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Jim Williams, who died
Wednesday at age 78, was a
defensive assistant for Penn
State football from 1977-1992.
JIM WILLIAMS, 1941-2019
Former
State
College
coach dies
at age 78
BY JON SAUBER
jsauber@centredaily.com
While Jim Williams died
Wednesday morning at 78
years old, the legendary high
school football coach left a
lasting legacy and an in-
delible mark on the Centre
County football community.
It’s a legacy that lives on in
players he coached — as a
head coach at State College,
and as an assistant at Belle-
fonte and to former coach Joe
Paterno at Penn State — and
in his family.
His grandson Tyler Kaluza,
an assistant coach at State
High, said it was his grand-
father who opened up his
eyes to coaching.
“I would always go up with
him when he was at Penn
State,” Tyler Kaluza told the
CDT. “I’d go up to the Lasch
Building and get the behind-
the-scenes stuff, touring the
equipment room, and hang-
ing out with (Brad) ‘Spider’
(Caldwell) and Kirk Diehl.”
After he retired from 16
years of coaching, Williams
became an administrative
assistant for the football
program, retiring in 2005.
While those behind-the-
scenes opportunities influ-
enced Tyler, it was seeing his
grandfather’s impact on the
people he coached that car-
ried the most weight.
“The main thing is seeing
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Parents to face trial on
charges of child abuse in
death of 8-week-old
After a preliminary hearing
BY BRET PALLOTTO that lasted nearly five hours,
bpallotto@centredaily.com District Judge Thomas Jordan
moved Tyler Baney and Ciara
BELLEFONTE Steffey toward trial on one felony
A district judge sent a Julian count each of endangering the
man and Pleasant Gap woman welfare of a child and involuntary
toward trial Friday on charges manslaughter, along with one
that accused them of failing to misdemeanor count of recklessly
properly care for their endangering another person.
2-month-old son who died of A State College police detec-
blunt force trauma in February. tive, two FBI agents and a child
Parrish Drug Store on North Allegheny Street in Bellefonte will close its doors on Oct. 22 after more than 100 years in business.
Bellefonte’s Parrish Apothecary
to close for financial reasons
Ronald Montgomery since 1965,
BY MARLEY PARISH the pharmacy — located on 114
mparish@centredaily.com N. Allegheny St. in Bellefonte —
has prescriptions that date back
After more than 120 years in to 1890, said son Dave Mont-
business, Parrish Apothecary gomery. On Tuesday, the store
Shop is closing its doors, but its informed its customers of the
owners said they’ll be taking a closing, citing financial reasons
lifetime of memories with them. as a key factor.
Owned by 83-year-old Jay “We had people crying and
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abuse pediatrics expert all testi-
fied about the infant’s death,
though Baney’s defense lawyer,
Marc Decker, said the charges
were “a smear campaign.”
Centre County Assistant Dis-
trict Attorney Megan McGoron
argued Baney, 24, and Steffey,
20, knew their son was seriously
hurt and did nothing about it.
“Neither one of them were fit
to be parents to these kids due to
telling us we can’t do it,” Mont-
gomery said.
Though Montgomery said “it’s
time” to close the family busi-
ness, the decision wasn’t easy.
Seeing the two sides that come
with running a small business —
emotional and financial — he
said it’s gotten to the point where
the financial loss is too great to
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tion,” she said.
Their relationship, according to
Detective Nicholas Raia’s testi-
mony Friday and affidavit of
probable cause filed earlier this
month, was “toxic” and rife with
with alcohol and marijuana use.
The infant was dropped on his
head twice in the days before his
death while Baney and Steffey
were intoxicated, Raia wrote.
Steffey said she was holding
her son on the couch, jumped up
during an argument with Baney,
forgot she was holding him and
dropped him “head first,” FBI
agent Andrea Manning testified.
Baney said he was trying to put
their other child to sleep when he
heard a “thud” and saw their son
on the floor, Raia wrote in his
affidavit. Baney believed the fall
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continue operating.
“The emotional side is what’s
holding me up,” he said. “It’s my
family business. It’s my legacy.
It’s where I’ve worked forever,
and I feel comfortable here. It’s
my family. Our customers are
like family. I just can’t let it go,
but if you look at if from the
financial side, it’s just not worth
it.”
Pharmacy reimbursements,
Montgomery said, are not
enough to cover the cost of busi-
ness.
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Turkish forces capture center
of key Syrian border town
BY MEHMET GUZEL
Associated Press
CEYLANPINAR, TURKEY
Turkey’s military said it
captured a key Syrian bor-
der town under heavy bom-
bardment Saturday in its
most significant gain since
an offensive against Kur-
dish fighters began four
days ago, with no sign of
relenting despite mounting
international criticism.
Turkish troops entered
central Ras al-Ayn, accord-
ing to Turkey’s Defense
Ministry and a war monitor
group. The ministry tweet-
ed: “Ras al-Ayn’s resi-
dential center has been
taken under control
through the successful
Pharmacist David A. Montgomery fills a prescription at Parrish Apothecary Shop in 2010. Montgomery said the decision to
close the family-owned business was not an easy one to make, and that all prescriptions will be transferred to CVS.
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PARRISH
Your Pennsylvania
Community Pharmacies, a
coalition of independent
pharmacies across the
state, cites the growing
presence of pharmacy
benefit managers — third-
party administrators of
prescription drug programs
— as a multi-faceted
problem for local pharma-
cies.
State Auditor General
Eugene DePasquale has
pushed for lawmakers to
take action to increase
transparency for how PBMs
do business, issuing a spe-
cial report last year.
“Dozens of pharmacists
have told me that large
PBMs, many of which have
ties to chain pharmacies,
have consistently short-
changed local pharmacies,”
he said in April. “They’ve
done this by reducing reim-
bursement rates without
warning, steering consum-
ers towards more expen-
sive pharmacies, and hid-
ing behind a veil of secre-
cy.”
Montgomery called it
“black times” for small,
community pharmacies.
“As anybody who reads
the news, listens to the
radio or watches TV, we
know that the health in-
dustry in the United States
is in a flux,” he said.
Montgomery said the
industry has struggled for
several years and antici-
pates more restrictions and
regulations will develop in
the future. He said Parrish
Apothecary is losing
money, adding that he
would make more of a
profit by giving customers
$5 to go somewhere else to
have prescriptions filled.
Watching his parents run
the store as a kid, Mont-
gomery said “it’s way past
time” that they retire.
“When I first graduated
pharmacy school in 1984, I
operations in the east of
Euphrates” river. It marked
the biggest gain made by
Turkey since the invasion
began Wednesday.
The continued push by
Turkey into Syria comes
days after President Don-
ald Trump pulled U.S.
forces out of the area, mak-
ing Turkey’s air and
ground offensive possible,
and said he wanted to stop
getting involved with “end-
less wars.” Trump’s deci-
sion drew swift bipartisan
criticism that he was en-
dangering regional stability
and risking the lives of
Syrian Kurdish allies who
brought down the Islamic
State group in Syria.
The Kurdish-led Syrian
Democratic Forces was the
was the junior member of
the pharmacy staff here,”
he said. “It was always our
dream that when (my par-
ents) retired, we would
take it over. But in the last
four years, the health care
industry ... has been really
bad.”
Montgomery started
working at the store when
he was a teenager. While
working, Montgomery said
it helped him meet his wife
— who worked across the
street at Plumb’s Drug
Store. He said they have
carried on the tradition of
getting to know their cus-
tomers.
“We know things about
people and their families,”
he said. “When I first start-
ed to work here, people
would come in and I’d
listen to my father talk to
these people. He knew
everything about them.
Through the years, I have
learned maybe more than
what I should know about
people.”
From listening to stories
about cooking endeavors
and memories of football
weekends, Montgomery
said he will miss the daily
interactions with customers
most of all.
“They’re family, and
each customer brings a
different thing to the
store,” Montgomery said.
“I have one customer who
comes in and tells me three
jokes every time. These are
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and lost 11,000 fighters in
the nearly five-year battle
against IS.
Turkish troops and allied
Syrian opposition fighters
have made gains recently
capturing several northern
villages in fighting and
bombardment that left
dozens of people killed or
wounded. The invasion
also has forced nearly
100,000 people to flee
their homes amid concerns
that IS might take advan-
tage of the chaos and try to
rise again after its defeat in
Syria earlier this year.
The Syrian Democratic
Forces, or SDF, said the
United States should carry
out its “moral responsib-
ilities” and close northern
‘‘
THE EMOTIONAL SIDE IS WHAT’S
HOLDING ME UP. IT’S MY FAMILY
BUSINESS. IT’S MY LEGACY. IT’S WHERE
I’VE WORKED FOREVER, AND I FEEL
COMFORTABLE HERE. IT’S MY FAMILY.
OUR CUSTOMERS ARE LIKE FAMILY. I
JUST CAN’T LET IT GO, BUT IF YOU LOOK
AT IF FROM THE FINANCIAL SIDE, IT’S
JUST NOT WORTH IT.
Jay Ronald Montgomery
jokes that his family will
say they hear everyday, but
to me, they’re brand new.”
With 3,000 customers in
their database and over
300 consistent customers,
Montgomery said he feels
like closing is letting down
the community and his
family.
“There’s a lot of stories
here,” he said.
The pharmacy will close
at 6 p.m. on Oct. 22, when
Bellefonte CVS will trans-
fer all customer records to
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Syrian airspace to Turkish
warplanes, but that it didn’t
want the U.S. to send its
soldiers “to the front lines
and put their lives in dan-
ger.”
During a meeting Sat-
urday in Cairo, the 22-
member Arab League con-
demned what it described
as “Turkey’s aggression
against Syria” and warned
that Ankara will be respon-
sible for the spread of ter-
rorism following its in-
vasion. The league said
Arab states might take
some measures against
Ankara. It called on the
U.N. Security Council to
intervene and force Turkey
to stop its military oper-
ations.The Turkish offen-
sive was widely criticized
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While Montgomery said
he is glad customers will
still be able to have their
prescriptions filled close
by, he said CVS will not
have the same “personal
touch” as Parrish Apothe-
cary.
“When I went home last
night, I told my wife I nev-
er realized how emotional
it was going to be,” he said.
“It’s like going to a funeral
over and over again.”
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by Damascus and some
Western countries who
called on Turkey to cease
its military operations.
France’s defense and for-
eign ministries said Sat-
urday that the country was
halting exports of any arms
to Turkey that could be
used in its offensive.
Foreign Minister Heiko
Maas also announced that
Germany would curtail its
arms exports to Turkey.
Maas told the weekly Bild
am Sonntag that “against
the background of the
Turkish military offensive
in northeastern Syria, the
government will not issue
any new permissions for
any weapons that can be
used by Turkey in Syria.”
Turkish President Recep
Tayyip Erdogan said Friday
that Turkey won’t stop
until the Syrian Kurdish
forces withdraw below a 20
mile deep line from the
border.
During the capture of
Ras al-Ayn’s residential
center, an Associated Press
1 dead, 3 missing
in New Orleans
hotel collapse
A large section of a
Hard Rock Hotel under
construction at the edge
of New Orleans’ historic
French Quarter collapsed
Saturday morning amid
dust and debris, leaving
at least one person dead
and three unaccounted
for, authorities said. City
officials and Louisiana
Gov. John Bel Edwards
confirmed the death.
The building was under
construction at the corner
of Rampart Street and
Canal Street, a boulevard
just outside the Quarter.
WWL-TV aired a view-
er’s dramatic video of the
collapse, showing upper
floors falling on top of
each other before one
side of the building top-
pled to the ground.
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2 shot during
church wedding
ceremony in N.H.
A gunman opened fire
at a wedding ceremony
inside a New Hampshire
church Saturday shooting
two people including the
presiding bishop before
guests tackled the shooter
and pinned him to the
ground until police ar-
rived, authorities said.
Dale Holloway, 37, has
been charged with first
degree assault for shoot-
ing Stanley Choate, 75, in
the chest at the New
England Pentecostal
church, according to the
state’s attorney general
office. A second person,
Claire McMullen, 60, was
shot in the arm.
Holloway is expected to
be arraigned Tuesday in
Hillsborough County
Superior Court.
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journalist across the border
in Turkey heard sporadic
clashes as Turkish howitz-
ers struck the town and
Turkish jets screeched
overhead. Syrian Kurdish
forces appeared to be hold-
ing out in some areas of the
town.
The SDF released two
videos said to be from inside
Ras al-Ayn, showing fighters
saying that it was Saturday
and they were still there.
The fighting was ongoing as
the Kurdish fighters sought
to reverse the Turkish ad-
vance into the city, accord-
ing to the Syrian Observato-
ry for Human Rights, a
British-based war monitor.
Ras al-Ayn is one of the
biggest towns along the
border and it is in the mid-
dle of the area that Turkey
plans to set up its safe zone.
The ethnically and religious-
ly mixed town with a pop-
ulation of Arabs, Kurds,
Armenians and Syriac Chris-
tians had been under the
control of Kurdish fighters
since 2013.
Shooting kills 4
at gambling site
in Brooklyn
Gunfire broke out in-
side an illegal gambling
club in Brooklyn early
Saturday, police said,
leaving four people dead,
three wounded, and in-
vestigators trying to piece
together what prompted
the bloodshed.
The shooting inside the
small, nondescript club
started just before 7 a.m.
as around 15 people were
gambling with dice and
cards, police said.
At a news conference
hours later, Chief of De-
tectives Dermot Shea said
investigators were trying
to determine if a gam-
bling dispute, a robbery,
or something else was to
blame for the violence.
Two handguns were
recovered.
— ASSOCIATED PRESS
Authorities: 3
deaths tied to
Calif. wildfires
Three people have died
at the scene of Southern
California wildfires this
week, authorities said
Saturday, as firefighters
beat back a blaze on the
edge of Los Angeles that
damaged or destroyed
more than 30 structures.
Los Angeles officials
said the fire in the city’s
San Fernando Valley area
hadn’t grown significant-
ly since Friday. One man
who tried to fight the
blaze died of a heart
attack.
At another blaze east of
Los Angeles, a second
body was found at a mo-
bile home park where 74
structures were destroyed
Thursday in Calimesa.
Officials previously re-
ported one death.
— ASSOCIATED PRESS