29 JULY 2015
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Wednesday, July 29, 2015
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Today is the 210th day of the year. There are 155 days left in the year.
On this day in 1958, President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs an act that creates the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). He called the signing a historic step, further equipping the United States for leadership in the space age.
ON THIS DAY IN:
1773 - The first schoolhouse to be located west of the Allegheny Mountains was built in Schoenbrunn, OH.
1914 - The first transcontinental telephone service was inaugurated when two people held a conversation between New York, NY and San Francisco, CA.
1981 - England's Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer were married.
1993 - The Israeli Supreme Court acquitted retired Ohio autoworker John Demjanjuk of being Nazi death camp guard "Ivan the Terrible." His death sentence was thrown out and he was set free.
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News Segment
1
CONFEDERATE FLAG STAYS
First National Flag of the Confederacy
To Replace Battle Flag
By: T.H. Merritt
In a sometimes raucous meeting yesterday, Walton County Commissioners voted unanimously to keep the Confederate Flag flying above the Confederate War Memorial on the county courthouse lawn in Defuniak Springs.
There was standing room only at Tuesday’s meeting and an overflow crowd into the administration offices as hundreds of people filled the chamber for Tuesday’s debate. Other county business shadowed the main event as over 50 people signed up to speak before the Board of County Commissioners. Each person was given 3 minutes and several yielded their time to other speakers to keep the process moving.
The session commenced at promptly at 9 AM and by 9:45, the agenda turned to the flag debate. County Administrator Larry Jones began by presenting the commissioners with several viable options. The first was to do nothing and allow the flag to remain. Second, was to remove the flag altogether. Third, was to put the issue to a referendum and allow the people to decide and the fourth option was to replace the “Battle Flag” with the 3rd National Flag of the Confederacy.
Vice-Chairman Sara Comander immediately offered an olive branch in a conciliatory proposal to remove the flag commonly referred to as the “Battle Flag,” and replace it with the First National Flag of the Confederacy.
Despite never having historically represented the Confederate States of America as a country, nor officially recognized as one of its national flags, the rectangular Second Confederate Navy Jack and the Battle Flag of Northern Virginia are commonly referred to as "the Confederate Flag". They both have become a widely recognized symbol of the American south.
Comander’s proposal was immediately met with objections and groans by those who want no Confederate flag at all at the memorial. However, she was applauded and cheered by those who support the flag.
District 1
Commissioner Bill Chapman said he decided the flag must come down and would
vote to remove it. District 3
Commissioner Bill Imfeld supported the removal of the flag as well. Both Commissioners said they believed it was
a divisive symbol that was not good for the county.
However, it was
District 5 Commissioner Cindy Meadows who urged the commission and residents
not to allow outside forces to divide them.
She pointed to the very controversy today as proof that conflict among
citizens is a tragedy. She said she
believed we could and should reach a compromise. Meadows said she thought we
could still honor our Confederate dead and also address a version of the flag
that many find offensive. She
immediately seconded Commissioner Comander’s initial motion to replace the
Battle Flag with the more accurate and First National Flag of the
Confederacy.
In the end, commissioners agreed and voted unanimously with the compromise first proposed by Commissioner Sara Comander. I spoke with Commissioner Bill Chapman about yesterday’s decision. He said, “ If it cost me the election, then, so be it. I did what I thought was right.”
There was one Commissioner who was conspicuously absent: District 4 Commissioner Cecilia Jones. She took a vacation.
County officials will raise the First National Flag of the Confederacy over the memorial as soon as it arrives.
News Segment 2
Second Human Case of West Nile Virus Illness Confirmed
The Florida Department of Health in Walton County
has upgraded the mosquito-borne illness advisory to an “alert” for Walton County
according to Holly Holt, DOH-Walton Administrator. A second human case of West Nile virus illness has been confirmed and there is a
heightened concern that additional residents will become ill.
DOH-Walton continues to advise the public to remain diligent in their personal mosquito protection efforts by remembering to “Drain and Cover.” Stay safe by draining any standing water near or in your home, making sure that screens are intact, and keeping your skin covered with clothing and mosquito repellent.
Doctors are now being advised to begin looking for signs of the illness in patients who present with symptoms.
SHOOTING IN OKALOOSA
The Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office is investigating a shooting in West Okaloosa County Tuesday that injured a Fort Walton Beach man.
Deputies responded to a business on Skylark Drive around 1:30 this afternoon after witnesses say a man, later identified as 26-year old James Mills of Fort Walton Beach, arrived on a motorcycle bleeding from a gunshot wound to the face. Deputies learned the shooting had taken place at a trailer at 813 Hilltop Road. A female resident says Mills had entered the trailer and gotten into a fight with another man who had been sleeping inside. The fight continued outside and at some point Mills suffered a gunshot wound. Investigators found blood inside and outside the residence.
Mills was taken by medical helicopter to Sacred Heart
Hospital in Pensacola. The other individual believed to
be involved was located in Santa Rosa County after showing up at Gulf Breeze
Hospital for treatment of
his fight-related injuries. The investigation is ongoing.
News Segment 3
WCSO SEARCHES FOR MISSING WALTON COUNTY MAN
Walton County Sheriff’s deputies were called out late Monday night to perform a welfare check on 35-year-old Ryan McMullen who had threatened to harm himself. It is believed that he went into the woods near the power lines north of his home on Winston Manor Lane.
Around 10PM Sheriff’s K9 Kayne began searching the swampy area in search of McMullen. Walton and Okaloosa County Prison K9's were brought in and began tracking around 1:30AM, but were unable to locate him.
The public is asked keep an eye out for Ryan as he suffers from epilepsy and his family is concerned for his safety. Contact the Walton County Sheriff’s office if you have any information about his whereabouts.
FWB MAN DEAD AFTER STANDOFF
Police say a man has died following a standoff at a homein Fort Walton Beach.
According to a news release from the Fort Walton Beach Police Department, 51-year-old Dwayne Taylor was found dead inside the home around 7 p.m. Monday night. Few other details about the standoff and Taylor's death have been released.
Officers arrived at the home around 4:30 p.m
Monday afternoon after a 911 caller reported hearing gunshots. Officers tried
talking to the man on loudspeakers but got no response. That's when officers
from Fort Walton Beach
and Crestview entered the home.
No further details about the incident have been released.
Residents of nearby homes were evacuated as a
precaution during the standoff.
News Segment 4
CASINO
GAMBLING IN GENEVA
COUNTY?
Geneva
County, AL
commissioners heard a proposal Monday to build a casino.
Nathan Mathis, Chief of an Indian tribe, says a
casino would create hundreds of jobs and increase the county’s general
fund from four to ten million dollars.
Mathis’ plan would also help fund a new county jail. Geneva County
Commissioners will consider his proposal.
CHURCH
BURGLARIZED
A Holmes County
church was burglarized Monday night.
Deputies say the East
Pittman Baptist
Church on Hwy. 179 near
Bonifay was broken into and the safe forced open.
Investigators
developed leads that led to the arrest of 54-year old Charles Douglas Mixon for
Burglary. Mixon was booked into the Holmes County Jail yesterday. A review of the scene by church staff and
investigators determined no items were taken from the safe.
Obituaries - Listen in the morning, just after noon and the 4pm hour
Frank "Fred" Ammons of Ponce de Leon died July 26, 2015. Visitation 6:00~8:00 PM, Wednesday, July 29, at Clary-Glenn Funeral Home Chapel; 230 Park Avenue, DeFuniak Springs, Florida Funeral services 10:00 AM, Thursday, July 30, at Clary-Glenn Funeral Home Chapel,. Burial will follow in the New Ponce De Leon Cemetery, with Military Honors. www.clary-glenn.com. Clary-Glenn Funeral Home is entrusted with the arrangements.
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