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4 HALL of FAMES and 1 FOREVER STATE TITLE Secret Service Agent For you. About you. Every day. PROTECTING CHILDREN Chris Johnson receives child protection award, 3A MONDAY, MARCH 26, 2018 www.hickoryrecord.com $1.00 MUST NOTABLE NEIGHBOR READS DAVID ELDER BILLIONS FOR CRISIS Feds plan $4.6 billion to fi ght opioid crisis, but is it enough?, 7A ROBERT C. REED/HICKORY DAILY RECORD David Elder is receiving his fourth Hall of Fame recognition in April from the North Carolina High School Athletic Association. Here, Elder stands by two of his greatest awards from the Associated Press for coach of the year at Hickory High School. 4 HALL OF FAMES AND 1 FOREVER STATE TITLE BY EMILY WILLIS [email protected] HICKORY avid Elder, a man best known in this city as the coach of Hickory High’s 1996 state title team, is a member of Dfour hall of fames. He’s been inducted into the Lenoir-Rhyne, Catawba County, Al- exander County and most recently the North Carolina High School Athletic Association sports halls of fame for his achievements as a player and a coach. After graduating from Lenoir- ROBERT C. REED/HICKORY DAILY RECORD Rhyne University in 1967 and Retired coach David Elder discusses his past career as an educator and coach along coaching at West Lincoln, South with his new endeavor of politics as a town alderman of Long View. WEEKLY SPORTS WATCH Stanley, Lenoir and West Caldwell Bandys High baseball can tie for fi rst high schools, he joined Hickory He’s a member of Bethany Lutheran mired my coaches and teachers, in South Fork 2A with wins this week, High School as an assistant foot- Church, the Long View Town Coun- and I felt like I wanted to be one of ball coach in 1979. Elder took over cil and Long View’s planning board. them. I really enjoyed watching kids 1B as head football coach in 1994. In He’s also an avid golf player and get involved and enjoy sports and 1996, the team posted a 16–0 re- grandfather to seven grandchildren. learn what values they could get out cord, including the 3A state cham- What motivated you to become a of sports. I am an example of how pionship. coach and teacher? Elder is retired but still active. When I was in high school, I ad- See ELDER, Page 8A Inside Classifieds.......... 3B Leisure................ 4A Comics ............... 7B Rise & Shine....... 2A Editorial.............. 5A Sports .................1B Secret Service agent: Beware of skimmers at gas Deaths 7A Gladys McElveen pumps, cameras at ATMs BY MAX SENG small camera to record ATM us- [email protected] ers inputting their PIN number. LIKE AND FOLLOW US ON Hayes, stationed in Charlotte, FACEBOOK AT WWW.FACEBOOK. ROBERT C. REED/HICKORY DAILY RECORD HICKORY — Before a capacity said during his presentation COM/HICKORY.DAILY.RECORD Secret Service Special Agent Matt Hayes discusses his crowd at the Hickory Rotary Club criminals may install the device FOR UP-TO-THE-MINUTE program on ATM skimming with Hickory Rotary member Bruce Thursday, U.S. Secret Service and camera in an ATM early in NEWS ALERTS, FOLLOW US ON Bumbarger prior to his presentation. Special Agent Matt Hayes peeled the morning and remove the TWITTER @HICKORYRECORD back the curtain on fi nancial tools hours later. DOWNLOAD THE HDR’S FREE fraud, and how criminals are us- “Counterfeit checks used to MOBILE APP FOR THE BEST ing ATMs and gas pumps to steal be a huge issue, at least in North COVERAGE ON THE GO your data and spend your money. Carolina, up until a few years The process is called “skim- ago,” Hayes said in an inter- FOR UP-TO-DATE INFO ON ming,” in reference to a small view before the presentation. CATAWBA VALLEY HAPPENINGS, device called a “skimmer” placed “But now with the ease of which VISIT HICKORYRECORD.COM on a legitimate card reader of criminals can purchase and steal an ATM terminal or hand-held fi nancial payment card informa- ©2018 Hickory Daily Record All rights reserved. credit card scanner to record tion, it’s just as easy, if not much your credit card number upon easier to use a cloned payment Special Agent Matt Hayes describes the equipment needed swiping, according to itentity- card to buy something at a retail to skim ATM cards at gas pumps and cash machines as he theftaid.org. addresses the Hickory Rotary Club. Criminals may also install a See BEWARE, Page 8A 8A ◆ MONDAY, MARCH 26, 2018 FROM THE FRONT/NATION HICKORY DAILY RECORD ◆ www.hickoryrecord.com Trump is staffing — or casting — from Fox Lawyers accused of ethical lapses in The Associated Press WASHINGTON — Presi- Sandusky investigation dent Donald Trump’s favorite TV network is The Associated Press increasingly serving as a West Wing casting call, as HARRISBURG, Pa. — The the president reshapes his agency that investigates administration with cam- and prosecutes wrong- era-ready personalities. doing by Pennsylvania Trump’s new national lawyers wants the state security adviser, John Supreme Court to punish Bolton, is a former U.N. Penn State’s former general ambassador, a White counsel and a prosecutor House veteran — and per- who helped convict Jerry haps most importantly a Sandusky of child moles- Fox News channel talking tation related to their in- head. Bolton’s appoint- volvement with the 2012 ment, rushed out late grand jury investigation. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Frank Fina speaks with Thursday, follows Trump’s The state Office of Disci- reporters in Harrisburg, Pa. recent attempt to recruit plinary Counsel has lodged The agency that investigates Fox guest Joseph diGeno- petitions for discipline and prosecutes wrongdoing va for his legal team. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS against Cynthia Baldwin, by Pennsylvania lawyers Bolton went on Fox to In this Aug. 9, 2017, fi le photo, State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert speaks a former state Supreme wants the state Supreme discuss his selection and during a briefing at the State Department in Washington. President Donald Trump’s Court justice who was Court to punish Penn State’s said it had happened so favorite TV network is increasingly serving as a West Wing casting couch, as he remakes his the university’s general former general counsel and quickly that “I think I’m administration with camera-ready personalities. Another faces on Trump’s team: Nauert, a counsel when the scandal a prosecutor who helped still a Fox News contribu- former Fox News anchor. broke, and Frank Fina, who convict Jerry Sandusky of tor.” helped direct the investiga- child molestation related to Another recent TV-land Fox provides the best cov- Zucker spoke at the Fi- Geraldo Rivera used his tion and lead the prosecu- their involvement with the addition to the Trump erage of his untraditional nancial Times Future of platform to urge the presi- tion of Sandusky by the at- 2012 grand jury investigation. White House is veteran presidency. It also pro- News conference two days dent to support raising the torney general’s office. CNBC contributor Larry vides him a window into after a former Fox mili- age requirement to buy The allegations against “unprecedented and dis- Kudlow as top economic conservative thinking, tary analyst quit, claim- assault-type weapons. the two recently became turbing,” and said sealed adviser. Other Fox faces on with commentary from ing he was ashamed at “You’ve gotta let me public. Baldwin has a hear- records from the criminal Trump’s team: rising State Republican lawmakers the way the network’s give my pitch,” he said on ing scheduled for May. case “fully exonerate” him. Department star Heather and right-wing thinkers — opinion hosts were back- “Fox and Friends” several Fina is accused of turn- Fina, now a lawyer in pri- Nauert, a former Fox News many of who are speaking ing Trump. Zucker said weeks ago, noting that he ing Baldwin “into a witness vate practice, denies vio- anchor; communications directly to the audience in that analyst, Ralph Peters, would see Trump that for the prosecution” when lating any rule of conduct adviser Mercedes Schlapp the Oval Office. voiced what a lot of people night. “Here in Florida Baldwin testified in secret and wants the petition dis- and Treasury Department On-air personalities have been thinking about and most states a kid can- in October 2012 about missed. spokesman Tony Sayegh. Sean Hannity and Laura Fox in the post-Roger Ailes not buy a beer ... and yet three former high-ranking Curley and Schultz The latter two are both Ingraham are favorites of era. he could buy an AR-15 le- university administrators pleaded guilty to misde- former Fox commenta- the president, who also Still, in Trump’s Wash- gally.” who fi elded complaints meanor child endanger- tors. speaks to them privately. ington, lawmakers and The hosts quickly about Sandusky abusing ment on the eve of trial in “He’s looking for people This past weekTrump pro- influence-seekers know pushed back. “Tell him to children — president Gra- March 2017 and testified who are ready to be part moted Hannity on Twitter, that the best way to get in let the teachers carry con- ham Spanier, vice presi- against Spanier. Spanier of that television White saying: “@seanhannity Trump’s ear is often to get cealed,” said one. dent Gary Schultz and ath- was convicted of the same House,” said Kendall on @foxandfriends now! on Fox. Legislators rou- While the coverage var- letic director Tim Curley. offense and has an appeal Phillips, a communica- Great! 8:18 A.M.” tinely seek to get airtime ies by show, “Fox and Disciplinary Counsel pending in Superior Court. tion and rhetorical stud- The president’s early- when they are trying to Friends” tends to be Amelia C.
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