Sun Journal (Newspaper) - January 16, 2007, New Bern, North Carolina Sun Tuesday January 16 2007 New Bern North Carolina King honored in New Bern Bob Journal Wanda Francisco pastor of Mt Zion Holiness Church left delivers the messenger address to a packed West Street Christian Church while her mother Minister Shirley White applauds The annual memorial service for Reverend Martin Luther King Jr was held at noon on Monday Residents turn out for memorial service INSIDE By Zac Goldstein Sun Journal Staff Growing up in the in South Carolina Harry Cheese remembers a time full of tur There were a lot of riots a lot of tions going on he said In the middle of the uproar one voice made an impassioned plea for non violence That voice belonged to Martin Luther King Jr whose birthday was celebrated Monday across the nation and at a New Bern memorial service I think he will be remembered as a great man a Godly man a man who made a difference Cheese said Ive wondered what the world would be like to day if there never was a Martin Luther King More than 38 years after he gave his final speech Kings name still has drawing power West Street Christian Church in New Bern was filled Monday with congregants who remem bered the late civil rights leader in the annual memorial service Guest speaker Wanda Francis co pastor of Mt Zion Holiness Church delivered a fiery call for selfsacrifice and helping others based on Kings words Dr King he loved people she said In one of my favorite parts of his sermons he said If any man has not found some Martin Luther King Jr banquet Human Service Awards Jamara Wallace Annie Holloway Miriam Williams Mark Best Sybil Chapman Phyllis Chapman Douglas Pearsall Longevity Award James Becton Lighthouse Awards St John MB Church Fresh Start Ministries Undenominational Pen Holiness Church James City Grocery Scholarship Awards E Sconyers Mary Duncan Award Tamara Brown Chapman Memorial Award Way Thompson Crystal R George Ernest McDuffie Jr Carlos Carmon Charles A Z Cobb thing he would die for he has a to the pastor before He makes a life that is unfit to live Francisco likened King to Josh ua a biblical leader who also had to guide people past uncertainty and adversity God does not always reveal move she said God called us to other people Zac Goldstein can be reached at 6355673 or at Netflix Inc delivers on the Internet Some subscribers can now watch movies online By Michael Liedtke The Associated Press LOS GATOS Calif Net flix Inc will start showing movies and TV episodes over the Internet this week providing its subscribers with more instant tion as the ser vice prepares for a looming technology shift threatening its survival The Los com pany plans to unveil the new Watch Now feature today but only a small number of its more than 6 million sub scribers will get immediate Wounded warriors wife thanks the community U The community has supported us spiritually emotionally and financially Noah photo Netflix founder and CEO Reed Hastings 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Christian Coalition meeting Local residents and Homes For Our Troops are working toward a home for the couple and their daughter which general contractor Russell hopes will be ready in six months While she talked her husband continued his re See Record number of birds found on proposed landing field Refuge biologist counts 80000 snow geese 75000 tundra swans The Associated Press A record number of waterfowl have settled at Pocosin Lakes National Wild life Refuge this winter as the Navy studies whether a proposed practice landing field U The whole lake was white Wendy Stanton Refuge biologist it wants to build nearby will endan ger pilots or the birds On one day in December refuge biolo gist Wendy Stanton counted 75000 to 80000 snow geese and 26000 tundra swans both records On a separate day she count ed a record 12400 ducks The whole lake was white Stanton said More birds will mean more prob lems said Derb Carter a Southern Environmental Law Center attorney fighting the efforts to build the landing field in eastern North Caro lina See half brother beheaded during hanging Many Sunnis angered by execution By Steven R Hurst The Associated Press BAGHDAD Iraq The Iraqi gov attempt Monday to close a chapter on Saddam sive regime by hanging two of his henchmen only apTT to anger many of fellow Sunni Muslims after the former leaders half brother was de capitated on the gal lows A thickset Bar zan Ibrahim plunged through the trap door and was be headed by the jerk of the thick beige rope at the end of his fall in the same the execution chamber where Saddam was hanged a little over two weeks earlier A government video of the hang ing played at a briefing for report ers showed Ibrahims body passing the camera in a blur The body came to rest on its chest while the severed head lay a few yards away still wear ing the black hood pulled on moments before by one of Ibrahims five masked executioners The decapitation appeared tent and Iraqi officials seemed anx to prove they hadnt mutilated Ibrahims remains The hangings came as a suicide car bomber slammed into an Iraqi army patrol in the northern city of Mosul Monday killing seven people and wounding 40 others police said A to tal of at least 55 people were killed or found dead across Iraq authorities said The US military meanwhile an the deaths of two more sol diers both killed in Baghdad See Since 1876 Weather Scattered showers 63 Nation Storm moves on to batter Northeast See Page A9 Sports Top seeds survive jitters See Page B3 Region Say goodbye to springlike conditions See Page Bl Dear TV
