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Police respond Tues. to
possible bank hostages
ROCK SPRINGS — A report of a possible
hostage situation at Wells Fargo Bank turn
out to be false Tuesday, Nov. 19, according to
the Rock Springs Police Department.
RSPD were dispatched to Wells Fargo
Bank on Dewar Drive after central dispatch
received a call reporting a possible hostage
situation taking place in the bank’s parking
lot.
RSPD Officers, along with assistance from
the Sweetwater County Sheriff’s Department, responded and secured the bank property.
Officers made contact with employees inside the bank and were able to determine
that no emergency existed, and that no
hostage situation was taking place. All bank
employees and bank customers were determined to be safe.
Investigation led to the identification of
several parties who had been attempting to
cash what are believed to be fraudulent or insufficient funds checks.
This investigation is ongoing.
No candy
at parade
PAUL MURRAY
Rocket-Miner Staff Reporter
Solid Home Start
ROCK SPRINGS: Western Wyoming Community College freshman guard Dimitri Saliba,
No. 23, drives through three opponents for a tough basketball while freshman teammate Stefan Wright, No. 4, watches. The Mustangs jumped out to a 57-37 halftime lead
Tuesday night against Planet Athlete Academy. The team eventually topped the prep
school from Arizona, 107-72, in the first home game of the season. For more WWCC basketball coverage, see page 6.
ROCK SPRINGS — For safety reasons, candy will not be handed out at the Rock Springs
Christmas parade on Dec. 7, the mayor said at
the Nov. 19 City Council meeting.
Mayor Carl Demshar said the streets involved will not be cleared of parked vehicles as
many people like to watch the parade from the
vehicles if the weather is cold.
Demshar said this is differs from the summer parade for the Red Desert Roundup
Rodeo, where the route is cleared of parked vehicles.
He said there is less space for the large
trucks, trailers and floats.
“There is not much room for error,” he said.
He said large floats and parked vehicles
could become a dangerous situation when
children rush out to chase parade candy.
Bagged candy will be distributed at the
downtown depot and at the Christmas in the
park celebration in Bunning Park after the parade.
SEE PARADE, PAGE 3
Nicole Malicoat/Rocket-Miner
Big Hugs
ROCK SPRINGS: Brothers Blake Rodriguez, back and Prestin Rodriguez,
front, stand with Clifford the Big Red Dog at the White Mountain Library on Tuesday. Clifford visited the children at the library as part of
the Love of Reading campaign. The Rodriguez boys and other children
watched a puppet show presented by the Rock Springs Library and
the “C” Street Puppet Theatre and received a free book.
Money requested
for water projects
MICHAEL MARESH
Nicole Malicoat/Rocket-Miner
Fire Chief Mike Kennedy, left, and Assistant Fire Chief Mike Liberty, right, serve at
the Green River Fire Department. The person appointed to the new battalion fire
chief position will serve as third-in-command under Kennedy and Liberty.
City creates battalion fire chief position
MICHAEL MARESH
Decorating Contest
ROCK SPRINGS: The Rock Springs Urban Renewal
Agency/Main Street is conducting a contest
encouraging downtown businesses to decorate
their windows and storefronts. The trophy will be
awarded to the winner of the contest, which will
be announced on Dec. 9. Organizers said there is
no charge to participate, though people must register by Nov. 30 to be included on the ballot by contacting the URA office. Judging is scheduled for
5:30-7 p.m. Dec. 7.
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GREEN RIVER — The Green River
Fire Department will have a battalion
fire chief following a Tuesday vote of the
Green River City Council.
The request was done so the person
in the newly-created position would be
able to assist with calls and training
hours for the department, as needed.
The resolution the Council approved
amended salaries for the 2013-14 fiscal
year for the new position.
The new battalion chief the fire department is budgeted at $61,448 to
$96,780 a year. On Sept. 10, the city
adopted a classification plan setting titles and descriptions for all city employees. The purpose of the battalion fire
chief classification plan is to assist in
the internal management of the city as
necessary resulting in the request for
the new position. According to the letter Fire Chief Mike Kennedy sent to
City Administrator Marty Black, the
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new position would be responsible for
supervising the fire department and assisting Kennedy with duties as, including invoicing expenditures, assisting
other departments with their requests
for the fire department, maintaining attendance and training records and keeping volunteer firefighters informed
about policies and procedures.
The battalion chief will be third in
command to the fire chief and assistant
fire chief and could be used for succession planning within the fire department. After the meeting, Kennedy said
he has not decided who the chief will be,
and added the position may be filled
from outside the department.
The GRFD also received approval to
apply for the grant to obtain new selfcontained breathing apparatus.
Assistant Fire Chief Mike Liberty will
work with Misty Springer to complete
the application by the Dec. 6 deadline.
The grant totals about $401,000 and requires a 5 percent city match, or about
$20,000, if awarded.
GREEN RIVER — The engineer working with the Jamestown
Rio Vista Water and Sewer District requested funding for the
preliminary work on a waterline
extension at Tuesday’s Sweetwater County Commission meeting.
Robert Hood with Utah-based
Sunrise Engineering asked for
$45,000 for the company’s work
in relation to the development of
the waterline west of Jamestown.
Hood has a contract with the
Rio Vista Water and Sewer District to help plan the project.
Hood said the district’s 30-year
facility is on its last legs and
needs to be “babysat” 24 hours a
day because of the constant concerns.
Hood said the district is trying
to form a partnership with Green
River, in which the waterline
would run across the city and into
Jamestown for its customers.
Part of Hood’s responsibilities
include trying to find ways to pay
for the work, which is one reason
Sunrise Engineering was brought
into the fold. This involves finding the best funding option and
presenting a written report for all
of the key players.
He then asked the commission
for $45,000, the cost of the contract, for the work the company is
currently doing.
Commissioner John Kolb said
he supports the project because
he realizes it is a big problem that
needs to be solved. Kolb said he
likes the fact the district is
dea1ing with the problem and trying to find solutions.
TODAY: A 20 percent chance of
rain and snow after 3 p.m.
Mostly cloudy with a high near
42. Southwest winds 9 to 11
mph.
“I have been involved in this
and have gone to your meetings,”
he said.
Commissioner Reid West said
the commission has had a hospital district and two water and
sewer districts requesting assistance after running out of money,
even though they have no oversight over these groups.
Commissioner Gary Bailiff
said the commission budgeted
$40,000 in 2013-14 for items like
this, but $25,000 of this amount
has already been spent.
“You think you need to lower
your fees to $15,000,” commission chairman Wally Johnson
said.
He added the request for funds
was well done.
“We are not telling you what to
do,” Johnson said. “We know the
history.”
Kolb said he wanted to know
why the water district was unable
to pay for the work and asked
Hood to find out what happened
to the money the commission
gave to the district a few years
ago. Hood said this money is not
being used because of a possible
lawsuit against the district. The
district has increased its fees in
an attempt to build a cash reserve, he said.
The commission directed
Hood to go back to the district to
explain the commissioner’s comments and the $15,000 that could
be available.
CLEARVIEW IMPROVEMENT AND
SERVICE DISTRICT
SEE WATER, PAGE 3
TONIGHT: A 50 percent chance of
snow. Mostly cloudy with a low
around 22. East wind 5 to 10 mph.
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ROCK SPRINGS — Diane Jo
Confer, 54, died Sunday, Nov. 3,
2013, at the University of Utah
Hospital following a brief illness.
She had been ill the past 10
years.
She was born Nov. 20, 1958, in
Havana, Ill., to Rodney
and Rosemary Krider
Aten. She attended
school in the Ipava, Ill.
area. She graduated from
V.I.T. High School in
1976.
She moved to Rock
Springs in 1981. She
worked as a secretary in
multiple locations until
her illness forced her retirement
in 2001.
She met Tom Confer Jr. in
1989. They were married on Nov.
23, 1991. They lived with her
daughter Marcy in Rock Springs.
Her interests included watching cooking shows, trying gourmet recipes for family dinners,
gardening in her yard, relaxing,
ceramic characters made by her
mother and grandmother, Westerns and TV shows from the
1950s and spending time at her
summer home in Boulder, where
she could fish, go boating and enjoy the sunshine.
Her survivors include her hus-
band, Tom Confer Jr.; parents,
Rodney and Rosemary Aten of
Illinois; daughter, Marcy Sparks;
granddaughters, Hannah Blair
Sparks and Kiah Sparks of Rock
Springs; sister, Debra and husband Lance Horwedel of Table
Grove, Ill., aunts and uncles, Jane and husband
Barry Ogden of Allerton,
Iowa, and Richard and
Sheila Krider; mother-inlaw, Christine Confer;
sister-in-law,
Cheryl
Confer; brothers-in-law,
Robert and wife Melissa,
Richard
and
wife
Michele and Ken; numerous nieces, nephews, aunts
and uncles; and special friends,
Christy and Larry Miller.
She was preceded in death by
her infant brother, Dwayne Aten;
grandparents, William and Nelda
Krider, Annetta Fisher and Merline Aten; uncle, Bob; father-inlaw, Tom Confer Sr.; and special
family, including Larry and Peggy Reimder; and puppy, Whizzy
Bear.
Cremation has taken place. A
celebration of life was conducted.
Pastor Kay E. Grice of the First
Congregational Church, United
Church of Christ, in Rock
Springs officiated.
RICHARD A. GILLOCK
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CORRECTION
ROCK SPRINGS — In the
Nov. 19 edition of the RocketMiner, there was an error in
the hours of the Rock
Springs Civic Center open
house. There will be no
charge to enter the center,
use equipment or take classes from 6 a.m. to 9 p.m. on
Nov. 26.
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ROCK SPRINGS — Richard A.
Gillock, 52 of Rock Springs died
Nov. 17, 2013, at his home in Rock
Springs.
He was born April 23, 1961, in
Tucson, Ariz., the son of
John Victor Strand and
Donna K. Macklin. He
was adopted by David
Gillock.
He attended Marana
High School in Tucson.
He married Kathy A.
Kettering in 1979 in
Rock Springs. They were
divorced.
He worked at Bridger Coal as
an equipment operator for 14
years. He also worked for Black
Butte Coal and Wind Walkers in
Rock Springs.
His interests included rebuild-
ing cars, fishing, riding fourwheelers and motorcycles.
Survivors include his son,
Brandon L. Gillock of Rock
Springs;
daughter,
Katrina
Gillock of Rock Springs;
brother, Allen J. Strand
and wife Carrie of Green
River; companion, Linda
Herring of Green River;
and numerous aunts, uncles, nieces and nephews.
He was preceded in
death by his parents; and
brother, Michael Gillock.
Cremation has taken
place. Friends and family may
call from 6-8 p.m. Thursday, Nov.
21, 2013, at Fox Funeral Home,
2800 Commercial Way, Rock
Springs. Condolences can be left
by going to www.foxfh.com.
CASPER — Jesse Oscar Henley, 90, died Thursday, Nov. 14,
2013.
He was born Aug. 25, 1923, in
Douglas to Jesse and Georgia
(Shultz) Henley.
He joined the U.S Army and
served during World War
II. He left the Army in
1945 as a decorated Veteran.
He married Maxine
Stoneking in 1950. They
had three children, Margaret, Jesse Jr., and
James.
His interests included
spending time with his
kids and grandchildren and tinkering with cars and gadgets
around his garage. In his younger
years, his interests included fishing, hunting and traveling around
Wyoming.
LINDA FAWN YOUNGBERG
LYMAN — Linda Fawn Youngberg, 47, died Saturday, Nov. 16,
2013, at her home in Lyman.
She was born Dec. 4, 1965, in
Bountiful, Utah, the daughter of
Elmer LaMar and Mary E.
(Brower) Cook Youngberg.
She attended school in Lyman
and was a 4-H Club
member in junior high
school and high school.
She graduated from Lyman High School in
1985. She also attended
the
Beau
Lorraine
School of Cosmetology
in Logan, Utah.
She was a member of
The Church of Jesus
Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Her interests included bowling
and being with a league at
Bridger Valley Lanes for years,
darts, pool, playing cards, camping, little kids, babies and her
family.
She is survived by her mother
and stepfather, Mary and husband Walter Cook of Lyman;
brother, Wendell and wife Tammy Youngberg of Pinedale; sis-
REN NELSON
ROCK SPRINGS — Ren Nelson, 90, of Rock Springs died
Monday, Nov. 18, 2013, at Deer
Trail Assisted Living in Rock
Springs.
A longtime resident of Rock
Springs and former resident of St.
George, Utah, Mr. Nelson died following a brief illness.
He was born June 17,
1923, in Linwood, Utah,
the son of Vernon and
Lillie Twitchell Nelson.
He attended schools in
Manila, Utah, and was
valedictorian of the class
of 1941.
He married Norma
Hope Searle on March 18,
1946, in Green River. She preceded him in death on June 2, 2013.
Mr. Nelson was a U.S. Navy veteran of World War II. He worked
for many years as a mechanic for
Mountain Fuel and Champlin Oil
before he retired in 1985.
Mr. Nelson was a member of
The Church of Jesus Christ of
Latter-day Saints.
His interests included spending
time with his wife and family and
camping.
Survivors include one son, Gail
Nelson and wife Jan of Tomball,
Texas; two daughters, Gloria Anderson and husband Byron of
West Valley, Utah, and Lorraine
Muniz of Rock Springs; 12 grandchildren; 26 great-grandchildren;
and one great-greatgrandson.
He was preceded in
death by his parents; wife
of 67 years, Norma; two
brothers, Joe and Jay Nelson; and one sister, June
Campbell.
Funeral services will
be conducted at 11 a.m.
Friday, Nov. 22, 2013, at
the White Mountain LDS Chapel,
3306 White Mountain Blvd., Rock
Springs. Military graveside services and interment will be at Rest
Haven
Memorial
Gardens.
Friends may call from 5-7 p.m.
Thursday, Nov. 21, 2013, at the
Vase Funeral Chapel, 154 Elk St.,
Rock Springs, and one hour prior
to services Friday at the church.
Condolences may be left at
http://www.vasefuneralhomes.com
ters, Vicky and husband Lavoy
Mortensen of Price, Utah, Barbara and husband Mark Gibby of
Kearns, Utah, Sandra and husband Steve Kennah of Lyman,
Heather and husband Ray Ball of
Kemmerer, Melanie and husband
Kenneth Davis of Rock Springs
and Marlynn and husband Robert Taylor of
Lyman;
sister-in-law,
Elizabeth Jorgensen of
West Wendover, Nev.;
and several nieces and
nephews.
She was preceded in
death by her father,
Elmer LaMar Youngberg; brother, Edwin
LaMar Youngberg; adopted
brother, Shannon Don Jorgensen;
and her grandparents.
Funeral services will be conducted at 2 p.m. Thursday, Nov.
21, 2013, at the Lyman LDS
Chapel, Lyman. Bishop Lane
Potter will officiate. Interment
will follow services at the Lyman
Cemetery in Lyman. Condolences may be left at crandallfhevanston.com.
THINGS TO DO
Wednesday, Nov. 20
Sweetwater County Board of
Health meeting: 7:15 a.m. at 731 C
St., Suite 315 Rock Springs.
Choices Fall Preview Day: 9
a.m. at Western Wyoming Community College, 2500 College Drive, Rock Springs.
Small Works Art Show: 9 a.m.
to 8 p.m. at the White Mountain
Library, 2935 Sweetwater Drive,
Rock Springs.
Sweetwater Quilters open exhibition: 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. at the
Sweetwater County Library, 300 N.
First E., Green River.
Sweetwater County Library
Storytime: 9:30 a.m. and 11 a.m.
at the Sweetwater County Library,
300 N. First E., Green River.
Steve Schrepferman clay exhibit: 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. at the Community Fine Arts Center, 400 C St.,
Rock Springs.
Green River Chamber of Commerce Lunch and Learn meeting:
noon at Krazy Moose, 211 E. Flaming Gorge Way, Green River.
On-site reference: noon at the
Young at Heart Recreational Center,2400 Reagan Ave., Rock
Springs.
Turkey Trot Story Time: 1 p.m.
at the Rock Springs Library, 400 C
GREEN RIVER POLICE DEPARTMENT
GREEN RIVER — Green River police received
several animal-related reports.
Animal Control Officers responded to the area of
Blake Street in reference to a report of a dog at
large.
Animal Control Officers responded to an address
on West Flaming Gorge Way in reference to a report of a dog at large. Officers impounded the dog.
on Tennessee Drive in reference to a report of a
barking dog.
Animal Control Officers responded to the area of
Easy Street in reference to a report of a dog at large.
on East Second North Street in reference to a report of a dog at large. Animal Control Officers were
unable to locate the dog.
on Sundance Drive in reference to a report of a dog
at large.
He is survived by his wife,
Maxine Henley; daughter, Margaret and husband Roy Zimmerschied; sons, Jesse and wife
Sharon Henley and James and
wife Chrystal Henley; grandchildren, Christina and Jack Warren,
Arlene Zimmerschied,
Jesse Henley, Lauren
Henley and Joe Bright
and Marriah Henley;
great-grandchildren,
Elizabeth and Alexander
Warren, Cigi and Orion
Zimmerschied; and other survivors, including
Bob Henley, Woodrow
and Alvy Vandevender,
Terry and wife Addeline Reeves
and Dawn Reeves.
Services will be conducted at 2
p.m. Friday Nov. 22, 2013, at the
Oregon Trail Veterans Cemetery
Chapel in Casper.
TRAFFIC COMPLAINTS
Officers responded to Commerce Drive in reference to a report of a traffic complaint.
OFFICER ASSISTS
Officers assisted Sweetwater County Deputies at
an address on East Second North Street with serving an arrest warrant.
Officers assisted agents with the Wyoming Department of Family Services on Crossbow Drive.
Officers assisted a motorist on Uinta Drive. Officers assisted in getting the vehicle off of the roadway.
Officers assisted agents with Probation and Parole.
Officers assisted agents with Probation Parole.
Agents requested assistance from the K-9 officer.
Officers assisted Sweetwater County Deputies
with a welfare check on 10 Mile Road.
St.
Memorial Hospital of Sweetwater County special meeting: 5
p.m. in the hospital classroom,
1200 College Drive, Rock Springs.
WWCC Special Board of
Trustees: 6 p.m. workshop, 7 p.m.
meeting at Western Wyoming
Community College, Room 3071.
Sweetwater County Recreation Board meeting: 7 p.m. at
Rock Springs City Hall, 212 D St.
For a more detailed list of events, see the calendar at http://rocketminer.com.
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Green River amends city
administrator’s contract
MICHAEL MARESH
GREEN RIVER — Following a 45-minute
executive session on Tuesday, the Green River City Council amended city administrator
Marty Black’s contract pertaining to vehicle
usage.
Councilmen did not say much following
the executive session except to state they
were changing the second amendment of the
city administrator’s contract.
Councilman Gary Killpack said he was
voting against the motion for three reasons.
“I do not think it is appropriate or right to
go into executive session to discuss matters
of this magnitude” to look over a contract in
such a short period of time, he said.
“We didn’t have the chance to look
through the document and see the many
changes that were put into it,” he said.
He said he does not think it is right to put
the Council in this type of situation.
Under the amended contract, Killpack
said Black’s salary is increasing from
$130,000 a year to $135,000 a year.
“I am not supporting that. It looks more
like a reward,” he said. “I am not in favor of
it at all.”
Killpack he also objected to the removal of
the word “allowance” in the contract. He said
Black can still use his city vehicle to and from
work, so there is an allowance.
He said there is nothing the Council can
do to change this if there is any misconduct
in the future.
Councilman Adam Coppolo said instead
of allowing Black the use of his city vehicle
for personal use, the city an taxpayers will
save money by giving the city administrator
an increase in salary.
“So, I am in full support of this amendment,” Coppolo said.
Killpack said Black received a $5,000 in-
crease in salary and can still use his city vehicle to go to and from work and does not
have to purchase insurance, tires or pay anything for this use.
“That by itself is sufficient,” he said.
He said Black should not get both.
Coppolo said Black now cannot use his
city vehicle for personal use and believes the
$5,000 salary increase will be less than if the
city administrator continued to use his city
vehicle for personal use.
Killpack said the previous contract did allow personal use, but not when the use was
not reported.
When asked for a copy of the amended
contract, city attorney Galen West said a
written request would have to be made. He
said it would only be made available once all
parties signed the amended contract.
When approached at the end of the meeting, both Black and Green River Mayor
Hank Castillon refused to comment.
Test your blood sugar at Diabetes Chapter meeting on Nov. 20
ROCK SPRINGS — The Sweetwater
County Diabetes Chapter will host its September meeting at 6 p.m. Wednesday, Nov.
20, at White Mountain Library in the Grace
Gasson Room.
The meeting is taking place one hour earlier to better accommodate participants.
The meeting will feature a discussion on
“Ways to Enjoy the Holidays with Diabetes.”
Too often, people with diabetes wonder
how they can enjoy all the holiday treats and
still take care of their diabetes.
Come and see how favorite holiday foods
and drinks fit into your life.
Holidays are a time to enjoy, and with
some simple adjustments you can have your
cake and eat it too.
There will be information and recipes
available for participants to take home.
The chapter invites everyone with diabetes
and family members to attend the meeting.
Bring a friend.
Free blood glucose testing will be available
at the meeting.
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WATER
In another water-related funding request, Lee Splett of the
Clearview Improvement and Service District asked the commission for a $50,000 line of credit.
Splett said the district is not
asking for a bailout and instead
would like to have a loan to carry
them through the rough patch
the district is facing.
He said the recent waterline
breaks put the district in a tough
predicament because these payments for the repairs are coming
due.
Splett previously asked the
Joint Powers Water Board to pay
for one of the repairs. Board
members said they would look
into the issue, but did not commit to anything.
Splett said if the district is unsuccessful in getting the loan, it
likely would have to fold.
“We need to bring ourselves up
to pay our bills,” he said.
Kolb asked when the line of
credit would be paid back. Splett
said they could charge customers
an extra $10 a month and use future cash reserves.
Kolb said the district has its
own elected board and tax base,
and while he wants the water district to survive, it is a complicated thing.
He also wondered why no formal presentation was delivered to
MARRIAGE LICENSES
Jack Evan Ryan, 49, to Kimberly Ann (Thoren) Kirk, 40,
both of Farson.
Brian Eugene Hawks, 27, to
Sam Nichole Swift, 22, both of
Rock Springs.
Thomas David Allee, 29, to
Amanda Jean Allgier, 30, both
of Green River.
Khristian Noel Lindsey, 30, to
Amanda Nicole De Alvarez, 25,
both of Superior.
DIVORCES
Roberto Antonio Torres vs.
Brenda Lee Torres, stipulated divorce decree.
Kevin J. Kolar vs. Deborah A.
Kolar, divorce decree and income withholding order.
JUDGMENTS
State of Wyoming Department of Family Services vs.
Ernestine N. Knezovich, order
for temporary support and reimbursement and income withholding order. Knezovich was ordered to pay $100 per month toward $1,817 in back child support.
Sweetwater County School
District No. 2 vs. Wyoming Department of Education, order as
stipulation of parties. The case
may be used when the court considers the appeal of findings of
fact, conclusions of law and final
order and the order of the
agency shall be stayed during the
appeal.
State of Wyoming ex rel,
state of Utah, vs. Tiana J. Peters,
order to dismiss.
State of Wyoming DFS vs.
Jennifer K. White, order suspending child support.
Alexis C. Sackett, order for temporary support and reimbursement and income withholding
order. Alexis Sackett was ordered to pay $25 per month child
support and $2.50 per month toward a $100 judgment.
State of Wyoming DFS vs. Jessica L. Krugeger and Robert J.
Prine, order vacating hearing
and dismissing action.
State of Wyoming DFS vs. Tex
D. Olivas, order to dismiss.
Misty H. Wood and Casey R.
Cazier, order vacating hearing
State of Wyoming DFS vs. Jessica C. McCoy and Christian A.
Dunn, order establishing paternity and support and reimbursement and income withholding
order. Dunn was ordered to pay
$565 per month child support
and $50 per month toward a
$159 judgment.
State of Wyoming DFS vs. Lu-
cinda M. Young and Lamar M.
Yarber, order establishing paternity and support and reimbursement and income withholding
order. Lamar Yarber was ordered
to pay $201 per month child support, $25 per month toward
$804 in arrears, $99 for genetic
testing fees and $60 in court
costs.
Helen Clary Michie vs. Kindred Nursing Centers West LLC,
doing business as the Sage View
Care Center, order on removal.
State of Wyoming, ex rel,
state of Utah vs. Arnold A. Tronlin Jr., stipulated judgment and
order of civil contempt. Tronlin
was ordered to pay $50 per
month toward a $1,376 judgment.
Kristina J. Rutherford and Cody
L. Bowles, stipulated judgment
and order to modify child support. Bowles was ordered to pay
$400 per month child support
and $100 per month toward
$10,770.45 in arrears, $99 for genetic testing and $50 in court
costs.
Joseph M. Hernandez vs. Laurie L. Thoman-Hernandez, order
for immediate expanded visitation. Joseph Hernandez was ordered to pay $650 per month
child support.
Sadie Gishie, satisfaction of
$1,110 judgment.
Danielle M. Everhart, satisfaction of $250 judgment.
Brandi N. Fenner and Devon Y.
Schroyer, satisfaction of $240
judgment.
Kathleen E. Smart, satisfaction
of $170 judgment.
Russell Andrew Cagle, satisfaction of $4,596 judgment.
Melissa R. Beckstead, satisfaction of $909 judgment.
Elouise A. Greymountain and
Bufford Greymountain Sr., satisfaction of $159 judgment.
State of Wyoming vs. Seth
Aaron Sauder, judgment and
sentence. Sauder pleaded guilty
to possession of a controlled
substance and battery against a
household member. Sauder was
ordered to pay $20 in court
costs, $200 to the victims compensation fund, $75 for a substance abuse assessment and
$215 in public defender fees. He
received suspended and concurrent three- to six-year and sixmonth jail sentences with credit
for eight days time served and
was placed on concurrent three
years and six months of supervised probation.
State of Wyoming vs. Nathan
McLaren, judgment and sentence. McLaren pleaded guilty to
breach of the peace and no contest to property destruction and
defacement. McLaren was ordered to pay $20 court costs,
$200 to the victim’s compensation fund, and $225 in public defender fees. He was ordered to
make $75 per month toward a
$695 judgment. McLaren received two consecutive sixmonth jail sentences with all but
12 days suspended and credit for
12 days time served and was
placed on two consecutive terms
of six months of probation.
State of Wyoming vs.
Cheyenne Trace Swett, order to
dismiss petition for revocation of
probation and order modifying
probation on an original charge
of second-degree sexual abuse of
a minor. Swett must complete a
supervised probation program.
State of Wyoming vs. Tessa
Rice, order to reimburse the state
for public defender. Rice was order to pay $60 in public defender fees.
State of Wyoming vs. Steven
Leslee Wooldridge, order of revocation of probation. Wooldridge
was found guilty of an original
charge of unlawful manufacture
or delivery of heroin. He received
a five- to eight-year prison sentence with credit for 344 days
time served.
Rock Springs, a Wyoming municipal corporation vs. Great Divide Consulting, Inc., a Wyo. corporation, order of dismissal.
Edgar Rodriguez vs. Justin M.
Silovich, order of dismissal with
prejudice.
Cavalry Portfolio Services,
LLC vs. Robert Anderson, order
of Dismissal.
Weldon Kelley, Becky Kelley,
Kenneth Maynard, Donna Maynard, John Liggett, Megen
Liggett, Michael Berg, Geannie
Berg, Teresa Spillman, William
Spillman, Dwaine Shafe, Deon
Leonard, Brena Lake, Weryln
Randall, Deborah Randall, Ernie
Vigil, Francis Vigil, Ronald Child,
Springview Manor owned by
Federer and Co., LTD., special
partnership converted to Federer and Co., LTD II, limited partnership, by its general partner
Federer Holding Company, LLC.,
Dino Moncecchi, manager and
authorized signator vs. B.R.S.,
INC., a Wyo. corporation, CTL Engineering of West Virginia, Inc.,
a W.Va. corporation, and John
Does 1-12, order of dismissal.
Ronald Henry Koch vs. Sona
D. Koch, also known as Sona D.
Robinson-Pleger, stipulated order for change of custodial parent and modification of divorce
decree.
Aaron Sheldon vs. Pettra A.
Sheldon, default judgment.
Glen Tholson and Dinah Tholson vs. Kayla O’Brien, stipulated
order establishing grandparent
visitation.
Recovery Systems, Inc. vs.
David Frederick Dexter, order of
dismissal.
State of Wyoming vs. David J.
Wever, order suspending child
support.
Janelle M. Heer vs. Jason L.
Heer, income withholding order.
Lena M. Arana, order vacating
hearing and dismissing action.
Amanda M. Inman, order partially suspending child support.
state of Idaho, vs. Thayne E.
Smith, order to modify child
support. Smith was ordered to
pay $638 per month child support.
Terri L. Vannorman and David
A. Vannorman, order suspending child support.
state of Utah, vs. Evan Martinez
Sr., order vacating hearing and
dismissing action.
Sierra D. Slagowski and Carl S.
Hudson, stipulated judgment
and order of civil contempt.
Hudson was ordered to pay $100
per month toward $5,827.39 in
arrears.
Tara R. Moore and Casey B.
Johnson, order vacating hearing
Maribel Juarez and Flavio Ortega, order vacating hearing and
dismissing action.
Kerri L. White vs. Jay Bob
White, income withholding order.
Christopher G. Doan, order regarding petition to establish paternity and support and reimbursement and income withholding order.
Randi M. Merrill and Eric B. Jamali, judgment and order to
modify child support. Jamali was
ordered to pay $50 per month
child support and $50 per month
toward $14,220.70 in arrears.
the commission.
When asked if the districts
makes money for the water it
provides to its customers, Splett
said it charges what it costs the
district, and added it would be
hard to track these type of funds.
West said he disagreed and
does not understand why a slush
fund could not be tracked.
“It seems like you walked away
from a line of profitability,” he
said. “If you had (those funds),
you would not be here.”
Another commission concern
about issuing a line of credit is
the fact the county would be
competing against lending institutions.
Deputy Sweetwater County
Attorney Cliff Boevers said he
had two concerns with the commission lending the money.
He said this would make the
commission a bank, in essence,
and added the biggest concern is
he does not even know if it is legal.
The commission said the
county would research the matter
and Splett would have to come
back with more of a concrete idea
on how the district would pay the
county back.
“It’s not our money,” Johnson
said. “It’s the taxpayers. We will
take it under advisement to see
what we can do.”
PARADE
NO VACANCIES DECLARED
SWEETWATER COUNTY LEGAL NEWS
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Councilman Chad Banks and
Glenn Sugano technically remain
members of the Council after
members did not move to declare
their seats vacant. Ward IV councilman Sugano died on Nov. 2
and Ward II councilman Hanks
resigned on Nov. 5 to take over as
Urban Renewal Agency/Main
Street manager.
Demshar said the City Council
could have declared vacancies at
their meeting even with councilman David Halter absent, but the
entire remaining City Council
must be present to vote to fill the
vacancies. Demshar said the vacancies would be declared at the
Dec. 3 meeting and the council
will likely vote on replacement
candidates at the Dec. 17 meeting.
AUDIT APPROVED
Councilmen approve the audit
conducted by McGee, Hearne
and Paiz, LLP. Robert Dahill explained the audit in detail. The
audit is expected to be made public on Wednesday.
The auditors provided an “unmodified opinion,” Dahill said.
“That’s what you want.”
Councilmen Glennise Wendorf, Billy Shalata, Clark Stith,
David Tate and Rob Zotti voted
to approve the audit.
WEDNESDAY SCHOOL MENUS
RS HIGH SCHOOL
Breakfast: Mini Plain Bagel; Cream
Cheese Cup; Applesauce Cup; Apple
Juice; Milk.
Lunch: Italian Whole Grain Spaghetti
with Meatballs; Bread or Whole Wheat
Soft Shelled Pork Toco with Cheese; Pizza; Fresh Broccoli; Chicken Caesar Salad; Milk; Popeye Salad; Cauliflower
Pieces; Peaches; Grapes.
RS JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL
Breakfast: Mini Plain Bagel Plain;
Cream Cheese Cup; Orange Juice; Milk.
with Meatballs; Whole Wheat Bread;
Fresh Broccoli; Chicken Caesar Salad;
Milk; Popeye Salad; Cauliflower Pieces;
Peaches; Grapes.
RS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
Breakfast: Mini Plain Bagel Plain;
Cream Cheese Cup; Orange Juice; Milk.
with Meatballs; Broccoli; Milk; Popeye
Salad; Cauliflower Pieces; Peaches;
Grapes; Whole Wheat Bread.
FARSON SECONDARY
Cheese Cup; Orange Juice; Milk.
Grapes; Whole Wheat Bread; Peanut
Butter and Jelly with String Cheese.
FARSON ELEMENTARY
Cheese Cup; Orange Juice; Milk.
Grapes; Whole Wheat Bread.
Pouch; Whole Grain Graham Cookie
Pack; Milk.
GREEN RIVER HIGH SCHOOL
Breakfast: Pancake an a Stick; Cereal;
Breakfast Breads; Fruit; Orange Juice;
Juice Box; Milk.
Lunch: Cheese Burger; Ribblet Sandwich; Chicken Tenders; Hot and Spicy
Chicken Sticks; Roll; Seasoned Fries;
Vegetable Boat; Salad with Romaine;
Ranch Dressing; Apples; Salad Specialty; Sliced Peaches; Milk; Turkey and
Gravy; Mashed Potatoes; Rolls; Holiday
Cookie.
GR ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS
Juice Box; Milk.
Lunch: Turkey and Gravy; Mashed Potatoes; Salad with Spring Mix; Ranch
Dressing; Roll; Fruit Cocktail; Holiday
Cookie; Milk.
LINCOLN/MONROE SCHOOL
Juice Box; Milk.
Dressing; Roll; Fruit Cocktail; Holiday
Cookie; Milk; Grab and Go Lunch; Veggie; Boats.
GRANGER
Dressing; Roll; Fruit; Holiday Cookie;
Milk.
MCKINNON
INDEPENDENCE
Dressing; Roll; Fruit; Holiday Cookie;
Milk.
Lunch: Grilled Chicken Caesar Salad;
Grapes; Cauliflower Pieces; Pretzel
Find full menus in the Marquee
WEDNESDAY SENIOR MENUS
GOLDEN HOUR SENIOR
YOUNG AT HEART
Pizza with Onions and Mushrooms; Cottage Cheese with Pineapple; Tomato
Wedges; Haystack Cookie.
Pastie (Cabbage Burger); French Fries;
Peas and Carrots; Peanut Butter Fudge;
Salad; Soup.
Find full menus in the Marquee
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Outdoor digital photography
on display at Fine Arts Center
ROCK SPRINGS — Local
photographers are displaying
their original outdoor digital
photography at the Community
Fine Arts Center through the
end of December 2013.
A display case in the front entrance of the CFAC holds ten
photographs by students in RJ
Pieper’s outdoor digital photography class offered this fall at
Western Wyoming Community
College.
The class was billed as “a
great course for someone looking to take better landscape pictures.”
During a six-week period, the
students covered the photography basics, including how to use
a digital camera, composition,
editing, printing and framing.
Students were required to
bring their own digital camera
with a D-SLR, or digital singlelens reflex such as Canon EOS
Rebel or Nikon D300 being preferred. The D-SLR is the next
step up from the point-andshoot cameras most of us are
familiar with, and has the advantage of using digital memory instead of film along with
larger image sensors, superior
optics, robust manual controls,
faster performance, and the versatility of changeable lenses.
While they can be pricey and
are heavier than their pointand-shoot counterparts, they
are a whole system that can
grow with the photographer for
years to come.
Photographers with work in
the display include Kevin Harper with three gorgeous water
Kevin Harper’s “Columbia River Gorge” sits next to Amanda McClure “Red Leaves” and “Wild Horses” in
the photography display at the Community Fine Arts Center Samuels Resource Room through December
2013.
scenes “Columbia River Gorge,”
“Sheep Creek Canyon Fall
Leaves I” and “Sheep Creek
Canyon Fall Leaves II.”
Shannon Marsing brought
four local scenes each with a
strong fall theme — “Fall in
Sheep Creek” and “Red Leaves”
show rich red and orange leaves
against green foliage and blue
sky. “Vermillion Falls” is a
bright green water scene, while
“Wild Horses” captures four
horses running toward a distant
sunset.
Additionally, instructor RJ
Pieper is showing his works
“Green River at Swinging
Bridge,” “Moss on a Rock” and
“Sheep Creek.” All three of
which show off the beauty of
natural water, in both far and
extreme close up settings.
The public is invited to see
this exhibit as well as the works
of the permanent collection.
The CFAC’s hours are Mondays
through Thursdays, 10 a.m. to 6
p.m., and every Fridays and Saturdays, noon to 5 p.m.
Kids’ hunt offers unique landscape for young hunters
BANNER — Fort Phil Kearny
State Historic Site will host the
fourth annual Kids’ Hunt on Nov.
30 and Dec. 1.
Organizers said the event provides an opportunity for families
wanting to hunt with young people under age 18 to harvest pheasants, practice safe hunting skills
and enjoy the Piney Creek landscape at the historic fort grounds.
Hunters will launch at two times
during each day: in the morning
and in the afternoon. All parties
must include a minimum of one
youth and a maximum of one
adult hunter. Additional adults
are encouraged to accompany the
party but will not be allowed to
hunt. The event is an opportunity for adults to demonstrate good
hunting practices while making
the youth experience a priority.
“The fort grounds are an incredibly unique place to hunt.
The natural beauty of the landscape mixed with the rich history
of the area make the Kids’ Hunt
an exciting opportunity for
hunters of all ages,” Fort Phil
Kearny Superintendent Misty
Stoll said.
The event is part of the
Wyoming State Parks Kids extreme mission, which encourages
youth and families to explore
Wyoming’s cultural and natural
resources.
Hunters wishing to participate
in the Kids’ Hunt are encouraged
to stop by the Fort Phil Kearny
Interpretive Center during visiting hours, noon to 4 p.m.
Wednesday through Sunday to
sign up and receive further direction regarding the event. Space
will be limited on hunts. If visiting the site is not an option,
please call to speak with the superintendent.
If space allows, participants
can sign up on the day of the hunt
but are not guaranteed access.
Those wishing to register on the
Stents may not help treat kidney arteries
DALLAS (AP) — New research raises serious questions
about a very common medical
procedure — placing a stent to
prop open a narrowed kidney
artery. A study found that people treated with these stents
plus various heart drugs fared
no better than people treated
with medicines alone.
“Doctors are doing this procedure in the absence of good clinical evidence” and that should
stop, at least for patients like
those in this study, said Dr.
Robert Harrington. He is a
Stanford University cardiologist
and program chief for the American Heart Association’s scientific conference, where the study
was discussed on Monday.
Stents are tiny mesh scaffolds
pushed into narrowed, hardened
arteries to help keep them open.
They are widely used and
known to help treat clogged
heart arteries, but their value for
some other types of blood vessels is less clear.
Narrowed kidney arteries
plague 1 to 5 percent of people
with high blood pressure, and as
many as 7 percent of all people
over age 65.
The problem can cause high
blood pressure or make it worse,
which raises the risk of heart
attacks, strokes and kidney
failure.
day of the hunt should arrive at 8
a.m. to register for the morning
hunt and 12:30 p.m. for the afternoon hunt. All hunters must have
valid licenses and conservation
stamps. The cost is $2 per adult
for Wyoming residents and $4
per adult for out-of-state hunters.
Hunters under age 18 will hunt
free. The annual Fort Phil Kearny
Kids’ Hunt is made possible by a
partnership with Wyoming Game
and Fish.
The Fort Phil Kearny State
History Site is located at 528
Wagon Box Road in Banner.
Student Honor
Cody Greenwald/Rocket-Miner
ROCK SPRINGS: Western Wyoming Community College student
Cheyenne LeFaivre won the Jess Ottinger Award. He is the Eye to
Eye coordinator at WWCC’s Support, Disability and Counseling Center. He was chosen out of more than 400 college students at the Organizational Institute in Providence, R.I.
Master Gardner Course
offered by UW Extension
ROCK SPRINGS — The
Master Gardener Course is
scheduled for January 2014
through April 2014.
During this informative
class, participants can learn
about gardening; identifying
plants, pests and weeds; plant
problems and solutions; as well
as about lawn care, trees and
other horticultural issues.
There are many advantages
to completing a Master Gardener Class. Not only will participants receive valuable information, but they get materials
on horticulture and gardening,
meet new friends, and develop
associations with skilled individuals who share their inter-
ests.
The class is sponsored by
the University of Wyoming Extension. It will be taught by
master gardeners and experts
from
the
University
of
Wyoming.
The fee for the class covers
the textbook, materials, and
additional literature. It also
covers the master gardener Tshirt that is awarded when the
volunteer hours are completed.
There are partial scholarships available and there is a
$25 discount for senior citizens
over the age of 60.
For more information contact the University of Wyoming
Extension office.
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Who gets grandmother’s treasures?
Series provides tools to get affairs in order
COMMUNITY BULLETIN BOARD
Tiny Tots Pinups
ALL SMILES: Emma Layne
Tervort celebrates her 1st
birthday on Nov. 20, 2013. She
is the daughter of Kimball
and Meghan Tervort of Rock
Springs. Her grandparents are
Mike and Jane Tervort of
Green River Willie and
Lorraine Muniz of Rock
Springs. Her great-grandparents are Eldon Tervort of
Orem, Utah and Rosanna
Muniz and Ren Nelson of
Rock Springs.
CONNIE WILCOX-TIMAR
Rocket-Miner Lifestyles Reporter
ROCK SPRINGS — Do you
know who would get grandmother’s cherry pie plate when she
dies?
Do you know if she had a will
and where she kept it? Who is
her executor? Did she have one
or more powers of attorneys? Do
you know where to find her other critical documents such as
birth certificates, titles, insurance
papers?
The three-part “Grandmother’s Cherry Pie Plate: Putting
Your Affairs in Order” conducted series by Mary Martin address important questions like
these and gave participants tools
and guidelines on how to put
their own affairs in order.
The Young at Heart Recreational Center hosted the series
on Oct. 24, Oct. 31 and Nov. 14 at
the center.
“Forty-six percent of older
adults are ready to get their affairs in order,” said Martin of the
University of Wyoming Extension office in Jackson. “Many
people say that they don’t have
anything worth putting in a will,
but even if you do not think you
have anything, take the time to
write a will or set up a trust and
organize all your important papers. This will save your survivors a lot of heartache during
an already stressful time,” Martin
said. “This is a process that takes
time, and you want to be prepared.”
Around Sweetwater County
Clearview Lanes in Green RivFour win at hand
er for an evening of bowling on
and foot games
Nov. 16.
ROCK SPRINGS — A lone
winner and a three-way tie led
to three winners at the Nov. 15
hand and foot games played at
the Young at Heart Recreational Center.
Linda Unger, Anita Wall and
Chuck Johnson won at table
one, and Darhl Simkin, Gary
Jensen and Sue Riggs placed
second.
At table two, Charlene Grissom won first, Sandra
Wadsworth placed second and
Marcia Buddecke came in
third.
Bauman, Buddecke,
Riggs and Simkin
win at Game Night
WHO GETS MY GOOD STUFF?
“Have the conversation while
you can. Next time you get together, such as Thanksgiving, tell
your family you want them to let
you know what things of yours
they would want to have,” Martin
said.
When bringing up the conversation, Martin said you should
know the issues you want to
bring up. Explain why you want
to talk about this now, rehearse
what you might say, plan to use
“I” statements, choose a time
and make an appointment.
“My mom had this cat pitcher
that one of my sister-in-laws just
mentioned one day that she
thought was cute, so my mom
gave it to her. One of my brothers, who was not this woman’s
husband, was so hurt when he
found out mom gave it to her. As
a boy my mom would pour his
milk every morning from this
pitcher, and it had a strong sentimental value and childhood
memory to him. My mom had no
idea this pitcher meant so much
to him,” Martin said. “Understand that belongings have different meanings for different individuals.”
Ask people about their feelings
and motivation, she said.
“It is a good idea to ask the potential receivers why this item is
special to them and how they
would feel if someone else received that item,” Martin said.
“Do not make assumptions, like
the men in the family will want
the guns or the women in the
family will want the china. Sometimes the women want the guns.”
When deciding who will get
your stuff once you have died,
Martin said there are six primary
items to consider:
• Sensitivity of the issue.
• Your goals.
• What is fair.
• Value difference.
• Distribution.
• Conflicts.
Martin said the definition of
fair can be different from family
to family. Some may choose to
sell everything and divide the
money up in equal dollar
amounts between survivors. In
other cases, such as a family with
a mix of financial fortunes, the
fair thing might be to give the
struggling members more because they need more than others.
“Value does not have the same
meaning for everyone. Some
people look strictly at the dollar
value, while others place more
importance on sentimental value. Neither is right or wrong, but
both need to be considered when
determining who gets your stuff,”
Martin said.
Martin also said gender bias
can play a part. Some may think
the oldest male child should inherit everything.
“Many families have conflicts,
and if one sibling is estranged
and does not have contact with
the rest of the family, should they
receive any of the inheritance?”
Martin asked.
Martin said families go
through changes, and it is impor-
Connie Wilcox-Timar/Rocket-Miner
Mary Martin of the University of Wyoming Extension office in Jackson presented the three-part “Grandmother’s Cherry Pie Plate: Putting Your Affairs in Order” series at the Young at Heart Recreational
Center.
tant to review your will, identify
the executor and make updates
as necessary. For example, you
may need to add someone who
was not born when the will was
drafted or remove someone who
preceded you in death.
IF YOU BECOME AN EXECUTOR
Four of Martin’s family members died within 19 months of
each other, and she is the executor of three of their estates.
“When you choose someone to
be the executor of your will, be
sure they know how much work
it will be for them. Make sure
they know what their job is, and
make sure you choose someone
you trust and that you know will
carry out your wishes,” Martin
said.
If you are named the executor
of an estate, you must file an
oath with the probate court, receive letters testamentary and
possibly be bonded.
Immediate concerns as an executor include:
• Checking for advance health
care directives and organ donations.
• Making funeral arrangements, including acquiring multiple original copies of the death
certificate and securing the deceased person’s home from burglary.
• Notify people and provide
any instructions.
• Keep track of visitors, gifts,
donations and flowers.
• Keep all receipts.
• Arrange to meet with an attorney and accountant.
• Maintain cash reserves.
• Gather significant documents, which include the original
will, birth certificate, Social Security card, checkbooks, stock and
bond certificates, insurance policies, trust agreements, real property deeds and titles, marriage
and divorce certificates, military
papers, certified death certificates and income tax returns.
“It is a good idea to file for a
tax identification number with
the federal government as an executor. You will be asked to provide this number in several instances as executor,” Martin said.
Without a will, she said things
can get complicated.
“In the state of Wyoming, if
you do not have a will, generally
your property will go first to your
spouse, then to your children
and then to your parents,” Martin said. “Sometimes this can
also get messy. For example, if
you don’t like one of your children’s spouses and don’t want
them to wind up with anything
of yours, it really is better if you
have a will.”
All wills must be filed with the
district court, Martin said.
“It is possible to create a will
after someone has dies. However, it goes much smoother if one
is in place before the death,”
Martin said.
Martin said you must also
identify and take custody of and
inventory assets, determine fair
market value of assets, identify
and contact heirs and beneficiaries, notify creditors, pay valid
debts, file income and estate tax
returns and distribute assets appropriately.
“When someone dies, all their
assets freeze, even in joint accounts. So if possible, it is important to keep a separate account
as an executor so you can continue to pay their funeral expenses
and their bills until their assets
are released to you as an executor,” Martin said.
Having a death certificate is
important for executors.
“The funeral director will ask
you how many original copies of
a death certificate you will need.
Get multiple copies. In order for
an executor to have access to
bank accounts, stocks, insurance, you must have an original
copy of the death certificate for
each one of these accounts and
at least one copy for each survivor and benefactor,” Martin
said.
People can take some steps
early to ease transitions after
death.
“You can sign titles as ‘joint title with right of survivor,’ which
will help allow the surviving
spouse access to the joint property,” she said.
As executor, you must also
arrange for guardians of any minor children. You must also decide what to do with pets and
mail, including canceling subscriptions.
ORGANIZE IMPORTANT PAPERS
“Begin with the end in mind,”
Martin said. “Come up with a
strategy and just start.”
She said having essential papers in order will make it easier
for executors and loved ones.
Martin suggests storing important papers in a series of files.
“You want to handle your papers as little as possible once
they have been filed,” Martin
said.
Her suggestion is to keep a file
for your current files, permanent
files, dead storage files and estate files. Current files would in-
clude such items as current receipts and utility bills.
Permanent files include such
things as bank statements, appliance warrantees and other documents that would have value for
a certain period of time.
Dead storage files would include such items as tax returns.
Estate files include birth certificates, Social Security cards, marriage licenses, divorce settlements, deeds and titles, diplomas and degrees.
“Some of your documents
need to be kept indefinitely, such
as birth certificates, Social Security cards, diplomas and degrees,
as well as deeds and titles until
the property is sold,” Martin said.
“Other things like tax returns
can be destroyed in seven to 10
years.”
Martin also suggests making
copies of all credit cards, identifications, medical cards that are
in a purse or wallet. Copy both
sides of these documents and
put them in a secure place, such
as a safety deposit box at a bank.
“A lot of these items in your
purse or wallet could contain
your Social Security number. Do
not keep these in your wallet. If
you know you are going to a doctor, then take your card, and you
should never keep your Social
Security card in your wallet.
Keep it with your permanent
documents,” Martin said.
If available, people should also
keep electronic copies.
“If you keep files electronically, it is a good idea to keep a copy
on a flash drive and keep it in a
safe location, such as a safety deposit box,” Martin said.
She said keeping updated information are important.
“Each year you should review
your files and purge and destroy
documents that are no longer
needed from your current, permanent and dead files,” Martin
said.
Martin suggests keeping original copies of all estate files in a
separate secure location and let
executors know where they can
find these documents. People
can also keep a list of current
passwords with secured documents so executors can have access to necessary accounts.
For more information, contact
Martin at [email protected].
ROCK SPRINGS — An individual domino winner and
three-member hand a foot
team topped the activities at
the Nov. 14 Game Night at the
Young at Heart Recreational
Center.
Daryl Simkin, Marcia Buddecke and Sue Riggs won first
in the hand and foot games.
Chuck Johnson, Charlene
Grissom
and
Sandra
Wadsworth placed second.
In the Mexican train dominoes competition, Joyce Bauman took first place, Bob McCaskill earned second and Duane Bauman came in third.
Christian group
going bowling on
Saturday, Nov. 16
Christian Adventurers of
Southwestern
Wyoming
group will meet at the
The group will gather at 6
p.m. Saturday. Organizers said
those interested are encouraged to bring friends with
them.
Last month’s hayride involved approximately 60 people with good weather and a
great view of the stars. Future
plans include fire pit dinner
along with a number of other
opportunities to mingle with
new friends. For more information, contact Jan Scott.
Diabetes Chapter
meets Nov. 20
Sweetwater County Diabetes
Chapter will host its September meeting at 6 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 20, at White Mountain Library in the Grace Gasson Room.
The meeting is taking place
one hour earlier to better accommodate participants.
The meeting will feature a
discussion on “Ways to Enjoy
the Holidays with Diabetes.”
Too often, people with diabetes wonder how they can enjoy all the holiday treats and
still take care of their diabetes.
Come and see how favorite
holiday foods and drinks fit
into your life. Holidays are a
time to enjoy, and with some
simple adjustments you can
have your cake and eat it too.
There will be information
and recipes available for participants to take home.
The chapter invites everyone with diabetes and family
members to attend the meeting. Bring a friend. Free
blood glucose testing will be
available at the meeting.
Vatican unveils new frescoes
ROME (AP) — The Vatican
on Tuesday unveiled newly restored frescoes in the Catacombs of Priscilla, known for
housing the earliest known image of the Madonna with Child
— and frescoes said by some to
show women priests in the early Christian church. Cardinal
Gianfranco Ravasi, the Vatican’s culture minister, presided
over the opening of the “Cubicle of Lazzaro,” a tiny burial
chamber featuring 4th century
images of biblical scenes, the
Apostles Peter and Paul, and
one of the early Romans buried
there in bunk-bed-like stacks as
was common in antiquity.
The labyrinthine cemetery
complex stretching for miles
underneath northern Rome is
known as the “Queen of the
catacombs” because it features
burial chambers of popes and a
tiny, delicate fresco of the
Madonna nursing Jesus dating
from around 230-240 A.D., the
earliest known image of the
Madonna and Child.
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Mustangs take down SLCC to improve to 6-0
Five players score in
double figures to hand
Lady Bruins first loss
ROBERT MORGAN
Rocket-Miner Sports Reporter
ROCK SPRINGS — Western
Wyoming Community College
women’s basketball coach Ken
Swartz knew his team had to play
its best basketball of the early
season Monday to have a chance
against Salt Lake Community
College.
Both teams entered the nonconference game with undefeated records after posting lopsided
decisions through three weeks of
the season. The Lady Mustangs
proved to be one step ahead at
this point of the season and never tailed after the first three minutes of the game in a 69-63
home-opening winning in Rushmore Gymnasium.
“That was a phenomenal performance by our kids. Very gusty,
you can say,” Swartz said. “For a
game that big against such a
good team, and the kids responded well. We got them in almost
every statistical category.”
The victory allowed WWCC to
remain perfect on the year at 6-0.
SLCC slipped up for the first
time and is now 6-1 overall.
The lead traded sides three
times in the opening minutes of
the contest. SLCC had a slim upper hand thanks to the shooting
of Mercedes Riggs and Cassidy
Fraughton that gave the team its
biggest lead at 9-5.
The advantage evaporated in
less than 60 seconds. Sophomore
Shyanne Halalilo buried a threepointer and sophomore Tiffany
Trimble hit a bucket to ignite a
short run that gave WWCC a 129 lead.
The Lady Bruins snapped the
run with a turnover and a blocked
shot. They also used a threepointer to even the score at 12-12
with 13:08 left in the half.
The Lady Mustangs had a
quick answer. Whitni Syrett sank
a pair of free throws, and Mitchell
nailed a three-pointer to give the
hosts the lead for good at 17-12.
The teams traded basketballs
through the middle of the opening frame, when WWCC clung to
its lead. Riggs, who played in all
40 minutes of the game, contin-
Robert Morgan/Rocket-Miner
Sophomore Whitney Mitchell pulls up for a 10-foot jumper Monday
night when Western Wyoming Community College hosted Salt Lake
Community College in the home opener.
ued to lead SLCC, while the Lady
Mustangs kept the pressure on
with their rotation.
Sophomore Emily Moore, who
has been out with an injury, came
off the bench to make an immediate impression. She nailed her
first bucket with 9:36 on the clock
to keep it a four-point lead.
The Lady Bruins watched
WWCC missed four-straight
shots to get a chance at closing
the gap. Bella Swan then scored
from 5 feet away to trim the lead
to 22-20 with 5:46 left in the half.
The Lady Mustang defense
owned the final five minutes of
the half as they scored 10 of the
final 13 points. Moore hit a layup,
sophomore
Erica
Shenton
swished a jumper and Mitchell
drove the length of the floor and
drilled a jump shot as time expired to give WWCC a 32-25 halftime lead.
The Lady Bruins trailed by seven points at the halftime break
and by as many as 16 points in
the second half. They rallied late
to close the gap to two points
with under two minutes remaining in the contest but could not
get by the stellar free-throw
shooting of WWCC.
It was all Lady Mustangs early
in the second half, where they
scored the first nine points and
forced an immediate timeout.
Mitchell kicked things off with
her second three-pointer of the
night, Syrett scored inside the
paint and Halalilo scored on
back-to-back possessions to build
the biggest lead of the night at 16
points, 41-25.
The break in the action helped
slow the WWCC offense. SLCC
ended the scoring assault when
Swan sank her second basket,
which eventually helped trim the
lead back to nine.
WWCC lost the rebound battle
and finished with 20 fewer, but
the defensive output allowed the
team to stay in front the rest of
the way. A pair of steals by Webb
and Moore led to a three-pointer
by Webb and another basket via
Moore to push the lead back to 16
points at 49-33 with 9:11 left to
play.
The Lady Bruins tightened
things defensively and slowly
chipped away at the deficit. Baskets from Tanesha Daniels and
Natalie Parsons made it a ninepoint game once again at 55-46.
The visitors eventually made it
a two-point game. However,
WWCC relied on its veterans and
Syrett and Halailo responded to
Broncos place
Moore on IR; sign
veteran Huff
SCORES
NBA
All Times EST
Monday’s games
Portland 108, Brooklyn 98
Chicago 86, Charlotte 81
Oklahoma City 115, Denver 113
Dallas 97, Philadelphia 94
Golden State 98, Utah 87
Memphis 106, L.A. Clippers 102
MEN’S COLLEGE BASKETBALL
Tuesday’s game
Western Wyoming Community
College 107, Planet Athlete
Academy 72
Western Wyoming Community College sophomore Shyanne Halalilo beats her defender and drives up
the baseline for two of her 14 points against Salt Lake Community College.
push the lead back to seven
points with three minutes to go.
“I never panicked,” Swartz said.
I never doubted once would take
care of.”
Despite picking up a pair of
stops in the late stages of the
game, SLCC could not find the
tying score, and WWCC held on
for the victory with clutch free
throw shooting down the stretch.
“Dannika hit some big, big free
throws for us at the end,” Swartz
said.
SLCC outrebounded the Mustangs 59-34, including 30 offensive rebounds. The biggest difference came when WWCC had five
players score in double figures.
Webb led the way with 18
points, four more than Halalilo
with 14. Mitchell finished with 11,
and Syrett and Moore added 10
each. Halailo also finished with
four steals, one more than Webb
with three. Riggs led SLCC with
17 points to go with five assists
and four steals.
“We did a fantastic job on slowing down their best two players,
who made just 7 of 27 shots,”
Swartz said. “The defense was
awesome all night.”
Free throws make a difference in
Cowboys’ win over Jackson State
SPORTS BRIEF
ENGLEWOOD,
Colo.
(AP) — The Broncos placed
safety Rahim Moore on recallable injured reserve
Tuesday and signed veteran
Michael Huff to take his
place.
Moore underwent emergency surgery to stop bleeding in a muscle in his left leg
Monday. By placing him on
recallable IR, the Broncos
can bring Moore back to
practice in six weeks and
onto the active roster if
they’re playing in eight
weeks, which would be the
week of the AFC title game
in January.
Broncos executive vice
president of football operations John Elway said, “obviously it hurts to lose Rahim,
he’d been playing so well.”
Huff was the seventh pick
of the 2006 draft by the
Raiders. He signed as a free
agent with Baltimore last
offseason but played sparingly in seven games this
year before the Ravens released him.
Robert Morgan/Rocket-Miner
Blaine McCartney/WyoSports
University of Wyoming's Josh Adams is fouled by Jackson State's Treshawn Bolden in the first half Monday evening at Arena-Auditorium in Laramie. Wyoming defeated Jackson State 75-63.
LARAMIE — Four Cowboys
scored in double figures and the
University of Wyoming men’s
basketball team connected on its
last 11 free-throw attempts to
earn a 73-65 win over Jackson
State on Monday night in the
Arena-Auditorium.
The Pokes (3-1) led wire-towire and connected on clutch
free throws in the final six minutes to claim their 100th nonconference victory in the building
during the Mountain West Conference era.
“Free throws are going to be
big, as everyone is noticing in the
country,” UW head coach Larry
Shyatt said. “I am proud of our
guys for making their last 11
straight. Had we faltered there —
anything could have happened. I
was really proud of our guys for
how they continued to attack the
paint. We continued to drive to
the basket and knocked in those
free throws when we needed to.”
Wyoming led 35-24 at halftime
and stretched the advantage to
as high as 16 points midway
through the second half before
the Tigers fought back to 61-56
with about six minutes left. That
would be as close as JSU could
come, as UW fought to the rim
and earned trips to the freethrow line. The Cowboys made
their final 11 free-throw attempts
to finish the game with 31-of-44
shooting, or 70 percent, at the
charity stripe.
“I thought our management of
the clock would be better in our
zone defense,” Shyatt said. “We
were fouling too much in the
man-to-man, and we had nobody
to stop (Julysses) Nobles. When
I was at Florida, Nobles started
for Arkansas in back-to-back
years as a freshman and a sophomore. He’s a load. He’s going to
have a great season for them,
and we had to go zone to keep
him out of the lane.”
Junior guard Riley Grabau
reached double figures for the
third time this season with a
team-high 16 points. Junior forwards Larry Nance Jr. added 15
points and two blocks and Derek
Cooke Jr. had a great night on the
defensive end, as he hauled in 10
rebounds for the second-straight
game. He also added a career-
high three blocks.
Senior guard Nathan Sobey
and sophomore guard Josh
Adams added 11 points each to
help four Pokes score in double
figures for the second time this
season.
Wyoming shot more than 50
percent from the field for the second-consecutive game with 52
percent, or 19 of 36, while adding
33 percent, or 4 of 12, from deep.
UW made 31 free throws, the
most since the team recorded 41
against Denver on Nov. 25, 2009.
The Cowboys outrebounded the
Tigers 34-26 and posted 10 assists to reach double figures for
the third time this season.
The Tigers hung with the
Cowboys through the first five
minutes when Wyoming held a
slim 14-13 lead at the 13-minute
mark. Grabau sparked a 14-0 UW
run with a trey, and the Pokes jetted out to a 28-13 advantage over
the next four minutes. Cooke and
Nance added dunks during the
spurt.
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NHL STANDINGS
The Associated Press
EASTERN CONFERENCE
Atlantic Division
GP W
Boston
21 14
Tampa Bay
20 14
Toronto
21 13
Detroit
22 9
Montreal
22 11
Ottawa
21 8
Florida
21 5
Buffalo
23 5
L
6
6
7
6
9
9
12
17
OT
1
0
1
7
2
4
4
1
Pts
29
28
27
25
24
20
14
11
GF
59
64
62
54
58
60
46
42
GA
38
50
49
62
47
67
70
72
Home
8-3-1
8-2-0
8-2-0
3-3-6
6-5-2
4-5-2
3-4-3
2-9-1
Away
6-3-0
6-4-0
5-5-1
6-3-1
5-4-0
4-4-2
2-8-1
3-8-0
Div
8-2-0
6-3-0
3-2-0
2-2-1
0-2-1
5-0-1
0-5-1
2-5-1
Metropolitan Division
GP W
Pittsburgh
21 13
Washington 21 12
N.Y. Rangers 21 10
Carolina
21 8
New Jersey
20 7
N.Y. Islanders 22 8
Philadelphia 20 8
Columbus
20 7
L
8
8
11
9
8
11
10
10
OT
0
1
0
4
5
3
2
3
Pts
26
25
20
20
19
19
18
17
GF
59
69
43
40
42
63
40
52
GA
48
59
52
59
49
73
50
57
Home
9-3-0
8-3-0
4-5-0
5-4-4
4-2-2
5-4-3
4-7-0
4-6-1
Away
4-5-0
4-5-1
6-6-0
3-5-0
3-6-3
3-7-0
4-3-2
3-4-2
Div
6-4-0
4-2-0
5-3-0
5-3-0
4-3-1
2-6-1
4-4-1
3-4-1
WESTERN CONFERENCE
Central Division
GP W
Chicago
21 14
St. Louis
20 14
Minnesota
22 13
Colorado
19 14
Dallas
20 11
Winnipeg
23 10
Nashville
21 10
L
3
3
5
5
7
10
9
OT
4
3
4
0
2
3
2
Pts
32
31
30
28
24
23
22
GF
78
70
57
59
58
61
48
GA
61
47
50
41
56
66
63
Home
9-1-3
9-1-2
10-1-2
8-3-0
3-2-2
7-5-2
5-2-1
Away
5-2-1
5-2-1
3-4-2
6-2-0
8-5-0
3-5-1
5-7-1
Div
4-3-1
6-0-1
5-2-0
4-2-0
1-3-2
3-8-1
5-5-0
Pacific Division
GP
Anaheim
23
San Jose
21
Phoenix
21
Los Angeles 21
Vancouver
22
Calgary
21
Edmonton
22
L
6
3
4
6
8
11
15
OT
2
5
3
1
3
3
2
Pts
32
31
31
29
25
17
12
GF
72
72
73
58
56
59
53
GA
59
50
66
46
58
79
83
Home
8-0-0
5-1-2
9-0-1
7-3-0
4-4-1
3-4-2
1-7-0
Away
7-6-2
8-2-3
5-4-2
7-3-1
7-4-2
4-7-1
4-8-2
Div
4-0-0
7-1-2
5-3-1
4-2-0
3-4-2
1-4-2
1-3-1
W
15
13
14
14
11
7
5
NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss.
NHL SCHEDULE
All Times EST
Monday’s games
Calgary 5, Winnipeg 4, SO
Boston 4, Carolina 1
Pittsburgh 3, Anaheim 1
Wednesday’s games
Minnesota at Ottawa, 7:30 p.m.
Pittsburgh at Washington, 8 p.m.
Columbus at Calgary, 10 p.m.
New Jersey at Anaheim, 10 p.m.
Tuesday’s games
St. Louis 4, Buffalo 1
Toronto 5, N.Y. Islanders 2
Philadelphia 5, Ottawa 2
Montreal 6, Minnesota 2
Nashville 2, Detroit 0
Boston 2, N.Y. Rangers 1
Chicago at Colorado, 9 p.m.
Columbus at Edmonton, 9:30 p.m.
Florida at Vancouver, 10 p.m.
Tampa Bay at Los Angeles, 10:30 p.m.
Thursday’s games
St. Louis at Boston, 7 p.m.
Nashville at Toronto, 7 p.m.
Buffalo at Philadelphia, 7 p.m.
Carolina at Detroit, 7:30 p.m.
Chicago at Winnipeg, 8 p.m.
N.Y. Rangers at Dallas, 8:30 p.m.
Colorado at Phoenix, 9 p.m.
Florida at Edmonton, 9:30 p.m.
New Jersey at Los Angeles, 10:30 p.m.
Tampa Bay at San Jose, 10:30 p.m.
NFL STANDINGS
The Associated Press
AMERICAN CONFERENCE
East
W L T
New England
7 3 0
N.Y. Jets
5 5 0
Miami
5 5 0
Buffalo
4 7 0
Pct
.700
.500
.500
.364
PF
254
183
213
236
PA
199
268
225
273
Home
5-0-0
4-1-0
3-2-0
3-3-0
Away
2-3-0
1-4-0
2-3-0
1-4-0
AFC
4-2-0
2-5-0
4-3-0
3-6-0
NFC
3-1-0
3-0-0
1-2-0
1-1-0
Div
3-1-0
2-2-0
0-2-0
2-2-0
South
W
7
4
2
1
L
3
6
8
9
T
0
0
0
0
Pct
.700
.400
.200
.100
PF
252
227
193
129
PA
220
226
276
318
Home
3-2-0
2-4-0
1-4-0
0-5-0
Away
4-1-0
2-2-0
1-4-0
1-4-0
AFC
5-2-0
3-4-0
2-4-0
1-5-0
NFC
2-1-0
1-2-0
0-4-0
0-4-0
Div
3-0-0
0-3-0
1-1-0
1-1-0
W
7
4
4
4
L
4
6
6
6
T
0
0
0
0
Pct
.636
.400
.400
.400
PF
275
216
208
192
PA
206
245
212
238
Home
5-0-0
3-2-0
3-1-0
3-2-0
Away
2-4-0
1-4-0
1-5-0
1-4-0
AFC
5-3-0
3-4-0
4-4-0
3-4-0
NFC
2-1-0
1-2-0
0-2-0
1-2-0
Div
2-2-0
1-1-0
2-2-0
2-2-0
W
9
9
4
4
L
1
1
6
6
T
0
0
0
0
Pct
.900
.900
.400
.400
PF
398
232
194
228
PA
255
138
246
222
Home
6-0-0
5-0-0
3-2-0
2-2-0
Away
3-1-0
4-1-0
1-4-0
2-4-0
AFC
5-1-0
6-1-0
4-3-0
2-5-0
NFC
4-0-0
3-0-0
0-3-0
2-1-0
Div
3-0-0
1-1-0
1-2-0
0-2-0
NATIONAL CONFERENCE
East
W L T
Philadelphia
6 5 0
Dallas
5 5 0
N.Y. Giants
4 6 0
Washington
3 7 0
Pct
.545
.500
.400
.300
PF
276
274
192
246
PA
260
258
256
311
Home
1-4-0
4-1-0
3-2-0
2-2-0
Away
5-1-0
1-4-0
1-4-0
1-5-0
NFC
5-2-0
5-2-0
3-4-0
1-6-0
AFC
1-3-0
0-3-0
1-2-0
2-1-0
Div
3-2-0
3-0-0
1-2-0
0-3-0
Indianapolis
Tennessee
Houston
Jacksonville
North
Cincinnati
Pittsburgh
Baltimore
Cleveland
West
Denver
Kansas City
Oakland
San Diego
South
New Orleans
Carolina
Tampa Bay
Atlanta
W
8
7
2
2
L
2
3
8
8
T
0
0
0
0
Pct
.800
.700
.200
.200
PF
288
238
187
214
PA
183
135
237
292
Home
6-0-0
4-1-0
2-4-0
2-3-0
Away
2-2-0
3-2-0
0-4-0
0-5-0
NFC
6-0-0
6-2-0
1-6-0
2-5-0
AFC
2-2-0
1-1-0
1-2-0
0-3-0
Div
2-0-0
2-0-0
1-3-0
1-3-0
W
6
6
5
2
L
4
4
5
8
T
0
0
0
0
Pct
.600
.600
.500
.200
PF
265
282
258
240
PA
253
267
239
320
Home
3-1-0
4-2-0
3-2-0
2-3-0
Away
3-3-0
2-2-0
2-3-0
0-5-0
NFC
5-2-0
3-4-0
3-4-0
1-7-0
AFC
1-2-0
3-0-0
2-1-0
1-1-0
Div
3-1-0
2-2-0
2-1-0
0-3-0
W
10
6
6
4
L
1
4
4
6
T
0
0
0
0
Pct
.909
.600
.600
.400
PF
306
247
214
224
PA
179
178
212
234
Home
5-0-0
3-2-0
4-1-0
2-3-0
Away
5-1-0
3-2-0
2-3-0
2-3-0
NFC
7-0-0
3-3-0
4-4-0
1-5-0
AFC
3-1-0
3-1-0
2-0-0
3-1-0
Div
3-0-0
2-1-0
0-3-0
1-2-0
North
Detroit
Chicago
Green Bay
Minnesota
West
Seattle
San Francisco
Arizona
St. Louis
NFL SCHEDULE
All Times EST
Thursday’s game
Indianapolis 30, Tennessee 27
Sunday’s games
Chicago 23, Baltimore 20, OT
Oakland 28, Houston 23
Buffalo 37, N.Y. Jets 14
Tampa Bay 41, Atlanta 28
Pittsburgh 37, Detroit 27
Philadelphia 24, Washington 16
Cincinnati 41, Cleveland 20
Arizona 27, Jacksonville 14
Miami 20, San Diego 16
Seattle 41, Minnesota 20
New Orleans 23, San Francisco 20
N.Y. Giants 27, Green Bay 13
Denver 27, Kansas City 17
Open: Dallas, St. Louis
Monday’s game
Carolina 24, New England 20
Thursday, Nov. 21
New Orleans at Atlanta, 8:25 p.m.
Sunday, Nov. 24
Minnesota at Green Bay, 1 p.m.
Jacksonville at Houston, 1 p.m.
San Diego at Kansas City, 1 p.m.
Chicago at St. Louis, 1 p.m.
Pittsburgh at Cleveland, 1 p.m.
Tampa Bay at Detroit, 1 p.m.
N.Y. Jets at Baltimore, 1 p.m.
Carolina at Miami, 1 p.m.
Tennessee at Oakland, 4:05 p.m.
Indianapolis at Arizona, 4:05 p.m.
Dallas at N.Y. Giants, 4:25 p.m.
Denver at New England, 8:30 p.m.
Open: Buffalo, Cincinnati, Philadelphia, Seattle
Monday, Nov. 25
San Francisco at Washington, 8:40
p.m.
Elway: Facing another great
turns up the pressure
ENGLEWOOD, Colo. (AP)
— Due to the quirks of the NFL
schedule, John Elway only faced
Dan Marino twice over 16 seasons. On those rare occasions,
or anytime the Broncos quarterback was facing a Joe Montana
or Jim Kelly, he knew he had to
bring his game up a notch.
“I think the main reason to
get amped is because of the fact
that you know you have to play
well because the quarterback on
the other side is a real good
player,” Elway said Tuesday.
It’s the sort of perspective the
ex-quarterback feels free to offer
now that he’s part of Denver’s
management, not preparing for
another big game the way Peyton Manning and Tom Brady
are this week.
The two premier quarterbacks of their era square off for
the 14th time Sunday when
Denver travels to New England.
7
Football season wrapping up in
the Mountain West conference
Mountain West beat writers
Kapri Bibbs hasn’t just run all over the football field the past two weeks. The Colorado
State running back “has put us on the map,”
coach Jim McElwain said Monday.
Although Bibbs, as a first-year player in the
program, isn’t available to the media, the numbers he has put up the past two weeks have attracted national attention. He ran for a schoolrecord 312 yards in a Nov. 9 win over Nevada
and followed that up with a school-record six
touchdowns Saturday night in a 66-42 win at
New Mexico. In the past two games, the 5-foot11, 203-pound sophomore has run for 603
yards and 10 touchdowns on 68 carries.
He leads the NCAA’s top division, the Football Bowl Subdivision, in touchdowns (25) and
points (150) and is No. 2 in rushing with 1,439
yards, trailing only the 1,801 yards of Boston
College’s Andre Williams.
He was the Walter Camp Foundation national player of the week and won an ESPN
Helmet Sticker. He was selected one of four
nominees for the Capital One Impact Performance of the Week on Saturday night and
Monday was named the Mountain West Conference’s offensive player of the week for the
second week in a row.
People across the country are talking about
the Colorado State running back, even if they
can’t talk directly to him.
Bibbs already has set single-season CSU
records for touchdowns and points and moved
up to No. 5 on the career list for rushing touchdowns in a season with 25 this year, one more
than Gartrell Johnson, Damon Washington
and Oscar Reed had in their entire careers and
just one shy of the career totals of Bradlee Van
Pelt and Kevin McDougal. Only Steve Bartalo,
with 46, and Cecil Sapp, with 29, have scored
more.
Carrier, a preseason All-Mountain West
Conference selection, finishes his senior season with 1,122 yards rushing and 3,233 for his
career, good for fifth on New Mexico’s all-time
list.
AROUND THE MW
A DROP IN THE BCS
Fresno State dropped one spot to No.15 in
the BCS standings after its bye week, which
did not sit too well with receiver Davante
Adams.
“I don’t want to make bold statements that’d
be seen as disrespect to other teams, but we
feel we could compete and beat anybody,” he
said. “We know we have guys that can match
up with those guys (from big-name schools).”
Adams, who on Monday was selected as a
semifinalist for the Biletnikoff Award, said his
frustration has been building.
• Boise State coach Chris Petersen said that
junior Grant Hedrick will start Saturday at San
Diego State, even though senior starter Joe
Southwick returned to practice this week. Petersen did say Southwick will play in some role
against the Aztecs. Southwick has been out
with a broken ankle since Oct. 19.
• Saturday will be Hawaii’s third cold-weather game this month. They played at Utah State
on Nov. 2 and at Navy on Nov. 9.
• Nevada senior offensive tackle Joel Bitonio
has been selected to play in the Reese’s Senior
Bowl, Jan. 25 in Mobile, Ala.
CARRIER’S COLLEGE CAREER OVER
ANOTHER TROPHY GAME
Kasey Carrier’s college football career is
over. Cole Gautsche’s is on hold.
New Mexico coach Bob Davie said
Gautsche, a sophomore quarterback, and Carrier, a senior running back, will not play in the
Lobos’ final two games this season. Both exhibited concussion symptoms after absorbing
blows to the head during UNM’s 66-42 loss to
Colorado State last Saturday.
Gautsche’s latest injury raises red flags. He
missed a game last year with concussion
symptoms and sat out this year’s game at
UTEP after a similar incident in the season
opener against UTSA.
The Cowboys and Rainbow Warriors will
play for the first time since 1997 and compete
for the traveling trophy that has been a part of
the series since 1979.
The traveling trophy was named the Paniolo Trophy. Paniolo is the Hawaiian word for
“cowboy.” For the next 19 years, from 1979 to
1997, the two teams competed for the Paniolo Trophy. Wyoming leads the overall series 128, including Hawaii’s win in the inaugural 1978
game.
After Wyoming’s 35-6 win in the 1997 meeting in Honolulu, the series between the two
schools ended.
Vonn crashes while prepping for return to racing
DENVER (AP) — Reigning
Olympic downhill champion Lindsey Vonn crashed Tuesday while
training in Copper Mountain, Colo.,
ahead of her planned return to racing following major knee surgery.
U.S. Ski Team spokesman Tom
Kelly said Vonn was taken down the
hill on a sled, which he noted was
“normal protocol” in such cases.
U.S. soccer ends
record-setting
year at Austria
VIENNA (AP) — Geoff
Cameron’s header off Michael
Bradley’s corner kick deflected off
an arm of Marko Arnautovic and
appeared to cross the goal line in
the 17th minute before it was swatted away by goalkeeper Robert
Almer.
Hungarian referee Istan Vad
and his linesman failed to rule it a
goal, and the United States ended
a record-setting year with a 1-0 exhibition loss to Austria on Tuesday
night.
“It’s a friendly game, so I’m not
wanting to make a big deal out of
it. But I’m still asking why we are
in 2013 and not have goal-line
technology,” U.S coach Jurgen
Klinsmann said. “It’s just a joke.”
Marc Janko scored Austria’s
goal in the 33rd minute after lax
defensive marking.
“Disappointed in the result, but
I think we played pretty well,” goalkeeper Tim Howard said before
adding: “The year 2013 has been
one of our best years ever.”
The U.S., which tied 0-0 at Scotland on Friday, qualified for its seventh-straight World Cup and finished 2013 with team records for
wins (16), winning percentage
(.761), goal difference (plus 28)
and scoring average (2.14). The
Americans started the year with a
0-0 exhibition draw against Canada, then wasted a lead in the opener in the final round of qualifying
and lost 2-1 at Honduras.
“It’s been a fun ride, and it’s
been amazing to be a part of
watching this team grow from the
loss to Honduras to how we
picked ourselves up,” forward Jozy
Altidore said. “It’s been inspiring.”
Geoff Cameron shifted from
center back to the right — his position with Stoke — because Brad
Evans had a groin issue and
Michael Orozco wasn’t feeling
well.
Defender Anthony Brooks and
forward Aron Johannsson — making their second U.S. starts — were
inserted into the starting lineup
with midfielder Brek Shea. Evans,
midfielder Sacha Kljestan and forward Eddie Johnson came out.
Janko’s 16th international goal
developed when David Alaba
played the ball wide to Gyorgy
Garics, who got away from left
back DaMarcus Beasley. Garics
crossed and Martin Harnik
touched the ball to Janko, who was
open between central defenders
Omar Gonzalez and Brooks. Janko
kicked the ball over Howard with a
right-footed shot from 6 yards,
ending a 453-minute shutout
streak in international and club
play for the goalkeeper, who is
Everton’s starter.
Kelly said he was not sure whether
Vonn hurt her surgically repaired
right knee in the fall at the team’s
speed training center.
“We have no reason to believe it’s
anything significant right now,” Kelly told The Associated Press in a
telephone interview.
A spokesman for Vonn, Lewis
Kay, issued a statement saying the
ski racer was not admitted to a hospital and instead went home to Vail
to be evaluated by the doctor who
performed her knee surgery. Kay
didn’t specify the nature of her injuries.
“We expect to have clarity on the
situation in the next 24 hours,” Kay
said.
Vonn, a four-time overall World
Cup champion, tore ligaments in
her right knee in a high-speed accident at the world championships in
February. She has been aiming to
return to World Cup competition
next week in Beaver Creek, Colo.
The Sochi Games are in February.
Tuesday’s crash was first reported by Skiracing.com.
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JAN FRADY PAINTING
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371-9623 for estimates.
CARPET CLEANING
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Cleaning, Hot Water Extraction. Senior, Veteran,
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307-362-3458.
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389-1496.
CHIMNEY SWEEPS, wood
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and install. Ashes To
Ashes, 389-1496.
KITCHEN AND bathroom remodels, basement finishes.
All types of construction
projects. Contact Seth with
ASB Construction, (307)
349-1119.
ROOFING AND Seamless
Gutters. Licensed and insured. Seth, (307) 349-1119.
HANDYMAN/CONTRACTOR.
Dry wall, interior/exterior,
plastering, texturing, painting, tile repair, plumbing,
total bath remodel. 20
years experience, licensed
and insured. Call Randy,
307-871-3633.
TREE SERVICE available for
fall trims and removals.
Senior discounts. Call today! (307) 371-4412, (307)
253-0204.
SPEED BUMP
BY DAVE COVERLY
Z CONCRETE, licensed and
insured. Replace old window wells, old windows,
small projects. Gilbert,
(307) 212-2674.
THERESA’S CHILDCARE located in Green River has
limited full-time openings
Monday - Friday for day
shift only. Licensed with
the state. Hurry and reserve your child’s spot today. Call anytime, (307)
870-2023.
EXPERIENCED
SERVERS.
Must have flexible schedule and be able to serve alcohol. Apply in person at
The Renegade Cafe, 1610
Elk Street, Rock Springs. No
phone calls please.
KELLY’S
CONVENIENCE
Center is looking for experienced Clerks. You must
be 21, honest, dependable
and drug free. Apply in person at 1652 9th Street, 1900
Yellowstone Road or 1645
Sunset Drive.
JUSTICE TRUCKING, Inc.
Now hiring Drivers and full
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CDL plus clean MVR. Pre
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Please apply at: 280 Foothill Blvd., Rock Springs, WY.
(307) 362-7985.
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68.
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362-8594.
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Joel at 307-922-2907; e-mail
[email protected]
or in person at 80 Reliance
Road in Rock Springs. Rate
of pay depends on experience. Great benefits package.
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TWO AND three bedrooms
located in Green River, all
with onsite storage unit,
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prime commercial office
space, warehouse in rear,
12 ft. overhead door, located in Postal Square. Call
Sam, 801-860-4944.
FOR LEASE, 30x60 ft. shop
with adjacent office space.
14 ft. tall overhead doors.
Call 307-382-6645 for additional information.
COMPLETELY RENOVATED,
three office/retail spaces,
downtown Rock Springs,
850 sq. ft., $1000/month,
700 sq. ft., $850/month, 710
sq. ft. corner unit, $950/month. 307-362-0213.
FOR LEASE: Good location,
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garage doors, large fenced
rear yard and main street
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350-8973.
NEW CUSTOM home in
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307-362-4111.
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10th St. Call or text,
389-0776 or 389-0947.
LOTS FOR sale, ideal professional and business
sites, possible build to suit
with lease. 307-389-0787.
ROCK SPRINGS Salon and
Spa, all equipment, $20,000,
call 307-382-2074.
2000 F-350 dually 4x4, diesel, automatic, new tires
and batteries, $12,500,
389-7965.
2000 CHEVY 1/2 ton, Silverado, extended cab, 4x4,
minimum bid $6000. Call
Kathy at RSNB Bank,
352-0411.
FORD F150 4x4, 98,000 miles
$5400 or best offer. See at
212 Van Buren, 350-0022.
BIG BUBBA 18 ft. flatbed
trailer with ramps, toolbox,
log chains, boomers included. 389-7965.
2003 ALUMACRAFT 19 ft.
fishing boat, fully loaded,
$13,000, 871-1187.
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STORAGE AND shop units,
Green River. 12x24 and
48x48 overhead doors.
(307) 875-2848.
***NEW LUXURY CONDO***
***FREE RENT***
Three bedroom, two bath.
Tile, granite counter tops,
air conditioning, garages.
Must see! First, last, plus
deposit. One year lease.
New, behind Smith’s, Green
River. (801) 368-8660.
TWO AND three bedroom
apartments. 307-389-0307.
IMMEDIATE FULL Time
Opening - Front Office Secretary needed for Real Estate/Property Management
Company. Some experience preferred, courteous,
accurate, and responsible.
Will train the right person.
Please send resume to PO
Box 489, Rock Springs, WY
82902 or deliver to 125 Skyline Drive, Rock Springs,
WY 82901.
FULLY FURNISHED duplex,
completely remodeled with
new furniture, appliances,
washer and dryer. Two
bedroom, 1.5 bath. No pets,
no smoking. Lease, $1200
per month. 389-7629.
TWO BEDROOM, one bath,
unfurnished and all utilities
but electric. Washing facilities, small storage, carport.
No smoking, no pets.
362-7597, 362-7302.
GREEN RIVER, two - three
bedroom townhouses. New
carpet and appliances.
Well-maintained,
grass,
trees. Year lease, no pets.
362-5469 or 875-9833.
TWO BEDROOM, unfurnished, with refrigerator
and range. No pets, $795.
362-7428.
WELL-MAINTAINED, VERY
clean, newly remodeled,
landscaped yards. Two and
three bed townhouses in
Green River. One year
lease. New windows. NO
PETS. 871-1351, 871-1344.
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washer/dryer hookups, no
pets, no smoking, 362-7935.
COMPLETELY FURNISHED,
beautifully
decorated
home. Four bedroom, two
bath, two-car garage, landscaped, fenced yard, no
smoking, no pets. Lease,
$1600 per month. 389-7629.
READY TO move in, large
two bedroom, one bath,
large kitchen. Dogs welcome. $1050 per month.
307-871-1757.
THREE BEDROOM, 1.5 bath
duplex, near schools. Call
(307) 362-7930 for further
information.
BABYSITTER WANTED in
my home for 9 and 12 year
olds. Graveyards, 12 hour
shifts. Angela, 371-7345.
SANDS INN has the cheapest nightly, weekly, and
monthly rooms, with refrigerator, microwave and Wi-Fi. Call 389-1309.
ONE BEDROOM furnished,
newly remodeled in Green
River. $650 plus security
deposit. 875-8485.
ROOM FOR rent, Rock
Springs. (307) 747-5571.
LARGE TWO bedroom in
Rock Springs. NO PETS.
$725 per month, $750 deposit. 307-870-4163.
ROOM FOR
689-8156.
rent,
(307)
ROOM FOR rent, Green
River. Some pets okay.
307-871-2768.
ROCK SPRINGS, brand new,
two
bed,
one
bath.
$950/month. Three bed,
one bath, $1200/month.
(307) 362-0213.
TWO BEDROOM, one bath.
No smoking, no pets. Call
362-7141.
WELL-MAINTAINED THREE
bedroom, 2.5 bath townhome in Green River with
one-car attached garage, in
floor heat, on demand hot
water. Pets allowed. $1350
per month. Call (307)
871-9552.
TOWNHOUSES, TWO bedroom, 1.5 bath, garage. NO
PETS. Good references. For
appointments, call (307)
875-2848, Green River.
SPRINGVIEW
MANOR
Apartments, 915 Walnut
Street, Rock Springs, WY.
One bedroom - $575; two
bedrooms - $660; three
bedrooms - $745. 382-5335,
ALL UTILITIES INCLUDED.
STUDIO APARTMENT
382-9225
THREE ROOM furnished
apartment, includes utilities. No smoking, no pets.
security deposit required,
reasonable rent. Inquire at
110 3rd St., Rock Springs, 10
a.m. - 5 p.m.
THREE BEDROOM in Green
River. $725/month, $725 deposit, no pets. 307-922-4749
or 389-1565.
THREE BEDROOM
with
washer and dryer hookups.
382-9225.
TWO BEDROOM apartments, all utilities paid, in
Green River. 307-354-8519.
GREEN RIVER studio. $500,
utilities
paid.
(307)
875-5036.
TWO AND three bedroom
furnished, all utilities paid.
No pets! No lease. (307)
362-3211, (307) 705-1336.
THREE BEDROOM, Green
River. Six month lease, $750
a month plus deposit.
389-0078, 870-6112.
413 B St. Two bedroom one
bath, washer and dryer included, $800 per month,
$650 deposit, no smoking,
no pets, 371-6759.
1048 B Harrison Dr., three
bedroom, 1.5 bath, washer
and dryer hookups, newly
remodeled: all new flooring
and new kitchen and bathroom, new appliances. Best
Energy Efficient windows
and siding, Trek deck, two
storage units, beautiful
fenced yard, sprinkler system, garden, 875-8757,
870-5161.
FROZEN BULLHEADS
sale. Call 307-690-1430.
1995 SKYLINE 16x76 mobile
home. Three bed, two bath
in Pioneer Park, $18,000.
Call 871-3197.
CLEAN TWO bed, one bath,
appliances included, great
location, $23,000, 871-2768.
for
ESTATE SALES, references.
382-6920.
FIREWOOD, $260 a cord.
307-212-0701.
NEW 2 YOU. 457 North Front
St. 10 a.m. - 4 p.m., Tuesday
through
Saturday.
Antiques, collectibles, electronics, games, movies,
handmade
items,
and
much, much more. Come
and check out Rock Spring’s newest store.
BOY SCOUT Troop 312 has
firewood for sale. All cut
and split, prices include delivery and stacking at your
place. Mixed pine and
hardwood - $250/cord, Cottonwood Special - $175 per
cord. Discounts for multiple cords. Call 871-0119.
AMERICAN GIRL DOLLS,
Clothes and Accessories,
Christmas Gifts, Jewelry.
See Brenda at the Craft
Fair, Events Complex, 10
am - 4 pm November 23.
1999 CHRYSELR Cirrus,
113,000 miles, just serviced,
new battery. $1700 or best
offer. 871-1484.
2003 CHEVROLET Malibu,
fair
condition,
$3500,
382-3463.
1997 GMC, 454 Big Block,
4x4, automatic, extended
cab. Very nice truck,
$4900/best, Dave 389-4182.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN
that the Sweetwater County District Board of Health will conduct
their regularly scheduled DBOH
meeting on Wednesday, November 20, 2013 at 7:15 a.m. at the
Sweetwater County Nursing office, 731 C Street, Rock Springs,
WY. Please use the entrance on
the west side of the building.
Nov. 16, 19, 20_______________
THE SWEETWATER County
Recreation Board’s November
Meeting has been moved to
Wednesday, November 20, 2013
at 7:00 pm in the downstairs conference room of the Rock Springs
City Hall, 212 D St., Rock
Springs, WY 82901.
Nov. 19, 20__________________
THE BOARD of Directors of the
Sweetwater County Weed & Pest
District will meet on Tuesday, December 3, 2013 at the Outlaw Inn
in Rock Springs, WY at 5 p.m.
This meeting will take the place of
the regularly scheduled meeting
for December.
Nov. 20_____________________
IN THE THIRD JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT
NOTICE TO DEFENDANTS
NOTICE TO: T. J. WALTER SMITH, APRIL D. SMITH, ADAIR
HOLDINGS, and CITIFINANCIAL INC., Civil Action Case No.
13-579-L.
DEFENDANT’S CURRENT ADDRESSES: Adair Holdings LLC, Suite
100,405 N. 115th Street, Omaha NE; CitiFinancial Inc. 300 St. Paul
Place, Baltimore MD 21202. Last known address of T. J. Walter Smith
and April D. Smith: 700 Schultz St. Lot 69, Green River, WY 82935.
GREEN RIVER, two bedroom, 1.5 bath, townhome,
full unfinished basement.
No pets. Available now.
875-5036.
PERCUSSION BELL Kit, $200,
like new. 350-6627
You are notified that a Suit to Quiet Title to Real Property located at 539
W. Flaming Gorge Way, Green River WY, Civil Action No. 13-579-L,
has been filed in the Wyoming District Court for the Third Judicial District, whose address is 80 West Flaming Gorge, P.O. Box 430, Green
River, WY 82935
TWO BEDROOM, garage,
$850,
plus
utilities.
705-1336.
Unless you file a Response or otherwise respond to the Complaint or Petition referenced above within 30 days following the last date of publication of this notice, a default judgment will be taken against you and an
Order to Quiet Title will be granted.
Nov. 6, 13, 20, 27___________________________________________
ONE BEDROOM, one bath,
with extra space, new laminate floors. No pets! $650
per month, $600 deposit.
389-2734.
ONE BEDROOM RV’s for
rent. Short term, long term,
$500/month. 307-382-7482.
MOBILE HOME lots for rent.
Rent is $310 per month.
Move-in incentives available. Dogs with approval.
Call 307-382-5833.
TWO BEDROOM, one bath.
$700 per month, with a $300
deposit. (307) 252-7776.
(307) 231-4724.
NORTH OF Rock Springs,
three bed, 1.75 bath, fenced
yard, newly remodeled
kitchen and bath, new carpet and flooring, $800 per
month, $800 deposit, tenant pays gas and electric.
Landlord
pays
water,
sewer, garbage and lot
rent. One year lease. No
pets. 871-1351, 871-1344
landlrentals.weebly.com
GREEN RIVER, Wyoming.
Two bed, one bath. Hurry!
Won’t last! $700 month
plus deposit. Pets welcome. Call 307-875-3706.
NOTICE OF ACCEPTANCE AND FINAL PAYMENT
CORA SEIP, advanced certified Colorado award winning groomer. Specializing
in hand scissoring and
hand stripping. 20 percent
off for mentioning this ad.
Call 371-0166 for appointments.
THREE BLACK, contemporary acrylic bar stools with
chrome base, $30 each.
389-8135.
Notice is hereby given that the Western Wyoming Community College
has accepted as complete, according to specifications, the work performed under that certain contract between WWCC and Bridger Valley
Lawn & Landscaping, Inc. of Lyman, WY for work performed on the
Walking Track Improvements Project and the contractor is entitled to final settlement. Therefore, the College will cause said contractor to be
paid the full amount due under said contract on December 16, 2013. All
claims regarding work or materials furnished to the contractor must be
filed with Western Wyoming Community College prior to December 16,
2013 or the same shall be waived. The date of the first publication is November 6, 2013.
By: Wm. Marty Kelsey, VP for Administrative Services
Western Wyoming Community College
Nov. 6, 13, 20______________________________________________
WYOMING DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
CHEYENNE, WYOMING
NOTICE OF ACCEPTANCE OF
AND
FINAL SETTLEMENT FOR HIGHWAY WORK
Notice is hereby given that the State Transportation Commission of Wyoming has accepted as completed according to plans, specifications and
rules governing the same work performed under that certain contract between the State of Wyoming, acting through said Commission, and
Streamline Markings the Contractor, on Highway Project Number
B129029 in various counties. Epoxy striping at various locations in
Transportation Districts 1, 2, 3, & 4. The Contractor is entitled to final
settlement therefore; that the Director of the Department of Transportation will cause said Contractor to be paid the full amount due him under
said contract on December 17, 2013.
The date of the first publication of this Notice is November 6, 2013.
STATE TRANSPORTATION COMMISSION OF WYOMING
By: Kimberly Lamb
Project Resource Coordinator
Budget Program
Nov. 6, 13, 20______________________________________________
IN THE THIRD JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT
LAURA A. FRAGOZZO
- SAAVEDRA,
vs
JESUS FRAGOZZO
)
)
) Civil Action Case No. C-13-498-J
)
NOTICE TO JESUS FRAGOZZO, DEFENDANT
74 GANNETT, $5000/month.
Large building on one acre,
two ton crane, three 14 ft.
high doors. Call Rock
Springs Realty, 382-2995.
5000 SQ. ft. shop, yard, 14
ft. overhead doors, truck
parking. 362-7985.
You are notified that a Complaint for Divorce, Civil Action No. C-13-498-J, has been filed in the Wyoming
District Court for the Third Judicial District, whose address is 80 West Flaming Gorge, PO Box 430,
Green
River, Wyoming 82935, seeking dissolution of your marriage to
Laura
Fragozzo-Saavedra. Unless you file an Answer or otherwise respond to the Complaint referenced above within 30 days following the
last date of publication of this notice, a default judgment will be taken
against you and a Decree of Divorce will be granted.
Nov. 6, 13, 20, 27___________________________________________
9
STATE
BRIEFS
Man pleads
guilty to
kidnapping
Wyoming girl
CODY (AP) — A Montana nature photographer
was sentenced to life in
prison on Tuesday after
pleading guilty to kidnapping and sexually abusing
a 10-year-old girl in
Wyoming who was later
found wandering in the
mountains outside Cody.
Jesse Paul Speer, 40, of
Manhattan,
Mont.,
tricked the young victim
into accompanying him
in October 2012 by saying
he needed help finding a
lost puppy, according to
court documents.
When the girl had second thoughts, Speer
pulled a gun, made her
get into his vehicle and
then drove her into the
wilderness outside Yellowstone National Park,
according to the documents.
A pair of hunters later
found the girl wandering
at night along a dirt road
about 20 miles southeast
of Cody.
Wyoming
District
Judge Stephen Cranfill
sentenced Speer after he
pleaded guilty to aggravated kidnapping, use of a
firearm in the commission of a felony, and two
counts of sexual abuse of
a minor.
The abduction rattled
residents of Cody, a picturesque town of fewer
than 10,000 that serves
as the eastern gateway for
Yellowstone
National
Park.
Speer was tracked
down by investigators
who paired the girl’s account of her abduction
with video footage of his
Toyota 4-Runner passing
through the park on the
day before the incident.
The divorced father of
two was arrested by the
FBI a week later in Belgrade, Mont., not far from
his home. He acknowledged the abduction and
said he had struggled
with an addiction to
pornography, according
to court documents.
His children were temporarily placed in the care
of Montana Child Protective Services before
Speer’s ex-wife gained
sole custody.
Wyoming
schools could
paddle students,
but don’t
CHEYENNE (AP) —
Wyoming is one of 19
states nationwide that allow schools to paddle students as a disciplinary
measure, but it doesn’t
appear schools are using
the practice.
The Casper Star-Tribune reports that the U.S.
Department of Education
and the Center for Effective Discipline track the
use of corporal punishment in schools.
Tracey Kinney is assistant superintendent of instruction at Laramie
County School District 1.
Kinney says paddling
seems antiquated as a
disciplinary measure in
schools.
The latest federal information on paddling dates
from 2006. That year,
more than 223,000 kids
were paddled nationwide,
but none was paddled in
Wyoming.
Grand Teton
will charge for
backcountry trips
JACKSON (AP) —
Grand Teton National
Park will raise the backcountry camping permit
fee to $25 for walk-ins and
$35 for permits purchased in advance starting Jan. 5.
For years, the permits
were free to acquire in
person and $25 in advance.
Grand Teton spokeswoman Jackie Skaggs
says other national parks
charge fees for backcountry permits.
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rocketminer.com
Obama plunges ahead
toward Iran nuclear deal
MATTHEW LEE
AP Diplomatic Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) — On the eve of new
talks, President Barack Obama is plunging
ahead in search of a nuclear agreement with
Iran despite outright opposition from American allies in the Middle East and deep skepticism, if not open hostility, from Congress.
Iran is pressing ahead in its own way, trying to make a deal more likely to ease painful
economic sanctions without losing its own
hardliners at home.
There was a fresh sign of efforts to make
headway as negotiators from Iran, the five
permanent members of the U.N. Security
Council and Germany prepared for Wednesday’s new round of talks in Geneva. British
Prime Minister David Cameron contacted
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani in the first
such conversation between the leaders of the
two countries in more than a decade.
Cameron’s office said the leaders agreed
during their telephone conversation that significant progress had been made in recent
talks and that it was important to “seize the
opportunity” in this week’s new negotiations.
Obama’s willingness to embrace a pact that
falls short of Security Council demands for
Iran to halt uranium enrichment has pushed
his administration’s already contentious relationship with Israel to the brink, strained ties
with Gulf Arab states and exacerbated tensions with Democratic and Republican lawmakers.
Although everyone claims to have the same
goal — preventing Iran from developing
atomic weapons — the rancorous, public disagreement over how to achieve it has driven
a wedge between the administration and
those who the administration insists will benefit most from a deal.
Opponents say Iran is getting too much in
the way of sanctions relief for too little in the
way of concessions. And, they argue, Iran just
can’t be trusted. Obama and his national security team counter that the risk is worth taking. The alternative, they say, is a path to war
Bombings at
Iran Embassy
in Beirut kill 23
BEIRUT (AP) — Suicide
bombers struck the Iranian Embassy on Tuesday, killing 23 people, including a diplomat, and
wounding more than 140 others
in a “message of blood and
death” to Tehran and Hezbollah
— both supporters of Syrian
President Bashar Assad.
The double bombing in a Shiite
district of Beirut pulled Lebanon
further into a conflict that has
torn apart the deeply divided
country, and came as Assad’s
troops, aided by Hezbollah militants, captured a key town near
the Lebanese border from rebels.
The bombing was one of the
deadliest in a series of attacks targeting Hezbollah and Shiite
strongholds in Lebanon in recent
months.
An al-Qaida-linked group said
it carried out the attack as payback for Hezbollah’s backing of
Assad forces against the mainly
Sunni rebels as the Syrian civil
war increasingly becomes a confrontation between regional powers.
The Syrian army’s border offensive is part of a larger government push that started last
month and has seen forces loyal
to Assad firmly seizing the momentum in the war, taking one
rebel stronghold after another.
The attacks raised fears in
Lebanon that Islamic extremists,
now on the defensive in Syria,
would increasingly hit back in
Lebanon. The country is suffering the effects of competing sectarian loyalties.
“People
fight
outside
(Lebanon), but send their messages through Lebanon. With
bombs,” said a mechanic whose
store windows were shattered by
the blasts.
The midmorning explosions
hit the neighborhood of Janah, a
Hezbollah stronghold and home
to several embassies and upscale
apartments, leaving bodies and
pools of blood on the glassstrewn street amid burning cars.
In the chaotic aftermath, volunteers tried to extinguish bodies
still aflame from the blast by covering them with their sweaters
and blankets.
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Kimoon condemned the attacks
and called on all Lebanese to recognize that “such appalling and
indiscriminate acts of violence”
target everyone in the country,
U.N. acting deputy spokesman
Farhan Haq said.
U.S., Afghans work
toward agreement
on night raids
letter detailing what would constitute “exceptional” and offerAssociated Press
ing guarantees that Kerry would
address concerns and objections
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — based on past U.S. behavior.
In a phone call Tuesday, U.S.
A senior State Department ofSecretary of State John Kerry ficial said that during their teleacknowledged “mistakes” and phone call, Karzai asked for reasked Afghan President Hamid assurances that he could comKarzai to allow American forces municate to the elders at the
to enter Afghan homes in “ex- gathering regarding the security
ceptional circumstances” as the relationship with the U.S. going
two sides rushed to finalize the forward and addressing past iswording of a draft security sues, such as civilian casualties.
agreement ahead of a meeting
The official said that Kerry
of tribal elders who must ap- told Karzai that the U.S. would
prove the deal.
consider the Afghan president’s
Deep divisions in Afghanistan request for reassurances, includover legal immunity for Ameri- ing the option of a letter from
can soldiers and contractors as the Obama administration statwell as night raids have threat- ing the United States’ position.
ened to derail diplomatic efforts The official offered no further
to keep thousands of American elaboration on what such a letter
soldiers in the country beyond might say.
next year’s withdrawal deadline.
Susan Rice, Obama’s national
The issue has taken on added security adviser, said the
urgency amid a spike in violence prospect of Obama apologizing
that has raised fears the Afghan to Karzai “is not on the table.”
forces aren’t ready to take over
“There is no need for the
the battle against the Taliban United States to apologize to
and al-Qaida linked militants Afghanistan,” Rice said in an inwithout more training.
terview with CNN.
Night raids by American
Rice said no letter of apology
forces have been one of the has been drafted by the White
touchiest issues in the 12-year- House.
old war and an agreement to alThe deaths of Afghan civilians
low them to continue, even on a at the hands of U.S.-led NATO
conditional basis, would clear a forces have been a sensitive ismajor obstacle that has held up sue in the U.S.-Afghanistan relathe pact. U.S. offitionship,
alcials said Monday
though
more
that Karzai had
Afghan civilians
conceded that the
die as a result of
Americans could
insurgent attacks.
maintain exclusive
The
official,
legal jurisdiction
who spoke on
over U.S. soldiers
condition
of
and contractors afanonymity beter 2014 as part of
cause they were
the deal.
not authorized to
The U.S. declined
publicly discuss
to release specific
details of the condetails about the
versation with the
negotiations and
media, said that
stressed nothing
during the call,
was final until the
both Kerry and
gathering known as
Karzai agreed on
the Loya Jirga
a need to finalize
makes its decision.
a bilateral securiState
Departty agreement.
ment
spokesKarzai invited
woman Jen Psaki
Kerry to attend
said the two sides
the Loya Jirga,
continue to make
which will be held
progress, but “we’re
this week amid
not there yet.”
tight security, but
Approval by the
Kerry said it
traditional council Hakimullah Mujahed,
would not be posof 3,000 prominent one of the Loya Jirga’s
sible for him to
Afghans that begins organizers
attend, the official
meeting on Thurssaid.
day was by no
Many Afghans
means guaranteed. The group are angry over incidents includcan revise or reject any clause of ing the February 2012 accidenthe draft agreement, and a flat- tal burning of hundreds of
out rejection would most likely copies of the Islamic holy book,
prevent the Afghan government the Quran, a March 2012 shootfrom signing it. Even if it is ap- ing spree by a U.S. soldier in
proved, the final decision will be southern Afghanistan that killed
made by Parliament.
16 people, and unintended civilThe U.S. wants to keep as ian deaths from U.S. bombs.
many as 10,000 troops in the The night raids are particularly
country to train and mentor the offensive because they are perAfghan national security forces ceived as violating the sanctity
and go after the remnants of al- of women in the house despite
Qaida. If no security agreement U.S. claims that they are a useful
is signed, all U.S. troops would tool in killing insurgent leaders.
have to leave by the end of 2014.
The other sticking point is leMany American allies have gal immunity — an issue that
also indicated they will not keep was a deal breaker during failed
troops in Afghanistan if there is negotiations over a similar deal
no U.S. presence. Billions of dol- in Iraq before U.S. forces withlars in funding for Afghan forces drew from that country in Deand development will also like- cember 2011.
ly be at stake. Afghan security
Karzai’s National Security Adforces are generally considered viser Rangin Dafdar Spanta told
to be not yet fully prepared to lawmakers at a weekend briefing
fight the Taliban without further that the U.S. position was clear:
foreign training and internation- If Washington doesn’t get jurisal funding.
diction over its soldiers and
A Dari-language statement civilian personnel, it won’t sign
from Karzai’s office said Kerry the agreement, and it won’t
asked the president to allow U.S. leave any U.S. soldiers in
troops on counter-terrorism Afghanistan when international
missions to conduct operations combat troops withdraw at the
that might require entering end of 2014.
Afghan homes in “exceptional”
Hakimullah Mujahed, one of
circumstances.
the Loya Jirga’s organizers, said
Karzai agreed to include the “the security agreement with
wording if Kerry defends it at the U.S. has to be in the framethe Loya Jirga debate. Otherwise work of the Afghan constituthe Afghan leader told Kerry to tion.”
wait and negotiate the final
“The trial of foreign soldiers
agreement with the new govern- accused of killing innocent
ment following next year’s elec- Afghans or committing crimes
tions. Karzai is barred by the against Afghanistan should be
constitution from seeking a tried in an Afghan court. That’s
third term.
very important,” he added.
In response Kerry told Karzai
Lawmaker Khaled Pashtun
that the U.S. government under- from southern Kandahar, where
stood that the concerns of both a Taliban insurgency flourishes,
the government and the Afghan disagreed. He said Washington
people stemmed from “mistakes is right to demand jurisdiction
committed by American forces over its troops.
in the past in Afghanistan,” ac“Our justice system is still uncording to the statement. The der construction. ... Even
top U.S. diplomat also promised Afghans don’t trust it yet,” he
his government would write a said in a telephone interview.
KATHY GANNON
AND AMIR SHAH
Photo courtesy of http://www.rouhani.ir
In the run-up to the new talks, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani conceded a longstanding demand that Iran’s right to enrich uranium must be recognized in any deal, and that incited opposition from hardliners in the his country.
that no one wants.
In the run-up to the new talks, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani conceded a longstanding demand that Iran’s right to enrich uranium must be recognized in any deal, and that
incited opposition from hardliners in the his
country. Also, speaking to reporters in Rome
while en route to the negotiations, Iranian
Foreign Minister Mohammed Javad Zarif accused Israel of trying to “torpedo” a possible
agreement.
Yet most signs seemed to be pointing to a
deal coming together before or over the weekend.
Obama, along with Secretary of State John
Kerry and National Security Adviser Susan
Rice, personally appealed to senators in a
White House meeting to hold off on seeking
additional sanctions in order to test Iran’s seriousness in addressing concerns it is trying
to develop nuclear weapons.
“We have the opportunity to halt the
progress of the Iranian program and roll it
back in key respects, while testing whether a
comprehensive resolution can be achieved,”
the White House said in a statement after the
two-hour meeting Tuesday. It said if there is
not an initial agreement, Iran will keep making progress on increasing enrichment capacity, growing its stockpiles of enriched uranium, installing new centrifuges and developing
a plutonium reactor in the city of Arak.
Egypt revolutionaries make
a return to Tahrir Square
SARAH EL DEEB AND
TONY G. GABRIEL
Associated Press
CAIRO (AP) — Egypt’s revolutionary activists, overshadowed since leading the 2011 uprising against Hosni Mubarak,
showed a new vigor Tuesday,
scuffling with supporters of the
military-backed government in
Cairo’s Tahrir Square and
wrecking a state memorial dedicated to slain protesters only
hours after it was inaugurated.
The vandalizing of the memorial reflected the youth activists’
anger against what they see as
an attempt by the current military-backed rulers, boosted by
popular support since the July
coup against Islamist President
Mohammed Morsi, to paper
over past bloodshed and rewrite
history.
The interim prime minister inaugurated the memorial’s empty
base a statue to top it is planned
later — with great fanfare on
Monday afternoon. By Tuesday
morning, the pedestal was reduced to a lump of concrete covered in revolutionary graffiti after activists before dawn ripped
off its stone cladding and spraypainted it with slogans denouncing both Morsi and his nemesis,
military chief Gen. Abdel-Fattah
el-Sissi.
“The revolution continues,”
one slogan across it proclaimed.
“Down with all those who betrayed military, former regime,
or Muslim Brotherhood.” Activists set a mock coffin draped
with the Egyptian flag onto the
pedestal.
Secular, leftist youth activists
were at the forefront of Egypt’s
revolutions, starting with the
2011 uprising that ousted the autocrat Mubarak. But they have
been overshadowed since. They
have also been divided over how
to deal with the new order after
the military removed Morsi, the
country’s first freely elected president, on July 3 following massive protests against him.
Since then, the streets have
been dominated by pro-military
rallies or smaller, near daily
protests by Morsi’s backers,
amid a heavy crackdown on Islamists. Non-Islamist critics of
the new leadership have been reluctant to speak out for fear of
being seen as supporting the
Brotherhood and Morsi, whom
they also sharply oppose.
But revolutionary groups were
energized by the second anniversary Tuesday of the “Mohammed Mahmoud” clashes —
one of the fiercest confrontations between protesters and security forces, named after the
street of Tahrir where they took
place.
On Tuesday afternoon, they
turned out in small numbers in
the square a few thousands but
their return to Tahrir was a rare
anti-military protest by the secular revolutionaries since Morsi’s
ouster.
“We are against both the
Brotherhood and the military because they did not do anything
for the revolution,” said Omar elSibai, a 19-year-old architecture
student. “And now if anybody
says his opinion and is against
the authorities, he is either a terrorist or Brotherhood.”
Like others in the square, he
denounced authorities for setting up a memorial to martyrs
while neglecting a top demand
of the revolution retribution
against those behind the killing
of protesters.
Chants to drum beats echoed
in the square, “Both the military
and the Brotherhood can’t be
trusted” and “El-Sissi, it is now
your turn.” A banner in the
square showed Morsi, el-Sissi
and four other Brotherhood and
military officials, with nooses
around their necks.
Scuffles erupted when a group
of supporters of the military also
entered, carrying portraits of elSissi whose birthday was on
Tuesday. The two sides hurled
stones at each other in intermittent clashes as activists chased
out the military backers. Police
fired one volley of tear gas, but
largely stayed clear of the square.
Shortly before midnight,
black-clad anti-riot police made
a final push, fired heavy tear gas
and police vehicles swept
through the square dispersing
the demonstration. Shortly after,
army vehicles and closed some
entrances to the square.
No Morsi supporters were
seen in the square.
The 2011 Mohammed Mahmoud clashes were prompted by
a crackdown on anti-police brutality protests that spiraled into
demands for the end of rule by
the military, in power after
Mubarak’s fall until Morsi’s 2012
inauguration. More than 40 protesters were killed. Last year,
three were killed when police under Morsi cracked down on
protests marking the anniversary turning the date into a rallying point for sentiment against
the military, police and the
Brotherhood.
The government’s move to
erect a monument in Tahrir
turned the occasion into a fight
over the memory of hundreds
killed in Egypt’s waves of
protests against Mubarak,
against the military and against
the Brotherhood.
Officials said the monument
honors martyrs of “the two revolutions” the anti-Mubarak uprising and the giant wave of antiMorsi protests by millions before
his ouster.
Infuriated revolutionary activists point out that most protesters killed over the past 2
years died at the hands of police
who have not faced trials and remain on duty. They say security
forces have returned to the brutal ways they were notorious for
under Mubarak now under the
pretext of fighting a war against
terrorism.
Activists painted over an iconic mural of graffiti immortalizing
martyrs on Mohammed Mahmoud Street. They covered it
over with a camouflage pattern
in shades of red, symbolizing
blood security and military
forces have spilled in crackdowns.
Many of the activists in Tahrir
on Tuesday wore eye patches,
commemorating protesters who
were shot in the eyes and blinded during the Mohammed Mahmoud clashes.
The activists’ protests put supporters of the military in a difficult rhetorical corner. Military
supporters have depicted the
military and the new government as the inheritors of the revolution after removing Morsi
and his Brotherhood.
After initially trying to blame
the pedestal vandalism on the
Brotherhood, commentators on
pro-military media criticized the
activists who did it, saying they
were only helping the Islamists.
In the same vein, Tamarod,
the group that spearheaded the
June 30 protests against Morsi
and supports the new government, called the vandalism “regrettable.”
‘The trial of
foreign
soldiers
accused of
killing
innocent
Afghans or
committing
crimes against
Afghanistan
should be
tried in an
Afghan court.
That’s very
important.’
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Supreme Court
refuses to block
abortion law
MARK SHERMAN
Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — A
sharply divided Supreme
Court on Tuesday allowed
Texas to continue enforcing
abortion restrictions that opponents say have led more
than a third of the state’s clinics to stop providing abortions.
The justices voted 5-4 to
leave in effect a provision requiring doctors who perform
abortions in clinics to have admitting privileges at a nearby
hospital.
The court’s conservative
majority refused the plea of
Planned Parenthood and several Texas abortion clinics to
overturn a preliminary federal
appeals court ruling that allowed the provision to take effect.
The four liberal justices dissented.
The case remains on appeal
to the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of
Appeals in New Orleans. That
court is expected to hear arguments in January, and the law
will remain in effect at least
until then.
Justice Stephen Breyer,
writing for the liberal justices,
said he expects the issue to return to the Supreme Court
once the appeals court issues
its final ruling.
The Texas Legislature approved the requirement for
admitting privileges in July.
In late October, days before
the provision was to take effect, a trial judge blocked it,
saying it probably is unconstitutional because it puts a
“substantial obstacle” in front
of a woman wanting an abortion.
But a three-judge appellate
panel moved quickly to overrule the judge. The appeals
court said the law was in line
with Supreme Court rulings
that have allowed for abortion
restrictions so long as they do
not impose an “undue burden” on a woman’s ability to
obtain an abortion. Writing for
the appeals court, Judge
Priscilla Owen noted that the
Texas law would not end the
procedure, only force women
to drive a greater distance to
obtain one.
Justice Antonin Scalia, writing in support of the high
court order Tuesday, said the
clinics could not overcome a
heavy legal burden against
overruling the appeals court.
The justices may not do so
“unless that court clearly and
demonstrably erred,” Scalia
said in an opinion that was
joined by Justices Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas.
Chief Justice John Roberts
and Justice Anthony Kennedy
did not write separately or join
any opinion Tuesday, but because it takes five votes to
overturn the appellate ruling,
it is clear that they voted with
their conservative colleagues.
Planned Parenthood and
several Texas abortion clinics
said in their lawsuit to stop the
measure that it would force
more than a third of clinics in
the state to stop providing
abortions. After the appeals
court allowed the law to take
effect, the groups said that
their prediction had come to
pass.
In their plea to the Supreme
Court, they said that “in just
the few short days since the
injunction was lifted, over
one-third of the facilities providing abortions in Texas have
been forced to stop providing
that care and others have been
forced to drastically reduce
the number of patients to
whom they are able to provide
care. Already, appointments
are being canceled and
women seeking abortions are
being turned away.”
Breyer said the better
course would have been to
block the admitting privileges
requirement at least until the
court issued its final ruling because some women will be unable to obtain abortions. If
courts ultimately find the law
is invalid, “the harms to the
individual women whose
rights it restricts while it remains in effect will be permanent,” he said.
Tennessee and Utah are the
other states enforcing their
laws on admitting privileges.
Similar laws are under temporary court injunctions in Alabama, Kansas, Mississippi,
North Dakota and Wisconsin.
NATIONAL
Gettysburg Address: A short
speech long remembered
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Leak spurs talk
of school carbon
monoxide
monitors
MICHELLE L. PRICE
Associated Press
MARK SCOLFORO
Associated Press
GETTYSBURG, Pa. (AP) —
In solemnity, thousands gathered at a central Pennsylvania
battlefield park Tuesday to
honor a speech given 150 years
ago that President Abraham
Lincoln predicted would not be
long remembered.
The inspirational and famously short Gettysburg Address was praised for reinvigorating national ideals of freedom, liberty and justice amid a
Civil War that had torn the
country into pieces.
“President Lincoln sought to
heal a nation’s wounds by
defining what a nation should
be,” said Pennsylvania Gov.
Tom Corbett, calling Lincoln’s
words superb, his faith deep
and his genius profound. “Lincoln wrote his words on paper,
but he also inscribed them in
our hearts.”
Echoing Lincoln, keynote
speaker and Civil War historian
James McPherson said the
president took the dais in November 1863 at a time when it
looked like the nation “might
indeed perish from the earth.”
“The Battle of Gettysburg
became the hinge of fate on
which turned the destiny of
that nation and its new birth of
freedom,” McPherson said.
In the July 1863 battle, considered the turning point of the
war, Union forces fought back
a Confederate invasion of
Pennsylvania.
Lincoln’s speech was delivered more than four months
later, at the dedication of a national cemetery to bury the battle’s casualties.
In the short oration, he
spoke of how democracy itself
rested upon “the proposition
that all men are created equal,”
a profound and politically risky
statement for the time. Slavery
and the doctrine of states’
rights would not hold in the
“more perfect union” of Lincoln’s vision.
“In 272 words, he put together what everyone was thinking,
what everyone should know,”
said park historian John Heiser. Because of varying transcriptions, scholars generally
put the text at 268 to 272
words.
Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia administered the
oath of allegiance to a group of
16 immigrants, telling them the
national identity is unique, il-
Photo courtesy of Frank Kovalchek
Pictured is a historical marker to Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address located in Gettysburg, Pa. Speaker and Civil War historian James McPherson said the Gettysburg Address, despite its short length, managed to weave together themes of past, present and future; continent, nation and battlefield; and birth,
death and rebirth.
lustrated by the existence of
the word “un-American” and
by the people’s “fidelity to certain political principles.”
Greta Myer, 44, decided to
make the six-hour trip from
Akron, Ohio, with her husband
and son after spending a week
in Gettysburg earlier in the
year.
“It’s something we’ve never
done before,” Myer said. “It
was a historical event that we
wanted to be a part of.”
Among many re-enactors on
the grounds were at least two
Abraham Lincolns, including
one who recited the address.
“Lincoln would have been
surprised by the reverence accorded to him by future generations,” McPherson said, noting Lincoln himself held in
high regard the country’s
founders.
“Would they preserve that
heritage, or would they allow it
to perish from the earth?”
McPherson said.
He said the Gettysburg Address, despite its short length,
managed to weave together
themes of past, present and future; continent, nation and battlefield; and birth, death and rebirth.
“Men died that the nation
might live,” McPherson said.
“Yet the old nation also died,”
and with it, the system of
bondage that enslaved some 4
million Americans.
Part of the event was a
speech delivered by suburban
Philadelphia high school junior
Lauren Pyfer, who won a contest to write a contemporary
version of the Gettysburg Ad-
dress, but at the same short
length.
She urged the crowd to do
their part to “nurture and preserve the rights of humanity,
equality and freedom, across
all nations.”
“It is impossible for one
country to close its doors to
other countries and still thrive,”
Pyfer said.
Interior Secretary Sally Jewell, who also adopted Lincolnian brevity, said the Gettysburg
battle stands at the vortex of
American history and the Gettysburg Address at the vortex
of national consciousness.
Lincoln, she said, called the
country to its unfinished business, and he also came to symbolize the country’s “greatest
virtues of humility, of honesty
and decency.”
After twisters, damaged communities come together
DAVID MERCER
AND DON BABWIN
Associated Press
WASHINGTON, Ill. (AP) — Aaron
Montgomery’s house was not damaged by
the tornado that roared through this central Illinois community. But when the
twister knocked out power across town, he
had to find a way to keep his 5-year-old
daughter alive.
The recipient of a heart transplant last
year, Isabel Montgomery requires machinery to help her breathe and eat. So her father furiously made calls looking for help,
finally getting through to a construction
company that loaned two generators.
“I baby-sat the generators with a gas can
last night to make sure they were full and
running,” he said Monday.
The cleanup from Sunday’s outbreak of
tornadoes had scarcely begun, but people
in storm-ravaged towns like Washington,
140 miles southwest of Chicago, had to
keep moving.
The tornado cut a path about an eighth
of a mile wide from one side of Washington to the other and damaged or destroyed
as many as 500 homes.
It could be days before power is restored
in the town of 16,000, state officials said
Monday, and debris was still scattered
across the streets. But people forced out of
their homes were allowed back in Monday
to survey damage and see what they could
save.
In one neighborhood, homeowners and
their friends and families worked quickly
in a stiff, cold breeze. Some homes had
been shattered into piles of brick, drywall
and lumber. Others, like Jessica Bochart’s
house, still had sections standing.
“All of this can be replaced,” she said,
gesturing at the collapsed remnants of her
ceiling. But inside the home she shares
with her husband, son and daughter, she
was relieved to find some irreplaceable
things intact — photos, family heirlooms
and the Bochart’s cat, Patches.
“He was sitting under our dining table,
looking like, ‘What happened?”‘ Bochart
said as she weighed the next set of decisions. Among them: Where will the family
live for now? Offers from friends and family had poured in, and they were in a hotel
for the moment, but she hesitated with the
decision.
“I don’t know,” she said after a long moment’s thought.
Though the powerful line of thunderstorms and tornadoes howled across 12
states Sunday, flattening neighborhoods in
minutes, the death toll stood at just eight.
Forecasters’ uncannily accurate predictions, combined with television and radio
warnings, text-message alerts and storm
sirens, almost certainly saved lives.
But in Washington, the hardest-hit town,
many families, like the Bocharts, were also
in church.
“I don’t think we had one church damaged,” Mayor Gary Manier said.
Daniel Bennett was officiating Sunday
service before 600 to 700 people when he
heard a warning. Then another. And another.
“I’d say probably two dozen phones
started going off in the service, and everybody started looking down,” he said.
What they saw was a text message that
a twister was in the area.
Bennett stopped the service and ushered
everyone to a safe place until the threat
passed.
A day later, many in the community believed that the messages helped minimize
the number of dead and injured.
“That’s got to be connected,” Bennett
said as he bicycled through a neighborhood looking for parishioners’ homes.
“The ability to get instant information.”
Another factor was forecasting, which
has steadily improved with the arrival of
faster, more powerful computers. Scientists are now better able to replicate atmospheric processes into mathematical
equations.
In the last decade alone, forecasters
have doubled the number of days in advance that weather experts can anticipate
major storms, said Bill Bunting of the National Weather Service.
But Bunting, forecast operations chief of
the service’s Storm Prediction Center in
Norman, Okla., said it was not until Saturday that the atmospheric instability that
turns smaller storm systems into larger,
more menacing ones came into focus.
Information from weather stations,
weather balloons, satellite imagery and
radar told scientists that there was more
than enough moisture — fuel for storms —
making its way northeast from the Gulf of
Mexico.
Despite Sunday’s destruction and at
least eight deaths, 2013 has been a relatively mild year for twisters in the U.S.,
with the number of twisters running at or
near record lows.
So far this year, there have been 886
preliminary reports of tornadoes, compared with about 1,400 preliminary reports usually received by the weather service office by mid-November.
Similar slow years were 1987 and 1989.
An outbreak like the one that developed
Sunday usually happens about once every
seven to 10 years, according to tornado experts at the National Weather Service’s
Storm Prediction Center and National Severe Storm Lab in Norman, Okla.
There were similar November outbreaks
in 1992 and 2002, with the 1992 one being
even bigger than this year’s, said top tornado researcher Harold Brooks at the
storm lab.
The outbreak occurred because of unusually warm moist air from Louisiana to
Michigan that was then hit by an upperlevel cold front. That crash of hot and cold,
dry and wet, is what triggers tornadoes.
Like most November storms, this one
was high in wind shear and lower in moist
energy. Wind shear is the difference between winds at high altitude and wind near
the surface.
Because it was high in wind shear, the
storm system moved fast, like a speeding
car, Brooks said. That meant the storm hit
more places before it petered out, affecting
more people, but it might have been slightly less damaging where it hit because it
was moving so fast, he said.
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) —
A gas leak at a Utah elementary school that sickened
more than 40 people has
prompted concerns about
the fact that the state is
among many that don’t require schools to install carbon monoxide monitors.
Local and state officials
said Tuesday they’re reconsidering Utah’s policy, noting monitors could have prevented levels of exposure
that required three people to
be airlifted to hospitals after
Monday’s leak at Montezuma Creek Elementary. The
community of Montezuma
Creek is on the Navajo reservation, about 15 miles from
the Colorado border.
The head of Utah’s largest
parent advocacy group said
Tuesday she was surprised
to learn the monitors were
not required.
“I think for most citizens
in the state, that was a little
bit of a wakeup call,” said
Dawn Davies, presidentelect of the Utah PTA.
Utah Fire Marshal Coy
Porter said his office likely
will make a recommendation
on carbon monoxide detectors in schools the weeks
ahead.
The level of carbon
monoxide accumulated in
the school Monday morning
indicated the leak began
sometime over the weekend,
Porter said.
“Had they had them in
there,” Porter said of the detectors, students and staff
“probably would have arrived at school with the
alarms going off.”
State law requires the
monitors only in some residences and institutional
buildings where people
sleep, such as jails, hospitals
and nursing homes.
Symptoms of carbonmonoxide poisoning include
headaches,
nausea
and
weakness, although higher
exposure levels can lead to
unconsciousness and death,
according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention. People who are
asleep generally do not detect early symptoms, which
can make their exposure fatal.
Utah’s school policy is not
unusual. According to the
National Conference of State
Legislatures, only two states
have laws requiring monitors
in schools.
The carbon monoxide leak
wasn’t unique either: Since
last November, at least five
other schools in the U.S.
have reported them.
A leak at an Atlanta elementary school last December sent more than 50 students and adults to hospitals. That school lacked
monitors, and Georgia officials considered requiring
them in schools.
They decided in September to instead recommend
schools review buildings and
take steps to reduce exposure risks.
Connecticut law requires
the monitors in all schools,
and Maryland statutes says
all
newly
constructed
schools
or
remodeled
schools must have the detectors. In other states, carbonmonoxide monitors are
mandated in schools because of building codes and
municipal rules.
Porter said some Utah
schools do have them installed, typically in mechanical rooms or closets, but
that’s because of school or
district policies.
Carbon monoxide is produced by combustion and
can be found in fumes from
vehicles, gas ranges and
heating systems. At Montezuma Creek Elementary,
county officials have pointed
to a water heater with a
blocked ventilation system
as the leak’s cause.
Shortly after class started
Monday, emergency calls
came from the school with
reports of students feeling
dizzy and sick.
About 300 people were in
the building when it was
evacuated, San Juan County
spokesman Rick Bailey said.
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Obamacare:
Unaffordable and
Incomprehensible
DEBRA J. SAUNDERS
Chaos. "The whole mess has
thrown the country, millions of
people, the insurance market, into
chaos," wrote Paul Palumbo, one
of the million Californians who
were notified that because of the
Affordable Care Act, their Blue
Shield plans would end Dec. 31.
When the self-employed research analyst received the notice,
he stopped paying his premiums
because "they were dropping" him.
The cheapest alternative he could
find costs 61 percent more than
his old premium and has a higher
deductible. For now, he's waiting
for the market to settle and rolling
the dice. After President Barack
Obama announced Thursday that
he would allow insurers to sell
2013 plans for another year,
Palumbo observed that it changes
nothing. This new fiat "will only
further confuse people and negatively impact the market's ability
to function efficiently."
Is what Obama proposes even
legal? When Republicans tried to
delay the scheme, the administration responded that Obamacare is
"the law of the land," passed by
Congress, signed by the president
and upheld by the Supreme Court.
Covered California requires its
providers to terminate old individual policies Dec. 31.
Insurers are not on board. They
have tied their offerings into knots
to meet the ACA's voluminous
regulations and calculated rates
that anticipated current policyholders joining new pools. Now
the president says to health care
purveyors: Never mind. Do me a
favor and sell your old plans with
added bells and whistles -- and for
what you charged because you
could exclude those with pre-existing conditions.
With this gambit, Obama essentially is trying to convince an estimated 5 million terminated policyholders across the country: If you
lose your plan, blame the insurance companies.
The news conference followed a
botched rollout capped by the release of anemic enrollment numbers. The administration had ex-
pected 500,000 people to sign up
during October. Instead, 106,000
Americans enrolled. The numbers
for California are better. Nearly
31,000 Californians signed up in
October; another 24,000 enrolled
in the first two weeks of November. According to Covered California Executive Director Peter Lee,
older Californians are overrepresented and younger Californians
are underrepresented in the applicant pool.
If too few healthy and young
people participate, warned Devon
Herrick, senior fellow of the National Center for Policy Analysis,
the result will be an "adverse selection death spiral."
Anthony Wright of Health Access rejects any suggestion that a
million Californians are losing
their coverage so that a hoped-for
500,000 to 700,000 can get subsidized plans. "There's already
more than a million people who
are getting coverage," he said,
when you add the 435,000 adults
younger than 26 enrolled on their
parents' plans and the 615,000
newly enrolled in Medi-Cal and
similar programs.
For those Californians, the Affordable Care Act actually is affordable. For those who pay for
their health care, probably not.
"The old individual market was
not working well," Obama said in
his defense.
If so, the new individual market
is working worse. It turns out that
when the government adds benefits and makes insurers charge the
same for people with pre-existing
conditions, costs go up. Individual
policyholders who do not qualify
for subsidies are experiencing severe rate shock — and they're losing their doctors.
This is where liberals like to insert that Republicans never wanted Obamacare to work. Not quite.
Republicans always knew that
Obamacare could not work.
Email Debra J. Saunders at
[email protected]. To find out more
about Debra J. Saunders and read features by
other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate Web page at
www.creators.com.
YOUR OPINION
To: Editor
From: Bob Carmine
Letter aims to
continue open dialog
on changes
I would like to thank Margaret
Webb for her kind response to my
purposely-vague Letter to the Editor of Nov. 14, 2013, and I apologize for a somewhat long response. Her letter was courteous
and just maybe opened some dialog.
No. 1 State Retirement — When
I was working for Sweetwater
School District No. 1, the employee contribution was matched by
the District so we do have selffunded and employer retirement
benefits. The funds are invested
and disbursed by the state Retirement Board by an adopted formula.
No. 2 Social Security — Although Social Security has increased some years and not others, so have Medicare premiums.
Of course the CPI does not recognize the cost of groceries, fuel and
some other necessities.
No. 3 Free Speech — The point
about free speech was a subtle attempt to reveal how ridiculous it
would be to have a presentation to
the Board by a school employee be
previewed by the Superintendent
of Schools (kind of like a lecture
by a teacher given to the Principal
before given to the students).
No. 4 Insurance Premiums — I
know that most of our insurance
premiums will increase, but a dialog as to the reasons could be both
enlightening and beneficial. Most,
if not all, retired employees are on
Medicare. After adjustments,
Medicare pays 80 percent and the
insurance company pays 20 percent, once the employee deductible is met.
Many times, Medicare pays the
entire bill. I’m not sure that retirees deserve a 28 percent increase.
I do hope that sometime in the
future I will again be able to fund
the scholarship program, and I
would encourage others to look
into the program. It’s really worthwhile.
Thanks again Ms. Webb
TRAVIS KELLY
The error-prone website for the
Affordable Care Act website is
causing considerable glee to critics who like to believe that the
federal government can do nothing right, or at least not as efficiently as the private sector.
If fixes are not forthcoming, the
rollout glitches and botched assurances might eventually do
what the Tea Party's attempt to
shut down the federal government didn't — crash the whole
Obamacare program. But if that
happens, where will we be?
I’ve done a little research, and
the numbers show that Americans would be stuck with the industrialized world's most expensive health care. A Bloomberg
study rated the United States as
46th in the world for efficiency,
which puts us behind Romania
and Iran.
And in 2012, the International
Federation of Health Plans, a
global insurance trade organization representing insurers in 25
countries, compared the costs of
various medical procedures in
Canada, Spain, Switzerland,
South Africa, Argentina, France,
Chile and the United States. The
results were shocking.
Across the board, the graphs
look like the "hockey stick" graph
that Al Gore used to illustrate
global climate change. In this
case, however, every other country's bar looks like a one-story hut
— until you come to the United
States.
Our bar appears as a skyscraper. For example, the cost of
a routine office visit ranges from
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a low of $10 in Argentina to $38 in
Chile, but it’s a whopping $176 in
this country.
An angiogram runs from $35 in
Canada to $264 in France, but it’s
up to an astronomical $2,400
here.
The cost for a day in the hospital runs from $429 in Argentina
to $1,472 in Australia; in the United States it ranges from an average of $4,287 to $12,537.
There is a broader range here
because of the diversity of different providers and
insurers, many of
which charge as
much they can
get away with.
The same lesson
applies to drugs;
we pay far more
than other countries.
We currently
spend 20 percent
of our Gross Domestic Product
on health care,
about
double
what most other
countries spend.
For a time, the
explanation for
this huge disparity was thought to
be that Americans use more
health services,
but studies have
proven that isn't
the case. The truth is that our
health care prices are ridiculously
inflated, leading to profits in the
industry of about 20 percent ––
similar to the profits expected in
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the financial sector. Alone among
industrialized countries, we have
a for-profit health insurance industry mediating these services
and jacking up the prices even
more.
There are opportunity costs to
this extravagance, as a Princeton
economist notes: "The money we
spend on health care is money we
don't spend educating our children, or investing in infrastructure, scientific research and defense spending."
Frank McArdle, a
consultant to the
Business Roundtable, says that
the old system
was "cramping
our
economic
growth."
The plan that
Gov. Mitt Romney instituted in
Massachusetts
was based on one
originally proposed by President Nixon and
supported by the
conservative
Heritage Foundation. It proposed
that all households be required
to obtain private
insurance as a
necessary measure to drive down
galloping costs.
This was also
supported by Newt Gingrich and
other Republican luminaries as an
alternative
to
expanding
Medicare or creating any kind of
government-regulated public op-
‘We will devote
any amount of
federal effort and
treasure to the
purpose of
killing people,
but the effort to
bring the healing
of our people up
to current world
standards is just
too cumbersome
and oppressive
to support.’
tion, where the overhead would
be 5 percent (like Medicare) versus the 30 percent overhead in
the private sector.
Now, Tea Party adherents and
many Republicans are doing
everything possible to oppose
what was in essence the conservative, private-sector solution to
our health care crisis.
So what exactly is their solution?
It appears that they really don't
have, or even want, a solution, no
matter how much of a drain our
dysfunctional system is on the
rest of the economy, no matter
how many Americans die prematurely because they cannot afford
preventive care, no matter how
disgraceful it is that the health
care system of the world's richest
nation ranks behind those of Romania and Iran. Meanwhile, we
are slated to spend billions of dollars upgrading our nuclear arsenal, while continuing to account
for almost half of the world's total
military spending.
Yet no one ever accuses the
military of being a "socialist" enterprise, even though it is funded
100 percent by tax dollars.
This leads me to a disturbing
conclusion about our nation: We
will devote any amount of federal effort and treasure to the purpose of killing people, but the effort to bring the healing of our
people up to current world standards is just too cumbersome and
oppressive to support.
Travis Kelly is a contributor to Writers on the
Range, a service of High Country News
(hcn.org). He writes from Grand Junction,
Colo.
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DEAR ABBY
WONDERWORD By
David Ouellet
MOMMA by Mell Lazarus
By Abigail Van Buren
DEAR ABBY: One of my husband’s relatives is filing for
bankruptcy for the third time.
His wife recently started to receive disability. I believe they
are abusing the system.
I know she was not truthful
on her disability application. I
work in the health care field
and in the past have completed
evaluations
for
disability
claims. I know the only way she
would meet the requirements
would be if she misrepresented
her current abilities.
Everyone else in the family
works hard to support themselves, so I can’t understand
how this attitude is tolerated.
What has pushed me over the
edge is they have announced
they’re going to have a “bankruptcy party.” They have invited everyone over to enjoy food
and beverages that will be purchased with a credit card they
have no intention of paying.
I feel an obligation to alert
the disability office to her misrepresentation. My husband
agrees that what they’re doing
is wrong, but he doesn’t want
me to do anything about it.
This has caused a problem between us because I no longer
want to go to family dinners. I
know if I keep going and have
to listen to them laugh about
using taxpayer dollars to support their laziness, I will eventually explode. What do you
think about this? — SOMEWHERE IN THE U.S.A.
DEAR SOMEWHERE: I think
your relatives are committing
fraud and that it should be reported. Disability payments
were meant for individuals who
truly need them, not those who
are gaming the system. And if
you choose not to associate
with these kinds of morally
bankrupt individuals, you
shouldn’t have to. I can see
how it would ruin your appetite. Shenanigans like this
should be investigated and the
abusers prosecuted to the full
extent of the law.
DEAR ABBY: Well, here is a
new one on me. I was walking
through a Macy’s looking for
my wife, and right there in
front of me was a 40-something woman in her bra trying
on a blouse! Please tell me — is
this the new normal? — GREG
IN GAINESVILLE, FLA.
DEAR GREG: It’s unusual, but
not unheard of — particularly if
all of the dressing rooms are in
use. In order to prevent this
from happening again, avert
your eyes when you’re in the
women’s department.
GARFIELD by Jim Davis
DOG EAT DOUG by Ryan Anderson
BECKER BRIDGE Card-Reading
AGNES by Morrie Turner
ZACK HILL by J. Deering and J. Macintosh
JANRIC CLASSIC SUDOKU
BLONDIE by Dean Young and Dennis Lebrun
HOROSCOPE
By Holiday
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 2013
ARIES (March 21-April 19) There will be
those who have no way of relating to
your troubles — great! Seeing your trouble through their eyes will reveal the underlying absurdity of problems that, after all is said and done, prove unimportant.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20) There are high
and low moments in every experience.
Today you’ll recognize the high moment
and, while you’re there, have the presence of mind to grab a souvenir. You’ll
be glad you did!
CROSSWORD By
ONE BIG HAPPY... by Rick Detorie
Thomas Joseph
GEMINI (May 21-June 21) There are
times when it’s prudent to count the
costs, but right now you’re just not in
the mood. You care about the quality of
what you’re doing, and you’ll do whatever is necessary to make it the very best.
CANCER (June 22-July 22) Your methods
of leadership are so subtle that people
may not even realize you’re controlling a
group dynamic. That’s because you
strive to inspire others, not to dominate
them.
FLO AND FRIENDS by John Gibel and Jenny
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) Most dogs rather
enjoy their leashes: indicators that they
are about to go out for some fresh air
and adventure. Cats like you see leashes
as enslavement. Besides, when you want
an adventure, you’ll make your own.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) You don’t condone bad behavior, but you do recognize
that it’s usually a product of personal
pain. You believe in the goodness at the
core of most people, and by seeing it,
you help them find it in themselves.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23) You have an excellent sense of where you’d like to wind
up today. So why be in a hurry to get
there? Savor each step that leads to
your destination, and let the fullness of
the day embrace you.
SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21) When you
love something, you empower it to some
degree. This is true even if your love
comes from a great distance. It’s still
true if you love in secret and no one
knows but you.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) You’ll
hear good news about a friend and be
one of the few people big-hearted
enough to actually be happy about this
— instead of just acting happy because
it’s what’s expected.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) Your hard
work makes it possible for you to experience the kind of heaven that touches to
Earth when a project is finished or a
child finally falls asleep.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) An upcoming
social situation may have you worried,
but you can relax. You don’t need to try
to be anything. You will be surprised at
how witty and charming you are when
you don’t try.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) You’ll dive
into the work that is laid before you and
involve yourself deeply. The deeper you
go the more you like it. This feeling of
being completely useful is sublime.
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BUSINESS
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Signs of turnaround?
J.C. Penney’s latest report card is
expected to show a decline in sales
versus a year ago.
Investors will be looking for signs
that the struggling department store
chain is making progress toward
stemming the declines. Penney,
which is due to report its thirdquarter results today, is trying to
recover from a botched transformation plan spearheaded by former
CEO Ron Johnson. Part of its turnaround strategy has involved bringing back more frequent sales.
$25
JCP
Spotlight on Lowe’s
LOW
$50.44
How has eliminating sale prices $54
on many items affected Lowe’s?
$31.98
Investors find out today,
42
when the home-improvement
chain reports its latest quarterly
’13
results. Lowe’s has revamped
30
its pricing strategy, returning
est.
Operating
$0.40 $0.48
to offering what it says are
EPS
3Q ’14
3Q ’13
permanent low prices on
many items, instead of fleeting
Price-earnings ratio: 26
discounts. Also of interest: How based on trailing 12 month results
Lowe’s $205 million acquisition
Dividend: $0.72 Div yield: 1.4%
of Orchard Supply Hardware
Source: FactSet
Stores is faring.
$8.71
15
5
$16.28
’13
Operating
EPS
3Q ’13
3Q ’14
-$0.93
est.
-$1.70
Price-earnings ratio:
lost money
based on trailing 12 month results
Dividend: none
Source: FactSet
Local Stocks
NAME
TICKER
AT&T Inc
T
AMD
Alcoa
Anadarko
52-WK RANGE
LO
HI
CLOSE
CHG %CHG
YTD
1YR
VOL
WK MO QTR %CHG %RTN (Thous) P/E
DIV
1.80
32.71
5
39.00
35.72
+.12
+0.3
s
s
s
+6.0
AMD
1.84
6
4.65
3.42
-.05
-1.4
t
s
t
+42.5
+86.6
20020
dd
...
AA
7.63
7
9.97
9.13
+.18
+2.0
s
t
s
+5.2
+10.9
25276
26
0.12
APC
71.04
8
98.47
90.70
+.32
+0.4
t
t
t
+22.1
+29.6
2595
26
0.72
BP PLC
BP
39.99
0
47.30
46.95
+.03
+0.1
t
s
s
+12.8
+22.7
3667
11
2.28f
BakrHu
BHI
39.56
0
58.83
57.16
-.17
-0.3
t
r
s
+39.9
+44.0
3108
23
0.60
BkofAm
BAC
9.32
0
15.17
15.20
+.28
+1.9
s
s
s
+30.9
+63.9
159041
20
0.04
BestBuy
BBY
11.20
9
44.66
38.78 -4.78 -11.0
t
t
s +227.3 +221.7
31748
dd
0.68
Chevron
CVX
102.76
+1.2
s
s
s
+12.9
+21.5
5525
10
4.00
ChurchDwt
CHD
51.98
9
66.28
64.83
-.79
-1.2
t
s
s
+21.0
+28.2
546
24
1.12
Cisco
CSCO
18.07
4
26.49
21.42
+.13
+0.6
t
t
t
+9.0
+22.0
55986
12
0.68
Citigroup
C
34.04
9
53.56
51.17
+.38
+0.7
s
s
s
+29.3
+45.3
19849
13
0.04
ExxonMbl
XOM
84.70
0
96.00
95.42
-.03
...
s
s
s
+10.2
+13.3
12477
10
2.52
FMC Corp
FMC
52.26
0
75.33
73.51
-.34
-0.5
t
t
s
+25.6
+44.1
507
21
0.54
Facebook
FB
22.67
8
54.83
46.36
+.53
+1.2
t
t
t
+74.2
+94.5
74128
97
...
FordM
F
10.65
9
18.02
16.87
-.11
-0.6
t
t
r
+30.3
+65.5
26440
13
0.40
GenElec
GE
20.26
0
27.50
27.03
-.19
-0.7
t
s
s
+28.8
+38.9
35185
20
0.76
GenMotors
GM
24.13
0
39.18
38.01
-.56
-1.5
t
s
s
+31.8
+61.7
19746
16
...
Groupon
GRPN
3.01
7
12.76
9.82
-.59
-5.7
t
t
t +102.1 +249.3
22164
dd
...
Hallibrtn
HAL
31.07
9
56.52
53.76
-.57
-1.0
t
s
s
+55.0
+79.9
7922
18
0.60f
HonwllIntl
HON
59.72
0
89.52
87.86
-.37
-0.4
t
s
s
+38.4
+52.0
1744
22
1.80f
Intel
INTC
19.23
9
25.98
24.70
+.10
+0.4
s
s
s
+19.8
+26.3
23401
13
0.90
Intelliph
IPCI
1.50
0
3.72
4.95 +3.06 +161.9
s
s
s
+98.0
-21.3
21729
dd
...
IBM
IBM
172.57
4503
13
3.80
JPMorgCh
JPM
39.88
1.52
MicronT
MU
5.45
Microsoft
MSFT
Newcastle
Organovo
122.06 +1.50
8 127.83
+12.9
12260
26
3 215.90
185.25
+.78
+0.4
s
s
r
-3.3
+0.7
0
56.93
56.15
+.41
+0.7
s
s
s
+28.6
+44.4
22656
13
0
19.88
19.06
-.23
-1.2
t
s
s +200.6 +252.7
51523
19
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26.26
9
38.22
36.74
-.18
-0.5
t
s
s
+37.6
+42.9
42661
14
1.12f
NCT
3.69
8
6.00
5.34
-.07
-1.3
t
t
t
+31.2
+66.1
33790
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1.80
7
13.65
9.60 -3.15 -24.7
t
s
s +269.2 +498.6
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Penney
JCP
6.24
2
23.10
8.71
...
...
t
s
t
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-46.5
28589
dd
...
Pfizer
PFE
23.87
0
32.21
31.66
-.35
-1.1
t
s
s
+26.2
+38.2
28136
17
0.96
PulteGrp
PHM
14.23
4
24.47
18.21
-.07
-0.4
s
s
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3
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STR
18.88
6
26.01
22.96
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r
t
s
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SLB
67.60
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94.91
91.28
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t
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1.25
SiriusXM
SIRI
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4.18
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t
t
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+41.4
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0.05e
TeslaMot
TSLA
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6 194.50
126.09 +4.51
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t
t +272.3 +281.8
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dd
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UnionPac
UNP
118.19
9 165.18
158.10 -1.20
-0.8
t
s
s
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1701
17
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WmsCos
WMB
30.59
6
38.57
35.03
-.25
-0.7
t
t
t
+7.0
+15.7
6141
39
1.47f
Xerox
XRX
6.25
0
11.18
11.22
+.13
+1.2
s
s
s
+64.5
+81.5
11563
12
0.23
0.40
...
Dividend Footnotes: a - Extra dividends were paid, but are not included. b - Annual rate plus stock. c - Liquidating dividend. e - Amount declared or paid in last 12 months. f
- Current annual rate, which was increased by most recent dividend announcement. i - Sum of dividends paid after stock split, no regular rate. j - Sum of dividends paid this
year. Most recent dividend was omitted or deferred. k - Declared or paid this year, a cumulative issue with dividends in arrears. m - Current annual rate, which was decreased
by most recent dividend announcement. p - Initial dividend, annual rate not known, yield not shown. r - Declared or paid in preceding 12 months plus stock dividend. t - Paid in
stock, approximate cash value on ex-distribution date. PE Footnotes: q - Stock is a closed-end fund - no P/E ratio shown. cc - P/E exceeds 99. dd - Loss in last 12 months.
Commodities
FUELS
CLOSE
Crude Oil (bbl)
93.34
Ethanol (gal)
1.84
Heating Oil (gal)
2.91
Natural Gas (mm btu) 3.56
Unleaded Gas (gal)
2.64
The price of oil
edged higher as
traders waited
for new clues on
U.S. economic
strength and oil
supply figures.
Metals were
mostly higher,
led by palladium. Crops were
mixed.
PVS.
93.03
1.81
2.92
3.62
2.66
%CHG %YTD
+0.33
+1.7
-0.06 -16.2
-0.56
-4.6
-1.69
+6.1
-0.65
-6.1
METALS
Gold (oz)
Silver (oz)
Platinum (oz)
Copper (lb)
Palladium (oz)
CLOSE
1273.40
20.33
1419.90
3.16
721.60
PVS.
1272.20
20.35
1411.00
3.15
716.40
%CHG %YTD
+0.09 -24.0
-0.11 -32.6
+0.63
-7.7
+0.27 -13.2
+0.73
+2.7
AGRICULTURE
CLOSE
PVS.
%CHG %YTD
Cattle (lb)
1.31
Coffee (lb)
1.05
Corn (bu)
4.18
Cotton (lb)
0.76
Lumber (1,000 bd ft) 363.50
Orange Juice (lb)
1.36
Soybeans (bu)
12.76
Wheat (bu)
6.50
1.32
1.06
4.12
0.76
366.90
1.38
12.88
6.42
-0.72
-1.04
+1.40
-0.62
-0.93
-1.16
-0.87
+1.25
+0.8
-27.2
-40.2
+1.0
-2.8
+17.5
-10.0
-16.4
Stocks Recap
1,840
S&P 500
4,000
Nasdaq composite
1,780
Close: 1,787.87
Change: -3.66 (-0.2%)
3,920
Close: 3,931.55
Change: -17.52 (-0.4%)
1,720
3,840
10 DAYS
1,800
3,800
NEW YORK (AP) — Disappointing
earnings news helped push the stock
market lower on Tuesday.
Electronics retailer Best Buy
plunged after saying extended store
hours and price-cutting could squeeze
its fourth-quarter profit. Campbell
Soup fell sharply after reporting that its
profit slumped as sales of soups and V8
drinks fell. The two stocks were the
biggest decliners in the Standard &
Poor’s 500 index.
Even with the slight decline the S&P
500 is still up 25 percent so far in 2013
and has risen for six weeks straight, the
longest winning streak since February.
The extended run-up has prompted a
number of market watchers to call for
caution.
“We’ve had a phenomenal run, particularly in the last few weeks. I wouldn’t be surprised if we would pull back
from here,” said Alec Young, global equity strategist with S&P Capital IQ.
The Dow Jones industrial average
edged down 8.99 points, or .1 percent,
to 15,967.03, the first decline for the index in five days. The Standard &
Poor’s 500 index lost 3.66 points, or .2
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Another Utah refinery has
received approval for a major expansion in a heavily populated corridor struggling to achieve federal air-quality
standards, and a doctors’ group pushing Utah to crack
down harder on polluters says it will try to block Holly Refining & Marketing Co. in court.
Holly and state regulators say new controls will cut
some emissions even as the refinery moves to increase capacity by 50 percent, to 60,000 barrels a day of Utah’s
crude oil.
The state issued Holly a new emissions permit late
Monday.
“We’ll have stricter requirements than any refinery in
the state, and it took us two years to get the permit,”
Michael Astin, Holly’s environmental manager, said Tuesday. “All we’re doing is expanding our output.”
Utah has five oil refineries, all located in the populated
corridor north of Salt Lake City that don’t meet federal
air quality standards.
3,400
J
A
S
O
N
3,200
M
J
J
A
S
O
N
Question of the Day
Have you ever taken
advantage of a retailer’s offer
to match a lower price?
A. yes
B. no
DOW
15,967.03
CRUDE OIL
$93.34
30-YR T-BONDS
3.80%
q
q
p
p
-3.66
NASDAQ
3,931.55
-8.99
GOLD
$1,273.40
+.31
EURO
$1.3531
+.04
6-MO T-BILLS
.10%
q
p
p
n
-17.52
+1.20
+.0031
...
percent, to $80.38 after reporting income that surpassed analysts’ expectations. The company also raised its
earnings forecast for the year.
TJX Cos., which operates discount
stores including T.J. Maxx and Marshalls, climbed 63 cents, or 1 percent,
to $63.12. Its income rose 35 percent as
sales improved at both U.S. and international stores.
Investors will turn their thoughts
back to the Federal Reserve on
Wednesday.
Minutes from the Fed’s October
meeting will be released at 2 p.m. and
investors will scour them to get a read
on the central bank’s stimulus policy.
The central bank is currently buying
$85 billion of bonds a month to keep
interest rates low and boost the economy. That has underpinned a rally in
stocks.
Investors were also watching JPMorgan Chase. The bank reached a record
$13 billion settlement with federal and
New York State authorities, resolving
claims over the bank’s sales of mortgage-backed securities that collapsed
during the U.S. housing crisis.
BUSINESS BRIEF
Union Pacific Railroad excels in
speed, customer service
OMAHA, Neb. — Union Pacific said its superior network performance and best average train speed allows
customers to take advantage of the record grain harvest.
“The combination of Union Pacific’s train speed performance and available grain car fleet translates into increased freight capacity for the railroad’s agricultural
customers,” Paul Hammes, UP vice president and general manager of agricultural products.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture said it expects
13.99 billion bushels of corn, up from the September
forecast of 13.8 billion bushels. The previous record was
13.1 billion in 2009. In a press release, UP said customer
commitments for Union Pacific trains have increased
accordingly, and the company shipped an all-time high
number of grain trains to the Pacific Northwest in
October.
An unwelcome age
At just over 56 months old, the current bull
market is way past toddlerhood.
It has already had several growth spurts since
ince
its birth after the Standard & Poor’s 500 index
ex
bottomed on March 9, 2009. The index has
surged more than 160 percent, and closed att a
record high last week following years of
corporate profit growth and stimulus from the
Federal Reserve.
But guess how long the average bull market
ket
Start End
J
S&P 500
1,787.87
percent, to 1,787.87 and the Nasdaq
composite fell 17.51 points, or 0.4 percent, to 3,931.55.
The Dow Jones industrial average
and the S&P 500 crossed round-number milestones in early trading Monday
but failed to build on those advances.
The Dow crossed 16,000 and the S&P
500 hit 1,800 for the first time before
falling back to close below those levels
both Monday and Tuesday.
Retailers were a key focus on Tuesday, especially with the holiday shopping season coming up. Black Friday,
the day after Thanksgiving, is one of
the biggest shopping days of the year.
Consumer spending is a critical component of the U.S. economy, so how
consumers behave during the closely
watched holiday season will give investors a sign about the outlook for
growth.
Best Buy sank $4.78, or 11 percent,
to $38.78 after its warning of a tough
holiday trading period ahead. The
company’s stock is still up 227 percent
this year, making it the second-best
performer in the S&P 500 after Netflix.
Home Depot rose 71 cents, or 0.9
Regulators OK a major
expansion for Utah refinery
3,600
M
Wall Street gets a closer look today at what
transpired at last month’s meeting of the Federal
Reserve’s policymakers.
Investors will get to see the minutes of the
two-day meeting, when Fed officials determined that
the central bank’s low
interest-rate policies
are still needed to
invigorate a subpar
U.S. economy. That
means the Fed will
continue to buy $85
billion a month in
bonds.
Length of S&P 500 bull markets since
the Great Depression
1,650
1,550
Fed in focus
Stocks edge lower after
disappointing earnings
1,700
1,600
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10 DAYS
4,000
1,750
Y E S T E R D AY ’ S P O L L
As the stock market reaches
new heights, how concerned
are you that it’s due to fall?
somewhat
25%
Quick click your answers at
neutral
25%
very
50%
not at
all
0%
2009
?
2002 2007
1990 2000
1987 1990
1982 1987
1974 1980
1970 1973
1966 1968
1962 1966
1957 1961
1949 1956
1942 1946
1932 1937
Average
Number of
months
56
60
113
31
60
74
32
26
44
50
86
49
57
57
Source: S&P Dow Jones Indices
Rise of
S&P 500
164.3%
101.5
417.0
64.8
228.8
125.6
73.5
48.0
79.8
86.4
266.3
157.7
324.5
164.5
has lasted before it max
maxed
ed out an
and
d fell
fell into
decline? Since the Great Depression: 57 months,
according to S&P Dow Jones Indices. Gulp.
Not only is the current run for stocks hitting the
average lifespan of a bull market, it has also
closed in on the average gain. Since 1932, the
S&P 500 has risen an average 164.5 percent
during bull market runs.
Of course, several bull markets have been
better than average. And many strategists on
Wall Street forecast still more gains ahead due
in part to their expectations for continued
earnings growth. Barclays strategist Barry
Knapp says the S&P 500 could end 2014 at
1,900, for example. That would be a 6.3 percent
rise from Tuesday’s close.
Data as of Nov. 19
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NATIONAL
Study: Kids are less fit
than their parents were
15
Senate paralyzed
on what to do
about Guantanamo
MARILYNN MARCHIONE
AP Chief Medical Writer
BRADLEY KLAPPER
Associated Press
DALLAS (AP) — Today’s kids
can’t keep up with their parents.
An analysis of studies on millions of children around the
world finds they don’t run as
fast or as far as their parents did
when they were young.
On average, it takes children
90 seconds longer to run a mile
than their counterparts did 30
years ago. Heart-related fitness
has declined 5 percent per
decade since 1975 for children
ages 9 to 17.
The American Heart Association, whose conference featured
the research on Tuesday, says
it’s the first to show that children’s fitness has declined
worldwide over the last three
decades.
“It makes sense. We have kids
that are less active than before,”
said Dr. Stephen Daniels, a University of Colorado pediatrician
and spokesman for the heart association.
Health experts recommend
that children 6 and older get 60
minutes of moderately vigorous
activity accumulated over a day.
Only one-third of American kids
do now.
“Kids aren’t getting enough
opportunities to build up that
activity over the course of the
day,” Daniels said. “Many
schools, for economic reasons,
don’t have any physical education at all. Some rely on recess”
to provide exercise.
Sam Kass, a White House
chef and head of first lady
Photo courtesy of Mike Baird
Health experts recommend that children 6 and older get 60 minutes of moderately vigorous activity accumulated over a day. Only one-third of American kids do now.
Michelle Obama’s Let’s Move
program, stressed the role of
schools in a speech to the conference on Monday.
“We are currently facing the
most sedentary generation of
children in our history,” Kass
said.
The new study was led by
Grant Tomkinson, an exercise
physiologist at the University of
South Australia. Researchers
analyzed 50 studies on running
fitness — a key measure of car-
diovascular health and endurance — involving 25 million
children ages 9 to 17 in 28 countries from 1964 to 2010.
The studies measured how far
children could run in 5 to 15
minutes and how quickly they
ran a certain distance, ranging
from half a mile to two miles.
Today’s kids are about 15 percent less fit than their parents
were, researchers concluded.
“The changes are very similar
for boys and girls and also for
various ages,” but differed by geographic region, Tomkinson
said.
The decline in fitness seems
to be leveling off in Europe, Australia and New Zealand, and
perhaps in the last few years in
North America. However, it continues to fall in China, and Japan
never had much falloff — fitness
has remained fairly consistent
there. About 20 million of the 25
million children in the studies
were from Asia.
What did Narcissus say to Instagram? Selfie time!
LEANNE ITALIE
Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP) — Britain’s
Oxford University Press declared “selfie” word of the year
for 2013.
In these hyper-connected,
over-shared times dwell two
kinds of people: those preoccupied with taking and uploading
photos of themselves and those
who have never heard of the selfie.
The raunchy, goofy, poignant,
sexy or drunken self-portrait has
been a common sight since
phone camera met social media.
Now, nearly a decade since the
arm-extended or in-the-mirror
photos became a mainstay of
MySpace — duck face or otherwise — selfies are a pastime
across generations and cultures.
Justin Bieber puts up plenty
with his shirt off and Rihanna
poses for sultry snaps, but a
beaming Hillary Clinton recently took a turn with daughter
Chelsea, who tweeted their happy first attempt with the hashtag
(hash)ProudDaughter.
Two other famous daughters,
Sasha and Malia Obama, selfied
at dad’s second inauguration,
pulling faces in front of a smartphone. And Japanese astronaut
Aki Hoshide earned a spot in the
Selfie Hall of Fame with a striking, other-worldly shot, arms ex-
tended as reflected in his helmet
outside the International Space
Station last year.
“It just comes so naturally after a point,” said Elizabeth
Zamora, a 24-year-old marketing
account coordinator in Dallas
who has taken hundreds of selfies since she got her first iPhone
two years ago, with the front-facing camera that has become the
selfie gold standard.
“You just take it and you don’t
even realize it and then you’re
sharing it with all your friends,”
she said. “I try not to go crazy.”
If we’re not taking them, we’re
certainly looking, regardless of
whether we know what they’re
called. We’re lurking on the selfies of our teens, enjoying the hijinx of co-workers and friends
and mooning over celebrities,
who have fast learned the marketing value — and scandalous
dangers — of capturing their
more intimate, unpolished
selves.
The practice of freezing and
sharing our thinnest slices of life
has become so popular that the
granddaddy of dictionaries, the
Oxford, is monitoring the term
selfie as a possible addition.
Time magazine included the selfie in its Top 10 buzzwords of
2012 (at No. 9) and New York
magazine’s The Cut blog declared in April: “Ugly Is the New
Pretty: How Unattractive Selfies
Took Over the Internet.”
On Instagram alone, there’s
(hash)selfiesunday, along with
related tags where millions of
selfies land daily. More than 23
million photos have been uploaded to the app with the tag
(hash)selfie and about 70 million
photos
clog
Instagram’s
(hash)me.
What are we to make of all this
navel-gazing (sometimes literally)? Are selfies, by definition,
culturally dangerous? Offensive?
An indicator of moral decline?
Beverly Hills, Calif., psychiatrist Carole Lieberman sees narcissism with a capital N. “The
rise of the selfie is a perfect
metaphor for our increasingly
narcissistic culture. We’re desperately crying out: Look at me!”
But Pamela Rutledge doesn’t
see it that way. The director of
the nonprofit Media Psychology
Research Center, which explores
how humans interact with technology, sees the selfie as democratizing the once-snooty practice
of self-portraiture, a tradition
that long predates Instagram,
Twitter, Facebook and Flickr.
She sees some key differences
between selfies and self-portraits
of yore. Unlike painted portraiture, selfies are easily deletable.
And “bad or funny is good in a
way that wasn’t the case when
people had to pay for film to be
developed,” or for a professional
Nuremberg transcript donated to Holocaust Museum
BRETT ZONGKER
Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — A
one-time U.S. Army reporter
during World War II donated a
never-before-published
transcript of radio coverage of the
Nuremberg war crimes trials of
Nazi leaders to the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum on
Tuesday — 68 years to the day
after he began reporting on the
landmark military tribunal.
Harold Burson covered the trials in 1945 and 1946 for the
American Forces Network on
the radio. He wrote extensive
scripts for on-air announcers
who were broadcasting to U.S.
soldiers in Europe and to the
English-speaking population in
Germany during the first
Nuremberg trial.
Burson, now 92, took the train
from New York to Washington to
deliver his collection of 40
scripts to curators Tuesday. The
broadcast recordings have been
lost. After the war years, Burson,
went on to create the large public relations firm BursonMarsteller.
In 1945, 22 Nazi political, military and economic leaders were
put on trial in Nuremberg, Germany, for crimes against humanity. Of those, three were acquitted, 12 were executed, three were
sent to prison for life and four
others were imprisoned for 10 to
20 years, according to museum
records.
Burson was 24 when he began
reporting on the courtroom
scene, the defendants and the
key players. Before enlisting in
the Army, he had paid for college
by working as a stringer for his
hometown newspaper, The
Commercial Appeal in Memphis, Tenn. He joined about 200
other news reporters covering
the first trial.
“To me, it was exhilarating because these were arguably the
best news people in the world,”
Burson told The Associated
Press, recalling how he met Walter Cronkite who was reporting
at the time for United Press and
Howard K. Smith of CBS. “My
audience was primarily the million or so soldiers who were still
in Europe and had fought the
war.”
Burson said surveys at the
time also showed the American
military radio network was one
of the most trusted sources of
news in Germany after the war
because people believed the U.S.
Army would not lie to its troops.
So Burson was under orders to
report for English-speaking people in Germany as well.
“General Eisenhower wanted
the German people to know exactly what happened and how
the war began and how it was
prosecuted by the Nazi regime,”
he said.
The United States, Soviet
Union, Great Britain and France
all supplied judges and a prosecution team for the trials. Burson reported on efforts to make
the trials fair and legitimate for
the defendants, including paying
for defense lawyers.
painter, she said.
“Albrecht Durer’s self-portraiture is these incredible self-reflections and explorations of
technique, and then when Rihanna snaps her picture it’s just selfaggrandizement, or it’s promotion, so you have a fairly interesting double standard based upon
who’s taking the self-portrait,”
said Rutledge, in Boston.
In selfies, we can be famous
and in control of our own images
and storylines. As for the young,
the more authority figures —
parents, teachers — dislike them
and “declare them a sign of a
self-obsessed, narcissistic generation, the more desirable they
become,” she said.
WASHINGTON (AP) —
Senators on Tuesday illustrated their paralysis over what to
do with the Guantanamo Bay
prison, voting down dueling
bills to loosen and tighten restrictions on transferring detainees. The result fails to significantly advance President
Barack Obama’s long-standing
goal of closing the facility for
terror suspects, but prevents
rules from being inserted into
the Senate’s annual defense
policy bill that would have
made it even harder to try detainees in the United States or
release them overseas.
Almost 12 years after its creation and almost five years
since Obama vowed on his first
day in office to close the prison,
164 suspects remain at the U.S.
naval facility in Cuba. Restrictions imposed by Congress
have brought transfers to a virtual standstill even though
more than half the men there
have been cleared for transfer.
An amendment to the defense bill proposed by Sens.
Carl Levin, D-Mich., and John
McCain, R-Ariz., would have
eased the Obama administration’s ability to detain and try
suspects in the United States or
release them overseas. But it
fell eight votes shy of the 60vote threshold needed for passage. The vote was 52-46.
“I would hope this could be
broadly supported,” Levin said
before the vote.
McCain read a letter from 38
former U.S. military leaders
voicing their support. It called
Guantanamo a “symbol of torture” and a recruiting tool for
al-Qaida.
Earlier, an opposing amendment championed by Republican senators such as Kelly Ay-
otte of New Hampshire and
Saxby Chambliss of Georgia
that would have made it even
harder for Obama to move prisoners was defeated 55-43.
One of the backers, Sen.
James Inhofe, R-Okla., defended the treatment of Guantanamo detainees and said one
of their biggest problems was
obesity.
“They’re eating better than
they’ve ever eaten at any other
time in their life,” Inhofe said.
Ayotte said that without
Guantanamo the United States
would have no adequate place
for prolonged interrogation of
major terrorists such as al-Qaida leader Ayman al-Zawahiri
were he to be captured.
The stalemate leaves language in the defense bill that
only slightly advances Obama’s
cause. The White House has
called the bill constructive
while insisting that even more
be done to provide officials
with the necessary flexibility to
close the prison.
Any final law needs the
GOP-led House’s support, and
such a scenario is highly unlikely.
Congressional
politics
loomed large in the votes. Joining the majority of Republicans
who voted to keep the detention center open were Democratic Sens. Kay Hagan of North
Carolina and Mark Pryor of
Arkansas, who face tough reelection races next year in
states Republican presidential
candidate Mitt Romney won in
2012.
Pryor was joined by four of
the most liberal Democratic
members of the Senate in voting against Levin and McCain’s
amendment: Patrick Leahy of
Vermont, Ron Wyden of Oregon, Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts and Bernie Sanders
of Vermont.
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