M O N D AY MAY 25, 2015 161st YEAR • NO. 21 Inside Today CLEVELAND, TN 22 PAGES • 50¢ Robert Lee Goins recipient of veterans service award Second annual recognition named after Bill Norwood By JOYANNA LOVE Banner Senior Staff Writer Edwards breaks victory drought Carl Edwards drove to Victory Lane for the first time in two seasons, with a win in the Coca-Cola 600 Sunday at Charlotte Motor Speedway. Juan Pablo Montoya won the Indy 500. The Atlanta Braves picked up a win over the Brewers, while the Cleveland Cavaliers took a 3-0 series lead over the Atlanta Hawks in the NBA Eastern Conference finals. See Sports, Pages 15-17. Memorializing all who keep us safe As the Cleveland and Bradley County community observes Memorial Day today, it is important to understand why it is done, for whom and the importance of keeping the holiday sacred. See the editorial on Page 18 of today’s edition. Forecast The Bill Norwood Service Award was presented to Robert Lee Goins today at Bradley County’s annual Memorial Day ceremony on the Courthouse Plaza. Goins was nominated for his 19 years of volunteer service in caring for the veterans area of Fort Hill Cemetery. Award committee member Cid Heidel said the recipient was selected based on the type and duration of service to veterans or their families. “There was consistent agreement that this was the best one,” Heidel said of the committee’s decision. Heidel said Goins levels the graves, cleans headstones, trims shrubbery, removes old flags and sets the headstones. Goins’ father is one of many veterans buried in the fenced-in area of the cemetery designated for local veterans. Cleveland Mayor Tom Rowland also recognized Goins for his efforts in 2006. Goins was recommended by Bradley County Veterans Affairs Director Larry McDaris. In a previous interview with the Cleveland Daily Banner, Goins said taking care of the Veterans Cemetery was a way to honor the veterans. “I do this now because I feel like I should do something for these guys. It’s the least I can do since I didn’t get to serve,” Goins said. Goins had received a draft notice in 1968, but was in the hospital recoverSee GOINS, Page 9 Banner file photo ROBERT GOINS, kneeling at his father’s headstone, has voluntarily cared for the veterans’ section of Fort Hill Cemetery for 19 years. Glavine visit to support charities Woman observes her 30th in honor of deceased vets By CHRISTY ARMSTRONG Banner Staff Writer On a cold and rainy March 4, Heather Lucas found herself walking through a cemetery. Wrapped in a raincoat and boots, she trudged among the tombstones clutching a handful of yellow roses and letters she had carefully tucked into plastic baggies to keep dry. It was her 30th birthday, and she had chosen to celebrate by commemorating the lives of who did not live to see the age of 30, specifically 30 military servicemen and servicewomen who died protecting their country. “Thirty is, for the most part, kind of a hard age,” Lucas said. Just before she was to hit the milestone, she came to the realization she was dissatisfied with where she was in life. Her career and other aspects of it had simply not gone to See WOMAN, Page 8 Keynote speaker for Sunrise gala By CHRISTY ARMSTRONG Banner Staff Writer Contributed photo HEATHER LUCAS, a Cleveland native now living in Nashville, celebrated her 30th birthday by honoring 30 veterans who lost their lives before the age of 30. Family finds WWII veteran’s untold story Today’s forecast calls for mostly cloudy skies with a 60 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms, and a high near 81. The 60 percent chance of rain continues tonight, with a low around 68. Tuesday calls for mostly cloudy skies and a 70 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms, with a high near 83. Tuesday night calls for clouds and a 70 percent chance of showers or thunderstorms, with a low around 67. Sunset today: 8:45 p.m. Sunrise Tuesday: 6:30 a.m. Index Classified................................20-21 Comics.........................................10 Editorials......................................18 Horoscope....................................10 MINI Pages.................................5-6 Obituaries.......................................2 Sports......................................15-17 TV Schedule.................................11 Weather........................................13 Around Town Sarah and Kyle Johnson enjoying a Sunday afternoon meal with grandparents ... ... Freddie Dover wanting to thank Bradley County Fire-Rescue personnel for helping his wife, Carolyn, and expressing appreciation to ambulance crew members “Will” and “Scott” for all that they did ... Kevin and Kim Brooks enjoying a bay window view ... Kara Swafford and Justin Kennedy getting ready for a big trip ... Nola Beth Greene receiving a special award at her fifth-grade graduation. 6 89076 75112 4 By JOYANNA LOVE Banner Senior Staff Writer A time to remember — that’s what Memorial Day is all about. For one Cleveland family, the information on their patriarch’s service in World War II is limited. Richard Tanksley did not talk about his service when he came back from World War II, except to pass on to his children and his grandchildren that he had indeed contributed to the cause. Daughter Ruth Ann Jones thought he had simply been a clerk for the U.S. Army Air Corps. “Whenever I called to get him some help through the Veterans Administration, one of the guys in Nashville said … he was a gunner on a B-29, and I thought, ‘Are you serious?’” Jones said. “Because Dad never talked about anything. A lot of this stuff I found out in trying to get him help through the Veterans Administration.” Tanksley cannot tell the tales of his Contributed photo RICHARD TANKSLEY served in the U.S. Army Air Corps from 1943 to 1945. service now, as Alzheimer’s disease has begun to take its toll. Tanksley was born in Bradley County on Dec. 2, 1945. Before joining the military, he worked as a farm hand. Tanksley joined active service at Fort Oglethorpe, Ga. on Jan. 8, 1943. His honorable discharge lists his military occupation as a clerk non-typist. On Dec. 8, 1943, Tanksley received his sharpshooter rifle qualification. He served in the 878th Bombardment Squadron. Tanksley was deployed on Aug. 13, 1944, and arrived in the Asia Pacific on Sept. 18. He served in the Eastern Mandates campaign and the Air Offensive on Japan in the Western Pacific. The Japanese officially surrendered on Sept. 2, 1945 and the 878th Bombardment Squadron was demobilized. “I just never knew, because Dad never said anything about it,” Jones said. “And when I’ve talked to other people, that’s just the way that era was. They didn’t talk about it a whole lot.” A visit to Hawaii’s Pearl Harbor provided the backdrop for Tanksley to tell a bit about his time in the service. “I had never seen him cry except for See UNTOLD, Page 8 National Baseball Hall of Famer and former Atlanta Braves pitcher Tom Glavine will soon be putting his pitching power behind a local cause. He will be the featured speaker at this year’s Bradley Sunrise Rotary Club gala on June 6, an event that will raise money for a variety of charitable efforts. “I am very excited about the gala,” club President Keith Munford said. Glavine “This is our opportunity to gather resources to help people in Cleveland.” Each year, the club holds a gala event to raise funds. Those funds then go into the club’s coffers only to be given away later as grants and donations to local organizations. Past recipients of the club’s gala proceeds have included Habitat for Humanity of Cleveland, The Salvation Army of Cleveland, Angel Flight, Family Promise, The Caring Place, Life Bridges and several other local nonprofit organizations. While much of the money has See GLAVINE, Page 9 Madeline Warren finds closure 50 years after brother’s death By WILLIAM WRIGHT Lifestyles Editor Every Memorial Day carries precious and painful memories for Madeline Warren about her beloved brother, Pvt. John E. Galyon. It took 50 years for the Cleveland resident to receive the flag the U.S. government sent to her family when her 19year-old brother died in World War II, the first and most profound loss of her life. Born in Roane County, Warren was one of six children who felt a special bond with her brother that she did not PERSONALITY PROFILE experience with anyone else. Despite the fact that he was 10 years older, John took time to teach his little sister lessons that she cherishes to this day. Although he was a teenager, Warren said John was an intelligent and tenderhearted brother who was familiar with several home remedies that he shared with his baby sister, like putting juice from a green walnut peel on an abrasion or eating burnt toast to calm a stomach ache. “All of my life he was really good to me and that was unusual in our house,” she said. “I was only 5 years old when John decided to leave home in 1941. He was only 15. He hitchhiked his way to Mount Pleasant, Texas, to start his own life.” Missing her older brother was a pain the child had to bear. Still, brief conversations overheard from her mother and See WARREN, Page 9 Banner photo, WILLIAM WRIGHT MEMORIAL DAY for Madeline Warren is about honoring her brother John, who gave his life for his country during World War II. Warren, 80, holds a frame containing her late brother’s medals of honor and a photo she later found of him. 2—Cleveland Daily Banner—Monday, May 25, 2015 www.clevelandbanner.com OBITUARIES Jackie Ethel Adams Jackie Ethel Adams, 88, of Leesburg, Fla., died today, May 25, 2015, at her residence. Survivors and funeral arrangements will be announced by Ralph Buckner Funeral Home and Crematory. Shelley Alleva Shelley Alleva, 44, of Cleveland, died Saturday afternoon, May 23, 2015, at her home. Survivors and arrangements will be announced by Companion Funeral Home who has charge of those arrangements. Ana M. Darocha Ana M. Darocha, 47, of Ooltewah, died Saturday night, May 23, 2015, in a local hospital. Survivors and arrangements will be announced by Companion Funeral Home. Mike Lewis Mike Lewis, 61, of Cleveland died Friday, May 22, 2015, at his residence. He was a member of the United Pentecostal Church. He is survived by his wife of 26 years, Geraldine Underwood Lewis, of Cleveland; four children: Kim Waters of Cleveland, Greg Harness of Chattanooga, Leah Kyle of Cleveland, and Missy Long of Evergreen, N.C.; five grandchildren; one sister, Florence Beavers, of Birchwood; and several nieces and nephews. The funeral was held today, May 25, 2015, in the chapel of Ralph Buckner Funeral Home with the Rev. William Robinson officiating. Interment followed at McInturff Cemetery in Birchwood. Glenn P. McCulloch Glenn P. McCulloch, 63, of Ooltewah, died Saturday night, May 23, 2015, at his home. Survivors and arrangements will be announced by Companion Funeral Home. son, Steven Price; and several siblings and their spouses: Nick and Thelma Price, Stony and Lois Price, Dwight and Frances Price, Virginia and Jimmy Trikosko, Helen and Tony Glaski, and Ada and Sonny Johnson. He leaves behind to cherish his memory his loving and devoted wife of 52 years, Freda Chastain Price; two daughters: Pamela Price and Tamela Price; one grandson and his wife, Matthew and Amanda Price; two great-grandchildren: Kinley and Karson Price; numerous nieces and nephews; and other extended family members and a host of special friends. The family will receive friends today, from 4 to 8 p.m., at the Companion Funeral Home, 2419 Georgetown Road in Cleveland. A graveside service is planned for Tuesday, May 26, 2015, at 1:30 p.m. in the Chattanooga National Cemetery and will conclude with full military honors to honor Fred’s service to our country. In lieu of flowers, the family requests that memorial donations be made to the local Toys for Tots program in Fred’s memory. You are encouraged to share a memory of Fred and/or your personal condolences with his family by visiting his memorial web page and guestbook at www.companionfunerals.com. Donald Stephens Recycle this newspaper Jim Bryant Editor & Publisher General Manager Member of The Associated Press SUBSCRIPTION RATES Publishser Reserves the Right to Change Rates Without Notice Print Only Carrier Collect Rate * Mary Ellen Wooten Jennifer Tucker Ralph C. Shipley Reuse the News Stephen L. Crass The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for publication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this newspaper, and also the local news of spontaneous origin herein. All rights of all other material herein are as reserved. ©2014 Cleveland Newspapers, Inc. Jennifer Tucker, 54, a lifelong resident of Cleveland, passed away Thursday morning, May 21, 2015, at her home, due to a sudden brain aneurism. She was a very outdoorsy person who loved anything that consisted of her being outside with family and friends. She loved to fish, camp and hike. She was preceded in death by her parents, Bud Pierce Sr. and Mamie Goode Beck; one brother, Chris Pierce; and father-inlaw, Robert Tucker Sr. She is survived by her loving husband, Robert Tucker II; children: Lisa (Jimmy) Johnson of Ringgold, Ga., and Arnold Voyles Jr. and stepdaughter, Jessica Tucker, both of Cleveland; mother-in-law, Barbara Tucker; one brother, Bud Pierce Jr. and wife, Tammy; two sisters: Letha Gibson and husband, Tom, and Tammy Green and husband, Jerry, all of Cleveland; two grandchildren: Taylor and Rebecca Johnson, of Ringgold, Ga.; and several nieces, nephews and extended family members. The funeral will be held on Tuesday, May 26, 2015, at 8 Bradley L. Ray p.m. at Grissom-Serenity Bradley L. Ray, 50, of Catoosa Funeral Home Chapel, with the County, Ga., passed away Rev. Jerry Green and the Rev. Tuesday May 19, 2015, at his Bud Pierce Jr. officiating. home. The family will receive friends He served six years in the U.S. on Tuesday, from 6 until 8 p.m., Marine Corp. He was a master at the funeral home. diver. He was a member of We invite you to visit the Pathway Baptist Church in Tucker family page on our webOoltewah. He was loved by his site www.grissomserenity.com family and friends and will be to leave a message of condogreatly missed. lence or sign the register book. He was preceded in death by his parents, Melvin and Pauline Ray; and brother, Randall Ray. He survived by his wife, Melissa Ray; sister, Nicole Meeks; and several aunts and uncles. A celebration of his life is planned for Tuesday, May 26, 2015, at 4 p.m. at Pathway ‘Christine’ Waldrop Mary “Christine” Stone Baptist Church, 9745 East Brainerd Road in Ooltewah with Waldrop, 87, of Benton, died Sunday, May 24, 2015, at her the Rev. Mark Smith officiating Interment will follow in the residence. Survivors and funeral arrangeParkers Gap Cemetery. The family will receive friends ments will be announced by Tuesday, May 26, 2015, from 2 Higgins Funeral Home of Benton. until the 4 p.m. service time. In lieu of flowers donations can be made to the family. You are invited to share a personal memory of Bradley or your condolences with his family at his online memorial located at www.companionfunerals.com. Companion Funeral and Leon Westfield Leon Westfield, 55, died Cremation Service and the Cody family are honored to assist the Sunday, May 24, 2015, in a local Ray family with these arrange- health care facility. Survivors and arrangements to ments. be announced by M.D. Dotson & Sons Funeral Home. Ralph C. Shipley, 81, of Cleveland, died Saturday night, May 23, 2015, at his home. Services are planned for Tuesday, May 26, 2015, at 7 p.m. in the Chapel of Companion Funeral Home. Visitation will be on Tuesday from 4 until the 7 p.m. service time. Interment is being planned for Wednesday, May 27, 2015. A complete obituary is forthcoming and will be published by the funeral home. Published at 1505 25th Street, NW (P.O. Box 3600) in Cleveland, TN 37320-3600, daily except Saturday and Christmas day by Cleveland Newspapers, Inc. Phone (423) 472-5041. Donald Ray Stephens, 78, of Benton, died this morning, Monday, May 25, 2015, at his residence. Survivors and funeral arrangements will be announced by Higgins Funeral Home of Benton. Fred R. Price Fred R. Price, 84, a resident of Cleveland for more than 38 years, passed away on Wednesday morning, May 20, 2015, in a local hospital. He was born on Feb. 28, 1931, in Newton, Miss., a son of the late Calvert and Stella Price. He was of the Protestant faith. He was a captain in the United States Marine Corps, who had retired after 30 years of service. During his service time, he was awarded the National Defense Service Medal with a star, Korean Service Medal, UN Service Medal, Vietnamese Service Medal, Third Award with star, Good Conduct Medal, eight award with a Silver Star and two Bronze Stars, Army Commendation Medal, the Presidential Unit Citation, Meritorious Unit Citation, Combat Action Ribbon and several other awards, ribbons and citations. He enjoyed woodworking and working in his garden. In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by one (USPS 117-700) Periodical Postage Paid at Cleveland, TN 37320-3600 Post Office POSTMASTER: Send Address Changes to: Banner, P.O. Box 3600, Cleveland, TN 37320-3600 To submit an obituary, have the funeral home or cremation society in charge of arrangements to email the information to obituaries@clevelandbanner.com and fax to 423614-6529 Mary Ellen Wooten, 89, of Cleveland, passed away Friday, May 22, 2015, in a local hospital. She was retired from American Uniform and Waterville Elementary School cafeteria. She was planning to celebrate her retirement from Waterville Elementary the day of her passing. She enjoyed her flowers and gardening, where she donated her produce to her church family and neighbors. She was a member of Waterville Baptist Church. She was preceded in death by her husband, James E. Wooten; infant daughter, Priscilla Kay Wooten; parents, Ashley L. and Mary E. Ownby; siblings: Orville Ownby, Alta Montgomery, Theresa Taylor, Edith Berry, Taft Ownby, Watt Ownby, Donald Ownby, Lee Ownby, Estel Ownby, Ashley Ownby, Homer Ownby and Gladys Kirkpatrick. She is survived by her daughter, Pam Bennett, and husband, Steve, of Estill Springs; grandchildren: Ashley Norman and husband, Graham, of Hixson and Aaron Bennett of Chattanooga; great-grandchildren: Emmalynn Bennett and Lucy Norman; sister, Ruth Ownby of Cleveland; brother, Ray Ownby and wife, Myrtle, of Cleveland; sisters-in-law: Oleta Ownby, Grace Ownby and Frankie Ownby, all of Cleveland, and Zetta Moore of Ooltewah; and several nieces and nephews. The funeral will be held at 2 p.m. Tuesday, May 26, 2015, in the chapel of Fike-Randolph & Son Funeral Home with Pastor Allan Lovelace officiating. Interment will follow in Hilcrest Memorial Gardens with Tim Ownby, Tony Ownby, Tommy Ownby, Ashley Ownby, Aaron Bennett, Donnie Ownby and Tillis Ownby serving as pallbearers. Bobby Kirkpatrick, Marvin Kirkpatrick, Gary Ownby, Dwight Ownby, Lebron Montgomery, David Montgomery, Hoyt Ownby and Ricky Ownby will serve as honorary pallbearers. The service will conclude with a white dove release ceremony. Her family will receive friends from 5 to 8 p.m. this evening at the funeral home. 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According to CPD reports, John Dewy Jr. was pulled over for a seat belt violation on North Ocoee Street, when officer Edwin Millan noted Dewy seemed nervous and that he had multiple sores on both arms. Millan reportedly asked Dewey if he was on any medication, and Dewey said he was not. The officer observed that Dewey’s eyes were unresponsive to light. While running a check on Dewey’s driver’s license, info came back that he had a prior arrest for illegal possession of a Schedule II drug. Millan then observed a crystallike substance on the car floorboard. According to reports, Dewey was asked to get out of the vehicle and allegedly would not cooperate with being frisked, and as a result was cuffed and detained. While searching the vehicle, Millan allegedly found two stacks of $20 and $10 bills amounting to $2,400. Officers also reportedly found, in plain sight, three clear plastic bags with residue and small amounts of methamphetamine. Dewey stated he didn’t know anything about the drugs or the money, and was arrested and charged with possession. Both the vehicle and the cash were seized. n CPD officers recently responded to a possible domestic disturbance in progress on Aurora Avenue. When officers arrived, they spoke with the complainant, a neighbor who stated that he had heard a commotion and what sounded like the voice of an injured woman. According to police report, officers Nicholas Lorenzano and Anthony Cochran could hear a faint female voice. Officers also heard a moan. Lorenzano reportedly called for the woman several times, but could not get a response. The officers also reportedly heard the sound of falling objects inside the residence. The officers concluded the woman was likely in danger, and Lorenzano made a forced entry. Cochran cleared the residence and they discovered the woman on the bathroom and unresponsive. According to the police report her breathing was shallow and EMS was called. As officers where speaking to her, she remained unresponsive and stopped breathing. Officers began chest compressions and the woman began breathing. The victim again stopped breathing and the officer began compressions again. This time the woman began breathing and was alert. According to reports, the woman was unaware of her surroundings and visibly upset. After she calmed down she was able to relate to officers that she had a seizure. EMS arrived but the woman reportedly refused to go to the hospital or receive any further treatment. John Nash, wife, ‘A Beautiful Mind’ inspiration, die in N.J. TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — John ful hearts.” Forbes Nash Jr., a mathematical Known as brilliant and eccengenius whose struggle with schiz- tric, Nash was associated with ophrenia was chronicled in the Princeton University for many 2001 movie “A Beautiful Mind,” years, most recently serving as a has died along with his wife in a senior research mathematician. car crash on the New Jersey He won the Nobel Prize in ecoTurnpike. He was 86. nomics in 1994 for his work in Nash and Alicia Nash, 82, of game theory, which offered Princeton Township, were killed insight into the dynamics of in a taxi crash Saturday, state human rivalry. It is considered police said. A colleague who had one of the most influential ideas received an award with Nash in of the 20th century. Norway earlier in the week said Just a few days ago, Nash had they had just flown home and the received a prize from the LOS ANGELES (AP) — Anne couple had taken a cab home Norwegian Academy of Sciences and Letters in Oslo with New Meara, the loopy, lovable comedi- from the airport. Russell Crowe, who portrayed York University mathematician an who launched a standup Nash in “A Beautiful Mind,” Louis Nirenberg, who said he’d career with hustweeted that he was “stunned.” chatted with the couple for an band Jerry “An amazing partnership,” he hour at the airport in Newark Stiller in the wrote. “Beautiful minds, beauti- before they’d gotten a cab. 1950s and found success as an actress in films, on TV and the stage, has died. Jerry Stiller and son Ben Stiller say Meara died (AP) — These lotteries were All or Nothing Morning: 01-05Saturday. She Meara drawn Sunday: 06-10-11-12-13-17-18-20-21-24 was 85. No TENNESSEE All or Nothing Night: 01-04-05other details Cash 3 Evening: 7-9-4, Lucky 06-14-15-16-17-19-21-23-24 were provided. Sum: 20 Cash 3 Evening: 2-0-0 The Stiller family released a Cash 4 Evening: 4-9-9-9, Cash 3 Midday: 6-4-3 statement to The Associated Lucky Sum: 31 Cash 4 Evening: 1-1-0-9 Press on Sunday describing Jerry GEORGIA Cash 4 Midday: 9-5-5-0 Stiller as Meara’s “husband and All or Nothing Day: 03-04-05Fantasy 5: 04-06-18-23-32 partner in life.” 09-11-13-16-18-20-22-23-24 Georgia FIVE Evening: 3-7-8“The two were married for 61 All or Nothing Evening: 04-07- 6-3 years and worked together almost 09-10-11-12-13-16-17-20-22-24 Georgia FIVE Midday: 9-9-5-5as long,” the statement said. 8 Born in Brooklyn on Sept. 20, 1929, she was a red-haired, IrishCatholic girl who struck a vivid contrast to Stiller, a Jewish guy from Manhattan’s Lower East Side who was two years older and four inches shorter. As Stiller and Meara, they appeared in comedy routines that Steven Carr, Jed Mescon and joked about married life and their Shawn Hultman, who are celerespective ethnic backgrounds. brating birthdays today ... Kenny Robert Seaton will be the They logged 36 appearances on Kirksey, who is celebrating his speaker Tuesday at 7 a.m., for “The Ed Sullivan Show” and were ninth birthday today ... Carter His Hands Extended Devotional a successful team in Las Vegas Rogers, who turns 3 today. at Garden Plaza, 3500 Keith St. Comedian Anne Meara dies at age 85 LOTTERY NUMBERS IT’S A SPECIAL DAY FOR... CHURCH ACTIVITIES www.clevelandbanner.com Cleveland Daily Banner—Monday, May 25, 2015—3 Vocabulary test takes away some National Spelling Bee drama WASHINGTON (AP) — For viewers of last year’s Scripps National Spelling Bee, one of the most surprising results came courtesy of a test nobody saw. Vanya Shivashankar was one of the stars of the show, heavily promoted in ESPN’s coverage. Her older sister, Kavya, won the bee in 2009, and the smiling, telegenic Vanya was participating for the fourth time, coming off a fifth-place finish in 2013. Vanya breezed through the preliminary rounds and spelled both words correctly in the semifinals. But when the finalists were announced — factoring in scores from a computerized spelling and vocabulary test — Vanya was eliminated. ESPN’s cameras cut to her, but she didn’t show much emotion. Two years after vocabulary became part of the bee for the first time, the integration of the test remains a work in progress. While participants and bee officials say it’s made the competition fairer — everyone is tested on the same words — it has taken some of the drama away from the semifinal rounds. Vanya still loves the bee, but she misses the simplicity of the old format, when the semifinals would continue for as necessary for the field to be narrowed to about 10 finalists. “Lots of people would like to see people going up and spelling words and seeing how they used to do it, just to spell until everyone drops,” Vanya said. “I’m fine with anything, but spelling till you drop is kind of cool.” Vanya, who’s from Olathe, Kansas, wasn’t entirely surprised she didn’t make the finals last year. She knew her test score could have been better. Spellers were given their own scores, but neither they nor the audience knew how they stacked up. That’ll change this year as bee officials continue to tweak the Green Mountain Termite & Pest Control 423-331-8461 greenmtn.net “Free Estimates” TN Charter #4759 Do You Want To Sell Your RV or Camper? WE CAN HELP! We have eager buyers coming daily Call David McGrath to find out more (877) 425-9016 AP photo This MAy 30, 2012, file PhoTo shows Vanya Shivashankar, of Olathe, Kan., smiling as she answers her question during the third round of the National Spelling Bee in Oxon Hill, Md. Participants and bee officials say the competition is fairer now that kids are tested on what words mean. format. The test scores will be announced and spellers will be ranked heading into the semifinals. Tim Weinkauf, the lead producer of ESPN’s coverage, said he’ll take advantage of that change by showing golf-style leaderboards and highlighting the spellers who can work their way into the finals if someone ahead of them falters. “I think it allows for more dramatic moments because there will be those certain kids that are on the bubble,” Weinkauf said. One important thing that hasn’t changed: If you miss a word on stage, the bell rings and you’re out. There were drawbacks to what Vanya calls the “spelling till you drop” approach. In 2010, the semifinals were stopped in the middle of a round because too many spellers got words wrong and there was a chance of having too few finalists to fill the 2-hour broadcast window. The bee’s executive director, Paige Kimble, heard plenty of complaints that ending the semifinals that way was unfair. “We’ve certainly had some white-knuckle moments,” Kimble said. “You just don’t know when you go into a round how the kids are going to do.” The vocabulary test, Kimble said, plays a much more important role than making the semifinals more predictable. “I think it’s making the most profound impact exactly where we wanted it to, and that is at the school and local spelling bee levels,” she said. “We’re finding that teachers and students and parents are embracing the acquisition of vocabulary along with the memorization of words for a spelling bee.” Kimble also said she didn’t think the vocabulary test has ultimately had much influence over who advances to the finals. The 285 participants in this year’s National Spelling Bee have already proven they’re better spellers than 11 million other kids — and to spell at that level, it’s essential to at least have some idea what the words mean. The best spellers can figure out words they’ve never heard before by understanding Greek and Latin roots and languages of origin. In addition to 13-year-old Vanya, this year’s bee has two other siblings of past winners — 12-year-old Jairam Hathwar, whose brother, Sriram, was a cochampion last year; and 11-yearold Srinath Mahankali, whose brother, Arvind, was a popular winner in 2013. Jairam and Srinath will get another shot if they fall short. Vanya is in 8th grade, which means this is her last chance. 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King on Saturday in Las Vegas. King died May 14 at age 89. B.B. King memorial more cheers than tears in Las Vegas LAS VEGAS (AP) — A standing ovation for B.B. King and more cheers than tears marked a family-and-friends memorial of the late blues great’s life and legacy Saturday in Las Vegas. “B.B. was energetic, Amen?” Pastor Pamela Myrtis Mason said to open the service that drew more than 350 to the Palm Mortuary chapel. “Amen,” they said. King’s closed casket lay framed by an array of floral arrangements, two of his guitars named Lucille and a tapestry showing him in eyes-clenched reverie picking a note from a section of the guitar frets dubbed by followers the “B.B. King Box.” “Why don’t you put your hands together for the King of the Blues, B.B. King!” the pastor said. As the applause ended, granddaughter Landra Williams dubbed him “the backbone of our family King.” More than 10 of King’s 35 grandchildren and eight of the blues icon’s 11 surviving adult children spoke during a two-hour service that was distinct for its intimacy and notable for its lack of acrimony. Several sang a cappella versions of King classics. From daughter Claudette King Robinson, it was, “(Someone Really Loves You) Guess Who?” Williams, who lives in Houston, remembered her grandfather calling every woman in the family “pretty girl,” and spoiling them all, while making himself their confidante and protector. “To everyone else, he was a legend,” she said. “But for us, he was love.” King’s generosity was recalled by grandson Leonard King Jr., who remembered being onstage when people praising the B.B. King show got a prideful earful from his grandfather about his kin. “His humility was almost as legendary as his music,” the grandson said. Rock superstars Carlos Santana and Richie Sambora attended, although Santana left early. “Buddy Guy and B.B. let me into the blues,” said Sambora, longtime guitarist with of the band Bon Jovi. “That’s why I’m here. He made me family.” Other music notables are expected to attend memorials in coming days in Memphis, Tennessee, and King’s hometown of Indianola, Mississippi. King’s onstage drummer for 37 years, Tony Coleman, provided another upbeat note on a day full of them. “He fired me five times,” Coleman said, drawing laughter. “But he hired me six times. He said, ‘Once you’re with me, you’re always with me.’” Coleman promised to go on playing blues “with class, with dignity, with humanity” — just like B.B. King taught him to do. King was inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame in 1990 and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1987. He won 15 Grammys and sold more than 40 million records worldwide. The spirit of B.B. King will be in the air again on Sunday at the previously scheduled 35th annual B.B. King Homecoming Festival in Indianola. That will be followed by a procession on Wednesday on Beale Street in Memphis before the last leg of what Landra Williams, the granddaughter, has dubbed “The Road to Mississippi Tour” — the last leg of Riley B. King’s trip to Indianola for burial May 30. TN I-75 Exit #1, East on Hwy. 41 CampingWorldofChattanooga.com www.fikefh.com 472-1525 4—Cleveland Daily Banner—Monday, May 25, 2015 www.clevelandbanner.com Schools rule! Larry C. Bowers Education reporter Phone: 472-5041 Fax: 614-6529 E-mail: Larry.Bowers@clevelandbanner.com Contributed photo YATES PRIMARY Principal Carolyn Ingram, right, thanks this year’s Business and Education Serving Together partners, Wholesale Supply Group, Doctor's Express, CiCi's Pizza and Wesley Memorial United Methodist Church. Assisting is Character Education Student of the Month Bella Zerk. Contributed photos CLEvELAND HIgH SCHOOL INTERNATIONAL THESPIAN TROUPE 505 recently inducted eight new members. They include, from above left, Chloe Freake, Sydney Corum, Hannah Hedgepeth, Lindsay Markham, AJ Schoder, Hope Cummings, Alicia Beshears, and Amanda Hanshew. The International Thespian Society, founded in 1929, is an honorary organization for high school and middle school theater students located at more than 4,200 affiliated secondary schools across America, Canada, and abroad. The mission of ITS is to honor student achievement in the theater arts. High school inductees are known as “Thespians” and junior high/middle school inductees are known as “Junior Thespians.” For more information on Cleveland High School's Thespian Troupe, visit http://www.clevelandtheater.weebly.com. The Troupe also elected officers for 2015-16. Officers are President Matthew Witz, Vice President Madeline Fleming; Scribe Andrew Markham, and Treasurer Adam Foster. Contributed photo MADALYN OWENS, left, captured first place, and Issac Hendricks, right, was second in a shoe-tying race in Mrs. Hannah’s class at Yates Primary School. Contributed photo ENJOYINg THE PROSPECTS of some time at the Greenway Park were these four Yates Primary stuSEvEN CLEvELAND Middle School students were selected as Duke TIP Scholars this year. They dents. The students participating in the school’s Art in the Park Day include, from left, Landon Payne, include, from left, Briza Dedicatoria, Holly McDaniel, Oliver McDougal, Esther Proctor, Sara McKay, and Joshua Valladares, Keaton Whaley and Jancel Flores. Jannat Saaed. Kathleen Alcock was unavailable for the photo. Photo by Jennifer McDougal CMS students are Duke honorees Special to the Banner Seven Cleveland Middle School students were honored recently at a state recognition ceremony by Duke University’s Talent Identification Program at Belmont University in Nashville. Duke TIP honors academically talented seventh-graders for their exceptional scores on the ACT or SAT. The students recognized for their outstanding academic achievement at Cleveland Middle School are Kathleen Alcock, Briza Dedicatoria, Holly McDaniel, Oliver McDougal, Sara McKay, Esther Proctor and Jannat Saaed. Duke TIP’s Seventh-Grade talent search identifies students across the United States who have scored at or above the 95th percentile on a grade-level achievement test. As part of the program, the students take above-level college-entrance exams to learn more about their abilities. Duke TIP then hosts annual recognition ceremonies to honor the seventh-graders who scored the highest on these ACT or SAT exams. This year, out of 64,481 participants nationally, 22,236 students were invited to attend state recognition ceremonies and 2,230 students have been invited to Duke TIP’s recognition ceremony. In Tennessee, 1,957 students qualified for the state recognition ceremony of the 3,628 who tested. “As seventh-graders, these students have achieved scores on the ACT or SAT rivaling those of half of all collegebound seniors who took the tests,” said Dr. Martha Putallaz of Duke University. Putallaz continued, “We are extremely proud of our ceremonies honorees, and we appreciate the opportunity to celebrate their achievement and Contributed photo encourage them in their acaYATES PRIMARY STUDENTS participated in a poster contest recently to illustrate Acts of Kindness. demic potential.” Putallaz is executive director School counselor Shellie Lowden, right, is shown with the winners. They include, from left, Julio of Duke TIP and professor of Dominguez, Neel Patel, Aditya Patel, Tyler Gardner, Audrey Parker, A.J. Lay, and Heaven Machado. psychology and neuroscience at Sway Wales was not present for the photo. Duke. Contributed photo DEBORAH N. COLLINS, a retired Bradley Central High School English teacher, left photo, presents a story to Stuart School student Katelyn Collins. Collins was enjoying the luxury of a bean bag as the story was being told during the school’s recent festival. A number of other activities were going on at the same time the stories were being told. Contributed photo ART TEACHER Mary Ann Poplin, right, was busy at a recent festival at Stuart School explaining her art programs to a trio of visitors. Listening to the music instructor’s presentation are Valeria Grimaldo, Rosario Montealvo and Allison Grimaldo. www.clevelandbanner.com Cleveland Daily Banner—Monday, May 25, 2015—5 6—Cleveland Daily Banner—Monday, May 25, 2015 www.clevelandbanner.com www.clevelandbanner.com Cleveland Daily Banner—Monday, May 25, 2015—7 Defense chief’s criticism of Iraqis raises policy questions WASHINGTON (AP) — The Islamic State group’s takeover of the Iraqi provincial capital Ramadi has prompted criticism from Defense Secretary Ash Carter and raised new questions about the Obama administration’s strategy to defeat the extremist group. The Islamic State group, which had already seized a strategically important swath of the Middle East, seized Ramadi in central Iraq a week ago, which has revived concerns about U.S. efforts to fight the group. The Obama administration’s approach in Iraq is a blend of retraining and rebuilding the Iraqi army, prodding the Shiitedominated government in Baghdad to reconcile with the nation’s Sunnis and bombing Islamic State group targets from the air without committing American ground combat troops. President Barack Obama’s strategy is predicated on Baghdad granting political concessions to the country’s alienated Sunnis, who are a source of personnel and money for the Islamic State group. But there has been little visible progress on that front. Baghdad has continued to work closely with Shiite militias backed by Iran, which have been accused of atrocities against Sunnis, a religious minority in Iraq that ruled until Saddam Hussein fell from power. The U.S. has sought to reach out on its own to Sunni tribes and is training some Sunni fighters, but those efforts have been AP photo LocAL residents and Sunni tribal fighters welcome newly arriving Iraqi Shiite Hezbollah Brigade militiamen, brandishing their flag, who are joining the fight against Islamic State group militants in Khalidiya, 60 miles west of Baghdad, Iraq. limited by the small number of American troops on the ground. Carter said in an interview aired Sunday that Shiite-led Iraqi forces did not show a “will to fight” in the battle for Ramadi, a Sunni city. Although Iraqi soldiers “vastly outnumbered” their opposition in the capital of Anbar province, they quickly withdrew a week ago without putting up much resistance from the city in Iraq’s Sunni heartland, Carter said on CNN’s “State of the Union.” The Iraqis left behind large numbers of U.S.-supplied vehicles, including several tanks, now presumed to be in Islamic State hands. “What apparently happened is the Iraqi forces just showed no will to fight,” Carter said. “They were not outnumbered; in fact, they vastly outnumbered the opposing force. That says to me, and I think to most of us, that we have an issue with the will of the Iraqis to fight ISIL and defend themselves.” The White House declined to comment on Sunday. Iraqi lawmaker Hakim alZamili, the head of the parliamentary defense and security committee, called Carter’s comments “unrealistic and baseless,” in an interview with The Associated Press. “The Iraqi army and police did have the will to fight IS group in Ramadi, but these forces lack good equipment, weapons and aerial support,” said al-Zamili, a member of the political party headed by radical Shia cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, who is stridently anti-American. American officials say they are sending anti-tank weapons to the Iraqi military. But they also noted that Iraqi forces were not routed from Ramadi— they left of their own accord, frightened in part by a powerful wave of Islamic State group suicide truck bombs, some the size of the one that destroyed the federal building in Oklahoma City two decades ago, said a senior State Department official who spoke to reporters last week under ground rules he not be named. A senior defense official said that the troops who fled Ramadi had not been trained by the U.S. or its coalition partners. The official was not authorized to address the matter publicly and spoke on condition of anonymity. Carter defended the use of U.S. airstrikes, but he said they are not a replacement for Iraqi ground forces willing to defend their country. American intelligence officials have assessed for some time that Iraq is unlikely ever again to function as the multi-ethnic nation-state it once was, and that any future political arrangement would have to grant significant local autonomy to the three main groups— Sunnis, Shiites and Kurds. But the Obama administration has continued to pursue a “one Iraq” policy, routing all assistance through Baghdad. Over the past year defeated Iraq security forces have repeat- ‘Ugly’ potential fallout from Supreme Court health care case WASHINGTON (AP) — A Supreme Court ruling due in a few weeks could wipe out health insurance for millions of people covered by President Barack Obama’s health care law. But it’s Republicans — not White House officials — who have been talking about damage control. A likely reason: Twenty-six of the 34 states that would be most affected by the ruling have Republican governors, and 22 of the 24 GOP Senate seats up in 2016 are in those states. Obama’s law offers subsidized private insurance to people without access to it on the job. In the court case, opponents of the law argue that its literal wording allows the federal government to subsidize coverage only in states that set up their own health insurance markets. Most states have not done so, because of the intense partisanship over “Obamacare” and in some cases because of technical problems. Instead, they rely on the federal HealthCare.gov website. If the court invalidates the subsidies in those states, an estimated 8 million people could lose coverage. The results would be “ugly,” said Sandy Praeger, a former Kansas insurance commissioner. “People who are reasonably healthy would just drop coverage,” she said. “Only the unhealthy would keep buying health care. It would really exacerbate the problem of the cost of health insurance.” Praeger, a Republican who retired this year, called it “a classic death spiral,” using a term for market collapse. Oral arguments on March 4 revealed a divided court. Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Anthony Kennedy seemingly are key to the outcome, which won’t be known until late June. If the subsidies survive, the Affordable Care Act will look like settled law to all but its most passionate opponents. But if they are overturned, the shock could carry into next year’s elections. Some potential consequences: —BAD TIMING Around the time when the court announces its decision, insurers will be working to finalize premiums and plans for the coming year. Contracts with the government for 2016 health law coverage have to be signed by early fall. If the subsidies are overturned, insurers would have to tear up their projections about markets in more than half the states. Populous states such as Texas, Florida, Ohio, Illinois, New Jersey, Georgia and Pennsylvania would be among those affected. State lawmakers could mitigate the impact by setting up their own insurance markets, or exchanges. But that can’t be done overnight. States might try authorizing an exchange, and then contracting with the federal government to run it. But that sort of end run might prompt lawsuits from opponents of the law. In any case, most state legislatures will be out of session by the summer. During arguments, Justice Samuel Alito raised the possibility that the court might be able to delay the effective date of its decision. Even a delay through the end of this year wouldn’t buy much time. Enrollment for 2016 health law plans is scheduled to start Nov. 1. —HOUSE OF CARDS The health law was designed as a balancing act. Insurers can’t turn people away because of health problems, but most healthy people are required to contribute to the insurance pool, and the government subsidizes most of the premium for low- to middle-income households. Take away subsidies, and the other two parts become unstable. The law’s requirement to carry insurance, never popular, would probably become the biggest target for repeal. “My guess is there would be overwhelming political support for the elimination of the individual mandate if people can’t afford the premiums,” said former Sen. Tom Daschle, D-S.D., who was an influential Obama adviser on health care. Insurers would demand relief from provisions of the law intended to limit premium increases, or they might drop out of the insurance exchanges. —STICKER SHOCK FOR SELFPAY CUSTOMERS Many people still buy individual health care policies directly from an insurance company, bypassing the law’s markets and paying the full cost. They tend to be smallbusiness owners, self-employed professionals and early retirees. But even they would not escape the tumult in states losing subsidies. The health law created one big insurance pool in each state, combining customers who purchase their policies directly with those who buy through the government market. If healthy people exit the insurance exchanges in droves, premiums for those buying directly would go up. Some may be unable to afford the higher cost. “It would set off cascading events,” said Larry Levitt of the nonpartisan Kaiser Family Foundation. “The individual market would empty out as premiums rise significantly.” —REPUBLICANS TO THE RESCUE? Leading congressional Republicans have been walking a fine line, opposing the law in the Supreme Court case while pledging to protect consumers if their side wins. If the subsidies are overturned, Republicans will first try blaming Obama and the Democrats for writing flawed legislation and then trying to paper over problems with regulations. Then they’ll move ahead with a patch to appease angry constituents. A bill introduced by Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., would continue the subsidies for existing customers only on the federal exchange until Sept. 2017. That would open a window for states to act, but it would ultimately leave the problem for the next president and Congress. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., is a co-sponsor. Memorial Day Take a moment and say a prayer for those who died for our freedom. Grissom Serenity Funeral Home & Cremation Services JULVVRPVHUHQLW\FRP edly left U.S.-supplied military equipment on the battlefield, which the U.S. has targeted in subsequent airstrikes against Islamic State forces. The Pentagon this past week estimated that when Iraqi troops abandoned Ramadi, they left behind a half-dozen tanks, a similar number of artillery pieces, a larger number of armored personnel carriers and about 100 wheeled vehicles like Humvees. Politicians from both parties criticized the administration’s strategy Sunday and urged a more aggressive posture. Republican Sen. John McCain, who chairs the Armed Services Committee, called for thousands of U.S. troops on the ground in Iraq, including spotters who can better direct air strikes. Even Obama administration allies were urging the president to do more. “I think there is a major hesitation to get too deeply involved in Iraq again,” said Michele Flournoy, a former senior Obama administration defense official. But, she said, “this is a terrorist problem that affects us and we have to take a more forward-leaning posture.” Flournoy spoke on CNN’s “State of the Union”; McCain appeared on CBS’ “Face the Nation.” 8—Cleveland Daily Banner—Monday, May 25, 2015 www.clevelandbanner.com Suspicious D.C. vehicle contents are destroyed Untold From Page 1 when his mom and dad passed away,” Jones said. “But when we went over there and we went where all the ships were sunk in the harbor and all that, Dad was just weeping … I knew something had to go on there that touched his heart.” Tanksley said when he was deployed, a ship took his squadron to Pearl Harbor. Other clues came when Jones found black-and-white photos with captions reading “Saipan USMC Photo” and “Tinian USMC photo.” Both battles were a part of the Mariana Islands campaigns. They depict various elements of the war, from carrying causalities to interacting with locals. Other photos had no official markings, but show Tanksley with his comrades. These photos chronicle everything from aircraft art (created by plane crew members) to explosions. Jones said even though the snapshots do not list a place or date, she said they show similar surroundings as the Saipan photos. Very few of the photos contain any information, and those that do have only a simple note on the back identifying some of the people in the image. “When my mom passed away, “ Jones said. “I was going through all the stuff to look for some photos of her, and that’s when I found all of these. And I found a shell necklace that my mom had told me in the past that he had gotten for his mother [when he was] overseas.” According to his honorable discharge form, Tanksley received the Asia Pacific Theater Ribbon and Three Bronze Service Stars, as well as the World War II Victory Ribbon, American Theater Ribbon and Banner photo, JoYANNA LoVE THESE AWARDS and identification tag belong to Richard Tanksley from his time in the U.S. Army Air Corps. the Good Conduct medal. Jones said she didn’t realize right away what the photos were, “until I started getting all of them together, and then the devastation of the people, the [war refugee] children and all, is what hit me so hard.” She said she could not look through them all the first time. Later, she realized the small photos of her father seemed to fit with the USMC photos. When she started working to get her father his veterans’ benefits, she took a greater interest in the photos. Jones said even though he has Alzheimer’s, her father still remembers a big part of his story. WASHINGTON (AP) — A bomb squad safely destroyed a pressure cooker found in a “suspicious” vehicle left unattended Sunday afternoon on the National Mall near the U.S. Capitol building and the vehicle’s owner was located and arrested, a U.S. Capitol Police spokeswoman said. Police Lt. Kimberly A. Schneider told The Associated Press that Capitol Police officers on routine patrol spotted the parked, unoccupied vehicle on a street on the mall west of the Capitol around 5 p.m. Sunday. “Further investigation revealed a pressure cooker, and an odor of gasoline was detected,” Banner photo, JoYANNA LoVE Schneider said, adding a Capitol THIS DISPLAY in Ruth Ann Jones’ home Police bomb squad was called in pays tribute to her father Richard Tanksley’s because the vehicle was deemed “suspicious in nature.” service in World War II. She said the squad known as the Hazardous Devices Section destroyed “items of concern in “He’ll always tell my 8-year-old grand- the vehicle including the presdaughter, ‘I was in World War II,’” Jones sure cooker” at about 7:45 p.m. said. “If we could have just found these after temporarily closing off the sooner to where … we could ask him a area on the long Memorial Day few questions,” Jones said. holiday weekend. She did not Jones said her father worked at immediately identify the other Tennessee Enamel Company, and liked items but said only that “this safe to hunt in his spare time. She speculat- disruption produced a loud ed that he might have shared stories ‘bang.’ about his military service with hunting Asked by AP if the “disruption” buddies. involved controlled detonation of Tanksley will be 93 on his next birththe items, she said that was day. accurate. She also said that folMemorial Day serves as a time to prelow-up searching of the vehicle serve the memory and stories of those detected “nothing hazardous.” who have served in the military, both Her email said the suspicious dead and living. vehicle was investigated during a Memorial Day Concert in Washington though it was unclear how many people were nearby at the time. She said the bomb squad intervention came after authorities had set up a security perimeter around the site on 3rd Street in the nation’s capital. She said that street was temporarily closed between Independence Avenue and Constitution Avenue while authorities investigated. After the pressure cooker was destroyed, she said, police conducted a thorough “hand search” of the vehicle and concluded their investigation by about 8:20 p.m. “with negative results and nothing hazardous found.” Asked whether police had specifically identified any threat to public safety, Schneider told AP via email: “If we can’t determine whether or not an item is safe/dangerous, we’d have to treat it as dangerous until we determine otherwise. She added that was “why the items were safely disrupted, out of an abundance of caution.” She didn’t elaborate. She added that the vehicle owner was located and her statement identified him as Israel Shimeles of the Washington suburb of Alexandria, Virginia. The statement said Shimeles was arrested by Capitol Police and charged with “Operating After Revocation” and that he was being processed Sunday evening at the police headquarters building. Woman From Page 1 Contributed photo U.S. ARMY Spc. Jason Edens shares a last goodbye with his father and stepmother at the Nashville airport before leaving for deployment to Afghanistan. A stranger to the family, Heather Lucas, would later honor his sacrifice with her commemorative project. Contributed photo ASHLEY EDENS, the widow of U.S. Army Spc. Jason Edens, mourns as his casket is unloaded from an airplane following his death in 2012. The Edens family recently discovered Heather Lucas had honored their fallen loved one. plan. Lucas said she began to feel sorry for herself until one day, “out of nowhere,” she had another realization. Some do not get the chance to live to see their 30th birthday. “It’s a privilege denied to many,” Lucas said. Since the infamous Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, she said she has carried with her the knowledge war is real, and the United States keeping the freedoms it has today has required the sacrifices of many military personnel. With those sacrifices in mind, the Cleveland native and Walker Valley High School graduate later set out to launch a counseling career to help those people and their families cope with the results of those sacrifices, the kind of battles which happen in the States rather than just overseas. Having earned a master’s degree in marriage and family therapy from Trevecca Nazarene University in Nashville, she had not yet begun practicing her trade in the way she had hoped. Still, she said her faith in God meant she still felt “called” to help military families in one way or another. Working as a case manager and hospital liaison for veterans in Nashville, her mind went back to the veterans when she was busy lamenting what she had not accomplished before 30. She then decided she would celebrate her birthday by paying her respects to 30 veterans who didn’t live to see 30. The 30 were chosen after she searched the Internet and found a website with information about deceased veterans, narrowing it down by age, location and other factors. She said she wasn’t certain she could find the families of those individuals to thank them and let them know their sacrifices were not forgotten, but she could find their final resting places. Selecting the gravesites of Tennessee veterans stretching from her current Nashville home to Chattanooga, she made a list, wrote letters thanking the late troops and their families and set out with those and the roses in the de facto support-the-troops color, yellow. On a rainy day in the cemetery, a woman in a car pulled up to Lucas and asked why she was out in the elements with roses and letters. Lucas told her, and tears started to well up in the woman’s eyes. The driver revealed she was the mother of U.S. Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Richard A. Buerstetta. His was one of the graves Lucas had been to visit the same day. “We just embraced and held each other for a few minutes,” Lucas said. In a teary conversation, she learned the mother had on a whim decided to visit her son’s grave, still mourning his loss after almost 10 years. After she left the letters for all of them, she received several responses from the service personnel’s loved ones, allowing her to learn even more about the lives of the 30 who made the ultimate sacrifice before they turned 30. On April 8, the mother and grandparents of forever 23-year-old Woodlawn native Army Pfc. Jonathon Hall visited his grave in Chattanooga National Cemetery. It was the fifth anniversary of Hall’s death. He was hit by an improvised explosive device in Afghanistan on April 8, 2010. The once-fresh yellow rose was wilted and faded after having kept vigil by Hall’s tombstone for a month, but it and Lucas’ letters remained for the family to find. “This was very unusual, because fresh flowers are not allowed to remain at the gravesite for any length of time,” said his grandmother Jan Priddy. “It was evident that the flower had been at the site for a few Contributed photo RELATIVES of U.S. Army Pfc. Jonathon Hall discover letters and a yellow rose left by Heather Lucas at his grave in Chattanooga National Cemetery. Clockwise, from left, are grandmother Jan Priddy, grandfather Don Priddy and mother Robynn Harrison. weeks, but the caretakers of the cemetery had allowed it to remain.” Still resting in the plastic baggies meant to protect them from the rain, the letters the family found were addressed to the “hero” and to the “family of the hero.” “I cannot begin to tell you how this act of kindness and recognition of our ‘hero,’ Jonathon, encouraged us on this particular day,” Priddy said. Hall’s tombstone reads in part, “It is well with my soul. I rest in Jesus.” Though their loved one now rests away from them, the family was on the anniversary of his death able to rest assured he was not forgotten. Another mother, Cathy Odle, found one of Lucas’ letters while visiting her son’s grave. It was Mother’s Day, and she was there to remember her son, Manchester native U.S. Army Cpl. Brian J. Schoff. Having moved up to Michigan in 2010 after her son’s 2006 death, Odle had moved back to Tennessee in 2014, where her son was interred. “Being back stirred up a lot of emotions once again at particular holidays, with his birthday, which fell on Thanksgiving that year, and Mother’s Day always being the hardest for me,” Odle said. “So the letters happened to be extra special for me.” Jan Edens, the stepmother of U.S. Army Spc. Jason Edens of Franklin, also described finding the letters as being special. It was about a month after Lucas had placed them, but the letters and the rose remained intact, only a little bit wilted. “I sat in the chair I had carried to read them. With tears rolling down my cheeks, I felt warmth in her words,” Edens said. “I told Jason that we had a new friend. I was so proud of the letters, and I shared them with our family and friends.” Also on Lucas’ visitation list was fellow Cleveland native U.S. Army Sgt. David T. Weir, who lost his life on Sept. 14, 2006, at the age of 23, after sustaining serious injuries the day prior while serving in Iraq. He is interred in Chattanooga National Cemetery, one of Lucas’ stops throughout the state. Weir was the second young man Cleveland had lost in conflict in two years, as Army Pfc. James W. Price had passed away on Sept. 18, 2004, at the age of 22. It took her a few weeks after visiting the first graves on her birthday, but Lucas eventually made her way to all 30 of them. Along the way, she did what she could to learn about the lives of the fallen so she could get an idea of who they were — and who they might have been able to become had they lived. Each stop became a time for quiet and sometimes tearful contemplation as she paid her respects to the 30 young men and women whose lives were cut short at a young age. “Not a day goes by that I do not think about these 30 veterans,” Lucas said. “All I could think was that was somebody’s son, somebody’s brother and so on.” Some of the individuals whose graves she visited were as young as 19 and 20. She said she found herself wondering if they had ever had the opportunities to do things like fall in love. “I’m even more grateful for them now,” Lucas said. “It has been with a very heavy heart that I’ve visited these veterans. ... These parents would give anything to have their kid back for another day.” It is easy, she added, to look at the statistics of those who perished while serving their country and not feel the full weight of what those numbers mean. But statistics don’t always tell the kind of stories families hold in their hearts. All had hoped for stories to continue; some had made plans. For example, Lucas said she later learned the lone female soldier on her list — U.S. Army Chief Warrant Officer 2 Billie J. Grinder of Gallatin — had planned to help her sister pick out a wedding dress just two weeks after her unexpected death. The days following the deaths of those 30 who died before 30 have left their families pondering what could have been. Some on the receiving end of the gifts Lucas gave away on her birthday have said it has been a comfort to know their loved ones are not forgotten. Though many do not mean to, Lucas said many people tend to forget the pain of losing a loved one in combat does not go away after the funeral flowers have died. It can last for years and years, with every special day serving as a reminder there is one less person there to join the celebration — like the mother missing her son on Mother’s Day. “No one wants their loved ones forgotten, but I think it's especially hard when it is your child because other people will talk about their children’s life, which is as it should be,” Odle said. “When you can only talk about your child’s past and not their present or future ... well, it's just hard. ... Knowing that people continue to honor him and care about his family helps.” Priddy also described how her daughter, Hall’s mother, “is always concerned ... people will forget the sacrifice of her son.” She added actions like Lucas’ can still be a comfort even years after the death of a veteran. Lucas said she didn’t perform her tribute for the recognition, and all it took was a little thought and money for things like gas and roses. It mostly just took an idea, a desire to do what she could to help remember the fallen members of the military. “It does not take a lot to be kind and thoughtful to others,” Lucas said. “It’s my hope to inspire people to do the same — not just on a holiday but in the days between. “Be a source of comfort for those families that are out there. ... Live out the words, ‘You are not forgotten.’” www.clevelandbanner.com Cleveland Daily Banner—Monday, May 25, 2015—9 Warren From Page 1 stepfather and talk of written letters made it clear John was alive and well. “I heard he hitchhiked into Mount Pleasant on a milk truck,” Warren said. “When the driver asked him where he was going he said he’d know when he saw the house. Sure enough he saw a house that he felt drawn to. They were the Montgomery family. John told them, ‘The Lord sent me.’ Mr. Montgomery said, ‘If God sent you, we’re not sending you away.’ John worked on that ranch and became part of their family until he joined the Army during World War II.” Not long after that, the 9-yearold Madeline experienced something she did not discuss with anyone until her senior years. “It was strange. I’ll never forget it. I was running across a playground and I heard John call my name,” said Warren. “I looked around but he wasn’t there. The very next day I was out raking in the yard when a black limo pulled up. Men got out and walked up on our porch. They handed Mom a telegram. John was dead.” Details became fuzzy as Warren heard the news of the most painful moment of her young life. She said she kept asking herself, “What am I going to do? What am I going to do?” “This was the first time I had known real, deep sadness,” Warren admits. “I still have the telegram. It was Feb. 26, 1944. I kept remembering hearing him call me and wondering, maybe I was the last person he thought “I finally found the closure I was looking for. It was so satisfying. I never knew where John was — what his grave looked like or if anyone even took care of his gravesite. I left there so pleased. The trip was absolutely worth it. Years ago I felt my brother was the only one who cared for me. God has given me my son and grandson who cares for me. I feel so blessed. The void has been filled.” — Madeline Warren of? We were so close.” Warren would never see her brother again. He was killed in action and buried in a military cemetery in Italy. The family decided not to speak of the incident. Warren saw no grave, no memorial service, no American flag to symbolize his sacrifice, no photos — nothing to remember her beloved brother by except her cherished memories. No one could possibly imagine how this lack of closure would affect Warren throughout her adolescent years and into adulthood. She admitted, “I went for years thinking about him, missing him.” In 1984, Warren’s mother died, leaving her an old foot locker that she took home and stored away for the next 10 years before she ever opened it. In 1994, she opened her mother’s dusty old locker and the answers to a lifetime of questions were awaiting her to fulfill her final journey with John. “I was so amazed,” Warren confessed. “Here were all of these letters from my brother, a picture of him and a card postmarked Oct. 5, 1944.” Glavine From Page 1 gone to support local causes, the club’s gala has also funded international projects like missions to provide clean water to impoverished people in countries like Togo and Honduras. Including money raised so far from this year’s gala, Munford said the club has made “over a half million dollars” from its galas over the years. This marks the fifth the club has hosted such an event. “It’s so wonderful to be able to raise money and give it away,” Munford said. All the good the club has been able to do has been the result from the support of the Cleveland community and its generosity, the club president added. He explained this is the one time of year the club does “big work” to “make big ideas happen,” which will hopefully lead to “big rewards” as thousands of dollars make their way to charitable efforts. Still, he noted the club is in continued need of support as it raises funds to provide resources to organizations helping everyone from homeless families to children and adults with disabilities. That’s where Glavine comes into the picture. On Saturday, June 6, at 6 p.m. at the Cleveland Country Club, select guests will be able to join Glavine for a meet-and-greet reception while all attendees are able to bid in a silent auction. Then, at 7 p.m., the main event begins. It will feature a sitdown dinner, a live auction and a speech by Glavine himself. The former pitcher retired from professional baseball in 2009 and was inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame a few years later, in 2014. The accomplished left-handed pitcher boasts a Major League Baseball career spanning more than 20 years. Best known for his work with Atlanta, Glavine led his teams to 305 victories over the years. According to the Hall of Fame, only three other left-handed players in history can say they’ve won as many games. He pitched for the Braves from 1987 to 2002, contributing as a key starter to multiple division championships and four berths in the World Series. In 1995 he was named the World Series Most Valuable Player, and was the winning pitcher in Atlanta’s championship-clinching Game 6. In 2002, Glavine joined the New York Mets, a team for which he won 61 games in five seasons. During that stint, he earned his 300th win. In 2008, at the age of 42, he rejoined the Braves. However, he left the team the next year after he suffered injuries. Overall, his career included 2,607 strikeouts, 10 All-Star Game appearances, two Cy Young Awards and four Silver Slugger Awards. The 682 games he started over the course of his career rank Glavine 12th overall among professional baseball players, according to the Hall of Fame. Though his pitching accolades made him worthy of the Hall of Fame, Munford said Glavine is also an ace when it comes to supporting charitable efforts. Now a color commentator for Braves TV broadcasts, Glavine has used his influence to promote causes like Volunteers of America’s “Operation Backpack” program, the Rally Foundation, the CURE Childhood Cancer organization and the Georgia Transplant Foundation. “Tom Glavine is an outstanding baseball player and an outstanding person,” Munford said. “He likes the club’s mission. ... And I think we’ve got a great event.” He added there are still “several individual seats” left for the gala, and there may be an opportunity left for someone to sponsor a table. For more information or to purchase tickets, call 423-4320347 or visit www.bradleysunriserotary.com. That 1944 postcard was a notification by the government that the flag had arrived at the Rockwood post office and could be picked up, some 50 years ago. Half a century later and Warren was on her way to the post office to see if, by some modern miracle, that flag was somehow still there. She gave the postmaster the 50-year-old faded postcard. “The postmaster had been there for 18 years at the time,” Warren said. “He said he had seen a little box laying on top of a wire rack shelf when he first came to the post office, but never climbed up there to look at it. That was it. That flag had been in that box for 50 years!” Warren had letters revealing her brother earned the Purple Heart and three other medals of distinction for making the supreme sacrifice for his country, but no one had ever received them. In December 1996 Warren took her case to the Oak Ridge office of U.S. Rep. Zach Wamp, who made the matter a top priority. On Feb. 26, 1997, the president of the Veterans Support Group at the Department of Energy had them framed and on March 15, 1997, Wamp had the privilege of presenting them to Warren as the guest of honor during a special ceremony in Roane County. Wamp later wrote, “Few things I have done as a Congressman have meant more to me. Few moments have been as emotional. It is times like that night ... that all of us who enjoy the precious liberties our country offers should remember the sacrifices of Americans like John Galyon. They gave of themselves to the fullest measure so that we might be free.” “Finally, somebody has done something for him,” Warren said. The honor Wamp showed her 19year-old deceased brother who served in the Army with the Tank Destroyer Battalion was something Warren said she will never forget. As she read letter after letter, held her only photo of her beloved brother (with the Montgomery’s granddaughter on his lap), grasped the American flag sent half a century ago and embraced medals of honor in recognition of a brother who had earned a place in the heart of his country and countrymen, Warren tearfully found her long overdue closure. “When the article ran I got letters from people telling me they knew him as Tennessee John,” said Warren. “I received phone calls from people who said they remembered him because he smiled all the time, he was kind to everybody and he whistled all the time. One young man called to say his parents and grandparents remembered Tennessee John and wanted him to call me. “I even received a phone call from that little girl in the photo with John. Her name is Ann. She said she was 3 years old in the picture and she was in her 60s. The legacy he left of his kindness and how he was filled with love for people is still remembered decades later — he had to be outstanding to be remembered that way.” In 2010, Warren traveled overseas to honor her brother who was buried in Italy and to seek closure after more than 66 years of enduring a traumatic loss. Standing over his gravesite for the first time after longing to be near her brother for decades was “a wonderful” experience, according to Warren who traveled with her son John, daughter-in-law Yulia and their son, John. “It was overwhelming,” Warren said. “I wasn’t going to cry, but it really was overwhelming. It was so beautiful.” From the yellow roses with petals trimmed in red to the 21gun salute during the Memorial Day celebration at the SicilyRome American Cemetery in Nettuno, Italy, Warren said the celebration, the friendly people and the hospitality of the U.S. Embassy were everything she hoped they would be and more. “I finally found the closure I was looking for. It was so satisfying. I never knew where John was — what his grave looked like or if anyone even took care of his gravesite. I left there so pleased. The trip was absolutely worth it. Years ago I felt my brother was the only one who cared for me. God has given me my son and grandson who cares for me. I feel so blessed. The void has been filled.” With an old wound healed, Warren described her journey from childhood to finally stand- ing over her brother’s grave some 5,000 miles from home as a closure she never expected to have but, thanks to her son, has been resolved. Warren, now 80, said she will honor the memory of her precious brother and every veteran who sacrificed their lives as long as she lives, adding, “This is something we should always SUNDAY, JUNE 21 #1Dad#1Dad#1Dad#1Dad#1Dad#1Dad Dad (dad’s name if desired), you are the greatest! Thanks for all you do! Your names(s). #1Dad#1Dad#1Dad#1Dad#1Dad#1Dad #1Dad#1Dad#1Dad#1Dad#1Dad#1Dad Daddy, Happy Father’s Day! We love you! Your names(s). #1Dad#1Dad#1Dad#1Dad#1Dad#1Dad It’s as easy as 1-2-3 1) Write your special message below. 2) Count the words in your message (minimum 12 words). Multiply by 25¢ per word. 3) Enclose check, money order, Visa, Discover, American Express or Mastercard number. All messages must be prepaid. 4) Add $1.95 for each row of flowers. 5) Deadline is June 17 at 4:30 p.m. Message: Name: Address: City: Credit Card: CC Expiraton: Phone: Zip: E-mail or bring your message to: Father’s Day Tribute Cleveland Daily Banner P.O. Box 3600 Cleveland, TN 37320 Phone: (423) 472-5041 Fax: (423) 476-1046 classifieds@clevelandbanner.com Hero H e r o - aaaa ppe person e r s o n aad d m i r e d ffo for o r cco courage, ourage, aadmired ad aachievements c h i e v e m e n t s aaand n d nn noble o b l e qqu qqualities ualities an no This Memorial Day, we salute the heroes of our Armed Forces past and present for their courage and dedication to our country. Goins From Page 1 ing from a motorcycle accident at the time. The recovery process took more than a year and he was classified 4-F (unfit for service) in 1970. The Bill Norwood Service Award was created last year by the Southeast Tennessee Veterans Home Council. The award is named for its first recipient and is presented on an annual basis to a Bradley County or border county resident dedicated to serving veterans or veterans families. Heidel said anyone nominated for the recognition who was not selected would be considered again next year. “I do this now because I feel like I should do something for these guys. It’s the least I can do since I didn’t get to serve.” — Robert Lee Goins The recipient will receive a plaque and a certificate. The recipient’s name will also be added to a plaque of honorees displayed in the Bradley County Veterans Affairs Office. The SETVHC is working toward having a state veterans home in Bradley County. Voted Cleveland’s Best Funeral Home Two Years in a Row! 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ARIES (March 21-April 19): Problems will arise, but that doesn't mean you should quit. Don't get frustrated; get moving in whatever direction opens up. Try to make sure you are heading down a productive path. Once you reassess, you will also reconsider. TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Sticking to a budget and keeping life simple should be your focus. Put more effort into your home, family and plans to help raise your standard of living. Keeping domestic matters a priority will lead to family improvements. GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Bring about the changes that will help the people you care about most. Don't waste your time arguing when you should be trying to improve your surroundings. A proposal will turn out to be full of empty promises. Proceed with caution. CANCER (June 21-July 22): Rely on your intuition and emotions to lead you in the right direction. Don't let bureaucracy get the best of you. Look for loopholes and you will find a way to pursue your plans. Knowing what you are up against is half the battle. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): An emotional situation must not be allowed to take up your valuable time. Anger will not solve issues, but making changes that are good for you will. Stop putting things off. Once you get started, you will have no trouble getting things done. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): There will be opposition and accusations flying around. Your best defense will be to do a good job and offer a just and practical approach to whatever you do. Follow your heart. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Take control and get things done. Refuse to let a jealous colleague make you feel inadequate. Take it as a sign that you are on the right path and strive to do even better. Don't retaliate -- it will only make you look bad. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Money matters are improving, but that isn't a license to overspend. Look for a safe, long-term investment, or better yet, invest in your appearance, skills or future. Love and romance will improve your relationship with someone special as well as your personal life. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Don't share your ideas. Wait until your plans are underway and you have something concrete to offer. A change at home will give you a new lease on life. It's time for new beginnings. Chart your course and do not look back. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Bide your time and wait for someone else to make the first move. Once you have a clear picture of the situation that is unfolding, you will be in a better position to make the best choice for you. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Check out the job market. Pursue what you enjoy doing. You can turn a chore you do for your family into a service for others in your community. Don't sell yourself short. You've got talent that should help you earn extra income. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Be careful what you say and how you react. Not everyone will be as forgiving as you are. 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(Taped) Sydney ER Sydney ER Trauma: Life in the ER ’ Untold Stories of the E.R. ’ Obsessive Compulsive Hoarding: Buried Alive ’ Hoarding: Buried Alive (N) Hoarding: Buried Alive (N) Hoarding: Buried Alive ’ Hoarding: Buried Alive ’ 12—Cleveland Daily Banner—Monday, May 25, 2015 www.clevelandbanner.com David Letterman drives into retirement with Indy 500 tribute INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — David Letterman has a new No. 1 on his personal Top Ten list of reasons he loves the Indianapolis 500. The freshly retired Letterman was all grins early Sunday as his IndyCar team paid tribute to the former “Late Show” host by putting a gap-toothed, smiling caricature of his face and #thanksdave on driver Oriol Servia’s yellow car for the big race. “With everything that’s happened, it’s the highlight of my career,” Letterman said. “It’s crazy it’s the Indianapolis 500. Regrettable my face, but also my name on that car. It’s just delightful.” Letterman was dressed in a red shirt with a race sponsor “Steak ‘n Shake” logo. He promised Servia he would buy the burgers with an Indy win, but he can save his cash for retirement: Servia was knocked out of the running with an accident just past the halfway point of the race. But the race wasn’t a total bust for the team, with Graham Rahal finishing fifth in the Indy 500. “He assured me he would be around the track a lot more,” Rahal said of his usually absent owner. “At this stage in his life, he can enjoy himself a little bit and hopefully that means enjoying IndyCar racing.” Letterman was born and raised in Indianapolis, spending his younger years in the Broad Ripple section of town. He went to Ball State in Muncie, Indiana, and early in his career served as a pit reporter for ABC; search on YouTube for his interview of Mario Andretti after the former champion crashed out of the 1971 race. Letterman got into team owner- ship in the 1990s with former Indy 500 champion Bobby Rahal, and businessman Mike Lanigan came aboard to form what is now Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing. Letterman struck a friendship with Rahal after the retired driver appeared on his show after winning the 1986 Indy 500. Letterman could have filled an Indy 500 starting grid with all the series drivers he had on the show. Graham and Bobby Rahal were guests on “The Late Show” and the Indy 500 champion usually brought along the Borg-Warner Trophy. “I’m just really pissed off because he finished this week,” Servia joked. “He couldn’t wait until next week? Because usually the winner goes to his show.” Not this time, not after a that crash marred what had been a fun morning for the former host. It was easy to find the Rahal Letterman Racing spot in the Indianapolis Motor Speedway paddock: There was a red “Late Show with David Letterman” sign and the same grinning caricature that was featured on Servia’s car. Team members wore gray Tshirts with their own “Top Ten” list of reasons they love Letterman. Among them: Cries on the parade lap. Letterman was relaxed as he strolled through Indianapolis Motor Speedway, even inviting one fan over a barrier to sign autographs. “Are you nervous?” Servia asked. “No, I won’t be nervous until they start ‘em up and then I just get crazy nervous,” Letterman said. Not wanting to get left out of the father-son bonding of the Rahals, AP photo DAviD LettermAn, who ended his 33-year career as a late-night TV host Wednesday, waves to fans as he walks through the pit area before the 99th running of the Indianapolis 500 at Indianapolis Motor Speedway in Indianapolis on Sunday. Bottom: Graham Rahal, a member of the Rahal Letterman Lanigan racing team, poses wearing a Letterman tribute T-shirt before the start of the race. Letterman's IndyCar team paid tribute to the former "Late Show" host by putting a caricature of his face and a Twitter tribute on driver Oriol Servia's yellow car for Sunday's race. Letterman claimed Servia as his own offspring. “Yes, I sent away to one of those genetic testing places where they do the swab and it turns out he is in fact my son,” Letterman cracked. “Bobby and Graham are father and son. Oriol and I are the same.” Letterman ended his 33-year career as a late-night television host Wednesday. He presided over 6,028 broadcasts on CBS and NBC, making Top 10 lists and ironic humor staples of television comedy. Letterman joked that he needed “some kind of intravenous medication” to recover from the grind of the final weeks of his show. “Then the next day you feel a little bit better, and the next day you feel a little bit better,” said Letterman, whose team won the race in 2004 with Buddy Rice. “Now here we are. This is the pressure-cooker.” Letterman said he would watch the race from pit lane. At least he could find a seat, unlike the ones that were stripped from the Ed Sullivan Theater. Parts of Letterman’s set from his show’s home were quickly dumped in the trash and scooped by fans. “Not only did they take the set and tear it up, they took all the seats out of the theater two days later,” Letterman said. “What that does is remind you that it’s show business. It’s just show business. Thirty-three years, what do I care. Let them take the seats out, let them do anything they want. I wish Stephen Colbert nothing but the best.” Q&A: Boston Pops maestro Keith Lockhart on music, tech BOSTON (AP) — Keith Lockhart was just 35 and a musical wunderkind when he took over as conductor of the Boston Pops in 1995. Now in his 20th season, Lockhart has raised his baton 1,700 times to lead the group nicknamed “America’s Orchestra.” Along the way, he’s shared the stage with more than 250 guest artists as diverse as Aerosmith, Robert DeNiro and Big Bird. The Associated Press caught up with Lockhart in his office at Symphony Hall, dominated by a well-worn Hamburg Steinway piano that once belonged to Russian composer Serge Koussevitzky. Animated and fast-talking, the now 55-year-old maestro — free of his trademark tuxedo in a blue polo shirt and jeans — talked about the late B.B. King, the importance of making concerts interactive, and his past penchant for jumping out of cakes and coffins at Halloween and kids’ concerts. —AP: You’ve been at this for a while. What’s the best part of the job? Lockhart: It’s the instant recognition and affinity that people have for the ensemble. It’s kind of fun to be in an organization that has so much man-onthe-street recognition and appeal. We do a Fourth of July concert that has more people in attendance live than most orchestras see in their entire audience for a year. AP: You’ve made the music so accessible. How does your new “By Popular Demand” live voting thing work? Your audiences get to pick the music? Lockhart: I’m a total technical Luddite. I have a cellphone and I know how to use my email and get online, but that’s about it. The Pops has always been, to some extent, about what people want to hear. I thought it’d really be great if we could find some way to have the audience in real time choose the concert we’re going to do. AP: So you give them some choices and then they vote? Lockhart: Right. We’ve got 30 pieces of music, so they get three choices in each of 10 categories. We tried it the first time by asking the audience to pick their favorite “Bugs Bunny” musical moment. And as they vote on their smartphones or by sending a text, there’s a screen that displays the percentages. You see two going neck and neck, one pulling ahead, people yelling for their candidate, and eventually I call the vote and we play that piece for them. I expected this would be a fun little novelty. What I didn’t expect is the incredible enthusiasm and investment that people felt about being asked what they’d like to hear. It was electric. People were shouting for their candidates; booing the candidates they didn’t like; dancing in the aisles to the piece that won. One of the things in the live performance arts that we’re missing is this feeling of investment. We’re asking people to be there and passively accept what we give them. People feel a real need to be involved and to have people hear their voices. I think we’re on to something. AP: How do you navigate criticism from symphonic snobs that this is conduct unbecoming a conductor? Lockhart: American orchestral culture was starchy and elitist a century ago. But now I think it’s quite the opposite: You have traditional ensembles trying to find ways to be responsive to the needs of their audiences. AP: It’s quite astounding how many guest artists you’ve invited to share your stage. It’s such an eclectic list. Looking back, any favorites? Lockhart: I always hesitate on that. How do you say whether, you know, Martin Short or Steven Tyler was a better guest? I think some of the favorites were people who never worked in this world before. Someone like Buckwheat Zydeco — someone I don’t even think had ever seen an orchestra, much less performed live onstage with an orchestra. And some who were just so unabashedly nutty and fun. Steven Tyler does come to mind for that. And Cyndi Lauper. AP: Isn’t it a little like Bill Belichick inviting Jay Z to help him coach the Patriots? I couldn’t imagine that. Lockhart: Jay Z could imagine that. AP: Sadly, you’ll never get B.B. King. Lockhart: We almost worked with him. This was maybe a decade ago. He was all set to go to the Pops and he got ill, pulled out. We have a whole set of B.B. King charts in the library that were never used. I’m actually thinking we should find somebody who does a great B.B. King tribute and do a B.B. King moment. AP: So after all this, what do you do for an encore? Lockhart: There is no real encore to this job. On the limb of the tree I have chosen to walk out on, there is nothing further out. There’s no doubt that if you want to stay happy as a musician, you have to keep doing things that push you as a musician. The time to leave is when you feel like you’re running out of things to give. AP: No more jumping out of cakes? Lockhart: (Laughs.) That stuff is so funny. I’ve jumped out of a cake. I’ve come out of a coffin. I’ve rollerbladed onstage. I’ve entered the stage on an elephant. (Pause.) A real elephant. You know, everything’s appropriate to its place and time. —Online: http://www.bostonpops.org http://www.keithlockhart.com Kids! 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The chief of an elite unit in Iran’s Revolutionary Guard has accused the U.S. of having “no will” to stop the Islamic State group after the fall of the Iraqi city of Ramadi, an Iranian newspaper reported Monday. United Arab Emirates launches national space agency strategy ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The United Arab Emirates on Monday laid out a strategic framework for a newly created space agency that aims to integrate various arms of the Gulf federation’s burgeoning space industry. The seven-state federation, perhaps best known for its oil wealth and extravagant attractions like Dubai’s Palm-shaped islands and record-breaking Burj Khalifa skyscraper, is fast establishing itself as the Arab world’s leader in the space sector. The UAE Space Agency, created last year by presidential decree, aims to regulate and support the country’s space sector, which includes existing Earth-orbiting satellite programs and plans for a mission to Mars in 2020. Agency Chairman Khalifa Mohammed Thani al-Rumaithi said the space industry will help diversify the country’s economy and create highly skilled jobs for a growing youth population. “The United Arab Emirates is seeking to confirm its status as a spacefaring nation in which the industry plays a key role in sustainable economic development,” he told a gathering at an event rolling out the federal body in the capital, Abu Dhabi, that featured models of existing Emirati satellites and waiters serving space-themed canapés including hummus in metal squeeze tubes. Space technology is one of several high-tech industries the OPEC member nation is championing as a way to create jobs and diversify an economy still heavily dependent on oil. Thuraya, an Emirates-based satellite phone operator, was responsible for the country’s first commercial satellite, launched in 2000. The Emirates’ first government-backed satellite, an Earth-observation satellite known as DubaiSat-1, blasted into orbit atop a Russian rocket launched from Kazakhstan in 2009. It and the follow-up DubaiSat-2 were collaborations between Emirati engineers and a South Korean satellite firm. Abu Dhabi’s Al Yah Satellite Communications Co., better known as Yahsat, hopes to put its third satellite into orbit in 2016. Its first communications satellite was launched aboard an Arianespace rocket from French Guiana in 2011. The announcement comes less than three weeks after the Dubai-based team behind a 2020 mission to Mars announced that its probe will circle the planet studying its TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — The chief of an elite unit in Iran’s Revolutionary Guard has accused the U.S. of having “no will” to stop the Islamic State group after the fall of the Iraqi city of Ramadi, an Iranian newspaper reported Monday. The comments by Gen. Qassem Soleimani, the head of the Guard’s elite Quds unit, come just after U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter accused Iraqi forces of lacking the “will to fight” in an interview aired the day before. It wasn’t clear whether Soleimani’s remarks came as a direct response to Carter’s, though tensions remain high between the two countries amid negotiations over Iran’s contested nuclear program. The report in the daily newspaper Javan, which is seen as close to the Guard, quoted Soleimani as saying the U.S. didn’t do a “damn thing” to stop the extremists’ advance on Ramadi. “Does it mean anything else than being an accomplice in the plot?” he reportedly asked, later saying the U.S. showed “no will” in fighting the Islamic State group. Soleimani said Iran and its allies are the only forces that can deal with Islamic State group, “Today, there is nobody in confrontation with (the Islamic State group) except the Islamic Republic of Iran, as well as nations who are next to Iran or supported by Iran,” he said. U.S. officials, including Carter, have said Iraqi forces fled the Islamic State advance on Ramadi without fighting back, leaving behind weapons and vehicles for the extremists. So far, the American approach to the conflict has been to launch airstrikes as part of an international coalition it leads, as well as equipping and training Iraqi forces. Iran has offered advisers, including Soleimani, to direct Shiite militias fighting against the extremists. Iran has said it does not have combat troops fighting in Iraq, though some Revolutionary Guard members have been killed there. Meanwhile in Syria, activist said government warplanes conducted more than 15 air raids on the historic central town of Palmyra and nearby areas, leaving some dead or wounded. The air raids on Palmyra came a day after the government said that Islamic State fighters have killed more than 400 state employees, troops and pro-government gunmen since they captured the town Wednesday. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights and Osama al-Khatib, an activist from Palmyra who is now in Turkey, said the warplanes also struck near a building where archaeological pieces were placed before they were moved to safe areas. The activists said the air raids were mostly inside the town and far from the famous archaeological sites that are among the Middle East’s most spectacular. atmosphere, including changes over time and how surface features such as volcanoes, deserts and canyons affect it. Dubai ruler Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum said earlier this month that he hoped that probe, named “Hope,” will provide inspiration for the Arab world. It is the first Mars mission being attempted by any Arab country. Some 75 Emirati engineers are currently working on the Mars project, and officials hope to double that number by 2020. Aabar Investments, which is backed by the Abu Dhabi government, is a key investor in Richard Branson’s space tourism company, Virgin Galactic. It agreed to pump $280 million into the space startup in 2009 in exchange for a third of the company, and later raised its stake to 38 percent after agreeing to additional funding for the development of a satellite launch program. Its initial deal called for the development of a spaceport in Abu Dhabi. Virgin Galactic’s plans are now uncertain after its experimental rocket ship, SpaceShipTwo, broke apart in flight over California’s Mojave Desert in November. French president revives political duo with his ex PARIS (AP) — Someone has been appearing more and more often alongside French President Francois Hollande on official visits abroad and in high-level meetings in Elysee Palace. It’s no ordinary someone — it’s Segolene Royal, the president’s ex-partner and mother of his four children, and one of his most prominent government ministers. As minister for Ecology, Sustainable Development and Energy, Royal is playing a key role in France’s preparations to host a landmark U.N. conference on climate later this year. But her new omnipresence at Hollande’s side is rankling critics who say she’s playing an outsize role in presidential politics. Royal, 61, draws her special status from her personal relationship with the president — but also from her high-level political career. While Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign followed her husband’s presidency, in the Hollande-Royal political couple, it was Royal’s star that rose first. A heavy hitter in the Socialist Party, she ran for president in 2007, coming in second to Nicolas Sarkozy —the same year she announced her split from Hollande, after almost three decades together. Hollande then beat Sarkozy for the presidency in 2012. Royal’s nomination as minister came soon after Hollande’s separation from ex-first lady Valerie Trierweiler, who was said to be firmly opposed to seeing Royal enter the government. Following his tumultuous breakup with Trierweiler in January 2014 amid reports that he was having an affair with actress Julie Gayet, Hollande has made a point of keeping his sentimental life private. Hollande has never denied a relationship with Gayet, who remains invisible at the Elysee, though French media report that she secretly visits him. She has never accompanied the president on any official trip. On the contrary, Royal now appears at the French presi- dent’s side with increasing regularity. At a meeting this week with former U.S. Vice President Al Gore about climate change, Hollande greeted his American guest, then waited for Royal to arrive, so that she could join the photo op. French weekly Nouvel Observateur called her “The Vice President” in a cover story — a title that doesn’t officially exist in France. Such omnipresence prompted reaction from the ex-first lady. “They are inseparable. It goes beyond their children. They both share an immoderate taste for politics. Power is their reason for living, their mutual obsession,” Trierweiler told Le Parisien newspaper earlier this month. There’s no sign that Royal and Hollande are together again romantically. They take care to keep their relationship formal in public appearances. In a rare exception, Hollande evoked their former life together when Royal accompanied him on a long trip this month to the French Caribbean, Cuba and Haiti. Royal “made me believe for a long time that she was from Martinique,” he said in a speech to local politicians of the French island, where Royal lived for a few years as a child. The joke prompted loud applause by the audience — and knowing smiles exchanged between the president and his minister. Royal’s position is “rather incongruous,” said Vanessa Schneider, a Le Monde journalist and author of a book called “The Enigmatic Mr. Hollande: In the Corridors of the Elysee.” “Clearly, they share rather great complicity. We feel that they have great pleasure to see each other,” Schneider told The Associated Press. Away from photographers’ eyes, they kiss each other hello on the cheeks, in the French style, and chat a little bit before Cabinet meetings. Whenever she wants to talk to the president, Royal simply sends him text messages — a privilege shared by only a few close friends of Hollande. “She has a direct line to him. But at the same time, he’s not under her domination: I attended some situations where she made some demands and he answered no,” Schneider said. Polls routinely show Royal’s popularity is much higher than Hollande’s. Political commentators observe that the unpopular Hollande —who may seek a second term in 2017— may try to use Royal’s leverage in the perspective of the presidential race. She is especially “very popular in certain categories of the leftwing political base: youth and working-class people,” deputydirector of French poll institute Ifop Frederic Dabi said. “She could be a real asset.” We’re Online!!! Visit Our Web site At www.clevelandbanner.com Dignified Services at Realistic Prices! cookeshometowngrocer.com or find us on facebook 2415 Georgetown Road, NE 473-2620 14—Cleveland Daily Banner—Monday, May 25, 2015 www.clevelandbanner.com They gave their lives so we could live ours. Blessed is the man who perseveres under trial, because when he has stood the test, he will receive the crown of life that God has promised to those who love him. James 1:12 NIV Freedom and Life 472-1152 • ralphbuckner.com www.clevelandbanner.com Cleveland Daily Banner—Monday, May 25, 2015—15 SportS MONDAY Richard Roberts Sports Editor Phone 472-5041 or fax 614-6529 Sports@clevelandbanner.com Gordon says he will never run Indy 500 INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — The closest Jeff Gordon will ever come to leading the Indy 500 will be in the pace car. Despite retiring from NASCAR at the end of this season, the fourtime Sprint Cup champion said that “The Greatest Spectacle in Racing” will remain for him a dream, one he fulfilled in part by winning the Brickyard 400 and now by driving the pace car for Sunday’s race. “Would I have liked to at least run one Indianapolis 500, knowing what it’s like? Sure,” he said. “It won’t be happening, but I’d have liked to know what it’s like.” Gordon was chosen to lead the field of 33 cars to the green flag by Chevrolet, which makes the Corvette pace car. But it took some flexibility and understanding from his sponsors and NASCAR team owner Rick Hendrick to pull off his own version of “the double.” Gordon returned to drive in the Coca-Cola 600 in North Carolina on Sunday night after watching the first few laps of the Indy 500 with his family before flying south. Gordon didn’t lead any laps at Charlotte Motor Speedway and finished 15th. “We’ve seen guys compete in this race and still make it to Charlotte,” Gordon said. “I have my wife and kids here. I want them to see how fast these cars go through the corners. I want them to see at least a few laps.” Gordon made it back in plenty of time for the mandatory driver’s meeting in Charlotte and was eager to chase his fourth CocaCola 600 title in what’s expected to be the final Memorial Day weekend race of his NASCAR career. “It was a lot of fun up there” in Indianapolis, Gordon said before the Sprint Cup race. “But it’s great to be back here in Charlotte.” Gordon grew up in nearby Pittsboro, Indiana, and remembers watching the 500 and thinking to himself that there was always someone important pacing those high-tech cars to the start-finish line. “I remember when I was living in Indiana, pursuing other kinds of racing, and IndyCar was on the radar,” he said. “I went to several IndyCar races to be introduced to car owners and drivers and tried to get in my foot there. NASCAR was Juan’s World! Montoya beats Power for second Indy 500 victory AP photo CArL edwArds does a back flip from his car after winning the Sprint Cup Coca-Cola 600 at Charlotte Motor Speedway in Concord, N.C., Sunday. INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — His career at a crossroads, his confidence shot, Juan Pablo Montoya received a lifeline from The Captain. Roger Penske called the driver in late 2013, when Montoya found himself without a job after seven frustrating seasons in NASCAR that had turned one of the baddest drivers on the planet into a struggling also-ran. The catch? Penske’s offer was a return to Indy cars, which Montoya had left behind years ago. The Colombian jumped at the opportunity and cashed in on it Sunday with his second Indianapolis 500 victory. The first one was 15 years ago and a stepping stone to Formula One. The second one came for a 39year-old man who proved JPM is back. In a moment of sincerity following his win, flanked by Team Penske President Tim Cindric, Montoya briefly suggested how much this one meant to him. “I’m glad I am proving them right, that they made the right choice,” he said, pausing and lowering his eyes. “I’m loving racing right now.” Oh, that was evident for two weeks at Indianapolis Motor Speedway, where Montoya confidently boasted to his three teammates that he’d win the race. On Sunday, he twice drove from the back of the field and fearlessly charged into the final few laps as the leader in a race where few wanted to be out front with the checkered flag looming, and held off teammate Will Power. That 2000 victory was easy, he’s always said so, and when a driver leads 167 of the 200 laps, it clearly was a relaxed Sunday drive. Win No. 2 was a battle from the very beginning. Montoya started 15th but an accident on the first lap brought out the caution and Montoya was hit from behind by Simona de Silvestro under yellow. He had to pit to repair the damage and restarted second-to-last in the field. After working his way back through the field, he was penalized for running over his air hose during a pit stop — and again was sent deep into the pack. “Montoya coming from all the way in the back — I’ll tell you, you give that guy the bit and put it in his mouth ... he doesn’t give up,” Penske said. His victory gave Penske his 16th Indianapolis 500 win, and first since Helio Castroneves in 2009. Penske also joined Chip Ganassi as the only owners to win the Daytona 500 and the Indianapolis 500 in the same year. Ganassi did it in 2010; Joey Logano won the Daytona 500 for Penske in February. The 15 years between Indy 500 victories are a record for a driver, See INDY 500, Page 16 Edwards races to first victory for new team CONCORD, N.C. (AP) — Even a master strategist like Joe Gibbs wasn’t sure his team made the right call. The Super Bowl-winning coach, owner of Joe Gibbs Racing, had followed driver Denny Hamlin who was on top down the stretch in the CocaCola 600. But when Hamlin went to the pits to fix a wheel vibration, Gibbs saw team newcomer Carl Edwards was out front as his fuel was dwindling down. “I turned around with nine to go and said, ‘We can’t make this, can we?’” Gibbs said. Yes, they could. Edwards outlasted Greg Biffle over the final 20 laps to win the Coca-Cola 600 and take his first victory since joining JGR this season. “I just had this feeling that we were gearing up for some really great stuff,” Edwards said. “I guess for me, it’s relief because I don’t have to worry about the points.” Edwards is the third Gibbs racer with a victory this season, joining Matt Kenseth and Denny Hamlin as likely entrants for the 10-race, endof-the-season championship chase. Still, it took crew chief Darian Grubb’s call to pit earlier than most and stay out on the track See EDWARDS, Page 16 See GORDON, Page 17 AP photo JuAn PAbLo montoyA leads Will Power into the first turn on the 198th lap on his way to winning the 99th running of the Indianapolis 500 at Indianapolis Motor Speedway in Indianapolis, Sunday. Foltynewicz pitches into 8th in Braves’ win over Brewers ATLANTA (AP) — Atlanta rookie Mike Foltynewicz had command of his pitches, and that gave him the edge he needed to top Jimmy Nelson and the Milwaukee Brewers. Foltynewicz threw three-hit ball for 7 2-3 innings, leading the Braves over Nelson and the Brewers 2-1 Sunday. Foltynewicz (3-1) allowed one run in his longest start in the majors. He struck out seven with only one walk. “He was dominant, really, the whole game,” Braves manager Fredi Gonzalez said. “It was a nice AP photo start to build on.” AtLAntA’s AndreLton simmons drives in a run with a base hit against the Milwaukee Brewers, Nelson (2-5) couldn’t overcome five walks, including two in the in the sixth inning Sunday at Atlanta’s Turner Field. Braves’ two-run sixth. “Terrible,” Nelson said. “My command was bad and I didn’t make pitches when I needed to.” Jason Grilli struck out three in the ninth for his 13th save. Nelson matched Foltynewicz through five scoreless innings but couldn’t keep pace in the sixth, when the Braves scored two runs on two walks and two hits, including Andrelton Simmons’ RBI single. Foltynewicz kept his pitch count down early, throwing only 52 through five innings. “We just couldn’t get anything going against him,” Brewers manager Craig Counsell said. “He’s got a good fastball and we were hav- ing quick at-bats. He was just good.” The three hits and one run allowed were career lows for Foltynewicz, who said, “I’ve felt better in previous starts.” The Braves (22-21) won three of four in the series to move over .500 for the first time since April 27. The 23-year-old Foltynewicz was one of three players acquired by Atlanta in the offseason trade that sent Evan Gattis to Houston. He was called up from Triple-A Gwinnett on May 1. He lowered his ERA from 5.32 to 4.25. Nelson, who grew up in Florida See BRAVES, Page 17 LeBron’s triple-double helps Cavs top Hawks in thriller CLEVELAND (AP) — LeBron James dropped to his knees and slapped the floor with his hand. He was exhausted and exhilarated — and one win from the NBA Finals. James shook off an atrocious shooting start and withstood Atlanta’s gritty comeback to record a triple-double, and the Cleveland Cavaliers took a 3-0 lead in the Eastern Conference finals with a 114-111 win in overtime on Sunday night over the Hawks. James missed his first 10 shots, but finished with 37 points, 18 rebounds and 13 assists. The Cavs needed every single one of them to hold off the top-seeded Hawks, who fought Cleveland until the final seconds despite being without injured shooter Kyle Korver and losing Al Horford, who was ejected in the first half. James, who favored his right leg for most of the fourth quarter and OT, hit a 3-pointer with 36.4 seconds left to put the Cavs ahead by one, and the superstar dropped a runner with 12.8 left to make it 114-111. “He just wouldn’t let us lose,” coach David Blatt said. Atlanta had two chances to tie it in the final seconds, but Shelvin Mack missed two 3-pointers. When the final horn sounded, James collapsed to the floor and had to be helped to his feet by his teammates. It was their turn to carry him. “Started out the game just out of character, out of rhythm. But I had to make a difference,” James said. “It’s a great feeling to be able to make plays for your teammates. I’m happy I was able to make a few.” James will have just one day to rest up before the Cavs try to earn their second Finals trip — and the fifth in a row for James — in Game 4 on Tuesday night. Jeff Teague scored 30 points and Paul Millsap 22 for the Hawks, who scratched and clawed for 53 minutes. Down 10 in the fourth, the Hawks showed championship toughness and nearly pulled off a win that would have guaranteed them another home game on Thursday. They’ll have to dig deep again, and they are facing long odds to win the series as no NBA team has ever overcome a 3-0 deficit. “I’m very proud of the way our guys competed,” coach Mike Budenholzer said. Teague dropped a nasty, stepback jumper with 55 seconds left to put the Hawks up 111-109, but James answered — following an offensive rebound by Tristan Thompson — to knock down a corner 3 like the one he made at the buzzer to beat Chicago in the second round, making it 112-111 with 36.4 seconds left. James then hit his runner over Millsap and the Cavs and 20,000 fans held their breath as Mack took two cracks at the rim. The Cavs were again missing All-Star guard Kyrie Irving, sidelined for his second straight game with an injured left knee. But Cleveland has James, and even on a night when his shot wasn’t falling, he carried the Cavs, who can earn their first trip to the Finals since James took them there in 2007. Matthew Dellavedova and J.R. Smith added 17 points apiece for Cleveland. The Hawks took a one-point lead into third quarter when James decided to seize control of the game. He recorded 15 points, six rebounds and six assists in the period as Cleveland went ahead by 10. Already in a bind, the Hawks were dealt another major blow when Horford was ejected in the final minute of the first half for AP photo throwing an elbow at CLeveLAnd CAvALier Dellavedova’s head. As the two hustled for a loose Tristan Thompson is hit by ball on the floor, Dellavedova Atlanta’s Mike Scott during Game See HAWKS, Page 17 3 of the Eastern Conference finals Sunday, in Cleveland. 16—Cleveland Daily Banner—Monday, May 25, 2015 www.clevelandbanner.com SCOREBOARD On aIr Tv sportsWatch monday, may 25 GOlF 4 p.m. TGC — NCAA, Division I, Women’s Championship, individual stroke play final round, at Bradenton, Fla. maJOr leaGUe BaseBall 1 p.m. ESPN — Kansas City at N.Y. Yankees 4 p.m. ESPN — Detroit at Oakland 8 p.m. MLB — Regional coverage, Atlanta at L.A. 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Dodgers (B.Anderson 2-2), 8:10 San Diego (T.Ross 2-4) at L.A. Angels (Weaver 3-4), 9:05 Tuesday’s Games Miami (Undecided) at Pittsburgh (Locke 2-2), 7:05 Washington (Zimmermann 4-2) at Chicago Cubs (Hendricks 1-1), 7:05 Colorado (J.De La Rosa 1-2) at Cincinnati (Lorenzen 1-1), 7:10 Philadelphia (Williams 3-4) at N.Y. Mets (deGrom 5-4), 7:10 San Francisco (Bumgarner 5-2) at Milwaukee (Garza 2-6), 8:10 Arizona (Bradley 2-1) at St. Louis (Jai.Garcia 0-1), 8:15 San Diego (Despaigne 2-3) at L.A. Angels (Shoemaker 3-4), 10:05 Atlanta (Teheran 4-1) at L.A. Dodgers (Kershaw 2-3), 10:10 american league east division W l Pct GB 24 21 .533 — 22 22 .500 1½ 21 23 .477 2½ 19 22 .463 3 20 26 .435 4½ Central division W l Pct GB Kansas City 28 15 .651 — Minnesota 25 18 .581 3 Detroit 26 19 .578 3 Cleveland 20 23 .465 8 Chicago 19 22 .463 8 West division W l Pct GB Houston 29 16 .644 — Los Angeles 22 22 .500 6½ Texas 21 23 .477 7½ Seattle 20 23 .465 8 Oakland 16 30 .348 13½ saturday’s Games Texas 15, N.Y. Yankees 4 Seattle 3, Toronto 2 Houston 3, Detroit 2 Cleveland 2, Cincinnati 1 Minnesota 4, Chicago White Sox 3 Oakland 5, Tampa Bay 0 Miami 1, Baltimore 0, 13 innings Boston 8, L.A. Angels 3 Kansas City 3, St. Louis 2, 6 innings sunday’s Games Toronto 8, Seattle 2 Houston 10, Detroit 8 Miami 5, Baltimore 2 Cleveland 5, Cincinnati 2 Oakland 7, Tampa Bay 2 Boston 6, L.A. Angels 1 Minnesota 8, Chicago White Sox 1 St. Louis 6, Kansas City 1 Texas 5, N.Y. Yankees 2 monday’s Games Kansas City (Guthrie 4-2) at N.Y. Yankees (Eovaldi 3-1), 1:05 Houston (Keuchel 6-0) at Baltimore (W.Chen 1-3), 1:35 Boston (J.Kelly 1-3) at Minnesota (Nolasco 4-1), 2:10 Detroit (Greene 4-2) at Oakland (Hahn 1-4), 4:05 Texas (Klein 1-0) at Cleveland (Marcum 1-0), 4:10 Chicago White Sox (Noesi 0-3) at Toronto (Hutchison 3-1), 7:07 Seattle (Elias 1-1) at Tampa Bay (Odorizzi 3-4), 7:10 San Diego (T.Ross 2-4) at L.A. Angels (Weaver 3-4), 9:05 Tuesday’s Games Houston (Feldman 3-4) at Baltimore (Tillman 2-5), 7:05 Kansas City (D.Duffy 2-3) at N.Y. Yankees (Warren 2-3), 7:05 Chicago White Sox (Danks 2-4) at Toronto (Dickey 2-5), 7:07 Seattle (Happ 3-1) at Tampa Bay (Colome 3-1), 7:10 Texas (W.Rodriguez 2-2) at Cleveland (Salazar 5-1), 7:10 Boston (Buchholz 2-5) at Minnesota (Pelfrey 3-1), 8:10 Detroit (Price 3-1) at Oakland (Chavez 1-4), 10:05 San Diego (Despaigne 2-3) at L.A. Angels (Shoemaker 3-4), 10:05 Tampa Bay New York Boston Baltimore Toronto Jeff Overton (34), $31,525 Patrick Reed (34), $31,525 Boo Weekley (34), $31,525 Paul Casey (24), $18,993 Jason Dufner (24), $18,993 Lucas Glover (24), $18,993 Ryo Ishikawa (24), $18,993 Martin Laird (24), $18,993 Geoff Ogilvy (24), $18,993 Scott Piercy (24), $18,993 Vijay Singh (24), $18,993 Brendon Todd (24), $18,993 Cameron Tringale (24), $18,993 Graham DeLaet (16), $14,976 Martin Flores (16), $14,976 Billy Hurley III (16), $14,976 Hunter Mahan (16), $14,976 Jhonattan Vegas (16), $14,976 Bryce Molder (12), $14,365 Carlos Ortiz (12), $14,365 Kevin Streelman (12), $14,365 Daniel Summerhays (12), $14,365 Zac Blair (8), $13,910 Steve Flesch (8), $13,910 Brian Stuard (8), $13,910 Angel Cabrera (4), $13,390 Whee Kim (4), $13,390 Scott Pinckney (4), $13,390 Alex Prugh (4), $13,390 Jimmy Walker (4), $13,390 a-Gunn Yang, $0 Ben Crane (1), $12,935 Andres Gonzales (1), $12,935 67-73-70-66—276 70-69-68-69—276 64-69-71-72—276 69-71-69-69—278 68-72-67-71—278 70-71-69-68—278 64-74-69-71—278 69-68-72-69—278 69-70-70-69—278 70-69-68-71—278 69-66-69-74—278 70-67-71-70—278 68-70-71-69—278 70-68-67-74—279 72-69-68-70—279 70-70-69-70—279 67-71-71-70—279 68-73-68-70—279 72-68-68-72—280 70-70-69-71—280 71-69-66-74—280 68-71-68-73—280 66-71-70-74—281 71-69-68-73—281 71-69-70-71—281 70-71-70-71—282 72-68-71-71—282 70-70-67-75—282 72-69-70-71—282 72-66-72-72—282 67-70-71-74—282 66-73-72-72—283 68-73-70-72—283 -4 -4 -4 -2 -2 -2 -2 -2 -2 -2 -2 -2 -2 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 E E E E +1 +1 +1 +2 +2 +2 +2 +2 +2 +3 +3 sunday at French lick resort, The Pete dye Course French lick, Ind. Purse: $2.75 million Yardage: 7,147; Par: 72 Final Colin Montgomerie, $495,000 72-69-70-69—280 Esteban Toledo, $297,000 74-68-73-69—284 Woody Austin, $187,000 73-71-72-69—285 Brian Henninger, $117,500 74-67-74-71—286 Scott Verplank , $117,500 73-72-70-71—286 Bernhard Langer, $90,000 73-72-69-74—288 Jeff Sluman, $77,500 74-73-73-69—289 Tom Pernice, Jr., $77,500 73-73-71-72—289 Marco Dawson, $65,000 77-72-73-68—290 Mark McNulty, $65,000 77-74-70-69—290 Sandy Lyle, $65,000 75-71-70-74—290 Steve Jones, $65,000 78-70-68-74—290 Kirk Triplett, $49,750 76-74-70-71—291 Roger Chapman, $49,750 79-70-71-71—291 Joe Durant, $49,750 75-71-73-72—291 Kevin Sutherland, $49,750 75-74-70-72—291 Russ Cochran, $37,000 73-77-72-71—293 Olin Browne, $37,000 79-69-71-74—293 Jerry Haas, $37,000 73-74-72-74—293 Peter Senior, $37,000 75-74-70-74—293 Paul Goydos, $37,000 75-70-72-76—293 Barry Lane, $27,000 72-76-74-72—294 Kiyoshi Murota, $27,000 73-74-73-74—294 Joel Edwards, $27,000 76-70-73-75—294 Jeff Maggert, $27,000 76-73-69-76—294 Duffy Waldorf, $18,500 73-74-76-72—295 Bart Bryant, $18,500 72-74-76-73—295 Grant Waite, $18,500 74-76-72-73—295 Rocco Mediate, $18,500 76-74-71-74—295 Michael Allen, $18,500 76-72-73-74—295 Jerry Smith, $18,500 73-77-70-75—295 Tom Lehman, $18,500 73-67-78-77—295 Chien-Soon Lu, $18,500 76-72-70-77—295 Rod Spittle, $12,000 77-75-75-69—296 Billy Andrade, $12,000 72-78-73-73—296 Jesper Parnevik, $12,000 78-71-71-76—296 Massy Kuramoto, $12,000 71-72-76-77—296 Jean Francois Remesy, $12,000 72-72-74-78—296 Skip Kendall, $12,000 74-72-71-79—296 Chip Beck, $9,000 76-73-76-72—297 Willie Wood, $9,000 76-74-75-72—297 Anders Forsbrand, $9,000 77-74-73-73—297 Lee Rinker, $9,000 73-78-73-73—297 Christopher Williams, $9,000 75-71-76-75—297 Peter Fowler, $7,000 77-67-80-74—298 Mark O’Meara, $7,000 75-76-72-75—298 Jeff Hart, $7,000 73-78-71-76—298 Eddie Kirby, $7,000 74-77-71-76—298 Ian Woosnam, $7,000 76-73-68-81—298 Mark Brooks, $6,050 78-73-74-74—299 Scott Dunlap, $6,050 78-73-74-74—299 Jay Haas, $6,050 76-71-77-75—299 Sonny Skinner, $5,600 77-75-76-72—300 Joey Sindelar, $5,600 75-76-76-73—300 Tommy Armour, III, $5,600 80-72-73-75—300 Greg Bruckner, $5,600 78-74-72-76—300 Mike Goodes, $5,600 75-75-72-78—300 Gary Hallberg, $5,058 76-76-78-71—301 Philip Golding, $5,058 75-77-75-74—301 Steve Pate, $5,058 77-74-74-76—301 John Riegger, $5,058 76-74-74-77—301 David Frost, $5,058 73-73-77-78—301 Rick Schuller, $5,058 78-72-73-78—301 Marc Farry, $4,775 77-75-74-76—302 Nick Faldo, $4,775 76-75-71-80—302 Jay Don Blake, $4,650 76-75-79-74—304 Scott Hoch, $4,650 74-77-74-79—304 John Cook, $4,650 79-69-75-81—304 Andre Bossert, $4,525 79-72-76-79—306 Paul Wesselingh, $4,525 74-75-76-81—306 Jim Estes, $4,400 81-71-77-78—307 Yutaka Hagawa, $4,400 75-77-77-78—307 Gene Fieger, $4,400 75-75-78-79—307 Kirk Hanefeld, $4,300 77-71-81-80—309 John DalCorobbo, $4,250 76-76-77-84—313 Todd McCorkle, $4,200 78-74-81-83—316 -8 -4 -3 -2 -2 E +1 +1 +2 +2 +2 +2 +3 +3 +3 +3 +5 +5 +5 +5 +5 +6 +6 +6 +6 +7 +7 +7 +7 +7 +7 +7 +7 +8 +8 +8 +8 +8 +8 +9 +9 +9 +9 +9 +10 +10 +10 +10 +10 +11 +11 +11 +12 +12 +12 +12 +12 +13 +13 +13 +13 +13 +13 +14 +14 +16 +16 +16 +18 +18 +19 +19 +19 +21 +25 +28 Champions Tour senior PGa Championship Par scores Contributed photo The Cleveland BassmasTers held a tournament on Nickajack Lake, May 23. The winners were, from left, first place and big fish, Scott Jones; second place Dewayne Lowe; and third place, Alvin Howard. Wednesday, may 20 Tampa Bay 6, N.Y. Rangers 5, OT Thursday, may 21 Anaheim 2, Chicago 1 Friday, may 22 N.Y. Rangers 5, Tampa Bay 1 saturday, may 23 Chicago 5, Anaheim 4, 2OT, series tied 2-2 sunday, may 24 Tampa Bay 2, N.Y. Rangers 0, Tampa Bay leads series 3-2 monday, may 25 Chicago at Anaheim, 9 p.m. Tuesday, may 26 N.Y. Rangers at Tampa Bay, 8 p.m. Wednesday, may 27 Anaheim at Chicago, 8 p.m. Friday, may 29 x-Tampa Bay at N.Y. Rangers, 8 p.m. saturday, may 30 x-Chicago at Anaheim 8 p.m. IndY 500 Indianapolis 500 results COnFerenCe FInals (Best-of-7; x-if necessary) saturday, may 16 N.Y. Rangers 2, Tampa Bay 1 sunday, may 17 Anaheim 4, Chicago 1 monday, may 18 Tampa Bay 6, N.Y. Rangers 2 Tuesday, may 19 Chicago 3, Anaheim 2, 3OT sunday at Indianapolis motor speedway Indianapolis, Ind. lap length: 2.5 miles (starting position in parentheses) 1. (15) Juan Pablo Montoya, Dallara-Chevrolet, 200, Running. 2. (2) Will Power, Dallara-Chevrolet, 200, Running. 3. (14) Charlie Kimball, Dallara-Chevrolet, 200, Running. 4. (1) Scott Dixon, Dallara-Chevrolet, 200, Running. 5. (17) Graham Rahal, Dallara-Honda, 200, Running. 6. (8) Marco Andretti, Dallara-Honda, 200, Running. 7. (5) Helio Castroneves, Dallara-Chevrolet, 200, Running. 8. (10) J.R. Hildebrand, Dallara-Chevrolet, 200, Running. 9. (9) Josef Newgarden, Dallara-Chevrolet, 200, Running. 10. (3) Simon Pagenaud, Dallara-Chevrolet, 200, Running. 11. (7) Sebastien Bourdais, Dallara-Chevrolet, 200, Running. 12. (31) Ryan Briscoe, Dallara-Honda, 200, Running. 13. (24) Takuma Sato, Dallara-Honda, 200, Running. 14. (23) Townsend Bell, Dallara-Chevrolet, 200, Running. 15. (16) Ryan Hunter-Reay, Dallara-Honda, 200, Running. 16. (26) Gabby Chaves, Dallara-Honda, 200, Running. 17. (20) Alex Tagliani, Dallara-Honda, 200, Running. 18. (19) James Jakes, Dallara-Honda, 200, Running. 19. (18) Simona de Silvestro, Dallara-Honda, 200, Running. 20. (11) Carlos Munoz, Dallara-Honda, 200, Running. 21. (6) Justin Wilson, Dallara-Honda, 199, Running. 22. (25) Pippa Mann, Dallara-Honda, 197, Running. 23. (27) Sebastian Saavedra, Dallara-Chevrolet, 175, Contact. 24. (28) Jack Hawksworth, Dallara-Honda, 175, Contact. 25. (29) Stefano Coletti, Dallara-Chevrolet, 175, Contact. 26. (4) Tony Kanaan, Dallara-Chevrolet, 151, Contact. 27. (33) James Davison, Dallara-Honda, 116, Mechanical. 28. (32) Tristan Vautier, Dallara-Honda, 116, Mechanical. 29. (13) Oriol Servia, Dallara-Honda, 112, Contact. 30. (12) Ed Carpenter, Dallara-Chevrolet, 112, Contact. 31. (30) Bryan Clauson, Dallara-Chevrolet, 61, Contact. 32. (21) Sage Karam, Dallara-Chevrolet, 0, Contact. 33. (22) Conor Daly, Dallara-Honda, 0, Mechanical. race statistics Winners average speed: 161.341. Time of Race: 3:05:56.5286. Margin of Victory: 0.1046 seconds. Cautions: 6 for 47 laps. Lead Changes: 37 among 10 drivers. Lap Leaders: Dixon 1-18, Kanaan 19-20, Dixon 21, Kanaan 22-25, Dixon 26-34, Pagenaud 35-36, Power 37-38, Montoya 39-40, Dixon 41-66, Pagenaud 67-70, Dixon 71, Pagenaud 72, Kanaan 73-74, Dixon 75, Kanaan 76-97, Pagenaud 98-99, Castroneves 100-101, Pagenaud 102-123, Power 124, Pagenaud 125, Dixon 126-127, Pagenaud 128, Dixon 129148, Pagenaud 149-150, Kimball 151-152, Tagliani 153-154, Kimball 155-162, Dixon 163-164, Montoya 165-166, Dixon 167-169, Munoz 170-172, Wilson 173-174, Power 175-186, Dixon 187, Power 188-191, Montoya 192, Power 193-196, Montoya 197-200. Points: Montoya 272, Power 247, Dixon 211, Castroneves 206, Rahal 204, Newgarden 173, Bourdais 161, Kimball 160, there, we came out in front.” Edwards hadn’t won in 31 races since June 2014 at Sonoma. He ended his long association with Roush Fenway Racing this past offseason, hoping for bigger things with JGR. He got it at Charlotte Motor Speedway after shuffling in front as most of his competitors needed green-flag pit stops close to the end. Most figured Edwards would have to stop, too, but he remained on the track and cruised to his first victory at Charlotte. Greg Biffle was second, followed by Dale Earnhardt Jr., pole-sitter Matt Kenseth and Martin Truex Jr., who had his 11th top-10 finish in 12 events this season. Edwards parked his car, did his signature back flip and rushed into the waiting arms of his crew, all jumping around in celebration. He climbed into the stands to grab the checkered flag before heading to victory lane. The win gave JGR a Charlotte sweep after Denny Hamlin won the All-Star Race on May 16th. Hamlin looked like he might gain the sweep on his own, leading the pack with less than 50 laps remaining. But Hamlin felt a vibration in a wheel and had no choice but to head to the pits to straighten out — costing him his chance at the victory. Hamlin finished eighth, then went to the care center to get checked out of complaining of migraine headaches. He returned to congratulate Later, as Montoya began the traditional victory lap around the 2.5mile track in a convertible, Ganassi stopped the car to give Montoya a hug, smile and thumbs up. “We’re still good friends. He made a business decision and that’s what it was,” Montoya said of his former boss. “He brought his A-game, and we did as well.” It was thought that the leader on the final lap would be a sitting duck, but Montoya didn’t care as he charged past Power with three laps remaining and stayed out front when it counted. “Montoya got that last run and maybe I was a bit nice to him into (turn) 1 and lifted,” said Power. “That was some serious racing there, a lot of fun.” Montoya, sometimes a surly and scowling veteran, grinned ear-to-ear Sunday as he reveled in his return to relevance. He’s the IndyCar Series points leader and now has two wins this season. “This is what racing in IndyCar is all about — awesome racing all the way down to the wire,” said Montoya, who won just two Sprint Cup Series races in seven seasons driving for Ganassi in NASCAR. Montoya led just nine total laps — far fewer than the race-high 84 by pole-sitter Dixon — but he only had to be out front for the one that mattered. Chevrolet, which has dominated both the entire month at Indianapolis and this IndyCar season, took the top four spots and eight of 10. Graham Rahal and Marco Andretti finished fifth and sixth to represent Honda, which grossly underperformed the entire month in the speedway debut of the new aerokits. The body work designs by the two manufacturers have been under scrutiny since three cars — all Chevys — went airborne during practice last week. The driver James Hinchcliffe suffered a lifethreatening leg injury in an unrelated crash and he has been hospitalized since Monday. With a genuine concern about cars taking flight lingering over the race, IndyCar wasn’t sure that a quick fix a week ago had truly solved the problem. But, the race had no issues aside from typical racing accidents, including one that gave Sebastian Saavedra a contusion to his foot. There were some pit road incidents involving crew members, and one of Dale Coyne Racing’s crew members went to a local hospital with an ankle injury after he was struck by James Davison during pit stops. Castroneves, one of the drivers to go airborne last week, said the final 15 laps of racing was too dangerous. “I’d rather go airborne than get to the last 15 laps of this race just to see the level of aggressiveness,” he said. “I am not happy with these guys. I don’t care if they crash each other they can go ahead and hurt themselves, but when they put me into that scenario that is when I get upset.” GOlF Crowne Plaza Invitational at Colonial Par scores sunday at Colonial Country Club Fort Worth, Texas Purse: $6.5 million Yardage: 7,204; Par 70 Final a-amateur Chris Kirk (500), $1,170,000 68-69-65-66—268 Jason Bohn (208), $485,333 69-69-68-63—269 Brandt Snedeker (208), $485,333 67-69-66-67—269 Jordan Spieth (208), $485,333 64-73-67-65—269 Adam Hadwin (93), $220,350 69-66-69-66—270 Kevin Kisner (93), $220,350 67-69-67-67—270 George McNeill (93), $220,350 65-69-69-67—270 Pat Perez (93), $220,350 69-69-68-64—270 Ian Poulter (93), $220,350 65-67-68-70—270 Brian Harman (62), $134,875 68-66-69-68—271 Charley Hoffman (62), $134,875 66-69-66-70—271 Jerry Kelly (62), $134,875 67-70-67-67—271 Colt Knost (62), $134,875 66-73-66-66—271 Danny Lee (62), $134,875 66-69-70-66—271 Ben Martin (62), $134,875 66-71-68-66—271 Kevin Na (62), $134,875 64-66-69-72—271 Rory Sabbatini (62), $134,875 67-70-66-68—271 John Huh (53), $97,500 70-68-70-64—272 Kevin Chappell (50), $78,780 71-68-68-66—273 Tony Finau (50), $78,780 67-72-66-68—273 Zach Johnson (50), $78,780 70-69-67-67—273 Shawn Stefani (50), $78,780 67-69-69-68—273 Robert Streb (50), $78,780 71-68-68-66—273 Chesson Hadley (46), $57,200 70-71-67-66—274 Russell Knox (46), $57,200 71-67-69-67—274 Adam Scott (46), $57,200 72-66-66-70—274 Fabian Gomez (42), $45,175 70-69-67-69—275 Luke Guthrie (42), $45,175 66-74-68-67—275 Scott Langley (42), $45,175 68-72-68-67—275 Marc Leishman (42), $45,175 66-69-70-70—275 Steve Stricker (42), $45,175 67-70-71-67—275 Nick Taylor (42), $45,175 68-68-68-71—275 Scott Brown (34), $31,525 70-71-67-68—276 Erik Compton (34), $31,525 73-65-69-69—276 Jon Curran (34), $31,525 68-72-68-68—276 David Hearn (34), $31,525 66-75-69-66—276 Jim Herman (34), $31,525 71-68-70-67—276 David Lingmerth (34), $31,525 71-70-70-65—276 William McGirt (34), $31,525 73-66-67-70—276 -12 -11 -11 -11 -10 -10 -10 -10 -10 -9 -9 -9 -9 -9 -9 -9 -9 -8 -7 -7 -7 -7 -7 -6 -6 -6 -5 -5 -5 -5 -5 -5 -4 -4 -4 -4 -4 -4 -4 hOCKeY nhl daily Playoff Glance Andretti 151, Kanaan 147. nasCar nasCar sprint Cup Coca-Cola 600 results sunday at Charlotte motor speedway Concord, n.C. lap length: 1.5 miles (start position in parentheses) 1. (3) Carl Edwards, Toyota, 400 laps, 107.2 rating, 47 points, $363,390. 2. (4) Greg Biffle, Ford, 400, 97.7, 42, $277,263. 3. (15) Dale Earnhardt Jr., Chevrolet, 400, 105.8, 41, $217,255. 4. (1) Matt Kenseth, Toyota, 400, 98.4, 41, $252,716. 5. (10) Martin Truex Jr., Chevrolet, 400, 132.8, 41, $182,350. 6. (19) Ryan Newman, Chevrolet, 400, 79.2, 38, $166,570. 7. (6) Brad Keselowski, Ford, 400, 104.4, 38, $172,911. 8. (5) Denny Hamlin, Toyota, 400, 114.8, 37, $143,720. 9. (8) Kevin Harvick, Chevrolet, 400, 116.8, 36, $174,045. 10. (14) Kurt Busch, Chevrolet, 400, 122.2, 35, $140,045. 11. (17) Kyle Busch, Toyota, 400, 103.3, 33, $157,301. 12. (33) Kasey Kahne, Chevrolet, 400, 87, 32, $128,685. 13. (2) Joey Logano, Ford, 400, 103.7, 32, $161,793. 14. (23) Paul Menard, Chevrolet, 400, 91.2, 30, $120,735. 15. (18) Jeff Gordon, Chevrolet, 400, 82, 29, $156,371. 16. (11) Austin Dillon, Chevrolet, 400, 85.2, 28, $147,271. 17. (21) Aric Almirola, Ford, 399, 72.7, 27, $146,046. 18. (28) Chase Elliott, Chevrolet, 399, 66.5, 0, $103,910. 19. (22) Jamie McMurray, Chevrolet, 399, 60.3, 25, $136,826. 20. (24) Clint Bowyer, Toyota, 399, 61.1, 24, $140,368. 21. (12) Tony Stewart, Chevrolet, 399, 64.7, 23, $132,399. 22. (20) Danica Patrick, Chevrolet, 398, 58.4, 22, $111,760. 23. (34) Casey Mears, Chevrolet, 398, 59, 21, $128,993. 24. (26) Sam Hornish Jr., Ford, 398, 53.4, 20, $128,305. 25. (9) Kyle Larson, Chevrolet, 398, 66.1, 19, $129,468. 26. (31) Alex Bowman, Chevrolet, 397, 47.6, 18, $116,518. 27. (27) Trevor Bayne, Ford, 397, 47.5, 17, $141,210. 28. (37) Cole Whitt, Ford, 396, 39.1, 16, $113,343. 29. (30) AJ Allmendinger, Chevrolet, 395, 57.3, 15, $125,618. 30. (25) Michael McDowell, Ford, 394, 45, 14, $97,335. 31. (40) Brett Moffitt, Ford, 393, 36.8, 13, $97,185. 32. (36) Michael Annett, Chevrolet, 393, 37.2, 12, $95,560. 33. (39) David Gilliland, Ford, 392, 38.3, 12, $115,957. 34. (42) Matt DiBenedetto, Toyota, 392, 33, 10, $95,285. 35. (38) Josh Wise, Ford, 392, 29, 9, $98,135. 36. (43) Alex Kennedy, Chevrolet, 389, 26.8, 8, $97,535. 37. (29) Ricky Stenhouse Jr., Ford, 382, 59, 7, $102,761. 38. (41) J.J. Yeley, Toyota, engine, 377, 30.4, 0, $89,413. 39. (32) Landon Cassill, Chevrolet, 375, 38.1, 0, $85,350. 40. (13) Jimmie Johnson, Chevrolet, 370, 68.7, 4, $129,286. 41. (7) David Ragan, Toyota, engine, 353, 62.7, 3, $105,164. 42. (16) Ryan Blaney, Ford, engine, 281, 66.6, 0, $73,350. 43. (35) Justin Allgaier, Chevrolet, accident, 135, 40.2, 1, $77,850. race statistics Average Speed of Race Winner: 147.803 mph. Time of Race: 4 hours, 3 minutes, 34 seconds. Margin of Victory: 4.785 seconds. Caution Flags: 8 for 39 laps. Lead Changes: 22 among 9 drivers. Lap Leaders: C.Edwards 1-2; M.Kenseth 3-27; D.Gilliland 28; M.Kenseth 29; J.Logano 30-43; D.Hamlin 44-63; K.Harvick 64-78; Ku.Busch 79; B.Keselowski 80; K.Harvick 81-90; M.Truex Jr. 91; B.Keselowski 92-93; J.Logano 94-96; Ku.Busch 97-189; C.Edwards 190-191; M.Truex Jr. 192-236; Ku.Busch 237-260; M.Truex Jr. 261-329; D.Hamlin 330-362; M.Truex Jr. 363-378; K.Harvick 379; C.Edwards 380-400. Leaders Summary (Driver, Times Led, Laps Led): M.Truex Jr., 4 times for 131 laps; Ku.Busch, 3 times for 118 laps; D.Hamlin, 2 times for 53 laps; M.Kenseth, 2 times for 26 laps; K.Harvick, 3 times for 26 laps; C.Edwards, 3 times for 25 laps; J.Logano, 2 times for 17 laps; B.Keselowski, 2 times for 3 laps; D.Gilliland, 1 time for 1 lap. Wins: J.Johnson, 3; K.Harvick, 2; Ku.Busch, 1; D.Earnhardt Jr., 1; C.Edwards, 1; D.Hamlin, 1; M.Kenseth, 1; B.Keselowski, 1; J.Logano, 1. Top 16 in Points: 1. K.Harvick, 473; 2. M.Truex Jr., 432; 3. J.Logano, 407; 4. D.Earnhardt Jr., 401; 5. J.Johnson, 393; 6. B.Keselowski, 381; 7. M.Kenseth, 372; 8. J.McMurray, 353; 9. J.Gordon, 346; 10. K.Kahne, 345; 11. R.Newman, 343; 12. A.Almirola, 339; 13. P.Menard, 336; 14. Ku.Busch, 327; 15. D.Hamlin, 321; 16. C.Edwards, 312. TennIs French Open results sunday at stade roland Garros Paris Purse: $30.86 million (Grand slam) surface: Clay-Outdoor singles men First round Roberto Bautista Agut (19), Spain, def. Florian Mayer, Germany, 6-3, 6-1, 6-3. Philipp Kohlschreiber (22), Germany, def. Go Soeda, Japan, 6-1, 6-0, 6-2. Lukas Rosol, Czech Republic, def. Elias Ymer, Sweden, 6-2, 7-6 (7), 6-3. Damir Dzumhur, Bosnia-Herzegovina, def. Mikhail Youzhny, Russia, 6-2, 6-1, retired. Roger Federer (2), Switzerland, def. Alejandro Falla, Colombia, 6-3, 6-3, 6-4. Stan Wawrinka (8), Switzerland, def. Marsel Ilhan, Turkey, 6-3, 6-2, 6-3. Marcel Granollers, Spain, def. Matthias Bachinger, Germany, 6-4, 6-3, 7-6 (5). Marcos Baghdatis, Cyprus, def. Ivo Karlovic (25), Croatia, 7-6 (5), 6-4, 6-4. Pablo Andujar, Spain, def. Albert Ramos-Vinolas, Spain, 6-2, 6-4, 7-6 (3). Kei Nishikori (5), Japan, def. Paul-Henri Mathieu, France, 6-3, 7-5, 6-1. Ernests Gulbis (24), Latvia, def. Igor Sijsling, Netherlands, 6-4, 6-4, 7-6 (3). Nicolas Mahut, France, def. Kimmer Coppejans, Belgium, 6-3, 6-4, 7-6 (4). Dusan Lajovic, Serbia, def. Maximo Gonzalez, Argentina, 6-3, 6-3, 6-1. Jo-Wilfried Tsonga (14), France, def. Christian Lindell, Sweden, 6-1, 6-2, 6-2. Steve Johnson, United States, def. Guillermo Garcia-Lopez (26), Spain, 6-3, 6-3, 6-7 (1), 3-6, 6-3. Dudi Sela, Israel, def. Mikhail Kukushkin, Kazakhstan, 7-6 (5), 6-3, 7-6 (4). Women First round Simona Halep (3), Romania, def. Evgeniya Rodina, Russia, 75, 6-4. Ekaterina Makarova (9), Russia, def. Louisa Chirico, United States, 6-4, 6-2. Teliana Pereira, Brazil, def. Fiona Ferro, France, 6-3, 6-2. Mirjana Lucic-Baroni, Croatia, def. Lauren Davis, United States, 6-3, 3-6, 6-3. Garbine Muguruza (21), Spain, def. Petra Martic, Croatia, 6-2, 7-5. Camila Giorgi, Italy, def. Tatjana Maria, Germany, 7-5, 6-3. Bojana Jovanovski, Serbia, def. Lesia Tsurenko, Ukraine, 1-6, 6-1, 6-0. Misaki Doi, Japan, def. Petra Cetkovska, Czech Republic, 6-3, 6-2. Donna Vekic, Croatia, def. Caroline Garcia (31), France, 3-6, 6-3, 6-2. Magdalena Rybarikova, Slovakia, def. Olivia Rogowska, Australia, 0-6, 7-5, 6-2. Flavia Pennetta (28), Italy, def. Magda Linette, Poland, 6-3, 57, 6-1. Polona Hercog, Slovenia, def. Peng Shuai (24), China, 6-0, 20, retired. Ana Ivanovic (7), Serbia, def. Yaroslava Shvedova, Kazakhstan, 4-6, 6-2, 6-0. Kurumi Nara, Japan, def. Oceane Dodin, France, 3-6, 7-5, 61. Lucie Safarova (13), Czech Republic, def. Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova, Russia, 7-6 (6), 7-6 (9). Elena Vesnina, Russia, def. Kirsten Flipkens, Belgium, 2-6, 63, 6-3. Edwards From Page 15 while others scrambled to tank up and get fresh tires. “We were not going to win this race on pure speed. That was obvious the first 550 miles or so,” Edwards said. “So (Grubb) put us in a position to win. Those guys were definitely fast and Darian beat them to it.” “It may be a fuel mileage win, but it’s still whoever gets from the start-finish line to the startfinish line over 600 miles the fastest,” Grubb said. “So it doesn’t really matter how we get Indy 500 From Page 15 surpassing A.J. Foyt, who needed 10 years between his third and fourth wins. That first win for Montoya? It came when he drove for Ganassi. This victory was almost certainly going to go to a Team Penske or Chip Ganassi Racing driver. With a combined nine cars in the field, the two owners showed over the last two weeks that their organizations are head-and-shoulders above the competition and Indianapolis is their own personal playground. Penske and Ganassi drivers led the majority of the laps on Sunday — 193 of the 200 — and turned the final restart with 15 laps to go into a three-car thriller between Penske teammates Montoya and Power, and Ganassi driver Scott Dixon. Power finished second and Ganassi driver Charlie Kimball was third, ahead of teammate Dixon. The two team owners embraced on pit road as Montoya headed to grab his bottle of milk. Edwards, feeling better after taking fluids. The fourth Joe Gibbs racer, new father Kyle Busch, was 11th in his first points race since breaking his right leg and left in a crash at Daytona three months ago. Edwards capped racing’s biggest day. It began when Nico Rosberg got his third straight win at the Monaco Grand Prix. It continued in Indianapolis when onetime NASCAR driver Juan Pablo Montoya won the Indy 500 for the second time. Edwards joins Hamlin and Kenseth with wins this season, all figuring to make the Sprint Cup season-ending chase for the championship. Biffle had his highest finish of the year after struggling to crack the top 10 all season. He said he tracked down Edwards despite his crew telling him to save fuel. “I got pretty close to him with two to go, but then the fuel light came on that the pressure was low,” Biffle said. Earnhardt had gambled on fuel again as he had here in 2011 when he famously ran out of juice on the final lap as Kevin Harvick passed him for the win. “I was hoping the guys in front of me would run out of gas,” Earnhardt said. “We tried to go for a win. We didn’t have a fast enough car so we had to do something different. I like the gamble.” Truex, of the one-horse Furniture Row Racing operation, led the most laps with 131. He, too, got shuffled back after having to pit late. “They gave me an awesome race car. I’m so proud of them. It hurts to come home fifth and run that hard and lead that many laps,” he said. “But at the same time it’s pretty awesome to run like that. Sooner or later we are going to get a little luck on our side.” Ryan Newman was sixth, followed by Brad Keselowski, Hamlin and points leader Harvick. Kurt Busch, who dominated the early part of the race with 118 laps led, ended up 10th. Jeff Gordon had hoped for a strong showing in his final CocaCola 600, yet could not find a rhythm at the end of a long day that began in Indianapolis as he drove the pace car for that race. Gordon’s hopes faded quickly as he got shuffled back to 29th and never found the right groove to get back into contention. He finished 15th. Gordon’s teammate, six-time Sprint Cup champion Jimmie Johnson, is accustomed to waving his arms in celebration at 1 1/2-mile layouts — he’d won three of the four previous events at that distance this season — instead of watching the action from the pits. But the defending Coca-Cola 600 champion couldn’t overcome a racecar that had not handled to his liking much of the night. He spun out while racing alone on lap 90 and survived that as he slid without hitting anything. He wasn’t so lucky later on, sliding near the same spot and this time striking head on with the inside pit wall. Johnson took the No. 48 car quickly to the garage for major repairs. “I could have driven a little easier and tried not work so hard through traffic, but we said we were going to come in and swing for the fences,” Johnson said. “We did and I hit the fence.” www.clevelandbanner.com Cleveland Daily Banner—Monday, May 25, 2015—17 Clutch final par gives Kirk the win at Colonial, denies Spieth FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — Chris Kirk was prepared to need a putt for a playoff at Colonial. No extra holes were necessary Sunday for Kirk to get his fourth PGA Tour victory. Kirk made up for an errant tee shot at No. 18 with a par-saving and winning 7-foot putt after playing partner Brandt Snedeker’s birdie try slid by the hole. “My first three wins on tour have all been little tap-ins on the last hole,” Kirk said. “So to step up and make a putt that I knew was to win is something I’ll never forget.” With his closing 4-under 66, Kirk got to 12-under 268, one ahead of Snedeker, local Masters champion Jordan Spieth and Jason Bohn. Bohn had a 63 that included six consecutive birdies on the front nine. Spieth shot 65, with a near-birdie that became a bogey at the par-3 16th hole. When Kirk got in trouble at No. 18, Bohn and Spieth went to the nearby No. 1 tee and were hitting balls in preparation for a potential playoff. Spieth was already back near the green when Kirk got ready to putt. Kirk hooked his tee shot at No. 18 into the left rough, then hit his approach from 155 yards over the green. A nice chip set up the winning putt after Snedeker’s miss from 12 feet after a similar tee shot to finish a 67. “Close friends with Brandt, and play a lot of golf with him, and he doesn’t miss very many of those putts,” Kirk said. “Once he didn’t make it, then I was able to change my mindset.” Spieth was only a few minutes removed from a 20-foot birdie putt at the closing hole, where more than an hour earlier Bohn had a 28-footer that lipped the cup and left him lifting the putter over his head in frustration. “I thought it was in, that’s why I started running. I think it just straightened out,” Bohn said. “The second round set me back,” Spieth said, referring to the 73 he had Friday after opening with a lead-tying 64. Spieth has finished as the runner-up in all three PGA Tour events played in Texas this season. As a junior at Georgia in 2006, Kirk was the runner-up for the Hogan Award given by Colonial to the nation’s top college player. He decided then to return for his senior year for a chance to win the award — and did. He now has a plaid jacket and a $1.17 million check, which will be plenty to cover the new home he is buying in Georgia, after winning on the PGA Tour at a saturated Hogan’s Alley. The sun finally came out late in the final round after heavy rain overnight and throughout tournament week. After have the best round Saturday with a 65, Kirk started Berdych blows past Japanese qualifier at French Open AP photo chris KirK hits a tee shot on the sixth hole during the final round of the Colonial, in Fort Worth, Texas, Sunday. the final day with an eagle. His only bogey came after hitting his drive at No. 7 into the rough. Kevin Na, the outright leader after the second and third rounds, shot 72 and finished in an eightway tie for 10th at 9 under. He was part of a leading four-way tie that included Spieth after the first round. A 54-hole leader hasn’t won Colonial since Phil Mickelson in 2008. Spieth was making a bid to win the first of consecutive tournaments at home in the North Texas for the 21-year-old Masters champion from Dallas. Like all week, Spieth got a rousing ovation when he got to the 18th green. That got even wilder when he finished by draining the long birdie, which was almost good enough for a playoff. “I wanted to give them something to cheer about,” Spieth said. “It was nice to have that one just to give myself an outside chance.” When he saw that year’s race, which Tom Sneva won, Gordon says he was “just a kid watching and aspiring to be out there.” Gordon has come close to driving an IndyCar. He was offered a ride by team owner Barry Green in the late 1990s but declined. Then in 2003, Gordon was invited to Indianapolis Motor Speedway to test a Formula One car on the road course along with Juan Pablo Montoya, who would later move to NASCAR and then return to IndyCar. Montoya won Sunday’s race for his second Indy 500 trophy. Gordon won the first time NASCAR came to Indianapolis in 1994, the young driver taking the lead late when Ernie Irvan got a flat tire. Gordon won three more times over the next decade, and then won his fifth Brickyard 400 after taking the lead on the final restart last July. “I accomplished more than I ever hoped to in racing, but one thing that eluded me that we pursued — my dad, my mom and myself — was getting a chance to race the Indianapolis 500,” Gordon said. “And I’ve said before, winning the inaugural Brickyard 400 fulfilled that dream.” That doesn’t mean that Sunday didn’t fulfill more dreams. Gordon spent time hanging out with veteran Johnny Rutherford, then got to spend some time with Rick Mears, the four-time Indy 500 that he still considers his racing idol. “I certainly had plenty of opportunities to make laps around this track, but never have I had an experience like today,” he said. “It has been a thrill already.” AP file photo heAvyweight chAmPion muhAmmAd Ali stands over fallen challenger Sonny Liston, shouting and gesturing shortly after dropping Liston with a short hard right to the jaw in the first round of their title fight in Lewiston, Maine, in this May 25, 1965, file photo. The bout produced one of the strangest finishes in boxing history, as well as one of boxing’s most iconic moments. AP Was There: Muhammad Ali-Sonny Liston rematch Editor’s note: On May 25, 1965, Muhammad Ali defeated Sonny Liston in the first round of a heavyweight bout that produced one of the strangest finishes in boxing history as well as one of sports’ most iconic moments — photos of Ali hovering over Liston on the canvas, shouting at his opponent to get up. After the fight, the 23-yearold Ali called the punch that dropped Liston his secret: “It was a phantom punch.” “It was lightning and thunder — fast as lightning and booming as thunder from the heavens,” Ali said. Liston, who was a slight favorite going into the fight, said afterward that when he got up, he thought the fight was still on. “No, I didn’t hear the count,” said Liston, who lost on a 12 count according to the timekeeper. “Didn’t you see us start the fight again? When (the referee) stepped in I thought the bell had rung.” Fifty years later, the AP is making the original story and photos of the fight available, including the black-and-white shot by AP photographer John Rooney of Ali standing over Liston, which won the World Press Photo award for best sports photo in 1965. The same moment was famously captured in color by Neil Leifer of Sports Illustrated, one of the most wellknown sports photos of all time. —— Who blew the count in the bizarre Cassius Clay-Sonny Liston heavyweight title fight? Was it Jersey Joe Walcott, the battered old ex-champion who served as referee? Was it timekeeper Francis McDonough of Portland, Maine? Was it Liston who lay sprawled on the canvas, got up, fell again and then became in one minute flat the quickest knockout victim of all time in heavyweight fighting? Or is the argument all academic — punctuated with a resounding period by Muhammad Ali, the worshipper of Allah, who conquered with what he called his precious secret — the anchor punch which Jack Johnson took to his grave? The controversy of the quickest and strangest heavyweight fight in history continued to rage today while some stunned spectators — those who saw it live and the millions who watched on closed TV — yelled “fix!” and “fake!” From the $100 seats, men who only got a minute’s entertainment for their outlay let out a howl that rocked the St. Dom’s Youth Center. “Fix, fix,” yelled scores in the sparse crowd in the matchbox arena. “That’s the end of boxing,” grumbled another $100 patron. It was a strange climax to a fight that was implausible from the beginning — staged in this obscure town in the Maine woods before a handful of blase Down Easterners more interested in how the trout were mating in the Androscoggin River. The fight started normally, with Clay moving like a butterfly and stinging like a bee and the grim, scowling Liston stalking and moving in. Then suddenly, Clay lashed out with an overhand right that traveled only a few inches. The massive, 215 1/4 pound Liston thumped to the canvas like a stricken ox. He lay there a moment, then tried to get to his feet only to fall back again. Walcott appeared confused. He looked around dazedly for the timekeeper. Then he hovered over Liston. When Liston fell back a second time, Walcott walked to the edge of the ring. Liston rose and the fight continued — in a state of chaos. Clay belted the challenger three times before Walcott rushed in to end the fight. Then Johnny Addle went to the microphone and announced: “The winner and still champion — Muhammad Ali. The time: One minute.” There was wild confusion about the official time. It was important because at one minute it became the quickest knockout in heavyweight history. Many said it was 1 minute, 45 seconds. “It was one minute,” said George Russo, the chairman of the Maine Boxing Commission. “There was nothing suspicious about the fight.” Liston complained afterward that he was waiting to hear Walcott’s count. He never heard it. “I could have got up, but I didn’t hear the count,” he complained. The timekeeper, McDonough, said Walcott was looking at the crowd and never at him. Walcott contended he was trying to get Clay into a neutral corner and he expected the timekeeper to continue the count while he performed these chores. But he couldn’t find the timekeeper. Under boxing rules, the timekeeper is supposed to start the count at the time of a knockdown. The referee’s duty is to get the fighter to a neutral corner, pick up the count from the timekeeper and continue it aloud over the knockdown victim. Gordon From Page 15 meant to be for me, it just was. I knocked on a lot of doors. It didn’t happen with IndyCar. I went down south and things started to happen.” Gordon said Sunday was his first Indy 500 visit to the speedway since 1983, when he was 11. Hawks From Page 15 rolled up on Horford’s right leg and the Atlanta big man responded by bringing his right arm down hard and appearing to connect with the side of the scrappy Australian guard’s face. The three officials took their time watching a review of the play before assessing Horford a Flagrant 2 and tossing him. At that point, Horford had been the Hawks’ best player with 14 points. “I did think he went at me, but I should have handled it better,” Horford said. “Shouldn’t have gotten caught up in that and it’s something I’ll definitely learn from.” Braves From Page 15 rooting for the Braves, faced Atlanta for the first time. It was scoreless in the sixth when Cameron Maybin singled for a nine-game hitting streak. After Nelson made a wild pickoff throw, he walked Freddie Freeman and Nick Markakis to load the bases. One out later, A.J. Pierzynski hit a liner that was dropped by second baseman Hector Gomez, who recovered to throw out Markakis at second base as Maybin scored. Simmons’ single chased Nelson. PAINFUL TWO-HIT DAY Brewers star Carlos Gomez, who was hit in the helmet by a fastball last Sunday, had a rough afternoon. While standing on deck in the sixth, he was hit and knocked down by Gerardo Parra’s foul ball. Gomez appeared to be struck in his hip or side, and lost his helmet when he hit the ground. Gomez bounced up, waved his arms at Parra in mock indignation and pointed toward the field as if to say “Hit it that way!” Gomez then was hit by a pitch on his right hand from Foltynewicz to open the seventh. He slowly walked to first base after being checked by a trainer. After advancing to third on a single by Khris Davis, Gomez scored on Elian Herrera’s sacrifice fly. Brewers RHP Kyle Lohse, who gave up seven runs in 5 2-3 innings in his only start against San Francisco last season, will face the Giants in the opening game of a three-day series today. The Braves open a 10-game road trip when RHP Williams Perez faces Dodgers LHP Brett Anderson. The trip also will take the Braves to San Francisco and Arizona. James went 0 for 9 from the field in the first quarter and didn’t score his first point until he rolled in a free throw with 8:05 left in the second. His first field goal came 61 seconds later, and with his shot not falling, James seemed more intent on setting up his teammates than trying to score. Without Korver, the Hawks were missing one of their most reliable offensive weapons, though the dead-eyed shooter had been off the mark during much of this postseason. He was replaced in the starting lineup by Kent Bazemore, who earlier in the day stood by his comments that he believed the Hawks were the better team. The Hawks started well, getting eight points from Horford while taking a 12-4 lead. But his ejection was costly and the Hawks are now one loss from having their season end. PARIS (AP) — Fourthseeded Tomas Berdych eased into the second round of the French Open on Monday with a 6-0, 7-5, 6-3 win over Japanese qualifier Yoshihito Nishioka. Taking on a player looking for a first ever win on clay at a big tournament, Berdych used his powerful groundstrokes to overwhelm Nishioka from the start. The hard-hitting Czech broke for a 2-0 lead and never looked back, sealing the first set in 27 minutes. The Japanese teenager offered a better resistance in the second set but his lack of experience was flagrant in the 12th game when Berdych applied more pressure with a series of good returns and broke with a backhand down the line that Nishioka returned wide. Another break in the third set was enough for Berdych to improve his record on the Parisian clay to 18-11. Berdych saved all three break points he faced and hit a total of 32 winners. The Czech is playing at Roland Garros for the 12th consecutive time and has reasons to believe he can match his best result in the French capital — a semifinalist spot he achieved five years ago. After hiring Andy Murray’s former coach Dani Vallverdu, Berdych has been in consistent form this year, reaching the semifinals at the Australian Open and finishing runner-up in Doha, Rotterdam and, more recently, at the Monte Carlo Masters. On a cool and breezy day, the hot-tempered Fabio Fognini kept his cool as the 28th-seeded Italian dispatched another Japanese player, Tatsuma Ito, 6-3, 62, 6-2. On women’s play, eightseeded Carla Suarez Navarro continued her good run of form, advancing to the second round with a 62, 6-2 win over Monica Niculescu. The Spaniard, who was runner-up to Maria Sharapova in Rome, could face the Russian defending champion in the quarterfinals. “I’m much more confident indeed compared to last year,” said Suarez Navarro, who lost in the last-eight last year. “One of the big differences between this year versus last year is mentally. I know what I’m doing.” Local favorite and No. 29 seed Alize Cornet rallied past Roberta Vinci 4-6, 6-4, 6-1 while former Wimbledon finalist Sabine Lisicki breezed past Monica Puig 63, 6-2. Great Gift Ideas for a Great Father’s Day! Deadline: June 9, 2015 Publishes: June 14, 2015 Call 472-5041 Now to Place Your Ad! 18—Cleveland Daily Banner—Monday, May 25, 2015 www.clevelandbanner.com For some, a common thought: ‘If I could go back?’ If you are least 50 years of age, when you see the condition the world is in today do you ever wish you could go back to a time when life was much simpler, and much safer? There was a time, right here in our country, when you could walk down the streets of our major cities alone, at night, and not have to fear for your safety. Even in the more recent past, there was a time when you did not have to get to the airport two hours early so they could search your luggage and your person, and the vast majority of our citizens were honest and trustworthy. America is still the best place on earth to be, and to be from, but I believe any rational person would agree that the erosion of our traditional values has caused all of us in the older generation to wonder where we are headed as a nation. These are just some of the thoughts that came to my mind a while back when I heard a wonderful gentleman by the name of Joe D. Ward, read something he had written titled, "If I Could Go Back." GUEST ColUmniST Jim Davidson Several years ago, he and some of his siblings and their families formed a musical group, called The Ward Family Singers, and they are good, really good. In fact, I have one of their CDs in my player at this very moment. The children of this family have deep spiritual roots, as their father Roy was a minister and their mother Mamie was a great influence in their lives as well. Like so many families back then, they didn't have much, but they had love and parents who taught character values by example. The old home place where they were reared came to be known affectionately as "Old House," and here are some of the things that Joe recalls from those days: "What I would really like to do today is go back to the farm to Mother and Dad's house and this is what I would do. I would greet them as always, but this time it would be different. “I would place my hands on their shoulders and look them straight in the eye so they could not fail to understand what I said. Then I would say, ‘I love you, I respect you and I appreciate the way you raised me. You taught me right from wrong, what a family is supposed to be, and what makes character in a person. You taught me that everyone's important, and Mom, you taught me not to be critical of people because there are things I don't know about which causes them to act the way they do. “‘You taught me loyalty, responsibility, honor, integrity and honesty, and you worked to build those character traits into my life.’ "To Mom I would say, ‘You gave me your always-present optimistic attitude that no kind of circumstances could dampen, and also taught me to love the little wildflowers at the first of springtime.’ “To Dad I would say, ‘You taught me sportsmanship, the love of the outdoors, hunting and fishing, the thrill of finding game or catching fish and you also taught me the fun of simply being in the outdoors whether we found game or not. I can't name all the things you taught me, but the most important thing of all was that there is a God, that He loves me, and how to trust Him. You taught me by your faith how important it is in my life.’" There is more, but due to space limitations, I can't share it all. When I heard Joe Ward read this, it was along about the time the state of Florida was experiencing the hurricane season of 2004, the worst ever in the history of this state. Like millions of other people across our country, I was deeply saddened by the loss of life and the billions of dollars of property damage these hurricanes caused and the months or even years of disruption in people's lives. A disaster of this type always brings out the best in people, but sadly it also brings out the worst in some people as well. When thousands of people had to flee their homes and seek shelter in a more secure location, it was necessary for many of them to check into hotels and motels. When the word came to me that many of these hotels and motels were jacking up rates three or four times what they normally charged, it just blew my mind. Do these people have no compassion for others? Do they never stop to think that someday the shoe could be on the other foot, and they could be the one who needs help? I hope you will keep this column and if you ever hear or know of anyone doing this, send it to them with my simple words, "Shame On You." When I had time to think about what Joe Ward had said, obviously the people in our country who would rip others off, who steal, who take advantage of the misfortune of others, did not have parents who taught them values, real values like kindness, love and compassion. I was always taught, and you probably were too, that when people are down and out and hurting, you don’t take advantage of them, you go the extra mile to help them. ——— (About the writer: Jim Davidson is a motivational speaker and syndicated columnist. He may be contacted at 2 Bentley Drive, Conway AR 72034.) ANNIE’S MAILBOX Editorials A memorial of the heart on a day of reflection W ar is brutal. So are its numbers. None know this heartbreaking fact more than the loved ones of the fallen soldier. It is he, or she, whom we honor today. It is Memorial Day, a time to reflect on those who have made American lives. In eight years of fighting in the ultimate sacrifice in defense Iraq, from 2003 to 2011, some of American ideals like life, liber4,487 U.S. soldiers lost their ty and expression — freedoms lives. that are privileges in our Brave American soldiers democracy yet not such a gift in the eyes of those who rule have fought, and died, in through oppression and who Afghanistan. At last count since choose to intimidate by aggres- 2001, that death toll had exceeded some 2,200. sion. In his remarks, Schramm Of the thousands of commukeyed on World War II as comnities whose heartstrings bat’s most brutal. In 48 months, entwine the collective conscience of our nation, we Americans suffered 1,078,162 believe the residents of casualties; among these were Cleveland and Bradley County 407,316 deaths, or 6,639 continue to cling to humane val- Americans dying each month. He admitted his statistics of ues like commemorating herowar might be incomplete; such ism while bowing our heads in counts evolve with time and hismemory of those who have tory. given so much. Their accuracy is not the In a Memorial Day address point. Although simple arithdelivered May 31, 2004, in metic, these numbers signify far Ashland, Ohio, at the communi- more than digits on a chart. ty’s sprawling cemetery, speakEach is a life, an American life er Peter W. Schramm told those — a brave American soldier’s attending the solemn ceremo- life. ny, “We have come here to Each is why our nation remember and honor those embraces Memorial Day. who have done their duty, as All are why communities God allowed them to see that nationwide like our Cleveland duty.” and Bradley County hometown To serve as a soldier in host respectful observances on today’s America is a choice. the Courthouse Plaza today. To die as a soldier in today’s We don’t do it because it is America is a personal testa- fashion. ment, one that tells a story of We don’t do it because it is courage, commitment and politically correct. camaraderie among those who We don’t do it because it is share a common vision. tradition. Its telling has come often. We don’t do it because it is Its telling, sadly, will be expectation. repeated. We do it because we choose In his words 11 years ago, to do it. Schramm spoke to the realities We do it because we rememof war, its “brutal facts” as he ber. called them. We do it because we cherish In 80 months of the a miracle called freedom. Revolutionary War, Americans We do it because those in our suffered 10,623 casualties; past have died to protect those among these were 4,435 in our future. deaths, or 55 Americans dying We do it because in towns each month. like Cleveland life is not just for In 37 months of the Korean the living. Life here is for all ... War, Americans suffered the young, the old and those in 136,935 casualties; among our memory who remain these were 33,651 deaths, or ingrained in our hearts. 909 Americans dying each Let none doubt this pledge. month. In total, 36,516 Our fallen soldiers will never American soldiers died. be forgotten. In 90 months of the Vietnam Not today. Not tomorrow. Not War, Americans suffered in days, weeks, months and 211,471 casualties; among years beyond. these were 47,369 deaths, or This is their day. 526 Americans dying each It is Memorial Day, a time month. In total, the Vietnam when reflection brings new life conflict took more than 58,000 to those we have lost. ——— (About this editorial: In honor of America’s fallen soldiers, in tribute to those who called Cleveland and Bradley County their home and by request of Cleveland Daily Banner readers, the above Memorial Day editorial is reprinted with slight modifications. Its original publication date was May 30, 2011.) TODAY IN HISTORY Today is Monday, May 25, the 145th day of 2015. There are 220 days left in the year. This is the Memorial Day observance. Today’s Highlight in History: On May 25, 1965, Muhammad Ali knocked out Sonny Liston in the first round of their world heavyweight title rematch in Lewiston, Maine. (Ali’s victory generated controversy over whether he’d truly connected when he sent Liston crashing to the canvas with a right to the head, or whether it was a “phantom punch,” implying that the fight had been fixed.) On this date: In 1787, the Constitutional Convention began at the Pennsylvania State House (Independence Hall) in Philadelphia after enough delegates had shown up for a quorum. In 1810, Argentina began its revolt against Spanish rule with the forming of the Primera Junta in Buenos Aires. In 1895, playwright Oscar Wilde was convicted of a morals charge in London; he was sentenced to two years in prison. In 1935, Babe Ruth hit his last three career home runs — Nos. 712, 713 and 714 — for the Boston Braves against the Pittsburgh Pirates. (The Pirates won, 11-7.) In 1942, U.S. Army Lt. Gen. Joseph Stilwell, frustrated over being driven out of Burma by Japanese troops during World War II, told reporters in Delhi, India: “I claim we got a hell of a beating.” In 1946, Transjordan (now Jordan) became a kingdom as it proclaimed its new monarch, Abdullah I. In 1959, the U.S. Supreme Court, in State Athletic Commission v. Dorsey, struck down a Louisiana law prohibiting interracial boxing matches. (The case had been brought by Joseph Dorsey Jr., a black professional boxer.) In 1961, President John F. Kennedy told Congress: “I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to the earth.” In 1968, the Gateway Arch in St. Louis was dedicated by Vice President Hubert Humphrey and Interior Secretary Stewart Udall. In 1979, 273 people died when an American Airlines DC10 crashed just after takeoff from Chicago’s O’Hare Airport. Six-year-old Etan Patz disappeared while on his way to a school bus stop in lower Manhattan. In 1985, more than 11,000 people were killed as a cyclone and tidal surge devastated Bangladesh. In 1992, Jay Leno made his debut as host of NBC’s “Tonight Show,” succeeding Johnny Carson. Ten years ago: Texas Supreme Court Justice Priscilla Owen won Senate confirmation as a federal appeals judge after a ferocious four-year battle. The defense rested in the Michael Jackson child molestation trial without calling the pop star, who ended up being acquitted. Carrie Underwood was crowned the winner of the fourth season of “American Idol” on Fox TV over Bo Bice. Ismail Merchant, half of the prestigious Merchant-Ivory filmmaking team, died in London at age 68. Five years ago: President Barack Obama ordered 1,200 National Guard troops to boost security along the U.S.-Mexico border. NFL owners voted to hold the 2014 Super Bowl at Meadowlands Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey. Nicole Scherzinger of The Pussycat Dolls and her professional dance partner, Derek Hough, won the 10th season of ABC’s “Dancing with the Stars.” One year ago: President Barack Obama slipped into Afghanistan for a surprise visit, making clear the U.S. would likely maintain a limited role there even after its combat mission ended later in the year. Pope Francis arrived in Bethlehem where, in a symbolic nod to Palestinians’ aspirations for their own state, he called the stalemate in peace talks “unacceptable” and stopped briefly to pray at the Israeli separation barrier surrounding the biblical West Bank town. Josh Beckett pitched the first no-hitter of his career and the first of the season, leading the Los Angeles Dodgers over the Philadelphia Phillies 6-0. Ryan Hunter-Reay became the first American to win the Indianapolis 500 since 2006, making a dramatic pass of Helio Castroneves on the final lap. Today’s Birthdays: Actress Ann Robinson (TV/Film: “War of the Worlds”; “Dragnet”) is 86. Former White House news secretary Ron Nessen is 81. Author W.P. Kinsella is 80. Country singer-songwriter Tom T. Hall is 79. Actor Sir Ian McKellen is 76. Country singer Jessi Colter is 72. Actress-singer Leslie Uggams is 72. Movie director and Muppeteer Frank Oz is 71. Actress Karen Valentine is 68. Actress Jacki Weaver is 68. Rock singer Klaus Meine (The Scorpions) is 67. Actress Patti D’Arbanville is 64. Actress Connie Sellecca is 60. Rock singer-musician Paul Weller is 57. Sen. Amy Klobuchar, DMinn., is 55. Actor-comedian Mike Myers is 52. Actor Matt Borlenghi is 48. Actor Joseph Reitman is 47. Rock musician Glen Drover is 46. Actress Anne Heche is 46. Actresses Lindsay and Sidney Greenbush (TV: “Little House on the Prairie”) are 45. Actor-comedian Jamie Kennedy is 45. Actress Octavia Spencer is 45. Actor Justin Henry is 44. Rapper Daz Dillinger is 42. Actress Molly Sims is 42. Singer Lauryn Hill is 40. Actress Erinn Hayes is 39. Actor Cillian Murphy is 39. Actor Ethan Suplee is 39. Rock musician Todd Whitener is 37. Actor Corbin Allred is 36. Actress-singer Lauren Frost is 30. Musician Guy Lawrence (Disclosure) is 24. 1991 Olympic gold medal gymnast Aly Raisman is 21. Dear Readers: Memorial Day has become a three-day holiday of picnics and cookouts. But there is a reason for this commemoration, so please remember the servicemen and women who died serving their country. Consider visiting a veterans hospital or military cemetery and paying your respects. At 3 p.m. local time, the National Moment of Remembrance asks for 60 seconds of silence to remember U.S. service members who gave their lives in the line of duty. And if you have a flag, it is appropriate to display it at half-staff until noon. “Last Monday in May” by John T. Bird Birmingham, Ala. We pause to remember those who died with so much courage so much pride. They’ll never come back but memories endure to remind us of freedom: fragile, pure. We’re worthy of their sacrifice if we pause each day not just on the last Monday in May. Dear Annie: I met someone with whom I would like to be friends. However, she has a repulsive habit. She constantly sticks her thumb in her nose. How do I tell her to stop without being offensive? I otherwise enjoy her company a great deal. — HFAR Dear HFAR: Your friend probably has no idea she is doing this and would be appalled to know that others are bothered by it. She most likely has some type of irritation that makes her reach to her nose frequently, and it may have become a habit. The next time she puts her thumb there, and every time thereafter, you can ask very nicely whether she needs a tissue. If she says it itches (or anything similar), you can suggest she talk to her doctor or an ENT because you’ve noticed that it obviously bothers her frequently and could indicate something more serious. Don’t be snarky about it. Be sincerely concerned. At the very least, she will be more aware of what she is doing with her thumb. ——— (About the writers: Annie’s Mailbox is written by Kathy Mitchell and Marcy Sugar, longtime editors of the Ann Landers column.) Cleveland Daily Banner – Established in 1854 – EDITOR AND PUBLISHER Stephen L. Crass GENERAL MANAGER Jim Bryant CIRCULATION DIRECTOR Herb Lacy OFFICE MANAGER Joyce Taylor ASSOCIATE EDITOR Rick Norton ASSOCIATE EDITOR Gwen Swiger LIFESTYLES EDITOR William Wright SPORTS EDITOR Richard Roberts ADVERTISING DIRECTOR Jack Bennett RETAIL SALES MANAGER Sheena Meyer PRESS SUPERVISOR Richard Yarber 423-472-5041 Telephone 423-614-6529 Newsroom Fax 423-476-1046 Office & Advertising Fax 1505 25th Street N.W. - Cleveland, TN 37311 • P.O. Box 3600 Cleveland, TN 37320 www.clevelandbanner.com Cleveland Daily Banner—Monday, May 25, 2015—19 Traffickers’ camps had 139 suspected graves WANG KELIAN, Malaysia (AP) — Malaysian authorities said Monday a cluster of abandoned jungle camps used by human traffickers contained 139 suspected graves as well as barbedwire pens likely used to cage migrants, shedding more light on a regional trade that preyed on some of Southeast Asia’s most desperate people. National police chief Khalid Abu Bakar said forensics experts were exhuming the suspected graves found at 28 vacated camps in the hilly jungle area on the border with Thailand where trafficking syndicates were known to operate. “It is a very sad scene,” Khalid told reporters at a police outpost in the town of Wang Kelian several kilometers (miles) from the camps, one of which appeared large enough to hold about 300 people. “I am shocked. We never expected this kind of cruelty.” At one forest camp, police found several parts of a decomposed body inside a wooden pen. The parts were placed into white bags and brought to Wang Kelian, and district police chief Rizani Ismail said they would be examined by forensics experts. Police said they would begin digging up other suspected graves — mounds of earth, covered with leaves and marked by sticks — on Tuesday. “We have discovered 139 of what we believe to be graves,” Khalid said. “We believe they are victims of human trafficking.” Prime Minister Najib Razak, in Tokyo on an official visit, vowed to find the perpetrators. “I am deeply concerned with graves found on Malaysian soil purportedly connected to people smuggling. We will find those responsi- ble,” he said on Twitter early Monday. The finding in the northern Malaysian state of Perlis follows a similar discovery earlier this month by police in Thailand who unearthed dozens of bodies from shallow graves on the Thai side of the border. Thai police Maj. Gen. Puthichart Ekkachan said 36 bodies had been found there in seven abandoned camps. The discoveries have exposed hidden networks of jungle camps run by human smugglers, who have for years held countless desperate people captive while extorting ransoms from their families. Most of those who have fallen victim to the trafficking networks are members of Myanmar’s persecuted Rohingya Muslim community or impoverished migrants from Bangladesh, part of a wave of people who have fled their homelands to reach countries like Malaysia, where they hope to find work or live freely. As Southeast Asian governments have launched crackdowns in recent weeks amid intensified international pressure and media scrutiny, traffickers have abandoned camps on land and boats at sea to avoid arrest. Khalid said at least two of the camps found in Malaysia appeared to have been abandoned within the past few weeks, based on the condition of items left behind such as vegetables, rice and almost new cooking utensils. Scattered personal possessions included a pink teddy bear and white children’s sandals, he said, indicating the possible presence of children at the camp. On three large whiteboards, police pasted dozens of pictures taken at the camps, which ranged in size, with the largest capable of holding about 300 people and smaller ones just a few dozen. Some of the pictures showed large, crudely built pens made from wooden sticks and barbed wire that were believed to be used as cages. “We think the migrants were imprisoned in these wooden pens,” Khalid said. “They were not allowed to move freely and traffickers kept watch at sentry posts.” Other items left behind included a rifle pouch, used bullets and bullet casings, he said. Police also found white muslin cloth, used by Muslims in Malaysia to wrap dead bodies, and a wooden stretcher believed to have carried bodies. The findings were the result of an operation Malaysian authorities conducted from May 11-23, during which they combed the steep jungle area along 50 kilometers (30 miles) of the border with Thailand. Due to the difficult terrain, Khalid said the investigation and forensics analysis could take a few weeks. Human rights groups and activists say the area on the Thai-Malaysia border has been used for years to smuggle migrants and refugees, including Rohingya Muslims, a long-persecuted minority in predominantly Buddhist Myanmar. In many cases, they pay human smugglers thousands of dollars for passage, but are instead held for weeks or months, while traffickers extort more money from their families back home. Rights groups say some have been beaten to death, and The Associated Press has UK airport expansion threatens entire villages LONDON (AP) — With its classic red phone booth, pub, and medieval church, Harmondsworth’s center looks quintessentially British. But the search for a twee English village isn’t what brings millions of people within a stone’s throw of its boundaries. The attraction is neighboring Heathrow Airport, which served 73 million travelers last year. Now Europe’s busiest airport is proposing to build a runway roughly through the center of town, leveling the ivy-covered brick walls of the Harmondsworth Hall guest house and two-thirds of its homes. A village that traces its history to the 6th century would be forever altered, and some argue even what’s left would be uninhabitable. “There’s no compensation package that would interest me,” said Neil Keveren, who chairs a local community group opposed to the expansion. “We have a historic village with buildings that go back 600 years. You cannot replace that. You cannot buy memories.” Harmondsworth is under threat because London and southeastern England need more airport capacity to meet the growing demands of business travelers and tourists. Heathrow and rival Gatwick, 30 miles (50 kilometers) south of central London, have offered competing projects that will cost as much as 18.6 billion pounds ($29.1 billion). Whichever proposal is selected, homes will be destroyed and surviving neighborhoods will have to cope with increased noise, pollution and traffic. The issue is so toxic that politicians created an independent commission to weigh the options. Government officials then postponed a decision until after the May 7 election, effectively taking the matter off the political agenda, if but briefly. The commission is set to make its recommendation as soon as next month. It will then be up to political leaders to make the final decision. A furious public relations battle has raged in advance, with placards all over London’s subway system, for example, extolling the virtues of Heathrow or Gatwick. The commission has already rejected other options, including Mayor Boris Johnson’s proposal for a new airport in the Thames Estuary. According to the commission, all three remaining proposals, including two different plans to expand Heathrow, would meet the region’s needs, though the costs and potential benefits would vary. Gatwick, for instance, would cost an estimated 9.3 billion pounds and boost Britain’s gross domestic product by as much as 127 billion pounds. The most expensive Heathrow project would cost twice as much and boost GDP by up to 211 billion pounds, the commission estimates. AP photo JUSTINE BAYLEY stands in the front garden of her home in Harmondsworth in London. Residents of the village close to Heathrow Airport are campaigning against the expansion of the airport, which they claim will decimate their community. Making the right decision is crucial as London seeks to retain a competitive edge. In a globalized world, airports offer the opportunity for investment bankers, lawyers, consultants and engineers to make faceto-face connections in major markets where deals are made, said John Kasarda, director of the center for air commerce at the University of North Carolina’s Kenan-Flagler Business School. “This is contact sport, particularly at the global level,” Kasarda said. “This isn’t done over the net.” And the ability to move — and connect — faster makes a country and its economy more competitive. Opting not to expand is a tacit acknowledgement that the government is willing to have some of those jobs go to a competitor, such as Paris, Amsterdam or Dubai. “It’s the survival of the fastest,” Kasarda said. “It’s no longer the big eating the small. It is the fast eating the slow.” But there is a human cost, as communities like Harmondsworth and others that might be affected know all too well. Heathrow external relations director Nigel Milton said he understands that some people are very upset, though he claims there are residents in Harmondsworth who support the project but might not want to come forward to support the idea. He acknowledges the local impact, but said the company would offer compensation packages — even to those whose homes would not need to be leveled but who would find themselves living next to a runway. “We believe we are being fair,” he said. Countries like Britain have struggled with the notion of balancing national gain with local pain. Harmondsworth and the nearby village of Sipson are “stylized examples of the challenge all big societies face: progress meets obstacles,” said Tony Travers, a professor of government at the London School of Economics. Britain has sought to strike a balance between growth and safeguarding its heritage, and grassroots conservation movements have grown up to protect cultural landmarks. Unlike communities such as Venice in Italy, Britain hasn’t allowed beauty to hamper progress — but that doesn’t mean it isn’t taken into account. “If Harmondsworth were not this beautiful village, this decision would be that much easier to make,” Travers said. Local campaigners say they’ve been told the latest proposal would avoid landmarks like St. Mary’s Church, which traces its history to the mid-11th century and the Great Barn, a 15th century oak-framed behemoth — 192 feet long, 37 feet wide and 39 feet high — dubbed the “Cathedral of Middlesex” by the late poet laureate John Betjeman. But opponents say the proposed runway would be so close to what’s left of the village that no one would be able to stand to live there because of the noise and the bad air. In other words, there’d be a church but no congregation, said archaeological scientist Justine Bayley. “They have no concern that they are screwing up the lives of hundreds of thousands of people for their shareholders,” she said of her village and others along the flightpath and in west London who are affected by the noise. Keveren nods. His fury is evident as he waves a 2010 election leaflet in which Prime Minister David Cameron’s Conservative Party pledged to fight Heathrow expansion. Keveren says he feels deceived. “My grandparents worked this land. I have war dead in the cemetery of the church. This is my home and if I am forced to leave here, who will it be for? Foreign investors,” he said spinning with outrage. “The message I would give to the world is that the British government can be bought.” documented other cases in which people have been enslaved on fishing boats. Since May 10 alone, more than 3,600 people — about half of them from Bangladesh and half Rohingya from Myanmar — have landed ashore in Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand. Thousands more are believed to be trapped at sea in boats abandoned by their captains. Malaysia and Indonesia announced last week that they would provide temporary shelter for up to one year for migrants recently found or still stranded at sea. The U.S. has said it will settle some of them permanently. The Rohingya, numbering around 1.3 million in Myanmar, have been called one of the most persecuted minorities in the world. Long denied basic rights, they have been driven from their homes in mob attacks in Myanmar’s Rakhine state several times since 2012. More than 140,000 were displaced and are now living under apartheid-like conditions in crowded camps. More than 100,000 others have fled by sea. AP photo A MALAYSIAN ForENSIc TEAM member places bags of human remains found at the abandoned camps for transportation from the Malaysia-Thailand border in Wang Kelian, Malaysia Monday. Malaysian authorities said that abandoned jungle camps used by human traffickers contained over 130 suspected graves as well as pens likely used as cages for migrants, shedding more light on a regional trade that preyed on some of Southeast Asia’s most desperate people. Aquino: Philippines to fly usual routes over disputed reefs MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Philippine aircraft will continue to fly their usual routes over disputed reefs in the South China Sea, the country’s president said Monday, defying China’s challenges to its planes and those of the United States. President Benigno Aquino III told reporters there is no declared air defense identification zone over the area and “we will still fly the routes that we fly based on international law.” “We will still exercise our rights over our exclusive economic zone,” he said, adding that the “bottom line is, it has to be clear, we will defend our rights to the best of our abilities.” Aquino pointed to the disparity in the military strength of China and the Philippines, saying China should not bully a smaller country because it would hurt its image as it tries to create goodwill with its trading partners. The Philippines is pursuing international arbitration and diplomatic efforts to try to resolve the territorial dispute with China. When asked about what coordination the Philippines is having with the United States, a key military ally, to address the problem, Aquino said the two countries are helping each other but that he could not reveal details. Defense Secretary Voltaire Gazmin told reporters he will meet with U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter at the U.S. Pacific Command in Hawaii on Wednesday to discuss concerns over China’s apparent attempt to impose an ADIZ in the area. “We will ask the extent of help they can give us ... because right now we are the one being bullied,” he said. “Let us see what assistance they can give us to more or less keep us safe from harassment.” Gazmin said Filipino and Japanese defense officials were also discussing the possibility of transferring Japanese military equipment to the Philippines, which has one of the most ill- equipped armed forces in the region. China said Thursday that it is entitled to keep watch over airspace and seas surrounding artificial islands it created in the South China Sea, following an exchange in which its navy warned off a U.S. surveillance plane. The United States said that its own aerial patrolling was in accordance with international law and that it will seek to preserve the ability of not just the U.S. but all countries to exercise freedom of navigation and flight. Philippine military officials have said China has challenged its air patrols at least six times since last month, with a recording asking the planes to leave the Chinese military area to avoid misunderstanding. China’s construction has intensified frictions in the South China Sea, where Beijing’s expansive claims to the waters and reefs overlap with those of the Philippines, Taiwan, Brunei, Malaysia and Vietnam. 20—Cleveland Daily Banner—Monday, May 25, 2015 www.clevelandbanner.com Journalism students aim to dispel myths about veterans DETROIT (AP) — Wishing living U.S. military veterans a “Happy Memorial Day” might be well-intentioned but misses the mark on an occasion meant for remembering those who lost their lives. That and other timely reminders can be found in a new book researched and written by a Michigan State University journalism class with assistance from former servicemen and women. “100 Questions and Answers About Veterans” is aimed at clearing up myths and misunderstandings held by some civilians. “A day of mourning doesn’t square with ‘happy,’” instructor Joe Grimm said. “They’re thinking, ‘I’m still here. My day is coming in November (on) Veterans Day.’” The book, available in print and digital versions, is the eighth that Grimm’s classes have published. Others have covered Hispanics and Latinos, Native Americans, East Asians and Muslim Americans. “Given the similarities between vets and other groups of people who are frequently stereotyped, this would be a place we could do some work,” Grimm said. Veterans told students they can feel similarly conflicted when civilians thank them for their service. People mean well, Grimm said, but some veterans say kind words can ring hollow if the person doesn’t know how, when or why they served. The book’s content was reviewed by veterans of the Army, Navy, Air Force and Marines, including Jeff Barnes, director of the Michigan Veterans Affairs Agency. Joe Brigman, whose 11-year stint in the Army included three overseas tours, said the guide is both helpful and necessary. “There really isn’t a whole lot out there,” said Brigman, who works in the state agency’s employment section but wasn’t involved with the veterans’ guide. “You’ve got to get rid of some of the myths and rumors out there.” Another issue raised by the book is the widespread association of veterans and homelessness. Although there are many homeless vets, the guide points out they are more likely than the civilian population to start businesses or assume leadership roles in companies. Brigman said part of his job is working on reducing unemployment among vets, which is 7.2 percent nationally for those who people out. Dallas also faced severe flooding from the Trinity River, which was expected to crest near 40 feet Monday and lap at the foundations of an industrial park. The Red and Wichita rivers also rose far above flood stage. Heather Ruiz returned from work early Sunday to ankle-deep water and a muddy couch inside her home in San Marcos. She wasn’t sure what to do next. “Pick up the pieces and start all over I guess. Salvage what can be salvaged and replace what needs to be replaced,” Ruiz said. This May is already the wettest on record for several cities in the southern Plains states, with days still to go and more rain on the way. So far this year, Oklahoma City has recorded 27.37 inches of rain. Last year the state’s capital got only 4.29 inches. The reasons include a prolonged warming of Pacific Ocean sea surface temperatures, which generally results in cooler air, coupled with an active southern jet stream and plentiful moisture from the Gulf of Mexico, said Meteorologist Forrest Mitchell at National Weather Service office in Norman, Oklahoma. “It looks like the rainfall that we’re getting now may actually officially end the drought,” that has gripped the southern Plains states for years, Mitchell said, noting that moisture now reaches about two feet below the surface of the soil and many lakes and reservoirs are full. Wichita Falls was so dry at one point that that it had to get Texas regulatory approval to recycle and treat its wastewater as drinking water dried up. By Sunday, the city reached a rainfall record, nearly 14 inches so far in May. The storm system pushed northeast into Iowa and Illinois on Sunday after it moved through parts of Colorado, cen- AP photo in this MARch 1 Photo released by Joe Grimm, Michigan State University students Tiara Jones, from left, Madeline Carino and Lia Kamana work on a new book “100 Questions and Answers About Veterans” in East Lansing, Mich. The new book, researched and written by a Michigan State journalism class with assistance from former servicemen and women, is aimed at clearing up myths and misunderstandings held by some civilians. have served since Sept. 11, 2001. Still, he adds, the cumulative effect of media, movies and other popular culture leave an impression the figure is much higher, along with rampant homelessness, addiction and post-traumatic stress. “That’s a very small slice that’s out there — there are plenty of other vets doing many other things,” he said. Introductory essays were written by J.R. Martinez, a wounded veteran, actor, speaker and champion of ABC’s “Dancing with the Stars,” as well as Ron Capps, founder of the Veterans Writing Project. The guide includes six video interviews from Detroit Public Television’s “Veterans Coming Home” project, which involved Michigan State students. AP photo Residents loAd theiR belongings into a truck as the rising waters from Mountain Creek surround their home in the Willow Bend mobile home park on Sunday in Grand Prairie, Texas. The Dallas/Forth Worth received more than three inches of rain since midnight, with more reportedly on the way. tral and North Texas and most of Oklahoma. New flash flood watches were issued Sunday for western Arkansas, Missouri and parts of Kansas, and tornado warnings were issued Sunday night for parts of Illinois, Iowa, Kansas and Missouri. About 1,000 people were evacuated from homes in Central Texas, where rescuers pulled dozens of people from high water overnight. Tami Mallow, 41, gathered her three cats at a shelter in San Marcos while her husband put furniture on cinderblocks, and retreated to the second floor with electronics and other valuables as the floodwaters entered. “He told me there was 2 inches of mud,” Mallow said. “I don’t know what the cleanup process is going to be.” Five San Marcos police cars were washed away and a fire station was flooded, said Kristi Wyatt, a spokeswoman for San Marcos, which imposed a 9 p.m. Sunday curfew. Wyatt said some 1,000 homes were damaged in San Marcos, Wimberley and elsewhere in Hays County, a fast-growing area between San Antonio and Austin. A tornado briefly touched down in Houston, damaging rooftops, toppling trees, blowing out windows and sending at least two people to a hospital. The weather service said the tornado struck with winds of about 100 mph at around 6:30 a.m. Sunday. Fire officials said 10 apartments were heavily damaged and 40 others sustained lesser damage. Some 50 miles north of the city, about 1,000 people were preparing to spend the night away from home. The Montgomery County Office of Emergency Management issued a mandatory evacuation order to more than 400 homes near an earthen dam at Lake Lewis that was at risk of failing due to the heavy rains. Spokeswoman Miranda Hahs said the dam owned by Entergy Texas is holding, and that it was not clear when residents would be allowed to return home. In northeast Oklahoma, Capt. Jason Farley was helping rescue people at about 11:30 p.m. Saturday when he was swept into a drainage ditch. The body of the 20-year veteran was recovered an hour and a half later, Claremore Fire Chief Sean Douglas said. In Tulsa, a woman died in a weather-related traffic crash Saturday, the state Department of Emergency Management said Sunday. Oklahoma City set a new monthly rainfall total this weekend — 18.2 inches through Saturday, beating the previous one of 14.5 in 2013. Colorado also was waterlogged. A mandatory evacuation notice was issued Sunday for residents in the northeastern city of Sterling, and several counties planned to ask the governor for a disaster declaration. ground for kitty videos to a $20 billion visual menagerie. Along the way, it’s also become an incubator for a new type of celebrity — a digital Brat Pack that’s leveraging smartphone stardom to write books, drop albums, design products and break into Hollywood. “It’s the most powerful marketing platform in the world for millennials,” said Graham. “If you’re trying to reach that audience of girls gathered downstairs, YouTube is the venue to do that. Look at an artist like Fred (Lucas Cruikshank). He went off to Hollywood, created some films, neglected his channel, came back to YouTube and ... crickets. No one was there anymore. You can’t abandon it.” In recent years, YouTube, which is celebrating its 10th anniversary this month, has propped up YouTubers like Franta — “creators,” the site calls them — who attract millions of subscribers that regularly watch their online videos and the advertising attached to them. Their popularity is still eclipsed by music videos, which continue to account for YouTube’s most watched clips. Yet the fandom that creators are inspiring, and the ad revenue they’re bringing in, can’t be ignored. With his playful grin and doe eyes, Franta currently boasts more than 4.4 million devotees to his personal YouTube channel, where he speaks to viewers about life, dating, candy, whatever at least once a week. He began posting videos in 2010 while still attending high school in La Crescent, Minnesota. Now, he’s releasing music compilations and a line of locally grown coffee. For every Justin Bieber or Psy, perhaps YouTube’s biggest success stories, there are dozens of Frantas. It’s a form of celebrity that didn’t exist 10 years ago, when YouTube was born and made it simple to post video online. Franta, who continues to upload videos despite his other endeavors, is young enough to have been inspired by the YouTube vloggers that came before him. “There are guys like Shane Dawson and Phillip DeFranco who I was a fan of, and now we’re friends,” said Franta, sequestered from fans behind racks of his book, “A Work in Progress,” in the Barnes & Noble stockroom. “Do you know how awkward it would be to tell some of my friends that I watched them on YouTube in my bedroom before I knew them? It’s weird to think of it like that.” The creators’ importance to YouTube is evidenced by the Google-backed site bankrolling marketing campaigns the past two years featuring such famous (on the Internet) faces as Bethany Mota, Hannah Hart and Grace Helbig. While such creators vlog about very different topics, they usually share a similar aesthetic: improvised delivery, quirky editing and personalities that jump off screens. Google has opened production facilities in London, Los Angeles, New York, Tokyo and Sao Paulo for creators who have more than 5,000 subscribers to film videos. The studios are equipped with sets and equipment that transcend most YouTubers’ living rooms and webcams. The spaces also serve as social hubs for creators. Several of them will host 10th anniversary parties on Wednesday. “For us, creators are the lightbulb of the ecosystem,” said Kevin Allocca, YouTube’s head of culture and trends. “Sure, YouTube was originally known for viral videos, and that was great and still is, but if you want to be able to build a business, you need to be able to create a following. I think it’s a very different model than traditional media. It’s about maximizing the connection with an audience.” That’s not so different from the genesis of YouTube, which entered its beta phase in May 2005. The first-ever video posted on the site was a crude 19-second clip titled “Me at the Zoo” that featured YouTube co-founder Jawed Karim speaking directly to the camera about the “cool” elephants at the San Diego Zoo. It’s been a decade, and while video lengths are longer and resolutions are higher, the sentiment is the same: watch me. The next evolution for online video has seemingly already arrived, with such sites and apps as Twitch, Periscope, Meerkat and YouNow making it easier than ever to stream live video. That’s a feature YouTube has in its arsenal but the streaming video giant has yet to solidify itself as a live video destination. “There’s a ton of opportunity for innovation there,” said Allocca. “As it becomes easier to stream and take advantages of audiences built on YouTube, there’s going to be some interesting stuff. It’s another one of those things that’s really hard to predict what will be next. I definitely think live experiences and people gathering around singular moments will continue to grow.” If the rise of YouTube over the past decade is any indication, so will the lines to meet creators. 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They’re waiting to have Connor Franta, an affable 22-year-old Internet personality best known for delivering diary-like monologues on YouTube, sign a copy of his new memoir. The irony of a YouTube star drawing a massive crowd at a bookstore isn’t lost on talent manager Andrew Graham. “A year ago, I went to New York and tried to get a book publisher to take a meeting with me,” said Graham, who represents Franta and other mega-popular YouTubers. “I had one meeting, and they laughed at me. Here we are a year later at Barnes & Noble in Los Angeles with a New York Times best-selling author who is a client. I think that says it all. It’s a 180-degree turn.” Franta isn’t a singer, chef, comedian or athlete. He’s a YouTube star angling to be the Oprah Winfrey for millennials. 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CLEvELAND COuNTRY CLuB Is now accepting applications for • Clubhouse Maintenance– hvAC, plumbing and electrical experience and/ or certification preferred. • must have own transportation, valid driver’s license, and provide reliable references. drug screen required. Please e-mail resumes to Jill at jill@clevelandcountryclub.org NOW hIrING full and part time Grill Cooks at Willie's deli. Apply in person at Willie's deli, 7701 North Lee highway, between 9am-11am, or 2pm-4pm, mondayFriday. 423-336-8008 $760: 3 bedroom, newer townhouse. 2 bath, appliances furnished including washer/ dryer. In quiet area. No pets. $400 deposit. 423-595-2935. ence, limitation or discrimination." This newspaper will not knowingly accept any advertising for real estate which is in violation of the law. Our readers are informed that all dwellings advertised in this newspaper are available on an equal opportunity basis. Equal housing Opportunity, m/F. 5. Lost And Found LOST yOUr pet? 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All persons, resident and non-resident, having claims, matured or unmatured, against the estate are required to file the same with the Clerk of the above named Court on or before the earlier of the dates prescribed in (1) or (2) otherwise their claims will be forever barred: (1) (A) Four (4) months from the date of the first publication (or posting, as the case may be) of this notice if the creditor received an actual copy of this notice to creditors at least sixty (60) days before the date that is four (4) months from the date of the first publication (or posting); or (B) Sixty (60) days from the date the creditor received an actual copy of this notice to creditors of the creditor received the copy of the notice less than sixty (60) days prior to the date that is four (4) months from the date of publication (or posting) as described in (1)(A); or (2) Twelve (12) months from the decedent's date of death. This 11th day of may, 2015. Signed: Scott humberd, Personal representative. Ginger Wilson Buchanan, Attorney for Estate of Bertha Gaynelle humberd, P.O. Box 1083, Cleveland TN 37364-1083; 423-614-4035 BPr No.017620. Carl d. Shrewsbury, Clerk & master. may 18, 25, 2015 LEgAL PuBLICATION NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN ThE ChANCEry COUrT OF BrAdLEy COUNTy, TENNESSEE PrOBATE dIvISION. IN ThE mATTEr OF ThE ESTATE OF PhILIP m. ThOmAS, NO.: 2015-Pr-97. NOTICE TO CrEdITOrS, ESTATE OF PhILIP m. ThOmAS (deceased). Notice is hereby given that on the 7th day of may, 2015, Letters of Administration in respect of the Estate of Philip m. Thomas, deceased, who died intestate on the 7th day of April, 2015, were issued to the undersigned by the Chancery Court of Bradley County, Tennessee. All persons, resident and non-resident, having claims, matured or un-matured, against the Estate are required to file the same with the Clerk of the above named Court within the earlier of the dates prescribed in (1) or (2), otherwise their claims will be forever barred: (1) (A) Four (4) months from the date of the first publication (or posting, as the case may be) of this notice if the creditor received an actual copy of this notice to creditors at least sixty (60) days before the date that is four (4) months from the date of the first publication (or posting); or (B) Sixty (60) days from the date the creditor received an actual copy of the notice to creditors if the creditor received the copy of the notice less than sixty (60) days prior to the date that is four (4) months from the date of first publication (or posting) as described in (1)(A); or (2) Twelve (12) months from the decedent's date of death. This 7th day of may, 2015. rAE J. ThOmAS, Personal representative Estate of Philip m. Thomas, deceased. dANIEL W. CLANTON, Attorney for the Estate. CArL d. ShrEWSBUry, Clerk and master. Cheryl White, deputy Clerk. ThE AddrESS OF ThE PrOBATE COUrT CLErK IS: Carl d. Shrewsbury, Clerk and master, Bradley County Chancery Court, Bradley County Courthouse, 155 North Ocoee Street, room 203, Cleveland, Tennessee 37311. Telephone: (423) 728-7206. BILBO LAW OFFICE, P.C. by JImmy W. BILBO, BPr No. 011408, dANIEL W. CLANTON, BPr No. 031071. P.O. Box 62, Cleveland, TN 37364-0062. Tel: (423) 476-3556, Facsimile: (423) 476-3551. dated: 7 may, 2015. may 18, 25, 2015 8. Adoptions AdOPTION– KINdErGArTEN teacher looking forward to adopting a baby. Lots of love, education, and opportunities to share! Expenses paid. Call 1-888-503-7093. 14. Want To Buy CASh PAId for guns. One or entire collection. Posey Gun 2524 Keith Street, beside Townhouse Bakery 423-472-7296. I BUy junk cars, trucks, motorcycles from $250 up to $600 I will pick up. Call Woodrow at 423-507-4912. IF you are searching for a product or service ANd do not want to use loads of time searching everywhere, WHY NOT Advertise your need under the heading: 014 WANT TO BUy in ThE CLEvELANd dAILy BANNEr!! 15. Yard Sales 1050 WhISPErWOOd Trail, NE Cleveland Wednesday/ Thursday 9am to 4pm. Small furniture manufacturer closing doors, everything must go. Cash only. 18. Articles For Sale LOSE 30 lbs. in 30 days! medical doctors say the only way to lose weight is to eat less and exercise more. Learn how to avoid weight-loss scams. Call the Federal Trade Commission at 1-877-FTC-hELP. A message from Cleveland daily Banner and the FTC. Or visit our Web site at www.ftc.gov COOkEvILLE REgIONAL Medical Center seeking Full- time & PRN RESPIRATORY THERAPISTS This position is responsible for providing professional respiratory care through assessment, clinical judgement, treatment and instruction to any population group in need. The position is also responsible for providing certain cardiac and diagnostic procedures that will assist in providing quality care to the patient. The successful candidate holds a current national credential for registered respiratory Therapist (rrT) through the National Board for respiratory Care (NBrC) and a current Tennessee registered respiratory Therapist license. hospital experience with medical/ surgical and critical care patients preferred. Apply at www.crmchealth.org E. O. E. PALLETS!!! FREE WHILE THEY LAST! Cleveland Daily Banner COOkEvILLE REgIONAL Medical Center Seeking a Director of Practice Operations 24. Heavy/Farm Equipment For Sale This position is responsible for managing daily operations of multiple physician practices. 1999 FOrd NEW hOLLANd 555E backhoe. Excellent shape, low hours, farm used. 423-728-5536. 29. Help Wanted - Part-time ChILdCArE WOrKEr, Sunday mornings mainly (and other days if needed) 9am-12noon. Contact: Jessica at 423-476-5586 or jessica@bsumc.org Broad Street UmC 155 Central Avenue, Cleveland, TN 37311 hELPING hANdS OF CLEvELANd is accepting applications for CNAs and experienced caregivers who have WIdE OPEN availability including nights, weekends, split shifts. must have dependable transportation. Background and drug screening required. Stop by our office at 60 25th Street NW, Suite # 3 (next to Cupcake divas), monday- Friday 10am- 5pm to fill out an application. A Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration or related field required or high School diploma with equivalent work experience. Five years of managerial experience in a multi physician practice office setting is required. Candidate must have the ability to successfully lead, manage, oversee, develop and evaluate the work of staff across multiple practices. Apply on-line with salary requirements at www.crmchealth.org E. O. E. CLErICAL hELP for small hvAC office, 20 hours weekly 423-504-7740. 30. Help Wanted - Full Time ACOUSTICIAL CEILING Installers NEEdEd IN ChATTANOOGA. $17.25 hour plus Benefits. must show 5 years experience and pass drug Test. must have own tools and transportation. Call 423-322-7003 or 423-322-7002. CLASS A Drivers needed! Cleveland based company needing regional drivers with Class- A endorsements, home most every night, paid vacation, holiday pay, quarterly safety bonuses, 2 years over the road experience required. Contact us at 423-559-0771. LEGAL PUBLICATION NOTICE OF SPECIAL MEETING The Board of Commissioners of the Cleveland Housing Authority will hold a special meeting on Tuesday, May 26, 2015 at 5:30 pm. The purpose of the meeting will be to review HUD’s Rental Assistance Demonstration (RAD). The meeting will be held at the Cleveland Elks Lodge located at 235 2nd Street NE, in Cleveland. May 22, 25, 2015 LEGAL PUBLICATION NOTICE OF SALE The following vehicles are being held at Norris Towing, 1108 S. Lee Highway S.W., Cleveland, TN 37311. Anyone who has proof of ownership must reclaim the vehicle within three weeks of this notice. Owner and or Lien Holder must pay all storage and towing charges. Failure of the owner or lien holder to exercise their rights to reclaim the vehicle within the time provided shall be deemed a waiver of all rights, title and interest in the vehicle and consent to sale of the vehicle at public auction. KNADC125756381080 AMEFM5553YA603146 KL1TD62635B323631 1GCCC14HXDS162898 May 25, 2015 LEGAL PUBLICATION INVITATION TO BID 1.Cleveland Utilities, (Owner) will receive sealed lump sum proposals from qualified, licensed contractors for all labor and materials to complete the work in accordance with the Contract Documents entitled, Cleveland Utilities Window Replacement as prepared by Rardin & Carroll Architects, 6105 Preservation Drive, Suite A, Chattanooga, Tennessee 37416-3638. Telephone: (423) 894-3242 FAX (423) 894- 2839. 2.This is a rebidding of a previous bid due to the need to reduce the scope of the project. The scope of the project includes the removal and replacement of 11 existing windows with thermally broken storefront framing with 1” insulated glazing. The project will also include any required associated repairs to the finishes adjacent to the windows to match to the existing finishes due to the window replacement. The project location is 2435 Guthrie Avenue, Cleveland, Tennessee. 3. Bids will be received until Thursday, June 18th, 2015 at 3:00 PM at Cleveland Utilities in the conference room of the Tom Wheeler Building at which time all bids will be opened publicly and read aloud. 4.All bidders are encouraged to review on site the building and existing conditions for proper bid preparation. There will not be a pre-bid meeting. 5.Revised drawings and specifications may be requested from the Architect at (423)-894-3242. 6.No bid may be withdrawn for a period of thirty (30) days after the time and date of opening of bids. 7.Cleveland Utilities reserves the right to reject any and all bids, and to waive technicalities and informalities in the bidding. 8.Cleveland Utilities does not discriminate based on race, color or national origin in federal or state sponsored programs, pursuant to Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (42 U.S.C. 2000 d). May 24, 25, 26, 2015 NOW HIRINg! $950: 2 bedroom, 2 full bath, one level, screened porch, close to Wacker. Contact Jones Properties 423-472-4000 or www.jonesproperties.biz. dELIvEry TrUCK driver Positions available • Competitive pay • Load pay • Extra delivery pay • $500 monthly safety/ performance bonus • daily opportunities for extra bonus • Weekly direct deposit • modern fleet of Cascadia Tractors requirements: • Class A CdL • Able to operate forklift (willing to learn) If interested or for more information call 423-338-0583 or 931-409-1015, Office hours monday- Friday 7am-4pm. dry WALL hanger 5 years experience. must Pass drug Test and have own tools and transportation. $17.25 hour for work in Chattanooga. Call 423-322-7003 or 865-323-7428. EArN ThOUSANd$ from home. Be careful of work-at-home schemes. hidden costs can add up, and requirements may be unrealistic. Learn how to avoid work-at-home scams. Call the Federal Trade Commission. 1-877-FTC-hELP. A message from Cleveland daily Banner and the FTC. Or visit our Web site at www.ftc.gov GrOWING BEddING company based in Cleveland looking for a delivery driver, must have an F- endorsement. Work every other Saturday. Please no phone calls, apply at 2401 Georgetown road, 10am-5pm or email resume to: billy@murmaid.com. hIrING dIESEL detroit mechanic, Great Pay! Cleveland, Local business. 423-595-8922. HIRINg ExECuTIvE Housekeeping, Housekeepers and Laundry. Apply within, Hampton Inn, 4355 Frontage Road. AIr CONdITIONING Technician needed immediately, $12- $18 hourly to start based on experience. Only qualified need apply. 423-504-7740. hvAC INSTALLATION helper: residential and commercial, duct, piping and electrical work. Good pay and benefits. Thin person preferred. Also need high Quality Subcontractor occasionally. Pick up application at mechanical Systems 8905 hiwassee Street, Charleston. INSIDE SALES POSITION AvAILABLE Friendly no pressure sales environment. monday- Friday hours with consistent pay. Apply in person. Best Buy metals. 1652 S Lee hwy, Cleveland. 423-728-3336. LOCAL FUrNITUrE manufacturer looking for experienced upholsterers and seamstresses, also general laborers. Please call 423-478-2672. LOOKING FOr a Full Time, Local, Energetic Leasing Consultant to Join our Team. Experience is required. Email resumes to: management@brookesedge.com mAINTENANCE POSITION, must live on property. Please apply in person Whitewater Lodge 2500 Pointe South SE Cleveland. Background check required. mAINTENANCE TEChNICIAN Property management Affordable housing community is seeking a full time maintenance Technician. medical and dental are paid. To apply, please visit: https://home.eease.adp.com/recruit/?id=10901761 mEChANIC NEEdEd. must have experience in remove and replace, engine and transmission removal. Call Joey 423-244-5817. manpower In Cleveland is now hiring for the following positions • Assemblers • Collections Customer Service reps • Forklift drivers • General Labor • Warehouse Workers APPLY ONLINE AT WWW.MANPOWERJOBS.COM OR CALL 423-709-8796 FOR AN APPOINTMENT SOUThEASTErN CONTAINEr, INC. We are a progressive manufacturer of PET beverage bottles, supplying the Coca- Cola bottling system on the East Coast and in the midwest. We are currently hiring for our Cleveland, TN location. mAINTENANCE mEChANIC BLOW mOLdING Night Shift 7pm–7:30am. The successful candidate must be a self-motivated individual preferably with blow molding and/ or other manufacturing experience. Other skills include: • Fundamental knowledge of production machinery troubleshooting/ repair • Understanding of PLC logic • Electrical/ hydraulic/ Pneumatic/ Welding Skills • Willingness to work a flexible schedule and overtime • Good communication skills/ team player • Good computer skills– Windows & EXCEL • reliable work history • values personal safety, quality, & efficiency. Excellent opportunity with competitive pay and benefits. Apply in Person at 555 Industrial dr SW, Cleveland, TN or apply at the your local Employment Security Commission location. EQUAL OPPOrTUNITy/ AFFIrmATIvE ACTION EmPLOyEr STArS INCOrPOrATEd, hiring Personal Assistant, beginning wage $8. Call 423-447-2590, ext #1. WAITEr/ WAITrESS wanted, full/ part- time. Experience helpful. Also Kitchen help needed for Ocoee. Apply in Person. Gondolier, 3300 North Keith Street. 33. Business Opportunities INvESTIgATE BEFORE YOu INvEST! Always a good policy, especially for business opportunities and franchise. Call TN division of consumer Affairs at (800) 342-8385 or the Federal Trade Commission at (877) FTC-hELP for free information. Or visit our Web site at www.ftc.gov PrOCESS mEdICAL claims from home? Chances are you won’t make any money. Find out how to spot a medical billing scam. Call the Federal Trade Commission, 1-877-FTC-hELP. A message from Cleveland daily Banner and the Federal Trade Commission. Or visit our Web site at www.ftc.gov 34. Money To Lend * FIrST loan free * $200- $1000 See manager for details. 423-476-5770 NEEd CA$h fast but can’t get a loan? don’t pay for the promise of a loan. Call the Federal Trade Commission at 1-877-FTC-hELP to learn how to spot advance-fee loan scams. A message from Cleveland daily Banner and the FTC. Or visit our Web site at www.ftc.gov PUBLIShEr'S NOTICE: All real estate advertised in this newspaper is subject to the Federal Fair housing Act of 1968 and the Tennessee human rights Act which makes it illegal to advertise "any preference, limitation or discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin, handicap/ disability or an intention to make any such preference, limitation or discrimination." This newspaper will not knowingly accept any advertising for real estate which is in violation of the law. Our readers are informed that all dwellings advertised in this newspaper are available on an equal opportunity basis. Equal housing Opportunity, m/F. 1513 BLOUNT Avenue #1, 1 bedroom, 1 bath, $410 monthly, $410 deposit. No pets. Burris Properties 423-478-3050. 2 BEdrOOm apartment for rent, off dalton Pike in Waterville area, newly remodeled, water, yard and garbage pick up furnished. $550 monthly, $300 deposit. references preferred 423-472-5817 or 423-715-6612. $1,195: 3 Bedroom, 2 bath, 1,700 square feet, new paint, basement, garage, NW. PrOvISION rEAL ESTATE ANd PrOPErTy mANAGEmENT, LLC 423-693-0301. 2 BEdrOOm, 1 bath, $625 monthly, $475 deposit. 423-605-8300. 3 BEdrOOm, 1 bath, $795 monthly, $400 deposit. 423-605-8300. 56. Houses For Sale 3 BEdrOOm, 1.5 bath, extra lot, fenced yard, $124,900. 423-605-8300. 3 BEdrOOm, 2 bath, bonus room, 2,100 square feet, $219,000. Call 423-413-4661. “ATTENTION RENTERS” PuRCHASE YOuR HOME TODAY THIS PROgRAM OFFERS “NO” DOWN PAYMENT TO gET QuALIFIED CALL MY CELL 423-593-1508 HERB LACY AFFILIATE BROkER CENTuRY 21 1ST CHOICE REALTORS 2075 OCOEE ST CLEvELAND, TN 37311 HLkL3@YAHOO.COM 478-2332 2 BEdrOOm with den, dUPLEX, southeast Cleveland, $575 monthly plus utilities. No pets. 423-650-5027. BLYTHEWOOD- STEEPLECHASE APARTMENTS- 1 Bedroom with utilities furnished ($369- $559); 2 Bedroom ($429- $599). Appliances furnished; duplexes. 423-472–7788. CLEvELANd 2 or 3 bedroom, 2 1/2 bath, New Castle drive, Luxury Townhouse. Available June 1st. $850 and $950 a month. 423-618-0823 CLEvELANd SUmmIT Apartments rent is based on income for persons 62 or older, handicapped or disabled. We have immediate openings. Equal housing Opportunity 44 Inman Street 479-3005 dUPLEX, LyLES road, off highway 64: 2 Bedroom, 2 bath, eat- in kitchen, laundry room. No pets/ smoking. $650 monthly, $650 deposit, 423-618-4580. dUPLEX, EXCELLENT condition, Old Tasso Place. 2 Bedroom, 2 bath, garage, large back yard, kitchen, dining area, living room. No smoking, no pets. $775 monthly, $775 deposit. 423-605-8456. ONE BEdrOOm, country setting $435 monthly, water included, no pets. STONy BrOOKS rEALTy Owner/ Agent 423-479-4514. 50. Mobile Homes For Rent $400 ANd up. 2 and 3 bedrooms. Apply at 645 Old Chattanooga Pike, Cleveland 423-790-7141. 2, BEdrOOmS for rent, great location. Weekly or monthly $250 deposit. 423-617-4505. COLLEGETOWN mOBILE ESTATES: Two bedrooms nice and clean. 472–6555. 52. Sleeping Rooms $129 PLUS tax weekly special, 1 person with ad, hBO/ ESPN. 423-728–4551. CLEvELANd 2 bedroom, 2 baths. Spacious split- level. Near shopping. Granite counters. Ceramic cooktop. Unfinished basement. Walk-in closets. Laminate flooring. New windows. Central air. Brick/ vinyl siding. Large yard. hot tub. Septic. Beautifully restored! $115,000 Call 1-423-299-2810 TWO rEmOdELEd homes: 3 Bedrooms, 2- 2.5 baths, decks, basements, garages, city or county. Lease with option to buy. Owner/ agent, STONy BrOOKS rEALTy 423-479-4514. 59. Mobile Homes For Sale hUGE SELECTION of rEPO homes in your area. Over 50 available and moving fast. Call now before they're gone. 423-351-7786. LENdErS AvAILABLE for 0 down home loans. Call for details. 423-337-5992. LOOKING TO update your old home! Use your trade as a down payment on a new one! Come see us today. 423-337-5992. mOBILE hOmE for sale, must be moved. 28 by 56 double wide 3 bedroom, 2 bath, fireplace, spacious, $12,500, 423-650-2765 Cleveland TN. mOvE IN rEAdy rEPOS! 3 and 4 bedrooms. Lots to choose from. 423-337-5992. mOvE IN ready rEPOS. EZ! Call to apply! 423-351-7786. 64. Recreational vehicles KEySTONE ChALLENGEr 2006 29TrL, 5th Wheel, 3 slides, $18,500 Call 423-790-5223 66. Auto Parts 53. Houses For Rent 2013 F150 parts: New grill, new front bumper, used back bumper all tuxedo black. $500 for all. 865-318-9580. 40. general Services Offered 72. Cars For Sale * AAA house PAINTING: InteriorExterior, Pressure Washing, FrEE estimates, references. 423-284-9652. PUBLIShEr'S NOTICE: All real estate advertised in this newspaper is subject to the Federal Fair housing Act of 1968 and the Tennessee human rights Act which makes it illegal to advertise "any preference, limitation or discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin, handicap/ disability or an intention to make any such prefer- LLOyd'S USEd CArS 5526 Waterlevel highway Cleveland 423-476-5681 don't pay high for your next car! Financing available or cash talks! Warranties, history reports: 2005 Chevy Trailblazer, 2004 Chevy Trailblazer 4x 4, 2004 Chevy Blazer 4x 4, 2007 Pontiac Torrent SUv, 2004 Jeep Grand Cherokee. ChryLSEr CONvErTIBLE, Excellent condition, One owner. Priced when seen 423-618-8579. JUNK CArS, wrecked cars, trucks, vans, SUvs. Cash paid, free pick up. 423-240-1334. dANNy'S TrEE SErvICE: Shrubbery planting. Tree removal. Senior discount, military discount. 423-244-6676. EXTrEmE mAINTENANCE home/ mobile home Commercial, residential, Painting (interior/ exterior). decks, plumbing, electrical, roofing, siding, all work! 30 years experience. Free estimates. 423-331-7045. CUB'S LAWNCArE: Spring and Summer Lawncare, mowing, weed eating, trimming, yard clean- up. Senior discounts. Free estimates. Please call 423-336-5984. r & J Complete Lawn Care: 423-469-5753 or 423-472-0442. TOP CUT Lawn Care- Professional Service, Affordable Prices. Credit Cards Accepted. 423-593-9634 45. vacation Rentals 2 BEdrOOm, 2 bath cabin, Pigeon Forge. 423-605-8300. 2 rIvErS CAmPING: rv Park, Cabin rentals, directly on the river at junction of hiwassee and Ocoee rivers. 423-338-7208. BEAr PAW COTTAGES- 2, 3 bedrooms, $75- $85. mountains, fireplace, serenity. 423-476–8480. 46. Storage Space For Rent CALFEE'S mINI Warehouse for rent: Georgetown Pike, Spring Place road and highway 64. Call 476–2777. TEmPSAFE STOrAGE Climate Controlled & Outside Units downtown Location & Georgetown road 614-4111 48. Office Space For Rent 600 SQUArE feet, multiple office, $350 monthly, very convenient, 423-991-4984. OFFICE/ RETAIL Space Available, short and long term lease. Several locations, priced from $300 up. Call Jones Properties 423-472-4000 or www.jonesproperties.biz. 49. Apartments For Rent $1,800: 2 bedroom, 1.5 bath, fully furnished, utilities paid. Contact Jones Properties 423-472-4000 or visit our website at www.jonesproperties.biz. $450: 1 Bedroom, 1 bath ground level apartment. Contact Jones Properties 423-472-4000 or www.jonesproperties.biz. Physical Therapist FT/PT Etowah Skilled Nursing Flexible hours/5 days per week Interested applicants apply online at www.StarrRegional.com 22—Cleveland Daily Banner—Monday, May 25, 2015 www.clevelandbanner.com Perform, then, this one act of remembrance before this Day passes - Remember there is an army of defense and advance that never dies and never surrenders, but is increasingly recruited from the eternal sources of the American spirit and from the generations of American youth. ~W.J. Cameron This message is proudly sponsored by: VFW AMERICAN LEGION POST 2598 JIMMY JOHNSON COMMANDER POST 81 MITCH GREENE COMMANDER COMM 4595 North Lee Hwy 423-709-8838 donledford.com Disabled American Veterans Major Paul Jones - Memorial Chapter 25 P.O. 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