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Two injured when utility pole falls
BY JOHN WRIGHT
AND LAQUETA PERRY
[email protected]
One electric utility worker was critically
injured and another also was hurt when a
power pole snapped and a transformer fell
on Clarkline Road on Tuesday evening.
The men were working on a pole when
a utility truck became stuck in a ditch,
Sheriff’s Detective Sgt. Darryl Carr said.
Another utility truck tried to pull out the
first truck, but one of the trucks snagged a
cable, causing the pole to snap. The transformer fell and came in contact with one of
the workers, Carr said.
Jackson Purchase Energy spokesman
Patrick Kerr said the transformer was not
energized.
A Minnesota utility truck sits with
a bent left front
tire in a ditch along
Clarkline Road in
McCracken County
on Tuesday. A Jackson Purchase Energy Corporation truck
was attempting to
pull the Minnesota
truck from the ditch
when a cable television line became
entangled with a
tire, taking two workers to the ground
when a nearby utility
pole toppled.
Witness James Rudd
said a crew with a utility
truck from Minnesota
was attempting to reconnect a primary power
line to a pole when the
truck became stuck
in mud. A truck from
JPEC arrived a short
time later to try and pull
Rudd
the Minnesota truck out
of the mud with a rope,
Rudd said, when something went wrong as
two workers were atop the pole.
“There was a cable TV line down across
the road (also connected to the pole), and
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JOHN WRIGHT | The Sun
‘Seeing is much better than just reading’ Teacher
arrested
after clash
at game
Man faces 4 charges
involving photos and
DVDs of cheerleaders
BY SHELLEY BYRNE
[email protected]
“This is terrible,” she told Gov.
Steve Beshear, who was with her
and carried an umbrella to protect her from the steady rain. “It
still looks pretty bad.” The storm
moved through Kentucky on Jan.
26-27.
BURNA, Ky. — A Livingston County Middle School teacher is on paid
leave the rest of the week after police
said he crawled under bleachers and
filmed beneath cheerleaders’ skirts
at a Mayfield basketball game.
Mayfield police Detective Mark
Green arrested
science teacher
Steve L. McCuiston, 51, of Murray
at the Mayfield
vs. Murray high
school basketball game about
9 p.m. Monday
after a teacher
and two parents
McCuiston
restrained him.
“He was up underneath the bleachers, and he was
filming the cheerleaders that were
sitting down,” said Steve Hendley,
Mayfield assistant police chief. “Some
woman looks down and sees him, and
he came running out from underneath the bleachers and knocked a
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JOHN WRIGHT | The Sun
Gov. Steve Beshear holds an umbrella for U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano as they view fallen trees
in West Paducah on Tuesday. Napolitano announced that the federal government is taking steps to pay for 75 percent of
the cost of calling up more than 4,600 Kentucky National Guard troops after last month’s ice storm.
Homeland Security secretary vows to speed aid
BY BILL BARTLEMAN
[email protected]
A five-minute walk down Childress and Fisher roads Tuesday
helped U.S. Homeland Security
Secretary Janet Napolitano understand the magnitude of the damage
from last month’s ice storm.
“One of the reasons I came here
ter than just reading about it in a
memo.”
What she saw in the area not
far from Barkley Regional Airport
were homes without power, broken
utility poles, a transformer lying
on the ground, huge empty electrical cable spools, fallen trees and
hundreds of broken tree limbs.
is to see the damage myself and
talk directly with the governor and
local officials,” Napolitano said as
she walked amid damage in West
Paducah.
“When the governor sends in additional requests for help, I’ll have
first-hand knowledge of the damage,” she said. “Seeing is much bet-
County questions purchase of TVs, computers for Emergency Operations Center
BY BILL BARTLEMAN
[email protected]
McCracken County officials are
trying to decide what to do with
$25,225 worth of electronic equipment and DVD movies that someone
purchased for use in the Emergency Operations Center and at a Red
Cross shelter.
The purchase is under investigation because a volunteer at the
Emergency Operations Center made
it without any county official’s authorization, Judge-Executive Van
Newberry said.
He and members of the fiscal
court want to find out how the volunteer obtained county funds to pay
for the merchandise. Deputy JudgeExecutive Doug Harnice is investigating.
The purchase from Best Buy included:
■ Four 47-inch wide screen televisions at $1,300 each, a 52-inch television for $1,500 and a 42 inch television for $950.
■ Six television stands ranging in
price from $210 to $350.
■ 12 laptop computers ranging in
price from $1,150 to $1,300.
■ 12 DVD movies costing $15 to $20.
■ Two DVD players costing $63 each.
Harnice said there apparently
was confusion as officials tried to
quickly equip the EOC and shelter
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proposal for cigarette, alcohol tax hike, left. 6A
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Kentucky home after five
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2. Downtown Paducah
suffers one-hour power outage early Tuesday. 2A
4. Last month’s ice
storm created challenges
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White House-backed
$838 billion stimulus
bill, despite nay votes
from such senators
as Minority Leader
Mitch McConnell, left,
and Jim Bunning. 7A
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1. House appropria-
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after the Jan. 27 ice storm.
Bob McGowan, the county’s emergency operations director, said he
first understood that the computers
and televisions were being donated
for use during the emergency. He
wasn’t sure if the items were go-
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Wind slows JPEC’s power restoration
Staff report
Papermill Retirees, Spouses, and
Friends, 8:30 a.m., The Parlor in
Lone Oak. 554-3492
AARP Tax Aid, 9 a.m.-4 p.m.,
McCracken County Public Library.
442-2510.
Veterans and their families,
counseling and assistance in filing
claims for state and federal benefits. Mayfield, unemployment office,
319 S. 7th Street, 9:45 a.m.-3:15
p.m. By appointment, walk-ins as
time allows. 247-3857.
Cardinal Homemakers, 10 a.m.,
McCracken County Extension Office. 554-9520.
Senior Medicare Patrol, 1-3 p.m.,
Senior Center, 1400 H.C. Mathis
Drive. 442-8993.
St. John’s Homemakers, 6:30
p.m., St. John Cafeteria. 554-9520.
Thursday
AARP Tax Aid, 9 a.m.-1 p.m.,
McCracken County Public Library.
442-2510.
Workshop on salvaging trees,
noon-2 p.m., McCracken County
Cooperative Extension office,
2705 Olivet Church Road. William
Fountain, a University of Kentucky
arboriculture specialist, will provide
outdoor demonstration. Participants
are asked to bring photos; light
snacks provided. 554-9520 to register.
Strong winds and falling limbs slowed the
progress of Jackson Purchase Energy Corporation restoring power Tuesday as three new
outages totaling about 2,000 customers temporarily raised numbers on the dark side.
JPEC spokesman Patrick Kerr said broken,
hanging limbs that are a legacy of the Jan. 27
ice storm were responsible for brief outages in
the Ledbetter, Possum Trot and U.S. 60-Barkley Regional Airport areas.
“We had to pull three crews to go fix those
new outages, so it slowed us down some,” Kerr
said.
Still, about 200 more JPEC outages from
the ice storm were restored Tuesday, leaving
about 8,000 of 30,000 customers without power,
Kerr said.
He said crews are mostly working on secondary lines, expecting a shift to individual
services by the end of the week.
JPEC does not expect to restore most individual service outages until the end of February.
Paducah Power System, working on more
individual services and secondary lines,
solved outages for about another 250 customers in the 24 hours leading into Tuesday afternoon.
“We’ve still got about 1,300 customers without power,” spokesman Andrea Underwood
said. “That means we’ve brought back power
for about 21,200 of 22,500 customers.”
As outage numbers decline in the face of
500 linemen and right-of-way workers pulling
16-hour shifts, West Kentucky Rural Electric
Cooperative Corp. still eyes the same trouble
Underwood predicts series of brief outages
Staff report
Downtown Paducah took a back step
in the dark early Tuesday morning with
a one-hour power outage that may have
spooked residents more than it inconvenienced them.
Paducah Power System spokesman Andrea Underwood said an insulator on an
electrical transmission line broke under
stress.
“It took down two downtown substations,
one on the Loop and another on Kentucky
Avenue,” Underwood said.
The outage reportedly darkened all of
the downtown from the city’s riverfront
out to 28th Street.
“At this point, people are jumpy,” Underwood said. “If the power goes out now, they
wonder if it is going to take a while to get it
areas. While some 31,000 customers were back
in service late Tuesday, the worst outage numbers remained in Graves and western Marshall counties, spokesman Kevin Inglish said.
“We’ve got about 7,500 with the power still
out, and about 3,500 of those are in Graves and
another 2,800 in Marshall,” Inglish said.
Carlisle County, a particularly hard-hit
part of the system, was down to 600 outages,
he said.
Calloway County was nearing restoration,
back on.”
Two other unrelated temporary outages
hit the PPS grid early Tuesday, Underwood
said.
At about 1 p.m., customers along Old
Mayfield Road experienced a brief outage,
she said.
Then about 4:45 a.m., some customers in
Reidland were shut off in an outage lasting
about 20 minutes, according to Underwood.
In both the Old Mayfield Road and Reidland outages, broken limbs hanging from
the recent ice storm dropped and affected
lines where power has been restored.
“We have so many hangers out there
that were broken during the ice storm,
we’ll probably have brief outages whenever
the wind blows much,” Underwood said. “It
will probably be that way for months.”
with about 300 outages late Tuesday.
Kenergy reported slow progress toward
outage reductions while working on power
grid infrastructure in Tuesday’s rains. System spokesman Lisa Vincent said Kenergy as
of late Tuesday still had 830 outages among
Caldwell County customers and another 770
in Lyon County.
Crittenden County Kenergy outages were
reported at 650, and Livingston County continued with 16.
Florists adapt to storm’s challenges, but lose sales
BY SHELLEY BYRNE
Veterans and their families, assistance in filing claims for state
and federal benefits. Paducah VA
Clinic, 2620 Perkins Creek Dr., 13:15 p.m. By appointment, walk-ins
as time allows. 444-8465.
Concord Homemakers, 10 a.m.,
Concord United Methodist Church.
Paducah Toastmasters Sam
Sloan Chapter, noon, Farm Bureau Building, 1600 Broadway.
Clay Campbell, 703-2700, or Ricky
Greenwell, 442-7179.
Downtown Kiwanis Club, lunch,
noon, Elks Club, 310 N. 4th St.
441-0825.
Financial Aid Workshop for college-bound seniors, 6:30 p.m., Reidland High School library.
“Atheism: An Atheist’s View,”
7:30 p.m. lecture in the Barkley
Room on the top floor of the Curris
Center at Murray State University;
Terry McCreary of MSU chemistry
department.
Dance, 7-10 p.m. Kaler Music
Barn. Band: Due South. $5.
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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Louise and Teena York worked
by candlelight, shaping red roses and white lilies into a casket
spray.
Every now and then they’d stop
to warm their hands over the candle.
“You can’t work in gloves,” Teena York said. “You just can’t.”
Although the Jan. 26-27 ice
storm closed Louise’s Flowers in
Marion for eight days, employees
found ways to cope, said York,
manager of the flower shop her
mother owns.
“It was cooler outside than it
was in the cooler, so we just left
the door open,” she said. “You
have to get creative.”
Although most funerals were
postponed, the Yorks made the
spray for one in Salem that was
not. The funeral home also borrowed their candelabras to hold
the service without power.
Louise’s lost close to $1,000 in
inventory, mainly live plants that
suffered from the cold.
King’s Flowers in Mayfield was
not as lucky, losing about $3,000
in inventory.
People in one wedding canceled
their f loral order, deciding to
have a much simpler ceremony
because of the storm, owner Ernie Nelson said. Although the florist had already ordered flowers
for Valentine’s Day, they had not
arrived.
“Valentine’s Day is a last-min-
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Donna Guizio of Paducah’s Rhew-Hendley Florist works on a Valentine’s arrangement Tuesday.
Some florists had not received their Valentine’s flowers at the time of the ice storm, so those
supplies did not add to their storm losses.
ute holiday because 90 percent of
the orders are from guys, and so
it’s not going to be something they
think of, normally, in advance,”
Nelson said.
Although some people are likely to spend less money on flowers
for the holiday, saving it for home
repairs or restocking freezers,
Nelson said others are turning to
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be spending money on a luxury.”
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“I’ve had guys come in here and
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the electricity back on, but I can’t
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Massac seeking state, federal aid for storm expenses
Debris
BY STEVE
VANTREESE
MURRAY, Ky. — Calloway
County has established two
locations for disposal of tree
limbs and brush: the county
road depar tment, 10 5 E.
Sycamore St., and the county
fairgrounds, Ky. 121 North.
I nd ividu a l s m ay d rop
their debris at no charge
from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. Monday,
Wednesday, Friday and Saturday.
[email protected]
METROPOLIS, Ill. — With
utility workers still mopping
up power outage problems
and others grappling with
a massive cleanup from the
Jan. 27 ice storm, Massac
County is beginning to
weigh the costs of the frozen
disaster.
Representatives of the
Massac County Commission
and Metropolis, Brookport
and Joppa, plus Fort Massac
State Park and Mermet Lake
Conservation Area, have
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Billy Hillebrand, county
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said Tuesday that costs of
the county and the three
city governments should
probably total $1.75 million,
helping Massac qualify for
reimbursement.
Hillebrand said costs incurred over seven southernmost counties included in
an emergency declaration
would play into how IEMA
and FEMA will determine
the qualification for reimbursement.
Metropolis Mayor Billy
McDaniel predicted stormrelated costs across the
county will exceed $2.5 mil-
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STORM AID
Federal help appreciated,
but rules need some work
If you are still without
electricity, in need of food and
other basic necessities, or living
in a home damaged by the Great
Ice Storm of 2009, your assessment
of the emergency response might
differ from those whose power
was restored early and who
received all the assistance they
needed. The anecdotal evidence is
contradictory.
Take FEMA. The Federal
Emergency Management Agency
arrived in Kentucky three
days after the storm and has
since delivered more than 100
truckloads of water and more than
60 truckloads of food statewide.
Although local relief agencies
found some of the relief supplies
impractical, they were happy to
receive and distribute the food.
And the recipients were thankful
to get it.
But, frankly, we found one of
the FEMA rules inexplicable. The
agency does not provide individual
assistance, such as temporary
shelter, for ice storm victims as
they do for hurricane victims.
A FEMA spokesman explained:
“The difference is that hurricanes
damage or destroy homes that
make them unsafe to live in.
There is no provision in the law
to provide housing because the
power is off.” The distinction is
indefensible.
Some residents would be
surprised to learn that their
homes were “safe to live in” after
a tree fell through the roof. And
even when there is no structural
damage, a home is an unsafe
place to stay, especially for the
elderly, without heat when the
temperature drops down to near
single digits, as it did following
this storm.
he official count of
Kentuckians without
electricity topped 750,000.
Some 8,000 people stayed in
shelters manned by the Red Cross
and other relief agencies, but
thousands more stayed in their
homes. And dozens died because
of the lack of heat. Thousands are
still without power after more
than two weeks. But still FEMA
T
offers no individual assistance.
Perhaps the agency should
rethink its policy.
olitics also colors how one
views the response. We have
heard from ardent Obama
supporters whose enthusiasm for
the president’s policies is constant
even though they have opposing
views of the federal response to the
ice storm.
To those who think the
response was strong, it was an
early demonstration of Obama’s
deep compassion and superior
leadership.
To those who think the response
was weak, it is because the
agency is still suffering from the
inept management of the Bush
administration. Obama, up to his
neck in all the messes left by the
Bush administration, just hasn’t
had time to revamp the embattled
agency yet.
Neither interpretation quite
squares with reality. FEMA’s
response deserved both praise
and criticism, just as it did after
Hurricane Katrina. But compared
to Bush after Hurricane Katrina,
Obama himself has been AWOL in
this ice storm.
Obama declared a federal
disaster three days after the ice
storm struck Kentucky. He has not
visited the state to see the damage,
but he did dispatch Homeland
Security Secretary Janet
Napolitano to the state Feb. 10, two
weeks after the storm.
President Bush declared a
federal state of emergency two days
before Katrina made landfall. On
the third day after the hurricane
hit he toured the area and signed
a $10.5-billion relief package.
Admittedly, FEMA director
Michael Brown made some serious
blunders — which is why he was
replaced as head of FEMA 11 days
after Katrina hit — but Bush was
under fire before Brown had time
to bungle the response. Whatever
Bush did, or didn’t do, it was
wrong.
That just goes to show that how
you view the emergency response
is affected not only by what you
observe but by what you believe.
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GOP can right its wrongs with Hispanics
SAN DIEGO — There has
been a misunderstanding. According to the chatter, many
Republicans seem to think they
lost the Hispanic vote because
their party took a stand against
illegal immigration.
That’s pretty much what
radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh said during a recent interview with fellow talker Sean
Hannity. I like listening to Limbaugh, but what gibberish. That
theory makes the GOP sound
almost noble, as if it’s paying a
price for its convictions. Yet it
is Republican lawmakers who
tend to weaken employer sanctions — perhaps the most effective immigration enforcement
measure in existence.
It also has a ring of resignation, suggesting that the only
way for the GOP to make nice
with America’s largest minority
is to reverse itself and embrace
an open border. Wrong again.
According to the Pew Hispanic
Center, most Latinos support
reasonable enforcement measures and don’t begrudge the
United States the right to protect its borders.
Worse, the theory implies
that if the GOP could relive the
last several years, it wouldn’t do
anything differently.
I hope that’s not true. They
say elephants never forget, but
is it too much to ask for them to
learn a lesson once in a while?
Otherwise, with the country on
the march to being one-fourth
Hispanic in 30 years, Republicans may become extinct.
Let me be clear. The reason
for the Hispanic exodus from
the GOP is not because Republicans took a stand against illegal
immigration. It’s the way they
did it — or at least many of them
did it. As always, the devil was
in the details.
Since the election, I’ve heard
from hundreds of Hispanics
who are still steamed at the
Ruben Navarrette, Jr.
GOP. That is no surprise. Time
heals wounds, but this is recent
history. (Ask the Mexicans
about the Spanish. My people
have been known to hold a
grudge for 500 years.) Hispanics
tell me they’re angry that the
immigration debate became so
nasty, that employers escaped
most of the criticism, that the
tone went from anti-illegal immigrant to anti-Hispanic, that
Latino culture and bilingualism
were attacked, and that some
Americans made the same argument that was made in previous
decades against the Germans,
Chinese, Irish, Italians and
Jews — namely, that the real
concern was about America
admitting an inferior grade of
immigrant.
Hispanics also resent the
racism, the reluctance of many
Americans to empathize with
immigrants as similar to their
ancestors, the assumption that
anyone who looks Hispanic
must have only recently arrived
in this country, and the fact that
opportunistic politicians proposed half-baked solutions for
closing the border and getting
rid of illegal immigrants.
Just look at Republicans in
Congress who have put their
weight behind efforts to declare
English the national language,
deny citizenship to U.S.-born
children of illegal immigrants,
and empower local police to enforce federal immigration law.
All of these things are opposed
by most Latinos.
Where the GOP went wrong
was in letting the loudest and
shrillest voices carry the party
banner — and to what end? To
scare up a few votes from skittish Americans convinced that
taco trucks cruising neighborhoods or the option to “press 2
for Spanish” meant the ruin of
civilization. Instead of trying to
convince themselves that they
didn’t do anything wrong in
driving away Hispanics, Republicans should be thinking about
how to make things right with
this huge bloc of voters. And no,
that doesn’t mean caving in and
giving up on core principles. All
the right wing needs to do is to
stay away from the vitriol, the
racism and the centuries-old
tendency to define newcomers
as deficient, defective or dangerous.
That caricature troubles
the National Hispanic Media
Coalition, which recently asked
the Federal Communications
Commission to investigate hate
speech in the media. The group
defines hate speech as “dehumanizing metaphors,” “divisive
language,” “false statements,”
and “flawed argumentation.” It
is urging the FCC to make good
on what Barack Obama told the
Congressional Hispanic Caucus
in September about his desire to
“stop the hateful rhetoric filling
our airwaves.”
I can’t go along with censorship or infringing on the First
Amendment. The answer to
hate speech is more speech, not
less. Still, I applaud the NHMC
for raising the issue. The immigration debate is infected
with too much hate and fear.
What it needs are injections of
honesty, nuance and common
sense. A little civility wouldn’t
hurt either.
The Republican Party should
clean up its act and do its part to
help get us there.
Marie Osmond ‘before’ weight loss looked pretty good to me
Random thoughts on the passing scene:
I realized how far behind the times I am
when I saw a TV commercial for some weightloss product, showing Marie Osmond “before” and “after.” I thought she looked great
“before.”
The adage “follow the money” will be hard
to apply in the current administration. So
much money is going in all directions that it
is doubtful whether anybody can follow it.
I hate to hear about “partnerships” between government and business, or between
government and other organizations. When
there is a partnership between an ant and
an elephant, who do you suppose makes the
decisions?
There are too many people, especially
among the intelligentsia, who will never appreciate the things that have made this country great until after those things have been
destroyed — with their help. Then, of course,
it will be too late.
How can a president of the United States
be re-elected in a landslide after four years
in politics requires denying
when unemployment never
mistakes and sticking with
fell below 15 percent for
the policies you advocated,
even one month during
while blaming others for
his first term? Franklin D.
the bad results.
Roosevelt did it by blaming
I know that there are still
it all on the previous adminvoices of sanity around beistration. Barack Obama
cause I have counted them
may be able to achieve the
— on one hand.
same result the same way.
More frightening to me
Do you want to have to
Thomas Sowell
than any policy or politijump through bureaucratic
cian is the ease with which
hoops when you are sick?
the public is played for fools with words. The
If not, why would you be in favor of governlatest example is the “Employee Freedom of
ment-run medical care?
Choice Act,” a bill that will do away with seThe “Wall Street Journal Report” is one of
cret ballot elections among workers voting on
the few things on television worth watching.
whether to be represented by a union. It is an
It is worth it just to see the sardonic smile of
open invitation to intimidation — which is to
Kimberly Strassel whenever she discusses
say, loss of freedom of choice.
politics.
Our economic problems worry me much
Human beings are going to make mistakes,
less than our political solutions, which have a
whether in the market or in the government.
far worse track record.
The difference is that survival in the market
One of the wonders of our times is how
requires recognizing mistakes and changing
much more attention is paid to the living
course before you go bankrupt. But survival
conditions of a bunch of cut-throats locked up
in Guantanamo than to the leading international sponsor of terrorism getting nuclear
weapons.
The great sense of urgency of the Obama
administration to get legislation to authorize
slow-moving spending projects may seem
inconsistent. But the urgency is real, even
if the reasons given are not. The worse case
scenario for the administration would be to
have the economy begin to recover on its own
before this massive spending bill is passed,
reducing their chances of creating the kind of
politically directed economy they want.
War should of course be “a last resort”
— but last in terms of preference, not last
in the sense of hoping against hope while
dangers grow. Wishful thinking or illusory
agreements are no substitute for serious
military preparedness — or, if necessary,
military action.
As Franklin D. Roosevelt said, “If you wait
until you see the whites of their eyes, you will
never know what hit you.”
LOCAL
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The Paducah Sun • Wednesday, February 11, 2009 • 5A
Parent sues county schools Paducah Lions Club distributes
Lawsuit asks the court
to maintain the three
county high schools
Consolidation lawsuit
A Lone Oak home builder and father of two is suing the McCracken
County Board of Education in an
effort to stop the planned consolidation of three county high schools.
Among the requests in the lawsuit:
■ A jury trial.
■ School board documents, including meeting minutes in which
consolidation was mentioned.
■ Accreditation surveys since
2004.
■ Information from the person
who recommended consolidation.
■ Information the school board
used for its decision.
■ Documents from the state education department.
■ Documents regarding the purchase of a 139-acre tract for the
proposed school.
BY LEIGH
LANDINI WRIGHT
[email protected]
Edwin Riley has sued the McCracken County Board of Education seeking to stop consolidation of the county’s three high schools.
Riley, a Lone Oak home builder and parent
of two children in the county schools, asks
that the court issue a permanent injunction
requiring the school board to operate the
three current high schools and stop any additional development of the land and construction on a consolidated high school. Riley’s
attorney, Robert L. Prince of Benton, filed the
lawsuit Jan. 26.
In the lawsuit Riley’s attorney claims the
school board’s actions are “unlawful and constitute an abuse of discretion.” It also claims
that the school board’s actions violate the
state constitution.
Riley said Prince told him it would be better if Riley filed the lawsuit as a parent and
taxpayer than as a director of the Citizens for
Academic Achievement Co. The group mailed
postcards to McCracken County homeowners
in the past two weeks, asking for donations to
its legal defense fund.
Gorman Bradley, board attorney, said the
board followed state procedures prior to voting for consolidation and had the state education department’s approval to buy the land.
“The board did everything the law requires,”
Bradley said.
Riley said he doesn’t know his chances in
court. “I know we’ve got a better chance with
trying than doing nothing,” he said.
Group member Eric Ortt said: “We still
have a fight going on. We’re going to see if we
can attempt to get this stopped.”
The group raised money previously to fund
the postcards, and donations now will be used
in a legal fund.
“I think it’s going to be a fight, and the odds
are against us,” Ortt said. “What would tickle
me to death is if they would put it to a vote.”
Ortt said he has received 10 to 25 supportive e-mails a day since people received their
postcards.
proceeds from Telethon of Stars
BY ANGIE KINSEY
[email protected]
The way the community came together
during the ice storm was nothing new to
the folks behind the Lions Club-WPSD Telethon of Stars.
“The last couple of weeks we as a community were reminded how in the face of
a disaster how willing we are to help each
other,” said Frank Shuler, 2008 telethon
chairman. “On a smaller scale, that’s essentially what we’re doing (with the telethon).”
The Paducah Lions Club distributed the
money raised during the telethon in November at its meeting Tuesday at the Luther F. Carson Four Rivers Center. The
grand total raised was $ 597,952, which
minus production costs was distributed
to organizations that work with disabled
children and adults in western Kentucky,
southern Illinois, northwest Tennessee and
southeast Missouri.
“Considering the current economic climate, I’d say we ought to be pretty proud of
this,” Shuler said.
Easter Seals West Kentucky received
$302,310; TLC of Southern Illinois, $89,400;
Community Developmental Services of
Martin, Tenn., $71,438, and Easter Seals
Southeast Missouri, $22,087.
“That’s a lot of therapy folks,” said Tommye Robb, TLC executive director, about
the check she received. “So many children
in our area are in need and waiting to hear
this number for their speech therapy and
hearing aids. There’s not much happening
in southern Illinois, except this.”
Ken Lucas, Easter Seals West Kentucky
executive director, said he finds the telethon’s success each year astounding.
“This whole event amazes me and makes
me proud to be part of this regional community,” he said.
Special awards were given to Triangle
Enterprises, per capita; Western Baptist
Hospital, commercial; NewPage, industrial; Cape Springs General Baptist Church,
church division; Faith Lutheran Church,
largest increase in the church division,
and Lone Oak Lions Club, per-capita award
among Lions Clubs.
Jim McPeake will succeed Shuler as
chairman of the 2009 telethon.
Angie Kinsey can be contacted at 5758657.
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Leigh Landini Wright can be contacted at
575-8658.
Briefs
Paducah schools
refinance debt
The Paducah school
board approved the sale
of $3.9 million in bonds to
refinance decade-old debt
Monday, the first step
toward paying for millions
in school renovations this
summer.
The sale is expected to
net $300,000, which will
go toward work at four
schools: Paducah Tilghman and Clark, McNabb
and Morgan elementary
schools.
The board will accept
bids for the projects, both
individually and combined,
on Feb. 24. Superintendent Randy Greene has
said he expects a total
cost between $8 million
and $9 million.
The board, through the
district’s finance corporation, is expected to
approve selling bonds
to pay for the balance of
that work at next month’s
meeting.
Woman reports
carjacking attempt
MURRAY, Ky. — Murray
police and Calloway County sheriff’s deputies are
investigating a possible
carjacking.
According to police reports, Alisa Joy Camp, 34,
of Murray said she left
her car in a parking lot on
Monday afternoon. When
she returned to the car, a
man grabbed her from behind. She told officers she
was forced to drive her car
north on U.S. 641. Police
said the man asked her to
leave the car near Squire
Holland Road, and she
then called for help. Police
found the car on Squire
Holland Road.
She received minor injuries, police said.
Anyone with information
can call Murray police at
753-1621.
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Vera Stalion
MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. —
Vera I. Stalion, 90, of Myrtle
Beach, S.C., died Monday in
Myrtle Beach.
A private family service
will be at 2 p.m. Sunday at
Boyd Funeral Directors in
Salem with Tony Alexander
officiating. Burial will follow
in Love Cemetery.
Friends may call after 6
p.m. Saturday at the funeral
home.
Other arrangements were
pending.
Willard Holloway
Willard Brooks Holloway,
77, of West Paducah died at
10:28 p.m. Monday at Mercy
Medical Center in Rogers,
Ark.
Services will be at 1 p.m.
Friday at Milner & Orr Funeral Home of Paducah.
Friends may call after 5
p.m. Thursday at the funeral
home.
Other arrangements were
pending.
Funeral notices
Paid obituaries furnished to The Paducah Sun by mortuaries.
Nancy Carol Lee
Nancy Carol Lee, 65, of
Paducah died Tuesday, January 27, 2009, at 9:03 a.m. at
We s t er n
Baptist
Hospital.
She was
of the Baptist faith.
Ms. Lee
is survived
by two
daughters,
Kristi Lee
Ritchie of Clarksville, Tenn.,
and Missy Lee Young and
husband Bart of Paducah;
four grandchildren, Kristin
Warren and husband Chad of
Paducah, Ashley Ritchie of
Norfolk, Va., Amber Ritchie
and Tessa Ritchie, both of
Clarksville, Tenn.; one greatg r a ndd au g ht er, Nevaeh
Ritchie of Clarksville, Tenn.;
two sisters, Brenda McGrew
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Howard Armbruster
FULTON, Ky. — Howard
Brown Armbruster, 90, of
Fulton died Monday at Baptist
Hospital East in Memphis,
Tenn.
He was a retired conductor
for the Illinois Central Railroad, a World War II veteran
serving in the Army and the
Army Air Corps, a member of
First Baptist Church and the
3C’s Sunday school class and
Roberts Masonic Lodge, all
in Fulton, and the Veterans of
Foreign Wars in Union City,
Tenn.
Mr. Armbruster is survived
by his wife, Martha Jean
Brown Armbruster; one son,
Lynn Armbruster of Arlington, Tenn.; one brother, James
I. Armbruster of Murray; and
two grandchildren.
He was preceded in death
by two sisters. His parents
were Lara and Ava Lee Brown
Armbruster.
Services will be at 1 p.m.
Thursday at Hornbeak Funeral Chapel. The Rev. Deb Christenson and Dr. Jack Acree will
officiate. Burial will follow in
Pleasant View Memorial Gardens in Fulton.
Friends may call after 5
p.m. today and after 8 a.m.
Thursday at the funeral home,
with Masonic services at 7
p.m.
Memorials may be made
to the Railroad Museum in
South Fulton, c/o James D.
Cruce, 4381 U.S. 45E, South
Fulton, TN. 38257.
of West Chester, Pa., and Jean
Walters of Metropolis, Ill.;
one aunt, Juanita Wilder and
husband Jimmie of Brookport, Ill.
She was preceded in death
by her parents, Thurman
Reynolds and Lou Eva Belle
Reynolds Stepter.
A graveside service will be
held at 1 p.m. on Friday, February 13, 2009, in Maplelawn
Park Cemetery with Rev. Don
Young and Rev. Louis Brinker officiating. Milner and Orr
Funeral Home of Paducah is
in charge of arrangements.
In lieu of flowers contributions may be made to American Heart Association, Kentucky Region, 240 Whittington Parkway, Louisville, KY
Mary Medley
40222.
METROPOLIS, Ill. —
You may light a candle or
leave a message of sympathy Mary Helen Medley, 78, of
Metropolis died Monday at
at milnerandorr.com.
Lourdes hospital in Paducah.
She was a member of Eastland Baptist Church.
Frank Edwin Wood
She is survived by her husBENTON, Ky. — Frank by his parents, Joe Wood and band, Howard Medley; two
Edwin Wood, 89, of Benton, Sina Hill Wood; one daughter; sons, Ricky Allen Parmer and
Ky., passed away at 11:30 a.m. one granddaughter; one sister; Jimmy Parmer, both of Metropolis; two sisters, Marsha
Monday, February 9, 2009, at and two brothers..
Marshall County Hospital.
Funeral services will be at Kay Smithhart of Durant,
He was a veteran with 1 p.m. Thursday, February Okla., and Stephanie Parr of
the United States Army and 12, 2009, at Filbeck-Cann & Massac County; two brothers,
served during World War II. King Funeral Home. Rev. Da- Bob Mizell of Metropolis and
He worked as a farmer and a vid Brasher will officiate, and Dickie Ray Mizell of Granite
carpenter.
burial will follow in the Cole City; 10 grandchildren; 13
great-grandchildren; and sevHe is survived by his wife Cemetery.
of 62 years, Magdalene Stone
Friends may call after 5 eral nieces and nephews.
She was preceded in death
Wood of Benton, Ky.; a daugh- p.m. Wednesday, February 11,
ter, Donna and Lynn Cope of 2009, at Filbeck-Cann & King by one daughter, Brenda Kay
Worthen. Her parents were
Benton, Ky.; son Eddie and Funeral Home.
Maggie Wood of Auburndale,
Contributions may be made Charles Donald “Pete” and
Fla.; four grandchildren, Lau- to Cole Cemetery Fund, c/o Florence Whalen Mizell.
Graveside and burial serra Pea and Jerilyn Lampkins, Neal Cole, 16 Bondurant Lane,
both of Benton, Ky., and Josh Benton, KY 42025; or New vices will be at 10 a.m. ThursWright and Chris Wood, both Bethel Music Fund or New day at Seven Mile Church
of Auburndale, Fla.; three Bethel Scholarship Fund, 4045 Cemetery in Massac County,
great-grandchildren; and a Mayfield Highway, Benton, with the Rev. Burt Ward officiating.
sister, Verda Smothers of Ben- KY 42025.
Expressions of sympathy
Condolences may be sent onton, Ky.
may take the form of contriHe was preceded in death line at filbeckcannking.com.
butions to the American Diabetes Association, 2580 Federal Dr., Suite 403, Decatur,
Ralph ‘Buddy’ Bell
IL 62526.
There will be no visitation.
Ralph “Buddy” Bell, age Bell Overby and husband Eric
Aikins-Farmer Funeral
76, of Paducah, Ky., formerly of Wickliffe; one stepdaughof Wickliffe, Ky., died at 3:30 ter, Kimberly Baker and hus- Home is in charge of arrangep.m. Mon- band Jason of Paducah; two ments.
day, Feb- sisters, Ruth Hannan and Ror u a r y 9, saline Boren of Bartlesville,
Deloris Beardsley
2 0 0 9 , a t Okla.; two grandchildren,
WICKLIFFE, Ky. — Deloris
his resi- Noah Eric Overby and Zoie
Bell Overby, both of Wickliffe; Jones Beardsley, 72, of Hardy,
dence.
W h i l e three stepgrandchildren, Jill Ark., formerly of Wickliffe,
g r o w i n g Allison Massey of Paducah died at 3:07 p.m. Sunday at
up Buddy and Sloan Baker and Blain Ash F lat Health Care &
Rehabilitation Center in Ash
w o r k e d Baker of Paris, Tenn.
He was preceded in death Flat, Ark.
wit h his
She was a co -owner of
father learning the monu- by his first wife, Winnie Jean
ment business at Bell Monu- Bell; his parents, John W. Bell Beardsley Chevrolet of Harment Co. in Cairo, Ill. In 1968 Sr. and Mamie Heichelbech dy.
She is survived by one son,
Ralph moved to Wickliffe and Bell; one sister, Marie Susan
opened Ralph Bell Monument Bell; two brothers, John Bell Blake Beardsley of Hardy;
Co., where he continued to Jr. and Alfred Bell; and one and two sisters, Berna Morgan and Judy Hall, both of
create and sell monuments stepson, Sidney Thomas.
Funeral Services will be Wickliffe.
for 36 years. During that time
She was preceded in death
he served as a city council- held at 3 p.m. Thursday, Febman for many years as well ruary 12, 2009, at St. Mary by her husband, A r thu r
as a four-year term as Ballard Catholic Church in La Center “Pap” Beardsley, and one
County Magistrate. After re- with Rev. Frank Roof offici- son, Monte Allen Beardsley.
tirement, Buddy enjoyed vol- ating. Burial will follow in Her parents were Wilburn
unteering at Lourdes hospital the Wickliffe City Cemetery. Jones and Irene Price Jones.
Services will be at 11 a.m.
and Life Care Center in La Friends may call after 6 p.m.
Wednesday, February 11, Thursday at Milner & Orr
Center, Ky.
Ralph was a member of the 2009, at Milner & Orr Funeral Funeral Home of Wickliffe,
Cairo Knights of Columbus, Home in Wickliffe. Prayers with John Curtis officiating.
Friends may call after 9
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Associated Press
Representatives of Kentucky bourbon distillers pour samples of their
product outside the Capitol entrance on Tuesday in Frankfort. Kentucky’s alcohol
industry held a rally protesting a proposed alcohol tax increase by the state legislature.
House panel approves tax hikes
Associated Press
FRANKFORT, Ky. — It
wasn’t quite the Boston Tea
Party. But Kentucky bourbon industry officials stood
shoulder-to-shoulder Tuesday and emptied bottles of
bourbon on the state Capitol’s front steps to protest a
proposed 6-percent sales tax
on all booze.
“They’ve always been
taxing us to death over the
years,” said Jimmy Russell,
master distiller at Lawrenceburg, Ky.-based Wild Turkey,
moments after pouring out an
entire bottle of bourbon into a
pile of melting snow.
The display capped off a
show-of-force protest by industry supporters and executives that included beer and
bourbon trucks circling the
Kentucky Capitol throughout
the morning. Inside, a few
hundred people packed the
Rotunda, shouting, holding
signs or wearing stickers.
The House Appropriations
and Revenue Committee approved the proposal on Tues-
lieves raising additional revenue for state government, “is
the responsible thing to do.”
Lawmakers are hoping to
get the bill to the governor by
Friday.
House Speaker Greg Stumbo, a Democrat from Prestonsburg, said he expects the
tax plan to come before the
full House for consideration
today, which would keep it
on schedule. Stumbo said he
didn’t believe the liquor industry’s protests would affect
the vote, or hurt Kentucky’s
economy.
“They’ve got a right to do
what they feel like that they
have to do, but I don’t think
it really changed anybody’s
minds,” Stumbo said.
Beshear said the vote
showed a commitment by
House and Senate leaders
to resolve the state’s budget
problems.
“It is a responsible and
thoughtful approach that
mixes revenue enhancements
with additional cuts,” Beshear said in a statement.
day in an effort to offset a projected $456 million revenue
shortfall in the fiscal year
that ends June 30.
The plan would also double
the state’s tax on cigarettes,
raising it from 30 cents to 60
cents a pack, generating about
$81.5 million a year. The alcohol tax would be expected to
generate an additional $97.9
million a year.
The budget committee also
voted to transfer $219 million
from the state’s rainy day
fund to the general fund.
Gov. Steve Beshear has
proposed a 70-cent per pack
increase in cigarettes, along
with cuts of about 4 percent to
many state government agencies. House lawmakers last
year passed a 25-cent increase
on the price of cigarettes, but
the measure stalled in the
Senate.
This year, Senate President
David Williams, a Burkesville Republican, supports
the plan, which legislative
leaders negotiated in private.
Williams said Tuesday he be-
Briefs
Senate approves
changes to testing
FRANKFORT, Ky. — The
state Senate approved
a measure Tuesday that
would change the way
students are tested for
academic achievement in
Kentucky.
The proposal, sponsored by Murray Democrat
Ken Winters, calls for a
test that would allow Kentucky scores to be compared to other states. It
also would remove writing
portfolios from the state’s
testing program, known
as the Commonwealth
Accountability Testing
System.
The Senate approved
the measure 36-0. It
now goes to the House
for consideration.
Miss. attorney
pleads guilty to
mail fraud
ABERDEEN, Miss.
— A noted anti-tobacco
attorney jailed for conspiring to bribe a Mississippi judge pleaded
guilty to mail fraud
Tuesday in a second
bribery scheme.
Richard “Dickie”
Scruggs admitted
he was involved in a
scheme to entice a
judge to rule in his
favor in an asbestos
case by promising
he’d be appointed to
the federal bench with
help from Scruggs’
brother-in-law, former
U.S. Sen. Trent Lott.
Scruggs, who al-
ready is serving five
years in jail, was sentenced Tuesday to a
seven-year term that will
run at the same time, basically adding two years
to his sentence. He was
also fined $100,000.
to eight deaths.
Large pickups fare
poorly in tests
WASHINGTON — Three
large pickup trucks that
serve as workhorses for
construction crews, farmers and small business
owners are not providing
good protection in side
crashes, according to
tests conducted by the
insurance industry.
The Insurance Institute
for Highway Safety gave
low marks to the 2009 versions of the Chevrolet Silverado 1500, Dodge Ram
1500 and Nissan Titan in
side crash tests results
being released today.
The Ram, equipped
with standard side air
bags, earned the second-lowest score of
marginal. The Titan and
Silverado received the
lowest mark of poor
when tested without optional side air bags.
Associated Press
House hearing to
focus on executives
WASHINGTON — A
congressional committee
issued a subpoena Tuesday for the top executive
of a small company that
allegedly shipped the
tainted peanut products
responsible for a national salmonella outbreak.
The House Energy and
Commerce Committee
voted to compel Peanut
Corp. of America President Stewart Parnell to
appear at a hearing today,
as a wide-ranging investigation focuses on who
was responsible for an
outbreak that has sickened at least 600 people
and may have contributed
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The Paducah Sun • Wednesday, February 11, 2009 • 7A
Talks begin after stimulus approved Stamp prices to go
up 2 cents in May
BY ANDREW TAYLOR
Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Senate
passage of an $838 billion stimulus bill triggered an intense
round of late-night bargaining
on Tuesday, with the White
House and key congressional
Democrats seeking agreement
on a final compromise aimed
at combatting the worst economic crisis in decades.
Democratic lawmakers said
that in deference to Senate
Republican moderates, it appeared the bill that eventually goes to President Barack
Obama would be in the range
of $800 billion — less than the
Senate measure or a different bill that cleared the House
several days ago.
Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus,
D-Mont., had said earlier
that $35.5 billion to provide a
$15,000 homebuyer tax credit,
approved in the Senate last
week, would be cut back.
There was also pressure to
reduce a Senate-passed tax
break for new car buyers,
according to Democratic officials, while a $40 billion
reduction in aid to states appeared likely to stick.
A provision limiting compensation for top executives of
companies receiving federal
bailout assistance appeared
BY RANDOLPH E.
SCHMID
Associated Press
Associated Press
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell talks to reporters after the final passage of the stimulus bill at the Capitol in Washington on Tuesday. Late-night bargaining
began following the 61-37 Senate vote.
likely to be dropped altogether
because of an unanticipated
$11 billion budget cost. The
officials who disclosed details
of the talks did so on condition of anonymity, saying they
were not authorized to discuss
them.
The White House weighed
in strongly to try to resurrect
funding for school construction eliminated during Senate dealmaking last week, a
Democratic official said, but
seemed resigned to limiting aid to the states for local
school budgets to the $39 billion approved by the Senate
on Tuesday by a 61-37 vote.
The late-night negotiations
reflected an urgency on the
part of the White House and
the Democratic-controlled
Congress to move quickly
against a recession that has
sent joblessness soaring. The
officials added that bargainers hoped for an agreement as
early as Wednesday.
Earlier, the Senate sailed to
approval of its $838 billion economic stimulus bill with only
three Republicans in favor,
Sens. Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe of Maine and Arlen
Specter of Pennsylvania.
Within hours of the Senate vote, White House Chief
of Staff Rahm Emanuel and
other top aides to Obama had
made the trip to the Capitol
for series of meetings that
stretched well into the evening.
Snowe, Collins and Specter
are demanding that the final
bill resemble the Senate measure, which devotes about 42
percent of its $838 billion in
debt-financed costs to tax cuts,
including Obama’s signature
$500 tax credit for 95 percent
of workers, with $1,000 going
to couples.
WASHINGTON — The
post office will get an
extra 2-cents worth when
you mail a letter starting
in May.
The U.S. Postal Service
announced Tuesday that
the price of a first-class
stamp will rise to 44 cents
on May 11.
That gives plenty of time
to stock up on Forever
Stamps, which will continue to sell at the current 42cent rate until the increase
occurs. They will remain
valid in the future regardless of rate hikes.
“The Postal Service
is not immune to rising
costs which are affecting
homes and businesses
across America today,”
said Postmaster General
John Potter. “Even with
the increases, the Postal
Service continues to offer
some of the lowest postage
prices in the world.”
Postage rates go up annually in May, with the new
prices announced in February. The overall change is
tied to the rate of inflation
in the year before.
While the new 44-cent
rate covers the first ounce
of first-class mail, the
price for each additional
ounce will remain unchanged at 17-cents.
Postal officials estimate
the increase will cost the
average household $3-ayear.
Buffeted by rising costs
and declining mail volume, the Postal Service
lost $2.8 billion last year
and, unless the economy
turns around, is headed
toward much larger losses
this year.
The agency could have
cited extraordinary circumstances and asked the
independent Postal Regulatory Commission for
larger increases, but officials felt that would only
result in a greater decline
in mail volume.
The post office has been
cutting costs, reducing
work hours, and has asked
Congress to ease requirements for advance funds
for retiree benefits and to
allow mail to be delivered
five days a week instead
of six.
POLE: Workers, one from JPEC and one from a Minnesota utility, were taken to Lourdes hospital after the fall
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I guess it became tangled
with one of the wheels of the
(Minnesota) truck, and as the
(JPEC) truck kept pulling,
you could see that wire becoming tighter and tighter.
“I was trying to tell the
driver of the JPEC truck to
stop and so were the others
with the Minnesota truck,
but he couldn’t hear us. Finally, that pole just came
down and those guys with it
and it looked like the transformer came down on top of
them,” Rudd said.
“I just called 911.”
The workers, one from
JPEC and one from the Minnesota utility were taken to
Lourdes hospital, Carr said.
“One appeared to be pretty
serious,” he said.
Neither Carr nor Kerr would
release the men’s names.
Kerr said the 40-foot pole
was relatively new.
“We’ll see if storm-related
damage played a factor,” he said.
The incident happened at
2501 Clarkline, the portion of
Clarkline that connects Old
Mayfield and Husband roads.
Kerr said that a worker
from JPEC is placed with
each of the crews that came
in from out of town repairing
storm damage.
The only other injury to a
worker happened a couple of
days ago when a worker from
South Carolina had a hand
crushed between two poles,
requiring 10 stitches.
The sheriff’s department,
as well as JPEC safety coordinator Murray Riley and
someone from the Kentucky
Association of Electric Cooperatives, is investigating
Tuesday’s incident, Kerr said.
“Obviously, our first concern is for the workers that
were a f fected and their
families,” Kerr said. “We’ve
brought in counselors to be
available if our employees
want to talk to someone, and
of course we are here.”
John Wright can be contacted at 575-8694.
Laqueta Perry can be contacted at 575-8655.
PURCHASES: ‘We don’t think anything criminal has
been done but are investigating to see how it happened’
CONTINUED FROM 1A
ing to be free, so he signed an
authorization slip and wrote
“rented” on it. He never authorized the purchase, McGowan said.
Harnice said the form that
McGowan signed has been
misplaced or lost.
Harnice said the volunteer
then went to the county treasurer and said the equipment purchase had been approved and
he needed a check for $25,225.58.
The treasurer, assuming it had
been approved and knowing the
county was facing an emergency, gave the volunteer a check,
Harnice said.
“We don’t think anything
criminal has been done but
are investigating to see how
it happened,” Newberry said.
“I think it was an overzealous
volunteer and the stress of the
first few days of the storm.”
Harnice said the purchase
of the merchandise appears
to be justified. Different agencies working at the emergency operations center used the
computers.
Harnice said one television
was used at the EOC, one by
the National Guard and two
at a Red Cross shelter at the
National Guard Armory. He
didn’t say how the other two
were used. The DVD movies
and players were secured to
entertain children, he said.
It isn’t clear what will happen to the equipment now
that the EOC and shelter have
closed.
Newberry said he might
consider returning the merchandise to Best Buy and
offering to pay a rental fee,
while Harnice said the county
may store it to use in future
disasters. On Tuesday afternoon, he said he was looking
for a heated storage building
that could be rented.
Harnice is confident that the
Federal Emergency Manage-
ment Agency will reimburse
the county for the cost. Newberry, however, isn’t so sure.
“People just assume that
FEMA will pay for everything,
but that’s not true,” Newberry
said. “They take a hard look at
every expense and make sure
it’s justified. I don’t know if
they’ll justify the purchase of
big screen televisions.”
Newberry said that before
any decisions are made, he
wants to see the result of Harnice’s investigation.
Bill Bartleman can be contacted at 575-8651.
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employed at Trigg, Murray, Hickman
County and McCracken County
and eighth-grade science, said
Ken Bargo, Livingston school
superintendent. McCuiston
does not coach. He did not
teach Tuesday.
Bargo said he communicated with McCuiston on Tuesday afternoon, and planned to
meet with him to discuss the
allegations. The meeting date
and time have not been set,
he said.
McCuiston has been employed with the district since
fall 2005 and previously taught
in the Trigg County, Murray,
Hickman County and McCracken County school districts.
He taught at Trigg County
Middle School from 1994 to 1995,
in the Murray school system
in 1996, at Hickman County Elementary School from 1996 to
1997, and at Lone Oak Middle
School from 1997 to 1999, according to the school districts.
McCuiston does not have
tenure, Bargo said.
Hendley said the allegations were unprecedented in
Mayfield.
“We’ve had peeping Toms,
and we’ve had people taking
pictures of people, but not
where they would go to a ballgame and crawl underneath
the bleachers,” he said.
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parent out of the way.”
When the teacher and parents caught up to McCuiston,
he had thrown a camera onto
the grass, apparently attempting to rid himself of it,
according to Green’s report.
Police later searched his vehicle and found numerous
DVDs of cheerleaders and
girls competing in pageants.
They were apparently photographed without their permission, Hendley said. Some
of the DVDs contained nudity, according to the report.
The report did not indicate
whether the DVDs contained
images of local people.
Police charged McCuiston
with voyeurism, eavesdropping, disorderly conduct and
tampering with evidence. The
tampering charge is because
of McCuiston’s allegedly
throwing away the camera,
Hendley said.
Police took McCuiston to
the Graves County Jail, but
he was released Tuesday
morning after paying 20 percent of a $10,000 cash bond.
He will be arraigned April 1
in Graves District Court.
McCuiston did not return
a call to his home Tuesday
afternoon.
McCuiston teaches seventh-
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NAPOLITANO: Governor says
The Federal Emergency
Management Agency is part
of the Department of Homeland Security.
She announced in an earlier news conference that the
federal government is taking
the unusual step of paying for
75 percent of the cost of calling up more than 4,600 Kentucky National Guard troops.
“Normally, the National
Guard is a state responsibility and governors assume
that,” Napolitano said. “But
this situation was so broad
and so unique ... that I feel it
necessary to create an exception to that normal practice.”
She said what was unique
was the need for the Guard to
go door-to-door in the western
part of the state to make wellness checks on residents.
Helping in that decision,
she said in the interview, was
her experience as the former
governor of Arizona where
she faced tornadoes and wildfires that qualified as federal
disasters.
“I’ve been on the other end
of disasters, and know the
difficulties a governor faces,”
she said. “The top need is cutting through the red tape to
get financial and other assistance. That’s what we are trying to do.”
Napolitano also said Kentucky has a pending request
to pay 100 percent of the
state’s cleanup and personnel costs for the first seven
days of the storm. The federal
government already has approved paying 75 percent.
Beshear said the extra help
is needed because the storm
affected 101 of Kentucky’s 120
counties and would further
drain the budget, which already is facing a deficit.
Napolitano said she’s still
reviewing the request and
indicated she might approve
a figure between 75 percent
and 100 percent.
Beshear said he’s considering asking for additional
financial assistance under
other FEMA programs, such
as helping homeowners pay
the cost of trimming trees
that have broken and hanging
limbs that can be dangerous.
Beshear also said the state
will hire contractors to help
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