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Sunshine.

Though it’s usually one of the busiest holiday weekends on the lakes, rough seas are keeping many recreational boaters at bay.

From 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Sunday, the National Weather Service in

Paducah issued a Lake Wind Ad-visory due to the blustery 30- to 35-mph winds blowing along the lakes. Rachel Trevino, a weather service meteorologist, said lake wind advisories are usually issued when the wind blows at a high rate of speed, parallel to the direction

of Kentucky and Barkley Lakes.“If we’re even gusting to 20 or 25,

it could be pushing up to 30 miles per hour on the lakes,” Trevino said. “Wind speeds tend to run higher on the lakes, because there’s no friction to slow it down.”

With winds blowing out of the

south, southwest on Sunday, Trev-ino said the lakes would have white caps, making travel very rough for small boats and pleasure crafts. Garry Clark, a sergeant with the Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife, also said the rough water might be keeping boaters in port

over the weekend.“There’s a lot of people at the

lakes, but they’re not getting out on their boats because the wind is really rough. It’s white-capping nearly 3 or 4 feet high,” Clark said.

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ARLINGTON, Va. — After Brooke Nyren’s dad died in Iraq, she sat alone at recess because her class-mates didn’t know what to say. One of Alexis Wright’s fellow kin-dergarteners questioned if she was

telling the truth about her dad’s death in the war, while others told her it was too confusing to under-stand why she didn’t have a father.

More than 4,300 children of U.S. troops killed in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars are growing up, forging their own paths while

keeping the connection to their mom or dad alive in ways ranging from annual backyard barbecues on the anniversary of the parent’s death to keeping a music box of his favorite song.

Children of fallen troops turn to each otherBY KIMBERLY HEFLING

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“What we’re trying to give them is the ability basically to grow up and cope as this comes along because it’s going to keep coming back. ... If we can give

them some support, people are going to find that children will do a little better.”

Ami Neiberger-MillerSpokeswoman, Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors

DAYTON, Ohio — Herman Williams came home safely after fi ghting in the jungles of Vietnam as a Marine. He was shocked to learn four decades later that his military service had again placed him in jeopardy — this time, because he got a tooth pulled.

Williams is among 13,000 U.S. veterans who have been warned in the last two years that their blood should be tested for potentially fatal infections after possible exposures by improper hygiene practices at fi ve VA hospitals in Ohio, Florida, Georgia, Missouri and Tennessee. This Memorial Day fi nds the Department of Veter-ans Affairs under political fi re and numerous

Infection issues lead to 13,000 veterans’ tests

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Raymond Sweet plays with balloons during ‘Good Grief Camp’ in Arlington, Va., on May 27. The camp offers nearly 500 children of fallen military members a chance to take part in activities with volunteer mentors on coping with grief and loss.

Retired U.S. Army veteran Robert Mansfi eld celebrated his fi rst Memorial Day as a veteran far from his Penn-sylvania home, spending the holiday speaking to veterans and families in Paducah.

Mansfi eld is familiar with the area from his tea party ac-tivism and said he was honored to speak at Paducah Tilgh-

man High School auditorium Sunday, as a service to the real meaning of Memorial Day.

“Hope is that we stop the commercialization of this holiday,” Mansfi eld said.

“This is a sacred holiday.”“Still standing by,” Mans-fi eld’s speech, focused on the act of giving one’s life for a friend. After serving in Iraq in 2006-2007, Mansfi eld returned home with a brain injury and retired from the military in 2010. His purpose now is either to heal and con-tinue serving or live his life

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Celebration ‘still standing by’ those who served

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Veterans Darrell Tharpe (left), Maurice Gibson and Bob Gahton listen to music by Eric Horner during a veteran’s concert at Paducah Tilghman High School in Paducah on Sunday.

“We thank them from the bottom of our heart. Our mission is not done. We’re going to continue to support (the soldiers) and

everything (they) do.”

Robert MansfieldRetired U.S. Army veteran

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May Louise and Jim Zumwalt talk with Bill, Andy and Lisa Clark of Lone Oak during a farewell reception at Broadway United Methodist Church in Paducah on Sunday.

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Paducah Lions Club, lunch, noon , Pork Peddler. 443-3122.

Senior Medicare Patrol, fighting fraud-ulent abuse of program in Ballard, Carlisle, Fulton, Hickman, Marshall and McCracken counties; director LaShea Wyatt, 1400 H.C. Mathis Drive, Paducah, noon-4 p.m.; 442-8993.

Twenty-First Century Democratic Woman’s Club, 6 p.m. , McCracken County Public Library, 555 Washington St. 444-7096.

21st Century Democratic Women’s Club, 6 p.m., 21st Century Democratic Women’s Club. Information: 442-7636.

Paducah Singles Connection, 7 p.m. , Grace Episcopal Church, Eighth and Broadway. 443-6445 or 442-3855.

WKCTC Community Chorus rehearsal, 7-9 p.m., Room 109 of the Student Center/Fine Arts Building; non-audition performing group of community members. Norman F. Wurgler, 270-534-3219, or [email protected].

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Western Baptist Hospital an-nounced three new directors.

Wendy Blakely, registered nurse, has been named the

director of the clinical informatics department. The 25-year e m p l o y e e has served in the hospital’s education de-partment for 21 years.

D o n a Rains, mar-keting direc-tor for fi ve years, has taken on ad-ditional re-sponsibilities for strategic planning as director of m a r k e t i n g and planning.

B e t h Stroud, reg-

istered nurse, was named the emergency department director. Stroud has been director of tran-

sitional care for fi ve years.

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liams Jr. received the Certifi ed In-v e s t m e n t Management designation from the In-v e s t m e n t M a n a g e -

ment Consultants Association.

Williams is branch man-ager and senior vice p r e s i d e n t of the Wells Fargo Advi-sors offi ce in Paducah.

To earn the designation, W i l l i a m s c o m p l e t e d

course work at the Wharton

School of Business at the Uni-versity of Pennsylvania, and passed rigorous examinations. The CIMA certifi cation is the only credential designed specif-ically for fi nancial profession-als who want to attain a level of competency as an advanced investment consultant.

■ ■ ■The Kentucky Council on

Economic Education named Brad Knight the “Stock Mar-ket Game Economic Educator of the Year.”

The Stock Market Game p r o g r a m has students invest a hy-p o t h e t i c a l $ 1 0 0 , 0 0 0 in an online portfolio to learn eco-nomic and fi nancial con-cepts. Knight,

a fi nancial consultant with Hill-iard Lyons in Paducah, has vol-unteered with fi fth-grade stu-dents since 2004, and his teams are four-time state winners.

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Feb. 8Mark T. Cox, 26, 818 Sand Hill Rd., Hickory, assault

4th degree minor injury: $485, 45 days, conditional discharge 2 years, no further offenses, drug and alcohol assessment, no contact with John Gibbs, restitution, to pay 6-14-11.

James B. Wood, 21, 2418 Maple Ave., Paducah, possession of marijuana: $285, 7 days, conditional discharge 2 years, no further offenses, random drug screens, forfeit items seized, to pay 5-10-11.

Tyeshia L. Cockrell, 18, 2109 Park Ave., Paducah, theft by unlawful taking-shoplifting: $310, 30 days, serve 2, 28 days, conditional discharge 2 years, no further of-fenses, stay out of Walmart, theft prevention classes, to pay 8-9-11.

Javiel L. Winston, 20, 801 McGuire Apt. F1, Paducah, complicity theft by unlawful taking-shoplifting: $310, 30 days, conditional discharge 2 years, no further offenses, stay out of Walmart, theft prevention classes, to pay 8-9-11.

Jeremiah Brinson, 26, 1212 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., Paducah, possession of marijuana: $535, 30 days, serve 16, 9 days credit time served, 14 days, con-ditional discharge 2 years, no further offenses, forfeit items seized, to pay 8-9-11.

Maranda T. Williams, 20, 1013 Boyd St., Paducah, theft by unlawful taking-shoplifting, criminal trespass-ing, 3rd degree: 90 days, conditional discharge 2 years, no further offenses, stay out of Walmart, theft prevention classes, court costs waived.

Barney Lee Griggs, 36, 616 Moss Town Rd., La Center, theft by unlawful taking-gasoline under $500: $485, 45 days, conditional discharge 2 years, no further offenses, restitution made, to pay 8-9-11.

Tina Marie Cherry, 29, 174 Helton St., Calvert City, rob-bery, 1st degree, theft by unlawful taking under $500: $710, 45 days, serve 15, 30 days, conditional discharge 2 years, no further offenses, stay out of Food Giant, to pay 8-9-11.

McCrackenDistrict Court

Police seized $13,000 worth of marijuana and arrested two Marion, Ky. residents on drug offenses Sunday afternoon.

Detectives with the McCrack-en County Sheriff’s Department Drug Division began an investi-gation into Miguel Gutierrez, 37, and Katherine Lapierre, 20, after receiving information that the two were selling large amounts of marijuana in western Kentucky and southern Illinois, reported Detective Sgt. Jesse Riddle. The investigation revealed the two were purchasing the marijuana in Illinois and distributing it in this

area. Detec-tives obtained an arrest war-rant for Guti-errez, report-ed Riddle.

On Sunday, d e t e c t i v e s learned that Gutierrez and Lapierre were transporting more mari-

juana. At 1:45 p.m., detectives stopped their vehicle on Inter-state 24 and arrested Gutierrez. A search of Gutierrez found sev-eral hundred dollars, believed to

be proceeds from drug sales, report-ed Riddle.

During a search of the vehicle, detec-tives seized 11 pounds of m a r i j u a n a with a street value of more than $13,000.

At 2:30 p.m., detectives with the Pennyrile Narcotics Task Force and sheriff’s department executed a search warrant on the couple’s Marion residence.

Detectives seized a .40-caliber semi automatic handgun, am-munition and other drug-related items. As a convicted felon, Guti-errez is not allowed to posses fi rearms, reported Riddle.

Police charged Gutierrez with traffi cking in marijuana over 5 pounds, traffi cking in mari-juana over 8 ounces, two counts of failure to appear to court and fugitive from justice (a Massac County warrant). Police charged Lapierre with operating on a suspended license and traffi ck-ing in marijuana over 5 pounds. Both are jailed in the McCrack-en County Jail, reported Riddle.

Police seize thousands of dollars worth of drugsStaff report

Gutierrez Lapierre

Time to say goodbye

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They’ve endured awk-ward conversations with people unsure how to re-spond when they describe how their parent — typically their father — died in the war and unkind remarks from friends at school. Many of them lost not just a parent but their home, too, because they had to move off a military base. As pain-ful as their memories are, those interviewed at a camp for children of the fallen say the experience has made them more compassionate.

The kids interviewed de-scribe the annual “good grief” camp organized by the nonprofi t Tragedy As-sistance Program for Sur-vivors every Memorial Day weekend as one outlet that’s allowed them to learn to work through their feelings, and many attend every year. The activities range from going to a baseball game and seeing the horses used at Arlington National Cem-etery to writing a letter to their deceased parent that’s released in a balloon. Each kid has a mentor for the weekend — many of them current members of the military sporting crew cuts. While the kids participate in the camp, hundreds of oth-er adult survivors meet for sessions designed for them.

Danielle Miller, 16, of Flint, Mich., said she’s got-ten used to people apolo-gizing profusely for asking questions that led to her saying her dad, Capt. Low-ell Miller II, died at war. Eleven at the time of her father’s death in 2005 from small arms fi re in Iraq, she said she’s planning to study business and pastry mak-ing because her dad was the chef in the house.

“I’m like, thank you for your concern, but it’s OK, I’ve

learned to deal with it, I’m OK talking with it. You don’t have to be sorry for bringing it up,” said Miller, sporting a red T-shirt worn by all the camp kids at a hotel not far from the Pentagon.

Nyren, now 14, has attend-ed for at least six years, and she said she looks for those who are new. She knows what it’s like to feel alone.

“When it fi rst happened when I went back to school, no one talked to me because they were afraid that whatev-er they would say would hurt me, but I think they should understand that we’re still the same people that we were before,” said Nyren, of Reston, Va., the daughter of Staff Sgt. Nathaniel Nyren, who died in 2005 in Iraq in

a Humvee accident.Even though she doesn’t

want to join the military, she said like her father, she plans to one day work for the government. She keeps photos of him in her room.

Wright, now 9, of Flint, Mich., said that at school, she doesn’t talk about the 2007 death of her dad, Sgt. Thomas Wright, because “no one else understands me.” She said one class-mate even went up to her mom and asked her if she was lying about his death. Others couldn’t compre-hend it when she tried to explain. Her dad died of a heart-related condition while deployed.

“They were like, ‘How come I still have my dad

and you don’t. That’s just confusing,’” Wright said. In her room, she said she keeps a music box that plays, “What a wonderful World” — her father’s fa-vorite song, and she said she looks forward to camp where she can talk openly about her father with oth-ers who understand.

The kids who attend aren’t just the children of the more than 6,000 troops who have died in the current confl icts, but also children of service mem-bers or veterans who died stateside from causes such as suicide or the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

In sessions, they are en-couraged to maintain close ties with the parent who died by talking about them and honoring them in other ways. Research shows that the kids are going to grieve throughout their lifetime, said Ami Neiberger-Miller, a spokeswoman for TAPS.

“What we’re trying to give them is the ability ba-sically to grow up and cope as this comes along because it’s going to keep coming back. It will come back for a child when they hit major milestones like when they graduate, learn to drive or get married,” Neiberger-Miller said. “If we can give them some support, people are going to fi nd that chil-dren will do a little better.”

TAPS: ‘I think they should understand that we’re still the same people we were before’

CONTINUED FROM 1A

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — Illinois senators are saying “no” to more borrowing, even if it would let the state pay its overdue bills.

Senators considered one part of a plan to borrow nearly $6.2 billion Sunday night. It failed 19-23 and the sponsor didn’t bother calling the other pieces of legislation.

Democratic Sen. John Sullivan said it was important for Il-linois to pay the hospitals, businesses and community groups that work for the state and don’t get their money.

But Republicans said it’s a mistake to pay the bills by bor-rowing more money. They call for spending cuts.

Plane crashes in Ohio, injuring 2 Kentucky men

HAVERHILL, Ohio — Officials say two Kentucky residents were hurt when a small plane lost power and crashed in a southern Ohio field.

The Ohio State Highway Patrol said the plane took off from the Ashland-Boyd County Airport in northern Kentucky and went down Saturday evening a few miles northwest near Haverhill, along the Ohio River. Both people in the plane reported that its engine sputtered and it eventually lost power before crashing.

Troopers said pilot Steven Hall, 56, of Catlettsburg and instructor Edward Edwards, 45, of Ashland suffered minor injuries. They were treated at the scene.

Former governor puts Frankfort home on market

FRANKFORT — Former Gov. Ernie Fletcher’s “resort-like” home in Frankfort is now for sale with an asking price of $465,900.

Fletcher and his wife, Glenna, bought the home and nearly 4 acres near the Kentucky River in northern Franklin County about eight years ago for $313,000, but now have begun making plans to move back to Lexington to be closer to aging parents.

Fletcher, chief executive officer of Alton Healthcare, was governor from 2003 to 2007 and had previously served in the state legislature and Congress.

Lawsuit, arrest leaves Klan group in turmoil

LOUISVILLE — A $2.5 million civil judgment and the prison sentence of its founder has left a western Kentucky-based Ku Klux Klan group with an uncertain future.

The Imperial Klans of America, based in Dawson Springs, has publicly banished members and scaled down its traditional Me-morial Day weekend Nordic Fest. Ron Edwards was sentenced Thursday to four years in federal prison on gun and drug charges.

Southern Poverty Law Center President Richard Cohen told The Associated Press the group, once considered to be among the largest in the country, has apparently shrunk in recent years.

Associated Press

Illinois Senate rejects borrowing to pay old bills

Associated Press

Photos of children are seen next to a map of where they’re from during ‘Good Grief Camp’ in Arlington, Va., on May 27.

I was in Vietnam when that war came to an end in January 1973. What I’m about to relate is the best I can recall from memory.

After the ceasefi re, I was at Camp Holloway in Pleiku. I received a call one day from some brass down in Saigon. These instructions were given to me. “Proceed over to Camp 21 on the north side of town. There, at the S-1 shop (personnel offi ce), you are to docu-ment and verify the remains of a dead American soldier.” Now that the war had come to an end, the people at the Pentagon were already thinking ahead to the remains to go into the tomb of the Unknown Soldier for the Vietnam War at Arlington Cemetery.

I drove over in my jeep, got out, and went into the S-1 shop. Those com-pounds consisted of offi ces that were dusty Quonset huts (half moon metal modules) or open air, frame hooches with screens. I walked in and a private was sitting at a metal desk, casually thumbing through “Stars and Stripes.” Everything was layered over with a thin red dust which came from the clay-like soil of the Central Highlands of Viet-nam.

I remember his nonchalance when I asked to see the remains. He pointed me to the back room and showed me a card-board box sitting on the fl oor. I opened it and examined its contents. I remem-ber — and this really gets hazy over the years — seeing fragments of bone. Maybe part of a skull and femur bone. Maybe some other pieces. But not much. In the box were also some personal ef-fects, including a jungle boot or two and parts of a uniform. I either fi lled out a form, signed and left, or called in the confi rmation. I can’t remember which.

I didn’t make a lot of it because I couldn’t really relate to it very well. In combat zones, you don’t really concern yourself too much with anything that doesn’t appear to be relevant at that very moment — survival and getting home. Tomb of the Unknown Soldier for Viet-nam? Whatever.

It was only years later — in 1984, I believe — that I became interested in this topic once again. President Reagan was speaking at the dedication ceremony at Arlington for the interment of the remains of the Unknown Soldier of Vietnam.

I’ll be darned.I recalled that trip over to

Camp 21 and wondered if all that pomp and circumstance was being made over a few

bone fragments and some parts of his uniform. But now, instead of a card-board box in the back of an old dirty S-1 shop in the Central Highlands of Vietnam, these remains were going to be encased in granite and marble — watched over around the clock by sen-tinels marching smartly to the reverent admiration of gawking tourists.

Then the years rolled by to 1998. I was reading a fascinating story in Time magazine. With the advancement of science and DNA, the remains of the Unknown Soldier of Vietnam in Ar-lington had become known. It was Air Force Lieutenant Michael Blassie of St. Louis, Mo., who had been shot down over the jungles of Vietnam near An Loc in May of 1972. They had not been able to recover his remains for some time because of the heavy occupation of the area by the Viet Cong.

I apparently got to know him about a year later. He was exhumed from Arlington National Cemetery and, after a solemn ceremony, returned to St. Louis so that he could be laid to rest at last by the tender and loving hands of his family.

Was it really the remains of Michael Blassie that I had documented on that day in the S-1 shop in Vietnam? I can-not swear to it because I think they were trying to select the mortal re-mains from several different candidates for the honor. But the timing was right. He was shot down in May of 1972 and I was rummaging through the remains a little less than a year later.

It makes no difference really. Whoev-er was in that box died for his country.

That’s enough. To me, he will always be the Unknown Soldier of the Vietnam War.

Cold gray monuments, brassy parades, majestic fl yovers — they are all remem-brances of those who died in the service of the nation. They are all part of our Memorial Day.

No day speaks more about American patriotism than the day we thank those who gave their lives in the fi ght for free-dom. Yet, no ceremony, no solemnity can ever replace those we have lost.

If the families of the fallen who have borne the sorrow of all our battles from Bull Run to Baghdad could have one thing on this day, it would be to have their loved ones back. We cannot unbur-den their grief.

We can do our utmost not to add to their ranks.

So while on this day we honor sacrifi ce, we have a job the rest of the year as well: reminding our leaders in Washington to ensure that the troops who defend us have what they need to do the job — and come back to us. There is no better way to recognize the valor of those who serve, and demonstrate care and respect for their families, than to pay it forward — to properly arm our armed forces for the next fi ght.

Adequately funding defense could be the greatest challenge this nation faces in the years ahead. Most of the increases in Pentagon funding since 9/11 have gone to safeguarding U.S. interests, from protect-ing the homeland to fi ghting in far-off Afghanistan. After 10 years, we have put a lot of wear and tear on the armed forces. The danger that our military preparedness could plummet has never been greater.

Today, America has the smallest Navy since before World War I, and the force is aging. This year marks the 25th anni-versary of the popular movie “Top Gun.” The ship featured in the fi lm was the USS Enterprise. It is still at sea. In fact, it was commissioned in the 1960s, and is the second-oldest ship in the U.S. fl eet. Ships in the Navy’s sister fl eet, the U.S. Coast

Guard, are even older.The Coast Guard has ships at sea that

are eligible for Social Security.America’s Air Force has the oldest

average fl eet of planes and the fewest number of planes in its inventory at any time since World War II.

The B-52 bomber fl eet is as old as the Enterprise.

The Army and Marine Corps both have aging fl eets of vehicles — and have just seen the plans to replace them pushed further down the road.

Annual spending to buy new equip-ment is already under-funded by about $50 billion a year. Still, there are calls to slash military spending.

They are, of course, caveated with promises that cuts won’t harm the troops.

These assurances are cold comfort. Before World War II, we were told the United States would rearm if a threat arose, but in failing to remain armed in the interwar years, we encouraged the enemy to rise up and attack us first. When the Korean War broke out, we did not even have time to rearm before we sent troops into battle wear-ing sneakers and shouldering rusted rifles.

After 9/11, we plunged into war short many tens-of-thousands of troops and missing critical equipment, from body armor to up-armored vehicles.

Despite the bitter lessons of history, there are calls to cut defense, offers of an “easy” answer of another peace dividend now — to be paid for in blood and sacri-fi ce later.

Now is not the time to cut. Now is the time to pay it forward. As Thomas Jef-ferson once said, “The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.”

James Jay Carafano is the director

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The fact that the sun rose on God’s green earth on Sunday, May 22, presum-ably left some delusional folks in Oakland, Calif., a bit confused.

Followers of Harold Camping believed — and prepared for — the world to end on Saturday, May 21. If you’re reading this column, it’s a safe bet that Camping’s “prophecy” was — to use a good old King James term — “false.”

In Old Testament times, Camping would have been stoned for having made such an inaccurate prediction. While the practice of stoning false prophets has ended, delusion about government’s role in enabling private projects continues in biblical proportions.

For example, the Kentucky Tourism De-velopment Finance Authority (sound like a real taxpayer-friendly group?) recently approved a $43 million tax credit for an 800-acre biblical theme park in northern Kentucky. That’s $6 million more than we were told the project would be eligible for when the project received preliminary ap-proval for tax incentives in December.

Gov. Steve Beshear initially lent his sup-

port to the project even though “neither Beshear nor other state offi cials had seen or read the study” on the operation’s fea-sibility, reported the Lexing-ton Herald-Leader.

So let’s get this straight: The Beshear administration rammed through tax rebates for a multimillion-dollar project before it even saw a report indicating the project’s chances of success? The gov-ernor and his sidekicks based their support on numbers supplied by the company do-ing the project — like it would provide information about similar ventures that have failed to make it without government money.

Sounds like someone may have been stoned — but not in the biblical sense.

Did the report reveal how the “Holy Land Experience” in Florida required a government rescue, or how other commu-nities, including Lebanon and Murfrees-boro, Tenn., turned down “the promise of more jobs and taxes from Bible Park USA because of concerns about a lack of infor-mation and the ultimate cost to taxpay-

ers,” as one media outlet reported?The same news story added: “The Bible

Park wanted help from state and local tax incentives to locate in Tennes-see.”

In an earlier column on the “Ark Encounter” project, I stated that it’s improper for govern-ment to pick and choose certain companies on which to bestow tax “incentives.” Supporters of the project challenged me, saying no taxes would be used “related to the construction and operation of the Ark Encounter.” Mark Looy, the

company’s chief communications offi cer wrote that in the Community

Recorder of Northern Kentucky.Another false prophecy, it appears.Along with tax rebates, the “Ark En-

counter” plan also includes a proposal to make an $11 million improvement to an interchange off Interstate 75 — spe-cifi cally because of an expectation of the increased traffi c created by park visitors.

So, if it’s not taxpayers providing the “assistance” that the governor indicated the park would receive, how will that transportation project get funded?

Perhaps Mr. Camping could help fl oat the “Ark” with his money. Apparently, he doesn’t think he’ll need it.

In writing in defense of the “Close Encounter” with bad fi nance, Looy fails to address my claims that government should not be in the business of picking economic winners and losers, and that a better policy would be for all private fi rms to sink or swim on their own ability — without government “assistance.”

You might recall that Mr. Camping previously indicated the apocalypse would occur in September 1994. Amazingly, people still follow him today.

Big Government prophets for years have told us that large tax breaks for the chosen few create high-paying jobs and improve the state’s economy.

Kentucky’s unemployment rate sits at 10 percent, and Forbes magazine wrote that Kentucky is the “worst-run state” in America.

Where’s a rock when you need one? Jim Waters is vice president of policy

and communications for the Bluegrass Institute, Kentucky’s free-market think tank. Reach him at [email protected].

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BY ERICA WERNERAssociated Press

JOPLIN, Mo. — Face to face with the legions of home-less and the bereaved, President Barack Obama on Sunday toured the apoc-alyptic landscape left by Missouri’s killer tornado, consoled the community and committed the gov-ernment to helping rebuild shattered lives.

“We’re not going to stop ‘til Joplin’s back on its feet,” Obama vowed. A memorial service where Obama spoke punctuated a day of remembrance one week after the disaster, as authorities pressed on with the task of identifying the victims and volunteers combed through wreckage of neighborhoods where nothing was left whole.

The service erupted in cheers when Obama said, “I promise you your country will be there with you ev-ery single step of the way,” a pledge he extended to all parts of the nation raked by

violent storms this season.“You’ve demonstrated a

simple truth,” he told the service, “that amid heart-break and tragedy no one is a stranger. Everybody is a brother. Everybody is a sister. We can all love one another.”

Known for his cool,

even-tempered demeanor, Obama offered his own brand of comforting: elo-quent words, plentiful handshakes, some hugs, pats on the heads of chil-dren, offers of “God bless you.” The raw emotion Americans saw in his pre-decessors George W. Bush

or Bill Clinton was not for him.

Before the service, Obama’s motorcade pulled into a neighbor-hood where downed trees cleaved open hous-es, roofs were stripped or blown off, cars were cratered and splintered wood was everywhere. He saw nothing intact, but rather small domes-tic sights — a view into a room with a TV still in place, a recliner sitting amid rubble, a washer-dryer standing next to a decimated house. Ameri-can fl ags were planted here and there in the mess.

“Sorry for your loss,” Obama told an anguished woman, hugging her twice as they talked. An-other woman told him that her uncle lives up the road — he survived but his house did not. “Tell your uncle we’re praying for him,” the president said.

Obama tours damage in Joplin

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President Barack Obama talks Sunday to residents affected by the tornado that devastated Joplin, Mo., last week.

Obama travels to Joplin to view the devastation

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Sarah Palin rides on the back of a motorcycle at the beginning of Rolling Thunder at the Pentagon on Sunday during Memorial Day weekend in Washington.

BY PHILIP ELLIOTTAssociated Press

WASHINGTON — Sarah Palin rumbled through Washington on the back of a Harley as she and her family began an East Coast tour Sunday, re-newing speculation that the former Alaska gov-ernor would join the still unsettled Republican presidential contest.

Wearing a black leather jacket and surrounded by a throng of cheering fans,

Palin and family mem-bers jumped on bikes and joined thousands of other motorcyclists on the Me-morial Day weekend ride from the Pentagon to the Vietnam Veterans Me-morial. Palin didn’t men-tion politics as she vis-ited with participants, but she smiled broadly when many in the crowd urged her to run.

When one man asked her if she was running, she smiled and answered,

“Don’t know.” Palin remains one of

the biggest questions for Republicans, who have not yet settled on a front-runner to challenge Presi-dent Barack Obama’s re-election. While many of Palin’s likely rivals have worked to build campaign organizations in early nominating states such as Iowa or New Hamp-shire, Palin has taken no concrete steps to begin a presidential campaign.

Palin kick-starts bus tour on back of motorcycle in Washington

CORDOVA, Ala. — James Ruston’s house was knocked off its foundation by tornadoes that barreled through town last month and is still uninhabit-able. He thought help had finally arrived when a truck pulled up to his property with a mobile home from the Fed-eral Emergency Management Agency.

Then he got the call: Single-wide mobile homes, like the FEMA one, are illegal in the city of Cordova.

The city’s refusal to let homeless residents occupy temporary housing provided by FEMA has sparked outrage in this central Alabama town of 2,000, with angry citizens filling a meeting last week and circulating petitions to remove the man many blame for the decision, Mayor Jack Scott.

NY rep says hacker sent lewd photo from Twitter

NEW YORK — A lewd pho-tograph of a crotch sent from the Twitter account of U.S. Rep. Anthony Weiner is just “a distraction” perpetrated by a hacker, his spokesman said Sunday.

Dave Arnold told The Associ-ated Press in an email that the tweet, directed at a woman, was “a distraction” from the married New York Democrat’s “important work representing his constituents.”

“Anthony’s accounts were obviously hacked,” Arnold said. “He doesn’t know the person named by the hacker, and we will be consulting on what steps to take next.”

The photo showed a man’s bulging underpants.

The photo was quickly de-leted.

Weiner later joked about the account hacking on Twitter, asking whether his kitchen blender would be next to “at-tack” him.

Bin Hammam and Warner conspired

‘from start’

ZURICH — Suspended exec-utives Mohamed bin Hammam

and Jack Warner conspired to bribe voters “right from the start” of the FIFA presiden-tial campaign, their longtime American colleague Chuck Blazer said Sunday.

“This was a conspiracy right from the start between the two of them,” said Blazer, dismiss-ing bin Hammam’s suggestions that FIFA President Sepp Blat-ter orchestrated the scandal as “absolute foolishness.”

Blazer, a FIFA executive committee member and gener-al secretary of the CONCACAF regional body, said he expects more Caribbean football lead-ers to admit they were offered $40,000 cash bribes to back bin Hammam in his election contest with Blatter.

Kentucky’s Homeless load trucks for Joplin

LEXINGTON — A group of homeless people in Lexing-ton have spent the weekend loading trucks with supplies destined for Joplin, Mo., a week after an EF5 tornado ripped through that city, destroying houses.

Ginny Ramsey, founder of the Catholic Action Center, told The Lexington Herald-Leader the idea was proposed by people living at a shelter, who spent much of their time watching TV, and were struck by news of the devastation in Joplin since the tornado struck May 22.

Ramsey said the center bor-rowed a tractor-trailer from the Christian Appalachian Project, a nonprofit organization that specializes in relief efforts. A dozen volunteers will caravan to Joplin and help distribute the items at the Joplin Family Wor-ship Center, a FEMA-certified relief station.

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Alabama town hit by tornadoes bans trailers

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President Barack Obama speaks at the community memorial service at Missouri Sounthern State University in Joplin, Mo. on Sunday. The tornado killed at least 142 people in Joplin and in-jured hundreds more.

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--------AN ORDINANCE ADOPTING A PROJECT-SPECIFIC PROCUREMENT CODE FOR THE JACKSON HOUSE ELEVATOR REBHABILITATION PROJECT. This ordinance is summarized as follows: This Ordinance authorizes the City of Paducah, Kentucky, to adopt a project-specifi c procurement code for the purchasing procedures pertaining to the Community Development Block Grant awarded to the City of Paducah for the Jackson House Elevator Rehabilitation Project.

--------AN ORDINANCE AUTHORIZING THE FINANCE DIRECTOR TO PAY FOR THE SOLE SOURCE PURCHASE AND PROGRAMMING OF PORTABLE RADIOS FOR THE PADUCAH POLICE DEPARTMENT. This ordinance is summarized as follows: That the City of Paducah hereby authorizes the Finance Director to make payment to Motorola Solutions, Inc. in the amount of $21,600.00, for purchase and programming of fi fteen portable radios for the Paducah Police Department.

--------AN ORDINANCE AUTHORIZING THE FINANCE DIRECTOR TO PAY L-3 COMMUNICATIONS/MOBILE VISION FOR THE SOLE SOURCE PURCHASE OF DIGITAL IN-CAR CAMERAS TO BE USED BY THE PADUCAH POLICE DEPARTMENT AND AUTHORIZING THE MAYOR TO EXECUTE ALL DOCUMENTS RELATING TO SAME. This ordinance is summarized as follows: That the City of Paducah hereby authorizes the Finance Director to make payment to L-3 Communications/Mobile Vision, in the amount of $38,360.00, for purchase of eight digital in-car cameras to be used by the Paducah Police Department and authorizes the Mayor to execute all documents relating to same.

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SELIGMAN, Ariz. — Just after lunchtime in a town that is a monument to yesteryear, an old man is cruising down Route 66 using an eight-speed bicycle. He is tidily dressed in khaki slacks, a navy polo and a baseball cap that protects a mostly threadbare crown, save for a few strands of silvery white.

At 84 years old, he has an ever-so-slight hunch, a crinkled forehead and hear-ing aids in both ears.

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Two tour buses are parked along the nation’s most historic byway, and dozens of adoring fans await: Leather-clad Harley riders. A Parisian wearing a Route 66 tee. Norwegians wanting to shake his hand. Japanese tourists who liter-ally “ooh” and “ahh” as their Angel nears.

All along the sidewalk, Nikons are ready — and this unassuming gentle-man is mobbed the mo-ment he parks his bike. The fans clutch Route 66 license plates as Delgadillo fl ashes a toothy grin and says, over and over, “Cheese, cheese, cheese, cheese, cheeeeeese.”

In the midst of this surreal scene comes a question: Are these camera-toting, guide-book-grasping 66 buffs here for the legendary road — or for the now-legendary man who helped to save it?

“This guy here ... every time I get a chance I come in and shake his hand,” says one of these many admirers, Jerry Stinson of Lake Tyee, Wash., who plans to some-day retire along Route 66 and open a business — “because of you,” he tells Delgadillo as they pose for a photograph.

They call him many things: The Father of the Mother Road. The Guard-ian Angel of Route 66. Sometimes, simply, The Ambassador.

His story has been related

in travel guides, even on a website for a Route 66 asso-ciation in the Czech Repub-lic. He and his town were the inspiration for the ani-mated fi lm “Cars,” but he has inspired many others, too, with a vigor that age hasn’t diminished — a pas-sion for the road he grew up on, and old with.

Telling this tale has be-come his life’s work, and he does it without prompting. How he was born right on Route 66 back when Selig-man was a railroad town ferrying explorers West. How he followed in his fa-ther’s footsteps and became a barber, opening his own shop and pool hall along Route 66. How he was a witness to history: the Dust Bowl migration, the trans-port of equipment during World War II.

And how he saw it all change on Sept. 22, 1978 — the day Interstate 40 replaced Route 66 as the main thoroughfare through northern Arizona.

“Can you imagine how it was?” says Delgadillo, whose eyes widen as if re-counting this for the very fi rst time. “Golly Moses. At fi rst it was so sad, and then I got so angry. Everybody just forgot about us.”

His own place in history was cemented nine years lat-er when he became a driving force behind the formation of

the Historic Route 66 Asso-ciation of Arizona, which lob-bied the state to dedicate the road as “Historic Route 66.” Highway signs were erected, the association launched an annual “Fun Run” of classic cars, tourists and media be-gan converging — and Selig-man was reborn. More his-toric associations followed in other Route 66 states.

It was the beginning of the Route 66 revival, and also Delgadillo’s own. He and his wife, Vilma, opened a souvenir store next to the barber shop peddling Route 66 keepsakes to the many visitors that began fi nding Seligman — looking not just for kitsch but for history. In Delgadillo, they found an emphatic raconteur.

“People want to taste the road — the sights, the smells, the sounds. And he’s there to hold your hand,” says Lorrie Fleming of Van-couver, British Columbia, who fi rst met Delgadillo in 1994 and has returned to Seligman every year since for the annual Fun Run. “You can’t get that on Face-book, what Angel gives you. He reaches his arms out to you.

“That concrete has to have a vein to still pump blood, and he’s the life of the road.”

In 1996, Fleming founded the Canadian Route 66 As-sociation — and she credits Delgadillo. So does Emily Priddy of Tulsa, Okla., an ex-newspaper editor who says she became involved in Route 66 preservation — even writing a guidebook for children — because of him. And Jerry Stinson, who’s already bought land in Arizona and counts the days until retirement brings him permanently to Route 66. “He IS the inspiration,” Stinson says.

Today, Seligman thrives because of the many Route 66-themed businesses. Del-gadillo has long-since re-tired as a barber, and two of his four children run the gift shop now. They try to keep their father at home when possible, only because they know that once he sets foot in the store visitors will oc-cupy him for hours.

“They just don’t happen upon Seligman because they got lost and got off the freeway. They’re here for a reason,” says daughter Mirna. “And that reason is to see my dad.”

Guardian angel of Route 66

BY PAULINE ARRILLAGAAssociated Press

“People want to taste the road — the sights, the smells, the sounds. And he’s there to hold

your hand.”

Lorrie FlemingVancouver, British Columbia

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Angel Delgadillo crosses the street on his bicycle as dusk sets in Seligman, Ariz., on May 5. Delgadillo, 84, has witnessed the rise and fall of America’s most historic byway and gets credit for helping it rise again as Historic Route 66. Telling his story and the road’s has become his life’s work.

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Angel Delgadillo sits in his barber shop in Seligman, Ariz., with a portrait of himself from an earlier time at right.

WASHINGTON — The top Republican in the Senate said Sunday that a controversial House Medicare plan is “on the table” as President Barack Obama and his GOP rivals wrestle over budget cuts to enact this summer.

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., said on NBC’s “Meet The Press” that he supports the controversial plan by House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan, R-Wis., to trans-form Medicare into a voucher-like system in which future ben-eficiaries — those 54 and younger — would get subsidies to buy health insurance rather than have the government directly pay their doctor and hospital bills.

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But McConnell seemed to acknowledge that with a Democrat in the White House, the Ryan plan is effectively dead for now. The measure by the Wisconsin GOP congressman also fell well short in a Senate vote last week.

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NEW YORK — To fly someone from New York to Los Angeles and back, airlines spend close to $330 these days — just on fuel.

That’s a 48 percent increase from last year and the main reason vacationers face record costs to fly this summer. To offset their single biggest expense, airlines have hiked fares seven times this year and raised fees for checking bags and other services.

This has only added to the frustration of most casual fli-ers who see $59 fares advertised but are quoted prices well above $300 when they actually try to book. Americans’ expectations of a cheap vacation are being destroyed by the reality of $100-a-barrel oil.

“The passenger has to understand that the airline industry in the United States is not meant to be a low-cost mass tran-sit system. The airlines are in business to be profitable,” says airline analyst Robert Herbst.

During the first three months of 2011, the airlines spent $8.7 billion on fuel, 31 percent more than last year. In the current quarter, jet fuel expenses are even higher.

Lockheed Martin sees rise in cyber espionage

NEW YORK — This cyber attack didn’t go after people play-ing war games on their PlayStations. It targeted a company that helps the U.S. military do the real thing.

Lockheed Martin says it was the recent target of a “signifi-cant and tenacious” hack, although the defense contractor and the Department of Homeland Security insist the attack was thwarted before any critical data was stolen. The effort highlighted the fact that some hackers, including many work-ing for foreign governments, set their sights on information far more devastating than credit card numbers.

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By the time the crowds broke up by late evening, about 100 people were ar-rested and 16 minor inju-ries were reported. That amounted to a victory for the pro-Western govern-ment, which arrested Mlad-ic on Thursday, risking the wrath of the nationalist old guard in a country with a

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Serb military commander. Some chanted right-wing slogans and a few gave Nazi salutes.

Supporters of the extreme nationalist Serbian Radical Party were bused in to at-tend the rally. Right-wing extremists and hooligan groups also urged followers to appear in large numbers, creating the biggest test of Serbian sentiment and the government’s resolve since Mladic’s arrest.

The demonstrators, who consider Mladic a hero, said Serbia should not hand him over to the U.N. war crimes court in The Hague, Neth-erlands.

“Cooperation with The Hague tribunal represents treason,” Radical Party of-

fi cial Lidija Vukicevic told the crowd. “This is a protest against the shameful arrest of the Serbian hero.”

Demonstrators demand-ed the ouster of Serbian President Boris Tadic, who ordered Mladic’s arrest. A sign on the stage read, “Ta-dic is not Serbia.”

More than 3,000 riot po-lice were deployed around government buildings and Western embassies, fear-ing that the demonstration could turn violent. Riot police tried to block small groups of extremists from reaching the rally.

The U.N. tribunal charged Mladic with geno-cide in 1995, accusing him of orchestrating the mas-sacre of 8,000 Muslim men

and boys in Srebrenica and other war crimes of Bos-nia’s 1992-95 war. Mladic’s arrest is considered critical to Serbia’s efforts to join the European Union, and to reconciliation in the region after a series of ethnic wars of the 1990s.

Mladic’s son, Darko Mladic, said Sunday that despite the indictment, his father insists he was not responsible for the mass ex-ecutions committed by his troops after they overran the eastern Bosnian enclave of Srebrenica in July 1995.

“Whatever was done be-hind his back, he has noth-ing to do with that,” Darko Mladic said.

The massacre in Srebren-ica is considered to be Eu-

rope’s worst atrocity since World War II. Bosnian Serb troops under Mladic’s com-mand rounded up boys and men and executed them over several days, burying the remains in mass graves in the area. Prosecutors say they have compelling evi-dence that Mladic personal-ly ordered and oversaw the executions in and around Srebrenica.

But Serb nationalists in Serbia and parts of Bosnia still consider Mladic a hero — the general who against all odds tried to defend Serbs in the Bosnian con-fl ict. Among his men, Mlad-ic commanded fi erce devo-tion — many Bosnian Serb soldiers pledged to follow him to the death.

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BY CHRIS BRUMMITTAssociated Press

ISLAMABAD — Facing a surge in violence after the killing of Osama bin Laden, Pakistanis are taking comfort in con-spiracy theories that al-lege Indian or American agents — not fellow Mus-lim countrymen — are behind the attacks, espe-cially last week’s brazen assault on a naval base.

Aired on television talk shows and in newspa-pers, conspiracy theories are everywhere — under-scoring the challenges facing the United States as it seeks to convince Pakistan’s overwhelm-ingly anti-American population that it faces a shared enemy in the Tal-iban.

“America cannot and should not solve Paki-stan’s problems, that is up to Pakistan,” she told reporters. “But in solving its problems, Pakistan should understand that anti-Americanism and conspiracy theories will not make problems dis-appear.”

While tales of malign intervention by foreign powers exist in other developing countries, in Pakistan they come with a heavy price. They confuse the country as to who it is fi ghting and complicate efforts to de-feat militants and coun-ter their extremist ideol-ogy.

Shifting the blame away from Islamist mili-tants and onto foreigners helps protect the power-ful Pakistani army from

an uncomfortable truth: its long association with militants that are now turning against the state.

No evidence is ever reported to back up the claims, but unsubstanti-ated rumors make it into media coverage: the bod-ies of suicide attackers were uncircumcised, for example, implying they were not Muslims, or In-dian-made ammunition was found at the scene.

Ironically, the Paki-stani Taliban share Clin-ton’s dislike of the con-

spiracy theories — but for different reasons.

“Those who are ac-cusing us of working for anyone else’s agenda should ask themselves what they are doing,” Waliur Rehman, the Tal-iban’s No. 2 command-er, told The Associated Press.

“We are neither work-ing for CIA, Mossad, RAW nor any other or-ganization,” he said, re-ferring to the Indian spy agency. “We work to get the blessing of God.”

Amid bombings, Pakistan turns to conspiracies

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Supporters of the Pakistani religious party Jamaate-Islami sit listening to speeches during an anti-American rally in Is-lamabad, Pakistan.

KABUL, Afghanistan — A car with the license plate of a high-ranking Afghan general ap-proached the gates of the Defense Ministry in Kabul last month. A special “A’’ pass also was on its windshield, so guards quickly waved it through.

Once inside, a man in an army uniform jumped from the car and stormed the ministry’s main office building, an Afghan government of-ficial said. He gunned down two Afghan soldiers before being killed. The gunman also wounded an Afghan army officer, who died later at a hos-pital.

Cheetah captured while roaming Abu Dhabi

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — A city of gleaming skyscrapers along the Persian Gulf hardly seems a fitting habitat for a cheetah, but there it was prowling among residential villas in Abu Dhabi.

An animal welfare activist who helped rescue the urban cheetah on Sunday said it might have

been kept as a pet and had an injured front left paw — perhaps from leaping off a roof, where some owners of exotic pets keep their animals.

RAnimal control authorities rounded up the cheetah, which was later handed over to a wild-life conservation center, Auttabashi said. Pho-tos she took at the scene showed the spotted animal being held in a cage in the back of a van with its injured paw held off the ground.

Dentures save Brazil man shot in face, doctor says

SAO PAULO — An elderly Brazilian man shot in the face escaped death when his dentures de-flected a bullet headed for his brain.

Jose Marcos da Silva was quoted by Globo TV’s G1 website Saturday as saying that the bul-let probably would have pierced Moraes’ brain if it hadn’t first hit his dentures before lodging in his throat. The official said the bullet will not be removed immediately because surgery right now would be too risky.

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Funeral noticesPaid obituaries furnished to The Paducah Sun by mortuaries.

Willie O’BrienWillie O’Brien, 93, of

Paducah passed away at 1:04 a.m. Sunday, May 29, 2011 at Western Bap-tist Hospital.

Mr. O’Brien was a member of Oaklawn

Baptist Church and a retired o f f i c e m a n -a g e r f o r P e c k Broth-e r s P r o -

duce. He was an avid golfer at Paxton Park, a Kentucky Wildcat fan and a W.W.II U.S. Navy veteran.

Mr. O’Brien is sur-vived by his daughter, Phlecia Bynum and her husband, Maurice of Paducah; his son, W. Ben O’Brien and his wife, Michelle of Chatta-nooga, Tenn.; six grand-children, Brad O’Brien and Mary Beth Crabtree both of Ballard County, Raychel O’Brien of Chat-tanooga, Jake O’Brien of Louisville, Todd By-num of Bloomington, Ind., and Ben Bynum of

Paducah; seven great-grandchildren, Brandi Bynum, Katie Bynum, Sarah Bynum, Austin Moore, Tyler O’Brien, Faye O’Brien and Katie Garner; his sister, Verna Moore of Murfreesboro, Tenn.; and several nieces and nephews.

He was preceded in death by his wife, Theo Riley O’Brien, two sis-ters and three brothers. His parents were Benja-min and Irene Johnson O’Brien.

Services will be held at 11 a.m. on Tuesday, May 31, 2011 at Milner and Orr Funeral Home of Paducah with Rev. Terry Sills and Rev. Royce Dukes offi ciat-ing. Burial will follow in Clarks River Cemetery. The O’Brien family will receive friends after 5 p.m. on Monday, May 30, 2011 at the funeral home.

Expressions of sym-pathy may take the form of contributions to Oak-lawn Baptist Church 500 Oaks Rd. Paducah 43003. You may light a candle and leave a mes-sage of sympathy at mil-nerandorr.com.

Dorothy Mae Tucker KaufmanDorothy Mae Tucker

Kaufman, 81, of Paducah passed away Thursday, May 26, 2011 at 6:35 p.m. at Western Baptist Hos-pital.

Mrs. Kaufman was a loving mother and grand-mother of the Baptist faith.

Surviving are her daughter, Glenda Dean of Paducah; her son, Kenneth Ray Kaufman of Sharpe; two broth-ers, Clayton Tucker Jr. and Roger Tucker, both of Paducah; fi ve sisters, Barbara Sherman, Sheila Tubbs, and Patricia Pow-ell, all of Paducah, Linda Dickens of Mt. Sterling and Shirley Baldwin of

Mich.; fi ve grandchil-dren, eight great grand-children, numerous niec-es and nephews.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Joe A. Kaufman; one son, three brothers and three sisters. Her parents were Clayton and Georgia Tucker.

Services will be at 1 p.m. Tuesday at Lindsey Funeral Home with Rev. Topper Council offi ciat-ing. Burial will follow at Mount Carmel Cemetery. Friends may call after 11 a.m. Tuesday at the fu-neral home.

Condolences may be left online at lindseyfu-neral.com.

Aundrey Ligon Sr.Aundrey Z. Ligon Sr., 59,

of Paducah, died at 6:16 a.m. Thursday at Lourdes hospital in Paducah.

Mr. Li-gon was a mem-ber of Harrison S t r e e t M i s -s i o n a r y B a p t i s t C h u r c h . He was employed

at Florence and Hutcheson, Inc., and was working as a lab technician.

He is survived by his wife, Myra L. Johnson Li-gon of Paducah; three sons, Chris Johnson of Colum-bus, Ohio, Aundrey Ligon Jr. of Bowling Green and Harold Ligon of Rantoul, Ill.; two sisters, Jean Nail-ing and Norine Clark, both of Paducah; two brothers, Carl Ligon of Defi ance, Ohio and Charles C.W. Ligon of Paducah; several nieces and nephews.

His parents were Jessie C. Ligon and Mamie Lou Ligon-Martin.

Services will be at 1 p.m. Wednesday at Mt. Moriah Missionary Baptist Church in Paducah with the Rev. Calvin R. Cole Sr. offi ciat-ing. Burial will follow at Oak Grove Cemetery in Paducah.

Friends may call after 6 p.m. Tuesday at Pettus-Rowland Funeral Home and after 11 a.m. Wednes-day at the church.

Lynn ByrdCAIRO, Ill. — Lynn S. Byrd,

59, of Cairo died Saturday at his home.

He was a retired princi-pal with the Cairo Public School System. He was a member of the Ward Cha-pel AME Church in Cairo, the Alpha Phi Alpha Fra-ternity, and the Masonic Lodge.

Mr. Byrd is survived by his wife, Alcenia Byrd; two daughters, Cozetta Hur-ston of Clarksville, Tenn., and Lavonia Whitaker of Lawton, Okla.; three sons, Ronald Johnson of Colum-bus, Ohio, Darryl Johnson of Cairo, and Hobart Lam-bert, Jr. of Leavenworth, Kan.; one sister, Beverly Wells of Carbondale; 15 grandchildren, and several great grandchildren, nieces and nephews.

Memorial services will be at 7 p.m. Wednesday at Barkett Funeral Home of Cairo with the Rev. Ron Woods offi ciating. Inter-ment will be private.

Friends may call after 6 p.m. Wednesday at the fu-neral home.

Carmaleta EldridgeMURRAY — Carmaleta El-

dridge, 71, of Murray died Saturday at Vanderbilt Hospital in Nashville, Tenn.

Mrs. Eldridge was a re-tired banking manager and a member of Martin’s Chapel United Methodist Church. She was a member of Hazel Women’s Club, Martin’s Chapel U.M.W., Red Hat Society, and Offi -cer’s Wives' Club.

She is survived by her husband, Thomas Junior Eldridge; three daughters, Dawn Olsen of Murray, Lori Lyon of Oxford, Mass., and Michele Maxson of Irmo, S.C.; her brother, Michael Homer Charlton of Owens-boro; and six grandchil-dren.

She was preceded in death by a sister. Her par-ents were Homer Elisha Charlton and Katie Winfred Adams Charlton.

Services will be at 10 a.m. Wednesday at J.H. Churchill Funeral Home. The Rev. Eugene Burkeen will offi ciate. Burial will fol-low in Murray Memorial Gardens. Friends may call after 5 p.m. Tuesday at the funeral home.

Vera DowdyWINGO — Vera Fields

Dowdy, 78, of Wingo died at 1:28 a.m. Sunday at her residence.

She was of the Baptist faith and a homemaker.

She is survived by her husband, James Edward Dowdy; two daughters, Marjorie Overstreet and Edna Melton, both of Win-go; her son, Paul Dowdy of Wingo; eight grandchil-dren, one stepgrandchild, nine great-grandchildren and two stepgreat-grand-children.

She was preceded in death by two brothers and one sister. Her parents were John Dewey and Myrtie Yates Fields.

Services will be at noon Wednesday at Brown Fu-neral Home in Wingo with the Rev. Howard Copeland offi ciating. Burial will be in Bethlehem Methodist Church Cemetery in Pilot Oak. Friends may call after 5 p.m. Tuesday at the fu-neral home.

John KelleyVIENNA, Ill. — John A. Kel-

ley, 86, of Vienna died Sat-urday at his home.

Mr. Kelley was a retired heavy equipment operator. He was a member and dea-con of Fellowship Baptist Church in Vienna. He was a member of Stone Arch Lodge #953 AF&AM in Cy-press. He was a U.S. Navy veteran of World War II.

He is survived by his wife, Dorothy Kelley; his daugh-ter, Lana McLaughlin of Boles; and four grandchil-dren.

He was preceded in death by fi ve brothers and fi ve sisters. His parents were Charles and Mary Kelley.

Services will be at 11 a.m. Wednesday at Fellowship Baptist Church. Burial with military honors will be in Vienna Fraternal Cem-etery.

Friends may call after 6 p.m. Tuesday at Bailey Fu-neral Home in Vienna and after 10 a.m. Wednesday at the church.

Wilma CrusonHEROD, Ill. — Wilma Ro-

salee Cruson, 68, of Herod died at 9:28 p.m. Saturday in Ozark.

Mrs. Cruson is survived by her son, Russell Cruson of Herod; her daughters, Sheila McCabe of Ozark and Lois Martin of Harrisburg; and fi ve grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by one brother, one sister, and her infant chil-dren, Wilma Jean Cruson and Kenneth Dale Cruson. Her parents were Dalford Bebout and Lillie Hogg Be-bout.

Services will be at 2 p.m. Tuesday at Cox Funeral Home. Burial will follow at Hogg Cemetery in Herod.

Friends may call after noon Tuesday at the funeral home.

Memorial donations may be made to Hospice of Southern Illinois.

Billy ThornMURRAY — Billy R.”Briar”

Thorn, 76, of Murray died Friday at Murray-Calloway County Hospital.

Mr. Thorn was a retired heavy equipment operator.

He is survived by four daughters, Christine Hope Ethier and Patricia Byars, both of Murray, Joyce Hart and Barbara Fitzgerald both of Mississippi; four sons, Zach Thorn of Aaron, Tenn., Dennie Ray Thorn of Memphis, Tenn., Antho-ny Thorn and Gary Thorn, both of Murray; his sister, Betty Barnes of Missis-sippi, three brothers, Paul Thorn and Edward Thorn, both of Murray and Finnis Thorn of Aaron, 21 grand-children and 12 great-grandchildren.

Friends may call after 10 a.m. Tuesday at J.H. Churchill Funeral Home.

Jane McMainPRINCETON — Jane Mc-

Main, 70, of Princeton died Sunday at Jennie Stuart Medical Center in Hopkins-ville.

She was a retired knitter at Princeton Hosiery Mills.

She is survived by two daughters, Robin McMain of Princeton and Tammy McIntosh of Caldwell Coun-ty; one sister, Ann Lancast-er of Princeton, and three grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by one brother and one sister. Her parents were Roy and Lucille Kestner Love.

Services will be at 3 p.m. Tuesday at Morgan's Fu-neral Home with Rev. Bobby McIntosh offi ciating. Burial will follow in Cedar Hill Cemetery. Friends may call after 4 p.m. today at the funeral home.

Jeanne NicholJeanne A. Nichol, 83, of

Paducah died at 7:50 p.m. Saturday at Superior Care Home of Paducah.

Arrangements were in-complete at Roth Funeral Chapel.

Norma GoreBENTON — Norma Kathryn

Gore, 88, of Benton died Saturday at Spring Creek Health Care in Murray.

Mrs. Gore was retired from Merit Clothing Com-pany and was a member of Union Hill Church of Christ.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Trell

Gore. Her parents were Harvey Rudd and Martha Rudd.

She is survived by her son, Don Tidwell of Benton; three grandchildren and fi ve great-grandchildren.

There are no services scheduled at this time with Collier Funeral Home in Benton.

Wilma McGregorLA CENTER — Wilma Mc-

Gregor, 85, of La Center died Sunday at Life Care Center of La Center.

Arrangements were in-complete at Milner and Orr Funeral Home of Paducah.

Evelyn YorkPRINCETON — Evelyn York,

97, of Princeton died Sun-day at her home.

Arrangements were in-complete at Morgan’s Fu-neral Home in Princeton.

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BY PAUL J. WEBERAssociated Press

AUSTIN, Texas — Former Texas Gov. Bill Clements, who in 1979 became the state’s fi rst Republican elected governor since Re-construction, has died at 94, his family said.

Clements, whose be-lief that state government should operate like a big business helped change the face of Texas politics, died Sunday after what his family said was a brief stay at a Dallas-area hospital. Family members said Cle-ments had been ill for sev-eral months and grieving the death of his son.

“It is somewhat fi tting that he died Memorial Day weekend since he so appre-

ciated the opportunities he had to serve his state and country,” Clements’ family said in a statement.

Clements served two terms as governor despite losing his fi rst re-election bid. The Texas House hon-ored him with a moment of silence Sunday on the chamber fl oor.

“As the father of the modern Texas Republican Party, Gov. Clements is re-sponsible for the growth, success and election of Texas Republicans in every corner of our state,” Texas Gov. Rick Perry said. “To-day, Texans and Americans have lost a leader whose leadership, service and patriotism were unparal-leled.”

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veterans upset after endur-ing fear and uncertainty over their health.

“I was scared to death,” Williams said.

One afternoon this winter, Williams received a letter warning that he could have been infected during tooth extraction and other proce-dures in the dental clinic at the Dayton VA Medical Cen-ter. A VA investigation found that a dentist who practiced there for decades repeatedly violated safety measures such as failing to sterilize equipment or change soiled latex gloves, potentially ex-posing patients to HIV, hep-atitis, or other blood-borne diseases.

For two anxious weeks, the 60-year-old Spring-fi eld, Ohio, man wondered and worried about himself and his family’s health.

“HIV ... that’s something to be afraid of. AIDS is no joke. If you’re positive, then your wife, everybody around you, needs to be tested.

“I didn’t know what was going to happen.”

As with the vast major-ity of veterans tested, Wil-liams’ results were negative.

So far, VA offi cials say, tests on nearly 12,000 pa-tients have found eight HIV-positive results and 61 confi rmed cases of hepati-tis B or C, including three hepatitis cases at Dayton.

It’s not known how many of the positives resulted from treatment at VA hospitals or from unrelated causes — offi cials say testing may not be able to determine the origin of the infections.

Infections related to med-ical treatment are a problem at public and private hospi-tals nationwide. The VA, as a government entity, must report infections publicly but most public and private hospitals do not.

The Veterans Affairs sys-tem that serves about 6 mil-lion vets a year in more than 1,000 medical facilities has

been praised by medical au-thorities for its successful efforts to reduce antibiotic-resistant staph infections from treatment, a common problem in U.S. hospitals. A study published last month in The New England Jour-nal of Medicine reported VA hospitals reduced such infections by 60 percent in intensive care units around the country after three years of emphasizing hygiene ed-ucation and sanitizer avail-ability in its facilities.

Diane Pinakiewicz, presi-dent of the advocacy group National Patient Safety

Foundation, agreed that VA health care has done excep-tionally well on the problem of health care-associated infections, which the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates affl ict 1.7 million patients nationally, killing 99,000 people and costing up to $34 billion a year. Many hospitals have balked at pushes for greater transpar-ency about infections, citing issues ranging from incon-sistent reporting standards to patient privacy.

“It’s not a small prob-lem,” she said. “It’s some-

thing patients should be aware of and very con-cerned about.”

VA offi cials say their overall record of providing care for veterans is strong, and that critics shouldn’t generalize about VA care from the series of hospital infection cases in the last two years. The Disabled American Veterans, which represents some 1.2 million veterans, rallied to the VA’s defense as criticism grew.

“VA health care is clearly the best anywhere and has been so deemed by numer-ous private entities,” Wal-lace Tyson, the group’s na-tional commander, said in a statement late last year.

But subjecting those who had put their lives on the line for their country years ago to such alarming potential harm infuriates VA critics.

There are stories like those of Tom Sharp, 63, a Vietnam veteran from Springfi eld.

He wasn’t notifi ed for testing — the Dayton VA has contacted only the 535

patients who received in-vasive procedures such as extractions and root canals from the dentist from 1992 through last July 28. But Sharp has gotten his health and dental treatment at the center for nearly four de-cades, so he was worried after seeing TV reports of the dental clinic problems.

“I insisted,” he said. He came to the hospital and gave fi ve vials of blood for testing. Lab analysis found no infections.

“It tore me up. I was re-ally nervous,” Sharp said. “I go all my life, and then this.”

“This is abhorrent, that any patient who entered a VA hospital would be placed at such risk,” said Rep. Mike Turner, R-Dayton. “Our vet-erans deserve the quality of care they were promised.”

In February, surgeries were halted temporarily at the Cochran VA Medical Center in St. Louis after potentially contaminated surgical equipment was dis-covered. Last year, improper equipment sterilization at the same center’s dental clinics caused the VA to of-fer testing to 1,800 veterans who may have been exposed to blood-borne infections.

“In my years in public service, this is one of the issues that has made me madder than anything I’ve ever seen,” Rep. Russ Car-nahan, D-Mo., said after the latest problems.

With less people out on the lakes over the weekend, boating incidents and cita-tions have been nonexis-tent, but fi sh and wildlife offi cers are still out in full force, he said.

“We’ve got pretty much every law enforcement of-fi cer out there on the water, and that includes Kentucky Lake, Lake Barkley, the Ohio, Mississippi, Cum-berland and Tennessee riv-ers,” Clark said.

Marshall County Sheriff’s

deputies are also patrolling the lakes and haven’t is-sued any citations through Sunday afternoon, said Chief Deputy Sheriff David Maddox. Maddox said a boat taking on water in the rock quarry on Kentucky Lake on Sunday afternoon

was the most signifi cant incident dealt with through the fi rst two days of the holiday weekend. Depu-ties towed the boat to shore with no injuries.

Trevino said the weather will cooperate better for boaters, today, for their

Memorial Day excursions. Winds are forecast to blow a steady 10 miles per hour and gusting into the teens, throughout much of the day. Clark offered words of advice for boaters planning to cast off for the day:

“Wear your personal fl o-

tation device and boat op-erators should watch out for all the other lake traffi c. Stay on your best defensive guard.”

Contact Will Pinkston, a Paducah Sun staff writer, at 270-575-8676.

LAKES: Deputy said boat taking on water in rock quarry on Kentucky Lake on Sunday was worst incident during first days of weekend

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HOSPITALS: So far, tests on nearly 12,000 patients have found eight HIV-positive results and 61 confirmed cases of hepatitis B, C

CONTINUED FROM 1A A veteran reads a report on conditions at a southwest Ohio Veteran’s Administration hospi-tal during a Senate hearing on the facility, in Dayton, Ohio, on April 26. Hundreds of patients have been tested for infections following reports that a dentist for years failed to change gloves or sterilize instruments between patients at the facility.

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as an active veteran, volun-teering in his community, Mansfi eld said.

He talked about the day not being about cookouts but commemoration. After his speech, Mansfi eld com-mented on his message for

those currently in active duty.“We thank them from

the bottom of our heart,” he said. “Our mission is not done. We’re going to con-tinue to support (the sol-diers) and everything (they) do. That’s the core mission that I want to get across to them, that we’re still here,

we’re standing by for them to make sure they get the benefi ts that they need.”

Veterans from multiple American confl icts sat lis-tening to Mansfi eld’s impas-sioned speech after an earli-er performance by Christian recording artist Eric Horner. Horner, dressed simply in

black, performed just under an hour before leaving to sing another Memorial Day concert in Cadiz. Audience members wiped away tears while Horner sang patriotic melodies.

Ballard County veterans activist Sandy Hart orga-nized the tribute concert,

titled, “May we always have heroes salute.” As the audi-ence entered, each received red “Buddy Poppy” fl ower pins, a decade-old sym-bol made popular by the Veterans of Foreign Wars. Most wore red, white or blue-dominated outfi ts and some donned Dis-

abled American Veteran hats with varying pins and patches.

All funds donated Sun-day go to the Kentucky Vet-eran & Patriot Museum.

Contact Rebecca Feldhaus, a Paducah Sun staff writer, at 270-575-8651.

CONCERT: Veterans from multiple conflicts listened to Mansfield’s speech after performance from Christian recording artist Eric Horner

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