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The Daily Citizen Smarts, skill make for one tough Raider Page 1B T HE D AILY C ITIZEN Tuesday,February 10, 2009•Dalton,Georgia • www.daltondailycitizen.com • 50 Cents BOE sifts THINGS TO CHECK employee OUT ON THE ideas on 3 INSIDE spending Former Murray High School standout EriC Bishop to Coach boys bas- B Y R ACHEL B ROWN ketball and track at North [email protected] Murray High School. Cutting out one of Dalton PubliC See page 1B Schools’ gifted programs is one move several school system employees have Immigration raids leave suggested to reduce the school sys- hundreds caught in slow tem’s budget by $4 million. moving federal bureauCra- Superintendent Jim Hawkins said Cy. he received 884 suggestions after speaking with 750 employees about See page 6A possible solutions to decreased rev- enues from state funding and local Cal Thomas believes the property taxes. Obama Administration is “Folks have been very responsive selling the publiC a bad Contributed photo and very Complimentary of the package. process,”he said.“We really need help Government offiCials from Beijing make Valentine’s Day Crafts and interact with students at on what to Cut.” See page 4A Southeast High School. Some 25 Chinese visited the school’s Mandarin Chinese Class dur- The school system has a $60 mil- ing a several-days long tour of Georgia. lion annual budget and has absorbed about $7 million in state Cuts over the FROM TODAY’S past five years. Hawkins said school Group from China visits offiCials expect more state Cuts this year and also project the local proper- FORUM ty tax digest will drop about 5 percent. About half the school system’s rev- B Y R ACHEL B ROWN enue Comes from the state while the “If the people of Murray [email protected] rest is local. County pushing for a bypass Hawkins said that while no deci- at Spring Place would get sions have been made, two reading their heads out of the sand, Residents of China at one time programs for elementary and early they’d buy a traffiC light for did not celebrate Valentine’s Day. middle school students — the Literacy Spring Place and that would But during a Monday visit to Collaborative and reading recovery — solve it.” Southeast High School,25 visi- tors from that Country sat down were among the most frequently sug- “Congratulations to new with students and worked on gested items to look at either Cutting Murray County High foot- Crafts for the holiday. or eliminating. Another was the C3 ball Coach John Ziegler.” “We talked about Valentine’s Center,aprogram for gifted elemen- Day and the Chinese New Year,” tary school students. See page 2A said Hillary Nevad, a junior at Exact figures on the programs’ Southeast High School. “They Costs were not immediately available were very friendly.” when Hawkins presented the prelimi- The delegation of 25 govern- nary findings at a board of education W EATHER ment employees from Beijing vis- meeting Monday night. Hawkins ited a Chinese language Class at received approving nods from board Forecast:Partly sunny Southeast as part of a two-day,12- members when he asked that leaders Today’s High: 68 stop tour of Whitfield County. Misty Watson/ The Daily Citizen Consider making Cuts that would not Tonight’s Low:48 They are in Georgia as part of a directly impact Classroom instruCtion Details,Page 10A 10-year-old international program Jeff Putnam,left,director of Whitfield County EmergenCy and would also preserve jobs. Coordinated by the Carl Vinson Services,introduces himself to Zhao and other Chinese del- The school system has already Institute of Government at the egates with the help of translater Hongbo Ma, who works for approved Cutting back on the number I NSIDE University of Georgia. Most are in the University of Georgia. of paid days for several administrators and central office employees,inClud- Classified..............6B the United States for the first time. “People are so friendly,”said ing Hawkins; scaling back its number ComiCs..................5B speak publiCly. “The great value of this pro- Zhao,asenior offiCial in the UGA professor Rusty Brooks gram is Coming to a place like of assistant superintendents from four Crossword..............4B Chinese equivalent of a human said the program is a good way to Dalton,”Brooks said.“The to one; and instituting a “hiring chill” Dear Abby...................5B resources department who did not build relationships with offiCials Chinese know that ultimately they in which vacant positions will be filled HorosCope.............4B want to give his first name.“It is in the Chinese government. need to have an investment in the with new employees only when even better than we have expect- absolutely necessary. The changes Lottery..................2A Several UGA faCulty members U.S.” ed.” and Georgia business leaders vis- State Rep. Tom DiCkson,R- take effect July 1,adding up to Obituaries............8A Zhao spoke through a transla- ited the delegation in China before Cohutta, dropped by the school $776,000 in savings and leaving lead- Opinion................4A tor. Program Coordinators said this week’s trip,Brooks said. The ers to Cut another $3.2 million to reach Sports......................1-3B many of the partiCipants are cau- U.S. tour inCludes stops in tious because they need approval Madison,Milledgeville, Athens, ➣ Please see C H I N A , 2 A ➣ from their supervisors in China to Atlanta and Washington,D.C. Please see C U T S , 2 A Drug violence spills over border 7 69847 00001 6 B Y A LICIA A.C ALDWELL dealing operations all over the U.S.,in such far- were arranged to send a message. But law AssoCiated Press Writer flung places as Anchorage, Alaska; Boston; and enforcement offiCials worry the violenCe on this Sioux Falls,S.D. side Could escalate. Just as government offiCials had feared, the “The violence follows the drugs,”said David “They are capable of doing about anything,” drug violence raging in MexiCo is spilling over Cuthbertson,agent in charge of the FBI’s office said Rusty Payne, a Drug Enforcement into the United States. in the border City of El Paso,Texas. Administration spokesman in Washington. U.S. authorities are reporting a spike in The violence takes many forms:Drug Cus- “When you are willing to chop heads off,put killings,kidnappings and home invasions Con- tomers who owe money are kidnapped until they them in an ice chest and drop them off at a nected to MexiCo’s murderous cartels. And to pay up. Cartel employees who don’t deliver the police precinCt,or roll a head into a disCo,put some poliCymakers’ surprise, much of the vio- goods or turn over the profits are disCiplined beheadings on YouTube as a warning,”very lit- lence is happening not in towns along the bor- through beatings,kidnappings or worse. And tle is off limits. der,where it was assumed the bloodshed would drug smugglers kidnap illegal immigrants in In an apartment near Birmingham,Ala., monste r . c om spread, but a Considerable distance away,in Clashes with human smugglers over the use of police found five men with their throats slit in a nd places such as Phoenix and Atlanta. secret routes from MexiCo. August. They had apparently been tortured with T HE D AILY C ITIZEN Investigators fear the violence Could erupt So far,the violence is nowhere near as grisly W o r king T oge t her ! elsewhere around the Country because the as the mayhem in MexiCo,which has witnessed Mexican cartels are believed to have set up drug- beheadings,assassinations of police officers and ➣ 706- 272- 7707 • 706- 272- 7703 soldiers,and mass killings in which the bodies Please see DRUGS,6A L O TTER Y W INNING N UMBERS – F OR F EB. 9 A TYOUR Georgia: Midday Cash 3:9-2-3, Cash 4: 9-4-4-9, Evening Cash 3:9-1-8 P AGE 2 Cash 4: 9-4-9-1, Fantasy Five: 8-14-29-33-36 SERVICE Tennessee: Midday Cash 3:1-0-2, LuCky Sum:3;Cash 4: 8-0-8-3, LuCky Sum:19; Evening Cash 3:3-7-0, L-Sum 10, Cash 4: 2-2-5-2, LuCky Sum:11 Our mailing address: 2A Tuesday, February 10, 2009 P.O. Box 1167 Dalton, Ga. 30722-1167 Our shipping address: T ODAY ’ S FORUM A REA T ODAY ’ S C ITIZEN 308 S. 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