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TUESDAY 

November 22, 2005 

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From Staff Reports 

The office of John Paul 

Mathes, Carter County Circuit 

Court Clerk, has been 

temporarily closed due to a 

sewer leak. 

“It must have happened 

over the weekend, probably 

Sunday afternoon,” said 

Mathes. “Pure, raw sewage 

came up out of the floor. I 

think the tanks got full and it 

backed up. Roto-Rooter 

By Greg Miller 

STAR STAFF 

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Holiday 

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Roan Mountain Christmas Tree Ceremony 

Photo by Suzanne Galyon 

The Cloudland Elementary High Notes were featured entertainers at last night’s Community Tree Lighting in Roan 

Mountain. Although the weather was a little on the damp side, there was plenty of spirit inside, as those attending the 

tree lighting were treated to hot chocolate and cider and a variety of Christmas tunes by the youngsters. 

Sewer leak at courthouse annex 

The Third Annual Community 

Thanksgiving Day 

Dinner, sponsored by “Area 

Churches Reaching Out to the 

Community in Love,” will be 

served at First Christian 

Church, 513 Hattie Avenue, 

on Nov. 24 from 11 a.m.-1 p.m. 

In addition to meals being 

served at the church, meals 

will also be delivered to the 

community’s needy residents. 

The Rev. Marvin Slagle, pastor 

of the Church of God of 

Prophecy, estimates that 75-80 

percent of the meals will be 

delivered. Volunteers are 

working hard to make the 

project a success, according to 

Slagle. 

“I really like the fact that 

the churches are coming together 

in unity to do something 

to send the love of 

Christ to people in the community,” 

said Slagle. “The 

people who will be delivering 

will be there to give an encouraging 

word to people.” 

Three planning meetings 

have been held at the Roan 

Street Church of God. Volun- 

came and hopefully took 

care of the problem. We have 

the trusties back there working. 

It may be a couple of 

days — it’s going to have to 

be sanitized.” 

Judge Robert Cupp has 

ordered that the office be 

closed until it has been professionally 

cleaned and then 

inspected by a state agency. 

“I’ve got a temporary 

desk out here in the hall,” 

said Mathes. “We’re doing 

teers are preparing to work in 

various areas of ministry. “We 

usually have about 10-15 people 

in attendance,” Slagle said. 

The volunteers, Slagle said, 

“are really excited about 

working and helping somebody.” 

Betty Hudson, who is serving 

in her third year as a volunteer, 

was in charge of the 

servers the first two years. 

This year, she is in charge of 

the kitchen. The food will be 

prepared “in large quantities,” 

Hudson said. 

Hudson identifies with 

many of those to whom 

meals will be served. “I know 

how hard it is for elderly people,” 

she said. “I’m retired 

and elderly myself. 

“The church needs to take 

care of the people at home,” 

Hudson said. “I’ve been in 

the ministry for many years, 

and I believe that we need to 

take care of our own first. We 

have just as many people 

here in the city of Elizabethton 

that need our help, too.” 

Hudson has pastored in 

Virginia and has served as a 

missionary in Costa Rica, 

Haiti, Mexico and Canada. 

Participating churches in- 

the best we can.” 

The sewer leak was discovered 

by the first employees 

to arrive at work Monday. 

Employees said the 

odor was unbearable. 

Unlike previous incidents 

in which prisoners have 

flushed clothing and towels 

down toilets to cause flooding 

to downstairs offices, 

courthouse officials said the 

current problem was caused 

by a malfunction in the 

clude the Church of God of 

Prophecy, First Christian 

Church, Valley Forge Free 

Will Baptist Church, Roan 

Street Church of God, Prayer 

Tabernacle, and Freedom Fellowship. 

“I saw the need several 

years ago in our community 

to do something to help people 

on this special day,” Slagle 

said. “I feel like I’m doing 

my part, along with some of 

the others on that day, to 

make the day better for somebody. 

I think Thanksgiving is 

more of a traditional family 

holiday. A lot of people don’t 

have families. A lot of people 

are not able to have an enjoyable 

day because of their age, 

or family members may have 

died, or because of other reasons.” 

Slagle says First Christian 

Church “has been very cordial 

in letting us use their facilities” 

for the annual event. 

To have a meal delivered, 

call Sandy Lyons at 547-0564 

or Ava Patterson at 542-0573. 

Names, addresses and 

phone numbers of those 

who want a meal delivered 

are needed by Tuesday, Nov. 

22. 

Index 

plumbing system. Pressure 

inside the line reportedly 

blew off a cap in a bathroom. 

All the sewage flushed from 

the jail went out through the 

opening rather than going 

into the sewer system. 

Although the office 

closed, the clerks in the Circuit 

Court office will continue 

to maintain a work station 

in the hallway to take 

care of those needing business 

done. 

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November rally with modest 

gains Monday 

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Rising 

grocery costs 

√ Stocking the fridge and pantry 

for a big feast at Thanksgiving is 

never cheap. But consumers who 

were braced for steeper costs 

because of the recent spike in 

energy prices can relax a little 

when they head to the supermarket 

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Over the weekend, police arrested a Carter County man 

described in police reports as an “illegal narcotics trafficker” 

and charged him with several drug charges. 

Kenneth Patrick Carr, 39, 1664 Highway 19E, was arrested 

Saturday night by Carter County Sheriff’s Department 

Deputy Thomas Smith and charged with possession of Schedule 

II drugs (morphine) for resale, possession of Schedule II 

drugs (OxyContin) for resale and possession of Schedule VI 

drugs (marijuana) for resale. 

According to police reports, around 10:30 p.m. Saturday, 

Smith was contacted by an agent of the First Judicial District 

Drug Task Force regarding a man behaving in a suspicious 

manner in the parking lot of a local service station. 

“According to the agent the driver, later identified as Kenneth 

Carr, made several trips to the pay phone and returned 

From Staff Reports 

A winter storm watch is in 

effect for the mountains 

of Northeast Tennessee 

today, including Roan 

Mountain. Colder temperatures 

are expected 

to move into 

the area today, and 

any precipitation in 

the mountains will 

be in the form of 

snow. 

Precipitation in 

the lower elevations will be 

Community Thanksgiving Day 

in the form of rain mixed 

with snow. As much as 4 to 6 

inches of snow is forecast 

for the mountains 

of western North Carolina, 

making for 

Thanksgiving 

skiing at Ski 

Beech and other 

ski resorts in 

North Carolina. 

“The rain is 

going to be changing over 

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Volunteers prepare food for the Community Thanksgiving Day Dinner hosted by First 

Christian Church in 2004. 

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Harold McCormick kids give veterans Broadway-style salute 

By Brian Graves 

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They filled the stage with 

all of the star-spangled enthusiasm 

of a professional 

troupe of singers and 

dancers. 

Yes, they had done it once 

last week — but, it felt right. 

Despite the rain and cold 

wind outside, the students of 

Harold McCormick Elementary 

School gave an all-out 

salute to area veterans in a 

performance at T.A. Dugger 

Auditorium Monday night. 

The audience, filled almost 

to capacity, roared with 

cheers and applause as each 

group filled their turn on the 

stage singing the praises of 

America and those who wore 

and now wear the country’s 

uniform. 

“We honor their sacrifice, 

we honor their names,” 

opened the school’s show 

choir and that was the theme 

for the entire evening. 

After the roaring start, a 

more settled moment came 

as faculty member Beth 

Stevens sang “Color Me, 

America” accompanied only 

by the students’ voices and 

the lone drum of student 

Chase Blackwell, appropriately 

dressed in Revolutionary 

garb. 

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One of the real crowdpleasers 

was the group of 

kindergarten and firstgraders 

who gave a real wallop 

to the standards “Yankee 

Doodle,” “You’re A Grand 

Old Flag,” and “Yankee Doodle 

Dandy.” 

Filled with movement and 

color, the youngsters got 

some of the biggest ovations 

of the evening. 

The second and thirdgraders 

took their turn 

dressed in the uniforms of 

the different branches of the 

Armed Forces. 

“Gather around for a story 

you can tell your children’s 

children,” they sang in 

hushed tones to a quite and 

attentive audience. 

They were then joined by 

four local veterans as they 

sang a medley of each of the 

service branches’ anthems. 

Local veterans Christine 

Hunter (Army), Bill Armstrong 

(Navy), Frank Robinson 

(Air Force) and Sid 

Hughes (Marines) joined 

hands with their young 

counterparts as each branch 

was saluted. 

The youngsters got into 

the act as they saluted the 

veterans and the vets saluted 

back. 

Fourth and fifth-graders 

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state of the union. 

“I Love America” told of 

the perseverance and national 

togetherness America has 

as a nation of unique individuals. 

They ended their part in a 

strong rendition of “We Appreciate 

You,” sung especially 

to all of the veterans in attendance. 

One of the most moving 

and poignant moments of 

the evening came when the 

song “God Bless America” 

was played over a slide show 

of soldiers, sailors, airmen 

and Marines. 

What made it so special 

was each picture was captioned 

as being the grandfather, 

uncle, father, mother, 

brother or other relative of 

one of the students or teachers 

who helped with the production. 

The emotions crescendoed 

when all of the students 

gathered for a mass rendition 

of “God Bless the U.S.A.” 

with many of the audience 

adding their voices to the 

newest patriotic standard. 

No one left that auditorium 

without the warmth and 

hopes that this next generation 

may understand what 

they were singing and talking 

about, thereby leaving 

America’s future in very 

good hands. 

Photo by Brian Graves 

Harold McCormick kindergarten and first grade students drew a rave review from the 

audience for their performance last evening at T.A. Dugger Junior High Auditorium. The 

youngsters in a tribute to veterans sang “Yankee Doodle” and “You’re A Grand Old Flag.” 

Senior 

Thanksgiving 

dinner, dance 

A Senior Citizens Dance and 

Thanksgiving Dinner will be 

held at the Elizabethton Elks 

Club from 7 to 10 p.m. Friday. 

The Rambling Rose Band 

will provide the music. The 

charge for the dinner and dance 

is $10. A full-course Thanksgiving 

meal will be served. 

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Tree Lighting 

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The Elizabethton Woman’s Club in a brief ceremony last evening turned the lights on 

for the Love Lights A Tree, located in front of Sycamore Shoals Hospital. The tree is an 

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Two professors rattling preparedness 

for New Madrid earthquakes 

CARBONDALE, Ill. (AP) 

— Harvey Henson knows 

people don’t worry much 

about the prospect of Midwest 

earthquakes. 

But in this region, with one 

of the nation’s most active underground 

faults, it’s that lack 

of preparedness that can make 

him tremble. 

“It’s the nature of what 

we’re dealing with — we 

don’t get tested every 10 to 12 

years like California does,” 

said Henson, a Southern Illinois 

University geophysicist. 

“Public interest wanes, and I 

don’t think it’s a good thing.” 

Henson and Scott Hodgson, 

an associate professor in 

the school’s radio-and-television 

department, have created 

short public-awareness announcements 

to begin airing 

next month between programs 

on WSIU-TV in Carbondale. 

The two educators hope to 

get the spots aired on other 

PBS stations around the New 

Madrid seismic zone, which is 

a network of fissures in the 

earth’s crust from southern 

Illinois near Cairo south 

through parts of Missouri, 

Arkansas, Kentucky and Tennessee. 

The video warns that 

residents in Mississippi and 

Indiana also may feel the effects. 

“If an earthquake hits and 

you have to think for three 

seconds what to do, that’s too 

long. You may have a second,” 

Hodgson said. The 

video spots should “provide a 

visual reference, stuff that 

would instantly just pop into 

your mind if needed.” 

Scientists have warned for 

years that a powerful quake 

could hit any time along the 

New Madrid Fault. 

That zone was blamed for a 

series of some of the largest 

quakes in U.S. history in 1811- 

12. According to many accounts, 

those temblors shook 

the area around New Madrid, 

Mo., causing the Mississippi 

River to run backward for a 

time, church bells to toll on the 

East Coast, and formed 

Reelfoot Lake — Tennessee’s 

largest natural lake. 

Though no instruments existed 

then to measure that 

quake’s strength, estimates 

put it at magnitude 8.0, near 

the top of the earthquake 

range. The Richter scale, 

which measures earthquakes, 

was developed in 1935. 

Two other earthquakes 

Toy drive 

underway 

The Sullivan County Sheriff’s 

Auxiliary is conducting a 

toy drive for needy children. 

The group is accepting donations 

of new or good, clean 

used toys and bicycles for underprivileged 

children in the 

area. 

Last year, the auxiliary collected 

enough toys to give to 

over 200 children, and this year, 

they hope to do even better. 

Toys will be distributed on 

Saturday, Dec. 17. A list of children 

is obtained from area 

schools for the toys to be distributed. 

To make a donation or for 

more information, call Lt. Don 

Monteith at 279-6042 or the 

Sullivan County Sheriff’s Dept. 

at 279-7500. 

‘Scrooge’ 

coming to town 

The Elizabethton High 

School Drama Club will present 

the musical “Scrooge” on 

December 1, 2, and 3rd at 7 

p.m. at the Elizabethton Alliance 

Church in downtown 

Elizabethton. 

Tickets are $7 for adults 

and $5 for students. 

measuring at least an estimated 

magnitude 6 have occurred 

in the New Madrid zone — 

one in 1843, another in 1895. 

Moderately damaging quakes 

have hit the zone every few 

decades since 1900, and nondamaging 

earthquakes that 

are barely felt on the earth’s 

surface happen a couple times 

a year, according to the U.S. 

Geological Survey. 

Scientists give a 7 percent 

to 10 percent probability on 

the likelihood of a New 

Madrid quake the size of the 

1811-12 temblors over the next 

50 years, said Gary Patterson 

of the University of Memphis’ 

Center for Earthquake Research 

and Information. 

There’s a 25 percent to 40 percent 

probability for a smallerbut-still-damaging 

quake of 

6.0 magnitude over the next 

five decades, he said. 

Still, experts have warned 

that the quake that produced 

last December’s deadly tsunami 

in the Indian Ocean — and 

the destruction of Hurricane 

Katrina — should remind 

Midwesterners to be proactive 

in readying for natural disasters. 

“It’s definitely prudent to 

prepare,” Patterson said. 

The possible stakes are 

high: If the New Madrid fault 

ruptures, geological and political 

officials have said the loss 

of key Midwest roads, railways, 

power grids and 

pipelines over the Mississippi 

would likely choke off vital 

supplies to distant cities for 

months. Such a quake also 

could threaten several densely 

populated cities, where buildings 

often predate modern 

building codes and are not reinforced. 

Henson and Hodgson hope 

to stoke awareness with “Suddenly 

... On an Average Day,” 

an updated version of the 

PBS-aired video Hodgson 

made in 1989 — just before 

that year’s 6.9-magnitude California 

quake killed 63 people 

and caused about $6 billion 

dollars in damage to the Bay 

Area. 

The new video warns 

viewers that “Mother Nature 

can strike at any moment. Her 

unpredictability has devastating 

effects on the unsuspecting.” 

The clip then asks, 

“When it happens, will you be 

prepared?” 

It also shows a family’s life 

turned upside down as a 

quake rocks their home. A 

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ceiling fan smashes to the 

floor and dishes shatter as the 

father smartly rides out the 

temblor with his daughter under 

the kitchen table. 

The spot offers suggestions, 

from turning off all utilities 

and open flames after the 

quake. Other tips include bolting 

large furniture to walls before 

a quake hits and setting 

aside a “kit” that has a flashlight, 

battery-powered radio, 

canned food and bottled water. 

Hodgson hopes the campaign 

that cost $160,000 gets 

aired on the more than two 

dozen PBS stations in the New 

Madrid zone. He also wants to 

use grants to help make an 

hour-long video, with much 

of their project available online, 

at schools, malls and other 

agencies. 

State Rep. John Bradley, a 

Marion Democrat, cheers the 

effort. 

“I was tickled to death to 

hear they were taking steps to 

do something like that,” said 

Bradley, who recently met 

with Williamson County, state 

and local emergency officials 

and politicians to talk about 

his district’s preparedness for 

a quake. 

If the “big one” hits, he 

said, individual readiness 

could be crucial. 

“There’s going to be a period 

of time, hopefully very 

short, where people are going 

to have to be their own first 

line of defense,” he said. 

——— 

On the Net: 

U.S. Geological Survey 

earthquake site, http://earthquake.usgs.gov 

Southern Illinois University 

quake site, http://www.science.siu.edu/geology/quakes 

Center of Earthquake Research 

and Information, 

http://www.ceri.memphis.ed 

u 

National Earthquake Information 

Center: http:// 

neic.usgs.gov 

Tips for preparing 

for an earthquake 

The University of Memphis’ Center for Earthquake Research 

and Information offers these tips for preparing for 

and dealing with an earthquake: 

PREPARATION: 

—Have an earthquake survival kit on hand, including 

flashlights, battery-powered radio, bottled water and 

canned food. 

—Teach family members how to turn off gas, water and 

electricity. 

—Plan family emergency procedures, and make plans 

for reuniting your family. 

—Know emergency telephone numbers, including those 

for a doctor, hospital, police and 911. 

—Anchor heavy objects such as bookcases, wall units, 

mirrors and cabinets to walls. 

—Never place heavy objects over beds, and keep heavy 

objects lower than the height of shortest member of family. 

DURING A QUAKE: 

—If you’re inside, stand in doorway or crouch under a 

desk or table, well away from windows or glass dividers. 

—If you’re outside, stand away from buildings, trees, 

telephones and electrical lines. 

—If you’re driving, drive away from underpasses and 

overpasses. Stop in safe area, and stay in vehicle. 

AFTER A QUAKE: 

—Check for injuries and provide first aid. 

—Check for gas, water or sewage breaks, as well as 

downed power lines and shorts. Turn off appropriate utilities. 

—Check for building damage and potential problems 

during aftershocks. 

—Clean up dangerous spills. 

—Wear shoes. 

—Turn on the radio and listen for instructions from public 

safety agencies. 

—Use telephone for emergencies only. 

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Dr. Lee Miller, chairman of the Hampton Utility, was recognized at last week’s County 

Commission meeting for his service to the utility. A resolution honoring Miller was 

presented to him by County Mayor Dale Fair. Pictured at left is Richard Tester, a member 

of the Hampton Utility board. 

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Holiday closings 

• The Tennessee Department of Agriculture Forestry Division 

will close Thursday and Friday, Nov. 24-25, in observance 

of the Thanksgiving holiday. Offices will re-open 

Monday, Nov. 28. 

• The Carter County Solid Waste Landfill will be closed 

Thursday. The landfill will re-open on Friday. 

• The Carter County Courthouse will be closed Thursday 

and Friday for the Thanksgiving holiday. 

• The City of Elizabethton offices will be closed Thursday, 

Nov. 24, and Friday, Nov. 25, to observe Thanksgiving. 

Tuesday and Wednesday garbage collection will be picked 

up on Tuesday and Thursday and Friday will be picked on 

Wednesday. 

Brush for Zone 6 will be collected on Wednesday, Nov. 

23. 

• Offices of the Elizabethton STAR will be closed Thursday, 

however, a Thanksgiving paper will be published late 

Wednesday evening. 

• The Elizabethton Senior Center will be closed Thursday 

and Friday. 

• The Elizabethton-Carter County Public Library will be 

closed Thursday and Friday. 

• All state and federal offices will be closed Thursday 

and Friday. 

• There will be no mail delivery on Thursday, as the Post 

Office will be closed. Also, there will be no window service. 

• All financial institutions in the city will be closed 

Thursday, re-opening Friday for business. 

• City and county schools will be closed Thursday and 

Friday. 

Holiday Calendar 


— With a Winterfest 

theme of “The Night Before 

Christmas,” the holiday season 

will feature a Christmas 

tree exhibit and art show at 

the Sycamore Shoals State 

Historic Area. The exhibit 

will open to the public on 

Sunday, Dec. 4, with a reception. 

The tree exhibit will feature 

Fraser fir Christmas 

trees decorated by local organizations 

with handmade 

ornaments. 

The artists reception will 

be held on Monday, Dec. 5 at 

1:30 p.m. The park will be 

open Monday through Saturday 

from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. 

and on Sunday from 1 to 4:30 

p.m. 

Kingsport 

The Exchange Place in 

Kingsport will have a Country 

Christmas on Saturday 

and Sunday, Dec. 3-4. Celebrate 

Christmas the old-fashioned 

way with foods, crafts 

and entertainment reflecting 

bygone days on the pioneer 

farmstead. 

The celebration on Saturday 

will be from 10 a.m. until 

3 p.m. and on Sunday from 

12 noon until 4:30 p.m. 

Jonesborough 

— A 1940s USO Christmas 

Show featuring music, comedy 

and dance, will be held at 

the Jonesborough Repertory 

Theatre located at 125 Â1/2 

West Main St., Jonesborough. 

Performance dates are December 

9 at 6 p.m. and 8 

p.m.; December 10 at 2:30 

p.m., 4:30 p.m. and 7 p.m.; 

December 11 at 2 p.m., 3:30 

p.m. and 5 p.m. All tickets 

are $8 and may be purchased 

at the Historic Jonesborough 

Visitors Center on 117 Boone 

Street or by calling (423) 753- 

1010. 

— At Home With Santa 

will be held Saturday, Dec. 

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10, in Jonesborough. The free 

holiday event for children 

will feature games, making 

holiday crafts, a visit with 

Santa and Mrs. Claus, shopping 

for the family and carriage 

rides. 

— Also, the annual holiday 

tree exhibit will be held 

Dec. 1-31 at the Historic 

Jonesborough Visitors Centers. 

For hours and more information, 

call the center at 

753-1011. 

— The Annual Christmas 

Craft Show and Sale at the 

Historic Jonesborough Visitors 

Center will be held Friday 

and Saturday, Nov. 25 

and 26 . Hours are 9 a.m. until 

5 p.m. both days. 

— Jonesborough Christmas 

Parade will be held at 6 

p.m. on Saturday, Dec. 10. 

The parade will start at 

Boone Street and travel 

through the beautifully decorated 

historic district. Santa 

will be waiting for everyone 

at the Courthouse immediately 

after the parade. 

Bristol 

The Highlands Youth Ensemble, 

under the direction 

of Beth McCoy, and part of 

the Mountain Empire Children’s 

Choral Academy, will 

perform a holiday concert, 

“Sweet Christmas Suite,” at 7 

p.m. Friday, Dec. 9, at First 

Presbyterian Church, Bristol. 

The performance will consist 

of a variety of secular 

and sacred Christmas music. 

Piney Flats 

Celebrate an 18th century 

Christmas with the William 

Cobb family of Rocky Mount 

in Piney Flats on Friday and 

Saturday, Dec. 2 and 3. Tours 

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Straighten out the Part D maze 

Looking for a reason to 

feel good about yourself? 

Help a Medicare recipient 

navigate the tangled web of 

competing prescription coverage 

plans that went on offer 

last week. 

The enrollment period began 

last week, and it was instantly 

clear that senior citizens 

had been paying attention. 

They logged on to 

www.medicare.gov, they 

called Medicare’s information 

hot line, 1-800-633-4227, 

and they waited. And they 

waited. And waited. And . . . 

They were waiting for 

guidance in deciding which 

of the many plans offered by 

private insurers — more than 

40 just in Tennessee, for instance 

— would best suit 

their needs. Medicare’s computer 

servers were overwhelmed 

by the traffic, 

though. And since the phone 

counselors at the federal 

agency and at state and local 

call centers around the nation 

all use the same Web site, 

they weren’t as much help as 

they should have been, either. 

Other frustrations awaited 

those who managed to get 

logged on: Information on 

some plans was incomplete, 

and people sometimes found 

themselves referred to other 

sources to get the informa- 

WASHINGTON (AP) — 

Most presidents get a boost 

from overseas trips. President 

Bush, though, may return 

from Asia wondering why he 

left U.S. soil in the first place. 

Caught off guard when 

South Korea announced plans 

to pull one-third of its troops 

from Iraq, the president also 

could look back on the home 

front and find things have not 

exactly been quiet. 

Bush returned late Monday 

to even more political acrimony 

than when he left eight 

days ago. The corrosive debate 

over Iraq is eroding his 

second term-agenda and challenging 

the ability of Republican 

leaders in Congress to 

maintain discipline. 

While Bush was away: 

—The Senate signaled impatience 

with the war’s direction 

by voting 79-19 to require 

regular reports on progress in 

Iraq and urging that 2006 be 

“a period of significant transition 

to full Iraqi sovereignty.” 

—Increasingly rebellious 

Republicans defied their leaders 

on domestic spending 

cuts. House leaders narrowly 

won approval of a five-year 

budget cut plan in the wee 

hours of Friday on a 217-215 

vote. 

—The top House Democrat 

on military spending, Rep. 

John Murtha of Pennsylvania, 

withdrew his support for the 

war and advocated a pullout 

over six months. That brought 

sharp criticism from the White 

House and led to tumultuous 

late-night battle when the 

GOP leaders forced a vote on 

an immediate pullout measure 

in hopes of trapping Democrats. 

It was rejected 403-3. 

In a rare across-the-world 

exchange of invective, the 

White House traded daily 

barbs with its Democratic crit- 

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tion they needed. 

Some of those problems 

can be chalked up to the inevitable 

start-up glitches of 

any enterprise that would 

try, on Day One, to serve an 

estimated 43 million people. 

Yes, it could have gone 

much, much better, but if 

everything had gone smoothly, 

it would have been a miracle. 

OPINION 

Medicare and the various 

insurance providers must 

work unceasingly to make 

the plan evaluation and signup 

stage of the system as accessible, 

understandable, 

complete and current as it 

can be. 

Because George W. Bush 

preferred offering a wide variety 

of choices rather than 

one-size-fits-all convenience, 

navigating this system will 

probably never be easy. 

While you’re waiting on hold 

for the next available enrollment 

adviser, you can argue 

whether that was the right 

decision. 

But the bottom line is that 

at the end of this twisted 

rainbow, eligible Medicare 

recipients who persevere 

may well find a pot of gold. 

The government, howev- 

WASHINGTON TODAY 

ics. They accused Bush of manipulating 

prewar intelligence 

and deceiving the nation in 

starting a war he is unable to 

end. 

Bush and his aides said Democrats 

were irresponsible 

and hypocritical, particularly 

those who voted in 2002 to authorize 

the war and now oppose 

it. 

So much for the old maxim 

that “politics stops at the water’s 

edge.” In deference to a 

president’s conduct of foreign 

policy, even lawmakers opposed 

to his approach traditionally 

held their fire while 

the chief executive was overseas, 

especially during 

wartime. 

Bush’s slumping approval 

rating — 37 percent in an AP- 

Ipsos poll, the lowest of his 

presidency — and eroding 

public support for the Iraq war 

are taking a toll on the GOP. 

Republicans fear losing 

their majorities in next year’s 

congressional elections. That is 

spilling over and causing 

problems in other areas, from 

reauthorizing the Patriot Act 

to trimming programs for education, 

health and the poor. 

When the Senate passed a 

$50 billion tax bill early Friday, 

it left out one of Bush’s second-term 

priorities: an extension 

of tax cuts on dividends 

and capital gains that are now 

set to expire after 2008. 

“My colleagues are getting 

nervous,” said Sen. John Mc- 

Cain, R-Ariz. “We talk a lot 

about the president’s unfavorable 

ratings. Have you noticed 

the ratings of Congress lately?” 

The AP-Ipsos poll showed 

that only 32 percent of those 

surveyed said they approved 

of the job Congress was doing. 

Discontent is growing 

among Republicans, moder- 

er, should not be standing 

back and admiring its work. 

It should instead be increasing 

its capacity to assist applicants 

for this new 

Medicare Part D coverage in 

a timely, efficient way. It 

should be working already 

on designing a better version 

of the application and approval 

process. 

Meanwhile, people to 

whom the elderly go for advice 

— doctors, nurses, hospital 

workers, agencies on 

aging and other nonprofit entities 

— should continue to 

educate themselves about the 

drug benefit, so they can take 

some of the frustration out of 

the application process. 

It would be a mistake to 

view Medicare recipients — 

and the elderly in general — 

as helpless in the face of this 

new program’s complexities. 

Sure, some will need a lot of 

help, and many will want reassurance 

that the decisions 

toward which they are inclined 

are indeed wise. 

But what they need most 

is an enrollment system that 

quickly becomes easier to use 

and gives them clearer and 

more complete information 

about their options. They’ll 

make good choices if those in 

charge of the system can get 

the technical obstacles out of 

their way. 

Unease on Iraq is contributing to 

growing GOP malaise on Bush agenda 

EDITORIAL & COMMENTARY 

ates and conservatives, said 

Norman Ornstein, an analyst 

at the American Enterprise Institute 

who specializes in the 

presidency and Congress. 

“They probably wouldn’t 

be angry if Bush were at 55 

percent, or 65 percent, or even 

45 percent,” he said. 

“But put him down where 

he is, with the growing public 

unhappiness with them and 

their nervousness over the 

elections ahead, and it is a bad 

combination,” Ornstein said. 

In Bush’s first term, GOP 

leaders prided themselves on 

their unity and discipline. 

They are hampered now, for a 

variety of reasons: Bush’s 

plunge in the polls; an unpopular 

war; the stepping aside of 

Rep. Tom DeLay as House 

majority leader after his indictment 

in Texas; and a federal 

investigation of Senate Majority 

Leader Bill Frist’s stock 

transactions. 

Further contributing to that 

anxiety are concerns that older 

people — who make up an active 

voting bloc — will be 

frustrated by the level of benefits 

under the new Medicare 

prescription drug plan that 

takes effect early in 2006. 

The growing GOP restiveness 

is making it harder for 

Bush to have his way. 

“The congressional Republicans 

have put the president 

in an awkward spot because 

they seem to be changing their 

minds on Iraq,” said Wayne 

Fields, director of American 

culture studies at Washington 

University in St. Louis and a 

specialist on presidential rhetoric. 

While Bush takes strong 

positions, he is not well 

equipped to make persuasive 

arguments with the public or 

Congress or good at give-andtake, 

Fields said. 

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CAL THOMAS 

How to reach us 

One of the reasons I prefer 

to be known as a conservative 

and not a Republican is 

that Republicans too often 

compromise their ideals, 

hoping the 

Left will like 

them. It never 

works. The 

Left despises 

them anyway 

and, in the 

end, they’ve 

sold out for 

nothing. 

Perhaps this 

explains the 

latest 

CNN/USA Today/Gallup 

survey that finds that just 37 

percent of Americans approve 

of President Bush’s job 

performance. Sixty percent 

disapprove. That disapproval 

is up 2 percent and 

the approval is down 2 percent 

from last month’s survey. 

The survey reveals that 

the depth of dislike for the 

president has increased substantially 

in the last six 

months with 17 percent disliking 

him a little (16 percent 

disliked him a little six 

months ago), 27 percent disliking 

him a lot (up from 13 

percent) and 6 percent hating 

him (a 4 percent increase). 

Considering that 57 percent 

approved of his job performance 

after his State of the 

Union Address last January, 

the decline ought to trouble 

him. 

What he needs, in addition 

to visible progress in 

winding down the war in 

Iraq and fostering a stable 

government that can take 

care of the insurgents, is an 

issue that will re-energize his 

base and show that his administration 

is still relevant. 

That issue should be immigration. 

In light of the pictures we 

have seen of the rioting in 

France, the president should 

re-shape his immigration 

policy from one that works 

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best for immigrants, to one 

that protects the life and culture 

of the majority (for now) 

of us. 

Paul Weyrich, chairman 

and CEO of the Free Congress 

Research and Education 

Foundation and one of 

the substantive brains behind 

the modern conservative 

movement, recently 

wrote in an e-mail: “On no 

issue have a Republican administration 

and a Republican 

House and Senate more 

blatantly or more cynically 

sold out the conservative 

movement and our country 

than on immigration.” He 

calls the Bush administration’s 

proposal for “guest 

workers,” which is nothing 

more than amnesty for illegal 

immigrants and encouragement 

for more to come, 

“a scandal and a disgrace.” 

Weyrich wants to look beyond 

the Bush administration, 

while still trying to 

make use of it whenever possible 

to advance conservative 

causes. “The next conservatism,” 

he writes, “needs to 

recognize that when it comes 

to immigration policy neither 

the Republicans nor the 

Democrats are our friends. . 

The Democrats want open 

borders because most of 

them are cultural Marxists. 

The Republicans agree because 

Wall Street wants 

cheap labor. The next conservatism 

should not be in Wall 

Street’s pocket. Our country 

is more important than their 

profits.” 

No votes should be 

bought at the price of destroying 

what attracts so 

many to our shores. History, 

language, culture and faith 

are at the center of what it 

means to be an American. 

These are rapidly being watered 

down and compromised 

to meet the needs of 

those coming here, often illegally. 

Does pluralism mean 

we have to relinquish what 

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In Chaucer’s Middle English, 

the “bumble” in bumblebee 

had much to do with 

“humming” and nothing to do 

with “bumbling” as we so well 

know it. 

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Am told Arabic has 350 

words for sword. 

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made us great? Surely that is 

too high a price. 

Conservatives, and the 

Bush administration, if it 

wants to save itself, should 

get behind the TRUE Enforcement 

and Border Security 

Act introduced by Representatives 

Duncan Hunter, 

California Republican and 

chairman of the House 

Armed Services Committee, 

and Virgil Goode, Virginia 

Republican. 

The bill seeks to deter illegal 

immigration by enforcing 

laws that sanction employers 

for hiring illegals, ends the 

automatic citizenship for 

children of illegals born in 

America (this might also 

take some constitutional 

reinterpretation by the 

Supreme Court), and removes 

other incentives for 

people who would break our 

laws. If the Bush administration 

and Republican members 

of Congress fail to support 

this measure, it will 

show how empty their rhetoric 

is on the subject and give 

conservatives plenty of time 

to find candidates for office 

who do support it before the 

next two elections. 

Supporting real immigration 

reform would surely 

raise the president’s job approval 

rating, especially if he 

explained it as a national security 

and cultural issue that 

gets to the heart of our identity. 

Paul Weyrich said it best: 

“As conservatives, we need 

to make it clear that we will 

not vote for any candidate 

who refuses to close our borders 

to illegal immigration 

and cut back on legal immigration, 

at least until we can 

acculturate the immigrants 

we already have.” 

Are you listening, Mr. 

President? Are you listening 

Republican Party? If not, 

those approval numbers can 

still go lower and the disapproval 

numbers higher. 

Historians claim to know 

that Hannibal, even while he 

crossed the Alps, wore his wig. 

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We the people are wondrously 

slow to see the obvious, 

are we not? We wore eyeglasses 

for four centuries before 

a London optician named Edward 

Scarlett in 1730 thought 

of anchoring them to our ears. 

Where we began … 

The history of the Elizabethton STAR traces 

back to the Mountaineer, established in 1864. The 

Mountaineer was the first newspaper in Upper 

East Tennessee, changing hands and names numerous 

times over the years. On Oct. 1, 1955, 

Frank Robinson was named publisher. He purchased 

the paper in 1977. On Oct. 1, 1980, his 

son, Charles Robinson, was named publisher. 

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Sonny C. Buckles 

Sonny Clay Buckles, 62, of 

Johnson City, 

died Sunday, 

November 

20, 2005, at 

the James H. 

Quillen VA Medical Center. 

Mr. Buckles was a native 

of Carter County. He was a 

local Elizabethton businessman, 

having operated Sonny’s 

Sunshine Market for 

several years. He attended 

Parkway Baptist Church in 

Bristol. He served in the U.S. 

Air Force during the Vietnam 

Era. 

Mr. Buckles was preceded 

in death by his father, Clay 

Robinson Buckles, who died 

October 2, 2002. 

Survivors include his 

wife, Marcy Buckles; two 

sons and a daughter-in-law, 

Matt and Lora Buckles, Lexington, 

Ky., and Michael 

Buckles, Johnson City; his 

mother: Georgia Danner 

Buckles, Elizabethton; two 

grandchildren, Sydney Buckles 

and Logan Buckles; and 

three sisters and brothers-inlaw, 

Carolyn Janette and 

Robert Buck, Elizabethton, 

Goldia Rebecca and John 

Sommers, Johnson City, and 

Sherry Anne and Gary Montgomery, 

Bristol. Several 

JOHNSON CITY (AP) — 

A popular grove of beech 

trees has been cut down to 

make room for condominiums, 

and the man who felled 

the ancient trees says the 

mayor is responsible. 

Property owner Stewart 

Taylor on Saturday cleared 

the four beech trees that were 

more than 100 years old. He 

blamed their removal on the 

Johnson City Commission’s 

vote last week to deny a rezoning 

request that would 

have allowed commercial development. 

nephews and one niece also 

survive. 

Funeral services for Mr. 

Buckles will be conducted at 

8 p.m. Tuesday, November 

22, at Memorial Funeral 

Chapel with Pastor Gary 

Montgomery officiating. Music 

will be under the direction 

of the Parkway Baptist 

Church. Graveside services 

and interment will be at 1 

p.m. Wednesday, November 

23, in the National Cemetery, 

Mountain Home. Pallbearers 

will be nephews and friends. 

Military Graveside Honors 

will be conducted by the 

Tennessee National Guard 

Honor Detail, Kingsport. The 

family will receive friends 

from 6 to 8 p.m. Tuesday at 

the funeral home. Family 

and friends will assemble at 

the funeral home at 12:15 

p.m. Wednesday to go to the 

cemetery. Condolences to the 

Buckles family may be emailed 

to mfc@chartertn.net. 

Memorial Funeral Chapel 

is in charge of arrangements. 

Arthur “Junior” 

Winters 

Arthur “Junior” Winters, 

77, died Sunday, November 

20, 2005, at Roan Highlands 

“It was (Mayor) Steve Darden’s 

swing vote that forced 

me to build condos and cut 

down the trees,” Taylor said. 

The city had wanted to 

turn the 8.5-acre plot formerly 

owned by the Tennessee 

Valley Authority into a park. 

But in 2003 Taylor outbid 

the city and bought the land, 

which is in the Med Tech 

Corridor, a planning area targeted 

for medical and professional 

development. 

The property, which is 

zoned for high-density residential 

use, is centrally locat- 

ed near East Tennessee State 

University, Mountain Home 

Veteran’s Administration 

Hospital and Johnson City 

Medical Center. 

Darden said he didn’t 

want commercial development 

to have a negative effect 

on the adjacent 60 acres 

of the ETSU’s Innovation 

Park. 

“My hope is that this land 

will support some type of 

medical, technical, life science 

or research related industry 

that will provide more 

rewarding work than mini- 

mum-wage jobs,” Darden 

said. 

Wayne Robertson, a member 

of the ad hoc environmental 

committee ROOTS, 

said many will be unhappy 

about the trees being cut 

down. 

“When I saw that they 

were gone, it was just disbelief 

that he did it,” Robertson 

said. “This was a spite thing. 

It had no other purpose than 

that.” 

Protesters had called for 

preservation of the trees and 

demonstrated at or near the 

site. 

No demonstrators were 

present Saturday. 

“I don’t think anybody 

was expecting this,” Robertson 

said. 

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Nursing Center, Roan Mountain, 

following an extended 

illness. 

Mr. Winters was a lifelong 

resident of Carter County 

where he was the eldest son 

of the late Clyde and Reatha 

Dugger Winters Jones. In addition 

to his parents, he was 

preceded in death by a son, 

Jerry Winters, a sister, Judy 

W. Nidiffer, and a brother, 

Fred Winters. 

Mr. Winters was a member 

of the Church of Jesus 

Christ of Roan Mountain and 

was loved by all who knew 

him. 

Survivors include two 

daughters and a son-in-law, 

Geraldine Winters and Joyce 

and J.G. Hughes, all of Roan 

Mountain; five grandchildren 

and two great-grandchildren; 

four sisters and 

brothers-in-law, Goldie and 

Millard Jones, Roan Mountain, 

Edith and Glenwood 

Arrington, Martinsville, Va., 

Dimple and Larry Varney, 

Frankfort, Ky., and Elizabeth 

and W. Lock Davis, Naho, 

N.C.; and a brother and sister-in-law, 

Ralph and Betty 

Winters, Roan Mountain. 

Many nieces and nephews 

also survive. 

The funeral service for Mr. 

Winters will be conducted at 

2 p.m. Wednesday, November 

23, in the Rhododendron 

Chapel of Tetrick Funeral 

Home, Roan Mountain, with 

Rev. Charlie McKinney and 

Mr. Gerald Holly, minister, 

officiating. Music will be under 

the direction of Laura 

Freire, Patsy Haywood and 

Gloria Holly. Interment will 

follow in the Johnson-Roanview 

Cemetery. Active pallbearers 

will be selected from 

family and friends. Honorary 

pallbearers will be Dr. 

David Kimmel, Dr. Alfred 

Earwood, the staff of Roan 

Highlands Nursing Center 

and Adventa Hospice. While 

flowers are welcome, other 

expressions of sympathy 

may be made to The American 

Cancer Society, c/o Helen 

Wilson, 209 S. Riverside 

Drive, Elizabethton, TN 

37643. The family will receive 

friends from 1 to 2 p.m. 

Wednesday, prior to the service 

in the chapel, and anytime 

at the home of Goldie 

and Millard Jones, 107 Orr 

Street, Roan Mountain. Online 

condolences may be sent 

to the Winters family through 

our Web site at www.tetrickfuneralhome.com. 

Tetrick Funeral Home, 

Elizabethton, is in charge of 

arrangements. Obituary 

Line: (423) 543-4917. Office: 

(423) 542-2232. 

Andrew C. 

Montgomery 

Andrew C. Montgomery 

passed away at the Huger 

Mercy Living Center in 

Phoenix, Ariz., on Sunday, 

November 20, 2005. 

Mr. Montgomery was a 

native of Lenoir City, Tenn., 

and a graduate of Milligan 

College. He was the son of 

the late A.C. and Margaret 

Montgomery. 

Survivors include his wife 

of 57 years, Wilma Edens 

Montgomery; three daughters, 

Sandra Peacock and Andrea 

McClain, both of 

Phoenix, Ariz., and Donna 

Bly, Tigard, Ore.; and a son, 

Monty Montgomery, St. 

Louis, Mo. Seven grandchildren, 

three great-grandchildren 

and three sisters also 

survive. 

Services will be held in 

Phoenix. 

Courtesy of Memorial Funeral 

Chapel. 

U.S. bans poultry from B. Columbia 

after duck tests positive for bird flu 

WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. officials 

need details on a Canadian case of bird 

flu to decide whether to continue a ban 

on poultry from British Columbia. 

Canadian officials said the case of 

flu, confirmed Sunday, wasn’t the virulent 

form in Southeast Asia blamed for 

more than 60 human deaths. Still, the 

U.S. on Monday banned imports of 

poultry from mainland British Columbia 

to prevent the spread of the virus to 

U.S. flocks. 

Canadian officials plan to report to 

the U.S. within 24 hours, according to 

Canada’s chief veterinary officer, Dr. 

Brian Evans. 

Depending on the results, the U.S. 

could restrict imports from a smaller, 

regional area, U.S. Agriculture Department 

spokesman Jim Rogers said. 

“We’re waiting to get more information 

from Canada, at which point we 

could be able to scale back” the ban, 

Rogers said. “We just need that infor- 

JC developer cuts down old Beech trees 

to make room for new condominium complex 

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — 

Gov.-elect Tim Kaine announced 

inaugural plans 

Monday that include a ball 

in southwest Virginia and 

the first inauguration at the 

Colonial Capitol in 

Williamsburg since Thomas 

Jefferson’s oath of office. 

Because of renovations at 

the state Capitol in Richmond, 

the General Assembly 

decided to hold the January 

inauguration in Colonial 

Williamsburg. Jefferson took 

his oath there in 1779. 

mation.” 

The governments of Taiwan, Japan 

and Hong Kong indicated they would 

take similar action. 

The Canadian Food Inspection 

Agency said Sunday that a duck at a 

commercial poultry farm in British Columbia 

had tested positive for bird flu. 

The virus was a low-pathogenic North 

American form that doesn’t kill poultry 

and is not a threat to people, officials 

said. But the virus sickens and weakens 

the birds, and entire flocks are destroyed 

to prevent its spread. 

The virulent form of bird flu in Asia 

has not been found in the U.S. and is 

only now spreading into eastern Europe. 

Authorities there say that cooking 

kills the virus; health officials in the U.S. 

say that eating properly handled and 

cooked poultry is safe. 

The farm with the infected duck, in 

Chilliwack outside of Vancouver, isn’t 

licensed to export. Authorities have be- 

Kaine to take oath in Williamsburg 

“Holding the swearing-in 

ceremony at the Colonial 

Capitol gives us a wonderful 

and unique opportunity to 

celebrate Virginia,” Kaine 

said in a news release. 

The inauguration is 

scheduled for noon on Jan. 

14, followed by the inaugural 

parade and ball. The formal 

ceremony takes place 

during a joint session of the 

House of Delegates and the 

Senate. 

Kaine will also hold inaugural 

events in Abingdon on 

Jan. 7 and in Richmond on 

Jan. 14-15. 

Williamsburg served as 

Virginia’s capital from 1692 

to 1780. 

It was then moved to 

Richmond, which was considered 

a more central location 

and less vulnerable to 

British troops occupying 

parts of Hampton Roads. 

In 1776, Patrick Henry became 

Virginia’s first governor 

chosen by the legislature 

and was sworn in three 

times in Williamsburg. 

gun killing about 56,000 birds on the 

farm with carbon dioxide gas and have 

quarantined four other farms within 

three miles of the area. 

An outbreak of bird flu in 2004 in 

British Columbia prompted the killing 

of 17 million birds. 

Evans said Canada would have preferred 

that the U.S. take no action since 

the virus found in the duck is different 

from the one in Asia. 

“That would have been consistent 

with how we’ve treated low-path findings 

in the United States previously,” he 

said. “But again, we’re working in an 

extremely sensitive international environment 

at this point.” 

The U.S. bans imports of poultry 

from any country where the high-pathogenic 

virus from Asia has been found. 

Those countries include Cambodia, Romania, 

China, Russia, Indonesia, South 

Korea, Japan, Thailand, Kazakhstan, 

Turkey, Laos, Vietnam and Malaysia. 

Arrests 

• Rickey Nathaniel Yelton, 20, 238 S. Broadway, Johnson 

City, was arrested Sunday afternoon by Carter County Sheriff’s 

Department Sgt. Tim Lowe on a capias charging him 

with failure to appear in court. 

• David Lynn Whitaker, 34, 139 Gilbert Lane, Bristol, was 

arrested Saturday night by CCSD Deputy Michael Carlock 

and charged with DUI, driving without a license and violation 

of the financial responsibility law. 

• Teresa Ann Smith, 32, 139 Gilbert Lane, Bristol, was arrested 

Saturday night by CCSD Deputy Michael Carlock and 

charged with two counts of possession of Schedule IV drugs. 

• Joshua A. Hobbs, 19, 308 Peach Blossom Court, Johnson 

City, was arrested Saturday night by CCSD Deputy Eric Buck 

and charged with possession of Schedule VI drugs. 

• Phillip Steve Presnell, 22, 343 Sims Hill Road, was arrested 

early Friday morning by CCSD Deputy Eric Buck on a 

warrant charging him with violation of probation. 

• Robert James Moffitt, 30, 340 Lovers Lane, was arrested 

Friday night by Tennessee Constable Harvey Shaffer and 

charged with first offense driving on a revoked license. 

• Phillip Hamilton Ray, 21, 139 Elisha Garland Cemetery 

Road, Roan Mountain, was arrested Friday morning by 

CCSD Deputy Noah Tidwell and charged with possession of 

Schedule VI drugs. 

• Ryant Lee Pinnix, 30, 708 King St., Reedsville, N.C., was 

arrested Wednesday by CCSD Deputy Amos Halava on two 

capiases charging him with failure to appear in court. 

• Krystal Nichole Huser, 21, 212 Jenkins Hollow Road, was 

arrested Friday night by Tennessee Constable Bobby Canter 

on a warrant charging her with violation of probation. 

• Ralph Edward Taylor, 31, 1738 Red Brush Road, Mountain 

City, was arrested Saturday morning by CCSD Deputy 

Kevin Cable on a capias charging him with failure to appear 

in court. 

Two arrested 

after police pursuit 

By Abby Morris-Frye 

STAR STAFF 

amorris@starhq.com 

Two North Carolina men 

were arrested early Saturday 

morning following a police 

pursuit on Highway 19E. 

The driver of the vehicle, 

Todd Dwight Henson, 19, 

1264 Hickory Nut Gap Road, 

Newland, N.C., was charged 

with third offense DUI, felony 

evading arrest, violation of the 

light law, possession of a 

handgun while under the influence, 

two counts of reckless 

endangerment and aggravated 

assault on an officer. 

The vehicle’s owner and 

passenger, Allen Elvis Jenkins, 

20, 255 Hughes Lane, Linville, 

N.C., was charged with DUI 

by consent, public intoxication 

and possession of a handgun 

while under the influence. 

According to a police report 

on the incident, Constable 

Harvey Shaffer was on 

routine patrol on Highway 

19E headed south bound near 

the upper intersection with 

Rittertown Road when he observed 

a vehicle traveling 

north bound with a headlight 

out. 

“I then turned on the vehicle 

to conduct a traffic stop. 

After getting behind the vehicle 

I observed the tag number 

on the vehicle... which was 

previously dispatched 

through 911 Communications 

Center to be on the lookout 

due to a pursuit which occurred 

in Avery County, 

N.C.,” states Shaffer in his report. 

“I followed the vehicle a 

short distance while other 

units could assist. When I 

reached the intersection of 

Highway 321 and Highway 

19E the vehicle then began to 

speed away.” 

At that time, according to 

the report, Shaffer activated 

his vehicle’s emergency lights 

and sirens in order to attempt 

to initiate a traffic stop on the 

vehicle but the driver continued 

to flee. 

“The driver turned in the 

Hampton Pharmacy parking 

lot then back toward Highway 

19E. The vehicle then 

turned south on Highway 

19E. At this time I still pursued 

the driver with the vehicle 

refusing to stop,” states 

Shaffer in his report. “At this 

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time (Carter County Sheriff’s 

Department) Deputy Chad 

Grindstaff joined the pursuit 

which continued into Roan 

Mountain. The driver then 

turned right onto Old Highway 

19E. At this time the driver 

of the vehicle swerved, 

striking my cruiser. I then 

turned to the left and was 

struck once again, nearly 

striking a parked vehicle. 

“At this time the vehicle 

stopped with the driver fleeing 

on foot, which a foot pursuit 

ensued. The passenger remained 

in the vehicle and was 

placed in custody by Deputy 

Grindstaff. The driver was located 

by myself and other officers 

next to a creek in heavy 

brush.” 

After locating the driver, 

officers identified him as Henson 

and took him into custody. 

During a search of his 

person, officers located a pair 

of brass knuckles in his jacket 

pocket. 

“Also, the driver had a 

strong odor of an alcoholic 

beverage about his person,” 

states Shaffer in his report. 

“While Deputy (Brad) Hamm 

and myself were conducting 

an inventory on the vehicle a 

loaded 22-caliber Lorcin 

handgun was located under 

the passenger front seat, 

which neither would claim 

the handgun’s ownership. 

“The passenger, who was 

identified as Allen Jenkins, 

stated he owned the vehicle 

and had picked Henson up at 

a store in Newland and was 

letting him drive to Statesville, 

N.C. Mr. Jenkins also had a 

strong odor of alcohol about 

his person.” 

At that time, both Henson 

and Jenkins were transported 

to the Carter County Jail. Both 

men are scheduled to appear 

in Carter County General Sessions 

Court today. 

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Lifestyles … 

Rising grocery costs not as bad 

as feared as Thanksgiving nears 

CHICAGO (AP) — Stocking 

the fridge and pantry for 

a big feast at Thanksgiving is 

never cheap. But consumers 

who were braced for steeper 

costs because of the recent 

spike in energy prices can relax 

a little when they head to 

the supermarket before the 

holiday. 

Thanks to stiff retail competition 

that keeps stores 

from risking big markups, 

prices for most food items are 

only nominally higher than a 

year ago, according to government 

data and survey results 

released this past week. 

Even shoppers with full 

carts weren’t grumbling in a 

spot check at a Chicago supermarket, 

finding that 

prices hadn’t shot up as was 

feared in the aftermath of fall 

hurricanes that wreaked havoc 

with transportation costs. 

“I’d say things are up a little 

bit but not much,” said 

Paul Stancy, who was loading 

up on food and beverages 

Thursday at the store on 

the city’s northwest side. 

That sentiment jibed with 

monthly statistics reported 

Wednesday by the U.S. Labor 

Department showing that 

food costs edged up 0.3 percent 

in October, only a slight 

acceleration. 

“I think we’re seeing higher 

food prices than we would 

have absent the increases in 

energy costs,” said Ephraim 

Leibtag, food price analyst 

for the U.S. Department of 

Agriculture. “But we haven’t 

seen anything go off the 

Cost of trimmings 

Despite concerns about inflation 

and higher energy prices, the 

average cost of this year’s 

Thanksgiving feast is just $1.10 

more than last year, according 

to an annual survey. 

Price of basic Thanksgiving 

food items for 10 people 

$37 

36 

35 

$36.78 

34 

33 

32 

31 

30 

$29.64 $35.68 

29 

’95 ’97 ’99 ’01 ’03 ’05 

NOTE: Items surveyed include turkey, 

stuffing, sweet potatoes, rolls, butter, peas, 

cranberries, carrots, celery, pumpkin pie, 

whipped cream, coffee and milk 

SOURCE: American Farm 

Bureau Federation 

charts price-wise.” 

Food price inflation has 

been relatively low in 2005, 

he added, with costs estimated 

to increase about 3 percent 

over last year. 

That’s exactly how much 

more a traditional Thanksgiving 

dinner with all the fixings 

is likely to cost a shopper 

this year compared with 

2004, according to the American 

Farm Bureau Federation. 

Based on results of informal 

price checks conducted by 

108 volunteer shoppers in 30 

states, the average cost of this 

year’s feast for 10 is $36.78, 

up $1.10 from 2004. 

Milk, pumpkin pie mix, 

frozen vegetables, stuffing 

and rolls were all higher in 

‘Harry Potter’ dominates 

weekend box office 

LOS ANGELES (AP) — 

The bespectacled boy wizard 

has worked his biggest boxoffice 

magic to date. 

“Harry Potter and the 

Goblet of Fire” grossed $101.4 

million in its debut weekend, 

the best results yet for the 

franchise, according to studio 

estimates released Sunday. 

The latest Potter movie led 

a lineup that helped reverse 

the Hollywood box-office 

slump, with the top 12 films 

raking in $171 million, up 19 

percent from the same weekend 

last year when “National 

Treasure” was No. 1 with 

$35.1 million. 

“Goblet of Fire” was the 

fourth-best, three-day opening 

weekend ever, behind 

“Spider-Man” at $114.8 million 

in 2002 and “Star Wars: 

Episode III — Revenge of the 

Sith” and “Shrek 2,” at $108 

million apiece. 

The fourth installment of 

the adventures of Harry and 

his curious classmates at the 

Hogwarts School of Witchcraft 

and Wizardry is the first 

Potter film to earn a PG-13 

rating for its fantasy violence 

and special effects. But that 

did not deter audiences. 

“The Potter franchise is 

just irresistible to moviegoers,” 

said Paul Dergarabedian, 

president of box-office 

tracker Exhibitor Relations. 

“The combination of the Potter 

books and the love audiences 

have for the movies 

conspired a big opening 

weekend.” 

Debuting in second place 

was the Johnny Cash film 

biopic “Walk the Line,” 

which took in $22.4 million. 

The film chronicles the early 

musical career of Cash, 

played by Joaquin Phoenix, 

and also stars Reese Witherspoon 

as Cash’s lifelong love, 

June Carter. Phoenix and 

Witherspoon do their own 

singing. 

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mated film “Chicken Little,” 

which held the top spot last 

week, slipped to No. 3 with 

$14.8 million. Jennifer Anniston’s 

thriller “Derailed” 

ranked fourth with $6.5 million 

and the sci-fi fantasy 

“Zathura: A Space Adventure” 

rounded out the top 

five with $5.1 million. 

Based on the best-selling 

books by J.K. Rowling, “Goblet 

of Fire” follows 14-yearold 

Harry, who unwillingly 

competes against three older 

wizards in a dangerous Triwizard 

Tournament. The 

movie features a dramatic 

face-off between Harry and 

Lord Voldemort — He-Who- 

Must-Not-Be-Named — the 

dark warlock who killed Harry’s 

parents and who tried to 

kill him when he was a baby. 

Dan Fellman, head of distribution 

at Warner Bros., 

which released “Goblet of 

Fire,” said the results exceeded 

the studio’s expectations. 

The third Potter film, “Prisoner 

of Azkaban,” premiered 

last year at $93.7 million. 

“As the audience has gotten 

older in time, faithful 

readers of the Potter books 

will remain faithful to the 

movies,” Fellman said. 

Estimated ticket sales for 

Friday through Sunday at 

U.S. and Canadian theaters, 

according to Exhibitor Relations 

Co. Inc. Final figures 

were to be released Monday. 

1. “Harry Potter and the 

Goblet of Fire,” $101.4 million 

2. “Walk the Line,” $22.4 

million 

3. “Chicken Little,” $14.8 

million 

4. “Derailed,” $6.5 million 

5. “Zathura,” $5.1 million 

6. “Jarhead,” $4.8 million 

7. “Get Rich or Die Tryin,” 

$4.4 million 

8. “Saw II,” $3.9 million 

9. “Legend of Zorro,” $2.3 

million 

10. “Pride and Prejudice,” 

$2.1 million 

price while sweet potatoes 

and fresh cranberries were 

among items that were lower, 

thanks to more abundant 

crops this year. 

The slight overall increase 

can largely be attributed to 

higher energy prices which 

affect processing, packaging, 

refrigeration and shipping 

costs, said Terry Francl, a senior 

economist at the federation. 

Kraft Foods Inc., the 

biggest U.S. food manufacturer, 

gave a similar explanation 

earlier this month in 

boosting prices for its crackers, 

pizza, lunch meats and 

some other items an average 

3.9 percent. The entire packaged 

food industry, in fact, 

has been hammered by the 

price of oil, affecting plastic 

packaging expenses and the 

cost of energy involved in 

running plants and transporting 

goods. 

So why aren’t shoppers 

facing sharply higher prices 

across the board? 

It’s the same reason why 

the biggest U.S. airlines continue 

to offer bargain fares 

even while losing money: 

Customers will vote with 

their feet if they don’t. 

“Food manufacturers have 

tried raising prices but every 

time they do they lose market 

share,” said Bob Goldin, an 

analyst at the Chicago-based 

food consultancy Technomic 

Inc. “It’s intensely competitive 

out there.” 

General Mills Inc. and 

Campbell Soup. Co. both lost 

sales by putting through 

price increases that their 

competitors didn’t follow. 

Supermarkets, then, are 

understandably leery about 

imposing price rises beyond 

the ones dictated by manufacturers. 

Plan for seconds … 

A sizing buyers’ guide for 

those hosting the holiday is a 

general rule of thumb—one 

pound per person. 

WEIGHT NUMBER 

(LBS.) OF PEOPLE 

8-12 8 

12-14 12 

14-18 14 

18-20 18 

20-24 20 

“Grocery store owners 

know energy prices have 

risen a lot, so if they raise 

their prices as well they’re 

likely to see reduced sales,” 

said Corinne Alexander, an 

agricultural economist at 

Purdue University. “It doesn’t 

make sense for a retailer 

to raise prices in response to 

a short-term energy spike.” 

Another reason why the 

impact on food prices hasn’t 

been dramatic despite Katrina 

and other hurricanes is 

that wholesale beef and dairy 

prices have dropped from 

last year’s record highs, giving 

retailers an extra cushion 

to absorb some of the greater 

energy-related costs, she 

said. 

This doesn’t mean grocery 

bills are immune from higher 

energy costs indefinitely. Experts 

say creeping increases 

in food prices are more likely 

to show up more and more if 

oil prices don’t keep dropping. 

“Consumers so far have 

not had to pay up too much,” 

said Diane Swonk, chief 

economist at Mesirow Financial, 

a Chicago-based financial 

services firm. “But we are 

starting to see some of the increased 

transportation costs 

seep into food costs and that 

will be somewhat apparent 

this holiday season.” 

Also, while the cost of 

Thanksgiving dinner may be 

going up only marginally, 

getting there will be much 

more expensive — gasoline 

prices are up roughly 50 percent 

from a year ago. 

Swonk joked that strong 

consumer spending on alcohol 

might be linked to that. 

“Apparently once they fill 

up their tanks they need a 

wine or beer to calm themselves 

down again,” she said. 

WEIGHT’ FRIDGE WATER 

(LBS.) (DAYS) (HOURS) 

4-12 1-3 2-6 

12-16 3-4 6-8 

16-20 4-5 8-10 

20-24 5-6 10-12 

Oven sit 

Stuffed 

turkeys 

should 

sit longer 

to cook 

the insides 

thoroughly. 

Serving it up 

Allow the turkey to settle and 

cool for at least 20 minutes 

before slicing. 

Slice it right 

Start by removing the drumsticks from the body. Slice or peel 

meat from them after they have cooled a bit. 

Slice 

under 

breast, 

to middle 

of the 

turkey 

SOURCE: United States Department of Agriculture, Butterball 

Freezer learn 

Thawing the bird properly is 

important to the cooking process. 

Frozen turkey average 

thaw times: 

Fixing it fresh 

Fresh , nonfrozen 

turkeys 

should be 

refrigerated, 

then cooked 

within 1 to 2 

days after 

purchase. 

WGT. EMPTY STUFFED 

(LBS.) (IN HOURS) 

8-12 2 3 /4-3 3-3 1 /2 

12-14 3-3 3 /4 3 1 /2-4 

14-18 3 3 /4-4 1 /4 4-4 1 /4 

18-20 4 1 /4 -4 1 /2 4 1 /4 -4 3 /4 

20-24 4 1 /2 - 5 4 3 /4 -5 1 /2 

Slice from 

top to 

bottom, 

pull slice 

away, then 

cut again 

Janet Hamlin • AP 

DEAR ABBY 

Rude cell phone use 

requires new etiquette 

DEAR ABBY: I’m writing 

about cell phone conversations 

in a public eatery. Granted, 

most of the time it can be 

avoided - and should be. However, 

there are exceptions, and 

bystanders should not be so 

judgmental. I’m a hospice 

nurse and am often on call, yet 

not at the office. 

I must take the 

calls I receive 

and often work 

through complex 

problems 

on the phone, 

no matter 

where we are or 

what we are 

doing. Sometimes 

the calls are quite 

lengthy; sometimes there are 

none at all. 

Bystanders who might 

judge my cell phone use do me 

a great disservice, and likewise 

people in other professions. 

My family is just glad that I can 

go out and enjoy time with 

them, even when I’m “working.” 

They appreciate what I 

do and are proud that I give 

these worthy patients attention 

when they need it. Please consider 

that when you are a bystander, 

you might not know 

the “rest of the story.” — 

NURSE IN ADA, OKLA. 

DEAR NURSE: While your 

cell phone use in restaurants 

might be necessary, you know 

as well as I do that most conversations 

aren’t. You are the 

exception. Read on: 

DEAR ABBY: After reading 

about obnoxious cell phone 

use in your column, I had to 

share something I saw. I was 

waiting in line at a bank while 

a mother on a cell phone was 

doing her transactions. Her 10year-old 

daughter was at her 

side. 

The mother was in not one, 

but two conversations: “Yeah, 

yeah, that’s right. No, no, I was 

talking to HIM. OK, fine! No, 

no, I was talking to HER.” Finally 

finished and still talking, 

the woman walked outside, 

and I went to the teller’s window. 

I quickly finished my business 

and noticed the daughter 

was still standing next to me. I 

took her outside and found the 

mother getting into a convertible, 

still on the cell phone, as 

was the (male) driver. As the 

child and I neared the car, I realized 

the two adults were 

talking to each other! — 

ANDY IN TUCSON 

DEAR ABBY: I informed 

my 17-year-old daughter that 

when we are together, it’s of- 

DALLAS (AP) — Too busy 

to take a four-hour CPR 

course? New research shows 

the lifesaving procedure can 

be effectively taught in a little 

more than 20 minutes. 

The finding, presented 

Sunday at an American 

Heart Association meeting in 

Dallas, could broadly expand 

the number of Americans 

who can perform CPR. 

“It’s brilliant,” said Dr. 

Lance Becker, director of the 

Emergency Resuscitation 

Center at the University of 

Chicago. “I think it’s going to 

make our ability to train people 

much, much easier.” 

The study, led by Dr. 

Ahamed Idris, professor of 

emergency medicine at the 

University of Texas Southwestern 

Medical Center in 

Dallas, found that just five 

minutes of training on defibrillator 

use and 20 minutes of 

instruction in CPR was as effective 

as the standard fourhour 

course. 

Idris said it makes sense 

fensive and rude for her to be 

on the cell phone. I don’t mind 

a quick, “I’m having dinner 

with my mom; I’ll get back to 

you later.” I give her the same 

respect, even when her father 

calls me. In other words, all 

members of this family extend 

the same courtesy to each other. 

— THERESA IN SUGAR- 

LAND, TEXAS 

DEAR ABBY: I work in retail, 

and this has happened to 

me. When a customer approaches 

me while talking on a 

cell phone and tries to hand 

me the merchandise, I smile 

and say, “No, don’t give it to 

me yet! Finish your call. It 

must be important.” Then I 

just stand there. I’m always polite 

and cordial, and you’d be 

amazed how quickly they get 

the “hint.” — LOVES MY JOB 

DEAR ABBY: An old boss 

invited me out to lunch; however, 

within only a few minutes 

of our being seated, he 

took a cell phone call. I sat 

there for 20 minutes trying not 

to listen in, then finally I got 

up, walked out and went 

home. He called me later, upset 

that I had “abandoned” 

him. My response: “I thought 

we were having lunch together, 

but you were busy.” We’ve 

had lunch several times since, 

and he always turns his cell 

phone off as we take our seats. 

— READER IN THE SOUTH- 

WEST 

DEAR ABBY: I have a suggestion. 

If you notice someone 

ignoring his or her dinner 

companion and talking at 

length on a cell phone, it might 

be a kindness to invite the ignored 

person to join you. Not 

only could you make a friend, 

the rude person might get the 

hint that such behavior is unacceptable. 

— TERI IN LYNN, 

MASS. 

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Participants were tested by 

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Sports Editor: Jamie Combs 

Daytime Phone: (423) 542-4151 

Fax: (423) 542-2004 

E-Mail: jcombs@starhq.com 

Reporting Scores: 

To report a sports score call (423) 

542-1545 after 9 p.m. Sunday- 

Thursday and Saturday. 

Sports Spectrum 

Tim Chambers 

Best prep 

sports fans 

found in 

Carter Co. 

With the score tied 14-14, 

Hampton reached down for a 

little extra in the fourth quarter. 

The offensive line began 

moving the orange and black 

jerseys three yards off the ball. 

Adam Townsend proved 

himself as a legitimate all-state 

running back by slithering 

through every crease, crack 

and cranny that he could find 

en route to 184 yards rushing. 

Jon Potter was unstoppable, 

running like a monster truck 

over wrecked cars, crushing 

ever tackler that got in his way. 

The coaching was superb, yet 

one of the most important factors 

was overlooked by us media. 

Thousands of Hampton 

fans braved temperatures in 

the low 20’s to cheer on their 

beloved Bulldogs, yet many 

fans were present from Cloudland, 

Happy Valley, Unaka 

and Elizabethton. I’ve always 

said that Carter County has the 

best prep sports fans, and here 

are my reasons why. 

When Unaka boys won the 

Class A state championship in 

2004 a near-capacity crowd inside 

the Murphy Center stood 

cheering for the Rangers down 

the stretch, although some 

were not dressed in maroon 

and white. Several people 

from rival schools made the 

five-hour trip, hoping to see a 

school from Carter County 

win a state championship. 

The same can be said for 

Cloudland when it finished 

runner-up in the BlueCross 

bowl during the 2002 football 

season. Everyone wanted the 

Highlanders to bring back that 

gold football back to Roan 

Mountain, including all the 

other local schools. 

The same can be said about 

Happy Valley’s 1974 Class A 

championship or the Cyclones 

when they advanced to the 4- 

A football semifinals in 1997, 

1998 and 1999 during the Jason 

Witten era. 

Whether on the gridiron, 

hardwood or baseball diamond, 

it’s dog eat dog when 

all five Carter County teams 

compete against each other. 

Community bragging rights is 

also on the line for players, 

coaches and fans. 

But see one go down the 

road without the other, and 

watch how Ranger, Highlander, 

Warrior and Cyclone 

backers become Bulldog supporters. 

It would be the same 

for the other four schools if any 

of them were playing this deep 

in the playoffs. 

Friday night, Hampton is 

up against what most feel to be 

the top Class A football team 

across the state in Trousdale 

County. Quarterback Dustin 

Dillehay has already broken 

the school’s career passing 

record yet another record 

needs to be broken Friday 

night. 

Every football fan in Carter 

County needs to be in attendance 

at J.C. Campbell StadinSee 

SPECTRUM, 9 

GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) — Minnesota’s 

offense isn’t dead. With the 

steady hand of Brad Johnson, neither 

is the Vikings’ season. 

For the second time this season, 

Paul Edinger kicked a winning 

field goal against Green Bay, a 27yarder 

as time expired that gave the 

Vikings a 20-17 win Monday night 

and keep their playoff hopes alive. 

After struggling mightily on offense 

since quarterback Daunte 

By Tim Chambers 

STAR STAFF 

tchambers@starhq.com 

Central had a Tiger by the tail in 

the early going, but in the end it was 

Hunter which prevailed. Holding on 

down the stretch, the Tigers won the 

boys game 58-52. 

Hunter took the girls contest 48-19. 

The boys game was nip and tuck 


Culpepper was lost for the season, 

the Vikings put together a solid 

showing behind Johnson with 196 

yards passing and running back 

Mewelde Moore, who had 122 

yards on 22 carries. 

The 37-year-old Johnson set up 

Edinger’s kick with a nine-play, 58yard 

drive in the final 3 minutes 

and three seconds after Green Bay 

tied it at 17. 

Minnesota coach Mike Tice shuf- 

in the first quarter, with three lead 

changes in the first six minutes. Central 

collected four points each from 

Drew Clark, Derek Mann and Dustin 

White in the period, but six points 

apiece from Josh Peterson and Chris 

Pierce helped Hunter lead 17-13 lead 

after one. 

The slugfest was tight-fisted 

throughout the second period as the 

score saw three ties, the last one at 

fled his offensive line this week 

hoping to inject some life into the 

offense that struggled to just 137 

yards last week against the Giants. 

He started 380-plus-pound Toniu 

Fonoti at left guard and Cory Withrow 

at center. It worked, for the 

most part. 

Johnson was sacked five times, 

fumbling twice, and Minnesota 

couldn’t muster much offense in 

the first half. But just like last week 

By Marvin Birchfield 

STAR STAFF 

mbirchfield@starhq.com 

The Jr. Bulldogs experienced 

another close encounter 

on their home floor Monday 

night, but just as they did 

against Happy Valley last 

week, they fended off Johnson 

County by a 24-22 score. 

Hampton had to battle the 

entire way in order to pull off 

the winning bucket with under 

a minute left. 

“We’re really struggling on 

offense right now, and we 

have become our own worse 

enemy,” said Hampton coach 

Leon Tolley. “We played hard 

and good enough to win on 

the defensive end, but when 

you put up just 24 points, then 

you’re not going to win many 

ballgames.” 

The ‘Dogs trailed by one after 

the first period of action, but 

25. Two consecutive three-point 

plays by Chris Pierce enabled Hunter 

to lead 31-25 at intermission. 

“I thought our kids came out and 

played Unaka High School style basketball,” 

said Hunter coach Chris 

Collins. “That is the way we want 

them to play.” 

Hunter appeared to break the 

game open in the third, outscoring 

the Comets 17-8 with Dakota Waters 

Photo by Danny Davis 

T.A. Dugger’s Kadey Robinson tries to keep the ball from 

Sevier’s J.C. Williams. 

Scoreboard • 8 

Lady Vols • 8 

EHS Football • 9 

Game-ending FG lifts Vikings 


Hampton’s Dylan Ward looks to dribble around Mikey Freeman of 

Johnson County. 

Lady Jr. 

Rangers 

post win 

from staff reports 

Riding a strong offensive 

showing from Danielle Jones and 

two decisive quarters, Unaka’s 

Lady Jr. Rangers captured a 37-22 

homecourt victory over Keenburg 

on Monday afternoon. 

Unaka (2-2) trailed the Lady 

Tigers 4-3 at the end of the first 

quarter, but outscored Keenburg 

12-1 in the second to go up 15-5. 

Keenburg was still in the game 

at the end of the third stanza, 

trailing 24-17, then the Rangers 

had their way down the stretch. 

Jones scored a game-high 16 

points, and Unaka got a solid 10point 

performance from Taylor 

Nidiffer. 

Tops for the Tigers was Connie 

Harrell with nine points. Chelsea 

Moore added eight. 

Unaka was also victorious in 

the boys game. 

— when the Vikings returned a 

punt, kickoff and interception for 

touchdowns — they found other 

ways to score. 

With Green Bay driving, 

Dovonte Edwards intercepted Brett 

Favre’s pass and returned it 51 

yards for a touchdown with just 

more than a minute left in the first 

half. 

“It was exciting,” Edwards said. 

nSee VIKINGS, 8 

Jr. Bulldog 

teams deny 

Johnson Co. 

responded back to take a twopoint 

advantage into halftime. 

Johnson County got a couple 

of buckets inside from post 

player Wade Tugman, who led 

the ‘Horns on the night with 12 

points. 

A rebound and putback inside 

from Tugman gave the 

‘Horns an 8-5 lead midway 

through the second period. 

Hampton stormed back in 

the final minutes with a basket 

down low by Adam Taylor 

and free throw coming from 

Billy Berry. 

Logan Andrews came up 

with a buzzer-beating shot off 

a rebound to give the ‘Dogs a 

10-8 lead heading into the half. 

Hampton captured the first 

two baskets of the third period 

when Zach Deyton came up 

with a loose ball and executed 

a drive inside. 

Deyton scored six of the 

nSee JR. BULLDOGS, 9 

Hunter boys, girls quell Central 

tossing down nine in the period. 

Central got in serious foul trouble, 

losing point guard White to fouls 

while two other players had four 

each. 

Hunter suffered a severe blow 

when Chris Pierce went down with a 

shoulder injury with 52 seconds remaining 

in the third. At that point, 

Central started its comeback. 

nSee HUNTER, 9 

TAD girls 

too much 

for Sevier 

By Wes Holtsclaw 

STAR STAFF 

wholtsclaw@starhq.com 

Jasmine Jefferson is well on her 

way to becoming one of the top 

girls basketball players in the 

area. 

But she’s got to finish middle 

school first. 

The T.A. Dugger forward tallied 

an impressive double-double 

with 18 points and a whopping 16 

rebounds to guide the Lady Cyclones 

to their second conference 

win of the season, a 37-30 decision 

over John Sevier. 

“Jasmine has really stepped up 

for us,” said T.A. Dugger coach 

Angie Barker, whose team is now 

5-1 with the 2-0 league mark. 

“She’s playing hard. She had an 

ankle injury, but she’s bounced 

back and become a leader on this 

team.” 

nSee TAD, 9


FOOTBALL 

Prep Playoff Glance 

Friday’s Games 

Division 1 Class 5A 

Semifinals 

Riverdale at Oak RIdge 

Ridgeway at Ravenwood 


Semifinals 

Maryville at Morristown West 

Melrose at Hillsboro 


Semifinals 

Notre Dame at Livingston Academy 

Covington at David Lipscomb 


Semifinals 

Tyner at Alcoa 

Huntingdon at Good Pasture 


Semifinals 

Trousdale Co. at Hampton 

Union City at Jo Byrns 

All-MLC Team 

ALL-MOUNTAIN LAKES 

CONFERENCE TEAM 

Coach of the Year—Stacey Carter, Sullivan 

South 

Player of the Year—Jake McMillin, Sullivan 

South 

Athlete of the Year—Chris Frazier, Sullivan 

North 

Offensive Player of the Year—Curt 

Phillips, Sullivan South 

Defensive Player of the Year—Justin 

Dykes, Sullivan South 

First Team 

Offense 

QB—Daniel Booher, Tennessee High, Sr. 

FB—Josh Puckett, Sullivan North, Sr. 

FB—Justin Miller, Sullivan Central, Sr. 

HB—Brian Clarke, Sullivan Central, Sr. 

HB—Michael Nidiffer, Sullivan East, Sr. 

TE—Beau Hauldren, Sullivan South, Sr. 

WR—Ryan Kennedy, Elizabethton, Sr. 

WR—Chris Colley, Sullivan East, Jr. 

WR—Shaud Johnson, Tennessee High, Sr. 

C—Brooks Morelock, Sullivan South, Sr. 

G—Austin Peterson, Sullivan East, Sr. 

G—Seth Pearson, Sullivan South, Jr. 

G—Brandon White, Sullivan North, Jr. 

T—Ryan Collier, Sullivan South, Jr. 

T—Russell Fogleman, Tennessee High, Jr. 

T—Logan Cook, Sullivan North, Jr. 

K—Nathan Miller, Tennessee High, Sr. 

Defense 

E—Chris Eads, Sullivan East, Jr. 

E—Dustin Street, Sullivan North, Sr. 

E—Brent Davis, Sullivan South, Sr. 

T—Ryan Humphrey, Johnson County, Jr. 

T—Nathan Bryant, Tennessee High, Jr. 

T—Andrew Murray, Sullivan South, Jr. 

MLB—Scott Crump, Tennessee High, Sr. 

MLB—Andy King, Sullivan North, Jr. 

MLB—Paul Wingfield, Sullivan South, Jr. 

OLB—Jeff Brinker, Johnson County, Sr. 

OLB—Josh Tester, Sullivan East, Sr. 

OLB—Tyson McDaniel, Tennessee High, 

Sr. 

CB—Jesse Atwood, Johnson County, Sr. 

CB—Andy Ollis, Unicoi County, Jr. 

CB—Preston Smith, Elizabethton, Jr. 

S—Tyler Stickley, Tennessee High, Jr. 

S—Jordan Kitzmiller, Sullivan South, Jr. 

P—Anthony Todt, Sullivan East, Jr. 

——— 

Second Team 

Offense 

QB—Ryan Scott, Unicoi County, Jr. 

FB—Ryan Shaw, Tennessee High, Sr. 

FB—Daniel Bishop, Unicoi County, Sr. 

HB—Colin Sandidge, Sullivan South, Sr. 

HB—James Peterson, Elizabethton, Sr. 

TE—Drew Rice, Unicoi County, So. 

TE—Jeff Castle, Sullivan North, Jr. 

WR—Hunter Compton, Sullivan South, 

Sr. 

WR—Jessee Lane, Sullivan Central, Sr. 

WR—Jake Hicks, Sullivan South, Sr. 

C—Miles Hite, Tennessee High, Sr. 

G—Josh Bowman, Sullivan Central, Jr. 

G—Horace Warden, Johnson County, Sr. 

T—Scotty Shults, Unicoi County, Jr. 

T—Logan Hyatt, Elizabethton, Sr. 

K—Kevin Hudson, Sullivan South, Sr. 

Defense 

E—T.R. Smith, Johnson County, Sr. 

E—Justin Connor, Elizabethton, Sr. 

T—David Lyons, Elizabethton, Sr. 

T—Dustin Jarrett, Sullivan North, Sr. 

MLB—Nick Moore, Sullivan East, Sr. 

MLB—Will Scheuer, Tennessee High, Jr. 

MLB—Justin Harmon, Elizabethton, Sr. 

OLB—Robbie Norton, Sullivan Central, Jr. 

OLB—Brent Shaver, Elizabethton, Jr. 

OLB—Charles Peters, Elizabethton, Sr. 

CB—Drew Hyder, Elizabethton, Jr. 

CB—Benji Farmer, Sullivan Central, Jr. 

S—Jeff Baker, Tennessee High, So. 

S—Tyler Leonard, Johnson County, So. 

S—Jeremy Nash, Sullivan Central, Sr. 

P—Josh Hutchins, Elizabethton, Jr. 

——— 

Honorable Mention 

Elizabethton—J.C. Atkinson, Weston 

Jeffers, Michael Price, Austin Taylor, Chris 

Hubbard, Zack Potter, Josh Arnold, Travis 

Bishop, Thorne Potter, Lucas Deloach, 

Chase Turley. 

Johnson County—Luke Palladino, Cody 

Bryant, Nathan Paisley, Thomas Moore, 

Chip Gentry, Jesse Jenkins. 

Sullivan Central—Micheal Crowder, 

Ryan Lovelace, David Ball, John Gibson, 

Tanner Looney, Jordan Shipley, Josh 

Hughes, Morgan Winchell, Zach Brewer, 

Brett Rodefer. 

Sullivan East—Josh Reagan, Josh Trinkle, 

Brent Tester, Matt Miller, Justin Hicks, 

Brad Boyles, Chris Ward. 

Sullivan North—Titus Grizzle, Steve 

Clifton, Jonah Arnold. 

Sullivan South—George Quarles, Grant 

Ramey, Andrew Hilton, Chance Morrell. 

Tennessee High—Alec Turnbull, Anthony 

Coleman, Carltan Bell, Blake Watson, 

Jamie Stout. 

Unicoi County—B.K. Marlowe, Dusty 

Stephenson, Justin Bennett, Cody Hight, 

Cody Armstrong. 

NFL Glance 

AFC 

East 

W L T Pct PF PA 

New England 6 4 0 .600 227 253 

Buffalo 4 6 0 .400 152 210 

Miami 3 7 0 .300 162 196 

N.Y. Jets 2 8 0 .200 121 227 

South 


Indianapolis 10 0 0 1.000 305 152 

Jacksonville 7 3 0 .700 211 170 

Tennessee 2 8 0 .200 203 262 

Houston 1 9 0 .100 141 292 

North 


Pittsburgh 7 3 0 .700 236 161 

Cincinnati 7 3 0 .700 247 179 

Cleveland 4 6 0 .400 157 170 

Baltimore 3 7 0 .300 116 184 

West 


Denver 8 2 0 .800 259 169 

San Diego 6 4 0 .600 300 202 

Kansas City 6 4 0 .600 244 214 

Oakland 4 6 0 .400 218 229 

NFC 

East 


Dallas 7 3 0 .700 222 164 

N.Y. Giants 7 3 0 .700 281 184 

Washington 5 5 0 .500 200 201 

Philadelphia 4 6 0 .400 210 232 

South 


Carolina 7 3 0 .700 253 179 

Tampa Bay 7 3 0 .700 206 183 

Atlanta 6 4 0 .600 244 206 

New Orleans 2 8 0 .200 159 266 

North 


Chicago 7 3 0 .700 169 110 

Minnesota 5 5 0 .500 154 228 

Detroit 4 6 0 .400 167 193 

Green Bay 2 8 0 .200 201 184 

West 


Seattle 8 2 0 .800 272 187 

St. Louis 4 6 0 .400 252 300 

Arizona 3 7 0 .300 205 268 

San Francisco2 8 0 .200 151 290 

——— 

Monday’s Game 

Minnesota 17, Green Bay 14 

Thursday’s Games 

Atlanta at Detroit, 12:30 p.m. 

Denver at Dallas, 4:15 p.m. 

Sunday’s Games 

St. Louis at Houston, 1 p.m. 

Carolina at Buffalo, 1 p.m. 

San Diego at Washington, 1 p.m. 

San Francisco at Tennessee, 1 p.m. 

Chicago at Tampa Bay, 1 p.m. 

Baltimore at Cincinnati, 1 p.m. 

New England at Kansas City, 1 p.m. 

Cleveland at Minnesota, 1 p.m. 

Miami at Oakland, 4:05 p.m. 

Jacksonville at Arizona, 4:05 p.m. 

N.Y. Giants at Seattle, 4:15 p.m. 

Green Bay at Philadelphia, 4:15 p.m. 

New Orleans at N.Y. Jets, 8:30 p.m. 

Monday, Nov. 28 

Pittsburgh at Indianapolis, 9 p.m. 

BASKETBALL 

Prep Glance 

Land Air Transport Inc. 

Tip-Off Basketball Classic 

At Hal Henard Gym, Greeenville 

First Round 

Monday’s Games 

Volunteer 59, Cloudland 40 

Knox Powell 79, West Greene 32 

Greeneville 64, Madison County 32 

Clinton 73, South Greene 67 

Today’s Games 

4 p.m. — Sullivan Central vs. Murray 

County, Ga. 

5:30 p.m. — Bradley Central vs. Gatlinburg-Pittman 

7 p.m. — Science Hill vs. Chattanooga 

Arts & Sciences 

8:30 p.m. — Chuckey-Doak vs. Knox 

Bearden 

——— 

Hardee’s Classic 

At David Crockett High School 


First Round 

4 p.m. — University High vs. Cherokee 

5:30 p.m. — Hampton vs. Unicoi County 

7 p.m. — Happy Valley vs. David Crockett 

8:30 p.m. — Elizabethton vs. Sullivan 

East 

Prep Boxscore 

Volunteer, 59-40 

Land Air Classic 

CLOUDLAND (40) 

Stevens 7, J.Buck 4, Hughes 0, L.Buck 3, 

Stocton 0, Johnson 3, Sparks 11, Winchester 

4. 

VOLUNTEER (59) 

Browder 5, Cradic 13, Mauk 2, Mann 10, 

Moore 9, Seal 3, Eidson 17. 

Cloudland 14 13 5 8 — 40 

Volunteer 11 15 13 20 — 59 

3-point go als — Cloudland 5 (Sparks 3, 

L.Buck, Stevens), Volunteer 6 (Eidson 3, 

Cradic 2, Browder). 

Middle School Boxes 

Boys 

Hampton, 24-22 

JOHNSON COUNTY (22) 

Tugman 12, Freeman 4, Cullop 2, Payne 

2, Tester 2. 

HAMPTON (24) 

Andrews 9, Ward 6, Deyton 6, Taylor 2, 

Berry 1. 

Johnson County 4 4 6 8 — 22 

Hampton 3 7 8 6 — 24 

Girls 

Hampton, 39-36 

JOHNSON COUNTY (36) 

Miller 17, Church 12, Boaum 3, Sexton 2, 

Hill 2. 

HAMPTON (39) 

Lewis 14, Potter 13, Lambert 6, Bradley 2, 

Townsend 2, Gobble 2. 

3-point goals—Hampton 1 (Lewis) 

Unaka, 37-22 

KEENBURG (22) 

Harrell 9, B.Moore 2, Carr 2, Tilson 1, 

C.Moore 8. 

UNAKA (37) 

Jones 16, Nidiffer 10, Johnson 4, Wilson 

3, Oliver 3. 

Keenburg 4 1 12 4 — 22 

Unaka 3 12 9 13 — 37 

3-point goals—Unaka 1 (Oliver). 

T.A. Dugger, 37-30 

JOHN SEVIER (30) 

McCaslin 2, McInturff 6, Lilley 10, Bailiff 

7, Blair 5 

T.A. DUGGER (37) 

Kauffeld 2, Robinson 4, Jefferson 18, Fritz 

9, Bowling 5 

John Sevier 6 7 9 8 — 30 

TAD 6 10 10 11 — 37 

3-point goals: Sevier (Lilley, Bailiff). 

John Sevier, 31-23 

Seventh Grade 

JOHN SEVIER (31) 

Edwards 14, Frazier 9, Clark 6, Collette 2 

T.A. DUGGER (23) 

Gilmore 6, Simmons 5, Quintero 4, Reed 

4, Hyatt 2, Kiser 2 

John Sevier 6 13 11 1 — 31 

TAD 7 5 4 7 — 23 

AP Top 25 

The top 25 teams in The Associated 

Press’ men’s college basketball poll, with 

first-place votes in parentheses, records 

through Nov. 20, total points based on 25 

points for a first-place vote through one 

point for a 25th-place vote and last week’s 

ranking: 

Record Pts Pvs 

1. Duke (65) 3-0 1,793 1 

2. Texas (6) 2-0 1,692 2 

3. Connecticut 1-0 1,647 3 

4. Villanova (1) 1-0 1,474 5 

5. Oklahoma 1-0 1,454 6 

6. Louisville 1-0 1,359 7 

7. Kentucky 2-0 1,329 8 

8. Gonzaga 1-0 1,262 9 

9. Arizona 0-0 1,255 10 

10. Boston College 2-0 1,164 11 

11. Memphis 2-0 1,105 12 

12. Michigan St. 0-1 915 4 

13. West Virginia 2-0 775 14 

14. Florida 4-0 754 — 

15. Illinois 2-0 642 17 

16. UCLA 3-0 612 18 

17. Syracuse 3-1 545 16 

18. Iowa 2-0 511 20 

19. Alabama 2-1 400 15 

20. Indiana 1-0 310 23 

21. George Washington 0-0 305 21 

22. Nevada 1-0 301 22 

23. Maryland 1-0 289 24 

24. Wake Forest 3-1 277 19 

25. Washington 4-0 228 — 

Others receiving votes: Iowa St. 227, 

Stanford 189, N.C. State 107, Hawaii 96, 

Georgetown 60, Kansas 59, LSU 48, 

Ohio St. 45, Wisconsin 30, Michigan 26, 

N. Iowa 26, Old Dominion 19, North Carolina 

13, Oklahoma St. 12, Ohio 11, Miami 

9, Temple 6, Arkansas 4, Bucknell 4, 

Charlotte 2, Texas Tech 2, Harvard 1, 

Houston 1, Mississippi St. 1, New Mexico 

1, UC Irvine 1, Utah St. 1, Vanderbilt 1. 

SCOREBOARD 

Top 25 Capsules 

MEN 

Texas ....................................................76 

West Virginia ......................................75 

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — LaMarcus 

Aldridge made a putback with 3.6 seconds 

left and blocked a last-second shot 

to lift Texas over No. 13 West Virginia in 

the semifinals of the Guardians Classic. 

Wake Forest ........................................79 

UNC-Asheville ....................................63 

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. — Justin Gray 

paced a balanced offense with 16 points, 

Trent Strickland scored 14 and Wake Forest 

finally got a breather with a victory 

over pesky UNC-Asheville. 

Michigan State ....................................89 

Chaminade ..........................................67 

LAHAINA, Hawaii —Maurice Ager scored 

23 points to lead the Spartans over 

Chaminade on in the opening round of 

the EA Sports Maui Invitational. 

Gonzaga.............................................. 88 

Maryland ............................................76 

LAHAINA, Hawaii — Gonzaga’s “Big 

Three” took care of the offense and the 

eighth-ranked Bulldogs’ zone took care of 

the defense in their victory over Maryland 

in the opening round of the EA Sports 

Maui Invitational. 

Indiana ..............................................100 

Florida A&M ........................................63 

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — Marshall Strickland 

scored 18 of his 20 points in the first 

half, and Roderick Wilmont added 17 to 

help Indiana rout Florida A&M. 

Women’s Top 25 

The top 25 teams in The Associated 

Press’ women’s college basketball poll, 

with first-place votes in parentheses, 

records through Nov. 20, total points 

based on 25 points for a first-place vote 

through one point for a 25th-place vote 

and preseason ranking: 

Record Pts Pvs 

1. Duke (23) 2-0 1,101 1 

2. Tennessee (18) 1-0 1,082 2 

3. LSU (3) 1-0 1,023 3 

4. Ohio St. 0-0 956 4 

5. Baylor (1) 3-0 937 6 

6. Rutgers 0-0 900 5 

7. North Carolina 1-0 860 7 

8. Connecticut 4-0 837 9 

9. Michigan St. 2-0 746 10 

10. Maryland 2-0 653 14 

11. Georgia 1-1 630 8 

12. Minnesota 2-0 586 16 

13. Notre Dame 2-0 516 15 

14. Texas Tech 1-1 509 13 

15. Stanford 1-1 500 11 

16. Arizona St. 3-0 398 20 

17. DePaul 2-0 386 18 

18. Texas 0-1 370 12 

19. Purdue 1-0 323 19 

20. Vanderbilt 2-1 256 17 

21. Temple 3-0 250 21 

22. Oklahoma 3-1 193 25 

23. Utah 1-0 190 22 

24. Southern Cal 2-0 151 24 

25. New Mexico 3-1 95 — 

Others receiving votes: UCLA 59, N.C. 

State 34, Louisville 27, Boston College 

13, Virginia Tech 10, Wake Forest 7, Arizona 

6, Virginia 6, TCU 4, Florida St. 3, 

Saint Joseph’s 3, W. Kentucky 2, Bowling 

Green 1, Kansas 1, Mississippi 1. 

College Results 

MEN 

EAST 

Drexel 72, Rider 60 

Mount St. Mary’s, Md. 62, Binghamton 53 

Niagara 101, St. Bonaventure 88 

Penn 82, Siena 77 

Providence 87, Vermont 77 

Sacred Heart 63, Albany, N.Y. 61 

Saint Joseph’s 72, Fairfield 41 

SOUTH 

Appalachian St. 51, Va. Commonwealth 

47 

Army 53, VMI 49 

Clemson 102, Coppin St. 71 

Coll. of Charleston 97, Lees-McRae 47 

Florida St. 85, Alcorn St. 67 

Georgetown 73, James Madison 66 

Georgia Tech 81, Elon 69 

High Point 110, Southeastern, Fla. 57 

Jacksonville St. 82, Coastal Carolina 71 

LSU 104, Nicholls St. 57 

Liberty 88, Cincinnati Christian 54 

McNeese St. 98, Louisiana College 46 

Middle Tennessee 60, Utah St. 59 

Mississippi St. 68, Arkansas St. 63 

Portland St. 79, Bethune-Cookman 62 

Tennessee St. 72, Fisk 63 

Virginia Tech 71, Marshall 54 

Wake Forest 79, N.C.-Asheville 63 

Wofford 81, Toccoa Falls 15 

MIDWEST 

Cent. Michigan 67, Wis.-Green Bay 62 

IPFW 65, SE Missouri 64 

Indiana 100, Florida A&M 63 

Loyola of Chicago 99, Evansville 86 

Miami (Ohio) 58, Dayton 42 

Northwestern 69, Florida Atlantic 59 

Wis.-Milwaukee 93, Upper Iowa 64 

SOUTHWEST 

Sam Houston St. 76, Huston-Tillotson 46 

Texas A&M-Corpus Christi 116, Texas 

A&M International 58 

UTEP 97, Texas-Permian Basin 54 

FAR WEST 

New Mexico St. 83, W. New Mexico 51 

Pacific 82, Savannah St. 37 

TOURNAMENT 

EA Sports Maui Invitational 

First Round 

Arizona 61, Kansas 49 

Gonzaga 88, Maryland 76 

Michigan St. 89, Chaminade 67 

Guardians Classic 

Semifinals 

Texas 76, West Virginia 75 

Paradise Jam 

Championship 

Wisconsin 84, Old Dominion 81 

Third Place 

Georgia 76, E. Kentucky 68 

Fifth Place 

Fordham 72, Norfolk St. 53 

South Padre Island Invitational 

First Round 

Delaware St. 65, Kent St. 56 

——— 

WOMEN 

EAST 

Boston U. 73, Northeastern 46 

Providence 74, Yale 53 

Stony Brook 87, Quinnipiac 61 

SOUTH 

Alabama 77, Santa Clara 71 

Cal Poly 74, Mercer 66 

Charleston Southern 68, Wofford 61 

George Mason 71, Howard 49 

McNeese St. 93, Belhaven 68 

Mississippi 70, Clemson 66 

Morehead St. 66, Coll. of Charleston 50 

North Carolina 87, Liberty 36 

Samford 54, Birmingham-Southern 49 

South Alabama 84, Southern Miss. 72 

Tennessee 92, Chattanooga 50 

MIDWEST 

Bowling Green 77, St. Francis, Pa. 55 

Bradley 79, Valparaiso 71, 2OT 

Chicago St. 79, Dayton 65 

Nebraska 84, Creighton 50 

Ohio St. 85, E. Kentucky 38 

Weber St. 70, Saint Louis 60 

SOUTHWEST 

Arkansas 99, Memphis 53 

Georgia 80, TCU 51 

Oral Roberts 96, Jackson St. 70 

Prairie View 67, Texas-Pan American 66 

Rice 73, Texas Tech 70 

Stephen F.Austin 82, Alcorn St. 58 

Texas 83, Sam Houston St. 33 

Texas A&M 77, St. Peter’s 36 

FAR WEST 

Boise St. 80, Sacramento St. 52 

S. Utah 64, Western St., Colo. 58 

Wyoming 66, Colorado 50 

EXHIBITION 

Northwestern St. 84, Texas A&M Commerce 

74 

College Boxscore 

Women 

Tennessee, 92-50 

CHATTANOOGA (1-2) 

Brown 3-15 4-6 11, Roberson 4-9 2-2 10, 

Mattison 2-7 2-2 6, Hall 1-2 0-0 2, Gordon 

0-0 0-0 0, Hand 0-3 0-0 0, Mohr 0-0 0-0 0, 

Spann 0-0 0-1 0, Anderson 5-8 0-0 10, 

McCoy 0-0 0-0 0, Huff 1-1 2-2 4, Moore 2- 

11 0-0 4, Ogan 1-3 0-0 3. Totals 19-59 10- 

13 50. 

TENNESSEE (2-0) 

Zolman 6-12 4-4 20, Fluker 3-6 0-0 6, 

Spencer 2-8 2-2 6, Redding 3-7 0-0 7, 

Anosike 4-4 0-0 8, Dosty 3-5 2-3 8, Hornbuckle 

1-5 2-2 4, Parker 4-8 6-7 14, Wiley-Gatewood 

2-5 5-7 9, Fuller 1-1 2-2 4, 

Moss 2-4 0-0 6. Totals 31-65 23-27 92. 

Halftime—Tennessee 46-23. 3-Point 

Goals—Chattanooga 2-16 (Ogan 1-2, 

Brown 1-6, Mattison 0-1, Hall 0-1, Hand 

0-1, Anderson 0-1, Moore 0-4), Tennessee 

7-24 (Zolman 4-9, Moss 2-4, Redding 

1-3, Spencer 0-2, Hornbuckle 0-3, 

Wiley-Gatewood 0-3). Fouled Out—None. 

Rebounds—Chattanooga 30 (Anderson 

6), Tennessee 50 (Dosty 11). Assists— 

Chattanooga 14 (Hall, Mattison 4), Tennessee 

16 (Moss, Parker 3). Total Fouls— 

Chattanooga 21, Tennessee 13. A— 

11,398. 

NBA Glance 

EASTERN CONFERENCE 

Atlantic Division 

W L Pct GB 

Philadelphia 7 5 .583 — 

New Jersey 5 5 .500 1.0 

Boston 4 5 .444 1.5 

New York 3 7 .300 3.0 

Toronto 1 9 .100 5.0 

Southeast Division 

W L Pct GB 

Miami 6 4 .600 — 

Washington 5 4 .556 0.5 

Orlando 3 6 .333 2.5 

Charlotte 3 8 .273 3.5 

Atlanta 0 9 .000 5.5 

Central Division 

W L Pct GB 

Detroit 8 1 .889 — 

Cleveland 8 2 .800 0.5 

Indiana 6 3 .667 2.0 

Milwaukee 5 4 .556 3.0 

Chicago 4 5 .444 4.0 

WESTERN CONFERENCE 

Southwest Division 

W L Pct GB 

San Antonio 9 2 .850 — 

Dallas 7 2 .778 1.0 

Memphis 7 4 .636 2.0 

New Orleans 4 6 .400 4.5 

Houston 3 7 .300 5.5 

Northwest Division 

W L Pct GB 

Minnesota 5 4 .556 — 

Denver 6 5 .545 — 

Seattle 5 5 .500 0.5 

Portland 3 5 .375 1.5 

Utah 5 7 .485 1.5 

Pacific Division 

W L Pct GB 

L.A. Clippers 8 2 .800 — 

Golden State 7 5 .583 2.0 

Phoenix 4 5 .444 3.5 

L.A. Lakers 4 6 .400 4.0 

Sacramento 4 7 .375 4.5 

——— 


Philadelphia 103, New Orleans 91 

Utah 100, Milwaukee 80 

San Antonio 96, Sacramento 93 

Golden State 100, New Jersey 97 


Denver at Washington, 7 p.m. 

Boston at Cleveland, 7 p.m. 

Portland at Memphis, 8 p.m. 

Houston at Dallas, 8:30 p.m. 

Toronto at Phoenix, 9 p.m. 

Utah at Seattle, 10 p.m. 

NBA Game Caps 

76ers ..................................................103 

Hornets ................................................91 

PHILADELPHIA — Playing with flulike 

symptoms, Allen Iverson scored all 24 of 

his points in the first half and then happily 

sat out the fourth quarter of the 76ers’ 

victory over New Orleans. 

Jazz ....................................................100 

Bucks .................................................. 80 

SALT LAKE CITY — Deron Williams had 

10 points and 10 assists for his second 

career double-double, helping Utah snap 

a five-game losing streak with a win over 

Milwaukee. 

Spurs....................................................96 

Kings ....................................................93 

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Tony Parker 

scored 23 points for the Spurs, while Tim 

Duncan totaled 22 points and 19 rebounds. 

Warriors ............................................100 

Nets ......................................................97 

OAKLAND, Calif. — Jesse Richardson 

gunned in 25 points for Golden State. 

HOCKEY 

NHL Glance 


Nashville at Detroit, ppd., player seizure 

Edmonton 2, San Jose 2, SO 

Calgary 3, Colorado 2, SO 


N.Y. Rangers at Buffalo, 7 p.m. 

Ottawa at Carolina, 7 p.m. 

Tampa Bay at Philadelphia, 7 p.m. 

Atlanta at Montreal, 7:30 p.m. 

Washington at Pittsburgh, 7:30 p.m. 

Los Angeles at St. Louis, 8 p.m. 

Anaheim at Phoenix, 9 p.m. 

Chicago at Vancouver, 10 p.m. 

NHL Game Caps 

Oilers......................................................2 

Sharks ....................................................1 

EDMONTON, Alberta — Ryan Smyth 

and Ales Hemsky scored shootout goals 

Monday night, lifting the Edmonton Oilers. 

Flames ..................................................3 

Avalanche ............................................2 

DENVER — Philippe Sauve stopped all 

three shots in a shootout, helping Calgary 

beat the team that traded him away last 

summer. 

SPORTSCAST 

Television 

GOLF 

7 p.m. — (TNT) PGA Grand Slam of 

Golf 

COLLEGE BASKETBALL 

7 p.m. — (ESPN) EA Sports Maui Invitational 

semifinal 

9 p.m. — (ESPN) EA Sports Maui Invitational 

semifinal 

10 p.m. — (ESPN2) Guardians Classic 

final 

NBA 

8 p.m. — (FoxSportsNet) — Portland 

at Memphis 

NHL 

7 p.m. — (OLN) Tampa Bay at Philadephia 

7:30 p.m. — (TSO) Atlanta at Montreal 

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Radio 

AUTO RACING 

7 p.m. — (WJCW 910-AM) NASCAR 

Live 

COLLEGE BASKETBALL 

6 p.m. — (WJCW 910-AM) ETSU at 

Radford 

KNOXVILLE (AP) — Chattanooga 

coach Wes Moore got 

a sneak peek at the Tennessee 

Lady Vols this summer. Nothing 

surprised him on Monday. 

Shanna Zolman scored 20 

points and Candace Parker 

added 14 points and nine rebounds 

in second-ranked Tennessee’s 

92-50 victory over 

Chattanooga. 

“It’s one of Pat’s best teams 

ever,” Moore said. “You take a 

Final Four team and add Candace 

Parker.” 

The win was Tennessee’s 

14th straight over the Lady 

Mocs (1-2) from its sister 

school in the university system 

about 100 miles south. 

The Lady Vols (2-0), who 

beat Stetson 83-33 in their 

opener Sunday night, were 

playing in back-to-back games 

to prepare for the three-day 

Paradise Jam in St. Thomas later 

this week. They face No. 9 

Michigan State on Thursday. 

Parker, who won a dunk 

contest for McDonald’s high 

school All-Americans in 2004, 

sat out last season to recover 

from two knee surgeries. She 

had chances to dunk several 

times in the opener but didn’t 

get as close Monday night. 

Because Chattanooga 

would not have time to review 

tape from the Stetson game, 

Tennessee coach Pat Summitt 

invited Moore to watch some 


Milligan College Lady Buffs 

volleyball junior middle blocker 

Tara Earhart was named to 

the NAIA All-Region XII second 

team for the 2005 season. 

She led the Lady Buffs with 

3.1 kills per game as Milligan 

finished the 2005 with an 18-12 

record after a first round defeat 

College Basketball 

Lady Vols 

breeze past 

Mocs, 92-50 

College Volleyball 

Prep Basketball 

summer workouts. He saw 

Parker dunk in one drill. 

“I’ve been worried about 

that for six months,” he said. 

The teams were even in the 

opening minutes until the Lady 

Vols broke a tie and went 

ahead on a 10-0 run that included 

two 3-pointers by Zolman. 

Tennessee pushed its lead to 

12 and then put the game 

away with a 17-2 run to go up 

42-17 with three minutes left 

before halftime. The Lady Vols 

opened the second half with a 

14-2 run to stretch the lead to 

35. 

Chattanooga was led by 

Katasha Brown 11 points, and 

Alex Anderson and Tiffani 

Roberson each had 10 points. 

Sybil Dosty added 11 rebounds 

for the Lady Vols. Zolman 

shot 4-of-9 from beyond 

the arc. 

The Lady Vols had the rebounding 

edge, 50-30. 

Summitt used all 11 players 

in various combinations, and 

everyone scored at least four 

points apiece. 

“After our game Sunday I 

just said we can’t play 11 people 

unless 11 people are going 

to play a certain way and bring 

a lot of energy,” Summitt said. 

“I was pleased with the overall 

intensity. I thought the energy 

was good one through 11.” 

Earhart gains spot on 

All-Region XII team 


GREENEVILLE — With 

Cory Eidson coming off the 

bench to hit for 17 points, Volunteer 

handed Cloudland a 59- 

40 loss on Monday in the opening 

round of the Land Air 

Transport Inc. Tip-Off Basketball 

Classic at Hal Henard 

Gym. 

The Highlanders played 

very good basketball in the 

first two quarters, and went to 

halftime holding a 27-26 lead. 

However, the Falcons took 

control by outscoring Cloudland 

13-5 in the third period. 

Keith Cradic and Jared 

in the Region XII tournament. 

Earhart, a co-caption on the 

Lady Buffs’ team, was also 

named to the 2005 All-AAC 

first team and the All-AAC 

Academic team. This marks 

the second straight season that 

she has been named to the All- 

Region XII, All-AAC and All- 

AAC Academic teams. 

Highlanders lose to 

Falcons in Land Air 

Vikings 

nContinued from 7 

“I had a dream actually last 

night that I would do something 

big today and it came 

true. Mike Tice said you need 

to dream, dream about making 

plays and that’s what I 

did last night and it happened 

for me tonight.” 

The play was reviewed after 

Edwards and intended receiver 

Andrae Thurman 

crashed to the ground at the 

same time. But officials ruled 

Edwards was not down by 

contact before he got up and 

scored. 

Favre atoned for the mistake 

seconds later, hitting 

Donald Driver for a 53-yard 

touchdown pass after the receiver 

beat defensive back 

Antoine Winfield and outran 

safety Darren Sharper — 

who spent his first eight 

years in Green Bay but was 

not resigned. Green Bay led 

14-7 at the half. 

Mann both reached double 

digits for Volunteer, scoring 13 

and 10 respectively, while 

Justin Moore chipped in nine. 

Eidson converted three of 

six Falcon three-pointers, with 

Cradic accounting for two. 

Leading the way for Cloudland 

was big man Luke 

Sparks, who tallied 11 points 

and had three of his team’s five 

treys. Adam Stevens added 

seven. 

Volunteer advances to play 

on Wednesday at 4:30 p.m. 

Cloudland takes part in a losers 

bracket game on Friday at 

10 a.m. 

Green Bay couldn’t capitalize 

on Johnson’s fumble 

early in the third quarter and 

was forced to punt, pinning 

the Vikings at their own 12. 

But Minnesota put together 

its best drive of the game, 

aided by two defensive 

penalties inside the Green 

Bay 10-yard line. 

The second, a pass interference 

call in the end zone, 

put the ball at the 1-yard line. 

Ciatrick Fason then plunged 

into the end zone on his second 

attempt — Minnesota’s 

first offensive touchdown in 

nine quarters. 

Favre finished the game 

20-for-33 for 227 yards and 

two touchdowns. 

The win keeps the Vikings 

(5-5) afloat in its hunt for the 

postseason, two games behind 

NFC North leader 

Chicago (7-3).

Eagles’ McNabb, 

Sheppard likely 

done for season 

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — 

Now Donovan McNabb is 

gone from the Philadelphia 

Eagles, too. 

The Eagles’ star quarterback 

will have surgery for a 

sports hernia and is expected 

to miss the rest of the season, 

another crushing blow for a 

team that had still hoped to return 

to the Super Bowl without 

suspended receiver Terrell 

Owens. 

All-Pro cornerback Lito 

Sheppard also appears out for 

the season with a severely 

sprained ankle that will require 

surgery. The struggling 

Eagles suspended Owens for 

four games on Nov. 7, and told 

him not to return to the team. 

Monday’s announcements 

came one day after the reigning 

NFC champions fell to 4-6 

with their fourth straight loss. 

McNabb didn’t play in Sunday’s 

27-17 loss to the New 

York Giants after he re-injured 

his groin while trying to tackle 

Cowboys safety Roy Williams 

following an interception last 

Monday night. Williams returned 

it 46 yards for a touchdown 

with 2:43 left to lead 

Dallas to a 21-20 comeback 

victory over the Eagles. 

“Once the groin became an 

issue, rest couldn’t help it 

out,” Eagles coach Andy Reid 

said. “There’s too much discomfort 

where Donovan can’t 

run.” 

Sheppard was injured in 

the third quarter against the 

Giants when he got tangled up 

with wide receiver Plaxico 

Burress on an incomplete pass. 

He was taken off the field in a 

cart and the Eagles originally 

Hunter 

announced the ankle was broken. 

An All-Pro last year, 

Sheppard had two interceptions 

and one sack this season. 

“There’s quite a separation 

between the ligaments,” Reid 

said. 

Neither McNabb nor Sheppard 

was placed on injured 

reserve yet, meaning each 

could return should the Eagles 

somehow make the playoffs. 

McNabb had played 

through several injuries and 

hoped to delay surgery for 

the sports hernia until after 

the season. Last Thursday, Dr. 

William Meyers recommended 

that McNabb have surgery 

now. He got the same advice 

from another doctor over the 

weekend. 

Reid said McNabb will 

have surgery after Thanksgiving, 

and recovery time is eight 

to 10 weeks. 

Mike McMahon started for 

McNabb against the Giants, 

and completed 18 of 39 passes 

for 298 yards, one touchdown 

and one interception. He also 

ran for a score and helped the 

offense move the ball against 

a tough Giants defense that 

hadn’t allowed a TD for 13 

quarters. 

McNabb clearly wasn’t the 

same quarterback who led the 

Eagles to the NFC championship 

game the last four 

years and went to five 

straight Pro Bowls. He threw 

a costly interception in the 

fourth quarter in each of his 

last three games, and has nine 

picks this season. 


Mann connected on two treys while Landon South added five 

points that cut a 15-point Hunter lead down to six with 1:01 remaining. 

But the Comets missed two easy inside buckets while 

Hunter cashed in on a couple of free throws to hold off the 

Comets’ comeback bid. 

Chris Pierce led the Tigers offense with 16 while Waters 

added 15 and Peterson 13. Mann led all scorers with 20, with 

Landon South and Drew Clark chalking up 11 and nine points, 

respectively. 

“The press started to bother them and we basically wore them 

down,” added Collins. “I just hated that Chris got hurt. Some of 

our other players are going to have to step up with him out.” 

Said Central coach Lamont Barnett: “When we had to set our 

starters who got in foul trouble, it hurt us and they opened up 

the lead. Without our point guard on the floor, we didn’t do a 

good job with the press, and we’re not deep on our bench.” 

Girls 

Hunter..................................................................................48 

Central ................................................................................19 

Hunter girls had a much easier time with the Lady Comets, 

racing to a 25-2 lead after one. Taylor Byars totaled eight points 

in the quarter while the Comets had trouble scoring on the pesky 

Tiger defense. 

After his Hunter team led 33-9 at halftime, coach Chris 

Collins emptied the bench during the second half, with all but 

one player scoring. 

Byars led the way with 12 while Chesnie Cox tossed in 11. 

Jamie Andrews and Kat McInturff helped the cause with six 

each. 

Samantha Berry scored 11 for the Comets, all during the second 

half. 

TAD 


“We have a lot of kids that 

are leaders on this team, that 

lead day in and day out,” she 

said. “The effort we got from 

all of our starters tonight was 

unbelievable.” 

Each of the Lady Cyclones’ 

five starters — Jefferson, Kamra 

Fritz, Chelsea Bowling, 

Kadey Robinson and Tara 

Kauffeld — all made big plays 

to contribute to the win. Especially 

on the defensive side of 

the ball. 

“As a team, we played 

great,” said the coach. “The 

girls underneath stepped up 

and I can’t say enough about 

the defense.” 

Jefferson had all six of the 

Lady Cyclones’ points in the 

first quarter. 

In the second stanza, Fritz 

and Bowling each added a 

bucket to the T.A. Dugger 

cause, as their squad took a 

three-point lead into the locker 

room at the half. 

In the second half, all five of 

the starters contributed points 

to stretch a four-point lead. 

T.A. Dugger led by as much 

as nine in the fourth quarter, 

thanks to some key free throws 

from Fritz, making it tough for 

Sevier to stage a comeback. 

Aside from Jefferson’s efforts, 

Fritz added nine points, 

five assists and four steals to 

the Lady Cyclone cause. 

Bowling had five points, six 

rebounds and four assists, 

while Robinson had four 

points and a solid 11 boards 

and Kauffeld added two 

points. 

Overall, Barker is pleased 

with the way the team has begun 

improving this year. 

“This team’s pulling together,” 

Barker added. “One thing 

we need to improve on is that 

we need to get some of our 

shots to fall under the basket.” 

Seventh Grade 

John Sevier ..........................31 

T.A. Dugger ..........................23 

The Lady Cyclones led by 

one going into the second 

quarter. Things began to turn 

around after that. 

Sevier outscored TAD 24-9 

in the second and third quarters, 

doing just enough to hold 

onto a win in the end. 

Sherri Edwards dropped 14 

points for Sevier, while Lesley 

Frazier tallied nine and Haley 

Clark contributed six. 

Leading the way offensively 

for the Lady Cyclones were 

Dana Gilmore and Kelsey Simmons 

who had six and five 

points, respectively. 

Gilmore also pulled down 

eight boards, while Simmons 

had a solid 10 rebounds. 

Also defensively, Erin Kiser 

had eight steals for the TAD 

ladies. 


With senior Ryan 

Kennedy and junior Preston 

Smith leading the way, Elizabethton 

had 11 players voted 

to this year’s All-Mountain 

Lakes Conference football 

team. 

Kennedy, at wide receiver, 

and Smith, cornerback, garnered 

first-team honors while 

senior Logan Hyatt, offensive 

tackle; senior James Peterson, 

halfback; senior Justin Connor, 

defensive end; senior 

David Lyons, defensive tackle; 

senior Justin Harmon, 

eight third-quarter points for 

Hampton, as it held an 18-14 

lead at the end of the period. 

“We played pretty hard, 

but we gave up a couple of 

easy baskets during the second 

half, which hurt us,” said 

Johnson County coach Chris 

Mullins. “We struggling offensively, 

but these kids are 

still trying to learn the system, 

which is the same as the 

high school uses. I think by 

Christmas they’ll start catching 

on pretty good and we’ll 

start becoming more productive.” 

Johnson County came back 

to score the first six points of 

the fourth period to take a 20- 

18 advantage with 3:20 left. 

Two free throws by Sam 

Tester followed by a couple of 

field goals from Tugman put 

the ‘Horns back on top 

briefly. 

The ‘Horns held a twopoint 

lead with just over a 

minute left, but a baseline 

jumper from Dylan Ward tied 

the contest at 22. 

Just like at the end of the 

first half, Andrews came up 

with another big shot with 40 

seconds left, giving Hampton 

the final go-ahead points. 

“They shot like we did, 

and I told the guys there toward 

the end it was going to 

come down to who ever 

made the big play at the end,” 

said Tolley. “Logan Andrews 

finally got the big bucket we 

needed at the end, but we’re 

still needing someone to step 

up on this team and take 

charge.” 

Johnson County had a 

chance to tie the contest in the 

final 13 seconds, but two 

straight turnovers eliminated 

its chances. 

Hampton moves to 3-2, 3-0 

on the season, while Johnson 

Co. falls to 2-3, 0-2. 

Girls 

Hampton ........................39 

Johnson County ..........36 

It was a nip-and-tuck 

game the entire way, but 

when it came down to the 

crunch time it was the Jr. Lady 

Bulldogs slipping past 

middle linebacker; junior 

Brent Shaver, outside linebacker; 

senior Charles Peters, 

outside linebacker; junior 

Drew Hyder, cornerback; and 

junior Josh Hutchins, punter; 

Johnson County. 

Hampton (3-2) trailed by 

one-point after the first period, 

as Karlie Miller posted six 

first-quarter points to give 

the Lady ‘Horns (3-1) an 8-7 

lead. 

“We couldn’t stop the big 

girls during the first half, and 

then we started to double 

down and do a better job on 

them in the second half,” said 

Hampton coach Ronnie 

Street. “We finally decided 

we wanted to play toward 

the end, and we had to use 

our quickness and speed 

since we don’t have that 

much size.” 

The lead swapped hands 

after two three-point goals 

coming from Maci Lewis, but 

the ‘Dogs were not able to 

hold on going into the half, 

after Johnson Co. went on a 7- 

2 run in the final two minutes. 

Hampton came out to take 

the early lead in the third period 

after shots fell from 

Christina Potter and Emilee 

Townsend, as it held the advantage 

until the final 


Ryan Kennedy Preston Smith 

Logan Hyatt 

James Peterson 

Justin Connor 

David Lyons 

Justin Harmon 

each earned a spot on the second 

team. 

Honorable mentions for 

the Cyclones were J.C. Atkinson, 

Weston Jeffers, Michael 

Price, Austin Taylor, Chris 

minute. 

Angie Church went three 

of four from the line down 

the stretch, and a fast-break 

basket by Mandy Hill gave 

the lead back to the ‘Horns. 

The ‘Dogs stepped up 

their full-court defense during 

the final period, which 

caused the ‘Horns to commit 

several turnovers. 

“Their press killed us, and 

we did all right with it up until 

that fourth quarter,” said 

Johnson County coach Steve 

Nave. “We turned the ball 

over 10 times during the final 

period, and when we turned 

Brent Shaver 

Kennedy, Smith first-team choices 

Nine other Cyclones 

voted to second team 

Spectrum 


um, the day after Thanksgiving. 

Regardless in you’re a 

Ranger, Warrior, Highlander 

or Cyclone, the ‘Dogs are representing 

us all so all of us 

should show our appreciation. 

Hampton will likely be the 

underdog, but if six or seven 

thousand fans show up in 

support of the Big Blue, then 

Jr. Bulldogs 


All-Mountain Lakes Conference Team 

Charles Peters Drew Hyder 

Josh Hutchins 

the boys from H-Town might 

be able to take the sting out of 

another group of Yellow Jackets. 

Yankee Doodle Fight Song 

changed. 

Here is a song that all Vol 

fans need to learn by the 2006 

football season, sung to the 

tune of Yankee Doodle: 

Phillip Fuller hit the trail, recruiting 

on a pony 

Searching for a quarterback, a 

Peyton, Tee or Tony. 

Phillip Fuller look real hard, 

Phillip, we need a dandy 

Because next year you could 

be out if you go lose to Vandy. 

Prediction 

As a former Bulldog, some- 

Hubbard, Zack Potter, Josh 

Arnold, Travis Bishop, 

Thorne Potter, Lucas Deloach 

and Chase Turley. 

For a complete all-conference 

list, see Page 8. 

thing tells me that this team 

has what it takes to reach the 

BlueCross Bowl. Expect the 

Bulldogs to run hog wild and 

make Coach Campbell happier 

than a pig in slop. 

Hampton 21, Trousdale 

County 14 

(Tim Chambers can be contacted 

at tchambers@starhq.com) 


Hampton’s Chelsey Weddle eyes the bucket as she’s guarded by a pair of 

Lady Jr. Longhorns, including Amber Sexton (11). 

it over late, then Hampton 

capitalized.” 

A 15-foot jumper from 

Lewis provided Hampton the 

lead with 2:25 left to play. 

Johnson County was able 

to stay within one possession 

during the final minutes, but 

two key free throws from 

Potter helped seal the victory. 

“The defensive pressure 

made a difference in the end, 

and we really needed this 

win coming into this game 

tonight,” said Street. “It also 

helped us when Christina 

Potter hit them free throws 

late in the game.” 

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For Tuesday 


SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 

22) Focus your time, attention 

and energy today on situations 

that could affect your prestige, 

career or finances. If you’re 

going to score at this time, it is 

likely to be in one of these 

areas. 

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23- 

Dec. 21) Instead of putting 

limitations on your thinking 

today, try to envision things in 

their broadest perspective. 

Uncluttered horizons enhance 

your ability to see far ahead. 

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22- 

Jan. 19) It would be wise today 

to conduct important business 

or career matters with as little 

fanfare as possible. Also, 

unless someone is directly 

involved, don’t make this person 

aware of your affairs. 

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 

19) If a good deal comes to 

your attention today, take the 

time to alert good friends or 

associates who have been there 

for you in the past when you 

needed them to share in what 

they discovered. 

PISCES (Feb. 20-March 

20) A major objective can be 

realized within the next few 

weeks, but you might need 

some strong allies to open a 

couple of doors for you. 

ARIES (March 21-April 

19) Dame Fortune may have 

something really big in mind 

for you when she puts you in 

touch with someone who 

thinks progressively. Pay 

attention to what others are 

A Look at the Stars 

What’s On Tonight 

talking about today. 

TAURUS (April 20-May 

20) You could do very well 

today with either the financial 

exchange or a flea market. 

You’re particularly sharp at 

buying, selling, bargaining or 

being the middleperson in getting 

a good deal. 

GEMINI (May 21-June 

20) Something mutually constructive 

can result today from 

some kind of agreement 

you’re apt to be negotiating at 

this time. Conditions that are 

acceptable to both parties can 

be achieved. 

CANCER (June 21-July 

22) Better returns than you’re 

presently receiving can be generated 

today if you put your 

mind to it. Study the matter 

with an eye toward reform. 

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) 

Don’t be bashful about protecting 

your self-interests in an 

important involvement today. 

Pride and humility have their 

place, but there are times when 

they can prove to be counterproductive. 

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) 

When it comes to your commercial 

involvements today, 

it’s wise to get a number of 

price quotes first instead of 

jumping at the first offer. It 

could place you in a stronger 

bargaining position. 

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Conditions in general are likely 

to be vastly improved for 

you today. A number of opportunities 

may begin to present 

themselves in the very areas 

that looked rather dismal yesterday. 

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Mickey Mouse 

Annie

After Katrina retailers 

adjust store formats 

WAVELAND, Miss. (AP) 

— No other Wal-Mart in the 

country looks like the one 

that reopened here more than 

two months after Hurricane 

Katrina nearly wiped the 

town off the map. 

Pallets of space heaters, 

box fans, mops and buckets 

are stacked on the floor. Plywood 

walls hide workers still 

repairing what used to be the 

food department. 

Wal-Mart is one of a handful 

of retailers along the Gulf 

Coast that have tailored their 

reopened stores to meet the 

basic needs of their hurricane-weary 

customers, stocking 

shelves with large quantities 

of hardware, appliances, 

no-frills clothes, dry food and 

other post-disaster products. 

“It’s a real uplifting 

thing,” Jim Freeman, 60, said 

as he and his wife, Nina, 

filled a shopping cart with 

food. “You take a lot of things 

for granted until it’s all 

gone.” 

Best Buy on Friday 

opened a first-of-its-kind 

store in Gulfport, converting 

MANKATO, Minn. (AP) — With the 

click of a mouse, Cassie Pap flips through 

cable TV channels, her legs pumping 

away on a recumbent exercise cycle. 

She settles for MTV and reaches for the 

mouse to turn up the volume during her 

2-mile workout. On another day, Pap 

might check e-mail or write a homework 

assignment using a flexible keyboard that 

will survive hundreds of sweaty fingers. 

Her options are part of the latest technology 

upgrade on campus: computerequipped 

exercise equipment. 

“It’s easier to work out with something 

in front of you to keep you entertained,” 

said Pap, a freshman at Minnesota State 

University, Mankato. She credits the new 

equipment with motivating her to exercise 

nearly every day instead of just once 

in a while. 

Campus officials, planning a renovation 

of the recreation building, hit on hightech 

as a way to get more students to exercise, 

and brought in the school’s technology 

staff to help out. 

But when they went looking for the 

equipment — treadmills, bikes and 

stairsteppers with computer/TV capabilities 

— they couldn’t find it. 

“We found exercise equipment with 

TVs in front and others with computer 

programs but not a complete computer,” 

said Wayne Sharp, director of the university’s 

Academic Computer Center. “We 

had to take it to the next step.” 

DAVID WORTMAN, AAMS 

504 East “E” Street • 543-7848 

a former grocery store into a 

warehouse-style store with 

roughly twice as much floor 

space for appliances as a normal 

store. The rest of the 

space is still for computers, 

televisions and other electronics, 

but compact discs 

and DVDs won’t be sold 

there right away. 

A Home Depot in eastern 

New Orleans partially reopened 

Thursday, 81 days after 

the hurricane filled it with 

six feet of water. The store 

sells only building materials 

and appliances and uses only 

half of the original store’s 

space. 

Almost all of Waveland’s 

stores are vacant and littered 

with debris, but the Wal- 

Mart’s parking lot was nearly 

full Saturday when the store 

opened for the first time 

since the hurricane flooded it 

with 14 feet of water. 

Waveland’s “Wal-Mart 

Express” is roughly one-third 

of the size of the original 

205,800-square-foot “Supercenter.” 

Store manager Ray Cox 

TIFFANY PETERS 

504 East “E” Street • 543-7848 

said his inventory will 

change as residents go from 

cleaning up their homes to 

rebuilding them. 

“It’s quick, it’s easy and 

we can change on the fly,” he 

said. 

Other retailers are sticking 

to their standard format: 

When Target reopens a hurricane-damaged 

store in Beaumont, 

Texas, it will look like 

any other store in the chain, 

said company spokeswoman 

Lena Michaud. 

“What our guests have 

told us is that they like being 

able to come into a place that 

is back to normal and reminds 

them of life before the 

hurricane,” she said. 

Richard Hastings, a retail 

analyst for Bernard Sands in 

New York, said Wal-Mart 

and other retailers have nothing 

to lose by opening these 

experimental stores in hurricane-affected 

areas. 

“They’re helping the community, 

no question about it, 

and they’re going to recapture 

the market down there,” 

he said. 

So Sharp and his tech experts set up adjustable 

stands next to 40 pieces of exercise 

equipment. Each stand has a computer, 

keyboard and mouse; the student who uses 

it chooses his or her own way to pass 

the time. 

“Exercising can be monotonous and tedious 

at times,” said Todd Pfingsten, director 

of campus recreation. “The important 

thing is that it becomes habitual.” 

Pfingsten sees that happening already: 

Pap and other students fill up the machines 

almost all day, forcing students to 

sign up in advance. 

It’s not clear how many are using the 

computers for homework; some students 

have already found that it takes some coordination. 

“I can’t run and type at the same 

time,” fourth-year student Jessie Nelson 

said as she checked her e-mail before getting 

on a cross-trainer machine. “I’d 

probably fall over.” 

Sarah Lerczak, a sophomore, said she’ll 

probably stick to watching TV, but likes 

the e-mail option. “If you have to check 

your e-mail you don’t have to make two 

stops. You can go right to the gym,” she 

said. “It’s a big convenience.” 

It will take time for students to get better 

at multitasking, said Kent Kalm, a professor 

in the university’s human performance 

department, which offers physical 

education classes. Next spring, students in 

one of his fitness classes will use the 

TUESDAY, NOV. 22 

• The Carter County Democratic 

Women’s Club will meet 

at the Great Wall Restaurant at 

5:30 p.m. 

• The Green Pastures Group 

of Alcoholics Anonymous will 

meet at 8 p.m. in the Conference 

Room at Crossroads, 413 

East Elk Ave., Elizabethton. 

• Al-Anon “Free to Be Me” 

meeting will be held at the 

Watauga Association of Baptists 

office, across from Elizabethton 

Lumber, from 6-7 p.m. 

FRIDAY, NOV. 25 






• A Senior Citizens Dance 

and Thanksgiving Dinner will 

be held at the Elizabethton 

Elks Club from 7-10 p.m. Rambling 

Rose Band will provide 

the music. Charge for dinner 

and dance is $10. A full-course 

Thanksgiving meal will be 

served. 

SATURDAY, NOV. 26 

• Authors Peggy Poe Stern 

and Frances Henson VanLandingham 

will sign copies of 

their books at Twigs on Roan 

Exercise for the tech-savvy multitasker 

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Total issues 3,447 Total issues 1,092 Total issues 3,204 

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equipment while watching video instruction, 

taking quizzes and logging their 

workouts. 

“As more and more faculty use a multimedia-based 

curriculum, I see this as a 

great opportunity,” Kalm said. “I think as 

students use the ’tech-rec’ equipment, 

they’ll probably come up with even more 

ideas.” 

Some other campus directors said 

they’d consider following Minnesota 

State’s lead when it’s time to replace their 

own old equipment. Students are ready 

for it, they said. 

“They’ve grown up with video games, 

TV and Internet,” said Chris Oelling, associate 

director of recreation at the University 

of Nebraska in Lincoln. 

Off campus, some major fitness chains 

have moved toward individualized entertainment, 

letting people channel-surf on 

their own TV screens. But nothing like 

Minnesota State’s arrangement has 

caught on yet. 

“People aren’t really clamoring for that 

sort of thing,” said Matt Messinger, a 

spokesman for the national chain Bally 

Total Fitness. “What they’re really looking 

for is something to keep them interested 

and entertained.” 

That’s a relief to Stephanie Maks, who 

worked with CEOs and other busy people 

in 20-some years as a personal trainer. Maks 

said she’s had to take people’s cell phones 

away to get them to focus on the exercise. 

STOCK OCK 

REPOR EPORT 

Edward Jones 

www.edwardjones.com 


Community Calendar 

in The Village Shops on Main 

Street in Roan Mountain from 

11 a.m.-3 p.m. Stern, a native of 

Ashe County, N.C., details the 

darker side of mountain life as 

well as the bright side in her 

books. VanLandingham, a 

Carter County native, resides 

in Poga. Her first book, “Back 

on Nowhere Road,” is a memoir. 

Her just released book, 

“Puttin’ up Vittles on Nowhere 

Road,” describes the growing, 

gathering, preserving and 

preparing of food during the 

Depression. The book also features 

recipes and stories. 

• The Science Hill High 

School Class of 1995 will hold 

its 10-year reunion at Farmhouse 

Gallery & Gardens, 121 

Covered Bridge Lane, Unicoi, 

from 5-11 p.m. Anyone who is 

a graduate of the Class of 1995 

that has not been notified 

should call 943-8388 or e-mail 

shhs95@yahoo.com for details 

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and to register for the event. 

SUNDAY, NOV. 27 






MONDAY, NOV. 28 

• Tri-Cities Survivors of Suicide 

Support Group meets 

every fourth Monday at 6 p.m. 

in the fifth floor conference 

room at Johnson City Medical 

Center. Please contact Dorothy 

Gregory at 224-1300 for more 

information. 

TUESDAY, NOV. 29 





E. Elk Ave., Elizabethton. 

• Al-Anon “Free to Be Me” 

meeting will be held at the 

Watauga Association of Baptists 

office, across from Elizabethton 

Lumber, from 6-7 p.m. 

Classifieds 

6 GOODS TO EAT 

& SELL 

APPLES, JOHNSON’S 

ORCHARD located at 

NC, TN state line on 

19E. 1 mile on Buck 

Mountain Road. Honeycrisp, 

Cortland, Virginia 

Beauty, Winesap, 

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WE slaughter age, cut, 

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Person with own 

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Christmas presence’s, 

mail. (423)926-6902. 

LOCAL FLAT BED COM- 

PANY now hiring short 

haul drivers, driver 

friendly company, 

good home time. 

1-800-331-5172. 

POSTAL JOBS 

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now hiring. For application 

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job info, call 

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24hrs. emp. serv. 

WANTED: Experienced 

carpenters, helpers, 

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crews for framing, 

siding, etc. Transportation 

must! 

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10 HELP WANTED 

GENERAL 

EXPERIENCED painters 

needed. Good pay. 

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DENTAL OFFICE RECEP- 

TIONIST, full-time, experience 

in filing insurance 

claims, computer 

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send resume: Box 585, 

c/o Elizabethton Star, 

P.O. Box 1960, Elizabethton, 

TN 37644. 

12 WORK WANTED 

GEN./PROF. 

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organizing. yards, 

homes, offices, debris, 

more. References. 

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DAILY DOW JONES 

STOCK MARKET INDEXES 

52-Week Net YTD 12-mo 

High Low Name Last Chg %Chg %Chg %Chg 

10,984.46 10,000.46 Dow Industrials 10,820.28 +53.95 +.50 +.35 +3.15 

4,141.79 3,348.36 Dow Transportation 4,156.48 +15.79 +.38 +9.44 +15.16 

438.74 315.03 Dow Utilities 397.69 +1.23 +.31 +18.73 +20.30 

7,667.64 6,902.51 NYSE Composite 7,676.64 +42.06 +.55 +5.88 +9.98 

1,752.21 1,186.14 Amex Market Value 1,715.45 +13.13 +.77 +19.60 +25.45 

2,234.30 1,889.83 Nasdaq Composite 2,241.67 +14.60 +.66 +3.04 +7.50 

1,249.58 1,136.15 S&P 500 1,254.85 +6.58 +.53 +3.54 +6.59 

730.17 623.57 S&P MidCap 735.07 +6.17 +.85 +10.82 +16.31 

688.51 570.03 Russell 2000 678.96 +6.74 +1.00 +4.20 +9.24 

12,508.27 11,195.22 Wilshire 5000 12,570.44 +75.34 +.60 +5.01 +8.82 

MUTUAL FUNDS 

11,000 

10,750 

10,500 

10,250 

SEP OCT 

10,000 

High Low Record high: 11,722.98 

10,835.33 10,761.05 Jan. 14, 2000 

10,820.28 AUG NOV 

Total Assets Total Return/Rank Pct Min Init 

Name Obj ($Mlns) NAV 4-wk 12-mo 5-year Load Invt 

American Funds A: IncoA p MP 47,316 18.40 +2.0 +5.7/C +55.1/A 5.75 250 

American Funds A: ICAA p LV 64,884 32.05 +3.7 +8.3/C +23.4/C 5.75 250 

American Funds A: WshA p LV 61,281 31.43 +4.0 +6.7/E +31.5/B 5.75 250 

Fidelity Invest: Contra XG 54,996 65.51 +5.8 +20.4/A +36.2/A NL 2,500 

Fidelity Invest: Magelln LC 50,671 108.89 +5.0 +8.6/C -6.3/C NL 2,500 

Oppenheimer A: Disc p SG 570 ... NA NA NA 5.75 1,000 

Putnam Funds A: GrInA p LV 11,628 20.13 +4.4 +8.8/C +16.3/D 5.25 500 

Putnam Funds A: VoyA p LG 6,814 17.69 +5.3 +10.3/D -22.8/C 5.25 500 

Vanguard Fds: Wndsr XV 12,869 18.57 +4.4 +8.9/D +46.5/B NL 3,000 

Vanguard Idx Fds: 500 SP 68,144 115.90 +4.8 +9.1/A +0.6/A NL 3,000 

BL -Balanced, GL -Global Stock, IL -International Stock, LC -Large-Cap Core, LG -Large-Cap Growth, LV -Large-Cap 

Val., XC -Multi-Cap Core, XG -Multi-Cap Growth, XV -Multi-Cap Val.Total Return: Chng in NAV with dividends reinvested. 

Rank: How fund performed vs. others with same objective: A is in top 20%, E in bottom 20%. Min Init Invt: Minimum 

$ needed to invest in fund. NA = Not avail. NE = Data in question. NS = Fund not in existence. Source: Lipper, Inc.


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with large living room, 

wooden deck, fully 

equipped kitchen. 

Make an offer on one 

or all five of these 

condos today. 

$77,500 Each! 

C21 WHITEHEAD 

PENNY WOODSON 

543-4663 

19 BUILDINGS 

SALE/RENT 

135 Jonesboro Rd. 

Piney Flats. 

Great visibility on 11E. 

Unique. Across from 

KFC/BK. 3050sqft retail 

space with 2000sqft 

living space. 

$499,900. 

C21 WHITEHEAD 

LINDA WHITEHEAD 

543-4663 

STEEL BUILDINGS 

Factory Surplus, 2 remain. 

Never erected, 

mint condition. Pay 

less than clearance 

price in exchange for 

small deposit. Can 

ship immediately 

1-800-222-6335 x6000 

20 ARTICLES 

FOR SALE 

$1,350. 8 piece solid 

cherry wood. Sleigh 

bed set. All new, still in 

boxes. Worth $3,000. 

Sacrifice. (423) 

929-3626. 

$159. mattress: Full size 

double pillowtop with 

boxspring. Brand new! 

In factory plastic! 

423-343-4412. 

$195. Queen size double 

pillowtop mattress 

set. Brand new in plastic. 

Sacrifice. 

423-343-4408. 

$695. Ashley sofa & 

loveseat. Stainproof 

micro-fiber, never 

opened. Listed at 

$1,300. Sacrifice 

(423)434-0603. 

$695. Ashley sofa & 

loveseat. Stainproof 

micro-fiber, never 

opened. Listed at 

$1,300. Sacrifice. 

(423)434-0603. 

2 plots in Happy Valley 

Memorial Park. Crown 

Section. $1,000 each. 

(423)542-6282. 

20 ARTICLES 

FOR SALE 

2006 Electric Scooter 2 

seater lots of storage 

space $400. Beauty 

shop chair $200. 

(423)543-7678. 

3 rooms: All new. 8 

piece solid wood bedroom 

suite with new 

pillowtop mattress set. 

8 piece dining, 3 

piece leather living. 

Retail $5,800. Must sell 

$2,495! Will break up. 

(423)217-4202. 

8 piece master dining 

room. NEW, elegant, 

formal. Elaborate 

carvings. Cove glass 

china cabinet with 

touch lighting. Worth 

$7,500. Sacrifice 

$3,395. (423)217-4245. 

ANTIQUE 1/2 bed, 

Cash Family Pottery. 

Computer, Kay Guitar, 

Washer. 

(423)474-2874, 

(423)213-7621. 

BEDROOM: 6 piece 

solid cherry wood. 

English Dove Tail, 

never used. List $2,300. 

$795. (423)343-4601. 

DINETTE: 5 piece solid 

cherry. New, beautiful, 

$145. (423)218-0755. 

DOCK 1 

Furniture-Mattresses 

Cherry dinette, 4 

chairs $149. Queen 

double pillow top 

mattress $195. King 

$295. Ashley stainproof 

microfiber sofa and 

loveseat $650. Beautiful 

6 piece solid cherry 

bedroom $750. Ashley 

3 piece leather living 

room $1,295. Bed 

NASA Space Age. 

New, in plastic $495. 

(423)929-9465. 

www.dock1.com. 

1-888-883-6251 

KING double pillow 

top. Nice mattress set. 

still in factory wrapper. 

$295. (423)952-3876. 

ORIGINAL NASA 

Space Age, mattress 

set, BASF memory 

foam. As seen on TV! 

Brand new. $495. Sacrifice. 

(423)200-4664. 

25 PETS 

& SUPPLIES 

Complete dog grooming 

shop equipment 

and supplies for $1500. 

Set up, start grooming 

today! 943-5765 

FREE kittens to good 

loving indoor home. 

306-0340. 

Pit Bull puppies, all colors. 

$125.00 Call 

542-8756. To see, 

house beside Hampton 

Auto Parts. 

26 COAL-OIL- 

WOOD 

FOR SALE 

FIREWOOD for sale, all 

hardwood, split and 

stacked. $40. pick-up 

load. 213-6772. 

213-8486. 

LARGE pick-up load of 

firewood. $60. Burning 

barrel $7. 

(423)772-3584. 

WOOD for sale. $60. a 

load (423)772-3791 

28 CHILD CARE 

HELP/SERVICES 

COMMUNITY DAY 

CARE & LEARNING 

CENTER: Openings 

6wk.-5yrs. Early Childhood 

Education, Kindergarten 

readiness. 

543-5900 

. 

30 ROOMS 

FOR RENT 

LARGE room with private 

bath and entrance. 

Fully furnished 

plus utilities. Weekly, 

monthly. 

(423)542-4475, 

423-612-0132. 

31 APARTMENT 

FOR RENT 

*SPACIOUS livingroom, 

2BR, ground floor, 

minutes from town. No 

pets. References. 

$325mth., $200.dep. 

Jan, 542-0200. 

1BR apartment, furnished, 

private lot. No 

pets. $400month, 

$400deposit. 

(423)926-1370. 

1BR, available 

11-15-05. Hampton 

area. Water and 

laundry room furnished. 

(423)725-2277 

between 5:30p.m.- 

8p.m. 423-725-3678 

1BR, between JC and 

Elizabethton includes 

appliances, water, 

trash pickup, no pets, 

$280month, $200deposit. 

(423)543-7677. 

1BR, or 2BR, 1BA, water, 

trash provided. On 

site laundry. No Pets. 

$225. -$300.mo. $150. 

deposit. 

(423)542-4029. 

1BR, stove, refrigerator, 

A/C, Washer, 

dryer, trash pickup 

included. $290.mo. 

$150.dep. 

542-6667. 

No pets. 

1BR, stove, refrigerator, 

water, garbage 

pickup furnished, 

mini-blinds. Call 

(423)542-9200. 

2 car Garage Apt. 

Blue Springs, 1.5BR, 

Clean. $300.month, 

$250. deposit. 

423-957-8883. 

Classifieds 

542-1530 928-4151 

31 APARTMENT 

FOR RENT 

2BR, phone, cable in 

each room, hardwood 

floor entrance. 

W/D hook-up. No 

pets. $325.mth. 

(423)542-9417. 

2BR, stove, refrigerator 

furnished, W/D 

hook-up, 409 Brandon 

Street, close to 

Watauga River, 3 

blocks from downtown. 

$350.mth., $300. 

deposit. No pets. 

423-542-5726. 

2BR, 1.5BA Townhouse. 

W/D hookup, appliances, 

carpet, D/W, 

deck, paved driveway. 

$450.mo. plus 

deposit. 423-538-0458. 

2BR, 1BA, between 

J.C., Elizabethton, 

W/D hookup, heat 

pump, $420.mo., deposit, 

lease. No pets. 

423-467-8480 

2BR, 1BA, From 

$300.mo includes 

utilites $425. 3BR, 1BA, 

$350.mo. 423-547-2871 

2BR, 1BA, Hunter. W/D 

hook-up, No pets. 

Non-smoking. 

$380.month, deposit. 

Ask about FREE gasoline. 

895-1145. 

2BR, CH&A, close to 

Hampton Elementary. 

543-7088 days, 

725-2036 nights and 

weekends. 

2BR, CH&A, water, 

garbage included in 

rent. Convenient location. 

$400mth., 

$600dep. 918 Stateline 

Rd. 423-543-8400. 

2BR, clean, quiet. 

$295.-$300.mo. deposit. 

First month rent 

free. Will take 

section-8. No pets. 

423-833-2908. 

2BR, Hyder Street, appliances, 

garbage 

pickup furnished. No 

pets. $360. month, 


(423)543-4365. 

2BR, W/D hookup, 

eat-in kitchen. $375. 

plus security. Available 

immediately. Section 

8 accepted. 

423-391-9352. 

BILTMORE AREA: 2BR, 


pick-up and ground 

care provided. $500. 

month. (423)474-2888. 

Alexander Apts. Upstairs, 

Large 2br. 2ba, 

New carpets, new 

paint $425mo 

$175dep. Efficiency 

apt. New appliances, 

downstairs, very quiet 

complex $230mo. 

$150dep. Downstairs 

2br, 1ba $360mo. 

$175dep. 

956-0068 or 542-8493 

ALL Real Estate advertising 

in this newspaper 

is subject to the 

Fair Housing Act which 

makes it illegal to advertise 

“any preference 

limitation or discrimination 

based on 

race, color, religion, 

sex, handicap, familial 

status, or national origin, 

or an intention, to 

make any such preference, 

limitation or discrimination. 

”Familial 

status includes children 

under the age of 

18 living with parents 

or legal custodians; 

pregnant women and 

people securing custody 

of children under 

18. This newspaper will 

not knowingly accept 

any advertising for 

real estate which is in 

violation of the law. 

Our readers are 

hereby informed that 

all dwellings advertised 

in this newspaper 

are available on an 

equal opportunity basis. 

To complain of discrimination 

call HUD 

Toll-free at 

1-800-669-9777. The 

Toll-free telephone 

number for the Hearing 

Impaired is: 

1-800-927-9275 

BILTMORE: 2BR, appliances, 

water, trash included. 

References. 

No pets. $200. deposit, 

$300. 

(423)543-7677. 

month. 

Duplex 2BR, W/D 

hookup, appliances, 


pickup furnished. NO 

PETS DRINKING OR 

DRUG USE. Reference, 

deposit. 423-542-4276 

Duplex, 2BR, nice, appliances, 

W/D 

hookup. Near Hunter 

Community. References, 

no pets. 

423-543-4613. 

FURNISHED BASEMENT 

APARTMENT FOR RENT 

712B Johnson Avenue. 

1 queensize BR, laundry 

room with W/D, 

carpet, 5-piece dinette, 

appliances, 

electric. $300 plus utilities, 

$150.dep. Lawn 

care included. Available 

542-8827 

immediately. 

Nice, Large 1BR,. W/D 

hookup. 906 Old 

Stateline Rd. No pets. 

$325.mo. $325.dep. 

542-8683, 647-3778 

TOWNHOUSE: 2BR, 1 

1/2BA, W/D hook-up, 

$375.mth., $300. deposit. 

Townview Estates. 

(423)543-3896, 

(423) 772-9452. 

32 HOUSES 

FOR RENT 

1BR, 1BA, city limits. 

$350.mo. 3BR, 1BA, 

Stoney Creek 

$575.mo. 4BR, 3BA, on 

Watauga River. 

$850.mo. 3BR, 1BA, in 

Erwin. $600.mo. 

423-547-2871 

2BR home with basement. 

$400.mo. Siam 

area 3BR Townhouse 

$375.mo. Street’s Reality 

543-4094 

2BR, 1 1/2BA, CH&A, 

W/D hook-up, newly 

remodeled. 

(423)547-9803. 

Call 

3BR, 1BA, appliances, 

W/D hookup, garbage 

pickup. No pets, 

drugs or drinking. Reference, 

542-4276 

deposit. 

3BR, 2BA, CH&A, 

Keenburg Community, 

nice yard, fenced dog 

lot. $575month, 

$575deposit. 

(423)542-2209. 

ASSORTMENT of rentals: 

Farm, brick, frame, 

pets, rent to own, furnished 

and unfurnished. 

282-6486. 

BLUE SPRINGS: 2BR, 

Newly remodeled, 

washer, dryer. $350. 

month, $300. deposit. 

No 

(423)542-4284, 

957-8883. 

pets. 

NEAR city. 2BR, 1BA, 

CH&A, all appliances 

furnished, some furniture 

furnished. No 

pets. $450. month, 


(423)543-3071. 

RENT TO OWN, 158 H 

Heaton, Siam, 2BR, 

1BA, TLC $500down, 

$400month, 

(423)647-2728 Carol. 

STOP renting. Buy Hud 

home. $16,500. For 

listings 

800-391-5228xF738. 

call 

VALLEY FORGE AREA 

2BR, appliances, deposit, 

References. 

$400.mth. 543-7008, 

leave message. 

33 MOBILE HOME 

FOR RENT 

2BR, 3BR. Possible rent 

to own. Close to 

schools & town. Background 

check required. 

543-7468 

2BR, 14x70, private lot. 

Garbage and lawn 

care furnished. No 

pets. (423)474-3351. 

2BR, 1BA, appliances, 

private lot. Section 8 

accepted. $300.mo. 

$200.dep. 542-8181 or 

895-0517. 

2BR, 2BA, completely 

furnished, private lot. 

No pets. $420. month, 


(423)725-3011. 

2BR, Danner Subdivision. 

Very clean. $375. 

month, W/D hook-up, 

CH&A. (423)474-3893. 

2BR, nice private lot. 

Central Community. 

No pets. 423-542-2449. 

2BR, on 1.5 acre lot. 

Gap Creek area. 

CH&A, carport. 

$375.mo. plus deposit. 

542-8683, 647-3778 

3BR, 2BA. Happy Valley. 

16x80. 2BR, 1BA. 

$175. 423-543-2651, 

423-257-2106 

FURNISHED, 1BR, water, 

garbage, lawn 

service, Hwy. 91. No 

pets. $240mth., deposit. 

(423)542-4459 

after 4p.m. 

NICE 2BR, 2BA. Private 

lot. 110 Warrior Lane. 

No Pets. $450.mo., 

$450.dep. Lease 

(423)543-4365. 

RENT OR RENT TO 

OWN 2BR, 1BA, 1970 

12x60 New Moon on 

rental lot, Green Acres 

area, $600 down with 

own financing. 

(423)895-0456. 

37 LAND W/PHOTO 

FOR SALE 

Copley Branch Rd, 

Butler, 

Near Watauga Lake 

with lake view. approx 

14.85 acres. Timber, 

privacy, great for 

development. 

$139000.00 

C21 WHITEHEAD 


543-4663 

Hwy 67 Deer Ridge 

Lot 1 

Magnificent views of 

Watauga Lake, 5.01 

acres level, cleared 

building site, gated 

community, Underground 

utilities. 

$159,900.00 

C21 WHITEHEAD 

LISA POTTER 

543-4663 

37 LAND W/PHOTO 

FOR SALE 

Broome Real 

Estate 

542-4386 

Sciota Road 

In 

Unicoi County. 

5.39 Acres. All 

wooded, mostly level. 

There is a 40’ entrance 

beside Hamby 

Road that goes approx. 

400’ into property. 

No Signs. 

$50,000. 

38 LOTS 

FOR SALE 

WE have real estate 

lots and land acreage 

for sale in 4 counties. 

Calvin, (423)542-2131. 

39 LOTS W/PHOTO 

FOR SALE 

Broome Real 

Estate 542-4386 

Buffalo Valley 

Golf Course 

1/2 acre lot located 

on #8 fairway. Great 

investment property. 

Call Rick 

$25,000. 

RARE FIND 

GOLF COURSE 

FRONTAGE 

1/2 ac +/- in Golf 

Club Acres. Beautiful 

land with tall trees & 

road frontage. 

$29,900 

C21 WHITEHEAD 


543-4663 

40 LOTS 

FOR RENT 

LARGE lot. Singlewide 

or doublewide. Happy 

Valley. 2 months free. 

$125mth plus deposit. 

(423)543-2651, 

257-2106. 

MOBILE home lot, off 

Swimming Pool Rd., 

Hampton. No outdoor 

pets. $125. month. 

$125. deposit. 14’ 

wide minimum. 

(423)895-0456. 

ONE DOUBLEWIDE LOT 

$150month and ONE 

SINGLEWIDE LOT. 

$125month. Gap 

Creek area. (423) 

725-2770, 612-2847. 

42 HOUSES 

FOR SALE 

3BR, 3BA, 2 car attached 

garage, 

mostly new, large 

level lot, Seller motivated. 

$149,900. 

(423)725-2183 

A foreclosure. Must 

sell. Only $16,500. For 

listings. 

800-391-5228xH652 

CAREGIVER’S DREAM 

HOME 

One story living on 

large level lot. 4BR, 

3BA includes optional 

separate living quarters. 

Panoramic 

mountain view. Near 

Watauga River. 

MLS#223925. $174,900 

Call Shar Saidla 

mountainhomes 

realty.com 

(423)895-0430 

43 HOUSES 

W/PHOTO 

1011 NAVE STREET 

3BD, 1BA on level lot. 

Newer siding and windows. 

Detached one 

car garage. Full basement. 

Large living 

room. $67,500 

RUSS SWANAY 

REALTY 

543-5741 

43 HOUSES 

W/PHOTO 

1036 Gap Creek Rd. - 

MLS# 222849 - 

$122,000 

Well maintained 3 

BR brick home. New 

roof, heat pump, 

hot water heater, 

light fixtures and 

ceiling fans. Hardwood 

in Living room, 

Hall and Bedrooms. 

Fireplace in LR. 

Kitchen/Dining 

combo with new 

built in range and 

microwave, countertops 

and refinished 

cabinets. New 

sheet rock walls. 

One car attached 

carport with utility 

room that is vented 

for heat and air. 

Paved drive way 

and 12 x 12 finished 

storage building. 

Call Sondra 

@423-957-5313 

104 CANDLE KNOB 

ROAD 

JOHNSON CITY 

Completely remodeled, 

framed, 3BR, 

1BA, sitting upon 1 

1/2 acre, approximately 

1040sq.ft., appliances, 

new heat 

pump, large front 

porch, $79,850 

(423)542-9714 

109 

Bumpus Cove Rd 

Just off 107. 4BR, 2BA, 

main level newly remodeled. 

Good Condition, 

2 car garage, 

$129,900.00 

C21 WHITEHEAD 


543-4663 

114 WEST H 

3BR, 1BA, CH&A, 

fenced in backyard 

with outbuilding. 

Call Leslie Glover @ 

Realty Executives 

(423)773-2758 

118 Eastland Drive 

3BR, 3BA, close to 

Watauga River. Stone 

fireplace with gas 

logs, hardwood floor, 

huge master bedroom, 

oversized garage. 

$189,900. 

RAINBOW REALTY 

(423)547-2800 

1209 Ledford 

Charming 1 level Brick 

tastefully renovated 

2BR, 1 1/2BA, Deck 

With 3 levels, Outbuilding 

with concrete 

pad for storage. 

$119,000.00 

C21 WHITEHEAD 

LISA POTTER 

543-4663 

122 TIMBER LANE 

Wonderful 5BD, 3BA in 

scenic neighborhood 

near Watauga Lake. 

Open great room 

with kitchen, dining 

room with cathedral 

ceilings. Large covered 

porch overlooks 

1.64 wooded acre lot 

and mountains beyond. 

2786 sq.ft. 

$169,500 

RUSS SWANAY 

REALTY 

543-5741 

43 HOUSES 

W/PHOTO 

127 STONEBROOK 

LOOP 

Custom brick stone 

new construction in 

Stonebrook. 5BD, 3BA 

with master on main 

with steam shower. 

Home features 

kitchen with appliances 

and granite 

counter tops, 2 car 

garage and additional 

garage, full 

basement and central 

vac. Top of the 

line quailty 

throughout. $349,900 

RUSS SWANAY 

REALTY 

543-5741 

1302 LOWE STREET 

Great home in East 

side community with 

4Br, 2ba! Large family 

room. Great location. 

Owner has done 

some TLC. $73,900.00 

C21 WHITEHEAD 


543-4663 

134 Carver Crabtree 

Hampton! 

MOTIVATED SELLER!! 

BRING OFFER!! 

Private and elegant 

4BR, 2.5BA, with additions 

and ungrades. 

Appx 2500 finished 

sqft. of main level living 

with laundry on 

main. Full unfinished 

walkout basement on 

2 +/- acres of beautiful 

land. Convenient 

to Roan Mt. State 

Park, Watauga Lake, 

Elizabethton, Unicoi, 

JC. MLS 219173, 

$198,000.00 Additional 

acreage for 

$212,000. REDUCED 

Call 

Teresa 

Homeowners 

Concept 

423-434-0440 or 

423-773-6843 

138 Woodland 

Heights 

Immaculate 2BR, 1BA 

home on more than a 

half acre level lot. 

Brick fireplace. Den 

and kitchen /dining 

combination. Breathtaking 

views! $124,900 


(423)547-2800 

141 Forest Hill 

Newer 3BR 2BA home 

on private half acre 

lot with mature trees. 

Great Layout. 

Must See! 

C21 Whitehead 

Deborah Sutherland 

$44,900 

423-543-4663 

1451 MILLIGAN HWY. 

Lovely 3BR Brick with 

Fireplace, hardwood 

floors, New windows, 

completely remodeled 

throughout. Extra 

lot in back with 

road frontage. 

$114,900.00 

C21 WHITEHEAD 

LISA POTTER 

543-4663 

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43 HOUSES 

W/PHOTO 

146 CLOVER BRANCH 

3BD, 1BA in peaceful 

setting. Home has 

been partially updated. 

A handyman 

could make this cottage 

gorgeous. 

House sits on 1 acre 

of scenic beauty. Detached 

2 car 

garage. Better hurry! 

$62,500 

RUSS SWANAY 

REALTY 

543-5741 

152 Mountain 

View Lane 

Beautiful chalet on 

23+ acres. 2,700 sq.ft. 

of living, 3BR, 2.5BA, 

eat-in kitchen, wrap 

around deck, spectacular 

views. 

$390,000. 


(423)547-2800 

1528 Slimp Branch 

3BR 2BA home. Beautiful 

hdwd floors, privacy, 

full basement, 

half acre site overlooking 

scenic rolling 

countryside. 

C21 Whitehead 

Deborah Sutherland 

$124,900 

543-4663 

158 

PETERS HOLLOW 

ROAD 

2BD, 1BA cottage on 

level lot. Beautiful 

backyard. House has 

updated CH&A and 

roof. Detached two 

car carport. Priced 

to sell. $59,800 

RUSS SWANAY 

REALTY 

543-5741 

Broome Real 

Estate 

542-4386 

Biltmore Area, 

162 Taylor Ave, 

5BR, 2BA, approx. 

2000 sqft., hardwood 

& carpet floors, open 

kitchen. Outside, vinyl 

siding, insulated windows, 

good roof, 

CH&A. Excellent condition 

both inside & 

out. FHA or VA ready 

$102,000. 

168 

MAPLE TREE LANE 

Gorgeous mountain 

views!! Ranch 3BR, 

2BA, fireplace, French 

doors leading to enclosed 

patio. Outbuilding 

and workshop 

with electricity. 

$132,500.00 

C21 WHITEHEAD 

LISA POTTER 

423-543-4663 

1683 Silver Grove 

$120,000 

MLS # 222781 

Nice 3BR, 2BAs home 

on large lot in Bluff 

City. Pool, hardwood 

floors, heat pump, 

storage barn. 

Call Elwanda 

676-8052 


952-0226 

43 HOUSES 

W/PHOTO 

180 Lonesome 

Dove Road 

4BR, 3BA mini-farm 

with a beautifully situated 

house. 5.61 

acres, large barn, 

shed, attached carport, 

fully equipped 

mother-in-law unit. 

234,900. 


(423)547-2800 

229 TAYLOR AVE 

Charming 1BR condo, 

all appliances, fully 

furnished. fireplace, 

crown molding. Great 

mountain retreat, 

ready to move in!!! 

$54,900.00 

C21 WHITEHEAD 

LISA POTTER 

543-4663 

298 

Rocky Branch Rd 

Cute as can be! Like 

new 2Bdrm log home, 

hdwdflr, beautiful 

mountain views, level 

lot. Must see $89,900 

C21 WHITEHEAD 


543-4663 

328 CEDAR 

1 level condo in the 

city. 2BR, 2BA, hardwood, 

tile. 

A Must See! 

$78,000 

Call Leslie Glover @ 


(423)773-2758 

357 KEENE 

Location!! 

Cape Cod 3 or 4BR, 

2Ba, Dinning and Living 

Room Combo. 

Fireplace With Gas 

Logs. Den, Bonus 

Room. Level yard. 

$139900.00 

C21WHITEHEAD 

SHERREE HOLT 

543-4663 

361Toll Branch 

Farm House 2BR, with 

hardwood floors. 2 

car garage detached. 

Several outbuildings, 

2 barns. 

Gorgeous land, pasture, 

$249,900.00 

timber. 

C21 WHITEHEAD 


543-4663 

BY OWNER 

361 LONG HOLLOW 

ROAD 

5 miles to downtown 

Elizabethton, 

wooded country setting, 

1.5 acres, 3BR, 

2BA, basement, garage. 

$125,000. 

SAM SHANKS 

(423)854-6297

43 HOUSES 

W/PHOTO 

419 Bonnie Kate 

Boulevard 

3BR, 2BA, 1924 sq. ft. 

Completely remodeled. 

Lot 100x150. Utility 

bldg. 16x30. 

Reduced $167,900 

543-3977 

or 

943-0151 

505 CRUMLEY STREET 

REDUCED! 

Wonderful Westside 

location. One level 

brick. 3BRs. 2BA. Fireplace. 

Screened 

porch. Huge family 

room. Hardwood 

floors. Corner lot. 

1,805 Sq. Ft. $139,500. 

RUSS SWANAY 

REALTY 

(423)543-5741 

520 JENA BETH DRIVE 

2 level brick on 3.5 

acres. Mountain 

views. 3BD, 2BA home 

with CH&A. Main 

bath has whirlpool 

tub. Kitchen with all 

appliances. Large 

deck. Westside 

school. Land is approved 

for apartments 

and could be 

developed. $98,900 

RUSS SWANAY 

REALTY 

543-5741 

607 Evergreen Lane 


MLS # 222974 

$165,000 

Beautiful 2BR, 2BA 

home, one level in a 

semi-private setting in 

West End. Nice 

kitchen with lots of 

cabinets, marble 

floors, dining room 

with built in shelves, 

hardwood floors and 

brick wood fireplace, 

large family room with 

electric fireplace, 

hardwood floors, sunroom 

off of dining 

area, master bedroom 

with full bath, 

hardwood floors, 2nd 

bedroom , hardwood 

floors, heat pump, all 

appliances, 1 car carport. 

Elwanda 676-8052 


952-0226 

614 West C Street 

WHAT A BARGAIN! 

OWN cheaper 

than rent! 

Newly remodeled. 

Convenient location. 

Great view. Secluded 

backyard. 

Decorative fireplace 

for gas logs. 

MLS#217379 

Shar Saidla 

895-0430 

mountainhomes 

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714 N. East St. 

RARE FIND. 

Beautiful home, over 

400ft Watauga River 

frontage. Park like 2.5 

ac+/- 3BR, 2.5Ba, Bonus 

room. $349,000. 

C21 WHITEHEAD 


543-4663 

985 Chestnut 

Nice home in quiet 

neighborhood, 

Fenced large lot, 2 

car garage with 2 

outbuildings, Well 

maintained and 

cared for. $120,000.00 

C21 WHITEHEAD 

TERESA MUSICK 

543-4663 

43 HOUSES 

W/PHOTO 

ELIZABETHTON 

3BR, 1BA, brick 

rancher, hardwood 

throughout, large 

family room, 1400 sq. 

ft. appliances included. 

Move in 

condition, quiet 

neighborhood. 

$69,500. 

(423)383-4211, 

(423)383-8973. 

120 Tansie St. 

Beautiful 3BR, 2BA, 

home on cul-de-sac. 

Hardwood floors, tile, 

all appliances including 

dishwasher. Vinylprivacy 

fence, new 

outbuilding. 

$99,900.00 

423-474-3114 

or 

423-213-9077 

Reduced!! 

$91,900 

302 East H 

3 or 4BR, 2BA, hardwood 

flooring, CH&A, 

newer appliances. 

Call Leslie Glover 

@ Realty Executives 

773-2758 

Whisperwood 

Subdivision 

Watauga 

Custom built, 2600+ 

sq. ft., 4BR, 2.5BA, office, 

Hardwood floors 

CH&A, 1 acre, hot 

tub, & so much more, 

convenient to Elizabethton 

& JC, EHS tuition 

free. $239.000. 

By Owner 

543-3093 

44 MOBILE HOMES 

FOR SALE 

*Thanksgiving Special: 

2001 14x46 2BR, 1BA. 

New carpet & appliances, 

oak cabinets. 

Must See! 547-9190 

188 Sarah Annie 

SELLER WANTS OFFER, 

will pay $1000 toward 

buyers closing cost. 

2BR, 11/2BA, all appliances. 

Reduced to 

$27,900 

C21 WHITEHEAD 


543-4663 

NEW land home packaging, 

Whispering 

Meadows Subdivision, 

Stoney Creek area. 

Bank, owner financing. 

(423)543-2578, 

943-3418. 

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you own your lot. Call 

Marcia at Smith 

Homes. (423)542-2131. 

Norris, 3BR, 2BA, 

CH&A, with 1/2 acre 

private lot, located off 

Smalling Road. 

$34,900. 

(423)474-6545. 

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lender. Loans up to 

$164,900. Easy qualification. 

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or 1-800-545-5551 


W/PHOTO 

188 Sarah Annie 

Looking for Privacy? 

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1/2BA, all appliances. 

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building with electricity. 

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543-4663 


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Clayton 

$57,899 

Too Many Features 

To Mention! 

Smith Homes 

2625 Elizabethton 

Highway, 

Johnson City 

(423)542-2131 

Much, Much For 

Your Money! 

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Too Many Features 

To Mention! 

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(423)542-2131 

New Clayton 

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Financing Available 

Smith Homes 


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Johnson City 

423-928-9224 

51 COMMERCIAL 

SALE/LEASE 

Four bay garage, 

downtown Elizabethton. 

$750.mo. 

2000 sqft. store front 

610 East Elk, $550.mo. 

423-547-2871 

53 INSURANCE 

ALL Drivers Good Record 

SR-22. You’re in 

good company, 

Wagner Insurance, 

604 E. Elk. 

(423)543-5522. 

59 AUTOS 

FOR SALE 

1996 Z24 Cavalier, 

5spd. 17” rims, new 

tires, unique stereo. 

$3,000. 423-213-0397, 

213-0396 

1984 Ford T-Bird, 

black, 5.0, loaded, 

new tires, flowmaster 

exhaust. Must see! 

$2,000. 

(423)474-6656. 

O.B.O. 

$500! Police impound! 

Cars / Trucks from 

$500. For listings 

800-391-5227x7359. 

MUST SELL! 1996 Chevy 

Cavalier, red, 5spd., 

4-cyclinder. Runs, 

look good. 101K. 

$1800. FIRM. 

(423)647-6448. 

60 AUTOS 

W/PHOTO 

SOLD 

Pre-Owned 

2002 

Mitsubishi 

Eclipse Spyder 

6cyl. auto, AC. 

Loaded, Convertible, 

Aluminum wheels. 

$12,995. REDUCED TO 

$10,000. FIRM! Priced 

wholesale. stk#9673 


Auto Sale 

423-543-7592 

1989 Ford Van 

Extended Bed, Fully 

Carpeted, drapes, TV. 

Captain’s Chairs. 

Good for family van 

or work vehicle 

$1,200. O.B.O. 

Call 

423-542-4995 

after 6:PM 

2004 BLACK 

CAVALIER 

2.2 liter, 33,350 miles, 

2DR, 5 speed, A/C, 

tinted windows, CD 

player with Fosgate 

speakers and 1000 

W-AMP. $12,000. 

(423)768-0199 

60 AUTOS 

W/PHOTO 

SOLD 

PRE-OWNED 

1999 Honda Prelude 

V.TEC, auto, sunroof, 

loaded, aluminum 

wheels. Extra Nice 

stk# 0074 


Auto Sales 

423-543-7592 

63 4X4 VEHICLES 

FOR SALE 

GOOD running 1985 

GMC pickup truck, 

4x4, 4cyl $2,000.00 

423-543-1643, 

423-512-0184 

64 4X4 W/PHOTO 

FOR SALE 

PRE-OWNED 

2000 

Lincoln Navigator 

4X4, V8, auto, 3rd. 

row, leather, sunroof, 

$10,900. stk# 5549 


Auto Sale 

423-543-7592 

PRE-OWNED 

2000 

Chevy Z71 

Extended cab, 4x4, 

3DR, V-8, automatic, 

loaded. $10,995. 

stk# 3993 


Auto Sale 

423-543-7592 

SOLD 

Pre-Owned 

2000 

Cadillac Escalade 

4X4, V8, automatic, 

aluminum wheels. 

$11,995. stk# 0609 


Auto Sales 

423-543-7592 


NOTICE OF 

TRUSTEE'S SALE 

WHEREAS, default has 

occurred in the performance 

of the 

covenants, terms, and 

conditions of a Deed 

of Trust Note dated 

August 13, 2004, and 

the Deed of Trust of 

even date securing 

the same, recorded 

September 2, 2004, at 

Book T713, Page 78 in 

Office of the Register 

of Deeds for Carter 

County, Tennessee, 

executed by James V. 

Fair, and Sandra S. 

Fair, conveying certain 

property therein 

described to Robert 

M. Wilson, Jr. as Trustee 

for Mortgage Electronic 

Registration Systems, 

Inc. as nominee 

for Full Spectrum Lending, 

Inc.; and the undersigned, 

Aaron L. 

Squyres of Wilson & Associates, 

P.L.L.C., having 

been appointed 

Successor Trustee. 

NOW, THEREFORE, notice 

is hereby given 

that the entire indebtedness 

has been declared 

due and payable; 

and that an 

agent of Aaron L. 

Squyres of Wilson & Associates, 

P.L.L.C., as 

Successor Trustee, by 

virtue of the power, 

duty, and authority 

vested in and imposed 

upon said Successor 

Trustee will, on 

December 9, 2005 on 

or about 2:15 P.M., at 

the Carter County 

Courthouse, Elizabethton, 

Tennessee, 

offer for sale certain 

property hereinafter 

described to the highest 

bidder FOR CASH, 

free from the statutory 

right of redemption, 

homestead, dower, 

and all other exemptions 

which are expressly 

waived in the 

Deed of Trust, said 

property being real estate 

situated in Carter 


and being more particularly 

described as 

follows: 

SITUATE in the 6th Civil 

District of Carter 

County, Tennessee 

and being more particularly 

described as 

follows: BEING all of 

Lot 4 of the Stonebrook 

Subdivision, as 

80 VENDING MACHINES 

With Prime locations. 

Includes Inventory. MUST 

Sell Immediately! $11,990 

investment. 800-639-2430 


shown by plat of record 

in Plat Cabinet B, 

Slide 279, of the Register's 

Office for Carter 


reference to which is 

here had and made. 

BEING the same property 

conveyed to 

James V. Fair and 

wife, Sandra S. Fair 

from Larn, LLC by Warranty 

Deed dated December 

3, 2001, and 

of record in Deed 

Book D466, Page 298, 

in the Register's Office 

for Carter County, Tennessee. 

ALSO KNOWN AS: 112 

Stonebrook Loop, 

Elizabethton, Tennessee 

37643 

This sale is subject to 

all matters shown on 

any applicable recorded 

plat; any unpaid 

taxes; any restrictive 

covenants, easements, 

or setback lines 

that may be applicable; 

any statutory 

rights of redemption of 

any governmental 

agency, state or federal; 

any prior liens or 

encumbrances as well 

as any priority created 

by a fixture filing; and 

to any matter that an 

accurate survey of the 

premises might disclose. 

In addition, the 

following parties may 

claim an interest in the 

above-referenced 

property: James V. 

Fair; Sandra S. Fair 

The sale held pursuant 

to this Notice may be 

rescinded at the Successor 

Trustee’s option 

at any time. The right 

is reserved to adjourn 

the day of the sale to 

another day, time, 

and place certain 

without further publication, 

upon announcement 

at the 

time and place for the 

sale set forth above. 

W&A No. 726-94934 

DATED TIME November 

9, 2005. 

WILSON & ASSOCI- 

ATES, P.L.L.C., 

Successor Trustee 

By: Aaron L. Squyres 

DSaleNoticeTN-Aaron 

ccoger-_051108_-1015 

FOR SALE INFORMA- 

TION, VISIT HYPERLINK 

"http://WWW.MYFIR.COM" 

WWW.MYFIR.COM 

and HYPERLINK 

"http://WWW.REALTY- 

TRAC.COM" WWW.RE- 

ALTYTRAC.COM 

11/15, 11/22, 11/29 

IN THE CHANCERY 

COURT, PROBATE 

DIVISION OF CARTER 

COUNTY, AT 

ELIZABETHTON, 

TENNESSEE 

NOTICE TO CREDITORS 

per 

TCA 30-2-306 

PROBATE NO. P-06 

ESTATE OF DAVID NEAL 

WOOD DECEASED 

Notice is hereby 

given that on the 17th 


day of November 

2005; Letters of Testamentary, 

in respect to 

the Estate of David 

Neal Wood deceased, 

were issued 

to the undersigned by 

the Chancery Court 

Clerk and Master, Probate 

Division, of Carter 

County, Tennessee. 

All persons, resident 

and non-resident, 

having claims, matured 

or unmatured, 

against the Estate of 

David Neal Wood are 

required to file the 

same with the Clerk 

and Master of the 

above Court within 

four (4) months from 

the date of the first 

publication of this Notice; 

otherwise, their 

claims will be forever 

barred. 

All persons indebted 

to the above Estate 

must come forward 

and make proper settlement 

with the undersigned 

at once. 

This the 17th day of 

November, 2005. 

Monia M. Williamson 

Executrix 

Deceased: David 

Neal Wood 

Gerald L. Gulley, Jr. 

Attorney 

By: CHARLOTTE 

MCKEEHAN 

Clerk and Master 

11/22, 11/29 

IN THE CHANCERY 

COURT, PROBATE 

DIVISION OF CARTER 

COUNTY, AT 

ELIZABETHTON, 

TENNESSEE 

NOTICE TO CREDITORS 

Per 

TCA 30-2-306 

PROBATE NO. P-050009 

ESTATE OF NOVELLA 

JOHNSON CAMPBELL 

DECEASED 

Notice is hereby 

given that on the 17th 

day of November 

2005; Letters of Administration, 

C.T.A, were issued 

to the undersigned 

by the Chancery 

Court Clerk and 

Master, Probate Division, 

of Carter County, 

Tennessee. All persons, 

resident and 

non-resident, having 

claims, matured or unmatured, 

against the 

Estate of Novella 

Johnson Campbell , 

are required to file the 

same with the Clerk 

and Master of the 

above Court within (4) 

months from the date 

of the first publication 

of this Notice; otherwise, 

their claims will 

be forever barred. 

All persons indebted 

to the above Estate 

must come forward 

and make proper settlement 

with the undersigned 

at once. 



Douglas Campbell 

Administrator c.t.a. 


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Novella Johnson 

Campbell 

Deceased 

Earl Hendry 

Attorney 

By: CHARLOTTE 

MCKEEHAN 

Clerk and Master 

11/22, 11/29 

Notice of 

Foreclosure Sale 

All words and phrases 

herein which have the 

first letters thereof 

capitalized are defined 

on the attached 

Identifying Data of 

Mortgage or Deed of 

Trust, consisting of one 

page. 

The Real Estate to be 

Sold will be sold at 

public auction to the 

highest bidder, in lawful 

money of the 

United States at the 

following date, time 

and place: 

Date of Sale: December 

6, 2005 

Place of Sale: Front 

door of the Carter 

County Courthouse, 

Elizabethton, TN 

Time of Sale: 10:00 

a.m. 

Attorney for Present 

Mortgagee(s) 

and/or Substitute Trustee 

Tennessee Attorney 

Philip M. Kleinsmith 

6035 Erin Park Drive, 

Ste. 203 

Colorado Springs, CO 

80918 

1-800-842-8417 

Registration No. 

016987 

Identifying Data of 

Debt, the Collateral 

and Collateral Instrument 

The Debt: 

Dated........: 

1/16/2003 

Original Principal Balance....: 

$42,000.00 

Original Borrower(s): 

Michael J. Kierych 

Present Borrower(s): 


Original Creditor(s): H 

& R Block Mortgage 

Corp. 

Present Creditor(s): 

Countrywide Home 

Loans Inc. 

Defaults Causing Foreclosure: 

Non-Payment 

of Periodic Payments 

since: 5/1/2005 

Present Principal Balance 

Daily Interest 

(i.e. as of 5/1/2005) 

$40,942.97 

after same date......... 

$7.39 

Estimated Total 

Costs... $1,800.00 

Attorney Fees for 

Completed Default 

Present Value 

Foreclosure.................. 

$550.00 of 

Collateral......... $Unknown 

The Collateral: 

Real Estate (Mortgaged 

Property or 


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Trust Property or Property): 

Assessor's Tax Parcel # 

:53-127.00 

Common Description..... 

: 3720 Hwy 321 

Butler, TN 37640 

Exhibit "A" 

Legal Description 

THE LAND REFERRED 

TO IN THIS EXHIBIT IS 

LOCATED IN THE 

COUNTY OF CARTER 

AND THE STATE OF TEN- 

NESSEE IN DEED BOOK 

458 AT PAGE 556 AND 

DESCRIBED AS FOL- 

LOWS. 

SITUATE, LYING AND 

BEING IN THE 1st CIVIL 

DISTRICT OF CARTER 

COUNTY, TENNESSEE, 

AND IS MORE PAR- 

TICULARLY DESCRIBED 

AS FOLLOWS: 

BEGINNING AT A 

CONCRETE RIGHT OF 

WAY MARKER LO- 

CATED IN THE SOUTH- 

EASTERN SIDE OF STATE 

HIGHWAY NO. 159 

AND 321; THENCE 

ALONG THE BOUND- 

ARY WITH MARCELLA 

LEWIS THE FOLLOWING 

SEVEN CALLS AND DIS- 

TANCES: SOUTH 01°59’ 

WEST, 161.50 FEET TO A 

POST; NORTH 88°43’ 

EAST, 62.80 FEET TO A 

POST; SOUTH 10°56’ 


POST; SOUTH 69°28’ 






POST AND SOUTH 

69°33’ WEST, 52.0 FEET 

TO A POST IN THE 

BOUNDARY WITH 

DONNA C. TEAGUE; 

THENCE ALONG THE 

BOUNDARY WITH TEA- 

GUE NORTH 00°13’30” 


POST IN THE SOUTH- 

EASTERN BOUNDARY 

OF SAID STATE HIGH- 

WAY NO. 159 AND 

321; THENCE ALONG 

THE SAID BOUNDARY 

OF SAID HIGHWAY 

NORTH 53°48’16” EAST, 

205.01 FEET TO THE 

POINT OF BEGINNING, 

CONTAINING 1.3837 

ACRES, MORE OR LESS. 

ALL PER SURVEY OF 

WILLIAM MICHAEL 

GLASS, TENNESSEE 

REGISTERED LAND 

SURVEYOR NO. 927, 

140 CABINDALE 

ROAD, GRAY, TN 

37615, FROM THAT 

PLAT DATED MARCH 8, 

1994, TO WHICH REF- 

ERENCE IS HERE MADE. 

BEING THE SAME 

PROPERTY CONVEYED 

TO MICHAEL J. KI- 

ERYCH, UNMARRIED 

FROM DANNY G. 

PASS, JR. AND WIFE, 

ARIZONA LEE PASS BY 

DEED RECORDED ON 

11/29/00 IN BOOK 458 

AT PAGE 556. 

Collateral Instrument 

(Mortgage, Deed of 

Trust, or Trust Indenture 

or Security Agreement 

Being Foreclosed Per 


Real Estate Records of 

County Where Real Estate 

is Located or 

other records where 

Collateral Instrument 

filed): 

Dated......: 

1/16/2003 

Date Recorded or 

Filed....: 1/22/2003 

Recording 

Data.......: BK T647, Pg 

153 

Original Principal Balance: 

$(see above) 

Original Trustee: Priority 

Trustee 

Original Mortgagee(s), 

Beneficiary(ies) 

Services of TN LLC 

or Secured Party(ies): 

H & R Block Mortgage 

Corporation 

Original Borrower(s), 

Mortgagor(s), 

Present 

Mortgagee(s), 

Beneficiary(ies) 

Grantor(s) or 

Trustor(s): 

or Secured Party(ies): 

Countrywide Home 

Loans 


Inc. 

Present Borrower(s), 

Mortgagor(s) 

Present 

Owner(s) of Collateral 

Trustor(s) Names & Address(es) 


3720 Highway 321 


Names and 

Address(es) 

Estate of Michael J. Kierych 



11/8, 11/15, 11/22 

REQUEST FOR BIDS 

Sealed bids will be received 

in the Purchasing 

Department of the 

City of Elizabethton, 

136 South Sycamore 

St., Elizabethton, Tennessee, 

until Monday, 

2:00 PM, November 

28, 2005, at which 

time they will be 

opened and read 

aloud. Bids will be on 

the following: 

6’’ DUCTILE IRON 

WATER PIPE 

Specifications and bid 

sheets may be obtained 

from the 

above office. The City 

reserves the right to reject 

any and all bids 

and to waive informalities. 

The City of 

Elizabethton does not 

discriminate on the 

basis of race, creed, 

color, national origin, 

sex, religion, age or 

disability status in employment 

or the provision 

of services. 



Gene A. DeLoach 

Director of Purchasing 

11/22 


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Shown is today’s weather. Temperatures are today’s highs and tonight’s lows. 

Sunrise today ....................... 7:13 a.m. 

Sunset tonight ...................... 5:17 p.m. 

Moonrise today ................. 11:12 p.m. 

Moonset today .................. 12:47 p.m. 

Moon Phases 

Union City 

48/35 

Camden 

48/31 

Last New First Full 

Nov 23 Dec 1 Dec 8 Dec 15 

5-Day Forecast for Elizabethton 

WEDNESDAY 

Cloudy, 

breezy and 

chilly 

THURSDAY 

Cloudy, a 

shower in 

spots 

49° 30° 

RealFeel Temp ® 

The patented RealFeel Temperature is 

AccuWeather’s exclusive index of the effects 

of temperature, wind, humidity, sunshine, 

precipitation and elevation on the human 

body. Shown are the highest values for each 

day. 

Today ........................................... 31° 

Wednesday .................................. 36° 

Thursday ...................................... 39° 

Friday ........................................... 39° 

Saturday ....................................... 42° 

Nashville 

45/30 

Murfreesboro 

44/30 

Waynesboro Chattanooga 

48/32 45/30 

The State 

Today Wed. Today Wed. 

City Hi Lo W Hi Lo W City Hi Lo W Hi Lo W 

Athens 40 27 pc 46 39 pc 

Bristol 42 26 sf 45 36 c 

Chattanooga 45 30 sh 50 39 pc 

Clarksville 46 32 pc 64 44 pc 

Cleveland 43 29 sf 49 39 pc 

Cookeville 40 28 pc 49 40 pc 

Crossville 41 26 pc 45 39 pc 

Erwin 43 27 sf 44 35 pc 

Franklin 46 30 pc 57 42 pc 

Greeneville 43 27 sf 44 35 c 

Johnson City 42 26 sf 45 36 c 

FRIDAY 

Mostly sunny 

and cold 

46° 35° 

Knoxville 

44/28 

SATURDAY 

Partly sunny 

47° 29° 

UV Index Today 

The higher the AccuWeather UV IndexTM 8 a.m. .............................................. 0 

Noon ............................................... 1 

4 p.m. .............................................. 0 

0-2: Low 8-10: Very High 

3-5: Moderate 11+: Extreme 

6-7: High 

number, 

the greater the need for eye and skin protection. 

Forecasts and graphics provided 

by AccuWeather, Inc. ©2005 


42/26 

Kingsport 41 26 sf 43 36 c 

Knoxville 44 28 c 48 38 pc 

Memphis 52 40 s 65 48 s 

Morristown 43 28 c 47 37 c 

Mountain City 40 24 sf 39 36 c 

Nashville 45 30 pc 57 42 pc 

Newport 44 29 sh 47 36 pc 

Oak Ridge 45 29 c 45 38 pc 

Pigeon Forge 43 28 sf 49 38 pc 

Roan Mtn. 41 25 sf 42 35 pc 

Sevierville 43 28 sf 49 38 pc 

National Weather for Nov. 22, 2005 

-10s -0s 0s 10s 20s 30s 40s 50s 60s 70s 80s 90s 100s 110s 

San Francisco 

Francisco 

69/47 

Los Angeles 

Angeles 

80/52 

Billings 

63/40 

MILD 

TODAY’S WEATHER BROUGHT TO YOU FROM YOUR FRIENDS AT 

ELIZABETHTON ELECTRIC SYSTEM 

Seattle 

48/36 

Denver 

62/32 

Cold front 

Warm front 

Stationary front 

El Paso 

Paso 

70/40 

WARM 

National Summary 

Today Wed. 

City Hi Lo W Hi Lo W 

Atlanta 49 32 pc 53 45 s 

Boston 52 30 r 39 30 pc 

Charleston, SC 59 34 pc 57 41 s 

Charlotte 52 30 pc 50 32 s 

Chicago 38 29 sf 41 21 sn 

Cincinnati 40 27 pc 44 33 sh 

Dallas 68 47 s 79 49 s 

Denver 62 32 s 62 28 s 

Honolulu 85 72 pc 84 71 sh 

Kansas City 51 37 pc 64 36 pc 

Los Angeles 80 52 pc 76 52 pc 

New York City 49 34 r 40 33 pc 

Orlando 68 43 s 66 47 s 

Phoenix 82 55 s 82 53 pc 

Seattle 48 36 c 48 37 c 

Wash., DC 49 32 r 42 35 pc 

Minneapolis 

41/34 

CHILLY 

Chicago 

38/29 

Kansas City 

City 

51/37 

Houston 

70/44 

Detroit 

36/27 

Showers 

T-storms 

Rain 

Atlanta 

49/32 

COOL 

New York 

York 

49/34 

Washington 

49/32 

Miami 

74/54 

A storm system will move northward into New England today, 

spreading rain from Maryland to Maine. Colder air arriving in the 

wake of this storm system will cause snow showers from western 

North Carolina to western New York. 

The Nation The World 

Flurries 

Snow 

Ice 

Shown are noon positions of weather systems and precipitation. 

Temperature bands are highs for the day. Forecast high/low temperatures 

are given for selected cities. 

Today Wed. 

City Hi Lo W Hi Lo W 

Acapulco 90 73 s 87 74 pc 

Amsterdam 48 37 pc 48 37 pc 

Barcelona 59 39 sh 52 36 pc 

Beijing 52 33 s 51 32 s 

Berlin 39 34 c 37 23 pc 

Dublin 52 34 pc 52 41 pc 

Hong Kong 72 61 c 77 66 pc 

Jerusalem 59 43 pc 64 45 s 

London 50 36 pc 48 39 pc 

Madrid 57 41 pc 52 36 pc 

Mexico City 68 37 s 71 39 s 

Montreal 42 26 r 31 19 sf 

Paris 36 28 c 39 30 pc 

Rome 50 37 sh 46 39 r 

Seoul 48 36 s 52 32 pc 

Singapore 86 75 c 81 75 sh 

Legend: W-weather, s-sunny, pc-partly cloudy, c-cloudy, sh-showers, t-thunderstorms, 

r-rain, sf-snow flurries, sn-snow, i-ice. 

www.eesonline.org 

Sprint offers $10,000 reward 

for vandalism information 

Sprint officials on Monday 

offered a $10,000 reward for 

information leading to the arrest 

and conviction of the person 

or persons involved with 

malicious acts of vandalism 

to the company’s facilities in 

Tennessee and Virginia on the 

nights of Oct. 28 and Nov. 19. 

Most recently, on Nov. 19, 

vandals using hacksaws cut 

copper and fiber cables and 

damaged company facilities 

in the Jonesborough and Erwin 

areas, temporarily affecting 

service for more than 

3,000 customers for several 

hours Saturday night and 

Sunday morning. 

“We will be working with 

state and local authorities to 

try to determine who is responsible 

for this,” Sprint 

spokesperson Tom Matthews 

said. “We hope this reward 

offer will move the process 

along even more quickly.” 

As in previous vandalism 

incidents in Abingdon, Va., 

and Limestone and Baileyton, 

Tenn., it appears that the perpetrators’ 

acts “were not random. 

They knew what they 

were doing,” Matthews said, 

“in that they damaged the facilities 

in a particular way 

that made repairs more difficult.” 

It was unknown whether 

the activity was strike-related. 

Sprint has reached tentative 

bargaining agreements 

with bargaining units in 

Hickory, N.C., Ocala, Fla., 

Evansville, Ind., and Butler, 

Pa., and talks are scheduled 

to resume next week with the 

Communications Workers of 

America unit representing 

several hundred Sprint employees 

in Northeast Tennessee 

and Southwest Virginia. 

The most recent damage, 

which triggered Sprint network 

alarms at about 9 p.m. 

Saturday, temporarily disrupted 

customer service in 

the Sulphur Springs, Hairetown, 

Meadowview Farms, 

Douglas Chapel and Leesburg, 

Tenn., communities 

near Jonesborough, and the 

Limestone Cove, Coffee 

Ridge and Flag Pond communities 

near Erwin. Sprint 

management employees 

were dispatched to repair the 

damage, and most of the repairs 

were completed by 2:30 

a.m. Sunday. Final repairs in 

the Limestone Cove and Cof- 

Guard let Hyattes talk on 

phone weeks before escape 

KINGSTON (AP) — A correction officer 

has been placed on leave after authorities 

learned that he let inmate George Hyatte 

use a cell phone to call his wife weeks before 

the couple mounted a daring escape 

at a county courthouse that killed another 

guard. 

Officer Randall Ridenour admitted during 

an internal affairs interview that he let 

inmate George Hyatte use his phone to call 

his wife, Jennifer Hyatte, prisons spokeswoman 

Amanda Sluss said Monday. 

The call was made July 18 — three 

weeks before the Hyattes’ “Bonnie and 

Clyde”-style escape — as Ridenour escorted 

George Hyatte from Brushy Mountain 

Correctional Complex to the Roane County 

Courthouse for a hearing, Sluss said. 

Ridenour also made a personal call to 

Jennifer Hyatte later that day, Sluss said. 

A guard at Brushy Mountain since 1998, 

Ridenour was relieved of duty last week 

after the interview. He faced the charges at 

an administrative hearing at the prison 

Wednesday for violating a ban on personal 

relationships with inmates. 

“It is definitely grounds for termination. 

These are some serious charges,” Sluss 

said. The content of the phone conversations 

remains under investigation. 

Jennifer Hyatte, 31, entered no plea at 

her arraignment Monday. 

Police say the former prison nurse, who 

met and married her husband in prison, 

ambushed two guards as they were leading 

George Hyatte, 34, to a prison van 

Aug. 9 outside the courthouse. 

She was charged with first-degree murder 

in the killing of prison guard Wayne 

“Cotton” Morgan, 56, attempted murder 

for allegedly shooting at Morgan’s partner, 

Larry Harris, and with aiding an escape. 

George Hyatte, serving a 41-sentence 

for robbery and related offenses, yelled 

“Shoot him” when he saw her, Harris testified 

at a previous hearing. Harris said he 

emptied his revolver and fired several 

shots from Morgan’s gun as the couple 

fled. They were captured 36 hours later in 

a motel in Columbus, Ohio. 

George Hyatte also is charged with 

first-degree murder. 

District Attorney Scott McCluen says he 

will seek the death penalty against both of 

them. Circuit Judge Eugene Eblen set Jennifer 

Hyatte’s trial for July 25 and her husband’s 

for Aug. 8. 

In a 34-page handwritten account titled 

“A Modern Day Bonnie and Clyde,” Jennifer 

Hyatte allegedly compared herself 

and her husband to the bank-robbing couple 

of the Depression era. 

Prosecutors will likely use it against her, 

her defense attorney John Eldridge said. 

“We certainly are concerned about any 

writings that she may have made that 

were confiscated from her in jail,” Eldridge 

said. “I haven’t seem them.” 

How important is the diary? “That is 

the basis for the state indicting these two 

individuals separately,” Eldridge said. 

“They can use whatever that is against 

Mrs. Hyatte without using it against Mr. 

Hyatte.” 

fee Ridge areas were completed 

Sunday afternoon. 

“We will do what we can 

to assist authorities in Tennessee 

and Virginia to ensure 

that this kind of activity is investigated 

fully and to ensure 

that anyone found to be involved 

with it is prosecuted 

fully. We hope the reward offer 

will generate leads the authorities 

can use,” Matthews 

said. 

Sprint reiterated an appeal 

for the public to help the 

company avoid unnecessary 

outages with their increased 

vigilance, asking that the 

public report any unusual activity 

near Sprint facilities to 

local police and to Sprint Security 

at 800-877-7330. Calls 

related to the Oct. 28 and 

Nov. 19 incidents can be 

made to the toll-free number 

or to Sprint’s regional security 

manager at 914-935-7426. 

Arrest 

n Continued from 1 

to his vehicle,” states Smith 

in his police report on the incident. 

“Mr. Carr was known 

to the agent as a known illegal 

narcotics trafficker.” 

Smith states in his report 

that the DTF agent asked that 

he make contact with Carr 

for further investigation into 

the man’s suspicious behavior. 

“Upon arrival, (I) spoke 

with Mr. Carr who appeared 

to be very nervous. When 

asked for his identification 

he fumbled around in his 

billfold, (I) had to ask several 

times for his registration and 

proof of insurance and Mr. 

Carr gave the wrong registration,” 

states Smith in his report. 

“Mr. Carr would look 

from side to side and then 

straight ahead without looking 

at (me).” 

At that time, according to 

the report, Smith returned 

Mr. Carr’s personal papers to 

him and then asked for permission 

to search Carr’s vehicle 

and Carr “voluntarily 

and freely” gave consent for 

Smith to search the vehicle. 

“As Mr. Carr exited the 

vehicle he began fumbling 

with something in his right 

hand and (I), concerned for 

(my) safety grabbed Mr. 

Carr’s right hand and he was 

Snow 

n Continued from 1 

to snow,” said Mary Black, 

meteorologist for the National 

Weather Service at Morristown. 

While some accumulation 

is expected at the higher elevations, 

the Tri-Cities will probably 

have to settle for snow 

showers mixed with rain over 

the next couple of days. 

“There may be 1 to 3 inches in 

the higher terrain,” the NWS 

spokesman said. 

Temperatures are expected 

to be a little cooler in the coming 

days. Low temperatures 

likely will drop into the 20s today 

and possibly Wednesday, 

MEMPHIS (AP) — A 

husband and wife who 

were expecting their first 

child died from carbon 

monoxide poisoning while 

polishing the floor of a business 

with a propane-powered 

buffer, Memphis police 

say. 

They were identified 

Monday as Bobby Joe 

Branch, 45, and Blanche 

“Cookie” Thomas Branch, 

32. 

Officers patrolling a Cordova 

business park around 

2 a.m. Sunday found the 

man slumped in a corner on 

the floor of La Petite Academy 

day care center. The 

woman was found in a 

holding an unlabeled blue 

pill bottle. Inside the bottle 

was 17 60mg morphine 

pills,” states Smith in his report 

adding that at that time 

Carr was placed under arrest 

and read his Miranda Rights 

and Carr stated that he understood 

his rights. “A 

search incident to arrest produced 

a prescription bottle 

with an additional 57 60mg 

morphine pills with his name 

on the bottle. Another unlabeled 

blue bottle was located 

in his right front pants pocket 

with five 80mg OxyContin. 

Also in plain view at the 

center console was an 80mg 

OxyContin and a 30mg morphine 

tablet. 

“In a small cooler, 10 separate 

bags of green plant material 

suspected of being 

marijuana was located. In 

Mr. Carr’s possession was a 

total of $1,201 and he said 

that he was disabled and 

drew a check. (I) asked Mr. 

Carr if he dealt drugs and he 

said yes.” 

At that time Carr was 

transported to the Carter 

County Jail and booked in. 

He is currently being held on 

a $53,000 bond and is scheduled 

to appear in Carter 

County General Sessions 

Court on Dec. 5. 

with highs hovering in the 

middle to upper 30s. 

Thanksgiving will be somewhat 

warmer, with temperatures 

in the 40s during the day 

and a 30 percent chance of 

showers mixed with snow 

flurries. 

The moisture will come 

during the busiest travel season 

of the year as people hit 

the highways for the long 

Thanksgiving weekend. 

“The rain on the roads 

makes for slick conditions, so I 

would recommend using caution 

driving across the area for 

the holidays,” Black said. 

Asphyxiated couple 

were newlyweds 

Courthouse Flooding 

chair behind the front desk 

of the center. 

The victims were contractors 

polishing the floor 

at the time they were overcome. 

The buffer was still 

running when police got inside 

the building, said 

homicide Lt. Joseph Scott. 

“We are absolutely devastated 

for this family. It is 

an awful, awful tragedy,” 

said La Petite Academy 

spokesman Karen Craven. 

Memphis firefighters 

tested where the victims 

were found and discovered 

carbon monoxide levels 

three times higher than 

what is considered safe, 

Scott said. 

Photo by Anthony Pervm Morse 

This toilet was responsible for flooding that occurred at the Carter County Courthouse 

over the weekend. Circuit Court Clerk John Paul Mathes was temporarily “forced out of 

office” during the minor crisis.

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