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Search continues for
missing U.S. troops
Fossils
Photo by Steve Burwick
Dr. Mick Whitelaw, second from right, helps students locate small fossils in the “spoil
piles” at the Gray Fossil Site. Students from across the state are participating in East
Tennessee State University’s Governor’s School Program, getting hands-on experience
in projects such as this to explore Tennessee heritage.
Digging in the dirt —
high school students get
hands-on experience
By Steve Burwick
STAR STAFF
[email protected]
A group of high school students from
around the state are getting the opportunity to dig for bones at the Gray Fossil Site,
as part of East Tennessee State University’s
Governor’s School Program.
Dr. Mick Whitelaw, an associate professor in ETSU’s Department of Physics, Astronomy and Geology, has had students
“down in the pits” getting hands-on experience in paleontology at the site where
road crews halted construction six years
ago due to the discovery of a major fossil
site.
Gov. Phil Bredesen made some changes
to the Governor’s Schools last year to
strengthen the programs. The nine schools
in the state that offer the program were extended from four to five weeks and now
offer college credit.
Gifted and talented juniors and seniors
have been admitted to ETSU through the
P-16 initiative. Through lectures and field
work, they will earn seven hours of credit
for two courses, “Introduction to Historical
Geology,” taught by Dr. Whitelaw, and
“History of Tennessee,” taught by Dusty
Sayers, a history teacher who specializes in
the Lost State of Franklin. ETSU’s Governor’s School, which is coordinated by the
Center for Appalachian Studies and Services, has changed its focus from Tennessee heritage to the scientific exploration
of that heritage.
“The students come up here for their
paleontology field work,” said John
Moonyham, a Governor’s School counselor at ETSU. “We’ve got four different
groups. Half of them are working at the
Gray Fossil Site and the other half is working on historic preservation at a cemetery
in Joneborough.”
“At the moment, the interpretation is
that we have a sinkhole,” said Whitelaw,
explaining the fossil site. “We think there
were steep walls, because we have blocks
of limestone that we can see fell into lake
sediments and squashed them, and they
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Photo by Steve Burwick
Students are hard at work in the “rhino pit” at the Gray Fossil Site. Digging for fossils
is slow and tedious, but a very rewarding experience for these high school juniors and
seniors, who receive college credit for a head start in the school of their choice.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) —
A farmer claiming to have
witnessed an attack on a
U.S. military checkpoint
said Sunday that insurgents
swarmed the scene, killing
the driver of a Humvee before taking two of his comrades captive.
The U.S. military has only
said the soldiers are missing.
U.S. troops, backed by
helicopters and warplanes,
fanned out across the “Triangle of Death” south of
Baghdad searching for the
missing servicemen. At least
four raids had been carried
out, but the captives were
not found, the military said.
Another local resident
said the soldiers searched
houses on Sunday and
promised a $100,000 reward
for any information leading
to the missing soldiers.
White House spokesman
Tony Snow said he had no
new information about the
search and could not confirm reports the two men
were abducted.
“We’re still trying to ascertain their whereabouts,”
he told CNN’s “Late Edition.” “Obviously, there is a
vigorous effort to try to locate them and to bring them
back safely.”
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carried out raids
and were
searching the
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soldiers missing after
an attack at a checkpoint.
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spokesman,
Maj.
Gen.
William Caldwell, said Saturday a dive team also was
searching for the men,
whose checkpoint was near
a Euphrates River canal not
far from Youssifiyah, 12
miles south of Baghdad. The
Sunni region is the site of
frequent ambushes of U.S.
soldiers and Iraqi troops.
The Defense Department
identified the missing men
as Pfc. Kristian Menchaca,
23, of Houston, and Pfc.
Thomas L. Tucker, 25, of
Madras, Ore. It said Spc.
David J. Babineau, 25, of
Springfield, Mass., was
killed in the attack. The
three were assigned to the
1st Battalion, 502nd Infantry
Regiment, 2nd Brigade,
101st Airborne Division (Air
Assault), Fort Campbell, Ky.
Ahmed Khalaf Falah, a
farmer who said he witnessed the attack Friday,
said three Humvees were
manning a checkpoint when
they came under fire from
many
directions.
Two
Humvees went after the assailants, but the third was
ambushed before it could
move, he told The Associated Press.
Seven masked gunmen,
including one carrying what
Falah described as a heavy
machine gun, killed the
driver of the third vehicle,
then took the two other U.S.
soldiers captive, the witness
said. His account could not
be verified independently.
The U.S. military said
Sunday it was continuing
the search.
“Coalition
and
Iraqi
forces will continue to
search everywhere possible,
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Many hospitals seeing increase
in charity care since TennCare cuts
NASHVILLE (AP) —
Hospitals say they’ve seen a
drastic increase in charity
care since Gov. Phil Bredesen
cut thousands of people
from Tennessee’s expanded
Medicaid program.
“We’re seeing a trend,”
said Michael Huggins of the
Tennessee Hospital Association, which is lobbying state
and federal officials for more
money to treat the uninsured. “We’re seeing a decline in TennCare ER visits, a
decline in TennCare inpatients and an increase in
charity and uninsured care.”
Spiraling TennCare costs
led Bredesen last year to kick
about 170,000 people off the
program, which at its height
was one of the most generous government-sponsored
health care programs in the
country.
But many of those disenrolled are unable to pay to be
treated, meaning hospitals
most absorb the costs.
For instance, HCA Inc.,
which operates more hospitals than anyone else in the
Nashville area, said it’s providing 78 percent more uncompensated care now than
it did a year ago.
Vanderbilt
University
Medical Center, the largest
hospital in Middle Tennessee, has seen a nearly 56
percent increase in unpaid
medical bills, according to
officials.
Saint Thomas Health Services, which owns Saint
Thomas and Baptist hospitals, said the amount of charity care it provides has nearly doubled since the second
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half of 2005.
And Nashville General
Hospital at Meharry, the
city’s public, nonprofit hospital, said its charity care is
expected to reach $10.2 million in the budget year ending June 30, up about 82 percent from fiscal 2005.
But Lola Potter, spokeswoman for the state’s commissioner of finance, said
“all the hospitals’ issues cannot be tracked to TennCare.”
“You can’t ignore that
there are very real issues nationally that are driving
some of the problems hospitals are having,” such as
crowded emergency rooms
and staffing shortages, Potter said.
She cited a May report on
TennCare commissioned by
the state comptroller’s office
that showed the state’s hospitals as a group had aboveaverage profit margins between 2000 and 2004.
Potter also noted that
safety-net hospitals treating
the largest share of TennCare
patients got some relief this
spring in a one-time payment of $50 million in supplemental
essential-access
payments to the state by the
Centers for Medicare and
Medicaid Services.
Following the massive
disenrollment from TennCare, Bredesen set up a
safety-net program to provide transitional care for
those cut.
Last week, the governor
announced that “safety net”
services would be extended
through 2006, past the original deadline set for the end
of the month.
Those services include
free generic drugs and discounts; affordable insulin
and diabetic supplies; organ
transplant assistance for disenrollees; medication for
dialysis patients; subsidies
for oncology services and
chemotherapy; help for hemophiliacs; and home oxygen assistance.
In addition, TennCare
spokeswoman Marilyn Wilson said safety-net hospitals
are budgeted to get $125 million in essential-access payments in fiscal 2006, which
begins on July 1. She said all
health care providers, including
hospitals,
also
would see a 2.5 percent increase in TennCare payments in the coming year.
Hospitals are also hoping
to get relief from the new
Cover Tennessee program,
which Bredesen signed into
law last week. The initiative
will offer basic health coverage for uninsured workers,
children, and some people
with pre-existing conditions
who can’t get coverage from
private insurers.
Even though Cover Tennessee will provide only basic medical coverage with
premiums of about $150,
some hospitals say that’s
helpful.
“If it’s taking a person
with no insurance and providing them with some insurance, now you’d get
something for delivering
care to that person,” said
Alan Strauss, chief financial
officer for Saint Thomas
Health Services.
America’s national
parks becoming islands
√ GLACIER NATIONAL PARK, Mont. (AP) — The
ice-covered mountaintops are shrouded by fog. A
stream gushes against the rocks on a headlong rush to
the lake. High above the deserted visitors’ parking lot,
an elk stares at a lone hiker.
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America’s national parks becoming islands
GLACIER
NATIONAL
PARK, Mont. (AP) — The icecovered mountaintops are
shrouded by fog. A stream
gushes against the rocks on a
headlong rush to the lake.
High above the deserted visitors’ parking lot, an elk stares
at a lone hiker.
Glacier National Park is
an island, a sanctuary from
the outside world.
For how long?
To the west, subdivisions,
vacation homes and large
chain stores march toward its
borders. To the north, bulldozers pause for the winter
before
pushing
deeper
through the forests to a
planned coal mine in the
Canadian Flathead River Valley.
To the south, an emotional
debate rages over whether to
allow oil and gas interests to
explore a sacred Blackfoot Indian plot. From above, gradual warming continues to
nibble away at the park’s
famed glaciers. Once as
many as 150, they barely
number 35 today.
“If this keeps up, we may
be looking at the National
Park Formerly Known as
Glacier,” said Steve Thompson, a Montana program
manager for the nonprofit
National Parks Conservation
Association.
Glacier is not alone.
An Associated Press review finds the national parks
are facing unprecedented
pressures inside and outside
their borders from population growth, homeland security concerns and Americans’
insatiable desires for conveniences such as hotels, restaurants, stores, cell phones and
vacation homes.
Development Inside Parks
Within their boundaries,
the parks are generally calm,
placid and among the
world’s
most
beautiful
places. The National Park
Service said 95 percent of visitors rate their experience as
good or excellent.
Nonetheless, 30 cellular
phone towers have been
erected inside parks; one is in
view of Yellowstone’s famed
Old Faithful geyser. At Georgia’s Kennesaw Mountain,
an emergency radio communications tower has been constructed above Civil War cannons.
At Arizona’s Organ Pipe
Cactus National Monument,
officials have built an $18
million, 30-mile steel-andconcrete vehicle barrier to
slow illegal immigration and
drug trafficking.
Fifteen sea and lake parks
have acquiesced to recreational enthusiasts and are
allowing Jet Skis and other
personal watercraft, or are
expected to do so.
At the Grand Canyon in
Arizona, the clatter of tourist
helicopters and whine of
planes compete with the rush
of the river, the warbling of
birds and the whispers of the
breeze.
Burgeoning Outside
Pressures
Just outside park borders,
the pressures are more dramatic from construction,
population explosions, pollution, exotic species — even illegal aliens.
An AP analysis of census
data shows that more than
1.3 million people since 1990
have moved into counties
surrounding six of the bestloved parks: Gettysburg,
Everglades, Glacier, Yellowstone, Shenandoah and Great
Smoky Mountains.
The average number of
people per square mile in
those counties has grown by
one-third. The four urban
counties around the Florida
Everglades show the most
dramatic gains. But even in
the remote areas of Glacier,
the number of people per
square mile has risen from
eight in 1990 to 11 in 2005.
Likewise, park visitation
has soared from 79 million in
1960 to 273 million today.
Pollution that has drifted
scores of miles into parks is
affecting visitors, plant life
and wildlife.
Last year, the air breathed
by park visitors exceeded
eight-hour safe levels of
ozone 150 times in 13 parks,
from California to Virginia.
Overall, air at one-third of
parks monitored by the Park
Service continues to worsen
even as the government puts
in place pollution controls
aimed at clearing the air by
2064.
Great Smoky Mountains
National Park in Tennessee
and North Carolina, the most
frequently visited park, has
air quality similar to that of
Los Angeles.
Many others, including
Shenandoah in Virginia,
Mammoth Cave in Kentucky,
Sequoia and Kings Canyon
in California and Acadia in
Maine also suffer reduced
views and damage to natural
resources, mostly from pollutants from coal-fired power
plants.
Foreign species of plants,
animals, bugs and worms
that travel via vehicles and
visitors now invade 2.6 million acres of national parkland and are destroying natural resources.
The Mexican border and
homeland security demands
pose their own pressure. As
many as 1,000 aliens and
drug smugglers pour into
Arizona’s Organ Pipe daily,
diverting 75 percent of
rangers’ time to the problem,
superintendent
Kathy
Billings said.
The crush of human traffic
has driven the endangered
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Sonoran pronghorn antelope
and threatened pygmy owl
from their habitats, while
leaving a trail of ravaged
vegetation and human excrement.
“Some areas, the smell of
the human waste just hits
you,” Billings said recently.
“It’s overwhelming right
now and it’s not safe for our
staff to go out and start a
cleanup.”
Massive new water demand from explosive population growth is draining water aquifers that affect parks.
In Florida, the fast-draining Everglades are affected
by an average of 900 new
Florida residents a day who
create a daily new demand
for 200,000 gallons of water,
the park service said.
The Devil’s Hole pupfish,
a teaspoon-sized fish in the
Nevada desert of Death Valley National Park, is the impetus for recurring complaints from park officials
against sprawling development in southern Nevada.
Park officials link the incremental decline in the water level of the endangered
fish’s rock-pool habitat to
pumping of the interconnected aquifers that quench the
region’s thirst.
The park awaits money
from Washington to determine which part of the deep
aquifers affect Devil’s Hole
and the 38 adult pupfish it
holds.
Blemished Vistas
The changes in the outside
world are becoming more
visible inside the nation’s 390
parks, marring once unblemished vistas.
Vacation homes now dot
the shores lining Acadia and
the mountains that border
the Great Smoky Mountains
National Park. Subdivisions
have sprouted up around
hallowed Civil War sites such
as Manassas Battlefield Park
in Virginia.
Convenience stores, strip
malls and shopping centers
line the roads to many parks.
Traffic piles up, aggravating
visitors and residents alike.
Pollution has diminished
the average daytime visibility from 90 miles to less than
25 miles at Eastern parks,
and in the West from 140
miles to between 35 miles
and 90 miles, the Environmental Protection Agency
said.
John Bunyak, branch chief
in the Park Service Air Resources Division, said visibility is expected to improve in
the coming decades with
new regional haze regulations.
Even the parks’ famed
views of starry skies are in
jeopardy.
Nighttime lights, beaming
from cities and towns 200
miles away from parks such
as Mount Rainier in Washington state and Yosemite in
California, reduce star visibility and can affect nocturnal wildlife.
In urban regions, including Santa Monica Mountains
National Recreation Area in
California, visitors can only
see a few hundred stars instead of the 8,000 that would
be visible in pristine conditions.
“If there’s no place that is
clear and clean, if there’s no
place that is dark and starry,
where does that leave us?”
asks Chad Moore, program
manager for the National
Park Service’s Night Sky
Team. “If we can’t protect the
best parts of America in national parks, then we’re certainly not going to be able to
protect them anywhere else.”
Americans Split
Americans are split on
park development.
More than 40 percent favor increasing development
inside parks, such as cell
towers and snowmobile
trails, an AP-Ipsos poll
found. One-third favored increasing developments such
as resort hotels and residential subdivisions outside
park boundaries.
Joe Westbrook, a coal miner in Corbin, Ky., said he occasionally drives through the
heavily
forested
federal
lands in eastern Kentucky
and sees missed opportunities for development. “Folks
have got to go some place,”
he said. “If they want to develop it, I’d have no problem
with it.”
Across the continent near
Salem, Ore., Jessie Hankins,
22, said a cross-country drive
that included a stop at Yellowstone convinced him that
parks ought to be kept free of
development. “To me, the
parks ought to be enjoyed for
the natural things that make
them what they are,” Hankins said.
Little Momentum for
Change
With war, terrorism and
budget pressures, there is little pressure in Washington
for buffering the parks from
outside development.
Lynn Scarlett, the acting
Interior secretary, said it
would be futile to try to create artificial barriers to protect parks from the outside
world. Instead, she said, the
government needs to work
with state, local and private
landowners. “Nature itself,”
she said, “knows no boundaries.”
Park officials found themselves in a firestorm when a
draft the revised blueprint
for operating national parks
was leaked last year. Critics
saw in its omissions and
word changes an effort to expand recreational opportunities at a cost to preservation.
The director of the National Park Service, Fran Mainella, said officials were simply
trying to address new issues
such as homeland security
and computer technology
but concedes the process
could have been handled better. A newer draft scratches
most of the controversial language, according to park officials who have worked on it.
“When the issue is between conservation and use,
conservation will predominate,” Mainella said.
The administration signaled its commitment to
preservation this month by
creating the nation’s newest
national marine preserve — a
1,400-mile chain of islands
northwest of Hawaii that’s
larger than all other national
parks combined.
A Difficult Balancing Act
In some cases, park officials have been able to balance the demands of visitors
with
the
demands
of
progress. For instance, park
superintendents increasingly
rely on shuttle buses and
vans to reduce traffic inside
parks.
But superintendents are
mostly powerless to control
outside growth, which brings
inevitable costs inside the
parks.
Alaska’s Denali National
Park, more than 4,000 miles
from the Park Service’s
Washington
headquarters,
was once among the nation’s
most isolated. Today, it borders a booming resort area
nicknamed Glitter Gulch.
The number of hotel
rooms has doubled, visitors
are staying longer and park
rangers are diverted to help
local law enforcement. Ambulance runs grew 35 percent
last year alone.
“In the height of the summer we are in a reactive
mode responding to emergencies and incidents,” said
Elwood Lynn, assistant park
superintendent for operations. “We have very little
time to do routine patrols
which translates into very lit-
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National Parks face budget struggle
Every year, millions of tourists visit some of the 390 parks that
make up the 90-year-old National Park system. Despite this
popularity, park officials are facing the issue of growing costs as
well as budget erosion.
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tle time for positive interaction with our visitors.”
The pressures from pollution and invasive species illustrate the limits of what
parks can solve.
The Park Service is required by law to aggressively
protect air quality. But since
2001, it has appealed just one
pollution permit while reviewing some 50 industrial
plant applications annually.
Park air quality specialists
say they do persuade plants
to install better technology or
reduce emissions, but state
and local jurisdictions approve the permits.
“Our hands are tied,” said
Bunyak, the service’s air pollution expert. “We don’t have
any control over external
sources.”
Invading species likewise
threaten native plants and
animals. Cheatgrass chokes
streams in Zion National
Park in Utah. Exotic deer are
proliferating in Point Reyes
National Seashore in California. The noisy and voracious
Puerto Rican coqui frog has
made forays into Volcanoes
National Park in Hawaii.
Researchers believe anglers have introduced nonnative
earthworms
into
Voyageurs National Park in
Minnesota. The earthworms
change the soil, which
changes the trees, which affects water that flows into
lakes.
Invasive species often
proliferate quickly; eliminating them is expensive and la-
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it requires hand removal of
trees or plants and then
chemical
treatment
of
stumps and roots.
The Future
The encroachment shows
no signs of diminishing.
Scenic surroundings make
for desirable real estate, uncertain oil supplies keep new
coal-fired power plants coming and at least some tourists
continue to demand conveniences in the wild.
National parks also are at
the mercy of private “inholders,” owners of parcels within park boundaries who
could develop their land because the park lacks money
to buy it.
Likewise, parks face development on their fringes.
A casino is proposed within
cannon range of a historic
Gettysburg battlefield. Several hundred new homes are
approved for construction
along the scenic New River
Gorge National River in
West Virginia.
Tom Kiernan, president of
the National Parks Conservation Association, said
parks often are viewed as
narrators of the American
story.
“The parks are beginning
to tell another story as well:
the story of funding shortfall, the story of very poor air
quality, the story of declining
health of the ecological and
cultural resources of the
park,” he said.
Jury selection complete
for S.C. murder trial
GREENVILLE, S.C. (AP)
— Twelve jurors and three alternates have been selected
for the death penalty trial of a
couple accused of killing a
Greenville businessman after
luring him from his home
under the guise of buying his
car.
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picked Sunday morning and
the trial is expected to begin
this afternoon. Jurors will be
sequestered at a local motel
during the trial.
David Wendell Edens, 36,
and Jennifer Annette Holloway, 28, are charged with
kidnapping and murder in
the death of Jim Cockman.
The 71-year-old former
chief executive of Sara Lee’s
PYA/Monarch division left
his home on Sept. 14, 2004, to
meet a couple he said was interested in buying his 1996
Suburban.
Prosecutors say Cockman’s body was found nine
days later in a freezer in Tennessee. His head was
wrapped in tape from his collar to his eyebrows.
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UT tuition
increase
likely
KNOXVILLE (AP) — University of Tennessee trustees
are expected to approve one of
the lowest tuition increases in
recent years at the board’s annual meeting this week.
The group will also likely renew the contract of the school’s
president John Petersen, who
told The Knoxville News Sentinel the tuition hike would be
no more than 4.6 percent compared to the 13 percent increase
trustees approved last year for
UT Knoxville.
Students, who now pay
$5,290 in annual tuition and
fees, have seen double-digit tuition increases five times since
1997. Trustees are expected to
meet Tuesday and Wednesday
at the UT Knoxville campus.
School officials say the increase will be more manageable because the Legislature
added $34 million to Gov. Phil
Bredesen’s higher education
budget late in the session for
UT and the Tennessee Board of
Regents System.
UT is getting $13 million of
the $34 million and an additional $4 million for operating
expenses for the Institute of
Agriculture and the Health Science Center in Memphis.
UT’s state appropriation
will be $461.1 million for the
next fiscal year which begins
on July 1. The entire UT system
budget is $1.4 billion.
Petersen said legislators approved the extra money in order to ease tuition hikes.
“We spent an awful lot of
time working with them on
scenarios,” he said. “There had
been rumblings from some legislators last year about possibly
trying to place tuition caps on
UT after last year’s 13 percent
increase.”
Petersen’s contract expires
June 30 and is also on the
trustees’ agenda. He came to
UT in 2004 after two former
presidents before him resigned
amid scandal.
Don Stansberry, vice chairman of the trustees, said he
would recommend the board
extend Petersen’s contract until
2008.
“I’ve interviewed faculty,
alumni, staff, in addition to
talking regularly with other
trustees,” Stansberry said.
“And universally he is considered to be doing an excellent
job.”
Petersen’s base salary would
increase from $380,000 to
$391,400, to reflect a 3 percent
pay raise UT staff got last year.
CCCA Spring Awards
Carolyn Light representing Johnson City Chemical was chosen Business of the Year by the
Carter County Cattlemen’s Association. The award was presented at the spring banquet.
Pictured presenting the awards were Kyle Hyder (left) and Larry Crumley (right).
Brenda Loyd received the Small Farm Producer of the Year Award at the Carter County
Cattlemen’s Association’s spring banquet. She was presented the award by George
Campbell (left) and Bob Townsend (right).
Father’s recently
found son loses
new family’s support
DEAR ABBY: I have been
married to “John” for 18
years. We have two children.
Four years ago, he found out
that he has a son a year and a
half older than our oldest. My
children welcomed “Ricky”
and so did I. Now the problem:
John wants
us
to
treat
Ricky like family, but Ricky
doesn’t have to
treat us like
family. We never hear from
this child; only
my husband
talks to him. When Ricky visits, John waits on him hand
and foot and acts like the perfect father. He pretends he
doesn’t hear Ricky make rude
comments about me and my
children. Ricky can tell John
that one of my children — or I
— said something to upset
him, and it is automatically
our fault, no questions asked.
If Ricky wants money, I am
not consulted. I am told we
are sending it — regardless of
the amount.
I understand John may feel
guilty for not being in Ricky’s
life all those years, but that’s
not our fault. I think that if
Ricky doesn’t accept us, then
we should be left out of it. But
when he comes here, John
wants us all to be present.
Why should we be there for
the rude comments? If I say
anything about it, John says I
don’t love his child. I no
longer say anything when he
visits, afraid of being yelled at
for not being “fair” to Ricky. I
can’t get John to see that my
children and I want to be part
of both their lives, but without walking on eggshells.
Help! — TRYING TO UNDERSTAND IN ARIZONA
DEAR TRYING: You have
already been far more tolerant than many spouses
would have been. When
John accused you of not “loving” his child, you should
have responded: “You have
made it very hard for any of
us to love him because you
tolerate his rudeness to me
and our children. And further, I don’t like the person
you become when he’s
around.”
Yes, your husband may be
overcompensating for the
years he never knew the boy
existed, but has it occurred to
you — and John — that perhaps the boy is punishing
you for having “had” his father all those years, not to
Guard
returns
from Iraq
BOWLING GREEN, Ky. (AP)
— The members of two Kentucky Army National Guard
units paid tribute to one of their
own on Sunday.
The Medics Platoon and Mortar Platoon from the 2nd Battalion, 123rd Armory, honored Staff
Sgt. Brock A. Beery with the playing of “Amazing Grace” and a
moment of silence at a welcome
home ceremony at the National
Guard Armory.
Beery, 30, of White House,
Tenn., was killed on March 23
when the vehicle he was riding in
hit an improvised explosive device near Al Habbaniyah, west of
Fallujah.
The platoons spent almost a
year in Iraq. The Mortar Platoon
conducted patrols and provided
support fire for the 2/28th
Brigade Combat Team and the
2nd Marine Division. The Medical Platoon ran a 24-hour emergency treatment trauma center in
the Al-Ramadi area.
Lt. Brian Combs of Bardstown
told reporters he was “numb” before reaching the armory, where
around 100 family members and
friends were on hand to greet the
platoon’s return.
“It didn’t seem real,” Combs
said.
However, Combs called seeing his two young children the
best Father’s Day gift he had ever
received.
“It’s a special moment for
me,” he said.
A welcome home ceremony
was also planned for the Delta
Company, 1st Battalion, 149th Infantry in Middlesboro on Sunday
afternoon. The infantrymen were
deployed to Iraq in June 2005 and
worked at the Al Asad Air Base,
where they conducted patrols
and operated multiple checkpoints.
DEAR ABBY
mention manipulating John?
Before this unhealthy situation goes further, I strongly recommend that you, your
husband and Ricky have
some sessions with a mental
health professional who specializes in family therapy.
Your marriage could depend
on it.
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about my love life. I am successful at work, own my own
car and home, and have a
great social circle. When I’m
talking with both males and
females during introductions,
one thing always comes up.
“You’re too pretty to be single! I’m sure you can hook a
man.”
I don’t know how to respond politely to this. I have
gone on many dates where
men become obsessive and
controlling, and I end it very
quickly at the first signs of
this behavior. What should I
say to people who keep inquiring about my love life? I
feel they are trying to measure my success as a person by
my marital status. — SINGLE
AND SUCCESSFUL IN CONNECTICUT
DEAR SINGLE AND
SUCCESSFUL: When someone tells you you’re too pretty to be single, respond by
smiling and saying “thank
you.” (I’m sure it’s intended
as a compliment.) And when
they comment about your
ability to “hook” a man, tell
them that’s exactly what you
plan to do when you meet
the right one, but so far you
haven’t met him. Then
change the subject by asking
the questioners about themselves.
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Tom Crumley (left) and Bob Townsend (right) were presented the Directors Choice
Award at the spring banquet of the Carter County Cattlemen’s Association. Brenda Loyd
presented the award.
Jonathan Renfro (right) received the Young Producer of
the Year Award at the spring banquet of the Carter
County Cattlemen’s Association. He was presented the
award by George Campbell.
Father accidentally
shoots and kills son
R.L. Stewart and family were presented the Purebred Award at the Carter County
Cattlemen’s Association spring awards banquet. The award was presented by Brenda
Loyd and Gary Townsend.
OLIVER SPRINGS (AP) — Authorities say a 23-year-old
man died after his father accidentally shot him while cleaning
a handgun on the eve of Father’s Day.
David Spoon Jr. was shot in the chest by David Spoon Sr.
around 9 p.m. Saturday when the father was apparently
cleaning the gun on his front porch and it discharged, say
Roane County sheriff’s officials.
Neighbors heard the shot and ran over to the Spoons’
house. They tried to give the young man CPR but could not
revive him. He was pronounced dead at the scene.
Authorities say there were several witnesses to the incident and no charges are being filed against the father.
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EDITORIAL & COMMENTARY
Congress’ debate on Iraq overdue
The debate that unfolded in
Congress on Iraq and the war
on terror at the end of last
week was two contradictory
things at once: It was phony, a
political set-up by Republicans
who hoped to make Democrats look bad in advance of the
November elections. It was also useful.
Congress too often writes
the checks for the war but too
seldom stops to have a fulltime debate on what that money is buying. Just last Monday,
with little debate, the House of
Representatives approved another $66 billion for military
operations in Iraq and
Afghanistan. As the Associated Press reported, the cost of
the three-year-old war in Iraq
is now about $320 billion, with
another $89 billion spent on
Afghanistan.
And that’s just the nation’s
treasure. On the day the debate began, the cost in blood
happened to come into sharp
focus when the Pentagon announced that 2,500 U.S. troops
have died in the Iraq war.
Thousands more have been
wounded.
So when Congress focused
on the war last Thursday and
Friday, the time was ripe for a
fair and honest debate. Certainly, it was honest, with passionate statements made on
both sides of the aisle. Unfortunately, it wasn’t entirely fair.
In the Senate, the No. 2 Re-
publican leader, Kentucky Sen.
Mitch McConnell, played a
partisan game and introduced
an amendment that he said
was taken from a proposal by
Democratic Sen. John Kerry of
Massachusetts. It called for
President Bush to agree with
the Iraqi government on a
withdrawal schedule by the
end of the year. With only a
few exceptions, Democrats did
OPINION
not take the bait, at least on
this day, and the amendment
was easily removed 93-6.
In the House, the trap was
more cunning. House Resolution 861 was designed so that
those who wanted the United
States to withdraw from Iraq
also had to vote against the
proposition that “the United
States will prevail in the Global War on Terror, the noble
struggle to protect freedom
from the terrorist adversary.”
Forget the false choice for a
moment; why does the Congress have to go on record as
saying the United States will
prevail in the war on terror?
The answer is politics of the
crudest sort, straight out of
the offensive Bush administration playbook that has
sought to suggest that you are
either for us or for the terrorists.
Unless a member of Con-
gress was prepared to declare,
in the words of the resolution,
“that it is not in the national
security interest of the United
States to set an arbitrary date
for the withdrawal or redeployment” of U.S. forces in
Iraq and “that the United
States is committed to the
completion of the mission to
create a sovereign, free and
united Iraq ...” then he or she
risked being viewed as defeatist, unpatriotic or worse.
As absurd as all this was, it is
easy to imagine the hostile
GOP ads targeting opponents
come November.
Not all the Democrats were
cowed by this blatant maneuver, although 42 of them sided
with Republicans in easily approving the resolution. In the
face of tired old rhetoric about
“cutting and running” and
“staying the course,” some
stood their ground admirably.
House Democratic leader
Nancy Pelosi of California
spoke for a growing number
of Americans when she said:
“The war in Iraq has been a
mistake. I say, a grotesque
mistake.”
Things better improve in
Iraq before November when
those Americans go to the
polls, because with their faux
patriotic chest-thumping, the
Republicans
inadvertently
showed in this debate they
have no new ideas.
- Pittsburg, Pa. Post-Gazette
DEBRA SAUNDERS
More ‘bad science’
Consider this another example of how the left throws
science out the window when
it suits its philosophy. Deathpenalty opponents have been
fighting lethal-injection executions because, well, they oppose the death penalty. Enter
the so-called scientific community. Last year, the British medical journal The
Lancet reported that after
being injected
with the three
drugs used to
execute convicted murderers in America,
Debra
some inmates
Saunders might experience “awareness and suffering during execution.” This,
opponents claim, violates the
Eighth Amendment of the
Constitution because it is “cruel and unusual punishment.”
The anti-death penalty left’s
bad science is working for
them: It is winning execution
delays. This week, the U.S.
Supreme Court issued a ruling
to delay the execution of
Clarence Hill, a convicted
Florida cop killer. The court’s
ruling took no side on the pain
controversy. It focused instead
on an obscure legal question as
to whether a condemned prisoner could use the civil rights
acts to fight lethal injection.
It is hard not to see the ruling as a reward for bad medicine. In February, U.S. District
Judge Jeremy Fogel effectively
delayed the execution of convicted killer Michael Morales
so that Fogel could review the
state’s lethal-injection protocol.
The Lancet article, based on
post-mortem drug testing of
executed inmates, gave credence to the bogus pain
claims. It warned, “It is possible that some of these inmates
were fully aware during their
execution.”
Fully aware? There is little
reason to believe this. It turns
out that the researchers for the
Lancet article took blood samples as long as two days after
inmates died, not within the
first hours after death. That allowed time for the drugs to diminish in the blood — which
maybe was the intent. Meanwhile, the media uncritically
reported the article’s findings.
So, in a sense, death-penalty
opponents have aped the behavior of critics of evolution.
They don’t have to prove their
thesis, they just have to establish doubt.
Let me acknowledge that
some injection executions have
not proceeded perfectly. In
2003, a North Carolina inmate
convulsed and gagged before
he died, but that doesn’t mean
he suffered. Surgeon Jonathan
I. Groner of Ohio State University complained of technicians
who took as long as 40 minutes
to insert a catheter into a vein
— which he considers to be
“needle torture.”
That said, the injection protocols are designed to prevent
pain. California, anesthesiologist Mark Dershwitz of the
University of Massachusetts
noted in a declaration for the
state, administers a dose of 5
grams of sodium pentothal
during lethal injection. The
textbook dose for starting surgery is 300 to 400 milligrams —
which means that executioners
are administering a dose of at
least 12.5 times that given to
patients to begin invasive medical procedures.
Dershwitz believes that if
protocols are followed — if
prison officials administer the
right dose of the right drugs in
the right order into a working
intravenous tube — “there’s
essentially no chance that an
inmate will suffer.”
On the other side, Groner
argued that the second drug, a
paralyzing agent, can cast “a
chemical veil” that hides the
pain the inmate might feel during the execution. Dershwitz
responded, chemical veil “is
not a term that a pharmacologist or anesthesiologist would
use.”
Anesthesiologist Robert E.
Hertzga, who testified for the
California Medical Association
in Sacramento, Calif., against
allowing doctors in the execution chamber, hasn’t heard of
the term, either.
Do inmates feel pain during
execution? Hertzga said that
California dosages “would induce a coma” for several minutes. “It’s inconceivable to me
that that protocol done properly” would cause “pain in the
way that we all think of perceiving pain.”
Groner and Lance Lindsey
of Death Penalty Focus have
convinced me on this: Judges
have erred in issuing rulings
that insert doctors into the execution process. While well-intended, this mandate makes
no sense. Doctors are healers,
not executors; you don’t need a
doctor to execute someone.
Dane Gillete of the state attorney general’s office argued,
“The fact that there may be
some incidental pain that’s associated of a minor nature in
and of itself does not make the
procedure unconstitutional.”
Me? I don’t want killers to
suffer during execution, but if
it happens inadvertently, I can
accept it. Sometimes bad
things happen to bad people.
Meanwhile, if there is anything for certain, it is that
death-penalty opponents will
file essentially frivolous appeals because they believe it is
moral to do so. Which is why
judges have a moral responsibility not to fall for their bad
science.
CAL THOMAS
Immoral equivalence
PORTSTEWART, NORTHERN IRELAND — Can one be
simultaneously amused and
profoundly irritated? One can
by watching and reading the
British media.
British television and the
print press have their knickers
in a twist over the triple suicide of terrorist suspects held
at the Guantanamo Bay detainment camp in Cuba. Most
“reporting” features conclusions and opinion that these
men killed themselves out of
“desperation” and loss of hope
that they would ever get to
“tell their stories.”
This incident feeds nicely
into the British
media’s
line
that the United
States is evil,
President Bush
is evil and that
the dead terrorist
suspects
were the moral
Cal
equivalent of
Thomas JapaneseAmericans interned in the
United States during World
War II.
Much ink has been spilled
denouncing a comment by
Rear Admiral Harry Harris,
the commander of the camp,
who charged that the detainees committed “asymmetrical warfare against us” by
taking their lives. Another
U.S. official called the suicides
a public relations stunt.
In a column for The Times
of London, Libby Purves descends to the level of immoral
equivalence when she writes,
“‘our’ side can be just as
blind.” Her comment is about
the terrorists and the negligible value they place on human
life. I wonder why she put
quote marks around “our”?
Purves continues, “If we cling
to any hope that we are different from murderers, we
should not dismiss any hu-
man death as a PR stunt.”
Apparently, Purves and
others in the British media
who are conducting a mostly
one-sided campaign against
the Iraq war and President
Bush by interviewing mostly
critics of U.S. policy, have not
read the al-Qaida playbook or,
if they have, don’t believe it.
The al-Qaida playbook promotes suicide as a warfare
strategy. It is not seen as an act
of desperation, but as a strategy to undermine Western resolve. The difference between
these suicides and the ones
regularly seen throughout the
Middle East is that in the case
of the Guantanamo three, only
the bad guys died. In a “normal” suicide, innocent civilians are blown away along
with most of the wedding party, cafe patrons, children on a
school or public bus, or anyone else the murderers see as
valuable to their perverted
cause.
I watch Muslim leaders interviewed on television and
listen to former Guantanamo
detainees claim torture and inhumane conditions at the
base. There is no rebuttal from
any U.S. official and no challenge to their claims by any of
the show hosts. Apparently,
too many members of the
British media have forgotten,
or don’t know, that al-Qaida
training manuals teach deception. They draw on a frequent
practice, if not a principle of
Islam, which permits a Muslim to lie to an “infidel” for the
“greater good” of the religion.
The London Daily Mail began a recent editorial titled
“From the High Moral
Ground to the Gutter” denouncing the suicides and the
response by Admiral Harris:
“With utter insensitivity to
world opinion...” World opinion is not the standard for
fighting wars, especially this
war. And the worst American
mistake is not even close to
the beheadings and other deliberate inhumanities conducted by the islamofascists.
The Mail might wish to recall a profound remark by former British Prime Minister
Margaret Thatcher, who once
observed that we in the West
make a mistake when we
“transpose” our morality onto
those who do not share it.
The detainees at Guantanamo are not innocent unfortunates swept up in an indiscriminate dragnet. These
people were captured on the
field of battle where they intended to kill Americans and
Britons. As for the argument
that they should face American courts, German prisoners
were not tried in American
courts during World War II.
Third Reich leaders were tried
before a military tribunal. A
similar venue, not an American criminal court, should be
the ultimate destination of
these detainees.
One has only to look at the
condition of the American
court system with still too
many liberal judges on the
bench to realize that treating
the Guantanamo detainees as
lawbreakers, rather than enemy combatants, would result
in the conviction of too few of
them. Their release would put
more Americans and Britons
in jeopardy. When Palestinian
terrorists have been released
from Israeli prisons, some
have returned to kill more Israeli civilians.
What would the British media say if a released Guantanamo detainee came to London and took out another subway train or bus, killing British
citizens?
Our enemy knows our
ways and intends to use them
against us. The British media
had better untwist its knickers
and get its collective head on
straight.
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Johnnie A. Hicks
Johnnie A. Hicks, 82, 365
Pine Hill Road, Elizabethton,
went home to be with his
Lord and his wife Thursday,
June 15, 2006, at his residence
following an extended illness.
Mr. Hicks was a native of
the Poga Community of
Carter County and a former
resident
of
Detroit, Mich.
He was a son
of the late
Wheeler and
Leona Presnell Hicks. In addition to
his parents, he was preceded
in death by his wife, Eula
Potter Hicks, September 5,
2003, and two brothers,
Orville Hicks and Martin
Dewey Hicks.
Mr. Hicks was of the Baptist faith and was a retired industrial fireman who had
worked for Cadillac Motor
Car in Detroit, Mich., for 35
years. He was a U.S. ArmyAir Corp veteran and served
in World War II.
Survivors include two
daughters and a special sonin-law, Kathy and Lawrence
Sharkey, Franklin, Ind., and
Lisa Hicks, of the home; four
sons and a daughter-in-law,
Bobby Hicks, Lincoln Park,
Mich., Lonnie Hicks, of the
home, Martin and Jackie
Hicks, and David Hicks, all
of Elizabethton; 14 grandchildren; 12 great-grandchildren;
two sisters, Callie Dugger,
Detroit, Mich., and Bessie
Moody, Mountain City; a
brother, J.B. Vines, Livonia,
Mich.; and a special aunt,
Rana Trivett, Butler.
The funeral service for Mr.
Hicks will be conducted at 2
p.m. Monday, June 19, at
Stone
Mountain
Baptist
Church, Butler, with the Rev.
Danny Cooke officiating.
Music will be under the direction of the Cooke Family.
Interment will follow in the
church cemetery. The family
received friends from 6 to 9
p.m. Sunday, June 18, at Tetrick Funeral Home. Friends
may also call at the residence
at anytime. Active pallbearers will be selected from family and friends. Honorary
pallbearers will be Dr.
Jonathan Bremer and the staff
of Johnson City Medical Center Hospice. The family extends special thanks to Cathy
Katras and Mark Stuart of
Johnson City Medical Center
Hospice for the loving care
given to Mr. Hicks during his
extended illness. Those who
prefer memorials in lieu of
flowers may make donations
to the American Cancer Society, 209 S. Riverside Drive,
Elizabethton, TN 37643. Online condolences may be sent
to the Hicks family through
our Web site at www.tetrickfuneralhome.com.
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nam Era. He had lived in
Elizabethton for 10 years.
Mr. Lovegrove previously
had worked at Nuclear Fuel
for 10 years. He was of the
Baptist faith.
Survivors include two sisters, Martha Gross, Jonesborough, and Naomi Bruce,
Knoxville; a brother, Bill
Lovegrove,
Jonesborough;
and several nieces and
nephews.
Funeral services for Mr.
Lovegrove will be conducted
at 8 p.m. Wednesday, June
21, at Memorial Funeral
Chapel with Evangelist Stan
Gross officiating. Graveside
services and interment will
be at 11 a.m. Thursday, June
22, in the National Cemetery,
Mountain Home. Pallbearers
and Military Honors will be
provided by the Tennessee
National Guard. The family
would like to express a special “Thank You” to his
neighbors, Myrtle Henry,
Lona Malone, Barbara Crowder and Oakie Taylor, for all
their help during his illness.
The family will receive
friends from 6 to 8 p.m.
Wednesday at the funeral
home. Family and friends
will assemble at the funeral
home at 10:15 a.m. Thursday
to go to the cemetery. Online
condolences may be e-mailed
to the Lovegrove family at
[email protected].
Memorial Funeral Chapel
is in charge of arrangements.
Edmond D.
Lovegrove
Edmond David “Ed”
Lovegrove, 72, of Elizabethton, died Sunday, June 18,
2006, at Life Care Center of
Elizabethton.
Mr. Lovegrove was a
native
of
Jonesborough and a
son of the late Clyde and
Bessie Day Lovegrove.
Mr. Lovegrove retired
from the United States Navy
after 27 years of service with
the rank of Electrician’s Mate
First Class. He served in the
Korean Conflict and the Viet-
Thomas J. Jessee
Thomas Jack Jessee, 74, of
Bluff City, died Saturday,
June 17, 2006,
at his residence following an extended
illness.
Mr. Jessee was a native
of Carter County and the son
of the late Thomas Clyde and
Fannie Myrtle Kelly Jessee.
In addition to his parents, he
was preceded in death by a
brother,
Richard
Wayne
Jessee.
Mr. Jessee was retired
from the U.S. Army Special
Forces and was a veteran of
the Vietnam Conflict.
Survivors include his
wife, Irene Jessee, of the
home; three daughters, Lorraine Jessee Sinnigen and her
husband Timothy, New York
State, N.Y., Darlene Jessee,
Bluff City, and Michelle
Jessee, of the home; two sons,
Thomas W. Jessee and his
wife Barbara and Michael D.
Jessee, all of Blountville;
granddaughters,
Jessica
Ross, Nicole Sinnigen and
Danielle Sinnigen; two brothers, Ronnie Jessee, Hendersonville, Tenn., and Harvey
Jessee, Bluff City; and two
sisters, Geraldine Simerly,
Johnson City, and Patsy
Hicks, of Georgia. Several
nieces and nephews also survive.
The funeral service for Mr.
Jessee will be conducted at 8
p.m. Tuesday, June 20, in the
Chapel of Peace of Tetrick
Funeral Home, Elizabethton,
with Rev. Bruce Hendrich officiating. Graveside services
and interment will be at 11
a.m. Wednesday, June 21, at
Happy Valley Memorial
Park. Military Honors and
pallbearers will be provided
by the Captain Lynn H. Folsom VFW Post #2166 and the
Tennessee Army National
Guard. Those who plan to attend the graveside service
are asked to meet at the funeral home at 10:15 a.m.
Wednesday to go in procession to the cemetery. The
family will receive friends in
the funeral chapel from 7 to 8
p.m. Tuesday, prior to the
service. Those who prefer
memorials in lieu of flowers
may make donations to Oak
Street Baptist Church, “We
Love Our Church” Fund, 804
Oak Street, Elizabethton, TN
37643 or to Medical Center
Hospice, 101 Med Tech Parkway, Suite 101, Johnson City,
TN 37604. Online condolences may be sent to the
Jessee family through our
Web site at www.tetrickfuneralhome.com.
Tetrick Funeral Home,
Elizabethton, is in charge of
the arrangements. Obituary
Line: (423) 543-4917. Office:
(423) 542-2232.
Arrests
• Linwood Dale Tanner, 25, 221 Peters Hollow Road, was arrested Thursday afternoon by Carter County Sheriff’s Department Deputy Thomas Smith on warrants charging him with two
counts of child abuse.
• Kevin Lynn Stover, 36, 1905 Highway 91, was arrested
Wednesday afternoon by CCSD Deputy Matt Croy on warrants
charging him with leaving the scene of an accident with property
damage and second offense driving on a revoked license.
• Roger Dale Bolin, 47, 145 Rosewood Circle, Apt. 2, was arrested Thursday afternoon by CCSD Deputy Jim Whaley on
three capiases charging him with failure to appear in court.
• Christopher Scott Rogers, 37, 552 Long Hollow Road, was
arrested Thursday afternoon by CCSD Deputy Jim Whaley on a
warrant charging him with violation of probation.
• Deidre Michelle McKinney, 41, 102 Rainbows End, Roan
Mountain, was arrested Thursday evening by CCSD Deputy
Thomas Smith on an indictment charging her with two counts of
the sale of Schedule II narcotics.
• Ramona Marie Morefield, 44, 150 Okolona Road, Johnson
City, was arrested early Friday morning by CCSD Deputy Brad
Hamm and charged with public intoxication.
• Christy Marie Pearson, 26, 621 First Ave., Hampton, was arrested early Friday morning by CCSD Cpl. Kemp Haley on a
warrant charging her with violation of probation. She was additionally served with a capias by CCSD Deputy Paul Morell
charging her with failure to appear in court.
• Christopher Michael Steinat, 20, 105 Chambers Drive, was
arrested early Friday morning by CCSD Deputy James Fritts on a
warrant charging him with violation of probation.
New Madrid Zone
quake will be
different, expert warns
BLYTHEVILLE, Ark. (AP) —
An earthquake expert with the
U.S. Geological Survey says
many residents and officials in
northeast Arkansas are setting
themselves and their neighbors
up for a worse disaster by underestimating the results of a
quake in the region.
“This is a different kind of
earthquake,” said Gary Patterson of the United States Geological Survey Center for Earthquake Research and Information
at the University of Memphis in
Memphis, Tenn.
“This is not a California
earthquake,” Patterson said last
week at a meeting of the
Arkansas Governor’s Earthquake Advisory Council. “There
are some basic differences here
that drive the hazard level up.”
Patterson, who serves as information director and geologist
for the Memphis center, said
that, unlike faults in California,
the New Madrid Seismic Zone
contains three to five major fault
segments lying over the top of
each other in a relatively small
area.
The zone stretches from
northeast Arkansas and northwest Tennessee up into south-
Great Eastern Trail promises
hiker’s haven from Florida to N.Y.
SODDY-DAISY (AP) — In
the depths of the Little Possum Gorge, a footpath strewn
with the tools that built it suddenly emerges through a forest of hemlock and magnolia
to a breathtaking waterfall.
The
treacherous
falls,
dubbed “Imodium” after the
anti-diarrhea drug by those
adventurers whom it has
scared witless, was once
known only to the most daring of kayakers willing to
plunge down the 25-foot
drop.
With every clank, though, a
team of volunteers cobbles together the latest piece of a
rocky pathway leading to a
shallow pool beneath the
rapids, part of a 40-mile trail
they’re building just north of
Tennessee’s border with Georgia.
The stretch is a lynchpin in
the ambitious Great Eastern
Trail, a path of about 1,700
miles envisioned by hiking
enthusiasts to someday string
together a vast network of existing trails and link the Florida-Alabama border to New
York’s Finger Lakes.
Planners hope that eventually it could serve as a foundation of a 10,000-mile network
of paths spanning from south
Florida to Maine, from Virginia to North Dakota. With
increased development and
sprawl along the East Coast,
they believe the timing is
right.
“If we don’t do it now, it’s
not going to happen,” said Jeffrey Hunter, the American
Hiking Society’s Southeast
trails director.
Hunter is working with local trail groups and volun-
teers across the nation to build
roughly 600 miles of new trail
to connect a system of trails already in place. The new trail
will largely be constructed on
public lands, but occasionally
trail groups will have to negotiate the purchase or donation
of land.
When finished, the Great
Eastern Trail would stretch
just west of the Appalachian
Trail, the gold standard of the
hiking world dreamed up in a
1921 essay by forester Benton
MacKaye.
But overuse of that trail has
caused litter pileups, trampled plants and crowded
campsites, said Alison Bullock, a director with the National Park Service’s rivers
and trails program who is
helping plan the new trail.
“We’re trying to provide an
alternative,” Bullock said.
“We want to disperse the
recreation. And there are so
many gorgeous and undiscovered locales.”
The Great Eastern Trail
would start at Alabama’s
southern
border,
rolling
through gentle forest before
climbing up clifftop vistas as
the path edges north. A ring of
old logging roads would
stretch the trail through Georgia to Tennessee, where the
trail would pass Chattanooga
and border river gorges and
rocky outcroppings on its way
to the mid-Atlantic states.
Through caves and crags,
ridges and overlooks, the trail
would then scamper through
Virginia, Kentucky and West
Virginia. It crosses the narrow
width of Maryland next, piggybacking on a historic towpath that’s probably the trail’s
easiest segment.
In Pennsylvania, it wanders through thick, dark
forests using old logging
roads, etching a path through
Paddy Mountain on the trail’s
only tunnel before ending a
few miles north just across the
New York border.
Other ambitious trail projects promise to span equally
vast areas. The Continental
Divide Trail will someday
stretch from New Mexico to
Montana, offering a primitive,
backcountry experience to adventurers. New York and
North Dakota could eventually be linked by the North
Country Trail. And planners
hope the Pacific Crest Trail
will connect southern California with Washington.
Those trails, however, all
enjoy a federal designation —
and the government benefits
that go along with it. The
Great Eastern Trail relies solely on its network of volunteers to craft its pieces together.
“The intent is to get it going the same way we got the
Appalachian Trail going —
through volunteer efforts.
Right now, the entire burden
rests on the volunteer,” said
Tom Johnson, president of the
Virginia-based Potomac Appalachian Trail Club.
The Great Eastern Trail was
first dreamed up at a 2001 hiking conference, but the actual
construction has been a
painstakingly slow process.
Johnson’s challenge is filling in a 159-mile gap between
trails in West Virginia and
northern Virginia. Some of the
group’s 6,500 members will
scout possible routes in Au-
gust and September, when
they don’t have to slog
through thick underbrush or
snow to scour the area.
In northwest Georgia, Larry Madden is organizing a
group of 50 to finish a hole in
the path network. “A few volunteers are getting a lot of the
work done, but we’ve got a
long way to go,” he said.
Tom Kelliher, the president
of Pennsylvania’s Mid State
Trail Association, has a 30mile gap in the state’s hilly
northern region to fill. Teams
of volunteers are busy searching for aging logging roads or
traces of existing paths, but
still, he said, construction
could take five to six years.
Warren Devine, the former
nuclear engineer who led the
trailblazing effort at Little Possum Gorge, has been working
for years to craft his leg of the
trail.
Scouting out the backwoods, buying the property
and negotiating its boundaries alone took years. State
archaeologists and biologists
have to probe the area, too, to
make sure the pathway isn’t
disrupting artifacts or endangered species.
Building the trail itself
takes the constant work of a
team of volunteers who, each
day, tear up the thick underbrush using giant rakes and
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painstakingly clear out rocks,
roots and organic material to
forge a gentle path. The
squads can take a week to
puzzle rocky outcrops together into a flat pathway, even
longer if they’re fashioning a
staircase.
In a pair of rough work
gloves, 51-year-old local locomotive engineer Monty Matney leads four trailblazers,
helping them lug rocks to
piece together a few steps. On
a nearby ledge, Roy Wheeler,
a retiree from Cape Coral, Fla.,
takes a breather as he watches
Devine tiptoe out atop the waterfall.
“It’s nice to be out here in
the wilderness area with a
group, instead of just hiking,”
he said.
Standing atop the cliff
overlooking the rapid, Devine
lets loose a relieved sigh as he
looks at the latest piece of the
trail.
“It’s going to be there
much longer than all the paperwork I grind out,” he said,
straining over the clanking of
the busy volunteers. “The
staircase down there is going
to last a century.
“It’s one of the most rewarding things I’ve done.”
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Big earthquakes have happened before and will happen
again in this area, he said, citing
the series of quakes in 1811-1812
that were the strongest ever to
occur in the continental United
States.
But he said even a 6.5-magnitude quake has the potential of
doing an enormous amount of
damage in Blytheville and Mississippi County, Patterson said.
“It won’t take a catastrophic
earthquake to do catastrophic
damage,” he said.
One of the most potentially
damaging effects of an earthquake in this area, Patterson
said, will be liquefaction of soil
near the surface. Huge areas of
sand in fields that are visible
throughout the region are evidence of liquefaction in past
earthquakes, he said.
Patterson said liquefaction
is expected to happen mostly
in the places where the Mississippi River has moved around,
depositing sandy silt and gumbo clay. In these areas, the water table is 6 feet or less below
the surface of the ground, and
a quake will send the water to
the surface, creating quicksand
and eliminating the soil’s ability to support loads.
During the first 72 hours after a significant quake of any
magnitude, Patterson said people will need to be rescued
from collapsed buildings. He
said 11 million people live in
the New Madrid Seismic Zone,
and a response plan is needed
to get “boots on the ground”
during that period.
Patterson said he was recently visited by a Japanese
diplomat who wanted to know
if it was a good idea to build a
truck plant in northeast
Arkansas.
“It is a good idea when things
are built to proper codes,” he
said. “The name of the game is
building structural type. We all
have to be on the same page
when we talk to these people.”
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Mickelson collapses, hands Ogilvy the U.S. Open
In the end, its Ogilvy
Geoff Ogilvy won the U.S. Open
in New York after a surprising
collapse from Phil Mickelson in
the final holes on Sunday.
Ogilvy’s U.S. Open play
Par
+5
1st
71
2nd
70
4th
72
3rd
72
TOTAL SCORE
285
Geoff
Ogilvy
AP
MAMARONECK,
N.Y.
(AP) — The new Phil Mickelson won two green jackets
with spectacular birdies or
steady pars, whatever he
needed. The new Phil won
the PGA Championship by
keeping his tee shots in the
short grass and working
magic with his wedge.
Sunday in the U.S. Open,
the old Phil showed up in a
New York minute.
After yet another tee shot
clattered through the trees,
he went for a par on the 18th
hole that would have won at
Winged Foot. With a reckless
attempt to get out of trouble,
he wound up with a double
bogey that gave Geoff Ogilvy
the trophy and put Mickel-
Sports Spectrum
son in the wrong kind of
company.
He was poised to join
Tiger Woods by winning his
third straight major but ended up more like Jean Van de
Velde, making a series of
miscues that converged into
a spectacular crash on the
72nd hole.
“I still am in shock that I
did that. I just can’t believe
that I did that,” Mickelson
said. “I am such an idiot.”
Of the half-dozen players
who came to the 18th hole at
Winged Foot believing they
still had a chance to win,
Ogilvy was the only one who
made par. And even the 29year-old Aussie thought his
6-foot putt was only going to
be good enough for second
place.
“I thought, ’Make this and
come in second in the Open
on your own,”’ Ogilvy said.
“I never thought Phil would
make bogey at the last. He
ended up making double,
and it’s got to be a hard one
to swallow for Phil, because
he’s obviously been the outstanding player at majors in
the last eight or nine months.
“He’s obviously worked
out the major formula —
he’ll hit it on the green, make
a par, make New York happy,” he remembered thinking. “But it worked out in my
favor.”
Ogilvy wasn’t without
credit for his first major
championship.
He chipped in from mangled rough on the 17th hole
to save par, then overcame a
miserable break on the 18th
when his tee shot came to
rest in a divot. The approach
lost power as it reached the
green, tumbling down the
false front, and he did well to
pitch up the hill to about 6
feet behind the cup.
He made the putt, unlike
Colin Montgomerie and Jim
Furyk before him.
“It’s pretty hard to believe,” Ogilvy said, a comment that went a long way at
this U.S. Open. “Obviously,
you dream about winning a
major championship. To
have it actually happen, once
it sinks in, it’s pretty special.”
Even so, this was Mickelson’s major to win, and the
first one he threw away.
“This one is going to take
a while to get over,” Mickelson said. “This one is pretty
disappointing.”
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ENLL Girls Softball Champs
Fun needs to be
implemented in sports
Tim Chambers
[email protected]
A house divided will not
stand.
Although its a term used in
Christianity, the same can be
said about local youth baseball.
So many leagues and traveling teams have formed in
the last few years that the
number of players in each
league have decreased and
quality of play is not what it
used to be.
In a time where good
sportsmanship and fair play
should
be taught at the
younger stage, parents and
coaches have put so much
emphasis on winning, that
many are choosing not to participate.
As some former youth
baseball players indicated,
“it’s just not fun anymore.”
This is a problem that need
to be addressed yet it a subject
that rub many the wrong way
when you speak about it.
From T-ball up, baseball
should be a learning stage to
prepare one to get better.
A child doesn’t go to first
grade with the thought of
staying there for five years.
It’s much easier for a child to
learn, if going to school contains some fun.
He or she gathers what
they can the first year and
moves on much better prepared for year two. Some students progress more than others, just like athletes.
Not meaning to scatter the
seed on this subject, a reason
exist why the quality of play
and the number of participants have gotten to this level.
The first one is that when
you take the fun out of any
sport, no participant is going
to give it their all.
In early youth stages, fun
needs to be emphasized along
with fundamentals.
From the time a child participates in sports, a player
must learn how to hit, run,
catch and throw before they
can play the game at a high
level.
At my baseball practice
last week, we spent the entire
session on bunting the baseball. It’s amazing to see how
many kids have no ideal how
to lay down the perfect bunt.
Nor did they understand
how critical it is sometimes to
move runners up or just to
squeeze out a run. We got our
point across by making the
situations fun for each bunt
attempted by the batter.
It’s the little fundamental
things taught, that win baseball games. Teach a kid who
to play the right way in any
sport and winning will take
care of itself.
Another reason why the
quality of play has slacked off
is that our youth don’t won’t
to invest the time needed to
become a good baseball player.
I agree, kids should have
time to ride bicycles or do
whatever it is that kids do at
an early stage, but those who
sit idle in later years will fall
behind at some stage.
Having a child go through
the Unaka High School basketball program made me appreciate hard work.
He was part of a state
championship team yet playing for a Christian coaching
staff and learning how hard
work at anything makes one
better is something that needs
to be taught at ever level.
Just because kids work
hard doesn’t mean that sports
can’t be fun.
Those in charge of the City
Little League tournament
have worked countless hours
and their efforts are being rewarded.
The City Little League
tournament has been the best
show in town for the past
week.
Kudos to the many who
decided to bury the hatchet
that caused this event not to
be played for so many years.
The tournament is great for
the youth and league sponsors. It’s also been good for
the fans.
Several games have been
close which made it such a
great event. The parity in both
leagues have resulted in some
good baseball games.
When you have a league
where one team has all the
top players, and scores are
outrageous every night, you’ll
see a drastic decline in numbers at that level.
We starting to see that in
some area leagues.
At the teenage stage, its
hard to play competitive
baseball.
Many are busy preparing
for high football and basketball, which they should. It’s
important that our youth
learn the importance of making good use with their time.
If you want to be a good
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The Big Johns Closeouts ENLL Girls Softball squad finished with a 19-0 record
claiming the Regular Season and Tournament Championships
Pictured (L-R): Front— Heather Grindstaff, Lydia Honeycutt, Kristen Powell,
Haley Lewis, Allison Williams. Middle — Melissa Freeman, Morgan Bellessa, Logan
Campbell, Victoria Nanney, Tori Payne. Back — Coach David Bellessa, Assistant
Coach David Nanney. Not Pictured: Danielle Guinn.
Big Johns takes Tournament
title in girl’s little league play
From Staff Reports
The Big John’s Closeouts softball squad
capped a perfect 19-0 season with the National Little League Tournament Championship last weekend.
In game one, Big John’s topped Blossman/Pebbles 16-1. Tori Payne recorded
the win on with seven strikeouts, while
giving up just two hits.
Blossman/Pebbles led 1-0 after the first
inning as Jessica Burleson scored on a single from Reazyn.
Big Johns tclaimed the lead in the second inning and never looked back as Allison Williams, Morgan Bellessa and Melissa Freeman scored.
Big Johns was led by Payne and Victoria Nanney with three hits each.
Logan Campbell and Heather Grindstaff each had two hits, while Kristin Powell, Allison Williams and Melissa Freeman
had one hit apiece.
n See BIG JOHNS, 8
Big John’s pitcher Kristen Powell
Riverdogs take Cleveland Title
From Staff Reports
The 17-and-under East Tennessee
Riverdogs found themselves shorthanded
due to players with illness, taking college
visits and attending showcase events, but
they managed to gather enough energy
and toughness to compete a six game
event and come out Champs taking the
18-and-under Cleveland Classic title.
In the opening game, the ‘Dogs were
matched up against a very tough Chattanooga team. Josh Fillers (South Greene)
took the hill but gave way to Dusty Joyner
(East Montgomery) in the fifth and Joyner
walked away with the win.
The Riverdogs fell behind early, 2-1,
but recovered to take a 4-2 lead going into
the seventh inning. C-town came up with
a two-run dinger to tie the score.
In the bottom of the final frame, Weston Isaacs (Elizabethton) led off with a single followed by a hit from Zac Messer
(Virginia High). Jordan Laws (South
Greene) drew a walk to load the bases
with two outs, setting up Cory Hilton
(Elizabethton), who ripped an RBI single
to left for the game winner.
In the game, Preston Smith (Elizabethton) ripped a home run and went two-forthree. Messer and Hilton also batted twofor-three, while Isaacs batted two-for-four
and Laws smacked a dinger over the centerfield fence.
The second game saw the Riverdogs
hand the Georgia Cougars an 11-1 loss.
Trey Roark (Virginia High) picked up
the win with Josh Fillers coming in for relief in the final two innings.
Big sticks were carried by Messer, who
batted three-for-three with a three-run
shot, and Nathan Matthews, who also
batted three for three.
Several players contribtued at the place
including Isaacs, Smith, Laws, Hilton,
Matt Shepherd (Sullivan East), Myles Key
(Sullivan East) and Roark as the team
amassed 13 hits.
Saturday morning, the squad matched
up against the East Cobb Knights.
The ‘Dogs came out on top 8-4 in the
contest with Roark picking up the win in
relief of Joyner.
Hot sticks were carried by several with
two hits apiece including Key, Smith,
Isaacs and Laws. Others getting base hits
were Messer, Hilton, Shepherd, Joyner
and Roark.
Saturday afternoon saw the Dogs going at the Pro Concepts ‘Gold’ team.
The Riverdogs rolled to an 8-2 win
with Shepherd notching the win over the
Morristown based squad led by Marlins
scout, Keith Ryman.
Leading the ‘Dogs at the plate was Key
with three hits. Messer, Isaacs and Hilton
each had two hits while Smith, Laws and
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Baseball
MLB Glance
American League
East Division
W
L
Pct
GB
Boston
39
28
.582
—
New York
38
29
.567
1.0
Toronto
37
32
.536
3.0
Baltimore
32
39
.451
9.0
Tampa Bay
29
41
.414 11.5
Central Division
W
L
Pct
GB
Detroit
46
24
.657
—
Chicago
44
25
.638
1.5
Minnesota
34
34
.500 11.0
Cleveland
31
37
.456 14.0
Kansas City
19
49
.279 26.0
West Division
W
L
Pct
GB
Oakland
38
31
.551
—
Texas
38
32
.543
0.5
Seattle
34
37
.479
5.0
Los Angeles
31
38
.449
7.0
———
Saturday’s Games
Boston 5, Atlanta 3
Washington 11, N.Y. Yankees 9
Detroit 9, Chicago Cubs 3
Seattle 8, San Francisco 1
L.A. Angels 3, San Diego 2
Florida 8, Toronto 2
Chicago White Sox 8, Cincinnati 6
Minnesota 5, Pittsburgh 3
Milwaukee 3, Cleveland 2
Houston 7, Kansas City 2
Tampa Bay 7, Philadelphia 2
Baltimore 4, N.Y. Mets 2
Texas 8, Arizona 4
Oakland 5, L.A. Dodgers 4, 17 innings
Sunday’s Games
Florida 4, Toronto 1
Washington 3, N.Y. Yankees 2
N.Y. Mets 9, Baltimore 4
Chicago White Sox 8, Cincinnati 1
Minnesota 8, Pittsburgh 2
Philadelphia 8, Tampa Bay 5
Milwaukee 6, Cleveland 3
Kansas City 7, Houston 4
Texas 10, Arizona 7
Detroit 12, Chicago Cubs 3
San Diego 7, L.A. Angels 3
Seattle 5, San Francisco 1
Oakland 5, L.A. Dodgers 2
Boston 10, Atlanta 7
Today’s Games
Washington (Armas 6-3) at Boston
(Snyder 0-0), 7:05 p.m.
Chicago Cubs (Marshall 3-5) at Cleveland (J.Johnson 3-7), 7:05 p.m.
N.Y. Yankees (R.Johnson 8-5) at
Philadelphia (Myers 4-3), 7:05 p.m.
Detroit (Bonderman 6-4) at Milwaukee
(Davis 4-4), 8:05 p.m.
Oakland (Haren 6-5) at Colorado (BKim
3-4), 9:05 p.m.
L.A. Angels (Escobar 5-7) at San Francisco (Cain 5-5), 10:15 p.m.
Tuesday’s Games
Washington at Boston, 7:05 p.m.
Chicago Cubs at Cleveland, 7:05 p.m.
Florida at Baltimore, 7:05 p.m.
N.Y. Yankees at Philadelphia, 7:05 p.m.
Arizona at Tampa Bay, 7:15 p.m.
Toronto at Atlanta, 7:35 p.m.
Detroit at Milwaukee, 8:05 p.m.
Minnesota at Houston, 8:05 p.m.
San Diego at Texas, 8:05 p.m.
St. Louis at Chicago White Sox, 8:05 p.m.
Pittsburgh at Kansas City, 8:10 p.m.
Oakland at Colorado, 9:05 p.m.
Seattle at L.A. Dodgers, 10:10 p.m.
L.A. Angels at San Francisco, 10:15 p.m.
National League
East Division
W
L
Pct
New York
43
25
.632
Philadelphia
34
35
.493
Washington
32
39
.451
Florida
29
37
.439
Atlanta
30
40
.429
Central Division
W
L
Pct
St. Louis
42
26
.618
Cincinnati
37
32
.536
Houston
36
34
.514
Milwaukee
35
35
.500
Chicago
26
42
.382
Pittsburgh
26
44
.371
West Division
W
L
Pct
Los Angeles
36
33
.522
San Diego
36
33
.522
Arizona
35
34
.507
Colorado
34
35
.493
San Francisco 34
35
.493
GB
—
9.5
12.5
13.0
14.0
GB
—
5.5
7.0
8.0
16.0
17.0
GB
—
—
1.0
2.0
2.0
MLB Game Caps
Nationals ...............................................3
Yankees .................................................2
WASHINGTON (AP) — Ryan Zimmerman tossed off his batting helmet and
jumped into the bouncing crowd of Washington Nationals teammates waiting at
home plate, celebrating a second consecutive comeback victory over the New York
Yankees.
Zimmerman hit a game-winning, two-run
homer with one out in the bottom of the
ninth Sunday to lift the Nationals over the
Yankees 3-2 Sunday.
The drive to left, the rookie third baseman’s 10th homer of the season, came
on the 107th pitch from Chien-Ming Wang
(7-3). Yankees manager Joe Torre had left
his starter in because of a beleaguered
bullpen that worked 12 innings over the
preceding three days; Torre said before
the game that closer Mariano Rivera wasn’t available.
Alex Rodriguez put the Yankees in position to win, giving them a 2-1 lead with his
double in the eighth. He’s been slumping
and rejoiced after his hit by pounding his
hands together in exaggerated applause
while standing on the bag at second. He
drove the first pitch he saw from reliever
Gary Majewski (3-2), a 93 mph offering,
to left, and Melky Cabrera slid in ahead of
the tag on the throw home.
Cabrera was walked by Majewski leading
off the eighth. The reliever then struck out
Derek Jeter and Jason Giambi — both
swinging at 94 mph fastballs — before
Rodriguez came through. But Majewski
got through the ninth without trouble.
White Sox ..............................................8
Reds.......................................................1
CINCINNATI (AP) — Jon Garland allowed only four singles while pitching into
the ninth inning Sunday, and hit the first
homer by a White Sox pitcher in 35 years,
leading Chicago to an 8-1 victory and a
three-game sweep of the Cincinnati
Reds.
Garland’s two-run shot in the eighth off
reliever Esteban Yan was his first career
homer and the first by a White Sox pitcher
since Steve Kealey’s on Sept. 6, 1971,
against Minnesota.
Alex Cintron singled home the go-ahead
run, and Rob Mackowiak matched his career high with four singles. Jermaine Dye
also homered.
The White Sox moved a season-high 19
games over .500 with yet another sweep
of the Reds. Chicago has won nine
straight against Cincinnati, and leads their
interleague series 12-2 overall.
Garland (6-3) retired 13 in a row before
Brandon Phillips singled to start the ninth.
Aaron Harang (7-4) matched Garland
through five scoreless innings, having fully recovered from a virus that limited him
in his last start. The White Sox finally
broke through in the sixth, when Jim
Thome walked, Dye singled and A.J.
Pierzynski sacrificed for the first out. Cintron singled to score Thome for a 1-0
lead.
Marlins...................................................4
Blue Jays...............................................1
MIAMI (AP) — Dan Uggla had three hits
and knocked in the go-ahead run to help
the Florida Marlins beat Roy Halladay for
their eighth straight win.
Halladay (8-2) lost for the first time in 12
starts. He allowed four runs and eight hits
in six innings as the Blue Jays were swept
for the second time this season. The righthander struck out seven and walked two.
The Marlins’ winning streak is their
longest since they won nine straight from
Aug. 27-Sept. 8, 2004. Their 6-0 homestand marked the fourth undefeated homestand of six games or more in team history. The last time was Sept. 26-Oct. 1,
2000.
Josh Johnson (6-4) went 5 2-3 innings
despite throwing a total of 55 pitches in
the first two innings. He gave up one run
and eight hits with six walks and five
strikeouts. Joe Borowski pitched the ninth
for his 11th save in 12 chances.
Mets .......................................................9
Orioles ...................................................4
NEW YORK (AP) — David Wright hit a
grand slam and drove in five runs, Tom
Glavine became the first 10-game winner
in the major leagues and the New York
Mets avoided a three-game sweep.
Ramon Castro also homered and
knocked in two runs for the Mets, who
won the final eight games of a 9-1 road
trip before dropping the first two in this series against Baltimore.
Glavine (10-2) lasted six-plus innings, improving to 8-0 in his past 10 starts and
earning his 285th career win. Detroit’s
Kenny Rogers and Boston’s Curt Schilling
also went into their scheduled starts Sunday with nine victories.
Wright hit his grand slam in the fifth off
rookie Adam Loewen (0-2), who became
the first pitcher to face a former Cy Young
Award winner in each of his first four major league starts, according to the Elias
Sports Bureau.
Twins .....................................................8
Pirates ...................................................2
PITTSBURGH (AP) — Minnesota turned
two infield grounders and a Mike Redmond single into the decisive run in a
four-run eighth inning and another loss for
Oliver Perez against a Cy Young Award
winner, and the Twins finished off a threegame sweep.
With Justin Morneau adding a three-run
double in the eighth, the Twins won their
seventh in a row and ninth in 10 games.
They have swept their last two series,
against the Red Sox and Pirates.
Johan Santana (7-4), the 2004 AL Cy
Young Award winner, held the Pirates to a
run and five hits over seven innings and is
7-1 in 11 starts since losing his first three.
He has 91 strikeouts and only eight walks
in 79 innings in those 11 starts.
Perez (2-9) permitted only two singles
and retired 14 of 15 batters before Torii
Hunter homered into the left-field seats
with two outs in the seventh, not far from
where a group of fans wear Mexican fans
and chant in unison to support Perez.
Phillies...................................................8
Devil Rays .............................................5
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Ryan Howard
homered and drove in four runs to help
the Philadelphia Phillies snap a seasonworst six-game losing streak.
Philadelphia salvaged its first victory on
its nine-game homestand, which concludes with a three-game set against the
New York Yankees beginning on Monday.
The win also ended a five-game losing
streak to Tampa Bay, which owns a 10-5
mark against the Phillies since the series
started in 1998.
David Dellucci had three hits and Chase
Utley scored three runs for Philadelphia,
which finished with 13 hits, including one
by every position player.
In the fifth, Howard hit a pitch from Seth
McClung (2-10) the opposite way into the
left-field seats to give the Phillies a 6-3
lead. Ryan Madson (7-4) gave up four
runs — two earned — and five hits in 6 23 innings for his fourth win in his last six
starts. He struck out four and walked two.
Royals....................................................7
Astros ....................................................4
HOUSTON (AP) — Doug Mientkiewicz
hit a three-run homer in the top of the
ninth inning to lift the Kansas City Royals.
The Royals blew a 4-1 lead, but rallied off
Houston reliever Chad Qualls (3-2) to win
for the third time in nine games.
John Buck and Reggie Sanders also
homered for Kansas City, which won two
of three in the weekend series against the
defending NL champs. Preston Wilson
homered and Chris Burke had three doubles for the Astros, who lost for the third
time in 12 games.
Jimmy Gobble (2-1) pitched a scoreless
eighth and Ambiorix Burgos shut out the
Astros in the ninth to earn his 10th save.
Rangers ...............................................10
Diamondbacks......................................7
ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — Michael
Young singled in the go-ahead run in the
eighth and matched a career high with
five hits, helping the Texas Rangers complete a three-game sweep.
Texas took a 7-6 lead into the eighth but
Shawn Green’s leadoff homer off Francisco Cordero tied it.
In the bottom of the eighth, the Rangers
got back-to-back singles from Rod Barajas and Gary Matthews Jr. against Luis
Vizcaino (2-3), and Young followed with
an RBI single, scoring pinch runner Gerald Laird from second without a throw.
Young added a home run in his first start
as a designated hitter this season.
Cordero (6-4) allowed only the homer to
Green in his one-inning stint. Akinori Otsuka got three outs for his 13th save in 15
chances. Vizcaino allowed three runs and
four hits, failing to register an out.
Tigers...................................................12
Cubs ......................................................3
CHICAGO (AP) — Kenny Rogers won his
200th game and the Detroit Tigers tied a
club record with eight home runs, ruining
Mark Prior’s season debut for Chicago.
Chris Shelton and Brandon Inge homered twice for Detroit, which hit four of its
homers off Prior. Rogers (10-3) pitched
eight innings, allowing two runs and four
hits while striking out two.
Prior (0-1), who missed the first 2 1/2
months of the season with a strained right
shoulder, lasted 3 2-3 innings and allowed
eight runs, matching a career high set
May 1, 2005, against Houston. The four
home runs tied a career high set against
Philadelphia on July 30, 2004.
Curtis Granderson led off the game with
a home run for the first time in his career,
Carlos Guillen added a three-run shot
and Shelton hit a two-run homer. Vance
Wilson knocked Prior out with a two-run
drive in the fourth that made it 8-1.
The eight homers tied a Tigers record set
June 20, 2000, at Toronto. Rogers became the ninth active pitcher with at least
200 wins.
Brewers .................................................6
Indians...................................................3
MILWAUKEE (AP) — Carlos Lee’s threerun homer in the bottom of the ninth lifted
the Milwaukee Brewers.
Lee’s blast to right-center field gave the
Brewers a three-game sweep of the Indians, who have lost 10 of their last 13
games.
It was Lee’s first career walk-off home
run.
Gabe Gross led off the ninth with a double, and went to third on a sacrifice bunt
by Rickie Weeks. Cleveland intentionally
walked Corey Koskie to get to Lee.
Rafael Betancourt (0-3) took the loss for
Cleveland.
Derrick Turnbow (4-3) pitched the ninth
to get the victory for Milwaukee.
Athletics ................................................5
Dodgers.................................................2
OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Joe Blanton
pitched into the ninth, Bobby Kielty hit a
two-run triple and the Oakland Athletics
notched their season-best 10th straight
win.
Blanton, who retired the side in order on
six pitches in the eighth, left to a standing
ovation after allowing consecutive singles
to J.D. Drew and Matt Kemp in the ninth.
Jay Payton had an RBI double and Marco
Scutaro had three hits, an RBI and stole
his first base of the year as the A’s topped
the nine-game winning streaks San Diego
and Philadelphia produced this season.
Blanton (7-6) won back-to-back starts for
the first time since April 24 and 30. He allowed nine hits, struck out three and
walked one in an impressive 96-pitch performance before closer Huston Street got
the final three outs for his 17th save in 21
chances. Street blew his fourth save Saturday night.
Aaron Sele (3-2) saw his winless stretch
reach four starts as he lost his second
straight outing. Sele gave way to Odalis
Perez after only four innings.
Padres ...................................................7
Angels ...................................................3
ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) — Mike Cameron
and Adrian Gonzalez hit solo homers off
Bartolo Colon in his first start in two
months for the Padres.
Chan Ho Park (5-3) allowed three runs
and five hits in 5 2-3 innings for the
Padres. He struck out four and walked
three.
Colon, last year’s AL Cy Young Award
winner, retired 10 consecutive batters during one stretch before getting tagged for
three runs in the fourth, when the Padres
took a 4-2 lead.
Colon (0-3) gave up four runs — two
earned — and nine hits in seven innings,
struck out a season-high five and walked
one a day after being activated from the
disabled list. He hadn’t pitched since April
15 because of right shoulder inflammation.
Mariners ................................................5
Giants ....................................................1
SEATTLE (AP) — Adrian Beltre homered
and singled in another run, and Jamie
Moyer stymied fellow 40-something Barry
Bonds and the rest of the Giants.
Seattle swept the three-game series by
keeping Bonds homerless in 10 plate appearances following his home run Friday
night. The slugger remained 37 home
runs behind Hank Aaron’s major league
record.
Moyer (4-6) allowed Jason Ellison’s
home run leading off the game and then
five singles in eight innings. He walked
none and struck out four — including
Bonds twice. J.J. Putz worked the ninth
and struck out Bonds on a 97 mph fastball to end the game.
Bonds, who turns 42 on July 24, went 0for-3 against the 43-year-old Moyer, the
oldest opening day starter since Charlie
Hough in 1994.
Giants starter Jamey Wright (5-7) left after he loaded the bases on walks in the
seventh. He allowed eight hits, walked
four and struck out four over 6 2-3 innings
for his fifth straight winless start.
Red Sox ...............................................10
Braves ...................................................7
ATLANTA (AP) — Pinch-hitter Mike Lowell’s go-ahead two-run double and Kevin
Youkilis’ two-run home run highlighted
Boston’s six-run eighth inning and the
Red Sox beat Atlanta to extend the
Braves’ losing streak to seven games —
their longest in nearly 16 years.
The Braves, who have won a record 14
straight division titles, have their first seven-game losing streak since July 31-Aug.
7, 1990.
It appeared that Atlanta would end the
losing streak in the seventh inning when
Jeff Francoeur hit his 15th home run, a
three-run shot on the first pitch from reliever Rudy Seanez (2-0) for a 5-3 lead.
Atlanta starter John Smoltz pitched seven innings, allowing six hits, three runs,
walked four and struck out eight and reliever Macay McBride (1-1) looked sharp
getting David Ortiz and Manny Ramirez
on strikeouts for the first two outs in the
eighth.
Jonathan Papelbon got the final four outs
for his 23rd save in 24 opportunities.
MLB Leaders
AMERICAN LEAGUE
BATTING—Mauer,
Minnesota,
.380;
ISuzuki, Seattle, .365; Matthews, Texas,
.344; Jeter, New York, .340; Rios, Toronto,
.328; Cano, New York, .327; MYoung,
Texas, .327.
RUNS—Sizemore, Cleveland, 56; Hafner,
Cleveland, 56; ISuzuki, Seattle, 54; Tejada, Baltimore, 54; Thome, Chicago, 54;
ARodriguez, New York, 53; Swisher, Oakland, 51; Glaus, Toronto, 51; Damon, New
York, 51.
RBI—DOrtiz, Boston, 60; Thome, Chicago, 57; Morneau, Minnesota, 56; VWells,
Toronto, 56; Hafner, Cleveland, 55;
VGuerrero, Los Angeles, 54; Ibanez,
Seattle, 54.
HITS—ISuzuki, Seattle, 111; MYoung,
Texas, 99; Tejada, Baltimore, 91; Mauer,
Minnesota, 87; Matthews, Texas, 85;
VWells, Toronto, 84; Mora, Baltimore, 84;
Jeter, New York, 84.
DOUBLES—Lowell, Boston, 26; MYoung,
Texas, 25; Matthews, Texas, 25; Teixeira,
Texas, 23; DeRosa, Texas, 21; OCabrera,
Los Angeles, 20; Rios, Toronto, 19;
Mauer, Minnesota, 19; Youkilis, Boston,
19; CGuillen, Detroit, 19.
TRIPLES—Sizemore,
Cleveland,
6;
JoLopez, Seattle, 5; ISuzuki, Seattle, 5;
Podsednik, Chicago, 5; YBetancourt,
Seattle, 4; Granderson, Detroit, 4; Reed,
Seattle, 4; Crawford, Tampa Bay, 4;
Matthews, Texas, 4; Ibanez, Seattle, 4.
HOME RUNS—Thome, Chicago, 22;
Glaus, Toronto, 20; DOrtiz, Boston, 20;
Dye, Chicago, 20; Hafner, Cleveland, 18;
JaGiambi, New York, 18
STOLEN BASES—CPatterson, Baltimore, 28; Figgins, Los Angeles, 23; Crawford, Tampa Bay, 22; ISuzuki, Seattle, 22;
Podsednik, Chicago, 22; BRoberts, Baltimore, 17; Jeter, New York, 14.
PITCHING
(9
Decisions)—Schilling,
Boston, 9-2, .818, 3.55; Halladay, Toronto,
8-2, .800, 2.94; Rogers, Detroit, 10-3,
.769, 3.17; Beckett, Boston, 8-3, .727,
5.09; Zito, Oakland, 8-3, .727, 3.51; Millwood, Texas, 8-3, .727, 4.47; Mussina,
New York, 8-3, .727, 3.14.
STRIKEOUTS—JoSantana, Minnesota,
109; Kazmir, Tampa Bay, 92; Mussina,
New York, 90; Schilling, Boston, 86; FHernandez, Seattle, 82; Bonderman, Detroit,
82; Zito, Oakland, 77.
SAVES—Papelbon, Boston, 23; Jenks,
Chicago, 20; Ray, Baltimore, 18; TJones,
Detroit, 18; Street, Oakland, 17; BRyan,
Toronto, 17; FrRodriguez, Los Angeles,
16.
NATIONAL LEAGUE
BATTING—Garciaparra, Los Angeles,
.355; FSanchez, Pittsburgh, .350; Holliday, Colorado, .347; MiCabrera, Florida,
.342; Rolen, St. Louis, .341; Wright, New
York, .336; Atkins, Colorado, .323.
RUNS—Reyes, New York, 57; Utley,
Philadelphia, 56; Weeks, Milwaukee, 54;
ASoriano, Washington, 54; Pujols, St.
Louis, 52; Rollins, Philadelphia, 52; Furcal, Los Angeles, 52.
RBI—Pujols, St. Louis, 65; Berkman,
Houston, 60; AJones, Atlanta, 60;
Howard, Philadelphia, 59; CaLee, Milwaukee, 58; Wright, New York, 55; Bay, Pittsburgh, 53; Beltran, New York, 53.
HITS—Holliday, Colorado, 91; Wright,
New York, 89; Eckstein, St. Louis, 86; MiCabrera, Florida, 83; ASoriano, Washington, 83; Uggla, Florida, 82; Atkins, Colorado, 81; Utley, Philadelphia, 81.
DOUBLES—Biggio, Houston, 24; MiCabrera, Florida, 23; NJohnson, Washington, 23; Holliday, Colorado, 22; Rolen,
St. Louis, 22; Atkins, Colorado, 21
TRIPLES—Reyes,
New
York,
8;
DRoberts, San Diego, 8; SFinley, San
Francisco, 8; Lofton, Los Angeles, 7; Sullivan, Colorado, 6; Cedeno, Chicago, 5;
HaRamirez, Florida, 5.
HOME RUNS—Pujols, St. Louis, 25;
ASoriano, Washington, 24; Howard,
Philadelphia, 23; Dunn, Cincinnati, 23;
CaLee, Milwaukee, 23; Bay, Pittsburgh,
20; CDelgado, New York, 19.
STOLEN BASES—Reyes, New York, 30;
Pierre, Chicago, 24; HaRamirez, Florida,
20; FLopez, Cincinnati, 20; DRoberts,
San Diego, 19; ASoriano, Washington,
17; Furcal, Los Angeles, 16.
PITCHING (9 Decisions)—TGlavine, New
York, 10-2, .833, 3.48; Webb, Arizona, 82, .800, 2.37; Arroyo, Cincinnati, 8-3,
.727, 2.51; Marquis, St. Louis, 9-4, .692,
4.55
STRIKEOUTS—CZambrano,
Chicago,
102; PMartinez, New York, 102; Harang,
Cincinnati, 99; Capuano, Milwaukee, 93;
Peavy, San Diego, 92; Schmidt, San Francisco, 88; Smoltz, Atlanta, 88.
SAVES—Isringhausen, St. Louis, 24;
Turnbow,
Milwaukee,
20;
Gordon,
Philadelphia, 19; Lidge, Houston, 18;
Hoffman, San Diego, 16; Valverde, Arizona, 14; Fuentes, Colorado, 14; BWagner, New York, 14.
Auto Racing
Nextel Cup Glance
3M Performance 400 results
BROOKLYN, Mich. — Results Sunday
from the 3M Performance 400 race for
NASCAR's Nextel Cup Series at Michigan International Speedway with starting position in parentheses, driver, car,
laps completed with reason out if not
running at finish, and money won:
1. (1) Kasey Kahne, Dodge, 129, $205,364.
2. (31) Carl Edwards, Ford, 129, $147,200.
3. (6) Dale Earnhardt Jr., Chevrolet, 129,
$146,991.
4. (10) Greg Biffle, Ford, 129, $115,300.
5.
(25) Reed Sorenson, Dodge, 129,
$98,350.
6.
(4) Jimmie Johnson, Chevrolet, 129,
$128,386.
7.
(37) Casey Mears, Dodge, 129,
$122,183.
8.
(2) Jeff Gordon, Chevrolet, 129,
$137,436.
9. (13) Kurt Busch, Dodge, 129, $117,583.
10. (19) Kevin Harvick, Chevrolet, 129,
$119,936.
11. (12) Jeff Burton, Chevrolet, 129,
$109,295.
12. (21) Denny Hamlin, Chevrolet, 129,
$78,925.
13. (20) Matt Kenseth, Ford, 129, $121,416.
14. (15) Kyle Busch, Chevrolet, 129,
$91,725.
15. (42) Ryan Newman, Dodge, 129,
$118,683.
16. (11) Martin Truex Jr., Chevrolet, 129,
$103,583.
17. (3) Brian Vickers, Chevrolet, 129,
$96,175.
18. (24) Robby Gordon, Chevrolet, 129,
$76,025.
19. (30) David Stremme, Dodge, 129,
$99,783.
20. (40) Dale Jarrett, Ford, 129, $110,100.
21. (23) Travis Kvapil, Chevrolet, 129,
$89,008.
22. (32) Elliott Sadler, Ford, 129, $102,458.
23. (41) Jamie McMurray, Ford, 129,
$118,675.
24. (26) Sterling Marlin, Chevrolet, 129,
$85,658.
25. (28) Michael Waltrip, Dodge, 129,
$83,622.
26. (7) Joe Nemechek, Chevrolet, 129,
$99,670.
27. (8) Mark Martin, Ford, 129, $88,035.
28.
(5) Bobby Labonte, Dodge, 129,
$109,821.
29. (16) Scott Riggs, Dodge, 129, $72,675.
30. (33) Dave Blaney, Dodge, 129, $72,600.
31. (36) Scott Wimmer, Chevrolet, 129,
$69,450.
32. (34) Bill Lester, Dodge, 129, $69,375.
33. (27) Jeff Green, Chevrolet, 129,
$77,300.
34. (29) Kevin Lepage, Dodge, 129,
$70,150.
35. (35) Kyle Petty, Dodge, 129, $77,050.
36. (18) Jeremy Mayfield, Dodge, 129,
$98,991.
37. (43) Mike Skinner, Chevrolet, 129,
$68,950.
38. (39) Tony Raines, Chevrolet, 126,
$68,850.
39. (9) Clint Bowyer, Chevrolet, 86, $76,805.
40. (14) J.J. Yeley, Chevrolet, 80, $103,340.
41. (17) Tony Stewart, Chevrolet, 58, accident, $122,666.
42. (22) Ken Schrader, Ford, 30, accident,
$95,904.
43. (38) Derrike Cope, Dodge, 12, overheating, $68,127.
———
RACE STATISTICS
Time of Race: 2 hours, 10 minutes, 19
seconds.
Margin of Victory: Under Caution.
Winner's Average Speed: 118.788 mph.
Caution Flags: Nine for 37 laps.
Lead Changes: 17 among 10 drivers.
Lap Leaders: K.Kahne 1; J.Gordon 2-22;
Kyle Busch 23-31; K.Kahne 32-35; J.Gordon 36-45; K.Kahne 46; J.Gordon 47-55;
K.Petty 56; J.Gordon 57-59; D.Earnhardt
Jr. 60-61; J.Gordon 62-68; G.Biffle 69-79;
D.Earnhardt Jr. 80; B.Vickers 81-87; C.Edwards 88-112; K.Lepage 113; R.Sorenson 114-116; K.Kahne 117-129.
Leaders Summary (Driver, Times Lead,
Laps Led): J.Gordon, 5 times for 50 laps;
C.Edwards, 1 time for 25 laps; K.Kahne, 4
times for 19 laps; G.Biffle, 1 time for 11
laps; Kyle Busch, 1 time for 9 laps;
B.Vickers, 1 time for 7 laps; D.Earnhardt
Jr., 2 times for 3 laps; R.Sorenson, 1 time
for 3 laps; K.Petty, 1 time for 1 lap; K.Lepage, 1 time for 1 lap.
Point Standings: 1. J.Johnson, 2,295. 2.
M.Kenseth, 2,221. 3. K.Kahne, 2,051. 4.
D.Earnhardt Jr., 2,020. 5. M.Martin, 1,989.
6. T.Stewart, 1,928. 7. J.Burton, 1,888; 8.
K.Harvick, 1,849. 9. D.Hamlin, 1,809. 10.
G.Biffle, 1,807.
Basketball
Detroit
6
4
.600
Charlotte
2
7
.222
New York
2
9
.182
Chicago
1
10
.091
WESTERN CONFERENCE
W
L
Pct
Los Angeles
8
3
.727
Houston
8
4
.667
San Antonio
6
4
.600
Seattle
6
6
.500
Sacramento
5
5
.500
Minnesota
5
6
.455
Phoenix
3
6
.333
———
Saturday’s Games
Sacramento 76, Seattle 74
Washington 88, New York 70
Detroit 71, Houston 55
San Antonio 69, Chicago 65
Los Angeles 82, Connecticut 70
Sunday’s Games
Minnesota 94, Phoenix 82
Indiana 92, Charlotte 85, OT
Los Angeles 80, Sacramento 69
Today’s Game
No games scheduled
Tuesday’s Games
Connecticut at Charlotte, 7 p.m.
1.0
4.5
5.5
6.5
GB
—
0.5
1.5
2.5
2.5
3.0
4.0
WNBA Capsules
Lynx .....................................................94
Mercury ...............................................82
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Rookie Seimone
Augustus tied a season high with 32
points to help the Minnesota Lynx beat
the Phoenix Mercury 94-82 on Sunday.
Nicole Ohlde added 22 points and Tamika Williams grabbed 12 rebounds as the
Lynx (5-6) snapped a two-game skid and
bounced back from Friday’s 30-point loss
in San Antonio.
Diana Taurasi led the Mercury (3-6) with
23, but was 7-for-22 from the field and
was visibly frustrated by her team’s rebounding struggles and Minnesota’s pestering defense. Cappie Pondexter added
22 points for the Mercury.
The Lynx led 29-16 after the first quarter,
outrebounding Phoenix 18-6, and getting
10 second-chance points.
Fever ....................................................92
Sting..............................................85, OT
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Tamika Whitmore scored a career-high 29 points and
Tamika Catchings added 27 points, 13 rebounds and six assists to lead Indiana.
The Fever (8-4) overcame a 10-point
fourth-quarter deficit to remain undefeated at Conseco Fieldhouse. Whitmore
scored 11 of her points and Catchings
scored seven as the Fever rallied to force
overtime after trailing 68-58 with 6:20 remaining in regulation.
Catchings and Tully Bevilaqua each had
four points in overtime as the Fever
outscored the Sting 12-5.
Tangela Smith had 18 points and eight
rebounds to lead Charlotte (2-7), which
lost its third straight game. The Fever led
throughout the first half and 42-39 at halftime before going cold.
Sparks .................................................80
Monarchs ............................................69
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Mwadi Mabika
tied a WNBA record with seven 3-pointers
and finished with 27 points as Los Angeles won its fifth straight.
Lisa Leslie had 16 points and seven rebounds and Chamique Holdsclaw added
12 points and seven rebounds for Los Angeles (8-3), which moved a half-game
ahead of Houston for first place in the
Western Conference.
Nicole Powell had scored 15 points and
Kara Lawson added 14 points for Sacramento (5-5), which outrebounded the
Sparks 22-17 but had 14 turnovers.
Murriel Page’s jumper with 3:37 left gave
Los Angeles a 68-66 lead and the Sparks
then went on a 10-1 run to seal their fifth
consecutive win. The loss broke defending champion Sacramento’s four-game
winning streak against Los Angeles, including last season’s playoffs.
Soccer
FIFA Glance
FIRST ROUND
GROUP A
W L T GF GA Pts
2 0 0 5 0
6
2 0 0 5 2
6
0 2 0 0 3
0
0 2 0 2 7
0
Tuesday, June 20
At Berlin
Ecuador at Germany, 10 a.m.
At Hanover, Germany
Costa Rica vs. Poland, 10 a.m.
x-Ecuador
x-Germany
Poland
Costa Rica
GROUP B
W L T GF GA Pts
2 0 0 3 0
6
1 0 1 1 0
4
0 1 1 0 2
1
0 2 0 0 2
0
Tuesday, June 20
At Cologne, Germany
Sweden vs. England, 3 p.m.
At Kaiserslautern, Germany
Paraguay vs. Trinidad and Tobago, 3 p.m.
x-England
Sweden
Trinidad
Paraguay
GROUP C
W L T GF GA Pts
x-Argentina
2 0 0 8 1
6
x-Netherlands
2 0 0 3 1
6
Ivory Coast
0 2 0 2 4
0
Serbia-Montenegro0 2 0 0 7
0
Wednesday, June 21
At Frankfurt, Germany
Netherlands vs. Argentina, 3 p.m.
At Munich, Germany
Ivory Coast vs. Serbia-Montenegro, 3 p.m.
GROUP D
W L T GF GA Pts
x-Portugal
2 0 0 3 0
6
Mexico
1 0 1 3 1
4
Angola
0 1 1 0 1
1
Iran
0 2 0 1 5
0
Wednesday, June 21
At Gelsenkirchen, Germany
Portugal vs. Mexico, 10 a.m.
At Leipzig, Germany
Iran vs. Angola, 10 a.m.
GROUP E
W L T GF GA Pts
Italy
1 0 1 3 1
4
Czech Republic
1 1 0 3 2
3
Ghana
1 1 0 2 2
3
United States
0 1 1 1 4
1
Thursday, June 22
At Hamburg, Germany
Czech Republic vs. Italy, 10 a.m.
At Nuremberg, Germany
Ghana vs. United States, 10 a.m.
GROUP F
NBA Playoff Glance
NBA FINALS
(Best-of-7)
Dallas vs. Miami
Thursday, June 8: Dallas 90, Miami 80
Sunday, June 11: Dallas 99, Miami 85
Tuesday, June 13: Miami 98, Dallas 96
Thursday, June 15: Miami 98, Dallas 74
Sunday, June 18: Miami 101, Dallas 100,
OT, Miami leads series 3-2
Tuesday, June 20: Miami at Dallas, 9 p.m.
Thursday, June 22: Miami at Dallas, 9
p.m., if necessary
WNBA Glance
EASTERN CONFERENCE
W
L
Pct
Connecticut
7
3
.700
Washington
7
3
.700
Indiana
8
4
.667
W L T GF GA Pts
Brazil
2 0 0 3 0
6
Australia
1 1 0 3 3
3
Croatia
0 1 1 0 1
1
Japan
0 1 1 1 3
1
Sunday, June 18
At Nuremberg, Germany
Japan 0, Croatia 0, tie
At Munich, Germany
Brazil 2, Australia 0
Thursday, June 22
At Dortmund, Germany
Japan vs. Brazil, 3 p.m.
At Stuttgart, Germany
Croatia vs. Australia, 3 p.m.
GROUP G
GB
—
—
—
South Korea
France
Switzerland
Togo
W
1
0
0
0
L
0
0
0
1
T GF GA Pts
1 3 2
4
2 1 1
2
1 0 0
1
0 1 2
0
Sunday, June 18
At Leipzig, Germany
France 1, South Korea 1, tie
Monday, June 19
At Dortmund, Germany
Togo vs. Switzerland, 9 a.m.
Friday, June 23
At Cologne, Germany
Togo vs. France, 3 p.m.
At Hanover, Germany
Switzerland vs. South Korea, 3 p.m.
GROUP H
W L T GF GA Pts
Spain
1 0 0 4 0
3
Saudi Arabia
0 0 1 2 2
1
Tunisia
0 0 1 2 2
1
Ukraine
0 1 0 0 4
0
Monday, June 19
At Hamburg, Germany
Saudi Arabia vs. Ukraine, Noon
At Stuttgart, Germany
Spain vs. Tunisia, 3 p.m.
Friday, June 23
At Berlin
Ukraine vs. Tunisia, 10 a.m.
At Kaiserslautern, Germany
Saudi Arabia vs. Spain, 10 a.m.
FIFA Game Caps
Brazil......................................................2
Australia ................................................0
MUNICH, Germany (AP) — Still unable
to put on the show everyone has expected in the World Cup, Brazil got another
shaky win and a spot in the second round.
Adriano got the first goal in the 49th
minute and the defending champions
hung on to defeat Australia 2-0. It was
one goal more than the score Brazil beat
Croatia by in its opener — but the South
Americans were even less impressive this
time.
Brazil advanced with its ninth consecutive
World Cup victory. The five-time champion hasn’t been eliminated in the first
stage since the 1966 tournament.
Adriano used a left-footed shot from the
top of the penalty area after clearing a defender. His low shot whipped past Australia goalkeeper Mark Schwarzer. Ronaldo, who improved slightly from his dismal
performance in the opener, set up the
score.
Reserve Fred, who came on a minute
earlier, got the clinching goal in the 89th
minute on a rebound into an empty net.
Japan .....................................................0
Croatia...................................................0
NUREMBERG, Germany (AP) — Croatia
couldn’t find the net and even missed a
penalty kick in a tie with Japan that endangered both teams’ stays at the World
Cup.
Each side had numerous chances to win
the Group F match, but spectacular goaltending left the teams with just one point
apiece with one match remaining. Even
worse for the Japanese, they must still
play Brazil.
Japan captain Tsuneyasu Miyamoto took
down Dado Prso in the penalty area in the
21st minute, drawing a yellow card. But
Yoshikatsu Kawaguchi denied Darijo Srna
from the penalty spot, diving to his left to
stop the low shot.
The Japanese, who blew a late lead in
losing to Australia in their opener, didn’t
get much of a lift from the save, however.
Niko Kranjcar hit the crossbar for Croatia
from the top of the area seven minutes
later.
Croatia, a 1-0 loser to Brazil in a very
tight game, came close again in the 54th
minute. Niko Kranjcar lunged for Ivan
Klasnic’s pass and missed just wide of
the post.
France....................................................1
South Korea .........................................1
LEIPZIG, Germany (AP) — Thierry Henry scored France’s first World Cup goal
since the 1998 final, only to see South Korea’s Park Ji-sung tie it in the 81st minute.
South Korea tops Group G with four
points from two matches, with France in
second place with two points. Third-place
Switzerland has one point and plays Togo
on Monday.
But the French might need a win against
Togo in their final game of the opening
round to advance. Four years ago, they
went out of the World Cup in the first
round without scoring.
At least they found the net this time when
Henry connected in the ninth minute for
his 34th international goal. Henry put a
deflected ball past Lee Woon-jae for
France’s first World Cup goal on foreign
soil since 1986.
Park tied it on a strange goal. He got his
toe on a ball that looped over goalkeeper
Fabien Barthez’s reach and defender
William Gallas failed to clear it on the line.
France nearly scored another goal in the
32nd when Patrick Vieira’s header appeared on TV replays to have crossed the
goal line. But the Mexican referee ruled
no goal.
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Sunday’s Deals
BASEBALL
American League
NEW YORK YANKEES—Designated
RHP Aaron Small for assignment. Recalled RHP T.J. Beam from Columbus of
the IL. Purchased the contract of RHP
Jose Veras from Columbus. Assigned OF
Kevin Thompson to Columbus.
OAKLAND ATHLETICS—Announced the
retirement of RHP Steve Karsay. Recalled
LHP Ron Flores from Sacramento of the
PCL. Optioned C Jeremy Brown to Sacramento.
TORONTO BLUE JAYS—Recalled RHP
Josh Towers from Syracuse of the IL. Optioned RHP Vinnie Chulk to Syracuse.
National League
ATLANTA BRAVES—Placed 1B-OF Brian
Jordan on the 15-day DL, retroactive to
June 17. Recalled 1B-OF Scott Thorman
from Richmond of the IL.
CHICAGO CUBS—Activated RHP Mark
Prior from the 60-day DL. Placed LHP
Glendon Rusch on the 15-day DL,
retroactive to June 17. Agreed to terms
with RHP Jeff Samardzija.
CINCINNATI REDS—Placed LHP Brandon Claussen on the 15-day DL. Recalled
RHP Mike Burns from Louisville of the IL.
NEW YORK METS—Placed LF Cliff
Floyd on the 15-day DL, retroactive to
June 7. Activated OF Xavier Nady from
the 15-day DL.
PITTSBURGH PIRATES—Activated RHP
Kip Wells from the 60-day DL. Placed
RHP Victor Santos on the 15-day DL.
Transferred OF Jody Gerut from the 15 to
the 60-day disabled list.
Sportscast
Television
COLLEGE WORLD SERIES
2 p.m. — (ESPN) Georgia vs. Oregon
State
7 p.m. — (ESPN2) Rice vs. Miami
GOLF
4 p.m. — (GOLF) CVS Charity Classic
MLB BASEBALL
7 p.m. — (ESPN) New York Yankees at
Philadelphia
NHL HOCKEY
8 p.m. — (NBC) Stanley Cup Game
Seven: Edmonton at Carolina
FIFA WORLD CUP SOCCER
12 p.m. — (ESPN2) Togo vs. Switzerland
3 p.m. — (ESPN2) Saudi Arabia vs.
Ukraine
3 p.m. —(ESPN2) Spain vs. Tunisia
Page 8 - STAR- MONDAY, JUNE 19, 2006
Heat one game away from title
Golf
n Continued from 6
At least Van de Velde got a
second chance in a playoff in
the ’99 British Open at
Carnoustie after he made
triple bogey on the last hole.
Mickelson could only cup his
hands over his cap and acknowledge a New York
crowd that he disappointed
again.
And he had only himself
to blame.
He had a two-shot lead
with four holes to play, but
he continued to miss fairways, and his miscues finally
caught up with him. Mickelson hit only two fairways in
the final round, none on the
back nine.
And while he found a way
to escape most times,
Winged
Foot
got
its
vengeance at the end.
Mickelson’s tee shot on
the 18th went so far left that
it clattered through the trees
by a hospitality tent, into the
trampled rough. Instead of
playing out to the fairway
and trying to get par — just
as Payne Stewart and David
Toms had done in beating
Mickelson in majors — he
went after the green and hit a
tree, the ball advancing only
25 yards.
“If I would make par, I’d
win the tournament,” Mickelson said. “I just thought, ’I
can slice this.’ I thought I’d
just put the 3-iron on the
green — or if not on it,
around it — and get up and
down.”
The third shot sailed left
of the green and buried in
the bunker, plugged so badly
that Mickelson had no
chance to get close to the flag
because the green ran away
from him. He blasted out and
through the green, into more
rough, then chipped back 8
feet past the hole before making the last putt to close with
double bogey.
Lost in the Mickelson collapse was what proved to be
the most demanding U.S.
Open in more than 25 years.
Ogilvy closed with a 72
and finished at 5-over 285,
the first time a U.S. Open
champion finished over par
since Andy North at Cherry
Hills in 1978. And it was the
highest score by a winner
since Hale Irwin was 7 over
at Winged Foot in the ’74 U.S.
Open. There were only 12
rounds under par all week,
and Ogilvy joined Irwin in
another footnote: Neither
broke par in any of the four
rounds.
Irwin didn’t get this kind
of help, however.
“I had it right there in my
hands, and I let it go,” Mickelson said. “I just can’t believe I did that.”
Mickelson wasn’t the only
guy to blow it on the 18th.
Montgomerie had his best
chance in 11 years to win that
elusive major. He holed a 75foot birdie putt on the 17th
hole for a share of the lead
and was in the middle of the
18th fairway, 172 yards from
the hole, in prime position to
do no worse than a playoff.
But he missed well to the
right, down a steep slope into rough that covered the
cuffs of his pants.
The best he could do was
chip some 40 feet by the pin.
Then he did the worst thing
he could do, running his par
putt 10 feet by and missing
the next one for a double bogey and a 71.
“I look forward to coming
back next year and try another U.S. Open disaster,” Montgomerie said.
Furyk also will have a
restless night.
One of five players tied for
the lead on a steamy afternoon, he was 5 over and in
the bunker on the 18th when
he played a splendid shot to
about 5 feet below the hole.
He backed off twice, and the
par putt caught the right
edge of the cup, giving him a
70, one shot out of a playoff.
“I played my heart out,
and it didn’t work,” Furyk
said.
Padraig
Harrington
played bogey-free for 15
holes for a share of the lead,
then bogeyed the last three
for a 71 to finish fifth, two
shots behind. Kenneth Ferrie
of England was tied with
Mickelson starting the final
round and stayed with him
for nine holes before he
crashed to a 39 on the back
nine and shot 76.
“I feel for Phil,” Ogilvy
said. “He’s won a few majors
recently, so I can take one
away.”
He never imagined it
would happen like this. No
one did. Mickelson had been
so dominant in the majors,
and had poured so much into
studying ever nook and cranny at Winged Foot, that it appeared he would win this the
way Woods often captures
majors — making the fewest
mistakes in the final round.
But he saved a whopper
for the 72nd hole.
“I came out here a week or
two ago in the evenings, just
spending the evenings on the
last four holes, thinking I’d
just have to make four pars,
thinking there was a good
chance if I could make four
pars on Sunday, I could do
it,” he said.
Ogilvy earned $1.225 million for his first major, and
his third career victory on the
PGA Tour, and it should be
enough to put him into the
top 10 in the world ranking.
He became the first Aussie
to win a major since Steve
Elkington in the 1995 PGA
Championship, and Ogilvy
showed he can never be
counted out. When he won
the Match Play Championship at La Costa, he set a
record by winning four consecutive matches in extra
holes.
This was about survival
from the start, even if the
New Yorkers were so raucous they thought Lefty only
needed to show up.
But he still had to hit the
shots, and Mickelson didn’t
hit a fairway until the eighth
hole. The most damaging
miss came on the par-5 fifth
hole, easily reachable in two.
Mickelson hit into the face of
a bunker, hit into the rough,
than tried to dig it out with a
4-wood and moved it about a
yard. He did well to make
bogey.
By then, the U.S. Open
was, indeed, wide open.
As the tournament headed
into the final two hours, four
players were tied top the
leaderboard. It wasn’t a matter of who would shift into
drive, but who could get out
of reverse.
Mickelson did both, but
then stepped on the gas and
drove over the edge.
runs in the bottom half of the
first.
Kristin Powell led off with a
walk. She would come around
to score with bunts from Tori
Payne and Victoria Nanney.
Heather Grindstaff and
Campbell would take walks,
while Haley Lewis, Allison
Williams, Morgan Bellessa
and Melissa Freeman would
each pick up RBI's.
Big John’s would score two
more in the second and third
innings.
Triples from Campbell and
Powell would allow Big Johns
to score a run in both the
fourth and fifth innings.
The scoring from EPD
came in the fourth when Simmons lead off with a double
followed by a double from
Ashlie Wagner scoring Simmons. Simmons would score
on a wild pitch.
Powell led the hitting frenzy for Big Johns with three
hits, while collecting the win
on the mound striking out ten
batters while giving up just
four hits.
Payne and Nanney both
went two-for-three in the
game. EPD had hits each from
Abbie Fleenor, Chelsie Wagner, Kelsey Simmons and Ashlie Wagner.
"It's all about the Girls that
make up the league" says
coach Dave Bellessa. "There
are talented players throughout the league which will
make for a very exciting all
star season.”
smacked a home run, triple and
a double before being intentionally walked in the sixth inning,
Isaacs, Key, Shepherd and
Joyner had the other hits for the
team.
The squad met the Knights,
again, in the Championship
game, but this time the results
were no different with the East
Tennessee Squad laying a fiveinning 12-2 smackdown on the
squad to capture the title.
Fillers got the win on the hill,
while Joyner picked up the
save.
It was a hit parade for the
Riverdogs with Smith, Isaacs,
Hilton, Messer and Key all
teaming up for two hits apiece.
Laws, Key, Shepherd and
Roark all delivered a hit apiece
for the champs.
The Riverdogs showed great
defense all weekend and were
all willing to sacrifice for their
teammates as moving baserunners was a key to their success.
The ‘Dogs play this coming
weekend in the Tennessee Classic in Jefferson City.
“U” for understanding.
As a coach, let a player
know what is expected from
he or she. If they have a good
understanding for what you
want to accomplish, it will be
much easier for them.
“N” for neutralize.
As a player learn to balance.
Use your time wisely. Make
time for homework and hard
work will result in team work.
Without one, the others just
simply won’t work.
These three ingredients
spell out the word fun.
And without it, your have
fewer and fewer participants.
Big Johns
n Continued from 6
Game two action went back
and forth between Taco Johns
and the Elizabethton Police
Department. Taco Johns in a
valient effort took a two run
lead in the top of the sixth.
The lead was short lived as
the EPD scored 12 runs in the
bottom half of the sixth to take
the win.
Kaitlyn Campbell was the
winning pitcher.
The championship game
between Big Johns and EPD
began with a "big league" defensive play from Logan
Campbell at first base as she
made the play on a hard line
drive from Kelsey Simmons,
keeping EPD from scoring and
swinging the momentum towards her team’s direction.
Big John’s followed with six
Riverdogs
n Continued from 6
Shepherd added a hit apiece.
In Sunday morning’s semifinal game, the Riverdogs beat
the Chattanooga Chiefs 7-4 in
comeback fashion.
East Tennessee opened the
game with a 2-0 lead only to see
it evaporate in the third inning,
falling behind 4-3.
In the bottom of the sixth,
the Riverdogs rallied back led
by a three-run single from
Smith.
The big game came from
Messer, who pitched the win,
and not to be outdone,
Spectrum
n Continued from 6
multi-sport athlete, you must
be willing to put in equal time
at both sports. And coaches
must teach the following.
“F” for fundamentals.
Always try and teach kids
how to do things the right way
and that taking shortcuts can
get you lost at times.
MIAMI (AP) — Dwyane
Wade didn’t pause for a second when he was asked about
his plans for Father’s Day.
“Winning the game,” he
said.
Wade scored 43 points, the
final two on a pair of free
throws with 1.9 seconds left in
overtime, as the Miami Heat
took advantage of a mistaken
timeout and won their third
straight game in the homey series, 101-100 over the Dallas
Mavericks on Sunday for a 3-2
lead in the NBA finals.
Wade’s free throws gave
him a finals-record 21 and
capped perhaps the most
memorable game of this remarkably tight postseason. His
latest virtuoso performance
sent the teams to Dallas for
Game 6 on Tuesday night.
Game 7, if necessary, will be
Thursday night.
When the Mavericks’ final
shot — because of Josh
Howard’s error, all they could
manage was a half-court heave
by Devin Harris — was off the
mark, streamers fell from the
top of AmericanAirlines Arena, hosting its final game of the
season.
“We can smell it,” Wade
said. “Dallas plays well at
home but we are a confident
bunch so we’ll see what happens.”
When it ended, Dallas owner Mark Cuban ran onto the
floor, complaining about the final 2 seconds when there was
confusion over Dallas’ final
timeout.
Cuban, wearing a blue jersey bearing the name of suspended Dallas reserve Jerry
Stackhouse, stood with his
hands on his hips in disbelief
as the Mavericks headed to the
locker room to begin getting
ready for Game 6.
Wade made 21-of-25 free
throws, matching Dallas’ total,
and came through again when
the Heat needed their shooting
star most.
After Nowitzki’s jumper
with 9.1 seconds to go gave the
Mavericks 100-99 lead, Wade
took an inbounds pass wove
and dribbled his way seemingly all over Florida and was
fouled on a drive to the basket
by Nowitzki.
Wade made the first, and
the officials awarded Dallas a
timeout even though Mavericks coach Avery Johnson was
arguing that he didn’t want
one until Wade’s second attempt. The officials huddled
and said the Mavs had asked
for a timeout and gave them
their last one.
“We gave the signal, ’Sec-
ond free throw, timeout.’ One
of our players was saying
timeout. I said, ’Yeah, after the
second one,”’ Johnson said.
“Pretty much most people
who have ever been involved
in the NBA for 20, 30 years,
know we wouldn’t want one
anyway with only one timeout,” he said. “So we were
pretty dumbfounded that that
couldn’t get relayed.”
Crew chief Joe Crawford,
speaking for the officials, said:
“Josh Howard goes to Joe
DeRosa and not only once, but
twice asks for timeout. Forced
to call it, simple as that.”
The timeout took away Dallas’ ability to inbounds the ball
at halfcourt, costing them 45
precious feet. Wade then
knocked down his second free
throw, and when Harris’ shot
was way off, this series had its
latest controversy.
On the way to the locker
room, Nowitzki kicked a stationary bike and Cuban spent
another 10 minutes pleading to
anyone who would listen.
The Heat, who finished 10-1
at home in these playoff, are
now one win away from that
victory parade down Biscayne
Boulevard
that
Shaquille
O’Neal promised when he
signed with the Heat.
O’Neal scored 18 points
with 12 rebounds, but he was
just 2-for-12 from the freethrow line.
Jason Terry had 35 points
for the Mavericks. Howard
added 25 and Nowitzki had
20.
For the second time in three
games, Wade was unstoppable
in the fourth quarter, scoring
17 points on every shot in his
personal playbook. His 18-foot
jumper gave the Heat a 91-89
lead with 1:08 left, but Nowitzki, who had just missed Dallas’
first free throw after 18 in a
row, knocked down a 14-footer.
Wade finally missed on his
next attempt, and Dallas capitalized as Nowitzki drew
O’Neal on a double team and
made a nice pass down low to
Erick Dampier, whose dunk
gave the Mavericks a 93-91
lead with 10.1 seconds to go.
Wade wasn’t done, not even
close.
He drove the right side, got
his body tight with Adrian
Griffin, and pushed off just
enough to get space and
banked in a 10-footer with 2.8
seconds to go to tie it 93-93 and
rock the arena once again.
Dallas had a final chance,
but Terry, triple-teamed by
Wade, O’Neal and James
Posey misfired from just be-
yond the line before the horn
sounded and a Game 5 that
had it all had at least another
five minutes.
At least Shaq’s defense was
consistent. His foul shooting,
er missing, came unbearable to
watch for his wife, Shaunie.
With her husband on the
line and the Heat trailing by
three points in the fourth quarter, she buried her head in her
hands and waited for the
crowd’s reaction.
With Terry hitting almost
everything he tossed toward
the rim, the Heat were down
by eight late in the second half
when Wade, again looking Jordanesque in his ability to come
up with the big plays at the
most crucial times, drained
two straight jumpers before
feeding Posey for a 3-pointer.
Wade barely missed a running, off-balance 3 at the horn,
but he had done enough to get
Miami within 71-70 going into
the fourth quarter.
Since losing Game 4, then
Stackhouse, Johnson had spent
the previous 48 hours challenging his team’s intensity,
grumbling about the inconsistent officiating, Stackhouse’s
ban and searching for answers.
He’s got a whole new beef
now.
Feeling his players were
distracted in what was the first
finals for most of them, Johnson moved the Mavericks
from their downtown hotel to
one in Fort Lauderdale, a 45minute drive from the arena.
He gave them roommates,
made them eat dine together
and created a college-like atmosphere — minus the keg
party.
With his teammates played
the biggest game of this season
or any other in Dallas history,
Stackhouse remained back at
the downtown Four Seasons
hotel and watched on TV. Although he couldn’t be with the
Mavericks in the arena, he was
there in spirit as Mavericks
owner mark Cuban wore
Stackhouse’s No. 42 jersey.
The Mavericks had been an
extremely loose bunch before
Games 3 and 4. But during the
open portion of Sunday’s
morning shootaround, their
mood had changed noticeably.
There were few smiles, even
less chitchat and Dallas players
acted almost robotic.
But they seemed focused,
which is exactly what Johnson
was trying to get his team to
do since their Game 4 meltdown. By changing hotels, he
put them in lockdown mode,
something he experienced as a
player.
Kahne wins rained out Michigan tilt
BROOKLYN, Mich. (AP) — With rain on the
horizon and 37 cars between him and the lead,
Kasey Kahne knew he had his work cut out
Sunday at Michigan International Speedway.
“We knew we had a great car and we just
started battling back,” said Kahne, who fell behind on the 47th lap of the Nextel Cup race
when debris on his radiator caused his engine to
overheat and sent the youngster to the pits under the green flag.
That knocked the popular 26-year-old racer,
the 2004 Cup rookie of the year, back to 38th in
the 43-car field, a lap behind the leaders. But a
caution for light rain just seven laps later allowed Kahne to regain the lead lap and it didn’t
take long for him to drive back into contention.
“We took two tires there once and passed
some cars on pit road and then we were able to
get past some cars on the track,” said Kahne,
who started his No. 9 Evernham Motorsports
Dodge from the pole and got back to the front
before a downpour cut the race short by 71 laps
on the 2-mile oval.
Kahne, earning a series-best fourth victory of
the season and his third from the top qualifying
spot, said, “It’s pretty crazy to win in the rain
and be in the right place there at the end. But we
did have the best car.”
What impressed team owner Ray Evernham
was the maturity Kahne displayed after being
pushed to the rear by the overheating motor.
“He’s definitely grown as a race driver,”
Evernham said. “He understands what he
needs to do. He understands that these races are
longer.”
While Kahne was racing back into contention, Carl Edwards, who had two top-five
finishes at Michigan last year in his first full season in Cup, moved to the front in his No. 99
Roush Racing Ford and appeared to be the car
to beat.
On lap 112 of the race scheduled to go 200
laps, Kahne barely beat Edwards out of the pits
in a battle for fourth place under a caution flag
— one of a track record-tying nine yellows.
That turned out to be the move of the race.
After the green flag waved on lap 116,
Kahne, who had taken four fresh tires, quickly
chased down rookie Reed Sorenson, who had
taken the lead under the final caution by putting
on only two tires. Kahne drove into the lead on
lap 117.
Edwards got by Sorenson on the next lap and
tried hard to chase down Kahne, but he was still
nearly a full second — about half the front
straightaway behind — when the rain brought
out the final caution lap 124.
When the heavy rain began on lap 129,
NASCAR stopped the cars with a red flag. Minutes later, the race was called.
Kahne — who has five career wins, four from
the pole — was fast throughout the weekend,
despite crashing during the final practice session Saturday. That forced his team to repair the
right side of the Charger.
“There were a lot of good cars,” Kahne said.
“We fought our way back to the front. The guys
rebuilt my car from yesterday and it was still
great.”
Edwards finished second, his best finish of
the season, followed by Dale Earnhardt Jr., defending race winner Greg Biffle, Sorenson and
series points leader Jimmie Johnson.
Bill Lester, the first black driver to race in the
Cup series in 20 years, improved on his March
debut at Atlanta, where he finished 38th, six
laps behind Kahne, who also won from the pole
that day. This time, Lester, with a little help from
the spate of caution flags, stayed on the lead lap
and finished 32nd.
With dark clouds rolling across the speedway and rain obviously on the way, several
teams tried strategies to get their cars to the
front.
Brian Vickers took the lead when he stayed
on track while the rest of the leaders pitted on
lap 81, but that proved to be too soon and Vickers wound up fading to 17th.
Edwards took the lead from Vickers on lap
88. By that time, Kahne had moved back into
the top 10 and was chasing down the leaders.
When what turned out to be the final pit stop
began, Edwards was leading and Kahne had
moved up to fourth.
“I guess Kasey beat us out by a foot,” Edwards said of the final exit from the pits. “Congratulations to him. When I started to realize
how pivotal that was going to be as far as the
outcome of the race I said I’d really like to see
that tape. They showed it and he definitely beat
us.”
Asked if he felt he would have won if the
race had gone all 400 miles, Kahne said, “I know
we would have challenged for it. I know Carl,
Greg, the Hendrick cars were good. There were
a few of them that were really good and we
were one of them.”
The race started nearly an hour late because
of rain and was slowed three times by showers
before it was finally stopped.
When the cars were able to race, though, the
action was furious.
The most controversial moment of the race
came on lap 22 when Jeff Green nudged reigning series champion Tony Stewart in the rear,
sending Stewart hard into the wall and relegating him to a 41st-place finish. That cost Stewart
one spot in the season points, knocking him
from fourth into a tie for fifth with Earnhardt.
After an initial burst of anger, Stewart, nursing a broken right shoulder blade, said he was
not hurt and shrugged off the bad result.
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will make it happen. If you do
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could be rather remarkable.
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22) Chances are you will be in
the right spot at the right time
to transform something that is
presently outmoded. Get right
on it because you’ll know how
to make it functional.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22)
Someone with whom you
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in your future affairs. This
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You may happen upon someone who’ll give you ample
reason to finally rid yourself
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you’ve been putting off for a
long time.
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Although you’re likely to be in
a sociable mood, you’ll still be
selective enough regarding
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only those with whom you
have emotional attachments.
SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov.
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to spend some time cleaning
out the attic, basement or
garage, getting rid of all those
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never use again. You’ll stick
with the job.
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will immediately sense you’ll
not be given to making idle
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strong emotion.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22Jan. 19) For the next couple of
days, the aspects indicate
some favorable financialgrowth patterns of which you
could take advantage, if you
choose. Look for at least two
or more to exist for you.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb.
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more advantageous for you
than usual for advancing anything about which you feel
strongly, especially personal
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PISCES (Feb. 20-March
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hunches you get pertaining to
your career or financial picture. Your intuition is trying to
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ARIES (March 21-April
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with which you are presently
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up some kind of post or committee. Do so gladly, because
it could offer an unseen benefit.
TAURUS (April 20-May
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out some of your better qualities — perhaps even to the
point where those in high
places could recognize you.
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MONDAY, JUNE 19
• The Happy Valley High
School Class of 1987 is planning a 20th class reunion. Anyone interested in helping
should meet at Poor Richard’s
(Walnut Street location, Johnson City) at 6:30 p.m. or contact
Robin Taylor at 928-8633 or
[email protected].
• Pine Ridge Care and Rehab Center will host a Family
Night at 6 p.m. Debbie Morrell,
long-term care ombudsman,
will be the speaker. Refreshments will be served. A door
prize will be awarded. All families are encouraged to attend
this informative meeting.
• The American Red Cross
has scheduled adult, child and
infant CPR training and standard first aid classes at the
Carter County Red Cross office, 116 Holston Ave., Elizabethton, from 6-10 p.m. each
evening. To pre-register, call
542-2833.
• The American Cancer Society’s “Look Good...Feel Better” program will be held in
Johnson City at the American
Cancer Society, 508 Princeton
Road, Suite 102, on from 1-3
p.m. For more information, call
1-800-ACS-2345.
• A free scrapbooking class
will be held at Sycamore
Shoals State Park from 10 a.m.3 p.m. For more information,
call 542-4703.
• Take Off Pounds Sensibly
will meet at First Baptist
Church, 212 East F St., on Mondays with weigh-in from 5:306:30. Meeting begins at 6:30
p.m. For more information,
please call 928-1594 or 5424476.
TUESDAY, JUNE 20
• E-Z Yoga Class will be
held at the Elizabethton Senior
Citizens Center, 428 East G St.,
from 1-2 p.m. The class will be
taught by certified instructor,
Barbara Webb. There is a $2
charge. The public is invited to
attend.
• Sycamore Chapter #163
Order of the Eastern Star will
have a stated meeting at 7:30
p.m. at the Dashiell Lodge.
Visiting members are welcome.
• The American Red Cross
has scheduled adult, child and
infant CPR training and standard first aid classes at the
Carter County Red Cross office, 116 Holston Ave., Elizabethton, from 6-10 p.m. each
evening. To pre-register, call
542-2833.
• The Green Pastures
Group of Alcoholics Anonymous will meet at 8 p.m. in the
Conference Room at Crossroads, 413 East Elk Ave., Elizabethton.
• Al-Anon “Free to Be Me”
meeting will be held at the
Watauga Association of Baptists office, across from Elizabethton Lumber, from 6-7 p.m.
THURSDAY, JUNE 22
• The Elizabethton Board
of Education will meet in regular session at Elizabethton
High School, 907 Jason Witten
Way, at 6:30 p.m. The meeting
will be held in the commons
area of the cafeteria.
•
Elizabethton-Carter
County Chamber of Commerce will have its monthly
breakfast at 7:30 a.m. at
WBEJ’s new headquarters, 630
Broad St.
FRIDAY, JUNE 23
• The Unaka High School
Class of 1956 will hold its 50th
class reunion on Friday and
Saturday. Classmates will
gather at Rotary Pavilion on
Edwards Island (across from
Tetrick Funeral Home, Riverside Drive), at 6 p.m. Friday
for pizza. On Saturday at 7
p.m., classmates will meet for
dinner at the Captain’s Table
at Lakeshore Marina. Photographs will be taken at 6:30
p.m. before dinner. For more
information, call Glen Church
at 543-3498.
• The Elizabethton Senior
Citizens Dance Club will hold
a dance at the Elizabethton
Elks Club from 7-10 p.m. Bristol City Limits will provide
the music. There will be a $6
door charge. Those attending
are requested to bring refreshments to share. For more information, call 542-2830.
• The Women’s Easier Softer Way Recovery Group of Alcoholics Anonymous will
meet from 6-7 p.m. in the Conference Room at Crossroads,
413 East Elk Ave., Elizabethton.
• The Green Pastures
Group of Alcoholics Anonymous will meet at 8 p.m. in the
Conference Room at Crossroads, 413 East Elk Ave., Elizabethton.
SATURDAY, JUNE 24
• Country and Bluegrass
Dance Hall, located at the Outdoorsmen
Building,
4535
Highway 11W, Kingsport, will
host Lonesome Will Mullins
with the Virginia Playboys.
Tickets are adults $5, children
$1. For more information, call
968-9637.
NASHVILLE (AP) —
When Mike Dungan took
over as president/CEO of
Capitol Records Nashville,
he had to wonder.
He was the third chief in
five years at a label built
around a singer who was
about to retire.
Garth Brooks announced
his retirement a few months
after Dungan arrived in July
2000, leaving the new boss
with a roster whose two
biggest stars, Trace Adkins
and Deana Carter, were trying to rebound from career
slumps.
Six year later, Capitol
might be the hottest label in
Nashville.
Billboard
magazine
named it label of the year in
2005, and its flagship artists
Keith Urban, Dierks Bentley
and a rejuvenated Adkins
continue to rack up big numbers. Its market share
reached 11.41 percent last
year — the highest since
1998.
“Ultimately, I think they
remember what is the most
important thing in this business, and that’s the artist and
the music,” Urban’s manager, Gary Borman, said of
Capitol. “I think some of the
other labels lose sight of that
from time to time.”
Started in the 1940s by
composer Johnny Mercer
(“Moon River”), Capitol
Records has a rich country
pedigree with Tex Ritter,
Merle Travis, Ferlin Husky,
Roy Clark, Buck Owens,
Merle Haggard, Glen Campbell, Dottie West, Don
Williams, Kenny Rogers and
many others.
But by the late 1970s its
roster had grown stale. Jim
Foglesong was hired to perk
things up and signed newcomer Brooks in 1988. The
singer quickly became one of
the top-selling recording
artists in history.
As Brooks’ star rose he
clashed with Foglesong’s
successor, the hard-nosed
producer Jimmy Bowen, and
according to numerous accounts, was instrumental in
forcing out Bowen and his
successor, Scott Hendricks.
Former beer marketer Pat
Quigley was brought in to
take Brooks to even loftier
heights in 1997. Critics say
he funneled resources into
the superstar at the expense
of others on the roster.
“There were two or three
pretty bad years there when
it was really tough knowing
that you weren’t the focal
point and getting the kind of
attention you felt like you
needed,” said Adkins, who
debuted with the label in
1996.
While Adkins has harsh
words for Quigley, he harbors no hard feelings for
Brooks: “If I had that kind of
power I might do that too.
He had the juice, and he used
it.”
Brooks declined comment
for this story, and Quigley
couldn’t be reached.
In the wake of Brooks’ disappointing 1999 project — an
odd venture in which he released an album using a rock
star alter-ego, Chris Gaines
— Quigley was out and Dungan was in.
Dungan had been senior
vice president and general
manager
for
Arista
Nashville, where he had
worked with Alan Jackson,
Brooks & Dunn and Brad
Paisley.
When he took over,
Brooks, although retired, was
still under contract with
Capitol.
“Initially, I feared Garth
because of the reputation he
had as a guy who went after
label heads. People were
forecasting that I’d last a
year or 18 months,” Dungan
said. “But when I spent time
with him it went the other
direction. He inspired me,
and I inspired him.”
Brooks released one last
album on the label, “Scarecrow,” in 2001, then announced last June that he
was leaving after 17 years.
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Dungan declined to discuss Brooks’ departure except to say, “We just made a
business decision. The label
was no longer dependent on
Garth financially.”
As label chief, Dungan has
shown good instincts. Borman recalls that after Urban’s modest-selling debut
on Capitol Nashville, Dungan was unusually patient in
waiting for the follow-up —
“Golden Road,” which became Urban’s breakthrough
in 2002.
“Keith at that time wasn’t
a superstar. Mike had to wait
months and months more
than normal for an artist at
that level,” Borman said. “He
gave him the freedom to develop what he needed to develop without any real assurance that it was going to
work.”
Adkins, whose career was
in the tank when Dungan arrived, also prospered beginning with his 2001 album
“Chrome.”
“He’ll sit and discuss
things with you — not just
sit and talk at you,” Adkins
said of Dungan. “He’s a nice
guy, and nice guys in this
business don’t always do
that great.”
But there have been missteps. Deana Carter asked to
be released after Dungan
was cool to her new material.
Cyndi Thomson, a promising
young singer whom Dungan
had signed and who had a
No. 1 hit on her 2001 debut,
decided she didn’t want to
be a recording star anymore
and left the industry in 2002
(she rejoined the roster this
year).
More recently, Capitol
struggled with debut singles
by Amber Dotson and Ryan
Shupe & the Rubberband. It
also gambled on two veterans, with mixed results. Merle
Haggard’s
“Chicago
Wind” was a commercial
bust, while Kenny Rogers’
new one, “Water & Bridges,”
has so far seen only modest
success.
Still, insiders say Dungan
has accomplished what he
was hired to do. When he
came aboard, the label was
clearly in transition.
“Garth’s economic dominance was drawing to a
close, so the mission was to
break new acts and develop
existing ones,” said David
Ross, publisher of the industry publication Music Row.
“Almost six years later, Dungan’s team has emerged
sporting a platinum roster
any label would be proud to
claim.”
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Ex
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Div Last Chg %Chg %Chg
IBM
JDS Uniph
JPMorgCh
JohnJn
Kellogg
Kennmtl
LSI Inds
Level3
Libbey
LowesCos
Lucent
McDnlds
MeadWvco
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SnapOn
SwstAirl
SprintNex
SPDR
SP Engy
SP Fncl
SunMicro
Symantec
TempleIn
TexInst
TimeWarn
Tribune
VerizonCm
WalMart
Wendys
Wyeth
Yahoo
NY
Nasd
NY
NY
NY
NY
Nasd
Nasd
NY
NY
NY
NY
NY
NY
NY
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NY
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NY
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Amex
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NY
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Amex
Nasd
NY
NY
NY
Amex
Amex
Amex
Nasd
Nasd
NY
NY
NY
NY
NY
NY
NY
NY
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1.20 77.95
... 2.42
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1.50 61.68
1.16 47.37
.76 56.62
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Stock Footnotes: g = Dividends and earnings in Canadian dollars. h = Does not meet continued-listing standards. lf = Late filing with SEC.
n = New in past 52 weeks. pf = Preferred. rs = Stock has undergone a reverse stock split of at least 50 percent within the past year. rt =
Right to buy security at a specified price. s = Stock has split by at least 20 percent within the last year. un = Units. vj = In bankruptcy or
receivership. wd = When distributed. wi = When issued. wt = Warrants. Gainers and Losers must be worth at least $2 to be listed in tables
at left. Most Actives must be worth at least $1. Volume in hundreds of shares. Source: The Associated Press. Sales figures are unofficial.
12,000
11,500
For the week ending
Friday, June 16
11,000
+122.63
10,500
11,014.55
Record high: 11,722.98
M J J A S O N D J F M A M J
Jan. 14, 2000
10,000
STOCK MARKET INDEXES
52-Week
High
Low
11,670.19 10,156.46
5,013.67 3,382.14
438.74
370.18
8,651.74 7,170.98
2,046.65 1,469.16
2,375.54 2,025.58
1,326.70 1,168.20
784.62
614.76
13,472.98 11,630.20
3,360.57 2,776.25
Last
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Chg
Wk
%Chg
11,014.55
4,636.23
410.77
7,933.86
1,858.87
2,129.95
1,251.54
693.07
12,594.94
3,023.86
+122.63
+93.88
-1.46
-31.46
-24.27
-5.11
-.76
-8.32
-34.28
+.87
+1.13
+2.07
-.35
-.40
-1.29
-.24
-.06
-1.19
-.27
+.03
Name
Dow Jones Industrials
Dow Jones Transportation
Dow Jones Utilities
NYSE Composite
AMEX Index
Nasdaq Composite
S&P 500
Russell 2000
Wilshire 5000
Lipper Growth Index
YTD 12-mo
%Chg %Chg
+2.77
+10.49
+1.40
+2.32
+5.67
-3.42
+.26
+2.95
+.62
-2.44
+3.69
+29.07
+8.76
+8.00
+20.24
+1.91
+2.84
+7.59
+4.30
+6.63
MUTUAL FUNDS
Name
American Funds A: GwthFdA p
American Funds A: IncoFdA p
American Funds A: InvCoAA p
American Funds A: WshMutA px
Fidelity Invest: Contra n
Fidelity Invest: Magellan n
Oppenheimer A: DiscFd p
Putnam Funds A: GrInA p
Putnam Funds A: VoyA p
Vanguard Fds: Wndsr n
Total Assets
Obj ($Mlns)
XG 77,843
BL 51,235
LV 68,759
LV
62,497
XG 64,712
LC 47,552
SG
587
LV 11,669
LG
5,959
XV 13,351
NAV
30.85
18.69
32.14
31.63
63.82
84.96
43.66
19.82
16.59
17.51
Total Return/Rank
4-wk 12-mo
5-year
-1.8 +11.3/B
+26.6/A
+0.1
+7.5/A
+48.2/A
-0.4
+9.3/A
+27.1/B
+0.1
+5.8/C
+25.3/B
-2.1 +12.0/B
+50.7/A
-3.8 +4.5/C
+2.2/D
-6.6
+3.9/E
+6.2/D
-1.7 +4.5/D
+15.3/D
-1.8 +0.9/D
-11.9/D
-2.4 +6.1/D
+31.8/C
Pct Min Init
Load
Invt
5.75
250
5.75
250
5.75
250
5.75
250
NL
2,500
NL
2,500
5.75
1,000
5.25
500
5.25
500
NL
3,000
BL -Balanced, GL -Global Stock, IL -International Stock, LC -Large-Cap Core, LG -Large-Cap Growth, LV -Large-Cap
Val., XC -Multi-Cap Core, XG -Multi-Cap Growth, XV -Multi-Cap Val.Total Return: Chng in NAV with dividends reinvested. Rank: How fund performed vs. others with same objective: A is in top 20%, E in bottom 20%. Min Init Invt: Minimum
$ needed to invest in fund. NA = Not avail. NE = Data in question. NS = Fund not in existence. Source: Lipper, Inc.
STAR - MONDAY, JUNE 19, 2006 - Page 11
Star
LINE AD DEADLINES
word rates:
15 WORDS OR LESS
1 DAY - $4.75 2 DAYS - $7.00
6 DAYS - $10.00
542-1530
Classifieds
10 HELP WANTED
GENERAL
15 SERVICES
OFFERED
16 BUSINESS
OPPORTUNITIES
31 APARTMENT
FOR RENT
32 HOUSES
FOR RENT
HELP needed at Sunshine Market. Experience necessary. Must
be willing to work
nights,
weekends.
(423)542-5060.
Brad Buckland. Wall
Paper; Painting & Paper Removal. Call
735-7185
WAREHOUSE
shop
space
downtown,
1,000 sq.ft., loading
dock, city parking lot
in front. $300. month.
Call Randall Birchfield
Auction,
(423)
543-5959.
**ALL Real Estate advertising in this newspaper is subject to the
Fair Housing Act which
makes it illegal to advertise “any preference limitation or discrimination based on
race, color, religion,
sex, handicap, familial
status, or national origin, or an intention, to
make any such preference, limitation or discrimination. ”Familial
status includes children under the age of
18 living with parents
or legal custodians;
pregnant women and
people securing custody of children under
18. This newspaper will
not knowingly accept
any advertising for
real estate which is in
violation of the law.
Our
readers
are
hereby informed that
all dwellings advertised in this newspaper
are available on an
equal opportunity basis. To complain of discrimination call HUD
Toll-free
at
1-800-669-9777. The
Toll-free
telephone
number for the Hearing
Impaired
is:
1-800-927-9275
3BR, 1BA, basement,
no inside pets, references, deposit. $475.
month. 1627 Central
Ave. (423)543-3619.
IMMEDIATE Opening!
Experienced
Bookkeeper. Knowledge of
QuickBooks a must.
213-9611 or send resume 423-547-5960.
LOCAL FLAT BED COMPANY now hiring short
haul drivers. Driver
friendly
company,
good home time.
1-800-331-5172.
NEEDED presser for
Quik Cleaners, 201
Broad St. Please apply
in person.
PLUMBING
SERVICE
TECH.
International
Plumbing Company
has immediate openings for plumbing repair technicians. Call
for a confidential interview. (423)538-9917
Monday-Friday
10:00AM-3:00PM.
RECEPTIONIST
Needed, professional
customer handling,
computer, data- processing skills required,
must have pleasant
phone voice, professional appearance,
and be dependable.
Apply in person at
Don Johnson’s Door
Service, 4107 Hwy.
11E, Bluff City.
SECRET
SHOPPERS
NEEDED. Evaluate local stores, restaurants,
theater. Flexible hours,
training
provided.
1-800-585-9024
ext.
6516.
11 PROFESSIONAL
HELP WANTED
2 LPN’s positions available in a long term
care facility. 1 full time
evening shift, 1 part
time night shift and
PRN. Excellent pay
and benefits, apply in
person at Hillview
Health Center, 1666
Hillview Drive, EOE
Do You Desire to Work
in a Family-Like
Atmosphere?
Four Oaks Health
Care and
Rehab Center
is now Accepting
Applications For:
Night Shift, Charge
Nurse
RN or LPN
(6p.m.-6.m.)
If interested, please
apply
in
person.
Qualified applicants
will be called for in
person interviews. We
offer an excellent
and comprehensive
benefits package as
well as highly competitive wages.
Four Oaks Health
Care and Rehab
Center, 1101
Persimmon Ridge
Road,
Jonesborough, TN
37659
(Proudly Serving
Tennessee’s Oldest
Town)
EOE/Title VI, Section
504 Compliance
“Drug Free WorkPlace’’
EXPERIENCED legal assistant needed. Duties
include scheduling,
word-processing with
advance legal training available. Send resumes to: 3863 Hwy
19E Elizabethton, TN
37643
LOCAL HVAC company now hiring experienced service technicians. We offer competitive wages with
opportunity for commissions, bonuses, and
extra days off. Health
insurance, dental insurance, life insurance, paid vacations,
holidays and 401K retirement plan. Call
(423)928-6168. Drug
testing required. Also
hiring installers.
PART-TIME. Floral Designer, flexible hours,
(423)538-9201
between 9:00AM-7:00PM
and leave message.
15 SERVICES
OFFERED
A Cut Above Mowing
Service. For all your
yard work needs. Free
estimates. 213-6663,
418-4738.
ALAMO TREE complete removal of trees,
topping,
trimming,
shrubbery, complete
clean up. Insured.
(423)928-9364.
BRIAN’S
STORAGE
BUILDINGS! For sale.
Display lot in Hunter
on Hwy. 91. 647-1084.
Bridgeman Excavating. Paving, driveways, grading, septic
systems, dirt, rock
hauling,
basement
ceiling, land clearing.
423-725-3487.
ELIZABETHTON:Construction, Trackhoe,
backhoe,
frontloader, landcleared,
site work septic systems, dirt, shale for
sale. (423)547-0408,
895-0499.
FREE ESTIMATES! Heating, A/C, remodeling,
vinyl siding, roofing,
ceramic, hardwood
flooring, plumbing,
electrical. 543-7975,
335-0841.
Handy Andy Home
Improvements for all
your interior & exterior
repairs, pressure washing, painting. Home:
543-1979
Cell:
423-242-8187.
HAUL gravel for driveways, dirt for sale,
also backhoe work of
any
kind.
Call
423-542-2909.
HOME IMPROVEMENTS!
Sell, install metal roofing, shingle roofs, additions,
painting,
decks, pressure washing
(423)542-3763
(423)895-2453.
HOMES & MOBILE
HOME IMPROVEMENTS.
Additions, sunrooms,
textured
ceilings,
porches, carports, garages. Work guaranteed. (423)542-9483.
Immaculate Mowing,
Weekly yards only. Dependable
service,
reasonable rates, references,
(423)
542-6911.
JLJ HOME IMPROVEMENT, remodeling,
room additions & vinyl siding. Licensed &
Insured. 423-543-2101.
KY CONSTRUCTION
Specializing in finished
grade
work
and
demolition. All types
of front end loader
work. Dirt for sale.
Quality, honest work
at the best price. Will
beat any other estimates, guaranteed.
Keith
Younce,
(423)543-2816.
423-341-7782
L&T ROOFING METAL &
SHINGLE ROOFS. All
home improvements.
Lawn
mowing.
(423)542-2011.
LADY will assist elderly
mornings. Good references. (423)542-0165,
(423)957-9571.
Lawn
mowing,
weedeating, all kinds
of lawn care. Tree
trimming, stump removal. Anywhere in
tri-cities. 15yrs. experience.
Reasonable
rates.
543-4885,
213-7047, 213-2590 .
PIANO tuning and repair over 30 years experience, also used pianos starting @ $600.
(423)474-4375
PROFESSIONAL ROOFING. CALL: 542-4630.
FREE ESTIMATES. LICENSED & INSURED.
3-YR
WARRANTY.
CREDIT CARDS ACCEPTED
Rainbow Home Improvements Vinal Siding, Soffitt, Windows,
Patios LICENSED INSURED FREE ESTIMATE
(423)543-5773
(423)895-0908
SHIPPING: FedEx, DHL,
USPS; stamps, copies,
faxing, custom framing,
gifts,
MORE.
543-7225, Hwy 91,
Hunter
SOUTHERN COMFORTS:
Cleaning, hauling off,
organizing.
yards,
homes, offices, debris,
more. References. Licensed. 423-542-5309,
423-213-7937.
VINES Pressure Washing, Staining and Sealing Services: Free estimates.
Call
(423)772-0290
anytime.
WILLOW Springs Landscaping: Mowing, trimming, landscaping in
Tri-Cities area. Free
estimates.
(423)
474-3668.
16 BUSINESS
OPPORTUNITIES
Available
anytime.
Will do House Cleaning. Honest & Dependable. For more
information, call Debbie 543-9160.
BACKHOE front loader,
septic systems, field
lines, land cleared,
basements. Demolition.
Affordable.
20yrs.
experience.
542-3002.
BACKHOE, Landscaping, Lawn Service,
Pools, Ponds, Other
Jobs. Senior Discounts.
BILL
FIELDS
423-542-4239,
912-247-3593.
1003 Siam
Investors Beware!
Like New, 4-unit Apts.
Redone in 2006. New
vinyl, decking, electrical, plumbing, and
heat pumps!
C21 Whitehead
Linda Whitehead
543-4663
$187,500
20 ARTICLES
FOR SALE
$195. Queen size double pillow top mattress
and box spring set.
Brand new, in original
plastic with warranty.
Call 343-4408.
1 King size double pillow top mattress set.
New, never opened.
Only $295. Full mattress and box $149.
Original packaging.
343-4412.
1994 MX6 motor, V6,
runs great, good motor.
$400.
423-542-4417.
2 piece leather furniture set. Sofa and
loveseat. Ashley Milenium, 100% leather.
Brand new, never
used. Still has original
warranty.
Worth
$2500, sacrifice $899.
Must
see!
Call
217-4202.
3 rooms, all new. Microfiber
sofa,
loveseat. 5 piece solid
wood bedroom suite,
5 piece solid oak dining set, retail $4,000,
sell $1,975! Will break
up. (929-3626.
5 piece bedroom
suite. Brand new, English dove-tail drawers,
solid wood, high quality. Still in boxes. Beautiful! Retail $2,300, sacrifice
$795.
Call
343-4601.
8 piece bedroom set.
Cherry sleigh bed,
solid wood, brand
new, never used. Still
in original boxes. MUST
SEE! Worth $3,200,
must sell $1350. Call
(423)218-0755.
A mattress: NASA
Memory foam. Tempur-Pedic like. As seen
on TV. New, never
opened. Very Comfortable! Retail $1,499,
sell
$595.
O.B.O.
(423)200-4664.
ASHLEY
sofa
and
loveseat. New. $495
for
both,
O.B.O.
Micro-fiber sofa and
loveseat,
neutral
color. Brand new. Very
comfortable! Sacrifice
$595
for
both.
434-0603.
BRAND NEW above
ground pool with all
accessories.
18ft.
round, 4ft. deep. $295.
Call 423-929-9222
DINING room set, 9
piece table, 6 chairs,
buffet, hutch, cherry.
New, never used! Retail $2,499, will sell
$1,299. Will break up.
Call 217-4245.
DORM size refrigerator
with ice maker $100.;
Rear Tin tiller $225.;
38’’ lawnmower $225..
(423)547-9123.
GUN Collection. Call
423-474-3155 between
9a.m. & 9p.m.
NEW pool table, 8ft.
oak. $1100. Please call
423-929-2222.
New spa, still in crate,
6
person.
$2800.
Please
call
423-929-9222.
RARE double crypts,
Mausoleums of Hope,
Happy Valley Memorial Park. Reduced
price. (423)542-2832,
534- 6097.
25 PETS
& SUPPLIES
FREE KITTENS to a
good home. Males &
females. Have been
wormed. Litter trained.
423-547-0449.
Free to good home
male 10 month old
Lab, Golden Retriver
house
dog.
423-542-6491
27 LIVESTOCK
& BREEDING
TENNESSEE WALKING
HORSE, mare, 2 saddles, plenty of tack,
$1500 OBO must sell.
(423)768-2588
29 TOWNHOUSES
CONDOS FOR
SALE/RENT
2BR, 1.5BA Townhouse.
W/D hookup, appliances, carpet, D/W,
deck, paved driveway. $460.mo. plus
deposit. 423-538-0458.
30 ROOMS
FOR RENT
LARGE room with private bath and entrance. Fully furnished
plus utilities. Weekly,
monthly.
(423)542-4475,
423-612-0132.
131 CAPTAIN AVENUE,
2BR, 1BR,
Elizabethton. Available immediately. Deposit required. Quiet neighborhood. $400.month.
(423) 926-2738.
1bdrm
Upstairs,
$310.mo. $200.dep.
Employed and have
ref's. 112 S Watauga &
West G St. 956-0068
before 5 pm
1BR, 1BA, water, trash
provided. On site
laundry.
No Pets.
$225.mo.
$150.deposit. (423)542-4029.
3BR, 1BA, gas heat,
hardwood floors, appliances. Partially furnished. $500.mo. plus
deposit. 725-3504 after
noon.
405 Holston Avenue,
3BR, CH&A, appliances,
$475month,
$250deposit,
(423)542-3002
ASSORTMENT of rentals: Farm, brick, frame,
pets, rent to own, furnished and unfurnished. 282-6486.
1BR, stove, refrigerator, water, garbage
pickup
furnished,
mini-blinds.
Call
(423)542-9200.
2bdrm
downstairs
apt.
$360.mo.
$200.dep. Employed &
ref's 112 S Watauga &
West G St 956-0068
before 5 pm
2BR,
$375month
$375security, 2BR, 2BA,
trailer
$365month
$300security no pets,
3BR, 1BA apartment
$600month, 2BR apartment in Hampton
$295month, 1BR in Milligan Hwy. $270month.
Call Northeast Tennessee Rental Properties
(423)547-2871.
2BR, 1BA, Apt. good
location, city limits.
605 West E St. Rent; either $460. month, including water & electricity, or $360. month
including water. Will
accept Section 8. Call
Northeast Tennessee
Rental
Properties.
547-2871.
2BR, Hyder Street, appliances,
garbage
pickup furnished. No
pets.
$360. month,
$350.
deposit.
(423)543-4365.
DISCOUNT FOR LEASE
nice quite neighborhood, 1BR, good storage and laundry
room. $300month, deposit, (423)512-1119.
HAMPTON:
Upstairs
apartment, 1BR, water
furnished, $300.mth.,
equal deposit. John S.
Brookshire Real Estate.
(423)543-6765.
Large
2bdrm.
$425.mo. $200.dep.
112 S. Watauga &
West G. St. 956-0068
before 5 pm.
LUXURY apartment.
2BR, 1 1/2BA, CH&A,
W/D hook-up, appliances provided. References. $600. month,
deposit. 512-1250.
NEED place to stay?
EFFICIENCY STUDIO,
APARTMENT:
Everything furnished. Conveniently
located.
$150. week, $475.mth.
423-957-4847.
NEW 2BA, 1BA, single
level with W/D hook
up and dishwasher,
hardwood and tile
throughout,
CH&A,
panoramic view of
mountains.
$550month, plus deposit. (423)542-3329,
(423)483-4875.
RACE STREET, downstairs, 2BR, nice quiet,
large kitchen. References
required.
$400.mo. plus deposit.
423-542-9719
32 HOUSES
FOR RENT
3BR, or 2BR, & Den,
CH&A, 2FBA, Central
Community. Remodeled interior. $650.mo.
By appt. 423-737-5411
Bulldog Hollow
3 level building lots in
a 1.92 acre tract. Private & quiet setting.
Creek at back of
property. $29,900.
Realty Executives
952-0226
Jennifer Lipford
773-6020
43 HOUSES
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43 HOUSES
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1138 BERRY ROAD
151
SARAH ANNIE DRIVE
2BR, 1BA Home with
lots of updates, 2 car
detached garage,
large
city
lot.
Screened back deck.
All appliances included. $83,500.
C21 WHITEHEAD
PATSY WOODSON
543-4663
STOP renting. Buy 3BR
Hud home. $19,616.
For
listings
800-391-5228xF738.
33 MOBILE HOME
FOR RENT
2BR, appliances. Biltmore area. $300.
month, $200. deposit.
No pets. On private
lot. (423)543-2798.
MILLIGAN COLLEGE
16x80 3BR, 2BA,; 2BR
2BA, 14X70 REFERENCES
REQUIRED
257-2106,
(423)543-2651.
SMALL 1BR on private
lot, fully furnished, plus
all utilities,
(423)
542-4475,
(423)
612-0132.
STONEY CREEK, 2BR,
1BA, appliances, WD
hookup, no pets, references
required.
$285month, $200deposit. (423)474-2945
37 LAND W/PHOTO
FOR SALE
1BR, appliances furnished. Allen Ave.
$275.mo. $100.dep.
647-4178, 647-1040.
1BR, oak cabinets,
washer/dryer, refrigerator with ice maker,
CH&A, water, garbage
pickup,
$315.mth, $200.dep.,
(423)543-3960.
39 LOTS W/PHOTO
FOR SALE
928-4151
ESCAPE MOUNTAIN
Private lot, Wonderful
spot for permanent or
seasonal home. Restricted community in
a private setting.
2 LOTS AVAILABLE
$5,900-6,900
C21 WHITEHEAD
JONATHAN FULMER
543-4663
115 Cooter Lane
Privacy, just minutes
from the city. 4 BR, 1
full BA, 1 half BA. Nestled on 0.75 acres.
$84.900
Call Ashley or Jason
@ Randall Birchfield
Real Estate
(423) 543-5959
SINGLEWIDE:
West
End. Trash, yard maintenance
provided.
Paved. First month
free. $115. month.
(423)542-4029.
43 HOUSES
W/PHOTO
A MUST SEE!
4BR, 2BA, Open spacious kitchen and livingroom, den, sunroom, above ground
pool with decking, 2
car garage , great for
a workshop. 2 car
carport, fenced yard.
Call today! There are
two homes side by
side for sale. Buy
separate or together.
Priced to sell. Powder
Branch Rd. left on
Sarah Annie Drive.
Blue Ridge Properties
282-5181
Sheryl Garland
895-1690
1198 RIVERVIEW
152 SHALOM DRIVE
OFF GAP CREEK RD.
(423)542-3396
(423)676-1796
Beautiful mountain
views, 3BR 2.5BA
home, 1.54 acres,
river front property.
Large master suit.
Large
kitchen,
heated
sunroom.
$135,000.00
C21 WHITEHEAD
KATHRYN TURNER
543-4663
43 HOUSES
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147
SARAH ANNIE DRIVE
GREAT LOCATION!
HOME FEATURES 2BR,
1BA,
Livingroom,
eat-in kitchen. Great
lot that is landscaped
and partly fenced.
There ar two homes
side by side for sale.
Buy separate or together. Priced to sell.
Powder Branch Rd.
left on Sarah Annie
Drive
Blue Ridge Properties
282-5182
Sheryl Garland
895-1690
188
Woodland Heights
4BR, 2FBA, CH&A,
hardwood floors, full
basement. Option to
buy 7.68 acres or
without.
$189,000
without land. Very private.
40 LOTS
FOR RENT
EXTRA LARGE LOT. 1/2
ACRE. SINGLE OR
DOUBLEWIDE. 10 MINUTES FROM TOWN.
$150month.
(423)
725-2770.
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Charming older home
with lots of character
in nice quiet neighborhood. 2BR, 1BA,
possible 3rd bedroom.
Hardwood
floors, fireplace in LR.
A little TLC will make
this a great home.
Asking $77,900. Make
an offer!
Call Jonathan
542-4630
Shell & Associates
543-2393
1569 CHARITY HILL
ROAD
SIAM AREA
895-2772
BLUEGRASS ROAD
Approx. 3.15 acres offering a perfect combination of open and
wooded
land
in
parklike setting! 2
small
streams
$43,900.00
C21 WHITEHEAD
TRISH GRAYBEAL
543-4663
$3,000
MISCELLANEOUS
ALLOWANCE
FOR THE BUYER!
Gorgeous
handcrafted log home
nestled in picturesque hills. Stone
fireplace, 1.43 acres,
3BR, 2BA, 2644 sq. ft.
$229,900.
MLS#226931
Call Shar Saidla
(423)895-0430
mountainhomes
realty.com
123 OAK GROVE
Very Nice! Great
Room with FP downstairs, Large Room off
front patio, Wonderful
country views from
the deck! $134,000.00
C21 Whitehead
Linda Whitehead
543-4663
1069
Snowden Terrace
Brand new construction! 3BR, 2BA ranch
ready to move into.
Great new neighborhood. Situated on
level lot in JC city limits. $126,900.
Realty Executives
952-0226
Jennifer Lipford
773-6020
RAINBOW REALTY
(423)547-2800
1608 HIGHPOINT
KINGSPORT
127 LITTLE STONEY
CREEK ROAD
3BR, 1.5BA rancher
located in Hunter
community. Plenty of
cabinets, flat top
range and dishwasher. 3 year old
heat pump. MLS#
229435 $89,900.
Nothing fancy just
right for starter home!
3BR, Cozy living room
with hardwood floors,
full basement, covered front porch.
$49,900.00
C21 WHITEHEAD
DEBORAH
SUTHERLAND
543-4663
166 WOODLAND
HEIGHTS
1.01 acre building lot
in established neighborhood. Convenient
to Johnson City and
Elizabethton. 360 degree view. Must See!
New home, 3BR,
2BA, stone fireplace,
gas logs, cathedral
ceilings, hardwood
floors, double car
garage. Beautifully
landscaped.
$179,900.
39 LOTS W/PHOTO
FOR SALE
14 Diamond Point
2.2 acre building lot
with Watauga Lake
view in Horseshoe
Cove
subdivision.
Lake access and
Boat slips available.
Spacious brick home,
3BR,
2BA,
large
kitchen,
dining
combo, formal LR,
laundry room. Basement offers family
room with ventless
gas fireplace, oversized 1 car drive-under garage, great
work space and storage, 2 car carport.
543-4663
BIG SANDY
Scenic location in
Country, Beautiful .61
acre lot! Land is level
and gently rolls to
ridge line, doublewides, modular welcome. $19,900.00
C21 WHITEHEAD
DEBORAH
SUTHERLAND
543-4663
134 CARVER
CRABTREE
A must see! Extras
too numerous to list
here. 4 bedroom, 2.5
bath ranch sitting on
2 acres with a great
view. Motivated sellers. MLS# 225022
$189,900.
1103 Lynndale Dr –
Nice 3 or 4 BR, 2 BA,
CH&A, FP, Vinyl Siding, New Windows.
Covered
Front
Porch, Deck, Storage Bldg. Level Corner Lot. Lynn Valley
Area. $129,900 Call
Lora 677-6606
ERA Golden Key
952-4950
MLS #229863
ERA Golden Key
952-4950
Call Lora
677-6606
207 MAIN STREET
Get away from it all!
Beautiful
location
view of Watauga
Lake from front porch.
2br home, loads of
updates! $79,900.00
C21 WHITEHEAD
PATSY WOODSON
543-4663
RAINBOW REALTY
(423)547-2800
Blue Ridge Properties
282-5182
Sheryl Garland
895-1690
C21 Whitehead
Linda Whitehead
3BR, 2FBA, 2HBA,
kitchen, dining, living
room, den, master on
main level. Great outdoor stone fireplace
for entertaining. Barn.
So much to see. Call
today for your private
showing.
RAINBOW REALTY
(423)547-2800
MOTIVATED SELLER!
108
Cedar Grove Road
JC, Eliz.
206 Marion Branch
Road, Elizabethton
Blue Ridge Properties
2882-5182
Sheryl Garland
895-1690
Knob Hill
C21 Whitehead
Linda Whitehead
$59,900
543-466
205 AVIATION DRIVE
Virtually
maintenance free 3 bedroom, 2 bath home
in great location.
Fireplace
w/gas
logs, central vac system,outbuildings.
MLS#
221980
$135,000
C21 WHITEHEAD
BRENDA THOMPSON
543-4663
HWY. 19E
Ready for development! Approximately
10.31 acres of level
land with mountain
views! Could be good
commercial property.
Beautifully
landscaped,
3 Bedroom,
1 1/2 Bathroom
Home
Large fenced yard,
carport,
14x24 workshop
$92,500.
1816 Woodhaven
Drive
Whitney Estates
138 WOODLAND
HEIGHTS
Like new and one of
the finest homes of
this age. 2 bedrooms, 1 bath ranch
home sitting on half
acre lot. Breathtaking views of Siam
Valley. MLS# 223494
$118,900
RAINBOW REALTY
(423)547-2800
Traditional brick with
wonderful floor plan
located in one of
Elizabethton's prettiest neighborhoods.
Over 4,200 SF, 5BD,
3.50BA, oversized garage, guest suite,
beautiful curved staircase, luxurious master
bath and much more.
Visit swanayproperties.com for interior
photos.
$379,500
Russ Swanay
Realty
543-5741
2251 MIAMI DRIVE
2.2ACRES with 3BR,
2.5BA
RANCH,
VAULTED
CEILINGS,
GAS FIREPLACES, 2
CAR DRIVE UNDER
GARAGE. BEAUTIFUL!
HAPPY
VALLEY
SCHOOLS. $189,900.
C21 WHITEHEAD
TRISH GRAYBEAL
543-4663
234 RANGER DRIVE
Very clean 3BR, 2BA
rancher on large
fenced lot in convenient location. Extra storage space
and over-sized carport. MLS# 229062
$119,900
RAINBOW REALTY
(423)547-2800
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43 HOUSES
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43 HOUSES
W/PHOTO
44 MOBILE HOMES
FOR SALE
60 AUTOS
W/PHOTO
65 TRUCKS &
SEMI’S
1986 14’x70’ Mobile
Home,
3BR,
2BA,
$2,000
as
is.
(423)725-2422
or
341-3222.
2618
Old Elizabethton
Highway
Cute two bedroom
cottage on level lot.
Located in nice private area, and is
within just minutes of
Elizabethton or Johnson City. Would make
great starter home or
investment property.
$59,500
502 DENNIS
COVE ROAD
Cute 2BR, 1BA house
with lots of kitchen
cabinets, hardwood
floors, fenced yard,
workshop with generator and fenced
yard. MLS# 229317
$79,900
4BR, 2 1/2BA, new vinyl siding, 1 car garage, outbuilding, private, country setting,
kitchen appliances,
Minutes from city. 3/4
Acre Lot. $77,000.
423-647-3400
Russ Swanay
Realty
543-5741
814 DEERFIELD LANE
300 Daytona Place
6BR, 2BA home in city.
Detached garage.
Lots of original wood.
Great neighborhood.
Close to everything.
Asking $185,000.
3BR, 1 1/2BA, CH&A,
gas logs, appliances,
new vinyl siding,
fenced in back yard.
Move in condition.
$98,500.
Beautiful 5 bedroom,
2.5
bath
home with over 3000
sq ft. Also, a duplex
for rental income or
mother-in-law apt.
Close to Watauga
Lake. MLS#222048
$299,900
RAINBOW REALTY
(423)547-2800
Sugar Hollow
place. MLS# 230367
$149,900
RAINBOW REALTY
(423)547-2800
Unique custom built
home located on a
large 0.578 lot. 3BD,
2BD. Beautiful hardwood floors in sunken
living room. FP with
gas logs. Workshop.
Custom kitchen with
lots of cabinets. Gazebo with deck leading
to
house.
$119,000
4 bedroom, 2.5
bath, 1.5 story Cape
Cod home with
open floor plan. Balcony overlooking livingroom with fireplace.
MLS#
226938 $209,900
RAINBOW REALTY
(423)547-2800
Under Construction
NOW
Call Matt for more
details 423-342-8069
RUSS SWANAY REALTY
543-5741
Beautiful setting with
3BR, LR, Kitchen, Dining combo, covered
deck, full basement
on 2.84 acres of private land.
C21 Whitehead
Linda Whitehead
$129,900
543-4663
615
NORTH ROAN
STREET
Cute one level cottage in the heart of
town. Within walking
distance to shopping
and
restaurants.
Large building in
back with electricity.
2BD, 1BA. Level lot.
Call Matt Zimmerman
for more details at
342-8069.
RUSS SWANAY REALTY
543-5741
351 Lyons Rd.
Beautiful 3BR, brick
ranch,
completely
updated. 7 acres,
large utility building
and
barn.
MLS#227843A
Remax Checkmate,
Inc. Realtors
423-282-0432
ask for Barbara
423-341-8760
6165
JEARLDSTOWN RD.
FALL BRANCH
606 Bradley St
Elizabethton.
3BR, 1BA, Ranch with
garage. Like new,
completely remodeled.
Hardwood
floors, new kitchen &
bath, full basement,
fenced yard.
423-542-8683,
423-647-3778
46 WANTED
TO RENT
3BR, 2BA, 1 car garage, custom cabinets, hardwood floors
throughout, ceramic
tile, walk-in closet in
master Br. Completion
June. $135.000.
423-512-1135
Hunter Area
Camelot Drive
New Construction
3BR, 2BA, Kitchen, DR,
LR, Cathedral & Tray
ceilings. 1600 sqft.,
plus double car garage. CH&A. 130x150
level lot. $178,500.00
423-747-6471
423-543-5226
ALL Drivers Good Record SR-22. You’re in
good
company,
Wagner
Insurance,
604
E.
Elk.
(423)543-5522.
1981 Harris 24’ Pontoon, full enclosure,
90HP Johnson motor.
Fishspring
Marina.
$4,000. 647-4122.
ELIZABETHTON
AUTO SALES
(423)542-7592
STOCK #2987
PRE-OWNED
2003 BMW Z-4
Convertible
Black, V-6, 5-speed.
$22,995.
ELIZABETHTON
AUTO SALES
423-543-7592
60 AUTOS
W/PHOTO
62 CAMPERS &
RV’S
W/PHOTO
WANTED:
Pre-1950’s
Barns and barn wood.
Dismantled or still
standing. Need siding,
timbers,
flooring.
(423)773-8970
69
MISCELLENEOUS
FOR SALE
PUBLIC NOTICES
IN THE CHANCERY
COURT, PROBATE
DIVISION OF CARTER
COUNTY, AT
ELIZABETHTON,
TENNESSEE
Margaret N. Hughes
Executrix
PROBATE NO. P060096
ESTATE OF
Deceased:
Billy H. Hughes
DECEASED
Notice is hereby given
that on the 8th day of
June, 2006 Letters of
Testamentary, in respect to the Estate of
Ollie Mattie Massengill
deceased, were issued to the undersigned by the Chancery Court Clerk and
Master, Probate Division, of Carter County,
Tennessee.
All persons, resident
and
non-resident,
having claims, matured or unmatured,
against the Estate of
Ollie Mattie Massengill
are required to file the
same with the Clerk
and Master of the
above Court within
four (4) months from
the date of the first
publication of this Notice; otherwise, their
claims will be forever
barred.
All persons indebted
to the above Estate
must come forward
and make proper settlement with the undersigned at once.
This the 8th day of
June , 2006.
Executrix
1999
Coachman Miranda
Call
850-240-2510
64 4X4 W/PHOTO
FOR SALE
ESTATE OF
BILLY H. HUGHES
DECEASED
Notice is hereby given
that on the
14th day of June,
2006 Letters of Testamentary, in respect
to the Estate of
Billy H. Hughes
deceased, were issued to the undersigned by the Chancery Court Clerk and
Master, Probate Division, of Carter County,
Tennessee.
All persons, resident
and
non-resident,
having claims, matured or unmatured,
against the Estate of
Billy H. Hughes
are required to file the
same with the Clerk
and Master of the
above Court within
four (4) months from
the date of the first
publication of this Notice; otherwise, their
claims will be forever
barred.
All persons indebted
to the above Estate
must come forward
and make proper settlement with the undersigned at once.
This the 14th day of
June , 2006.
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
per
TCA 30-2-306
Edith Massengill Coefer
2000 Chevrolet
Blazer LS
V-6, 4x4, 78K miles.
Very good condition.
$7,500.
(423)895-1651
By Owner
423-543-3636
STOCK #2086
Pre-Owned
1992 Acura
NSX 2000
6 cylinder, 5-speed,
leather, loaded, 108K.
$25,000 FIRM
ELIZABETHTON
AUTO SALES
(423)542-7592
STOCK #4053
Pre-Owned
2001 VW BEETLE
Willow Realty
926-4200
Call
Debbie Teague
747-0411
67 FARM
EQUIPMENT
FOR SALE/LEASE
PROBATE NO. P060097
Lanny R. Norris
Attorney
By: CHARLOTTE MCKEEHAN
Clerk and Master
6/19, 6/26
IN THE CHANCERY
COURT, PROBATE
DIVISION OF CARTER
COUNTY, AT
ELIZABETHTON,
TENNESSEE
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
per
TCA 30-2-306
PROBATE NO. P060098
ESTATE OF
ROBERT WAYNE ALDRIDGE
DECEASED
Notice is hereby given
that on the
14th day of June, 2006
Letters of Testamentary, in respect to the
Estate of
Robert Wayne Aldridge
deceased, were issued to the undersigned by the Chancery Court Clerk and
Master, Probate Division, of Carter County,
Tennessee.
All persons, resident
and
non-resident,
having claims, matured or unmatured,
against the Estate of
Robert Wayne Aldridge
IN THE CHANCERY
COURT, PROBATE
DIVISION OF CARTER
COUNTY, AT
ELIZABETHTON,
TENNESSEE
are required to file the
same with the Clerk
and Master of the
above Court within
four (4) months from
the date of the first
publication of this Notice; otherwise, their
claims will be forever
barred.
All persons indebted
to the above Estate
must come forward
and make proper settlement with the undersigned at once.
This the 14th day of
June , 2006.
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
per
TCA 30-2-306
Janice Louise Aldridge
Mitchell
and
Deceased:
Ollie Matie Massengill
Jason L. Holly
Travis B. Holly
Attorneys
Holly & Holly, PLLC
CHARLOTTE MCKEEHAN
Clerk and Master
6/12, 6/19
Tammy Renee Mitchell
Gold package, 4wd.
Very good condition,
CD Stereo, all leather.
125K. $5,300. O.B.O.
Cedar siding, 3BRs,
2BAs, LR, with gas fireplace, Kitchen with
ceramic
counters,
gourmet sink, DR, Den
Combo with atrium
doors
to
Deck,
fenced, level yard,
Storage Bldg, Mtn.
Views $154,900.
ELIZABETHTON
AUTO SALES
423-543-7592
(423)543-8749
1994 Jeep Grand
Cherokee Limited.
179 Mayfield Dr
Elizabethton
Red, rear spoiler, mag
wheels,
sunroof.
$11,500.
Class A Mtr. Home.
31’ Queen, Ford V-10,
4000 Onan Gen.,
back up camera,
2nd. owner. Only
24,700 miles. $28,000.
1993 Cadillac, North
Star System. Looks &
runs great, 24 MPG Interstate driving. Good
Michelin tires. 139K.
$3,900.
Ranch w/1,200+S.F.,
family room, sewing
room, LG walk-in
closet,
detached
garage, & 1/2 acre
level lot. ID#1307
$79,900
THE REAL ESTATE
SOURCE
423-283-0006
2003 Toyota
Cellica GT
1985 GMC Van V-6,
Auto with air. $800.00
542-4814, 512-0430
STS CADILLAC
NEW LISTING!
Brick raised ranch, 3
bedrooms, 2 bath,
bonus room, den
w/brick
FP,
sunroom. $144,000.
Desirable neighborhood. 283-0800 &
enter ID#3167.
Office 283-0006
STOCK #5645
Pre-Owned
2003
Flag
staff
camper hard top.
Sleeps 6. Heat, air,
pop-up. Good condition.
$3,200.
(423)542-4748.
1989 Oldsmobile Royal
4dr, 3800 V6, automatic, one owner,
very clean, $2200.
512-1285 or 725-2756.
ELIZABETHTON
AUTO SALES
423-543-7592
OLLIE MATTIE MASSENGILL
59 AUTOS
FOR SALE
1990 FORD AEROSTAR
CARGO VAN, good
condition, auto, 140K,
$995
(423)213-0809
(423)547-0986 leave
message.
2005 Ford Truck
F-150
DISNEY area stay. 7
days, 6 nights paid
$600. Sacrifice for
$199.
Good
1yr.
865-212-1668.
61 CAMPERS &
RV’S
Well built 3 bedroom, 2 bath one
level home with
basement,
hardwood flooring,spacious rooms, spring
water sitting at almost 4000’ elevation. MLS# 222371
$114,000
CALL JASON @
RANDALL BIRCHFIELD
REAL ESTATE
(423) 543-5959
$229,000
White, 6
cylinder,
automatic.
One
owner. $11,900.
1996 Polaris Jet Ski 700,
$1,995. 423-542-0929.
STOCK #9181
Pre-Owned
RAINBOW REALTY
(423)547-2800
2006 FORD
TAURUS SE
FREE good hay, needs
to be cut, 7 acres on
Stoney Creek, Hurley
Hollow. (423)474-3510
501 BURBANK
ROAN MOUNTAIN
721 FAIRWAY DRIVE
View Elizabethton
Golf Course, Tee #3
from your backyard.
Living room w/fireplace, 4 BR, 3 full BA,
double car garage.
STOCK #1845
Pre-Owned
48 FARM
& PRODUCE
Call
423-543-3693
or
423-677-3949
634 Gap Creek Rd.
1 acre
4BR, 2.5BA, kitchen,
livingroom, laundryroom,
computer
room, 2 large dens.
Cherry cabinets, oak
floors, 2600 sq. ft.
Screened
porch,
24X24 carport. Easy
access to ETSU, VA,
and JC medical center. 1 year warranty.
$239,995.
Wanted: 1999 Buick
Regal, 2 door, 6 cylinder, no white, mech.
check.
(423)725-3314.
STOCK #6721
Pre-Owned
2 wheel, 6 cylinder,
automatic, 4K, like
new, under factory
warranty. $13,900.
Will pay good money
to lease “Hunting
Land”! Must be decent
land
.
423-895-2781,
423-543-1380
55 BOATS
FOR SALE
Scenic location in the
country. Mini farm
with 3.18acres of pasture land, big barn!
Sold “as is” $89,900.
C21 WHITEHEAD
DEBORAH
SUTHERLAND
543-4663
EXTRA nice, 1992
Cadillac, 2 owner,
Elizabethton, 4 door,
miles 64,961, $4500.
(423)542-4892.
53 INSURANCE
BY OWNER
418
H. Heaton Rd.
Siam
340 Estep Hollow
RENT TO OWN 2006.
28x40, on rental lot.
3BR, 2BA, fantasy
kitchen, heat pump,
Coal Chute Road.
$3,000 down with
owner
financing.
(423)895-0456.
3BR house in Elizabethton
under
$100,000. Wanda, 807
E. Unaka Avenue,
Johnson City, TN 37601
823 DEERFIELD LANE
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
per
TCA 30-2-306
Government Loans,
No credit, no problem!
We
finance.
Call
423-282-0343
47 WANTED
TO BUY
(423)542-3798
(423)957-9244
Call Jonathan
542-4630
Shell & Associates
543-2393
305 HAMPTON VIEW
DRIVE
Enjoy country living
in this 3 bedroom,
2.5 bath, 2448 sq ft
Tri-level
home.
Great room with 16’
cathedral
ceiling
and a rock fire-
FHA Loans for 1st time
home buyers. Easy to
qualify. 423-282-0343
MOBILE HOME FOR
SALE, take over payments. 16x80, 3BR, 2
BA, CH&A, excellent
condition,
(423)768-2016
RAINBOW REALTY
(423)547-2800
516 CEDAR STREET
Near City Schools
3BR, 2BA, appliances
included. 0 down
W.A.C.
Call
423-282-0343
IN THE CHANCERY
COURT, PROBATE
DIVISION OF CARTER
COUNTY, AT
ELIZABETHTON,
TENNESSEE
4 cylinder, 5 speed,
sunroof,
loaded.
$8,995.
ELIZABETHTON
AUTO SALES
543-7592
1999 Lexus
4x4, leather, sunroof,
white. $10,995.
ELIZABETHTON
AUTO SALES
423-543-7592
65 TRUCKS &
SEMI’S
STOCK #4793
Pre-Owned
2003 S-10
Extra cab, X-treem,
red,
4
cylinder,
5-speed, 21K. $8,500.
Elizabethton Auto
Sales
543-7592
PROBATE NO. P060095
Executrixes
ESTATE OF
Deceased:
CLIFFORD D. CARDEN
DECEASED
Notice is hereby given
that on the
8th
day of June, 2006 Letters of Testamentary,
in respect to the Estate of
Clifford D. Carden
deceased, were issued to the undersigned by the Chancery Court Clerk and
Master, Probate Division, of Carter County,
Tennessee.
All persons, resident
and
non-resident,
having claims, matured or unmatured,
against the Estate of
Clifford D. Carden
are required to file the
same with the Clerk
and Master of the
above Court within
four (4) months from
the date of the first
publication of this Notice; otherwise, their
claims will be forever
barred.
All persons indebted
to the above Estate
must come forward
and make proper settlement with the undersigned at once.
This the 8th day of
June , 2006.
Rebecca Brummitt
Executrix
Deceased:
Clifford D. Carden
Regina Shepherd
Attorney
CHARLOTTE MCKEEHAN
Clerk and Master
6/12, 6/19
Robert Wayne Aldridge
James R. Wheeler
Attorney
By: CHARLOTTE MCKEEHAN
Clerk and Master
6/19, 6/26
TRUSTEE'S SALE
UNDER AND BY VIRTUE
OF AUTHORITY vested
in the undersigned
Trustee, and in execution of that certain
Deed of Trust made
by DAVID PAUL BLEVINS and wife, JANET
ELAINE BLEVINS dated
the 21st day of June
2001 and recorded in
Trust Book 587, page
808, and re-recorded
in Trust Book 591, page
833, at the Register's
Office
of
Carter
County, Tennessee,
default having been
made in the payment
of
indebtedness
thereby secured, the
undersigned Trustee,
at the request of the
holder of said Note,
will offer for sale at
public auction at the
front door of the
Courthouse in Carter
County, Tennessee on
day of
the
11th
July 2006 at 10:00,
a.m. (ET) the following
described parcel of
land and improvements:
SITUATE in the Sixth
(6th) Civil District of
Carter County, Tennessee, and being
more particularly described as follows:
BEGINNING on an iron
rod in the Southerly
margin of Hillview
Drive common corner
PUBLIC NOTICES
PUBLIC NOTICES
to Zeidan;
thence
S04E22'13" West 139.43
feet to an iron rod a
common corner to
Joe Collins; thence
with Collins three calls:
S52E48'49" West 33.26
feet to an iron rod;
thence S03E13'20" East
69.44 feet to an iron
rod;
thence
S82E09'20" West 109.82
feet to an iron rod
common corner to
Zeiler;
thence
N03E58'05" East 199.33
feet to an iron rod in
the Southerly margin
of
Hillview
Drive;
thence with Hillview
Drive N71E11'05" East
108.37 feet to an iron
rod;
thence
N69E22'50" East 27.39
feet to the BEGINNING,
containing
0.567 acres, more or
less, all according to
Survey of the David
Blevins
Property,
dated February 10,
2000, by Steven G.
Pierce, TRLS #1564,
Iron Mountain Survey
Co., 176 Low Gap
Road, Elizabethton,
Tennessee.
BEING a portion of
that property conveyed by Ruby C. Fox
(Widow) to David
Blevins by two Warranty Deeds:
one
dated September 29,
1992, of record in
Deed Book 405, page
49; and the other
dated September 15,
1984, and of record in
Deed Book 347, page
95, both in the Register's Office for Carter
County, Tennessee.
26
U.S.C.
Section
7425(b) require notice
to be given to the
United States in order
for the sale of land
thus advertised not to
be subject to such lien
or claim of the United
States and every lien
or claim of the State
of Tennessee with respect to which the
provisions of Tennessee Code Annotated
Section
67-1-1433(b)(1) require
notice to be given to
the State of Tennessee
in order for the sale of
the land as advertised
not to be subject to
such lien or claim of
lien of the State of
Tennessee has been
given to the United
States or the State of
Tennessee,
respectively.
ADDRESS OF PROPERTY:
1618 Hillview Drive
Elizabethton, TN 37643
CITCO TITLE CO., INC.
TRUSTEE
6/19, 6/26, 7/3
TERMS OF SALE: CASH.
A bidder's deposit of
ten percent (10%) will
be required. The entire amount of the successful bid must be
paid in full, in cash
within thirty (30) days
after sale. Purchaser
shall pay all recording
fees, examination of title, settlement fees,
and all costs of conveyance,
including
preparation of a Deed
of Bargain and Sale
by Special Warranty.
The sale is subject to
conditions, restrictions,
rights-of-way
easements and reservations contained in the
Deeds forming the
chain of title to this
property.
Any improvements on
subject property will
be sold in "as is" condition without warranty
of any kind.
Sale is made in bar of
all homestead, dower,
and curtsy, and in bar
of the right of equity
of redemption and
the statutory right of
redemption, all of
which are expressly
waived in the Deed of
Trust.
It will be the responsibility of the successful
bidder to obtain possession of the property
at his expense.
The successful bidder
shall be responsible for
any damage, vandalism, theft, destruction,
etc., of the property
occurring subsequent
to the date of sale.
This sale is subject to
prior liens, judgments
or unpaid taxes, if any.
This sale is further subject to valid filed or
unfiled (if any) mechanic's and materialmen's liens. There are
no
representations
made by the Trustee
as to the validity or enforceability of any
memorandum of mechanic's or materialmen's liens or of any
suit to enforce same.
The Trustee reserves
the right:
1. To waive the deposit requirement;
2. To extend the period of time within
which the Purchaser is
to make full settlement;
3. To withdraw the
property from sale at
any time prior to the
termination of the bidding;
4. To keep the bidding
open for any length of
time;
5. To reject all bids;
6. To postpone or set
over the date of sale;
and
7. Should the highest
bidder fail to comply
with the terms of the
bid at public sale,
then the Trustee shall
have the option of accepting the second
(2nd) highest bid, or
the next highest bid
with which the buyer is
able to comply.
In the event the Trustee deems it best for
any reason at the time
of sale to postpone or
continue this sale from
time to time, such notice or postponement
or setting over will be
in a manner deemed
reasonable by the
Trustee.
ADVERTISEMENT
FOR BIDS
Sealed BIDS for the
EXTERIOR
PRESSURE
WASHING of Hampton
Tanks 1 & 2, Dividing
Ridge Tank, Wood
Note Tank and the Tiger Valley Tank for
Hampton Utility District, will be received
by Hampton Utility District, Hampton, P.O.
Box 211, Hampton,
Tennessee 37658. BIDS
will be received on
Tuesday, July 11, 2006
at 7:00 p.m. in the
Hampton Utility District, 203 Main Street,
Hampton, Tennessee,
at which time they will
be publicly opened
and read aloud and
the
Contract
awarded as soon
thereafter as practicable. Please indicate
on your quotation,
“BID ON EXTERIOR
PRESSURE WASHING.”
Plans, specifications
and contract documents may be obtained for bidding purposes at the office of
Hampton Utility District, 203 Main Street,
Hampton, Tennessee
upon a deposit of a
check payable to
Norvell & Poe Engineers or cash for the
sum of $20.00. THIS DEPOSIT WILL NOT BE REFUNDED.
All BIDDERS must be licensed
CONTRACTORS as required by
the “CONTRACTOR’S
LICENSING ACT OF
1976”, and as passed
by the 89th General
Assembly of the State
of Tennessee. The BIDDER’S name, license
number,
expiration
date, and the part of
the
classification
which applies to the
BIDDER
must
be
placed on the sealed
envelope containing
the executed Proposal Form; otherwise,
the BID will not be
considered.
Each BID must be accompanied by a certified check or by a Bid
Bond executed by the
BIDDER and a surety
company licensed to
do business in Tennessee, in the sum of five
(5%) percent of the
amount of the BID. This
is required as a guarantee that if the BID is
accepted within sixty
(60) days of the bid
date, the Contract will
be entered into within
ten (10) consecutive
days and the performance of it will be properly secured.
The successful BIDDER
will be required to
execute an acceptable
performance
and payment bond in
the amount equal to
100 percent of the
contract price.
HAMPTON UTILITY DISTRICT reserves the right
to waive any informalities in or to reject
any or all bids and to
accept
the
bid
deemed favorable to
the interest of the
Owner.
Every lien or claimed
lien of the United
States with respect to
which the provisions of
In the event there is a
lien or a claim of lien
by the United States or
the State of Tennessee, the land herein
advertised will be subject to the right of the
United States or the
State of Tennessee to
redeem the land as
provided for in 26
U.S.C. Section 7425(b)
or Tennessee Code
Annotated, Section
67-1-1433(c)(1),
respectively.
Listing of known Lienholders:
(If
none,
please state)
Carter Finance & Thrift
Corp.
Ear, Nose & Throat Associates
Terry Banner
Utility Manager
Linda Guy
Office Manager
6/19, 6/20, 6/21, 6/22,
6/23, 6/25, 6/26, 6/27,
6/28, 6/29, 6/30, 7/2
ELIZABETHTON ROUTE
Executive Level Income.
Absolutely No Selling.
$12,950 Investment for
Inventory & Accounts.
(800) 373-5470
STAR- MONDAY, JUNE 19, 2006 - Page 13
ELIZABETHTON STAR
BUSINESS REVIEW
423 - 542-4151 • 423 - 928-4151
A-1 Appliance & Furniture
in business for 31 years
From Staff Reports
A-1 Appliance & Furniture, located at 520 E. Elk
Avenue in downtown Elizabethton, has been in busiWAYNE’S HOME ness for 31 years.
Privately owned by Ray
MAINTENANCE Norris,
A-1 Appliance offers
Heating & Air • Plumbing & Electrical
Bushline, Frankel and Liv547-0564
ingstone furniture. “We carOne Call Does It All
ry leather living room suits,
as well as upholstery suites
UNDER NEW OWNERSHIP
and Chase Lounge sofas,
HAMPTON
something new to sofas,”
REPAIR SHOP
Norris said. “Our glider
Complete, Professional Automotive Care rockers are manufactured by
106 Williams Street • Hampton, TN 37658
Brooks. All of our furniture
725-4925
is manufactured in TenSue Carol’s Christie Vines nessee.”
A-1 bedding includes
Beauty Shop Operator & Stylist Ther-a-pedic
Memory Foam,
Tuesday - Saturday
147 Copley Branch Rd.
9 A.M. to 5 P.M.
Ther-a-pedic
coil
spring bedButler
•
768-3219
Open every other Saturday
Walk-Ins Welcome
ding, Spring-Wall bedding
Complete
Family
Hair
Care
Color • Perms
and Park Place bedding. A-1
Ear Piercing • Waxing
9 Years Experience
Cuts • Frosting
has a selection of Ther-aHouse Keepers Cleaning Service pedic pillows.
A-1 has a large selection
Licensed • References On Request
of table lamps, as well as
Quality Service
floor lamps. “A-1 has just
Residential • Offices
started carrying a selection
One Time Or Weekly Basis
of pictures that the ladies
Shirley Ward • 547-0300
will like, some large as well
as small,” Norris said. “A-1
carries a selection of all
CARPET CLEANING
$20 per room (traffic areas)
wood curios and entertainor $30 (move furniture)
ment centers, along with cofWe also clean furniture & vehicles
fee tables, end tables and soQuality, Affordable Service
JEFF ODOM
647-6806 fa tables.
“We have been told our
FARMERS EXCHANGE store carries the largest selec6451 Hwy. 19E • Corner of 19E & Bear Cage Rd.
tion of solid oak and cherry
Feed • Seed • Fertilizer • Hardware
dining tables and hutches for
Fence Supplies
walls or corners. Not to menCorral Panels & Gates & More!
tion our bedroom suits,
725-2800 • Open Mon. - Sat. 8-5
The Iron Skillet
435 East Elk Ave • Downtown • 542-2070
Open 10 a.m. - 3 p.m. • Monday - Friday
Plate Lunches Daily
$
Soup Bean Plate
$
Homemade Desserts, Soups, Salads,
Egg Salad, Tuna Salad Sandwiches
595
389
Owners Brenda Roberson • Patty Russell
Lynn Valley
Decorating Center
1432 Broad Street • Elizabethton
423-543-5062 • Fax 423-543-6551
STONEY CREEK
MEAT MARKET
555 Hwy. 91 • Elizabethton
At The Hunter Bridge • 543-3600
Smoked BBQ Choice Steaks
* Check For Weekly Specials *
KARATE
Double Dragon Dojo
Dixie Webb, Sensei
Classes for Adults of any age
www.doubledragondojo.com
JC Parks & Rec Bldg 423-335-3903
Believers Christian
Books & Gifts
501 Broad Street. • Suite 2
Corner of Broad & Pine next to Wendy’s
M - F 9:00 - 6:00 • Sat. 10:00 - 5:00
542-2098
LIGHTHOUSE TOBACCO
& MINI MARKET
1933 W. Elk Ave. • Elizabethton
OPEN FOR LUNCH 10-2 Mon.-Fri.
Tobacco Snacks Collectibles
ADULT BEVERAGE CENTER • MIX OR MATCH
Jerry & Kathy Oliver - family owned & operated
542-8957 www.Lighthousetobacco.com
PLANK’S
M OWING S ERVICE
MOWING, WEEDEATING
LEAF PICK-UP
FREE
ESTIMATES
TO HAVE
YOUR BUSINESS
FEATURED HERE
CALL DARLENE GUINN
297-9068
THE
AND
Other Services: Mailbox Rentals, Postage Stamps,
Copies, Faxing, Laminating, Custom Art & Framing,
Specialty Gifts, Internet Stations and MORE!!!1
We SHIP
New Location in Roan Mountain
9373 Hwy. 19E • 423-772-4300
Internet Service • Copies • Faxing
Color Photo Prints
Fax 866-430-3373
Stacy’s Carpet Steam
Cleaning Co. Inc.
Stacy’s Carpet Outlet • Smokebusters
Photo by Larry N. Souders
A-1 Appliance & Furniture, located at 520 E. Elk Avenue in downtown Elizabethton,
has been in business for 31 years. Pictured, owner Ray Norris. For more information, call
543-6088.
which are of solid wood cherry, oak or cedar. Our
cedar bedroom suit is a seven-piece, plus a cedar chest.
You need to see all our furniture to appreciate its beauty.
Most all furniture is pressed
wood, but ours is all solid
wood.”
A-1 Appliance carries
Frigidaire appliances, includ-
ing refrigerators, glass top
stoves, coil stoves, drop-in
ranges, wall ovens, dishwashers, garbage disposals,
under-the-counter
microwaves and stove hoods.
“We are the only appliance
and furniture store in the TriCities that carries parts for all
major appliances,” Norris
said. “If you don’t want to fix
your own appliances, we offer service for your home appliances.”
Norris will service appliances in your home. Norris’
wife, Deanie, assists him in
the store’s operation.
A-1 offers same-day or
next-day free delivery. For
more information, call 5436088.
Hampton Repair Shop offers
variety of automotive services
CLINE-HOLDER
ELECTRIC SUPPLY, INC.
WHOLESALE DISTRIBUTORS
Milwaukee Tools
• Cutler-Hammer • Nutone • Acme
Transformers • ITE • Hoffman • Hubbell
• Thomas • Klein Tools • Wiremold
543-4444 2003 West Elk Avenue
Everything you need to take care
of your home with one call
145 Wilson Avenue in Biltmore Area
543-5833 • 282-6565
COMING SOON
VALUE VILLA
Quality Home Furnishings
Now accepting consignment merchandise
and applications for Private Booth Rental
YOU STOCK — WE SELL
423-542-2322
and on site
BRENDA JENSEN
formerly of Sisters III is now at
Located behind McDonald’s at 523 N. Lynn Ave.
Call 542-5885 for app’t
Holder’s
FLOOR CARE
By Greg Miller
STAR STAFF
150 Grandview Circle • Elizabethton
• SPECIALIZING IN CARPET CARE •
Other services available •Commercial •Residential
Bus. Mobile 677-5497 Home 543-4567
[email protected]
GRADY HOLDER, OWNER
Hampton Repair Shop,
owned
by
John
Humphreys, offers a variety of automotive services.
Humphreys is ASE certified and licensed and is a
VA Dept. of Environmental
Quality inspector/technician.
“We offer automotive
maintenance and repair
service through professionalism,”
said
Humphreys, who has 30
years experience. “Included are tune-ups, fuel injection, electrical, emissions,
A/C service, computer diagnostics,
brakes
and
transmission flush.” The
business also offers Robinair A/C Machine & Motorvac trans tech systems
transmission service.
Humphreys strives to
operate a professional,
family-oriented shop and
communicate well with the
customers. He wants to
“get it right the first time.”
Humphreys wants “to
help customers under-
MANNY’S AUTO SHOP
& MOBILE MECHANIC
SPECIAL
Oil Change $1500
131 Clay Little Road • Elizabethton, TN 37643
SHOP 543-1597 • MOBILE 418-0689
Hampton General Store
Hwy. 321 in Hampton • 200 yards above
Appalachian Trail on the way to the Lake
You Don’t Have To Drive To Hwy. 107 To Buy
Amish Meats, Cheese, Etc.
• Picnic Supplies Hiking Supplies • Hot & Cold
Sandwiches Hot Dogs 2 for $1.69 • Ice • Fresh Produce
725-4400
Appalachian Surgery and
Skin Lesion Excision Center
Adjacent to Sycamore Shoals Hospital
423-543-8619
Specializing in all types office surgery
Skin Lesions • Cancers • Moles • Vasectomy
Most insurances accepted and non insured patients
Photo by Larry N. Souders
Hampton Repair Shop, owned by John Humphreys, offers a variety of automotive
services. Hampton Repair Shop is located at 102 Williams Street in Hampton. For more
information, call 725-4925.
stand the importance of
keeping the proper maintenance on their vehicles,
which will help prevent
major component failure
such as transmissions, en-
gines, A/C components,
etc. and keep them on the
road longer.”
Humphreys’ wife, Penny, works with him in the
business.
Hampton Repair Shop,
which opened on May 4, is
located at 102 Williams
Street in Hampton. For
more information, call 7254925.
Gary Plank, Owner/Operator
423-725-3704 • 423-676-7413
Fall Service lawn care for your Home or Business
COMMUNICATION STATION
783 Hwy. 91, Ste. 3 • 543-7225
We’re Your ONE STOP, SHOP & SHIP Store!
To Have Your Business Featured Here
Call Darlene Guinn at 297-9068
Southern Comforts
Cleaning • Organization • Hauling it off
Apartments • Houses
• Offices • Storage Areas
• Small Yard Work
(423) 542-5309
(423) 213-7937
A New Image Weight Loss Clinic, Inc.
“We are committed to your good health”
15 mg
30 mg
60 count
$$
99
420 Railroad Street • 423-542-6488
A-1 Appliance & Furniture
Furniture by
Bushline • Oakwood •Caldwell
Ther-a-pedic Memory Foam
Pillows & Mattresses
Frigidaire Appliances Parts & Service
520 E. Elk Avenue • Elizabethton • 543-6088
Stock Highlights Everyday In The Business Section
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MEDICAL CARE
LLC
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Appointment
Necessary!
Elizabethton - 1900 W. Elk Avenue (423) 543-2584 • Mon - Fri: 8 a.m. - 6 p.m. Saturday: 8 a.m. - 2 p.m.
Johnson City - 401 E. Main Street (I-26 Exit 32) (423) 929-2584 • Mon - Fri: 8 a.m. - 5 p.m. Sat: 8 a.m. - 2 p.m.
Hampton • 437 Highway 321 (423) 725-5062 • Mon - Fri: 8 a.m. - 4 p.m.
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“Medical Care with a Heart.”
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Statistics are through 6 p.m. yest.
The patented RealFeel Temperature® is
AccuWeather’s exclusive index of the effects
of temperature, wind, humidity, sunshine,
precipitation and elevation on the human
body. Shown are the highest values for each
day.
8 a.m. .............................................. 2
Noon ............................................... 4
4 p.m. .............................................. 3
Temperature:
High yesterday ........................ 86°
Low yesterday ......................... 61°
Precipitation:
Today ........................................... 84°
Tuesday ........................................ 91°
Wednesday .................................. 92°
Thursday ...................................... 93°
Friday ........................................... 87°
24 hrs. ending 6 p.m. yest. ... 0.00”
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The higher the AccuWeather UV IndexTM number,
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Tennessee Weather
San Francisco
68/54
Nashville
88/70
Camden
89/70
Knoxville
84/66
Los Angeles
80/62
The State
Sunrise today ....................... 6:11 a.m.
Sunset tonight ...................... 8:49 p.m.
Moonrise today ................... 1:54 a.m.
Moonset today .................... 2:46 p.m.
City
Athens
Bristol
Chattanooga
Clarksville
Cleveland
Cookeville
Crossville
Erwin
Franklin
Greeneville
Johnson City
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Today
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80 66 t
81 61 t
85 68 t
89 68 pc
83 67 t
83 67 t
82 65 t
82 60 t
88 70 pc
83 61 t
82 61 t
Hi
88
88
94
92
92
88
86
88
92
89
88
Tue.
Lo W
68 pc
60 pc
71 pc
69 pc
70 pc
68 pc
66 pc
60 pc
72 pc
60 pc
60 pc
Today
City
Hi Lo W
Kingsport
80 61 t
Knoxville
84 66 t
Memphis
93 76 t
Morristown 82 64 t
Mountain City 77 61 t
Nashville
88 70 pc
Newport
83 65 t
Oak Ridge
84 66 t
Pigeon Forge 84 66 t
Roan Mtn.
78 60 t
Sevierville
84 66 t
Hi
88
88
97
88
83
92
88
88
89
83
88
WARM
Atlanta
87/69
El Paso
101/75
Houston
89/73
Cold front
Warm front
Stationary front
Miami
89/78
Showers
T-storms
Rain
Flurries
Snow
Ice
Shown are noon positions of weather systems and precipitation.
Temperature bands are highs for the day. Forecast high/low temperatures
are given for selected cities.
The World
The Nation
Shown is today’s weather. Temperatures are today’s highs and tonight’s lows.
Sun and Moon
Kansas City
94/71
A cold front will clash with a hot and humid air mass in the East,
producing showers and thunderstorms anywhere from New
England and the Great Lakes to the Gulf Coast today.
Thunderstorms will develop in Montana.
Murfreesboro
86/69
Waynesboro Chattanooga
85/68
87/68
Memphis
93/76
Washington
91/72
STORMY
Denver
88/58
National Summary
Elizabethton
80/62
Union City
91/72
New York
88/70
Detroit
Chicago 84/62
84/60
HOT
Bristol Almanac
Minneapolis
78/60
DRY
Tue.
Lo W
61 pc
67 pc
77 s
64 pc
62 pc
72 pc
65 pc
67 pc
67 pc
59 pc
67 pc
Today
City
Hi Lo W
Atlanta
87 69 t
Boston
90 67 t
Charleston, SC 87 72 pc
Charlotte
89 64 pc
Chicago
84 60 pc
Cincinnati
83 62 t
Dallas
96 73 pc
Denver
88 58 t
Honolulu
87 75 s
Kansas City 94 71 t
Los Angeles 80 62 pc
New York City 88 70 t
Orlando
90 74 t
Phoenix
110 85 s
Seattle
68 50 pc
Wash., DC
91 72 t
Tue.
Hi Lo W
93 72 pc
82 65 t
91 72 pc
90 68 pc
82 64 s
85 65 pc
92 74 pc
87 55 t
87 74 s
89 72 pc
78 62 pc
86 68 t
92 74 t
112 84 s
68 50 pc
88 70 t
City
Acapulco
Amsterdam
Barcelona
Beijing
Berlin
Dublin
Hong Kong
Jerusalem
London
Madrid
Mexico City
Montreal
Paris
Rome
Seoul
Singapore
Today
Hi Lo W
87 78 t
72 56 pc
76 68 pc
97 68 pc
86 62 t
61 46 c
90 82 t
86 66 s
72 54 pc
88 62 pc
78 53 t
82 58 t
80 56 pc
84 66 s
86 59 pc
88 79 t
Hi
88
71
80
100
88
61
90
84
75
85
72
75
77
89
77
88
Tues.
Lo W
78 pc
54 pc
71 pc
72 pc
65 t
48 r
81 t
61 s
54 pc
62 c
53 c
52 pc
56 pc
67 s
59 t
79 t
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r-rain, sf-snow flurries, sn-snow, i-ice.
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Tardy request for patent extension
causes headaches for drug maker
WASHINGTON (AP) —
A day late and possibly several millions of dollars
short. That’s the scenario
facing one drug manufacturer unless it can get a
helping hand from Congress.
Legislation in the House
would give the agency
overseeing patents discretion in approving late requests for patent extensions.
The
legislation,
which some critics call the
“Dog Ate My Homework
Act,” is based on a request
that arrived one day too late
for government consideration.
The strange events leading to the bill’s introduction
began on Feb. 14, 2001,
when the U.S. Patent and
Trademark Office received
The Medicines Company’s
application for a patent extension on its heart drug
Angiomax.
That was one day later
than the application deadline — no later than 60 days
after the Food and Drug
Administration
approves
the drug for commercial use
and sale.
There are no exceptions
to that window, so patent
officials rejected the application.
Ten lawmakers, includ-
ing three from Massachusetts which is the company’s home state, have cosponsored a bill that could
reverse that decision. The
bill gives the director of the
patent office the discretion
to accept an application if
filed less than five days after the deadline. The applicant also needs to show that
missing the window was
unintentional.
The stakes for The Medicines Company are huge.
The company recently told
stock analysts and investors
that it expects Angiomax to
generate more than $500
million in sales in the United States by 2010. The drug
is an anticoagulant that prevents clot formation during
angioplasty.
The company has expanded its lobbying presence on Capitol Hill to push
the legislation. It spent
$440,000 on lobbying last
year — more than double
what it had spent over the
three previous years combined, according to FEC Info., a company that tracks
lobbying disclosure reports.
The company wants its
patent to be extended 1,773
days, giving it exclusive
rights to the drug until Dec.
15. 2014.
The legislation has at-
tracted the attention of
some generic drug companies and the watchdog
group Citizens Against
Government Waste, which
said it has consistently opposed legislation designed
to benefit one company.
“Neither Congress, nor
taxpayers and consumers,
should be used to cover up
and correct any company’s
errors,”
the
watchdog
group’s president, Thomas
Schatz, said in a letter Friday to Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner, the Republican chairman of the House Judiciary
Committee.
“Pursuing this legislation
sets a dangerous precedent
as it starts our nation on the
slippery slope of politicizing the patent office,”
Schatz wrote.
The four original cosponsors of the law are
Reps. Bill Jenkins, R-Tenn.,
John
Duncan,
R-Tenn.,
William Delahunt, D-Mass.,
and Marty Meehan, DMass. None of the lawmakers would comment; their
aides either declined to
comment or did not return
telephone calls.
A patent extension is designed to compensate companies for the extensive
amount of time used to test
the drug for safety and ef-
fectiveness. The federal
government provides the
extensions because it wants
to stimulate product development and innovation.
In the company’s most
recent quarterly public filing, it acknowledged the
patent mess and the pending legislation: “We are exploring alternatives to extend the term of the patent,
but we can provide no assurance that we will be successful.”
Asked for comment,
company
spokesman
Michael Mitchell said in a
statement, “We support HR
5120 since, if it becomes
law, it will make clear the
Patent Office could review
our patent restoration application on its merits.”
However, some in the
generic drug industry, believe the bill is another example of the brand-name
drug industry’s clout on
Capitol Hill.
“As generic companies,
we aren’t afforded such
treatment, nor are other entities that make a mistake
like that. Deadlines are
deadlines and though unfortunate for the company,
it’s just too bad,” said Greg
Howard, a Washingtonbased consultant for the
generic drug industry.
ing bones. We’ve been finding them ever since.”
“I’m really excited,” said
Kristin Martin, a senior at
Smyrna High School. “I
found this sucker right here
— the calcite crystals in the
big rock and two bones, one
of which I believe is part of a
femur and the other a rib
bone.”
“We do wet sifting and
dry sifting, searching for
small bones like vertebrae,
fish and salamander bones,”
said Moonyham. “We’ve
done plaster casts of large
chunks of the earth, to look
at the different layers — kind
of like reading the rings in a
tree. We’ve found microscopic bones in sediment samples, like tiny minnows and
insects. We’ve found a lot of
plant materials and pollen.
“Right now we’ve got a
crew working in the rhino
pit. They’re also looking in
what they call the ‘spoil
piles’ where they scraped off
the surface with a bulldozer
to build the visitor’s center.”
“It’s pretty cool,” said
Benjamin Wing, a junior at
Oak Ridge High School.
“You don’t know what
you’re going to find. It just
pops up after a rain.”
Dr. Steven Wallace, coordinator of the Gray Site, said
that a large work crew is currently expanding some of the
older test pits at the site, and
that construction of the visitor’s center is progressing
ahead of schedule. A nearly
complete alligator skeleton
was recently excavated, and
new discoveries are being
made each week.
Whitelaw is assisting the
students in making plaster
casts of fossils, to be donated
to the Hands On! Regional
Museum and to schools. Students are also taking field
trips to locations such as
Bristol Caverns, Roan Mountain, Bays Mountain and a
garnet mine in Spruce Pine,
N.C.
“This is fascinating,” said
Martin. “Getting hands-on
experience is something that
I wouldn’t trade for anything. This site is so important.”
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had to come from some
height to do that. It acted as a
natural trap. The animals
would come down to drink
and some of them either got
caught or they just died here.
“If we can understand
why this hole is here, then
we can go looking for others.
The key thing for finding
such a site is that all the way
around, you have orange
clays — the common color
everywhere — and this black
clay is highly unusual. When
the guys were doing the original grading for the road they
were going to put through
here, they saw the black clay
and immediately knew that
it was unusual. When the engineers came and were poking around, they started see-
to roam again as
new American coin
WASHINGTON (AP) —
The golden buffalo, the legendary symbol of the American West, will soon roam
again — this time as the nation’s first pure gold coin.
The U.S. Mint will start
taking orders in the coming
week for the coins. Officials
believe they have found a
winning combination that
will appeal to nostalgia
buffs and investors.
The coin will be slightly
larger and thicker than a
Kennedy half dollar, will
contain one ounce of gold
and will be designated a $50
gold piece. The actual price
will depend on the market
price of an ounce of gold,
plus markups.
The design is a replica of
the popular buffalo nickel
that was minted from 1913
to 1938. The golden buffalo
has a buffalo standing on a
grassy mound on one side
and a stern-looking Indian
chief on the other side, duplicating the images created
by famed artist James Earle
Fraser for the 1913 nickel.
“Many people will recall
getting a nickel with the Indian head and the buffalo. It
is really a beautiful design
and evokes wonderful images,” the deputy director of
the Mint, David Lebryk,
said in an interview.
The buffalo without the
Indian chief made a brief
comeback on the nickel last
year as one of the designs
used to commemorate the
200th anniversary of the
Lewis and Clark expedition.
Mint officials are hoping
the new American Buffalo
gold coin will be a hit not
only in this country but with
investors around the world.
The government already
produces a 22-karat American Eagle gold coin. This is
the first time the Mint has
produced a 24-karat coin, a
designation that means the
coin contains 99.99 percent
gold as opposed to 91.67
percent gold content in the
22-karat coins.
Global investors in the
past few years have turned
increasingly to the purer
gold coin. Those sales now
make up about 60 percent of
the gold coin market, led by
Canada’s Maple Leaf.
Analysts said the Mint is
introducing the coin at a
good time. After languishing for two decades, gold
prices have been soaring recently, hitting a 26-year high
of $732 per ounce in early
May.
Gold was trading at $578
per ounce on Friday in New
York, down from the recent
highs but above Thursday’s
level of $566.50 per ounce.
While
the
volatility
shows that small investors
need to be careful in choosing precious metals as an investment, analysts said gold
does offer a good hedge
against inflation.
“Gold has made a comeback in the minds of investors after having been all
but forgotten,” said Mark
Zandi, chief economist at
Moody’s Economy.com. “It
will probably be only a
small part of anyone’s portfolio, but the fact that prices
are now double what they
were a few years ago has
created a lot of newfound
interest.”
The Mint will sell two
versions of the coin:
—A bullion coin, designed for investors. Starting today, the Mint will sell
the coin only to authorized
buyers who will distribute
the coins to a network of
several thousand local dealers — coin shops, banks and
other financial institutions.
The Mint will base its
sales price for this coin on
the market price of gold and
a premium of about 3 percent; other markups in the
distribution chain are expected to push the final
sales price to about 5 percent to 7.5 percent above the
market gold price.
—A proof coin, which is
aimed at collectors. This
coin has a finer finish and a
higher quality strike. The
Mint is setting the initial
price at $875 per proof coin
and will only produce
300,000 of them.
Collectors can buy the
proof coins directly from the
Mint starting on Thursday
by going to the Mint’s Web
site — www.usmint.gov —
or by calling 1-800-USAMint. The site will also have
a listing of local dealers who
will be selling the coins.
All the American Buffalo
coins will be produced at
the Mint’s facility in West
Point, N.Y. Officials plan a
ceremony on Tuesday to put
the actual coins on display
for the first time.
Iraq
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uncovering every stone, until
our soldiers are found, and
we will continue to use every
resource available in our
search,” it said.
Falah also said tensions
were high in the area as U.S.
soldiers raided some houses
and arrested men. He also
said the Americans were setting up checkpoints on all
roads leading to the area of
the attack and helicopters
were hovering at low altitudes.
A Youssifiyah resident,
who claimed his house was
searched by U.S. soldiers
Sunday afternoon, also said
the Americans used translators to offer $100,000 for information leading to those
who took the soldiers.
He said he would not cooperate because he was angry with the Americans.
“I will not do it even if
they pay $1 million,” the resident said, speaking on condition of anonymity because he
feared retribution. “They deserve all that they are facing
... We are living a hard life
because of them.”
The U.S. military did not
immediately respond to a request for comment on the
resident’s claim.
The military said Saturday
that soldiers at a nearby
checkpoint heard small-arms
fire and explosions during
the Friday night attack, and a
quick-reaction force reached
the scene within 15 minutes.
The force found Babineau
dead but no signs of Menchaca and Tucker.
“We are currently using
every means at our disposal
on the ground, in the air and
in the water to find them,”
said
Caldwell,
the
spokesman for U.S. forces in
Baghdad.
He said blocking positions
were established throughout
the area within an hour of
the attack to keep suspects
from fleeing.
Caldwell also said the military was still searching for
Sgt. Keith M. Maupin, of
Batavia, Ohio, who went
missing April 9, 2004.
“We continue to search using every means available
and will not stop looking until we find the missing soldiers,” he said.
Maupin was captured
when insurgents ambushed
his fuel convoy with the
724th Transportation Co.
west of Baghdad. A week later, Arab television network
Al-Jazeera aired a videotape
showing Maupin sitting on
the floor surrounded by five
masked men holding automatic rifles.
That June, Al-Jazeera aired
another tape purporting to
show a U.S. soldier being
shot. But the dark, grainy
tape showed only the back of
the victim’s head and did not
show the actual shooting.
The Army ruled it was inconclusive whether the soldier
was Maupin.
“There have been ongoing
efforts,” Snow said. “Unfortunately, again, no word on
Keith Maupin, either.”
Maupin, a 20-year-old private first class at the time of
his capture, has been promoted twice since then.