moya
o v e rcame his relative inexperience
to beat Jonas Bjorkman
at the French Open.
A Roland Garros pere n n i a l ,
Moya was nonetheless the
younger player Monday, and
he advanced to the quarterf i-
nals by beating the 35-yearold
Bjorkman 7-6 (5), 6-2, 7-5.
Wearing a sleeveless shirt
and his cap backward, the
3 0 - y e a r -old Moya hard l y
looked like an old-timer. But
he became the oldest man to
reach the final eight at the
F rench Open since Andre
Agassi in 2003.
Moya won the title in 1998
and is playing in the tourn a-
ment for the 12th year in a
ro w .
“Now I’m the oldest guy in
the field,” he said. “I still remember
when I was the
youngest guy in the draw, and
now I became the oldest. Ti m e
passed so fast. ... When you’re
y o u n g e r, maybe you don’t value
things as I do now. I enjoy
m o re now.”
Also advancing was 20-
y e a r-old Novak Djokovic, who
beat unseeded Fernando Ve r-
dasco 6-3, 6-3, 7-6 (1) to
reach the quarterfinals for the
second consecutive year.
“Last year, I honestly didn’t
expect to be in the quarterf i-
nals,” Djokovic said. “I was
p retty much satisfied with my
achievement. This year is
much diff e re n t . ”
Bjorkman, the oldest man
in the 128-player draw, overcame
deficits of two sets to
none in the first two ro u n d s .
This time, he was the one
C h o i ’s Clutch Shots Down
Stretch Gives Him Win At Memorial
DUBLIN, Ohio (AP) —
Asked to go over his birdies in
the final round of the Memorial
To u rnament, K.J. Choi
didn’t need a translator.
“ Too many today,” he said
with a laugh.
The 37-year-old South Korean
broke the language barrier
shortly after shattering
p a r, shooting a 7-under 65 to
make up a five-stroke deficit
to capture the Memorial by a
s t roke over Ryan Moore .
It was the biggest finalround
comeback on the PGA
Tour this season and may end
up being a victory celebrated
in Asia because it came in the
t o u rnament founded by the
legendary Jack Nicklaus.
Nicklaus is a big deal in Korea.
So is Choi.
“I was there three weeks
ago,” Nicklaus said after presenting
the crystal trophy to
Choi. “I promise you, he’s very
big in Kore a . ”
T h e re’s no telling how
much bigger he’ll get. This
was his fifth victory on the
U.S. tour, the most by any
A s i a n - b o rnplayer. The $1.08
million first-place check was
the largest of his care e r.
His closing 65, which
matched the second-best
s c o re of the day, followed
rounds of 69, 70 and 67 and
left him at 17-under 271. He
took the lead with a flurry of
four straight birdies to finish
the front nine, and then maintained
the lead by making
clutch pars on the final thre e
h o l e s .
“I’ve been fortunate enough
to play with him a few times
lately,” said Rod Pampling,
who started the final ro u n d
with a three-shot lead but falt
e red to a 72.
squandering leads.
The unseeded Swede was
ahead 5-2 in the opening set
but lost the next four games.
He broke serve for 6-all and
led 5-3 in the tiebreaker bef
o re Moya swept the final four
points, the last with a net cord
w i n n e r.
Bjorkman began to show
signs of wear after losing the
second set, when he needed a
shoulder massage from a
t r a i n e r.
“ You know, I’m 35,” Bjorkman
said. “My shoulder just
got more tired than it norm a l-
ly does. ... This is a great day.
I obviously surprised myself to
make the fourth ro u n d . ”
He lost serve in the final
game, pushing a tired backhand
into the net on match
p o i n t .
s c o r e b o a r d
All Times MDT
By The Associated Press
Basketball
National Basketball Association
FINALS
San Antonio vs. Cleveland
Thursday, June 7: Cleveland at San Antonio, 7
p.m.
Sunday, June 10: Cleveland at San Antonio, 7
p.m.
Tuesday, June 12: San Antonio at Cleveland, 7
p.m.
Thursday, June 14: San Antonio at Cleveland, 7
p.m.
Sunday, June 17: San Antonio at Cleveland, 7
p.m., if necessary
Tuesday, June 19: Cleveland at San Antonio, 7
p.m., if necessary
Thursday, June 21: Cleveland at San Antonio 7
p.m., if necessary
Hockey
National Hockey League
STANLEY CUP FINALS
Anaheim vs. Ottawa
Saturday, June 2: Ottawa 5, Anaheim 3, Anaheim
leads series 2-1
Monday, June 4: Anaheim at Ottawa, 6 p.m.
Wednesday, June 6: Ottawa at Anaheim, 6 p.m.
Saturday, June 9: Anaheim at Ottawa, 6 p.m., if
necessary
Monday, June 11: Ottawa at Anaheim, 6 p.m., if
necessary
Baseball
National League
East Division
W L Pct GB
New York 35 20 .636 -
Atlanta 32 24 .571 3 1/2
Philadelphia 28 28 .500 7 1/2
Florida 27 30 .474 9
Washington 23 34 .404 13
Central Division
W L Pct GB
Milwaukee 32 25 .561 -
St. Louis 24 30 .444 6 1/2
Pittsburgh 24 32 .429 7 1/2
Chicago 23 31 .426 7 1/2
Houston 23 33 .411 8 1/2
Cincinnati 22 36 .379 10 1/2
West Division
W L Pct GB
Los Angeles 33 23 .589 -
San Diego 33 23 .589 -
Arizona 34 24 .586 -
Colorado 27 30 .474 6 1/2
San Francisco 26 29 .473 6 1/2
Sunday’s Games
Arizona 4, N.Y. Mets 1
L.A. Dodgers 5, Pittsburgh 4
San Diego 7, Washington 3
Philadelphia 9, San Francisco 8
Milwaukee 3, Florida 0
St. Louis 8, Houston 6, 10 innings
Chicago Cubs 10, Atlanta 1
Colorado 10, Cincinnati 9, 10 innings
Monday’s Games
San Francisco (Zito 5-5) at Philadelphia (Lieber
2-3), 11:05 a.m.
Florida (Obermueller 1-3) at Atlanta (T.Hudson 6-
3), 5:05 p.m.
L.A. Dodgers (Lowe 5-5) at Pittsburgh (Maholm
2-7), 5:05 p.m.
Chicago Cubs (Marquis 5-2) at Milwaukee (Bush
3-5), 6:05 p.m.
American League
East Division
W L Pct GB
Boston 37 18 .673 -
Toronto 27 29 .482 10 1/2
Baltimore 27 30 .474 11
New York 24 30 .444 12 1/2
Tampa Bay 23 31 .426 13 1/2
Central Division
W L Pct GB
Cleveland 34 21 .618 -
Detroit 32 24 .571 2 1/2
Minnesota 28 27 .509 6
Chicago 25 27 .481 7 1/2
Kansas City 21 36 .368 14
West Division
W L Pct GB
Los Angeles 36 22 .621 -
Seattle 28 25 .528 5 1/2
Oakland 28 27 .509 6 1/2
Texas 20 37 .351 15 1/2
Sunday’s Games
Detroit 9, Cleveland 2
Toronto 4, Chicago White Sox 3
Tampa Bay 5, Kansas City 1
L.A. Angels 4, Baltimore 3
Seattle 11, Texas 6
Oakland 4, Minnesota 2
N.Y. Yankees 6, Boston 5
Monday’s Games
Kansas City (Meche 3-4) at Tampa Bay (Shields
4-0), 1:10 p.m.
N.Y. Yankees (DeSalvo 1-2) at Chicago White
Sox (Garland 3-3), 5:05 p.m.
Boston (Tavarez 3-4) at Oakland (Haren 6-2),
8:05 p.m.
Baltimore (Bedard 4-3) at Seattle (F.Hernandez
3-3), 8:05 p.m.
Minnesota (Bonser 4-1) at L.A. A n g e l s
(Jer.Weaver 4-3), 8:05 p.m.
Transactions
BASEBALL
American League
DETROIT TIGERS-Released RHP Jose Mesa.
OAKLAND ATHLETICS-Recalled RHP Santiago
Casilla from Sacramento (PCL). Designated RHP
Jay Witasick for assignment.
SEATTLE MARINERS-Placed RHP Sean White
on the 15-day DL. Recalled RHP Jon Huber from
Tacoma (PCL).
National League
ATLANTA BRAVES-Activated RHP Lance Cormier
from the 15-day DL.
CHICAGO CUBS-Placed INF Daryle Ward on the
15-day DL. Recalled OF Felix Pie from Iowa
(PCL). Activated RHP Juan Mateo from the 15-
day DL and optioned him to Peoria (MWL).
CINCINNATI REDS-Optioned LHP Bobby Livington
to Louisville (IL). Purchased the contract of
RHP Marcus McBeth from Louisville.
HOUSTON ASTROS-Optioned OF Jason Lane
to Round Rock (PCL). Recalled INF-OF Chris
Burke from Round Rock.
LOS ANGELES DODGERS-Optioned INF Andy
LaRoche to Las Vegas (PCL). Recalled LHP
Hong-Chih Kuo from Las Vegas.
NEW YORK METS-Granted RHP Chan Ho Park
his unconditional release.
ST. LOUIS CARDINALS-Acquired C Kelly Stinnett
from Los Angeles Dodgers for cash.
HOCKEY
National Hockey League
NHL-Suspended Anaheim D Chris Pronger one
game for a blow to the head of Ottawa C Dean
McAmmond in a June 2 game.
B U F FALO SABRES-Agreed to terms with F
Phillip Gogulla on a three-year contract.
PITTSBURGH PENGUINS-Fired Stephane
Dube, conditioning coach.
Poked, Prodded:
Retired Players Get Lesson In Health
AT L A N TA (AP) — Chris
Slade is only 36 years old. He
tries to stay away from junk
food. He still runs four or five
times a week.
Not exactly the sort of person
who would seem at risk of
health pro b l e m s .
Then he remembers Reggie
White, the Hall of Famer who
died suddenly in 2004.
He was just 43.
“That woke everybody up,”
said Slade, an NFL linebacker
for nine seasons who re t i re d
after the 2001 season. “No
one was in better shape than
Reggie. You can’t be too sure
or too care f u l . ”
So, Slade turned out Sunday
at a downtown Atlanta
hospital along with dozens of
re t i red NFL players like himself.
They moved slowly fro m
one room to the next, spending
about three hours getting
Sports Ti p
Call 762-3060
poked with needles and
hooked up to machines.
These guys were the backbone
of the league, helping
c reate the multi-billion-dollar
behemoth that rules the
sports world. Now, they’re
part of a growing effort to
l e a rn more about the health
p roblems facing re t i red football
players, in hopes of preventing
someone else from dying
young.
“ You spend all those years
ramming into people and using
your body as a weapon,”
said 61-year-old Jeff Va n
Note, a former Atlanta Falcons
center. “I want to know
about my body, what’s wro n g
with it and what, if anything, I
can do to help it.”
That’s just what Dr. Arc h i e
Roberts had in mind when he
founded the Living Heart
Foundation six years ago.

M o n d a y, June 4, 2007 – Alliance Ti m e s - H e r a l d S TATE & REGIONAL
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Animal Advocates Say Internet Dog Sales Shelter Rogue Breeders
OMAHA (AP) — Type “Yorkies for sale”
into an Internet search engine, and hund
reds of Web sites come up.
Animal welfare advocates say the Int
e rnet has become the latest vehicle for
l a rge-scale dog breeding operations — or
“puppy mills” — to sell their ware s .
The concern is that people who sell
dogs over the Internet are able to skirt
federal licensing and inspections because
they are not considered wholesalers. And
because most states don’t have puppy
lemon laws, an Internet buyer often has
no recourse if his or her new dog has
health pro b l e m s .
“People are getting suckered,” said veterinarian
Helen Hamilton of Fre m o n t ,
C a l i f .
Hamilton said some of her clients have
been victimized by Internet dog sales.
Many of the puppies are diseased because
of dismal kennel conditions, or
have genetic defects because of inbre e d-
ing and other poor breeding practices,
she said.
Hamilton led an effort in April to re s-
cue suspected puppy mill dogs at an
auction in Arkansas. She and her gro u p
raised $12,000 to buy 71 dogs, mostly
older females that were used for bre e d-
ing.
The dogs were placed in shelters in
C a l i f o rnia, Georgia and Florida.
Clem Disterhaupt, president of the Nebraska
Dog Breeders Association, said he
sells some of his soft-coated Wheaten terrier
puppies over the Internet, but provides
every buyer a written guarantee
that allows the dog to be re t u rned if defects
are found.
T h e re is no puppy lemon law in Nebraska,
but Disterhaupt, of Stuart, Neb.,
said he is helping craft legislation that
could be introduced in the Legislature
next year.
D i s t e rhaupt acknowledged that some
I n t e rnet sellers are not reputable, but
said if a buyer does his or her homework,
the Internet can be a good way to find a
p e t .
NORFOLK, Neb. (AP) —
Madison County’s million-dollar
bill for cases stemming
f rom the 2002 Norfolk murders
could have been much
h i g h e r, defense attorneys involved
in the cases said.
The county has re c e i v e d
$1.26 million in claims
t h rough 2006, and bills to try
cases for the four convicted
men are still coming thro u g h
the county’s general fund.
The bills are paid from local
s o u rces, including pro p e r t y
and motor vehicle taxes and
i n t e rest from county investm
e n t s .
But the $1.26 million figu
re didn’t reflect costs to
house defendants or salaries
for the county attorney, public
defender and sheriff .
Erick Vela, Jose Sandoval,
J o rge Galindo and Gabriel
Rodriguez were all convicted
of killing five people in a U.S.
Bank branch on Sept. 26,
2 0 0 2 .
Vela, Sandoval and Galindo
were given five death sentences.
Rodriguez was sentenced
to five consecutive life
s e n t e n c e s .
D i s t e rhaupt said he provides pro s p e c-
tive buyers with pictures of his dogs and
the names of people who have bought
puppies from him. He said that in many
cases, a potential buyer lives within driving
distance of one of his re f e re n c e s .
“They can go see the dogs, and then
they know they’re buying from someone
reputable,” he said.
Stephanie Shain, outreach director for
the Humane Society of the United States,
said buyers should do more than view
photos provided by the bre e d e r.
“ You have to absolutely go and see the
operation,” she said. “It’s sad but true.
You can’t trust the pictures they send
you in an e-mail. You need to see the conditions
the puppies are born into.”
Animal welfare advocates encourage
buyers to meet the parents of their
p rospective puppy.
That not only allows the buyer to see
the breeders’ kennel conditions, but it
also gives an indication of the puppy’s
t e m p e r a m e n t .
Lawyers: Bill For Bank Murders Cases Could Have Been Higher
Last Stop For Saratoga Rail Line Is Salvage
S A R ATOGA, Wyo. (AP) — It’s the end of the
line for the old Slow and Easy.
The rail line that linked Walcott Junction
and Saratoga for 105 years is being dismantled
by a salvage company. The Wyoming and Colorado
Railroad Co. has sold the line to A&K
R a i l road Materials and salvage work began a
few weeks ago.
Rail traffic ceased when the Louisiana Pacific
sawmill in Saratoga closed in 2003.
I n t e rmountain Resources, which bought
the mill, and the Carbon County Commission
appealed to the federal Surface Tr a n s p o r t a t i o n
B o a rd to keep the line open, but the board
granted the Wyoming and Colorado Railro a d
the right to abandon the 23.7-mile line last
y e a r.
Piles of ties and stacks of rails are all that remain
of the rail line now.
The line began as the Saratoga and Encampment
Railroad — hence the nickname,
Man Dies A f t e r
Fight Outside Bar
STEELE CITY, Neb. (AP) —
Authorities said a 40-year- o l d
F a i rmont man died early Sunday
after a fight outside a bar.
The Jefferson County Sheri
ff’s Office said officers found
Ronald Schoop just after midnight
outside the Salty Dog
Saloon.
Authorities said bystanders
w e re trying to re s u s c i t a t e
Schoop when emergency responders
arrived. Schoop was
taken to Jefferson Community
Health Center in Fairbury,
w h e re he later died.
S h e r i ff’s officials said Lance
S p e n c e r, 36, of Beatrice, was
a r rested on suspicion of
m a n s l a u g h t e r.
HONOLULU (AP) — John Besson had no
way of knowing going into the Battle of Midway
65 years ago that it would change the course
of World War II.
Six months after Pearl Harbor, the U.S. had
only three aircraft carriers, including one hastily
re p a i red just a few days before, and outmoded
aircraft to take to the fight. The Japanese
Imperial Navy descended on the atoll with
four aircraft carriers and the world’s most
m o d e rn and agile fighter plane, the Zero .
“ You didn’t know. You went to your battle
station and wondered what was going to happen,”
said Besson, at the time a 29-year- o l d
assistant engineer on the USS Pensacola.
On Monday, Besson, now 94, and two other
Midway veterans in their 80s gather on the
remote atoll some 1,300 miles northwest of
Honolulu to commemorate the U.S. upset victory
that turned the tide of the war. The day
marks 65 years since the 1942 battle that lasted
from June 4 to 7.
T h e y ’ re being joined by senior govern m e n t
o fficials and some 1,800 others on a remote island
that normally gets few visitors. The observance
has attracted World War II veterans
and their families who sailed to Midway on a
Princess Cruise Lines ship from Los Angeles.
Another hundred or so are flying a chartere d
plane from Honolulu.
Japan’s navy wanted to take over the strategically
important atoll to protect its homeland
f rom U.S. air raids and prevent the U.S. fro m
i n t e rfering in its campaign to dominate the
Asia-Pacific. Victory would have given Japan
c o n t rol over the patrol plane base there and
possibly cleared the way for an invasion of the
main Hawaiian Islands and attacks on the
West Coast.
Slow and Easy.
The line was built to ship copper that was
mined in the nearby Sierra Madre mountains,
hauled out on an aerial tramway and smelted
at Encampment.
Saratoga historian Dick Perue said the line
was supposed to connect with the Laramie,
Hahns Peak and Pacific Railroad, but the two
lines never met up; the other ended near
Walden, Colo.
The Saratoga and Encampment Railro a d
served the mining, lumber and ranching industries
until 1928, when it went broke. Local
residents bought the line and gave it to Union
P a c i f i c .
Perue said UP tried to abandon the line in
1974 but only received permission to abandon
the Saratoga-to-Encampment portion.
He said the railroad right of way might still
be publicly owned but extensive legal re s e a rc h
would be needed to determine that for certain.
Ralston Officials Draft
Ordinance Limiting Adult Businesses
RALSTON (AP) — City officials are drafting an ordinance that
would restrict where adult businesses could operate, and possibly
prevent them from opening at all.
So-called sex shops would not be able to operate in general
c o m m e rcial areas or within 1,000 feet of a church, school, park,
hospital, public library, youth center or another shop.
If approved, the ordinance would apply to businesses such
as adult motels, bookstores, cabarets, nude modeling studios
and escort agencies.
Those types of businesses do not currently operate in Ralston.
And the proposed restrictions would make it hard for one
to open.
City Attorney Mark Klinker said officials are being pro a c t i v e .
A public hearing on the proposed ordinance will be held
T u e s d a y .
In March, the Sidney City Council passed an ordinance that
regulates “sexually oriented businesses” within city limits.
The 17-page ordinance re q u i res a license for pro s p e c t i v e
business owners, a police investigation of the owner and the
business’s proposed location, and a $500 annual operating fee.
Veterans GatherAt Midway To Mark Battle’s 65th A n n i v e r s a ry
Japanese Imperial Navy Adm. Isoroku Yamamoto’s
plan called for sending aircraft carrier
planes to bomb U.S. Marines and soldiers
defending the island. Then, he would send in
his amphibious invasion force to overrun the
a t o l l .
But U.S. Navy intelligence got word of the
attack weeks in advance by deciphering coded
Japanese radio communications. In late May,
the decoders intercepted messages outlining
the day and time of the planned attack and the
route Yamamoto’s ships would travel to Midway.
The U.S. Pacific Fleet’s commander, Adm.
Chester Nimitz, had his ships ambush the
Japanese fleet before they could carry out their
plan. U.S. dive bombers and torpedoes sank
all four aircraft carriers, mostly within the first
24 hours of battle. The U.S. achieved such a
decisive victory the Americans were able to go
on the offensive in the Pacific for much of the
rest of the war.
“After that (Japan) didn’t have enough aircraft
or pilots to effectively continue the war effort,”
said Douglas Smith, a professor of strategy
and policy at the Naval War College in Newport,
R.I., of Japan. “After that they were not in
a position to re c o v e r. ”
Today Midway is part of a wildlife re s e r v e
run by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
H u n d reds of thousands of Laysan albat
ross, or gooney birds, nest there while endang
e red Monk seals and threatened green sea
turtles frequent the clear blue waters.
Only a few dozen people, wildlife reserve res
e a rchers and support staff, live on Midway
now. The atoll, whose two main islets have a
land area of only a few square miles, also sits
on the northern end of the marine national
m o n u m e n t .
Harry Moore, the form e r
Madison County public def
e n d e r, spent a total of 3,200
hours along with deputy To d d
Lancaster to defend Sandoval.
The county employees were
not paid at the same rate as
private attorneys who were
assigned to re p resent the other
defendants.
M o o re estimates he and
Lancaster were paid about
$35 per hour, but did not
have the same overhead of
private lawyers assigned to
the cases.
“I didn’t have to pay for office
rent. I didn’t have to pay
for support staff. That was already
in place,” Moore said. “If
I had been a private lawyer
handling the case, all the time
that I did, my bill would be
higher for sure,” Moore said.
Doug Stratton, the attorney
re p resenting Jorge Galindo,
said he was unable to take
another case for six months
because of the work involved
with Galindo’s case. Galindo
is appealing his death sent
e n c e .
T h ree attorneys and one
investigator from the Nebraska
Commission on Public Advocacy
were assigned to Ve l a ’ s
c a s e .
Jim Mowbray, the commission’s
chief counsel, said
the commission didn’t bill the
county for the total of 4,600
hours — 4,300 by lawyers
and 300 by the investigator.
“Our cash comes from a
s u rc h a rge that is a part of
many that make up court
costs and filing fees,” Mowbray
said. “So our services
come at no cost to the county
and no cost to the taxpayer. ”
S I LV E RTON, Colo. (AP) —
In his work boots, nylon pants
and cotton sweat shirt, Robert
Baer blends in to this little
mountain town.
You wouldn’t guess that he
once helped engineer a failed
coup against Saddam Hussein,
that he speaks Arabic
and Farsi, that he once
p rowled the lawless valleys of
Lebanon in service to the Central
Intelligence Agency, or
that George Clooney played
him in the movie “Syriana.”
Only his bookshelves,
packed with volumes about
Iraq and the Middle East, give
any clue to Baer’s backg
round.
In an interview from that
c h a i r, Baer talked about
messes in Washington and
Iraq, unexplored leads in Iran,
and the “curious” town of Silverton.
He has more firsthand
experience with terro r i s t s
than almost any American,
and he is convinced the full
story of Sept. 11, 2001, has
never been told.
“ We don’t know what happened
on 9/11. The 9/11
Commission Report was written
from witnesses that were
t o r t u red — Khalid Sheikh Mohammed,”
Baer said, re f e r r i n g
Police Make A r r e s t
After Homicide
OMAHA (AP) — Police arrested
a man in connection
with a shooting in southeast
Omaha early Saturday that
led to another man’s death,
police said Sunday.
Police said Dwight L. Tucke
r, 22, of Omaha, is accused of
criminal homicide, using a
weapon to commit a felony,
being a felon in possession of
a weapon and providing false
i n f o rm a t i o n .
An officer was flagged down
about 1:30 a.m. Saturday at
told a man was down in a
nearby parking lot. Police
d rove to the lot and found
Daniel Everbeck of Omaha
s u ffering from a gunshot
w o u n d .
Authorities said Everbeck
gave officers a description of
the suspect while he was being
taken to Nebraska Medical
C e n t e r, where he later died.
Police found Tucker thre e
blocks away from the parking
lot. Police said Tucker first
gave a relative’s name as his
own to investigators.
How To Find AGood Dog Bre e d e r
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
The Humane Society of the United States offers these tips
to people choosing a dog bre e d e r.
Look for breeders who:
•Keep dogs in the home as part of the family, not outside in
kennel runs.
•Have dogs who appear happy and healthy, are excited to
meet new people and don’t shy away from visitors.
•Show you where the dogs spend most of their time.
•Encourage you to spend time with the puppy’s parents or,
at a minimum, the puppy’s mother.
•Only breeds one or two types of dogs and is knowledgeable
about what are called “breed standards.” Breed standard s
a re the desired characteristics of the breed, such as size,
p roportion, coat, color and temperament.
•Has a strong relationship with a local veterinarian, shows
you re c o rds of veterinary visits for the puppies and explains
the puppies’ medical history and necessary vaccinations.
•Explains potential genetic problems inherent in the bre e d
and provides documentation that the puppy’s parents and
g r a n d p a rents have been tested to ensure that they are fre e
of these genetic pro b l e m s .
• O ffers guidance for caring for and training your puppy and
is available for assistance after you take your puppy home.
• P rovides re f e rences from other families.
•Feeds high-quality pet food.
•Doesn’t always have puppies available but rather will keep
a list of interested people for the next available litter.
•Is actively involved with local, state and national clubs that
specialize in the specific bre e d s .
•Encourages multiple visits and wants your entire family to
meet the puppy.
• P rovides you with a written contract and health guarantee
and allows plenty of time for you to read it thoro u g h l y .
Saddle Creek Records
Poised To Open New Music Ve n u e
OMAHA (AP) — Saddle
C reek Records executives
plan to open a new concert
venue and bar just north of
downtown on Friday.
Slowdown is expected to offer
two to three concerts a
week, mostly indie acts. It will
open daily as a bar.
“ We set out to build the perfect
rock club,” said Saddle
C reek executive Robb Nansel.
“I don’t know if it’s perfect, but
it’s pretty cool.
“Hopefully it’s a place that
bands like to play at, and Omaha
becomes more of a destination
stop for bands on tour.
Ex-Spy Feels At Home In Colorado Mountain To w n
We miss a lot of great shows
because there’s not a pro p e r
venue in the city.
An open house with concerts
by local bands will be
held Friday and Saturd a y .
The 470-capacity club is located
on 14th Street, in an
a rea between Webster and
Cuming streets that the city
has targeted for growth.
Slowdown will anchor the
two-building complex, which
will also consist of Film
S t reams art-house theater,
Urban Outfitters, Blue Line
C o ffee, a restaurant and
a p a r t m e n t s .
to the man who has confessed
to dozens of terrorist plot
while in U.S. custody.
“So what do we re a l l y
k n o w ”
It’s a question that helped
i n s p i re Baer’s first novel, Blow
the House Down. The story
follows a dissident CIA agent
as he tries to untangle a Sept.
11 plot that points to Iran and
an American financier who
was playing the stock market
based on advance knowledge
of terrorist attacks.
Just fiction, right
Not entire l y .
“I’m in touch with a guy
who went in to his broker at 3
o’clock on 10 September and
said, ’Cash me out.’ His parting
shot going out the door
was, ’The market collapses tom
o r row morning at 9,”’ Baer
said. “He’s in jail now.”
H o w e v e r, Baer doesn’t side
with theorists who think the
g o v e rnment destroyed the
World Trade Center.
“That’s very unfortunate. It
demonstrates a naivet‘E9
that’s scary,” he said. “It’s not
that these people are crazy,
it’s just that they’re so consistently
lied to, from Vi e t n a m
t h rough Iraq.”
The 9/11 Commission
never reported the links between
al-Qaida and Iran, Baer
said. Since his tour of duty in
Lebanon in the early 1980s,
when the U.S. embassy and
Marine barracks in Beirut
w e re bombed, Baer has been
convinced that the trail of int
e rnational terrorism often
leads to Iran.
And by taking out Saddam
Hussein, the United States
has played into Iranian
hands. “We’ve now put Iran in
a position of predominance in
the Gulf, thanks to Iraq,” Baer
said. “And in case anybody’s
f o rgotten, the Iranian pre s i-
dent is a murd e re r, he’s got
blood on his hands, and he’s
c r a z y . ”
B e f o re the Iraq war, Baer
said Bush administration off i-
cials wanted to use his arg u-
ments to justify the invasion.
luxury homes in Durango
C o l o r a d o
Although the Wa s h i n g t o n
war drums are beating again
— against Iran this time —
Baer’s phone has stopped
r i n g i n g .
“I think they eventually figu
red out I’m fairly far to the
left, especially when it comes
to foreign policy. I’m far to the
right on immigration, only for
e n v i ronmental reasons,” Baer
s a i d .

8 G E N E R A L I N T E R E S T
‘ P i r a t e s ’ Hits Ebb Tide, Still On To p
LOS ANGELES (AP) — “Pirates
of the Caribbean: At
World’s End” hit an ebb tide in
its second weekend but still
had enough buoyancy to hold
the No. 1 spot at the box off
i c e .
Universal’s romantic comedy
“Knocked Up,” starring
Katherine Heigl as a care e r
woman who gets pre g n a n t
f rom a one-night stand with a
slacker (Seth Rogen), debuted
a strong No. 2 with $29.3 million.
The movie’s weekend
g ross equaled its entire production
budget.
“It looks like a lot of people
wanted to get knocked up this
weekend,” said Paul Dergarabedian,
president of boxo
ffice tracker Media By Numb
e r s .
MGM’s thriller “Mr.
B rooks,” with Kevin Costner
as a mild-mannered businessman
who moonlights as
a serial killer, pre m i e red in
fourth place with $10 million.
P i c t u rehouse’s sports tale
“Gracie,” featuring Elisabeth
Shue in a film inspired by
tragic events in her own life
and her teenage days as the
only girl on a boys soccer
team, opened at No. 7 with
$1.4 million.
While big films once had
longer shelf life, most blockbusters
today aim to pack in
the crowds the first weekend
b e f o re audiences move on to
the next hit. By the second
weekend, most people who
wanted to catch a big movie
a l ready have seen it.
With its mix of serious
themes and bawdy humor,
d i rector Judd Apatow’s
“Knocked Up” became a rare
Wolf Compromise Transfer
Not Happening Anytime Soon
CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — The announcement of a federalstate
compromise that would allow Wyoming to assume cont
rol over wolves in the state doesn’t mean that the transfer will
happen any time soon.
“ T h e re are a number of hurdles that have to be dealt with,”
said Mitch King, director for the Mountain-Prairie Region of the
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
A public planning process — like those used by Montana
and Idaho to develop state wolf-management plans — is expected
to take several months.
In the meantime, concessions made by both sides in opening
the way for Wyoming to have a federally accepted wolf-management
plan could open new avenues for litigation.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is requiring Montana, Idaho
and Wyoming to have acceptable wolf management plans
b e f o re the region’s wolves are removed from Endangere d
Species Act protection. The federal government accepted plans
submitted by Montana and Idaho but rejected Wyoming’s plan,
p rompting the state to file suit.
One of Wyoming’s re q u i rements in its recent agreement with
the Fish and Wildlife Service is a rule allowing states to kill
wolves that are seen as taking a heavy toll on wildlife.
The proposed rule, expected out within weeks, would allow
states to reduce wolf numbers based on “good, solid, scientifically
based” evidence that wolves are causing damage to
wildlife, King said. “It all zeros back to basing your decision on
good science and not just anecdotal observation,” he said.
B e f o re states can kill wolves under the new rule, however,
they would need to obtain public comment, federal perm i s s i o n
and peer review of their scientific conclusions.
In addition, each state would be re q u i red to maintain a total
statewide wolf population of 20 breeding pairs.
R-rated comedy to click with a
m a i n s t ream audience, much
as his “The 40-Ye a r-old Vi r-
gin” did two years ago. Most
Hollywood comedies have a
softer tone to land a PG-13
r a t i n g .
“This could not be re d u c e d
to PG-13 just to get a bro a d e r
audience. It would have lost
the beauty of the whole film,”
said Nikki Rocco, head of distribution
for Universal. “It’s
amazing how Judd hits the
exact buttons of what average
people go through in their
l i v e s . ”
“ S h rek the Third” took in
$26.7 million domestically to
lift its total to $254.6 million.
It is rolling out gradually overs
e a s .
Estimated ticket sales for
Friday through Sunday at
U.S. and Canadian theaters,
a c c o rding to Media By Numbers
LLC.
1. “Pirates of the
Caribbean: At World’s End,”
$43.2 million.
2. “Knocked Up,” $ 2 9 . 3
m i l l i o n .
3. “Shrek the Third , ”
$26.7 million.
4. “Mr. Brooks,” $10 mill
i o n .
5. “Spider-Man 3,” $ 7 . 5
m i l l i o n .
6. “Wa i t ress,” $2 million.
7. “Gracie,” $1.4 million.
8. “Bug,” $1.22 million.
9. “28 Weeks Later,” $ 1 . 2
m i l l i o n .
10. “Disturbia,” $1.1 mill
i o n .
ASTRO-GRAPH
BERNICE
BEDE OSOL
M o n d a y, June 4, 2007 – Alliance Ti m e s - H e r a l d
HERMAN ® by Jim Unger
KIT ‘N’ CARLYLE ® by Larry Wright
THE GRIZZWELLS ® by Bill Schorr
FRANK & ERNEST ® by Tom Thaves
FOR BETTER OR FOR WORSE ® by Lynn Johnston
Tuesday, June 5, 2007
You could finally reap benefits
from seeds you planted a
long time ago. A number of situations
that looked as if they
had failed could take root now
and suddenly sprout beautiful
blossoms.
GEMINI (May 21-June 20)
— If you haven’t learned it yet,
the best way you can turn
around a situation that appears
to be going nowhere is
to sugarcoat the hard points
with touches of tact, humor
and charm.
CANCER (June 21-July 22)
— Be helpful to others, especially
with those who are having
problems. Kind gestures
will make indelible impressions
that will be remembered long
after you’ve forgotten all about
them.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) —
Just when you think Cupid had
totally forgotten you, you could
find yourself in his good graces
by making life more pleasant
for you with someone who is
closest to your heart.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22)
— Give expression to your
artistic urges and put your talents
to work by beautifying
something that has become an
eyesore. What you do with it
will please you for a long time.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23)
— If you find yourself getting
no place fast in your workaday
world, mixing pleasure with
business can go a long way toward
impressing those whose
cooperation you really need.
S C O R P I O (Oct. 24-Nov.
22) — Should you be offered
some kind of opportunity to
participate in a venture by one
you know and trust, give it serious
consideration. It might be
the best opening you’ve had in
some time.
S A G I T TA R I U S ( N o v. 23-
Dec. 21) — Divest yourself
from your usual routines and
do something exciting and different.
This can be one of the
best days you’ve had in a long
time, especially if you get away
from the grind.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan.
19) — The aspects look particularly
favorable for you where
personal accumulation is involved.
Your gains could come
through some unorthodox avenues
and in unusual manners.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb.
19) — Members of the opposite
gender are apt to find you
especially appealing, so if
there is anybody out there to
whom you are attracted, this
might be the day to make your
move.
P I S C E S (Feb. 20-March
20) — A concerned friend has
many nice things to say about
you to others. This person truly
has your best interest at
heart and would like to do
something that could improve
your acceptance.
ARIES (March 21-April 19)
— As sometimes happens, we
can learn through teaching,
which might be the case for
you. When attempting to explain
something to another, all
will suddenly become crystal
clear to you.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20)
— When involving yourself in a
commercial enterprise with
others, some bad luck you’ve
experienced in the same area
could turn around and become
something that benefits everyone
involved.
Copyright 2007, Newspaper
Enterprise Assn.
THE SUNSHINE CLUB ® by Howie Schneider
THE BORN LOSER ® by Art and Chip Sansom
ARLO & JANIS ® by Johnson
RETAIL ® by Norm Feuti
SOUP TO NUTS ® by Rick Stromoski

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ANNOUNCEMENTS
040 Special Notices
PLEASE CHECK YOUR AD--We
make every effort to avoid errors
by carefully proof-reading all
copy. However, we ask that you
check your ad the first day it
appears. If you find a mistake,
please call 762-3060 so that the
error can be corrected. We regret
that we cannot be responsible for
more than one day's incorrect
insertion. Claims for adjustment
must be made within 7 days of
publication.
AUTOMOTIVE
070 Vans, RV’s
& Campers
1986 SOUTHWIND--Class A
motorhome. 53,000 miles. Nice
and clean. $13,500. 308-762-
4732.
FOR SALE--1999 Dodge
Conversion Van, nice condition,
73,000 miles, 5.9 liter engine,
conversion by Vanworks. NADA
price $12,000 plus, asking
$10,000. Call 308-762-1182 or
308-760-2763.
080 Automobiles
2004 CHRYSLER- -Crossfire in
excellent condition. 28,000 miles.
Chrysler extended warranty to
85,000 miles. Manufacturer
storage cover and Crossfire
luggage set. Asking $21,500.00.
Contact: 308-760-4821 or 308-
762-3634.
100 Trucks, Pickups
& 4x4s
1959--2 1/2 ton GMC dump
truck. Needs some work,
$500/OBO. 308-762-4990.
110 Boats and
Equipment
16’--Tri hull boat with trailer and
65 HP Mercury motor. 308-762-
2342.
1974--19” Starcraft, closed bow
with new trailer. 200HP Evinrude
outboard. Excellent condition,
$3500.00/OBO. 308-760-
1185/308-762-3076.
120 Motorcycles
MIKE’S BIKES--Your used
motorcycle headquarters, over
50 units in stock.
www.seemikesbikes.com or call
308-635-BIKE
SERVICES
210 Educational
HONEY BEAR PRE-SCHOOL
Is taking registrations for Fall. If
interested in this excellent
program, contact Marge
Thompson, 308-762-3598.
250 Miscellaneous
DO YOU OFFER -- A service
Check out our economical rates
for our Service Directory. Call 762-
3060 to get the details.
EMPLOYMENT
290 Help Wanted
ARE YOU LOOKING -- For that
right person to fill your vacancy
Place your help wanted ad in the
c l a s s i fieds with Alliance Times-
Herald. We also offer box service.
Call 762-3060 for details.
ALLIANCE GOOD SAMARITAN-
Is seeking CNA’s to join our
team of dedicated nursing staff.
Long term care experience is a
plus. Starting wage is $8.75 plus
experience and more for MA’s.
Please apply in person. All offers
are subject to a background
check and drug screen. AA EOE
M/F/Vet Handicap.
290 Help Wanted
BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS--Of Box
Butte County is establishing a club
at Hemingford and accepting
resumes for a part-time Program
Director. The position’s primary
function: Plans, implements,
supervises and evaluates all
programs and activities provided
in program area, such as
Education, Special Education,
Social Recreation, Arts & Crafts,
and Physical Education. Deadline
for resumes is June 11, however
the position will remain open
until filled. For a complete job
description,
see
panhandlebgc.com and send
resumes to
resumes@panhandlebgc.com
DISHWASHERS--And general
kitchen help, part time. Apply
in person at Ken and Dale’s.
DON'T PAY--For information
about jobs with the Postal Service
or federal government. Call the
Federal Trade Commission tollfree,
1877-FTC-HELP, or visit
www.ftc.gov to learn more. A
public service message from
The Alliance Times Herald and
the FTC.
HELP WANTED--Night Manager
to live on site. Apply at Sunset
Motel, 1210 E. Hwy. 2. No
smoking, no pets.
DRIVERS
JOB FAIR
Wednesday
June 6, 2007
All day
Nebraska Workforce
Development Office
302 Box Butte
Full and Part time
positions
Must be 25 and have
good driving record
NOTICE--All employment
advertising published in this
newspaper is subject to federal
and state equal opportunity laws
and guidelines which make illegal
any employment advertising that
indicates any preference,
limitation, specification or
discrimination based on race,
color, religion,age, sex, marital
status, disability or national origin
except that: When bona-fide
reasons exist for specifying
certain types of individuals,
employment advertising may
include such specifications. This
newspaper will not knowingly
accept any advertising for
employment which is in violation
of the law.
NOTICE--Be advised that some
ads in the Classifieds may contain
800 numbers that may refer you
to a 900 number. Listen closely
to the message BEFORE YOU
call a 900 number. These 900
numbers cost you money!!!
PART TIME--Medication Aide,
11pm-7am, Tuesday,
Wednesday and Thursday nights.
Apply in person, Crossroads
Assisted Living, 150 W. 24th.
ALLIANCE, NE--Police Dept is
accepting applications and must
be received by 06/22/07. Testing
will include a battery of written
exams (date to be determined).
Individuals successfully passing
the initial screening will be
invited to remain to complete
the interviewing process. Pay
range is $13.15 to $15.07 hourly
with excellent fringe benefits.
Applicants must be eligible for
admission to the Nebraska Law
Enforcement Training Center.
For job description/application
contact Personnel Office, P.O.
Box D, 324 Laramie Ave, Alliance,
NE 69301, 308-762-5400, e-mail
jobs@cityofalliance.net or
www.cityofalliance.net EOE
290 Help Wanted
RAILCREW XPRESS
Under new management.
Drivers wanted FT/PT Alliance,
and Bridgeport NE areas.
Requirements are:
*Good MVR, DOT exam, drug
screening
*No felonies, no violent
misdemeanors
*$100 sign on bonus after 90
days
*Monthly bonus/based on time
performance/paid quarterly
*Insurance benefits available
*Paid vacation
*Wages $.18 per mile.
Call for interview, 308-762-6713
or 888-888-0296 or send resume
online
www.armadilloexpress.com
SANDHILLS SAMARITAN
ASSISTED LIVING
Is seeking a PT Universal Worker
for the day and evening shift, must
have Med. Aide Certification.
Home like setting, must be able
to prepare meals, clean and
perform home like duties.
competitive wages available for
the right person. Interested
applicants please call HR, Jenny
Carpenter, 308-762-5675. AA
EOE M/F/Vet Handicap
SERVERS--Full and part time,
flexible hours. Apply in person
at Ken and Dale’s.
ALLIANCE GOOD
SAMARITAN
Is seeking a transportation director
for resident appointments and
errands. Position is 32 hours
per week M-F with flexibility.
Must be 21 with a favorable
driving record and NA
Certification. Rate of pay is
based on experience as CNA.
Apply in person or call Jenny
Carpenter 308-762-5675. All
offers of employment are subject
to a background check and drug
screen.
AA/EOE
M/F/Vet/Handicap.
ARTICLES FOR SALE
330 Miscellaneous
DEADLINES--For classified word
ads are 2 p.m. prior to the day
of publication Tuesdays through
Fridays, and 12 p.m. Friday for
Saturday ads.
350 Household Items
A BARGAIN -- That's what
placing your ad in T-H Plus is.
When advertising in classified,
ask for your ad to be in our T-H
Plus too, and reach 3,300 more
households. Call 762-3060 for
details.
370 Pets
AKC YELLOW LABS- -Strong
hunting line, sociable, health
guarantee, very light colored,
$350. 308-254-7165, leave
message..
390 Antiques
Place your antique here and it
could be history. Call - 762-
3060.
400 Garage Sales
GARAGE SALE SIGNS- - A r e
not allowed on utility poles or on
trees in the right-of-way. If found
they may be removed by City
Employees.
THINKING OF HAVING A
GARAGE SALE -- Give
classified a call, and you're in
business! 762-3060.
FARM & RANCH
555 Miscellaneous
60 ACRES- -Of grassland to be
hayed. Get half the bales for
doing the job. 308-762-4052.
Call between 7am and 7pm.
REAL ESTATE
630 Apartments
1 AND 2 BEDROOMS--Very
clean and quiet. No pets. Call
308-762-1786/308-760-0954.
630 Apartments
EQUAL HOUSING
OPPORTUNITY--All real estate
advertised in this newspaper is
subject to the federal Fair Housing
Act of 1968 which makes it illegal
to advertise "a preference,
limitation, or discrimination based
on race, color, religion, sex, or
national origin, or an intention to
make any such preference,
limitation, or discrimination." The
Federal Fair Housing Act further
prohibits advertisements from
discriminating against families with
children and/or handicapped
persons. This newspaper will
not knowingly accept any
advertising for real estate which
is in violation of the law.
639 Office Space
for Rent
CENTRAL SCHOOL--Private
office space, $250/month.
Gymnasium available for special
functions. NPLH Realty, 308-
762-7653.
TWO--Commercial office spaces
for rent. $500/month each. 411
Black Hills, Alliance. 308-635-
9780.
650 Houses for Sale
BEAUTIFUL--New brick duplex.
Recently finished 2 bedroom, 2
car garage, w/1532 sq. ft. per unit.
Energy efficient heat pump, foam
insulation, handmade cabinets,
and underground sprinklers.
Prime location, 216/217 Northpark
Estates. Call for more information,
308-762-5010, 308-762-8442
or 308-760-8484.
HOUSE IN LINCOLN, NE-- 2
bedrooms main floor and 2
bedrooms in basement (separate
entrance and living area). Large
2 car garage. Ideal for college
students or people desiring two
separate living spaces. Close
to college campus. Very nice,
desirable neighborhood.
$112,900. Call 308-762-4732
Karen or 402-436-4663 Ginny.
680 Farms &
Acreage for Sale
BEAUTIFUL- -3 bedroom country
home, 2018 sq. ft. 6 miles north
of Bridgeport. 46 secluded acres.
Must see at $225,000.00. 308-
289-5384.
LEGALS
NOTICE OF MEETING
There will be a Special Budget
Workshop meeting Tuesday,
June 13, 2007 at 5:30 p.m. at the
Tourism Office, 221 East Third,
Alliance, NE 69301.
PUBLISH: June 4, 2007
NOTICE OF MEETING
Notice is hereby given that the
regular meeting of the
Police/Citizen Advisory Board
will be held on Tuesday, June
5, 2007 at 7:00 p.m. in the
Hyannis Room at Box Butte
General Hospital, 2101 Box
Butte Avenue, Alliance, NE
which meeting is open to the
public. An agenda for such
meeting, kept continuously
current, is available for public
inspection at the office of the City
Clerk in City Hall, 320 Laramie
Avenue, Alliance, NE.
E. John Kiss
Chief of Police
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NOTICE OF TRUSTEE'S
SALE
The following described property
will be sold at public auction to
the highest bidder in the front,
at the Box Butte County
Courthouse, 515 Box Butte, in
Alliance, Nebraska, on
07/13/2007 between the hours
of 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. (10:00
a.m.):
LOT 139, BELMONT
ADDITION TO THE CITY
OF ALLIANCE, BOX BUTTE
COUNTY, NEBRASKA,
ACCORDING TO THE
RECORDED PLAT
THEREOF.
All subject to any and all: (1)
real estate taxes, (2) special
assessments, (3) easements,
covenants, restrictions,
ordinances, and resolutions of
record which affect the property,
and (4) unpaid water bills, (5)
prior mortgages and trust deed
of record and (6) ground leases
of record. The purchaser is
responsible for all fees or taxes.
This sale is made without any
warranties as to title or condition
of the property.
By: Garry McCubbin, Trustee,
NSBA#22084, Kozeny &
McCubbin, LC, 12400 Olive
Blvd., Suite 555, St. Louis,
MO 63141. (314) 991-0255.
First Publication 06/04/2007,
final 07/02/2007 Published in
the Alliance Times Herald.
K&M
Filename: SETJUNOR
PUBLISH: June 4, 11, 18, 25,
and July 2, 2007

1 0 S TATE & REGIONAL
M o n d a y, June 4, 2007 – Alliance Ti m e s - H e r a l d
NONFERROUS META L S
NEW YORK (AP) — Spot nonferrous metal
prices Mon.
Aluminum -$1.250 per lb., London Metal
Exch. Mon.
Copper -$3.4750 Cathode full plate, U.S.
d e s t i n a t i o n s .
Copper $3.4025 N.Y. Merc spot Fri.
Lead - $2359.00 metric ton, London Metal
E x c h .
Zinc - $1.7875 per lb., delivered.
Gold - $671.10 Handy & Harman (only daily
quote). Gold - $671.20 troy oz., NY Merc spot Fri.
Silver - $13.780 Handy & Harman (only daily
q u o t e ) .
Silver - $13.681 troy oz., N.Y. Merc spot Fri.
Mercury - $500.00 per 76 lb flask, N.Y.
Platinum -$1294.00 troy oz., N.Y. (contract).
Platinum $1295.60 troy oz., N.Y. Merc spot
F r i .
n.q.-not quoted, n.a.-not available r-revised
WA L L STREET AT NOON
NEW YORK (AP) — Wall Street traded sideways
Monday as investors shrugged off another
slide in Chinese stocks, but still took a pause after
major indexes surged to record levels last week.
The benchmark Shanghai Composite Index
plummeted 8.3 percent, its biggest one-day drop
since the Feb. 27 plunge that set off a brief global
market selloff. The Chinese government has been
trying to cool the country’s market boom, causing
the stock index to fall 15 percent since a record high
last Tu e s d a y.
H o w e v e r, the effect of the latest stock drop in
China was minor compared to the selling wave triggered
in February — and showed the U.S. market’s
resilience to volatility overseas. Major exchanges in
Europe and Asia also was able to brush off the latest
Chinese shock.
Photo by Amber Ningen/Ti m e s - H e r a l d
NEW CHAPTER — The Little Angels Preschool students sing in Central Park last month for a big audience during their graduation
celebration. Along with several songs, the group enjoyed a picnic. Little Angels Preschool is part of the Immanuel Lutheran
Church.
Gillette Businesses Join
Drug, Alcohol Testing Pro g r a m
GILLETTE, Wyo. (AP) — Businesses here are beginning to
take advantage of a new state program that encourages employers
to test employees for drug and alcohol use.
The Workers’ Compensation Drug and Alcohol Testing Discount
Program, approved by Gov. Dave Freudenthal earlier this
y e a r, offers a 5 percent discount on workers’ compensation premiums
to entice employers to implement drug- and alcohol-fre e
policies in their workplaces.
To take part in the program, companies must:
•Have a written drug- and alcohol-free workplace policy.
• R e q u i re pre-employment, random, reasonable suspicion
and post-accident substance abuse testing.
• R e q u i re employees to participate in an hour of substance
abuse education training each year, and supervisors to have
two hours of training — one hour for drug use, the other devoted
to alcohol use.
One of the first Gillette businesses to take part is S&S
Builders, said the company’s safety manager, John Pettyjohn.
The company already tests employees for drug use, so getting
involved in the state program didn’t mean big changes. Pettyjohn
said accidents are down considerably since the company
first adopted a drug-free policy in 2004.
“ T h e re is a real benefit in having a drug-free workplace,” he
said. “Our interest is not so much in the discount. The real benefit
is having a drug-free workplace. Getting drugs out of the
workplace is great for morale and it reduces the accident rate.
New York(AP) - Noonstocks:
Last Chg.
AT & T I n c 40 . 66 + . 13
Altria s 71 . 36 -. 46
A r c h D a n M 34 . 31 -. 28
B e c t n D i c k 76 . 12 + . 10
B o e i n g 99 . 95 + . 12
B r u n s w i c k 34 . 50 -. 30
B u r l N o S F e 93 . 53 -. 50
C a m p b S o u p 39 . 62 -. 17
C h e v r o n 83 . 01 + . 78
C i t i g r o u p 54 . 02 -. 49
C o n - Wa y 57 . 03 + . 23
C o n A g r a F d s 25 . 71 -. 31
C o n o c o P h i l 79 . 66 + . 80
C o n E d i s o n 48 . 29 -. 19
C u r t i s Wr i g h t 45 . 52 -. 46
D a i m l r C h r y 91 . 22 -. 46
D e e r e C o 11 8 . 91 -. 85
D u P o n t 53 . 04 -. 06
E s t K o d a k 26 . 03 -. 01
EDS Corp 28 . 79 + . 05
EmersonEl s4 8 . 32 -. 48
New York Stock Exchange
PANHANDLE GRAIN PRICES
Prices as of 12:30 p.m. June 4, 2007
W H E AT
Hemingford Co-Op. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $4.52
New Alliance Bean & Grain . . . . . . . . . . .$ 4 . 4 8
Lyman Elevator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$ 4 . 7 7
Scoular Grain — Sidney . . . . . . . . . . . . . $4.85
C O R N
Hemingford Co-Op . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$ 3 . 8 4
Lyman Elevator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$4.05
Scoular Grain. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$3.89
M I L L E T
Hemingford Co-OP . . . . . . . . . . . . . .cwt $8.50
Scoular Grain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..cwt call
B E A N S
Great Northerns
Kelley Bean of A l l i a n c e / B e r e a . . . . . . . .$ 2 6 . 0 0
New Alliance Bean & Grain . . . . . . . . . .$ 2 6 . 0 0
Tr i n i d a d . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$ 2 6 . 0 0
P i n t o s
Kelley Bean A l l i a n c e / B e r e a . . . . . . . . . .$ 2 5 . 0 0
New Alliance Bean & Grain . . . . . . . . . .$ 2 5 . 0 0
Tr i n i d a d . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$ 2 5 . 0 0
N a v i e s
Kelley Bean A l l i a n c e / B e r e a . . . . . . . . . .$ 2 2 . 0 0
New Alliance Bean & Grain . . . . . . . . . .$ 2 2 . 0 0
Tr i n i d a d . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$ 2 0 . 0 0
Small White
Kelley Bean A l l i a n c e / B e r e a . . . . . . . . . . .n q
Tr i n i d a d . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .n q
Light Red Kidneys
Tr i n i d a d . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$ 3 0 . 0 0
Kelley Bean of A l l i a n c e / B e r e a . . . . . . . .$ 3 2 . 0 0
B l a c k
Kelley Bean of Alliance/Berea . . . . . . . .$ 2 2 . 0 0
Trinidad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$18.00
n/a = not available; neg = negotiable
otm = off the market; nq = no quote
E x x o n M o b i l 84 . 25 + . 03
F o o t L o c k e r 22 . 10 -. 03
F o r t u n e B r n d s 81 . 26 + . 10
G a t e w a y 1 . 73 -. 05
G e n l E l e c 37 . 81 + . 36
G e n M i l s 61 . 34
G e n M o t o r s 30 . 29 -. 21
G o o d r i c h 58 . 68 -. 32
G o o d y e a r 36 . 24 + . 11
H e w l e t t P k 45 . 77 -. 04
H o n e y w e l I n t l 58 . 80
I B M 10 5 . 75 -. 79
J o h n s o n J n 63 . 34 -. 07
J o h n s o n C t r l s 10 9 . 59 + . 10
L i n d s a y C o r p 33 . 85 -. 52
L o c k h e e d M 97 . 00 -. 43
L o e w s C p 51 . 77 + . 75
M a r a t h o n O i l 12 8 . 68 + 1 . 92
Marathon wi 64 . 00 + . 50
M e r r i l Ly n c h 91 . 19 - 2 . 11
NCR Corp 53 . 76 + . 19
N u c o r 68 . 60 -. 65
OccidentPet s57.81 + 1 . 48
PPG Inds 75 . 79 -. 58
Todays Markets
Penney JC 81 . 99
P e p s i C o 68 . 20 -. 50
P e p s i A m e r 24 . 60 -. 08
P i o n r I n t S h s 11 . 93 -. 02
P r a x a i r 69 . 10 + . 14
P r o c t G a m b 63 . 00 -. 48
RH Donnlly 78 . 47 -. 04
R o c k w e l A u t o 68 . 39 + . 09
S a r a L e e 17 . 98 -. 14
Te x t r o n 10 8 . 28 + . 11
3M Co 88 . 20 -. 23
U n i o n P a c i f 12 1 . 96 -. 07
U S S t e e l 11 5 . 76 - 1 . 04
U n i t e d Te c h 70 . 97 + . 19
Ve r i z o n C o m m 42 . 82 -. 19
Vi a d C o r p 44 . 73 + . 06
Wa l M a r t 50 . 89 + 1 . 42
Wa l g r e e n 45 . 19 + . 06
WellsFargo s36.26 -. 14
We s t P h a r m 51 . 66 + . 31
Wi n n e b a g o 30 . 77 -. 28
Wy e t h 57 . 70 -. 01
Yu m B r a n d s 68 . 37 + . 12
Nebraska Soldier
To Be Laid To Rest Tu e s d a y
BELLEVUE (AP) — Services will be held Tuesday for a
member of the Nebraska Army National Guard killed last
month in Iraq.
U.S. Army Reserve Spc. William Bailey III of Bellevue was
p roviding security for military convoys with the 755th
Chemical Company near Tajji when an explosive device
struck his vehicle. He was killed and three other Nebraska
soldiers were hurt in the May 25 incident.
Bailey’s body arrived in Nebraska on Saturday. Planeside
honors were bestowed at Offutt Air Force Base, followed by
a procession to the Bellevue Volunteer Fire Department,
w h e re Bailey had been a member.
A funeral service will be held at 10 a.m. Tuesday at the
Bellevue Christian Center. A graveside service with full military
honors and traditional fire department honors will follow
at the Bellevue Cemetery.
Cheney Advises Wy o .
B o y s ’ State Meeting
On Public Service
DOUGLAS, Wyo. (AP) —
About 100 high school students
learning about government
and the political pro c e s s
received some invaluable
schooling from the secondhighest
ranking political figure
in the United States on Sund
a y .
Vice President Dick Cheney
imparted some advice to the
Wyoming Boys’ State participants,
encouraging the
youths to enter public service
and answering their questions
about his experiences.
“ F rom my perspective, obviously
I think back to when I
was 17 years old, I did not
have a burning desire to be
vice president of the United
States. I hadn’t given it any
thought frankly,” he said.
“What happened to me was I
had a lot of opportunities
along the way, and I had an
awful lot of people help. It’s
easy to fall into the trap when
you get into a job like this to
think that somehow you
e a rned it or it’s yours by right.
And that’s not the case.”
Cheney recalled his early
i n t e rest in politics and encouraged
the youths to enter public
service.
“So just look for the opportunities
to come your way and
you know maybe somebody
h e re will get to be the vice
p resident,” he told the youths
g a t h e red in a small cafeteria
at the Wyoming State Fairg
ro u n d s .
DENVER (AP) — “Eighty Deuce On the
Loose,” a blog run by an Arizona soldier based
in Iraq, has gone silent.
Well, sort of. Like everything else, there is a
right way, a wrong way, and the Army way.
Cpl. Edward Watson got a chewing out fro m
his platoon leader for some of the things the
82nd Airborne paratrooper from Phoenix had
said in his blog.
“He initially yelled at me for what he said
w e re Operational Security violations and
pointed them out to me. The tone of the conversation
calmed down and we discussed stuff
for awhile,” Watson said in an e-mail.
He said the sergeant gave him advice on
what to say and not to say and that he could
continue to blog — but it would be checked
re g u l a r l y .
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
•I know people have nothing but good
things about people after they’re dead, but this
man truly was a great man. He was loved by
everyone in the company, and probably the
worst guy to have ever died from our company
h e re. And I truly mean that from the depths of
my soul. This really put things in to perspective.
There wasn’t much that could have been
done in the situation to of prevented this. It
was a lucky stray round that had found had
hit in a lethal spot. It could have been anyone
else. That’s the sad thing about war. There ’ s
never knowing who or when or what or how. It
simply comes down to if it’s your time or not. “
• We ended up pulling security in the EXACT
Hit-And-Run
Suspect Caught In River
GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. (AP) — A hit-and-run suspect in
a motorcycle accident that broke a 16-year-old boy’s leg was
c a p t u red after allegedly trying to swim away on the Colorado
R i v e r, The Daily Sentinel re p o r t e d .
The man eluded police for about three hours Saturday night
b e f o re swimming to shore, naked, bloody and screaming, the
newspaper re p o r t e d .
Police had been looking for a suspect since about 5 p.m. Satu
rday, after a man on a motorcycle was accused of re a r- e n d i n g
two teenagers who were riding a bicycle with another teen being
towed on a skateboard. The man apparently crashed his
u n re g i s t e red motorcycle after hitting the teens, then fled.
Police did not immediately identify the suspect.
A witness reported a man walking toward the river, where he
jumped in, police spokeswoman Linda Bowman said. The suspect
eventually grabbed a partially submerged branch in the
water and emerged after about 10 minutes.
An officer placed a rope around him to help him up a steep
bank. The man was taken to St. Mary’s Hospital and could face
c h a rges of vehicular assault and fleeing the scene of an accid
e n t .
Nebraska Marine’s Family
Visits N.C. School That Adopted Him
LINCOLN (AP) — The family of a U.S. Marine who was killed
in Iraq in November spent its first Memorial Day without him at
a North Carolina elementary school, with students who penned
letters to the soldier just before he died.
Lance. Cpl. Michael Scholl was the first soldier “adopted” by
a school as part of the Adopt a U.S. Soldier program to die, program
founder Ann Johnson said.
The school found out about Scholl’s death after sending him
a Super Bowl care package. The 21-year-old Scholl had requested
food, chips and salsa.
After the school sent the package, it received a letter that
Scholl died from wounds he sustained while conducting combat
operations in the Al Anbar province in Iraq.
But instead of simply grieving, the PTA mom who urged the
school’s third- and fourth-grade classes to adopt Scholl found
an e-mail for his stepmother, and sent her a note to find out
w h e re Scholl was from and what kind of man he was.
“I didn’t really expect a whole lot back from her since it was
such a tremendous loss,” said Angela Huggins of Charlotte,
N . C .
But Scholl’s stepmother opened up to Huggins and the two
began to write frequently, resulting in Huggins inviting the
Scholls to the school for Memorial Day.
Not knowing what to expect, the family took the invitation
and went to Charlotte.
The students who never got replies to their letters held a
memorial service, planted a tree and had a rock engraved in
honor of the dead Marine. They also recited poems and had a
moment of silence for Scholl.
Army Rules On Blogs, e-Mail
From The Front Not Being Enforced
Under new rules imposed by the Army in
April, all public communications on defense
department networks, especially from the
f ront, are supposed to go through a security
vetting. The Army subsequently said it didn’t
have the staff to enforce the rules. In this wireless
world, the Army was concerned that soldiers,
whose blogs were overwhelmingly pro -
w a r, might be tipping the enemy off .
Watson, 25, has been in Iraq for five
months. He said he decided himself that rather
than posting “scrubbed” messages, he would
wait until he got home so he could say what he
really wanted to say and in the style he wanted
to say it.
“He’s not getting in trouble,” said Maj.
Thomas Earn h a rdt, spokesman for the 82nd
A i r b o rne in Iraq, said of Watson.
Excerpts From Iraq Soldier Blogger Stopping Posts Under New Rules
same area where I had the grenade thrown at
me. OK, a little unsettling but what can you do.
Hopefully if it happens again we can shoot the
b a s t a rd this time. Well not even 30 mins into
sitting there all of a sudden we hear a loud explosion
behind us and see a dirt cloud coming
f rom the IA check point about 200m back fro m
our position. They then come under small
a rms fire and engage them for about 20 mins
until things settle back down. Again, no US
t roops involved. Nothing else ended up happening
while we were out there, which is good.
Once EOD (Explosive Ordinance Disposal) had
successfully placed a charge on the IED, we
made sure and had our video re c o rders out
and got an awesome video of the explosion.
They set it off inside the other tower, and amazingly
the tower is still standing.