Indiana Gazette (Newspaper) - March 20, 2008, Indiana, Pennsylvania The 24 pages 2 sections 50 cents Vol. 104 No. 208 com in the news There is good news today in The Indiana Gazette about these area Abigail Samuel Brock Josephine Chad and Erin Sophie Katie Tonight will be mostly cloudy with a low of 23. Friday will be partly sunny in the morning and then become mostly cloudy with a high of 38./ Page 2 Obituaries on Page 4 Goldie 81, Ford City Nancy 64, Spring Church Rhoda V. ( 83, Burnside Donald 51, Dayton Late deaths Louise 92, formerly of New Florence Bryan E. 59, Alverda Deaths Index Calendar 10 21– 24 Dear Abby 21 19 18 Lottery numbers 2 Today in 21 Sports 13– 17 Comics 20 Viewpoint 6 20 Thursday Weather Newspaper contents copyright 2008 Indiana Printing and Publishing Pa. This newspaper is printed on recyclable Please Coming up The more than 100- old Palace Hotel in Northern Cambria is getting a major Inside AUDIO Osama bin Laden warned in a new audiotape of a reaction for publication of cartoons of Prophet Page 7 SEVERE Powerful storms hit the Midwest on causing more than a dozen Page 8 The Pittsburgh Steelers cut wide receiver Cedric Wilson Page 13 Teddy In the republic of genius is Robert S. American lawyer and politician ( 1833- 1899) For young readers FREE Apple is considering allowing iPod and iPhone users to download music from its for Page 19 Forgiveness a way of life for Amish The Coventry Open Easter 724- 463- 0776... Traditional Apricot And Poppyseed Easter Pies And 724- 349- 7727 Meet Jess From Rock Of In Live At Friday Roller Rink Is Open 1- 4 p. 7- 10 p. m. Free Pool And Juke Box Thursdays Rose Good Friday Service At Grace Church Tomorrow 7 p. m. Lenten Fish Specials At The Affordable Interiors Professional Staff And Installation With Financing Call ( 724) 349- 8821 Book Now For Prom And Call Midnight ( 724) 357- 9022 Easter Trees And Musser Garden ( 724) 465- 5684 By SAM KUSIC Gazette Staff Writer In the hard to figure which is more shocking that a man or even walk into an Amish schoolhouse one fall morning and shoot 10 little girls or that the community left to make sense of the nonsensical or even forgive the man for having done such an evil how the Nickel Mines Amish community in Lancaster County And in a country that holds close the right to forgiveness became every bit the news as the incident It later became the subject of a authored by Donald B. an Elizabethtown College Kraybill spoke about the book Wednesday evening during a lecture at Indiana University of Kraybill is a senior fellow at Young Center for Anabaptist and Pietist An authority on Anabaptist Kraybill has written or has helped to write several books on Amish The latest is Amish How Forgiveness Transcended which is about the Nickel Mines shooting and forgiveness and how forgiveness permeates the Amish way of And on Oct. 2, 2006, the people in the Nickel Mines community would find themselves forgiving Charles Roberts In the abridged version of a 32- old milk truck angry at God over the death of his infant walks into the bringing with him guns to plastic ties to bind and lumber to barricade himself He orders the boys tells the girls to The police show and they try to talk him Instead he Continued on Page 12 Record number switch parties TOM Gazette DOUG community relations representative for C- explained Wednesday how the C- SPAN Campaign 2008 Bus operates to a small group during its stop on the IUP By RANDY WELLS Gazette Staff Writer Subtle television production techniques such as having a camera zoom in for a tighter shot of a candidate while being interviewed can inject a opinion that something the candidate said or some emotion she has shown is more important than other parts of the not likely to see that kind of camera work on And pointing out that distinction to the viewing said C- SPAN community relations representative Doug is one way the cable news channel helps viewers become critical of the especially political available to all about letting you see all the different views out Hemmig echoing C- doctrine of nonpartisan coverage of political C- SPAN was created in 1979 by cable companies as a public and is available in 90 million Cable channel news students and curious by had an opportunity to get a closer look at how C- SPAN covers the political scene when the C- SPAN Campaign 2008 Bus stopped on the Indiana University of Pennsylvania campus Wednesday as part of the cable Road to the White The 45- foot mobile production studio is traveling around America to promote and enhance C- comprehensive political stopping at debates and at speeches in primary states and to conduct informal educational seminars for teachers and The events are held in partnership with Comcast and are named after renowned political program now in its 20th The interior of the bus is outfitted with a red bright blue backdrops and quality lights for conducting video The rear of the bus is a rolling radio production Wednesday Rep. Dave talked politics with local disc jockey Cody as Indiana radio station WCCS broadcast from the bus. Continued on Page 12 Dems see 3 percent increase since fall Local voter changes keep registrar busy By PETER JACKSON Associated Press Writer WAYNE Pennsylvanians are rushing in record numbers to sign up as Democrats so they can vote in the April 22 presidential primary between Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Many are lured by the historic drama of two U. S. senators vying to be the first black or female But the two campaigns also are busily recruiting disgruntled Republicans and those who previously effort has generated the most fanfare as his campaign has laid down a steady drumbeat of radio ads and e- mails leading up to the deadline for switching or joining Continued on Page 12 By RANDY WELLS Gazette Staff Writer As in many other county courthouses around Indiana chief Donna is getting new voter registrations and party affiliation changes faster than she can record She started work this morning with a stack of 50 left over from There were so many yesterday I process them Hoover said this A lot of them are changing from Republican to and from non- partisan to Continued on Page 12 Rolling C- SPAN broadcast studio gives public an view THE C- SPAN BUS 45- foot mobile production is traveling around America to promote and enhance the comprehensive political WARM WELCOME AS THE FIRST DAY of spring blooms across the more than 30 scientists have told The Associated Press how global warming is affecting plants and animals at springtime across the in nearly every Shown at the Fullerton Arboretum in California is a wildflower called Tidy See story on Page 11 BRUCE The Orange County Register Officials seek about future of borough By RANDY WELLS Gazette Staff Writer In 1997, 50 cents of every dollar spent in Indiana County was spent in Indiana Five years later that had dropped to only 20 cents of every population grew consistently before 1970. But in the past quarter- century it has steadily 16,051 in 1980; 15,174 in 1990; 14,896 in 2000. Indiana Borough has very little land remaining for By more than half of White land is Those were a few of the facts and trends highlighted Wednesday at an open house hosted by Indiana officials to share information collected to help create a new comprehensive plan for the A comprehensive plan is the official policy document of a Once it serves as the official guidance for how public money is invested in the community and what local ordinances will help achieve goals for the Continued on Page 12
