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Denton Record-Chronicle
Tuesday, October 7, 2014
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New Ebola case from Spain
James R. Burnett/AP
Ashoka Mukpo is loaded into an ambulance Monday after
arriving in Omaha, Neb. Mukpo, an American video journal-
ist who contracted Ebola while working in Liberia, was tak-
en to Nebraska Medical Center.
By Connie Cass
and Lauran Neergaard
Associated Press
WASHINGTON - Raising
fresh concern around the
world, a nurse in Spain on
Monday became the first per-
son known to catch Ebola out-
side the outbreak zone in West
Africa. In the U.S., President
Barack Obama said the gov-
ernment was considering or-
dering more careful screening
of airline passengers arriving
from the region.
In dealing with potential
Ebola cases, Obama said, “we
don’t have a lot of margin for
error.”
Already hospitalized in the
U.S., a critically ill Liberian
man, Thomas Duncan, began
receiving an experimental drug
in Dallas. But there were en-
couraging signs for an Ameri-
can video journalist who re-
turned from Liberia for treat-
ment. Ashoka Mukpo, 33, was
able to walk off the plane be-
fore being loaded on a stretch-
er and taken to an ambulance,
and his father said his symp-
toms of fever and nausea ap-
peared mild.
“It was really wonderful to
see his face,” said Dr. Mitchell
Levy, who talked to his son over
a video chat system at Nebras-
ka Medical Center.
In Spain, the stricken nurse
had been part of a team that
treated two missionaries flown
home to Spain after becoming
infected with Ebola in West Af-
rica. The nurse’s only symptom
was a fever, but the infection
was confirmed by two tests,
Spanish health officials said.
She was being treated in isola-
tion, while authorities drew up
a list of people she had had
contact with.
Medical workers in Texas
were among Americans wait-
ing to find out whether they
had been infected by Duncan,
the African traveler.
In Washington, the White
House continued to rule out
any blanket ban on travel from
West Africa.
People leaving the outbreak
zone are checked for fevers be-
fore they’re allowed to board
airplanes, but the disease’s in-
cubation period is 21 days and
symptoms could arise later.
Airline crews and border
agents already watch for obvi-
ously sick passengers, and in a
high-level meeting at the
White House, officials discuss-
ed potential options for screen-
ing passengers when they ar-
rive in the U.S. as well.
Obama said the U.S. will be
“working on protocols to do
additional passenger screening
both at the source and here in
the United States.” He did not
outline any details or offer a
timeline for when new mea-
sures might begin.
The Obama administration
maintains that the best way to
protect Americans is to end the
outbreak in Africa. To that end,
the U.S. military was working
Monday on the first of 17 prom-
ised medical centers in Liberia
and training up to 4,000 sol-
diers this week to help with the
Ebola crisis.
The U.S. is equipped to stop
any further cases that reach
this country, said White House
spokesman Josh Earnest.
“The tragedy of this situa-
tion is that Ebola is rapidly
spreading among populations
in West African who don’t have
that kind of medical infrastruc-
ture,” Earnest said.
About 350 U.S. troops are
already in Liberia, the Penta-
gon said, to begin building a
25-bed field hospital for med-
ical workers infected with Ebo-
la. A torrential rain delayed the
start of the job on Monday.
The virus has taken an es-
pecially devastating toll on
health care workers, sickening
or killing more than 370 in the
hardest-hit countries of Libe-
ria, Guinea and Sierra Leone
— places that already were
short on doctors and nurses
before Ebola.
Gov. Rick Perry urged the
U.S. government to screen air
passengers arriving from Ebo-
la-affected nations, including
taking their temperatures.
Denton County
to mail out 14
tax statements
By Bj Lewis
Staff Writer
blewis @ dentonrc. com
Property tax time is here
again in Denton County.
Homeowners can expect to
see their 2014 tax statements in
their mailboxes soon — about
500,000 of them will be mailed
out this week. Michelle French,
Denton County tax assessor/
collector, encourages residents
to pay attention to their state-
ments and pay early to meet the
deadline and avoid fees.
“The biggest thing is to look
at the document to make sure
everything looks correct — the
entities on their statement —
and make sure addresses are
still correct,” she said.
If anything looks amiss, resi-
dents are urged to contact the
Denton Central Appraisal Dis-
trict or the tax office to get help.
French touted the numer-
ous ways residents can pay
their taxes, including credit and
debit cards, phone, bill pay, in
person, mail and electronic
check, before the Jan. 31 due
date.
“E-check saves them a trip to
the office, saves postage and al-
lows us to more quickly and effi-
ciently post it to the tax roll.”
French said the mail that
comes in has to be sorted man-
ually, which could delay when
the payment is posted.
“If a person decides to mail
their tax payment Jan. 31, there
is no provision to waive penalty
and interest if they are one day
late,” she said.
French said the same rule
applies to online payments.
The county has had good
fortune when it comes to prop-
erty taxes the last few years,
with between 80 percent to 85
percent of the people getting
their payment in by the dead-
line.
Statements should arrive in
mailboxes no later than Nov. 15,
and if a statement hasn’t arrived
by then, French said to call the
tax office for help.
“We want to make sure we
assist in getting that tax state-
ment to them. We don’t want
anyone to pay any more than
they are required to pay,”
French said. “Don’t wait until
the very last minute, because
you don’t know what will hap-
pen.”
BJ LEWIS can be reached at
940-566-6875 and via Twitter
at @BjLewisDRC.
Even a coroner
receives military
surplus guns
By Michael Kunzelman
Associated Press
BATON ROUGE, La. -
Doug Wortham used a Defense
Department giveaway program
for law enforcement to stock his
office with an assault rifle, a
handgun and a Humvee — even
though the people in his custody
are in no condition to put up a
fight.
They’re dead.
Wortham is the Sharp Coun-
ty, Arkansas, coroner. He says
the Humvee helps him navigate
the rugged terrain of the Ozarks
foothills, but he struggled to ex-
plain why he needs the surplus
military weapons he acquired
more than two years ago.
“I just wanted to protect my-
self;’ he said.
His office isn’t the only gov-
ernment agency with limited
policing powers and a question-
able need for high-powered
weaponry to take advantage of
the program.
While most of the surplus
weapons go to municipal police
departments and county sher-
iffs, an Associated Press review
shows that a diverse array of oth-
er state and local agencies also
have been scooping up guns and
other tactical equipment no lon-
ger needed by the military.
Military-grade weapons have
gone to government agencies
that enforce gaming laws at
Kansas tribal casinos and weigh
18-wheelers in Mississippi, to
the Wyoming Livestock Board
and the Cumberland County Al-
coholic Beverage Control Board
in Fayetteville, North Carolina.
Other military surplus items
have been bestowed on an ani-
mal control department in Cull-
man County, Alabama; a har-
bormaster in Dartmouth, Mas-
sachusetts; and the California
Assembly’s Sergeant-at-Arms.
The Pentagon’s 1033 Pro-
gram has been controversial; the
White House ordered a review
of it and similar programs in Au-
gust after a deadly police shoot-
ing in Ferguson, Missouri, led to
clashes between protesters and
officers decked out in combat
gear.
Under the 1033 Program,
thousands of law-enforcement
agencies have acquired hun-
dreds of millions of dollars in
weapons and other military
castoffs.
Among them were dozens of
fire departments, district attor-
neys, prisons, parks depart-
ments and wildlife agencies that
were eligible to join the program
because they have officers or in-
vestigators who have arrest
powers.
Guns, armored vehicles and
aircraft only account for a frac-
tion of the equipment up for
grabs.
Several agencies surveyed by
the AP said they never asked for
any weapons and only enrolled
in the program to get free office
equipment and other common
items that wouldn’t be deployed
on any battlefield.
The agencies receiving fire-
arms are difficult to pinpoint be-
cause the federal agency over-
seeing the program only releases
county-level data on weapons
transfers, citing security con-
cerns.
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ISIS attacks Syrian border town
Lefteris Pitarakis/AP
Turkish soldiers stand atop and around their tanks Monday as they hold their positions on
a hilltop in the outskirts of Suruc, at the Turkey-Syria border, overlooking Kobani in Syria,
where fighting has intensified between Syrian Kurds and the Islamic State.
By Ryan Lucas
and Lefteris Pitarakis
Associated Press
MURSITPINAR, Turkey
— Islamic State fighters
backed by tanks and artillery
pushed into an embattled Syri-
an town on the border with
Turkey on Monday, touching
off heavy street battles with the
town’s Kurdish defenders.
Hours after the militants
raised two of their Islamic
State group’s black flags on the
outskirts of Kobani, the mili-
tants punctured the Kurdish
front lines and advanced into
the town itself, the Local Coor-
dination Committees activist
collective and the Britain-
based Syrian Observatory for
Human Rights said.
“They’re fighting inside the
city. Hundreds of civilians have
left,” said Observatory director
Rami Abdurrahman. “The Is-
lamic State controls three
neighborhoods on the eastern
side of Kobani. They are trying
to enter the town from the
southwest as well.”
The center of the town was
still in Kurdish hands, Abdur-
rahman said. Kurdish officials
could not be immediately
reached for comment.
Since it began its offensive
in mid-September, the Islamic
State group has barreled
through one Kurdish village af-
ter another as it closed in on its
main target — the town of Ko-
bani, also known as Ayn Arab.
The assault has forced some
160,000 Syrians to flee and put
a strain on Kurdish forces, who
have struggled to hold off the
extremists even with the aid of
limited U.S.-led airstrikes.
Capturing Kobani would
give the Islamic State group,
which already rules a huge
stretch of territory spanning
the Syria-Iraq border, a direct
link between its positions in
the Syrian province of Aleppo
and its stronghold of Raqqa, to
the east. It would also crush a
lingering pocket of resistance
and give the group full control
of a large stretch of the Turk-
ish-Syrian border.
After initially setting up po-
sitions to the east, south and
west of the town, the Islamic
State group shelled Kobani for
days to try to loosen up the de-
fenses. Just across the frontier
in Turkey, the steady thud of
artillery, sharp crackle of gun-
fire and plumes of smoke rising
over the rooftops testified to
the intensity of the fight all day
Monday.
“ISIS is advancing further
toward Kobani day by day,”
said Ismet Sheikh Hassan, the
defense chief for Kurdish forc-
es in the area, using an alterna-
tive name for the Islamic State
group. “ISIS is fighting with
tanks and heavy weapons and
they are firing randomly at Ko-
bani. There are many civilian
casualties because of the shell-
ing.”
The Syrian Observatory for
Human Rights said about 20
Islamic State fighters managed
to sneak into the eastern part of
Kobani overnight, but were
ambushed and killed by Kurd-
ish militiamen.
Syrian Kurdish forces have
long been among the most ef-
fective adversaries of the Is-
lamic
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