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Barkley
school
to close
Killing in Calloway
BY BILL BARTLEMAN
[email protected]
Dr. Laxmaiah Manchikanti says
that although he will close the Barkley School of Law at the end of
the year, his effort to establish an
accredited law school in Paducah
won’t end.
Manchikanti said Wednesday he
wasn’t able to separate the Barkley
School of Law from the financial
and legal problems of its predecessor, the American Justice School of
Law.
“I’ve got no choice but to close the
school and file bankruptcy for the
school,” Manchikanti said.
Student enrollment dropped from
nearly 200 last year to 10 this year.
Dr. Larry Putt, the school dean, said
three students will graduate by the
end of the year. He said he’d help the
other seven transfer their credits to
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AEP to build
headquarters
in Paducah
JOHN WRIGHT | The Sun
John Sims, Kentucky State Police detective, plots his next move Wednesday after emerging from the house at 779 Elm Grove Road in
Calloway County. Sims was investigating Tuesday night shootings that left one man dead and two people injured.
3 shootings at Almo worry neighbors
BY LEIGH
LANDINI WRIGHT
[email protected]
ALMO, Ky. — Dorothy Fike likes
to remember her brother as a kindhearted Vietnam veteran. The tattered remains of a small American
flag poke up on a thin wooden pole
behind the mailbox in Jerry Eldridge’s shaded front yard.
On Wednesday morning, Fike
received a phone call as she vacationed in Florida alerting her that
her 60-year-old brother, his son and
a woman had been shot at Eldridge’s
home, 779 Elm Grove Road.
Eldridge died from his injuries. His son, Eddie Eldridge, 33,
remained at Vanderbilt University
Medical Center in Nashville, Tenn.,
and Melissa Price, 35, the younger
Eldridge’s girlfriend, was treated
at an undisclosed hospital, state
police spokesman Dean Patterson
said. A juvenile in the home was not
injured.
Vanderbilt would not confirm
that Eddie Eldridge had been treated at the hospital.
“My brother was murdered,” Fike
said by telephone. “My brother was
a Vietnam veteran and was very
ill.”
She said he had lung cancer and
heart disease and blamed his exposure to Agent Orange in Vietnam for
his lung cancer. Eldridge lived alone
at the house on Elm Grove Road and
had taken care of his mother until
her death, Fike said. Fike and her
husband, Bobby, bought the farm
after her mother died and offered
Eldridge a place to live.
“I took care of his needs,” Fike
said, noting that Eldridge recently
was hospitalized for his illness.
BY JOE WALKER
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AEP River Operations will formally announce at 10:30 a.m. today
that it will build a barge line headquarters downtown near the Tennessee River.
“We’re going to be talking about
our proposed project,” said Mark
Carr, spokesman for the St. Louisbased company, a subsidiary of
American Electric Power. “I think
we’ll have an architect’s rendering
and will talk about the impact of
some of the current business plans
on Paducah and the surrounding
area.”
Carr declined to elaborate, saying
he wanted company managers and
Chris Anderson, Kentucky State Police trooper, examines phoPlease see SHOOTINGS | 8A tography equipment he used at the shooting scene.
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Ice rink to open Nov. 14 at Farmer’s Market
BY ADAM SHULL
[email protected]
Downtown Paducah is set to get a
little cooler this winter.
A new seasonal ice skating rink
should open Nov. 14.
Construction could begin before
week’s end on the 120-foot long, 50foot wide oval rink downtown, taking up half of the Farmer’s Market
parking lot, according to Paducah
Parks Services officials.
Paducah Parks Services Director
Mark Thompson said the rink will
run Nov. 14-Jan. 3 and will be open
daily except Christmas.
Thompson said entry fees will
be $5 a day to rent skates. Certain
“It costs
something like
$35 to ice skate in
New York City. In
Paducah you’ll be
able to for $5.”
Brad Holland
Magic Ice USA
days will carry special rates such
as “Dollar Day” Mondays when admission will be $1 in November and
December.
Parking will be open in the rest of
the Farmer’s Market and throughout downtown.
“We hope this will be an impetus to bring people from all over to
downtown to shop, skate and experience the atmosphere,” Thompson
said.
Thompson said the surrounding
park will feature added lighting, a
public address system and concessions to make the rink a true destination.
He spoke Wednesday inside the
Paducah Renaissance Alliance ofPhoto provided by Magic Ice USA
fice on Broadway, an organization A new skating rink in Paducah is set to open Nov. 14. The rink
shown here in South Carolina, built by Magic Ice USA, is the model
Please see ICE | 8A upon which the Paducah rink will be built.
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3. Bill Clinton (left)
5. Almost seven
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last year, the Centers for
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will be at the Cherry Civic
Center around 10 a.m.
Friday campaigning for
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years after his father’s death, Shooter
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The Lineup
Clinton to speak at Civic Center
Today
Staff report
Downtown Kiwanis Club, lunch,
noon, Elks Club, 310 N. 4th St.
Basic Computer class, South Livingston Elementary School, 6 p.m.
Registration: 928-4637.
Kiwanis Club of South Paducah,
dinner meeting, 7 p.m., 1640 S.
6th St. Cathy Brown, 488-3363.
Paducah Inspirational Book of
the Month Club, 7 p.m., Etcetera
Coffeehouse, 320 N. 6th St. 2102093.
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Former President Bill Clinton
will campaign with U.S. Senate
candidate Bruce Lunsford in
Paducah on Friday morning.
The event will be at the Robert
Cherry Civic Center, 2701 Park
Ave. The doors open at 10 a.m.,
with the rally to begin at 10:30.
Clinton also will appear with Lunsford at a rally at the airport in
Bowling Green at 1:30 p.m.
Lunsford said western Kentucky
is important in his race against
incumbent Sen. Mitch McConnell,
the Senate’s Republican leader. Although a majority of the registered
voters in western Kentucky are
Democrats, McConnell has had
strong support and won the region
six years ago.
“There is no better way to show
the importance of western Kentucky than to bring someone like
Bill Clinton in to campaign,” Lunsford said.
“He is very popular in western
Kentucky.”
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Today’s debate between
U.S. Sen. Mitch
McConnell
and challenger
Bruce Lunsford will be
streamed live.
Coverage begins at 8 a.m.
The debate
will be held at
Kentucky Dam
Village State
Resort Park.
The race began last summer
with McConnell holding a commanding double-digit lead that
has dwindled to 4 percent in some
polls and a dead heat in others.
Friday’s appearance will be
Clinton’s fourth in Paducah. He
campaigned in Paducah in 1992
and 1996 while running for president, and in May campaigning on
behalf of his wife, U.S. Sen. Hillary Clinton, who was seeking the
Democratic nomination for president.
Friday
Options offered
to cut traffic
near Hendron
Fish fry. 4-7:30 p.m. St. John
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Fish fry, 5:30-8 p.m., Paducah
Elks Lodge 217, 310 N. 4th St. $9.
Dance, 7-10 p.m., American Legion Post 26 Hall, Mayfield. Band:
Just Breakin’ Even. $5.
BY LAQUETA PERRY
[email protected]
Parents have questioned the
board about how long their students would ride a bus if the new
school is built in the western part
of the county.
Heller said Tuesday that no student would ride the bus for more
than an hour.
County Commissioner Jerry Beyer led a workshop at
Hendron/Lone Oak Elementary School Wednesday evening
to discuss solutions to traffic
problems during children’s
arrivals and dismissals at the
school.
Principal Mark Buchanan,
Tim Choate and Jim LeFevre
from the state Department of
Highways, former Lone Oak
High School Principal Wallace Adams, and Chief Deputy
Sheriff Mike Turnbow were
among those attending.
Beyer said he sought two or
three solutions to present to
the McCracken school board.
Three of the issues that Beyer
highlighted were the safety
of children, the safety of
residents in the area in event
that a road was blocked in an
emergency, and congestion
during events such as ballgames.
Turnbow had instructed
Deputy Sheriff Kevin Lynn
to count improperly parked
vehicles during Wednesday
afternoon’s dismissal. He
counted 37 cars that were
parked on a non-travel portion of the road.
“It appears one problem is
that some parents get here an
hour early to get a place in
line,” Turnbow said. “It starts
way too early.”
Some of the solutions that
were discussed were traffic
route changes, so Bleich Road
wouldn’t be blocked when
parents dropped off children
in the mornings; additional
parking lots; and the education of the public.
Those present decided on
two immediate actions:
■ For school officials and
the sheriff’s department to
produce a flier for parents reminding them that parking
on county roads is illegal, asking them not to arrive to pick
up their children before 3:20
p.m., and to have those who
arrive before then to park in
spaces adjacent to the football
field. The letter could include
a designated route for parents
in the mornings. After two
weeks to a month, the situation would be reassessed.
■ To talk to the school
board about an additional
gravel parking area adjacent
to the spaces near the football
field.
Leigh Landini Wright can be
contacted at 575-8658.
Laqueta Perry can be contacted at 575-8655.
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County; repairs on overflow bridge
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McCracken school plan: Dollar details
Bridge replacement, Ky. 893/
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work starting on new bridge across
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limit, will remain in service until
temporary diversion is constructed.
Finances and test scores aren’t
behind the decision of McCracken
County school leaders to examine
consolidation, Superintendent Tim
Heller said.
“We are not raising taxes to
build this school,” Heller said. “We
have the money to construct this
school.”
In recent weeks, parents and
community members have questioned school district leaders and
board members about the costs
associated with building a consolidated senior high school.
The district had $4.2 million in
its building fund at the end of September. The building fund is derived from local tax revenue and
earned interest. Tax revenue of
$3.7 million will flow into the account this fall as homeowners and
businesses pay their taxes. The
district then would have $8 million
that could be used for purchasing
land, paying the architect’s fees
and testing the soil. School leaders
continue to say that they have not
finalized a land purchase.
The district has $51 million in
bonding capacity, which district
finance director Johnna DeJarnett termed plenty for a new high
school. Bond payments would begin in the 2009-10 school year.
Bond funds come from a combination of state school building
money, revenue from the nickel
tax passed in 2007, revenue from
the recallable nickel tax and state
equalization of the recallable
nickel to the tune of $5.1 million.
The 2007 rate rose to 48.8 cents
per $100 assessed value for real estate, which included the recallable
nickel tax of 5.9 cents. The nickel
tax can only be used for school
construction.
The state’s School Facilities
Construction Commission offered
the district financial assistance,
and $3.7 million of bonding could
be achieved through use of these
BY LEIGH
LANDINI WRIGHT
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Agenda
The Agenda is a listing of government meetings today.
■ Murray City Council — 6:30
p.m., City Hall.
■ Paducah-McCracken Joint
Sewer Agency — 5 p.m., meeting
facility, Northview St.
In Our Schools
■ Graves County school board,
special called meeting, 10:30 a.m.
today, board office. Executive session and selection of superintendent.
Wednesday’s lottery
Kentucky
Pick 3-midday: 2-3-3
Pick 3-evening: 6-4-9
Pick 4-midday: 2-9-7-6
Pick 4-evening: 8-6-2-0
Cash Ball: 7-13-17-31 CB 12
Kicker 0-9-6-5-1
Powerball: 10-17-33-51-52 PB 5
Power Play 03
Illinois
Pick 3-midday: 2-9-9
Pick 3-evening: 6-8-6
Pick 4-midday: 6-2-0-2
Pick 4-evening: 4-8-9-3
Little Lotto: 2-4-17-22-32
Lotto: 7-18-24-26-37-43
Est. Lotto Jackpot:
$11 million
■ Estimated new high
school cost: $40.8 million,
plus additional costs of up
to $12 million to $14 million
for the land, roads, parking
lots and athletic fields.
■ Bonding capacity: $51.8
million
funds from 2002-06.
The building plan, approved last
week, calls for construction of a
$40.8 million consolidated senior
high school for 1,600 students. The
plan estimates the building size at
201,600 square feet.
Board chairman Neil Archer
said the new plan reduces nearly
$13 million of needs at the existing
schools, and the district will reconfigure grades. Archer also said
the district hopes the reconfiguration can remove as many mobile
classrooms as possible.
According to the new plan, the
major renovations to reconfigure
the existing schools include heating and air conditioning, lighting, upgrades to comply with the
Americans with Disabilities Act,
and upgrades of doors and interior
finishes. The plan, passed in 2007,
had called for construction of new
classrooms at several schools to
alleviate overcrowding. With the
grade configuration, those plans
are no longer needed.
Also, architect Mike Smith with
the firm Sherman Carter Barnhart is examining ways to make
the new high schools as environmentally friendly as possible.
Green-building practices could
reduce the cost of utilities, Heller
said.
Staffing
Given the current enrollment
within the existing schools, if
nothing else changed, the district
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would add eight teachers in three
years, said Assistant Superintendent Nan Waldrop.
With a new school, the district
could add 12 teachers on top of the
eight already projected. “Teachers
that are based on the cap size are
funded through SEEK,” DeJarnett
said. SEEK stands for Support Education Excellence in Kentucky, a
formula-driven allocation of state
dollars to school systems. For
2008-09, SEEK funding guarantees
payment to the district of $23.5
million, according to tentative
calculations recorded at the state
Education Department in May.
The estimated cost for the new
teachers is $ 600,000, but SEEK
funds would pay for $400,000 to
$450,000, DeJarnett said.
The new school also would reduce administrative costs because
the district would not have principals at three high schools.
“We also would not need as
many head coaches or those people
on extended contract,” Heller said.
A consolidated school also
would mean one athletic director
rather than three, Archer said.
The state Education Department
caps class sizes as 24 students in
primary grades and 31 for high
school.
State funding
Heller said if tax assessments
fall, state dollars from the SEEK
formula increase. If assessments
rise, the SEEK funding declines.
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The Paducah Sun • Thursday, October 23, 2008 • 3A
Briefs
No guns found
in WKU lockdown
BOWLING GREEN, Ky. —
Western Kentucky University was locked down for
several hours Wednesday
after reports of gunmen
on campus, but officials
said they could find no
evidence that shots had
been fired or that anyone
had a weapon.
Someone reported seeing people with weapons
in a building on a satellite campus and police
later received reports that
shots had been fired on
the main campus, a mile
away.
University officials said
they received three 911
calls from students. The
last caller reported hearing shots.
But Howard Bailey, vice
president for student affairs, said at a news conference that there was no
gunfire and no witnesses
reported seeing weapons.
Associated Press
Florida fugitive
jailed in Paducah
A Florida fugitive was
jailed without bond in
Paducah
following
his arrest
Tuesday.
Paducah
police
arrested
James L.
Staudt
Jr., 43, of
Staudt
Summerfield, Fla., at 6:07 p.m. in
the 2700 block of North
27th Street after Officer
Chris Bolton received
information that Staudt
was staying at a home on
North 27th Street.
Staudt is wanted in
Florida on a probation violation charge. According
to the Florida arrest warrant, Florida authorities
charged him with violating
his probation after failing
a Sept. 11 drug test. He
was given 10 years’ probation in 2002 after being
convicted of solicitation to
commit first-degree murder in Marion County, Fla.
Bolton conducted surveillance on the home,
then identified and arrested Staudt, Paducah
police said.
Staudt is charged in
Kentucky with being a
fugitive from justice in another state.
Mayfield resident
was strangled
MAYFIELD, Ky. — A medical examiner determined
that a Mayfield homicide
victim died of strangulation, Assistant Police
Chief Steve Hendley said.
Relatives found the
body of Delilah Blair,
49, on Oct. 4 inside her
apartment on East South
Street. Coroner Phillip McClain ruled her death a homicide after an autopsy.
Police have no arrests,
Hendley said, adding that
they await reports on DNA
evidence.
Police have ruled out
robbery as a motive but
have not determined
whether Blair knew her attacker, Hendley said.
Prisoner flees
Marshall landfill
BENTON, Ky. — A prisoner escaped Wednesday
from a
work detail at the
Marshall
County
landfill.
Bradley
D. Hicks,
a state
inmate at
the HerHicks
man B.
Ford Detention Center,
walked away about 11:50
a.m. He was serving time
for fleeing and evading police, resisting arrest and
numerous drug-related
charges, state police said.
Hicks, 32, was wearing
a camouflage hat, gray
sweatshirt, blue jeans and
boots. He is white, 6-feet4 and 220 pounds with
brown hair and black eyes.
Drug trafficking
near school alleged
FULTON, Ky. — Fulton
police and Pennyrile Narcotics Task Force detectives arrested two people
late Tuesday after raiding
their home at 112 Valley
St.
Johnny L. Parrott, 29,
is charged with trafficking
in a controlled substance
within 1,000 yards of a
school and possession
of drug paraphernalia.
Sharkia R. Warlick, 20, is
charged with failure to appear in court.
Police searching the
home about 9:30 p.m.
found 23.5 grams of
marijuana and a hand-held
police scanner, Assistant
Fulton Police Chief Jere
Hughes said.
3 face charges
in meth case
SYMSONIA, Ky. — Pennyrile Narcotics Task Force
detectives arrested three
people early Wednesday
on methamphetamine-related charges.
Lexie J. Robinson, 30,
of Symsonia is charged
with manufacturing methamphetamine, possessing
anhydrous ammonia with
the intent to manufacture
meth and possessing a
controlled substance.
Kelly N. Payne, 29, and
Michael Chittendon, 28,
both also of Symsonia,
were each charged with
conspiracy to manufacture
meth.
Detectives raided the
home where the three live
at 3301 Dooms Chapel
Road shortly after midnight, Detective George
Workman said.
Officers found a cooler
containing anhydrous ammonia, a methadone pill,
pseudoephedrine, coffee
filters, plastic bags and
both plastic ware and a
rubber hose containing
meth residue, he said.
Detectives seized an
all-terrain vehicle and
a Dodge Intrepid at the
home, Workman said.
Officers took Robinson,
Payne and Chittendon to
the Graves County Jail,
where they remained
Wednesday afternoon.
Phone distracts
driver before crash
BENTON, Ky. — A ringing cell phone apparently
contributed to a wreck
Wednesday that injured
two people on the Purchase Parkway.
Jacqueline Toombs, 54,
of McEwen, Tenn., slowed
her minivan to answer her
phone at 8:58 a.m. near
the 44-mile marker, Marshall County Chief Deputy
Sheriff David Maddox
said. Robert Morris, 57, of
South Fulton, Tenn., was
driving behind her and
pulled into the passing
lane to pass.
Toombs turned left from
the right lane in an attempt to pull into the turnaround and take the cell
phone call, Maddox said.
She pulled into the path
of the truck, and the two
collided.
The force of the impact
pushed Toombs’ minivan
into the median.
She and her passenger,
Clyde Lee Rust, 78, of
McEwen, were taken to
Marshall County Hospital.
The hospital did not provide information on their
conditions.
Morris was not hurt.
From Sun staff reports
Suspected meth lab
leads to man’s arrest
Staff report
McCracken County sheriff’s detectives arrested a
Reidland man on drug
charges Tuesday.
Jonathan D. Boyd, 32, of
Said Road is charged with
complicity to manufacturing methamphetamine ;
trafficking in meth; possession of Darvocet, Tranxene
and drug paraphernalia;
and wanton endangerment.
Deputies took him to the
McCracken County Regional Jail.
Detectives went to Boyd’s
home at 1440 Said Road after learning about alleged
drug activity, Sheriff’s Sgt.
Matt Carter said.
They learned that Boyd
lived at the residence and
that he had two outstanding
arrest warrants charging
him with theft by deception and failure to appear
in court.
Before they arrived at the
home, detectives noticed
Boyd driving south on Said
Road.
They stopped his vehicle
and searched it. Detectives
found a syringe containing
meth residue in a shoe in
the back
d r iver ’s
side floorboard,
Carter
said.
Detec tives then
searched
Boyd’s
home and
f o u n d Boyd
digital scales and plastic
bags with meth residue and
prescription Tranxene, an
anxiety medication, and
Darvocet, a pain pill.
Outside the home detectives found a hydrogen chloride gas generator, coffee
filters with pseudoephedrine residue that had been
soaked in ether, several
empty pseudoephedrine
boxes and other items Carter said indicated a meth
lab.
Most of the drug-related
items detectives seized were
within reach of two 6-yearold children who lived at
the home, Carter said.
The children were released into the custody of
the Kentucky Department
of Families and Children.
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Editorial
WELL SPUN
Bias oozes from AP slant
on mortgage agency bill
The Associated Press, once
known as a news agency,
reported breathlessly Sunday
on the discovery of the
missing link.
No, not a fossil skull of early
man. This was a link between
the Republican Party and
the unregulated mortgage
market.
Here is AP writer Pete
Yost’s lead, or rather mislead:
“Freddie Mac secretly paid a
Republican consulting firm
$2 million to kill legislation
that would have regulated
and trimmed the mortgage
finance giant and its sister
company, Fannie Mae, three
years before the government
took control to prevent their
collapse.”
Not only that, Yost writes,
but the chief executive of
that consulting firm is the
very guy McCain’s campaign
hired to manage the GOP
convention in September.
Gotcha! It WAS the
Republicans who got us into
this mess after all!
Not so fast. Here’s what you
learn if you read the whole
story (and do a little extra
checking): That consulting
firm, DCI Group, is a private
communications firm that
provides lobbying for a host of
clients on issues ranging from
education to transportation,
from copyright law to
international relations, from
defense to health care. It has
Republican clients, but it
is not a “Republican firm.”
Lobbying is DCI’s business.
Freddie Mac did indeed
hire DCI to persuade Senate
Republicans to oppose a
regulatory overhaul bill
approved by the Republicancontrolled Senate Banking,
Housing and Urban Affairs
Committee. But there’s
a reason why Freddie
and Fannie targeted only
Republicans.
The Democrats were
already in their pockets.
Every Democrat member
of the banking committee
opposed the stricter
regulations. And every
Republican member favored
the regulations. The
committee approved the bill
along party lines. Is it any
surprise that the mortgage
giants contribute more to
Democrats than Republicans
in Congress?
Unfortunately, the bill’s
author, Nebraska Sen.
Chuck Hagel, and 25 other
Republican senators could
not persuade then-Senate
Majority Leader Bill Frist to
allow a vote in the full Senate.
But they warned in a letter:
“If effective regulatory
reform legislation ... is not
enacted this year, American
taxpayers will continue to be
exposed to the enormous risk
that Fannie Mae and Freddie
Mac pose to the housing
market, the overall financial
system and the economy as a
whole.” The warnings proved
prophetic.
John McCain, by the way,
was one of the 25 signers of
the letter and later was a cosponsor of Hagel’s bill.
Freddie and Fannie
contribute to both
Republicans and Democrats.
Employees of the two
companies have even given
$21,550 to McCain’s campaign.
But that’s a paltry sum
compared to the $120,349
they’ve contributed to Obama.
In fact, the two companies
have given more to newbie
Obama in his short political
career than any other senator
save one: Senate banking
committee Chairman Chris
Dodd. You remember him,
the guy who, along with
Sen. Charles Schumer and
Rep. Barney Frank, blocked
attempts to regulate Fannie
and Freddie after accounting
irregularities prompted
the White House to warn
of the consequences of lax
regulation.
In truth, the mortgage and
credit crisis can’t be laid
solely at the feet of either
party. Especially not the
Republicans.
Emboldened pols seek new ways to meddle
“Because that’s where the money is.”
— Willie Sutton, when asked
in 1934 why he robbed banks
WASHINGTON — Washington
is having a Willie Sutton
Moment. Such moments occur
when government, finding its
revenue insufficient for its
agenda, glimpses some money
it does not control but would
like to.
Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa,
and Rep. Peter Welch, D-Vt.,
recently convened a discussion
of how colleges and universities should be spending their
endowments. Grassley, who says
more than 135 institutions each
have endowments of more than
$500 million, says perhaps they
should be required to spend 5
percent of their endowments
each year. Welch has introduced
legislation to require that percentage be spent to reduce tuition and other student expenses.
This government reach for
control of private resources
comes even though last year
colleges and universities spent,
on average, 4.6 percent of their
endowments. Furthermore, most
endowments are too small to be
a significant source of captured
money.
Last fiscal year, Harvard’s endowment, earning an 8.6 percent
return, grew from $34.9 billion
to $36.9 billion. Although less
than the 23 percent return in the
previous year, it was an excellent performance, considering
the economic turbulence. But
only 45 private institutions have
endowments of more than $1 billion. Among the other 98 percent
(1,565) of institutions, the median endowment is just $14 million.
So government in a Willie Sutton
mood would target the wealthiest institutions — those that are
the foundation of basic research
that undergirds American prosperity and that have the most
generous financial aid programs
for students.
George Will
Nowadays, much of politics
consists of telling voters that the
prices of many things they buy
— gasoline, health care, higher
education — are unreasonable.
But demand for higher education
has not declined even though its
price at many institutions has
risen even faster than the price
of health care. Parents continue
to pay rising tuition costs because they consider higher education a reasonable investment.
They know that, today, wealth
creation is driven by “human
capital” — trained minds — and
that “you earn what you learn.”
Daniel Mark Fogel told the
Grassley-Welch panel that at the
University of Vermont, of which
he is president, 60 percent of
undergraduates, and 74 percent
of this year’s freshman class,
are from out of the state. They
pay the nation’s second-highest non-resident tuition, which
subsidizes the lower tuition paid
by Vermonters, and helps offset
declines in state appropriations.
Some Massachusetts state legislators, committing two of the
seven deadly sins, are angry because tax revenues do not match
their ambitions, and are envious
of Harvard.
They suggest raising more
than $1 billion annually with a
2.5 percent assessment on the
nine colleges and universities in
the state that have endowments
of more than $1 billion.
California legislators, disguising a third sin, avarice, as
concern for “diversity,” want to
require large California foundations to report the race, gender
and sexual orientation of their
trustees, staff and grant recipients. Other state legislatures
will emulate this step toward
government control of the flow of
philanthropy.
So it goes. The almost erotic
pleasure of spending money that
others have earned and saved is
one reason people put up with
the tiresome aspects of political
life. And now the government’s
response to the financial crisis,
including the semi-nationalization of nine major banks, has
blurred — indeed, almost erased
— the distinction between public
and private sectors.
Hundreds of billions of dollars that the political class
would have liked to direct for
its own social and political
purposes have been otherwise
allocated. That allocation, by
government fiat rather than by
market forces, must reduce the
efficiency of the nation’s stock
of capital. Which in turn will
reduce economic growth, and
government revenues, just as the
welfare state — primarily pensions and medical care for the
elderly — becomes burdened by
the retirement of 78 million baby
boomers.
As government searches
with increasing desperation for
money with which it can work
its will, Willie Sutton Moments
will multiply. Government has
an incentive to weaken the belief
that the nation needs a vigorous
and clearly demarcated sector
of private educational and philanthropic institutions exercising discretion over their own
resources.
So the frequently cited $700
billion sum is but a small fraction of the cost, over coming
decades, of today’s financial
crisis. The desire of governments
to extend their control over endowments and foundations is a
manifestation of the metastasizing statism driven by the crisis.
For now, its costs, monetary and
moral, are, strictly speaking,
incalculable.
Letters
Democrats lack
a worthy candidate
EDITOR:
The Democratic Party we have
now does not represent me in any
way. They presented me and the nation with no candidate for president
I could even consider voting for.
Now it has settled on a candidate
who supports every big-government
social program, proposes big tax
hikes and supports every anti-gun
measure that comes up. This person
is running for the presidency of the
nation. How can any true American
patriot consider voting for him?
George Soros and his bunch of
millionaire/billionaire buddies
are supporting this man. I might
remind you this is the same man
who funded Rebecca Peters’ drive
in Australia to disarm the country.
They then moved to England, where
it was disarmed also. And now
they’re supporting Obama, who is
the most adamant anti-gun member
of Congress.
Let’s put McCain in the presidency and give him McConnell and
Whitfield to help him.
RAY McCARTY
Paducah
McCain treated shabbily
by people he fought for
EDITOR:
I take it personally when someone
so unqualified for our highest office
assumes to take on that role because
he believes he is entitled to it.
I take it personally when a junior
senator with less than two years
experience in that job (and a record
of accomplishing nothing) presumes
to have all the answers to our problems.
I take it personally when a selfpromoter muddies himself with
dirty money from opportunistic and
unprincipled lending institutions
made solvent by the blood, sweat and
funding of hard-working taxpayers.
I take it personally when hundreds of thousands serve our country, some even giving their lives,
while a wordsmith who has given
nothing hobnobs with a world-renowned domestic terrorist responsible for bombing attacks against
America.
I take it personally that the rest
of us can be found “guilty” by mere
association while a smooth-talking
snake oil salesman gets a free pass
on his 20-year association with a
racist, anti-American, maniacal
minister.
I take it personally when any examination of Obama’s record or affiliations is labeled racially motivated.
I take it personally when the media may choose my president.
I take it personally that a loyal
and seasoned senior senator (who is
also a senior citizen) opposing “that
one’s” candidacy is treated so shabbily in a country that owes so much
to her older Americans.
JOHN W. CURRY
Burna
and increasing spending for the
military, plus his version of social
engineering will do nothing but
raise the federal debt even faster.
I think that Obama’s idea of rescinding the Bush tax cuts is a good
idea, but then he jumps off the rails
with his tax cuts for 95 percent of
taxpayers and coming up with even
more spending.
Adding to the already huge mess
comes a trillion-dollar bailout to a
bunch of bankers who should have
known that the practice of lending
money to people who had no real
Both political parties
chance of paying off the loans would
lost common sense
bankrupt their institutions. Actually, they did know but counted on
EDITOR:
the taxpayers to bail them out.
Where has all the common sense
The question is, where has all the
gone? It seems that both parties
have decided to bankrupt the nation. common sense gone?
RANDELL DAWSON
McCain’s sellout to the far right on
Paducah
keeping the Bush tax cuts in place
NATION
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The Paducah Sun • Thursday, October 23, 2008 • 5A
Children’s food allergies increase
Briefs
BY MIKE STOBBE
Associated Press
Associated Press
Pilot Tom Haefeli stands next to his airplane after
landing in a field after a mid-air collision, south of Grand
Junction, Colo., on Wednesday. Two small planes carrying a total of six people collided in the air, but both
landed safely and no injuries were reported, authorities
said.
Small planes collide in air; no injuries
GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. — Two small planes carrying a total of six people collided in the air in western
Colorado on Wednesday, but both landed safely and no
injuries were reported, authorities said.
“This is truly one of those miracles,” said Allen
Kenitzer of the Federal Aviation Administration. “Usually
with a mid-air collision you have very serious damage
and very serious injuries, if you have survivors at all.”
Kenitzer said a Cessna 210 carrying four people collided with a Cessna 180 with two people aboard.
Survivors found after boat disappears
ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Four crew members of a fishing boat were found alive Wednesday, hours after their
vessel was reported in distress in chilly waters off Alaska’s Aleutian Islands, a Coast Guard spokesman said.
The bodies of two other crew members have also
been found, and a search continues for the five remaining crew members of the Katmai, a 93-foot fish processor based on Kodiak island, said Coast Guard Petty
Officer Levi Read.
The four survivors were being flown in a Coast Guard
helicopter to Adak Island, about 1,300 miles southwest
of Anchorage, Read said. They were discovered about
100 miles west of Adak, he said. No other details were
immediately available.
The Coast Guard received an electronic signal at 1
a.m. from the Katmai. A search helicopter and C-130
airplane were sent from Kodiak, a journey of about 41⁄2
hours.
ATL ANTA — Food allergies in
American children seem to be on the
rise, now affecting about 3 million kids,
according to the first federal study of
the problem.
Researchers said that might be because parents are more aware and
quicker to have their kids checked out
by a doctor.
About 1 in 26 children had food allergies last year, the Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention reported Wednesday. That’s up from 1 in 29 kids in 1997.
The 18 percent increase is significant
enough to be considered more than a
statistical blip, said Amy Branum of
the CDC, the study’s lead author.
Nobody knows for sure what’s driving the increase. A doubling in peanut
allergies — noted in earlier studies —
is one factor, some experts said. Also,
children seems to be taking longer to
outgrow milk and egg allergies than
they did in decades past.
But also figuring into the equation
are parents and doctors who are more
likely to consider food as the trigger for
symptoms like vomiting, skin rashes
and breathing problems.
“A couple of decades ago, it was not
uncommon to have kids sick all the
time and we just said ‘They have a weak
stomach’ or ‘They’re sickly,”’ said Anne
Munoz-Furlong, chief executive of the
Food Allergy & Anaphylaxis Network, a
Virginia-based advocacy organization.
Parents today are quicker to take
their kids to specialists to check out
the possibility of food allergies, said
Man aware of
cousin’s ricin
gets probation
Associated Press
Woman arrested 73rd time since 1971
NEW YORK — A 70-something woman who gave her
address as 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. was arrested for
the 73rd time, accused of stealing a police decoy wallet
and stuffing it in her bra.
The woman, who prosecutors say has used 36 different names, was indicted Tuesday as Katherine Kelly.
A criminal complaint charged Kelly with grand larceny
and attempted grand larceny after her arrest in a Manhattan supermarket Oct. 15. It said she took a wallet,
left by police as bait, from a shopping cart. An officer
recovered the wallet from Kelly’s “bra area,” it said.
Undercover police also saw her trying to steal from
several shoppers by reaching inside their bags, the complaint said. A judge scheduled a Nov. 17 arraignment.
Kelly’s lawyer, James Neilson, stressed that she not
been convicted in this case and wouldn’t comment on
her past arrests. Asked if he thought Kelly was mentally
disturbed, Neilson replied, “that’s something we’re going to find out.”
Associated Press
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The CDC results came from an inperson, door-to-door survey in 2007 of
the households of 9,500 U.S. children
under age 18.
When asked if a child in the house
had any kind of food allergy in the previous 12 months, about 4 percent said
yes. The parents were not asked if a
doctor had made the diagnosis, and no
medical records were checked. Some
parents may not know the difference
between immune system-based food
allergies and digestive disorders like
lactose intolerance, so it’s possible the
study’s findings are a bit off, Branum
said.
However, the study’s results mirror
older national estimates that were extrapolated from smaller, more intensive
studies, said Dr. Hugh Sampson, a food
allergy researcher at the Mount Sinai
School of medicine.
“This tells us those earlier extrapolations were fairly close,” Sampson said.
The CDC study did not give a breakdown of which foods were to blame for
the allergies. Other research suggests
that about 1 in 40 Americans will have
a milk allergy at some point in their
lives, and 1 in 50 percent will be allergic to eggs. Most people outgrow these
allergies in childhood.
Panel urges vaccine for adult smokers
Associated Press
ATLANTA — For the first time, an influential
government panel is recommending a
vaccination specifically for smokers.
The panel decided Wednesday that adult
smokers under 65 should get pneumococcal vaccine. The shot, already recommended for anyone
65 or older, protects against bacteria that cause
pneumonia, meningitis and other illnesses.
Federal officials usually adopt recommendations made by the panel, the Advisory
Committee on Immunization Practices. The
vote means more than 31 million adult smok-
ers will soon be called on to get the shot.
Studies have shown that smokers are about
four times more likely than nonsmokers to
suffer pneumococcal disease. Also, the more
cigarettes someone smokes each day, the
higher the odds they’ll develop the illnesses.
Why smokers are more susceptible is not
known for sure, but some scientists believe it
has to do with smoking-caused damage that
allows the bacteria to more easily attach
to the lungs and windpipe, said Dr. Pekka
Nuorti, a medical epidemiologist with the
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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OBITUARIES
Vivian Jacobs
Graveside ser vices for
Vivian “Nita” Jacobs, 64, of
Paducah will be at 4 p.m. today at
M o u n t
Carmel
Cemetery
in Paducah
w it h t he
Rev. Bi l l
Miller officiating.
Mrs. Jacobs died
at 3:38 a.m. Tuesday at Western Baptist Hospital.
She was a member of McKendree United Methodist
Church and was a lifelong
honorary member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars.
She is survived by her father, Franklin K. Pierce Sr. of
Paducah; two daughters, Kim
Strickland of Paducah and
Kellie Rodgers of Paducah;
two sisters, Betty Jones
and Regina Pearson, both
of Paducah; two brothers,
Franklin Pierce Jr. of Grand
Rivers and Robert Pierce of
Paducah; six grandchildren;
and one great-grandchild.
She was preceded in death
by her son, Kevin Jacobs; her
mother, Mary Jane Lowry
Pierce; and one sister.
Friends may call after 2
p.m. today at Milner & Orr
Funeral Home of Paducah.
Mary Brasure
M c CO N N E LL , Te n n . —
Mary Christine Brasure, 49,
of McConnell died Tuesday in
Union City.
She was a member of Broadway Baptist Church and an
employee of MTD in Martin.
Surviving are two daughters, Joy Madding and Christy
Brasure, both of McConnell;
one son, Bobby Paul Brasure
of McKenzie; her father, Buford Long of Union City; her
mother, Muriel Eddington
Long of Martin; one brother,
Eddie Gene Long of Martin;
two sisters, Alice Joy Bailey
of Union City and Margie Lee
Cantrell of Martin; and four
grandchildren.
Graveside services will
be at 4 p.m. today at Sandy
Branch Cemetery in Weakley
County.
There will be no visitation.
Hornbeak Funeral Home in
Fulton, Ky., is in charge of arrangements.
Imogene McMahan
TUNNEL HILL, Ill. —
Imogene McMahan, 83, of
Tunnel Hill died Monday at
her home.
She was a homemaker and
a member of Community of
Christ Church.
Surviving are one son, Philip McMahan of Chillicothe,
Ohio; one brother, Wayne
Odum of Tunnel Hill; two sisters, Geraldine Cavitt of Vienna and Mary Lee Veach of
Paducah; and two grandchildren.
She was preceded in death
by her husband, Johnnie Edwin McMahan; one brother;
and two sisters. Her parents
were John H. Odum and Lillian M. Brown Odum.
Services will be at 1 p.m.
Friday at Bailey Funeral
Home. Burial will be at Webb
Cemetery near Tunnel Hill.
Friends may call from 6
to 8 p.m. today at the funeral
home.
Expressions of sympathy
may take the form of contributions to Webb Cemetery Fund,
c/o Phil Webb, 5140 Tunnel
Hill Road, Tunnel Hill, IL
62972.
Betty McLeod
B E NTO N , Ky. — Betty
Risner McLeod, 85, of Benton
died at 2:07 a.m. Wednesday at
Marshall County Hospital.
S he wa s pr e c e de d i n
death by her husband, Louis
McLeod, and one sister. Her
parents were Leonard Burlile
and Clara Huff Burlile.
Graveside services will be
11 a.m. Friday at Marshall
County Memory Gardens.
Friends may call after 9
a.m. Friday at Filbeck-Cann &
King Funeral Home.
Sadie Allbritten
M U R R AY, Ky. — Sadie
Allbritten, 91, of Murray died
Tuesday at Spring Creek
Health Care.
She was a homemaker and
a member of Glendale Road
Church of Christ.
Surviving are her daughter,
Joanna Wilder of Murray; two
sons, Hal Allbritten and Isaac
Allbritten, both of Murray;
and six grandchildren.
She was preceded in death
by her husband, Wendell Allbritten, and one brother. Her
parents were Bruce and Juna
Hendon Wilson.
Services will be at 11 a.m.
Friday at J.H. Churchill Funeral Home with John Dale
and Garry Evans officiating.
Burial will be at Murray City
Cemetery.
Friends may call from 5
to 8 p.m. today at the funeral
home.
Expressions of sympathy
may take the form of contributions to W.A.T.C.H. Center, 702
Main St., Murray, KY 42071.
Linda Ahart
D E X TE R , Ky. — Linda
Elkins Ahart, 69, of Dexter
died Wednesday at MurrayCalloway County Hospital.
Survivors include her husband, William Ahart; two
sons, Ronnie Ahart of Benton
and Brad Ahart of Dexter;
one daughter, Renae Story of
Hardin; two brothers, Frank
Elkins and Russell Elkins,
both of Murray; two sisters,
Mildred Thorn and Norma
Chadwick, both of Dexter;
three grandchildren; and two
great-grandchildren.
She was preceded in death
by a son, Michael Ahart, and
two brothers. Her parents
were Darrell and Susie Mathis
Elkins.
Services will be at 1 p.m.
Friday at Imes-Miller Funeral
Home. Burial will be at Stewart Cemetery in Almo.
Friends may call from 5 until 9 p.m. today at the funeral
home.
Gary Bishop
Gary Herman Bishop, 59,
of Murray died Monday at his
home.
Mr. Bishop was president
and CEO of IMS Inc., a United States Navy veteran and
a member of the Veterans of
Foreign Wars.
Surviving are two sisters,
Sandra Martin of Germantown, Tenn., and Vicki Sword
of Holly Springs, Miss.; and
one brother, Dewey Bishop of
Holly Springs, Miss.
He was preceded in death
by his wife, Michelle Bishop.
His parents were Thomas H.
Bishop and Vera Viola Smith
Bishop.
A memorial service will be
held at 2 p.m. Sunday at J.H.
Churchill Funeral Home.
Friends may call after 1
p.m. Sunday at the funeral
home.
Ina Holloway
ROSICLARE, Ill. — Ina
Holloway, 80, of Rosiclare died
at 10:32 a.m. Wednesday at
Hardin County Hospital.
Surviving are one sister,
Miley McGehee of Highland,
Ind.; one niece; and one nephew.
Graveside services will be
at 1 p.m. Friday at Cave Hill
Cemetery in Cave-in-Rock.
There will be no visitation.
Rose-Gilbert Funeral Home in
Cave-in-Rock is in charge of
arrangements.
Marvin King
Marvin King, 79, of Paducah
died at 6:15 a.m. Wednesday at
Medco Center of Paducah.
Arrangements were incomplete at Lindsey Funeral
Home.
Richard Eastham
G I L B E R T SV I L L E , Ky.
— Richard Eastham, 61, of
Gilbertsville died at 8:45 a.m.
Wednesday at his home.
Arrangements were incomplete at Collier Funeral Home
in Benton.
Funeral notices
Paid obituaries furnished to The Paducah Sun by mortuaries.
William Monroe
LYONS, Ill. — William
M a r v i n Mon ro e, 8 8 , of
Lyons, formerly of Lola, died
Tuesday, October 21, 2008, at
I l linois
Vetera ns
Home i n
Manteno.
Funeral
ser vices
will be
Saturday,
October
2 5, 2 0 0 8,
at 10 a.m.
at Boyd Funeral Directors
In Salem, Ky. Burial will be
at Lola Pentecostal Church
Cemetery.
Mr. Monroe was a member
of Lola Pentecostal Church.
He was a World War II veteran of the Army Air Corps. He
was a member of the Masonic
Lodge in Illinois, a member of
the Veterans of Foreign Wars
in Stickney Post No. 6863, and
the Fraternal Order of Eagles,
Blue Island Chapter.
Mr. Monroe is survived by
two sons, Raymond D. Monroe of Blue Island and William M. Monroe of Illinois;
one daughter, Kathy A. Edwards of Lyons; seven grandchildren; and 15 great-grandchildren.
Mr. Monroe was preceded
in death by his wife, Anna
L. Monroe; one son, Norris
Wayne Monroe; and 13 brothers and sisters. His parents
were Carl Monroe and Effie
Cash Monroe.
Visitation for Mr. Monroe
will be Friday evening, October 24, 2008, from 5 p.m. until
8 p.m. at Boyd Funeral Directors in Salem.
Condolences may be left
online at www.boydfuneraldirectors.com.
Aubrey A. Holland
CALVE R T CIT Y, Ky. —
Aubrey A. Holland, 69, of
Calvert City passed away at
3:33 p.m. Monday, October 20,
2008, at Vanderbilt University
Medical Center.
Mr. Holland was
a member of the
Fraternal
Order of
the Eagles
No. 3510, a
fou ndi ng
member of
the River
Tin Street Rods, a lifetime
member of the Street Machine Club and a member of
Teamsters Local No. 286. He
was a tank cleaner for Trimac
Transportation.
He is survived by his life
partner, Barbara Temporiti;
two daughters, Angela Harrington and Kim Reed, both
of Benton; three sons, Chris
Holland of Calvert City, Randy Holland of Smithland and
Brandon Holland of Huntsville, Ala.; two sisters, Emma
Jean Ramsey of Dexter and
Louzane Carr of Benton; eleven grandchildren; and two
great-grandchildren.
He was preceded in death
by his parents, Chester Holland and Rhoda Barnes Holland.
Funeral services will be
at 1 p.m. Friday, October
24, 2008, at Filbeck-Cann &
King Funeral Home. Burial
will follow at Barnes Family
Homeplace in Smithland.
Friends may call after 5
p.m. today, October 23, 2008,
at Filbeck-Cann & King Funeral Home.
Junior Curnel
SAL E M , Ky. — Junior
Curnel, 65, of Salem died
Wednesday at his home.
Arrangements were incomplete at Boyd Funeral Directors in Salem.
Jack Cundiff
NEW CONCORD, Ky. — Jack
Cundiff, 79, of New Concord
died at 6 p.m. Tuesday at his
home.
Arrangements were incomplete at Imes-Miller Funeral
Home in Murray.
World Bank:
West Bank
land prices
increasing
Associated Press
J E R U SA L E M — The
price of property in the
West Bank is rocketing
beyond the reach of most
local businesses and home
buyers, pushed up by a
weak dollar and Israeli
control of large chunks of
the territory, a World Bank
report said Thursday.
The 41-page paper said
local government data
from the commercial and
political center of Ramallah indicates the value of
prime downtown commercial plots has doubled each
year since 2005, hitting the
current average of about
$372 a square foot.
Israel, citing the need
to prevent Palestinian
attacks inside Israel and
on Jewish settlers in the
West Bank, has kept large
swaths of Palestinian land
and roads off limits to
Palestinians. It also maintains a complex network
of checkpoints on roads
that remain open to West
Bankers.
That leaves the vast majority of Palestinians chasing land in the remaining
41 percent of the territory,
which is home to at least
90 percent of the population, the World Bank said.
“As a result, land prices
are shooting up and in
certain towns are becoming prohibitive for all but
high value commercial
activities, or high rise
apartment buildings,” the
report said. “Residential
development is crowding
out other economic activities on scarce plots available for development, yet
there remains a housing
shortage.”
paducahsun.com
US commandos
rescue American
hostage near Kabul
BY JASON
STRAZIUSO
Associated Press
KABUL, Afghanistan —
U.S. Special Forces soldiers
conducti ng a da ri ng
nighttime operation freed
a kidnapped American
working for the A rmy
Corps of Engineers — the
first known hostage rescue
by American forces in
Afghanistan.
The American, who was
abducted in mid-August,
had been held in a growing insurgent stronghold
30 miles west of Kabul, U.S.
military officials told The
Associated Press. They said
several insurgents were
killed in last week’s mission
to free him.
Taliban militants have
kidnapped dozens of international aid workers, journalists and other foreigners
in recent years and have
demanded large ransoms or
the release of imprisoned
Taliban fighters for their
freedom. Increasingly aggressive crime syndicates
have also raked in big money by kidnapping wealthy
Afghans and foreigners and
demanding ransoms.
Host age rescues a re
rarely attempted and are
difficult to pull off successfully. Only two such missions are known to have oc-
Associated Press
B A G H D A D — I r aqi
o f f i c i a l s We d n e s d ay
reported finding mass
graves with remains of
34 people, most believed
to have been Iraqi army
recruits waylaid three
years ago by al-Qaida
gunmen as they traveled
to a training base near the
Syrian border.
Farmers tipped off authorities last week about
the graves, located in the
Euphrates River valley
near Syria, according to
a local mayor, Farhan Fitaghan.
Most of the victims were
believed to have been army
recruits from the southern
Shiite city of Karbala who
were traveling by bus in
September 2005 to a training camp in in Qaim when
they were stopped by gunmen and taken away, the
mayor said.
The Qaim area had been
among the most dangerous parts of the country
for U.S. troops and their
Iraqi allies.
A kidnapped American was
freed 30 miles west of Kabul in
a U.S. Special Forces operation.
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curred, both in 2007. In one,
both Italian captives were
wounded in a raid by Italian commandos.
Last week’s rescue came
to the attention of the AP
after a U.S. military official
sought to bring its successful outcome into the public
eye. Officials declined to
reveal even the smallest detail or the captive’s identity,
saying they did not want to
compromise military tactics or the man’s safety.
Three U.S. military officials told the AP that Special Forces troops were able
to locate the kidnapper’s
hideaway in the Nirkh district of Wardak province
outside Kabul, but would
not specify how. They spoke
on condition of anonymity
because they were not authorized to release the information.
Associated Press
Shelves selling dairy products sit half empty at a
Wal-Mart store in Beijing. Wal-Mart Stores Inc. said
Wednesday that it will set new quality standards for
its suppliers amid a scare over toxic milk products
that have sickened tens of thousands of babies
across China.
UN urges improved
food safety for China
Associated Press
Mass graves
found near
Syrian border
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6A • Thursday, October 23, 2008 • The Paducah Sun
BEIJING — China can
boost public trust badly
shaken by a spate of food
safety scandals, including
tainted formula that gave
thousands of babies painful
kidney stones, by enacting
stricter laws and replacing
its patchwork surveillance
system, t he U.N. said
Wednesday.
The U.N. also recommended other changes, including more funding and
training for food inspectors,
in a 30-page paper released
a day before the central
government is to review its
draft law on food safety.
The paper follows a scandal over tainted milk powder.
In September, authorities
announced they had found
the industrial chemical
melamine, which is used to
make plastics and fertilizer,
in infant formula. The sub-
stance was reportedly added
to boost protein levels.
The deaths of four babies
have been linked to the contamination and some 54,000
children have been sickened.
“The national system
needs urgent review and
revision,” U.N. Resident Coordinator in China Khalid
Malik said at a press conference in Beijing where the
paper was made public.
China needs a unified
regulatory agency, the report said, and a place consumers can go for reliable
information. The task is
now split between a half
dozen government agencies,
creating confusion and uneven enforcement.
The United Nations report said China has a basic food hygiene law but it
needs revision to cover the
food chain from farm to
table.
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The Paducah Sun • Thursday, October 23, 2008 • 7A
BARKLEY: Law school to close over lingering issues of predecessor; owner says he plans to start another
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other schools.
Not only did Manchikanti
find Barkley potentially liable for the more than $ 5
million in debts of American
Justice, he said it was difficult to separate the two from
public perception and negative publicity.
Since assuming ownership
of the school in February,
Manchikanti said, he has
invested more than $2 million to refund student loans
and tuition paid to American
Justice, pay loans, renovate
the Resource Center in the
Paducah Information Age
Park, and pay staff salaries
and other day-to-day expenses. He said he won’t recover
those funds.
He said his investment will
increase because he hopes to
buy the assets of the American Justice School of Law
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local elected officials to have
the first opportunity to provide details.
The news conference is
scheduled for the Commerce
Center, which houses the
Greater Paducah Economic
Development Council. GPEDC
Vice President George Harben would not confirm whether AEP was the focus of the
gathering.
Rumors of a pending formal
announcement had been sporadic since late May when the
Kentucky Economic Development Finance Authority gave
preliminary approval for job
training funds for the project.
State records listed an investment of about $4 million and
the creation of 39 jobs.
At the time, Carr confirmed
the company was considering a 24,000-square-foot office
and warehouse between the
under-construction Crounse
Corporation headquarters
— now nearly finished — and
the Ingram Barge Co. offices
completed in 2006.
In June, the city commission rena med Sout h
2nd Street, site of the new
Crounse building, as Marine
Way to recognize the many
river industries there.
AEP began expanding in
Paducah Jan. 1, when it completed buying the assets of
B&H Towing and affiliate
Lay Leasing, two longtime
Paducah towing firms that
had supplied towboats to AEP
for 12 years.
AEP’s fleet of 56 towboats
and nearly 2,900 hopper barges transports grain, steel,
cement, fertilizer and other
commodities throughout the
river system.
Joe Walker can be contacted at 575-8656.
through bankruptcy proceedings. Assets are valued at $1.6
million and include 30 acres
next to the Resource Center
and library holdings.
The Greater Paducah Economic Development Corporation still owns the Resource
Center, leasing it to the school
with an option to buy for $2.25
million. Manchikanti said he
didn’t exercise the option.
He’s already has discussions with GPEDC asking
for incentives for a new law
school that he hopes to announce in early 2009.
Mayor Bill Paxton said
GPEDC officials met Tuesday
to discuss Manchikanti’s request. “He plans a significant
investment and we’ll meet
with him in a couple of weeks
to offer him some help,” Paxton said. “It would be prema-
ture to talk about what will
be offered.”
In 2004, GPEDC gave the
American Justice School of
Law an incentive package
that included 30 acres of free
land next to the Resource
Center and valued at nearly
$1.5 million, an option to buy
the Resource Center for $2.25
million, about $1 million less
than its appraised valued,
and a total $ 500,000 grant
from the city and county once
the Resource Center was purchased.
In exchange, the school
committed to 300 employees
by the end of 2008 and 500 by
2010. Under the agreement,
GPEDC could cancel the deal
and reclaim the property because the goals weren’t met.
However, Manchikanti said
GPEDC can’t reclaim the 30
acres because it is tied up in
the American Justice School
of Law’s bankruptcy proceedings; it was used as collateral
for loans.
Among other incentives,
Manchikanti wants to acquire the Resource Center,
which was renovated this
summer at a cost of $400,000
to make it suitable for classrooms.
The American Justice
School of Law began offering
classes in the fall of 2005 and
by the fall of 2007 had grown
to nearly 200 students. The
school faced problems in late
2007 after the American Bar
Association denied accreditation and a stockholder and
students filed a federal lawsuit claiming mismanagement and misappropriation
of funds.
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Manchikanti assumed ownership in February as part
of a settlement of the suit by
agreeing to be responsible for
about $1.5 million in loans.
His intent was to resurrect
the school with a new name
and new management.
Putt, the dean hired in July
to lead the school to accreditation, said he plans to stay
in Paducah to help establish
a totally new school.
He said he isn’t sure of the
timetable for announcing
the new school and starting
classes. He said it involves
significant planning so previous mistakes won’t be repeated and accreditation by the
American Bar Association
can be secured faster.
Bill Bartleman can be contacted at 575-8651.
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8A • Thursday, October 23, 2008 • The Paducah Sun
paducahsun.com
Britain widens scope
for stem cell research
Associated Press
LONDON — British plans
to allow scientists to use hybrid animal-human embryos
for stem cell research won final approval from lawmakers
Wednesday in a sweeping overhaul of sensitive science laws.
The House of Commons also
clarified laws that allow the
screening of embryos to produce babies with suitable bone
marrow or other material for
transplant to sick siblings.
It was the first review of embryo science in Britain in almost 20 years.
Prime Minister Gordon
Brown says he believes scientists seeking to use mixed animal-human embryos for stem
cell research into diseases such
as Parkinson’s will help improve — and save — lives.
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CONTINUED FROM 1A
dedicated to downtown development and a partner in promoting the skating rink.
“The nearest skating rink
is 90 miles away in Owensboro so I expect we’ll be getting people from a 50-mile
radius to see this attraction,”
Thompson said.
Party packages, chances to
rent out the rink, and “character skate” days where costumed book and film characters will skate should add to
the festive feeling, said Susie
Coiner, with Domino Consulting of Paducah. Domino is
teaming up with Renaissance
to promote the rink.
Coiner said that on Saturday mornings Nov. 15-Jan. 3,
characters from popular children’s books and movies will
skate with children and read
aloud stories. Admission will
be $3 on those days between
9-11 a.m.
Magic Ice USA of Miami
will build and disassemble the rink, which costs
$125,000 total, according to
Thompson.
“We’ll arrive Nov. 6 and
start the construction process,” said Brad Holland,
Magic Ice vice president.
“It’s a six-day process depending on the weather.”
Holland’s company has 15
rinks set up across the U.S.
from Florida to California
and uses thousands of feet of
plastic tubing filled with antifreeze to constantly chill a
3-inch thick slab of ice in the
rinks.
“We’re excited about being
in Paducah,” Holland said.
“It’s the small towns and
markets that do the best. It
costs something like $35 to
ice skate in New York City.
In Paducah you’ll be able to
for $5.”
Thompson said Parks Services workers will look after
skaters and offer skating lessons.
He said the city is looking
to hire qualified skaters to
work as skate guards. For
more information call People Plus at 442-5627 or visit
www.ci.paducah.ky.us.
With crime tape
all around, a horse
raises up from eating out of a bin in
a field adjacent to
the house at 779
Elm Grove Road in
Calloway County on
Wednesday. One
man was killed and
two other people
wounded in a Tuesday night shooting at
the residence.
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SHOOTINGS: Homicide upsets quiet neighborhood in Calloway
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The small red brick house,
about six miles from Murray,
is nestled in a shaded front
yard and adjoins a field with
two horses.
The neighborhood seems
fairly quiet and rural. Jackie Brandon, 69, said he was
awakened at 3 a.m. Wednesday when troopers knocked
on his door to ask if he knew
anything about the nearby
shooting.
“I’ve been here my whole
life, and there’s no trouble
like this that I know of,”
Brandon said.
Neighbor Scott Lowe, 27,
heard the news on a radio
station as he returned from
hauling tobacco to Hopkins-
ville early Wednesday morning. “This sort of makes you
feel more cautious about
this type of stuff,” he said.
“It proves that anything can
happen in these times. You
don’t know people and what
they’re doing.”
Fike said she doesn’t know
why anyone would want to
harm her brother. “I’m anxious for the person who did
this to get caught,” she said.
Fike doesn’t know much
about Eddie Eldridge because he moved away when
his parents divorced when
he was a child.
Investigation
State police received a
phone call at 11:50 p.m. Tues-
day about the shooting, and
five or six troopers went at
the house. Calloway Deputy
Coroner Ricky Garland arrived at the home at 12:30
a.m. and sent Eldridge’s
body for an autopsy. Officials have not released the
cause of death.
“I heard from others how
he died,” Fike said. “I don’t
have to like it to understand
it.”
P at t e r s o n c o n f i r m e d
Eldridge’s death had been
ruled a homicide. All three
shootings happened inside
the home, he said.
Investigators from the
Kentucky State Police Lab
in Frankfort collected evidence. Technicians bagged
evidence and placed markers
on the gray gravel driveway.
Police are continuing to
look for a suspect and are
not releasing a motive. Patterson said they are continuing to talk to the people who
were inside the home and
following leads.
State police oversaw the
investigation because they
arrived at the house first.
Calloway County Sheriff
Bill Marcum had been out of
town on Wednesday and had
little to say at the scene.
Sun photographer John
Wright contributed to this
story.
Leigh Landini Wright can
be contacted at 5758658.
Adam Shull can be contacted at 575-8653.
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