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Postmaster: Send address changes to The Daily Herald, P.O. Box 717, Provo, Utah 84603-0717. New subscriptions, restarts, deliveryor billing information, call 375-5103 weekdays from 6 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. SUBSCRIPTIONPROGRAMS Daly & Sunday Thur, Fr, SatsingssHolidays* Thursday Only $0, Sunday Only Sun, Thur & Holidays* *Holiday delivery includes delivery MEMBER, AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS the weeks of Easter, Memorial Day Independence Days Pioneer Day. Labor Day, Thanksgiving, Criistmas pe womthe ata February 22, 2006 Michigan in 2000. 365 Million nebraska lottery QHHBO “I've beenretired for aboutfourbi now.” Eric $15.5 monafter taxes MikeTerpstra,a 47-year-old plant supervisor who is single and has nochildren, was unsure whatto do with the money. “Everybody has dreams,” he said. “Buy an island. Buy an air- |[T In a 2-to-1 margin, Americansbelieve Katrina recovery should be a higherpriority for governmentspending than the war in Iraq. Whichdo you think should be How confident are you that the higher priority for the money government spending? Katrina recovery is being Hurricane Katrina recovery spent wisely? lraq war EEE the money we're spending on Katrina?” she asks — and she doubts the governmentcould ably handle another major disaster. And a new Associated Press-Ipsos Public Affairs poll suggests she is far from alone. The poll finds public confidence in governmentdisaster readiness is lowertoday,six months after Katrina struck, than it was in early September 2005, when images of rooftopstranded storm victims were fresh in the nation’s mind. Slightly less than half of those polled, 47 percent, said they were very or somewhat confident in the government's preparedness — downfrom 56 percentin the days after the storm and 54 percentin midSeptember. Andjust one in three Americans is confident the money set aside for Katrina recovery efforts, an expected $100 billion, is being spent wisely, down from half in mid-September, the poll found. In the eyes of Tuzinski, a J Howconfidentare you in the federal government's ability to handle a major disaster in the future? Confident” Not confident** reo.52% ors os] 72-year-old former public relations worker now living in Olyphant, Pa., whoclassifies herself as a strong Democrat, the recovery effort along the Gulf Coast has been lackluster. “They just seemlike they don't want to do anything with it; it’s going to cost any money — it’ just, ‘Let'shope for the best,’” she saysina telephone interview.“This is like the gang that couldn't shoot straight.” The findings come on the heels of a scathing House report that concluded failure of initiative and preparation by all levels of government cost lives and prolonged suffering becauseof the epic hurricane. “The preparation for and OF MEDICAL-DEN TAL TECHNOLOGY Health Career Trai ning From Utah's Premier Health Career College * Very and somewhat confident ** Not too and not at all confident NOTE: May not equal 100 percent due to rounding or exclusion of "not sure” response Margin error + 3 percentage points;pol of 1,000 adults was taken Feb. 13-16 AP response to Hurricane Katrina should disturb all Americans,” warned the report, prepared by a Republican-dominated committee that studied the storm andits aftermath. Nearly six months after Katrina made landfall, enormous swaths of Louisiana and Mississippi remain shattered. And earlier this month, the government announced it would no longer pay hotels to house thousands of storm refugees. The AP-Ipsos poll, which surveyed 1,000 adults Feb. 13-16 and has a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 3 percentagepoints, alsofound anearly mirror-imagesplit between Republicans and Democrats on the issue of handling the next majordisaster. Nearly three in four Republicans, 70 percent, said they were Ment in inthe government's readiness. Almost the same proportion of Democrats, Provoand Draper, uT Campuses Mountain West Foot & Ankle Institute Stephen Ohlemacher THE ASSOCIATED PRESS is being wasted. “Everybody threw money at the problem to makeit go away from political standpoint,” says Colony, who classifies himself as strongly Republican. Almost from the beginning, Hurricane Katrina has proved to be a racial flashpointin America, with some critics charging the response was slow because so manyofits victims wereblack. And the poll found notable racial differences in the waythe nation thinks about the storm and the recovery effort a half-year later. Minorities were also nearly twice as likely as whites — 42 _percent to 22 percent — to say the government should be spending more on the recovery. Minorities also wereless likely to express confidence in how the government would handle a future disaster. ° e 9 D e egenerative S _ ti e 9 1Sc e 9 | | | | | WASHINGTON — When Lisa Koch asked several people at a Chicago soup kitchen to complete a survey of the people who eat there, she got a surprising response:“They asked how it would take because they to get back to workafter lunch.” A national survey of people eating at soup kitchens, food banks andshelters found that 36 percent came from households in whichat least one personhada job. In the Chicago area,it was 39 percent. “Even though the ony. might be changing,it isn't creating the kinds ofjobs that allow people to make ends meet,” said Kochof the Greater Chicago Food Depository. Morethan 25 million Americans turned to the nation's largest network of food banks, soupkitchens andshelters for meals last year, up 9 percent from 2001, says the report by America’s Second Harvest. Those seeking food included 9 million children andnearly 3 million seniorcitizens, the report says. PeThefiface of hunger doesn't havea particular color, and it doesn't come froma particular neighborhood,” said Ertharin Cousin, executive vice president oerasy's Second Harey are your neighbors,tl are working seemthey are seniorcitizens who have worked their entire lives, and they are children.” The organization said it interviewed 52,000 people at food banks, clatica: wasn't there or you oat pe five bucksin, sorry,” he The other winners were: David Gehle, 53; Chasity Rutjens, 29; Dung Tran,34; and Robert Svat 30. The winning numbers were 15,17, 43, 44 and 48, witha Powerball number of 29. The odds of picking the winning combination of numbers were1 in 146 million. Powerball tickets are sold in 28 states, the District of Columbia andthe U.S.Virgin Islands. food bank served more than 25 million in 2005 cent. For Democrats,the figure has dropped from 47 percent five months agoto 30 percent today. Among the concerned Republicans is David Colony, a 43-year-old stay-at-homefather in Waxhaw, N.C.,just outside Charlotte. While he believes the governmentdidthe best it could during the Katrina disaster, he thinks recovery money erniated Disc c americaninstitute.edu 1-800-377-2907 offlying and don’t really like water.” The winnerssaid they often pooled their money with other workers when Powerball jackpots exceeded $40 million. Maboussou said he did not think employees who did not chip in for the tickets would harbor anyill will toward the winners. “I don’t think they havea reason to be jealous because when it's'a pool day, we ask people to put like in five bucks, so if you now dropped to just 37 per- ‘SOURCE: Ipsos for AP Pe AMERICAN INSTITUTE www. conti Not confident* Not sure: 5%: ery — “What happened toall Director United States’ largest 72 percent, said they were not confident. But the poll also found a striking drop in confidence among Republicans in whether the federal money earmarked for Gulf Coast recovery was being spent responsibly. In mid-September,60 percent of Republicans said they believed that money was being spent wisely. That figure has Fading confidence after Katrina an Irene Tuzinski, a retiree living in a small, northeast Pennsylvania town,about the legacy of Hurricane Katrina, and she answerswith an intense blend of bewilderment and outrage. She questions the government's handlingofthe recov- LDiy Jaynes, Acting Lottery plane.Inreality, I’m not a fan Confidence low in governmentafter Katrina _Erin McClam_ THE ASSOCIATED PRESS DOLLARS NNATI HARNIK/Associated Press Dung Tran, center,in a red Nebraska cap, holds a ceremonial $365 million dollar check with Neb. Gov. Dave Heineman helping, secondleft, in Lincoln, Neb., on Wednesday. Tran, who shares the ' Foods plantin Lincoln, Neb., was’ |. record powerball jackpot with seven co-workers at a Cot the one who had boughtthe winningticket. Each gets about $15.5 million after taxes. The Nebraska workers had the option of taking the money in one lump sum or 30 annual installments. They chose the lump sum andwill get $15.5 million eachafter taxes. Three of the group quit their jobs whentheyhit the jackpot. “I've beenretired for about four days now,”said Eric Zornes,40. Alain Maboussou,26,said he fled the Congoin 1999 to escape unrestafter the civil war there. Hesaid he plans to quit work and return to schoolfor a degree in business administration. wife and baby daughter. “She's going to be happy for the restof herlife,” he said of the 3-month-oldgirl. otheruse is strictly prohibited without written permission. ‘Jackpot Winners two ” the of is great country!” said Quang Dao, 56, who came to the United States in 1988. He | still has family in Vietnam and said he plans to help chem financially with his winnings. The previous U.S. jackpot record was $363 million, won by twoticketholdersin Illinois and The moneywill provide for his All contents Copyright © 2006 Dally Herald. Any reproduction or and New Year's Day. forward Wednesday _= ey jackpot in million. SENIOR MANAGERS Online | $300M 1jac Kers :win , oO Newsroom 801-344-2540 www.heraldextra.com Thursday, February 23, 2006 ig lo Newspap ' Customer Service 375-5103 i) HERALD kitchens and churches and private eats groups. Thesurveys were done before Hurricanes Katrina and Rita hit the Gulf Coast in 2005. After the hurricanes, demand for emergency food assistance tripled in Gulf Coast states, according to a separate report by the group. The new report, being released today, found that 35 percent of people seeking food came from households that received food stamps. Cousin said the numbers show that the government program, while important,is insufficient. “The benefits they are receivsaid. Government reports also show the numberof hungry Americans increasing. AUS.Department of Agriculture report released last year said 13.5 million American households, 12 percent, had difficultyprovidingenough enough _food for family some timein non Thatwa up from about 11 percent in 2003. Jean Daniel, a USDA spokeswoman,said private groups playan i ant role in supreenact the government’s safety net. “Wehavesaid all along that the government cannot this alone, nor should it,” Daniel said.“Their efforts dovetail vepynk nicely with ours.” ‘ Some local food-assistance | groups saw big j inthe ' number of seeking food, ; despite an con a In Washington,the Capital _the food bank’s spokeswoman.” { sheersacrossthecountry lst ee nearly half! Freee report report reveals; a new Les approved non-surgical -Surgil solution i for} serious and chronic low back pain. 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