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Garage door murals revolutionize appearance
BY TERRI BENNETT McClatchy-Tribune News Service
Weeds — the bane of gardeners everywhere. Here is a simple, cheap, and perfectly safe solution to preventing weeds in natural areas, flowerbeds or even a vegetable garden and you probably have at least one delivered to your home every week. It’s the newspaper! Once you read it, you can recycle it or you can re-purpose it to snuff out stubborn weeds without using potentially toxic chemicals. Like the black landscape fabric you may be used to seeing, a layer of newspapers will keep sunlight from reaching young weeds waiting to emerge. Newspapers also encourage earthworm activity, which makes your soil better in the process. As the worms break down the paper their waste provides fertilizer for the soil and their tunnels help to provide beneficial oxygen. Plus, it’s simple. Clear the area where you want to prevent weeds from sprouting. Layer sections of the newspaper across the area. If it’s windy you can lightly water the newspaper sections first to prevent them from blowing about. Overlap the layers by several inches to prevent gaps. Put down at least six to eight sheets. The thicker the layer of newspaper the better the weed control. Spray the papers lightly with water until soaked. Cover the area with leaves, grass clippings, straw, bark or rock. It looks better when the soaked papers are covered but it also helps to keep them in place until they break down. There’s no need to worry about the ink on the newspapers. In the past lead, cadmium and other toxic heavy metals were commonly used in paper inks. Now, however, most publishers use organic pigments, which are the same as those used in tattoos, lipstick, hair coloring and other cosmetics. You may also see the “soy ink” symbol on a newspaper, which tells the reader that the newspaper company is using soy-based inks for printing. You can also use the glossy inserts of the newspaper but the coating on the paper will prolong the process of breaking down. Such papers are best used sparingly or on problem areas. And if you have a particularly dense or stubborn patch of weeds, try using cardboard! Keeping your garden weed-free doesn’t have to be a backbreaking job nor do you have to use a bunch of potentially hazardous chemicals. Do Your Part and re-purpose your newspaper for a free, easy and ecofriendly solution to preventing weeds in your garden.
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Style-Your-Garage.com photo murals are made from high-quality, durable and weather-resistant material. Anyone can install a photo mural from style-your-garage.com thanks to easy-to-use Velcro fasteners. The banners are available in different sizes.
Home and garden news and notes BY MARY BETH BRECKENRIDGE McClatchy-Tribune News Service
Ask Mary: spray available for clothes moths Q: Is there any kind of spray I can use on clothes moths? A: Willert Home Products makes a moth spray called Sla, which is available from a number of online retailers including Amazon.com. Willert said it’s also sold at some Ace and True Value hardware stores, but call first to ask whether your store stocks it.
On the shelf: Kitchen essentials in design book
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Put newspaper to work in your garden. Once you read it, you can recycle it or you can re-purpose it to snuff out stubborn weeds without using potentially toxic chemicals.
Designer Terence Conran’s “Essential Kitchens” helps homeowners think through all of the issues involved with building or remodeling a kitchen. The book addresses everything from the layout to the wall
color _ or colour, as Conran puts it. The book is British, so references to things like larders and splashbacks might give American readers pause. I’m still trying to figure out the difference between a cooker and a hob. Nevertheless, the book provides an overview to kitchen planning that might prove useful to someone who’s still in the dreaming phase. The photos are a bonus, particularly for people who are drawn to European style. “Essential Kitchens” is published by the Octopus Publishing Group’s Conran division and sells for $20 in hardcover. It’s one of a series of Essential guides written by Conran. Other books in the series deal with bathrooms, small spaces and storage
What’s new: murals change look of garage If you’re going to hide the stuff in your garage, why not
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Murals from Style-Your-Garage.com adhere to your garage door with hook-and-loop tape. hide it behind an illusion? Photo murals cover your garage door and let you trick the neighbors into thinking you have an airplane or an antique car parked in your garage _ or maybe that your garage opens to a view of Manhattan. The murals, from StyleYour-Garage.com, adhere to the door with hook-and-loop
tape. They’re designed for upand-over garage doors but can be adapted to some other door styles. Designs include vehicles, landscapes, rooms and animals. (After all, an alligator in the garage is pretty sure to deter intruders.) You can even have a mural custom-made from your own photo.
The fun of trying to control slugs, chemically and organically Slugs are ugly and slimy, leave silver trails on the sidewalk and eat only the most expensive plants, tender seedlings, lettuce, greens, and other delicate foliage. The only good thing about them is that they provide food for other birds, snakes, toads, and small mammals that would otherwise eat earthworms. We will never get rid of them, but at least we can discourage them both chemically and organically. The fun of trying to control slugs is that we have so many options and whatever works for you is “the best” method and that may not be the same as for someone else. Slugs are mollusks without shells and range in size, color, and patterns, but it is the gray slug that is commonly found in warm, damp, dark places in the garden. There are three parts to control: exclude, trap and bait. Excluding includes putting anything sharp around the plants that
will cut slugs, causing dehydration. Surround the plants with builders sand, crushed eggs shells, lava rocks, diatomaceous earth, or cooper strips but make sure that there are no slugs between the barrier and the plant. For some reason they don’t like coffee grounds or a garlic infusion sprayed on plants. Slugs love yeasty smells and will head for saucers of beer. Barbara Pleasant, organic gardening writer, recommends a mixture of 1 cup water, 1 teaspoon each flour and sugar, and half a teaspoon of dry yeast. Place traps at night when slugs are active. Pleasant suggests adding the trapped slubs to the compost, “where they will be breakfast for others.” Canadian researchers found that newspaper soaked in sugar water placed under boards at night will attract slugs. Gather the slugs each the morning and within a week the numbers will be minimal.
Carolyn Roof Baits containing iron phosphate as the active ingredient (Sluggo Slug & Snail Bait and Schultz Slug & Snail Bait) can be used with little threat to pets.
Things to do The current heat and humidity make it critical to drink a glass of water before working in the yard and sip water as you go. By the time you feed thirsty, you are dehydrated. Deep water plants once a week or if the ground is dry more than 2 inches.
Japanese beetles are out in force. For downloadable USDA pamphlet on the beetles, treatment, and susceptible and resistant plants, go to www.aphis.usda.gov/lpa/pubs/ pub_phjbeetle04.pdf. ■ Garden — Hand pick or shake Japanese beetles into warm soapy water or cover roses with fine netting to prevent the beetles’ getting to the foliage. Remove diseased rose foliage from the plant and ground. Spray for black spot on top and bottom of foliage and the ground. Remove the center bud of floribunda roses to produce a cluster of individual roses of the same size. Allow non-rebloomers to stay on the plant to produce rose hips for fall color. ■ Deadhead daylilies at night for a clean garden in the morning. Remove eaten, yellowed and distorted foliage of old hollyhock varieties for appearance sake. Stake tall plants. Mildew on plants can be controlled by cutting back some to
improve air circulation. ■ Trees and shrubs — To shape needled evergreens, spray with a hose to wet the needles, and then but with hand hedge shears. Prewetting prevents browning of the cut stems. Check dogwoods for powdery mildew and spray with a fungicide. Mildew will not kill but will stress the tree. Do not over-fertilize with nitrogen next spring. Kousas, and hybrids Aurora, Constellation and Stellar Pink are resistant varieties. Fertilize only container trees and shrubs and keep well watered. ■ Vegetables — Stake tall and topheavy plants with metal, bamboo or collected branches. Tie plants to stakes with nylon hose. It does not cut into plants as they grow, and it attracts electricity in the air and fixes nitrogen in the soil.
Contact Carolyn Roof, the Sun’s gardening columnist, at
[email protected].
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Thinning fruits on trees leads to better harvest BY LEE REICH Associated Press
Snowballs of bloom followed by miniature fruits tell of branches soon to be bowed by the weight of large and luscious peaches, apples, pears and plums. Large and luscious, that is, if you pluck some of those fruits now, before they get much bigger. Fruit thinning, as this operation is called, channels more of a tree’s attention to the fruits that remain. The tree’s goal, after all, is to make as many seeds as possible, secured by ripening lots of fruit, even if the fruits end up small and not as tasty as they could be. What we want, on the other hand, are big, delicious fruits, which come from coaxing the tree to put more energy into fewer of them. For perfect ripening, for example, each apple fruit needs the energy resources of 20 to 40 healthy leaves, or a dozen in the case of more energy-efficient dwarf trees.
Thin now for future rewards Another reason you might see me out in the garden these days plucking excess fruitlets
from my fruit trees is to make them bear more consistently. My Macoun apple knows no moderation: It wants to ply me with fruits one year, then starve me the next, feast following famine year after year. But I want to bite into those delectable Macouns every year. Macoun and some other fruits get into this feast-andfamine habit because fruit seeds produce a hormone that suppresses flower bud formation. Most fruit trees develop flower buds the year before the buds actually open, so abundant fruit one year means less fruit the following year.
And yet more thinning benefits The most obvious benefit of fruit thinning is just leaving a branch with less fruit on it: Less fruit means less weight, a consideration when that weight might otherwise break a branch. Putting space between fruits also has some effect on pests. Codling moth caterpillars ‚Äî the “worm” in an apple or pear ‚Äî prefer to tunnel into fruits that are
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Dear Readers: How does your lawn look? Here are some helpful hints for maintaining a healthy lawn. When watering the lawn, give it a good soaking. Watering for too short a time or not using enough water leads to shallow, weaker roots. Watering at night or very early in the morning is better for the lawn and your water bill, because less water will be lost to evaporation. Before mowing, look at the lawn to check for disease. Patches that are darker, droopy, wilted, bald or brown can signal that there may be disease. Remember that some cooler-season grasses will start to brown during the hot summer months. The lawn does go through cycles to protect it from drought and excessive heat. This is normal, and one reason that the lawn might be brown. Sharpen your lawn-mower blades once a year; dull blades don’t cut the grass well!
How to thin So much for theory. Now comes the hard part: actually bringing yourself to remove these promising little fruitlets. I just grit my teeth and snap them off with my fingers or use a small clippers, taking care not to damage the knobby little stem to which the fruit stalk is attached. That stem, in the case of apple, pear and plum trees, is the origin of flowers and fruits in years to come. Gardeners with large trees or little patience can thin fruits by blasting branches with a stream of water, batting branches with a piece of hose slipped over the end of a broom handle, or brushing branches with a stiff brush. (Fruit farmers have chemical sprays that accomplish this same task on a larger scale and more delicately.) No matter how you do your thinning, you should leave
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Macoun Apples are seen in New Paltz, N.Y. Fruit thinning, removing a portion of the fruits from a fruit tree, channels more of a tree’s attention to those fruits that remain. the largest and healthiest fruits. Many small or damaged fruits eventually fall off anyway. Leave a space between fruitlets that is two to three times the diameter of the mature fruit. The earlier that fruit thinning is done the better, especially with apples and less so with peaches, then
pears. Fortunately, thinning is unnecessary with smaller fruits, such as cherries and European plums. How tedious that would be! Besides what you and I do now, other fruit thinning will occur and has occurred. Although fruit trees are determined to set as many fruits as possible right after blos-
soming to increase the likelihood that more will make it through any post-bloom frosts, these plants do have some sense. A few weeks after bloom, once the weather settled, these trees realized how taxing it would be to mature all those fruits. So they shed some. Not enough for our tastes, though.
Building and installing custom vegetable gardens
How does your lawn look? BY HELOISE
touching each other. Putting space between fruits also helps each one to bask in air and sunlight, both of which hasten drying and so make it harder for diseases to gain foothold.
If you have specific questions about your lawn, contact a plant nursery, cooperative extension service or your local university’s plant-pathology department. - Heloise
Laughter Dear Heloise: I worked in a veterinarian clinic for many years, and the doctor never had time to drink coffee. Then he took in a partner, and the first thing he did was buy a coffee maker, and I learned to make coffee. I don’t drink it, and my husband uses instant. After a while, the coffeepot became clogged with mineral deposits, and I decided to clean it with vinegar. Well, apparently I didn’t get it rinsed out, and when the vet took a drink, he spit it out. He didn’t care for my “pickled coffee”! - Joan Huddleston, Laurel, Neb. I love vinegar, but vinegary coffee is not on my “tasty” list! Vinegar is fabulous for so many things.
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NEWPORT NEWS, Va. — Shane Emmett believes vegetable gardens should be as attractive and easy as they are nutritional and healthy, and he’s launched a venture to prove his case. He and his business partner and childhood friend, Ivan Fehrenbach, started the United States of Food, which custom builds and installs raised vegetable gardens sized and suited for homes and businesses, especially restaurants. “I initially conjured the concept when I was living in California years ago and I read the ‘Omnivore’s Dilemma’ while simultaneously killing basil plants in my yard,” says Shane, 32, now a lawyer living in Richmond, Va. “Michael Pollan suggests growing your own food to get to truly understand food policy. I tried and it took me weeks to realize that I was planting the poor herbs in rocks. I thought there must
be a way to help people grow their own food. “We are here to make the experience easier to the gardening neophyte. Also, the gardens just look great in a yard _ they are works of art.” United States of Food operates from Ivan’s 20-acre property just outside Williamsburg, Va. Ivan, 32, is a contractor who built his home while living in a tent for a year. During that time, Ivan mostly ate what he grew in a large garden there. Now, the land supports a small composting operation, poultry, vegetables, specialty plants, turkeys, peacocks and goats. They mix their soil blend, and build the garden frames in a carpentry shop. Saturdays, they set up shop at the Williamsburg Farmers Market. In Williamsburg to install a culinary garden at Berret’s Seafood Restaurant, Shane shows visitors how the gardens are designed to fit individual needs and how they enhance the landscape for visitors walking by. Each
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Quinn Emmett helps plant a garden at a restaurant in Williamsburg, Va., on May 24. The garden was installed by United States of Food, which sets up ready-made gardens.
plank of cedar is individually cut, trimmed with a router and treated with tung oil. Thin copper wire that glistens like art in the summer sun is used for trellising. The raised beds are filled with a mixture of compost, leaf mulch and vermiculite. Drip hoses operated with
timers ensure watering is easy; a deer netting system is available. “It’ looks almost like a piece of lawn furniture when it’s complete,” says Shane. “We’ve been amazed and pleased with how well everything grows in these gardens.”
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Joy Wetherington McCluskey METROPOLIS, Ill. — Joy Wetherington McCluskey, 81, of Metropolis passed away Ju ne 16 , 2 010, at the Metropolis Nursing and Rehabilitation Center. Funeral ser vices will be at 10 a.m. Monday, June 21, 2010, at Aikins-Farmer Funeral Home in Metropolis with Bro. Bryan Braden and Rev. Jon Cockrel officiating. Su r vivors include one daughter, Jan Harned of Metropolis; one stepson, Alan McCluskey of Canada, and wife Marcia; and stepdaughter, Lynn Parker of Metropolis and husband Steve. She has three stepgrandsons, Todd Parker of Paducah, Darren Parker of Herrin, Ill., and Chad Parker of Metropolis. She also has a niece, Sandra Sundmacker of Rosebud, Ill.; and a nephew, Richard “Dickie” James of Rosebud, Ill. She has two great-nieces,
Chandra Burklow of Metropolis and Carol Woods of Rosebud, Ill. She has a greatnephew, Brian Sundmacker of Rosebud, and great-greatnephew, Craig Woods of Rosebud. She is also survived by five cousins, Jean Proffitt of Metropolis, Paul Swinford of St. Joseph, Ill., Carol Gereaux of Bourbonnais, Ill., Jude Saxima of Bourbonnais, Ill., and Jerry Swinford. She is preceded in death by parents, William and Minnie James; two brothers, Crevier Cedrick James and Harrington James Jr.; one sister, Mary Rose Frink; her first husband, James Riley Wetherington; second husband, Robert Howard McCluskey; and son, Jeffrey James. Visitation will be Sunday evening from 6 to 8 p.m. as well as from 9 a.m. until the funeral hour on Monday, June 21, 2010. Online condolences may be left at aikinsfarmerf h. com. Aikins-Farmer Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
Melva Lee Wilson METROPOLIS, Ill. — Melva Lee Wilson, age 86, of Metropolis passed a w a y We d n e s day, June 16 , 2 010, at the Southgate Health Care Center in Metropolis. She was born May 17, 1924, in Metropolis, Ill., to Ado and Bertha Sexton Buster. She owned and operated Melva’s Restaurant and worked for 20 years as a cook for Krypton House until she retired in 2000. Funeral services will be Saturday, June 19, 2010, at 2 p.m. at the Aikins-Farmer Funeral Home with Minister Mike Shank officiating. Burial will follow in the Masonic Cemetery in Metropolis, Ill. She is survived by her two daughters, Diane Cohoon of Metropolis, Ill., and Bobbie Ann Wrinkle and husband
David; and two granddaughters, Stephanie Ann Holland, and Stacey Emilie Martin and husband John, all of Paducah. Besides her parents, she is preceded in death by her brother, Gerald Buster, and son-in-law, Randy Cohoon. She was a member of the Metropolis Highway 45 Church of Christ, where the members were her extended Family. Melva was known for her kindness and her passion for fostering the good attributes in people she lived and worked with. For those who wish to make a donation in lieu of flowers, please make it to: Metropolis Church of Christ, P.O. Box 28, Metropolis, IL 62960. Friends may call at the Aikins-Farmer Funeral Home Saturday, June 19, 2010, from noon until the funeral hour at 2 p.m. Pallbearers: Lewis Beans, Tommy Thompson, Sean Roberts, Johnny Haverkamp, Delbert Sullivan, Galen Shelton.
Cleveland Richard Ramage BIRDSVILLE — Cleveland Richard Ramage, 73, of Birdsville, formerly of Tiline, died at 8 :40 a.m. June 17, 2 010, at Calvert City Convalescent Center in Calvert City. Mr. Ramage was born in Mullikin, Ky. He was a member of Birdsville Baptist Church, where he was very instrumental in the building of Birdsville Church. He was a heavy-equipment operator and a member of International Union of Operating Engineers Local 181 in Paducah. He is survived by his wife of 38 years, Carnelia Anglin Ramage; two daughters, Elizabeth Henson and husband Michael of Smithland, and Diane Jones and husband Dennis of Ledbetter; two sons, Ronney Ramage and wife Francie of Smithland, and Mikey Ramage and wife Gaylene of Tiline; three brothers, Bobby, Orville and Eddie Ramage, all of Tiline; six stepchildren, Daniel Cowen of Salem, Sandy Guess of Eddyville, Kenny Cowen of Smithland, Jimmy Cowen of Superior, Wisconsin, Gary Cowen of Marion, and Pame-
la Guill of Smithland; eight grandchildren, Kathy Edwards, Kelly Phillips, Tammy Vinyard, Tim Jones, Tonya Trujillo, Samantha Ramage, Jana Ramage and Keshia Ramage; 17 stepgrandchildren, Charlie Cowen, Heather Franklin, Kenneth Ray Guess, Ji m my Cowen, Meli nda Lawson, Vicky Cowen, Gary Wayne Cowen, Crystal Jean Cowen, Stephanie Cowen, Chris Cowen, Brian Cowen, Carey Cowen, Roy Neal Guill, Heidi Guill, Trista Olson, Tonya Hite and Donna Cowen; 10 great-grandchildren; eight stepgreat-grandchildren; and 22 stepgreat-great-grandchildren. He was preceded in death by his parents, Lilburn and Odar Mae Doom Ramage. Funeral services will be at 2 p.m. Sunday, June 20, 2010, with Rev. James Driver and Dr. Chad Badger officiating. Burial will follow in Leeper Cemetery in Tiline. Visitation will be Saturday, June 19, 2010, after 5 p.m. at Smith Funeral Chapel in Smithland. Expressions of sympathy may take the form of contributions to: Birdsville Baptist Church, 709 Birdsville Lane, Smithland, KY 42081. You may leave your message of condolence at smithfc.com.
Herbert Hurley
BENTON — Herbert “Herb” Taylor Hurley, 88, of Benton died at 11:57 a.m. Friday at M a rsh a l l County Hospital in Benton. Mr. Hurley was a concrete finisher and an asphalt paver. He was self-employed as Benton Ready Mix and Asphalt Co. in Benton. He co-owned and operated Shemwell & Hurley Porter Paints in Benton. He was member of Benton First United Methodist Church. He was a graduate of Murray State University, and was a member of the Murray State University Basketball Hall of Fame and the Marshall County Basketball Hall of Fame. He was drafted into the NBA by the Philadelphia Warriors and was voted an All-American Basketball Player while at Murray State. He served on the Murray State University Alumni Association council. He was a charter member of the Benton Golf Club and was a member of the Marshall County Hospital Board for 16 years. Mr. Hurley also served as principal and head basketball coach for the Calvert City High School. He is survived by his wife, Dorothy E. Gore Hurley of Benton; two daughters, Rosalind Marshall of Benton and Susan Elizabeth Hurley, both of Benton; one grandson; and two brothers, Howard Pat Hurley and Jack Dwight Hurley, both of Benton. Mr. Hurley was preceded in death by his first wife, John Nell Shemwell Hurley; three brothers and one sister, Evelyn Dill. His parents were Harry Dickson Hurley and Fannie “Jack” Miller Hurley. Services will be at 10 a.m. Monday in the Chapel of Collier Funeral Home in Benton. The Rev. Marvin Jones will officiate. Interment will follow in Pleasant Grove Cemetery in Benton. Friends may call from 5 to 8 p.m. Sunday at Collier Funeral Home in Benton.
Floy May Oliver
CADIZ — Floy May Watkins Oliver, 85, of Cadiz died Friday at Jennie Stuart Medical Center in Hopkinsville. She had worked as a private sitter, was a member of Hurricane Baptist Church and had taught Sunday school at Bible Baptist Church in Cadiz. She is survived by two daughters, Rita Herndon and Nita Oliver Boyd, both of Cadiz; two sons, Billy Joe Watkins of Pembroke and Jerry Raymond Watkins of Crofton; two sisters, Nita Jane Nanny of Detroit and Elta B. Heater of Alabama; 18 grandchildren; 35 great-grandchildren; and nine great-great-grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her first husband, James Lucian Watkins; her second husband, James Ma r vi n “Moody” Oliver; her parents, Rumage Fulks and Rosie Effie Banister; three sons, Larry Watkins, Marvin Gayle Oliver and Donnie Oliver; one brother; and three grandchildren. Services will be at 2 p.m. Monday at Goodwin Funeral Home, with the Rev. Tommy Choate officiating. Interment will be at East End Cemetery in Cadiz. Friends may call from 1 to 3 p.m. Sunday at the funeral home. Memorial contributions can be made to the American Cancer Society, care of Dee Eggers, 203 Choctaw Drive, Cadiz, KY 42211.
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MURRAY — William Hardiman Miller, 85, of Murray died Friday at his home. Arrangements were incomplete at J.H. Churchill Funeral Home.
Sylvia Rende
WENTZVILLE, Mo. — Sylvia Irvin Orr Rende, 85, of Wentzville, formerly of Graves County, Ky., died Thursday at St. Joseph Health Center in St. Charles Mo. Mrs. Rende was a homemaker and of the Church of Christ faith. She is survived by one daughter, Brenda Hall of Wentzville; two sisters, Sue Pittman of Mayfield, Ky., and Claudette Patterson of Sullivan; three grandchildren, seven great-grandchildren, seven great-great-grandchildren, and several nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by her first husband, Paul Orr; second husband, Carl Rende; three brothers; and her parents, Connie and Myrtice Marine Irvin. Services will be at 2 p.m. Monday in the Byrn Funeral Chapel with Mike Tucker officiating. Burial will follow at Bazzell Cemetery. Visitation will be from noon until the funeral hour Monday at Byrn Funeral Home.
Jack L. Johnson
METROPOLIS, Ill. — Jack L. Johnson, 72, of Metropolis died Thursday at his home. He was a member of Upper Salem Baptist Church in Metropolis. He had pastured many area churches. He is survived by three daughters, Gayla Rutherford and Sherry Cozart, both of Metropolis, and Sheila Moriarty of Cocoa, Fla.; one sister, Joyce Johnson of Oregon; eight grandchildren; and 10 greatgrandchildren. He was preceded in death by his wife of 53 years, Emma Jane Thompson Johnson; his parents, Homer Cecil and Rosalie Johnson; three sisters; and one brother. A joint memorial service for Jack and Emma Jane Johnson, who died June 8, will be at 11 a.m. July 5 at Milner & Orr Funeral Home of Paducah. Visitation will be from 10 to 11 a.m. July 5 at the funeral home.
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MARION — George Edward Hodge, 87, of Marion died Friday at Livingston Hospital and Healthcare Services in Salem. Mr. Hodge was a weapons inspector for the U.S. government and served in the U.S. Army. He is survived by his wife, Doris Ann Hodge; one son, Robert Alan Hodge of Pinnacle, N.C.; one daughter, Kathleen Madsen of Bend, Ore.; two stepsons, William Gregory King of Salem and Tony Wayne King of Marion; one brother, Robert Hodge of St. Louis; four grandchildren; one great-grandchild; five stepgrandchildren; and two stepgreat-grandchildren. He was preceded in death by his parents, Willie Robert and Mary Elizabeth Wilson Hodge. Graveside services will be at 10 a.m. Monday at Paris Cemetery in Crittenden County. Visitation will be from 5 to 7 p.m. Sunday at Myers Funeral Home in Marion.
Marie Sullivan
MAYFIELD — Marie Sullivan, 85, of Mayfield died at 7:30 p.m. Thursday at Jackson Purchase Medical Center. She was a member of New Hope Baptist Church and retired from Merit Clothing. Mrs. Sullivan is survived by her husband, James Neal Sullivan; one son, David Sullivan of Mayfield; three grandchildren; and five greatgrandchildren. She was preceded in death by her parents, Luther Jack and Adell Rogers Sanderson; one brother; and one sister. Services will be at 2 p.m. Sunday at Brown Funeral Home in Mayfield with the Revs. Glenn Cope and Jerry Hamilton officiating. Burial will follow in Dowdy Cemetery. Friends may call after 5 p.m. today at the funeral home.
Bertha Moallenkamp
MOUND CITY, Ill. — Bertha Moallankamp, 91, of Mound City died at 11:30 p.m. Thursday at Daystar Care Center in Cairo. She is survived by her husband of 63 years, Fred Moallankamp; one son, Randy Moallankamp of Pulaski; one grandson, Brent Alan Moallankamp; and several nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by four sisters and two brothers. Her parents were Louis E dwa r d F ie s si n ger a nd Frussie McGowan Fiessinger. Graveside services will be at 12:30 p.m. Monday at Mound City National Cemetery. Friends may call from 10 a.m. to noon at Jones Funeral Home in Villa Ridge.
MAYFIELD — Christian James Perez, 3, of Mayfield died Thursday at Vanderbilt Medical Center in Nashville, Tenn. He is survived by his parents, Gerardo and Rachael Lee Perez; one sister, Abi Perez of Mayfield; one brother, Tyson Perez of Mayfield; his grandparents, Ronnie and Janie Lock of Water Valley, Allen and Stephanie Wilson of Johnson City, Ill., and Genardo and Cirila Perez of Mexico; his great-grandparents, Stanley and Sonja Clark of Mayfield; and one great-great-grandmother, Mildred Tucker of Mayfield. Services will be at 2 p.m. Monday at Brown Funeral Home in Mayfield with the Rev. Al Cobb officiating. Burial will follow in Mount Olive Methodist Church Cemetery at Pryorsburg. Friends may call from 11 Johnston was a.m. until the funeral hour columnist for Monday at Brown Funeral Seattle Times SEATTLE — Steve JohnHome in Mayfield. ston, a longtime Seattle Times reporter and columnist, has died. Harold Ford For years, Johnston Harold “Shorty” Ford of West Paducah died Friday at wrote a Sunday humor Western Baptist Hospital. column for the newspaper Services will be at 1 p.m. that occasionally touched Tueday at Milner & Orr Fu- on his experience with neral Home of Paducah. Burial multiple sclerosis. with military rites will follow The 63-year-old Johnston in Woodlawn Memorial Gar- died Thursday of throat dens. cancer. The MS had weakVisitation will begin at 11 ened him over the years a.m. Tuesday at the funeral and led him to decline home. treatment for the cancer Other arrangements were diagnosed late last year. pending. Although he was a skilled breaking-news reporter, Johnston may Mary Bishop have been best known for MURRAY — Mary “Jody” daring to call his wife “The Bishop, 51, of Murray died at Truly Unpleasant Mrs. 7:35 p.m. Thursday at her Johnston” in print nearly home. every week — after she Arrangements were incom- forbade him from using his plete at Blalock-Coleman & initial title for her, “Saint York Funeral Home. Nancy.”
Jack O’Neill
C. John “Jack” O’Neill III, 81 of Paducah died at 2:45 p.m. Friday at Parkview Nursing and Rehabilitation Center of Paducah. Arrangements were incomplete at Milner & Orr Funeral Home of Paducah.
Neame worked on ‘Oliver,’ ‘Poseidon’ McClatchy-Tribune News Service
LOS ANGELES — Ronald Neame, a prominent figure in the British film industry whose long and varied career included producing the 1940s classics “Great Expectations” and “Oliver Twist” and directing films such as “The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie” and “The Poseidon Adventure,” has died. He was 99. Neame, who also directed Judy Garland’s final film, “I Could Go on Singing,” died Wednesday at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, said his wife, Donna. He was injured in a fall May 6 and had two operations on his leg, but his health kept declining after the second operation, she said. “He was such a talented man and very good at making huge and bold decisions,” Shirley MacLaine, who starred with Michael Caine in the 1966 Neamedirected movie “Gambit,” told The Los Angeles Times on Friday. “I’d see him every few years at different functions; one of my favorites. Ninety-nine: a good goal for all of us.” Lawrence Turman, who produced “I Could Go on Singing,” described Neame in an interview with the Times last year as “a real long-lived, oldtimey pro who came up the hard way doing everything. A lovely man, by the way — very gentle, never somehow raised his voice or got angry.” Neame, whose career lasted more than six decades and included a job as an assistant cameraman on England’s first sound film — Alfred Hitchcock’s 1929 crime thriller “Blackmail” — when he was 17, rose through the ranks to become a director of photography at 24. He went on to direct two dozen more films over the next four decades, including “The Horse’s Mouth,” “Tunes of Glory,” “The Man Who Never Was,” “The Chalk Garden,” “Gambit,” “Prudence and the Pill,” “Scrooge,” “The Odessa File,” and “First Monday in October.”
Deaths Holt served in state House for 19 years BURLINGTON, N.C. — A longtime legislator known for her work to get North Carolina to repeal a law that said husbands could not be charged with raping their wives has died at the age of 93. Bertha “B” Holt died Friday morning at her home. Jefferson Holt of Chapel Hill says his mother had suffered a stroke Sunday. The Burlington lawmaker was in the state House of Representatives from 1975 to 1994. She led the effort to change the state’s marital rape law. The law was amended in the 1987-88 session and was taken off the books in 1993. Other survivors include a daughter, Harriet Whitley of Burlington, and another son, Merrill, of San Francisco. Her husband, Clary Holt, died in 2003. Associated Press
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Husband shouldn’t pressure wife to sever ties with abusive mother Dear Annie: My mother-inlaw always has to be the center of attention. She insists on buying expensive things and believes she’s always right even when you have proof that she isn’t. If you don’t agree with her, she gets nasty. My wife is the polar opposite — she doesn’t care about material things and spends her free time volunteering at the soup kitchen. The problem is, my wife is terrified of making her mom angry. The whole family walks on eggshells around Mom and meekly takes whatever garbage she shells out. I’ve watched this in silence for five years. We moved 800 miles away, but yesterday, my wife called and made a joke about Mom turning 60. The next day, her sister called to say Mom was angry. Then she got similar calls from her brother and an aunt. Later, I got an e-mail from Mom telling me my wife was sick and needed to be placed in a mental hospital. She even e-mailed my wife’s best friend. When my wife called her mother to ask what this was all about, she got the standard, “You know what you did!” By the end of the call, my wife was in tears. My father-in-law told me it
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was best not to upset Mom because she’s had two heart attacks and stress could kill her. Each of her three children is in therapy because of the damage she inflicted on them as children. When we have kids, I don’t want her near them. I think it’s time for my wife to sever all ties. I’m sick of the way she is treated. Am I right to insist she drop the toxic Mama for her own sake? — Philly. Dear Philly: Mama may be toxic (she sounds like an abusive bully), but you should not be pressuring your wife to sever ties. That is up to her. And it could involve ties with the entire family, not just Mom. Your job is to be supportive of her decision, whatever it is, and
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Algebra teacher LaMar Queen wears his rap glasses as he sings along to his students at the Los Angeles Academy in Los Angeles in May. The Los Angeles Unified School District teacher has won two awards for his innovative teaching method, by creating rap songs out of math concepts.
Teacher’s math raps make algebra cool with students BY CHRISTINA HOAG Associated Press
LOS ANGELES — The class of eighth graders at a Los Angeles middle school tap their rulers and nod their heads to the rhythm of the rap video projected on a screen. It’s not Snoop Dogg or Jay-Z. It’s their math teacher, LaMar Queen, using rhyme to help them memorize seemingly complicated algebra and in the process improve their grades. “It gets stuck in your head,” said Cindy Martinez, a 14-year-old whose math grade went from a C-average to a B. Queen, 26, is now known at Los Angeles Academy as the rap teacher, but his fame has spread far beyond the 2,200student school in this gritty neighborhood. He’s won a national award and shows teachers and parents how to use rap to reach children. “Math is a bad word in a lot of households,” he says. “But if we put it in a form that kids enjoy, they’ll learn.” Queen is doing what many veteran educators have done — using students’ music to connect with them. Where teachers once played the rock n’ roll tunes of “Schoolhouse Rocks” to explain everything
Algebra rap “Let’s talk about slope intercept. I don’t mind if you interject, Just don’t disrespect. I say, you have a question for me? What’s y equales mx + b?” from government to grammar, they now turn to rap to renew Shakespeare or geometry. “Rap is what the kids respond to,” Queen said. “They don’t have a problem memorizing the songs at all.” Queen’s math raps came about by chance. Two months after starting at LA Academy in 2007 — his first teaching job after graduating from college — he was stung when kids told him his class was boring. They told him he resembled singer Kanye West and challenged him to rap. Little did they know Queen has been rapping since the seventh grade. Back then, he’d throw together rhymes as he walked home from school in Carson, a city neighboring Los Angeles.
His students’ challenge on his mind, Queen pushed aside work on his lesson plans and wrote a rap song ‘Slope Intercept.’ Word of his rapping soon reached the school’s main office. Eyebrows raised, Principal Maria Borges went to investigate, and came out smiling. “It engages the kids,” she says. “Kids seem to know all the rap songs, but they can’t seem to remember different math rules.” His raps are not in the Top 40, but “Mean, Median, Mode and Range,” “Polynomials,” and “Quadratic Formulove Song” are chartbusters here. “Some kids who aren’t even in Mr. Queen’s class go around singing his songs,” said Kejon Closure, 13, who went from a C-average to an A. In the raps, Queen defines a math concept and works through sample problems step by step. He follows up with more traditional class work on the whiteboard, maintaining a fluid banter with his students. Queen also tries to inspire them. His lyrics exhort students “to be a math sensation,” “to get As on your papers,” and even “be respectful. Listen to your parents.”
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NEW YORK — John Lennon’s handwritten lyrics to the final song on the classic Beatles album “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band” were purchased by an American collector on Friday for $1.2 million. The winning bid for “A Day in the Life” was placed by phone at Sotheby’s auction house, which declined to identify the collector further. The price exceeded the pre-sale estimate of $500,000 and $800,000. The double-sided sheet of paper features Lennon’s edits and corrections in his own hand — in black felt marker and blue ball point pen, with a few annotations in red ink. Rolling Stone magazine listed “A Day in the Life” at No. 26 in its compilation of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time and “Sgt. Pepper” won four Grammy awards in 1968. The lyrics, which begin with “I read the news today, oh boy,” stirred controversy when the Beatles released the album in 1967. The song was banned by the BBC because it twice features the line, “I’d love to turn you on,” which was interpreted as supporting illegal drug use. The song was also left off copies of “Sgt. Pepper’s” sold in several Asian countries for the same reason. The album’s “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds” was alleged to have glorified the use of the hallucinogenic LSD, a claim that bandmembers denied. In addition, “A Day in the Life” features the lyric “he blew his mind out in a car,” which Beatles aficionados claim is a reference to the accidental death of Tara Browne, the Guinness heir and close friend of both Lennon and Paul McCartney. The lyrics appear on both sides of the single sheet. One side has Lennon’s original first draft, written in a hurried cursive
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A handwritten, autographed manuscript by the late John Lennon contains the lyrics to ‘A Day in the Life.’ The document is purchased for $1.2 million at auction by Sotheby’s in New York on Friday. script. The other side is written almost entirely in capital letters and incorporates the corrections from the first draft and adds the words, “I’d love to turn you on.” Sotheby’s said the lyrics were consigned by a private collector. Friday’s price came close to the $1.25 million paid in 2005 for the Beatles lyrics “All You Need is Love,” it said. It sold to an anonymous bidder at the British auction house Cooper Owen.
Anna singer hits lowest note, sets record Associated Press
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duced by a human voice. During a second attempt at recording his lowest note on Feb. 11 in Carbondale, Menees managed to hit 0.393 hertz — a very low Fsharp. Menees received a vague confirmation e-mail message a few weeks ago, but
didn’t get his official certificate until Monday. Although he broke the for mer r e c ord of 0.7 9 7 hertz in half, Menees said he could have done better and will probably make another attempt if his new record is bested anytime soon.
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