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Staff selects top stories of 2013 BY JEBB JOHNSTON

Top 10 Stories of 2013

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A look back at the headlines of 2013 shows a year filled with abundant drama and intrigue. As Daily Corinthian news staffers compiled the annual top 10 list of the past yearâ€™s news, it proved to be one of the most challenging in recent memory. As the daily headlines pile up in more than 300 editions of the paper over the course of a year, which among them will be remembered five or 10 years

1) Park rape 2) Principal fired 3) Liquor 4) Tourism board 5) Jail management 6) Preservation dispute

7) Ricin letters 8) Misappropriated cemetery funds 9) Open carry 10) Fast fiber (tie) 10) Jacob Wooley (tie)

from now? What has lasting impact on the community? These are some of the questions considered as the votes are cast. In a very competitive year,

some big stories that might normally make the top 10 fell just short, including the surface

Staff photo by Steve Beavers

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The Corinth home of ricin suspect Paul Kevin Curtis crawls with law enforcement.

Death of robber told in 911 call Associated Press

Staff photo by Steve Beavers

New Yearâ€™s tradition Gardnerâ€™s employee David Huff stocks the shelves with peas in time for the community to begin the new year with a helping of black-eyed peas to ensure health, prosperity and progress.

PHOENIX â€” A caller told an emergency dispatcher that a masked man raced into a Phoenix bank and then calmly described how police gunned down the suspect minutes later as he fled with a bag of cash. â€œTheyâ€™re shooting, theyâ€™re shooting,â€? the 911 caller said. Ten seconds later: â€œOne guy down. Heâ€™s down.â€? The caller, who was getting breakfast at a nearby restaurant, said the wounded man was on the ground and not moving. The 911 call and surveillance footage taken during the weekend heist were released Monday as investigators tried to piece together how the man connected to two bank robberies in the Southeast last week ended up 1,500 miles

away in Phoenix. Mario Edward Garnett, 40, died in a police shootout Saturday morning while trying to flee the Compass Bank branch in west Phoenix. Authorities have connected Garnett to a Dec. 23 bank robbery attempt in Atlanta, a bank robbery later that same day in Tupelo and the shooting death of Tupelo Officer Gale Stauffer -- a former Alcorn County resident and the wounding of Officer Joseph Maher. Officer Joseph Maher released from the hospital Police Chief Bart Aguirre says Maher was released from the hospitalTuesday morning. Aguirre said Maher slipped Please see ROBBER | 3A

Church members coping after Christmas Eve fire BY BRANT SAPPINGTON

â€œIt was devastating. Weâ€™re just going to trust in God.â€?

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Members of the Crossroads Full Gospel Church are putting their faith in God as they look to the next chapter for their congregation following a devastating fire last week. Fire ripped through the church around 8 a.m. on the morning of Christmas Eve, demolishing the churchâ€™s main auditorium and classroom building. Michael Rutherford with the Booneville Fire Department said firefighters were called to the church, located just off of Meadow Creek Road, around 8 a.m. after a neighbor

Stanley Shook Pastor, Crossroads Full Gospel Church

spotted flames coming from the building and called 911. Rutherford said Monday they know the fire started in an area to the right of the front door of the church. There was a heater located in the area, but they havenâ€™t been able to make a specific determination about the exact cause of the fire, said

Rutherford. Pastor Stanley Shook said the fire was major blow to the approximately 70-member congregation, but they are looking toward the future and believe itâ€™s all part of Godâ€™s plan. â€œIt was devastating,â€? he said. â€œWeâ€™re just going to trust in God.â€?

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The church was able to hold services Sunday in their fellowship hall which was undamaged in the fire. Shook said theyâ€™ve been blessed by the support from people in the community since the fire happened and theyâ€™re looking toward the future with hope. â€œThere have been people that have reached out from all over,â€? he said. Shook said he believes God is working through this for something better. â€œI know without a shadow of a doubt God has got this under control,â€? he said. The church has already

cleared away the remains of the burned building and will be working in the coming weeks to plan fundraisers and look at ways to begin moving toward rebuilding. He asks that the community continue to pray for them and heâ€™s grateful for all those who have reached out with offers of help. â€œIt just means so much to us,â€? he said. For information on how to get involved with helping the church recover, call Shook at 662-213-3079, Associate Pastor Scott Bridges at 662-808-2128 or Betty Ann Wood at 662-6606095.

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2013 Christmas Basket Fund tops $20,800 mark The spirit of giving is alive and well in the Crossroads area as generous donations continue to arrive for the 18th Annual Corinth Rotary Club / Daily Corinthian 2013 Christmas Basket Fund. The civic club and newspaper set a $25,000 community fundraising goal this year so 1,000 food baskets could be given away to local families on Saturday, Dec. 7, at the

2013 Christmas Basket Fund “A Community Tradition”

Crossroads Arena. Baskets were given on faith

and hope the goal will be reached. The total increased to $20,811 after the most recent donations arrived. They are $100 from Hansford and Lora Ann Huff in memory of Lanehart and Bea Huff and Jessie and Ruby Hopkins; and $225 from United Methodist Women at First United Methodist Church in honor of church staff.

Staff photo by Jebb Johnston

Workers sift through the rubble of the gas station at 600 Fillmore Street following the building’s demise after an effort was made to remove asbestos.

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water treatment plant going into operation and Cracker Barrel selecting Corinth for a new restaurant. The results:

1) Park rape The rape of a woman at Crossroads Regional Park leaves the community shocked and on edge; stores report increased gun sales and the park director speaks publicly about the need to beef up security. Police arrest a suspect at the scene of a second rape in a Corinth home. Staff photo by Steve Beavers

Another New Year’s tradition Dawn King, of Gardner’s, works to get a huge supply of hog jowls out in time for New Year’s Day.

Community events Reminder Events need to be submitted at least two weeks prior to the event. Community events publishes on Wednesdays and Sundays and on Friday if space is available.

Country music The Lisa Lambert Band will play old-time country music and bluegrass, Friday, Jan. 3, in Iuka at 7 p.m. in the American Legion Building. Special guests this week is Magnolia Wind from Corinth. Cost is $5 per person for the family friendly event. Call 662-293-0136 or see www.LisaLambertMusic.com for additional information.

‘High School Musical’ Alcorn Central High School central Stage will present “High School Musical’ at 7 p.m. on Thursday, Jan. 16 and Saturday, Jan. 18 in the ACHS auditorium. Admission is $5.Tickets are

on sale in the ACHS office during school hours or purchase tickets at the door on the night of the performances. For information contact the school at 662-286-8720.

Blood drive January: a time of celebrating new beginnings and honoring old traditions. Mississippi Blood Services (MBS) is celebrating 35 years of saving lives in 2014. Come help celebrate by giving patients throughout the community the gift of life by donating blood at the following blood drive.There will be a community blood drive at the Corinth Walmart on Thursday, Jan. 9, from 11 a.m. - 6 p.m. The MBS Donor Coach will be on site. All donors will receive a T-shirt and a gift card (while supplies last). Donors will be registered in the “Apple a Day iPad Give-Away” blood drive promotion. Donors can now check their overall choles-

terol levels on their MBSConnect Account.Donating blood is safe, simple and it saves lives. Donors must be at least 17 years old (16 years old with signed parental consent, visit the Web site for a copy of the form), weigh at least 110 pounds and have a valid ID. Visit us at msblood.com or call us at (888) 90-BLOOD (902-5663) for additional information.

New location The Corinth Artist Guild Gallery has moved to a now location on Fillmore Street in the former Dodd Eye Clinic building. Hours continue to be 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday. Contact the gallery at 665-0520 for more information.

Lions Club The Corinth Breakfast Lions Club meets the first and third Monday of each month at 7 a.m. at Martha’s Menu.

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2) Principal fired The exit of Dan Burcham as Alcorn Central Middle School principal prompts many questions about what led to his dismissal. A pair of school staff members later file a civil suit accusing him of taking inappropriate photos and videos of females on his cell phone. Burcham also loses his educator license.

3) Liquor While liquor is legally sold in Corinth for the first time in 23 years beginning in February, neighboring Tishomingo County brings liquor, beer and wine in the old-fashioned way — a county-wide vote — with approval of liquor by a margin of 42 votes and approval of beer by a margin of 73 votes.

Dan Burcham

Jacob Wooley

Area CVB and seat a new board. Kristy White, the tourism director, resigns.

Lee County Justice Court Judge Sadie Holland.

5) Jail management After the Mississippi Department of Corrections learns that a state inmate died at a Corinth residence while out on an improper pass, the MDOC commissioner threatens to stop sending inmates to the regional jail. The Board of Supervisors hires Mississippi Correctional Management, led by Irb Benjamin, to run the jail.

6) Preservation dispute The demise of the old gas station at 600 Fillmore Street soon after the city halts an attempted demolition stirs public debate about where the line should be drawn on historic preservation issues.

7) Ricin letters 4) Tourism board Facing a radically revised budget with $250,000 shifted to Crossroads Arena, the tourism office’s spending patterns do not meet with approval of city and county leaders, who dismiss the entire seven-member board of directors of the Corinth

The poison pen of James Everett Dutschke of Tupelo brings the most national media to Corinth since the church burnings of the 1990s as Dutschke allegedly frames Paul Kevin Curtis of Corinth for sending ricin-laced letters to President Obama, U.S. Sen. Roger Wicker and

8) Misappropriated cemetery funds Wayne Hight pleads guilty and is sentenced to jail time for misappropriating pre-need burial funds at Forrest Memorial Park in Corinth and Oaklawn Memorial Park in Booneville.

9) Open carry Firearms legislation prompts rallies, signs on businesses and government buildings, and some confusion. Corinth seeks an attorney general’s opinion to clarify some points.

10) Fast fiber (tie) Along with eight other Mississippi cities, Corinth gets a chance to join the elite few communities in the U.S. who have gigabit-per-second Internet service — if enough people sign up for C Spire Fiber to the Home.

10) Jacob Wooley (tie) In another story that garnered national attention, Marine Jacob Wooley, an Alcorn County native, dies at the hands of another service member at Quantico.

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Mississippi Silicon creating 200 jobs Staff Reports

Today is Wednesday, Jan. 1, the first day of 2014. There are 364 days left in the year.

Today’s Highlight in History: On Jan. 1, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln signed and issued the Emancipation Proclamation, declaring that slaves in rebel states shall be “forever free.”

On this date: In 1660, Englishman Samuel Pepys wrote the first entry of his famous diary. In 1892, the Ellis Island Immigrant Station in New York formally opened. In 1913, the U.S. Parcel Post system went into operation. In 1939, the technology company HewlettPackard was founded by Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard in a garage in Palo Alto, Calif. In 1942, 26 countries, including the United States, signed the Declaration of the United Nations, pledging “not to make a separate armistice or peace” with members of the Axis. In 1953, country singer Hank Williams Sr., 29, was discovered dead in the back seat of his car during a stop in Oak Hill, W.Va., while he was being driven to a concert date in Canton, Ohio. In 1954, NBC broadcast the first coast-tocoast color TV program as it presented live coverage of the Tournament of Roses Parade in Pasadena, Calif. In 1959, Fidel Castro and his revolutionaries overthrew Cuban leader Fulgencio Batista, who fled to the Dominican Republic. In 1984, the breakup of AT&T took place as the telecommunications giant was divested of its 22 Bell System companies under terms of an antitrust agreement. In 1994, the North American Free Trade Agreement went into effect.

BURNSVILLE — Gov. Phil Bryant and officials announced Tuesday that Mississippi Silicon will locate a new silicon metal production facility in Burnsville. Mississippi Silicon is investing $200 million in the project, which will create 200 jobs. The new Mississippi-based facility will produce silicon metal for a broad range of industries in the United States including the aluminum, automotive and chemical industries. Mississippi Silicon’s high-tech facility is expected to be one of the most efficient and cost competitive silicon metal production facilities in the world.

Phil Bryant. “Mississippi is strongly positioned for growth in advanced manufacturing, and I am pleased to see another company placing its faith in our world-class workforce. We look forward to working with Mississippi Silicon and wish the company many years of success.” “Rima is proud to be joining forces with a high-profile group of investors, and we look forward to supporting our global network of silicon metal customers and especially our United States-based customers with this new facility,” added Rima Industrial CEO and President Ricardo Vicintin. “Rima con-

sidered many locations around the world for the new facility, and we greatly appreciate the support and enthusiasm shown by the citizens and government leaders in Mississippi.” In support of the project, the Mississippi Development Authority provided assistance through the Mississippi Industry Incentive Financing Revolving Fund for building construction and workforce training, as well as the state’s New Market Tax Credits. Tishomingo County and Tennessee Valley Authority provided assistance for the project, as well.

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out quietly. He says in a news release that Maher’s family has requested privacy in the coming weeks as Maher continues to heal. Aguirre says Maher faces several surgeries. The robberies came about five months after Garnett was released from federal prison. He was incarcerated for nearly two years after pleading guilty to threatening to kill President Barack Obama in 2010.

Three minutes into the Phoenix 911 call, the caller said the masked man exited the bank and started firing at an officer who had just arrived. A detective who came to the officer’s aid killed Garnett. No one else was injured in the robbery or gunbattle. A 12-second clip of bank surveillance video shows a man walking in wearing a dark ski cap and a bandanna over his face. He stops to place a wedge on the floor to keep the door from

Correction An error appeared in the front page story on Tuesday about local folks building a float for the Rose Bowl Parade. Tommy and Betty Robertson are the owners of King Manufacturing.

closing behind him, then moves briskly into the bank pointing a handgun. Another clip shows the robber, still holding a gun, pulling a bag from his back pocket. On the last few seconds of the video, the man walks to the exit holding the bag and picks up the doorstop before dashing outside. Many questions remain about the robberies and Garnett’s trip from Mississippi to Arizona. The Phoenix Police Department said Garnett had no known family, friends or other connections to Arizona. It was unclear where Garnett had been and what he had been doing while in Arizona. He drove a rental car, but police said it wasn’t rented in Phoenix. The FBI offices in Mis-

sissippi and Arizona declined to comment Monday. Authorities tied Garnett to the series of robberies through his cellphone. Records showed his phone was in Atlanta, Phoenix and Tupelo at the time of each incident, said Daniel McMullen, the FBI’s special agent in charge in Jackson, Miss. McMullen said there were “numerous similarities” between the three bank robberies, including the clothing worn by the suspect and statements he made during the incidents. On Dec. 23, an armed man wearing a ski mask tried to rob a Bank of America branch in Atlanta, authorities said. After failing to get money from a teller, the man de-

manded and received an undisclosed amount from an ATM user in the bank’s lobby. Later that day, someone stole an undisclosed amount of money from the BancorpSouth in Tupelo, Miss., before fleeing, the FBI said. The suspect ambushed two officers responding to a bank alarm, killing one and wounding the other, McMullen said. Three years ago, Garnett pleaded guilty in Oklahoma to a federal charge of threatening to kill and inflict bodily harm on the president. The Secret Service said in court documents that Garnett posted threatening comments about Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on the official White House website in August 2010.

Coming Up Jim Hastings of Corinth handcrafts custom made Western gun holsters and belts that are shipped all across the United States. See Staff Writer/Photographer Steve Beavers’ story and photos coming in the Sunday Daily Corinthian.

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Ten years ago: Gen. Pervez Musharraf, the military ruler of Pakistan, won a vote of confidence from both houses of parliament and the country’s four provincial assemblies validating his five-year term as president.

“The tremendous support at the local and state levels was a key factor in the decision to locate our operations in Tishomingo County,” said Mississippi Silicon Chairman of the Board John Correnti. “Mississippi Silicon looks forward to becoming an engine of economic growth in northeast Mississippi.” Mississippi Silicon is a strategic partnership between Rima Holdings USA, Inc., and domestic investor group Clean Tech I, LLC. “I congratulate the team at Mississippi Silicon for becoming the state’s newest corporate partner and for choosing Tishomingo County,” said Gov.

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Inequality: Crisis or scam When President Richard Nixon arrived in Beijing in 1972, Chairman Mao Zedong — with his Marxist revolution, Great Leap Forward and Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution — had achieved an equality unrivaled anywhere. That is, until Pol Pot came along. There seemed to be no priPatrick vate cars on Beijing’s streets. Buchanan In the stores, there was next to nothing on the shelves. The Columnist Chinese all seemed dressed in the same blue Mao jackets. Today there are billionaires and millionaires in China, booming cities, a huge growing middle class and, yes, hundreds of millions of peasants still living on a few dollars a day. Hence, there is far greater inequality in China today than in 1972. Yet, is not the unequal China of today a far better place for the Chinese people than the Communist ant colony of Mao? Lest we forget, it is freedom that produces inequality. Yet for many people, from New York Mayor-elect Bill de Blasio to President Barack Obama to Pope Francis, income inequality is a curse in need of a cure, as there is today said to be an intolerable measure of such inequality. But let us first inspect the measuring rod. Though a family of four with $23,550 in cash income in 2013 qualified as living in poverty, this hardly tells the whole story. Consider the leveling effect of the graduated income tax, about which Karl Marx wrote glowingly in his “Communist Manifesto.” The top 1 percent of U.S. earners pay nearly 40 percent of U.S. income taxes. The top 10 percent pay 70 percent. The top 50 percent pay more than 97 percent of income taxes. The poor pay nothing. Secondly, though 15 percent of U.S. families qualify as poor, measured by cash income, this does not take into account the vast assortment of benefits they receive. The poor have their children educated free in public schools, from Head Start to K-12 and then on to college with Pell Grants. Their medical needs are taken care of through Medicaid. They receive food stamps to feed the family. The kids can get two or three free meals a day at school. Housing, too, is paid for or subsidized. The poor also receive welfare checks and Earned Income Tax Credits for added cash. In the late 1940s, our family had no freezer, no dishwasher, no clothes washer or dryer, no microwave, no air conditioning. We watched the Notre Dame-Army game on a black-andwhite 8-inch DuMont. Among American families in poverty today, 1 in 4 have a freezer. Nearly half have automatic dishwashers. Almost 60 percent have a home computer. About 2 in 3 poor families have a clothes washer and dryer. Eighty percent have cellphones. Ninety-three percent of the poor have a microwave; 96 percent a color TV, and 97 percent a gas or electric stove. Not exactly les miserables. Robert Rector of The Heritage Foundation added up the cost in 2012 of the means-tested federal and state programs for America’s poor and low-income families. Price tag: $927 billion. There are 79 federal programs, writes Rector, that provide cash, food, housing, medical care, social services, training and targeted education to poor and low-income Americans. Then there are the contributions of churches, charities and foundations. Where in history have the poor been treated better? Certainly not in the USA in the 1950s or during the Depression. Why, then, all this sudden talk about reducing the gap between rich and poor? A good society will take care of its poor. But envy that others have more, and coveting the goods of the more successful, used to constitute two of the seven capital sins in the Baltimore Catechism. At Howard University in 1965, President Lyndon Johnson declared, “We seek not just ... equality as a right ... but equality as a fact and equality as a result.” Yet the only way to make people who are unequal in talents equal in rewards is to use governmental power to dispossess some and favor others. Alexis de Tocqueville saw it coming: “The sole condition which is required in order to succeed in centralizing the supreme power in a democratic community, is to love equality or to get men to believe you love it. Thus, the science of despotism, which was once so complex, is simplified, and reduced ... to a single principle.” Get people to believe you are seeking the utopian goal of equality of all and there is no limit to the power you can amass. (Daily Corinthian columnist Pat Buchanan is an American conservative political commentator, author, syndicated columnist, politician and broadcaster.)

Pena proves himself an efficient reformer Most Americans have an image of Mexico as a nation convulsed by violent drug wars and sending hundreds of thousands of desperate immigrants across our southern border. That image is out-of-date. The drug war has largely quieted down and scarcely affects most of the country while, according to the Pew Hispanic Center, net migration from Mexico to the United States since 2007 has fallen to zero. What has been happening in Mexico recently is far more encouraging: the culmination of reforms that have been in train, but have been frustratingly delayed, for the last 25 years. Some historical background is in order. For 71 years, Mexican politics and government was totally dominated by the paradoxically named Party of the Institutional Revolution, which held the presidency and virtually all governorships from 1929 to 2000. Under the PRI system, presidents served one sixyear term, and in their last year — usually a time of catastrophes — chose their successors, who paraded around the country and were elected without difficulty. Once in office, the new president blamed all his problems on his predecessor, who often left the country. This system suited the sensibility of a nation whose culture is still at least partly Aztec: It combined elements of calendri-

cal regularity, elaborate ceremony and human sacrifice. This system worked Michael tolerably well Barone for 30-some Columnist years. But as time went on, it produced widespread corruption, periodic currency devaluations and massive outmigration. Mexico seemed to be falling further behind the U.S. Reform began when the Machiavellian President Carlos Salinas, elected in 1988, started opening up its political process and was joined by Texans George H. W. Bush and Lloyd Bentsen in pushing successfully for the North American Free Trade Agreement. With support from Bill Clinton, Congress approved NAFTA in 1993. Mexico reformed its electoral process in the 1990s, with key verification from exit poll pioneer Warren Mitofsky. PRI lost its congressional majorities in 1997, and in 2000, Vicente Fox of the center-right PAN party was elected president over the candidates of the PRI and the leftist PRD. In 2006, Fox was succeeded by the PAN’s Felipe Calderon. But Fox and Calderon were unable to reform Mexico’s government-owned oil company Pemex or its dysfunctional union-dominated education system because of united congressional opposition by the PRI

and PRD. And they got sidetracked on other issues -- Fox in responding to Zapatista protests, Calderon in waging war (with the army) on the drug lords. In July 2012, Mexicans PRI returned to power with the election of Enrique Pena Nieto. He looked like a conventional politician: governor of the state that includes most Mexico City suburbs, movie star handsomely, a widower who was wooing a telenovela star. But Pena has proved to be an effective reformer. On taking office, he joined with the PAN and PRD in a Pact for Mexico that produced tripartisan reforms. One was in education, with teacher promotion determined by merit rather than (this is not a misprint) heredity. The day after the reform was passed, Elba Esther Gordillo, the powerful head of the teacher union, was arrested for embezzlement. The coalition also passed telecom reform, potentially cutting rates that have made Telmex owner, Carlos Slim, one of the richest people in the world. The toughest issue was reforming Pemex, the monopoly created when PRI President Lazaro Cardenas nationalized oil companies in 1938. One-third of government revenues come from Pemex, but production fell 27 percent between 2004 and 2013. Pemex’s Cantarell oilfield in the Gulf is sputtering,

and it lacks the expertise and capital to tap Mexico’s plentiful shale oil and gas reserves. But the idea that “the people” own Mexico’s oil still has wide appeal, and PRD split from the coalition and opposed change. It passed with PRI and PAN support in December. Now foreign oil firms will be able to invest and book Mexican resources as reserves, stimulating growth and job creation. Mexico’s manufacturing sector has been booming and increasingly competitive with China, and the country is graduating record numbers of engineers and scientists. By many measures, Mexico is now a majority middle-class nation. Mexicans are buying (mortgagefinanced) houses in new subdivisions and driving to Wal-Mart and Costco shopping malls in their pickups and SUV’s. Pena’s reforms have pushed Mexico sharply forward on a path on which it had already made significant progress. That’s good news for Mexico — and for its neighbors to the north. (Daily Corinthian columnist Michael Barone is senior political analyst for The Washington Examiner, a resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, a Fox News Channel contributor and a coauthor of The Almanac of American Politics.)

Book a trip to New York NEW YORK CITY — It is perhaps encouraging that the worst claustrophobia I felt here in Manhattan during the run up to Christmas was in a bookstore, the famous Strand at Broadway and Twelfth. The Strand advertises that it holds 18 miles of books, not a one of them with a hyphen “e” before it. And if there were 18 miles of books, there was a marathon-size crowd of shoppers. The crush three days before Christmas felt more like a European soccer game letting out than a bookstore. I bought books. So did a lot of other folks. The New York Daily News reported several days later that the day before Christmas Eve was the best for the family business in its 86 years of operation. Besides record sales, there were two marriage proposals. Romance in the rows. I like it. Despite the crowds, a friendly Strand clerk actually asked if he could help me find something. I almost dropped my James

Baldwin. And the checkout process was efficient and fast. If the box stores operated like Rheta the Strand, Johnson you might not dread goColumnist ing. The bookstore wasn’t the only crowded place, of course. Some comedian compared the throngs walking to see the famous tree at Rockefeller Center to the Bataan Death March. There was a certain forced feeling to the hike, all right, as if you’d be in real trouble if you changed your mind about seeing the tree and tried to walk in the opposite direction. As always, the best things about New York were not in the guide book. A talented young classical pianist was playing a baby grand that he’d somehow rolled into Washington Square. He was getting generous tips, perhaps enough to call Two Men and a Truck when the

outdoor concert ended. A jazz band wearing Santa hats over white hair strolled through Angelo’s in Little Italy playing Christmas tunes. Diners took a break from their manicotti and linguini long enough to applaud and sing. The Salvation Army kettle-keepers danced wildly to encourage contributions. There was, in fact, a lively beat to the entire city. You couldn’t get away from music, which is the way Christmas should be. At the famous FAO Schwarz toy store, adults seemed more fascinated with giant stuffed pandas and piano keys on the floor than did the children, which is convenient since adults are the ones with the credit cards. I’ll have to admit I was a little disappointed in one Christmas staple: the Macy’s windows. All my life I’ve heard of their Christmas magic. And there was a lot of high-tech, interactive shimmering going on as an animated boy has a magical dream involving half a

dozen windows and deer and forests and fairies and bubbles and such. But for my money, the exquisite, huge Russian nesting dolls at Anthropologie were better. Not to mention the Saks Fifth Avenue window, where the Abominable Snowman shares a subway car with Don Draper and Joan Harris from “Mad Men.” I guess window preference is a lot like the clothing inside. To each his own. And I saw everything on Fifth Avenue from furs to jeans, including furs with jeans. I’m here to tell you, however, two sartorial items are obligatory. This winter in New York, everyone’s wearing boots — of every species and sub-species — and stocking caps, the kind the bad guys wore in “Home Alone.” Don’t even think of traveling to The City without them. (To find out more about Daily Corinthian columnist Rheta Grimsley Johnson and her books, visit www. rhetagrimsleyjohnsonbooks.com.)

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Obamaâ€™s health law at a crossroads WASHINGTON â€” All things good, bad and unpredictable converge with the new year for President Barack Obamaâ€™s health care overhaul as the lawâ€™s major benefits take effect, along with an unpopular insurance mandate and a risk of more nerve-wracking disruptions to coverage. The changes bring big improvements for some, including Howard Kraft of Lincolnton, N.C. A painful spinal problem left him unable to work as a hotel bellman. But heâ€™s got coverage because federal law now forbids insurers from turning away people with health problems. Whatâ€™s good for millions like Kraft is secured through what others see as an imposition: requiring virtually every American to get covered, either through an employer, a government program, or by buying a plan directly. But the health care headlines early this year could come from continued unpredictable consequences of the insurance programâ€™s messy rollout. The consumer-facing side of the HealthCare. gov website appears to be largely fixed â€” with 2.1 million enrolled through federal and state websites. But on the back end, insurers say they are still receiving thousands of erroneous sign-ups from the government. That means early in the year insured pa-

tients could go for a medication refill â€” or turn up in the emergency room â€” only to be told there is no record of their coverage. One of the main worries is over certain error-tainted enrollment records that insurers call â€œorphansâ€? and â€œghosts.â€? â€œOrphansâ€? are signups that the government has a record of, but they do not appear in insurer systems. Insurers say those customers never left the governmentâ€™s â€œorphanageâ€? to â€œgo and liveâ€? with the carrier they selected. â€œGhostsâ€? are new customers that the insurer does have a record of, but mysteriously the information does not appear in the governmentâ€™s computers. The Obama administration says the rate of such errors has been dramatically reduced, and insurers agree. The catch is that the volume of sign-ups has surged in the meantime, which means even with a lower error rate the number of problem cases keeps growing. And there is no automated way to clear up mistakes quickly. Â

All-clear for town near oil train derail CASSELTON, N.D. â€” A southeastern North Dakota town narrowly escaped tragedy when a train carrying crude oil derailed and exploded nearby, the mayor said Tuesday, calling for changes in how the fuel is transported across the U.S. No one was hurt in

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Mondayâ€™s derailment of the mile-long train that sent a great fireball and plumes of black smoke skyward about a mile from the small town of Casselton. The fire had been so intense as darkness fell that investigators couldnâ€™t get close enough to count the number of burning cars. Worries about the smoke plume prompted officials to ask Casseltonâ€™s 2,400 residents to voluntarily evacuate Monday evening, and most did. The recommendation was lifted Tuesday afternoon, but officials were urging residents south of the derailment to remain vigilant about changing conditions, Cass County Commissioner Ken Pawluk said. Residents said the blasts endured for hours after the derailment, shaking their homes and businesses. A BNSF spokeswoman said 18 tanker cars burned. Pawluk estimated that the fire was about 80 to 90 percent burned out by Tuesday afternoon. National Transportation Safety Board officials on the scene said the agencyâ€™s investigation would examine the train recorder, the signal system, the condition of the train operators, train and tracks, as well as the response to the derailment. Board member Robert Sumwalt said the tankers involved were DOT-111s, a model that has shown a tendency to rupture in other accidents, but he said it wasnâ€™t immediately clear if they were newer, safer DOT-111s or the older models.

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Amtrak to suspend some services in â€˜14 JACKSONâ€” Amtrak passenger train service will shut down in Mississippi and other areas in the Southeast for several days in January and February for rail maintenance by Norfolk Southern Railway. Amtrak said in a news release that service will not be provided between Atlanta; Anniston, Birmingham and Tuscaloosa in Alabama; Meridian, Laurel, Hattiesburg and Picayune in Mississippi; and Slidell and New Orleans in Louisiana. North and southbound trains on the route will terminate and begin service in Atlanta. The maintenance dates are Jan. 6-9; Jan. 20-23; Jan. 27-30; and Feb. 3-6 â€œWe do not own that track, we do not maintain that track, but we do operate over that track,â€? said Amtrak spokesman Steve Kulm. However, the weekend schedule will remain the same, Amtrak officials said. Â

In March, 16-year-old Nikki Yeager died after the car she was in was hit by a car trying to make it across the intersection. Thereâ€™s no traffic light; only a stop sign stands to direct traffic. â€œItâ€™s a five-lane road and sometimes people have to race to get across it. Itâ€™s a dangerous intersection,â€? said Horn Lake Mayor Allen Latimer. Yeager along with DeSoto County Supervisor Lee Caldwell and Horn Lake leaders are bringing the issue to the attention of the Mississippi Department of Transportation. â€œI want them to know how important it is to get a light there. Iâ€™ve known other people who have had wrecks there, too. Itâ€™s a bad intersection. Something needs to be done. If I can save one life it will be worth it. â€œItâ€™s not just because it was my daughter. This intersection needs to be looked at for every indi-

vidual,â€? Yeager said.Â

Margaritaville to build new hotel BILOXI â€” The owners of Margaritaville Casino in Biloxi will build a new hotel next spring with an eye toward a 2015 opening. Doug Shipley, Margaritavilleâ€™s president/CEO, said in a news release Tuesday that the new hotel will feature 250 rooms including 170 deluxe guest rooms and 80 two- and three-bedroom suites. He said the casino will offer some timeshare units. â€œMargaritaville Biloxi will be making a considerable investment in creating a resort destination the likes of which Biloxi has never seen. â€œThe addition of timeshares to our hotel will attract a whole new type of customer; one thatâ€™s not currently visiting the Biloxi area. It truly is an exciting opportunity for our city,â€? Shipley said.

DeSoto, MDOT look at intersection HORN LAKE â€” An intersection at Goodman Road and Dunbarton Drive in Horn Lake is at the center of a debate for a new traffic signal. One mother is leading the charge in honor of her daughter who was killed at the intersection earlier this year. â€œBy the time I got (to the intersection) she was already in the ambulance,â€? said Lisa Yeager.

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GLEN — A memorial service for James Lloyd Baswell, 61, will be held at 2 p.m. Thursday at Charity Christian Church in Jacinto. Mr. Baswell died Sunday, December 29, 2013 at Magnolia Regional Health Center. Born May 4, 1952, he was a factory machinist and member of Charity Christian Church. Survivors include two sons, Larry Baswell (Rita) of Corinth and Jason Baswell of Glen; a daughter, Michelle Spears (Tracy) of Blue Mountain; his mother, Dwindlon Smith Baswell of Glen; four brothers, Donnie Baswell (Connie) of Glen, Terry Baswell (Tina) of Rienzi, Michael Baswell (Rhonda) of Glen, and Thomas Baswell (Missy) of Glen; two sisters, Molly Michael (Junior) and Diane Whitehead; 11 grandchildren, Cas Edward, Dillon Spears, Matthew Spears, Cortney Talley, Maegan Counce, Dustin Talley (Meghan), Celsi Grace Gibens, Cortney Miller, Shaylania Baswell, Jade Angel Baswell, and Joshua Kennamore; and five great-grandchildren. He was preceded in death by his father, Caril Baswell; and a son, Jeff Baswell. Bro. Travis Smith will officiate. Visitation is 1 p.m. until service time Thursday at the church. Magnolia Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.

Jimmie A. Jones OWATONNA, Minn. — Funeral services for Jimmie A. Jones, 89, formerly of Iuka, are set for 11 a.m. Friday at Cutshall Funeral Home Chapel with burial in Snowdown Cemetery. Mrs. Jones died Wednesday, December 25, 2013 at her home. Born August 30, 1924 in Iuka to James and Minnie Maxwell Yarber, she and her husband lived in Waukegan, Ill. and provided a nursing home

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ministry in Zion and Waukegan. Survivors include three daughters, Minnie Hogate (Roger), Violet Hogate (Art) and Jimmie Lynn Saylor (Bobby); two sons, William Jones (Barb) and Daniel Jones (Peggy); 21 grandchildren; 21 greatgrandchildren; and 16 great-great-grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her husband, William Jones; infant son, Henry Alton; a brother; five sisters; and one greatgrandchild.

Maye Smith FLORENCE, Ala. — A memorial service for Maye Adams Smith, 79, formerly of Iuka, will be held at 1 p.m. Friday at Cutshall Funeral Home Chapel. Mrs. Smith died Monday, December 30, 2013 at ECM Hospital in Florence. She was a member of Woodmont Baptist Church where she enjoyed fellowship with the community and her family. She attended Northeast Mississippi Community College and was a loving wife and mother. Survivors include her husband of 58 years, E. Bart Smith of Florence; a son, Emery Bart Smith III of Minneapolis, Minn.; four daughters, Paula Harrington (Joe) of Mobile, Ala., Lynn Ticco (Paul) of Charlottesville, Vir., Carole Smith of Florence, and Anne Brandenburg (Jay) of Bolingbrook, Ill.; two brothers, Thomas Adams (Joanne) of Manteo, N.C. and John Adams (Janie) of Savannah, Tenn.; two sisters, Anne Rushing and Carole Dixon (Vance) both of Florence; four grandchildren, April Smith Hall, Daniel Lopez, Milly Lopez and Kate Brandenburg; and two great-grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her parents, William Paul, Sr. and Esther Adams; and a brother, William Paul, Jr. Bro. Jerry Rey will officiate.

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Lung cancer scans urged for some smokers WASHINGTON — Certain current or former heavy smokers should start getting yearly scans for lung cancer to cut their risk of death from the nation’s top cancer killer, government advisers said Monday — even as they stressed that the tests aren’t for everyone. The long-anticipated decision by the influential U.S. Preventive Services Task Force says these CT scans of the lungs should be offered only to people at especially high risk: those who smoked a pack of cigarettes a day for 30 years or an equivalent amount, such as two packs a day for 15 years — and who are between the ages of 55 and 80. That’s roughly 10 million people, but not all of them qualify for screening, said task force vice chairman Dr. Michael LeFevre, a University of Missouri family physician. Even those high-risk people shouldn’t be scanned if they’re not healthy enough to withstand cancer treatment, or if they kicked the habit more than 15 years ago. Lung cancer kills nearly 160,000 Americans each year. Smoking is the biggest risk factor, and the more and longer people smoke, the higher their risk. Usually, lung cancer is diagnosed too late for treatment to succeed, but until now there hasn’t been a good means of early detection. The newly recommended screening could prevent as many as 20,000 deaths a year, LeFevre said — if it’s used correctly. That estimate assumes good candidates seek the scans.

There’s no way to know if people at the highest risk will, or if instead the overly anxious will flood testing centers. Screen the wrong people, “and we could see more harm than good,” LeFevre cautioned. “There’s a lot of room for what I would call people exploiting the recommendation. I can imagine a street-corner imaging center advertising to invite people in.”

School of Seven Bells co-founder Curtis dies DALLAS — Benjamin Curtis, guitarist and co-founder of the popular indie-rock band School of Seven Bells, has died of cancer. He was 35. Brady Brock with New Yorkbased GoldVE Entertainment, which co-manages the band, says Curtis died Sunday evening of lymphoblastic lymphoma at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York. Curtis was diagnosed just under a year ago. An Oklahoma native, Curtis lived in Dallas, where he played in bands including Tripping Daisy and Secret Machines. Brock says Secret Machines relocated to New York before Curtis went on to form School of Seven Bells with Alejandra de la Deheza. Brock said Tuesday that Curtis gathered acclaim not just as a guitarist but also as an innovative composer and musician. Funeral services had not been arranged as of Tuesday.

Bobbleheads honor Supreme Court justices WASHINGTON — They are some of the rarest bobblehead dolls ever produced. They’re released

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Auditors looking at gasoline purchases HATTIESBURG — Hattiesburg Mayor Johnny DuPree says an investigator with the state auditor’s office has met with city employees to gather information about the use of city-issued credit cards used for gasoline purchases. DuPree tells the Hattiesburg American that the investigator also met with the cards’ issuer, Pine Belt Oil. “We are in the process of tightening up the security measures we have,” DuPree said about use of the cards. Auditor’s office spokesman Brett Kittredge says the office received an inquiry and was looking into it. He declined to elaborate. The issue came up at a city council work session on Dec. 16. Councilman Carter Carroll asked about November charges of more than $10,000 from two cards issued to the Department of Water and Sewer that were on claims

docket. DuPree acknowledged his office had been aware of potential problems dating back six months. He said the police department had been investigating. DuPree said questionable expenses over that period could run as high as $16,000. Gasoline cards from Pine Belt Oil are assigned to every city vehicle, with each having their own PIN numbers printed on the back. Most of the cards are limited to the city fueling facility but certain vehicles — police and fire vehicles in West Hattiesburg and the mayor’s car — can use other Pine Belt Oil-owned locations.

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Police charge man with auto burglary OCEAN SPRINGS — Ocean Springs police have arrested a 20-yearold man on charges of auto burglary after some stolen items showed up on Craigslist. Police Capt. William Jackson says Jimmy Rudolph Smith of Ocean Springs was arrested Monday. Smith is charged with auto burglary and possession of a firearm by a convicted felon. Jackson tells The Mississippi Press that detectives were investigating several auto burglaries in Ocean Springs dating back to Dec. 2. He says detectives tracked down some of the stolen property through Craigslist and

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