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1. A man who died after a snakebite last weekend is only Missouri’s second copperhead fatality. 3A
2. Gov. Pat Quinn con-siders selling the No. 1 license plate. 3A
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4. Safety analysts say a yacht that capsized July 4 was overcrowded. 5A
5. People from Il-linois to New Jersey are still without power after a line of deadly storms struck June 29. More unpredict-able weather contin-ues to follow. 6A
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CORIANNE EGAN | The Sun
Crews from Hendron Fire Department and Lone Oak Fire Department work to extinguish a fire on KY 348 on Thursday evening. It took both fire departments about 15 minutes to get control of the flames, which touched every room but one in the house.
An attempt to battle an insect led to a fi re that destroyed a home Thursday night outside Lone Oak.
Deputy Hendron Fire Chief Doug Cooper said the department got a report of a structure fi re at 1820 Ky. 348, also known as Lovelaceville Flor-ence East, about 7:15 p.m. Cooper said when fi refi ghters arrived, smoke was billowing out of the house and fl ames were showing. It took the department about 15 minutes, with the help of Lone Oak fi refi ghters, to get the fi re
under control.Cooper said that the fi re started in
a bedroom, when a resident as look-ing for a wasp that had gotten into the house. The resident, whom the department declined to name, used a lighter to illuminate under the bed in search of the wasp and accidentally caught the bed on fi re.
James Samples, son of homeowner Johnny Samples, said he is happy his father, nephew and the family dog es-caped without injury.
“I used to be a fi refi ghter in Louis-ville, so I know that once a fi re hits a
mattress it has a lot of kindling,” Sam-ples said. “They did a great job keep-ing it contained, and they saved some important valuables. When you’ve lost everything, it’s pretty amazing when they can give you back something.”
Samples said his father was taken to Lourdes hospital as a precau-tion. Lone Oak Deputy Chief Charlie Blackston said only one room of the house was untouched by the fl ames.
Call Corianne Egan, a Paducah Sun staff writer, at 270-575-8652 or fol-low @CoriEgan on Twitter.
Fire destroys McCracken homeBY CORIANNE [email protected]
The search for a swimmer in the Ohio River ceased early Thursday after a towboat pilot discovered a body near Golconda, Ill.
Emergency offi cials confi rmed Wednes-day that crews in Kentucky and Illinois began searching for 42-year-old Casey Chavez of Golconda on Tuesday after he went missing while swimming with two of
his children on the Illinois side of Rondo Island. A mile-long, woodsy land strip, Rondo Island is located between Berry’s
Pilot spots swimmer’s body
BY MALLORY [email protected]
MALLORY PANUSKA | The Sun
Kentucky crews dock rescue boats along the Berry’s Ferry shore of the Ohio River in Livingston County Wednesday during a search for a missing swimmer. The search began Tuesday and ended Thursday morning when Illinois officials located a body near Golconda, Ill.
FRANKFORT — With the ever-grow-ing use of cell phones, western Ken-tucky has nearly exhausted the 270 area code and is in line for an additional one.
The Kentucky Public Service Com-mission is weighing a request to make the next area code available to all new phone customers throughout the re-gion, rather than to apply it geographi-cally.
That would mean people would have to dial the area code to reach even their closest neighbors who end up with the proposed new number.
Chatter about a new area code for western Kentucky had died down near-ly two years ago when the Public Ser-vice Commission withdrew its approval for one.
It turned out at the time that more nearly 1 million phone numbers with the 270 area code remained. But those numbers are expected to be exhausted in 2015, prompting the North Ameri-can Numbering Plan Administrator, which oversees the distribution of phone numbers, to renew the request for an additional area code.
“It’s kind of a Yogi Berra case: It’s deja vu all over again,” said Public Ser-vice Commission spokesman Andrew Melnykovych.
The agency concluded in 2010 that there was not an immediate need for
Area code requested for western Kentucky
BY ROGER ALFORDAssociated Press
Officials confirm body located near Golconda, Ill., after 2-day search
CORIANNE EGAN | The Sun
Paducah Police Capt. Don Hodgson points to the Kentucky Oaks Mall area of a traffic map at the Paducah Police Department. Hodgson and his officers issued 199 seatbelt citations throughout a two-week pe-riod in early June, most of which were concentrated in the mall area because of its congestion and the heightened likelihood of car wrecks.
Paducah police Capt. Don Hodgson has worked 18 years for the department 18 years. In that time he’s seen an endless amount of serious wrecks along with serious injuries that were preventable.
“It’s frustrating when you go to these wreck scenes and people die or are injured in col-lisions that were survivable,” Hodgson said. “If the area had six homicides, people would be knocking down our door. But
since our society calls them acci-dents, some people tend to take it less seriously.”
McCracken County has re-corded 16 traffi c fatalities in-volving 13 wrecks since Jan. 1. Of those fatal wrecks, eight of those were worked by the sheriff’s de-partment, six by city police and two by state police. That’s up from 11 over all of 2011.
“There aren’t any major strings that connect all of them,” Sheriff Jon Hayden said. “Some of them are driver inattention, some of them are failure to
yield, some of them are related to alcohol. Or it could be a com-bination of it all.”
For two weeks in early June, Hodgson and his staff ran their annual Click It or Ticket cam-paign throughout Paducah. Throughout that time — from May 21 to June 3 — offi cers pulled over 199 people who weren’t wearing their seat belts. The citation costs a motorist $25, but Hodgson said the mes-sage was clear enough: Wear
City ends Click it or Ticket campaignBY CORIANNE [email protected]
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Thirsty flowersElain Gonzalez Garcia, employee of James Sanders Nursery in Paducah, waters flowering quince on Thursday. The drought has called for extra watering at the nursery, which keeps all employees busy. The nursery’s busiest time of year starts around the end of February and ends right before the summer.
McCracken District CourtNov. 3
Antonio L. Williams, 28, 1409 Parkhurst Dr., Bowling Green, posses-sion of synthetic cannabinoid agonists or piperazines: 20 days, serve 5 days, 15 days, conditional discharge 2 years, no further offenses, random drug screens, forfeit items seized, court costs waived.
Robert L. Conder, 29, 1034 Oscar Cross Ave., Paducah, theft by unlaw-ful taking to include shoplifting: $100 suspension, 25 days, serve 10 days, 15 days, conditional discharge 2 years, no further offenses, stay out of Kohls, court costs waived.
Susan D. Moss, 40, 2905 Hovekamp Rd., Paducah, theft by unlaw-ful taking to include shoplifting: $285 paid, 10 days, conditional dis-charge 2 years, no further offenses, theft prevention classes, stay out of Walmart.
Brittny D. Martin, 21, 110 Grogan Circle Lot 3, Paducah, theft by unlaw-ful taking to include shoplifting: $285, 10 days, conditional discharge 2 years, no further offenses, theft prevention classes, stay out of Walmart, to pay 5-3-12.
Kimberly Shea Strickland, 44, 7001 S. 28th St., Paducah, criminal tres-passing, 1st degree: $285, 35 days, serve 6 days, 29 days, conditional discharge 2 years, no further offenses, restitution if any, no contact with victim, to pay 5-3-12.
Nov. 8Ebony Z. Williams, 20, 1001 Walter Jetton Ave. Apt. 1, Paducah, theft by
unlawful taking to include shoplifting: $100 suspension, 25 days, serve 5 days, 20 days, conditional discharge 2 years, no further offenses, restitu-tion if any, stay out of Walmart, court costs waived.
Kagni R. Thomas, 21, 2142 Jefferson St. #305, Paducah, theft by un-lawful taking to include shoplifting: $385, 10 days, conditional discharge 2 years, no further offenses, stay out of Sears, restitution if any, theft prevention classes, court costs waived.
Brittnie L. Labelle, 21, 1100 Butler St., Metropolis, Ill., theft by unlaw-ful taking to include shoplifting: $100, 10 days, conditional discharge 2 years, no further offenses, restitution if any, theft prevention classes, stay out of Sears, court costs waived.
Carla Lynn Roberts, 46, 252 Navaho Dr., Paducah, theft by unlawful tak-ing to include shoplifting: $410, 20 days, conditional discharge 2 years, no further offenses, theft prevention classes, stay out of Walmart, to pay 5-8-12.
Kassandra R. Rich, 20, 6100 Old Benton Rd., Paducah, theft by decep-tion to include cold checks under $500: $185, 10 days, conditional dis-charge 2 years, no further offenses, restitution and fees, check classes, to pay 2-7-12.
Local Briefs
Jury selection is set to begin Monday in Benton in the re-trial of Jerry Wayne Walker Jr.
Walker is charged with an array of offenses, including arson, manslaughter and wanton endangerment, stem-ming from a 1998 Murray State University dorm fire that killed student Michael Minger and wounded others.
Walker was charged and tried in 2001, but a hung jury led prosecutors to dismiss the case and drop the charges. A Calloway County grand jury re-indicted Walker last September. He is set for re-trial next week on charges of second-degree manslaughter, first-degree arson, second-degree assault and 14 counts of first-degree wanton endangerment.
The fire broke out on the west side of Hester Hall 13 years ago while Walker was a student living in the dorm.
Walker works today in the Paducah Public Schools board office. He was reassigned from his post as Paducah Middle School assistant principal in October after the charges against him in connection with the dorm fire resurfaced.
Marshall and Calloway Commonwealth Attorney Mark Blankenship said the trial is set to convene at 9 a.m. Monday in Marshall Circuit Court.
—Staff report
Walker re-trial to begin Monday in fire case
An escaped McCracken County inmate who spurred a nearly 24-hour search is set to spend another two years in jail after pleading guilty Thursday to an escape charge.
William C. Murrell, 20, reportedly walked away from a work detail near North 13th Street and H.C. Mathis Drive on April 17. Multiple law enforcement agencies began searching for him and recaptured him the next afternoon.
State police charged Murrell with second-degree escape, which he pleaded guilty to in McCracken Cir-cuit Court on Thursday. Judge Craig Clymer accepted the plea and set his sentencing for 9 a.m. Aug. 1. According to the agreement, Murrell will spend two years in jail consecutive to his current sentence.
Murrell was initially jailed on theft and drug charges with a scheduled release date of Nov. 1, 2014.
—Staff report
County jail escapee to get 2 extra years
After a busy Fourth of July night, the McCracken County Sheriff’s Department handed out one fire-works-related burn ban violation to a Paducah man on Thursday afternoon.
Sgt. David Shepherd said the department was called to a field fire in the area of Craven Drive in West Paducah just after 2 p.m. Once the fire was put out, investigators found Marquan Williams, 18, had been shooting bottle rockets in the back yard of the house.
The fire consumed a grassy area and wood line ad-jacent to the residence. Shepherd said several dozen spent bottle rocket sticks were found around the area.
Chief Deputy Sheriff Mike Turnbow said Williams was the only person cited by the department for vio-lating the burn ban in the past two days. Citations, he said, are related to damage caused by the violation. Although deputies investigated several reports of fire-works being set off, only warnings were given before Thursday afternoon.
—Staff report
Man accused of violating county burn ban
LOUISVILLE — The woman con-victed of trying to extort millions in cash, cars and a house from Uni-versity of Louisville men’s basket-ball coach Rick Pitino “advanced no arguments of merit on appeal” and will not get a new trial, the U.S. 6th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Thursday.
Judge Boyce F. Martin Jr. of Lou-isville, writing for the three-mem-ber panel, concluded that 52-year-old Karen Sypher’s attorneys failed to make a case on any of the points argued before the court in May.
In 2010, a jury convicted Sypher of extortion, lying to the FBI and re-taliation against a witness. Prosecu-tors said she sought the money from Pitino to stay quiet about a tryst in a Louisville restaurant.
Sypher later fi led a police report
accusing the coach of raping her, an allegation Louisville police, the Jef-ferson County Commonwealth’s At-torney and FBI each found not to be credible.
Since being convicted, Sypher has put forth a variety of conspira-cy theories, all of which have been rejected by a federal judge and law enforcement.
Sypher is serving a seven-year sentence at a federal prison in Mari-anna, Fla.
Sypher’s attorney, David Brian Nolan, said Thursday that he’ll ask the full appeals court to reconsider the case and, if necessary, appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court.
“We will press on,” Nolan said in an interview. “We’ve raised a lot of constitutional issues as to whether she ever received a fair trial. We’re hopeful ... the full story will get out.”
Court upholds conviction in Pitino extortion case
BY BRETT BARROUQUEREAssociated Press
A Paducah pediatrician accused of choking and infl icting other inju-ries on his wife while going through the a divorce is slated for trial in Oc-tober in McCracken Circuit Court.
Dr. Shawn Trask, 50, is charged with fourth-degree assault, third-degree terroristic threatening, fi rst-degree wanton endangerment and retaliating against a participant in a legal process.
Trask, who is out of jail on bond,
was in court Thursday and Judge Craig Clymer set the case for trial on Oct. 17-19.
Deputies with the McCracken County Sheriff’s Department said they responded to the Trasks’ home on Madison Street on March 8 in re-sponse to a reported beating.
When detectives arrived, they re-portedly found Trask’s wife in need of medical attention. Police later ar-rested Trask on a charge of second-degree assault.
Pediatrician faces October trialStaff report
COLUMBIA, Mo. — For-mer Missouri Gov. Roger W i l s o n p l a n s to ask for pro-b a t i o n when he is sen-t e n c e d Monday in feder-al court for mis-u s i n g money involved in illegal political donations.
Wilson’s attorney fi led a sentencing memo this week in the U.S. District Court’s Eastern District of Missouri noting his cli-ent’s “24 years of public service untouched by any
hint of impropriety.” The fi ling also blamed the mis-conduct in part on a board member at Missouri Em-ployers Mutual Insurance Co. who “smothered Roger with demands and his per-sonal agenda.”
Wilson, a Democrat, pleaded guilty in April to one count of misdemeanor campaign fi nance fraud for improperly steering $8,000 to the state Demo-cratic Party in 2009, while he was president of the Columbia-based insurer, a state-created workers’ compensation fi rm. Wil-son had served two terms as lieutenant governor when he became governor for three months after the death of Democratic Gov. Mel Carnahan in a late 2000 plane crash. Wilson
had previously spent nearly 14 years in the state Senate.
The St. Louis law fi rm Herzog Crebs donated $5,000 to the Missouri Democratic Party in August 2009, but it hid the cost in legal bills submitted to the insurance company when Wilson was in charge. Wil-son used his own money to hide an additional $3,000 donation from the law fi rm. The donations were made while Wilson was the insurance fi rm’s interim CEO. He was named to the full-time position in Janu-ary 2010, but removed by the board without expla-nation in June 2011, one month after being placed on administrative leave.
According to Wilson’s federal indictment — which was issued the same day
he pleaded guilty — board chairman Douglas Morgan asked St. Louis attorney Edward Griesedieck III, a former Herzog Crebs part-ner, to make the Demo-cratic Party donation with-out the knowledge of other board members. Morgan also sought a second con-tribution for $3,000, which was questioned by the insurance fi rm’s gen-eral counsel.
The St. Louis Post-Dis-patch fi rst reported on Wil-son’s sentencing request Wednesday.
Griesedieck, whose law license was suspended by the state Supreme Court this week pending the out-come of the criminal case, is also scheduled to be sentenced Monday in St. Louis.
paducahsun.com Local/Region/From Page One The Paducah Sun • Friday, July 6, 2012 • 3A
another area code, and that if such a need arises in the future, the process would start from scratch.
Implementation of the proposed area code, previ-ously designated as 364, had been delayed fi ve times since 2006, largely be-
cause it wasn’t yet needed. Kimberly Wheeler Miller, an attorney for the North American Numbering Plan Administrator, has restart-ed the process of getting the new area code. That process includes getting approval from the Public Service Commission, which will host a series of public
meetings to gather public input.
The previous plan was to divide the area codes geographically. Kentucky’s westernmost communi-ties, including Henderson, Hopkinsville, Madison-ville, Murray and Paducah, would have gotten the 364 area code. The cities of
Bowling Green, Columbia, Glasgow, Elizabethtown and Owensboro would have remained 270.
It’s unclear if the Public Service Commission will choose to divide the area codes geographically or to “overlay” the area code, making it available to ev-eryone in the region.
“The biggest drawback to overlays in the consumer’s mind is the 10-digit lo-cal dialing, meaning you have to include the area code when you make a lo-cal call,” Melnykovych said. “On the other hand, if you do the overlay, nobody has to change their phone num-ber.”
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Ferry in Livingston County and the Golconda Marina in Illinois.
Pope County Sheriff Jer-ry Suits said a towboat pi-lot radioed the U.S. Coast Guard about 6:30 a.m. Thursday reporting that he spotted what was believed to be a body in the water about a half-mile north of the Golconda Marina.
Suits said he traveled to the area with the game warden and the Golconda police chief and located a body about 7:30 a.m. He notifi ed Livingston County emergency offi cials, who had been manning the search for Chavez with the help of four other Kentucky counties off the Berry’s Fer-ry coast.
David Koon, Livingston County deputy director of emergency management, said he retrieved the body about 7:30 a.m. and called off search efforts. Emer-gency offi cials then turned the body over to deputy
coroner Jimmy Lamb. Lamb said he pronounced the man dead just after 8:30 a.m. He said the of-fi cial cause of death is still under investigation pend-ing toxicology reports, but that no foul play is expect-ed.
“Everything looks like it was accidental pending the toxicology report,” Lamb said.
Suits said the body was taken back to the Illinois shore where he and the po-lice chief and members of the family positively identi-fi ed it.
The entire search effort, which utilized rescue teams
from both states and mul-tiple counties, was a coop-erative effort among all of the agencies, most of whom were volunteers, Suits said.
“It was a full coopera-tion between Illinois and Kentucky offi cials,” he said. “It’s a sad deal, devastating to (the family) and to us. We’re glad it’s over. We’re glad we’ve got the body to the family.”
Kentucky crews from Livingston, Lyon, Crit-tenden, McCracken and Marshall counties came out to help with the search and seven or eight game
wardens and Pope County and Golconda law enforce-ment offi cials helped from Illinois. The search began Tuesday and continued until dark, picked back up Wednesday and lasted un-til the afternoon before ul-
timately ending Thursday morning,
Call Mallory Panuska, a Paducah Sun staff writer, at 270-575-8684 or follow @mallorypanuska on Twit-ter.
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VAN BUREN, Mo. — A southeast Missouri man who died after being bitten by a snake last weekend is only the state’s second fa-tality resulting from a cop-perhead bite, conservation offi cials said.
Terry Brown, of Ellsinore, was spending his 50th birthday camping along the Current River when he was bitten around 10 p.m. Sat-urday while trying to get the young snake out of a tent. He was unconscious within
15 minutes and died at 7:15 a.m. at a hospital.
A.J. Hendershott of the Missouri Department of Conservation said Brown’s death is only the second confi rmed death associated with a copperhead bite in Missouri as long as records have been kept. The Poplar Bluff Daily American Re-public reported that the fi rst was in 1965.
“Death is incredibly un-common,” said Hender-shott, an outreach and education regional supervi-
sor with the department’s Southeast Regional Offi ce in Cape Girardeau.
Brown’s death may be the result of an undiagnosed heart problem, said Carter County deputy coroner Eric McSpadden, who spoke with those at the scene and medical personnel.
“This one would not have been fatal if it had not been for other health conditions,” said McSpadden.
Hendershott said rattle-snakes are the most toxic in Missouri, followed by cot-
tonmouth snakes and then copperheads. Treatment varies based on the indi-vidual, but children and the elderly would be more sus-ceptible to the effects. Hen-dershott warned that trying to suck out the venom is bad advice.
“Antivenom is the best choice. You need to go to the hospital and be treated properly,” he said, adding he would normally be more concerned in the outdoors about diseases ticks carry than a copperhead bite.
Snakebite death only state’s 2nd from copperheadAssociated Press
Three Paducah residents were arrested Thursday after an undercover drug investigation by the Mc-Cracken County Sheriff’s Department.
Detective Ryan Norman said in a news release that the department received a tip that led to Darren Hicks, 45, who they believed was looking to purchase cocaine to later sell. An undercover offi cer sold Hicks a half ounce of cocaine in a park-ing lot, and he was arrested a short time afterward, Nor-
man said.Later Thursday, Norman
said, detectives noticed Just-en Mann and Elizabeth Culp driving in Farley. Mann, 29, and Culp, 32, were previous-ly investigated for metham-phetamine distribution, and were pulled over. Norman said deputies found Lortab, Klonipin and Xanax in the car, and arrested the pair.
Hicks was charged with traffi cking a controlled sub-stance over 4 grams. Mann and Culp face charges of traffi cking meth over 2 grams. All three were jailed.
Three Paducah residents face drug charges
Staff report
Wilson seeks probation for donationsBY ALAN SCHER ZAGIER
Associated Press
Wilson
LEXINGTON — Seventy-two years ago, workers went house to house and fi lled in ledgers by hand when com-piling 1940 census data.
A few months ago the information became avail-able for volunteers across the country to put into a searchable online format.
Kentucky anticipates get-
ting its searchable census information completed in another month or so, the Lexington Herald-Leader reports. Thirteen organiza-tions across the state are helping to input the data.
All the 1940 informa-tion is in databases pho-tographed in its original form. It includes different handwriting styles in a pre-
Internet era when no mat-ter how standardized the questions seemed, many different interpretations were possible.
It has to be logged into a computer database and checked for accuracy to make it easy for the search-es it will draw.
One Knott County teach-er discovered her grand-
mother’s records while typing in data, said Louise Jones, director of special collections and library for the Kentucky Historical So-ciety.
The information shows changes in the way people live. Jones discovered that her two-bedroom, one-bath Frankfort home housed seven people back then.
Volunteers turning 1940 census into online dataAssociated Press
COVINGTON — Ken-tucky Agriculture Com-missioner James Comer has set up a task force to look into concerns an au-dit raised about the state’s fuel lab.
The Kentucky Enquirer reports the task force in-cludes people in agricul-ture and the fuel industry.
The state’s fuel lab tests the quality and quantity of fuels and pesticides.
Comer said the lab was a “money pit for the tax-payers” during the tenure of previous Agriculture Commissioner Richie Farmer.
Comer called for the au-dit this year of Farmer’s administration as agri-culture commissioner. Comer’s offi ce said one of the audit’s fi ndings was the fuel lab cost the state roughly $900,000 last year.
Farmer told lawmak-ers in 2008 the fuel lab would generate income
for the department, Com-er said.
It was built in 2008 at a cost of $1.65 million with the promise of per-forming more tests at a lower cost than private companies who had done the work under contracts with the department.
Task force members include Phil Moffett, a Republican gubernato-rial candidate last year and former president and CEO of the Bluegrass In-stitute for Public Policy Solutions.
Comer said he hopes to draw upon the creativity of task force members in dealing with the issue.
Comer creates task force to review fuel lab
Associated Press
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Earlier this year, President Obama offered some tough talk on Iran’s nuclear enrichment program: “I don’t bluff. When the United States says it is unacceptable for Iran to have a nuclear weapon, we mean what we say.”
They must have gotten a chuckle out of that in Tehran before they went back to work building a nuclear warhead.
The president said the right thing. Iran, which on Wednesday again threatened missile attacks against Israel and American military bases, cannot be allowed to possess nuclear weapons. But Obama’s actions don’t back up his talk.
After the president announced tougher economic sanctions against Iran over its refusal to dismantle its nuclear weapons program, the administration began exempting Iran’s biggest trading partners, effectively gutting its own sanctions.
The U.S. sanctions include banning countries that buy Iran’s oil from doing business in the U.S. But countries gain exemptions if they show they are reducing Iranian oil imports. Or even if they promise to do so. India pledged to cut its purchases 11 percent this year. That was good enough for an exemption.
China was also declared exempt. China reduced its Iranian oil imports 25 percent
in the first quarter of this year over the same period last year.
White House officials say they don’t “want to speculate” on the reason for China’s reduction. No wonder; the reduction has nothing to do with U.S. sanctions or Iran’s
belligerence. It is simply the result of a price dispute between the two countries, now resolved. China’s recent imports have returned to the levels of last year. But because they were down significantly for the first quarter, the Obama administration anticipates the total imports for the year to be lower — good enough for an exemption.
The United States can ill-afford to hinder trade relations with China, so the dispute
between Beijing and Tehran provided a convenient escape for the administration. The White House counts the serendipitous circumstances as compliance.
But it was a bit too much when the administration had the temerity to praise China for supporting “our dual-track approach of diplomacy and pressure” and cited the temporary imports reduction as an example of the “success of our sanctions policy.”
China, which happens to be Iran’s biggest customer, wasn’t the only nation to earn an exemption from U.S. sanctions. So did Iran’s next 19 biggest customers. Once you get past that list the sanctions don’t really have much bite.
Iran’s oil exports are down and it is feeling the pinch, but it has little to do with American sanctions. The European Union has imposed a complete embargo. So has South Korea. If these efforts have any effect on Iran’s nuclear program, the president will have had nothing to do with it.
But expect him to take credit anyway.
Betrayal is hard to take, whether in our personal lives or in the political life of the nation. Yet there are people in Washington — too often, Republicans — who start living in the Beltway atmo-sphere, and start forgetting those hundreds of millions of Americans beyond the Beltway who trusted them to do right by them, to use their wisdom instead of their cleverness.
President Bush 41 epito-mized these betrayals when he broke his “read my lips, no new taxes” pledge. He paid the price when he quickly went from high ap-proval ratings as president to someone defeated for reelection by a little known governor from Arkansas.
Chief Justice John Roberts need fear no such fate be-cause he has lifetime tenure on the Supreme Court. But conscience can be a more implacable and inescapable punisher — and should be.
The chief justice probably made as good a case as could be made for upholding the constitutionality of Obam-acare by defi ning one of its key features as a “tax.”
The legislation didn’t call it a tax and Chief Justice Rob-erts admitted that this might not be the most “natural” reading of the law. But he fell back on the long-standing principle of judicial interpre-tation that the courts should not declare a law unconstitu-tional if it can be reasonably read in a way that would make it constitutional, out of “deference” to the legislative branch of government.
But this question, like so many questions in life, is a matter of degree. How far do you bend over backwards to avoid the obvious, that Obamacare was an unprec-
edented extension of federal power over the lives of 300 million Americans today and of generations yet unborn?
These are the people that Chief Justice Roberts betrayed when he declared constitutional something that is nowhere authorized in the Constitution of the United States.
John Roberts is no doubt a brainy man, and that seems to carry a lot of weight among the intelligentsia — despite glaring lessons from history, showing very brainy men creating everything from absurdities to catas-trophes. Few of the great tragedies of history were cre-ated by the village idiot, and many by the village genius.
One of the chief justice’s admirers said that when oth-ers are playing checkers, he is playing chess. How much consolation that will be as a footnote to the story of the decline of individual freedom in America, and the wrecking of the best medical care in the world, is another story.
There are many specula-tions as to why Chief Justice Roberts did what he did, some attributing noble and far-sighted reasons, and others attributing petty and short-sighted reasons, including personal vanity. But all of that is ultimately irrelevant.
What he did was betray his oath to be faithful to the Constitution of the United
States.Who he betrayed were
the hundreds of millions of Americans — past, present and future — whole genera-tions in the past who have fought and died for a free-dom that he has put in jeop-ardy, in a moment of intel-lectual inspiration and moral forgetfulness, 300 million Americans today whose lives are to be regimented by Washington bureaucrats, and generations yet unborn who may never know the in-dividual freedoms that their ancestors took for granted.
Some claim that Chief Jus-tice Roberts did what he did to save the Supreme Court as an institution from the wrath — and retaliation — of those in Congress who have been railing against justices who invalidate the laws they have passed. Many in the media and in academia have joined the shrill chorus of those who claim that the Supreme Court does not show proper “deference” to the legislative branch of government.
But what does the Bill of Rights seek to protect the ordinary citizen from? The government! To defer to those who expand govern-ment power beyond its constitutional limits is to betray those whose free-dom depends on the Bill of Rights.
Similar reasoning was used back in the 1970s to justify the Federal Reserve’s infl ationary policies. Other-wise, it was said, Congress would destroy the Fed’s independence, as it can also change the courts’ jurisdic-tion. But is it better for an institution to undermine its own independence, and freedom along with it, while forfeiting the trust of the people in the process?
WASHINGTON — This is the saddest story you will ever read about how a bill becomes law. It should also make you feel better about our dysfunctional political system.
The story begins on a Sunday in Febru-ary 2007, when a doctor suggested that Jacob Froman, then 8, had brain cancer. An MRI on Monday confi rmed the grim diagnosis: metastatic medulloblastoma. Jacob was in surgery at 7 o’clock the next morning.
“And then,” says his mother, Nancy Goodman, “he was never the same.”
After the surgery came radiation and chemotherapy. But within two weeks, it became clear the treatment wasn’t likely to work. Jacob’s doctors stuck with it — be-cause there weren’t other options.
When she embarked on a quest to save her son, Goodman, an international trade lawyer with degrees from Harvard (public policy) and Chicago (law), discovered that in the past 30 years, there have been no major changes in treating medulloblas-toma, which primarily affects children.
Only one pediatric cancer drug has won initial approval from the Food and Drug Administration in 20 years. The National Cancer Institute allocates 4 percent of its budget to pediatric research. Children ac-count for far less than 4 percent of cancer cases but, then again, cancer wreaks par-ticular devastation on a child.
Ordeal is too mild a word to describe what Jacob and his family endured. He spent nine of his remaining 23 months in the hospital. Jacob died at age 10 on Jan. 16, 2009.
The next morning, “I put my laptop on the din-ing room table and started working,” Goodman says of the organization she launched, Kids v Cancer. “I was alive and Jacob wasn’t.”
Childhood cancer is sometimes present-ed as a success story. Five-year survival rates from acute lymphoblastic leukemia, which accounts for three in four cases of pediatric cancer, are now 90 percent — up from 10 percent in the 1960s.
But those encouraging numbers obscure painful truths: That surviving for fi ve years means something different at 8 than at 58. That the after-effects of treatment for children can be terrible.
And, most pertinent, that the economics of pharmaceutical research disfavor new treatments. The small number affected, combined with the risk of pumping toxic chemicals into tiny bodies, discourages in-vestment. Children with cancer are mostly relegated to “hand-me-down” drugs for adult cancers.
Kids v Cancer aims to transform that
bleak landscape. One ap-proach Goodman quickly identifi ed was to copy an existing voucher program designed to encourage re-search into neglected tropi-cal diseases.
The concept behind what came to be known as the Creating Hope Act was to dangle a fat carrot: Com-panies that obtained FDA
approval for new pediatric cancer drugs would also receive vouchers guaranteeing speedier review of other, potentially more blockbuster drugs. This valuable com-modity, possibly worth millions, could be sold. Manufacturers would pay fees for the faster review.
Goodman isn’t exactly a political naif. Her husband, Michael Froman, is an as-sistant to President Obama, his law school classmate. But this is not a tale of Wash-ington connections.
Goodman cold-called a staffer for Sen. Sherrod Brown, an Ohio Democrat who had worked on the tropical disease bill, and made her pitch.
Goodman found an unlikely pairing for the liberal Brown in Kansas Republican Sen. Sam Brownback. And when the bill did not become law in 2010, Goodman found another conservative Republican, Texas Rep. Michael McCaul, to carry the
torch the next year, along with North Carolina Democrat G.K. Butterfi eld.
Goodman and assistant Adrienne Westcott, a 24-year-old leukemia survivor, found staffers uniformly willing to hear them out. They enlisted compelling lobby-ists: Jacob’s younger brother Ben, Jacob’s school friends. Brianna Commerford, a 13-year-old survivor, recruited Nancy Pelosi and Rand Paul as co-sponsors in a single day.
Despite the heart-tugging subject, the measure was an uphill climb. The FDA wasn’t thrilled about being told what drugs to prioritize. Some lawmakers worried that the pharmaceutical industry would take the vouchers without produc-ing. The most likely vehicle for getting the measure passed was the FDA reform bill, but there was pressure to limit amend-ments.
But when the FDA bill was fi nally passed last week, the Creating Hope Act remained in.
“She did an amazing thing,” recalled El-lie Dehoney, the former Brown staffer. “It was a real long shot and she just met with people and met with people and met with people.”
Other grieving parents have turned trag-edy into legislation: Megan’s Law, Amber Alerts. But in our partisan, gridlocked, money-drenched politics, Jacob’s story stands out, almost as gratifying as it is sad.
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your seat belt.“There is no question seat
belts save lives and reduce injuries,” Hodgson said. “They keep you in the ve-hicle, so safety features can save your life. If you are go-ing 70 mph down the inter-state, your body is going 70 mph down the interstate, even if it doesn’t feel like it. Something has to stop it.”
Hodgson said drivers gave several excuses for not wearing their seat belts, from the fact that it both-ers their shoulders to the length of their drives not requiring a safety belt. Of-fi cers spent 250 enforce-ment hours on the initia-
tive, which targeted areas like Hinkleville Road near Kentucky Oaks Mall. He said being smart about car safety is important, and of-ten overlooked.
“If everyone in a car wreck was in a safe car, wearing their seat belt, was sober and not speeding, it would mean that we did everything we could have to prevent that accident,” Hodgson said. “But that’s very rarely the case. It’s usu-ally a combination of one or two of those that leads to a wreck and a death.”
Call Corianne Egan, a Paducah Sun staff writer, at 270-575-8652 or follow @CoriEgan on Twitter.
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Nassau County Police Det. Lt. John Azzata (right) gives information about a fatal boating incident during a news conference Thursday in Oyster Bay, N.Y. Police say three bodies were pulled out of New York’s Long Island Sound after a yacht capsized on the Fourth of July.
OYSTER BAY, N.Y. — A yacht that capsized with 27 friends and family aboard on an outing to watch Fourth of July fi reworks was severely overcrowded and doomed to tip over, safety analysts said Thurs-day as the skipper blamed the tragedy on a wave that came out of the dark.
Three children died af-ter becoming trapped Wednesday night in the cabin of the 34-foot ves-sel off Oyster Bay, on the north shore of Long Island.
Sal Aureliano, who was
at the helm of the Candi I, told TV’s News12 Long Is-land that he saw two light-ning bolts and then a wave suddenly hit.
“It turned the boat around,” he said, his voice cracking. “It just turned the boat. I didn’t see it. It was dark. I didn’t see it.”
Aureliano’s nephew Da-vid Aureliano, 12, and two girls, 11-year-old Harley Treanor and 8-year-old Victoria Gaines, died. The 24 other passengers, adults and children, were rescued from the water, mostly by fellow boaters, and were not seriously hurt.
“The next thing I know, we’re turning, and we just kept turning, and every-body was in the water. It was chaos,” said Aure-liano, who didn’t answer the door to The Associated Press.
The cause of the acci-dent was under investi-gation, but it could have been the weather, over-crowding, the wake from another vessel or a com-bination of factors, said Nassau County Detective Lt. John Azzata. The area was crowded with boaters watching the fi reworks, he said.
Boat analysts say yacht overcrowded; three die
BY FRANK ELTMANAssociated Press
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — When fi refi ghter Eric Morris shows up at wildfi res across the West, locals battling the fl ames sometimes look at him and wonder who sent him.
The answer isn’t a public agency. It’s an insurance company.
Morris is among a group of private fi refi ghters hired in recent years to protect homes with high-end insur-ance policies. In a wildfi re season that is one of the busiest and most destruc-tive ever to hit the region, authorities and residents say their help is welcome.
“There’s curiosity the fi rst time they work with us,” he said. “After a while of ex-plaining and making some calls to the right people, they let us right in.”
Morris and his nine-man crew helped protect 35 homes in Colorado Springs in the most destructive fi re in the state’s history. It killed two people and de-stroyed 346 homes.
There are no numbers available for how many homes these fi refi ghters save and, given the unpre-dictable nature of fi res, few
are willing to take credit.For insurers, hiring them
is worth the cost. They spend thousands on well-equipped, fi refi ghters, potentially sav-ing hundreds of thousands of dollars to replace a home and its contents.
Morris’ crew worked for Chubb Personal Insur-ance, which provides cov-erage for homes typically valued between $400,000 and $3 million, said Kevin Fuhriman, the company’s personal lines catastrophe manager.
“It’s an added layer of protection for our clients,” Fuhriman said. “From a business perspective? It’s an extremely advantageous business proposition.”
Other companies offer fi re protection services, typ-ically for higher-end clients, said Carole Walker, execu-tive director of the Rocky Mountain Insurance Infor-mation Association.
“Just because you don’t have this type of policy doesn’t mean you don’t have fi re protection,” Walker in-sisted. “That’s what people pay taxes for, and (public) fi refi ghters do a wonder-ful job protecting homes. I mean, they saved hundreds of homes on this fi re.”
Insurance companies send crews to protect homesBY P. SOLOMON BANDA
Associated Press
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Firefighters from Wildland Defense Systems Inc. de-brief after a day on the Waldo Canyon wildfire June 29 west of Colorado Springs, Colo. Wildland Defense Sys-tems Inc. is a private company that provides firefighters for insurance company Chubb Personal Insurance.
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POTOMAC, Md. — Hun-dreds of thousands of peo-ple from Illinois to New Jersey are still without power after a line of deadly storms struck last Friday. A week of more unpredict-able weather and swelter-ing temperatures has fol-lowed.
In West Virginia, the leader of the National Guard said he hadn’t seen a more widespread power outage in the state in de-cades. In Ohio, the chief of a major utility said the damage was worse than what was caused by the remnants of Hurricane Ike in 2008. At least 27 people have been killed in the storms or their aftermath since Friday, not including deaths from heat-related causes.
Through it all, Ameri-cans have been getting by in their own ways, wheth-er in the hollows of rural West Virginia or in the tony Maryland suburbs of the nation’s capital. Here are a few examples of how they’re doing it:
Still plugged in
“We’re like squatters in our own house, aren’t we, Lilah?” Corey Phelps said playfully to her 2-year-old goldendoodle dog.
Their home in Potomac, Md., an upscale suburb dotted with multimillion-dollar homes, has been without power for six days. The 33-year-old Pi-lates instructor and her family have been using a portable generator to keep their refrigerator running and catching showers “like vagabonds — anywhere we can get one,” like at her gym and swim club.
Her daughter, who’s al-most 13, has been using the generator keep her Nook e-reader and iTouch continuously charged.
A blowup mattress in the kitchen was serving as a makeshift bed, though she acknowledged that the heat inside her home could have been much worse.
“Probably the worst it’s been is like, 78 (degrees),” she said. “That’s liter-
ally because the house is made of stone. I mean, if we lived anywhere else, I doubt we’d have been as fortunate ... “
Fending for themselves
Emma Kelly and her ex-tended family in Fayette County, W.Va., didn’t ex-pect their power and water service back until Sunday, after being knocked out last Friday. But you won’t hear this resourceful West Virginian complain.
“I’m a holler girl,” she said. “We were raised in the hollers, in the ridges and the hills of West Vir-ginia. We hunt, we fi sh, we grow gardens and we take
care of ourselves.“You can complain about
it or make the best of it,” Kelly, 47, said Thursday as she fi elded call after call as a 911 dispatcher.
Since the power went out, her family has hauled water up from a creek to fl ush toilets and taken the grandchildren down to the cool water for relief from the 90-degree heat.
They made a cooking pit in the yard.
“Everybody’s trying to fi nd ice, just to keep things cold,” Kelly said. She trad-ed some fuel for a camper stove for ice with a neigh-bor.
She hasn’t hounded her power supplier, American Electric Power, with calls.
“They’re aware of it,” she said. “I’m used to being in the woods. I’m the last to be served. I’m OK.”
Warm beer
South of Washington in the Virginia suburb of Ar-lington, sweat glistened on Lidia Valdez’s forehead as she answered the door and wet hair clung to her cheeks. Inside, a dozen warm bottles of Corona beer sat on a countertop. “We cannot fi nd ice any-more,” said her husband, Walter Valdez.
“We were preparing the beers to celebrate the
Fourth of July, but that was not possible.”
The Valdezes were sweating through their seventh day without pow-er, the result of a massive oak tree that fell across the street a few houses down, crushing a car and snap-ping a utility pole.
The Bolivian natives said a week without air con-ditioning reminded them of trips to the Amazon in their native country. “We are so desperate!” Lidia Valdez said.
“We are taking cold wa-ter showers at midnight, in the morning. Three, four times a day.”
Some with no power; others camp outBY ERIC TUCKER AND VICKI SMITH
Associated Press
Associated Press
Dewan Dunbar (right) discusses living without power after members of the West Virginia National Guard delivered food and water to her home Thursday in Heaters, W.Va. Residents in the Heaters area have been without power since June 29 following a severe storm.
WASHINGTON — The House Agriculture Committee on Thurs-day unveiled its ap-proach for a long-term farm and food bill that would reduce spend-ing by $3.5 billion a year, almost half of that coming from cuts in the federal food stamp pro-gram.
The legislative draft envisions reducing current food stamp spending projections by $1.6 billion a year, four times the amount of cuts incorporated in the fi ve-year, half-trillion-dollar farm bill passed by the Senate last month.
Food stamps, formal-ly known as the Supple-mental Nutrition As-sistance Program, look to be the most conten-tious issue when the Agriculture Committee begins voting on the bill Wednesday and when the full House begins debating it in the fu-ture.
Conservatives in the Republican-led House are certain to demand greater cuts in the food stamps program, which makes up about 80 percent of the near-ly $100 billion a year in spending under the farm bill.
Senate Democrats are equally certain to resist more cuts in a program that now helps feed 46 million people, 1 out of every 7 Americans.
New bill would cut food stamps
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Funeral noticesPaid obituaries furnished to The Paducah Sun by mortuaries.
Maiva Genette Vaughn Young RussellMaiva Genette Vaughn
Young Russell, 69, of Paducah WALKED into the arms of Jesus at 10:45 a.m. Wednesday, July 4, 2012. She passed away at Oakview Nursing and Re-habilitation Center of Cal-vert City.
Mrs. Russell was born April 17, 1943, in Reidland, Ky., to the late J a m i e V a u g h n and Mary E. Luton Vaughn.
S h e was a re-tired cook
of Calvert City Convalescent Center, former co-owner of Young’s Valu Mart of Paducah and former co-owner of Shoe Fantasy of Paducah. She was a member of Elva Bap-tist Church of Symsonia.
She is survived by her husband of 23 years, Eddie Ray Russell; one daughter, Wynn Ava Sherron (Tom) of West Paducah; three stepdaughters, Carol Kur-ty (Daniel) of Tennessee, Crystal Russell of Graves County and Sandy Young of Paducah; two stepsons, Christopher Russell (Tam-my) and Ronnie Russell, both of Graves County; two brothers, J.W. Vaughn (Margaretta) of Ledbet-
ter and Jake A. Vaughn (Shirley) of Ohio; four grandchildren, Deena Toon (Greg) of West Paducah, Mandy Kennemore (Jory) of Mayfi eld, Allynn Kilgore (Jasimine) of Paducah and Rachel Sherron of Atlanta, Ga.; four stepgrandchil-dren, Amber Russell, Kevin Russell, Taryn Russell and Kalyie Russell, all of Graves County; seven great-grand-children, Presten Bruer, Cheyenne Toon, Madison Kilgore, Annaleigh Kilgore, Ashton Russell, Zaine Rus-sell and Baby Kennemore; and several nieces and nephews.
In addition to her par-ents she was preceded in death by her daughter, Vonita Gayel Kilgore; two brothers, B.L. Vaughn and Charles G. Vaughn, and her second husband, C.A. (Al) Young.
Funeral services will be at 10 a.m. Saturday, July 7, 2012, at Hughes Funeral Home of Paducah with the Rev. Mike Littrell offi ciat-ing. Burial will follow at Oakland Cemetery in Mar-shall County.
Visitation will be from 5 p.m. until 8 p.m. Friday, July 6, 2012, at the funeral home.
Expressions of sympathy may take the form of con-tributions to Elva Baptist Church Food Pantry, 687 Minter Rd., Symsonia, KY 42082.
Russell
Evan ‘Andy’ Kelly Jr.Evan “Andy” Kelly Jr., 54,
of West Paducah, passed away at Lourdes hospital at 2:14 a.m. Wednesday, July 4, 2012.
Mr. Kelly was a disabled United States Marine Corps veteran who held the mili-tary in very high regard. He was a lifetime member of the Disabled American Veterans Chapter 7 where he served
as act-ing com-mander. He was a l i f e t i m e m e m b e r of Veter-ans of For-eign Wars Post 1191, A m e r i -can Vets,
V i e t n a m Veterans of America and a member of the American Legion Post 31. Since 2001 he has been van coordinator in charge of transportation veterans to and from the VA hospital in Marion, Ill., where he has volunteered over 10,000 man hours.
Andy was a musician and entertainer who took great joy in playing Santa Claus each Christmas season throughout this area.
He is survived by his lov-ing wife, Mary Ann Ray Kelly
of Paducah; his mother, Syl-via Ann Kelly of Kevil; one sister, Katie Renea Tanner of Barlow; three brothers, John Garcia Kelly Sr. and wife, Shirley of Kevil, Colin Patrick Kelly and wife, Tonia of Kirksey, Shawn Harold Kelly of Graves County; and several nieces and nephews, great-nieces and nephews, and great-great-nieces and nephews
He was preceded in death by his father, Evan Andrew Kelly Sr.
Visitation for Mr. Kelly will be 5 until 8 p.m. Sunday, July 8, 2012, at Milner and Orr Funeral Home of Paducah. Masonic Rites will be held at 7 p.m.
Funeral services will be held at 10 a.m. Monday, July 9, 2012, at Milner and Orr Funeral Home of Paducah with the Rev. John Wooley offi ciating.
Burial with Military Rites will take place at 2 p.m. Mon-day, July 9, 2012, at Kentucky Veterans Cemetery West in Hopkinsville.
Expressions of sympathy may take the form of contri-butions to Disabled Ameri-can Veterans, 1133 Murray Avenue, Paducah, KY 42003.
You may leave condolences or light a candle at www.mil-nerandorr.com.
Kelly
Verna Ribis, 89, of Paducah passed away at 9:01 a.m. Wednesday, July 4th, 2012, in the home of her daughter and son-in-law, Carol and Kenneth Harlan of Paducah, Ky.
Verna also leaves behind her son, Jacob Ribis of Calabasas, Calif.; six grand-
children and nine g r e a t -g r a n d -children; two sis-t e r s , L o u i s e B e c k e r t of Coro-na, Calif., and Rose
G e r v a s i and husband, Chris of Granada Hills, Calif.; a sister-in-law, Mary Pisano; and numerous nieces and nephews. She was preced-ed in death by her husband, Lincoln Ribis; a grand-daughter, Verna Lynn; one sister, Frances Caruso; one brother, Anthony Pisano; and a brother-in-law, Mel-vin Beckert. Her parents were Paul and Rose Persani Pisano.
Mrs. Ribis loved going
to the senior center to visit with her many friends. In her younger days, she volunteered faithfully at Lourdes hospital. She loved to sew, quilt, knit and cro-chet. She made many baby blankets for Hope Unlim-ited, lap quilts, turbans for cancer patients and preemie baby burial gowns, donating them to various charitable organizations. She was al-ways generous when any-one was in need. She loved life and caring for others. She will be greatly missed.
A Celebration of Life will be held at a future date. Expressions of sympathy may take the form of con-tributions to your favorite charity in her memory or to her local favorites, Lourdes Hospice, P.O. Box 7100, Paducah, KY 42002-7100, Child Watch CAC, 1118 Jefferson St., Paducah, KY 42001 or St. Nicholas Fam-ily Clinic, 1901 Kentucky Ave., Paducah, KY 42003.
Milner & Orr Funeral Home of Paducah is in charge of arrangements.
You may leave a mes-sage of sympathy and light a candle at www.milneran-dorr.com.
Verna Ribis
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Thomas W. Cassibry Jr.ST. LOUIS — Thomas
W. Cassibry Jr., 83, of St. Louis, formerly of Paducah, Ky., died Wednesday, July 4, 2012.
He was the loving hus-band of Wilma Cassibry; dear son of the late Thomas
W. and Florence A. Cas-sibry Sr.; d e v o t e d f a t h e r of Bill ( J a n e ) Cassibry, D a v i d ( P a u l a ) Cassibry,
Terri (Jeff) Holland, Phillip Cassibry, Anne (Randy) Pafford, Sue (Dennis) Ellis, Lynn (Me-lissa) Williams, and Cindy (Gary) Griner; cherished grandfather of eight and great-grandfather of eight; dear brother of Janet (Jim) Brame and James (Beverly) Cassibry; beloved uncle,
cousin, and friend to many. He was preceded in death by his granddaughter, Ol-ivia Layne Holland.
Thomas was employed with ICC Railroad for 21 years, Ozark Airlines for 18 years and TWA Airlines for eight years before he retired.
The family is being served by The Baue Funer-al and Memorial Center, 3950 West Clay Street, St. Charles, Mo., where visita-tion will be held after 1 p.m. Saturday, July 7, 2012. Funeral services will be at 2 p.m. Saturday, July 7, 2012, at Baue Funeral and Memorial Center Chapel. Burial will be at a later date in Blandville, Ky.
In lieu of fl owers memo-rials may be made to the Alzheimer’s Association or American Heart Asso-ciation c/o Baue Funeral Home, 3950 W. Clay, St. Charles, MO 63301. Share your condolences and memories at baue.com.
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Robert Lucian RayBOAZ — Robert Lu-
cian Ray, 80, of Boaz, died Thursday at Lourdes hos-pital.
He was born in Paducah on December 12, 1931, to the late Olis Clayton Ray and Virgie Lee Crawford Ray. He was a pipefi tter and was a member of Plumber and Pipefi tter Union #184. He was also a member of
G o s p e l Mission.
He is survived by two children, R o n n i e Ray and wife, Mil-lie, of Paducah and Con-
nie Sch-neider and husband, Kent, of Louisville; a grandson, Ron Ray and wife, Denise, of Georgetown, Ky.; two great-grandsons, Reed Landon Ray and Braydon Alexandar Ray of George-
town; a stepgrandson, Jor-dan Carpenter of Canada; a sister, Velva Jean Bristoe of Possum Trot; a brother, Donnie E. Ray Sr. of No-blesville, Ind.; and several nieces and nephews.
He was preceded in death by his parents and a sister, Frances Eleta Spicer.
Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Sunday at Milner and Orr Funeral Home of Paducah with the Rev. Wes Conner offi ciat-ing. Burial will follow at Provine Cemetery in Ben-ton. Visitation will be held from 5-8 p.m. Saturday at the funeral home.
Contributions may be made to Lions Club of Pa-ducah-Telethon of Stars, P.O. Box 1416, Paducah, KY 42002-1416 or St. Jude Children’s Research Hos-pital, 501 St. Jude Place, Memphis, TN 38105.
You may leave a message of sympathy or light a me-morial candle at www.mil-nerandorr.com.
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James McCainMARION — James Mc-
Cain, 85, of Marion died Wednesday at Pembroke Nursing and Rehabilita-tion.
He is survived by one sister, Jonell Bruton of Indianapolis; two nieces; and three nephews.
He was preceded in death by his wife, Evelyn
McCain; two brothers; and one sister. His parents were John Howard and Roslyn McCain.
Services will be at 11 a.m. Sunday at Gilbert Funeral Home in Marion with interment in Maplev-iew Cemetery. Friends may call after 9 a.m. Sun-day at the funeral home.
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CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. — Members of the Ham-ilton County Commission have approved a new policy on prayer, indicat-ing the intent to continue allowing public prayer at meetings.
Two local men have fi led a federal lawsuit and asked for an injunction to prevent the commis-sion from letting people pray out loud as meet-ings begin. A hearing is scheduled for July 26 on the injunction request.
The Chattanooga Times Free Press reported com-mission members on Tuesday unanimously ap-proved a policy that calls
for creation of a county-wide clergy database from which speakers will be invited to lead what commissioners termed a “prayer, refl ective mo-ment of silence, or a short solemnizing message,” at each weekly commission meeting.
The men fi ling the law-suit have asked the com-mission to hold a moment of silence, rather than the Christian prayers.
Commissioners said the new policy should allow for diversity of opinion and belief.
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AKRON, Ohio — When Lisa Edwards learned she had cervical cancer in 2009, she called the parish nurse.
“I need you,” the mother of three said to Cindy Rocco, a registered nurse who was employed by First Congregational Church in Hudson, Ohio, to help members with health problems.
“I was overwhelmed with the treatment op-tions. I was worried about what to do with my chil-dren. There was so much to think about that I was in total shutdown mode. I didn’t want to do research. I needed Cindy to think for me,” Edwards said.
Rocco accompanied Edwards to a doctor’s ap-pointment, organized vol-unteers to bring in meals three times a week during her treatment and helped fi nd activities and services aimed at families of cancer sufferers.
“I truly don’t know what I would have done without her,” Edwards said.
As a profession, parish nurses are a fairly recent phenomenon.
The movement was founded in 1985 by the Rev. Granger E. Westberg, a Lutheran clergyman in Chicago who sought to merge his experience as a pastor and hospital chap-lain. His fi rst effort was to link medical systems to six area congregations in Park Ridge, Ill., believing that having a nurse available to church members would al-low them to discuss health concerns before they be-came serious conditions.
The ministry spread, and today there are more than 12,000 parish nurses in the United States.
The concept is embraced passionately in Hudson, where the ministerial as-sociation and the nonprofi t Laurel Lake Retirement Community started tout-ing parish nurses nearly a decade ago.
While the large First Congregational Church can fund its own medical pro-fessional, other churches have teamed up to provide the service to their fl ocks.
Laurel Lake hired Rocco
— she turned her First Congregational reins over to another nurse this year — to begin programs at Rejoice Lutheran Church, Christ Church Episcopal and First Presbyterian Church of Hudson.
“I love what I do,” said Rocco, who is brimming with ideas for her new con-gregations. “It’s a calling.”
Laurel Lake Foundation also provides money to help St. Mary Church have its own parish nurse, Lori Joseph, while First Con-gregational replaced Rocco with Kaye Collins.
Robinson Memorial Hospital in Ravenna, Ohio, has been bringing area practitioners together since 2008. It hosts a quarterly meeting, where attendance has been as high as 25, said Sallie Mes-serly, a registered nurse and Robinson Memorial’s health educator.
They come from Portage, Summit, Geauga, Mahon-ing and Jefferson counties and represent denomina-tions from Catholic and Orthodox to Mennonite and Unitarian.
“We knew there was par-ish nursing and faith com-munity nursing out there, so we talked about it with a few R.N.s who worked here and threw together a program,” Messerly said.
Robinson offers continu-
ing education credits in parish nursing four times a year, preceded by a din-ner where the nurses can discuss challenges and get advice from group mentor Michalene King, a parish nurse and professor at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh.
Messerly said there are a few differences between the work of a traditional nurse and a parish nurse.
“Parish nurses don’t do hands-on care,” like giving shots or changing bandages, she said. Instead, their focus is on promoting health and preventing illness.
Also, while many tradi-tional nurses are no doubt spiritual, parish nurses wear their spirituality on their sleeves.
The Rev. Michael Conk-lin of Rejoice Lutheran in Hudson said he’s thrilled his small congregation of 165 souls has a parish nurse through the Laurel Lake partnership.
“We’d never be able to afford one on our own,” he said as he took a break from installing a fence around the church garden. “When you’re small, you do everything you can yourself, from building deer fences to changing out the trash bags.”
Still, it is taking some prodding to get his fl ock to understand the roll a par-
ish nurse can play in their lives.
“At fi rst, people don’t know what a parish nurse is and can’t imagine need-ing one,” Conklin said. “I just keep directing them. When someone has a (health-related) issue, I tell them, ‘You should talk to Cindy,’” he said. And when they’re too shy to take that step, “sometimes I have Cindy call them.”
Sharon Straka took little convincing. The Rejoice Lutheran member joined the Faith & Fit-ness program Rocco had just started at the church, encouraging people to ex-ercise and eat healthier.
“I’ve tried every weight-loss plan imaginable, and I was tired of giving Weight Watchers $40 a month to not lose weight, but I needed to be ac-countable to someone,” Straka said.
So she checks in with Rocco once a week, either in person or by phone. Faith & Fitness partici-pants also can join in bik-ing trips or yoga classes.
“Sometimes if I’m hav-ing a bad day, I just text or email her and she’ll write back and tell me, ‘Hang in there. You can do this,’” Straka said. “Sometimes, that’s all I need.”
In addition to planned programs, Rocco spends a
lot of time helping con-gregants with personal issues. They come to her if they’ve been diagnosed with an illness or get a new medication that they don’t understand.
“They may need volun-teers to make meals or give them rides to chemother-apy,” Rocco said. “Maybe they just need me to pray with them.”
All of the Hudson churches also have access to Laurel Lake’s commu-nity resource coordinator, Kristin Keller.
She said she has worked with women who are get-ting divorced and face a tremendous emotional crisis. “They want to know how to apply for benefi ts, food stamps, Medicaid, the lunch program for their kids,” she said.
Because Keller’s offi ce is an Ohio Benefi t Bank site, “we can sit in their home or in my offi ce and apply for those things,” she said.
When caregivers are stressed out while look-ing after their aging, ill parents, “the pastors can do the spiritual side, and the parish nurses work with the medical side, but I can also maybe arrange for respite, or see if they qualify for (home health aide fi nancial help), or fi nd them support groups,” Keller said.
Parish nurses give medical adviceBY PAULA SCHLEIS
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Cancer survivor Lisa Edward (second from left) talks with parish nurse Cindy Rocco (left), Laurel Lake’s community resource coordinator Kristin Keller (third from left) and parish nurse Kaye Collins in June in Hudson, Ohio. Rocco accompanied Edwards to a doctor’s appointment, organized volunteers to bring in meals three times a week during her treatment, and helped find activities and services aimed at families of cancer sufferers.
Tennessee city officials stick with public prayer
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Protesters remain seated during an opening prayer during Hamilton County Commission meeting in Chattanooga, Tenn. A federal judge in Chattanooga has ordered a hearing on a motion to stop the Hamilton County Commission from beginning meetings with a prayer.
STERRETT, Ala. — A religious group in central Alabama is wrapping up a holiday-week event that’s drawn thousands of people who want to be near a woman who claims to have visions of the Virgin Mary.
Believers from across the nation gathered this week at a Roman Catho-lic compound called Caritas of Birmingham to see Marija Pavlovic Lunetti. They’ve spent hours praying in a Shelby County fi eld near a statue of Christ’s mother.
Lunetti is among a group of people who fi rst claimed to have visions of Mary in 1981 in the Bos-nian town of Medjugorje, in southeastern Europe. She’s visited Alabama regularly since 1988.
The Alabama group has a huge publishing opera-tion that sends materials worldwide promoting messages from Mary.
The Roman Catholic church hasn’t taken a position on the visions.
Hundreds visiting Alabama visionary
AUGUSTA, Ga. — Two years before Gene Johnson joined the Marine Corps, the baby-faced 17-year-old preached his fi rst revival in the little one-room white church that was Bel Air Baptist in the summer of 1952.
Sixty years later, he returned to that church to preach a patriotic service celebrating the six decades the Dearing, Ga., pastor has given to ministry.
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Special services
New Greater Love Mis-sionary Baptist Church. Rev. W.G. Harvey Sr., 50 Years Legacy Celebra-tion on Sunday. Morning worship at 10:45 a.m. with Overseer Jonathan McReynolds of Oakley Full Gospel Baptist Church in Columbus, Ohio, as speaker. Rev. Calvin Cole Sr. of Mount Moriah Mis-sionary Baptist Church in Paducah, speaking a 3 p.m. Dinner served after morning worship. Church at 1249 N. 12th St.
Margaret Hank Cumber-land Presbyterian Church, 16th and Park Avenue. Celebrating 50 years of music from the church’s Pilcher pipe organ. 2 p.m. Saturday. Service includes hymn singing, organ solos and piano music.
First Christian Church, 415 Audubon Drive, Paducah. Two worship ser-vices: 10:45 a.m. tradition-
al in main sanctuary and 5:30 p.m. contemporary in Fellowship Hall on the Low-er Level. Sunday sermon title: “Psalms as Prayer Book” by J. Gottman.
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Fish fry at Rosary Cha-pel Catholic Church, 711 Ohio St. in Paducah, on Friday, July 13, from 4:30-6:30 p.m. Two or three pieces of fish (according to the size), two hushpup-pies and white beans. $10. The event will take place on second Friday of July, August, September and October. Meal follows 5:30 p.m. mass.
Bells Chapel CME Church, 207 North Highland Drive, Fulton. Yard sale, starts at 8 a.m. Saturday.
Maple Spring United Methodist Church, 9642 U.S. 68 E., Fairdealing. Breakfast featuring coun-try ham, sausage, eggs, pancakes, homemade
biscuits and gravy, orange juice and coffee. Adults, $4; children under 12, $2. Net proceeds to Kentucky Sheriffs Boys and Girls Ranch. 6:30-9 a.m.
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Pleasant Grove Baptist Church, 1110 N. 14th St., Paducah.July 9-11, 6-8 p.m. For transportation: 270-442-1000.
Melber Baptist Church, 2672 Ky. 1820, Melber. 6-8:30 p.m. July 9-13. More information or a ride: 270-856-3539.
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All men invited to a Men’s Christian Devo-
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to the day since his fi rst sermon, Johnson preached for a crowd of more than 100, wearing Dress Blues like the ones he wore for his nine years as a Marine.
There was a color guard, patriotic hymns and a medal presentation for members of the congrega-tion who had served in the armed forces.
Johnson performed a magic trick by lighting a scrap of fabric on fi re in the middle of the sanctu-ary and turning it into an American fl ag.
“He’s a fantastic preach-er,” said the Rev. David Brooks of Bel Air Baptist. “They don’t make them like that anymore.”
The patriotic services and gospel magic tricks are just one aspect of John-son’s ministry. Over the past 60 years, his work has taken many forms. He served as chaplain for the McDuffi e County Jail for 10 years and has pastored fi ve churches, including Friendship Baptist in Har-lem and Oak Grove Baptist in Augusta.
He started several others and spent eight years in a campground ministry, traveling the country with his wife, Nancy, in an RV.
He has written several books, three of which focus on his experiences in bus ministry. He has trained hundreds of bus ministry workers across the coun-try to drive door-to-door, inviting kids to church.
“It’s a fun work. Of course, it’s getting hard for me. It doesn’t seem like 60 years. It was just, bam!”
he said, snapping his fi ngers, “and it’s gone.”
Johnson, 78, has three children with his wife of 54 years and 10 grand-children. He grew up as one of nine kids and was a student at the Academy of Richmond County until he dropped out.
He eventually enrolled at Long Creek Academy, a Baptist school near Long Creek, S.C., and learned a little bit about the Bible.
Johnson was saved when he was 12 but had no home church.
“My folks never went to church, but they hap-pened to go to a revival one summer,” he said. “I got saved that night. I had found something. The next night, my two brothers got saved.”
Sometimes he’d walk or catch a ride to Bel Air Baptist. After about a year, “the preacher says, ‘I’m going to get you into the ministry,’” Johnson recalled. “He planted a seed and God used it.”
That fi rst sermon at the age of 17 was on Eccle-siastes 12. Johnson still remembers it.
“I’m sure I was nervous,” he said with a laugh.
When he was 18, John-son joined the Marines. He served from 1953-62, including a few years in Japan.
“Before then, I was bob-bing around. Worthless. Sleeping until 11 a.m.,” he said. “That’s when God started to work, at boot camp.”
“You cannot deny that God has blessed this coun-try for 236 years,” he said.
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Funeral noticesPaid obituaries furnished to The Paducah Sun by mortuaries.
Karol Burklow MitchellKarol Burklow Mitchell,
65, of Paducah died at 7:26 a.m. Tuesday, July 3, 2012, at Lourdes hospital.
Mrs. Mitchell was born June 15, 1947, in Granite City, Ill., to the late Roy Waldo Burklow and Eliza-beth Lucille Parks Burklow.
She was a former techni-cal editor of ORNL Research
Laborato-ry of Oak R i d g e , Tenn. She was of the B a p t i s t faith.
S h e is sur-vived by her hus-band of
38 years, T h o m a s
W. Mitchell; one sister, Jody Mestepey and hus-band, James H. of Rowlette, Texas, and several nieces and nephews.
In addition to her parents she was preceded in death by one sister, Elaine Burk-low Keeton.
Funeral services will be at 2 p.m. Sunday, July 8, 2012, at Hughes Funeral Home of Paducah with the Rev. Jerry Parr offi ciat-ing. Burial will follow at Temple Hill Cemetery in Temple Hill, Ill. Serving as pallbearers will be James Mitchell, William Mitchell, Robbie Felker, Craig Felk-er, Ronnie Stallings and Christopher Stallings.
Friends may call after 1 p.m. Sunday at the funeral home.
Expressions of sympathy may take the form of con-tributions to the Arthritis Foundation, 2908 Browns-boro Rd., Suite 100, Lou-isville, KY 40206-3506; or Temple Hill Cemetery Association, c/o Vicki Wat-son, 3780 Magruder Rd., Kevil, KY 42053.
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Susan Carol Harris MiitchellKUTTAWA — Mrs. Susan
Carol Harris Mitchell, 57, of Kuttawa passed away at her residence Thursday, July 5, 2012.
Mrs. Mitchell was Direc-tor of Nurse’s Training and Development at Parkview Nursing Home in Paducah. She was a homemaker and a member of Mt. Zion Bap-tist Church in Lyon County.
She is survived by her husband, Larry Dale Mitch-ell; two daughters, Ash-ley and her husband, Dr. Kyle Davis of Kuttawa and April Brown of Eddyville; two stepsons, Benjamin Dale Mitchell of Salt Lake City, Utah, and Mark Al-len Mitchell of Madison-ville; four grandchildren, Mary Beth Davis, Lauren Davis, Matthew Brown and Joshua Dale Mitchell; her father and stepmother,
Robert and Levada Harris of Kuttawa; one sister, Lea Bozarth of Eddyville, and one niece, Addie Bozarth of Eddyville.
She was preceded in death by her mother, Caro-lyn Bennett Harris.
Services are scheduled for 10 a.m. Saturday, July 7, 2012, at Lakeland Funeral Home Chapel in Eddyville with the Rev. Aaron Brown offi ciating. Burial will be in Mt. Zion Cemetery in Lyon County.
Visitation will be 4-8 p.m. Friday, July 6, 2012 at Lakeland Funeral Home in Eddyville.
Memorials may be made to Gideons International, 9275 Cadiz Road, Princ-eton, KY 42445; or Penny-royal Hospice Inc, 220 Bur-ley Avenue, Hopkinsville, KY 42240.
Carl Douglas Sr.Memorial services for Carl
Wayne Douglas Sr., a native of Brookport, Ill., will be held at 10:30 a.m. Saturday at Pell Cemetery in Brookport.
Mr. Douglas, 78, of Moncks Corner, S.C., died June 24. He was a master carpenter.
He was survived by his wife, Patricia Allen Douglas; two daughters, Sebrina S. Douglas and Carla S. Dar-
row, both of Paducah; one son, Carl W. Douglas Jr. of Paducah; two stepsons, John E. Caddell of St. Stephen, S.C., and Mark L. Caddell of Goose Creek, S.C.; seven grandchildren; two great-grandchildren; and several nieces and nephews.
Scotts Mortuary in Moncks Corner was in charge of ar-rangements.
Ray Dean SullivanKEVIL — Ray Dean
Sullivan, age 60, of Kevil passed away Tuesday, July 3, at Lourdes hospital in Paducah, Ky. He was born January 5, 1952, to Harry Reginald and Bar-bara Jean Tilford Sullivan of Kevil.
Dean was a lifelong resi-dent of Ballard County.
He was of the C h r i s -t i a n f a i t h and a former m e m -ber of B e t h e l C h r i s -t i a n
Church.He was a chemical oper-
ator at USEC for 21 years.He is survived by his
mother, Barbara Sullivan
of Kevil; one son, Jesse Dean Sullivan and wife, Jessika of Clarksville, Tenn.; and two brothers, Gene Sullivan and wife, Ginger and Roger Sul-livan and wife, Pat, all of Kevil. He is also survived by three nieces and one nephew.
Dean was preceded in death by his father.
Visitation for Ray Dean Sullivan will be Saturday, July 7, from 5-8 p.m. at Morrow Funeral Chapel of La Center. No other ser-vices will be held.
Memorial contributions may be made to St. Jude Children’s Research Hos-pital, 262 Danny Thom-as Place, Memphis, TN 38105-3678.
Arrangements are be-ing handled by Morrow Funeral Chapel of La Center.
Sullivan
Dean Evan MartinBENTON — Dean Evan
Martin, age 46, of Benton died Wednesday, July 4, 2012, at Western Baptist Hospital in Paducah, Ky. Martin was a truck driver for United Propane Gas and a member of the Elks Lodge.
He was the son of the late Lawrence Martin and the late Betty June (Butler) Martin. He was also preceded in death by one brother, Baby Char-lie.
Mr. Martin is survived by three daughters, Brit-tany Martin, Kristen Martin and Trisha Mar-tin, all of Benton; one son, Zachary Evan Mar-tin of Benton; one sis-ter, Kathleen Colson of
Humboldt, Tenn.; six brothers, Dale Martin of Yucaipa, Calif., Steve Morrison of Benton, Kent Morrison of Mira Loma, Calif., Jerry Morrison of Victorville, Calif., Bill Morrison of Gilbertsville, and Larry “Bim” Martin of Hisperia, Calif.; and one grandchild, Bryson Sharp of Benton.
Arrangements are be-ing handled by Collier Funeral Home in Benton, where the family will re-ceive friends from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday, July 8, 2012. Funeral services will be at Collier Funeral Chapel at 4 p.m. Sunday, July 8, 2012, with the Rev. Joel Frizzell offi ciat-ing.
Herman ReedMARION — Herman
Douglas Reed, 81, of Marion died Tuesday at Deaconess Hospital in Evansville, Ind.
He was a retired farmer and an Army veteran of the Korean War.
He is survived by his wife, Kathleen Reedn; three daughters, Kathy Austin of Xenia, Ohio, Shelia Barnes of Lola and Margie Ham-ilton of Marion; one sister, Elizabeth Jackson of Mar-ion; eight grandchildren; and 13 great-grandchildren.
He was preceded in death
by three daughters, Karla Curnel, Lynda Hart and Debbie Thurby; one son, James William Reed; two brothers; and one sister. His parents were John and Jewel Belt Reed.
Services will be at 11 a.m. Saturday at Myers Funeral Home in Marion with the Rev. Jimmy Porter offi ci-ating. Burial will follow at Mapleview Cemetery with military rites. Friends may call after 5 p.m. today and after 9 a.m. Saturday at the funeral home.
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Dolores Nowack, 103GILBERTSVILLE — Do-
lores Braun Nowack, 103, of Gilbertsville, formerly of West Chicago, Ill., died Wednesday at Western Baptist Hospital.
She attended East Mar-shall Baptist Church.
She is survived by one daughter, Rosalie Worces-ter of Carol Stream, Ill.; one son, George Nowack of Gil-bertsville; nine grandchil-dren; and 18 great-grand-children.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Otto Nowack Jr.; one son; one brother; and three sisters. Her parents were George Henry Braun and Belle Griffi th Braun.
Services will be at 11 a.m. Saturday, July 14 at Hultgren Funeral Home in Wheaton, Ill., with the Rev. Larry Hilkemann offi ciat-ing. Interment will be at Mt. Emblem Cemetery in Elm-hurst, Ill. Friends may call after 6 p.m. Saturday, July 7, at Collier Funeral Home in Benton and after 9:30 a.m. Saturday, July 14, at Hultgren Funeral Home.
Marguerite DielMarguerite McMillin Diel,
85, of Paducah died at 3:57 a.m. Saturday at Medco Center of Paducah.
She was a member of Carrsville Baptist Church in Livingston County.
Surviving are her hus-b a n d , V i r g i l Diel; two d a u g h -t e r s , G l o r i a Greenup and Mar-gie Diel, both of Paducah; t h r e e sons, Jer-
ry and Gary McMillin, both of Paducah, and Danny Mc-Millin of Blytheville, Ark.; one sister, Mattie Lou Fowl-er of Tennessee; three broth-ers, Lance Kee of Gallatin, Tenn., and Larry and Ken-neth Kee, both of McKenzie, Tenn.; 10 grandchildren; 11 great-grandchildren; and several nieces and nephews.
She was preceded in death by one daughter, Debbie Pir-tle, and two sisters. Her par-ents were Noah and Maye Kee.
Services will be at 1 p.m. Monday at Lindsey Funeral Home with the Rev. Lyman Hutcheson offi ciating. Burial will follow at Fooks Cemetery in Marshall County. Friends may call after 11 a.m. Mon-day at the funeral home.
Diel
Edward HendrixMARION — Edward Earl
“Eddie” Hendrix, 60, of Marion died Wednesday in Benton, Ill.
He was a musician, rural mail carrier, and member of Repton Baptist Church and Mattoon Fire Department.
Surviving are his wife, Sherry Dawn Hendrix; one son, Robert Earl Hendrix of Caddo Parrish, La.; one daughter, Tabitha Dawn Riley of Marion; fi ve sisters, Barbara Nunn of Missouri, Martha Estes of Bowling Green, Willie Summers of Mayfi eld, and Jo Poind-exter and Doris McMican, both of Marion; and four grandchildren.
His parents were Cleo and W.C. Hendrix.
Services will be at 1 p.m. Saturday at Gilbert Funeral Home in Marion with inter-ment in Repton Cemetery. Friends may call after 5 p.m. today at the funeral home.
Catherine ReddCADIZ — Catherine Rives
Redd, 69, of Cadiz died Wednesday at St. Thomas Alive Hospital.
She was a retired book-keeper from Skyline Real Es-tate and Waldron Contracting and a member of the Middle Tennessee Day Lily Society and St. John United Method-ist Church.
She is survived by her hus-band, Billy R. Redd.
Her parents were Charles Louis and Mary Glynn Mar-quess Rives.
Graveside services will be at 11 a.m. Saturday at Riverside Cemetery in Hopkinsville with the Rev. Hilda Bentley offi ciating. Burial will fol-low in the cemetery. Friends may call after 4 p.m. today at King’s Funeral Home.
Expressions of sympathy may be made to the Cadiz United Methodist Church Building Fund, 482 Lakota Drive, Cadiz, KY 42211.
George BennettGeorge B. Bennett, 72, of
Paducah died Thursday at his home.
Arrangements were in-complete at Milner and Orr Funeral Home of Paducah.
Today Sat.
Athens 92 75 s 96 76 sBeijing 88 75 r 89 73 tBerlin 82 67 r 82 61 shBuenos Aires 59 39 s 58 46 sCairo 98 75 s 98 75 sHong Kong 88 83 sh 88 82 shJerusalem 85 67 s 85 66 sLondon 70 57 r 68 57 shManila 86 77 t 85 79 tMexico City 75 52 t 75 53 tMoscow 80 61 pc 78 56 cParis 71 55 sh 71 58 shRome 84 64 s 88 64 sSeoul 82 70 r 88 72 pcSydney 59 52 pc 59 52 pcTokyo 83 72 t 81 70 rWarsaw 92 70 sh 90 66 tZurich 72 55 r 80 56 sh
Five-Day Forecast for PaducahShown is today’s weather. Temperatures are today’s highs and tonight’s lows.
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0-2 Low; 3-5 Moderate; 6-7 High; 8-10 Very High; 11+ Extreme8 a.m. 10 a.m. Noon 2 p.m. 4 p.m.
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103/75Mostly sunny
High 101°
Partly cloudy, warm and humid
Low 73°
Very hot
High104°
Low74°
A t-storm possible; not as hot
High95°
Low69°
Some sun with a t-storm possible
High93°
Low61°
Partly sunny
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Paducah through 2 p.m. yesterday
Last New First Full
July 10 July 18 July 26 Aug 1
Sunrise today ................................. 5:41 a.m.Sunset tonight ................................ 8:17 p.m.Moonrise today ............................. 10:12 p.m.Moonset today ................................ 8:55 a.m.
24 hours ending 2 p.m. yest. .................. 0.25”Month to date ......................................... 0.26”Normal month to date ............................. 0.73”Year to date ........................................... 11.85”Last year to date ................................... 45.35”Normal year to date .............................. 26.14”
High/low ............................................ 104°/73°Normal high/low .................................. 89°/69°Record high ................................ 104° in 2012Record low .................................... 52° in 1968
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Kentucky: Very hot today with sunshine and patchy clouds; humid. Partly cloudy tonight. Very hot tomor-row.
Illinois: Very hot and humid today with sunshine; a stray afternoon thunderstorm in the north.
Indiana: Sunshine, very hot and humid today. Partly cloudy, warm and humid tonight.
Missouri: Hot today with blazing sunshine; very humid in the west and north. Clear tonight.
Arkansas: Mostly sunny and hot today. Partly cloudy tonight; humid in the east.
Tennessee: Partly sunny and hot today; a shower or thunderstorm in the east during the afternoon.
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Albuquerque 89 67 t 92 69 tAtlanta 96 75 t 93 75 tBaltimore 101 79 s 103 79 sBillings 88 60 pc 94 63 pcBoise 96 66 s 99 67 sBoston 87 74 s 91 71 tCharleston, SC 95 75 t 95 76 tCharleston, WV 97 71 s 99 73 pcChicago 102 80 pc 90 67 tCleveland 95 73 s 94 70 tDenver 87 63 t 80 60 tDes Moines 102 75 pc 97 65 tDetroit 97 74 s 94 68 tEl Paso 91 73 t 94 75 pcFairbanks 78 51 pc 78 52 pcHonolulu 86 74 pc 85 73 pcHouston 93 75 t 92 75 tIndianapolis 103 76 s 100 72 sJacksonville 94 71 t 94 71 t
Las Vegas 102 82 s 105 86 sLos Angeles 75 61 pc 79 61 pcMiami 91 80 t 91 77 tMilwaukee 96 70 pc 83 62 tMinneapolis 88 67 t 84 65 tNew Orleans 91 77 t 91 76 tNew York City 92 78 s 98 76 tOklahoma City 102 72 s 100 71 sOmaha 102 75 pc 94 66 pcOrlando 92 74 t 92 74 tPhiladelphia 97 76 s 101 77 sPhoenix 105 86 pc 107 90 pcPittsburgh 98 72 s 96 72 pcSalt Lake City 88 66 pc 94 70 sSan Diego 71 64 pc 72 65 pcSan Francisco 69 54 pc 70 54 pcSeattle 79 55 s 82 58 sTucson 98 76 pc 100 78 pcWashington, DC 102 82 s 104 81 s
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Belleville, IL 103 75 s 104 74 sBowling Gn., KY 100 73 s 105 75 sBristol, TN 97 66 t 98 69 tC. Girardeau, MO 101 72 s 102 73 sCarbondale, IL 104 73 s 105 72 sCharleston, WV 97 71 s 99 73 pcChattanooga, TN 99 73 t 100 76 tClarksville, TN 101 73 s 104 72 sColumbia, MO 102 74 s 104 69 sEvansville, IN 103 75 s 103 75 sFt. Smith, AR 104 76 s 106 76 sHopkinsville, KY 100 74 s 103 71 sIndianapolis, IN 103 76 s 100 72 sJackson, KY 96 73 pc 100 74 sJackson, TN 100 72 pc 104 72 sJoplin, MO 100 74 s 103 72 sKansas City, MO 101 75 s 103 71 sKnoxville, TN 98 73 t 100 74 tLexington, KY 100 73 s 100 73 sLittle Rock, AR 100 76 s 102 75 pcLondon, KY 98 69 pc 101 71 sLouisville, KY 102 78 s 101 77 sMemphis, TN 102 77 pc 101 78 tNashville, TN 100 76 pc 102 75 sPeoria, IL 102 77 t 101 67 tSt. Louis, MO 104 80 s 105 74 sSpringfi eld, IL 100 72 s 103 67 sSpringfi eld, MO 100 74 s 102 73 sTerre Haute, IN 102 72 s 102 73 s
National Summary: Intense heat from a large area of high pressure will continue in areas from the central and southern Plains through the Midwest and into the mid-Atlantic and interior South today. Clusters of thunderstorms will continue to rim the heat over the northern Plains, Rockies and Deep South. New England and the West Coast will remain comfortable.
Cairo 40 12.49 -0.59
Paducah 39 16.12 +0.26Owensboro 38 10.90 +0.10
Lake Barkley 356.7 357.40 -0.05Kentucky Lake 356.7 357.53 +0.02
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