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Upfront Littleton pleads guilty to 3 murders, gets life

Locals to be
honored at LMH
Volunteer Banquet
Delphos residents will be
honored at the annual Lima
Memorial Hospital Volunteer
Banquet on Thursday at the
University of Northwestern
Ohio Event Center in Lima.
Honored for hours of
service in 2010 will be:
— Merlene Metzger
– 2,000 hours
— Sally Kiggins
– 750 hours
— Keith Kiggins
– 750 hours
Overall, more than 150
awards will be presented,
with special awards given
to the Rookie of the Year,
those who volunteered 1,000
hours or more last year, as
BELLEFONTAINE (AP)
— An Ohio man pleaded
guilty Thursday and was
sentenced to life in prison
without parole in the slay-
ings of his girlfriend’s adult
daughter and an elderly
couple, whose bodies were
found in three states.
Samuel K. Littleton II
pleaded guilty in western
Ohio’s Logan County to
three counts of aggravated
murder and three counts of
gross abuse of a corpse in
the February slayings of
Tiffany Brown and Richard
and Gladis Russell.
Littleton, 37, pleaded
guilty in a deal with pros-
ecutors to avoid the death
penalty.
Prosecutors have said
relatives of the victims
agreed to the deal to get
“closure” and healing and to in court to the victims’ fam- Richard Russell’s neph- injury, authorities said.
avoid the lengthy court pro- ilies, many of whom wept ew, Jim Hall, told Littleton Stewart said that Littleton
ceedings associ- throughout most that he hopes “every time told authorities that he
ated with death of the hearing. the door slams behind you strangled the Russells and
penalty cases. Shouts of “cow- in that prison, you are stabbed Richard Russell.
Chief Assistant ard!” came from reminded of the three lives Authorities said Littleton
Prosecutor the crowd as he you took.” stowed the bodies in the
Eric Stewart was led away. Littleton was convicted trunk of the Russells’ car
said Littleton Some of in the Feb. 11 stabbing death and drove south, dumping
told detectives the victims’ of Brown, 26. Her body Richard Russell’s body in
repeatedly that family mem- was found in the basement Tennessee. The body of
he didn’t know bers addressed of the Bellefontaine home Russell’s 85-year-old wife
why he killed Littleton in that Littleton bought from was found in Georgia. Their
Brown and the court, talking Richard and Gladis Russell car was found in Princeton,
Russells. of the pain and in western Ohio. She had W.Va., where Littleton has
Littleton kept grief Littleton been stabbed several times, relatives.
Littleton
his head down caused. authorities said. Littleton was arrested
much of the time, respond- “Our lives have been Littleton also was con- after authorities found him
ing in a soft, clear voice forever changed by Sam victed in the deaths of hiding in the woods behind
to a series of yes or no Littleton’s senseless act of the Russells on Feb. 16 at a discount store with the
questions from the judge. violence,” said Brown’s their rural Lewiston home. key to the Russells’ car in
His hands were shaking at father, Larry Brown. “We Richard Russell, 84, had his pocket. He was returned
times. He declined to make ask ourselves every day been beaten in the head and to Ohio from West Virginia
any statement, although one why, but we will never have stabbed once in the chest, on Wednesday after waiv-
of his attorneys apologized an answer.” and his wife died of a head ing extradition.

Japan orders
well as those who reached
10,000 lifetime service hours.
In 2010, 340 active
compensation
adult volunteers contrib-
uted 93,000 hours to Lima
for nuke plant
Memorial Health System.

Thrift Shop sets

holiday hours
evacuees
The Delphos Interfaith
Thrift Shop will be closed on
Thursday and April 22 for
Holy Week observances.
The shop will reopen for
regular hours on April 23.
TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s
government ordered the oper-
ator of a tsunami-damaged
nuclear plant today to pay
$12,000 to each household
forced to evacuate because of
leaking radiation, but some
of the displaced slammed the

Sports handout as too little.

Tens of thousands of resi-
dents unable to return to their
P C Express Track Club homes near the nuclear plant
The P C Express Track are bereft of their livelihoods
Club, open to area athletes and possessions, unsure of
ages 6-18, will have a Parent/ when, if ever, they will be able
Athlete meeting 6 p.m. May to return home. Some have
2 at the O-G stadium. A traveled hundreds of kilome-
short practice will follow. ters (miles) to Tokyo Electric
For more information, call Power Co.’s headquarters in
Mike Maag at 419-296-9931. Tokyo to press their demands
for compensation. Stacy Taff photo
TODAY TEPCO will start paying
Baseball (5 p.m.):
Antwerp at Lincolnview;
compensation April 28, with
families forced to evacuate
Ottoville to present ‘Mirror Image’ this weekend
Botkins at Spencerville; getting 1 million yen (about Ottoville High School will present the musical comedy “Mirror Image” in the auditeria at 8 p.m. today and Saturday.
Elida at Van Wert (WBL). $12,000) and individuals getting A dress rehearsal was held for the musical Thursday night. Above: “The Woodsman,” left, played by Sam Beining,
Softball (5 p.m.): 750,000 yen (about $9,000), complains about his lack of a real name while “Rosamond” or “Sleeping Beauty” played by Marissa Nienberg sleeps on
Antwerp at Lincolnview; Trade Ministry spokesman the floor. “Mirror Image” explores the fine line between reality and fantasy as the wicked stepsisters from Cinderella,
Van Wert at Elida (WBL). Hiroaki Wada said. tired of being despised, discover a way to reality through the Magic Mirror. The sisters’ meanness serves them well in
Track and Field (4:30 “There are around 150 reality but creates major problems back in the fairy tale world. The missing wicked stepsisters mean Cinderella won’t
p.m.): Jefferson, Fort evacuation centers alone. It will have a fairy godmother and the prince is less than impressed with her. The woodsman from Little Red Riding Hood and
Jennings and Ottoville at take some time until everyone several other stories wants to be a hero rather than an “incidental character,” so he sets out to make a name for himself
Columbus Grove Invitational; gets money. But we want the by bringing the stepsisters back. With no woodsman to save her, Little Red gets mauled by the wolf and Sleeping Beauty
Lincolnview at Wayne company to quickly do this to has to chop her own wood with disastrous results. Meanwhile in reality, the stepsisters are wreaking havoc and the
Trace Invitational; Elida at support people’s lives,” Trade woodsman finds out that being a hero is a lot harder than he imagined. “Mirror Image” features a cast of 38 students
Gold Medal (OG) Meet. Minister Banri Kaieda said at a offering a fun show the whole family can enjoy. Admission is $5 per person.
Tennis: Van Wert at news conference.

World’s oldest man dies in Montana at 114

Elida (WBL), 4:30 p.m. The arrangement is a pro-
SATURDAY visional one, with more com-
Baseball: Columbus Grove pensation expected, Wada
at Cory-Rawson (DH), 10 said. Roughly 48,000 house-
a.m.; Jefferson at Leipsic holds living within about 19
(DH), 11 a.m.; Lincolnview miles (30 kilometers) of the
at Waynesfield-Goshen crippled Fukushima Dai-ichi
(DH), 11 a.m.; Crestview nuclear plant would be eli-
at Ottoville, noon; Kalida gible for the payments.
at McComb (DH), noon. “I’m not satisfied,” said
Kazuko Suzuki, a 49-year-old
Softball (noon): Ottoville
at Perry (DH); Crestview/ single mother of two teenag-
Celina/Fort Recovery at ers from the town of Futuba,
Lincolnview; Continental adjacent to the plant. She has
at Spencerville (DH). lived at a shelter at a high
Track and Field: St. school north of Tokyo for the
John’s and Spencerville at last month.
Minster Invitational, 9 a.m. Her family has had to buy
Tennis: Elida at Napoleon clothes, food, shampoo and
Invitational, 9 a.m. other basics because they fled
the area on government orders
Forecast without taking time to pack.
Eighty per- She has lost her job as a wel-
fare worker, and a job pros-
cent chance
of showers pect for her 18-year-old fell
through because of the effects
Saturday;
windy with of the disaster.
“We’ve had to spend money
high in mid
50s. See on so many extra things and
we don’t know how long this
page 2.
could go on,” she said.
Index Akemi Osumi, a 48-year-
old mother of three also from
Obituaries 2 Futuba, said the money was a
State/Local 3 “small step” but that it didn’t
Politics 4 fairly compensate larger fami-
Community 5 lies. Her family is living at the
Sports 6-7 same shelter but also must rent
Church 8 an apartment for her eldest son
Classifieds 10 to go to a vocational school.
Television 11 “One million yen doesn’t
World briefs 12 go very far,” she said. “I’m not
convinced at just 1 million yen
per family. If it was dependent
on the size of the family I’d
understand, but it’s not.”
By MATT VOLZ
The Associated Press
GREAT FALLS, Mont. —
Walter Breuning’s earliest mem-
ories stretched back 111 years,
before home entertainment came
with a twist of the radio dial. They
were of his grandfather’s tales of
killing Southerners in the Civil
War.
Breuning was 3 and horrified:
“I thought that was a hell of a
thing to say.”
But the stories stuck, becoming
the first building blocks into what
would develop into a deceptively
simple philosophy that Breuning,
the world’s oldest man at 114
before he died Thursday, credited
to his longevity.
Here’s the world’s oldest
man’s secret to a long life:
— Embrace change, even
when the change slaps you in the
face. (“Every change is good.”)
— Eat two meals a day (“That’s
all you need.”)
— Work as long as you can
(“That money’s going to come in
handy.”)
— Help others (“The more
you do for others, the better shape
you’re in.”)
Then there’s the hardest part.
It’s a lesson Breuning said he
learned from his grandfather:
Accept death.
“We’re going to die. Some
people are scared of dying. Never
be afraid to die. Because you’re
born to die,” he said.
Breuning died of natural causes
in a Great Falls hospital where he
had been a patient for much of
April with an undisclosed illness,
said Stacia Kirby, spokeswoman
for the Rainbow Senior Living
retirement home where Breuning
lived.
He was the oldest man in the
world and the second-oldest per-
son, according to the Los Angeles-
based Gerontology Research
Group. Besse Cooper of Monroe,
Ga. — born 26 days earlier — is
the world’s oldest person.
In an interview with The
Associated Press at his home
in the Rainbow Retirement
Community in Great Falls last
October, Breuning recounted the
past century — and what its rev-
elations and advances meant to
him — with the wit and plain-
spokenness that defined him. His
life story is, in a way, a slice of
the story of the country itself over
more than a century.
———
At the beginning of the new
century — that’s the 20th century
— Breuning moved with his fam-
ily from Melrose, Minn., to De
Smet, S.D., where his father had
taken a job as an engineer.
That first decade of the 1900s
was literally a dark age for his
family. They had no electricity or
running water. A bath for young
Walter would require his mother
to fetch water from the well out-
side and heat it on the coal-burn-
ing stove. When they wanted to
get around, they had three options:
train, horse and foot.
His parents split up and
Breuning moved back to
Minnesota in 1912. The following
year, as Henry Ford was creat-
ing his first assembly line, the
teenager got a low-level job with
the Great Northern Railway in
Melrose.
“I’m 16 years old, had to go to
work on account of breakup of the
family,” he said.
That was the beginning of a
50-year career on the railroad. He
was a clerk for most of that time,
working seven days a week.
In 1918, his boss was pro-
moted to a position in Great Falls
and he asked Breuning to come
along.
There wasn’t a lot keeping
Breuning in Minnesota. His moth-
er had died the year before at age
46 and his father died in 1915 at
age 50. The Montana job came
with a nice raise — $90 a month
for working seven days a week,
“a lot of money at that time,” he
said.
Breuning, young and alone,
was overwhelmed at first. Great
Falls was a bustling town of
25,000 with hundreds of people
coming and going every day on
trains that arrived at all hours.
“You go down to the depot and
there’d be 500 people out there all
climbing into four trains going in
four directions,” he said.
World War I was still raging
in Europe, and Breuning, who had
just turned 20, signed up for mili-
tary service but wasn’t called up.
He wanted to join an Army unit
formed by Ralph Budd, who was
the railroad’s vice president at the
time and who later would become
its president.
He sent Budd an application,
and the reply was disappointing.
Budd said Breuning couldn’t join
the unit because he wanted the
young man to get a college edu-
cation. The war ended later that
year.
“So I never got into the war.
The war ended too quick for me,”
Breuning said.
———
The 19th Amendment gave
women the right to vote in 1919
and the nation was riding a post-
war wave into the Roaring ‘20s.
Walter Breuning bought his
first car that year.
It was a secondhand Ford and
cost just $150. Breuning remem-
bered driving around town and
spooking the horses that still
crowded the dirt streets.
“We had more damn runaways
back in those days,” Breuning said.
“Horses are just scared of cars.”
The year may have started
well, but it went downhill fast.
Drought struck. The price of hay
skyrocketed and farmers had to
sell their cattle. It was the first
wave of agricultural depressions
that would hit Montana over the
next two decades.
The railroad started laying
off people. Breuning had some
seniority, so rather than losing his
job, he was transferred to Butte. It
was there he met his future wife,
Agnes.
Agnes Twokey worked for the
railroad as a telegrapher. She and
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Census: Hispanics surpass
blacks in most US metros
By HOPE YEN
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — 159 metro areas when the
Hispanics now outnumber
African-Americans for the
first time in most U.S. met-
ropolitan areas, shifting the
political and racial dynamics
in cities once dominated by
whites and blacks.
Census figures released
Thursday highlight the grow-
ing diversity of the nation’s
366 metro areas, which were
home to a record 83.7 percent
share of the U.S. population.
The numbers from the 2010
count are already having a
big effect on redistricting in
many states, where district
boundary lines are being
redrawn based on population
size and racial makeup.
Hispanics became the
largest minority group in
191 metropolitan areas last
year, their population lifted
higher as blacks left many
economically hard-hit cities
in the North for the South
POLICE
REPORT
Teen strikes
vehicle with
bicycle
At 3:08 p.m. on Tuesday, a
collision occurred when a teen
riding a bicycle failed to yield
the right of way to oncoming
traffic and struck a vehicle.
Andrew Keeling, 14, of
Delphos, was riding his bicy-
cle eastbound on West Fourth
Street and failed to stop at the
posted stop sign at the inter-
section of North Clay Street.
Keeling struck the vehicle
of Douglas Sanders, 46, of
Delphos, who was traveling
northbound on North Clay
through the intersection.
Keeling was ejected from
his bicycle and landed on the
windshield of Sanders’ car.
Keeling got up and walked
approximately 20 feet before
laying down on the roadway.
Sanders also moved his car
from the area of impact.
Keeling sustained non-
incapacitating injury and was
taken to St. Rita’s by Delphos
EMS. There was moderate
damage to both Keeling’s
bicycle and Sanders’ vehicle.
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and new Latino immigrants
spread to different parts of
the country. That’s up from
previous Census was taken in
2000, when Hispanics were
most commonly found in
Southwest border states.
The new metro areas
include Chicago; Grand
Rapids, Mich. and Atlantic
City, N.J., whose states will
lose U.S. House seats in the
2012 elections. Other places
seeing rapid Hispanic gains
compared to blacks were
Lakeland, Fla.; Madison,
Wis.; Oklahoma City and
Omaha, Neb., due to the mid-
decade housing boom that
attracted many new immi-
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construction and service
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The Census Bureau report-
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railroad as a telegrapher. She
and Breuning worked the
same shift in the office, and
they got along well. Their
friendship turned into a two-
year courtship, and then they
got married and returned to
Great Falls.
Despite the hard times
of the decade, he said what
he considered the nation’s
greatest achievement came
in 1935, when President
Franklin Roosevelt signed
Social Security into law as
part of his New Deal.
“I think when Roosevelt
created Social Security, he
probably did the best thing for
people,” Breuning said. “You
hear so much about throw-
ing Social Security out. Don’t
look for it. Hang on to your
hat. It’ll never go away.”
———
The 1950s brought rock-
and-roll, put the U.S. in the
middle of the Korean War and
kicked off the space race with
the USSR’s launch of Sputnik.
The world was introduced to
Elvis Presley, Fidel Castro
and Sen. Joseph McCarthy.
For Walter Breuning, the
1950s was marked by the
death of his wife. Agnes died
in 1957 after 35 years of mar-
riage. The couple didn’t have
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million, with declines par-
ticularly evident in big cities
such as New York, Detroit,
Cleveland, and St. Louis,
Mo.
The political effects have
been immediate. Analysts
and black groups — includ-
ing some members of the
Congressional Black Caucus
themselves — are acknowl-
edging the possibility of
fewer black-majority House
districts, even as they fight
to preserve, if not expand,
their gains. That’s because
of slowing African-American
growth in big cities and
broader black movement over
the last decade into once pre-
dominantly white suburbs.
Currently there are 43
members in the Congressional
Black Caucus, which is most-
ly Democrat. Last November,
blacks had a net gain of two
seats in the House, includ-
ing Republicans Allen West
of Florida, who is a caucus
member, and Tim Scott of
South Carolina, who is not.
any children.
More than 50 years later,
Breuning kept his feelings on
his marriage and Agnes’ death
guarded.
“We got along very good,”
was about all he’d say. “She
wouldn’t like to spend money,
I’ll tell you that.”
Breuning never remarried.
“Thought about it. That’s
about it.”
He did what he always did.
He kept working.
Work was a constant in
Breuning’s life, what he did
to get through the hard times
and what he used to keep his
mind active. One of the worst
things a person can do is retire
young, Breuning said.
“Don’t retire until you’re
darn sure that you can’t work
anymore. Keep on working
as long as you can work and
you’ll find that it’s good for
you,” he added.
The same year the Beatles
released their first album,
Breuning decided it was time
for him to retire from the rail-
road at age 67. It was 1963
and he had put in 50 years as
a railroad worker.
But he stuck by his phi-
losophy and kept working.
He became the manager and
secretary for the local chapter
of the Shriners, a position he
held until he was 99.
But he remained a fiercely
loyal railroad man, so loyal
that he only took an airplane
once in his life, and that was
to attend the funeral of a rela-
tive in Minneapolis.
His fellow clerks began to
feel the effects of technology.
In the 1970s, computers start-
ed changing industries and the
need for manpower. At the
railroad, men and women were
laid off at depots and freight
offices. Superintendents and
clerks like Breuning were
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Delphos weather
High temperature Thursday
in Delphos was 66 degrees,
low was 34. High a year ago
today was 82, low was 52.
Record high for today is 89,
set in 2003. Record low is 22,
set in 1935.
WEATHER FORECAST
Tri-county
Associated Press
FRIDAY NIGHT:
Showers and chance of thun-
derstorms in the evening.
Then showers after midnight.
Windy. Not as cool. Lows
in the upper 40s. Southeast
winds 20 to 30 mph.
SATURDAY: Occasional
showers. Windy. Highs in the
mid 50s. South winds 15 to 25
mph shifting to the southwest
20 to 30 mph in the afternoon.
Chance of precipitation 80
percent.
SATURDAY NIGHT:
Cloudy with a 30 percent
chance of rain showers in the
evening. Then mostly cloudy
after midnight. Breezy. Colder. Corn:
Lows in the upper 30s. West Wheat:
winds 10 to 15 mph. Beans:
given their walking papers.
But even with so many of
his former co-workers out of
jobs, Breuning was adamant
that the rise of the comput-
er was good for the railroad
industry and the world.
“I think every change that
we’ve ever made, ever since
I was a child — 100 years —
every change has been good
for the people,” Breuning said.
“My God, we used to have to
write with pen and ink, you
know, (for) everything. When
the machines came, it just
made life so much easier.”
———
Breuning had lived in a
sparse studio apartment in the
Rainbow Senior Living retire-
ment center since 1980.
When he was recognized
as the world’s oldest man and
brought the retirement home
some notoriety, he was offered
a larger room. Breuning said
no, Rainbow executive direc-
tor Tina Bundtrock said in
October.
Breuning would spent his
days in an armchair outside
the Bundtrock’s office in a
dark suit and tie, sitting near
a framed Guinness certificate
proclaiming him the world’s
oldest man.
He would eat breakfast and
lunch and then retire to his
room in the early afternoon.
He’d visit the doctor just
twice a year for checkups and
the only medication he would
take was aspirin, Bundtrock
said.
He had no family left but
a niece and a nephew. They
visited a couple of times at
the retirement home, but they
were strangers to him, he
said.
Breuning’s real family, his
support group, was there in
the Rainbow.
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family, I tell you that. We all
talk to each other all the time. Scholars of the Day
That’s what keeps life going.
You talk,” he said.
Breuning talked current
affairs with the other resi-
dents. One of his main causes
was to end the wars in Iraq
and Afghanistan.
“War never cured any-
thing. Look at the North and
South right today. They’re
still fighting over the damn
war. They’ll never get over St. John’s Scholar of the
that,” he said. Day is Alan
Along with debating others
Klausing.
about the fate of the nation, Congratulations
Breuning also spent time a
lot of time reflecting. Sitting Alan!
in his armchair, he would
Jefferson’s Scholar of the
reach back across the century
and lose himself in a flood Day is Isaac
of memories that began with Schuck.
his grandfather’s Civil War Congratulations
stories. Isaac!
He also thought about what
might have been. After 97 Students can pick up their
awards in their school offices.
years in Montana, Breuning
said he thought back to his
transfer to Great Falls back
in 1913.
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would have happened had I not
moved to Great Falls. I think
about that once in a while.
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Source of Ohio
scare thought to
be kid’s project
SANDUSKY (AP) —
Authorities believe a suspi-
cious item that caused a bomb
scare at Ohio’s largest indoor
water park was a child’s aban-
doned science project.
A bomb squad was called
Thursday afternoon to the
parking lot at Kalahari Resort,
midway between Cleveland
and Toledo. Squad members
used a robot resembling the
animated movie character
“WALL-E” to carry the object
away from parked cars and
open it up.
Sgt. Randal Koubeck with
the Lorain County Bomb Squad
tells the Sandusky Register it
was 2-liter soft drink bottle
that had been cut in half and
was then sealed up with black
tape with an egg inside. Foam
surrounded the egg, apparently
to keep it from breaking if the
bottle was dropped.
School bus runs
into building,
kids not injured
ENGLEWOOD (AP) —
Police in Ohio say the pre-
schoolers on board were not
hurt when a parked school bus
started moving and hit a fire
hydrant, then crashed into an
apartment.
Police in the Dayton suburb
of Englewood say the acci-
dent occurred around noon on
Thursday as the driver was
finishing fastening seat belts
on the 10 children on the bus.
The Dayton Daily News
reports the driver said a
mechanical problem caused
the bus to slip out of park.
Police are investigating.
The bus crashed into the
first-floor apartment bedroom
of a 17-year-old boy who died
in a car crash last June. His
5-year-old brother had just
boarded the bus and the par-
ents were waving good-bye
when the bus started moving.
OSU lets student
faith groups be
picky in leaders
COLUMBUS (AP) —
Student government officials
are opposing an Ohio State
University decision that lets
student religious groups pick
leaders based on what are
described as their “sincerely
held religious beliefs.”
Undergraduate Student
Government President Micah
Kamrass complains it permits
discrimination by groups that
receive money from student
activity fees.
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POLITICS “We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are
— that is the fact.”
Obama restarts
IT WAS NEWS THEN
money chase
One Year Ago CHICAGO (AP) — But while leaving Social
• Two Delphos girls will be among the 900 participating President Barack Obama
in the 64th annual session of Buckeye Girls State at Ashland restarted his formidable fund-
University. Local delegates sponsored by Delphos American raising operation Thursday
Legion Commemorative Unit 268 Auxiliary are Taylor Van with a challenge to support-
Grootheest of Jefferson High School and Alicia Ankerman ers that the 2012 presidential
from St. John’s High School. campaign will be about how
to fix the country’s money
25 Years Ago — 1986 problems without doing harm
• A new agribusiness, SRM Seeds, Inc. opened in Columbus to “the America we believe
Grove. Attending the ceremony were Ohio Director of in.”
Agriculture Steven D. Maurer, owners Tim Merschman, John “We are going to be able
Schroeder and Don Reed; Chris Burnham, executive direc- to present a very clear option
tor of the Midwestern Ohio Joint Planning Council; owner to the American people,” the
A. J. Schroeder and Ohio Development Director Clarence D. president told Chicago home-
Pawlicki. town supporters in his first
• Andi Baker, daughter of Don and Bev Baker, was the state fundraisers since formally
optional uneven bars champion in the Class III state meet. She announcing his re-election
also placed second in the floor exercises, fourth in the vault last week. “We can get our
and received a silver medal in the all-around with a score of fiscal house in order, but we
29.15. Andi attends the Delphos Gymnastics Academy.
• “First Aid for Little People” was presented as a new pro-
gram at Franklin Elementary School by first aid instructor of
can do it in a way that is con-
sistent with our values and
who we are as a people. Or
Allen County Chapter, American Red Cross, Jerry Kemper,
we can decide to shrink our
Delphos patrolman. Kemper presented the two-hour session to
the third grade class of Patricia Weger. vision of what America is.
And I don’t believe in shrink-
ing America.”
50 Years Ago — 1961
• The annual Teacher Appreciation Dinner of the Delphos Bracing for a fight against
re-energized Republicans
Parent-Teachers Association was held last night in the cafeteria
of the new Franklin School. Mrs. Rollin Weaver, president of determined to deny him a sec-
ond term, the president sought
the organization, gave the welcome. Weaver introduced David
Zoll, instrumental music teacher in Delphos City Schools, who Thursday to reanimate sup-
introduced the musical portion of the program. Mrs. Walter porters who swept him into
Wolery, program chairman this year, then introduced the prin- the White House in 2008 on
cipal speaker of the evening, Ruth Buchholtz of Delphos, who promises of change — includ-
is public relations representative for National Farmers Equity. ing liberals disappointed at his
• A rural Delphos man has received a photograph of compromises with the GOP.
President John F. Kennedy in appreciation of his efforts on He did so by offering a
the president’s behalf prior to the election last fall. Urban C. stinging critique of GOP bud-
Fuerst received the photograph because of a sign he erected to get proposals that would cut
promote the president’s campaign. deeply into social programs,
• The 1961 annual banquet and meeting of the Putnam education and elsewhere,
County Association of Township Trustees and Clerks was accusing Republicans of a
held recently in the school building in Miller City. Attending slash-and-burn approach that
from Ottoville were Mr. and Mrs. Norbert Heitmeyer, Mr. and says “we can’t afford to be
Mrs. Laurence Eickholt, Mr. and Mrs. Leo Heitmeyer, Mr. compassionate.”
and Mrs. Al Plescher, Mr. and Mrs. John C. Eickholt, Mrs. “Under their vision we can’t
Leo Deitering, Leo Kortokrax, Richard Kortokrax and William invest in roads and bridges
Turnwald. ... we would be a nation of
potholes,” the president told
75 Years Ago — 1936 a high-dollar group at MK
• Excellent music entertainment was afforded at a weekly restaurant, the second of three
meeting of the Delphos Kiwanis Club, held Tuesday night at fundraisers he held Thursday
the Beckman Hotel. The entertainer on this occasion was Dick night in the city that launched
Hanley, local Kiwanis Amateur Night prize winner. He played his political career and where
a number of selections on his piano accordion and these were he’s headquartering his re-
greatly enjoyed. election.
• A meeting of the committee in charge of arrangements The president made his
for the May Festival will be held this evening at the Walter remarks a day after deliv-
Rosselit Drug Store. The plans for the festival will be outlined ering a speech on defi-
at this time. The committee consists of Harold Fosnaught, cit reduction in Washington
Jos. Odenweller, A. C. Weger, Merlin Zuber, Paul Staup, and in which he made similar
Walter Rosselit. charges about Republicans as
• Kittenball is to be a favorite sport in Delphos during the author of the GOP bud-
the coming season. Fifteen teams have been promised by
these business sponsors: Palace Sweet Shop, Loetz Brothers,
get plan, Rep. Paul Ryan of
Wisconsin, watched from the
Coombs Shoe Store, Pitsenbarger and Zuber, Bob McDonald front row.
Restaurant, Equity Store, Dr. G. K. Miller, Grant’s Store, Ryan and other Republicans
Star Café, Wm. Gladen Coal Company, Hotz and Hotz later accused Obama of lob-
Restaurant, Wright’s Market, Morris Supply Service, Henry bing overly partisan political
Panger Restaurant and King and Stallkamp Drug Store. broadsides without delivering
many specifics about his own
Moderately confused plans. The president’s attacks
marked a change in tone from
the more subdued approach
he’d taken since Democrats
were routed in the November
midterm elections.
Obama defended himself
Thursday.
“The speech I gave yester-
day was not a partisan shot
at the other side. It was an
attempt to clarify the choice
that we have as a country right
now,” he told donors at Nine
restaurant.
Obama said he agreed with
the need to rein in spend-
ing and trim crushing deficits,
but argued that Republicans
would do so while slashing
areas like education, energy
and transportation that he
said must be preserved to
ensure American competitive-
ness.
Republicans pounced on
Obama for pivoting from defi-
cit reduction to raising money
even as a critical spending
debates loom. “Campaigner-
in-chief kicks of fundrais-
ing circuit,” read a release
from the Republican National
Committee.
— Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980)
House preps to vote on
$6B spending cut plan
By ANDREW TAYLOR
Associated Press
WASHINGTON — A
bold but politically risky plan
to cut billions of dollars from
the federal budget is coming
to a House vote, with insur-
gent Republicans rallying
behind the idea of fundamen-
tally reshaping the govern-
ment’s role in health care for
the elderly and the poor.
The GOP plan, expected
to be voted today, promises
more than $6 billion in spend-
ing cuts from the budget that
President Barack Obama
offered in February, rely-
ing on stiff cuts to domestic
agency accounts, food stamps
and the Medicaid health care
program for the poor and dis-
abled.
Security alone, the mea-
sure calls for transforming
Medicare from a program in
which the government direct-
ly pays medical bills into a
voucher-like system that sub-
sidizes purchases of private
insurance plans. People 55
and over would remain in the
current system, but younger
workers would receive subsi-
dies that would steadily lose
value over time.
Virtually every budget
expert in Washington agrees
that projected Medicare cost
increases are unsustainable,
but the GOP initiative —
attacked by Democrats as
Likely GOP contenders plot their tea party strategies
By PHILIP ELLIOTT
Associated Press
BOSTON — It’s a tricky
time of courtship.
As the tea party turns
2, the still-gelling field of
Republican presidential con-
tenders is the first class of
White House hopefuls to try
to figure out how to tap the
movement’s energy without
alienating voters elsewhere
on the political spectrum.
Look no further than this
weekend’s events marking the
tea party’s second anniversary
to see how the candidates are
employing different strate-
gies. Some will be out front
as the tea party stages tax
day rallies across the country.
Others, not so much.
Former Minnesota Gov.
Tim Pawlenty, an establish-
ment Republican making a
play for tea party support
and clamoring to be heard
over bigger names, is among
those jumping in with both
feet. Mississippi Gov. Haley
Barbour is being more coy.
Pawlenty, for his part,
planned to hold court at a
gathering on Boston Common
— in the city where colonists
staged the 1773 Tea Party
revolt against the British gov-
ernment — and in neighbor-
ing New Hampshire. And he’s
headed for Iowa a day later
Scientists say controllers need naps on the job
By JOAN LOWY
Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The
best solution to the problem
of sleepy air traffic controllers
is more sleeping on the job,
scientists say.
But that would be a radi-
cal change for the Federal
Aviation Administration.
Current regulations forbid
sleeping at work, even dur-
ing breaks. Controllers who
are caught can be suspended
or fired.
Experts say that kind of
thinking is outdated.
“There should be sanc-
tioned on-shift napping.
That’s the way to handle night
shift work,” said Gregory
Belenky, a sleep expert at
Washington State University
in Spokane. There are plenty
of other scientists in the U.S.
and around the world who
agree with him. Sleep studies
show that nighttime workers
who are allowed “recuperative
breaks” are more alert when
they return to their tasks.
A working group on con-
troller fatigue made up of
officials from the FAA and
the union that represents air
traffic controllers recently
embraced that position as
well.
The issue has taken on a
new urgency in the wake of
ending Medicare’s guarantee
as we know it — has launched
a major-league Washington
imbroglio.
The primary author of the
GOP plan is unfazed by the
Democratic attacks.
“The biggest threat to
Medicare is the status quo
and the people defending it,”
House Budget Committee
Chairman Paul Ryan, R-Wis.,
told The Associated Press on
Thursday.
Democrats countered with
official estimates showing
the GOP plan would provide
vouchers whose value would
steadily erode.
“They end the Medicare
guarantee,” said top Budget
Committee Democrat Chris
Van Hollen of Maryland.
“They force seniors to leave
the Medicare program and
go into the private insurance
market where costs continue
to rise day in and day out.“
The House began debate
on the measure Thursday with
a vote on it and several com-
peting alternatives — most
importantly a Democratic
substitute raising taxes on
the wealthy and a plan by
GOP conservatives to cut far
more harshly — scheduled
for today.
The GOP plan isn’t actual
legislation. Instead, under the
arcane and decidedly imper-
fect congressional budget
process, the measure sketches
out a nonbinding blueprint
for similar appearances that
are likely to include “Don’t
Tread on Me” banners and
tirades against Washington
spending.
Former Alaska Gov. Sarah
Palin, perhaps the Republican
most closely identified with
the tea party, is slated to
attend a weekend tea party
rally at the Wisconsin Capitol,
the site of recent protests over
legislation that would strip
union rights for most public
workers.
Tea party darling Minnesota
Rep. Michele Bachman, all
but drafted into the race by
tea partyers, plans to share the
steps of the South Carolina
Statehouse with another of the
movement’s favorite daugh-
ters, Gov. Nikki Haley.
And little-known busi-
nessman Herman Cain, who
is hoping tea party backing
can make him more than a
longshot, plans to hit rallies
in New Hampshire, Iowa,
Michigan and Texas.
Real estate magnet Donald
Trump, who claims he’s seri-
ous about running, picked a
tea party rally in Boca Raton,
Fla., to make his stand.
Other contenders are pro-
ceeding with more caution.
Barbour plans weekend
stops at county GOP conven-
tions in Charleston, Columbia
and Lexington, S.C. But he
four recent episodes in which
the FAA says controllers fell
asleep while on duty. The
most recent case occurred
this week when the pilot of a
plane transporting a critically
ill passenger was unable to
raise the sole controller work-
ing at 2 a.m. in the tower of
the Reno-Tahoe International
Airport in Nevada.
The FAA said the control-
ler was out of communication
for 16 minutes. Controllers
at a regional radar facility in
California assisted the plane,
which landed safely.
The episodes have sent
administration officials
scrambling to assure the
public and angry members
of Congress that air travel is
indeed safe. Even President
Barack Obama weighed in,
telling ABC News in an inter-
view, “We’ve got it under
control.”
“What we also have to look
at is air traffic control sys-
tems,” Obama acknowledged.
“Do we have enough backup,
do we have enough people,
are they getting enough rest
time?”
In fact, the FAA and the
controllers union — with
assistance from NASA and
the Mitre Corp., among oth-
ers — has come up with 12
recommendations for tackling
sleep-inducing fatigue among
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each year for running the
government. The resolution
doesn’t require the presi-
dent’s signature, but it does
set the framework for chang-
es to spending or tax policy in
follow-up legislation.
The Democratic-
controlled Senate has yet to
produce its alternative plan
as the Budget Committee
chairman, Sen. Kent Conrad,
D-N.D., and other members
of Obama’s independent
fiscal commission pursue a
bipartisan “grand bargain”
blending big spending curbs
with new revenues flowing
from a simplified tax code.
The budget deficit is pro-
jected at an enormous $1.6
trillion this year, but more
ominously, current projec-
tions show an even worse
mismatch as the baby boom
generation retires and
Medicare costs consume an
ever-growing share of the
budget. But there’s a standoff
between House Republicans
and Obama over the presi-
dent’s plan to raise taxes on
upper-income people.
Today’s voting comes on
the heels of final congressio-
nal action on a long-overdue
plan to wrap up the 2011
budget year. That measure
claims $38 billion in sav-
ings but just $20 billion to
$25 billion in lower deficits
because illusory spending
cuts comprise a big portion
of the measure.
had no big tax day rallies on
his schedule in a state where
tea party activists have gained
influence. As he weighs a
presidential bid, Barbour has
been more subtle than others
in courting the movement. He
talks about issues the tea party
cares about, first and foremost
the economy.
It’s the same approach that
former Massachusetts Gov.
Mitt Romney has been taking.
He talks about lower taxes
and reduced government and
was set to appear at a cen-
tral Florida anti-tax event. He
decries the Internal Revenue
Service, a top target of tea
partyers. And in his defense
of the Massachusetts health
care overhaul that he pushed
through, he invokes the 10th
Amendment that guarantees
states’ rights.
In an opinion piece pub-
lished today in the Orlando
Sentinel, Romney praised
the tea party-style activists:
“The growth of government
is not some inexorable force.
In a democracy, we the peo-
ple decide. Thanks to the tea
party, there’s real hope that
we can rein in our profligate
federal government.”
But he spends the bulk of
the column decrying President
Barack Obama on policy,
not invoking the Founding
Fathers.
controllers. Among those
recommendations is that the
FAA change its policies to
give controllers on midnight
shifts as much as two hours
to sleep plus a half-hour to
wake up.
That would mark a pro-
found change from current
regulations that can make
sleeping controllers subject to
suspension or dismissal.
Yet, at most air traffic
facilities, it’s common for two
controllers working together
at night to engage in unsanc-
tioned sleeping swaps where-
by one controller works two
jobs while the other controller
naps and then they switch off,
present and former controllers
told The Associated Press.
The controllers requested not
to be named because they
didn’t want jeopardize their
jobs or co-workers’ jobs.
More than two decades
ago, NASA scientists con-
cluded that airline pilots were
more alert and performed
better during landings when
they were allowed to take
turns napping during the
cruise phase of flights. The
FAA chose to ignore recom-
mendations that U.S. pilots
be allowed “controlled nap-
ping.” But other countries,
using NASA’s research, have
adopted such policies for their
pilots.
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TODAY
1-4 p.m. — Interfaith Thrift
Store is open for shopping.
SATURDAY
9-11:30 a.m.— Delphos
Project Recycle at Delphos
Fuel and Wash.
9 a.m. to noon — Interfaith
Thrift Store is open for shop-
ping.
St. Vincent DePaul Society,
located at the east edge of the
St. John’s High School park-
ing lot, is open.
10 a.m to 2 p.m. — Delphos
Postal Museum is open.
12:15 p.m. — Testing of
warning sirens by Delphos
Fire and Rescue
1-3 p.m. — Delphos Canal
Commission Museum, 241 N.
Main St., is open.
7 p.m. — Bingo at St.
John’s Little Theatre.
SUNDAY
8-11:30 a.m. — Knights
of Columbus benefit for St.
John’s School at the hall,
Elida Ave.
1-3 p.m. — The Delphos
Canal Commission Museum,
241 N. Main St., is open.
MONDAY
11:30 a.m. — The Green
Thumb Garden Club will meet
at the Delphos Public Library
for luncheon and program.
Mealsite at Delphos Senior L. and Robert H. Schneider need to succeed in the fleet.
Citizen Center, 301 Suthoff
Street.
7 p.m. — Washington
Township Trustees meet at
the township house.
7:30 p.m. — Jefferson
Athletic Boosters meet at the ed a variety of training which cation of basic Navy skills
high school library.
Spencerville village council
meets at the mayor’s office.
Delphos Eagles Auxiliary
meets at the Eagles Lodge,
1600 Fifth St.
TUESDAY
11:30 a.m. — Mealsite camp is “Battle Stations”. School of Spencerville.
at Delphos Senior Citizen
Center, 301 Suthoff Street.
1-3 p.m. — Delphos Area
Visiting Nurses offer free
blood pressure checks at
Delphos Discount Drugs.
6 p.m. — Weight Watchers
meets at Trinity United
Methodist Church, 211 E.
Third St.
6:30 p.m. — Delphos
Lions Club, Eagles Lodge,
1600 E. Fifth St.
7 p.m. — Delphos Area
Art Guild (DAAG) will meet
at their new location in the
second floor gallery of the
Delphos Postal Museum of
History at 339 N. Main St.
7:30 p.m. — Elida School
Board meets at the high school Concrete leveling of floors, sidewalks, patios,
office.
Alcoholics Anonymous,
First Presbyterian Church,
310 W. Second St.
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Trailing 6-2 to Paulding with one out in the fifth,
Jefferson junior Tony George rounds third and heads for
home on a Curtis Miller 2-run hit to right field. However,
the host Wildcats fell 7-5 in NWC baseball action.
LOCAL ROUNDUP
Panthers edge Wildcats
in NWC baseball
DELPHOS — It was sunny
but very windy Thursday night
at Wildcat Field as Jefferson
entertained Paulding in
Northwest Conference base-
ball action.
The Panthers built a 6-0
lead before holding on for a
7-5 triumph.
Paulding got a run in the
top half of the first on an error
and a run-scoring hit by Mott,
scoring Pease.
Jefferson got two aboard
with two down in the home
half — Tony George and
Curtis Miller — via Panther
errors but George was cut
down at the plate trying to
score.
The visitors scored five
runs in the second on a pair of
hits, including a bases-loaded
2-run single by Pease and a
run-scoring hit by Mott, three
walks, a wild pitch and a big
error that allowed two runners
to come home, to go up 6-0.
Justin Rode got aboard on
an error with one down in
the Delphos second but was
caught stealing.
The Red and White got
two in the bottom of the third.
Jordan Vorst got aboard via
an error. Nik Moore walked.
Another error on a George
grounder scored Vorst and put
Moore at third, from where
he scored as Miller singled
him in.
Vorst got on courtesy of
a Paulding miscue with two
down in the fourth but was
left stranded.
The Panthers left the bases
loaded in the top of the fifth
and the sixth.
The hosts got within 6-5 in
the home half. Moore walked
but was eliminated by Evan
Neubert. George singled and
both runners scored as Miller
tripled to right. Kyle Anspach
walked and moved to second.
Jeff Schleeter singled to right
to score Miller and put run-
ners on the corners but they
were left there.
Nick Cook was walked to
lead off the bottom of the
sixth but was picked off base.
Neubert got on via a 2-out
single and error but was left
at second.
Paulding (3-4, 2-1 NWC)
got a huge run in the top of the
seventh courtesy of two hits.
Jefferson (3-7, 0-2 NWC)
visits Leipsic for an 11 a,m,
doubleheader Saturday.
PAULDING (7)
ab-r-h-rbi
Koenn 2b 4-1-1-0, Pease p/ss 2-2-
1-12 Gawronski 1b 4-1-0-2, Mott c 3-0-
3-2, Stoller ss/p 2-0-0-0, Manz lf 2-1-0-
0, Egler 3b 1-1-0-0, Phlipot pr 0-1-0-0,
Zeller cf 3-0-0-0, Vance ph 1-0-1-0,
Fitch rf 4-0-0-0. Totals 26-7-6-6.
JEFFERSON (5)
ab-r-h-rbi
Nik Moore ss 2-1-0-0, Mike Joseph
cf 2-0-0-0, Evan Neubert cf 2-1-1-0,
Tony George dh 4-1-1-1, Curtis Miller
1b/p 4-1-2-3, Kyle Anspach lf 2-0-0-0,
Justin Rode c 3-0-0-0, Jeff Schleeter
3b 3-0-1-1, Jordan Vorst rf 3-1-0-0,
Nick Cook 2b 2-0-0-0. Totals 27-5-5-5.
Paulding 150 000 1-767
Jefferson 002 030 0-552
E: Stoller 3, Pease, Gawronski,
Fitch, Egler, Vorst, Joseph; LOB:
Paulding 8, Jefferson 7; 2B: Mott; 3B:
Miller; SB: Pease 2, Mott; CS: Rode
(by Mott); POB: Cook (by Stoller)
IP H R ER BB SO
PAULDING
Pease (W) 6.0 5 5 3 4 3 Senior 1:52.96.
Stoller (S) 1.0 0 0 0 0 0 Boys 4x200 Meter Relay: 1.
JEFFERSON
Drew Kortokrax (L, 0-2)
3.0 3 6 2 4 5 Bertke (SM) 6:14.52.
Miller 3.0 1 0 0 6 2 Boys 1600 Meter Run: 1. Alex
Ross Thompson 1.0 2 1 1 2 1 Mielk (SM) 5:22.11.
9.00
WP: Pease, Kortokrax, Miller.
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Panthers goose-egg
Lady Wildcats
DELPHOS — Beck threw a
2-hitter at Jefferson Thursday
night to lead Paulding to a 9-0
Northwest Conference soft-
ball shutout at Lady Wildcat
Field.
The Panthers registered
eight hits against Wildcat
Friday, April 15, 2011
Tom Morris photo
sophomore Taylor Branham.
Jefferson visits Spencerville
5 p.m. Monday.
Paulding 062 001 0-980
Jefferson 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 - 0 2 2
WP: Beck; LP: Taylor Branham.
2B: M. Tease (P), M. Pracht (P).
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Knights hold off
Bearcats in baseball
CONVOY — Crestview
took a 5-1 lead in the bot-
tom of the second inning and
never relinquished the lead
in grabbing a 9-6 Northwest
Conference baseball vic-
tory Thursday at Crestview
Athletic Complex.
Both teams struggled with
fielding as the host Knights
had six errors and the Bearcats
four.
Spencerville hosts Botkins
tonight.
Spencerville 1 0 0 0 0 4 1 - 6 6 4
Crestview 052 101 x-966
WP: Joey Overmyer; LP: Matt
Youngpeter. 2B: Levi Krouskop (SV),
Brice Ringwald (SV), Joey Overmyer
(CV). HR: Matt Holden (CV).
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Knights pound out shutout
win over Lady Bearcats
CONVOY — Crestview
has built up quite a rep as
a fast-pitch softball power-
house.
Spencerville saw it up
close and personal Thursday
night at the Crestview Athletic
Complex as the Lady Knights
pounded out 14 hits en route
to a 12-0 NWC victory.
“Crestview’s bats were
working tonight. We would
have them to full counts
and then they would crush
it,” Spencerville coach Tom
Wegesin noted. “Our young
pitching core is getting better;
we just have to find a way to
pull the strings on that third-
strike pitch. We put the ball
in play tonight, just not con-
sistent enough yet. We had
bases loaded a couple of times
and just didn’t get the hit to
make things happen. We had
some huge efforts on defense,
which is very encouraging.
Alyssa Mulholland’s diving
catch at the fence in deep left
to end an inning was spec-
tacular.”
Kirstin Hicks tossed a
2-hitter at the visitors and
added a home run.
The Lady Bearcats host
Continental for a noon twin-
bill Saturday.
Spencerville 000 00- 0 2 3
Crestview 504 3 x - 12 14 0
WP: Kirstin Hicks; LP: Hanna
Keller. 2B: Diana Hicks (CV), Jessica
Burger (CV). 3B: Diana Hicks (CV).
HR: Kirstin Hicks.
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Elida vs. Lima Senior
and St. Marys tri-meet
At Elida Track Complex
Results
Girls Team Rankings: St.
Marys Memorial 97, Lima Senior
46, Elida 28.
Boys Team Rankings: St.
Marys Memorial 82, Lima Senior
58, Elida 34.
Girls 4x800 Meter Relay: 1. St.
Marys Memorial 10:48.53.
Boys 4x800 Meter Relay: 1. Elida
(Sam Kerber, Ben Kerber, Aaron
Ray, Kane Brookman) 9:23.3.
Girls 100 Meter Hurdles: 1.
Regan Aller (SM) 18.45.
Boys 110 Meter Hurdles: 1.
Devon Fitzgerald (SM) 15.17.
Girls 100 Meter Dash: 1. Jaylen
Walker (LS) 13.37.
Boys 100 Meter Dash: 1.
Anthnoy Chustz (LS) 11.01.
Girls 4x200 Meter Relay: 1. Lima
Lima Senior 1:36.97.
Girls 1600 Meter Run: 1. Marie
Girls 4x100 Meter Relay: 1. Elida
‘B’ 55.05.
Boys 4x100 Meter Relay: 1. St.
Marys Memorial 46.98.
Girls 400 Meter Dash: 1. Indiya
Benjamin (LS) 1:02.88.
Boys 400 Meter Dash: 1. Alonzo
Williams (LS) 55.44.
Girls 300 Meter Hurdles: 1.
Regan Aller (SM) 57.47.
Boys 300 Meter Hurdles: 1.
Anthony Chustz (LS) 40.98.
Girls 800 Meter Run: 1. Kristen
Dammeyer (SM) 2:43.62.
See ROUNDUP, page 7
SPORTS
Leininger no-nos Big Green, beats
Schimmoeller in pitchers’ duel
By JIM METCALFE
jmetcalfe@delpho-
sherald.com
OTTOVILLE — With a
stiff and constant wind blow-
ing in from right field, offense
was going to be at a pre-
mium when St. John’s vis-
ited Ottoville Thursday night
in non-conference baseball
action.
Senior Jordan Leininger’s
pitching debut in 2011
wasn’t always pretty but it
was affective, throwing a
no-hitter and receiving just
enough offense to outduel Big
Green sophomore lefty Derek
Schimmoeller in a 3-0 vic-
tory.
“It wasn’t going to be a
good day to get a lot of hits.
However, our bats were bet-
ter today overall,” St. John’s
coach Dan Metzger explained.
“We got runners on and then
did what we had to to move
them around and get them in.
We were much better defen-
sively, with only two errors.
That will be important for us
to field better as we move
on.”
Ottoville coach Tony
Castronova figured it was a
bit of tough luck, too.
“With the wind, you
weren’t going to get a lot of
power to right or center. We
did hit some balls hard; they
were just right at people,” he
acknowledged. “We made
just enough mistakes to cost
us but that is baseball. We put
the ball in play and they made
almost every play and that
was the difference. “
The Blue Jays (4-1) got all
the runs they inevitably need-
ed in the top of the first against
Jennings rallies for PCL baseball win over rival Kalida
By Charlie Warnimont
Delphos Herald
Correspondent
FORT JENNINGS – Fort
Jennings had been struggling
in recent games coming with
clutch hits.
In a Thursday game with
Putnam County League rival
Kalida, the Musketeers’ bats
delivered in the fourth inning
as they rallied for a 6-4 win.
Fort Jennings had
just two hits going to
the fourth inning. In this
inning, the Musketeers
banged out four hits and
took advantage of two
Kalida errors to score
five times.
The inning started as
Cody Warnecke reached on
an error on his ground ball to
shortstop. Cleanup hitter Jared
Calvelage made the Wildcats
pay with a his second home
run of the game, a shot over
the right-centerfield fence that
pulled them within 4-3.
After an out, Troy
Hellman reached second
base on a throwing error by
Kalida’s third baseman. Ryan
Schuerman reached on a slow
roller between first and sec-
ond as the Wildcat defense
had a moment of indecision
on whether to cut down the
runner going to third base or
get Schuerman at first.
A ground ball to first base
by Austin Norbeck was the
second out of the inning that
left runners at second and
third base. Brad Trentman
followed with a 2-run double
to right-center that was just
out of the reach of Logan
Recker and he scored as Kurt
Warnecke lined a single to
right. Tyler Good followed
with a single that had runners
at first and second before the
The Associated Press
NL
WASHINGTON — Back at his
best after an unusually brief outing,
Cliff Lee struck out 12 in a 3-hit
shutout Thursday night, allowing the
Philadelphia Phillies to overcome
their own problems at the plate in
a 4-0 victory over the Washington
Nationals.
Lee (2-1) walked one and faced
30 batters, three over the minimum.
Quite a turnaround from his previous
game at Atlanta last Friday, when he
allowed six runs and 10 hits in 3 1/3
innings — his shortest start since
Sept. 4, 2009.
This was the second night
in a row that Philadelphia got a
complete game: Roy Halladay did
it Wednesday in a 3-2 victory at
Nationals Park. The Phillies hadn’t
gotten consecutive complete games
since May 11-12, 1999, at St. Louis,
when Paul Byrd and Curt Schilling
did it.
Jordan Zimmermann (1-2) retired
the first 15 Phiilies he faced but the
16th, Carlos Ruiz, drove an 0-1
pitch barely over the wall in left for
Schimmoeller (7 innings, 6
hits, 3 runs, 1 earned, 3 walks
— 1 intentional — 1 strike-
out; 94 pitches, 59 for strikes).
Tanner Calvelage led off with
a single but was erased at
second
by Tyler
Bergfeld
(3 runs
scored).
He stole
second. An
out later,
he scored
via Austin
Vogt’s
Leininger
double to
the fence
in left for a 1-0 lead.
The Big Green (4-4) tried
to rally right away against
Leininger (7 IP, 4 walks, 4
Ks, 2 hit batters; 110 pitches,
58 strikes). With one down,
Schimmoeller walked but was
forced out at second by Cody
DeLong. Aaron Wehri walked.
However, Leininger got out of
that threat unscathed by fan-
ning the next batter.
The Jays wasted a lead-
off double to left by Troy
Warnecke in the second,
stranding him at third.
The Big Green had a
chance in the second frame
as Austin Markward was hit
by a pitch. However, he was
picked off base by Leininger.
Tyler Turnwald was then
also plunked. An error on
a pickoff try pushed him to
second. Craig Odenweller
walked. On a pitch in the dirt,
Turnwald tried to advance but
was gunned down by Austin
Reindel at third. Leininger
retired the next batter with a
K to end that threat.
Leininger then settled
inning ended with a ground-
out to second base.
“Hitting is contagious,”
Fort Jennings coach Jeff Swick
said. “We had been struggling
with getting those clutch hits
in recent games. We were put-
ting the ball in play but hitting
it right at someone. Tonight
we were able to come through
with those hits. Once Jared hit
that home run it gave us a lift,
got our dugout going, got us
some confidence and
the rest of the lineup
fed off that. Jared
has been swinging a
good bat but was not
getting them to drop.
His two run home run
kind of set the table
for that big inning.”
Kalida coach Jim McBride
was disappointed in his team’s
defensive play that inning as
the errors left the door open
for Ft. Jennings big inning.
“The errors hurt us,”
McBride said. “If we don’t
make an error to start the
inning, that’s a 1-run home
run instead of a 2-run home
run. We have three errors and
all three runs scored; that’s
just not winning baseball. It’s
my concern we have the one
bad inning where we play
mentally poor baseball and
you put your pitcher in a situ-
ation where he has to throw
perfect baseball.”
While Ft. Jennings was
able to come through with
key hits in that one inning,
Kalida was unable to take
advantage of early opportuni-
ties against Musketeer starter
Cody Warnecke.
Warnecke struggled in his
four innings of work but was
able to control the damage
allowing Kalida just four runs
in his four innings of work.
The Wildcats stranded six
MLB CAPSULES
a leadoff homer in the sixth. Shane
Victorino doubled later in the inning
and scored on a wild pitch.
Rockies 6, Mets 5, first game;
Rockies 9, Mets 4, second game
NEW YORK — Troy Tulowitzki
belted his major league-leading sev-
enth homer during the second game
of a doubleheader to help Colorado
wrap up a 4-game series sweep.
Tulowitzki also homered in the
opener before the Rockies’ bullpen
held on in a wild ninth inning. The
Rockies (10-2), off to the best start
in franchise history, have won five
straight and 10 of 11 overall, the lone
defeat coming against Pittsburgh in
extra innings.
The Mets (4-9) are headed the
other way, losing five straight and
eight of nine.
Greg Reynolds (1-0) won Game
1 despite a couple shaky innings
and Jorge De La Rosa (2-0) held
on long enough in the second game
for the Rockies’ offense to deliver
his win.
R.A. Dickey (1-2) and Chris
Capuano (1-1) took the losses for
the Mets.
down, retiring the next 13.
The Jays got runners at
second (Leininger, infield hit)
and first (Vogt, error) with
two down in the third but
Schimmoeller got the final
out.
The Jays stranded Ryan
Densel at second (2-out walk,
stolen base) in the fourth.
They got a 2-0 lead in the
fifth. With one out, Bergfeld
walked, had a delayed steal
of second, moved to third as
Leininger’s low infield liner
was dropped for an error (stay-
ing put as Vogt beat out an
infield hit off Schimmoeller’s
foot) and scored as Tyler Ditto
lofted a sacrifice fly to center.
The Jays got a huge insur-
ance run in the seventh. With
one gone, Bergfeld doubled
down the left-field line and
advanced on a grounder by
Leininger, who was safe on
an error. Leininger swiped
second. Vogt was intention-
ally walked. Leininger was
forced at third by Ditto but
Bergfeld scored the third run.
Pinch-runner Andrew Metzger
was forced at third by Troy
Warnecke to end the threat.
With one down in the
Green and Gold seventh,
Travis Maag got aboard on
an error and was balked to
second. Markward walked
and both advanced on a wild
pitch. However, Leininger,
clearly laboring, retired the
final two batters, including
shortstop Bergfeld making a
great play behind second to
retire Odenweller, to finish
the no-hitter.
“I thought about taking him
out and I was constantly talk-
ing to him to see if he could
keep going; he was close. Still,
runners in his four innings of
work.
“Cody was not on tonight.
I told him that happens some-
times,” Swick said. “His
pitch count was in the 90s
and you look up see he only
gave up four runs, I will take
that, especially with guys
following him up. But Nick
(Verhoff) came in and did
what we wanted him to do.
His role was set early in the
year and he has really grasped
that. He did exactly what we
wanted him to do.
The Wildcats
opened the scoring
in the first inning
as Logan Recker
singled with one
out but was forced at sec-
ond base on a ground ball
by Nick Guisinger. Singles
by Kristopher Osterhage and
Jordan Ellerbrock plated a run
before a ground ball back to
the pitcher ended the inning.
Kalida scored twice in
their half of the second as Neil
Recker and Jordan Laudick
opened the innings with walks.
After a wild pitch pitched the
runners, Warnecke struck
out the number nine hitter. A
Tyler Heitmeyer single to left
scored one run but Laudick
was cut down at the plate on
a fine throw by Hellman from
left field. Heitmeyer moved
to second on the throw home
and he scored on a single by
Recker. Guisinger followed
with a single to right before
Warnecke struck out the next
batter to end the innings.
The Musketeers got on the
board in the bottom of the
second as Calvelage hit the
first of his two home runs,
a towering shot to right that
was helped over the fence by
a wind blowing that way.
Kalida came back with a
Cardinals 9, Dodgers 5
LOS ANGELES — Albert Pujols
homered for the second time this
season and Matt Holliday drove in
three runs and scored twice for St.
Louis.
Jaime Garcia (2-0) allowed three
runs — two earned — and five
hits in five innings, struck out two
and walked two. Hiroki Kuroda (2-1)
gave up 10 hits and six runs — five
earned — in five innings, struck out
three and threw a career-high three
wild pitches in the Dodgers’ third
straight loss.
Pujols sent a 3-2 pitch from
Kuroda into the lower left-field seats
with one out in the fifth, extending
the Cardinals’ lead to 5-3.
Matt Kemp had two RBIs and
three hits, including a homer in the
ninth, and Jamey Carroll had three
hits for the Dodgers.
Brewers 4, Pirates 1
PITTSBURGH — Randy Wolf
had 10 strikeouts and allowed only
three hits in 6 2/3 shutout innings to
lead Milwaukee to its fourth straight
win and seventh in eight games.
Wolf (1-2) allowed only two sin-
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as a coach, I wanted to give
him that opportunity to finish
a once-in-a-lifetime chance,”
Metzger added. “He gutted it
out the whole time. He got a
nice play from Tyler at the
end; that’s the maturity of our
team since he came right back
from making an error.”
For Castronova, it was a
just a good game.
“Derek was great; he
pitched well enough to win.
Not bad for a sophomore who
goes a buck 25,” he added.
“We had four tough games this
week: Continental, Jefferson,
Bluffton and St. John’s. These
games are what will make us
better down the road, espe-
cially in the tournament.”
Ottoville hosts Crestview
at noon Saturday, while St.
John’s visits St. Henry 5 p.m.
Tuesday.
ST. JOHN’S (3)
ab-r-h-rbi
Tanner Calvelage cf 4-0-1-0, Tyler
Bergfeld ss 3-3-1-0, Jordan Leininger
p 4-0-1-0, Austin Vogt 1b 3-0-2-1,
Andrew Metzger pr 0-0-0-0, Tyler Ditto
rf 3-0-0-2, Troy Warnecke 2b 4-0-1-0,
Austin Reindel c 3-0-0-0, Ryan Densel
lf 2-0-0-0, Curtis Geise 3b 3-0-0-0.
Totals 29-3-6-3.
OTTOVILLE (0)
ab-r-h-rbi
Matt Honigford cf 3-0-0-0, Derek
Schimmoeller p 2-0-0-0, Cody DeLong
3b 3-0-0-0, Aaron Wehri c 2-0-0-0,
Travis Maag dh/rf 3-0-0-0, Austin
Markward lf 1-0-0-0, Ty Turnwald ss
2-0-0-0, Craig Odenweller 2b 2-0-0-
0, Bryan Holhbein 1b 2-0-0-0. Totals
20-0-0-0.
Score by Innings:
St. John’s 1 0 0 010 1-3
Ottoville 0 0 0 000 0-0
E: Turnwald 3, Bergfeld, Reindel;
LOB: St. John’s 9, Ottoville 5; 2B:
Bergfeld, Vogt, Warnecke; SF: Ditto;
SB: Bergfeld 2, Leininger, Densel; CS:
Turnwald (by Reindel); POB: Markward
(by Leininger.
IP H R ER BB SO
ST. JOHN’S
Leininger (W, 1-0) 7 0 0 0 4 4
OTTOVILLE
Schimmoeller (L) 7 6 3 1 3 1
WP: Leininger; HBP: Markward (by
Leininger), T. Turnwald (by Leininger);
Balk: Leininger.
run in their half of third as
Ellerbrock reached on an error
and took second on a ground
ball back to the pitcher. He
scored on a 2-out single by
Laudick.
After Warnecke worked
a scoreless fourth inning,
Verhoff came on to pitch three
scoreless innings in relief.
Verhoff allowed a runner in
each inning but worked out of
trouble each time.
Warnecke picked up the
win as he went four innings
allowing four runs on
10 hits. He struck out
three and walked two.
Verhoff worked three
scoreless innings allow-
ing two hits and a walk
with three strikeouts.
Trentman, Kurt Warnecke
and Calvelage all had two
hits.
Laudick took the loss for
Kalida as he went five innings
allowing six runs on nine hits.
Jared Zeller worked a score-
less sixth inning.
Ellerbrock had three hits
for Kalida, while Recker,
Guisinger and Osterhage all
had two hits.
“Every game we have
played we have had at least
double figures in hits,”
McBride said. “We are hitting
the ball but we stranded a lot
of runners (nine for the game).
It’s Kalida-Fort Jennings
baseball. That’s why I play
them twice. We play them
early to get a gauge on how
we are doing, then we play
them before the tournament.
This is where I’m not pleased
with the one inning and the
progress this team is making.
We just took a step back and I
am very concerned.”
Kalida 1 2 1 0 0 0 0 - 4 12 3
Ft. Jennings 0 1 0 5 0 0 x - 6 9 2
WP-C. Warnecke. LP-Laudick.
gles, a double and two walks and
didn’t allow a Pittsburgh runner to
advance past second base. John
Axford allowed a run on two walks,
a single and a wild pitch in the ninth
to prevent Milwaukee’s second con-
secutive shutout.
Pittsburgh managed four hits to
fall to 1-5 on its opening homestand.
The Pirates snapped a streak of
22 scoreless innings when Andrew
McCutchen scored in the ninth. Paul
Maholm (0-2) retired 20 of his final
23 batters. He was charged with two
runs on four hits and three walks
with six strikeouts in seven innings.
Price Fielder had a run-scoring
single in the first — his NL-leading
15th RBI — and Yuniesky Betancourt
added a sacrifice fly. The Brewers
added two in the ninth off Joel
Hanrahan.
Marlins 6, Braves 5
ATLANTA — John Buck drove
in the go-ahead run with a seventh-
inning single to help Florida win its
second straight road series.
Buck was 0-for-9 in the series
before driving in Gaby Sanchez from
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Miller gets shutout,

lifts Sabres past Flyers
By DAN GELSTON
The Associated Press
PHILADELPHIA — Ryan
Miller never buckled.
Not when the Flyers
rushed the net and pounded
him with pucks. Not even
when Philadelphia had a
2-man edge, a rowdy home-
ice crowd begging for a score
and momentum on its side.
Miller held them all off
and the Buffalo Sabres took
quick control of the series.
Miller stopped 35 shots for
his second career postseason
shutout and Patrick Kaleta
scored to lift the Sabres to
a 1-0 win in Game 1 of the
Eastern Conference playoff
series Thursday night.
“I told myself no matter
Tom Morris photo
what happened out there, I
Jefferson sophomore pitcher Taylor Branham takes care was going to stay contained,
of a Paulding batter on a pop-up for the third out in the third stay cool,” Miller said.
inning during NWC softball action Thursday at Wildcat He was the coolest player
Field. The Panthers shut out the Lady Wildcats 9-0. on skates in the opener.
Miller stopped every shot
17 — cracked the scoreless
tie 5:56 into the third period
on Kaleta’s second career
postseason goal.
Buffalo won a fight for the
puck along the boards and
dumped it across the zone
to Marc-Andre Gragnani. He
fired a slapper from the top of
the circle and Kaleta knocked
in the rebound from the low
slot for the 1-0 lead.
Kaleta, denied earlier in
the game on a rebound, was
healthy enough to play at a
perfect time after missing
most of the last month of the
season with a bruised knee.
He almost didn’t play.
Miller was flawless from
there and the Sabres — the
hottest team in the Eastern
Conference since Jan. 1 —
kept rolling in the postsea-
son.
Once a rowdy and dev-
astating home-ice advantage,
Philadelphia continues to
struggle at the Wells Fargo
a power play that has failed Both teams had playoff
them down the stretch. energy to burn. There were
It wasn’t the only wasted a series of scrums and pun-
opportunity. The Flyers went ishing hits that signal play-
0-for-5 on the power play and off hockey — especially in
missed 11 shots. Philadelphia.
The Sabres stuffed the Canadiens 2, Bruins 0
crease and the puck had no BOSTON — Carey Price
chance of finding the back of returned as Montreal’s starting play-
the net. With the aid of the off goalie with his third postsea-
son shutout, Brian Gionta scored
stout defense, Miller stopped twice and the Canadiens opened
16 shots in the second peri- the series with a 2-0 win over the
od. Boston Bruins on Thursday night.
Price started one of the
The Sabres got rough to Canadiens 19 playoff games last
protect their net, with defen- year when they reached the Eastern
seman Chris Butler shoving Conference finals. Jaroslav Halak
started the others but was traded to
James van Riemsdyk flat on the St. Louis Blues in June.
his back. This season Price started 70
The Flyers could have games and on Thursday he turned
aside 31 shots.
used some extra protection on Gionta scored at 2:44 of the first
the blue line but they played period on a pass from Scott Gomez
without Chris Pronger. from the left boards. Gionta and
Matthew Darche both got behind the
Pronger, a former NHL Bruins defense with Darche direct-
MVP, has been sidelined ly in front of goalie Tim Thomas
since having hand surgery in and Gionta on the right side of the
crease. Darche let the puck go
March. He also missed time by and Gionta put it in between
with a foot injury and was Thomas’ left side and the post.
limited to just 50 games this The game was played cleanly
without any fights between the teams
season. that had several physical confronta-

Roundup
Boys 800 Meter Run: 1. Jalen
Glenn (LS) 2:14.50.
Girls 200 Meter Dash: 1. Indiya
Benjamin (LS) 27.22.
Boys 200 Meter Dash: 1. Kyle
Puschel (SM) 24.11.
Girls 3200 Meter Run: 1. Sarah
Wilke (SM) 14:44.88.
Boys 3200 Meter Run: 1. Nick
Durkee (SM) 11:16.88.
Girls 4x400 Meter Relay: 1. St.
Marys Memorial 4:32.02.
Boys 4x400 Meter Relay: 1. Lima
Senior 3:55.56.
Girls Discus: 1. Mekayla Breland
(SM) 121-1.
Boys Discus: 1. Freddie Hardin
(SM) 128-3.
Girls High Jump: 1. Erin Kinkley
(SM) 4-6.
Boys High Jump: 1. David
Desenberg (LS) 6-0.
Girls Long Jump: 1. Brianna
Griffin (LS) 14-8.
Boys Long Jump: 1. Austin Etzler
(EL) 17-11.50.
Girls Shot Put: 1. Mekayla
Breland (SM) 41-4.
Boys Shot Put: 1. Freddie Hardin
(SM) 47-4.
Girls Pole Vault: 1. Kelly
Heitkamp (SM) 9-0.
Boys Pole Vault: 1. Paul Helmer
(SM) 12-6.
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Eagles soar
over Lady ’Dawgs
BENTON RIDGE —
Liberty-Benton’s softballers
took the measure of Elida
Thursday night, grabbing an
8-2 victory.
Bean had three hits and
Allen two for the Lady Eagles,
while Dager had two runs bat-
ted in.
Elida (2-5) hosts Van Wert
tonight.
Elida 010 100 0-2 35
Liberty-Ben. 0 1 2 3 2 0 x - 8 11 5
WP: Bean; LP: Aryanna Brown
(0-3). 2B: Stamper (L), Black (L).
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Leipsic drills Elida
ELIDA — Leipsic com-
piled 12 hits to back Trevor
Schroeder’s 3-hitter in a 13-0
assault of host Elida Thursday
in baseball action at Ed Sandy
Memorial Field.
Schroeder helped himself
with a 3-for-3 batting per-
formance, while Haselman
went 3-for-4 and knocked in
two runs. Nate Schey added a
double and two RBIs.
Elida (3-5) visits Van Wert
tonight.
Leipsic 102 4 6 - 13 12 1
Elida 000 00- 0 34
WP: Trevor Schroeder; LP: David
Diller (0-1). 2B: Nate Schey (L).
under all types of pressure
and carried the Sabres to
the clutch opening win. The
teams have met eight times in
the postseason and the Game
1 winner won the series each
time.
Kaleta snapped the score-
less tie early in the third
period when he powered a
rebound past rookie Sergei
Bobrovsky.
No team was more resil-
ient in last year’s playoffs
than the Flyers. They trailed
Boston 3-0 in the East semi-
finals before taking the series
and playing until a Game 6
loss to Chicago in the Stanley
Cup finals.
Game 2 is Saturday in
Philadelphia.
The Sabres — 10 points
out of a playoff spot on Jan.
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second base with the single off Eric
O’Flaherty (0-1) to break a 5-5 tie.
Sanchez had two hits, including
his first homer. Logan Morrison had
a 2-run double and Hanley Ramirez
was on base five times with three
hits, including an RBI single, and two
walks. Brian Sanches (2-0) pitched a
scoreless sixth to earn the win and
Leo Nunez pitched the ninth for his
fourth save.
Center. The Flyers dropped
six straight games at home
before snapping that streak
in the regular-season finale.
They now have a Game 1 loss
after dropping Game 6 of the
Stanley Cup finals here last
season.
Miller was the reason for
their latest loss.
The Flyers attacked the net
with a barrage of shots that
went nowhere except straight
into Miller. The former MVP
of the Olympics stopped
Kimmo Timonen on a slapper
midway through the second
period when the Flyers held a
5-on-3 edge
Flyers coach Peter
Laviolette called timeout
when the Flyers had 34 sec-
onds of a 2-man power play.
They came up empty on
denied the victory when closer Joe
Nathan gave up a 2-run double to
Matt Joyce in the ninth. Pavano
struck out seven and walked two.
He held the Rays hitless until Joyce
singled with one out in the fifth.
Minnesota regained the lead in
the 10th on Danny Valencia’s RBI
single off Kyle Farnsworth (0-1).
Sam Fuld singled with one out
in Tampa Bay’s 10th off Matt Capps
(1-1) and Damon followed with his
third homer of the season,.
He skated and held a stick tions during the regular season.
during practice this week but Sharks 3, Kings 2, OT
SAN JOSE, Calif. — Joe
wasn’t ready for Game 1. He Pavelski scored 14:44 into overtime
remains day-to-day but has to give the San Jose Sharks vic-
said he’s very confident he’ll tory over the Los Angeles Kings in
Game 1 of their all-California open-
play against the Sabres. ing round playoff series.
Bobrovsky made the rou- Pavelski took a pass from Kyle
tine saves and covered some Wellwood as the trailer on a 3-on-2
advantage and fired a forehand past
tough ones that had to help Jonathan Quick for his third career
calm some playoff debut jit- playoff overtime goal.
ters for the Russian rookie. Dany Heatley and Logan
Couture also scored for the Sharks,
He had 24 saves. who had lost five of their previ-
The Flyers came oh-so- ous six series openers. Antti Niemi
close 6 minutes into the game made 33 saves.
Dustin Brown and Justin
when van Riemsdyk pounded Williams scored for the Kings, who
the puck off the post. Miller have won just one playoff series
later stuffed Flyers captain since going to the Stanley Cup final
Mike Richards on a back-
with Wayne Gretzky in 1993. Quick
made 42 saves.
hand attempt and it was
already clear that Game 1
would belong to the goalies.
Richards played 18:20 a day
after missing practice with
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Raburn hit a 2-out RBI double in the
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Tampa Bay 4, Minnesota 3, 10 Colorado 6, N.Y. Mets 5, 1st game
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N.Y. Yankees 6, Baltimore 5, 10 Milwaukee 4, Pittsburgh 1
innings Philadelphia 4, Washington 0
5 Johnny Damon hit a 2-run homer
with one out in the bottom of the 10th
inning, giving the Tampa Bay Rays a
4-3 victory over the Minnesota Twins
on Thursday night.
Carl Pavano pitched eight shut-
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Mark Teixeira and gave up a dou-
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NBA DAILY PLAYOFFS

Kansas City 5, Seattle 1, 8 innings Florida 6, Atlanta 5
Detroit 3, Oakland 0 Houston 1, San Diego 0
Today’s Games St. Louis 9, L.A. Dodgers 5
Today’s Games
Baltimore at Cleveland, 7:05 p.m. Florida at Philadelphia, 7:05 p.m.
Texas at N.Y. Yankees, 7:05 p.m. Milwaukee at Washington, 7:05 p.m.
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Future nuns, priests face big questions

Once a month, female students pack the
cozy chapel at the Holy Spirit Friary that
overlooks the Franciscan University of Steu-
benville, Ohio.
These gatherings are confidential, with no
one discussing who is or who isn’t among the
50 to 60 gathered in the pews. Students come
to listen and to pray as they seek discernment
about whether to pursue religious vocations
-- as nuns.
“They keep this private for an interesting
reason,” said the Rev. Seraphim Beshoner,
a history professor. “If word gets out that
someone is trying to discern if she has a vo-
cation, then our guys are afraid to date her. I
mean, how can you compete with Christ and
his church?”
Meanwhile, the campus offers a simi-
lar program for young men considering the
priesthood. In its 25 years of existence, this
Priestly Formation Program has produced
about 400 priests for various orders and dio-
ceses and, at the moment, another 40 or more
students are taking part.
Many of America’s 244 Catholic colleges
and universities offer similar programs, of
course, in part because of rising concerns
about the thinning and graying ranks of
priests, brothers, sisters and nuns.
The number of priests in America has de-
TERRY MATTINGLY
On
Religion
clined from 59,000 in the 1960s to 40,600
last year. There has been an even sharper de-
cline in the number of sisters and nuns, from
180,000 in the ‘60s to approximately 59,000
today -- with 90 percent of them 60 years old
or older.
One factor that shapes Franciscan Univer-
sity life is the presence of three male and four
female religious orders that maintain houses
near the campus and its 2,040 undergradu-
ates, noted the Rev. Richard Davis, leader of
the campus friary and former regional voca-
tions director for the Third Order Regular
Franciscans. Many other orders regularly
send younger members to visit the campus
or study there.
“Our students are very sensitive to this,”
said Davis. “New styles of habits and robes
keep appearing here all the time. The students
see that and it makes them curious. ... This
campus produces a large number of priests,
but I believe even more of our young women
become sisters and nuns.”
While the atmosphere is highly charged
-- Franciscan is known for its standing-room-
only Masses, even on weekdays -- students
face the same tough questions that shape the
decisions of young Catholics elsewhere, said
the friar. Based on his experiences over four
decades, these include:
-- How to respond if family members say
they will -- in one memorable phrase -- be
“wasting their lives.” In an era of increas-
ingly smaller Catholic families, many par-
ents worry about “losing” a child and future
grandchildren. In February, U.S. Catholic
bishops released a survey noting that 51 per-
cent of women who recently took final vows
said their parents or other family members
actively opposed this choice.
-- After decades of sexual scandals and
abuse, Davis said some students literally ask:
“Will I be safe? ... If I visit a monastery or a
convent, will someone hit on me?”
-- Students often want to know which
orders are “faithful to the Magisterium” --
meaning the Vatican and core Catholic doc-
trines -- and which are not. The majority of
students today, he said, are seeking orders
that emphasis a life of prayer and service to
the poor, in America and abroad.
-- Many students bluntly ask: “Do I have
what it takes?” This question may center on
celibacy, poverty, a rigorous prayer life or
other issue. The key, said Davis, is that “you
don’t take religious vows to run away from
marriage and family, or from hard questions
about your own weaknesses or talents. You
have to face these issues.”
-- Another question -- “Will I be alone?”
-- is especially poignant in an age of fading
religious orders. Some students in this highly
social generation fear that choosing the reli-
gious life will mean a shortage of friends and
companions.
“They don’t want to join a community
in which the life they will live looks pretty
much like the life they would have lived if
they had never joined a religious community
in the first place,” said Beshoner, dressed in
his plain brown Franciscan robe.
“However, they also want to join a com-
munity that has other young people in it. They
don’t want to be the ones left to turn out the
lights someday when their order dies.”
(Terry Mattingly is director of the Washington Jour-
nalism Center at the Council for Christian Colleges and
Universities and leads the GetReligion.org project to
study religion and the news.)
Copyright 2011, United Feature Syndicate

Our local churches invite you to join them for their activities and services.
dElPhos
A.C.T.S.
NEW TESTAMENT FELLOWSHIP
Rev. Linda Wannemacher-Pastor
Jaye Wannemacher-Worship Leader
Contact: 419-695-3566
Sunday - 7:00 p.m. Bible Study with
worship @ ACTS Chapel-8277 German
Rd., Delphos
Thursday - 7:00 p.m. “For Such A
Time As This” All & Non Denominational
Tri-County Community Intercessory
Prayer Meeting @ Presbyterian Church
(Basement), 310 W. 2nd St. Delphos -
Everyone Welcome.
DELPHOS BAPTIST CHURCH
Pastor Terry McKissack
302 N Main, Delphos
Contact: 419-692-0061 or 419-302-6423
Sunday - 10:00 a.m. Sunday School
(All Ages) , 11:00 a.m. Sunday Service,
6:00 p.m Sunday Evening Service
Wednesday - 7:00 p.m. Bible Study,
Youth Study
Nursery available for all services.
FIRST UNITED PRESBYTERIAN
310 W. Second St.
419-692-5737
Pastor Harry Tolhurst
Sunday - 11:00 Worship Service
ST. PETER LUTHERAN CHURCH
422 North Pierce St., Delphos
Phone 419-695-2616
Rev. Angela Khabeb
Sunday is the Sixth Sunday in Lent
Saturday-8:00 a.m. Prayer Breakfast
Sunday - 8:45 a.m. Sunday School;
10:00 a.m. Worship w/Procession of
Palms and Communion
Wednesday - 9:00 a.m. Sewing Day
Thursday - 6:00 p.m. Light Supper;
7:00 p.m. Maundy Thursday Worship
Service
Friday - 12:00 p.m. Community
Service @ Trinity United Methodist;
7:00 p.m. Good Friday Tennebrae
Service
Saturday - 8:00 am Prayer Breakfast,
set up for Easter morning breakfast.
FIRST ASSEMBLY OF GOD
“Where Jesus is Healing
Hurting Hearts!”
808 Metbliss Ave., Delphos
One block south of Stadium Park.
419-692-6741
Senior Pastor - Dan Eaton
Sunday - 10:30 a.m. - Celebration
of Worship with Children’s Church &
Nursery provided; 6:00 p.m. - Youth
Crew at The ROC
Wednesday - 7:00 p.m. Prayer
Small groups offered at various times.
Please call the church for information.
DELPHOS CHRISTIAN UNION
Pastor: Rev. Gary Fish
470 S. Franklin St., (419) 692-9940
9:30 Sunday School
10:30 Sunday morning service.
Youth ministry every Wednesday
from 6-8 p.m.
Children’s ministry every third
Saturday from 11 to 1:30.
ST. PAUL’S UNITED METHODIST
335 S. Main St. Delphos
Pastor - Rev. David Howell
Sunday - 9:00 a.m. Worship Service.
DELPHOS WESLEYAN CHURCH
11720 Delphos Southworth Rd.
Delphos - Phone 419-695-1723
Pastor Wayne Prater
Sunday - 10:30 a.m. Worship; 9:15
a.m. Sunday School for all ages.
Wednesday - 7 p.m. Service and
prayer meeting.
TRINITY UNITED
METHODIST CHURCH
211 E. Third St., Delphos
Rev. David Howell, Pastor
Week of April 17, 2011
Sunday - 8:15 a.m. Worship Service;
9:30 a.m. Church School for all ages;
10:30 a.m. Worship Service; 11:30 a.m.
Radio Worship on WDOH, Palm Sunday;
3:00 pm.-5:00 p.m. Confirmation Class
Monday - 3:00 p.m-4:30 p.m. Girl
Scouts; 6:00 p.m. Worship Committee
Meeting; May Newsletter Deadline
Tuesday- 6:00 p.m. Weight Watchers
Wednesday-6:30 p.m CC Continuity
Committee; 7:00 p.m. Chancel Choir;
8:30 p.m. Campaign Committee @
Vanamatic
Thursday - 4:30 p.m.-6:30 p.m.
Suppers on Us; 7:00 p.m. Maundy
Thursday Service
Friday-12:00 noon Delphos Ministerial
Community Good Friday Service @
Trinity; Office Closed
MARION BAPTIST CHURCH
2998 Defiance Trail, Delphos
Pastor Jay Lobach 419-339-6319
Services: Sunday - 11:00 a.m. and
6:00 p.m.; Wednesday - 7:00 p.m.
ST. JOHN’S CATHOLIC CHURCH
331 E. Second St., Delphos
419-695-4050
Rev. Mel Verhoff, Pastor
Rev. Jacob Gordon, Asst. Pastor
Fred Lisk and Dave Ricker, Deacons
Mary Beth Will, Liturgical
Coordinator; Mrs. Trina Shultz, Pastoral
Associate. Mel Rode, Parish Council
President
Celebration of the Sacraments
Eucharist – Lord’s Day Observance;
Saturday 4:30 p.m., Sunday 7:30, 9:15,
11:30 a.m.; Weekdays as announced on
Sunday bulletin.
Baptism – Celebrated first Sunday
of month at 1:30 p.m. Call rectory to
schedule Pre-Baptismal instructions.
Reconciliation – Tuesday and
Friday 7:30-7:50 a.m.; Saturday 3:30-
4:00 p.m. Anytime by request.
Matrimony – Arrangements must be
made through the rectory six months
in advance.
Anointing of the Sick – Communal
celebration in May and October.
Administered upon request.
landECk
ST. JOHN THE BAPTIST CHURCH
Landeck - Phone: 419-692-0636
Rev. Mel Verhoff, Pastor
Administrative aide: Rita Suever
Masses: 8:30 a.m. Sunday.
Sacrament of Reconciliation:
Saturday.
Newcomers register at parish.
Marriages: Please call the parish
house six months in advance.
Baptism: Please call the parish.
ST. PATRICK’S CHURCH
500 S. Canal, Spencerville
419-647-6202
Saturday - 4:30 p.m. Reconciliation;
5 p.m. Mass, May 1 - Oct. 30. Sunday -
10:30 a.m. Mass.
sPEnCErVillE
SPENCERVILLE FULL GOSPEL
107 Broadway St., Spencerville
Pastor Charles Muter
Home Ph. 419-657-6019
Sunday: Morning Services - 10:00
a.m. Evening Services - 7:00 p.m.
Wednesday: 7:00 p.m. Worship ser-
vice.
AMANDA BAPTIST CHURCH
Back to Christ’s Ministry
Conant Road & SR. 117
Ph. 647-5100 - Rev. Mike Decker
Sunday – 10:30 a.m. Worship &
Fellowship. Wednesday – 6-9 p.m.
Bible Study.
SPENCERVILLE CHURCH
OF THE NAZARENE
317 West North St. - 419-296-2561
Pastor Tom Shobe
9:30 a.m. Sunday School; 10:30
a.m. Morning Worship; 7:00 p.m.
Wednesday Service
TRINITY UNITED METHODIST
Corner of Fourth & Main, Spencerville
Phone 419-647-5321
Rev. Jan Johnson, Pastor
Sunday - 9:30 a.m. Sunday School;
10:30 a.m. Worship service.
UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST
Spencerville
Rev. Ron Shifley, Pastor
Sunday– 9:30 a.m. Church School;
10:30 a.m. Worship Service.
AGAPE FELLOWSHIP MINISTRIES
9250 Armstrong Road, Spencerville
Pastors Phil & Deb Lee
Sunday - 10:00 a.m. Worship ser-
vice.
Wednesday - 7:00 p.m. Bible
Study
HARTFORD CHRISTIAN CHURCH
(Independent Fundamental)
Rt. 81 and Defiance Trial
Rt. 2, Box 11550
Spencerville 45887
Rev. Robert King, Pastor
Sunday - 9:30 a.m. Sunday school;
10:30 a.m. Worship Service; 7:00 p.m.
Evening worship and Teens Alive
(grades 7-12).
Wednesday - 7:00 p.m. Bible ser-
vice.
Tuesday & Thursday– 7- 9 p.m.
Have you ever wanted to preach the
“Word of God?” This is your time to
do it. Come share your love of Christ
with us.
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IMMANUEL UNITED
METHODIST CHURCH
699 Sunnydale, Elida, Ohio 454807
Pastor Gary Rode
Sunday - 8:30 a.m. traditional; 10:45
a.m. contemporary
LIGHT OF LIFE CHAPEL
4680 North Kemp Rd., Elida
Pastor Kimberly R. Pope-Seiberling
Sunday – 9:30 a.m. Sunday School;
10:30 a.m. Service; 6:30 p.m. Service.
Wednesday – 6:30 p.m. Midweek
Service.
NEW HOPE CHRISTIAN CENTER
2240 Baty Road, Elida Ph. 339-5673
Rev. James F. Menke, Pastor
Sunday – 10 a.m. Worship.
Wednesday – 7 p.m. Evening ser-
vice.
CORNERSTONE BAPTIST CHURCH
2701 Dutch Hollow Rd. Elida
Phone: 339-3339
Rev. Frank Hartman
Sunday - 10 a.m. Sunday School (all
ages); 11 a.m. Morning Service; 6 p.m.
Evening Service.
Wednesday - 7 p.m. Prayer
Meeting.
Office Hours: Monday-Friday,
8-noon, 1-4- p.m.
ZION UNITED METHODIST
CHURCH
Corner of Zion Church & Conant Rd.,
Elida - Rev. Stuart Rames
Sunday - 9:30 a.m. Sunday School;
10:45 a.m. Worship.
PIKE MENNONITE CHURCH
3995 McBride Rd., Elida
Phone 419-339-3961
LIGHTHOUSE CHURCH OF GOD
Elida - Ph. 222-8054
Rev. Larry Ayers, Pastor
Service schedule: Sunday– 10 a.m.
School; 11 a.m. Morning Worship; 6
p.m. Sunday evening.
FAITH BAPTIST CHURCH
4750 East Road, Elida
Pastor - Brian McManus
Sunday – 9:30 a.m. Sunday School;
10:30 a.m. Worship, nursery avail-
able.
Wednesday – 6:30 p.m. Youth
Prayer, Bible Study; 7:00 p.m. Adult
Prayer and Bible Study; 8:00 p.m. -
Choir.
GOMER UNITED CHURCH
OF CHRIST
7350 Gomer Road, Gomer, Ohio
419-642-2681
gomererucc@bright.net
Rev. Brian Knoderer
Sunday – 10:30 a.m. Worship
Van WErt County
CALVARY EVANGELICAL CHURCH
10686 Van Wert-Decatur Rd.
Van Wert, Ohio
419-238-9426
Rev. Clark Williman. Pastor
Sunday, April 17, 2011
Sunday - 9:00 a.m. Sunday School
LIVE; 9:55 a.m. 5 til 10 meet you at the
Altar; 10:00 a.m. Worship LIVE; 4:00
p.m. Crown Financial Class
Monday - May Calendar Deadline
ending at 4:00 pm
Tuesday - 9:00 a.m. MUMS
Wednesday - 1:30 p.m. Adult Prayer
& Bible Study; 6:45 p.m. Awana;
6:45 p.m. Calvary Youth; 6:45 p.m.
Women’s Bible Study; 7 p.m. Men’s
Bible Study.
Thursday - 9:30 a.m. Lit n’ Latte
Friday - Good Friday - All Day, No
Preschool
SALEM UNITED
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
15240 Main St. Venedocia
Rev. Wendy S. Pratt, Pastor
Church Phone: 419-667-4142
Sunday - 8:30 a.m. - Adult Bell
Choir; 8:45 a.m. Jr. Choir; 9:30
a.m. - Worship; 10:45 a.m. - Sunday
school; 6:30 p.m. - Capital Funds
Committee.
Monday - 6 p.m. Senior Choir.
ST. MARY’S CATHOLIC CHURCH
601 Jennings Rd., Van Wert
Sunday 8:30 a.m., 10:30 a.m.;
Monday 8:30 a.m.; Tuesday 7 p.m.;
Wednesday 8:30 a.m.; Thursday 8:30
a.m. - Communion Service; Friday
8:30 a.m.; Saturday 4 p.m.
VAN WERT VICTORY
CHURCH OF GOD
10698 US 127S., Van Wert
(Next to Tracy’s Auction Service)
Darryl Ramey, Lead Pastor
Chuck Brantley, Executive Pastor
Bryce Cadawallader, Youth
& Assimilations Director
Sunday - 10:00 am Worship Service
& Children’s Ministry
www.vanwertvictorychurch.com
www.acoolchurch.com
419-232-HOPE
TRINITY LUTHERAN
303 S. Adams, Middle Point
Rev. Tom Cover
Sunday– 9:30 a.m. Sunday
School; 10:30 a.m. Worship service.
GRACE FAMILY CHURCH
634 N. Washington St., Van Wert
Pastor: Rev. Ron Prewitt
Sunday - 9:15 a.m. Morning wor-
ship with Pulpit Supply.
KINGSLEY UNITED METHODIST
15482 Mendon Rd., Van Wert
Phone: 419-965-2771
Pastor Chuck Glover
Sunday School - 9:30 a.m.; Worship
- 10:25 a.m.
Wednesday - Youth Prayer and
Bible Study - 6:30 p.m.
Adult Prayer meeting - 7:00 p.m.
Choir practice - 8:00 p.m.
TRINITY FRIENDS CHURCH
605 N. Franklin St., Van Wert 45891
Ph: (419) 238-2788
Sr. Pastor Stephen Savage
Outreach Pastor Neil Hammons
Sunday - 8:15 a.m. - Prayer time;
9:00 a.m. Worship, Sunday School,
SWAT, Nursery; Single; 10:30 a.m.
Worship, Nursery, Children’s Church,
Discipleship class; Noon - Lunch
Break; 2:00 p.m. Service for men
at Van Wert Correctional Fac.; 3:00
p.m. Service for women at Van Wert
Correctional Fac., Service at Paulding
jail
Tuesday - 1:00 p.m. - Share, Care,
Prayer Group in Fireside Room;
10-noon - Banquet Table Food
Pantry; 6:30 p.m. Quilting Friends
in Fellowship Hall; 7 p.m. B.R.E.A.L.
Women’s group in Room 108.
Wednesday - 6:30 p.m. Small
groups, Discipleship Series in sanc-
tuary, Christian Life Club, Nursery,
Preschool; 7 p.m. R.O.C.K. Youth; 8
p.m. Worship Team rehearsal.
Thursday - 4-5:30 p.m. Banquet
Table Food Pantry.
FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH
13887 Jennings Rd., Van Wert
Ph. 419-238-0333
Children’s Storyline: 419-238-2201
Email: fbaptvw@bright.net
Pastor Steven A. Robinson
Sunday– 9:30 a.m. Sunday School
for all ages; 10:30 a.m. Family Worship
Hour; 6:30 p.m. Evening Bible Hour.
Wednesday - 6:30 p.m. Word of Life
Student Ministries; 6:45 p.m. AWANA;
7:00 p.m. Prayer and Bible Study.
MANDALE CHURCH OF CHRIST
IN CHRISTIAN UNION
Rev. Don Rogers, Pastor
Sunday– 9:30 a.m. Sunday School
all ages. 10:30 a.m. Worship Services;
7:00 p.m Worship.
Wednesday - 7 p.m. Prayer meeting.
PENTECOSTAL WAY CHURCH
Pastors: Bill Watson
Rev. Ronald Defore
1213 Leeson Ave., Van Wert 45891
Phone (419) 238-5813
Head Usher: Ted Kelly
10:00 a.m. - Sunday School 11:10
a.m. - Worship 10:00 a.m. until 11:30
a.m. - Wednesday Morning Bible Class
6:00 p.m. until 7:00 p.m. - Wednesday
Evening Prayer Meeting
7:00 p.m. - Wed. Night Bible
Study.
Thursday - Choir Rehearsal
Anchored in Jesus Prayer Line -
(419) 238-4427 or (419) 232-4379.
Emergency - (419) 993-5855
PauldinG County
ZION CHRISTIAN UNION CHURCH
3025 Converse-Roselm Rd,
Grover Hill
Rev. Mark McKay, Pastor
Sunday - 9:30 a.m. Sunday School;
10:30 a.m. Worship Service; 10:30
a.m. Junior Church.
Wednesday - 7 p.m. Bible Study,
Prayer Service; 7 p.m. Youth
Meeting.
Putnam County
FAITH MISSIONARY
BAPTIST CHURCH
Road U, Rushmore
Pastor Robert Morrison
Sunday – 10 am Church School;
11:00 Church Service; 6:00 p.m.
Evening Service
Wednesday - 7:00 p.m. Evening
Service
ST. ANTHONY OF PADUA
CATHOLIC CHURCH
512 W. Sycamore, Col. Grove
Office 419-659-2263
Fax: 419-659-5202
Fr. Tom Oedy
Masses: Tuesday-Friday - 8:00 a.m.;
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ABC cancels ‘One Life to Ask Mr. Know-It-All

Live’ and ‘All My Children’ Redford more than just an actor
NEW YORK (AP) — ABC
canceled two of its three soap
operas on Thursday, consign-
ing “One Life to Live” and
“All My Children” — and
Susan Lucci, daytime’s most
famous actress — to televi-
sion history.
The move leaves “General
Hospital” as ABC’s only day-
time drama, one of only four
that will remain on ABC,
CBS and NBC’s daytime
schedule.
Soap operas have slowly
been fading as a TV force,
with many of the women who
made up the target audience
now in the work force. In
place of the two canceled
dramas, ABC will air shows
about food and lifestyle trans-
formations.
Brian Frons, head of ABC’s
daytime department, went to
the California set of “All My
Children” to deliver the news
on Thursday, where a video
link was also set up to the
New York set of “One Life to
Live.” He said the shows were
doing well creatively, but fall-
ing ratings indicated they had
a bleak future.
“If you have a show in
severe decline, you’re try-
ing to catch a falling knife,”
Frons said.
Daytime dramas have
suffered recently as cable
networks like TLC, Bravo
and Oxygen aggressively
seek viewers in those hours,
he said. Soaps are popular
with viewers from the post-
World War II baby boom,
but younger viewers are more
interested in other program-
ming, he said.
Both canceled shows were
created by Agnes Nixon, one
of daytime TV’s most famous
creative forces, and modeled
after fictional Philadelphia-
area towns. “One Life to
Live” debuted on July 15,
1968, as a half-hour, expand-
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ing to an hour 10 years later.
“All My Children” premiered
on Jan. 5, 1970, expanding to
an hour seven years later.
They were both known for
incorporating social issues
into their stories, with Lucci’s
character of Erica Kane the
first regular TV character to
undergo a legal abortion in
1973, said Carolyn Hinsey,
author of “Afternoon Delight:
Why Soaps Still Matter,” due
to be published next month.
Lucci became more
famous for an offstage drama
when she was nominated 18
years for a Daytime Emmy
Award as best actress with-
out winning, until she finally
took home a trophy in 1999.
“It’s been a fantastic jour-
ney,” Lucci said.
“All My Children” was
based in New York for
many years until production
was moved to Los Angeles
in 2009. Two of its lead-
ing actors, David Canary and
Thorsten Kaye, left the show
because they wouldn’t make
the move.
“They weren’t able to save
the money they wanted to
save, clearly,” Hinsey said.
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Frons said the move did save
money, but the show wasn’t
gaining viewers.
“One Life to Live” is the
last soap opera produced in
New York, once the thriving
center of the industry. Two
New York-based dramas on
CBS, “Guiding Light” and
“As the World Turns,” went
off the air within the past two
years.
“All My Children” is aver-
aging 2.5 million viewers a
day, down 9 percent from
the last TV season, and the
median age of a typical view-
er was nearly 57, the Nielsen
Co. said. “One Life to Live”
is at 2.6 million, its numbers
off only slightly.
Hinsey said the schedule
changes are risky for ABC
stations, particularly as Regis
Philbin and Oprah Winfrey
are also leaving.
“Why would you drive
millions of other people away
from your lineup?” she asked.
“If you want to save money,
cut your costs, cut your sets.
You can’t be so cavalier with
your daytime eyeballs that
you let two, three, four mil-
lion people disappear.”
“All My Children” will
go off the air in September,
replaced by “The Chew,” a
live one-hour show about
food and nutrition, featur-
ing two cast members from
“Iron Chef America” and
nutrition expert Daphne Oz,
Dr. Mehmet Oz’s daughter.
Frons described it as a cross
between “The View” and a
cooking show.
“One Life to Live” lasts
until January. Its replacement
is “The Revolution,” made
by the producers behind “The
Biggest Loser,” and will be
a health and lifestyle show
featuring fashion expert Tim
Gunn. Each week the show
will focus on the weight loss
transformation of one woman.
By Gary Clothier
Q: What has become of
movie actor Robert Redford?
It has been a long time since
I heard anything about him. Is
he still making movies? What’s
his marital status? -- M.F.,
Coney Island, N.Y.
A: Charles Robert Redford
Jr. entered the world on Aug.
18, 1936. During his career, he
has worn many hats, including
actor, film director, producer,
businessman and model; he’s
also an environmentalist and
philanthropist. He bought a ski
resort near Provo, Utah, which
he renamed Sundance. He’s
founder of the Sundance Film
Festival, Sundance Institute,
Sundance Cinemas, Sundance
Catalog and the Sundance
Channel; he even owns a
restaurant in Park City, Utah.
Redford recently directed “The
Conspirator,” which will be
released to theaters in April
2011. He has been married
twice. In 1958, he wed Lola
Van Wagenen; they had four
children. The marriage ended
in 1985. In 2009, he married
his longtime partner Sibylle
Szaggars.
Q: Since Glenn Miller
died in a plane crash over the
English Channel and his body
was never found, how could he
be buried at Arlington National
Cemetery? I have always
wondered about this. -- M.J.,
e-mail
A: On the night of Dec.
15, 1944, big-band leader
Glenn Miller left an airbase
in England to entertain
American troops in Paris,
France. His plane disappeared
over the English Channel; his
body was never recovered.
Posthumously awarded the
Bronze Star (given for bravery,
acts of merit or meritorious
service), Miller was eligible
for a memorial headstone in
Arlington National Cemetery
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Q: During the
month of October several years
ago, I played the role of tourist
in the great state of Texas. In a
small town, a homemade sign
hung in the window of a saloon,
announcing the celebration of
a battle. I have long forgotten
the name of the battle, but I
have often wondered about
its significance. I know this is
a long shot, but can you help
me? -- Z.Z., Walker, La.
A: I suspect the good citizens
were celebrating the Battle
of Gonzales, which occurred
on Oct. 2, 1835. Gonzales,
Texas, is sometimes called the
“Lexington of Texas” because
it’s where the first skirmish of
the Texas Revolution took place.
In 1825, empresario Green
DeWitt established Gonzales,
naming the settlement after a
Mexican governor. In 1831,
the Mexican government gave
the settlers of Gonzales a small
cannon to be used for their
protection. Later, the Mexicans
wanted the cannon back, and
the settlers refused the request.
The Mexican government sent
a small detachment of 100 men
to retrieve the weapon, and 140
men reinforced the Texans. For
several hours on Oct. 2, 1835,
shots were traded between
the two sides; the Mexicans
retreated.Although the skirmish
had little military significance,
it did mark the beginning of the
Texas Revolution. As a point of
reference, the 13-day siege of
the Alamo occurred fewer than
five months later, from Feb. 23
to March 6, 1836.
As for the fate of the cannon,
no one knows for sure. Some
say it was buried near the
town after a cart axle broke
during transportation. In 1936,
floodwaters exposed a cannon,
later verified as authentic and
now on display in the Gonzales
Memorial Museum. However,
several historians claim the
cannon was used during the
Battle of the Alamo and later
melted down by Mexican
troops.
Q: I have several questions
about actor Timothy Hutton.
How old is he? Was his father
an actor? The name seems
familiar. Did Timothy Hutton
ever win an Academy Award?
-- L.E., Nanticoke, Pa.
A: Timothy Tarquin Hutton
entered the world on Aug. 16,
1960. His father, Jim Hutton
(1934-1979), was a film and
TV actor best known as Ellery
Queen in the eponymous 1970s
TV series. At age 20, Timothy
Hutton became the youngest
actor to win the Oscar for
Best Supporting Actor, for his
performance as Conrad Jarrett
in “Ordinary People” (1980).
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I love him but I Tomorrow’s HI AND LOIS

don’t know what

Horoscope
By Bernice Bede Osol

to do with him
Saturday, April 16, 2011
If you are willing to be a
participant and not a leader, you’ll get
a chance to be part of a very successful
involvement with another in the
coming months. It could be one of the
Dear Annie: I am 21 and company has an HR depart- best alliances that you ever make.
have a baby with my boy- ment, you can register a ARIES (March 21-April 19) --
friend, “Emmett,” who is 19. complaint there. It’s possible Rather than taking on an assignment
with a bad attitude, try to temporarily
I love him dearly, but I don’t this woman has some kind postpone it. With this frame of mind,
know what to do with him. of “protected” status. While you are only likely to mess things up
He is unemployed and goes it isn’t fair, you cannot force for yourself and the others involved.
BLONDIE
out all the time. management to get rid of TAURUS (April 20-May 20) -- A
person with an antagonistic attitude
I am stuck with two her. The best you can do is could spoil everyone’s fun. If there is
young children at home focus on your own job and someone among your group who fits
while Emmett does nothing try to ignore her. this description, don’t include him or
her in any social arrangements.
but sleep and party. I con- Dear Annie: I’d like GEMINI (May 21-June 20)
tinue to support him, but he to share my solution for -- If the world fails to look upon
hardly helps with the kids or teaching children manners. you like royalty, don’t take your
disappointment out on your family
around the house. When my kids members. They aren’t the ones who
There are several were 9, 8 and 7, are treating you shabbily or with
minimum wage we started a tra- disrespect.
CANCER (June 21-July 22) --
positions available dition of formal Make suggestions, not demands on
to him, but he’s Thursday night companions. You can try to encourage
stubborn and wants dinners. I would others to see the fun in an activity, but
if they still aren’t interested, accept
something better. shop in the morn-
He says he wants ing and cook all
their ideas and move on.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) -- Be
BEETLE BAILEY
to support the fam- afternoon, and cautious about doing something with
ily on his own. As then we would friends that places the greater burden,
either financially or physically, on
much as I would eat in the dining a few. Unless the load is equally
love that, it’s just room with the distributed, there will be anger among
not possible at this good china, silver the ranks.
time. Annie’s Mailbox and crystal. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) --
Being self-sufficient is an admirable
Also, Emmett The children quality, but don’t carry it to extremes
is mean, saying I complain had a choice: If they wished by shutting everyone else out. Even if
your capabilities or talents are better
too much about what he to build mashed potato than those of your associates, let
needs to do, that it will hap- forts and shoot each other others be part of things.
pen in time. I’ve suggested with pea cannonballs, that LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23) -- If
you don’t do things using the proper
counseling because we fight was fine. But it meant they or accepted procedures, there’s a good
so much, but he refuses. would have their supper in chance that you could commit some
Meanwhile, he is draining the kitchen. serious gaffes.The best rule of thumb
my finances with his con- On the other hand, if they is to keep everything as simple as
possible.
SNUFFY SMITH
stant speeding tickets and, wished to eat with us in the SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 22)
most recently, a broken car dining room, they had to -- Having to put up with someone
window that I cannot afford use their very best grownup who always tries to play the one-
upsmanship game is no fun at all, so
to fix. manners. That included eat- avoid a companion who uses these
How do I convince him to ing with the proper forks tactics. Don’t waste your time or
settle for a minimum wage from a choice of at least dignity on him or her.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec.
job and work on our rela- three, as well as two knives. 21) -- The probability for a few
tionship before it’s too late? They always chose the skirmishes among the ranks could be
-- Love Struck for a Mule dining room, and their man- a bit higher than usual. If someone
tries to goad you into one, keep calm
Dear Love Struck: ners were impeccable. I’m and don’t let your temper break out.
You sound like a sensible proud of them. -- No Pea CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan.
woman, but Emmett is 19 Shooters in My Home 19) -- It’s a must that you take ample
time to organize your affairs, if you
and not mature enough to Dear No: Very impres- have any hope of accomplishing an
be a responsible partner and sive. You made eating in the important objective. Failing to do HAGAR THE HORRIBLE
father. He wants to have fun dining room a way to feel so will have you running around in
circles.
with his friends. He resents grown up and accomplished. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 19)
having to work for a living It undoubtedly was a source -- Although it is far easier to throw
and support a family. You of pride for them, as well. receipts in a drawer than to file them
cannot force him to grow up. Annie’s Snippet for safely away someplace, if you don’t
do so you could be asking for a
Frankly, you’d be better off Income Tax Day (author generous heap of trouble.
financially if you asked him unknown): Did you ever PISCES (Feb. 20-March 20) --
to leave and sued for child notice that when you Arguments are futile and unproductive,
so if a hotheaded associate tries to
support. put the words “The” and draw you into one, walk away and let
Dear Annie: I work for “IRS” together, it spells him or her be left looking the fool
a small company, and like “THEIRS”? Copyright 2011, United Feature Syndicate, Inc.

many others, we’ve had cut-

backs, layoffs and reduced
benefits.
One co-worker uses her BORN LOSER
time to manage her per-
sonal life. She does very
little work. She is constant-
ly texting, writing e-mails
to friends and updating her
blog, and she blatantly lies
about the length of time she
takes for a lunch break.
The company is paying
her to do nothing, while oth-
ers have lost their jobs. I
brought this situation to the
attention of the managers
last year, and her behavior FRANK & ERNEST
has only worsened. I feel it
is immoral for her to be paid
a full salary for not working,
while others are being cut
back.
How far up the corpo-
rate chain should I take this
without risking my own job?
-- Frustrated Worker
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Ex-Marine’s suicide displays war’s toll

By KIMBERLY HEFLING
Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Handsome and friend-
ly, Clay Hunt so epitomized a vibrant Iraq
veteran that he was chosen for a public service
announcement reminding veterans that they
aren’t alone.
The 28-year-old former Marine corporal
earned a Purple Heart after taking a sniper’s
bullet in his left wrist. He returned to combat in
Afghanistan. Upon his return home, he lobbied
for veterans on Capitol Hill, road-biked with
wounded veterans and performed humanitarian
work in Haiti and Chile.
Then, on March 31, Hunt bolted himself in
his Houston apartment and shot himself.
Friends and family say he was wracked with
survivor’s guilt, depression and other emotional
struggles after combat.
Hunt’s death has shaken many veterans who
served in Iraq and Afghanistan. Those who
knew him wonder why someone who seemed to
be doing all the right things to deal with combat-
related issues is now dead.
“We know we have a problem with vets’ sui-
cide, but this was really a slap in the face,” said
Matthew Pelak, 32, an Iraq veteran who worked
with Hunt in Haiti as part of the nonprofit group
Team Rubicon.
After news of Hunt’s death spread, work-
ers from the Tragedy Assistance Program for
Survivors met with veterans visiting Washington
for the annual lobbying effort by the nonprofit
Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans, or IAVA. A
year earlier, Hunt had been with other veterans
in dark suits calling on Congress to improve the
disability claims process.
He had appeared in the group’s ads encour-
aging veterans to seek support from an online
network of fellow veterans.
Snapshots posted on Facebook reflect a
mostly grinning Hunt. In one, he has a beard
and is surrounded by Haitian kids. A second
shows him on the Capitol steps with fellow
veterans. There’s a shot of him from the back on
a bike using his right arm to help push another
bicyclist who is helping to guide an amputee in
a specially modified bike.
Friends and family say Hunt suffered from
depression and post-traumatic stress disorder.
But with his boundless energy and countless
friends, he came across as an example of how
to live life after combat.
“I think everybody saw him as the guy that
was battling it, but winning the battle every
day,“ said Jacob Wood, 27, a friend who served
with Hunt in the Marines and in Haiti with
Team Rubicon.
But some knew he was grieving over several
close friends in the Marines who were killed in
Iraq and Afghanistan.
“He was very despondent about why he
was alive and so many people he served with
directly were not alive,” said John Wordin, 48,
the founder of Ride 2 Recovery, a program that
uses bicycling to help veterans heal physically
and mentally.
In 2007, while in Iraq with the Marine’s
2nd Battalion, 7th Regiment, Hunt heard over
the radio that his 20-year-old bunkmate had
died in a roadside bombing. Hunt later wrote
online about sleeping in his bunkmate’s bed. “I
just wanted to be closer to him, I guess. But I
couldn’t — he was gone.“
A month later, Hunt was pinned by enemy
fire in his truck as a fellow Marine, shot in the
throat by a sniper, lay nearby. Hunt wrote that
seeing his friend placed in a helicopter, where he
died, is “a scene that plays on repeat in my head
nearly every day, and most nights as well.”
Three days later, a sniper’s bullet missed
Hunt’s head by inches and hit his wrist. He
didn’t immediately leave Iraq. His parents say
Hunt asked to fly to a military hospital in
Germany a day later so he could accompany a
fellow Marine who was shot in both legs.
“I know he’s seen some traumatic stuff in his
time and I guess he holds that to himself,“ said
Marine Sgt. Oscar Garza, 26, who served with
Hunt in Iraq. ”He was a very compassionate
Marine, a very passionate person, one of the few
people that I know that has a big heart and feels
a lot of people’s pain and makes it his own.”
Hunt’s mother, Susan Selke, said after Hunt
was wounded, she’d hoped her son would get
out of the military. Instead, he went to school
to be a scout-sniper and went to Afghanistan.
He seemed to do well. He was honorably dis-
charged in 2009, married and enrolled at Loyola
Marymount University in Los Angeles.
He was frustrated by the Veterans Affairs
Department’s handling of his disability claim.
He also piled up thousands of dollars in credit
card debt as he waited for his GI Bill payments.
Hunt found an outlet to help improve the system
by doing work with IAVA. He helped build
bikes for Ride 2 Recovery and participated in
long rides.
Using his military training, he went to Haiti
several times and Chile once to help with the
countries’ earthquake relief efforts. He proudly
told his parents of splinting an infant’s leg, and
after meeting a young orphaned boy in Haiti
named D’James, tried to persuade his family to
adopt him.
“If I had one thing to say to my fellow
veterans, it would be this: Continue to serve,
even though we have taken off our uniforms,”
Hunt wrote in an online testimonial for Team
Rubicon. “No matter how great or small your
service is, it is desired and needed by the world
we live in today.”
Hunt’s friends say he was an idealist and
voiced frustration that he couldn’t make chang-
es overnight. He also questioned why troops
were still dying.
“He really was looking for someone to tell
him what it was he went over to do and why
those sacrifices were made,“ Wood said.
Last year, Hunt’s life took a downward
spiral. His marriage ended, he dropped out of
school and he began to have suicidal thoughts,
his mother said. She said Hunt sought counsel-
ing from the VA and moved in temporarily with
Wordin in California.

5 killed as storms hit Okla., Ark.

By KRISTI EATON
Associated Press
TUSHKA, Okla. — A powerful storm system produced a tor-
nado that tore through a tiny southeastern Oklahoma town overnight
killing at least two people, and high winds killed three more in
Arkansas before the storm moved into the Deep South early today.
The large tornado that cut through Tushka late Thursday tore up
roofs, shattered windows and tossed power lines and trees, leaving
dozens more people injured, authorities said. Early today, two people
died in western Arkansas when a tree fell on a house, and a man died
in central Arkansas when a tree crushed his recreational vehicle.
The twister destroyed the public school in Tushka, a town of
about 350 people some 120 miles southeast of Oklahoma City, and
forced many people to seek shelter with relatives, friends or churches
serving as shelters. Semi-trailers and trees were scattered on the main
highway, U.S. 69, and authorities closed off some roads because of
downed power lines and trees.
“It felt like a bomb,” said Jennifer Buffington, who fled to a
storm’s cellar with her husband, Tony Stiles, and their seven children
when the tornado sirens sounded.
When the family emerged, they found the windows blown out
of their home. The family sought shelter at First Baptist Church in
nearby Atoka.
“Everything in my house looks like shambles,” said Buffington,
36, whose children range in age from 1 to 20.
Easton Crow, a junior at the public school where students from
kindergarten through 12th grade attend, said he was at a baseball
game in nearby Hugo when the storm hit. He went by the school
after returning home and saw the damage: The roof was gone, the
top story of one of the school’s buildings was torn off and textbooks
were scattered everywhere.
“I’m heartbroken. This is where most of us grew up,” Crow, 17,
said. “I’m just in awe that in a few seconds memories that have been
Police search for Tennessee woman dragged from home
By SHEILA BURKE
Associated Press
PARSONS, Tenn. — Police searched thick brush and rug-
ged terrain in western Tennessee on Thursday for a blonde-
haired 20-year-old nursing student, a day after her older
brother told authorities he saw a man in camouflage dragging
her body toward the woods.
The children’s father believes someone who knew the
family’s daily routine was to blame for Holly Bobo’s dis-
appearance. She was last seen by her brother about 8 a.m.
Wednesday, as she prepared to leave for her college classes.
Clint Bobo was home when he saw Holly being dragged
across the carport, authorities said, but they haven’t revealed
what he told a 911 operator or provided much other detail. All
they have said is that he is helping investigators. Neighbors
were asked to report any unusual people or cars in the area at
the time.
Dana Bobo, speaking at a news conference, said he had no
idea why someone would want to take his daughter.
“I just have a feeling it might have been somebody close,
who knew our routine — when she (his wife Karen) left, when
I left, when our daughter left,” he said.
Authorities received two 911 calls about the abduction, one
from Clint, 25, and the other from Bobo’s mother. Since then,
built were taken.”
Principal Matt Simpson said the school won’t be usable for the
rest of the school year and officials must figure out where students
will attend class.
“I’ve been doing this for 10 years, but this is definitely new for
me,” Simpson said. “It means a lot of challenges I wasn’t expect-
ing.”
After raking Oklahoma and Arkansas, the storm system moved
into Tennessee, Louisiana and Mississippi.
Details about those who were killed in Tushka weren’t yet avail-
able early today. The state Medical Examiner’s Office confirmed two
fatalities, the Oklahoma Department of Emergency Management
said, but information about the victims and exactly how they died
was not available.
Also, because the twister struck after dark, officials wouldn’t
know the full extent of the damage until today.
Arkansas Department of Emergency Management spokeswoman
Renee Preslar said Garland County officials confirmed the two
deaths there early today, but she had no details. According to the
National Weather Service, the pair died when a tree fell on top of a
mobile home.
KTHV in Little Rock reported that officials received a call around
1 a.m. of a tree down on a home in Whittington. Sheriff’s Lt. James
Martin told the station the victims were a 24-year-old male and an
18-month-old girl. It wasn’t immediately clear if a tornado or strong
winds were at fault.
In Pulaski County, central Arkansas, Lt. Carl Minden of the
county sheriff’s office said a man was killed when a tree crushed his
recreational vehicle near the town of Scott.
“Nobody has reported seeing funnel clouds. Right now we’re
suspecting straight line winds,” Linden said.
In Franklin County, emergency management coordinator Fred
Mullen said the high winds blew a camper off of its wheels, but that
two people inside the camper escaped unharmed.
several law enforcement agencies and hundreds of volunteers
have searched the woods and fields surrounding the home.
Both Dana and Karen Bobo begged for help in finding their
daughter, who was known for her sweet voice.
“Holly, I love you so much,” Karen Bobo, an elementary
school teacher, said through sobs. “... She’s just so precious,
you don’t even know.”
Even Decatur County Sheriff Roy Wyatt choked back tears
as he reiterated the plea for help.
“This family — we can only imagine what they’re going
through. They need your help,” he said.
Tennessee Bureau of Investigation Special Agent John
Mehr said the community is offering a $25,000 reward for
information about Bobo’s disappearance.
The search covers a rural area with trees and brush so
thick at least one search dog had to be carried by its handler.
Authorities also were using a helicopter.
Holly Bobo disappeared from the family’s one-story,
ranch-style home, in the community of Darden, where the
houses are mostly on parcels of land large enough for owners
to keep livestock.
Holly Bobo is a cousin of country singer Whitney Duncan,
who tweeted Thursday morning that “I feel like I’m walking
in a nightmare.”
“Thanks for all the prayers and please keep spreading the
Civil War 150th at Fort Sumter
By BRUCE SMITH
Associated Press
FORT SUMTER NATIONAL MONUMENT, S.C. —
Re-enactors played “Yankee Doodle” as they took away the
Union flag and recreated Fort Sumter’s surrender to Confederate
attackers 150 years ago Thursday, winding down a somber com-
memoration of America’s plunge into the Civil War
Some 100 Union defenders, haggard from the 34 hours of
Confederate artillery bombardment, gave up the battle-scarred
fort in Charleston Harbor on April 14, 1861, a singular event
marking the outset of the nation’s bloodiest war.
Hundreds watched a 15-minute surrender reenactment as
those playing Union forces marched away with a flag bearing 33
stars, including those of states splintering away in secession. The
nationally watched reenactment began before dawn Tuesday
with the first shots of mock bombardment as an authentic coastal
mortar sounded out and Confederate cannons ringing the harbor
joined in.
“These were the first shots of a civil war that would stretch
across four years of tremendous sacrifice,” President Barack
Obama said Tuesday in a proclamation on the start of sesquicen-
tennial events commemorating battles to come. ”The meaning
of freedom and the very soul of our Nation were contested in
the hills of Gettysburg and the roads of Antietam, the fields of
Manassas and the woods of the Wilderness.“
The war, over four bloody years to follow, claimed more than
600,000 lives.
“When the guns fell silent and the fate of our Nation was
secured, blue and gray would unite under one flag and the insti-
tution of slavery would be forever abolished from our land,” the
president said.
The state’s Palmetto Guard was the first Confederate unit to
occupy Sumter after the Union surrender of 1861.
The Confederate flag would fly over the fort nearly four
years until Sumter was abandoned in early 1865 after Union
Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman captured Columbia about
120 miles away, flanking the Confederates and forcing them to
withdraw from Charleston.
Rick Hatcher, the historian at Fort Sumter, told visitors who
arrived on the last tour boat of the day that the surrender was
“one of the most historic and significant days in the history of
this fort.’
The only casualty of the bombardment, which rained shells
on Fort Sumter nearly without pause for 34 hours, was a
Confederate officer’s horse. But two Union soldiers died as the
result of a cannon misfiring during a salute marking the surren-
der ceremonies. The two men are considered by many the first
casualties of the war and there is a memorial in their honor in a
corner of the Sumter parade ground.
There will be an event to honor the soldiers Saturday while
other events here conclude Sunday.
Jeff Antley of Charleston, who coordinated arrangements for
hundreds of re-enactors who came to Charleston for ten days of
events, was pleased with what the re-enactors did, paying their
way and giving of their time to teach others about the war.
“It was great. The guys are tired but they are persevering on
and they will see it to the end,” he said, adding the commemora-
tion was an important way of remembering.
“We don’t want to forget these men. They are our families
and they are our blood,” he said.
Veteran re-enactor Randy Burbage said the mood of the

Son: Mom cried NY river plunge ‘terrible mistake’

By MICHAEL HILL
Associated Press
NEWBURGH, N.Y. — A suicidal mother who loaded her
four children into a minivan and drove off a boat ramp into
the frigid Hudson River changed her mind as the van sank and
cried, “I made a mistake, I made a terrible mistake,” said her
10-year-old son, who survived by crawling out a window and
swimming ashore.
Lashanda Armstrong had warned in a cryptic Facebook
message just before the fatal plunge: “I’m so sorry everyone
forgive me please for what I’m gonna do.... This Is It!!!!”
Her 10-year-old son, the only survivor as his mother and
three siblings drowned, says she had told the children, “You’re
all going to die with me,” but then tried, too late, to back out
of the river, according to a woman who found the sopping
wet boy.
Meave Ryan was driving past the boat ramp in Newburgh,
about 60 miles north of New York City, on Tuesday evening
when she spotted the boy, La’Shaun Armstrong, waving his
arms.
Ryan said the boy told her that his mother had had a “big,
big argument about my stepdad’s cheating on her,” then piled
the four children in the minivan and sped into the river.
Ryan told The Associated Press on Thursday that La’Shaun
said Armstrong had held him and the other kids — boys ages
5 and 2 and an 11-month-old girl — as the minivan began
sinking.
“She was holding on to all of them and said, ‘If I’m going
to die, you’re all going to die with me,’“ Ryan said. ”She said
that two or three times.“
But as the vehicle sank, La’Shaun broke free of his moth-
er’s grasp and clambered out a window.
Ryan said: “While he was doing that, he heard his mother
saying, ‘I made a mistake, I made a terrible mistake.’ And she
tried to reverse the car out, but at that time it was too late. He
said, ‘Mommy, I’m going to go get help,’ and she said, ‘OK.’
And that was the last he heard from his mother.”
Ryan drove the boy to a nearby fire station. Rescuers
immediately went to the river, but it was too late: They found
the van about 25 yards from shore in 8 feet of water. Lashanda
Armstrong and three children were dead.
Ryan’s account conforms to reports from police, who say
Armstrong was involved in a domestic incident at her apart-
ment Tuesday evening and within minutes had plunged off a
boat ramp into the river just a half-mile from her apartment in
a hard-luck section of the city.
The Facebook message, posted from Armstrong’s
BlackBerry, was obtained by MidHudsonNews.com. It posted
on her page at 7:13 p.m. Tuesday, about a half-hour before she
drove into the river.
“I don’t know if we’ll ever find out what Lashanda
Armstrong was thinking when she left that home and drove to
the river,” Newburgh police Chief Michael Ferrara said.
Lt. Bruce Campbell said police had heard from at least
two witnesses who said they saw a minivan speed through an
intersection at the boat launch’s entrance fast enough that the
vehicle appeared to bottom out on the bumpy pavement.
“She went through it at a pretty good pace,” Campbell
said.
The witnesses, motorists who had stopped at a stop sign,
“just thought it was kids driving fast or acting up,” he said.
They apparently didn’t see what happened next, he said.
Campbell said police believe Armstrong hit the water
going 15 to 20 mph. There was no substantial damage to the
vehicle’s front end, and the airbags didn’t deploy, he said.
A stream of people went to the boat ramp Thursday, and
friends and neighbors gathered to try to process the tragedy.
Ashonti George, 21, laid a red rose on the doorway to
Armstrong’s apartment Thursday morning. The two women
were in the same math class at Orange County Community
College. George, of Newburgh, said that Armstrong usually
was an attentive student but wasn’t herself during a Tuesday
morning test.
“She was off,” George said. “She didn’t seem like herself.
She seemed angry — off. That’s the best way I can explain it.”
events was solemn, befitting the war that ensued.
“It should be considering the tragic ending this war had and
the number of lives lost,” he said.
Renee Adams, a retiree from Crestview, Fla., was in
Charleston this week taking a bus tour of sites important to the
Gullah culture of slave descendants on South Carolina’s sea
islands. She also planned to visit Fort Sumter.
Answers to Thursday’s questions:
The infamous bloody gloves football great O.J.
Simpson tried on at his 1995 murder trial were size extra
large. They didn’t fit him. Embarrassed prosecutors later
claimed the cashmere-lined gloves had shrunk a full size
from being soaked in blood and noted that Simpson (who
was acquitted of murder) was wearing latex gloves during
the courtroom demonstration.
The only plant that bears flowers and fruit simultane-
ously is the pure white lotus plant.
Today’s questions:
How many decks are there on the Queen Mary 2?
In the comics, what was the name of Casper the
Friendly Ghost’s galloping ghost horse?
Answers in Saturday’s Herald.
Today’s words:
Gynotikolobomassophile: one who likes to nibble on
a woman’s earlobe
Zilch: anyone whose name is not known
The Outstanding Public Debt as of 9:45 a.m. today
was $14,270,517,155,904.
The estimated population of the United States is
310,390,587, so each citizen’s share of this debt is
$45,976.
The National Debt has continued to increase an aver-
age of $4.07 billion per day since Sept. 28, 2007.