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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 1, 2005
Last graduates
earn diplomas
The final classes of
graduates earned their
diplomas on Tuesday,
saying goodbye to high
school life. Pictured above
is Gulf Breeze valedictorian
Sarah Sise.
LOCAL, 1C, 2C
Man charged
in sex sting
A Cantonment man has
been charged with several
sex crimes
after police
say he
solicited
sex over
the Internet
from a
14-yearold boy.
Instead,
James Thomas Little Jr.
was met by an undercover
police officer Friday at a
local mall.
LOCAL, 1C
List narrowing
for new coach
HURRICANE SEASON 2005: Looking back, looking ahead
FEMA mulls its mistakes
Money, manpower were there, but materials fell short
Larry Wheeler
News Journal Washington bureau
Lesley Conn
@PensacolaNewsJournal.com
Several weeks after Hurricane Ivan tore through the
Pensacola Bay Area, Gene
Oden began to feel good
about the region’s prospects
for recovery.
A senior project manager
for an Alabama contractor,
Oden was in charge of near-
ly 1,000 laborers who were
working at a furious pace to
install blue plastic sheeting
on the roofs of thousands
of West Florida’s hurricanedamaged homes.
Every morning, his small
army of roofers left their
base camp under Interstate
110 near downtown and
worked until dark patching
hundreds of roofs each day.
“It was amazing,” said
Oden, who works for LJC
Defense Contracting Construction of Dothan, Ala.
“Everybody was making
good money. We were swinging hammers 16 hours a day,
seven days a week.”
Suddenly, the extraordinary repair mission ground
to a halt.
The Federal Emergency
Management Agency, in
charge of the unprecedented
disaster response, simply
ran out of the blue plastic
that workers needed to
continue making temporary
roof repairs.
For days, Oden’s roofers
drove to distribution points
set up north of Pensacola by
FEMA only to be told there
was no plastic.
“I was looking at 800 men
sitting there waiting for
plastic,” Oden said. “People
Willie Nelson wows storm-weary Pensacola
Pensacola Junior
College athletic director
Bill Hamilton is narrowing
the list of candidates to
become the next women’s
basketball coach.
U.S. and Iraqi forces on
Tuesday found the body
of a high-ranking Iraqi
governor near the Syrian
border. Also Tuesday,
officials said Saddam
Hussein could stand trial
within the next two months.
WORLD, 10A
Pensacola gets
economic chief
Stephanie Tillery has
taken over as economic
director for the City of
Pensacola, replacing Kyle
S. Cole, who is serving in
the armed forces overseas.
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County music legend Willie Nelson performs Tuesday night at the Pensacola Civic Center to benefit
victims of Hurricane Ivan. Among the concert’s attendees were maintenance and facilities employees
of the Escambia School District, who received tickets courtesy of local businessman Joe Gilchrist,
owner of Flora-Bama Lounge & Package. Gilchrist purchased 100 tickets for 50 employees and their
guests in appreciation for their work to get schools up and running in the wake of Hurricane Ivan,
district officials said. Proceeds from the concert will benefit Rebuild Northwest Florida.
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SANTA
ROSA,
Calif.
— The Washington Post
said Tuesday that a former
FBI official, W. Mark Felt,
was the confidential source
known as “Deep Throat”
who provided the newspaper
information that led to President Nixon’s impeachment
investigation and eventual
resignation.
The paper made its
announcement on its Web
site after Felt, 91, who resides in California, talked to
a lawyer who wrote a magazine article for Vanity Fair.
“The No. 2 guy from the
FBI, that was a pretty good
source,” said Ben Bradlee,
who had been the key editor
at the Post in the Watergate
era.
“I knew the paper was on
the right track” in its investigative stories, Bradlee
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COMING THURSDAY:
Santa Rosa prepares.
This year,
many vow a
closer watch
Hurricane season begins
today, and Damien French
is ready — unlike last
year, when Hurricane Ivan
destroyed his Warrington
rental home and all of his
family’s possessions.
“I’m not freaking out about
(hurricane season), but I’m
a lot more conscious of it
this year,” said French, 36,
a married father of a 5-yearold with another baby due in
August.
“I’ve taken out the maximum amount of flood insurance this year. Last year,
I didn’t even know it was
available to renters.”
Lots of area residents who
normally take hurricane
season for granted are much
more serious about their
preparations this year. Hurricane prognosticators say
there might be good reason
to worry.
On Tuesday, forecasters
at Colorado State University predicted a “very active”
hurricane season, with at
least 15 named storms and
eight hurricanes. The report
from Colorado State’s Tropical Meteorology Project forecasts that four hurricanes
will be at least Category 3
storms, with winds in the
111- to 130-mph range.
Hurricane Ivan was a
strong Category 3 storm at
landfall.
That outlook is in line with
other storm predictions. The
National Oceanographic and
Atmospheric Administra-
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tion has predicted 12 to 15
named storms, with seven to
nine developing into hurricanes. Three to five of those
will be at least Category 3
storms, according to NOAA,
with most of the storms
occurring
from August
through October. Hurricane
season ends Nov. 30.
Area residents such as
French are more wary than
ever, according to business
owners who sell hurricane
supplies.
“People are starting early
with their supplies,” said
Ron Robinson, assistant
manager of The Home Depot
in Pace. “Before, a hurricane
had to be in the Gulf (of
Mexico) or had to be headed
straight for us before people
started making preparations. Now, they’re starting
early.”
Especially popular this
year are generators, Robinson said.
“We’ve been selling tons
every day,” he said. “People
seem to be much more serious this year.”
National Hurricane Center: www.nhc.noaa.gov
Hurricane guide: www.PensacolaNewsJournal.com/hurricane
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A look at the scandal
that ended a presidency.
said, citing the “quality of
the source.”
Felt, the second-in-command at the FBI in the early
1970s, kept his secret even
from his family for almost
three decades before confid-
ing he was Post reporter Bob
Woodward’s source on the
Watergate scandal, according to a Vanity Fair article
published Tuesday.
“I’m the guy they used to
call Deep Throat,” he was
quoted as telling lawyer
John D. O’Connor, author of
the magazine article.
Felt, who lives in Santa
Rosa, is said to be in poor
mental and physical health
because of a stroke. His
family did not immediately
make him available for comment, asking the news media to respect his privacy “in
view of his age and health.”
Woodward, fellow reporter
Carl Bernstein and Bradlee,
their former boss at the Post,
had long maintained they
would never go public with
the identity of Deep Throat
until after his death.
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Kidnapped Iraqi
governor killed
President Bush at a
news conference Tuesday
shrugged off questions
about his political clout and
recent setbacks, focusing
on his Social Security
agenda and judicial
nominees.
who had their homes damaged by the hurricane would
come to us to put plastic on
their roofs, and we had no
way to do it. Those were difficult days.”
Eventually, FEMA restored the flow of plastic
roofing, and Oden’s crews
installed sheeting on 15,000
of the 47,000 roofs damaged
by Ivan in the Panhandle.
Troy Moon
SPORTS, 1D
Bush renews
agenda push
SPORTS, 1D
Carmen Paige
@PensacolaNewsJournal.com
Time is ticking away in
Harvey Kingry’s classroom.
As the technology education teacher hustles to
help students finish clock
projects before the close of
the school year, his career
and one of the Santa Rosa
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County School District’s
Harvey Kingry is to retire this month after 33 years, and last remaining woodworkHobbs Middle School is ending his woodworking class. ing programs are coming to
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an end.
For 33 years, Kingry has
taught woodworking at
Hobbs Middle School. When
he retires this month, the
program, which is an elective,
no longer will be offered.
In its heyday, woodworking was taught in schools
throughout the county. Only
Avalon Middle School has a
similar class, but it’s uncertain if it will be offered next
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year.
“It’s a great class, no doubt
about it,” said Hobbs Principal Buddy Powell, a former
student of Kingry’s. “But,
right now, we need to go the
computer technology route.”
After two years in the Navy,
earning a bachelor’s degree
in industrial arts with an eye
on teaching seemed the logical path for Kingry.
“I love to build stuff, and I
love to work with my hands,”
he said. “I also come from
a family of teachers — my
grandmother, mother, aunt
and two sisters.”
Kingry said he’s “an old
softie” when it comes to the
students. He has enjoyed
teaching them a lifelong art
such as how to build clocks,
his most popular project.
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