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Barlow waives preliminary hearing in rape case
BY REBECCA FELDHAUS
[email protected]
BENTON — Former South
Marshall Middle School principal Kent Barlow resigned in the
midst of an investigation into
charges of rape and unlawful imprisonment.
Barlow appeared in Marshall
District Court on Wednesday and
waived his right to a preliminary
hearing. Mark Bryant, Barlow’s
JOHN WRIGHT | The Sun attorney, said Barlow resigned
Kent Barlow walks into the Marshall District Courtroom on Wednes- from his principal position effecday in Benton. A preliminary hearing in Barlow’s case was waived.
tive Wednesday. Superintendent
Trent Lovett confirmed Barlow’s
resignation.
The district will post the position for new applicants Thursday.
The district must make a decision
on Barlow’s replacement before
July 1.
Bryant said Barlow’s spirits
were better than when he was
arrested. Emily Roark, who also
serves as Barlow’s counsel, requested a reduced bail so he
could go to Cumberland Heights
rehabilitation center near Nashville, Tenn. District Judge Jack
Telle denied the request.
Bryant said he is trying to find
a suitable counseling center for
Barlow. He said Barlow’s need for
counseling has nothing to do with
drugs or alcohol and would not
comment whether Barlow sought
counseling before his arrest.
Kentucky State Police arrested
Barlow after a female acquaintance accused him of rape, among
other charges. He faces charges of
rape, terroristic threatening and
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Zoning allows
for nursing
FEMA encourages storm damage registration
home in park
Help after the storm
BY SHELLEY BYRNE
[email protected]
BY MALLORY PANUSKA
[email protected]
A minimally developed Paducah industrial
park may be on the verge of attracting more business and jobs through a broader zoning code.
City Planner Steve Ervin said a nursing
home expressed interest in locating inside the
Paducah Commerce Park, formerly Information Age Park, and the city amended the zoning regulations
allow it. The
“For 20 years to
zoning amendthey attempted ment that comadto develop the missioners
opted Tuesday
park ... I don’t allows not only
homes
think we need nursing
but also simito let one of our lar projects,
to planhighest investors subject
ning commisnot go out there.” sion approval.
C h a d
Chancellor,
Chad Chancellor
President, Paducah
Paducah EcoEconomic Development
nomic Development president, said the park, located off U.S. 60 and
U.S. 62 on a tract of city-annexed land, has
been on the market for roughly two decades
but developers have been unable to fill it up.
“For 20 years they attempted to develop
the park and it’s still about only a fourth developed,” he said. “I don’t think we need to let
one of our highest investors not go out there.”
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Kentuckians with home
damage from storms Feb.
29-March 3 should apply now
for federal assistance, even if
their property is insured, according to the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
FEMA asked survivors of
severe storms, tornadoes,
straight-line
winds
and
flooding to register to determine if they qualify for grants
for temporary housing, basic
home repairs, other disasterrelated needs and low-interest disaster loans, according
to a news release.
People living in McCracken County who had storm
damage have already been
approved for FEMA assistance. Eight homes had substantial damage, including
two mobile homes that were
destroyed and one picked
up and moved three feet
on Feb. 29 when an EF-2
crossed through portions of
Pulaski and Massac counties
in Illinois and Ballard and
McCracken counties in Kentucky. Other damage included a home on Warford Road
that lost a large section of its
roof as well as some siding.
“That doesn’t include farm
buildings,” McCracken County
Emergency Management Di-
JOHN WRIGHT | The Sun
Three people, including two children, were injured inside this mobile home in February on
Ogden Landing Road in western McCracken County when a tornado blasted the area before
dawn that day. FEMA is asking survivors of the Feb. 29-March 3 storms to register to determine if they qualify for federal disaster assistance.
rector Paul Carter said. “We
had one farm where just all the
buildings were destroyed.”
Marty Shelton, 48, of Ragland is one of those hoping
FEMA reimburses him for
expenses.
“It turned the trailer over,”
he said of the Feb. 29 tornado. “Me and another person
were trapped inside for two
hours before they came and
got us out.”
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Allergy onset offers more than headache
BY WILL PINKSTON
[email protected]
For many people, spring is all
sunshine and flowers, but for allergy sufferers it’s that precise,
potent mixture that is making for
a dismal experience.
Dusty pollen has coated nearly every outdoor surface in the
South and Midwest. And the region is settled in the middle of the
yellow triangle of Top 50 allergy
JOHN WRIGHT | The Sun capitals for the year, with LouisGolfers appear through an opening of pine trees Wednesday at ville ranked third overall; MemKentucky Dam Village Golf Course in Gilbertsville. The pines are phis, eighth; and St. Louis 29th
contributing to a surge in allergy cases at local doctor’s offices.
in the nation by the Asthma and
Allergy Foundation of America.
“When you have to turn on your
wipers to get out of the driveway
and it’s not even raining, then
that’s pretty bad,” said Dr. John
Cecil, a physician at Dallas Medical Family Practice. The clinic
averages 20 to 30 patients a day
with classic symptoms of sneezing, runny nose, congestion,
headaches and watery eyes.
Dr. Bradley Rankin, a boardcertified allergist at Family Allergy
& Asthma, said allergic rhinitis
symptoms skyrocketed over the
weekend as pollen spread from ju-
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Pollen developed much sooner and stronger than previous
years, which Rankin attributed to
warmer temperatures and an increase in carbon dioxide.
“Globally, there’s a lot more pollen out there,” Rankin said. “Not
only are the counts higher, but the
pollen is more stronger and more
concentrated. It seems to be coming earlier and earlier with higher
counts, so the seasons are going to
be much longer.”
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Parole officer pleads not guilty
Today
Senior Medicare Patrol, 8 a.m.-4
p.m., 1400 H.C. Mathis Dr. 4428993. Protect yourself from Medicare errors, fraud and abuse.
AARP and the IRS will offer free
tax service to low- to moderateincome individuals, with special
attention to those age 60 and older,
9 a.m.-1 p.m., McCracken County
Public Library, 555 Washington St.
Walk-ins welcome.
Paducah Toastmasters, noon,
The Pasta House Co. Joe Shallbetter, 506-1791, or Clay Campbell,
703-2700.
Downtown Kiwanis Club, lunch,
noon, Elks Club, 310 N. Fourth St.
441-0825.
Paducah Teacher Federal Credit
Union, 55th annual meeting, 4
p.m., Paducah Board of Education
boardroom.
A probation and parole officer pleaded
not guilty to an official misconduct
charge Wednesday.
Don Thomas, attorney for Lance
Warmath, entered a not guilty plea on his
behalf Wednesday in Marshall District
Court in Benton. District Judge Jack Telle
scheduled a pre-trial conference for May
2.
Warmath remains on paid administrative leave pending the outcome of the
investigation of him, said Jennifer Brislin,
spokeswoman for the Kentucky Cabinet
for Justice and Public Safety.
A special Marshall County grand jury
indicted Warmath, 29, of Benton on a
charge of first-degree official misconduct
March 8. According to the indictment,
the grand jury alleged that between July
1, 2011, and Feb. 29, 2012, Warmath
knowingly violated a rule or regulation
relating to his office with the intent to
obtain a benefit. State police Trooper
Dean Patterson has said that Warmath
sent a woman he was supposed to be
supervising cell phone text messages to
try to induce a relationship that was inappropriate.
Wine tasting to benefit St. Nicholas Family Clinic, 5 p.m., Pasta
House Co., 451 Jordan Drive.
— Sun staff report
Couple accused of forging checks
Kiwanis Club of South Paducah,
dinner meeting, 7 p.m., 1640 S.
Sixth St. Cathy Brown, 488-3363.
Paducah Inspirational Book of the
Month Club, 7 p.m., Etcetera Coffeehouse, 320 N. Sixth St. 210-2093.
Friday
St. John Knights of Columbus
Fish Fry, 4-7:30 p.m., St. John
Knights of Columbus Hall, 6725
U.S. 45 South.
Steak night, 5-8 p.m., River City
Eagles Aerie 3686, 1919 Cairo Road.
Dance, 7-10 p.m., American Legion Post 26 Hall, Mayfield. $5.
Dance, 7-10 p.m., Grand Rivers
Community Center, 155 W. Cumberland. $5. 362-8272.
Blood drive
12:30-5 p.m. Thursday, Farmington Elementary.
Correction
In the April edition of House Call
Monthly, in an article titled, “Rare
neurological disease means lengthy
recovery,” the last name of Western
Baptist Hospital neurologist Joseph
Ashburn, M.D., was incorrectly spelled
as Ashbury. The reporter erred.
Agenda
■ Crittenden Fiscal Court — 1
p.m., courthouse.
■ Murray City Council — 6:30
p.m., City Hall.
■ Paducah-McCracken Joint Sewer
Agency — 5 p.m., meeting facility,
Northview St.
A woman faces charges for forging
checks while McCracken County deputies are seeking her husband for allegedly passing more bogus checks.
According to a news release, Angela
Burkart, 43, address and city of residence not available, was charged with
five counts of forgery.
On Feb. 22, deputies received a report
of a woman cashing forged checks on
two occasions. The suspect purchased
items totaling $95.16. Banterra Bank
told SuperValu management the checks
had false routing and account numbers.
While the name “Carmon Hoffman” was
on each check, the account addresses
were different.
Deputies allege that Burkart’s husband,
Richard Burkart, no age available, used
two false checks totaling $2,421.65 to
Purcell Auction on March 5 and 8.
Burkart may be staying at local campgrounds in Kentucky or Illinois. He may
be driving a small maroon Chevrolet
S-10, Illinois license plate number
92407W, and traveling with several
dogs and cats. Anyone with information
regarding his location can contact the
McCracken sheriff’s department at 4444719 or Crimestoppers at 443-TELL.
Photos by JOHN WRIGHT | The Sun
Irvin Cobb improvements
A hydraulic crane lifts Danny Kidd and Mike Ralston, both of D&K Masonry in
Paducah, 110 feet Wednesday as they remove a decorative concrete column from
atop the Irvin Cobb Apartments in downtown Paducah, above. The work is required
as the concrete has flaked for several years, posing a hazard to people below. Danny
Kidd uses a water hose to limit dust flying from the chop saw partner Mike Ralston is
using Wednesday, below.
— Sun staff report
Caregiver charged with stealing
An in-home caregiver faces charges of
stealing a patient’s jewelry.
McCracken County deputy sheriffs
arrested Jamie L. Richards, 36, of
Paducah on Tuesday evening at her
home. Her patient reported jewelry
stolen from her home on Shaffer Road,
Deputy Sheriff Zane White said in a
news release.
White said Richards was selling jewelry
matching the description of the stolen
jewelry at several locations. Richards is
charged with theft by unlawful taking of
more than $500 but less than $10,000.
She remained in custody at the McCracken County Regional Jail.
— Sun staff report
McCracken District Court
Wreck hospitalizes motorcyclist
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A Paducah man was hospitalized
Wednesday after a motorcycle wreck.
According to McCracken County sheriff’s deputies, Louis D. Armstrong, 67,
was driving west on Cook Street around
11:35 a.m. Armstrong told deputies he
experienced throttle problems on his
2008 Honda Shadow. The motorcycle
paused before taking off quickly, causing
him to lose control. He ran into a ditch
and the bike overturned.
Armstrong was taken to Western Baptist Hospital. A hospital spokesman said
Armstrong was transferred to another
hospital, but did not name it.
— Sun staff report
Aug. 16
Marcus S. Johnson, 28, 203 Lone Oak Rd., Paducah,
possession of marijuana: $100, 7 days, conditional discharge 2 years, no further offenses, 6 months random
drug screens through Crossroads, forfeit items seized.
Operating on a suspended/revoked operators license:
$309, 7 days, conditional discharge 2 years, no further
offenses, to pay 2-21-12.
Jamel L. Waldon, 31, 2607 Maple Ave., Paducah, operating a motor vehicle under influence of alcohol/drugs,
1st offense: $1,169, 14 days, conditional discharge 2
years, no further offenses, alcohol driving education, no
refusals, 60 days license suspension, to pay 2-21-12.
Stanley K. Sloan, 56, 2496 Lakewood Dr., Paducah,
operating a motor vehicle under influence of alcohol/
drugs, aggravated circumstances, 3rd offense: $1,284,
365 days, serve 270 days, conditional discharge 2
years, no further offenses, alcohol driving education, no
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FRANKFORT — The
House
Appropriations
and Revenue Committee
has approved a proposal
for sales tax relief for
victims of the March 2
tornadoes that damaged
Kentucky communities.
Rep. Will Stacy, D-West
Liberty, who introduced
the measure at a bipartisan
press conference on Tuesday, brought it before the
committee Wednesday at a
special called meeting, and
it passed unanimously.
Stacy said he expects
the bill to go to the House
floor on Thursday.
The bill would provide
a rebate of the state’s 6
percent sales tax on materials used to rebuild
houses, business buildings and other structures
in the counties where the
owners’ losses occurred.
The owners would have
to show receipts and
proof of losses from their
CCC gets investigation report
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insurance companies or
the Federal Emergency
Management Agency in
order to get reimbursed
by the Revenue Cabinet.
The relief would apply
to the 21 counties that
were declared eligible
for federal disaster area
assistance by President
Barack Obama.
The bill would also help
school districts by authorizing the state commissioner of education to
authorize 10 additional
emergency or disaster days
that would not be counted
against their average daily attendance figures. It
would give those districts
the option to use last year’s
ADA figures instead of this
year’s if attendance is lower
so that their funding would
not decrease.
Stacy said he appreciated
the support the measure
has gotten from Republicans and Democrats in both
the House and Senate.
A third-party investigation into an embezzlement
scheme at the Paducah
convention and expo centers is complete, and officials are contemplating
whether to publicize the
finished report.
The Paducah-McCracken
County Convention Center
Corporation, with $15,000
from city funds, hired Bowling Green-based law firm
English, Lucas, Priest &
Owsley in late November to
conduct an outside investigation into the embezzlement. The firm started work
in December. Paducah City
Manager Jeff Pederson said
he received the finished re-
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Curves Fitness Center
of Paducah is waiving new
member fees for the cost of
a sack of groceries through
March.
Gwen O’Brien said the
national, annual event
throughout the Curves or-
expressed interest in locating
inside the park, Chancellor says
Chancellor said health
care is one of the main
industries the PED is trying to attract with its 2011
strategic plan. He said
any type of company is
welcome inside the park
if it brings jobs and he
would advocate any zoning changes that may be
needed to attract business.
“I don’t think this is the
only thing we need to allow,” he said. “With the
high school going out
there, I think we need to
attract more development.
If it’s going to grow jobs for
our community, we need
to take a hard look at it.”
ganization generates donations of nonperishable
foods for food banks. The
Paducah location will give
donations to River City
Mission and Paducah Cooperative Ministry. The
normal joining fee is $99.
“We’ve done pretty well
with this drive, especially
with all the disasters in the
area,” O’Brien said. “People
have given elsewhere, but
members are backing us.”
O’Brien said the food drive
provides food for needy residents and gives potential
members an extra incen-
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Shelton said his insurance
company has offered him
just over $7,000 for his mobile home and another $300
or so for cleanup expenses,
so any FEMA assistance
would be helpful in trying to
buy a new mobile home. For
right now, he is living with
his parents in Bandana.
“We’re still trying to make
ends meet and trying to salvage some of my clothes,”
Shelton said. “We’re just
having to dig for it.”
Shelton has received
some help in the form of a
$50,000 grant the county
received to provide free use
of trash containers to clean
up storm damage.
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eliminate pollen exposure, Rankin said rolling
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the Louisville collection
station measured high
concentrations of tree pollen, estimated between 90
and 1,499 grains of pollen
per cubic meter.
Marshall Davis, pharmacist at Davis Drugs,
said allergy sufferers
have a wide selection of
over-the-counter options
of oral medications, such
as Zyrtec and Claritin,
and saline nasal sprays to
rinse sinuses of spores.
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company and policy num- The steeple atop Newton Creek Baptist Church lies
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Ogden Landing Road last month.
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requesting party for it
with the firm,” Pederson
explained. “We never contemplated the city would
put itself out front in recovery efforts. We recommend
and request the convention
center board proceed with
the recommendations in
the report.”
The investigation was
aimed primarily at gaining restitution for the embezzled funds. The report
also was set to address the
board’s governance, its internal controls procedures
and policies and provide
recommendations.
to move quickly on it,’ director says
in Marshall District Court is April 16
unlawful imprisonment.
According to an affidavit
with the search warrant,
the woman told police
Barlow assaulted her and
threatened her after she
visited him at his home.
The woman said she escaped to a neighbor’s
determine whether the
board legally has to publicize its contents.
Sigler said further litigation could result from information and recommendations contained in the
report, which may exempt
it from open records laws.
The firm recommended
not to publicize the report,
he said.
Pederson said Wednesday he sent the report
straight to the CCC board,
which oversees operations
at the joint city-countyowned centers. He does not
anticipate the city having
any further involvement
with it.
“In the process of paying for it we became the
FEMA: ‘I would encourage people
Chancellor would not
comment on any specific
requests, but he said several companies have expressed interest in locating inside the Paducah
Commerce Park. He said
expanded development is
also welcome inside other county and city parks
subject to proper zoning.
“If we run across something that will create jobs
for the community, I
think we need to consider
it,” he said. “If it creates
jobs and it’s legal then we
need to do it.”
BARLOW: Man’s next appearance
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port Monday.
Former centers executive director J. Patrick Kerr
and an accomplice, Susan
Wilson, pleaded guilty to
federal felony theft charges
March 16 for facilitating
the scheme, which netted
them more than $230,000
from the Julian M. Carroll
Convention and Paducah
Expo centers over a roughly 13-month period beginning in September 2010.
Jim Sigler, CCC board
chairman,
confirmed
Wednesday that he received the report but
would not comment on its
contents. He said he forwarded it to board counsel,
Paducah attorney Duncan
Pitchford, to review and
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U.N. panel makes mockery
of human rights review Innovation begets successes, declines
The United Nations Human
Rights Council has endorsed
a report praising Libya for its
human rights record.
Well, of course. Libya has been
liberated from long-time dictator
Moammar Gadhafi, right? Just
one problem: The endorsement
is based on a review conducted
before the current regime seized
power, while Libya was still
under the rule of Gadhafi.
The council examines the
human rights record of every
U.N. member state every four
years. Libya’s review was up for
approval last year when Libya
was embroiled in war, with
NATO forces backing the antiGadhafi rebels. Awkward.
In light of the situation, the
council tabled the review until
this month, when members
unanimously endorsed it. The
report praised the regime
for protecting freedoms
under Gadhafi’s Great Green
Document. In reality, Libyans
lived in constant fear of Gadhafi
who, in addition to being crazy
as a loon, was a brutal dictator
and murderous thug. Among
his crimes against humanity,
he ordered the 1988 bombing
of Pan Am flight 103 over
Lockerbie, Scotland, in which
270 innocent people were killed,
including 189 Americans, many
of them university students.
s absurd as the council’s
endorsement is, it is
entirely in keeping with
its history. Libya, under Gadhafi,
was a member of the Human
Rights Council, elected with the
support of 80 percent of the U.N.
membership. In fact, Libya was
elected to lead the organization
that preceded it, the U.N. Human
Rights Commission, in 2003.
The new report includes praise
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for the Gadhafi regime from
many of the dictatorship’s U.N.
allies, including Algeria, Iran,
North Korea, Pakistan, Sudan
and Syria — Libya’s rivals as
most egregious human rights
abusers. The action again
exposes the Human Rights
Council as a sham, no more
dedicated to protecting human
rights than the vainglorious
Gadhafi was dedicated to
humble service to his country.
nd in related news, the
U.N. Commission of
Inquiry issued a report
earlier this month that uncovered
war crimes committed by antiGadhafi militia during last year’s
war, as well as crimes against
humanity committed since the
dictator’s death. That would be
the same government the NATO
powers helped sweep into power,
with the United States “leading
from behind,” as the White
House framed it.
Human Rights Watch, an
independent organization
dedicated to defending and
protecting human rights, issued
a statement: “The government
has proven incapable of reining
in these militias or holding to
account those responsible for
abuses.”
The new government
refuses to allow monitoring of
human rights in Libya. Julie
de Rivero, Geneva director
for Human Rights Watch,
said, “Libya’s unwillingness
to support outside monitoring
by the council suggests it has
something to hide, rather than
the transparency that is needed
after four decades of dictatorship
and eight months of war.”
Sounds like just the sort of
regime the U.N. Human Rights
Council would endorse.
A
In Retreat, Sears Set To
Unload Stores — The Wall
Street Journal, Feb. 24
WASHINGTON — Retreat
need not mean surrender.
Still ...
In 1886, a shipment of
$25 watches from a Chicago
jeweler was rejected by the
addressee in Redwood Falls,
Minn. The jeweler offered to
sell the undeliverable goods
for $12 apiece to a railroad
station agent, who could then
sell them to other agents, of
whom there were more than
20,000. Which is what the
agent, 23-year-old Richard
Warren Sears, did.
Soon his watch business
was booming, so he quit working on the railroad, moved
to Minneapolis, then quickly
to the nation’s railroad hub,
Chicago, where in 1887 he
met Alvah Curtis Roebuck,
a watchmaker and printer.
Rural life and retailing were
about to change.
As the late Daniel Boorstin
explained in “The Americans:
The Democratic Experience,”
Sears and Roebuck were on a
trail blazed by Aaron Montgomery Ward. After a few
years as a dry goods salesman
in the rural West, in 1872,
the year after the Chicago
fire, Ward, then 29, rented a
12-by-14-foot loft over a livery
stable there and began a mailorder business. In two years
his single price sheet became
an eight-page booklet, then a
72-page catalog, with woodcuts illustrating most items.
The 240-page catalog for 1884
listed almost 10,000 items.
Hitherto, the goods most
Americans bought — things
they could not make for themselves — were items they could
handle and examine, sold by
people they knew. Now they
were enticed to buy unseen
goods from distant strangers.
The name Sears, Roebuck
and Company appeared in
1893 and the catalog was the
America now is divided
between those who find this
social churning unnerving and
those who find it exhilarating.
What Virginia Postrel postulated in 1998 in “The Future
and Its Enemies: The Growing Conflict Over Creativity,
Enterprise and Progress” —
George Will the best book for rescuing the
country from a ruinous itch
for tidiness — is even more
company’s shop window,
true now. Today’s primary postore counter and salesman.
litical and cultural conflict is,
The Big Book — by 1894 the
Postrel says, between people,
catalog had more than 500
mislabeled “progressives,”
pages — became second only
who crave social stasis, and
to the Good Book in Amerithose, paradoxically called
can life. By 1903, Sears had
conservatives, who welcome
its own printing plant. There
the perpetual churning of
were 1 million copies of the
society by dynamism.
1904 spring catalog, 2 milStasists see Borders suclion the next year and more
than 3 million of the 1907 fall cumb to e-books (and Amazon) and lament the passing
catalog. All this depended on
government in the form of the of familiar things. Dynamists
post office’s RFD — rural free say: Relax, reading is thriving.
In 2001, the iPod appeared
delivery.
and soon stores such as Tower
By the middle of the 20th
Records disappeared. Who
century, Sears Roebuck had
misses them?
come to town as the nation’s
Theodore Roosevelt,
largest retailer, with stores
America’s first progressive
that defined many towns’
president, thought it was govdowntowns. But in Bentonville, Ark., Sam Walton had an ernment’s duty to “look ahead
and plan out the right kind of
idea for bigger stores on the
civilization.” TR looked ahead
outskirts of towns. Sears has
and saw a “timber famine”
become a casualty of Walcaused by railroads’ ravenous
Mart’s retailing revolution.
Today new mothers sign up appetites for crossties that
rotted. He did not foresee
at Amazon Mom for regular
deliveries of diapers. This is a creosote, which preserves
crossties. Imagine all the
21st-century permutation of
an innovation in long-distance things government planners
commerce that began in 19th- cannot anticipate when, in
their defining hubris, they try
century Chicago.
to impose their static dream
Creative destruction continues in the digital age. After of the “right kind” of future.
As long as America is itself,
244 years — it began publiit will welcome the messy chacation five years before the
os that is not really disorder
1773 Boston Tea Party — the
but rather what Postrel calls
Encyclopedia Britannica will
“an order that is unpredicthenceforth be available only
able, spontaneous, and ever
in digital form as it tries to
catch up to reference websites shifting, a pattern created by
millions of uncoordinated,
such as Google and Wikiindependent decisions.”
pedia. Another digital casuProfessional coordinators, aka
alty forgot it was selling the
preservation of memories, aka bureaucracies, are dismayed.
Good.
“Kodak moments,” not film.
Military ‘screenings’ little defense against mental impact of troops’ war experience
Don’t get me wrong. The killing of 16
Afghan men, women and children by an
American soldier without provocation
and without threat to his own life (or so it
appears) was wrong. Completely wrong.
It is an unspeakable tragedy for all those
involved. It places the lives of other Americans in danger. I’m no fan of the myriad
“abuse excuses” that once held sway in the
American legal system. Those who know
the difference between right and wrong
and have the capacity to choose are responsible for choosing wrongly. End of story.
Sort of.
All of the questions about why it would
happen and how it could happen and the
attempts to portray this particular soldier
as some sort of aberration also miss some
important points.
From what I can tell, this man did not
join the military as an evil man who somehow escaped the screening that should
have eliminated him from the start. He
was on his fourth tour of duty in hell. His
wife and family were thousands of miles
away. He saw unspeakable
tragedies we don’t even
things. He faced horrenknow about.
dous threats to himself and
It happened in Vietnam.
his fellow soldiers.
John Kerry was excoriated
And he cracked.
during the 2004 election
The military tells us that
for saying that decades
soldiers are screened before
before. But if you look at
they are sent to combat.
his speeches carefully, or
Right. Sure. Soldiers can
sympathetically, if you
barely get help when they
Susan Estrich strip them of any vestiges
come home from combat
of politics or arrogance,
as certifiable messes. How
there was truth to what
much screening do they get beforehand?
he said about the emotional toll a certain
How much money can the military afkind of war takes on the soldiers who fight
ford for screening when just a few years
it: the horrors of never knowing for sure
ago it was fighting for body armor, when
who your enemy is, the ease of confusing
military hospitals are an embarrassment
innocent civilians with attackers who hate
and a horror. If the screenings were really you and would, maybe, kill you.
so thorough, would anyone qualify for a
We can all pound our chests and look for
fourth tour?
ways that this particular man is different
Understand, I am not making excuses.
from the rest of us: He had a record for
These are observations — and I hope
fraud, maybe; he had a temper, maybe; he
important ones. They are not intended
wasn’t really fit for the fourth tour, maybe.
to exculpate, but to help us understand,
Scratch the surface of lots of people who
to help us appreciate, to help us avert the
serve bravely and honorably in the United
States military, and you’ll find many who
would not be awarded an Eagle Scout
badge. Exclude them all, and you wouldn’t
have a military. Pound your chest too
hard, and you’ll be pounding away not at
one soldier, but at many of them.
The lesson of this is not that a soldier
who goes wrong should avoid responsibility.
The lesson is for the rest of us, who
expect more than we should, who help less
than we can, who pretend that the explicable is indeed inexplicable so that we feel
no obligation even to try to understand,
much less to prevent.
My heart goes out to the families of
those who were brutally murdered, and
to the soldiers who will face even more
danger on account of the backlash.
But it also goes out to the family of the
man charged, to his wife and children left
behind, pariahs, singled out, dismissed as
different from the rest of us, when really,
for so many, there but for the grace of
God...
Region/Nation
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Barber says, dye-deprived,
Blago’s hair soon to be gray
BY MICHAEL TARM
Associated Press
Associated Press
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney addresses an audience during a
campaign stop at an American Legion post Wednesday in Arbutus, Md.
Romney faces another
tough race in Louisiana
BATON ROUGE, La. —
Mitt Romney faces another
likely Southern setback —
this time in Louisiana.
Rival Rick Santorum is
pushing for a strong showing in Saturday’s primary,
driven largely by the conservative religious voters
who have propelled him to
victory elsewhere.
“We think we’re going to
do well here. This state, I
think of all the states in the
Deep South, I think matches up with us well. It’s a very
conservative state,” Santorum told The Associated
Press as he campaigned
here this week. “We’re going to do better even than
Mississippi and Alabama.”
He needs the rebound
and may just get it given
that Romney is barely competing in the state.
Santorum was humbled
in Illinois on Tuesday,
where he lost to the former Massachusetts governor by a 12-point margin.
Santorum was unable to
broaden his appeal in that
state much beyond voters
who identified themselves
as “very conservative,” and
most of his support came
from Republicans in its
southern, rural regions.
The former Pennsylvania senator also has been
plagued by a series of problematic comments, starting
in Puerto Rico where he
spent days trying to explain
his thoughts on whether
English should be the island’s official language. He
then suggested he didn’t
care about the country’s
unemployment rate, a comment he later said he would
have liked to rephrase.
And when he campaigned in Louisiana last
weekend, the fiery Baptist
preacher who introduced
Santorum got the presiden-
tial candidate into some
trouble when he said the
U.S. is a Christian nation
and suggested people who
don’t love America should
“get out” of the country.
Still, that message didn’t
seem to hurt Santorum
with the more than a thousand faithful who greeted
him at Greenwell Springs
Baptist Church, where nationally influential evangelical leader Tony Perkins
regularly worships. Perkins
invited dozens of pastors
to meet with Santorum
ahead of the service there,
and urged them to tell their
congregations to vote Saturday.
“I like Rick Santorum because of his faith and conservative values,” said Don Williams, the pastor at Hosanna
First Assembly Church in
Baton Rouge, an evangelical
congregation. “Mitt Romney
does not share my conservative values.”
Region Briefs
Calloway bans
synthetic marijuana
MURRAY — Another
Kentucky community has
passed a ban on synthetic
marijuana.
Calloway County Fiscal
Court members approved
the measure Tuesday. It
bans the sale and possession of synthetic drugs
that mimic the effects of
marijuana.
The Calloway County Alliance for Substance Abuse
Prevention helped create
the ordinance after getting
calls for help when the
substances were found
in local high schools. The
ban targets products with
labels such as “herbal incense.”
Similar bans have been
approved by several cities
around the state. Meanwhile, there’s a bill under
consideration in the Kentucky General Assembly that
proposes a statewide ban.
— Associated Press
Warm winter means
no tulips for Derby
rescue,” said Pete Duncan,
the Macoupin County clerk
whose workers encountered
thousands of faulty ballots.
And rescue they did, according to state election
officials who said they
received no reports of
— Associated Press ballots being lost despite
problems with thousands
of ballots in about 25 of
Officials: No votes
the state’s 102 counties.
lost from faulty ballots
“The important thing is
that nobody was disenfranCHICAGO — For all the
chised,” said Rupert Borgshigh tech equipment demiller of the Illinois State
signed to streamline Illinois’ Board of Elections. “Peovoting process, election ofple who voted, it might
ficials were forced to impro- take a little longer than it
vise — even turning to hair
normally does, but their
dryers — when scanning
votes are being counted.”
machines started spitting
“Nothing every stopped,”
out ballots during Tuesday’s said Dan Curry, a spokesprimary elections.
man for DuPage County’s
“There is some irony that election commission.
... it was scissors and blow
dryers that came to the
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the Run for the Roses, but
thousands of tulips are
also part of the landscape
at Churchill Downs during
the Kentucky Derby. Not
this year.
Track horticulture director
Matt Bizzell says the unusually warm winter means
the tulips will bloom about
two weeks too early for the
first Saturday in May.
The track usually has
6,000 to 12,000 tulips
blooming during Derby
week. Bizzell says they’ll
be replaced this year by
some 25,000 annuals
growing in the Churchill
Downs greenhouse.
As for roses, they usually
peak after the Derby, but
Bizzell says he’s hoping this
year they’ll be right on time.
spokesman John Sell said.
Vodovoz, who last cut
Blagojevich’s hair a month
ago, offered his prisonbound client advice he
may have difficulty taking: He told him not to fret
about his hair behind bars
because no cameras will
be around to document his
changed appearance.
“‘There’s no media, so
don’t worry,’ I told him,” he
said. “Who’s going to care?”
The two-term governor
was closely identified with
and parodied for his thick
helmet of hair. A comedian
on Saturday Night Live
once joked that when FBI
agents came to arrest him
in 2008, Blagojevich asked
for five minutes to pack
his things — and for eight
hours to comb his hair.
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CHICAGO — It may
be hard to imagine Rod
Blagojevich looking anything but boyish in his
trademark dark, helmet
hair. But his longtime
barber said Wednesday
that the former Illinois
governor has been dyeing his hair for years and
now that he is in prison —
where dyes are banned —
it will soon turn gray.
Peter Vodovoz, Blagojevich’s Chicago-area barber for two decades, told
The Associated Press the
55-year-old has dyed his
hair himself, but with no
dye available at his lockup, the last color masking
his gray will fade within
three months.
“His
h a i r
w i l l
turn
gray,
l i k e
J a y
L e no’s,”
Vodov o z
Blagojevich
said,
speaking a week after Blagojevich entered a federal
prison outside Denver to
serve his sentence on corruption charges.
Hair dyes are strictly
banned in the Federal Correctional Institution Englewood because inmates
could use them to disguise
their appearance in attempted escapes, prison
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Charles Edward Spresser
Charles Edward “Chuck”
Spresser, 77, of Paducah
died Monday, March 19,
2012, at Life Care Center of
La Center, Ky.
Chuck was born August
29, 1934, in Winfield, Kan.,
to the late Edward and Anna
Camphaus Spresser. He
served in the United States
Air Force for four years and
was stationed at the base in
Manston,
England.
While in
England,
he played
on
the
Manston
Air Force
Baseball
t e a m
which
Spresser
won the
championship between the bases
in the entire United Kingdom. He worked for Boeing
in Wichita, Kan., for two
years, then for the Federal
Aviation
Administration
in Topeka, Kan., San Juan,
Puerto Rico International
Airport, and was the Navigation Aide Unit Chief at
both Paducah-Barkley Regional Airport and Tampa
International Airport until
his retirement in 1994. After briefly residing in Fall
River Lake, Kan., he moved
back to Paducah to be nearer to his family. He was an
avid sportsman, enjoying
both hunting and fishing.
In October, 1956, Chuck
married Bernice F. Gass
Spresser, who survives him
as well as their children,
Edward C. (wife-Maryrose
Fox) Spresser of Paducah,
Bruce Joseph (wife-Lisa Sullivan) Spresser of
Paducah, Kathi Melanie
(husband-Clyde, Jr.) McSparin of Paducah, and
Joseph Gass “Joey” (wifeDayna Smoyer) Spresser of
Greenbrier, Tenn.; two sisters, Anna Marie Powell of
Augusta, Kan., and Norma
Jean Reeves of Lawrence,
Kan.; 10 grandchildren,
Dustin and Michael (wifeKelly) Spresser, Conrad
and Tyler Spresser, Jennifer, Sarah, Wesley and Elizabeth McSparin, and Ashlyn and C.J. Spresser; and
eight great-grandchildren,
Mackenzie, Izabelle, Lane,
Carter, Brooklyn, Jackson,
Makenna and Aubrey.
A funeral Mass will be
held at 10 a.m. Saturday,
March 24, 2012, at St.
Thomas More Catholic
Church with the Rev. J.
Patrick Reynolds officiating. Burial will follow at
Dickerson Cemetery in the
Land Between the Lakes.
Visitation will be held from
5 to 7 p.m. Friday evening
at Milner and Orr Funeral
Home of Paducah.
Contributions may be
made to Cystic Fibrosis
Foundation,
Kentucky/
West Virginia Chapter,
1941 Bishop Lane, Suite
108, Louisville, KY 40218;
or Life Care Center of La
Center Activity Fund, P.O.
Box 269, La Center, KY
42056-0269.
You may leave a message
of sympathy or light a memorial candle at www.milnerandorr.com.
Ashley Quertermous
SMITHLAND — Miss Ashley Nicole Quertermous, 15,
of Salem passed away Monday evening at her home.
She was a freshman at
Livingston Central High
School and a member of
Lola Pentecostal Church.
She is survived by her
parents, Kelly and Cindy
Quertermous of Salem;
siblings, Courtney and
Haley Quertermous, both
of Salem; paternal grandparents, Harold Wayne
and Virginia Quertermous
of Salem; and maternal
grandparents, Walter and
Frances Manhart of Hamp-
ton.
She was preceded in
death by a grandmother,
Betty Catherine Quertermous.
Services will be at 11 a.m.
Friday at Lola Pentecostal
Church with the Rev. Tim
Fouts officiating.
Burial will be at Lola
Cemetery.
Friends may call after 5
p.m. Thursday at Lola Pentecostal Church.
Condolences may also be
left online at boydfuneraldiretors.com.
Boyd Funeral Directors is
handling arrangements.
Brittany Hall
Brittany Hall, 17, of
Paducah, passed away at
5:30 p.m. on Tuesday,
March 20, 2012, in Kevil,
Ky., from injuries suffered
as a result of an automobile
accident.
Brittany was of the Baptist faith
and an
assistant
m a n ager for
Burger
King in
Paducah.
Brittany
is
survived
by
her
Hall
parents,
Roy Marley Hall and Brenda Kay
Sheridan Hall of Paducah;
three sisters, Janice Gayle
Hall of Paducah, Cindy Lou
Quertermous of Smithland, Ky., and Rhonda Lee
of Burna, Ky.; one brother,
Brian Keith Gilbert of Fulton, Ky.; maternal grandparents, Dewain and Evelyn Bradshaw of Hardin,
Ky.; several aunts, uncles,
nieces and nephews.
She was preceded in
death by her paternal
grandparents, Claude and
Ruby Hall.
Funeral services will be
held at 11 a.m. on Friday,
March 23, 2012, at Milner
and Orr Funeral Home
of Paducah with the Rev.
Brent Shelton officiating.
Burial will follow in Maplelawn Park Cemetery with
the Rev. Gayle Barnes officiating.
Visitation will be from 4
p.m. until 8 p.m. on Thursday, March 22, 2012, at
Milner and Orr Funeral
Home of Paducah.
You may leave a message
of sympathy and light a
candle of remembrance at
www.milnerandorr.com.
Edward C. May
METROPOLIS, Ill. — Edward C. May, 89, of Metropolis died Wednesday at
Southgate HCC in Metropolis.
Services will be at 2 p.m.
Sunday at Aikins-Farmer
Lena Ruby Davis Park
Mrs. Lena Ruby (Davis)
Parks, age 92, of Daytona
Beach, Fla., died Sunday,
March 18, 2012, at 3:25
p.m. at the Halifax Medical
Center in Daytona Beach.
Born July 19, 1919, in Eldorado, Ill., she was active
in Star Baptist Church and
at age 18 moved to Detroit,
where she worked for many
years and
made a
h o m e
with her
husband,
U . G .
Parks. In
1967 they
moved to
Daytona
Beach,
Parks
where
she was
a homemaker who enjoyed
and entertained her family
and good neighbors.
She was the daughter of
the late Samuel Marshall
Davis and the late Dora
Helen (Gwaltney) Davis.
She is survived by her
twin sister, Lela Ruth Nicholson of Ormond Beach,
Fla.; and her sister-in-law,
Sharon Park of Benton,
Ky. Also surviving are her
nephew and niece who saw
to her needs and were by
her side at the last, Tom
and Dawn Nicholson of
Deltona Beach, Fla. Also
surviving are nephews, Kelly Park, Phillip Park, Casey
Park and Steve Jackson, all
of Benton, Ky.; nieces, Barbara Kinsey of Benton, Ky.,
and Joyce Dick of Hopkinsville, Ky. Ruby was a loving
aunt to many nieces and
nephews and their children
and grandchildren.
She was preceded in
death in 1992 by her loving husband of 46 years,
U.G. “Jeeter” Parks; sisters, Nina Clark Forrester,
Doris Carnahan, Una “Bill”
Collins, Virginia “Spud”
Bourland; and her brother,
Ralph “Doc” Davis.
Arrangements are being
handled by Collier Funeral
Home, P.O. Box 492, Benton, Ky.
Graveside funeral services will be at 11 a.m. Friday, March 23, 2012, in the
Pleasant Grove Cemetery,
Benton, Ky. The Rev. Joe
Daryl Thom will officiate.
Interment will follow in the
Pleasant Grove Cemetery,
Benton, Ky.
There is no public visitation.
CALVERT CITY — Graveside services for Arthur D.
“Junior” Harris Jr., 88, of
Calvert City will be at 2:30
p.m. Friday at Leonard
Cemetery with military rites
conducted. The Rev. Wendell Ordway will officiate.
Mr. Harris died at 3:20
p.m. March 15 at the home
of his daughter.
Mr. Harris was a member
Bobby Thomas
CADIZ — Services for
Bobby G. Thomas, 80,
of Cadiz will be at 2 p.m.
Saturday at Goodwin Funeral Home in Cadiz with
the Rev. Ronnie Hooks
officiating. Burial will be
in Trigg Memory Acres in
Cadiz.
Mr. Thomas died Tuesday at St. Thomas Hospital in Nashville, Tenn.
He was a retired civil
service employee and
retired from Fort Campbell with 30 years of service. He was a member
of Maple Grove Baptist
Church and was a veteran
of the U.S. Air Force, having served in the Korean
War.
He is survived by his
wife of 49 years, Eunice Boyd Thomas; one
daughter, Pam Metts of
Cadiz; one sister, Nina
Alderson of Cadiz; and
two grandchildren, Preston Metts of Owensboro
and Brittaney Metts of
Lexington.
He was preceded in
death by his father,
Preston H. Thomas; his
mother, Mary Bridges
Thomas; one daughter,
Darla Jean Thomas; and
three brothers.
Friends may call from
4 to 8 p.m. Friday at the
funeral home.
Charles R. Harrison
BENTON — Charles R.
Harrison, 73, of Gilbertsville died at 11:45 a.m.
Monday, March 19, 2012, at
Western Baptist Hospital.
Charles retired after 40
years as owner of Harrison’s
Auto Sales. He also owned
and operated Paducah International Raceway with
his wife Becky for over 10
years.
He was
a member
of
Reidland
Baptist
Church.
Charles
l o v e d
hunting,
fishing,
Harrison
stock car
racing,
and spending time on Kentucky Lake. He will be greatly missed by many friends
and people he helped along
the way.
Surviving are his wife of
54 years, Rebecca Hancock
Harrison; two daughters,
Amy St. Blanc and her husband Randy of New Orleans,
Louisiana, and Alyson Kelly
and her husband David of
Paducah; two sisters, Mary
Miller and Jeannie John-
son, both of Paducah; one
brother, Bill Harrison of
Boaz; three grandchildren,
Justin St. Blanc of New Orleans, Louisiana, Harrison
Kelly and Jackson Kelly,
both of Paducah.
Charles was preceded in
death by a sister, Judy Steger; and his parents, Nicholas Cherrie Harrison and
Hugholene Goheen Harrison.
Services will be conducted at 1 p.m. Saturday,
March 24, 2012, at Milner & Orr Funeral Home
of Paducah with Dr. Larry
Lewis and Bill Harrison officiating.
Burial will follow in the
Maplelawn Park Cemetery.
Friends may visit with
the family from 5 p.m. until 8 p.m. Friday, March 23,
2012, at Milner & Orr Funeral Home of Paducah.
Expressions of sympathy may take the form of
contributions to: Paducah
Cooperative
Ministry,
402 Legion Dr., Paducah,
Ky. 42003; or to Brown
Street Club, P.O. Box 646,
Paducah, KY 42002-0646.
You may light a candle or
leave a message of comfort
at www.milnerandorr.com.
Arthur Harris Jr.
of Vaughn’s Chapel Cumberland Presbyterian Church and
United Auto Workers Union
No. 523. He retired from Airco
Alloys. He was a World War II
veteran of the U.S. Army.
He is survived by one son,
Edward Harris of Calvert City;
one daughter, Linda Mace of
Calvert City; six stepgrandchildren; and five stepgreatgrandchildren.
He was preceded in death by
his wife, Myrtle Mayetta Walker Harris; one son, Larry Dale
Harris; one grandson; two
brothers; and one sister. His
parents were Arthur D. Harris
Sr. and Birdie Brocar Harris.
Friends may call from 11
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HICKMAN — Margaret
Crisp, 83, of Fulton died
Tuesday at Western Baptist Hospital.
Arrangements were incomplete at Rawls Funeral Home in South Fulton,
Tenn.
Funeral Home with the
Rev. Jon Cockrel officiating.
Burial will be in the Metropolis Memorial Gardens.
Wilburn Baker
Friends may call after
PRINCETON — Wilburn
noon Sunday at the funeral Baker, 87, of Princeton died
home.
at 12:56 p.m. Wednesday at
his home.
Arrangements were incomplete
at Morgan’s FuMore obituaries, Page 7A
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Harold W. Haile
PRINCETON — Harold
W. Haile, 84, of Princeton
died at 7:20 p.m. Tuesday at
his home.
He retired as a welder
from Chrysler Corporation
and was a member of Princeton Church of Christ.
He is survived by his
wife, Odell Williams Haile;
one son, Randall Haile of
Bloomington, Ind.; three
brothers, Edwin Haile of
Indianapolis, Wyndal Haile
of Caldwell County and
Dwight Haile of Dawson
Springs; two sisters, Sue
Haile Sabens of Columbus,
Ga., and Joyce Haile Baker
of Burmingham, Ala.
His parents were William
Gordon Haile and Anna
Mae Hensley Haile.
Services will be at 1 p.m.
Friday at Morgan’s Funeral
Home with Randall Phillips
officiating.
Burial will follow in Cross
Roads Cemetery in Caldwell
County.
Friends may call after 5
p.m. today at the funeral
home.
Sarah Hanvy
PRINCETON — Services
for Sarah Ann Hanvy, 76,
of Princeton will be at 2:30
p.m. today at Morgan’s Funeral Home in Princeton
with the Rev. A.B. Ortt and
the Rev. Jerry Holeman
officiating. Burial will be
in Cedar Hill Cemetery in
Princeton.
Mrs. Hanvy died at 1:40
p.m. Tuesday at Princeton
Health and Rehab Center.
She is survived by her
husband, Nathan Hanvy;
two daughters, Carlotta Holeman of Caldwell
County and Covetta Ramey of Lyon County; three
grandchildren; three greatgrandchildren; one brother,
Richard Byard of Caldwell
County; one stepson, Troy
Hanvy of Evansville, Ind.;
one stepdaughter, Giovanna Franks of Madisonville;
six stepgrandchildren and
one stepgreat-grandchild.
She was preceded in
Associated Press
death by her first husband,
French President Nicolas Sarkozy (center) and DeSanford “Sonny” Harper;
fense Minster Gerard Longuet (left) pay homage to
and two sisters. Her parents
the three soldiers killed by a suspect Interior Ministry
were Wallace and Myrtle
official identified as Mohammad Merah, claiming alGrace Childress Byard.
Qaida links, and also suspected in the killings of three
Friends may call after 10
Jewish children and a rabbi Wednesday in Montauban,
Paula Ferris
a.m. today at the funeral
southwestern France.
BENTON — Graveside home.
services for Paula Kay Fer“He has no regrets, except not
ris, 60, of Millington, Tenn.,
James Olden
having more time to kill more
formerly of Benton, will
PRINCETON — James
be at noon Friday at Unity
people and he boasts that he has
Olden, 58, of Princeton
Cemetery.
brought France to its knees.”
Ms. Ferris died Monday at died Wednesday in Princeton.
her home.
Francois Molins
Arrangements were inShe was the former music
Prosecutor, Paris
minister for Munford First complete at Morgan’s FuUnited Methodist Church. neral Home.
She earned a bachelor’s
degree from Murray State
Ethel DuFour
University and a minister of
METROPOLIS, Ill. — Ethmusic degree from Scarritt el DuFour, 88, of MetropoCollege. She was serving as lis died Wednesday at Masvigilantism, self-defense
BY MIKE SCHNEIDER
supervisor of the transcrip- sac Memorial Hospital.
and racial profiling since
Associated Press
tion department for MethSANFORD,
Fla.
— he shot and killed an unArrangements were inodist University Hospital.
George Zimmerman once a r m e d
complete at Aikins-Farmer
She is survived by her Funeral Home in Metropotook criminal justice class- b l a c k
son, Joseph B. Ferris of lis.
es at the community col- teenager
Memphis, Tenn.; her sister,
lege and was practically a who was
Anna Ross of Benton; two
one-man
neighborhood walking
brothers, Bobby Ray Beale
watch in his gated part of through
Dixie L. Smith
and Ronald W. Beale, both
town, calling police close h i s
METROPOLIS, Ill. — Diof Benton; and four grand- xie L. Smith, 90, of Meto 50 times over the past n e i g h children.
eight years to report such borhood
tropolis died at 10:55 a.m.
Friends may call from 9 to Wednesday at Western
things as slow-driving ve- Feb. 26
11:30 a.m. Friday at Collier Baptist Hospital.
hicles, strangers loitering c a r r y Funeral Chapel in Benton.
in the neighborhood and ing only Zimmerman
Arrangements were inExpressions of sympathy complete at Miller Funeral
a bag of
open garages.
may take the form of contri- Home in Metropolis.
Now, suddenly, peo- S k i t t l e s
butions to Le Bonheur Chilple are wondering if the and an iced tea.
dren’s Hospital, Le Bonheur
Zimmerman, a light28-year-old Zimmerman
Foundation, P.O. Box 41817,
is an earnest if somewhat skinned Hispanic, has
Texie Rudolph
Memphis, TN 38174-1817.
zealous young man who claimed self-defense in
Texie Rudolph, 98, of
was just looking out for his the slaying of 17-year-old
Paducah died Wednesday
neighborhood, or a wan- Trayvon Martin and has
at her home.
nabe cop who tried to take not been charged, but
Teddy Gene Alexander
Arrangements were inMURRAY — Teddy Gene complete at Lindsey Funerjustice into his own hands. many black leaders are
Alexander, 80, of Kirksey al Home.
He has been at the cen- demanding his arrest, and
died Tuesday at Western
ter of a growing furor over state and federal authoriBaptist Hospital.
He was a former Calloway
County deputy sheriff and a
retired building contractor.
He was of the Nazarene
History shows that the play more of a role than the
Associated Press
faith
WASHINGTON — De- U.S. military system is slow crime itself.
He is survived by his
fense Secretary Leon to convict Americans, parIn the case of Army Staff
wife, Shirley Sheppard AlPanetta says the death ticularly service members, Sgt. Robert Bales, the susexander; five sons, Steven
penalty is possible if a of alleged war crimes. And pect in the March 11 KanAlexander and Rick AlU.S. military court finds when a punishment is im- dahar shootings, legal exexander, both of Murray,
an Army staff sergeant posed, it can range any- perts say Bales could face
Teddy Wayne Alexander of
guilty of gunning down where from life in prison a lengthy prison sentence
Florida, Marty Alexander
Afghan children and fam- all the way down to house if convicted, which has
and Barry Alexander, both
ily members.
arrest.
threatened U.S.-Afghan reof Benton; nine grandchilBut it isn’t likely.
Other factors can seem to lations.
dren; and 14 great-grandchildren.
ONLY 50 MILES nHusbands,
He was preceded in death
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French police press
gunman to surrender
BY JOHANNA DECORSE
AND SARAH DILORENZO
Associated Press
TOULOUSE, France —
Riot police set off explosions outside an apartment
building early Thursday in
an effort to force the surrender of a gunman who
boasted of bringing France
“to its knees” with an alQaida-linked terror spree
that killed seven people.
Hundreds of heavily
armed police, some in body
armor, surrounded the
five-story building in Toulouse where the 24-yearold suspect, Mohamed
Merah, had been holed up
since the pre-dawn hours
of Wednesday.
As midnight approached,
three explosions were
heard and orange flashes
lit up the night sky near the
building. An Interior Ministry official said the suspect
had gone back on a previous pledge to turn himself
in — and that police blew
up the shutters outside the
apartment window to pressure him to surrender.
Sporadic blasts and
bursts of gunfire rang
out throughout the night,
though officials insisted no
full-out assault was under
way. “It’s not as simple as
that. We are waiting,” the
Toulouse prosecutor, Michel Valet, told The Associated Press.
Authorities said the
shooter, a French citizen
of Algerian descent, had
been to Afghanistan and
Pakistan,
where he
claimed
to have
received
training
from alQaida.
They
said he
told negotiators
Merah
he killed
a rabbi
and three young children
at a Jewish school on Monday and three French paratroopers last week to avenge
the deaths of Palestinian
children and to protest the
French army’s involvement
in Afghanistan, as well as a
government ban last year
on face-covering Islamic
veils.
“He has no regrets, except not having more time
to kill more people and he
boasts that he has brought
France to its knees,” Paris
Prosecutor Francois Molins
told a news conference.
Was Florida shooter vigilante or good neighbor?
Death penalty not likely for Afghan suspect
Edith Stephens
METROPOLIS, Ill. —
Edith Stephens, 89, died
Wednesday at Southgate
Health Care Center in Metropolis.
Arrangements were incomplete at Aikins-Farmer
Funeral Home in Metropolis.
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Hamilton said another
neighbor, a black woman,
would regularly inform
Zimmerman when she
was out of town so that
he could keep an eye on
her place. Hamilton said
that when she moved into
the middle-class, racially
mixed community of about
250 identical townhouses,
the black neighbor told
her, “Hey, if you need anything, you picked a really
good area, since George is
part of our neighborhood
watch.”
Zimmerman, who was
captain of the neighborhood watch and licensed
to carry a gun, made 46
calls to police since 2004,
according to department
records.
ties are investigating. Florida’s Stand Your Ground
law on self-defense gives
people wide latitude to use
deadly force.
Attorneys for Martin’s
parents say Zimmerman is
a “loose cannon.”
“He’s a wannabe police
officer,” lawyer Benjamin
Crump said. “Why did he
have a gun?”
But some neighbors
welcomed his vigilance, at
least before the shooting.
Samantha Leigh Hamilton, an auto-dealership
employee who has lived
on Zimmerman’s street
for about a year, said that
she once left her garage
door up and Zimmerman
noticed it while out walking his dog. He notified
another neighbor, who let
Hamilton know.
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