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Qi side Sports, IB Tubby: 'Cats still need better effort on Region, 1C Scenic Tunnel Hill trail draws 'fitness tourists' to southern Illinois. Keeping teachers KEA president says fixing health care key for recruiting, retaining better i teachers. i defense. q4t 1 i i' I i wtcw.paducahsnn.com Democrats gear up for lengthy presidential campaign orchestra reborn before stepping down last year. 'All musicians who played in the orchestra have been invited to join the new orchestra," Van Fleet said.

I have talked with most of them on the telephone, and response has been terrific. Their parents want be be sure the organization stays on its feet. There is a great deal of excitement." The symphony's youth orchestra had 55 high school musicians, but had positions for 75. Van Fleet said he was way for charities I approached by private investors corporations and one musician's parents who have funded the formation of the new orchestra. He declined to name the donors or discuss the budget, but said the information ultimately may be made public.

A board of directors will be selected soon, along with a name for the new group, said Van Fleet, who also directs the band, orchestra Please see YOUTH 1 2 A BARKLEY TMIELEMANThe Sun 'Christmas in the Park' continues at Noble Park through Dec. 23. The display, presented by Paducah Power System, has more than 350,000 additional lights this year with the addition of the former Fort Massac exhibit. Left, Jill Vaughn takes canned goods from Dorothy Manka. The display is free, but canned items and money are accepted for the Salvation Army, Paducah Cooperative Ministry and Family Service Society.

Display hours are 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. weekdays and Sunday. It is open till 10 p.m. Friday and Saturday.

1 i Laughter medicine 7" JS3 for NBC's V-- Since 1896 Vol. 105 No. 332 Column, 4A Glutted tobacco market is dark Bumper crop means quality dark air-cured tobacco is selling well, but poorer qualities are driving down prices. By Joe Walker Sun Business Editor MAYFIELO, Ky. Growers' fears of a glutted market came true Tuesday as the best dark air-cured tobacco sold well during the first day of auction, but lesser qualities fared worse.

"You just look at what's happening here today and there's no question that it's something of a problem." Will Edd Clark, general manager of the Murray-based Western Dark-Fired tobacco Growers' Association. 'There's an oversupply. You can just tell by the way they're buying." Clark had worried two straight bumper crops would lead to pickier buyers and lower prices. This year's average yield is expected to be slightly less than last year's record of 3,600 pounds, forcing even more tobacco into a surplus pool and guaranteeing future quotas will be cut beyond this year's 10 percent. Clark said the best price he had seen at Mayfield's two floors J.B.

Humphries and New Enterprise was $2.56 a pound. Yet New Enterprise averaged only $1.75, about 5 cents lower than last year, floor manager Marty Harper said. "The good tobacco sold well and the medium tobacco suffered," he said. "The quality was down from what it was last year." Harper said the floor sold 150,000 pounds and 5 percent went to the surplus pool. Because Humphries got a later start, totals were unavailable, owner David Vowell said.

"It was pretty rough. Air-cured didn't sell well. Vowell said the floor had about 300,000 pounds available, about the same as last year. Please see AIR-CURED 12A 1 i I willingness to conduct high-school aged musicians. The new orchestra will be made up of members of the Paducah Symphony Orchestra's Youth Orchestra, which was disbanded for financial reasons by the symphonv board earlier this month.

Paducah musician and conductor Doug Van Fleet said Tuesday that he agreed to direct the teen-agers because of public interest in a youth orchestra. Van Fleet directed the symphony's youth orchestra for two years Lighting li o- i 0 iJ M- If. I ii liiiiwi ii i i i mm wt Arts center Four Rivers Center rep resentative says work should begin before contract finalized. Grading papers Supreme Court looks at whether grading papers in class violates federal privacy law. Crsppio fishing Spring is far off, but hefty catches of crappie needn't be.

Traylor dies Longtime Marshall physician, school supporter Dr. Carroll Traylor dies at 78. FORECAST Today: Cloudy with periods of rain, some heavy. Tonight: Cloudy with a few showers still around. Today Tonight EE! November 28, 2001 Paducah, 42002 HCLD Xiz TiiCwCiiT: Yoettn Funding by private investors and demand by parents gave the disbanded orchestra new life after the Paducah Symphony dropped the program.

By Matt Sander Iho Paducah Sun The curtain dropped briefly on a Paducah-based youth orchestra, but it will rise in the spring thanks to private investors ana a director's Troops narrow terrorist search U.S. forces are concentrating on Kandahar and Tora Bora while searching for weapons of mass destruction. Knight Riddet Newspapers TAMPA, Fla. U.S. forces are hot on the trail of terrorist leader Osama bin Laden, Taliban leader Mullah Mohammed Omar and their top associates, the U.S.

war commander said Tuesday. At the same time Army Gen. Tommy Franks, commander of the Tampa-based Central Command, said his forces are "systematically" examining more than 40 laboratories and other sites in Afghanistan where chemical, biological or nuclear weapons could have been produced. "We will not leave weapons of mass destruction in that country," Franks said. Please see U.S.

6A Couples speed up baby plans 2A Airlines can't comply with safety deadline. Cissell will wear red at head of parade By Angle Klnsey The Paducah Sun Charlip Cissell can remember standing on the sidewalk watching raaucan's evening Christmas parades as a child. On Friday night, Cissell will have a different vantage point of the city's first eveninc holidav Cissell Tennesseans regroup after deadly tornado 1CA Business 4C Classified BA Comics 4C Deaths 4A Editorial 2D TV Listings Ik Lottery "You could have heard a pin drop and the sky was as green as the grass." Farmer and his wife scurried their two children to the basement just in time. The forceful winds ripped the second story off their house and carried it away. When they emerged from the basement, the Farmers found their neighbor Elizabeth Valentine Goforth, 32, dead in their backyard and her children and husband injured.

Please see RESIDENTS 12A Monday night's tornado ravaged parts of Henry County where one person was killed and five others seriously injured. By Tom Sharp Associated Press PARIS, Tenn. Fireman Barry Farmer was watching "Monday Night Football" when a tornado warning scrawled across the screen and he went outside to check the weather. "It got real quiet," he said. mmO parade in almost 40 years.

He's the grand marshal. "1 can't wait," said Cissell, 67, who has directed the red-coated Paducah Ambassadors greeter group for almost 14 years. 'It's a Please see CISSELL 12A Associated Pntss Items found: Larry Carper pushes a wheelbarrow with salvaged items from the home of co-worker Barry Farrfer. l.T I'FlI'Tlil ii -Til.