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Monday, September 14, 2009 • Dalton, Georgia • www.daltondailycitizen.com • 50 Cents 

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FROM TODAY’S 

FORUM 

“Northwest was minus 

three cheerleaders, have they 

had that many injuries this 

early in the season?” 

“Why are there paved 

roads in Murray County with 

posted speed limits of 20 

mph?” 

“The ambulance people 

need to be left alone, they 

saved my husband’s life 

when he had amassive heart 

attack and Iwould appreciate 

it if they would worry about 

something else in Whitfield 

County instead of ball parks 

and places for kids who can’t 

afford to go.” 

WEATHER 

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Forecast: Cloudy, possible 

showers 

Today’s High: 81 

Tonight’s Low: 63 

Details, Page 10A 

Through kick and pin 

BY CHARLES OLIVER 

charlesoliver@daltoncitizen.com 

Ican hear it as soon as Ipull into 

the parking lot of the lot of the 

Northwest Georgia Trade and 

Convention Center. It’s abuzz or 

maybe adroning sound. It sounds 

sort of like asmall engine, but no, 

that’snot quite it. 

It gets louder and grows in intensity 

as Iwalk through the parking 

lot, which is almost full. As Iget 

close to the doors of the arena, it’s 

clear the noise is the crowd gathered 

inside. They’ve come to see 

some professional wrestling, and 

they are eager to see the stars of 

Total Nonstop Action (TNA), 

which made its first ever appearance 

in Dalton Saturday night. 

In the lobby,those buying tickets 

shout at the women working the 

ticket booth, struggling to make 

themselves heard over the din 

spilling out of the one open door 

from the arena. Several trade center 

executivesare standing nearby with 

big smiles on their faces. They are 

clearly pleased at the turnout. 

As Iwalk into the arena, the girls 

who take myticket warn that video 

cameras aren’t allowed. But as the 

night grows on, it looks as if I’m the 

only one in the building who doesn’t 

have avideo camera. Or maybe 

cell phones and digital cameras 

with video capability don’tcount. 

Many ofthe fans are carrying 

hand-made signs praising their 

favorite wrestlers or damning the 

villains. Some of the most ardent 

fans, sitting in near the ring, seem to 

have multiple signs. 

The first match of the night features 

twomasked wrestlers: Suicide 

and Shark Boy. Judging from the 

large number of small children 

wearing Shark Boy T-shirts, he 

must be the crowd favorite. Yes, the 

crowd emits a huge roar as he 

comes out. For the next 15 minutes 

the twobounce around the ring like 

MATT HAMILTON/THE DAILY CITIZEN 

Christopher Daniels flies off the turnbuckle towards Samoa 

Joe during their bout Saturday atthe Trade Center. 

acouple of ping pong balls before 

Shark Boy rolls up Suicide for the 

win. 

Each time one of them hits the 

mat, it sounds like thunder, agiant 

boom that echoes even above the 

constant roar of the fans. I’ll hear 

that sound dozens of times before 

the night is over. 

Next up is awomen’s match, or 

as TNA calls them, Knockouts. It 

features Taylor Wylde, a blonde 

built to wear the blue spandexoutfit 

she has on and Daffney, ashapely 

Goth girl dressed in a Little-Bo- 

Peep-became-a-dominatrix outfit. 

The two quickly dispel any ideas 

they are just eye candy by slamming 

each other around the sixsided 

ring for about 10 minutes 

before Daffneypins Taylor. 

Inotice that fans crowd around 

the catwalk to the ring as the 

wrestlers enter and exit, so Imake 

my way over just in time to see 

Consequence Creed and Homicide 

come out. Creed wears red, white 

and blue trunks. Homicide has a 

Puerto Rican flag wrapped around 

his face-likemask. 

Whenever Creed gets in trouble 

during the match, the crowd starts 

to chant “U-S-A! U-S-A!” Given 

that Puerto Rico is aU.S. commonwealth 

whose citizens are also U.S. 

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Receiving his rust rewards 

Obama: 

Expecting 

‘good 

health 

care bill’ 

BY STEVEN R. HURST 

Associated Press Writer 

WASHINGTON — President 

Barack Obama said he is confident 

Congress will pass “a good health 

care bill,” asmonths of rancor over 

reforming the nation’s health care 

system seemed to be easing Sunday, 

with the White House playing down 

an immediate role for agovernment 

insurance option. 

At the same time, Obama was 

critical of Republican opponents 

who he said were trying to block an 

overhaul of the nation’s heath care 

system for political gain. 

“I believe that we will have 

enough votes to pass not just any 

health care bill, but agood health 

care bill that helps the American people, 

reduces costs, actually over the 

long-term controls our deficit. I’m 

confident that we’ve got that,” 

Obama said in an interview broadcast 

Sunday on CBS’ “60 Minutes. 

“There are those in the Republican 

party who think the best thing to do 

is just to kill reform. That that will be 

good politics.” 

Obama has retaken the offensive 

on his keydomestic policyissue, most 

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Chris Beck welds abird onto abird’s nest in his work area 

at his Dalton home. Beck, who worked as acarpenter until 

the housing market crashed, is now working full-time as a 

sculptor. 

BY MISTY WATSON 

mistywatson@daltoncitizen.com 

Chris Beck was working as a 

carpenter renovating historic homes 

in Chattanooga when the housing 

market crashed. 

“That’s all Iknew,”said the 33- 

year-old Dalton resident. “That’sall 

Ihad done. Iwas freaking out. 

“We felt the hit with my job in 

January (of this year),”hesaid. 

Beck, who had already begun 

selling his metal sculptures at area 

art shows, decided to turn to his artwork 

full time. He and his wife, 

Susan, decided to rely completely 

on God to help them through. 

“When you feel likeyour choices 

have become nil and void, you 

are left with God,” Beck said. “It 

was around March of this year I 

started doing this full-time.... It was 

an all-out blessing food fight. God 

was like ‘Here. Here.’ Ididn’t go 

twoorthree days without an e-mail 

or phone call, without something 

affirming the decision... Financially 

there were blessings as well. It’snot 

like we’re making aton of money, 

but the money’s not what’s important. 

It’s the encouragement. Man, 

God’sbeen so good.” 

Beck is scheduled to participate 

in several art shows in the next few 

weeks, including the Creative Arts 

Guild Festival on Saturday and 

Sunday and the One Bridge Folk 

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the nation’sbiggest banks are bigger 

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Goldman Sachs, JPMorganChase 

and others — which have received 

tens of billions of dollars in federal 

aid — are once more betting big on 

bonds, commodities and exotic financial 

products, trading that nearly 

stopped during the financial crisis. 

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TODAY’S FORUM 

Editor’s note: Please 

keep comments short and 

to the point. Longer comments 

should be submitted 

as letters. There is 

usually abacklog of comments 

so it may take 2-3 

days for a comment to 

appear. Multiple calls 

from the same person 

won’t be printed. Sorry, 

we can’t do birthday 

greetings anymore. 

“To all you people who 

complain about Obama, the 

mayor, the county commissioners: 

Why don’t you run 

for office and let people dig 

into your past and look at 

the skeletons in your closet. 

Then you will see how it 

feels.” 

“To the idiot who 

remarked about people 

leaving dogs chained up, 

would you rather have them 

running around loose, then 

having pregnant dogs running 

all over Dalton?” 

“Congressman Joe 

Wilson, who called Obama 

a liar during his speech, 

should not have apologized.” 

“No matter what time of 

day I turn on television 

there’s Obama or one of his 

minions talking about 

health care, it’s like brainwashing, 

enough already.” 

“David at Kroger on 

Walnut Avenue is the nicest 

young man you’ll ever 

meet. Hat’s off to Kroger, 

they need more like him 

and good job to his mom 

and dad who raised him 

right.” 

“Northwest was minus 

three cheerleaders, have 

they had that many injuries 

this early in the season?” 

“Why are there paved 

roads in Murray County 

with posted speed limits of 

20 mph?” 

“The ambulance people 

need to be left alone, they 

saved my husband’s life 

when he had amassive heart 

attack and Iwould appreciate 

it if they would worry 

about something else in 

Whitfield County instead of 

ball parks and places for 

kids who can’tafford to go.” 

“The most unsightliest 

view iscigarette butts and 

sunflower seeds left on the 

putting greens at golf 

courses.” 

“People who let their 

dogs run free are selfish and 

endanger other’slives, causing 

them to get bit or causing 

wrecks. Laws are made 

to abide by and if you don’t, 

you are breaking the law.” 

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“Why doesn’t the 

Whitfield County superintendent 

get furlough days 

without pay?” 

“For all the people who 

think they’re smarter than 

President Obama, why 

don’t you step forward and 

help out?” 

“Fellowship Baptist 

Church in RockyFace has a 

new class for divorced and 

singles called First Love. 

Come check us out.” 

“New Hope Middle 

School has made a poor 

choice in allowing aparent 

to help coach the football 

team.” 

Lloyd sez 

“What does ‘in a New 

York minute’ and a ‘blue 

moon’ mean? I’ve heard 

them all my life and Idon’t 

know what they mean.” 

“It’s plain to see from 

Obama’s infomercial 

Wednesday night that he 

doesn’t care what the 

American people want at 

all. He only cares about his 

personal agenda: Turning 

this country to socialism.” 

“I would liketothank the 

nice Varnell police officer 

who responded so quickly 

Thursday morning when I 

accidentally pressed the 

panic button on my security 

system. Thank you.” 

“To the person who 

wanted to know what Jesus 

would do about the Obama 

health care plan: Well he 

certainly wouldn’t ask the 

older people to choose how 

theywanted to die and to be 

counseled for it. That doesn’t 

make sense.” 

“Barack Obama said he 

would not sign any legislation 

that would raise the 

deficit one dime. Well Itell 

you what, those words can 

and will be used against 

him. Ihope he likes crow.” 

“Obama and McCain 

both said when they were 

running for president that it 

would be no problem to 

find Bin Laden and bring 

him to justice. So far, where 

is Bin Laden?” 

“Thanks for the advice 

about talking to the School 

Board about the bullies. As 

far asfighting the bullies, 

they’re nothing other than 

gangs and thugs who will 

gang up on asingle kid, so 

Iwould advise against taking 

them on.” 

“Remembering the 

events of 9/11 and then 

reading the forum, it just 

struck me how ungrateful 

we are, complaining about 

the most petty things.” 

TODAY’S CITIZEN 

NAME: Jorge 

Ramirez 

AGE: 42 

HOME: Dalton 

FAMILY:Wife, Ana 

Ramirez; son, 

Edward Ramirez; 

daughter, Brenda 

Ramirez 

WORK:DMS 

PLAY:Play with my 

son, flowers 

HE SAID:“My heart 

is happy when Ismile 

and people smile 

back.” 

Wrestling 

➣ Cont. from page 1A 

citizens I’m not sure who 

they are cheering for. 

The next match pits Sheik 

Abdul Bashir against Shawn 

Hernandez. I’m sure of this 

because Hernandez has his 

name tattooed across his back 

and written on his trunks. I 

won’t quickly forget it 

because Hernandez appears 

to be impossibly strong, even 

compared to the other 

wrestlers, tossing the Sheik 

around the ring likearag doll. 

“They are really starting 

to give Hernandez apush,” 

said Dalton’s Drew Germain. 

He explains that several of 

the wrestlers on Saturday’s 

card have worked for local 

promotions in Whitfield and 

Murray counties, and many 

of the people in the audience 

are regulars at those local 

shows. 

Next, the Samoan submission 

machine Samoa Joe 

takes on Christopher Daniels 

in amatch for the TNA X- 

division championship. 

Finally, the main event 

arrives, asix-man tag team 

match featuring Scott 

Steiner, Booker Tand Kurt 

Angle against a tag team 

know as Beer Money and 

Georgia’s own A.J. Styles. 

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Sculptor 

➣ Cont. from page 1A 

Sunday and the One Bridge 

Folk Art Festival in 

Chattanooga Sept. 26-27. 

Beck uses scrap metal and 

old machine parts to make 

everything from flowers and 

butterflies to Jesus hanging 

on the cross to clothing. His 

materials are donated by 

friends and family. 

“I think it’s really cool 

that you can make flowers 

and bumble bees and lady 

bugs out of metal, butthey’re 

still light and airy,” Beck 

said. “The rustier the better. 

My stuff isnot polished or 

clean. It is rusty. Even 

though it’s rusty metal, it’s 

not gross. It’spretty.It’seasy 

to look at.” 

Some of Beck’s more 

unique pieces are the clothing 

he sculpts using sheets of 

roofing tin. A pair of blue 

metal pants with patches 

hangs from suspenders in his 

tool shed in the backyard of 

his home. He has also made 

polka-dot underwear hanging 

on aclothes line and a 

suit, complete with ared rose 

in the lapel — both of which 

have sold. 

“Some how, some way I 

came across an old ironing 

board,”Beck said. “I thought 

‘What am Igoing to do with 

an old ironing board?’ Iput a 

(metal) shirt on it with an 

iron. That’s how I started 

making clothes.” 

The roofing tin is harder 

to weld with than some of 

the other metals Beck uses, 

he said. 

“It doesn’t weld easily 

because the welder is so 

hot,” hesaid. “It’s like holding 

a match to a piece of 

paper.” 

Beck uses the roofing tin 

to make many ofhis sculptures, 

including flower petals 

and butterflies. Beck paints 

manyofthe sculptures, made 

with the roofing tin, with 

latex house paint. 

Many ofhis other sculptures, 

including agiant eagle 

in his backyard, are left 

unpainted. 

A sculpture of Jesus 

hanging on the cross sits near 

his patio. It is made up of 

many farm machine parts, 

including tractor axles and 

gaskets. Another sculpture of 

adancer is made of items, 

including screws and door 

knobs. 

Some of Beck’s ideas 

There’s no doubt who the 

most popular wrestlers on 

this card are. When Beer 

Money is announced the 

noise grows from the thunderous 

level it has been at 

almost all night to earthshaking. 

No, really. Fans 

stomping in the bleachers 

rock the building. 

There’s lots of brawling, 

lots of leaping of the ropes 

and just when it seems Angle 

has the clean-cut Styles in 

trouble, Styles twists out of 

his arms, rolls him into what 

looks like a submission 

before dropping him on his 

head for the pin. 

As Angle and his partners 

retreat to the dressing room, 

Styles and Beer Money celebrate. 

They huddle for a 

moment before speaking to 

the announcer. He says 

come from photographs he 

sees, but many are given to 

him by Susan. After watching 

the popular TV show“So 

YouThink YouCan Dance,” 

Susan gave her husband the 

idea to sculpt adancer. 

Beck does not have an 

artistic background and has 

never received formal training. 

He had never welded 

before he began sculpting 

two years ago. 

Beck’s love for folk art 

beganseveral years before he 

took ituphimself. He and 

his wife began collecting 

pieces after visiting ahome 

with several pieces of folk 

art. 

“We decided instead of 

getting a new toaster... or 

something for each other for 

our anniversary, we would 

get art,” hesaid. “We both 

wanted to do the art thing. 

That turned into Christmas, 

birthdays, Halloween, 

because it was Tuesday. We 

just started buying stuff.” 

The couple focused on 

collecting pieces from 

untrained artists and sculptors, 

many of whom had 

other jobs as concrete 

masons or junk yard owners. 

Through that hobby, the 

Becks met Charlie Lucas, a 

junk yard owner from 

Alabama who has become a 

well-known folk artist. 

“He does metal sculpture, 

and he is the real deal,”Chris 

Beck said. “He is what Iconsider 

atrue artist. After seeing 

him in his environment 

and what he did, Iwanted to 

weld something.” 

The Becks were living in 

Atlanta at the time, and Chris 

Beck began bringing home 

scraps of metal from job sites 

3350 Chattanooga Rd. 

Tunnel Hill, GA 30755 

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they’ve decided to have an 

all-night party right there in 

the trade center. For $20 

bucks, fans can get in the ring 

and have their photos take 

with Beer Money. 

Meanwhile, Styles and the 

other wrestlers will be on the 

catwalk taking photos and 

signing autographs for free. 

Again, I make my way 

over to the catwalk just in 

time to see Hernandez lift 

Kishan Sheth, 7, over his 

head while Consequences 

Creed stands over him. The 

boy’s eyes light up as his dad 

snaps aphoto. 

“This was his first show,” 

said Bob Sheth. “He had a 

great time. We both had a 

great time. Ireally like the 

way they came out and 

signed autographs for the 

fans afterwards.” 

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Daffney isupset 

at the referee 

after Taylor 

Wilde kicked 

out of her pin 

after only two 

counts Saturday 

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MISTY WATSON/THE DAILY CITIZEN 

Chris Beck and his wife Susan discuss asculpture 

of adancer Beck welded. Beck, who was acarpenter 

until the housing market crashed, is now working 

full-time as asculptor. 

or “random pieces of metal I 

found on the side of the 

road,” hesaid. 

“I started bringing home a 

muffler here, atire rim there, 

an old rusty wrench, agear 

part from a bicycle,” Beck 

said. “That wasinOctober of 

2006.” 

By December — Beck 

had not begun welding — 

but had alarge collection of 

rusty metal growing in his 

back yard. 

“I said, ‘You either need 

to do something with this or 

get it out of my yard,’” Susan 

Beck said. “I’m glad he 

finally did something with it. 

It would have been a real 

shame to have thrown it all 

away. It’s exciting for me to 

see him do something he is 

passionate about.” 

The following April, with 

about 30 pieces finished, 

Beck applied for an art show 

in Chattanooga called Who- 

Fest, which is held each 

Memorial Day weekend. He 

was accepted, and has been 

participating in shows ever 

since. 

It was being in 

Chattanooga for that show 

that caused the Becks to 

want to move to north 

Georgia. They found Dalton, 

and have been living here for 

two years. 

“It’s really cool to get up 

and go to work every day in 

my back yard,” Chris Beck 

said. “It’s work.... but it’s 

pleasure. It’s ajoy. Itisvery 

fulfilling.... It’s very humbling 

for me to have other 

people approach what Idid 

and appreciate it so much. 

They’re getting a feeling 

from arusty piece of metal. 

That’s soawesome.” 

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The Daily Citizen 

Dalton-Whitfield 

Chamber of 

Commerce President 

Brian Anderson will 

speak at Dalton State 

College’s Business 

Networking Club on 

Tuesday at 12:15 

p.m. in Goodroe 

Auditorium in 

Memorial Hall. 

Anderson will 

speak to students, 

staff and community 

members during the 

one-hour address. 

The public is invited. For 

more information, call (706) 

272-2600. 

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CC &Co. has just added 

several newproduct lines to its 

inventory. 

The lady’s boutique and 

gift shop now offers Tribal, 

French Dressing, Cyrus and 

Belldini, along with longtime 

favorites like Velvet and 

Nanette Lepore. 

New fall arrivals are now 

in. 

The store which serves 

teens to grandmothers is at 200 

West Emery St. For more 

information, call (706) 226- 

6028. 

■■■ 

Dr. Janet T. Rochon has 

opened Tunnel Hill 

Chiropractic Clinic at 3525 

Chattanooga Road in Tunnel 

Hill. 

A graduate of Life 

University, Rochon has been 

involved with practices in 

Oakton, Va., and Austell, Ga. 

She has a doctorate in 

Chiropratic and a B.S. in 

Nutrition (both from Life). 

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The Whitfield-Murray 

Disabilities Employment 

Awareness Committee has its 

awards luncheon planned for 

Wednesday, Oct. 14, at the 

Cohutta Springs Adventist 

Conference Center in 

Crandall. 

The guest speaker will be 

former professional bicyclist 

Saul Raisin. 

Tickets are $15. 

For reservations send 

money to the committee at 

1615 Hickory St., Suite 106, 

Dalton,GA30720. 

■■■ 

Don’t forget the Dalton- 

Whitfield Chamber of 

Down to Business 

Scoop 

Thornton 

Commerce 69th 

Annual Banquet on 

Sept. 28. The 

keynote speaker is 

Lieutenant Governor 

CaseyCagle. 

Tickets are $50 

($65 for non-members) 

and on sale 

now. 

Contact the 

Chamber at daltonchamber.org 

or by 

phone at (706) 278- 

7373. 

■■■ 

Raspberry Row, which is 

celebrating its 11th anniversary, 

has added Southern Tide 

brand of polos to its product 

line. 

■■■ 

Curves in Dalton and 

Chatsworth are participating 

in afree 30-day diet plan as 

part of a celebration of 

Women’s Health and Fitness 

Day on Sept. 30. According to 

Becky Frusher, corporate 

communications at Curves 

International, the program is 

based on “recent research findings 

from the Exercise and 

Sport Nutrition Labratory at 

Texas A&M University.” 

Formore information, contact 

Sandra Flowers at Curves 

of Chatsworth (706) 517-3488 

or Danny Ashe at Curves of 

Dalton (706) 428-0489. 

■■■ 

Shoney’s onWest Walnut 

Avenue has unveiled its “community 

appreciation program,” 

offering a10percent discount 

to diners and free use of its private 

dining room (seating up 

to 60) for business dinners or 

organizational meetings. 

For more details, contact 

general manager Sherri 

Tomlin at (706) 226-7453. 

■■■ 

The Georgia Department of 

Natural Resources is waiving 

admission fees to its 48 state 

parks and 15 historic sites on 

Sept. 26. Fishing in public 

waters will be free that day,as 

state residents will be allowed 

to fish without alicense. 

If you have any business 

news — hirings, promotions, 

special sales, openings, 

closings, etc. — please 

call (706) 272-7735 or e- 

mail to Editorial@daltoncitizen.com. 

Health: Pushing ‘good’ bill 

➣ From page 1A 

notably with aspeech last 

week to both houses of 

Congress. And sought to 

turn down the heat over a 

government-run health 

insurance plan. 

“The public option is 

only ameans to that end and 

we should remain open to 

other ideas that accomplish 

our ultimate goal,”hesaid. 

Obama is trying to push 

opposing lawmakers away 

from positions — both left 

and right — that were 

threatening stalemate. 

That’s what happened when 

Bill Clinton, the last 

Democratic president, tried 

to push through an overhaul 

in the 1990s. 

Obama’s spokesman, 

Robert Gibbs, drove home 

that point again Sunday. 

The president “prefers 

the public option,” Gibbs 

said. “However, he said 

what’s most important is 

choice and competition.” 

And Sen. Olympia 

Snowe, the Maine 

Republican who could be 

the party’sonly senator who 

votes with Democrats, 

believes choice and competition 

can be ensured without 

the public option. 

“It’snot on the table. And 

it won’t be,” she said 

Sunday. “We’ll beusing the 

co-op as an option at this 

point, as the means for 

injecting competition in the 

process,”she said. 

Snowe sits on a sixmember 

panel — three from 

each party — of the Senate 

Finance Committee that is 

writing a version of the 

health care overhaul bill. 

Instead of the government 

running aprogram that 

provides low-cost health 

insurance, Snowe and fellow 

negotiators are considering 

anot-for-profit cooperative 

system. Those backing 

the measure contend it 

would substantially lower 

health insurance premiums 

by cutting out private-industry 

profits and guarantee 

coverage to all who want it. 

Such systems exist in 

some areas of the country 

but their success has been 

spotty. 

And Obama will have to 

be convinced that such a 

plan can succeed. 

“I have no interest in 

having abill get passed that 

fails. That doesn’t work,” 

Obama told CBS. “You 

know, Iintend to be president 

for awhile and once 

this bill passes, Iown it.” 

Obama wants to make 

sure that any overhaul 

imposes strict measures to 

ban companies from refusing 

insurance to people with 

existing medical conditions, 

dropping coverage when 

policyholders become ill 

and imposing caps on what 

aperson can claim for one 

illness or in his lifetime. 

He told CBS he didn’t 

want Americans to say in 

the future: “‘You know 

what? This hasn’t reduced 

my costs. My premiums are 

still going up 25 percent, 

insurance companies are 

still jerking me around.’ 

“I’m the one who’sgoing 

to be held responsible,” 

Obama said. “So Ihaveevery 

incentive to get this right.” 

Obama is trying to 

sweeten the deal for 

Republicans by indicating 

he is open to their ideas. 

In his Wednesday speech 

and again in the CBS interview, 

the president signaled 

he was open the idea of socalled 

tort reform. Under 

current practice, doctors and 

hospitals must pay huge 

amounts to insure themselves 

against malpractice 

lawsuits bypatients seeking 

large court-ordered settlements 

for poor treatment. 

Democrats, thanks to 

heavy backing from 

lawyers, have not supported 

Republican efforts to limit 

such payments. Doctors — 

and Republican politicians 

— say the current system 

drives up costs through 

unneeded medical procedures 

ordered by physicians 

who fear being sued. 

Monday, September 14, 2009 3A 

Taking 

care of 

books 

CONTRIBUTED PHOTO 

Varnell Elementary 

media specialist Janie 

Vaden teaches kindergarten 

student Nathan 

Scoggins how totrack 

sentences in books. 

Vaden talked to the students 

about the importance 

of taking good 

care of books they borrow 

from libraries. Also 

pictured is kindergarten 

student Dariana Caro. 

AREA ARRESTS 

■ Jodee Morgan Duke, 

31, 104 Mallory Drive, 

Dalton, was charged 

Saturday by the Varnell 

Police Department with simple 

battery against a law 

enforcement officer, theft by 

taking, battery, terroristic 

threats and acts, a felony 

obstruction of alaw enforcement 

officer,driving on asuspended 

license, and driving 

the wrong way onaone-way. 

■ Samuel David Keeler,28, 

5498 Highway 411 N., 

Chatsworth, was charged 

Saturday by the Whitfield 

County Sheriff’s Office with 

simple battery,terroristic threats 

and acts and interference with 

government property. 

■ Adan Lara-Estrada, 25, 

439 11th Ave., Dalton, was 

charged Saturday by the 

Dalton Police Department 

with aggravated stalking. 

■ Ronald Jacob Eastwood, 

21, 2903 Hickory Lane, Rocky 

Face, was charged Sunday by 

the Whitfield County Sheriff’s 

Office with DUI. 

■ Adan Nicolas Rangel- 

Alvarez, 20, 304 N. Spencer 

St., Dalton, was charged 

Sunday by the Whitfield 

County Sheriff’s Office with 

possession of less than an 

ounce of marijuana and DUI. 

■ Michael Anthony 

Redman, 40, 1231 Shadow 

Ridge Drive, Tunnel Hill, was 

charged Sunday by the 

Whitfield County Sheriff’s 

Office with aggravated stalking. 

Dear Friend, 

If you’ve ever though about 

going to achiropractorbut 

you’ve hesitated because you 

weren’t sure itwas right for 

you, please read on… 

My name is Dr. Janet 

Rochon. 

We are celebrating our 

grand opening at 3525 

Chattanooga Rd. inTunnel 

Hill next to theCurvesinthe 

Shop Rite Shopping Center. 

Ihave agreed to“give 

away” to(anyone who asks 

for it) $250 of my services 

foronly $15 –that’s right, 

$15. 

In the years since Ibegan 

my practice, I’vehelped 

hundredsofpeople feelbetter 

and livehealthier, more 

productive lives through 

chiropractic care. And now 

I’d like to introduce even 

more Bi-State residents tothe 

many benefits our profession 

has tooffer. 

For instance, chiropractic 

care may beable tohelp you 

if you’re suffering from any 

of the following conditions: 

• Migraine headaches 

• Lowerback pain 

• Numbness or soreness in 

your arms or legs 

• Constant fatigue; lack of 

energy 

• Muscle spasms, sprains & 

strains 

And awhole host ofother 

problemsranging from 

dizziness toringing in the 

ear. 

These symptoms can be 

caused whenever the 

vertebrae inyour spine are 

out of alignmentbecause 

these “misalignments” 

GRAND OPENING 

ONLY$15.00 TO ANYONE WHO NEEDS HELP BUT HAS NEVER BEEN TO ACHIROPRACTOR BEFORE 

(Or Hasn’t Been In ALong Time) 

directly affect your nervous 

system. 

Fortunately, ifyou are 

suffering from any of these 

problems orsimilar 

affliction right now, they can 

be relieved or eliminated by 

proper chiropractic treatment 

(commonly called 

adjustment). 

So, ifyou’ve always wanted 

to “check out” chiropractic 

care and see what it can do 

foryou, now is the best time 

to do so because… 

What does thisoffer 

include?Everything. 

Take alook at what you will 

receive… 

• An in-depth consultation 

about your health and wellbeing 

• Acomplete chiropractic 

spinal examination 

• Afull set of specialized X- 

rays to determine ifa 

misalignment inyour spine 

is causing your pain or 

symptoms…(NOTE: 

nobody gives these kinds of 

X-rays away free, they 

would normally cost you at 

lease$200). 

• An analysis of your X-rays 

and spinal examresults to 

seewhat needs to be done 

to help relieve your 

problem 

• Helpfulliterature that 

showsyou how your body 

works and why you 

experience pain 

• Answers toall your most 

probing questions about 

chiropractic care and what 

it can do for you… 

The appointment will not 

take long at all. And like I 

said, Inormally charge$250 

for this (most of which just 

covers the full set of X-rays). 

Butfor now, aspart ofthis 

specialoffer,you can come 

in and find out for certain if 

you need chiropractic care 

and how it might help you 

eliminatethe pain you are 

feeling. 

Meet theDoctor 

Meet theDoctor 

Before you come in, though, 

you will probably want to 

know alittle bit about me. 

So let metellyou… 

Igraduated from the 

prestigious Life College of 

Chiropractic in1995, whereI 

received recognition for 

superior clinical proficiency. 

Ihavedone extensivepostgraduate 

study in the 

investigation and scienceof 

chiropractic. Iamcertified 

by theNational Board of 

Chiropractic Examiners. I 

also have received advanced 

ratings in ActivatorMethods 

Chiropractic Technique. I 

have also had extensive 

training and amNational 

Board Certified in 

chiropracticphysiotherapy. 

Does Chiropractic Really 

Work? 

Absolutely! Here are some 

findings from studies done by 

chiropractors and orthopedic 

surgeons… 

Harvard Medical School 

Health Letter 

September, 1990 

"Chiropractic treatment of 

low back pain, which affects 

75 million Americans, is 

superior to the standard 

regimen administered by 

medicaldoctors”, amajor 

British study has concluded. 

“Chiropractic almost 

certainly confersworthwhile 

long-term benefit in 

comparison with hospital 

outpatientmanagement,” said 

Dr.T.W. Meade, aBritish 

medicaldoctorwho headed 

the study conducted ateleven 

hospitals and chiropractic 

clinics. 

Federal Medical Study 

EndorsesChiropractic For 

Back Pain –USAgency For 

Health Care Federal 

MedicalStudy Policy and 

Research 

December 8, 1994 –Apanel 

of 23 doctors headed by Dr. 

Stanley Bigos,M.D., 

professorofOrthopedic 

Surgery, studied 3900 

medical articles onlow back 

pain. Their conclusions were 

that “chiropractor’s 

manipulation ofthe spine 

was morehelpful than any of 

the following: traction, 

massage, biofeedback, 

acupuncture,injection of 

steroids into thespine, back 

corsets and ultrasound.” 

Surgery was beneficial in 

only 1out of 100 cases! 

Would you like even more 

proof that chiropractic 

works? Then listen to these 

comments from afew ofmy 

patients… 

Patient Success Stories 

Isuffered from migraines, 

stress,lower and upperback 

pain and stiffness. Since 

being underDr. Rochon’s 

care, I’vehad asignificant 

reduction inthe severity and 

frequency ofmyheadaches. 

Ihavenoticed asignificant 

decrease in my stress and 

anxiety levels, and have 

stopped being dependenton 

prescription anti-anxiety 

medication! In addition to 

eliminating myback pain and 

stiffness, Ihave somuch 

more energy, something I 

never expected! Chiropractic 

care has improved somany 

aspects of my life- it’s so 

much more than back care. 

Ifeel fantastic! 

Tracy Hamilton 

Ifirst came to see Dr. 

Rochon due to recurring 

headaches. X-rays revealed 

that the discs in my neck had 

begun adegenerativeprocess 

that required corrective 

exercises and routine 

chiropractic care. Since I’ve 

begun to follow the care plan 

prepared to treat my 

condition, Ihavenoticed that 

Irarely experience a 

headache anymore. When I 

do, they are less intense and 

don’tlast aslong. 

Shelia Wilson 

GuaranteeofGreat Service 

Obviously,Icannot 

guarantee results. No one 

can. But thereisone 

guarantee Ican give you, and 

that is aguarantee to give my 

best effort. 

Plus, ifIdo not think Ican 

help you, Iwill tell you and 

referyou to another specialist 

who might be able to help. 

Limited TimeOffer 

Obviously,with an offer 

like this, Icannot afford to do 

it forvery long, so Ipicked 

September 14th –21st. 

If you would like totake 

me up on my offer tosee 

what chiropractic can do for 

you, all you have to do is call 

our office and set up an 

appointment, 

PHONE 

(706) 519-0200 

Call this numberonly 

Call anytimebetween the 

hoursof 9-12 and 2-6 

Monday through Friday. Tell 

the receptionist you would 

like tocome infor the 

Special Introductory 

Examination between 

September 14th and 21st. 

Iexpect to getflooded with 

appointments for this event, 

so please call as soon as 

possible toassurethatyou do 

not miss out. 

Thank you very much, and 

Ilook forward totrying to 

help you get rid of your pain 

so you can start living a 

healthier and more 

productive life. 

Sincerely, 

Dr. Janet Rochon 

Tunnel Hill 

Chiropractic 

Clinic 

3525 Chattanooga Rd 

Tunnel Hill, Georgia 

Due toinsurance regulations, 

Medicare and some other 

insurances may beexcluded from 

this offer.

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Jimmy Espy 

Executive Editor 

Serving Northwest Georgia since 1847 

William H. Bronson III 

Publisher 

Mark Pace 

Editor Emeritus 

Unsigned editorials represent the view of The Daily Citizen. Members 

of the newspaper’s editorial board are William Bronson, Jimmy Espy, 

Wes Chance and Victor Miller. Columns and letters to the editor are 

the opinions of the authors. 

OTHER VIEWS 

HOPE scholarship 

funding —ornot 

Three years from now, if present trends continue, the state lottery-funded 

HOPE collegiate scholarship program would cut its 

funding for books in half. 

Four years from now, that funding would be entirely gone. 

Five years from now, the scholarship wouldn’tcovermandatory 

student fees, which can reach hundreds of dollars. 

The scholarships, which cover tuition, books and some fees, 

go to students who graduate from aGeorgia high school with a 

Baverageand maintain thatBaverageinacollege, technical college 

or university in the state. According to arecent report in The 

Atlanta Journal-Constitution, the amount spent on the HOPE 

awards “is projectedtoincrease by 19 percent this fiscal year ... 

.But during the past year,the amount of lottery moneygoing to 

education programs grewbyless than 1percent.” 

Additionally, the Atlanta newspaper noted that the Georgia 

Lottery “declined to answer specific questions about whether it 

can keep up with demand or what it will do to boost revenue.” 

And, according to the report, state lawmakers will begin discussing 

possible changes to the HOPE program “over the next 

six to 12 months ... with the goal of having aplan to restructure 

the program by 2011 or 2012.” 

In short, the state is in a“perfect storm” regarding the HOPE 

scholarship. The economic downturn is finding people opting out 

of job searches in favorofattending college or technical school. 

That same economic downturn is prompting state officials to 

trim funding for higher education, and those cuts either are, or 

likely will be, made up in the form of tuition hikes. And, finally, 

the lottery,asCEO Margaret DeFrancisco told legislators earlier 

this year, may be at its “apex,” meaning that demand for HOPE 

will, in the words of the Journal-Constitution story, “likely surpass 

lottery revenues in coming years.” 

One possibility for dealing with aHOPE shortfall would be 

reinstituting income caps. The scholarships were first awardedin 

1993, and went tostudents with family incomes of less than 

$66,000. The income limit was subsequently increased to 

$100,000.In1995, thecap waseliminated. 

There’saneasy argument to makehere in favorofreinstituting 

the cap, although it might make sense to set it somewhat 

higher than $100,000. The argument, of course, is that for children 

in upper-income families, acollege education is within 

reach without lottery dollars. 

But there’s also an argument to be made that higher-income 

families, insofar as they likely carry aheavier tax burden than 

lower-income families, might also deserve abreak on college 

tuition. 

Anyway, outside of those arguments lies the reality that a 

Republican-dominated state legislature might have atough time, 

politically speaking, instituting an income-eligibility cap on the 

HOPE scholarship. So, at least for the immediate future, turning 

HOPE into ameans-tested program likely will be anonstarter. 

There are, though, acouple of other possibilities. Financially 

speaking, it might be advisable to establish aset percentage for 

families’ expected contribution to college tuition. This percentage 

might increase based on family income, butitmight also be 

adjusted based on the number of college-bound students in a 

givenfamily. 

Addressing another facet of the issue — i.e., the academic 

ability of students to handle college work — the state’scolleges 

and universities could set up their ownentrance exams to determine 

whether astudent’sgrades accurately reflect his or her ability 

to do college-levelwork. Whilethe venerable SATand ACT 

may be predictive of collegiate success, the fact that students can 

take any number of preparatory tests, and that an industry has 

grown up around helping students boost their scores, ought to 

raise some concerns about the tests’ predictive ability. 

More troubling is arecent study by the Governor’s Office of 

Student Achievement comparing students’ grades on state endof-course 

tests with grades earned in the school. That comparison, 

according to the study, “indicate(d) that some schools and 

school systems appear to be inflating course grades ... .” 

Instituting college-specific tests could limit the pool of HOPE 

recipients to students who could reasonably be expected to do B- 

level work throughout their college careers, thereby possibly 

reducing HOPE outlays. 

Whatever happens in the coming months and years, parents 

of potentially college-bound students should start planning now 

for asubstantially curtailed HOPE program. 

To suggest aBible verse, 

call (706) 272-7735 

or e-mail 

—Athens Banner-Herald 

jimmyespy@daltoncitizen.com 

WORDS OF WISDOM 

Bible Text: “Those who find me find life. They 

receive favor from the Lord.” 

Proverbs 8:35 

Thought for Today: “America has been called a 

melting pot, but itseems better to call it amosaic, for in 

it each nation, people or race which has come to its 

shores has been privileged to keep its individuality, contributing 

at the same time its share to the unified pattern 

of anew nation.” 

King Baudouin IofBelgium (1930-1993) 

Health ‘trust’ fund 

Watching 

President Obama’s 

health-care speech 

Wednesday, Iwanted 

to hear what he 

had taken away 

from the public 

back-and-forth of 

last month. While 

the only opposition 

he acknowledged 

explicitly was that 

of people using 

“scare tactics” to 

“score short-term 

political points,”his message 

was clearly crafted to reassure 

anervous nation. 

And his message of reassurance 

boiled down to: 

Trust me. 

“I have no interest,” 

Obama said, “in putting 

insurance companies out of 

business.” 

“No one would be forced 

to choose” the public option. 

“I will make sure that 

no…bureaucratgets between 

you and the care that you 

need.” 

As you might have 

guessed, I’m skeptical that 

these claims will prove true. 

Istill think the public option 

is abad, unnecessary policy. 

But let’s spend a few 

moments thinking about 

trust. Let’s pretend that all 

Americans did consider 

Obama a Super President 

who could fulfill all of these 

promises. That is, let’s pretend 

that we could just trust 

him. 

Can we trust his successor? 

Can we trust his successor’s 

successor? 

Can we trust current and 

future members of Congress 

Kyle 

Wingfield 

When the government accuses a 

doctor of running a“pill mill,”prosecutors 

portray every aspect of his practice 

in a sinister light. Prescribing 

painkillers becomes drug trafficking, 

applying for insurance reimbursement 

becomes fraud, making bank deposits 

becomes money laundering and working 

with people at the office becomes 

conspiracy. 

When Siobhan Reynolds thinks a 

doctor has been unfairly targeted for 

such aprosecution, she tries to counter 

the official narrative by highlighting the 

patients he has helped and dramatizing 

the conflict between drug control and 

pain control. But now the government 

has turned its reinterpretive powers on 

Reynolds, portraying the pain treatment 

activist’s advocacy as obstruction of 

justice and thereby threatening the freedom 

of anyone who dares to suggest 

there is more than one side to acriminal 

case. 

In December 2007, the U.S. 

Attorney’s Office in Wichita, Kansas, 

unveiled a34-count indictment against 

Haysville physician Stephen Schneider 

and his wife Linda, anurse who worked 

in his clinic. It charged Schneider with 

“illegally distributing prescription 

drugs to his patients, directly causing 

the deaths of at least four of them.” 

Convinced the Schneiders were 

innocent, Reynolds and her group, the 

Pain Relief Network (PRN), publicly 

disputed the charges. In January 2008, 

PRN announced alawsuit challenging 

the constitutionality of using the federal 

Controlled Substances Act to regulate 

the practice of medicine, traditionally 

astate function. PRN also tried to 

stop the state medical board from suspending 

Schneider’s license, arguing 

to make good on 

Obama’s pledge not 

to let new health 

spending add “one 

dime to our deficits 

— either now orin 

the future”? Can we 

trust them not to 

avoid health-related 

deficits with the 

same kind of 

accounting shell 

games that have put 

Medicare and 

Social Security in 

danger of insolvency? 

These are not scare tactics. 

They’re legitimate questions 

about a new government 

program which Obama 

said would cost “only” $900 

billion over10years. If other 

Democratic health proposals 

are any guide, even that 12- 

digit figure is optimistic. 

A man with whom 

Obama has been contrasted 

many times, Ronald Reagan, 

had aphrase about goodwill 

and good sense that seems 

appropriate in this debate: 

“Trust, but verify.” 

So, how toverify here? 

Obama said Wednesday 

that he didn’twant to put private 

insurers out of business, 

that he valued competition in 

the health-insurance market. 

He said asingle-payer system, 

which is exactly what 

many Americans fear would 

result from a governmentrun 

insurance option, would 

“represent aradical shift that 

would disrupt the health care 

most people currently have.” 

If having five or fewer 

companies gobble up 75 percent 

of a state’s insurance 

market is a problem, as 

Obama said it was, then 

surely he wouldn’t want a 

public option to take uptoo 

much of amarket, either. 

So if all that’s true, why 

not cap the market share 

that the public option could 

have in any given state? 

Rather than a“trigger” for 

launching a public option, 

why not a“firewall” to keep 

it from getting out of control? 

Obama cited aCBO projection 

that less than 5percent 

of Americans would 

enroll in a public option. 

Five percent of Americans is 

about 15 million people, 

which happens to be approximately 

the number of uninsured 

people that other studies 

have suggested are the 

truly tough cases. 

That figure excludes illegal 

immigrants, Americans 

who qualify for Medicaid 

butaren’tenrolled, and those 

who earn at least $50,000 a 

year but choose not to buy 

insurance. The remaining 5 

percent fall through the 

cracks. 

If covering those 5 percent 

would suffice, as 

Obama seemed to suggest, 

then a5percent cap on public-option 

enrollment sounds 

about right. Require asupermajority 

in Congress to lift 

the cap. 

Plenty of Americans 

remain wary of a public 

option. If Democrats won’t 

consider something as conciliatory 

as a public-option 

cap, we can’t accept their 

“trust” fund for health care. 

that doing so would 

harm his patients. 

Although neither 

of those efforts succeeded 

in acourt of 

law, they began to 

have an impact in the 

court of public opinion. 

Press coverage of 

the case went beyond 

perfunctory quotes 

from defense attorneys 

to include the 

perspectivesofchronic 

pain patients who 

were grateful to Schneider for making 

their lives livable and anxious about 

their prospects of obtaining adequate 

treatment from doctors wary of legal 

trouble. 

“He fought for me, and it is time 

now that Ifight for him,” awoman suffering 

from spinal deterioration told 

The Associated Press. “He doesn’t 

deservethis. This is likeanightmare for 

me.” Hundreds of patients signed a 

petition supporting Schneider, aneffort 

launched under a hand-lettered sign 

reading, “Don’t Tread on Me Tanya.” 

The Tanya in question, Assistant 

U.S. Attorney Tanya Treadway, evidently 

was annoyed by the unusually 

balanced press coverage Reynolds 

helped arrange. In April 2008, 

Treadway took the extraordinary step of 

seeking a court order prohibiting 

Reynolds, who was neither adefendant 

nor alawyer in the Schneiders’ case, 

from talking about it. The prosecutor 

claimed Reynolds had “a sycophantic 

or parasitic relationship with the defendants,” 

whom she was using “to further 

her own personal interests.” 

Nine months after a federal judge 

TODAY IN HISTORY 

Drug control becomes speech control 

Jacob 

Sullum 

■ Kyle Wingfield writes a 

twice-a-week column for the 

Atlanta Journal-Constitution. 

Today is Monday, Sept. 

14, the 257th day of 2009. 

There are 108 days left in 

the year. 

Today’s Highlight in 

History: 

On Sept. 14, 1814, 

Francis Scott Key was 

inspired to write a poem 

after witnessing how Fort 

McHenry in Maryland had 

endured anight of British 

bombardment during the 

War of 1812; that poem, 

originally called “Defence 

of Fort McHenry,” later 

became the lyrics to “The 

Star-Spangled Banner,” the 

American national anthem. 

On this date: 

In 1812, the Russians set 

fire to Moscow inthe face 

of an invasion by Napoleon 

Bonaparte’s troops. 

In 1847, during the 

Mexican-American War, 

U.S. forces under Gen. 

Winfield Scott took control 

of Mexico City. 

In 1948, agroundbreaking 

ceremony took place in 

NewYork at the site of the 

United Nations’ world 

headquarters. 

In 1988, Hurricane 

Gilbert slammed into 

Mexico’s Yucatan 

Peninsula as aCategory 5 

storm after forcing thousands 

of residents to flee. 

Ten years ago: 

Hurricane Floyd clobbered 

the Bahamas, toppling 

power lines, ripping roofs 

off homes and pushing a 

roiling sea into streets 

before heading toward the 

southeastern United States. 

Five years ago: 

Guerrillas bombed a 

Baghdad shopping street 

full of police recruits and 

fired on apolice van north 

of the capital, killing some 

60 people. 

One year ago: Losing 

its devastating punch as a 

major hurricane, Ike nevertheless 

drubbed the 

Midwest with powerful 

winds and floodwaters. 

Carlos Zambrano pitched 

the first no-hitter for the 

Chicago Cubs in 36 years, 

striking out 10 in a5-0 win 

over Houston in a game 

relocated to Milwaukee 

because of Hurricane Ike. 

Today’s Birthdays: 

Singer-actress Joey 

Heatherton is 65. Country 

singer-songwriter Beth 

Nielsen Chapman is 53. 

Actress Mary Crosby is 50. 

Actress Faith Ford is 45. 

Actor Jamie Kaler is 45. 

Actress Michelle Stafford 

is 44. Russian President 

Dmitry Medvedev is 44. 

Actress Kimberly 

Williams-Paisley is 38. 

Country singer Danielle 

Peck is 31. Pop singer Ayo 

is 29. 

rejected Treadway’s attempt to gag 

Reynolds, the activist learned she was 

the subject of agrand jury investigation 

into possible obstruction of justice. 

Reynolds and PRN received subpoenas 

demanding their communications with 

dozens of people, including relatives of 

the Schneiders and members of their 

defense team. Tellingly, the material 

sought includes correspondence related 

to a PRN-commissioned billboard in 

Wichita proclaiming, “Dr. Schneider 

never killed anyone.” 

Scott Michelman, an attorney with 

the American Civil Liberties Union who 

is representing Reynolds, says the interest 

in the billboard “confirms that this 

so-called investigation is about Siobhan 

Reynolds’ speech. ... The most plausible 

explanation here is that the prosecutor is 

trying to shut Siobhan up.” 

Last week, afederal judge rejected 

Reynolds’ motion to quash the subpoenas 

on First Amendment grounds and 

imposed $200-a-day fines on her and 

PRN for refusing to comply. Reynolds 

plans to appeal. “This is a direct 

attempt to intimidate me and silence 

me,” she told AP. 

Another item sought by the grand 

jury is a PRN documentary that discusses 

how the war on drugs affects 

pain treatment, a video Michelman 

calls “completely innocuous from a 

criminal perspective” and “absolutely 

protected speech.” Its title, especially 

apt in light of Treadway’s vindictive 

campaign against Reynolds, is “The 

Chilling Effect.” 

■ Jacob Sullum is senior editor at Reason 

magazine, and his work appears in the 

new Reason anthology “Choice” (BenBella 

Books)


Restaurant report card 

Murray County Environmental 

Health conducts inspections of 

restaurants every three months. 

The inspectors may require areinspection. 

Restaurants are 

required by law to post their most 

recent inspection permit. 

The state now uses aletter grade for 

evaluations. The Daily Citizen lists 

areas where the establishments 

are out of compliance with the 

regulations. 

Central Kuntry Kitchen, 

1280 Highway 225 North 

Current score: 67 

Current grade: U 

Previous score: 70 

Previous grade: C 

Comments: Employees 

not washing hands before 

donning gloves. Raw chicken 

stored above bologna. 

Sausage on steam table out of 

temperature; must hold hot at 

135 degrees or above. Flies; 

need fly curtain at rear door. 

Sliced tomatoes out of temperature; 

must hold cold at 41 

degrees or below. Previous 

inspection report not posted. 

Do not hang utensils. Repair 

burned wall. Need fly fan at 

rear door. 

ChinaWok, Bi-Lo 

Shopping Center 


Current grade: C 


Previous grade: B 

Comments: Employees 

must wash hands after handling 

raw meat and between 

food-related tasks. Cover all 

foods in prep cooler. Wash, 

rinse and sanitize utensils 

between uses. Raw chicken 

out of temperature; must hold 

cold at 41 degrees or below. 

All prepared foods must be 

date marked. 

Debbie’s Drive In, 

5338 Highway 76 


Current grade: B 


Previous grade: A 

Comments: Each time raw 

egg ishandled, gloves must 

be changed and hands must 

be washed. Do not handle 

ready-to-eat foods with contaminated 

gloves. Wash hands 

each time gloves are changed 

or each time unsanitized surface 

is handled. 

El Pueblito, 

Second Avenue 


Current grade:A 



Comments: Clean ceiling 

above food prep and grill 

area. Condensation heavy on 

vent by grill. Replace cutting 

knives. 

El Pueblito, 

Highway 286, Eton 


Current grade: A 



Comments: Employee 

personal drink above uncovered 

single-service articles. 

Single-service trays stored 

unwrapped on unsanitized 

surface. Drink lids stored 

unprotected. Shelf under prep 

table, two microwaves and 

handle of prep cooler should 

be sanitized every four hours 

with wiping cloth. Flies; need 

fly fan atrear door. 

Four Way Drive In, 

Highway 225 North 





Comments: Prep cooler 

out of temperature; must hold 

cold at 41 degrees or below. 

Cool gravy properly. Store 

toxic items away from food. 

Current inspection not posted. 

Clean non-food contact 

surfaces. Repair floors and 

walls. Seal air gaps around 

doors. 

Huddle House, South 

Third Avenue 





Comments: No hot water 

at front hand sink. Milk not 

date marked. Ceiling tile 

missing in stock area. 

Little Caesar’s Pizza, G.I. 

Maddox Parkway 





Comments: ServSafe certificate 

and inspection score 

must be posted for public 

view within 15 feet of store 

entrance. 

Sonic, 625 N.Third Ave. 





Comments: Employee 

handling food without gloves 

and serving to customer. 

Employee drinks must be in 

single-serve cup with lid and 

straw. Hot dogs out of temperature; 

must hold cold at 41 

degrees or below. Cloth used 

to clean prep areas not from 

sanitizer bucket. All equipment 

needs heavy cleaning. 

General cleaning needed. 

Extensive debris and grease 

on all floors, walls and surfaces. 

Garbage next to food 

equipment. 

Sonic, 625 N.Third Ave. 


Current grade: A 



Comments: Reinspection. 

Bananas stored next to 

degreaser. Onion ring breading 

stored next to dishwashing 

area. Great job. 

Sports Zone, 3359 

Highway 411 North 





Comments: Spices in open 

container. Need thermometer 

to read from zero to 180 

degrees. 

Subway, 

Highway 76, Central 




Previous grade: B 

Comments: Repair leak at 

three-compartment sink. 

Install pad at Dumpster. 

Repair air gap atrear door. 

Taco Bell, 

1073 N. Third Ave. 


Current grade: B 



Comments: North prep 

cooler out of temperature; 

must hold cold at 41 degrees 

or below. Store single-serve 

articles 6 inches off floor. 

General cleaning needed 

throughout building. Clean 

vents in kitchen. Vent hood 

soiled. Replace caulk. Flies; 

seal air gaps at door. 

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Election trouble brewing 

for Democrats in 2010 

BETH FOUHY 


NEW YORK — Despite 

sweeping Democratic successes 

in the past twonational 

elections, increasing unemployment 

and President 

Barack Obama’sslipping support 

could lead to double-digit 

losses for the party in next 

year’scongressional races and 

may even threaten their control 

of the House of 

Representatives. 

Fifty-four new Democrats 

were swept into the House in 

2006 and 2008, helping the 

party claim adecisive majority 

as voters soured on a 

Republican president and 

embraced Obama’s message 

of hope and change. Many of 

the newDemocrats are in districts 

carried by Republican 

Sen. John McCain in last 

year’s presidential contest; 

others are in traditional swing 

districts that have proved 

tough for either party to hold. 

From New Hampshire to 

Nevada, House Democrats 

also will be forced to defend 

votes on Obama’s massive 

$787 billion economic recovery 

package and on energy 

legislation viewed by manyas 

ajob killer in an already weak 

economy. 

Add to that the absence of 

Obama from the top of the 

ticket, which could reduce 

turnout among blacks, liberals 

and young people, and the 

likelihood of ahighly motivated 

Republican base confused 

by the president’s proposed 

health care plan and angry at 

what they consider reckless 

spending and high debt. 

Taken together, itcould be 

the most toxic environment 

for Democrats since 1994, 

when the party lost 34 House 

incumbents and 54 seats altogether.Democrats 

have a256- 

178 edge in the House, with 

one vacancy. Republicans 

would have to pick up 40 seats 

to regain control. 

“When you have big 

sweeps as Democrats did in 

2006 and 2008, inevitably 

some weak candidates get 

elected. And when the environment 

gets even moderately 

challenging, anumber of them 

are going to lose,” said Jack 

Pitney, apolitical science professor 

at Claremont McKenna 

College in California. 

Since the mid-19th century, 

the party that controls the 

White House has lost seats in 

virtually every midterm election. 

The exceptions were in 

1934, when President 

Franklin D. Roosevelt navigated 

the Great Depression, 

and in 2002, after the attacks 

of Sept. 11, 2001, strengthened 

George W. Bush’simage 

as aleader. 

With history as a guide, 

Democratic Rep. Chris Van 

Hollen, who heads the party’s 

House campaign committee, 

said he has warned colleagues 

DSC student wins national scholarship 

Smith 

to be prepared for an exceptionally 

challenging environment 

going into 2010. 

But VanHollen said voters 

will maketheir choices on the 

strength of the national economy 

and will reward 

Democrats for working 

aggressively to improve it. 

“We passed an economic 

recovery bill with zero help 

from Republican colleagues,” 

he said. “I think voters will see 

that and will ask themselves, 

‘Who was there to get the 

economy moving again, and 

who was standing in the 

way?’” 

Democrats have gotten off 

to a much faster start than 

Republicans in fundraising for 

2010. The Democratic 

Congressional Campaign 

Committee had $10.2 million 

in the bank at the end of July, 

with debts of $5.3 million. 

The National Republican 

Congressional Committee had 

just $4 million in cash and 

owed $2.75 million. 

The economy poses the 

biggest problem for 

Democrats, with job losses of 

2.4 million nationwide since 

Obama took office. Despite 

recent signs the U.S. is pulling 

out of the recession, the 

unemployment rate in 15 

states still wasindouble digits 

in July,led by Michigan at 15 

percent. 

Democrats must defend as 

many as 60 marginal seats 

next year,asopposed to about 

According 

to Doris 

Shoemaker, 

education 

coordinator 

of the MLT 

Program at 

Dalton State, 

Smith is a 

stellar student. 

Shoemaker praised 

Smith for receiving a$1,000 

scholarship from the 

American Society of 

Clinical Laboratory 

Sciences and Alpha Mu Tau. 

“This is avery competitive 

scholarship, with not 

more than 10 given nationwide,” 

Shoemaker said. 

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those, about 27 Democratic 

and just 13 Republican seats 

are seen as especially ripe for 

aparty switch. 

Some involve incumbents 

stepping down to run for higher 

office. 

For example, Democratic 

Rep. Joe Sestak is mounting a 

primary challenge to Sen. 

Arlen Specter. Sestack’s seat, 

until then safely Democratic, 

now becomes a top 

Republican target. The same 

goes for Louisiana Rep. 

Charlie Melancon, a 

Democrat in a Republicanleaning 

district who also is 

seeking aSenate seat. 

But Republicans are on the 

losing side of that equation as 

well. Two Republicans in 

heavily Democratic districts 

— Reps. Mark Kirk of Illinois 

and Joe Gerlach of 

Pennsylvania — are vacating 

their seats to run for Senate 

and governor,respectively. 

At least one Republican is 

considered extremely vulnerable: 

Joseph Cao of Louisiana, 

who defeated Democrat 

William Jefferson after the 

nine-term incumbent was 

indicted on corruption 

charges. The district, which 

includes most of NewOrleans, 

is considered one of the most 

Democratic in the country. 

Beyond that, most of the 

closest races involve 

Democrats who rode the 

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“It’s based on grades and 

other factors, so we’re very 

proud of Melissa for receiving 

it.” 

Smith is currently fulfilling 

course requirements by 

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Giving off nonverbal cues 

BY MATT STROUD 

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette 

Years ago body language 

expert Patti Wood wasspeaking 

in Orlando, Fla., in front 

of hundreds when, she 

recalled, “a speaker’s nightmare 

occurred.” 

“I’m at front of the stage, 

in front of the podium,” she 

said, “and about 15 minutes 

into my speech, I(tell) the 

audience ‘your non-verbal 

communication is much more 

honest than your words.’But 

as Ireach out my hand, the 

elastic on my half-slip breaks 

and my slip falls to the floor.” 

The next moment’s 

silence is palpable, she 

recalled. “This is not part of 

the act and I’m standing in 

front of 500 people with my 

underwear atmyfeet.” 

“The audience just loses 

it,”she said. “Theyare laughing 

hysterically at me and I 

am just absolutely humiliated.” 

But Wood — who has 

been called “The Babe Ruth 

of Body Language” — still 

had 45 minutes left in that 

speech. What happened next 

embodies some of her core 

talents: Poise, the ability to 

improvise and the stability to 

recover. 

“I take amoment to compose, 

then smile, step out of 

my slip and say to the audience: 

‘Freudian slip.’“ 

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The James E. Brown 

Center at Dalton State will be 

rocking with avariety of fitness 

classes to satisfy people 

of all fitness levels and interests 

beginning next week. 

From new classes to familiar 

favorites, the offerings provide 

adiverse course menu 

from which to choose. 

“Continuing Education 

truly has something for 

everyone this fall,”said Kelly 

Snyder, personal enrichment 

program coordinator. 

CE fitness courses include: 

■ Beat It! Beat It! combines 

boxing and kick-boxing 

techniques set to music, and 

the music accents guide the 

punches, kicks and drills. 

“Students will develop stamina, 

strength, muscle definition 

and killer abs if theystick with 

the program,”said Snyder. 

Hong Trimble will teach 

the course. “Hong is extremely 

professional, while at the 

same time creating a fun 

atmosphere for her students,” 

she said. Trimble is certified 

through the American 

Council on Exercise and the 

Aerobics and Fitness 

Association of America. 

■ Introduction to Belly 

Dance-Levels I & II. 

Instructor Lauryn Peterson 

returns to teach Introduction 

to Belly Dance-Levels Iand 

II. Peterson welcomes 

women of all sizes and ages 

to join in this popular class 

designed to introduce students 

to the basics. 

No previous dance experience 

is necessary for Level I, 

but students must have completed 

Introduction to Belly 

Dance-Level Iorget instructor 

approval prior to enrollment 

in Level II. 

In Level I,emphasis will 

be placed on proper body 

alignment, identifying simple 

Middle Eastern rhythms, 

increasing overall strength 

and flexibility, understanding 

muscular isolations, strengthening 

posture and developing 

body movement awareness. 

Students in the Level II 

course will learn short combinations 

of dance moves 

and basic choreography and 

be introduced to more complex 

technique, such as the 

3/4 shimmy. 

Peterson has studied at the 

prestigious Bard College 

Belly Dance Collective in 

New York and the Zanzibar 

Studio in Chattanooga. She 

also is amember of two professional 

dance troupes. 

■ Pilates &Yoga Fusion. 

Certified fitness instructor 

Hong Trimble combines the 

best of two worlds in Pilates 

&Yoga Fusion. By blending 

the benefits of traditional yoga 

and Pilates, students will build 

alean and healthy body without 

bulky muscles while 

reducing stress and anxiety 

and bringing serenity to the 

soul. This course is designed 

to help students develop a 

strong core, tighter muscles 

and amore sculpted physique. 

■ Zumba and Zumba 

Toning. Zumba is asizzling 

aerobic craze that is sweeping 

the globe. Set to the driving 

rhythms of Latin and international 

music, Zumba provides 

full-body exercise with its 

combination of unique routines 

and movements. 

Instructor Hong Trimble 

will lead students through a 

series of dance movements 

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According to body language expert Patti Wood, eye 

contact lasting more than three seconds is a“physical 

attack.” 

Laughter is the best medicine, 

Wood said. 

“If Ididn’t (pay attention 

to comedians and improvisation),” 

she said, “who knows 

what I’d bedoing now. My 

slip incident might well have 

been the end of my career.” 

Wood understands how to 

read non-verbal cues that 

elicit truth. 

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nature, Wood said, called isopraxism 

and it is defined as 

“a pull towards the same 

energy.” This is what humans 

do when they “warm up” to 

each other, she said, and it’s 

exemplified in the way people 

jibe tones and give cues in 

conversation. 

“When talking you give 

off up to 10,000 nonverbal 

cues per minute,” she said. 

that will leave them laughing, 

sweating, building muscle 

and burning fat. 

■ Adult Swimming- 

Levels Iand II. Manyadults 

who can’tswim harbor alifelong 

fear of the water, and 

Red Cross certified water 

safety instructor Joyanna 

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will patiently guide her adult 

students in this course as 

they learn basic-to-intermediate 

swim skills. Adult 

Swimming-LevelIIwill continue 

and enhance basic-tointermediate 

swim techniques. 

Summers will work 

with students to refine their 

swim strokes and learn additional 

water safety skills as 

they become more comfortable 

and adept in the water. 

■ Tai Chi and 

Traditional Yoga. David 

“And if your intent is to 

make someone more comfortable, 

then you’ll want to 

be aware of isopraxism and 

how it’s best utilized.” 

Known nationwide for 

analyzing celebrity body language 

and interplay, Wood, 

who livesinFlorida, has been 

featured in the New York 

Times, the Wall Street 

Journal, People Magazine 

and Cosmopolitan. She 

appeared on “Live with Regis 

and Kelly” to discuss the 

implications of sleeping 

habits in intimate relationships. 

She has bachelor’s and 

master’s degrees, as well as 

doctoral course work, in 

communications, and taught 

at Florida State University. 

InTouch magazine used 

her services to insinuate that 

Angelina Jolie wasmore sexually 

attracted to her own 

brother than to Brad Pitt. 

And last January, Wood 

analyzed the presidential 

debates. 

“Any eye contact lasting 

longer than three seconds 

becomes a physical attack,” 

Wood told Inside Edition. 

And when Hillary Clinton 

and Barack Obama faced off, 

Clinton’sstare “quite literally 

... said ‘I hate you,” Wood 

said. 

Wood is afan of “Inside 

the Actor’s Studio,” and she 

says TomHanks and Dustin 

Hoffman are — off-screen — 

perhaps the best storytellers 

alive today. 

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Nazar, a39-year veteran in 

the practice of yoga and certified 

yoga instructor, will 

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“Tai chi is an excellent fitness 

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low- to no-impact motion,” 

said Nazar. “It combines elements 

of exercise and meditation 

and focuses on gentle 

movements coupled with slow, 

deep breathing. No special 

equipment is needed and people 

can participate in tai chi 

well into their later lives.” 

“Yogaisaphysically- and 

mentally-centering activity 

and helps increase energy 

and flexibility,” said Snyder. 

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One of my 

favorite computer 

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World, this month 

did a rundown of 

the best free antivirus 

products on 

the market. The 

results were surprising. 

No, the free 

tools actually did a 

good job.That wasn’t 

the surprising 

part. What was news tome 

was that AVGFree Edition, 

the most common free AV 

tool out there, ended up in 

third place behind Avira 

AntiVir Personal and Alwil 

Avast AntiVirus Home 

Edition. 

The PC World folks tested 

these products against the 

normal suite of viruses, 

Trojans and rootkits and 

dutifully reported which 

products fixed the most and 

the winner got the top spot. 

That’s all well and good, but 

you need to take adeeper 

look at these products. 

For one, Avira is afine 

product and does agreat job. 

In the PC World tests it 

found 98.9 percent of the 

malware that wastossed at it, 

a good score. However, I 

would like tosay this product 

has aterrible user interface 

(think “Zork”) and daily 

pop-up ads designed to drive 

users insane. There is aprice 

for “free” and daily annoyance 

is too high aprice. 

The second-place winner, 

Avast, comes from the Czech 

Republic and the interface 

reflects that. It is another fine 

product that many basic 

computer users won’t be 

able to run correctly. For 

some reason it looks like a 

music player and has amenu 

structure that no one will 

understand. It also requires 

an e-mail address to register. 

Third place is AVG, 

which used to be my favorite 

free anti-virus product. It has 

a very good user interface 

and is simple to install. It had 


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a 95.8 percent 

detection rate, 

which is still quite 

good. It is a very 

good“set it and forget 

it” application, 

although you will 

see an ad once in a 

while. (You also 

will see an annoyi 

n g 

renewal/upgrade 

option every year or 

so to get you to the 

latest free version, upon 

which the company will try 

to sell you the paid version.) 

It also scans mail, which 

is not common among the 

free products. 

What Ifeel will knock all 

of these off their perch is 

Microsoft Security 

Essentials, which is due to be 

released next month. This 

free product, once called 

Microsoft OneCare, has the 

best interface of the bunch, is 

perfectly integrated with 

Windows and is abreeze to 

install. In the PC World tests 

it found 97.8 percent of the 

malware tossed at it. The 

main complaint the magazine 

had was the scan speed, 

but what this product does 

that the others do not is asort 

of live scan; when it finds a 

potentially bad file, it also 

checks the latest database of 

threats online before allowing 

the user to interact with 

it. That is agood idea, not a 

bad one. 

Once the full force of 

Microsoft gets behind afree 

product, the competition had 

better worry (see also: 

Netscape). This product, 

which is out in beta now, is 

only going to get better and 

by Christmas it will be the 

standard for new PCs out of 

the gate. 

James Derk is owner of 

CyberDads, a computerrepair 

firm and a tech 

columnist for Scripps 

Howard News Service. His 

e-mail address is 

jim@cyberdads.com. 

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BRIEFS 

Asian businessmen 

deaths raise concerns 

MACON, Ga. — Last 

weekend, Lou Patel and 10 

other business leaders formed 

the Middle Georgia Asian 

American Business 

Community Association after 

three men who shared Patel’s 

last name were slain during robberies 

in the midstate in the past 

twomonths. The group scheduled 

aSept. 22 training session 

on security cameras and may 

create self-defense classes and 

other training sessions. 

The similar last name and 

background of the victims 

raised eyebrows, though it’s 

unclear if there’s adirect link, 

according to David Davis, one 

of Bibb County’s chief deputies. 

Search for Yale 

student continues 

HARTFORD, Conn. — 

Investigators sifted through 

garbage at an incinerator 

Sunday, looking for clues 

into the disappearance of a 

Yale University graduate student 

who was supposed to be 

celebrating her wedding day. 

FBI agent Bill Reiner said 

Sunday that investigators are 

“following the trash” that left 

the university laboratory in 

New Haven. He declined to 

comment further on the search 

at the Connecticut Resources 

Recovery Authority’s trash-toenergy 

plant in Hartford. 

Annie Le, 24, waslast seen 

Tuesday morning at the lab. 

Fundraiser said he 

OD’d before he died 

CHICAGO — A former 

chief fundraiser for ousted 

Illinois Gov. Rod 

Blagojevich told apolice officer 

before he died that he 

overdosed on aprescription 

drug, the mayor of the south 

Chicago suburb of Country 

Club Hills said Sunday. 

Mayor Dwight Welch did 

not say what drug Christopher 

Kelly told police he ingested, 

buthesaid authorities found a 

variety of drugs in Kelly’s 

vehicle. Kelly, 51, died 

Saturday at John H. Stroger 

Jr. Hospital inChicago, and 

Welch said police are investigating 

the death as suicide. 

Afghan detainees to 

challenge detention 

WASHINGTON — The 

Pentagon has begun putting 

into place a new program 

under which hundreds of 

prisoners being held by the 

military in Afghanistan will 

be given the right to challenge 

their detentions, a 

defense official said Sunday. 

Prisoners at Bagram military 

base are all to be given a 

U.S. military official to serve 

as their personal representative 

and achance to go before 

new so-called Detainee 

Review Boards, to have their 

cases considered, said the 

official, who spoke oncondition 

of anonymity to be able 

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not been formally announced. 

Swine flu shots may 

start early October 

WASHINGTON — The 

nation’sfirst round of swine flu 

shots could begin sooner than 

expected, with some vaccine 

available as early as the first 

week of October, Health and 

Human Services Secretary 

Kathleen Sebeliussaid Sunday. 

Sebelius said she is confident 

the vaccine will be available 

early enough tobeat the 

peak of the expected flu season 

this fall. 

No second apology 

for ‘You lie’ words 

WASHINGTON — One 

apology is enough, adiggingin-his 

heels Rep. Joe Wilson 

said Sunday, challenging 

Democratic leaders who want 

him to say on the House floor 

that he’s sorry for yelling 

“You lie!” during President 

Barack Obama’s health care 

speech to Congress. 

The leadership plans to propose 

aresolution of disapproval 

this week if the South Carolina 

Republican doesn’t publicly 

apologize to Congress. 

The two words have 

become afundraising boon for 

the defiant Wilson and his 

Democratic challenger. 

Wilson said a resolution 

would show that Democrats 

simply wanted to play politics 

and divert attention from 

ahealth care overhaul that is 

lagging in Congress. 

—Associated Press 

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of CE classes for fall 

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Continuing Education at Oct. 27-Nov. 17 (Level Iis ■ Adult Swimming, 

Dalton State kicks off fall 

with afull slate of classes 

full) 

■ More Fee, Fi, Faux, 

Level II, is offered Monday 

through Thursday, Sept. 14- 

which begin this week, Fun: Basics for Walls and 24, by Joyanna Summers, 

according to director Pam Furniture taught by who also teaches Adult 

Partain. 

Suzanne Hooie on Monday, Swimming Level I: 

“Yes, our doors are closing 

Dec. 31, but between 

Nov. 3 

■ Craft Your Own 

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Water 

now and then we have 70 Toddler Doll on Mondays, ■ Beat IT! Fitness 

classes that we are offering Nov. 2-30 with Deborah Lunch Express, a 

at the James E. Brown Jenkines 

lunchtime program, 

Center and more than a ■ Keyboarding with Mondays and Wednesdays, 

third of them are brand 

new,” Partain said. “Many 

of these classes are filling 

rapidly, so we encourage 

Lori Hedden, Mondays and 

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Sept. 14 to Oct. 14, with 

Hong Trimble 

■ Zumba Fitness Lunch 

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let someone else get your Maples, Monday and Thursdays, Sept. 15- Oct. 15 

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Wednesday, Sept. 28 and 30 

■ Photoshop CS3 for 

■ Pilates &Yoga Fusion 

will be led by Hong Trimble 

great opportunities.” Photographers, Level II Wednesdays, Sept. 16-Nov. 

Focus, the catalog of with Chris Oughtred, 18 

lifelong learning opportunities 

at Dalton State College, 

Thursdays, Oct. 8-29 (Level 

Iisalso offered) 

■ Real Ghostbusting 

is available from the Center 

for Continuing Education 

and is also accessible online 

■ Dynamic Digital 

at www.daltonstate.edu; 

click on Continuing 

Education. Those who 

would rather have a hard 

copy and did not receive 

one can call the center at 

(706) 272-4454 to request a 

copy. 

Among the new class 

offerings for fall are: 

■ Scrapbooking for 

Beginners offered Saturday, 

Oct. 3 

■ Decorative &Creative 

Lettering: Adding Artistic 

Flair to Scrapbooks, 

Journals, Posters and 

School Projects, to be 

taught by Kim Crews on 

Tuesdays, Oct. 6-27 

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■ Awesome PowerPoint 

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November 

■ Publication Design 

with Microsoft Publisher 

2007, taught by Brian 

Rudnicki, Tuesday and 

Thursday evenings, Oct. 27- 

Nov. 5 

■ In-Camera Special 

Effects, with Pat Cory, 

Thursday, Oct. 29 

■ Excel Charts & 

Graphs taught by James 

Combs, Thursday, Nov. 12 

■ Social Networking on 

the Internet, taught by Lori 

Hedden, Saturday, Nov. 14 

102: In the Field will be 

Tuesdays and Thursdays, 

Sept. 15-29 and Saturday, 

Oct. 3. Drew Hester and 

Connie Scott are the 

instructors to sequel to last 

year’s very popular class. 

■ Brown (Center) Bag 

Lunch: Understanding the 

Mullennial Generation – 

Why They DoWhat They 

Do is Wednesday, Sept. 23, 

at noon and will feature 

psychology professor 

Christy Price. Cost is $10 

and includes box lunch. 

■ Foolproof Makeup 

Techniques and Skincare 

led by Danielle Carpenter 

will be Saturday, Sept. 26 

■ You’re on the Air! 

How toReally Make Itin 

Voice-Overs with Heather 

Costa will be Thursday, 

Oct. 1 


Lunch: A Discussion of 

Rebecca Ryan’s groundbreaking 

book “Live First, 

Work Second,” led by 

Dalton Public Schools 

superintendent Jim 

Hawkins, noon, Mondays, 

Oct. 19-Nov. 2. Hawkins 

will re-create the lively discussion 

stimulated over the 

blogosphere this past summer 

and find out the steps 

needed to make Greater 

Dalton a“cool community”! 


Lunch: Facebook for 

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associate professor of marketing 

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Creating Resumés That Get Results is just one of 

nearly 30new classes offered this fall at Dalton 

State College’s Center for Continuing Education. 

Amy Maples will teach the class Sept. 28 and 30 at 

the James E. Brown Center. 

■ Hello, Gawgeous! 

Smokin’ Hot Glamour 

Makeup Techniques with 

Danielle Carpenter, 

Saturday, Nov. 21 

■ Basic Conversational 

German and Culture will be 

taught by Ron Tollett on 

Mondays, Sept. 21-Nov. 9 

■ ACT Prep Boot Camp 

is offered for the first time, 

Saturday,Dec. 5. The instructor 

is Dianne Bruce who also 

teaches the very popular SAT 

Prep Boot Camp. 

“These are just the new 

classes,” Partain said, 

“There are more classes 

than this that are ‘tried and 

trues’ that are also starting 

up this month.” To learn 

more about any Continuing 

Education class or to register 

online, visit www.daltonstate.edu/cce. 

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• Lavanna Bradford, 

Dalton 

• Maudie C. Dillard, 

Chatsworth 

• Lura Agnes ‘Cricket’ 

Jones, Tunnel Hill 

• Alton Lumpkin, Dalton 

• Doris Marie Robertson 

Obituary notices are 

posted online at 


Lavanna Bradford 

Mrs. Lavanna Bradford, 

66, of Dalton, and formerly 

of Villa Rica, passed away 

Saturday Sept. 12, 2009, at 

Hamilton Medical Center. 

At Mrs. Bradford’s 

request she was cremated 

and amemorial service will 

be at alater date. 

Words of comfort may be 

sent to the family at 

www.lovefuneralhomega.com. 

Love Funeral Home, 

1402 N. Thornton Ave., 

Dalton is in charge of 

arrangements. 

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That Wall Street is making 

moneyagain in essentially 

the same ways that thrust 

the banking system into 

chaos last fall is reason for 

concern on several levels, 

financial analysts and government 

officials say. 

■ There have been no 

significant changes to the 

federal rules governing their 

behavior. Proposals that 

have been made to better 

monitor the financial system 

and to police the products 

banks sell to consumers 

have been held up by lobbyists, 

lawmakers and turfprotecting 

regulators. 

■ Through mergers and 

the failure of Lehman 

Brothers, the mammoth 

banks whose near-collapse 

prompted government rescues 

have gotten even bigger, 

increasing the risk they 

pose to the financial system. 

And theystill makebets that, 

in the aggregate, are worth 

farmore than the capital they 

have on hand to cover 

against potential losses. 

■ The government’s 

response to last year’s meltdown 

was tospend whatever 

it takes to protect the financial 

system from collapse — a 

precedent that could encourage 

even greater risk-taking 

from the private sector. 

Lawrence Summers, 

director of the White House 

National Economic 

Council, says an overhaul of 

financial regulations is 

needed as soon as possible 

to keep the financial system 

safe over the long haul. 

No one is predicting 

another meltdown from risky 

trading in the near term. 

Rather, the concern is what 

happens over time as banks’ 

confidence grows and the 

memory of the financial crisis 

of 2008 fades. 

Will they pile on bets to 

the point that anew asset 

bubble forms and — as happened 

with mortgagebacked 

securities — its 

undoing endangers banks 

and the broader economy? 

“We’re seeing the same 

kind of behavior from the 

banks, and that could lead to 

some huge and scary parallels,”says 

Simon Johnson, former 

chief economist with the 

International Monetary Fund. 

Some risk-taking is good. 

When banks are willing to 

invest in companies or lend 

to home-buyers, that nurtures 

economic growth by 

generating employment and 

consumer spending, feeding 

acycle of expansion. 

The problem is when 

banks’ quest for profits leads 

them to take ontoo much 

risk. In the case of the housing 

bubble, which burst last 

year,banks lent too freely to 

consumers with weak credit 

and wagered too much on 

complex financial instruments 

tied to mortgages. 

Because the largest 

banks’ trading divisions 

make their bets with each 

other, their fortunes are 

Maudie C. Dillard 

Mrs. Maudie C. Dillard, 

age 81, of Chatsworth, 

passed away on Saturday, 

Sept. 12, 2009, at the residence. 

She was amember of 

Fullers United Methodist 

Church. 

Maudie was preceded in 

death by her parents, Frank 

and Mary Jane Casey; brothers, 

Jack Austin, James 

Casey, and F.L. Casey. 

She is survived by her 

sons and daughter-in-law, 

Richard Dillard, Doug and 

Renita Dillard, Doyle 

Dillard, all of Chatsworth; 

sisters, Aloe Lawson, Altha 

Faye Campbell, and Frankie 

Anderson, all of 

Chatsworth; grandchildren, 

Summer Nichols, Holly 

Thompson, Stephanie 

Fowler, Douglas Dillard, 

and Crystal Morgan; greatgrandchildren, 

Austin and 

Dalton Nichols, Damon and 

London Thompson, Tyler 

Dillard and Jocelynn Deal; 

aunts, uncles, nieces, and 

nephews also survive. 

Funeral services will be 2 

p.m. on Tuesday in the 

Chapel of Peeples Funeral 

Home with the Rev. Lamar 

Beason officiating. 

Interment will follow inthe 

Center Valley Cemetery. 

The family will receive 

intertwined. The collapse of 

one can threaten another — 

and another — if it is unable 

to pay off its debts. 

This so-called counterparty 

risk is amajor reason 

the Obama administration’s 

regulatory overhaul plan 

calls for the creation of a 

“systemic risk regulator.” 

The administration is also 

seeking tougher capital 

requirementsfor banks, arguing 

that banks’ buying of 

exotic financial products 

without keeping enough cash 

on reservewas akey cause of 

the crisis. Treasury Secretary 

Timothy Geithner has urged 

the Group of 20 nations — 

which meets this month in 

Pittsburgh — to agree on new 

capital levels by the end of 

2010 and put them in place 

twoyears later.Geithner hasn’t 

said how much extra capital 

banks should be required 

to keep on hand. 

Data from the April-June 

quarter show that banks are 

leaning heavily again on their 

trading desks for revenue. 

■ During the fourth quarter 

of 2008, when the financial 

crisis made even the 

shrewdest bankers riskaverse, 

Goldman’strading of 

risky assets nearly stopped. 

But in the second quarter of 

2009, trading revenue had 

climbed to nearly 50 percent 

of total revenue, closer to 

where it was two years ago 

before the recession began. 

JP Morgan’s reliance on 

trading revenue has exhibited 

asimilar pattern. 

■ Also in the second quarter, 

the five biggest banks’ 

average potential losses from 

asingle day of trading topped 

$1 billion, up 76 percent from 

two years ago, according to 

regulatory filings. 

The government hasn’t 

just watched banks resume 

their freewheeling ways and 

prosper. It has been an 

enabler in the process. The 

Federal Reserve, the 

Treasury Department and the 

Federal Deposit Insurance 

Corp. — during both the 

Bush and Obama administrations 

— have made trillions 

of dollars available to the 

biggest banks through 

bailouts, low-cost loans and 

loss guarantees designed to 

stabilize the financial system. 

The failure of Lehman 

Brothers — the biggest 

bankruptcy inU.S. history 

— and the panicky sales of 

Bear Stearns to JPMorgan 

and Merrill Lynch to Bank 

of America, also have transformed 

Wall Street. The surviving 

investment banks 

have fewer competitors and 

more market share. 

Five of the biggest banks 

— Goldman, JPMorgan, 

Wells Fargo, Citigroup and 

Bank of America — posted 

second-quarter profits totaling 

$13 billion. That’s more 

than double what they made 

in the second quarter of 

2008 and nearly two-thirds 

as much as the $20.7 billion 

they earned in the second 

quarter of 2007 — when the 

economy was strong. 

friends at the funeral home 

on today from 5to9p.m. 

Peeples Funeral Home 

and Crematory of 

Chatsworth is in charge of 

the funeral arrangements. 


Lura Agnes 

‘Cricket’ Jones 

Lura Agnes “Cricket” 

Jones, 93, of Tunnel Hill 

died Saturday, Sept. 12, 

2009, at Heritage Health 

Care Center. 

She was preceded in 

death by her husband, Edgar 

Jones and son, Carl Jones. 

Survivors include a son 

and daughter-in-law, 

Raymond and Shelia Jones 

of Fort Mitchell, Ala.; 

daughters and sons-in-law, 

Marie and Hubert Bagley, 

Annette and Jessie 

Hendricks, Kathy Smith, all 

of Tunnel Hill; 15 grandchildren; 

27 great-grandchildren; 

special friend, Reean 

Phillips. 

Services are Tuesday at 2 

p.m. from the chapel of 

Jones Funeral Home of 

Tunnel Hill with the Revs. 

Clyde Painter and Danny 

Goss officiating. 

Burial will be in 

Dogwood Cemetery. 

Visitation is today from 5 

to 9p.m. 

Banks: Taking risks again 

➣ Continued from page 1A 

Meanwhile, Bank of 

America and Wells Fargo 

today originate 41 percent 

of all home loans that are 

backed by Fannie Mae and 

Freddie Mac, according to 

Inside Mortgage Finance. 

The banks made $284 billion 

in such loans in the first 

half of this year, up from 

$124 billion during the 

same period last year. 

Wall Street’s recovery is 

also being aided by astockmarket 

rally that has driven 

the S&P 500 index upnearly 

54 percent since March 9, 

when it hit a12-year low. 

Despite the return to 

profitability, these aren’tthe 

high-octane days from 

before the crisis. To qualify 

for government backing, the 

biggest Wall Street firms are 

no longer allowed to supercharge 

their returns by borrowing 

up to 30 times the 

value of their assets to place 

bets on stocks, bonds and 

other investments. 

Businesses supported by 

Wall Street bankers and 

traders say they’ve also 

noticed changes. Namely, 

their customers aren’tspending 

as much on food, drinks 

and entertainment as they 

did during the boom years. 

But one thing fundamental 

to Wall Street hasn’t 

changed: Big banks and 

their traders are still finding 

creative — some say speculative 

— ways to profit. 

They’re still packaging 

risky mortgages into securities 

and selling them to 

investors, who can earn 

higher returns by purchasing 

the securities tied to the 

riskiest mortgages. 

In away, the government 

has emboldened banks to 

keep selling risky securities: 

Since the crisis erupted, federal 

emergency programs 

have helped keep the banks 

from failing. But now, as the 

financial system recovers, 

the government plans to 

phase out these backstops — 

leaving banks more vulnerable 

to big bets that go bad. 

“It may be unpleasant to 

hear that the traders are riding 

high,”said Walter Bailey, chief 

executive of boutique merchant 

banking firm EpiGroup. 

“But, hey, it’s apay-for-performance 

thing, and they’re 

performing likemad.” 

And that means the return 

of another Wall Street mainstay: 

Lavish compensation. 

The Obama administration 

has proposed measures 

to diminish the risk posed by 

large banks. They include 

forcing banks to hold more 

capital to cover losses and 

trying to increase the transparency 

ofmarkets in which 

banks trade the most complex 

— and potentially risky 

— financial products. 

“Have there been 

changes around the edges?” 

says Timothy Brog, portfolio 

manager of New Yorkbased 

hedge fund 

Locksmith Capital. 

“Absolutely. Have their 

been systematic changes? 

Absolutely not.” 

OBITUARIES 


Tunnel Hill is in charge of 

arrangements. 


Alton Lumpkin 

Mr. Alton Lumpkin, 86, 

of Dalton, passed away 

Sunday, Sept. 13, 2009, at 

Hamilton Medical Center. 

He was the son of the late 

William and Jewel Lumpkin 

and was preceded in death 

by his wife, Bertha Lumpkin 

and a brother, Dewey 

Lumpkin. 

Alton wasaveteran of the 

United States Army having 

served during World WarII. 

He is survivedbyhis children 

and their spouses, 

Dwight Smith, of South 

Carolina, Gene and Barbara 

Lumpkin, David and Lorine 

Lumpkin, Sammy Lumpkin 

and Sherry and Johnny 

Hawkins all of Dalton; sisters, 

Robbie Gilstrap and 

Nell Ruth Cook, both of 

Dalton; brother, Richard 

Lumpkin, of Villanow; 

grandchildren, Stephen and 

Denise Lumpkin, Scott 

Lumpkin, Vicki Patterson, 

Derek Lumpkin and 

Samantha Murphy; greatgrandchildren, 

Adam 

Lumpkin, Elise Lumpkin, 

Noah Lumpkin, Brittany 

Lumpkin, Aubriana Hicks 

BY IRENE MAHER 

St. Petersburg Times 

TAMPA, Fla. — Jimmy 

Hathcock arrived at Tampa 

General Hospital in February 

by medical helicopter, with a 

heart so damaged he was put 

on the list for atransplant. 

Now the 67-year-old is out 

of the hospital, with his own 

heart beating in his chest. 

Most people get off the 

transplant list only when they 

find adonor or die waiting. 

Hathcock, however, got offthe 

list thanks to breakthrough 

technology that allowed his 

ownheart to heal. 

“Getting off the list 

because theyget better is pretty 

rare,’’ said Dr. Cedric 

Sheffield, director of the Heart 

Lung Transplant program at 

Tampa General Hospital. In 

the past seven years, 179 

patients were put on aventricular 

support device like the 

one that savedHathcock. 

Only three came off the 

device and recovered without 

getting adonor heart. 

It’sasmall number,but one 

that offers hope to the most 

critical patients, given the 

shortage of donor hearts, 

Sheffield said. 

Hathcock, who has always 

been trim and active, started 

feeling very tired last 

Christmas. Normally easygoing, 

he was often grumpy. He 

swigged Mylanta for indigestion. 

In January, his family doctor 

ordered abattery of tests, 

so many that an annoyed 

Hathcock threatened to cancel 

a cardiac catheterization to 

check for blockages. But his 

longtime partner, Barbara 

Martini, insisted. 

Tests revealed that 

Hathcock had aneurysms on 

four heart vessels. An 

aneurysm is aweakened area 

that bulges like abubble on a 

bicycle tire. If it bursts, the 

patient could bleed to death. 

Hathcock needed bypass surgery 

right away. 

He checked into Bayfront 

Medical Center for surgery 

that turned into a 10-hour 

ordeal. Hathcock had to be 

revivedthree times because of 

the aneurysms. He had aheart 

attack, his lungs filled with 

fluid, his kidneys started to fail 

and doctors couldn’t take him 

offthe heart-lung machine. 

They called Sheffield, who 

suggested the doctors fit him 

with atemporary heart pump 

so he could be flown to Tampa 

General Hospital for alongerterm 

solution. Sheffield 

replaced the temporary pump 

with the Abiomed AB5000 

Ventricle, which he selected 

because the first pump also 

was anAbiomed, making the 

transition smoother.Also, it is 

portable, allowing patients to 

walk as theyrecover. 

The device, approved by 

the Food and Drug 

Administration in 2004, takes 

amd Aiden Lumpkin; greatgreat-grandchildren, 

Aiden 

Lumpkin, Evey Lumpkin 

and Ava Lumpkin; nieces 

and nephews. 

Funeral services will be 2 

p.m. Tuesday in the Chapel 

of Love Funeral Home with 

the Rev. Charles Carnes officiating. 

Burial will follow in 

Dunagan Cemetery with 

American Legion Post #112 

in charge of graveside rites. 

The family will receive 

friends at Love Funeral 

Home today from 5to9p.m. 

Words of comfort may be 

sent to the family at 

www.lovefuneralhomega.com. 

Love Funeral Home, 

1402 N. Thornton Ave., 

Dalton (across from 

Hamilton Medical Center) is 

in charge of arrangements. 


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Funeral Home 

Family Owned Since 1935 

278-3313 

Doris Marie 

Robertson 

Doris Marie Robertson, 

age 75, of Whitfield Place, 

Dalton, went to be with her 

Lord, Friday, Sept. 11th in 

over the job of pumping 

blood, giving the heart muscle 

arest. The pump sits outside 

the body on the abdomen and 

is connected to the heart by 

thin plastic tubes inserted 

through two small incisions, 

made at waist level. An external 

console on wheels, about 

the size of asmall suitcase, 

drivesthe pump. 

Abiomed, based in 

Danvers, Mass., won’t release 

the cost of the device, because 

prices are determined by contracts 

with hospitals. It is covered 

by Medicare and most 

private insurance. 

Sheffield estimates the 

device’scost at about $55,000 

to $75,000. The cost of 

implanting it, he says, is in line 

with that of aheart transplant, 

around $250,000. 

Sheffield wasn’t optimistic 

about Hathcock. 

“His situation was acute, 

very severe. Iseriously doubted 

he had much chance for 

recovery.” 

By early March, after a 

month on the AB5000, 

Hathcock was starting to 

improve. By late March he 

was walking the halls of the 

transplant unit, pulling the 

device behind him. 

On April 20, Hathcock 

became the first patient in the 

world to takethe portable ventricle 

home with him. He even 

felt well enough to do some 

office work for his family 

truckingbusiness. 


Hamilton Medical Center 

after ashort illness of breast 

cancer. 

Mrs. Robertson was a 

member of Rock Bridge 

Community Church and will 

be missed by her loving family 

and her friends and 

neighbors of Whitfield 

Place, as well as her friends 

in Dalton. 

She was preceded in 

death by her parents, Charles 

and Elizabeth Drew; husbands, 

Charles Francis 

Owens and Roscoe 

Robertson; sons, Stephen 

Michael Owens and Rocky 

Hank Robertson; and sisters, 

Julia Frances Francis and 

Mildred Stunda. 

She is survived byason 

and daughter-in-law, Larry 

and Brenda Robertson of 

Everton, Ind.; daughters 

and sons-in-law, Fran 

Owens Wissler and Dr. Paul 

Wissler, of Dalton, and 

Pam Owens Gouge and 

Robert Gouge, of 

Cambridge City, Ind.; 16 

grandchildren; 12 greatgrandchildren. 

Private funeral services 

will be held in Dublin, Ind., 

at alater date. 


Tunnel Hill is in charge of 

arrangements. 


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Jimmy Hathcock had congestive heart failure so 

severe, his only chance was aheart transplant. A 

device was implanted to keep him going until anew 

heart became available. His heart recovered sufficiently 

totake him off the transplant list. 

During aroutine checkup, 

doctors got a surprise. 

Hathcock’s heart had healed 

so much that they put him 

back in the hospital and started 

gradually reducing the 

power of the pump to see if the 

heart could do more of its own 

work. On Aug. 7, the AB5000 

wasremoved. 

Hathcock will continue to 

take medications, must go 

through cardiac rehab and will 

be closely monitored. 

Sheffield expects he’ll continue 

to improve, but cautions 

that athird of patients who go 

off ventricle pumps later need 

aheart transplant. 

Sitting up in alounge chair 

at the hospital, Hathcock 

joked with visitors and talked 

about the two decades he 

spent traveling the United 

States and Canada, singing 

and playing guitar with his 

country band, Jim Lamar and 

the Jimbos. 

“They say that’s probably 

where this (heart disease) 

came from. All the passive 

smoke in those clubs and 

lounges,”hesaid. 

Hathcock left the hospital 

for home last week, and realizes 

afull recovery will take 

time. He still tires easily and is 

adjusting to new medications. 

“We attribute his recovery to 

the Abiomed,” Martini said. 

“It savedhis life.” 

Added Hathcock: “I’m just 

thankful to the good Lord it 

worked.” 

Donald L. Jones 

FICF,LUTCF 

101 E. Crawford St. 

Suite 205 

Dalton, GA30720 

706-278-5725 

Donald.L.Jones@mwarep.org 

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SPORTS 

Monday, September 14, 2009 ● 


COMMENTARY PRO FOOTBALL: WEEK 1 

UTC can 

hang with 

the best 

They may have come up 

short this weekend in 

their bid to win back-toback 

titles at The Farm’s Carpet 

Capital Collegiate Classic, but 

the Mocs of Tennessee- 

Chattanooga proved again that a 

small school from asmall conference 

can 

compete with 

the big dogs. 

The Mocs, 

who wonlast 

year’sclassic 

— considered 

one of college 

golf’s most 

prestigious — 

by five strokes 

Adam 

Krohn 

overTennessee 

in an 18-team 

field. Theyled 

this year’s 

classic through 

twodays before Tennessee 

stormed from twostrokes back 

with the best team round of the 

event — and the tournament’s 

history — a274, to pass the 

Mocs, who finished second, by 

12 strokes in a12-team field. 

Had the Mocs been able to 

pull off consecutive event wins, 

they would have been just the 

third team to do so, the others 

being Georgia Tech (1994-95, 

1999-01) and Alabama (2006- 

07). 

Regardless of their 2009 finish, 

the Mocs — who compete 

in the Southern Conference — 

have made the most of their 

opportunity to play alongside 

the SECs, ACCs and Big 12s of 

the nation by competing at a 

high level. 

UTC’s Stephan Jaeger, who 

finished the event tied for third 

at minus-5, believes his team’s 

performance in the classic the 

past two seasons has helped to 

put the school’s golf program 

on the map. 

“We’re asmall school,” the 

sophomore said. “Some people 

don’t even know there is auniversity 

in Chattanooga. So this 

helps us in recruiting.” 

Mocs coach Mark Juhne 

believes playing in the classic 

lends his team credibility. 

“One thing about this event 

is that if you’re out here, that 

means you’re agood program,” 

he said. “These are all really 

strong programs, so just for us 

to be out here and fighting with 

them is good for us.” 

This was the third consecutive 

year UTC has been invited 

to play in the classic, now inits 

22nd year. Ithas been reported 

there might not be aclassic next 

year, though nothing has been 

made official. 

Even if there’s not aclassic 

in 2010, the Mocs have shown 

they can compete with the best 

golf programs in the country. 

And that should go along way 

in getting them into other tournaments 

that will replace the 

one played at The Farm. 

Adam Krohn is asports 

writer for The Daily Citizen. 

Youcan write him at 

adamkrohn@daltoncitizen.com 

or follow him on Twitter 

@adamkrohn. 

MATT HAMILTON/The Daily Citizen 

Tennessee-Chattanooga’s 

Steven Fox tees off from 

Hole 3 on Friday at The 

Farm. 

BY LARRY FLEMING 

larryfleming@daltoncitizen.com 

The University of Tennessee, 

which trailed Tennessee- 

Chattanooga bytwo shots heading 

into the final round on Sunday,shot 

anear-record 134 on the back nine 

and ran away with the 21st Carpet 

Capital Collegiate Classic team 

championship at The Farm. 

The Volunteers, with four players 

shooting sub-par rounds on the 

last day, posted a10-under 134 on 

the back side for aclosing 274 – a 

tournament 18-hole record – and 

beat defending champion UTC by a 

whopping 12 strokes. The Vols 

carded a 13-under 851 over 54 

holes to claim their first CCCC 

title. 

UTC, with Stephan Jaeger 

shooting 1-under 71, the team’s 

lone sub-par round on the day, put 

up a288 and finished at 1-under 

863. 

Tennessee’s Darren Renwick 

shot aclosing 3-under 69 over The 

Farm’s 7,021-yard layout in Rocky 

Face for a three-day total of 6- 

BY PAUL NEWBERRY 


ATLANTA — For one week at 

least, the Falcons answered all 

those questions about their defense. 

There were never any doubts 

about Tony Gonzalez. 

Atlanta’s new tight end hauled 

in atouchdown pass and became 

the 21st player in NFL history with 

11,000 yards receiving, helping the 

Falcons beat the mistake-prone 

Miami Dolphins 19-7 Sunday. 

Gonzalez caught five passes for 

ateam-high 73 yards, including a 

20-yard touchdown that was set up 

by Mike Peterson’s interception. 

He made the catch in the flats, cut 

to the inside while shoving away 

Yeremiah Bell with his left hand, 

picked up anice block from Roddy 

White and waltzed into the end 

zone to join the 11,000-yard club. 

The former college basketball 

player didn’t get achance to dunk 

the ball over the goalposts. 

“I wasgoing for it, butmyteammates 

were jumping all over meso 

I didn’t have time to get over 

there,” Gonzalez said. “Plus, Iwas 

tired. Iwas just happy toget in the 

end zone.” 

Peterson, the only prominent 

player signed by Atlanta on defense 

during the offseason, forced afumble 

with avicious hit and did apretty 

good impression of Gonzalez on 

the interception, catching it with 

his fingertips and returning the ball 

39 yards to set up Gonzalez’s first 

TD in Atlanta. 

“I tell the guys all the time that 

I’ve got the best hands on the team, 

but they don’t believe me,” 

Peterson said. “Maybe they’ll start 

believing me now.” 

Matt Ryan threwapair of touchdown 

passes for the Falcons, who 

are off to a good start in their 

attempt to post consecutive winning 

seasons for the first time in the 

club’s 44-year history. 

Peterson paid immediate dividends, 

flinging his 33-year-old body 

under 210 and shared the tournament’s 

individual championship 

with Nils Floren of Texas Tech. 

Floren, who was seventh after 

Saturday’s second round, shot 4- 

under 68 on Sunday. 

“We played good golf,” UTC 

coach Mark Guhne said. “But 

Tennessee played fantastic. We put 

up abetter (score) than last year, 

but couldn’t win. Tennessee was 

very impressive, especially on the 

back side.” 

The Vols’ Robin Wingardh and 

David Holmes each matched 

Floren’s closing 68. Wingardh finished 

tied for third at 5-under 211 

with Jonathan Randolph of 

Mississippi and UTC’s Jaeger. 

Even Tennessee’s Jay 

Vandeventer, tied for 50th place in 

the 60-player field going into 

Sunday’s play after rounds of 81 

and 80, got in on the final-day blitz 

with a 3-under 69 for a 14-over 

230. 

W W W . D A L T O N D A I L Y C I T I Z E N . C O M 

into Anthony Fasano after acatch 

late in the second quarter. Another 

newcomer, Brian Williams, who 

started at cornerback after being 

signed only aweek ago, picked up 

the ball and ran 53 yards to set up 

Jason Elam’s36-yard field goal, giving 

the Falcons a10-0 halftime lead. 

The defense came within 3:22 of 

ashutout, aquick retort to all the 

critics. 

“We didn’t get caught up in all 

the stuff that’s said during the 

week,”Peterson said. “Wejust used 

it as motivation.” 

Miami activated rookie quarterback 

Pat White and used him in a 

new version of the wildcat, without 

much success. He stopped for no 

gain the first time he attempted to 

run and overthrewTed Ginn Jr.ona 

deep pass after the receiver beat 

two defenders. 

“When the wildcat words, 

everybody loves it,” quarterback 

Chad Pennington said. “When it 

doesn’t, everybody hates it.” 

FROM STAFF REPORTS 

Week 3saw Dalton and 

Christian Heritage win its game, 

with Northwest Whitfield and 

Southeast taking losses. The 

Catamounts (2-1) won atSouth 

Paulding 35-14 and the Lions (3- 

0) won 61-8 in Dalton. The 

Bruins (1-2) lost at Sprayberry 

28-7 and Southeast lost at 

Sonoraville 26-21. 

Miami 

Dolphins 

quarterback 

Chad 

Pennington, 

right, fumbles 

as he is hit by 

Atlanta 

Falcons 

defender Kroy 

Biermann, left, 

in the first 

quarter of 

Sunday’s 

game at the 

Georgia Dome 

in Atlanta. The 

Falcons forced 

four turnovers 

— the 

Dolphins committed 

just 13 

all of last season 

— to run 

away with a 

decisive 19-7 

season-opening 

win. 

AP PHOTO 

Off toagood start 

Defense forces four turnovers in rout 

LOCAL GOLF: CARPETCAPITAL COLLEGIATE 

Nils Floren 

of Texas 

Tech hits 

in the 

fairway on 

hole No. 4 

on Sunday 

at The 

Farm. 

MISTY 

WATSON 

The Daily 

Citizen 

Vols, TT’sFloren win 

➣ Please see GOLF, 2B 

Pennington finally got the 

Dolphins in the end zone with a9- 

yard touchdown pass to Ricky 

Williams after a scoring toss to 

Fasano was taken away by aholding 

penalty. Pennington completed 

21 of 29, but his throws accounted 

for only 176 yards. Ronnie Brown 

washeld to 43 yards rushing, while 

Williams managed 39. 

“They didn’t give usany deep 

shots,” said Pennington, who was 

sacked four times. “You have to 

step up and make sure it doesn’t 

snowball. We let it snowball on us.” 

Ryan faced some heavy pressure 

butstill completed 22 of 36 for 229 

yards, including a 1-yard touchdown 

to Ovie Mughelli that gave 

the Falcons a7-0 lead in the second 

quarter. 

About the only thing that didn’t 

go right for the Falcons was their 

kicking. Jason Elam, one of the 

NFL’s most reliable specialists, 

missed two field goals and an extra 

point. 

PREP FOOTBALL: THUMBS UP,THUMBS DOWN 

Cats, Lions lead way 

Christian Heritage 

■ THUMBS UP: Winning 

61-8. The Lions outperformed 

the Bartow Generals in all phases 

of the game. The offensive line 

opened gaping holes, making the 

seven rushing touchdowns shockingly 

easy for the running backs. 

Terrell Wilson rushed for 248 

yards and could have had 400. 

Quarterback Daniel Pierce was 

efficient — two throws for two 

long touchdowns. A42-yard 

strike toanopen Mason Sikes 

was picture perfect. A31-yarder 

to Daniel Groce on the sideline 

was atough throw against solid 

coverage, but Pierce and Groce 

pulled it off smartly. 

The defense hit hard and that, 

as much as anything, seemed to 

take the fight out of Bartow. The 

Generals ground away with their 

big backs behind alarge offensive 

line, but the ever rotating, 

quicker Lions shot the gaps 

repeatedly for crucial stops. 

Bartow had two good drives and 

only one found the end zone. 

Pierce had an interception and 

Groce added afumble recovery. 

Special teams also deserve a 

nod, especially the kickoff coverage 

teams, which time and again 

smacked Bartow returners to the 

ground after minimum returns. 

Junior lineman Zack Anderle 

recovered afumble on akickoff, 

setting up atouchdown. 

Aggressive special teams play 

helped set the tone for the huge 

win. 

■ THUMBS DOWN: Too 

many penalties. The Lions were 

called for eight infractions. Three 

touchdowns were called back 

because of silly penalties. The 

Lions also jumped offsides several 

times, giving up first downs. 

➣ Please see THUMBS, 2B 

MATT HAMILTON/The Daily Citizen 

Raiders quarterback Tanner 

McCutchen completes a 

pass at Sonoraville on Friday. 

Ma 

Citize 

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pletio

2B Monday, September 14, 2009 

Thumbs: Delic big on special teams unit 

➣ Continued from page 1B 

Against agood team, that 

will cost dearly. 

Twomissed PATs. Some 

snaps looked alittle high 

and that may have contributed. 

Then again, kicker 

Nick Jang may have just 

been tired from all the work. 

Dalton 

■ THUMBS UP: 

Offensive firepower. 

Options? Dalton has plenty 

of them. The offense rolled 

up 35 points on asolid 

South Paulding County 

defense. Running back 

Shaquon Moore has become 

one of Region 7-4A most 

complete players. Whether 

it’s apower run from the 

fullback position, using his 

speed for abig gain or taking 

ascreen pass at tailback, 

Moore has seven inonly 

three games. Quarterback 

Stryker Brown is steady and 

has developed anice connection 

with receiver Tevin 

Collins. The defense played 

equally well, containing 

senior Ryan Ayers, who has 

verbally committed to 

Georgia Tech, in limiting 

him to less than 20 yards on 

offense. 

■ THUMBS DOWN: 

Penalties. The Catamounts 

racked up eight penalties for 

60 yards. Several illegal 

motion penalties (illegal 

shift, false starts) on offense 

have to be minimized as 

Dalton moves forward this 

season. 

On the back nine, 

Renwick turned in atorrid 

5-under 31 that included 

birdies on three of the final 

four holes. Holmes had a3- 

under 33 and Wingardh and 

Vandeventer each carded 35 

for the Vols’ 134. That was 

two shots off the tournament’s 

back-nine record 132 

set by Georgia in the second 

round of the 1999 spring 

tournament. 

“Through 12 or 13 

holes,” said Wingardh, a 

junior from Morarp, 

Sweden, “and I think we 

had aone- or two-shot lead. 

Then everybody just 

stepped up their game. We 

had four guys who really 

had good rounds. We talked 

about how important it was 

to us to win this tournament 

after finishing second last 

year.” 

Holmes, a senior from 

Knoxville, Tenn., put the 

Vols’ strong finish in perspective. 

“It was unbelievable,” he 

said. “I’m asenior and that’s 

the best nine holes this team 

has ever had. It shows that 

we can compete with anybody 

this year. We’ve got 

guys who are very mentally 

tough and this was asgood 

as it gets.” 

The strong finished 

stunned Renwick, who 

birdied three of his last four 

holes. 

“I can’t believe we won 

by 12 shots,” said Renwick, 

a sophomore from 

Worthing, England. “We 

had good rounds the first 

two days and we all felt like 

we would be there at the 

end. We finished second in a 

lot of tournaments last year 

and we talked last week that 

we needed to start winning 

tournaments.” 

Well, Vols coach Jim 

Kelson didn’t have towait 

long for the first title of the 

season in the team’s first 

event of the fall. 

“Everybody played terrific 

golf,” said Kelson, after 

the Vols’ 274 broke the tournament 

single-round record 

of 275 set by Georgia in 

1999 and tied by Georgia 

Tech in 2005. “This is the 

Masters of college golf. I’ve 

brought teams here for 10 

years and we didn’t dowell 

early on, but they kept inviting 

us back. We finished 

Northwest 

■ THUMBS UP: To 

Nermin Delic and the 

Bruins special teams unit, 

which kept Northwest in the 

game early and prevented a 

shutout late. 

In the first quarter, Delic 

blocked aSprayberry punt, 

which set the Bruins up on 

the Jackets’ 32, giving 

Northwest an edge the field 

position game. That edge 

eventually led to Sprayberry 

being backed up to its own 2 

before aquestionable pass 

interference call kept the 

Jacktes’ first scoring drive 

alive. 

With just over aminute 

left in the game, Delic 

recovered the ball on abad 

snap when Sprayberry was 

attempting to punt and ran 

the 21-yards for Northwest’s 

only score. 


To offensive execution. The 

Bruins never did find a 

rhythm on offense and were 

out of sync in the passing 

game. The quarterback tandem 

of Chad Keeter and 

Tyler Sheppard struggled 

with their accuracy onsome 

throws, and on other throws 

that were on target, the 

receivers dropped them. 

The Bruins also weren’t 

getting much from production 

from the run game. 

Between five different rushers, 

Northwest carried the 

ball 34 times for just 76 

yards. 

Southeast 

■ THUMBS UP: The 

Raiders made Sonoraville 

pay for most of its mistakes 

in the first half, turning two 

of four fumbles by the 

Phoenix before halftime into 

touchdowns. That was an 

especially bright spot in 

Southeast coach David 

Crane’s assessment because 

it was something his team 

hadn’t done yet — in the 

first two games, the Raiders 

were minus-6 in turnovers. 

Southeast also showed 

heads-up play by not being 

fooled on afake punt in the 

second quarter and stopping 

the Phoenix short of the 

first-down marker. 

Sophomore receiver David 

Rayborn made anice 34- 

yard catch to set up 

Guerrero’s touchdown run 

late in the first half and senior 

wideout Jeremy Bishop 

was sure-handed as the 

Raiders tried to stage a 

comeback. 

Tanner McCutchen, the 

Raiders senior quarterback, 

helped out his defense in the 

field position battle with 

what he did as the team’s 

punter, averaging 40 yards 

on five kicks. 


second last year and now 

we’ve got the team championship. 

Youcan’t fluke your 

way to this championship. 

And if you win here, you 

know you’ve got a good 

team.” 

UTC played good golf 

Sunday, asdid some other 

teams, but all of them were 

left in Tennessee’s wake. 

The Mocs’ Jaeger, who 

finished tied for third overall, 

got plenty of help from 

teammates on the final day. 

Fredrik Qvicker and 

Derek Rende each shot 

even-par 72 and Steven Fox 

closed with a 1-over 73. 

Only Jaeger, a sophomore 

from Munich, Germany, finished 

in the top 10. 

“We felt all along 

Tennessee was the team to 

beat in this tournament,” 

Guhne said. “We played 

good and the course was 

perfect and gave everyone a 

good test of golf. But 

Tennessee having four guys 

in the 60s today was stout. 

Our play was consistent and 

I’m excited about what we 

can do this year.” 

Georgia Tech (867) finished 

third, Auburn (870) 

fourth and South Carolina 

No phase of the game is isolated. 

When ateam struggles 

on special teams or 

defense, it hurts the offense 

— and any combination of 

that scenario is true. That 

was easy to see on Friday as 

the Raiders let a21-point 

lead slip away. 

The offense couldn’t 

maintain drives, picking up 

just four first downs in the 

first half and one less than 

that in the second. The running 

game was unproductive 

and things weren’t much 

better through the air, where 

deep routes failed to yield 

big plays. And it came 

behind what looked like a 

tough night up front, where 

backs found little room to 

operate. 

All of that resulted in 

more and more time on the 

field for the defense, which 

spent all but athird of the 

second half trying to slow 

down Sonoraville’s option 

attack. But their trouble 

doing that was showing 

even before halftime, as the 

Phoenix had 13 plays covering 

6ormore yards. 

Special teams had trouble, 

too — at one point, four 

straight kickoffs went out of 

bounds — on anight the 

Raiders would probably 

rather forget, but must 

remember long enough to 

learn from the mistakes and 

salvage what they can from 

the painful loss. 

Golf: Classic couldbearound in next year 

➣ Continued from page 1B 

(872) rounded out the top 

five. 

Georgia (982) finished 

tied with East Tennessee 

State for 10th. 

The Bulldogs’ Russell 

Henley, whose 6-under 66 

propelled him into a twoshot 

lead over teammate 

Harris English after 36 

holes, closed with a1-over 

73 for a 4-under 212, the 

same score as English. They 

were tied for sixth place. 

Clemson’s Ben Martin 

(71) and Kyle Kopsick of 

Auburn (69) were at 2-under 

214 and tied for ninth. 

NOTE: There were whispers 

on Sunday that there 

might not be a22nd CCCC. 

However, tournament 

chairman Andy Bargeron, 

after presenting trophies to the 

winners, said, “All Ican say is 

don’t make any plans for this 

weekend next year,” the implication 

being that the tourney 

would be around next fall. 

Bargeron pointed out, 

however, that no final decision 

has been made about 

the CCCC’s future. 

This year’s tournament 

was scaled back from 18 

teams to 12, due primarily 

to apoor economy. 

LIONS 61, GENERALS 8 

SCORE BY QUARTERS 

Bartow 0 0 8 0 — 8 

C. Heritage 7 27 20 7 — 61 

SCORING SUMMARY 

First Quarter 

CHR — Terrell Wilson 72 run (Nick Jang 

kick) 

Second Quarter 

CHR — Daniel Pierce 2run (kick failed) 

CHR — Wilson 21 run (Jang kick) 

CHR — Mason Sikes 42 pass from 

Pierce (Jang kick) 

CHR — Daniel Groce 31 pass from 

Pierce (Jang kick) 

Third Quarter 

CHR — Ethan Turnmire 20 run (Jang 

kick) 

BAR — Stephen Coriell 6run (Nall run) 

CHR — Wilson 46 run (kick failed) 

CHR — Turnmire 37 run (Jang kick) 

Fourth Quarter 

CHR — Turnmire 11 run (Jang kick) 

YARDSTICK 

BAR CHR 

Rushes-Yds. 57-255 32-454 

Passing Yds. 0 73 

Com.-Att.-Int. 0-3-1 2-2-0 

Fumbles-Lost 2-2 0-0 

Punts-Avg. 0-0 0-0 

Penalties-Yds. 3-15 7-73 

Turnovers 3 0 

INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS 

RUSHING — Bartow: Adam Gifford 18- 

84, Andrew Kolodziejski 14-66, Jeff 

Williams 6-40, Eric Borgese 8-32, 

Stephen Coriell 7-24, Kendall Craton 1- 

7, Grady Nall 3-2; Christian Heritage: 

Terrell Wilson 8-258, Ethan Turnmire 5- 

84, Marshal Williams 4-64, Seth Defoor 

4-49, Cody Stansell 5-24, Daniel Pierce 

6-0. 

PASSING — Bartow: Williams 0-3-1-0; 

Christian Heritage: Pierce 2-2-0-73. 

RECEIVING — Christian Heritage: 

Daniel Groce 1-31, Mason Sikes 1-42. 

——— 

PHOENIX 26, RAIDERS 21 


Southeast 7 14 0 0 — 21 

Sonoraville 0 0 7 19 — 26 


First Quarter 

SOU — Mafi Tumaua 12 fumble return 

(Carlos Ojeda kick) 


SOU — Mickey Guerrero 99 fumble 

return (Ojeda kick), 7:50 

SOU — Guerrero 14 run (Ojeda kick), 

1:31 

Third Quarter 

SON — Robert Morgan 8run (Matt 

Edgars kick), 3:51 


SON — Shaqueal McAfee 18 run 

(Edgars kick), 10:45 

SON — McAfee 62 run (Edgars kick), 

8:28 

SON — McAfee 11 run (Edgars kick), 

3:09 

YARDSTICK 

SOU SON 

First Downs 7 22 

Rushes-Yds. 21-55 54-392 


Com.-Att.-Int. 13-22-2 8-18-0 


Punts-Avg. 5-40 4-28 


Turnovers 2 3 


RUSHING — Southeast: Coty Burch 9- 

26, Mickey Guerrero 5-29, Tanner 

McCutchen 7-0; Sonoraville: Shaqueal 

McAfee 25-282, Zach Washington 14- 

65, Robert Morgan 8-46, Ryan Bess 7- 

minus 1. 

PASSING — Southeast: McCutchen 

13-22-2-116; Sonoraville: Bess 8-18-0- 

98. 

RECEIVING — Southeast: Jeremy 

Bishop 10-69, David Rayborn 1-34, Trey 

Parris 2-13; Sonoraville: Landon 

Ralston 2-35, McAfee 3-29, Washington 

2-20, Wade Stephenson 1-14. 


PREP FOOTBALL: WEEK 2BOXES 

CATS 35, SPARTANS 14 


Dalton 7 7 14 7 — 35 

S. Paulding 0 14 0 0 — 14 


First Quarter 

DAL — Stryker Brown 16 pass to Tevin 

Collins (Juan Garcia kick good) (:28) 


SOU — Brandon Black 2run (Jose 

Guerra kick good) (6:20) 

SOU — Black 32run (Christian Guerra 

kick good) (1:59) 

DAL — Brown 41 pass to Shaquon 

Moore (Garcia kick good) (:33) 

Third Quarter 

DAL — Moore 30 run (Garcia kick) 

(8:12) 

DAL — Moore 15 run (Garica kick) 

(4:53) 


DAL — TreBeck 14run (Garcia kick) 

(11:54) 

YARDSTICK 

DAL SOU 


Rushes-Yds. 37-199 32-153 


Com.-Att.-Int. 7-10-0 9-18-1 


Punts-Avg. 2-33 3-37 


Turnovers 0 1 


RUSHING — Dalton: Shaquon Moore 

17-80, Stryker Brown 9-67, TreBeck 7- 

38, Chris White 3-12, Matt Cobb 1-2; 

South Paulding: Brandon Black 15-95, 

Isaiah Jones 9-40, White 2-8, Ayers 2-6, 

Chaquan Turner 1-2, Tony Daniel 3-2. 

PASSING — Dalton: Brown 7-10-2-0; 

South Paulding: Daniel 9-18-0-1. 

RECEIVING — Dalton: Tevin Collins 5- 

87, Moore 1-41, Beck 1-16; South 

Paulding: Black 2-45, Anthony Jones 2- 

44, Matt Ayers 3-43, Cody Hunt 2-15, 

Jones 1-11. 

——— 

JACKETS 28, BRUINS 7 


Northwest 0 0 0 7 — 7 

Sprayberry 0 21 7 0 — 28 



SPR – D.J. Funderburg 70 pass from 

Jerick McKinnon (Paul Bailey kick), 

10:36. 

SPR – Robert Bailey 20run (P.Bailey 

kick), 6:43. 

SPR – R. Bailey 15run (P.Bailey kick), 

5:03. 

Third Quarter 

SPR – Alex Kinnard 47 run (P. Bailey 

kick), 3:06. 


NOR – Nermin Delic 21 fumble return 

(Oscar Solarzano kick), 1:06. 

YARDSTICK 

NOR SPR 


Rushes-Yds. 34-76 22-99 


Com.-Att.-Int. 10-24-1 9-16-2 


Punts-Avg. 5-28.2 5-25.2 


Turnovers 2 2 


RUSHING – Northwest: Jordan Darnell 

5-35, Mike Martin 7-22, Lance Andrews 

7-16, Tyler Shepard 3-4, Chad Keeter 

13-4; Sprayberry: Robert Bailey 7-45, 

Alex Kinnard 4-40, P.J. Stone 2-8, Jerick 

McKinnon 7-3, Joshua Moody 1-2, 

Marcus King 1-1. 

PASSING – Northwest: Keeter 5-14-1 

68, Shepard 5-11-0 37, Darnell 0-1 0; 

Sprayberry: McKinnon 5-10-2 124, 

Kinnard 4-6-0 30. 

RECEIVING – Northwest: Wesley Bell 

2-36, Zach Sloan 2-35, Tyler Painter 2- 

23, Tyler Arnold 1-11, Cameron Crump 

1-5, Darnell 1-0, Keeter 1-minus 5; 

Sprayberry: D.J. Funderburg 4-86, 

Stone 2-45, Justin Montgomery 2-19, 

King 1-4. 

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS 

NEW ORLEANS — Drew 

Brees looked even better 

than last year, which was 

bad news for aDetroit 

Lions team trying to win for 

the first time since 2007. 

Brees tied aSaints 

record with six touchdown 

passes and threw for 358 

yards in a45-27 victory 

Sunday that extended the 

Detroit Lions’ regular-season 

losing streak to 18. 

Brees’ touchdown passes 

connected with Marques 

Colston for 9yards, Robert 

Meachem for 39, Jeremy 

Shockey for 1and 15, 

Devery Henderson for 58 

and Heath Evans for 13. 

Matthew Stafford’s was 

16 of 37 for 205 yards with 

three interceptions. 

Detroit isstill eight losses 

off the NFL record of 26 

straight defeats by Tampa 

Bay in 1976-77. 

■ Vikings 34, Browns 

20: In Cleveland,Brett 

Favre threw a6-yard touchdown 

pass to rookie Percy 

Harvin in his debut with the 

Vikings, and Adrian 

Peterson scored three touchdowns 

and finished with 

180 rushing yards on 25 

carries. 

Favre was 14of21for 

110 yards. 

■ Broncos 12, Bengals 

7: In Cincinnati, Brandon 

Stokley caught atipped pass 

and outran Cincinnati’s 

PRO FOOTBALL: NFL WEEK 1SUMMARY 

Brees outguns Stafford for easy Saintswin 

shocked defenders for an 

87-yard touchdown with 11 

seconds left. 

After Cedric Benson’s 1- 

yard run put Cincinnati 

ahead 7-6 with 38 seconds 

left, Kyle Orton — in line to 

shoulder the blame for a 

Denver loss — threw adesperate 

pass into acrowd at 

the sideline, hoping 

Brandon Marshall would 

somehow come down with 

it. 

■ Eagles 38, Panthers 

10: In Charllote, N.C., 

Panthers quarterback Jake 

Delhomme was 7of17for 

73 yards with four interceptions 

and alost fumble. 

Victor Abiamiri picked 

up Delhomme’s fumble, 

caused by Trent Cole’s sack, 

and plunged 2yards for the 

go-ahead touchdown on the 

first play of the second 

quarter. Moments later, 

DeSean Jackson returned a 

punt 85 yards for atouchdown, 

the second longest in 

franchise history. 

■ Jets 24, Texans 7: In 

Houston, Mark Sanchez 

threw for 272 yards and a 

touchdown, Thomas Jones 

scored twice, and the Jets 

shut down Houston’s highpowered 

offense. 

■ Ravens 38, Chiefs 24: 

In Baltimore, Joe Flacco 

went 26 for 43 for 307 yards 

and three touchdowns, all 

career highs. The Ravens 

ruined the head coaching 

debut of Kansas City’sTodd 

Haley asthey amassed a 

franchise-record 501 yards, 

yet needed a31-yard touchdown 

catch by Mark Clayton 

with 2:06 left to break atie. 

■ Cowboys 34, 

Buccaneers 21: In Tampa, 

Fla., Tony Romo threw for 

353 yards and three long 

touchdowns, spoiling the 

Tampa Bay Buccaneers’ 

debut under coach Raheem 

Morris. 

■ Colts 14, Jaguars 12: 

In Indianapolis, Peyton 

Manning threw for one 

touchdown, Joseph Addai 

ran for another and the 

Colts’ defense stopped 

Jacksonville twice in the 

fourth quarter. 

■ Giants 23, Redskins 

17: In East Rutherford, N.J., 

Eli Manning threw a30-yard 

touchdown pass to Mario 

Manningham, and defensive 

end Osi Umenyiora ran back 

afumble 37 yards in his 

return from aknee injury. 

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play, 80-yard drive for the 

winning touchdown on a5- 

yard pass to Frank Gore, 

and the 49ers spoiled the 

season debut of defending 

NFC champion Arizona. 

It was the Cardinals’ first 

loss to an NFC West foe in 

two seasons. 

■ Seahawks 28, Rams 

0: In Seattle, Matt 

Hasselbeck finished 25 of 

36 for 279 yards and three 

second-half touchdowns 

after throwing two first-half 

interceptions. 

The Rams, under new 

coach Steve Spagnuolo, 

gained just 247 yards in a 

flop that looked alarmingly 

like their 38-3 loss against 

Philadelphia that opened last 

season. The Rams were also 

doomed by 10 penalties — 

two personal fouls after 

plays by volatile offensive 

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Monday, September 14, 2009 3B 

SPORTS BRIEFS 

Federer advances, 

Nadal eliminated 

NEW YORK — Roger 

Federer has moved one 

victory away from his 

sixth straight U.S. Open 

title with a7-6 (3), 7-5, 

7-5 victory over Novak 

Djokovic. 

The world’s topranked 

player punctuated 

the victory Sunday with a 

winner, hit backward 

between his legs, to set 

up match point. 

Federer will play No. 

6Juan Martin del Potro, 

who defeated Rafael 

Nadal earlier in the day 

with a6-2, 6-2, 6-2 victory, 

advancing to his first 

Grand Slam final. 

Federer has now 

reached the final of 17 of 

the last 18 Grand Slam 

tournaments. 

Tiger wins BMW 

event by 8strokes 

LEMONT, Ill. — 

Tiger Woods has won the 

BMW Championship for 

his sixth victory of the 

year, assuring himself the 

No. 1ranking going into 

the final tournament of 

the FedEx Cup. 

One day after recordbreaking 

62 at Cog Hill 

to build aseven-shot lead, 

Woods played efficiently 

and didn’t let anyone get 

closer than six shots 

Sunday. Heclosed with a 

3-under 68 for an eightshot 

victory over Jim 

Furyk and Marc 

Leishman. 

Woods won for the 

fifth time at Cog Hill, and 

it was his 10th time on 

the PGA Tour winning by 

at least eight shots. 

Serena fined 10K 

for tirade at Open 

NEW YORK — The 

U.S. Open has fined 

Serena Williams $10,000 

for her tirade directed at a 

line judge at the end of a 

semifinal loss to Kim 

Clijsters. 

It’s the maximum onsite 

fine aGrand Slam 

tennis tournament can 

issue for unsportsmanlike 

conduct. 

The U.S. Open said 

Sunday the Grand Slam 

Committee Administrator 

has opened an investigation 

to determine whether 

Williams’ behavior should 

be considered a“major 

offense,” which can lead 

to additional penalties. 

Williams also is being 

docked $500 for racket 

abuse in what became a6- 

4, 7-5 loss Saturday night. 

Dream defeated 

by ‘Sesame Street’ 

ATLANTA — The 

Atlanta Dream will be 

forced out of their home 

arena for the first round 

of the WNBA playoffs 

because of “Sesame 

Street.” 

The Dream is set to 

play their first home playoffgame 

Friday night 

against Detroit at Philips 

Arena. But “Sesame Street 

Live”already had booked 

shows for next weekend at 

the downtown arena, so 

the Dream will play at 

Gwinnett Arena, about 25 

miles northeast of Atlanta. 

If adecisive third 

game is needed, it also 

would be held at the suburban 

arena on Sunday. 

The series opens 

Wednesday at Detroit. 

Auburn’s offense 

showing progress 

AUBURN, Ala. — 

Auburn’s offense is off to 

apromising start after 

struggling last season. 

Tailback Ben Tate and 

Onterio McCalebb are the 

Southeastern Conference’s 

top two rushers and rank 

among the nation’s top 

eight after Saturday 

night’s 49-24 win over 

Mississippi State. 

The Tigers are leading 

the league and rank 

behind only Air Force 

nationally in rushing 

offense. 

Tate and McCalebb 

have each run for 100- 

plus yards in consecutive 

games, afirst in Auburn 

history. 

— Associated Press 

LOCAL 

Prep Schedule 

Monday 

Varsity softball 

Southeast at Murray County, 5:30 

JV softball 

Adairsville at North Murray, 5 

JV volleyball 

North Murray at Sonoraville, 5:30 

Freshman football 

Woodland-Bartow atNorthwest Whitfield, 5:30 

Middle school football 

Ocoee at Bagley, 5 

Middle school softball 

Westside at New Hope, 4:30 

Valley Point at North Whitfield, 4:30 

Gladden at Eastbrook, 4:30 

Middle school volleyball 

Christian Heritage at Boyd-Buchanan, 4:45 

——— 

Tuesday 

Varsity cross country 

North Murray at Border Clash, Dellinger Park, 

Cartersville 

Murray County at Gilmer, 4 


Rome at Murray County, 5:30 

Northwest Whitfield at Dalton, 5:55 

Southeast at Lakeview-Fort Oglethorpe, 5:55 

Varsity volleyball 

Dalton vs.Woodland-Bartow, Rome at Rome, 5 

Holy Spirit Prep at Christian Heritage, 5:30 

Northwest Whitfield, Cass at Sequoyah, 6:30 

JV football 

Southeast at North Murray, 5:30 

JV softball 

Rome at Murray County, 7:45 


Bagley atGPS, 4:30 

Dalton at Cleveland, 5 

JV volleyball 

Southeast at Ringgold, 5:30 

——— 

Wednesday 

JV softball 

North Murray at Pepperell, 5 

——— 

Thursday 


Northwest Whitfield at Rome, 5:30 

Dalton at Sequoyah, 5:55 

Ringgold at Southeast, 5:55 


Dalton, Gordon Lee at Southeast, 6 

Ringgold at Northwest Whitfield, 6:30 

JV football 

Northwest Whitfield at Woodland-Bartow, 5:30 

Dalton at Murray County, 5:30 

JV volleyball 

Ringgold at Northwest Whitfield, 5:30 

Gordon Lee, Dalton at Southeast, 5 

Middle school cross country 

Westside vs.Greenway, 4:30 


Eastbrook at North Whitfield, 4:30 

Gladden at New Hope, 4:30 

Valley Point at Westside, 4:30 

Bagley vs. Dalton at Harmon Field, 4:30 


Dalton at Bagley, 4:30 

Westside at Valleypoint, 4:30 

Eastbrook at North Whitfield, 4:30 

New Hope at Gladden, 4:30 

——— 

Friday 

Varsity football 

Christian Heritage at Georgia Force, 7:30 

Murray County at Dalton, 7:30 

Woodland-Bartow atNorthwest Whitfield, 7:30 

Heritage-Catoosa at Southeast, 7:30 


Dalton, Murray County, Northwest Whitfield at 

Score Tournament, Warner Park, Chattanooga 


Christian Heritage at Augusta Prep tournament 

JV softball 

North Murray at Sequoyah, 6 


Bagley atLumpkin County, 5 

Middle school volleyball 

Christian Heritage at Silverdale Academy, 4:45 

——— 

Saturday 

Varsity cross country 

Northwest Whitfield at Chattanooga Cross Country 

League Festival, Chickamuaga Dam 

Dalton at Paulding County Invitational 


Dalton, Murray County at Score Tournament, 

Warner Park, Chattanooga 


Christian Heritage at Augusta Prep tournament 

JV softball 

North Murray at River Ridge, DH, 1 


Rome vs.Dalton at Harmon Field, 11 a.m. 

Georgia Force at Christian Heritage, 5:30 

TELEVISION 

On Today 

NFL FOOTBALL 

7p.m. 

ESPN — Buffalo at New England 

10:15 p.m. 

ESPN — San Diego at Oakland 

TENNIS 

1p.m. 

ESPN2 — U.S. Open, women’s doubles championship, 

atNew York 

4p.m. 

CBS — U.S. Open, men’s singles championship, at 

NewYork 

PRO FOOTBALL 

NFL 

AMERICAN CONFERENCE 

East 

W L T Pct PF PA 

N.Y.Jets 1 0 0 1.000 24 7 

Buffalo 0 0 0 .000 0 0 

New England 0 0 0 .000 0 0 

Miami 0 1 0 .000 7 19 

South 


Indianapolis 1 0 0 1.000 14 12 

Houston 0 1 0 .000 7 24 

Jacksonville 0 1 0 .000 12 14 

Tennessee 0 1 0 .000 10 13 

North 


Baltimore 1 0 0 1.000 38 24 

Pittsburgh 1 0 0 1.000 13 10 

Cincinnati 0 1 0 .000 7 12 

Cleveland 0 1 0 .000 20 34 

West 


Denver 1 0 0 1.000 12 7 

Oakland 0 0 0 .000 0 0 

San Diego 0 0 0 .000 0 0 

Kansas City 0 1 0 .000 24 38 

NATIONAL CONFERENCE 

East 


N.Y.Giants 1 0 0 1.000 23 17 

Dallas 1 0 0 1.000 34 21 

Philadelphia 1 0 0 1.000 38 10 

Washington 0 1 0 .000 17 23 

South 


New Orleans 1 0 0 1.000 45 27 

Atlanta 1 0 0 1.000 19 7 

Carolina 0 1 0 .000 10 38 

Tampa Bay 0 1 0 .000 21 34 

North 


Minnesota 1 0 0 1.000 34 20 

Chicago 0 0 0 .000 0 0 

Green Bay 0 0 0 .000 0 0 

Detroit 0 1 0 .000 27 45 

West 


San Francisco 1 0 0 1.000 20 16 

Seattle 1 0 0 1.000 28 0 

Arizona 0 1 0 .000 16 20 

St. Louis 0 1 0 .000 0 28 

Thursday’s Game 

Pittsburgh 13, Tennessee 10, OT 

Sunday’s Games 

Atlanta 19, Miami 7 

N.Y.Jets 24, Houston 7 

New Orleans 45, Detroit 27 

Denver 12, Cincinnati 7 

Baltimore 38, Kansas City 24 

Dallas 34, Tampa Bay 21 

Minnesota 34, Cleveland 20 

Philadelphia 38, Carolina 10 

Indianapolis 14, Jacksonville 12 

Seattle 28, St. Louis 0 

N.Y.Giants 23, Washington 17 

San Francisco 20, Arizona 16 

SCOREBOARD 

Chicago at Green Bay, late 

Today’s Games 

Buffalo at New England, 7p.m. 

San Diego at Oakland, 10:15 p.m. 

Sunday, Sept. 20 

Houston at Tennessee, 1p.m. 

Minnesota at Detroit, 1p.m. 

Carolina at Atlanta, 1p.m. 

St. Louis at Washington, 1p.m. 

New England at N.Y.Jets, 1p.m. 

Oakland at Kansas City, 1p.m. 

Cincinnati at Green Bay, 1p.m. 

New Orleans at Philadelphia, 1p.m. 

Arizona at Jacksonville, 1p.m. 

Tampa Bay atBuffalo, 4:05 p.m. 

Seattle at San Francisco, 4:05 p.m. 

Pittsburgh at Chicago, 4:15 p.m. 

Baltimore at San Diego, 4:15 p.m. 

Cleveland at Denver, 4:15 p.m. 

N.Y.Giants at Dallas, 8:20 p.m. 

Monday, Sept. 21 

Indianapolis at Miami, 8:30 p.m. 

PRO BASEBALL 

MLB 

NATIONAL LEAGUE 

East Division 

W L Pct GB 

Philadelphia 81 60 .574 — 

Florida 76 67 .531 6 

Atlanta 75 68 .524 7 

NewYork 63 80 .441 19 

Washington 50 93 .350 32 

Central Division 

W L Pct GB 

St. Louis 84 60 .583 — 

Chicago 73 68 .518 91/2 

Houston 70 73 .490 13 1/2 

Milwaukee 69 73 .486 14 

Cincinnati 64 79 .448 19 1/2 

Pittsburgh 55 86 .390 27 1/2 

West Division 

W L Pct GB 

Los Angeles 85 59 .590 — 

Colorado 82 62 .569 3 

San Francisco 77 66 .538 71/2 

San Diego 65 79 .451 20 

Arizona 62 82 .431 23 

——— 

Saturday’s Games 

Cincinnati 7, Chicago Cubs 5 

Atlanta 7, St. Louis 6 

N.Y.Mets 10, Philadelphia 9 

Florida 11, Washington 3 

Houston 4, Pittsburgh 2 

Milwaukee 9, Arizona 2 

L.A. Dodgers 9, San Francisco 1 

San Diego 3, Colorado 2, 10 innings 


Philadelphia 5, N.Y.Mets 4, 1st game 

Washington 7, Florida 2 

Pittsburgh 2, Houston 1 

Atlanta 9, St. Louis 2 

Chicago Cubs 5, Cincinnati 2 

San Diego 7, Colorado 3 

San Francisco 7, L.A. Dodgers 2 

Milwaukee 5, Arizona 3 

N.Y.Mets at Philadelphia, 2nd game, late 


Houston (W.Rodriguez 13-9) at Cincinnati (Arroyo 

12-12), 7:10 p.m. 

Milwaukee (Suppan 6-9) at Chicago Cubs 

(Dempster 9-8), 8:05 p.m. 

Florida (Nolasco 11-8) at St. Louis (Wellemeyer 7- 

9), 8:15 p.m. 

Arizona (Buckner 2-6) at San Diego (Correia 10- 

10), 10:05 p.m. 

Pittsburgh (D.McCutchen 0-1) at L.A. Dodgers 

(Garland 9-11), 10:10 p.m. 

Colorado (Hammel 8-7) at San Francisco 

(Lincecum 13-5), 10:15 p.m. 

——— 

AMERICAN LEAGUE 

East Division 

W L Pct GB 

NewYork 92 52 .639 — 

Boston 83 58 .589 71/2 

Tampa Bay 72 70 .507 19 

Toronto 65 78 .455 26 1/2 

Baltimore 58 84 .408 33 

Central Division 

W L Pct GB 

Detroit 76 66 .535 — 

Minnesota 71 72 .497 51/2 

Chicago 71 73 .493 6 

Cleveland 61 81 .430 15 

Kansas City 57 86 .399 19 1/2 

West Division 

W L Pct GB 

Los Angeles 86 56 .606 — 

Texas 79 61 .564 6 

Seattle 73 69 .514 13 

Oakland 64 78 .451 22 

——— 

Saturday’s Games 

Baltimore 7, N.Y.Yankees 3 

Oakland 4, Minnesota 2 

Chicago White Sox 4,L.A. Angels 3, 10 innings 

Cleveland 13, Kansas City 6 

Toronto 8, Detroit 6 

Boston 9, Tampa Bay 1,6innings 

Seattle 8, Texas 3 


Boston 3, Tampa Bay 1,1st game 

N.Y.Yankees 13, Baltimore 3 

Kansas City 7, Cleveland 0 

Detroit 7, Toronto 2 

Seattle at Texas, late, 1st game 

Minnesota 8, Oakland 0 

L.A. Angels 3, Chicago White Sox 2 

Seattle at Texas, late., 2nd game 

Tampa Bay atBoston, late, 2nd game 


L.A. Angels (Jer.Weaver 15-5) at N.Y. Yankees 

(Chamberlain 8-5), 7:05 p.m. 

Tampa Bay (Price 7-7) at Baltimore 

(Da.Hernandez 4-7), 7:05 p.m. 

Toronto (Purcey 0-2) at Detroit (Verlander 16-8), 

7:05 p.m. 

Oakland (Tomko 4-3) at Texas (Feldman 16-4), 

8:05 p.m. 

Cleveland (Sowers 6-9) at Minnesota (Pavano 12- 

11), 8:10 p.m. 

GOLF 

BMW Championship 

Sunday 

At Cog Hill Golf and Country Club, Dubsdread 

Course 

Lemont, Ill. 

Purse: $7.5 million 

Yardage: 7,616; Par: 71 

Final 

Tiger Woods 68-67-62-68 — 265-19 

Jim Furyk 70-70-67-66 — 273-11 

Marc Leishman 67-69-68-69 — 273-11 

Sean O’Hair 70-68-70-66 — 274-10 

Zach Johnson c 73-65-70-68 — 276 -8 

Sergio Garcia c 71-68-68-71 — 278 -6 

Padraig Harrington 68-68-69-73 — 278 -6 

Camilo Villegas 68-74-71-66 — 279 -5 

Kevin Na 72-72-65-70 — 279 -5 

Bill Haas 71-68-71-70 — 280 -4 

Mark Wilson 69-66-71-74 — 280 -4 

Luke Donald 70-69-68-73 — 280 -4 

Matt Kuchar 71-68-66-75 — 280 -4 

Brandt Snedeker 69-69-66-76 — 280 -4 

Stephen Ames 76-67-69-69 — 281 -3 

Bo VanPelt 67-69-72-73 — 281 -3 

Bubba Watson 69-68-70-74 — 281 -3 

Steve Marino 66-77-68-71 — 282 -2 

Rory Sabbatini 66-70-72-74 — 282 -2 

Mike Weir 72-69-71-71 — 283 -1 

Ian Poulter 69-71-68-75 — 283 -1 

John Senden 70-70-66-77 — 283 -1 

NW Arkansas 

Sunday 

At Pinnacle Country Club 

Rogers, Ark. 

Purse: $1.8 million 

Yardage: 6,244; Par 71 

Final Round 

x-Jiyai Shin 70-70-64 — 204 -9 

Sun Young Yoo 69-67-68 — 204 -9 

Angela Stanford 66-69-69 — 204 -9 

Shi Hyun Ahn 71-68-66 — 205 -8 

Song-Hee Kim 65-68-72 — 205 -8 

Taylor Leon 71-68-67 — 206 -7 

Hye Jung Choi 68-69-70 — 207 -6 

Na Yeon Choi 71-65-71 — 207 -6 

Becky Morgan 72-69-67 — 208 -5 

Seon Hwa Lee 74-68-67 — 209 -4 

Ai Miyazato 72-68-69 — 209 -4 

Hee Young Park 68-72-69 209 -4 

Helen Alfredsson 69-69-71 209 -4 

Hee-Won Han 72-68-70 — 210 -3 

Natalie Gulbis 71-69-70 — 210 -3 

Paula Creamer 70-70-70 — 210 -3 

Sandra Gal 64-76-70 — 210 -3 

Na Ri Kim 70-67-73 — 210 -3 

M.J.Hur 69-68-73 — 210 -3 

Yani Tseng 68-68-74 — 210 -3 

COLLEGE FOOTBALL 

AP Top25 

The Top25teams in The Associated Press college 

football poll, with first-place votes in parentheses, 

records through Sept. 12, total points based on 25 

points for afirst-place vote through one point for a 

25th-place vote, and previous ranking: 

Record Pts Pvs 

1. Florida (56) 2-0 1,491 1 

2. Texas (1) 2-0 1,404 2 

3. Southern Cal (1) 2-0 1,396 3 

4. Alabama (2) 2-0 1,328 4 

5. Mississippi 1-0 1,145 6 

5. Penn St. 2-0 1,145 7 

7. BYU 2-0 1,122 9 

8. California 2-0 1,058 10 

9. LSU 2-0 951 11 

10. Boise St. 2-0 945 12 

11. Ohio St. 1-1 840 8 

12. Oklahoma 1-1 835 13 

13. Virginia Tech 1-1 749 14 

14. Georgia Tech 2-0 683 15 

15. TCU 1-0 609 16 

16. Oklahoma St. 1-1 445 5 

17. Cincinnati 2-0 407 23 

18. Utah 2-0 405 17 

19. Nebraska 2-0 365 22 

20. Miami 1-0 364 20 

21. Houston 2-0 341 — 

22. Kansas 2-0 271 24 

23. Georgia 1-1 260 21 

24. North Carolina 2-0 250 19 

25. Michigan 2-0 169 — 

——— 

Others receiving votes: Missouri 93, Pittsburgh 

87, Oregon St. 64, Texas Tech 54, UCLA 44, Notre 

Dame 40, West Virginia 30, Auburn 26, Iowa 23, 

Boston College 19, Baylor 15, Clemson 10, 

Oregon 5, Arizona 4, Arkansas 3, Colorado St. 2, 

Florida St. 1, Minnesota 1, South Florida 1. 

AP Top25 

The USA Today Top 25 football coaches poll, with 

first-place votes in parentheses, records through 

Sept. 12, total points based on 25 points forfirst place 

through one point for 25th and previous ranking: 

Record Pts Pvs 

1. Florida (56) 2-0 1,472 1 

2. Texas 2-0 1,399 2 

3. Southern California (3) 2-0 1,368 3 

4. Alabama 2-0 1,277 4 

5. Penn State 2-0 1,216 5 

6. Mississippi 1-0 1,060 8 

7. LSU 2-0 1,051 9 

7. California 2-0 1,051 10 

9. Brigham Young 2-0 941 12 

10. Boise State 2-0 913 11 

11. Ohio State 1-1 855 7 

12. Oklahoma 1-1 794 14 

13. Georgia Tech 2-0 771 13 

14. Virginia Tech 1-1 709 15 

15. TCU 1-0 648 16 

16. Utah 2-0 533 17 

17. Oklahoma State 1-1 485 6 

18. Nebraska 2-0 471 18 

19. North Carolina 2-0 341 19 

20. Georgia 1-1 333 21 

21. Cincinnati 2-0 328 23 

22. Miami (Fla.) 1-0 291 22 

23. Kansas 2-0 195 25 

24. Oregon State 2-0 118 24 

25. Missouri 2-0 104 NR 

——— 

Others receiving votes: Michigan 84; Houston 

69; Texas Tech 68; Pittsburgh 40; Notre Dame 32; 

Auburn 30; Iowa 27; Florida State 19; Oregon 16; 

West Virginia 16; South Florida 13; UCLA 13; 

Kentucky 9; Arizona 4; Central Michigan 2; 

Colorado State 2; Minnesota 2; Northwestern 2; 

Arkansas 1; South Carolina 1; Tulsa 1. 

AUTO RACING 

NASCAR Sprint Cup 

Chevy Rock &Roll 400 Results 

By The Associated Press 

Saturday 

At Richmond International Raceway 

Richmond, Va. 

Lap length: .75 miles 

(Start position in parentheses) 

1. (3) Denny Hamlin, Toyota, 400 laps, 150 rating, 

195 points, $238,075. 

2. (13) Kurt Busch, Dodge, 400, 116.5, 170, 

$170,825. 

3. (7) Jeff Gordon, Chevrolet, 400, 127.3, 170, 

$169,776. 

4. (1) Mark Martin, Chevrolet, 400, 118.9, 165, 

$136,300. 

5. (8) Kyle Busch, Toyota, 400, 106, 155, $147,598. 

6. (18) Clint Bowyer, Chevrolet, 400, 92.5, 150, 

$111,275. 

7. (6) Brian Vickers, Toyota, 400, 99.2, 146, 

$116,273. 

8. (33) Sam Hornish Jr., Dodge, 400, 94, 142, 

$104,360. 

9. (19) Kevin Harvick, Chevrolet, 400, 103.7, 138, 

$122,428. 

10. (21) Ryan Newman, Chevrolet, 400, 85.5, 134, 

$112,654. 

11. (4) Jimmie Johnson, Chevrolet, 400, 106.6, 

130, $130,326. 

12. (5) Kasey Kahne, Dodge, 400, 91.6, 127, 

$117,448. 

13. (24) Greg Biffle, Ford, 400, 73.3, 124, $95,225. 

14. (27) Joey Logano, Toyota, 400, 76.4, 121, 

$121,476. 

15. (10) Carl Edwards, Ford, 400, 70.5, 118, 

$122,256. 

16. (11) Reed Sorenson, Dodge, 400, 78.3, 115, 

$112,651. 

17. (29) Tony Stewart, Chevrolet, 400, 75.5, 112, 

$93,473. 

18. (22) Jeff Burton, Chevrolet, 400, 77.3, 109, 

$117,756. 

19. (14) Juan Pablo Montoya, Chevrolet, 400, 87.6, 

106, $109,098. 

20. (23) David Reutimann, Toyota, 400, 65, 103, 

$100,023. 

21. (15) Dale Earnhardt Jr., Chevrolet, 400, 72.5, 

100, $89,150. 

22. (16) Marcos Ambrose, Toyota, 400, 64.6, 97, 

$88,448. 

23. (17) AJ Allmendinger, Dodge, 400, 77, 94, 

$74,550. 

24. (30) David Gilliland, Toyota, 400, 57.7, 91, 

$92,110. 

25. (28) Matt Kenseth, Ford, 400, 54.9, 88, 

$116,990. 

26. (12) David Stremme, Dodge, 400, 57.7, 85, 

$105,790. 

27. (25) Jamie McMurray, Ford, 400, 58.4, 82, 

$90,725. 

28. (42) Paul Menard, Ford, 399, 48, 79, $102,906. 

29. (39) John Andretti, Chevrolet, 399, 37.7, 76, 

$80,375. 

30. (38) Casey Mears, Chevrolet, 398, 67.7, 73, 

$87,750. 

31. (37) Bobby Labonte, Ford, 398, 49.5, 70, 

$99,254. 

32. (40) Michael Waltrip, Toyota, 398, 43.8, 72, 

$76,975. 

33. (26) David Ragan, Ford, 398, 44.7, 64, 

$77,800. 

34. (34) Elliott Sadler, Dodge, 396, 38.6, 61, 

$76,725. 

35. (36) Joe Nemechek, Toyota, 396, 36.6, 58, 

$69,575. 

36. (20) Scott Speed, Toyota, 396, 33.6, 55, 

$80,498. 

37. (43) Max Papis,Toyota, 394, 26.5, 52, $68,300. 

38. (9) Brad Keselowski, Chevrolet, engine, 376, 

43.9, 49, $68,175. 

39. (2) Martin Truex Jr., Chevrolet, accident, 325, 

78, 46, $103,040. 

40. (35) Regan Smith, Chevrolet, accident, 174, 

34.5, 43, $67,925. 

41. (41) Michael McDowell, Toyota, engine, 113, 

28.9, 40, $67,775. 

42. (31) Mike Bliss, Chevrolet, transmission, 38, 

28.9, 37, $67,655. 

43. (32) Dave Blaney, Toyota, brakes, 36, 26.8, 34, 

$68,022. 

——— 

Race Statistics 

Average Speed of Race Winner: 96.601 mph. 

Time of Race: 3hours, 6minutes, 20seconds. 

Margin of Victory: 0.378 seconds. 

Caution Flags: 10 for 56laps. 

Lead Changes: 12 among 4drivers. 

Lap Leaders: M.Martin 1-3; D.Hamlin 4-66; 

J.Gordon 67-107; D.Hamlin 108; M.Waltrip 109; 

J.Gordon 110-150; D.Hamlin 151-174; J.Gordon 

175-182; D.Hamlin 183-188; J.Gordon 189-193; 

D.Hamlin 194-203; J.Gordon 204-205; D.Hamlin 

206-400. 

Leaders Summary (Driver, Times Led, Laps Led): 

D.Hamlin, 6times for 299 laps; J.Gordon, 5times 

for 97laps; M.Martin, 1time for 3laps; M.Waltrip, 1 

time for 1lap. 

Top12inPoints: 1. M.Martin, 5,040; 2. T.Stewart, 

5,030; 3. J.Johnson, 5,030; 4. D.Hamlin, 5,020; 5. 

K.Kahne, 5,020; 6. J.Gordon, 5,010; 7. Ku.Busch, 

5,010; 8. B.Vickers,5,010; 9. C.Edwards,5,000; 10. 

R.Newman, 5,000; 11. J.Montoya, 5,000; 12. 

G.Biffle, 5,000. 

PRO BASEBALL 

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ST. LOUIS (AP) — 

Javier Vazquez took a 

shutout into the ninth inning, 

and the Atlanta Braves 

roughed upChris Carpenter 

in a9-2 victory over the St. 

Louis Cardinals on Sunday. 

Vazquez allowed aleadoffsingle 

to Skip Schumaker 

and then retired the next 17 

batters before Schumaker 

reached on an infield single 

in the sixth. It was the 25th 

complete game of Vazquez’s 

career and his second of the 

season. 

Carpenter, a Cy Young 

candidate, had his worst outing 

of the season. He allowed 

seven earned runs on nine 

hits in six innings pitched. 

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CROSSWORD 

BRIDGE 

Famous hand 

The value of 

ahand is often 

affected by bids 

the other players 

make, and a 

good part of 

what is called 

bidding skill 

depends on how 

well one is able 

to re-evaluate a 

hand as the picture 

keeps 

changing. 

Consider this 

dramatic example 

from a1972 

national teamof-four 

championship. 

The 

road to oblivion 

for North-South 

began when 

Mike Becker, 

brother of this 

writer, opened 

the bidding as dealer with one club, and North innocently 

overcalled with one diamond. East, Andy Bernstein, 

passed, since adouble would have been for takeout in the 

partnership’s style. 

Despite his anemic values, West decided to compete further 

when he doubled for takeout after South’s pass of a 

diamond. East was happy tolet the double stand, but South 

was not and ran to one heart. 

Sensing that the opponents were in deep trouble, West 

this time doubled for penalties and, after North had made 

an SOS redouble, also doubled one spade — which became 

the final contract. 

West’s bidding was indeed remarkable. He had opened 

with absolutely minimum values and then proceeded to 

double every time it was his turn, just as though he had 

opened the bidding with asuper hand. 

Moreover, he made the highly effective opening lead of 

the queen of spades. Declarer ducked in dummy — quite 

naturally assuming that West had the Q-J and East the ace 

— whereupon West played the ace and another spade. 

South eventually went down three for aloss of 500 

points, though he could have saved atrick in the play.West 

was exceptionally well-rewarded for recognizing that even 

aminimum opening bid can sometimes change its complexion 

and become apowerhouse. 

Tomorrow: The magic number is 13. 

CRYPTOQUIP 

Happy Birthday: Use 

your experience and your 

work ethic to show others 

how efficient you are. 

Emotional matters can be 

brought out in the open and 

dealt with in apractical manner.You 

have alot going for 

you and shouldn’tfeel someone 

else can do abetter job. 

Your numbers are 

3, 11, 18, 24, 35, 

39, 46 

ARIES (March 

21-April 19): 

Don’t shy away 

from new possibilities, 

especially if it 

entails meeting 

people who have 

similar interests or 

work in the same 

industry as you. 

Show what you 

have to offer and 

you will accomplish 

alot. 5stars 

TAURUS (April 20-May 

20): Problems will develop 

at home or in your personal 

life if you are unreasonable. 

Take the bad with the good 

and work out away to get 

through whatever challenges 

you face without letting 

stubbornness, jealousy or 

your emotions interfere. 2 

stars 

GEMINI (May 21-June 

20): You’ll have your hands 

full but that’s when you do 

your best work. Acouple of 

fast maneuvers on your part 

and you will have control 

and be headed in adirection 

that satisfies your own special 

needs. 4stars 

CANCER (June 21-July 

22): There is no point sulking 

or keeping things to 

yourself. Address matters 

honestly.You’ll be surprised 

how quickly you can implement 

your plans once you’ve 

shared your thoughts and 

feelings. 3stars 

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): 

You may feel like sharing 

your ideas but, for now, do 

things in secret so no one 

will stand in your way. The 

less attention you draw to 

what you are doing, the less 

chance there will be for 

someone to stop you. 3stars 

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 

22): You’ll have to be careful 

how you deal with the people 

who can influence what 

you are trying to accomplish 

in your personal and your 

HOROSCOPE 

Eugenia 

Last 


professional life. The more 

agreeable you are, the easier 

it will be to put some of your 

ideas to the test. 4stars 

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 

22): It will benefit you more 

if you focus your attention 

on yourself rather than trying 

to do things you don’t 

want to do for others. Weigh 

the cost and stress 

involved and it 

won’t be hard to 

makeupyour mind. 

2stars 

SCORPIO 

(Oct. 23-Nov. 21): 

Getting involved in 

something that 

motivates you will 

help put new life 

into something 

you’ve been working 

toward. Go to 

the source if it will 

help to bring you 

greater inspiration or clarity 

on how you can do something 

without additional 

cost. 5stars 

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 

22-Dec. 21): It’s not worth 

getting all worked up over 

nothing. If someone asks for 

something, take care of it 

and get on with your day. In 

the end, you’ll be the one 

with the knowledge and 

experience to move forward. 

3stars 

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22- 

Jan. 19): You can make 

friends by doing something 

nice that will ease stress and 

worry.Your ability to juggle 

things around will help those 

who cannot. Money isinthe 

stars and a settlement or 

investment that has been 

pending will make acomeback. 

3stars 

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20- 

Feb. 18): Donít worry about 

your financial situation — 

do something about it. You 

can come up with alucrative 

idea or service that will help 

you pay your bills. Changes 

to something you already do 

will help you broaden your 

scope of clients. 3stars 

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 

20): Anetworking group of 

high profile people in an 

industry you are familiar 

with will lead to an opportunity. 

A change is heading 

your way and apartnership 

is possible but itwill require 

alot of hard work, dedication 

and compromise. 5stars 

TO YOUR GOOD HEALTH 

Defective lymph drainage leads to swelling 

DEAR DR. 

DONOHUE: My 

granddaughter has 

been diagnosed by a 

lymph specialist at 

Stanford University 

in California as having 

Milroy’sdisease. 

Her left hand and 

part of her forearm 

are affected. She was 

21/2 years old when 

she was diagnosed. 

The doctor recommended 

massage 

therapy, apressure bandage, 

apositive mental attitude and 

genetic testing for family 

members. 

During my daughter’s 

pregnancy, she was ill almost 

every day. She had had four 

miscarriages in the two years 

prior toher latest pregnancy. 

She wasmonitored as ahighrisk 

pregnancy at the 

Massachusetts General 

Hospital in Boston. The birth 

Paul G. 

Donohue 

was uncomplicated, 

and the baby was 

born perfect except 

for a chubby left 

hand. 

She is bright and 

loving. She has hit 

all her development 

markers — walking, 

talking early 

and toilet training; 

however, Iamconcerned 

about the 

future. How rare is 

Milroy’s? Are operations 

possible? — M.F. 

ANSWER:Your daughter 

and granddaughter have been 

treated at two ofAmerica’s 

most prestigious medical 

centers. They have received 

the best in obstetrical care 

and in the care of Milroy’s. I 

can add nothing to what 

they’ve gotten and been told. 

Ican give you an understanding 

of what’s going on. 

Milroy’s isavery rare genetic 

condition, so rare that 

accurate statistics on it are 

hard to come by. For achild 

to come down with the disease, 

only one gene need be 

inherited, and it can come 

from the mother or the father. 

If neither parent has the gene, 

then a genetic mutation 

occurred at or soon after your 

granddaughter’s conception. 

In Milroy’s, lymph vessels 

don’t develop properly. 

Lymph is afluid that bathes 

all body cells, tissues and 

organs. It partly comes from 

the liquid part of blood and 

partly from cellular production. 

Lymph vessels vacuum 

it up and return it to the circulation. 

Your granddaughter’s 

problem is confined to a 

very small part of her body. 

Her growth and development 

should continue to be completely 

normal. Operations 

have been attempted buthave 

not met with great success. 

She should live a long, 

healthy, productive and 

happy life. 

DEAR DR. DONOHUE: 

Ihavehad ahernia for almost 

two years. The swelling and 

discomfort are getting worse. 

Idon’t have insurance, and 

can’t work because of this 

condition. 

What are the long-term 

consequences of not getting 

treatment? Iama61-year-old 

man. — G.M. 

ANSWER: For anolder 

man, not having a hernia 

immediately taken care of 

isn’t a health threat. If the 

hernia causes pain that makes 

it unable for you to carry out 

the tasks of daily life, if the 

pain suddenly intensifies or if 

you cannot push the hernia 

back into the abdomen, then 

you need immediate attention 

at the emergency department 

of ahospital. Youcannot 

be turned away because 

of not having insurance. 

This state of affairs might 

neveroccur.Inthe meantime, 

you can wear atruss over the 

hernia that keeps it in place. 

These devices are available at 

most drugstores. 

Hernia surgery is outpatient 

surgery. Ifyou do need 

surgery, you can make 

arrangements to pay the surgeon 

and hospital in small 

installments. 

DEAR DR. DONOHUE: 

Imust have bumped my ring 

finger. Itispainful, and the 

top part is swollen on the side 

of the nail. Ithink some pus 

is forming. What can Isoak it 

in? Icannot go to adoctor. — 

B.P. 

ANSWER: Youdescribe 

a paronychia (PAIR-uh- 

ASK THE DOCTOR 

Dr. Donohue regrets that he is 

unable to answer individual 

letters, but he will incorporate 

them in his column whenever 

possible. Readers may write 

him or request an order form 

of available health newsletters 

at P.O. Box 536475, 

Orlando, FL 32853-6475. 

NICK-ee-uh), an infection of 

the skin and tissues bordering 

afingernail. If the skin and 

tissues show only mild 

swelling, then frequent daily 

soaks in hot water can bring 

it to ahead and cause it to 

drain. If it is quite swollen 

and painful, you’ll have to 

see a doctor. Try an emergency-department 

doctor. It 

has to be incised to permit 

drainage and antibiotics will 

be needed. 

Is there trouble in Oprah’s TVkingdom? 

NEW YORK (AP) — 

Oprah Winfrey is opening 

her talk show’s 24th season 

with aflourish. One week of 

programs include aChicago 

block party with the Black 

Eyed Peas, an exclusive 

Whitney Houston interview, 

her first Dr.Phil visit in seven 

years and atrip to NewYork. 

It’s hard to remember 

when it seemed more important. 

Winfrey isstill the queen 

of daytime television, but the 

aura of invincibility is gone. 

The average viewership for 

“The Oprah Winfrey Show” 

slipped under 7million last 

season, down 7percent from 

the year before, according to 

Nielsen Media Research. 

One week during the July 

rerun season, the show had 

its lowest ratings since its 

1985 debut. 

There are many possible 

explanations for the fade, 

including some over which 

Winfrey has no control. 

Ratings declines are common 

with so many choices and 

demands on time, particularly 

during the day. It’s even 

rarer for programs that have 

been on the air as long as 

Winfrey’s togrow. 

And it’snot just her.“Live 

with Regis and Kelly” had 

the same 7 percent decline 

last season.Shows with Jerry 

Springer, Maury Povich and 

Martha Stewart all had double-digit 

declines. 

Yet Winfrey has also 

alienated some of her audience, 

particularly in more 

conservative parts of the 

country, said Janice Peck, 

author of the book “Age of 

Oprah” and aUniversity of 

Colorado professor. 

By endorsing Barack 

Obama and campaigning for 

him, she shucked her apolitical 

image. Winfrey’s book 

club selection of Eckhart 

Tolle’s New Age religion 

book “A NewEarth” angered 

some conservative Christians 

— even though Winfrey’s 

producer said Winfrey was 

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■ MUTTS 

■ WIZARD OF ID 

■ CATHY 

■ GARFIELD 

DEAR ABBY: My toddler and I 

were rear-ended a few days ago. 

Thankfully,neither of us washurt. The 

other driver’s insurance is paying for 

the car repairs. They will also reimburse 

me for anew car seat if Ibuy one 

and submit the receipt. 

My husband, the sole wage earner 

in our family,insists that we don’tneed 

to replace the car seat. Money istight, 

but Ithink we could come up with it, 

and besides, we’d bereimbursed. He 

also thinks the accident was sominor 

that the seat should protect our child in 

another collision, and I’m “just a 

gullible consumer buying into marketing propaganda.” 

(For the record, he’s aloving husband 

and father,just tight with money.) 

Should Ireplace the seat, knowing it will 

upset him, or feel guilty about placing our child 

in apossibly compromised car seat? — SAFE- 

TY-FIRST MOM IN TENNESSEE 

DEAR SAFETY-FIRST MOM: Far beit 

from me to imply that insurance companies 

aren’t the epitome of generosity, but when an 

insurance company offers reimbursement for a 

child safety device that has been in an accident, 

take the hint. As to your husband’s fiscal conservatism, 

tell him that he won’tbefronting the 

moneybecause you are gullible. He’ll be doing 

it to give you peace of mind. 


Parents wage tug-of-war 

over toddler’s car seat 

■ HOCUS FOCUS 

DEAR ABBY 

Jeanne 

Phillips 

DEAR ABBY: Ihave been living 

with avery niceman for 28 years, and 

at one point we were married. He lives 

in my house and drivesmycar.Idothe 

cooking, cleaning, laundry and household 

chores. He does small repairs 

around the house, keeps the irrigation 

system in good repair and contributes 

$600 amonth for expenses. 

He goes to visit his family and 

friends in the West every summer for 

two weeks ormore. This year he told 

me he was not coming back because 

he’sbroke. Iwas upset to say the least. 

He did come back, and now at75, I 

think Iwill end up supporting him for the rest of 

my life. 

Abby, should Ibite the bullet, say “It’s only 

money” and support him, or should Ikiss him 

goodbye and wish him well? — UNDECIDED 

IN FLORIDA 

DEAR UNDECIDED: Have you kept him 

in your house all these years because of his 

handyman skills and the $7,200 ayear he gave 

you? If the answer is yes, then out he goes. 

However, if you cooked for him, cleaned for 

him, washed his dirty underwear and socks and 

slept with him because you LOVED him — 

then Ithink the pain of separation would make 

your life misery and you should continue 

accepting him for who he is and let him stay. 

■ SNUFFY SMITH 

■ PEANUTS 

■ HAGAR THE HORRIBLE 

■ ROSE IS ROSE 

■ FOR BETTER OR WORSE 

■ ZITS 

■ BLONDIE 

■ BABY BLUES 

■ BEETLE BAILEY 

■ FAMILY CIRCUS 

■ CLOSE TO HOME 

■ TUNDRA



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99 

MONDAY DEALS 

**Apt. -1level, huge rooms, 10’ 

ft. ceilings. Brookwood, Central 

Ave. 706-226-7715. 

11/2 c. flower shaped Diamond 

cluster ring w/ 15 diamonds. 

$400 obo.706-280-6446 lv msg 

10 acre lot for sale in Laurel Hill 

Fl. $79,900. Call 706-694-3626 

1052 Laura Dr., 3BR, 2BA, new 

appli, lge bsmt, Pay to$5000 in 

closing, 706-694-2573 

15” 5- lug pony Mustang wheels, 

fits 1994-2008. $200.00 

(706)694-3482 

1980 Mack Dump Truck, tandem, 

$10,500. 423-421-7767 

2005 Coachman camper. 24ft. 

Great condition. Sleeps 6. 

$8,900. 706-264-1357 after 6pm 

3chandeliers still in boxes, sell 

for over $100. each. Asking $20. 

each. Call Jeff at 706-625-9346. 

3br, 2ba doublewide. N.Murray 

co. No pets. $600/mo. + Dep. 

Call 706-264-4404. 

59+ sq. ft. Owens Corning 

Fiberglass Insulation, 3?”X23” 

Batts 93” Long. Call 706-259- 

5757 

Ben Hampton framed print. 

Ramblin Rose. $100.00. Call 

706-695-5945 

Bow Flex Power Pro with leg 

attachment & rowing seat. 210 

lbs.$125. (706)264-7634 

China Cabinet, French 

Provencial, Glass doors, 

3drawers $375. Call 706-673- 

2049 

Coke 

collectables: 

commemorative bottles & cans, 

memorabilia of all kinds. $300. 

706-463-2384 

Condo for sale/rent. 553 Conway 

St. Dalton. 2Br, 1.5ba, with 

garage.Call 706-463-3427 

Dark wood. 6 drawer dresser 

and hutch w/ shelves and mirror. 

$100 (706)313-6024 

Dog boxes (med & lrg barn) 

$40.00 obo (706)277-5347 

English Armoire. Two doors, 

beveled edges, oval mirror & 2 

drawers.$375. 706-695-8560 

Firewood for sale. All hardwood, 

split stacked & delivered. North 

GA area. $50.00 lrg pickup load. 

(706)581-8634 

First Quality 7/16 8lb. Carpet 

Pad $1.45 per yd. 706-618-8346 

For sale Young Chang piano. 

Call 706-581-4078 

For sale.Lazy boy lift 

chair.Blue.Very clean. 

Call 706-259-8468 

Frigidaire washer and dryer. 

$200. Excellent condition. 

(706)694-2467 

Fuller Brush Company. Duster 

combo set for window blinds 

$10.00. Brenda 706-529-8000 

GE side by side white 

refrigerator w/ ice maker. $500. 

Call 706/529-9365. 

Glass top dining room set & 

matching bakers rack w/wine & 

glasses rack $600. 706-313- 

9399 

Golf cart for sale 2003 Club Car 

48 volt w/ windshield. Very nice ! 

$1950. 706-264-4700 

Hamilton Beach commercial 

Planetary mixer $225. 

Call 706-483-6665 

Hammond Organ for sale 

$300.00. 706-275-0433. 

Hoyt Spectra Eclipse compound 

bow. Many extra accessories all 

for $100. Call Ken 706-259-3114 

Large/heavy wooden dog house 

w/ shingles. Good for shepherd 

or collie.$30. 706-278-6129 

Maytag Washer and Dryer, good 

working order and in good 

condition, $300, call 706-673- 

9397 

Minolta Freedom Zoom 70C 

35mm camera w/film & case. 

Exc. con. $10. 706-694-8013. 

Set of solid wood twin beds. 

Includes like new mattress &box 

springs. $300. 706-226-4971 

706-483-2085 

Olypus digital camera $100.00. 

(423)596-1995 

99 

MONDAY DEALS 

Place your *ad in Monday’s 

Daily Citizen for FREE! 

Call Laura Martin 

at 706-272-7707 

or email your ad to 

lauramartin@daltoncitizen.com 

*Ad limited to 90 characters (3 lines) 

Automotive, Yard Sale &Service ads 

are not eligible.Only one ad per 

customer per week. Deadline for ad 

placement is 5pm Thursday. 

NICE 2BR,1.5BA home 

for rent in Brookwood! 

$675/mo 706-483-0043 

Nice. C/H/A. NWHS area. Lg. 

level lot. 706-529-0836 or 706- 

483-9008 

Nordic Track Audio Strider 990. 

Used VERY little. EXC. cond. 

$600. Call 706-694-2414 

Nova 3000 wood turning Lathe. 

Good working condition $1000. 

Call for more info 706-226-4797 

Rocker Recliner, Lane, excellent 

condition. $100.00. (706)508- 

3907 

Sectional $450. Pub style 

kitchen table w/ 4 chairs $250. 

Alto Sax $600. 706-694-8710 

Set of (4) chrome magnum 

wheels, 17” -4lugs. $300. obo. 

706-218-4990 

Stanley Home Products. Special 

Stainless Steel kettle cleaners 2 

boxes $10. Ophia 706-278-7325 

Trampoline. Norust, no bumper 

pads. $50. Used very little by our 

grandchildren.706-695-2504 

Townhouse for sale. 533 

Flagstone Dr.Ft. O, Ga. $114k. 2 

brm 2ba, garage.706-581-0583 

Treadmill. Used very little. With 

maintenance kit. Paid $800, will 

sell for $150. Call 706-694-4356 

Trek Navigator 2.0 Bicycle, 2yrs 

old. $300. Negotiable. (706)264- 

4681 

Turn table with 8track includes 

tapes & albums $150.00. 

(706)694-3188 

Want to buy orrent used 

computer for e-mail & surfing 

internet. jimbagley@yahoo.com 

Wedding Dress,Veil &Tierra. Sz. 

10, Crinkle chiffon over satin. 

$350. Call 706-516-9808 

Whirlpool dryer, good condition. 

$45.00. (706)313-2395 

Whirlpool dryer. Good condition. 

$125. (706)278-7749 

ANNOUNCEMENTS 

104 Lost 

Lost in the Southeast area, male 

black neutered cat with 1 eye. 

Please call 706-313-0310 

Missing for 1wk, S. Murray area, 

approx. 4 yr old black & tan 

female hound, no collar. Reward 

offered. 706-483-7233 or 706- 

483-2498. 

105 

Special 

Notices 

Attention: Looking for retired 

truck driver living in Crandall. 

Very important I see him, if he 

really wants to end this he needs 

to be a man about it and he 

needs to meet me face to face. 

Former Love Interest. 478-254- 

2578 or 404-695-0394 

FINANCIAL 

254 Money to Lend 

Low Rates, Affordable Payments. 

CASH LOANS COMPANY 

706-278-7600 

Subject to our liberal credit policies 

256 Financial Service 

401k /IRA -Recovery Plan 

Stop the Losses &Recover 

NOW. New Programs Available 

423-475-5454 

EMPLOYMENT 

308 Construction 

Wanted: Concrete construction 

laborers. Must have valid driver’s 

licensed. Must speak English. 

Must apply in person Mon. -Fri. 

1-4pm. 1601 Abutment Rd. 

Dalton. 

310 General 

HOT FUN COOL JOB 

Looking for 10 sharp indiv to 

work/travel with unique business 

group, traveling to all major US 

cities. 2 wks paid training, return 

trip gtd. If 18+ call Sierra @800- 

906-3231. 

Wanted: Part Time Bookkeeper. 

AM hours.Fax resume and 

salary requirements to 706-226- 

6179. 

311 Health Care 

Behavioral Health Agency 

seeking professional to fill 

Community Support Individual 

position in Dalton, GA & 

surrounding area. Bachelor’s 

degree in Psychology, Social 

Work, Education or related field 

preferred. Experience working 

with children with behavioral 

issues preferred. Some evening 

& weekend work required. 

Please email resume to 

fcf@optilink.us for consideration 

YARD SALES 

TIP 

OF 

THE 

DAY 

SALE DAY 

SET UP EARLY. No matter 

what time you post on your 

sign, people show upearly.Be 

prepared. Early birds can be 

good customers if you’re set up 

in time. 

Spread out your merchandise 

so that everything is easy to 

see.Don’t leave things in 

boxes. 

Be pleasant. Say“Hello” to 

everyone. 

If you see someone with an 

armload of merchandise, offer 

to hold it for them at your pay 

table so they can continue 

shopping. 

If alarge item is purchased, 

label it immediately as “Sold”. 

Even if you posted a”No 

Restrooms” sign, some people 

may still ask. Be prepared with 

directions to the nearest public 

restroom. 

Thank your customers for 

visiting your sale. 

To place an ad in the Yard 

Sale Section of this newspaper: 

Call Laura 706-272-7707 

or 

Jennfier 706-272-7703 

Place your Yard Sale ad 

here for 

only $11.00 per day. 

Contact Laura Martin 

706-272-7707 


PETS/LIVESTOCK 

502 Free Pets 

Free to good inside smoke free 

home. Lrg black & white cat. 

Spayed, vaccinated, microchip. 

Needs home w/no other animals. 

(706)313-0310 

Found -small black puppy. Call 

706-673-6317 

Free to good home with room to 

run. Female, Shepard/Collie mix 

9months old. (706)422-8227 

Resuced newborn kittens now 

ready for good homes. 4 wks 

old, variety of colors. Call 

(706)934-9599 

502 Free Pets 

Free to good inside smoke free 

home. Small, female cat. Leave 

message 706-313-0310 

Very sweet mixed breed puppy 

needs good home. Found in a 

parking lot. Wormed vaccinated 

8wks old. Call 706-537-5401 

ITEMS FOR SALE 

604 Appliances 

New model Kenmore Washer & 

Dryer with warranty.$325.00. 

Call 423-421-0844. 

606 Furniture 

**Italian Leather couch & 

loveseat- blackberry, excellent 

condition $750. **Mitsubishi big 

screen 60”, rear projection TV & 

beautiful oak entertainment unit 

surrounding TV $750. Must see 

to appreciate, remodeling. 706- 

694-3594 lve msg. 

610 Lawn &Garden 

Snapper riding Lawn Mower 12 

1/2 HP, Briggs &Stratton engine. 

30” cut. New battery,Good 

Condition. $290. 706-259-6686 

Misc. Items 

611 For Sale 




at 706-272-7707 




Automotive &Yard Sale ads are not 

eligible.Only one ad per customer per 

week. Deadline for adplacement is 

5pm Thursday. 

ITEMS FOR RENT 

702 Farms 

BEAUTIFUL FARM IN 

VARNELL 

$849,900 

Approx. 60 acre Farm with 2 

story brick home with 3 

bedroom 2bath, Master on 

main, sunroom, dining room, lrg 

country kitchen, brick fireplace 

in living rm.Home is on avery 

peaceful and quiet street in 

Varnell GA. Borders backside of 

Highland Forest /Pointe.5 

barns.30x50 workshop.Stocked 

pond, running creek, fenced 

pasture for horses or cows. (Will 

also split &sell home, 

barns &37.3 acres 

for $569,900) Call 

706-694-3469 for 

details. 

Serious inquires only! For 

more photos visit 

zillow. com 

704 Land &Lots 

*Street Lights *Garbage Svs 

*In City of Chatsworth 

*Sewer *Underground Utilities 

(including telephone &cable) 

GREYSTONE SUBDIVISION 

KERRY ORSUE HIX 

706-695-6431, 706-217-5550 

or 706- 

270-2433 

Look for the solution totoday’s Sudoku Puzzle 

on page 7B of the classifieds. 


Beautiful 1.1 acre cul-de-sac lot 

on Bloomington Dr.just off 

Rachenburg Rd. &Mercer Dr. 

Lexington Place Subd. Lots of 

trees and in agreat 

neighborhood! Water, electric, 

phone &cable available.Areal 

Bargain at 

$23,000 and 

owner will 

finance.Call 

706-264-7634 for 

details 

BEAUTIFUL LOTS AVAILABLE 

$16,900 -$19,900 

Chatsworth -Hwy 76 to Duvall Rd. 

end of Duvall Rd. Subd is on the 

left. 

GREYSTONE 

SUBDIVISION 

KERRY ORSUE 

HIX 

706-695-6431, 706-217-5550 

or 706-270-2433 

Chatsworth’s Newest and 

Nicest Subdivision! 

BANK FINANCING WITH 

APPROVED CREDIT 

Investors &Builders 

multiple lot discount! 

GREYSTONE 

SUBDIVISION 

In City of 

Chatsworth 


706-695-6431 706-217-5550 

706-270-2433 


CORNER LOTS ONLY 

$19,900!! 

See lot numbers: 30, 31, 96, 138 


In City of Chatsworth 

KERRY ORSUE 

HIX 

706-695-6431 

706-217-5550 

706-270-2433 

Creek Lots for only 

$19,900 

These lots border Mill Creek 

Lot #40,41,42,43,44, 

49,50,51,52,53,54,55,56,99 


In City of 

Chatsworth 

KERRY OR 

SUE HIX 

706-695-6431 706-217-5550 

706-270-2433 

LOTS AVAILABLE 


From Hwy 411 N, turn left at 

red light at 

Cowboys store, 

subd. on rt. 

KERRY ORSUE 

HIX 

706-695-6431, 706-217-5550 

706-270-2433 

LOTS ONLY $16,900 

CORNER &CREEK LOTS 

$19,900 

Investors &builders 

multiple lot discounts. 


In City of 

Chatsworth 

KERRY ORSUE 

HIX 

706-695-6431 706-217-5550 

706-270-2433



MOUNTAIN VIEWS!! 

Mill Creek border lots & 

Corner lots still 

available! 

ONLY $19,900 

GREYSTONE 

SUBDIVISION 


706-695-6431, 706-217-5550 

706-270-2433 

ONLY $16,900!! 

See lot numbers: 

6,7,8,9,10,11,18,21,22,26,32,33,35, 

36, 37, 45, 48, 92, 93, 94, 97, 98, 

100,101,102,120,121,123,135 


In City of 

Chatsworth 

KERRY ORSUE 

HIX 

706-695-6431 706-217-5550 

706-270-2433 

OVERSIZED LOTS 

Lot #46 &47 

ONLY $19,900 


KERRY 

OR SUE 

HIX 

706-695- 

6431, 706-217-5550 

or 706-270-2433 

705 Homes For Sale 

$2,000Dn. Starting at $700/mo. 

OWNER FINANCING. Several 

3Bd/2 Ba. homes in Whitfield & 

Murray Remodeled, very nice. 

Owner/Broker706-529-0650 

$8,000 TAXREFUND!! 

No Credit Check. Owner 

Financing. Rent to Own or 

Lease Purchase. 

STOP RENTING TODAY MOVE 

IN TOMORROW!!!! 

Don Babb 706-463-2333 or 

706-397-2087 hhf@vol.com or 

Mark Burnett 706-529-5901 

DALTON. 

1827 Swanson Dr. 2BR, 1Ba, 

$69,900. $1,000 dn payments 

as low as$495.00 per mon 

2015 James Court 4BR 2BA. 

$115,000 as is.or$135,000 

remodeled. $1,000 dn payments 


2314 Old Ringgold Rd. 2BR 

1Ba with c./h/a, plus older 

mobile home (fixer upper) 

$79,900. $1,000 dn payments 


212 W. Ezzard Ave. 2BR 1BA & 

1BR 1BA Duplex. $89,900. 

$1,000 dn payments as low as 

$750.00 per mon 

CHATSWORTH 

3887 Maple Grove Rd.Brick 

home, 3BR2BA$115,000 

$1,000 dn, as low as$850 mon 

WESTSIDE 

3038 Hurricane Rd. 2BR1BA. 

$69,900, $1,000 dn, $615 mon 

TUNNEL HILL 

2898 Dogwood Rd. 2BR1BA, 

$69,900, $1000 dn. $595 mon. 

6.5 ACRES!! 

3Bedroom, 

2Bath, kitchen, living room. 

178 Red Oak Way. 

Chatsworth. 

$55,000 

Call 706-847-0104 

or 706-934-3707 

NEW log home located in game 

reserve with easy access to Hwy 

515 north of Ellijay Ga. 

Custom cabinets, pine floors, 

cathedral ceilings, stone fplc, 

and more. Recession priced 

$99,900. 706-694-8270 or 706- 

633-8892 




at 706-272-7707 




Automotive, Yard Sale &Service ads 

are not eligible.Only one ad per 

customer per week. Deadline for ad 

placement is 5pm Thursday. 

REDUCED. Dalton city limits. 4 

BR 2BA. 1700 sf. Crawford St. 

Only $104,900 obo. (706)264- 

1932 

705 Homes For Sale 

Owner Financing available to 

accepted buyer. 1875 SF, 3BR, 

2ba, Great Room, Dining Room, 

Kitchen & breakfast bar. 2bay 

carport, 2bay detached garage 

by house. Current appraisal at 

$195,000 will sell for $155,000. 

Close before October, earn 

$9,600.00 tax credit for 1st time 

buyer. City West, newly 

refurbished. 706-226-0989 

726 

Commercial 

Buildings 

*19,000 sq.ft. -2105 E. Walnut 

Ave. Retail space, Next to 

Hobby Lobby, across from Mall. 

*97,000 sq. ft., 454 Hwy 225 

(Bretlin) 

*Retail space - Dalton Place 

Shop.Ctr. 2518 Cleveland Hwy. 

1200, 1400, 44,000 SF avail. 

706-279-1380 Wkdys 9-5:30 

727 

Commercial 

Propeties 

815 E. Walnut Ave. Fmrly 

AAMCO Trans. Best Traffic 

location. Equip & complete 

office. 706-279-1380 wkdys 9- 

5:30 

LAST OF 3ACRES OF LAND 

OR MORE IN THE CITY OF 

DALTON!! 

Property located N. Hamilton St. 

31/2 acres of land, 7units, 

zoned M-2 commercial / 

industrial property.Could be 

used forVWsite 

or New 

Development in 

Dalton -Whitfield 

Co.Property 

worth $1.3 million, sell price 

728 

$975,000. 

706-280-6271 

Commercial 

Rental 

*302 S. Thornton 5,500 SF, 

includes utilities, between 

Newspaper office &Bank of Am. 

*1515 Abutment Rd. 10,000 sq. 

ft. includes utilities. Many sizes 

or suites.1.3 mi. S. of Walnut 

*Camelot Bldg, Near I-75. 1514 

W. Walnut Ave. Between Long 

John Silvers & Burger King. 

5,500 S/F. 

706-279-1380 wkdys 9-5:30. 

31,000 sq ft. Masonry building, 4 

loading docks &offices. 1block 

off 4 lane Abutment Rd. on 

Callahan Rd. 706-226-6245 

Doctor's Office. 1143 Walnut 

Ave. 2700 sf.Excellent 

condition. 706-581-1037 

Office space for lease 

From 380 sq. ft. to 7680 sq. ft. 

Excellent locations. 

Call: 706-278-1566 

Office space for lease. 

Available Now! 1400 sq. ft. suite 

and 2,500 sf. suite. 800 College 

Dr.706-226-6245 8:30a-5:00p 

Restaurants for rent: *410 S. 

Hamilton (fmrly Bailey’s Diner) 

Incl. equipment $3,495 mo.*801 

E. Walnut Ave. Barrett 

Marketplace $2995/Mo. $2000 

dp. (fmrly El Taco) fully furnished. 

706-279-1380 wkdys 9-5:30 

RENTAL HOUSING 

751 Apartments 

Aug. Special $115/wk. 1bd, 

new carpet &paint, close to 

hospital. Also 1&2bdS.41 

Hwy. Power,water &cable 

furn’d. Deposit Required. 

1st week free. 

Denise 706-463-1598 or 

En Español 706-463-0945. 

*1130/1132 Burleyson 2BR 1BA 

$485 mon. $240 dep. *707/711 

Lance 2BR1.5 BA. $525 mon, 

$260 dep. Newly remodeled, 2 

wks FREE w/ 1yrlease. 706- 

279-1380 wkdays 9-5:30 

1STORY completely furn. effic. 

Cable TV, phone, microwave, 

kitc. supplies, linens, utilities 

furniture North Tibbs Road. 

$149/weekly, 278-7189. 

1STORY, 1bedroom, low utility 

bills. Water furnished, washer/ 

dryer connection, utility room, 

attic storage. N. Tibbs Rd. 

(706)278-7189 

1, 2, &3BdApt’s -Starting at 

$125/week. Power,water, 

cable furnished. 

For details. 706-463-0672, 

706-463-0671 &Español 

706-463-0945 

1st month, 1/2 off! 2bd, 1ba, 

w/d hookup, c/h/a. Power, water, 

& cable furnished. Close to 

downtown. $175/wk or $650/ mo. 

$200/dep.706-581-4615 

ASWEET DEAL FOR YOU!! 

Well maintained. 

Convenient location! 

Call PARK CANYON APTS 

706-226-6054 

Email: parkcanyon@optilink.us 

751 Apartments 

AMAZING SPECIAL THIS 

WEEK! 

Super DeluxeTownhome 

2Bedroom, 11/2 bath 

huge closets, pool 

w/ cabana. 

BEST DEAL IN DALTON 

BEST LOCATION 

TRUE LUXURY 

706-279-1801 

Application now being accepted 

for Annie Rogers Senior 

Housing Project to be located 

adjacent to the Library and the 

Senior Center.1&2Bedrooms 

available. 2blocks from down 

Dalton. Rent will include utilities 

and cable.405 Sequoyah Place. 

706-278-6622 or 706-226-3218 

City west near Creative Arts 

Guild. 2bd 2ba, CHA, WD conn. 

Lease, references req’d $550 

mon $300 dep.706-463-3171 

First Week Free. 3 bd/ 1ba. 

$150/wk, $150 deposit. utilities 

included. 706-260-9183 

Income Loss, Credit Issues 

or Home Crisis - 

We are here forYOU! 

We have oversized 

luxury apartments available 

starting at $605 

Pool 

Fitness center 

Playground 

Basketball 

Laundry 

Bonus Room 

W/D h-up in every apt 

706- 

226- 

0404 

Motel Rooms For Rent: S. Dixie 

Hwy.41. Standard -$95/wk. Lg.- 

$125/$135wk. Dep.= 2 wks. 

rent. Furnished + TV, basic 

cable, private phone. 706-279- 

1380 wkdys 9-5:30 

SMITH RENTALS 

Apartment Rentals 

706-278-4209 

www.smithrentals.com 

1, 2, and 3BR 

Apartments Locally 

Vacation Rentals -Great Rates 

Pigeon Forge,Tennessee 

Daytona Beach, Flordia 

STAY LODGE 

Effic. Apt. with kitchen. Furn w/all 

utilities. Laundry fac., basic 

cable. Private phones furn. 

Starting at $129.99/wk plus tax 

Suite Deals 1BR $175.00 per 

week. Call 706-278-0700 

STAYLODGE -WILLOWDALE 

MOVE IN SPECIAL 

1st Week $100.00 

706-278-0700 

UNDERWOOD LODGE 

Furnished Efficiency with 

kitchenette.All Utilities & 

Cable!! Laundry Facility 

Available. 

Move In Specials $70-$90 

for first week! 

706-226-4651 

Furnished 

Near Hospital: Brick Apt. 1bd. 

CHA, washer &dryer. $150/wk. 

Incl utilities. No Pets. 706-278- 

7877. 

752 Homes For Rent 

3 bedroom, 1 bath. C/H/A, 

appliances, dishwasher. 436 

Benton St. $600/mo, $200/dep. 

Call 706-581-4615 

Move-In Special 1week FREE 

w/ 1yr. lease -Sweetwater Rd. 

3BR2BA, $145wk, $290dep. 

So. end of Murray Co off Hwy 

225 S1/2 +acre lots, beautiful 

country setting. Several to 

choose from. Sweetwater Rd., 

Chatsworth Hwy. 225 Fm Chats 

Hwy. Take Hwy 225 S13mi. Fm 

Calhoun, take Hwy 225 N, 6 mi 

past Elks Golf Course, 1miN.of 

4-way at Nickelsville. 706-279- 

1380 wkdys 9-5:30 

**Newly remodeled. Secluded 

Townhouse 2 bd, 1.5 bath. Off 

Hwy 2 between Dalton & 

Ringgold. No pets. $500/mo. 

$250 dep.706-581-2062. 

1 bdrm 1 bath, central h&a. 

Quiet country setting in Westside 

community. Nopets, $350 mon. 

$350 dep. Lease & references 

req’d 706-673-5350 

3BR1BAlocated off Hurricane 

Rd. on Rudy Dr. $650 deposit, 

$650 month. 706-278-1528 or 

706-260-5638. 

Cohutta, Lg upscale home on 6 

acre wooded lot. 3BR, 2.5 BA, 

Lg. open rooms. Wrap around 

porch $1400. 770-241-5597 

Westside area, 3 bdrm 2 bath, 

Central H&A, appliances, $550 

month, $250 dep. References. 

(706)673-2734 

752 Homes For Rent 

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RENT TO OWN 

**VARNELL –404 Cedar St. 

2BR/1BA $595 aMth and 

$1000 Down 

**DALTON –Bear Creek 

3BR/1.5BA $785 aMth and 

$1000 Down 

**DALTON –3/2 Doublewide 

437 Frontier Trail$699 aMth & 

$1000 Down 

**DALTON –3/2 House 3347 

Headrick Cir.$695 aMth and 

$1000 Down 

FOR RENT 

**DALTON –5420 Apison 2/1 

Duplex $120 aweek $120 

deposit power and water 

included 

**DALTON 212 WEzzard Ave 

2BR/1 BA $395 aMtn. 

**DALTON Nottingham $145 a 

week with power and water 

included. 

**DALTON 1699 Pin Oak Drive 

3br/2.5 ba $1200 amth and 

$1200 down NORTH OAKS! 

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753 Condos For Rent 

Hammoncreek 3br, 2.5 ba. 

$750/mo.Call :706-980-9914 

MOBILE HOMES 

776 

Mobile Homes 

For Sale 

4BR2BAwith apartment, 2car 

garage on 2 acres. E-Z 

financing. Call today 706-275- 

0596 

National Open House 

Display homes reduced up to 

$10,000. Hurry only 4left! 706- 

275-6251 

Mobile Homes 

778 For Rent 

1 & 2 bdrm mobile homes & 

Apartments in Whitfield &Murray 

Co. $85 per week &up. Utilities 

furnished. 706-278-4048 

24x48, 3bd, 2 ba. doublewide. 

Immaculate condition. Also, 14x 

70, 3bd. Excellent condition. 

Dead end street. Water & yard 

maintenance furnished. 

$135/weekly, $200/dep. Call 

706-537-9730 or 706-537-9729 

2br., 1 ba. in quiet secluded 

neighborhood. Hwy 225, 2miles 

S. of Spring Place. Utilities 

furnished. $160/wk. 706-313- 

4677 

3bdrm 2bath on private lot. No 

pets. Tunnel Hill area. $200 dep. 

$125 week. 706-673-5414 or 

706-463-1149 

4 bd doublewides. All electric, 

water included, hardwood floors 

&fireplace.Onprivate lake. $145 

wk. 706-331-7498. 

Doublewide in Country Setting! 

3 bdrm 2 bath, 2 large decks. 

Beaverdale area. For more info 

call 706-934-3069 

Near connector 3.Furnished 1 

bdrm including Utilities &cable. 

$120 week, deposit required. 

706-537-2309. 

SEPT SPECIAL! 2WKS FREE! 

2&3BDhomes, many w/hdwd 

flrs. Wooded w/ private pond. 

Valley Pt. 

schools Water/garbage incld. Pet 

sOK. Carbondale area. 

$120/wk. 706-383-8123 

TRANSPORTATION 

805 Buses 

Silver Eagle 318 Jimmy. 9 

speed, RR. 2 coleman roof air 

and heat units. 7000 watt 

generator. Was Bluegrass bus. 

Road ready. $15,000. Call: 706- 

277-1724 

806 Domestic Autos 

1999 Oldsmobile Intrigue. 6cyl. 

100,000 miles. Blue. Runs good, 

good tires, interior in good cond. 

New trans. $4,900. OBO. Call 

706-428-2491 

807 Import Autos 

1992 BMW 525i Black, Runs 

Good, Needs some work, 

loaded, sunroof, 152k miles 

TanLeather Int., Asking-$4,000 

706-270-9663 

1997 Acura 3.2 TL. Very Clean, 

$4000. Call 706-581-1319 or 

706-226-5844 after 5:30pm 

807 Import Autos 

2005 BMW M3 Cabriolet, 36k 

miles, 6sp., still under factory 

warranty, carbon black onblack, 

Harman/Kardon sound, 

navigation, heated seats, 

xenon headlights, garage kept, 

one owner, asking $43,000. 

Call: 706-260-1673 

REDUCED TO $13,300 OBO. 

1998 MB 500 SL Convertible. 

Sport Package.Both tops.White 

w/ gray leather/ Books & 

records.Low miles.Good 

condition. Phone 706-264-1932 

809 Trucks 

1983 6.2 liter Diesel Crew cub 

Dually. Good running truck. 

$4,000. David 706-581-1117. 

1998 International box truck. 24’ 

Diesel. 193,823, new tires, roll 

up door, under CDL. Well 

maintained ramp $12,000. Call 

706-226-2333. 

2003 F-250, 4door- crew cab. , 

diesel, 103k miles. 4x4. 

Automatic, Excellent condition. 

Asking $16,500. 706-264-7883 

or 706-629-4000. 

2006 GMC 16 ft box truck Yellow. 

6.0 V8 Unleaded engine w/ 

300 hp.Auto.Transmission, 

A/C, ABS brakes, Power 

Steering, 2 Bucket Seats, 

AM/FM radio, 10ftloading ramp 

w’ 1000lb capacity. Mileage 

ranging from 40,000 – 75,000 

miles. Sale price is $12,000 - 

$14000. Only method of 

payment accepted is certified 

check ormoney order. Sorry no 

financing Contact Josh Hall @ 

Penske, Day- 706-277-9477, 

Night- 423-304-6669 

2008 Chevrolet Silverado 1500. 

Regular Cab. V6. 2WD. 25K 

miles. CD. AM/FM/XM satellite 

radio. OnStar. Tool box. Towing 

Package. LineX bed liner. Black 

exterior. Grey/black interior. 1 

owner. Non-smoker. $15,000. 

706-581-9656 

BUCKET TRUCK 1988 GMC - 

MAKE OFFER -$9,500 City of 

Dalton original owner. Bought 

from them in 2008 used one 

time since purchased from the 

City. 73,200 actual miles GREAT 

CONDITION. (Call 706-463- 

1419) 

811 Utility Trailers 

Mobile Concession stand (log 

cabin), great for carnival or fair, 

completely self contained, AC, 

Espresso cart, $15,000. 

Call: 706-581-4122 for details. 


812Sport Utility Vehicle 

2005 Buick Rendezvous 

Good condition. 80K miles. 

26mpg. Great running car. Price 

reduced $10,600. Call: 706-694- 

8065 

Like new. 2004 Explorer. V8 

engine with 3rd row seat. Well 

maintained. Many extras. Only 

$9,500. Call: 706-280-1431 

RECREATION 

851 Boats 

2001 21’ Bullet Bass Boat. 

225 Optimax. $15,500. $14,500. 

Call: 706-226-2161 

852 Campers 

Will sell or trade 40' Beaver 

Monterey 2005 motorhome, 400 

HP Cat engine, 11,000 miles, 4 

slides, king bed, Hydro Hot 

water system, electronic leveling 

system, excellent condition, 

other great features. $179,500. 

Will consider trade for land w? 

mountain view inNorth GA. Call 

229-759-2308. 

Motorcycles 

856 &Bikes 

2006 CBR 600 F4I, blue. 5,300 

miles, jardine slip on pipe. 2 

years warranty remaining. Never 

been laid down. Excellent 

condition. $5,.400 or best offer. 

Call: 706-508-3955 

2009 Piaggio- Vespa Scooter 

250. 70 mpg, 85 mph. 3 yr 

warranty, touring case. $3,800. 

Call 706-980-2674 

JUST LIKE NEW!! 

2006 FLHXI Harley Davidson 

Street Glide, vivid black, full 

Rinehart exhaust, passenger 

detachable back rest, AM/FM 

radio &CDplayer, security 

system, garage kept, only 4,300 

miles.Please call 706-581-3516. 

LEGAL NOTICES 

901 Public Notices 

NOTICE 

GEORGIA, WHITFIELD COUNTY 

PROBATE COURT 

TO:WHOM IT MAY CONCERN 

SCOTT K. WILSON has petitioned to 

be appointed Administrator(s) of the 

estate of HOYT LEE WILSON, 

deceased, of said County. The 

petitioner has also applied for waiver of 

bond and/ or grant of certain powers 

contained in O.C.G.A. §53-12-232.) All 

interested parties are hereby notified to 

show cause why said petition should not 

be granted. All objections to the petition 

must be in writing, setting forth the 

grounds of any objections, and must be 

filed with the court on or before 

September 14, 2009. All pleadings/ 

objections must be signed before a 

notary public or before aprobate court 

clerk, and filing fees must be tendered 

with your pleadings/ objections, unless 

you qualify to file as an indigent party. 

Contact probate court personal at the 

following address/ telephone number for 

the required amount of filing fees. Ifany 

objections are filed, a hearing will be 

scheduled at a later date. If no 

objections are filed, the petition may be 

granted without a hearing. 

SHERI HBLEVINS 

PROBATE JUDGE 

BY:Samantha Splawn 

Probate Deputy Clerk 

205 N. SELVIDGE ST SUITE G 

DALTON, GA 30720 

706-275-7400 

08/21 08/28 09/04 09/11


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Lighted Fenced 

Smoke Detectors 

Sprinkler System Clean 

Dry Safe Pest Control 

10x10 -$79/mo. 

10x15 -$109/mo. 

CALL: 706-279-1380 

weekdays 9-5:30 

Automotive 

Are you tired of looking at 

those junk cars (buses, 

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also scrap metal! 

Jim and Sondra Lockhart 

home: 706-694-8675 

cell: 423-400-1302 

J&SSalvage 

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Carpentry 

CARPENTRY 

A-1 Handyman 

Remodeling &Repairs 

All types of home repairs 

25 years experience. 

Bathroom Carpentry 

Floors Painting 

Electric &Plumbing 

Kitchen Doors 

Windows 

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We do it all 

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706-463-0816 

Cleaning Services 

JENNY’S 

CLEANING 

SERVICE 

Housekeeping 

Reasonable Rates 

Some Odd Jobs 

Call Jenny at 

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Pam’s 

Cleaning 

Service 

Call for free estimates 

Detailed or general cleaning 

Weekly, Biweekly or monthly. 

References available. 

Pam Bowman 

706-280-9203 

Gift Certificates Available 

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Residential 

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Housekeeping available 

as well as 

Pet sitting services 

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Gift certificates 

also available! 

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take the stress out 

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Call Stephanie 

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References available 

Construction 

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TopSoil 

Dozer 

Track Hoe 

Back Hoe 

Dump Truck 

Lots cleared 

Footings 

Drive Ways 

Rock (hauled) 

Septic Tanks 

Field Lines 

Fill Dirt 

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Windows &doors 

Siding Soffit 

Interior &Exterior painting 

Bath &Kitchen 

Remodels Flooring 

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A/C repairs onall models 

Decks &Additions 

Sunroom 

All roofing &repairs. 

All work done in writing. 

Free estimates. 36yrs exp. 

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*Decks 

*Textured Ceilings 

*Additions *Flooring 

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Free Estimates 

“NO JOB TOO SMALL” 

20 Years Experience 

References Provided 

Tim Dockery 

Cell: (706) 264-6918 

Josh Dockery 

706-264-6919 

HOMESTYLES 

The Professionals for all your 

home remodeling and 

repairs. 

Room Additions Decks 

All types of siding 

Windows Home repairs 

Drywall Painting 

Ceramic tile floors 

&counters 

Hardwood Floors & 

laminates Garages 

For Free Estimates 

Terry L.Scrivner 

Cell Phone 706-260-1284 

Walker’s 

Home Improvement 

We do all types of Roofing, 

Painting, sheet rock, addition, 

vinyl siding, plumbing, electric. 

Hardwood, Laminate, Linoleum 

Decks, Porches, 

Replacement Windows 

Over 25 years of experience. 

Call for afree estimate. 

706-264-2938 

WELLS 

HOME IMPROVEMENT 

&REPAIR 

Professional Service 

TopQuality Work 

Satisfaction Guaranteed 

NO JOB TOO SMALL 

FREE ESTIMATES 

•Ceramic Tile •Painting 

•Light Electrical &Plumbing 

•TrimWork •Decks 

•Sheetrock •Flooring 

•Door &Window Installation 

• Custom Shelves &Storage 

•Odd Jobs &More! 

 

LES WELLS 

Cell: 706•463•2441 

Office: 706•270•5712 

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receives compliments from past 

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Call Mike 706-280-2357 

Langford Brothers 

Construction 

Residential &Commercial 

All Types MasonryWork 

Remodeling 

Decks 

Painting 

Plumbing &Wiring 

All Types of Home & 

Commercial Care 

Over 40 Years Experience 

Locally owned &operated 


Fully Insured 

No job to small or big!! 

706-280-0961 

Home Services 

General Repairs & 

Maintenance 

Residential or Commercial 

“small jobs are our specialty” 

General Repairs Painting 

Roofing Plumbing 

Clean Out 

Yard Maintenance 

Pressure Washing 

Locally owned &operated 


706-934-2134 

Landscaping 

**NEW Zero turn mower with 

Striping and Mulching Kits** 

C&MLANDSCAPING 

COMMERCIAL RESIDENTIAL 

Professional Quality Service, 

At the best price in town! 

MOWING 

TRIMMING 

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WEED REMOVAL 

LEAF GATHERING 

GUTTER CLEANING 

PRESSURE WASHING 

AND MUCH MORE 

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706-581-9656 

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Mowing &Trimming 

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No Contract Required 

Mowing, rimming, 

Blowing 

Edging, Fertilizing, Pressure 

Washing, Plant / Flower 

installs, Shrub Trimming, 

Mulch, Trash and Debris 

Removal w/ Dump Truck, 

Tree Planting, Trimming, and 

Pruning, Lot Clearing, Decks 

Storage Buildings & Bobcat 

Work. 

Fully Insured, Free Estimates 

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706.529.7359 

ESCAPE YARDWORK! 

If You’d 

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Mowing Mulching 

Trimming Seeding 

Gutter Cleaning 


Painting Handyman 

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Call Michael ForYour 

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Cell: 706-280-4250 

Landscaping 

MUNGUIA 

LANDSCAPING 

All Your Lawn Care & 

Landscaping Needs 


We trim trees too 

close to your house! 

Cement Driveways 

Mowing Trimming 

Blowing Edging Fertilizing 

Plant &Flower installs 

Shrub Trimming Mulch 

Pea Gravel &Rock installs 

Cut trees Tree planting & 

Trimming, Lot Clearing, 

Decks Storage Building 

Ceramic Tile 

706-618-6708 

706-483-9641 

Masonry 

C.W. MASONRY 

All Phases: 

Brick, Block, Stone, 

Cement, &Stucco. 

No job too small! 

I’ll beat any local job. 


Call 226-6963 or 

706-280-1341 

Painting 

MARTY’S HOME 

IMPROVEMENT 

Painting &Decorating 

Interior &Exterior 

Deck Building and Sealing 


Popcorn &Texture 

Ceilings 

Texture Walls 

Roofing &Roof Leak 

Repairs Metal Roofs 

45 Years ofexperience 

No Job TooBig or Too 

Small. 

Call Marty 706-847- 

0106 OR 423-762-2371 


ALL PRO PAINTING 

REMODELING & 

ROOFING 

(Also, METAL ROOFING) 


Reasonable Rates. 


No job to big or small! 

Also, Mobile Home Repairs 

Call For Big 

Discounts! 

706-428-1773 

T&M 

Painting and 

Remodeling 

Painting Roofing 

Textured Ceilings 

Sheet rock Additions 

Decks &Porches 

Plumbing Electrical 

Big or samll. 

No job turned down. 

Free estimates. 

40 years expereince. 

Will beat any price. 

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or 706-229-0555 


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ELROD’S 

PRESSURE 

WASHING 

Residential & Commercial 

Houses/ Mobile Homes 

Concrete Cleaning 

Vinyl/ Brick/ Masonite 

Prep for Painting 

Mold Removal 

References Available 

Exterior /Gutters Cleaning 

ROOF CLEANING (Black 

streak removal, algae removal) 


Call Scott 706-264-9482 


D Sims Inc 

Precision Pressure 

Washing 

Commercial & 

Residential 

Fully Insured 

 

North Georgia’s Largest 

&Most Reliable 

13 years ofService 

Houses/Driveways 

Decks /Fencing 

Oven Exhaust Hoods NFPA 

Certified 

Fleet Services 

Don Sims 

706-264-4617 

Roofing 

Neighbors Roofing 

Residential 

and 

Commercial 

Free estimates 


10% OFF 

YOUR LOWEST BID. 

CALL FOR MORE INFO 

David Neighbors 

Call: 706-847-3765 

Tree Service 

***DALTON *** 

TREE SERVICE 

INC. 

Insurance Claim 

Specialist 

24 Hour Emergency 

Service 

¨Hazardous Tree 

Removal” 

Complete Tree Service/ 

Crane 

“Stump Grinding” 

Portable Grinding 

“Large or Small 

we grind them all” 

for less ($) 

“Free Estimates” 

Licensed &Insured 

($2,000,000 liability) 

Senior Citizen Discount 

“Total Tree Care” 

From ToptoBottom! 

23 Yrs. Experience 

706-218-8733 

“Act Before the Next Storm” 

A&ATREE 

SERVICE, 

LLC 

&STUMP 

GRINDING 

Insured -$1Million Liability 

Trees Pruned 

Bucket Truck and 

Chipper 

Removal &Clean-up 

Experienced 

Hazardous Tree 

Removal 

Lot Clearing 


706-260-9573 

COLLINS TREE 

SERVICE 

Crane Service. 

No Job TooSmall, 

No Tree TooTall! 

Stump Grinding 

Specializing In Dangerous 

Tree Removal. 

Full Equipment: 

Fully Insured -Free Estimates 

ALL MAJOR CREDIT 

CARDS ACCEPTED. 

For More Information 

Call: 259-3792 

706-483-6496 

“Jesus Loves You-John 3:16 

Tree Service 

Danny’s 

Landscaping 

Service 

Planted 

Mulch 

Shrubbery 

Trim 

Senior Citizen Discount 

Call: 706-270-2697 

Fully Insured 

Lanning’s 

Outdoor 

Services 

Complete Tree Service 

Stump Grinding,Bobcat Service 

Decorative Landscape 

Edging &Concrete Curbs 

Concrete Acrylic Overlay 

and Acid Stains 

www.lanningoutdoors.com 

Free Estimates. 

Cell:706-260-6169 

(leave message) 

Darren Lanning 

Insured/Owner 

Firewood For Sale 706-217-9966 

Larry’s 

Trees To Dirt 

Full Line of Equip. Available. 

Complete Tree 

Removal Service. 

including 

Hazardous &Dangerous 

Storm Clean-Up 

Lot &Land Clearing 

Stump Grinding, 

Any Size, AnyWhere 

Firewood For Sale 

FULLY INSURED 


706-581-3870 

Years ofExpereince 

Whitfield 

Evergreen- 

Arborist 

1037 Keith Mill 

Rd. Dalton, Ga 

30720 

“CUTTING DOWN 

YOUR WORRIES” 

“All Types of Tree Work” 


Fully Insured 

20 years experience with 

climbing &bucket truck 

stump removal 

Firewood For 

Sale 

Phone 

706-275-7017 

Cell 706-463-6108 

Windows 

WINDOW 

REPLACEMENT 

Window Pros &More 

Jimmy Robinson 

706-260-7140 

LarryThomason 

706-260-7886 

We offer Vinyl and Wood 

Replacement Windows 

Our Windows can Qualify 

For The 30% Stimulus 

TaxRebate Up to $1500.00 

WINDOW 

WORKS! 

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Windows 

Decks 

Carpentry 

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Call David at 

706-264-1284 

Our Windows Qualify for 

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