May 9, 2021 Page A-3 Sunday States scale back Stefanik’s political DIGEST vaccine orders as evolution mirrors interest wanes INDIA ’S SURGE HITS SOUTHERN INDIAN STATES story of her party maDIsOn, Wis. (aP) — bengaluru, India (aP) — two southern states in India neW yOrK (aP) — there states asked the federal govern - became the latest to declare lockdowns, as coronavirus cases was a time, not long ago, ment this week to withhold stag - surge at breakneck speed across the country and pressure when elise stefanik would not say gering amounts of COVID-19 mounts on Prime minister narendra modi’s government to Donald trump’s name. vaccine amid plummeting implement a nationwide shutdown. He was simply “my party’s pres - demand for the shots, contribut - at over 300,000, Karnataka’s capital of bengaluru has the idential nominee,” she would say. ing to a growing u.s. stockpile of highest active caseload of any Indian city. but experts warn the the pragmatic new york con - doses. worst is still ahead as India’s third-largest city buckles under gresswoman was far more focused from south Carolina to oxygen shortages, overrun hospitals and crowded crematori - on welcoming a new generation of Washington, states are requesting ums. In tamil nadu state, the lockdown announcement fol - voters to what she hoped would the biden administration send lowed a daily record of more than 26,000 cases on friday. be a more inclusive republican them only a fraction of what’s Infections have swelled in India since february in a disas - Party. Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., center, accompanied by from left, been allocated to them. the trous turn blamed on more contagious variants as well as gov - today, stefanik is one of Rep. Mike Johnson, R-La., Rep. Mark Meadows, R-N.C., Rep. turned-down vaccines amount to ernment decisions to allow massive crowds to gather for reli - trump’s fiercest defenders in the Lee Zeldin, R-N.Y. and Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, spoketo the hundreds of thousands of doses gious festivals and political rallies. House of representatives, where media before the impeachment trial of President Donald this week alone, providing a stark On saturday, India reported 401,078 confirmed cases, her loyalty to the former president Trump on Capitol Hill in Washington. Jacquelyn Martin, AP illustration of the problem of vac - including a record high of 4,187 deaths. Overall, India has — and the support he returned — cine hesitancy in the u.s. more than 21.8 million confirmed infections and nearly has carried the 36-year-old to the post because of her vocal criticism stefanik emerged as a leading more than 150 million 240,000 deaths. experts say even those dramatic tolls are brink of becoming one of the of trump. trump defender in impeachment americans — about 57 percent of undercounts. most powerful women in stefanik’s rise is linked to her committee hearings. after attack - the adult population — have One doctor in bengaluru said he’s had to reject patients Congress. she is widely expected commitment to bringing more ing the Democrats’ case for received at least one dose of vac - “left, right and center” as his hospital struggled. to become the third-ranking republican women to Congress, impeachment on fox news, she cine, but government leaders from House republican in the coming an effort that helped make the asked viewers to send money to a the biden administration down to SATELLITES BAFFLE RESIDENTS , BUG ASTRONOMERS days once rep. liz Cheney, r- House gOP’s 2021 first-term class website designed to protect her the city and county level are doing PHIlaDelPHIa (aP) — a string of lights that lobbed Wyo., is stripped of her leadership one of the most diverse in history. from a growing wave of attacks. everything they can to persuade across the night sky in parts of the u.s. on Wednesday, the rest of the country to get inoc - thursday and friday had some people wondering if a fleet of Election officials ulated. ufOs was coming, but it had others— mostly amateur u.s. surgeon general Vivek stargazers and professional astronomers— lamenting the face fines, charges murthy said friday that the feder - industrialization of space. 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Overall, the company has sent about the gOP push comes after a PUBLIC NOTICE announced this week that if states 1,500 satellites into orbit and has asked for permission to presidential contest that saw don’t order all the vaccine they’ve launch thousands more. record turnout and no widespread On Tuesday May 11, 2021, the St. Stephens been allotted, the administration problems. will shift the surplus to meet LLOYD PRICE , EARLY ROCK INFLUENCE , DEAD AT 88 election officials have respond - Indian School Educational Association, Inc. demand in other states. neW yOrK (aP) — singer-songwriter lloyd Price, an ed with warnings of a chilling will hold the Annual Meeting and Election at In another sign of the burgeon - early rock ’n roll star and enduring maverick whose hits effect on those responsible for ing national surplus, biden included such up-tempo favorites as “lawdy miss Clawdy,” administering the vote and count - 7:00 p.m. in the High School Gym. Two “at- announced last week that his “Personality” and the semi-forbidden “stagger lee,” has died. ing ballots, raising fears they large” candidates, not representing a specific administration would share the He was 88. could be penalized for minor mis - nation’s entire stock of Price died monday at a long-term care facility in new takes, get caught up in partisan district will be elected. The two elected board astraZeneca doses with the world rochelle, new york, of complications from diabetes, his wife, fights or even leave their jobs. members will serve for a two-year period. once it clears safety reviews. Jacqueline Price, told the associated Press on saturday. In Iowa, republican gov. Kim The candidates for the two “at-large” the huge supply and dwin - lloyd Price, inducted into the rock and roll Hall of fame reynolds drew heavy criticism for dling demand has highlighted the in 1998, was among the last survivors of a post-World War II signing a broad voting bill in school board members are: vast inequalities during the pan - scene in new Orleans that anticipated the shifts in popular march that shortens hours at Marilyn Groesbeck William C’Hair demic, with countries like India music and culture leading to the rise of rock in the mid- polling places, narrows the early buckling under a disastrous surge 1950s. along with fats Domino and David bartholomew voting period and imposes new Teresa HisChase Ronald Oldman of the virus and other nations among others, Price fashioned a deep, exuberant sound restrictions on mail and absentee Ben Ridgley Mathew Gonzales having no doses at all. at the around the brass and swing of new Orleans jazz and blues ballots. same time, wealthy countries like that placed high on r&b charts and eventually crossed over to the law also bans sending All members of the Association are urged to attend the the u.s. are awash in vaccine, and white audiences. unsolicited absentee ballots. Annual Meeting and vote for the candidate of their choice. seeing cases and deaths plunge as “Very important part of rock history. He was befOre a result. little richard!” rock singer and e street band member steven the federal government allo - Van Zandt said saturday on twitter. “lawdy miss Clawdy of cates vaccines to each state based 1952 has a legit claim as the first rock hit.... righteous cat. on their population size, and then enormous talent.” it’s up to the states to decide how Price’s nickname was “mr. Personality,” fitting for a per - FREMONT COUNTY WEATHER many doses they want to order former with a warm smile and a tenor voice to match. but he every week. early on, states rou - was far more than an engaging entertainer. He was unusually tinely asked for the full allocation independent for his time, running his own record label even —- and were clamoring for more before such stars as frank sinatra did the same, holding on to shots — but now they are scaling his publishing rights, and serving as his own agent and man - back requests. ager. He would often speak of the racial injustices he endured, Wisconsin officials have asked calling his memoir “sumdumhonkey” and writing on his for just 8 percent of the 162,680 facebook page during the 2020 black lives matter protests doses the federal government had that behind his “affable exterior” was “a man who is seething.” set aside for the state next week. Julie Willems Van Dijk, the state LAST WILD MACAW IN RIO LONELY AND HEARTSICK health department’s deputy secre - rIO De JaneIrO (aP) — some have claimed she’s tary, acknowledged earlier that indulging a forbidden romance. more likely, loneliness com - demand is softening and vaccina - pels her to seek company at rio de Janeiro’s zoo. tors are drawing down existing either way, a blue-and-yellow macaw that zookeepers inventories before ordering more. named Juliet is believed to be the only wild bird of its kind In Iowa, officials have asked the left in the brazilian city where the birds once flew far and federal government for 29 percent wide. of that state’s allocated doses next almost every morning for the last two decades, Juliet has week. Kansas officials asked for appeared. she swoops onto the zoo enclosure where macaws less than 9 percent of their are kept and, through its fence, engages in grooming behavior 162,000-dose allotment this past that looks like conjugal canoodling. sometimes she just sits, week. Counties have been turning relishing the presence of others. she is quieter — shier? more down doses as demand plummets, coy? — than her squawking chums. leaving the state with a stockpile blue-and-yellow macaws live to be about 35 years old and of almost 647,000 doses. Juliet — no spring chicken — should have found a lifelong Lander melaney arnold, a spokes - mate years ago, according to neiva guedes, president of the 30 / 46 woman for the Illinois Hyacinth macaw Institute, an environmental group. but Juliet Department of Public Health, hasn’t coupled, built a nest or had chicks, so at most she’s “still said the state has five weeks’ just dating.” worth of doses on hand. last “they’re social birds, and that means they don’t like to live week, state officials for the first alone, whether in nature or captivity. they need company,” time requested fewer doses than said guedes, who also coordinates a project that researches allotted because of declining macaws in urban settings. Juliet “very probably feels lonely, demand. the state plans to and for that reason goes to the enclosure to communicate and request just 9 percent of its allot - interact.” ted doses for everywhere but Chicago.