'I Was Too Young to Really Worry'
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C M Y K www.newssun.com Grab a spot EWS UN by the TV and NHighlands County’s Hometown-S Newspaper Since 1927 play along with some Tough decision Centennial work ‘Olympic Weber-Callahan chooses Chamber plays big role in Bingo’ education Sebring progress LIVING, 12B SPORTS, 1B INSIDE, 2A Sunday, July 29, 2012 www.newssun.com Volume 93/Number 94 | 50 cents Forecast Celebrate Freedom Tax-free Special section honors those who served, Mostly sunny and those who still stand guard holiday INSIDE THIS ISSUE High Low 94 73 starts Complete Forecast PAGE 12A ‘I was too Friday Online No sales tax on young to most school supplies from Aug. 3-5 Question: By SAMANTHA GHOLAR Should Penn State really worry’ [email protected] have received a SEBRING – Shoppers, get ready to harsher penalty from save a little cash in the upcoming days Remembering life as a WW II bomber crewman when the annual tax-free holiday the NCAA? begins Friday. The state of Florida again brought Yes back the ‘holiday’ in which the law states that no sales tax (nor local option tax) will be collected on the sales of 44.9% clothing, footwear and certain acces- sories selling for $75 or less. School supplies selling for $15 or less will also collect no sales tax during the days of Aug. 3-5. The tax holiday will begin at No 12:01 a.m. Friday. Parents looking to get a jump on 55.1% some early back-to-school shopping for the youngsters are in luck if they are planning to venture out shopping Total votes: 69 this weekend. There is no limit of items per cus- Next question: tomer under the tax-free holiday. Clothing that is under the tax-free Should the Avon Park Courtesy photos Police Department A B-24 had a crew of 10 members. Ernest ‘Bud’ Brown, the crew’s flight engineer and top turret gunner, is in the center of the picture and in the top photo. The airman second from the right is the crew’s radio See TAX, page 3A decision be made by operator. All the other men are gunners. One is missing. There were four officers on a B-24 bomber crew, voters instead of just the pilot, co-pilot, navigator and bombardier. by the city council? Glue, both liquid and Make your voice heard at Worst times were not spent in the air stick, is on www.newssun.com the tax By CHRISTOPHER TUFFLEY class along with six or seven assigned to the 8th Air Force, 44th exempt list. [email protected] teachers. There were about 150 of Bomber Group, 67th Squad to Obituaries SEBRING — Ernest “Bud” us. One day you’re in school; the serve as a flight engineer aboard Michael Walsh Brown graduated from high next, you’re Uncle Sam’s boy.” B-24 Liberator Bombers. Age 74, of Sebring school in Ithica, N.Y. in 1943. Assigned to the Army Air Part of a permanent 10-man The very next day he was on Corps, he headed to Mississippi crew that manned different planes, Obituaries, Page 5A his way to Camp Upton on Long for basic training. Following that Brown flew 15 missions as the Island, for induction into the he spent six months in mechanics war wound down in Europe. Index Army. school, six weeks in gunnery As an engineer, with the rank of Arts & Leisure 7B “You knew you were going to school, and another six months technical sergeant (which became Books 9B go; the physicals were all done,” training to be a member of a air first sergeant in 1948), he sat Business 5B said Brown, who lives on Oak crew. between the pilot and co-pilot, Beach Boulevard in Sebring. “I He shipped out to Shipdam, Classifieds 8A was drafted with my graduating England in January 1945, See BROWN, page 6A Community Briefs 2A Crossword Puzzle 11B Dear Abby 11B Editorial & Opinion 4A CANDIDATE PROFILE Entertainment 10B Consumer group Horoscopes 11B Lottery Numbers 2A Elliot-Tedstone says Movie Times 11B calls for probe of News from the Watershed 7B she will insist on Pause and Consider 11B Hardee facility Scoreboard 2B transparency Sports On TV 2B Special to the News-Sun Walter Dartland, executive By CHRISTOPHER TUFFLEY Government, and the TALLAHASSEE — One director of the Consumer Follow the [email protected] Highlands County of the nation’s leading con- Federation of the Southeast, SEBRING — Nadine Homeowners Association. sumer protection organiza- on Friday issued an emer- News-Sun on Elliot-Tedstone is running She has a bachelor’s of tions called on federal and gency call for state and feder- for the District 3 on the science degree in finance, Courtesy photo state authorities to take Nadine Elliot-Tedstone is al authorities to immediately Highlands County communications and sociolo- running for the District 3 immediate action to protect send a protective services Commission. gy, she said, and a degree in patients at the Florida www.twitter.com/thenewssun seat on the county commis- team to FINR to ensure the Originally from Buffalo, human resources, education sion. Institute for Neurologic and safety and well-being of each N.Y. Tedstone has lived in and international trade that Rehabilitation (FINR) in resident. Sebring for 20 years. includes trade zone certifica- Hardee County on Friday. He also advocated for a From the beginning, she tion. Her background is in am certainly down on any The urgent call comes on state or multi-state and/or said, she has taken an interest development and internation- increases in taxes.” the heels of a shocking and federal forensic audit of the www.facebook.com/newssun in the county, serving on a al trade. Tedstone said there were disturbing report by facility to investigate its pos- wide variety of boards and “I want to insist on trans- still items that can be cut out Bloomberg News detailing a sible misuse of any federal committees, including the parency,” Tedstone said. of the budget. dangerous alleged pattern of and state tax dollars, while Lake Denton Committee, the “The commission should be abuse and neglect of resi- 0990994 01007 Group for Better fair and equitable to all, and I See ELLIOT, page 3A dents at the facility. See HARDEE, page 3A Phone ... 385-6155 Fax ... 385-2453 Online: www.newssun.com HEARTLAND NATIONAL BANK***; 11.25"; 1.5"; Black plus three; process, front strip; 0 0 0 2 1 0 1 9 C M Y K Page 2A News-Sun ࡗ Sunday, July 29, 2012 www.newssun.com COMMUNITY BRIEFS Chamber involved in all aspects of Galvano speaks at Department, speaking on Tea Party meeting safety in the home for the elderly and those living SEBRING — Bill progress since Sebring’s first years alone. Come and hear this Galvano, a candidate for important discussion and The Greater Sebring Chamber of years. By 1917, membership had grown the District 26 Florida bring a friend. Commerce is involved in virtually all to 50. Senate seat, will speak at Refreshments will be aspects of the town’s progress and eco- Shortly thereafter, in 1924, the town the Highlands County Tea served after the service. nomic activity. Before the current was swarming with real estate specula- Party meeting on Tuesday Sebring Chamber of Commerce was the tors due to the ‘Florida Boom’, and in at Homer’s Restaurant, Volunteers needed Board of Trade, created in October 1000 Sebring Square. 1925, residents saw a need to form a at Salvation Army 1914. The first thing accomplished by chamber of commerce; staff was hired, After graduating from this board was the building of a light- Sebring High School, an advertising campaign begun and SEBRING — The ing system around The Circle, on Galvano earned an associ- things were developing at a good pace. Salvation Army, 3135 Ridgewood Drive and Center Street. Centennial Notebook ate’s degree from Manatee The 1930s were challenging years, Kenilworth Blvd., is in In 1916, all of the citizens came Community College, before Sebring and the entire United States need of people who would together to construct an official Board For years this building served as the receiving a bachelor’s were in a deep depression. However, like to give a little time of Trade office on a piece of prime real Board of Trade, the council chambers, degree from the University even during those trying times, the back to their community. estate on The Circle, which was indeed town hall and city auditorium, a com- of Florida and a juris doc- Sebring Chamber of Commerce Each month, they have a donated by the city’s founder, George munity center for citizens to gather, torate from the University remained active and assisted in projects Commodities Distribution E. Sebring, and the location still stands and the Sebring Women’s Club started of Miami, School of Law. such as Highlands Hammock Park, Program for individuals today as the Downtown Sebring a public library in the building that He was first elected to and families who are in Chamber. served the public for more than 40 the Florida House of See CHAMBER, page 7A need. Representatives, District 68 They are so short on vol- in November 2002 and was unteers in the summer re-elected to three more months that it jeopardizes terms. In his final term in the continuance of the pro- Aktion Club learns how to vote the House, Galvano served gram during these months. as chairman of the Rules If you would like to vol- Special to the News-Sun and Calendar Council, unteer just a few hours AVON PARK – The chairman of the Select possibly once a month, call Highlands County Supervisor Committee on Seminole to get more information at of Elections Office trained Indian Compact Review 385-7548, ext.