Times-Journal (Newspaper) - May 2, 2009, Fort Payne, Alabama May 2-3, 2009 INSIDE SPORTS YOUTH SPORTS GET ACTION INSIDE LIVING ITS SCIENCE STUDENTS CELEBRATE DNA DAY COUNTY'S Only 75 cents TODAY'S HEADLINES Fort Payne High School coach Paul Ellis didn't need any time to think about his answer Friday when asked about the team's top priority for spring football Inside Sports YOUR RIGHT TO m Councils The Fort Payne City Council will meet Tuesday at 6 p.m. cit City School Boards The Fort Payne City school board will meet May 18 at 6 p.m. at the Central The DeKalb County Board of Education will meet May 21 at 5 p.m. at the Building in Commission The DeKalb County Commission will meet May 12 at 10 a.m. at the Activities Building in Fort Other The Gas District board will meet Thursday at 4 p.m. at the customer service center in Fort The Fort Payne Water Department board will meet Thursday at noon at the water department Across Party Lines State Sen. Lowell a member of the Senate Democratic will cross party lines and meet with DeKalb County Republicans on Page A9 MARKET The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose nearly 45 points Page A2 HIGH 78 Low 60 FORECAST Today mostly cloudy with a shower or thunderstorm Page A2 INSIDE Dear Sports Stock Vol. 131, No. 57 7b call 2550 or 1-800-34T1MES Fort Payne High School's graduation exam rates Oft RECORD BREAKING photo by Dusty Fort Payne junior Elizabeth Manning reads Kill a during her honors English h School is making the grades for graduates By Jared Felkins In Alabama test scores often define In that Fort Payne High School is highly According to principal Ronnie about 98 percent of seniors passed the Alabama High School Graduation Exam this That number compares to about 95 percent just a year ago and is the highest it's ever are really tate of Proud of that and it chools reflects on our Crabtree are also proud of our entire system because everyone has a hand in High School exam scores Percent of students to pass 00 I 3 b XI 3 3 to 00 I 3. A3 Reading Language Science to CO 3 3 Math 00 bo oo 3 3 Social Studies 1343rd Chemical Co. Day 11 Soldiers start training Troops get health start marksmanship photo by Jared Felkins Troops with the 1343rd Chemical Co. said goodbye on April 21. By Jared Felkins After 10 days at Fort Hood in soldiers with Fort Payne's 1343rd Chemical Co. are stowed away and have started The soldiers left Fort Payne for Texas on April 21 and will deploy for Kuwait in 1st Lt. Johnnie Scott serves as executive officer and operations officer for the He said the Fort Payne company has joined battalions and companies from Tennessee and Mississippi in first basic week has been Scott are checking the health to make sure they are ready for training and the Scott said a previous training exercise has prepared the soldiers for training at Fort trained at Fort McClellan in Scott went through a 21-day intensive training and I feel that training will be better than what we will receive Scott said while a few of the See A3 cases on rise Four people probable to have it in DeKalb remains spared By Lindsay Slater Alabama's probable cases of swine flu grew to four Friday when The Alabama Department of Public Health announced a third case at a Madison A third case involving a Montgomery woman was announced late but Diane director of Human Resources at DeKalb Regional Medical said nothing has changed at DeKalb County's only Levels of emergency room patients remain normal and no potential cases have been discovered in DeKalb McMichen Other areas of tiie country haven't been so Hospitals in Los for are being creating concern that those in need of quick treatment are having long we won't see an overload at our McMichen should remain calm and remember the basics of washing hands and covering their mouths when they sneeze or Dr. Robert Theakston at Northside Medical in Fort Payne said his volume of patients has stayed the seen a few children with temperatures of 102 and 103 but none of them tested positive for the Theakston See Swine A3 Stay Swine Flu Safe There are antiviral medicines you can take to prevent or treat swine There is no vaccine available right now to protect against swine You can help prevent the spread of germs that cause respiratory illnesses like influenza Covering your nose and mouth with a tissue when you cough or Throw the tissue in the trash after you use it. Washing your hands often with soap and especially after you cough or You can also use hand Avoiding touching your nose or Germs spread this Trying to avoid close contact with sick Staying home from work or school if you are Centers for Disease Control and Prevention County clean-up work slow after storms in efforts to pick up debris after tornado DeKalb Road Department now alone By J.D. Davidson In the days following tornados that struck the Sylvania and Powell areas on Sand help came from throughout Northeast That eventually needed to return to home leaving the DeKalb County Road Department alone in its efforts to continue That according to Road Department Supervisor Tommy recently moved from Sylvania to Powell and continues as a slow process. He expects to return crews to Sylvania and then back to Powell for a second pass before cleanup efforts are DeKalb received help from Fort Huntsville and Madison but those crews and that equipment eventually returned to their home down to one and it's just going to take a while for us to get Broyles Broyles also received the go-ahead from commissioners to work with a Birmingham company to remove nearly 3,000 used tires from county The which is expected to charge a little more than i See A3 photo by Dusty Plunkett An tornado left severe damage in Sylvania and Powell In