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Partly cloudy. understanding. >>> RELIGION 1 >>> SPORTS 1 SPORTS 4 UNEMPLOYMENT CONTINUES TO FALL >>> Idaho jobless rate drops for third straight month, MAIN 4 SATURDAY 75 CENTS June 5, 2010 TIMES-NEWS Magicvalley.com College basketball TEACHER PAY CUT 7.8% coaching legend Twin Falls School Board makes decision on 4-1 vote John Wooden dies By Ben Botkin By Beth Harris As a coach, he was a Times-News writer Associated Press writer groundbreaking trendsetter who demanded his players The Twin Falls School LOS ANGELES — John be in great condition so they Board on Friday decided that Wooden, college basket- could play an up-tempo the only realistic way to ball’s gentlemanly Wizard style not well-known on weather the downturn in of Westwood who built one the West Coast at the time. state funding is to use fur- of the greatest dynasties in But the Wizard’s legacy lough days to slash teacher all of sports at UCLA and extended well beyond that. pay by an average of 7.8 per- became one of the most He was the master of the cent. revered coaches ever, has simple one- or two-sen- The school board made its died. He was 99. tence homily, instructive decision with a 4-1 vote, The university said little messages best pre- with Trustee Richard Wooden died Friday night sented in his famous Crowley dissenting. The of natural causes at Ronald “Pyramid of Success,’’ decision includes the fol- Reagan UCLA Medical which remains must-read lowing cuts: 14 furlough Center, where he material, not only days for the upcoming had been hospital- for fellow coaches school year, ending an ized since May 26. but for anyone in a optional 192nd contract day With his signa- leadership position and a reduction in the pay ture rolled-up game in American busi- teachers get for taking on program in hand, ness. extra duties like coaching. MEAGAN THOMPSON/ Times-News Wooden led the He taught the The board also imposed Annette McFarlin, left, wipes away tears as she sits with fellow Vera C. O’Leary teachers Paula Chapman, Bruins to 10 NCAA team game and had furlough days on adminis- center, and Diann Roberts during the meeting on teacher contracts Friday morning at Canyon Ridge High championships, only three hard- trators, with the goal being including an Wooden and-fast rules — no School auditorium. for the furlough days to unmatched streak profanity, tardiness amount to the 7.8 percent of seven in a row from 1967 or criticizing fellow team- reduction in salary spending. HOW OTHER SCHOOL DISTRICTS HAVE FARED to 1973. mates. Layered beneath For students, the furlough Over 27 years, he won that seeming simplicity, days will result in a reduction Cassia County School District: reduction. Administrators will reduction in salary spending. 620 games, including 88 though, were a slew of life of four full days of school and Eight furlough days for teach- have a 4.35 percent pay reduc- Minidoka County School straight during one historic lessons — primers on four current half days. ers and 12 furlough days for tion and the superintendent District: The reduction of one stretch, and coached many everything from how to put The school is expecting a administrators, which repre- will have a 5.7 percent pay day for all employees will of the game’s greatest play- on your socks correctly to reduction of $2.64 million in sents cuts of 4 percent for reduction. reduce salary expenses by .67 ers such as Bill Walton and how to maintain poise: state funding for the next teachers and 6.3 percent for Jerome School District: percent. The school district Lew Alcindor — later “Not being thrown off fiscal year, a reflection of the administrators. Teachers will have 10 furlough had made additional cuts after known as Kareem Abdul- stride in how you behave or Legislature’s overall Gooding School District: Six days and experience a 1 per- declaring a fiscal emergency Jabbar. See COACH, Main 2 statewide cut of 7.5 percent, furlough days for teachers, cent reduction in salary scale, last year. or $128.5 million, from the representing a 3.6 percent pay amounting to a 6.2 percent — Ben Botkin public schools budget in “What you are as a person is response to declining state Crowley drew applause preferred 12 instead. Though revenues. The cuts will take from a crowd of about 100 fewer furlough days would MORE ONLINE far more important than what you effect in July, when the staff members when he said decrease potential carryover WATCH a video from state’s fiscal year 2011 he wasn’t comfortable with the meeting. are as a basketball player.” TEACHERS begins. a cut of 14 furlough days and See , Main 2 MAGICVALLEY.COM — Coach John Wooden Mower dispute ends T.F.County Republican official accuses in theft, gun charges chairwoman of illegally filling vacancy By Eric Larsen the street with his hands Times-News writer raised above his head. He By Nick Coltrain “The laws that are clos- proved pivotal to several was detained in handcuffs Times-News writer MORE ONLINE est to the committee are the other appointments the A Twin Falls man faces while police questioned READ the entire com- ones that we go by,” committee voted on that felony charges of attempt- suspects, and was later A Twin Falls County plaint. Clelland said.“We followed night, he is asking for a new ed grand theft and aggra- arrested. Republican committeeman MAGICVALLEY.COM our county bylaws and did meeting. He also asked that vated assault with a deadly At the scene, one of the is asking for the resignation what was right.” Clelland and Fort be made weapon for an alleged suspects told Hassani that of the party’s county chair- next meeting. But by appointing a new examples of by stepping attempt to repossess a rid- Jonsson had called him and woman and for State party rules, howev- precinct committeeman, down or being removed ing lawnmower from a another man to help him Wednesday’s organization er, state the county com- Jim Fort, before the meet- from office. Twin Falls couple. repossess the lawnmower. meeting to be voided mittee needs to vote to ing, several votes became “Furthermore, to dis- Erik R. Jonsson, 37, was According to the report, because of what he said is appoint someone to a ties that Clelland then courage and prevent such arrested Wednesday by “Erik then told the two men an illegal appointment that vacancy and that its rules broke — including the outrageous behavior in the Twin Falls police after he … to go and say to the shifted the entire outcome must be compatible with committee’s vote for her future, and prevent fraud and two other men alleged- woman riding the lawn- of the meeting. the state committee’s position. The chairwoman upon the voters of Twin ly hatched a plan to repos- mower that they hit her Twin Falls County bylaws. The Republican position is what keeps her Falls County, I demand that sess a riding lawnmower pickup with their pickup. Republican Central Com- Party of Idaho is having its on the committee as it is; Gretchen Clelland and Jim from a Creek View Drive When the woman (got) off mitteeman Gregory Ne- legal counsel look at the she lost her bid for com- Fort be prosecuted to the residence. the mower Erik would run mitz, a self-described trou- matter, said Jonathan mitteewoman in the May 25 fullest extent of the law for Shortly before 5:30 p.m. and take the lawnmower. blemaker, alleged that Parker, its executive direc- primary election. their illegal activities,” he Wednesday, Twin Falls The two then would follow Chairwoman Gretchen tor. He gave no timeline for “It was not simply about wrote in the complaint, County Sheriff’s Senior Erik with the pickup and Clelland appointed a new a decision. the chairman’s vote. It was which precinct committee- Investigator Kelly Hassani when they are at a safe dis- committeeman to fill a The determination of about the entire meeting, it woman Liz Niccum also was dispatched on a call tance from the victim, they vacancy without having the which set of rules take was about this one signed. that a man had pulled a gun would load the lawnmower authority to do so. precedence is the heart of appointment that skewed Parker said it is an inter- on a resident, according to on the truck.” According to the county the matter. Nemitz said the the entire meeting,”Nemitz nal party matter and state court records. The caper didn’t unfold Republican committee’s state party’s rules take said. officials told him they Hassani’s sworn affidavit according to plan. bylaws, in the case of vacan- precedence; Clelland said He said it was his duty to wouldn’t be involved. states that as soon as According to the report, cies, the chairman has the the county’s bylaws govern his precinct to report things deputies arrived at the after the two men told the authority to appoint a the matter because the that he doesn’t think are Nick Coltrain may be scene, a man later identi- replacement on a temporary central committee voted right. And because he reached at ncoltrain@mag- fied as Jonsson walked to See MOWER, Main 2 basis until the committee’s her that authority.