Saturday, September 19, 2009, Forest City, N.C.

Little home cookingChase played just its second home game of the season as they welcomed in West Lincoln on Friday night

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Chase High students held a pep rally in the school gymnasium to build excitement before Friday night’s Homecoming game against West Lincoln. For game details, please see Page 7.

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By SCOTT BAUGHMANDaily Courier Staff Writer

FOREST CITY — Cities in Rutherford County haven’t taken the step of cutting off streetlights to save money yet, but some say they are considering it and are worried about possible outdoor lighting rate increases from Duke Energy.

As more cities and towns across the nation aim for utility cost savings by reducing the time that streetlights burn each night or turning them off altogether, local officials say they want to keep them on at least for now.

“We haven’t begun doing that yet,” said Cathy Swafford, Spindale finance director. “Really, those lights are handled by Duke Energy and we just do what they tell us on it.”

Santa Rosa, Calif., is one of the largest cities in the country to con-sider the cost-cutting move. The city has 15,000 streetlights and could save $400,000 a year by removing 6,000 and reducing the burn time on

Please see Lights, Page 6

First Baptist Church in Spindale is nearing the com-pletion of a project to refurbish the col-umns on the front of the church. The columns had been removed for reno-vation and a series of boards held up the church’s front entrance for a few days.

From staff reports

SPINDALE – Mildred McDonald Furches, who grew up on the farmland that is now occupied by Isothermal Community College, has left the insti-tution a generous gift of approximately $1.5 mil-lion.

According to Furches’ wishes, the money will be used to supplement four of the scholarship pro-grams she had already established at Isothermal and to start some new scholarships. Details of those programs are being worked out by adminis-trators.

Furches passed away on March 13 at her home in Southern Pines. She was buried in the Adaville Baptist Church Cemetery, which is surrounded by college property, once her family’s farm.

Adaville is also on property once owned by the McDonald family and is named after Furches’ mother, Ada Moore McDonald.

Please see Bequest, Page 6

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ICC expects little impact from policyFrom staff and wire reports

SPINDALE — Isothermal Community College does not expect a state board decision Friday to allow admission to ille-gal immigrants to have much impact on its campus.

ICC officials and others say they have not seen large numbers of undocumented students seeking admission. The new

policy requires these students pay out-of-state tuition, denies them access to financial aid and gives preference to documented students.

All these factors, state community col-lege officials feel, will restrict the num-bers seeking admission.

At Isothermal, there were three (undoc-umented) students who applied (before the no admission policy was put in place), said Isothermal’s Director of Marketing and Community Relations Mike Gavin.

Please see ICC, Page 6

Contributed photoFamily members of Mildred “Mid” Furches presented a gift of approximately $1.5 million to Isothermal Community College recently. Shown are (l-r) Dr. Bill Lewis, Glenda Scruggs, Dr. Myra Johnson, Doris McDonald, Russell McDonald, Stephen Matheny and Thad Harrill.

State community college board votes to allow admission of undocu-mented students.

So far, the streetlights are still on

Garrett Byers/ Daily Courier

Furches’ bequest will benefit ICC

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RELIGIONChurch NewsNew children’s ministry in Caroleen

CAROLEEN — Caroleen First United Methodist Church will begin a new children’s ministry for ages 2 and up. C.A.T.S. (Children’s Activities on Tuesdays) will begin Sept. 22, in the church fel-lowship hall. The sessions are from 6 to 7:30 p.m., and include activities such as Bible stories, crafts, music/songs, games and a light supper.

Younger children (toddler age) should be accom-panied by an adult. School age children and older do not need an adult present, but parents are always welcome to stay and join in the fun.

Registration will be held Tuesday (Sept. 22) at the first session. All children are welcome to attend, you do not have to be a member of the church to participate.

Caroleen First United Methodist Church is locat-ed at 137 Mills Ave., off Boss Moore Road. Phillip Park is the pastor of the church.

Revival at Gilkey UMCGILKEY — Gilkey United Methodist Church will

be in revival Sept. 27-29, with various speakers on program. Services begin each night at 7 p.m. A kick off singing will be held on Saturday, Sept. 26, at 6:30 p.m., featuring The Servants Quartet from Hayes. The church is located at 108 Aydldotte Rd. in the Gilkey community.

The following speakers are scheduled: Sept. 27 — Rev. Morris Hatton, Mennonite

Brethren Church, Boone, covered dish meal at 5:30 p.m. message in word and song by at 7.

Sept. 28 — Rev. Richard Little, Jubilee Christian Center, York, S.C.

Sept. 29 — Rev. David Hawkins, Oak Grove United Methodist Church, Ellenboro.

Upcoming study at First BaptistFOREST CITY — The study “Facing Life’s

Challenges” will be led by Edy Price each Thursday in October at the First Baptist Church conference room (office entrance). The study begins at 11 a.m. each week. Bring your own Bible.

The following topics are included: Oct. 1 — The challenge of new light.Oct. 8 — The challenge of time’s limits. Oct. 15 — The challenge of living with mystery.

Developing a spiritual maturity that is at home with mystery and choosing silence over inadequate explanations.

Oct. 22 — The challenge of developing an authentic Christ-centered spirituality.

Contact the church office at 245-6626 to reserve your space.

Harriett Memorial in revivalCAROLEEN — Revival services will be held

Oct. 4-8 at Harriett Memorial Free Will Baptist Church. The Sunday service begins at 6 p.m., and Monday-Thursday, services start at 7 nightly. Robert Harris is pastor of the church, which is located at 1938 Hwy. 221-A, Caroleen.

The following speakers are on program:

Oct. 4 — Rev. Frank Woods, Greenville, Tenn,;Oct. 5 — Rev. Harold Holcombe, Old Fort;Oct. 6 — Rev. Phillip Wyatt, Waynesville;Oct. 7 — Rev. Darvy Hensley, Morganton;Oct. 8 — Rev. Richard Cole, Gastonia.

Zion Hill revival servicesHENRIETTA — Zion Hill Faith Temple, located

at 159 Ragtown Rd., will be in revival Sept. 20-24. The Sunday service will begin at 4 p.m., and Monday-Thursday, services start at 7 nightly. T.A. Giles is pastor of the church.

The following speakers are on program:Sept. 20 — Pastor Roosevelt Fowler, Unity

Bibleway Church, Spartanburg, S.C.;Sept. 21 and 22 — Pastor Jamaal Edwards, Oak

Grove Missionary Baptist Church, Forest City;Sept. 23 and 24 — Pastor Johnny Sanford, True

Vine Pentecostal Church, Forest City.

Sisk Memorial in revivalFOREST CITY — Revival services will be

held Sept. 24-26, at Sisk Memorial Missionary Methodist Church. Services will begin at 7 nightly. Weather permitting, revival will be held in the outside tabernacle. Special singing each night.

The following speakers are scheduled: Sept. 24 — Danny BumgarnerSept. 25 — Dean CoxSept. 26 — Danny Carr

Music/concertsSinging: Sunday, Sept. 20, 6 p.m.; Piney Knob Baptist Church; featuring The Wehry from Pennsylvania.

Singing: Sunday, Sept. 20, 6 p.m., Sandy Level Baptist Church; featuring Joe Willis of Morganton.

The Voices of Inspiration will be in concert Saturday, Sept. 26, at Jesus Lighthouse Tabernacle, 143 Old Wagy Rd., Forest City. Music begins at 4 p.m.

Old fashion gospel singing: 7th Annual Autumn in the Foothills Southern Gospel Singing: Sept. 25, 6 p.m., and Sept. 26, 5 p.m.; Glenwood Baptist Church, Bostic; conces-sions open one hour before the singing both days; grilled hot dogs, hamburgers, barbecue and homemade desserts; bring lawn chairs; church located 2 miles east of Forest City, off Hwy. 74 Bsn.; call 245-0571 for information.

Special servicesRevival: Sept. 20-23, Centennial United Methodist Church, 1473 Boy Scout Rd., Rutherfordton; guest evan-gelist, Rev. Clyde Ramsey; Sunday services 10:30 a.m. and 7 p.m.; MTW, 7 nightly; special music each night; kick off cookout at 5 p.m., Saturday, Sept. 19, at the church; Carl Ramsey, pastor.

58th Homecoming: Sunday, Sept. 20, worship service 10:30 a.m., Sandy Mush Baptist Church; a covered dish lunch will follow in the church fellowship building.

Homecoming: Sunday, Sept. 20, worship service 11 a.m., New Bethel Baptist Church, Harris; Rev. Terry Roach, a former pastor of the church, will deliver the message; lunch will be served afterwards on the church grounds.

Bible study: A new adult Bible study begins at 6:30 p.m., Wednesday, Sept. 23, at Gilkey United Methodist Church;

the pastor will be teaching the Efird study, which is a 22-week overview of the whole Bible; call 287-3843 for more information.

Homecoming: Sunday, Sept. 20, Thermal City United Methodist Church; a covered dish meal will follow the 11 a.m. worship service. Special service: Sunday, Sept. 20, 4 p.m., New Life Christian Fellowship Church of God, 601 E. Main St., Spindale; guest speaker, Pastor Phillip Emory of Bernardsville.

Revival: Sept. 20-24, Zion Hill Faith Temple; Sunday service 4 p.m.; MTWTh, 7 nightly; several speakers on program; Zion Hill Temple in located at 159 Ragtown Rd., Henrietta.5th Pastoral anniversary: In honor of Rev. J.K. Miller; Saturday, Sept. 26, 5 p.m.; Gold Hill Assembly Building, Spindale; tickets are $10 for non-members; purchase by Sept. 13; guest speaker, Rev. Harris, pastor of Bunton CME Church.

Tent revival: Sept. 24-26, 7 nightly, Ledbetter Rd., Spindale, across from the Spindale Prison camp; speakers, Chad Sisk, Bobby Brown and Fred Williams; special sing-ing each night.

Family and Friends Day: Sunday, Sept. 20, Union Hill AME Zion Church, Union Mills; Rev. Thelena Jackson will speak during the 11 a.m. worship service; Min. Phil Fornery from Wheat Creek Baptist Church will speak at 3 p.m., accompanied by his choirs and congregation; meal served at 2 p.m.

Revival: Sept. 28 - Oct. 2, 7 nightly, Pleasant View Community Church, 129 Michael Dr., Forest City; Rev. Randy Bane will be the guest speaker.

FundraisersBenefit barbecue: For Myrtle Greenholtz (kidney trans-plant patient), and Gary Zenker, (kidney donor); Saturday, Sept. 19, begins at 11 a.m., at First Wesleyan Church, Forest City; plates $7.

Car wash: Saturday, Sept. 19, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.; Harriett Memorial Free Will Baptist Church, 1938 Hwy. 221-A, Caroleen; cars $5; hot dogs and drinks will also be sold; sponsored by the church youth; proceeds to help purchase a sound system for the church.

Italian Night Out: Saturday, Sept. 19, 4 to 7 p.m., Oak Grove United Methodist Church, near Ellenboro; spaghetti, lasagna, and other Italian dishes; $8 for adults; ages 12 and under, $4; includes salad, drink and dessert; sponsored by the UMM; proceeds for various church projects.

Car wash: Saturday, Sept. 19, begins at 7 a.m., at the One Stop in Rutherfordton; cars $5, trucks $7; sponsored by Angel Divine Faith Church.

Breakfast, yard sale: Saturday, Sept. 19, begins at 7 a.m., Spencer Baptist Church, Spindale; adults $6; ages 3-12, $4; under 3 free; all you can eat; large number of yard sale items; proceeds benefit various church projects and needs.

Car wash: Saturday, Sept. 26, 8 to 11 a.m., at Long Branch Road Baptist Church; sponsored by the church youth.

Fish fry, hot dog sale: Saturday, Sept. 26, sponsored by Angel Divine Faith Church; at the former home of Willie Logan, 902 Rainbow Rapids Rd.; call 828-625-4507 for more information or directions.

Car show: 7th Annual Cruise for Christ Car Show; Saturday, Sept. 26, at Missionary Wesleyan Church, 811 Doggett Rd., Forest City; registration 8 a.m. to noon; fee $10; awards at 3 p.m.; live music by Rick Strickland with Cindy Griggs; barbecue catered by Ol Blue’s House of BBQ; for information or to register call 245-0931 or 657-5772.

Poor man’s supper: Saturday, Sept. 26, 4:30 to 7:30 p.m.; Pleasant View Community Church, 129 Michael Dr., Forest City; adults $5; ages 4-10, $3; take outs available, call 248-2261.

Other C.A.T.S.: (Children’s Activities on Tuesdays) meets every Tuesday at Caroleen First United Methodist Church from 6 to 7:30 p.m. For ages 2 and up. Bible stories, crafts, music, games and a light supper. Church is located at 137 Mills Ave., off Boss Moore Road.

Clothes Closet: Saturday, Sept. 26, 8 a.m. to noon; Cane Creek Baptist Church; large selection of clothing for men, women and children, (summer and winter); all free.

Endowment applications: The First United Methodist Church of Forest City is now accepting applications for its endowment for non-profit organizations. Application dead-line Sept. 30. For more information call 245-6446.

Youth Fest 2009: Saturday, Sept. 19, 3 to 7 p.m., Spencer Baptist Church, Spindale; Tabacco Prevention Program with Dr. Tom LaBreche, Dr. Gary Schafer, and Jamie Ingraham, RN; talent show with youth from area churches; free pizza, prizes and T-shirts; for middle grades and high school students; to reserve seating or for more information call 286-5502.

Outreach Festival: Saturday, Sept. 26, noon to 2 p.m., at Amity Apartments in Forest City; music, food, singing and fellowship; sponsored by New Dimension Church, Rutherfordton.

Fall festival: “Fall for Jesus” fall festival; Saturday, Oct. 3, 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.; Lake Lure Baptist Church; fun for the entire family; inflatables, games, prizes, NASCAR show car, baked goods, crafts, food and much more; the church is located on US Hwy. 64/74 across from the entrance to Riverbend.

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Darin and Brooke Justice Aldridge of Cherryville, will be in concert Sunday, Sept. 27, at Harris First Baptist Church. Music begins at 2 p.m. Public invited.

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These days, it is almost a cliché to say that common courtesy is not common enough. The concept of etiquette or manners seems almost a throwback to a distant era when girls might go to finishing schools and gentlemen all knew that it was their place to walk on the outside of the sidewalk. The notion that there is a right and a wrong side to serve someone from-we are supposed to serve food from the left-may seem quaint until we consider that most of us are right-handed, and thus it is easier to receive food if it comes from the left. In short, the point of

etiquette is sensitivity to the needs of others. Some of the arcane nuances of etiquette may indeed be quaint, and not entirely useful today, but the idea that we should be courteous to others, i.e., sensitive to their needs, is extremely important. Being considerate of the feelings of others and sensitive to their needs is the essence of etiquette. The person who embarrasses someone who has committed a breach of etiquette is obviously missing the point. Conversely, someone who is truly sensitive to the needs of their fellow human beings, even if they should commit a breach of etiquette, is still acting courteously by trying to meet their needs. If the commandment to love one another is the essence of Christianity, then etiquette is one of the ways we put this commandment into practice.

The Importance of EtiquetteDo nothing from selfishness or conceit, but in humility count others better than yourselves. Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the interests of others.

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Larry Dale/Daily CourierThe Artist Gala, part of the third annual Celebration of the Arts, was held Friday evening at the Foundation lobby at Isothermal Community College. The event was held by the Rutherford County Visual Artists Guild. Awards were presented during the Gala. The artwork will be on view from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. through Tuesday, except for 1 to 5 p.m. Sunday.

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RALEIGH – Infant mortal-ity rates dropped in North Carolina in 2008 and the minority infant mortality rate was the lowest in the state’s history, state health officials announced Friday.

A total of 130,758 North Carolina babies were born last year. The state’s total infant mortality rate was 8.2 deaths per 1,000 live births, 3.5 percent lower than the 2007 rate of 8.5.

In Rutherford County, the infant mortality rate increased from 2.6 percent in 2007 to 9.9 percent per 1,000 live births in 2008.

There were seven infant deaths in 2008 and two infant deaths in 2007 in

Rutherford County. Causes of infant deaths in

Rutherford County last year ranged from extreme pre-mature births to congenital birth defects, reported Helen White, district clinical super-visor. Of the seven infant deaths last year, six were white infant deaths and one was minority infant deaths.

There were 710 total births in Rutherford County last year.

In neighboring Cleveland County, the infant mortality death rate decreased from 12.5 percent in 2007 to 6.5 percent in 2008; McDowell’s rate increased from 3.9 per-cent in 2007 to 5.5 percent in 2008; and in Polk County, infant mortality rates increased from 6.8 percent

to 19.6 percent per 1,000 live births.

National figures are not yet available for 2008 data, but based on 2005-2006 data, North Carolina is cur-rently ranked 44th among the 50 states and the District of Columbia, with an aver-age rate of 8.5. The national infant mortality average for that time period was 6.5 deaths per 1,000 live births.

In 2008, North Carolina’s minority infant mortality rate was 13.5 deaths per 1,000 live births, nearly a 3 percent drop from the 2007 rate of 13.9. There were 37,530 live births to minority mothers, and 508 babies of minority race died before the age of 1 during 2008.

The state’s white infant

death rate also fell, from 6.3 deaths per 1,000 live births in 2007 to 6.0 in 2008, a 4.8 percent drop. There were 93,228 births to white moth-ers last year, and 558 deaths of white babies under age 1.

Of the 130,758 live births last year, 72,014 were white non-Hispanic (55.1 percent); 31,108 were black non-His-panic (23.8 percent); 21,619 were Hispanic (16.5 percent); and 1,754 were American Indian (1.3 percent). The remaining 4,263 births (3.3 percent) were of other races. Those proportions have remained about the same over the past three years.

The 1,066 deaths of babies under one year old in 2008 were due to a variety of causes. Nearly 20 percent

(210) of the deaths were due to prematurity and low birth weight, and 19 percent (203) were attributed to birth defects. Unintentional injury deaths dropped, accounting for slightly more than 3 per-cent (35) of the infant deaths in 2008.

Minority women continue to experience markedly high-er rates of low birth weight births (13.5% in 2008) than do white women (7.3% in 2008).

In 2008, the number of infant deaths related to Sudden Infant Death Syndrome, (SIDS) increased, accounting for 136 deaths in children under one year of age. SIDS deaths had been declining since 1995.

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RALEIGH (AP) — North Carolina’s unemployment rate dropped almost imperceptibly in August from a month earlier, remaining close to 11 percent as more people became discouraged by the job market and stopped looking for work.

The state Employment Security Commission said Friday the unem-ployment rate was 10.8 percent, down only slightly from the 10.9 per-cent reported for July. The rate for August 2008 was 6.6 percent.

Both employment and unemploy-ment decreased for the first time this year. Typically, when unemployment

falls, employment increases.“What that tells me is that the dis-

couraged worker effect is at work here,” said William Hall, an econo-mist at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington.

Employment decreased by 8,330 workers to just more than 4 mil-lion, while the number of people unemployed decreased by 6,534 to 488,974, the ESC said.

The August rate marked a seventh consecutive month the number hov-ered above the previous historic high. Before this year, the state’s highest unemployment rate was 9.7 percent in March 1983, a level matched in January.

KILL DEVIL HILLS, N.C. (AP) — Officials have determined a Pittsburgh man whose body washed up on a North Carolina beach died from shark bites.

The Virginian-Pilot of Norfolk, Va., reported Friday that Richard Snead’s body was discovered Thursday by a tourist taking an early morning walk in the Outer Banks’ Kill Devil Hills.

A medical examiner’s office in Greenville deter-mined the 60-year-old died of shark bites. It was unclear how many times he was bitten or by what type of shark.

Snead’s family reported him missing around 1 a.m. Sunday after he didn’t return from a late-night swim off Corolla, about 30 miles north of where he was found.

In September 2001, two people were killed and a third was injured by sharks off Virginia and North Carolina beaches.

Information from: The Virginian-Pilot, http://www.pilo-tonline.com

State infant mortality rate falls; county rate up

State jobless rate still 10.8 percent

Officials: Man killed by shark

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“OMG, there’s a car coming right at me!” That may be what someone in a vehicle

near you is texting. As the communication craze continues

across our country, more and more peo-ple are being put at risk by others who continue manipulating their cell phones and PDAs while driving.

This practice has to stop. It is way too dangerous. You would think that com-mon sense would prevail and drivers wouldn’t even consider texting.

Studies have shown that drivers involved in texting take their eyes off the road for a minimum of 10 seconds. In that time, their vehicle has traveled at least 100 yards, the length of a foot-ball field.

New laws are cropping up in hope of stopping this practice. We implore texters to just use common sense while they are behind the wheel of a vehicle.

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Our readers’ viewsCancer Society thanks all for relay success

To the editor:On behalf of the American

Cancer Society and the Relay For Life Of Rutherford County com-mittee, I would like to thank resi-dents of Rutherford County for their generosity and support.

Over 50 teams participated in this year’s event, raising more than $213,000 for the American Cancer Society’s research, educa-tion, advocacy and service pro-grams. This outstanding show of support proves that the people of Rutherford County are truly committed to the fight against cancer.

We were honored to be joined by over 200 survivors who walked the opening Survivors Lap, officially kicking off this year’s event. These survivors are the reason we continue the fight. Their participation inspires hope in those currently battling cancer.

A special thanks to the many Relay For Life volunteers who worked to make this event a success – celebrating the lives of those who have had cancer, remembering those lost, and fighting back against a disease that takes too much. The Relay For Life committee did an out-standing job of organizing the event and special thanks goes out to each member of the commit-tee.

We also appreciate the generos-ity of this year’s corporate spon-sors. Relay For Life would not be possible without them.

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Agrees that speeders creating problems

To the editor:I am writing in response to the

editorial by Florence Alderman. I do agree that speed is an issue on W. Main Street in Forest City but there are other places that it is a major factor.

I noticed on 9/10/09, that there was a FCPD patrol car outside of Computer City “policing” the traffic. While I do not have a problem with them doing that, I do question the timing behind it. I live on W. Church Street in Bostic just before the Hidden Valley apartments and that curve is well known by the county for its accidents.

We have had fire hydrants destroyed and cars in ditches among other things due to speed. I hear squealing breaks on a daily basis and I am constantly worried about someone getting hurt or killed because someone is being irresponsible.

I recently dealt with this irre-sponsibilty firsthand. I had a Ford Ranger pickup land up over my ditch into my yard (tailgate first) on 7/28/09. The driver was not hurt but he obviously knew that he had gone way too fast because just before he ended up in my yard, my daughters and I heard his breaks squeal and looked to find the truck in the yard.

He quickly threw it into drive and drove away. I had written to

The Daily Courier about this and while some of the county’s resi-dents did take notice and start obeying the speed limit, I am finding that the majority do not. This fact concerns me greatly because I am afraid to let my girls out in the front yard with their dad because I fear it could happen again and they could be hurt.

I am not sure if FCPD had already had that patrol planned but I find the timing of the W. Main Street editorial and the patrol awful convenient. All I know is that they definitely need to have someone patrol (I will even offer up my driveway for parking, if needed) in this area before someone causes serious property or personal injury. But something needs to be done and it needs to be done now!

Jessica DunhamBostic

Champions individual rights of free choice

To the editor:The government should encour-

age us to do what is right. I choose to do the right thing

not because the government is telling me I have to do it but it makes me feel good.

I should have a choice whether to have health insurance, or to wear a seat belt, or to go to a res-turant where the diners smoke, or to put a plastic bottle in the garbage can. There are better solutions than the government stomping all over my rights and freedoms.

F.S. LawrenceRutherfordton

As neighbors fare better, NC needs new directionRALEIGH — Call me a

nerd (I’ve heard worse) but I spend lots of time look-ing at economic, fiscal, and social statistics. For North Carolina, the latest data don’t paint a pretty picture.

The state’s jobless rate of 11 percent is one of the highest in the country. The problem is far more severe in com-munities such as Burlington (13 percent), Rocky Mount-Wilson (14 percent), Hickory-Morganton (15 percent), Lenoir (16 percent) and Laurinburg (17 percent).

Unfortunately, North Carolina isn’t just experienc-ing a painful moment in an otherwise progressive time. For longer that much of the state’s political and busi-ness leadership would care to admit, North Carolina has lagged the rest of the Southeast and often the rest of the country on a variety of key indicators.

Since 2000, for example, North Carolina’s per-capita income has risen 27 percent compared to 49 percent for the Southeast and 33 percent for the nation as a whole.

North Carolina’s population and employment grew faster than the national average, it is true. But we added signifi-cantly fewer jobs from 2000 to 2007 than most of our regional competitors did.

Depending on the measure one chooses, Southern states such as Virginia, Texas, Florida, and Tennessee have outperformed North Carolina in economic growth either modestly or decisively during the past decade.

This is not what most

North Carolina leaders are used to hearing — and is cer-tainly not what they are used to telling the public. Despite our state’s early reputation as a vale of humility between two mountains of conceit, all too many of our state’s politicians have been boast-ful and self-deluded. They’ve come to believe their own

press releases and marketing slogans.

As a result, North Carolinians have been sur-prised by the sudden, sharp downturn in the state’s econ-omy over the past year.

I think that’s a major rea-son why, in the latest Civitas Institute poll, only 30 per-cent of North Carolina vot-ers approved of Gov. Beverly Perdue’s job performance. Sure, some voters have spe-cific reasons to disapprove of Perdue’s tax and spending policies.

But I think many voters are dismayed at their state’s declining fortunes and look-ing for someone to blame. The new governor will suf-fice.

There is no single cause of North Carolina’s economic plight. I’ll be the first to admit that. It is likely, how-ever, that the state’s relatively high marginal tax rates have played a role in weakening the state’s competitiveness and discouraging some entrepreneurs from start-ing or expanding businesses here.

It’s not simply the aver-age tax burden that matters, though North Carolina’s tax burden is now slighter higher than the national average when measured correctly (as a share of personal income). The structure of the tax code matters more. By levying rel-atively higher marginal tax rates on personal and corpo-rate income, North Carolina erects barriers to economic growth that aren’t present in faster-growing Southern states.

In choosing its higher-tax, higher-spending fiscal phi-losophy, North Carolina’s political class embraced an alternative model for eco-nomic development based on the notion that spending more money on education, particularly higher educa-tion, would pay off in higher incomes and job creation. Empirically, this notion is false.

After a promising start in the early 1990s, North Carolina’s educational prog-ress essentially ground to a halt by the end of the decade. As for higher education, it soaks up a significantly larg-

er share of state spending in North Carolina than in other states but we don’t produce a significantly higher share of college graduates.

Through massive subsidies, state government has engi-neered a transfer of income from average taxpayers to affluent faculty, administra-tors, and graduating profes-sionals — and from both rural and urban communi-ties to college towns.

But operating this redis-tributionist system so as to engineer in a real gain in the productivity of the state’s workforce, and thus in rising incomes and opportunities, has proven challenging, to say the least.

North Carolina needs a new direction. That doesn’t necessarily mean that the state needs new leadership. But if the political class con-tinues to be wedded to its outdated perceptions and discredited assumptions, its hold on power will end.

Hood is president of the John Locke Foundation and publisher of CarolinaJournal.com.

Syndicated columnist

John Hood

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Johnny S. PhillipsJohnny S. Phillips, 83, of

2497 Harris-Henrietta Road, Henrietta, died Thursday, Sept. 17, 2009, at Carolinas Medical Center in Charlotte.

A native of Rutherford County he was the son of the late Joseph Ira Phillips and Mary Lee Seay Phillips.

He was a longtime mem-ber of Avondale Methodist Church.

He is survived by several nieces, nephews and cousins.

Funeral services will be conducted at 3 p.m. on Sunday, September 20, in the Harrelson Funeral Chapel with the Reverend Robert Hodgens and Reverend Lanny J. Funchess officiat-ing. Interment will follow in Rutherford County Memorial Cemetery. The family will receive friends one hour prior to service time.

Harrelson Funeral Home is serving the family.

An online guest registry is avail-able at www.harrelsonfuneral-home.com

Randy StreetRandy Loyd Street,

54, of Ponderosa Drive, Rutherfordton, died Wednesday, September 16, 2009, at Gaston Memorial Hospital.

A native of Rutherford County, he was the son of Loyd Bradshaw Street and Audrey Allen Street Champion.

In addition to his moth-er, survivors include his step-father, Buford “Boot” Champion of Shelby; one son, Zachary Bumgardner of Spindale; one step-sister, Gail Warren of Lattimore; two step-brothers, Phil Champion of Shelby and Bill Champion of Inman, S.C.

Funeral services will be conducted at 1 p.m. on Sunday, September 20, at the Harrelson Funeral Chapel with the Reverend David Bradley officiating. Interment will follow in Gantts Grove Baptist Church Cemetery. The family will receive friends one hour prior

to service time.Harrelson Funeral Home is

serving the family.

An online guest registry is avail-able at www.harrelsonfuneral-home.com

Irving KristolWASHINGTON (AP) —

Irving Kristol, the political writer and publisher known as the godfather of neo-conservatism whose youthful radicalism evolved into an emphatic rejection of com-munism and the countercul-ture, died Friday. He was 89.

Kristol was the husband of critic-historian Gertrude Himmelfarb and father of neo-conservative editor and commentator William Kristol.

Robert J. Searcy ATLANTA, Ga. (AP) —

Former Tuskegee Airman Robert J. Searcy has died of colon cancer at his grand-daughter’s home in Atlanta. He was 88.

Bob Kowalkowski ALLEN PARK, Mich.

(AP) — Longtime Detroit Lions offensive lineman Bob Kowalkowski has died at the age of 65.

Kowalkowski was a starting guard for most of his 11 sea-sons with the Lions after he was drafted out of Virginia in 1965. He was traded to Cleveland in 1977 and fin-ished his career playing four games for coach Bart Starr and the Green Bay Packers in 1977.

Linda C. BlackATASCADERO, California

(AP) — Syndicated colum-nist and astrologer Linda C. Black, who wrote daily horo-scopes for Tribune Media Services and whose forecasts were read in newspapers across the world, has died. She was 65.

She studied and practiced astrology for more than 40 years, following a childhood interest. She began writing horoscopes for TMS in 1992.

Fire damages house in Cliffside area

CLIFFSIDE — Firefighters were called out at about 5:20 p.m. Thursday to a house fire at 159 New Line Road.

The kitchen and den of the Billy Harris residence burned, and the reminder of the structure sustained smoke and water dam-age, according to First Sgt. Johnny Pruitt of the Cliffside Volunteer Fire Department. The cause of the fire is unknown at this time.

The Cliffside department was assisted by Ellenboro and Sandy Mush firefighters. There were no injuries at the fire scene.

Sheriff’s Reportsn The Rutherford County

Sheriff’s Office responded to 111 E-911 calls Thursday.n Jvonne Avery Dimsdale

reported someone broke a Plexiglas window on a build-ing.n Susan Guffey reported

the theft of a scooter.n Charles Norman Speight

reported the theft of a post driver, auger and other items.n Joseph Lee Hudson

reported the theft of a win-dow air-conditioner unit and other items.

Rutherfordtonn The Rutherfordton Police

Department responded to 19 E-911 calls Thursday.n Wayne Robin Goggins

reported finding a bicycle.

Spindalen The Spindale Police

Department responded to 28 E-911 calls Thursday.

Lake Luren The Lake Lure Police

Department responded to eight E-911 calls Thursday.

Forest Cityn The Forest City Police

Department responded to five E-911 calls Thursday.

Arrestsn Matthew Thomas Cooley,

22, of Whistle Drive; charged with second-degree trespass-ing; released on a written promise to appear. (FCPD)n Chrissy W. Wilson, 30, of

162 Cherokee Circle; charged with failure to comply on child support; placed under a $565 cash bond. (RCSD)n Vicky Annette Pardo, 42,

of 217 California St.; charged with harassing phone call; released on a $500 unse-cured bond. (RCSD)n Terry Terrell Jackson,

24, of 301 U.S. 221 South; charged with failure to appear on child support; placed under a $500 cash bond. (RCSD)n Robert Dean Fowler, 21,

of 1060 Old Ballpark Rd.; charged with driving while impaired; placed under a $2,000 secured bond. (RCSD)

Citationsn Loretta Ann Parker, 20,

of Amity Drive; cited for aid and abet second-degree tres-passing. (FCPD)

EMS/Rescuen The Rutherford County

EMS responded to 27 E-911 calls Thursday.n The Volunteer Life

Saving and Rescue, Hickory

Nut Gorge EMS and Rutherford County Rescue responded to 18 E-911 calls Thursday.

Fire Callsn Cliffside firefighters

responded to a house fire, assisted by Ellenboro and Sandy Mush firefighters.n Ellenboro firefighters

responded to a fire alarm.

n Forest City firefighters responded to two motor vehi-cle accidents.n Hudlow firefighters

responded to a vehicle fire.n Rutherfordton firefight-

ers responded to a tree down.n SDO firefighters

responded to a motor vehicle accident.

From staff reports

RUTHERFORDTON — Two men charged with sex offenses accepted plea arrangements in Superior Court this week.

Brian Anthony Gray on Tuesday pleaded guilty to indecent liberties with a child. He had also faced a first-degree rape charge, but that count was dismissed.

He received a split sen-tence. Gray is to serve 295 days in a Department of Correction facility. He also

was sentenced to 16 to 20 months in a DOC facility, but that sentence is suspended, with 36 months supervised probation, including four to six months of intensive pro-bation.

Gray was ordered to per-form 72 hours of community service and to pay fines and court costs.

In another case in Superior Court on Tuesday, Robert Lee Wilson pleaded guilty to an indecent liberties charge, along with contributing to the delinquency of a juvenile.

He had been charged with statutory rape/ sex offense where the defendant is more than six years older than the victim, in addition to the contributing to the delin-quency charge.

He also received a split sen-tence. Wilson was sentenced to 273 days in a DOC facility, with pretrial credit equal-ing that sentence. He also received a suspended sen-tence of 16 to 20 months in a DOC facility, with 36 months supervised probation, includ-ing six months intensive pro-bation.

Two men enter guilty pleas

ObituariesSWAYZE MEMORIAL

Associated PressIn this Sept. 15 photo, John Cloud, owner of the residential development, Firefly Cove at Lake Lure, walks around shooting locations from the movie, Dirty Dancing, which featured actor, Patrick Swayze. Swayze died earlier this week after a battle with pancreatic cancer. Area fans will hold a memorial service for the actor at Firefly Cove on Saturday evening at 7 p.m.

Deaths

Police Notes

RALEIGH (AP) — A North Carolina Division of Motor Vehicles supervisor has been arrested on charges he pos-sessed three stolen riding lawnmowers and concealed evidence in an investigation.

An arrest warrant issued in Duplin County on Friday says William Clevin Toman

Jr. bought the three lawn-mowers even though he had reasonable grounds to think they were stolen.

DMV officials said Toman was a district supervisor in Fayetteville. He started work in the division’s license and theft bureau in January 2006.

The 51-year-old has been

placed under investiga-tory leave with pay and was released on a $50,000 bond. He did not have a listed phone number.

The DMV said the arrest follows a joint investiga-tion by the agency, the State Bureau of Investigation and the FBI.

DMV supervisor facing criminal charges

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Johnny S. PhillipsJohnny S. Phillips, age 83, of

2497 Harris-Henrietta Road, Henrietta, NC, died Thursday, Sept. 17, 2009, at Carolinas Medi-cal Center in Charlotte.

Johnny was born on Jan. 30, 1926, in Rutherford County to the late Joseph Ira Phillips and Mary Lee Seay Phillips. Before his re-tirement, he had worked in Qual-ity Control for Burlington Mills for over 40 years.

He was known as a self-pro-claimed local historian of the Caroleen-Avondale-Henrietta area having gathered pictures and information pertaining to the “mill town” culture. He was a people person and would talk often of his exploits during his younger years. He enjoyed danc-ing and big band music. Johnny was a longtime member of Avon-dale Methodist Church.

In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by four brothers, Gorman, Howard, Britt and Joe Phillips and by his sister, Merrill Nolen.

He is survived by several niec-es, nephews and cousins.

Funeral services will be con-ducted at 3 p.m. on Sunday, Sept. 20, 2009, in the Harrelson Fu-neral Chapel with the Rev. Rob-ert Hodgens and the Rev. Lanny J. Funchess officiating. Interment will follow in Rutherford County Memorial Cemetery. The fam-ily will receive friends one hour prior to service time.

Harrelson Funeral Home is serving the family.

An online guest registry is available at:www.harrelsonfuneralhome.com

Paid obit

Johnny Kevin Wells

Johnny Kevin Wells, age 54,

of Wells Drive, Forest City, died Monday, September 14, 2009, at his residence.

A native of Rutherford County, he was a son of they late Jirleen Price and Joseph Wells. Johnny was a resident of Southern California over the last thirty years and had recently moved back home to Forest City where he could be with family and friends. He was a veteran hav-ing served in the US Navy dur-ing the Vietnam War and was a journalist and editor of several naval news papers, a member of the Disabled American Veterans, and active in the San Diego Rescue Mission for the last 15 years in San Diego, CA.

Survivors include his wife, Jo Ann Wells of Murrieta, CA, two daughters, Taisha Wells of San Diego, CA, and Ashley Wells of El Centro, CA, a brother, William D. Price of Georgia, a sister, Daphney Price of Forest City, a grandmother, Bertha Price of Forest City, and a grandson, Deonte Runnells of San Diego, CA. There are several nieces and nephews.

Funeral services will be held at eleven o’clock in the morning, Monday, September 21, 2009, at Oak Grove Baptist Church, Forest City, with Pastor Jamal Edwards officiating. Interment will follow in the church cem-etery. Visitation will be from 10 until 11 o’clock in the church fel-lowship hall prior to the service. The family will be at the home of his sister, Daphney Price, 140 Dawnview Street in Forest City.

An online guest registry is available at www.padgettking.com.

The Padgett and King Mortuary is serving the Wells family.

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Gavin said he recognized there are many deeply held opinions on the issue; the decision was not made locally and Isothermal’s administra-tion will comply with all the admin-istrative rules set forth by the North Carolina Community College System.

“My hope is that this issue does not distract nor impede our mission of improving life through learning,” Gavin said.

North Carolina’s community college system voted Friday to admit illegal immigrants at its campuses next year, a move unlikely to bring an immedi-ate surge in undocumented students given a requirement that they pay higher tuition.

Lt. Gov. Walter Dalton cast the lone no vote against the policy.

The State Board of Community Colleges approved the rules, which according to proponents will pro-vide clarity after four previous policy changes on the topic since 2001.

A no-admission policy, with some rare exceptions, has been in place since May 2008, but Friday’s vote will open more opportunities for Latino residents to succeed, an advocate said.

“We are thrilled with the decision,” said Marco Zarate, president of the North Carolina Society of Hispanic Professionals. “We believe that educa-tion is something that is probably one of the few things that once you have it, nobody can take it away from you.”

The changes are designed to focus on children who entered the coun-try illegally with their parents and didn’t make the decision to come to America, said Stuart Fountain, chair-man of the policy committee that rec-ommended the policy change to the full board.

“These children cannot be held in limbo while the federal government

decides what to do with immigration,” Fountain said. “While in high school they have adopted American culture and they’ve learned to speak English.”

Lt. Gov. Dalton did not debate publicly the issue before the board. He released a statement saying that “these are extremely difficult econom-ic times that require tough choices.”

“Now is not the time to increase the demands on our already overbur-dened community college system,” Dalton added.

The rules, which would almost mir-ror guidelines for University of North Carolina campuses, would allowed illegal immigrants to enroll in any of the system’s 58 campuses if they have graduated from a U.S. high school.

Those students would have to pay out-of-state tuition — $7,700 per year with full course loads, a policy adopt-ed in 2005 by Isothermal Community College. According to system data, that’s nearly five times the in-state rate.

They also couldn’t qualify for finan-cial aid or take the place of students who are legally in the U.S. on crowd-ed campuses.

The policy “is still going to be very restrictive for an awful lot of these students,” said Tony Asion, executive director of the Hispanic advocacy group El Pueblo, who wants in-state tuition for undocumented immi-grants. “But at this point it’s better than nothing.”

With some campus presidents seeing 20 to 30 percent enrollment increases this year as unemployed workers try to retrain for a new career, illegal immigrants would get lower priority for admission.

“My personal belief is that we’ll end up averaging no more than one or two students per college,” Fountain said. The system had 111 illegal immigrants enrolled during the 2007-08 school year, according to an outside consul-tant’s report presented in April to the

board while it formulated a policy. In 2007, the system replaced a policy giving campuses the option to enroll undocumented immigrants with a requirement that they do so.

About 50 opponents to the change picketed outside the state’s commu-nity college offices Thursday while a committee discussed the policy. There were no protesters Friday.

“For our state to be assisting people illegally here to be better trained so that they can possibly take jobs or will take jobs from North Carolinians just seems to be a wrong-headed type of policy,” said Ron Woodard, director of NC LISTEN, a Cary-based group that lobbies for less immigration.

Gov. Beverly Perdue, another Democrat, was also opposed to the community college enrollment change, telling reporters this week it’s hard to understand why the state should educate people “when they can’t work legally in the state after they’re educated.”

Senate Minority Leader Phil Berger, R-Rockingham, criticized the decision and suggested Perdue could have lob-bied more to block the change.

A governor has no direct authority over the board but appoints 10 of the 21 members. Perdue has appointed four of them since taking office in January.

The vast majority of states admit undocumented immigrants, Fountain said. Of 11 states reviewed in the con-sultant’s report, five offered in-state tuition rate to undocumented immi-grants, five required the out-of-state rate and South Carolina had a ban on admissions for illegal immigrants.

The policy still must go through a procedure required of most rules approved by state agencies. The Legislature could still have the oppor-tunity to reject the rule when it recon-venes in May or override it with its own law.

Health/educationFree screenings: September is Prostate Awareness Month. The Community Clinic of Rutherford County will offer free prostate screenings on Wednesday, Sept. 23. Call 245-0400 for an appointment. You do not have to be a current patient of the clinic.

Health Fair: Friday, Oct. 2, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.; Lake Lure Town Hall; sponsored by Lake Lure Lions Club; vision screening (Lions Vision Van), hearing tests, blood pressure, blood sugar testing, chiropractor, acupuncture, Hospice, diabetic edu-cation and general wellness/health care education. Flu vaccines: Flu shots will be given Thursday, Oct. 15, from 5 to 7:30 p.m., at Double Springs Baptist Church FLC; fee $30; free for those Medicare Part B card; must bring card or a copy; for questions, call Karen Bridges at 704-284-0194; this is a service for the commu-nity from Double Springs Baptist Church Health Care Ministry.

Community Health Clinic of Rutherford County provides access to primary medical care, well-ness education, medications and preventative programs. The clinic, open Monday through Thursday, is located at 127 E. Trade St., B 100, Forest City. Patients seen by appointment only. The clinic does not accept patients with private insurance, Medicaid or Medicare. Call 245-0400. The Medication Assistance Program provides access to medications at reduced rates or free of charge to those who qualify, call 288-8872.

Support groupsHOPE support group: HOPE of Rutherford County is a support group for families of children with special needs; for more informa-tion contact Jill at 704-480-2892 or Julie at 828-288-1900.

Celebrate Recovery: Friday nights from 6:30 to 9 p.m. at Cornerstone Fellowship Church, 1186 Hudlow Rd.; support and encouragement; for more information, contact Becky at 828-980-8960.

Meetings/otherDemocrat meeting: Rutherford County Democrat Club will meet Monday, Sept. 28, at Democrat Headquareters in downtown Forest City. The meeting begins at 7 p.m.

Motorcycle Club: Sport bike own-ers or riders interested in forming a club, contact Terry Padgett at 245-8406.

MiscellaneousICC classes rescheduled: Several Continuing Education fall classes scheduled for the week of Sept. 14 were postponed and are now sched-uled to start the week of Sept. 28. Call 286-3636, ext. 346 for the new dates. The fall schedule is also avail-able online at www.isothermal.edu/conedu/.

Needleworkers Nite Out: Tuesday, Sept. 22, 7 p.m., Gilkey United Methodist Church; knitting and crocheting lessons offered free; bring the project you are working on; free yarn available for charity projects such as like chemo caps, prayer shawls, children’s sweaters, etc.; call 289-2423 for more infor-mation.

Guardian ad Litem program: Federal and N.C. laws mandate legal representation for children in abuse and neglect court proceed-ings. Community volunteers are a powerful voice in advocating for children and helping them to find their voice in the court system. To find out how you can become a Guardian ad Litem, call 287-3929.

Hours changing: All Rutherford County Convenience Centers will be closed on Sundays, beginning Nov. 1. Also the convenience centers will now close at 7 p.m., beginning Nov. 2.

reunionsTaylor family reunion: Sunday, Sept. 20, Gilkey United Methodist Church; covered dish lunch 1 p.m.; for more information contact Kim Beam at 287-9480.

Camby family reunion: Sunday, Sept. 20, covered dish lunch 1 p.m., at Pleasant Grove Church in Fairview.

Family reunion: Nanney, Ferguson and Hardin families; Saturday, Sept. 26, lunch at noon, Florence Baptist Church FLC.

64th Drum-Wilkinson family reunion: Sunday, Sept. 27, covered dish lunch 1 p.m.; Pisgah United Methodist Church, Catawba; con-tact Kay Williams at 828-465-2626 for more details.

Norville family reunion: Sunday, Sept. 27, covered dish meal 1 p.m.; Cane Creek Baptist Church FLC, Hwy. 64, going toward Morganton.

Gettys family reunion: Sunday, Oct. 4, covered dish lunch 1 p.m.; Duncan’s Creek Presbyterian Church, Ellenboro; for more infor-mation call 704-487-5480.

3,000 more.”We have not considered that yet,

which is not to say that we shouldn’t consider it,” said Chris Braund, Lake Lure town manager. The town did make some other energy saving moves. “We modified our program-mable thermostats to reduce heating and cooling costs, particularly during non-business hours. And we had a utilities audit firm identify one-time and ongoing cost reductions in elec-tricity, telephone and gas accounts.”

In Forest City, the streetlights will stay on — for now.

“We haven’t sat down and looked at the money we could save on cutting off the streetlights and nobody has brought it up yet,” said Pruett Waldin, finance director for Forest City. “I think it is a good idea to at least look

into it.”Officials with the town of Bostic

also said they had no plans to turn off streetlights.

But in Rutherfordton, the utility costs are a big concern, especially after a notice from Duke Energy that it may increase the charge for all out-door lighting.

“We are not cutting off streetlights, but Duke Energy has sent a letter that the utility bills for streetlights are going up,” said Sally Lesher, mayor of Rutherfordton. “That impacts our budget. A lot of towns in North Carolina are passing resolutions to get Duke not to do it until the next bud-get year. It has really impacted some of the larger cities.”

The specific impact on Rutherford-ton would be noticeable, officials said.

“Turning the lights on and off is all controlled by Duke,” said Rutherfordton Finance Director Russ Scherer. “They’re looking to raise the

rates between 15 and 16 percent for all outdoor lighting. We haven’t con-templated turning any of the street-lights off, but if the 15 percent rate hike goes through we will notice it. Our bill is roughly about $44,500 a year and if that goes up by 16.7 per-cent that is an increase of $7,400 per year.”

Lesher and Scherer were both hope-ful that a united front by cities would convince Duke to delay the rate increase.

“Durham sent a resolution out to all cities that have Duke Energy service to get them to pass a resolution to ask Duke not to change the rate until the next fiscal year,” Lesher said. “Cutting the streetlights off, of course, runs the risk of crime going up and they’re important for public safety at night. It’s a double-edged sword.”

Contact Baughman via e-mail at sbaugh-man@thedigitalcourier.com.

The gift of $1.4 million in cash and more than $60,000 in government bonds was presented to college offi-cials last week by Russell McDonald, a nephew of Furches, and his wife, Doris.

“We called her Aunt Mid and she was a wonderful woman,” said Russell. “When I think about it, I am absolutely amazed at her desire to support education and how much that support has meant to students over the years. She has given gener-ously not only to Isothermal, but to Sandhills Community College, Mars Hill, East Carolina and UNC.”

Dr. Myra Johnson, Isothermal’s president, thanked McDonald for his work on behalf of Furches’ estate.

In the 1990s, Mrs. Furches began establishing scholarships at Isothermal. One was in memory of her parents, Monroe and Ada McDonald; two remembered two of her brothers, James Monroe McDonald and W.H. “Shorty” McDonald; and the fourth was in memory of an aunt, Kate Moore.

During that time, Mrs. Furches visited then-president, Dr. Williard L. Lewis, and his secretary, Glenda Scruggs, occasionally.

Born Aug. 16, 1918, in Spindale, Mrs. Furches graduated from R-S Central High School in 1935 and received the school’s First Honor Medal. She graduated from East Carolina College and went to work as a home management supervisor for the Farm Security Administration.

In 1944, she married Douthit Lawrence “Doc” Furches, who was

drafted into the U.S. Army in 1942 and retired as a lieutenant colonel from his military career in 1964.

During her husband’s Army career, the couple lived in Arkansas, Utah, Maryland, Boston, Massachusetts, Alabama, North Carolina, and Yokohama, Japan. In Japan, she was a home economics teacher at the school where her husband was principal. She earned a master’s degree in clothing and textiles from UNC-Greensboro in 1962.

Upon his retirement from the Army, the couple moved to Southern Pines, where he helped establish and direct the Adult Education Program of Sandhills Community College.

In 1996 the couple was were hon-ored with membership in the Order of the Longleaf Pine and the Sandhills Community College Foundation.

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East .JV .trounces .Yellow .Jackets

FOREST CITY — East’s JV football team pounded Bessemer City in a 33-6 win, on Thursday.

“We played an all-around great team game,” said East coach Preston Allen. “I was very pleased with how we played.”

East improved to 3-1 on the year.

Tryson .leaves .Penske .for .personal .reasons

LOUDON, N.H. (AP) — Crew chief Pat Tryson says he is leav-ing Penske Racing for personal reasons, and his decision has nothing to do with driver Kurt Busch.

Tryson is moving to Michael Waltrip Racing at the end of this season to crew chief for Martin Truex Jr. His impend-ing departure was revealed last week, as the No. 2 team read-ied for the start to the Chase for the championship.

Tryson says he is committed to finishing out the year with Busch, and the duo will try to win the Sprint Cup together before he leaves.

Kahne .focusing .on .Chase, .not .RPM

LOUDON, N.H. (AP) — Kasey Kahne says he’s not con-cerned about the uncertainty at Richard Petty Motorsports affecting his bid for a NASCAR championship.

RPM recently parted ways with Mark McArdle, the team’s vice president and manag-ing director of competition. McArdle’s departure comes on the heels of a merger between RPM and Yates Racing begin-ning in 2010 that includes a switch from Dodge to Ford.

7:30 a.m. (ESPN2) Eng-lish Premier League Soccer Burnley vs. Sunderland. 12 p.m. (WBTV) (WLOS) College Football Boston Col-lege at Clemson. 12 p.m. (WSPA) College Football North Texas at Ala-bama. 12 p.m. (ESPN)(ESPN2) College Football Teams TBA. 1:30 p.m. (WYFF) LPGA Tour Golf Samsung World Championship — Third Round. 3:30 p.m. (WBTV) (WSPA) College Football Tennessee at Florida. 3:30 p.m. (WYFF) College Football Michigan State at Notre Dame. 3:30 p.m. (WSOC) (WLOS) (ESPN) (ESPN2) College Football Teams TBA.3:30 p.m. (FSS) College Football Tulsa at Oklahoma. 4 p.m. (WHNS) MLB Base-ball Regional Coverage — Chicago Cubs at St. Louis, Detroit at Minnesota or San Francisco at Los Angeles Dodgers. 6:45 p.m. (TS) College Football Cincinnati at Oregon State.7 p.m. (FSS) College Foot-ball Mississippi State at Vanderbilt. 7 p.m. (WGN) MLB Baseball Kansas City Royals at Chicago White Sox. 7:45 p.m. (ESPN) (ESPN2) College Football Teams TBA. 8 p.m. (WSOC) (WLOS) College Football Texas Tech at Texas. 9 p.m. (SPIKE) Ultimate Fighting Championship 103: Preliminaries From Dallas. 10:15 p.m. (FSS) College Football Kansas State at UCLA.

Tuscola holds off CentralBy KEVIN CARVERSports Correspondent

WAYNESVILLE — R-S Central fought the good fight, but came up a little short at Tuscola, losing 34-21, Friday night.

“Sometimes it’s good to take a loss,” Central coach Mike Cheek said. “This was a good loss. I thought our kids fought hard, especially when we were down 21-0. We could have given up, but we didn’t. That is what I am proud

of from tonight.”Both teams opened the game with

solid defensive efforts and exchanged early punts.

The Mountaineers drew first blood, however, when quarterback Tyler Brosius found Austin Chambers for a 24 yard gain, setting up the first score of the game. Brosius hit Eric Nelson with 28-yard scoring strike moments later and Michael Garrison added the point after kick to give the Mountaineers a 7-0 lead.

After that score, Central gave the ball back to the Mountaineers when a bad snap downed the Hilltoppers punter at the Tuscola 48-yard line. Six plays later, Tuscola was ahead 14-0 when Josh Adams burst up the middle on a three-yard scoring run and Garrison got his second PAT.

Tuscola got the ball back four plays later at its own 43-yard line. From there, Brosius hit Nelson on a 57-yard

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Yellow Jackets shut down Cavs, 16-6By ADAM BARNESSpecial to the Courier

BESSEMER CITY – East Rutherford’s defense came up big the first time they took the field, as Adrian Wilkins returned a 49-yard fumble for a touchdown to give the Cavaliers an early lead.

However, after allowing Bessemer City to return the fol-lowing kickoff, the Cavaliers never found the scoreboard again in a 16-6 loss on Friday night.

“You get the momentum, and give it right back to Bessemer,” said East Rutherford’s head coach Clint Bland. “Big plays happen. That’s something we’ve

got to correct.”The Cavaliers struggled all

night offensively, as they fin-ished the game with a total of 47 yards and seven first downs.

Tadjre Wilkerson finished the game with 27 rushing yards off of seven carries and hauled in a reception for 26 yards to lead East Rutherford.

Said Bland, “Offensively, we couldn’t move the ball at all. We heard all week about how good their defense is. They were true to the fact. I feel bad we just couldn’t put any positive drives together on offense.”

East Rutherford (2-3) will look to bounce back next week as they begin conference play with a game at R-S Central.

Trojans smack RebelsBy SCOTT BOWERSDaily Courier Sports Editor

CHASE — Davon Hines and Julius Miller powered Chase to an impressive homecoming win over West Lincoln Friday, 30-6.

Hines scored twice on plunges from inside the five yard line, while Miller added a dive from five yards out to improve the Trojans to 2-3 on the sea-son.

Chase gained 270 yards on the ground in an attack lead by a large group of JV call-ups. Sophomore Tyreece Gossett, starting just his second varsity game behind center, rushed for 52 yards and threw for a touchdown pass to remain undefeated as the Trojans’ signal-caller.

West Lincoln (3-2), which rolled up over 500-yards of offense in a 62-0 win over Thomas Jefferson, last week, was held to a paltry 139 total offensive yards from scrimmage on the night. Chase’s Tajae McMullens and Keith Miller lead an outstanding defensive effort that lim

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Garrett Byers/Daily CourierChase’s Tyreece Gossett (2) advances the ball up-field against West Lincoln dur-ing the game Friday at Chase High School.

Chase’s Julius Miller (45) rushes into the West Lincoln defense during the action Friday at Chase High School.

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CONOVER(AP) — Jay Haas shot a 10-under 62 during the first round of the rain-delayed Greater Hickory Classic on Friday, taking a three-shot lead into the weekend.

Haas is the 2005 tournament champion and tied for second two years ago. He played a bogey-free round at Rock Barn Golf and Spa’s Robert Trent Jones course.

Gil Morgan was second after his 65, with Tom Jenkins, Jerry Pate and three-time major champion Nick Price another stroke back. Nine other players, among them former PGA Championship winners Jeff Sluman and Hal Sutton, were tied for fourth after rounds of 67.

Two-time and defending tournament cham-pion R.W. Eaks and Fred Funk — who leads Loren Roberts by 57 points in the Charles Schwab Cup standings — were among those who shot 69.

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FOOTBALLNational Football League

East W L T Pct PF PANew England 1 0 0 1.000 25 24N.Y. Jets 1 0 0 1.000 24 7Buffalo 0 1 0 .000 24 25Miami 0 1 0 .000 7 19

South W L T Pct PF PAIndianapolis 1 0 0 1.000 14 12Houston 0 1 0 .000 7 24Jacksonville 0 1 0 .000 12 14Tennessee 0 1 0 .000 10 13

North W L T Pct PF PABaltimore 1 0 0 1.000 38 24Pittsburgh 1 0 0 1.000 13 10Cincinnati 0 1 0 .000 7 12Cleveland 0 1 0 .000 20 34

West W L T Pct PF PASan Diego 1 0 0 1.000 24 20Denver 1 0 0 1.000 12 7Kansas City 0 1 0 .000 24 38Oakland 0 1 0 .000 20 24

NATIONAL CONFERENCEEast

W L T Pct PF PAN.Y. Giants 1 0 0 1.000 23 17Dallas 1 0 0 1.000 34 21Philadelphia 1 0 0 1.000 38 10Washington 0 1 0 .000 17 23

South W L T Pct PF PANew Orleans 1 0 0 1.000 45 27Atlanta 1 0 0 1.000 19 7Carolina 0 1 0 .000 10 38Tampa Bay 0 1 0 .000 21 34

North W L T Pct PF PAGreen Bay 1 0 0 1.000 21 15Minnesota 1 0 0 1.000 34 20Chicago 0 1 0 .000 15 21Detroit 0 1 0 .000 27 45

West W L T Pct PF PASan Francisco 1 0 0 1.000 20 16Seattle 1 0 0 1.000 28 0Arizona 0 1 0 .000 16 20St. Louis 0 1 0 .000 0 28

Sunday’s GamesHouston at Tennessee, 1 p.m.Minnesota at Detroit, 1 p.m.Carolina at Atlanta, 1 p.m.St. Louis at Washington, 1 p.m.New England at N.Y. Jets, 1 p.m.Oakland at Kansas City, 1 p.m.Cincinnati at Green Bay, 1 p.m.New Orleans at Philadelphia, 1 p.m.Arizona at Jacksonville, 1 p.m.Tampa Bay at Buffalo, 4:05 p.m.Seattle at San Francisco, 4:05 p.m.Pittsburgh at Chicago, 4:15 p.m.Baltimore at San Diego, 4:15 p.m.Cleveland at Denver, 4:15 p.m.N.Y. Giants at Dallas, 8:20 p.m.Monday’s GameIndianapolis at Miami, 8:30 p.m.Sunday, Sept. 27Washington at Detroit, 1 p.m.Tennessee at N.Y. Jets, 1 p.m.Green Bay at St. Louis, 1 p.m.Cleveland at Baltimore, 1 p.m.San Francisco at Minnesota, 1 p.m.Jacksonville at Houston, 1 p.m.Atlanta at New England, 1 p.m.N.Y. Giants at Tampa Bay, 1 p.m.Kansas City at Philadelphia, 1 p.m.Chicago at Seattle, 4:05 p.m.New Orleans at Buffalo, 4:05 p.m.Miami at San Diego, 4:15 p.m.Denver at Oakland, 4:15 p.m.Pittsburgh at Cincinnati, 4:15 p.m.Indianapolis at Arizona, 8:20 p.m.Monday, Sept. 28Carolina at Dallas, 8:30 p.m.

BASEBALLNational League

East Division W L Pct GBPhiladelphia 86 60 .586 — Atlanta 78 69 .534 8Florida 79 69 .531 8

New York 63 845 .429 24 Washington 51 96 .342 35 1/2

Central Division W L Pct GBSt. Louis 85 62 .578 — Chicago 75 70 .517 9 Milwaukee 71 75 .486 13 1/2Houston 70 76 .479 14 1/2Cincinnati 69 79 .463 17 Pittsburgh 56 89 .382 28

West Division W L Pct GBLos Angeles 88 59 .599 — Colorado 83 64 .565 5 San Francisco 79 67 .541 8 1/2San Diego 66 82 .449 23 Arizona 64 83 .435 24

Thursday’s GamesMilwaukee 7, Chicago Cubs 4Philadelphia 4, Washington 2Cincinnati 3, Florida 2Atlanta 7, N.Y. Mets 3Friday’s GamesPittsburgh 5,San Diego 1 Florida 4, Cincinnati, 3Washington 6, N.Y. Mets 5Philadelphia 9, Atlanta 4Houston at Milwaukee, lateChicago Cubs at St. Louis, lateColorado at Arizona, lateSan Francisco at L.A. Dodgers, lateSaturday’s GamesSan Diego (Cl.Richard 4-2) at Pittsburgh (Ohlendorf 11-10), 12:35 p.m.Washington (Lannan 9-11) at N.Y. Mets (Redding 2-6), 1:10 p.m.Chicago Cubs (Dempster 10-8) at St. Louis (C.Carpenter 16-4), 4:10 p.m.San Francisco (Penny 3-0) at L.A. Dodgers (Garland 10-11), 4:10 p.m.Houston (Moehler 8-10) at Milwaukee (Suppan 6-10), 7:05 p.m.Florida (Nolasco 11-9) at Cincinnati (Arroyo 13-12), 7:10 p.m.Philadelphia (P.Martinez 5-0) at Atlanta (J.Vazquez 13-9), 7:10 p.m.Colorado (Hammel 8-8) at Arizona (Scherzer 9-9), 8:10 p.m.Sunday’s GamesFlorida at Cincinnati, 1:10 p.m.Washington at N.Y. Mets, 1:10 p.m.Philadelphia at Atlanta, 1:35 p.m.San Diego at Pittsburgh, 1:35 p.m.Houston at Milwaukee, 2:05 p.m.Colorado at Arizona, 4:10 p.m.San Francisco at L.A. Dodgers, 4:10 p.m.Chicago Cubs at St. Louis, 8:05 p.m.

American League

East Division W L Pct GBNew York 94 53 .639 — Boston 87 59 .593 6 1/2 Tampa Bay 74 73 .503 20 Toronto 66 80 .452 27 1/2Baltimore 60 87 .411 34 1/2

Central Division W L Pct GBDetroit 78 68 .534 — Minnesota 74 72 .507 4 Chicago 72 75 .490 6 1/2Cleveland 61 85 .418 17 Kansas City 59 87 .404 19

West Division W L Pct GBLos Angeles 87 59 .596 — Texas 80 65 .552 6 1/2Seattle 76 71 .517 11 1/2Oakland 68 78 .466 19

Thursday’s GamesKansas City 9, Detroit 2Seattle 4, Chicago White Sox 3, 14 inningsTampa Bay 3, Baltimore 0L.A. Angels 4, Boston 3Oakland 5, Cleveland 2Friday’s GamesBoston 3, Baltimore 1Toronto at Tampa Bay, lateL.A. Angels at Texas, lateDetroit at Minnesota, lateKansas City at Chicago White Sox, lateCleveland at Oakland, lateN.Y. Yankees at Seattle, lateSaturday’s GamesCleveland (Sowers 6-9) at Oakland (G.Gonzalez 5-6), 4:05 p.m.Detroit (Verlander 16-8) at Minnesota (Pavano 12-11), 4:10 p.m.Boston (Lester 13-7) at Baltimore (Da.Hernandez 4-8), 7:05 p.m.Kansas City (Davies 8-9) at Chicago White Sox (Peavy 0-0), 7:05 p.m.L.A. Angels (Jer.Weaver 15-6) at Texas (Feldman 16-5), 7:05 p.m.Toronto (R.Romero 12-8) at Tampa Bay (Garza 7-10), 7:08 p.m.N.Y. Yankees (Sabathia 17-7) at Seattle (Fister

2-2), 10:10 p.m.Sunday’s GamesL.A. Angels at Texas, 1:05 p.m.Boston at Baltimore, 1:35 p.m.Toronto at Tampa Bay, 1:38 p.m.Kansas City at Chicago White Sox, 2:05 p.m.Detroit at Minnesota, 2:10 p.m.Cleveland at Oakland, 4:05 p.m.N.Y. Yankees at Seattle, 4:10 p.m.

RACINGNASCAR Sprint CupSylvania 300 Lineup

1. (42) J. P. Montoya, Chevrolet, 133.431 mph.2. (14) Tony Stewart, Chevrolet, 132.581.3. (2) Kurt Busch, Dodge, 132.581.4. (11) Denny Hamlin, Toyota, 132.03.5. (99) Carl Edwards, Ford, 132.012.6. (12) David Stremme, Dodge, 131.943.7. (1) Martin Truex Jr., Chevrolet, 131.852.8. (71) Bobby Labonte, Chevrolet, 131.847.9. (18) Kyle Busch, Toyota, 131.829.10. (24) Jeff Gordon, Chevrolet, 131.788.11. (9) Kasey Kahne, Dodge, 131.76.12. (29) Kevin Harvick, Chevrolet, 131.724.13. (00) David Reutimann, Toyota, 131.51.14. (5) Mark Martin, Chevrolet, 131.365.15. (66) Dave Blaney, Toyota, 131.352.16. (48) Jimmie Johnson, Chevrolet, 131.234.17. (33) Clint Bowyer, Chevrolet, 131.234.18. (39) Ryan Newman, Chevrolet, 131.229.19. (07) Casey Mears, Chevrolet, 131.089.20. (87) Joe Nemechek, Toyota, 131.08.21. (55) Michael Waltrip, Toyota, 131.058.22. (16) Greg Biffle, Ford, 131.031.23. (88) Dale Earnhardt Jr., Chevrolet, 131.017.24. (77) Sam Hornish Jr., Dodge, 131.008.25. (43) Reed Sorenson, Dodge, 130.914.26. (83) Brian Vickers, Toyota, 130.649.27. (82) Scott Speed, Toyota, 130.649.28. (7) Robby Gordon, Toyota, 130.635.29. (26) Jamie McMurray, Ford, 130.617.30. (64) Mike Wallace, Toyota, 130.613.31. (47) Marcos Ambrose, Toyota, 130.595.32. (31) Jeff Burton, Chevrolet, 130.474.33. (20) Joey Logano, Toyota, 130.452.34. (44) AJ Allmendinger, Dodge, 130.42.35. (19) Elliott Sadler, Dodge, 130.304.36. (37) Tony Raines, Dodge, 129.9.37. (96) Erik Darnell, Ford, 129.789.38. (17) Matt Kenseth, Ford, 129.626.39. (09) Aric Almirola, Dodge, 129.331.40. (98) Paul Menard, Ford, 129.055.41. (34) John Andretti, Chevrolet, 128.841.42. (6) David Ragan, Ford, Owner Points.43. (36) Michael McDowell, Toyota, 129.283.

SOCCERMajor League Soccer

EASTERN CONFERENCE W L T Pts GF GAColumbus 11 4 9 42 36 26Chicago 10 6 9 39 34 29D.C. United 8 6 12 36 39 38Toronto FC 9 9 7 34 33 36New England 9 8 6 33 28 32Kansas City 7 11 6 27 25 32New York 4 17 4 16 20 42

WESTERN CONFERENCE W L T Pts GF GAHouston 11 8 7 40 32 24Los Angeles 9 5 11 38 31 29Seattle FC 9 6 10 37 31 24Colorado 10 8 6 36 38 30Chivas USA 11 9 3 36 25 24Real Salt Lake 9 9 7 34 36 28FC Dallas 7 11 6 27 39 40San Jose 5 12 5 20 27 40

Friday’s GamesNew England at New York, lateColorado at San Jose, lateSaturday’s GamesChivas USA at Seattle FC, 3 p.m.FC Dallas at Kansas City, 8:30 p.m.Real Salt Lake at Houston, 8:30 p.m.Toronto FC at Los Angeles, 10:30 p.m.Sunday’s GamesColumbus at Chicago, 3 p.m.Wednesday’s GamesSan Jose at Colorado, 9:30 p.m.Saturday, Sept. 26Los Angeles at Columbus, 7:30 p.m.Seattle FC at New England, 7:30 p.m.Toronto FC at Chicago, 8:30 p.m.Colorado at Kansas City, 8:30 p.m.Real Salt Lake at FC Dallas, 8:30 p.m.New York at Chivas USA, 10:30 p.m.Sunday, Sept. 27San Jose at D.C. United, 3 p.m.

RALEIGH (AP) — North Carolina State has another chance to show how it would dominate the Football Championship Subdivision.

Of more importance for the Wolfpack is making sure its offense is clicking once they play college football’s big boys again.

N.C. State (1-1) plays its second game against an FCS school in an eight-day span when Gardner-Webb visits Saturday night.

“You can (gauge improvement) in fundamentals, and that’s where we’ve made our emphasis all last week, and we’ll continue to try to be a much bet-ter fundamental football team,” coach Tom O’Brien said.

That’s why one of the top priorities for O’Brien’s team this weekend is to continue sorting out depth issues and finding out which players can handle game situations.

ECU at UNCCHAPEL HILL (AP) — East Carolina figured it

had a sure thing in quarterback Patrick Pinkney. Yet as ECU prepares for a trip to No. 24 North Carolina, he has come to embody the Pirates’ early inconsistency.

The sixth-year senior has thrown more intercep-tions than touchdowns and has had trouble with his accuracy. It’s no coincidence that the Pirates’ offense hasn’t scored a point after halftime, a fact that puts Pinkney in the spotlight against the Tar Heels (2-0) and their aggressive defense Saturday.

“The plays we’ve needed to make, we didn’t make,” Pinkney said. “We had a missed throw, a missed block or a dropped catch. It’s not just pres-sure on me. Everybody’s got to put pressure on themselves to execute on every play. That’s how you win championships: everybody doing their job.”

Duke at No. 22 KansasLAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — After working

all year to improve their pass rush, the Kansas Jayhawks got thrown a bit of a curve this week.

Just which Duke quarterback will they be rush-ing on Saturday?

Will it be Thad Lewis, the Blue Devils’ starter coming into the season? Or will it be Sean Renfree, who came off the bench at Army last week and in his first collegiate action hit 7 of 8 passes for 106 yards and two touchdowns?

Coach David Cutcliffe says the answer is both. The underdogs from the ACC will alternate quar-terbacks against No. 22 Kansas and defensive end Maxwell Onyegbule, who had two of the Jayhawks’ six sacks last week against UTEP.

Elon at Wake ForestRALEIGH (AP) — Wake Forest coach Jim Grobe

came prepared as he gathered his team. He wore his reading glasses, had statistics in front of him and used a stern voice.

Grobe is determined not to have the Demon Deacons join the growing group of big schools to lose to the little guys of the Football Championship Subdivision.

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LOUDON, N.H. (AP) — NASCAR championship con-tender Mark Martin will drive for Hendrick Motorsports through 2011, an easy commit-ment for a driver at the top of his game.

Martin starts the Chase for the championship Sunday at New Hampshire International Raceway as the Sprint Cup Series points leader, a spot he earned through four victories this season.

“That shouldn’t come as any big surprise,” Martin said Friday of the contract extension. “Who would want to quit?”

Martin, in his 27th season of NASCAR, has repeatedly staved off retirement over the last several years. He ran a partial schedule in 2007 and 2008 and the time off re-energized him. Then came an offer to drive for elite Hendrick Motorsports, and Martin has thrived.

At 50, he’s the elder statesmen of the 12-driver Chase field. But

his high performance has made him a favorite for his first Cup title.

“As long as I can have fun, compete at a high level and have the opportunity to win, I’m going to continue to do this,” Martin said. “I’m having a blast, and that’s always been most important to me and my family.”

Martin initially agreed to just one full season in the No. 5 car for Rick Hendrick, with an option to run at least a partial schedule in 2010. But he signed on for all of next year after a win in April at Phoenix — Martin’s first victory since 2005.

He’s also earned wins at Darlington, Michigan and Chicago, and the four wins this year equal the number of titles he won from 2000 to 2008. He’s also won six poles.

Although he admits that 2011 is a long-term commitment, Martin said the sponsorship opportunity for HMS made the decision easy. GoDaddy.com

will be the primary sponsor of the No. 5 for 20 races a season beginning next year.

“Rick, he had to make some decisions about some long-range things, and he really wanted it,” Martin said. “With the success we were having, I don’t see me falling off a cliff anytime soon. I hope that I’ll be able to do the job. I understand that it works better for sponsor commitments and those types of things.

“So I am pretty comfortable. There is no place I’d rather be today than at the race track, and I didn’t always feel that way, so I did something about it.”

Greg Biffle, a teammate when Martin drove for Roush Fenway Racing, said the contract exten-sion is not surprising.

“He’s in damn good equipment and it will be hard to hang your hat up, driving and winning races and performing at the level that he is,” Biffle said. “So I cer-tainly wouldn’t be a betting man on when he is going to hang his helmet up.”

Martin signs contract extension through 2011

Associated PressNorth Carolina State’s Dominique Ellis (20) and Justin Byers (28) celebrate towards the end of an NCAA col-lege football game against North Carolina in Chapel Hill, last season. North Carolina State won 41-10. The Wolfpack play Gardner-Webb, today.

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scoring strike. The Mountaineers’ receiver snared the ball in stride at the Central two-yard line and stepped into the end zone. Garrison’s point after made it 21-0 with 4:45 remaining in the first half.

Central used just 1:17 after that score to get on the scoreboard.

Starting at their own 48-yard line after a onside kick was recovered by the Hilltoppers, Anthony Walke.

William Lynch scampered for 10 yards and Tuscola was charged with a late hit penalty, advancing Central to the Tuscola 27. Four plays later, Oddie Murray battled his way 13 yards into the end zone, break-ing through four tacklers and stretched the ball across the line for the score. Central missed the point after kick and trailed 21-6.

Tuscola, after a 33-yard kickoff return by Austin Chambers, started at its own 41 yard line to begin play in the third. Adams raced for 30 yards around the left side and down to the Central 15. Four plays later, Adams scored on a draw play from four yards out. Garrison’s fourth PAT made it 28-6.

Central started at its own 20 after the kickoff and drove 80 yards in a minute and 20 seconds.

The Hilltoppers covered most of that ground through the air as Jacob Kinlaw threw for 55 yards.

Kinlaw hit Tyler Abrams for a 30-yard advance, the found Corey Jimerson for a 10 yard completion. Kinlaw passed to Vic Staley for a 15-yarder to set the Hilltoppers up at the 1-yard line and Murray plunged in from there. On the point after try, Kinlaw hit Leon Brown for the two-point conversion to make the score at the half 28-14.

Central’s defense kept the momentum

going in the second half. Marquez Carson and Jonathon Fuller each came up with big sacks and the Hilltoppers kept Tuscola’s offense in check through the first 12 min-utes of the second half.

Central’s offense kept things moving, too.After burying Tuscola deep in its own

territory, the Hilltoppers’ defense forced a punt. The kick, coming out of the Mountaineers end zone, was shanked and the Hilltoppers got the ball at the Tuscola 29.

After a one yard run for Cameron Green, Kinlaw threw a 28-yard pass to Murray, who was wide-open at the 4-yard line, and waltzed into the end zone. Cody Owens’ point after kick cut the score to 28-21 Tuscola with five minutes remaining in the third period.

Later, the Hilltoppers were backed up deep in their own territory at the 3-yard line. On the first play of the final period, facing a third and nine, Kinlaw attempted a pass and Tuscola’s Alan Sitton came up with an interception at the 10 and returned it to the Hilltoppers’ four.

Austin Chambers carried the ball twice from there, getting into the end zone from two yards out on the second try. The point after kick was missed, giving Tuscola a 34-21 lead.

Central drove to the Mountaineers’ 25-yard line over the next four minutes, but on a fourth and eight situation Kinlaw was stopped for no gain on a quarterback bootleg, giving the ball back to Tuscola.

The Mountaineers then managed to run six minutes off the clock with a running game that the Hilltoppers could not shut down. Chambers was the work horse on that time killing drive, carrying the ball for 19 yards, with Adams chugging away for 17 yards.

The Hilltoppers, now 4-1 on the sea-son, return to the Palace for a Rutherford County showdown with East Rutherford, next Friday.

ited the Rebels to 3.2 yards per carry.The two squads swapped possession

twice in a scoreless opening quarter of play, with Chase holding the football at the West Lincoln 18 yardline as time expired on the opening frame.

The Trojans’ Crawford had delivered on a 16 yard punt return, following the second Rebels’ possession, that set up Chase at the West Lincoln 38. Three plays moved the Trojans in the red zone as the first quarter ended.

Chase needed to run five additional plays to find the end zone in the open-ing minutes of second quarter. The Trojans overcame two illegal procedure calls when on a 4th and 10 from the West 28, Gossett delivered a perfect pass to Raheem Hampton on a cross-ing route. Hampton rolled to the West 13 and three plays later Hines punched his way into the end zone for the night’s first score at 9:52 of the quarter.

Chase’s Blake Moffitt was about to become the lone Trojan to not have a great homecoming night, when Moffitt’s point after attempt was blocked. Moffitt would endure three more blocked extra point attempts and he missed a fourth one later in the contest.

West, on the ensuing kick off, gained just 11 yards until the Trojans defense forced a Rebels’ punt. The punt took a Rebel’s bounce and rolled out at the

Chase 1 yard line.The Trojans ran three plays before

disaster struck. Chase’s Hines lost the handle on the wet football and the Rebels recovered at the Chase 11 yard line.

West Lincoln needed just three plays to knot the game. West’s quarterback Caleb Beal, on a 3rd and 9, found Jake Adkins in the corner of the end zone on a fade route for the score. The Rebels’ Brad Newton attempted to lift West to a one point lead, but his kick was blocked by the Trojans leaving the game deadlocked at 6-6, with 4:41 left to play before half.

The Trojans responded immediately.Chase, beginning play at its own 25,

assembled a 10 play, 75 yard scoring drive. Gossett began the drive with an 18 yard burst, followed moments later by a 24 yard gallop by Hines and another 18 yard slash from Gossett. Hines ended the drive with just seven seconds on the clock when he plunged into the end zone from two yards out. The touchdown lifted Chase to a 12-6 lead, following another blocked PAT, as the half time began.

The Trojans took possession to open the second half of play following the crowning of Katie Key as Homecoming Queen.

Chase’s Hampton found a seam in the Rebels’ kick coverage units and sped 59 yards to the West 21 yardline to set up the Trojans drive.

Chase needed five total plays to find

pay dirt, including the night’s strangest.Miller had rushed for 20 yards on four

carries to leave the Trojans with a 4th and goal from the 1. Chase sent out the field goal team to try for the three point kick. The snap to holder Gossett was low and the sophomore was left with little choice but to run with the football. Gossett stopped, near the West Lincoln 15, and hurled up a pass into the end zone that found the waiting hands of Crawford for the score. Once more, Moffitt’s PAT was blocked, but Chase lead 18-6.

West Lincoln’s next possession gained 62 yards before stalling at the Chase 35 yardline, where the Trojans took control on a turnover on downs.

The Trojans ended the fast-moving third quarter with the football and by the 10 minute mark of the fourth, they had found the end zone once more. Chase needed a total of nine plays to move the football 65 yards on the Rebels for the score. The Trojans’ Hines capped the drive with a one yard plunge, and following another blocked PAT, Chase lead 24-6.

The Trojans found the end zone one last time when Crawford raced in from 19 yards out with 1:51 to play in the game. Moffitt’s final PAT just missed, but the Trojans would soon celebrate a 30-6 homecoming win.

Chase begin conference play next Friday at Patton. It will be the first-ever meeting between the Burke County 3A program and the Trojans.

Alexander Central 42, Patton 0Asheville 27, Rosman 6A.C. Reynolds 19, Watauga County 12

Bessemer City 16, East Rutherford 6Starmount 22, East Wilkes 16

Chapel Hill 14, East Chapel Hill 7Charlo Olympic 31, Ashbrook 7

East Bladen 28, South Robeson 14East Burke 42, South Caldwell 13East Duplin 39, Warsaw Kenan 15East Lincoln 40, Catawba Bandys 12E. Mecklenburg 20, Char Catholic 0Elkin 19, Ashe County 14Erwin Triton 34, Overhills 12

Faye Britt 56, Broughton 7Fayet Seventy-First 30, Laney 17Forest City Chase 30, West Lincoln 6

Hickory 41, North Lincoln 12Hickory St. Stephens 34, Maiden 15Ragsdale 35, Person County 7Forest Hills 49, Union Academy 7Monroe 49, Monroe Piedmont 24Freedom 14, McDowell County 0

Nash Central 22, Bertie County 14New Hanover 3, Northside 0North Brunswick 34, Lejeune 0North Gaston 26, Cherryville 16Cardinal Gibbons 16, Union Pines 6

RalWakefield 28, Durham Riverside 7Rocky Point Trask 7, Fairmont 0Shelby 42, Lincolnton 30South Brunswick 35, Red Springs 0South Columbus 20, Hoggard 6South Rowan 51, Central Cabarrus 6Southeast Raleigh 21, Clayton 10SW Onslow 14, Wallace-Rose Hill 12

Tuscola 34, R-S Central 21Towns County, Ga. 48, Hayesville 12WF-Rolesville 42, N. Durham 0

West Brunswick 21, Ashley 20West Columbus 31, West Bladen 21West Rowan 48, Mooresville 9West Stanly 39, Cuthbertson 0Whiteville 38, East Columbus 0

EASTBall St. at Army, NoonDelaware St. at Delaware, NoonDuquesne at Monmouth, NoonTemple at Penn St., NoonDayton at Robert Morris, NoonBucknell at Cornell, 12:30 p.m.Yale at Georgetown, 1 p.m.Harvard at Holy Cross, 1 p.m.Youngstown St. at Northeastern, 1 p.m.Colgate at Dartmouth, 1:30 p.m.Winston-Salem vs. Morgan St., 2 p.m.The Citadel at Princeton, 3 p.m.Rhode Island at Massachusetts, 3:30 p.m.Maine at Albany, 4 p.m.Fla. International at Rutgers, 5 p.m.Columbia at Fordham, 6 p.m.Liberty at Lafayette, 6 p.m.Navy at Pittsburgh, 6 p.m.Brown at Stony Brook, 6 p.m.Villanova at Penn, 7 p.m.Northwestern at Syracuse, 7 p.m.Coastal Carolina at Towson, 7 p.m.SOUTHBoston College at Clemson, NoonLouisville at Kentucky, NoonEast Carolina at North Carolina, NoonNorth Texas at Alabama, 12:20 p.m.Old Dominion at Jacksonville, 1 p.m.Morehead St. at N.C. Central, 1:30 p.m.Chattanooga at Presbyterian, 1:30 p.m.Miles at Samford, 3 p.m.Tennessee at Florida, 3:30 p.m.Middle Tennessee at Maryland, 3:30 p.m.Hofstra at Richmond, 3:30 p.m.Virginia at Southern Miss., 3:30 p.m.UAB at Troy, 3:30 p.m.Nebraska at Virginia Tech, 3:30 p.m.Grambling St. at Jackson St., 4:30 p.m.Campbell at Davidson, 6 p.m.VMI at James Madison, 6 p.m.Ark.-Pine Bluff at MVSU, 6 p.m.Hampton at N. Carolina A&T, 6 p.m.Gardner-Webb at N.C. State, 6 p.m.William & Mary at Norfolk St., 6 p.m.Elon at Wake Forest, 6:30 p.m.Jacksonville St. at Alabama A&M, 7 p.m.Tennessee Tech at E. Kentucky, 7 p.m.W. Carolina at Georgia Southern, 7 p.m.Louisiana-Lafayette at LSU, 7 p.m.Nicholls St. at Louisiana Tech, 7 p.m.Bowling Green at Marshall, 7 p.m.North Dakota at Northwestern St., 7 p.m.Florida Atlantic at South Carolina, 7 p.m.Charl Southern at South Florida, 7 p.m.Tennessee St. at Southern U., 7 p.m.Mississippi St. at Vanderbilt, 7 p.m.Cent. Arkansas at W. Kentucky, 7 p.m.SE Louisiana at Mississippi, 7:30 p.m.Buffalo at UCF, 7:30 p.m.West Virginia at Auburn, 7:45 p.m.Edward Waters at Alabama St., 8 p.m.Savannah St. at McNeese St., 8 p.m.Tenn.-Martin at Memphis, 8 p.m.MIDWESTDuke at Kansas, NoonE. Michigan at Michigan, NoonCalifornia at Minnesota, NoonN. Illinois at Purdue, NoonOhio St. vs. Toledo at Cleveland, NoonWofford at Wisconsin, NoonHanover at Butler, 1 p.m.Furman at Missouri, 2 p.m.Indiana at Akron, 3:30 p.m.Alcorn St. at Cent. Michigan, 3:30 p.m.Michigan St. at Notre Dame, 3:30 p.m.Arizona at Iowa, 3:35 p.m.Murray St. at Missouri St., 4 p.m.St. Francis, Pa. at N. Iowa, 5:05 p.m.Drake at South Dakota, 5:05 p.m.Iowa St. at Kent St., 7 p.m.Wagner at N. Dakota St., 7 p.m.Cal Poly at Ohio, 7 p.m.Indiana St. at S. Dakota St., 7 p.m.SW Baptist at S. Illinois, 7 p.m.E. Illinois at SE Missouri, 7 p.m.Miami (Ohio) at W. Michigan, 7 p.m.Stephen F.Austin at W. Illinois, 7:05 p.m.Austin Peay at Illinois St., 7:30 p.m.SOUTHWESTTulsa at Oklahoma, 3:30 p.m.Connecticut at Baylor, 5 p.m.Rice at Oklahoma St., 7 p.m.Texas St. at TCU, 7 p.m.Utah St. at Texas A&M, 7 p.m.Texas College at Texas Southern, 7 p.m.Georgia at Arkansas, 7:45 p.m.Texas Tech at Texas, 8 p.m.FAR WESTPortland St. at Montana, 3:05 p.m.Wyoming at Colorado, 3:30 p.m.Utah at Oregon, 3:30 p.m.Southern Cal at Washington, 3:30 p.m.Marist at San Diego, 4 p.m.N. Colorado at E. Washington, 4:05 p.m.Nevada at Colorado St., 5 p.m.San Diego St. at Idaho, 5 p.m.SMU at Washington St., 5 p.m.S. Utah at N. Arizona, 6:05 p.m.Cincinnati at Oregon St., 6:45 p.m.Florida St. at BYU, 7 p.m.Air Force at New Mexico, 7:30 p.m.UTEP at New Mexico St., 8 p.m.Idaho St. at Weber St., 8:05 p.m.San Jose St. at Stanford, 9 p.m.La-Monroe at Arizona St., 10 p.m.Kansas St. at UCLA, 10:15 p.m.Hawaii at UNLV, 11 p.m.

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GREENVILLE — Thomas Jefferson fell to Southside Christian, 49-6, Friday.

The Sabres (2-3) scored seven straight touchdowns to establish a 49-0 lead, before the Gryphons found the end zone late in the game.

TJCA’s (0-4) Will Beam connected with Aaron Conner from 22 yards out

for the Gryphons lone score. Beam fin-ished 19 of 41 for 135 yards in the loss.

Southside’s Thaddeus Morgan threw touchdown passes of 25 and 77 yards on a 3-for-3 night passing and a total of 133 yards.

Nine Sabres rushed for 380 yards on the night with Josh Olsen rushing for

107 on six carries and two touchdowns.The Sabres’ Austin Kimberly added

102 yards rushing on nine carries and found the end zone twice, including on a 52-yard run from scrimmage that was the final score for Southside.

The Gryphons will open conference play next Friday at Mitchell.

Sothside Christian beats Gryphons, 49-6

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Associated PressRaymond Clark III, 24, is arraigned at Superior Court in New Haven, Conn. Thursday in connection with the murder of Annie Le, a Yale graduate student whose body was found stuffed in the wall of the research building where they both worked. At left is Assistant Public Defender Jospeh E. Lopez.

NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) — Police may never know the motive for the killing of a Yale University graduate student whose body was found hidden behind a wall on what should have been her wedding day, the police chief said Friday.

“The only person who knows the motive is the suspect,” Chief James Lewis told The Associated Press in a telephone interview. “It’s true in many cases. You never know abso-lutely unless the person confesses, and in this case it’s too early to tell.”

Raymond Clark III, a technician in the lab where Annie Le conducted research, was arrested Thursday, a day after authorities took DNA samples from him to compare with evidence from the crime scene. His bond was set at $3 million, and he did not enter a plea.

A telephone message seeking com-ment from the public defenders’ office, which is representing Clark, was not immediately returned Friday.

Lewis said Friday that no further arrests were expected, but investiga-tors were sifting through hundreds of pieces of evidence. He said police had trailed other people before they zeroed in on Clark as a suspect.

A law enforcement official who talked to the AP on condition of ano-nymity because the investigation was ongoing and many details remained sealed said Thursday that co-workers

called Clark a “control freak” who was territorial about the mice whose cages he cleaned. Authorities are investigating whether that attitude might have set off a clash between Clark and Le.

Clark tried to hide evidence even as investigators worked in the basement lab around him, authorities said, then coolly played a softball game on the day Le’s body was found stuffed inside a nearby wall.

An investigator observed Clark try-ing to hide cleaning equipment that contained blood splatters as teams probed the disappearance of Le, who was 24, according to a law enforce-ment official familiar with the inves-tigation who spoke to The Hartford Courant.

Investigators have records of Clark, also 24, cleaning areas that Le was in before she was reported missing Sept. 8, the official told the Courant, speaking on condition of anonymity.

But despite Clark’s efforts, investi-gators found the DNA of both sus-pect and victim in the ceiling and in the wall recess where Le’s body was hidden, the official told the paper. New Haven police wouldn’t confirm that information to the AP.

The body of Le, a pharmacology student from Placerville, Calif., was recovered Sunday, the day she was to get married on New York’s Long Island.

DALLAS (AP) — The Innocence Project of Texas said Friday that scent identification lineups, in which trained dogs determine if a suspect’s smell matches the smell of crime scene evidence, are based on faulty science and have led to a number of wrongful convictions.

The group, which tries to free the wrongly convicted, said it will release a report next week detailing at least five cases in which innocent people were arrested following scent ID lineups conducted by a Fort Bend sheriff’s deputy who trains dogs. Two of the five were jailed for capital murder before the charges against them were dropped.

Deputy Keith Pikett has spent about 20 years training dogs named Clue, James Bond and Columbo to sniff out possible criminals in more than 2,000 scent identification lineups. But the lineups have come under attack from some in the legal community, and Pikett is being sued by two people who claim they were wrongly implicated in crimes because of Pikett’s scent lineups. Charges in both cases were eventually dropped.

The innocence group said what Pikett does amounts to “dog whisper-ing.”

“This is exactly the kind of down-home voodoo that jurors like because, hey, everybody likes a dog,” said Jeff Blackburn, chief counsel for the Innocence Project of Texas. “Why don’t they just have a guy who says he has a unicorn that can figure out who criminals are?”

Texas and Florida are the only states that regularly use scent iden-tifications, Blackburn said. The Innocence Project of Florida is reviewing about 20 cases involving a now dead dog handler who worked on three cases that later resulted in exonerations. Florida has since begun to restrict the use of scent lineups.

During a scent lineup, an officer wipes individual pieces of gauze or cloth on a suspect and several other people, and then places them in separate coffee cans, according to the lawsuits against Pikett. A trained dog is presented a piece of crime scene evidence, and is then led by Pikett to each can for a whiff. The dog is supposed to signal Pikett if it sniffs a match.

Proponents of scent lineups argue that each person has a unique smell, and that dogs are capable of distin-guishing among the subtlest of differ-ences.

But critics say the method lacks the scientific validity of other court-approved identification methods, including DNA and fingerprint test-ing.

Pikett’s attorney, Randall Morse, said his client denies any wrongdo-ing. He described him as a well-respected law enforcement official who has consulted for the FBI, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, the Texas Attorney General’s Office and several Texas police and sheriff’s departments.

Pikett has testified as an expert witness in more than 40 cases.

Ky. family settles lawsuit LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — A

Kentucky doctor has reached a $5 million settlement with the federal government over the deaths of her husband and 8-year-old daughter, who died after flooding washed them over a 184-foot waterfall at a national park in Hawaii.

Dr. Holly Brown of Louisville and her 17-year-old son, Clayton, sued in 2004. They claimed there should have been warning signs about pos-sible flooding in Haleakala National Park near Maui, Hawaii.

Kevin and Elizabeth Brown died while the family was vacationing in Hawaii in 2003. The two were hik-ing when they were overcome by a torrent of water.

The government does not admit wrongdoing as part of the settle-ment announced Friday. Assistant U.S. Attorney Brady Miller says prosecutors had no objection to the deal.

Psychiatric defense likely BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — A man

accused of beheading his wife at the television station they founded to counter stereotypes of Muslims is likely to claim emotional distress was behind the killing in hopes of avoiding a murder conviction.

Muzzammil Hassan, 45, is sched-uled to be tried in January on a charge of second-degree murder in the death of 37-year-old Aasiya Hassan. A psychiatric defense would allow jurors to find him guilty of a lesser charge of manslaughter, according to Hassan’s attorney, who made his plans known during a pre-trial conference Friday.

“Extreme emotional disturbance is not an insanity defense,” attorney James Harrington said afterward. “It’s related to the state of mind of the person at the time.”

Muzzammil Hassan had been served with divorce papers a week

before his wife’s body was found stabbed and decapitated at the offic-es of Bridges TV in the Buffalo sub-urb of Orchard Park, where the cou-ple also lived. Hassan was arrested after walking into the Orchard Park police station Feb. 12 and telling officers his wife was dead.

Assistant District Attorney Colleen Curtin Gable has said the prosecu-tion’s case would be built on alleged admissions, forensic evidence and “strong motive evidence.”

Burglars are nabbedGRAND HAVEN, Mich. (AP) —

Police in southwestern Michigan say they have put to bed the case of the “pillowcase” burglaries.

Over a period of months, burglars stole cash, money jars and jew-elry from more than 25 homes in Ottawa, Muskegon and Newaygo counties. Each time they took a pil-lowcase off a bed to carry the loot.

Authorities say the thieves some-times targeted homes of people who were attending funerals.

Police finally cracked the case this week after a state trooper found evidence at an Ottawa County crime scene that put them on the suspects’ trail.

NM man falls to deathFARMINGTON, N.M. (AP) —

A man fell to his death from a third-story hotel window while re-enacting an Ultimate Fighting Championship move during a night of drinking.

Police say 25-year-old Darenell Jones was pushed into the window Wednesday night while celebrat-ing the marriage of a family mem-ber and watching a UFC fight in a Farmington hotel room.

“It was horseplay, basically,” said Sgt. Robert Perez of the Farmington Police Department’s detective bureau. “They were hitting each oth-er and pushing each other around.”

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PIMCO TotRetIs CI 104,023 10.85 +2.1 +15.8/A +6.7/A NL 5,000,000American Funds GrthAmA m LG 61,595 26.23 +7.4 -5.6/B +3.7/A 5.75 250American Funds CapIncBuA m IH 56,167 47.31 +6.2 -0.9/D +5.2/C 5.75 250American Funds CpWldGrIA m WS 52,603 33.20 +9.5 +1.3/B +8.1/A 5.75 250Vanguard TotStIdx LB 50,934 26.49 +8.6 -8.6/C +1.8/B NL 3,000Fidelity Contra LG 50,782 54.66 +8.6 -7.4/C +5.3/A NL 2,500American Funds IncAmerA x MA 46,710 14.84 +5.0 -2.6/D +3.1/B 5.75 250American Funds InvCoAmA m LB 46,485 24.67 +7.0 -4.7/B +2.0/B 5.75 250Vanguard 500Inv LB 45,011 98.93 +8.1 -9.0/C +0.9/C NL 3,000Vanguard InstIdx LB 39,179 98.31 +8.1 -8.9/C +1.0/C NL 5,000,000Dodge & Cox Stock LV 38,148 94.34 +10.4 -6.7/B +1.2/C NL 2,500American Funds EurPacGrA m FB 38,005 37.97 +10.3 +7.1/A +10.1/A 5.75 250American Funds WAMutInvA m LV 37,399 23.54 +7.2 -12.2/D 0.0/D 5.75 250Dodge & Cox IntlStk FV 33,241 31.82 +11.8 +5.0/A +8.8/A NL 2,500Fidelity DivrIntl d FG 30,568 27.77 +10.1 -5.0/D +6.3/C NL 2,500American Funds NewPerspA m WS 30,481 24.76 +9.8 +3.2/A +7.3/A 5.75 250American Funds BalA m MA 28,488 15.63 +5.0 -3.3/D +2.1/D 5.75 250American Funds FnInvA m LB 28,315 31.33 +8.6 -6.5/B +5.0/A 5.75 250PIMCO TotRetAdm b CI 27,791 10.85 +2.1 +15.6/A +6.5/A NL 5,000,000American Funds BondA m CI 26,918 11.68 +1.6 +4.4/E +2.5/E 3.75 250FrankTemp-Franklin Income A m CA 26,682 1.98 +4.9 +5.7/A +3.7/B 4.25 1,000Vanguard Welltn MA 26,324 28.21 +5.5 +2.2/A +5.3/A NL 10,000Vanguard 500Adml LB 26,060 98.96 +8.1 -8.9/C +1.0/C NL 100,000Fidelity GrowCo LG 25,845 64.85 +10.3 -3.9/B +5.5/A NL 2,500Vanguard TotStIAdm LB 24,330 26.50 +8.7 -8.5/C +1.9/B NL 100,000Vanguard TotIntl FB 23,301 14.43 +10.1 +3.5/A +8.0/A NL 3,000Vanguard InstPlus LB 23,263 98.32 +8.1 -8.9/C +1.0/C NL 200,000,000Fidelity LowPriStk d MB 22,770 30.82 +9.0 +1.8/A +5.4/A NL 2,500T Rowe Price EqtyInc LV 14,574 20.53 +8.7 -8.2/C +1.6/B NL 2,500Hartford CapAprA m LB 8,978 29.06 +7.7 -5.0/B +5.1/A 5.50 1,000Pioneer PioneerA m LB 4,009 33.75 +7.4 -14.0/E +1.6/B 5.75 1,000Alliance Bernstein GrowIncA m LV 1,184 2.84 +5.2 -11.1/D -1.2/E 4.25 2,500Goldman Sachs ShDuGovA m GS 1,156 10.46 +0.4 +5.9/B +4.6/A 1.50 1,000DWS-Scudder REstA m SR 383 13.50 +19.5 -28.3/C +2.4/B 5.75 1,000Hartford GrowthL m LG 178 14.47 +9.2 -2.3/A +0.7/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.

NYSE7,016.92 +14.75

AMEX1,801.19 -13.56

NASDAQ2,132.86 +6.11

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 dd uuGAINERS ($2 OR MORE)

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9,880Dow Jones industrialsClose: 9,820.20Change: 36.28 (0.4%)

10 DAYS

By TIM PARADISAP Business Writer

NEW YORK — A surprise drop in unemploy-ment claims couldn’t fuel another day of gains for the stock market.

Stocks posted modest losses in quiet trad-ing Thursday after a three-day advance. Traders found little in the weekly employment data, or in reports on housing and manufacturing, to provide new encouragement about an economic recovery. Stocks surrendered early gains around midday and the Dow Jones industrial average ended with a loss of 8 points.

Lackluster earnings reports from FedEx Corp. and Oracle Corp. added to investors’ caution.

The stock market has risen in eight of the past 10 days and hopes for a recovery have propelled the Standard & Poor’s 500 index up 57.5 percent from a 12-year low in early March. The pace of the gains has brought warnings from analysts that stocks have risen too quickly.

“This market has become kind of saturated with good news,” said Jeff Kleintop, chief market strate-gist at LPL Financial.

The Labor Department said workers filing for jobless claims for the first time dipped to 545,000 last week from an upwardly revised 557,000 the previous week.

It was the lowest level of new claims since early July, indicating job cuts could be easing. However, those continuing to file for claims came in just above analysts’ forecasts at 6.2 million. Many economists consider unemployment to be the big-gest obstacle to a rebound in the economy.

The Commerce Department said housing starts rose in August to their highest level in nine months amid a jump in apartment building. The increase was just below the pace economists had forecast.

Similarly, the Philadelphia Federal Reserve’s index of regional manufacturing conditions rose for a second straight month to its highest level since June 2007. However, a drop in new orders from August worried some investors.

Weaker sales at FedEx and Orcale stirred con-cerns about how corporate revenue will hold up for the July-September quarter. In the prior quar-ter companies relied on cost-cutting, not revenue growth, to boost earnings.

The Dow Jones industrial average fell 7.79, or 0.1 percent, to 9,783.92. On Wednesday, the Dow jumped 108 points to a high for the year.

The S&P 500 index fell 3.27, or 0.3 percent, to 1,065.49, and the Nasdaq composite index fell 6.40, or 0.3 percent, to 2,126.75.

Bond prices jumped, pushing yields lower. The yield on the benchmark 10-year Treasury note fell to 3.39 percent from 3.48 percent late Wednesday.

The dollar was mixed against other currencies, while gold prices fell to $1,001.10.

Crude oil fell 3 cents to settle at $72.47 per barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange.

About three stocks fell for every two that rose on the New York Stock Exchange, where volume came to 1.5 billion shares compared with 1.6 billion Wednesday.

The Russell 2000 index of smaller companies fell 1.91, or 0.3 percent, to 615.47.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Forty-two states lost jobs last month, up from 29 in July, with the big-gest net payroll cuts coming in Texas, Michigan, Georgia and Ohio.

North Carolina was one of eight states that bucked the trend, reporting a gain of 7.000 jobs for the month.

The Labor Department also reported Friday that 27 states saw their unemployment rates increase in August, and 14 states and Washington D.C., reported unemployment rates of 10 per-cent or above.

The report shows jobs remain scarce even as most analysts believe the economy is pull-ing out of the worst recession since the 1930s. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said earlier this week that the recov-ery isn’t likely to be rapid enough to reduce unemployment for some time.

The jobless rate nationwide is expected to peak above 10 per-cent next year, from its current 9.7 percent.

The United States lost 216,000 jobs in August, the department said earlier this month, down from 276,000 in July. Employers have eliminated 6.9 million jobs since the recession began in December 2007.

Texas lost 62,200 jobs as its unemployment rate rose to 8 percent in August for the first time in 22 years. The state’s lei-sure, construction and manufac-turing industries were hardest hit, losing 35,500 jobs.

Michigan saw 42,900 jobs

disappear, including 25,000 in manufacturing, as the state con-tinued to suffer along with its struggling auto industry.

Michigan’s unemployment rate rose to 15.2 percent, the highest in the nation. When its jobless rate topped 15 percent in June it was the first time any state sur-passed that mark since 1984.

Most economists project Michigan’s jobless rate will con-tinue to rise. The University of Michigan estimates it will aver-age 15.8 percent in 2010.

Nevada has the second-highest rate at 13.2 percent, followed by Rhode Island at 12.8 percent and California and Oregon at 12.2 percent each.

The jobless rates in California, Nevada and Rhode Island were the highest on records dating to 1976. California and Nevada have been slammed by the hous-ing bust, while Rhode Island has lost thousands of manufacturing and government jobs in the past year.

Still, California’s net loss of 12,000 jobs was down from 35,000 the previous month. From November 2008 through June, the state lost at least 65,000 jobs each month, said Jerry Nickelsburg, a senior economist with the Anderson Forecast at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Georgia and Ohio reported the third and fourth-highest job losses, respectively, but their unemployment rates both fell as many of the unemployed dropped out of the work force.

Once unemployed people stop looking for work — some, for example, may return to school — they are no longer included in the jobless rate.

The four states with the larg-est drops in their unemploy-ment rates — Indiana, Colorado, Kansas and Virginia — experi-enced similar trends: thousands of jobless workers gave up on their searches and left the work force. None of those states actu-ally added any jobs, according to a survey of employers.

Colorado state officials, howev-er, noted that a separate survey of households found the number of residents who said they have jobs increased by 4,900 to 2.49 million.

Still, only eight states added jobs in August on a seasonally adjusted basis, according to employer surveys used by the U.S. Labor Department. North Carolina added the most, with a gain of 7,000, followed by Montana with 5,100 and West Virginia with 2,800.

The biggest gains in North Carolina and Montana were in government jobs, while West Virginia saw the most improve-ment in education and health services.

New Jersey added 800 jobs, but its jobless rate jumped to 9.7 percent, the highest in 33 years, from 9.3 percent. The gains there were in transportation and utilities, as well as professional and business services, chiefly because of the hiring of tempo-rary service workers.

42 states lost jobs in August

Despite jobsnews, lossesonly modest

Job seekers attend a job fair Thursday, Sept. 3 in Romulus, Mich. Michigan lost 42,000 jobs in August.

Associated Press

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Dear Dr. Gott: I had migraines for many years. They would be more intense during my menstrual cycles, when I would suffer with nausea, diarrhea, dizziness and my allergies would become worse.

During one of these migraines, I ended up in the emergency room because I had fainted at work. I will never forget the doctor who came in and grabbed my hand. He looked at me and asked if I had ever tried breathing in steam from hot water. I told him I hadn’t, so he advised me to place a towel over my head and breath in the steam. He said it would take a little while, but in about a month, I should start to see a dif-ference. I thanked him and was dis-charged.

The next day, I began my regimen of steaming. I did it about three or four times a day and took about 12 deep breaths each time. I didn’t notice anything different initially, but the next month, I found I didn’t

have as massive a migraine with my menstrual cycle as I normally did.

I now steam before and after work. My symptoms have subsided. If I feel a migraine coming, I steam. It usu-ally subsides within an hour. This treatment saved my quality of life, and I hope you pass it on to your readers.

Dear Reader: Thank you for sharing this unusual treatment for migraines. Other sufferers who try this should inform me of their results so I can print a follow-up on its effec-tiveness.

To provide related information, I am sending you a copy of my Health Report “Headaches.”

Simple remedy for migraines

Dear Abby: Last April, you printed my question about whether or not I should go to my junior prom even though I was nervous about boys and being dateless. I took your advice and went with friends.

It turned out to be the right deci-sion. The prom was one of the fun-nest nights I have ever had. I danced and danced with all my friends, and there were plenty of other girls there without dates. We all just danced together and had a great time. I real-ized that I overreacted about the entire boys issue and had worried too much. It turns out I wasn’t the only one who felt that way. One of my friends hadn’t been sure if she want-ed to go either because of not having a date. However, like me, she realized it didn’t matter and went anyway — which is what I am happy about, too.

Teenagers like me shouldn’t worry about the cliche that going to the prom requires a date.

It doesn’t! You can just go and have a good time with your friends without worrying about life for a few hours.

It gave me a chance to let go of the stress I had been having and express myself. Thank you for your advice. — Thankful

Dear Thankful: You’re welcome. I am often asked whether the people who write to me let me know how my advice worked out. Your letter made

my day.Dear Abby: My husband just isn’t

romantic. When we were dating he’d bring me flowers and little surprises and cards. He never proposed — we just kind of decided to get married. But when he bought the ring there was no getting down on one knee or profession of love. It’s been more than 26 years, and I thought I’d be over this by now. Unless I beat him over the head about it, he never plans anything or does anything romantic.

We had a mini-vacation a few weeks ago, and I said, “This is sup-posed to be a romantic vacation.” He didn’t get the hint.

No surprises, no dinner reserva-tions, no flowers. What’s a girl to do with a great guy with no romance in his bones? — Wistful

Dear Wistful: Because he’s a great guy, love him anyway. Then pick out some lovely gifts for yourself, plan the vacations and make the reserva-tions — including some romantic dinners.

No one has everything, so focus on the positive and count your blessings.

Dateless teen happy with prom

Your Birthday, Sept. 19;

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SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 22) — It’s good to be self-sufficient and operate inde-pendently when others are not involved.

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Democrats see plenty of room for improvement in a sweep-ing health care overhaul bill, starting with changes to a tax on high-cost insurance poli-cies that could hit middle-class Americans hard.

Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus, D-Mont., unveiled his much-anticipated bill this week, and senators who’ve been waiting for months lined up to offer a bevy of contentious changes. One senator said the bill “needs more than just a few tweaks.”

Democrats are concerned about affordability. Republicans almost uniformly oppose the measure and may be loath to hand President Barack Obama a victory on his biggest domes-tic priority, legislation to rein in skyrocketing health care costs and extend coverage to many of the 50 million uninsured.

After months when health care negotiations in the Senate were confined largely to Baucus meeting privately with five other Finance Committee senators to try to craft a bipartisan deal — ultimately without success — the dynamic was noticeably altered Thursday, a day after Baucus produced his long-awaited bill.

Many more senators were in the mix, and many of them had

something to say.“I can find a handful of things

that trouble me,” said the Senate’s No. 2 Democrat, Dick Durbin of Illinois. He cited a new tax on high-value insurance plans.

The Baucus plan “needs more than just a few tweaks,” said Sen. Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., a member of the Finance Committee, saying she wanted stronger measures to control health care costs over the long term.

“Put it in perspective,” Durbin added. “For months, the debate over health care in the Senate consisted of six people sitting in a room. Now it’s been expanded.

“So we have a lot of people who need to become informed, express themselves, ask for changes if they can,” Durbin said.

Underscoring how every law-maker is under intense scrutiny, the liberal blog Firedoglake.com planned to begin TV ads in Arkansas next week criticizing two of that state’s Democratic members of Congress for not fully supporting the health care drive. The $78,000 cam-paign — a significant sum in that state — was aimed at Sen. Blanche Lincoln, a member of the Finance committee, and Rep. Mike Ross, a leader of the

House’s moderate Blue Dog Democrats who have sought to keep the bill’s price tag modest.

“Senator Blanche Lincoln and Congressman Mike Ross have stood with the health insurance industry and their allies,” the commercial says, adding, “Stand with Democrats now, or we’ll find someone who will.”

That was happening in earnest Thursday as Baucus convened a full committee meeting on his bill. Senate Democrats met later, and Republicans from the Finance Committee gathered with Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., to go over strategy for next week, when Baucus will bring his bill up in committee for amend-ments — there will be many — and votes.

Democratic concerns focused on the new tax on generous insurance plans and on whether subsidies to help lower-income people buy newly required insur-ance are ample enough. Liberals also continued to question the absence from Baucus’ proposal of a government-run insurance plan to compete with private industry. That’s a feature of four other health bills in Congress but Baucus omitted it as one of numerous gestures meant to win support from Republicans and moderate Democrats.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Federal Housing Administration is tightening rules for lenders after reporting that its financial cushion will sink below mandatory levels for the first time in its 75-year history.

Officials, however, insisted Friday that the agen-cy won’t need a rescue.

“Under no circumstance will any taxpayer bailout be needed,” said David Stevens, the FHA’s commis-sioner. The agency doesn’t expect to raise fees for borrowers, he said, or curtail the number of loans it insures.

Amid the collapse of the subprime lending mar-ket, the government has taken up the slack. The FHA has insured nearly a quarter of all new loans made this year, and about 80 percent of that busi-ness is from first-time homebuyers.

But the agency has faced concerns on Capitol Hill that it will soon need a taxpayer bailout. As of this summer, about 17 percent of FHA borrowers were at least one payment behind or in foreclosure, com-pared with 13 percent for all loans, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association.

The FHA’s capital cushion will drop below 2 percent of the roughly $675 billion in mortgages insured by the agency this fiscal year, an outside audit has found.

“For too long FHA has not been able to control its losses,” said Sen. Kit Bond, R-Mo.

Plummeting home prices are the main reason the agency’s financial reserves are dwindling. Its previ-ous analysis had assumed prices would hit bottom this year, but the agency is now expecting prices will fall through next spring. Lower prices mean bigger losses if the FHA has to foreclose and re-sell a property.

“While FHA didn’t take part in the housing boom, it’s not immune from the ripple effect of declining house prices,” said Brian Montgomery, the agency’s former commissioner. “That’s quite frankly what this is about.”

The agency itself does not make loans, but rather offers insurance against default. Many borrowers are willing to pay for the insurance because FHA loans only require down payments of 3.5 percent of the purchase price.

The FHA now insures about 5.3 million mortgag-es, up from about 4 million three years ago.

While FHA officials say that their borrowers have far stronger credit records than in the past, rising unemployment could make that irrelevant. The Labor Department reported Friday that 27 states saw unemployment rise last month, and 14 states and Washington, D.C., now have rates above 10 percent.

The agency is betting its finances will get bet-ter as the market turns around, said Rep. Scott Garrett, R-N.J. “I have real concerns about it.”

And Bert Ely, a banking industry analyst in Alexandria, Va., said he wouldn’t be surprised if the FHA asks for a taxpayer bailout in the coming years.

FHA facing a money squeeze

More fights ahead on health bill

Sen. Christopher Dodd, D-Conn., talks with report-ers on Capitol Hill in Washington Thursday, following a meeting with Democrats to discuss health care legislation.

Associated Press

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Nice 3BR/2.5BA 4,000 sqft. home near East

High School. Fully finished bsmt. Dep. & ref’s. req. 286-4501

2BR/1BA House in Spindale $400/month + $350 deposit Call

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COUNTRY LIVINGAll brick 4BR/2BA in Ellenboro. Must see!

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all built-ins includes microwave, T.V.,

new cent. air, w/d. Detached 2 car garage w/storage. No smoking,no cats. Outdoor dogs only. $975/mo. Ref’s req. 864-404-8117

3 Bedroom/1 Bath Forest City area

$400/mo. + $400 dep. Call 245-5669

Homes

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5BR/1.5BA 2 StoryBest Spindale

neighborhood. Big porch, outdoor storage

workshop. No A/C. $650 per month.

Call 561-523-4077 or 828-201-0851

2BR/1BA, Ellenboro Hopewell/Hollis Rd.

brick home, appliances furnished, hardwood

floors. No pets!Ref’s. Call 453-7717

Homes

For Rent

NICE 3BR in Rfdtn Refrig., stove, d/w,

microwave, gas logs, hdwd floors, cent. h/a, lg. storage bldg. No

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or 245-4851

Homes

For Rent

Newly remodeled 2BR/1BA on 1.42 ac.

near Chase High. 2 out bldgs, city water. $45,000 864-909-1035

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1, 2 & 3BR Nice, large Townhomes

Private decks, washer/dryer hook up

Water included!$375, $475 & $550/mo

828-289-2700

September Special Ask about free month’s

rent! Senior Citizen Piney Ridge Apt 2BR

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2BR & 3BR Close to downtown Rfdtn. D/w, stove, refrig., w/d hook up. No pets! 287-0733

Quiet studio apt. near college. Water, power,

Direct TV, incld. No smoking or pets. $450/ mo. + dep. 287-7368

2BR APT in RfdtnWest Court Street

$350/mo. + depositCall 287-3535

2 Bedroom/1 Bath Oakland Rd. area

$350/mo. + depositCall 828-748-8801

Apartments

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NORTH CAROLINA,RUTHERFORD COUNTY

NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE09 SP 311

Under and by virtue of a Power of Sale contained in that certain Deed of Trust executed by SAIDAH B. NAIM aka Saidah Naim and husband Mohammad Naim aka Mohammed Niam to PRLAP, INC., Trustee(s), which was dated November 19, 2007 and recorded on November 26, 2007 in Book 985 at Page 540, Rutherford County Registry, North Carolina.

Default having been made in the payment of the note thereby secured by the said Deed of Trust and the undersigned, Brock & Scott, PLLC, having been substituted as Trustee in said Deed of Trust by an instrument duly recorded in the Office of the Register of Deeds of Rutherford County, North Carolina, and the holder of the note evidencing said indebtedness having directed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at the courthouse door of the county courthouse where the property is located, or the usual and customary location at the county courthouse for conducting the sale on September 29, 2009 at 2:00PM, and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following described property situated in Rutherford County, North Carolina, to wit:

BEING all of Lot 431, Phase 3A as shown on subdivision plat for GREYROCK AT LAKE LURE SUBDIVISION PHASE 3A recorded in Plat Book 26, at Page 234, revised in Plat Book 27, Page 150 said plat being one of a series of plats recorded in Plat Book 26, Pages 231 through 234 revised in Plat Book 27, Pages 147 through 150, all of the Rutherford County, NC Registry, reference to said plats being made for a more particular description of said lot.

SUBJECT TO a grading easement the full length of Logan Falls Lane.

Save and except any releases, deeds of release or prior conveyances of record.

Said property is commonly known as:Lot 431 Grey Rock, Lake Lure, NC 28746

Third party purchasers must pay the excise tax, and the court costs of Forty-Five Cents (45¢) per One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) pursuant to NCGS 7A-308(a)(1). A cash deposit (no personal checks) of five percent (5%) of the purchase price, or Seven Hundred Fifty Dollars ($750.00), whichever is greater, will be required at the time of the sale. Following the expiration of the statutory upset bid period, all the remaining amounts are immediately due and owing.

Said property to be offered pursuant to this Notice of Sale is being offered for sale, transfer and conveyance “AS IS WHERE IS.” There are no representations of warranty relating to the title or any physical, environmental, health or safety conditions existing in, on, at, or relating to the property being offered for sale. This sale is made subject to all prior liens, unpaid taxes, any unpaid land transfer taxes, special assessments, easements, rights of way, deeds of release, and any other encumbrances or exceptions of record. To the best of the knowledge and belief of the undersigned, the current owner(s) of the property is/are 431 Grey Rock Trust.

An Order for possession of the property may be issued pursuant to G.S. 45-21.29 in favor of the purchaser and against the party or parties in possession by the clerk of superior court of the county in which the property is sold. Any person who occupies the property pursuant to a rental agreement entered into or renewed on or after October 1, 2007, may, after receiving the notice of sale, terminate the rental agreement upon 10 days’ written notice to the landlord. The notice shall also state that upon termination of a rental agreement, the tenant is liable for rent due under the rental agreement prorated to the effective date of the termination.

If the trustee is unable to convey title to this property for any reason, the sole remedy of the purchaser is the return of the deposit. Reasons of such inability to convey include, but are not limited to, the filing of a bankruptcy petition prior to the confirmation of the sale and reinstatement of the loan without the knowledge of the trustee. If the validity of the sale is challenged by any party, the trustee, in their sole discretion, if they believe the challenge to have merit, may request the court to declare the sale to be void and return the deposit. The purchaser will have no further remedy.

THIS IS A COMMUNICATION FROM A DEBT COLLECTOR. THE PURPOSE OF THIS COMMUNICATION IS TO COLLECT A DEBT AND ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE, EXCEPT IN THE INSTANCE OF BANKRUPTCY PROTECTION. IF YOU ARE UNDER THE PROTECTION OF THE BANKRUPTCY COURT OR HAVE BEEN DISCHARGED AS A RESULT OF A BANKRUPTCY PROCEEDING, THIS NOTICE IS GIVEN TO YOU PURSUANT TO STATUTORY REQUIREMENT AND FOR INFORMATIONAL PURPOSES AND IS NOT INTENDED AS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT OR AS AN ACT TO COLLECT, ASSESS, OR RECOVER ALL OR ANY PORTION OF THE DEBT FROM YOU PERSONALLY.

Substitute TrusteeBrock & Scott, PLLCJeremy B. Wilkins, NCSB No. 323465431 Oleander Drive Suite 200Wilmington, NC 28403PHONE: (910) 392-4988FAX: (910) 392-8587File No.: 09-14134-FC01

NORTH CAROLINA,RUTHERFORD COUNTY

NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE09 SP 315

Under and by virtue of a Power of Sale contained in that certain Deed of Trust executed by Glenn E Lewis and Ramona B Lewis aka Ramona Lewis, Husband and Wife to David B Craig,Trustee(s), which was dated December 30, 2004 and recorded on January 18, 2005 in Book 823 at Page 394, Rutherford County Registry, North Carolina.

Default having been made in the payment of the note thereby secured by the said Deed of Trust and the undersigned, Lisa S. Campbell, having been substituted as Trustee in said Deed of Trust by an instrument duly recorded in the Office of the Register of Deeds of Rutherford County, North Carolina, and the holder of the note evidencing said indebtedness having directed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at the courthouse door of the county courthouse where the property is located, or the usual and customary location at the county courthouse for conducting the sale on September 30, 2009 at 1:00PM, and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following described property situated in Rutherford County, North Carolina, to wit:

ALL THAT CERTAIN LOT OR PARCEL OF LAND SITUATED IN THE CITY OFRUTHERFORDTON TOWNSHIP, RUTHERFORD COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA AND MORE PARTICULARLY DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS:

BEING ALL THAT CERTAIN PROPERTY DESCRIBED IN DEED FROM EDWARD LEWIS, WIDOWER, TO GLENN E. LEWIS DATED JULY 22, 1986, AND RECORDED IN DEED BOOK 489, PAGE 484. RUTHERFORD COUNTY REGISTRY, TO WHICH REFERENCE IS HEREBYMADE AND INCORPORATED HEREIN FOR A FULL AND COMPLETE DESCRIPTION.

BEING THE SAME PROPERTY CONVEYED TO GLENN E. LEWIS BY DEED RECORDED 7-20-00 IN BOOK 757, PAGE 774.12-01269

Save and except any releases, deeds of release or prior conveyances of record.

Said property is commonly known as1000 Old US 221 North Highway, Rutherfordton, NC 28139

Third party purchasers must pay the excise tax, and the court costs of Forty-Five Cents (45¢) per One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) pursuant to NCGS 7A-308(a)(1). A cash deposit (no personal checks) of five percent (5%) of the purchase price, or Seven Hundred Fifty Dollars ($750.00), whichever is greater, will be required at the time of the sale. Following the expiration of the statutory upset bid period, all the remaining amounts are immediately due and owing.

Said property to be offered pursuant to this Notice of Sale is being offered for sale, transfer and conveyance “AS IS WHERE IS.” There are no representations of warranty relating to the title or any physical, environmental, health or safety conditions existing in, on, at, or relating to the property being offered for sale. This sale is made subject to all prior liens, unpaid taxes, any unpaid land transfer taxes, special assessments, easements, rights of way, deeds of release, and any other encumbrances or exceptions of record. To the best of the knowledge and belief of the undersigned, the current owner(s) of the property is/are Glenn E. Lewis.

An Order for possession of the property may be issued pursuant to G.S. 45-21.29 in favor of the purchaser and against the party or parties in possession by the clerk of superior court of the county in which the property is sold. Any person who occupies the property pursuant to a rental agreement entered into or renewed on or after October 1, 2007, may, after receiving the notice of sale, terminate the rental agreement upon 10 days’ written notice to the landlord. The notice shall also state that upon termination of a rental agreement, the tenant is liable for rent due under the rental agreement prorated to the effective date of the termination.

If the trustee is unable to convey title to this property for any reason, the sole remedy of the purchaser is the return of the deposit. Reasons of such inability to convey include, but are not limited to, the filing of a bankruptcy petition prior to the confirmation of the sale and reinstatement of the loan without the knowledge of the trustee. If the validity of the sale is challenged by any party, the trustee, in their sole discretion, if they believe the challenge to have merit, may request the court to declare the sale to be void and return the deposit. The purchaser will have no further remedy.

THIS IS A COMMUNICATION FROM A DEBT COLLECTOR. THE PURPOSE OF THIS COMMUNICATION IS TO COLLECT A DEBT AND ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE, EXCEPT IN THE INSTANCE OF BANKRUPTCY PROTECTION. IF YOU ARE UNDER THE PROTECTION OF THE BANKRUPTCY COURT OR HAVE BEEN DISCHARGED AS A RESULT OF A BANKRUPTCY PROCEEDING, THIS NOTICE IS GIVEN TO YOU PURSUANT TO STATUTORY REQUIREMENT AND FOR INFORMATIONAL PURPOSES AND IS NOT INTENDED AS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT OR AS AN ACT TO COLLECT, ASSESS, OR RECOVER ALL OR ANY PORTION OF THE DEBT FROM YOU PERSONALLY.

Lisa S. CampbellSubstitute TrusteePO Box 4006Wilmington, NC 28406PHONE: 910-392-4971 FAX: 910-392-8051File No.: 08-04439-FC01

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Having qualified as Ancillary Executor of the estate of BASIL KENNETH PRICE of Rutherford County, North Carolina, this is to notify all persons having claims against the estate of the said BASILKENNETH PRICE to present them to the undersigned on or before the 19th day of December 2009 or the same will be pleaded in bar of their recovery. All persons indebted to said estate will please make immediate payment.

This is the 19th day of September, 2009.

Lisa Catherine Price Green, Ancillary Executor5111 Williamsburg Blvd.Arlington, VA 22207

YARD SALE Spears Rd. (off Harris Henrietta Rd., across from Jones Service

Station) Sat. 8A-12PHousehold items and

much more!

Wee Runs Consignment SaleWhite Oaks Plaza, 1639 US Hwy 74 Bypass, Spindale

(previously Steve & Barry’s, beside Burke’sOutlet in the Big Lots Complex) Children’s

Clothing, Toys, Equipment & Furniture

SALE DATESSat. 9/19 8A-6PSun. 9/20 1P-5P

Mon.-Fri. 9/21-9/25Open Daily 10A-2P

Sat. 9/26 8A-6PSun. 9/27 1P-5P

Discount Days; Most items will be half price.Sun. 9/27 6P-9P are Clearance Hours w/

Price Reductions up to 70%!!! 288-4100

www.WeeRuns.com

LARGE YARD/BAKE SALE FC:

230 Mountain View St. Thurs.-Sun. 7A-untilCollectibles, clothes, ab lounger, weight bench & weights.

Something for everyone!

HUGE COMMUNITYYARD SALE Rfdtn

155 S. Ridgecrest Sat. 7A-until Too much to list! Something

for everyone. Brand new items!

Rain date Sat. 9/26!

GILBERT TOWN YARD SALE

(off of Broyhill Rd.) 10+ Families

Saturday 7A-until Something for

everybody!

Yard Sales

CARPORT SALE FC: 137 Sharon St. (off

Church St.) Fri. & Sat. 9A-until Clothes,

XL black leather coat, shoes, bags,

jewelry, household, tools. Something for

everyone!

3 FAMILY FC: Long Branch Rd. (off of Poors Ford Rd.)

Saturday 8A-untilClothes, what nots and much more!

2 FAMILY Rfdtn 171 C.C. Hoyle Rd.

Sat. 7A-until Couch, bed, table, household, baby items and more! Everything must go!

Yard Sales

YOUNG DOG, light colored, has collar. Found in Concord

Church community. 245-9070

Sm. F black & brownpossible Chihuahua.Has red collar. Found

9/15 in Spindale at Old Suzannah. 447-1188

Small black dog with collar. Found near Main St. in Rfdtn.

Call 828-289-8394

Found

Reward! Small blackpuppy w/green collar, stub tail, around Rfdtn

post office, missing since 9/10. 980-3805

Sm male black & tan Yorkie/Rat terrier.

Lost 7/3 from Sunshine area. Small reward

offered! Call 429-4584

Lost

Tenn. fainting goat,buck kid, DOB 5/09, black/white, $50 obo

828-625-5517

Livestock

Toy & Tiny Toy Poodles Vet

approved, CKC Reg. 828-248-5095

Pets

FREE KITTENS to an indoor home only.

Litter box trained. Call 287-4944 after 5pm

AKC Shih Tzu puppies 8 wks $300

Call 828-429-5290or 828-429-3866

Pets

1994 GMC Pick UpP/w, p/l, good a/c,

new tires. Runs good! Call 828-305-3627

Trucks

PRICE REDUCED!2003 Honda Civic

EX 4 door, 132K mi., Good condition! $4,500

Must sell! 453-0554

2005 Mercury SableAuto, a/c, pw, pl,

cd, cruise. Excellent condition! 88,000 miles $5,200 Call 287-0057

Autos

I PAY CASH FOR DIABETIC TEST

STRIPS Up to $10 per 100 ct. Call Frank

828-577-4197

WILL BUYYOUR GOLD AND SILVER

We come to you!Get more for your gold!! 289-7066

WILL BUY YOUR JUNK Cars & Trucks

Pick up at your convenience!

Call 223-0277

Want To Buy

Solid oak dining tablewith 8 chairs, 2 leafs, buffet & 2 solid oak

corner hutches. $700 245-5703 or 286-8665

For Sale

4 Duke football ticketsfor Wake Forest game 11/28 & NC Central, 9/26. 1 for Va Tech, 10/3, 1 for GA Tech

11/14. $15 each. Call 287-5446

For Sale

Now Hiring Position open for SALES

CONSULTANT. Would prefer someone with

experience, but it is not required. Will train the right person. Would

need to be familiar with computer operation. Apply in person at Stamey Chrysler-

Jeep-Dodge in Marion, NC between the hrs of 8am-5pm

Monday-Friday

Quadriplegic is looking for attendant care in Rutherford Co.

Call 704-473-7130

Outside sales repneeded Our company

is seeking an energetic, hardworking professional to join our

team. Training provided! 1st year

potential $40-$50k Call Scott 336-687-6099

Now hiring disciplined salespeople. Warehouse staff. Data Entry.

Experienced EBayers. Motivated

tele-marketers, salaries/high

commissions, multi-lingual positions

available. MSOffice & military

exper. preferred not required. Rfdtn facility

877-372-7271ext 700 or fax resume

877-372-7271 or e-mail resume to: hr.arinc@att.net

Musician/Minister of Music New Vernon Baptist Church, Rev.

J.K. Miller, is seeking a musician/minister of music. If interested

please contact Deacon Joe Hunt 245-1100 or Lena

Wilkerson 287-2471

Help Wanted

ICU STAFF NURSE: RN Full-time, part-time

or PRN 7pm-7am. ACLS & PALS

Certified, minimum 1-2 years experience.Contact Kathy Utz

828-894-3525, ext. 2430, icu@

saintlukeshospital.comor Brenda Hemsath

ext. 2550, bhemsath@ saintlukeshospital.com

Resumes may also be mailed to:

St. Luke’s HospitalAttn: Human Resources

101 Hospital Drive Columbus, NC 28722

Full-time Child Care Specialist Bachelors

in Early Childhood Ed. or Child Development.

Will consider Associates in Early

Childhood with commitment to

complete Bachelors. Must have 2+ years paid experience in

early childhood services or related field & be proficient in Excel.

Submit resume to: Director,

PO Box 1619, Forest City, NC 28043

Busy business womanneeds assistance to run errands includes

groceries, office supplies, pick up mail, etc. 1 Wednesday per week. 5 hrs. to start, more later on. $8/hr. Ref’s. req. 245-2711

Help Wanted

ASSISTANT NEEDEDin fast paced wellness

facility. Position requires energetic, self

motivated and detail oriented team player. Must have experience in medical reception/ front desk or medical insurance and billing.

Other resumes will not be reviewed. 2 years

exp. is preferred. Please incl. prof.

references w/resume. Email to paradoxnc@

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Help Wanted

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Instruction

Cafe/Diner/Ice Cream $49,500 Owner will help finance! Seats 40. 5 days,

short hrs. Rent $900 Bkr 828-298-6566

Business

For Sale

TSC is here! Ready when you need us. Visit our websites www.tscbiz.com

resume2go.net or esite4u.com

Business

Services

For Rent: Lake LureFox Run Townhouse 2BR/2BA sleeps 6

Avail. Oct. 10th-14th $125 per night Call

Frank 505-280-5815

Vacation

Property

1 - 2.5 ACRE LOTS near Chase High. City water taps provided. Starting at $6,000!

864-909-1035

Lots For Sale

2BR/1BA on very priv. 2 ac. lot in Spindale. Cent. h/a. $75/wk. + $200 dep. 247-0091

2BR/2BA in nice area Stove, refrig. No Pets!

$400/mo. + deposit Call 287-7043

Nice, Clean, Private 3BR/2BA in Rfdtn.

$650/mo. + securities.286-1982 or 748-0658

Mobile Homes

For Rent

2BR/2BA SW in Rutherfordton!

RENT TO OWN!Will Finance! No Banks! Hurry! You pay no lot

rent, taxes, or insurance!

NEG. $75 wk + dep

704-806-6686

2 & 3BR SW in Harris Water & sewer incld.

Starting at $340/mo. + dep. 828-748-8801

2BR/1BA in Ellenboro Refrig., stove, washer & dryer. $400/mo. +

deposit. Call 453-0281

Single wide Shiloh: 2BR/2BA No Pets!

$400/mo. + $300 dep. 245-5703 or 286-8665

Mobile Homes

For Rent

2BR/2.5BA home on64/74 1 mile from Lake Lure Beach, Chimney Rock and Ingles. Lake Lure view. $700/mo. Also, 2BR/2BA on 2

ac. in Resort. $800/mo.Call Eddy Zappel 828-289-9151 or

Marco 954-275 0735

2BR/1BA, dual panewindows, ceiling

fans, window a/c, w/d hookup, East Court

St., Rfdtn. 1.5 blocks to downtown

$310/mo. application 828-748-8801

Homes

For Rent

RENT TO OWN2BR SW MH Spindale area. $400/mo. Small DP + 1st month’s rent.

Call 429-3976

Business

Opportunity

MyTazoodlePaysCash.com Does Yours? New search eng. coming in

Oct. 910-770-1081

The Little Red Schoolis looking for a

qualified, experienced child care teacher.Must have minimum of credentials plus 12 hrs. college credits.

Call 245-7556

Thompson/Center arms 50 cal. black powder gun. Exc.

cond.! $250 289-5770

Wolff TanningBed $800

Call 286-3575

HUGE YARD SALEEllenboro: 1856 Walls

Church Rd. (left off Hollis Rd.) Sat.

7A-12P Something for everyone!

Lost orfound a pet?Place an adat no cost toyou. Ad runsfor 1 week.

Call 245-6431Mon.-Fri. 8am-5pm

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NORTH CAROLINA,RUTHERFORD COUNTY

NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE09 SP 186

Under and by virtue of a Power of Sale contained in that certain Deed of Trust executed by JAMES MICHAEL WYATT aka James Wyatt AND WIFE, DONNA MCSWAIN WYATT aka Donna M. Wyatt to ATLANTIS TITLE COMPANY, Trustee(s), which was dated July 7, 2005 and recorded on July 19, 2005 in Book 850 at Page 214, Rutherford County Registry, North Carolina.

Default having been made in the payment of the note thereby secured by the said Deed of Trust and the undersigned, Brock & Scott, PLLC, having been substituted as Trustee in said Deed of Trust by an instrument duly recorded in the Office of the Register of Deeds of Rutherford County, North Carolina, and the holder of the note evidencing said indebtedness having directed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at the courthouse door of the county courthouse where the property is located, or the usual and customary location at the county courthouse for conducting the sale on September 22, 2009 at 10:00AM, and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following described property situated in Rutherford County, North Carolina, to wit:

TRACT ONE: Being the same property as described in deed from Thomas C. Doggett and wife, Edith R. Doggett to Earl Callahan and wife, Pauline D. Callahan dated April 20, 1971 and recorded in Deed Book 332 on Page 660, Rutherford County Registry, the property hereby conveyed being described according to said deed as follows:

Lying and being on the West side of the Town and County Road (North Carolina Rural Road #2168) and being described by calls and distances as follows: BEGINNING at a point in the center of the Town and County Road, which point is located 495 feet (should be 395 feet) South 5 degrees 45 minutes West from the intersection of the center line of the Town and Country Road with the center line of the Bethany Church Road, same being corner to lot conveyed to John Doggett et ux and the line runs thence with the center of the Town and Country Road South 5 degrees 45 minutes West 300 feet to a point in said road at the corner of a lot conveyed to Earl W. Callahan et ux; thence North 86 degrees.

West 286 feet to a stake; thence North 6 degrees West 304 feet to a stake; thence South 86 degrees West 349 feet to the place of BEGINNING, containing 2.1 acres, more or less.

TRACT TWO: Being the same property as described as TRACT NUMBER TWO in deed from T.C. Doggett et al., to Earl W. Callahan and wife, Pauline D. Callahan dated February 18, 1969 and recorded in Deed Book 323 on Page 349, Rutherford County Registry, the property hereby conveyed being described according to said deed as follows:

Lying and being situate on the West side of Town and Country Road (North Carolina Rural Road #2168) and lying on the North side of the 2.95 acres tract described in Deed Book 30 at Page 387, Rutherford County Registry, and being described by calls and distances as follows: BEGINNING at a point in the center of Town and Country Road at the Northeast corner of the land described in Deed Book 300 at Page 387 and the line runs thence with the old J. S. Doggett line North 86 degrees West 833 feet to a stake in the Curtis Hudgins line; thence with the Hudgins line North 4 degrees East 100 feet to a stake, corner of lot conveyed to John Doggett et ux in the Hudgins line; thence South 86 degrees East 836 feet to a point in the center of Town and Country Road, Southeast corner of lot conveyed to Thomas C. Doggett et ux.; thence with the center of said road South 5 degrees 45 minutes West 100 feet to the place of BEGINNING, containing 1.9 acres, more or less.

Subject, however, to an indebtedness due T.J.R. Ltd., a N.C. general partnership of Forest City, North Carolina, which is secured by a Deed of Trust on the above described property and which indebtedness the grantee agrees to assume and pay at a part of the purchase price hereof.

See also agreement filed in Book 555 Page 183, Rutherford County Registry.

Save and except any releases, deeds of release or prior conveyances of record.

Said property is commonly known as168 Countryside Drive and, 172 Countryside Drive, Forest City, NC 28043

Third party purchasers must pay the excise tax, and the court costs of Forty-Five Cents (45¢) per One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) pursuant to NCGS 7A-308(a)(1). A cash deposit (no personal checks) of five percent (5%) of the purchase price, or Seven Hundred Fifty Dollars ($750.00), whichever is greater, will be required at the time of the sale. Following the expiration of the statutory upset bid period, all the remaining amounts are immediately due and owing.

Said property to be offered pursuant to this Notice of Sale is being offered for sale, transfer and conveyance “AS IS WHERE IS.” There are no representations of warranty relating to the title or any physical, environmental, health or safety conditions existing in, on, at, or relating to the property being offered for sale. This sale is made subject to all prior liens, unpaid taxes, any unpaid land transfer taxes, special assessments, easements, rights of way, deeds of release, and any other encumbrances or exceptions of record. To the best of the knowledge and belief of the undersigned, the current owner(s) of the property is/are All Lawful Heirs of James Michael Wyatt.

An Order for possession of the property may be issued pursuant to G.S. 45-21.29 in favor of the purchaser and against the party or parties in possession by the clerk of superior court of the county in which the property is sold. Any person who occupies the property pursuant to a rental agreement entered into or renewed on or after October 1, 2007, may, after receiving the notice of sale, terminate the rental agreement upon 10 days’ written notice to the landlord. The notice shall also state that upon termination of a rental agreement, the tenant is liable for rent due under the rental agreement prorated to the effective date of the termination.

If the trustee is unable to convey title to this property for any reason, the sole remedy of the purchaser is the return of the deposit. Reasons of such inability to convey include, but are not limited to, the filing of a bankruptcy petition prior to the confirmation of the sale and reinstatement of the loan without the knowledge of the trustee. If the validity of the sale is challenged by any party, the trustee, in their sole discretion, if they believe the challenge to have merit, may request the court to declare the sale to be void and return the deposit. The purchaser will have no further remedy.

THIS IS A COMMUNICATION FROM A DEBT COLLECTOR. THE PURPOSE OF THIS COMMUNICATION IS TO COLLECT A DEBT AND ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE, EXCEPT IN THE INSTANCE OF BANKRUPTCY PROTECTION. IF YOU ARE UNDER THE PROTECTION OF THE BANKRUPTCY COURT OR HAVE BEEN DISCHARGED AS A RESULT OF A BANKRUPTCY PROCEEDING, THIS NOTICE IS GIVEN TO YOU PURSUANT TO STATUTORY REQUIREMENT AND FOR INFORMATIONAL PURPOSES AND IS NOT INTENDED AS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT OR AS AN ACT TO COLLECT, ASSESS, OR RECOVER ALL OR ANY PORTION OF THE DEBT FROM YOU PERSONALLY.

Substitute TrusteeBrock & Scott, PLLCJeremy B. Wilkins, NCSB No. 323465431 Oleander Drive Suite 200Wilmington, NC 28403PHONE: (910) 392-4988FAX: (910) 392-8587File No.: 09-10220-FC01

NORTH CAROLINA,RUTHERFORD COUNTY

NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE09 SP 288

Under and by virtue of a Power of Sale contained in that certain Deed of Trust executed by WILLIAM BEERS AND CLARICE BEERS, HUSBAND AND WIFE AS TENANTS IN COMMON to BYERS, MARTELLE, & WILLIAMS, P, Trustee(s), which was dated December 8, 2005 and recorded on December 14, 2005 in Book 876 at Page 186, Rutherford County Registry, North Carolina.

Default having been made in the payment of the note thereby secured by the said Deed of Trust and the undersigned, Lisa S. Campbell, having been substituted as Trustee in said Deed of Trust by an instrument duly recorded in the Office of the Register of Deeds of Rutherford County, North Carolina, and the holder of the note evidencing said indebtedness having directed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at the courthouse door of the county courthouse where the property is located, or the usual and customary location at the county courthouse for conducting the sale on September 22, 2009 at 10:00AM, and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following described property situated in Rutherford County, North Carolina, to wit:

Situate, lying and being in Rutherfordton Township, Rutherford County, North Carolina and being the same and identical property as that described in Deed Book 409, Page 251, and lying northwest of the intersection of Westview Street and S. Ridgecrest Avenue, and being described in accordance with a plat of survey by Professional Surveying Services dated August 30, 1991 as follows:

BEGINNING at an existing iron pin located on the northern edge of Westview Street, said beginning iron pin being located North 61 degrees 04 minutes 04 seconds West 22.90 feet from a PK nail set in the centerline of the intersection of Westview Street with S. Ridgecrest Avenue; and running thence from said beginning existing iron pin along and with the northern side of Westview Street North 89 degrees 44 minutes 19 seconds West 255.00 feet to a new iron pin, said new iron pin being the common southernmost corner of the tract herein described and the Alfred W. Fairer property described in Deed Book 274, Page 327; thence leaving Westview Street and running along and with the Fairer boundary North 03 degrees 39 minutes 14 seconds West 55.04 feet to a new iron pin; thence North 83 degrees 53 minutes 58 seconds East 255.00 feet to a PK nail set on the western right of way edge of S. Ridge Crest Avenue, said PK nail being the common easternmost corner of the tract herein described and the aforementioned Fairer property; thence leaving the Fairer boundary and running along and with the western right of way edge of S. Ridgecrest Avenue South 03 degrees 24 minute 16 seconds East 83.33 feet to the point and place of BEGINNING and containing 0.40 acres, more or less.

Being the same and identical property which was conveyed by David L. Henderson and wife, Lynn H. Henderson to Clyde D. Wilkins and wife, Alesia G. Wilkins by deed dated June 6, 1994 and of record in Deed Book 632, at Page 654, Rutherford County Registry.

Being the same and identical property which was conveyed by Clyde D. Wilkins and wife, Alesia G. Wilkins to William Beers and wife, Clarice Beers by deed dated February 28, 2002 and of record in Deed Book 792, at Page 670, Rutherford County Registry.

Save and except any releases, deeds of release or prior conveyances of record.

Said property is commonly known as222 South Ridgecrest Avenue, Rutherfordton, NC 28139

Third party purchasers must pay the excise tax, and the court costs of Forty-Five Cents (45¢) per One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) pursuant to NCGS 7A-308(a)(1). A cash deposit (no personal checks) of five percent (5%) of the purchase price, or Seven Hundred Fifty Dollars ($750.00), whichever is greater, will be required at the time of the sale. Following the expiration of the statutory upset bid period, all the remaining amounts are immediately due and owing.

Said property to be offered pursuant to this Notice of Sale is being offered for sale, transfer and conveyance “AS IS WHERE IS.” There are no representations of warranty relating to the title or any physical, environmental, health or safety conditions existing in, on, at, or relating to the property being offered for sale. This sale is made subject to all prior liens, unpaid taxes, any unpaid land transfer taxes, special assessments, easements, rights of way, deeds of release, and any other encumbrances or exceptions of record. To the best of the knowledge and belief of the undersigned, the current owner(s) of the property is/are Williams Beers and wife, Clarice Beers.

An Order for possession of the property may be issued pursuant to G.S. 45-21.29 in favor of the purchaser and against the party or parties in possession by the clerk of superior court of the county in which the property is sold. Any person who occupies the property pursuant to a rental agreement entered into or renewed on or after October 1, 2007, may, after receiving the notice of sale, terminate the rental agreement upon 10 days’ written notice to the landlord. The notice shall also state that upon termination of a rental agreement, the tenant is liable for rent due under the rental agreement prorated to the effective date of the termination.

If the trustee is unable to convey title to this property for any reason, the sole remedy of the purchaser is the return of the deposit. Reasons of such inability to convey include, but are not limited to, the filing of a bankruptcy petition prior to the confirmation of the sale and reinstatement of the loan without the knowledge of the trustee. If the validity of the sale is challenged by any party, the trustee, in their sole discretion, if they believe the challenge to have merit, may request the court to declare the sale to be void and return the deposit. The purchaser will have no further remedy.

THIS IS A COMMUNICATION FROM A DEBT COLLECTOR. THE PURPOSE OF THIS COMMUNICATION IS TO COLLECT A DEBT AND ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE, EXCEPT IN THE INSTANCE OF BANKRUPTCY PROTECTION. IF YOU ARE UNDER THE PROTECTION OF THE BANKRUPTCY COURT OR HAVE BEEN DISCHARGED AS A RESULT OF A BANKRUPTCY PROCEEDING, THIS NOTICE IS GIVEN TO YOU PURSUANT TO STATUTORY REQUIREMENT AND FOR INFORMATIONAL PURPOSES AND IS NOT INTENDED AS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT OR AS AN ACT TO COLLECT, ASSESS, OR RECOVER ALL OR ANY PORTION OF THE DEBT FROM YOU PERSONALLY.

Lisa S. CampbellSubstitute TrusteePO Box 4006Wilmington, NC 28406PHONE: 910-392-4971 FAX: 910-392-8051File No.: 08-17499-FC01

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Having qualified as Executor of the estate of PEARLE NASH MCBRAYER of Rutherford County, North Carolina, this is to notify all persons having claims against the estate of the said PEARLE NASH MCBRAYER to present them to the undersigned on or before the 12th day of December 2009 or the same will be pleaded in bar of their recovery. All persons indebted to said estate will please make immediate payment.

This is the 12th day of September, 2009.

Ramona M. Ross, Executor105 Hillside Dr.Gaffney, SC 29340

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Having qualified as Executor of the estate of LINAESTILENE GOODE WATERS of Rutherford County, North Carolina, this is to notify all persons having claims against the estate of the said LINAESTILENE GOODE WATERS to present them to the undersigned on or before the 29th day of November 2009 or the same will be pleaded in bar of their recovery. All persons indebted to said estate will please make immediate payment.

This is the 29th day of August, 2009.

Mary Blandine Waters Tate, Executor2444 Washburn RoadShelby, NC 28150

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Having qualified as Executor of the estate of BRENDA JOYCE GOODE of Rutherford County, North Carolina, this is to notify all persons having claims against the estate of the said BRENDAJOYCE GOODE to present them to the undersigned on or before the 29th day of November 2009 or the same will be pleaded in bar of their recovery. All persons indebted to said estate will please make immediate payment.

This is the 29th day of August, 2009.

Lillie Winifred Owens, Executor267 Coffey RoadForest City, NC 28043

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Having qualified as Executor of the estate of BILLYRAY GREEN of Rutherford County, North Carolina, this is to notify all persons having claims against the estate of the said BILLY RAY GREEN to present them to the undersigned on or before the 29th day of November 2009 or the same will be pleaded in bar of their recovery. All persons indebted to said estate will please make immediate payment.

This is the 29th day of August, 2009.

Clarence Oates Turner Jr., Executor144 Callahan StreetRutherfordton, NC 28139

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NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE09 SP 310

Under and by virtue of a Power of Sale contained in that certain Deed of Trust executed by SALMA AREFI, unmarried to PRLAP,INC, Trustee(s), which was dated November 17, 2006 and recorded on November 28, 2006 in Book 929 at Page 210, Rutherford County Registry, North Carolina.

Default having been made in the payment of the note thereby secured by the said Deed of Trust and the undersigned, Brock & Scott, PLLC, having been substituted as Trustee in said Deed of Trust by an instrument duly recorded in the Office of the Register of Deeds of Rutherford County, North Carolina, and the holder of the note evidencing said indebtedness having directed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at the courthouse door of the county courthouse where the property is located, or the usual and customary location at the county courthouse for conducting the sale on September 29, 2009 at 2:00PM, and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following described property situated in Rutherford County, North Carolina, to wit:

BEING all of Lot 432, Phase 3A, as shown on subdivision plat for Grey Rock at Lake Lure Subdivision recorded in Plat Book 26 at Page 234, said plat being one of a series of plats recorded in Plat Book 23, Pages 231 through 234, all of the Rutherford County, NC Registry, reference to said plats being made for a more particular description of said lot.

TOGETHER WITH AND SUBJECT TO all easements, restrictions and rights of way of record and a non-exclusive appurtenant easements for ingress, egress and regress is conveyed over and upon all private subdivision roads for Grey Rock at Lake Lure as shown on the above described plats and to the Covenants, Conditions and Restrictions for GreyRock at Lake Lure as recorded in Book 858 at Page 122 of the Rutherford County, NC Registry and also recorded in Book 3827, Page 764 of the Buncombe County, NC Registry (herein "Declarations").

TOGETHER WITH AND SUBJECT TO easements for the installation, repair and maintenance of a community water system as set forth in the Declarations, said water system to consist of a shared system of wells and water line to be installed upon the lats. Each lot is conveyed together with appurtenant easements for all shared water line and wells marking up the water system as the same may or will be installed in the reserved easement areas as set forth on all recorded plats and described in the Declarations.

ALSO BEING the same property as described in a Deed recorded in Book 903 at Page 210 and Book 910 at Page 85 of the aforesaid Registry.

Save and except any releases, deeds of release or prior conveyances of record.

Said property is commonly known as:Lot 432 Grey Rock, Lake Lure, NC 28746

Third party purchasers must pay the excise tax, and the court costs of Forty-Five Cents (45¢) per One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) pursuant to NCGS 7A-308(a)(1). A cash deposit (no personal checks) of five percent (5%) of the purchase price, or Seven Hundred Fifty Dollars ($750.00), whichever is greater, will be required at the time of the sale. Following the expiration of the statutory upset bid period, all the remaining amounts are immediately due and owing.

Said property to be offered pursuant to this Notice of Sale is being offered for sale, transfer and conveyance “AS IS WHERE IS.” There are no representations of warranty relating to the title or any physical, environmental, health or safety conditions existing in, on, at, or relating to the property being offered for sale. This sale is made subject to all prior liens, unpaid taxes, any unpaid land transfer taxes, special assessments, easements, rights of way, deeds of release, and any other encumbrances or exceptions of record. To the best of the knowledge and belief of the undersigned, the current owner(s) of the property is/are Ronald Berg and 432A Grey Rock Trust.

An Order for possession of the property may be issued pursuant to G.S. 45-21.29 in favor of the purchaser and against the party or parties in possession by the clerk of superior court of the county in which the property is sold. Any person who occupies the property pursuant to a rental agreement entered into or renewed on or after October 1, 2007, may, after receiving the notice of sale, terminate the rental agreement upon 10 days’ written notice to the landlord. The notice shall also state that upon termination of a rental agreement, the tenant is liable for rent due under the rental agreement prorated to the effective date of the termination.

If the trustee is unable to convey title to this property for any reason, the sole remedy of the purchaser is the return of the deposit. Reasons of such inability to convey include, but are not limited to, the filing of a bankruptcy petition prior to the confirmation of the sale and reinstatement of the loan without the knowledge of the trustee. If the validity of the sale is challenged by any party, the trustee, in their sole discretion, if they believe the challenge to have merit, may request the court to declare the sale to be void and return the deposit. The purchaser will have no further remedy.

THIS IS A COMMUNICATION FROM A DEBT COLLECTOR. THE PURPOSE OF THIS COMMUNICATION IS TO COLLECT A DEBT AND ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE, EXCEPT IN THE INSTANCE OF BANKRUPTCY PROTECTION. IF YOU ARE UNDER THE PROTECTION OF THE BANKRUPTCY COURT OR HAVE BEEN DISCHARGED AS A RESULT OF A BANKRUPTCY PROCEEDING, THIS NOTICE IS GIVEN TO YOU PURSUANT TO STATUTORY REQUIREMENT AND FOR INFORMATIONAL PURPOSES AND IS NOT INTENDED AS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT OR AS AN ACT TO COLLECT, ASSESS, OR RECOVER ALL OR ANY PORTION OF THE DEBT FROM YOU PERSONALLY.

Substitute TrusteeBrock & Scott, PLLCJeremy B. Wilkins, NCSB No. 323465431 Oleander Drive Suite 200Wilmington, NC 28403PHONE: (910) 392-4988FAX: (910) 392-8587File No.: 09-14136-FC01

NORTH CAROLINA,RUTHERFORD COUNTY

NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE09 SP 297

Under and by virtue of a Power of Sale contained in that certain Deed of Trust executed by HENRY DAVID RUSS, A MARRIED MAN AND WIFE PAMELA EMORY RUSS to FIRSTAMERICAN TITLE INSURANCE COMPANY, Trustee(s), which was dated December 28, 2004 and recorded on January 3, 2005 in Book 821 at Page 787, Rutherford County Registry, North Carolina.

Default having been made in the payment of the note thereby secured by the said Deed of Trust and the undersigned, Brock & Scott, PLLC, having been substituted as Trustee in said Deed of Trust by an instrument duly recorded in the Office of the Register of Deeds of Rutherford County, North Carolina, and the holder of the note evidencing said indebtedness having directed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at the courthouse door of the county courthouse where the property is located, or the usual and customary location at the county courthouse for conducting the sale on September 30, 2009 at 1:00PM, and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following described property situated in Rutherford County, North Carolina, to wit:

Situate, lying and being in Cool Springs Township, Rutherford County, North Carolina, on the northwest side of Melody Lane in the Town of Forest City, North Carolina, and being in Lot 21 of Block E of the Dr. G. E. Young Farm Subdivision as shown on Plat recorded in Plat Book 7 at page 105 in the office of the Register of Deeds of Rutherford County, North Carolina, but being herin more particularly described according to current plat of survey by Charles D. Owens, Registered Land Surveyor, on April 6, 1981, as follows; BEGINNING on an iron pin located South 50 deg. 07 min. East 34.38 feet from the northeasternmost corner of the residence located on the lot herin conveyed, said beginning point also being located North 32 deg. 55 min. East 69 feet from the northeast corner of Lot 22 of said subdivision owned by Larry Earl Ross and wife, Wanda S. Ross and described in Deed Book 367 at page 397, Rutherford County Registry, and running thence from said beginning point, North 65 deg. East 36.70 feet to a new iron pin, the southeast corner of Lot 20 of the aforesaid subdivision; thence with the dividing line of Lots 20 and 21, North 57 deg. 06 min. 30 sec. West 219.50 feet to a new iron pin; thence South 32 deg. 55 min. West 100 feet to another new iron pin, the northwest corner of Lot 22 of the aforesaid subdivision; thence with the dividing line between Lots 21 and 22, South 57 deg. 05 min. East 200 feet to a new iron pin, the northeast corner of said Lot 22; thence North 32 deg. 55 min. East 69 feet back to the point and place of BEGINNING, and containing 0.466 acres.

Save and except any releases, deeds of release or prior conveyances of record.

Said property is commonly known as197 Melody Lane, Forest City, NC 28043

Third party purchasers must pay the excise tax, and the court costs of Forty-Five Cents (45¢) per One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) pursuant to NCGS 7A-308(a)(1). A cash deposit (no personal checks) of five percent (5%) of the purchase price, or Seven Hundred Fifty Dollars ($750.00), whichever is greater, will be required at the time of the sale. Following the expiration of the statutory upset bid period, all the remaining amounts are immediately due and owing.

Said property to be offered pursuant to this Notice of Sale is being offered for sale, transfer and conveyance “AS IS WHERE IS.” There are no representations of warranty relating to the title or any physical, environmental, health or safety conditions existing in, on, at, or relating to the property being offered for sale. This sale is made subject to all prior liens, unpaid taxes, any unpaid land transfer taxes, special assessments, easements, rights of way, deeds of release, and any other encumbrances or exceptions of record. To the best of the knowledge and belief of the undersigned, the current owner(s) of the property is/are Henry David Russ and wife, Pamela Emory Russ.

An Order for possession of the property may be issued pursuant to G.S. 45-21.29 in favor of the purchaser and against the party or parties in possession by the clerk of superior court of the county in which the property is sold. Any person who occupies the property pursuant to a rental agreement entered into or renewed on or after October 1, 2007, may, after receiving the notice of sale, terminate the rental agreement upon 10 days’ written notice to the landlord. The notice shall also state that upon termination of a rental agreement, the tenant is liable for rent due under the rental agreement prorated to the effective date of the termination.

If the trustee is unable to convey title to this property for any reason, the sole remedy of the purchaser is the return of the deposit. Reasons of such inability to convey include, but are not limited to, the filing of a bankruptcy petition prior to the confirmation of the sale and reinstatement of the loan without the knowledge of the trustee. If the validity of the sale is challenged by any party, the trustee, in their sole discretion, if they believe the challenge to have merit, may request the court to declare the sale to be void and return the deposit. The purchaser will have no further remedy.

THIS IS A COMMUNICATION FROM A DEBT COLLECTOR. THE PURPOSE OF THIS COMMUNICATION IS TO COLLECT A DEBT AND ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE, EXCEPT IN THE INSTANCE OF BANKRUPTCY PROTECTION. IF YOU ARE UNDER THE PROTECTION OF THE BANKRUPTCY COURT OR HAVE BEEN DISCHARGED AS A RESULT OF A BANKRUPTCY PROCEEDING, THIS NOTICE IS GIVEN TO YOU PURSUANT TO STATUTORY REQUIREMENT AND FOR INFORMATIONAL PURPOSES AND IS NOT INTENDED AS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT OR AS AN ACT TO COLLECT, ASSESS, OR RECOVER ALL OR ANY PORTION OF THE DEBT FROM YOU PERSONALLY.

Substitute TrusteeBrock & Scott, PLLCJeremy B. Wilkins, NCSB No. 323465431 Oleander Drive Suite 200Wilmington, NC 28403PHONE: (910) 392-4988FAX: (910) 392-8587File No.: 09-15068-FC01

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Shooting in subway kills at least 1MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico City’s mayor

says at least one person has been killed after a man opened fire inside a subway car during rush hour.

Mayor Marcelo Ebrard says the gunman has been captured.

He says at least one passenger was killed in the attack Friday.

Witnesses told radio station Formato 21 the gunman got on the subway at the Balderas sta-tion and began shooting.

Suicide bomber kills 29KOHAT, Pakistan (AP) — Scores of bloodied

and bandaged victims filled hospital beds after a suicide car bomber destroyed a two-story hotel Friday in northwest Pakistan, killing 29 people and underscoring the relentless security threat to the region.

The blast on the outskirts of Kohat town wounded 55 others. It was the second attack in two days in the area, which is close to Pakistan’s rugged border region with Afghanistan where al-Qaida and Taliban militants hold sway.

The attack took place in the Shiite-dominated village of Usterzai, raising speculation that it may have been a sectarian assault by Sunni extremists. It occurred just days before Muslims from both sects celebrate the end of the fasting month of Ramadan.

Islamist militants have also staged bombings in public places in the northwest to warn locals from cooperating with security forces, or punish them for already doing so.

The Hikmat Ali Hotel — owned by a Shiite — was among several buildings destroyed or badly damaged, police official Asmat Ullah said. At least eight cars were mangled by the force of the blast, witnesses said.

Car bomb kills 7 in market BAGHDAD (AP) — A car bomb exploded

Friday at a market south of Baghdad in a region that was once the scene of frequent attacks on Shiites, killing seven people and wounding 21 others, police and hospital officials said.

The bomb, inside a parked car, exploded in the town of Mahmoudiya about a half hour before the end of the day’s fasting for Ramadan, when shoppers were in the market to buy last-minute supplies for the evening meal, or iftar.

Mahmoudiya, about 20 miles (30 kilometers) south of Baghdad, has a sizable Shiite commu-nity, while the countryside around it is predomi-nantly Sunni. Al-Qaida in Iraq was once very active in the area.

Despite the overall drop in violence in Iraq, there are persistent attacks on Shiite civilians that appear intended to re-ignite the sectarian bloodshed that nearly plunged Iraq into civil war in 2006 and 2007.

Police said the bomb exploded near a bakery in a primarily Shiite section of the town, setting fire to nearby buildings.

Dr. Ahmed al-Maamouri of the town’s main hospital gave the casualty figures from Friday’s attack.

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Tens of thousands of protesters — many decked out in the green colors of the reform movement and chanting “Death to the dictator!” — rallied Friday in defiance of Iran’s Islamic leadership, clash-ing with police and confronting state-run anti-Israel rallies.

In the first major opposition protests in two months, demon-strators marching shoulder-to-shoulder raised their hands in V-for-victory signs on main bou-levards and squares throughout the capital.

Lines of police, security forces and plainclothes Basij militia-men kept the two sides apart in most cases. At times they waded into the protesters with baton charges and tear gas volleys. The demonstrators responded by throwing stones and bricks, and setting tires ablaze.

Hard-liners attacked two senior opposition leaders who joined the protests. Former pro-reform President Mohamad Khatami was shoved and jos-tled, gripping his black turban to keep it from being knocked off as supporters rushed in to protect him, pushing away the attackers and hustling him away.

The protests were a significant show of defiance after supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei explicitly banned anti-govern-ment marches on Quds Day, an annual memorial created by Iran’s Islamic Republic to show support for the Palestinians and denounce Israel. Quds is Arabic for Jerusalem.

It was also a show of sur-vival. The opposition has been hit hard by a fierce crackdown in which hundreds have been arrested since disputed June 12

presidential elections sparked Iran’s worst political turmoil in decades. Friday’s protests could escalate the confrontation — hard-line clerics have demanded the arrest of any opposition lead-ers who defy Khamenei’s order and back protests on Quds Day.

President Mahmoud Ahma-dinejad, who the opposition con-tends won re-election by fraud, delivered a nationally televised address, railing against Israel and the West.

Speaking before a crowd of supporters at Tehran University, he questioned whether the Holocaust was a “real event” and called it a pretext for the cre-ation of Israel.

Outside the university, while the speech blared on loudspeak-ers, opposition protesters shout-ed “liar, liar!”

Escorted by his body-guards, reformist for-mer Iranian President Mohammad Khatami, cen-ter, is attacked by hard-liners as he attends a Quds Day rally in Tehran, Iran, Friday.

Thousands march in protests

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