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Show EEI ae a soras ek , % Sunday www heraldextra.com UraVALEY eo $1.50 YOUR TOWN: YOUR NEIGHBORS - YOUR NEWSPAPER : OUR TOWNS RUBBER DUCKY CONTESTWADES THROUGH SCERA Cs 2 LIFE & STYLE & with Nashville label Chiefjustice dies at home Death of Rehnquistcreates rare 2nd vacancy onhigh court creates a rare second vacancy onthe nation’s highest court. WASHINGTON — Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist died Saturday evening of cancer, ending a 33-year SupremeCourt career during whichhe oversawthecourt's conservative KEVIN WOLF/Associated Press. Chief Justice William Rehnquist leaves his homein this June 27 photoin Arlington, Va. Rehnquist died shift, presided over an impeachmenttrial and Saturday evening at his home surroundedby family. helped decidea presidentialelection. His death Mink farm Rehnquist, 80, was surroundedbyhis three children when hedied at his home in suburban Arlington. His wife died in 1991. “The chief justice battled thyroid cancer since being diagnosed last October and continued to perform his duties on the court until a pre- days,” said court spokeswoman Kathy Arberg. Rehnquist was appointed to the Supreme Court as anassociatejustice in 1971 by President Nixon and took his seat on Jan.7, 1972. He waselevatedto chief justice by President Reaganin 1986. Thedeath leaves President Bush with his second court opening within four months andsets up what's expected to be an even morebruising cipitous declinein his health the last couple of See REHNQUIST, A7 AGONY OF DEFEAT: BYU FALLS TO BC raising a stink | Locals say animals | are terrors; owner says he’s followed every regulation Amie Rose DAILY HERALD Residents settledin this quiet, rural residential community knowing they’d be surrounded byhayfields and farm animals. But nowthey say they're be- ing terrorized by minks— a few residents say minks have crawled through doggy doors into their homes; they say animals arekilling chickens and biting small pets; and one man says minks haveclawed through windowscreens trying to get into his house. And thenthere’s the pungent smell, they say. Farmersofall kinds around the county face problems with developmentspringing up | JEREMY HARMON /Daily Herald season on Saturday. Ohno,not again: A frustrated BYU fan watchesas the Cougarsfall to Boston College during theirfirst home gameofthe Drive-killing penalties andthe inability to score plagued BYUin its 20-3 loss to Boston College. See Sports around them,butin this caseit was the mink farm that sprouted upin the middleofan areathat’s becoming moreresidential than agricultural. Jeff Klatt, a mink farm neighbor. “All night I have to keep the lights on.I have shot one in my house. They'resnarling and nasty.It’s very scary.” The south county mink farm New Orleans evacuation picks up steam expands, grows owner, Larry Carson, said he’s Allen G. Breed THE ASSOCIATEDPRESS tion, building his mink sheds in NEW ORLEANS— The last bedrag- followed every county regula- an area wherethe county saysit belongs. “It's an agricultural operation, andit smells,”hesaid. Carson sayshe’s gone above See MINKS, A7 HISTORY oamuagiés OPINIONS UFERSTYLE BUSINESS Movies _B4, BS 86 AS C1 C10. G more costly for the government gled refugees were rescued from the Superdomeon Saturday and the conven- MichaelJ. Sniffen tion center was all but cleared, leaving the heart of New Orleans to the dead and dying, the elderly andfrail stranded too many days without food, water or medical care. | public and expanding ways of shrouding data. Last year, fedet- | al agencies spenta record $148: creating and storing new secrets for each $1 spent declassifying= - ined city, crumpled on wheelchairs, aban- old secrets, a coalition of watch-: doned on highways. , Partly cloudy HGH gg Low 53 |Gue 83 ISSUE 35 6 Wnt li 5 WASHINGTON — The gov- | ernmentis withholding more information than ever from the No one knows how manywerekilled by Hurricane Katrina's floods and how many more succumbed waiting to be rescued. But the bodies are everywhere: hiddenin attics,floating among the ru- INSIDE WEATHER _D10 SPORTS 1 OURTOWNS Bt Report: Secrecy IN KATRINA'S WAKE “I have to worry about minks coming into my house,”said dog groupsreported Saturday. That's a $28 jumpfrom 2003 -: The last refugees at the Superdome and the conventioncenterclimbed aboard buses Saturday boundfor shelters, but the dying goes on. Gov. Kathleen Blanco said Saturday that she expected the deathtoll to reach the thousands, And Craig Vanderwagen, rear admiral of the U.S. Public Health Service,said one morgue alone,at a St. Gabriel prison, expected 1,000 to 2,000 bodies. Touring the airport triage center, Senate Majority LeaderBill Frist, R-Tenn.,a physician, said “a lot more than eight to 10 people are dying a day.” | when $120 was spentto keep se: crets for every$1 spent revealing them.In the late 1990s, the ratio-* MELANIE BURFORD/TheDallas Moming News | was $15-$17 a year to $1, according to the secrecy report card by” Mary Lowery, right, plays with Hurricane Katrina evacuees Ryan Chambers,2, OpenTheGovernment.org. center, and Wysheka Nicholson, 4, while they collectclothingin Dallas on Saturday. | Overall, the government spent $7.2 billion in 2004 stamping 15.6 million documents “top secret,” watch overthe facility But some progress was evident. 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