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Funeral service for
Brown rescheduled
AUGUSTA (AP)
Hometown fans of the late
James Brown will have an
opportunity to view his body
Saturday afternoon and a
public funeral service will
be held later that day, an
associate of Brown’s said
Wednesday.
Frank Copsidas, Brown’s
professional manager, said
Wednesday that the public
service will be at 6 p.m. at
the 8,500-seat James Brown
Arena in Augusta. The view
ing will be at 1 p.m. Saturday
at the arena, Copsidas said.
Earlier, Copsidas had said
the public funeral service
would be at 1 p.m. Saturday
On Thursday, members of
the public will be able to view
Brown’s body Thursday at
the Apollo Theater in New
York, Copsidas said.
A private ceremony will be
held Friday in Augusta.
Brown, who died Monday
of heart failure in Atlanta
at age 73, will be buried
later Saturday in Augusta,
Copsidas said.
Mystery shot kills
motorist on 1-85
ATLANTA (AP) - Two
men were shot, one of them
fatally, while driving on
an interstate highway just
north of Atlanta, according
to police.
Gwinnett County Police
said Celso Jose Villalobos,
24, of Norcross and Jesus
Los Angeles Gonzales, 20,
of Lawrenceville were head
ed north on Interstate 85
at about 4:15 a.m. Sunday
when someone shot at them
near Ga. 316.
Villalobos was able to drive
to Gwinnett Medical Center,
where he was treated and
released. But his passenger,
Gonzales, did not survive.
Police said Villalobos could
not provide any motive for
the shooting or a description
of the vehicle from which
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Brunswick 70 62 pt sunny
Cartersville 64 53 cloudy
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the shots were fired.
Police say they are looking
for motorists who may have
been traveling north on the
interstate around that time.
3 killed in suburban
Atlanta plane crash
LAWRENCEVILLE, (AP)
- A twin-engine plane fly
ing from Florida to Georgia
crashed in an industrial
park near an airport in the
northeast Atlanta suburbs,
killing three people, authori
ties said.
Ted Bailey, chief forensic
investigator for the Gwinnett
County medical examiner’s
office, told the Gwinnett
Daily Post on Tuesday that
Michael Allen Mucha, 44,
of Davie, Fla., was the pilot
of the twin-engine Cessna
Chancellor 414 that crashed
near Gwinnett’s Briscoe
Field. Also aboard were
Mucha’s wife, Norma Ann,
43, and 16-year-old daugh
ter, Samantha Mucha.
All three were ejected
from the plane during the
crash and died at the scene,
police said.
The plane had taken
off from the Palm Beach
County Glades Airport,
near Pahokee, Fla., and was
approaching Briscoe Field
when it crashed Monday
night, officials said.
“It is my understanding
that it was very foggy at the
time,” said Laura Brown, a
spokeswoman for the Federal
Aviation Administration in
Washington.
Frank Taylor, a National
Weather Service meteorolo
gist at Peachtree City, said
the tower at Briscoe Field
reported fog and visibility of
only a half mile in the hour
before the crash.
Lt. Craig Stanley of the
Gwinnett County Fire
Department said there were
reports of an explosion at
about 9 p.m. and confirmed
there were at least three
fatalities.
Stanley said the plane’s
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Dillard 59 44 pt sunny
Dublin 73 55 pt sunny
Duluth 62 51 cloudy
Gainesville 60 51 cloudy
Helen 62 50 cloudy
Lagrange 69 55 cloudy
Macon 70 56 cloudy
Marietta 62 52 cloudy
Milledgeville 69 56 cloudy
pilot had radioed that the
plane was having trouble
and that he was attempting
to land. An air traffic control
ler then called authorities
after seeing an orange glow
in the distance, he said.
The plane, registered to a
company in Pembroke Pines,
Fla., disappeared from radar
at about 8:30 p.m., said
Brown.
The cause of the crash
will be determined by the
National Transportation
Safety Board.
Paul Schlamm, spokes
man for the National
Transportation Safety Board
in Washington, said one of
its investigators was already
on the scene and probably
would be joined by FAA and
Cessna representatives.
“They’ll be document
ing the accident,” he said.
“They’ll be looking at the
wreckage and they’ll move it
indoors for further examina
tion as needed.”
County using landfill
to produce energy
ATLANTA (AP) - When
thousands of Georgia resi
dents flick their light switch
es, their rooms are being
brightened by rotting food
scraps and moldering paper
in a DeKalb County landfill.
DeKalb is the first county
government in Georgia to
harness the power of landfill
gas.
Since October, two 20-
cylinder engines have been
creating electricity by burn
ing methane emitted from a
county-owned landfill.
They now consume about
two-thirds of the methane
emitted from the decompos
ing garbage.
It’s a tiny amount com
pared with the massive coal
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Peachtree City 66 51 cloudy
Perry 72 57 cloudy
Rome 65 51 cloudy
Savannah 76 59 pt sunny
St. Simons Island7o 62 pt sunny
Statesboro 76 56 pt sunny
Thomasville 79 61 pt sunny
Valdosta 79 60 pt sunny
Warner Robins 71 57 cloudy
Waycross 78 58 pt sunny
Phoenix 61 38 mst sunny
San Francisco 57 41 pt sunny
Seattle 43 36 cloudy
St. Louis 56 48 rain
Washington, DC 56 44 pt sunny
fired plants that dot Georgia.
But it’s a start for consum
ers willing to pay extra for
“green” energy.
“We’re producing enough
electricity for about 3,000
homes,” said Billy Malone,
an assistant director with
the county’s sanitation divi
sion.
RF(U OFFICIAL SALES LIST • WATSON BRANCH
DESCRIPTION SERIAL# PRICE | MILEAGE COMMENT
1997 JEEP GRAND CHEROKEE 720308-L-65 $ 6,650.00 105,971 V6.4WD,CASS/CD
1997 PONTIAC TRANS SPORT 165716-Ll3 $ 5,699 00 79,928 V6,CD
1997 CHEVROLET SILVERADO 142645-L1 $ 5,899 00 182,337 V6,AT,CASS
1997 FORD RANGER A38136-L26 $ 5,488.00 172,892 V6,AT,CD
1998 CHEVROLET BLAZER 175446-L25 $ 4,299.00 108,693 V 6
1999 HONDA PASSPORT 408793-L6 $ 6,899 00 78,221 V 6
1999 DODGE DURANGO 648837-Ll7 $ 6,399.00 158,612 VB,AT,4WD
2000 LINCOLN LS 889992-LlB $ 12,499.00 58,360 V 8 >
2000 FORD EXPEDITION A70528-L7 $ 8,999.00 96,670 VB,AT,CASS,LR
2000 CHEVROLET SILVERADO 116394-L2l $ 9,699 00 114,810 VB,CD/CASS,LEAT
2000 MITSUBISHI MIRAGE 029747-L57 $ 2,199.00 151,252 4CYL
2001 VOLKSWAGON BEETLE 463184-L54 $ 10,199.00 55,996 4CYL
2001 CHEVROLET CAVALIER 220011-L27 $ 3,599.00 110,912 4CYL,MT,CD
2001 GMC SIERRA 244951-L2O $ 5,999.00 123,235 VB,CD/CASS,LEAT
2002 FORD THUNDERBIRD 110222-L5 $ 17,999.00 1 00,436 VB,AT,CD
2002 DODGE RAM 223728-L9 $ 12,999.00 82,845 VB,AT,CD/CASS
2002 PONTIAC GRAND AM 231986-LlO $ 6,999 00 82,701 4CYL
2003 TOYOTA HIGHLANDER 091235-L24 $ 16,175.00 62,545 V 6
2003 CHEVY TRAILBLAZER 165760-L56 $ 12,899.00 78,567 V 6
2003 SUZUKI GRAND VITARA 101815-L64 $ 13,999.00 93,396 V6,CD/CASS,LR
2003 DODGE NEON 164692-Lls $ 5,999.00 89,306 4CYL
2003 MITSUBISHI LANCER 008533-L6l $ 6,899.00 86,902 4CYL
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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 28, 2006 ♦
Former President
Gerald Ford dies at 93
By JEFF WILSON
Associated Press Writer
RANCHO MIRAGE, Calif.
- Former President Gerald
R. Ford, who declared “Our
long national nightmare is
over” as he replaced Richard
Nixon but may have doomed
his own chances of election
by pardoning his disgraced
predecessor, has died. He
was 93.
The nation’s 38th presi
dent, and the only one not
elected to the office or the
vice presidency, died at his
desert home at 6:45 p.m.
Tuesday.
“His life was filled with
love of God, his family and
his country,” his wife, Betty,
said in a statement.
Ford was the longest living
former president, surpassing
Ronald Reagan, who died in
June 2004, by more than a
month.
Ford’s office did not release
the cause of death, which
followed a year of medical
problems. He was treated for
pneumonia in January and
had an angioplasty and pace
maker implant in August.
Funeral arrangements
were to be announced
Wednesday.
Former President Carter
described him Wednesday as
“one of the most admirable
public servants and human
beings I have ever known.”
Former President Clinton
said, “all Americans should
be grateful for his life of
service.”
Ford was an acciden
tal president. A Michigan
Republican elected to
Congress 13 times before
becoming the first appointed
vice president in 1973 after
Spiro Agnew left amid scan
dal, Ford was Nixon’s hand
picked successor, a man of
much political experience
who had never run on a
national ticket. He was as
open and straightforward as
Nixon was tightly controlled
and conspiratorial.
He took office moments
after Nixon resigned in dis
grace over Watergate.
“My fellow Americans,”
Ford said, “our long nation
al nightmare is over. Our
Constitution works. Our
great republic is a govern
ment of laws and not of men.
Here the people rule.”
And, true to his reputa
tion as unassuming Jerry, he
added: “I am acutely aware
that you have not elected me
as your president by your
ballots. So I ask you to con
firm me with your prayers.”
He revived the debate over
Watergate a month later by
granting Nixon a pardon for
all crimes he committed as
president.
That single act, it was
widely believed, contributed
to Ford losing election to
a term of his own in 1976.
But it won praise in later
years as a courageous act
that allowed the nation to
move on.
The Vietnam War ended
in defeat for the U.S. during
his presidency with the fall
of Saigon in April 1975. In
a speech as the end neared,
Ford said: “Today, America
can regain the sense of pride
that existed before Vietnam.
But it cannot be achieved
by refighting a war that is
finished as far as America
is concerned.” Evoking
Abraham Lincoln, he said it
was time to “look forward to
an agenda for the future, to
unify, to bind up the nation’s
wounds.”
Ford became the first vice
president appointed under
the 25th amendment to the
Constitution.
He assumed the office
on Aug. 9, 1974. The next
morning, he still made his
own breakfast and padded to
the front door in his pajamas
to get the newspaper.
After the Watergate ordeal,
Americans liked their new
president - and first lady
Betty, whose candor charmed
the country.
At a joint session after
becoming president, Ford
addressed members of
Congress as “my former col
leagues” and promised “com
munication, conciliation,
compromise and coopera
tion.” But his relations with
Congress did not always run
smoothly.
He vetoed 66 bills in his
barely two years as presi
dent. Congress overturned
12 Ford vetoes, more than
for any president since
Andrew Johnson.
In his memoir, “A Time to
Heal,” Ford wrote, “When I
was in the Congress myself,
I thought it fulfilled its con
stitutional obligations in a
very responsible way, but
after I became president, my
perspective changed.”
Some suggested the par
don was prearranged before
Nixon resigned, but Ford,
in an unusual appearance
before a congressional com
mittee in October 1974, said,
“There was no deal, period,
under no circumstances.”
The committee dropped its
investigation.
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