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By LARRY DALEDaily Courier Staff Writer

FOREST CITY — Officers seized comput-ers that allegedly were being used in an ille-gal video poker business and made one arrest in a joint operation Friday afternoon.

The Rutherford County Sheriff’s Office and the Forest City Police Department took part in the raid, which took place at 102 Trade St., at the Trade Street Internet Café. The sign on the door said the business was open

Monday through Saturday until 2 a.m. The business is on the corner of Trade and Cherry Mountain streets.

Freddie Monroe Garrett, 49, of 176 Garrett Way in Forest City, was charged with one count each of obtaining property by false pretense and dealing in lottery. He was placed in the Rutherford County Jail under a $10,000 secured bond. Garrett took out

Please see Gaming, Page 3

By LARRY DALEDaily Courier Staff Writer

FOREST CITY — Three people were arrested and the N.C. License Plate Agency was shut down Friday morning by agents with the N.C. Division of Motor Vehicles.

DMVs’ License and Theft Bureau inspectors arrested the contractor, the manager and a former employee of the license plate agency in the Tri-City Mall on charges of feloniously forging physician signatures and

accessing a government computer and entering false information to improperly issue handicap placards.

With the arrests, DMV officials closed the office Friday morning and put “closed permanently” signs on the window.

Agency contractor Sue Carswell Hyder of Bostic was charged with three felony counts of government computer access and common law

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Garrett Byers’Daily CourierA sign on the door of the closed DMV office in Forest City directs patrons to offices in Cleveland and McDowell Counties for services.

By JEAN GORDON and ALLISON FLYNNDaily Courier Staff Writer

RUTHERFORDTON — Superior Court Judge Robinson O. Hassle, Jr. ruled Friday in favor of Thomas Jefferson Classical Academy in a law-suit against Rutherford County Schools over a funding issue that amounts to about $730,000.

Rutherford County Schools will appeal, school board chair John Mark Bennett said.

TJCA sued RCS for more than $900,000 — which the char-ter school says it is owed by the county school system — ask-ing for money that the county schools say derives from rev-enues restricted by the federal and state government to provide specific services to young chil-dren in Rutherford County from disadvantaged socio-economic backgrounds before those chil-dren reach school age.

“The Board will abide by any final decision of the courts and has decided to appeal the case to the North Carolina Court of Appeals for further review,” Bennett said. “Because we feel so strongly about the potential inequities to the Rutherford County Schools’ students as a result of this ruling, we will con-tinue to vigorously fight this suit until all legal options have been exhausted.”

Please see County, Page 6

The Ruth-erford County Sheriff’s Office forensics vehi-cle is reflected in the glass of a Forest City business raid-ed Friday after-noon by RCSO and Forest City Police Department officers.

Sheriff raids gaming site

From staff reports

RUTHERFORDTON — Six reports Thursday of mailbox vandalism in Rutherford County are a frustrating reminder that although damaging a mailbox is a federal offense, it is an all too common crime that is difficult to stop.

Three of the six incidents reported Thursday were on Hudlow Road. One each was reported on Whitesides, Baxter Cemetery and Rock roads. Three of the six incident reports said the mailboxes were apparently struck by a baseball bat, club or pipe.

Estimated value of the dam-aged mailboxes ranged from $15 to $40, according to RCSO reports.

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DMV office closedThree are facing charges

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County schools must pay TJCA

Sheriff Jack Conner, left, and Forest City Assistant Police Chief Bob Ward look at a computer seized Friday at Trade Street Internet Cafe.

Mailbox vandalism rises again

Larry Dale/ Daily Courier

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Church NewsVBS

The following church-es have announced Vacation Bible School:

Mount Lebanon Baptist Church, “Saddle Ridge Ranch,” July 10, 6 to 8 p.m. and July 11-15, 5:30 to 8:30 p.m., with small meal served at 5:30; com-mencement July 15 at 6:30 p.m.

Spindale Church of the Brethren, “Hero Headquarters,” July 11-15, 5:45 to 7:55 p.m.; classes for ages 3 through adult; supper will be served Monday through Thursday.

High Shoal Baptist Church, Henrietta, VBS, July 11-16, 5:30 to 8:30 p.m.

Oak Springs Baptist Church, Rutherfordton, “Make A Change: Shine the Light,” July 11-16; kick-off July 11 at 6:30 p.m. with refreshments and ice cream; nightly from 6:30 to 8:40; classes for ages 2 to 17; com-mencement Friday night.

Providence United Methodist Church, “Hero Headquartrs,” July 11-16, 6 to 8:30 p.m.; classes for ages 3 to 18; free supper pro-vided for all partici-pants; for more infor-mation, call 247-4635.

Russell Tabernacle CME and Well Spring United Methodist Church, “Kingdom of the Son,” July 12-14, 6 to 8 p.m.; held at Russell Tabernacle.

St. John’s AME Zion Church, Rutherfordton, VBS, July 14-16, 6:30 to 8:30 nightly; classes for all

ages.Piney Knob Baptist

Church, VBS, July 19-23, 6:30 to 8:30 p.m.; classes for all ages.

West Point Baptist Church, “Egypt: Jospeh’s Journey from Prison to Palace,” July 25-29, 6 to 9 p.m.; fam-ily night July 30 at 6 p.m.; call 287-0165 for more information.

Cornerstone Fellowship Church, “Around the World,” Aug. 14, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.; for all children ages 2 to 11; for infor-mation, contact Kassie Wilson 980-5041.

Music/concertsSinging: July 11, 6

p.m., Temple Baptist Church, Henrietta; featurin The Royal Quartet; hot dog sup-per from 4:30 to 5:45 p.m.; all donations go to the building fund.

Third Sunday night singing: July 18, 6 p.m., Sandy Level Baptist Church; featuring the Hamptons.

Gospel singing: July 25, 2 p.m., Harris Baptist Church, featur-ing the Rogers.

Concert: July 25, 6 p.m., Mount Vernon Baptist Church; featur-ing The Golden Valley Crusaders; love offer-ing will be received; www.mountvernonbap-tistchurch.org.

Concert: Aug. 29, 6 p.m., Mount Vernon Baptist Church; featuring Gaither Homecoming’s Ann

Downing; love offer-ing will be received; www.mountvernonbap-tistchurch.org.

Special servicesTwo-night service:

July 9 and 10, 7 each night, Temple of Jesus Church; featuring the Apostle Lindon Frost of Jasper, Ala.; other spe-cial services July 18-23, 7 each night, featur-ing the Rev. George T. Wright of Dayton, Ohio.

Street ministry: July 10, 4 p.m., Holy Temple No. 2, Forest City.

Cowbell Revival: July 10, 6 p.m., New Beginnings with Jesus, next to the Armory.

Praise and wor-ship service: July 11, 3 p.m., New Salem CME Church, Rutherfordton; guest speaker, the Rev. Phil Forney.

Friends and fam-ily day: July 11, 4 p.m., Zion Hill Faith Temple; sponsored by Usher Board.

Guest speak-ers: July 11, Pleasant Grove Baptist Church, Rutherfordton; 11 a.m., Hunter Park; 6 p.m., the Rev. Tom Frady.

Fellowship service: July 11, 4 p.m., Holy Temple No. 2 Church; guest speaker, the Rev. Tracy Martin of Faith Temple Church,

Spindale.

Revival: July 15-16, 7 p.m., Holy Temple No. 2 Church, Forest City; guest speaker, Penny McSwain of Victory Temple Church, Rutherfordton.

Third anniversary: July 18, 3 p.m., Wheat Creek Baptist Church, Rutherfordton; featur-ing choirs.

Fellowship ser-vice: July 21, 7 p.m., Owens Chapel Church; guest speaker, the Rev. Leander Lynch.

FundraisersChicken pie lunch:

July 18, Oak Grove United Methodist Church fellowship hall, following the morning worshipo service; $8 per person and includes drink and dessert; ben-efits the church’s Relay for Life team.

Yard and bake sale and car wash: July 24, 6:30 a.m. until, Green Hill Volunteer Fire Department; break-fast served starting at 6:30 a.m. with biscuits, sausage, gravy, coffee and juice; lunch served starting at 11 a.m. with hamburgers, hot dogs, chips, homemade ice cream and drinks; spe-cial T-shirts available with purchase; all pro-ceeds will go to Faye Pruette to help with medical costs associ-ated with her stomach cancer; sponsored by Pleasant Grove Baptist Church, Polk County. For information, call Katie Thompson, 447-9694 or Matt Bailey, 429-4025.

Other NA/AA meetings:

Every Monday at 7 p.m., at New Life Christian Fellowship Church of God, 601 E. Main St., Spindale; contact James Keeter at 247-4681 for more information.

Hispanic Baptist Church “Cristo Vive:” Services on Sunday afternoons in English, 6 p.m., every Sunday. The church is located at 929 Oakland Road. Contact the Rev. Jairo Contreras at 289-9837.

Women’s Community Bible Study, “Living Life with Purpose:” For eight weeks, begin-ning July 15, from 7 to 8 p.m., Abundant Life CWC; class is free.

Monthly food give-away: First Baptist Church in Spindale holds a food giveaway the third Thursday of each month. Devotion and prayer service between 6 and 6:30

p.m. Bags of food given away afterwards.

Open support group: “Let’s Talk About It” meets every Monday from 7 to 8 p.m., at New Life Fellowship Church, 601 E. Main St., Spindale. This group is for anyone who needs to talk about any issues.

“The Way Home”: A support group for any-one recovering from an addiction; meetings are held each Monday at noon, in the base-ment of Harvest House Church, Big Springs Ave., Forest City; call Sheila at 828-447-1880 for more information.

“Celebrate Recovery” is a weekly Christ-centered pro-gram that meets every Friday from 6:30 to 9 p.m., at Cornerstone Fellowship Church, 1186 Hudlow Rd., Forest City. The group is open to anyone who wishes to find healing no matter what you’re going through. For more information call 245-3639.

Soup KitchensCommunity

Outreach: “Give By Faith Ministries” of Piney Mountain Baptist Church provides a soup kitchen, clothes closet and food pantry to those in need the sec-ond Saturday of each month from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Samaritan Breakfast: Thursdays from 6 to 8 a.m., at St. Francis Episcopal Church, 395 N. Main St., Rutherfordton. Carry-out breakfast bags.

St. Paul AME Zion Church, Forest City, each Monday at 6 p.m.

St. Gabriel’s Episcopal Church, Wednesdays from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., 330 N. Ridgecrest Ave., Rutherfordton.

First Baptist Church in Spindale, 11:30 to 12:30 p.m. each Tuesday.

New Beginnings

Soup Kitchen, Thursdays from 4:30 to 6 p.m. at Green River Baptist Association, 668 N. Washington St., Rutherfordton.

Contributed photoThe Royal Quartet will be in concert Sunday night at 6 at Temple Baptist Church in Henrietta.

Calvary Baptist Church will host Life Line Screening Aug. 12. Appointments will begin at 10 a.m.

Screenings identify potential cardiova-sular conditions such as blocked arteries and irregular heart rhythm, abdominal aortic aneurysms and hardening of the arteries in the legs, which is a strong predictor of heart disease. A bone den-sity screening to assess osteoporosis risk is also offered and is appropriate for both mena nd women.

Packages start at $139. All five scren-ings take 60 to 90 minutes to com-plete. For more information or to schedule an appoint-ment, call 1-877-237-1287 or visit ww.lifelinescreening.com. Pre-registration is required.

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Once, while in Jerusalem, Jesus healed a man at the pool of Bethesda who had an infirmity for thirty-eight years. Afterwards, the man was talking to the Jewish authori-ties and he told them that it was Jesus who had healed him. For this reason, the Jews persecuted Jesus and sought to kill Him, because He had done these things on the Sabbath. In reply, one of the things that Jesus said to them was, “I do not receive honor from men. But I know you, that you do not have the love of God in you.” (John 5:41-42)

The question to us is, do we have the love of God in us?The first and greatest commandment is to love the Lord your God with all your heart

and with all your soul and with all your mind. And the second, is to love your neighbor as yourself (Matthew 22:37-38).

When we pray to God, do we pray because we love Him and we want to draw closer to His love, or do we just pray when we need some special favor?

When we go to church or our place of worship, do we go there because we want to be closer to His love, or do we just attend when we need some special favor?

When we go to church or our place of worship, do we go there because we want to praise and worship God, or are we there because it is expected of us to be there?

When we are kind or generous to others, is it out of love, or is there usually an ulteri-or motive for our good works?

God knows all of our needs and desires and He wants us to be dependent on Him, but more importantly, He wants us to love Him.

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“Rural area mailboxes are vulner-able to vandalism because they are usually isolated, located on public thoroughfares, and frequently not visible to the box owners from their homes,” the U.S. Postal Inspection Service reports.

Mailboxes are considered federal property, and federal law (Title 18, United States Code, Section 1705), makes it a crime to vandalize them -- or to injure, deface or destroy any mail deposited in them. Violators can be fined up to $250,000, or imprisoned for up to three years, for each act of vandalism.

The problem, though, is identifying the culprits, since reports of vandal-ism are generally not made until the following day when residents dis-cover the damage.

Rutherford County Sheriff Jack Conner said Friday the key to catch-ing vandals is arriving on the scene shortly after the damage occurs.

“Please, please,” he said, “if you see anything unusual, call us right away.

We may have an officer in the area. If you can give us a vehicle descrip-tion or a tag number, we might be able to stop the vehicle.

“Then if we find three teens inside and a baseball bat, we can question them.”

Postal inspectors recommend these actions to protect your mailbox and any mail that may be inside it:n Immediately report theft, tam-

pering or destruction of mail or mailboxes to your postmaster. You’ll be asked to complete PS Form 1510, Mail Loss and Rifling Report, or PS Form 2016, Mail Theft and Vandalism Complaint. The forms help the Postal Inspection Service determine whether your problem is isolated, or one frequently experi-enced in your neighborhood.n Obtain Label 33 from the Postal

Inspection Service and affix it to your mailbox. The sticker warns that willful damage to mailboxes and theft of mail are crimes.n Keep your mailbox in good

repair, and make sure it’s properly installed. This may help prevent theft of the mailbox itself.

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the business license for the site, the FCPD reported.

Officers from both departments arrived on the scene for the raid in both marked and unmarked cars about 2:30 p.m.

“This is an operation that is similar to the one that was over on the other side of Forest City (on Commercial Drive),” Rutherford County Sheriff Jack Conner said at the busi-ness Friday afternoon. “The same operation. Doing the same thing. Somewhere in the neighborhood of $1,400 or $1,500 in cash was seized today.

“It’s still illegal. It’s always been illegal to pay out and accept money the way they have been doing. They weren’t giving you phone cards. It says Internet service; they weren’t giving you free Internet service. They were giving you cash.

“We sent an undercover (operative) in to play them. And they paid him back more than $10. The old statute said you could pay up to $10. And they paid him back more than $10, so to us that is gambling.

“We came back, and the District Attorney’s Office did their job, and they are charging again. Just like we did before. And if we have to go all the way up to the court again, as the sheriff and DA, we’ll go again to court. It’s basically the same thing.”

“We’re glad to assist the Rutherford County Sheriff’s Office and the DA’s Office to address these Internet

cafes,” Forest City Police Chief Jay Jackson said Friday at the business, “because my stance is just like the sheriff: these are illegal. We’ve been fighting the video poker and gam-bling industry for some time now that these Internet cafes are just another way of maintaining a video poker machine with having a server somewhere else.”

No customers were in the business when a reporter was allowed on the scene shortly after the raid.

In July 2009, the same two law enforcement agencies raided Commercial Business Center, at 132 Commercial Drive, in a strip mall. Officers also seized computers.

Donald Lee “Butch” Hall was arrested in that raid. He was ini-tially charged with felony possession of video poker machines. But that charge was later dropped, and he was instead charged with running a video lottery.

Conner and District Attorney Brad Greenway were later ordered to appear in Superior Court in High Point over the seizure of ITT and Hess Technologies machines at the Commercial Drive site, but a judge rescinded the order.

The screen on at least one of the computers seized Friday read, “Figure Eight Technologies Inc.”

The company’s website says “Figure Eight is one of the leading provid-ers of sweepstakes software in the Internet Cafe gaming industry.”

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RALEIGH (AP) — The General Assembly worked largely behind closed doors Friday to finalize key eth-ics and economic incen-tives bills before House and Senate leaders close the ses-sion for the year, probably by early Saturday.

The two chambers recessed for several hours while a handful of lawmakers holed up in conference rooms seeking compromises on competing bills. Leaders also are tying to agree on the details of legislation to let police take DNA samples of people when they are arrest-ed on serious charges.

The final details on eth-ics, campaign finance and government reform package probably won’t be worked out until Friday evening, said Senate leader Marc Basnight, D-Dare. The two sides weren’t in accord on how to reduce the perception that campaign donations affect how elected officials appoint board and commis-sion members or make con-tract decisions.

The package expected to be approved by lawmakers and sent to Gov. Beverly Perdue also will make it a felony to give $10,000 or more in ille-gal campaign contributions in a single election, expand information state agencies must make public about employees and expand eth-ics law coverage and lobbyist waiting period to cover more state employees.

“We have strong laws today but not strong enough,” Basnight told reporters. “These just give clarity and create a transparency that should have occurred.”

Democrats in both cham-

bers reached a compromise on an economic incentives bill that expands the size of tax breaks to the film indus-try and creates preferential tax treatment for green-friendly tenants in industrial parks. One more House vote was required early Saturday.

Basnight said the gover-nor told him Friday the film breaks she sought to make North Carolina more com-petitive with other states weren’t generous enough, but a Perdue spokeswoman said later the . Legislators didn’t remove a limit on tax rebates beyond the first $1 million of a movie star’s salary for a North Carolina-based pro-duction.

The future was unclear on competing House and Senate legislation requiring police to take DNA samples of people when they are arrested on serious charges and a separate Senate bill setting new rules corpora-tions must follow to report political activities in light of a U.S. Supreme Court deci-sion.

But the House and Senate agreed late Friday afternoon in separate votes to create a new state regional commis-sion formed in response to the controversy over dams owned by Alcoa Inc. along the Yadkin River

Friday’s delays were in sharp contrast to an eight-

week session largely marked by its swiftness and largely. The Legislature passed and Perdue signed a budget bill approved before the new fis-cal year began July for the first time since 2003. And the number of calendar days since the session began May 12 would be the fewest since 1996.

“There has been very little wrangling this time around,” said Rep. Jim Crawford, D-Granville, who first joined the House in 1983. “Everybody’s tried real hard to make things flow well.”

But other lawmakers were unhappy with the hectic pace of the session’s final days, when significant bills

are sent to the floor for final votes by using parliamentary procedures that don’t allow senators to review the legis-lation closely in committee.

“It’s always like this at the very end where some of this stuff that probably shouldn’t come out, does come out,” said Sen. Bob Rucho, R-Mecklenburg, who was unhappy with the handling of an oil spill liability bill Thursday.

The eight-week session was marked by passage of a near-ly $19 billion budget June 30 that attempted to save pub-lic school teachers jobs this fall and temper reductions in the University of North Carolina system. The bill contained neither additional broad tax increases nor pay raises for state employees. Republicans who voted in the minority for the budget argued it didn’t prepare the state enough for a $3 billion shortfall next year and con-tained too few tax breaks for small business.

Lawmakers also gave final approval to reforms of the Alcoholic Beverage Control system and banned comput-er-based sweepstakes games showing up in parlors and Internet cafes statewide. Perdue will have until Aug. 9 to consider these and dozens of other bills awaiting her signature. She can veto a bill or allow a bill to become law without her signature.

Barring a veto-override session or special session, the adjournment will essen-tially end the 42-year legisla-tive career of Sen. R.C. Soles, D-Columbus, who is consid-ered the state’s longest con-tinuously serving lawmaker.

Associated PressN.C. House of Representatives minority leader and cosponsor of an ethics bill, Paul Stam, center, works during a morning session at the N.C. State Legislature on Friday in Raleigh

Lawmakers eyed early Saturday adjournment

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SAVING WITH THE COUPON QUEENJill Cataldo saves hundreds on groceries by making

the cost of the common coupon count. You can, too.

JILL CATALDOIn a past column, I touched on one of the most interesting tips for saving at the grocery store: you can save even more money by shopping certain days of the week! Sound surprising? It’s true. The day of the week we shop can make a big difference in how much money we can save.

Many supermarkets, especially large chains, run dual sets of sales each week. A typical week-long cycle may begin on Thursday and run for seven days. Then, when Sunday comes around, a second sales flyer hits the newspapers. This supplemental set of sales typically runs for four days, Sunday through Wednesday.

If your store runs dual sales cycles, the best days to shop are the days that both sets of flyers overlap - typically, Sunday through Wednesday. These are better shopping days because two different sets of sales run in the store simultaneously.

Sometimes those two sales actually overlap, offering different types of promotions on the same products. If this happens, simply shopping the days that the two sales overlap lets us enjoy bigger benefits.

Here’s an example: During a recent sale, a brand of crackers was on sale for $2.19, Buy One, Get One Free in the weekly, 7-day flyer. On Sunday, the store’s second 4-day sales flyer came out, and the same brand of crackers was on sale “Buy Two, Get Two Free.” During the same week, both of these sales overlapped for four days.

My shopping radar always goes up when I see something like this, because I know this sale’s going to be fun! When an item is BOGO on one sales cycle and simultaneously Buy Two, Get Two Free on the second sales cycle, how many are we buying, and how many are we actually paying for?

In this case, we’ll buy one... and get three more free.Let me explain. Anytime you’re dealing with BOGO sales, it’s important to

remember that the free item still counts as a “purchase.” And that purchase qualifies as something you’ve “bought” toward the second sale.

So, let’s break this down. I buy one package of crackers, and I get the second package free. The BOGO sale is done. But the second sale on the same brand of crackers is Buy Two, Get Two Free. The first two packages that are scanned qualify as “buying” two (even though the second package is technically free) and the next two packages of crackers will also ring up free as part of the second sale. If it seems a little confusing, don’t worry - the register automatically handles both sales automatically.

After everything was scanned, I paid $2.19 for all four packages of crack-ers. And I didn’t even use a single coupon! I simply shopped on a day where two sales on the same product overlapped.

When stores run dual sales flyers, they’re also trying to drive more traffic to the store on days when the store isn’t as busy, which are typically earlier in the week. And, that second sales flyer usually has more deeply discount-ed items and prices than the week-long flyer. In addition to enjoying two sets of sales, shopping the lesser-trafficked days does give us other advan-tages: shorter checkout lines! On the rare instances that I go to the store later in the week, I’m always amazed at how much more crowded the store is if I shop on a Friday or a Saturday versus a Monday or a Tuesday.

Want one final tip? Because of the higher traffic the store enjoys at the end of the week, items like meats and produce will be reduced to clear once those busier shopping days pass. These items are still of fine quality, but the store is going to have new stock to place out as the end of the week approaches again, so they will reduce the previous week’s stock to make room for what’s coming in. I never tire of going to the store and seeing the same hamburger patties that were $4/pound reduced to $2/pound.

Why some days are worth more than others JILL CATALDO

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■ A daily forum for opinion, commentary and editorials on the news that affects us all.

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The possibility of rain this week-end was welcome in Rutherford County where drought condi-

tions have returned just a year after the area emerged from major drought.

While conditions here are not yet severe, the lack of rainfall over the past two months has left gardens dying and grass turning brown.

Fire conditions are also getting more dangerous.

While a few good showers now would solve most of the problems, people should not put off doing what they can to conserve water. Conservation is something that we should always prac-tice.

But especially right now everyone should be very careful with outdoor burning of any kind. All those browned lawns and fields can ignite from the smallest spark.

Our Views

Conserve water and watch fires

Our readers’ viewsSays thanks to pair who paid their tab

To the editor:To Whom It May Concern: My husband and I had break-

fast at the Carolina Cafe in Forest City on Monday, July 5th.

When we got up to pay the bill the cashier said that our bill had been paid by the gentleman and son who sat next to us.

We are grateful for this act of kindness and would like to thank whoever he is. May God bless you and your son.

Don and Betty SmithCaroleen

Offers thoughts for animal shelter debate

To the editor:I do not think the taxpayers of

our county are against an updat-ed or new facility for the animal shelter.

I do think we all feel it should be brought up to the minimum standards required by the state with the present economy in mind.

A commissioner has said that the county already owns the land on Laurel Hill across from the present shelter, which pro-vides ample room for new con-struction as needed.

Remodeling and some new construction on the Laurel Hill property would be a lot less cost-ly than building on the Daniel Road location.

The 112 acres on Daniel Road cost us $38,392 per acre. Can we afford $38,392 an acre for soccer fields or any other unit that will

not relieve our unemployment or pay any taxes at this time?

The CPC should be applauded for their work, time, and dona-tions, but with their funds that they have raised they could have their own complex and facilities where ever they would like it. I don’t see any reason why the tax-payers should fund their wishes.

On another note, our Sheriffs Department is doing an excel-lent job with their portion of the county budget and the location on Laurel Hill is far more conve-nient for them than the Daniel Road location would be.

Also it brings up the question, what will the commissioners do with the vacated acreage on Laurel Hill?

According to articles in the paper a 3 to 2 vote has been prevalent since the last election.

I think it is time for enough people to tell this board of com-missioners to do nothing with the Daniel Road property and let the new board in December decide it’s fate. They would have to deal with their decision for their full term. What if they would decide to sell or lease it to a group that would hire some of our unemployed and pay taxes on it? We can always hope for the best. Now is the time to speak out before it is too late.

With a $70 million debt, as reported in 2009, do we need the 112 acres on Daniel Road and not use the Laurel Hill par-cel?

The interest on the debt takes a fair piece out of the budget.

Three people can vote these expenditures in, but all of us tax payers have to pay for them.

Keep this in mind when you go to vote next November.

Ray Pinson, Rutherfordton

Says husband a hero at accident scene

To the editor:I would like to acknowledge my

husband for pulling out the two women who were involved in a car wreck.

The wreck happened on Henson Road on Wednesday, July 7th. We were on our way home when we came up on a car turned on its side.

My husband, Daniel Campbell Jr., without hesitation jumped out and ran to the car. He then climbed up on the side of the car, got the passenger door open and had to bend it back against the fender. He then pulled out both women.

He is a hero in my eyes.Naomi Campbell

Forest City

Here’s a freedom test that was failed miserablyRALEIGH – A long-

running dispute over con-trol of hydroelectric plants, lake-front property, and the flow of the Yadkin River mutated a few days ago into a momentous test of the freedom of the press.

It’s a test that most North Carolina politicians, Democrats and Republicans, failed miserably.

Sen. Fletcher Hartsell is a Republican who main-tains close ties with the Democratic majority and thus chairs a Senate judi-ciary committee.

Hartsell has been a key supporter of a plan for the state to assume control of four dams and 38,000 acres of land owned by Alcoa in Davidson, Davie, Montgomery, Rowan, and Stanly counties.

I don’t much like the state’s takeover plan, which will cost taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars and accomplish no public pur-pose of which I am aware.

Alcoa sells the dams’ power on the open market, pays local property taxes, and operates under regulations as any other owner would.

But you don’t have to share my concerns about the Left’s Alcoa-bashing to condemn Hartsell’s high-handed tactics.

Last week, his committee issued subpoenas to UNC-TV reporter Eszter Vajda and general manager Tom Howe demanding that they immediately turn over “all footage (including all inter-views, B-roll and camera masters) in your posses-sion regarding the Alcoa Corporation’s activities in Stanly County.”

Hartsell knew that UNC-TV had done reporting on the Alcoa controversy because he had been inter-viewed for it.

But since the station had yet to run its stories on its program “North Carolina Now” and the 2010 legisla-tive session was about to end, Hartsell apparently

feared that the stories would come too late to call atten-tion to his takeover bill. So he engineered the seizure of UNC-TV’s un-aired stories and supporting materials, intending to show them to his colleagues and the public on Tuesday morning. (Clumsily, the committee convened as scheduled but proved unprepared to show the DVD until a few hours later.)

If you thought that the prospect of a legislative com-mittee issuing commands to a supposedly independent news organization would provoke widespread outrage and condemnation, you were wrong.

Some reporters were, indeed, bothered by the actions of Hartsell and his colleagues.

The national organiza-tion for statehouse report-ers, CapitolBeat, issued a statement condemning the subpoenas. (The group’s president, Laura Leslie, is the capitol bureau chief for WUNC-FM.) But by and large, the media reaction was surprisingly tame.

As for other North

Carolina politicians, they either ducked the issue or sided with Hartsell.

Among them was Gov. Beverly Perdue, whose office told Carolina Journal that the operating principle here was government transpar-ency.

Because UNC-TV is a state-owned station, her press office insisted that “any information deemed to be a public record would be turned over.”

For its part, UNC-TV caved almost immediately. Not only did it turn over everything Hartsell’s com-mittee demanded, but it then scheduled the Alcoa stories for immediate broad-cast.

Did the station schedule these stories to run this week in an attempt to pla-cate Hartsell and render the controversy moot? That seems clear by the subse-quent statements.

That is, of course, the point. I assume that if the legislature had subpoenaed a private TV station to obtain access to reporting not yet aired, the backlash would have been blistering. But

because UNC-TV is a state agency, an arm of the uni-versity system, some appar-ently think its newsroom is deserving of less protection from the encroachment of political bullies.

I don’t think that’s a rea-sonable reading of existing law. It’s also a dangerous precedent. It threatens the independence not only of public television but also of public radio and student-run newspapers on UNC cam-puses.

My preferred solution would be to privatize UNC-TV – move its operations and assets into a nonprofit, which is the way public TV operates in other states and the model used by, for example, The Daily Tar Heel in Chapel Hill. In the mean-time, North Carolina politi-cians and journalists of all stripes should snap to atten-tion, unite as one voice, and tell Fletcher Hartsell and his Senate colleagues that their thuggish tactics will not be tolerated in a free society.

Hood is president of the John Locke Foundation.

Syndicated columnist

John Hood

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LocaL/obituaries

Nellie MasonNellie Champion Mason,

87, of Gaffney, S.C., died Thursday, July 8, 2010, at Upstate Carolina Medical Center.

A native of Alexander, she was a daughter of the late Robert Champion and Anna Allen Champion.

She retired from Milliken and was a graduate of Union High School and Charlotte Business College. She was a member of Mount Ararat Baptist Church.

In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband, James Mariel Mason.

Survivors include a sister, Ruth Weathers of Forest City.

Funeral services will be held Sunday at 2 p.m. at Mount Ararat Baptist Church with the Revs. Tommy Wright and Joe Paul Turner officiating. The family will receive friends one hour before the service at the church. Burial will be in Frederick Memorial Gardens.

Memorials may be made to Mount Ararat Baptist Church, 412 McKown’s Mountain Road, Gaffney, S.C. 29340.

Blakely Funeral Home and Crematory in Gaffney is in charge of arrangements.

Online condolences may be made at www.blakelyfuneralhome.com.

Sanford MetcalfElbert Sanford Metcalf of

Rutherfordton died Friday, July 9, 2010.

He was preceded in death by his wife, Lucy Metcalf.

Survivors include a son, Roger Metcalf of Union Mills; three daughters, Deborah Barnes and Lisa Jenkins of Sunny View and Sheila Metcalf of Hendersonville; four grand-sons; five granddaughters; two great-grandchildren; two brothers; and four sis-ters.

Graveside services will be held Sunday at 2 p.m. at Big Level Baptist Church Cemetery in Sunny View with Dr. Tim Metcalf offici-ating. The family will receive friends Saturday from 6:30 to 8 p.m. at Crowe’s Mortuary.

Online condolences may be made www.crowemortuary.com.

Maje McDonnellPHILADELPHIA (AP) —

The Philadelphia Phillies say former coach Robert “Maje” McDonnell has died.

McDonnell died at his home in Philadelphia on Thursday. He was 89.

McDonnell spent nearly six decades working for the Phillies, starting as a batting practice pitcher in 1947. He served as a coach, scout, instructor at tryout camps and Phillies Phantasy Camps and as a tour guide at Veterans Stadium during 57 years with the team.

He retired last year.

Robert MillwardLONDON (AP) — Robert

Millward, a longtime Associated Press sports writ-er whose passion for football and love of life endeared him to colleagues and competi-tors alike, died Thursday in South Africa. He was 58.

Millward died appar-ently of natural causes in Johannesburg. He had just returned from Cape Town, where he covered the Netherlands-Uruguay semi-final in his seventh World Cup.

He was found in his hotel room, and an emergency medical team was unable to revive him.

In a well-traveled AP career spanning three decades, Millward, of Birmingham, England, thrived on big events like the World Cup, the Olympics and the British Open. He joined the AP in London in 1984, left for a brief period in the late ‘80s and returned in 1990.

He recently counted the sports he had chronicled for the AP and came up with an astonishing total of 52. He had been the AP’s chief football writer for the past several years.

Millward had a deep and widespread knowledge of all international sports, includ-ing football, cricket, golf, rugby, boxing and horse rac-ing. His main interest was football and, in particular, his beloved local team, West Bromwich Albion.

Millward filed his last story earlier Thursday, a preview of the World Cup final between Spain and The Netherlands.

Before joining AP, Millward worked at the Birmingham Post. He also worked briefly in Birmingham in the late 1980s as news editor of Caters News, Britain’s oldest independent press agency.

In addition to World Cups, he covered numerous Olympic Games, both sum-mer and winter, specializing in weightlifting and Alpine skiing.

Sheriff’s Reportsn The Rutherford County

Sheriff’s Office responded to 168 E-911 calls Thursday.n Ruby Lee Smith report-

ed vandalism to a motor vehicle by scratching.n Rodney James Ruhr

reported vandalism to a mailbox.n William Clenton Roof

reported vandalism to a trampoline.n Larry Dean White told

sheriff’s deputies someone broke through the back door of his home and took a Sawzall cordless drill and Princess House crystal; property value is $1,200.n Mary Greene reported

the larceny of a 1998 Dodge Intrepid valued at $1,500; taken from Chase Highway.n Naima White told depu-

ties someone pushed a vehi-cle into a tree at her home and took $420; damage to the 2004 Cadillac Escalade is $2,500.n Janne Riffle reported

the theft of a Coleman air conditioning unit from her home; value is $1,400.n Rhonda Collins reported

someone broke into her home and damaged a front door.n Spencer Moorehead

reported the larceny of a MG Kit Car from his residence; value is $3,500.

Rutherfordtonn The Rutherfordton Police

Department responded to 37 E-911 calls Thursday.

Spindalen The Spindale Police

Department responded to 27 E-911 Thursday.

Lake Luren The Lake Lure Police

Department responded to 10 E-911 calls Thursday.

Forest Cityn The Forest City Police

Department responded to 84 E-911 calls Thursday.n An employee of Spindale

Scooter, on Withrow Road, reported an incident of obtaining property by false pretenses.n Timothy Fiddler report-

ed an incident of larceny. The incident occurred on Tate Street.n Lawrence Duncan

reported a larceny.n Paul Clinton reported a

breaking and entering, larce-ny and damage to property.

Arrestsn Nathaniel Emerson

Gleaves, 29, of 202 N.

Meridian St.; charged with two counts of felony proba-tion violation; placed under a $30,000 secured bond. (Probation)n Gregory Alan Whitaker,

46, of 4722 Ellenboro Highway; charged with com-municating threats; released on a written promise to appear. (RCSD)n Keith Wayne Shires,

34, of 4468 U.S. 221 South; charged with breaking and entering and larceny; no bond listed. (RCSD)n Robert Joenathan

Rushing, 36, of 268 Womack Lake Road; charged with assault by pointing a gun, assault with a deadly weapon and communicat-ing threats; placed under a $5,000 secured bond. (RCSD)n John Earl Wharton III,

19, of 550 Womack Lake Road; charged with resist-ing a public officer and two counts of second-degree trespassing; released on a $3,000 unsecured bond. (RCSD)n Chris Kyle Laughter, 18,

of 523 Womack Lake Road; charged with second-degree trespassing; released on a $1,000 unsecured bond. (RCSD)

n David James Saverino, 18, of 2122 Prospect Ave.; charged with second-degree trespassing; released on a $1,000 unsecured bond. (RCSD)n Keisha Dawn Dill, 27, of

790 Old Stonecutter Road; charged with fictitious infor-mation to an officer, resist-ing a public officer and driv-ing while license revoked; placed under a $2,000 secured bond. (RCSD)n William Todd Scruggs,

44, of 387 Toms Lake Road; charged with two counts of domestic violence protective order violation; placed under a 48-hour hold. (RCSD)n Jonathan Lee Keeter, 36,

of 125 Amity Drive; charged with communicating threats and harassing phone call; released on a written prom-ise to appear. (RCSD)n Travis Lee Shade, 40,

of 138 Short Road; charged with assault by pointing a gun; placed under a $3,000 secured bond. (RCSD)n Eva Bradley Horton,

36, of Recreation Drive Apartments; charged with break or enter a motor vehicle, financial card theft, attempted obtain property by false pretense, obtain property by false pretense and possession of stolen goods/ property; placed under a $23,000 secured bond. (SPD)n Christopher Byion

Hines, 25, of 105 Hedgecrest Drive; charged with break or enter a motor vehicle, finan-cial card theft and attempt-ed obtain property by false pretense; released on a writ-ten promise to appear. (SPD)

EMS/Rescuen The Rutherford County

EMS responded to 31 E-911 calls Thursday.

n The Volunteer Life Saving and Rescue, Hickory Nut Gorge EMS and Rutherford County Rescue responded to 10 E-911 calls Thursday.

Fire callsn Bostic firefighters

responded to a power line fire.n Cliffside firefighters

responded to an industrial fire alarm.n Forest City firefighters

responded to a smoke report, to a grass fire and to a vehi-cle fire.n Hudlow firefighters

responded to a motor vehicle accident.n Lake Lure firefighters

responded to an electrical fire.

n Rutherfordton firefight-ers responded to a motor vehicle accident.n SDO firefighters

responded to an electri-cal fire, assisted by Sandy Mush and Cliffside fire-fighters, and to a smoke report and a motor vehicle accident.n Spindale firefighters

responded to a grass fire and to a smoke report.

Obituaries

Deaths

Police Notes

RALEIGH (AP) — North Carolina legislators are split over whether the perks offered to job-creating busi-nesses are too big, too small, or about right when unem-ployment is stubbornly high.

Among the last tasks Friday of this year’s General Assembly session was approval of bills extending or expanding incentives for businesses. Tax breaks went to big technology companies that want to build electrici-ty-hogging data centers, oys-ter shell recyclers, and film and television producers.

Several lawmakers said they were holding their nos-es as they voted to increase inducements for compa-nies willing to bring jobs to North Carolina, but did so because they feared employ-ers would look elsewhere if they didn’t.

“The way it is now, we’re pawns for manufacturing. I don’t blame them at all. The manufacturing com-pany goes to the highest bid-der,” said Rep. Phillip Frye, R-Mitchell. Until all state and local governments quit competing by dangling dol-lars, “the only way we can be effective is to offer incen-tives.”

By a 41-8 vote, the Senate tentatively approved a bill boosting tax breaks to a handful of unidentified companies targeted by state

business recruiters. The measure earlier passed the House.

Final legislative action was expected early Saturday on the bill. It would give the incentives to an energy tur-bine manufacturer, a plant converting wood pulp to paper and at least two com-puter data centers.

Although the compa-nies have not been publicly identified, state Commerce Secretary Keith Crisco this week said average consum-ers would recognize some of their names. The cost to the state of about $39 million in uncollected taxes over five years was modest compared to the 1,200 jobs and $2 bil-lion in investments the com-panies would generate, busi-ness boosters said.

The Senate approved a wider-ranging bill that com-bines inducements totaling about $240 million over five years. The tax breaks range from companies that open in green-conscious industrial parks to companies that pro-duce video games or simula-tors used in medicine and by the military.

The House tentatively approved the measure 72-35 on Friday, setting up a final vote on Saturday.

The biggest issue was how far North Carolina should go to subsidize a movie and television industry that has struggled as productions

moved elsewhere.Lawmakers discarded an

earlier effort to let the sala-ries of highly paid actors and directors count toward a total tax break of up to $20 million. Movie produc-ers could write off up to 25 percent of their in-state spending — up to $20 mil-lion — from their state taxes. The tax break is refundable, which means a producer who qualified for a $20 mil-lion writeoff but didn’t owe that much in North Carolina taxes could collect the dif-ference with a multi-million-dollar check from taxpayers.

Senate leader Marc Basnight, D-Dare, said Gov. Beverly Perdue told him she wanted more sweeteners for the film industry than those provided in the package.

So legislators worked into Friday evening debating whether to make tax-free any refund check producers collect from taxpayers.

Perdue spokeswoman Chrissy Pearson said the governor went to Hollywood earlier this year and was told the state needed to make its credits more generous if it wanted to be competi-tive with other film-making locales.

“This piece of legislation will get us a part of the way,” Pearson said Friday. “It’s an improvement over what we have now.”

Solons OK economic incentives

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Sanford Metcalf

Early Friday morning July 9, 2010, Elbert Sanford Metcalf was called home to join his wife Lucy Metcalf who passed away August 2, 2001. Mr. Metcalf leaves behind a son Roger and wife, Ami of Union Mills; three daughters, Deborah and husband, Rick Barnes and Lisa and husband Keith Jenkins of Sunny View, and Sheila Metcalf of Hendersonville; four grandsons, five granddaughters, two great grandchildren along with two brothers, four sisters and many nieces and nephews who will all miss him dearly. The family will receive friends Saturday, July 10 at Crowe’s Mortuary in Rutherfordton from 6:30 until 8 PM. Graveside ser-vices will be held Sunday at 2 PM at Big Level Baptist Church Cemetery in Sunny View, con-ducted by Dr. Tim Metcalf. Online condolences at:www.crowemortuary.com

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Nellie Mason Nellie Champion Mason, 87, formerly of 206 Grace Street, Gaffney, SC, went home to be with the Lord on Thursday, July 8, 2010 at Upstate Carolina Medical Center. Born in Alexander, NC, she was the widow of the late James Mariel Mason and the daughter of the late Robert Champion and Anna Allen Champion. She retired from Milliken and was a graduate of Union High School and Charlotte Business College. Mrs. Mason was a member of Mount Ararat Baptist Church. Surviving is a sister, Ruth Weathers of Forest City, NC; three sisters-in-law, Lib Wright and Lucy Turner, both of Gaffney and Edith Smarr of Gastonia, NC; three nephews, Dr. Charles Stroup and wife, Judy of Gaffney, Randy Carothers of Shelby, NC and Wayne Champion; four niec-es, Bonnie Fraker of Charlotte, NC and Rebecca Edwards of Forest City, NC, Randy B. Carothers of Shelby, NC and Susan Ward of Darlington, SC; two step-grandchildren, Derrick Kirby and Curtis Kirby; a special caregiver, Jan Rochester. She was preceded in death by a daughter, Susan Kirby. The family will receive friends from 1:00 until 2:00 PM on Sunday, July 11, 2010 at Mount Ararat Baptist Church. Funeral services will immediately follow at 2:00 PM at the Church with Rev. Tommy Wright and Rev. Joe Paul Turner officiating. Interment will be in Frederick Memorial Gardens. Memorials may be made to Mount Ararat Baptist Church, 412 McKown’s Mountain Road, Gaffney, SC 29340. The family will be at their respective homes. An online guest register is available at:www.blakelyfuneralhome.com.

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forgery, a news release said. Martha Joe Bradley, also of Bostic and man-ager of the agency, was charged with one felony count of notary fraud. Jason Eric Pruett of Forest City, a for-mer employee, was charged with one felony count of common law forgery.

The three were booked at the Rutherford County Jail. Hyder was released on a $25,000 unsecured bond. Bradley was released on a $10,000 unsecured bond. Pruett was released on a written promise to appear.

Forest City Police Department Assistant Chief Bob Ward said Friday that the DMV notified police about the impending arrests, but he added that the FCPD was not involved in the case.

The Forest City tag agency was closed Friday when area residents arrived at the office in the Tri-City Mall shortly after 9 a.m.

Signs on the door redirected peo-ple to the Cleveland County Plate Agency, 201 W. Marion St., Shelby,

inside Charleston Place Mall; or Hendersonville Plate Agency, 145 Four Seasons Blvd, Hendersonville. The release added the LPA office at 60 E. Court St. in Marion.

In 2009, the Forest City agency performed 71,849 transactions. It had been in operation under the cur-rent contract since Dec. 18, 1985. From January through June 2010, it completed 33,357 transactions, the release said.

LPAs contract with DMV to offer vehicle registration services and title transactions, as well as vehicle license plate renewals, replacement tags and duplicate registrations. About 120

license plate agencies operate across North Carolina.

Marg Howell, a spokeswoman for DMV in Raleigh, said no information was immediately available on when the office might reopen.

“A lot of people here use that office,” District Attorney Brad Greenway said Friday. “It’s one thing to be able to order a license online, but you almost have to go to the office for title work.”

Staffers Jean Gordon and Allison Flynn contributed to this story.

Contact Dale via e-mail at ldale@thedigi-talcourier.com

Hassle ruled that the Rutherford County Schools do not have to share restricted revenues from the 2010 fis-cal year forward if those revenues are placed in a restricted fund approved by the state in late 2009. But he ruled that prior case law requires the schools to include restricted state and federal revenues in the total calcula-tion of money payable to the Thomas Jefferson Classical Academy for fiscal years 2007, 2008 and 2009. These revenues include money for pre-kin-dergarten and social programs.

The ruling could result in a realloca-tion of more than $730,000 in unre-stricted funds from the Rutherford County Schools to Thomas Jefferson. Of this amount, the school system has calculated that more than $530,000 is attributable to the school system’s decision to accept restricted state and federal funding, largely for preschool programs, school board Chairman Bennett said Friday afternoon.

For fiscal 2009, for example, this means that Thomas Jefferson students would receive $1,630 per student from the unrestricted mon-ies available to the schools from all sources, leaving only $908 per Rutherford County School student. In court, Thomas Jefferson did not dis-pute the fact that use of the revenues at issue were restricted. Instead, it maintained the issue was “irrelevant.”

TJCA headmaster Joe Maimone said Friday afternoon, “Sadly it took a court settlement to say, ‘Yes,’ indeed the state is correct.”

He said the issue of equal funding had already been decided in court, “starting with Sugar Creek with Charlotte,” defining very clearly the local charter schools are required to receive full portion of local current expense.

“By the way the law was written, the current expense money has to be divided per student basis, and we represent 7 percent of the Rutherford

County student population,” he said. By the start of the 2010-11 school year, 1,000 students will be enrolled in the charter grammar, middle and high schools.

“It is the right thing to do. We have the fiduciary responsibility to our families and our students to politely ask for the fair allotment the law says we are allowed.

“We made a very good faith effort to talk to the school system and to ask for those fair legal allotments, and we were denied,” he said.

Maimone said recent legislative action allows part of the state lottery money can be used to pay teacher salaries, but only in traditional schools. “The charter schools were purposefully left out of the allotment so if that lottery money will help pay teacher salaries, then we will have to use the settlement funds to help pay our teacher salary” and make up the deficit, he said.

“We will not get an additional allot-ment for the teacher salaries, so this money will just go to fill in the gap.”

David Faunce, chairman of TJCA board of education, said there are mixed emotions regarding the ruling of the Rutherford County Superior Court. “While we are pleased with the portion of the order in which Judge Hassell ruled that RCS must share monies that were part of the local current expense fund for prior years with the children of TJCA, we respectfully disagree with Judge Hassell in his holding that RCS is permitted to transfer monies out of the local current expense fund in 2009- 2010 at their discretion.

“It is tragic that this has been such a divisive issue in the public square. Those who have attempted to advance the notion of “us versus them”— on either side – have unjustly cast the minds and growth of our county’s children into a vast, figurative chasm between them.

“Rutherford County Schools and Thomas Jefferson Academy have so much to share with one another that transcends dollars and cents. We

stand on common ground. We are all part of the same North Carolina pub-lic school system and we’re charged with the same mission,” Faunce said.

“Children who attend a charter school and children who attend a district school are equally entitled to share in the fruits that ripen from a respectful, cooperative col-laboration between TJCA and RCS. Students freely migrate between the county school system and the charter school system as their learning needs change. We should be proud that TJCA and RCS can stand united so as to claim to have something to offer for almost every stage of a child’s edu-cation; but if we try to stand alone or claim exclusive ownership of a child’s learning journey, neither school sys-tem has anything to offer,” he said.

Faunce said some continuing issues of law must still be settled in a higher court, and the attorneys and school boards will continue to advocate for their respective positions. “They will disagree without being disagreeable,” Faunce said. “They will challenge one another’s minds while being mindful of one another’s challenges. They will acknowledge that they have differ-ences in this matter but admire that each is shaping the same tomorrow in different ways, and that our children’s futures are what truly matter.”

Over the past three years, TJCA has received more than $1.2 million in direct payments from RCS, derived primarily from tax dollars allocated to the RCS by the Rutherford County Commissioners as required by law, Bennett and the school board said in January when the suit was filed.

TJCA Attorney Richard Vinroot of Robinson Bradshaw & Hinson in Charlotte said RCS has underfunded TJCA systemically over the past four years and that RCS should be “required to pay the money they owe. We are asking for all the money of the past four years.”

Only the past three years was con-sidered due to the statue of limita-tions prior years of funding, Maimone said.

ongoingStorewide half-price sale: Through Saturday, Yokefellow Service Center; store hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.; cash, credit and debit only.

Book sale: Monday-Friday, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., Rutherford EMC; hard-back books, $1, paperback books 50 cents and some miscellaneous books four for $1; proceeds go to benefit Relay for Life.

Red Cross Benefit: Spindale Drug is partnering with the Rutherford County Chapter of the American Red Cross by donating $5 to the Red Cross until the end of July with new prescriptions on certificates available at Spindale Drug or at the Red Cross Chapter House.

Saturday, July 10Kids’ Computer Corner: Every Saturday, 10 a.m. to noon, Union Mills Learning Center.

Low-cost rabies clinic: Noon to 1 p.m., Thunder Road Animal Hospital; rabies and other dis-counted vaccines available; for more information, call 286-0033.

Benefit for Charles Wilkie: 6:30 p.m., Sunshine Elementary School; hamburger and hot dog supper at 5 p.m. followed by “Memories of Elvis” with Michael Hoover; admission $1 person, with a love offering to be taken; Wilkie is in need of a kidney transplant.

Monday, July 12Hospice Volunteer Training: July 12 through July 14, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., at the Carolina Event and Conference Center. Cost for the class is $15, fee returned to new active volunteers.

Tuesday, July 13Purple Tuesday: All day at Courtside Steaks, who will donate 10 percent of its profits to Relay for Life.

Harris High School Alumni breakfast: 9 a.m., Turner’s Restaurant in Chesnee, S.C.; meal is dutch treat; for more informa-tion, contact Joan at 245-2658.

Adult CPR class: 6 p.m. until, American Red Cross Rutherford County Chapter House; 287-5916.

HOPE Support Group: Tues-days,at 6 p.m. at the Center of Living for any adult in the com-munity who has lost a loved one. Offered at no cost by Hospice of Rutherford County.

Alanon meetings: Lake Lure Alanon Family Group meets every Tuesday at 7:30 p.m., at Lake Lure Mountains Branch Library, 150 Bills Creek Road, Lake Lure; call 625-0456 for information.

Wednesday, July 14Children’s summer reading program: Every Wednesday, 9 a.m., through Aug. 4, Union Mills Learning Center.

Lunch and Learn: Noon, Ryan’s Restaurant; hosted by the Ruth-erford County Chamber of Com-merce; topic is “Top 10 things you need to know when advertising your business;” 287-3090 or info@rutherfordcoc.com.

Thursday, July 15Safe Sitter class: 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Rutherford Hospital; for 11 to 13 year old children; class fee is $45 and registration is required; call 286-5218.

Financial aid deadline: Students who will be applying for financial aid at Isothermal Community College have until 4:30 p.m. to complete both their financial aid file and admissions file. A com-pleted finanical aid file means a 2010-11 FAFSA has been submit-ted and received by the college and all requested paperwork has been turned in. Students should check with the admissions office for fur-ther requirements - 286-3636.

Child and Infant CPR class: 6 p.m., until, American Red Cross Rutherford County Chapter House; 287-5916.

Friday, July 16Widow/Widower’s Lunch Bunch meeting: Third Friday of each month at the Carolina Event and Conference Center, 11:30 a.m. until 1 p.m.; for anyone in the community who has lost a spouse. Cost for lunch is $5. Participants must register to reserve lunch. Sponsored by Hospice.

Blood drive: 1 to 5:30 p.m., Forest City Fire Department, 186 S. Church St., Forest City; presenting donors will be entered in a draw-ing for a chance to win a $1,000 gift card; please call 245-1111 to schedule your appointment.

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina lawmakers are backing a renewable energy project that could employ 1,000 on the polluted grounds of a former textile-dye manufacturing plant in Mecklenburg County.

The Senate voted 44-0 for final approval Friday on boosting the value

of electricity generated by the project which includes a biomass power plant and a solar farm.

The measure allows power produced at ReVenture Park to count triple toward the requirement that state’s utilities use or produce electricity from renewable sources.

State law requires electric compa-nies to get 3 percent of the power they sell from renewables by 2012.

Forsite Development’s Tom McKittrick said all of Mecklenburg County’s household garbage will be turned into electricity. The project is on 670 acres along the Catawba River.

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PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Two days after a barge crashed into a stalled tourist boat, leaving two Hungarian tourists missing, authori-ties retrieved two bodies from the Delaware River, including a girl identified as one of the victims. Identification of the second body was pending.

The body of a girl later identified as 16-year-old Dora Schwendtner was spotted by a crew on a fishing boat before dawn Friday about two miles downriver from the site of Wednesday’s crash.

The second body was retrieved lat-er in the day, after a barge brought in to help to lift the duck boat off the river’s bottom was moved.

Authorities could not immediately confirm whether the body was that of Szabolcs Prem, 20, the other miss-ing Hungarian tourist.

The six-wheeled duck boat was struck by the barge on Wednesday around 2:40 p.m., some 10 minutes after it splashed into the water near Penn’s Landing.

Carrying 35 passengers and two crew, the tourist boat had mechani-cal problems and its engine stalled. The captain, Gary Fox, said he put out a distress call. The passengers were told to put life jackets on ahead of the barge striking the boat.

Within seconds it capsized and sank, though all but two people were rescued without serious injury.

On Friday, pulling the bodies and the amphibious boat from the water closed the recovery efforts that attracted scores of onlookers to the river’s banks and caused the Delaware River it to be closed to pleasure boats.

Now, investigators are left with several questions: How did the crash happen? Why did the duck boat stall? Did its skipper let other ves-sels know? Did the captain and crew of the tug pushing the empty barge know — or should have known — the duck boat was idle in the water, its anchor deployed?

The National Transportation Safety Board was spending Friday inter-viewing people who were aboard either of the boats at the time of the crash.

The federal crew expected to remain in Philadelphia about a week longer, but will continue their probe in Washington.

One issue to be examined is wheth-er the tug boat was able to see the duck boat in the water because of any blind spot, an issue known to tug boat pilots.

Joseph Dady, president of the National Mariners Association and a tug boat pilot himself, told The Associated Press that tugs always have blind spots when they’re push-ing barges.

In this case, where the tug’s wheel house was relatively low and the barge was light and floating high in the water, it could have been large he said.

He said the Coast Guard requires lookouts on board tugs or barges in situations like that, but that they’re often not posted and the rule is not often enforced. U.S. Coast Guard Capt. Todd Gatlin disputed that the regulation is not enforced.

Tug pilots are also required to use radar to make sure they’re not at risk of hitting other vessels. The duck boat did not have a radar reflec-tor, so it’s not clear whether it would show up on a boat’s radar.

Darrell Wilson, a spokesman for K-Sea Transportation Partners, which operates the tug called The Caribbean Sea, said he would not talk about details like whether there was a lookout or whether the radar was working properly.

Those are questions the NTSB was looking into.

The Coast Guard’s Gatlin said the area where the crash happened — a spot near a marina and used by boats of all sizes — does not have speed restrictions. “It’s basically a safe maritime speed,” he said.

Another question in the investi-gation is whether the tugboat pilot heard any distress signal from the duck boat.

Chris Herschend, president of the boat company, Ride the Ducks, said Friday that Fox told him he had put out a distress call on Channel 13, which is monitored by boaters but not recorded.

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Transit cop writes letter apologizing for shooting

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The former transit police officer con-victed of killing an unarmed black man in an Oakland train station has written a letter apologizing to the victim’s family.

Johannes Mehserle said in a handwritten letter, released by his lawyer Friday, that he will forever “live, breathe, sleep and not sleep” with the memory of 22-year-old Oscar Grant dying on the train platform. Mehserle said he’ll live every day “knowing that Mr. Grant should not have been shot.” The letter is dated July 4, four days before a Los Angeles jury convicted him of involuntary manslaughter. The verdict outraged Grant’s fam-ily and touched off violent protest in Oakland, where the case has enflamed racial tensions.

Ala. inmate playing role of escapee gets lost

CAPSHAW, Ala. (AP) — The Limestone Correction Facility in Alabama might want to start hand-ing out GPS devices with its prison-

issued jumpsuits. Officials there say an inmate playing a fugitive during a dog training exercise vanished into the woods Thursday.

Warden Dorothy Goode says 37-year-old inmate David Hopkins was helping out the canine unit by playing an escapee but never showed up for head count.

A “be on the lookout” warning went out and Hopkins was found within about an hour. Goode says he got lost and was not trying to escape. He’s serving a life sentence for theft.

Gray whale stranded again at park in Wash.

SEATTLE (AP) — A gray whale that was stranded off the shores of Washington state and man-aged to get back to open waters has beached itself again. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration spokesman Brian Gorman says it’s not surprising the 40-foot whale beached itself again at Everett. He says whales that are sick seek the shores — and that it may be dead already. On Thursday, more than a dozen volunteers kept the whale wet.

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Associated PressAn amphibious craft is salvaged from the Delaware River in Philadelphia, Friday, July 9, 2010. An amphibious sightseeing boat that stalled in the Delaware River was knocked over by an oncoming barge Wednesday, spilling 37 people overboard and leaving two passengers unaccounted for after a frantic rescue effort.

Associated PressLouisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal flies over small islands in Baritaria Bay to check on the effort to protect the marsh from oil from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill Friday. The BP oil leak could be completely contained as early as Monday if a new, tighter cap can be fitted over the blown-out well, the government official in charge of the crisis said Friday in some of the most encouraging news to come out of the Gulf in the 2½ months since the disaster struck.

Cap could contain leakNEW ORLEANS (AP) — The BP

oil leak could be completely con-tained as early as Monday if a new, tighter cap can be fitted over the blown-out well, the government official in charge of the crisis said Friday in some of the most encour-aging news to come out of the Gulf in the 2 1/2 months since the disas-ter struck.

If the project planned to begin this weekend is successful, it would sim-ply mean no more oil would escape to foul the Gulf of Mexico. The well would still be busted and leaking — workers would just funnel what comes out of it to tankers at the sur-face. The hope for a permanent solu-tion remains with two relief wells intended to plug it completely far beneath the seafloor.

“I use the word ’contained,”’ said retired Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen. “’Stop’ is when we put the plug in down below.”

Crews using remote-controlled submarines plan to swap out the cap over the weekend, taking advan-

tage of a window of good weather following weeks of delays caused by choppy seas. The cap now in use was installed June 4 to capture oil gushing from the bottom of sea, but because it had to be fitted over a jagged cut in the well pipe, it allows some crude to escape into the Gulf. The new cap — dubbed “Top Hat Number 10” — is designed to fit more snugly and help BP catch all the oil. During the installation, the gusher will get worse before it gets better. Once the old cap is removed, oil will pour into the Gulf unhin-dered for about 48 hours while the new one is put in place, Allen said.

BP also worked on Friday to hook up another containment ship called the Helix Producer to a different part of the leaking well. The ship, which will be capable of sucking up more than 1 million gallons a day when it is fully operating, should be working by Sunday, Allen said.

The government estimates 1.5 mil-lion to 2.5 million gallons of oil a day are spewing from the well.

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Associated PressA motorcade of vehicles believed to be carrying candidates for a 14-person spy swap, leave from Moscow’s Domodedovo airport for downtown Moscow on Friday. The plane carrying the colors of the Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations is thought to have flown from Austria on Friday, following an exchange of spies between Moscow and Washington.

MOSCOW (AP) — The U.S. and Russia orchestrated the largest spy swap since the Cold War, exchanging 10 spies arrest-ed in the U.S. for four convicted in Russia in an elaborately cho-reographed diplomatic dance Friday at Vienna’s airport.

The exchange was a clear dem-onstration of President Barack Obama’s “reset” ties between Moscow and Washington, enabling the U.S. to retrieve four Russians, some of whom were suffering through long prison terms.

At least one of the four — ex-colonel Alexander Zaporozhsky — may have exposed informa-tion leading to the capture of Robert Hanssen and Aldrich Ames, two of the most damag-ing spies ever caught in the U.S.

The talks leading to the spy swap began when CIA direc-tor Leon Panetta approached Mikhail Fradkov, the head of Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service, with a proposed deal, a U.S. official said Friday. Following the FBI arrests of the Russians, the U.S. intelligence agency reached out, making it possible for Panetta to suggest the exchange, the official said.

Moscow avoided having 10 spy trials in the United States that would have spilled embarrassing details of how its agents, posing as ordinary citizens, apparently uncovered little of value but managed to be watched by the FBI for years.

After not commenting for days, the U.S. Justice Department finally announced a successful completion to the spy swap after the two planes involved touched down in Moscow and London.

The Russian Foreign Ministry also confirmed the swap, but said only that those involved had been “accused” or “con-victed” of unspecified offenses — a statement that underlined Russia’s apparent discomfort with the scandal that erupted nearly two weeks ago. The Kremlin has clearly been wor-ried the June 27 arrests would undermine efforts to improve relations with Washington.

Ordinary Russians took little satisfaction from the agents’ undercover exploits.

“They obviously were very bad spies if they got caught. They got caught, so they should be tried,” said Sasha Ivanov, a business-

man.One alleged Russian spy want-

ed in the United States — the paymaster for the whole spy ring — was still a fugitive after jumping bail in Cyprus. Neither the U.S. or Russia have com-mented on his whereabouts.

To start the whirlwind exchange, two planes — one from New York’s La Guardia airport and another from Moscow — arrived Friday in Vienna within minutes of each other. They parked nose-to-tail at a remote section on the tar-mac, exchanged spies using a small bus, then departed just as quickly. In all, it took less than an hour and a half.

The Russian Emergencies Ministry Yak-42 then left for Moscow carrying the 10 people deported from the U.S., and a maroon-and-white Boeing 767-200 that brought those agents in from New York whisked away four Russians who had con-fessed to spying for the West.

The U.S. charter landed briefly at RAF Brize Norton air base in southern England. A U.S. official said two of the four Russians were dropped off there before the plane headed back across the Atlantic.

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev had signed a decree pardoning the four Thursday after officials forced them to sign confessions. The Kremlin identified them as Zaporozhsky, Igor Sutyagin, Gennady Vasilenko and Sergei Skripal.

Sutyagin, an arms research-er convicted of spying for the United States, had told rela-tives earlier he was being sent to Britain. Skripal was convicted of spying for Britain, but there was no official confirmation he was left in the U.K.

Both the U.S and Russia won admissions of crimes from the subjects of the exchange — guilty pleas in the U.S. and signed confessions in Russia.

In exchange for the 10 Russian agents, the U.S. won freedom for and access to two former Russian intelligence colonels who had been convicted in their home country of compromising dozens of valuable Soviet-era and Russian agents operating in the West. Two others also convicted of betraying Moscow were wrapped into the deal.

U.S. officials said some of those freed by Russia were

ailing, and cited humanitar-ian concerns for arranging the swap in such a hurry. They said no substantial benefit to U.S. national security was seen from keeping the captured low-level agents in U.S. prisons for years.

The 10 Russian agents arrest-ed in the U.S. had tried to blend into American suburbia but been under watch by the FBI. Their access to top U.S. national security secrets appeared spotty at best, although the extent of what they passed on is not pub-licly known.

Zaporozhsky, a former colo-nel in the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service, sentenced in 2003 to 18 years in prison for espionage on behalf of the United States, passing secret information about undercover Russian agents working in the United States and about Americans working for Russian intelligence.

Skripal, a former colonel in the Russian military intelligence, was found guilty of passing state secrets to Britain and sentenced to 13 years in prison in 2006. He was accused of revealing the names of several dozen Russian agents working in Europe.

Sutyagin asserts his inno-cence despite the forced con-fession. He worked with the U.S.A. and Canada Institute, a respected Moscow-based think-tank, before being sentenced to 15 years in 2004 on charges of passing information on nuclear submarines and other weap-ons to a British company that Russia claimed was a CIA cover. Sutyagin says the information he provided was available from open sources.

Gennady Vasilenko, a former KGB officer employed as a secu-rity officer by Russia’s NTV television, was sentenced in 2006 to three years in prison on illegal weapons possession and resistance to authorities. It was not exactly clear why he was involved in the spy swap.

The U.S. deported agents using the names Anna Chapman, Tracey Lee Ann Foley, Donald Howard Heathfield, Juan Lazaro, Patricia Mills, Richard and Cynthia Murphy, Vicky Pelaez, Mikhail Semenko and Michael Zottoli. All pleaded guilty on Thursday to conspir-ing to act as unregistered for-eign agents.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Marine Corps Gen. James Mattis has been picked to take over U.S. Central Command, the Pentagon announced.

Mattis would replace Gen. David Petraeus, who is now in Afghanistan as the U.S. and NATO’s top military officer there.

The shake-up comes as the American public questions whether the fight in Afghanistan can be won, and the Defense Department is reeling from los-ing its top war com-mander — Gen. Stanley McChrystal.

As head of Central Command, Mattis would oversee U.S. military operations in Afghanistan and Pakistan, as well as across the Middle East, including Iraq and Iran.

Defense Secretary Robert Gates told reporters that he was impressed with the gen-eral’s “strategic insight and independent think-ing.”

Mattis is a blunt-talking, seasoned war veteran best known for

leading troops into the bloody battle of Fallujah in Iraq in 2004.

He is a bit of a surprising pick. On the one hand, Mattis has significant ground combat experience and is considered an intellectual who grasps the nuances of fighting a complicated counterinsur-gency.

But he is also known to speak bluntly and off-the-cuff — much like Petraeus’ predecessor Gen. McChrystal who was fired for speaking ill of his civilian bosses.

In 2005, Mattis was chastised by his superi-ors for saying in a public speech in San Diego that it was “fun to shoot some people.” Mattis was a three-star general at the time, stationed in Quantico, Va., when he told an audience that some Afghans deserved to die.

“Actually, it’s a lot of fun to fight,” he said. “You know, it’s a hell of a hoot. . . . It’s fun to shoot some people. I’ll be right upfront with you. I like brawl-ing.”

He added, “You go into Afghanistan, you got guys who slap women around for five years because they didn’t wear a veil. You know, guys like that ain’t got no manhood left anyway. So it’s a hell of a lot of fun to shoot them.”

His comments evoked laughter and applause from the audience.

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A federal grand jury has returned new charges against 11 Somali men accused of separate pirate attacks on Navy war-ships, including allegations they had a rocket-propelled grenade launcher and assaulted federal officers.

The latest charges add another possible manda-tory life term for five defendants accused in the April 1 pirate attack upon the USS Nicholas off the coast of Africa.

The six defendants accused in the April 10 attack on the USS Ashland face an additional charge of assault on a federal officer with a dangerous weapon, which carries a maximum term of 20 years in prison, plus other charges.

All 11 men have remained jailed in the Norfolk area since late April on charges that included piracy, which carries a mandatory life term. All entered pleas of not guilty to the previous charges.

The superseding indictment was handed up Wednesday and unsealed in U.S. District Court late Thursday. The defendants await a sched-uled July 28 arraignment on the new charges in Norfolk.

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Rare .Triple .Play .at .Little .League .game

FOREST CITY — Late Tuesday night, during the Chase-Boiling Springs 9- and 10-year old baseball All-Star game, parents and fans were treated to a unique moment.

Chase 1B Joe Conner snagged a line drive, stepped on first and then threw across the infield to teammate Jacob Gordon, who stepped on the third base bag ahead of the bas-erunner — triple play.

Chase lost the game, but the play thrilled fans of both teams.

Panthers .sign .3rd .round .pick .Edwards

CHARLOTTE (AP) — The Carolina Panthers signed third-round pick and former Appalachian State quarterback Armanti Edwards to a four-year, $2.5 million contract.

Edwards will get about $710,000 in signing bonuses. The Panthers are converting Edwards to receiver. He could also return kicks.

Edwards is the only player in NCAA Division I history to pass for 10,000 yards and rush for 4,000. He led the Mountaineers to two national championships and a monu-mental upset of Michigan.

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Little League All-Stars9/10 at Dunbar Park

6 p.m. District 1 Champion-ship Game: Boiling Springs vs Forest City-Rutherfordton winner.

Little League All-StarsJuniors at Crestview Park

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Little League All-StarsSeniors at Cherryville

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2 p.m. (WSOC) (WLOS) World Cup Soccer Third Place: Uruguay vs Germany.2 p.m. (TS) ATP Tennis Campbell’s Hall of Fame Championship, First Semifi-nal. 3 p.m. (WBTV) PGA Tour Golf John Deere Classic, Third Round. 3 p.m. (WYFF) Golf U.S. Women’s Open Champion-ship, Third Round. 3 p.m. (WSPA) PGA Tour Golf John Deere Classic, Third Round. 3:30 p.m. (ESPN) WNBA Basketball All-Star Game. 4 p.m. (WHNS) MLB Base-ball Regional Coverage. Braves at Mets or Cubs at Dodgers or Twins at Tigers. 4 p.m. (TS) ATP Tennis Campbell’s Hall of Fame Championship, Second Semi-final. 7 p.m. (WMYA) Minor League Baseball Savannah Sand Gnats at Asheville Tour-ists. 7 p.m. (FSCR) MLB Baseball Cincinnati Reds at Philadel-phia Phillies. 7 p.m. (TS) Horse Racing Hollywood Gold Cup. 7 p.m. (WGN-A) MLB Base-ball Kansas City Royals at Chicago White Sox. 7:30 p.m. (TNT) NASCAR Racing Sprint Cup: LifeLock.com 400. 9 p.m. (SHO) Boxing Juan Manuel Lopez vs. Bernabe Concepcion.

Associated PressCharlotte Bobcats guard Stephen Jackson (1) goes up for a shot in front of Orlando Magic forward Rashard Lewis during a NBA basketball playoff game in Orlando, Fla., in this April 21, 2010, file photo.

By MIKE CRANSTONAP Sports Writer

CHARLOTTE — Stephen Jackson sent out a couple of messages on Friday, the day after LeBron James shook the NBA with his decision to form a superstar trio in Miami.

First, vacation time should be over for his Charlotte Bobcats teammates now that they’re in perhaps the most powerful division in the league.

Second, don’t crown the Heat champions just yet.

“They’re going to be great,” Jackson said. “It’s going to be good for basketball. It’s going to be good for the city of Miami. It’s going to be exciting for the game. At the same time, they’ve got to go out there and win games just like every other team.”

While he thinks James should have signed with Chicago or stayed in Cleveland and “showed a little more loyalty,” Jackson isn’t backing down from the challenge of being in the same Southeast Division as a now stacked Heat team that also includes Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh.

“I’m not one of those guys who’s going to lay down just because they put all those guys on the same team,” Jackson said. “I don’t think anybody on my team is going to lay down. We’re going to come out and play. Everybody has respect for those guys, but at the same time you have to win games to get respect on the court.”

So far the Michael Jordan-owned Bobcats have lost ground in what’s been a league-altering week of free agency. While Charlotte is hamstrung from making a splash because of salary cap woes, its rivals have made giant

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Boiling .Springs .advances .to .titleBy JACOB CONLEYSports Reporter

FOREST CITY — Boiling Springs used a six-run, first inning and then rode the strong arm of John Mitchell past Chase, 12-0, in the semifinals of the 9- and 10-year old baseball All Star tournament at Dunbar Park Friday.

Mitchell tossed a complete game, three hit shutout for the win that moves Boiling Springs into the District 1 title game. Boiling Springs will face the win-ner of Friday’s late game between Forest City-Rutherfordton. The title game will start at 6 p.m.

Boiling Springs took advantage of batting first in the contest by sending 11 men to the plate and in the process plated six runs to take the early lead. In the bottom half, Chase was held scoreless in spite of making solid contact in

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Garrett Byers/Daily CourierRutherfordton’s Jake Laughter, above, stares in for the sign from his catcher during the game against Forest City, Friday night at Dunbar Park.

By KEVIN CARVERSports Reporter

RUTHERFORDTON — Aaron Ballinger, Tyler Weaver and Caleb Lancaster com-bined for a 7-for-10 day at the plate as the Chase Jr. League All-Stars out-slugged Rutherfordton, 11-7, at Crestview Park Friday.

The trio collected seven RBI by the end of the third inning and held on to the lead the rest of the way in the District 1 tourney opener.

Both teams hit the ball hard, but Chase picked up 11 base hits, while Rutherfordton col-lected eight.

Rutherfordton struck the scoreboard initially as the visi-tors in the top half of the first.

Conner Dailey ripped a dou-ble into the right field gap and two batters later, Will Owens

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Forest City’s Tucker Hamrick, right, slides into third base safely as Rutherfordton’s Jace Crowe applies the tag during the 9- and 10-year old baseball All-Star game at Dunbar Park Friday. The win-ner will face Boiling Springs in the District 1 Championship Game tonight at 6 p.m.

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BASEBALLNational League

East Division W L Pct GBAtlanta 51 35 .588 —New York 47 39 .553 4Philadelphia 45 40 .524 5 1/2Florida 40 45 .471 10 1/2Washington 39 48 .442 12 1/2

Central Division W L Pct GBCincinnati 49 38 .563 —St. Louis 45 40 .529 3Chicago 38 48 .442 10 1/2Milwaukee 37 49 .430 11 1/2Houston 35 51 .407 13 1/2Pittsburgh 30 55 .353 18

West Division W L Pct GBSan Diego 50 35 .588 —Colorado 47 38 .553 3Los Angeles 47 38 .553 3San Francisco 45 40 .529 5Arizona 33 53 .384 17 1/2

Thursday’s GamesHouston 2, Pittsburgh 0San Francisco 9, Milwaukee 3Colorado 4, St. Louis 2Philadelphia 4, Cincinnati 3, 12 inningsSan Diego 7, Washington 1Arizona 10, Florida 4L.A. Dodgers 3, Chicago Cubs 2Friday’s GamesPhiladelphia 9, Cincinnati 7, 10 inningsWashington 8, San Francisco 1Atlanta 4, N.Y. Mets 2St. Louis at Houston, latePittsburgh at Milwaukee, lateSan Diego at Colorado, lateFlorida at Arizona, lateChicago Cubs at L.A. Dodgers, lateSaturday’s GamesAtlanta (T.Hudson 8-4) at N.Y. Mets (Pelfrey 10-3), 4:10 p.m.Chicago Cubs (Gorzelanny 3-5) at L.A. Dodgers (Ely 4-6), 4:10 p.m.Cincinnati (Tr.Wood 0-0) at Philadelphia (Halladay 10-7), 7:05 p.m.San Francisco (J.Sanchez 7-6) at Washington (Stammen 2-3), 7:05 p.m.St. Louis (Suppan 0-4) at Houston (Myers 5-6), 7:05 p.m.Pittsburgh (Karstens 2-3) at Milwaukee (Bush 3-6), 7:10 p.m.Florida (N.Robertson 6-6) at Arizona (I.Kennedy 3-7), 8:10 p.m.San Diego (LeBlanc 4-6) at Colorado (Hammel 6-3), 8:10 p.m.Sunday’s GamesAtlanta at N.Y. Mets, 1:10 p.m.Cincinnati at Philadelphia, 1:35 p.m.San Francisco at Washington, 1:35 p.m.St. Louis at Houston, 2:05 p.m.Pittsburgh at Milwaukee, 2:10 p.m.San Diego at Colorado, 3:10 p.m.Florida at Arizona, 4:10 p.m.Chicago Cubs at L.A. Dodgers, 8:05 p.m.Monday’s GamesNo games scheduledTuesday’s GamesAll-Star Game at Anaheim, CA, 8:05 p.m.

American League

East Division W L Pct GBNew York 54 31 .635 —Tampa Bay 52 33 .612 2Boston 49 36 .576 5Toronto 43 43 .500 11 1/2Baltimore 26 59 .306 28

Central Division W L Pct GBDetroit 46 37 .554 —Chicago 46 38 .548 1/2Minnesota 45 40 .529 2Kansas City 39 46 .459 8Cleveland 33 52 .388 14

West Division W L Pct GBTexas 50 35 .588 —Los Angeles 46 42 .523 5 1/2Oakland 41 45 .477 9 1/2Seattle 34 51 .400 16

Thursday’s GamesChicago White Sox 1, L.A. Angels 0Toronto 8, Minnesota 1Tampa Bay 5, Cleveland 2Baltimore 6, Texas 4

N.Y. Yankees 3, Seattle 1Friday’s GamesMinnesota at Detroit, lateBoston at Toronto, lateCleveland at Tampa Bay, lateBaltimore at Texas, lateKansas City at Chicago White Sox, lateL.A. Angels at Oakland, lateN.Y. Yankees at Seattle, lateSaturday’s GamesBoston (Lackey 9-4) at Toronto (Morrow 5-6), 1:07 p.m.Minnesota (Blackburn 7-6) at Detroit (Bonderman 4-6), 4:10 p.m.Kansas City (Bannister 7-6) at Chicago White Sox (Floyd 4-7), 7:05 p.m.Cleveland (Laffey 1-2) at Tampa Bay (Garza 9-5), 7:10 p.m.Baltimore (Tillman 0-3) at Texas (Harrison 1-1), 8:05 p.m.L.A. Angels (Kazmir 7-8) at Oakland (Sheets 3-8), 9:05 p.m.N.Y. Yankees (Vazquez 7-7) at Seattle (F.Hernandez 6-5), 10:10 p.m.Sunday’s GamesMinnesota at Detroit, 1:05 p.m.Boston at Toronto, 1:07 p.m.Cleveland at Tampa Bay, 1:40 p.m.Kansas City at Chicago White Sox, 2:05 p.m.Baltimore at Texas, 3:05 p.m.L.A. Angels at Oakland, 4:05 p.m.N.Y. Yankees at Seattle, 4:10 p.m.Monday’s GamesNo games scheduledTuesday’s GamesAll-Star Game at Anaheim, CA, 8:05 p.m.

SOCCER2010 WORLD CUP

QUARTERFINALSFriday, July 2

At Port Elizabeth, South AfricaNetherlands 2, Brazil 1

At JohannesburgUruguay 1, Ghana 1, Uruguay wins 4-2 on penalty kicks

Saturday, July 3At Cape Town, South Africa

Germany 4, Argentina 0At Johannesburg

Spain 1, Paraguay 0

SEMIFINALSTuesday, July 6

At Cape Town, South AfricaNetherlands 3, Uruguay 2

Wednesday, July 7At Durban, South Africa

Spain 1, Germany 0

THIRD PLACESaturday, July 10

At Port Elizabeth, South AfricaUruguay vs. Germany, 2:30 p.m.

CHAMPIONSHIPSunday, July 11

At JohannesburgNetherlands vs. Spain, 2:30 p.m.

RACINGNASCAR-Sprint Cup

LifeLock.com 400 Lineup

(Car number in parentheses)1. (1) Jamie McMurray, Chevrolet, 183.542.2. (48) Jimmie Johnson, Chevrolet, 183.281.3. (14) Tony Stewart, Chevrolet, 182.877.4. (16) Greg Biffle, Ford, 182.673.5. (77) Sam Hornish Jr., Dodge, 182.605.6. (24) Jeff Gordon, Chevrolet, 182.599.7. (00) David Reutimann, Toyota, 182.587.8. (56) Martin Truex Jr., Toyota, 182.445.9. (98) Paul Menard, Ford, 182.445.10. (42) J. Pablo Montoya, Chevrolet, 182.248.11. (99) Carl Edwards, Ford, 182.168.12. (9) Kasey Kahne, Ford, 182.106.13. (43) A J Allmendinger, Ford, 182.039.14. (31) Jeff Burton, Chevrolet, 181.977.15. (33) Clint Bowyer, Chevrolet, 181.867.16. (19) Elliott Sadler, Ford, 181.806.17. (11) Denny Hamlin, Toyota, 181.8.18. (20) Joey Logano, Toyota, 181.653.19. (39) Ryan Newman, Chevrolet, 181.616.20. (09) Bobby Labonte, Chevrolet, 181.555.21. (5) Mark Martin, Chevrolet, 181.415.22. (2) Kurt Busch, Dodge, 181.348.

23. (47) Marcos Ambrose, Toyota, 181.324.24. (83) Reed Sorenson, Toyota, 181.311.25. (88) Dale Earnhardt Jr., Chevrolet, 181.299.26. (6) David Ragan, Ford, 181.099.27. (29) Kevin Harvick, Chevrolet, 181.068.28. (87) Joe Nemechek, Toyota, 180.929.29. (21) Bill Elliott, Ford, 180.796.30. (12) Brad Keselowski, Dodge, 180.385.31. (13) Max Papis, Toyota, 180.331.32. (71) Landon Cassill, Chevrolet, 180.27.33. (18) Kyle Busch, Toyota, 180.192.34. (17) Matt Kenseth, Ford, 180.15.35. (36) Casey Mears, Chevrolet, 180.102.36. (26) David Stremme, Ford, 179.934.37. (32) Mike Bliss, Toyota, 179.689.38. (7) Robby Gordon, Toyota, 179.414.39. (82) Scott Speed, Toyota, 179.396.40. (37) David Gilliland, Ford, Owner Points.41. (78) Regan Smith, Chevrolet, Points.42. (34) Kevin Conway, Ford, Owner Points.43. (38) Travis Kvapil, Ford, 179.342.

TRANSACTIONSFriday’s Sports Transactions

BASEBALLAmerican League

SEATTLE MARINERS_Traded LHP Cliff Lee and RHP Mark Lowe to Texas for 1B Justin Smoak, RHP Blake Beavan, RHP Josh Lueke, and INF Matt Lawson.

National LeagueCOLORADO ROCKIES_Activated LHP Jorge De La Rosa from the 15-day DL. Sent RHP Esmil Rogers to Colorado Springs (PCL).MILWAUKEE BREWERS_Signed OF Geoff Jenkins, who announced his retirement.NEW YORK METS_Recalled INF/OF Nick Evans from Binghamton (EL). Optioned RHP Ryota Igarashi to St. Lucie (FSL).SAN FRANCISCO GIANTS_Placed LHP Dan Runzler on the 15-day DL. Recalled RHP Joe Martinez from Fresno (PCL).WASHINGTON NATIONALS_Optioned RHP Luis Atilano to Syracuse (IL).

Eastern LeagueREADING PHILLIES_Announced INF Keoni DeRenne was assigned to the team from Lehigh Valley (IL).

Frontier LeagueEVANSVILLE OTTERS_Named Andy McCauley manager, Rick Dehart pitching coach, and Rob Watson hitting coach.GATEWAY GRIZZLIES_Signed OF Matt Miraldi.KALAMAZOO KINGS_Released RHP Justin Miller.NORMAL CORNBELTERS_Signed OF Steve Bralver and C Elvin Millan. Released INF Andre Alvarado, C Mike Garcia, C Mike Hughes and OF Adan Severino.OAKLAND COUNTY CRUISERS_Signed SS Jacob Taylor. Placed RHP Kurtis Frymier on the suspended list.

BASKETBALLNational Basketball Association

ATLANTA HAWKS_Signed G Jordan Crawford.CHARLOTTE BOBCATS_Agreed to terms with F Tyrus Thomas on a five-year contract.CHICAGO BULLS_Signed and traded the con-tract of F Hakim Warrick to Phoenix for a 2011 second-round draft pick.DALLAS MAVERICKS_Re-signed C Brendan Haywood to a six-year contract.GOLDEN STATE WARRIORS_Acquired F David Lee from the New York Knicks for F Anthony Randolph, F Kelenna Azubuike, F Ronny Turiaf and a 2012 second-round draft pick.

FOOTBALLNational Football League

ARIZONA CARDINALS_Signed CB Jorrick Calvin to a four-year contract. Released WR Juamorris Stewart.CAROLINA PANTHERS_Signed WR-KR Armanti Edwards to a four-year contract.OAKLAND RAIDERS_Agreed to terms with OL Jared Veldheer and OL Bruce Campbell. Released LB Isaiah Ekejiuba.SAN DIEGO CHARGERS_Agreed to terms with LB Donald Butler and DT Cam Thomas on four-year contracts.TAMPA BAY BUCCANEERS_Signed G Keydrick Vincent to a two-year contract. Released G Sergio Render.

HOCKEYNational Hockey League

ANAHEIM DUCKS_Traded D Steve Eminger to the New York Rangers for LW Aaron Voros and LW Ryan Hillier.BOSTON BRUINS_Re-signed D Mark Stuart to a one-year contract.

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JOLIET, Ill. (AP) — Kurt Busch believes Danica Patrick will be better equipped to compete in NASCAR once she makes a full-time switch to stock car racing.

Busch, the 2004 champion in NASCAR’s top series, said Patrick will have a hard time making the most of her talent in NASCAR without mak-ing a commitment to the sport.

“Right now, she’s very limited because she’s still committed to the IRL schedule,” Busch said. “This is just a work in progress. We’ll have to wait and see the final product when she decides what road she’s going to go down.”

Patrick, who will be racing in Friday night’s Nationwide series race at Chicagoland Speedway, doesn’t necessarily disagree.

“If you want to be really good at anything you have to obviously centralize your focus,” she said. “But at this point in time, I have a tremendous amount to learn. Even if it was full-time, would it

be going better? Maybe. But it wouldn’t be some big, dramatic — I don’t think — difference.”

Patrick doesn’t expect to deviate from her plan of racing part-time in NASCAR while also run-ning a full IndyCar schedule anytime soon.

“We’re going to do the schedule like this for this year and next year, and then we’ll sort of assess where we’re at and what we want to do in the future,” Patrick said.

Patrick has struggled in her first four Nationwide races this season, finishing no better than 30th.

Busch said he expects Patrick to go full-time in NASCAR down the road, joking that such an announcement might be NASCAR’s answer to the LeBron James free agent free-for-all.

“She’ll probably have a one-hour ESPN prime-time special when she wants to announce it,” Busch said.

NASCAR criver Kurt Busch is reflected in a mirror of his No. 2 car as he talks with a crew member during practice for the NASCAR Lifelock.com 400 auto race at Chicagoland Speedway in Joliet, Ill., Friday.

Busch: full-time NASCAR switch could help Danica

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Post 423 will begin semifinals next weekBy SCOTT BOWERSDaily Courier Sports Editor

FOREST CITY — Rutherford County Post 423 will be one of four teams left standing when the American Legion Area IV semifinals begin, next week.

Post 423 (14-7) will face the winner of the Charlotte-Hickory series. Charlotte leads the series, 2-0, after downing Hickory in Game 1, 11-10, and 13-8 in Game 2.

Still, Post 423 head Coach Sam Hooper had no preference as to who the team’s next opponent might be.

“Hickory is in our conference, so we are famil-iar with them,” said Hooper, who was traveling to watch Game 3 between Charlotte and Hickory in Charlotte. “We faced Charlotte in the 2008 and 2009 playoffs, so we have some familiarity with them as well.

“However, I really have no preference. We have to be ready to play baseball no matter the oppo-nent.”

The schedule for the semifinals was set to begin on Tuesday, July 13. However, that schedule was subject to change based on the outcome of the Charlotte-Hickory series.

“The earliest we would start would be Monday and we would be on the road (should Charlotte win Game 3),” said Hooper. “If that happens, we would play at McNair on Tuesday and possibly Thursday of next week.”

If the Charlotte-Hickory series continues into the weekend, Post 423 would move its home games to R-S Central High.

On the other side of the Area IV bracket, Cherryville, coached by East Rutherford’s Bobby Reynolds, lead its series with Huntersville, 2-0. Caldwell County and Shelby were knotted one game apiece going into Friday night’s tilt.

The winner of Cherryville-Hunterville series will face the winner of Caldwell-Shelby series in the other Area IV semifinal, starting next week.

Post 423 advanced to the semifinals after knock-ing off Pineville, three games to one, and sweep-ing Burke County. Post 423 out-scored Burke, 25-16, in three games.

the frame.The Chase defense settled down in the 2nd as

pitcher Grant Lanser recorded a strikeout. But, Boiling Springs did manage two additional runs and after Chase went in order Boiling Springs led 8-0 after two innings.

Railey Cheek smacked a solo home run as part of a four-run Boiling Springs outburst in the third as the visitors took a 12-0 lead.

Malachi Gordon broke up Mitchell’s no-hit bid when he lined a double between 1st and 2nd in the bottom of the third, but he was left stranded on base.

After Boiling Springs went in order in the next frame, Chase mounted a two out rally in the bot-tom half as Crestin Walker and Joe Conner sin-gled to load the bases. But, Chase was unable to cross the plate falling in Game 1 of the semifinals.

In Friday’s late game, Rutherfordton looked to remain undefeated at the tourney as they battled Forest City. At press time, the game was not final.

The winner will face Boiling Springs today at 6 p.m.

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(2-for-4) doubled off the fence in center. Dailey scored on the play, but they weren’t finished scor-ing in the frame. Dustin McEntire slapped a solid single to right, plating Owens for a 2-0 lead.

Chase had the remedy for that in the bottom half of the inning as Ballinger smacked a single and Geoffrey Rollins singled. Both runners advanced a base on a wild pitch and Weaver smashed a dou-ble. Both Ballinger and Rollins scored as Weaver move to third base on the throw home.

Tied at 2-2, Lancaster unknotted the game with an RBI ground out to first for Chase to take the lead at 3-2.

Chase went back to work with the bats again in the second inning. T. J. Robinson knocked a gap-per into right for a double and Seth Cole lined a base hit that plated Robinson for a 4-2 lead.

Following that, Ballinger hit a two run, home run pushing the Chase lead to 6-2.

A walk to the ever-dangerous Weaver allowed Lancaster to step into the batters box. Following a wild pitch that gained Weaver second base, Lancaster riffled a shot back up the middle for a single as Weaver scored easily.

Chase carried a 7-2 lead entering the top of the third, but an error and RBI ground out plated two Rutherfordton runs to slice the lead to 7-4.

Chase responded with two runs in the bottom half, including an RBI double by Weaver to up the lead to 9-4. Chase scored twice more on an error in the fourth to hold an 11-4 advantage.

Rutherfordton’s McIntyre (two hits), who reached base all four times on Friday, destroyed a pitch for a two-run, home run over the fence in deep center during the fifth to cut the lead to 11-6, but Rutherfordton could only muster one more run in the final two innings.

In the late game, Forest City was pitted against Cherryville. At press time, the game was not final.

The Junior tourney continues at Crestview Park, today with a 4 and 6 p.m., game

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Associated PressA couple walks past a large mural of LeBron James in downtown Cleveland on Thursday night, July 8, 2010, after James announce that he’s decided to join the Miami Heat and leave the Cleveland Cavaliers after an unsuccessful seven-year quest for the championship he covets.

INDEPENDENCE, Ohio (AP) — Life without LeBron has begun for the Cleveland Cavaliers.

One day after LeBron James ended his seven-year stay with the Cavs by announcing he will join the Miami Heat, a move owner Dan Gilbert called

a “cowardly betrayal,” gen-eral manager Chris Grant and coach Byron Scott say their goal remains an NBA championship.

Scott, hired last month not knowing if James would be back, says Friday that he has no problem with Gilbert’s pointed remarks directed at James.

Gilbert told The Associated Press he believes James quit in the playoffs the past two sea-sons.

Scott says he admires Gilbert for being passionate, and says the owner was speaking from his heart. “I’m both feet in with him,” Scott said.

Cavs start life without LeBron

Associated PressLeBron James stretches as he exits his car outside the W Hotel in Miami Beach, Fla., Friday.

By JIM LITKEAP Sports Columnist

The King? Of what, exactly?Hype? Wasting time? Stacking the deck?Check, check and double-check.So LeBron James is going to Miami. Man, did he

ever pick the right place to win. Just don’t forget why people say to be careful what you wish for.

Because when James finally does win it all, chances are good he will be as much a follower as a leader, a bigger, better, badder version of Scottie Pippen, another prince who collected a fistful of rings yet was never really cut out to be king.

He could do worse, of course. The shame is James could have done better.

A real king would have dug in his heels in Cleveland and redoubled his effort to patch the cracks in the foundation of a franchise that’s already spent more than seven seasons and hun-dreds of millions trying to build him a throne. That’s what Michael Jordan, Larry Bird, Magic Johnson and Kobe Bryant did. Maybe even give the Cavs a hometown discount, taking less money than he was worth to free up cap space down the road, the way Tim Duncan did.

Not LeBron.He’s lighting out for South Beach to hang with

superfriends Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh, while the rest of us recover from an hour-long infomer-cial that was conceived and choreographed by his advisers, then aided and abetted by ESPN. The announcement was expected to draw in audiences rivaling Tiger Woods’ apology and the O.J. verdict — the two biggest non-sports sports stories ever. And just like those two, James is probably the only guy coming out of it who actually believed what he was saying.

Even the kids from the local Boys & Girls Club stuck in the background as props — who would have guessed that wealthy Greenwich, Conn., even had a chapter? — knew that just because James has a tattoo that says “Loyalty” doesn’t make it so.

The most telling moment came when he was asked whether it would have been “sweeter” win-ning a championship in Cleveland, just down the interstate from Akron, the town James grew up in.

“I think championships are championships, and you can’t look at it as saying, ’Well, if I would have did it somewhere else, it would have been sweeter,”’ he replied. “When you get to that point and you win a championship, you can’t say, ’Wow, I wish I would have did it somewhere else.’ That makes no sense to me, because you put a lot of hard work into it to get to that point and I have not got there yet.

“But I’m going to do everything in my power to lead that Miami franchise to a second one.”

If nothing about the announcement surprised Wade, that last part should qualify as news. He’d never admit viewing Bosh and even James as side-kicks — officially they’re equals, for the moment anyway — but it’s telling that they wound up com-ing to him.

“You simply don’t deserve this kind of cowardly betrayal,” Cavs owner Dan Gilbert said in an open letter to fans on the team’s website.

Maybe it hurts more because James is one of their own, maybe the best athlete most of them will ever see, and now even he doesn’t want to be there.

Some king he turned out to be.

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Cavendish wins 6th stage at TourGUEUGNON, France (AP) — Mark Cavendish

made it two straight Tour de France stage vic-tories Friday, leading a sprint for the line as the main title contenders finished in a closely trailing pack.

The 25-year-old native of Britain’s Isle of Man raised his hands in celebration at the end of the hot, mostly flat 141.3-mile sixth stage from Montargis to Gueugnon.

The HTC Columbia rider earned his 12th career Tour stage victory and fifth in all races this year — clocking 5 hours, 37 minutes, 42 seconds to edge Tyler Farrar of the U.S. and Alessandro Petacchi of Italy.

The main title contenders crossed 3 seconds after Cavendish. Defending champion Alberto Contador was 28th, seven-time champion Lance Armstrong was 38th, and overall race leader Fabian Cancellara was 41st.

The top of the standings didn’t change: Cancellara retained the yellow jersey he has worn everyday but one this year, Spaniard Contador stayed ninth overall, and Armstrong kept his 18th spot. Cadel Evans of Australia, a two-time Tour runner-up and the highest-placed poten-tial title contender, is third — 39 seconds behind Cancellara.

The heat appeared to be taking a toll on the riders as Carlos Barredo of Spain and Rui Costa

of Portugal got into a fight after the finish. The cause of the fracas was not immediately clear, but video footage posted on the website of sports daily L’Equipe showed Barredo of the Quick Step team charg-ing toward Costa and attempting to strike him over the head with a bike wheel.

Costa, who rides for Caisse d’Epargne, tried punching Barredo in the face several times before both fell to the ground screaming at one another. They were eventu-ally separated and Tour organizers cited both for “insults and threats” and “incorrect behavior,” fin-ing each of them about $190 (200 Swiss Francs). It was not immediately known whether there would be further discipline.

Cavendish’s victory came a day after he broke down in tears after winning Stage 5, experiencing a sense of redemption after failing to meet expec-tations he would win a stage earlier in the race.

“I’m really happy. I’m speaking better today because I was pretty emotional yesterday,” Cavendish said.

moves.None are bigger than what the

Heat accomplished. The team that was fighting for playoff positioning with Charlotte late last season re-signed Wade, got Bosh and then were the win-ner in the LeBron sweepstakes when the two-time league MVP announced Thursday night he’s bolting the Cavaliers.

“If I were LeBron, I would have gone to Chicago or I would have stayed home and showed a little more loyalty to my city and my team,” Jackson said. “But I’m

not LeBron. That’s the best deci-sion for him and everybody has to live with it.”

That’s when a defiant streak kicked in for Jackson after he mingled with kids at Jordan’s fantasy basketball camp at Time Warner Cable Arena. After averaging a team-best 21.1 points last season and leading the Bobcats to their first play-off berth, Jackson isn’t ready to slip into the background in a division that also includes Dwight Howard and Orlando, Atlanta with Joe Johnson and Washington with rookie John Wall and Gilbert Arenas return-ing.

“I love it,” Jackson said. “This is what I play for, to overcome

odds. ... If you think you can just wait until September to get ready? You’ve got to start get-ting ready now.”

The Bobcats team that begins next season is likely to have a different look. Point guard Raymond Felton is expected to leave in free agency. Center Tyson Chandler could be traded to free up cap space. Forward Tyrus Thomas is a restricted free agent.

“We’re still trying to shake our roster up,” general manager Rod Higgins said.

No matter what they look like, they’ll face a task four times a year that few could have envi-sioned: James, Wade and Bosh on the same team.

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NEW YORK (AP) — The stock market ended its best week in a year with another gain Friday as investors bet that companies will report strong second-quarter earnings.

The Dow Jones industrial average rose 59 points, or 0.6 percent. That gave the Dow its biggest weekly advance in a year, 5.3 percent. Broader indexes posted bigger gains. Trading volume was light, signaling that many investors were staying out of the market. But those who were trading appeared optimistic about the company reports that will be announced starting next week.

Stocks also got a lift from news that China renewed Google’s license to operate in the country. The renewal was in doubt because of a strained relationship between the company and China’s government over censorship of search results. Google rose 2.4 percent.

News on the economy wasn’t as upbeat. Inventories held by wholesalers rose in May for a fifth straight month though sales dropped for the first time in more than a year.

But investors didn’t appear fazed by the inven-tories report. Instead, the market appeared to hold on to optimism fed by Thursday’s report of a drop in the number of newly laid off people seek-ing unemployment benefits. That report ended a string of bad news about the job market, and likely contributed to investors’ more positive mood going into what’s known as earning season.

The Dow rose 59.04, or 0.6 percent, to 10,198.03. The Standard & Poor’s 500 index rose 7.71, or 0.7 percent, to 1,077.96, while the technology-focused Nasdaq composite index rose 21.05, or 1 percent, to 2,196.45.

For the week, the Dow rose 512 points, or 5.3 percent, its best gain since the week ended July 17, 2009.

After a holiday on Monday, stocks rose mod-estly Tuesday and jumped Wednesday after trad-ers looked for stocks that were bargains after two weeks of selling. The Dow rose 275 points to move back above 10,000. The Dow added another 120 points on Thursday after the unemployment report.

The Standard & Poor’s 500 index rose 5.4 per-cent for the week, while the Nasdaq gained 5 per-cent.

Not all traders are confident that the gains will hold because there are still major problems like unemployment facing the economy.

Bond prices fell as stocks rose. The yield on the benchmark 10-year Treasury note, which moves opposite its price, rose to 3.06 percent from 3.04 percent late Thursday.

Crude oil rose 65 cents to $76.09 per barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange.

The Russell 2000 index of smaller companies rose 9.16, or 1.5 percent, to 629.43.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Inventories held by wholesal-ers rose for a fifth consecutive month in May but sales fell for the first time in more than a year, sending a cautionary signal about the strength of the recov-ery.

Wholesale inventories increased 0.5 percent while sales dropped 0.3 percent, the Commerce Department said Friday. It was the first decline for sales since March of 2009.

The May sales decline is the latest sign that the eco-nomic recovery could be losing momentum in the second half of the year. Weakness in sales could discourage businesses from boosting their orders. That would translate into a slowdown in factory production.

Businesses helped spur the recovery by rebuilding their inventories after slashing them during the recession. The gross domestic product expanded at a 5.6 percent rate in the final three months of last year, largely because of the swing in inven-tories.

The trend in inventory rebuild-ing continued in the first quar-ter of this year, but at a more modest pace. That was among the reasons growth slowed to 2.7 percent.

Mike England, an economist with Action Economics, said Friday’s wholesale invento-ries report has persuaded him to lower his growth estimate for the April-June quarter, to 2.8 percent from 3.3 per-cent. England noted that the report lowered April’s inventory growth to a 0.2 percent increase — half the initial estimate of 0.4 percent.

But Peter Newland, an econo-mist at Barclays Capital, said the drop in sales wasn’t a major concern because the inventory to sales ratio remained near a record low. He said that should spur businesses to “continue to rebuild stock levels in coming months.”

Many economists believe over-all economic growth will slow to around 2 percent in the second half of this year. That’s partly because they expect less of a boost from inventory rebuilding in coming months.

That could be bad news for manufacturers, one of the stron-gest sectors since the recession ended.

It also would come as the recovery is starting to weaken. Both consumer spending and business hiring have slowed, and the housing market has strug-gled since government incen-

tives for homebuyers ended in April. The jobless rate fell to 9.5 percent in June from 9.7 per-cent in May. But the change was largely the result of people giv-ing up their work searches.

Economists worry that weaker growth won’t bring down the jobless rate quickly.

“We are on a muddle-through trajectory for this recovery with GDP growth at about half the rate you would normally see coming out of such a steep downturn,” England said.

Even with the May gain in wholesale inventories, they are 2.1 percent below where they were a year ago.

Inventories at the wholesale level had fallen for 13 consecu-tive months through September of last year. Businesses went through a massive liquidation of their stocks in a struggle to contain costs during the deepest recession in decades.

The 0.3 percent drop in sales in May followed a gain of 0.9 percent in April.

The combination of declin-ing sales and rising inventories pushed the ratio of inventories to sales up slightly to 1.14 in May from a record low of 1.13 in April. That means it would take 1.14 months to deplete stocks at the May sales pace.

NEW YORK (AP) — Stores deepened discounts more than planned in June to draw recession-scarred shoppers to buy summer tops and other merchandise. But shoppers bought mostly items they needed, resulting in small revenue gains.

The mixed results from June, released Thursday, are raising concerns about the back-to-school season and consumers’ ability and will-

ingness to hit the accelerator on spending.

The International Council of Shopping Centers’ index of June retail sales rose 3 percent, the low end of its growth forecast that ranged from 3 to 4 percent. But that’s compared with a 5.1 percent decline in June 2009.

The figures are based on revenue at stores open at least a year and are a key

indicator of retailers’ health.The third straight month

of modest sales gains after a surprisingly solid start to the year underscores the choppiness of the economic recovery and puts more pressure on retailers to come up with innovative tactics to get shoppers to spend in the critical months ahead, instead of just resorting to price slashing.

Already, office supplier

Staples Inc. is pushing pen-ny deals, and teen merchant American Eagle Outfitters Inc. is promoting another gimmick starting later this month — anyone who tries on a pair of jeans will get a free smart phone.

“I think the competition is going to be intense,” said Sherif Mityas, a partner in the retail practice at man-agement consultant A.T. Kearney. “The economy is

recovering in fits and starts.”Back-to-school merchan-

dise starts flowing into stores next week; it accounts for almost 40 percent of total retail revenue from July through September, Michael P. Niemira, ICSC’s chief economist, estimates.

Merchants’ come-ons are great news for deal seekers — if they have the means to spend.

Wholesale inventories rise

Dow ends its best week in the past year

Retailers respond to choppy sales with discounts

Associated PressA Costco customer looks at a Sony television at Costco in Mountain View, Calif., Wednesday. Inventories held by wholesalers rose for a fifth consecutive month in May but sales fell for the first time in more than a year, sending a mixed signal about the strength of the recovery.

STOCKS OF LOCAL INTERESTYTD

Name Div Yld PE Last Chg%ChgYTD

Name Div Yld PE Last Chg %ChgAT&T Inc 1.68 6.8 11 24.83 +.26 -11.4Amazon ... ... 51 117.26 +1.04 -12.8ArvMerit ... ... ... 14.12 +.41 +26.3BB&T Cp .60 2.1 29 28.18 +.64 +11.1BkofAm .04 .3 72 15.11 +.25 +.3BerkHa A ... ... 14119700.00+800.00 +20.7Cisco ... ... 19 22.70 +.15 -5.2Delhaize 2.02 2.6 ... 76.54 +.59 -.2Dell Inc ... ... 16 12.85 +.07 -10.5DukeEngy .98 5.8 13 16.79 +.07 -2.4ExxonMbl 1.76 3.0 13 58.78 -.03 -13.8FamilyDlr .62 1.7 14 36.00 -.30 +29.4FifthThird .04 .3 20 13.48 +.39 +38.3FCtzBA 1.20 .6 9 193.15 +1.53 +17.8GenElec .40 2.7 16 14.95 +.12 -1.2GoldmanS 1.40 1.0 6 138.06 +2.60 -18.2Google ... ... 21 467.49+10.93 -24.6KrispKrm ... ... ... 3.52 +.06 +19.3

LeggPlat 1.04 5.0 22 20.64 +.22 +1.2

Lowes .44 2.2 17 20.43 +.20 -12.7

Microsoft .52 2.1 13 24.27 -.14 -20.4

PPG 2.16 3.3 19 64.62 +.37 +10.4

ParkerHan 1.04 1.8 24 57.32 +.05 +6.4

ProgrssEn 2.48 6.1 13 40.47 +.06 -1.3

RedHat ... ... 65 30.64 +.09 -.8

RoyalBk g 2.00 ... ... 52.44 +1.57 -2.1

SaraLee .44 3.1 33 14.38 -.01 +18.1

SonicAut ... ... 9 8.70 +.05 -16.3

SonocoP 1.12 3.5 18 31.85 +.22 +8.9

SpectraEn 1.00 4.7 15 21.32 +.09 +3.9

SpeedM .40 3.0 ... 13.42 +.28 -23.8

Timken .52 1.9 ... 27.32 +.73 +15.2

UPS B 1.88 3.1 24 60.06 +.10 +4.7

WalMart 1.21 2.4 13 49.43 +.25 -7.5

STOCK MARKET INDEXES

MUTUAL FUNDS

DAILY DOW JONES

11,258.01 8,087.19 Dow Industrials 10,198.03 +59.04 +.58 -2.21 +25.184,812.87 2,988.88 Dow Transportation 4,160.90 +42.85 +1.04 +1.49 +33.74

408.57 342.02 Dow Utilities 377.97 +2.16 +.57 -5.03 +9.167,743.74 5,552.82 NYSE Composite 6,808.71 +52.90 +.78 -5.24 +20.991,994.20 1,497.10 Amex Market Value 1,848.36 +9.50 +.52 +1.28 +21.732,535.28 1,727.05 Nasdaq Composite 2,196.45 +21.05 +.97 -3.20 +25.081,219.80 869.32 S&P 500 1,077.96 +7.71 +.72 -3.33 +22.62

852.90 539.03 S&P MidCap 739.89 +7.48 +1.02 +1.82 +35.2412,847.91 8,900.27 Wilshire 5000 11,296.38 +92.92 +.83 -2.18 +25.37

745.95 473.54 Russell 2000 629.43 +9.16 +1.48 +.65 +30.86

52-Week Net YTD 12-moHigh Low Name Last Chg %Chg %Chg %Chg

THE MARKET IN REVIEW

PIMCO TotRetIs CI 133,927 11.24 +1.2 +12.1/C +7.5/A NL 1,000,000Vanguard TotStIdx LB 58,508 26.74 +2.2 +26.4/A +0.2/B NL 3,000American Funds GrthAmA m LG 58,394 26.27 +2.7 +19.6/D +1.3/B 5.75 250American Funds CapIncBuA m IH 52,393 45.86 +4.0 +15.6/C +3.1/C 5.75 250Fidelity Contra LG 51,938 57.43 +2.7 +24.3/B +3.4/A NL 2,500American Funds CpWldGrIA m WS 47,349 31.24 +7.2 +18.6/D +4.3/A 5.75 250American Funds IncAmerA m MA 46,079 15.09 +2.3 +22.2/A +2.4/B 5.75 250Vanguard 500Inv LB 44,145 99.32 +2.3 +24.5/B -0.3/C NL 3,000Vanguard InstIdxI LB 43,384 98.67 +2.3 +24.7/B -0.2/C NL 5,000,000American Funds InvCoAmA m LB 42,830 24.62 +3.5 +19.4/E +0.6/B 5.75 250Dodge & Cox Stock LV 37,018 91.84 +1.9 +25.7/B -1.8/D NL 2,500American Funds EurPacGrA m FB 34,013 35.96 +7.4 +19.2/B +6.0/A 5.75 250American Funds WAMutInvA m LV 33,997 23.75 +3.1 +23.0/C -0.5/B 5.75 250PIMCO TotRetAdm b CI 33,304 11.24 +1.1 +11.8/C +7.3/A NL 1,000,000Dodge & Cox IntlStk FV 33,120 30.12 +7.1 +24.2/A +4.1/A NL 2,500FrankTemp-Franklin Income A m CA 29,810 2.03 +3.7 +24.1/A +3.5/B 4.25 1,000American Funds NewPerspA m WS 28,582 24.46 +5.1 +23.4/B +4.9/A 5.75 250American Funds BalA m MA 28,053 16.03 +2.0 +19.2/C +1.8/C 5.75 250American Funds FnInvA m LB 27,888 31.54 +3.7 +24.1/B +2.8/A 5.75 250PIMCO TotRetA m CI 27,822 11.24 +1.1 +11.6/C +7.0/A 3.75 1,000Vanguard TotStIAdm LB 27,667 26.75 +2.2 +26.5/A +0.3/B NL 100,000American Funds BondA m CI 27,417 12.16 +1.1 +12.1/C +3.3/E 3.75 250Vanguard Welltn MA 27,112 28.33 +2.6 +18.6/C +4.3/A NL 10,000Vanguard 500Adml LB 26,583 99.32 +2.3 +24.7/B -0.2/C NL 100,000Fidelity DivrIntl d FG 24,666 25.72 +7.0 +15.5/D +1.9/D NL 2,500Fidelity GrowCo LG 24,664 67.73 +2.2 +28.8/A +3.7/A NL 2,500Vanguard TotIntl d FB 23,838 13.45 +7.9 +18.8/B +4.0/B NL 3,000Vanguard InstPlus LB 23,746 98.68 +2.3 +24.7/B -0.2/C NL 200,000,000T Rowe Price EqtyInc LV 14,815 20.57 +2.4 +28.1/A +0.2/B NL 2,500Hartford CapAprA m LB 8,239 28.95 +2.2 +21.2/D +2.1/A 5.50 2,000Pioneer PioneerA m LB 3,805 34.18 +2.0 +22.3/C +0.2/B 5.75 1,000Goldman Sachs ShDuGovA m GS 1,452 10.43 +0.2 +2.8/D +4.9/A 1.50 1,000Alliance Bernstein GrowIncA m LV 1,066 2.84 +2.9 +16.3/E -2.5/E 4.25 2,500DWS-Scudder REstA m SR 445 15.05 +1.9 +71.6/C +0.1/C 5.75 1,000Hartford GrowthL m LG 160 14.18 +2.1 +20.0/D -1.2/D 4.75 0

Total Assets Total Return/Rank Pct Min InitName Obj ($Mlns) NAV 4-wk 12-mo 5-year Load Invt

CA -Conservative Allocation, CI -Intermediate-Term Bond, ES -Europe Stock, FB -Foreign Large Blend, FG -Foreign LargeGrowth, FV -ForeignLarge Value, IH -World Allocation, LB -Large Blend, LG -Large Growth, LV -Large Value, MA -Moderate Allocation, MB -Mid-Cap Blend, MV -Mid-Cap Value, SH -Specialty-heath, WS -World Stock, 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. Source: Morningstar.

NYSE6,808.71 +52.90

AMEX1,848.36 +9.50

NASDAQ2,196.45 +21.05

STOCK EXCHANGE HIGHLIGHTS

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 50percent within the past year. rt = Right to buy security at a specified price. s = Stock has split by at least 20 percent within thelast year. un = Units. vj = In bankruptcy or receivership. wd = When distributed. wi = When issued. wt = Warrants. Mutual Fund Footnotes: b = Fee covering market costs is paid from fund assets. d = Deferred sales charge, or redemption fee.f = front load (sales charges). m = Multiple fees are charged. NA = not available. p = previous day’s net asset value. s = fundsplit shares during the week. x = fund paid a distribution during the week.Gainers and Losers must be worth at least $2 to belisted 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.

uu uu uuGAINERS ($2 OR MORE)

Volume

Name Vol (00) Last ChgIntel 520151 20.24 +.14Microsoft 519985 24.27 -.14PwShs QQQ447700 44.62 +.42Cisco 404093 22.70 +.15MicronT 302241 8.57 -.12RschMotn 273007 53.33 +3.87Comcast 191477 18.07 +.23Dell Inc 186646 12.85 +.07ApldMatl 183907 12.30 +.19Oracle 159508 23.37 +.15

MOST ACTIVE ($1 OR MORE)

LOSERS ($2 OR MORE)

Name Last Chg %ChgDelcath 7.68 +1.83 +31.3Pixelwrks 3.42 +.63 +22.6DearbrnBc 2.65 +.45 +20.5BassettF 4.54 +.77 +20.4IstaPh 2.45 +.41 +20.1inTestCp 3.81 +.48 +14.4RXi Phrm 2.32 +.29 +14.3Lattice 5.26 +.65 +14.1CentrueF 2.05 +.25 +13.9DragnW g n 5.33 +.63 +13.4

Name Last Chg %ChgConcepts 12.67 -3.12 -19.8PSB Hldg 4.18 -.71 -14.5Datawatch 2.47 -.34 -12.1BCB Bc 7.00 -.86 -10.9MHI Hosp 2.19 -.25 -10.2Virco 2.60 -.29 -10.0AmPac 5.04 -.54 -9.7Radcom 4.87 -.49 -9.1DiscCm B 37.25 -3.64 -8.9USecBc AL 8.54 -.81 -8.7

DIARYAdvanced 1,983Declined 644Unchanged 124Total issues 2,751New Highs 22New Lows 36

1,565,686,450Volume

Name Vol (00) Last ChgGoldStr g 29717 4.22 +.04NwGold g 27268 5.21 +.28VantageDrl 22227 1.28 -.01NovaGld g 19964 6.49 +.21Taseko 19056 4.05 +.25TrnsatlPt n 15307 3.02 -.15ChiArmM 12027 3.04 +.10NthgtM g 11014 2.96 +.06US Gold 10382 4.90 +.11Kemet 10354 2.41 +.02

MOST ACTIVE ($1 OR MORE)

GAINERS ($2 OR MORE)

LOSERS ($2 OR MORE)

Name Last Chg %ChgChaseCorp14.10 +2.20 +18.5HeraldNB 3.59 +.49 +15.8RELM 2.57 +.30 +13.3Aerosonic 2.89 +.25 +9.5GlblScape 2.64 +.23 +9.5CompTch 2.62 +.21 +8.7ASpecRlt s 10.90 +.83 +8.3AmDGEn n 2.85 +.21 +8.0CnsTom 31.50 +2.24 +7.7AoxingP rs 3.59 +.25 +7.5

Name Last Chg %ChgVringo un 3.11 -.61 -16.4StreamGSv 4.28 -.50 -10.5BovieMed 2.27 -.19 -7.7Innovaro 2.09 -.16 -7.1TrnsatlPt n 3.02 -.15 -4.7MercBcp 2.75 -.13 -4.6Wstmlnd pf 16.00 -.63 -3.8NewConcEn 3.30 -.12 -3.5SCEd pfC 18.50 -.50 -2.6DGSE 3.12 -.08 -2.5

DIARYAdvanced 328Declined 140Unchanged 48Total issues 516New Highs 5New Lows 9

Name Vol (00) Last ChgCitigrp 4070282 4.04 +.07S&P500ETF1333784107.96 +.80BkofAm 834203 15.11 +.25SPDR Fncl 788629 14.51 +.20FordM 494441 10.85 +.23DirFnBear 476674 14.79 -.74BP PLC 459380 34.05 +.31GenElec 453039 14.95 +.12DrxFBull s 442869 22.05 +1.01iShEMkts 419836 39.98 +.49

MOST ACTIVE ($1 OR MORE)

GAINERS ($2 OR MORE)

LOSERS ($2 OR MORE)

Name Last Chg %ChgK-Sea 5.95 +.88 +17.4Natuzzi 3.50 +.47 +15.5GreenbCos13.58 +1.67 +14.0EqualEn g 6.04 +.70 +13.1RAIT Fin 2.19 +.24 +12.3HarvNRes 8.29 +.85 +11.4LIN TV h 5.34 +.51 +10.6GrayTvA 2.42 +.23 +10.5AllisChE 2.02 +.17 +9.2GMX Rs 7.14 +.57 +8.7

Name Last Chg %ChgFtBcp pfA 5.12 -.98 -16.1FtBcp pfE 5.20 -.80 -13.3FtBcp pfD 5.20 -.79 -13.2Regis Cp 13.87 -1.86 -11.8FtBcp pfC 5.30 -.66 -11.1FtBcp pfB 5.45 -.65 -10.7BkA BM RE 2.69 -.29 -9.7SkilldHcre 2.16 -.18 -7.7BPZ Res 3.85 -.26 -6.3US Bcp pfA75.00 -4.00 -5.1

DIARYAdvanced 2,402Declined 649Unchanged 103Total issues 3,154New Highs 87New Lows 9

3,559,598,893Volume 60,290,645

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10,280Dow Jones industrialsClose: 10,198.03Change: 59.04 (0.6%)

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SHOE by Chris Cassat and Gary Brookins

BROOM-HILDA by Russell Myers

ARLO AND JANIS by Jimmy Johnson

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FRANK AND ERNEST by Bob Thaves

Puzzle

Dear Dr. Gott: In mid-September 2009, I had a lung lobectomy and was in the hospital for about 2-1/2 weeks. There were complications, including atrial fibrillation and a delay in the lung sealing, which caused the drain tubes to remain in for most of my stay.

I am having difficulty exercising. I seem to strain the muscles on my right side whenever I do even light stretch-band exercises. I walk on a treadmill but am only able to do about 10 min-utes. How long can I expect these prob-lems to last? Why don’t surgeons tell you what to expect prior to surgery and then later in the hospital-discharge instructions?

Dear Reader: Whether or not you were medically naive, it is no excuse for your surgeon to have neglected to inform you what the surgery entailed, both during and after. I am also shocked that you were urged to have removal of a lung without even undergoing fur-ther diagnostic testing to determine whether your “lung tumor” was truly a lung tumor. Surgical removal of any organ should be done only when and if there is medical necessity, and there are

numerous tests available to determine what type of tumor or other abnormal-ity is present. You have endured months of complications and pain for a lung infection that could probably have been treated with oral medications.

As to your question about why sur-geons don’t inform patients, I would certainly hope that this is not the norm. When I was in active practice, patients were always informed about possible complications of surgery and provided with alternative options, as well as the surgeon’s opinion of which would be best. This also held true for diagnostic testing, such as imaging studies that involved dyes, tissue biopsies and more.

I urge you to get a referral to another surgeon or a pulmonologist, who can review your operative report.

Surgeon failed patient

Dear Abby: I’m a boy in eighth grade with a big problem.

My parents constantly talk about their finances in front of me.

We are not poor, but we’re far from rich.

It bothers me when they talk about how much money they owe or if they’re in debt or not.

I have asked my parents several times not to talk about money in front of me.

However, they insist that I’m old enough to hear about it.

I’m a natural worrier, and when they talk about financial issues it makes me think something terrible is going to happen to us.

What should I do? — Still a kidDear Still a kid: One of the hard-

est things for many people to talk about is money — or lack of it.

And yet, not talking about it can cause more problems than airing the subject.

Your parents may be trying to educate you about finances because many schools don’t do it.

But if it becomes too stressful for you, then leave the room.

Dear Abby: Although I don’t think my last name is a particularly diffi-cult one, people often struggle with it when they go to write it after I say it.

I understand this and it does not

bother me. As a matter of habit, I routinely spell my name immediate-ly after I say it, to assist the person who is writing it down.

A security guard who works at a client’s building I visit a few times a year has reacted in a hostile manner because I spell my name when she asks for it.

She may be under the impression that I think my name is beyond her capabilities — which isn’t true.

Abby, is spelling my name conde-scending or disrespectful to some-one in a business setting?

Is my routine practice annoying or is the guard overly sensitive? — Bill “X”

Dear Bill “X”: She may be over-ly sensitive or, because you have already spelled your name for her several times, she may be under the impression that you think she’s not very bright.

Perhaps in the future you should modify your delivery: “My name is Bill ‘Xybleniwicz.’ I’ll spell it for you if you’d like me to ...”

Boy cringes at family finances

Abigail van Buren

Dear Abby

IN THe STARSYour Birthday, July 10;

Swallow the bitter pill and put past mistakes behind you.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) - When it comes to work, timing is a key factor.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) - Little is learned when you monopolize conversa-tions.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) - Either don’t go shopping just now or put a limit on your spending.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23) - Be careful not to outsmart yourself in try-ing to get the best.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 22) - A respon-sibility that has always been yours might be tem-porarily given to another.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. 21) - If a dis-agreement arises between you and another, it would be best not to discuss it.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) - Unfortunately, you could have a tendency to worry about things that will never happen.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 19) - Unless you’ve learned from the past, a painful situation will arise again.

PISCES (Feb. 20-March 20) - If you find yourself in a bum deal, don’t try to amend it by pouring money in.

ARIES (March 21-April 19) - It won’t do good to try to use force.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) - In attempt-ing to do it perfectly, you could end up doing things the hard way.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) - It isn’t likely you’ll be able to get all your work obligations off of your mind, if you forsake them for a pleasurable outlet with friends.

Dr. Peter M. Gott

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UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. Security Council on Friday condemned a deadly attack on a South Korean warship that killed 46 sailors and pointed a finger toward North Korea but didn’t directly blame the reclusive communist nation.

North Korea’s U.N. Ambassador Sin Son Ho called it “our great diplomat-ic victory,” stressing again that his country had noth-ing to do with the sinking of the 1,200-ton Cheonan on March 26. U.S. State Department spokesman

Mark Toner said he wouldn’t react “to overblown rheto-ric.”

North Korea previously warned that its military forces would respond if the council questioned or con-demned the country over the sinking, and ambassador Sin compared the situation on the Korean peninsula to a “trigger” that may explode “at any moment.” At the same time, he said North Korea will make “efforts” to continue the denucleariza-tion process through six-par-ty talks, which Pyongyang

abandoned in December 2008, and to replace the Armistice Agreement that ended the 1950-53 Korean War with a new peace treaty.

The statement about the ship sinking, approved by all 15 council members, expressed “deep concern” over the findings of a South Korean-led international investigation that concluded that a North Korean torpedo fired by a North Korean sub-marine sank the Cheonan.

The statement, read by the council president, condemns the attack and calls for

“appropriate and peaceful measures to be taken against those responsible.”

But it doesn’t identify who is responsible and “takes note” of North Korea’s response “that it had nothing to do with the incident.”

North Korea has called for a new joint investiga-tion by both Koreas and demanded that its inspectors be allowed to go to the site of the sinking near the tense Korean sea border. Sin again pledged his government will “do our utmost to dig out the truth behind this incident.”

South Korea had wanted the council to condemn the North. But China, the North’s closest ally and a veto-wielding council mem-ber, opposed direct condem-nation for the sinking or a third round of sanctions.

While U.S. Ambassador Susan Rice and South Korean Ambassador Park In-kook insisted the council statement makes clear that North Korea was responsible for the attack, some diplo-mats and analysts privately called it weak for not direct-ly blaming Pyongyang.

UN condemns sinking of South Korean ship

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NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Having qualified as Administrator of the estate of INAELNORA ARROWOOD HARDIN of Rutherford County, NorthCarolina, this is to notify all persons having claims against theestate of the said INA ELNORA ARROWOOD HARDIN topresent them to the undersigned on or before the 10th day ofOctober, 2010 or the same will be pleaded in bar of theirrecovery. All persons indebted to said estate will please makeimmediate payment. This is the 10th day of July, 2010.

Joe Lewis Hardin Jr., Administrator151 Square Hardin Rd.Rutherfordton, NC 28139

The Rutherford-Polk-McDowell District Board of Health willhold a regularly scheduled meeting on Tuesday, July 13,2010 at the McDowell County Health Department, 408Spaulding Raod, Marion, NC at 7:00pm.

The public is invited to attend. Individuals needing assistanceshould contact Brenda Green at 828-287-6101 within areasonable time prior to the meeting. Access to the buildingfor individuals with disabilities is available. Participation inpublic meetings is without regard to race, color, nationalorigin, religion, sex, age or disability.

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Having qualified as Co-Executor of the estate of FAYEWASHBURN of Rutherford County, North Carolina, this is tonotify all persons having claims against the estate of the saidFAYE WASHBURN to present them to the undersigned on orbefore the 19th day of September, 2010 or the same will bepleaded in bar of their recovery. All persons indebted to saidestate will please make immediate payment. This is the 19th day of June, 2010.

Robert W. Wolf, Co-Executor138 S. Broadway StreetForest City, NC 28043

Paul D. Williams, Co-Executor1229 Currituck DriveRaleigh, NC 27609

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Misc. Tickets0536

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Building Materials0542

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Hiring PT LicensedTherapists immediately

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Technical0224

Administrative Analyst Intermediate. St. Luke'sHospital is seeking an

exemplary candidate for theInformation Services

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but will consider 2 yearcandidates with equivalentwork experience. FT, M-F,

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Garage/Estate Sales0151

GOOD STUFF FC: 443 ForestLake Rd. Sat. 7A-12P Doghouses lg. & med., knives,

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Huge Yard Sale Cole's Carpeton Chase High Road

Saturday 7A-11ALarge, work shop/garage sale,Rfdtn, 1504 Maple Creek Rd.

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Professional0212

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Garage/Estate Sales0151

Big 4 family: Spindale, 762Spindale St., Sat. 7A-1P. Bigladies & mens clothes, some

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Big Sale Mooresboro: 1773Harris-Henrietta Rd. in

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Big Sale Forest City: 300 Kelly Rd off

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BIG YARD SALE FC: 986Ferry Rd. Sat. 7A-until Antiques, Vera Bradley,

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Big yard sale: FC, 490 DixieTrail, Fri 2-7P, Sat. 7A-until.Bedspreads, couch, luggage,

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Community Yard SaleHenrietta: 2480 Harris-

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Family Yard Sale & Hot Dogs 268 Piney Ridge Rd.

Sat. July 10th 7A-until

FC: 141 Burl Bridges Rd.(intersection of Hudlow &

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Lost0142

F Black Lab with white spotunder neck. Lost 7/4 fromHarris Floyds Creek area.

Call 248-1857Large, white Huskey

black eyes, green collarNeutered male. Lost 6/10 from

Lake Lure. 828-625-9253Lost dog B/W border collie

mix Needs medicine Last seenJune 30 near RS High School

Fleming Dr. Rfdtn828-286-0580

Orange/yellow short hair, bobtail male cat, last seen 7/4 offWhitesides Rd. near Henson

Timber. 828-980-2587 or828-980-5576

REWARD! Small black/whitecat, lost in the area of WilkinsForest Subdivison, Hwy 64/74,

flea collar. 248-1419Found0149

Grayish Black kitten.Possibly 1 yr. old with blueeyes. Found 2 wks. ago inSpindale. 828-702-7628

Large dog with green nyloncollar. Found 7/4 on Harmon

Rd. in Ellenboro. Call247-6497 or 223-6598

Young male Huskey, notneutered, found on Hudlow

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GARAGE /ESTATE SALES

Garage/Estate Sales0151

2 FAMILY Forest City: 274Weatherstone Dr. Fri. & Sat.

7A-12P Household items,children's clothes, toys, books

3 family yard sale: 188Countrywood Dr in Knollwood,

Sat 8A-until. Dishes, plussizes, electronics, misc.

household items3 Family Mooresboro:

6 Points, 264 Goode Rd. Sat7am- til truck rims, walkers,strollers, kids toys clothes

sizes infants-65 FAMILY Chase: 365 TrojanLane Fri. 5P-7P & Sat. 7A-until Name brand clothes &shoes, boys 12mo.-10, girls

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more! Household, toys (FisherPrice & Little Tikes), videos,high chair, elliptical machine,pack-n-play and lots more!

BIG 3 FAMILY Rfdtn: PrancerWay (off Old Stonecutter) Sat.

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Yard Sale, Mooresboro: 2923 Wood Rd., off Duke Power Rd.

Sat. 8A-1P

Giant Yard Sale: FC, Oak St. near FC fire dept. Sat.

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For Sale 1 Burial Plot in Garden of Honor in Sunset

Memorial Cemetery in Forest City, has Granite Base w/vase Total cost $2,600 will sell for

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KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — International and Afghan troops captured a Taliban commander responsible for bringing Pakistani militants across the border to launch attacks, the alliance said Friday as U.S.-led forces ratchet up their pursuit of insurgent lead-ers.

The coalition is touting a string of successes in capturing or kill-ing dozens of key militant leaders since April, but so far it has not managed to reduce violent insur-gent attacks across the country.

Two NATO service members died Friday in separate roadside bombs in the south, and an explo-sion ripped into a convoy of NATO and Afghan forces in an eastern province, killing one civilian and wounding nine others. Last month was the most deadly of the nearly 9-year-old war for international troops, with 103 foreign forces killed.

President Barack Obama has sent 30,000 more American troops to Afghanistan to carry out the war’s counterinsurgency strat-egy, which focuses on securing the Afghan population and reversing

Taliban gains.While international forces patrol

new areas to try to protect the population, their comrades in special forces, working with elite Afghan commandos, have been staging raids almost every night trying to weaken the insurgents’ operational capacity.

On Tuesday, coalition and Afghan special forces arrested a Taliban commander in the east-ern province of Nangarhar, NATO said Friday.

The alliance said the man — whom it would not identify for security reasons — facilitated a recent influx of operatives for Lashkar-e-Taiba, the Pakistani militia accused in the 2008 Mumbai terrorist attacks and sus-pected in a string of more recent attacks in Afghanistan.

“Capturing this commander degrades the Taliban’s operation-al and facilitation capabilities,” said Col. William Maxwell, the director of the NATO-led inter-national forces’ Combined Joint Operations.

Joint Afghan-international raids have led to the arrest of more than

100 Taliban figures since April, NATO says. In the past two weeks alone, at least 23 mid- and senior-level insurgent leaders and 217 lower-level fighters have been cap-tured or killed, it says.

“We’ve stepped up operations over the last six months,” said NATO spokesman Col. Wayne Shanks. “What this is, is directly targeting the insurgent network, their leadership, their facilitators who bring in either weapons, sup-plies, money, resources.”

The campaign against the Taliban leadership echoes a strat-egy used successfully against both Sunni and Shiite insurgents in Iraq.

One senior Taliban commander recently killed was Ghulam Sakhi, who NATO said was a bomb-mak-ing specialist in Logar province who was also behind kidnapping plots, including the abduction and killing of the provincial security chief.

Afghan and coalition forces surrounded a compound he was sleeping in on June 25 and used a bullhorn to urge him to surrender.

NATO captures Taliban leader

PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — A pair of suicide bombings killed 62 people Friday outside a government office in a region along the Afghan border where the Pakistani army and U.S. missiles have had some success in decreasing the number of such attacks.

The assault, which wounded at least 111 people, was one of the deadliest in Pakistan this year. There was speculation that the bombers were targeting anti-Taliban tribal elders visiting the government office in the village of Yakaghund, part of the Mohmand tribal area in the country’s northwest.

The attackers struck within seconds of each other as two U.S. senators met with Pakistani leaders in the capital, Islamabad, to discuss their countries’ cooperation in the fight against terrorism, much of it being waged in the lawless tribal belt border-ing Afghanistan where al-Qaida and the Taliban have long had redoubts.

One of the bombs appeared fairly small but the other was huge, officials said. At least one bomber was on a motorcycle.

The bombers detonated their explosives near the office of Rasool Khan, a deputy Mohmand administrator who escaped unharmed. The tribal elders, including those involved in setting up militias to fight the Taliban, were in the building, but none was hurt, according to Mohmand chief administrator Amjad Ali Khan.

Video footage showed dozens of men searching through piles of yellow brick and mud rubble for survivors. Women and chil-dren were among the victims.

Abdul Wadood, 19, was sitting in a vehicle at the time of the bombings.

“I only heard the deafening blast and lost consciousness,” said Wawood, who was being treated for head and arm wounds in Peshawar, the main city in the northwest, about 15 miles (25 kilometers) away. “I found myself on a hospital bed after open-ing my eyes. I think those who planned or carried out this attack are not humans.”

Some 70 to 80 shops were damaged or destroyed, while damage to a prison build-ing allowed 28 prisoners — ordinary crimi-nals, not militants — to flee, said Rasool Khan, who gave the casualty figures.

Near the attack site, officials had been distributing wheelchairs to disabled people and equipment to poor farmers, Amjad Ali Khan said.

In this photo taken Thursday A United States soldier from Bravo Company, 2nd Battalion of the 508 Parachute Infantry Regiment of the 82nd Airborne, takes cover in the high grass in an orchard during a patrol in the volatile Arghandab Valley, outside Kandahar City.

Associated Press

Twin bombs kill 62 people in Pakistan

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