IN THIS ISSUEMississippi murder

Arnold Smith was one of the smartest kids in West High School’s Class of 1960. Gangly and tall, he had a goofy grin and peered at the world through black-rimmed Buddy Hollyesque glasses. Kids to-day would probably call him a full-on nerd. So why is this 70-year-old in jail?

➤ See Bean’s story on page A-6

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Anne Julius of the Quar-terback Club presents the second annual LaTain McGhee scholarship to Jacob Hodges, a recent graduate of Powell High School.

“Jacob demonstrated aca-demic talent, enthusiasm, com-mitment and dedication, the life goals set forth by the late LaTain McGhee,” said Julius.

Hodges will attend UT Knoxville this fall. He is the son of Karla Hodges, a Powell Elementary School teacher, and Eddie Hodges.

Town turns out for parade

By Sandra ClarkState Rep. Bill Dunn led the

pledge of allegiance and prayer following Powell’s big Fourth of July parade last Wednesday. The Powell Business and Profession-al Association sponsored booths with free food and drink in the field near Halftime Pizza.

The Powell Lions Club spon-sored the parade, as it has for many years. Charter member Edd Miller was the grand marshal.

The Powell Playhouse had a multi-car presence, along with groups from One Life Church and Frightworks Haunted House. The One Life folks were better looking.

Along the parade route, fami-lies with chairs, tents and lawn umbrellas gathered. The Sher-iff’s Office helicopters buzzed Emory Road for the half-hour leading up to the event, keep-ing kids entertained and adults snapping photos.

Frontier Communications dished up hot dogs, while others

Teresa Underwood, event coordina-

tor for the Powell Business and Profes-

sional Association, stands under the

big tent. She’s hot but happy following

a great turnout for the Fourth of July

celebration. Photos by S. Clark

Edd Miller is grand marshal of the Powell Fourth of July parade, sponsored

by the Powell Lions Club. Miller is the only charter member of the club,

founded in 1951, who remains active. He was driven by Ronnie Qualls.Sandi Foster shows stamina while

dipping snow cones in the blazing

heat. The booth was sponsored

and staff ed by First Volunteer Bank.

Branch manager Melissa Bingham

scouted the crowd, drumming up

more business.

provided chips and condiments. Crowd favorites were iced water and snow cones.

Yes, it was fun; and in Powell,

parades come but twice a year – Christmas and the Fourth of July. More pictures throughout this edition.

Jay Scarbro is new face of Powell baseball

By Cory ChitwoodIt’s offi cial. Jay Scarbro has

been promoted to head baseball coach at Powell High. Scarbro will be taking over after four years as an assistant under Jeff Inman.

Scarbro played baseball for the Panthers and graduated from Powell in 1996. He then went on to play two years at Hi-wassee College, followed by two years at Tennessee Wesleyan where he received his bachelor’s degree. He received his master’s degree from Lincoln Memorial University and is a school coun-selor at Powell.

During his playing career at Powell as an outfielder/pitcher,

‘Dream come true’

Jay Scarbro

the Panthers won two district championships and posted four consecutive winning seasons. Scarbro himself made All-KIL.

“We had a lot of success when I was there,” said Scarbro. Col-lege told the same story. All four of Scarbro’s teams had winning seasons and made him love the game enough to stay involved.

Scarbro’s first coaching gig came as an assistant at Hiwas-see, where he worked as a re-cruiter as well. In his four years as an assistant at Powell, the Panthers have won a district regular season championship and a district tournament cham-pionship, along with two region-al appearances.

“It’s been four really good years,” said Scarbro. “We’ve seen quite a few players go on to play Division I.”

Scarbro also considers him-self fortunate to have been at Powell under Inman.

“I really enjoyed working with Coach Inman,” said Scar-bro. “He is a good friend and very good guy to work with … we had a great relationship … we seemed to really complement each other.”

Off the field, Scarbro has his family to thank.

“I’m really thankful to have the support of my wife, Lauren, and daughter, Henley Kate, and the support of my family,” he said.

Scarbro sees an array of tal-ent in Powell.

“Projections for the next few years show a very talented group,” said Scarbro. “I’m excit-ed about the possibilities.”

And although the Panthers lost several to graduation, he says, “Throughout the year we had six or seven sophomores playing at one time. We also have a very good rising junior class … and seniors who have played all four years. I’m very optimistic.”

Farewell message

The Rev. Lester Mullins has pastored Pleasant Hill Baptist Church for 25 years and now it’s time to retire. Mullins told his deacons he wants to continue to wor-ship at Pleasant Hill, but as a senior member. His final ser-mon as pastor will be Sunday, July 15, and he hopes for a big turnout.

Pleasant Hill is located on Brushy Valley Road across from Copper Ridge School.

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By Sherry WittAlthough not quite as

robust as the fi gures from May, data from the month of June cont inue to show some en-couraging signs for

real estate activity.For the month that

closed out on Friday, June 29, there were 836 prop-erty transfers recorded in Knox County. While that is 12 short of the number registered in May, it sur-passed last June’s fi gure by 125. It is the fourth consecutive month that has outpaced its 2011 counterpart for the num-ber of properties sold.

The aggregate value of the property transferred in Knox County during June was $170.6 mil-lion, which also fell just short of the May amount of $176 million. May and June of 2012 were about $40 million ahead of the same period from last year in terms of the total value of property sold.

Mortgage lending also continued to trend ahead of its 2011 pace. Dur-ing June, approximately $278 million was loaned against real estate in Knox County, compared to $220 million a year ago. Continued low inter-est rates and government

programs which have allowed refi nancing for homeowners who are up-side down on their mort-gages have contributed to the healthier numbers.

The largest sale of the month was indicated by a Special Warranty Deed between Knoxville 100 LLC and ASO Knoxville LLC for property located at 145 Moss Grove Blvd. The consideration was $9.58 million. Another large transfer was the sale of an office complex located at Locust Street and Summit Hill Drive. That parcel sold for just more than $3.5 million.

The only mortgage transaction of more than $10 million was a con-struction loan for prop-erty in Brookview Town Centre for $10,877,500.Since June 30th marked the halfway point of 2012, some notewor-thy comparisons can be made between the data compiled for this year and that from the first six months of 2011. In terms of property transfers, 2012 has seen 4,104 sales while 3,688 were recorded during the same period of 2011. So far in 2012 there has been just more than $772 million in real property sold in Knox County. This time last year that figure was running at about $747 million. Sherry

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Bates family visits Commercial BankSixteen members of the Bates family, soon to be featured in a reality TV show, visited Commercial Bank in Halls on June 28

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Bates, Jackson Bates and Nadean Meredith of Commercial Bank. Photo submitted

Job fair upcomingThe Tennessee Technology Center, 1100 Liberty St.,

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Businesses boost Powell celebration

Terri Watson and her

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member of the Powell

Playhouse. Photo by S. Clark

Like a good neighbor, State Farm was there, handing out treats

to visitors at the PBPA event. Representing the Sage Kohler

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processing clerk Abby Matthews; owner Sage Kohler and her

husband, Louis Kohler. Photo by S. Clark

Rick Carnes of Clinton Highway Wrecker Service rides a big rig

in the Powell Parade. Photo by Gary Cunningham

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Sun, sun, sunI emailed Wayne Wat-

son a picture of his moth-er, Margaret, sitting in the shade following the Pow-ell Lions Club 4th of July parade. My tag line was, “Your mom on the hottest day of the year.”

Wayne wrote back, “And tomorrow she’ll be out mowing the yard.”

Old-timers and kids love a parade the most. Check out the pictures on this page for some of my favorites.

Rick Carnes has found the fountain of youth. The

Kristin Bailey, Margaret Watson and Hilda Gill at the 4th of July event. In the background is

little Leigha. Photos by S. Clark

Eli Benton enjoys the Powell

parade.

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during the Powell Lions Club

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several costumed characters

from the Frightworks Haunt-

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we got before troops 20355

and 20693 marched on down

the road.

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Former Knox County Sheriff Tim Hutchison says there’s an easy explanation for why he’s running for the state Legislature: his parents and grandparents set a high standard for him to follow.

Tim Hutchison with his grandchildren, all of whom attend school

in the 89th District. From left are Blake, Amherst Elementary;

Lexie, Karns Middle School; and Makenna, Karns Elementary.

This is the fi rst in a four-part series profi l-ing the candidates in the newly-created state House 89th District race. Because there is no Democratic candidate, the winner of the Aug.2 Republican primary will represent the district in Nashville. The candidates are Tim Hutchison, Roger Kane, Joey McCulley and William “Bo” Pierce. The district consists of Karns, Hardin Valley, Solway, West Haven and part of Norwood.

Tim Hutchison’s family legacy

“They were always help-ing other people, and that’s what I wanted to do. It’s still what I want to do.”

He says the recent death of his father, Shannon, served as a reminder of that legacy. “Helping other people is what he put fi rst in his life, and I don’t want to forget that.”

During his 33 years in law enforcement, including 17 years as sheriff, Hutchi-son had many opportuni-ties to help others, and not all of them were popular at the time.

One such example oc-curred in the wake of Hurri-cane Katrina, which struck New Orleans with a fury in 2005. Hutchison’s response was to take to the air with three of his offi ce’s Black Hawk helicopters with two pilots in each to allow for maximum time in the air.

“When we got there, there were still people who had been on roofs for three days. It took nine days to get all of them off the roofs. We left when there was finally enough law en-forcement to make sure ev-eryone was safe.”

Hutchison says that de-spite some early criticism

at home, “it was definitely the highlight of my career, being able to help people like that.”

In gratitude for the emer-gency aid, Sheriff Harry Lee of Jefferson Parish (La.) wrote, “On behalf of all the people in Louisiana, Missis-sippi and Alabama who were affected by Hurricane Ka-trina, I express our heartfelt thanks. I was credited with saving hundreds of lives be-cause I provided helicopter support to the New Orleans Police Department. In fact, the helicopters were actual-ly helicopters from the Knox County Sheriff’s Offi ce in Tennessee. The helicopters did much to save hundreds of lives in New Orleans.”

Hutchison says he and Lee had met while serving on the same committees at the National Sheriff’s Asso-ciation, “and when he called and asked for help, I was glad we could provide it.”

Hutchison says he wants to continue that kind of ser-vice to others in the Legis-lature. He is especially in-terested in fi nding ways to help small businesses and seniors.

He looks back with par-ticular pride at one of the programs for seniors he established as sheriff: Proj-ect SCAN – Senior Citizens Awareness Network. “It provides a plan for seniors to check on their neighbors on a regular basis, particu-larly those who live alone. It has meant a lot to people.”

Hutchison says he has always enjoyed interacting with the public, and especial-ly so during this campaign.

“I am really enjoying go-ing door-to-door to hear people’s concerns. One of

the things they’re telling me is that they want govern-ment out of their lives – all levels of government. It has become far too intrusive.

“They know that busi-nesses won’t be attracted to Tennessee if we pass a state income tax. They don’t want a state income tax and I don’t want a state income tax.

“They also know we need to get government out of the way of businesses as much as we can so that businesses can grow.

“And they know we don’t need the Legislature to keep passing unfunded mandates. They pass some-thing over there and then all of a sudden local govern-ment has to run around and fi nd the money to pay for it. The attitude in Nashville seems to be ‘just pass it and

everybody will learn to live with it.’ That’s not right.

“All levels of government seem to take the attitude that they’re just one reso-lution away from a perfect society, and that’s not the truth.” He adds with a laugh: “I’d like to have a res-olution that says for every new law you pass, you have to take two off the books.

“What I want is a small-er, smarter government. I think that’s what the people of this district want, too.”

Hutchison is a graduate of West High, and his wife, the former Jan Kohl, is a graduate of Farragut. They have made their home in Karns since 1976. They have two daughters and three grandchildren and attend West Park Baptist Church.

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The mulch fire report, released by the city two weeks ago, has been greet-ed by a large yawn.

This fire lasted many days. It caused major inconvenience to nearby businesses. It triggered a significant fish kill in Third Creek.

Clearly, the mulch pile was allowed to expand far beyond its permitted height without anyone halting it. The buildup led to the fire. The absence of a public discussion is somewhat astonishing given the scope of the problem and potential for a repeat.

Will Council follow this issue and make certain the recommendations in the report are implemented? The city Administration would be well advised to report back in a few months on its own compli-ance with its report. Tax-payers deserve more than a one- or two-day report which is soon forgotten or shelved.

Parking: In the past, parking for visitors at the Gloria Ray Visitors Center on Gay Street has been hard to secure, but interim KTSC head Kim Bumpas is working on locating more parking spaces adjacent to the building and expects to have 21 spaces by Au-gust.

This will be a giant step forward for out-of-town visitors who wish to get a better idea of what Knox-ville has to offer. Bumpas plans to submit this to the KTSC board at its July 10 meeting.

Burchett report: The current controversy over the Tim Burchett campaign financial disclo-sure has many aspects to ponder before reaching an opinion.

First, a candidate should never name a rela-tive as treasurer even if legal and it is. It is not a good practice. This is fur-ther complicated with Al-lison Burchett saying she cannot locate the records. Without documents, it will be hard to determine what happened when checks were made out by Allison Burchett to herself.

Second, having known Tim Burchett more than 30 years, it is hard to imagine that he would knowingly violate the law or encourage someone else to do so. His honesty is clear and separate from policy positions he may take which are subject to public debate. He has in-tegrity. He also is frugal with both his own and the public’s money.

The best way forward for him now is to be to-tally candid about what happened, take steps to ensure further donations and expenses are handled by a treasurer who has no ties to him personally, and work hard to find the paperwork on prior checks which seems to be miss-ing.

This could be a story which ultimately leads nowhere but is good for weeks of articles. A cloud is created which will not go away. The request for New Sentinel records by Mayor Burchett will only intensify the media scru-tiny of the whole matter regardless of the outcome.

Kudos: The Rogero Administration deserves compliments for the re-cent installation of the handsome new iron fence around Blount Mansion east of the City County Building.

It really dresses up the area and replaces an ugly chain link fence which cre-ated the wrong image for Gov. Blount’s home. This started with the backing of former Deputy Mayor Larry Martin under Mayor Daniel Brown and was im-plemented by Knoxville’s energetic young public service director David Brace.

This is an excellent ex-ample of what the city can do to assist a nonprofit which means so much to the history of the total community.

Betty Bean has a truly weird story about a Knox-ville native who, at age 70, sits in a Mississippi jail without bond on a charge of murder for hire. And what makes the story even stranger is the alleged hit man ended up dead while the alleged victim was unharmed. Bean’s story is inside. Don’t miss it.

Meanwhile, Mayor Tim Burchett has subpoe-naed the News Sentinel records including video tape of various comings and goings from May 15 to June 24. We know he’s looking for wife Allison’s visit to the newsroom ... but what else might he fi nd?

A. Jimmy Hoffa living in the break room.B. Harry Moskos and a ghost train haunting the lobby

at night.C. Stephen Hawking with the “God particle.”D. Michael Strickland and Mike Edwards of the Knox-

ville Chamber escorting Allison into the building.

Tim Burchett says he can give county employees an extra week off work and it won’t cost anything. Do we have:

A. A surplus of county employees?B. Jobs that can wait?C. A leprechaun with a pot of gold at the end of the rain-

bow?D. A mayor who is math impaired?

The Supreme Court upheld the law that requires every citizen to have health insurance. What’s next?

A. Every citizen must have a fi shing license.B. Every resident must be a citizen.

Governor Bill Haslam has appointed Knoxville resident Bob Lloyd to the Commission for Uni-form Legislation.

True or false: Do we really need a commission to legis-late uniforms?

Ted Hatfi eld is proud of his heritage because:A. Arkansas Razorbacks usually win, even if they have

trouble keeping a football coach.B. Hatfi elds are always mentioned fi rst, ahead of Mc-

Coys.C. The airport in Little Rock was named for Bill and

Hillary Clinton, but natives just abbreviate it to Hill-Billy.

D. Nobody in his family has killed someone over a pig, at least for 30 or 40 years.

Upcoming Board of Education meetingsThe Knox County Board of Education will conduct a

work session at 5 p.m. Monday, July 9, in preparation for the monthly meeting. The work session will be in the Boardroom on the fi rst fl oor of the Andrew Johnson Build-ing at 912 S. Gay Street.

The monthly meeting will be 5 p.m. Wednesday, July 11, in the main assembly room of the City County Building, 400 W. Main Street.

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(and Rheta did too)Let me get this out of the way

right out of the gate: this column is biased.

Rheta Grimsley Johnson has been sweetening my Sunday morn-ing coffee for a coon’s age. (Or, at least since the Sentinel switched her column from Wednesdays to the fi rst of the week.)

Next to Marvin West, Rheta is the best, a super scribe, a forever fa-vorite, J.D. Salinger to my Ray Kin-sella. (See the novel “Shoeless Joe.”) She has made me glad and she has made me mad and she has made me fall in love with an unforgettable cast of characters, most of whom I never would have met otherwise.

Most of all, she marvels at mu-sic, music that grabs you, stabs you, soars you into the strato-sphere and drags you into de-

spair. In other words, she’s got terrifi c taste in tunes.

Which is one of a million reasons why her latest book, “Hank Hung the Moon (and Warmed our Cold, Cold Hearts)” is such a delight.

It is not a biography of Hiram King Williams. That’s been done before, good ones, bad ones, those in between.

No, this is a musical memoir, musings on moments when the song remembered when, centered on country music’s king. Rheta’s late husband, Don Grierson, called what Hank did “industrial-strength country,” and that’s as spot-on as a big red bull’s-eye. It was honest and it was real and it was cherubic and it was sinful and it was as stark as a life sentence without parole.

She talks about fi rst hearing

Hank because her Daddy loved him. She then moved on to her own “magical mystery tour” when her Boomer generation changed music forever. But, she found her way home in the mid-70s, when she and her fi rst husband, Jimmy Johnson, made up the entire edi-torial staff of a weekly newspaper in Monroeville, Ala., in the coun-ty where Hank had briefl y lived as a boy.

“Often, I’d be rid-ing down the road alone,” she writes, listening to the ra-dio on her way to an assignment, “and Hank’s voice would slice through the static like a meteor through a night sky. For the fi rst time since early child-hood, Hank was riding with me. I liked it.”

She talks about meeting Cathy “Jett” Williams, the lost daughter nobody knew Hank had until Jett landed in the early 1980s. She talks about fi nding a box marked “Hank” in the attic of the Louisiana home she’d owned with Grierson while cleaning it out after his death in

2009. Inside she discovered the work Grierson and his former wife, Pat, had collected for a planned book about Hank, fi rst conceived roughly about the time Jett sur-faced. She talks about having din-ner with Myron Floren, the great accordion player with the ubiqui-tous grin from “The Lawrence Welk Show.” Myron told Rheta he didn’t

mind the accor-dion jokes, “as long as I’m playing 150 concerts a year.”

“Same as My-ron,” she writes, “Hank Williams certainly never worried about whether he was hip or not.”

But my favorite part of the book happens when Rhe-ta writes about how her daddy would

stretch out on a rarely-used couch on Sunday afternoons, weary from his work as a butcher for Winn-Dixie, and listen to music until he drifted off to dream. Her father was 34 then, and had outlived Hank Williams by fi ve long years.

“And some days, when the pay-check wouldn’t stretch quite far

enough, when the babies were bawling and the biscuits got burned ... when he knew Sunday was al-most over and that Monday morn-ing he must get up, button another starched white shirt to his chin and hit the road again, it must have seemed to Daddy that Hank had all the luck.”

(Can she herd words or what?)She talks about Hank’s innate

genius, his ability to sum up a thousand heartaches in three min-utes, the way he knew a midnight sky was purple, not pitch black or dirty blue. Any ol’ idiot can blather on for 800 words. The trick is to get to the heart of the thing and to do it without taking the long way around the barn.

“Hank speaks of ‘old, sad yes-terday,’ and you know he’s suc-cessfully shortened every descrip-tion of despair ever written to just the three perfect words: Old, sad yesterday. Perfect.”

Just like this book. If you like good writing or good

music, the three chords and the truth kind, go get “Hank Hung the Moon.” Savor it. Or, save it. Tuck it away for a literal or fi gurative rainy day, when you just might need it.

Whatever you do, just read it. Visit Jake Mabe online at jakemabe.blogspot.com.

For just $10,790 and change, you and a signifi -cant other can go to Italy in August with the Tennessee basketball team. Mix and mingle. See games and Rome and have your picture taken, holding up or pushing over the Leaning Tower of Pisa.

Additional coins will be needed. The base price does not cover baggage fees, visas, lunches, dinners, souvenirs or refreshing lemonade.

Ten days of on-court prep-aration for the trip fi gure to be very important to the fu-ture of Tennessee basketball. Depending on Cuonzo Mar-tin’s perspective and goals, 10 days in Italy will be an-other building block toward

Going to Italy with basket Vols?

Marvin West

the winter season or a once-in-a-lifetime educational ad-venture for Yemi Makanjuola and other Volunteers.

Most likely it will be a blend, serious business and unforgettable sights. Other coaches who have taken other teams on this outing report multiple benefi ts.

“It was a great trip,” says Rick Byrd, who led Belmont

to Italy last August. “I have shared our experiences with Coach Martin.”

Byrd said some coaches want all basketball, prac-tice, practice, practice, play every day.

“We played three games. We wanted the trip to be meaningful to the players.”

Trent Johnson, then of LSU, took the Tigers to Italy last summer.

“The cultural experience is valuable. Anytime you go out of this country, you know how fortunate and how blessed you are to live here. There are a lot of guys on this team that had never been anywhere.”

Oregon coach Dana Alt-

man figures the Ducks saw things they’ll remember forever.

“I think everybody is go-ing to remember seeing the Colosseum and The Forum. A lot of guys went to the Vat-ican. Lake Como was some-thing they’ll remember and the cathedral in Milan is unbelievable.

“We stopped in Florence and saw the statue of David. I think everybody will have a lot of memories, and the food was pretty good, too.”

Martin has been there. He played professionally in Italy. He sounds fair and balanced.

“For our team, the trip provides a chance to gain valuable time together on and off the court. For our fans, it’s a chance to com-bine a European vacation

with the opportunity to cheer for the Vols while traveling with the team. They’ll feel like they are part of the program – which is how it should be – because they are an im-portant part of everything we do.”

Jerry and Nancy Fortner of Greeneville are going.

“We went with the bas-ketball team to Austria, Slo-vakia and the Czech Repub-lic in 2007,” said Jerry. “We are very excited about this trip. Tennessee has a really good group of players and coaches.”

The Fortners will dust off history and geography les-sons. Ah yes, old Rome.

The Colosseum, an am-phitheater, was built be-tween 70 and 82 AD. It became the “in” place for

gladiatorial and wild ani-mal fi ghts and maybe a few dramas and political rallies.

A short walk around Pal-atine Hill is what remains of Rome’s largest racetrack, the Circus Maximus.

Vatican museums must be the largest such com-plex in the world – 1,400 rooms, the Sistine Chapel, parts of the papal pal-ace, glorious art galleries. Think Michelangelo, Peru-gino and Botticelli.

Saint Peter’s Basilica has many important art works, including Michel-angelo’s Pieta.

The basketball trip will stop at the Republic of San Marino. I really like little San Marino. It is half the size of Liechtenstein and has no national debt.Marvin West invites reader reaction. His

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Arnold Smith was one of the smartest kids in West High School’s Class of 1960. Gangly and tall, he had a goofy grin and peered at the world through black-rimmed Buddy Hollyesque glasses. Kids today would probably classify him as full-on nerd.

West High Photography Club: Arnold Smith is in center wearing glasses. On the back

row, also wearing glasses, is now-Judge Harold Wimberly. Photos from West High annual.

Arnold Smith, West High

School Class of 1960

Knox native faces death penalty in Mississippi murder-for-hire

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He was evidently con-sidered something of a mad scientist – the father of one of his friends used to worry that he’d blow up the neigh-borhood with the experi-ments he conducted in the basement of his Terrace Av-enue home.

So it probably didn’t sur-prise anybody when he went to medical school, became an oncologist and opened his own cancer treatment center.

There was nothing about him in 1960 that would make anybody predict that this high school National Honor Society member would be spending the blaz-ing hot summer of 2012 in a Mississippi jailhouse charged with orchestrating a murder-for-hire scheme to kill his ex-wife’s lawyer.

A smattering of his old friends, neighbors and classmates have been fol-lowing the news from Greenwood, Miss., and al-though hardly any of them will talk about it on the re-cord, it’s probably safe to describe their reactions as stunned bemusement.

Circuit Court Judge Har-old Wimberly grew up with Smith, but has only seen him occasionally over the years.

“He’d call every once in

awhile and came to class re-unions, but that was about it,” Wimberly said.

“Undoubtedly he made more money than any of us, owning that cancer clinic. He was always very smart in things like chemistry and science.”

Wimberly was in New York when the news broke about the shootout in Greenwood lawyer Lee Abraham’s offi ce between government agents and two hapless would-be hit men.

A friend sent him a link to a story about their child-hood friend being charged with two counts of conspir-acy to commit murder and one count of capital murder, which carries a potential death penalty.

“He said ‘Wow! Look at this!’

“It happened the last Sat-urday in April. This goofy hit man Arnold allegedly hired called the intended victim and said ‘We need to get together,’ and ended up getting killed in a shootout. …

“Amazing.”

■ Decade of changeKnoxville was on the cusp

of change in 1960, and so was Arnold Smith, who grew up in a leafy enclave of spacious brick homes west of the University of Tennes-see campus. The sprawling industrial complex hous-ing Robertshaw Controls, where his father was an ex-ecutive, lay just beyond the railroad tracks to the west. His mother, Jane, was a teacher.

His old neighborhood has since been gobbled up by the university, but dur-ing the 1950s and ’60s it was home to a number of future Knoxville leaders: two may-ors (Kyle Testerman and Victor Ashe), a prominent

clothier (Matthew McClel-lan) and some high profi le lawyers – Arthur Seymour Jr. and judges Bill Swann and Harold Wimberly Jr., who lived just across Cum-berland Avenue in Ft. Sand-ers.

The Wimberlys and the Smiths attended the same church – Church Street Methodist, which was con-venient to the cafeteria at Sophronia Strong Dormito-ry, whose famous steamboat round of beef was a favorite after-church stop for many families.

John J. Duncan Sr. had been mayor since the year before, when his predeces-sor, Jack Dance, died in of-fi ce.

Dance’s pet project, the

Civic Auditorium and Coli-seum, was under construc-tion and coming up out of the ground on the site of one of the black neighborhoods bulldozed by urban renew-al, an experiment in politi-cal/social engineering that would continue for most of the decade.

Knoxville College stu-dents started picketing seg-regated downtown theaters and lunch counters in Feb-ruary 1960, but the schools Arnold attended – Van Guil-der Elementary, Tyson Ju-nior and West High – were close to home and all-white, something that wouldn’t begin to change until 1963, when African-American parents took the Knoxville city schools to court and forced an end to school seg-regation – nine years after the U.S. Supreme Court’s Brown v. Board of Educa-tion ruling.

While Arnold was ac-cepted into UT as a matter of routine, another member of the Class of ’60, Theotis Robinson of Austin High School, had an uphill climb.

It took a personal meet-ing with UT president Andy Holt and a vote of the board of trustees to get him in the door, and that didn’t happen until January 1961 (UT was on the quarterly system in those days).

■ Music was goodSegregation wasn’t much

of an issue when it came to music. “Tonight’s the Night” by the Shirelles was the No. 1 song on the radio that year, followed by Ray Charles’ “Georgia.”

“Cathy’s Clown,” by a couple of longhaired West High alums who’d been kicked off Cas Walker’s show, the Everly Brothers, charted in at No. 10 that year. Chubby Checker just barely missed the top 100 with his new dance sensa-tion “The Twist.”

Downtown Knoxville was entering the long, slow decades of decay that would follow. Bus ridership was declining and businesses started relocating to the suburbs. The old market house burned down in De-cember 1959. Hardly any-

body suggested it be rebuilt.

Arnold Smith, who claimed to be something of a his-toric preservationist in his later years, was insulated in his cozy home/school/church cocoon and likely didn’t pay much attention to the chang-es in his town.

He was busy fi nishing un-dergraduate school in three years – magna cum laude – where there’s a decent chance that he would have run into a dashiki-wearing teaching as-sistant in organic chemistry named Marion Barry, who was working on his doctorate and polishing his rhetoric for his meteoric rise and fall as the scandal-plagued mayor of Washington, D.C.

■ Off to MemphisSmith left Knoxville in

August 1963, when he en-rolled in UT’s Medical Units in Memphis. While there, he was inducted into the AOA-Medical Honorary Society and got his MD in January 1967.

He did a yearlong surgery internship there and then did a residency in neurosur-gery, special diagnostics, ra-diation therapy and nuclear medicine at the Mayo Clinic.

He did other residencies at the University of Ken-tucky and the University of Mississippi and moved to Jackson, Miss., in 1974 to become the director of the Department of Radiation Oncology, Mississippi Bap-tist Medical Center.

Two years later, he be-came medical director and radiation oncologist at North Central Mississippi Regional Cancer Center in Greenwood.

His website says he was Mississippi’s fi rst full-time board certifi ed radiation on-cologist in private practice.

In December 1997, he added membership in the American Board of Anti-Aging Medicine to his long string of credentials.

His clinic thrived, and so did Smith, who became a collector of antiques and historic artifacts.

As his professional suc-cesses mounted, Smith’s personal life was crumbling. He was married and di-vorced twice, and fathered nine children, whose ages range from 42 to 17, the el-dest of whom is an oncolo-gist practicing in Arkansas.

■ First, kill the lawyersThe biggest part of his

troubles seems to date back to 1994, when his second wife, Sara McAdory Smith, fi led for divorce, triggering a nasty four-year fi ght over money and possessions.

In a bizarre 1999 deposi-tion connected to an insur-ance claim over property he claimed had been stolen

from his home, Smith did not attempt to implicate his ex-wife but complained that she pestered him continually for additional money, even after the decree became fi nal.

The word bizarre comes up a lot in documents and news reports from this pe-riod, as demonstrated by his rant, under oath, about mul-tiple elaborate conspiracies to deprive him of his liveli-hood and material goods.

He claims, among other tribulations, that a family with a housecleaning busi-ness systematically stole antiques, rugs, artwork, ap-pliances, clothes, food, car keys, dry goods, fl yswatters and the rubber “fl ippers” from one of his vintage toi-let tanks, leaving inferior look-alike replicas in their place.

Smith had developed an obsessive hatred of his wife’s lawyer, Lee Abraham, a member of a wealthy, po-litically connected family.

In April of this year, Smith told a newspaper that he’d been lured into the country and stabbed by someone who’d promised to deliver compromising photos of Abraham, whom Smith labels as a “Muslim” bent on doing him in.

What he didn’t know was that state authorities were already investigating a re-ported plot against Abra-ham’s life, so when the attor-ney contacted the Mississip-pi attorney general to report that someone had offered to sell him a gun that would implicate Arnold Smith in a plot to have Abraham killed, he was instructed to tell the informant to come to his of-fi ce on a Saturday night.

Three state agents were waiting when 20-something year-old felons Keaira Byrd and Derrick Lacy arrived wearing ski masks and tot-ing assault weapons. A gun-fi ght ensued, and Byrd was killed.

Smith was arrested the next morning, denied bond and remains in the LeFlore County jail, awaiting trial. His prospects look bleak, since a video he took of him-self telling Byrd to put a bul-let between Abraham’s eyes has fallen into the hands of the prosecution.

He hasn’t been idle, though.

His medical license was set to expire on June 30, and the state Board of Med-ical Licensure required the sheriff to haul him to a near-by county to attend a special hearing where his privilege to practice medicine was ex-tended until June 30, 2013.

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WORSHIP NOTES

Community Services

■ Dante Church of God will

distribute “Boxes of Blessings”

(food) 9-11 a.m. Saturday, July

14, or until all the boxes are

gone. Anyone who would like a

box is welcomed to come, but

you must be present to receive

a box and there is a limit of

one box per household. Info:

689-4829.

■ Smithwood Baptist Church

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ner’s class in Microsoft Word

from 10 a.m. to noon July 10,

12, 17 and 19. Cost is $20. Info:

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or email ewwalker@bellsouth.

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Fundraisers and sales

■ Bookwalter UMC, 4218

Central Avenue Pike, will host a

communitywide yard sale 8

a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 1.

To be a vendor, call 773-3380.

Set up is free. A Fall Festival

will be held 8 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Saturday, Oct. 6. Setup fee for

vendors is $40 ($45 inside). To

register: 773-3380.

Homecomings ■ Pleasant Gap Baptist Church,

4311 Pleasant Gap Drive, will

hold homecoming 10:30 a.m.

Sunday, July 15. No Sunday

school or evening service.

Everyone welcome. Pastor is

the Rev. Phillip Hayes.

Music services ■ New Beverly Baptist Church,

3320 New Beverly Church Road,

will host singer/songwriter

Stephen Hill at 6 p.m. Sunday,

July 15. A love off ering will be

taken. Eddie Sawyer is pastor.

Info: www.NewBeverly.org or

546-0001.

Rec programs ■ Beaver Ridge UMC, 7753 Oak

Ridge Highway, holds a be-

ginner yoga class 6-7 p.m. Mon-

days in the family life center.

Cost is $10 per class or $40 for

fi ve classes. Bring a mat, towel

and water. Info: Dena Bower,

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CROSS CURRENTS

I have refrained from commenting on the contro-versy over the building of a mosque in our state. Against all odds, I kept believing (hoping, praying) that those who oppose the construction of a house of worship would wake up and remember that this is America.

I am a Christian. I wor-ship in a church. I also wor-ship on a mountain top, or at the edge of my meadow, or around a campfi re, or when I am driving.

I have been startled by deep moments of awe when I top the ridge on my way to work and see the azure moun-tains against a pink sky. To be honest, I do some of my best praying in the car (eyes open, of course), and not always be-cause of the behavior of other drivers. It is a place I am alone and cannot be interrupted. I have long conversations with the Almighty while on the road, explaining my struggles and confusion, sharing my joys, asking questions, as well as singing His praises.

There are others – who worship the same God I do –

Room for us all The angel of the Lord called to Abraham a second

time from heaven, and said, “By myself I have sworn, says the Lord: Because you have done this, and have not withheld your son, your only son, I will indeed bless you, and I will make your offspring as numer-ous as the stars of heaven and as the sand that is on the seashore … and by your offspring shall all the nations of the earth gain blessing for themselves, be-cause you have obeyed my voice. (Genesis 22: 15-18 NRSV)

who worship in temples and synagogues. They call God Je-hovah, or Yahweh. We Chris-tians share a common heri-tage with them. Jesus, whom we call the Christ, was born and died a faithful, practicing Jew.

And the Muslims, some of whom are seeking to build the mosque, worship that same God, whom they call Allah. “There is but one God and Al-lah is his name.” They, too, are part of the strand of monothe-ism that goes all the way back to Abraham.

All of that is just back-ground.

As I write these words, it is July 3. Tomorrow, we Americans will throw parties and eat ice cream and wave fl ags in honor of our coun-try’s birthday. Will we also

remember why this country came to be?

Because some Puritans left England, fl ed to Holland and ultimately came here, seeking religious freedom. They want-ed the freedom to worship as they pleased. They were Protestants, not Anglicans. They also wanted to sepa-rate religious affi liation from eligibility for public offi ce. (In England at that time, one couldn’t be elected to be the village dogcatcher if he was not a member of the Church of England.)

Some of those same issues came with the immigrants. Even in the New World, some people wanted to make every-one fi t their mold. There were colonies where religious free-dom was nonexistent.

But the framers of the Constitution carefully grant-ed religious freedom to all, which is why we are not forced to belong to the same faith, or the same church. We are not forced to recite the same creed, or sing the same hymns. We are not forced to worship at all.

And it is exactly why the Muslims among us are free to build a mosque so that they may worship as they see fi t. They are American citizens. They have the same freedoms, the same rights. Just as there are American cathedrals and American little churches in the wildwood, there are also American synagogues and American mosques.

It is who we are! It is why we are! And there is room for us all, both in this country, and in God’s heart.

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■ Beaver Ridge UMC, will hold

Open Gym Night each Wednes-

day during summer from 6:30

to 8:30 p.m. Everyone is invited.

Elementary-age children must

have a guardian accompany

them. Info: randycreswell@

yahoo.com or 690-1060.

■ Callahan Road Baptist

Church, 1336 Callahan Road,

will host free Drive-In movies

at dusk every other Friday

through Aug. 17 (weather

permitting). Movies will include

“Cars 2” and “Adventures of

Tintin.” Concessions will be

available for purchase. No

skateboards, scooters or roller

skates. Info: 938-3410.

■ New Covenant Fellowship

Church, 6828 Central Avenue

Pike, will hold Pilates class 5:45

p.m. each Monday for $5. Info:

689-7001.

Revivals ■ Freeway Church of God is

holding a gospel tent meeting

6:30 p.m. Fridays at the Ray

Viles car lot on Highway 61 in

Clinton. Info: 567-9600.

Senior programs ■ Faith UMC, 1120 Dry Gap Pike,

Young at Heart group meets 10

a.m. to noon each fi rst Tuesday.

Everyone is invited. Info: www.

faithseekers.org or 688-1000.

Special services ■ Crossroads Apostolic Church

4010 Fountain Valley Drive,

Suite 2, will host the seminar

“Hope in Crisis” at 6 p.m. Satur-

day, July 14. Anyone who has

suff ered a tragic or unexpected

loss of a loved one or suff ered

any other signifi cant crisis

in their life is encouraged to

attend. The Rev. Steve and Pat

Wilson will lead the seminar.

The Rev. Wilson will also speak

at the 10 a.m. and 6 p.m.

services Sunday, July 15. Info:

925-1414.

■ The Knoxville Fellowship

Luncheon (KFL) will meet at

noon Tuesday, July 10, at Gold-

en Corral on Clinton Highway.

Walter Grubb will speak. Info:

http://kfl -luncheon.com.

Workshops and classes

■ Fairview Baptist Church,

7424 Fairview Road off East

Emory Road, hosts a Celebrate

Recovery program 7-9 p.m.

Thursdays.

Youth programs ■ First Lutheran Church, 1207

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By Cindy TaylorThis column has never

focused on the ordinary and this article will take it even a step further. Generally we talk to those who have taken an art form to a new level. This week we spent time with someone who has talents that required persis-tence as well as ability.

I’ve been everywhere

Dennis Johnson with just a few of the hundreds of state and county license plates he has ac-

cumulated in his ongoing collection.

Dennis Johnson leans against a tree that came up in his yard after

the log cabin was placed behind it. Johnson has continued the

renovation work begun by his father on the cabin. Photos by C. Taylor

Dennis Johnson has not only collected an expansive knowledge of Union County that he has categorized in the far reaches of his brain, but he has actually set foot in every other county in the 50 United States. That’s right. Every county. All 3,142 of them. Something only 25-30 people have done.

During his county vis-its, which began in 1992, he would often collect things like Civil War artifacts, many of which were found while Johnson was snorkeling. Yeah, he does that too. When asked why he would want to make the trek to every county in the U.S., his response was simple.

“You can’t get there ac-cidentally,” said Johnson. “I did it for the same reason many have climbed Mount Everest. It was there.”

Johnson, an Army veteran and biologist, had a conver-sation years ago with a co-worker about what it would be like to set foot in every county in the U.S. The next thing he knew, they were traveling those roads.

“Obviously, the fi rst coun-ty I visited was Montgomery County, Md., because that is where I was born. The last was Trousdale County, Tenn.,” said Johnson, who also collects license plates. He has one from every state and one for every year from Nebraska and Tennessee be-ginning in 1916.

Johnson also enjoys tak-

ing his metal detector when he travels. That device is what has enabled him to

fi nd most of the Civil War artifacts.

Parents Grader and Jes-

sie Johnson moved to Union County during WWII when Johnson was about 3 years

old. Grader served as the fi rst mayor of Maynardville when the city was incorpo-rated in the late 1950s.

Johnson now lives in his parent’s old homeplace that he and wife Gwen have renovated. He is also in the process of remodeling a log home that dates from the 1800s. The log home was moved to the property by his father when Johnson was in high school and the two worked on it together until Johnson left for college.

Gwen has traveled to

some of the counties withher husband, but sincemuch of his trek was whilehe was on the job, shemissed out on many ofthem. The couple will cel-ebrate their 50th weddinganniversary in Septem-ber. At the young age of73, Johnson just chuckleswhen asked what’s next.

“I do like to bird watch.Or maybe I’ll visit all of thenational parks,” said John-son. “Or maybe the stateparks. We’ll just see whatcomes along.”

REUNIONS ■ Central High School Class of

1948 will hold its 64th reunion

Saturday, July 28, at All Occa-

sion Catering, 922 N. Central

Ave. Fellowship starts at 11 a.m.

with lunch at noon. Info: Mary

Frances Tucker, 539-6242 or

email mfgvt@gmail.com.

■ Central High School Class of

1965 will have a “Picnic in the

Park” reunion 11:30 a.m. to

3:30 p.m. Saturday, July 21, at

Fountain City Park. The cost is

$12. Buddy’s bar-b-q will cater.

The Lions Club building and a

pavilion will be available, but

bring a chair for outside seating.

Remit to Scott Bolton, 1917 Bel-

cardo Drive, Knoxville, TN 37918.

Info: Donna Keeling, 938-6583,

or Herman Fischer, 688-4761.

■ Central High School Class of

1967 will hold its 45th reunion

Friday through Sunday, July 22-

24. Info: Idonna Tillery Bryson,

688-5816, or Ann Paylor Wil-

liams, 687-7759.

■ Fulton High School Class

of 1972 is planning its 40th

reunion celebration 6 p.m. Sat-

urday, July 14, at The Foundry,

747 World’s Fair Park Drive, and

will include a catered dinner

buff et, photos by a profes-

sional photographer that will

be available online, Jake the DJ

from Ogle Entertainment and

more. The cost is $55 until July

13 and $75 at the door. Dress is

business casual. Mail registra-

tion to: FHS Class Reunion, 4224

Williamson Drive, Knoxville,

TN 37938. Info: Debbie Helton

Keebler, 922-0049.

■ Halls High School Class of

1965 will hold a reunion July

28 at Beaver Brook Country

Club. Any class is welcome.

Info/reservations: George

VanDeGriff, 922-8345 or

278-6724.

■ Halls High School Class of

1992 will hold its 20-year

reunion Saturday, Sept. 1, at

Beaver Brook Country Club.

Info: Jennifer Corum, 654-1317

or email jennifercorum@

yahoo.com.

■ Standard Knitting Mills

reunion is 11 a.m. to 2

p.m. Aug. 4 at the John T.

O’Connor Senior Center. Any

employee or relative is wel-

come. Food donations are

accepted; limited to finger

foods. Info: 523-5463.

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Atchley is Summer Star

The Tennessee Bar Asso-ciation has awarded Katrina

Atchley of the Lewis, King, Krieg and Waldrop Law Firm’s Knoxville offi ce the 2012 Sum-mer Star of the Quarter Award.

Atchley received the award for her work as chair of the TBA Children’s Issues Com-mittee and her work produc-ing the coloring book “CASA Speaks for Polly,” which helps explain the juvenile court sys-tem to children.

Atchley has chaired the Children’s Issues Committee since 2009 and is president-elect of the Knoxville Barris-ters. She is also on the board of directors for the East Ten-nessee Kidney Foundation and is a board member-elect of CASA of East Tennessee.

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■ Imaginative Art Workshop – Small Wire Sculptures, 10:30

and 11:30 a.m. Wednesday,

July 11 for ages 3-6 at Smart

Toys and Books, 9700 Kingston

Pike in Franklin Square. Led

by experienced artist and

art teacher Jeanne Hardin.

Reservations and a materials

fee of $8 required in advance.

■ Recycled Monsters, 2 p.m.

Wednesday, July 11, for ages

6 and up at Smart Toys and

Books. Reservations and a

$5 materials fee required in

advance.

■ Children’s Story Time 1 p.m.

Thursday, July 12, at Ijams

Nature Center. Includes story

and craft. Free, but a donation

is appreciated. To register: 577-

4717, ext. 110.

■ Science on a Fossil Dig, 2 p.m.

Friday, July 13, for ages 5 and

up at Smart Toys and Books.

Reservations and a $5 materials

fee required in advance.

■ Kids Craft Camp at the

Appalachian Arts Crafts Center

in Norris with Sheri Burns,

10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Monday

through Friday, July 16-20, for

KIDS NOTESchildren ages 7-12. Held at the

Norris Community Building.

Registration deadline July 13.

Cost: $95 per child (materials

included). Some scholarships

available. Info: 494-9854.

■ Beginning Urban Land Scouts – Drawing and Observation, 9 a.m. Saturday,

July 14, at Ijams Nature Center,

for students going into grades

4-6. Learn to bind small books,

explore the land around us and

draw from life. No materials

necessary, but preregistration

is required. Limit: 12 people.

Cost: $20 per person,

scholarships available. To

register: Katie Ries, 235-1730 or

katie@urbanlandscouts.com.

■ Nature Preschool – Discover the Forest, 10 a.m. Saturday,

July 14, at Ijams Nature Center.

Ages 4-5. $5 for members

and $15 for nonmembers. To

register: 577-4717, ext. 110.

■ Pottery For Kids at the

Appalachian Arts Crafts Center

in Norris with York Haverkamp,

Tuesday, Wednesday and

Thursday, July 24-26, and

Wednesday, Aug. 1, 9 a.m. to

noon for kids 6 to 10; 2-5 p.m.

for kids 11 and up. Registration

deadline July 19. Cost: $85.

Prices include all materials.

Beginning. Info: 494-9854.

■ Summer Acting Camp

for high school students,

presented by Clarence Brown

Theatre Company, will be

9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday

through Friday, July 23 to

Aug. 3, in Clarence Brown

Theatre performance spaces.

Limited to 20 students, the

camp will culminate in a public

performance showcasing the

work of each attendee. Cost is

$525. To register: http://www.

clarencebrowntheatre.com/

actingcamp.shtml or contact

Terry Silver-Alford, tsilvera@

utk.edu.

Bar Association boosts Legal AidLegal Aid of East Tennessee executive director David Yoder receives a check for $3,711 from

Knoxville Bar Association president J. William Coley. The Knoxville Bar Association raised

the funds with the Cheers for Charity wine tasting and silent auction event, sponsored by

CapitalMark Bank & Trust. The event was organized by KBA Functions Committee chair

David Draper of Lewis King. Photo submitted

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■ Monday, July 9: 10

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Hand & Foot, Texas

Hold ‘em Poker; 1 p.m.,

Rook, Mah Jongg; 1

p.m. SAIL exercise.

■ Tuesday, July 10: 10

a.m., Canasta; 11 a.m.,

Exercise; Noon, Potluck

Luncheon; 12:30 p.m.,

Mexican Train Domi-

noes; 1:30 p.m., Phase

10; 2 p.m., Movie Time.

■ Wednesday, July 11:

10 a.m., Bingo; 10 a.m.,

Hand & Foot; 12:30

p.m., Bridge; 1 p.m.,

Rook; 1 p.m. and 2

p.m., SAIL exercise.

■ Thursday, July 12:

10 a.m., Pinochle; 10

a.m. Quilting; 11 a.m.,

Exercise; 11:30 a.m.,

FCE Club; 1 p.m., Silver

Project.

■ Friday, July 13: 9:30

a.m., Pinochle; 10

a.m., Euchre; 11 a.m.,

Geneology; 11:30 a.m.,

SAIL exercise; 12:30

p.m., Mexican Train

Dominoes; 1 p.m., SAIL

Exercise; 1 p.m., West-

ern Movie.

John Minton has been a regular at Beaver Brook Country Club since the late 1960s and the golf course was like a second home.

Good times on the golf courseDavid Minton and his dad, John, chat at Beaver Brook Country Club. Photos by Ruth White

Friends of John Minton gathered at Beaver Brook Country Club to shoot the breeze and see an

old friend during his Second Wind dream, thanks to Rose Davis at Elmcroft Assisted Living. Pic-

tured are Ken Koontz, Noonie Whitaker, Minton, Joseph Summers and Ron Rector.

Thanks to Rose Davis at Elmcroft Assisted Liv-ing, Minton was able to re-

visit the course and see old friends as part of Second Wind Dream. The program allows residents at Elm-croft to revisit and relive a time from their past, see friends and remember the good times.

One of Minton’s golf buddies, Ron Rector, re-members the days when the gang used to load up Minton’s van and head to Myrtle Beach for a week-end of golf. “He’s been a good friend for many years and it’s good to see him here,” said Rector.

As cake was served, moreformer golfi ng friends gath-ered in the dining area atthe club, including Rector,Ken Koontz, Noonie Whita-ker, Dale Rutherford, TomNoe, Joseph Summers andDr. Don Batts. It was likeold times as the memoriesfl owed and stories of dayson the course were told.

Sharing in the event wasMinton’s son, David, whorecalls not beating his fatherat the game until he was inhis 40s. It was a great timefor Minton as he enjoyed be-ing back on the course.

A few weeks ago, Chance was shot by two 12-year-old members of his family. The bullet bounced off his skull, and the owner waited three days before surrendering the bassett hound to the Jef-ferson County animal shel-ter. He is expected to make a full recovery but he will always have a physical scar from the incident.

Chance is recovering nicely after allegedly being shot by his

previous owner’s 12-year-old twin boys. This is the second time

an animal has been abused by this family. An investigation is

currently underway. Photo by S. Barrett

Fate saves Chance

According to the staff at the Humane Society of the Tennessee Valley, this was the second animal to be mis-treated by this particular family. The looming ques-tion seems to be, “How did these kids get their hands on a loaded gun?”

“We need to raise aware-ness of what can happen when children are left unat-tended,” said Debbie Clark, operations director for HSTV. “(Chance) was lucky not to have lost his eye.”

Or his life. Other members of the

family – including the oth-er children, if any – were also lucky not to have been

the victim.Although the investiga-

tion was still underway at the time this article was printed, other potential victims can be saved by using Chance as an example.

Animals cannot protect themselves from those in-tending to do harm. They cannot “ask for” help. They cannot tell on the offend-er. It is every individual’s responsibility to protect those unable to protect themselves.

Research has also shown a link between those who abuse animals and those who eventually commit crimes against humans.

If you suspect an animal is being mistreated, in any way, contact animal control immediately. Never assume someone else will.

HSTV has set up a fund to help cover the medical expenses of animals like Chance. If you would like to make a donation, visit www.humanesocietytennessee.com. Another dog is cur-rently being treated after get-ting caught in an animal trap and not receiving immediate medical attention.

Chance will be put up for adoption after he fi nishes his antibiotics. If you believe everything happens for a rea-son, then you may agree that this may have happened so he would fi nd his intended family.

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