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More human remains discovered BY JEBB JOHNSTON

partment found additional remains. The discovery was made Friday in a wooded area on County Road 510 as investigation of the case continues.

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A little more than a week after a dog brought human remains to a home in the Kossuth area, the Alcorn County Sheriﬀ’s De-

“We’ve been constantly looking and investigating and trying to determine what happened and where it happened,” said Sheriﬀ Ben Caldwell. “My investigators were out walking

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the area and located an area containing more human remains near where the first was found.” The sheriﬀ’s department secured the scene and monitored

it overnight until arrival of an anthropologist from the state crime lab on Saturday to assist in documenting and recovering Please see REMAINS | 2A

Law would restrict campaign spending BY ZACK STEEN zsteen@dailycorinthian.com

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Smoke billows from a rooftop at the Corinth Fire Academy on Saturday morning. Firefighters are taught how to break through the roof to attack the fire.

Firefighters train for success BY MARK BOEHLER

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eavy smoke hovers along Manpower Road in Corinth Saturday morning. A two-story building and nearby rooftop are smoldering. A blaze can errupt just any minute. Firemen attack the smoking rooftop while oth-

ers use a ladder to enter a second story window. About 40 firefighters representing multiple fire departments stand ready in full turnout gear, some with axes in hand. The common goal is to save life first and then, property. Please see ACADEMY | 2A

Transparency is a good thing. Mississippi campaign finance spending has been unregulated for years, but a new bill which passed the House this week could add much needed rule restrictions to the law. “Anything that forces lawmakers to be more transparent is a good thing,” said District 2 Rep. Nick Bain (DAlcorn). “It shows the public that we are here to serve them, not ourselves.” Representatives voted to pass the bill and send it to the Senate for more work. It would impose restrictions on campaign spending for all elected oﬃcials, aiming to block candidates from using campaign contributions to subsidize their lifestyle or build a retirement nest egg. All four Crossroads area House members voted to pass the bill, including Bain, District 1 Rep. Lester “Bubba” Carpenter (R-Alcorn, Tishomingo), District 3 Rep. Tracy Arnold (R-Alcorn, Prentiss) and District 4 Rep. Jody Ste-

Bain Carpenter verson (D-Alcorn, Tippah). “It’s a strong bill,” said Carpenter. “I voted for it because it’s the right thing to do. People have donated us this money and it should be used the right way.” Speaker of the House Philip Gunn (R) authored the bill which comes following reports last year that some state oﬃcials were spending campaign funds on clothes and cars, with some withdrawing large sums for retirement. “The Clarion-Ledger reported some lawmakers down south misspent their campaign money. It was a bad deal, but thankfully nothing of that nature has happened with legislatives in Alcorn or Tishomingo counties,” added Please see CAPITOL | 5A

District moves closer to wireless Internet BY ZACK STEEN zsteen@dailycorinthian.com

The Alcorn School District got the green light this week. The remaining ERATE federal funding needed to complete the district’s massive wireless Internet project has been received. “This is huge,” said Director of Technology Rose Seaborn. “This is something we have been working on and talking about for years, and with this funding we are going to be able to finish the project.” The enterprise class wireless Internet will include access points or hot spots in almost all classrooms

in the school district. Each access point will be capable of delivering high speed Internet access for up to 30 devices. “This is the last puzzle piece in a bigger ERATE project that was originally delayed two and half years ago because of a conflict of interest,” said Alcorn County Superintendent of Education Larry B. Mitchell. E-Rate, the name commonly used for the Schools and Libraries Program of the Federal Communications Commission, calculates a school district’s discounted rate by the number of free and reduced

lunches in the district. A cap is determined by district enrollment times $150 per student. “The E-Rate program is an indepth and complicated process,” said Seaborn. “But because they make so much money available for school districts across the country, it makes it worth the time.” The ERATE funding will also cover the cost of new cabling in computer labs, UPS backup and recovery, cache servers and large racks. The first phase of district-wide Please see WIRELESS | 2A

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Alcorn School District Director of Technology Rose Seaborn talks about district-wide wireless Internet with Superintendent of Education Larry B. Mitchell.

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Work continues on a new building at Oak Hill Christian Church. The 1,400-square-foot expansion includes a new fellowship hall and classrooms.

Planning begins for the next phase of development at the Corinth Contraband Camp Historic Site. The work is slated to include a series of statues telling the camp’s story.

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King’s life, legacy resonates for activists BY ERRIN HAINES WHACK Associated Press

(Editor’s Note: A reminder that the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. will be celebrated locally today at 2 p.m. at Hopewell Missionary Baptist Church. Organizers are calling it a “Dream Bigger, Dream Better” communitywide event and there will be speakers and entertainment. Hopewell M.B. Church is located at 464 Highway 356 in Rienzi. For more information contact the church at 662-4628598.) PHILADELPHIA — For Abdul Aliy-Muhammad, the Martin Luther King Jr. he learned about as a child was a man of love, peace and racial harmony, a gifted orator. It wasn’t until Aliy-Muhammad became an activist that he came to know, and appreciate, the King who decried the Vietnam War as “unjust” and made a firm, insistent case for economic justice for black Americans. “There is a Martin Luther King that is important to the resistance movement that we

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don’t hear about,” said the 33-year-old co-founder of the Black and Brown Workers Collective in Philadelphia. “We always hear about love and forgiveness. ... There was also a King who was radical.” Younger black activists say they prefer the pointed, more forceful King to the Nobel Prizewinning pacifist who preached love over hate as he led nonviolent marches across the segregated South. They like the fact that the urgency in King’s demand for equality in the years just before his assassination in 1968 is in keeping with the tenacious nature of today’s Black Lives Matter rallying cry. “Then as now, it was about promises not translating into substantive transformation,” said Princeton University professor Imani Perry. “The questions young people are asking and the way they’re challenging the status quo are important. If we don’t have that kind of vision, we end the possibility for change before we even have the conversation. In that sense, they really are carrying the torch.”

Fifty years ago this month, King retreated to the Caribbean with his wife, Coretta, and a few friends to write his final book, “Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community?” In the book, published in June 1967, King argued for racial equality for black Americans through the wholesale embrace of social and economic reform. During the book’s promotional tour, King spoke out against the Vietnam War and criticized U.S. leaders for allowing slum conditions to persist in the cities. “Everyone is worrying about the long hot summer with its threat of riots. We had a long cold winter when little was done about the conditions that create riots,” King said in June 1967. Today’s young activists say King’s harsher words resonate just as much as his methods of peaceful protest. “We do King a disservice when we try to tell a flat story of turning the other cheek,” said 31-year-old Charlene Carruthers, national director of the Black Youth Project 100 in

Chicago. “It was never simply that.” As Carruthers sees it, “agitation” was the core of King’s work. “Their agitation shows up diﬀerently than how our agitation shows up today. However, I think King’s work and the work we do are part of the larger tradition of black radical resistance.” In an August 1967 speech to the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, King pointed out disparities in unemployment, housing, education and infant mortality. He called for black Americans — then barely a century out of bondage — to “assert our dignity and worth.” “The job of arousing manhood within a people that have been taught for so many centuries that they are nobody is not easy,” King told the audience. “Psychological freedom, a firm sense of self-esteem, is the most powerful weapon against the long night of physical slavery.” King fought to end public segregation and fought for the right to vote. But he also advocated for a living wage and worked to

close the employment gap for blacks and spoke out against discrimination in policing — to which rioting was a common response. King reacted to the Feb. 29, 1968, release of the report by the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders, also known as the Kerner commission, by noting that the solutions suggested “have been made before almost to the last detail and have been ignored almost to the last detail.” It is a familiar climate for some working in the Black Lives Matter movement, who see their eﬀorts in cities like Ferguson, Missouri, Chicago, Baltimore and Cleveland on a continuum that reaches back to King. They identify with the fact that King was only 26 when he was thrust into a leadership role in the 1955 Montgomery Bus Boycott. When he died at 39 in 1968, before he could launch his Poor People’s Campaign, King was still far younger than civil rights establishment figures such as A. Philip Randolph and Adam Clayton Powell.

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the remains. Although the nature of the death is not know, the area is being treated as a crime scene. The previously discovered remains, believed to be from the same individual, are in the hands of the crime lab for analysis. “We still at this time do not know the identity, age, race or sex of the remains,” said Caldwell. “We’re hoping we get some things where we can identify who it is and the cause of death.” The remains were on top of the ground and, by appearance, are not recent, he said. The case began on Jan. 4 when a dog brought partial human remains to a County Road 510 residence.

It’s the Corinth Fire Training Academy, and firefighters representing several states are there to teach and improve fire fighting skills at the James Young Training Center. “The goal is to be as realistic as possible,” said Dave Brasells, a Nashville, Tenn., firefighter and also representing the Middle Tennessee Chapter of the Fraternal Order of the Leatherheads Society, a non-profit group devoted to helping firemen. “We share tips and tricks, stress safety and getting any victims out faster.” Brasells and fellow leatherheads — the term used to describe old firemen’s helmets — travel throughout the U.S. to assist in training exercises. “It’s going very well,” added the fireman, his brow covered in sweat. About 30 signed up for the class, but with the

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Firefighters from Biggersville and Cullman, Ala., test their skills on forceable entry at the Corinth Fire Academy. number of instructors on hand, Corinth Fire Department Training Oﬃcer Jerry Whirley said about

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included Murfreesboro, Franklin and Mt. Juliet in Tennessee and Birmingham and Cullman in Alabama, noted the training oﬃcer. An instructor from Arcola, Virginia was also taking part. “It’s a humbling feeling to know people will drive 12 hours to come to Corinth for training,” said Corinth Fire Department Lt. Michael Taylor. There were about 10 diﬀerent stations providing many scenarios for attacking fires, noted Whirley. Many were forceable entry exercises for firemen to get through doors, locks and even burglary bars. This is the first year of the Corinth-based academy, noted Whirley. Due to the response, “it could turn into an annual event,” he said. (Firefighters expressed appreciation for the local businesses who provided materials for the training academy, including Lowe’s, Timber Products Company, Servpro and Southeast.)

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Today is Sunday, Jan. 15, the 15th day of 2017. There are 350 days left in the year.

Today’s Highlight in History: On Jan. 15, 1967, the Green Bay Packers of the National Football League defeated the Kansas City Chiefs of the American Football League 35-10 in the first AFL-NFL World Championship Game, retroactively known as Super Bowl I.

On this date: In 1559, England’s Queen Elizabeth I was crowned in Westminster Abbey. In 1777, the people of New Connecticut declared their independence. (The republic later became the state of Vermont.) In 1892, the original rules of basketball, devised by James Naismith, were published for the first time in Springfield, Massachusetts, where the game originated. In 1929, civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. was born in Atlanta. In 1942, Jawaharlal Nehru was named to succeed Mohandas K. Gandhi as head of India’s Congress Party. In 1943, work was completed on the Pentagon, headquarters of the U.S. Department of War (now Defense). In 1947, the mutilated remains of 22-year-old Elizabeth Short, who came to be known as the “Black Dahlia,” were found in a vacant Los Angeles lot; her slaying remains unsolved.

Man charged in burglary case BOONEVILLE — A Booneville man has been charged in connection with the burglary of a residence. Michael Shane Kitchens, 29, of County Road 3101, Booneville, was charged Jan. 11 with burglary-breaking and entering of a dwelling. T The arrest stemmed from a Sept. 18,2016, report of a house fire. The owner of the residence also reported several items missing from inside the residence. One other suspect has already been charged with burglary and also arson concerning the same situation in September 2016. Judge Richard Tollison set Kitchens’ bond at $20,000.

Burnsville Man arrested on drug charges BURNSVILLE — A careless driving traffic stop lead to drug charges for a Tennessee man. Mark Anthony Mathis, 42, of Jackson, Tenn., has been charged with felony introduction of narcotics into a correctional facility. Tishomingo Sheriff Deputies conducted a traffic stop last week on Jefferson Street in Burnsville for careless driving. During the course of the traffic stop, officers learned that a passenger in the vehicle, had an outstanding misdemeanor arrest warrant, and was immediately arrested. Deputies believed that both the driver and the passenger were under the influence of some type of narcotic. A search turned up a small amount of alleged methamphetamine both in the vehicle and also on the driver as well as other paraphernalia. The driver was

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ness recently. According to The Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal, around 3:30 p.m. on Jan. 12, Tupelo police were called to a disturbance in the parking lot of Kohl’s. According to Tupelo Police spokesman Capt. Chuck McDougald, it is being described as a domestic disturbance and the man was shot in the hand. The female fled the scene before police arrived. The incident is still under investigation.

occured on the evening of Jan. 7 at the restaurant on Highway 45 North. A Facebook post by a Columbus resident said an employee of the restaurant prepared and served food to which she purposely had applied her own menstrual blood. The Mississippi State Department of Health reported the allegation a worker licked a piece of cheese and put bodily fluid on a hamburger served at the restaurant.

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Tupelo Man shot in hand outside business TUPELO — A man suffered a non-life-threatening gunshot wound while in the parking lot of a North Gloster Street busi-

OXFORD — A woman is in custody after she allegedly threw her 10-month-old baby to the ground. The Lafayette County Sheriff’s Department told The Oxford Eagle that Sabrina L. Holden was holding the boy during an altercation with family members and the child was either “pushed or thrown” to the ground, causing severe injuries to the child. It happened about 9 a.m. Wednesday. The baby was flown to Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital in Memphis where he underwent surgery Thursday for a broken jaw and other injuries.

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OXFORD — The Lafayette County School Board is looking for a new attorney. The board decided not to renew state Sen. Gray Tollison’s contract as board attorney. The Oxford Eagle reported Tollison confirmed the board’s action this week in an email Thursday. He says he’s enjoyed serving as board attorney for the county schools for the past 17 years, but the board has “decided to go in another direction.” Tollison has been a state senator since 1996. He is a graduate of Rhodes College and the University of Mississippi School of Law.

New Albany School superintendent intends to retire NEW ALBANY – New Albany School Superintendent Jackie Ford has told the school board he intends to retire at the end of the current school year. WTVA-TV reported Ford has worked in the New Albany School District since 1992, first working with the Vo-Tech program, then serving as assistant superintendent. He stepped into the superintendent’s role in 2012.

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School trustee deserves thanks We join the entire community with sending some great appreciation to Jerry Finger for his decade of dedicated and loyal service on the Corinth School District Board of Trustees. The current term for Finger, who is president of the board, expires March 1, and members of the Board of Mayor and Aldermen are moving toward appointing a new trustee after learning last week that he plans to retire from the school board. “It’s been a great learning process for me, and I’ve enjoyed every bit of it,” Finger recently told the Daily Corinthian. “I’ve just reached the point where I want to pursue some other things and let someone else have an opportunity on the board.” We hate to see Jerry go, but understand his reasoning that sometimes it is good for all boards to have some new blood. The trustee president said he has been pleased with the district’s progress during his involvement with the district and we certainly agree with him. Finger also serves on the city’s board of adjustment and planning commission. He is treasurer for the Black History Museum of Corinth and a board member of Northeast Mississippi Community Services. Finger operated a transportation company in Chicago until selling it and retiring to his native Corinth. Other members of the board of trustees are Chip Peterson, Frank Davis, Dennis Dilworth and Becky Null. Terms for the trustees are five years. We wish Jerry Finger the best and look forward to working with his replacement as appointed by the city board and all of the other current trustees.

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Keeping in touch Mississippi: Sen. Rita Potts Parks Alcorn, Tishomingo, Tippah counties 662-287-6323 (H) 662-415-4793 (cell) rparks@senate.m.s.gov Rep. Nick Bain Alcorn County 662-287-1620 (H) 601-953-2994 (Capitol) nbain@house.ms.gov Rep. Lester “Bubba” Carpenter Alcorn, Tishomingo counties 601-359-3374 (Capitol) 662-427-8281 (H) lcarpenter@huse.ms.gov Rep. William Tracy Arnold Alcorn (Rienzi area), Prentiss counties 662-728-9951 (H) warnold@house.ms.gov All state legislators can be reached via mail: c/o Capitol P.O. Box 1018 Jackson, Miss. 39215

Prayer for today Loving Father, if I may be discouraged today, strengthen my faith. May I not weary of waiting for thee, but trust in thy promises. Amen.

A verse to share For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the LORD, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. — Jeremiah 29:11

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Living wage: Wrongheaded as minimum wage What future will America have when so many of her citizens lack the ability to engage in critical thinking, refuse to connect the dots, and fail to use common sense? This unwillingness to think clearly is no better demonstrated than by the continued support for the minimum wage. After all the studies and the nearunanimous opinion of economists -- and even after the negative real-world eﬀect of the minimum wage -- it still remains popular. Why? Sadly, most people are simply unaware of the argument against the minimum wage. They just don’t know about the vast body of research that shows the harm. American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten recently called for a “living wage.” In a speech to the National Press Club, Weingarten said, “We need to fight for a living wage, for retirement security, for aﬀordable and accessible health care and college, and for universal pre-K, to name a few.” Maybe the problem is that liberals, like Weingarten, simply pay no attention to what conservatives say. So let’s use liberals. Two of the most well-known liberal economists have criticized the minimum wage and its twin, the living wage. Jonathan Gruber, the architect of Massachusetts’

Romneycare and coarchitect of Obamacare, said in 2011: “Let’s say the government Larry rolled in and Elder set a minimum wage. Columnist ... Workers want to supply more hours than firms want to hire. ... You end up with excess supply. And we call that excess supply ‘unemployment.’” Gruber discussed the pressure that raising minimum wage puts on employers to turn to automation: “We have a downward-sloping demand curve, and why is it downward sloping? Because the higher the wage, the fewer workers the firm wants to hire. It would rather use machines instead.” Gruber once argued against paid leave, as well. Employers, he said, will simply reduce wages so that the overall compensation cost to employers is the same, giving the worker no net benefit. In 1994 Gruber wrote: “I study several state and federal mandates which stipulated that childbirth be covered comprehensively in health insurance plans, raising the relative cost of insuring women of childbearing age. I find substantial shifting of the costs of these mandates to the wages of the targeted group.” In

other words, if an employer is forced to pay for family leave, the employer will simply reduce the employee’s wages to offset the cost. The New York Times leftwing columnist and economist Paul Krugman also made the case against the minimum wage. In 1998, Krugman reviewed a book that supported the living wage, titled “The Living Wage: Building a Fair Economy.” Krugman opposed it: “The living wage movement is simply a move to raise minimum wages through local action. So what are the effects of increasing minimum wages? Any Econ 101 student can tell you the answer: The higher wage reduces the quantity of labor demanded, and hence leads to unemployment.” Krugman even dismissed a widely cited study that purports to show the positive effect of minimum wages: “Indeed, much-cited studies by two well-regarded labor economists, David Card and Alan Krueger, find that where there have been more or less controlled experiments, for example when New Jersey raised minimum wages but Pennsylvania did not, the effects of the increase on employment have been negligible or even positive. Exactly what to make of this result is a source of great dispute. Card and Krueger offered some complex theoretical rationales, but most of their

colleagues are unconvinced; the centrist view is probably that minimum wages ‘do,’ in fact, reduce employment. ...” “In short, what the living wage is really about is not living standards, or even economics, but morality. Its advocates are basically opposed to the idea that wages are a market price - determined by supply and demand, the same as the price of apples or coal.” Minimum- and livingwage proponents also support equal pay for men and women. By doing so they make inconsistent arguments. On the one hand, employers are so cheap and greedy that they would pay virtually nothing for labor if the government did not force their hand. On the other hand, the same greedy employers are happily overpaying men who, according to the equalwage activists, are being paid more than women for doing the exact same work. Why a greedy employer would both underpay and overpay at the same time is never explained. Larry Elder is a bestselling author and nationally syndicated radio talk-show host. To find out more about Larry Elder, or become an “Elderado,” visit www.LarryElder.com. Follow Larry on Twitter @larryelder.

Intelligence community, Russia and Trump On Wednesday, in his first news conference as president-elect, Donald Trump came out swinging — against some of the media (while praising others), against the policies and performance of the Obama administration, and against the intelligence community. He had some legitimate reasons. One was CNN’s report that Trump had been briefed that Russian operatives say they have compromising information about him. And BuzzFeed published a 35-page document it described as “a dossier, compiled by a person who has claimed to be a former British intelligence official, (alleging) Russia has compromising information on Trump.” Pretty dodgy stuff. It turns out that this dossier had been circulated widely to news organizations, which have been trying to verify some of the charges and failed to do so. Trump praised his perennial nemesis The New York Times for declining to air the document, and BuzzFeed even noted, “The allegations are unverified, and the report contains errors.” One of those errors Trump was able to point out. His staffer Michael Cohen — said by the person

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claiming to be a former British intelligence oﬃcial to have communicated with Russians Michael in Prague -Barone showed, by photographColumnist ing his passport, that he hadn’t been out of the country at the time. “Fake news,” Trump charged at the news conference, turning back on his critics a meme they have been using to suggest that voters were gulled into voting for him. “I think it was disgraceful, disgraceful that the intelligence agencies allowed any information that turned out to be so false and fake out.” One must add that it’s not clear that “intelligence agencies” let out the information. But if they did, it was in line with the report they delivered to President Barack Obama last week claiming with high degrees of confidence that Russian President Vladimir Putin directed the hacking and release of emails from the Democratic National Committee and John Podesta, Hillary Clinton’s campaign chairman. That report said the Russians wanted to discredit

Clinton when she was the favorite to win the election. But she was the favorite to win — on psephological websites, in betting markets and in newsrooms everywhere — until about 9 o’clock Eastern time on election night. For his part, Trump retreated from his longstanding and puzzling reluctance to identify Russia as the hacker. My ability to read the minds of leaders of the intelligence community is weaker than theirs to read Putin’s, and I lack knowledge of just how the 35page dodgy dossier found its way into the computerized hands of BuzzFeed. But what we’re seeing looks an awful lot like an attempt by intelligence oﬃcials, probably including presidential employees, to delegitimize the president-elect and his administration. It’s in line with the warnings to Trump by Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer not to tangle with the intelligence community. That’s disturbing, even if you are troubled also, as I am, by Trump’s persistent unwillingness to criticize and persistent propensity to praise Putin. Just before Trump met with the press in New York, his nominee for secretary of state,

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Rex Tillerson, was fielding pointed questions from Republican Sen. Marco Rubio about policy toward Russia. Those are fair questions. Russia has invaded Ukraine and annexed Crimea in violation of the 1994 Budapest Memorandum. There’s evidence — see David Satter’s Aug. 17 piece for National Review — that the Putin regime has committed murder. Meanwhile, Trump booster Sean Hannity has been recalling that the Soviet Union was our ally in World War II. But that was only after Josef Stalin’s erstwhile ally Adolf Hitler invaded Russia and Churchill said, “If Hitler invaded hell, I would make at least a favorable reference to the devil in the House of Commons.” Things are not so dire today. Perhaps, as Trump says, we can work with Russia in fighting radical Islam. Perhaps not. There’s room for disagreement on that — but not about whether the intelligence community should be undermining the president-elect. Michael Barone is a senior political analyst for the Washington Examiner, resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and longtime co-author of The Almanac of American Politics.

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Trump unleashes attack against civil rights legend BY STEVE PEOPLES Associated Press

NEW YORK — Donald Trump tore into civil rights legend John Lewis for questioning the legitimacy of the Republican billionaire’s White House victory, intensifying a feud with the black congressman days before the national holiday honoring Martin Luther King Jr. and as the first AfricanAmerican president prepares to leave oﬃce. Trump tweeted on Saturday that Lewis, D-Ga., “should spend more time on fixing and helping his district, which is in horrible shape and falling apart (not to mention crime infested) rather than falsely complaining about the election results.” The incoming president added: “All talk, talk, talk — no action or results. Sad!” Lewis, among the most revered leaders of the civil rights movement, suf-

fered a skull fracture during the march in Selma, Alabama, more than a half-century ago and has devoted his life to promoting equal rights for African-Americans. The weekend clash highlighted the sharp contrast between how many African-American view Trump’s inauguration compared with Barack Obama’s eight years ago. It also demonstrated that no one is untouchable for scorn from a president-elect with little tolerance for public criticism. Trump has found political success even while attacking widely lauded figures before and after the campaign — a prisoner of war, parents of a slain U.S. soldier, a beauty queen and now a civil rights icon. Lewis, a 16-term congressman said Friday that he would not attend Trump’s swearing-in cer-

emony at the Capitol this coming Friday. It will mark the first time he skipped an inauguration since joining Congress three decades ago. “You know, I believe in forgiveness. I believe in trying to work with people. It will be hard. It’s going to be very diﬃcult. I don’t see this president-elect as a legitimate president,” Lewis said in an interview with NBC’s “Meet the Press” set to air today. “I think the Russians participated in helping this man get elected. And they helped destroy the candidacy of Hillary Clinton,” Lewis said. Lewis’ spokeswoman, Brenda Jones, declined to respond to Trump and said the lawmaker’s “opinion speaks for itself.” “We as a nation do need to know whether a foreign government influenced our election,” she said.

Deadline to file general bills is Monday, which means next week will be a busy one on the House floor.

funded the current formula only twice since it was put into law in 1997. From 2009 through the current budget year, funding has fallen $1.9 billion short.

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Carpenter. Last year a similar bill was defeated late in the session. “Speaker Gunn’s bill this year is pretty much the same bill as we talked about last session,” said Bain. “It’s really a common sense bill. This is what you can do and this is what you can’t do.” If passed by the Senate and signed into law by the governor, the bill would ban spending, and require officials to itemize credit card bills instead of paying a lump sum. Officials could still use campaign money to cover campaign and official expenses, including travel to party conventions and association meetings, car rental and accommodations in Jackson. Lawmakers could continue to pay for expenses connected with legislative sessions that are in excess of what is covered by the $140-per-day expense payment they collect. Lawmakers would also be allowed to pay a mortgage on a house or condominium in the Jackson area with campaign money. According to The Associated Press, 99 officials have withdrew funds after leaving office in recent years, including former Lt. Gov. Amy Tuck who cashed out more than $50,000. “Anything that helps rid this state of corruption is what we as lawmakers should continue to focus on,” added Bain.

Other bills A few other bills made there way out of the House moving closer to becoming law. One bill would require drivers to show proof of liability insurance to renew their car tag. “About 28 percent of the drivers in our state are still driving without insurance,” said Carpenter. “You must have insurance – that’s already law, why not enforce it when applying for a new tag.” Carpenter said the bill is the starting point to fixing a flaw in the current law. Another bill passed by the House last week would give board of supervisors the authority to redraw fire protection districts so all residences are within five miles of fire protection. A third would authorize the Department of Revenue to compromise and settle a tax liability that is a doubtful claim. All three bills passed the House without much opposition and will be sent to the Senate for consideration.

Senate quite time The first full week of the 2017 session was a quite one for the Mississippi Senate. Leaders meet with committees for the first time and looked at bills and some resolutions authored by senators from across the state. Some bills were sent to the House floor, while others were sent to diﬀerent Senate committees for discussion.

Education funding EdBuild, the company the state hired to research the public education funding formula, will present its recommendations for changes to be made to the law on Monday. Lt. Gov. Tate Reeves (R) said earlier this week lawmakers still plan to rewrite and pass into law a revised formula for the Mississippi Adequate Education Program this session. The changes could increase funding for some of Mississippi’s 141 school districts, but decrease it for others, unless lawmakers increase overall funding. Lawmakers have fully

More cuts Gov. Phil Bryant announced late in the week he has ordered another round of cuts from Mississippi’s $6.4 billion budget. Poor state revenues are again the reason for the latest $51 million in cuts. Funding for most programs will be cut just under 1.5 percent, pushing cuts for the year above 3 percent. Some programs are exempt, including public education. Bryant said the cut “will be enough to get state government through the current fiscal year”. The governor can however still take another $46 million from the rainy day fund without legislative action to cushion more cuts if needed. (The Associated Press contributed to this story.) (Capitol Connections by staﬀ writer Zack Steen appears in the Daily Corinthian every Sunday through May. The weekly feature includes news and notes from the Mississippi Legislature.)

Deaths John McCarter

Celebration of Life for John S. McCarter is set for 3:30 p.m. Sunday at McPeters Inc. Funeral Directors with Minsters Blake Nicholas and James Vansant oﬃciating. Burial will be in the Henry Cemetery. John died Jan. 13, 2017 at NMMC in Tupelo. He was born Aug. 29, 1942 in McNairy County, Tenn., To the late Arthur and Lillie Smith McCarter. John was a member of the West Corinth Church of Christ, he was a 1960 graduate of Ramer High School and was retired from ACE Power as an accountant. He also owned McCarter Equine Center, McCarter Beefmasters, severed as President of the Midsouth Walking Horse Assoc. and was a member of the Rotary Club of Corinth, having received the Paul Harris Fellow. He enjoyed spending time with his family. He is preceded in death by his parents; brothers Leonard, Lautis, Lawrence, Tommy and Charles McCarter; sister Marguerite Baker. John is survived by his wife of 54 years Doris Melvin McCarter; daughters Jana Nixon her husband Randy, Misty Wigginton her husband Jim; grandchildren Jordan, Katie and Lily Nixon, Allison and Jackson Wigginton; brothers G.B. “Sonny” McCarter his wife Louise, Gene McCarter his wife Louise, Paul McCarter his wife Billie; sister Ethelyne Gurley; host of other family and friends. Memorial may be made to West Corinth Youth Fund P.O. Box 935 Corinth, MS. 38835 or Pinevale Chil-

Harold Walters

IUKA — Harold Walters, 75, died Saturday, Jan. 14, 2017, at Tishomingo Manor Nursing Home. Arrangements are incomplete and will be announced by Cutshall Funeral Home in Iuka.

Donald Childers

RAMER, Tenn. — Funeral services for Donald Wayne Childers, 65, are set for 2 p.m. Sunday at Shackelford Funeral Directors in Selmer, Tenn., with burial at Olive Hill Cemetery in Guys, Tenn. Visitation continues Sunday from 11 a.m. until service time. Mr. Childers died Friday, Jan. 13, 2017, at his home. He was a member of Olive Hill Baptist Church in Guys, Tenn., where he served as song leader. He was a U.S. Army veteran, having served in the Vietnam War. He was a retired truck driver for Cardinal Logistics in Adamsville, Tenn., and had previously worked for the Dana Corporation in Corinth. Survivors include his wife, Donna Mae Childers of Ramer, Tenn.; his mother, Virginia Burks of Corinth; and a sister, Linda Mills of Corinth. He was preceded in death by his father, L.Q. Childers; his daughter, Jes-

dren Home 1872 CR 700 Corinth, MS 38834. Family will receive friends Saturday from 5 to 8 p.m. and Sunday from 1 p.m. to service time at the funeral home. Condolences can be left at www.mcpetersfuneraldirectors.com

Jimmy Taylor

Funeral services for Jimmy Wayne Taylor, 79, of Corinth, are set for 5 p.m. Sunday at Magnolia Funeral Home Chapel of Memories with burial at Dogwood Cemetery. Visitation is Sunday from 3 p.m. until service time at the funeral home. Mr. Taylor died Friday, Jan. 13, 2017, at Cornerstone Health and Rehab. Born Oct. 6, 1937, he was a self employed car dealer. He was of the Pentecostal faith and a member of West Corinth Pentecostal Tabernacle. He enjoyed going to church and listening to gospel music. Survivors include his sisters, Betty Sue King and husband Larry of Corinth, and Dorothy Louise Emmons of Brentwood, Tenn.; a brother, Edward Ray Taylor and wife Kathy of Selmer, Tenn.; a brother-in-law, Buddy Sanders and wife Kathy of Totonda West, Fla.; other relatives and a host of friends. He was preceded in death by his wife of 57 years, Rachel Mae Taylor; his father, John H. Taylor; his mother, Mattie Elzie Wilbanks Taylor; a brother, Frank Taylor; and a brotherin-law, Bobby Emmons. Rev. Merl Dixon will oﬃciate. Visit www.magnoliafuneralhome. net to send condolences. sica Dione Childers; and a brother, Lannie Childers. Cody Hill, Jetta Forsythe and Robert Hutson will oﬃciate.

Ann Harvey

IUKA — Funeral services for Ann P. Harvey, 84, are set for 1 p.m. Monday at Cutshall Funeral Home Chapel in Iuka with burial at Mt. Moriah Cemetery. Visitation is Sunday from 4 to 8 p.m. at the funeral home. Mrs. Harvey died Friday, Jan. 13, 2017, at Tishomingo Community Living Center. She was a member of Mt. Moriah Baptist Church and was a retired nurse from the Iuka Hospital after 36 years of service. Survivors include her husband, Jim Harvey of Iuka; two sons, Time Steele of Iuka and Patrick Steele of Houston, Texas; one daughter, Sheryl Steele Patterson of Iuka; six grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her parents, William and Nellie Pruitt; and her siblings, Elton Pruitt, Ruth Dempsey, Roy Pruitt, Edith Crawford, Joy Cooper and Laura Frederick. Bro. Phillip Logan will oﬃciate.

Furniture Academy boosts manufacturing skills Associated Press

TUPELO — A new Furniture Academy is designed to give workers the skills they need for manufacturing jobs. Colleges and economic development groups are working with furniture makers to create the 28-hour program, which is an introduction to how the industry works. The academy includes

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training in teamwork and problem solving, developing a work ethic and gaining financial awareness and life skills. With a $12 billion economic impact in Mississippi, the furniture industry includes manufacturers and suppliers that employ about 60,000 people directly and indirectly.

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PUBLIC NOTICE If you are a Corinth Gas customer, or a non-customer but live near a natural gas line, you may receive a random computerized telephone call during the week of January 23 - 27, 2017. The person answering the phone will be asked a series of questions concerning natural gas safety. If no answer is received from your residence on the first call a follow-up call will be made. Results from this survey will be used by Corinth Gas & Water Department to make sure we are doing our job to provide you with as much natural gas safety information as possible. The survey takes less than 5 minutes to complete and we appreciate your participation. New regulations from the federal Office of Pipeline Safety (OPS) require gas utilities to develop and follow public awareness plans regarding safety and the safe use of natural gas. One of the requirements of the plan is that each utility must periodically assess the effectiveness of their efforts to inform customers, and noncustomers living near gas lines, about safety and the safe use of natural gas. More information about natural gas is available on our website at www.corinthgasandwater.com.

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THE WEEK IN REVIEW WEEKLY DOW JONES Dow Jones industrials

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98.75

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412 425.25 439.75 452.75 468.50 480.50 489.50

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119.70 118.92 108.15 103.82 103.50 103.87 102.92

114.10 113.45 103.30 99.55 99.47 99.90 99.50

118.52 117.92 108.02 103.67 103.32 103.45 102.82

+3.70 +3.72 +4.05 +3.45 +3.22 +2.90 +2.82

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+1.63 +1.42 +1.47 +1.40 +1.03 +1.35 +1.10

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-1.72 -1.53 -1.26 -.06 -.67 -.53 -.42

HOGS-Lean 40,000 lbs.- cents per lb.

1042.50 1046.25 1055.50 1061.50 1057.25 1037 1018.50

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WkHigh WkLow Settle WkChg CATTLE 40,000 lbs.- cents per lb.

Feb 17 Apr 17 May 17 Jun 17 Jul 17 Aug 17 Oct 17

66.22 69.90 74.77 78.65 77.90 77.32 66.40

62.55 67.05 72.37 76.40 76.02 75.22 64.67

Staff photo by Bobby J. Smith

The Pit Stop crew includes (from left) Bobby, James, Billy, Reba, Jessica and Tanya.

Many begin day at The Pit Stop BY BOBBY J. SMITH bsmith@dailycorinthian.com

It’s a place where the early morning smells of coﬀee and breakfast mingle in the air with the sound of conversation among old friends. A place where people gather to mull over what’s happening in politics, local news and with their favorite sports teams. The Pit Stop is one of Corinth’s most popular morning gathering places, where folks come together for food and conversation at the start of the day. That’s not to say it’s all about breakfast — the restaurant also oﬀers a variety of lunch choices and a popular array of daily specials. But one early morning look at the Pit Stop’s parking lot shows how important the first meal of the day is to this local business. “People meet here every morning. They’re here when it opens,” said Pit Stop owner Bobby White. “You come in and sit right here in the morning, and that’s the best politics table ever.” White said his goal with the business is to take care of the people of Alcorn County and Corinth. One of the main factors in the Pit Stop’s success is its food — starting with breakfast. “We’ve got a fantastic

“Everybody who works here is great at what they do, and that’s key to it. If you treat your customers right, you can never go wrong.” Bobby White Stop owner breakfast,” said White. “We have the biggest tenderloin and biscuits around.” When breakfast is over, the Pit Stop begins its daily lunch specials: meatloaf on Monday, chicken and dressing on Tuesday, chicken and dumplings on Wednesday, hamburger steak on Thursday and smoked backbone on Friday. Another popular item is the original patty melt. “We’re the only one that’s got the original patty melt sandwich,” White explained. “The original. We did that when I worked at Omelette House years ago, but we’re the only ones that do it now. It’s good stuﬀ, man.” The other factor in the Pit Stop’s success is its employees. To prepare for opening time at 5 a.m., Pit Stop employees start to arrive at 3:30 in the morning. “That’s how you know you have good employees — they’re dedicated,” White said. “We’re blessed on that. Our em-

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72.00 72.52 73.04 71.01 70.61 70.79 70.90

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lives on the line, so we’ve got to show our appreciation,” said White. “This is just our way to show we appreciate what they do.” The Pit Stop is also a family business, “just like a maw and paw restaurant,” White said, all family owned and operated. White said his whole family work with the restaurant in one capacity or another. The people who make it all work include Dale, Regina, Maverick (a.k.a. “Cornbread”), Patsy, Jessica, Tanya, Stacey, Dana, Linda, Reba and Mitch. “Everybody who works here is great at what they do, and that’s key to it,” said White. “If you treat your customers right, you can never go wrong.”

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