Cyan Magenta Yellow Black U.S. ponders what Students visit might have been Washington, D.C., A6 at World Cup, B1 Middleport • Pomeroy, Ohio 50 CENTS • Vol. 59, No. 197 TUESDAY, JUNE 29, 2010 www.mydailysentinel.com OBITUARIES First of two Page A5 Byrd passes at age 92 expected • Patsy A. Rose Fitch BY ANDREW TAYLOR votes than 2003 invasion of Iraq has lost a voice of princi- arrests made • Ruth Dixon Howell ASSOCIATED PRESS any sena- when he was one of the ple and reason.” • Terry Douglas Moore tor in his- few to stand up against “He held the deepest WASHINGTON — tory — ceding warmaking pow- respect of members of in Middleport • Mary E. Morrow Robert C. Byrd, who rose and the ers to President George both parties, and he was • Myrtle Quillen from the poverty of West tenacity in W. Bush. generous with his time robbery • Jack B. Sheline Virginia coal country to which he Byrd was equally tire- and advice, something I Beegle: Men wielded become the sage and con- defended less in steering federal appreciated greatly as a butcher knives science of the U.S. Byrd the tradi- dollars to his state, one of young senator,” Obama Senate in a political tions and the nation’s poorest, and said in a statement. Flags BY BRIAN J. REED career stretching more prerogatives of the his efforts will live on in at the White House and
[email protected] Rutland Ox than half a century, died Senate. the many highways and the Capitol flew at half- Monday. He was 92.