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Sweetwater Reporter
Thursday, May 7, 2009 ■ Page 3
Chamber Coflee held at Pioneer Museum
The monthly C hamber of
Commerce C 'oflee w as held at
the Pioneer Museum, located
at 610 E. third Street, at 10
a.m. on Wednesday. Museum
director t ran/as Cupp wel-
comed the community to the
museum, that was founded by
a museum hoard of local resi-
dents.
the Unhand Family laiilt the
house in 1005. It was later
purchased In the Whittaker
family in I905anil then pur-
chased by a Mr. Patterson as a
residence and funeral home
and later became McCoy
Funeral Home, The building
was re-purchased In a group
of local citizens for the pur-
pose of developing a counts
historical museum.
Photos by Amanda Moreno
Lamar University students design for NASA
Nurses
Continued from page t
the stuff together and about a
day to put it up for the cele-
bration, according to
McCluskey.
()ne of the nurses attending
the celebration was Robin
Rainey, who is a third genera-
tion nurse. She is a LVN at
Rolling Plains Memorial
Hospital.
"Tne main focus of nurses
week is to show the depth of
nursing. Show people where
it’s been and where it’s going,"
McCluskey said. "Things are
changing and there are alot of
advancements happening."
Letters
Continued from page l
on May 9, before the mail car-
rier arrives. It will be taken to
the post office and then dis-
tributed to local food banks or
pantries, including First
United Methodist Church,
Lamar Street Baptist Church
and Nolan County Welfare
Office food banks. Please do
not include items that have
expired or those in glass con-
tainers.
The Sweetwater Letter
Carriers appreciate the com-
munity's involvement and
caring for the community.
Tracy dairy
worker to get
reward for
finding body
SARAH MOORE
Beaumont Enterprise
BEAUMONT, Texas (AP) -
A team of Lamar University
engineering students spent the
last year further developing a
camera that, if all goes well, is
destined for outer space.
Team SolCam, made up of
Lamar University seniors Ben
Webb, Robby Adams, Grant
Rivera and Tristan Oswald, are
the brains working on a camera
intended for the space station.
Eventually, it could play a role
on a manned mission to Mars.
The Lamar team members
said they felt fortunate to
attend a university that offers
the NASA space grant consor-
tium program, something that
adds a tinge of glamour to the
task.
The team worked closely
with a NASA mentor, who was
"helpful, but not too helpful,"
Webb said.
The camera is to be a hand-
held device that could be used
by astronauts both inside and
outside the spacecraft. It will go
well beyond recording things
that can be seen by the naked
eye. Webb explained.
The hyperspectral camera
should pick up images beyond
the visible spectrum — for
example, certain infrared wave-
lengths, engineering professor
Harley Myler said.
Practical applications include
using it to determine the com-
position of rocks or other
objects and detecting potential
life forms. In a pinch, it might
detect how much fuel is left in a
tank if sensors malfunction or
in other such crucial logistical
tasks.
NASA uses the grant pro-
gram to give students hands-on
experience designing equip-
ment that actually could be
used in the space program.
The project also could open
some very exclusive doors for
students.
Adams, for instance, inter-
viewed at NASA earlier this
week for a position in the
power management division.
He said he thought the inter
view went well.
None of the team members
are opposed to the possibility of
working for NASA, although
some might continue their edu-
cation before making any
career moves.
Webb says he plans on get-
ting his doctoral degree at the
University of Central Florida.
Some students "would rather
take a bullet" than participate
in the program, Myler said.
But despite the hard work.
Team SolCam wouldn't have
missed the opportunity as a
resume-builder and a chance to
get some hands-on design
experience.
Team members, who said it
has been a high point of their
academic careers, agreed that
working on the project involved
quite a learning curve, putting
the theories they'd learned in
the classroom into practical
application.
Oswald, 23, laughed as he
described the way real life was
often far messier and decidedly
less theoretical than the formu-
las neatly laid out in textbooks.
"It's not like you see on TV,"
he said.
A highlight of the project was
when the team actually was
able to hook the camera up to a
telescope and use it to shoot
images of the moon.
"It was kind of fun learning
to use the telescope," Webb
added.
The camera, which has been
passed front team to team, is
still very much a work in
progress and will go on to
another student team for fur-
ther development.
Part of the challenge is to
design a camera that can with-
stand the harsh environment of
space.
NASA has used ordinary
cameras in the past for shorter
missions. Then, it didn't matter
that they deteriorated rapidly
from the strong radiation.
A Mars mission would be
another matter entirely.
"You're looking at six months
to get there, then they'll stay for
18 months then another six
months to get back," Webb
pointed out.
That the end result of then-
work might end up going to
Mars is the icing on the cake.
"If this does eventually get
used, it would be pretty nice,"
Rivera said. "But even if it's not
used, it's still useful as a learn-
ing experience."
TRACY, Calif. (AP) - A daily
worker who found the suitcase
containing the Ixxly of a missing
8-year-old girl in Tracy will get a
reward for his discovery.
Jose I ails Franco was working
at a dairy north of Tracy on April
8 when he noticed the luggage in
an irrigation pond.
Inside authorities found the
body of Sandra Cantu, who had
Ireet i missing since March 27.1 ler
disappearance from a nearby
mobile home nark has sparked a
massive search by hundreds of
volunteers.
< )n Thursday, Franco will get a
check for just over $20,000 from
the Carole Sund/Carrington
Memorial Reward Foundation at
a ceremony in Tracy. The organi-
zation rewards tips that help find
missing persoas or lead to the
arrest of violent criminals.
Franco says hell set the money
aside for the education of his four
children.
FDA nominee pledges
to improve food safety
RICARDO
AlONSO-XAI im \R
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTT )N (AP) — President Barack Obama's pick to over-
see fcxxl and drug safety savs she will rev amp the IT )A to better pro-
tect the nation's ftxxl supply and help prevent outbreaks of illness.
Dr. Margaret I lamburg, a biotermrism expert who once served as
New York City health commissioner, also says she wants to restore
public confidence in the Fcxxl and Drug Administration.
1 lamburg is to appear Thursday aftemexm before a Senate com-
mittee considering her nomination to run the troubled agency.
In testimony prepared for delivery’ to the panel, she says the FDA
faces challenges from the globalization of fcxxl and drug markets,
11 te risk c >f bic >tern >r attacks - and the emergence 1 )f the new swine
flu vines.
Locklar
Scam
Continued from page 1
in San Antonio, Texas 78230. On Bales, caller ID was
"Unknown Caller" with no number displayed. Bales was also
tolcl that all she would have to do was show the IRS some form
of identification upon arrival and she would then be awarded
the large check. Bales, knowing that the call was a scam, told
the caller that she had no transportation that day. The caller
then insisted that she call a cab and head to the local Wal-
Mart to send the Money Gram. "1 knew it was a scam from the
beginning, so I just went along with it and told her that I was
unavailable that clay. I just wanted to warn others in the com-
munity of the scam in the area,” said Bales.
There have been many scams in the past involving proposed
advance payment checks in which callers act as IRS agents
wanting information or money. The goal of the scams is to
trick people into revealing personal and financial informa-
tion, such as Social Security, bank account or credit card
numbers, which the scammers can use to commit identity
theft. The goal of most scams is to trick people into revealing
personal and financial information, suen as Social Security,
bank account or credit card numbers, which the scammers
can use to commit identity theft.
Usually, identity thieves use a victim’s personal and finan-
cial data to empty the victim's financial accounts, run up
charges on the victim's existing credit cards, apply for new
loans, credit cards, services or benefits in the victim's name,
file fraudulent tax returns or even commit crimes. Most of
these fraudulent activities can be committed electronically
from a remote location, including overseas.
People whose identities have been stolen can spend months
or years - and their hard-earned money - cleaning up the mess
thieves have made of their reputations and credit records In
the meantime, victims may lose job opportunities, nitty be
refused loans, education, housing or cars, or even get arrest
ed for crimes they didn't commit.
The IRS urges citizens not to fall for these phone scams, as
weli as many similar e-mail scams. IRS agents do not call to
obtain information from taxpayers.
Continued from page 1
Ux'klar said "It litis ti > lx1 the liighlight of our showing career, it's unbe-
lievable."
To quality for the scholarship, Lvndi litis to be a member of the FFA
or 4-H club and she is a member of the FFA Also, as part of the require-
ments, she raised the lambs that she showed i in her own and had them
registered in her name.
’’ this (si u ivving) has shown her resp<insibility, n< it imly ft ir herself, but
for the animals that she shows. She has learned how to borrow money
from the bank and manage her own checking account." Terry said.
According tt > I ,yndi, even though it has taken her a long time to reach
this [xiint, her hard work has paid off. She has learned to not only lx a
winner, but to also accept defeat.
"I have started to raise sheep on my own now and that's helping me
learn to run a business. I also have jeweliv that I sell, as another busi-
ness." Lvndi said.
She has also been invited luck to s|X'ak at San Antiinio, since she was
a scholarship winner.
I yndi will show for one more year, until she graduates. (luce shegix's
to WT she plans on continuing her business of raising sheep, but will no
longer lx‘ able to show sheep.
"Next year will lx1 the last year, and we aren’t lot iking forward ti > it. We
have had alot of memories with it and enjoyed it. It's kind of haul to see
it end," Tony said.
Lvndi would like to thank her Dad (Terty), her ag teacher Kenneth
Dudeusing, Buster Vickers, who found the sheep, Brett (Apert and
Jurhee Jones.
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National Briefs
#P sources: Obama seeking boosts
in domestic spending for 2010 wiih
only modest spending cuts
WASHINGTON (AP) — In twin strokes, President Barack
Obama is calling on Congress to reward generous budget
increases to domestic programs while proposing relatively
modest cuts to wasteful or obsolete programs that just won’t
seem to die.
Officials said Wedne lay that Obama's promised line-by-
line scrub of the federal budget had produced a roster of 121
budget cuts totaling $17 billion - or about one-half of 1 per-
cent of the $3.4 trillion budget Congress has approved for
next year. The details were being unveiled Thursday.
Those savings are far exceeded by a phone-book-sized vol-
ume detailing Obama's generous increases for domestic pro-
grams that will accompany the call for cuts.
Most of the major elements of Obama's budget for next
year were released in February. Additional details were com-
ing out Thursday and next week.
The roster of cuts won’t be easy for Congress to swallow.
Lawmakers from the potent California, New York and
Florida delegations are sure to fight the elimination of the
State Criminal Alien Assistance Program, which gives money
to states to help defray the cost of incarcerating illegal immi-
grants who commit crimes. President George W. Bush tried
and failed to kill the $400 million program several times.
Defense Secretary Robert Gates
tells US Marines in Afghanistan
they won't be sent to Pakistan
CAMP LEATHERNECK, Afghanistan (AP) There are no
plans to deploy U.S. ground trmps to Pakistan, U.S. Defense
Secretary Robert Gates said Thursday, despite concerns over
increasing violence between Pakistani troops and Taliban mili-
tants.
Speaking to about 300 Marines at Camp Leatherneck in south-
ern Afghanistan on Thursday, Gates assured them that they
wouldn't lx* fighting in the neighboring sovereign nation.
During a 12-minute question-anil-answer session in sweltering
heat, Gates told a sergeant he didn’t have to "worry about going to
Pakistan."
Pakistan's military continued fighting Taliban guerrillas in die
Swat Valley on Thursday. On Wednesday, Pakistani President Asif
Ai Zardari appealed to President Barack Obama for more help
reversing the extension ofTaliban -held territory to within 60 miles
of the capital, Islamabad.
Brig. Gen. John Nicholson, the top U.S. commander in south-
ern Afghanistan, told reporters that he expects to see an increase
of violence in Afghanistan Ixtiveen now and elections this fall.
Gov. Lynch tells the people of NH:
I'll make The best decision I can'
on gay marriage
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) The legalization of gay marriage
in New Hampshire hinges on the next move of Gov. John
Lynch, who remains uncommitted but has said he believes
the word "marriage" should be reserved for the union of a
man and a woman.
"I'm going to talk to legislators and I'm going to talk to the
people of New Hampshire and ultimately make the best deci-
sion I can for the people of New I lampshire, the Democratic
governor said Wednesday evening.
The state's gay marriage bill squeaked through the House
on a 178-167 vote after an hour of debate. Both chambers
appear to be far short of enough votes to override a veto.
If Lynch signs the bill or lets it become law without his sig-
nature, New Hampshire would become the sixth state in the
nation to legalize gay marriage after Maine approved the leg-
islation Wednesday.
Gov. John Baldacci, a Democrat who hadn't indicated how
he would handle Maine's bill, signed it shortly after the legis-
lation passed the Senate on a vote of 21-13 a margin not
large enough to override a veto.
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