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Marcia Hanks of Paducah hugs a large Hello Kitty dur-ing the autograph party for the 57th annual Lions Club-WPSD Telethon of Stars on Saturday at Walker Hall. The event also included meet-and-greets with the telethon’s headlining stars, clowns, food and drinks.

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Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif gestures to Cathe-rine Ashton, the European Union’s foreign policy chief, as they arrive at a news conference at the end of the Iranian nuclear talks Sunday in Geneva. The European Union’s top diplomat and Iran’s foreign minister said nuclear talks between six world powers and Tehran did not seal a deal.

GENEVA — Talks on curbing Iran’s nuclear program ended with no deal early Sunday after France objected that proposed measures didn’t go far enough, but U.S. Sec-retary of State John Kerry said “sig-nifi cant progress” had been made on the differences that remain.

Six world powers and Iran agreed to resume talks Nov. 20.

Both sides badly wanted agree-ment. The U.S. and its fi ve part-

ners were looking for initial caps on Iran’s ability to make an atom-ic bomb, while Tehran sought some easing of sanctions stifl ing its economy.

But France would not soften its concerns over Iran’s polonium project and the level of its ura-nium enrichment program.

Kerry, speaking to reporters after the talks broke up, acknowl-edged there were “certain issues that we needed to work through.”

“We’re grateful to the French for the work we did together,”

Kerry said.As the talks foundered after

initial signs of progress, Kerry rushed to Geneva on Friday, fol-lowed by counterparts from Rus-sia, China, Britain, France and Germany, for a last-ditch effort to push through an agreement.

That failed, with disputes be-tween the two sides complicated by rare open dissent within the six powers. France rejected a joint list of demands on Iran, say-

“We’re grateful to the French for the work we did together.”

John KerryU.S. Secretary of State

No nuclear deal between 6 world powers, IranBY GEORGE JAHN AND

MATTHEW LEEAssociated Press

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Clowns and celebrities fi led into Walker Hall on Saturday to kick off the two-day Lions Club-WPSD Telethon of Stars.

The 57th telethon be-gan Saturday night, but before the entertainment at the Carson Center, the Zonta Club threw a meet-and-greet autograph party for clients of Easter Seals of Western Kentucky and other care facilities in south-ern Illinois and Tennessee. This year, volunteers from the Girl Scouts and Oscar Cross Boys & Girls Club also helped to serve drinks and organize. The club has been putting on the kick-off event for more than two decades.

“They aren’t watching the stars at this one; they are the stars,” said Lisa Hoppmann, president of

the Zonta Club. “That’s why we try to have some fun

Party kicks off annual telethon

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“The last couple months have been crunch

time, and everything has

fallen into place. A lot of our

members have been doing this

for years, so they know what they’re doing.”

Corey AkerChairman,

Lions Club-WPSD Telethon of StarsFor clarinet and tenor sax player

Bill Ray, Monday’s Veterans Day concert is more than a chance to en-joy playing music with the Paducah Community Band.

Ray, a Paducah resident, said he was born into the Armed Forces. His

father served in the Navy in England during World War II. Ray followed in his footsteps by joining the Navy and serving in Vietnam from 1968 to 1972.

“I’m happy that people honor us for having served, that we’re not for-gotten and put away after we get back from where we’ve been,” Ray said.

Ray, 69, said he began playing clar-

inet as a sixth-grader in Millington, Tenn. After he returned to Paducah from Vietnam, he played a few shows at St. Mary High School. Then he saw an article in the paper about the Paducah Community Band.

“They needed people to play. I

Band to strike a chord with veteransBY LAUREL BLACKlblack@paducahsun.com

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‘Vital’ equipment

ALLIE DOUGLASS | The Sun

Officer Keith Thuline uses his police cruiser radio on Friday afternoon at the Paducah Police Depart-ment. Thuline drives one of the department’s newest vehicles, the Ford Police Pursuit Vehicle, or PPV.

Buying a new car, for anyone, is not an easy task.

There’s a lot to evaluate, from budget to style and ease of use. For police departments, the selection is even harder.

“They need to be durable,” Paducah police Chief Brandon Barnhill said. “And we need to be able to manage fuel costs and pur-

chase price. The inside ergonom-ics matter. Everything needs to be looked at.”

Ford discontinued the traditional police car — the Crown Victoria interceptor — in 2011, and depart-ments across the country have been searching for a replacement ever since. The company replaced the Crown Victoria with new Police Pur-suit Vehicles, or PPVs.

The Dodge Charger and the Chev-

rolet Caprice, among others, have been inspected as replacements, but the ache for the old model has not gone away.

“We obviously were not really happy that they discontinued it,” McCracken County Sheriff Jon Hayden said. “It was a durable ve-hicle, one that was easy to work on and one of the safest vehicles as far

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The Lower Town Arts District wasn’t much to look at when William Renzulli moved there in 2002.

But he said the people made him feel immediately at home, and the neighborhood was just the kind of place he’d been searching for.

“I had been living on a farm and was looking for a more urban environment. I was im-pressed by the energy of the city,” he said.

Renzulli’s upcoming book, “A Paducah Portfolio,” pays trib-ute to the place the artist has come to call home.

A retired doctor of internal medicine, Renzulli is perhaps best known for his oil paintings of rural landscapes.

But the artist has dedicated the past year to drawing the buildings of Paducah, from the elegant to the mundane. Landmarks such as the former Coca-Cola bottling plant and the Columbia Theater are pre-sented side by side with draw-ings of the dumpsters that line the backs of buildings.

This isn’t the fi rst time Ren-

zulli has taken on such a project.“In some ways, this (project)

was full circle back to where I started,” Renzulli said in his studio on Wednesday.

When Renzulli fi rst began tak-

ing his work as an artist serious-ly, he started with pen and ink drawings of buildings in Wilm-ington, Del. These drawings were compiled into a book in 1985.

Renzulli’s work is slightly dif-

ferent this time around, as the artist makes use of watercolor, pen and ink, marker and pastel to portray the architecture of

Man to publish book of Paducah artBY LAUREL BLACKlblack@paducahsun.com

Photo contributed by William Renzulli

The Whitehaven rest stop will appear side by side with more than 100 of artist William Renzulli’s drawings of Paducah architecture. The drawings included in “A Paducah Portfolio” range from landmarks, such as Whitehaven and the Columbia Theater, to the backs of downtown buildings.

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his adopted home.“The creative process in

something like this starts with the concept. It’s look-ing and deciding, ‘This is the way I want to present it.’ Once I do that, the rest is pretty technical,” Ren-

zulli said.He hopes the self-pub-

lished book of drawings will hold nostalgic appeal for other Paducahans. Al-though it contains a few written quips, “A Paducah Portfolio” is mostly in-tended for viewing.

“For me, it’s a book to

look at, not to read,” he said.Renzulli designed the

book, which should be available within the next two weeks, with the help of Paducah Printing. The hardback book features more than 100 full-color drawings of Paducah’s buildings, and will be

available for $35 at the Yeiser Art Center gift shop and at Gallery 5, 803 Madison St.

Contact Laurel Black, a Paducah Sun staff writer, at 270-575-8641, or fol-low @LaurelFBlack on Twitter.

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Lone Oak First Baptist Church will host the an-nual Kentucky Baptist Con-vention starting Tuesday. The meeting begins at 8:15 a.m. at the church, 3601 Lone Oak Drive.

Messengers from among the approximately 2,400 churches affiliated with the KBC will elect a new president and vice presi-dents. Chip Hutcheson, a Baptist layman and newspaper publisher from Princeton, is the only an-nounced candidate for president.

Tim Burdon, pastor of Mexico Baptist Church in Marion, will accept the distinguished leadership award for his commitment to Southern Baptists’ uni-fied giving plan, the Coop-erative Program.

There also will be reports from a 10-day evangelistic push in the Paducah area under-taken prior to the annual meeting. Activities have included the traditional, such as revivals and door-to-door surveys, and the unique such as a “girls’ night out” for middle- and high schoolers, a basket-ball camp and wild game dinners.

A combined choir from three Paducah-area con-gregations will share in song.

The annual pastors’ conference begins at 1:45 p.m. Monday at Lone Oak First Baptist Church.

— Staff report

Volunteers needed to prep for Empty Bowls

The public is invited to a Throw-a-Thon event for the Empty Bowls Project of Paducah.

It will be held from 4 to 7 p.m. Monday, Nov. 18, at Madison Hall, 919 Madison St. Attendees can sculpt bowls by hand or use a pottery wheel. Those who do not wish to make a bowl can par-ticipate in other volunteer activities.

“We need people to bring clay to the people that are throwing bowls. We need people to stack the finished bowls on the drying racks. We need people telling jokes and smiling,” Empty Bowls Proj-ect coordinator Michael Terra said.

He added that cookies will be available to volun-teers.

Terra said he hopes to produce 1,700 bowls to be used for the 2014 Empty Bowls Project’s commu-nity meal, scheduled for Feb. 16. All proceeds from the meal will benefit the Community Kitchen of Paducah.

— Staff report

Overturned semi blocks I-24 ramp

No one was apparently injured when a semi over-turned Saturday afternoon, closing a portion of Inter-state 24.

The wreck in Marshall County happened around 4:15 p.m., the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet reported Saturday night. I-24’s westbound ramp to the Purchase Parkway was closed for several hours while a hazardous material crew came out to the wreck site to clean up spilled diesel fuel.

The site was cleared about 7:55 p.m., the state cabinet reported. No other information was available at press time.

— Staff report

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State awards grants for wildlife projects

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — Il-linois officials are award-ing $100,000 in grants from donated funds to wildlife preservation proj-ects.

The Wildlife Preserva-tion Fund is a voluntary contribution check-off op-tion on the Illinois income tax form.

Department of Natural Resources officials say the advisory committee overseeing the money has awarded grants to 26 projects, with the top seven ranging from about $5,000 to $16,000. The recipients include the Chicago Botanic Garden; three different projects within the Natural Re-sources Department; the Illinois Audubon Society and two projects at the University of Illinois.

Nineteen grants of $2,000 or less were awarded to such orga-nizations as the Bird Conservation Network; Campton Township’s Har-ley Woods Restoration; the Kane County Deer Run East Property Own-ers; the Douglas-Hart Na-

ture Center; and various Illinois Raptor Centers.

— Associated Press

Quinn OKs money for Lincoln tomb repairs

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — The state of Illinois is spending more than $600,000 to get the Lincoln Tomb State His-toric Site in shape for the 150th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln’s death in 2015.

Gov. Pat Quinn said Wednesday he approved the spending for the work. The repair work means the tomb in Springfield’s Oak Ridge Cemetery will be closed from Dec. 1 until early March. Quinn says its “vital” that the tomb is kept in top condition to accommodate the thou-sands of visitors who vis-it every year. The exterior of the tomb will be open to tourists.

The money will pay to fix deteriorated and damaged finishes and re-place interior lighting.

The 117-foot-tall tomb was dedicated in 1874. Lincoln, his wife Mary and three of their four

sons are buried there.— Associated Press

OIG investigating foster parents abuse

LEXINGTON — The Of-fice of Inspector General is investigating after two Lexington foster parents were charged with abus-ing the children they were supposed to be caring for.

Jamie Stamper is ac-cused of striking two young foster children with a belt in the presence of a second foster parent, Rachael Abner.

The two women had been designated as ther-apeutic foster parents for children with serious emotional problems.

The home was licensed by a private child place-ment agency. It was mon-itored by the Cabinet for Health and Family Ser-vices’ Office of Inspector General.

Cabinet spokeswoman Anya Weber said the OIG is investigating.

Abner and Stamper have pleaded not guilty to charges of criminal abuse. Their preliminary hearings are scheduled for Nov. 20 in Fayette

District Court.— Associated Press

Men charged with double-billing

JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. — A father and son are accused of double-billing for work supervising jail inmates.

Samuel Garland is the town’s former jail super-intendent. He is charged with stealing more than $60,000 from the John-son City-Washington County Boys and Girls Club by billing for inmate supervision he performed as a paid city employee.

His son, David Garland, is charged with stealing more than $10,000 when he supervised inmates as part of his job with the Johnson City Parks and Recreation Department. He also was employed at East Tennessee State Uni-versity. A review of his time records revealed he was being paid for working the same hours at both jobs.

He also is accused of allowing the inmates to smoke and drink.

Both men are free on bond.

— Associated Press

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Federal employees are offered flexible comp time, allowing them to take time off work instead of receiving overtime pay. Private sector workers could enjoy the same benefit under a bill co-sponsored by Sen. Mitch McConnell and Sen. Kelly Ayotte, R-N.H.

The Family Friendly and Workplace Flexibility Act would amend the Fair Labor Standards Act to provide workers more flexibility — without taking away overtime pay for those who want to keep it. The bill would make flexible comp time an option, not a requirement.

Ayotte said, “Comp time/flex time would enable employees and employers to choose to enter into a voluntary agreement that would allow greater flexibility for workers who are looking to better balance work-life demands.”

The bill would allow true time-and-a-half compensation, as opposed to the current FLSA overtime requirement, which would be more accurately called “pay-and-a-half.” The bill would allow employees in the private sector to choose comp time at the rate of one and a half hours off for every hour of overtime worked.

Unions oppose flexible comp time, saying it is just a way for companies

to avoid paying overtime. But the bill would not do away with overtime, just give employees the option of extra time off instead. The bill’s impetus is from workers, not companies. Many workers don’t mind working extra hours when necessary, but if they have to

give up time with family or personal business during a pay period, they want extra days off later to compensate.

In businesses where workloads vary greatly from month to month and season to season, the legislation would give workers the opportunity to offset the longer workdays of one period with more days off in another.

The bill would also benefit employers, and that is what some find hard to

swallow. Anything that helps business is anathema to the hard left, which views corporate America as an evil to oppose at all costs, even if it hurts workers in the process.

The bill also includes a provision to allow employees to enter into an agreement with employers under which they can accrue extra hours off even if they are not scheduled to work overtime.

Companies would not be required to offer the flexible comp time. They could continue to operate under the existing labor laws. And if a company were to offer it, employees would not have to accept it.

The White House Council of Economic Advisers conducted a study of work flexibility programs and found they “reduce turnover and improve recruitment, (increase) the productivity of an employer’s workforce, and are associated with improved employee health and decreased absenteeism.” In other words, it makes both employers and employees happier.

There are no losers with flexible comp time.

WASHINGTON — She who is about to become the most consequential woman in the history of American govern-ment will fi nd it easier to be confi rmed than it was to be nominated as the next chair of the Federal Reserve Board. Janet Yellen probably was the president’s second choice, but Senate Democrats demon-strated their intention and ability to reject Larry Sum-mers.

Yellen, whose confi rmation hearings are expected to begin Thursday, is suited to be the most important nomination of Barack Obama’s second term (unless there is another Supreme Court vacancy). She is experienced and accom-plished, and she represents a broad swath of academic thinking about the power of monetary policy and the Fed’s proper role in wielding that power.

Yellen’s confi rmation will warm the chilly heart of Wall Street, which fears “tapering” — slowing the $85 billion per month pace of buying bonds, aka printing money — even more than it seemed to fear the possibility of a default. She probably will continue, perhaps even longer than the departing Ben Bernanke would, the “quantitative easing” that is “trickle-down economics” as practiced by progressives:

Very low interest rates drive investors into equities in search of higher yields. This supposedly produces a “wealth effect” whereby the 10 percent of Americans who own about 80 percent of stocks will feel fl ush enough to spend and invest, causing prosperity to trickle down to the other 90 percent. The fact that the recovery, now in its fi fth year, is still limping in spite of quantitative easing is, of course, considered proof of the need for more such medicine.

Easing serves two Obama goals. It enables the growth of

government by deferring its costs with cheap borrowing. And it redistributes wealth: By punishing savers, it ef-fectively transfers wealth from them to borrowers.

Although Yellen’s convic-tions are honestly convenient for the current administra-tion, members of the Senate Banking Committee should question her about what she considers appropriate — and inappropriate — relations be-tween a Fed chair and govern-ment’s political offi cers. The senators should read “Inside the Nixon Administration: The Secret Diary of Arthur Burns, 1969-1974,” and “How Richard Nixon Pressured Arthur Burns: Evidence from the Nixon Tapes,” by Burton A. Abrams in the Journal of Economic Perspectives (Fall 2006).

Various of Burns’ diary entries begin “President called and asked me to come over,” “The meeting at Camp David,” “President telephoned.” Al-though Burns insisted “there was never the slightest con-fl ict between my doing what was right for the economy and my doing what served the political interests of RN,” RN took no chances. His speech-writer William Safi re, in his memoir “Before the Fall,” recounts that Nixon planted negative media stories about Burns — e.g., saying Burns was requesting a large pay increase, whereas he actually suggested a pay cut — and threatened to weaken him by expanding the Fed’s Board of Governors.

In his memoir “Six Crises,” Nixon wrote that in March

1960 Burns, then a campaign adviser, called to warn about an economic slowdown before the November election and to advocate increased defense spending to counter this. Nixon never stopped treat-ing Burns as a political asset. Nixon aide John Ehrlichman, in his memoir “Witness to Power,” described an Oct. 23, 1969, meeting between Nixon and Burns shortly after Burns’ nomination as Fed chairman. Nixon said:

“‘Arthur, I want you to come over and see me private-ly anytime. ... I know there’s the myth of the autonomous Fed ...’ Nixon barked a quick laugh. ‘... and when you go up for confi rmation some sena-tor may ask you about your friendship with the president. Appearances are going to be important, so you can call Ehrlichman to get messages to me, and he’ll call you.’”

According to Abrams, a University of Delaware eco-nomics professor, Oval Offi ce tapes and monetary data sug-gest that Nixon “demanded and Arthur Burns supplied an expansionary monetary policy and a growing economy in the run-up to the 1972 election.” Nixon carried 49 states.

There is no reason to doubt Yellen’s intellectual integrity; there is reason to wonder where she thinks the au-tonomous Fed now fi ts in the government. The Fed seems to be evolving into a central economic planner with a rov-ing commission to right social wrongs such as unemploy-ment. About this Yellen talks with a humane passion that speaks well of her but is more suited to a political offi cial.

There is considerable con-gruence between Yellen’s eco-nomic theories and the policy preferences of the Democratic liberals who secured her nom-ination. They probably favor quantitative easing forever, and consider themselves her constituents. Is she prepared to disappoint them?

EDITOR:November is Pancreatic Cancer Awareness

Month and I am proud to say that I “Like the Fight” against the fourth-leading cause of can-cer death in the United States. Others in our community are also volunteering to make a difference in the outcome for those diagnosed with pancreatic cancer.

We are fi ghting alongside the Pancreatic Cancer Action Network whose mission is to advance research, support patients and create hope for all those affected by this devastating disease.

In 2010 I lost my father eight weeks after his diagnosis. I have been a volunteer with the organization since his death, helping to raise much-needed awareness.

On Nov. 22 I will join thousands across the country for Purple With a Purpose, where I will wear purple in honor of those who have been touched by this disease and for Pancre-atic Cancer Awareness Month. Join me, and “Like the Fight.” Please visit www.pancan.org/fi ght to take action today. Together we can make a difference.

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OPTIONSComp time legislation

off ers workers fl exibility

The bill would allow employees in the private sector to

choose comp time at the rate of one and a half hours

off for every hour of overtime worked.

November a time to reflect, join fight against pancreatic cancer

Hospice volunteers’ efforts enrichfinal days for patients, families

EDITOR:In honor of National Hospice Month in

November, we would like to publicly thank the almost 50 volunteers whose steadfast dedica-tion and commitment has enabled Hospice to fulfi ll and enrich the quality of life for patients and their families.

Hospice volunteers’ selfl ess acts of kindness and compassion, both large and small, give patients companionship and dignity that make all the difference at a critical turning point in patients’ and families’ lives.

Volunteers provided over 8,000 hours of service last year. At the bedside of a patient in a nursing home, in a family home, at the hos-pital, out in the community or in our Lourdes Hospice offi ce, volunteers are an integral part of our success.

On behalf of the entire Lourdes staff and board of directors, we offer our sincere thanks for all our volunteers do every day for Lourdes Hospice.

SUSAN MASONLourdes Hospice

Volunteer Coordinator

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hadn’t played in a long time, so I volunteered.”

The Community Band began as the Western Kentucky All-Star Band in 1978, according to found-er and former director Doug Van Fleet. The sole requirement to join is the ability to play a band in-strument, which makes for a diverse group of mu-sicians.

“If you can play, you get to come (to rehearsals). There are some middle-school kids, and some 80-year-old kids that play, and they all love it,” he said.

Van Fleet said about 40 members make up the Community Band, which now operates under the di-rection of Kara Boyd. The players also participate in smaller groups, such as the Dixieland Band, the Polka Band, and the Paducah Jazz Ensemble.

Musicians hail from all over the region, Van Fleet said.

Bob Kratz, a former Lyon County High School band director, made the drive from Eddyville for

band rehearsals before he settled in Paducah.

“Any time we play, that’s my favorite time. It’s just fun making music. I’m 70 years old, and it keeps me going,” said Kratz, who plays trum-pet and euphonium, a brass instrument that resembles a small tuba and has a tenor sound.

Kratz spent six years in the Navy Reserve and said he has an apprecia-tion for veterans from all military branches. He’s looking forward to honoring them Monday.

“It’s going to be a really good concert. The music they selected is very patri-otic,” he said.

Monday’s concert will feature songs such as “America the Beautiful,” “Emblem of Unity,” and

a salute to the Armed Forces. The band will play alongside the Lone Oak Middle School band.

“I just love playing for the veterans, because they are so special in our com-munity and our country,” Van Fleet said. “We need to do everything we can do to show honor and respect to our veterans.”

The performance runs from 7 to 8:30 p.m. Mon-day in the Paducah Tilgh-man High School audito-rium. Admission is free.

Contact Laurel Black, a Paducah Sun staff writer, at 270-575-8641, or fol-low @LaurelFBlack on Twitter.

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The trombone section of the Paducah Com-munity Band re-hearses for the annual Veterans Day concert Thursday night at Paducah Middle School. The concert, which features patriotic music, will be held Monday evening in the Paducah Tilghman High School audito-rium.

HODGENVILLE — Offi cials have added fi ve stops along the Lincoln Heritage Trail that winds through a large swath of central Kentucky.

The trail is a driving tour comprised of historical sites related to President Abraham Lincoln, who was born in a log cabin near Hodgenville.

The new additions are:■ The Lincoln Memorial

at Waterfront Park in Lou-isville

■ The Lincoln National Scenic Byway from Hod-genville to Danville

■ The Lincoln Legacy Mu-seum in Springfi eld

■ The Abraham Lincoln Library and Museum on the campus of Lincoln Memori-al University near Middles-boro, just over the Tennes-see border

■ A home in Breckinridge County that belonged to the man who prosecuted the co-conspirators in Lincoln’s assassination

The locations join more than a dozen established sites including the Abraham Lincoln Historical National Park in Hodgenville, the Lin-coln cabin at Freeman Lake Park in Elizabethtown and the Abraham Lincoln Boy-hood Home at Knob Creek.

Kentucky Lincoln Heri-tage Trail Director Warren Greer said this was the fi rst opportunity to add the loca-tions since the trail was re-established in 2008. Greer said many of the locations either didn’t exist or were privately owned before now.

“They are (important) sites that really tell the story of Lin-coln in Kentucky,” he said.

The Lincoln Memorial in Louisville was developed in 2009 and includes a 12-foot-tall statue of Lincoln.

The Lincoln National Sce-nic Byway is a 72-mile stretch of roadway along U.S. 31E and U.S. 150 that meanders through New Haven, Bard-stown and Springfi eld.

The Lincoln Legacy Mu-seum in Springfi eld is a hall-mark to Lincoln’s early life.

The Abraham Lincoln Li-brary and Museum of Lin-coln Memorial University near Middlesboro houses a multitude of Lincoln ar-tifacts including books, photographs, paintings and personal items such as the cane Lincoln carried to Ford’s Theatre.

The fi fth addition is the home of Joseph Holt in Breckinridge County, which is being restored. Holt served as judge advocate general in Lincoln’s cabinet in addition to prosecuting the co-conspirators in Lin-coln’s assassination.

Susan McCrobie, presi-dent of the Hardin County History Museum Board of Directors, said the Joseph Holt Home also has local historical and cultural sig-nifi cance because he was an attorney in Elizabethtown before the Civil War and a fi erce lover of Kentucky — a trait he shared with Lincoln.

“I’m sure that came through during their dis-cussions,” she said.

McCrobie said the addi-tions to the trail help tell the story of Lincoln’s life in Kentucky and how his deci-sions as president impacted the state.

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LAKE CITY, Tenn. — De-spite the famous bluegrass song, Rocky Top, Tenn., has never actually been home sweet home to anyone.

It’s not a town at all, but a rocky outcropping in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, more than 5,400 feet high on the Ap-palachian Trail.

Now, an East Tennes-see county commissioner and a group of silent part-ners want to do something about that. Reasoning that the name Rocky Top has ca-chet, they are promising an impoverished town of 1,700 big things if the residents would be willing to change the town’s name from Lake City to that of the song.

As most college football fans in the Southeast know, “Rocky Top” is the fi ght song of the University of Tennessee Volunteers. The bluegrass standard is one of the state songs of Ten-nessee.

Country composers Boud-leaux and Felice Bryant of Gatlinburg, Tenn., wrote the song in 10 minutes in 1967, inspired by tales about

the spot on Thunderhead Mountain, about 50 miles from Lake City.

The song has since been recorded by dozens of per-formers, including Dolly Parton, Glen Campbell, the Osborne Brothers and Lynn Anderson.

In Lake City, supporters hope a name change would have them tuning in new-found prosperity. Develop-ment plans include a Dis-ney-style interactive, 3-D animated theater; a Bran-son, Mo.-style live music venue; an indoor-outdoor waterpark and a 500-seat paddleboat restaurant on an as yet-to-be-constructed artifi cial lake, according to Anderson County Commis-sioner Tim Isbel.

And that’s just phase one.Other ideas include a

candy corn company — a very loose reference to the moonshine-soaked lyric, “Corn don’t grow at all on Rocky Top, dirt’s too rocky by far. That’s why all the folks on Rocky Top get their corn from a jar.”

And they even have an idea for a mascot: a skating duck named Streudel.

There are also plans

down the road for an amusement park, and Isbel says he is not concerned that the hugely popular Dollywood theme park is only an hour away.

At city hall Thursday night, a standing-room-only crowd broke into loud

applause after the council took the fi rst step toward making the change, voting to ask the state legislature for authorization. State Rep. John Ragan was at the meeting and said he thought it would pass eas-ily in Nashville.

One of those in atten-dance was Gordon Cox, a long-time Lake City resident whose grandfather served several terms as mayor. Cox said the city has lost so many businesses in recent years that it is in danger of becom-ing unincorporated and los-ing its police force.

Down the street, at an athletic fi eld where a giant “Home of the Lakers” sign adorns the bleachers, Ali-sha Owens was watching a kids’ football practice. She also favors a name change, saying she wouldn’t care if they changed the town’s name to “Easter Bunny” as long as it brought in devel-opment and prosperity.

Friend Heather Parks disagreed. She said that even if the tourist develop-ment is successful she is not convinced it will benefi t

most people in town. She’s also worried it will bring higher taxes and more traffi c. And she joked, “I just paid $50 for this darn hoodie that says ‘Lakers.’”

Isbel won’t reveal the names of everyone in-volved in the project, but he said two of his business partners are Knoxville resi-dents Buddy Warren and Brad Coriell.

Isbel credits Warren with the idea for creating a real Rocky Top, Tenn., but Isbel said Warren is currently in the hospital and unable to be interviewed. A review of state records shows Warren has incorporated 18 busi-nesses with the name Rocky Top since April of this year. They include Rocky Top Beer, Rocky Top Cola, Rocky Top Vodka and Rocky Top Orange, Power Drink.

Tennessee town hopes to be real Rocky TopBY TRAVIS LOLLER

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giveaways and dancing and music. It’s a big party.”

“The last couple months have been crunch time, and everything has fallen into place,” telethon chairman Corey Aker said. “A lot of our members have been doing this for years, so they know what they’re doing.”

Hours after the party, the annual telethon kicked off at the Carson Center. The lineup included head-liners like a cappella en-semble Blend; bluegrass group Dailey & Vincent; American singer-songwrit-er Ann Marie Boskovich; country artist Sammy Ar-riaga; “Days of Our Lives” star Melissa Reeves with husband Scott Reeves and daughter Emily Reeves; the Branson-style family show Grand Rivers Variety; saxophonist Reggie Lafaye; Emmy-nominated song-writer Terry Mike Jeffrey; blues group Lew Jetton & 61 South, and gospel singer Eric Horner.

The money raised at the telethon will go to organiza-tions in four states that serve handicapped adults and children. The Easter Seals West Kentucky in Paducah get the lion’s share, but the TLC of Southern Illinois in Carterville, Ill., the Easter Seals Southeast Missouri in Cape Girardeau, Mo., and centers in Tennessee also

get funding.Last year’s telethon col-

lected more than $430,000, and the project has raised more than $23.5 million in its 56 years. It is considered one of the largest and most profi table Lions Club events in the world.

“We are glad for that, but that’s not why we do it necessarily,” Aker said. “It brings our community together in a very unique way, and it’s an extremely local event.”

The Telethon ends at 1 p.m. today. Anyone wish-

ing to tune in can watch live on WPSD Local 6 or on telethonofstars.org. Dona-tions can be made online, as well as calling the tele-thon’s hotline.

Contact Corianne Egan, a Sun staff writer, at 270-575-8652 or follow @CoriEgan on Twitter.

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CORIANNE EGAN | The Sun

WPSD Local 6’s Marissa Hollowed calls out the winners of several door prizes at an autograph party at Walker Hall on Saturday afternoon. The event preceded the Lions Club-WPSD Telethon of Stars, which is in its 57th year. Organizers estimated more than 150 people came to the kickoff party.

Some towns that have changed their names

■ Hot Springs, N.M., changed its name to Truth or Consequences, after the then-popular game show, in 1950. The change came after host Ralph Edwards called on any town in America to rename itself in honor of the show’s tenth anniversary, ac-cording to the town’s website.

■ Berwyn, Okla., changed its name to Gene Autry in 1941 after Autry bought a nearby ranch, accord-ing to news reports.

■ North Tarrytown, N.Y., changed its name to “Sleepy Hollow” in 1996, according to the town’s website. It is the village where Washington Irving set “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.”

■ Mauch Chunk, Penn., merged with East Mauch Chunk in the 1950s and the new town became Jim Thorpe, after the famed Native American athlete. According to news reports, Thorpe’s third wife Patri-cia made a deal with the towns that included a me-morial in his name after the governor of Thorpe’s native Oklahoma balked at the cost of a planned monument there.

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ing they were too generous to result in sanctions relief.

After the talks ended, top EU diplomat Catherine Ashton spoke of “a lot of concrete progress” but also of “some differences.”

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said he hoped those dis-agreements will be resolved at a future meeting.

The two said the talks would resume Nov. 20 with Ashton and Zarif in atten-dance, but the other dele-gations will be led by senior civil servants instead of for-

eign ministers.Prospects for an agree-

ment dimmed after the French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius raised ob-jections to a draft that the French had previously agreed to. Fabius spoke of “several points that ... we’re not satisfi ed with com-pared to the initial text,” telling France-Inter Radio his nation does not want to be part of a “con game.”

He did not elaborate, but it appeared France wanted tougher constraints on a re-actor that will make pluto-nium when completed, and on parts of Iran’s uranium

enrichment program.Although Kerry publicly

played down the differ-ences with Fabius, other diplomats at the talks said the last-minute objections came as a surprise and complicated the chances of agreement.

Iran’s Arak reactor southeast of Tehran could produce enough plutonium for several nuclear weap-ons a year once it goes on-line, which is expected to happen next year.

Fabius said France was seeking a freeze on con-struction during negotia-tions.

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Three of the four surviving mem-bers of the 1942 Tokyo raid led by Lt. Col. Jimmy Doolittle — David Thatcher (left), Edward Saylor, and Richard Cole — pose next to a monument marking the raid Saturday outside the National Museum for the US Air Force in Dayton, Ohio. The fourth surviving member, Robert Hite, was unable to travel to the ceremonies.

DAYTON, Ohio — The surviving Doolittle Raiders, all in their 90s, considered their place in history for their daring World War II attack on Japan amid thou-sands of cheering fans, as they prepared for a fi nal ceremonial toast Saturday to their fallen comrades.

A B-25 bomber fl yover helped cap an afternoon memorial tribute in which a wreath was placed at the Doolittle Raider monument outside the National Mu-seum of the U.S. Air Force near Dayton. Museum offi -cials estimated some 5,000 people turned out for Vet-erans Day weekend events honoring the 1942 mission credited with rallying Amer-

ican morale and throwing the Japanese off balance.

Acting Air Force Secretary Eric Fanning said America was at a low point, after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and other Axis suc-cesses, before “these 80 men who showed the nation that we were nowhere near de-feat.” He noted that all vol-unteered for a mission with high risks throughout, from the launch of B-25 bombers from a carrier at sea, the at-tack on Tokyo, and lack of fuel to reach safe bases.

Only four of the 80 are still alive. The Raiders said, at the time, they didn’t real-ize their mission would be considered an important event in turning the war’s tide. It infl icted little ma-

jor damage physically, but changed Japanese strategy while fi ring up Americans.

“It was what you do ... over time, we’ve been told what effect our raid had on the war and the morale of the people,” Lt. Col. Ed-ward Saylor, 93, said.

The Brusset, Mont. na-tive, who now lives in Puy-allup, Wash., said he was one of the lucky ones.

“There were a whole bunch of guys in World War II; a lot of people didn’t come back,” he said.

Three of the four surviv-ing Raiders were greeted by fl ag-waving well-wishers ranging from small children to fellow war veterans. The fourth couldn’t travel be-cause of health problems.

Last Doolittle Raiders make their final toast

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as absorbing the impact of a crash.”

The Kentucky State Po-lice purchased about 100 Chevrolet Caprices state-wide last year. This year, they purchased about 125 Chargers.

Selection has been te-dious, Trooper Jay Thomas said, but many are happy with the new models.

“Our cars are one of our most vital pieces of equip-ment,” Thomas said. “And they are used way more than an average person uses their car. But most of the people I have known personally say they like the new cars.”

One plus to the new models — from the PPVs to the Chargers, Caprices, the Ford Taurus police vehicles and the Chevy Impalas on the road — is that they all get better gas mileage.

Most departments

haven’t decided on a set model, simply because the availability of any car for the long haul is never a sure thing.

The Paducah Police De-partment, for example, has several Chargers and Impalas, as well as the new PPVs. They are currently bidding for new cars, and open the bids next week. The one they choose will most likely be the direction the department heads for the long haul, Barnhill said.

Barnhill said that the cars usually cost his department anywhere from $25,000 to $26,000. They come bare-boned, and the service de-partment is charged with upfi tting them to specifi ca-tions. That means putting in lighting racks, computer systems, sirens, decals, weapon racks and in-car camera systems. The up-grades cost the department about another $5,100.

“Before, all of the Crown

Victoria accessories matched every car we had, so they were interchange-able,” Barnhill said. “Now, they are not. None of them match the cars we are buy-ing, so we are spending money to outfi t the new models.”

There are other cars available, Barnhill said, but he is concentrating on the safety of his offi cers. This week, Offi cer Austin Guill was T-boned by a fugitive in downtown Paducah. He suffered serious injuries, but his mangled car shows

just how much offi cers need a safe and reliable ve-hicle, Barnhill said.

“I won’t compromise on that,” Barnhill said. “We were told that if it was a much smaller vehicle, Of-fi cer Guill may have been a lot worse off. We need

safe and durable cars, and I have an example of why sitting right back in the ga-rage here.”

Contact Corianne Egan, a Sun staff writer, at 270-575-8652 or follow @CoriEgan on Twitter.

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The inside of a police cruiser loaded with computer equipment, scanners and high tech gadgets is

seen Friday afternoon at the Paducah Police Department. Cars come to the department bare, and departments spend about $5,100 to outfit them with everything from computers to camera systems and weapon racks.

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Missouri: Plenty of sunshine today. Cooler in the east; pleasant in the south. Clear tonight.

Arkansas: Sunny to partly cloudy and pleasant today. Clear to partly cloudy tonight.

Tennessee: Pleasant today; plenty of sunshine, but some clouds in the east. Clear tonight; cold.

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Albuquerque 64 41 s 65 43 sAtlanta 69 45 s 64 46 pcBaltimore 60 36 pc 56 41 sBillings 44 23 pc 34 27 sfBoise 58 38 c 60 42 pcBoston 55 38 pc 53 35 sCharleston, SC 71 49 pc 70 46 sCharleston, WV 54 29 s 59 33 pcChicago 48 34 s 43 26 snCleveland 47 34 pc 49 27 shDenver 66 36 s 58 25 pcDes Moines 51 35 s 36 18 pcDetroit 49 33 pc 43 24 cEl Paso 74 47 s 73 50 pcFairbanks 34 2 sn 19 -6 snHonolulu 81 69 pc 82 66 sHouston 76 54 pc 78 58 pcIndianapolis 51 32 s 52 24 pcJacksonville 75 53 pc 75 57 pc

Las Vegas 74 51 s 76 55 sLos Angeles 76 54 s 80 56 pcMiami 84 74 sh 83 73 pcMilwaukee 46 34 s 39 23 sfMinneapolis 42 23 pc 28 17 cNew Orleans 75 57 pc 74 58 pcNew York City 56 39 pc 54 37 sOklahoma City 68 48 pc 68 35 pcOmaha 55 35 s 38 18 pcOrlando 82 63 pc 82 62 pcPhiladelphia 58 38 pc 54 38 sPhoenix 85 57 pc 85 62 sPittsburgh 48 32 pc 51 30 pcSalt Lake City 66 38 s 65 39 pcSan Diego 69 56 pc 70 58 pcSan Francisco 63 47 pc 65 51 pcSeattle 53 46 r 57 45 cTucson 83 51 pc 84 57 sWashington, DC 60 39 pc 58 41 s

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Belleville, IL 53 35 s 55 27 pcBowling Gn., KY 58 31 s 61 33 pcBristol, TN 58 27 pc 62 36 sC. Girardeau, MO 57 34 s 62 32 pcCarbondale, IL 56 32 s 61 29 pcCharleston, WV 54 29 s 59 33 pcChattanooga, TN 66 37 s 66 42 pcClarksville, TN 59 33 s 63 35 pcColumbia, MO 55 41 s 53 23 pcEvansville, IN 56 34 s 59 32 pcFt. Smith, AR 68 44 s 69 41 pcHopkinsville, KY 59 34 s 61 36 pcIndianapolis, IN 51 32 s 52 24 pcJackson, KY 54 34 s 57 32 pcJackson, TN 63 33 s 64 38 pcJoplin, MO 63 44 s 62 28 pcKansas City, MO 56 43 s 49 21 pcKnoxville, TN 61 35 s 61 40 sLexington, KY 54 34 s 58 30 pcLittle Rock, AR 67 43 s 68 42 pcLondon, KY 57 32 s 60 34 pcLouisville, KY 55 35 s 59 33 pcMemphis, TN 65 42 s 67 41 pcNashville, TN 62 35 s 65 37 pcPeoria, IL 50 35 s 43 21 pcSt. Louis, MO 55 38 s 57 27 pcSpringfi eld, IL 51 32 s 50 21 pcSpringfi eld, MO 60 43 s 60 27 pcTerre Haute, IN 50 31 s 52 25 pc

National Summary: A storm system will bring gusty winds, as well as some rain and snow showers to the Northeast and eastern Great Lakes today. All of the Midwest will turn cooler, while arctic air reaches the far northern Plains and snow accumulates in northern Montana. Northern Washington will be damp as the Desert Southwest ends the weekend on a warm note.

Cairo 40 15.42 -0.53

Paducah 39 15.29 -0.70Owensboro 38 10.80 +0.40Smithland Dam 40 13.05 -0.22

Lake Barkley 359 354.55 +0.15Kentucky Lake 359 354.56 +0.16

Shown are today’s noon positions of weather systems and precipitation. Temperature bands are highs for the day.