Sun Journal (Newspaper) - April 25, 2007, New Bern, North Carolina Sun Ranger ordered to hide info on Tillmans death Soldier who witnessed events testifies at congressional hearing By Erica Werner The Associated Press WASHINGTON An Army Ranger who was with Pat Tillman when the former football star was cut down by friendly fire in Afghanistan said Tuesday a command ing officer had ordered him to keep quiet about what happened The military at first por trayed Tillmans death as the result of heroic com bat with the enemy Army Spc Bryan ONeal told a congressional hearing that when he got the chance to talk to Tillmans brother who had been in a nearby convoy on the fateful day I was ordered not to tell him what happened You were ordered not to tell him repeated Rep Henry Waxman chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Govern ment Reform Roger that replied ONeal dressed in his Army uniform The revelation came as committee members questioned whether and when top Defense of and the White House knew that Tillmans See New Bern North Carolina Tillman 50 Cents SLOW GOING Uniforms may be in future for New Bern High Wreck at 70 crossing not first It just seems like there have been many school buses wrecked Transportation director By Francine Sawyer Sun Journal Staff The railroad crossing in James City where a truck rammed a school bus Tues day morning has been the site of similar wrecks in the past Becton Brough ton di rector of transpor tation for Craven County Schools Buses are required to stop at the 70 railroad crossing regard I ess of the small white ex empt sign which only applies to certain commer cial vehicles Surveys policy information are sent home to parents By Kim Miller Sun Journal Staff Parents of New Bern High School students are taking their turn in the school uniform debate this month as officials tally votes for and against instituting a uniform policy at the school New Bern High Principal Terry Fuhrman said surveys were sent home to parents last week asking a single yes or no question Do you fa vor school uniforms Included with the survey were several other news bulletins includ Keeping up with dress codes Have voted for uniforms Havelock Middle School Ben D Quinn Elementary Grover C Reids Middle School Oaks Road Elementary Barber Elementary W Smith Elementary Havelock Elementary Have voted against uniforms Brinson Elementary School Creekside Elementary School ing one describing a policy similar to that of Grover C Fields if the uni forms are approved Fuhrman said We may make some minor chang es to what theyve he said But polo shirts and khaki cotton or wool pants are what were thinking Astronomers find potentially habitable planet Borenstein The Associated Press WASHINGTON For the first time astronomers have discovered a planet outside our solar system that is po habitable with Earthlike temperatures a find researchers describe Tuesday as a big step in the search for life in the uni The planet is just the right size might have water in liquid in galactic terms is relatively nearby at 120 trillion miles away But the star it closely orbits known as a red is much smaller dimmer and cooler than pur sun Theres still a lot that is un known about the new planet which could be deemed in hospitable to life once more Fuhrman said the survey is in response to a request by Craven County Schools Superintendent Rivenbark for principals to discuss whether theyve had any inquiries about uniforms at their respective schools We decided to go ahead with a Fuhrman said That way the parents can make the Fuhrman said a reminder notice about the survey will go out early next week and the results should be completed by the early part of May The Board of Education requires at least 50 percent parent participation for a survey to be valid If more than 65 percent of parents are in favor of uniforms the school board will sign off on that schools dress code Jones and Pamlico county schools have dress codes something Craven has declined to do instead leaving the decision up to each individual school Kim Miller can be reached at 6355565 or at said a wreck involving a bus occurred at the crossing on 70 just two weeks ago He also recalled a similar crash in 2004 It just seems like there have been many school bus es wrecked Brough ton said No one has been killed in the previous bus crashes Tuesday mornings wreck resulted in the driver of the truck James Henry Green 55 of Washington being airlifted to Pitt Memo rial Hospital in Greenville A hospital spokeswoman said Tuesday afternoon that Green was in critical condi tion Four students on the bus were not injured according to Trooper Walker of the State Highway Patrol See New planet holds possibility for life A planet 20 5 ngr yeas or system s thought to nave cua t es and ra r c K 3652SdavS 6 I ca Rotation unknown Cell phones lack reliable 911 tracking Sl s is known about it And its worth noting that scientists requirements for ty count Mars in that catego ry a size relatively similar to Earths with temperatures that would permit liquid wa ter However this is the first AP outside our solar system that meets those standards Its a significant step on the way to finding possible life in the said University of Geneva as See Test results across considered disappointing By John Dunbar The Associated Press WASHINGTON A new report by a public safety group throws into ques tion the ability of police and firefighters to locate people through their cell phones when they dial 911 in an emergency The study is believed to be the first independent evalu ation of wireless location technology and sends a clear message Do not assume res cuers will know where you are if you call 911 from a cell phone The report was commis sioned by the Association of Public Safety tions Officials International a group that has long been concerned about the limitations of the tech nology and the publics unre u We were hopeful that the information that they were seeing on a wireless call would be closer to the location than it was We were very Nancy Pollock Project LOCATE chairwoman expectations of what it can deliver The Associated Press was given an advance copy of the study which will be officially released in May Carriers are required to test their location systems and to be able to pinpoint callers within certain dis tances But they are not re quired to share their test results with 911 dispatchers police and firefighters And the Federal Communications Commission does no testing of its own So using a grant from the AP file photo CKK Business Toyota tops GM for first time See Page C5 World Thousands of mourners pay last respects to Yeltsin See Page A6 State Iraq truck bomb victims were from 82nd Airborne See Page Dl Public Safety Foundation of America APCO began work in August of 2005 on Project LOCATE to find out on its own how well the systems were working The answer Not very well We hopeful that the information that they were seeing on a wireless call would be closer to the loca tion than it said project chairwoman Nancy Pollock We were very disappoint See A3 TV
