Giambastiani FriendsFriends & & leads Northwest NeighborsNeighbors to team title Meet Ted Yarbrough Page 1B Page 1C TTHEHE DDAILYAILY CCITIZENITIZEN Wednesday,April 22, 2009 •Dalton, Georgia • www.daltondailycitizen.com • 50 Cents THINGS County still dodging furloughs TO BY JAMIE JONES director Ron Hale will meet with At the beginning of the year, furloughs had started this month, CHECK [email protected] Babb and the four other commis- county administrator Bob McLeod the county would have saved OUT sioners to go said the furloughs could have $700,000. The furloughs would Whitfield County government over detailed begun this month. However, sales amount to a 5 percent pay cut for ON THE won’t furlough most of its employ- budget num- tax revenues were higher than each affected employee, but they 3 INSIDE ees “any time soon,”but county bers. expected and allowed the furloughs would retain all of their benefits, officials are leaving open the possi- “After we to be delayed. including health insurance, Babb bility of forcing workers to take hear that, we’ll &"!' ($#%) The county is facing a $4 mil- said. one day a month without pay. probably know lion revenue shortfall this year If furloughs are needed, Friendship House is plan- How sales tax revenues com- what the different scenarios will because of lower sales tax receipts. McLeod said the commissioners ning its annual fundraiser pare with sales tax projections will be,”Babb said. “We’ll know if we McLeod said there are no raises or will make the decision in a public on Kentucky Derby Day. determine whether most of the can balance out and keep from hav- promotions planned, staff has been meeting about a month before the county’s 550 employees will be ing furloughs or do we go ahead reduced through attrition in depart- change. The furloughs will be stag- See page 3A furloughed, Mike Babb, chairman and recognize that the revenues are ments with larger staff, and $8 mil- gered so that office hours and of the board of commissioners, going to be down for the next cou- lion in capital projects have been department services will not be Fertilizing fruit trees not a said Tuesday. County financial ple of years and have furloughs.” delayed for one to two years. If the interrupted, he added. simple matter See Dykes, page 2C Grant Pirate Suspect in Court Columnist Bill Shipp is bet- ting that Georgia Secretary of State Karen Handel will be the GOP nominee for to provide governor. See page 4A jobs this summer FROM TODAY’S BY CHARLES OLIVER FORUM [email protected] The local job market may be tight, “Does anyone remember but 48 Whitfield County youth might Hill’s Drug Store? It was get summer jobs thanks to a federal on South Hamilton Street. grant. They made the best Endless Opportunities, a local non- banana splits.” profit agency, recently received a $170,000 grant to help place disadvan- “If Murray County schools taged youths ages 14 to 24 in summer aren’t good enough for jobs. To be eligible, the participants Murray teachers’ children, must meet federal income guidelines they should not be allowed that vary depending on family size. to teach our children.” “They will be working for any employer — profit, nonprofit or public See page 2A — that is willing to give a student a chance to get some work experience,” said Endless Opportunities’ Chris Johnson. “The only thing we ask of the employer is that they will be able to WEATHER supply them with a supervisor. We will Forecast: Mostly sunny cover them under workman’s comp. Today’s High: 68 We will take care of their salary. We will take care of their benefits.” Tonight’s Low: 45 The jobs pay $7.25 an hour,and the Details, Page 12A participants will be eligible to work up to 40 hours a week. INSIDE “We hope to let them work up to 10 weeks,”Johnson said. “It might extend AP PHOTO Classified..............4B past 10 weeks if we can get some more Comics..................5C funds.” Police and FBI agents escort the Somali pirate suspect U.S. officials identified as Abdiwali Abdiqadir Muse into FBI headquarters in New York. Muse is the sole surviving Crossword..............4C pirate suspect from the hostage-taking of commercial ship Capt. Richard Phillips from Dear Abby...................5C ➣ Please see JOBS, 2A the Maersk Alabama. His appearance in a federal courtroom in New York is believed to Horoscope.............4C be the first piracy charges in the U.S. in more than a century. Lottery..................2A Movies..................4C Obituaries...........11A Colleges push tuition The Daily Citizen Opinion................4A Sports......................1-3B aid for illegal immigrants is going mobile FROM STAFF REPORTS FROM STAFF AND WIRE board is making its push after vice president for the College Mobile phone users can now get a simplified REPORTS states in recent years have Board. version of The Daily Citizen through a new Web moved to bar illegal immi- He noted the contradiction site, www.daltoncitizen.com/mobile. The site is 7 69847 00001 6 Wading into the politically grants from paying in-state in which illegal immigrants part of a company-wide initiative of CNHI charged immigration debate, a tuition and, in some cases, who are legally entitled to a newspapers to expand the ways readers can group of colleges and univer- enrolling in their public col- K-12 public education sud- access the newspaper. sities is urging Congress to leges. It also comes as oppo- denly hit barriers when apply- “It’s an opportunity for us to expand to the give illegal immigrants tuition nents are warning that immi- ing to college, even when next generation in more ways and more places,” aid and a path to citizenship in gration many are “honor roll students, said publisher William Bronson. light of efforts in several reform athletes, class presidents and Information technology director Chris states to block them. now could valedictorians.” McConkey said the site went up about a week The College Board, made reduce “We absolutely believe it’s ago with headings for local news, sports, state up of 5,000 schools and best already- important for opening up eco- news and weddings and announcements. The known for its SAT college scarce jobs nomic opportunities,”Rudin full text of all the stories under those headings is admission tests, released a and col- said. available on the mobile site. report Tuesday that cites a lege At least four states — “Any Web enabled cell phone can access it,” need for federal legislation enrollment Georgia, Oklahoma, said McConkey. “It’s going to be in a more sim- that would open up in-state slots in the Schwenn Colorado, Arizona — general- plified format (than www.daltoncitizen.com). college tuition, financial aid ailing ly prohibit illegal immigrants We’re going to be adding more areas to the site and legal status to many ille- economy. as we get out of testing.” gal immigrants in the U.S. “This is a new area for us, McConkey said the newspaper is considering Speaking publicly on the but it was an easy call,”said a service that would send text messages about ➣ See TUITION, 2A issue for the first time, the Thomas W. 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