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THE CINCINNATI ENQUIRER
CINCINNATI.COM
FINAL NEWS/SPORTS
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 28, 2005
Where did your gas dollars go?
INSIDE
The Associated Press
Libby
Aides say Libby
indictment near
Associates of I. Lewis
Libby Jr., Vice President Dick Cheney’s
chief of staff, braced for
an indictment today
charging him with
making false statements in the CIA leak
case, lawyers say. A4
DALLAS – Exxon Mobil
Corp. rewrote the corporate
record books Thursday.
As Americans paid $3-plus
for a gallon of gasoline after
Hurricane Katrina, the oil
company’s third-quarter earnings soared to almost $10 billion, and it became the first
public company ever with
quarterly sales topping $100
billion. Its profit was up 75
percent from the same period
in 2004.
Up Front
Devan Downey
may be UC’s
point-guard-to-be
Anglo-Dutch competitor
Royal Dutch Shell Plc wasn’t
far behind, posting a profit of
$9 billion for the quarter.
Those results led Democrats in Congress to demand
a new windfall profits tax.
“Big oil behemoths are
making out like bandits, while
the average American family
is getting killed by high gas
prices, and soon-to-be record
heating oil prices,” Sen.
Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y.,
said.
Even a key Republican said
he wanted to see what’s behind the higher profits.
“A dominant issue on people’s minds throughout
America is the high cost of energy. Every family feels it,”
Senate Majority Leader Bill
Frist, a Republican, said while
announcing a broad Senate
investigation into the “rea-
sons for high energy prices.”
“I have asked (the committees) to call as witnesses executives from the major oil companies and representatives of
the state attorneys general,
who have the initial responsibility of keeping the behavior
of local energy providers on
the straight and narrow,“ said
Frist, the highest-ranking Republican in the Senate.
“And ultimately, if the facts
warrant it, I will support a federal anti-price-gouging law.”
But Energy Secretary Samuel Bodman said President
Bush opposes a windfall-profits tax and is instead considering a wide range of proposals
to help cushion consumers,
including the creation of an
emergency reserve of gasoline and other products.
See OIL, Page A12
A Butler County war widow will get a new home
and a college scholarship
on tonight’s episode of
“Three Wishes.”
LIFE F1
A cabin with a bit of baseball history is the treasured feature of a Mount
Lookout home.
HOME STYLE
High 56°
Low 34°
Clouds
and sun
COMPLETE FORECAST: B8
Jim Noelker for The Enquirer
Amelia head coach Rob Kiefer leads his team in prayer before last week’s game against Glen Este, which the Barons lost
42-0. The 33-year-old Kiefer, in his first year, says the team works hard and deserves to win.
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Past 3 seasons
By Tom Groeschen/Enquirer staff writer
melia High School has lost 30 consecutive football games, dating to October 2002. The Barons’ long-suffering seniors get one last chance tonight
against Walnut Hills, with legitimate hopes of ending one of the longest
losing streaks in Ohio history.
Amelia and Walnut Hills both
take 0-9 records into their season finale, with kickoff at 7:30
p.m. at Amelia’s Clermont County campus stadium.
“If we win,” Amelia senior
linebacker Zach Sheppard said,
“we might tear down the goalposts. I’d probably cry, too.”
Amelia and Walnut Hills, both
Fort Ancient Valley Conference
Buckeye Division teams, each
see this as a rare chance for victory. In Amelia’s case, the hunger pangs are greater. While
Walnut Hills itself carries a 15-
game losing streak, the Eagles
did win one game in each of the
2003 and ’04 seasons – both
times over Amelia.
“Everyone is tired of hearing
the same old routine,” Amelia senior flanker Gary Rudd said.
“We go to school every Monday
after losing, and people say,
‘Wow, why are you guys so bad?’
Well, nobody wants to win more
than us. We want that so much.”
The last time Amelia won a
varsity football game was Oct.
18, 2002, a 27-20 win over Northwest. Since then, the Barons not
89%
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On a sunny weekday morning, the lone
man on a basketball court in Delhi Park lofted a shot from just in front of the free-throw
line and swished it.
He retrieved the ball after it fell through
the net and nimbly shot a layup. Not bad for a
73-year-old.
“I just can’t get basketball out of my system,” said Ray Ester, who played ball for
Mount Healthy High
School more than
five decades ago. “I
come here quite a bit
to shoot baskets.”
Ester is among
the thousands –
young and old – who
regularly use Delhi Where the issues apTownship’s
parks pear and what they’ll
throughout the year. cost you. A12
He doesn’t like tax increases but he says Online: Get complete
he’ll vote for the election coverage at
township’s 1-mill levy Cincinnati.Com.
Nov. 8.
Keyword: elections
“I’m all for it,” Ester said. “This is a nice park and has always
been very well kept.”
A host of other Hamilton County communities also have tax initiatives on the November general election ballot. They want more
tax money for everything from fire and police
services to street and building repairs.
Some levies are renewals that will cost taxpayers no extra money.
Other tax initiatives are income tax proposals or new or replacement levies that will
raise taxes.
Delhi’s 1-mill parks levy would result in a
$7.30 increase in the annual taxes of the owner of a $100,000 house. It would generate
about $473,000 in tax revenue a year.
It will be listed on the ballot as a new levy,
but it actually replaces the 1-mill parks levy
that expires at the end of this year.
“It’s a vital levy for us,” Sandra Monahan,
township parks director, said. “If the levy
doesn’t pass, the funds for parks will stop
coming in.”
Golf Manor and Crosby Township are asking for the largest increases in costs to property owners of any Hamilton County communities.
only have lost, but lost big, with
30 straight defeats by an average
score of 42-3.
Rob Kiefer, Amelia’s first-year
head coach, is young (33), energetic and vows to right the ship.
Amelia’s losing streak is tied for
14th-longest in Ohio history, and
the school is within shouting distance of the Cincinnati prep football record of 45 straight winless
games by Taft (1977-82). The
state record is 64 by Youngstown North.
See AMELIA, Page A15
Amelia is trying to avoid its third
straight 0-10 season. A glance
at the last three seasons:
m 2003 – Won 0, Lost 10.
(Outscored 491-9)
m 2004 – Won 0, Lost 10.
(Outscored 439-40)
m 2005 – Won 0, Lost 9. (Outscored 323-26)
Inside
m A look at some of the state’s
longest losing streaks. A15
m Weekend preps preview,
with statistics, standings. C6-7
Saturday: Check out The Enquirer for full results, and go
online to Cincinnati.Com.
Keyword: preps
Photo gallery: photos
See LEVIES, Page A12
Court of public opinion vetoes Miers
By Bill Nichols
Inside
USA Today
INDEX
ConocoPhillips
$2.01B
$3.80B
Marathon
247%
$222M
$770M
34%
Inside
Internet use is up among
adults and children, but so
is worry about the risks,
the Census Bureau finds.
NATION A7
SATURDAY
$4.87B
$6.53B
68%
$9.0B
Enquirer staff writer
Local war widow
gets big wishes
COMING
BP
$5.37B
75%
$9.92B
By Steve Kemme
People using natural gas
to heat their homes will
pay 36-50 percent more in
November than a year
ago, Cinergy says.
BUSINESS D1
Cincinnati State failed a
state measure of financial
health and may be forced
to make cuts in its budget.
LOCAL B1
Royal Dutch Shell
$5.68B
Communities will vote
on parks, police, more
Natural gas prices
to jump in Nov.
Cincinnati State
hits financial rut
2004 2005
ExxonMobil
18 levies
let you
decide
UC’s 5-foot-9 freshman Devan Downey may not be
big, but he may be the
point guard the Bearcats
have been looking for.
SPORTS C1
Internet use
and concern up
3rd-quarter profits
Well, Exxon made $10 billion, Shell, $9 billion . . .
Amelia will attempt to break its
three-year, 30-game losing streak
against Walnut Hills tonight
Must reads inside
today’s Enquirer
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WASHINGTON – President Bush
withdrew the nomination of White
House counsel Harriet Miers to the Supreme Court Thursday in the face of
fierce and virtually unprecedented opposition from within his own party.
Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, RTenn., said a new nomination was expected soon. “The next one is going to
come, I think, fairly quickly,” he said.
The White House blamed a Senate request for internal documents related to
Miers’ work in the administration for the
withdrawal. Bush spokesman Scott McClellan said Miers informed Bush
Wednesday night and gave Bush a for-
Miers
m Analysis: Withdrawal
shows conservatives’
strength, Bush’s weakness. A2
m Editorial: Bush better
get it right next time. B6
mal letter Thursday morning.
“It is clear that senators would not be
satisfied until they gained access to internal documents concerning advice provided during her tenure at the White
House – disclosures that would undermine a president’s ability to receive candid counsel,” Bush said Thursday.
Miers was the first Supreme Court
nominee to withdraw since 1987, when
Douglas Ginsburg exited after revelations about earlier marijuana use.
Several GOP senators and strategists
acknowledged that the decision was less
about documents and more about tension between Bush and his base:
m Frist gave White House chief of
staff Andy Card a “frank assessment” of
the nomination Wednesday afternoon, a
Frist spokesman said.
m Leading conservatives such as
Weekly Standard editor Bill Kristol had
called for Miers to withdraw, citing her
lack of judicial experience.
m “This gives the president a chance
to restore and revive his presidency,”
said Richard Viguerie, who runs ConservativeHQ.com, a political Web site.
The Enquirer/Glenn Hartong
Grieving for a fallen Marine
Chantal Pummill, wife of Marine Staff Sgt. Rick Pummill, is comforted by her parents, Connie and Paul Raney, on Thursday during Sgt. Pummill’s burial in Withamsville. The graduate of Anderson High School was
killed last week by a roadside bomb in Iraq. Story, B1