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OPINION........................................................4

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DAILY BIBLE VERSE“Before the mountains were

born or you brought forth thewhole world, from everlasting toeverlasting you are God.A thou-sand years in your sight are likea day that has just gone by, or

like a watch in the night.”

-Psalm 90:2,4

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In 1981Israeli military planes

destroyed a nuclearpower plant in Iraq, afacility the Israelischarged could have beenused to make nuclearweapons.

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Fire forces Arizonatowns to prepare

for evacuationWind, lightning and continueddry conditions are expected tomake matters worse in easternArizona, where a raging wildfireshows no signs it’s done feast-ing on forestland in an areathat has long provided a coolsummer getaway....

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School board approves contractwith city for tennis court repairs

BY SKILER SCHMITZSTAFF WRITER

On Monday afternoonat their regularly sched-uled meeting the DurantSchool Board approved anintergovernmental con-tract with the City ofDurant for maintenanceand repairs of the tenniscourts located betweenthe newly named DurantMiddle School andNorthside Park.

Superintendent Dr.Jason Simeroth said the

agreement with the citywill allow the school dis-trict to pay for the resur-facing of the courts whilethe city will maintain thepoles, netting and fences.

The tennis courts atNorthside were used bythe DHS Tennis Team andsince the move they willnow be used by the DMSteam. Simeroth said thisagreement will allow boththe city and school districtto split the costs of main-taining the court, whilepreventing DMS students

from traveling to the newhigh school courts.

Members also receiveda special update to thenew high school construc-tion. In May, crews con-tinued the sidewalk andparking pavement on thefacility. They also beganthe interior door workalong with finishing thedrywall, masonry work,curtain call and elevatorwork. This month theyplan to begin fencing thefacility as well as theplumbing work for the

school.As of Monday the proj-

ect is around $27.1 mil-lion dollars completedwith 78 percent alreadycompleted on the project.Simeroth said the crewsworking on the schoolfacility are coming rightalong with the project andhe wanted to commendtheir hard work.

The board accepted res-ignations from LindseyBrown, Catin Woods,Bethany Joines, JamesWest and Heath Morrison.

James Pratt will take theDMS athletic coordinator,Jesse Bateman will fill theDMS history teacher andGary Pewitt will take theone year temporary posi-tion for the DHS businesseducator instructor.Sherry Anderson willtake on the part-timesummer reading academyinstructor while Mary PatDavis and Hadley Tollewill work with the 2011Indian EducationSummer Enrichment pro-gram.

Children getting ready to go for a ride

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CHILDREN LINE UP on their bikes on Saturday during the 15th annual Magnolia Festival.

BY SKILER SCHMITZSTAFF WRITER

On Monday morning atthe regularly scheduledmeeting of the BryanCounty Board ofCommissioners, District 1County CommissionerMonty Montgomery gavethe board a specialprogress report on the jailand parking lot projects.The board also approvedthree OHFA home con-tracts to be built in BryanCounty.

Bryan County SheriffBill Sturch and the jailadministrator will be meet-ing with the design teamand contractors from South

Jail contractorsmeet with

jail officialsthis week

East Oklahoma lawmakers criticize 50-year water plan

OKLAHOMA CITY(AP) — A yet-to-be final-ized 50-year plan on howto best use water in thestate is drawing criticismfrom eastern Oklahomalawmakers.

State Reps. EdCannaday, D-Porum;Brian Renegar, D-Blanco;and Jerry Ellis, D-Valliant;and Sen. RichardLerblance, D-Hartshorne,have asked for an attorneygeneral’s opinion onwhether the companydeveloping the plan,Massachusetts-basedCDM, has a conflict ofinterest.

The four said the poten-tial conflict involvesCDM’s contract to studybringing water fromSardis Lake in southeastOklahoma into central

Oklahoma. They alsoallege that the study doesnot take into considerationall potential uses of water.

“It was supposed to bea comprehensive waterstudy encompassing allthe needs of Oklahomawater users, but it totallydisregarded the role ofnonconsumptive uses ofwater for things liketourism and recreation,”Cannaday told TheOklahoman.

Renegar said lawmak-ers also believe the studyof aquifers in the waterplan was incomplete. Hesaid that was unacceptablein a state where many peo-ple live in areas whereaquifers are the solesource of water.

CDM officials did notreturn phone calls for

comment.A spokeswoman for the

attorney general said therequest is under review.

The executive directorof the Oklahoma WaterResources Board, J.D.Strong, defended the com-pany.

“I don’t see any conflictof interest on the workthey’ve done on the waterplan,” Strong said.

There is “no recom-mendation or even asuggestion” in the statewater plan that waterneeds to be moved infrom Sardis Lake tomeet the long-termwater needs of centralOklahoma, Strong said.

Strong said he is a lit-tle perplexed by thelawmakers’ complaintsabout the study that was

overseen by his agency.“Just looking at the

water plan as a whole,there clearly is exten-sive information aboutnonconsumptive uses ofwater for things likerecreation and fishing,”he said.

The study includesrecommendations thatstream flows be meas-ured better so the natu-ral beauty and recre-ational uses of streamsand lakes can be pro-tected, according toStrong, and thataquifers and groundwater are extensivelydiscussed in sections ofthe report that deal withmeeting the current andfuture water needs ofpeople who live in vari-ous regions of the state.

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Police: Manarrested

after attackA man was arrested

early this morning afterpolice said he entered hisex-girlfriend’s residenceand attacked one of theoccupants.

Durant Police PatrolmanCarter Mathews was dis-patched at 1:55 to the 300block of Northeast ThirdAvenue about a stabbing.Upon arrival, he saw twomen and a woman. Thereport stated that one manhad wounds to his chestand back.

According to police, thesuspect had been in a priorrelationship with thewoman. The occupantssaid they were watchingtelevision when the suspectentered the home and washolding a knife.

The woman said shewent to check on the chil-dren when she heard ascuffle. When she cameback, she saw that the vic-tim was bleeding and thesuspect was unconsciouson the floor, the report stat-ed.

The alleged victim toldpolice that the man stabbedhim in the chest. The vic-tim then placed the suspectin a “bear hug” andslammed him to the floor,causing him to lose con-sciousness, according tothe report. The suspect,identified as Gage Harris,20, was booked into jail forsuspicion of first-degreeburglary, domestic assaultand domestic assault infront of children. Policesaid the victim was admit-ted to the Medical Centerof Southeastern Oklahomato be treated for non-lifethreatening injuries.

Aid deadline nearing for some Oklahoma tornado victimsTUSHKA (AP) —

Time is running out forvictims of the April 14tornadoes and severestorms that hit AtokaCounty to register forstate and federal disasterassistance.

Federal EmergencyManagement Agencyofficials say June 21 is thelast day to begin the assis-tance process by contact-ing FEMA. It also is thefinal day to return anyloan applications to the

U.S. Small BusinessAdministration.

Two people were killedwhen a tornado torethrough the county and hitthe small town of Tushka.Dozens of homes andbusinesses, including the

town's school district,were heavily damaged.

Storm victims can callFEMA’s helpline at 1-800-621-3362 or registerfor assistance online atwww.DisasterAssistance.gov.

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22 THE DURANT DAILY DEMOCRAT Obituaries TUESDAY, JUNE 7, 2011

Aubrey N. “Arb” StanfieldAubrey N. (Arb) Stanfield passed from this life

on Sunday June 5, 2011, inCaddo, Oklahoma at theage of 86 years 8 months11 days. He was born onSaturday September20, 1924, in Sawyer,Oklahoma to Jim andEmma (Maddox)Stanfield. Aubrey mar-ried Beatrice Menchacaon November 13, 1942, inHugo, Oklahoma. “Bea” pre-ceded him in death on October 8, 2010,

Aubrey was a faithful member of the CaddoChurch of Christ for over 51 years. Aubrey enjoyedthe outdoors. He would fish, hunt and go campingwhenever he could. He also enjoyed fish frys, gar-dening and singing while playing the guitar.

He is survived by his children Martha Watkinsof Durant, Oklahoma, Carolyn Gordon and hus-band Don of Caddo, Oklahoma, Opal Payne andhusband Bill of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, JuneWhitmire and husband Steve of Coleman,Oklahoma and Dale Stanfield of Caddo,Oklahoma; grandchildren,Stacey Watkins, ChadWatkins, Jackie Gordon, Carissa Andis, AprilShrum, Alan Watkins, Danny Watkins, AmandaBrister, Stephanie Hall, Aubrey Stanfield, JamesStanfield,Demetra Stanfield and Trevor Scheff; 19great-grandchildren and 3 great-great-grandchil-dren as well as many other relatives and friends.

Aubrey is preceded in death by his parents, Jimand Emma Stanfield; wife, Bea Stanfield; brothers,Leonard, Dan and Glen Stanfield; sisters, JimmieHenderson, Jessie Black, Amy King and EthelStanfield.

Family Hour will be 6-7:00 p.m. Tuesday, June7, 2011 at Holmes-Coffey-Murray Funeral Home.Services will be held at 10:00 a.m. Wednesday,June 8, 2011, at the Caddo Church of Christ, withJosh Watkins officiating. Interment will follow atGethsemane Cemetery Caddo, Oklahoma. Servingas pallbearers will be Josh Watkins, AubreyStanfield, James Stanfield, Chad Watkins, StaceyWatkins, Jessie Watkins, Cole Andis and DannyWatkins.

Family and friends may send online condo-lences and view tributes atwww.coffeymurray.com.

Services are under the direction of Holmes-Coffey-Murray Funeral Home, Durant, Oklahoma.

Lucille RayLucille Ray, 79, of Mead, OK was born on

December 12, 1931 in Bryan County, OK to Abeland Mabel Arkansas and passed from this life onSunday, June 5, 2011 in Greenville, TX. After hermother’s death she was raised by her father andstep mother Elizabeth Arkansas. She graduatedfrom High School and then received herBachelor’s Degree from Southeastern and went towork for the City of Dallas in the Tax Office. Shemarried LeRoy Ray in 1982 and after their retire-ment they moved back to Bryan County. She wasof the Baptist faith and she enjoyed pottery andwas proud of the Choctaw heritage.

Lucille is survived by her sister PhanettaWillmon and husband William H. of Quinlan, TXand niece Nellie Cathleen Chainaranont of Dallas,TX.

Lucille was preceded in death by parents; step-mother; husband; and other relatives.

Services will be held on Wednesday, June 8,2011 at 1:00 PM at Brown’s Funeral ServiceChapel. Pastor Wayne Bailey will officiate.Interment will follow in Ravia Cemetery.

Condolences may be sent to the family atwww.brownsfuneralservice.com.

Services are under the direction of Brown’sFuneral Service, Durant.

Roger Wayne BucklesRoger Wayne Buckles passed away on June 1,

2011, at his residence in Warr Acres, Oklahoma.He was born on October 3, 1942, in OklahomaCity, Oklahoma. He was a longtime resident ofOklahoma City and Durant, Oklahoma. He waspreceded in death by his parents Orin and VelmaBuckles, wife Alma Buckles, sister Karen Smithand grandson Ryan Black.

He is survived by: Daughter Michelle Drake andhusband Randell of Broken Arrow, Oklahoma, andGrandsons Taylor and Evan; Son Darren Black andwife Melanie of Newalla, Oklahoma,Grandchildren Ronnie Lee, Patricia, Kyla, Cole,Katie, Adara and Great-grandchildren Kyler andPatricia Jenice; Son Scott Buckles and wife Staceyof Woodward, Oklahoma, Grandchildren: Ryan,Jessica and Kyler and Great-grandchildren:Adrain, Addison and Olivia; Daughter DarlaScarborough and husband Chris of OklahomaCity, Oklahoma and Grandchildren: Austin,Lauren and Alexandra; Son Jeff Grooms of WarrAcres, Oklahoma; Granddaughters: Chloe &Lauren and Great-grandchild: Quinton; DaughterHarmony Parker and husband Clay of Hartsville,South Carolina; Daughter Allison Buckles-McDowell and husband Michael of Florence,South Carolina and Grandchildren: Addison,Katelyn and Kennedy; Sister Paula Sullivan andhusband Randy of Durant, Oklahoma; Sister LindaMagette of Durant, Oklahoma; Honorary FamilyMember Kathryn Bostick Grooms and numerousaunts, uncles, cousins, nieces, nephews andfriends.

Roger was a member of Abundant Life Templein Durant, Oklahoma. He was an electrician andplumber by profession. He will be rememberedfor his sense of humor, his debating skills and hislove for life. Roger’s final resting place will be atHighland Cemetery in Durant, Oklahoma.

A memorial service was conducted by BishopRandell O. Drake at Bill Eisenhour Funeral Homein Del City, OK on Sunday, June 5.

Build Team today.Montgomery said theyplan to discuss some of theplanning, design and lay-outs of the new project thatwas passed by voters in theNovember 2010 election.

He said they will alsoplan to discuss the bigparking lot expansion proj-ect for the courthouse thatwill allow six more parkingspaces along with a desig-nated parking area on thesouth side of the building.

Montgomery said he feelslike the project is movingforward and that they musttake one step at a time withthe project.

He also said they plan tocomplete the parking lotproject before the jail reno-vations begin.

C o m m i s s i o n e r sapproved an agreementBurkette Inc. for three newhomes to be built with theOHFA program in BryanCounty. They also signedan agreement with Wrightand Damron Roofing torepair the DistrictAttorney’s office.

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BY LESLIE HEARNT2 SOCIAL SECURITY CLAIMSREPRESENTATIVE IN DURANT

If you’re one of themany teenagers or youngadults planning to get asummer job or start acareer this summer, youmay be surprised to seewhat’s deducted from yourpaystub. If you don’t knowalready, it’s time to learnwhat your Social Securitytaxes are all about.

By law, employers mustwithhold from a worker’spaycheck Social Securitytaxes. While usuallyreferred to on an employ-ee’s pay statement as“Social Security taxes,”sometimes the deduction islabeled as “FICA taxes”which stands for FederalInsurance ContributionsAct, a reference to the orig-inal Social Security Act.

The taxes you pay nowtranslate to a lifetime ofprotection, for retirementin old age or in the event ofdisability. And when youdie, your family (or futurefamily) may be able toreceive survivors benefitsbased on your work aswell.

Right now you probablyhave family members —grandparents, for example— who already are enjoy-ing Social Security bene-fits which your SocialSecurity taxes help pro-vide.

Because you’re a longway from retirement, youmay have a tough time see-ing the value of benefitpayments that could bemany decades in thefuture. But keep in mindthat the Social Securitytaxes you’re paying canprovide valuable disability

or survivors benefits in theevent the unexpected hap-pens. Studies do show thatof today’s 20-year-olds,about one in four willbecome disabled andabout one in eight will diebefore reaching retire-ment.

Warning: if an employeroffers to bend the rules andpay you “under the table,”you should refuse. Theymay try to sell it as a bene-fit to you since you get afew extra dollars in yourpay. But you’re really onlyallowing the employer tocheat you out of yourSocial Security credits.It’s also illegal.

Another tip: don’t carryyour Social Security cardaround with you. It’s animportant document thatshould be safeguardedand protected. And it canbe a valuable tool for anidentity thief, if it’s lost orstolen.

If you’d like to learn alittle more about SocialSecurity and exactly whatyou’re building up foryourself by paying SocialSecurity taxes, take a lookat our online booklet,How You Earn Credits, atwww.socialsecurity.gov/pubs/10072.html.

Do you prefer videos toreading? Check out ourwebinar, “Social Security101: What’s in it for me?”The webinar explainswhat you need to knowabout Social Security. Youcan find it, along withother informative webina-rs, at www.socialsecuri-ty.gov/webinars.

You can also learnmore by surfing the weba twww.socialsecurity.gov.

Ersland hopes toreceive pardon

from FallinBY NOLAN CLAYTHE OKLAHOMAN

OKLAHOMA CITY(AP) — An Oklahoma Citypharmacist convicted ofmurder says he has a “lot ofhope” Gov. Mary Fallinwill pardon him.

In a telephone interviewFriday from OklahomaCounty jail, Jerome JayErsland thanked his sup-porters.

“Tell them to keep afterit,” he told The Oklahoman.“Keep after it until I’m vin-dicated.”

His supporters have gath-ered thousands of signa-tures on petitions that askthe governor to getinvolved.

A jury May 26 convictedErsland of first-degree mur-der for fatally shooting amasked robber. The jurychose a life term as punish-ment. The verdict reneweda public debate over hisactions.

Ersland, 59, said againFriday he is innocent. Hesaid he had expected to beconvicted of first-degreemanslaughter at his trialbecause the judge kept outhis key witnesses. He said

he was shocked when hewas found guilty instead offirst-degree murder.

Ersland had wanted thejury to hear from other rob-bery victims and from apolice officer who fatallyshot an unarmed burglarysuspect.

He said he has a lot ofhope the governor will stepin, “see this is a terribleinjustice” and pardon him.He also said his attorneysare preparing a goodappeal.

The governor’s officesaid May 27 that a convict“has the right to petition thePardon and Parole Board torequest his sentence becommuted.

“If a majority of theboard votes to recommenda commutation, that casethen heads to the governor,”said Fallin’s communica-tions director, Alex Weintz.“After conducting her ownreview that takes intoaccount all the facts of thecase, the governor may thendecide either to grant ordeny the commutation.”

Ersland’s formal sen-tencing is July 11. He saidhe doesn’t think his trialjudge, Ray C. Elliott, will

suspend any of his life term.“I don’t have any faith inhim at all,” Ersland said.

Ersland killed Antwun“Speedy” Parker, 16, insideReliable DiscountPharmacy in southOklahoma City on May 19,2009.

Prosecutors told jurorsErsland went too far whenhe shot the unconscious,unarmed boy five moretimes after shooting the boyin the head. They told jurorsthe boy was not moving andwas no longer a threat whenhe was shot again. Theytold jurors Ersland lied topolice afterward to makehimself look like a hero.Prosecutors called him anexecutioner.

Prosecutors chargedErsland after reviewingrecordings from pharmacysecurity cameras that con-tradicted his statement topolice.

Defense attorneys saidErsland courageouslydefended himself and twofemale co-workers fromtwo robbers. Defense attor-

neys stressed one robber,who fled, pointed a gun.Defense attorneys concededat trial that Ersland has said“goofy” things and acted inways that are out of theordinary.

Ersland said Friday,again, that both robbers hadguns. He said he believes aplainclothes police officeror someone else picked upParker’s gun and didn’treport it. Prosecutors insist-ed only the robber who fledwas armed. The securitycamera recordings do notshow a gun in Parker’shands.

Ersland also said againFriday he was shot in theleft wrist during the rob-bery. Prosecutors said at thetrial that the physical evi-dence proved only the phar-macist fired shots.Prosecutors also put on evi-dence at the trial that theysaid showed Ersland fakeda gunshot wound weeksafter the robbery by insert-ing metal fragments into hiswrist. Ersland insists thegunshot wound was real.

BY RYAN NAKASHIMAAP BUSINESS WRITER

LOS ANGELES (AP) —Apple Inc. CEO Steve Jobson Monday introducedmore than just a cloud stor-age system for songs thatfans buy legitimatelythrough iTunes. He unveileda system that might finallyget music lovers to pay forthe songs they got throughless-than-proper means.

Aside from offering tofreely distribute new and oldiTunes purchases on all of auser's devices, the Appleimpresario unveiled "iTunesMatch," a $25-a-year serv-ice starting this fall that willscan users' devices and harddrives for music acquired inother ways, store it on dis-tant computer servers andallow them to access it any-where.

The service acknowl-edges a well-known fact —that most music on iPods,iPhones and iPads wasripped or swapped. Applereached a deal that givesrecording companies morethan 70 percent of the newfees, addressing a darksecret that has crippled themusic industry, and pro-vides them with some eco-nomic payback.

Where Apple is able toidentify and match songsfrom its 18 million-songdatabase, it will transferthem into the user's iCloud,a storage area housed onservers, including those at amassive new data center inNorth Carolina.

"The chances are awfully

good that we've got thesongs in our store thatyou've ripped," Jobs said.

Where songs can't beidentified — say of boot-legged concert recordings— users can manuallyupload them to the cloudand gain the same access.

Jobs called it "an indus-

try-leading offer" comparedwith similar song-upload-ing storage services recent-ly introduced byAmazon.com Inc. andGoogle Inc. The limit of"iTunes Match" is 25,000songs, and the service willupdate lesser-quality songfiles to iTunes standards.

ITunes purchases do notcount against the limit.

Industry observers saidthe new service could trans-late into big bucks for bothApple and the recordingcompanies.

Apple has about 225 mil-lion credit card-backedaccounts on iTunes.

Dear Annie: My fatherpassed away a year ago.My brother, who livedclosest, was entrusted tooversee my mother'scare. My siblings and Iwere all aware of thesacrifices Dad made toensure my mother wouldbe provided for. Theirhouse is not paid off, butthere is enough comingin monthly to cover herexpenses.

A couple of days afterMom received the insur-ance settlement, mybrother borrowed a thirdof it. He gave her apromissory note and ispaying 2 percent inter-est. A year later, he bor-rowed half of what wasleft. My mother justinformed me of thiswhen I called on whatwould have been mydad's birthday. Mybrother told her to keepit a secret, so she doesn'twant me to let on. Iadvised her to move therest of the money into anaccount to which mybrother does not haveaccess.

Right now, I don'tthink very highly of mybrother and wonder ifthis is a form of elderabuse. He is havingfinancial difficulties, butso am I, and Mom does-n't have enough moneyto fix anyone's prob-lems. His pay has beendownsized, but he has apretty lavish lifestyleand indulges his kidsand wife. Right now, mymother is planning tochange her will, sincemy brother is the execu-tor. What is your advice?-- Disappointed

Dear Disappointed: Ifyour brother took thismoney from your motherwithout her knowledgeor consent, or if Momwas incapable of under-standing the repercus-sions of what she wasdoing, it would indeedbe elder abuse. But itsounds as if your brotheris attempting to pay herback, albeit slowly.Before allowing this toescalate into a perma-nent rift, you shouldhave a family discussionwith all your siblingsand your mother. Don'tmake accusations.Simply discuss how bestto see that Mom's moneyis used for her benefit.You might want to bringin a financial counseloror attorney to act asmediator.

Dear Annie: My wifeand I have been marriedfor 30 years. We eachhave a child from a pre-vious marriage, and wehave a son together. Ourmarriage has been prettygood over the yearsexcept for one thing --she and her daughter areenmeshed.

The biggest problemis the never-endingphone calls. My step-daughter calls every day,

morning, noon andnight. We have beeninterrupted on vacationwith meaningless phonecalls. I had our landlinetaken out so I wouldn'thave to answer her calls,but now my wife walksaround the house withher cell phone in herhand. This problem hascaused countless dis-agreements. My wifethinks this is fine,although the other chil-dren don't do this. --Help

Dear Help: Someadult children, particu-larly daughters, tend tocall their mothers fre-quently during thecourse of the day. Yourwife is the one whoencourages and permitsthis, and she has nointention of stopping.Frankly, as long as youdon't have to answer thephone, we strongly urgeyou to leave this alone.

Dear Annie: I haveanother suggestion for"Help, Please," who istrying to deal with eld-erly parents. Theyshould look into adultday care.

Many adult day careprograms have handi-capped vans and pick upand deliver the clients toand from the centers.Entertainment, social-ization, meals and com-panionship are offered.Sometimes the centershave registered nurseson staff, as well as certi-fied recreation thera-pists. Also includedcould be such servicesas showers, manicures,hairdressing and podia-try. -- S.E.

Dear S.E.: Thank youfor the suggestion.Readers can find adultday care centers throughthe National Adult DayServices Assn.(nadsa.org), as well astheir area agency onaging (1-800-677-1116), family doctor,local health departmentor senior centers andtheir phone book. Manycenters also offer helpwith the cost.

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By Kathy Mitchell &Marcy Sugar

Labor Department announces that only fifty-four thousand jobs were created in May

HOLLYWOOD--Godbless America, and how'severybody?

Sarah Palin refused togive the media her bus tourtravel itinerary Friday,forcing CBS and NBC andABC reporters to followher around like groupies.She totally dominated thenews coverage. Inresponse, Mitt Romney'sweb site just replaced allhis head shots with crotchshots.

Dr. Jack Kevorkian diedThursday after a careerdedicated to assisted sui-cide. His own life wasextended by real care-givers. Last year when JackKevorkian collapsed in hisliving room, paramedicssaved his life by offering tobuy his house for thirtypercent more than he paidfor it.

U.S. Rep. AnthonyWeiner conceded Fridaythe lewd photos tweeted tohis followers may be ofhimself but he insisted hegot hacked. His last namedoesn't help here. Whencharges first surfaced thatWeiner had been hacked,Lorena Bobbitt was thefirst suspect on everybody'slist.

John Edwards wasindicted by federal prose-cutors Friday for usingpresidential campaigndonations to hide his mis-tress and their love child.The story got huge play in

the tabloid press. JohnEdwards always said welive in two Americas, andhe keeps a family in eachof them.

Rush Limbaugh wasreported Friday to be inter-ested in buying theMinnesota Vikings andmoving the team to L.A.The players are going tomiss the NFL lockout.Starting in training campthis July, the team will dotwo-a-day drills in states'rights, free trade and sup-ply-side economics.

The House ofRepresentatives rebukedPresident Obama in a reso-lution passed Friday for notconsulting Congress onLibya. It's obvious what'sgoing on. The UnitedStates is going to keepinvading countries in theMiddle East til we finallyfind one where the oil paysfor the war.

The Richmond FederalReserve Bank flew a gay-pride-sponsored RainbowFlag under the U.S. flag onits flagpole. It outragedVirginia conservatives.The brightly colored rain-bow flag got their atten-tion, and until now they

never realized that theUnion flag was flying overVirginia.

GOP candidate NewtGingrich decided to go onvacation for a week withhis wife and skip anappearance at a GOP con-ference of evangelicalChristians. It's surprisingthat he decided not to gothere. A Republican con-vention is a great place fora candidate to meet hisfourth wife.

Michelle Obama'soffice announced Fridayshe will visit South Africathis week and bring alongher mother as well as hertwo daughters. She can'twait to go. Last week shecaught the president in bedwith his golf clubs andshe's decided to give themsome quality time alone.

The N.Y. SupremeCourt ruled to allow aTimes Square street ven-dor to sell condoms withthe president's image onthe packet. Everyone'sbuying them. Half thecountry wants to be pro-tected by President Obamawhile the other half wantsto be protected fromPresident Obama.

The White Housereported worsening statis-tics on employment, man-ufacturing and home salesFriday. No one knows howmuch deeper the recessionwill get. The latest pollshows that most

Americans would still voteto reelect PresidentObama, if only out of mor-bid curiosity.

Illinois former governorRod Blagojevich testifiedMonday he almost namedhimself to fill Obama'sSenate seat so he couldfind Osama bin Laden per-sonally. Sounds true. Heprobably wanted to sellhim the floor space next toHitler's at MadameTussaud's Wax Museum inChicago.

The Labor Departmentannounced Friday thatonly fifty-four thousandjobs were created in May.Half of those jobs wereMcDonald's jobs whichresulted when the restau-rant officials decided toadd a graveyard shiftnationwide. Americansaren't happy about havingto work in the middle ofthe night in a paper hat, butthey have to pay off theirlaw school loans some-how.

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Politics may well be themost imitative of allhuman activities. To thisday, there are state legisla-tive candidates campaign-ing in Massachusetts andpronouncing the word“again” so that it rhymeswith “plane. “

Why? Because that’sthe way John Kennedypronounced it, and henever lost an election.Every president sinceRonald Reagan has tried -and failed - to be as self-deprecatingly humorous asthe Gipper could be. Once,when the animositybetween first lady NancyRegan and White Housechief of staff DonaldRegan had become widelyknown, the president wasable to break the tension ata press dinner with a quip:“Nancy and Don Regan atone point tried to patchthings up. They met pri-vately over lunch. Just thetwo of them and theirfood-tasters. “

More than just politicalstyle, American presidentsalso can shape and influ-ence popular style. Look atthe pictures of U.S. chiefexecutives before 1960,when Kennedy defeatedRichard Nixon: On theirheads, American presi-dents all wore hats. True,perhaps because so manyAmerican men had spentWorld War II in uniformwhere they had beenforced to always wear aservice cap or a helmet,that custom was beginningto change by the time JFKwas sworn in. (You cancheck the photos ofInaugural Day 1961 andsee that, for that formaloccasion, Kennedy did infact bow to tradition andwear a silk top hat.)

But from that day for-ward, it was Hats Off! Theyoung president may nothave single-handedlycaused the move toAmerican males goingbareheaded, but he certain-ly hastened that change.With the exceptions oftheir home-state 10-gallonmodels occasionally sport-ed by Lyndon B. Johnsonand George W. Bush, U.S.presidents post-Kennedyswore off homburgs, fedo-ras and bowlers. Baseballcaps don’t count. Let it benoted that as we Americanmen paid less attention toour hats, we began to paymore attention - almostcertainly too much - to ourhair.

What John Kennedy did

to the American hat indus-try, President BarackObama has done to thenecktie business. Yes, thecasual Friday and the WestCoast informality of thehigh-tech world predatedthe 2008 election of theIllinois senator. Necktiesales had been falling andpresidential candidates hadregularly campaigned insport shirts and casualslacks. But candidate andnow President Obama hasbrought a different sartori-al wrinkle out of the presi-dential closet - the well-tai-lored suit with open-col-lared dress shirt.

If you want to see theObama fashion fallout,look at the most recent pic-tures of Republican front-runner, formerMassachusetts Gov. MittRomney. In 1988, Romneyran as and dressed the partof the successful business-man he had been. To behonest, Romney looksboth totally at home andvery good in a suit and tie.Actually Romney, whoseems incapable of sweat-ing and whose shirts do notdare to be wrinkly, wouldprobably look good in aHefty trash bag.

But Obama in 2008went tieless in both asports jacket and a suit,and won big. Now threeyears later, Mitt Romney,while insisting he stilltreasures his ties for theircolor and individuality,dramatically defends hissignature public policyachievement and greatestintra-party vulnerability,the Massachusetts healthcare law he sponsored andsigned, while wearing ablazer, slacks and no tie.

It’s a good bet thatamong the 2012 GOPfield, neckties will becomealmost as rare as derbies orcalls for tax increases.Because politics really isthe most imitative of allhuman activities.

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Last week, I noted that var-ious forms of the word “unex-pected” almost inevitablyappeared in news storiesabout unfavorable economicdevelopments.

You can find them again instories about Friday’s shock-ing news, that only 54,000 netnew jobs were created in themonth of May and thatunemployment rose to 9.1percent.

But with news that bad,maybe bad economic num-bers will no longer be “unex-pected.” You can only expecta robust economic recoveryfor so long before you figureout, as Herbert Hoover even-tually did, that it is not aroundthe corner.

Exogenous factors explainsome part of the current eco-nomic stagnation. The earth-quake and tsunami in Japancaused a slowdown in manu-facturing. Horrendous torna-dos did not help. Nor did badweather, though only a fewstill bitterly cling to the theorythat it’s caused by manmadeglobal warming.

But poor public policy issurely one reason why theAmerican economy has notrebounded from recession asit has in the past. And politicalposturing has also played amajor role.

Barack Obama and theDemocratic congressionalsupermajorities of 2009-10raised federal spending from21 percent to 25 percent ofgross domestic product. Theirstimulus package stoppedlayoffs of public employeesfor a while, even as privatesector payrolls plummeted.

And the Obama

Democrats piled further bur-dens on would-be employersin the private sector.Obamacare and the Dodd-Frank financial regulation billare scheduled to be followedby thousands of regulationsthat will impose impossible-to-estimate costs on the econ-omy.

That seems to have led to ahiring freeze. The ObamaDemocrats can reasonablyclaim not to be responsiblefor the huge number of lay-offs that occurred in themonths following the finan-cial crisis of fall 2008. AndTreasury Secretary TimothyGeithner and Federal ReserveChairman Ben Bernanke didmanage to help stabilizefinancial markets.

But while the number oflayoffs is now vastly less thanin the first half of 2009, thenumber of new hires has notincreased appreciably. Manymore people have beenunemployed for longer peri-ods than in previous reces-sions, and many more havestopped looking for workaltogether.

It’s hard to avoid the con-clusion that the threat of taxincreases and increased regu-latory burdens have producedsomething in the nature of ahiring strike.

And then there is the polit-ical posturing. On April 13,Barack Obama delivered a

ballyhooed speech at GeorgeWashington University. Theman who conservatives aswell as liberal pundits told uswas a combination ofEdmund Burke and ReinholdNiebuhr was widely expectedto present a serious plan toaddress the budget deficitsand entitlement spending.

Instead, the man who cancall on talented career profes-sionals at the Office ofManagement and Budget toproduce detailed blueprintsgave us something in thenature of a few numbersscrawled on a paper napkin.

The man depicted as prag-matic and free of ideologicalcant indulged in cheap politi-cal rhetoric, accusingRepublicans, includingHouse Budget CommitteeChairman Paul Ryan, whowas in the audience, of push-ing old ladies in wheelchairsdown the hill and starvingautistic children.

The signal was clear.Obama had already ignoredhis own deficit reductioncommission in preparing hisannual budget, which waslater rejected 97-0 in theSenate. Now he was signal-ing that the time for govern-ing was over and that he wasentering campaign mode 19months before the November2012 election.

People took notice, espe-cially those people whodecide whether to hire or not.Goldman Sachs’ CurrentActivity Indicator stood at 4.2percent in March. In April - inthe middle of which cameObama’s GW speech - it was1.6 percent. For May, it is 1.0percent.

“That is a major drop in notime at all,” wrote BusinessInsider’s Joe Weisenthal.

After April 13, ObamaDemocrats went into cam-paign mode. They staged apoll-driven Senate vote toincrease taxes on oil compa-nies.

They launched aMediscare campaign againstRyan’s budget resolution thatall but four HouseRepublicans had voted for.That seemed to pay off with aspecial election victory in theNewYork 26th congressionaldistrict.

The message to job cre-ators was clear. Hire at yourown risk. Higher taxes, moreburdensome regulation andcrony capitalism may be herefor some time to come.

One possible upside is thateconomic bad news may nolonger be “unexpected.”Another is that voters mayfigure out what is going on.

Michael Barone, seniorpolitical analyst for TheWashington Examiner(www.washingtonexaminer.com), is a resident fellow at theAmerican EnterpriseInstitute, a Fox News Channelcontributor and a co-authorof The Almanac of AmericanPolitics. To find out moreabout Michael Barone, andread features by otherCreators Syndicate writersand cartoonists, visit theCreators Syndicate Web pageat www.creators.com.

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BY BETH RUCKERAP SPORTS WRITER

KNOXVILLE, Tenn.(AP) — Tennessee athleticdirector Mike Hamiltonhas announced he willresign at the end of themonth as the programwraps up a lengthy NCAAinvestigation process.

A news conference wascalled for 11 a.m.Tuesday.

“My family and I lovethe University of

Tennessee, and we loveKnoxville,” Hamilton saidin a statement. “We havepoured out our lives overthe last 19 years to try tomake this a better commu-nity, a better athletic pro-gram and a better univer-sity.”

Hamilton did not say in

his statement why he wasresigning, though he hasfaced criticism for thecoaches he hired and firedduring the past three sea-sons and for NCAA viola-tions committed by thosecoaches that resulted in amajor investigation intorecruiting.

BOSTON (AP) —Bruins forward NathanHorton will miss therest of the Stanley Cupfinals with a severeconcussion after heabsorbed a blindsidehit from Canucksdefenseman AaronRome during Game 3on Monday night.

Horton had justpassed the puck whenRome came at him,lowered his shoulderand flattened him —the kind of hit theNHL has tried to elim-inate after severalplayers sustainedsevere concussions.

The 26-year-oldHorton left Boston’s8-1 victory on astretcher and wastaken to a hospital.

The NHL is sched-uled to hold a disci-plinary hearing withRome at 11 a.m. onTuesday.

Horton has eightgoals and nine assiststhis postseason forBoston, which trails2-1 heading intoGame 4 on Wednesdaynight.

The Bruins updatedHorton’s condition ina release Tuesdaymorning.

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Boesch 2 homers, Scherzer wins for Tigers at TexasBY STEPHEN HAWKINS

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ARLINGTON, Texas(AP) — Brennan Boeschquickly put Detroit in thelead. The young right field-er and the Tigers then keptpouring it on against the ALWest-leading TexasRagners.

Boesch had two ofDetroit’s four home runswhile setting career highswith five hits and five RBIsin a 13-7 win Mondaynight.

The Tigers won for theseventh time in eight games.They set season highs forruns and hits (18) to back upMax Scherzer, who pitchedjust long enough for his firstwin in nearly a month.

All of Detroit’s homerscame off Colby Lewis (5-6),who gave up nine runs in 31-3 innings only five daysafter pitching eight score-less innings at Tampa Bayto start a five-game winningstreak for the Rangers.

When Boesch pulled apitch into the second deckof seats in right field in the

first, Detroit had a 3-0 leadbefore Lewis had evenretired a batter. AustinJackson, who grew up innearby Denton, led off thegame with a single beforeDon Kelly walked.

Boesch led off the thirdwith his seventh homer forhis first career multihomergame. It was also the first ofthree homers in the inningfor the Tigers.

After hitting only .196with seven extra-base hitshis previous 28 games,Boesch also singled andscored in the fourth, addedan RBI double in the sixthand singled in the ninth.

“I’ve been swinging thebat well. You just keepgrinding and you know thateventually balls are going tofind seats and find holes,”Boesch said. “It’s hard to beeasy on yourself when youhave expectations. It’ssomething I’ll probablyfight for the rest of mycareer. It’s a daily thingwhere you remind yourselfthat this game isn’t easy, butyou also expect to do yourjob and perform.”

Scherzer (7-2) hadn’twon since May 9 atToronto, when the right-hander won his sixth con-secutive decision to openthe season. He gave up fiveruns and eight hits in fiveinnings.

Since his previous win,Scherzer had gone 0-2 infour starts. He gave upseven runs in each of hislast two, including a no-decision against Minnesotalast Tuesday. He struck outfour and walked oneagainst Texas while throw-ing 65 of his 99 pitches forstrikes.

“Right now for whateverreason, he can’t find hisslider consistently,”Leyland said. “We have tolook into this, see what’sgoing on, and get itstraightened out.”

Andy Dirks hit a two-run homer for Detroit in thethird before Alex Avila hada solo shot that made it 7-0.

Nelson Cruz extendedhis hitting streak to 10games for Texas with a pairof two-run homers, givinghim 14 for the season. His

homer in the fourth gotTexas within 9-4. He wentdeep again in the eighth —a 459-foot blast to left-cen-ter, the fourth-longest everat Rangers Ballpark — forhis seventh career multi-homer game.

Lewis was gone afterMiguel Cabrera’s RBIdouble in the fourth,Detroit’s third consecutivehit, made it 8-2. VictorMartinez greeted relieverMichael Kirkman with asacrifice fly when EndyChavez made a runningcatch in the right-centergap to likely prevent moreruns.

Rangers leadoff hitterIan Kinsler snapped an 0-for-20 slide with an RBItriple in the third, thenadded a run-scoring doublein the fourth.

While playing secondbase in the ninth, Kinslercollided with Ryan Raburnwhile trying to field agrounder. Umpire EdRapuano immediately sig-naled that Raburn was safeafter Kinsler ran into thebaserunner.

Mavericks down 2-1, James not sure there’s a big fixBY BRIAN MAHONEYAP BASKETBALL WRITER

DALLAS (AP) — Evenwhen the Dallas Maverickserase those big leads Miamikeeps building, another prob-lem lurks.

LeBron James simplyswitches over to Jason Terry,blanketing the DallasMavericks’ No. 2 scoringoption the way he did leagueMVP Derrick Rose in theprevious round. Terry didnothing in the fourth quartersof Games 1 and 3, and notsurprisingly, the Mavs lostboth of them.

And here’s worse news forthe Mavs: James isn’t suremany fixes can be made atthis point.

“I don’t think it can’t betoo many,” he said Monday. “I think there are slight adjust-ments both teams make fromgame to game. Like I said,Game 4 of the finals, whichyou’ve been working on allseason since training camp iswhat you have. There’s nottoo many things you canchange.”

Though James is one ofthe league’s top defenders,Terry isn’t planning to staydown long.

He questioned whetherJames “can defend me likethat for seven games” andclaimed that first-round foePortland played betterdefense than Miami. He alsosaid that if Dallas can score100 points, “they can’t beat

us.”“I’m going to tell you this:

We will be there in Game 4,”Terry said. “I’m ready for thechallenge.”

So are the Heat, whorefuse to consider that thisgame could’ve been —maybe should’ve been — theclincher.

Miami’s lead is 2-1, closeon the scoreboard eventhough it doesn’t feel thatway on the floor. The Heathave repeatedly built double-digit cushions, and a late col-lapse in Game 2 is all that’skeeping them from the leadthat’s never been blown in anNBA series.

“You can’t think aboutstuff like that. Everything inlife happens for a reason,”

Dwyane Wade said Mondaybefore practicing. “If wecome in and we win thatgame, if we run away withthat game, I don’t know if oursense of urgency is the samein Game 3. Who knows? Soour sense of urgency was thatway for a reason. We lost thegame we know we shouldn’t.We are up 2-1. That’s whatwe have to focus on andworry about.”

The Heat insist the gameisn’t as easy as Wade andJames are making it look,and the Mavericks refuse toadmit they might just be fac-ing a superior foe.

“We’re just too stubborn,”point guard Jason Kidd saidMonday.

Game 4 is Tuesday night,

and a Heat victory wouldput them in position to win asecond championship on theMavericks’ floor if they fol-lowed that with another oneThursday.

Wade clutched the finalsMVP trophy that night fiveyears ago, already a super-star in just his third NBAseason, and figured hewould be back plenty oftimes. Instead, the Heatnever truly contended again— partially because theywere clearing salary capspace for last summer —until James and Chris Boshagreed to join Wade inMiami.

With that trio together, theHeat could win multipletitles, but Wade doesn’t want

to wait.“Nothing is promised to

none of us,” he said. “Younever know what’s going tohappen in this game. If youget your opportunity, youhave to seize it.”

That’s why he and theHeat could be disappointedabout where the seriesstands. They led by 12 inGame 1, were up 15 with7:14 to go in Game 2, andthey had a series of double-digit advantages in Game 3,when it peaked at 14 points.

Forcing turnovers ondefense that sent Wade andJames off for fast-breakdunks, it’s often appearedthey could run away fromthe Mavericks wheneverthey wanted.

Amanda Whorton memorialgolf tournament to be held

The seventh annualAmanda Whorton memo-rial golf tournamant will behelp July 9, 2011, at theDurant Country Club.

The four-man scrambleis $60 per person andincludes green fee, cart,food and beverages.

All proceeds from theevent will benefit theAmanda WhortonMemorial Scholarshipthrough the SOSU andCaddo EducationalFoundation.

Amanda, who was asenior at SOSU School ofBusiness, was killed in anautomobile accidentMarch 11, 2004.

Friends, family, andlocal community have

gathered together in herhonor to help other youngadults succeed throughscholarship benefits. In thepast seven years, over$141,000 has been raisedand many scholarshipshave been given to deserv-ing students.

This past year, theWhorton family wasawarded the BenefactorAward at SOSU’sHomecoming celebrationfor the work they are doingfor the Amanda WhortonScholarship.

For more informationon joining the tournament,or are interested in adver-tising, please contact LindaWhorton at 580-367-9966or 580-775-1996.

The 2011 NFL seasonexpected to be playedprior to 2012 electionWhat if they

gave an NFL sea-son and nobodycame? Or maybeyou would like thehalf-a-loaf plan bet-ter.

The SportsBusiness Journal,whatever that is,reported Mondaythat the NFL isplanning for a regu-lar season as shortas eight games.

Heck, eight gameswouldn’t even give theprima donnas time to getinto trouble.

Before you rush out topurchase your 8-game sea-son tickets, be aware thatschedule would have the“regular” season starting inlate November with theSuper Bowl scooted backuntil February 12.

The article didn’t men-tion this, but you might stillhave to buy a personal seatlicense (PSL) and pay forthe full 16-game seasonunless the NFL could find away to sneak in the pro-posed 18-game season andcharge for the two extragames.

The NFL had previouslyapproved pushing theSuper Bowl back to thatdate.

Makes you think theleague lords might havebeen expecting just exactlythis sort of thing to play outand were covering theirbases in advance.

All of this means, ofcourse, a new CollectiveBargaining Agreement(CBA) would have to bereached by at least earlyNovember.

They’ve had how long toreach this new agreement?

And so far they’ve man-aged to lock out the play-ers. Owners and players getalong together about likehusbands and wives.

The league and the play-ers can’t agree on lockingout or walking out or just

about anythingelse.

Now they’resuddenly sup-posed to come upwith a new CBA?The owners, abunch of reallyrich, really dumbdudes, kept givingstuff to the playersand now thosesame owners wantthe players to give

it back.Stay tuned for NFL

owners to show up twitter-ing in their underpants.

THE NFL-NFLPA stu-pidity has now moved tothe Eighth Circuit Court ofAppeals in St. Louis.

Judge Kermit Bye, afterabout an hour of listeningto oral arguments on thelegality of the owners’lock-out, advised the two sidesto saddle up and settle up.

The stumbling blockappears to be a mere $9 bil-lion bucks the owners wantmore of and the playerswant to keep.

It’s pretty easy to seewhy Joe and Judy AverageFan can’t buy tickets, parktheir cars, purchase theirhot dogs and soda pops andpopcorn and take the fami-ly to a pro football game.

At the rate things aregoing, we will likely seeCongress step in to balancethe budget, set financiallyresponsible goals anddemand both sides live hap-pily ever after.

We can all see howCongress has handled ourcountry’s financial follies.It makes perfect sense thatthese good folks could stepin and straighten up theNational Football League.

Where the heck isHoward Cosell when weneed him.”

You remember oldHowie, don’t you? He wasthe guy who changed hisname, capped his teeth andwore a wig to “tell it like itis.”

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Fire forces Arizona towns to prepare for evacuationBY BOB CHRISTIE AND

SUSAN MONTOYA BRYANASSOCIATED PRESS

SPRINGERVILLE,Ariz. (AP) — Wind, light-ning and continued dryconditions are expected tomake matters worse ineastern Arizona, where araging wildfire shows nosigns it’s done feasting onforestland in an area thathas long provided a coolsummer getaway from thenearby desert’s oppressiveheat.

The 365-square-mileWallow fire has been burn-ing for more than a week.Firefighters have managedto keep the flames fromhomes in some of theresort towns that have beenevacuated, but the fire con-tinued to march northMonday with the help ofwinds that gusted to morethan 60 mph.

While the weather set-tled down somewhatovernight, the crews andtheir commanders knowwhat’s in store.

“The bad news is it’s

supposed to pick back upall the way throughThursday,” Joe Reinarz,commander of the teambattling the fire, told anauditorium packed withresidents who gathered foran update Monday night.

He had a warning forthem.

“We’ve got about threeor four days ahead of usright now that are going totry all of us,” he said beforeurging them to prepare forevacuations.

The fire has alreadyforced people to leave theirhomes in Alpine, Nutriosoand Greer, a picturesquetown where most of the200 full-time residents hadalready fled by the timedeputies started going doorto door. AuthoritiesMonday also orderedeveryone still left in thenearby area known asSunrise to leave.

“It’s heartbreaking,”said Allan Johnson, ownerof the 101-year-old MollyButler Lodge in Greer, theoldest in the state. He waspessimistic about the

chances of saving thelodge and the hundreds ofvacation homes in the area.

“We’re numb. Ourentire family and ourfriends are just numb,” hesaid.

As the sun went downMonday, a huge pall ofblack smoke loomed overthe twin towns of Eagarand Springerville, home toabout 7,000 people. As thepublic meeting was underway, sheriff’s officialsbegan visiting homes andbusinesses, telling peopleto prepare to leave.

Reinarz pointed to ayellow line on a map, say-ing that would be the trig-ger for asking residents ofthe area known as RoundValley to get out. That lineis about eight miles fromthe towns.

Apache County ChiefSheriff’s Deputy BrannonEagar, whose great-greatgrandfather was one of thevalley’s original settlers,told those at the meetingthat firefighters have amission bigger than savingany one home.

If fixes fail, Iowa town could be left under waterBY GRANT SCHULTE

ASSOCIATED PRESS

HAMBURG, Iowa (AP)— The swollen MissouriRiver is threatening to inun-date a small southwest Iowatown where officials are pil-ing massive sandbags on afaltering levee to containfloodwaters that could leavethe community under sever-al feet of water.

If efforts to protect thetown — including building asecondary barrier — fail,part of Hamburg could beunder as much as 8 feet ofwater for a month or more,Fire Chief Dan Sturm said.Flooding along the river thissummer, expected to breakdecades-old records, will testthe system of levees, damsand flood walls like neverbefore.

“We’re working againstthe clock,” Sturm said asmany residents packed uptheir homes and headed outof town. “There’s a chancewe can save ourselves fromthe worst of it. We just needsome time. But if water getsin here, it’s going to be herefor a while.”

The earthen levee that

guards an area of farmlandand small towns betweenOmaha, Neb., and KansasCity has been partiallybreached in at least twoplaces south of the Iowa-Missouri border. And emer-gency management officialsexpect new breaches in thecoming days as the riverrises.

That means Hamburgcould be only the first ofmany communities to get hit.

The last time the MissouriRiver crested at levels pre-dicted for this summer wasin 1952, before most of themajor dams along the riverwere built. And the floodingis expected to last into mid-August.

The U.S. Army Corps ofEngineers will be releasingmore water than it ever hasfrom the dams by mid-June,meaning there likely will beother levee problems like theones near Hamburg, saidKevin Grode with the corps’water management office.

“With these high flows,there’s the possibility ofmore levee breaches,”Grode said.

Officials also predict thewater will get high enough

to flow over at least 11 lev-ees in the area nearHamburg in the corners ofsoutheast Nebraska, south-west Iowa and northwestMissouri.

The Army Corps beganbuilding a secondary floodwall to protect low-lyingareas of Hamburg because itexpects the northernmostbreach of the floodwall,which is 5 miles southwestof town, to fully give way atsome point.

That breach constituted a10- to 15-foot-wide sectionof the levee collapsing in onitself on Sunday, said KimThomas, the head of thecorps’ emergency manage-ment office in Omaha, Neb.The corps evacuated its per-sonnel from the area, and theIowa National Guard used ahelicopter to drop 22 half-ton sandbags on the weak-ened section, stabilizing ittemporarily.

Although Hamburg isupriver, a full breach of thatsection of levee would causefloodwater to flow north-ward over the flat terrain andthreaten the town’s low-lying southern neighbor-hoods.

Scott Pelley beginsas ‘CBS EveningNews’ anchor

BY DAVID BAUDERAP TELEVISION WRITER

NEW YORK (AP) — Itwas Scott Pelley’s firstnight as anchor of the“CBS Evening News” onMonday, but you’d hardlyknow it.

The veteran “60Minutes” correspondentmade no mention of thechange. From Afghanistanto France, through way-ward public officials andpromising cancer treat-ments, he covered thenews.

“I’m Scott Pelley,” theTexan said at the broad-cast’s end. “For all of us atCBS News around theworld, good night.”

Pelley replaced KatieCouric as anchor of thethird-rated nightly news-cast, seen on average byabout 6 million people anight, and his debut was asunderstated as hers wasbold five years ago. Couricsought to remake the

evening newscast with aformat that emphasized herinterviewing skills, butCBS went back to a moretraditional approach whenviewers rejected thereboot.

Pelley’s version of theevening news may havejogged the memories ofveteran CBS viewers. Thenetwork built a replica ofthe world map that used tohang behind WalterCronkite when that newslegend was anchor anddebuted it Monday. CBSalso dusted off backgroundmusic composed for the“CBS Evening News” in1987 but ditched whenCouric took over.

CBS led the newscastwith a report by correspon-dent Mandy Clark, onpatrol with U.S. forces inAfghanistan. Pelley thendiscussed the progress ofthe wars in Afghanistanand Iraq with correspon-dents Lara Logan andDavid Martin.

NY accident illuminates perils of ‘bounce houses’BY FRANK ELTMAN AND JOHN SEEWER

ASSOCIATED PRESS

OCEANSIDE, N.Y.(AP) — Bodies begantumbling when a two-story red, white and blueinflatable slide wentsoaring into the air at ayouth soccer tournamentover the weekend. Twoother inflatables alsoflew off the ground thatbreezy afternoon, caus-ing youngsters to sufferbumps and bruises butcritically injuring a moth-er who had an inflatablecrash-land on her.

Fathers, coaches andbystanders sprintedtoward the airborneamusement rides, someusing knives to furiouslystab the air-filled edi-fices before anyone elsewas injured on Saturday.“I never thought therewould be any seriousissues, any concerns withsafety,” one father, MikePerniches, later told TheAssociated Press. “Butnow, I’m like, forget it.”

Thirteen ended up atthe hospital that day. And

people in Oceanside, onNew York’s Long Island,learned a lesson that isbecoming all too famil-iar: Inflatable amuse-ment rides — with theirhit-and-miss regulationand a lack of industry-wide standards — canendanger lives when notproperly installed oroperated.

At least 10 inflatablesaround the country havebeen toppled by winds orcollapsed under toomuch weight in the lasttwo months, injuringmore than 40 people,according towww.rideaccidents.com,a website that tracksamusement ride acci-dents.

In a little more than aweek beginning in lateApril, two slides col-lapsed at separate eventsin California, injuringnine children, accordingto media reports.

In Arizona, two acci-dents in the Tucson areainjured four children,including sisters whowere inside a bouncehouse in February when

wind bursts tossed itonto a roof. In April, aboy and girl were in abounce house that wasblown across three lanesof traffic.

“I wish this was a rari-ty, but it’s not. It happensall the time,” said JimBarber, a spokesman forthe National Associationof Amusement RideSafety Officials, based inBrandon, Fla. “These areprobably the most dan-gerous amusementdevices they have.”

It’s not the rides thatare the problem, he said,it’s the way they are setup and supervised.

Too many companiesthat rent inflatables willdrop them off at a partywith little instruction,said Barber. “If they’regoing to rent thesethings, they should berented with an operator,”he said.

“A lot of times theynever get anchoreddown, they put too manykids in, they put two- andthree-year-old kids inwith a 16-year-old,” saidBarber, who oversaw

New York State’s rideinspectors before retir-ing.

“They don’t fly awayif they’re properlyinstalled,” he said.

Police on Long Islanddid not immediatelyhave the name of thevendor who provided therides at the OceansideUnited Soccer Club fes-tival on Saturday. NassauCounty District AttorneyKathleen Rice said heroffice would investigatethe circumstances sur-rounding the accident.

A woman identified asCathleen Hughes, 36, ofOceanside, suffered headand spinal injuries whenthe flying slide landed ontop of her, according toNewsday. An update onher condition was notimmediately availablefrom South NassauCommunities Hospital inOceanside, where shewas being treated.

“She was walking onthe track and it hit her,”Perniches said. “She waslying still on the ground,there was blood comingout of her mouth.”

Washington Irving Pre-K and Kindergarten students with perfect attendance are:(Left to right, back row) Easton Ford, second semester perfect attendance, RafePatterson, all year and second semester perfect attendance, Tyler Murphy, all year andsecond semester perfect attendance. (Middle row) Anthony Crabtree, all year andsecond semester perfect attendance, Abigail Hunkapillar, all year and second semes-ter perfect attendance,Katelyn Calhoun, all yearand second semester perfectattendance and RyleeWallace, all year and secondsemester perfect attendance.(Front row) Braylen Lyday,all year and second semesterperfect attendance and MaciSmith, all year and secondsemester perfect attendance.

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Police log tA cross section of callsto the Durant/Bryan

County CommunicationsCenter

TTuueessddaayy12:18 a.m. loud music

1500 block of N. Seventh1:42 suspicious activity

Hill Apartments1:51 suspicious activity

alley beside Wright’sDrive-Inn

5:42 domestic assault5600 block of Church

6:52 beat up blue car hasblaring music BrownwoodApartments

7:12 pit bull loose 200block of Umstead

11:01 two yellow dogsand a brown dog aban-doned at rental house 1000block of E. Main

12:34 p.m. city workerstrying to pick up limbs, dogattacking workers 400block of E. Beech

1:01 auto accident 100block of W. Evergreen

1:02 auto accident FirstUnited on University

2:08 disturbance 4500block of Cavender Lane

2:18 shoplifter Walmart3:19 elderly female ran

into building 900 block ofN.E. Fourth

3:22 theft 4500 block ofTreaty

4:13 theft 1000 block ofPate

6:28 people have pupsbarking all the time andcommence to howling allnight long 1600 block ofSmith

6:31 someone keepsopening mail and putting itback into the mail box4500 block of Cavender

8:50 possible burglary inprogress 700 block of N.Sixth

8:56 prowler 1900 blockof Westside

10:51 disturbance 300block of N.E. Fifth

11:05 burglary 100block of Timothy

WWeeddnneessddaayy12:31 a.m. loud music

Campus Court2:22 domestic assault

400 block of E. Mulberry3:18 pursuit south-

bound, approachingChickasaw

7:43 dog and horse inbackyard 400 block ofN.E. Fourth

8:01 cat stuck hangingupside down in tree 200block of N. 10th

10:49 embezzlement2200 block of FourSeasons

11:49 pit bull stolen 300block of N. 10th

12:25 p.m. auto accidentN. First, First United

1:02 auto accidentRadio Rd.

1:44 attempted burglaryAnna Grace Ln.

2:06 threats Van St.3:19 auto accident Max

Rd.5:31 old black mama

dog and old hound keepcoming into yard N.McLean

6:28 juvenile males willnot leave 1000 block ofFour Seasons

6:56 dog bite 200 blockof E. Mulberry

8:13 fight 200 block ofN. Brackett

8:22 trespassingHarmony Dr.

9:06 disturbance 400block of Park Lake

9:55 someone tried tomake entry into back door800 block of W. Locust

Second Grade Students who met all of their Accelerated Reader Goals for the sec-ond semester.Top Row - Angelita Cruz, Taylor Thompson, Selea Rock, Emma Curtis, HayleyMcKinney, Chelsie Wilmoth, Zachary Walston and Janette PenaBottom Row - Ivey Johnston, Alex Pair, Danielle Perry, J.R. Wall, Dawson Reed,Joshua Current, Paige Matlock, Connor Hicks and Skylar AndrewsNot Pictured - Cole Mitchell

WI Accelerated Readers

WI Accelerated Math

Second Grade Students who met all of the Accelerated Math Goals for the second semester.Top Row - Riley Powell, Juan Montes, Aubri Davis, Chelsie Wilmoth, Gianna Buffalo,Emma Curtis and Janette PenaMiddle Row - Azure Ammons-Coxsey, Blane Potts, Katie Rogers, Angel Durham, ConnorHicks, Laken Seeton, Taylor Thompson and Tucker RumerBottom Row - Jordan Saxon, Brandon Crabtree, Bradi McLemore, Dawson Reed, KylandCarper, Aiden Isenberg, Neel Guatam, Ivey Johnston, Alex Pair and Aliyah Tyson-TomlinsonNot Pictured - Jaselyn Biggs and Kanon Springer

NWH Accelerated Math

These Northwest Heights 2nd graders have mastered between 75-99 objec-tives using Accelerated Math. They are Nancy Dodd, Ty Rudolf, TylerBurgess and Carson Garner.

These second graders at Northwest Heights have mastered between 100-149math objectives. They are (in no particular order) Gavin King, SuttonLindley, Kylin Brown, Madison Robinson, Brayden Vaught, Nickolas Weaver,Gracie Powell, Hayden Collier, Shaylie Ingram, Cason Keel, Brady Holaday,Cameron Allivand, Kamri Blake, Grant Boger, Fanny Baca, Emily Farr,Sidney Paris, Christopher Callaway, Mazie Bell, Trinity Blevins, Hailey Pelts,Ciera Conner, Derek Hall, and Taylor Dodd.

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Today's Highlights inHistory:

On June 7, 1776,Richard Henry Lee of

Virginia proposed to theContinental Congress aresolution stating "That

these United Colonies are,and of right ought to be,

free and independentStates, that they are

absolved from all alle-giance to the British

Crown, and that all politi-cal connection betweenthem and the State ofGreat Britain is, and

ought to be, totally dis-solved."

On this date:IInn 11775533, Britain's King

George II gave his assent toan Act of Parliament estab-lishing the BritishMuseum.

IInn 11776699, frontiersmanDaniel Boone first began toexplore present-dayKentucky.

IInn 11884488, French painterand sculptor Paul Gauguinwas born in Paris.

IInn 11992299, the sovereignstate of Vatican City cameinto existence as copies ofthe Lateran Treaty wereexchanged in Rome.

IInn 11993399, King GeorgeVI and his wife, QueenElizabeth, arrived atNiagara Falls, N.Y., fromCanada on the first visit tothe United States by areigning British monarch.

IInn 11994488, theCommunists completedtheir takeover ofCzechoslovakia with theresignation of PresidentEdvard Benes (BEH'-nesh).

IInn 11996677, the HaightAshbury Free MedicalClinic opened in SanFrancisco.

IInn 11998811, Israeli militaryplanes destroyed a nuclear

power plant in Iraq, a facil-ity the Israelis chargedcould have been used tomake nuclear weapons.

IInn 11999988, in a crime thatshocked the nation, JamesByrd Jr., a 49-year-oldblack man, was hooked bya chain to a pickup truckand dragged to his death inJasper, Texas. (Two whitemen were later sentencedto death for the crime; athird received life with thepossibility of parole.)

Ten years ago:Oklahoma City bomber

Timothy McVeigh aban-doned all appeals after athree-judge panel of the10th U.S. Circuit Court ofAppeals rejected hisrequest to delay hisimpending execution. Afederal judge refused tostop plans for a World War

II Memorial on theNational Mall inWashington, D.C. BritishPrime Minister Tony Blairand his Labour Party sweptto a second term, winningre-election by a crushingmargin.

Five years ago: Abu Musab al-Zarqawi

(AH'-boo MOO'-sahb ahl-zahr-KOW'-ee), thefounder of al-Qaida in Iraq,was killed by a U.S.airstrike on his safe house.The U.S. Senate rejected aconstitutional amendmentto ban gay marriage.

One year ago:U.S. defense officials

announced that Army Spc.Bradley Manning had beendetained in Baghdad inconnection with a videoposted on WikiLeaks

showing Apache helicop-ters gunning downunarmed men in Iraq.White House correspon-dent Helen Thomas, 89,abruptly retired after call-ing for Israelis to get "outof Palestine" in an onlinevideo. An Indian court con-victed seven formeremployees of UnionCarbide's India subsidiaryof "death by negligence"for their roles in the 1984Bhopal gas tragedy.

Thought for Today:"That would be a good

thing for them to cut onmy tombstone: 'Wherever

she went, including here, itwas against her betterjudgment.'" — DorothyParker, American writer

(born 1893, died this datein 1967).

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Upcoming events tOOnnggooiinngg

It's time to register forthe free Bryan CountySummer Series. This is aseries of fun activities forkids from ages 4-12. Feelfree to participate in one,two, or all three events. Allactivities begin at 8:00a.m. and are on the follow-ing Saturdays:

June 18 (Fun Run atMulti-Sports Complex)

July 16th (Field Day atMulti-Sports Complex)

August 6th (ObstacleCourse at Carl AlbertPark)

Each child must have aregistration/waiver formsigned by aparent/guardian. Thesemay be obtained by calling920-1575. All participantswill receive a free T-shirt.Start training now.

There will be a FamiliesReading Fiesta on the sec-ond Thursday of eachmonth beginning June 9 at6 p.m. in the TheaterRoom of the Donald W.Reynolds CommunityCenter & Library. Theywill be serving food, sto-ries, fun and music. Theywill also be giving tours ofthe new library and showcasing more than 1,200Spanish books recentlyadded to the library as wellas the "Mango" electroniclanguages database withmore than 45 foreign lan-guages. Mango is offeredfree to all of the librarypatrons who can access thelanguage database withtheir library card number.

Durant Middle Schoolhas a surplus of previousyearbooks for the years of2001-02; 2006-07; and2007-08. Surplus year-books are $5.00 each andmay be purchased at theDurant Middle SchoolOffice located on 410 N.6th.

The Durant PublicSchool District has a poli-cy that allows forP r o f i c i e n c y - B a s e dPromotion for all studentsin Grades K-12. Those stu-dents who submit an appli-

cation to demonstrate pro-ficiency in one or morecore curriculum areas willbe given comprehensivetests which are specificallydesigned to correlate withthe mandatory curriculumobjectives referred to asPriority Academic StudentSkills (PASS).

Applications, which areavailable in the principal’soffice at each site, must bereturned by Tuesday, May10th. Tests will be admin-istered on Saturday, May14, 2011. Students will benotified of the specifictime and location prior totesting. Parents or studentswho have questions con-cerning these tests shouldcontact the principal at theattendance center wherethe students attendsschool.

Silo Public Schooloffers comprehensive spe-cial education services toeligible students ages 3through 21 who have orsuspect having a disability,regardless of the severity.All referrals are consid-ered confidential, andservices are provided at nocost. You don’t have to beenrolled in school. Theymay be in day care, headstart, attending a privateschool, advancing fromone grade to another, stateinstitution, or in a treat-ment facility. Silo PublicSchool services includescreening and evaluationsin areas of the suspecteddisabilities, such as visionand/or hearing loss, motorskills, general develop-ment, learning disability,speech and languagedevelopment, physicalimpairments, mental retar-dation, emotional distur-bance, autism/ pervasivedevelopmental disorders,health impairments andtraumatic brain injury.Free, appropriate, publiceducations with a full con-tinuum of services areavailable for all children,including ones that are eli-gible to receive theLindsey Nicole HenryScholarship. To help us

provide these services toany child with a disabilityin need of an educationand/or related services,please contact BillCaruthers 924-700 Ext.227, Karyn Pierce 924-700Ext. 256, Jan Richardson924-700 Ext. 234, or mailto: Silo Public School,Special EducationServices, 122 West BourneSt., Durant, OK, 74701.

JJuunnee 55--77First Christian Church

and First Presbyterian areputting on a Vacation BibleSchool June 5-7 at 301 N.3rd Ave. This is for allchildren 3 y.o. throughenter 6th grade. This VBSis in the evening from 6-8pm and is a great way tocontinue the fun for thechildren after theMagnolia Festival. Thetitle of this VBS isHometown Nazareth;"When Jesus was a Kid"Children will meet Maryand hear her stories ofJesus' boyhood and dis-cover what it might havebeen like for the Son ofGod incarnate. They willexplore how they can standup for their faith in every-day life, through, song,crafts, fun, and stories.Please check outwww.durantfcc.com orcall 924-5252 for moreinformation and to registerchildren. Everyone isinvited for this journey thatspeaks to us today.

JJuunnee 66--1100Calvary Baptist Church

is having a Vacation BibleSchool, “Big AppleAdventure: Where faithand life connect,” June 6-10 from 9 a.m. until noon.The school is open to chil-dren ages 4 through sixthgrade. Children will hearBible stories, play games,participate in recreation,make crafts and enjoyNew York style snacks. Formore information, call924-0862. Calvary BaptistChurch is located at 715W. Louisiana St. inDurant.

JJuunnee 1100A combined class

reunion of the BokchitoRoughrider Classes of1955, 1956, 1957 and1958 will be held at theBokchito Senior CitizensCenter on Friday nightstarting at 6 p.m. A lightpot luck snack supper offinger foods will be servedat 6 p.m. Members whowish to eat are requested tobring some type of snackfood. For more informa-tion please contact RozellSangster Thomas at 924-3612 or Jean Easter Smithat 295-3585.

JJuunnee 1111--1122The Durant Elks Lodge

annual golf tournamentwill be held June 11 and 12at the Durant Golf &Country Club. Register atthe Country Club for theElks Lodge. This two-per-son tournament is open tothe public. The fee is $150per team. All proceeds willgo toward youth activitiesand the scholarships fund.

The Believers Churchwill host a special concerton June 11, at 6 p.m.Special guests ElisabetGarcia will perform withSouthern Gospel group,The Villa Family and theChristian rock band OuterRealm. The church islocated at 303 N. 49thStreet behind BrownsFuneral Home. For moreinformation please call580-380-7006.

The Durant HighSchool Class of 1971 40year reunion will be heldon Saturday, June 11.There are many eventsscheduled for the day start-ing at 10 a.m. at SilveradoGolf and The Hollow Tree.Later that evening the classwill meet again at 7 p.m. atSports City Cafe. For moreinformation about theday’s events, please con-tact: (580)-775-1508.

The Askew-ShipmanFamily Reunion will beheld at the ColemanCommunity Building onJune 11, at 10 a.m. A cov-

ered dish will be served atnoon. For more informa-tion about the reunionplease contact RubyShipman Ashford at 367-9971 or W.T. “Dub”Shipman at 937-4694.

JJuunnee 1133The reularly scheduled

monthly meeting of theBoard of Directors forBryan County Rural WaterDistrict #2 will be held onMonday, June 13 at 5:30p.m. For more informationplease call 924-8517.

JJuunnee 1155--1199The Texoma Sams RV

Chapter will be hosting aFriendship Campout Rallyfor

Good Sam Chapters andIndividual Members fromSoutheastern Oklahoma.This area includes chaptersand individual ownersfrom the areas east of I-35and south of I-40. Therally will be held June 15-19 at the Choctaw CasinoKOA RV Park south ofDurant for four days.Activities will includegames, bingo, door prizes,entertainment and aplanned meal. Anyoneinterested in attending,please contact Louise Cainat 580-889-1841 or DavidCrouch at 580-920-6281for additional information.

JJuunnee 1177--1188The Durant High Class

of 1991 reunion planningis now on Facebook. Clickon events for details. It willbe held June 17-18, 2011.RSVP on Facebook orcontact Carrie at: carriew-clemons@yahoo.com byMay 1. Registration feesmust be received by May15. The cost is $20 per per-son. They need help find-ing classmates so pleasepass the word along andanyone who has informa-tion on classmates isencouraged to e-mail car-riewclemons@yahoo.com.

The DISD will continuetheir 2011-2012 schoolyear enrollment for pre-kthrough third grade stu-dents through Thursday,

June 7. For more informa-tion please call NWH-924-5595, REL- 924-3628, WI- 924-3805.

June 24

The AmbassadorsMusic Ministry Team fromthe Association FreeLutheran Bible School inMinneapolis, MN, willpresent an inspirationalconcert at the FaithLutheran Church onFriday, June 24, at 7 p.m.For more informationplease call 924-9907.

JJuunnee 2277--2299The Church of Christ in

Calera will be having aVacation Bible School onJune 27-29 from 6:30p.m.- 8:15 p.m. For moreinformation please call434-5740.

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