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Schuyler man arrested after wild chase
BY GREG OLSON
JOURNAL-COURIER
Schuyler County man faces numerous
traffi c-related charges after
Beardstown police and Cass
County sheriff’s deputies chased
him for several miles late Saturday
night.
Aaron L. Ralston, 37, of 1227 E.
Turtle Road, Rushville, was arrested
on charges of aggravated driving
under the infl uence, aggravat-
CARROLLTON
Schools
brace
for cuts
BY TOM BOTT
JOURNAL-COURIER
School Superintendent Beth
Pressler is warning the school
board about possible changes in
state funding that will create additional
fi nancial pressure on the
Carrollton school district and other
districts throughout Illinois.
Pressler told the school board
about the “probable shift of Teachers
Retirement System financial
responsibility from the state to local
districts” and about projected
cuts in transportation funding.
“We have to consider what’s going
to happen two or three years
down the road. It’s better to start
dealing with it now,” Pressler said.
“We can recall the nightmare of
two or three years ago. We had to
put some things, like new buses, on
the back burner. We came from the
state’s fi nancial watch list to being
in the top category, but it is a slippery
slope. We don’t want to sacrifi
ce the programs we’ve worked to
SCHOOL CUTS, see Page 2
Carrollton,
A-C hire new
principals
BY JAKE RUSSELL
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Multiple charges in late Saturday incident; squad car totaled
ed fl eeing or eluding a police offi -
cer, driving under the influence
of alcohol, reckless driving, two
counts of aggravated assault, two
counts of reckless conduct, possession
of cannabis, two counts of
improper lane use, driving too fast
for conditions, criminal damage to
state property, failure to yield the
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Partly cloudy, upper 40s tonight.
Partly sunny, breezy,
warmer Tuesday. Mid 70s.
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right-of-way to an emergency vehicle
and speeding.
Beardstown Police Chief Tom
Schlueter was trying to stop a
pickup truck in Beardstown about
10:30 p.m. Saturday but the truck
headed east out of Beardstown on
the Chandlerville Road, according
to Cass County Sheriff Bob Fair.
“Schlueter called for our deputies
to intercede,” Fair said. “Deputy
Chris McClenning was on North
Bluff Springs Road and he tried to
stop the vehicle at Brick School at
North Bluff Springs and Chandlerville
roads. McClenning was out of
his squad car and it appeared the
pickup driver tried to hit McClen-
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At that point, Fair said Deputy
Terry Comiskey began pursuing
the pickup truck along with Schlueter
and McClenning on the Chandlerville
Road, but the driver still
would not stop.
“McClenning and Comiskey fi -
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JOURNAL-COURIER
New principals will begin at A-
C Central and Carrollton school
districts next year.
Leslee Frazier will assume
Kraig Garber’s role as Carrollton
High School principal as he leaves Quinn eyes ISP budget cuts
for a new position in Mt. Zion after BY JESS CHARLTON wants to reduce that to four call- to make more police offi cers and
school this year.
FOR THE JOURNAL-COURIER ing centers
fewer dispatchers.
“I am really looking forward to Gov. Pat Quinn is proposing Also, it is reported Quinn Troy Police Chief Robert A.
my new position and all the excit- a budget cut for the Illinois State will be eliminating 60 to 65 of Rizzi Jr., president of the Southing
challenges that lie ahead,” Fra- Police communication centers, in- the 150 telecommunicator posiern Illinois Police Chiefs Associzier
said. “I’m anxious to get startcluding District 11 in Collinsville. tions throughout the state by any ation, said from his understanded.
It’s an honor and privilege to District 11 now has 11 dis- means necessary.
ing, police offi cers in Collinsville
serve such a fi ne school in such a patchers and is the second-bus- It has been reported the esti- will stay in their location, but dis-
great community.”
iest district in the state, Chicago mated cost of the budget would patchers are being moved almost
After receiving more than 40 being fi rst; the district is in charge be $15 million, which Illinois does 100 miles away to Springfi eld.
applications for a high school prin- of the St. Louis Metro East area. not have. Reports said if this were “I think it will create a huge
cipal, A-C Central School District The Metro East has a population to happen and the state savings public safety issue for the com-
hired Bob Sanders last week. of more than 700,000 people and of $1.2 million per year would be munity and also for the police of-
Former Principal Dan Williams is the second-most populous area correct, it would take nearly 12 fi cers,” Rizzi said.
retired after 21 years.
in the state. The Metro East area years to break even. However, it What this means is those who
“I’m excited,” said Sanders, also has the most violent crime has been reported Quinn plans dispatch may or may not be famil-
who has taught math at Jackson- per capita in the country.
to use the $1.2 million saved for iar with the area where the call is
The state of Illinois has 20 call academy classes paid by the Illi-
PRINCIPALS, see Page 15 centers, and it is reported Quinn nois Gaming Board and tollways ISP CUTS, see Page 15
CHASE, see Page 2
AP PHOTOS BY GREGORIO BORGIA
Friends gather
to help local man
in cancer fi ght
BY GREG OLSON
JOURNAL-COURIER
Jack Spradlin was reminded
Sunday just how many friends he
has.
About 300 people turned out at
the Jacksonville Moose Lodge to
help raise money to offset medical
expenses incurred by Spradlin,
who has been battling prostate cancer.
“My medical costs after insurance
and being out of work for
BENEFIT, see Page 15

2 Journal-Courier, Jacksonville, Ill., Monday, March 26, 2012
BY CARLA K. JOHNSON
AP MEDICAL WRITER
The search for Medicaid savings
might drive some lawmakers to drugs
— examining drug spending, that is.
Medications for 2.7 million poor and
disabled Illinoisans now cost the Medicaid
program more than $1 billion annually.
Medicaid covers drugs for a
wide variety of illnesses, from asthma
to schizophrenia, and the cost per prescription
ranges from $1 for aspirin to
$1,600 for an HIV drug.
So, for lawmakers trying to fi gure
out how to meet Gov. Pat Quinn’s goal
of cutting the $14 billion program by
$2.7 billion, it makes sense to scrutinize
the big-ticket cost of the pharmaceuticals.
Take a look at these fi gures:
uThe annual cost of drugs for Medicaid
has reached $1.6 billion, or about
$612 per Medicaid client.
uThe average Illinois adult on Medicaid
(ages 21 to 64) fi lls 23 prescriptions
a year. For children, it’s fi ve prescriptions
a year. An elderly Medicaid
client fi lls many more: 115 prescriptions
a year.
uBefore a policy change last year,
Medicaid paid for over-the-counter
medicine. In one recent year, the tab to
taxpayers was $6.2 million for ibuprofen
and $459,000 for aspirin. The program
will continue to pay for aspirin to prevent
heart attacks and strokes.
uGenerics and brand names play
lopsided roles in Medicaid: Only 16
percent of Medicaid prescriptions are
for brand-name drugs, but the brand
names represent 63 percent of the total
cost.
States aren’t obligated to cover
drugs in the federally subsidized Medicaid
program, so Illinois, in theory,
could drop the whole benefi t. When the
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Medicaid drugs target for cuts
Family Services this year put together
a menu of options for lawmakers to
cut, the list included “adult pharmaceuticals.”
It’s a tempting target. But cutting
back on drug spending could end up
creating higher costs in other areas of
health care. Lawmakers want to avoid
those unintended consequences and
the resulting outcry from health advocates.
“The fact that they put it on the list
of possible cuts is almost laughable to
me,” said Stephanie Altman of Health
and Disability Advocates, a Chicagobased
advocacy group. Can you imagine,
Altman asked rhetorically, how
many emergency room visits and hospitalizations
you’d see if patients couldn’t
get their antipsychotic drugs, their
blood thinners and their insulin?
Research shows that simply increasing
copays for drugs — the amount patients
pay out of pocket for a prescription
— can lead to higher hospital costs
when patients then skimp on their
drugs. The federal government, which
pays for half of Illinois Medicaid costs,
considers drug coverage an optional
service. But hospital care is mandatory
— and costly.
“They just end up in the hospital,”
if you cut people off of medications entirely,
said Jim Parker, Illinois’ deputy
administrator for Medicaid. “Most of
that drug spending is for chronic conditions.
You’re treating blood pressure,
you’re treating cholesterol, you’re treating
diabetes, you’re treating asthma.”
So spending on drugs can be smart
spending, resulting in fewer hospital
stays and emergency room visits. But
drugs also can be misused and overprescribed,
leading to serious side effects,
trips to the hospital and wasted money
for the state, Parker said.
Illinois doesn’t have enough staff to
thoroughly sift through Medicaid clients’
prescriptions looking for cases of
overprescribing or drug interactions,
Parker said. That will happen, however,
when Medicaid shifts to managed care.
A Medicaid overhaul law enacted last
year requires half of all Illinois Medicaid
patients to be on managed care by
2015.
Managed-care companies and provider
networks will fi nd drug savings
when they start coordinating the care
of Medicaid clients, Parker said.
To be sure, Illinois has started some
cost-saving measures in recent years:
negotiating rebates from drug companies
in exchange for putting their drugs
on a preferred list, providing incentives
for pharmacists who dispense generics
instead of brand-name drugs and barring
3,000 Medicaid clients who abuse
narcotics from further narcotics without
prior approval. Cutting payment for
most over-the-counter drugs is projected
to save $10 million.
Other ideas are now on the table,
Parker said.
Copays are one place to save money.
When patients have to pay higher
copays they take fewer drugs. Medicaid
patients now pay $3 out of pocket
for brand-name drugs. Federal rules
require Medicaid programs to limit copays
to minimal amounts, but Illinois
could raise copays somewhat.
Limiting the number of prescriptions
has been proposed.
Tennessee limits adults to fi ve prescriptions
per month. Illinois offi cials
estimate that a similar limit would save
the state $136 million a year and affect
200,000 Medicaid clients who now
fill more than five prescriptions per
month.
But advocates are concerned about
how the limit would affect certain patients.
SCHOOL CUTS: Carrollton girds for funding changes
u Continued from Page 1
develop.”
Pressler said discussions about retirement
and transportation changes
are “coming to a head” in the state, according
to her contact Brent Clark, executive
director of the Illinois Association
of School Administrators. The state
is supposed to pay 8 percent of teacher
retirement cost but it has not been doing
that for years, Pressler said. Instead,
the state has been reallocating the pension
money.
“Over time the state has gotten into
trouble with the TRS and has not been
able to meet its obligations,” Pressler
said. “It appears likelier that the state
will shift that responsibility to local taxpayers.”
Pressler outlined what that would
mean for the school district’s budget.
The Teachers Retirement System certifi
ed employees in the Carrollton school
district earned an estimated $2.5 million
in 2011-12. The potential shift in retirement
payments from the stare to the
local district would be an additional expense
of $199,770 in 2012-13.
“The bottom line: it is predicted that
the District will be forced to accept a
$200,000 plus added expense beginning
in the next fi scal year. There is some
hope that the shift of fi scal responsibility
from the State to the District may
be phased in incrementally over a few
years, but there is also the very real
possibility that the full $200,000 could
become part of our expenditure budget
for the fiscal year. The timing of
the change is expected to be tied to
the March election,” Pressler told the
board.
“This is going to come and it depends
on who is in power. If the Democrats
remain in power it won’t likely
happen until November or December.
If Republicans have control, it’s predicted
the change will happen this spring,”
Pressler said. “I don’t know but that is
the interpretation. I could happen next
month or in December.”
“At a $90,000 defi cit this year, we’re
running fairly fl at. This could change all
that,” said school board President Chad
Craig. “We’ve got to keep our eyes on
this.”
The Illinois State Board of Education
is discussing possible changes
in the regular education and special
education Transportation formula
and is requesting input from districts.
According to chief fi nancial offi
cer for the ISBE, Linda Riley Mitchell
several proposals are being studied
including elimination of the mandate
for transportation and permitting
districts to make their own transportation
decisions. The proposals also include
extending the transportation tax
levy from 0.20 percent to 0.24 percent.
Under a proposed formula presented
by the ISBE with a 75 percent hold
harmless clause the Carrollton district
would lose 2.1 percent of transportation
revenue the fi rst year.
“Carrollton realizes a loss of 2.1 percent
revenue in year one. The reduction
trend becomes signifi cant in years
two and three as the funding is obviously
phased out. The loss in year two and
after looks to be roughly $25,000 each
year,” said Pressler about the ISBE formula.
CHASE: Schuyler man
facing multiple charges
after Saturday incident
u Continued from Page 1
said.
The sheriff said Virginia police offi cer Harry Long drove
from Virginia to try and intercede at the intersection of Route
78 and Chandlerville Road.
“McClenning then blocked the eastbound lane of Chandlerville
Road about 100 yards west of Route 78,” Fair said.
“He got out of his squad car for safety in case the pickup driver
did not stop. He did not stop and hit the squad car going
about 60 mph.”
Fair said no one was injured and deputies McClenning
and Comiskey took Ralston into custody about 11 p.m. Saturday
without incident. He was being held in the Morgan
County Jail.
Fair added that state police were called to investigate the
accident involving a Cass County Sheriff’s Department 2006
Ford Crown Victoria squad car, which was totaled when it
was struck by the pickup.
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Graveside services,
2 p.m. today at Glasgow
Cemetery. Coonrod Funeral
Home in Winchester is in
charge of arrangements.
JOHNSON, MARALEE M.
Memorial services,
10:30 a.m. today at First
United Methodist Church
in Springfi eld. Bisch Funeral
Home West in Springfi
eld is in charge of arrangements.
NOLAN, GORDON L.
10:30 a.m. today, Williamson
Funeral Home in
Jacksonville.
PEACOCK, VERNA
MAXINE
11 a.m. today, Worthington
Funeral Home in Rush-
T O D A Y ’ S
obituaries
GABRIEL CLAYTON LOZELLE BURNETT, infant son
of Matt and Sarah Kerker Burnett of Mount Sterling, died
Saturday afternoon, March 24, 2012, at St. John’s Hospital
in Springfi eld. Funeral services will be held 10 a.m.
Wednesday at Versailles Christian Church, with burial at
Ripley Cemetery. Visitation will be from 6-8 p.m. Tuesday
at Hendricker Funeral Home in Mount Sterling. Friends
may also call one hour prior to services Wednesday at the
church.
LLOYD C. CLAYTON, 69, of Marion, and formerly of
Rushville and Astoria, died Thursday morning, March 22,
2012, at his residence. Funeral services will be held 1 p.m.
Tuesday at Worthington Funeral Home in Rushville, with
burial at Astoria Cemetery. Visitation will be from 6-8 p.m.
today at the funeral home.
GORDON KENT “YOGI” JOCKISCH, 73, of Jacksonville,
and formerly of Meredosia, Griggsville and Beardstown,
died Saturday evening, March 24, 2012, at Passavant
Area Hospital in Jacksonville. Funeral services will
be held 3 p.m. Wednesday at Black Oak Church, south of
Beardstown, with burial at Black Oak Cemetery. Visitation
will be from 2-3 p.m. Wednesday at the church. Hendricker
Funeral Home in Mount Sterling is in charge of
arrangements.
MILDRED F. “MIM” LEVERTON, 88, of Rushville, died
Saturday morning, March 24, 2012, at Heritage Health,
Therapy and Senior Care in Beardstown. Funeral services
will be held 10 a.m. Wednesday at First Southern Church
in Rushville, with burial at Cooperstown Cemetery. Visitation
will be from 5-8 p.m. Tuesday at Wood Funeral Home
in Rushville.
pending
ADELE CARMODY, 84, a native of Carrollton, died
Sunday, March 25, 2012, at Jerseyville Nursing and Rehabilitation
Center. Arrangements are pending at Airsman-
Hires Funeral Home in Carrollton.
DELORAS JEAN SKILES, 75, of Ipava, and recently of
Walker Nursing Home in Virginia, died Saturday, March
24, 2012, at Passavant Area Hospital in Jacksonville. Arrangements
are pending at Sager Funeral Home in Beardstown.
SHANNON STEWART, 42, of Waverly, died Sunday
morning, March 25, 2012, in Waverly. Arrangements are
pending at Neece-Airsman-Hires Funeral Home in Waverly.
U P C O M I N G
services
ville. Rushville City Cemetery.
MCNEFF, GILBERT ‘GIB’
Funeral Mass, 10 a.m.
Tuesday at Holy Family
Catholic Church in Mount
Sterling. Hersman Cemetery.
Visitation, 5-8 p.m. today
at Hendricker Funeral
Home in Mount Sterling
where prayer services will
be held at the conclusion
of the visitation. Friends
may also call from 8-9:30
a.m. Tuesday at the funeral
home.
MOORE-LASHMETT,
ANNA CAROLYN
3 p.m. Tuesday, Coonrod
Funeral Home in Winchester.
Winchester City
Cemetery. Friends may call
from 4-8 pm. today at the
funeral home.
POLICE BEAT
FROM OFFICIAL REPORTS OF PUBLIC RECORD
Morgan County
Sheriff
ARREST, CITATION
• Brent M. Williams, 28, of 102 1
⁄2 N. West St. was arrested
about 7:30 p.m. Sunday on a Morgan County warrant
accusing him of unlawful possession of cannabis with
intent to deliver.
OTHER REPORT
• A woman reported to the Morgan County Sheriff’s
Department about 5:50 p.m. Saturday that she heard what
she thought was a window breaking at her residence in
the 500 block of Harts Prairie Road south of Franklin and
then found a bullet inside her home. No injuries were reported
and additional information was unavailable, according
to the sheriff’s department.
Jacksonville Police
ARRESTS, CITATIONS
• Katie J. Williams, 22, of 1850 S. Main St. was arrested
about 12:40 p.m. Sunday on a charge of driving while license
suspended.
• Mary L. Jackson, 41, address unknown, was arrested
about 1:55 p.m. Sunday on charges of driving while license
suspended, no valid registration and resisting a peace officer.
BURGLARY, THEFT
• A 42-inch flat screen television, a PlayStation 3 and
two controllers were stolen from a residence in the 200
block of Richards Street between 10 p.m. Saturday and
2:15 a.m. Sunday.

Journal-Courier, Jacksonville, Ill., Monday, March 26, 2012 3
STATE&REGION
Hundreds buy lottery tickets online
BY SOPHIA TAREEN
ASSOCIATED PRESS
CHICAGO — At 7:03 a.m. Sunday
— just three minutes after Illinois
offi cially became the fi rst state
to sell lottery tickets online — the
fi rst ticket was purchased.
Hours later, more than 1,600
tickets had been sold, with sales
topping $9,000. Lottery officials
said they expected the fast pace of
sales to continue through to Tuesday
evening’s Mega Millions drawing,
where the jackpot is an estimated
$356 million.
Illinois Lottery officials, who
have touted online sales as a way
to keep up with the times and also
help a fi nancially struggling state,
said moving games of chance on-
line just made sense.
“There are lots of people who
buy most of their products over the
Internet,” Illinois Lottery Superintendent
Michael Jones said Sunday.
Online sales were given federal
approval in December when
the U.S. Department of Justice reversed
its decision on allowing Internet
gambling. Other states are
considering similar programs and
are closely watching to see if Illinois
succeeds.
Lotto and Mega Millions tickets
were made available Sunday.
More games, including Powerball,
may be added in the future. Any addition
would require legislative approval.
The move has received some
scrutiny as critics worry that online
sales will enable underage
gambling and fuel gambling addictions.
Jones said that several measures
have been put into place to
monitor age. Users must register,
provide a Social Security number
and an Illinois address and check
a box verifying they are at least
18 years of age. Also, anyone who
wins more than $600 has to fi le a
claim form.
“We will investigate each one of
these clients,” Jones said.
Jones dismissed the concern
that online sales will worsen addictions.
“They’re conflating forms of
gambling. Lotteries are a very, very
different form of gambling because
of their nature,” he said. “You risk
a small amount of money against
very long odds. We don’t offer the
kind of action that’s usually associated
with addictive behavior.”
Jones said his biggest worry
was ensuring that the technology
works.
Lottery offi cials have projected
that online sales for Mega Millions
will bring in between $78 million
and $118 million in new sales. Projections
for Lotto weren’t available.
The Illinois Lottery was founded
in 1974. Lottery officials say
it’s contributed more than $17 billion
to the state funds, including for
schools and capital projects.
outt College’s first Founder’s Day celebration was held March 31, 1905, at the home of William and Martha Routt on South
ain Street. This photograph was taken that day in front of the Routt home. Seated at far left are William and Martha Routt.
tanding at far right is the Rev. John Crowe, pastor of the Church of Our Saviour. Standing in the back row, fourth from left, is
he Routts’ son, Harvey. Also standing in the back, ninth from left, is the Rev. Francis F. Formaz, assistant pastor.
BY GREG OLSON
JOURNAL-COURIER
The young students of Routt College
boarded streetcars at the school every
spring and made a pilgrimage
to praise their benefactor.
Founder’s Day was established in 1905 as
a day when Routt students would pay homage
to William R. Routt, the wealthy Morgan County
landowner who endowed the local Catholic
school.
Routt and his son, Harvey, donated $25,000
and property on East State Street on which to
build the school. And the elder Routt also gave
another $50,000 to establish an endowment fund
for the college. Routt College was primarily a
high school which offered college credit courses
until the early 1930s. Today, the school is known
as Routt Catholic High School.
T H E W A Y W E W E R E
Routt founder’s day
Routt students and faculty once honored their benefactor
The Routt College building, a two and onehalf-story
red brick and stone structure, was dedicated
in 1905 and destroyed by fi re in 1966.
Founder’s Day was usually held on or near
the anniversary of William Routt’s birth — April
1 — at the large Routt home at 1427 S. Main St.
The Founder’s Day celebration normally included
speeches by the Rev. John Crowe, pastor
of the Church of Our Saviour, and his assistant
pastor, the Rev. Francis F. Formaz, as well as faculty
members and students.
The following description of Founder’s Day
was included in the April 1923 edition of “The
Wag,” a Routt student publication.
“The large north parlor was used as a social
room and the fi rst hour was devoted to the
rendition of a carefully prepared program, during
which the various class representatives vied
with one another in giving honor and in expressing
gratitude and good wishes to their beloved
founder.”
The unsigned article goes on to summarize
some of the other Founder’s Day activities. William
Routt allowed the students to roam all over
his spacious house, according to the article.
Those with an intellectual bent relaxed in the
home’s library. Others listened to records played
on the Victrola in the living room. Several of the
Routt boys climbed the stairs to the third fl oor,
where they spent the remainder of the day playing
billiards. And some of the more mischievous
types enjoyed themselves by playing tricks on fellow
classmates and even on Harvey Routt.
Founder’s Day usually closed with the Routt
students gathered around their host and benefactor
for a group photograph.
Founder’s Day events ended with the deaths
of William and Harvey Routt in 1915, but their
large bequests, and the bequest of William’s wife,
Martha, continue to support Catholic education
in Jacksonville.
This Way We Were story was fi rst published
Sept. 13, 1999.
Chicago church protests Florida teen’s killing
CHICAGO (AP) — From
pulpits to rallies, several black
churches in Chicago joined the nationwide
call for justice in protesting
the shooting death of an unarmed
black teenager in Florida.
The Rev. Michael Pfleger
spoke out about the death of Trayvon
Martin during Mass at St. Sabina
Catholic Church, a prominent
black Catholic institution.
Churchgoers wore hooded sweatshirts,
as Martin was wearing
when he was slain Feb. 26. After
Mass, nearly 100 people attended
a rally outside the church where
youth from St. Sabina performed
poems and songs.
“The church has to rise up and
get out of its sanctuaries and get
into the streets,” Pfl eger said.
Pfleger also wore the hood
of his vestment robe over his
head and called for racial justice.
Pfl eger is a white priest in charge
of a largely black church, and has
long advocated against violence.
Monday is one-month anniversary
of Martin’s death. He was
shot as he walked home in a gated
community in Sanford, Fla., a
suburb of Orlando. The neighborhood
watch volunteer who shot
him, 28-year-old George Zimmer-
man, is the son of a white father
and Hispanic mother. Zimmerman
had called police to report
the hooded fi gure as suspicious;
Martin was carrying a bag of Skittles
and a can of iced tea, talking
to his girlfriend on his cellphone.
The demands to charge Zimmerman
have grown louder, and
attention paid to the case has become
more widespread. On Sunday,
the Rev. Jesse Jackson,
of Chicago, spoke in a Florida
church not far from the site of the
shooting.
During Mass in Chicago,
Pfl eger challenged the idea that
children wearing hoodies should
be treated as suspicious. One congregant
held a sign reading, “We
are all Trayvon Martin.”
“This is the catalyst, not just
for social activism around the issue
of violence, but just a consciousness,”
said St. Sabina offi -
cial Melech Thomas at the rally.
“America, especially our generation,
has been asleep. It’s time to
wake up.”
Martin’s death sparked weekend
protests and rallies nationwide,
and hundreds attended a
rally Saturday in downtown Chicago.
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4 Journal-Courier, Jacksonville, Ill., Monday, March 26, 2012
A D V I C E
Car booster seats are right
choice for small children
DEAR ABBY:
What do you think of a grandmother who has her 7-year-old grandson
sit in a baby car seat when she’s driving? The boy weighs 65 pounds
and is 4 1 /2 feet tall. His parents don’t want to cause a rift with her, as
she helps them after school. He looks ridiculous and must feel embarrassed in
front of his friends. Should relatives intervene? — GRANNY’S NEIGHBOR
DEAR NEIGHBOR: I took
your question to a public affairs
specialist with the National
Highway Traffi c Safety Administration.
He said that children
through the age of 12
should always ride in the back
seat. He also reminded me that
seat belts were designed for
adults, not children.
According to the NHTSA,
the 7-year-old should be in a
“booster” seat. A booster seat
positions the seat belt so it fi ts properly
over the shoulder and chest — the strongest
parts of the child’s body — so it won’t
cut him or her on the neck or face in case
of an accident.
The NHTSA used to recommend that
children 8 to 12 years old or 4 feet 9 inches
and under use a booster seat. However, it
now recommends that parents visit its website,
www.nhtsa.gov, to choose a correct
seat. Click on the child safety section, and
you’ll fi nd an area titled “Which Car Seat Is
the Right One for Your Child.” There are also
videos in this section showing parents
how to install the seats correctly.
The recommendations are national and
do not vary among the states. And yes —
this information should be shared with the
child’s parents and the grandmother in order
to ensure the boy’s safety.
DEAR ABBY: At the age of 2, I was diagnosed
with Type 1 diabetes. I have been
involved with the American Diabetes Association
since I was 6. As its 2012 National
Youth Advocate, I’d like to invite your
readers to join me by participating in the
24th Annual American Diabetes Association
Alert Day tomorrow, March 27.
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one-day “wake-up call.” On that
day, the American public is invited
to take the Diabetes Risk
Test to fi nd out if they are at
risk for developing Type 2 diabetes.
It’s a serious disease
that strikes nearly 26 million
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LOGAN NICOLE GREGORY, 2012 A.D.A.
NATIONAL YOUTH ADVOCATE
DEAR LOGAN: Congratulations on
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Advocate. Readers, because diabetes is a
serious -- but manageable -- condition, and
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could be at risk, please pay attention to Logan’s
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or call 800-342-2383.
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MEETINGS CALENDAR FOR CLUBS & ORGANIZATIONS
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is a desire to stop drinking.
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JACKSONVILLE LOCATIONS:
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Mound Ave. Wheelchair-accessible.
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n WELLS CENTER, 1300 Lincoln Ave.
Monday
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Hows.
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Baptist Church. “Bowen Group.”
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Hows.
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St.
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Hows.
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Hows.
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Hows.
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p.m. at Grace Lutheran Church, Main and
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1309 S. Main St. 883-1090. Wheelchair-accessible.
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Tuesday
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11 a.m.-noon acrylic painting; 11:30 a.m.
Bread of Love Soup and Salad bar; 12:30
p.m. Rummikub; 2 p.m. Sunshine Singers
entertaining at Heritage Health and Birthday
bash; 2:30 p.m. exercise class.
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Monday
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Tabernacle, 571 Sandusky. Use side entrance
to church hall.
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p.m. at Jacksonville Public Library, 201 W.
College Ave. 245-6153.
n GREAT BOOKS DISCUSSION GROUP,
1-3 p.m. at Jacksonville Public Library, 201
W. College Ave.
n MONDAY CONVERSATION CLUB, 2
p.m. at the home of Mrs. Debbie Middleton.
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World Health Club, 1521 W. Walnut.
Weigh-in 30 minutes before meeting. (800)
651-6000.
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PORT GROUP, 7-8:30 p.m. at First Christian
Church, 1421 Beard St. Bariatrics is
the branch of medicine that deals with the
causes, prevention and treatment of obesity.
Ramona, 323-2762.
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7-8 p.m. in the basement of Subway in Pittsfield.
1-800-323-1388.
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STUDY, 7 p.m. at Presbyterian Church, 301
W. Washington. 997-5920.
Tuesday
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Court St.
n EXPLORER’S BIBLE STUDY, 7 p.m. at
Church of the New Covenant, 520 Nazarene
Road.
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at Lincoln Avenue Baptist Church, 951 Lincoln
Ave. 673-4802.
n ROSARY PRAYER GROUP, 10 a.m. in
Our Saviour’s Convent chapel, 453 E. State
St.
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Cheney’s heart transplant
reopens debate about age
BY MARILYNN MARCHIONE
AP CHIEF MEDICAL WRITER
Doctors say it is unlikely that former
Vice President Dick Cheney got special
treatment when he was given a new heart at
age 71 that thousands of younger people also
were in line to receive.
Still, his case reopens debate about
whether rules should be changed to favor
youth over age in giving out scarce organs.
As it stands now, time on the waiting list,
medical need and where you live determine
the odds of scoring a new heart — not how
many years you’ll live to make use of it.
“The ethical issues are not that he had a
transplant, but who didn’t?” Dr. Eric Topol, a
cardiologist at Scripps Health in La Jolla, Calif.,
wrote on Twitter.
Cheney received the transplant Saturday
at Inova Fairfax Hospital in Falls Church,
Va., the same place where he received an
implanted heart pump that has kept him
alive since July 2010. It appears he went on
the transplant wait list around that time, 20
months ago.
He had severe congestive heart failure
and had suffered five heart attacks over the
past 25 years. Cheney has had countless
procedures to keep him going — bypasses,
artery-opening angioplasty, pacemakers and
surgery on his legs. Yet he must have had a
healthy liver and kidneys to qualify for a new
heart, doctors said.
“We have done several patients hovering
around age 70” although that’s about “the
upper limit” for a transplant, said Dr. Mariell
LOS ANGELES (AP) — “The Hunger
Games” has filled fan appetites with a $155
million opening weekend that puts it near
the top of the domestic record book.
The huge haul marks the third-best debut
ever in terms of revenue, behind the $169.2
million opening for last year’s “Harry Potter”
finale and the $158.4 million opening of
2008’s “The Dark Knight.”
“Harry Potter” and “Batman” were wellestablished
franchises. “The Hunger Games”
set a revenue record for a non-sequel, taking
in more than twice what the first “Twilight”
movie did with its $69.6 million opening
weekend.
“This is the birth of a franchise. To launch
in this fashion is mindboggling,” said David
Spitz, head of distribution at Lionsgate,
which now also owns the “Twilight” franchise
after its purchase of Summit Entertainment.
“The Hunger Games” slid into the No. 3
spot on the domestic revenue chart ahead of
“Spider-Man 3,” which opened with $151.1
million in 2007. Factoring in today’s higher
Jessup, a University of Pennsylvania heart
failure specialist and American Heart Association
spokeswoman. “The fact he waited
such a long time shows he didn’t get any
favors.”
More than 3,100 Americans are waiting
now for a new heart, and about 330 die each
year before one becomes available. When
one does, doctors check to see who is a good
match and in highest medical need. The
heart is offered locally, then regionally and
finally nationally until a match is made.
“You can’t leapfrog the system,” said Dr.
Allen Taylor, cardiology chief at MedStar
Georgetown University Hospital. “It’s a very
regimented and fair process and heavily policed.”
Patients can get on more than one transplant
list if they can afford the medical tests
that each center requires to ensure eligibility,
and can afford to fly there on short notice
if an organ becomes available. For example,
the late Apple chief Steve Jobs was on a
transplant list in Tennessee and received
a new liver at a hospital there in 2009 even
though he lived in California.
That’s not done nearly as often with
hearts as it is for livers or kidneys, said
Dr. Samer Najjar, heart transplant chief at
MedStar Washington Hospital Center. Each
transplant center decides for itself how old a
patient it will accept, he said.
Cheney will have to take daily medicines
to prevent rejection of his new heart and go
through rehabilitation to walk and return to
normal living.
‘Hunger Games’ battles to huge $155M opening weekend
tickets prices, “The Hunger Games” sold
fewer tickets over opening weekend than
“Spider-Man 3,” though.
Fans camped out for the first screenings
of “The Hunger Games,” which began just
after midnight Friday. Many fans showed
up dressed as favorite characters from the
story.
“That type of behavior puts it on the level
of the ‘Star Treks’ and ‘Star Wars,”’ Spitz
said. “I was so excited to see how everyone
was responding to the material and how ecstatic
they were to be a part of it.”
Despite its teen fan base, “The Hunger
Games” also did well among older moviegoers.
Fans 25 and older made up 56 percent of
the crowds.
“The Hunger Games” stars Jennifer
Lawrence as a teen who is one of 24 youths
forced to compete in a televised death match
in a post-apocalyptic North American society.
The film is based on the first novel in the
best-selling trilogy by Suzanne Collins. Lionsgate
plans to release part two, “Catching
Fire,” in November 2013.

Obama urges N. Korea to
‘pursue peace,’ says U.S. has
more nukes than it needs
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — In a direct
challenge to North Korean leaders, President
Barack Obama implored them “to have
the courage to pursue peace” while warning
of the wrath of the world if they don’t. Failure,
he said, would mean a future without
dignity, respect or hope for its people.
Obama stood by his pledge for a globe
without nuclear weapons, declaring flatly
that the United States has more than it needs
and can cut its arsenal without weakening its
security or that of its allies. That assessment
put him on a collision course with congressional
Republicans who say any significant
cuts would undermine the U.S. ability to deter
aggression.
In unusually personal terms, Obama said
he spoke of his wish for further nuclear reductions
as the president of the only nation
ever to use nuclear weapons, as a commander
whose country’s nuclear codes are never
far from his side, and as a protective father
eager to erase the threat of nuclear annihilation.
Obama and other world leaders are in
Seoul for a major international nuclear security
summit. Obama plans to meet on the
sidelines of the summit with several heads of
government, including Russian and Chinese
leaders.
The nuclear summit unfolded as North
Korea prepared for an announced satellite
launch next month that the United States
says amounts to a test of its rocketry. Seoul
also warned Monday that it might shoot
down a North Korean rocket if it strays into
South Korean territory,
House GOP budget plan
heats up as campaign issue,
draws White House scorn
WASHINGTON (AP) — The new debtslashing
budget plan pushed by House
Republicans heated up as a presidential campaign
issue Sunday as the proposal’s architect,
Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin, sparred
with top Democrats over its political fallout
and downplayed the possibility he could be
tapped as a vice presidential candidate.
Senior White House adviser David
Plouffe dismissed the GOP plan Sunday as
“a lot of candy, not a lot of vegetables,” and
charged that it would be “rubber-stamped”
as law if leading Republican presidential
hopeful Mitt Romney is elected.
“This is really the Romney-Ryan plan,”
Plouffe said, adding that its mix of acrossthe-board
tax cuts and stiff budget cuts
“showers huge tax cuts on millionaires and
billionaires paid for by senior and veterans.”
Ryan tried to tamp down speculation that
he could be tapped for the No. 2 spot on the
GOP ticket, although who will be the nominee
is far from settled.
“I would have to consider it, but it’s not
something I’m even thinking about right
now because right — I think our job in Congress
is pretty important,” Ryan said. “And
what we believe we owe the country is, if we
don’t like the direction the president is taking
us, which we don’t, we owe them a specific
sharp contrast and a different path that
they can select in November. ”
Afghans: U.S. paid $50K for
each villager killed in
shooting spree
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (AP) — The
U.S. paid $50,000 in compensation for each
villager killed and $11,000 for each person
wounded in a shooting rampage allegedly
carried out by a rogue American soldier in
southern Afghanistan, Afghan officials said
Sunday.
The families were told that the money
came from President Barack Obama. The
unusually large payouts were the latest move
by the White House to mend relations with
the Afghan people after the killings threatened
to shatter already tense relations.
Army Staff Sgt. Robert Bales is accused
of sneaking off his base on March 11, then
creeping into houses in two nearby villages
and opening fire on families as they slept.
The killings came as tensions between
the U.S. and Afghanistan were strained
following the burning of Qurans at a U.S.
base in February. That act — which U.S.
officials have acknowledged was a mistake
— sparked riots and attacks that killed more
than 30 people, including six American soldiers.
Powerful quake hits central
Chile coast; no reports of
deaths or major damage
SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — A magnitude-
7.1 earthquake struck central Chile Sunday
night, the strongest and longest that many
people said they had felt since a huge quake
devastated the area two years ago. Some
people were injured by falling ceiling material,
but there were no reports of major damage
or deaths due to quake-related accidents.
The quake struck at 7:30 p.m. about 16
miles north-northwest of Talca, a city of
more than 200,000 people where residents
said the shaking lasted about a minute.
Buildings swayed in Chile’s capital 136
miles to the north, and people living along a
480-mile stretch of Chile’s central coast were
WORLD&NATION
U.S. President Barack Obama greets members of the audience after speaking
at Hankuk University in Seoul, South Korea, on Monday.
briefly warned to head for higher ground.
Residents were particularly alarmed in
Constitucion, where much of the coastal
downtown at the mouth of a river was obliterated
by the tsunami caused by the 8.8-magnitude
quake in 2010.
Panic also struck in Santiago and other
cities, with people running out of skyscrapers,
and many neighborhoods were left partly
or totally without electrical power. Phone
service collapsed due to heavy traffic.
“There are some injuries but nothing serious,”
said Interior Minister Rodrigo Hinzpeter,
who was serving as acting president
while Sebastian Pinera is on tour in Asia.
French gunman’s brother hit
with preliminary terror and
murder charges; denies role
PARIS (AP) — A Frenchman suspected
of helping his brother plot attacks against
Jewish schoolchildren and paratroopers was
handed preliminary murder and terrorism
charges Sunday.
But Abdelkader Merah denied any role
in the attacks. Investigators looking into
France’s worst terror attacks in years believe
Merah helped his brother Mohamed
prepare the killings, and are investigating
whether they were linked to an international
network of extremists or worked on their
own.
Abdelkader’s lawyer said he feels like “a
scapegoat.”
“No one knew anything” about what
Mohamed was plotting, lawyer Anne-Sophie
Laguens told reporters in Paris. She dismissed
reports that Abdelkader had praised
his brother’s attacks. “He was never proud of
those actions.”
Mohamed Merah, 23, claimed responsibility
for killing three Jewish schoolchildren,
a rabbi and three paratroopers earlier this
month. After a 32-hour standoff with police,
he died Thursday in a hail of gunfire as he
jumped out a window of his apartment in the
southern city of Toulouse.
‘Titanic’ director explores
deepest spot on Earth, nearly
7 miles below surface
HONOLULU (AP) — Hollywood icon
James Cameron has made it to Earth’s deepest
point.
The director of “Titanic,” “Avatar” and
other films used a specially designed submarine
to dive nearly seven miles, completing
his journey a little before 8 a.m. Monday local
time, according to Stephanie Montgomery
of the National Geographic Society.
He planned to spend about six hours
exploring and filming the Mariana Trench,
about 200 miles southwest of the Pacific island
of Guam.
The scale of the trench is hard to grasp
— it’s 120 times larger than the Grand
Canyon and more than a mile deeper than
Mount Everest is tall.
Cameron returned to the surface of the
Pacific Ocean on Monday morning local
time. He spent a little more than three hours
under water after reaching a depth of 35,756
feet before he began his return to the surface,
according to information provided by
the expedition team.
Cameron’s return aboard his 12-ton, limegreen
sub called Deepsea Challenger was a
“faster-than-expected 70-minute ascent,” according
to National Geographic.
Santorum: Romney ‘worst
Republican’ to face Obama
FRANKSVILLE, Wis. (AP) — An agitated
Rick Santorum on Sunday called Mitt Romney
“the worst Republican in the country
to put up against Barack Obama” even as it
appears the former Massachusetts governor
is on pace to clinch the party’s nomination
in June.
Santorum later lashed out at reporters,
using a profane word as he accused them of
“distorting” his speech.
Santorum told voters that Romney is
“uniquely disqualified” to be the GOP’s
presidential pick and urged his supporters to
stand with him even as he faces an increasingly
improbable pathway to the nomination.
C
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M
Y
Santorum said “the race isn’t over until the
people of Wisconsin sing,” and urged them
to give his underfunded, underdog campaign
a chance to derail Romney.
“Pick any other Republican in the country.
He is the worst Republican in the country
to put up against Barack Obama,” Santorum
said at an evening rally near Racine.
Santorum later tried to clarify that he was
talking only about Romney’s ability to campaign
against the national health care law
championed by Obama and the Democrats.
But the candidate’s temper flared when he
was pushed by reporters.
“On the issue of health care. That’s what
I was talking about, and I was very clear
about talking about that. OK?” Santorum told
reporters who asked him about the scathing
criticism. “Come on, guys, don’t do this. I
mean, you guys are incredible. I was talking
about Obamacare, and he is the worst because
he was the author of Romneycare.”
Pressed by a reporter from The New
York Times, Santorum said: “Quit distorting
my words. It’s bull--.”
Police arrest suspect in
killing of 5 in SF home
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A San Francisco
man was arrested Sunday on suspicion
of killing five people in a home, leaving a
gruesome crime scene that has investigators
struggling to identify the victims and determine
the causes of death.
Binh Thai Luc, 35, was taken into custody
Sunday morning and booked on five counts
of murder, police Chief Greg Suhr said.
The bodies of the three women and two
men were found early Friday by a woman
with access to the home in the Ingleside
District in the southern part of the city.
The crime scene was so tangled that police
couldn’t initially determine whether they
were dealing with a murder-suicide, or
whether a suspect was at large. They also initially
thought that at least two of the victims
were shot.
“This was a complex crime scene. We had
five deceased persons apparently from blunt
force trauma. We didn’t know what we had,”
Suhr said.
The victims still have not been identified
and police have not been able to determine
the exact causes of death or offer a motive
for the slayings. Suhr said 40 investigators
were working on the case.
The chief declined to say what led investigators
to Luc, saying only that the suspect
knew the victims and that an “edged
weapon” was involved in the slayings. He
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said Luc had a prior criminal record, but did
not elaborate.
Another Japan reactor
shuts down; only one left
TOKYO (AP) — Another Japanese nuclear
reactor has been taken off line for maintenance,
leaving the country with only one
of its 54 reactors operational following last
year’s devastating earthquake and tsunami.
The last reactor is expected to be shut
down by early May, raising the possibility
of power shortages across the nation as demand
increases in the hot summer months.
The No. 6 reactor at the Kashiwazaki-
Kariwa complex was taken off line early
Monday by the Tokyo Electric Power Co.
The utility also runs the plant in Fukushima,
northeast of Tokyo, that suffered meltdowns,
explosions and radiation leaks after the
March 11 quake and tsunami.
Across U.S., preachers and
worshippers don hoodies
in calling for justice
EATONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — Wearing
hooded sweatshirts similar to the one that
Trayvon Martin wore on the night he was
killed, many preachers and worshippers
echoed calls for justice Sunday in the shooting
death of an unarmed black teenager in
Florida last month.
The one-month anniversary of Martin’s
death is Monday. He was shot while wearing
a “hoodie” as he walked home on a rainy
night in a gated community. The neighborhood
watch volunteer who shot him, 28year-old
George Zimmerman, is the son of
a white father and Hispanic mother, and the
demands to charge him in Martin’s slaying
have grown ever louder. He had called police
to report the hooded figure as suspicious;
the 17-year-old Martin was carrying a bag of
Skittles and a can of iced tea, talking to his
girlfriend on his cellphone.
In African-American and other religious
centers from Florida to Atlanta, New York
and Chicago, messages from pulpits couldn’t
help but touch on a seemingly avoidable
tragedy that continues to be rife with more
questions than answers. But while the call
continued for the arrest of Zimmerman,
there were also pleas to use the incident to
spark a larger movement.
Victim of chimp attack says
Conn. gov knew of danger
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — A Connecticut
woman who was mauled and severely
injured by an out-of-control chimpanzee and
is now suing the state says Gov. Dannel P.
Malloy, as then-mayor of Stamford, knew the
animal was dangerous.
In an interview with The Hartford Courant,
Charla Nash said the chimpanzee got
loose and roamed Stamford in 2003. She
says Malloy knew the chimp’s owner, Sandra
Herold, and allowed her to take him home
and warned that he should be locked up.
She was attacked by the animal in February
2009.
“I know he was the mayor when Travis
was running loose that time in 2003. (Herold)
knew him. And she said he allowed her
to take Travis home and said (to) keep him
locked up,” she said. “I think it was said that
if he got loose again, they were going to
shoot him. That’s what Sandra told me.”
Malloy’s senior adviser, Roy Occhiogrosso,
said Friday that the governor may have
met and spoken with Herold when she attended
one or more of his periodic meetings
with the public. But he said it was “never
about the chimp.”
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Assembly
scholarship
program
should end
MICHELLE MALKIN
On Thursday, as the behemoth
federal healthcare law marked its
second anniversary, House Republicans
repealed the infamous Independent
Payment Advisory Board. The
mother of all death panels, the board
would have unprecedented authority
over healthcare spending through
a rogue board of 15 Medicare spending
czars. The House repeal has a
snowball’s chance in hell of surviving
the Senate. But board’s legality
is being challenged in federal court
by the conservative Arizona-based
Goldwater Institute. And the more
the public knows about these freedom-usurping,
taxpayer-soaking institutions
buried in the healthcare
law the less they like it.
Seven House Democrats crossed
the aisle to vote for the GOP majority
rollback. Analysts on both sides
of the political aisle have decried the
board’s complete lack of accountability
and insulation from judicial review.
Critical decisions about public
and private health insurance payment
rates would be freed from the normal
administrative rules process — public
notice, public comment, public review
— that governs every other federal
commission in existence.
Rep. Todd Akin, R-Mo., summed
up bipartisan opposition: “IPAB embodies
the very thing Americans
fear most about ObamaCare — unaccountable
Washington bureaucrats
meeting behind closed doors
to make unilateral decisions that
should be made by patients and
their doctors.”
The problem with piecemeal repeal
is that for every old IPAB,
there’s a new, multibillion-dollar bureaucracy
waiting in the Obamacare
wings. Senate Republicans and fellow
medical doctors Tom Coburn
and John Barrasso point to a $10 billion
entity called the “Innovation
Center” that “would test innovative
LETTERS POLICY
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It shouldn’t take a genius to realize
that it’s time to put an end
to the Illinois General Assembly
Scholarship program.
The Illinois House voted 79-25
last week to cancel the program,
which allows each lawmaker to hand
out tuition waivers to students from
his or her district. Gov. Pat Quinn also
has urged ending the program.
The legislation to do so, House Bill
3810, now is in the hands of the Senate,
which has supported the waiver
program in the past.
It’s not that the program was a
bad idea when it started in 1960. The
idea was to allow each member of
the House and Senate to award fouryear
waivers to two students or di-
COMMENTARY
ObamaCare unchained
The Hydra was a mythical swamp beast whose multiple heads grew back after
being severed. Obamacare is a real Washington monster whose countless
hidden bureaucracies keep sprouting forth even after they’re rooted out. As
soon as combatants lop off one of the law’s unconstitutional agencies, another takes
its place.
payment and service delivery models
to reduce program expenditures
under Medicare, Medicaid and the
State Children’s Health Insurance
Program.”
According to a new Congressional
Research Service analysis of this
little-known offi ce to be operated by
the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid
Services, there would be “no
administrative or judicial review” of
the director’s payment experiments.
Coburn and Barrasso explain that
“(t)his means that the administrator
of CMS is the sole individual in
the entire federal government with
the power to decide whether or not
models tested negatively impact seniors’
quality of care and meet the fi -
nancial requirements spelled out in
law.”
This “innovation” super-czar
would be allowed to tinker behind
closed doors — and then impose
whatever experiments the “innovation
center” chooses without any
checks or balances on the methods
or results. Moreover, at least two
letters for length, conciseness and clarity.
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vide them up among eight students.
We’re all for helping young people
further their education, but the
program had a fl aw from the start.
General Assembly Scholarship is, in
fact, a misnomer. That’s because the
program actually provides the students
with tuition waivers instead
of traditional scholarships, in which
the awarding organizations provide
money to the schools. Instead, the
state universities that were required
to accept these students’ waivers
had to absorb those tuition costs,
because the program provided no
money to the schools.
That worked fairly well when
state universities were in better
shape fi nancially and could afford to
other sub-offi ces within CMS (subject
to normal open meetings and
open records rules) have already
been tasked with researching payment
and delivery models. Health
care blogger Tevi Troy at National-
Review.com warns: “The ‘innovation’
center appears to be one more way
in which the healthcare law is going
to interfere with the practice of medicine,
and one that physicians should
start paying more attention to.”
It’s not just physicians who need
to pay attention. Every taxpayer has
a stake. At the end of the month, this
shadowy agency will start doling out
$1 billion in grants to payment experiment
groups and data-tracking
system builders. Sounds like yet another
pipeline for political payoffs
and Chicago-style boodle that will
result in less patient autonomy, fewer
health care choices, more government
intrusion and lower-quality
care.
Final diagnosis: The Obamacare
beast won’t die until it’s eradicated
completely, root and branch.
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take on a relatively small number of
students who didn’t pay. But with tuition
ever increasing and state funding
decreasing because of Illinois’
fi scal problems, the program was
putting the universities collectively
in the hole to the tune of an estimated
$13 million a year.
In the last few years, the program
has come under criticism in light of
reports that some legislators had
awarded waivers to family members,
the children of political allies and
students outside their districts. With
Illinois’ history of political corruption,
legitimate concerns were raised
that some of these tuition waivers
may have been awarded to students
whose families had the means to pay
Pole greased
for downslide
Few things have been
more satisfying than
the many hours of every
day, the many days of every
year and the many years
across many decades I have
spent in solitude. For almost
ALAN GUEBERT 30 years I’ve worked alone, a
full-time freelancer in an increasingly
corporate, increasingly crowded fi eld.
Fortunately I had good training for this solitary life. On
the farm of my youth, I was usually alone in every fi eld that
I worked. I mowed hay alone, cultivated corn and soybeans
alone, disked alone, hauled manure alone, plowed alone,
planted corn alone.
And, yet, while my eyes watched the row or the furrow,
my mind was anywhere but on the row or furrow. If I spotted
a fl uffy jet trail headed south, I wondered if it would end in Biloxi
or Bolivia and if I’d ever see either.
In between the daydreams, the solitude gave me time to
read and to consider who I was. I remember wondering if I
would have joined Ethan Allen and the Green Mountain Boys
during the American Revolution or followed Daniel Boone into
Kentucky.
The reading, observing and solitude, it turned out, were
just the start of a life of reading, observing and solitude. The
happy start of a happy life.
That sounds as though
it shouldn’t be and, yet,
it was and is. Solitude, after
all, isn’t emptiness and
quiet is a peaceful place
fi lled with silence.
Early on I knew I didn’t
have to join any group or
class to have an identity.
I had one; I was a good
worker who my father
trusted with cows, tractors
and hired men. That
gave me an identity and it
freed me to become other
things. And off I went.
How will we — farmers
everywhere — sustain our
ability to feed any of us when
there are more of us and less
of everything else?
In a 2009 lecture to the plebe class of the U.S. Military
Academy at West Point, essayist and literary critic William
Deresiewicz tried to explain how this happens. His key idea
— one that I am familiar with — was to encourage these future
leaders to spend more time alone to avoid becoming
“the excellent sheep” or “world-class hoop jumpers” that he
saw in his Yale University students.
These young people, he explained, were “exactly what
places like Yale mean when they talk about training leaders.
... People who can climb the greasy pole of whatever hierarchy
they decide to attach themselves to.”
But there is “something desperately wrong, and even dangerous,
about that idea,” Deresiewicz, offered the young
West Pointers.
“(For) too long we have been training leaders who only
know how to keep the routine going. Who can answer questions,
but don’t know how to ask them. Who think about how
to get things done, but not whether they are worth doing in
the fi rst place.
“What we have now are the greatest technocrats the
world has ever seen ... but who have no interest in anything
beyond their expertise. What we don’t have are leaders.”
In many ways, Deresiewicz could be describing the dominant
feature in American agriculture today. Great technocrats
abound everywhere — on Capitol Hill, at Land Grant universities,
in general farm groups and commodity organizations,
in your neighborhood. The “routine” they “keep going,” as
they often sing in unison, is “feed the world.”
But this technology has created bigger and bigger monocultures
that are not focused so much on feeding the world
as on maximizing profi t.
Indeed, we’ve learned very well how to get up that “greasy
pole” but we still need to learn how to stay there. How will we
— farmers everywhere — sustain our ability to feed any of us
when there are more of us and less of everything else?
Sheep, excellent or otherwise, ain’t gonna get that job
done. Leaders will.
Kent A. Kilpatrick
Publisher
the tuition, simply as political favors
to campaign contributors.
When all those factors are
weighed, it seems obvious that this
program has outlived its usefulness.
The state’s universities should not
be asked to absorb the costs of educating
several hundred students
merely because their families happen
to know lawmakers or how to
pull some strings. And the legislators
themselves should not be able
to reward cronies at what amounts
to the taxpayers’ expense.
We urge the Senate to do the
right thing and pass HB 3810 to end
this program. It’s not exactly rocket
science, but it just makes common
sense.
Jacksonville
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Journal-Courier, Jacksonville, Ill., Monday, March 26, 2012 7
Battle over Obama health law reaches high court
BY MARK SHERMAN
ASSOCIATED PRESS
The monumental fi ght over a
health care law that touches all
Americans and divides them
sharply comes before the Supreme
Court on Monday. The justices will decide
whether to kill or keep the largest
expansion in the nation’s social safety
net in more than four decades.
Two years and three days after President
Barack Obama signed into law a health
care overhaul aimed at extending medical
insurance to more than 30 million Americans,
the high court begins three days of
hearings over the law’s validity.
The challenge from 26 states and a small
business group puts the court smack in
the middle of a heavily partisan fight over
the president’s major domestic accomplishment
and a presidential election campaign
in which all his Republican challengers oppose
the law.
If upheld, the law will force dramatic
changes in the way insurance companies do
business, including forbidding them from
denying coverage due to pre-existing medical
conditions and limiting how much they
can charge older people.
The law envisions that insurers will
be able to accommodate older and sicker
people without facing financial ruin because
of its most disputed element, the requirement
that Americans have insurance or pay
a penalty.
Another major piece of the law is an expansion
of the Medicaid program for low-income
Americans that will provide coverage
to more than 15 million people who currently
earn too much to qualify.
By 2019, about 95 percent of the country
will have health insurance if the law is allowed
to take full effect, the Congressional
Budget Office estimates.
Reams of court filings attest that the
changes are being counted on by people
with chronic diseases, touted by women
who have been denied coverage for their
pregnancies, and backed by Americans
over 50 but not yet old enough to qualify for
Medicare, who face age-inflated insurance
premiums.
Republicans are leading the fight to
kill the law either by the court or through
congressional repeal. They say the worst
fears about what they derisively call “Obamacare”
already have come to pass in the
form of higher costs and regulations, claims
that the law’s supporters dispute. GOP presidential
candidates all promise to repeal it if
elected.
“Obamacare has already proven unpopular
and unaffordable,” House Speaker John
Boehner, an Ohio Republican, said on the
law’s second anniversary.
The White House says it has little doubt
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the high court will uphold the law, and that
even its opponents will eventually change
their tune.
“One thing I’m confident of is, by the
end of this decade, we’re going to be very
glad the Republicans termed this ‘Obamacare,’
because when the reality of health
care is in place, it’s going
to be nothing like the kind
of fear-mongering that was
done,” said David Plouffe,
a senior adviser to the
president, said Sunday in an
interview with ABC’s “This
Week with George Stephanopoulos.”
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is at best ambivalent about
the benefits of the health
care law, and that a majority
of Americans believe the
insurance requirement is
unconstitutional.
The administration’s public education
campaign has come under strong criticism
from its allies who say the White House has
been timid in the face of relentless Republican
attacks.
Washington lawyer Walter Dellinger, who
served in the Clinton administration Justice
Department, said opponents have succeeded
in keeping the focus on the insurance requirement
instead of two provisions that will
keep insurers from discriminating against
sicker and older people. “The other two are
very popular, and no one discusses them,”
Dellinger said.
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Members of Christian faith organizations kneel in prayer Sunday in front
of the Supreme Court as part of “Encircle the Court in Prayer,” on the eve
of the Supreme Court arguments on President Obama’s health care legislation
in Washington.
The main event before the
court is Tuesday’s argument
over the constitutionality
of the individual insurance
requirement.
including allowing children to stay on their
parents’ insurance until age 26 and reducing
older Americans’ prescription drug costs by
closing the so-called “donut hole.”
Having rarely talked about the law since
he signed it, Obama issued a brief statement
Friday. “The law has made a difference
for millions of Americans,
and over time, it
will help give even more
working and middle-class
families the security they
deserve.”
The main event before
the court is Tuesday’s argument
over the constitutionality
of the individual
insurance requirement. The
states and the National Federation
of Independent Business
say Congress lacked
authority under the Constitution
for its unprecedented
step of forcing Americans to
buy insurance whether they want it or not.
The administration argues Congress has
ample authority to do what it did. If its action
was rare, it is only because Congress
was dealing with a problem that has stymied
Democratic and Republican administrations
for many decades: How to get adequate
health care to as many people as possible,
and at a reasonable cost.
The justices also will take up whether the
rest of the law can remain in place if the insurance
mandate falls and, separately, whether
Congress lacked the power to expand the
Medicaid program.
The court also will consider whether the
challenge is premature under a 19th century
tax law because the insurance requirement
doesn’t kick in until 2014 and people who
remain uninsured wouldn’t have to pay a
penalty until they file their 2014 income taxes
in early 2015.
Taking this way out of the case would
relieve the justices of rendering a decision in
political high season, just months before the
presidential election.
The justices like to say they give the same
attention to the small cases as the big ones.
But everything about the court’s handling
of health care suggests there is no doubt
among the court’s six men and three women
about the significance of what they are about
to decide.
The six hours of argument time is the
most scheduled since the mid-1960s. The
court will release audio recordings of the
arguments on the same day they take place.
The first time that happened was when the
court heard argument in the Bush v. Gore
case that settled the 2000 presidential election.
The last occasion was the argument in
the Citizens United case that wound up freeing
businesses from longstanding limits on
political spending.
Outside groups filed a record 136 briefs
dealing with the four issues the court will
take up over the next three days.
Justice Clarence Thomas, remarking on
the sheer volume of the health care filings,
noted they filled a large mail bin. “I said, ‘Oh
my goodness, look at all that work,”’ Thomas
told law students at Wake Forest University.
The school posted a video of his talk.
THE CASE ARRIVES at a high court in
which ideology and political affiliation align
for the first time in generations. The four
Democratic appointees make up the liberal
wing, while the five justices named by Republican
presidents form a cohesive conservative
majority on several key issues.
The partisan battle lines were drawn early
on. The law passed Congress, controlled by
Democrats in 2009 and 2010, without a single
Republican vote.
GOP elected officials filed suit in federal
court the very day Obama signed the bill
into law.
Even in the courts, the first decisions
fell along party lines. Democratic-appointed
judges uniformly upheld the law or dismissed
suits against it, while Republican
appointees in Florida and Virginia struck it
down.
But in federal appeals courts, one Democratic
appointee joined in the decision that
struck down the insurance requirement. In
two other opinions, conservative Republicanappointed
judges voted to uphold the law.
Despite calls for Thomas, from liberal
groups, and Justice Elena Kagan, from conservatives,
to step aside, it appears all the
justices will take part in the historic case.

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S M A L L T A L K
Some signs
small biz is
improving
BY JOYCE M. ROSENBERG
AP BUSINESS WRITER
Some diners at Hurricane
Grill & Wings had been limiting
themselves to a small order of the
chain’s saucy chicken wings and
a glass of tap water. These days,
many of those people are upgrading
to a bigger order of as many
as 15 wings and a soda.
For Hurricane Grill, which
sells its wings in more than 30 varieties
of sauces, the larger plates
and the sodas are a sign that customers
are OK about spending
a little more when they go out to
eat.
The evidence may not be a big
economic report like gross domestic
product or factory orders
in a region, but small businesses
have their own indicators that the
economy is improving.
NO MORE BROWN-BAGGING IT
People who held onto their
jobs during the recession are familiar
with the scenarios. The
company-sponsored doughnuts
disappeared from the Monday
morning meeting. Training classes
that previously included a catered
lunch were traded in for
brown-bag sessions.
“Bring your own bagel into the
meeting, we’re not going to serve
you breakfast,” was the message
companies gave employees, says
Tom Walter. His company Tasty
Catering, based in Elk Grove Village,
Ill. provides catering to corporate
clients.
When companies did serve
food at staff meetings, they found
ways to cut costs, Walter says.
Strip sandwiches like six-foot heroes
were served instead of individual
sandwiches. Turkey and
brie on artisan breads were replaced
by turkey and Swiss on
whole wheat.
During the worst of the economic
downturn, Tasty Catering
was forced to let one full-time employee
go. Fortunately, Walter
found another job for that staffer
elsewhere. He avoided other layoffs
of full-timers in late 2008 because
his staff offered to cut their
hours to 25 per week, from 40, for
three months.
Last fall, things began to
change. Clients who had stopped
feeding employees started ordering
again. Companies that had
gone downscale began ordering
more expensive food.
Four months ago, many clients
had whittled down their catering
bills to about $10 person. More re-
MALL TALK, see Page 12
& MONEY
Diego Berdakin, the founder of BeachMint Inc., doesn’t see the point of business cards. “When I go into a meeting
and there are five bankers across the table, they all hand me business cards and they all end up in a pile, in a
shoe box somewhere.”
Bye, bye business cards?
Old standby could be another victim of the digital age
BY MATT STEVENS
MCCLATCHY-TRIBUNE
Chalk up another looming
casualty of the Internet
age: business
cards.
Ubiquitous as pinstripes, the
2-by-3.5-inch pieces of card stock
have long been a staple in executive
briefcases. Exchanging
cards helps to break the ice and
provides a quick reference for
forgotten names.
But to many young and Websavvy
people who are accustomed
to connecting digitally,
the cards are irrelevant, wasteful
— and just plain lame.
Diego Berdakin, the founder
of BeachMint Inc., a fast-growing
e-commerce site, has raised $75
million from investors without
ever bothering to print up a set.
He doesn’t see the point.
“If someone comes in to meet
me, we’ve already been connected
through email, so it real-
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ly doesn’t feel like a necessity in
my life,” he said. “When I go into
a meeting and there are fi ve
bankers across the table, they
all hand me business cards and
they all end up in a pile, in a shoe
box somewhere.”
U.S. sales of business cards
have been falling since the late
1990s, according to IBISWorld
Inc., an Australian business data
company whose data go back
to 1997. The slide appears to be
accelerating. Last year printers
posted revenue of $211.1 million
from the segment. That’s down
13 percent from 2006.
The weak economy has been
a factor in recent years. But analysts
said printed business cards,
like newspapers, books and magazines,
are fast giving way to digital
alternatives. Smartphones,
tablets and social media are helping
people connect more quickly
and seamlessly than ever before.
“It’s a steady decline,” said
Caitlin Moldvay, a printing industry
analyst with IBISWorld. “The
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printing industry in general has
entered into a decline, so this is
part of that trend.”
Many under-30 tech entrepreneurs
see the paper rectangles
as an anachronism, so they are
turning to digital options.
About 85 million people have
a professional network on LinkedIn.
Some 77 million smartphone
users have downloaded
the Bump app, which allows
them to bump their phones together
and instantly exchange
MCT /GARY FRIEDMAN
contact information.
Others carry a personalized
quick-response code that smartphones
can scan like a hyperlink.
And, of course, there’s always
Facebook, email and digital business
cards.
If they do take a paper card,
some said they use a smartphone
app to snap a picture of it
and instantly digitize the card’s
information. Then they toss it into
the nearest trash can.
“Paper is not so appealing to
this generation,” said Kit Yarrow,
chairwoman of the psychology
department at Golden Gate University
in San Francisco who has
studied Generation Y: the 20- to
30-year-olds who grew up with
the Internet. “They absolutely
gravitate toward products that
help them do things really effi -
ciently. It’s time-consuming to organize
business cards — and not
portable.”
Sam Friedman, co-founder
and chief executive of Parking in
Worker background checks raise questions
BY TONY PUGH
MCCLATCHY NEWSPAPERS
Justin D’Heilly never saw
it coming.
He was working as a
Domino’s Pizza delivery driver in
St. Paul, Minn., in 2009 when he
pulled over to take a call from his
manager, who told D’Heilly he
could no longer drive for the company.
A background check had found
some problems with his motor vehicle
history, but D’Heilly wasn’t
told exactly what the trouble was,
nor was he given a copy of the
damning report.
When he checked with police
to see if his license had been revoked,
D’Heilly learned that it was
valid and that he had only a couple
of speeding tickets. He was fi red
the following month.
“They never offi cially told me
why,” D’Heilly said. “I just kind of
faded away from them, I guess. ...
I’ve always been a good employee
there. I’ve never had any kind
of disciplinary problems whatsoever,
so to get that call out of the blue
Although the number of U.S.
print shops is declining,
some are thriving with the
help of e-commerce and
innovative new designs.
like that, you know, it just threw
me off.”
D’Heilly is now a named plaintiff
in a budding class-action lawsuit
that claims Domino’s willfully
violated the Fair Credit Reporting
Act by running employee background
reports without proper authorization
and by not sharing the
reports with applicants and employees
before taking adverse job
actions against them, like termination
or denial of employment.
Domino’s has denied the allegations
in court fi lings. Company
spokesman Tim McIntyre
wouldn’t comment on the case,
but in an emailed response, he
was clear: “We do not apologize for
conducting criminal background
checks.”
With more than four unemployed
workers per opening, the
job search has become a contact
sport following the Great Recession.
The buyer’s market for labor
has employers relying on criminal
and credit background reports
to help thin the applicant pool and
avoid potential lawsuits for negligent
hiring.
A recent survey found that
BUSINESS CARDS, see Page 12
more than 90 percent of employers
run criminal checks on job applicants,
while 60 percent sometimes
screen for credit, depending
on the position. Black marks on either
report can prove fatal for the
estimated 65 million U.S. adults
with criminal records and the 25
percent of whites, 33 percent of
Hispanics and 50 percent of African-Americans
thought to have
bad credit.
Identifying potential hires who
could pose a threat to a company’s
assets or the safety of its workers
and customers is a serious responsibility
with legal ramifi cations, so
consumer background reports are
invaluable in helping employers
gauge the trustworthiness, judgment,
reliability and competence
of new employees.
But at a time when jobs are
scarce and 5.4 million have been
unemployed for more than six
months, a robust discussion is
brewing among lawmakers, employers
and regulators who are reexamining
the way that negative
background information is used.
BACKGROUND, see Page 12

INSIDE
PREP SPORTS
J-C Players of the Week
BY BRIAN WEBSTER
JOURNAL-COURIER
The so-called “art of compromise”
has got no place on the
baseball diamond, least of all in
the short, transient spring of Division
III.
The Illinois College baseball
squad wanted a sweep against
visiting Midwest Conference rival
Knox Sunday afternoon, but settled
for a split that felt like a net
loss.
In the first game, Blueboys
hurler Nate Jones threw seven
shutout innings and Terry Davis
blasted a 3-run homer for a 3-
1 IC victory. But in the second, it
was the Prairie Fire who got all
the clutch hits in an 8-3 Knox win
that denied the home team of a 2-
0 start to league play.
IC slipped to 10-5 overall and
1-1 in the MWC South Division.
“I hope we don’t have a bunch
BY NANCY ARMOUR
ASSOCIATED PRESS
ST. LOUIS — Nothing personal,
Roy.
Tyshawn Taylor broke out
of his slump in a big way Sunday,
scoring 22 points and leading
Kansas back to the Final Four
with an 80-67 victory over former
coach Roy Williams and top-seeded
North Carolina.
The second-seeded Jayhawks
(31-6) will play Ohio State on Saturday
in their fi rst Final Four appearance
since winning the 2008
national championship.
“It’s awesome,” center Jeff
Withey said. “There’s no better
feeling than this right now.”
And how’s this for symmetry?
Kansas began this year’s tournament
in Omaha, Neb., the same
place as four years ago.
As the game ended, Taylor —
much maligned for his shooting
struggles during the first three
games of the NCAA tournament
— ran to Kansas fans and raised
both arms in the air. Travis Releford
tossed his sweatbands into
the crowd.
“This is what you come to Kansas
for,” Taylor said. “It’s a great
feeling, but it’s just one step.”
Taylor led five Jayhawks in
double figures. Player of the
year candidate Thomas Robinson
added 18 points and nine rebounds,
and Elijah Johnson kept
up his blistering pace in the tournament
with 10 points, including
a 3-pointer with 3:07 to play that
sparked Kansas’ 12-0 run to end
the game. Withey made two monster
blocks to deny the Tar Heels
during the fi nal run — including
one that set up a big three-point
play by Taylor.
Taylor came up with the rebound
after Withey swatted
away a shot by John Henson
and streaked downcourt for a layup,
getting fouled by Stilman
White in the process. As the Kansas-heavy
crowd roared, Taylor
butted his head into Robinson’s
chest. He made the free throw to
give Kansas a 74-67 lead with 1:59
left, and the Jayhawks cruised
of guys who were satisfi ed with
just winning a game,” said IC
skipper Jay Eckhouse, now in his
11th season on the bench. “We’ll
see. It’s early in the year. But that
second game shouldn’t have happened.”
It did happen, though. It started
off well for the Blueboys, too,
with Dave Dalfonso singling,
stealing a base and then coming
round to score on a single by Davis
to give IC a 1-0 advantage.
“I’m just working hard, trying
to carry as much of the load as I
can to help these guys out,” said
Davis.
Davis went 4-for-8 in Sunday’s
twin bill, maintaining an early
season average of “around .500,”
in the (Bloomington) senior’s es-
from there.
“There’s no way to put into
words the way we feel,” Williams
said. “There’s no way to
put into words the way I feel. ...
It’s the NCAA tournament. One
team wins and one team loses,
and that’s what we have to understand.”
James Michael McAdoo
scored 15 for the Tar Heels (32-
6), who played better in their second
game without injured star
point guard Kendall Marshall.
But North Carolina couldn’t overcome
a 5:46 fi eld goal drought to
end the Midwest Regional fi nal.
It was only the third defeat in
12 regional fi nal appearances for
the Tar Heels, but their second
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& RECREATION
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‘No
better
feeling’ BY
Jayhawks dump
’Heels to reach
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IC defeats Knox 3-1 then falls 8-3 in 2nd game
timation. His 3-run homer in the
fi fth inning of the fi rst game was
one of just 3 hits the Blueboys
had in 18 chances in the doubleheader
with runners in scoring
position. His RBI single in the
fi rst inning of game two was another
one.
“He (Davis) has done that
all year, to his credit,” said Eckhouse.
“He’s had a great fi rst 15
games for us.”
Unfortunately for IC, Davis
couldn’t come to bat every time
the team had runners in scoring
position. The Blueboys went 1for-16
with runners in scoring position
the rest of the day. The only
other time IC got a hit with a
runner on second (in the third inning
of game one), shortstop T.J.
straight after losing to Kentucky
last year.
“It was a game of runs,” Williams
said. “And we didn’t answer
the last one.”
This was only the second time
Williams had faced Kansas since
leaving the school where he spent
his fi rst 15 years as a head coach,
taking the Jayhawks to the NCAA
title game twice — they lost in
both 1991 and 2003 — and two
other Final Fours. Though Kansas
fans have softened some —
Williams was still greeted with a
chorus of boos, and one fan held
up a sign that said, “Roy Down,
2 to Go” — Williams said Saturday
that facing his old team will
always be unpleasant.
Albers got thrown out at home
trying to score on Nick Visconti’s
single.
“We did some good things, but
we’re just not hitting with guys on
base,” said Eckhouse. “We’re getting
very little timely hitting, and
we need some of that.”
Knox went 7-for-17 with runners
in scoring position in Sunday’s
second game.
IC led 1-0 until the top of the
fourth inning, when the Prairie
Fire strung together three RBI
doubles, including a 2-run twobagger
by Kyle Walenga, which
gave the visitors a 4-1 lead. Mike
O’Connell went 3-for-5 for Knox
with four RBIs, including a 2-run
single up the middle in the top of
the ninth to extend a 6-3 lead to
Kansas Jayhawks’ Tyshawn Taylor is defended by North Carolina Tar Heels’ Stilman White
during the second half of the NCAA men’s college basketball tournament Midwest Regional
final Sunday in St. Louis.
• PLAYER OF THE DAY•
Rachel Smith
Griggsville-Perry’s Rachel Smith is
the J-C Player of the Day for Saturday, as
chosen by those who voted at myjournalcourier
varsity.com. Smith went 3-for-4 with three
runs scored in a win over Pleasant Plains.
“Too emotional for me. That’s
the bottom line,” Williams said,
calling Kansas his “second-favorite”
team. “I don’t think it’ll
ever feel good for me, regardless
of the outcome. I don’t
think I’ll ever feel comfortable
with it.”
At least this one went better
than the fi rst meeting, at the
2008 Final Four, where the Jayhawks
walloped North Carolina
on the way to winning the title
Williams never could at Kansas.
“I enjoyed coaching these
kids, and you hate it for them.
That’s what it’s all about,” Williams
said. “This is college basketball.
It’s not about the coaches,
it’s about the players.”
INSIDE
NCAA TOURNAMENT
Kentucky ousts Baylor
AP/CHARLIE RIEDEL
8-3.
Blueboys’ senior Brian Boeving
jacked a 2-run homer over
the right fi eld fence in the bottom
of the eighth to pull IC to within
6-3 before that. Too little, too late.
Davis said the only thing IC
can do is keep battling. The MWC
part of the schedule has just begun,
after all. The Blueboys travel
to archrival Monmouth for a doubleheader
next Saturday.
“The tough thing is not seeing
it all come together when we
know we’re working hard,” said
Davis.
IC’s pitching was inconsistent
Sunday, except for the performance
of Jones, a right-handed
junior from Belleville Althoff,
who raised his record to 2-1 with
seven innings of four-hit, shutout
ball, striking out four and walking
BLUEBOYS, see Page 11 ➤
Smoke in
the water
Stewart wins
Sprint Cup race
GREG BEACHAM
ASSOCIATED PRESS
FONTANA, Calif. — When
dark clouds ominously obscured
majestic Mount Baldy north of
Auto Club Speedway early in Sunday’s
race, NASCAR’s drivers all
realized they were probably in for
a short day on a long track.
Nobody did a better job racing
until the raindrops fell than Tony
Stewart.
Stewart got his second NAS-
CAR victory of the season when
rain shortened the race at Auto
Club Speedway by 71 laps, extending
the defending Sprint Cup
champion’s unusually strong
start.
Kyle Busch finished second,
and Dale Earnhardt Jr. added to
his good start to the season in
third. “You hate to have it end
with rain like that,” Stewart said.
“But we’ve lost some that way,
and we didn’t back into the lead.”
Stewart has won seven of the
last 15 races, including Las Vegas
last month, in a remarkable
stretch of dominance for a driver
who rarely gets rolling until summer.
Although Stewart sees nothing
special about his approach to the
new season, he’s clearly focused.
Stewart and new crew chief Steve
Addington didn’t mention the
rain to each other until moments
before it hit one end of the 2-mile
oval, but they had already done
the work necessary to win.
“It’s been nice to get off to
a good start this year the way
we have,” said Stewart, who has
been even more impressive this
year despite firing crew chief
Darian Grubb last December.
“The history shows the last 13
years, we haven’t had the strongest
start the first third of the
year, but I’m really excited about
the start we’ve got going. Daytona
was probably our weakest
race, and I know I made decisions
trying to make things happen
and it didn’t work out. I’m really
proud of what Steve and all
our guys have done.”
Stewart’s Chevrolet passed
Busch 44 laps before the race
was stopped when the looming
rain clouds fi nally burst and halted
a race run entirely on green
fl ags to that point. Although a few
drivers weren’t happy when the
race was called off after a delay of
just over 30 minutes amid steadily
worsening rain, Stewart collected
his 46th career win and his
second at Fontana.
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HOCKEY
NHL
Sunday’s Games
N.Y. Islanders 3, Florida 2, SO
Edmonton 6, Columbus 3
Washington 3, Minnesota 0
Pittsburgh 5, New Jersey 2
Nashville 6, Chicago 1
Boston 3, Anaheim 2
St. Louis 4, Phoenix 0
Monday’s Games
Tampa Bay at Philadelphia, 6:30 p.m.
Columbus at Detroit, 6:30 p.m.
Ottawa at Winnipeg, 7:30 p.m.
Dallas at Calgary, 8 p.m.
Los Angeles at Vancouver, 9 p.m.
Colorado at San Jose, 9:30 p.m.
BASKETBALL
NBA
Sunday’s Games
Phoenix 108, Cleveland 83
Minnesota 117, Denver 100
Atlanta 139, Utah 133,4OT
Boston 88, Washington 76
San Antonio 93, Philadelphia 76
Oklahoma City 103, Miami 87
Portland 90, Golden State 87
Memphis at L.A. Lakers (n)
Monday’s Games
Boston at Charlotte, 6 p.m.
Miami at Indiana, 6 p.m.
Orlando at Toronto, 6 p.m.
Detroit at Washington, 6 p.m.
Utah at New Jersey, 6:30 p.m.
Milwaukee at New York, 6:30 p.m.
Denver at Chicago, 7 p.m.
Sacramento at Houston, 7 p.m.
New Orleans at L.A. Clippers, 9:30
p.m.
Men
NCAA Tournament
SOUTH REGIONAL
Regional Championship
Sunday, March 25
Kentucky 82, Baylor 70
MIDWEST REGIONAL
Regional Championship
Sunday, March 25
Kansas 80, North Carolina 67
FINAL FOUR
At The Superdome
New Orleans
National Semifi nals
Saturday, March 31
Kentucky (36-2) vs. Louisville (30-9),
5:09 p.m.
Ohio State (31-7) vs. Kansas (31-6),
7:49 p.m.
National Championship
Monday, April 2
Semifi nal winners, 8 p.m.
Women
NCAA TOURNAMENT
DES MOINES REGIONAL
Regional Championship
Monday, March 26
Tennessee (27-8) vs. Baylor (37-0), 6
p.m.
FRESNO REGIONAL
Regional Championship
Monday, March 26
Duke (27-5) vs. Stanford (34-1), 8 p.m.
AUTO RACING
NASCAR
SPRINT CUP
Auto Club 400 Results
Associated Press
Sunday at Auto Club Speedway; Fontana,
Calif.; Lap length: 2 miles; (Start
position in parentheses)
1. (9) Tony Stewart, Chevrolet, 129
laps, 133.5 rating, 47 points, $323,450.
2. (2) Kyle Busch, Toyota, 129, 137.5,
44, $259,698.
3. (14) Dale Earnhardt Jr., Chevrolet,
129, 104.3, 41, $170,165.
4. (7) Kevin Harvick, Chevrolet, 129,
103.9, 40, $181,551.
5. (12) Carl Edwards, Ford, 129, 100.7,
39, $161,056.
6. (4) Greg Biffl e, Ford, 129, 104.9, 38,
$119,590.
7. (6) Ryan Newman, Chevrolet, 129,
104.5, 37, $146,448.
8. (13) Martin Truex Jr., Toyota, 129,
89.3, 36, $131,504.
9. (23) Kurt Busch, Chevrolet, 129,
79.9, 35, $138,898.
10. (10) Jimmie Johnson, Chevrolet,
129, 112.5, 35, $142,201.
11. (1) Denny Hamlin, Toyota, 129,
115.1, 34, $149,771.
12. (3) Mark Martin, Toyota, 129, 90.8,
32, $96,355.
13. (11) Clint Bowyer, Toyota, 129, 85.4,
31, $122,469.
14. (5) Kasey Kahne, Chevrolet, 129,
89.9, 30, $102,105.
15. (25) A J Allmendinger, Dodge, 129,
76.5, 29, $134,330.
16. (15) Matt Kenseth, Ford, 129, 79.2,
28, $138,866.
17. (24) Juan Pablo Montoya, Chevrolet,
128, 66.1, 27, $122,096.
18. (17) Brad Keselowski, Dodge, 128,
81.7, 26, $125,250.
19. (27) Paul Menard, Chevrolet, 128,
58.1, 25, $98,705.
20. (22) Regan Smith, Chevrolet, 128,
63.3, 24, $114,163.
21. (29) Marcos Ambrose, Ford, 128,
67.3, 23, $118,388.
22. (19) Jeff Burton, Chevrolet, 128, 72,
22, $127,180.
23. (33) Casey Mears, Ford, 128, 65,
21, $102,163.
24. (8) Joey Logano, Toyota, 128, 68.6,
20, $95,280.
25. (28) Aric Almirola, Ford, 128, 56.2,
19, $124,016.
Several women
were involved in the
tournament for the
fi rst time ever. We
hope they will return
again next year.
Something else
happened that is very
rare: Two sets of
doubles bowled the
exact same score.
Doubles teams of
Kristie Lael and
Cheryl Selvage,
along with Missy
Lindsey and Jenna
Lindsey, each ended
with a 1,328 total in
LAEL SELVAGE
the doubles event.
The women were
M. LINDSEY J. LINDSEY
given the choice of having a roll-off, or remaining co-
SCOREBOARD
26. (21) Jeff Gordon, Chevrolet, 128,
94.7, 19, $130,566.
27. (18) David Reutimann, Chevrolet,
127, 59, 17, $85,230.
28. (26) Bobby Labonte, Toyota, 127,
54.9, 16, $104,188.
29. (40) Travis Kvapil, Toyota, 127, 48,
15, $101,777.
30. (41) David Gilliland, Ford, 127, 41.4,
14, $85,480.
31. (38) David Ragan, Ford, 127, 48, 13,
$83,280.
32. (16) Jamie McMurray, Chevrolet,
126, 68.2, 12, $111,613.
33. (34) Dave Blaney, Chevrolet, 126,
37.7, 11, $80,355.
34. (42) Ken Schrader, Ford, 125, 32,
10, $88,155.
35. (36) J.J. Yeley, Chevrolet, 125,
35.5, 9, $79,930.
36. (31) Landon Cassill, Toyota, 124,
46.2, 8, $106,125.
37. (30) Josh Wise, Ford, vibration, 51,
32.9, 7, $79,555.
38. (32) Michael McDowell, Ford,
vibration, 40, 39.1, 6, $79,307.
39. (20) David Stremme, Toyota, rear
gear, 36, 34.1, 5, $75,855.
40. (39) Mike Bliss, Toyota, transmission,
18, 33.8, 0, $75,675.
41. (35) Scott Riggs, Chevrolet, vibration,
17, 30, 3, $75,505.
42. (43) Reed Sorenson, Chevrolet,
vibration, 6, 28.9, 0, $75,415.
43. (37) Brendan Gaughan, Chevrolet,
engine, 1, 27.8, 1, $83,769.
Race Statistics
Average Speed of Race Winner: 160.166
mph.
Time of Race: 1 hour, 36 minutes, 39
seconds.
Margin of Victory: Under Caution.
Caution Flags: 1 for 5 laps.
Lead Changes: 9 among 5 drivers.
Lap Leaders: D.Hamlin 1; Ky.Busch 2-
67; D.Hamlin 68; J.Gordon 69; J.Johnson
70; Ky.Busch 71-84; T.Stewart 85-104;
J.Johnson 105; J.Gordon 106-107; T.
Stewart 108-129.
Leaders Summary (Driver, Times Led,
Laps Led): Ky.Busch, 2 times for 80 laps;
T.Stewart, 2 times for 42 laps; J.Gordon,
2 times for 3 laps; J.Johnson, 2 times for
2 laps; D.Hamlin, 2 times for 2 laps.
Top 12 in Points: 1. G.Biffl e, 195; 2. K.
Harvick, 188; 3. D.Earnhardt Jr., 178; 4.
T.Stewart, 177; 5. M.Truex Jr., 175; 6.
M.Kenseth, 173; 7. D.Hamlin, 171; 8. C.
Bowyer, 157; 9. J.Johnson, 156; 10. R.
Newman, 155; 11. P.Menard, 148; 12. C.
Edwards, 146.
BASEBALL
College
ILLINOIS COLLEGE 3,
KNOX COLLEGE 1
Knox 000 000 010 — 1 7 0
IC 000 030 00X — 3 7 0
SPORTS
Pitching: Knox — P. Marquardt L (5.2
IP, 3 R, 3 ER, 5 H, 4 BB, 3 K), B. Leslie,
6th (1.1 IP, 0 R, 1 H, 0 BB, 0 K), G. Ayers,
8th (1 IP, 0 R, 1 H, 0 BB, 0 K) and D. Jewell;
Illinois College — N. Jones W (7 IP, 0
R, 4 H, 3 BB, 4 K, 2 HB), D. Mills, 8th (0.1
IP, 1 R, 2 H, 0 K, 0 BB), M. Pardo Sv (1.2
IP, 0 R, 1 H, 1 BB, 1 K) and M. Brasher
Hitting: Knox — Smoy 0-4 (BB), Lee
0-5, Hoffman 2-3 (HR, R, RS, BB),
Weaver 0-4, White 3-4 (2 SB), O’Connell
0-2 (BB, HBP), Schroeder 0-2 (BB, HBP,
SB), Walenga 1-3, Jewell 1-4; Illinois
College — D. Dalfonso 0-3 (R, BB),
Albers 2-3, Davis 2-4 (2B, HR, 3 RBI, R),
Visconti 1-4, Boeving 1-4, Hamerlinck 1-
4, Brasher 1-2 (BB), Bruning 0-2, Wilson
0-2 (BB, R)
LOB — Knox 10; Illinois College 6
RISP — Knox 2-7; Illinois College 2-10
KNOX COLLEGE 8,
ILLINOIS COLLEGE 3
Knox 000 401 102 — 8 10 1
IC 100 000 020 — 3 7 2
Pitching: Knox — D. Armstrong ND
(4.1 IP, 1 R, 1 ER, 4 H, 1 BB, 2 K), P. Mills,
5th, W (3.1 IP, 2 R, 0 ER, 2 H, 0 BB, 0 K),
B. Leslie, 8th (1.1 IP, 0 R, 1 H, 0 BB, 0 K)
and Jewell; Illinois College — N. Visconti
L (4 IP, 4 R, 1 ER, 4 H, 0 BB, 4 K), J.
McManus, 5th (2.1 IP, 2 R, 2 ER, 4 H, 3
BB, 2 K), M. Schneider, 7th (1.2 IP, 2 R, 1
H, 3 BB, 1 K), G. Boehne, 8th (1 IP, 0 R, 1
H, 0 BB, 1 K) and Schopp, Brasher
Hitting: Knox — Smoy 0-4 (BB, SB),
Lee 0-4 (BB, 2 SB, R), Hoffman 0-3 (2
BB, R), Weaver 3-4 (2B, 2 RBI, SB, 2 R),
White 0-2 (BB, R), O’Connell 3-5 (2B, 4
RBI, R), Schroeder 1-3 (2B), Walenga 3-4
(2B, 2 RBI), Jewell 0-4; Illinois College
— D. Dalfonso 1-4 (SB, R), Albers 0-5,
Davis 2-4 (2B, SB, RBI, R), Visconti 0-4,
Boeving 1-3 (HR, 2 RBI, R), Schopp 0-3,
Hamerlinck 1-4, Bruning 1-2, (N) Dalfonso
1-3 (BB), Brasher 0-1
LOB — Knox 9; Illinois College 8
RISP — Knox 7-17; Illinois College 1-8
Records: Illinois College 10-5 (1-1
MWC South)
TRANSACTIONS
Associated Press
BASEBALL
American League
KANSAS CITY ROYALS — Optioned
RHP Vin Mazzaro, INF Johnny Giavotella
and OF Jarrod Dyson to Omaha (PCL).
Assigned RHP Zach Miner, C Cody Clark,
INF Tony Abreu, INF Irving Falu and OF
Greg Golson to minor league camp.
Traded Golson to the Chicago White Sox
for cash considerations.
NEW YORK YANKEES — Optioned INF
Ramiro Pena to Scranton/Wilkes-Barre
(IL). Reassigned OF Colin Curtis, RHP
Manny Delcarmen, OF Cole Garner, C
Jose Gil and RHP Kevin Whelan to minor
league camp.
S P A R E N O T E S
2 doubles tie for title
Merchant (Week 27) — Don’s Place
140-84, A-Z Home Improvement 133-91,
Wild Horse Rescue 127-97, Journal-
Courier 117-107, Kim’s Carpet 110-114,
LB Sports 107-117, Huston Insurance
102-122, IAD 100-124, ASL Mates 92-
132, ABC Autoglass 92-132. HG: JoDell
Paul 201 HS: JoDell Paul 540, HTG:
Don’s Place 1,039, A-Z Home Improvement
2,981. Note: Paula Roach 206.
Coffee Club (Week 26) — Terry’s Gun
144-64, Farmers Bank 134-74, A-Z
Home Improvement 126-82, J&B Beckman
108-100, Mary Kay 101-107, Wood
Wheels 98-110, Whited Dragline 96-112,
Mo Fox Doggy Daycare 93-115, Bowl
Inn 93-115, Dunlap Barber 92-116, Cook
Electric 83-125, Foxy Ladies 80-128.
HG: Pam Farmer, Linda Wood 222, HS:
Pam Farmer 595, HTG: Cook Electric
679, HTS: Cook Electric 1,908. Note:
Chris Main 201, Kate Sorrills 163.
Bowlerette (Week 27) — Elliott’s Daycare
124-92, The Bowl Inn 118-98, Ron’s
Septic 110-106, Steve Morthole 102-
114, Cass Communication 101-115, The
Sisterhood 93-123. HG: Stacy Worrell
219, HS: Julie Settles 611, HTG: The
Sisterhood 1,182, HTS: Elliott’s Daycare
3,313. Note: Amy Darwent 215.
Monday Morning (Week 26) — Terry’s
Gun 120-88, Burrus Seed 114-94,
BY DOTTIE KONRAD
SPECIAL TO JOURNAL-COURIER
This year was a very good year for the
Jacksonville Women’s Association. We had
more entries in this year’s tournament than
we’ve had since our 50th Anniversary.
LEAGUE RESULTS
Goodey’s Girls 111-97, Wood Septic
108-100, Bowl Inn 107-101, BoS 101-
107, Stewart’s Autobody 94-114, Cook
Electric 77-131. HG: Pati Dunmire 213,
HS: Andrea McKinnon 555, HTG: Bowl
Inn 677, HTS: Terry’s Gun 1,864 Note:
Garnet Cook 200 game.
Com-Pla (Week 28) — Just Deadwood
139-85, Heads 131-93, Paula’s Team
121-103, Crazy Penguins 119-105, Split
Fires 109-115, Area 101-123, Safeco
94-130, Full Throttle 82-142. HWG: Barb
Shipp 200, HWS: Beth Barnes 542,
HMG: Matt Vaniter 279, HMS: Matt
Vaniter 692. HTS: Just Deadwood 3,186.
Civic (Week 27) — Bud Light 154-62,
Bunny Boys 141-75, Bowl Inn 120-96,
Airserve 116-100, Budweiser 114-102,
Green Chevrolet 113-103, Silent Knights
112-104, Williamson Funeral 110-106,
Crop Production 98-118, B9 Designs
94-122, Xtreme Machine 84-132. HG:
Corey Tucker 258, HS: Andy Lomelino
665, HTG: Bunny Boys 1,129, HTS: Budweiser
3,173. Note: Drew Slater 254.
Elks (Week 26) —Irish Toad 130-78,
Eoff Insurance 129-79, Moore Good
Times 128-80, Budweiser 107-101,
Don’s Place 94-114. HG: Steve Mehrhoff
255, HS: Roger Baker 685. HTG: Irish
Toad 1,166, HS: Irish Toad 3,320. Note:
Danny Ahern 248, Steve Anders 244.
champions; they all agreed to share
the title. Lori Finch and Sharon Donovan
fi nished in second place with a
1,325. Third place went to Corrine Hill
and Lori Finch, who bowled a 1,323.
Susan Bryant had a great singles
event. She bowled games of 236, 181,
236 for a 653 scratch series (749 handicap)
to claim the singles title. Lori
Finch fi nished in second place with a
708 total. Kristie Lael bowled a 698 for
third, and Sheryl Hansen fi nished fourth with a 665.
Kristie Lael and Lori Finch both had an outstanding
tournament. Lael was the Handicap All-Events Champ
with a 2,209 total. She bowled a 750 in doubles, a 698 in
singles and a 761 in team. Lori Finch fi nished in second
by rolling a 711 in doubles, a 644 in singles and a 790 in
the team event. Her handicap total was 2,145. Beth Barnes
fi nished in third with a 1,995.
Julie Short just edged Barnes for the scratch total, rolling
a 1,769. Barnes had a 1,734.
Janet Daniels fi nished in fourth in the All-Events with a
1,945. Sue McKinnon had a good tournament. She ended
with a fi fth-place fi nish in the All-Events with a 1,930.
Several ladies rolled a 200 game in the Doubles-Singles
event. Susan Bryant had the highest game with a 236.
Beth Barnes had a 224, followed by Julie Short (221),
Janet Daniels (213), Lori Finch (204), and Peggy Shelts
(201).
Next week, the Team Event results.
Senior Commercial (Week 26) — BBC
Insurance 161-47, Bogart’s 128-80,
Sablotny Paint 116-92, Steve’s Gas 106-
102, Last Boys 87-121. HG: Troy Fortune
278, HS: Troy Michaels 738, HTG: BBC
Insurance 1,165, HTS: BBC Insurance
3,243.
Tuesday Youth League (Week 17) —
Hansen Electric 89-47, The Mermaid
88-48, The Wild Cats 55-81, Strykerz
40-96. HBG: Tyler Green 199, HBS: Tyler
Green 548, HGG: Carmen Marquard 110,
HGS: Carmen Marquard 310. HTS: The
Mermaid 1,877.
Winchester Bowl
Wednesday Nite League (Week 30) —
Winchester Bowl 59-29, Davidson’s
MFG. 58-30, Fearneyhough Trucking
54-34, Buck & Jo’s 48-40, Stewart’s
Autobody 44-44, Ray’s TV 43-45, Shirts
4 U 24-64. HMG: Terry Cockerill 268,
HMS: Terry Cockerill 694, HWG: Allison
Cockerill 162, HWS: Allison Cockerill
452. HTS: Winchester Bowl 2,614.
Tuesday Trio (Week 28) — Ed &
Woodies 54-42, Tinbangers 51-45, IREC
49-47, Winchester Bowl 45-51, Amy’s
Daycare 43-54, Shirts 4 U 41-55. HMG:
Jimmy Dale 238, HMS: Jimmy Dale 597,
HWG: Tracy Little 200, HWS: Susan
Gregory 530.
DOTTIE KONRAD
AlleyKatz (Week 27) — Big Dick’s
Gym 41-31, Waid’s Used Cars 37-27, My
Bar 34-38, Ed & Woodies 24-40. HG:
Leanne Motley, Peggy Clemons 189, HS:
Peggy Clemons 523, HTG: Ed & Woodies
825, HTS: Ed & Woodies 2,373.
Friday Nite Doubles (Week 29) — Winchester
Bowl (1) 68-20, Amy’s Daycare
54-34, In The Hoop (1) 47-41, Winchester
Bowl (2) 47-41, Pit Stop 45-43,
In The Hoop (2) 43-45, Newcomers 40-
48. HMG: Jim Weder 255, HMS: Jim
Weder 743, HWG: Jennifer Hart 191,
HWS: Jennifer Hart 515. HTS: Winchester
Bowl (1) 1,397.
American (Week 30) — Acme Storage
53-35, J&K Furniture 48-40, Sellar’s
Feeds 48-40, Winchester Bowl 48-32,
1st National Bank 42-46, National Bank
40-48, Whitehall Nursing 33-47, Party
of Five 32-56. HMG: Richard Hancock
262, HWS: Jim Weder 705, HWG: Nicole
Scott 200, HWS: Nicole Scott 540. HTS:
Whitehall Nursing 3,218.
Youth League (Week 16) — Average
Joes 85-19, Golden 64-48, The Ninjas
49-55. HBG: Brandon Johnson 163,
HBS: Brandon Johnson 465, HGG:
Octavia Galica 146, HGS: Octavia Galica
390.
Note: Mathew Morris 154 game, Dalton
Slater 138.
SPORTS MENU
Monday, March 26
HIGH SCHOOL
Baseball
Routt at New Berlin-Waverly-Franklin,
4:15 p.m.; PORTA at Jacksonville, 4:30
p.m.; Quincy Notre Dame at Griggsville-
Perry, 4:30 p.m.; Pawnee at West Central,
4:30 p.m.; Carrollton at Civic
Memorial, 4:30 p.m.
Softball
Jacksonville at Macomb, 4:30 p.m.;
Rushville-Industry at West Prairie, 4:30
p.m.; Pittsfi eld at Carrollton, 4:30 p.m.;
PORTA at Sacred Heart-Griffi n, 4:30 p.
m.; Quincy Notre Dame at Griggsville-
Perry, 4:30 p.m.
Track and Field
ISD at Piasa Southwestern, 4 p.m.
Girls’ Soccer
Jacksonville at Pleasant Plains, 4:30
p.m.
TELEVISION
Noon (ESPN) MLB Preseason Baseball
Boston Red Sox at Philadelphia
Phillies. (CC)
1:55 p.m. (ESPN2) English Premier
League Soccer Manchester United vs.
Fulham.
6 p.m. (ESPN) Women’s College Basketball
NCAA Tournament, Regional
Final: Tennessee vs. Baylor. (CC)
6:30 p.m. (ESPN2) High School Basketball
Powerade Jam Fest.
8 p.m. (ESPN) Women’s College Basketball
NCAA Tournament, Regional
Final: Duke vs. Stanford. (CC)
RADIO
4:15 p.m. (WVIL 101.3 FM) High
School Baseball, Routt at New Berlin
4:30 p.m. (WKXQ 92.5 FM) High
School Baseball, North Greene at Triopia
4:30 p.m. (WRMS 94.3 FM) High
School Softball, North Greene at Triopia
SPORTS BRIEFS
E-mail your briefs to: sports@myjournalcourier.com.
IC softball swept by Cornell College
The Illinois College softball team was swept by Cornell
College in a doubleheader on Sunday. IC lost by
scores of 8-2 and 12-1.
The Lady Blues never recovered from a fi ve-run second
inning in the fi rst game. Megan Kuchar took the
pitching loss for IC after allowing seven runs (four
earned) over four and one-third innings. Jordan Cummins
and Briana Iosco scored IC’s only runs; Samantha
Hereley had the team’s lone RBI.
In the second game, Illinois College gave up fi ve-run
innings in the fi rst and third innings. Iosco took the loss
as she allowed 10 runs (fi ve earned) over two and twothirds
innings. Mollie Hoerr drove in IC’s only run in the
second game, scoring Courtney Kwasnitza on a double
in the fourth inning.
IC fell to 2-10 with the loss.
G O L F R O U N D U P
Tiger Woods
fi nally wins
ASSOCIATED PRESS
ORLANDO, Fla. — Tiger Woods fi nally brought the
buzz back to the very thing that made him famous — winning.
Two weeks after another injury scare, Woods looked
dominant as ever in that red shirt on Sunday to win the
Arnold Palmer Invitational for the record seventh time.
It was his fi rst PGA Tour victory since a sex scandal at
the end of 2009 led to one of the greatest downfalls in
sports. And with the Masters only two weeks away, Woods
looks more capable than ever of resuming his pursuit of
Jack Nicklaus in the majors.
Woods closed with a 2-under 70 for a fi ve-shot win over
Graeme McDowell. Woods refused to acknowledge this as
his fi rst PGA Tour win in 923 days, dating to Sept. 13, 2009,
at the BMW Championship. He counts the unoffi cial Chevron
World Challenge last December. Even so, this was signifi
cant — a full tour event against a strong fi eld, and a
performance so clean that he was never seriously challenged
on the back nine.
KIA CLASSIC
CARLSBAD, Calif. — Top-ranked Yani Tseng won the
Kia Classic for her second straight LPGA Tour title and
third in fi ve events this year, closing with a 2-under 70 for a
six-stroke victory. The 23-year-old Taiwanese star led wireto-wire
and fi nished at 14-under 274 on La Costa’s Legends
Course. She became the second-youngest player to reach
15 LPGA Tour win. Nancy Lopez was 22 when she reached
the mark.
Tseng won the LPGA Founders Cup last week in Phoenix
and also won the LPGA Thailand in February. She led
the tour last season with seven victories — including major
victories in the LPGA Championship and Women’s British
Open — and fi nished the year with 12 worldwide titles.
MISSISSIPPI GULF RESORT CLASSIC
SAUCIER, Miss. — Fred Couples made an 8-foot birdie
putt on the fi nal hole for a 3-under 69 and a one-stroke victory
over Michael Allen in the Mississippi Gulf Resort
Classic. Couples fi nished at 14-under 202, opening with a
course-record 63, at Fallen Oak for his seventh Champions
Tour title and fi rst of the year. He will play the PGA Tour’s
Houston Open and the Masters the next two weeks.
HASSAN II TROPHY
AGADIR, Morocco — Northern Ireland’s Michael
Hoey won the Hassan II Trophy by three strokes, ending
Italian teenager Matteo Manassero’s bid to qualify for the
Masters. Hoey shot a 7-under 65 to fi nish at 17-under 271
at Golf du Palais Royal. Ireland’s Damien McGrane had a
70 to fi nish second. Wales’ Jamie Donaldson shot a courserecord
61, holing his approach shot on 18 for eagle, to tie
for third with England’s Robert Coles (67) and Wales’ Phillip
Price (69) at 13 under.
LOUISIANA OPEN
BROUSSARD, La. — Casey Wittenberg won the Louisiana
Open for his fi rst Nationwide Tour title, closing with a
6-under 65 for an eight-stroke victory. The 27-year-old former
Oklahoma State player opened with round of 66, 66
and 63 and fi nished at 24-under 260 at Le Triomphe Country
Club. Fabian Gomez, Chris Riley and Paul Claxton tied
for second. Gomez shot 65, Riley 67, and Claxton 68.

PLAYER OF THE WEEK
Kyle Mathews
WEST CENTRAL
What he did: Mathews
had success both on the
mound and at the plate. After
going 2-for-4 with 2 RBIs and
a home run in a win against
Liberty on Monday, Mathews
took the mound and pitched
five shutout innings and
MATHEWS
struck out nine as the Cougars
beat Carrollton 2-1 on Tuesday.
On matching up with Carrollton ace Joey
Coonrod: “It is a confidence booster to know
that you can compete with the top pitchers in the
area.”
On beating Carrollton: “It wasn’t my best
game, but it was a solid team performance. We
got a couple of runs and I held them down and
we got the victory.”
On his performance against Liberty: “I
think that was my first home run in high school.
I can’t remember if I had one last year or not. I
made solid contact and it was one of those hits
that you didn’t even feel the ball hit the bat because
you hit it square. Then I watched it go
out.”
On the Cougars’ early season success:
“We have gotten a good start this season. I think
we are 5-1, which is pretty good since last year
was our first winning year in varsity season, and
we are looking to build on that and keep going as
we do.”
Coach Mark Dyer on Mathews performance:
“I am seeing more and more out of Kyle.
He is not just a pitcher, he is an all-round player.”
PLAYER OF THE WEEK
Maddie Baalman
CALHOUN
What she did: Baalman
tossed a no-hitter against Triopia-Meredosia
on Tuesday
and followed that up with a
one-hitter against Roxana on
Wednesday.
On throwing a no-hit- BAALMAN
ter against Triopia: “We all
thought Triopia was going to
be big hitters after they played Carrollton, so we
just went out there and brought our ‘A’ game.”
On the one-hitter against Roxana: “It was
a little different environment. They aren’t people
we usually play, so there was less pressure than
against Triopia.”
On working to improve her hitting: “So far
it is going a little better than last year. Last year
I didn’t have a great average. It is not where I
want it, but it is a little better.”
On trying to avoid the sophomore slump:
“There is always the possibility, but let’s hope
not. We are looking pretty good and I think our
defense might be a little stronger this year, and
that will take a lot of pressure off.”
On staying ahead in the count: “I think
a lot of teams try to jump on the first pitch and
lately we have been trying to work on spin pitches
to try and catch them off-balance.”
Coach Cindy Klocke on Baalman’s performance:
“Tuesday she pitched a heck of a
game against Triopia. She was really solid. Then
Wednesday when we played against Roxana —
who is a pretty good team — she did really well
with them also. The one hit they got was on an 0-
2 pitch that (Baalman) kind of missed. She was
trying to do something else and it didn’t work.”
Gomez, Indians
fall to Cubs, 6-2
ASSOCIATED PRESS
GOODYEAR, Ariz. — Manager Manny Acta hasn’t
named Jeanmar Gomez as Cleveland’s fi fth starter. Yet.
Gomez gave up his fi rst runs of the spring as the Chicago
Cubs beat the Indians 6-2 Sunday.
Alfonso Soriano hit his sixth homer, a two-run shot, and
had three RBIs for Chicago.
Gomez allowed three runs over fi ve innings. The righthander
is competing with Kevin Slowey and David Huff for
the fi nal rotation spot. He walked three, struck out three
and has a 1.69 ERA in fi ve outings.
“I was really impressed the way Gomez battled without
his fastball command,” Acta said. “He had to fi ght through
it and it turned into another good outing.”
At the same time, Slowey worked six innings against
the Cincinnati Reds’ minor-league team, allowing three
runs and fi ve hits without a walk.
“When you don’t throw 97, 98 (mph), you better not
walk guys,” Acta said.
Gomez walked three and said he tried to be a little too
fi ne at times. The fi rst two Cubs batters reached, but he
got Starlin Castro to hit into a double play. In the third, Chicago
loaded the bases with none out and all three scored
— on a groundout by Castro, Soriano’s sacrifi ce fl y and
single by Bryan LaHair.
“I still gave fi ve innings to my team and feel good,” Gomez
said. “I feel ready.”
Acta attributes Gomez’s success to an improved slider
to go with a fastball and sinker. Gomez said veteran Ubaldo
Jimenez has helped, too.
“I speak with him and watch video of when he was an
All-Star in 2010,” Gomez said. “He helps me with how to attack
hitters, how to pitch with men on base.”
The Cubs got 13 hits and were helped by four Cleveland
errors — three within a span of two batters in a threerun
seventh against reliever Rafael Perez, who yielded Soriano’s
homer.
AP/JOHN BAZEMORE
SPORTS
B A S E B A L L L E A D E R S
HITTING
Name School AB R H RBI 2B 3B HR SB BB Avg
Brant Young Routt 19 6 11 5 2 0 0 6 0 0.579
Alex Sheppard Brown County 14 6 10 4 3 0 1 1 0 0.714
Ben Whalen Routt 18 7 8 4 1 0 0 5 1 0.444
Collin Sheehan Routt 17 6 8 12 2 0 2 0 2 0.471
Nick Lonergan Routt 21 10 8 4 1 0 1 5 1 0.381
Alex Johnson Routt 18 5 8 3 1 0 0 4 1 0.444
Ison Smith Griggsville-Perry 22 6 7 2 0 0 0 0 3 0.318
Brett Elliott Routt 19 5 7 3 1 1 0 9 1 0.368
Matthew Kennedy Griggsville-Perry 19 3 7 6 0 1 0 0 0 0.368
Matthew Martin Routt 16 3 6 3 0 0 0 1 2 0.375
Tyler Baalman Calhoun 19 3 6 6 1 0 1 0 1 0.316
Dillon Ingles Rushville-Industry 10 1 6 7 1 0 0 0 0 0.600
Corey Barnett West Central 16 3 6 4 3 0 1 0 0 0.375
PITCHING
Name School W L IP R ER H BB K ERA
Kyle Mathews West Central 2 0 12.00 2 1 4 8 23 0.58
Ethan Eberlin Calhoun 0 2 12.67 13 9 18 6 18 4.97
Alex Sheppard Brown County 1 1 11.00 9 5 8 8 18 3.18
Brent Long Routt 3 0 12.67 7 5 10 4 18 2.76
Nick Lonergan Routt 2 0 14.00 6 6 13 6 16 3.00
Dryden Craven Griggsville-Perry 1 1 14.00 8 6 10 7 13 3.00
Luke Nash West Central 2 0 12.00 4 4 6 3 13 2.33
Tyler Baalman Calhoun 2 0 8.33 5 5 11 4 12 4.20
Mitchell Main Griggsville-Perry 1 1 10.00 11 8 12 5 8 5.60
Brett Cox Pleasant Hill 0 2 10.00 10 5 14 5 8 3.50
Matt Gunterman Pleasant Hill 0 1 7.00 11 9 9 5 8 9.00
Justin Ketcham Routt 0 0 5.33 3 1 5 2 8 1.31
Austin Malley Calhoun 0 1 9.33 10 7 8 6 7 5.25
Brady Long Brown County 1 0 5.00 0 0 2 0 7 0.00
Dillon Ingles Rushville-Industry 0 1 6.00 8 4 8 5 7 4.67
Jonah Wayland Triopia 1 0 5.00 0 0 4 1 7 0.00
S O F T B A L L L E A D E R S
HITTING
Name School AB R H RBI 2B 3B HR SB BB Avg
Madison Mountain Carrollton 20 10 10 7 0 1 0 4 2 0.500
Adele Cook Carrollton 17 4 9 8 4 0 0 1 4 0.529
Brisco Esquivel Jacksonville 17 5 8 3 1 0 0 1 0 0.471
Aimee Kerley Brown County 13 5 7 1 0 1 0 3 0 0.538
Hannah Lesemann Carrollton 18 2 7 5 2 1 0 0 1 0.389
Rachel Smith Griggsville-Perry 18 4 7 1 1 0 0 2 0 0.389
Ashlyn Myers Jacksonville 17 8 7 4 0 0 0 0 0 0.412
Claire Simonds Jacksonville 17 6 7 3 1 1 0 3 0 0.412
Arika Hull North Greene 17 6 7 0 1 0 0 2 2 0.412
Catherine McQuillan North Greene 15 4 7 4 1 0 0 3 1 0.467
PITCHING
Name School W L IP R ER H BB K ERA
Jenny Ward North Greene 1 4 33.00 28 7 24 6 49 1.48
Ashlyn Myers Jacksonville 3 1 21.00 21 14 24 11 28 4.67
Morgan Smith Triopia 1 3 25.33 34 16 41 8 27 4.42
Gena Nash West Central 3 1 25.00 27 12 20 24 26 3.36
Maddie Baalman Calhoun 3 0 19.00 3 3 8 6 24 1.11
Jesse Duggins Pleasant Hill 0 2 13.00 16 12 20 6 15 6.46
Megan Icenogle Beardstown 3 0 14.00 5 4 11 7 12 2.00
Hannah Dewitt Griggsville-Perry 0 2 15.00 12 7 17 8 12 3.27
McKenzie Vose Griggsville-Perry 1 2 16.00 18 8 21 4 10 3.50
Adele Cook Carrollton 3 0 19.00 17 14 28 3 9 5.16
Becca Wegs Brown County 2 1 16.33 10 8 10 5 9 3.43
Michala Swanger Rushville-Industry 1 0 6.00 1 1 3 1 9 1.17
Note: Complete statistics online at myjournalcouriervarsity.com.
Journal-Courier, Jacksonville, Ill., Monday, March 26, 2012 11
BLUEBOYS: Split
Continued from Page 9
three in game one.
“He (Jones) really did a nice job,” said Eckhouse.
“He kept the ball down and had very little
trouble. Luckily, Terry hit a 3-run homer and
it stood up.”
Jones retired eight straight Prairie Fire hitters
at one point, but had to work his way out of jams
in the second and sixth innings. In the second,
Knox had runners on second and third (after a
double steal) with one out. But Jones bore down,
striking out Walenga and enticing David Jewell to
groundout to shortstop.
In the sixth, the Prairie Fire loaded the bases
with two outs, but then Jones got Mike Schroeder
to tap a ground ball straight to third baseman
Tyler Bruning, who tapped his foot on the bag to
record the inning-ending force out.
“I just kept the ball low, did what I could, and
tried to keep them off-balance,” said Jones.
In the top of the fifth, Schroeder tried to
score from second on a base hit by Jewell, but
was gunned out on a powerful throw from center
fi elder Davis to senior catcher Mitch Brasher,
who caught the ball away from the plate but
leaned in just in time to apply the tag, keeping
the game 0-0 until Davis’ homer in the bottom of
the inning.
It looked at that point like one of the two starting
pitchers was in for a tough loss on a day that
he pitched well. Jones was confi dent it wouldn’t
be him.
“I knew we’d score some runs,” Jones said. “It
was just a matter of time before it happened. I’ve
got confi dence in everybody.”
But three runs wasn’t enough in the second
game, so the Blueboys left their dugout at the end
of a fi ve-hour, 18-inning afternoon stewing over
their missed opportunity at a sweep. Nobody was
more frustrated than the skipper himself.
“I hope, fi ve weeks from now, we’re not looking
back at this doubleheader if we’re sitting one
game out of the tournament or one game out of
winning the conference,” said Eckhouse.
“I knew we’d score some
runs. It was just a matter of
time before it happened.”
— Nate Jones
Kentucky’s Eloy Vargas (left) and Michael Kidd-Gilchrist react in the closing seconds of the NCAA
tournament South Regional final college basketball game against Baylor on Sunday in Atlanta. Kentucky
won 82-70.
Wildcats boot Baylor
BY PAUL NEWBERRY
better.”
ASSOCIATED PRESS
The Wildcats beat Louisville 69-62 on New Year’s Eve,
ATLANTA — Kentucky could’ve cut the nets down at but now they’ll meet with the highest stakes ever. Kidd-Gil-
halftime.
christ shrugged when someone asked about playing the
Actually, the Wildcats probably would’ve been good Cardinals.
skipping the ceremony altogether.
“I’m just worried about us,” he said. “That’s it. I don’t
A South Regional title is fi ne, but what matters to this worry about anybody else.”
bunch of future NBA stars is breaking out the scissors in Calipari, in his third season at Kentucky, just keeps re-
the Big Easy.
cruiting the best high school players in the land, molds
Top-seeded Kentucky advanced to the Final Four for them into a top team, then sends most of ‘em on to the
the second year in a row with a 82-70 blitzing of Baylor, set- NBA.
ting up a Bluegrass showdown with rival Louisville in the Then he starts the whole process over again.
national semifi nals Saturday at New Orleans.
“There are some opinions that will never change,” Cali-
Michael Kidd-Gilchrist scored 19 points, Anthony Davis pari said. “All I’m trying to do is coach these young people.
added 18 points and 11 rebounds, and Terrence Jones daz- I’m trying to do the best job for these kids and their famzled
in all the overlooked areas to lead the Wildcats (36- ilies.”
2) on Sunday. For all the hoopla sure to surround the next Two years ago, John Wall led Kentucky to the regional
game in its basketball-crazed state, Kentucky won’t consid- fi nal. Last season, Brandon Knight helped guide the Wilder
the season a success unless it wins two more games — cats to the Final Four. Now, with those guys in the NBA
culminating in a national title.
and Kidd-Gilchrist and Davis stopping off for what could
“I’m not satisfi ed yet,” Kidd-Gilchrist said.
be their only season in Lexington, Big Blue has a shot at
This group sure has the look of a champion, shaking what those last two teams failed to do — bringing Ken-
off an early blow by the Bears (30-8) — a very good team tucky its fi rst national title since 1998.
with a daring fashion sense that was simply no match for But for all the talk about Calipari’s one-and-done tactics,
coach John Calipari’s latest group of Fab Freshmen. Ken- he’s getting plenty of contributions from those who hung
tucky took control with an early 16-0 run and led by 20 at around beyond their freshmen year. Take Jones, a soph-
halftime.
omore forward who passed up the draft. He scored just
“This team is better than I thought,” Baylor coach Scott one point in the opening half, but his fi ngerprints were all
Drew said. “This is the best team we faced all year ... prob- over Kentucky’s dominating performance: nine rebounds,
ably in a couple of years.”
six assists, three blocks and two steals and — most in the
Two years ago, Baylor lost to eventual national champi- fi rst 10 minutes. “I was just trying to be aggressive early,”
on Duke in another regional fi nal.
Jones said. “That allowed me to get in great position for re-
“Duke was a good team,” Drew said, “but Kentucky is bounds and to lead the fast break.”

12 Journal-Courier, Jacksonville, Ill., Monday, March 26, 2012
SMALL TALK:
Some indicators that small
business climate on the upswing
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cently that’s crept up to as
much as $13 per person. The
most popular dish these days is
champagne chicken. In the leaner
times, brisket of beef was a
hot item. It’s cheaper because it
takes less labor to prepare.
“We had the busiest November
we’ve ever had,” Walter says.
“March looks like it’s going to be
the busiest ever.”
The increased spending isn’t
just fueled by an improvement
in his client’s businesses, Walter
says. Companies are worried
about losing their best staffers,
“so they’re giving their employees
more rewards.”
SPRUCING UP
When the fi nancial crisis hit in
September 2008, many companies
stopped worrying about decor.
Sluggish sales and the threat of
layoffs pushed lush lobby plants
and holiday displays off the priority
list. Sales fell 30 percent at
Parker Cos., a Scotch Plains, N.J.,
company that does interior landscaping
and displays in the Northeast.
Parker’s sales remained down
through 2011. Hotels and offi ce
buildings that never used to twice
about spending $30,000 for a holiday
display were now spending
$8,000 says William Note, Parker’s
creative director. On top of
that, law fi rms and other clients
stopped paying to have indoor foliage
maintained and replaced,
even in high-profi le places like reception
areas. Planters were empty
or had leafl ess stalks. Or, the
plants were barely alive “with
dead leaves hanging down from
them,” Note says.
In the last quarter of 2011,
Note noticed that many companies
decided to start sprucing
up. The number of proposals that
Parker has written for customers
this year is up 60 percent from a
year ago.
But companies aren’t spending
freely. Note says some clients
want to replace their plants,
but they’re no longer buying fl owers
for reception desks and other
public areas. They’re choosier,
asking companies like Parker to
bid on projects — something that
wasn’t the practice fi ve years ago.
Note is trying to make impressive
displays for less money. “I’m
trying to be as creative with nothing
as I possibly can,” he says.
FIFTEEN WINGS AND A COKE
Customers at Hurricane Grill
& Wings are eating and spending
more. People who limited themselves
to orders of fi ve chicken
wings during the recession and
its aftermath are now chowing
down on 10 or 15. They’re also
BUSINESS CARDS:
Fading away in traditional form
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Motion, which sells a mobile app
for fi nding open parking spaces,
said his Santa Monica fi rm’s digital
presence is its most effective
communication tool. “The business
card is your website,” he
said.
Still, old habits die hard.
Friedman said he makes sure his
employees are issued business
cards, which sometimes come in
handy at conferences.
Other fi rms that do business
abroad, particularly in Asia, have
found printed business cards to
be crucial to corporate culture
and ritual there.
And although the number
of U.S. print shops is declining,
some are thriving with the
help of e-commerce and innovative
new designs. Online printer
MOO Inc. specializes in “minicards”
that are half the standard
size to appeal to eco-conscious
entrepreneurs. Others are
peddling plastic business cards
equipped with fl ash drives that
companies can hand out as promotional
freebies.
But one of the most successful
fi rms, Vistaprint, keeps it relatively
simple. The Netherlands
company allows customers to
create personalized business
cards using online templates or
their own digital designs. Businesses
on a budget can get as
many as 250 cards free of charge.
The company posted sales of
$452.8 million in North America
last year, up 17.9 percent from
2010. Spokeswoman Wendy Cebula
said that business cards account
for about 30 percent of Vi-
In the last quarter of
2011, Note noticed that
many companies decided
to start sprucing up.
ordering more appetizers and entrees.
Another big change: People
who had asked for a glass of
water are now ordering sodas.
That’s $2.50 on the check instead
of nothing.
President Martin O’Dowd
says the average check per person
at his company’s 45 restaurants
in six states has risen 7 percent
from a year ago. That means
that someone who spent $10 is
now spending about $10.70.
O’Dowd says business started
dropping off in 2008 and began
to pick up in the fourth quarter
of last year. The improvement
has enabled Hurricane Grill &
Wings to hire more workers and
increase the hours of current
staffers. He’s optimistic that customers
will keep spending more.
As they do, he expects them to
splurging calorie-wise as well —
he anticipates more orders of
cheesecake and key lime pie.
THREADING AGAIN
For many women — and some
men — keeping their eyebrows in
perfectly arched shape is a weekly
affair.
At least that was the way it was
until 2008’s fi nancial crash.
Around that time, Reema
Khan, who started her Cerritos,
Calif.-based s.h.a.p.e.s Brow Bar
salons in 2003, noticed that woman
who had come in weekly started
visiting less often. Some of her
female customers said they would
take their grooming into their
own hands. She estimates about
30 percent of her male customers
continued to come in. Lower traffi
c made it harder to sell additional
services, like facials and henna
tattoos. Before the recession, the
average bill at s.h.a.p.e.s was $15
to $20. It dropped to $10.
Khan says some customers
didn’t want to pay tips, which
made for unhappy employees.
Business has picked up this
year at the company, which has
more than 65 locations in six
states. Customers are coming in
more often. They’re making appointments
for facials and bikini
waxes.
Valentine’s Day was a particularly
good day.
“We didn’t expect it, but we
were crazily busy,” Kahn says.
staprint’s product revenue and
that most of its customers are
small businesses.
“We’re just not seeing that
electronic medium replace” printed
business cards, she said. “We
see them as complements as opposed
to substitutes.”
JEAN TWENGE, AUTHOR of
the book “Generation Me,” said
that business cards won’t disappear
completely until a near-perfect
replacement is developed.
But the San Diego State University
psychology professor also said
she understands why young people
in particular are rejecting the
printed product.
Young adults, she said, tend
not to see work as central to their
identity, and they’re less interested
in tradition and ritual.
“We’re less formal now,”
Twenge said. “People used to call
their boss ‘Mr. Smith.’ Now they
call their boss ‘John.’
“The generational shift makes
sense. This is how cultural
change happens.”
At 36, Ralph Barbagallo is
near the cutoff for Generation Y
but despises business cards all
the same. A mobile game developer
from Valencia, Calif., Barbagallo
said he goes to three major
conferences a year and has to
distribute paper cards. But lugging
and exchanging fi stfuls of
them is a pain, he said, and it’s
hard to remember who is who.
“When they run out this time,
I’m not printing anymore,” he
said. “I’m going to force the issue
and come up with a solution.
“They need to die somehow.”
MCT
Former Domino’s Pizza driver Justin D’Heilly, of St. Paul, Minnesota, was terminated from
his job after Domino’s ran a background check on him. D’Heilly was never given a reason
why he was let go, and never received a copy of the background check.
BACKGROUND: Checks raise questions
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Millions who lost jobs through
no fault of their own in the Great
Recession were left unable to pay
their bills, which has hurt their
credit standing and made it even
harder for them to fi nd work.
And adults with minor or even
“stale” criminal convictions that
date back 20 or more years can still
have trouble fi nding work even if
they’ve kept their records clean
since their conviction. Researchers
in 2009 found that a criminal record
cut chances for a job callback
or job offer by nearly 50 percent.
Sharon Dietrich, a legal aid attorney
in Philadelphia who represents
mainly poor blacks in employment
discrimination cases,
said, “It’s the single biggest reason”
her clients can’t get jobs.
These kinds of issues have
prompted more states to restrict
employer use of credit background
checks, while a national “ban the
box” movement has led growing
numbers of states, cities and counties
to eliminate the question about
a person’s criminal history from
initial applications for government
jobs.
THE U.S. EQUAL Employment
Opportunity Commission, which
enforces federal civil rights law in
the area of fair employment practices,
is also addressing the issue.
For the fi rst time in 25 years, the
commission is revising its guidance
to employers on how to properly
evaluate criminal records in
pre-employment screening.
That prospect, and the commission’s
stepped-up investigation
of job-screening policies that disproportionately
hurt minorities,
has employers wondering whether
new EEOC guidelines will make
criminal background checks even
more complicated to use and harder
to defend in court.
Employers have a tough
enough time trying to protect company
interests and give former offenders
a second chance without
new commission guidelines making
it even tougher, said Richard
Mellor, vice president for loss prevention
at the National Retail Federation.
“We do want to give second
chances,” Mellor said. “We’ve all
made mistakes in our lives, and
people deserve an opportunity
to improve and to become employed.”
New EEOC guidelines
“could be a real good thing,” he
BY PALLAVI GOGOI
AP BUSINESS WRITER
NEW YORK — Economists
say a combination of higher taxes
and lower spending is the best
way to reduce the federal budget
deficit.
A survey on economic policies
conducted by the National Association
for Business Economists
being released today also forecast
that short-term interest rates
would remain at current levels for
at least another year.
The economists say the Federal
Reserve should not buy more
bonds to support and stimulate
the economy, as it has in the last
few years, even though the policy
has been effective. With the
economic recovery strengthening,
the economists say the Fed
doesn’t need to buy more bonds
this year. The Fed began buying
Treasury bonds during the recession
after the 2008 financial crisis
to try to lower long-term interest
rates and help jump-start the
economy.
In an election year, the growing
U.S. federal deficit has drawn
heightened partisan debate in
Congress over spending and
At a time when jobs are
scarce and 5.4 million have
been unemployed for more
than six months, a robust
discussion is brewing
among lawmakers, employers
and regulators who are
re-examining the way that
negative background
information is used.
added, but new federal “restrictions
that prohibit or impede us
from (doing) the responsible thing
are not.”
The new EEOC guidelines will
not affect the use of credit checks.
But last year researchers at three
universities found no connection
between a person’s poor credit history
and their likelihood of behaving
badly in the workplace. That
gave credence to what many consumer
advocates had long believed
— that individual credit ratings
have little, if any, predictive value
about future job performance.
That belief has prompted seven
states to limit credit background
checks only to positions for which
the information is pertinent. In January,
California became the latest
state to do so, joining Connecticut,
Hawaii, Illinois, Maryland, Oregon
and Washington. Similar legislation
passed the Colorado state senate
last month.
At least 31 cities and counties
and a handful of states — including
California, Connecticut, New Mexico,
Massachusetts and Minnesota
— have deferred criminal-background
checks until later stages of
the interview process for most government
jobs. Doing so removes
the “box” on employment applications
that ask about a candidate’s
criminal past and allows employers
to evaluate the candidate’s skills
and experience fi rst.
Dietrich said hese developments
are heartening.
taxes with not much resolution
in sight. The deficit is on pace to
exceed $1 trillion for the fourth
straight year. The gap worsened
during the Great Recession when
tax revenues plummeted after
millions of people lost their jobs
and corporate profits fell.
An overwhelming majority in
the NABE poll — 87 percent —
said higher taxes should be considered
along with less spending
to reduce the federal budget deficit.
Over 70 percent want tax reform.
The economists were evenly
split between those who oppose
or support the so-called “Buffett
rule,” named for billionaire Warren
Buffett, under which the average
tax rate for families earning
over $1 million would be set
at a minimum of 30 percent. More
than two-thirds favored the extension
of payroll tax cuts through
2012.
The economists were also
polled on other hot-button topics,
including the Keystone oil pipeline
and new regulations like the
Volcker rule that affects banks.
An overwhelming majority
of economists, or 83 percent,
“More and more people are
coming to understand that large
segments of our population are being
rendered unemployable unnecessarily
because of employers that
simply say, ‘You have something
on your record. I don’t want you
working for me,’ “ Dietrich said.
But attorney Don Livingston,
who represents companies in civil
rights and employment discrimination
cases, said it’s very diffi cult
for employers “to make a judgment
about whether someone is a former
offender or is in the middle of
their criminal career.”
THE STAKES FOR getting it
right are high. Employers are vulnerable
to lawsuits for negligent
hiring when workers with criminal
histories commit acts of violence
on the job. By one estimate, companies
lose 72 percent of lawsuits
alleging negligence or a lack of due
diligence in hiring decisions.
And if an employee with a troubled
fi nancial history ends up stealing
from the company, committing
fraud or some other fi nancial misdeed,
the company’s reputation
could suffer as well.
In New York City, a 67-year-old
bookkeeper for the Roman Catholic
Archdiocese of New York
was recently charged with stealing
more than $1 million in seven
years. She was hired in 2003 without
a background check that would
have shown a prior conviction for
grand larceny.
In Charlotte, N.C., convicted
felon Mark Anthony Cox was recently
charged with robbery and
two counts of murder for killing
the pregnant manager of the restaurant
where he worked and the
woman’s unborn child. Cox had recently
been released from prison
for robbing the last restaurant he
worked at, but his new employer
did no criminal background check
before Cox was hired.
Consumer law attorney Len
Bennett of Newport News, Va.,
said criminal background checks
are no panacea.
“I would suggest that at least
one-third of criminal background
checks will have materially inaccurate
information in them, and I’ve
reviewed thousands,” Bennett said.
Common mistakes include multiple
reports of a single offense, the
inclusion of convictions and arrests
that were legally expunged, and
even the inclusion of another person’s
criminal offenses.
Economists see higher taxes as way to cut defi cit
believe the Keystone pipeline
should be built. The State Department,
backed by President
Barack Obama, rejected one proposal
to build the pipeline that
would carry tar sands oil from
Canada to refineries in Texas.
The project drew opposition
from environmentalists, while
supporters say it will create over
1,000 jobs.
About two-thirds of the economists
in the NABE survey think
that banks should not be allowed
to trade with their own money to
bet on financial markets. The new
rule, named after former Federal
Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker,
was included in the 2010 Dodd-
Frank Act in an effort to restrict
risky trading by banks. Such trading
was a source of large profits
for the banks prior to the financial
crisis. Critics like Volcker have
said that kind of trading could
lead to spectacular losses that
jeopardize the nation’s financial
system.
The NABE survey was conducted
between Feb. 15 and Mar.
6. A panel of 259 members of the
National Association for Business
Economics participated.

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black Bulldog mix,
friendly and shy with
strangers.
(217)473-3595,
(217)491-7472.
MORGAN COUNTY
FOUND: Urgent
Rescue Needed!
The following pets
will be euthanized
March 27 unless
they are claimed or
uthenized, Great
Pyrnese, Plot
Hound, blonde and
white Staffordshire
Terrier, smaller German
Shepherd mix,
white kitten with blue
eyes, tiger point
Simese and tortoise
shell cat. To claim or
adopt,
(217)589-4269.
Wanted
IN HOME health
care, 17 years experience,
hard working,
great references.
(217)204-3885.
WANTED WHEEL
chair accessible
van. 217-245-4676
after 4pm.
Miscellaneous
BRAND NEW with
tags kobe bryant
adidas jersey,
mainly yellow with
some purple, size
52. $30. Call 491
3505. Picture on
craigslist!
CASH UP
TO $800!
for junk cars and
trucks. Also buying
other scrap metals.
Pay cash and free
pickup.
217-491-2026.
FORK LIFT, 3 point
leveling cyl., 4’ forks.
Good condition.
$750.00. 245-5692.
Miscellaneous
DIAMOND COCK-
TAIL ring, 5 diamonds,
14K, very
nice. $250.
217-248-3424.
DO YOU need a
hand with your next
project. Small tree
removal, trim
bushes, mowing,
hauling gravel and
more. Firewood for
sale! Call Joe
217-320-2720.
Five used casement
windows 23x53" insulated
glass and
white vinyl clad. No
frames or hardwaare.
Can be
framed in for installation.
All five for
$125.00
217-883-2804
HOSPITAL BED with
all linens. $350.
(217)245-4636.
LADIES GOLF clubs,
bag, cart, 8 1/2
shoes, new & used
balls. $90 or best
offer.
(217)245-5811.
METAL BAND saw.
$165.00. 473-7255
NEED A hand? Haul
away unwanted furniture,
appliances,
TVs, junk items,
paint cans from garages
and basements.
Also clean
ups and surrounding
towns. Call Dennis,
(217)243-3244.
Miscellaneous
PAYING CASH
for the following-
Broken jewelry
All types of gold
Sterling silver
Pre-1970 coins
Watches
Military items
Guitars/instruments
Antique toys
Camping gear
Fishing gear
Sporting good
equipment
Hunting equipment
Sports memorabilia
Pre-1934 paper
currency
And MORE!!
Contact us at-
324 E. Morton,
Jacksonville, IL,
62650
217-697-2414
STEREO WITH
AM/FM radio, tape
deck, turntable, two
floor speakers, cabinet.
All works. $35.
(217)245-5595.
SUNBEAM MICRO-
WAVE, works good,
and end table/night
stands. $50. or will
separate.
217-204-1404
Appliances
MAYTAG ELECTRIC
dryer, very good
condition. $100. or
best offer.
Cash/check only.
Call (217)494-6928.
Lawn & Garden
CUB CADET garden
tiller, like new. $300.
(217)435-7681.
JAY’S MOWING
service, no yard too
small. Free estimates.
217-370-5396
Lawn & Garden
POULAN PLO self
propelled electric
start 22” mower with
bag attachment..
(217)243-3773.
TROY BUILT riding
mower, 18 horse,
46” deck. $500.00.
(217)886-2520.
YARD MACHINE
3.5HP lawn mower.
Used 7-10 hours.
$70. 309-546-2060.
Pets
CATS, KITTENS and
free barn cats, fixed.
(217)589-4269,
(217)414-6112,
(217) 491-0031.
CKC COLLIE puppies.
$150 and
$200. First shots
and wormed.
(217)248-0887.
*Automotive
Buick
SEE TO
APPRECIATE
2001 LESABRE Limited,
heads up in
windshield, power
and lumbar seats,
heated seats, memory
seats, 32 MPG
highway, white in
color, blue leather
interior, CD and cassette
player, OnStar.
(217)204-3845.
Ford
EXCELLENT
CONDITION
1994 TEMPO GL, 4
door, excellent condition
inside and out,
2 new front tires,
new battery, new exhaust
system, power
seats and windows.
$3000 or best offer.
(217)341-7939.
*Automotive
Mazda
GOOD CAR
FOR WORK!
2001 626, 150K,
$3,500, willing to negotiate.
(217)248-1416.
Mazda
GOOD GAS
MILEAGE
1997 PROTEGE Deluxe,
new tires, 4
door, 5 speed transmission,
new
brakes, new oil
change, new
tune-up, 85% garage
kept, family
owned-2 owners in
family, sun roof,
runs good, uses no
oil, 38-42 MPG,
78,200k. $1950 or
best offer.
(217)320-1840.
Ford
*Trucks
GREAT SHAPE
2000 RANGER XLT
ext cab, V6, 4x4,
auto, great shape,
134k, $5,000 or best
offer. 217-320-4777
Dodge
*Vans
NICE VEHICLE
2000 CARAVAN ,
white, 133k, $5,000.
or best offer.
217-243-6170.
*Motorcycles
Harley Davidson
MUST SEE
1998 ULTRA Classic,
green & black, extra
accessories, 55k
miles, $8,000. Call
after 6pm.
217-836-8023.
Harley Davidson
NICE BIKE!
2006 SOFTAIL Standard.
$8,000.
Priced to sell.
(217)370-9766.
Boats & Campers
Bayliner
READY FOR
THE WATER!
BAYLINER, MACH
1, 18ft.,150 horsepower,
inboard with
trailer. $1,200, best
offer or trade.
217-320-4204 or
217- 370-8050.
Georgie Boy
DRASTICALLY
REDUCED
2006 LANDAU 3650
motorhome, 36’,
auto levelers, 3
slides, fully loaded,
Triton V-10, like
new. 21,600 miles.
$55,000.
(217)243-4449 daily.
Jayco
CAMPING FUN
2000 QUEST 30 ft
camper. $6,000 or
best offer. Call
440-0041.
Lowe
BEEN A GREAT
RIG
2000 170SS Bass
Boat. 85" wide!
40hp. Batteries, Motor
Guide, 2 Locators
18 mos. old.
Ready to go. Life
jackets, anchor, fire
extinguisher, rain
suits, trailer spare.
Been a great rig.
$5000.00 or reasonable
best offer.
217-622-5556
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IT
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CHAPIN
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ELEVATOR
CO.
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FARMER
SINCE 1908
Grain Storage
& Marketing
Feed & Seed Sales
217-472-5771
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Handyman
SMOTHERS & SON-
Mow, gutters, yard
cleanup, paint, landscaping,
powerwash
and any other odd
jobs. Free estimates.
(217)204-6709.
Home
Improvement
CHIP’S HANDYMAN
SERVICE. Decks,
doors, windows, siding,
garages & all
other home improvements.
(217)245-2849
Lawn & Garden
GARDEN TILLING
Most $40 . Jacksonville
and Virginia
area. 217-899-4097.
WALLIS, LAND-
SCAPING, lawn care
& odd jobs. Satisfaction
guaranteed.
473-9153.
Lawn Care
JNT TREE and Lawn
Fully insured, for
bids call Jason.
(217)491-8368.
Lawn Equipment Repair
ON SITE mower repair.
We come to
you. 30 years experience.
217-370-9258
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NEED YARD mowed,
help with your next
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do list? 371-1628.
Mowing
LAWN MOWING,
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bids. 370-6739.
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Real Estate
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Housing Act which
makes it illegal to
advertise “any preference,
limitation or
discrimination based
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sex, handicap,
familial status or national
origin, or an
intention, to make
any such preference,
limitation or
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are available on
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basis.
FOR SALE by owner:
Beautiful brick ranch
in a rural subdivision.
3 bedroom, 3
bath, full basement
and a Morton shed
on 2 lots. Mid to upper$200,000-serious
inquiries only.
217-370-6486.
FOUR BEDROOM, 2
bath, family room
with pool table, new
roof, 2 car. $92,500.
(217)883-2649.
SPACIOUS HOME
in South Jacksonville.
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fresh painted,
new appliances
stay, large family
room , back porch, 2
car unattached garage,
concrete drive,
fenced back lot.
Maintenance free.
811 Freedman.
$68,000. 473-6743
anytime.
Mobile Homes
Patriot
SELLING DUE
TO HEALTH
1981 MOBILE home.
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Mark Twain Homes,
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placed and could take a while to respond.
Rizzi said police need telecommunicators
who are familiar
with surroundings when only seconds
count.
Rizzi said from his understanding
of the budget plan, eight State
Police districts will be in charge of
a total of 44 counties, which will dispatch
from Springfi eld; dispatching
from the Missouri border to the Iowa
border to the west, to the Indiana
border in the east, and through Pontiac
in the north to Belleville in the
south.
“In a time of emergency, it is im-
Journal-Courier, Jacksonville, Ill., Monday, March 26, 2012 15
Pope to Mexico: Have
hope, use faith against evil
SILAO, Mexico (AP) — Pope
Benedict XVI urged Mexicans to
wield their faith against drug violence,
poverty and other ills, celebrating
Sunday Mass before a sea of
hushed worshippers in a visit that has
warmed many Mexicans to a pontiff
they often saw as austere.
Many in the crowd said they were
gratified by Benedict’s recognition
of their country’s problems and said
they felt reinvigorated in what they
described as a daily struggle against
criminality, corruption and hardship.
The pope delivered the message to
an estimated 350,000 people against
the backdrop of the Christ the King
monument, one of the most important
symbols of Mexican Christianity.
The statue recalls a 1920s Roman
Catholic uprising against the anti-clerical
laws that forbade public worship
services such as the one Benedict celebrated.
Enthusiastic crowds greeted Benedict
as he arrived in his popemobile.
With his fi rst visit to Mexico, the
pontiff appeared to lay to rest doubts
that he was a distant, cold pope who
could never compare to the charisma
and personal connection that his
predecessor, John Paul II, forged over
his fi ve visits to Mexico. Many Mexi-
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ville High School for almost 17 years.
“I really enjoy teaching but I’m ready
for a new chapter in my life and the
challenges of being a principal.
“I’m nervous too because I know I
have big shoes to fi ll,” he said.
For example, Williams was nominated
by the Two Rivers Region Illinois
Principals Association as principal
of the year.
But he gives the credit to the
teachers and the students.
“You have to have a vision for
where you want them to go,” Williams
said. “Then you have to think
about resources and what you’ve got
to use to get them there. Then you
have to think about using the people
that you work with and getting feedback
from teachers, trying to share
where you want to go and what you
want to do. Then you let them take
it and run with it and I think they’ve
done that.”
Frazier has 20 years experience
in education, serving as principal at
Carrollton Middle School and teaching
in Houston, Texas, and Alton.
She has coached softball and volleyball
and also spent two years as an
education consultant for NCS Learn,
a Pearson education company.
Sanders begins July 1. He would
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six weeks have left me with major
medical bills,” said Spradlin, a Jacksonville
resident.
He was diagnosed with prostate
cancer Dec. 8 and underwent surgery
at Vanderbilt University Medical Center
in Nashville, Tenn., Feb. 2.
The benefi t at the Moose Lodge included
lunch, live auction, music, 50-
50 raffle and a separate raffle of a 9
mm semiautomatic pistol donated by
the Morgan County Chapter of Whitetails
Unlimited.
The music was provided by Stan
and Jeff of Jacksonville, Taylor June of
Oakford and Long Time Comin’ of the
Jacksonville area.
“I really wanted to do this benefi t to
help out Jack with his expenses and so
he would have one less thing to worry
about,” said Spradlin’s sister, Judy
Newell of rural Ashland. “He would
have done it for any of us.”
Organizers were excited about how
many people fi lled the Moose Lodge
cans said they were surprised by their
depth of feeling for Benedict.
On Sunday, he charmed the crowd
by donning a broad-brimmed Mexican
sombrero.
Esther Villegas, a 36-year-old cosmetics
vendor, said Benedict’s image
in Mexico has been changed greatly
by the visit.
“We saw a lot of happiness in his
face. We are used to seeing him with
a harder appearance, but this time
he looked happier, smiling,” Villegas
said. “A lot of people didn’t care for
him enough before, but now he has
won us over.”
Before Sunday’s ceremony, the
vast fi eld was fi lled with noise, as people
took pictures with cellphones and
passed around food. But as the Mass
started, all fell silent, some dropping
to their knees in the dirt and gazing at
the altar or giant video screens.
Benedict encouraged Mexicans
to purify their hearts to confront the
sufferings, diffi culties and evils of daily
life. It has been a common theme
in his first visit to Mexico as pope:
On Saturday he urged the young to
be messengers of peace in a country
that has witnessed the deaths of more
than 47,000 people in a drug war that
has escalated in recent months.
PRINCIPALS: 2 new named
at A-C Central and Carrollton
like to help all students grow academically
and get input from teachers
to improve student success, he
said.
Williams was a physical education
teacher and coach in Rochester
for 13 years before he earned his administration
degree and applied to
his fi rst and only job as a principal.
“I don’t know that when I came
here I thought I’d be here this long,”
Williams said. “It’s just been a combination
of the people, the kids and
the community; the whole thing felt
like home, so I stayed.”
Williams is anxious for his fi rst
summer in 21 years in which he
won’t have to go to work. He plans
to spend more time with his family,
maybe do some traveling and pursue
some of his hobbies, like judging
horse shows.
He may consider a part-time role
in education, because he’s spent
35 years in it and wants to stay involved.
William will miss the teachers, the
school board members and the children
the most.
“It’s been home,” Williams said.
“It’s not one of those deals where
you dread going to work or you don’t
know what to expect. I look forward
to going to work every day.”
BENEFIT: Friends gather to help
local man with medical bills
for the benefi t.
“I think it was a good turnout,” said
Spradlin’s cousin, Diane Evans of Jacksonville.
“The weather was excellent
and the Spradlin family really appreciates
all the donations and all the people
who came out to support Jack.”
Among the auction items were cut
fl owers from a Jacksonville fl orist, a
meat package from a local meat locker,
sports memorabilia, lots of tools, a
set of wheels and tires, St. Louis Cardinals
tickets and a St. Louis Cardinals
quilt made by Spradlin’s sister, Judy
Newell.
“People have been more than generous,”
said Herb Sliger of Jacksonville,
who has been friends with Spradlin
since grade school. “People criticize
Jacksonville and say the town is
going downhill. But there are still a lot
of people that care about our community
and are willing to help someone in
need.”
golson@myjournalcourier.com
ISP CUTS: Communication centers
perative dispatchers are aware of
their surroundings,” Rizzi said.
Rizzi said from his understanding,
the money Gov., Quinn proposes
to save actually is the money that
State Police are reducing in the costs
of overtime spent last year.
Rizzi said he does not see a
change in savings by moving dispatchers
from Collinsville to Springfi
eld.
“The only thing changing is the
one empty room in the Collinsville
police station where dispatchers
are,” Rizzi said. “And it is all just to
save a dollar or two.”

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Daffodils are weighted down by heavy, wet snow in Tigard, Ore. Unlike the Midwest, the early days
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MONEY
Everyone making hard choices
District 117 doesn’t have
near as tough decisions to
make as some of my friends,
who haven’t had work for
a year and a half and can’t
afford to pay their taxes.
Raise is a ‘smack in the face’
These school board
members sure know how
to smack us citizens of
Jacksonville right in the
face. You beg and plead for
a tax increase and then,
when it gets voted down,
you threaten to shut our
schools down because
you have no money. Then
you turn around and give
a bonus to somebody who
makes $190,000 a year and
you wonder why we have
no money in our district.
DRINKING
It’s a lonely, depressing life
I quit drinking about 10
years ago and my friends
quit coming over. Isn’t that
mysterious? So they are
still drinking and carrying
on and I got my life together.
So all you people who
think you have to drink, go
to a tavern and don’t drink
and just watch everybody.
See how lonely it is and
depressing it is. Drinking
isn’t everything.
METH
Congrats to police on work
I want to say “congratulations”
to the South Jacksonville
Police Department
and the Meth Response
Team for bringing the lab
down on Labor Drive. Now
I just hope the state’s attorney
does his job and makes
sure those two women are
locked away for a long time.
Find them, destroy them all
I see in the paper where
they are fi nding meth labs
in the places they are not
supposed to be. Maybe
they ought to check a
little more often, they’d be
surprised what they’d fi nd.
Take them out, all of them.
PROTECTION
Wild West shoot-outs fallacy
Forty-nine states have
some form of concealed
carry and have you ever
read about a “Wild West
Shootout” happening
anywhere in this country
among concealed carry
permit holders? The answer
is “no ... Crazy and
bizarre things happen in
Florida all the time, the
teenager’s death was a tragedy
if he was innocent and,
if so, the man responsible
will be tried by his peers.
But that case alone cannot
be used to justify doing
away with concealed carry
permits in other states.
10 YEARS AGO
Scott County commissioners
purchased
a building to house the
county health department
in Winchester.
20 YEARS AGO
TORREY BOURN was
named the most valuable
player on the Routt High
School basketball team.
LOOKING BACK
50 YEARS AGO
Plans were being
made to construct a
YMCA building on West
Morton Avenue in Jacksonville.
75 YEARS AGO
Fire damaged the
schoolhouse in Patterson.
C
K
M
Y
100 YEARS AGO
Morgan County residents
were fl ocking to the courthouse
to pay their taxes.
150 YEARS AGO
Union and rebel forces
were engaged in a battle
in Virginia’s Shenandoah
Valley.
— compiled by Greg Olson
and Alisia McCowan
MAKING HISTORY
TODAY’S HIGHLIGHT
IN HISTORY:
On March 26, 1982,
groundbreaking ceremonies
took place in Washington,
D.C., for the Vietnam
Veterans Memorial.
On this date:
In 1804, the Louisiana
Purchase was divided into
the Territory of Orleans
and the District of Louisiana.
In 1812, an earthquake
devastated Caracas,
Venezuela, causing an
estimated 26,000 deaths,
according to the U.S. Geological
Survey.
In 1827, composer
Ludwig van Beethoven
died in Vienna.
In 1874, poet Robert
Frost was born in San
Francisco.
In 1892, poet Walt
Whitman died in Camden,
N.J.
In 1912, an explosion
at the Jed Coal & Coke
Co. Mine in West Virginia
claimed the lives of 83
miners.
In 1937, a 6-foot-tall
statue of the cartoon character
Popeye was unveiled
during the Second Annual
Spinach Festival in Crystal
City, Texas.
In 1958, the U.S.
Army launched America’s
third successful satellite,
Explorer 3.
In 1962, the U.S.
Supreme Court, in Baker
v. Carr, gave federal courts
the power to order reapportionment
of states’
legislative districts, a 6-2
decision that eventually
led to the doctrine of “one
man, one vote.”
In 1979, a peace treaty
was signed by Israeli
Prime Minister Menachem
Begin and Egyptian
President Anwar Sadat
and witnessed by President
Jimmy Carter at the
White House.
In 1992, a judge in
Indianapolis sentenced former
heavyweight boxing
champion Mike Tyson to
six years in prison for raping
a Miss Black America
contestant. (Tyson ended
up serving three years.)
In 1997, the bodies
of 39 members of the
Heaven’s Gate techno-religious
cult who’d committed
suicide were found
inside a rented mansion in
Rancho Santa Fe, Calif.
Ten years ago: Yasser
Arafat decided not to
attend a key Arab summit
in Beirut, Lebanon; his
Cabinet accused Israel
of trying to “blackmail”
the Palestinian leader
with tough conditions for
allowing him to go. Arthur
Andersen chief executive
Joseph Berardino resigned,
bowing to mounting
pressure as a result
of the accounting fi rm’s
role in the Enron scandal.
President George W. Bush
nominated Dr. Richard
Carmona to be surgeon
general.
Five years ago:
The military concluded
that high-ranking Army
offi cers had made critical
errors in reporting
the friendly fi re death of
Army Ranger Pat Tillman
in Afghanistan, but that
there was no criminal
wrongdoing in the shooting
of the former NFL star
by fellow soldiers. (The
fi ndings were rejected by
Tillman’s family.) Australian
detainee David Hicks
pleaded guilty before a
military tribunal at Guantanamo
to helping terrorists
fi ght the United States in
Afghanistan. (Hicks was
sentenced to seven years
in prison; all but nine
months’ prison time was
suspended. Hicks was
returned to Australia to
serve out his term, and
was freed in December
2007.)
One year ago: More
than 250,000 people
took to London’s streets
to protest the toughest
spending cuts since World
War II; riot police clashed
T H O U G H T F O R T O D A Y
“Life’s like a play; it’s not the length but the
excellence of the acting that matters.”
— Seneca the Younger, Roman statesman and philosopher (3 B.C.-A.D. 65).
AP PHOTO/DON RYAN
with small breakaway
groups and arrested more
than 200 people. Former
Democratic vice presidential
candidate Geraldine
Ferraro, the fi rst female
major party nominee for
the offi ce, died in Boston
at 75. Harry Wesley
Coover Jr., 94, known as
the inventor of the popular
adhesive Super Glue, died
in Kingsport, Tenn.
Today’s Birthdays:
Conductor-composer
Pierre Boulez is 87.
Retired Supreme Court
Justice Sandra Day
O’Connor is 82. Actor-director
Leonard Nimoy is
81. Actor Alan Arkin is 78.
House Democratic Leader
Nancy Pelosi is 72. Actor
James Caan is 72. Author
Erica Jong is 70. Journalist
Bob Woodward is 69.
Singer Diana Ross is 68.
Actor Johnny Crawford
is 66. Rock singer Steven
Tyler (Aerosmith) is 64.
Singer and TV personality
Vicki Lawrence is 63. Actor
Ernest Thomas is 63.
Comedian Martin Short is
62. Country singer Ronnie
McDowell is 62. Movie
composer Alan Silvestri is
62. Rock musician Monte
Yoho is 60. Radio talk
show host Curtis Sliwa is
58. Country singer Dean
Dillon is 57. Country
singer Charly McClain is
56. TV personality Leeza
Gibbons is 55. Actress
Ellia English is 53. Actress
Jennifer Grey is 52. College
and Pro Football Hall
of Famer Marcus Allen is
52. Actor Eric Allan Kramer
is 50. Basketball Hall of
Famer John Stockton is
50. Actor Michael Imperioli
is 46. Rock musician
James Iha is 44. Country
singer Kenny Chesney is
44. Actor T.R. Knight is
39. Rapper Juvenile is 37.
Actress Amy Smart is 36.
Actress Bianca Kajlich is
35. Actress Keira Knightley
is 27. Rapper J-Kwon is
26. Actress Carly Chaikin
is 22.
WEATHER
National forecast
Forecast highs for Monday, March 26
Sunny Pt. Cloudy Cloudy
Fronts Pressure
Cold Warm Stationary Low High
-10s -0s 0s 10s 20s 30s 40s 50s 60s 70s 80s 90s 100s 110s
Showers
Rain
T-storms
Flurries
Snow Ice
Weather Underground/AP
TODAY: Mostly cloudy. Cooler. Highs in the lower 60s. East winds
10 to 15 mph.
TONIGHT: Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 40s. Southeast winds
10 to 15 mph.
TOMORROW: Breezy. Warmer. Partly sunny. Highs in the mid-70s.
South winds 15 to 20 mph with gusts to around 30 mph.
TOMORROW NIGHT: Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance
of showers and thunderstorms. Lows in the mid-50s. Southwest
winds 10 to 15 mph.
EXTENDED FORECAST: Wednesday: Mostly clear. Highs in the
mid-70s. Wednesday night: Mostly clear. Lows in the mid-40s.
Thursday: Sunny. Highs in the mid-60s. Thursday night: Partly
cloudy. Lows in the mid-40s. Friday: Mostly cloudy with a 40 percent
chance of showers and thunderstorms. Highs around 70.
Olivia Bobb, South Elementary
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TEMPERATURES
High Sunday ..............75° at 3 p.m.
Overnight low ......................54°
Record high ........... 82° in 1956
Record low .............. 8° in 1960
Year ago high ......................42°
Year ago low .......................30°
PRECIPITATION
To 4 p.m. Sunday ..............trace
So far this year ................5.02”
Last year by this date .......5.76”
Normal year to date .........5.59”
So far this month ..............2.82”
Normal month to date ......2.28”
Weather statistics provided by WLDS/WEAI
IN THE SKIES
Twilight begins .......... 6:27 a.m.
Sunrise .................... 6:54 a.m.
Sunset ..................... 7:20 p.m.
Twilight ends ............ 7:47 p.m.
Moonrise .................. 8:44 a.m.
Moonset................. 11:30 p.m.
Mercury rises ........... 6:24 a.m.
Mercury sets ............ 6:34 p.m.
Venus rises ............... 8:40 a.m.
Venus sets .............. 11:19 p.m.
Mars rises ................. 4:32 p.m.
Mars sets .................. 6:06 a.m.
In the evening twilight Jupiter
and Venus are in the west and
Mars in the ESE. The waxing
crescent moon appears near
Venus. In tomorrow’s morning
twilight Saturn is in the WSW and
Mars in the WNW.
RIVER STAGES
Peoria ...............12.3 .........0.0
Beardstown .......10.2 .........0.0
Meredosia ...........5.6 .........0.0
Oakford ...............3.6 .......+0.1
Hannibal............12.1 .......+0.1
Louisiana ..........11.8 ........ -0.2
M = Missing information
First Quarter
March 30
MOON PHASES
Full Moon
April 6
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April 13
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