By Michael a. MeMoliTribune Washington Bureau

WASHINGTON — When the nation’s governors gathered in Washington a year ago, state budget gaps and tough decisions loomed.

A year later, there is a broad sense among the state execu-tives that they have stepped back from the precipice. What is being fiercely debated here in this politi-cal year is just how much credit

the federal government, and Pres-ident Barack Obama in particular, deserves for the turnaround.

Virginia Gov. Bob McDon-nell and fellow Republican Chris Christie of New Jersey were elect-ed in 2009, replacing Democrats. In 2010, Republicans picked up six additional governorships to claim the majority. The politi-cal gains were attributed in part to the lingering unease about the economy, and dissatisfaction with the president’s response.

But now the economic news is improving. Democrats say the foundation for that improvement was laid by the aggressive federal response to the problem in the form of the economic stimulus package.

“I think it’s fair to say that the president and his administration kept this country from going off the cliff,” Kentucky Gov. Steve Bes-hear said Sunday. “We wouldn’t have made it in nearly as good a shape through this recession if we

had not had the stimulus money to support our education efforts, to support infrastructure efforts so that we could keep people work-ing.”

Republican Gov. Mitch Daniels of Indiana, serving the final year of his second term, countered that the so-called recovery is the weak-est ever from a serious recession.

“And his policies are manifestly part of the problem,” he said of the president. “A budget and a State of the Union (address) that doesn’t

even mention debt. He’s really left the field wide open on the issues that ... people will insist be cen-tral.”

To say the economy is improv-ing in spite of Obama “is not a compelling message,” said Dela-ware Gov. Jack Markell, a Demo-crat

“They basically thought they could get away with a totally nega-tive message. That’s not a very good place to be as the economy is getting better.”

The material inside the Monday Record is recorded by The Anniston Star from various institutions and government offices.

The public records are published as they appeared on the documents obtained by the newspaper.

Direct questions and comments about Monday Record to Isaac Godwin at jgodwin@jsu.edu.

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MONDAY RECORDYOUR GUIDE TO PUBLIC RECORDS AND VITAL STATISTICS IN CALHOUN COUNTY

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District 1: James A. “Pappy” Dunn

District 2: Robert W. Downing

District 3: James Eli Henderson

District 4: J.D. HessDistrict 5:

Rudy Abbott

ADDRESS: Calhoun County

Administration Building, 1702 Noble St., Suite 103,

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• Frederick M. evans and Bonne l. evans, Sherwood Forest Subdivision, 2nd addition, block 2, lot 23.• Jeffrey adam Willingham and Valerie D. Willingham, Linen Thread Company, 1st addition, lot 1.• Joe henry Tillery, Jack-sonville Mining & Manu-facturing Company, block 83, lots 4-6.• Rodney Gurley, Willow Creek Subdivision, lot 26.• Barbara Jean Trapp, a parcel of land in section 34, township 16, range 6.• James B. cox, S.E. Booz-er’s North Highlands Sub-division, lots 17 and 18.• cora M. Quilliams, Virgil Harper’s Subdivision, lot 3.• helen F. Jones, Pokagon

Park Subdivision, block 5, lots 8 and 9.• Veda S. east, Forest Hills Subdivision, block F, lots 34 and 35.• James B. Jones and Brandi Jones, Greenvale Estates, lot 2.• Donovan S. Peters, Sakston Heights, 1st addi-tion, lot 29.• Kenneth M. callahan and linda ann callahan, Wil-liamson Subdivision, block 1, lots 10 and 11.• Joyce Gloria McKenzie and clarence J. McKenzie, Canterbury Subdivision, lot 19.• Michele Walker and Dal-las l. Powers, Betta-Life Subdivision, 3rd addition, block 1, lot 10.

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• Dustin Blake Pugh of Oxford to Keely Marie conrad of Oxford• Kenyatta Tyrone Jennings of Anniston to cynthia Fae Billingsley of Anniston• Joseph Tyler Bradshaw of Anniston to chris-tina Brooke Franksain of Anniston• Jeffrey lynn Winfrey of Oxford to Tracy Boyd Gra-ham of Oxford• Darrell Joseph Bungert of Jacksonville to Barbara louise Surbaugh of Jack-sonville• carter eugene combs of Anniston to leslie Michelle lee laymon of Anniston• Barry Scott lumsden of Pelham to amy Karen Bea-vers of Deatsville• allen Ray Rudd of Easta-boga to Melissa ann Til-lery of Eastaboga• cody Tyler crump of Weaver to Brandi-Dale Sunrise heath of Weaver• Jimmy earnest Turner of Choccolocco to luci

Doreen Rainey of Choc-colocco• Phillip edward Poore of Piedmont to Jennifer lynn Jones of Piedmont• David Shane Gardner of Alexandria to Misty Nicole hurst of Alexandria• Paul levell Wade Jr. of Anniston to Karen yvonne Smelley of Oxford• David edward Suggs of Anniston to Melody cheryl Mertens of Woodland• christopher Derell cun-ningham of Jacksonville to chevette Da’lonte Jordan of Jacksonville• clayton Thomas cross-man Jr. of Jacksonville to hailey anna Black of Jacksonville• Barry Keith Walker of Anniston to Brittany leighanne Boyd of Annis-ton• Warren Burns of Annis-ton to Tasheva latonya Tippins of Anniston• Bradley Wayne White of Jacksonville to Felicia ann holly of Jacksonville

MaRRiaGe liceNSeSA Chapter 7 bankruptcy allows the debtor to retain certain exempt property, but the debtor’s remaining property is gathered and sold by a trustee from which creditors will receive payment. It may also be used by businesses which wish to terminate their business.A Chapter 13 bankruptcy enables debtors, through court supervision and protection, to propose and carry out a repayment plan under which creditors are paid, in full or in part, in installments over a three-year period. During that time, debtors are prohibited from starting or continuing collection efforts. The following bankruptcies declared by Calhoun County residents were recorded by U.S. Bankruptcy Court Northern District of Alabama last week:

chapter 7• Margaret W. Sealy, 1300 Booger Hollow, Anniston• Sandra evans, 51 Johnny St., Anniston• Melissa McKinney, 622 W 63rd St., Anniston• Kevin Scott Brown, 180 Lakeshore Dr., Ohatchee• Bryan c. Patton, 1013 Legacy Blvd. SE, Jacksonville• Betty G. Kelley, D-1 Elizabeth Dr., Weaver• Rita B. hensleigh, 1716 Victoria Ln., Anniston

chapter 13• Scott e. Fuller, 1042 Michael Ln., Anniston• lawrence l. Mull, 802 Striplin Dr., Anniston• Beverly cambron, 1056 Turner Rd., Anniston• John B. Gerowski, 1436 Nocoseka Tr., Anniston• Tony elmore, 5002 Red Oak Dr., Oxford

BaNKRuPTcieSDeaThShenry Brady amason, CragfordJames Willie askew Jr., AnnistonRoberta Rawls Bailey, AnnistonBarbara haynes Beavers, AnnistonBeatrice Bell, GoodwaterDavid Wesley Benefield, MunfordBennye l. Brewster, OhatcheeTheodore Brewster, OhatcheeMaggie odelle Brown, Nances CreekDavid Franklin Bowen Jr., GadsdenSharon Bozeman, PiedmontTheodore “Ted” Brewster, OhatcheeFrances M. Britt, Oxfordleona allen Burton, HeflinPauline Bush, South Carolinacharles Robert Butler, AnnistonStarr Gail chappell, Georgiaearline clark, AnnistonRay clark, Alexandriaharold e. clayburn, Ohatcheeedith clayton, OxfordBettye Jane Buckner clem, AnnistonVicky landers cole, Wadleycynthia ann Daniel, OxfordRonald e. Decker, AnnistonBetty Ferrell, Roanokeclara B. Floyd, OxfordDonald Gooden, Annistonannie lou christine hanna, Hobson CityGerald J. haynes, OxfordFrank l. henderson, Gadsdenlouise henderson, TalladegaBernadine ann herron, OxfordBilly Joe hicks, Centrelouis charles “Shake” Jackson Jr., Annis-tonRosa l. Jordan, Pell CityFred Kemp, Annistoncapt. Marie ann lee, JacksonvilleMargie evelyn lowery, LincolnSara evelyn Maddox, Jacksonvillecatherine Sanders Mayo, AnnistonJulie P. Mccain, PiedmontMyrl Dean Mccord, CentreBarbara Jean herod Mccullar, EastabogaDeborah ann McDill, Annistonlenette Mcelderry, AnnistonJames erskine Mitchell, Cedar Bluffedwina Morris, TalladegaJane van Mouwerik, AnnistonWanda Darlene Kelley Kimberly Murphy, PiedmontKatherine Nicholson, TalladegaMary ann o’Dell, AnnistonJames Truman Perry, DavistonMary Mickles Pettus, AnnistonFreda Jean Pogue, PiedmontJ.D. Ragland, AnnistonJimmy Frank Ramsey, RoanokePhyllis Marie Rickett, JacksonvilleKenneth “Kenny” David Roberts Sr., OxfordRicky Searcy, AnnistonMargaret a. Smith, PiedmontJulia Brown Stinson, CharlotteMary lee Swain, Talladega Kathleen George Taylor, JacksonvilleSherri Sims Traylor, Roanokehelen Jean Williams, AnnistonFrancis Nannie Williamson, Jacksonville

Here is the livestock market report for the Tuesday sale.Receipts for this week 937 compared to 657 last week. Receipts a year ago 962.

FeeDeR claSSeS:Bulls and steers (Medium and Large No. 1 and No. 2): 200-300 lbs. 190.00 to 257.50; 300-400 lbs. 182.00 to 230.00; 400-500 lbs. 160.00 to 216.00; 500-600 lbs. 148.00 to 185.00; 600-700 lbs. 130.00 to 166.00.Heifers (Medium and Large No. 1 and No. 2): 200-300 lbs. 165.00 to 202.50; 300-400 lbs. 158.00 to 200.00; 400-500 lbs. 147.00 to 177.50; 500-600 lbs. 135.00 to 160.00; 600-700 lbs. 118.00 to 140.00.

SlauGhTeR claSSeS:Cows: Breakers 84.00 to 89.50; Boners 90.00 to 99.00; Lean 72.00 to 83.00.Bulls: Normal Dressing 54-58% 100.00 to 104.00; High Dressing >58% 106.50 to 110.50; Low Dressing

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Crimes are listed by location. Anonymous tips may be called in to Crime Stoppers at 256-238-1414. A reward of up to $1,000 may be given.

annistonThe following property crimes were report-ed to the Anniston Police Department dur-ing the seven-day period ending at 7 a.m. Thursday.

Burglaries• Residence, 400 block of West 29th Street: television. • Residence: 1400 block of Nocoseka Trail: headphones, traffic vest, game console disk, DVDs.• Department store, first block of East 11th Street: merchandise.

• Restaurant, 300 block of south Quintard Avenue: two laptop computers, computer tablet, cash, two televisions.• Residence, 400 block of West 29th Street: television, cables, cash, cell phone.

Thefts• Department store, 3200 block of McClellan Boulevard: television and stand, household furniture.• Residence, 900 block of Kirkwood Avenue: parts of exterior air conditioning unit, wiring from a power meter box.• Unknown location, 1100 block of Clydes-dale Avenue: business checks, credit card purchases.• Supermarket, 2100 block of Noble Street: wallet, (recovered 02-19-2012), cash.• Residence, 200 block of McArthur Drive: two bicycles.

• Department store, 800 block of Quintard Avenue: cartons of cigarettes.• Residence, 1200 block of Rhodes Street: tools, commercial blower, two string trim-mers.• Residence, 700 block of East 50th Street: metal trailer.• Unknown location, 100 block of South Quin-tard Avenue: cash.• Residence, 2700 block of Wilmer Avenue: evacuation cylinders, cylinder hose, spray bottle, drain pump, cylinders.• Residence, 2300 block of Moore Avenue: tax return money.• Residence, 2300 block of Wilmer Avenue: aluminum rim, ladder.• Department store, 3200 block of McClellan Boulevard: eye glasses, clothes. (Recov-ered 02-22-2012)

Robberies• Residence, 300 block of Chickasaw Drive: jewelry.• Parking lot, 400 block of South Christine Avenue: cash, personal I.D.

oxfordThe following property crimes were report-ed to the Oxford Police Department dur-ing the seven-day period ending at 7 a.m. Thursday.

Burglaries• Residence, unspecified address: game console, games.

Thefts• Department store, unspecified address: cell phone.

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Dissolved• Simply Vintage, LLC• Alexandria Bottle Shop, Inc.• Riverside Entertainment, Inc.• Conquest Gym, LLC

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The people listed in this arrest report, whose names and charges are obtained from pub-lic records, are presumed innocent unless proven guilty in a court of law.

annistonThe following felony arrests were reported by the Anniston Police Department dur-ing the seven-day period ending at 7 a.m. Thursday.

• Darius Antwan, 22, of unspecified address: second-degree theft.• Edna Marie Cottingham, 21, of unspecified address: first-degree possession of mari-juana.• Zachary Scott McNeal, 20, of unspeci-fied address: possession of a controlled substance.• Justin Darius Petters, 39, of unspecified address: first-degree possession of mari-juana.

• Christopher Michael Gault, 35, of unspeci-fied address: possession of a controlled substance.• Brandon Ace Long, 21, of unspecified address: third-degree burglary.• Thomas James Nevills, 47, of unspecified address: first-degree theft.• Anthony Lee Diamond, 27, of unspecified address: first-degree possession of mari-juana.• Richard Junior Thomas, 52, of unspecified

address: third-degree burglary.• Martel Ramon Miller, 27, of unspecified address: fugitive from justice, hold for other agency.• Albert Rex Teague, 44, of unspecified address: possession of a controlled sub-stance.• Kharma Cabrii Stephanie Heard, 41, of unspecified address: possession of a con-trolled substance.

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By DaviD GermainAssociated Press

LOS ANGELES — The Artist won five Academy Awards on Sunday including best picture, becoming the first silent film to triumph at Hollywood’s highest honors since the original Oscar ceremo-ny 83 years ago.

Among other prizes for the black-and-white comic melodrama were best actor for Jean Dujardin and director for Michel Hazanavicius.

The other top Oscars went to Meryl Streep as best actress for The Iron Lady, Octavia Spencer as supporting actress for The Help and Christopher Plummer as supporting actor for Beginners.

Completing an awards-season blitz that took her from Hollywood bit player to star, Spencer won for her role in The Help as a headstrong black maid whose willful ways continually land her in trou-ble with white employers in 1960s Mis-sissippi.

Spencer wept throughout her breath-less speech, in which she apologized between laughing and crying for running a bit long on her time limit.

“Oh, thank you,” a tearful Spencer said as many in the audience rose to their feet. She expressed gratitude to her family, her colleagues from The Help and her native “state of Alabama” as she received the best supporting actress trophy.

“Thank you, academy, for putting me with the hottest guy in the room,” Spen-cer said, referring to last year’s support-ing-actor winner, Christian Bale, who presented her Oscar.

After playing a nurse in the film A Time to Kill, Spencer was cast as a nurse in sev-eral different TV series including City of Angels and Chicago Hope, and played the same medical role in films including Hal-

loween II and Seven Pounds.Spencer is one of just a half-dozen

black actresses to have won an Oscar in the awards’ 84-year history. In the sup-porting actress category, Hattie McDan-iel won for Gone with the Wind, Whoopi Goldberg for Ghost, Jennifer Hudson for Dreamgirls, and Mo’Nique for Precious, while Halle Berry won best actress for Monster’s Ball.

The Artist is the first silent winner since the World War I saga Wings was named outstanding picture at the first Oscars in 1929.

“I am the happiest director in the world,” Havanavicius said, thanking the cast, crew and canine co-star Uggie. “I also want to thank the financier, the crazy person who put money in the movie.”

The win was Streep’s first Oscar in 29 years, since she won best actress for Sophie’s Choice. She had lost 13 times in a row since then. Streep also has a sup-porting-actress Oscar for 1979’s Kramer

vs. Kramer.“When they called my name, I had

this feeling I could hear half of America go, ‘Oh, no, why her again?’ But whatev-er,” Streep said, laughing.

“I really understand I’ll never be up here again. I really want to think all my colleagues, my friends. I look out here and I see my life before my eyes, my old friends, my new friends. Really, this is such a great honor but the think that counts the most with me is the friend-ship and the love and the sheer job we’ve shared making moves together.”

Streep is only the fifth performer to receive three Oscars. Jack Nicholson, Ingrid Bergman and Walter Brennan all earned three, while Katharine Hepburn won four.

The 82-year-old Plummer became the oldest acting winner ever for his role as an elderly widower who comes out as gay in “Beginners.”

“You’re only two years older than me, darling,” Plummer said, addressing his Oscar statue in this 84th year of the awards. “Where have you been all my life? I have a confession to make. When I first emerged from my mother’s womb, I was already rehearsing my Oscar speech.”

The previous oldest winner was best-actress recipient Jessica Tandy for Driv-ing Miss Daisy, at age 80.

Dujardin became the first Frenchman to win an acting Oscar. French actresses have won before, including Marion Cotil-lard and Juliette Binoche.

“Oh, thank you. Oui. I love your coun-try!” said Dujardin, who plays George Valentin, a silent-film superstar fallen on hard times as the sound era takes over. If George Valentin could speak, Dujardin said, “he’d say ... ‘Merci beaucoup, for-midable!’”

Sunday’S 84th academy award winnerS

List of the 84th Annual Academy Award win-ners announced Sunday:1. Cinematography: Hugo.2. art Direction: Hugo.3. Costume Design: “The Artist.”4. makeup: The Iron Lady.5. Foreign Language Film: A Separation, Iran.6. Supporting actress: Octavia Spencer, The Help.7. Film editing: The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo.8. Sound editing: Hugo.9. Sound mixing: Hugo.10. Documentary Feature: Undefeated.11. animated Feature Film: Rango.12. visual effects: Hugo.13. Supporting actor: Christopher Plummer, Beginners.14. Original Score: The Artist.15. Original Song: “Man or Muppet” from The Muppets.16. adapted Screenplay: Alexander Payne, Nat Faxon and Jim Rash, The Descendants.17. Original Screenplay: Woody Allen, Mid-night in Paris.18. Live action Short Film: The Shore.19. Documentary (short subject): Saving Face.20. animated Short Film: The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore.21. Directing: Michel Hazanavicius, The Artist.22. actor: Jean Dujardin, The Artist.23. actress: meryl Streep, The Iron Lady.24. Best Picture: The Artist.

Oscar winners previouslypresented this season:

• Jean Hersholt Humanitarian award: Oprah Winfrey.• Honorary award: James Earl Jones.• Honorary award: Dick Smith.• Gordon e. Sawyer award: Douglas Trumbull.• award of merit: ARRI cameras.

— Associated Press

Mark J. Terrill/Associated Press

Jean Dujardin holds Uggie after accepting the Oscar for best picture for ‘The Artist’ during the 84th Acad-emy Awards.

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Today

Support Groups: • AA meeting, noon and 7 p.m., 1411 Gurnee Ave., enter through rear of building, 256-237-6196.• Free drug treatment for adolescents abus-ing drugs, meeting times will vary, Family Links, 265 Rucker St., 256-820-5911.• Lakeside Hospice Grief Support, 3 p.m., Tal-ladega Health Care Facility, Chaffee Street, 800-427-3993. • Courage to Change Group of Narcotics Anonymous, basic text study, open, non-smoking, 7 p.m., Atlanta Avenue, off Noble Street between 10th and 11th streets.• Alcoholics Anonymous Piedmont group, 7:30 p.m., 801 Hughes St., Piedmont.• Help in Progress Narcotics Anonymous, 7-8 p.m., 2236 U.S. 78 W., (1 mile from Fred’s).

meetings:• Saints John Lodge 931 Communications, 7 p.m., 1400 Wilmer Ave.• Hartwell Masonic Lodge No. 101 F & A.M. of Alabama, 7 p.m., 600 Main St., Oxford, 256-282-2035.• Civitan Club, noon, Classic on Noble, 256-236-9874.• Weaver Lion’s Club, 7 p.m., Weaver Senior Citizen’s Center, president Don Kessler, 256-820-0043.• Oxford Rotary Club, noon-1 p.m., Western Sizzlin’, Oxford.

miscellaneous:• Candidate forum, sponsored by the Alex-andria Civitan Club, meet/greet, 6:30 p.m.; forum, 7 p.m., Civitan Building, 2273 Alex-andria Wellington Road, Alexandria, candi-dates for circuit judge, district judge, circuit court clerk and county board of education are invited. The event is open to the public.• Low-cost spay/neuter transport to the non-profit Alabama Spay Neuter Clinic in Iron-dale takes place at 7:30 a.m. (also second Monday of each month), returns Tuesday at noon, at Pickett’s on McClellan Boule-vard. Call (877)-3FIXPET (334-9738) for an appointment. Visit www.alsave.org or www.alabamaspay/neuterclinic.com for more information.• Senior floor fitness class, 8-9 a.m., Jack-sonville State University, Pete Mathews Col-

iseum, dance studio, call Abby Fleetwood at 256-782-5523 for more information.• Senior adult aqua aerobics class, 7:30-8:30 a.m., Jacksonville State University, Pete Mathews Coliseum, call Abby Fleetwood at 256-782-5523 for more information.• Senior adult fitness class, 8-9 a.m., Jack-sonville State University, Pete Mathews Col-iseum, dance studio, call Abby Fleetwood at 256-782-5523 for more information.

Tuesday

Support Groups:• AA meeting, noon and 7 p.m., 1411 Gurnee Ave., enter through rear of building, 256-237-6196.• Steel Magnolias, Breast Cancer Inc., for patients in treatment, recovery and their sig-nificant others, 5 p.m., Physicians Building, suite 406, 901 Leighton Ave., fourth floor, 256-231-8827 or visit www.steelmagnoliasinc.org.• Men of Steel Support Group, for those sup-porting Breast Cancer patients, 5 p.m., RMC Cancer Resource Center.• RMC Stroke Support Group: A support group for stroke patients in treatment or recovery and caregivers, 1 p.m., Cancer Resource Center, room 406, Physicians Cen-ter, 256-235-5146.• Bariatric Support Group, for persons inter-ested in bariatric surgery or those who have had bariatric surgery and support people, Physicians Office Building, suite 102, 901 Leighton Ave., contact Ann Couch, RN, CBN at 256-236-1300.• Free drug treatment for adolescents abus-ing drugs, meeting times will vary, Family Links, 265 Rucker St., 256-820-5911.• Courage to Change Group of Narcotics Anonymous, discussion, open, smoking, noon; women’s meeting, candlelight, smok-ing, 7 p.m.; 11th Step Meditation meeting, closed, non-smoking, 8:30 p.m., Atlanta Avenue, off Noble Street between 10th and 11th streets.• Alzheimer’s Support Group, for families dealing with Alzheimer’s disease, 5-6 p.m., Physician’s Center, room 301, 256-235-5578.• Mental Illness Support Group, for patients with bi-polar, depression, and other dis-orders and those interested in providing support, 1:30 p.m., Tyler Center, 731 Leighton Ave., in the galley.

• New Perspectives, a narcotics anonymous group, 6:30-7:30 p.m., First United Methodist Church, 109 Gayle St., behind McDonald’s, Jacksonville, 256-435-4881.• Free parenting classes for parents of new-borns to 4-year-olds, 9-11 a.m., Family Ser-vices Center of Calhoun County, 13 E. 11th St. Child care provided. 256-231-2240.• One day at a time Al-Anon group, noon-1 p.m., (new location), Physician’s Office Building, Suite 406, call Ann Garner at 256-237-3464 for directions or more information.• Alcoholics Anonymous closed meeting, noon, Tyler Center, in the Galley. • Help in Progress Narcotics Anonymous, 7-8 p.m., 2236 U.S. 78 W., (1 mile from Fred’s).• True Transformation, a Christ-centered recovery program for women only, noon, 1211 Noble St.• National Association for Retired and Active Federal Employees, Volunteer Ser-vice Center, 9 a.m.-noon, Anniston Army Depot, Building 220, (outside main gate), to assist retired federal employees. Call 256-235-4631 to make an appointment or for more information.

meetings:• Marine Corps League Chaffin Detachment, Calhoun County, 7 p.m., Calhoun County Civil Defense Building, call 256-310-6481 or 256-892-1767 to join or for more information.• Eastaboga Masonic Lodge No. 155, 7 p.m., Lodge building in Eastaboga, 256-835-7576.• Anniston Runners Club, 5:30 p.m., at Annis-ton YMCA, W. 14th Street. Call 256-310-0830, e-mail ddunn@annistonstar.com or visit www.annistonrunners.com. • The Anniston Rotary Club, noon, Anniston Country Club, Highland Avenue. • Calhoun County Stamp Club, 7 p.m., Room 327, Stone Building, Jacksonville State Uni-versity, corner of Church Avenue and 11th Street, 256-782-0084 or 256-831-8338.• North East Alabama Table Tennis Club, 5-9 p.m., Anniston Army Depot Gym, Bynum, 256-689-8603.• Bridge Club, 9 a.m., Lenlock Center No. 5, 5818 McClellan Blvd., 256-225-0003.

miscellaneous:• Anniston First United Methodist Church men’s prayer breakfast, 6:30 a.m., The Bridge, 1400 Noble St., at rear of church, all men are invited to attend, call 256-236-5605.

• Free, confidential counseling for prospec-tive and existing small business owners, provided by the Service Corps of Retired Executives (SCORE), by appointment, North-east Alabama Entrepreneurial System, 1400 Commerce Blvd., just off Greenbrier Road, call 256-831-5215 to make an appointment or for more information.• Senior adult aqua aerobics class, 7:30-8:30 a.m., Jacksonville State University, Pete Mathews Coliseum, call Abby Fleetwood at 256-782-5523 for more information.• Senior therapeutic yoga class, 8-9 a.m., Jacksonville State University, Pete Mathews Coliseum, dance studio, call Abby Fleetwood at 256-782-5523 for more information.

Wednesday

Support Group:• AA meeting, noon and 7 p.m., 1411 Gurnee Ave., enter through rear of building, 256-237-6196.• Celebrate Recovery, 12-step Christ-cen-tered recovery Step Study Group, 6 p.m., Word Alive International Outreach, Coldwa-ter, 256-225-2186 or 256-223-6593.• Courage to Change Group of Narcotics Anonymous, 90 minute, closed, candlelight, smoking, 7 p.m., Atlanta Avenue, off Noble Street between 10th and 11th streets.• Free parenting classes for parents of 2- to 12-year-olds, 9-11 a.m., Family Services Center of Calhoun County, 13 E. 11th St. Child care provided, 256-231-2240. • Alcoholics Anonymous Piedmont group, 7:30 p.m., 801 Hughes St., Piedmont.• Help in Progress Narcotics Anonymous, 7-8 p.m., 2236 U.S. 78 W., (1 mile from Fred’s).• New Wine Recovery Support Group for addicts and alcoholics, 6:30 p.m., Hill Crest Baptist Church, “The Rock,” room 208, Fam-ily Life center.

meetings:• Men’s Bible Study of Anniston First Baptist Church, 8 a.m., McDonald’s in Lenlock, 256-847-0230.

miscellaneous:• Bridge Club, 11 a.m., Lenlock Center No. 5, 5818 McClellan Blvd., 256-225-0003.

reSTauranT inSPeCTiOnS

Here are food service establish-ments recently inspected by the Calhoun County Health Depart-ment, along with scores. A score of 100 indicates the inspector found no deficiencies. Potentially hazardous deficiencies (four- or five-point demerit items) are noted. These must be corrected immedi-ately and inspectors say they are often corrected while the inspec-tion is underway. Restaurants earning below 70 must raise their

scores within seven days or face closure.

4-Or 5-POinT DemeriTS• China Luck Restaurant, 503 Quin-tard Drive, Oxford — 89, potentially hazardous food did not meet tem-perature requirements during cold holding.• Milestone Sports Bar, 270 E. Glade Road, Anniston — 87, approved food safety course certificate required; presence of rodents.

• Shoney’s, 1017 Quintard Drive, Oxford — 90, problems with sani-tization rinse.• Weaver High School — 94, poten-tially hazardous food did not meet temperature requirements during cold holding.

nO maJOr DemeriTS• Anthony’s Mexican Restaurant, 911 Noble St., Anniston — 96.• Arby’s, 1003 Quintard Drive, Oxford — 97.

• Burger King, 1001 Alabama 21, S., Oxford — 97.• Carpenetti’s Pizza, 1021 U.S. 431, N., Anniston — 99.• Discount Food Mart, 8689 Ala-bama 202, Bynum — 98.• Frontera Grill, 1750 E. Hamric Drive, Oxford — 98.• Garfrerick’s Café, 655 Creekside Drive, Oxford — 97.• Little Caesar’s Pizza, 1410 Quin-tard Ave., Anniston — 96.• Marriott Courtyard Kitchen, 289

Colonial Drive, Oxford — 97.• New China Restaurant, 1542 Greenbrier-Dear Road, Anniston — 98.• Outback Steakhouse, 196 Spring-branch Drive, Oxford — 97.• Pak-A-Sak (Deli), 9875 U.S. 78, E., Anniston — 99.• Partners Lounge, 831 S. Quintard Ave., Anniston — 98.• Weaver Elementary School — 99.

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CHANDLER, Ariz. — They take conservatism seri-ously in Arizona, the state that launched Barry Gold-water to the 1964 Republi-can presidential nomination and gave him the platform to found the modern conserva-tive movement.

They also take seriously a top lesson of Goldwater’s landslide loss in the general election against Democratic President Lyndon Johnson. In their hearts, they might have thought he was right. But in their heads, they would rather have won.

That hunger to defeat an incumbent Democrat-ic president — this time Barack Obama — drives Ari-zona Republicans and helps explain why Mitt Romney appears headed for an easy victory in the state’s primary on Tuesday.

The former Massachu-setts governor leads the field by comfortable margins in recent polls. His lead is wide enough that he pulled out of the state after Wednesday’s debate to focus his time on Michigan, where he has a much closer contest with chief rival Rick Santorum.

Like Republicans in other states, voters in Arizona point to Romney’s experi-ence in business and status as a Washington outsider as key reasons they like him.

“He’s the only candidate who has run something. Everyone else is a legislator,” said Don Bennett, a retiree from Chandler.

And like voters in some states where Romney has won — such as New Hamp-shire, Florida and Nevada — they think he’d be a stronger challenger to Obama than the nearest alternative at the moment.

In Arizona, many like Santorum. But they fear he might be a bit too conserva-tive, particularly on social issues such as abortion and contraception, to win.

Bennett, for example, said Santorum would cost the party swing votes. “They’re going to focus on his social conservatism,” he said. “They’ll try to demon-ize him. I’m just not sure he could win the indepen-dents.”

“I like him. He’s a good family man,” said Nancy Bowerman, an artist from

Chandler. “I’m a born-again Christian. But I’m a little nervous about his feelings about abortion. It affects electability as far as women are concerned.”

Primary voters by a 2-to-1 ratio say finding a nominee who can defeat Obama is more important than finding a true conservative, accord-ing to an NBC-Marist poll. Even “very conservative” voters say 3 to 2 that winning is more important.

Suzan Money of Chan-dler is among those very conservative primary voters. Undecided, she was weigh-ing Gingrich, Romney and Santorum — with winning uppermost on her mind.

She likes Romney’s busi-ness background but still questions his conservatism. “I don’t totally trust him.” she said. “I’m very conserva-tive.”

But the appeal to the more conservative Santorum is tempered by a concern that he might lead the party to defeat, “I like him a lot. He’s more conservative,” she said. “But I need electability. We have to beat Obama.”

— MCT

A new newt?Gingrich was decidedly more moderate in early days

By Ray HenRyAssociated Press

CARROLLTON, Ga. — The young political candidate sought support from labor unions. He castigated corpora-tions for “raping” the environment. He demanded that big oil companies open their financial books for inspection.

This was not the platform of a lib-eral Democrat, but rather the agenda of Republican Newt Gingrich when he ran for Congress in west Georgia in the mid-to-late 1970s.

Now as a presidential candidate, Gin-grich calls himself a true conservative and derides former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, a main rival, as a “Massachusetts moderate.” Long before Gingrich reached the national spotlight, he embraced many moderate and even liberal policy posi-tions that would be anathema in this year’s White House race.

“The Republican Party has to be the conservative party if it is to mobilize the 61 percent of the country which calls itself more conservative than liberal,” Gingrich wrote in a paper kept by his former press secretary, Lee Howell, that examined the prospects for the 1976 election. “How-ever, this conservatism has to be moder-ate if the party is not to be isolated from the bulk of the population which rejects either extreme.”

Howell eventually split with Gingrich and has been critical of him over the years.

Local newspaper stories about Gingrich’s early races include remarks from the can-didate that match or are very similar to language in the speeches, news releases and memos from Howell.

Gingrich ran as a moderate challeng-ing a deeply conservative pro-segregation Dixie Democrat, Jack Flynt Jr., a signer of the 1956 “Southern Manifesto” condemn-ing the U.S. Supreme Court ruling that led to racial integration in schools.

Gingrich ran the West Georgia College environmental studies program and dur-ing his first campaign condemned a plan to build a dam on the Flint River. He had harsh words for corporate polluters while simultaneously showing contempt for environmental regulators.

“Greedy economic giants are raping the environment, polluting the water we drink and the air we breathe — yet all too often the reformers offer solutions that will lead to unemployment and economic chaos,” Gingrich said, according to a copy of his 1974 campaign kickoff speech.

Gingrich never uses such harsh lan-guage now to describe business interests on the campaign trail. His criticism of the regulators has remained strident. He has more recently called the Environmental Protection Agency a “job killer” that must be replaced.

He was also skeptical of proposals to deregulate natural gas prices and the air-line industry, positions contrary to his free-market stances today.

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