Fort Payne Times Journal (Newspaper) - February 14, 2007, Fort Payne, Alabama Partly windy and colder 39; 17. Details 2 February 14, 2007 ON IA DEKALB COUNTY'S OLDEST NEWSPAPER WEDNESDAY Nell Hearts With TODAY'S HEADLINES Love And Marriage Valentine's Day has effects on many people in and one of those effects includes One minister stays busy with many couples who decide to take their vows on the spur of the He is especially busy on the Day of Coming Thursday t YOUR RIGHT Councils will meet Thursday at 7 at City The Rainsville City Council will meet Feb. 19 at 5 at City The Fort Payne City Council will meet Feb. 20 at 5 at City The Ider Town Council will meet Feb. 26 at 6 p.m. at Town School Boards The Fort Payne Board of Education will meet Feb. 26 at 5 p.m. at the central office board The DeKalb County Board of Education will meet Feb. 22 at 5 p.m. at the Facilities Building in Other | The DeKalb Ambulance will meet Thursday at at DAS on Airport I Master Of Disguise Most people live on a budget and cannot afford to purchase the biggest and best of The beauty of your home does not need to suffer because small touches can add up to make a huge Page 8 MARKET The Dow Jones Industrial Average gained more than 100 points Page 2 INSIDE Dear Stock TV Vol. 129, No. 32 To call 845- 2550 or 1-800-34TIMES INSIDE LIVING FALLING SHORT FORT PAYNE BEAT IN INSIDE SPORTS New leads taxing in killing Frustration begins to set in for investigators By Greg Purvis Frustration levels grow as law enforcement officials run down leads they hope will end at a Since the body of 70-year-old Shirley Sumrall was found in the trunk of her car Feb. 4, state and local law enforcement from three counties have cooperated in an effort to find those according to DeKalb County District Attorney Mike So they are still as authorities continue to search for a suspect things didn't pan out that we were hopeful might be solid O'Dell are the really frustrating when leads that look promising just don't But we've had some new developments in the last couple of and everyone is continuing to give this case their The way to go about it is to hit as hard as you can as early as you before it goes We're not giving i See 2 Mike O'Dell BE MY VALENTINE Step remains to get federal inmates photo by Dusty Plunkett Makayla Wells and Blair Weldon show off Valentine's cards made at the Child Development Center in Fort Payne One test left for jail to begin to house female felons By Kati Burns DeKalb County jail administrator Mitch Dendy said representatives with the U.S. Marshal's office are working on setting up a date and time to come tour the county jail to see if it's operational for federal Dendy said during Tuesday's DeKalb County Commission meeting that after the jail passes this he hopes to see the process of getting the inmates begin within only a few spoke with U.S. Marshal's Service representative Richard Kennedy on Monday and he said he was sending in all of our paper Dendy said he would be getting back to us real soon on when they will come out to do the inspection of our Dendy said representatives would inspect the jail to see if there is anything that needed to be such as the jail policy and Dendy said he has no fear about the inspection process because the hew jail is well The new jail was built for See 3 File photo Jail administrator Mitch Dendy said the county is only one step away from housing female federal No signs of helium shortage Balloons will fly today for Valentine's By Jared Felkins A helium shortage across the U.S. has caused prices to but the there seems to be plenty of hot air in Fort Payne for Valentine's In many larger metropolitan suppliers are limiting sales to distributors in are rationing what they sell to party stores and But retailers who market the gas in Fort Payne say they have really seen if difference in the helium have not noticed any changes in our prices and are doing the same thing we always have with balloons for Valentine's said Karen Stout with And with the surge of Valentine's gifts culminating many retailers say there's nothing to worry See 3 DEKALB REGIONAL MEDIC A l Southern State Bank Fort Payne 997-9900 FARMERS WIRELESS All The Bank You'll Ever Need Serving Jackson and DeKalb counties since 1910. MEMBER FDIC 261 20 Gaull Ft. 516.2100 photo by Dusty Plunkett Oksana inflates a balloon at Violets florist in Fort Payne on A reported helium shortage across the U.S. Isn't affecting balloon sales locally for Valentine's Costly problem solved County to save thousands on water at jail By Kati Burns The DeKalb County Commission has discovered it was overpaying for water at the new County Administrator Matt Sharp said previously monthly payments to Fort Payne Water weren't adding know the county courthouse pays a month for their Sharp were paying anywhere from to a month for our sprinkler system at the new We weren't using the they're just and so we couldn't decide why it was so The new jail opened around June 2006, which means the county would have spent close to on water at that facility for per At a the county would spend about a year on Sharp talked to new DeKalb County Commander Wade Hill about the situation because he knew Hill had i See 3 File photo County Administrator Matt Sharp said a water fix at the jail will save the county