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Sunday, June 2, 2013
Today in History Today is Sunday, June 2, the 153rd day of 2013. There are 212 days left in the year.
Today’s Highlight in History: On June 2, 1953, the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II took place in London’s Westminster Abbey, 16 months after the death of her father, King George VI; it was the first such ceremony to be broadcast on television.
On this date: In 1863, during the Civil War, Union Maj. Gen. William T. Sherman wrote a letter to his wife, Ellen, in which he commented, “Vox populi, vox humbug” (The voice of the people is the voice of humbug). In 1886, President Grover Cleveland, 49, married Frances Folsom, 21, in the Blue Room of the White House. (To date, Cleveland is the only president to marry in the executive mansion.) In 1897, Mark Twain, 61, was quoted by the New York Journal as saying from London that “the report of my death was an exaggeration.” In 1924, Congress passed a measure that was then signed by President Calvin Coolidge guaranteeing full American citizenship for all Native Americans born within U.S. territorial limits. In 1941, baseball’s “Iron Horse,” Lou Gehrig, died in New York of a degenerative disease, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis; he was 37. In 1962, Soviet forces opened fire on striking workers in the Russian city of Novocherkassk; a retired general in 1989 put the death toll at 22 to 24. In 1966, the U.S. space probe Surveyor 1 landed on the moon and began transmitting detailed photographs of the lunar surface. In 1979, Pope John Paul II arrived in his native Poland on the first visit by a pope to a communist country. In 1983, half of the 46 people aboard an Air Canada DC-9 were killed after fire broke out on board, forcing the jetliner to make an emergency landing at Cincinnati/ Northern Kentucky International Airport. In 1986, for the first time, the public could watch the proceedings of the U.S. Senate on television as a six-week experiment began. In 1987, President Ronald Reagan announced he was nominating economist Alan Greenspan to succeed Paul Volcker as chairman of the Federal Reserve Board. In 1997, Timothy McVeigh was convicted of murder and conspiracy in the Oklahoma City bombing. (He was executed in June 2001.)
Ten years ago: President George W. Bush, visiting the Middle East, pledged to work unstintingly for the goal of Israel and a Palestinian state living side by side without bloodshed. The Federal Communications Commission eased decades-old limits on media ownership.
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Staff photo by Steve Beavers
Ready For Relay
Wheeler Grove Baptist Church’s Jacob Hinton (above left) puts up signs for the women’s ministry camp of Bob the Builder. Relay for Life Chairperson Lori Moore (above right) gets decorations ready for event on Friday night.
Agenda set for supervisors meeting The Alcorn County Board of Supervisors will meet at 9 a.m. Monday. The agenda includes the following items: ■ Minutes of May 20 meeting ■ Financial report and claims, May 20 - June 3 ■ Termination of lease agreement — sheriff’s department and airport — Bill Odom ■ Request to split College Hill voting precinct — Joe Caldwell and Keith Settlemires ■ Presentation from Nichols & Associates regarding long-term cash benefits through payroll deduction ■ Jail warden’s report ■ Juvenile Detention Center report ■ Emergency management report ■ Travel authorization for chancery clerk’s con-
vention, June 25-28 ■ Travel authorization for Mississippi assessors and collectors conference, Kenneth Brawner, June 24-27 ■ Uniform assessment schedule - motor vehicles ■ 2014 mobile home assessment schedule ■ Notification from Mississippi Development Authority – CSD Instruction #13-011 – Request for cash between two state years (2013 and 2014) ■ Receipt of 2013 continuing disclosure submission ■ Authorization to pay for services rendered – Butler/Snow – Preparation and submission of continuing disclosure statement ■ Authorization to pay Invoice – Cook Coggin Engineers, Inc. – Holly Church Road/Henson
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ing from 13,410 in 2011 to 13,980 in 2012. The 2011 number represents the beginning of a slide downward for unemployment in the county from the five-year-high of 12.4 percent that was posted in 2010. The region saw a similar drop in unemployment over the past year, with the rate falling from 11.3 percent in 2011 down to 9.5 percent for 2012. Job growth also brought an increase in income for the county over the past year with the average perperson income rising from $27,942 in 2011 to $29,533 in 2012. Regionally per capita income also rose from $29,074 in 2011 to $31,673 for 2012. However, the county also saw a slight rise in the number of households living below the poverty line with a total income less than $24,999. In 2011, 40.62 percent of households in Alcorn County fell below that figure while in 2012 the number rose to 43.63 percent. The county also saw
gains over the past two years in educational achievement with the number of people over the age of 25 holding a high school diploma rising to 79.93 percent in 2012, up from 77.32 percent in 2011. Those numbers remain in line with the figures for the overall region which had 78.15 percent of the population 25-years-old or older holding high school diplomas in 2012. Health related statistics show a mixture of rises and falls for Alcorn County. The county saw 444 births in 2011 (the latest year for which figures were available), up from 436 in 2010. The five-year-average infant mortality rate fell from 7.9 percent in 2010 to 6.9 percent in 2011. However, the percentage of pregnant women receiving prenatal care in the first trimester also fell from 84.2 percent in 2010 to 80.4 percent in 2011. Heart disease remained the leading cause of death in the county for 2011 followed by cancer, Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease and stroke.
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Road Damage ■ Authorization to pay invoice – Cook Coggin Engineers, Inc. ■ Authorization to pay invoice — KC Road Mat-
ters — Mitchell, McNutt & Sams ■ Authorization to pay Invoices — Clayton O’Donnell, PLLC ■ Joint appointee to
Corinth-Alcorn Recreational Commission for term expiring June 2013 ■ Reports from sheriff, county engineer and purchase clerk.
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