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Judicial, congressional races slated

BY JEBB JOHNSTON jjohnston@dailycorinthian.com

While Corinth voters will elect a full slate of leaders this year, it’s another “off� year on the county level, with one school board post joining judi-

cial and congressional races on the November ballot.

The only county-level race is fifth district school board, a post currently held by Randy Wilbanks. Qualifying for the post will run from Aug. 6 to

Sept. 5.

Qualifying opened Jan. 1 for the various judicial races on the ballot, including circuit and chancery judges and court of appeals judge. Several incumbent judges for the district

have already submitted qualifying paperwork, according to the Secretary of State’s Office — James L. Roberts Jr., circuit judge, district 1 place 4; Michael Malski, chancery judge, district 1 place 2; and Talmadge

BY JEBB JOHNSTON jjohnston@dailycorinthian.com

Staff photos by Kimberly Shelton

Alcorn County resident David Vaughan is a former pastry chef for Emeril Lagasse. His sweet sensations have enchanted guests at two legendary New Orleans dining destinations, Delmonico’s and Commander’s Palace.

Former pastry chef still loves culinary craft kshelton@dailycorinthian.com

With hard work and perseverance, David Timmons Vaughan has proven that one can accomplish anything in which they set

their mind.

Despite no formal culinary training and modest beginnings, he has become world famous for his delectable desserts and confections.

Please see ELECTION | 3A

Judge denies K-mart motion

Loving the sweet life

BY KIMBERLY SHELTON

D. Littlejohn, chancery judge, district 1 place 4.

Qualifying for the nonpartisan judicial races continues through May 9.

A former manager at the local Fred’s and Dollar General, Vaughan decided retail wasn’t for him.

Please see VAUGHAN | 2A

A federal judge has denied the Kmart Corporation’s request to submit a corrected report by a key expert witness in the lawsuit over May 2010 flooding.

The revisions would correct numbers in a model of the flooding that the plaintiff acknowledges are incorrect.

Senior Judge Glen H. Davidson denied Kmart’s motion to appeal the magistrate judge’s decision denying motion for leave to file an amended report by its engineering expert, John Krewson of EFI Global, and denied a new motion for leave to file an amended report from the witness. “The errors in the initial Krewson report were unfortunate,� Davidson concludes in his written opinion. “However, Kmart should have discovered the errors earlier with due diligence. No continuance would cure the costs and time the parties would incur to try this case on a new theory of liability.�

The original report concluded that the Kroger building at Fulton Crossing caused a 1 foot rise in the floodwaters that inundated the Kmart store. Kmart has twice revised the witness’ report.

“The proposed amendments in the newly proposed amended report — though fewer in number than those in the first proposed amended report — present the same problems as did the first proposed report,� writes Davidson. “Because Krewson’s errors in the report are so substantial, Krewson cannot merely correct mathematical errors and revise numerical conclusions; he must revise his conclusions, and accordingly, Kmart must revise its theory of the case. The new theory of liability scarcely resembles the earlier theory — except that it involves damages to the Corinth Kmart store and a lot of flood water.

Allowing the new theory to be introduced this late in the litigation would undoubtedly result in substantial prejudice to Defendants, who would necessarily encounter substantial costs to rebut Krewson’s revised opinions and conclusions.�

Kmart argues that it should not be barred from providing correct data to the jury when the errors have been discovered in advance of the trial and that the initial results did not raise suspicion because Please see KMART | 3A

Arcade owner ‘Mo’ touches the lives of many

BY KIMBERLY SHELTON kshelton@dailycorinthian.com

“Pool shark, pool shark. Nobody can beat Brandy ... nobody,� echoed the voice of Mostafa Shamssolari.

His rich accent permeated the Eagle’s Nest Arcade and resulted in riotous laughter from his customers.

Shamssolari has touched the lives of so many people since he first arrived in the United States on Aug. 17, 1978. “Mo�, as the locals have nicknamed him, was born in Abadan,

Iran and grew up in Ahwaz.

Growing up, he always wanted a safe place to hang out, a place free of bullying, profanity and violence.

He believed everyone should be able to enjoy themselves without fear they would be judged or made fun of because of their unique differences.

Mo vowed someday, if given the opportunity, he would change all that. “I am the most fortunate and lucky man to have people come here from all over. I am truly

Mostafa “Mo�

Shamssolari has operated Eagle’s Nest Arcade in Corinth for the past 18 years.

blessed,� acknowledged Shamssolari.

Though the Eagle’s Nest is slightly off the beaten path near the Crossroads Arena, players come from a myriad of locations to visit Mo’s.

People have come from places such as, Selmer, Tenn., Tishomingo, Blue Mountain, New Albany, Ripley, Tupelo, Booneville and Walnut to play at the arcade.

While the pool hall, located at 1701 Levee Rd. has been popular Please see ARCADE | 2A

Index Stocks......8A Classified......3B Comics Inside State......5A

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On this day in history 150 years ago

Weather......9A Obituaries......6A Opinion......4A Sports....10A

Gen. Joseph Johnston refuses a request to transfer Kentucky troops to another branch of the service. “Converting good infantry into bad cavalry,� is an idea he abhors. The lack of good cavalry will haunt him during the upcoming Atlanta campaign.

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Chance of sleet, snow: Beware extreme cold Staff, wire reports

Dangerously cold weather arriving in the Mid-South today has prompted a wind chill advisory.

The National Weather Service Memphis Forecast Office has posted the advisory for 3

a.m. to noon on Monday with wind chill readings as low as -8 possible with blustery northwest winds of 15 to 20 mph and gusts as high as 30 mph.

Frostbite and hypothermia will be possible; anyone venturing outdoors should wear a hat and

gloves, NWS cautions.

After an overnight low of 8 degrees, Monday will bring little relief, with the temperature struggling to a high of 11, according to NWS’ forecast for Corinth.

The temperature will return

to the single digits Monday night.

The Corinth area may also see some light snow and sleet accumulation as rain today begins to change to sleet and snow after noon. Accumulations are forecast at less than a half inch of

snow and sleet today and less than a half inch of snow tonight.

The Mississippi Emergency Management Agency says motorists should check antifreeze levels, batteries, lights, brakes and heaters and to keep at least a half tank of fuel.

VAUGHAN CONTINUED FROM 1A

“We parted ways,” explained the Tupelo High School graduate.

At only 40 years of age, Vaughan has worked in some of the finest restaurants in New Orleans.

A former pastry chef for Emeril Lagasse, his sweet sensations have enchanted guests at two legendary dining destinations, Delmonico’s and Commander’s Palace.

“I love seeing the reaction you get from desserts ... just the look that comes over people’s faces,” Vaughan mused.

“The dinner is the main event, but I get the finale,” said Vaughan with barely contained excitement.

When asked his favorite goody to prepare, he exclaimed, “Truffles, tortes, cannoli’s ... anything with chocolate. Chocolate is the best.”

Vaughan first became interested in cooking when he was only threeyears-old.

He and his wife of six years, Angela, hope to pass on the enthusiasm.

“We recently bought our five-year old daughter, Cherub, an Easy Bake Oven for Christmas,” acknowledged the designer of desserts.

He admitted he played a bit differently as a child.

“I ran around the kitchen with guns strapped to my side,” said Cherub’s father with a hearty laugh.

Staff photos by Kimberly Shelton

Some of David Vaughan’s dessert creations include homemade cheesecake. eclectic.

“French cooking is a lot like Southern cooking,” Vaughan interjected. “If it calls for butter or heavy cream, double it.”

He beamed as he recounted his time at Commander’s Palace.

“Everything had to be perfect or not at all. If a stray pecan fell from the pie and onto the plate, we had to 86 it. We didn’t waste anything though.

We’d turn it into something else, like a pecan pie cobbler,” said Vaughan with a chuckle.

At Commander’s Palace, anything less than extraordinary was unacceptable.

Vaughn reflected on a few incidents where he found this to be true.

“I remember feeling so sorry for this girl they asked to cut up the cheesecake. I’m not sure if she cut it with a hot knife

Vaughan was born in Ackerman, grew up in Owensboro, Ky. and now calls Alcorn County home.

He has lived in many places, but it was at a restaurant in Oxford where he finally found his niche.

“I was working at Yocona River Inn while I was going to college and a well known lady asked me to make her a crème brûlée,” he said.

According to Vaughan, she wanted the top torched three times so that the caramelization would make it extra crunchy.

“A short time later, she demanded to see the person who made it,” he continued.

“I thought I was in trouble, but she loved it,” explained Vaughan. “I knew then that it was what I wanted to do.”

The baker described his cooking style as Southern

or scooped it out with a spoon, but she massacred it and got into a lot of trouble,” he recalled.

“It took four days to prepare those cakes because we made our own cheese. We started off with 18 cheesecakes and only had 6 for the service that night,” he recounted with a grimace.

Another time he recalled a guy being fired for losing his sauce.

“How do you lose four gallons of sauce?” exclaimed the baker with fresh incredulity.

When asked what Lagasse was like in person, Vaughan described him as being just like he is on his show.

“He’s not a very tall man,” he continued, “He’s probably close to five

inches shorter than me, but he has this great big personality.”

In his culinary travels, Vaughan has encountered a number of high profile guests, but the one that most stands out in his mind is the late Jimmy Dean.

“He was wearing red cowboy boots and this jacket that had a phoenix on the back made of red sequins. I asked him how he was enjoying his bread pudding soufflé,” remembered the pastry chef.

He replied, “‘Well, son, it’s pretty good, but is there any way could have gotten a little sausage in this?”

“I just died out laughing because that was actually what I expected him to say,” acknowledged

Vaughan.

Another time, at the University Club in Oxford, he was asked by Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour to make a sugar-free dessert.

He rose to the occasion with his fresh berry sauvignon, but expressed his hesitation in doing so.

“I don’t do sugar free.

The substitutes just don’t behave the same,” confirmed Vaughan.

He has been toying with the idea of opening up his own store front or food service trailer sometime in the near future.

For the craftsman of cakes, the sweet life has never lost its glitter.

With the skill of an artist, he continues to craft his delicious masterpieces for others to savor.

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Many children in the area have said they grew up at Mo’s and started playing there when they were very young.

Since the beginning, Shamssolari has treated everyone who walks through his door like family. In keeping with the family atmosphere, Mo has created a zero tolerance policy for drugs, alcohol, fighting, bullying and foul language.

The walls of the arcade are plastered with hundreds of photographs and the pool hall owner can name everyone in them.

Many have been inducted into what he has coined “Moe’s Hall of Fame.”

“I enjoy remembering people. I remember who they are, where they are from, where they went to school and even who they’ve dated,” said Mo with a grin.

He truly loves children and has often fed them when they were hungry.

He has even gave them money to play on and driven them home after being dropped off for

Staff photos by Steve Beavers

Many Crossroads area young residents like to play pool at Mo’s place. much of the day.

In two months, the arcade will celebrate almost 18 years in Mo’s capable hands.

Over those years, Mo has worn many hats. Not only has he managed the pool hall, but he has also been running a concession stand, trading post and taxi service as well.

“I make my living one quarter at a time, “ he said jokingly as he pointed to a sign on the wall.

Almost every year, sometimes back-to-back, the arcade owner has taken trips via Royal Caribbean Cruise ships.

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He beamed with pride as he spoke about his teenage daughter, Judy Shamssolari, who lives in Bolivar, Tenn. and reports for their local newspaper.

Shamssolari attended Faulkner Junior College in Alabama and has earned a B.S. degree in Industrial Technology Management from Jackson State University.

From 1994 to 1995, he was enrolled at Northeast Mississippi Community College, where he studied computers.

“I love what I do,” proclaimed the 55-year-old as he perched in his usual chair.

As always, he kept an eagle’s eye view of the place to ensure all was well.

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Today in history Today is Sunday, Jan. 5, the fifth day of 2014.

There are 360 days left in the year.

Today’s Highlight in History: On Jan. 5, 1964, during his visit to the Holy Land, Pope Paul VI met with Patriarch Athenagoras I of Constantinople in Jerusalem.

On this date: In 1914, auto industrialist Henry Ford announced he was going to pay workers $5 for an 8-hour day, as opposed to $2.34 for a 9-hour day. (Employees still worked six days a week; the 5-day work week was instituted in 1926.)

In 1933, construction began on the Golden Gate Bridge. (Work was completed four years later.)

In 1949, in his State of the Union address, President Harry S. Truman labeled his administration the Fair Deal.

In 1957, President Dwight D. Eisenhower proposed assistance to countries to help them resist Communist aggression in what became known as the Eisenhower Doctrine.

In 1970, Joseph A. Yablonski, an unsuccessful candidate for the presidency of the United Mine Workers of America, was found murdered with his wife and daughter at their Clarksville, Pa., home. (UMWA President Tony Boyle and seven others were convicted of, or pleaded guilty to, the killings.)

In 1972, President Richard Nixon announced that he had ordered development of the space shuttle.

ELECTION CONTINUED FROM 1A

The national focus for this year’s elections will be the political stakes of the midterm congressional races, with all of the U.S. House of Representatives and one-third of the U.S. Senate up for election. For local voters, that means the seats currently held by Sen. Thad Cochran (R) and Rep. Alan Nunnelee (R) will be on the ballot.

Qualifying is open for the congressional races and runs through March 1. The party primary elections will be held on June 3.

Cochran already has a challenger from within his party — District 42 Mississippi Sen. Christopher McDaniel.

Election officials are preparing for some of the changes that come this year, including voter identification and a new precinct for Alcorn County.

Circuit Clerk Joe Caldwell said voters who will be affected by the addition of a 17th precinct — Shady Grove — will get a new voter information card in the mail. Located at the new Biggersville fire station just south of Corinth at 911 Highway 45, the Shady Grove precinct will include county residents who previously voted at the College Hill precinct at the American Legion on South Tate Street.

The Circuit Clerk’s Office is also prepared to issue voter I.D. cards to eligible voters who have no other form of identification. Thus far, no one has requested one, said Caldwell.

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2013 was a great year for books

BY TERRI SCHLICHENMEYER The Bookworm Sez

Reading.

Pfft. Who has time? Who can take hours and hours to actually read a book, especially if it’s not all that good? Why waste that kind of time?

You wonder that often, which is where I come in. It’s my job to find the good stuff for you and, for this calendar year, these are the books I loved best that you shouldn’t miss…

Non-fiction At the top of my list, “Pilgrim’s Progress” by Tom Kizzia starts out with a semi-confusing (but heart-poundingly brilliant) escape by two young women.

You’re not sure who they’re running from, or why – but you find out soon enough that their father has sent them scurrying.

You’ll also find out how one man set an Alaska community on edge and what happened to him and his very large family. The ending of this book comes all too soon and it’s truly every bit as stellar as its beginning; I read it more than six months ago, and I’m still in awe…

Like many people, I kind of went on a JFK-assassination streak of reading this year. There were certainly a lot of books out on the subject, but “ Dallas 1963”

by Bill Minutaglio and Steven L. Davis was my favorite. But that’s not why this book is on this list.

It’s here because it answers the question, “Why Dallas?” and in answering, it gives readers a good sense of the time and the country’s attitudes. We’re transported back 50 years in the telling of this story - politically, socially, morally, and beyond. It’s one of those books you could read, and then turn around and read again.

It’s easy to think that “Twelve Years a Slave” by Solomon Northup is a novel. It’s easy to forget that you’re reading words from a man who lived some 150 years ago, that he really was sold into slavery, didn’t see his family for more than a decade, endured life as a wrongly-held man. It’s easy to think it’s all fiction - until Northup’s words notso-gently remind you that this book is truth. That shook me up many times, and whether or not you’ve seen the movie, this is a don’t-miss book.

Adding “The Rebellion of Miss Lucy Ann Lobdell” by William Klaber to this list is kind of cheating. That’s because this book is fictional, but is based closely on the true story of a woman who lived as a man in the 1850s. That was scandalous, to be sure – but what was even more scandalous to the pioneers that knew her was that she was able to survive a splashy court case and later, successfully married another woman. Written as a series of diary entries, this book includes action, adventure, jaw-dropping events, history that’ll blow your mind, and I loved it.

For some reason, I found “One Summer: America 1927”

by Bill Bryson to be this years’ most relaxing read. Maybe it’s because Bryson meanders through a mere five months of one year in history. Maybe it’s because there’s no rush in this book; it just moves gently from one topic to another to another, telling this story and that one, page after page and before you know it, this brick of a book (528 pages) is over.

Like any great summer, it’s over too soon.

Fiction I loved the premise of “Astray”

by Emma Donoghue: take an object from the past, a picture, or an article of clothing and imagine what life was like for the owner of that object. This book is a series of short stories with that in mind, all of them evoking a quiet corner of existence on the periphery of the world.

Some of the stories are shocking. Some are warm. Others will make you think, but you’ll like them all.

You will probably never see “Bait” by J. Kent Messum on any other list, and that’s too bad.

This story of a group of drug addicted castaways on a sandy island will keep you turning the pages to the end, absolutely needing to find out what happens to them and why they wake up, craving heroin, on a saltwater beach. I don’t dare tell you any more. Just go read the book.

If the first chapter of “ Goat Mountain ” by David Vann doesn’t pull you in and make you want to keep reading, then you may need your pulse taken.

Told from the point of view of an adult who’s obviously painfully grown-up, it’s the story of an 11-year-old boy and his first real hunting trip with the elders in his life. Suffice it to say that things don’t go so well. This perhaps this season’s most unsettling psychological thriller, and a definite Don’t-Even-THINKAbout-Missing books.

“The Ocean at the End of the Lane” by Neil Gaiman is one of those dark, dark fairy tales of which Gaiman is so famous. It’s a novel of a man who somehow gets lost on his way home from a funeral, and he ends up on a side road near where he grew up. He starts to remember the little neighbor girl who promised to keep him safe forever.

But, of course, she couldn’t.

This is a misty kind of novel with just the right amount of creeposity. I can’t imagine not reading it.

TIE: “Orphan Train” by Christina Baker Kline and “The Storyteller” by Jodi Picoult. I couldn’t decide between them, so you get to learn about both.

“Orphan Train” is based on real events in American history, in which New York City orphans were shipped across the U.S. and Canada in search for new families. In this case, the tale is about an elderly woman who has a secret, and the juvenile delinquent girl who learns what it is.

In “The Storyteller,” a loner befriends an elderly man who tells her about his past – and it’s horrifying… but not nearly as horrifying as what he asks her to do.

These are two novels that will pull you in quick and keep you on your seat. They’re books you’ll want to share with everybody you know.

Children’s books The story inside “The Man with the Violin” by Kathy Stin-

son and Dušan Petricic, postscript by Joshua Bell is nice: a little boy hears a musician on the subway, but the adults around him seem to have missed the performance. The back-story is nice: it’s true. But the reason for this book being on this list is because of the artwork: it’s black and white, mostly, with swaths of vivid color to highlight what’s important in the story.

The beautiful illustrations are artwork you can’t ignore.

“Memoirs of a Hamster” by Devin Scillian, illustrated by Tim Bowers is another book that’s partly for adults. Kids will love the cute illustrations, but the story of a hamster who wants more and more and more out of his caged life might be over their heads just a mite. That’s okay – you’ll totally get it.

Little library patrons won’t want to be without “NO PIRATES ALLOWED! Said Library Lou” by Rhonda Gowler Greene, illustrated by Brian Ajhar. When Big Pirate Pete shows up at Seabreezy Library and demands to know where the treasure is, he’s on the wrong page. Library Lou sets him straight in this adorable rhyme. Please put your pirate on when you read this book, for arrrrggghhhreat experience.

Another book for little booklovers is “The Snatchabook” by Helen Docherty & Thomas Docherty, the story of a theft. As all the little creatures in Burrow Down hunker down for the night, their books begin to disappear.

Why and how makes an excellent bedtime story that will charm both you and your little one.

And finally, I was totally amazed at “The Wrap-Up List”

by Steven Arntson. It’s the story of a place where Death wanders around, tapping people to take.

When one teen gets her notice that her time is almost up, she’s told that she must tie up loose ends, that her time’s almost up.

She must make her Wrap-Up List, or she can try to outwit Death and avoid leaving – but it won’t be easy.

This is one of those books that makes you think about what you’d do if you were told that you had a finite number of days left. And how this books ends, well, read it to find out…

There you have it: a bunch of books to fill your bag and your days for awhile. Look for them, or ask your favorite bookseller or librarian for more great ideas.

Alcorn County Board of Supervisors agenda The Alcorn County Board of Supervisors will hold the first meeting of the new year at 9 a.m.

Monday at the supervisors’ office.

The agenda includes the following business: • Call to order • Prayer by Bro. Rayburn Richardson, pastor of Union Baptist Church • Minutes from Dec. 16 • Financial report and claims, Dec. 16 - Jan. 6 • Appointment of board attorney • Sandy Mitchell —

Easements for bridge repair on CR 609 • Bid opening on sale of 2001 Ford pckup • Jail report • Shelly Hopkins — Juvenile Detention Center report • Assessment changes • Grand Jury report • Environmental clearance — Chalybeate project • Request from district attorney on pay raises for Deborah Daniel, Angela Denise Harrison and April Bostick

• Observance of Martin Luther King Jr.’s Birthday and Robert E. Lee’s Birthday on Jan. 20 • Mississippi Department of Insurance county fire investigator form for 2013 — Ricky Gibens and Mike Billingsley

• Hatchie Drainage District meeting minutes from Dec. 5 • Appointment of Hatchie Drainage commissioners: terms of Jerry Childs and Ronnie Hall expiring March 15 • Larry Ross, tax collec-

tor — Employee pay raises • Reports from the sheriff, county engineer and purchase clerk • Authorization to Pay Invoice — Alcorn County Regional Justice Center — Revenue account requisition No. 24

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the findings of a 1-foot rise in the flood level was consistent with FEMA’s determination that the Kroger store was partially in a floodway.

The defendants point to the discrepancies among the three reports — “that Krewson opines in the first proposed amended report that Kroger’s partial presence in the regulatory floodway caused no change in water depth; but that Krewson opines in the newly proposed amended report that

Kroger’s partial presence in the regulatory floodway caused a twoinch increase in water depth,” writes Davidson.

The remaining defendants are The Kroger Co., E&A Southeast Limited Partnership, Fulton Improvements and Kansas City Southern Railway Company, and several motions for summary judgement are pending. The City of Corinth and FEMA were previously dismissed as defendants.

The trial is set for Feb. 24 in Aberdeen before Judge Davidson.

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Other Voices Year’s highs outnumber the lows Looking back over the year, the highs appear to us to outnumber the lows.

Not to ignore the negatives, but any year that gives the coast such a mild hurricane season deserves to be fondly remembered.

The weather even cooperated with most of our festivals, which were themselves as good as ever and even bigger and better in some instances.

The coast economy also gained momentum during the year. This was especially true of the casino industry, which wraps up 2013 with fresh investments that bolster confidence in one of the coast’s largest employers. Hospitals are also expanding in all three coast counties, adding equipment and specialties. New training centers opened this year to provide more skilled employees in both the shipbuilding and tourism industries. And business prospects are improving in both the ! retail and commercial sectors of the economy.

The year certainly had its share of controversy, as does any year.

But the future is looking brighter and brighter for south Mississippi. And a sustainable prosperity is the prize we all need to keep our eyes on.

So a fond farewell to 2013. May 2014 treat the coast at least as well.

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Funding necessary for domestic violence A legislative watchdog committee has criticized the Mississippi Department of Health, saying that over a period of several years, it failed to distribute up to $1.6 million in state and federal money to the state’s 12 domestic violence shelters. This year alone, a task force claimed the department withheld $600,000 from the shelters.

If the figures are accurate, it’s a shame. Domestic violence is one of the many evils that plague Mississippi, and efforts to control it and hel! p the victims of it regain some sort of equilibrium in their lives are chronically underfunded.

A Health Department spokesman noted that current state law prevents any shelter from receiving more than $50,000 per year in public money. He said there was no way to distribute all the available money with that restriction.

The legislative Performance Evaluation and Expenditure Review Committee, however, said that most of the domestic violence shelters that received state aid in 2013 got less than $50,000.

The domestic violence task force that originally criticized the Department of Health is lobbying for legislation in 2014 that would create a new commission to administer state and federal grants for shelters. It seems clear that the state needs to pay more attention to the problem of financial assistance for domestic violence shelters. At a minimum, the Legislature may want to consider raising the $50,000-per-year limit on grant money.

If anything gets done in 2014, though, it should not include the creation of a new gover! nment commission. The state already has more than 200 appointed bodies, which is way more than enough.

Surely an existing board that oversees one or more Health Department programs can supervise and allocate the money for domestic violence shelters.

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Prayer for today Almighty God, grant that my life may no longer be a noise, but be kept in tune with the sublimest melodies, that wherever I am, there may be no discords in the songs of my soul. Through thy loving-kindness may my songs resound. Amen.

A verse to share “And he said, The God of our fathers hath chosen thee, that thou shouldest KNOW his will, and see that Just One, and shouldest hear the voice of his mouth.” Acts 22:14

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Will Mississippi legalize marijuana?

Watching the television coverage of the first day of legal non-medical marijuana sales in Colorado - which had Denver-area customers standing in long lines for hours waiting to buy legal pot – I could not help thinking about the changes I’ve seen in Mississippi.

When I was a kid in 1966, Mississippi was the last state in the union to repeal the federal Prohibition law.

That was some 21 years after the sale of 3.2 percent beer was legalized in the state in 1945 by local option.

Those actions came years after Mississippi became the first state in the union to ratify the federal prohibition law. Yet all of my life in Mississippi, liquor and beer were always part of the state’s landscape. In most communities, the smallest children knew the open secrets of where the bootleggers lived and did business.

Local option elections were the most perverse of exercises. In those political melodramas, well-meaning church men and women would find themselves strange bedfellows with those who either bootlegged “bonded” whiskey and beer and/or those who made sour mash whiskey in backwoods stills.

One of the first news stories I covered as a young reporter was a trial in which Sid Salter a man arrested after Columnist a raid on his still - complete with lawmen with axes chopping the still to scrap iron and kindling wood – was convicted of possession of bonded whiskey in a farce of a legal proceeding.

Suffice to say that the Mississippi of my childhood was the “wettest” dry state one could imagine – and I was the son of two devout teetotaler Baptist parents.

My father was a school principal and I saw the halfpint brown and clear liquor bottles under the bleachers at football and basketball games.

What’s that got to do with America’s newly legal “illegal” marijuana trade?

Plenty.

After voters in the states of Colorado and Washington legalized the sale of marijuana in their states, the public debates there moved on next to the obvious conflicts between state laws legalizing pot sales and the prevailing federal

laws that prohibit the sale of weed.

Despite the fact that possession, consumption and sale of marijuana remains a violation of federal law, the Obama administration isn’t willing to impede Colorado and Washington in their efforts to legalize and regulate the sale and use of recreational marijuana.

The marijuana laws in Colorado and Washington allow the recreational use of marijuana and require that the states set up a bureaucracy to license, regulate and tax those sales. It’s the taxing of the stuff that makes this interesting.

Marijuana users there are whining that they are being victimized by Colorado’s new marijuana tax. Proponents of marijuana legalization there say the new tax will drive Colorado’s portion of the nation’s estimated $3 billion marijuana market back underground.

Taxes alone on the new “legal” pot sales are estimated at $67 million with $27.5 million of that figure earmarked for public schools.

Mississippians will see many similarities here. First and foremost, the laughable promise that “sin” taxes will a stable funding foundation for public education. That

didn’t happen when Mississippi legalized whiskey sales or when the state embraced casino gaming - and it won’t happen in Colorado or Washington with the legalization of marijuana.

But as it was in Mississippi with casino gaming, the notion of luring out-ofstate pot smokers across Colorado’s state lines to tax them legally was just too much to resist – especially when in this instance it’s for a product that illegal under federal law.

The new marijuana sellers in Colorado sold $1 million worth of pot the first day – and the state got its cut. Will Mississippi ever legalize the sale of marijuana?

Well, no time soon, I’d wager. After all, we’re still the gold buckle of the Bible Belt.

Then again, I remember as a kid thinking that liquor would never, ever be legal in Mississippi – and it wasn’t.

At least, it wasn’t until somebody sold the bill of goods that we could tax our way to prosperity by selling legal booze.

(Daily Corinthian columnist Sid Salter is a syndicated statewide. Contact him at 601-507-8004 or sidsalter@sidsalter.com.)

Neglecting the great equalizers New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio gave a St. Crispin’s Day speech for progressives at his New Year’s Day inauguration ceremony. He evoked a city ravaged by a crisis of inequality. What Rudy Giuliani was to outof-control crime, de Blasio wants to be to rampant inequality -- its scourge and vanquisher.

Yet for all his impassioned egalitarianism, the new mayor neglected the great equalizers, those qualities that are the bedrock of success in America and the key to mobility. Like so many others on the left, de Blasio is loath to detract from the false but ideologically congenial narrative of the rich dispossessing the poor. So he gives short shrift to the basics of marriage, education and work — all grounded in an ethic of personal responsibility — that make it possible for people to escape and avoid poverty.

Anyone can be a victim of bad luck -- especially in a weak economy -- but the essential formula for eluding poverty isn’t complicated: Graduate from high school, get a job and get married before having children.

Ron Haskins of the Brookings Institution writes in the journal National Affairs,

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“Census data show that if all Americans finished high school, worked full time at whatRich ever job they Lowry then qualified for with National eduReview their cation, and married at the same rate as Americans had married in 1970, the poverty rate would be cut by around 70 percent -- without additional government spending.”

The breakdown of marriage, in particular, drives impoverishment. The poverty rate is about six times higher for single-parent families than two-parent families. About 70 percent of all poor families with children are single-parent families. According to Robert Rector of The Heritage Foundation, if single mothers were to marry the fathers of the children, about two-thirds of them would no longer be poor, in a stupendously effective antipoverty program.

Then there’s education.

A college degree is a rocket booster on income mobility.

Among children from families in the bottom fifth of

the income distribution, 84 percent of those who go on to get a college degree will escape the bottom fifth, and 19 percent will make it all the way to the top fifth, according to Haskins. Among kids from those families who don’t get a degree, 45 percent will remain in the bottom fifth. (In his speech, de Blasio did cite his highest-profile educational initiative, more funding for pre-K education.)

And, finally, there’s work.

“Even in good economic times,” Robert Rector writes, “the average poor family with children has only 800 hours of total parental work per year — the equivalent of one adult working 16 hours per week. The math is fairly simple: Little work equals little income, which equals poverty. If the amount of work performed by poor families with children was increased to the equivalent of one adult working full time throughout the year, the poverty rate among these families would drop by two-thirds.”

The bottom line is success ultimately depends on habits that money can’t buy. In a book-length study of the influence of parental income on the prospects of children, Susan Mayer

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found a complicated picture. She writes that “parental characteristics that employers value and are willing to pay for, such as skills, diligence, honesty, good health, and reliability, also improve children’s life chances, independent of their effect on parents’ income. Children of parents with these attributes do well even when their parents do not have much income.”

This is the rub -- and the dishonesty at the center of de Blasio’s vision. The rich aren’t causing anyone to have children out of wedlock, or drop out of high school, or stop looking for a job. They aren’t undermining discipline or eroding industriousness. They have nothing to do with failing schools or dangerous neighborhoods. Even if you believe their incomes are too high and their taxes too low, they don’t make it harder for anyone else to get ahead.

In other words, they don’t cut anyone off from the foundations of success that are the country’s great equalizers.

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Candy-craving thieves flee HESPERIA, Calif. — For a pair of thwarted Southern California thieves, taking candy from a well-alarmed warehouse proved a lot harder than taking it from a baby.

Video surveillance captured the would-be candy swipers as they approached Candy Crate’s warehouse in Hesperia on Friday. The men broke a window and fled.

The company sells retro sweets like candy cigarettes and Astro Pops.

Candy Crate operations manager Randi Caporale tells the an alarm went off that likely scared away the thieves, and “not even a Blow Popâ€? was taken. Â

Pope to nuns: Answer the phone!

VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis has made another one of his cold calls to wish a group of nuns in a Spanish convent Happy New Year. Only he got their answering machine, instead. “What are the nuns doing that they can’t answer the phone?�

Francis asked in the message he left, the recording of which was obtained by Spain’s El Mundo newspaper and broadcast on Italian media Saturday. “This is Pope Francis.

I wanted to offer you greetings for the end of the year. Maybe I’ll try to call again later.

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Historic freeze could break records SIOUX FALLS, S.D. — The deep freeze expected soon in the Midwest, New England and even the South will be one to remember, with potential record-low temperatures heightening fears of frostbite and hypothermia.

It hasn’t been this cold for decades — 20 years in Washington, D.C., 18 years in Milwaukee, 15 in Missouri — even in the Midwest, where bundling up is second nature. Weather Bell meteorologist Ryan Maue said, “If you’re under 40 (years old), you’ve not seen this stuff before.�

Preceded by snow in much of the Midwest, the frigid air will begin Sunday and extend into early next week, funneled as far south as the Gulf Coast. Blame it on a “polar vortex,� as one meteorologist calls it, a counterclockwiserotating pool of cold, dense air. “It’s just a large area of very cold air that comes down, forms over the North Pole or polar regions ... usually stays in Canada, but this time it’s going to come all the way into the eastern United States,� said National Weather Service meteorologist Phillip Schumacher in Sioux Falls, S.D. The predictions are startling: 25 below zero in Fargo, N.D., minus 31 in International Falls, Minn., and 15 below in Indianapolis and Chicago. At those

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Batiste challenges death sentence JACKSON — Mississippi death row inmate Bobby Batiste has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to hear his appeal.

Prosecutors have until Feb. 3 to file a respond to Batiste’s motion.

The Mississippi Supreme Court upheld Batiste’s convicted and death sentence in May. Robbery was a key element required for an Oktibbeha County jury to convict him of capital murder and sentence him to death.

Batiste was convicted in the death of his roommate. Prosecutors say 28-year-old Andreas Galanis of Biloxi died in 2008 from a blow to the head after the two fought at their apartment.

Batiste’s lawyer argued that Batiste didn’t intend to steal Galanis’ wallet while cleaning up after the fight. Batiste argued that had the jury been instructed about intent, he might have avoided a death sentence. Â

Kerry cites progress in diplomacy RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Saturday cited progress on the Mideast peace process, yet acknowledged that some of the most intractable disputes between Israelis and Palestinians were unsolved after more than 20 rounds of negotiations.

Afterward, Kerry resumed his shuttle diplomacy by heading back to Jerusalem for his third meeting in as many days with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The two had a nearly five-hour discussion that didn’t end until 11:30 p.m. “We’re not there yet, but we are making progress,� Kerry said earlier outside Abbas’ West Bank headquarters. “We are beginning to flesh out the toughest hurdles yet to be overcome.�

Kerry is trying to nudge Abbas and Netanyahu closer to a peace pact that would establish a Palestinian state alongside Israel.

The talks have entered an intense phase aimed at getting the two sides to agree on a framework and provide guidance toward a final settlement. Reaching a deal on that framework is not expected on this trip, Kerry’s 10th to the region for peace talks.

Guilty plea expected in drug money case JACKSON — Federal court records say a woman is expected to plead guilty Tuesday in case related drug money laundering case.

The indictment says Lornell Von Moore of Louin and Patrina Bester Hayes of Paulding used drug money to buy cars, tractor trucks and motorcycles and to make improvements to real estate.

Moore has already pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in Jackson.

Hayes is scheduled for a change of plea hearing Tuesday.

Moore owned LVM Trucking. The indictment says Hayes and Moore took in about $992,000 from the trucking company from Jan. 1, 2008, to December 31, 2009.

They allegedly deposited more than $1.7 million in their bank accounts over the same period. Â

Alleged gang leader to take mental exam HATTIESBURG — A federal judge has ordered a psychiatric evaluation for a reputed Mississippi street gang leader charged with racketeering.

Attorney Peter Barrett asked for the exam for his client, Jason Marshall Bullock, in a court motion filed Dec. 30 in U.S. District Court in Hattiesburg.

Authorities say Bullock, also known as “Sir J-Mac,� is the leader of a Mississippi chapter of the Simon City Royals gang operating in the Hattiesburg area.

Bullock was indicted in May on the racketeering conspiracy charge.

The indictment listed several elements of the racketeering charge, including attempted murder, kidnapping, bank robbery, drug distribution and bribery.

Bullock was arrested July 9 in Pensacola, Fla. He has pleaded not guilty and is being held without bond. Â

Education issues for debate in 2014 JACKSON — Besides attempts to reject or curtail Common Core ac-

ademic standards, Mississippi lawmakers are likely to debate a number of other K-12 education issues in 2014. Among them: — Funding and pay raises: The full cost of the state’s funding formula for the 2015 budget year is $2.35 billion, while lawmakers have recommended spending $2.13 billion. There’s likely to be a push for more money. Teachers’ groups and some top lawmakers are also pushing to increase pay scales. — Appointed superintendents and elected school boards: Many lawmakers want to mandate that all remaining elected school superintendents be appointed by school boards and all appointed members of local school boards be chosen by voters. — School takeovers: The state Department of Education is warning that it could be forced to take over too many school districts under a law that requires it to take over any school that’s been graded as failing for multiple years. Look for a move to allow the department to take over individual schools, or for the law to be rolled back. — Reading instruction: Lawmakers are likely to put more money into a program meant to overhaul reading instruction in grades K-3. Any thirdgrader who’s not reading at a basic level by 2015 is required to repeat the grade. — Preschool: Supporters of providing prekindergarten classes for 4-year-olds have pledged to ramp up funding over a number of years.

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Deaths Vera Roach

GLEN — Funeral services for Vera Pearl Kilcrease Roach, 89, are set for 2 p.m. today at Magnolia Funeral Home Chapel of Memories with burial at Liberty Hill Baptist Church Cemetery.

Visitation is from 1 p.m. to service time.

Mrs. Roach died Friday, Jan. 3, 2014, at her home. Born Feb. 17, 1924, she was a homemaker and a member of Liberty Hill Baptist Church. She was loved by all who met her. Through the years, she babysat many children in the community and was known as “Mamaw” to them all. She enjoyed cooking, quilting, attending church, Roach singing, gardening and being with friends and family. She will be greatly missed.

Survivors include two sons, Danny Roach (Janet) of Corinth and Lanny Roach (Nayoka) of Glen; four daughters, Jane Starnes (Neal), Nellie Massengill (Ben), Rhonda White (Travis) and Karen Odom (Mike), all of Glen; two sisters, Ollie Jones of Olive Branch and Helen Lee of Estes Park, Colo.; 15 grandchildren, Robin Dilworth, Scott Roach (Sherry), Joy Rhoads (Nathan), Jeramie Roach (Mechelle), Todd Roach, Dana Peters (Kevin), Kim Kirkland (Bro. Seth), Brad Roach (Beth), Kelly Essary (Clay), Jenny White, Kasey Brown (Steven), Misty Johnston (Zach), Katie Odom, Kayla Massengill and Will Odom; 32 great-grandchildren; one great-great-grandson; special friends and caregivers, Dottie Morris H., Sherry Casto, Alice Vanderford, Sherrie Gorden and Debbie Gordon; other relatives; and a host of friends.

She was preceded in death by her husband of 64 years, Charles Edward Roach; her parents, Marcus Kilcrease and Cordie McAnally Kilcrease; a grandson, T.J. White; five brothers, Willie Kilcrease, Earl Kilcrease, Arch Kilcrease, Wesley Kilcrease and Clayton Kilcrease; and four sisters, Beulah Harvill, Velma Littlem, Nola Newcomb and Evelyn Haynie.

Grandsons will serve as pallbearers.

Bro. James Hardin and Bro. Seth Kirkland will officiate the service.

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Royce Mabry

Royce Mabry of Corinth died Saturday, Jan. 4, 2014, at Magnolia Regional Health Center after an extended illness. Arrangements are pending with Grayson-Porter Mortuary of Tupelo.

Wavene Walker

Wavene Dilworth Walker of Corinth died Saturday, Jan. 4, 2014, at her home after an extended illness.

Arrangements are pending with Grayson-Porter Mortuary of Tupelo.

Wanda McKee

BURNSVILLE — Funeral services for Wanda Louise Floyd McKee, 90, are set for 1 p.m. today at Cutshall Funeral Home Chapel in Glen with burial at White Sulphur Springs Cemetery.

Visitation continues until service time.

Mrs. McKee died Friday, Jan. 3, 2014, at Whitfield Nursing Home in Corinth. Born Oct. 23, 1923, she was a member of Burnsville Baptist Church and a cosmetologist for 35 years.

Survivors include one son, John Cate Jr. (Lynda) of Corinth; two daughters, Martha Rea of Tuscumbia, Ala., and Mary Hall (J.C.) of Rienzi; one sister, Annie Mae Bishop of Jackson; three grandchildren, Ronda Moon, Chris Cate and Michelle McGuire; six greatgrandchildren; and two great-great-grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Paul McKee; her parents, Allen and Ruth Elledge Floyd; a sister, Marie Ramsey; and two grandchildren, Gina Rea and John Cate III. Bro. Charles Lambert will officiate the service.

Alison Thomas

Memorial services for Alison Wiess Thomas, 55, of Corinth, are set for 6 p.m. Monday at Memorial Funeral Home.

Visitation is Monday from 4 to 6 p.m.

Ms. Thomas died Wednesday, Jan. 1, at her home.

Survivors include her son, Travis Thomas of Rienzi, and two brothers, Kenny Wiess of Pennsylvania and Jordan Wiess of Los Angeles.

She was preceded in death by her parents, Herbert and Elanor Navasky Wiess, and a son, Austin Thomas.

The Rev. Kevin Craine will officiate the service.

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Don Everly receives ‘spiritual message’ NASHVILLE, Tenn. — The infighting and hard feelings between the Everly Brothers were well-known, but surviving brother Don felt he had a special moment with his brother Phil before Phil’s passing Friday — even if the two weren’t together at the time.

“I was listening to one of my favorite songs that Phil wrote and had an extreme emotional moment just before I got the news of his passing,” Don Everly wrote in a statement to The Associated Press on Saturday morning. “I took that as a special spiritual message from Phil saying goodbye. Our love was and will always be deeper than any earthly differences we might have had.”

Phil Everly died Friday in California from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. He was 74.

The Everly Brothers were arguably the most influential vocal duo in music history. They brought their love of country music to rock ‘n’ roll in the 1950s and 1960s, transforming the pop charts of the day and inspiring legions of young proto rockers like the Beatles, Bob Dylan and the Byrds who would go on to change popular culture.

Songs like “Bye Bye Love” and “Wake Up Little Susie” remain a shared memory for generations of listeners who were hooked by their deceptively simple harmonies that hid greater meaning in songs that were dark and new compared with the pop music of the day.

The two broke up amid quarrelling in 1973 after

16 years of hits, then reunited in 1983, “sealing it with a hug,” Phil Everly said.

by the “modest amount of legislative momentum” generated by the December budget deal.

Obama aims for modest momentum

Factory growth boosts 2014 outlook

HONOLULU — President Barack Obama returns to Washington this weekend eager to test whether a modest budget deal passed in the waning days of 2013 can spark bipartisan momentum on Capitol Hill. As he opens his sixth year in office, he also faces legacy-defining decisions on the future of government surveillance programs and the American-led war in Afghanistan.

Looming over it all will be the November congressional elections, Obama’s last chance to stock Capitol Hill with more Democratic lawmakers who could help him expand his presidential playing field.

For Republicans, those contests are an opportunity to seize control of the Senate, which would render Obama a lame duck for his final two years in the White House.

The wild card in 2014, for the White House and congressional Democrats facing re-election, will be the fate of the president’s health care law.

The website woes that tainted its launch have largely been resolved and enrollment has picked up. But the White House has been tight-lipped about who has enrolled, raising uncertainty about whether the insurance exchanges are on track to get the percentage of young and healthy people who are critical to keeping prices down.

The health care questions aside, Obama spokesman Josh Earnest said the White House enters the new year buoyed

WASHINGTON — Expectations are rising for a stronger U.S. economy in 2014 after reports Thursday showed solid growth in manufacturing and construction spending at the end of last year.

Factory activity in December stayed near a 2 ½ -year high. Americans are buying more cars and homes, increasing demand for steel, furniture and other manufactured goods. Manufacturers have boosted hiring to meet that demand and may add jobs at a healthier pace this year.

And builders stepped up spending on home construction in November, despite recent increases in borrowing rates. That suggests many remain confident in the housing recovery.

The economy has had bursts of healthy growth since the recession ended in June 2009, only to be followed by disappointing slowdowns. But many analysts think growth is now more sustainable.

“There was strength in some important sectors of the economy at the end of last year,” Paul Dales, an economist at Capital Economics, said. “2014 could be the year where the recovery really starts to gain some ground.”

The Institute for Supply Management, a trade group of purchasing managers, said Thursday that its index of manufacturing activity slipped to 57 in December from 57.3 the previous month. But that’s still the second-highest reading since April 2011. And any read-

Push for sentencing changes underway WASHINGTON — An unusual alliance of tea party enthusiasts and liberal leaders in Congress is pursuing major changes in the country’s mandatory sentencing laws.

What’s motivating them are growing concerns about both the fairness of the sentences and the expense of running federal prisons.

The congressional push comes as President Barack Obama and his Cabinet draw attention to the issue of mandatory sentences, particularly for nonviolent drug offenders.

Supporters say mandatory minimum sentences are outdated, lump all offenders into one category and rob judges of the ability to use their own discretion.

They also cite the high costs of the policies.

The Justice Department spends some $6.4 billion, about one-quarter of its budget, on prisons each year, and that number is growing steadily.

“People are coming here for different reasons, but there is a real opportunity,” said Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., one of the Senate’s leading proponents of sentencing changes.

The push is being led by the Senate, where Durbin has worked with tea party stalwarts such as Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, on legislation that would give judges more flexibility to determine prison sentences in many drug cases. At the same time, a right-left coalition is pressing for changes in the House.

State Briefs Associated Press

Pretrial set in illegal gambling case JACKSON — A pretrial conference has been scheduled for Jan. 23 for eight people charged with running illegal gambling operations in east Mississippi.

Federal prosecutors say illegal gambling was taking place in Meridian at The Snack Shack, The Sports Connection, commonly referred to as “the Log Cabin,” and The New Place.

Authorities say the defendants took wagers on college and professional sporting events and set up illegal gambling devices, such as video poker machines.

The government is seeking forfeiture of eight pieces of property and more than $125,000 in cash.

A filing in U.S. District Court in Jackson says the eight must decide at the conference whether they want to proceed to trial or plead guilty.

Killen asks Supreme Court for second look JACKSON — Edgar Ray Killen, convicted in 2005 for the 1964 slayings of three civil rights workers in Mississippi, has asked

the U.S. Supreme Court to look again at his motion for a new trial.

The Supreme Court will consider the request Jan. 10. Court officials say a decision will come later.

In November, the Supreme Court declined to review lower court rulings that Killen’s rights were not violated during his trial in Mississippi.

Killen, now 88, was convicted of manslaughter in the slayings of Michael Schwerner, James Chaney and Andrew Goodman. He is serving 60 years.

On June 21, 1964, Schwerner, Chaney and Goodman disappeared in Neshoba County. The FBI found their bodies buried in an earthen dam on Aug. 4, 1964, in what became known as the “Mississippi Burning” case.

Crawford seeks new trial in murder case JACKSON — The Mississippi attorney general’s office now has until Jan. 9 to respond to death row inmate Charles Ray Crawford’s request that the U.S. Supreme Court review an alleged constitutional error in his trial for the slaying of a junior college student.

An order filed Thursday by the Supreme Court gave the attorney general extra time.

Crawford argues he was deprived his Six Amendment right to counsel as it related to a 1993 psychiatric evaluation.

Crawford is now 43 and was sentenced to death in 1994 for the murder and rape of Northeast Mississippi Community College student Kristy Ray in rural Tippah County.

Crawford handcuffed the 20-year-old Ray and stuffed one of his socks in her mouth before sexually assaulting and stabbing her to death in 1993.

He claimed he did not remember the attack, but led authorities to the body buried in leaves in a wooded area.

A three-judge panel of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in June upheld a 2012 decision in Mississippi’s Northern District federal court.

Both courts said while Crawford was deprived of his Sixth Amendment right to counsel as it related to a 1993 psychiatric evaluation, prosecutors presented enough evidence to the trial jury to uphold his conviction and sentence even if the

evaluation had not occurred.

In 1993, Crawford was out on bond awaiting trial on charges of aggravated assault and rape, with a notice he planned to pursue an insanity defense.

Pike County will reapply for grant MCCOMB — Pike County supervisors will apply again for a Mississippi Recreational Trails Program grant.

The Enterprise-Journal reports that in 2013 the supervisors applied for the Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks funds to help build a paved walking trail at the county multipurpose property on Quinlivan Road.

The grant would have supplemented a Department of Transportation grant.

Supervisors got the $280,000 Department of Transportation grant but not the trails grant.

Keith Lott of NeelSchaffer engineering firm says supervisors could seek the trails grant again to pay for amenities along the walking track such as bathrooms or lighting. The supervisors voted this past week to reapply for the grant.

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7A • Daily Corinthian

Sunday, January 5, 2014

Stirman’s Sharpshooters a forgotten Civil War story One of the sad results River and join up with of the government shut- Albert Sidney Johnston’s down in October was the Army of the Mississippi cancellation of a driving in Corinth.

The 1st Cavalry Battour in Corinth to be led

by Park Ranger Jim Mi- talion got a shock as they nor. I’m proud to call Jim prepared to get on the my friend and I can tell boat in Des Arc; their you it’s a treat to work horses would be staying with him. I can tell you behind to fatten up on something else; this man spring grass. In October, knows his Civil War his- 2012, I told you of some Texas cavalry with the tory.

Jim was going to lead same dilemma in “The Story About the folks on a tour folCavalry Without lowing the moveany Horses.” ments and actions They arrived of an obscure Contoo late to particifederate unit; Stirpate in the Battle man’s Arkansas of Shiloh but they Sharpshooters. I were here in May think he will try Tom of ’62 for the Siege again next OctoParson of Corinth. ber but if you can’t Ras was very wait, here’s a little Park Ranger fond of his younger teaser. sister Rebecca and The tale of this outfit begins with its wrote often, frequently namesake, Erasmus Ir- two or three times a week. ving Stirman, or “Ras” He kept her up to date for short. Ras was born with everything happenin camp as his folks were ing in his world, includmoving to Fayetteville, ing his love life. There are Arkansas, in April of some rather shocking bits 1840. By the age of 7 he about kissing and falling was an orphan and was in love on any number of only 21 when the war occasions.

Rebecca was told how broke out. He enlisted as a private in the “Pike the battalion arrived on Guards” of the 3rd Ar- the 2nd of May and went kansas Infantry and got into camp within the his baptism of fire at the sound of skirmishing, a Battle of Wilson’s Creek noise that went on every in Missouri. It turns out day through the month. the life of an infantryman Aside from a little picket duty now and again they was not for Ras. He and another soldier, were left out of the bigger William Brooks, obtained events of the siege.

An interesting turn of permission to recruit a company of cavalry and events came at the end soon the unit was filled up of the month when Lt. and Brooks was appoint- Colonel Brooks resigned. ed Captain with Ras the The battalion had grown 1st Lieutenant. Not long to eight companies, and after this they were joined despite being one of the by an additional four lower ranking captains companies and Brooks in the outfit, Stirman was was promoted to Major at appointed to replace the the head of the 1st Arkan- departing Brooks.

Ras had barely sewed sas Cavalry Battalion and “Ras” became the captain the two stars on his collar when General Bragg of Company E. In March of ’62 the bat- decided he wanted the talion saw some action dismounted cavalry batat Elk Horn Tavern (Pea talion to be re-designated Ridge), Arkansas. Shortly as “Stirman’s Regiment after the fight Van Dorn’s of Sharpshooters.” Two Army of the West was more companies were ordered to come to this added to bring the unit side of the Mississippi up to regimental strength

Erasmus I. Stirman and Ras was commissioned a full colonel. In order to fully train the men, they were relieved of all picket and patrol duty and they concentrated on marksmanship and drilling as skirmishers. It would be there job to precede an attack as highly trained skirmishers.

The Colonel set to work to ensure his men had the best of equipment and wrote Rebecca, “I wish you could see them out on parade. I have them uniformed in gray, and very well drilled. It does my Soul good to lead them out for parade & review, and it will be the proudest day of my life when I get to lead them into battle in defense of our beautiful Country & our liberties.”

The chance to lead them into battle came at Corinth. Stirman’s Sharpshooters were assigned to the brigade of Gen. Charles Phifer which was made up of three other regiments of dismounted cavalry from Arkansas and Texas.

On the morning of Oc-

tober 3rd the Confederate army marched to Corinth from their camp near Chewalla. When they were within two and a half miles of town they deployed in a long arc to attack the Federals in the old “Beauregard Line” of earthworks.

Stirman’s men were deployed in a skirmish line in advance of Phifer’s Brigade and they moved forward to confront the enemy. What they found were men of Ohio and Illinois who were spread too thin to mount much of a defense. A few volleys and a charge and the Confederates stood in triumph on the earthworks.

But the job wasn’t over, not by a long shot.

Phifer’s men continued their advance south along what is now Forest School Rd. Eventually the road merged with the Memphis Road (Wenasoga Road) and they ran into the enemy again near a clapboard home known today as the White House.

They were up against some Shiloh veterans

known as the Union Brigade. This small brigade was the remnants of the 8th, 12th & 14th Iowa, and the 58th Illinois Infantry. The bulk of these four regiments had been captured in the Hornet’s Nest at Shiloh and the seven hundred or so men were all that remained.

There was a tremendous artillery duel that went before the charge, but when the attack came the Sharpshooters and the rest of Phifer’s men rolled right over the outnumbered Federals.

Nothing stood between the Confederates and Battery Robinett when at the last moment a fresh brigade of Union troops arrived on the scene.

It was “Fighting Joe” Mower and his men and they pitched in and stabilized the Union line as the sun was going down.

Stirman put his men into bivouac within a half mile of the Union line, somewhere along the current Shiloh Road between Wenasoga and Fulton.

The plan was to mount a charge at dawn but one thing led to another and the attack was postponed till near 10 a.m. Phifers brigade was slated to attack the Union line just west of Elam Creek. Do you know where that is?

It’s just down the slope from the visitor center; if you come visit the park one of us will show you.

The first two attacks against the Ohio brigade defending Battery Robinett were pushed back.

Stirman’s horse was shot from under him and the division commander sent him a fresh mount in time for the third, final assault.

In what would be the final charge, Ras’s men were moved a little further to the east and their attack brought them into a weak part of the Union line that collapsed. The Sharpshooters poured into Corinth and were fighting house to house through the streets of town. They were joined

by men from at least three other brigades, and looking more like an armed mob than a military unit, they made it all the way to the crossroads and the depot.

The elation that comes with victory was tempered by confusion as the expected reinforcements failed to arrive.

The boys in blue got their second wind and counterattacked, forcing the Confederates to fall back.

A number of the Sharpshooters found horses tied up outside the Tishomingo Hotel and beat a hasty retreat. These were the lucky ones as few of the Southerners who made it into town made it back out.

The following day the retreating army ran into a Union column at Davis Bridge on the Hatchie River. Stirman’s men had an enviable position on a small hill. “We would allow them to approach until we could see the whites of their eyes, then without exposing ourselves in the least we would pour volley after volley into them, cutting them down like grass.”

In the end Stirman’s Sharpshooters would suffer 167 casualties during the Corinth campaign, 26 percent of the 640 they started with. They would fight again and be captured at Vicksburg. After they were exchanged the regiment was once again put on horseback and Stirman’s Arkansas Cavalry finished the war in their home state.

As for Erasmus “Ras” Stirman, he went home and became a shop keeper, a lawyer and eventually the mayor of his beloved Fayetteville. In 1889, due to failing health, he moved his wife and four children to Denver, Colo., where he resumed his law practice and became an able judge.

He died in 1914 at the age of 74 and is buried in the Fairmount Cemetery in Denver.

Mystery surrounding forgotten Civil War sword is unraveled

BY ROBERT PALMER The Associated Press

FLORENCE, Ala. — More light has been shed on the owner of an old Civil War sword stored in a vault in a government building and on the sword itself.

The sword was discovered in the early 1970s when one of Florence’s oldest brick houses was being restored for use as an office. The sword was hidden between the floor boards of the house on Pine Street, wrapped in a cloth. It was later placed in the vault in the License Commissioner’s office in the Florence-Lauderdale Government Building.

There it sat in obscurity until a few people took renewed interest in it.

“It is a French-made, cheaper version of the model 1850 U.S. foot officer’s sword,” said Wayne Higgins, curator of Pope’s Tavern museum and a retired history teacher. “The French exported a lot of these to both the North and the South just before the war.”

The sword likely belonged to William F. Karsner. His parents built the Federal cottage in 1828, which was where the sword was found.

Because the sword can be identified with the person who carried it during the war, Higgins said the blade’s value is much higher.

Research done by Lee Freeman, of the FlorenceLauderdale Public Library’s Local History and Genealogy Department, has revealed a wealth of

information about Karsner.

Karsner was born in 1831 in Florence, and served as sheriff of Lauderdale County for at least two years, 1856-58.

Freeman learned Karsner moved to Louisville, Ky., where he and two of his younger brothers worked as sales clerks.

When the Civil War began, and Alabama seceded from the Union early in 1861, Karsner returned.

“By April 28, 1861, Karsner was back in Florence, and he enlisted on that date in Irish native

and Florence attorney Capt. Robert McFarland’s Company H, 4th Alabama Infantry,” Freeman said.

“His name appears in the Florence Gazette roster published on Wednesday, May 1, 1861.”

Karsner was elected third lieutenant of the company.

The unit, then known as the Lauderdale Volunteers, left Florence on April 28, 1861, for Dalton, Ga., Freeman said.

On May 7, the unit went to Lynchburg, Va., where they were designated Company H of the 4th Al-

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abama. The 4th Alabama took part in the first major battle of the war, First Manassas, in July.

“The 4th became the first regiment from Alabama to participate in a major battle in this war,” Freeman said.

In fact, the 4th Alabama became one of the most storied regiments of the war, taking part in the Army of Northern Virginia’s battles at Second Manassas, Seven Pines, Sharpsburg, Gettysburg, Chickamauga, The Wilderness and Cold Harbor.

Freeman said his research shows Karsner was present for these battles.

He was promoted to captain in July 1862, just two months before being wounded at Sharpsburg.

He was later admitted to a hospital in Richmond, Va., in 1864, Freeman said, though the cause is not clear.

Karsner surrendered with the survivors of the 4th Alabama when Gen. Robert E. Lee surrendered the Army of Northern Virginia at Appomattox Courthouse in April

1865.

After the war, Karsner married in Tuscaloosa and settled there for the remainder of his life. He was a farmer and later an auctioneer. He died in 1889.

Higgins believes the sword was hidden under the floor boards to prevent it from being taken by occupying Union troops after the war.

Higgins said he would like to have the sword on display at Pope’s Tavern, where the 4th Alabama’s flag is displayed.

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134.60 127.82 129.27 127.65 130.30 131.35 131.95

136.30 136.57 130.05 128.15 131.32 131.75 132.25

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87.35 92.27 99.00 101.22 99.90 97.92 84.25

82.45 90.00 98.02 99.65 98.50 96.75 80.00

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82.90 82.88 82.80 80.00 77.32 78.06 ...

Tables show seven most current contracts for each future. Grains traded on Chicago Board of Trade; livestock on Chicago Mercantile Exchange; and cotton on New York Cotton Exchange.

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PIMCO TotRetIs Vanguard TotStIdx Vanguard InstIdxI Vanguard TotStIAdm Vanguard 500Adml Fidelity Contra Vanguard InstPlus American Funds GrthAmA m American Funds IncAmerA m Vanguard TotStIIns American Funds CapIncBuA m American Funds CpWldGrIA m American Funds InvCoAmA m Dodge & Cox Stock Vanguard WelltnAdm Dodge & Cox IntlStk

CI LB LB LB LB LG LB LG MA LB IH WS LB LV MA FB

Total Assets ($Mlns) NAV 150,959 105,008 87,843 86,541 82,357 75,076 74,915 69,384 67,054 65,738 65,415 54,675 54,122 53,873 53,361 52,538

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Stock Footnotes: g = Dividends and earnings in Canadian dollars. h = Does not meet continued-listing standards. lf = Late filing with SEC. n = New in past 52 weeks. pf = Preferred. rs = Stock has undergone a reverse stock split of at least 50 percent within the past year. rt = Right to buy security at a specified price. s = Stock has split by at least 20 percent within the last year. un = Units. vj = In bankruptcy or receivership. wd = When distributed. wi = When issued. wt = Warrants. Mutual Fund Footnotes: b = Fee covering market costs is paid from fund assets. d = Deferred sales charge, or redemption fee. f = front load (sales charges). m = Multiple fees are charged. NA = not available. p = previous day’s net asset value. s = fund split shares during the week. x = fund paid a distribution during the week.Gainers and Losers must be worth at least $2 to be listed in tables at left. Most Actives must be worth at least $1. Volume in hundreds of shares. Source: The Associated Press. Sales figures are unofficial.

Agent Scott Sawyer opened a new State Farm Insurance office in the city of Corinth at 102 Cass Street on Jan. 1.

Scott Sawyer is a native of Byhalia. He attended Northeast Mississippi Community College where he played on the baseball team.

He continued his education after Northeast and holds a Bachelor of Business Administration from The University of Mississippi.

“I see State Farm as an opportunity to utilize my sales background, while serving Corinth and the surrounding communities,” said Sawyer.

State Farm and its affiliates are the largest provider of car insurance in the U.S. and is a leading insurer in Canada.

In addition to providing auto insurance quotes, their 17,800 agents and more than 65,000 employees serve 81 million policies and accounts – more than 79 million auto, home, life and health policies in the United States and Canada, and nearly 2 million bank accounts.

Commercial auto insurance, along with coverage for renters, business owners, boats and motorcycles, is also available. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company is the parent of the State Farm family of companies.

State Farm is ranked No. 37 on the Fortune 500 list of largest companies.

(For more information, visit http:// www.statefarm.com.)

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Historic smoking report marks 50 years

BY MIKE STOBBE

Key dates

AP Medical Writer

ATLANTA — Fifty years ago, ashtrays seemed to be on every table and desk. Athletes and even Fred Flintstone endorsed cigarettes in TV commercials. Smoke hung in the air in restaurants, offices and airplane cabins. More than 42 percent of U.S. adults smoked, and there was a good chance your doctor was among them.

The turning point came on Jan. 11, 1964. It was on that Saturday morning that U.S. Surgeon General Luther Terry released an emphatic and authoritative report that said smoking causes illness and death — and the government should do something about it.

In the decades that followed, warning labels were put on cigarette packs, cigarette commercials were banned, taxes were raised and new restrictions were placed on where people could light up.

“It was the beginning,” said Kenneth Warner, a University of Michigan public health professor who is a leading authority on smoking and health.

It was not the end. While the U.S. smoking rate has fallen by more than half to 18 percent, that still translates to more than 43 million smokers. Smoking is still far and away the leading preventable cause of death in the U.S. Some experts predict large numbers of Americans will puff away for decades to come.

Nevertheless, the Terry report has been called one of the most important documents in U.S. public health history, and on its 50th anniversary, officials are not only rolling out new anti-smoking campaigns but reflecting on what the nation did right that day.

The report’s bottomline message was hardly revolutionary. Since 1950, head-turning studies that found higher rates of lung cancer in heavy smokers had been appearing in medical journals. A widely read article in Reader’s Digest in 1952, “Cancer by the Carton,” contributed to the largest drop

Some key events in the fight over tobacco during the last 50 years: 1964: U.S. surgeon general report concludes smoking causes lung cancer.

1965: Warning labels required on cigarette packs.

1971: TV and radio commercials for cigarettes banned.

1972: Airlines told to provide no-smoking sections.

1987: Aspen, Colo., becomes first U.S. city to ban smoking in restaurants.

1988: Smoking banned on short domestic airline flights.

1998: Forty-six states reach $206 billion settlement with cigarette makers.

2000: Smoking prohibited on international flights.

2009: Food and Drug Administration authorized to regulate tobacco products.

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in cigarette consumption since the Depression. In 1954, the American Cancer Society announced that smokers had a higher cancer risk.

But the tobacco industry fought back. Manufacturers came out with cigarettes with filters that they claimed would trap toxins before they settled into smokers’ lungs. And in 1954, they placed a full-page ad in hundreds of newspapers in which they argued that research linking their products and cancer was inconclusive.

It was a brilliant counter-offensive that left physicians and the public unsure how dangerous smoking really was. Cigarette sales rebounded.

In 1957 and 1959, Surgeon General Leroy Burney issued statements that heavy smoking causes lung cancer. But they had little impact.

Amid pressure from health advocates, President John F. Kennedy’s surgeon general, Dr. Luther Terry, announced in 1962 that he was convening an expert panel to examine all the evidence and issue a comprehensive, debate-settling report. To ensure the panel was unimpeachable, he let the tobacco industry veto any proposed members it regarded as biased.

Surveys indicated a third to a half of all physicians smoked tobacco products at the time, and

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the committee reflected the culture: Half its 10 members were smokers, who puffed away during committee meetings. Terry himself was a cigarette smoker.

Dr. Eugene Guthrie, an assistant surgeon general, helped persuade Terry to kick the habit a few months before the press conference releasing the report.

“I told him, ‘You gotta quit that. I think you can get away with a pipe — if you don’t do it openly.’

He said, ‘You gotta be kidding!’ I said, ‘No, I’m not.

It just wouldn’t do. If you smoke any cigarettes, you better do it in a closet,’” Guthrie recalled in a recent interview with The Associated Press.

The press conference was held on a Saturday partly out of concern about its effect on the stock market. About 200 reporters attended.

The committee said cigarette smoking clearly did cause lung cancer and was responsible for the nation’s escalating male cancer death rate. It also said there was no valid evidence filters were reducing the danger. The committee also said — more vaguely — that the government should address the problem.

“This was front-page news, and every American knew it,” said Robin Koval, president of Legacy, an anti-smoking orga-

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Cigarette consumption dropped a whopping 15 percent over the next three months but then began to rebound. Health officials realized it would take more than one report.

In 1965, Congress required cigarette packs to carry warning labels. Two years later, the Federal Communications Commission ordered TV and radio stations to provide free air time for antismoking public service announcements.

Cigarette commercials were banned in 1971.

Still, progress was slow.

Warner recalled teaching at the University of Michigan in 1972, when nearly half the faculty members at the school of public health were smokers. He was one of them.

“I felt like a hypocrite and an idiot,” he said.

But smoking was still the norm, and it was difficult to quit, he said.

The 1970s also saw the birth of a movement to protect nonsmokers from cigarette fumes, with no-smoking sections on airplanes, in restaurants and in other places. Those eventually gave way to complete smoking bans.

Cigarette machines disappeared, cigarette taxes rose, and restrictions on the sale of cigarettes to minors got tougher.

Tobacco companies also came under increasing legal attack. In the biggest case of them all, more than 40 states brought lawsuits demanding compensation for the costs of treating smoking-related illnesses.

Big Tobacco settled in 1998 by agreeing to pay about $200 billion and curtail marketing of cigarettes to youths.

In 1998, while the settlement was being completed, tobacco executives appeared before Congress and publicly acknowledged for the first time that their products can cause lung cancer and be addictive.

Experts agree the Terry report clearly triggered decades of changes that whittled the smoking rate down.

NEW ORLEANS — A team of plaintiffs’ attorneys has spent roughly $16 million to sue the Army Corps of Engineers over levee breaches that flooded most of New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. Joseph Bruno, one of those lawyers, estimates that they will recoup a mere $3.5 million of their investment.

There won’t be any windfalls for their clients, either.

A string of court rulings has insulated the federal government from liability for billions of dollars in flood

damage that many residents and business owners have blamed on the corps’ shoddy design, construction and maintenance of the region’s system of levees and floodwalls.

The courts have been a dead end for many other plaintiffs seeking compensation for Katrina-related losses.

Only a handful of Katrina legal battles continue to linger. But the bulk of the civil litigation spawned by the 2005 hurricane already has been resolved, usually to the plaintiffs’ detriment.

Daily Corinthian • Sunday, January 5, 2014 • 9A

Man’s suggestion solves one problem but creates another DEAR ABBY: My wife of 37 years has an exciting career she loves. Unfortunately, her job is 80 miles away from home. We own a condo in her work city.

So recently, when she was complaining about the commute, I suggested she stay there for a week, then telecommute from home for a week, etc. She loves the new schedule.

I, on the other hand, am kicking myself! I have recently started working again at 62, and I’m lonely. It’s depressing to come home to an empty house every other week, but I’m the one who suggested it. Her job could last another two to five years.

We have five grandchildren who live close by, so moving to her location isn’t an option. What do I do about this? -- MISSING HER IN FLORIDA DEAR MISSING HER: You tell your wife that although you suggested she stay in the condo for a week at a time, it isn’t working for you, and you’re miserable without her. Or, you accept that a 160-mile daily commute may have become too much for her and fill your hours by getting a hobby and baby-sitting some of those grandchildren whose parents might like some adult time together. But the one thing you shouldn’t do is sit and silently brood because it isn’t healthy.

DEAR ABBY: My niece had a bridal shower last March. When

thank-you notes didn’t arrive for the gifts she had been given, she said they were “lost in the mail” she Abigail and thank Van Buren would everyone in her wedding Dear Abby thank-yous.

Abby, she was married last May and she hasn’t sent out thank-you notes for her wedding gifts, either.

The gifts my parents and I gave her were expensive, and I am upset about it. By the way, she wasn’t too busy to write them because she doesn’t work.

Should I confront her or let it go?

-- DISGUSTED IN MIDDLEBURG HEIGHTS, OHIO DEAR DISGUSTED: Your sibling did a poor job of raising her daughter. If your niece didn’t know that thank-you notes were supposed to have been sent for her shower gifts, she wouldn’t have lied about them having been lost in the mail.

However, I see nothing to be gained by confronting her. If you do, it will cause your sibling to become defensive. Better to make note of it and respond accordingly when the baby shower invitations start coming in because that’s what is sure to

come next.

DEAR ABBY: I’m 19 and recently engaged. My parents refuse to acknowledge my ring or discuss my wedding plans. I have brought up the idea of moving to where my fiance is, but they think it’s a horrible idea because they’ll miss me. My grandfather has been trying to guilt-trip me into staying by saying things like, “We would miss you. But you don’t care about that or us at all!”

It’s not true, Abby. How do I keep my family informed about my wedding plans and move within the next three months without them feeling hurt? -- DETERMINED IN TEXAS DEAR DETERMINED: Tell your parents and grandparents that you love them, but you’re an adult and need to go where your fiance is. Tell them you and your fiance would love to have them present when you take your vows, and hope they will be supportive. Be sure to calmly explain that your decision has nothing to do with not caring about them; it’s about building a future with the man you love. They may miss you, but in time they’ll adjust.

Dear Abby is written by Abigail Van Buren, also known as Jeanne Phillips, and was founded by her mother, Pauline Phillips. Write Dear Abby at www.DearAbby.com or P.O. Box 69440, Los Angeles, CA 90069.

Horoscopes ARIES (March 21-April 19).

Flawed creatures that we are, we sometimes fall into bad habits like laziness, procrastination and an attitude of entitlement.

You combat human weakness by taking responsibility when others won’t.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20). It’s important to see all of the different talents and purposes in the world as valuable, and none more valuable than the other. Everyone is equal, but that doesn’t mean they are the same.

GEMINI (May 21-June 21).

You’ll choose your friendships carefully. Your choices aren’t based on status or utility, but on who a person is. You have a better time with people who are in line with your standards for character.

CANCER (June 22-July 22).

You’ve made it through the trialand-error process and are now at the sweetest part of a project.

Everything will come together easily because you’ve already done the work.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). You may have to fight your natural inclinations in order to be an adult about today’s offerings. Part of growing up (which you can do at any age) is not reacting immaturely to things that are unsettling or just plain icky.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22).

People are nice to you for various reasons, some having to do with you and others having nothing at all to do with you. You prefer to earn niceties, but you should take them any way they come.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23). Your successes and failures are not based solely on your own actions. There are many other variables at work. Be firm with yourself, but have compassion, too.

It’s not all in your control.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21).

You are still a part of the material world, but the majority of people who ever existed are not.

You may feel the urge to call on them for spiritual help, and they just may answer your call.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec.

21). Wanting one thing, you become embroiled in the acquisition of the opposite thing. How does this happen? It’s an opposition at work. You need this problem the way police need crimes and preachers need sinners.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19). You have fear to thank for all of the foolish risks you didn’t take. As you consider throwing yourself into a dicey situation, acknowledge the fear welling up in your belly. It has kept you safe all these years, so it can’t be all bad.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18).

You have a gift for connecting with people regardless of interferences and complications. You have mixed feelings, but you’ll express them in a way that helps others understand with crystal clarity.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20).

Actively combat negativity by preparing an armament against it. Fill your head with inspiring thoughts before noon, or worry will get too much real estate in your mind.

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Coming Up In The Daily Corinthian The Alcorn County Board of Supervisors meets Monday morning and the Corinth Mayor and Board of Aldermen meets Tuesday night.

See Staff Writer/Photographer Jebb Johnston’s coverage coming this week.

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Local schedule Tuesday, Jan. 7 Basketball Central @ Kossuth, 7 Corinth @ Shannon, 7 Belmont @ Walnut, 7 Soccer Caledonia @ Corinth, 4:30

SEC scores Alabama 64, Robert Morris 56 Florida 67, Richmond 58 Rhode Island 74, LSU 70 Tennessee 98, Tusculum 51

Top 25 fared 1. Arizona (15-0) beat Washington 71-62. Next: at UCLA, Thursday.

2. Syracuse (14-0) beat Miami 49-44. Next: at Virginia Tech, Tuesday.

3. Ohio State (15-0) beat Nebraska 84-53. Next: at No. 5 Michigan State, Tuesday.

4. Wisconsin (14-0) did not play.

Next: vs. No. 22 Iowa, Sunday.

5. Michigan State (13-1) beat Indiana 73-56. Next: vs. No. 3 Ohio State, Tuesday.

6. Oklahoma State (12-2) lost to Kansas State 74-71. Next: vs.

Texas, Wednesday.

7. Duke (11-3) lost to Notre Dame 79-77. Next: vs. Georgia Tech, Tuesday.

8. Wichita State (14-0) did not play. Next: vs. Northern Iowa, Sunday.

9. Baylor (12-1) did not play.

Next: at No. 13 Iowa State, Tuesday.

10. Oregon (13-0) did not play.

Next: at No. 20 Colorado, Sunday.

11. Villanova (12-1) vs. Providence. Next: at Seton Hall, Wednesday.

12. Florida (11-2) beat Richmond 67-58. Next: vs. South Carolina, Wednesday.

13. Iowa State (13-0) beat Texas Tech 73-62. Next: vs. No. 9 Baylor, Tuesday.

14. Louisville (13-2) beat Rutgers 83-76. Next: vs. No. 18 Memphis, Thursday.

15. Kentucky (10-3) did not play. Next: vs. Mississippi State, Wednesday.

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Box Score at Savannah, Tenn.

Boys Hardin Co. 59-McNairy Central 48 McNairy Central 17 8 12 11 – 48 Hardin Co. 12 16 15 16 - 59 McNairy Central – Terrell Harris 13, McNeal 8, Nixon 5, Tacker 5, Pace 4, Crabb 4, Dancer 3, Borner 1.

Hardin County – Will Shelton 16.

Record: MC 6-9

Girls Hardin Co. 43-McNairy Central 37 McNairy Central 7 8 10 12 -37 Hardin County 12 9 12 10 – 43 McNairy – Porsha Chappell 12, Sweat 9, Coleman 9, Phelps 3, West 3, McCord 1.

Hardin County – Emily Gray 23.

ASU returns to GoDaddy Bowl

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Vandy regroups, defeats Houston

BY CHARLES ODUM Associated Press

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — James Franklin wanted to savor Vanderbilt’s bowl win.

Any public comment about his interest in another job would have to wait.

Patton Robinette threw two 50-yard touchdown passes to Jordan Matthews, and Vanderbilt recovered after blowing a 24-point lead to beat Houston 41-24 on Saturday in the BBVA Compass Bowl.

Robinette, starting after senior Austyn Carta-Samuels had season-ending surgery to repair a torn ACL in his left knee, also had an 8-yard scoring run as Vanderbilt built a

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MOBILE, Ala. — Arkansas State keeps winning football games no matter who is on the sideline.

The Red Wolves (7-5) have become a regular at the GoDaddy Bowl, returning to Mobile for a third straight season. They will face Ball State (10-2) on Sunday night at Ladd-Peebles Stadium.

Arkansas State has enjoyed its run of success despite constant change on the coaching staff. The Red Wolves have had four head coaches over the past four seasons and a fifth — former North Carolina offensive coordinator Blake Anderson — is set to take over after Sunday’s game.

Previous coach Bryan Harsin left the program for Boise State in December.

Fifth-year senior Ryan Carrethers has seen all of the coaches come Please see GODADDY | 11A

24-0 lead in the first half.

After Houston (8-4) pulled even by scoring 24 points in the third quarter, Vanderbilt reclaimed the lead on Brian Kimbrow’s 21-yard touchdown run. It was the start of 17 fourth-quarter points for the Commodores.

“The thing that’s probably the most exciting to me is there is a culture of winning at Vanderbilt,” Franklin said.

“These guys know how to win.

A lot of different ways they do it, ugly, pretty, people can describe it however they want.”

Vanderbilt (9-4) closed the season with five straight wins, adding to Franklin’s status as a possible candidate for

coaching vacancies, including at Penn State and with the NFL Browns and Redskins.

The Commodores played in three straight bowl games under Franklin — a first for the program — and completed their first back-to-back ninewin seasons.

Franklin talked after the game about Vanderbilt’s returning players. He left the interview room without replying when asked if he would be back.

Vandy players doused Franklin with a water bucket in the final seconds.

Houston gained only 22 yards and had one first down in the first half but rallied

with 24 points in the third quarter to pull even. Kenneth Farrow had a 6-yard scoring run and Deontay Greenberry and John O’Korn threw scoring passes to Markeith Ambles.

Franklin joked the Houston comeback was arranged to protect the TV ratings.

“Statistically, it was crazy,” Franklin said. “Our defense gave up 22 yards in the first half, 300 yards in the third quarter. We were told by the ESPN people that the ratings had gone down so we wanted to spike them back up by making it exciting in the third Please see VANDY | 11A

Dayton’s buzzer-beater downs Ole Miss Rebels surrender 4-point lead in final minute of OT Associated Press

OXFORD, Miss. — Dayton’s Devin Oliver had been in this situation before — launching a buzzer-beating shot for an overtime win.

“But I haven’t always made those shots in games. I admit it,” Oliver said.

“This time, I knew it was on line and I called ‘bank’ after it left my hand. I can’t tell you how good it felt when I saw it go through.”

Oliver’s 25-footer from the top of the key banked off the backboard and cleanly ripped the net with 0.3 left to give the Flyers an 83-80 overtime win over Mississippi.

“Devin is confident and he’s had a couple in the past that didn’t fall in the final seconds,” Dayton coach Archie Miller said. “This time it did. He’s had some great games for us, but this was the best game of his career.”

Oliver finished with 26 points, seven rebounds and five assists, including making 11 of 14 from the floor. The senior forward scored the final seven

points in regulation play for the Flyers to force the overtime at 73-73.

Dayton put five players in double figures, including Dyshawn Pierre and Scoochie Smith with 11 each, while Matt Kavanaugh and Vee Sanford added 10 apiece. The Flyers shot 31 of 65 (47.7 percent) from the field, including 11 of 28 (39.3 percent) from 3-point range.

“This gives us a lot of confidence heading into (Atlantic 10) conference play,” Miller said. “We’re 4-2 in road games against good teams and 12-3 overall. That’s a step in the right direction.”

The loss was the second consecutive home defeat for Ole Miss (9-4) in the final second within a week. Mercer’s Langston Hall hit a 3-point shot with 0.6 remaining to give the Bears a 79-76 win over Ole Miss on Sunday. Oliver’s decisive shot came from the same spot on the court.

Ole Miss was led by Jarvis Summers with 29 points, hitting 9 of 15 from the field and 10 of 12 from the free throw line. Marshall Henderson had 15 points, all in the second half while Aaron Jones added 10 points.

“Oliver had a monster game and he hit a big shot,” Mississippi coach Andy Kennedy said. “The frustrating thing for us is we were in position to win and

didn’t get a shot the rest of the way.”

Ole Miss led 80-76 with 1:05 left in overtime following a dunk on an offensive rebound by Jones. The Rebels never got another field goal attempt, turning the ball over twice, the final time on a called illegal screen by Sebastian Saiz with five seconds remaining.

Dayton followed the turnovers with a jumper from Pierre and a layup by Kyle Davis, respectively for an 80-80 tie.

That set up the game-winning shot by Oliver.

The win continued Dayton’s recent mastery over Southeastern Conference teams and Ole Miss in particular. It marked the fifth straight win over the Rebels, including four in the past five seasons and eighth consecutive win over SEC foes.

“Dayton’s got tradition and they’re a good basketball team,” Kennedy said.

“They had the best ball movement I’ve seen in this building since the Florida team that was playing for a national championship. We competed, but they finished.”

Ole Miss was led by Jarvis Summers with 29 points, hitting 9 of 15 from the field and 10 of 12 from the free throw line. Marshall Henderson had 15 points, all in the second half while Aaron Jones added 10 points.

Vols trounce Tusculum for 3rd straight win

BY STEVE MEGARGEE AP Sports Writer

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — Tennessee is heating up just in time for the start of Southeastern Conference competition.

Jordan McRae scored 19 points to lead six Tennessee players in double figures Saturday as the Volunteers tuned up for league play with a 98-51 blowout of Division II program Tusculum that represented their most lopsided victory in Cuonzo Martin’s three-year coaching tenure.

The Vols (9-4) head into Tuesday’s SEC opener with LSU on a three-game winning streak, and they have shot at least 50 percent in each of those three victories. Tennessee shot 57.4 percent (35 of 61) overall and 47.8 percent (11 of 23) from 3-point range against Tusculum.

“When you’re making

shots - and we’re capable of making shots - we’re a different team,” Martin said.

Not all the news was good for Tennessee.

Reserve guard Robert Hubbs III sat out Saturday’s game after aggravating an injury to his left shoulder in practice this week. Hubbs had been wearing a brace on the left shoulder this season.

Martin said after the game he didn’t have a timetable for Hubbs’ return.

But the Vols still have reason to feel optimistic. Tennessee has shot 53.4 percent (94 of 176) overall and 52.8 percent (28 of 53) from 3-point range over its last three games. Before this winning streak, Tennessee was shooting 43.1 percent (248 of 575) overall and 30 percent (48 of 160) from beyond the arc.

“It’s just coming in and

getting extra shots,” said Tennessee guard Antonio Barton, who scored 14 points and shot 4 of 7 from 3-point range Saturday. “Guys are coming in on their own in the morning, later after practice, and just getting as many shots as they can.”

Jeronne Maymon added 16 points and D’Montre Edwards had a career-high 12 points for Tennessee. Jarnell Stokes and Josh Richardson had 10 points each. Richardson, normally a starter, came off the bench Saturday after arriving late for pregame preparation.

Tennessee had 30 assists to match the fourth-highest total in school history, four off the school record set against UNC Asheville on Nov. 17, 2009.

Darius Carter scored 22 points for Tusculum.

This matchup was consid-

ered a regular-season game for Tennessee but an exhibition game for Tusculum, which remained 1-11 after the loss. NCAA rules allow Division II teams to schedule two exhibition games against Division I schools, and Tusculum had only faced one Division I program during the preseason.

“We just wanted to go out there and make sure we executed,” Maymon said. “Division II team or not, they’re still a team that’s in our way, still trying to come in and look to steal a win from us, and we’ve got to go out there and play like it was any other game.”

Martin said playing a game against a Division II program that had no RPI impact might be more helpful than scheduling a particularly weak DiPlease see VOLS | 11A

Florida State-Auburn put the BCS to rest for good

BY RALPH D. RUSSO AP College Footfall Writer

BY DAVID BRANDT

Sunday, January 5, 2014

NEWPORT BEACH, Calif. — There will be a funeral amid the celebration after the BCS championship game on Monday night.

No. 1 Florida State or No. 2 Auburn will be the last team to hoist the $30,000 Waterford crystal football that goes to college football’s champion and has become emblematic of the Bowl Championship Series. Then the BCS will be buried in the Rose Bowl after 16 years of revolutionizing the sport — and frustrating so many of its fans and participants.

“We wouldn’t have a playoff if we didn’t have the BCS,” BCS executive director Bill Hancock said Saturday during media day for the championship game.

In the end, the BCS turned out to be not a destination for

college football’s postseason but part of its evolution.

Even one of its harshest critics concedes it did some good.

“It’s better than what we had, but it should have lasted four years not 16,” said Yahoo! Sports writer Dan Wetzel, who wrote the book “Death to the BCS.” The idea for the BCS came from former Southeastern Conference Commissioner Roy Kramer. The story goes that he jotted it down on a napkin. The goal was to take a bowl system that rarely matched the top two teams after the season and give it a structure that would produce 1 vs. 2 every season.

Before the BCS, there were 11 bowl games in college football history that matched the Nos. 1 and 2 teams in The Associated Press college football poll.

The BCS produced three such matchups in the first six seasons, and there was even a split championship in 2003, when Southern California finished No. 1 in the AP poll but didn’t reach the BCS title game. LSU won that. Clearly that wasn’t what the conference commissioners who ran the system had in mind. So they tinkered, often.

“I think some of the criticism came because of the tweaks early on that were made,” Hancock said.

The LSU/USC controversy was followed a season later when the BCS’ simple, fatal flaw was exposed. What happens when there are three worthy teams for a game built for two? Undefeated Auburn was the odd team out among perfect USC and Oklahoma.

At that point many fans were in revolt and the BCS became an easy target for its detrac-

tors.

“It became cool to criticize it — which is unfortunate,” Hancock said.

Maybe so, but it’s not as if it was all unfair. And it was hard to buy some of the reasons commissioners such as Jim Delany of the Big Ten and Mike Slive of the Southeastern Conference were pushing to explain why a playoff just wasn’t possible.

They cited the academic calendar, the charity work the bowls did, the soundness of the formula used to pick the teams, the negative ramifications a playoff would have on the regular season and scheduling, Wetzel said.

“They used so many excuses that were demonstrably untrue,” he said. “It drove fans crazy because fans were not as dumb as the BCS wantPlease see BCS | 11A

Sunday, January 5, 2014

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quarter.â&#x20AC;?

The Commodores regrouped with two big gains on direct snaps to running backs early in the fourth quarter. Jerron Seymour ran for 38 yards to the Houston 34.

Kimbrowâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s touchdown run gave the lead back to Vanderbilt.

Jahmel McIntoshâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s interception less than a minute later gave the ball back to Vanderbilt, setting up Carey Spearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 35-yard field goal.

Seymour added a 2-yard scoring run with less than 2 minutes remaining. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We turned it around and caught up, but it didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t end the way we wanted it to,â&#x20AC;? Houston linebacker Steve Taylor said.

Matthews, a senior who set Southeastern Conference records for career catches and yards receiving, had five catches for 143 yards and two touchdowns and was selected the game MVP. Robinette completed only one pass to another receiver â&#x20AC;&#x201D; for 11 yards to Jonathan Krause. Robinette completed 6 of 17 passes for 154 yards with two touchdowns and an interception.

Seymour had 14 carries for 46 yards.

Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Korn completed 16 of 31 passes for 220 yards and two touchdowns. Daniel Spencer had three carries for 69 yards for Houston and Ambles had six catch-

es for 105 yards and a touchdown.

Matthews took advantage of a lead block by Krause to make his first touchdown catch.

A forced fumble by linebacker Chase Garnham set up the Commodoresâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; second touchdown. After Houstonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Korn threw a pass to Greg Ward Jr., a big hit by Garnham forced the fumbled recovered by Andrew Williamson at the Houston 16. Robinette, making his third career start, scored on an 8-yard keeper on fourth down.

No Houston defender was near Matthews on his second 50-yard scoring catch in the second quarter. It capped a dominant first half for the Commodores. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We started off slow,â&#x20AC;?

Houston coach Tony Levine said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Depending on how you look at it, they started off fast.

They certainly controlled the line of scrimmage, specifically when we had the football.â&#x20AC;?

Levine said he told his players at halftime they could make up the 24-point deficit quickly. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We talked at halftime and said they scored 24 and we scored zero and thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s what we could do in the third quarter,â&#x20AC;?

Levine said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Lo and behold, after those 15 minutes, it was all tied up.â&#x20AC;?

A lost fumble by Robinette set up Farrowâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 6-yard touchdown run to start Houstonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s thirdquarter comeback.

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vision I opponent that could hurt the Volsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; strength-of-scheduling rating in the RPI. This marked the first time that Tennessee had faced a Division II opponent in a regularseason game since beating Chaminade 86-60 in the Maui Invitational on Nov. 23, 2011.

Although the two schools are only about 75 miles apart, Tennessee and Tusculum hadnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t faced each other in a regular-season game since 1944. They have met three times in exhibition games over the last decade. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve got several Tennessee natives

on his team and itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a dream for them to be able to play here,â&#x20AC;? Tusculum coach Michael Jones said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re very thankful and appreciative.â&#x20AC;?

Tennessee wasted little time asserting its superiority.

The Vols raced to an 11-0 lead, didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t commit a single turnover in the first half and went on a 16-0 run at one point in the second half.

Playing an overmatched opponent allowed Martin to substitute freely. Edwards, a little-used guard who had scored just four points all season before Saturday, had seven points in the first half alone.

Wild-card Playoffs Saturday Indianapolis 45, Kansas City 44 New Orleans 26, Philadelphia 24 Today San Diego at Cincinnati, 12:05 p.m.

(CBS) San Francisco at Green Bay, 3:40 p.m.

(FOX) Divisional Playoffs Saturday, Jan. 11 New Orleans at Seattle, 3:35 p.m.

(FOX) Cincinnati or Indianpolis at New England, 7:15 p.m. (CBS) Sunday, Jan. 12 Green Bay or San Francisco at Carolina, 12:05 p.m. (FOX) Indianapolis or San Diego at Denver, 3:40 p.m. (CBS) Conference Championships Sunday, Jan. 19 AFC, 2 p.m. (CBS) NFC, 5:30 p.m. (FOX) Pro Bowl Sunday, Jan. 26 At Honolulu TBD, 6:30 p.m. (NBC) Super Bowl Sunday, Feb. 2 At East Rutherford, N.J. AFC champion vs. NFC champion, 5:30 p.m. (FOX)

Colts 45, Chiefs 44 Kansas City Indianapolis

10 21 10 3 â&#x20AC;&#x201D; 44 7 3 21 14 â&#x20AC;&#x201D; 45 First Quarter KCâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Bowe 6 pass from A.Smith (Succop kick), 8:11.

Indâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Hilton 10 pass from Luck (Vinatieri kick), 4:34.

KCâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;FG Succop 19, :53.

Second Quarter KCâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Avery 79 pass from A.Smith (Succop kick), 14:39.

KCâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Sherman 5 pass from A.Smith (Succop kick), 13:05.

Indâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;FG Vinatieri 37, 9:14.

KCâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Davis 4 run (Succop kick), 1:51.

Third Quarter KCâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Davis 10 pass from A.Smith (Succop kick), 13:39.

Indâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;D.Brown 10 run (Vinatieri kick), 11:47.

Indâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;D.Brown 3 pass from Luck (Vinatieri kick), 7:32.

KCâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;FG Succop 42, 4:12.

Indâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Fleener 12 pass from Luck (Vinatieri kick), 2:31.

Fourth Quarter Indâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Luck 2 offensive fumble return (Vinatieri kick), 10:38.

KCâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;FG Succop 43, 5:36.

Indâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Hilton 64 pass from Luck (Vinatieri kick), 4:21.

Aâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;63,551. â&#x20AC;&#x201D;â&#x20AC;&#x201D;â&#x20AC;&#x201D; KC Ind First downs 30 28 Total Net Yards 513 536 Rushes-yards 32-150 19-100 Passing 363 436 Punt Returns 1-6 0-0 Kickoff Returns 7-187 3-90 Interceptions Ret. 3-22 0-0 Comp-Att-Int 30-46-0 29-45-3 Sacked-Yards Lost 2-15 1-7 Punts 2-39.0 1-51.0 Fumbles-Lost 1-1 2-1 Penalties-Yards 2-15 4-19 Time of Possession 37:33 22:27 â&#x20AC;&#x201D;â&#x20AC;&#x201D;â&#x20AC;&#x201D; INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHINGâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Kansas City, Davis 18-67, A.Smith 8-57, Charles 3-18, Gray 2-5, McCluster 1-3. Indianapolis, D.Brown 11-55, Luck 7-45, Richardson 1-0.

PASSINGâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Kansas City, A.Smith 3046-0-378. Indianapolis, Luck 29-45-3443.

RECEIVINGâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Kansas City, Bowe 8-150, McCluster 7-52, Davis 7-33, Hemingway 2-30, Fasano 2-6, Sherman 2-1, Avery 1-79, Jenkins 1-27. Indianapolis, Hilton 13-224, Fleener 5-46, Brazill

4-54, D.Brown 4-47, Whalen 2-26, Rogers 1-46.

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New Jersey 17 18 8 42 101 110 Columbus 18 20 4 40 113 123 N.Y. Islanders 14 22 7 35 112 143 WESTERN CONFERENCE Central Division W L OT Pts GF GA Chicago 29 7 8 66 165 121 St. Louis 29 7 5 63 150 95 Colorado 26 11 4 56 120 104 Minnesota 22 17 5 49 106 113 Dallas 20 14 7 47 120 124 Winnipeg 19 20 5 43 118 129 Nashville 18 18 6 42 101 127 Pacific Division W L OT Pts GF GA Anaheim 30 8 5 65 142 108 San Jose 26 10 6 58 139 109 Los Angeles 25 13 4 54 110 88 Vancouver 23 12 7 53 113 101 Phoenix 20 12 9 49 123 127 Calgary 14 21 6 34 96 128 Edmonton 13 26 5 31 112 153 NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss.

Fridayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Late Games Tampa Bay 2, Calgary 0 Anaheim 5, Edmonton 2 Saturdayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Games Boston 4, Winnipeg 1 Colorado 4, San Jose 3 Buffalo 2, New Jersey 1 N.Y. Rangers 7, Toronto 1 Ottawa 4, Montreal 3, OT Florida 5, Nashville 4, SO Carolina 3, N.Y. Islanders 2 St. Louis 6, Columbus 2 Detroit 5, Dallas 1 Minnesota 5, Washington 3 Philadelphia 5, Phoenix 3 Vancouver at Los Angeles, (n) Todayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Games Winnipeg at Pittsburgh, noon Nashville at Carolina, 6 p.m.

San Jose at Chicago, 7 p.m.

Tampa Bay at Edmonton, 7 p.m.

Vancouver at Anaheim, 7 p.m.

Mondayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Games Dallas at N.Y. Islanders, 6 p.m.

Columbus at N.Y. Rangers, 6 p.m.

Florida at Montreal, 6:30 p.m.

Calgary at Colorado, 8 p.m.

Pro basketball NBA standings, schedule EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division W L Pct GB Toronto 16 15 .516 â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Boston 13 20 .394 4 Brooklyn 12 21 .364 5 Philadelphia 11 21 .344 51â &#x201E;2 New York 10 22 .313 61â &#x201E;2 Southeast Division W L Pct GB Miami 25 8 .758 â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Atlanta 18 16 .529 71â &#x201E;2 Washington 14 16 .467 91â &#x201E;2 Charlotte 14 20 .412 111â &#x201E;2 Orlando 10 23 .303 15 Central Division W L Pct GB Indiana 26 6 .813 â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Chicago 14 18 .438 12 1 Detroit 14 19 .424 12 â &#x201E;2 Cleveland 11 22 .333 151â &#x201E;2 Milwaukee 7 25 .219 19 WESTERN CONFERENCE Southwest Division W L Pct GB San Antonio 26 8 .765 â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Houston 22 13 .629 41â &#x201E;2 Dallas 19 14 .576 61â &#x201E;2 New Orleans 15 17 .469 10 Memphis 14 18 .438 11 Northwest Division W L Pct GB Oklahoma City 26 7 .788 â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Portland 26 7 .788 â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Minnesota 16 17 .485 10 Denver 15 17 .469 101â &#x201E;2 Utah 11 25 .306 161â &#x201E;2 Pacific Division W L Pct GB L.A. Clippers 23 13 .639 â&#x20AC;&#x201D; 1â &#x201E;2 Golden State 22 13 .629 Phoenix 19 12 .613 11â &#x201E;2 L.A. Lakers 14 19 .424 71â &#x201E;2 Sacramento 10 21 .323 101â &#x201E;2 â&#x20AC;&#x201D;â&#x20AC;&#x201D;â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Fridayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Late Game L.A. Lakers 110, Utah 99 Saturdayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Games Miami 110, Orlando 94 Indiana 99, New Orleans 82 Brooklyn 89, Cleveland 82 Chicago 91, Atlanta 84 Oklahoma City 115, Minnesota 111 San Antonio 116, L.A. Clippers 92 Milwaukee at Phoenix, (n) Philadelphia at Portland, (n) Charlotte at Sacramento, (n) Todayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Games Memphis at Detroit, noon Golden State at Washington, 5 p.m.

Indiana at Cleveland, 5 p.m.

Toronto at Miami, 5 p.m.

Boston at Oklahoma City, 6 p.m.

New York at Dallas, 6:30 p.m.

Denver at L.A. Lakers, 8:30 p.m.

Mondayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Games Minnesota at Philadelphia, 6 p.m.

Atlanta at Brooklyn, 6:30 p.m.

Orlando at L.A. Clippers, 9:30 p.m.

College basketball Saturday menâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s scores

James Madison 60, UNC Wilmington 55 Louisiana Tech 126, Longwood 52 Louisiana-Monroe 103, LouisianaLafayette 98, 2OT Maryland 77, Georgia Tech 61 McNeese St. 82, New Orleans 69 Mercer 62, SC-Upstate 60, OT N. Kentucky 73, Jacksonville 66 Nicholls St. 64, SE Louisiana 61 North Florida 78, Lipscomb 73 Northwestern St. 99, Lamar 85 Ohio 79, UNC Asheville 70 Old Dominion 71, George Mason 66 Pittsburgh 74, NC State 62 Princeton 80, Liberty 74 Rhode Island 74, LSU 70 Tennessee 98, Tusculum 51 Towson 81, Coppin St. 79 UAB 96, Newberry 75 UCF 78, Temple 76 VMI 128, Washington (Md.) 54 Vanderbilt 79, Northeastern 49 Virginia 62, Florida St. 50 W. Carolina 74, Elon 62 W. Kentucky 60, Troy 51 MIDWEST Bradley 68, Drake 57 Cleveland St. 77, Milwaukee 49 Detroit 58, Wright St. 53 E. Michigan 92, Rochester (Mich.) 54 Green Bay 85, Youngstown St. 69 IPFW 110, Kalamazoo 74 Illinois 75, Penn St. 55 Indiana St. 81, Evansville 62 Kansas St. 74, Oklahoma St. 71 Marquette 66, DePaul 56 Michigan St. 73, Indiana 56 Missouri 69, Long Beach St. 59 Morehead St. 85, E. Illinois 77 N. Dakota St. 96, Mayville St. 45 Notre Dame 79, Duke 77 Oakland 75, Valparaiso 70 Ohio St. 84, Nebraska 53 SIU-Edwardsville 85, E. Kentucky 79 Saint Louis 75, Yale 55 William & Mary 78, W. Illinois 67 Xavier 79, Butler 68 SOUTHWEST Arkansas 104, UTSA 71 Arkansas St. 74, Texas St. 69 Cent. Arkansas 86, Houston Baptist 69 Harvard 69, Rice 54 Incarnate Word 100, Our Lady of the Lake 85 Iowa St. 73, Texas Tech 62 North Texas 76, UC Riverside 72 Oklahoma 88, Texas 85 SMU 74, UConn 65 Southern U. 60, Prairie View 57 Stephen F. Austin 73, Sam Houston St. 56 Texas A&M 63, Texas-Pan American 46 Texas A&M-CC 71, Oral Roberts 64 Texas Southern 83, Alcorn St. 66 Tulsa 73, Cal St.-Fullerton 57 UALR 72, Texas-Arlington 70 West Virginia 74, TCU 69 FAR WEST Arizona 71, Washington 62 Gonzaga 86, Pacific 64 Idaho St. 83, E. Washington 72 Montana 82, Sacramento St. 70 Montana St. 68, N. Arizona 66 N. Colorado 91, S. Utah 55 Nevada 61, Wyoming 58 New Mexico 80, Colorado St. 73 San Francisco 76, Pepperdine 66 Santa Clara 86, Loyola Marymount 81, OT UC Santa Barbara 81, Masterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 52 Utah 80, Oregon St. 69 Utah St. 86, San Jose St. 67 Weber St. 79, Portland St. 62

EAST Albany (NY) 81, Hartford 56 Canisius 67, St. Peterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 63 Clemson 62, Boston College 60 Columbia 81, St. Francis (NY) 61 Creighton 79, Seton Hall 66 Delaware 82, Cal Poly 72 Georgetown 77, St. Johnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 60 Iona 118, Niagara 92 La Salle 76, Penn 57 Louisville 83, Rutgers 76 Manhattan 83, Fairfield 57 NJIT 64, St. Francis (Pa.) 56 Quinnipiac 94, Monmouth (NJ) 77 Sacred Heart 66, New Hampshire 53 Saint Josephâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 53, Denver 52 Siena 62, Rider 47 St. Bonaventure 81, Cornell 57 Syracuse 49, Miami 44 UMass 73, Miami (Ohio) 65 Vermont 62, Dartmouth 53 SOUTH Alabama 64, Robert Morris 56 Alabama A&M 68, Jackson St. 61 Alabama St. 68, Grambling St. 51 Ark.-Pine Bluff 78, MVSU 73< Auburn 81, Florida A&M 50 Austin Peay 80, SE Missouri 74 Belmont 64, Tennessee Tech 62 Charlotte 88, NC A&T 72 Chattanooga 72, Furman 63 Cincinnati 69, Memphis 53 Coll. of Charleston 60, Howard 50 Davidson 78, Wofford 63 Dayton 83, Mississippi 80, OT Delaware St. 70, Campbell 60 ETSU 71, Kennesaw St. 55 Florida 67, Richmond 58 Georgia Southern 80, Samford 78 Georgia St. 73, South Alabama 63 Hampton 87, Radford 60 Houston 67, South Florida 58

BASEBALL MLB â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Suspended Minnesota Twins 2B Eddie Rosario for 50 games for a second positive test for a drug of abuse in violation of baseballâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s minor league drug program.

American League BALTIMORE ORIOLES â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Agreed to terms with OF Quintin Berry on a minor league contract.

ey went. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Very few people understood the whole system,â&#x20AC;? he said.

More and more the questioning of the BCS was coming from people who were ostensibly a part of the system. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s when I knew the thing was doomed,â&#x20AC;? Wetzel said.

With momentum building for change, the last crack that made the BCS crumble came after the

2012 season, when the national championship game matched two SEC teams: Alabama vs. LSU in New Orleans.

The commissioners met a day after the game and started constructing a four-team playoff.

Hancock said the leap from the old bowl system to the BCS was far greater and more difficult than the move from BCS to playoff. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The culture was already there,â&#x20AC;? he said.

And now that the BCS is about to be laid to rest, as with any funeral, the last word should be something nice about the departed. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Although it was heavily criticized and misunderstood,â&#x20AC;? said Hancock, â&#x20AC;&#x153;the BCS did everything it was intended to do and then some.â&#x20AC;? ___ Follow Ralph D. Russo at www.Twitter.com/ralphDrussoAP

try with 30 takeaways. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s one of the big statistical factors going into this game,â&#x20AC;? Lembo said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Arkansas State does a great job taking care of the ball and weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been

good at causing turnovers. Somethingâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s got to give on Sunday.â&#x20AC;?

Arkansas State is in the midst of yet another coaching change â&#x20AC;&#x201D; the programâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s fourth in four off-

seasons. The Red Wolves have handled the transition well each time and interim coach John Thompson also coached the team last year in Mobile when it beat Kent State.

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Assistance Retiree breakfast The Caterpillar Retiree Breakfast is held the first Monday of each month at 7:30 a.m. at Martha’s Menu in Corinth.

Mississippi Youth Challenge Mississippi Youth Challenge Academy features a structured environment with a focus on job training, social skills and self-discipline. Other academic opportunities include high school diploma, college classes through a local university and nationally certified construction skills. The academy is designed to meet the needs of today’s “at risk” youth.

Both males and females, 16-18 years old, can apply.

Applicants can earn their GEDs. Tuition is free. For more information, call 1-800-5076253 or visit www.ngycp. org/state/ms.

Volunteers needed • Hospice Advantage in Corinth is looking for volunteers in the surrounding area: Corinth, Tippah, Tishomingo and Prentiss County. Volunteering is a wonderful way to give back to your community and lend a helping hand to the elderly.

For more information, call Carla Nelson, volunteer coordinator with Hospice Advantage on becoming a volunteer at 662-665-9185 or 662-

279-0435. The website is hospiceadvantage. com.

• Magnolia Regional Hospice is currently seeking individuals or groups to be trained as volunteers. Hospice is a program of caring for individuals who are terminally ill and choose to remain at home with family or a caregiver. Some of the ministry opportunities for volunteers are sitting with the patient in their homes to allow the caregiver a break, grocery shopping, reading to a patient, craft opportunities, bereavement/grief support and in-office work.

For more information, contact Lila Wade, volunteer coordinator at 662-293-1405 or 1-800843-7553.

• Legacy Hospice is looking for volunteers.

Legacy needs special people with special hearts and volunteers who are wanting to help others. Their duties will be helping with the support of patients and caregivers, writing letters, making phone calls, and community activities.

There is a training period involved at no cost. If interested, contact Lanell Coln, volunteer coordinator at Legacy Hospice, 301 East Waldron St, Corinth or call 662-2865333.

Senior activities The First Presbyterian Senior Adult Ministry has two fitness classes available to senior adults.

Judy Smelzer leads a stretching/toning class on Mondays at 9 a.m. in the fellowship hall. There is no charge.

FPC is also hosting a Wii sports class for senior adults on Tuesdays at 9 a.m. There is no cost to participate.

Call the church office at 286-6638 to register or Kimberly Grantham at 284-7498.

Red Cross The Northeast Mississippi Chapter of the Red Cross offers a wide variety of assistance and services, including disaster relief.

The Northeast Mississippi Chapter includes 16 counties. It is headquartered in Tupelo, with offices in Tishomingo, New Albany, Starkville and Columbus. Although Red Cross no longer has a Corinth office, the organization wants to stress it continues to offer services in Alcorn County.

People seeking disaster assistance in Northeast Mississippi can call the Tupelo headquarters during office hours at 662-842-6101. The tollfree after hours phone line is 1-855-891-7325.

The Red Cross’ service line for the armed forces is 877-272-7337.

They also offer health and safety training, including first aid, babysitting and CPR, as well as disaster training for businesses.

To learn more about the Red Cross health

and safety training call 1-800-733-2767.

Friendship class The Friendship Class meets weekly on Thursday at 6:30 p.m. in the fellowship hall of the First Presbyterian Church on Shiloh Road. This group of mentally challenged adults and mentors enjoy sharing time together, games, crafts, singing and refreshments. For more information, call the church office at 286-6638.

Marine Corps meet

Support groups

The Corinth Marine Corps League meets the first Tuesday of every month at Martha’s Menu, downtown Corinth, at 6 p.m.

• The Crossroads Group of Narcotics Anonymous meets Monday, Wednesday and Friday at noon, and at 7 p.m., seven days a week, at 506 Cruise Street in Corinth. All meetings are non-smoking.

The Northeast Mississippi area of Narcotics Anonymous Hotline is 662-841-9998.

• A Narcotics Anonymous meeting is held on Tuesdays at 7 p.m. at the Johnson-FordMitchrell Community Center, 707 Spring Street in Iuka. Call 662279-6435 for directions.

The “Everyday People Group” of AA meets Sundays at 8 p.m. for speaker meetings and Tuesdays at 7 p.m. for closed topic discussion meetings at the First Baptist Church (side pavilion) at 501 N. Main Street, Corinth.

For more information for all area AA groups, please call 662-2122235.

• An Alcoholics Anonymous meeting is held in Iuka at the old Chevy dealership building off old Hwy. 25 each Wednesday at 7 p.m. and Friday at 7:30 p.m.

Alcoholics Anonymous is a fellowship of men and women whose common welfare is to stay sober and help others achieve sobriety. The Iuka meeting is an open meeting, anyone who has a problem with alcohol or other substances is welcome to attend.

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Pre-school Story Hour is held each Thursday at 10 a.m. at the Corinth Library. Year-round art exhibits are also on display and educational non-profit groups meet in the auditorium monthly.

The Corinth Friends of the Library hold their ongoing book sale inside the library. Hardback, paperback and audio books, and VHS and DVD donations to the library are always appreciated.

For more information, call 287-2441.

GED test-takers who need to finish the current version of GED need to do so by the end of 2013. The GED test contains five parts that can be taken separately, but must all be passed to receive a high school credential.

GED test-takers who have started the 2002 Series GED Test, but not finished and passed every section, have until the end of 2013 to do so. Otherwise, their scores will expire, and will have to start over again with the new 2014 GED test.

Test-takers can find out more information by visiting the local adult education or GED class.

In the Corinth area, contact the adult education instructor at 662-6962314 or visit 1259 South Harper Rd. in Corinth.

Quilt Guild meets

Genealogy society

The Cross City Piecemakers Quilt Guild meets on the third Thursday of each month at the Homemakers Extension Office (beside the arena) at 1 p.m. Anyone interested in quilting (learning or collecting) is invited to attend. For more information, contact Sharon at 287-0987.

The Alcorn County Genealogical Society is located at the southeast corner of the Alcorn County Courthouse basement in the old veterans’ services office. It is open Tuesday-Friday from 10 a.m. until 2 p.m. The Society can be contacted at 662-286-0075 or email acgs2@att.net.

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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 more information.

“MRHC Retirees Luncheon” The next MRHC Retirement Group meeting will be held on January 9, 2014, at 12:00 in the MRHC Conference Center. If you are interested in attending, please RSVP to Patrice Cox (662) 2937688 or pcox@mrhc.org

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 cholesterol 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 (9025663) for information.

at 662-286-8720.

‘High School Musical’

Mended Hearts will be meeting Monday, January 13,2014, at 10:00 A.M., at the Magnolia Community Service Complex in the Cardiac Rehab Conference Room, 1001 South Harper Road, Corinth, MS. Mended Hearts is a support group open to all heart patients, their families and others impacted by heart disease. Our purpose is to inspire hope in heart disease patients and their families through visits and sharing our experiences of recovery and returning to an active life.

Healthcare professionals join our mission by providing their expertise and support. All heart patients and their family are welcome. Our regular meeting day is the second Monday of each month at 10:00 a.m. from September through May.

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 additional information contact the school

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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 6650520 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.

Private Applicator Training

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Extension Service at 662286-7755.

There will be a Private Applicator training session held on Monday, Jan. 6 at 6 p.m. at the Alcorn County Extension Service office located behind the Crossroads Arena. There is a $10 fee to attend the training.

This training is for farmers who need their private applicator certificate. If you have any questions or need additional information please contact the Alcorn County

Homeless Awareness Crosswind Ministries, in partnership with Mississippi United to End Homeless is conducting a comprehensive search for homeless in the community. The ministry will host an awareness luncheon at noon on Wednesday, Jan. 8 at their building at 703 Tate Street in Corinth for community organizations and leaders to share their information on the issue.

All those planning to attend should e-mail Rhonda Windham at ronda@ crosswind.ms by Monday, Jan. 6.

Wildlife Supper The 29th Annual Alcorn County Wildlife Tasting Supper is set for Thursday, Jan. 16. Doors open at 4:45 p.m. for the 6 p.m. event at the Crossroads Arena. Admission is free for those bringing a dish to compete or $10 for adults, $5 for children 5-12 and free for kids under five.

For more information call Sandy Mitchell at 287-7223, ext. 3 or Patrick Poindester at 2867755.

Father-Daughter Ball The Corinth Kiwanis Club will host its third annual Father-Daughter Ball on Jan. 25 at the Crossroads Arena. Cost is $35 for the first couple and $10 for each additional daughter and includes food, dancing, meet the princesses, beauty makeover stations and make a cupcake for dad station.

T-shirts will be available for $15 and must be preordered. Additional upgrade options are available. Applications must be postmarked by 5 p.m.

Jan. 8 or received in person at 501 Cruise Street in Corinth by 5 p.m. on Jan. 9. Applications and payments may be processed online at www.corinthkiwanis.org through Jan. 9.

For more information call 286-3317.

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Features

Sunday, January 5, 2014

‘Bandana Jim’ custom makes holsters, belts

BY STEVE BEAVERS sbeavers@dailycorinthian.com

“Bandana Jim” Hastings is a wanted man around these parts.

When it comes to customized holsters, the 66-year-old Corinth man is ace-high.

“It started as a hobby, making gun belts for myself and friends,” said Hastings while sitting in his shop filled with numerous cowboy items.

“Growing up in the ’50s and ’60s, I was a big fan of Westerns, particularly the firearms and gun belts … come Saturday morning I would be glued to the television watching Westerns until they went off.”

He had his eye on a certain item while watching the Westerns.

“As I watched those cowboy shows, I noticed they had good-looking gun holsters,” said Hastings. “You couldn’t go out and buy one, so I started making them.”

The father of one (Greg) made his first holster at the age of 17. His passion for turning a piece of leather into a work of art transformed into Hastings Cowboy Style Holsters & Belts some 25 years later.

“Everything I make is custom made,” said Hastings of his shop which has shipped gun belts all across the country. “Each rig is made to fit the gun and the person who wears it.”

Each holster, whether it’s from the Western, Hollywood or Cowboy area, is personally designed and carved. Made of hermann oak steer hide, the gun belts are usually ready between 4-8 weeks, depending on the workload.

“I try to have four to five going on at the same time,” said the husband of Linda as he admired his latest design for a cowgirl known as “Idaho Sue.” Hastings Cowboy Style Holsters & Belts really took off during the formation of the Single Action Shooting Society (SASS) in 1990. The international organization was created to preserve and promote the sport of Cowboy Action Shooting.

Cowboy Action Shooting is a multi-faceted shooting sport in which contestants compete with firearms typical of those used in the taming of the Old West: single action revolvers, pistol caliber lever action rifles and old time shotguns. The shooting competition is staged in a unique, characterized, “Old West” style. It is a timed sport in which shooters compete for prestige on a course of different shooting stages.

“People who take part

in the action shooting events all dress up in clothing according to a particular cowboy period,” said the owner of the business which opened in 2005.

The former Lowe’s employee, who got his action shooting name of “Bandana Jim” because he wore a bandana during the summer months at Lowe’s, got his business rolling while being a vendor at one of the events.

“I took a few samples to one then started taking orders,” he said. “Now I sponsor two cowboy shoots – Byhalia and Lakeland, Tenn., events – a year.”

Through his contact with the cowboy shoots, Hastings has made oneof-a-kind belts for individuals throughout the country. Some stop by his Norman Road shop from as far as way as South Dakota on their way to Florida for vacation.

“People like that I work with them and individually custom make it to fit to their dimensions,” said Hastings while showing some photos of his clients. “A lot of them don’t know what they want so I help them figure it out … sometimes people will load them up with all kinds of ‘bling.’”

Each holster comes with the Hastings logo inside along with the name of the client and a model number.

Although the Cowboy area models are a popular brand, “Bandana Jim” also makes several concealed carry models.

“Those have become a big item,” he added.

Hastings work has been featured both in a magazine and recent book. In 2010, Shoot! magazine did an article with one of his rigs showcased on the cover. Just last year, he was among 30 people who do work with their hands featured in “The American Craftsman Project” – a portrait production compiled by Tadd Myers.

“When I started doing this I wanted three things to happen,” said Hastings, peering under his Cowboy hat. “One, I wanted to get a story written about me, two, have a cover on a magazine and three, make a holster for a famous person … I’m still working on number three.”

While he waits to make that famous-person model, Hastings will still be filling orders from cowboy and cowgirls.

“I am always looking for new ideas and something different,” said the cowboy. “As I tell my customers, ‘You only get one shot at showing your best.’”

Staff photo by Steve Beavers

Jim Hastings is ace high when it comes to making gun belts and holsters.

An array of holsters can be found at Hastings Cowboy Style Holsters & Belts shop in Corinth.

Each holster contains the name of the client and product number.

Jim Hastings gets another holster ready.

All of the holsters made

by Jim Hastings are custom made.

Recovering from past mistakes takes fair amount of courage As careful as you may be, you will make mistakes. Although it’s not possible to live mistake free, there are effective strategies you can use to recover from your mistakes.

Let’s start by considering basic causes of mistakes. You are impatient and act too quickly. You lack knowledge or expertise. You don’t have enough information to make a sound decision.

You make a decision based on wrong information. Regardless of the cause, you need to recover from your mistakes. Once you have recovered, you can identify and address the cause.

The difference between making a mistake and failing is your response.

Successful people use mistakes as a stepping stone to future achieve-

ments.

Those who give up transform a mistake into a guaranBryan teed failGolden ure.

M i s Dare to Live t a k e s Without Limits are fixed through corrective action. Doing nothing exacerbates the mistake, making it harder to repair. But before a mistake can be fixed it must be recognized. Denying that a mistake has been made prevents you from repairing it. Taking responsibility for your mistakes is the first step to moving forward to success.

When a mistake has been made, you have to find answers to four important questions. What

happened? Why did it happen? What did you learn? What can you do to prevent it from happening again? Accurate and honest answers to these questions are invaluable.

When a mistake happens, stay composed. You need a calm mind in order to accurately assess your options and decide what step to take next.

Stress inhibits your ability for sound reasoning.

Don’t get stuck lamenting your mistake. You won’t feel good about what happened but you can’t change the past.

Pick yourself up and start moving forward.

After a mistake has been made, the first priority is dealing with the immediate consequences and limiting damage.

For example, when a sailor’s boat is damaged in a storm, leaks must be

plugged immediately before any other repairs are made.

Recovering from mistakes requires an open mind and flexibility. You have to take a step back so that you can keep things in perspective while looking at the big picture. Make a list of all possible strategies. Then go through your list and prioritize. Be willing to change direction if needed.

If you don’t know what you should do next, seek out those who have successfully recovered from similar mistakes. People who have not had this experience may provide you with faulty advice.

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for you to move forward successfully.

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opportunity. The sting of even your worst mistakes fades with time. Study other successful people and analyze what they do to recover from their mistakes.

Here’s how you recover from mistakes in a nutshell. Recognize when you make a mistake. Take responsibility for the mistake. Immediately take action to limit additional damage. Repair any damage that has occurred.

Make changes to prevent the same mistake from recurring. Mistakes are part of life but you can recover from them.

(Daily Corinthian columnist Bryan Golden is a management consultant, motivational speaker, author and adjunct professor. E-mail him at bryan@columnist.com or write him c/o this newspaper.)

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Writer, Doyle estate dispute copyright on Holmes

BY JASON KEYSER Associated Press

CHICAGO — It’s the kind of puzzle that might have amused Sherlock Holmes himself.

Now that copyright protections have expired on nearly all of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s tales about the pipe-puffing detective in the deerstalker hat, are writers free to depict the character in new mysteries without seeking permission or paying license fees?

A federal judge in Chicago says yes, so long as they don’t stray into territory covered in the 10 stories still protected by copyright. Not so fast, says the Doyle estate, which is considering an appeal this month. Descendants of the Scottish physician and author argue he continued to develop the characters of Holmes and Dr. Watson in the later works so they should remain off-limits until the remaining copy-

rights run out at the end of 2022.

“It’s a bogus argument.

It means you can reprint Conan Doyle’s own stories freely but you can’t make up a new story?

It doesn’t make logical sense,” said author Leslie Klinger, who brought the case against the Conan Doyle Estate Ltd. to settle the matter.

With last week’s ruling in hand, Klinger plans to finish work on “In the Company of Sherlock Holmes,” a book of original short stories featuring characters and other elements from Conan Doyle’s work. He is co-editing the book with plans to publish this fall.

If appeals judges hold it up, the ruling could lift the threat of legal action for the untold scores of writers out there churning out pastiches and fan fiction without permission. Most of them fly under the radar. In Klinger’s

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case, the estate demanded $5,000, he said.

“Whatever decision they make will essentially determine the fate of many characters, not just Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson, but very intricate characters such as James Bond. ... What happens as copyrights expire on Ian Fleming’s original stories?” said Doyle estate attorney William Zieske.

The ruling could also weaken the value of the Sherlock franchise to the point that major publishers and movie producers could also decide to move ahead with projects without licensing deals, said Paul Supnik, a Beverly Hills, Calif., attorney specializing in copyright and entertainment law who was not connected with the case.

“At the very least it’s going to affect the bargaining power as to what the estate can do in trying to sell it to the studio,”

Supnik said.

At the heart of the dispute is whether a character can be copyright protected over an entire series of works. The Doyle estate argues that a basic element of copyright law allows for that if the character is highly delineated, as opposed to a two-dimensional cartoon-like character who doesn’t change much over time.

In ruling against the estate, Judge Ruben Castillo called that a “novel legal argument” that was “counter to the goals of the Copyright Act.” The lawsuit was filed in Chicago because a literary agent for the Doyle estate is based in Illinois.

There’s no question that Holmes and Watson are highly complex characters. Conan Doyle produced a total of four Sherlock Holmes novels and 56 stories between 1887 and 1927.

Klinger argues that ev-

mention that Watson had a second wife and played rugby in his youth.

But the Doyle estate says there are other significant elements in those later stories, such as Holmes’ “mellowing” personality and the shift in Holmes’ and Watson’s relationship from flatmates and collaborators to closest friends.

Thus, to depict Holmes and Watson based only on parts of the canon that pre-date 1923 would be something of an artistic crime and ignore the extent to which the characters continued to evolve, said Doyle attorney Zieske.

“That’s the essence of literature, how people change through different experiences,” Zieske said. “And to reduce true literary characters to a cardboard cutout, parts of which can be carved off, I think does literature a great disservice.”

More cars and coffee on tap for Seinfeld’s Web talk show

BY FRAZIER MOORE AP Television Writer

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erything you really need to know about Holmes and Watson is in the novels and stories published before 1923 that are in the public domain in the U.S. That includes their family backgrounds, education and a slew of character traits: Holmes’ Bohemian nature and cocaine use, erratic eating habits, his Baker Street lodgings, his methods of reasoning, his clever use of disguise, his skill in chemistry and even his weapon of choice, a loaded hunting crop.

“Everything that the lay person would think of as being a characteristic of Holmes or Watson is in those pre-1923 stories,” said Klinger, who is also an attorney and lives in Malibu, Calif. “In fact, some would say you could pick up almost everything you need from the very first story.”

The other 10 stories have new biographical footnotes, including a

NEW YORK — Jerry Seinfeld loves cars. He’s fond of coffee. And, of course, he’s a comedian who loves to talk comedy.

But the inspiration for his online talk show, “Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee” (wherein he and a fellow comedian crack wise while powered by a car and caffeine), was inspired by an episode of his eponymous 1990s sitcom.

In that memorable episode, Jerry’s sad-sack pal, George, decided success might await him if he lived his failed life in the opposite manner.

“That,” recalls Seinfeld in a recent interview, “gave me the idea to create a talk show that was the opposite of the typical show.

“With a typical talk show,” he explains, “you have to go to a studio. You have to tell them in advance what you’re going to talk about. You have to dress up. You have to put on makeup. It’s very, very organized.

“I thought, maybe there’s a different way than being stuck on a couch: Outside and moving is the opposite of inside and still.

“That,” he sums up, “is where it began.”

“Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee” launched on the Crackle digital network in 2012, and its third season hits the road Thursday with Seinfeld joining Louis C.K. for a cup of joe after a zany ride on a clown-car-scale 1959 Fiat Jolly.

“I pick you up at your house and we literally go out for a cup of coffee.”

Future ride-alongs include Patton Oswalt, Howard Stern, Tina Fey, Todd Barry and Jay Leno.

“I wanted to make a show that people would like to be on, instead of groaning and going, ‘Yeah, all right, I’ll do it,’” says Seinfeld in his office in Manhattan’s famed Brill Building, where soon he will begin another editing session to whittle the Leno episode to a tight 18 or 20 minutes from the two or three hours of recorded chitchat.

Each show is meticulously crafted. But that’s no surprise, considering how, at age 59 with nothing left to prove, Seinfeld continues to revise and refine his stand-up act.

Here, too, Seinfeld is a stickler for detail, as when he huddles with an editor a few minutes later to tweak the music accompanying a shot of the car (a 1949 Porsche 356/2) he and Leno will share.

“Do you feel like that music is a little bit of a rough transition?” he muses.

“It’s a little abrupt. But you know the second phrase of that track is a little more gentle. Maybe we could start there, you know what I mean?”

Even so, the flavor of each episode is insistently no-frills, candid and offthe-cuff.

Seinfeld says he never prepares for a taping.

“Things just occur to me. Like asking Howard Stern to tell me how his life ends, what he’s doing in that last moment. It just occurred to me as we were driving.

“He seemed like a guy who’s really afraid of death. So I wanted to ask him about it.”

As for Oswalt, “he seemed very comic-book geeky, so I asked him, ‘What’s your favorite superhero?’ And he froze.

That was like the worst

thing I could ask him. He couldn’t commit to one comic book superhero being his favorite!”

Needless to say, Seinfeld mostly focuses on comedy with each guest.

Welcome to his world.

“That’s what I NORMALLY talk about during the day,” he says. “At least 50 percent of the waking life of every comedian is gossiping and analyzing with other comedians about comedy. Comedy is a very mysterious profession, so we’re always trying to figure it out.

In the untainted backand-forth that results on his show, Seinfeld proves to be an excellent audience, clearly enjoying each guest’s bons mots as much as he enjoys delivering his own.

“I got really excited about the Leno episode,” he says, “with me being his friend all these years, and now having this opportunity to show the old comedy-crazy Jay. “So many people think of him as a talk-show host.

This captures him as a comedian.”

Fine, but how competitive does Seinfeld feel in the company of another comedian?

“Zero,” he declares, and flashes a quizzical smile: “I haven’t done well enough?! But even if I hadn’t,” he adds, growing serious, “no, I do not have that gene.”

And yet, as you watch Seinfeld matching wits with a guest, it’s not hard to imagine he’s on high alert for any fresh idea embedded in the banter that, with just the right tweaking, could end up in his act.

You bet, Seinfeld nods.

“That’s my whole life,” he says. “That’s every single second of my life.”

‘American Hustle’ paints vivid portrait of swank 1970s fashions

BY SANDY COHEN AP Entertainment Writer

LOS ANGELES — From Christian Bale’s burgundy velour blazer to Amy Adams’ plunging sequin halter dress, “American Hustle” is a cinematic romp through the over-the-top styles of the 1970s.

Set in New York and New Jersey in 1978, the film tells the story of a pair of con artists (Bale and Adams) forced to work for a cocky FBI agent (Bradley Cooper) bent on bringing down powerbrokers and politicians. This decadent world of power, crime and big money comes to life through os-

tentatious fashions and outrageous hairdos. All the characters are reinventing themselves, and it shows in their clothes.

“They had ideas, they lived large and they took risks,” costume designer Michael Wilkinson said of the ’70s styles that inspired his designs.

Wilkinson scoured Cosmopolitan magazine, along with advertisements, movies and TV shows of the era. “Goodfellas” and “Atlantic City” were particularly influential films.

Hair is so prominent in “American Hustle,” it’s practically another char-

acter. Lead hairstylist Kathrine Gordon studied old issues of Playboy and high-school yearbooks from the ’70s for inspiration.

Adams wears styles reminiscent of disco parties, Studio 54 and “the Breck girl” ads of the era. Jeremy Renner, who plays a New Jersey politician, has a fluffy bouffant.

Jennifer Lawrence, an unhappy wife in the film, wears bouncy, sex-kitten updos whether she’s going out or not.

And Cooper rocks a tight perm: He’s shown wearing curling rods in one scene.

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$14,900

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super duty, diesel, 7.3 ltr., exc. drive train, 215k miles, excellent, great mechanical condition”.

$7400.

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SOLD

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$6950 662-665-1995

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gas burner, workhorse eng., 2 slideouts, full body paint, walk-in shower, SS sinks & s/s refrig w/ im, Onar Marq gold 7000 gen., 3-ton cntrl. unit, back-up camera, auto. leveling, 2-flat screen TVs, Allison 6-spd. A.T., 10 cd stereo w/s.s, 2-leather capt. seats & 1 lthr recliner, auto. awning, qn bed, table & couch (fold into bed), micro/conv oven, less than 5k mi.

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1997 FORD ESCORT

$1650

Description of asset real property located at 832 CR 755, Walnut, MS - PIN #3806-Alcorn County Department of the Treasury/Internal Revenue Service, Notice of Public Auction Sale, under the authority in Internal Revenue Code section 6331, the property described above has been seized for nonpayment of Internal Revenue taxes due from WILLIAM E. DECD & DELORES S. NORCROSS. The property will be sold at public auction as provided by Internal Revenue Code section 6335 and related regulations. Title offered: Only the right, title, and interest of WILLIAM E. DECD & DELORES S. NORCROSS in and to the property will be offered for sale. If requested, the Internal Revenue Service will furnish information about possible encumbrances, which may be useful in determining the interest of the property being sold. Property may be inspected at 832 CR 755, Walnut, MS – drive by only. Payment terms: 20% due within two hours upon acceptance of highest bid and balance due February 21, 2014. Form of payment: All payments must be by cash, certified check, cashier’s check or treasurer’s check or by a United States Postal, bank, express, or telegraph money order. Make check or money order payable to the United States Treasury. For further information call Shelia Kuykendall, Property Appraisal & Liquidation Specialist, at (713) 201-8820 or access the Internet at www.irsauctions.gov.

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662-284-7293 2001 CAMERO CONVERTIBLE

1979 OLDSMOBILE OMEGA

2005 VOLVO XC90 Sunroof, Leather Upholstery, 3rd Row Seat, Multi CD Changer 124,000 Miles $9800

340-626-5904.

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1984 CORVETTE

1983 NISSAN DATSUN 280 ZX

662-462-7634 or 662-664-0789

1987 Honda CRX, 40+ mpg, new paint, new leather seat covers, after market stereo, $3250 obo.

Public Auction January 22, 2014 10:00 Bidder registration 9:45 a.m.

Alcorn County Courthouse 600 E. Waldron Street Corinth, MS 38834

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2011 HYUNDAI ACCENT Nordic White

0955 LEGALS

Advertise your CAR, TRUCK, SUV, BOAT, TRACTOR, MOTORCYCLE, RV & ATV here for $39.95 UNTIL SOLD! Ad should include photo, description and price. PLEASE NO DEALERS & NON-TRANSFERABLE! NO REFUNDS. Single item only. Payment in advance. Call 287-6147 to place your ad.

864 868 868 TRUCKS/VANS AUTOMOBILES AUTOMOBILES SUV’S

Rienzi

1991 Mariah 20’

0114 HAPPY ADS

HOMES FOR 0710 SALE

‘90 RANGER BASS BOAT

361V W/MATCHING TRAILER & COVER, RASPBERRY & GRAY, EVINRUDE 150XP, 24-V TROL. MTR., 2 FISH FINDERS, NEW BATTS., NEW LED TRAILER LIGHTS, EXC. COND.,

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REAL ESTATE FOR SALE

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REAL ESTATE FOR 0605 RENT

LEGALS

HARLEY DAVIDSON

2009 ROAD RUNNER 7X7X21’ ENCLOSED BOXED TRAILER,

SOLD WHITE, NEW TIRES

$3500

662-594-8271

2007 CHEVY SILVERADO LT EXTENDED CAB 4.8 One of a kind 46,000 mi. garage kept. $20,000 CALL 662-643-3565

2000, Model Electra Glide Standard Excellent Condition 83,000 Miles Serv. Records Available Xtra set pipes

$7300.

662-808-4154

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0955 LEGALS

2007 Nissan Altima 1N4AL21E07C127055 Mileage 145698 2011 Ford Taurus SEL 1FAHP2EW0BG183861 Mileage 35766 2012 Dodge Ram 1500 3C6JD6AT7CG215984 Mileage 28582 2001 Chevrolet Silverado LS 2GCEC19T911216273 Mileage 133019 Vehicles will be sold on or after Wednesday, January 8, 2014. All vehicles are located at Stateline Auto; 1620 Battleground Drive; Iuka, MS. Bids will be taken at that location Monday-Friday 8a-5p. All vehicles are sold "AS IS".

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Fort Financial Credit Union 1808 S Fulton Drive Corinth MS 38834 4t's 1/3, 1/4, 1/5, 1/7/2014 14538

LEGAL NOTICE The Mississippi Department of Corrections is soliciting proposals to lease approximately 2,000 square feet of office space in Corinth. Interested parties should contact Bill Brand at (662) 489-4595, P.O. Box 30, Pontotoc, MS 38863. Deadline for receipt of proposals is January 6, 2012 at 5:00 p.m.

2t's 1/5, 1/12/2014 ✔Assist with cookie distribution to volunteers Vehicles both indoors will be sold on 14539 5x and outdoors or after Wednesday, 12/20, 12/22, 1/5,front desk January 8, 2014. All ✔Acts as12/29/2013, backup for 1/12/14 vehicles are located at HOME SERVICE DIRECTORY ✔Keeps count of inventory and uses cookie management system 14533 Stateline Auto; 1620 ✔Follows directions well and a team player B a t t l e g r o u n d D r i v e ; Iuka, MS. Bids will be Candidates must have a high school diploma and two at years taken thatoflocation Monday-Friday 8a-5p. All customer service experience; an Associate or Bachelor’s degree HANDYMAN are sold "AS IS". is preferred. The candidate should possess goodvehicles oral communicaThe undersigned re- HANDYMAN'S HOME tion skills and knowledge of Outlook, Word andserves the Internet.

The the right to bid. CARE, ANYTHING. 662-643-6892. ability to type a minimum of 20 wpm is required. The candidate Fort Financial must be willing to work outdoors in various climates and have Credit Union ability to repeatedly lift a minimum of 20 pounds while bending.

STORAGE, INDOOR/ 1808 S Fulton Drive Corinth MS 38834 The employee should have the ability to work the following flexible OUTDOOR

Cookie Office Assistant

hours on Wednesday and Friday, which may include some evenings 4t's and weekends: Corinth - February 17th thru March 2nd1/5, (hours may 1/3, 1/4, 1/7/2014 be extended based on the need). All candidates 14538 should have a valid driver’s license and use of ones own vehicle for travel and a good driving record is required.

Denise Mitchell ext 105

662-287-6111 0848

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2007 Nissan Altima M/F IV /D 2014. Form of payment: All 1N4AL21E07C127055 payments must be by cash, Mileage 145698 GENERAL HELP 5x certified check, cashier’ s check 0232 or treasurer’s check or by a 12/20, 12/22, 12/29/2013, 1/5, 2011 Ford Taurus SEL United States Postal, bank, 1/12/14 1FAHP2EW0BG183861 express, or telegraph money 14533 Mileage 35766 order. Make check or money order payable to the United 2012 Dodge Ram 1500 States Treasury. For further 3C6JD6AT7CG215984 information call Shelia Mileage 28582 Girl Scouts Heart of the South is seeking a temporary, part-time Kuykendall, Property Appraisalcandidate & Liquidation Specialist, at to assist with cookie distribution, retail 2 0 0and 1 Ccustomer hevrolet Sil(713) 201-8820 or access the verado LS service duties in our Corinth, MS office.

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Mileage 133019 Brief Summary: January 22, 2014 10:00 Bidder registration 9:45 a.m.

Alcorn County Courthouse 600 E. Waldron Street Corinth, MS 38834

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