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Vol. 115, No. 288 • Corinth, Mississippi • 20 pages • Two sections

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A federal grand jury has in-dicted an Iuka man on charges of shooting a bald eagle earlier this year in the Burnsville area, and a trial date is set for Janu-ary.

Court records show the grand jury returned a two-count in-dictment against William “Bill” Branum, 78 — one count of use of a bald and golden eagle for scientifi c purposes and one count of taking, killing or pos-sessing migratory birds. The

charges are misdemeanors.Count one carries a potential

penalty of one year imprison-ment; a fi ne of $100,000; and one year supervised release. Count two has a potential pen-alty of six months imprison-ment; $100,000 fi ne; and one year of supervised release.

A jury trial in the case is set for Jan. 9 in Aberdeen before U.S. District Judge Sharion Ay-cock. Any plea agreement is due by Dec. 26.

Federal grand jury indicts Iuka man for killing eagle

Hillandale Country Club has seen numerous great golf-ers set the historic course on fi re.

On Friday morning, a cart was responsible for a blaze at the Oakland School Road site.

“I had just backed my cart out and was getting ready to play when I started talking to someone,” said longtime Hillandale golfer Clyde King. “There was nothing I could do.”

“He got off the cart and it blew up,” said course super-intendent Jim Walker. “Most likely, it was a fl ame from the battery and it blew into the stall.”

King, who has been teeing

off at Hillandale since 1951, wasn’t injured in the acci-dent. All that was left of his destroyed cart was a charred frame.

All four Corinth Fire Depart-ment Stations responded to the fi re which started around 10:30 a.m. and blocked traf-fi c on both sides of Oakland School Road.

“It could have went quick,” said Corinth Fire Department Captain Lucky Briggs.

Corinth fi remen contained the fi re to one cart shed and a shop area as several golf members arrived to check on the conditions of their carts.

“We didn’t need this to happen for sure,” said HCC

Golf cart catches fire

Staff photo by Steve Beavers

All four Corinth Fire Department Stations were dispatched to Hillandale Country Club when a cart started a fire at the course off Oakland School Road.

Four units respond to blaze at HillandaleBY STEVE BEAVERS

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A fireman battles the morn-ing fire at Hillandale Country Club.

After a surprisingly early snowfall, many people are won-dering what lies ahead for the late fall and winter.

The answers from various prognosticators vary.

“From what I’m hearing, that early snow has kind of negated a lot of earlier comments,” said Patrick Poindexter, county director with the Mississippi State Extension Service. “Peo-ple were expecting a more nor-mal winter.”

The roughly three-quarter inch snow of Monday night and Tuesday morning was the ear-liest accumulating snow in 20 years for most of the region.

AccuWeather, which revised its winter outlook this week, predicts a cold December for the interior Southeast with

some “exceptionally chilly” nights. However, the forecast-ers predict moderation follow-ing in January and February.

A weak to moderate La Niña pattern will infl uence the win-ter weather.

“La Niña, a phenomenon that occurs when sea surface tem-peratures across the equatorial central and eastern Pacifi c are below normal, is what made last year’s winter so awful for the Midwest and Northeast,” said AccuWeather Meteorolo-gist Heather Buchman.

That typically leads to a mild and dry winter in the South, but AccuWeather warns of above normal precipitation in the Lower Mississippi Valley. In February, severe weather could emerge in the region.

BY JEBB [email protected]

After early snow, what lies ahead for winter?

BY JEBB [email protected]

Crosswinds Ministries in downtown Corinth will be the scene tonight for a CD re-lease party for Maty Noyes, a 14-year-old Corinthian who writes and sings her original music.

The free concert and party will get underway around 6 p.m. tonight, immediately after the Corinth Christmas Parade which starts at 5.

Another local singer, Shelby Pratt, will open the event. Ten-year-old Addie Paige Pratt will also sing, then Noyes and her band will perform music from the new CD titled “Worth It.”

Noyes, a freshman at Corinth High School, is the daughter of Drs. Tim and Erica Noyes.

The CD was put together over the last six months and was re-leased last week. Maty’s music is described as her own inde-pendent style of acoustic pop.

She began writing songs in the eighth grade and has since written over 20 songs.

“My songs are about life, per-sonal experiences and friends ... very meaningful,” Noyes said.

“I started writing about a year ago. I just really picked it up and got into it a lot. I kind of always knew that music was the thing I wanted to do.”

The concert Saturday night is “basically to celebrate the re-lease fi nally,” she said.

“I give all the honor to God.”In August Maty was the

youngest of 12 women selected

from across the nation to per-form at the Christian Women in Ministry Association Songwrit-ers Showcase. Accompanied by Mason Dowd, she performed in front of award winning singer Nicole C. Mullins and several Nashville producers and pro-moters.

After that she was asked to sing at the Hard Rock Cafe in Nashville in September at the Purple Ball, a cancer fundrais-er.

Corinth High School freshman releases CD

BY ANGELA [email protected]

Maty Noyes

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With the departure of city court, the police department and jail, Corinth City Hall is seeing some cleaning, con-struction and planned shuf-fl ing of offi ces.

Uses have already been de-termined for some of the space made available by the reloca-tion of city court and law en-forcement to the Alcorn County Justice Center on South Harp-er. The board room for meet-ings of the Board of Mayor and Aldermen will move upstairs to the courtroom, where the judge’s podium has been re-moved and a new platform for the board is being constructed.

It is expected to be ready for use early next year.

Projects Coordinator Kim Ratliff said the city needs more space for its board meetings and other activities. The old courtroom will offer a larger seating capacity.

“One of the problems we see is when classes come from schools for a presentation from the mayor and depart-ment heads about different aspects of city government, the board room is never large enough,” he said. “In the old courtroom, it will be feasible to take a large group up there.”

Once the board room moves upstairs, the current board room will be reconfi gured to accommodate the offi ce of the mayor, a secretary and meet-ing space.

The jail space is expected to be used for storage. The fi re department may use the old

police department offi ces, but plans are not fi nalized, said Ratliff.

The old police department space will get a thorough cleaning.

“We are going to be looking at some painting and rehabili-tation of fl oors and improving the general aesthetic of the building,” said Ratliff. “There could potentially be some pay-ing renters coming into City Hall, but that has not come to fruition yet. We’re hoping that will generate some revenue.”

The city is relying on in-mates with the Mississippi

Department of Corrections for labor.

“The captain has found us some workers who have expe-rience in the building trades, and their contribution is going to be a signifi cant cost savings to the city,” said Ratliff.

Some other offi ces may shift to different locations within the municipal building, as well.

“The main fl oors of City Hall, we hope to have all of that completed by the end of January,” said Building In-spector Philip Verdung, who is overseeing the work.

City Hall undergoes changeBY JEBB JOHNSTON

[email protected]

Staff photo by Jebb Johnston

Building Inspector Philip Verdung (from left), Doug Jaymes and Ronald Mueller work on the new platform for the Board of Mayor and Aldermen in the old city courtroom, which will be-come the board meeting room at City Hall.

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General Manager David Odle. “It’s unfortunate, but we will fi ght back and

come through this.”Damage has yet to be

determined, according to Walker.

“Until we start open-

ing doors, we won’t know for sure how much dam-age was done,” said the superintendent. “There is some damage to the

course equipment, but it doesn’t look like we lost anything.”

At fi rst glance, 30 cart stalls, the maintenance

shop and some equip-ment were determined to have been damaged.

The golf course stores 75 carts on site.


A cart explosion was responsible for starting a fire Friday morning at Hillandale Country Club.


A set of golf clubs was charred in the blaze.

FIRE: Full extent of damage to stalls, shop has not been determined, Walker says

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Around 30 cart stalls and a maintenance shop were damaged by the fire.

The CD producer is Brian Spradlin, the guitarist for country music singer Easton Corbin. He liked her sound and helped her put this live acoustic CD together featuring eight of her original songs with her music, vocals and her guitar.

Her friends, Mason Dowd, a 2011 gradu-ate of Alcorn Central, does vocals and guitar, while Andrew Horton, a graduate of Eagle Home School, plays violin on the CD.

During the CD re-lease party, Dowd will be playing lead guitar Saturday night along with Kossuth High School senior Jake Haley on drums and Corinth High School senior Jesse Sutton on bass guitar.

Maty takes part in many school and com-munity activities.

She is CHS fresh-man class president, is in the art program, a member of the pom/dance squad and plays tennis. A member of First Baptist Church in Corinth, she is also active in theatre and music productions locally. She partici-pated in the Corinth Community Christ-mas concert Tuesday night to benefi t the Coliseum restoration. She also recently per-formed at The Blitz, a Christian concert held at the Arena.

Maty began singing at KCs Espresso open mic night and then got a job this summer singing with Mason Dowd at Pickwick Piz-za and Cactus Jacks in Pickwick.

Snacks and hot co-coa from KCs Espres-so will be available during the CD release party Saturday night. The event is free and open to everyone. There will be a “meet and greet” with Maty afterwards.

The CD release par-ty is sponsored by Dr. Erica Noyes Aesthetic Center and Medi-Spa. There will be a draw-ing after the concert for free products such as botox, medical grade microderms, acne laser treatment, latisse, obaji skin care products, aveda salon products and more. The recipient must be present to win.

Maty Noyes music is available on CDs ($10 at the event) or check it out/download on facebook, iTunes or cdbaby.com. Updated music may be viewed on YouTube.

Maty can be hired to perform, and can be contacted at [email protected].

Her managers are Erica Noyes and Heather Moore.

Crosswinds Minis-tries is located at 703 Tate Street in down-town Corinth.

ALBUM: CD release party includes show, raffle, snacks

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Pile of kittensNeed an idea for a good Christmas gift? Look no further than this pile of kittens at the Corinth-Alcorn Animal Shelter. They are seven weeks old and the shelter has 10 to choose from. They are long-hair and short-hair, male and female. They love to play and all need a good home this holiday season. Come see the pile of kittens Monday through Friday 9 a.m. -- 5 p.m. and Saturday from 10 a.m. -- 4 p.m. at the Corinth-Alcorn Animal Shelter or Facebook at Corinth-Alcorn Animal Shelter or visit the shelter Web site at www.alcornpets.com.

AccuWeather’s season-al outlook sounds rather different than that of the National Oceanic and At-mospheric Administra-tion, which sums up the outlook for the Gulf Coast states as “warmer and drier than average.”

Locally, Poindexter is not changing his expec-tations after the late-No-vember snowfall.

“I personally think we will have more of a nor-mal winter with a few snows,” he said. “But it seems like the seasons really vary from year to year. I’ve seen times in December when we were in short sleeves and then it would be very cold in January and February.”

Last winter brought an increase in snow events and the biggest snow since 1988, and that does have its benefi ts.

“It helped put mois-ture back in the ground and prepare the soil for springtime, and it helped kill some of the fungal or-ganisms and molds,” said Poindexter.

It also curtails the in-sect population.

WINTER: No change in post-November snow expectancy

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The prosecution seeks forfeiture of any property involved in the offense, including the fi rearm.

The shooting of a young bald eagle gen-erated much attention earlier this year after of-fi cials identifi ed the bird and wildlife agencies of-fered reward money for

information leading to the arrest and conviction of the responsible party. The shooting happened on or about March 31 near Tishomingo County Road 306, leaving the bird with a bullet in its left wing and unable to fl y. The person who found the injured bird brought it to the atten-tion of wildlife offi cials in

Alcorn County.It was treated at the

Mississippi State Univer-sity College of Veterinary Medicine, where it was determined the bird had a fractured wing and was dehydrated, starving and in shock. The eagle was then taken to the Jackson Zoo for rehabilitation.

The male eagle had a 5- to 6-foot wingspan.

Bald eagles are pro-tected by the Bald and Golden Eagle Protection Act and the Migratory Bird Treaty Act, both federal and wildlife stat-utes.

The court appointed Kevin J. Payne as coun-sel for Branum. Robert J. Mims is prosecuting the case for the U.S. at-torney’s offi ce.

EAGLE: Bird treated at MSU vet for fractured wing, dehydrationCONTINUED FROM 1A

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Clifford DoddsFuneral services for Clifford Dodds, 74, of Corinth,

were held Friday at Corinthian Funeral Chapel with burial at Fraleys Chapel Cemetery.

Mr. Dodds died Wednesday, Nov. 30, 2011, at Mag-nolia Regional Health Center. Born March 18, 1937, he was a retired construction worker.

He was preceded in death by his parents, Lon-nie and Pearl Ruth O’Kelly Dodds; a brother, James Dodds; and fi ve sisters, Sally Wilbanks, Peggy Reeves, Juanita Carmack, Captola Jossearand and Mary Jew-ell Baldwyn.

Survivors include one brother, Harry Lee Dodds of Corinth; one sister, Janeva Harvell of Iuka; his spe-cial and dear friends, Charles and Lillie Flanagan of Corinth; and a host of nieces and nephews.

Dennis SkinnerFuneral services for Dennis Wayne Skinner, 44, of

Corinth, are set for 2 p.m. Sunday at Memorial Funeral Home Cha-pel with Bro. Taft Nethery and Bro. Jetta Forsythe.

Burial will be in Indian Creek Cemetery.

Mr. Skinner died November 29, 2011, at his residence. He was born March 9, 1967, in Corinth. He has been employed with Wal-Mart for about the past 10 years, having worked in Corinth and most recently Booneville, MS. He was a member of Olive Hill Bap-

tist Church.He was preceded in death by his grandparents,

Henry and Martha Skinner, and Cletus and Alice Ramer.

Survivors include his parents, Robert and Gladys Skinner of Corinth; his brothers, Mike (Diane) Skin-ner of Southaven, Tommy Skinner, Shawn Skinner; a sister, Brenda Skinner all of Corinth; his neph-ews, Dewayne (Julie) Skinner, Cole Skinner; a great niece, Anna Kate Skinner; and a host of other family and friends

Visitation is Saturday from 3 until 8 p.m. and Sun-day noon to service time.

Memorial Funeral Home is in charge.Condolence can be left at www.memorialcorinth.

com

Deaths

Skinner

Opal Rogers Cook Bumps

RUTHERFORDTON , N.C. — Opal Rogers Cook Bumps, 86, died Friday, Dec. 2, 2011, at Hospice House of Rutherford County.

Arrangements are in-complete and will be an-nounced by Magnolia Fu-neral Home.

Ruby GarnerBOONEVILLE — Ruby

Garner, 70, died Friday, Dec. 2, 2011, at Baptist Me-morial Hospital in Boonev-ille.

Arrangements are in-complete and will be an-nounced by Patterson Me-morial Chapel.

Harold “Limey” PriceIUKA — Funeral services

for Harold “Limey” Price, 64, are set for 2 p.m. today at Cutshall Funeral Home Chapel in Iuka with burial at Patrick Cemetery.

Mr. Price died Thursday, Dec. 1, 2011, at North Mis-sissippi Medical Center in Tupelo.

He was preceded in death by his parents, Mel-

vin and Bernice Price; and a brother, Wayne Price.

Survivors include one daughter, Shana Hollon and husband Brad of Iuka; one brother, Dale Price and wife Shelia of Iuka; one sis-ter, Shelaine Hardwick of Iuka; and three grandchil-dren, Cooper Price, Norah Grace Hollon and Katie Hollon.

Bro. Ron Norvell will of-fi ciate.

Patricia Nell LipfordMICHIE, Tenn. — Fu-

neral services for Patricia Nell Lipford, 64, are set for 11 a.m. today at Shack-elford Funeral Directors of Selmer, Tenn., with burial at Lebanon Cemetery in Michie, Tenn.

Mrs. Lipford died Thurs-day, Dec. 1, 2011, at Jack-son Madison County Gen-eral Hospital in Jackson, Tenn. Born Aug. 24, 1947, in Hanson, Ky., she was a hospitality assistant. She was a member of West Shi-loh Baptist Church.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Jimmy Eugene Lipford; a son, Randal Wayne Lip-

ford; her parents, Bernice Noah Denny and Mary Agnes (Carlton) Denny; her stepfather, Wally Os-trowski; and three broth-ers, Robert Thomas Den-ny, Bernice Ray Denny and Curtis Lynn Denny.

Survivors include a daughter, Angelia Lip-ford of Selmer, Tenn.; a son, Jimmy Lee Lipford of Memphis, Tenn.; a broth-er, Jimmy Neal Carlton of Las Vegas, Nev.; two grandchildren, Cecily Ann Lipford of Jackson, Tenn., and Jonathan “Walker” Lipford of Selmer, Tenn.; and one great grandchild.

Bro. Earl Day will offi ci-ate.

Helen Tucker

Glidewell OwenFuneral services for Hel-

en Tucker Glidewell Owen, 75, of Corinth, are set for 1 p.m. Monday at Corinthian Funeral Home with burial at Forrest Memorial Park.

Mrs. Owen died Friday, Dec. 2, 2011, at Jackson Madison County General Hospital. Born June 21, 1936, she was a retired factory worker. She was a

member of Corinth Church of God.

She was preceded in death by her husband of 30 years, Mr. Charles Owen; her parents, New-ton Ely Glidewell and Laura Mabel Nash Tucker Glidewell; a sister, Opal Burcham; and a brother, Harold Tucker.

Survivors include two daughters, Linda Harris (Roy Harold) of Kennesaw, Ga., and Kimberly Rainey; three sons, Durell Glidewell of Saulsbury, Tenn., David Glidewell (Pat) of Corinth, and Tim Glidewell of Childers Hill, Tenn.; eight grandchildren, Dana Glis-sen of Saulsbury, Tenn., Derrick Glidewell of Sauls-bury, Tenn., Chris Harris (Kim) of Actworth, Ga., Jeremy Glidewell (Carrey) of Corinth, Corey Glidewell (Britni) of Corinth, Jessica Glidewell of Childers Hill, Tenn., and Stacy Glidewell of Florence, Ala.

Bro. Jason Jones will of-fi ciate.

Visitation Sunday from 5 until 8 p.m. and Monday from 11 a.m. until service time at Corinthian Funeral

Home.

Jimmy Dale SwindleFuneral services for

Jimmy Dale Swindle, 64, of Corinth, were held Fri-day at Magnolia Funeral Home Chapel of Memories with burial in Campground Methodist Church Cem-etery in Walnut.

Mr. Swindle died Wednesday, November 30, 2011, at Magnolia Regional Health Center. Born Jan. 1, 1947, he was a farmer and a truck driver for many years. He was as member of Shady Grove Baptist Church.

He was preceded in death by his parents, Hu-bert and Omega “Tootsie” Swindle.

Survivors include two sons, Brad Swindle and his wife Marsha of Corinth, and Christopher Scott “Chris” Swindle of Corinth; two grandchildren, Jenni-fer and Blake Swindle; and other relatives and a host of friends.

Leroy Brown, Charlie Browning and Bro. Tim Edwards offi ciated the ser-vice.

Janette WilkinsFuneral services for

Janette Wilkins, 74, of Corinth, are set for 1 p.m. Monday at McPeters Cha-pel with burial at Brigman Hill Church Cemetery.

Ms. Wilkins died Friday, Dec. 2, 2011, at her resi-dence. She was a former associate of the Wurlitzer Co. She was a member of Brigman Hill Baptist Church.

She was preceded in death by her parents, James (Jim) Wilkins and Willie Hudson Wilkins; three sisters, Joyce Wilkins, Clair Grissom and Rosalou Wilkins; and one brother, J.P. Wilkins.

Survivors include fi ve brothers, Milton Wilkins (Martha), Jerome Wilkins, William Wilkins, all of Corinth, J.B. Wilkins of Glen, and Eugene Wilkins (Mary) of Booneville; and one sister, Linda Farley (Willie Lee) of Corinth.

Bro. Mike Evans, Bro. Shane Evetts and Dr. Leonard Pratt will offi ci-ate.

Visitation is Sunday from 2 until 5 p.m.

My British Literature students’ indifference toward Shakespeare’s poetry was frustrating, and when I said that my interest in his work grows every time I teach it, a student remarked, “For seniors like you, that is understandable, but his work is out of date for our generation.”

“Not so,” I rebutted. “Famed English poet Ben Jonson’s remark is indis-putable. Of Shakespeare, he said, ‘He was not of an age, but for all time.’”

“If you defi ne his po-etry as being among the best, how do you defi ne bad poetry?” Someone asked.

“Doggerel,” I said. “It is poorly written and is nothing more than rude verse.”

“Give us an example,” a student requested.

“All right. I’m certain y’all will agree that it is awful.” With that, I read them the following:

Susie Lee done fell in love,

She planned to marry Joe.

She was so happy ‘bout it all,

She told her pappy so.Pappy told her, “Susie

gal,You’ll have to fi nd

another.I’d just as soon yo’ ma

don’t know,But Joe is yo’ half

brother.”So Susie put aside her

JoeAnd planned to marry

Will.But after telling Pappy

this,He said, “There’s

trouble still.”You can’t marry Will,

my gal,And please don’t tell yo’

mother,But Will and Joe, and

several mo’I know is yo’ half

brother.”But Mama knew and

said, “My child,Just do what makes

you happy.Marry Will or marry

Joe —You ain’t no kin to

Pappy.”To my utter aston-

ishment, the students hooted and howled so loudly that I had to make them hush. They loved it — much more than Shakespeare’s “My Mis-tress’ Eyes Are Nothing Like The Sun.”

“Gee whiz, kids — only a bunch of Philistines could appreciate that garbage. It’s worse than a terribly corny joke.”

I shouldn’t have said that.

A student quipped that recently he had heard the corniest of all corny jokes, and instantly the other students began yelling, “Tell it, tell it.” Groaning, I gave in to their request. Here is what he said:

“Dining in a fancy restaurant, a man noticed a gorgeous woman at a nearby table, but lacked the nerve to speak to her.

“Suddenly she sneezed, and her glass eye fl ew out of its socket. As it whizzed by, the man grabbed it and handed it back to her.

“’Oh, thank you,’ the woman said as she popped her eye back in place. ‘Let me show my gratitude by buying your meal.’

“Afterward, they had an intimate conversation. She shared her deepest dreams, and he shared his. When they parted, she mentioned that she was a gourmet cook and invited him to her place the next evening. The food was divine.

“’You are the perfect woman,” he said. ‘Do you treat every guy you meet this way?’

“’No,’ she replied. ‘You just happened to catch my eye.’”

Again, the students howled in laughter.

I groaned, shook my head, and dismissed the class. That day, Shake-speare was no match for corn.

(Oxford resident Jimmy Reed, [email protected], is a newspaper columnist, author and college teach-er. His latest collection of short stories is available at Square Books, 662-236-2262.)

Shakespeare no match for cornBY JIMMY REED

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What should be done about income inequality?That basic question underlies the arguments hashed out in

the supercommittee and promises to be a central issue in the presidential campaign.

Supercommittee Democrats argue that income inequality has been increasing and can be at least partially reversed by higher tax rates on high earners.

They refused to agree on any deal that didn’t include such tax increases. Supercommittee Republicans offered a plan to eliminate tax preferences and reduce tax rates, as in the 1986 bipartisan tax reform. They argued that high tax rates would squelch economic growth.

They didn’t make the case that their proposals would also address income inequality. But House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan, in a 17-page paper based largely on a Congressional Budget Offi ce analysis of income trends be-tween 1979 and 2007, has done so.

Ryan, a Republican from Wisconsin, makes the point that the government redistributes income not only through taxes but also through transfer payments, including Social Security, Medicare, food stamps and unemployment benefi ts. The CBO study helpfully measures income, adjusted for infl ation, after taxes and after such transfer payments.

Many may fi nd the results of the CBO study surprising. It turns out, Ryan reports, that federal income taxes (including the refundable Earned Income Tax Credit) actually decreased income inequality slightly between 1979 and 2007, while the federal payroll taxes that supposedly fund Social Security and Medicare slightly increased income inequality. That’s despite the fact that income tax rates are lower than in 1979 and pay-roll taxes higher.

Perhaps even more surprising, federal transfer payments have done much more to increase income inequality than fed-eral taxes. That’s because, in Ryan’s words, “the distribution of government transfers has moved away from households in the lower part of the income scale. For instance, in 1979, households in the lowest income quintile received 54 percent of all transfer payments. In 2007, those households received just 36 percent of transfers.”

In effect, Social Security and Medicare have been transfer-ring money from low-earning young people (who don’t pay income but are hit by the payroll tax) to increasingly affl uent old people.

The Democrats, perhaps following the polls and focus groups, have been protecting these entitlement programs that have done more to increase income inequality than the Rea-gan and Bush tax cuts put together.

Ryan makes three more points that may strike many as counterintuitive. First, reductions in some transfer payments haven’t hurt the living standards of most low-earners. The prime example is the welfare reform act of 1996, which re-duced transfers to single mothers but induced many of them to fi nd jobs that left them better off economically and, prob-ably, psychologically.

Second, Americans aren’t trapped in one segment of the in-come distribution.

A Tax Journal analysis of individual income tax returns found that 58 percent of those in the lowest income quintile in 1996 had moved to a higher income segment by 2005. This comports with common experience. We move up and down the income scale in the course of a lifetime.

Finally, the infl ation adjustment used in the CBO analysis was the Consumer Price Index. But that tends to overstate infl ation (as any indexes tends to do, since it measures the cost of a static market basket of goods and services). A study by Chicago economist Christian Broda found that prices for goods purchased by low-earners have been rapidly decreas-ing, while prices for goods of high-earners have increased. Kids’ school clothes may be cheaper at Walmart than they were years ago, while prices at Neiman Marcus keep increas-ing.

So if the question is how to compensate for increasing in-come inequality, higher tax rates on high-earners won’t do much — and could be counterproductive if they diminish eco-nomic growth.

A better way is suggested by the supercommittee Republi-cans: Limit future increases in transfer payments to affl uent households, and cap deductions for home mortgage interest and state and local taxes, which are hugely lucrative for high-earners and worthless for low-earners who don’t pay income tax.

These proposals won’t reduce income inequality altogeth-er. Much of the increased inequality comes from the huge increases for those in the top 1 percent of earners. But we wouldn’t be better off if Steve Jobs had never existed.

Keeping entitlements as they are and raising tax rates on high-earners is a recipe for Europe-style stagnation. Ryan and the supercommittee Republicans point toward a better way.

(Michael Barone, senior political analyst for The Wash-ington Examiner (www.washingtonexaminer.com), is a resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, a Fox News Channel contributor and a co-author of The Almanac of American Politics.)

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Seventy years ago this month, the Japanese attacked Pearl Har-bor and brought America into a war that had begun in Europe in 1939.

In his masterful new book “December 1941: 31 Days That Changed America and Saved the World,” Craig Shirley takes readers back to a very different America. Through hundreds of stories and advertisements culled from newspapers, Shirley not only transports us back to that tumultuous time, but reminds this generation that denial about an enemy’s intentions can have grave consequences.

Each chapter in the book deals with a single day of December 1941. We go to the movies with Clark Gable and Betty Grable, view the “cafe society” of New York, and listen to radio stars like Jack Benny and Walter Winchell, the acerbic columnist and power-ful radio gossip.

The major players are all here: President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Secretary of State Cordell Hull, Winston Churchill and countless generals and admirals, as well as other military and political fi g-ures familiar to any student of history. But, depending on your age, the real stars were our par-ents, grandparents and great-grandparents.

After the Dec. 7 attack, Ameri-cans rallied around a single patri-otic cause -- the defeat of fascism and the salvation of Western democracy, an effort similar to the national unity displayed fol-lowing the terrorists attacks of Sept. 11. The unity of 70 years ago, however, lasted a lot longer. Record numbers enlisted in the military.

Many isolationists became in-terventionists. Even some consci-entious objectors announced, in

light of the Japa-nese sneak attack, that they could no longer remain apart from what was rightly cast as a fi ght for Ameri-ca’s very survival. Though they re-fused to kill, many served vital roles in the war effort as noncombatants.

Amid the deeply human and moving stories of family loss are some funny accounts of govern-ment stupidity. Shirley writes that government polltakers in the 1940 census asked American men and women how many individual articles of clothing they owned and how many they purchased each year. The Los Angeles Times reported, “Census Bureau offi -cials declare they have found the explanation for cluttered clothing closets in the American home; people just buy more than they need.”

Intrusive government is not a modern phenomenon.

Concerning Russia, the Ameri-can left in 1941 was oblivious to the intentions of our supposed “ally.” Shirley writes, “...many on the American left were quite naive about the real nature of the Soviet state. Many liberals and intellectu-als, who should have known bet-ter, perceived it as a worker’s para-dise; it was only after the war that the true horrors of Stalin’s repres-sive regime truly came to light.

The muck-raking journalist, Lincoln Steffens, famously assert-ed, after visiting communist Rus-sia: ‘I have seen the future, and it works’ ... Even FDR viewed Stalin as an avuncular fellow with whom he could do business, referring to (him) as ‘Uncle Joe.’ The ugly re-alities of the gulag would eventu-

ally emerge for the entire world to see.”

To those for whom this is famil-iar territory, it is worth revisiting. For people younger than 70, it is worth discovering. This “great-est generation” was not necessar-ily braver than other generations; its men and women were simply imbued with a profound sense of duty.

That call to duty is evident in a letter from a young man to his fa-ther, which was typical, says Shir-ley, of the sentiment in December 1941:

“Dear Dad, There is a war on and I am now in it, but that must not be a cause for you to worry. Of course there is danger and there will be more danger to come but if I am to die a soldier’s death, so be it. ... You must think of me as doing my duty to God and coun-try. Be brave and show outward pride, that the mite of humanity you helped bring into the world is now a soldier doing his part of defending our great and won-derful country. ... You must pray, not only for me and others in the Army, but for the innocent wom-en and children who will have to endure untold suffering from this fi ght for freedom of religion, speech and democracy. I am not afraid to die for this. ... Until then I remain and always, Your Lov-ing Son.”

December 7, 1941, may be a day that “will live in infamy,” but that month, those years, that war re-vealed an American character still on display in our military today, though it’s somewhat lacking in our civilian population.

(Direct all MAIL for Cal Thom-as to: Tribune Media Services, 2225 Kenmore Ave., Suite 114, Buffalo, N.Y. 14207. Readers may also e-mail Cal Thomas at [email protected].)

A December to remember

A few months ago in this space, I wrote a column about the cul-tural phenom Lady Gaga that ended with my politely telling her to save her money.

That’s because the treacherous world of popular culture is not usually a long-term proposition. Entertainment idols often pass through the fame obstacle course very quickly.

In show biz, “jumping the shark” is a term used to describe a project in decline. It is derived from the hit sitcom “Happy Days,” which, sorely lacking for material after years on the air, featured a show whereby The Fonz went wa-terskiing in a leather jacket and encountered a shark.

You guessed it: The Fonz jumped over the shark on his skis. After that, the days were not so happy on that program.

Now we have Lady Gaga, the ul-timate edgy, anti-establishment pop star, swimming in dubious waters. Recently, she fronted a Thanksgiving special.

The New York Times described it this way: “Lady Gaga performs before family and friends and offers a glimpse of her personal

life in an inter-view with Katie Couric... She also whips up a feast of deep-fried tur-key and waffl es with the chef Art Smith.”

Somewhere Ja-nis Joplin is weep-ing. By the way, Gaga’s special was trounced in the ratings by the 237th airing of “A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving.”

And that’s not all.The Associated Press reports

that “Gaga’s Workshop” is now open at the Barneys clothing store in Manhattan. Apparently, Gaga designed a special holiday shop featuring “a gigantic cartoon statue of the superstar herself in a pinup pose surrounded by jagged mirrors and sitting atop thou-sands of back plastic discs.”

Forget the Rockefeller Center tree, the Gaga shop represents the true holiday spirit, does it not?

Some of you may think I am making this up, but it’s all true. What I can’t fi gure out is why

Gaga’s (Stefani Germanotta) management team seems to know nothing about history. El-vis Presley, the biggest pop icon ever, sabotaged his own career by starring in a series of movies like “Kissin’ Cousins” and “Clam-bake.” I mean, there was the once culturally dangerous Elvis doing a dance called the “Clam” on a beach wearing black shoes and white pants. It took the King years to get back on track after those dopey fl icks.

Last year, Gaga made $90 mil-lion from her songs and shows. Does she really need the Thanks-giving special? Or the Barneys ex-posure? Really?

The answer, of course, is no. Gaga has now gone middle-class mainstream and, at this rate, will be co-hosting with Kelly Ripa any day now. The lady may be trying not to be a tramp, but she cer-tainly has met the shark — and jumped it.

(Veteran TV news anchor Bill O’Reilly is host of the Fox News show “The O’Reilly Factor” and author of the book “Pinheads and Patriots: Where You Stand in the Age of Obama.”)

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“And she shall bring forth a son; and thou shalt call his name Jesus; for it is he that shall save his people from their sins.”

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JACKSON — The mil-itary has determined suicide was the cause of death of a Kentucky National Guard soldier whose body was found on a Mississippi mili-tary base in 2008, 10 months after he disap-peared and just before a scheduled deployment to Iraq.

Spc. Ryan Longneck-er’s father is not con-vinced the 19-year-old soldier took his own life, and said a 610-page report on the investiga-tion raises more ques-tions than answers.

“It just stinks. Some-thing’s wrong with the whole thing,” said Brian Longnecker, a retired Marine who lives in Richmond, Ind. “I don’t think it was suicide. I think somebody killed him.”

Ryan Longnecker was training at Camp Shelby, a sprawling 136,000-acre base near Hattiesburg, Miss., when he disappeared on Aug. 6, 2007. The military initially classi-fi ed Longnecker as ab-sent without leave, say-ing he took off with his military-issued 9-mm pistol and M4 assault rifl e.

Longnecker, of Glasgow, Ky., had been scheduled to deploy with the Kentucky Na-tional Guard’s Battery B, 2nd Battalion, 138th Field Artillery unit. About 160 members of his unit and hundreds

of troops from other areas were training at Camp Shelby at the time.

Longnecker’s father said the military be-lieves his son died of a gunshot wound to the chest, but a bullet was not recovered.

Camp Shelby has been a major training cen-ter for soldiers headed to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, with sol-diers coming for train-ing from as far away as Alaska. Carved from the pine forests and rolling hills of south-central Mississippi, Camp Shel-by has fi ring ranges for big guns, a celebrated war museum and mock cities designed to mimic the scenes soldiers will face in the Middle East.

It’s just south of Hat-tiesburg, a college town that’s home to the Uni-versity of Southern Mis-sissippi, an easy place for a young man like Longnecker to blend in. The Army developed few leads on his disap-pearance and turned the case over to the U.S. Marshals Service.

The trail was cold. Longnecker’s unit had long since gone to Iraq without him. Ru-

mors and speculation abounded.

Then on a swelter-ing summer day, Long-necker’s skeletal re-mains were found in the woods on the base on June 3, 2008. His guns were found near his body, as were sev-eral cigarette butts and a spent shell casing, his father said. Brian Long-necker said his son’s knife was missing and at least one bone in his face was broken.

The remains were found between two roads and “probably a few hundred yards from a building in a secluded area,” Forrest County Coroner Butch Benedict said at the time.

Again, there was speculation and innu-endo. Was Longnecker killed by other soldiers? His grandmother said he wasn’t getting along with some members of his unit. Or did he won-der off drunk and get bit by a snake? Maybe it was an overdose, or he got hit by a military vehicle during a night training exercise, peo-ple fi gured.

The military per-formed an autopsy before releasing the

remains for burial a month after the body was found, but the au-topsy didn’t provide the concrete evidence in-vestigators had hoped. The investigation con-tinued for nearly three years.

The investigation was closed on March 30 af-ter it was determined he committed suicide, said Chris Grey, the chief of public affairs for the Ar-my’s Criminal Investi-gation Command based in Quantico, Va.

The questions remain for Longnecker’s fam-ily. His father read-ily admits his son had a problem with alcohol, and sometimes lost his temper. He was small, but he knew karate and sometimes used those skills in street fi ghts.

He had tried to change units, and even sought orders to deploy sooner, Brian Longnecker said.

“It just doesn’t make sense. It doesn’t seem like a clear cut case of suicide to me,” the fa-ther lamented during a recent telephone inter-view.

The Army’s report, which was several inch-es thick, was blacked out in many places and only raised more ques-tions for the family. Brian Longnecker said he’s consulting with an attorney, who is review-ing the report and is likely to ask for a copy without redactions.

“It looks awful fi shy to me,” Brian Longnecker said.

Suicide ruled in soldier’s deathBY HOLBROOK MOHR

Associated Press

JACKSON — The head of the Delta Health Alli-ance is reportedly under scrutiny for alleged mis-use of funds, but her at-torney says other inves-tigations have shown no wrongdoing.

The Mississippi Busi-ness Journal reports that the allegations came in a wrongful termination lawsuit fi led by James Hahn, a former vice president of programs at Stoneville, Miss.-based DHA.

The DHA provides funding for health care programs to the poor in the Mississippi Delta.

The Business Journal said the lawsuit caught the attention of federal prosecutors in north Mississippi.

Hahn claims in his law-suit that he was fi red in May 2010 after he raised concerns to the board of directors about possible misuse of funds by DHA’s CEO Dr. Karen Fox. Hahn said in his lawsuit that a “sham investiga-tion” by the board found no wrongdoing by Fox. Hahn said he was fi red when he refused to sign a release promising not to report any of his con-cerns to federal agencies.

Hahn sued DHA in July 2010 in Lafayette County Circuit Court.

Roy Campbell III, a Jackson attorney who represents DHA, said an investigation into Hahn’s claims initiated

before Hahn’s lawsuit was fi led, found that Fox was authorized to pay for each of the expenses cited by Hahn with DHA money.

“I am entirely, com-pletely comfortable with the investigation, which continued over the course of the lawsuit,” Campbell said. “Nothing was uncovered that indi-cated any wrongdoing on the part of Dr. Fox.”

Mike Watts, an Oxford attorney who represents Fox, said he has been given no indication from the U.S. Attorney’s Offi ce as to how long the inves-tigation would last.

“I think the govern-ment would probably do it as expeditiously as they can, but they have not told me when it might end,” he said.

Watts said aside from DHA’s internal inves-tigation into the mat-ter, routine audits per-formed by the federal Health Resources and Services Administration have turned up nothing illegal.

“All these audits, as far as I know, show that ev-erything has been spent appropriately. We be-lieve in the end when the investigation is conclud-ed that it will show that Dr. Fox didn’t do any-thing improper,” he said.

Campbell said DHA has voluntarily turned over about six years’ worth of audits to the U.S. Attorney’s Offi ce.

Lawsuit spawnedfederal investigation

Associated Press

“Something’s wrong with the whole thing. I don’t think it was suicide. I think somebody killed

him.”

Brian LongneckerRetired Marine

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WASHINGTON — The unemployment rate, which has refused to budge from the 9 percent neighborhood for two and a half frustrating years, fell sharply in November, driven in part by small businesses that fi nally see reason to hope and hire.

Economists say there is a long way to go, but they liked what they saw.

The rate fell to 8.6 per-cent, the lowest since March 2009, two months after President Barack Obama took offi ce. Un-employment passed 9 percent that spring and had stayed there or high-er for all but two months since then.

The country added 120,000 jobs in Novem-ber, the Labor Depart-ment said Friday. Private employers added 140,000 jobs, while governments cut 20,000.

The economy has gen-erated 100,000 or more jobs fi ve months in a row — the fi rst time that

has happened since April 2006, well before the Great Recession.

“Something good is stirring in the U.S. econ-omy,” Ian Shepherdson, an economist at High Fre-quency Economics, said in a note to clients.

The stock market rallied at the opening bell, after the report came out, but fi nished fl at for the day. It was still up 787 points for the week. The only bigger point gain in a week was in October 2008, when stocks lurched higher and lower during the fi nancial crisis.

The report showed that September and October were stronger months for the job market than fi rst estimated. For four months in a row, the gov-ernment has revised job growth fi gures higher for previous months.

September was revised up by 52,000 jobs, for a gain of 210,000. October was revised up by 20,000, for a gain of 100,000.

Unemployment peaked at 10.1 percent in Octo-ber 2009, four months

after the Great Recession ended. It dipped to 8.9 percent last February and 8.8 percent last March but otherwise was at or above 9 percent.

The rate fell not just be-cause people found jobs. About 300,000 people simply gave up looking for work, and were no longer counted as unem-ployed. People routinely enter and leave the work force, though 300,000 is more than usual.

Obama, who faces a re-election vote in less than a year and a presidential campaign that will turn on the economy, seized on the decline to argue for expanding a cut in the tax that workers pay toward Social Security.

The tax cut affects 160 million Americans. It low-ers a worker’s Social Se-curity tax by up to $2,136 a year. Someone earn-ing $50,000 a year saves $1,000 with the tax cut. It will expire Dec. 31 unless Congress acts.

Republicans and Dem-ocrats have supported an extension but differ

on how to pay for it. The Senate on Thursday de-feated plans from both parties. Republicans had proposed paying for the cut by freezing the pay of federal workers through 2015. Democrats wanted to raise taxes on people making $1 million or more a year.

“Now is not the time to slam the brakes on the recovery. Right now it’s time to step on the gas,” Obama said Friday.

Inside the unemploy-ment report, one of the most closely watched in-dicators of the economy’s health, were signs of im-provement for small busi-nesses, which employ 500 or fewer people and ac-count for half the jobs in the private sector.

The government uses a survey of mostly large companies and govern-ment agencies to deter-mine how many jobs were added or lost each month. It uses a separate survey of households to deter-mine the unemployment rate.

The household survey

picks up hiring by com-panies of all sizes, includ-ing small businesses and companies just getting off the ground. It also in-cludes farm workers and the self-employed, who aren’t included in the sur-vey of companies.

The household survey has shown an average of 321,000 jobs created per month since July, com-pared with an average of 13,000 the fi rst seven months of the year.

When the economy is either improving or slipping into recession, many economists say, the household survey does the better job of picking up the shift because it de-tects small business hir-ing.

“We might fi nally be seeing new business cre-ation expand again, which is critical to the sustain-ability of the recovery,” said Diane Swonk, chief economist at Mesirow Financial, a fi nancial ser-vices company.

The National Federa-tion of Independent Busi-ness, a small business

group, said Friday that its own survey of small companies in November found that more of them are planning to add work-ers than at any time since September 2008, when the fi nancial crisis struck.

LogicBoost, a Washing-ton, D.C., software con-sulting fi rm with 19 em-ployees, has hired a sales worker and a marketing worker in the past three months and planned to post an opening for a soft-ware engineer Friday.

“Business is going gang-busters,” CEO Jonathan Cogley said. “It would be great if the economy were stronger. I think we’d be growing even faster.”

Outside Detroit, Grace Dersa opened the Frank Street Bakery this week with her husband. They took the $60,000 gamble after seeing signs that the local economy is improv-ing. They, too, plan to add a worker soon.

“When we go to a res-taurant here, there’s a 30-minute to two-hour wait. Homes are selling in this area,” Dersa said.

Unemployment rate drops to lowest since 2009BY CHRISTOPHER S.

RUGABERAP Economics Writer

WASHINGTON — In a po-tent political pairing, Presi-dent Barack Obama and former President Bill Clin-ton evoked a more prosper-ous time in America Friday as they jointly pushed a green jobs program that Obama said harkens back to the Clinton administra-tion when “we were fi ring on all cylinders.”

“We can be that nation again,” Obama said. “We will be that nation again.”

In the spare setting of a downtown Washington construction site, Obama offered a restrained assess-ment of the current U.S. economy even in the face of Friday’s sharp drop in unemployment, from 9 percent to 8.6 percent in November.

Noting that the U.S. has seen 21 straight months of private sector job growth, Obama said, “We need to keep that growth going.” And he prodded Congress once again to extend and expand a current Social Se-curity payroll tax cut.

Recalling better econom-ic times, Obama seemed al-most nostalgic. Embarking on a re-election campaign, he drew not-so-subtle at-tention to the successes of the last two-term Demo-crat to serve in the White House.

“When Bill Clinton was president, we didn’t short-change investment. We didn’t say we’re going to

cut back on the things that we know are going to help us grow in the future,” he said. “We didn’t make de-cisions that put the burden on the middle class or the poor. We lived within our means. We invested in our future. We asked everyone to pay their fair share.

“And you know what happened? The private sector thrived. Jobs were created. The middle class grew, its income grew. Mil-lions rose out of poverty. We ran a surplus. We were actually on track to be able to pay off all of our debt. We were fi ring on all cylin-ders.”

The unusual pairing of Obama and the popu-lar former president was designed to draw out-size attention to a $4 bil-lion administration en-ergy effi ciency initiative that Obama and Clinton teamed up to announce. It aims to achieve achieving fuel savings in government and private sector build-ings and more employment at no increased cost to tax-payers.

Obama said the program was a cheap way to help create jobs, save money and cut down on pollution.

“It is a trifecta,” he said.The program’s appeal is

that the cost to renovate government and private sector buildings is paid off over time by the energy savings. What’s more, the contractors who perform the work guarantee that

lower energy costs will ma-terialize.

“It is the nearest thing we’ve got to a free lunch in a tough economy,” Clinton said.

The announcement is yet another in a string of White House initiatives designed to address the current weak economy without having to seek congressio-nal approval.

But the program itself was overshadowed by the television-ready image of the incumbent president and the last two-term Dem-ocrat to serve in the White House appearing together. The appearance was remi-niscent of, though not com-parable to, Obama’s and Clinton’s joint appearance a year ago when Obama gave the former president the stage to endorse a tax deal between Obama and Congress.

Alluding to ads by a Re-publican-leaning political group that feature Clinton comments about tax in-creases, Obama said: “I’ve noticed that some folks on the other side have been quoting President Clin-ton about it’s a bad idea to raise taxes during tough economic times.

“That’s precisely why I sought to extend the pay-roll tax this year and next year. It doesn’t mean we lock in tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans. I don’t think President Clin-ton has been on board for that for perpetuity.”

Obama, Clinton togetheragain pitching efficiency

BY JIM KUHNHENNAssociated Press

MARKET SUMMARY

STOCKS OF LOCAL INTERESTYTD

Name Div PE Last Chg %ChgYTD

Name Div PE Last Chg %Chg

12,876.00 10,404.49 Dow Jones Industrials 12,019.42 -.61 -.01 +3.82 +5.605,627.85 3,950.66 Dow Jones Transportation 4,946.67 +37.57 +.77 -3.13 -2.41

459.94 381.99 Dow Jones Utilities 443.63 -4.44 -.99 +9.54 +11.188,718.25 6,414.89 NYSE Composite 7,453.55 +3.12 +.04 -6.41 -3.842,490.51 1,941.99 Amex Index 2,252.37 -13.16 -.58 +1.99 +6.992,887.75 2,298.89 Nasdaq Composite 2,626.93 +.73 +.03 -.98 +1.371,370.58 1,074.77 S&P 500 1,244.28 -.30 -.02 -1.06 +1.60

14,562.01 11,208.42 Wilshire 5000 13,080.04 +8.17 +.06 -2.10 +.60868.57 601.71 Russell 2000 735.02 +4.27 +.58 -6.21 -2.83

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12,160Dow Jones industrialsClose: 12,019.42Change: -0.61 (flat)

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PutnamGrowIncA m 12.65 +0.05 -5.8NewOpp 51.23 -0.05 -3.1

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ScoutInterntl d 28.74 +0.01 -10.8

SequoiaSequoia 144.04 -0.21+12.1

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NewEra 46.17 -0.14 -11.5

NewHoriz 35.87 +0.11 +7.1

NewIncome 9.67 +0.03 +5.2

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R2025 11.83 +0.01 -1.7

R2035 11.89 -2.8

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Rtmt2020 16.27 +0.02 -1.0

Rtmt2030 16.88 +0.01 -2.3

Rtmt2040 16.90 -3.0

ShTmBond 4.81 +1.3

SmCpStk 34.25 +0.15 -0.5

SmCpVal d 35.53 +0.18 -1.7

SpecInc 12.26 +0.03 +3.0

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InFEqSeS 18.19 -9.0Thornburg

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500Inv 115.04 -0.03 +0.7

AssetA 23.97 +0.04 -1.4

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BalIdxIns 21.71 +0.03 +3.3

CAITAdml 11.20 +0.02 +8.3

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DivGr 15.20 -0.05 +6.8

EmMktIAdm d33.81 -0.08 -15.2

EnergyAdm d122.01 -0.16 +0.9

EnergyInv d 64.95 -0.08 +0.8

Explr 71.83 +0.11 -1.5

ExtdIdAdm 39.77 +0.16 -3.6

ExtdIdIst 39.77 +0.16 -3.6

FAWeUSIns d82.48 +0.01 -12.1

GNMA 11.16 +0.01 +7.1

GNMAAdml 11.16 +0.01 +7.2

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GrthIstId 32.08 -0.04 +2.4

HYCor d 5.61 +0.03 +5.1

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HlthCare d 131.15 -1.22 +8.0

ITBondAdm 11.79 +0.05 +9.3

ITGradeAd 10.02 +0.05 +6.2

ITIGrade 10.02 +0.05 +6.1

ITrsyAdml 12.11 +0.03 +9.1

InfPrtAdm 28.22 +0.12+13.5

InfPrtI 11.50 +0.05+13.6

InflaPro 14.37 +0.06+13.5

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InstPlus 114.32 -0.02 +0.9

InstTStPl 28.20 +0.02 +0.1

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IntlGrAdm d 54.82 -0.01 -10.9

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IntlVal d 28.21 +0.02 -12.3

LTGradeAd 10.15 +0.12+14.3

LTInvGr 10.15 +0.12+14.2

LifeCon 16.32 +0.03 +1.2

LifeGro 21.38 +0.02 -2.5

LifeMod 19.39 +0.02 -0.1

MidCp 19.93 +0.01 -1.9

MidCpAdml 90.57 +0.04 -1.7

MidCpIst 20.01 +0.01 -1.7

Morg 17.90 -0.7

MuHYAdml 10.56 +0.01 +9.0

MuInt 13.83 +0.03 +7.8

MuIntAdml 13.83 +0.03 +7.9

MuLTAdml 11.17 +0.02 +8.9

MuLtdAdml 11.11 +0.01 +3.1

MuShtAdml 15.91 +0.01 +1.5

PrecMtls d 23.83 -10.7

Prmcp d 64.37 -0.57 -2.2

PrmcpAdml d66.84 -0.59 -2.1

PrmcpCorI d 13.57 -0.08 -1.5

REITIdxAd d 78.60 +0.20 +2.8

STBond 10.65 +0.01 +2.7

STBondAdm 10.65 +0.01 +2.8

STBondSgl 10.65 +0.01 +2.8

STCor 10.63 +0.01 +1.6

STGradeAd 10.63 +0.01 +1.7

STsryAdml 10.84 +0.01 +2.2

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SmCapIdx 33.56 +0.12 -3.4

SmCpIdAdm 33.63 +0.12 -3.3

SmCpIdIst 33.63 +0.12 -3.3

Star 19.04 +0.03 +0.7

TgtRe2010 22.99 +0.04 +3.0

TgtRe2015 12.59 +0.02 +1.4

TgtRe2020 22.16 +0.02 +0.3

TgtRe2030 21.36 +0.02 -1.5

TgtRe2035 12.78 +0.01 -2.4

TgtRe2040 20.93 +0.01 -2.7

TgtRe2045 13.15 +0.01 -2.6

TgtRetInc 11.63 +0.03 +4.9

Tgtet2025 12.54 +0.01 -0.6

TotBdAdml 10.99 +0.04 +6.8

TotBdInst 10.99 +0.04 +6.9

TotBdMkInv 10.99 +0.04 +6.7

TotBdMkSig 10.99 +0.04 +6.8

TotIntl d 13.78 -12.6

TotStIAdm 31.16 +0.02 +0.1

TotStIIns 31.16 +0.01 +0.1

TotStISig 30.07 +0.01

TotStIdx 31.15 +0.02

WellsI 22.66 +0.08 +7.3

WellsIAdm 54.89 +0.19 +7.4

Welltn 31.05 +0.07 +2.0

WelltnAdm 53.64 +0.13 +2.1

WndsIIAdm 45.49 +0.02 +0.9

Wndsr 12.74 +0.01 -5.1

WndsrAdml 43.01 +0.05 -5.0

WndsrII 25.62 +0.01 +0.8Waddell & Reed Adv

AccumA m 7.45 +0.01 -0.5

SciTechA m 9.80 -0.03 -5.7Yacktman

Focused d 18.59 -0.05 +5.1

Yacktman d 17.39 -0.05 +5.1

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I-J-K-LING ... 7.96 +.34iShGold ... 17.03 +.01iSAstla ... 23.31 +.27iShBraz ... 60.01 +.13iSh HK ... 15.79 -.17iShJapn ... 9.33 +.03iSTaiwn ... 12.34 -.15iShSilver ... 31.65 -.21iShChina25 ... 36.40 -.22iSSP500 ... 125.34 -.02iShEMkts ... 39.77 -.12iShB20 T ... 118.64 +1.64iS Eafe ... 50.79 -.01iShR2K ... 73.50 +.30iShREst ... 54.67 +.09ITW 11 45.95 +.83IngerRd ... 33.23 -.20IngrmM 11 17.98 +.04Inhibitex ... 15.51 +.37Intel 11 24.64 -.28IBM 15 189.66 +.21IntlGame 18 16.99 +.10IntPap 10 28.77 +.95Interpublic 11 9.54 +.02Invesco 11 20.28 +.05ItauUnibH ... 18.55 +.20IvanhM g ... 20.18 -1.09JA Solar 1 1.75 -.12JDS Uniph 39 10.91 +.10JPMorgCh 7 32.33 +1.87Jabil 12 20.71 +.31JanusCap 7 6.56 +.22Jefferies 9 12.40 +1.10JetBlue 19 4.44 +.14JohnJn 15 63.47 -.98JohnsnCtl 14 31.73 +.63JnprNtwk 24 22.60 +.35KB Home ... 7.94 +.36KLA Tnc 10 46.95 -.28KT Corp ... 16.14 +.06Keycorp 7 7.20 -.02Kimco 71 15.59KindMor n ... 31.00 +.74Kinross g 19 13.75 -.22KodiakO g 43 8.97 +.08Kohls 12 50.51 +.14Kraft 20 36.50Kroger 12 23.36 -.01LSI Corp 11 5.77 +.07LVSands 27 46.02 -.67LennarA 38 18.41 -.04LibtIntA h 15 15.87 -.16LillyEli 8 37.37 -.27Limited 15 42.61LincNat 6 20.06 -.15LloydBkg ... 1.52 +.04LockhdM 9 77.82 -1.16LaPac ... 7.87 -.31Lowes 17 24.31 +.44lululemn gs 44 49.69 +2.52LyonBas A ... 32.80 +.39

M-N-O-PMBIA ... 10.62 +.41MEMC ... 4.28 +.11MFA Fncl 7 6.79 -.01MGIC ... 3.06 -.03MGM Rsts ... 10.19 -.01Macys 12 32.54 +.38Magma ... 7.16 +.03Manulife g ... 10.99 +.19MarathnO s 6 27.77 +.05MarathP n ... 33.31 -.64MarinaBio ... .16 +.01MktVGold ... 58.25 -2.05MktVRus ... 30.29 -.51MarIntA 61 30.92 +.34MartMM 42 75.64 -1.47MarvellT 11 13.79 -.07Masco ... 9.32 -.11Mattel 14 28.45 -.28McDrmInt 14 11.69 +.11McDnlds 19 95.70 +.20Medtrnic 11 34.61 -2.19MelcoCrwn 57 10.03 +.10Merck 13 35.48 -.20MetLife 9 31.76 +.63MicronT 39 5.80 -.09Microsoft 9 25.22 -.06MobileTele 13 16.00 -.63Molycorp 33 32.51 -1.46Monsanto 24 70.42 -2.78MonstrWw 32 7.34 +.13MorgStan 9 15.52 +1.01Mosaic 10 51.21 -1.56MotrlaMo n ... 38.78 +.06Mylan 14 19.50 -.19NV Energy 18 14.99 -.27Nabors 18 17.52 -.18NOilVarco 16 71.05 -.38NatRetPrp 30 25.38 -.67NetApp 22 36.54 -.38Netflix 15 66.37 -.80NwGold g ... 10.63 -.44NY CmtyB 10 11.91 +.08NewmtM 15 67.03 -1.78NewsCpA 15 17.60 +.04Nexen g ... 15.77 -.12NobleCorp 26 34.65 -.08NokiaCp ... 5.62 -.05NorthropG 8 56.99 -.34Nucor 20 40.32 +.85Nvidia 15 15.72 -.10OCharleys ... 6.03 -.01OcciPet 14 95.92 -.91OfficeDpt ... 2.36 +.14OilSvHT ... 123.75 -1.15OldRepub ... 8.98 +.91OmniVisn 5 11.63 +.17OnSmcnd 22 8.04 +.03Oracle 18 31.20 -.47PMC Sra 19 5.43 -.01PNC 9 53.97 +.50PPG 13 84.87 -1.68PPL Corp 11 29.68 -.10PVH Corp 18 72.78 +5.16PacEth rs ... 1.49 +.14PatriotCoal ... 10.04 +.04PattUTI 11 21.35 +.44PeabdyE 11 38.22 -.08Penney 20 32.98 +.76PeopUtdF 23 12.49 -.02PepsiCo 16 64.28 +.19

PetrbrsA ... 25.24 +.14Petrobras ... 27.54 +.24Pfizer 13 19.89 -.14PhilipMor 16 75.47 -.22Pier 1 14 13.15 -.09PiperJaf 17 20.30 -.32PlainsEx 59 35.68 +.57Popular ... 1.54 +.05Potash s 13 42.29 -1.22PS USDBull ... 22.12 +.07PwShs QQQ ... 56.62 -.16PrinFncl 8 24.30 +.06ProShtS&P ... 41.03 +.02PrUShS&P ... 19.94 +.04PrUShQQQ rs ... 44.59 +.24ProUltSP ... 45.49 -.06ProUShL20 ... 19.18 -.57ProUSSP500 ... 13.86 +.02PrUltSP500 s ... 58.62 -.09ProUSSlv rs ... 12.32 +.16ProctGam 16 64.66 +.58ProgsvCp 11 18.60 +.01ProUSR2K rs ... 40.15 -.24Prudentl 7 50.40 +.44PulteGrp ... 6.16 +.08

Q-R-S-TQualcom 22 54.34 -.39QksilvRes 4 7.88 -.21RF MicD 22 6.31 +.13RadianGrp ... 2.24 -.11Raytheon 8 45.35 +.06RegionsFn 25 4.22 +.10RepubSvc 15 26.78 -.57RschMotn 3 16.77 -1.81RioTinto ... 52.20 +.04RiteAid ... 1.20Rubicon g ... 3.96 +.31SK Tlcm ... 14.56 -.27SLM Cp 13 12.64 -.08SpdrDJIA ... 120.06 -.07SpdrGold ... 169.82 +.19S&P500ETF ... 124.86 -.11SpdrHome ... 16.79 +.16SpdrLehHY ... 37.91 +.23SpdrRetl ... 52.56 +.56SpdrOGEx ... 55.32 +.48SpdrMetM ... 53.50 -.33Safeway 12 20.21 +.14StJude 12 35.83 -2.70SanDisk 10 50.32 +.46SandRdge 11 7.52 +.02SaraLee 13 18.92 -.12Schlmbrg 22 75.01 +.14Schwab 17 11.67 -.26SeagateT 15 16.17 -1.23SemiHTr ... 30.60 -.20SiderurNac ... 8.33 -.05SilvWhtn g 22 33.01 -.70Sina ... 68.52 +2.11SiriusXM 47 1.86 -.02SkywksSol 14 16.35 +.19Sonus ... 2.53 -.03SouthnCo 18 43.76 -.30SwstAirl 38 8.28 -.05SwstnEngy 21 37.69 -.21SpectraEn 16 29.77 +.38SprintNex ... 2.60 -.10SP Matls ... 34.00 -.30SP HlthC ... 33.51 -.42SP CnSt ... 31.74 -.11SP Consum ... 39.07 +.30SP Engy ... 70.42 -.06SPDR Fncl ... 12.91 +.17SP Inds ... 33.71 -.07SP Tech ... 25.74 -.02SP Util ... 34.75 -.36Staples 10 14.33 +.01Starbucks 27 43.91 +.32StarwdHtl 15 48.43 +1.19StateStr 13 39.98 +.76StlDynam 12 13.43 +.24StillwtrM 9 11.02 +.30Stryker 15 47.62 -1.91Suncor gs 10 30.22 +.11SunTrst 18 18.57 +.58Supvalu 61 7.29Symantec 19 16.10 -.14Synovus ... 1.48 -.03Sysco 15 29.13 +.40TD Ameritr 14 16.00 -.11TE Connect 11 31.42 +.14TJX 18 62.24 -.32TaiwSemi ... 13.12 -.09TalismE g ... 13.49 -.24Target 12 52.88 +.73TeckRes g ... 37.22 +.01TenetHlth 10 4.18 -.50Teradyn 9 13.16 -.21Terex ... 16.25 -.04Tesoro 5 24.50 +.26TevaPhrm 12 39.70 -.04TexInst 12 29.97 -.24Textron 18 19.05 -.343M Co 14 79.76 -.54TW Cable 15 63.80 +2.88TimeWarn 13 34.41 +.20TollBros 44 20.23 -.03Total SA ... 51.42 -.31Transocn ... 42.76 -.95Travelers 15 54.24 -.80TrinaSolar 2 8.11 +.21TriQuint 9 4.72 +.14TycoIntl 15 47.48 +.07Tyson 9 20.16 -.17

U-V-W-X-Y-ZUBS AG ... 12.24 +.15UGI Corp 14 28.50 -1.26US Airwy 9 4.84 -.10US Gold ... 3.84 -.12UtdContl 13 19.26 +.14UPS B 17 71.07 -.06US Bancrp 11 25.72 +.02US NGs rs ... 7.91 -.11US OilFd ... 39.03 +.42USSteel ... 27.81 +.56UtdTech 14 76.54 -.04UtdhlthGp 11 48.23 -.29UnumGrp 8 22.06 -.13Vale SA ... 23.50 +.34Vale SA pf ... 22.20 +.39ValeroE 8 22.56 +.44VangEmg ... 40.64 -.10VerizonCm 15 37.85 +.08VertxPh ... 29.25 -.14ViacomB 12 42.63 -.49VimpelCm 9 11.54 -.28Visa 19 97.20 -.56Vodafone ... 26.80 -.40VulcanM ... 32.66 +.38WalMart 13 58.09 -.52Walgrn 11 33.12 -.76WsteMInc 15 31.23 -.01WeathfIntl 58 15.08 +.12WellPoint 9 68.91 -1.17WellsFargo 10 26.07 +.43Wendys Co ... 5.07 -.01WDigital 10 31.44 +2.19WstnRefin 7 13.42 +.69WstnUnion 12 17.55 +.12Weyerh 20 16.77 +.02WmsCos 20 32.37 -.04Windstrm 22 11.76 +.07WT India ... 17.94 +.37XL Grp 27 20.75 +.22Xerox 14 8.22 +.03Xilinx 15 33.11 +.05Yahoo 20 16.05 -.18Yamana g 17 16.14 -.67YingliGrn 3 4.47 -.06Zimmer 14 48.92 -1.94Zumiez 27 28.99 +5.62

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Trade deficit

Both imports and exports are softening because of the slow global economy. But economists expect a report on Friday to show that exports slowed even more than imports in October. That likely caused the trade deficit to widen to $44.2 billion from $43.1 billion.

Consumer credit

Economists expect a Wednesday report to show that consumers borrowed more in October. Credit Suisse economists say there may be a slight rise in credit card balances, but the big-gest gains will come from auto and education loans. Households are trimming their use of credit cards, but at a slower rate since credit has become a little easier to get since the 2008 crisis.

Growing services

Economists expect a Monday report to show that the services industry grew at a slightly faster rate in No-vember. It would be the latest encouraging economic sign. Last week, reports showed that the unem-ployment rate fell, consumer confi-dence improved and the manufactur-ing industry expanded. The Institute for Supply Management’s services index measures activity in retail, real estate, finance and other industries outside of manufacturing. A reading above 50 indicates expansion.

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45

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Peter Svensson, Kristen Girard • APSOURCE: FactSet

Dividend investors should take a look at Verizon Wireless, the largest cellphone company in the U.S. What's unusual is that there are a couple of ways to buy in.

The obvious one is to buy shares of Verizon Communi-cations (VZ), which owns the majority of Verizon Wireless. But analysts suggest it's a better idea to use a “back door,” buying shares of Vodafone Group (VOD) instead.

This British cellphone company has vast internation-al holdings, including 45 percent ownership of Verizon Wireless.

Based on Verizon Wireless' cash flow, that stake is worth about $90 billion, according to Barclays Capital. Yet Vodafone itself is only valued at $134 billion, implying a value of just $44 billion for the rest of its holdings--which include leading phone companies in Spain, Germany, In-dia, South Africa and a dozen other countries.

Vodafone’s share price seems to be undervaluing Veri-zon Wireless because, for years, Vodafone didn't get any cash from the company. There weren't any payouts be-cause Verizon Communications decided that the money generated by the highly profitable business was better spent on paying down debt -- a strategy seen as a way to pressure Vodafone into selling its stake.

But in July, Verizon Communications said Verizon Wireless will pay a $10 billion dividend in January.

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Usually, Sagittarius en-ergy opens minds to cul-tural, generational and gender differences, but right now it might not feel like this is true. Mercury retrograde forms a hostile angle to Mars, and people will voice their concerns and fears in less than ac-cepting tones. It might be hard not to take this per-sonally as Mercury aligns with the sun.

ARIES (March 21-April 19). If only you could pro-cess information like a robot, without attaching emotional meaning to ev-erything. But it turns out all those feelings, as inef-fi cient as they may be, are what make you irresistible to a certain someone.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20). You can’t be upset and have hope and optimism at the same time. Let yourself feel the upset and move through it -- it won’t last long. Then you can reclaim your hope and optimism.

GEMINI (May 21-June 21). You’ll come to a junc-ture you’ve seen before. You’ll make a choice that’s better for you this time. It won’t be easier, but it will make everything lighter and brighter in the end.

CANCER (June 22-July 22). Peer pressure isn’t just for schoolchildren. You’ll feel a subtle strain of it among adults. It will appear that many around you share the same be-liefs and attitudes -- or do they? Some are merely succumbing to sugges-

tion.LEO (July 23-Aug. 22).

Sometimes it’s OK to stop striving to live up to your potential. What if you simply stayed put? You won’t be able to relax for too long, but whatever comfort you can manage will give you much needed perspective.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). You’ll be given a lot of raw ingredients and not too much instruction as to how they should all go to-gether. This is good news. You’re free to create. It will be what you make it.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23). You respect your el-ders; you always have. You may not always have had the proper manners, attention and awareness to express your respect like you do now, though. So in some way, you’ll feel like you’re making up for that.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21). You’re a giver. But you also know that if you give too much up front, no one will be inter-ested. And people would rather pay something than get it for free. So you’ll make people work a little for your offerings, and everyone benefi ts.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21). You’ll follow through with a thankless job. You know that no one will give you money, a tro-phy or even a cookie for this. But you don’t care. You’re doing it for person-al reasons, and the reward will be signifi cant, if only to you.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19). There are some behaviors you repeat that just don’t make sense. But you’re about to get to the bottom of this, and you’ll soon exercise greater con-trol over the matter.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18). Aquarius musi-cian and composer Snuffy Walden said, “Music is the answer. Does the ques-tion really matter?” Today you’ll use music to get into the optimum mood and solve your problem.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). You need attention, and you’ll get it. Realizing that you need it (instead of denying this fact because you think you shouldn’t) will help you work in posi-tive and constructive ways for the right kind of atten-tion.

TODAY’S BIRTHDAY (Dec. 3). There will be a fantastic addition to your home life. You’ll take your time getting to know people, and much success springs from this approach. In January, you’ll shoot for a particu-lar aim, and it will feel so right. Someone falls in love with your win-ning ways this coming spring. You’ll love how your work is presented in May. Aries and Cancer people adore you. Your lucky numbers are: 3, 25, 1, 29 and 19.

A S T R O L O G I C A L QUESTIONS: “Help, Holiday! I’m a Pisces who wants to fall in love -- I really do. This guy I’m seeing, an Aries, says

that I make it too hard for him to get to know me and that I obviously have a really tough time open-ing up. I don’t want to lose him, but maybe he’s right. Why can’t I let down my guard?”

Because you don’t feel like it. You will when you feel like it.

Pisces are so sensitive! If you let yourself, you could be a sponge, allow-ing others to fi ll you with their own emotions and agenda. That’s why you’re so reserved. You’ve done this in the past and felt the unique pain that comes from losing yourself.

To some extent, we all live behind emotional safety walls of our own construction. The height of the wall is determined by how we perceive the threat on the other side. If you really think you’re

going to be hurt, your wall will be thick, high and bulletproof. That’s only natural and wise. I would be wary of anyone who wants you to open up faster than you really feel comfortable doing. For psychic Pisces, falling in love is a natural process and cannot be forced.

CELEBRITY PRO-FILES: Sagittarius star Amanda Seyfried began her career as a model at age 11 and is now an A-list talent carrying fi lms such as “Red Riding Hood” and “In Time.” Five Sagit-tarian luminaries prom-ise that Seyfried has the intensity and energy level for a long and bright ca-reer in front of the spot-light. Born under a Leo moon, she likely feels the most at home and cre-ative as the center of at-tention.

Wisdom10A • Daily Corinthian Saturday, December 3, 2011

1468 Lorenzo the Mag-nificent and his brother Giuliano succeed their father, Piero de Medici, as rulers of Florence, Italy.

1762 France cedes to Spain all lands west of the Mississippi–the territory known as Upper Louisi-ana.

1818 Illinois admitted into the Union as the 21st state.

1847 Frederick Doug-lass and Martin R. Del-aney establish the North Star, and anti-slavery paper.

1862 Confederate raiders attack a Federal forage train on the Hardin Pike near Nashville, Tenn.

1863 Confederate General James Longstreet moves his army east and north toward Greeneville. This withdrawal marks the end of the Fall Campaign in Tennessee.

1864 Major General Wil-liam Tecumseh Sherman meets with slight resis-tance from Confederate troops at Thomas Station on his march to the sea.

1906 The U.S. Supreme Court orders Indus-trial Workers of the World (IWW) leaders extradited to Idaho for trial in the Steunenberg murder case.

1915 The United States expels German attaches on spy charges.

1916 French com-mander Joseph Joffre is dismissed after his failure at the Somme. General Robert Nivelle is the new French commander in chief.

1918 The Allied Con-ference ends in London where they decide that Germany must pay for the war.

1925 The League of Na-tions orders Greece to pay an indemnity for the Octo-ber invasion of Bulgaria.

1926 British reports claim that German sol-diers are being trained in the Soviet Union.

1950 The Chinese close in on Pyongyang, Korea, and UN forces withdraw southward.

1965 The National Council of Churches asks the United States to halt the massive bombings in North Vietnam.

1977 The State Depart-ment proposes the ad-mission of 10,000 more Vietnamese refugees to the United States.

1979 Eleven are dead and eight injured in a mad rush to see a rock band (The Who) at a concert in Cincinnati, Ohio.

1984 Toxic gas leaks from a Union Carbide plant and results in the deaths of thousands in Bhopal, India.

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DEAR ABBY: I’m a 12-year-old girl who has a problem with my mom. Once a week we clean the house, which is fairly large. Even when I do a good job on every room my mom never says, “Nice job,” “Good work,” or even a simple “Thanks.” It hurts my feelings because I thank her for all the things she does for me. Am I wrong to want or expect com-pliments in return? — NEVER THANKED IN OREGON

DEAR NEVER THANKED: No, you’re not wrong. I don’t know anyone of any age who doesn’t crave positive reinforcement. Have you mentioned to your mother how this makes you feel? Because if you haven’t, you’re expressing your disappointment to the wrong person.

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DEAR ABBY: I’m 15

and my parents have de-cided they want to have another kid. Shouldn’t parents talk to their other children about this? None of us were asked for our opinion — we were just informed.

Mom has had health problems almost my en-tire life, so I had to grow up extremely fast. I watched her have a seizure while we were out shopping, and she was often in the hospital. I don’t want an-other child to go through this, too.

When I say something I’m told I’m being selfi sh and rude. This new baby is already loved more be-cause my dad hopes she will be better than me. Am I wrong to feel this is unfair? — UNHAPPY TEEN IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA

DEAR UNHAPPY TEEN: Fairness may not enter into it at all. The reason you and your sib-

lings were not asked for input about your m o t h e r h a v i n g a n o t h e r child may be that the baby was as much a surprise to your parents as it is to all of you. Your complaining won’t improve the situa-tion, which may be why you’ve been told you need an attitude adjustment.

You say you grew up ex-tremely fast. Well, it’s time to accelerate the process even more. This isn’t a competition for your par-ents’ love. I’m sure they love all of you and they’d show it if you stopped be-ing self-centered. Please give it some thought.

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DEAR ABBY: Every year we send a holiday let-ter along with our greeting

cards. The letter usually highlights events of im-mediate family members from the past year. This year there is a problem.

Our 22-year-old son, “Dexter,” is in jail on bur-glary charges related to a drug problem. Many of our friends and relatives already know about this, but others are not aware.

Our son’s siblings are doing well and we like to report on their activities. However, we are con-fused concerning Dexter. We really cannot send the holiday letter and leave him out, but neither can we fabricate a story con-cerning his status. Tell-ing the truth would be informational but also awkward. We would ap-preciate your advice. — HOLIDAY LETTER WRITER

DEAR LETTER WRITER: Write the let-ter as you usually would, and when you get to your

incarcerated son, say: “Dexter has taken some time to rethink his future. He sends you all his love.” You do not have to go into any more detail or belabor the point.

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(Dear Abby is written by Abigail Van Buren, also known as Jeanne Phillips, and was founded by her mother, Pauline Phillips. Write Dear Abby at www.DearAbby.com or P.O. Box 69440, Los Angeles, CA 90069.)

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WASHINGTON — Mis-sissippi ranks 15th in the nation in funding pro-grams to prevent kids from smoking and help smokers quit, according to a nation-al report released today by a coalition of public health organizations.

Mississippi currently spends $9.9 million a year on tobacco prevention and cessation programs, which is 25.3 percent of the $39.2 million recommended by the U.S. Centers for Dis-ease Control and Preven-tion (CDC). Other key fi ndings for Mississippi include:

■ Mississippi this year will collect $265 million in revenue from the 1998 tobacco settlement and to-bacco taxes, but will spend just 3.7 percent of it on tobacco prevention pro-grams. This means Missis-sippi is spending less than 4 cents of every dollar in tobacco revenue to fi ght to-bacco use.

■ The tobacco companies spend $161.9 million a year to market their products in Mississippi. This is 16 times what the state spends on tobacco prevention.

The annual report on states’ funding of tobacco prevention programs, titled “A Broken Promise to Our Children: The 1998 State Tobacco Settlement 13 Years Later,” was released by the Campaign for To-bacco-Free Kids, American Heart Association, Ameri-can Cancer Society Cancer Action Network, American Lung Association, the Rob-ert Wood Johnson Foun-dation and Americans for Nonsmokers’ Rights.

From 1999 to 2006, Mississippi was a national leader in protecting kids from tobacco and was one of the few states that fund-ed a tobacco prevention program at CDC-recom-mended levels. Despite the program’s success, Gover-

nor Haley Barbour in 2006 successfully sued to over-turn a 2000 court order that set aside settlement money for the program. Mississippi has yet to fully restore funding for tobacco prevention.

Mississippi is also fall-ing short in implementing other proven measures to reduce tobacco use. Mis-sissippi lacks a statewide smoke-free law that ap-plies to all workplaces, res-taurants and bars. Health advocates are urging Gov-ernor-Elect Bryant and the Legislature to pass such a law in the upcoming legis-lative session.

“Mississippi has made a modest investment in programs to protect kids from tobacco, but falls far

short of what the CDC rec-ommends,” said Matthew L. Myers, President of the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids. “To continue reducing tobacco use, Mis-sissippi should increase funding for tobacco pre-vention and pass a strong, statewide smoke-free law. Even in these diffi cult budget times, tobacco pre-vention is a smart invest-ment that saves lives and saves money by reducing tobacco-related health care costs.”

In Mississippi, 19.6 per-cent of high school stu-dents smoke, and 3,900 more kids become regular smokers each year. Tobac-co annually claims 4,700 lives and costs the state $719 million in health care

bills.Nationally, the report fi nds that most states are failing to adequately fund tobacco prevention and cessation programs. Al-together, the states have cut funding for these pro-grams to the lowest level since 1999, when they fi rst started receiving tobacco settlement payments. Key national fi ndings of the re-port include:

■ The states this year will collect $25.6 billion from the tobacco settlement and tobacco taxes, but will spend just 1.8 percent of it - $456.7 million - on tobac-co prevention programs. This means the states are spending less than two cents of every dollar in to-bacco revenue to fi ght to-

bacco use.■ States have cut funding

for tobacco prevention pro-grams by 12 percent ($61.2 million) in the past year and by 36 percent ($260.5 million) in the past four years.

■ Only two states - Alas-ka and North Dakota - cur-rently fund tobacco pre-vention programs at the CDC-recommended level.

The report warns that the nation’s progress in reducing smoking is at risk unless states increase funding for programs to prevent kids from smok-ing and help smokers quit. The United States has sig-nifi cantly reduced smok-ing among both youth and adults, but 19.3 percent of adults and 19.5 percent of high school students still smoke.

Tobacco use is the lead-ing preventable cause of death in the U.S., killing more than 400,000 people and costing $96 billion in health care bills each year.

More information, in-cluding the full report and state-specifi c information, can be obtained at www.to-baccofreekids.org/reports/settlements.

State ranks 15th in protecting kids from tobaccoFor the Daily Corinthian “Mississippi has made a modest investment in programs to protect

kids from tobacco, but falls far short of what the CDC recommends. To continue reducing tobacco use, Mississippi should increase

funding for tobacco prevention and pass a strong, statewide smoke-free law. Even in these difficult budget times, tobacco prevention is a smart investment that saves lives and saves money by reducing

tobacco-related health care costs.”

Matthew L. MyersPresident of the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids

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