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Sports Owensboro upsets No. 18 Catholic, 5-4, in overtimeID WEDNESDAY Also inside Sports: Player representative says deal reached on drug testing as strike deadline loomsID Messenger 'Inquirer Education Apollo's John Woolley leads academic team to win1 Vol.128, No. 240 owensboro august 28, 2002 www.messengeMnquirer.com 500 -r. V-- ffTT'- 'V 5- debate on Seeday sales CouEty delays Owensboro City Commission voted 3-2 Aug. 20 to allow qualifying restaurants in the city to sell liquor Sundays from 1 to 11 p.m.

Haire said it would be fair to ask the court to consider passing a similar ordinance so that at least four restaurants outside the city limits would have the same opportunity to sell alcohol on Sundays. Kirtley said Tuesday that he raised the 1982 wetdry election as an issue in a letter to the city in June and has continued to discuss it in a challenged," Kirtley said. "The county stays dry until there is another election the safe, responsible thing would be to seek a declaratory judgment in a civil court" Haire said if Fiscal Court passes the county ordinance, then he will seek that decision from circuit court The judge said Kirtley has told him that he expects the law to be challenged as soon as a business that has been duly licensed by the Kirtley says liquor by drink issue needs circuit court opinion By Joy Campbell Messenger-Inquirer The argument that Daviess County is dry on Sunday because voters overwhelmingly decided that issue in a 1982 countywide referendum has re-entered the Sunday ANALYSIS Deficits 'not caese to panic Fighting from the air -V- Projected red ink may affect congressional spending habits By Ken Moritsugu Knight Ridder Newspapers WASHINGTON The federal budget appears headed back into deficits at least through 2005, a sharp reversal after four years of surpluses. New projections released Tuesday by the Congressional Budget Office paint a more pessimistic picture than similar White House projections from last month. Some independent budget analysts think it could be even worse, with deficits lasting through the rest of the decade.

city and state to sell alcohol on Sundays begins to exercise that option. Kirtley also suggested the city and one of the license applicants could seek a declaratory judgment City disagrees with Kirtley City Attorney David Fowler and City Manager Ron Payne said Tuesday they disagree with Kirtley's argument and have no plans to take further action. They pointed out See CountyPage 2A In the short term, deficits are not a problem. In fact the government is giving a boost to the sluggish economy by spending more than it collects in taxes. The biggest short-term consequence is that the new projections for deficits will make it more difficult politically for Congress to adopt either new tax cuts proposed by President Bush or a Medicare prescription-drug benefit because those measures would make future deficits even bigger.

So would a war with Iraq. But the larger questions are how long the deficits will last and how big they will get The government must borrow money to finance its annual budget deficits. If the borrowing grows large enough, it will push up interest rates, divert capital from businesses and slow the economy. See DeficitsPage 2A White House press secretary Ari Fleischer said, because the president has not yet decided to mount a military campaign to oust Saddam. Nonetheless, Fleischer said Bush pressed his case against Iraq with the Saudis, who oppose any military intervention, because he believes "the world would be better off without Saddam Hussein there." The Saudis, however, were not persuaded.

Saudi foreign policy adviser See CasePage 2A series of letters to interested parties. "The city has every right to do what they did, and Daviess Fiscal Court can create the process for granting licenses to sell alcohol by the drink on Sundays," Kirtley said Tuesday. "The question is, are there any territories in the county where you may legally sell alcohol between 1 p.m. and 12 midnight" For Kirtley, that takes him back to the 1982 referendum. "That wetdry vote has not been Associated Press A conceptual model of the CAP program has been drawn up, and all area doctors will be briefed on the program by the end of the year, said Steve Johnson, Daviess County project manager.

Johnson attended the meeting Tuesday. Doctor involvement should not be a problem once they see what the CAP program can do, said Dr. David Lippmann, a full-time doctor at the McAuley Clinic. It should help ease their burden of paperwork often necessary for the indigent to get medical care and prescription drugs. And it should help alleviate some of the transportation issues.

See HealthPage 2A MDA Telethon An air tanker flies low through heavy smoke to drop its load of fire retar- dant Tuesday on the Fenton Lake Fire in New Mexico's Santa Fe National Forest near La Cueva, N.M. The fire had burned about 3,300 acres as of Tuesday afternoon and is 15 percent contained. Officials began evacuating La Cueva, a community of about 200 homes a few miles east of Fenton Lake, early Tuesday, fire information officer Ignacio Peralta said. liquor by the drink discussion. "County Attorney Bob Kirtley has raised some legal issues," Judge-Executive Reid Haire said Tuesday.

"He believes the only way the wetdry issue can be reversed is through another referendum." Haire said he will postpone a first reading on the county's Sunday alcohol sales ordinance until Sept 19. He will be out of town Sept. 5 and wants to present the proposal at a time when he can be a part of the discussion. committee working to improve prescription drug availability in the area. The Prescription Drug Task Force, a subcommittee of the Citizens Health Care Advocates, has been working to create a prescription drug center and plans a pilot program at the McAuley Clinic in the Daniel Pitino Shelter on Walnut Sheet The center will be only one piece of a larger effort to improve access for the indigent Three entities Daviess Fiscal Court Owensboro Mercy Health System and the health department have been working together to develop a program based on Project Access in Buncombe County (Asheville), N.C.

A tentative name for the local pro day. "Everybody at the stations still has a job, and the formats won't change." William Stakelin, who founded Regent Communications with Terry S. Jacobs in late 1996, said he was happy to finally own Kentucky radio stations. "We don't have any plans for changes at the stations," he said in a telephone interview. ''We're very excited about bringing them into our company.

These will be our first Kentucky stations, and I've wanted Kentucky stations for some time. All 12 Brill stations "are attractive to us," Stakelin said. "But I love the Owensboro market It's a nice, growing market We're happy to be there." Region1 -B Sports1-4D Tetevision3C Yaks Corner 6B Nation FBI adding a week battle terrorism4A on Bush makes case against Iraq to Saudi ambassador Health effort needs doctor involvement Group working to improve care to indigent patients By Lydia Carrico Messenger-Inquirer Before a community-based project to improve health care for the indigent population can move forward, local doctors have to buy into the program, health officials said Tuesday. "The most critical relationship is with the doctors," said Lamone Mayfield, executive director of the Green River District Health Department "Absent of that, the project can't move forward." Mayfield and other health officials on Tuesday met with a citizens Arab nations denounce possible attack by U.S. By G.

Robert Hillman The Dallas Morning News CRAWFORD, Texas President Bush, in a new round of personal ranch diplomacy Tuesday, warned the ambassador from Saudi Arabia that Iraqi President Saddam Hussein was a "menace to world peace." Seeking support for a new regime in Iraq, Bush discussed the issue with Prince Bandar bin Sultan only in a "general sense," Brill Media radio sale finalized gram is Daviess County Community Access Program. The Citizens Health Care Advocates group became involved in improving access to care, and now all groups seem to be meshing their efforts. In addition to the prescription drug component, a transportation system would use software that any doctor in town can plug into to help patients find a way to their office for appointments. The citizens advocates are working on that issue as well. And an intensive case management program could help the uninsured and underinsured with other obstacles that may keep them from obtaining medical care.

Exline said Stakelin will be in Owensboro on Thursday to visit the stations. Regent says the transition should be completed by early next year. But the company will take over operations of the stations immediately, Exline said. Street a publication that monitors the radio industry reported in October 2000 that Gear Channel a radio station chain, had offered $150 million for Brill's radio stations. And in March, it reported that Regent had also been interested in the stations last fall "to the rumored tune of $120 million." See SalePage 2A of training to help agents s)t "-Tnii Matthew Franey, 8, of Owensboro eyes items in the candy machine Tuesday while touring Owensboro Fire Department's Station No.

2. Matthew is this year's Owensboro Ambassador for the Muscular Dystrophy Association. Matthew has spinal muscular atrophy type III, a form of muscular dystrophy. Matthew will be on WFIE-TV MDA Telethon at 8 p.m. Sunday during the opening.

A video of Matthew and his family at their home will be shown at 1 0:50 p.m. Sunday, and he will be at the closing of the telethon at 5:15 p.m. Monday. He will be interviewed on the 5 p.m. WFIE (Owensboro cable channel 4) news Friday.

John Dunham, Messenger-Inquirer bought by Regent Communications By Keith Lawrence Messengp; -InqLirer The Brill Media bankruptcy saga is finally over. A federal bankruptcy judge in New Albany, has ordered 12 of Evansville entrepreneur Alan Brill's radio stations including Owens-boro-based WBKR-FM and WOMI-AM, the city's oldest station sold to Regent Communications of Covington for $62 million. "We're really glad to have this process over," Gary Exline, general manager of the stations, said Tues Astrology3C Ciassified4-8C Comics 5D Dear Abby3C Education1 -2C Markets60 Movies3C Optruorv7A Records 2B, 5B World World summit tackles clean energy proposal, with some resistance6A Region Fourth-grader Skye Burton credited with spotting smoke, saving a barn and two homes1 28 pages, four sections DO' ii nun hi '11111 57211.