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StatE’S JoBlESS NumBER SuRgES
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Plenty of events
involving food, music,
sports and more on tap.
Star Staff Writer
Alabama’s unemployment rate reached
double digits last month, its highest level
in 25 years.
The state’s unemployment rate rose to
10.1 percent in June, up from 9.8 percent
in May, Tom Surtees, director of the Alabama Department of Industrial Relations,
announced Friday. The rate has more than
doubled since this time last year and is
higher than the national average of 9.5
percent.
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Alabama joined 14 other states to go
above 10 percent in June.
“This recession is especially confounding,” said Bill Scroggins, a finance professor
at Jacksonville State University. “Several
months ago, we were hoping by this point
in the year, we would’ve bottomed out and
the picture would look better. The recent
unemployment data indicates that we’ve
yet to hit bottom.”
Scroggins points to Alabama’s auto
manufacturing industry as a reason for the
job losses; sales for auto companies have
lagged during the recession.
Honda’s Lincoln plant has seen buyout
offers, cuts in production and the layoff of
700 temporary workers.
However, Scroggins notes, this recession is “broad-based” and has affected
almost all industries and services.
The national unemployment rate is
expected to continue rising, according to
a Federal Reserve projection released this
week. By the end of the year the U.S. rate
could top 10 percent.
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Growing trend is
to look outside the hymnal for funeral music.
Sibyl griffin Davis
Holmes, Piedmont
Virginia C. lauderbaugh,
Attalla
Eugene ‘Junior’ lawson,
Gaylesville
Kathleen Broadhead
little, Pell City
walter malecki,
Anniston
Floyd mitchell,
Woodland
Ret. Sgt. First Class Ferdinand F. ‘Fred’ mitchum,
Oxford
Ruthie m. Palmore,
Piedmont
Roger Dean Patrick,
Sacramento, Calif.
James Franklin ‘Bull’
Pruiett, Piedmont
Dennis teague,
Griffin, Ga.
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522,000
Week ending
July 11
400
300
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2008
2009
SOURCE: Department of Labor
AP
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Coffee Break . . . . . . . . 6A
Comics . . . . . . . . . . . . 5C
Editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . 4A
Lottery . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5A
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Associated Press file photo
In this March 6, 1981 file photo, Walter Cronkite talks on the phone at his office prior to his final newscast
as CBS anchorman in New York City. Behind him is a framed Mickey Mouse cartoon and his Emmy award.
Cronkite, known as the ‘most trusted man in America’ died Friday at 92.
When someone must
choose
between food and regular dentist visits,
you can imagine which need wins.
That’s why hundreds of indigent people in Calhoun County have rotten teeth
and bleeding gums, said Interfaith Ministries Director Martha Vandervoort.
And that’s why Interfaith Ministries is
trying to help.
The local nonprofit hosts dental clinics for needy people at least once a
month, helping from 12 to 20 people at
a time.
A 42-year-old Anniston woman
sought help at the clinic Friday morning.
The woman, who asked that her name
not be printed, said she’s been suffering
with painful, decaying teeth for more
than a year.
With the bad economy and other
things going on in her life, she’s been
unable to afford a dentist visit. Then, she
found out about Interfaith. She said she
didn’t have anywhere else to turn.
“Without this, I would’ve done the
same thing I’ve done for about the past
year,” she said. “Stressing it. Trying to
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America’s most trusted
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By FRaZiER mooRE
Associated Press
NeW YorK — Walter Cronkite,
the premier TV anchorman of the
networks’ golden age who reported
a tumultuous time with reassuring
authority and came to be called “the
most trusted man in America,” died
Friday. He was 92.
Cronkite’s longtime chief of staff,
Marlene Adler, said Cronkite died
at 7:42 p.m. at his Manhattan home
surrounded by family. She said the
cause of death was cerebral vascular
disease.
Adler said, “I have to go now”
before breaking down into what
sounded like a sob. She said she had
no further comment.
Cronkite was the face of the CBS
Evening News from 1962 to 1981,
when stories ranged from the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy and the Rev. Martin Luther
King Jr. to racial and anti-war riots,
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Weekly (seasonally adjusted):
700 thousand
Interfaith dental clinic
needs more dentists
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HigH: 84
Initial claims for unemployment
benefits decreased by 47,000
in the second week of July.
Looking
for help
Legendary CBS anchor
Walter Cronkite dies at 92
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Watergate and the
Iranian hostage
crisis.
It was Cronkite
who read the bulletins coming from
Dallas when Kennedy was shot Nov.
22, 1963, interrupting a live CBS-TV
broadcast of the
soap opera As the
World Turns.
Cronkite was the broadcaster to
whom the title “anchorman” was first
applied, and he came so identified
in that role that eventually his own
name became the term for the job in
other languages. (Swedish anchors
are known as Kronkiters; In Holland,
they are Cronkiters.)
“He was a great broadcaster and
a gentleman whose experience,
honesty, professionalism and style
defined the role of anchor and commentator,” CBS Corp. chief executive
Leslie Moonves said in a statement.
CBS has scheduled a primetime special, That’s the Way it Was:
Remembering Walter Cronkite, for 7
p.m. Sunday.
His 1968 editorial declaring the
United States was “mired in stalemate” in Vietnam was seen by some
as a turning point in U.S. opinion of
the war. He also helped broker the
1977 invitation that took Egyptian
President Anwar Sadat to Jerusalem,
the breakthrough to Egypt’s peace
treaty with Israel.
He followed the 1960s space
race with open fascination, anchoring marathon broadcasts of major
flights from the first suborbital shot
to the first moon landing, exclaiming, “Look at those pictures, wow!”
as Neil Armstrong stepped on the
moon’s surface in 1969. In 1998, for
CNN, he went back to Cape Canaveral to cover John Glenn’s return to
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Dr. Bruce Cunningham works on a
patient at a free dental clinic sponsored by Interfaith Ministries.
County mayors
gather to discuss
progress, goals
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