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WEDNESDAY
July 6,
2016
Democrat
An independent newspaper serving Adams County, Indiana since 1857
Water rate
hike coming
in Decatur
IN BRIEF
Take me out
to the Tincaps
ball game
Decatur Night at the
TinCaps will be Aug. 13 at
Parkview Field in downtown Fort Wayne. Decatur
has a block of tickets along
the third base line. The
TinCaps will face Bowling
Green for a 7:05 p.m. first
pitch. A fireworks show
will follow the game.
Tickets go on sale
Wednesday and may be
purchased at Riverside
Center from 8-4 p.m.,
Monday through Friday.
Tickets are $7 each
and cash or checks are
accepted.
The first 240 tickets
sold in the Decatur block
will receive a food voucher, good for one hotdog,
chips and a soda at the
ballpark.
Door prizes will be
awarded to those who
purchased tickets in the
Decatur section.
All those who purchase
tickets will be entered into
a drawing to throw out the
first pitch at the game.
The drawing will happen
on Aug. 4, during the
Thursday Night Concert
Series show on Madison
Street.
Sponsorship opportunities are still available.
Contact Ryan Green at
[email protected] for
additional information.
Agenda for
sewer board
is released
The Adams County
Regional Sewer District
will hold a special meeting at 6:30 p.m. Thursday
at the Decatur Riverside
Center, 231 E. Monroe
St., Decatur.
The meeting will begin
with a pubic hearing concerning a proposed rate
ordinance for residents to
be served by the county’s
first-ever rural sewage
collection system.
In the regular board
meeting to follow, items
listed on the agenda
include the consideration for adoption of a
rate ordinance, consideration of funding for a
contract award and general discussion surrounding requirements for the
sewer project.
Retirement
party for
Lehman set
A retirement party for
Limberlost State Historic
Site Manager Randy
Lehman will be held from
noon-2 p.m. Saturday at
the site’s visitor center
in Geneva. Lehman has
announced his retirement, effective that day,
although he has agreed
to volunteer his time as
needed to assist the new
manager when that position is filled.
75¢
YANKEE DOODLE DANDY — This young boy was among hundreds of local residents who
helped the USA celebrate its 240th birthday Monday in Decatur. He and others were gathered in the field north of the Riverside Center for Decatur’s annual Fourth of July celebration. More photos of the event are on Page 11A of today’s Democrat.
Photo by J Swygart
Wheel tax discussion leads to
concerns over its enforcement
By MIKE LAMM
With less than a week
remaining before a July 11
public information session
surrounding
the possibility of implementing a county
wheel tax, the Adams County
Commissioners on Tuesday
discussed the importance of
keeping the upcoming discussions focused during that
meeting, scheduled at 7 p.m.
Tuesday at the South Adams
Senior Center.
Highway
Department
Superintendent Lonnie Caffee
broached the topic during his
weekly update, suggesting, “I
think it’s important that we’re
all there (present).” The wheel
tax meeting will be jointly conducted by the commissioners
as well as members of county council, and Caffee felt it
would be advantageous for as
many members of those two
boards to attend the meeting
as possible.
While the public meeting was specifically scheduled to allow members of the
Amish community to become
informed on the subject of a
wheel tax and express their
opinions, the meeting is open
to everyone.
County Attorney Mark
Burry reminded the commissioners that while it was
important to discuss the pros
and cons of a wheel tax,
the subject of Amish buggy
plates should also be part of
the conversation.
Burry said his research
indicates that identification
stickers containing information similar to an abbreviated
motor vehicle VIN number
could be placed on the axle
of every Amish buggy. The
stickers could be made in
such a way so they “disintegrate when you try to remove
them,” he explained.
He stated that while motor
vehicle owners are cited by
law enforcement if they cannot provide valid and current
vehicle registration information, the same legal ramifications should apply to the
Amish if they fail to comply
with registration requirement,
should they be imposed.
See WHEEL TAX, Page 2
By BOB SHRALUKA
Decatur’s water lines are old, older
and very old, and the bill to begin
even initial repairs is coming due.
Decatur City council on Tuesday
night voted unanimously to proceed
with a 15 percent increase in water
rates, although the decision was
not final. It was made clear also
that refinancing of some outstanding bonds or a new bond is going to
be necessary to finance some major
projects that will be needed in the
future.
City Utilities Manager Dan Rickord
told city council on Tuesday that
the last water rate hike came in
2009 and the department is now
losing
money.
An increase is
City council
needed to get the
scheduled a
department back
public hearinto the black,
ing at its
he said, as well
next meetas to fund some
major projects
ing July 19,
which have been
at which time
put on hold.
the topic of
Rickord said
the
15 percent
Midwestern
increase will
Engineers
of
be addressed
Indianapolis is
conducting
a
and possibly
$14,500 feasiapproved.
bility study to
provide the city
options from which to choose as it
moves forward. The study, which
could be done in the next three or
four months, will provide a look into
the future and ways to best spend
its money, the utilities manager
said.
“It’s insane to repave a street with
60-year-old water lines under it,” he
said. The study “will show us our
basic needs.”
Due to a lack of funds, several projects are on hold. The city
has already put off until next year
a major project on Master Drive,
Mayor Ken Meyer pointed out. “But
we’re pretty much committed to
doing it next year.”
City Operations Manager Jeremy
Gilbert was emphatic when he said,
“Rate increases are never popular
with anyone. But some of these
projects must be done. They’re an
absolute must.”
Noting the growing problems with
the city’s old water lines, he explained
that city employees had to make
repairs on 13 occasions last year in
a one-mile stretch of High Street.
Council scheduled a public hearing at its next meeting July 19, at
which time the topic of the 15 percent increase will be addressed and
possibly approved.
No charges against Clinton, FBI says, despite biting criticism
WASHINGTON (AP) — The
FBI lifted a major legal threat
to Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign Tuesday, recommending no criminal charges
for her handling of highly classified material in a private
email account. But Director
James Comey’s scathing criticism of her ‘‘extremely careless’’
behavior
revitalized
Republican attacks and guaranteed the issue will continue
to dog her.
Comey’s
announcement
effectively removed any possibility of criminal prosecution arising from Clinton’s
email practices as President
Barack Obama’s secretary of
state. Attorney General Loretta
Lynch said last week that she
intended to accept the recommendations of the FBI and of
career prosecutors.
But the FBI director’s blistering televised statement excoriated her handling of national
secrets, contradicted her past
explanations about her emails
and ensured she will remain
on the defensive about voters’
views of her trustworthiness
and judgment.
GOP presidential candidate
Donald Trump said the statement provided more evidence
against ‘‘Crooked Hillary’’ and
showed anew that ‘‘the system
is rigged.’’ Republican House
Speaker Paul Ryan said the
decision not to prosecute simply defied explanation.
The findings concluded a
yearlong FBI investigation into
whether Clinton mishandled
classified information, either
intentionally or through gross
negligence.
Investigators who pored over
tens of thousands of emails
found no proof that Clinton
or her aides intended to break
laws governing the handling of
classified information, Comey
said. But he said, ‘‘There is evidence that they were extremely
careless in their handling of
very sensitive, highly classified
information.’’
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The statement was extraordinary, with Comey revealing his
recommendation on live television from FBI headquarters
rather than privately to Justice
Department prosecutors, as is
normally the case. Comey said
he’d shared the FBI’s findings with no one before his
announcement, which came
just hours before Clinton traveled to North Carolina with
Obama on Air Force One to
campaign with him for the first
time this year.
The announcement came
three days after the FBI interviewed Clinton in a final step
of its yearlong investigation.
See CLINTON, Page 2
Page 2A • Wednesday, July 6, 2016
L ocal /S tate
Paying too
much for
streaming
music?
LOS ANGELES (AP)
— When Lauren Higgins
tried to sign up for
Spotify’s premium plan
on her iPhone, she was
irked that the music
service asked for $13 a
month, $3 more than the
gift subscription she had
given her boyfriend.
‘‘I was pissed and I
wasn’t going to do it,’’
said Higgins, a 25-yearold public-relations executive in New York.
She
tweeted
her
annoyance. Within five
minutes, a member of
Spotify’s social media
team reached out to tell
her that she could get
Spotify for a monthly $10
fee if she signed up on the
web rather than through
Apple. She did just that.
Call it a $3 tax on
ignorance, as Apple prohibits apps from pointing
to lower prices available
elsewhere.
Spotify says it charges a ‘‘significant’’ number of its 30 million paying subscribers $3 more
per month because they
sign up through Apple,
which takes a cut of up
to 30 percent. Spotify
says 70 percent of its
revenue already goes to
artists, recording labels
and music publishers, so
turning over another 30
percent to Apple would
leave Spotify with nothing unless it passes along
the fee to customers.
The price gap is especially grating to music services like Spotify because
Apple’s own Apple Music
service doesn’t have to
pay the same fee and can
charge just $10.
‘‘They’re trying to have
their cake and eat ours,
too,’’ Spotify spokesman
Jonathan Prince said. ‘‘We
find it bad for consumers, unfair to consumers
and ultimately something
that could stifle music
streaming subscriptions
across the board.’’
WHEELFrom
TAX
Page 1
“They (Amish buggies)
do as much, if not more,
damage to the county’s
roads” as other vehicles,
Burry said.
“I know we’re not getting all the buggy plate
fees we should be,” Caffee
noted. He related an
incident from last week
where an Amish woman
stopped at his department’s offices in Monroe
to purchase new buggy
license plates. Although
she admitted to the
ownership of three buggies, she indicated she
only needed two buggy
plates.
When Caffee told the
commissioners it was his
understanding that the
city of Berne has determined not to enforce the
county requirement for
buggy plates, the dis-
CLINTON
From Page 1
Comey directly contradicted
many
of
Clinton’s past explanations in the case, including her assertion that
she’d turned over all her
emails and that she had
never sent or received
any that were classified
at the time. The FBI
chief said that in the
course of the investigation, 113 emails were
determined to contain
classified information at
the time they were sent
or received.
He also found that
‘‘several thousand workrelated emails’’ were
not among the group of
30,000 Clinton turned
over in 2014. And he
raised the possibility that people hostile
to the U.S. had gained
access to her personal
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state’s welfare case
SPASH PAD FUN — Piper Morgan, 7, tried to catch water in a cup at the splash
pad at the Muensterberg Plaza in Berne Tuesday afternoon while Audrey
Mechling, 5, looked on.
Photo by Ashley Bailey
Nominees sought for Indiana Military Veterans Hall
The Indiana Military
Veterans Hall of Fame is
calling for nominations
for its third class of veteran honorees. The notfor -profit organization
honors Hoosier veterans
for service during and
after active duty. To
date, the IMVHOF has
recognized 34 men and
women for their outstanding military and
civilian service.
Up to 15 veterans will
be honored for military
service
achievements
and/or community con-
tributions. To be eligible, a nominee must
meet any one of these
criteria:
• Born in Indiana
• Entered military service in Indiana
• Lived in Indiana
for a minimum of eight
years
All branches of the
U.S. Armed Forces, all
ages, living or deceased,
males and females will
be considered equally.
The induction ceremony
will take place on Nov.
4 at the Garrison at Ft.
Benjamin Harrison in
Lawrence.
The complete nomination packet and criteria
can be found at imvhof.
com. Nominations will
be accepted through
Aug. 1.
Tax deductible donations can be made via
check or money order
made payable to IMVHOF
and sent to IMVHOF,
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cussion quickly turned
to municipal laws versus county laws. While
municipalities may pass
their own laws and
regulations, they are
superseded by county ordinances, Burry
explained.
Sheriff Shane Rekeweg
pointed out, “I can’t
enforce a city ordinance.”
And the state police can’t
enforce municipal laws,
he added.
Burry countered, “No,
but you can enforce a
county ordinance anywhere in the county,”
regardless of whether
it’s inside or outside the
city limits of an Adams
County municipality.
Further, Burry stated a
municipality cannot pass
legislation negating laws
enacted by the county.
“As a law enforcement
officer, it is your responsibility to enforce any
laws that are in effect
in the jurisdiction where
you are.” Burry continued.
The sheriff’s department may not be able
to enforce a Berne city
ordinance, but the Berne
Police Department “has
jurisdiction within the
city. They’re enforcing
state laws in the city of
Berne. The same should
apply to county laws,” he
said.
Burry indicated he
would contact Berne
City
Attorney
Dave
Baumgartner on the
topic, but suggested the
decision not to cite the
Amish when operating
horse-drawn
buggies
without displaying buggy
plates “is possibly not
an ordinance but simply
a matter of department
policy that they’ve adopted.”
Regardless, the city
should enforce all county regulations, Burry
added.
“I think we certainly
all need to be on the
same page,” Burry continued. “It doesn’t make
any sense for us not to
have continuity and uniformity of enforcement of
whatever we decide to do.
If a new ordinance goes
into place, it needs to be
across the board. And
I would hope we would
get cooperation out of
Geneva, Monroe, Berne
and Decatur so that we
can all enforce this uniformly,” he stated.
“The Amish population is not decreasing by
a long shot. It’s increasing at a much higher
rate than any other
(segment of the Adams
County) population, and
so this issue is going to
become more and more
pronounced as we move
forward. Whatever we do
should apply to everyone,” Burry concluded.
email account.
‘‘There is evidence
to support a conclusion that any reasonable person in Secretary
Clinton’s position ...
should have known that
an unclassified system
was no place’’ for sensitive
conversations,
Comey said.
Yet after criticizing
Clinton, her aides and
the State Department
for their actions, he
said that after looking
at similar circumstances in past inquiries, the
FBI believed that ‘‘no
reasonable
prosecutor would bring such a
case.’’
‘‘No
charges
are
appropriate in this case,’’
said Comey, who began
a 10-year term as FBI
director in 2013, meaning he would presumably remain if Clinton is
elected president.
The recommendation
did not stop Trump, who
has called for criminal
charges, from continuing to make her private email server a campaign issue. At a rally in
Raleigh, North Carolina,
Tuesday evening, Trump
railed against the decision, adding multiple
allegations of additional
wrongdoing.
Ryan said the decision defied explanation,
adding, ‘‘No one should
be above the law.’’
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INDIANAPOLIS (AP) —
A new judge must oversee the state of Indiana’s
long-running fight with
IBM Corp. over the company’s failed effort to
privatize state welfare
services, Indiana’s highest court ruled Tuesday.
In its order, the state
Supreme Court said
Indiana is entitled to a
change of judge and that
its opinion ‘‘is final and
effective immediately.’’
Indiana and IBM sued
each other in 2010 after
then-Gov. Mitch Daniels
cancelled IBM’s $1.3 billion contract to automate
much of Indiana’s welfare
system. That contact was
pulled in late 2009, less
than three years into the
10-year deal, following
complaints from welfare
clients and others about
long wait times, lost documents and improper
rejections.
In March, the state
Supreme Court ruled that
IBM had breached its contract. That ruling upheld
a February 2014 state
Court of Appeals finding
that reversed a Marion
County judge’s ruling
that Indiana had failed
to prove IBM breached its
contract.
Although the justices
affirmed the trial court’s
award of nearly $50 million to IBM in state fees,
the ruling opened the
door for Indiana to seek
up to $175 million in
damages. The high court
directed Marion County
Superior Court Judge
David Dreyer to determine what damages IBM
owes Indiana.
But Dreyer ruled on
May 6 that ‘‘the costs
for which the State seeks
reimbursement were not
adequately proven’’ and
can’t be recovered as
damages.
Indiana filed a motion
the same day seeking a
new judge and requesting
that Dreyer’s ruling be
vacated.
In Tuesday’s order
granting both requests,
the state Supreme Court
said it ‘‘has exclusive,
original jurisdiction’’ over
Indiana’s courts.
Design Committee hearing scheduled
The Design Committee
of the Adams County
Board Plan Commission
will hold a public hearing at 2 p.m. Tuesday in
the commission/council
chambers of the Service
Complex.
The committee will
hear an application for
subdivision plat approval
for the Elmer H. Hilty
Subdivision, filed by
Brett Miller in Monroe.
The subdivision would be
located at the northwest
corner of C.R. 275E and
C.R. 1100S containing
89.529 acres.
Written suggestions or
objections to the application may be filed with
the Adams County Plan
Commission. Interested
persons desiring to present their views on the
application, either in
writing or verbally, will
be given the opportunity
to be heard.
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Decatur Daily Democrat
Amanda L. Bultemeier
Amanda L. Bultemeier, 95, Decatur, Ind., passed
away July 4, 2016, at Adams Woodcrest. She was
born in Allen County Aug. 7, 1920, to the late
Fredrick W. and Hulda (Furian) Scheimann. She
married Edwin Bultemeier Sept. 20, 1941, in St.
John Lutheran Church-Bingen; he preceded her in
death on April 20, 1990.
She was a member of St. John Lutheran ChurchBingen. Amanda was a homemaker and retired in
1982 as a cook at Nine Mile with 13 years of service.
She also worked as a cook for six
years at Three Kings. She loved playing cards and gardening.
Among survivors are her daughter,
Norma J. Lepper of Hoagland; sons,
Aldon E. (Charlotte) Bultemeier of
Ossian, Wayne F. (Pamela) Bultemeier
of Hoagland, Leonard L. (Christine)
Bultemeier of Decatur and Michael
Bultemeier
A. (Linda) Bultemeier of Ossian; 13
grandchildren, Randal (Darlene)
Lepper, Gregory (Carmin) Lepper, Dennis (Rhonda)
Lepper, Mindy (Jim) Flesher, Brian (Jennifer)
Bultemeier, Bruce (Heather) Bultemeier, Bradley
Bultemeier, Christian Bultemeier, Jamie (Traci)
Bultemeier, Eric (Neely) Bultemeier, Cynthia (Todd)
Krueckeberg, Heather (Ben) Crayner and Amber
(Nathan) Corwin; and 26 great-grandchildren and 11
great-great-grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by a granddaughter,
Jacqueline Wilson; and four brothers, Franklin
Scheimann, Harry Scheimann, Christy Scheimann
and Lester Scheimann.
Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. Friday at
St. John Lutheran Church-Bingen, with Pastor Peter
Brock officiating. Interment will follow in the St.
John Lutheran Cemetery-Bingen.
Visitation will be from 2-5 and 6-8 p.m. Thursday
at Zwick & Jahn Funeral Home and one hour prior
to the service at the church on Friday.
Preferred memorials are to the St. John Lutheran
Church-Bingen 175th Anniversary Tanzania Mission
or Worship for Shut-Ins.
WASHINGTON (AP) — House
Democrats and Republicans
seem just as destined for an
election-season clash over guns
as they did before a Democratic
sit-in on the chamber’s floor
ushered in lawmakers’ July 4
recess two weeks ago.
Nearly a month after the
Orlando mass-shooting catapulted the issue back onto the
nation’s radar, the two par ties were meeting separately
Wednesday to map strategy.
Republicans have incorporated
some gun curbs into a broader
bill aimed at addressing domestic terrorism that the House has
planned to debate this week,
though their plans seemed less
certain late Tuesday. Democrats
are insisting on amendments
tightening gun restrictions far
further, which House Speaker
Paul Ryan seemed to nix Tuesday,
ly praised by Trump
following a weekend
meeting, has sought to
downplay his interest in
the position. He recently
told reporters in Indiana
that he is focused on his
re-election as governor.
Democrats,
however, aren’t buying it.
And they point out that
Pence previously had
presidential ambitions
of his own, even though
he ruled out a run last
year after his approval rating slumped due
over his handling of the
state’s religious objections law.
‘‘The lieutenant governor bailed and now
he’s trying to bail,’’
said Pence’s opponent,
Democratic former state
House Speaker John
Gregg. ‘‘Y’know, at our
house when you spill
something, you clean up
the mess. Gov. Pence is
wanting to move on. He’s
created a mess and he’s
not wanting to clean it
up.’’
Trump has never held
public office and is considering a small group
of political veterans
as potential running
mates. Pence served 12
years in Congress before
he was elected governor
in 2012.
People with direct
knowledge of Trump’s
vetting process say the
list includes Pence, former House Speaker Newt
Gingrich, New Jersey
Gov. Chris Christie
and Alabama Sen. Jeff
Sessions. Trump also
had a meeting with Iowa
Sen. Joni Ernst.
and each party says the other’s
proposals are defective.
Ryan, R-Wisc., met Tuesday
evening with two leaders of
the sit-in, Reps. John Lewis
of Georgia and John Larson of
Connecticut. The Democrats said
Ryan listened respectfully and
mentioned his party’s concerns
about protecting gun owners’
rights, but made no promise to
allow votes on the Democrats’
proposals.
Asked what Democrats would
do if they are denied votes, Lewis,
the civil rights hero, wasn’t specific but said: ‘‘There will be
action. We will not be silent.’’
Ryan spokeswoman AshLee
Strong said the two parties ‘‘have
different views on how to achieve
a shared goal of preventing gun
deaths,’’ especially over protecting gun owners’ rights. She said
the next steps on anti-terror leg-
islation ‘‘will be discussed and
determined by the majority in
the coming days.’’
That seemed less assured than
earlier comments from Ryan
that the House would vote on
the GOP legislation this week.
Late Tuesday, Republicans were
working to line up GOP support for their own measure, with
some having questions about the
bill’s procedural protections for
gun owners and other concerns.
Despite the uncertainty, GOP
leaders’ hopes of staging a vote
on their proposal underscored
the pressure they’ve felt since
the June 12 mass shooting in
Orlando, Fla., that left 49 victims
dead. Since the 2012 slaying
of school children in Newtown,
Conn., Republicans have not
brought any legislation broadly
restricting guns to the House
floor.
Coroner releases name of suicide victim in buggy crash
The man involved in
a hit-and-run incident
early Tuesday morning left one man injured
and another dead of an
apparent self-inflicted
gunshot has been identified.
Adams
County
Coroner Leslie Cook
said this morning Lee
H. Wefel, 24, of rural
Monroe, died instantly
from a single gunshot
wound to the head. Cook
has ruled the death a
suicide. No autopsy will
be performed.
According
to
a
news release by the
Adams County Sheriff’s
Department, at approximately
12:39
a.m.
Tuesday, 911 dispatchers
received a call of a personal injury crash involving an Amish buggy and
a pickup truck on C.R.
650E, south of Decatur.
The driver of the pick-
up truck — now identified as Wefel — allegedly fled the scene of
the crash. Deputies were
able to track the Wefel to
his home on C.R. 150S.
When officers arrived,
Wefel allegedly fled back
into the home, at which
time deputies reportedly heard a gunshot. Not
knowing what was happening inside the home,
the Indiana State Police
ERT team was called in
Traffic
The Adams County
Sheriff’s
Department
investigated two accidents recently. At 5:26
p.m. Saturday, Abigail N.
Nucci, 17, Garrett, was
traveling southbound
on C. R. 400W heading
toward Pine Lake when
she hit a bump in the
road and lost control of
her vehicle, which went
Pence can’t run
for gov and veep
simultaneously
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) —
Indiana Gov. Mike Pence
faces a tight deadline
to withdraw from the
state’s
gubernatorial
race if he is selected to
be Donald Trump’s vice
presidential pick.
Indiana Republicans
are already speculating about who would
replace Pence in the
governor’s race, even
though Pence’s selection is far from certain
and the presumed GOP
presidential nominee is
vetting several candidates. If chosen, Pence
has until noon on July
15 to withdraw his name
from the ballot because
state law bars him from
appearing as both a vice
presidential candidate
and a candidate for governor.
On Tuesday, a staffer
for Republican Evansville
Mayor Lloyd Winnecke
said in a statement that
the second-term mayor
received phone calls over
the weekend encouraging him to step forward
if Pence opts out of the
race.
‘‘Mayor Winnecke has
indeed received calls
encouraging consider ation to run for governor in the event that
the current GOP ticket
changes,’’ the statement read. ‘‘He is giving
those requests their due
consideration, but it is
important to note that
Mayor Winnecke has
not made any pro-active
efforts to seek the position of Governor or as
a Lt. Governor running
mate.’’
Other prominent GOP
names that have been
discussed include U.S.
Reps. Susan Brooks and
Todd Rokita, state House
Speaker Brian Bosma —
who has not been coy
about his gubernatorial
ambitions —
and Lt.
Gov. Eric Holcomb, who
was recently appointed by Pence to replace
Sue Ellspermann, who
stepped down from the
post in March.
Pence, who was warm-
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Congress headed toward showdown on gun bills
Obituaries
Faces July 15
deadline to drop
out of the race
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Three individuals were
arrested Tuesday by local
law enforcement officers
and were booked into the
Adams County jail.
Seth M. Baumgartner,
18, Decatur, was arrested
by Decatur police for possession of paraphernalia.
Bond was set at $200
cash.
Clayton D. Whitacre,
29, Decatur, was arrested
by Decatur police for possession of marijuana and
possession of paraphernalia. Bond was set at
$200 cash and $2,000
surety.
Brandon W. Reynolds,
20, Decatur, was arrested by sheriff’s deputies
on a charge of theft. He
was released on his own
recognizance.
off the roadway, into a
tree and overturned.
Nucci and a passenger, Deven M. Hanley,
21, Garrett, were trapped
in the vehicle. Nucci was
transported to Adams
Memorial Hospital via
EMS and Hanley was
treated at the scene.
The investigating officer was informed by the
EMS driver and a nurse
that Nucci had injuries indicative of someone who was sitting in
the passenger side of
the vehicle. The officer
then talked to Hanley
and had him show the
marks on his chest. The
bruising was consistent
with someone who was
driving the vehicle, not
a passenger. Hanley was
cited for driving while
suspended.
Damages
were estimated between
$5,001-$10,000.
At 3:18 p.m. Tuesday,
Alexia M. White, 16,
Monroe, was traveling east on C.R. 100S
when she approached
an S-curve in the roadway. White lost control,
over-corrected and her
vehicle spun around,
entering the ditch on
the south side of the
road and eventually
striking a fence, owned
by
David M. Wickey,
Decatur. White came to
rest in the ditch and her
vehicle broke off a fence
post. White complained
of no injuries and her
mother was at the scene
and said she needed no
medical attention.
A witness was at the
scene and had been
traveling westbound on
C. R. 100S when White
ran off the roadway. The
witness told the investigating officer that it
appeared White was
traveling at a high rate
of speed and over corrected.
FW woman drowns
trying to save
grandson in pond
FORT WAYNE, Ind. (AP)
— The coroner’s office in
Allen County says the
death of a 72-year-old
woman who rushed into
a Fort Wayne pond to
save her grandson was
an accidental drowning.
According to WANETV, Sharon Shively died
early Saturday at a local
hospital about 18 hours
after she was pulled from
the pond.
The coroner’s office
said Tuesday that her
death was an accident.
Authorities
said
Shively ran into the pond
after noticing her 6-yearold grandson had drifted
15 to 20 feet from shore.
A neighbor pulled the
boy from the water before
trying to rescue Shively.
She was unresponsive
when she was pulled
from the water.
Authorities say the boy
was in good condition.
HAPPY
16TH
BIRTHDAY
AARON!!
Illegal burning
prompts fire run
Illegal
bur ning
brought the Decatur Fire
Department out at 2:45
p.m. Tuesday to 1104
Winchester St. Firefighters
were called to extinguish
the illegal blaze, according to a spokesman for
the department. Crews
returned to the station at
4:21 p.m.
Firefighters
also
responded to an earlier
call when construction
work at Common Ground
Church, 6555 N. Piqua
Road, set off an alarm at
11:18 a.m. There was no
fire and crews returned to
the station at 11:28 a.m.
to assist, along with the
Decatur and Berne Police
departments, according
to the release.
Wefel did not respond
to officers at the scene,
and after several hours
the ISP-ERT entered the
home and found Wefel
dead.
The Amish man was
taken to an unnamed
hospital in serious condition, according to
reports.
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After high court decision,
pro-life hope still reigns
By KATHRYN JEAN LOPEZ
There’s no getting around the fact that the Supreme
Court struck a blow to the pro-life movement in its
June decision on a Texas abortion law. There were
tears of joy among abortion-rights activists when
the decision was handed down. But ideology doesn’t
always like common sense, or even common ground.
Moving from Democratic party rhetoric about “safe,
legal and rare” to celebrating abortion as freedom is
something we ought to work to declare our independence from.
And there are people doing just that. After the
decision, I still saw reasons to be heartened: beacons
of encouragement in the wake of the Supreme Court
news.
That very same day, Abby Johnson — a former
Texas Planned Parenthood director, now a vocal prolife activist — was overflowing with hope. She had
just spent a weekend at a rally in Dallas with 550
pro-life women. As she explains it: “It was a beautiful
time to come together as women and network with
each other, share ideas and decide how to best move
forward as a unified front in order to combat the dangerous narrative that is being sold to the women in
our society. We came together to proclaim that being
truly pro-woman means embracing life, not destroying it.”
She sees these women as an “antidote to the
dangerous narrative being promoted by Planned
Parenthood.” Having women from across the country
on the same page is an opportunity to form a unified
counter-strategy to the “war on women” narratives
Planned Parenthood and its political candidates tend
to drive, news cycle after news cycle, campaign after
campaign.
A highlight of the weekend was a panel where
mothers talked about their experiences with adoption.
“In the pro-life movement, we need more education on adoption ... how to talk about adoption, how
to present adoption as an option and the realities of
adoption,” said Johnson. “These women were able to
so beautifully and candidly share their experiences
in a way that resonated with every woman in attendance.”
Johnson runs a ministry that offers people who
work in the abortion industry a way out. She herself knows what it is like to believe you are helping
women, and then watch women come back for second and third abortions — and seeing how their lives
aren’t better for it.
Her breaking point, she says, was participating
in an ultrasound-guided abortion; when you see life
and death before your eyes, it’s hard to look away.
There’s got to be a better way, she thought. And now
she invites people to join her — including abortion
clinic workers who need jobs but want out of that
industry.
Johnson said: “I encourage those celebrating
this decision to really look at what this is doing to
women’s health care. Women have been treated as
second-class citizens when it comes to the basic
standards of health care for far too long. It is time
for all women to demand better treatment and better
regulations.”
I rather liked what Elise Italiano, a senior fellow
with Catholic Voices USA, put on her Facebook
page that day: “We need to build stronger communities so that an unplanned pregnancy, a death,
an injury, an illness, or any burden someone faces
is not faced alone. We should be carrying one
another’s burdens and celebrating each other’s
blessings. In an individualistic and lonely culture
like ours, abortion on demand is proposed as a
necessary evil. The only real solution is to build
communities in which no undue burden is faced
alone, but is carried together by many. Let’s be
good neighbors, shall we?”
Legislation can obviously only go so far. As
Johnson put it: “This ruling only confirms what we
already know to be true. While pro-life legislation is
important, our focus cannot simply stop there. Our
goal cannot be to simply make abortion illegal ... It
must be to make abortion unthinkable. Now is the
time for us to step up our support of the organizations that are providing practical assistance to those
in need.”
And now is also the time — a point made by
Students for Life (SFL) in the wake of the decision
— when millennials are open to these messages.
According to a survey SFL and the Barna Group
commissioned, “53 percent of millennials think abortion should be illegal in all or most circumstances.”
The Supreme Court will do what it will. But the
most powerful voices in our country might not be in
the halls of power in Washington, D.C., but rather in
our homes and neighborhoods.
It has often been said in pro-life circles that women
deserve better than abortion. Women may indeed
“mother” us to something better — as mothers and
sisters and leaders of a culture of life, welcoming
all.
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What if the Colts aren’t worth it?
By Craig Ladwig
So many experts have been
warning about commingling public monies with professional sports
for so many years with only the
most contemptuous response that
it justifies a civil arrest warrant.
Named on this capias mittimus (a bit of legal jargon there)
would be the Indianapolis Capital
Improvement
Board
(CIB),
the top six floors of the CityCounty Building, the Democrat
and Republican state committees
and the editorial boards of both
the Indianapolis Star and the
Indianapolis Business Journal.
Dr. Cecil Bohanon and Noah
Peconga, economists writing for the
quarterly Indiana Policy Review,
issued a warning in 2003 that the
cost of using public funds to keep
the Colts in Indianapolis must be
balanced with any alternative use
of those funds (streets, sidewalks,
safe water supply, etc.).
The authors granted that the
“non-captured psychological consumption benefits” (painting your
face blue) may be worth a cost
then estimated at $22 million a
year — but then again it may not,
a possibility that boosters in the
media and city hall never have
empirically addressed.
“To our mind, and to the minds
of other economists who have
examined the issue, the economic-development benefits of professional sports are illusory,”
Bohanon and Peconga concluded.
A few years later, Fred McCarthy,
a veteran of Indianapolis politics,
reminded us that the media, if not
numbingly incurious, was complicit in the illusion. It began with
an April 1,1994, headline in the
Star: “City to Make $1.39 Million
Annually from Colts’ Move,” which
was not an April’s Fools joke but
rather a prediction that turned
out to be so far off the mark as to
be absurd.
“The editors and news directors, accepting press releases as
fact, did not investigated even the
most suspicious CIB operations or
even ask serious questions about
the expensive and frequently
secretive operations of the board,”
McCarthy wrote. “Indeed, Mayor
(Bart) Peterson was able to deny
for years that there were even any
Last week, a USA Today columnist awarded Jim Irsay the
National Football League title
for gouging taxpayers, the
$619.6 million of Indianapolis
taxpayer monies used to build
the Colts’ $719.6-million football stadium easily beating out
the $289 million that Denver
handed to the Broncos.
plans for a new stadium.”
And Tyler Watts, another economist, asked provocatively what
would happen to Indianapolis if
the Colts just left town:
“Would all that sports spending
really vanish from the Indianapolis
economy? No. Although fans
would be disappointed, they would
still have many outlets (substitutions) for their entertainment dollars. Attendance and spending at
college and high-school football
games would rise, along with bowling alleys, bingo parlors and other
recreation venues. Downtown
pubs might suffer but suburban
restaurants would likely see a
bump in revenue. Consumers of
the NFL are us, after all. It’s not
as if the NFL draws its customers
from Mars. If there were no Colts,
we would spend our fun money on
something else.”
Last week, a USA Today columnist awarded Jim Irsay the
National Football League title for
gouging taxpayers, the $619.6
million of Indianapolis taxpayer
monies used to build the Colts’
$719.6-million football stadium
easily beating out the $289 million that Denver handed to the
Broncos.
“Indianapolis,” wrote Brent
Gardner, “heads a long list cities and counties that have raised
sales or property taxes to cover
their debts, harming their own
citizens to fund a handout to
wealthy owners (and players) who
often live out of state.”
Cited was a study in The
Journal of Sports Economics that
adding a sports team to a city neither raises regional incomes nor
improves a local economy. And
last year Roger Noll, a Stanford
scholar and former chief economist for the President’s Council
on Economic Advisers, reached a
similar conclusion: “Stadiums do
not generate significant local economic growth, and the incremental tax revenue is not sufficient
to cover any significant financial
contribution by the city.”
What is left to say to a city that
has been so wooden-headed for so
long? Let the capias mittimuses
fly.
Craig Ladwig is editor of the
quarterly Indiana Policy Review.
All the house is a stage
By Jim Mullen
We never noticed how unsellable
our house was until we went to
sell it.
It never bothered us that the
door between the dining room and
the kitchen never shut properly,
because we always left it open.
But it bothered Larry the Realtor
plenty.
“Oh, that’s bad,” he said. “If we
can’t get a simple thing like that
right, buyers will wonder, ‘what’s
wrong with the roof?’”
Larry had no problem pointing
out that we may never sell the
house at any price.
“Your closets would look so
much bigger if your clothes weren’t
in them,” he told us. “Buyers want
big closets. Huge closets. But you
have to let them imagine their
clothes in your closets; they don’t
want to see your stuff. If you insist
on keeping clothes in here, at least
get some from this decade. Who
would wear this stuff? It looks
like the Clampetts live here. And I
mean before they struck oil.”
Larry did not tell us where his
other clients put their clothes, but
he did mention the names of a few
upscale shops where we should
buy new ones.
Next, he told us the kitchen
cabinets would look much bigger
if they were empty. Yes, they certainly would. And our stomachs
July 6, 2016
Today is the 188th day of 2016
and the 17th day of summer.
TODAY’S HISTORY: In 1785,
Congress chose the dollar as
the monetary unit of the United
The Village Idiot
would look much smaller. I guess
we should rent a storage locker
and put all our pots and pans in
it. And all our food. That would
make our kitchen look enormous.
“This is going to be a problem,”
said Larry as he walked into the
living room.
“Let me guess,” I said. “It would
look much bigger if we didn’t live
in it.”
“You took the words right out
of my mouth!” he said. “Nothing
makes a living room look worse
than people. Think about it: You
buy a fancy sofa, you pick just the
right color for the walls and just
the right fabric for the curtains,
and then what happens? You walk
in — but you haven’t bothered to
coordinate your outfit with the
furniture. You haven’t thought
about how you clash with the art
on the wall. Best if you just stayed
out of here altogether.”
The bedroom: better if we slept
in our new storage unit until the
closing. The bathroom: better if
we used the one in whatever restaurant we were at, now that our
kitchen is off-limits. Speaking of
the bathroom, Larry told us to
make sure there were no personal
States.
In 1854, the Republican
Party was formally launched
at a convention in Jackson,
Michigan.
In 1892, 16 people were killed
during fighting between guards
and striking steelworkers at
a Carnegie Steel Co. plant in
products in there; nobody wants
to see our deodorant and mouthwash out on a counter, or a wet
washcloth hanging in the shower.
“You have a choice. You can
either sell this place, or live in it,”
he said. “You can’t do both.” He
also added that we should have
big bouquets of cut flowers in
every room, and paint the dining
room peach.
“Everyone looks better against
peach. And remove all your mirrors, unless they’re the kind that
make you look thinner. Very few
people feel good about seeing
themselves in a mirror.”
Larry had a thousand other
suggestions on how to “stage” our
house, most of which I think he
got from TV. It turns out that Sue
and I had been watching all the
wrong TV shows: We should have
been watching all the ones about
staging and selling a house.
But he’s the expert, so we took
his advice and made all the changes we could.
One day last week, we decided
to take a drive and get out of the
storage shed for a few hours. We
stopped by the now half-empty
house to change the cut flowers.
Sue looked at the spacious kitchen cabinets, the big empty closets
and the clutter-free bathrooms.
“Why are we moving? This place
is perfect.”
Homestead, Pennsylvania.
In 1942, diarist Anne Frank
and her family went into hiding
in a “secret annex” in a warehouse in Amsterdam.
TODAY’S QUOTE: “I paint
flowers so they will not die.” —
Frida Kahlo
C ommunity
Decatur Daily Democrat
First Bank of Berne sponsoring Demo Derby
First Bank of
Berne recently
presented a check
for $600 to the
Preble Volunteer
Fire
Fighting
Association for its
2016 Motorsports
Demo Derby.
The Derby is
held each year
to raise funds
for the volunteer
fire department’s
purchase
of
needed supplies
and equipment.
According to
a press release, From left, Dan Claghorn, loan officer for First Bank of Berne; Kent Klopfleisch from the
FBB is proud to Preble Volunteer Fire Department; and Jenilee Bransteter, Berne branch manager, are
be a sponsor of shown holding the $600 check going towards the 2016 Motorsports Demo Derby.
this family event.
Photo provided
Vacation Bible School — Deep Sea Discovery
Hope United Methodist Church will host
Vacation Bible School from 6:30-8:30 p.m.
July 17-21 for children ages 3-years-old to
fifth grade.
There will be games, stories, crafts and
snacks.
For more information, call the church
office at 639-6340. The church is located at
6608 Hoagland Road.
At 9:15 a.m. July 31, Dane Bailey, the
Singing Auctioneer, will be at the church. All
are invited to join the church members for
coffee and to hear Bailey’s ministry through
music and word.
— Bluffton Gospel Barn to host Kingsman Quartet —
The
Kingsmen
Quartet, Ashville, N.C.,
will appear at the Gospel
Barn of Bluffton at 6 p.m.
Saturday.
According to a press
release, the group was
formed in 1956. With
several records and compilations sold, Grammy
nominations, four Dove
Awards and an induction
into the Gospel Music
Hall of Fame-class of
2000, the Kingsmen are
southern gospel quartet.
"The key is to never
lose sight of what we are
working towards," says
Ray Reese, Kingsmen
manager and bass singer,
"We tour year in and year
out to spread our music
to people across the
country. Our music has
a message, the message
of Christ. Every night we
work to bring His message to our audiences.”
The Gospel Barn of
Bluffton is located three
miles south of Bluffton
on S.R. 1. Doors open at
approximately 5 p.m. for
this concert. Tickets are
general admission at the
door and children 12 and
younger are free.
Wednesday, July 6, 2016 • Page 5A
July 2016
Community Calendar
Wednesday, July 6, 2016:
Immanuel House, 9 a.m.-3 p.m., 8545N C.R. 500E,
Decatur. Operation Help food pantry for Decatur and Monroe
residents, 1-4 p.m., Adams County Service Complex.
Bring your own box or cloth bags.
Free meal, 5-6
p.m., First United Methodist Church, 6th Street
entrance.
Adult Children of Alcoholics, a 12-step support program for those raised in alcoholic families, 7 p.m., The
Bridge Community Church, 403 Winchester Road.
Women of the Moose Chapter enrollment, 7 p.m.,
Moose home.
Thursday, July 7, 2016:
Rotary Club, noon, Back 40 restaurant.
Monroe United Methodist Church Farmer’s Wagon,
1 p.m., line is to form no earlier than noon.
Senior citizens play cards, 1 p.m., Riverside
Center.
Decatur Farmer’s Market, 3-7 p.m., Madison Street
between 1st and 2nd Streets.
Zumba, Southeast Elementary School, 4-5 p.m.
TOPS Club weigh-in, 5:30 p.m.; meeting 6:15 p.m.,
Woodcrest Activity Building.
Weight Watchers, 6 p.m., weigh-in; 6:30 p.m. meeting, Adams Memorial Hospital Decatur Room.
Divorce Care4Kids, 6:30-8:30 p.m., Decatur Church
of God.
A.A. (open) Big Book meeting, 7 p.m., First Church
of the Nazarene, Berne.
Yoga for Stretching and Strength, Hope United
Methodist Church, 6608 Hoagland Rd., Hoagland, 7
p.m.
Friday, July 8, 2016:
Immanuel House, 9 a.m.-3 p.m., 8545N C.R. 500E,
Decatur. A.A. Happy Hour Discussion Group (closed), 5-6
p.m., Decatur Church of God.
Reformers Unanimous Addiction Recovery Program,
7-9 p.m., Grace Fellowship Church.
Saturday, July 9, 2016:
A.A., 7 p.m., (open speaker/discussion) Cross
Community Church, Berne.
Monday, July 11, 2016:
Clothes Closet, 11 a.m.-4 p.m., Damascus Road
Church.
A.A. Big Book discussion, 7 p.m., Decatur Church
Members of the Kingsman Quaretet.
of God.
Photo provided Unfailing Love Clinic, 10 a.m.-2 p.m., 128 Madison
Street, Decatur.
For more information, visit www.thegospelbar- Decatur Church of Christ Food Pantry, 8-10 a.m.,
for residents with last names beginning with M-Z.
call 651-269-2120, or nofbluffton.com.
Couple celebrates 30 years of marriage
Influential women
J. T. and Rhonda (Gavin)
Andrews, rural Decatur, celebrated 30 years of marriage. The
couple was married June 27,
1986, at St. Luke Church. The
ceremony was officiated by Barry
Humble.
They
have
three
children,
Katherine
(Zach)
Neuenschwander,
Kirsten
(Danny)
Soper
and
Kole
Andrews, all of rural Decatur;
and one grandchild, Kelcie
Neuenschwander.
J.T. and Rhonda are members
of the Bridge-Decatur. They will
celebrate their anniversary with
a small trip.
First lady, saint, Olympic athletes rank among Hoosier pioneers
Editor’s note – To mark Indiana’s bicentennial,
Indiana education groups present this historical
series, “So You Think You Know Indiana:
Celebrating 200 years of the Hoosier State.”
By Nelson Price
F
Sense & Sensitivity
By HARRIETTE COLE
Nontraditional Wedding Causes Confusion
DEAR HARRIETTE: I am having a bit
of a modern wedding. My fiance and I are
46 and 56, respectively, and this is the
second marriage for each of us. We went
to our church and set a date for October.
We invited 20 people to this small gathering, mostly family, since we each have
several children. We plan on having a
reception in the spring.
How should I go about sending out
invitations for this reception? We will be
married and living together by the time
we have our larger celebration, but we
still want friends and family to be able
to come together and meet each other.
-- New Vows, Sarasota, Florida
DEAR NEW VOWS: Create an invitation that states that you are having an
intimate wedding ceremony. Be specific
on the envelope as to who is being invited
-- name each person. Follow up with a
call to your guests, letting them know that
you are excited to get married and want
them to know that they are part of a very
small group who have been invited to witness their union. Ask them to keep your
wedding in confidence so as to honor the
sanctity of the experience. You can also
let them know that you will be having a
reception in the spring, and you will send
those invitations at that time.
As far as your reception invitations,
say just that -- it’s a reception to celebrate
your October wedding. Having small wedding ceremonies and larger celebrations
is a common practice these days.
DEAR HARRIETTE: I am a recent
college graduate. In order to celebrate
my accomplishment, my mom decided
to throw me a barbecue and invite her
friends as well as mine. Some of the
presents were cash in a card, others
were checks, and some were jewelry. I
was incredibly grateful for everything I
received.
While I was writing my thank-you
notes, I noticed that some of my cards
were missing the cash that was put
in them. I think my mother took some
of my graduation presents in order to
cover the food costs of the barbecue. A
guest couldn’t have stolen the money -- I
put the gifts in my room after the party
myself. Should I confront my mother? I
don’t even want the money back. I just
want to know if she is the culprit. -- Sticky
Fingers, Bowie, Maryland
DEAR STICKY FINGERS: You should
definitely tell your mother what you discovered. Do not confront her. Tell her that
you were writing your thank-you cards
and noticed that the cash in several of the
cards was missing. Ask her if she knows
anything about it. If she seems agitated
but not forthcoming, you can add that
you had the thought that she may have
needed it to pay for the barbecue. Tell her
that if that is what happened, it’s fine. You
were just worried about what happened
to the money.
rom settlers of the wilderness to an early
environmentalist, a first lady who made
history, advocates for voting rights and
Olympic athletes, women from Indiana have
been pioneers for 200 years.
An author who loved nature – and became
famous around the world for writing about
the birds, wildlife,
swamps, flowers and
forests in Indiana – was
an environmentalist even
though we did yet not use
the word during her lifetime.
Gene Stratton-Porter, whose
bestselling books included
“The Girl of the Limberlost” (1909), also was a
photographer.
After being given her first camera as a
Christmas present by her 8-year-old daughter,
Stratton-Porter (1863-1924) sold photos and
magazine articles about the birds, butterflies,
muskrats and other wildlife in Indiana.
Next came her books, most of which
she wrote in two cabins that you can visit.
Limberlost Cabin is located near a swamp next
to the town of Geneva. In the far northeast
corner of the state is a second cabin, Wildflower
Woods, where Stratton-Porter moved later in
life. At Wildflower Woods, next to a lake near
Rome City, she planted thousands of flowers,
trees and vines.
Long before that, when much of the state was
still a wilderness, a Catholic nun arrived from
France. Leading a small group from the Sisters
of Providence to the frontier near Terre Haute,
Mother Theodore Guerin was nearly 42 years
old and in frail health when she and the other
nuns came in 1840. Their first Indiana winter
was so brutal that some almost died.
But Mother Theodore (1798-1856) and her
group went on to clear land in forests so they
could build roads, schools and orphanages,
often doing the heavy work themselves. They
also set up early versions of drug stores that
gave free medicine to the poor.
In addition, Mother Theodore opened an
academy for girls that today is known as St.
Mary-of-the-Woods College. It’s the oldest
Catholic liberal arts college for women in the
nation. In 2006, about 150 years after her death,
the pope named Mother Theodore the first saint
from Indiana.
A “first” is attributed to Caroline Scott
Harrison, the wife of the only president
elected from Indiana, Benjamin Harrison of
Indianapolis. Before he was elected in 1888,
none of the nation’s first ladies – including
Martha Washington and Mary Todd Lincoln –
had delivered a speech in public. Mrs. Harrison
became the first to do so as first lady. Sadly,
Mrs. Harrison later became ill and died in the
White House in 1892.
At that point, a woman from Indianapolis – a
teacher who eventually started her own school
– was helping lead the crusade for women to
get the right to vote.
May Wright Sewall traveled across the
country during the late 1800s and early 1900s,
organizing so many women’s organizations
that she was known as “the leader of 500,000
women.” It wasn’t until 1920 – just a few
months after Sewall’s death – that women were
able to vote in a presidential election for the
first time.
No woman has been elected governor of
Indiana yet. Since 2003, though, the office of
lieutenant governor – the second in command
of state government – has been held by a
woman. The current lieutenant governor, Sue
Ellspermann from the small town of Ferdinand,
followed former Lt. Gov. Becky Skillman from
Bedford.
Let’s leap to sports. Until the early 1970s,
almost no organized sports for girls were
offered at many schools. Even so, Anita
DeFrantz from Indianapolis not only won a
bronze medal in rowing at the 1976 Olympics,
she eventually became, according to “The
Sporting News,” “the most powerful woman in
sports.” That’s because she was the first woman
and first African-American on the International
Olympic Committee, the organization that
oversees the Olympics and decides what city
will host the games.
Sticking with the Olympics: At 16 years old,
gymnast Jaycie Phelps of Greenfield won a gold
medal at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics. She was a
member of the so-called “Magnificent Seven”
group of athletes who captured America’s first
gold medal for women’s team gymnastics.
In the arts, singers including Sandi Patty
from Anderson and Crystal Gayle from Wabash
have won Grammy Awards. And painter Nancy
Noel from Zionsville has become a nationally
known artist. Although she paints a range of
subjects today, Nancy Noel started her career
by doing portraits of children.
Nelson Price is an Indianapolis-based author, journalist, historian and radio personality.
For more information on Indiana Bicentennial legacy projects, visit www.indiana2016.org
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Page 6A • Wednesday, July 6, 2016
Too dangerous to talk? Some cities explore 911 texting
NEW YORK (AP) —
With gunshots ringing
out just feet away, Eddie
Justice hid in a bathroom
in the Pulse nightclub in
Orlando, Fla., and frantically texted his mother
for help.
‘‘Call police,’’ he wrote.
‘‘I’m gonna die.’’
Moments later, he
texted again: ‘‘Call them
mommy. Now. He’s coming.’’
Justice, who would
later be confirmed among
the 49 people killed in
last month’s attack, was
among several victims
who texted relatives to
call 911, fearing they
would draw too much
attention by making voice
calls.
None of them could
text 911 directly because
Orlando is among the
vast majority of U.S. cities that don’t have that
capability. Amid a cluster of deadly mass shootings, police departments
are exploring technology
that would allow dispatchers to receive texts,
photos and videos in real
time.
Out of more than 6,000
dispatch centers nationwide, a little more than
650 can accept text messages, with more than 150
making the text-to-911
upgrade this year, the
Federal Communications
Commission said.
Democratic U.S. Sen.
Charles Schumer, of New
York, has been pushing
for text-to-911 in New
York City, which has been
studying it for nearly a
year. Such a system, he
said, can ‘‘save lives by
informing 911 dispatchers of critical details that
can guide first responders.’’
Emergency officials
stress, however, that a
voice call is preferred
because a dispatcher
can elicit details more
quickly than texting back
and forth. The major
concern for many cities,
including some of the
nation’s largest, is that
overuse of texting when
it’s not absolutely necessary could slow response
times and cost lives.
In Los Angeles, which
doesn’t have 911 texting,
a police dispatch official
last year cautioned that
response times for text
911 could be triple that
for voice calls.
Nearly every municipality with text-to-911
service has sought to
address that concern by
promoting the slogan:
‘‘Call if you can, text if
you can’t.’’
Officials also warn
that, unlike with voice
calls, emergency responders can’t automatically
see someone’s approximate location with text
messages. Instead, they
encourage people to give
an accurate address or
location quickly.
Supporters of such
systems say their use
would go beyond activeshooter and hostage sit-
uations to scenarios in
which a battered spouse,
for example, could surreptitiously
message
police without alerting
the attacker.
‘‘If someone could snap
a photo or a quick video
showing the perpetrator that’d be enormously
helpful to law enforcement,’’
said
Joseph
Giacalone, a criminal
justice professor at John
Jay College of Criminal
Justice and a retired
police detective.
San Bernardino, Calif.,
rolled out its text-to-911
service in December
about two weeks after an
attack at a social services
center where a man and
his wife killed 14 people at a holiday gathering. In New Hampshire,
where text-to-911 service
is available statewide,
Democratic Gov. Maggie
Hassan said it was a
‘‘common-sense initiative
that will help save lives.’’
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‘The Birth of a Nation’ film inspires summer library lectures
NEW YORK (AP) —
Nate Parker’s ‘‘The Birth
of a Nation’’ isn’t out
until October, but some
libraries will be teaching
about the slave rebellion that it’s based on
later this summer.
‘‘The Birth of a Nation:
Slavery, Resistance &
Abolition’’ will be offered
in libraries, museums
and other institutions
from Aug. 21 through
Oct. 30. Those are the
dates when Nat Turner
began his bloody slave
revolt in 1831 and when
it ended, with his capture. He was convicted
and hanged days later.
Parker said he hopes
the movie will inspire
people to challenge
injustices
worldwide
and said the lecture
series would help. ‘‘This
speaker series is a great
way to engage local
communities in an honest discussion about
slavery and its legacy
in America,’’ he said in
a statement released
Tuesday.
The
American
Library
Association
and the United Nations
Remember
Slavery
Programme are teaming
up with Fox Searchlight
Pictures,
which
is
releasing the film, and
BazanED to present the
lectures.
Among the libraries
that have already signed
up for the lectures
are public libraries in
Chicago and Detroit.
‘‘The Birth of a Nation’’
will be released Oct. 7.
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HELP YOUR CHILD AVOID CHEESE MOLARS
Safer choices include
1, 2, 4 and 5: 1 is nylon, safe
for one-time use; 2 is highdensity polyethylene; 4 is
low-density polyethylene;
and 5 is polypropylene.
By Michael Roizen, M.D.,
And Mehmet Oz, M.D.
The WBA heavyweight
title fight in June 1997
always will be referred to
as “The Bite Fight”: It’s
when Mike Tyson bit off
part of Evander Holyfield’s
ear. These days, kids are
having a much tougher
bite fight, as they develop
so-called cheese molars
-- that is, permanent
teeth with a pale-yellow
color and a compromised
enamel coating. Also
known as molar incisor
hypomineralization,
or
MIH, this condition causes
teeth to chip and break,
and it makes them very
sensitive to hot and cold.
For years, dentists
and pediatricians have
looked for a way to
prevent this irreversible
condition. Finally, a team
of endocrinologists in
Paris may have figured
it out. They were able
to trigger development
of cheese molars in lab
rats by experimenting
with the effects of the
endocrine
disruptor
bisphenol A -- BPA, which
is found in plastics and
on store receipts -- and
the agricultural fungicide
vinclozolin. So, avoiding
those triggers may be the
solution!
Vinclozolin is being
phased out here; in 2006
it was banned in Denmark,
Finland, Norway and
Sweden. But BPA and its
cousin, BPS, are widely
used. So buy packaged
goods in glass whenever
possible, avoid handling
receipts and wash hands
after touching them, and
opt for the safest plastics.
Avoid using 3, 6 and
7: 3 is polyvinyl chloride
(PVC); 6 is polystyrene
(for Styrofoam); 7 includes
toxic polycarbons and
nontoxic
compostable
“green” plastics, made
from corn, potatoes or
rice.
Weight-management
apps: Do they really
help?
When we say LeBron
James and Stephen Curry
are super-great basketball
players, the stats back
us up! In Game 1 of the
2016 NBA playoffs, James
became the first player
to rank in the top 10 in
points, assists, rebounds
and wins in NBA playoff
history. Curry? His career
total of three pointers as of
June 2, 2016, was 1,593,
surpassing James’ total of
1,343.
But when apps
proclaim they’ll help you
lose weight or prevent
weight gain, well, no
reliable stats back up
those claims.
According to
researchers
at
the
European
Obesity
Summit, only 17 of 3,013
weight-management apps
(downloaded more than
666,169,136 times) were
developed by a certified
health
organization
or university. And no
published studies present
evidence of effectiveness
for weight-loss or weightgain-prevention
apps,
such as the popular Fitbit,
MyFitnessPal and Noom
weight-loss coach.
Should you try
them? It takes a sustained
commitment to enter your
diet and activity info into
the app, calculate calories
eaten and burned, and
utilize other features. With
such discipline, you’re
probably going to be a
successful weight manager
with or without an app. But
what if those digital tasks
are discouraging and you
stop trying to manage
your weight? You might do
better with a real fitness
pal to walk with (and hug!),
a good pedometer (they’re
accurate) and a food
journal to write in nightly.
So test out an app,
but remember that you’re
in charge, not that dubious
digital dictator, and you can
choose what works best for
your weight-management
goals.
Time to quit smoking
-- period
The Roman scholar
Pliny wrote in “Natural
History”: “Contact with the
monthly flux of women
turns new wine sour,
makes crops wither, kills
grafts, dries seeds in
gardens, causes the fruit
of trees to fall off, dims the
bright surface of mirrors”...
and it goes on and on.
But while we’re able to
dismiss such unscientific
hogwash, modern science
is discovering that a
woman’s menstrual cycle
does have a profound
influence on her wellbeing
and can even be used to
help her stop smoking!
A new study published
in the Biology of Sex
suggests that the reason
women have a harder
time stopping smoking
than men do is because
they try to give it up at the
wrong time of the month!
Researchers found that
from day 1 until ovulation,
when levels of the hormone
progesterone are low,
women are apt to have
heightened brain activity
that stimulates the desire
for reward and cigarette
cravings increase. That
may also be why quitters
relapse more often during
that time. But in the days
after ovulation until the next
period, it appears women
may be more likely to quit
smoking
successfully;
higher progesterone levels
may reduce cravings.
More research
needs to be done, but in
the meantime, if you’re
a woman and you are
struggling to quit smoking,
this is one more trick to try!
And whether it works for
you because the findings
reflect how YOUR body
works, or as a placebo,
who cares? The important
thing is that you stop
smoking. For more tips,
check out www.sharecare.
com.
Fat greases the skids
for cancer cells
In the 2014 Sochi
Winter Olympics, it was
unseasonably
warm,
and repeated losses by
the usually gold-medaldraped Norwegian crosscountry ski team prompted
Norwegian newspapers
to rant about smoerebom
-- loosely translated, it
means “waxing failure”!
Seems if you don’t “grease
the skids” just right for
snow conditions (there are
500 waxing preparations
to choose from!), you can’t
glide to the gold.
But if you grease
the skids for cancer
cells, there’s no gold for
that. What you do get
is a hugely increased
risk for both aggressive
prostate cancer and HER2 negative, hormonereceptor positive breast
cancer, as well cancer of
the colon, rectum, kidney
and pancreas.
Fat in the diet and
excess fat on the body
both are cancer-promoting;
excess
body
weight
contributes to as many as
20 percent of all cancerrelated deaths. And even
if you aren’t overweight,
a fatty belly is cancerfriendly.
Wanna know how
friendly? A recent study
found that men’s risk
for aggressive prostate
cancer went up 13 percent
for every 3.9-inch increase
in waist size.
So, here’s how you
win a gold medal for smart
living: Eliminate ALL trans
fats (check ingredients
lists for hydrogenated oils),
most saturated fats, stick
with extra-virgin olive oil
and foods rich in omega3s like salmon, flaxseed,
walnuts and walnut oil
-- even basil! Add that to
a Mediterranean mix of
fresh fruits and veggies,
and make animal protein
a side dish, not an entree!
As you dodge cancer risks,
you’ll glide into a younger
RealAge before you know
it!
blood sugar levels, cranks
up your metabolism and
fuels weight loss. BUT
when you switch back to a
weight-loss-maintenance
diet and your body is
processing more daily
calories, your gut biome
reverts to its former, lessdiverse state, like when
you were obese! Ironically,
obese peoples’ gut biome
is BETTER at turning
food into fuel than normalweight folks’ -- so much so
that an obese person ends
up with lots of excess fuel,
which is stored as fat.
In their own way,
classical cellist Yo-Yo
Ma and feminist hip-hop
innovator Yo-Yo make
inspiring,
gut-grabbing
music. That’s a lot more
than can be said for yoyo dieting! Although it
grabs your guts and stirs
up the trillions of bacteria
living there, it’s more likely
to make heart-stopping
deposits of fat around
your waistline, so you
repeatedly regain weight
you’ve fought so hard to
shed.
How can you keep
off weight you’ve lost?
Encourage diversity with
a fiber-rich diet filled with
veggies, fruit and 100
percent whole grains.
Gobble up PREbiotics
like bananas, onions,
garlic, leeks, asparagus,
artichokes and soybeans
(they’re food for healthpromoting gut bacteria).
Then get PRObiotics
from
low-or
nonfat
yogurt and kefir, kimchi,
sauerkraut, miso, tempeh
and soy beverages. And
consider taking a probiotic
supplement: Dr. Mike
uses a different brand
of probiotic each day to
promote that good-for-you
diversity.
A study presented at
the European Congress
of Endocrinology found
that when you’re obese
and lose weight on a verylow-calorie diet, your gut
bacteria become more
diverse. That richer stew
of microbes helps control
Mehmet Oz, M.D. is
host of “The Dr. Oz Show,”
and Mike Roizen, M.D. is
Chief Wellness Officer and
Chair of Wellness Institute
at Cleveland Clinic. To live
your healthiest, tune into
“The Dr. Oz Show” or visit
www.sharecare.com.
Do you yo-yo? How to
stop the lose-gain, losegain cycle
Decatur Daily Democrat
SUDOKU ® by American Profile
SUDOKU ®
Answers for previous day
Wednesday, July 6, 2016 • Page 9A
Astro-Graph
Don’t wait to get started on something new.
Take action and show
off your skills and talents. The experience
you gather will lead to
valuable knowledge,
excitement and adventure. Don’t
sit back when you should be moving forward and living your dream.
Make love a priority.
CANCER (June 21-July
22) -- If you rearrange your surroundings, it will motivate you to
make headway on a project that
needs to be finished. Exercise
and nutrition will contribute to a
better appearance.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) -If you don’t want to be disappointed, rely on yourself to get
things done your way. The personal changes you want to make
will not turn out according to
plan.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept.
22) -- Review what you have done
and what you have left to accomplish. Organization and preparation will help you avoid delays. A
discussion with a loved one will
resolve a pending problem.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23)
-- If you listen more and talk less,
you will avoid getting caught in an
uncomfortable situation. Put more
effort into helping someone in
need.
SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov.
22) -- Present your ideas in order
to get help to expand your plans
into something quite special. Take
ownership and make all the
arrangements necessary to follow
through on your goals. Romance
is encouraged.
THE LOCKHORNS ®
SAGITTARIUS
(Nov.
23-Dec. 21) -- Don’t let added
pressure keep you from doing
what’s best for you. A change you
make will help you cut your costs,
leaving more cash for entertainment and personal changes.
CAPRICORN
(Dec.
22-Jan. 19) -- Make plans to get
together with someone you want
to do business with. Joining forces with a person who shares your
goals will make the ride to success easier.
AQUARIUS
(Jan.
20-Feb. 19) -- You’ll thrive in situations that motivate you to show
what you have to offer. Share
your story, express your feelings
and form an alliance with someone special.
PISCES (Feb. 20-March
20) -- Make plans with children, a
friend or a loved one. Whatever
you experience will help you make
choices that will improve your life.
Don’t be afraid to try something
different.
ARIES (March 21-April
19) -- Refuse to get into a disagreement at work or home. It’s
better to make personal changes
that will leave you feeling good
about your health and finances.
TAURUS (April 20-May
20) -- Discuss work-related matters with someone who can help
you bring about satisfactory
changes. Indulge in something
that will improve your insight and
appearance.
GEMINI (May 21-June
20) -- Make plans to improve your
home life. Bring about change,
but do the work yourself.
Depending on others will be costly
and will not bring the results you
want.
THE FAMILY CIRCUS ®
by Bil Keane
by Bunny Hoest and John Reiner
... A Little Birdie Told Me ...
Well How Do You Think That
Little Birdie Knew...?
... He Read It In The ...
DECATUR DAILY
D E M O C R A T
THE GRIZZWELLS ® by Bill Schorr
Beetle Bailey ® Mort Walker
BIG NATE ® by Lincoln Peirce
BABY BLUES ® by Rick Kirkman and Jerry Scott
FRANK & ERNEST ® by Bob Thaves
CRANKSHAFT ® by Tom Batiuk and Chuck Ayers
ARLO & JANIS ® by Jimmy Johnson
THE BORN LOSER ® by Art and Chip Sansom
Blondie ® Dean Young & John Marshall
ZITS ® by Jerry Scott and Jim Burgman
Decatur Daily Democrat
Page 10A • Wednesday, July 6, 2016
Wales kicking for title shot
By JOSEPH WILSON
Associated Press
LYON, France (AP)
— Portugal will hold
its breath until the last
minute hoping its best
player at the European
Championship will be fit
for its semifinal showdown against Wales.
No, Cristiano Ronaldo
isn’t the cause for concern.
The fuss is about
whether central defender Pepe, who has been
key to Portugal’s place in
the final four, will be fit
to face Gareth Bale and
his Wales teammates on
Wednesday at the Stade
de Lyon.
Portugal
coach
Fernando Santos said on
Tuesday that a decision
would be made on match
day, based on the state
of Pepe’s recovery from a
thigh muscle injury.
‘‘We will make our
decision tomorrow. I
won’t be rushed into it,
so I am sure you will
be rolling in your beds
tonight unable to sleep,’’
Santos said through a
translator. ‘‘I will sleep
quietly, because I have
other players who can
play. If Pepe is 100 percent, I will think about it
so he can be in the starting 11.’’
Pepe missed training
on Monday and trained
separately from his teammates at their tournament base near Paris on
Tuesday before traveling
to Lyon.
While Portugal has
been able to turn to
Nani, Ricardo Quaresma
and 18-year-old Renato
Sanches to get the goals
that Ronaldo has yet to
consistently produce, its
defensive stability has
pretty much hinged on
Pepe.
The
Real
Madrid
defender has played every
minute of his team’s five
matches, providing reliability in a backline that
has been undermined by
injury and inconsistent
play. He has collected
only one yellow card,
committed just four fouls
- while receiving 10, in
510 minutes.
Santos dropped fellow center back Ricardo
Carvalho following a 3-3
draw with Hungary in Major league baseball
National League
the third group match, By The Associated Press
giving Jose Fonte the job. East Division
W
L Pct GB
If Pepe is unavailable, Washington
50 35 .588 —
45 38 .542 4
Carvalho would likely be New York
Miami 44 40 .5245 1/2
back in alongside Fonte. Philadelphia
39 46 .459 11
Santos
has
also Atlanta 28 56 .33321 1/2
Central
Division
switched between Cedric
W
L Pct GB
Soares and Vierinha at Chicago 52 31 .627 —
43 39 .5248 1/2
right back and Eliseu St. Louis
Pittsburgh 42 41 .506 10
and Raphael Guerreiro Milwaukee 37 46 .446 15
Cincinnati 31 54 .365 22
at left back.
Division
Regardless of who’s West
W
L Pct GB
playing, Portugal’s backs San Francisco 53 32 .624 —
Los Angeles
48 37 .565 5
have struggled to keep Colorado
37 45 .45114 1/2
up with opposing wing- Arizona 37 48 .435 16
36 47 .434 16
ers. Pepe, however, has San Diego
been there to make last- ———
gasp clearances and to Monday’s Games
Milwaukee 1, Washington 0
shield goalkeeper Rui Pittsburgh 4, St. Louis 2
Chicago Cubs 10, Cincinnati 4
Patricio.
8, Atlanta 2
Bale
and
Wales’ PShiladelphia
an Francisco 3, Colorado 1
attackers will no doubt N.Y. Mets 8, Miami 6
Dodgers 7, Baltimore 5
be aiming to follow the LS.A.
an Diego 8, Arizona 4
same route.
Tuesday’s Games
Portugal will already Cincinnati 9, Chicago Cubs 5
Milwaukee 5, Washington 2
have to cope with- Philadelphia 5, Atlanta 1
out holding midfielder Miami 5, N.Y. Mets 2
Pittsburgh at St. Louis, 8:09 p.m.
William Carvalho, who San Diego at Arizona, 9:40 p.m.
has played well, due to Baltimore at L.A. Dodgers, 10:10 p.m.
Colorado at San Francisco, 10:15
suspension.
p.m.
‘‘We think it is going to Wednesday’s Games
tlanta (Jenkins 0-1) at Philadelphia
be a battle,’’ Fonte said. A(Hellickson
6-6), 1:05 p.m.
‘‘We are prepared for this Miami (Nicolino 2-4) at N.Y. Mets
and are ready to play our (deGrom 4-4), 1:10 p.m.
Cincinnati (DeSclafani 2-0) at Chicago
game tomorrow.”
Cubs (Warren 3-1), 2:20 p.m.
Mets conquer 5th straight win, 8-6
By The Associated
Press
NEW YORK (AP) —
Yoenis Cespedes hit a
tiebreaking,
two-run
double in the eighth
inning, and the New York
Mets overcame a six-run
deficit to beat the Miami
Marlins 8-6 Monday for
their fifth straight win.
Miami took a 6-0 lead
against Matt Harvey,
who
lasted
3
2/3
innings. But the Mets
scored in every inning
from the fourth through
the eighth and overcame
two calls that originally
went their way but were
overturned upon video
review.
With the score 6-all,
d’Arnaud reached on an
infield single to start the
eighth against Fernando
Rodney (0-2), who was
acquired
from
San
Diego last week and had
allowed just one earned
run this season. Pinchhitter Juan Lagares sacrificed and Neil Walker
drew a walk before
Cespedes lined the ball
into right-center for his
second double and third
hit of the game.
Jeurys
Familia
pitched the ninth for
his major league-leading
29th save, converting his
45th consecutive regular-season opportunity
dating to last August.
Travis d’Arnaud and
Curtis Granderson started the comeback with
solo homers off Tom
Koehler.
INDIANS 5, TIGERS 3
CLEVELAND
(AP)
— Mike Napoli hit a
tiebreaking
two-run
homer in the seventh
inning and the Indians
remained perfect in 10
games against the Tigers
this season.
Napoli hit an 0-1 pitch
from Bruce Rondon (2-1)
into the left-field bleachers, helping the Indians
to their 12th straight
win at home.
Jeff Manship (1-1)
pitched 1 1/3 scoreless innings and Cody
Allen worked the ninth
for his 18th save. The
game ended when Jose
Iglesias bounced into a
double play. Iglesias was
called safe at first, but
it was reversed after a
replay review.
Cleveland has outscored Detroit 65-23
this season and the
Indians now lead the
Tigers by 6 1/2 games in
the AL Central. The win
also ended Cleveland
‘s two-game skid that
followed a franchiserecord 14-game winning
streak.
Nick Castellanos and
Steven Moya homered
for Detroit, which had
won six straight.
GIANTS 3, ROCKIES
1
SAN
FRANCISCO
(AP) — Angel Pagan hit
a two-run homer and
Buster Posey also connected to back Jake
Peavy as San Francisco
beat Colorado.
Peavy (5-7) struck out
six over 6 2/3 innings
to bounce back from his
third-shortest outing of
the season. He left to
a standing ovation and
tipped his cap while
exiting in the seventh
after a two-out single by
pinch-hitter Cristhian
Adames. Giants right
fielder Mac Williamson
made a beautiful diving catch to start the
inning.
Nolan Arenado hit two
doubles, but the runstarved Rockies lost its
sixth straight game and
fourth in a row held to
one or fewer runs.
Colorado loaded the
bases in the second on
Ryan Raburn’s oneout double, a single by
Mark Reynolds and Nick
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altimore (Gausman 1-6) at L.A.
B
Dodgers (Norris 4-7), 3:10 p.m.
Milwaukee (Garza 1-1) at Washington
(Roark 7-5), 4:05 p.m.
Pittsburgh (Locke 8-5) at St. Louis
(Garcia 6-6), 8:15 p.m.
San Diego (Rea 5-3) at Arizona (Miller
2-8), 9:40 p.m.
Colorado (De La Rosa 5-5) at San
Francisco (Cueto 12-1), 10:15 p.m.
Thursday’s Games
Pittsburgh at St. Louis, 1:45 p.m.
Washington at N.Y. Mets, 7:10 p.m.
tlanta at Chicago Cubs, 8:05 p.m.
A
Philadelphia at Colorado, 8:40 p.m.
San Diego at L.A. Dodgers, 10:10
p.m.
Hundley’s walk before
Peavy was called for
a balk to force in the
game’s first run.
Tyler Anderson (0-3)
allowed three runs and
four hits in six innings.
PIRATES
4,
American League
CARDINALS 2
By The Associated Press
ST. LOUIS (AP) — East Division
W
L Pct GB
Gregory Polanco hom- Baltimore 47 35 .573 —
ered twice and Jonathon Toronto 47 39 .547 2
45 38 .5422 1/2
Niese turned in his best Boston New York
40 42 .488 7
start in almost a month Tampa
Bay
34 49 .41013 1/2
to help Pittsburgh win Central Division
W
L Pct GB
its fifth straight — all on Cleveland
51 32 .614 —
the road.
Detroit 44 40 .5247 1/2
Kansas City
43 40 .518 8
Polanco’s
two-run Chicago
43 40 .518 8
homer in the sixth inning Minnesota 27 55 .32923 1/2
off Carlos Martinez (7-6) West Division
put the Pirates ahead
to stay 2-1. He added a
solo shot in the eighth
for the first two-homer
game of his career.
Niese (7-6), who had
given up at least four
earned runs in each of
his previous four starts,
allowed just one run on
seven hits over 5 2/3
innings.
Pirates
relievers
Arquimedes Caminero,
Juan Nicasio and Neftali
Feliz combined to allow
one run over the final 3
1/3 innings. Feliz picked
up his first save of the
season despite giving up
a run-scoring double to
Matt Carpenter in the
ninth.
St. Louis had a threegame winning streak
snapped.
PHILLIES 8, BRAVES
2
PHILADELPHIA
(AP) — Jerad Eickhoff
pitched
neatly
into
the eighth inning, and
Odubel Herrera and
Maikel Franco each
hit a two-run homer
as Philadelphia beat
Atlanta.
Eickhoff (6-9) gave up
two runs and five hits,
striking out eight in 7
2/3 innings to win for
the fourth time in five
decisions.
Texas Houston Seattle Oakland Los Angeles
W
53
45
43
36
34
L
32
39
41
47
50
Pct GB
.624 —
.5367 1/2
.5129 1/2
.434 16
.40518 1/2
———
Monday’s Games
Tampa Bay 4, L.A. Angels 2
Boston 12, Texas 5
Chicago White Sox 8, N.Y. Yankees 2
Houston 2, Seattle 1
Oakland 3, Minnesota 1
Toronto 6, Kansas City 2
Cleveland 5, Detroit 3
L.A. Dodgers 7, Baltimore 5
Tuesday’s Games
Toronto 8, Kansas City 3
Cleveland 12, Detroit 1
L.A. Angels 13, Tampa Bay 5
Texas 7, Boston 2
Houston 5, Seattle 2
N.Y. Yankees at Chicago White Sox,
8:10 p.m.
Oakland at Minnesota, 8:10 p.m.
Baltimore at L.A. Dodgers, 10:10 p.m.
Wednesday’s Games
Detroit (Fulmer 8-2) at Cleveland
(Tomlin 9-1), 12:10 p.m.
Oakland (Gray 3-7) at Minnesota
(Santana 2-7), 1:10 p.m.
Baltimore (Gausman 1-6) at L.A.
Dodgers (Norris 4-7), 3:10 p.m.
Kansas City (Kennedy 6-7) at Toronto
(Stroman 6-4), 7:07 p.m.
L.A. Angels (Weaver 6-7) at Tampa
Bay (Smyly 2-9), 7:10 p.m.
Texas (Perez 7-4) at Boston (Wright
9-5), 7:10 p.m.
N.Y. Yankees (Pineda 3-7) at Chicago
White Sox (Gonzalez 1-4), 8:10 p.m.
Seattle (LeBlanc 1-0) at Houston
(Fiers 6-3), 8:10 p.m.
Thursday’s Games
.A. Angels at Tampa Bay, 12:10 p.m.
L
Detroit at Toronto, 7:07 p.m.
N.Y. Yankees at Cleveland, 7:10 p.m.
Minnesota at Texas, 8:05 p.m.
Oakland at Houston, 8:10 p.m.
Seattle at Kansas City, 8:15 p.m.
WNBA
By The Associated Press
All Times EDT
EASTERN CONFERENCE
W
L Pct GB
New York
12
6 .667 —
Atlanta 9
9 .500 3
Washington 9
9 .500 3
Chicago 7 10 .4124 1/2
Indiana 7 10 .4124 1/2
Connecticut 4 13 .2357 1/2
WESTERN CONFERENCE
W
L Pct GB
Los Angeles
16
1 .941 —
Minnesota 15
3 .8331 1/2
Dallas 9 10 .474 8
Phoenix 8 11 .421 9
Seattle 6 11 .353 10
San Antonio
4 13 .235 12
———
Monday’s Games
No games scheduled
Tuesday’s Games
Atlanta 77, Seattle 64
Minnesota 87, Chicago 82
Dallas 77, Phoenix 74
Wednesday’s Games
Seattle at New York, 7 p.m.
Washington at San Antonio, 8 p.m.
Indiana at Los Angeles, 10:30 p.m.
Thursday’s Games
Minnesota at Connecticut, 7 p.m.
Transactions
By The Associated Press
BASEBALL
American League
BOSTON RED SOX — Optioned C
Christian Vazquez to Pawtucket (IL).
Reinstated C Ryan Hanigan from the
15-day DL. Sent RHP Brandon Workman to the GCL Red Sox for a rehab
assignment.
CHICAGO WHITE SOX — Sent 1B
Justin Morneau to Charlotte (IL) for a
rehab assignment.
CLEVELAND INDIANS — Agreed to
terms with OF Andrew Calica on a
minor league contract.
DETROIT TIGERS — Placed LHP
Daniel Norris on the 15-day DL.
Recalled RHP Buck Farmer from Toledo (IL).
KANSAS CITY ROYALS — Placed
RHP Wade Davis on the 15-day DL,
retroactive to Saturday. Designated
LHP Tyler Olson for assignment.
Selected the contract of RHP Brooks
Pounders from Omaha (PCL).
LOS ANGELES ANGELS — Optioned
LHP Jose Alvarez to Salt Lake (PCL).
Recalled RHP Nick Tropeano from
Salt Lake.
MINNESOTA TWINS — Optioned
LHP Buddy Boshers to Rochester (IL).
Reinstated RHP Trevor May from the
15-day DL.
NEW YORK YANKEES — Optioned
RHP Luis Cessa to Scranton/WilkesBarre (IL). Recalled LHP Chasen
Shreve from Scranton/Wilkes-Barre.
SEATTLE MARINERS — Optioned
LHP David Rollins to Tacoma (PCL).
Selected the contract of OF Daniel
Robertson from Tacoma. Transferred
RHP Adrian Sampson to the 60-day
DL.
TAMPA BAY RAYS — Placed OF
Desmond Jennings on the 15-day DL,
retroactive to Saturday. Released
RHP Ryan Webb. Recalled RHP Tyler
Sturdevant from Durham (IL).
TEXAS RANGERS — Designated
LHP Michael Roth for assignment.
Recalled RHP Jose Leclerc from
Round Rock (PCL). Sent RHPs
Keone Kela to Round Rock and Yu
Darvish to Frisco (TL) for rehab
assignments. Traded OF Ryan
Strausborger to Seattle for a 2016
international slot compensation.
National League
ARIZONA DIAMONDBACKS —
Optioned C Peter O’Brien to Reno
(PCL). Reinstated SS Nick Ahmed
from paternity leave.
ATLANTA BRAVES — Optioned INF
Ronnier Mustelier to Gwinnett (IL).
Sent LHP Eric O’Flaherty to Rome
(SAL) for a rehab assignment.
CINCINNATI REDS — Sent RHP Tim
Adleman to the AZL Reds for a rehab
assignment.
COLORADO ROCKIES — Reinstated
RP Tyler Chatwood from the 15-day
DL and RHP Adam Ottavino from the
60-day DL. Optioned RHP Eddie Butler to Albuquerque (PCL). Placed RHP
Justin Miller on the 15-day DL, retroactive to July 3.
LOS ANGELES DODGERS —
Optioned LHP Julio Urias to Oklahoma City (PCL). Recalled LHP Luis Avilan from Oklahoma City.
MIAMI MARLINS — Optioned OF
Yefri Perez to Jacksonville (SL).
MILWAUKEE BREWERS — Optioned
OF Keon Broxton to Colorado Springs
(PCL). Selected the contract of 3B Will
Middlebrooks from Colorado Springs.
Transferred LHP Chris Capuano to
the 60-day DL.
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Record 7 Cubs
named all-stars
By RONALD BLUM
AP Baseball Writer
NEW YORK (AP) — After
topping the major leagues
during the first half of the
season as they seek their
first title in more than a
century, the Chicago Cubs
dominated the rosters
for next week’s All-Star
game.
And the Boston Red
Sox, who ended their long
drought a decade ago,
were not far behind.
The Cubs became the
first team since the 1976
Cincinnati Reds’ Big Red
Machine to have five players voted as All-Star starters, and seven Chicago
players in all were picked
Tuesday for the July 12
game at San Diego’s Petco
Park.
Chicago’s entire infield
was voted in — first baseman Anthony Rizzo, second baseman Ben Zobrist,
shortstop Addison Russell
and third baseman Kris
Bryant — along with center fielder Dexter Fowler,
who hopes to recover from
a hamstring strain that
has sidelined him since
June 18. The only other
team to start four infielders was the 1963 St. Louis
Cardinals.
‘‘It’ll be really cool starting the game and throwing to those guys in San
Diego,’’ Rizzo said.
Rizzo led NL players
with 3.2 million votes, and
Zobrist won the closest
race by finishing 88 votes
ahead of Washington’s
Daniel Murphy. Jake
Arrieta and Jon Lester
were selected for the
National League pitching
staff.
Chicago got off to
a 47-20 start but has
slumped for the past few
weeks. The Cubs have
not won the World Series
since 1908, but have the
second-most All-Stars in
their history behind eight
in 2008.
‘‘Make sure you slow
it down and enjoy every
second of it,’’ Cubs manager Joe Maddon recalled
telling his All-Stars.
The game will feature
11 first-time starters, the
most since 2005. In a
sign of the sport’s generational change, 12 of the
17 elected starters are 26
or younger.
‘‘It should be a little more special,’’ said
Bryant, who attended the
University of San Diego
for three years,
Boston has six All-Stars,
including four starters.
Designated hitter David
Ortiz, who is retiring at the
end of the season, became
a 10-time All-Star and is
joined in the lineup by a
trio of first-timers: shortstop Xander Bogaerts and
outfielders Jackie Bradley
Jr. and Mookie Betts.
Knuckleballer
Steven
Wright and closer Craig
Kimbrel also were selected.
‘‘Four days of rest and
chilling is good, but this
All-Star Game, I’m going
to try to enjoy it the most,’’
said the 40-year-old Ortiz
said, who helped the
Red Sox win three titles,
including their first in 86
years in 2004.
Wright is a first-time
All-Star at age 31.
‘‘I feel like I’m still the
same guy,’’ he said.
Kansas City catcher
Salvador Perez and first
baseman Eric Hosmer
were voted to the AL starting lineup along with
Houston second baseman
Jose Altuve, Baltimore
third baseman Manny
Machado and Los Angeles
outfielder Mike Trout.
Perez led all players with
nearly 4.97 million votes.
Heat offer Wade $40 mil
By TIM REYNOLDS
AP Basketball Writer
MIAMI (AP) — Dwyane
Wade has an offer to
consider.
Wade
has
been
extended a two-year,
$40 million contract
offer to stay with the
Miami Heat, a person
with knowledge of the
negotiations told The
Associated Press on
Monday.
The second year would
be at Wade’s option, said
the person who spoke
to the AP on condition
of anonymity because
talks are ongoing. The
contract, if accepted,
would essentially match
the career-best $20 million salary Wade made
this past season.
This is the second
consecutive summer in
which Wade and the
Heat have had a rocky
time finding common
contractual
ground,
and the issue this time
could be more about
the length of the deal
than the compensation.
Wade has left millions
on the bargaining table
in past negotiations
with the Heat, though
some of that sacrifice
also helped him win
championships in 2012
and 2013.
A three-year deal
would obviously help
him recoup more of
what he’s given up in
the past.
Wade was returning
this week to the U.S.
from a European vacation, which he shared
part of with longtime
friends LeBron James
and Chris Paul. Wade
is scheduled to be in
New York and guesthost ‘‘Live With Kelly’’
alongside Kelly Ripa
on Thursday morning,
which
coincidentally
is the day the NBA’s
offseason moratorium
on player movement
expires and new contracts can be signed.
Wade has spent all
13 of his NBA seasons
in Miami and has said
several times that he
wants to spend his
entire career with the
club. Wade averaged
19.0 points and 4.6
assists this past season, and was an AllStar pick for the 12th
time.
MONROE SOFTBALL RUNNERS-UP— After missing out on the regular season crown by just a one-run
differential, Ace Hardware fell to season and tourney champions Hot Cakes in the championship game of
the Monroe Youth League softball, 6-1. As runners-up, Ace Hardware ended their season at 9-1. They are
seen above, starting in the front row (L-R): Juliana Sipe, Lindsey Collier, Makena DeRoo, Gianna Obringer,
Grace Baker, Olivia Dailey, Maggie Schaffter. Back: assistant coach Jessica Thieme, Isabelle Schaffter,
Brianna Cook, Jenna Cook, Maci Henry, Mati Henry, Addie BAker, coach Tami Henry, assistant coach Jeff
Cook. (Photo provided)
Williams sisters greet semi-finals for the 11th time
By HOWARD FENDRICH
AP Tennis Writer
LONDON (AP) — In
some ways, making it to
a Grand Slam semifinal is
rather been-there, donethat for Venus Williams.
She is, after all, already
the owner of seven major
titles, including five at
Wimbledon.
This one, though, is different.
She’s 36 now, a halfdozen years removed from
her last such run. And, in
the interim, she has been
through the daily struggles
of dealing with a disease
that can sap energy and
cause joint pain.
Williams made it to
the final four at the All
England Club for the first
time since 2009, and at
any Grand Slam tournament since the year after
that, playing mistake-free
to beat Yaroslava Shvedova
7-6 (5), 6-2 in the quarterfinals Tuesday.
‘‘Semifinals feels good.
But it doesn’t feel foreign
at all, let’s put it that way,’’
said Williams, whose first
Wimbledon title came in
2000 and whose most
recent came in 2008.
Asked to compare her
current level of play to
that of the past, Williams
shook her head, shut her
eyes and laughed.
‘‘I don’t remember. Six
years ago is ages ago,’’ she
responded. ‘‘I was most
likely kicking butt six
years ago, if I was in the
semis or the finals. You
have to be.’’
Just like in the old
days, Williams will be
joined in the semifinals by
a familiar face — younger
sister Serena, who moved
closer to equaling Steffi
Graf’s Open-era record of
22nd Grand Slam championships by defeating
21st-seeded
Anastasia
Pavlyuchenkova 6-4, 6-4,
taking the last three games
of each set. Serena hit 11
aces, including one at 123
mph to end it.
This, then, is the latest chapter of the remarkable Williams sister tale:
a pair of siblings from
Compton, California, who
rose to the top of tennis.
It’s the 11th time they’ve
reached the semis at the
same major; in all previous 10, one took home the
trophy. That includes four
all-in-the-family finals at
Wimbledon, with Venus
winning in 2008, and
Serena in 2002, 2003 and
2009.
On Thursday, they
will try to set up another title match when No.
1 Serena faces unseeded Elena Vesnina, while
No. 8 Venus meets No. 4
Angelique Kerber.
‘‘It just means that she
has a lot of perseverance.
She’s a real fighter,’’ Serena
said about Venus, the oldest woman in a major
semifinal since 1994, when
Martina Navratilova was
37 at Wimbledon. ‘‘Like
I always say, it’s super
inspiring for me.’’
Kerber, who surprised
Serena in the Australian
Open final in January for
her first Grand Slam title,
advanced by eliminating
No. 5 Simona Halep 7-5,
7-6 (2). Vesnina, ranked
50th and never before a
major
quarterfinalist,
moved on by overwhelming No. 19 Dominika
Cibulkova 6-2, 6-2.
The last men’s quarterfinal spot was earned
by 2010 runner-up Tomas
Berdych, who completed
his 4-6, 6-3, 7-6 (8), 6-7
(9), 6-3 victory over Jiri
Vesely in a match suspended after the fourth set
Monday night because of
darkness. On Wednesday,
the semifinalists will be
determined by these
matchups: Andy Murray
vs. Jo-Wilfried Tsonga,
Roger Federer vs. Marin
Cilic, Milos Raonic vs. Sam
Querrey and Berdych vs.
Lucas Pouille.
Cozart, Reds play spoiler, 9-5
By ANDREW SELIGMAN
AP Sports Writer
CHICAGO (AP) — Joe
Maddon could make
light of his latest ejection, saying he got in
a workout and snacked
on some buttered raisin bread after he got
tossed.
On a day when the
Cubs lost again, their
manager found at least
a few positives.
John Lackey’s winless streak stretched
to five starts, Maddon
was ejected and the
Cincinnati Reds beat
struggling Chicago 9-5
on Tuesday behind Zack
Cozart’s 13th home run.
Lackey (7-5) allowed
six runs — five earned
— six hits and five walks
in six innings, dropping
to 0-3 in his past five
starts. The Cubs have
lost five of their last six
games and 10 of 15.
Maddon was ejected for the second time
this season. David Ross
was batting in the sec-
ond, took a 3-0 pitch
and started heading
to first, only for plate
umpire Jerry Meals to
call a strike. Maddon got
tossed by Meals as he
protested from the dugout, then came out for
a spirited argument that
lasted a few more minutes.
‘‘It was pretty much
the culmination of other
calls that were going
against us recently at
the plate,’’ he said. ‘‘I
think it kind of boiled
over in that moment. I
haven’t had a day off in
a while.’’
Joey Votto added two
RBIs and Jay Bruce
homered as the Reds
beat the Cubs for the
second time in 12 games
this season after nearly blowing a 5-0 lead.
Cincinnati won for just
the third time in 14
games overall.
Cozart doubled and
scored in the fourth.
He also went deep in
Monday’s loss.
‘‘Everybody wants to
beat the Cubs,’’ said
Billy Hamilton, who had
two hits and scored two
runs. ‘‘They’re the best
team in baseball. We
know we can beat those
guys. This was a big day
for us.’’
Kris Bryant hit his
major
league-leading 25th home run
for Chicago. Addison
Russell went deep twice,
giving him giving him
three homers in the past
two games. Javier Baez
also connected against
Brandon
Finnegan
(4-7).
Finnegan gave up five
runs and five hits in five
innings, including four
homers that matched
Jon Moscot’s seasonhigh for Cincinnati at
Colorado on May 31. He
had lasted a career-low
2 1/3 innings against
Washington in his previous start.
Bryant, Baez and
Russell each connected in a four-run third.
Russell added a solo
drive in the fifth that cut
it to 6-5.
Votto made it a tworun game with an RBI
double off Travis Wood
in the seventh and Bruce
bumped the lead to 9-5
with a two-run drive
against Pedro Strop in
the ninth.
Raisel Iglesias pitched
two-hit ball over three
scoreless innings in
relief for Cincinnati.
Suburban Chicago product Tony Cingrani, celebrating his 27th birthday, worked the ninth.
BRUCE GOES DEEP
Bruce became the
14th major leaguer to
hit at least 18 homers
in each of his first nine
seasons.
TRAINER’S ROOM
Reds: Reliever Jumbo
Diaz was available after
getting a day off because
of a sore right ankle.
The right-hander was
struck by a line drive at
Washington on Sunday.
Cubs: Bryant, who
ALL DAY,
EVERYDAY,
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