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BENTON — Despite attempts from prosecutors to strike a plea deal, Tiffany Pittman is still set to stand trial in a week on charg-es stemming from a fatal wreck along a Marshall County highway last year.

Among other charges, Pitt-man, 19, is charged with murder, first-offense DUI and fi rst-degree assault in connec-tion with the Aug. 15, 2011, crash along U.S. 68 that claimed the life of 45-year-old Stephen J. “Jimmy” Harper.

For more than three hours in Marshall Cir-cuit Court on Monday, Pittman waited patiently in the jail line for a pre-trial on two motions that her attorney, James Jameson, fi led on her behalf. When she was called up to the podium, she quietly wiped tears from her eyes as her attorney discussed details of her case.

Other charges against Pittman relating to the crash are failure to maintain required insurance,

Pittman to stand trial in ’11 wreck

BY MALLORY [email protected]

Pittman

Associated Press

A vacuum-style dredge sucks up sand along a navigation channel to make travel easier for barges and tow boats on the Mississippi River on Monday near Memphis, Tenn.

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Nearly 100 boats and barges were wait-ing for passage Monday along an 11-mile stretch of the Mississippi River that has been closed due to low water levels, the U.S. Coast Guard said.

New Orleans-based Coast Guard spokesman Ryan Tip-pets said the stretch of river near Greenville, Miss., has been closed

intermittently since Aug. 11, when a vessel ran aground.

Tippets said the area is cur-rently being surveyed for dredg-ing and a Coast Guard boat is re-placing eight navigation markers. He says 40 northbound vessels and 57 southbound vessels were stranded and waiting for passage Monday afternoon.

Tippets said it is not imme-diately clear when the river will re-open. A stretch of river near

Greenville was also closed in 1988 due to low water levels caused by severe drought. The river hit a re-cord low on the Memphis gauge that year.

The Mississippi River from Il-linois to Louisiana has seen water levels plummet due to drought con-ditions in the past three months. Near Memphis, the river level was more than 12 feet lower than nor-

11-mile stretch of Mississippi River closedBY ADRIAN SAINZ

Associated Press

“If we lose the river system it’s just like losing the interstate highway system. ... This is a main artery for commerce.”

Frank SegreeCaptain, the dredge Hurley

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The National Crime Prevention Council reports that bullying has reached epic proportions, with a third of youth experiencing bul-lying once a month. But for sur-vivor, author, and anti-bullying advocate Jodee Blanco, only one statistic matters.

“My job is about going into a school and changing kids, one heart at a time. If I go into a school and I speak to a thousand teenagers, and

one of them is contemplat-ing suicide and changes their mind because of that talk, that’s all the statistic I care about,” Blanco said.

S t u d e n t s from Lone Oak High School listened Mon-

day as Blanco recounted her per-sonal experience as a victim of bullying, which began when Blan-co was in the fi fth grade and last-ed through high school. Blanco — who has since reconciled with the students who bullied her — will spend the next few days preach-ing her message of compassion and awareness to local audiences.

Blanco’s presentation highlights an often overlooked form of bullying.

“People always assume that bul-lying is overt acts of cruelty: teas-ing, taunting, physical aggression. But there’s also passive bullying,” she said.

‘One heart at a time’BY LAUREL [email protected]

Anti-bullying advocate raises awareness at high school

LAUREL BLACK | The Sun

Advocate and author Jodee Blanco speaks to Lone Oak High School students in the Lone Oak Middle School gym Monday afternoon. The Guess Anti-Bullying Foundation brought Blanco to local schools in an effort to raise awareness about bullying.Please see ANTI-BULLYING | 10A

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Size does matter when it comes to hotels, said Dan Drury, president of Cape Gi-rardeau, Mo.,-based Midam-erica Hotels Corp.

And it’s most important to build a hotel appropriate for its market.

Drury shared the insight at a groundbreaking ceremony Monday afternoon for a new Holiday Inn Express & Suites directly behind an existing Hol-iday Inn Express at 3994 Hin-kleville Road.

The new hotel will feature three stories, 85 sleeping rooms with 16 suites and an outdoor

pool. It is expected to open in summer 2013, and its front en-trance will face Interstate 24’s Exit 4.

The existing Holiday Inn Ex-press will undergo renovations beginning in October and will be re-branded as an Auburn Place Hotel & Suites, according to Cary Allen, general manager of the existing hotel.

Auburn Place is a new line of hotels for Midamerica Hotels, and one other is open in Cape Girardeau.

Allen said the Paducah Auburn Place will have pet- and smoker-friendly rooms, while the new Holiday Inn Express won’t allow pets or smoking indoors.

Drury said the Holiday Inn Express in Paducah has been a top performer for the company, and he hopes to build on its success with a new building.

City workers and Paducah Area Chamber of Commerce representatives attended Mon-day’s ceremony with gold shov-els at the ready.

The new Holiday Inn also will feature a fi tness center and an oversized breakfast room with Internet stations.

Midamerica Hotels also put a new sign advertising land for sale just off Hinkleville Road beside Applebee’s restaurant.

The company owns land around its Holiday Inn site,

and had considered a year ago putting the new hotel behind Rafferty’s at 3970 Hinkleville Road. Complications with road improvements at that site, which would have required a new road to cross Perkins Creek and connect to Technol-ogy Drive, nixed the develop-ment at that site.

John Echimovich, director of operations for Midameri-can Hotels, said the company is happy to move forward with the new hotel. He said it will employ 30 to 35 people.

Call Adam Shull, Sun business editor, at 270-575-8653 or fol-low @adamshull on Twitter.

New hotel to open next summerBY ADAM SHULL

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Existing Holiday Inn to become Auburn Place Inn & Suites

ADAM SHULL | The Sun

Dan Drury (left), president of Cape Girardeau, Mo.,-based Midamerica Hotels Corp., speaks with Elaine Spalding, president of the Paducah Area Chamber of Commerce, and Rick Murphy, city engineer and public works director, Monday at the site of the new Holi-day Inn Express & Suites in Paducah. Drury announced the new hotel should open by summer 2013.

With operations spanning three local states, the regional ag-ricultural business Hutson Inc. has its eyes set on a new Paducah venue, as it hopes to capitalize on the area’s prime location.

In July, Hutson purchased the former Buckets restau-rant property at the corner of James-Sanders Boulevard and Olivet Church Road in the Kentucky Oaks Mall area. The

property will soon be sporting a new green and yellow paint scheme, as the John Deere and agricultural supplies dealership plans to move into the business from its current Paducah loca-tion on Schneidmann Road.

“It’s really better visibility and accessibility for our cus-tomers, and it helps us to ex-pand into the area to do more business,” said John Kees, mar-keting and training director for the Mayfi eld-based company.

As the building isn’t currently designed to support operations, Kees said Hutson plans on-site renovations to begin relatively soon with hopes to have the new location open for business by March 1.

Unlike some of the company’s other venues with large tractors and commercial agricultural equipment lining the parking lot, this particular site will be geared more toward consumer-sized equipment such as small

utility tractors, mowers, Gator ATVs and lawn trimmers.

And although the business is changing locations, Kees said there’s no change to the company’s views on helping its customers.

“We look at ourselves not only as a place to sell products, but as a way to help support our customers well beyond the sale,” he said.

Call Will Pinkston, a Paducah Sun staff writer, at 270-575-8676.

Agriculture business plans Paducah moveBY WILL PINKSTON

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■ Paducah Tilghman High School SBDM — 2:30 p.m. Thursday, library.

■ Reidland Elementary School council — regular session, 4:15 p.m. Monday in conference room.

Plans for the fi rst-ever com-mercial occupant inside Pa-ducah’s revitalized Fountain Avenue neighborhood is headed to the City Commission for ap-proval within the next month.

Members of the city’s plan-ning commission approved a subdivision waiver Monday to allow for the development of roughly 1.3 acres on the corner of Harrison and 14th streets. The waiver allows for the cre-ation of a tract of land to be used for commercial development.

City Planner Steve Ervin said a Paducah-based envi-ronmental engineering group, 5H Technologies, submitted a

roughly $500,000 bid to con-struct a new offi ce building at the site. The city received the land in June from the Paducah Housing Authority, which paid to demolish 16 dilapidated resi-dential units on the site.

Ervin said the company has not yet closed the deal on the proper-ty and that the City Commission must approve the transfer before it happens. He anticipates it will go before the commission in the next 15 to 30 days.

Through the Fountain Av-enue Neighborhood Revital-ization project that the city enacted in 2007, more than 30 homes have been restored. The neighborhood encompasses the homes, parks and landscaping

along Fountain Avenue and parts of Jefferson Street and Madison Avenue surrounding the area. The new tentative de-velopment will be the fi rst busi-ness introduced to the area.

In other business Monday, the planning commission again tabled a public hearing to ad-dress the working Riverfront Area Master Plan. The group is still waiting for the Paducah Riverfront Development Au-thority, which drafted the plan, to complete requested changes.

Steve Doolittle, PRDA di-rector, said members met Wednesday and discussed the changes. He expects the group will review the requests and meet again before the fi nal

draft is forwarded to the plan-ning commission for approval. The planning commission ten-tatively moved the public hear-ing on the RAMP to Sept. 17.

The planning commission also approved a subdivision request on Monday to relocate and expand a nursing and re-habilitation center inside the Paducah Commerce Park. Su-perior Care Home Nursing and Rehabilitation Center is set to construct a new building on a tract of newly-zoned land inside the park by the end of 2013.

Contact Mallory Panuska, a Paducah Sun staff writer, at 270-575-8684 or follow @mal-lorypanuska on Twitter.

Fountain Avenue developer moves closer to approvalBY MALLORY [email protected]

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failure to produce an insur-ance card, failure to wear seat belts and instructional permit violations.

Jameson’s fi rst motion asked to sever some of her charges and the other ad-dressed evidentiary de-tails. Circuit Judge Dennis Foust agreed to sever the insurance-related charges but kept the others joined. He also ruled that the state cannot present any evidence pertaining to her lack of insurance.

Jameson also expressed a desire to fi le a motion for change of venue for her up-coming trial, which is set for Aug. 28 in Marshall County. Foust said he will need to see a very good reason to agree to change the venue for the trial. He also warned Com-monwealth Attorney Mark Blakenship that the clock is ticking on any plea deals that may be in the works.

Blankenship told Foust that a plea is still possible and he hopes to reach a resolution. He offered what he called a decent deal but said that Pittman’s camp was not amenable. Blan-kenship would not reveal what the offer was, but ex-plained after the hearing

that a big difference exists between murder and man-slaughter as a reason why a deal has not been struck.

Harper was reportedly just days away from his 46th birthday when Pitt-man, who police say was in-toxicated and fi ghting with her even more-intoxicated passenger, crashed her Pontiac Grand Prix into his Chevy S-10 pickup truck.

Reports show that Harp-er was stopped or nearly stopped, and almost off of the road, in the east-bound lane when Pittman, travel-ing west, crashed into his vehicle at what police es-timated to be between 60 and 65 mph. Pittman’s car hit the truck at an angle, and Harper died on scene. Harper was on his way to work at a Benton factory

and wore a seat belt at the time of the crash.

Contact Mallory Panuska,

a Paducah Sun staff writer, at 270-575-8684 or follow @mallorypanuska on Twitter.

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One man injured in Graves County crash

One of two out-of-state men involved in a Graves County wreck Monday was taken to a local hospital and treated for injuries.

Joe E. Overstreet, 60, of Fairhope, Ala., drove a 2012 Toyota south along U.S. 45 at about 3 p.m. when his vehicle struck the back of a semi-truck that Gary W. Stowell, 52, of Union City, Tenn., was driving, according to Graves County Sheriff Dewayne Redmon, in a release.

The collision occurred near the Poultry Drive inter-section, and only Overstreet sustained injuries.

Stowell had just left the Pilgrim’s Pride Processing Plant with a load of chicken by-products inside the 2006 Volvo semi. Overstreet was taken to Jackson Purchase Medical Center, where he told officers that he fell asleep behind the wheel.

Jackson Purchase Medical Center staff would not provide details of Overstreet’s condition Monday night.

— Staff report

MSU receives third ‘Great College’ award

MURRAY — According to a survey by The Chroni-cle of Higher Education, Murray State University is one of the best universities in the nation for faculty and staff to spend their careers.

Murray has been recognized for the third time as one of the Chronicle’s “Great Colleges to Work For.”

The results, released online in The Chronicle’s fifth annual report on “The Academic Workplace,” are based on a survey of nearly 47,000 employees at 294 colleges and universities. In all, only 103 of the 294 institutions achieved “Great College to Work For” recognition for specific best practices and policies.

Murray State was recognized for excellence in three categories — Professional/Career Develop-ment Programs, Respect and Appreciation, and Teaching Environment. Murray is the only Kentucky public university to be noted on the list. Also on the list from Kentucky are private school Centre College and Somerset Community College.

MSU is among the 30 colleges and universities across the country to be recognized in the “large” category, defined by enrollments of 10,000 or more students.

— Staff report

Chamber launches resource campaign

The Paducah Area Chamber of Commerce will begin its 2012 Total Resource Campaign at 4 p.m. Thursday at the Lourdes Marshall Nemer Pavilion. The campaign kickoff will be in the pavilion’s Bor-ders Community Room, 1530 Lone Oak Road.

“Go for the Gold” is this year’s campaign theme and highlights the importance of working hard to achieve goals. Chamber volunteers will compete in Olympics-theme competitions from basketball to the balance beam at Thursday’s event.

Lynn King, of Lourdes hospital, is the Chamber’s chair-elect and campaign chair. “We have as-sembled a great group of team captains to lead our campaign this year,” King said in a release.

Team captains are: Phillip Chesnut, of Paducah Power; Deborah Edmonds, Edmonds Gallery; Danny Evitts, Independence Bank; Randy Hendon, Com-munity Financial Services Bank; Meghan Heine, Paducah Bank; Mike Karnes, Williams, Williams & Lentz; Ike Nichols, FNB Bank; Alex Roman, Regions Bank; Melissa Stewart, US Bank; and Tammy Thomp-son, West Kentucky Community & Technical College.

The campaign runs from Thursday through Sept. 19 with goals of recruiting 100 new members, 90 percent retention of one-year renewals and $5,000 in budget reduction items.

For more information, call the Chamber at 270-443-1745 or email [email protected].

— Staff report

Local Briefs

SHELBYVILLE — U.S. Senate Republican Lead-er Mitch McConnell said Monday he expects to be targeted by Democrats in his bid for re-election in 2014, though no challenger has stepped forward yet.

McConnell told reporters during a stop in Shelbyville that he’s expecting “a big-time race.”

“I’m going to be prob-ably the biggest target in the country in the country in 2014,” McConnell said. “I’m pretty confi dent the Demo-crats will come up with a good candidate, and we’re preparing accordingly.”

Kentucky’s senior sena-tor had banked more than $6 million by the end of June for his re-election campaign, which is still more than two years away.

The early start in fund-raising sends a not-so-subtle message to potential Democratic challengers that McConnell is bent on win-ning a sixth term. He spent $20 million on his last elec-tion and won by 6 percent-age points to become the longest-serving U.S. sena-tor in Kentucky history.

So far, no top-tier Demo-crats have expressed an in-terest in taking on McCon-nell. Kentucky Democratic strategist Danny Briscoe said

he doesn’t think they will.“I haven’t heard any

Democrat with any serious credentials talking about running,” Briscoe said. “If he has a serious opponent in his next election, it’ll come from his own party, not the Democrats.”

Former Democratic state Auditor Crit Luallen, who had been touted as a poten-tial challenger, said earlier this month that she doesn’t intend to take on McCon-nell. Instead, Luallen, who

served as executive cabinet secretary to former Gov. Paul Patton, she said she’s more likely to run for gov-ernor in 2015.

Louisville businessman Phil Moffett, a tea party activist who ran unsuccess-fully for the Republican gubernatorial nomination last year, said he would be surprised if McConnell gets an opponent from within his own party.

“I don’t think there’s any-body who has the resourc-

es to take him on, and I haven’t heard anybody who has the desire to take him on,” Moffett said.

Moffett also ruled him-self out as a McConnell challenger.

McConnell and tea party leaders have become allies. McConnell has been in-vited to speak at a tea party rally Tuesday in Frankfort, where he will share the spotlight with tea party dar-ling Rand Paul, also a U.S. senator from Kentucky.

No challenger yet for McConnellBY ROGER ALFORD

Associated Press

Sun files

Sen. Mitch McConnell speaks to The Paducah Sun editorial board in 2011. McCon-nell told reporters Monday in Shelbyville that despite no challenger stepping forward yet, he expects a “big-time race” in 2014.

ST. LOUIS — Rep. Todd Akin fought to salvage his Senate campaign Monday, even as members of his own party turned against him and a key source of campaign funding was cut off in outrage over the Mis-souri congressman’s com-ments that women are able to prevent pregnancies in cases of “legitimate rape.”

Akin made no public appearances but went on former Republican presi-dential candidate Mike Huckabee’s national ra-dio show to apologize. He vowed to continue his bid for higher offi ce.

“The good people of Mis-souri nominated me, and I’m not a quitter,” Akin said.

But Akin seemed to be losing political support by

the hour as fellow Repub-l i c a n s u r g e d him to a b a n -don a race the p a r t y had long consid-ered es-

sential in their bid to regain control of the Senate. In-cumbent Democrat Claire McCaskill is seen as vulner-able in public opinion polls and because she has been a close ally of President Barack Obama.

An offi cial with the Na-tional Republican Senatorial Campaign Committee said the group’s head, Texas Sen. John Cornyn, called Akin on Monday to tell him that the

commit-tee had w i t h -d r a w n $5 mil-lion in a d v e r -t i s i n g planned for the Missouri r a c e . The offi -

cial spoke to The Associated Press on condition of ano-nymity because the conver-sation was private.

Publicly, Cornyn called Akin’s comments “indefen-sible” and suggested he take 24 hours to consider “what is best for him, his family, the Republican Party and the values that he cares about and has fought for.”

Two other Republican senators — Scott Brown

of Massachusetts and Ron Johnson of Wisconsin — urged Akin to step aside from the Senate race.

Brown, who is locked in a tight race with Democrat Elizabeth Warren, said Akin’s comments were “outrageous, inappropriate and wrong.”

Akin also got a swift re-buke from the campaign of presumptive GOP presiden-tial nominee Mitt Romney and his running mate, Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin.

Romney and Ryan “dis-agree with Mr. Akin’s state-ment, and a Romney-Ryan administration would not oppose abortion in in-stances of rape,” Romney spokeswoman Amanda Henneberg said.

“Like millions of other Americans, we found them to be offensive,” Romney said.

Congressman fights to save GOP Senate bidBY JIM SALTERAssociated Press

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We think most Americans know they are subsidizing various forms of energy. Fed-eral subsidies come in the form of tax breaks, loans and loan guarantees, research and de-velopment grants, conservation programs, home heating assis-tance and other efforts.

Taxpayer subsidies can be cal-culated in dollars per megawatt hour — roughly the amount of electricity needed to power 330 homes for one hour. Presently, subsidies for coal total 64 cents per megawatt hour. Power from oil and natural gas runs the same — 64 cents per megawatt hour produced.

President Obama thinks that’s too much. In a campaign speech last week he said, “Let’s stop giving taxpayer subsidies to oil companies that don’t need them, and let’s invest in clean energy that will put people back to work.”

To hear the president, you would think the federal govern-ment is pouring money into fos-sil fuels while leaving renewable energy to wither. The reality is precisely the opposite.

The Wall Street Journal examined a 2011 report from the U.S. Department

of Energy and compared federal subsidies going to various ener-gy sectors. The Journal’s analy-sis, published Saturday, might surprise you. That subsidy for oil, gas and coal is less than the 82 cents-per-megawatt-hour subsidy for hydro power, which in turn is a lot less than the $3.14 per megawatt hour that subsidizes nuclear energy. Wind and solar? We hope you’re sitting down.

The government pours $56.29 into wind power for every megawatt hour produced, 88 times the subsidy for oil, gas and coal. And the solar indus-try gets a staggering $775.64 in tax support for every megawatt hour — an even $775 more than coal and gas. Solar subsidies are 1,200 times what fossil fuel sub-sidies cost for the same power.

The WSJ also noted an analysis by the Congres-sional Research Service,

which found that fossil fuels produce 78 percent of electric-ity but receive only 12.6 percent of federal energy subsidies. In contrast, “renewable” energy gets 77 percent of the subsidies but produces just 11 percent of the nation’s power (almost 7 percent of that comes from hydro power). Wind power gets $5 billion in subsidies but produces just 2.3 percent of the country’s electric-ity. Oil, gas and coal combined get only $1.8 billion but produce 78 percent of the power.

Solar has no impact on the nation’s energy supply — “0 percent and a rounding error,” as the Journal puts it — but gets almost $1 billion in subsidies, more than oil and gas.

Oh, and the coal, oil and gas industries pay more than $10 billion in taxes annually and employ tens of thousands of workers, also known as taxpay-ers. Wind and solar, on the other hand, pay less in taxes than they take in subsidies, and produce far fewer jobs.

These numbers tell a story. Renewable energy, while con-ceptually appealing, won’t meet our energy needs anytime soon.

“Under a democratical gov-ernment, the citizens exercise the powers of sovereignty; and those powers will be fi rst abased, and afterwards lost, if they are committed to an unwieldy multitude.” — Ed-ward Gibbon, “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”

WASHINGTON — The pe-riod of the American Revolu-tion coincided with publica-tion of Edward Gibbon’s “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire” (1776), and ever since we’ve been vigilant for signs that the U.S. was following in Rome’s footsteps.

There’s no need to exhaust the already exhaustive list of parallels. But as we approach the political conventions, and are already worn down by ceaseless partisan bickering, the mind easily fi nds its way to Rome’s Coliseum, where powerful political families sought to entertain, pacify and distract the multitudes.

We may no longer feed Christians to lions, but the operating premise feels fresh enough. Keep atten-tion riveted on the circus and people may not notice their discontent. Or the corruption in their midst.

Says Gracchus to Falco in “Gladiator:”

“Rome is the mob. Conjure magic for them and they’ll be distracted. Take away their freedom and still they’ll roar. The beating heart of Rome is not the marble of the Senate, it’s the sand of the coliseum. He’ll bring them death — and they will love him for it.”

The public’s tolerance for blood was somewhat heartier in those days. We don’t liter-ally slay our political oppo-nents. Our weapons are more discreet — coded words and strategic messaging rather than swords and tridents. Bloodletting of a higher order.

Similarities otherwise are plentiful. During the heyday of the empire, as today, only the very wealthy could run for high offi ce. Aiding and abet-ting our chosen few are scores of handlers, bundlers and pri-vate funders. The widespread fear of corporate control of the political system under Citi-zens United turns out to have been a lesser threat than a few individuals wreaking havoc or imposing their own utopian vision by writing checks large enough to fund small nations.

At least one needn’t worry long about principle, given that whatever designs are in play will be largely ignored and/or quickly forgotten. Such is the attention span of the populace, which, through a collision of economic re-alities, complex issues, and the amped-up expectations imposed by new technologies, has lost the ability to focus long on anything.

Lost for good is time to con-sume and cogitate at a pace that permits much sense. In this environment, the politi-cian’s imperative is to say as little of substance as possible and to say it often. For the media, in perpetual competi-tion for buzz, blog traffi c and twitter feeds, the mandate is to say as much as possible, as often as possible in a steady stream of consciousness.

At the end of the day, a few honed and shiny nuggets will have embedded in the col-lective psyche. But is anyone the wiser, and will the best

candidate win? Will substance prevail, or will the war of words so baffl e and mystify that the legions will cast their ballots for the candidate who most resembles them? Or for the person whose words somehow managed to pen-etrate the wall of noise that surrounds us all and push just the right button?

Mitt Romney had that dog on top his car that time. Can’t vote for him. Barack Obama palled around with terrorists. Where was he born, anyway?

What day or column would be complete without a few words from Joe Biden? Lat-est to the Coliseum, a few (accidental or well-chosen) words from the vice president: Romney’s plan for fi nancial regulation will “put y’all back in chains.”

Biden, who often slips a few IQ points when he drops below the Mason-Dixon line, was addressing a mixed-race audience in Danville, Va. Was he free-associating? Did the vice president see African-American faces and refl exively think of slavery? Or was he just being Joe? Once in South Carolina, trying to establish a common bond with his audi-ence, Biden said that he, too, was from a slave state. Way to connect, Joe.

Already, the consensus seems to be that, aw, you know Joe. He’s just a blue-collar boy from Scranton who speaks his mind, is all. Besides, say Democrats, Re-publicans started the meta-phor by saying they wanted to unshackle the private sector. Biden was simply extending the metaphor.

Whatever the case, the point has been made, the suggestion placed, the people have been distracted. And so it goes ... and so it went. And they conjured magic, and they took away their freedom, and the mob roared.

EDITOR:I have fi gured out why Obama is ahead

in the polls. He has campaigned in 57 states and Romney can’t fi nd seven of them. Quoting Obama in 2006: “I have campaigned in all 57 states.” How sad we have a preident who doesn’t know how many states he represents.

Why the Democrat Party has no morals — quoting Nancy Pelosi 2006: “You don’t need God anymore, you have us Demo-crats.” Quoting Hillary Clinton 1998: “Bill is the greatest husband and father I know. No one is more faithful, true and honest than he.” Quoting Bill Clinton: “It depends what your defi nition of ‘is’ is.”

No wonder Democrats love to raise taxes — quoting Harry Reid: “Paying taxes is voluntary.” How lucky can we be to have such brilliant minds in charge of our great country? “Life’s tough; it’s even tougher if you’re stupid.” John Wayne.

If a conservative Republican doesn’t

like guns, he doesn’t buy one. If a liberal Democrat doesn’t like guns, he wants all guns outlawed. If a conservative Republi-can sees a foreign threat, he thinks about how to defeat his enemy. A liberal Demo-crat wonders how to surrender gracefully and apologize for the U.S. and still look good.

If a conservative Republican is down and out, he thinks about how to better his situation. A liberal Democrat won-ders who is going to take care of him. If a conservative Republican doesn’t like a talk show host, he switches channels. A liberal Democrat demands that those they don’t like be shut down.

If a conservative Republican is a non-be-liever, he doesn’t go to church. If a liberal Democrat is a non-believer he wants any mention of God and religion silenced.

If a conservative Republican decides he needs health care, he goes about shopping for it, or may choose a job that provides it. A liberal Democrat demands that the rest of us pay for his.

Which side are you on on all these is-

sues? Register on that side and vote on that side.

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EDITOR:One of literature’s most famous set

pieces is “The Grand Inquisitor” chapter of Dostoevky’s “The Brothers Karamazov.” In this segment, Ivan, the politically radical brother, explains to Alyosha, his devoutly Christian brother, the plot of a proposed poem.

Ivan’s fable, set in 15th century Spain, is a grim one. Christ returns to earth and is immediately arrested. Soon the grand inquisitor (standing in part for secularized religion) denounces the Lord, declaring Christ a failure. When on earth before, the Prince of Peace should have acceded to the devil’s temptations in the wilderness.

Lessons in literature canapply to politics of today

Christ, then, would have ruled an empire and had the means of providing people with bread.

Instead Christ insisted that mankind have the freedom to choose between good and evil. Such freedom is anathema to the world state the churchman values. To be fed properly, men must be controlled. To be agreeable, men must not be burdened with choices. Therefore, the concept of sin must be abolished. The masses should feel good about themselves and allow the governing to others.

One has only to read the pages of Dos-toevsky or Tolstoy to realize how many issues of our day were debated over a century ago in czarist Russia. Of course, I am not going to argue that the Obama administration’s policies will of necessity produce a quasi-Soviet totalitarianism, but it would be naïve to proclaim that such a grim prospect is impossible.

DR. KENNETH TUCKERProfessor Emeritus

Murray State University

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WASHINGTON — De-nounced by his Republican rival for divisiveness, Pres-ident Barack Obama on Monday defended the tone of his campaign in a com-bative election year and insisted it’s actually Mitt Romney’s ads that are “pa-tently false.” But Obama did distance himself from a particularly provocative negative ad by a political group that supports him.

Obama also joined the cascade of criticism from both parties for comments on rape and abortion by a Republican Senate candi-date in Missouri, using that new controversy to draw sharp distinctions between his views on women’s health issues and those of Republicans.

Obama made a surprise visit to the White House briefi ng room, at least partly upstaging a joint campaign appearance by Romney and his running mate, Paul Ryan, in New Hampshire. The rally by Romney and Ryan, their fi rst appear-ance together after a week of vigorous campaigning separately, had been highly anticipated, drawing an en-thusiastic crowd and wide media attention.

The president turned the day into a long-distance point-counterpoint debate with his opponent. He took questions from four report-ers, the most he has taken from the national press corps in two months, deal-ing to an extent with com-plaints about his inacces-sibility. What’s more, the fl ap over rape-and-abortion remarks by Republican Rep.

Todd Akin gave the presi-dent a chance to make a di-rect appeal to women, who

both campaigns say make up a majority of undecided voters.

At issue was Akin’s an-swer in an interview that aired Sunday that women’s

bodies can prevent preg-nancies in “a legitimate rape” and that conception is rare in such cases. He later said he misspoke and apologized, but he said he

would not get out of the race despite such urging from several prominent fel-low Republicans.

As for the tone of the campaign, Obama declared that it was important to draw attention to major differences with Romney, but he said his criticism has never been “out of bounds.”

Still, he distanced him-self from an ad by the pro-Obama Priorities USA Ac-tion super political action committee, which is run by former Obama White House aides.

That ad pointedly notes the death of the wife of a steelworker whose com-pany had been taken over by a group of partners that included Bain Capital, the private equity fi rm that Romney cofounded.

“I don’t think that Gover-nor Romney is somehow re-sponsible for the death of the woman that was portrayed in that ad,” Obama said. But he added that he did not ap-prove or produce the ad and said it had had only a brief airing on television.

Romney and Ryan, ap-pearing together for the fi rst time in a week, sustained their criticism Monday, lev-eling new claims of duplici-ty in Obama’s TV ads before about 3,000 friendly people in Manchester.

“It seems that the fi rst vic-tim of an Obama campaign is the truth,” Romney said.

Asked by a woman about Obama campaign “lies” that claim the GOP ticket would raise taxes, Romney said, “All we’ve heard so far is one attack after another.”

“I will not raise taxes on anyone,” Romney said. “Mr. President, stop saying some-thing that’s not the truth.”

President defends tenor of his campaignBY CHARLES BABINGTON

AND JIM KUHNHENNAssociated Press

TRENTON, N.J. — If brand-name prescription medicines cost you as lit-tle as generic pills, which would you choose? A few drugmakers are betting Americans will stick with the name they know.

They’ve begun offer-ing U.S. patients coupons to reduce copayments on brand-name medicines and compete with new ge-neric versions of the drugs. The medicines include sta-ples in the American medi-cine cabinet — cholesterol fi ghter Lipitor, blood thin-ner Plavix and blood pres-sure drug Diovan — along with drugs for depression and breast cancer.

Pfi zer Inc. tested the new trend last year and now offers copay coupons that can bring insured patients six of its medicines for as little as $4 a month each. That includes Lipitor, which was taken by more than 3.5 million Ameri-cans until generic competi-tion arrived last Nov. 30.

Analysts predict more drugmakers will do the same for some of their big sellers, as the companies weather big revenue drops from an unprecedented wave of top-selling drugs whose patents are expiring. The trend is the latest attempt by drugmak-ers to hold onto business at a time when they are in-creasingly under siege. Drug companies including Pfi zer, Merck & Co. and Bristol My-ers-Squibb Co. are squeezed

by rising research costs, the weak global economy and pressure from Europe, Chi-na and elsewhere to reduce drug prices.

So, they’re trying a new tactic to temporarily slow the loss of billions of dol-lars in sales to new generic competition.

“On a big drug, every day that you can delay the sales drop is a happy day at the drug company,” says Erik Gordon, a professor at the

University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business who follows the drug industry.

Developing drugs is very expensive. It requires up to a decade of laboratory research and then patient testing, costing $1 billion or more, to win government approval to sell a drug. In return, the drug’s maker gets the exclusive right to sell the drug for about 10 to 15 years, until the patent ex-pires. That allows the com-panies to recoup those costs and hopefully turn a profi t.

After that, generic copy-cats sold by other compa-nies fl ood the market, cost-ing just a fraction of the brand-name drug’s price, even though they’re chemi-cally identical.

Coupons aim to keep people off generic drugsBY LINDA A. JOHNSON

Associated Press

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President Barack Obama speaks in the White House briefing room Monday in Washington, above. Obama defended the tone of his campaign, but dis-tanced himself from an ad by a pro-Obama super po-litical action committee.

Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney listens to vice presidential running mate Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., during a campaign rally on Monday in Manchester N.H., left. Romney and Ryan ap-peared for the first time together in a week.

University of Kentucky offi cials on Monday pro-moted the economic spinoff from their plan to remake the residence hall system in partnership with a private company, saying construction would create thousands of jobs and millions in tax revenues.

Using nearby work on the fi rst new residence hall as a backdrop, UK leaders sought to keep up the momen-tum for their long-term proposal to tear down aging dorms and build new living and learning quarters in their place on the Lexington campus.

UK has formed a part-nership with a private development fi rm to re-place its dorms. It comes amid efforts to boost en-rollment, strengthen un-dergraduate programs and revitalize the core of the campus.

“We proceeded with this endeavor, not sim-ply to build new build-ings that rise over the campus for the next 100 years,” UK President

Eli Capilouto said. “We did this because of what will happen within these facilities, providing this robust undergraduate education, one that prepares our stu-dents for lives of leadership, meaning and purpose.”

The fi rst of the new residence halls is set to open in August 2013. The $25.8 million, 601-bed hall in the heart of campus will house Honors students.

In October, UK trustees will consider another phase of the project that would result in four additional resi-dence complexes being built.

Combined, construction of the fi ve residence halls would create nearly 2,900 jobs and generate nearly $4 million in state and local taxes.

“UK is not only creating jobs for the future in the education of our students, we’re also creating jobs to-day,” Capilouto said.

UK looks to remake dormitory system

BY BRUCE SCHREINERAssociated Press

“On a big drug, every day that you can delay the sales drop is a happy

day at the drug company.”

Erik GordonProfessor, University of Michigan’s

Ross School of Business

“UK is not only creating jobs for the future in the education of our students, we’re also creating jobs today.”

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DENVER — There will be more whole grains on school lunch menus this year, along with a wider selection of fruits and veg-etables and other healthy options. The challenge is getting children to eat them.

“We don’t want healthy trash cans. We want kids who are eating this stuff,” said Kern Halls, a former Disney World restaurant manager who now works in school nutrition at Orange County Public Schools in Florida.

At a School Nutrition As-sociation conference in Den-ver this summer, food work-ers heard tips about how to get children to make healthy food choices in the cafeteria.

The problem is a serious one for the nation’s lunch-line managers, who are implementing the biggest update to federal school-food guidelines in 15 years.

New Department of Ag-riculture guidelines tak-ing effect this fall set calo-rie and sodium limits for school meals. Schools must offer dark green, orange or red vegetables and legumes at least once a week, and students are required to select at least one vegetable or fruit per meal. Flavored milk must be nonfat, and there’s a ban on artifi cial, artery-clogging trans fats.

At the conference, Halls demonstrated some healthy recipes for curious cafeteria managers, joining White House chef Sam Kass to prepare a veggie wrap using a whole-wheat tortilla.

Halls’ main mission, though, was not pushing new recipes but teaching cafeteria managers marketing strate-gies used to great success by private-sector restaurants and food producers.

The fi rst step, cafeteria workers were told, is to stop thinking of lunchtime as a break from academ-ics, but a crucial part of a child’s school day.

“Your job is not to serve kids food. Your job is moti-vate kids to be adventurous and healthy eaters,” said Barb Mechura, head of nu-trition services at schools in Hopkins, Minn.

Her school district re-cruited parent volunteers

to be elementary-school “food coaches,” touring cafeterias and handing out samples of fruits and veg-etables. The food coaches would also demonstrate eating them. Food coach-ing may seem silly, but kids who have had chicken only as nuggets or patties may not know how to eat bone-in chicken and need to see how a grown-up eats it be-fore trying it themselves.

As the kids graduate to

middle and high schools, and grown-ups in the caf-eteria aren’t as welcome, schools can tap student ambassadors to be food coaches, perhaps asking the baseball team or a popular student athlete dish out veg-gies. Or, high school seniors might give underclassmen samples of a new vegetable coming to the cafeteria.

School cafeterias also are using cutting-edge market research. They’re fi lming

what kids eat, test-market-ing new products before they go on the line and do-ing menu surveys to fi nd out exactly what students think about a dish’s taste, appear-ance and temperature.

‘Don’t want healthy trash cans’

BY KRISTEN WYATTAssociated PressYou may pay more

than ever for a late-sum-mer drive.

U.S. drivers paid an average of $3.72 per gal-lon on Monday. That’s the highest price ever on this date, according to auto club AAA, a shade above the $3.717 aver-age on Aug. 20, 2008. A year ago, the average was $3.578.

More daily records are likely over the next few weeks. The national average could increase to $3.75 per gallon by Labor Day, said Tom Kloza, chief oil analyst at Oil Price Information Service. By comparison, gas prices stayed below $3.70 in late August and early September in both 2008 and 2011.

Retail gasoline prices have gone up about 39 cents per gallon, or 12 percent, since hitting a low of $3.326 on July 2, according to AAA, OPIS and Wright Express. Kloza estimates that U.S. drivers are paying $149 million more each day for gas than in early July. That isn’t what the sluggish economy needs, since any extra money that goes to fi ll gas tanks doesn’t get spent at mov-ie theaters or restaurants.

The price at the pump in the U.S. fell more than 60 cents per gallon during the spring when oil fell as the global economy slowed and turmoil in the Middle East seemed to subside.

But oil has risen to $96 per barrel from $78 in late June. Investors have been worried about disrup-tion to oil supplies in the Middle East and North Sea. In the U.S., there were problems with refi n-eries and pipelines in the West Coast and Midwest, including a fi re in Cali-fornia. Seasonal factors are also at play: Summer blends of gas cost more and demand goes up as families go on vacation.

Analysts expect pric-es to drop after Labor Day, so at least drivers shouldn’t have to worry about a return to the April high of $3.94 per gallon,

barring a hurricane or other unforeseen event.

Still, commuters and vacationers are frustrat-ed, said Michael Green, spokesman for AAA. It’s tougher to budget a sum-mer trip and discourag-ing to see a larger chunk of one’s pay check going toward gas costs. As for a post-Labor Day drop, he said in an emailed state-ment that, “It would take a signifi cant decline in the price of gasoline for most Americans to feel comfortable with what they pay at the pump.”

Across the U.S., prices range from a low of $3.43 per gallon in South Caro-lina to $4.32 in Hawaii. Arizona, Mississippi and New Mexico also have av-erage prices below $3.50 per gallon, while Califor-nia and Illinois are up above the $4 mark.

Summertime blues: Gas at August record

BY SANDY SHOREAssociated Press

Lunch workers study how to get kids to eat healthy

Associated PressNew U.S. Department

of Agriculture guidelines for school lunches will take effect this fall, in-cluding the first national calorie and sodium limits for what can be served on lunch lines. A look at what the new guidelines require, according to the School Nutrition Associa-tion:

Grains

■ Grades K-5: 8 to 9 servings per week

■ Grades 6-8: 8 to 10 servings per week

■ Grades 9-12: 10 to 12 servings per week

Students should have at least one serving of grains each day, and one-half of offerings must be rich in whole grain.

Meats/Meat alternatives

■ Grades K-5: 8 to 10 ounces per week

■ Grades 6-8: 9 to 10 ounces per week

■ Grades 9-12: 10 to 12 ounces per week

Nuts, tofu, cheese and eggs can be substituted for meat in some cases.

Milk

■ Grades K-12: 1 cup per day

Fat-free, low-fat and lactose-free milk options are allowable.

Fruits

■ Grades K-8: One-half cup per day

■ Grades 9-12: One cup per day

Only half of the weekly fruit requirement can come from juice.

Vegetables

■ Grades K-8: Three-quarters cup per day

■ Grades 9-12: One cup per day

Weekly requirements for vegetable subgroups, including dark green, red/orange, beans/peas, starchy and others.

Sodium

By July 2014, sodium levels for lunches should not exceed:

■ Grades K-5: 640 mil-ligrams

■ Grades 6-8: 710 mil-

ligrams■ Grades 9-12: 740

milligramsA timetable sets tar-

gets for further reducing sodium levels by 2022.

Fats

No more than 10 percent saturated fats. No trans-fat, except for those naturally occurring in meat and dairy prod-ucts.

Total calories

■ Grades K-5: 550 to 650 per day

■ Grades 6-8: 600 to 700 per day

■ Grades 9-12: 750 to 850 per day

Calories can be aver-aged over the week.

New lunch guidelines take effect this fall

Associated Press

Kern Halls (left), a former Disney World restaurant manager who now works in school nutrition Orange County (Fla.) Public School, demonstrates the mak-ing of a wrap for school lunches during the School Nutrition Association conference July 17 in Denver as White House chef Sam Kass watches.

BOSTON — States with the least religious residents are also the stingiest about giving money to charity, a new study on the generos-ity of Americans suggests.

The study, released Mon-day by the Chronicle of Philanthropy, found that residents in states where religious participation is higher than the rest of the nation, particularly in the South, gave the greatest percentage of their discre-tionary income to charity.

The Northeast, with lower religious participation, was the least generous to chari-ties, with the six New Eng-land states fi lling the last six slots among the 50 states. Churches are among the or-ganizations counted as char-ities by the study, and some states in the Northeast rank in the top 10 when religious giving is not counted.

The most generous state was Utah, where residents gave 10.6 percent of their discretionary income to charity. Next were Missis-sippi, Alabama, Tennessee and South Carolina. The least generous was New Hampshire, at 2.5 percent, followed by Maine, Ver-

mont, Massachusetts and Rhode Island.

In Boston, semi-retired carpenter Stephen Cremins said the traditional New England ideal of self-suf-fi ciency might explain the lower giving, particularly during tight times when people have less to spare.

“Charity begins at home. I’m a big believer of that, you know, you have to take care of yourself before you can help others,” Cremins said.

The study found that in the Northeast region, including New England,

Pennsylvania, New Jersey and New York, people gave 4.1 percent of their discre-tionary income to char-ity. The percentage was 5.2 percent in the Southern states, a region from Texas east to Delaware and Flor-ida, and including most of the so-called Bible Belt.

The Bible mandates a 10 percent annual donation, or tithe, to the church, and the donation is commonly preached as a way to thank God, care for others and show faith in God’s provi-sion. But it has a greater

emphasis in some faiths.When only secular gifts

are counted, New York climbs from No. 18 to No. 2 in giving, and Pennsylvania rises from No. 40 to No. 4.

The study was based on Internal Revenue Ser-vice records of people who itemized deductions in 2008, the most recent year

statistics were available. The data allowed research-ers to detail charitable giv-ing down to the ZIP code.

New study suggests less religious states give less to charityBY JAY LINDSAY

Associated Press

A look back Associated Press

The national av-erage for a gallon of regular gasoline set a record for this date of $3.72 gallon on Monday, topping the old record from 2008. Here’s a look at the price of gaso-line on Aug. 20 for the past decade.

■ Monday, Aug. 20, 2012 — $3.72 per gallon

■ Saturday, Aug. 20, 2011 — $3.578

■ Friday, Aug. 20, 2010 — $2.724

■ Thursday, Aug. 20, 2009 — $2.624

■ Wednesday, Aug. 20, 2008 — $3.717

■ Monday, Aug. 20, 2007 — $2.768

■ Sunday, Aug. 20, 2006 — $2.936

■ Saturday, Aug. 20, 2005 — $2.611

■ Friday, Aug. 20, 2004 — $1.879

■ Wednesday, Aug. 20, 2003 - $1.623

■ Tuesday, Aug. 20, 2002 — $1.40

— Source: AAA, Oil Price Information

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8A • Tuesday, August 21, 2012 • The Paducah Sun Nation/Obituaries paducahsun.com

NEW YORK — Some of the most promising talent in show business was on the bill one day and night in 1955 at San Francisco’s Purple Onion:

Eartha Kitt and Alice Ghostley; Paul Lynde and Robert Clary; a singer and dancer with the stage name Maya Angelou, and an ec-centric former housewife, a few years older than her fellow performers, with the married name Phyllis Diller.

Angelou’s family, in-cluding two small children (Clyde and Joyce), were seated in the front row. Years later, she would re-member watching Diller and wondering how her guests would respond to her friend’s “aura of madness.”

“Black people rarely for-gave whites for being ragged, unkempt and uncaring. There was a saying which explained the disapproval, ‘You been white all your life. Ain’t got no further along than this? What ails you?’” Angelou wrote in “Singin’ and Swingin’ and Getting Merry Like Christmas,” a memoir published in 1976.

“When Phyllis came on stage Clyde almost fell off the chair and Joyce nearly knocked over her Shirley Temple. The comedienne, dressed outrageously and guffawing like a hiccough-ing horse and a bell clap-per, chose to play to the two children. They were charmed and so convulsed they gasped for breath.”

The housewife soon be-came a star.

Diller, the cackling tem-plate for Joan Rivers, Sarah Silverman and so many oth-ers, died Monday morning in her Los Angeles home

at age 95. She faced the end, fi ttingly, “with a smile on her face,” said longtime manager Milton Suchin.

Diller, who suffered a near-fatal heart attack in 1999, was found by her son, Perry Diller. The cause of her death has not been released.

She wasn’t the fi rst woman to crack jokes on stage; Gracie Allen had been getting laughs for decades playing dumb for George Burns. But Diller was

among the fi rst who didn’t need a man around. The only guy in her act was a husband named “Fang,” who was nev-er seen and didn’t exist.

“We lost a comedy legend today,” Ellen DeGeneres wrote on Twitter. “Phyl-lis Diller was the queen of the one-liners. She was a pioneer.” Tweeted Barbra Streisand: “I adored her. She was wondrous spirit who was great to me.” Riv-ers added that she and her

daughter had lunched with Diller last month.

“I’m beyond saddened by the death of Phyllis Diller. We were friends,” Rivers wrote. “The only tragedy is that Phyllis Diller was the last from an era that in-sisted a woman had to look funny in order to be funny.”

The Friars Club released a statement noting that in 1988 Diller was among the fi rst women admitted — le-gitimately. A few years ear-lier, she had snuck in for a Sid Caesar roast, dressed as a man.

Born Phyllis Driver in Lima, Ohio, she married Sherwood Diller right out of school (Bluffton College) and was a housewife for several years before getting outside work. She was an advertising writer for a ra-dio station when the Purple Onion helped launch her. She made her network TV debut as a contestant on Groucho Marx’s game show, “You Bet Your Life.”

Diller, asked if she was married: “Yes, I’ve worn a wedding ring for 18 years.” Marx replied: “Really? Well, two more payments and it’ll be all yours.”

She credited the self-help book, “The Magic of Believ-ing” by Claude M. Bristol, with giving her the cour-age to enter the business. Over the years, she would recommend it to aspiring entertainers, even buying it for them sometimes.

Diller worked steadily for decades, in nightclubs and on television. She built her stand-up act around the persona of the corner-cut-ting housewife (“I bury a lot of my ironing in the back-yard”) with bizarre looks and a wardrobe to match (by “Omar of Omaha”).

Diller paved way for funnywomenBY HILLEL ITALIE

Associated Press

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HICKMAN — Brenda Harrison, 62, of Hickman died Sunday at her home.

She was a homemaker and a member of East Baptist Church.

She is survived by her husband, Charles Har-rison; two sons, Charles Harrison Jr. of Union City, Tenn., and Jason Harrison of Hickman; a daughter, Sherri Ed-wards of Hickman; two brothers, Kenneth Walk-er of Martin, Tenn., and Bill Walker of Warren-ton, Mo.; seven grand-

children; and one great-grandchild.

Mrs. Harrison was preceded in death by her parents, Farris and Pau-line Stewart Walker.

Services are sched-uled for 1 p.m. Tuesday at Strong Funeral Home with the Rev. Robert Harrison and Jim Keel-ing offi ciating.

Burial will follow in the Brownsville Cemetery near Hickman.

Friends may call after 11 a.m. Tuesday at the fu-neral home.

Brenda Harrison

HAZEL — Robert Graves McDermott, 84, of Hazel died at 11:20 a.m. Saturday at his home.

He was recently bap-tized and confi rmed in the Catholic church. He retired from Tenneco Oil in Nashville, Tenn.

Mr. McDermott is sur-vived by his wife, Patri-cia Cissell McDermott; two sons, Robert Novis McDermott of Graves County and Scott Allen McDermott of St. Louis; one daughter, Kelly Mc-Dermott of Hermitage, Tenn.; and four grand-children, Terry McDer-mott, Tina Warren, Tam-my Forrester and Jason Robert McDermott, all of Mayfi eld.

He was preceded in death by his parents and two sisters.

A committal service will be held at noon Tues-day at the Murray City Cemetery.

Entombment will fol-low. Father Jason Mc-Clure will offi ciate.

Friends my call after 10 a.m. Tuesday at Imes-Miller Funeral Home.

Donations may be made to Hospice House Building Fund, Murray Calloway County Hospi-tal, 803 Poplar St., Mur-ray, KY 42071; or Hu-mane Society of Calloway County, 607 Poplar St., Murray, KY 42071.

Condolences are avail-able online at www.imes-miller.com.

Robert McDermott

MAYFIELD — Carol Thornburg, 57, of May-fi eld died Friday at her home.

Mrs. Thornburg worked for more than 30 years as a nurse at Brit-thaven Nursing Home in Benton.

She is survived by three daughters, Shayna Bun-tin and Ariana Futrell, both of Murray, and Sarah Thornburg; her mother, Doris Driver of Marion; a sister, Vicky

Metcalfe of Central City; and two grandchildren.

Mrs. Thornburg was preceded in death by her husband, Alan Thorn-burg; her father, Coy Stallion; and an infant brother.

A memorial service is being planned for later.

Imes-Miller Funeral Home is in charge of ar-rangements.

Condolences are avail-able online at www.imes-miller.com.

Carol Thornburg

GOREVILLE, Ill. — Jimmie G. Barnett, 74, of Goreville died at 4:15 p.m. Sunday at his home.

Mr. Barnett was a U.S. Navy veteran. He was an inside wireman with over 40 years service prior to his retirement. He was a member of the Inter-national Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Lo-cal 702 and the Saline Masonic Lodge No. 339 AF&AM.

He attended Lone Oak Baptist Church at En-ergy.

Survivors include his wife, Faye Lowery Bar-nett; two sons, Mike Bar-nett and Todd Barnett, both of Marion; three grandchildren; and three sisters, Linda Minnis of Marion, Phyllis Barnett of Indiana and Myrna Long of Jackson, Mo.

He was preceded in death by an infant son. His parents were Glenn and Evi Billingsley Bar-

nett.Services will be at 11

a.m. Wednesday at the Saline Masonic Lodge (located at the corner of South Fly Avenue and West Ferne Clyffe St.) in Goreville. Pastors Jerry Schell and R.G. Null will offi ciate.

Burial will be in the Webb Cemetery near Tunnel Hill. Military graveside rites will be ac-corded.

Visitation will be from 5-8 p.m. Tuesday at the Saline Masonic Lodge. Masonic rites will be at 8 p.m. by Saline Lodge No. 339 AF&AM.

Memorials may be made to Lone Oak Bap-tist Church, P.O. Box 433, Energy, IL 62933; or to the Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation, 383 Main Ave., 5th Floor, Norwalk, CT 06851.

Bailey Funeral Home in Vienna was in charge of arrangements.

Jimmie Barnett

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — A man police say shot himself in the head while his hands were cuffed behind him in the back of an Arkansas pa-trol car tested positive for methamphetamine, anti-anxiety medication and other drugs, according to an autopsy report released Monday that listed his death as a suicide.

The state crime lab report said the muzzle of a handgun that Chavis Carter apparent-ly concealed from arresting offi cers was placed against his right temple when it was fi red. The report, signed by three medical examiners, in-cluded a drug analysis show-ing Carter’s urine and blood indicated methamphet-amine and other drug use.

The report, released under a Freedom of Information Act request, said Carter’s blood also tested positive for at least trace amounts of the anti-anxiety medication diazepam and the painkiller oxycodone. His urine test also returned a positive re-sult for marijuana.

The report said Carter’s death was ruled a suicide based on autopsy fi ndings and investigative conclu-sions from the Jonesboro Police Department, which has faced questions from Carter’s family and com-munity members about the circumstances surrounding the July 28 shooting.

“He was cuffed and placed into a police car, where ap-parently he produced a weapon, and despite being handcuffed, shot himself in the head,” the report said.

Autopsy: Man shot in police car had meth in system

Associated Press

LOS ANGELES — Wil-liam Windom, who won an Emmy Award for his turn in the TV comedy series “My World And Welcome To It,” has died.

Windom’s wife Patricia said he died Thursday of congestive heart failure at his home in Woodacre, north of San Francisco. He was 88.

Windom played John Monroe, a writer-car-toonist for a New York magazine who relied on his fantasy life to escape a middle-class life.

The 1969 NBC show lasted one season on NBC but Windom devel-oped a touring act based on the character inspired by the American humor-ist James Thurber.

Actor William Windom dead at 88Associated Press

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Comedienne Phyllis Diller, the housewife turned humor-ist who aimed some of her sharpest barbs at herself, died Monday at age 95 in Los Angeles.

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Funeral services for John Louis Campbell, 61, of Paducah will take place

Thurs-d a y , August 23, at 2 p.m. at Mil-ner & Orr Fu-n e r a l H o m e o n Bland-

v i l l e Rd. in

Paducah. Rev. Stan Reid of Lone Oak First Baptist Church will offi ciate. Buri-al will follow at Mt. Carmel Cemetery in Paducah.

Mr. Campbell passed away at 4:52 a.m. Satur-day morning at Western Baptist Hospital.

He was born on Septem-ber 22, 1950, in Louisville. He was of the Catholic faith and a 1968 graduate of St. Mary High School. He at-tended the University of Kentucky before graduat-ing with a degree in Fi-nance from Murray State University in 1973.

Mr. Campbell was an esteemed member of the Paducah business com-munity, whose sage advice was often sought by busi-ness associates and friends alike. He formerly operated Campbell’s Sporting Goods with his father, and most recently Midstates Broker-age, Inc., MDC Insurance, Inc. and Market@315 on Broadway.

He was a staunch ad-vocate for downtown Paducah, serving as Vice-Chairman of the Board of Advisors of the Paducah Renaissance Alliance and the Vice-Chairman of the non-profi t Friends of Main Street, Inc. from 2010 un-til his passing.

Mr. Campbell oversaw and organized numer-ous downtown projects, including the remodeling and revitalization of the 300 block of Broadway. He was honored as a Duke of Paducah in 2012.

Mr. Campbell was ac-tively involved with the Boy Scouts of America for much of his life, earning Scouting’s highest honor, the rank of Eagle Scout, at age 14. He went on to co-found Troop 225, Pa-ducah’s fi rst predomi-nantly African-American Boy Scout troop in 1974. Later, he served Troop

200 of Lone Oak in several leadership roles, most no-tably as Troop Committee Chairman. He attended the 1964 National Boy Scout Jamboree and twice traveled to Philmont Scout Ranch, as a scout and then as a leader in 2000, excur-sions that were among his favorite scouting memo-ries.

He also served two years as the President of the Lone Oak High School Soccer Booster Club, over-seeing the development of the school’s fi rst and only soccer-specifi c fi eld and facilities.

Mr. Campbell was an avid golfer, musician and outdoorsman, in addition to being an accomplished carpenter, builder and electrician. Above all else, though, he enjoyed and valued the time spent with friends and family, espe-cially his 10 grandchildren.

He is survived by his wife of 30 years, Sallee S. Campbell, of Paducah; three sons, John Louis “Jay” Campbell, Jr. and wife, Michelle, and Hes-ton Campbell and wife Kristy, of Paducah, and Hunter Campbell and fi -ancée Hannah Senn, of Louisville; grandchildren, Nicholas Cox, Catherine Campbell, Caitlin Camp-bell, Katelynn Harris, John Louis “Jack” Campbell III, Lindsay Campbell, Haley Harris, Emma Campbell, Aubrey Campbell and Cul-len Campbell; father-in-law Russell M. Chittenden, of Paducah.

Mr. Campbell was pre-ceded in death by his par-ents, Frances H. and Ted A. Campbell, of Paducah, and his mother-in-law, Allison E. Chittenden, of Paducah.

Visitation will be held from 5-8 p.m. on Wednes-day, August 22, 2012, at Milner & Orr Funeral Home in Paducah.

His family asks that in lieu of fl owers, contribu-tions be made to Boy Scout Troop 200, c/o Lone Oak United Methodist Church, 3835 Old US Highway 45 South, Paducah, KY 42003. Contributions may also be made to the Paducah Day Nursery, 2425 South 25th Street, Paducah, KY 42003.

You may light a candle of remembrance and leave a message of sympathy at www.milnerandorr.com

John Louis CampbellFULGHAM — Mr. Wil-

liam Aaron (Dub, W.A.) Bugg, age 85, of the Fulgham community passed away at 10:20 a.m. Sunday, August 19, 2012, at Jackson Purchase Med-ical Center in Mayfi eld.

He was born on April 17, 1927, to the late El-vana and William Newton Bugg.

Mr. Bugg was an or-dained minister and a re-tired carpenter with Car-penters Local 357.

Mr. Bugg is survived by his wife of 63 years, Martha Marie Gatewood Bugg of the Fulgham community; four daugh-ters, Janie (Terry) Holder of Clinton, Cynthia Ma-rie (Robert) Davis of the Dogwood community, Anita Joy Bugg of Nash-ville, Tenn., and Laura Jo Bugg of Fulgham; four grandsons, David Holder of Murfreesboro, Tenn., Darrin (Jennifer) Holder of Clinton, Andrew Davis of Pell City, Ala., and Lo-gan (Jessica) Davis of Ba-

ton Rouge, La.; one great-grandson, Landon Holder of Clinton; and two broth-ers, Charles Bugg of Win-go and Hershel Bugg of Mansfi eld, Ohio.

He was preceded in death by three siblings, Louise Humphreys McK-inney, George T. Hum-phreys and Hollis L. Bugg.

Graveside services will be held at noon Tuesday, August 21, 2012, at the Clark Cemetery.

Friends may call from 9 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. Tues-day, August 21, 2012, at Pleasant Valley Mission-ary Baptist Church.

Donations may be made to: Gideon’s Inter-national, P.O. Box 1325, Fulton, KY 42041; Clin-ton-Hickman Co. Ambu-lance Service, P.O. Box 83, Clinton, KY 42031; or St. Jude Children’s Hospital, P.O. Box 1000, Department 142, Mem-phis, TN 38148-0142.

Brown Funeral Home in Clinton is in charge of arrangements.

William A. Bugg

Cloyes E. Courtney, 73, of Paducah died at 1:47 a.m. Monday, August 20,

2012, at Lourdes hospital.

Cloyes was a member of South-l a n d B a p t i s t Temple, w h e r e he was a S u n d a y

School teacher for more than 25 years, bus driver, and a door greeter for over 20 years. He worked for Harper Hot Shot Truck Company & Usher Trans-port, as well as the Ford Motor Company, and as a barber. He was also a vet-eran of the United States Navy.

Survivors include his wife of 54 years, Pat Mayo Courtney, Paducah, Ky.; one daughter, Cathy Hen-son and her husband Rick of Lone Oak, Ky.; two sons, Calvin Courtney and his wife Dianna of Paducah, Ky., and Craig Courtney and his wife Lo-

retta of Grand Rivers, Ky.; one sister, Mary Asilene Ladd of Reidland, Ky.; sev-en grandchildren; three great-grandchildren; and several nieces and neph-ews.

Mr. Courtney was pre-ceded in death by his parents, Elvis Utah and Berdie Mae Nelson Court-ney; and one brother, Ran-dall Courtney.

Services will be at 11 a.m. Wednesday, August 22, 2012, at Milner & Orr Funeral Home of Paducah with the Rev. Jimmy Franks and the Rev. Har-old Council offi ciating. Burial will follow at Wood-lawn Memorial Gardens.

Friends may call after 5 p.m. Tuesday, August 21, 2012, at Milner & Orr Fu-neral Home of Paducah.

Expressions of sympa-thy may take the form of contributions to the Bus Ministry at Southland Baptist Temple, 927 Yar-bro Lane, Paducah, KY 42003.

You may light a candle or leaves a message of sympathy www.milneran-dorr.com.

Cloyes Courtney

Campbell

Ida Lee Bishop, 89 of Paducah passed away at 6:30 a.m. Sunday, at Lif-

e C a r e of La C e n -ter.

Mrs. B i s h -o p was a retired d i e t i -tian at West-

e r n Baptist

Hospital, and was a mem-ber of Tabernacle Baptist Church and the Order of the Eastern Star.

Surviving are three sons, Tommy (Cheryl) Bishop of Paducah, Ev-erett (Sheila) Bishop of Mayfi eld, and Ter-ry (Kathy) Bishop of Paducah; three daugh-ters, Mary (Dan) Gilmore

of Gallatin, TN, Diana (Mike) Bradford of West Paducah, and Sandy Tallent of Paducah; two brothers, Lefty Sims of Calvert City and Donald Sims of Grand Rivers; thirteen grandchildren, seventeen great-grand-children, and numerous nieces and nephews.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Thomas Buford Bishop, and several brothers and sisters.

Her parents were Lloyd and Ruhama Sims.

Graveside services will be 1:00 p.m. Tuesday at Woodlawn Memorial Gardens, with the Rev. Frank Queen offi ciating.

Lindsey Funeral Home is in charge of arrange-ments.

Online condolences may be left at www.lind-seyfuneral.com.

Ida Bishop

Bishop

Courtney

HARDIN — William Law-rence “Larry” Traughber, 77, of Hardin died Saturday

at his home.

M r . Traugh-ber was a mem-ber of U n i o n R i d g e Bapt is t Church. H e worked

as a heavy equipment operator for TVA, where he retired in 1994. He owned his own custom dozing business from 1969 to 1979.

He is survived by his wife, Betty Traughber; two daughters, Anna Redden of Benton and Linda Traugh-ber Hargrove of Reidland; one son, Gary Traughber of Murray; three sisters, Polly Underwood of Michigan, Marjorie Carney of Ben-ton, and Christine Binkley of Springfi eld, Tenn.; one brother, Harold Traughber of Cedar Hill, Tenn.; four grandchildren; and seven great-grandchildren.

He was preceded in death by fi ve brothers and fi ve sis-ters. His parents were Tom Traughber and Nannie Lou Adams Traughber.

Services will be at 11 a.m. Wednesday at Union Ridge Baptist Church. The Rev. George Culp will offi ciate. Friends may call from 5-7 p.m. Tuesday at the funeral home and from 9-11 a.m. Wednesday at the church. Interment will follow at Union Ridge Cemetery in Aurora.

Larry Traughber

CADIZ — Delores Blake-ley, 79, of Cadiz died Sun-day at Trigg County Hospi-tal following a short illness.

She was co-owner of Wilkinson’s Department Store and Mrs. B’s Gifts & Custom Framing. She was a member of the Ca-diz Christian Church since 1964, where she served as a Sunday school teacher. She was a member of the Cadiz Woman’s Club and Cadiz Homemakers and was a 4-H leader, Brownie leader and served as chapter FHA Mother.

She is survived by her husband, Wallace M. Blake-ley of Cadiz; a son, Gary Wallace Blakeley of Cadiz; a daughter, Hope Blakeley Wood of Cadiz; a brother, Donnie Herbal Rogers of Hopkinsville; fi ve grand-children; and four nephews.

She was preceded in death by her parents,and James Herbal Rogers and Mirla Thelma Haile Rogers; one brother.

Services will be 6 p.m. Tuesday at King’s Funeral Home with the Rev. Dr. Tom Martin offi ciating. Burial will follow in the East End Cemetery. Visitation will be after 4 p.m. Monday at the funeral home.

Memorial donations may be made to Lou Geh-rig’s Association, 2375 Fortune Drive, Lexington, KY 40509; or to Seven Friends Scholarship Fund, c/o Stephanie Perry, 2531 Old Canton Pike, Cadiz, KY 42211

Delores Blakeley

SMITHLAND — Myrtle (Charlene) Riley, 77, of Smithland died Aug. 20 at her home.

Mrs. Riley was a home-maker and Avon repre-sentative for 13 years, and was a member of the First Baptist Church in Smith-land.

She is survived by two sons, Ricky Riley and Ran-dall Riley, both of Smith-land; three daughters, Lo-retta Ogden of Watertown, Tenn., Bernice Henson of Paducah and Kathy Ves-sels of Kansas City, Mo.; one brother, Ray Ed-monds of Grand Rivers; nine grandchildren; four step-grandchildren; eight great-grandchildren; and several nieces and neph-ews.

She was preceded in death by her father, Charles Roy Edmonds; her mother, Martha “Taylor” Edmonds; her husband, Lawrence (Lassies) Riley; one brother; and three sis-ters.

Services will be at 2 p.m. Wednesday at Smith Fu-neral Chapel in Smithland. Burial will follow at Smith-land Cemetery.

Friends may call after 6 p.m. Tuesday at the funeral home.

Charlene Riley

GOLCONDA, Ill. — Ser-vices for Jean Presser, 73, of Golconda will be at 1 p.m. Wednesday at First United Methodist Church in Gol-conda. Cherrie Wilkerson will offi ciate. Burial will fol-low in IOOF Cemetery in Golconda.

Mrs. Presser died Satur-day at Hardin County Hos-pital in Rosiclare.

Surviving are seven chil-dren, Trent Baugher, Kirk Baugher, Shannon Walter, Gina Denton, Brett Baugh-er, Tyler Presser, Patrick Presser; her twin sister, Jane Carole Robinson; 16 grandchildren; and six great-grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by her son, Eric Christopher Baugher; and one brother. Her parents were Collie and Lexie Layman Sherrell.

Friends may call after 11 a.m. Wednesday at the church.

Aly Funeral Home in Golconda is in charge of ar-rangements.

Memorials may be made to: MASH 62938, P.O. Box 545, Golconda, IL 62938.

Jean Presser

PRINCETON — Services for Etta McCormick Weav-er, 74, of Princeton will be at 11 a.m. Wednesday at Morgan’s Funeral Home. Mark Faughn will offi ciate and burial will be in Leba-non Church Cemetery.

Mrs. Weaver died Sunday at her home.

She was a retired certifi ed medical technician at Princ-eton Health Care and was a member of Cedar Bluff Bap-tist Church.

Mrs. Weaver is survived by three daughters, April Freeman of Princeton, Tracy Frazier of Dunnel-lon, Fla., and Bobbi Jo Dircks of Hazelton, Ind.; fi ve grandchildren; four great-grandchildren; one brother, James McCormick of Evansville, Ind.; and one sister, Christine Young of Princeton.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Bob Weaver.

Her parents were Harvey and Lilly Dossett McCor-mick.

Friends may call from 4 to 8 p.m. today at the fu-neral home.

Etta Weaver

FREDONIA — Services for Ruby M. Driver, 82, of Fredonia will be at 11 a.m. today at Morgan’s Funeral Home in Princeton. Burial will be in Fredonia Cem-etery.

Mrs. Driver died Sunday at Christian Care Center in Kuttawa.

She was a retired cook at Hilltop Nursing Home and a member of Fredonia Holi-ness Church.

Mrs. Driver is survived by one daughter, Gladys Harris of Fredonia; one brother, Charlie Peek of Fredonia; two sisters, Mary “Tootsie” Harris of Ed-dyville and Becky Gibbs of Fredonia; two grandchil-dren; two great-grandchil-dren; and several nieces and nephews.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Grover Glenn Driver; one sister; and three brothers. Her parents were William Houston Peek and Effi e Marie Blake Peek.

Friends may call after 8 a.m. today at the funeral home.

Ruby Driver

MAYFIELD — Wanda G. Gream, 83, of Mayfi eld died at 6:30 p.m. Sunday at Mar-tin Healthcare Center.

She was a retired city clerk from Warren, Mich., and of the Baptist faith.

Mrs. Gream is survived by a son, Jensen L. Gream of Mayfi eld; four brothers, Robert Herring and Don Herring, both of Mayfi eld, L.B. Herring of Memphis, Tenn., and James Herring of Murfreesboro, Tenn.; and a grandson.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Glen D. Gream; and a brother. Her parents were Bob and Olene Smith Herring.

Services will be at 2 p.m. Wednesday at Brown Fu-neral Home in Mayfi eld with the Rev. Jason Sipes offi ciating. Burial will be in Highland Park Cemetery.

Friends may call after 5 p.m. today at the funeral home.

Wanda Gream

SHARPE — Patsy Jean Walker, 78, of Sharpe died Monday at Parkview Nurs-

ing Cen-ter in Paducah.

M r s . W a l k e r was a m e m b e r of Oak-land Unit-ed Meth-o d i s t C h u r c h , where she

was a pianist and organist for 53 years.

Mrs. Walker is survived by two daughters, Kathy John-son of Paducah and Linda Walker of Sharpe; one sis-ter, Frances Holt of Sharpe; and one grandchild, Brett Shather of Murray.

She was preceded in death by her husband, G.W. Walker. Her parents were Garland Lofton and Lola Mae Young Lofton.

Services for Mrs. Walker will be at 11 a.m. Wednes-day at Collier Funeral Cha-pel in Benton. The Rev. Chris Moore will offi ciate. Burial will be in Marshall County Memory Gardens in Benton. Friends may call from 5 to 7 p.m. today at the funeral home.

Expressions of sympathy may take the form of contri-butions to the Alzheimer’s Association, Greater Ken-tucky and Southern Indi-ana Chapter, Kaden Tower, 6100 Dutchmans Lane, Suite 401, Louisville, KY 40205-3284.

Patsy Walker

Traughber

Walker

10A • Tuesday, August 21, 2012 • The Paducah Sun World/From Page One paducahsun.com

WASHINGTON — Presi-dent Barack Obama de-clared Monday he is stick-ing to his war strategy of using U.S. troops to advise and mentor Afghan forces, even as a suddenly growing number of Americans are being gunned down by the very Afghans they are train-ing to take on insurgents.

In just the past 10 days, Afghan forces have attacked their coalition partners sev-en times, killing nine Ameri-cans. For the year there have been 32 such incidents, kill-

ing 40, c o m -p a r e d to 21 attacks k i l l -ing 35 t r o o p s in all of 2011.

“ W e a r e d e e p l y c o n -

cerned about this, from top to bottom,” Obama told a White House news confer-ence. But he said the best approach, with the fewest number of deaths in the long run, would be to stick to the plan for shifting se-curity responsibilities to the Afghans.

“We are transitioning to Afghan security, and for us to train them effectively we are in much closer contact — our troops are in much closer contact with Afghan troops on an ongoing ba-sis,” Obama said. “Part of what we’ve got to do is to make sure that this model works but it doesn’t make our guys more vulnerable.”

That vulnerability, how-ever, has been exposed in a strikingly deadly way in recent days.

U.S. offi cials offer two main theories for why Af-ghan security forces are turning their weapons on Western partners: infi ltra-tion by the Taliban and a U.S.-Afghan culture clash.

Both of those root causes suggest that the problem may get worse as American and other coalition forces shift further into an advis-er/mentor role. And that, in turn, raises questions about U.S. ability to train and shape the Afghans into a force that can stand up to the Taliban insurgency af-ter foreign forces end their combat role in 2014.

As recently as last week, Defense Secretary Leon

Panetta called such attacks “sporadic” and a sign of Tal-iban desperation. But as the assaults continued through the week, he consulted with his top commander in Ka-bul and then on Saturday called Afghan President Hamid Karzai to express concern. Obama said Mon-day he would do the same.

“We’ve got to make sure we’re on top of this,” Obama said. Obama’s Republican election rival, Mitt Rom-ney, said Monday in New Hampshire that the U.S. goal ought to be to “tran-sition from our military to their military as soon as possible,” in a way that prevents Afghanistan from collapsing and reverting to being a launching pad for terrorist attacks on the U.S.

Obama said he discussed

the problem Monday with the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Army Gen. Martin Dempsey, who was already in Kabul to talk to American and Afghan offi -cials about how to halt the killings.

Dempsey said upon his arrival in Kabul that it was important for Karzai and other top government of-fi cials to publicly denounce the insider killings, accord-ing a Pentagon account of his remarks.

Dempsey’s offi ce at the Pentagon issued a state-ment Monday saying he is convinced, after discussing the insider threat with his Afghan counterpart, Gen. Sher Mohammed Karimi, that the Afghans “under-stand how important this moment is.”

Insider attacks imperil US strategyBY ROBERT BURNS

Associated PressThis kind of “bullying

by omission” takes place when students are ex-cluded from social events and treated as if they are invisible, Blanco said.

“Bullying isn’t just the mean things you do, it’s all the nice things you never do,” she said.

Students who suffer from less overt forms of bullying often feel as if they have no one to turn to, Blanco said.

“Their damage is ... subtler, but deeper. They have no recompense, no one to turn to,” she said.

She advised adults to look for sudden, inexpli-cable transformations, extreme makeovers and changes in academic inter-est, for example, in order to identify potential vic-tims. Those dealing with bullying should take im-mediate action, she said.

“If you have a kid who comes to you in crisis, it’s the rule of immediacy,” she said. “Never send a child back to class who’s come to you for help, because they may lose the nerve, and you may lose a life.”

Blanco encourages parents and school staff to help students fi nd so-cial outlets, such as music clubs and dance studios, where they can meet friends who aren’t con-nected with the school or town where the bullying is taking place.

“The greatest gift you can give a socially strug-gling child is hope they’re going to feel a connec-tion with their peers, that they’re going to fi t in somewhere,” she said.

School offi cials in Mc-

Cracken County have heard the message and are making district-wide efforts to implement an-ti-bullying initiatives.

“We’re not naive (enough) to say it doesn’t exist. ... The fact that any kids are being bullied is unacceptable,” said Mat-thew Houser, principal of Lone Oak High School. Students at Heath and Reidland high schools, as well as McNabb, Con-cord, Heath and Farley elementary schools, will hear Blanco’s presentation later this week, and Blanco will hold a faculty and staff workshop to raise aware-ness among adults.

While they applaud the schools’ efforts, activists emphasize the importance of involving the entire community in their cause.

“It’s not restricted to the school. This is an op-portunity for us as a com-munity ... to really stand up and be an example across the country,” said Susan Guess, founder of the Guess Anti-Bullying Foundation.

To this end, Blanco will hold a family seminar and book signing at the Clemens Fine Arts Center on the campus of West Kentucky Community & Technical College at 7 p.m. Thursday. The free public event will offer practical tips and advice for dealing with bullying.

“There is some mo-mentum here, and we need to capture that,” Guess said. “It’s time to bring it to where we have a kinder culture.”

Call Laurel Black, a Paducah Sun staff writ-er, at 270-575-8641.

mal for this time of year.Maintaining the naviga-

tion channel is essential to keeping vessels from col-liding or running aground. Thousands of tons of mate-rial are shipped on the river each day.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is using dredges to dig out sand and ensure the navigation channel is deep enough for barges loaded with coal, steel, agri-cultural products and other goods. The corps is required to provide a minimum navi-

gation channel that is 9 feet deep and 300 feet wide on the lower Mississippi River.

Shippers who move ma-terial up and down the river on a daily basis have com-plained that the shallow riv-er is forcing them to lighten the loads on their barges to avoid hitting bottom. Light-er loads mean less revenue for the shippers, who still have to deal with costs such as labor and fuel.

Also, low water at docks and terminals makes it more diffi cult to load or unload material, as ships have trouble getting close

enough to docks.Just north of downtown

Memphis on Friday, the dredge Hurley was cutting a 2,000-foot swath of river bottom to ensure that the channel is safe for vessels. The dredge is referred to as a dustpan, which means it uses a vacuum-like suction to suck up sand from the river bottom, said its cap-tain, Frank Segree.

The sand is then pushed through a 1,200 foot pipeline that deposits it on the banks of the river. For safety’s sake, the dredge tries to make the channel deeper than the re-

quired 9-foot mark when-ever possible, Segree said.

The 350-foot long dredge is powered by three 16-cyl-inder engines that generate 10,000 horsepower com-bined, yet the vessel was moving just .12 miles per hour as it slowly removed the sand from the channel.

Before dredging begins, a survey crew checks the river bottom to see where the more shallow banks and shoals are located. After digging in one location, the survey crew and the dredge move on to anoth-er trouble spot.

“We’re hitting the high

spots, then getting out of the way,” Segree said, add-ing that this has been his busiest year for dredging in the 20 years he has been with the Corps.

The river level in Memphis was minus-8.5 feet on Fri-day, according to the Corps of Engineers. The “minus” reading does not mean the river is dried up — it’s just a measurement based on how the Memphis river gauge is designed. Essentially, the reading means the river level is far below normal.

The record for the lowest measured water level for

the Mississippi River near Memphis is minus-10.7 feet, in 1988. The Corps has said the river is not expect-ed to reach record lows.

Segree said four dredges are currently working from St. Louis to Vicksburg, Miss., performing a job that is essential to U.S. in-dustry but is hardly noticed by the general public.

“If we lose the river sys-tem it’s just like losing the interstate highway sys-tem,” Segree said. “Com-merce is a vital part of our nation. This is a main ar-tery for commerce.”

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Defense Secretary Leon Panetta and Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Martin Dempsey confer April 19 on Capitol Hill in Washington prior to testifying. U.S. officials have set-tled on two main explanations for why Afghan security forces are turning their guns on their Western partners: infiltration by the Taliban and a U.S.-Afghan culture clash.

Karzai

Today Wed.

Athens 92 77 s 96 79 sBeijing 86 63 s 84 59 sBerlin 81 66 t 78 56 sBuenos Aires 63 53 s 70 51 tCairo 96 75 s 97 74 sHong Kong 89 80 pc 90 81 tJerusalem 87 68 s 88 67 sLondon 73 59 pc 71 54 pcManila 86 75 pc 86 77 rMexico City 72 57 t 72 56 tMoscow 63 40 pc 65 47 sParis 84 54 t 76 52 sRome 91 70 s 91 68 sSeoul 85 73 r 84 74 rSydney 68 50 pc 73 57 pcTokyo 89 79 s 92 79 sWarsaw 82 58 sh 81 58 tZurich 84 62 t 82 61 t

Five-Day Forecast for PaducahShown is today’s weather. Temperatures are today’s highs and tonight’s lows.

Almanac

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Sun and Moon

The higher the AccuWeather.com UV Index™ number, the greater the need for eye and skin protection.

0-2 Low; 3-5 Moderate; 6-7 High; 8-10 Very High; 11+ Extreme8 a.m. 10 a.m. Noon 2 p.m. 4 p.m.

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in the p.m.

High 84°

Partly cloudy and cool

Low 56°

Sunny and pleasant

High90°

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Mostly sunny and delightful

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Sunrise today ................................. 6:16 a.m.Sunset tonight ................................ 7:38 p.m.Moonrise today ............................. 10:38 a.m.Moonset today ................................ 9:46 p.m.

24 hours ending 2 p.m. yest. ................. TraceMonth to date ......................................... 2.62”Normal month to date ............................. 1.83”Year to date .......................................... 15.99”Last year to date ................................... 50.21”Normal year to date .............................. 31.68”

High/low .............................................. 84°/60°Normal high/low .................................. 89°/66°Record high ................................ 100° in 1962Record low .................................... 54° in 1943

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Kentucky: Partly sunny today; an afternoon thun-derstorm in spots, but dry in the south and east. Clear tonight.

Illinois: Partly sunny and nice today. Clear tonight. Mostly sunny tomorrow; pleasant.

Indiana: A thunderstorm in spots this afternoon, but dry in the west. Clear tonight.

Missouri: Partly sunny and nice today. Clear tonight. Abundant sunshine tomorrow; warmer in the north.

Arkansas: Partly sunny today; pleasant in the north. Partly cloudy tonight.

Tennessee: Partly sunny today; a thunderstorm in spots in the west during the afternoon. Partly cloudy tonight.

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Albuquerque 86 67 t 85 64 tAtlanta 86 65 pc 86 65 sBaltimore 82 65 pc 84 64 tBillings 94 65 s 89 57 tBoise 96 59 pc 87 57 pcBoston 81 64 pc 81 64 pcCharleston, SC 84 70 t 86 69 pcCharleston, WV 80 54 pc 84 55 sChicago 78 60 s 84 63 sCleveland 76 53 pc 80 54 sDenver 88 61 pc 93 65 tDes Moines 82 61 s 89 64 tDetroit 78 57 pc 82 60 sEl Paso 94 75 pc 95 73 tFairbanks 61 41 pc 66 45 sHonolulu 88 73 s 88 75 pcHouston 94 72 t 93 73 pcIndianapolis 80 57 pc 84 61 sJacksonville 86 71 t 89 69 t

Las Vegas 103 82 t 99 84 tLos Angeles 84 65 s 81 63 pcMiami 91 78 t 90 81 tMilwaukee 74 61 s 79 63 pcMinneapolis 78 61 s 85 65 tNew Orleans 88 73 pc 89 73 pcNew York City 81 66 pc 83 68 tOklahoma City 88 63 pc 94 70 sOmaha 84 63 s 94 63 sOrlando 88 72 t 90 73 tPhiladelphia 82 66 pc 84 66 tPhoenix 104 84 t 101 78 tPittsburgh 78 55 pc 80 57 sSalt Lake City 92 69 pc 90 65 tSan Diego 77 68 pc 75 65 pcSan Francisco 68 54 pc 67 55 pcSeattle 70 54 pc 66 51 pcTucson 95 76 t 92 73 tWashington, DC 84 67 pc 85 67 t

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Belleville, IL 84 57 pc 90 58 sBowling Gn., KY 84 58 pc 85 59 sBristol, TN 78 54 pc 82 57 sC. Girardeau, MO 84 57 pc 90 56 sCarbondale, IL 84 57 pc 92 56 sCharleston, WV 80 54 pc 84 55 sChattanooga, TN 87 62 pc 86 62 sClarksville, TN 83 57 pc 84 57 sColumbia, MO 86 59 pc 91 65 sEvansville, IN 82 58 pc 85 56 sFt. Smith, AR 86 63 pc 96 67 sHopkinsville, KY 82 58 pc 83 59 sIndianapolis, IN 80 57 pc 84 61 sJackson, KY 80 58 pc 82 60 sJackson, TN 84 57 pc 88 57 sJoplin, MO 91 61 pc 94 68 sKansas City, MO 91 65 s 91 67 sKnoxville, TN 84 58 pc 85 61 sLexington, KY 80 56 pc 85 59 sLittle Rock, AR 88 63 pc 93 62 sLondon, KY 80 54 pc 83 56 sLouisville, KY 84 62 pc 88 64 sMemphis, TN 86 65 pc 92 66 sNashville, TN 82 59 pc 86 60 sPeoria, IL 81 56 s 87 59 sSt. Louis, MO 84 62 pc 91 66 sSpringfi eld, IL 82 54 pc 87 59 sSpringfi eld, MO 91 62 pc 91 64 sTerre Haute, IN 80 52 pc 86 54 s

National Summary: Showers and thunderstorms will stretch from the northeastern Gulf Coast to part of the mid-Atlantic coast today. Thunderstorms will also cluster over part of the southern Plains. Storms will dot the interior West, while the wildfi re danger continues. Much of the northern Plains, Midwest and New England will be free of rain.

Cairo 40 8.34 -0.27

Paducah 39 15.43 +0.02Owensboro 38 10.70 -0.10Smithland Dam 40 12.20 +0.12

Lake Barkley 359 358.55 noneKentucky Lake 359 358.44 -0.12

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