Free Press, The (Newspaper) - July 3, 2007, Kinston, North Carolina FREE Brass JULY 94 NORTH CAROLINA 50 CENTS Tomorrow Lenoir County has a reallife hero in Richard Find out more about him in The Free Press on Inside today Local Skateboard park coming Greene County gave the green light to the town of Snow Hill on Monday for construction of a skateboard par Nation No time for Libby President Bush spared former White House aide Lewis Scooter Libby from a 2 prison term in the CIA leak case stepping into a criminal case with heavy political overtones on grounds that the sentence was just too Page A3 Sports Indians auction off jerseys The Kinston Indians want to sell you the shirts off their backs and send you out for a Business Hatteras Yachts expand The Brunswick parent company of Hatteras Yachts in New announced Monday that it will expand North Carolina boat manufacturing by purchasing a plant near PageAS Todays weather Partly sunny throughout the day and night high low Good Elsie of Seven a Free Press subscriber since Page design by Michelle Iwin T INDEX Business A5 Local Bl Classified Nation A3 Deaths 62 Sports Editorial A4 TV listings A6 ENCO A Freedom Communications COMMUNICATIONS Lenoir County gears up for Early College next fall By VICTORIA MCNAIR Staff Writer The Lenoir County School Board approved that spending of grant funds awarded by the state at its monthly meeting on Monday to open the Lenoir Early College High School for the 200708 school The Early College High School pro grams will be funded primarily by the states Learn and Earn The programs give students an opportunity to earn a combined high school diploma and associate degree in five by putting them on an advanced Diane assistant said that the grant money has already been The money will be used for and staff Lynch The Department of Public tion approved the million grant in The funds will be divided over four equal to roughly per to provide courses and expand the Plans for the program needed to be approved as early as possible to give administration time to hire teachers and select students for the upcoming school The Early College High School will offer small classes of 12 15 personal attention from teachers and and a mixture of college level courses and high school courses each of the five The program will target students Charles Buchanan The Free Press Members of the Color Guard from Headquarters and Support and Marine Corps based at Camp Lejeune place the American flag at the forefront of a Naturalization and Granting of Citizenship ceremony held at Harmony Celebrating the Fourth baseball and citizenship ceremony Wednesday By KATIE MARSHALL Staff Writer What better way to celebrate the Fourth of July than with base ball and fireworks This will be the first time in two years the Kinston Indians have been in town for the Fourth and they are planning to mark the occasion with a The Indians will face the Wilm ington Blue Rocks at 7 Wednesday with the veterans rec group Salute conducting the opening ceremony and a fire works display following the Katrina director of sales and marketing for the Kinston said the fire works will be different from the usual fireworks It will be bigger and she Fourth of July will have a new meaning to 28 people from 16 dif ferent countries who will be natu as citizens at Harmo ny Hall on Wednesday It will be the third consecutive year the Lenoir County Historical Association has hosted the People seem to like and enjoy the said Adrian president of the historical Magistrate Judge James Gates of Raleigh will preside over the ceremonies and guest speak ers will be Walter and retired Hugh Katie Marshall can be reached at 252 or Here are details on Fourth of July events in the area Kinston Harmony Hall 10 Naturalization Ceremony and Granting of Citizenship in the United States Grainger Stadium 7 Salute conducting opening ceremony before Kinston Indians Fireworks scheduled to start about Snow Hill South Greene Ball Field 3 fun and fellowship with a fireworks display at dusk New Bern Union Point Park 7 2nd Marine Aircraft Wing Band scheduled to perform with fireworks at Goldsboro Berkeley Mall 9 Fireworks display in the JC Penney parking lot Greenville Town Common 4 with fireworks at 9 Havelock City Park 5 Entertainment and fun and fireworks at 9 with a B or C first genera tion and those with no history of discipline The stu dents chosen attend classes free of Courses will be held on the LCC Greene County Schools have com their first year of the early college program with a class of 51 Victoria McNair can be reached at 252 5273191 273 or at Poor sense of smell may signal Alzheimers By JOHNSON Associated Press Writer CHICAGO Difficulty identifying common smells such as banana and cinnamon may be the first sign of Alzheimers according to a study that could lead to sniff tests to determine a persons risk for the progressive brain Such tests could be important if scientists find ways to slow or stop Alzheimers and the severe memo ry loss associated with For theres no cure for the more than 5 million Americans with the Researchers have long known that microscopic lesions considered the hallmarks of Alzheimers first appear in a brain region important to the sense of Strictly on the basis of this makes said Robert an expert on odor perception and the brain at the University of Cin Franks was not involved in the new appearing in Mondays Archives of General Other studies have linked loss of smell to Franks but this is the first to measure healthy peoples olfactory powers and follow them for five testing along the way for signs of mental In the 600 people between the ages of 54 and 100 were asked to iden a dozen familiar smells black choc paint gasoline and For each mystery they heard and saw a choice of four For they were asked aloud Fruit Cinnamon Woody Or coco nut while also seeing the choices in A quarter of the people correctly identified all the odors or missed only Half of them knew at least nine of the The quarter of the people correctly identified eight or fewer of the The subjects took 21 cognitive tests annually over the next five About onethird of the people devel oped at least mild trouble with memo ry and The people who made at least four errors on the odor test were 50 per cent more likely to develop problems than people who made no more than one Difficulty identifying odors also was associated with a higher risk of progressing from mild cognitive impairment to The researchers took into account education and a history of strokes or and still found lower scores predicted higher risk of cognitive 3 doctors among those arrested in Britains car bomb plot The Associated Press Armed policeman stand guard at the entrance to Terminal 4 at Londons row Airport on By DAVID STRINGER Associated Press Writer LONDON At least three physi cians were identified Monday among suspects arrested in Britains failed car bomb and authorities announced three new arrests including a doctor in Australia as the investigation spread British media reports said an Indi an doctor also was among the eight people in custody and another out let said at least five of the detainees in Britain were British police confirmed a Palestinian doc tor and Iraqi physician were among those while Australian officials said a foreign doctor working there had been detained in the Officers used heightened search powers and armed response vehicles to hunt for anyone else who might have been involved in the and police put on a show of force to bolster security at airports and train stations and on city Hours after police announced the arrests of two more people in the Glasgow officials said an eighth suspect was detained abroad by local authorities Australian authorities later said he was arrested at the airport in Bris bane while trying to leave the coun Queensland state Premier Peter Beattie described the suspect as a 27 yearold man but withheld his iden Australian Attorney General Philip Ruddock said the suspect was a doctor at a hospital in Queensland state but was not a A British security official said ear lier in the day that Pakistan and sev eral other nations were asked to check possible links with the sus terrorists behind the bloody 2005 London transit bomb ings and others in thwarted plots here were linked to terror training camps and foreign radicals in We have asked partners overseas to check possible links and that work has the security official adding that it was still possible some people were involved in the The official spoke on condi tion of anonymity because of the sen of the
