Wednesday, May 13, 2020 The Commercial Review Portland, Indiana 47371 www.thecr.com $1 Court New centenarian asked Rodgers celebrating 100th today to rule By JACK RONALD The Commercial Review on Hill Farmer. Soldier. Deputy. County commissioner. Legion - naire. Husband. Father. Grand - father. Governor’s Today, Walt Rodgers adds another title — centenarian. office seeks Born May 13, 1920, on the west side of Blackford County, guidance Rodgers farmed in Richland Township most of his adult life. Now he’s a resident of INDIANAPOLIS (AP) Miller’s Merry Manor, just — Indiana’s governor across county road 300 South asked the state Supreme from his farm. Court on Tuesday to tell “We were farmers,” he said him whether state Attor - in a recent interview. “Back ney General Curtis Hill then it was kind of a horse and will lose that office with buggy days … Milk a few cows his law license suspen - and raise a few chickens.” sion for groping a state Growing up, he attended legislator and three other Pleasant Grove School, then it women. was on to high school in Republican Gov. Eric Matthews in Grant County. Holcomb’s office asked “It was 5 miles to Hartford the court for the ruling a City, and I didn’t want to walk day after it released a that 5 miles,” he recalled. decision suspending Farming in Blackford Coun - Hill’s law license for 30 ty with his brother and father, days effective May 18. young Rodgers got his draft State law requires the notice in World War II. attorney general to be “I was in three years, six “duly licensed to practice months and eight days,” said law in Indiana,” but it Rodgers. Thirty-three months doesn’t specify whether of that service was overseas. “I the person can continue never had a furlough from the serving under a tempo - time I got in until I got out.” rary suspension. After the war, he returned to Hill announced Mon - farming and married Margaret day the appointment of Vivian Glasscock, whom he his chief deputy to over - had known in high school. see the attorney general’s Then he spotted an adver - office until his suspen - tisement for farmland north sion ends June 17. But and east of Dunkirk. the governor’s motion “I was kind of interested in argues that state law getting my own place then,” he doesn’t allow anyone said. “The barn was one of the other than the governor best in the county.” to fill a vacancy in the He and his wife bought what office of state govern - continues to be the Rodgers ment’s top lawyer. family farm in March 1956. It “Nowhere in the Indi - started with 120 acres, and 60 ana Code has the Attor - acres was added later. ney General been given It wasn’t too many years authority to name a after moving to Jay County deputy to assume his that he was approached about Special to The Commercial Review/Afton Hines Ridgway statutory duties and pow - joining the sheriff’s office. ers,” the motion said. “For some ungodly reason, Walt Rodgers of Dunkirk is celebrating his 100th birthday today. Now a resident of Hill, a Republican, has the sheriff (George Stultz) got Miller’s Merry Manor, he has been a farmer, soldier, sheriff’s deputy, county commissioner rebuffed calls from Hol - comb and other state ahold of a statement I’d made and legionnaire over the course of his life. that I’d like to be a deputy.” GOP leaders for his resig - He served four years during nation and he’s seeking an era when the sheriff and county commissioner, serving Legion and its post in was Dunkirk post commander reelection this year. two deputies constituted the two four-year terms. Dunkirk. in the 1960s for at least two Neither Hill’s office entire force. But away from the farm, his He joined the legion after years. nor his attorney in the In 1982, he was elected as a first love was the American getting out of the service and See Centenarian page 2 disciplinary case imme - diately returned mes - sages seeking comment. New clusters cause concern By LORNE COOK, tion spikes, European nations ELENA BECATOROS have been seeking to restart and CHRIS BLAKE cross-border travel, particularly Flag Associated Press as the summer holiday season BRUSSELS — New coron - looms for countries whose avirus clusters have appeared as economies rely on tourists flock - bearer nations struggle to balance ing to their beaches, museums Eric Butcher of Portland reopening economies with pre - and historical sites. carries the American flag venting a second wave of infec - The European Union unveiled Saturday morning during a tions and deaths, while in a plan to help citizens across its mini run to honor Europe, a debate erupted over 27 nations salvage their summer Hoosiers who have lost the summer travel season. vacations after months of coro - Authorities in the Chinese navirus lockdown and resurrect their lives in the war on city of Wuhan, where the pan - Europe’s badly battered tourism terror. The event was one demic first began late last year, industry. The pandemic has of several smaller runs in reportedly were pressing ahead prompted border closures place of Indiana’s Run for today to test all 11 million resi - across Europe and shut down the Fallen, which was dents for the virus within 10 the lifeline of cheap local canceled this year days after a handful of new flights. because of the infections were found. The EU’s executive arm, the In Lebanon, authorities rein - European Commission, laid out conronavirus pandemic. stated a nationwide lockdown its advice for lifting ID checks on for four days beginning today hastily closed borders, helping night after a spike in reported to get airlines, ferries and buses infections and complaints from running while ensuring the safe - officials that social distancing ty of passengers and crew, and rules were being ignored. preparing health measures for Despite the risk that loosening hotels to reassure clients. 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Jay County had a high tem - Free face masks are now perature of 60 degrees Tues - available at both Redkey Town day. The low was 33. Page 4 — The coronavirus Hall and Dunkirk City Build - Tonight’s low will be 51. pandemic has taught us a lot Millard Schwartz , 99, ing in addition to Jay County Thursday’s forecast calls for a of lessons. Back in the Saddle. Portland Health Department. To sched - high of 79 with scattered Lola Gadbury , 83, Dunkirk ule pick-up, call the health showers and thunderstorms. Page 8 — OHSAA Details on page 2. department at (260) 726-8080, Expect wind gusts at 15 to 25 announces girls tournament Dunkirk City Building at (765) miles per hour. shift to Dayton. 768-6565 or Redkey Town Hall For an extended outlook, at (765) 369-2711. see page 2. The Commercial Review Page 2 Local Wednesday, May 13, 2020 Capsule Reports Frosty mishap stopped at Tyson Road in his Damage to the pick-up truck in a ditch after its driver lost his passenger side tires began A frost-obscured window 1999 Ford F150. and the Chevrolet, registered control of the vehicle on coun - drifting toward off the road. was a factor in a two vehicle He then turned west onto to Christal R. Duke, New Cas - ty road 300 North near the Uladzimir then could no longer accident about 6:10 a.m. Tues - Tyson, but because of frost on tle, was estimated between Ohio border at 4:05 p.m. Mon - control the semi-trailer and it day at Charles Street and his driver’s side window, he $5,000 and $10,000. day. flipped on its side off the south Tyson Road in Portland. failed to see a westbound white Afanasyeu Uladzimir, 38, side of the road and into a Braulio R. Macias, 54, Port - 2008 Chevrolet Impala driven Flipped semi Woodland Hills, California, ditch. land, told police he was south - by Kerry K. Kelsey Jr., 31, A Minnich Poultry semi- was driving a 2017 Volvo 122 Damage was estimated bound on Charles and had Losantville. trailer was found overturned toward the state border when between $50,000 and $100,000. CR almanac Felony arrests Dealing officer and obstruction Ben Hawkins Ave., was of methamphetamine, a Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday Monday A Portland man is of justice, all Level 6 charged with dealing Level 6 felony. 5/14 5/15 5/16 5/17 5/18 being held on $15,000 felonies. cocaine, narcotics or Stephany A. Young, 811 bond in Jay County Jail methamphetamine, a W. Race St., was released after he was arrested Dealing Level 4 felony. from jail after her $3,000 Tuesday for dealing in a A Portland man was bond was paid. controlled substance, a arrested this morning Possession Quinton T. Donnelly, Level 5 felony. and taken to Jay County Two Portland residents 1007 W. High St., is being 76/63 74/60 76/63 76/53 69/52 Dion D. Nelloms, 728 W. Jail after he was charged were taken to Jay County held in jail on $3,000. He Much More of Saturday The rain The rain is Arch St., was also with dealing illegal Jail following their was also charged with warmer the same will also be will continue expected to charged with dealing in drugs. arrests overnight and maintaining a common though it’ll weather from rainy with a with thunder - stop and it’ll rain with a Thursday chance of storms possi - be a nice day marijuana, resisting an David A. Darby, 915 N. charged with possession nuisance, a Level 6 felony. chance of though the thunder - ble in the with a high thunder - rain chance storms in the afternoon and near the 70s. storm. 60% will rise to late evening. evening. 80% Mostly sunny. rain chance. 80%. rain chance. Obituaries Millard Schwartz Swiss Village Samaritan Fund, The Louks, Julie (Rick) Fairweather, Portland Foundation or Asbury Joni Louks, Beth (Phil) Landfair, Lotteries April 4, 1921-May 11, 2020 United Methodist Church. JoEllen (Randy) Thomas, Anita Millard Jacob Schwartz, age 99, a Condolences may be expressed at (Bob) Siegert, Janelle Griltz, Les former Portland, Indiana, resident, Powerball Daily Four: 9-1-4-7 bairdfreeman.com. VanDeusen, Greg Louks, Teresa passed away May 11, 2020, in Stringer, Janie (Reno) Palmer, Estimated jackpot: $77 Quick Draw: 5-8-11-13- Adams Memorial Hospital in Chris (Julie) Nelson, Curt Nelson, million 22-25-26-28-32-39-42-44-49- Decatur. Lola Gadbury 50-54-56-58-64-74-78 Janessa Erickson, Katy (Michael) Millard was born in Adams Jan. 26, 1937-May 9, 2020 Faith, Kirby Louks, Erin (Craig) Cash 5: 4-11-19-33-45 County on April 4, 1921, the son of Mega Millions Lola Ann (Louks) Gadbury, 83, of Hoying, Doug (Lisa) Louks, Abby Estimated jackpot: Jacob J. and Lena 7-16-27-44-52 Dunkirk, Indiana, loving sister and (Corey) Krout, Hannah Louks and $364,000 (Habegger) Mega Ball: 5 aunt to many, passed away peace - Maya Louks. Schwartz. Megaplier: 5 fully Saturday, May 9, Lola was preceded in death by Ohio For the last 12 Estimated jackpot: 2020, at IU Health her parents; husband Everett Gad - Midday years, he has been an $266 million Ball Memorial Hospi - bury; two brothers, Joseph and Pick 3: 2-5-2 active resident of tal, Muncie, Indiana. William Louks; one nephew, Scott Pick 4: 3-0-1-8 Swiss Village, Berne, Lola was born in Louks; and one niece, Janelle Hoosier Pick 5: 9-0-0-2-0 Indiana. Carmel, Indiana, on (Scott) Carpenter. Midday Evening He was married Jan. 26, 1937, a Friends are invited to call Friday, Daily Three: 3-8-00 Pick 3: 9-6-8 Nov. 27, 1943, to Mary Schwartz daughter of the late May 15, 2020, from 10 a.m. to noon Daily Four: 9-9-1-7 Pick 4: 7-0-3-1 Elizabeth (Betty) Melva I. (Myers) and at MJS Mortuaries – Redkey Quick Draw: 1-14-21- Pick 5: 2-1-6-2-1 Flesher. After more than 70 years Charlton A. Louks. Gadbury Chapel. Funeral services will be 24-25-27-33-44-46-48-51-52- Rolling Cash: 10-23-25- of marriage, she passed away on She was valedictori - private at the convenience of the 53-54-55-58-62-67-69-80 33-39 March 1, 2014. an of the 1955 Portland High School family with Pastor Blaine Fults and Evening Estimated jackpot: Millard retired after 38 years graduating class and a 1969 gradu - Pastor Chris Nelson officiating. Daily Three: 6-2-9 $110,000 with Jay County REMC as an elec - ate of IU Methodist Nursing tric lineman and construction fore - School. Burial will follow in Dunkirk IOOF man. Following his retirement, he Lola was employed full-time by Cemetery. continued farming and remained the Blackford County Hospital Please be assured that for your Markets an enthusiastic volunteer in civic Emergency Department until 2002 health and safety all, Centers for and community affairs. and then part-time until 2009. She Disease Control and Prevention, Millard served with the U.S. was formerly a member of Dunkirk government and local health Sunrise Central States department recommendations and St. Anthony Montpelier Army in Europe during World War 7th Day Assembly and a current II and was a Battle of the Bulge vet - member of Muncie 7th Day Adven - guidelines are followed (maximum Corn ...... 3.06 Corn ...... 3.12 eran. He received the Jay County tist Church. of 25 people at one time, masks June corn ...... 3.06 June corn ...... 3.13 Chamber of Commerce Lifetime Lola loved sewing, required while in attendance, Beans ...... 8.57 Beans ...... 8.44 Achievement Award in 1994. gardening, reading, studying her clearly marked social distancing, June beans ...... 8.58 June beans ...... 8.45 He was a member of Asbury Bible, watching Gaither Gospel availability of hand washing sta - Wheat ...... 5.05 Wheat ...... 4.97 United Methodist Church and Port - videos, fellowship time with tions and hand sanitizer, extra July wheat ...... 5.04 land Kiwanis Club. He was affiliat - church family, trying new desert cleaning and disinfecting meas - Cooper Farms e d fo r m o r e t h a n 7 0 y e a r s w it h r e c i p e s a n d m a k in g h o m e m a d e u r e s ) . Fort Recovery The Andersons American Legion Post #211 and, for noodles for family reunions, and In lieu of flowers, the family Corn ...... 3.29 Richland Township many of those years, was a member she looked forward to reunions requests donations be made to Wheat ...... 4.95 Corn ...... 3.21 of the Post’s Color Guard unit. with former co-workers and nurses Dunkirk Community Concerns or June corn ...... 3.21 Surviving are two sons, James E. from Blackford Hospital. Muncie 7th Day Adventist Church. POET Biorefining Beans ...... 8.50 Schwartz (Jane) of Allentown, She is survived by two brothers, Arrangements have been Portland June beans ...... 8.50 Pennsylvania, and William J. John Louks (wife: Gail) of Fort entrusted to MJS Mortuaries. Corn ...... 3.21 Wheat ...... 5.10 Schwartz (Linda) of St. Louis, Mis - Wayne, Indiana, and Dr. Ron Louks •••••••••• Oct./Nov. corn ...... 3.05 June wheat ...... 5.10 souri; five grandchildren; and four (wife: Mary) of Gautier, Mississip - The Commercial Review publishes great-grandchildren. pi; three sisters, Mary VanDeusen death notices for those with a con - Interment will be at Green Park of Bedford, Texas, Kathy Nelson of nection to our coverage area free of Cemetery, Portland. A memorial Dunkirk, Indiana, and Linda Met - charge. They include the name, city Today in history service will be scheduled at a later tler (husband: Stan) of Mooreland, of residence, birth/death date and date. Indiana; one sister-in-law, Renny time/date/location of services. On May 13, 1940 , in biplane, was publicly Baird-Freeman Funeral Home is Louks of Westfield, Indiana; and 23 There is a charge for obituaries, his first speech as British issued. in charge of arrangements. beloved nieces and nephews, Kim which are accepted only from funer - prime minister, Winston In 1981 , Pope John Memorials may be directed to the (Twila) Louks, Wayne (Ronda) al homes or mortuary services. Churchill told Parlia - Paul II was shot and seri - ment, “I have nothing to ously wounded in St. offer but blood, toil, tears Peter’s Square by Turk - and sweat.” ish assailant Mehmet Ali Centenarian ... ELECT In 1568 , forces loyal to Agca. Continued from page 1 Rodgers estimated the Mary, Queen of Scots In 1994 , President Bill “I was the one that start - color guard marched in were defeated by troops Clinton nominated feder - ed this color guard and hundreds of local parades GAIL SIEGRIST under her half-brother al appeals Judge Stephen drill team in Dunkirk. … and served as an honor and Regent of Scotland, G. Breyer to the U.S. We bought some new uni - guard at funerals for the Earl of Moray, in the Supreme Court to forms and got to parading between 300 and 400 veter - Battle of Langside, replace retiring Justice all over the country. Wher - ans. thwarting Mary’s Harry A. Blackmun. ever there was a parade “I just took control,” he DUES attempt to regain power. In 2009 , Jay County we were usually there,” he laughed. “We’re not In 1607 , English High School seniors said. “I led that for 40 going to be in a parade Jay County Superior Court Judge colonists arrived by ship received more than $1.16 years probably.” unless we were in step.” Paid for by the committee to elect Gail Dues for Jay Superior Court Judge at the site of what million in scholarships. became the Jamestown The event was originally

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I’d have understood if it were a Brinks truck with flyaway tens and twenties. But potatoes? Perhaps it was the fact of sudden bounty dropping down in front of you, and like unexpected grace, you must be grateful, whatever it is that is given.

We do not accept unso - from Plainsongs (Summer licited manuscripts. 2019). Poem reprinted by American Life in Poetry is permission of Lucy made possible by The Adkins and the publish - Poetry Foundation (poet - er. Introduction copyright ryfoundation.org), pub - @2020 by The Poetry Foun - lisher of Poetry magazine. dation. It is also supported by the The introduction’s Department of English at author, Ted Kooser, served the University of Nebras - as United States Poet Lau - ka, Lincoln. Poem copy - reate Consultant in Poetry right ©2019 by Lucy to the Library of Congress Adkins, “Potatoes,” from 2004-2006. Photo provided Photo provided Connor, 9, and Nora Stultz, 3, Sixteen-month-old Cayden Moeller brighten up a fence and share some love with loves being outside and smelling the Virus knocks off neighbors who drive by during this quarantine dandelions when the weather is nice. time. summer festivals

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Paid For The Committee To Re-Elect Max C. Ludy, Jr. The Commercial Review Page 4 Opinion Wednesday, May 13, 2020 We’ve learned a lot from pandemic By JACK RONALD rance never seems to go out of nor. Gov. Eric Holcomb of Indi - •Be wary of those making pre - The Commercial Review style. ana and Gov. Mike DeWine of dictions. The economy will More things we’ve learned dur - Back •Reopening is more complicat - Ohio have had to deal with far bounce back? Let’s wait and see. ing the coronavirus pandemic: ed than locking down. It’s easier more than they ever bargained Three thousand deaths a day? I •Idleness is exhausting. There’s in the to stop an activity or a business for. Sometimes, they’ve gotten it hope not, but I’m not going to something very tiring about a than it is to get it going again. right. Sometimes, they’ve gotten accept a prediction as gospel. long, gloomy, chilly afternoon Saddle •The smell of hand sanitizer it wrong. But in either case, they Then again, a pandemic of this with nothing to do. You know you can make you sneeze, which is were having to make decisions scope has been predicted for ought to be doing something con - completely counterproductive. that none of the rest of us would years. And it’s one forecast that structive, but the very thought •Window visits with an old like to face. turned out to be true. wears you out. those who aren’t wearing masks friend or a family member in a •No one has yet figured out how •Creativity matters. That’s true •It’s easy to get cranky about look sheepish and a little guilty. nursing home are not a satisfac - to go to a restaurant while wear - whether it’s Jay Schools figuring social distancing. Employees •If most aren’t wearing masks, tory substitute for the real thing. ing a mask and eat without mak - out how to provide tens of thou - here will tell you that I’ve barked those folks who aren’t can be •Honking your horn turns out ing a mess. Masks and food do not sands of meals to students when about 6-foot distancing on numer - smugly dismissive of those of us to be a pretty good way to com - go together. classes have been canceled or it’s ous occasions. “Six feet!” I’ll bel - who are. municate “happy birthday” to a •People are making the most of someone rummaging through a low. •It’s hard to keep your glasses friend. a difficult situation. The CR has bunch of old fabric to find the •It’s easy to forget about social from fogging up while masked. •Public officials are often been inundated with photos of cloth needed to make more distancing. Sometimes I’m the •Somehow it has become forced to make decisions that families and kids filling the masks. person who ought to be yelled at acceptable in certain quarters to make absolutely nobody happy. empty hours of stay-at-home •Hugs matter. They’re a pre - to keep my distance. carry an assault rifle into a state That’s true whether you are a time. And they’ve all brought a cious commodity, and it’s safe to •If most are wearing masks, capitol building. Energetic igno - county commissioner or a gover - smile. say they have been missed. Economy needs a federal strategy Tribune-Star (Terre Haute) Nobody wants the worst- case scenario for the Hoosier COVID-19 coronavirus pan - demic to unfold. Still, the uncertainty of this Editorial moment in time demands proactive steps by public and private leaders. And, they should work by the old adage, “Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst.” The bleak U.S. jobs report issued Friday illuminates A methodical the need for wise and game plan for prompt policy moves, untainted by ideological a worsening allegiances. economy would This virus is oblivious to borders, politics or calen - reassure dars. The piecemeal Americans that approach to dealing with the public health and eco - revitalization nomic impacts of the pan - demic — largely leaving is possible, no those strategies to the matter what. states — continues to expose the lack of a cohe - sive, comprehensive plan by the federal government. Friday’s jobs report ing for events, worship and spells out the economic entertainment. problems tied to the public Widespread coronavirus health crisis that has testing and tracing, still claimed more than 76,000 unrolling unevenly state by American lives and has not state, must become steady, yet substantially abated. and hospitalizations must Antibody tests need oversight Jobs disappeared by the continually decline. By LIONEL LAURENT millions in April, a dramat - shown to have high specificity and America’s economic Bloomberg Opinion high sensitivity, though they must be ic turnaround from the pre- health improvement As with many other things, the pandemic unemployment administered by trained medical depends on the pandemic coronavirus pandemic has delayed staff and can’t be used at home. Roche rate of 3.5% in February. Lionel subsiding enough that citi - the blockbuster fraud trial of Eliza - Holding, meanwhile, is preparing to Last month’s rate stood at zens feel comfortable beth Holmes, whose start-up Thera - Laurent roll out a lab test in the U.K. with 14.7%, the highest it has returning to their normal nos Inc. went from darling to dump - what it says is a specificity above been since the Great daily lives, a Harvard Uni - ster fire in a matter of months after 99.8% and sensitivity of 100% (when Depression. More than 20.5 versity economist told The the Wall Street Journal exposed huge conducted 14 days after a confirmed million jobs ceased in AP. flaws in the company’s promise its infection). April, the most in Ameri - Fortunately, most state blood-test kits could detect an array The problem is many of these anti - But in general, too much burden is can history. A total of governors have assembled of illnesses from a single “finger- body tests simply aren’t good enough. being placed on the consumer to trust 612,000 Hoosiers have filed economic reopening plans, prick” of blood. (Holmes has denied In the U.K., a study of nine unidenti - and make sense of technical informa - for unemployment benefits generally placing the pro - the charges.) fied commercially available tests tion. A test promoting a figure of 95% since the pandemic began tection of residents’ health Ironically, the pandemic may be found them all to be “unsuitable for accuracy may sound reliable, but in a forcing closures of busi - as the top priority. recreating a similar environment to testing individuals.” The devices population of 1 million people where nesses and services to limit Those plans represent a the one that cultivated Theranos in scored especially poorly on their abil - 15% have been infected, it actually its spread. thoughtful approach to the first place, as whistleblower Tyler ity to avoid false negatives, called sen - works out to 42,500 false positives and Specific state and local securing both the physical Shultz, a former employee at the now- sitivity, with a range of 55%-70% 7,500 false negatives, according to the jobless figures for April are and economic health of the defunct start-up, warned on May 2. accuracy. Specificity, or the ability to Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of due in coming weeks, but people. Pointing to a combination of large- avoid false positives, fared better at Public Health. Errors might keep peo - the Terre Haute metro area Unfortunately, the timing scale health needs, the potential for 95%-100%. After ordering millions of ple cooped up at home and unable to typically has higher unem - and extent of the reopening lucrative financial gain and corner test kits from China, the U.K. govern - work, or start a new epidemic chain. ployment rates than most plans vary from state to cutting by regulators, he concluded ment is trying to get its money back. This is a “Wild West” market that’s of Indiana. state. That patchwork hob - that Theranos would be “thriving” in The rush to market in a pandemic crying out for sheriffs. Cracking Signs of hope exist. The bles the recovery, given that this pandemic. And when it comes to is bad enough, but regulators have down on poor-quality tests is an obvi - weekly number of Indiana the 21st-century economy COVID-19 antibody tests, he has a also been slow to wake up to the real ous first step. The next should be to residents seeking unem - operates as a national and point. risk of fraud. The Food and Drug ramp up independent oversight of all ployment aid has decreased global network. Nonethe - A deluge of new rapid test kits has Administration in March allowed the tests coming to market, ideally world - since peaking in late less, the governors’ out - offered a seductive vision: A single sale of unauthorized antibody tests wide. Rather than rely on manufac - March. The same is true lines are crucial, in the finger-prick of blood is all it might under certain conditions, only to turers’ own data, or have national nationally, The Associated absence of reliable leader - take to see if you’ve been infected tighten the rules last week: “We regulators separately test different Press reported Friday. ship from the Trump with the novel coronavirus in the past unfortunately see unscrupulous kits, organizations like the European Economic forecasters administration. and generated antibodies that protect actors marketing fraudulent test kits Center for Disease Prevention and also saw paths to a Indiana Gov. Eric Hol - against future reinfection (though and using the pandemic as an oppor - Control or the World Health Organi - rebound, with some big comb’s “Back On Track this is a topic of debate). tunity to take advantage of Ameri - zation look well placed to pool what-ifs attached. The San Indiana” plan has five This is a potentially huge market. cans’ anxiety.” And while several resources and save time while setting Francisco Federal Reserve stages leading to a full Governments have spent millions on European countries have issued con - much-needed standards, Iceland’s estimates the jobless rate reopening by July 4. test kits, part of efforts to track the sumer warnings, it’s still possible to chief epidemiologist, Thorolfur Gud - could recede to 4% by the Because COVID-19 will spread of COVID-19 as they start to take tests that haven’t undergone reg - nason, tells me. middle of next year, if shut - not stop at state borders, it ease draconian lockdowns. And indi - ulatory authorization in countries Theranos sold a product that was downs are lifted quickly. is up to the federal leader - viduals are desperate to know such as France. Only Belgium has too good to be true. We don’t yet know Simply reopening the ship to prepare a uniform whether they’ve already had the dis - banned rapid testing kits. if COVID-19 will produce a similar country’s businesses and economic recovery plan for ease. If a consensus emerges that Obviously, it would be wrong to scandal, but this is a market that’s services is not the ticket to a worst-case scenario. antibodies do confer a degree of imagine that every actor in this mar - overdue a cleanup. When a whistle - recovery, though. First, the It may sound odd, but a immunity, it could be the golden tick - ket is unscrupulous and that poten - blower reaches for his whistle a sec - public must be confident methodical game plan for a et to freedom from social distancing tial Theranoses are everywhere. And ond time, it’s worth paying attention. that their health and safety worsening economy would and home isolation. Companies are accuracy isn’t an impossible dream. •••••••••• are not at risk by going to reassure Americans that even selling tests direct to the con - Laboratory sample tests known as Laurent is a Bloomberg Opinion work, sitting in restau - revitalization is possible, sumer, not just to health-care profes - ELISAs (for enzyme-linked columnist covering Brussels. Follow rants, shopping and gather - no matter what. sionals. immunosorbent assays) have been him on Twitter @LionelRALaurent. The Commercial Review HUGH N. RONALD (1911-1983), Publisher Emeritus

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Looking live Investigating Camera operators focus on the stage Saturday during Jay County High School’s Senior Honors Day, held in ATLANTA — The drive-in style in the school’s parking lot between the soccer and softball fields. The event was live streamed on the Georgia prosecutors JCHS Facebook and YouTube pages. who first handled the fatal shooting of a black man, before charges were filed more than two months later, were placed Concern ... under investigation Continued from page 1 soon,” Kurz told reporters Tuesday for their con - It’s not clear whether EU today. duct in the case, which nations will follow that German Foreign Minis - has fueled a national advice, since they, not ter Heiko Mass said his outcry and questions Brussels, have the final say country will lift a blanket about whether the slay - over health and security warning against foreign ing was racially moti - matters. travel for European desti - vated. 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Will prospects stay home? Virus sparks debate By STEVE MEGARGEE state. He is doing it again March 11 selected a col - from there.” seen the campus. While some staffs have AP Sports Writer in his second stint at lege over 300 miles away. Many prospects aren’t Ortiz’s father, Steven shown they can draw play - Concerns about the new Chapel Hill. Whether they’re opting hesitating to pick a school Ortiz Sr., said his son did ers from all over the coun - coronavirus are prevent - Eleven of the top 13 ver - to stay near home or not, far away. get a “virtual tour” of try even during a pandem - ing football prospects bally committed 2021 prospects are deciding Minnesota’s list of 11 campus from his home. ic, Simmons believes more from visiting campuses prospects from North Car - earlier than ever. verbal commitments since “They would show us prospects eventually will this spring and keeping olina have chosen the Tar 247Sports reported that March 11 includes three footage of the facility, then decide to stay closer to college coaches from trav - Heels, according to com - 627 players in the 2021 players from Texas, two a coach would come and home. eling to evaluate them. posite rankings of recruit - class had committed by from Georgia and one speak to us about the pro - Part of the reason is the North Carolina coach ing sites compiled by May 6 — more than twice from Arizona. Tennessee’s gram itself. It was definite - NCAA instituted a Mack Brown said he 247Sports. the number of 2020 flurry of 12 verbal com - ly a different experience, recruiting dead period believes this could cause That same database prospects who had mitments since April 10 but most schools — the through May 31, prevent - more 2021 recruits to stay shows that, so far, recruits announced decisions by includes three players facilities, the weightlifting ing programs from getting closer to home, though are not necessarily stick - that date. from Florida schools or and the cafeterias are all an up-close look at out-of- that remains up for ing closer to home because “Kids want to get settled academies, one from state of the art — so you’re state prospects. No won - debate. of the pandemic: More and feel like they’ve got a Texas and none from the not looking at anything der 13 of North Carolina’s “I do think all the kids than 60% of verbally com - scholarship locked up,” state of Tennessee. (with) too big of a differ - 14 verbal commitments being at home with their mitted prospects to Power said Barton Simmons, the “I feel the pandemic will ence in terms of the facili - are from in-state. families, there is a little Five schools who made 247Sports director of be over by the time I get to ties,” Ortiz Sr. said. “A lot of kids, they can concern,” Brown said. their decisions on or scouting. “On the other Tennessee,” said Ortiz Sr. said his son got drive to your campus, “You love your family, before March 11 — the day side, colleges (see that) De’Shawn Rucker, a defen - a sense of the culture of come for games, come for you’re wanting everybody the NBA suspended play, with the writing being on sive back from Tallahas - Minnesota’s program camps, so we’ve gotten to healthy. So I do think that which triggered the gener - the wall that the evalua - see, Florida. through conversations really know these kids,” this is encouraging people al shutdown of the sports tion period is essentially Rucker at least got a with Gophers coach P.J. Brown said. “So if it’s a to stay closer to home.’’ world — chose schools done, their board is what chance to visit Tennessee Fleck. Rucker said he no-brainer and we really Brown built the Tar within 300 miles of their their board is. They’re before the pandemic hit. liked Tennessee in part want him, we’re already a Heels into a power in the hometowns. feeling a little bit of pres - Defensive back Steven because Jeremy Pruitt year-and-a-half ahead of 1990s by making sure Yet more than half the sure to go ahead and get Ortiz of Goodyear, Ari - was more active than any schools that are out of North Carolina’s best recruits who committed to guys committed, get some zona, committed to Min - other head coach in con - state that haven’t seen the recruits didn’t leave the Power Five schools since guys locked in and then go nesota without having tacting him. kids.” Could ... Continued from page 8 those minor league teams in ey and soccer players short of and CEO David Andrews said. “I means that there’s going to be Beyond those teams, Syracuse total we’ll have.” the elite level. Foreign prospects think we need to be really flexi - higher rates of unemployment, University sports analytics pro - That worries Professional could stay home longer to play. ble as we look ahead as to what lower rates of income and peo - fessor Rodney Paul is worried Hockey Players Association Or North American minor the league might look like and be ple are going to be more careful about the status of others as the executive director Larry Landon leagues could discover different open to whatever we need to be about how they spend their free crisis goes on. He said there because jobs will be lost if teams ways to make money. Kishner open to to do the best we can.” income, their leisure income,” could be a redistribution of fold, and players like Cameron suggested mascot, coach or play - Green already has thought Zimbalist said. “So I don’t expect teams in multiple sports around Gaunce might be left trying to er appearances or selling ad ahead to what “socially dis - the leagues to really start flour - the U.S. and Canada — and per - make ends meet. space outside stadiums or are - tanced” crowds might look like ishing again for several years.” haps smaller leagues. “I think you’d be naive if guys nas, and Paul pointed to gam - and hopes that treatments and a Paul, whose parents are sea - “Maybe it’s the same number weren’t worried about it,” bling or daily fantasy game pos - coronavirus vaccine gets things son ticket holders for the Single- of teams, but it’s in different Gaunce said. “I’ll make sure sibilities as potential sources of back to normal eventually. But A baseball Daytona Tortugas, is cities based upon how things that I plan far enough in revenue. the end of the pandemic may not more bullish on minor league have changed over time,” Paul advance and I’ll have a contin - AHL Rochester Americans be enough to pack minor league sports in the near future said. “Some of those areas that gency plan in place, whether GM Randy Sexton said he thinks arenas and stadiums if Zimbal - because of their affordability can’t afford that level of team that’s getting something to sup - minor league hockey teams can ist is correct about the situation and value to communities. because of either population plement my income or whether get going as long as 1,000-2,000 and economic downturn chang - “Those types of entertain - change or income change in the that is playing in a league that is people are allowed in buildings. ing people’s behaviors. ment experiences, we’re still area or something like that going.” It might not be a full season, “It’s just going to take several craving those type of things,” he changes to a different area. But Pro leagues elsewhere could either. years to get through it all, in my said. “Hopefully this doesn’t my guess gets to be that the be operating, providing other “I think it may force us to be view, and while that adjustment destroy that for the super long longer this goes out, the fewer of opportunities to baseball, hock - more creative,” AHL president or recuperation is happening, it term or forever.”

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Page 8 www.thecr.com The Commercial Review Pandemic could change minor league landscape By STEPHEN WHYN loss of revenue if baseball AP Sports Writer is played with no fans and As North America’s pro Herrick Feinstein sports football, basketball, base - law group co-chair Irwin ball and hockey leagues try Kishner estimated it is to play again in a pandem - probably twice that for ic, minor league sports face minor league sports. As it a more treacherous climb is, Green doesn’t expect to return. minor league baseball this While the NFL, NBA or year, while both the ECHL Major League Baseball can and the AHL canceled the run on television revenue, rest of their hockey sea - it’s virtually impossible for sons. many minor leagues to sur - Plans for 2020-21 include vive with empty stadiums. the grim possibility of The possibility of no games empty or near-empty are - in 2020 could put some nas. Dayton Daily News teams in jeopardy and “There’s a million ques - change the landscape for tions that need to be The OHSAA announced on Tuesday a three-year partnership with University of Dayton to have attendance-driven sports in answered,” minor league the girls basketball state tournament at UD Arena in 2021. It will be the first time since 1986 the state the short- and long-term hockey player Nathan tournament series will not be held at Ohio State University. future. Paetsch said. “What’s next “There’s no future for season going to look like? minor league sports with What’s the possibility of it empty stadiums. There’s starting? What type of sea - zero,” said Gary Green, son is it going to look it? Is Dayton to host girls state who owns Triple-A and there going to be fans or no Double-A baseball teams fans? Is it going to be the By CHRIS SCHANZ ty all but one season. In 1986, it was ment and their school communi - and an expansion franchise same length of the season?” The Commercial Review at University of Akron. ties.” in the United Soccer Smith College economics COLUMBUS, Ohio — For just the Citing a limited number of avail - Home to the Dayton Flyers men’s League that plays in subur - professor Andrew Zimbal - second time in its history, the girls able dates to use either Jerome and women’s basketball teams, UD ban Omaha, Nebraska. “If ist agreed with Green that basketball state tournament will Schottenstein Center or St. John Arena was renovated in 2019, and some of the teams don’t ownership will affect which be played away from Ohio State. Arena at Ohio State, the OHSAA has a seating capacity of 13,000. It have deep-pocketed owner - teams survive. He also The OHSAA announced Tuesday ship groups or owners, I found a new home for its tourna - has hosted OHSAA basketball tour - pointed to the ill-fated sec - the University of Dayton Arena don’t know how they’re ond attempt by the XFL as a ment. nament games along with Atlantic will host the girls basketball tour - going to pay their bills.” cautionary tale. “We’re very proud that the 10 Conference and NCAA tourna - nament for the next three seasons. It is by far the most press - “Some of the younger OHSAA has entrusted us to host ment games. Having hosted 125 ing question facing Minor leagues that are out there I “We are very excited to sign a the girls basketball state tourna - NCAA basketball tournament League Baseball, the Amer - think are really, really frag - three-year agreement for our mem - ment at The University of Dayton games, UD Arena has been the ican Hockey League, ile,” Zimbalist said. “I sus - ber schools to experience UD Arena for the next three years,” home court for March Madness ECHL, USL and others. The pect that we’re going to see Arena,” OHSAA executive director said Scott DeBolt, senior associate more than any other facility in the minors are deeply baked a lot of organizations and Jerry Snodgrass said in a release. athletics director at the University country. into the North American some leagues going out of “Southwest Ohio loves and sup - of Dayton and executive director Fort Recovery won back-to-back sports landscape as talent business.” ports basketball and the people at of UD Arena “The same ingredi - state championships in 1990 and developers for the majors There already were 40 the University of Dayton have ents that make UD arena the ideal 1991 when the tournament was and cheap, family-friendly minor league baseball made it clear that they really want place for the NCAA First Four — played at Ohio State. The Indians’ entertainment in towns big teams scheduled to lose this state tournament on their community support and excite - most recent trip to Columbus for and small. Experts are their MLB affiliations campus. We believe that we have ment for the game of basketball, the state tournament was in 2011. divided on how they will before the pandemic under found a great home for the girls our facilities, staff and tourna - The 2021 girls basketball state survive and how soon they a restructuring plan that basketball state tournament. ment hosting experience — will tournament is scheduled for can bounce back. would have to try to make it In its 45 years, the OHSAA girls help create lifelong memories for March 11 through 13. The boys MLB Commissioner Rob independently. basketball state tournament has the young women who come to state tournament is March 18 Manfred estimated a 40% See Could page 7 been played at Ohio State Universi - Dayton to play in the state tourna - through 20 at St. John Arena. Police soften stance on Premier League games By ROB HARRIS said in a statement. “There are huge ques - AP Global Soccer Writer tions to be asked how players could train MANCHESTER, England — Premier safely, how they would travel to matches League clubs could be allowed to complete and how they could play competitive the season at their own stadiums after matches without the risk of spreading police pulled back on their insistence that infection.” neutral venues were the only safe way of The government is planning to release a staging games during the coronavirus strategy this week that allows players to pandemic. resume group training even as social dis - The league’s leadership held talks with tancing is being encouraged in wider soci - police on Monday night after being told by ety. the 20 clubs that they wanted to be able to “It’s about the building blocks — how play at home, even though fans will not be long before we can go back into full contact allowed inside. training?” Premier League chief executive Mark Roberts, the head of football polic - Richard Masters told reporters. “It does ing in England, had been concerned sup - depend on what sort of contact because porters would still gather outside stadi - obviously you’re trying to ensure the play - ums and place an additional burden on ers keep themselves safe even during that resources as lockdown measures are contact training situation and that will eased. have to be dealt with on a case by case But Roberts has softened his stance after basis.” “positive” talks with the league and gov - It is two months since the last games ernment. were played before the league was sus - “We will be jointly exploring a range of pended during the pandemic. options to identify a way forward, which “One thing is for sure,” Masters said, minimizes any risks to public safety and “all clubs will have to be safe and secure in unnecessary pressure on public services, the knowledge that their players are going but facilitates a sensible restart to the sea - to be fit before a decision on going back on son, to support the economic and morale the pitch is taken, given that they have had benefits associated with the sport,” such a long layoff. Roberts said. “We have talked about four weeks of But, with hundreds of people still dying training but haven’t agreed yet as we from the virus each day, London Mayor haven’t agreed to go back to training.” Sadiq Khan said it was too early for games Masters said players will be consulted to be staged again in the capital which con - about how a safe environment can be cre - tains five Premier League clubs. ated at training and then games. “Sadiq is … concerned about the welfare “It is right that they will have concerns of players competing in all professional and questions and we need to hear those sports, not just football,” the mayor’s office first,” Masters said. ‘Mamba’ nickname retired LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Southern a home base for an NBA minor league California sports academy previously co- program that will provide one year of owned by Kobe Bryant has retired his preparation, on and off the court, for “Mamba” nickname and rebranded itself some elite players who chose to bypass nearly four months after the basketball college but are not yet eligible for the icon’s death in a helicopter crash. NBA draft. Bryant, his 13-year-old daughter Gian - Bryant is the only NBA player to have na and seven other people were killed his team retire two numbers in his honor. Jan. 26 as they flew to a basketball tour - He was selected last month for the Nai - nament at the Mamba Sports Academy. smith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. The Thousand Oaks-based facility said A ceremony is scheduled for late August it would return to its original name of though it may be delayed until at least Sports Academy. It was founded in 2016. October because of the coronavirus pan - Bryant, who spent 20 seasons with the Los demic. Angeles Lakers and helped the franchise Bryant’s production company, Granity win five NBA championships, joined in Studios, has remained active since his 2018. death. The latest children’s book released Games were being played at the acade - by Bryant’s company last month — “The my when the news broke of Bryant’s Wizenard Series: Season One” — became death. Players immediately stopped and his fifth book to reach No. 1 on The New many people in the gym burst into tears York Times’ best-seller lists. when told that Bryant was aboard the hel - The helicopter crash remains under icopter that crashed. investigation by the National Transporta - The academy is under consideration as tion Safety Board.