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162nd YEAR • No. 56 JuLY 4, 2016 CLEVELAND, TN 20 PAGES • 50¢ A ‘merging’ of U.S., German ingenuity Kentucky’s Mary Beth Hudson new site manager at Wacker By BRIAN GRAVES school was out, and she let us play over chemistry field. Banner Staff Writer at her little sink with litmus paper and “Chemical engineering was one of the PERSONALITY doing little experiments. It was fun. ones she suggested I might like, and Mary Beth Hudson called her accept- “Because all of the [famous] scientists that’s how I got into that,” she said. ance of the site manager position at [throughout history] we studied, I She started at an Air Products plant in Wacker Polysilicon North America “a thought that scientists were all dead,” Calvert City as an engineer, progressing merging of German ingenuity and PROFILE she says with a hearty laugh. “Everyone through different engineering positions American ingenuity.” we studied was dead, so I thought I’m in operations and leadership. She replaced Dr. Konrad Bachhuber Wacker and Air Products formed joint on July 1. ing in Calvert City, Kentucky, as a chem- not interested, and I can’t be a scien- tist.” venture companies in 1998 and she Hudson is a proud Kentucky girl, but ical engineer,” Hudson said. went with Wacker as manager of Wacker says the opportunity to come to the She recalled only a few weeks ago Hudson then decided she might want to be a pharmacist because it involved Polymer Systems. Bradley County location was too good an when she encountered her fifth-grade “In 2008, Wacker bought out Air chemistry. She said she changed her opportunity to pass up. science teacher and spoke about how Products and I became site manager of She was born in Bowling Green and her interest in chemistry developed. mind because she wanted her career to the former joint venture,” she said. “My lived there through her high school “She was really good and let a couple involve more hands-on chemistry. career history is pretty simple. I was in years, then attended the University of of us work ahead,” Hudson said. “Then Hudson remembered going to her Calvert City for 27 years and now I’m Kentucky to study chemical engineering. we got done with all of the classwork guidance counselor and asking what “Directly out of school, I started work- early, maybe three or four weeks before career opportunities there were in the See MERGING, Page 6 Mary Beth Hudson Inside Today Vietnam The story of a U.S. flag veterans Jane Goins Flag history honored reflects on saw addition in annual of state stars its 48 stars By LARRY C. BOWERS church By LARRY C. BOWERS Banner Staff Writer Banner Staff Writer In 1959, President Dwight D. ceremony Jane (Blackburn) Goins Eisenhower and the U.S. gov- remembers the many patriotic ernment began looking at the holidays and celebrations she 48-star U.S. flag design. Shenandoah hosts Hughes gives nod and her family experienced dur- Up until that time the nation ing her 91 years. The meaning had displayed staggered and ‘I Love America’ to the Lady Flames of these special events continues non-staggered 48-star flags to represent the country. They By JOYANNA LOVE Former Bradley Central to hold a special place in her Banner Senior Staff Writer Bearettes hoops standout Halle heart. were flown proudly through two Hughes has committed to play She also has a keepsake world wars. A heartfelt welcome-home recog- basketball for the Lee University which accentuates the impor- In 1959, the U.S. government nition for Vietnam veterans was Flames. The Atlanta Braves lost to tance of those times in her life. decided to expand the U.S. fam- held at Shenandoah Baptist the Miami Marlins in an historic The keepsake is a tattered ily with a grant of statehood to Church as part of its annual ‘I Love game played at the Fort Bragg mili- and much-used 48-Star U.S. Alaska, giving the flag 49 stars. America Sunday’ event. tary base. Serena Williams earned flag, but it is still in good condi- That national decoration lasted Patriots clapped and cheered, her 300th Grand Slam match win tion. The flag is not that rare, only one year with the children waved flags and many Sunday at Wimbledon. See Sports, since the red-white-and-blue America’s family growing by held signs welcoming the soldiers Pages 11-13. marker was used for 47 years another member in 1960 with home. The applause dissolved into and through two world wars. the addition of Hawaii, and the chants of “U.S.A.! U.S.A.!” as the Celebrating our The fact that the flag is well creation of our present 50-star final of the nearly 50 Vietnam vet- over 70 years old, was flown flag. erans and family members in atten- 240th birthday inside and out by her family There are a number of old dance entered the sanctuary. 48-star flags which have sur- As Cleveland and Bradley since the 1930s, and is still in Pastor Brent Coley recounted Banner photo, LARRY C. BOWERS vived across the nation, most County residents join the rest of good condition, is unusual. how such recognition was a far cry CLEVELAND RESIDENT Jane Goins displays a 48-star U.S. kept in private, family collec- America today in celebrating our She recently called the offices from what many of them experi- flag which has been in her family for more than 70 years. Now in tions or museums, according to nation’s 240th birthday, it is of the Cleveland Daily Banner, enced when they first returned. important to remember the signifi- her 90s, she wanted to share her cherished possession with the “On behalf of Shenandoah cance of the Fourth of July. Yes, it See 48 STARS, Page 7 community on this July Fourth holiday. See HISTORY, Page 7 Baptist Church and our communi- goes far beyond fireworks, family ty, we would like to give a welcome reunions and a three-day week- home to those soldiers many of end. See the editorial on Page 16 which in the time period they of today’s edition. returned did not receive a soldier’s LETTER TO THE EDITOR welcome, one of honor,” Coley said. “Instead they were met by many Forecast antiwar activists, without exaggera- Today should be mostly sunny tion many of them were mocked, and hot, with a high near 93. Writer offers personal insight on Fourth of July spit upon and called cruel hurtful Tonight calls for clouds and a 60 names. Many of them became the percent chance of rain, with a (Editor’s Note: “Letters to the ber of those that show disre- obvious tangible targets for hatred low around 73. Tuesday calls for Editor” traditionally are pub- spect and disdain toward the that had been stored in many peo- clouds and a 50 percent chance lished on the Editorial Page of flag of our nation is growing. ple’s hearts … This church wants of rain, with a high near 88. the Cleveland Daily Banner. To see the flag trampled on, to say thank you … although it’s However, due to the time- urinated on, defiled in other many generations late.” Index appropriate content of this ways and also burned in He emphasized that giving honor submission by Cleveland resi- protest causes my blood to to whom honor is due is a biblical Classified...... 18-19 dent William J. Frank, it is boil and expresses sorrow in principal. Comics...... 8 being printed on our front my spirit. “They deserved respect. They Editorials...... 16 page as a part of this newspa- I remember as a youth in deserved gratitude. They deserved Horoscope...... 8 per’s salute to the Fourth of Islip, Long Island, N.Y., when honor. They were following orders. MINI Page...... 5 July holiday.) Frank I joined the Boy Scouts, that Many of them drafted, doing the Obituaries...... 2 we were taught all about the noble and the right thing their country called them to do, which To The Editor: and our country, along with It was then that I carefully flag of the United States from Sports...... 13-15 was their constitutional require- TV Schedule...... 9 I think that the Fourth of those who were the leaders of and respectfully walked its inception to the care and July and all of its uniqueness our country. We were also through the cemetery reading ment, I might add,” Coley said. Weather...... 11 respect that it deserves. Coley said the Vietnam War had will forever be burned into my taught the history of our one name after another on Those lessons have never left memory and who I am as a “once great nation” and what those pristine white memorial been going on for several years Around Town my memory and I will always before the United States became person. it took to secure liberty; markers. Who were they? respect the flag of the U.S.A. Martha Bartolo picking some Even though many look for- namely, the lives lost in one Americans one and all, and involved “in earnest in the late ’50s In my hometown that I and early ’60s, and it did not end garden zucchinis ... Karen May ward to the “holidays” — war after another. many saw the heat of battle mentioned earlier, we looked enjoying working in her garden ... namely Thanksgiving and I visited Arlington National and died in defense of what until 1973.” forward to celebrations of lib- Coley explained the Vietnam War Mary Morris sharing some fond Christmas — and well we Cemetery many years ago and was right and justified. They erty like the Fourth of July, memories of friend Pat Summitt should because of what they I stood there in both horror were willing to lay down their was a proxy war for the much larg- Flag Day, Memorial Day and er conflict between the United ... Turner Randolph “riding across have meant and should mean and honor of all the tomb- lives if necessary to defend others because there were the U.S.A.” on his American- to all of us, the Fourth of stones, and in every direction freedom on foreign shores States and the Communist Soviet parades and pageantry. Union. made motorcycle. July for me brings me back to the symmetry and alignment and through it all these men Marching bands from local my childhood. of those tombstones took my and women understood that “It really became a war over the schools and other organiza- expansion of Communism,” Coley As a child I was taught by breath away. I remember our flag was to be respected tions displayed Old Glory my parents and teachers to thinking, “Who were these and stood for freedom. said. respect the flag of the U.S.A. people?” In today’s world, the num- See INSIGHT, Page 6 6489076 75112 See VETERANS, Page 6 2—Cleveland Daily Banner—Monday, July 4, 2016 www.clevelandbanner.com
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Special to the Banner available through this holiday With Juno on autopilot, the week and beyond. Blood Nonprofit regional blood cen- Assurance thanks all donors for delicately choreographed move ter Blood Assurance is calling on giving back to those in need. comes without any help from the public to make blood dona- To be eligible to donate blood, ground controllers. tions at a local donor center or you must be at least 17 years old Juno is traveling through a bloodmobile as soon as possible. hostile radiation environment, Officials urge the action (16 with parental consent), “but it should be able to with- because it could very well help weigh 110 pounds or more and stand it,” said Kenny Starnes, be in good overall health. save local patients’ lives. program manager for Lockheed Donors are asked to drink Currently, the organization is Martin, which built the space- in critical need type O-positive plenty of fluids — avoiding caf- craft. blood, the most common blood feine — and eat a meal rich in Juno’s camera and other type, due to a doubling in protein prior to donating. instruments were switched off demand from local hospitals For questions about donating for the arrival so there won’t be over the past few days. During blood, please call 800-962-0628. any pictures at the moment the the summer, there is typically an For more information on Blood spacecraft reaches its destina- increase in traumatic incidents Assurance, donating blood or tion. Scientists have promised resulting in the continuous need hosting a blood drive, please close-up views of Jupiter when for blood donations. visit www.bloodassurance.org. Juno skims the cloud tops dur- With the arrival of the Fourth Blood Assurance is a nonprof- ing the 20-month, $1.1 billion of July holiday, many people it, full-service regional blood cen- mission. travel and blood donations ter serving 51 counties and more The fifth rock from the sun NASA/JPL-Caltech via AP decrease, affecting the universal than 75 health care facilities in and the heftiest planet in the THIS ARTIST'S RENDERING provided by NASA and JPL-Caltech shows the Juno spacecraft above blood supply. Tennessee, Georgia, Alabama, solar system, Jupiter is what’s the planet Jupiter. Five years after its launch from Earth, Juno is scheduled to go into orbit around the Blood Assurance asks mem- North Carolina and Virginia. known as a gas giant — a ball of bers of the community to take 30 Over 540 volunteer blood hydrogen and helium — unlike gas giant on Monday, July 4, 2016. minutes out of their day to donors are needed every day in rocky Earth and Mars. With its Juno’s mission: To peer solar system followed by a swing craft — its computer and elec- replenish the blood supply, and order to adequately supply these billowy clouds and colorful through Jupiter’s cloud-socked past Earth that catapulted it tronics are locked in a titanium help guarantee blood is readily hospitals. stripes, Jupiter is an extreme atmosphere and map the interi- beyond the asteroid belt vault to shield them from harm- world that likely formed first, or from a unique vantage point between Mars and Jupiter. ful radiation. Even so, Juno is shortly after the sun. Unlocking above the poles. Among the lin- Along the way, Juno became expected to get blasted with California pot exhibit aims for its history may hold clues to gering questions: How much the first spacecraft to cruise this radiation equal to more than understanding how Earth and water exists? Is there a solid far out powered by the sun, 100 million dental X-rays dur- debate on provocative plant the rest of the solar system core? Why are Jupiter’s south- beating Europe’s comet-chasing ing the mission. developed. ern and northern lights the Rosetta spacecraft. A trio of Like Galileo before it, Juno OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — It’s Profitable Pot, Sacred Ganja, Named after Jupiter’s cloud- brightest in the solar system? massive solar wings sticks out meets its demise in 2018 when known as Mary Jane, ganja, Criminal Dope, Creative Grass, piercing wife, Juno is only the There’s also the mystery of its from Juno like blades from a it deliberately dives into Chronic and even the sticky icky Evil Weed, Politically Loaded, second mission designed to Great Red Spot. Recent observa- windmill, generating 500 watts Jupiter’s atmosphere and disin- and has been featured in count- Youth and Weed, and Recreational spend time at Jupiter. Galileo, tions by the Hubble Space of power to run its nine instru- tegrates — a necessary sacrifice less movies, including one that Reefer. It was a two-year project launched in 1989, circled Jupiter Telescope revealed the cen- ments. to prevent any chance of acci- warned of its dangers, “Reefer with about 100 collaborators. for 14 years, beaming back splen- turies-old monster storm in Plans called for Juno to dentally crashing into the plan- Madness.” “Weed has a lot of fans,” Seiter did views of the planet and its Jupiter’s atmosphere is shrink- swoop within 3,000 miles (5,000 et’s potentially habitable moons. Now, marijuana is the subject of said. “We didn’t want to open our- numerous moons. It uncovered ing. kilometers) of Jupiter’s clouds —- a contemporary history and sci- selves up to criticism. We wanted signs of an ocean beneath the icy The trek to Jupiter, spanning — closer than previous missions Online: ence exhibit. to do our homework.” surface of Europa, considered a nearly five years and 1.8 billion — to map the planet’s gravity Mission page: “Altered State: Marijuana in Highlights of the exhibition top target in the search for life miles (2.8 billion kilometers), and magnetic fields. http://tinyurl.com/Jupitermiss California,” a one-of-its-kind include live and preserved speci- outside Earth. took Juno on a tour of the inner Juno is an armored space- ion museum exhibition focusing on mens of cannabis on loan to the the topic, is open through the museum, a walk-in installation by summer at the Oakland Museum artist Cybele Lyle that alters view- of California. ers’ perspectives of space and With 2 acquittals and a mistrial, a 4th officer stands trial Set against the backdrop of a time, and a “Cannabis California ballot measure this year Confessional” that allows visitors BALTIMORE