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Index Our Hometown . . . . . 2A Business & Farm. . . . 5A Opinion . . . . . . . . . . . 6A Light Side . . . . . . . . . 7A Nation . . . . . . . . . . . . 8A Sports. . . . . . . . . . 1-7B Comics . . . . . . . . . . . 8B Classifieds. . . . . . 9-11B

Weather Today Damp/ Cloudy

High: 75 Low: 56

Wednesday Partly Sunny

High: 78 Low: 62

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Deaths Bullock Gwendolyn B. Winston, 75 Butner Willoughby Hockaday Jr., 81 Clarksville, Va Harold Jack Smith Sr., 84 Creedmoor Van Meta Allen Link, 92 Henderson Willie R. Jones Billy N. Kittrell, 73 Bettie D. Person, 72 Wilmington Fay S. Murray, 70 Wise Walter D. Hawkins, 67

Obituaries, 4A

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State to Vance Schools: Give back $1.1 million by Friday By AL WHELESS Daily Dispatch Writer

By AL WHELESS Daily Dispatch Writer

Contact the writer at awheless@hendersondispatch.com.

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Third murder suspect arrested A third suspect in the June 14 fatal shooting of David Hicks at America’s Best Value Inn was arrested Monday by Henderson Police detectives and U.S. Marshals. Jerrell Wimbush, 19, of McBorn Street was charged with first-degree murder and was placed in the Vance County Jail without bond pending his first court appearance. On Aug. 6, Tevin Lee Daye, 16, of Oakridge Church Road in Kittrell was apprehended at an apartment complex on Calvary Road in Raleigh. He was charged with firstdegree murder. On June 27, Brooks Montel Jones, 19, of South Lynnbank Road in Kittrell was indicted by the grand jury on a first-degree murder charge. Both are being held in the Vance County Jail without bond. Hicks, 22, of Dick Faines Road died later on June 14 at Duke University Hospital in Durham, after being transferred from Maria Parham Medical Center.

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Michell Hicks, principal chief of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians in North Carolina, tees off on the first hole of Sequoyah National Golf Course on Monday in Cherokee. Opening ceremonies for the tribe’s 18-hole golf course, designed by golf architect Robert Trent Jones II, included a round of golf for attendees. Gov. Beverley Perdue was on hand, along with Congressman Heath Shuler and other dignitaries.

Vance County Schools administrators and board members discussed Monday night how to do more with fewer dollars after finding themselves with $4,860,895 less in state allotments than they had in 2008-2009. The amount represents a reduction of 9.6 percent. It includes $1,145,863 in allotment money that has to be returned to the State Department of Public Instruction by this Friday. The $1,921,495 in federal stabilization package money just released to the local school system by Gov. Beverly Perdue drops the lost amount of allotment funds to 4.75 percent or $1,793,537. Vance County Schools were supposed to have received another $2,034,896 in stimulus funds, but that money was held back, according to Finance Officer Steven Graham. Comparing 2008-2009 funding to 2009-2010 funding, about $3 million of the allotment loss came from these categories: • Textbooks — $513,534 to $303,825. • Central Office Administration — $1,010,851 to $943,806. • Non-instructional Support — $2,093,321 to $58,425. • Instructional Sup-

port — $2,413,751 to $2,280,866. • Driver Training — $215,090 to $199,475. • CTE Months/Money — $2,166,052 to $2,124,588. • Program Support — $107,870 to $105,648. • School Technology — $51,796 to $1,965. • Mentor Pay — $117,057 to $77,812. • Teacher Assistants — $2,744,368 to $2,695,007. • Staff Development — $66,691 to $0. • Low Wealth — $3,454,792 to $3,520,424. • Children With Disabilities — $3,663,611 to $3,608,272. • Academically Gifted — $356,083 to $349,600. • Limited English — $361,284 to $354,220. • Transportation — $1,219,541 to $1,188,165. • Classroom Materials — $453,085 to $449,464. • At-Risk Student Services — $1,588,220 to $1,460,831. • Improving Student Accountability — $130,124 to $0. The totals dropped from $24,750,121 in 2008-2009 to $21,745,393 in 2009-2010. Only the state-supplied Leandro funds — extra money for low-wealth school districts — will remain the same for this year according to district documents, at $2,023,000. Please see BUDGET, page 3A

North Carolina the ‘Saudi Arabia of biofuels?’ So suggests G.K. Butterfield, who adds ‘and it can happen within the forseeable future’ By WILLIAM F. WEST Daily Dispatch Writer

OXFORD — U.S. Rep. G.K. Butterfield called for making North Carolina “the Saudi Arabia of biofuels” in efforts to reduce the nation’s dependence on foreign oil. Butterfield made his statement Monday at the Biofuels Center of North Carolina, which introduced the “North Carolina Grows Biofuels” program to civic leaders, officials and residents. State Agriculture Commissioner Steve Troxler and state Rep. Jim Crawford additionally spoke, with Troxler saying, “I would predict that 10 years down the road that we’ll see this day as a red letter day in North Carolina and the day that started a new industry in North Carolina that we in agriculture can grow.” Monday’s gathering took place on the campus of the Biofuels Center, which is located at Oxford Loop and Providence roads southwest of central Oxford and features a 4.5acre plot of energy crops and trees. The Biofuels Center is a non-profit organization created by the General Assembly to provide state-

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Civic leaders, officials and residents got a first-hand look at the Biofuels Center of North Carolina’s plot of energy crops and trees. Here, John King, left, an associate professor of tree physiology at N.C. State University, shows Black Cottonwoods to Oxford City Commissioner Walter Cantley. “This is our future,” Cantley said. wide technical expertise in alternative fuels. The goal of the Biofuels Center is that, by 2017, at least 10 percent of liquid fuels sold in the Tar Heel State will come from North Carolinagrown-and-produced sources. Butterfield, a Democrat, serves on the House Committee on Energy and Commerce. Recalling gasoline prices having soared to as high as $4 a gallon in the summer of 2008, Butterfield said that China and India are not slowing their consumption of petroleum and that abilities to stabilize the oil-producing Middle East have been “dubious at best.”

“We cannot continue to what we call in Washington ‘kick the can down the road’ and hope that on another day and at another time we can solve this problem. We must begin to solve our problem of energy independence now,” Butterfield said. Butterfield said that Congress is committed to creating a healthy environment for the renewable fuels industry and that his committee was instrumental in passing the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007. This specifies increasing the volume of renewable fuels required to be blended into gasoline from 9 billion gallons in 2008 to 36 billion

gallons by 2022. And Butterfield said approximately $800 million in federal stimulus funding has been appropriated to transform renewable biomass resources into cost competitive high performance biofuels, biopower and bioproducts. Butterfield said the nation is not yet ready to mass produce such resources into liquids. Butterfield urged cooperation from businesses, consumers, fellow lawmakers and researchers. And Butterfield noted billionaire T. Boone Pickens is saying the U.S. could be the Saudi Arabia of wind power, a reference to the Middle Eastern

kingdom being the world’s top producer of oil. And Butterfield sought to make Pickens’ comparison better by saying, “We need to make North Carolina the Saudi Arabia of biofuels and it can happen. And it can happen within the foreseeable future.” And Butterfield, who represents the fourth poorest district in the nation, said, “My dream as the representative is to have the biofuels industry to be what the tobacco and textile industries once were: An invitation to financial security for the many struggling families in this region.” Please see BIOFUELS, page 3A

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Mark It Down Today Black Caucus — The Henderson-Vance Black Caucus will hold a called meeting on election planning and action matters at 6 p.m. at the Elks Lodge, 326 W. Rockspring Street. Members are urged to attend. Parenting class — “Parenting Matters,” an eight-week parenting class for parents of any age child, will have its first meeting from 10 a.m. to noon at the Vance County Extension Center, 305 Young St. The teacher will be Anne Williams with Five County Mental Health. There is no charge to attend. For more information, call Williams at 430-3077 or Mary Helen Jones at 438-8188. Nutrition class — “Families Eating Smart and Moving More,” an eight-week series targeting families with children, will meet from noon to 1 p.m. at the Vance County Extension Center, 305 Young St. Extension nutrition assistant Arnetta Wilson will be the instructor. The class focuses on planning healthy meals, shopping carefully, family meal time, and moving for health. There is no charge. The class will also be held tomorrow at the same time and place. Call 438-8188 for more information. Kiwanis Club — The Kiwanis Club of Henderson meets at 6:30 p.m. at the Dabney Drive Restaurant on West Andrews Avenue. Gary Morgan, executive director of Gateway Development Corporation, will speak on the present vision of Henderson and the role Gateway Development Corporation will play in the future of Henderson and Vance County. Interested non-members may call Opie Frazier for reservations or membership information at 430-1111. Painting event — Art du Jour, 209 E. Nash St., Louisburg, will sponsor a “paint in” from 6-9 p.m. All area artists are welcome to join in the fun and camaraderie with fellow artists. Suggested donation fee is $5. For more information, please call Art du Jour at (919) 496-1650.

Wednesday Clean-Up Henderson — The Clean-Up Henderson Committee meets at 8 a.m. at the City Operations Center, 900 S. Beckford Drive. The public is invited to attend. Lake Gaston Association — The monthly meeting of the Lake Gaston Association will be held at 9:30 a.m. at the Lake Gaston Baptist Church on Rte. 903, one mile north of Eaton Ferry Bridge, near Littleton. Rep. Michael Wray will be the guest speaker. The meeting is open to members and nonmembers. For further information, call (252) 586-6577, or toll free 1-888-586-6577. Wednesday Farmer’s market — The Wednesday Farmer’s Market, located near the track behind the Henderson Family YMCA, 380 Ruin Creek Road, is open from 7:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. selling local produce. The market is sponsored by the YMCA, the Vance County Cooperative Extension Service and Maria Parham Medical Center. Venders interested in selling at the market should contact Wayne Rowland at 438-8188. Oxford Farmers’ Market — The Oxford Farmers’ Market, located on the corner of McClanahan and Lanier streets across from the police station in Oxford, is open from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. Redevelopment Commission — The City of Henderson’s Redevelopment Commission will meet at 10 a.m. in the City Council Chambers of City Hall, 134 Rose Ave.

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Warren County Campus dean speaks to Henderson Institute chapter George Henderson, right, dean of the Warren County Campus for Vance-Granville Community College, was the guest speaker at the Henderson Institute’s Triad Chapter’s bi-monthly meeting on Aug. 1. He informed the audience of the importance of continuing to be educated, regardless of age, and the importance of encouraging students to pursue courses in math and science. Courses in math and science are the gateway to becoming employable at any level now and in the future. Henderson recommended that if possible one should strive for an associate degree but a higher degree is always preferable. Horace Bullock, left, president of the chapter, thanked Henderson for his presentation.

Tax-aide volunteers needed at senior center If you are good with numbers and enjoy helping people, your skills are needed during the 2010 tax season to provide free personal income tax assistance to elderly and low-income individuals. The Tax-Aide

Program at the Vance County Senior Center needs local volunteers who will attend daytime training sessions, taught by IRS-trained instructors, and learn how to E-FILE federal and state tax returns.

Tax-Aide volunteers are people who like to help others. They are also motivated to learn the tax system and apply their knowledge and tax skills to assist other people. The program stresses free assistance for all low-to-

‘Twilight on the Veranda’ benefit scheduled for Sept. 22 Maria Parham Healthcare Foundation will hold its third annual “Twilight on the Veranda” on Sept. 22 at 6:30 p.m. at the Henderson Country Club to benefit the Maria Parham Oncology Center. The event will include an evening of food, wine and fellowship and

will feature wines paired with foods selected by the Henderson Country Club’s chef, Jimmy Grey. The cost is $30 per person and the event is open to the public. There will also be a silent auction to end the evening. Items available to bid on include autographed sports

memorabilia pieces from N.C. State, Carolina, Duke and East Carolina. Also offered will be a Carolina Hurricanes’ puck signed by goalie Cam Ward that was used in Game 7 of the 2006 Stanley Cup finals, complete with a certificate of authenticity. Many more

Several Vance-Granville Community College courses scheduled to begin in September at the college’s South Campus, located on N.C. 56 between Creedmoor and Butner, offer area residents the chance to learn new skills for on-the-job or personal use. Starting this evening, Ophelia Staton will teach a course on “Jewelry Charm Making.” The course continues on Tuesday evenings through Oct. 6 from 6 to 9 p.m. The cost of the course is $35. Another course will focus on the popular Microsoft Word and Excel software programs, which were extensively revamped for their 2007 versions. Classes meet on Fridays from 9 a.m. until 1 p.m., Sept. 4 through Oct. 9. Michael Bacon is the instructor for the course, which costs $65.

The Small Business Center will offer training for area residents to become a notary public at South Campus on Sept. 14 and Sept. 15 from 5 until 9 p.m. each day. Charlene Spence is the instructor. The cost is $65 plus the cost of a textbook. Donna Snipes will teach a sign language class for beginners on Monday evenings from 6 until 9 p.m., Sept. 14 through Nov. 30. The cost of the course is $120. Training to become a substitute teacher will be held on Tuesday and Thursday evenings from 6 until 9 p.m., Sept. 15 through Oct. 15. Cheryl Coplin is the instructor for the course, which costs $120. Two courses focus on the Spanish language. First, a Spanish course designed for correctional officers will be

held on Tuesdays from 6 until 9 p.m., Sept. 15 through Nov. 3. The cost of the course is $65. Second, Patricia Neems will teach “Basic Workplace Spanish” on Thursdays, Sept. 17 through Dec. 10, from 6 until 9 p.m. The cost of the course is $120 plus the cost of a textbook. “Administrative Assistant Training” will be offered on Tuesdays from 6 until 9 p.m., Sept. 22 through Dec. 8.

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Crawford, D-Granville and one of the leaders of the state House Appropriations Committee, noted the impact of the decline of the tobacco industry in saying, “They’ve done a good job with plywood because half the businesses are boarded up” in eastern North Carolina. The Biofuels Center is headquartered in what was once the world-class 1970 federal tobacco research building and is on the same grounds as the state’s Oxford Tobacco Research Station. Crawford was quick to

note when tobacco flourished in North Carolina, Oxford was the place farmers turned for knowledge. And Crawford noted a tobacco re-drying plant nearby. Oxford has been all about helping North Carolina’s rural residents make a living and the Biofuels Center has the potential to do the same, Crawford said. “This will be a whole new economy to take the place of some of those tobacco factories, but we hope to keep raising tobacco in North Carolina.

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“Robbing Peter to pay Paul” was the phrase some gathered around the conference room table used to describe the State Board of Education’s method of balancing its new fiscal budget partly with federal stabilization money intended for the local school system. A large part of the financial problem for Vance County Schools lies in the reduction of state non-instructional support funds from $2,093,321 for 2008-2009 to $58,425 for 2009-2010. The category covers clerical employees, custodians and substitute teachers. Of the three, the last represents the most impact on the school system’s classroom operations. Doctor Bill Bowers, an assistant superintendent, said Vance County Schools usually has about $500,000 in state allotments to pay substitute teachers during

a fiscal year. For 2009-2010, the amount only comes to $138,682, Bowers told the group. “We’re $300,000 short,” said Superintendent Norman Shearin. “We’ve got to use substitutes differently.” The teachers and other personnel in the schools have done an excellent job of covering for the lack of substitutes, according to Shearin. “It’s just not the best scenario to do that,” countered Gloria White, the school board’s chairwoman. She said teachers are underpaid and don’t need more work to do. After the meeting, Graham said, “We have to look at local and federal funding due to the shortfall in state allotments for transportation and noninstructional support.” The allotment shortage for transportation comes to $298,602. The state is

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Sometimes we lose sight of that,” Crawford said. Although the federal government in 2004 ended the price support and production control system dating back to the Great Depression, tobacco remains a tremendous industry in the state. “And we hope we keep can ‘em working in tobacco for a while until we can get this biofuels off the ground,” Crawford added. Troxler, a Republican, noted his having farmed tobacco for nearly four decades and cited the Oxford station’s reputation

in helping shape North Carolina’s tobacco producing status worldwide. “But, you know, times have changed. And we need to grow this new industry so that we can keep farmers on farms in North Carolina,” Troxler said. “We’re ready, willing and able in agriculture to do our part to relieve our foreign dependence on fuel supplies and we can do that.”

expected to make a cash infusion of $237,633 in December, according to Graham. He and Bowers explained that no one is losing their job in Vance County Schools, where 21.69 open positions are not being filled. The majority of those are teacher positions. “There’s a lot of recovery

money sitting there that can’t be used for teachers,” Bowers said. Asked when the school system’s 2009-2010 budget will be finished, Graham said his goal is to have it ready for adoption at the school board’s Oct. 12 meeting.

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close of 2010. Perdue and other Democrats hope those taxes won’t be needed then if the economy turns around. But that will be a tall order, as tax analysts project revenues aren’t likely to return to pre-recession levels until 2014. Lawmakers, however, may try to reduce the overall sales tax rate before the sunset. House and Senate Democratic leaders have agreed to talk more this fall about changing the tax structure so that many more services are subject to the sales tax. In exchange, the rate would fall markedly. If a deal is reached, lawmakers could return to the General Assembly by next spring, perhaps before primary elections in early May, to try to pass it.

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of the state chapter of Americans for Prosperity, a conservative-leaning fiscal watchdog group. “I don’t think there’s any doubt that they’re going to notice.” The tax changes taking effect Tuesday alone will raise most of the taxes with $876 million this year, according to the General Assembly’s fiscal research staff. The rest almost all will originate from an income tax surcharge on all profitable corporations and the highest individual wage-earners. But they largely won’t be felt until tax returns are filed early next year. The higher sales and income taxes are considered “temporary. The extra cent charged on every $1 in purchases expires July 1, 2011, while the income tax surcharge expires at the

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and spending cuts. Without additional revenues, spending reductions demanded of state agencies and public schools would be worse, one legislative leader said Monday. “There’s nobody that wants to increase taxes, but concurrently nobody wanted to lay off (more) school teachers or cut health programs or let inmates out of jail any time soon,” said Rep. Pryor Gibson, D-Anson, co-chairman of the House Finance Committee. With the state’s unemployment rate stuck around 11 percent recently, Republicans and anti-tax groups contend voters struggling to scrape by won’t ignore the higher sales and excise taxes. “People are already having to pinch pennies,” said Dallas Woodhouse, director

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Deaths Willoughby A. Hockaday Jr. BUTNER — Willoughby Allen Hockaday Jr., 81, a resident of 610 14th St., died Saturday, Aug. 29, 2009, at his home. A native of Granville County, he was the son of the late Willoughby Allen Hockaday Sr. and Lessie Overton Hockaday. He was a member of Brassfield Baptist Church where he served as a deacon. He retired from Central Prison as a prison guard. Funeral services will be conducted at 11 a.m. today at Brassfield Baptist Church by the Rev. Wesley Garner. Burial will be in the church cemetery. Surviving are a daughter, Shirley Hockaday Lane (Allan) of Butner; two sons, David Allen Hockaday (Susan) of Creedmoor and Richard “Dennis” Hockaday (Donna) of Butner; four sisters, Inez Bowen of Wilmington, Emily Boegli of Georgia, Lessie Noell of Durham, Rosalie Mason of Penn-

sylvania; three brothers, Bruce Hockaday of Oxford and Herbert Hockaday and Reuben Hockaday Sr., both of Creedmoor; eight grandchildren, Jason Hockaday, Jacob Lane, Tracy Aiken, Jeremy Hockaday, Kelly Lane, Teri Brooks, Julie Hockaday and Jamie Hockaday; three great-grandchildren, Trevor and Sydney Hockaday and baby Aiken on the way. His wife of 51 years, Thelma Hedgepeth Hockaday, a son, Robert Lee Hockaday, a sister, Naomi Cash, and a brother, Elvis Hockaday, preceded him in death. Flowers accepted or memorials may be made to Brassfield Baptist Church, 2072 Highway 96, Creedmoor, N.C. 27522. The visitation was from 7 to 8:30 p.m. Monday at the Eakes Funeral Home in Creedmoor and will be held at other times at the home. Online condolences can be made to http:// www.eakesfuneralhome. com. Select Obits. Paid Obituary

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WISE — Walter Davis Hawkins, 67, died Sunday, Aug. 30, 2009, at his residence. He was a Halifax County native born to the late Jim and Carrie Hawkins. He was a meat cutter for Kenneth King for many years. He was a member of Wise Baptist Church where he served as a deacon, Sunday school teacher and was in the adult choir. The Rev. Kenny Davis will conduct graveside services at 11 a.m. Wednesday at Wise Cemetery. He is survived by his wife, Florence King Hawkins; his sons, Walter Gary Hawkins of Boydton, Va., and Michael Dean Hawkins of Viola, Del.; and his two sisters, Alice Thompson of High Point and Bessie Shaw of Roanoke Rapids. The family will receive friends today from 7 to 8:30 p.m. at Blaylock Funeral Home in Warrenton. Flowers are acceptable. Any memorials may be made to the Wise Baptist Church Building Fund, P.O. Box 38, Wise, N.C. 27594. Arrangements are by Blaylock Funeral Home of Warrenton.

HENDERSON — Willie Roy Jones, of 47 LobLolly Lane, died Friday, Aug. 28, 2009, at Duke Medical Center in Durham. Arrangements will be announced later by E.C. Terry’s Funeral and Cremation Services.

Van Meta Allen Link CREEDMOOR — Van Meta Allen Link, 92, a former resident of Durham County, died Saturday, Aug. 29, 2009, at Carver Living Center in Durham. A native of Wake County, she was the daughter of the late Wesley and Maggie Morris. She was a member of Fellowship Baptist Church in Durham and retired from the health care profession. Graveside funeral services will be conducted at 3 p.m. today in Maplewood Cemetery in Durham by the Rev. Jason Holmes. Surviving are two daughters, Jackie Monroe of Cary and Julia-Merita Talton of Goldsboro; two sisters, Minnie Pearce of Oxford and Ruby Allen of Wake Forest; a brother, Hick Allen of Creedmoor; 14 grandchildren; and 14 great-grandchildren. She was preceded in death by a son, Edward Link Sr.

Billy N. Kittrell HENDERSON — Billy Norris Kittrell, age 73, a resident of 165 Southern Ave., died Sunday, Aug. 30, 2009, at his home. Born in Vance County on Jan. 10, 1936, he was the son of the late Willis R. Kittrell and Cornelia Blackwell Kittrell. He was a Veteran of the United States Army, and was a member of Rehoboth United Methodist Church. Mr. Kittrell was a retired salesman with Conwood Corporation. Memorial services will be held at 11 a.m. Wednesday at Rehoboth United Methodist Church by the Rev. Josh Duckworth. He is survived by his wife, Elizabeth Kay Mangum Kittrell of the home; one son, J. Scott Kittrell and wife, Jessica, of Pinehurst; one daughter, Deborah K. Edwards and husband, David, of Henderson; three sisters, Virginia K. Gearheart of The visitation will be from 12:30 to 2 p.m. today prior to the graveside service at the Eakes Funeral Home in Creedmoor. Arrangements are by Eakes Funeral Home of Creedmoor.

Fay S. Murray WILMINGTON — Fay S. Murray, 70, of Wilmington, died Aug. 26, 2009, at NHRMC. She was born in Vance County on April 13, 1939, to the late Benjamin F. and Myrtle McGhee Saunders. She was a member of Scotts Hill Baptist Church and was employed by NHRMC as a nurse’s assistant. She was a seamstress and loved gardening. She was preceded in death by her husband, John W. Murray; a son, Ricky T. Roberts; two brothers Floyd and Frank Saunders; and a sister, Annie Laura Harris. She is survived by daughters Debbie Tuttle and Susan Wright; a son, Kenny Murray; two brothers, Clyde T. Saunders and William A. Saunders; nine grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren. A funeral service was held at 11 a.m. Monday at Andrews Mortuary Market St. Chapel. Phil Ortego and Jim Dunn officiated. The family received visitors one hour prior to the service.

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Burial followed at Coastal State Veterans Cemetery in Jacksonville at 2 p.m. In lieu of flowers, donations in memory of Fay S. Murray may be made to Scotts Hill Baptist Church, 185 Scotts Hill Loop Road, Wilmington, N.C. 28411. Arrangements are by Andrews Mortuary of Wilmington.

Bettie D. Person HENDERSON — Bettie Thomas Davis Person, 72, of 944 Southerland St., died Sunday, Aug. 30, 2009, at Senior Citizen Home. The family will receive friends at the residence. Funeral arrangements will be announced later by Davis-Royster Funeral Service.

Gwendolyn B. Winston BULLOCK — Gwendolyn Blackwell Winston, 75, died Sunday, Aug. 30, 2009. A native of Granville County, she was the daughter of the late Dorsey and Tazzie Frazier Blackwell. Mrs. Winston was owner and chairman of Winston International in Oxford. She was also a member of Grassy Creek Baptist Church and a member of National Business Women of America. Funeral services will be held Wednesday at 11 a.m. from Grassy Creek Baptist Church by the Rev. Johnny Armstrong. Burial will follow in the Grassy Creek Baptist Church Cemetery in Bullock. Surviving are her husband of 56 years, James Pratt Winston; a daughter, Kathryn Winston and husband, John Richardson, of Henderson; three sons, Jim Winston and wife,

Harold J. Smith Sr. CLARKSVILLE, Va/ — Harold Jack Smith Sr., 84, widower of Annis Miller Smith, died Sunday morning in the Veterans Administration Regional Hospital in Durham, N.C. Mr. Smith was a veteran of World War II, having served in the U.S. Army. He was retired from Durham Life Insurance Company and he was a member of Marrows Chapel United Methodist Church. Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. today in the Marrows Chapel United Methodist Church. Officiating will be the Revs. Chad Branch

Anne, and John Lee Winston and wife, Anna, both of Oxford, and Francis Winston and wife, Tammy, of Bullock; a brother, A.D. Blackwell of Oxford; three sisters, Jane Holden of Knightdale, Yvonne Weeks of Oxford and Betty Pegram of Bullock; 12 grandchildren; and five great-grandchildren. She was preceded in death by a sister, Adelle Bentley. The family will receive friends today from 7-8:30 p.m. at Gentry-Newell and Vaughan Funeral Home in Oxford and at other times at the home. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to Grassy Creek New Fellowship Building Fund, c/o Peggy Currin, 8723 Grassy Creek-Virgilina Highway, Bullock, N.C. 27507. Online memorials, www.gnvfh.com; select obituaries. Gentry-Newell and Vaughan Funeral Home is in charge of assisting the Winston family. Paid Obituary

and John Yount. Burial will follow in the church cemetery. Surviving are a daughter, Hilda (Sam) Penwell of Mocksville, N.C.; four sons, Jack (Margaret) Smith Jr. of Hillsborough, N.C., Jim Smith of Clarksville, Va., Jeff (Pat) Smith of Timberlake, N.C., and Bob (Susan) Smith of Clarksville, Va.; 10 grandchildren; eight great-grandchildren. The family received friends at Watkins Cooper Lyon Chapel Monday night from 7-9 p.m. Flowers are acceptable or contributions may be made to Footprints ministry of Marrows Chapel United Methodist Church. Paid Obituary

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RICHMOND, Va. (AP) â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Two of the three largest U.S. tobacco companies filed suit Monday to block marketing restrictions in a law that gives the U.S. Food and Drug Administration authority over tobacco, claiming the provisions violate their right to free speech. R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co., maker of Camel cigarettes, and Lorillard Inc., which sells the Newport menthol brand, filed the federal lawsuit with several other tobacco companies. It is the first major challenge of the legislation passed and enacted in June. The tobacco makers claim provisions of the law â&#x20AC;&#x153;severely restrict the few remaining channels we have to communicate with adult tobacco consumers,â&#x20AC;? Martin L. Holton III, senior vice president and general counsel for Reynolds, said in a statement. The Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act gives the FDA authority

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In this March 21, 2006, file photo, comic book creator Stan Lee stands beside some of his drawings in the Marvel Super Heroes Science Exhibition at the California Science Center in Los Angeles. The Walt Disney Co. Monday said it is buying Marvel Entertainment Inc. for $4 billion in cash and stock, bringing such characters as Iron Man and Spider-Man into the family of Mickey Mouse and WALL-E. Montanaâ&#x20AC;? and the Jonas Brothers. Marvel TV shows already account for 20 hours per week of programming on Disneyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s recently rebranded, boyfocused cable network, Disney XD, and that looks likely to increase, Iger said. There will be some lag before Marvelâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s trove of characters are fully developed at Disney, because of licensing deals Marvel has with other studios. For example, Sony Corp.â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Columbia Pictures is developing the next three â&#x20AC;&#x153;SpiderManâ&#x20AC;? sequels, starting with â&#x20AC;&#x153;Spider-Man 4â&#x20AC;? set for a May 2011 release. News Corp.â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 20th Century Fox has the long-term movie rights to the â&#x20AC;&#x153;X-Men,â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;â&#x20AC;&#x2122;Fantastic Four,â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;â&#x20AC;&#x2122;Silver Surferâ&#x20AC;? and â&#x20AC;&#x153;Daredevilâ&#x20AC;? franchises. Both studios maintain those rights in perpetuity unless they fail to make more movies. Separately, Viacom Inc.â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Paramount Pictures has a five-picture distribution deal for Marvel-made movies, the first of which will be â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iron Man 2,â&#x20AC;? set for release next

May. Paramount said it expects to continue working with Marvel and Disney. General Electric Co.â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Universal Studios has an attraction called Marvel Super Hero Island in Orlando, Fla., that will stay in existence as long as Universal wants to keep it there and follows the contract terms, Universal said. Disney said it will honor and re-examine Marvelâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s licensing deals upon expiration and may extend the profitable ones. Iger noted that when it bought Pixar, that company also had third-party licensing agreements that eventually expired, allowing the companies to move forward together. Despite beginning to make its own movies, starting with â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iron Manâ&#x20AC;? last year, licensing remained a key driver of Marvelâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s $206 million in profit and $676 million in revenue last year. Marvel shareholders will receive $30 per share in cash, plus 0.745 Disney shares for every Marvel share they own. That values each Marvel

share at $50, a 29 percent premium over Fridayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s closing stock price. The final ratio of cash and stock will be adjusted to ensure Disney stock makes up at least 40 percent of the final offer. Marvel shares shot up $9.72, or 25 percent, to close at $48.37 on Monday. Disney shares fell 80 cents, or 3 percent, to $26.04. Disney investors were probably unhappy that the deal will reduce earnings per share in the short term and might not turn positive until the companyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 2012 fiscal year. Disneyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s earnings per share will drop partly because the company will issue 59 million new shares, and partly because Marvel plans to release two costly blockbusters, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thorâ&#x20AC;? and â&#x20AC;&#x153;The First Avenger: Captain Americaâ&#x20AC;? in 2011. DVD sales of those films likely wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t roll in until fiscal 2012. Disney said the boards of both companies have approved the transaction, but it will require an antitrust review and the approval of Marvel shareholders.

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over tobacco for the first time and lets the agency reduce nicotine in tobacco products, ban candy flavorings and block labels such â&#x20AC;&#x153;low tarâ&#x20AC;? and â&#x20AC;&#x153;light.â&#x20AC;? Tobacco companies also must put large graphic warnings over any carton images. The companies say in their lawsuit that the law, which takes full effect in three years, prohibits them from using â&#x20AC;&#x153;color lettering, trademarks, logos or any other imagery in most advertisements, including virtually all point-of-sale and direct-mail advertisements.â&#x20AC;? The complaint also says the law prohibits tobacco companies from â&#x20AC;&#x153;making truthful statements about their products in scientific, public policy and political debates.â&#x20AC;? The tobacco makers say the newly mandated health warnings for cigarettes would relegate the companiesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; branding to the bottom half of the cigarette packaging, making it â&#x20AC;&#x153;difficult, if not impossible, to see.â&#x20AC;? The lawsuit doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t challenge the decision to give the

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FDA authority over tobacco products, and Reynolds spokesman David Howard said the company opposes only portions of the law. Joining in the suit filed in U.S. District Court in Bowling Green, Kentucky, are: National Tobacco Co., Discount Tobacco City & Lottery Inc., and Kentucky-based Commonwealth Brands, which is owned by Britainâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Imperial Tobacco Group PLC. FDA spokeswoman Kathleen Quinn said the agency does not comment on pending litigation. The tobacco makers name the FDA, the government and individual officials as defendants in the lawsuit, which seeks to put portions of the law on hold while the case is heard. Ultimately, they want the marketing provisions stripped from the law. The law doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t let the FDA ban nicotine or tobacco,

but the agency will be able to regulate what goes into tobacco products, publicize those ingredients and prohibit certain marketing campaigns, especially those geared toward children. Richmond, Va.-based Altria Group Inc., parent company of the nationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s largest tobacco maker, Philip Morris USA, supported the bill, saying the company backs tough but fair regulation. Altriaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s chief rivals â&#x20AC;&#x201D; No. 2 Reynolds American Inc., parent company of R.J. Reynolds, and No. 3 Lorillard, both based in North Carolina â&#x20AC;&#x201D; opposed the bill, saying FDA restrictions on new products would lock in Altriaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s share of the market. Altriaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s brands include Marlboro, which held a 41.2 percent share of the U.S. cigarette market in the second quarter, according to data from Information Resources Inc.

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Editorial Board: James Edwards, Publisher Glenn Craven, Editor

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Daily Meditation For I fear, lest, when I come, I shall not find you such as I would, and [that] I shall be found unto you such as ye would not: lest [there be] debates, envyings, wraths, strifes, backbitings, whisperings, swellings, tumults: [And] lest, when I come again, my God will humble me among you, and [that] I shall bewail many which have sinned already, and have not repented of the uncleanness and fornication and lasciviousness which they have committed. 2 Corinthians 12:20-21

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The pay is worth it Henderson Middle School is still recruiting teachers for the new school year and they don’t plan to pay their recruits any money for their work. What they are offering instead of pay, however, is a backpack full of satisfaction. “Citizen Teachers,” as they are calling them, will be rewarded with the knowledge that they’ve helped local students remain committed to education and become better informed of the skills required to succeed in the workplace. The citizens being recruited by HMS will be participants in the after-schoolhours Citizen Schools program, gearing up for its second year at the middle school. The Citizen Schools North Carolina effort began in 2006 and now serves 450 students through the help of 200 volunteers across the state. Some 20 of those volunteers were in HMS last year. In its inaugural year here, volunteers included two senior vice presidents from a local retailer, a NASA aeronautics lab coordinator, a community college instructor, a radio broadcaster and a police officer. The senior VPs from Variety Wholesalers helped the students draft a business plan for a school fundraiser. A bioprocess instructor from Vance-Granville Community College taught the HMS participants how to develop flavors of yogurt. The students produced a radio broadcast on WARR 1520 AM in Warrenton. And another class used what they learned from a Henderson Police officer to go into E.M. Rollins Elementary School and teach the younger kids about safety. The volunteers teach the young students what they know, according to Meghan Gray, volunteer manager for the program. They work with the trained Citizen Schools staff to turn their expertise and their passions into a curriculum that will provide hands-on learning for the middle school students. It’s a blend of academic support, leadership development and apprenticeships working to help students develop skills to succeed in the classroom, get accepted to a college and, ultimately, become leaders in their careers and in the communities in which they live. Henderson Middle and the Vance County Schools appear quite fortunate to be a part of this effort. There are Citizen Schools in more than 40 middle schools across seven states. Of the five schools in North Carolina, three are in Charlotte, one in Durham and the other in Henderson. It may be years before test and graduation records demonstrate the effectiveness of the program, but a 90 percent daily attendance rate is a good indicator that the program is meeting its goal of reducing dropout rates. And Victor Fenner, HMS’ principal, says the students appear to be getting the big picture: They have begun to see how schoolwork and grades connect to their own aspirations as future adults. A new fall 10-week semester begins the week of Sept. 28, and the folks at Citizens Schools and HMS want you to know that you could be one of their next teachers. It only requires three hours of work each week and a strong dose of passion for helping children succeed. Gray can be reached by calling 704-3323645 or by writing to her at meghangray@ citizenschools.org. More information is available online at www.citizenschools. org. Here’s one of those opportunities where — with a little time and effort — we can be a part of the solution for helping our young people succeed.

What shocked you most about Jaycee Lee Dugard’s story? Was it the fact that she was abducted in plain sight, waking to a bus stop when she was 11 years old? Or the fact that she was still alive when discovered this past week, 18 years after disappearing? Was it the fact that for most of those 18 years, she was forced to live in a backyard of a couple’s home in California, surrounded by fences, tents and sheds? Or the fact that nobody noticed? Was it the fact that she was allegedly raped repeatedly by her abductor, even though she was just a kid? Or did it shock you more that she bore two daughters by this suspected monster, and that one of those girls is now 11, the same age Jaycee was when she was abducted? Did it shock you most that the suspected abductor is married? That his wife, according to authorities, was with him when he kidnapped someone else’s child? Or was it the fact that his mother reportedly lived with him while this was going on? Was it the fact that police visited the home several times — and never discovered anything? Or the fact that that until

last week, Jaycee’s stepfather was considered a prime suspect, even though he always said he had nothing to do with it?

A life of hell Did it shock you most that Jaycee’s two girls have never been to school? That they’ve grown up prisoners in the backyard of an abductor’s house? Did it Mitch shock you most that Albom a neighbor Tribune Media admitted Services to seeing tents and hearing children, but when she expressed concern, her husband told her to leave it alone? Did it shock you most that the suspect considered himself religious? That he claimed the Lord spoke to him? That he registered a corporation called Gods Desire? Or that he had a printing business and customers? That he moved through this country undetected, and came home night after night to a backyard prison holding a child he allegedly raped and

the children she bore — and he went on like this for nearly two decades? All of this shocked me. But none of it shocked me the most. What shocked me the most is that the suspect, Phillip Garrido, was convicted in 1976 of kidnapping a woman, raping her, handcuffing her and holding her captive in a warehouse. He was sentenced to 50 years on one charge and fiveto-life on another. And he was paroled. After 11 years. Paroled. If you can get 150 years for bilking people out of their money — ala Bernie Madoff — then how does a man who demonstrated no respect for human life, who thought so little of it he stole a woman, held her captive and raped her, how does he find himself a free man after 11 years? Free to do it all over again.

The price of freedom What do they do now with the 58-year-old Garrido? I assume, if he’s found guilty, that he won’t get out again, although if he served the same time as he did for kidnap and rape, he’d be free by age 69. But throwing away the key at this point is like putting up storm windows after

a hurricane. Assuming the accusations are true, how can incarcerating Garrido begin to make up for the lives he has ruined? He stole the childhood from an 11-year-old girl. He destroyed the lives of her parents, ruined the marriage between her mother and stepfather, haunted the dreams of Jaycee’s family members for years and years. Losing a child is devastating. Losing a child and not knowing if she’s dead is beyond description. Garrido was a registered sex offender, as the law requires. He was visited by authorities, as the law requires. And with all that, he may well have gotten away with an unspeakable evil for 18 years. I am not without mercy. I do not believe every criminal belongs in jail forever. But there is a reason experts warn that sex offenders are highly likely to strike again and again. And our justice system, playing by its rules, gave this creep another chance. Garrido, still defying belief, conducted a rambling phone interview with a TV station after his arrest. In it he suggested people would be moved when they heard the whole tale. “It’s a powerful, heartwarming story,” he said. No, it isn’t. It’s monstrous. And it never should have happened.

Senator Kennedy’s gift: friendly politics One of the biggest surprises that greeted me when I arrived in Washington as a young reporter was this: Senators Edward M. Kennedy and Orrin Hatch played tennis after work. This was shortly after the Senate Judiciary Committee’s fractious hearings for conservative Supreme Court nominee Robert Bork, whom Kennedy had successfully portrayed as a nightmare mix of the Salem Witch Trials, the Red Scare and the Spanish Inquisition. Hatch was a conservative teetotaler Republican Mormon from Utah. Kennedy was more liberal than his famous brothers, John F. Kennedy and Robert F. Kennedy, and had enough of a boozing and womanizing reputation to be comfortably identified merely as “Ted” in tabloid headlines. The very idea of Kennedy and Hatch working together, let alone playing together, seemed about at likely to this Washington neophyte as, say, Rush Limbaugh slipping off to happy hour with Hugo Chavez. I had arrived from Chicago, where good politics is seldom allowed to interfere with a good political grudge. The word “comity,” which is the ability of adversaries to get along, was heard in Chicago political circles about as often as the N-word at an NAACP convention. But Hatch and Kennedy, it

turned out, were very friendly adversaries in spite of anything Hatch himself expected when he ran for the Senate 32 years ago. Their odd-couple relationship illustrates how, long before Kennedy’s death from a cancerous brain tumor last week, he did more to change America Clarence than any of other memPage ber of his Tribune Media celebrated Services family. In fact, Hatch ran for the Senate determined to do battle with Ted Kennedy, he says. “”I thought someone had to take him on,” Hatch said, according to the book “Last Lion: The Fall and Rise of Ted Kennedy,” written by Boston Globe staffers, “and I just didn’t see anyone that was doing it.” Yet when they were thrown together on two important committees, Kennedy did to Hatch what he did to other senators: He put his brilliant staff to work learning about Hatch, found areas and issues on which they could agree and wooed Hatch’s support like Romeo wooed Juliet. At one point, Kennedy even talked his chief of staff, Nick Littlefield, an accomplished

singer, into serenading Hatch with one of the ultrapatriotic songs Hatch writes in his spare time. With co-sponsorship from Hatch, who loved helping kids and hated tobacco, Kennedy sponsored the State Children’s Health Insurance Program, now known as CHIP, to provide health insurance to low-income children not covered by Medicaid, funded by a tobacco tax. By the time Kennedy died, Hatch was singing his praises, quite literally. He wrote a song about Kennedy’s yearlong fight against cancer and posted it on YouTube after Kennedy died. Kennedy earned the respect of Hatch and other Republicans because he was a remarkable paradox, an ideologically driven coalitionbuilder. After he failed miserably in his 1980 attempt to follow his older brother to the White House, he became by all accounts the Senate’s most widely respected and trusted inside player, even among those with whom he disagreed politically. Whether we agreed or disagreed with his legislation, he showed an important talent for building compromise and consensus that a diverse society needs in order to make its democracy work. We may not see another bridge-builder like Kenney for some time. Yet his desire to get things done in spite of personal and

political differences must not be allowed to die with him. His death deals a serious setback to President Barack Obama’s proposed health care overhaul. Yet Obama already seems to be acknowledging a lesson Kennedy learned in his own four-decade-year long health-care push: Don’t let the pursuit of a perfect deal get in the way of a good deal that can be improved later. Kennedy often said his biggest political mistake was turning down a health care deal with Richard Nixon in the early 1970s. Kennedy turned it down because it wasn’t everything he wanted it to be. Yet, with its mandates on employers and other controversial innovations, it was more liberal-progressive than anything Senate Republican leaders support today. That’s one example of how sadly today’s political landscape has changed. Today the real problems faced by Americans everyday take a back seat to games of political and ideological payback suitable for talk radio and cable TV food fights. No obvious successors stand ready to pick up Kennedy’s ability to make the Senate’s complex wheels of personal and public politics work as well as he did. E-mail Clarence Page at cpage(at) tribune.com, or write to him c/o Tribune Media Services, 2225 Kenmore Ave., Suite 114, Buffalo, NY 14207.

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simple right — that the doctor see me within 15 minutes of the appointed time made by his/her staff. Last year I fired two doctors for keeping me waiting. In both cases I let the doctor know I would no longer be seeing them and why. One had the gall to tell me his patients EXPECTED to wait for him! As patients, we enable doctors to get away with unprofessional behavior by not insisting on accountability. I am a professional, and time spent in a doctor’s office is time taken away from my clients. My time is as valuable to me as the doctors’ time is to them. — LARRY W., SUN CITY, ARIZ. DEAR ABBY: I suggest that whenever possible, patients should request the first appointment in the morning or after lunch. The chances of being seen on time are greater at those times. — MAGGIE B., DANA POINT, CALIF. DEAR ABBY: My husband had an appointment with a physician who kept him waiting an hour in the waiting room and nearly another hour in the examination room. When the doctor finally appeared, my husband complained about the long wait. “I’m a doctor and I can’t be rushed,” he responded. “If I make a mistake, someone could DIE.” My husband, without missing a beat said, “Really? Well, I’m an architect. If I make a mistake, THOUSANDS could die. I guess I win.” With that, he got dressed and walked out. Needless to say, we never returned to that doctor. I disagree that it is the patient’s job to make sure the doctor isn’t running late. His office staff can easily inform people of that fact when they walk in, giving them the option of waiting if they wish (or can). — NO LONGER WAITING, HARMONY, PA. DEAR ABBY: I am a professional. My hourly fees are similar to those of doctors. My policy is any waiting time will after fi 30ll minutes, I bill the doctor for my time. — PATRICK IN SAN ANSELMO

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DEAR ABBY: Your advice to “Sick of Waiting in Denver” (June 25) will help a number of our patients. Physicians don’t want frustrated and angry patients, and we don’t plan our day expecting long waits. Your suggestion that when a doctor is running more than 15 minutes late, the next person should be warned is appropriate. Your other suggestion to call the doctor’s office an hour ahead of time to see if he/ she is on schedule might not work. The physician might be on schedule, but a Dear problem Abby could Universal Press arise that throws Syndicate him/her off. Arriving at the office and finding the doctor horribly backed up after hearing that he was on schedule at the time of the phone call would be upsetting. Unfortunately, I haven’t found an easy solution to this in my 25 years of practice. It does help to focus on good manners and empathy, and to alert patients at the time of check-in if there’s a problem, which allows them to return or reschedule. Of course, the physician conveying personally to his patients that their time is as important as his also goes a long way. — MARC SCHNEIDERMAN, M.D., PENNSYLVANIA DEAR DR. SCHNEIDERMAN: Amen to that, and thank you for saying so. Read on for some of the comments I received from patients: DEAR ABBY: I find it interesting that the doctor’s rights are prominently posted in the waiting room, e.g., co-pays are due before you see the doctor, if you don’t cancel your appointment 24 hours in advance and you fail to show up, you will be billed for the appointment. But nowhere client do you see the patients’ rights posted. As a patient I insist on one

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Ten years ago: Twenty-two of baseball’s 68 permanent umpires found themselves jobless, the fallout from their union’s failed attempt to force an early start to negotiations for a new labor contract. Five years ago: The criminal case against Kobe Bryant collapsed as prosecutors in Colorado dropped a sexual assault charge against the NBA star.

Thought for Today: “When nothing is sure, everything is possible.” — Margaret Drabble, British author.

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