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Supervisors discuss prison budget woes

BY JEBB JOHNSTON jjohnston@dailycorinthian.com

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Michael Pittman Construction crews have worked through the winter months on the expansion of Crossroads Regional Park.

New park hits 40 percent mark

BY ZACK STEEN zsteen@dailycorinthian.com

The expansion of Crossroads Regional Park has hit the 40 percent mark, according to Park Director Ray Holloway.

Michael Pittman Construction crews have worked through the winter months, and Holloway said people who commute on Droke Road should notice changes.

“So far, the prep work on dirt has been complete,” said Hol-

loway. “Pittman has been working extremely hard to get things up and going as quick as possible.”

Among the noticeable changes are the first layer of asphalt for the baseball fields parking lot, installation of light pole bases for Musco Lighting and the construction of a concession and restroom building.

“Fields have also been leveled out and prepped for sprig and sod,” Holloway said. “One set of

tennis courts have been poured and ready to seal and paint. The other court has been prepped to be poured.”

Clark Street is currently the site of most of the work. “Crews are working on the widening of Clark Street,” added the director.

Underground utilities are also complete at the new complex ,which will feature five new ball fields and five new soccer fields.

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County supervisors looked for answers to the regional prison funding woes Wednesday in a special board meeting with the bond underwriters and a financial adviser.

The Board of Supervisors found no easy answers but will look at some possibilities such as refinancing the bond, extending the term of the bond, and obtaining another source of inmates to fill beds left vacant by the reduction in the Mississippi Department of Corrections prisoner population.

Buddy Critchfield of Duncan-Williams, the firm that underwrote the 2009 bond issue, said the county’s correctional facility has a unique situation when compared to the others across the state, which consist only of prisons without other government offices attached.

“Your justice complex, your city, your county, all of those

things are different, and they add a whole new cost factor into this, and one that was not, in my opinion, contemplated at the time that you had this agreement with the state,” he said.

The facility’s delayed start and some cost overruns were a $1 million setback in the beginning, said financial advisor Lynn Norris. Looking ahead, he expects the county’s cost to house inmates to increase with the reduction to the contractual minimum MDOC inmate population of 240. The regional prison started with 300.

Based on the fiscal 20142015 financials, the county’s actual cost per day to house an inmate was $26.95. He projected the cost at about $35 per day in the new fiscal year.

However, some of those costs are decreasing. Warden Allen Lyles said the facility Please see COUNTY | 2

‘Uncle’ Frank Hodge led an interesting life (Editor’s Note: Alcorn County historian Stephanie Sandy shared many African-American biographical sketches with the Daily Corinthian before her death.

She wanted to pay tribute to the contributions of AfricanAmericans in the history of Corinth and honor them during Black History Month. Today we honor the historian’s wish and will publish more this month. The entire community is indebted to Stephanie Sandy for her research efforts.)

Sometimes while researching in the old newspapers for something, the researcher often comes up empty for what they are looking for.

Sometimes the researcher finds something better. This is a good example. Below is the essence of a death notice for an African-American who died in Corinth in 1935.

In the old days, neither whites nor blacks were assured an obituary notice in the community newspaper.

Usually, the deceased had to have obtained some measure of success or notoriety, which included living to an old age.

Death notices or obituary articles for African-Americans

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in the early (1882 to 1945) local newspapers were even less common.

On the back pages of the Weekly Corinthian for Thursday, September 19, 1935, a subheading would catch anyone’s attention: “103 Year Old Negro Indian War Veteran Dies.” The article, a reprint from the daily edition of the week before, continued with the following information, some of the wording is verbatim: Uncle Frank’ Hodge died yesterday afternoon at the age of 103 years despite his ‘liking’ for good whiskey and buttermilk, which he said prolonged his life. The aged negro, said to have been the oldest person in this section, simply expired from senility.

Up until 3-weeks ago ‘Uncle Frank’ was active and could tell with avidity of his experiences in Indian fighting under General Custer. He escaped death narrowly to live the commonplace life of a drayman and die peacefully.

Official government papers prove his unusual age. He was born Jan. 1, 1832, and yesterday was 103 years, Please see HISTORY | 2

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Ulyssa Howard (left) helps Sydnee Norman at the Boys & Girls Club. Howard will compete in the Boys & Girls Club State Youth of the Year competition today in Jackson.

Youth competes for top honors

BY STEVE BEAVERS sbeavers@dailycorinthian.com

Ulyssa Howard is ready to speak up.

The 15-year-old will get her chance when she competes for the Boys & Girls Club State Youth of the Year today in Jackson.

Howard, a freshman at Corinth High School, earned

a shot at the state award after winning the local Boys & Girls Club Youth of the Year.

“Ulyssa is a very humble young lady,” said Corinth Unit Director Trecee Hughey.

“Nothing stops her from having a good day.”

Howard had to write an essay on “What the Boys & Girls Club Means to Me” to claim the local

award. Should she be selected among the top three, she will read her speech on Friday in Jackson.

The Boys & Girls Club helped Howard deal with bullying when she moved from Chicago to Corinth while in the second grade.

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Corinth now officially owns the historic depot. The landmark site is transferred from Mid-South Corp. in a ceremony at the site of the vital Civil War crossroads.

The local chapter of the March of Dimes brings back its Walk America fundraiser. Director Tanya Finch encourages the community to get involved in their efforts to help babies.

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8 months and 10 days old. He joined the U. S. Army in Atlanta, Ga. in May 1867. The narrowest escape in his life occurred as a result of the fact, happy for him, that his enlistment term expired immediately preceding General Custer’s last stand in the Black Hills of South Dakota. He did not reenlist and received honorable discharge in 1870 and came to Corinth in 1872.

In an era before birth certificates were mandatory, a lot of people did not know or remember their birthday. A major illness or stroke years before could have confused the information for them. It pays the researcher of historic fact to consider the claim to advanced old age with considerable skepticism.

Life expectancy in 1933 for an American was about 63 years (2008 statistics estimate life expectancy at 77.5 to 80 years), but the longevity for AfricanAmerican males was much less.

Therefore, living to be a centenarian was and still is a notable achievement for both genders and all races. Essentially, Frank Hodge was indeed very old, but under 100 years, when he died.

“Uncle Frank” can be followed on the Federal Census returns that have been taken ever 10 years since 1790. AfricanAmericans were not included by name on census enumerations until the 1870 census, unless they were free. Unable to locate him on the 1870 census, he was found on the 1880 Federal Census in McNairy County, Tennessee.

In 1880, Frank Hodges was a 29 year old (b. 1851) farmer born in Georgia (with parents born in Georgia) with his own family.

His family was composed of his wife Elmira who was a 21-year old native of Tennessee and their three children; Eddie L., age 4, Mary E. age 3 and Charles age 1. All three children were born in Mississippi. Both adults could also read and write. The census taker considered all members of the family mulattoes, which detail some census takers did not differentiate between -- you were either black or white. It is an important detail that can aid in supporting identity.

The discrepancy in the age reported in 1880 as 29 (b. 1851) when it should have been 52 (b.

1832) give or take 3 years either way -- a difference of 23-years points more toward an error in the census document itself.

Fortunately, Frank Hodge and his wife appear on the 1900 Federal Census for Alcorn County.

He was living on the east side of the town of Corinth. His was enumerated as being a 63 years old day laborer and being born in May 1837 in Georgia (with parents born in Georgia). His family consists of his wife Elmira then 41 years, born in Oct. 1858 in Tennessee; and four children: Clara 18 years, born in May 1882 in Tennessee; Maud 16 years, born in May 1884 Tennessee; Harry A. 13 years, born July 1886 in Mississippi; and Claude 8 years, born June 1892 in Alabama. Also residing in his household was his sister-in-law (although listed as “sister”), Clara McBride, 31 years, born in May 1869 in Tennessee, a seamstress.

On the 1910 Federal Census for Alcorn County, Frank Hodge was again head of his own household located at 938 Kilpatrick Street, which is located in the eastern part of Corinth. He was listed as being 78 (b. 1832), therefore, by 1910 he had settled his birth year as 1832. His occupation was general farming and again he was enumerated as being born in Georgia and states that his parents were also Georgians. A notation that he was married two times was included. Elmira was also still alive, reporting her age as 49 (b. 1861) She gives her occupation as laundress and she was the mother of six living children out of 14. Their youngest child, Claude, was the only child living with them. He was 17.

The 1920 Federal Census shows Frank Hodge living on Second Street in Corinth. He was renting the house and had three lodgers, who do not seem to be related to him. He age was recorded as 88 (b. 1832). A grandson, Willie F. Hodge, born in Mississippi in 1908, was living with him. Elmira was not living with him, but Frank’s marital status was listed as married.

It is possible she was living elsewhere, perhaps with a daughter.

The last census open to the public is the 1930 Federal Census, and Frank Hodge was once again head of his own household in Corinth. His age was given as 98 (b. 1832) and he was still working, hauling wood and coal. Elmira evidently died because she was not listed and Frank’s marital status was listed as “widowed”. A divorced Claude Hodge was with him at age 38 years performing odd

jobs in private homes. And John H. Hodge, age 16, was listed as Frank’s grandson, presumably the son of Claude.

Frank’s U. S. Army Register of Enlistment papers tell a different story about his age and is probably closer to the truth than any other documents. The record shows Frank Hodge enlisted in Atlanta, Georgia, on May 27, 1867 for three years and at that time was 22 years old, making his birth year 1845.

The record shows he was born in Newton County, Georgia and had black eyes and hair, his complexion was mulatto, and he was 5 feet 9-1/2 inches tall. His pre-enlistment occupation was waiter. He was enlisting in Co. F, 38th Infantry Regiment, which later reorganized as Company F, 24th Infantry Regiment. He was a private and served at Fort Concho in west central Texas.

He was honorably discharged on June 9, 1870.

Today, Fort Concho (established 1867), is a National Historic Landmark operated as a museum by the City of San Angelo, Texas. The fort was one of series of forts established to protect the area from the then hostile Comanche tribe. The enlisted soldiers of the 38th Infantry and the 24th Infantry, were composed of African-Americans.

According to Wikipedia.com, the 24th Infantry Regiment was organized on November 1, 1869.

The Buffalo Soldier Museum in Houston, Texas, Richard Barefield, historian of the organization, states that the members of the 24th Infantry “built roads, guarded stage stations, constructed and repaired telegraph lines, guarded waterholes, and escorted supply trains, survey parties, freight wagons and mail coaches, as well as performing scouting patrols” and engaged in battles. They probably provided considerable support to the 9th and 10th Cavalry, known as the Buffalo Soldiers. It would take a military historian to confirm whether or not members of the 24th Infantry were considered “Buffalo Soldiers”, as the term gradually became synonyms for any African-American unit.

The Battle of Little Bighorn, also known as Custer’s Last Stand, took place on June 25, 1876 in Montana Territory, now Crow Agency, Montana. General George A. Custer was in charge of the 7th Cavalry when he fought his last battle. Uncle Frank was honorably discharged

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has just obtained a cost reduction on food from $1.51 per meal to $1.05.

“You’ll be surprised what kind of impact that will make on the bottom line,” said Norris.

Fewer inmates also means lower costs on supplies.

“The two costs that you have to manage in these facilities is personnel costs and food costs,” said Norris. “That’s two that you can control and absolutely have to control.”

But Sheriff Ben Caldwell said one cost that can’t go lower than its current level is personnel.

“I can’t run less employees with 240 inmates,” he said. “I’ve got the [number of] employees that I feel like for the safety of the employees and the public, that’s the lowest amount of employees I can go.”

The facility is currently operating four zones with 60 inmates each.

The sheriff does not want less than four employees working each zone.

Third District Supervisor Tim Mitchell brought up the possibility of contracting with other states or entities to house inmates.

The sheriff said it is something the county would need to approach with caution, and he would like to discuss it with the commissioner to “make sure that it’s not going to violate anything with the Department of Corrections for us to have inmates from other areas in our regional facility.”

The county would also welcome an increase in the MDOC inmate reimbursement of $29.74 per inmate per day. E.J. Gregory of Duncan-Williams said regional facilities in their first few years of existence got an annual percentage increase, but it hasn’t been done in more than 10 years.

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in 1870, six years before the battle. Why Frank Hodge identified himself with Custer needs additional consideration.

There is some additional family history about Elmira because she was enumerated on the Federal Census in 1870 in Alcorn County, with her parents Alfred Coleman (b. 1831 in Tennessee) and his wife Matilda (b. 1840 in Tennessee). They are residing with their seven children in the town of Corinth near what is now Forrest Hill Cemetery on Bunch Street. Clara, then 4-years old (b. 1866 in Tennessee), was also living with her parents. Alfred was a prosperous African-American carpenter with real estate valued at $500 but could not read or write. He died between 1870 and 1880 in the Corinth area. Matilda, a mulatto, could read and write and four of their school age children, including Elmira then 9-years old, were attending school.

In the Forrest Hill Cemetery, there is a headstone for an E. Hodge, but the other information cannot be read. It is most likely the grave of Elmira (Coleman) Hodge.

Based on this research and especially the enlistment information, Frank Hodge was born in 1845 (not 1832) and died at the highly respectable age of 90 years. It’s clear that for some reason he fabricated his birth date, but it is not an uncommon practice. He is also buried in the Forrest Hill Cemetery. His headstone provides only his death date of September 11, 1935 and a surprise, it reads that he was private in the 24th Georgia Infantry, CSA [Confederate States of America].

Recent research reconstructing membership rosters do not record his name. It is possible he enlisted under a different name or he was a servant to a regular member.

It seems somewhat strange that Frank Hodge considered the focal point of his life history as fighting Indians, but it is possible he lead an equally fascinating life during the Civil War from 1861-1865.

He would have been the ages of 24-28 during the war and prior to his U.S. Army enlistment, so who knows?

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Today in History Today is Thursday, Feb. 25, the 56th day of 2016. There are 310 days left in the year.

Today’s Highlight in History: On Feb. 25, 1986, President Ferdinand Marcos fled the Philippines after 20 years of rule in the wake of a tainted election; Corazon Aquino assumed the presidency.

On this date: In 1905, the Upton Sinclair novel “The Jungle” was first published in serial form by the Appeal to Reason newspaper.

In 1913, the 16th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, giving Congress the power to levy and collect income taxes, was declared in effect by Secretary of State Philander Chase Knox.

In 1956, Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev harshly criticized the late Josef Stalin in a speech before a Communist Party congress in Moscow.

In 1964, Eastern Airlines Flight 304, a DC-8, crashed shortly after taking off from New Orleans International Airport, killing all 58 on board. Muhammad Ali (then known as Cassius Clay) became world heavyweight boxing champion as he defeated Sonny Liston in Miami Beach.

In 1983, playwright Tennessee Williams was found dead in his New York hotel suite.

In 1991, during the Persian Gulf War, 28 Americans were killed when an Iraqi Scud missile hit a U.S. barracks in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia.

In 1994, American-born Jewish settler Baruch Goldstein opened fire with an automatic rifle inside the Tomb of the Patriarchs in the West Bank, killing 29 Muslims before he was beaten to death by worshippers.

In 1996, blasts set off by suicide bombers in Jerusalem and Ashkelon killed at least 27 people.

A 12-mile tether connecting a half-ton satellite to space shuttle Columbia broke as it was almost completely unreeled.

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Across the Region Former Selmer officer indicted on child porn

Man arrested for stealing Beanie Babies

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MEMPHIS, Tenn. — A former Selmer Police officer has been indicted on child pornography charges.

According to WREG-TV, Tony Miller, 36, used a website set up for the purpose of sharing, viewing and commenting on illicit photos and videos of children.

Miller allegedly was a user of the site from February to March 2015.

At the time, he was a lieutenant with the Selmer Police Department.

He was charged with one count of receipt of child pornography and two counts of access with intent to view child pornography.

The first charge carries a minimum sentence of five years and a maximum of 20 years while the second carries a maximum sentence of 20 years behind bars.

If convicted, he would also be forced to pay fines up to $250,000 on each count.

STARKVILLE — A 20-year-old was charged this week with burglary of a Starkville business.

On Tuesday, officers arrested 20-year-old Tyler James Borgognoni of Olive Branch.

He was charged with commercial burglary of a business on Lummus Drive in Starkville where multiple Beanie Babies were stolen.

Borgognoni’s bond was set at $5,000.

He was processed and taken to the Oktibbeha County Jail where he bonded out later that day.

OXFORD — Whether it is on a field, in church, in class or at home, one Oxford eighth-grader is doing his part to be a leader.

Don Fruge, 14, is involved in his church, in Beta Club and plays basketball, football track and tennis. But the Oxford Middle School student is learning some serious life skills in Teen Leadership.

“It’s kind of like where you go and become a better leader,” Fruge said. “It teaches you how to interact with people and be more social and more outstanding.”

The course has taught him valuable communication skills and ways to work with others wherever he goes, including at home where he’s the oldest of four children.

“I started doing better once I got into Teen Leadership because I started learning how to interact with other people and stand up for people instead of being a bystander,” Fruge said.

“I try to be friendly with everybody even if I like or dislike them. I don’t try to put people down and am always open to arguments and figuring out a way to agree with somebody.”

He’s put his newly developed skills to use in the school’s hallways, too.

“Earlier this year one of my friends was getting bullied,” Fruge said. “He’s in seventh grade. But some of the people I got close to and I had to stand up for him without getting in trouble ourselves. That was pretty hard because we didn’t know when the bullying was happening. We just knew we needed to stick up for him. We fixed it and he doesn’t get bullied as much anymore. It still happens, but it’s not as big of an issue.”

In addition to the course, Fruge is learning leadership on the football field while playing left tackle.

Corinth man arrested on meth charge BURNSVILLE — Tishomingo County deputies arrested a Corinth man last week on a meth charge.

Jimmy Morrow, 25, of 148 Oakland School Road, was charged with felony possession of a controlled substance, methamphetamine, after being served with an Alcorn County warrant by Tishomingo deputies on Feb. 18.

Morrow was arrested at the Harmony Hills Apartments in Burnsville.

Burnsville Police assisted in the arrest.

Arrest made in armed robbery BOONEVILLE — Booneville Police arrested Margie G. Penry, 39, of Hwy. 371, Nettleton, on a charge of conspiracy to commit armed robbery.

“She is accused of participating in a robbery where it appears she was in a vehicle where an individual was robbed Dec. 26,” said Booneville Police Chief Michael Ramey.

Other arrests are pending, police said.

The victim was robbed at knifepoint of an undisclosed amount of money and was thrown out of the car. He was not hurt, Ramey said.

The money has not been recovered.

Bond for Penry was set at $50,000.

Main Street announces burger competition TUPELO — The Downtown Main Street Association announced on Wednesday the additional of a new festival to the All-American City.

The Bud and Burgers Competition is set for April 1 will benefit the Downtown Main Street Association, as well as the Boys and Girls Club, incorporating their annual Burger Bash event.

Starting at 11:30 a.m. that day, the Boys and Girls Club of Mississippi will sell hamburger plate lunches until 1 p.m.

Then the festival will kick off at 5:30 p.m. with a burger competition.

The competition includes a professional chef division, as well as an open competition to home cooks from around the area.

Former football player arrested on sex charge MONTEVALLO, Ala. — A high school special education teacher accused of being sexually involved with a student in Alabama was arrested.

According to reports, 31-yearold Montevallo High School teacher Lawrence Lilly II is charged with school employee engaging in a sex act or deviant sexual intercourse with a student under 19. Lilly turned himself in to the Shelby County Jail on Tuesday, and was released after posting a $15,000.

An arrest warrant says Lilly had sexual intercourse with an 18-year-old female student.

The sexual relations occurred between Sept. 25, 2015 and Feb. 3, 2016.

Montevallo police Chief Jeremy Littleton says the victim in the case is not a special education student.

Lilly is a graduate of the high school and a former Ole Miss football player from 2003 through 2005.

Memphis in May announces lineup MEMPHIS — Memphis in May International Festival announces the lineup for 2016 Beale Street Music Festival, including more than 60 broadranging musical acts, across multiple genres.

The festival, which is celebrating its 40th anniversary in 2016, debuts a star-studded lineup that illustrates why it is consistently named in top festival rankings by national media outlets.

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“We always strive to provide music fans with a diverse and star-studded lineup. Festival attendees can look forward to enjoying legends such as Neil Young and Paul Simon, as well as top artists across a wide spectrum of today’s popular musical genres,” states Memphis in May President and CEO Jim Holt. “We look forward to welcoming thousands of music lovers from around the globe to enjoy our city and a lineup of incredible artists in 2016.”

First time artists for the 2016 Beale Street Music Festival include Neil Young + Promise of the Real, Paul Simon, Weezer, Modest Mouse, Zedd, Meghan Trainor, Jason Derulo, Young the Giant, Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats, Bastille, The Arcs, Courtney Barnett, Trampled by Turtles, The Lone Bellow, and The Struts. In total, 30 artists are first-time Beale Street Music Festival performers.

Memphis is also well represented in the 2016 lineup, with 14 local acts performing over the three days, including hip hop mega-talent Yo Gotti, emerging indie darling Julien Baker, guitar-master and story-teller Luther Dickinson, Big Star’s Jody Stephens’ new project Those Pretty Wrongs, Will Tucker, Barbara Blue and Duwayne Burnside.

Always a festival-destination favorite among music fans, Beale Street Music Festival was recently added to Travel + Leisure’s list of “2016 Music Festivals Worth Traveling For”, the “Top 22 Music Festivals for 2016” by Fuse TV, and Festival 300’s list of the top 300 festivals worldwide.

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Letter to the Editor

Bring back city pride; keep roadways clean To the editor: I was recently reading the paper and saw where the Second District is going to stage a cleanup. Boy, does that district need it!

What a shame people have no more pride than to throw things out of cars and make this necessary.

Coming from Iuka, there is a world of difference on the side of the roads. The closer to Corinth, the worse the roads get.

On another subject, we have a new hotel coming here. If that means more visitors I hate to think of the impression this city makes as on travels in from the west.

The Moses building is coming down, but look just beyond it. What a mess that lot is all the old trucks and other vehicles and what an impression it makes on visitors. At the very least it should be behind fences.

The other side of the road is not a whole lot better. In most cities this would not be allowed, but with good old politics here, is always the same.

I’d like to see solemn pride back in the city.

I’m ashamed to bring people through here when they visit.

Virginia Hill, Corinth

One writer to another When I moved to Monroeville, Ala., in 1975, it was because of Bill Stewart, not Nelle Harper Lee. Stewart was the publisher of The Monroe Journal, an excellent weekly run by Bill Stewart’s son, Steve, and his daughter-in-law, Patrice.

I needed a job. So did my former husband, Jimmy. We had tried to start our own weekly in Georgia and failed.

There was no play based on Rheta “To Kill a Mockingbird” then.

Johnson There were no mockingbird murals painted on the buildColumnist ings. You sometimes could buy a copy of the famous book at the religious bookstore on the square; sometimes not. A lot of townspeople I met professed never to have read the book. Some who had didn’t like it, and would say so.

I never met Harper Lee. We would hear after the fact when “Nelle” had been in town.

I did meet Alice Lee, Nelle’s lawyer sister.

Jimmy and I shared a car, and one or the other of us lost the Pinto in the constant game of musical cars. Alice gave Jimmy a ride home from a Planning Commission meeting. I talked to her in the courthouse while looking for Sheriff Lynwood Sager to get details of his latest moonshine still bust. Alice Lee was approachable and kind.

I usually was too busy to worry about the literary legacy that draped the town like Spanish moss.

In many ways, Monroeville life was memorable. We were caretakers in a cold old mansion on the edge of town. When temperatures dropped, the water in the toilet bowls froze.

I strapped on my accordion and teamed up with a fiddler to play nursing homes. We ate fried chicken at the Heigh Ho. They cut the Boo Radley oak the year I lived there. Its branches were dropping and posed a threat to schoolchildren who played nearby. We wrote a story about it. Other than that, I might have been living and working in any town in the Deep South.

I realized, of course, that I’d been privileged to breathe the same air as Harper Lee. My mother, being my mother, didn’t see it quite that way. She knew someone who knew someone who could get the author to sign my book. Never one to trust chance, Mother sent a note telling the author how to sign: “From one writer to another,” she instructed.

I kept the note because Lee added a few words before signing, “Best wishes, Harper Lee.” “I don’t know her. What has she written?”

Mother had this to say about that: “You would think Harper Lee read her hometown newspaper!

(To find out more about Daily Corinthian columnist Rheta Grimsley Johnson and her books, visit www.rhetagrimsleyjohnsonbooks.com.)

Prayer for today Lord God, help me to lay my life in the rocks of thy foundation, and not in moving sands which are tossed from shore to shore.

May I cling to the rock that was cleft for me and trust for thy care. Amen.

A verse to share Consider the blameless, observe the upright; a future awaits those who seek peace.

— Psalm 37:37

The lure of socialism Many people of mature years are amazed at how many young people have voted for Senator Bernie Sanders, and are enthusiastic about the socialism he preaches.

Many of those older people have lived long enough to have seen socialism fail, time and again, in countries around the world. Venezuela, with all its rich oil resources, is currently on the verge of economic collapse, after its heady fling with socialism.

But, most of the young have missed all that, and their dumbed-down education is far more likely to present the inspiring rhetoric of socialism than to present its dismal track record.

Socialism is in fact a wonderful vision – a world of the imagination far better than any place anywhere in the real world, at any time over the thousands of years of recorded history.

Even many conservatives would probably prefer to live in such a world, if they thought it was possible.

Who would not want to live in a world where college was free, along with many other things, and where government protected us from the shocks of life and guaranteed our happiness?

It would be Disneyland for adults!

Free college of course has

an appeal to the young, especially those who have never studied economics.

But college Thomas cannot posSowell sibly be free.

It would not Columnist be free even if there was no such thing as money.

Consider the costs of just one professor teaching just one course. He or she has probably spent more than 20 years being educated, from kindergarten to the Ph.D., before ending up standing in front of a class and trying to convey some of the knowledge picked up in all those years. That means being fed, clothed and housed all those years, along with other expenses.

All the people who grew the food, manufactured the clothing and built the housing used by this one professor, for at least two decades, had to be compensated for their efforts, or those efforts would not continue. And of course someone has to produce food, clothing and shelter for all the students in this one course, as well as books, computers and other requirements or amenities.

Add up all these costs – and multiply by a hundred or so – and you have a rough idea of what going to college

costs. Whether these costs are paid by using money in a capitalist economy or by some other mechanism in a feudal economy, a socialist economy, or whatever, there are heavy costs to pay.

Moreover, under any economic system, those costs are either going to be paid or there are not going to be any colleges. Money is just an artificial device for getting real things done.

Those young people who understand this, whether clearly or vaguely, are not likely to be deterred from wanting socialism. Because what they really want is for somebody else to pay for their decision to go to college.

A market economy is one in which whoever makes a decision is the one who pays for that decision. It forces people to be sure that what they want to do is really worth what it is going to cost.

Even the existing subsidies of college have led many people to go to college who have very little interest in, or benefit from, going to college, except for enjoying the social scene while postponing adult responsibilities for a few years.

Whether judging by test results, by number of hours per week devoted to studying or by on-campus interviews, it is clear that today’s

college students learn a lot less than college students once did. If college becomes “free,” even more people can attend college without bothering to become educated and without acquiring re any economically meaningful skills.

More fundamentally, making all sorts of other things “free” means more of those things being wasted as well. Even worse, it means putting more and more of the decisions that shape our lives into the hands of politicians and bureaucrats who control the purse strings.

Obamacare has given us a foretaste of what that means in reality, despite how wonderful it may sound in political rhetoric.

Worst of all, government giveaways polarize society into segments, each trying to get what it wants at somebody else’s expense, creating mutual bitterness that can tear a society apart.

Some seem to blithely assume that “the rich” can be taxed to pay for what they want – as if “the rich” don’t see what is coming and take their wealth elsewhere.

(Daily Corinthian columnist Thomas Sowell is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305. His website is www.tsowell.com.)

Little difference between Sanders, Trump Down in South Carolina, in the days before the Republican primary, I was shocked by the number of South Carolinians who told me they were trying to decide whether to support Bernie Sanders or Donald Trump.

This choice is, of course, possible in an open primary state such as South Carolina. But what could possibly be happening, I asked myself, that the same voter could be considering Sanders and Trump?

When I dropped out of the welfare state 33 years ago and became a conservative and a Republican, I felt I was walking out of one world and into another that was totally, irreconcilably different.

I said goodbye to the government plantation and Democrat Party politicians promising redemption with other people’s money. I turned to the Republican Party, which represented, for me, traditional values, personal responsibility and limited government.

These were the values of the healthy, prosperous parts of America. And it was these values that I wanted to bring to poor black communities as antidote to the damage done by the welfare state.

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The healthy Columnist part of America became more like the unhealthy part, rather than the other way around.

Back in 1995, when I was working with Republicans on welfare reform, 37 percent of Americans, according to Gallup, said government should not favor any particular set of values – including traditional values.

By 2015, this was up to 51 percent.

Among Republicans the change has been particularly pronounced. In 2002, 22 percent of Republicans said government should not promote any particular set of values. By 2015, this almost doubled, up to 39 percent.

The support that Donald Trump, the current Republican front-runner, is getting is being explained as anger at the Washington establishment and big government. But is that true?

Are these Trump supporters really looking for limit-

ed government and ending programs that are bankrupting us?

In a Pew Research survey done last December, 53 percent of Republicans said government doesn’t do enough to help the middle class.

In a Reuters poll done last year, nearly 80 percent of Republicans opposed getting rid of Social Security and Medicare. Sixty-four percent opposed getting rid of Medicaid.

But these programs consume half the federal budget. And according to the Cato Institute, over the next 10 years, Medicaid is projected to expand by 21 percent, Social Security by 30 percent and Medicare by 40 percent. Without major reforms here, dealing with America’s massive fiscal imbalances will be impossible.

Bernie Sanders proposes to deal with it all by making this country a socialist welfare state, with massive new taxes on those earning higher incomes. Donald Trump doesn’t seem to think he needs to propose anything beyond assuring us there is no problem he can’t solve.

It all helps to explain why it is possible that the same voters could support either Sanders or Trump. Both really have a lot in common.

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Sanders and Trump share a message that all our problems are because of someone else and can be solved by someone else.

According to Sanders, it is big business and the wealthy that cause all our problems. According to Trump, it is Chinese imports and immigrants. For Sanders, government will solve all our problems. For Trump, Donald Trump will solve all our problems.

America’s greatness lies in giving individuals freedom to take responsibility for their own lives.

Economically, this means ownership. Socially, this means family.

What makes America not great is this new era of blaming everyone else for our problems and looking for someone else to solve them.

Absence of personal responsibility has always been the message of Democrats.

But it is new for it to define Republicans. It certainly is not the same Republican Party that won me over 33 years ago.

How did we get so lost?

(Star Parker is an author and president of CURE, the Center for Urban Renewal and Education. Contact her at www.urbancure.org.)

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Assistance T.O.P.S The Corinth Chapter 0359 of T.O.P.S (Take off Pounds Sensibly) will hold chapter meetings at 10:30 a.m. on Wednesdays at Waldron Street Christian Church. The local chapter was founded on Jan. 18, 2012. A non-profit weight loss support group, T.O.P.S has helped millions of people take off weight for over 60 years. Participants will arrive between 10 and 10:30 a.m. for a confidential weigh in by appointed weight recorders. At 10:30 a.m. rollcall will be held. The first meeting is free.

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 Julie Hutchins, volunteer coordinator at Legacy Hospice, 301 East Waldron St, Corinth or call 662-286-5333.

■ Alliance Hospice is looking for volunteers in the area who enjoy visiting and giving back in the community. If interested call 662-2869833 or e-mail sabrina@ alliancehospice.net.

Free yoga

Senior activities

Weekly chair yoga classes taught by certified yoga instructor Karen Beth Martin are held every Thursday at 10 a.m., in the St. Paul’s Episcopal Church fellowship hall. Each class is 40-45 minutes in length and are tailored to the abilities and limitations of those attending with the goal of improving strength, flexibility and balance. The class, geared toward seniors, is open to the public.

Class is donation-based.

For questions, contact the church office at 662286-2922.

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

Ruby Browning leads a stretching/toning class on Monday, Wednesday and Friday from 9 a.m.– 10 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.

Retiree breakfast

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, baby-sitting 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.

The Alcorn and Corinth School Districts are participating in an ongoing statewide effort to identify, locate and evaluate children birth through the age of 21 who have a physical, mental, communicative and/or emotional disability. Early identification of children in need of special educational experiences is important to each child.

The information gathered from contacts with parents other agencies will also be used to help determine present and future program needs as progress is made toward the goal of providing a free, appropriate public education to all children with a disability.

Contact Stephanie Clausel at the Alcorn School District or Linda Phillips at the Corinth School District with information on any children who may have a disability by calling or writing to: Alcorn School District, Special Services, 31 County Road 401, Corinth, MS 38834, 662-286-7734 or Corinth School District Special Services, 1204 North Harper Road, Corinth, MS 38834, 662-2872425.

Friendship class

Genealogy society

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 662-286-6638.

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.

Story Hour

■ The Crossroads Group of Narcotics Anonymous meets Monday, Wednesday and Friday

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.msyouthchallenge.org.

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 662279-0435. 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

Red Cross

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 662-287-2441.

Quilt Guild meets 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 662-287-0987.

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

Children with disabilities

Indian Springs United Methodist Charge is a collaborative effort of both churches and meets every Wednesday afternoon at 3 p.m. in the dining room of the Arby’s Restaurant, 706 Highway 72 East, Corinth.

The ministry was established to support those who have experienced a devastating life event such as the death of a loved one, diagnosis of a terminal illness or condition, the loss of a spouse or parent through divorce, even the loss of a job or home. The ministry is non-denominational and open to all.

There is no cost to attend and no obligation to continue. For more information, call Bro. Rick Wells, pastor of Hopewell and Indian Springs United Methodist Charge and facilitator at 662-587-9602.

■ The Al-Anon fellowship of relatives and friends of alcoholics meets at 7 p.m. on Mondays at the Corinth First Baptist Church. Attendees should enter at the courtyard side on Fillmore St. For more information call 662-287-7819 ■ Finding Hope Ministries, a ministry of Fairview Community Church is offering a depression support group. The sessions will be held in the fellowship hall of Fairview Community Church, 125 CR 356, Iuka -- just off Hwy. 350. The support group meets from 10-11 a.m. Friday mornings and 6-7 p.m. Friday evenings.

For more information, call Debra Smith at 662808-6997.

■ A grief support group for anyone who has lost a loved one or may have a sick family member and needs someone who will understand what your going through is meeting at Real Life Church, (next to Fred’s in Corinth), every Monday from 6-7 p.m.

For one on one meetings, contact Sherry Scott at 662-415-7173.

■ C.A.U.S.E. (Corinth, Autism, Understanding, Support, Education) support group, “Just love them for who they are,” meets every first Monday of the month at 6 p.m.

There is help for parents of a child with autism.

Meet other parents, share experiences, ask

questions, get advice, help others, vent or just read. For more information, call 662-415-1340.

■ Corinth “Crossroads” Multiple Sclerosis Group invites anyone with multiple sclerosis to come meet with them on the third Wednesday of each month at 11:30 a.m. at the Mississippi State/ Alcorn County Extension Office, 2200 Levee Road, located behind the Crossroads Arena.

Contact Joy Forsyth at 662-462-7325 for more information.

Sharing Hearts Sharing Heart is an adult care program offering a one day a week day care for adults suffering from Alzheimer’s or any other form of disease related dementia. Volunteers and participants meet each Tuesday from 10-3 at First Baptist Church located at 501 Main Street. The program is designed to offer caregivers a day of rest and their family members a day of caring supervision along with music, games, lunch, exercise and crafts all designed to entertain and provide social interaction.

For more information, call Melinda Grady at 662-808-2206.

Shiloh museum A museum dedicated to the Battle of Shiloh and area veterans is open next to Shiloh National Military Park. It is located at the intersection of state Route 22 and Route 142 in Shiloh.

The Shiloh Battlefield & World War II Museum is the home of Honor Our Veterans Inc., a non-profit organization dedicated to raising money for projects to benefit area veterans. The museum features items Larry DeBerry has amassed over a lifetime of collecting Shiloh-related artifacts, as well as artifacts from the Korean War, World War II, the Vietnam War — all the way up to the war in Afghanistan.

The Shiloh Battlefield & World War II Museum is open Monday through Saturday, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sunday, 1 to 5 p.m. For more information call Larry DeBerry at 731-926-0360.

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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-FordMitchell Community Center, 707 Spring Street in Iuka. Call 662-279-6435 for directions.

■ Narcotics Anonymous “If you want what we have” will meet at Prince of Peace Lutheran Church at 4203 Shiloh Road at 7 p.m. on Mondays, Thursdays and the third Saturday of every month.

■ The “Downtown Corinth” 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.

For more information, call 662-660-3150.

■ The Alzheimer’s Caregiver Support Group in Corinth is partnered with the Alzheimer’s Association Mississippi Chapter. Keri Roaten is the facilitator. The group meets every first Thursday of each month at the Corinth Public Library, from 6-7 p.m.

The group discusses the hardships of those caring for people effected by the disease and offer several different resources as well. For more information, contact k_roaten@hotmail. com or 662-594-5526.

■ The “Good Grief” ministry of the Hopewell-

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Deaths Sammie Clydean Wamsley

Funeral services for Sammie Clydean Wamsley, 81, of Iuka are set for 1 p.m. Friday. at Magnolia Funeral Home Chapel of Memories with burial in Liberty Hill Baptist Church Cemetery.

Visitation is from 5 to 9 p.m. today and from noon until service time Friday at the funeral home.

Mrs. Wamsley died Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2016, at North Mississippi Medical Center in Iuka She was born Jan. 23, 1935, and was a factory work- Wamsley er at Wurlitzer and ITT. She was of the Christian faith and was a member of Harper Road Christian Church. She was an avid reader. Her favorite authors were, John Grisham, Nora Roberts and James Patterson. She loved watching NCIS and Blue Bloods.

Survivors include her sons, James Burcham (Sue) of Booneville and Al-

Derrick LeRoy Fields

Funeral services for Derrick LeRoy Fields, 57, of Corinth are set for 11 a.m. Saturday at Mt. Pleasant M.B. Church with burial in the Rienzi Cemetery.

Visitation is from 5 to 7 p.m.

Mr. Fields died Monday, Feb. 22, 2016, at his residence.

He was born Nov. Fields 12, 1958, and was formerly employed at Wold Color (Quebecor World), Plumrose and

len Burcham of Glen and daughters, Diana Millsap (Vern) of Hodgkins, Ill., Judy Graham of Glen and Penny Nelson (Robert) of Farmington; 18 grandchildren; 23 great-grandchildren; 11 great great-grandchildren; her daughter-in-law, Shirley Burcham of Corinth; as well as numerous nieces, nephews, other relatives and a host of friends.

Pallbearers are Eddie Hastings, Robert Millsap, David Nelson, Dylan Nelson, Daniel Nelson and Anthony Bell.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Harold Robert Wamsley; her son, Son, Bobby Burcham; her parents, Samuel Cody Newcomb and Caldonia Newcomb; her brothers, Frank Newcomb, Clifford Newcomb, Jim Newcomb and Arthur Newcomb and her sisters, Dora Mae Gammel, Faye Newcomb and Ola Peyton.

Bro. Drew Foster will officiate.

In lieu of flowers the family requests donations be made to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital.

Online condolences can be left at www.magnoliafuneralhome.net.

Corinth Gas and Water. He was a member of Mt. Pleasant M.B. Church.

Survivors include his wife, Valerie Fields; his children, Damian Fields, Jonathan (Maegan) Fields, Bobby Fields and Temika (Darius) Colem; his father, Robert “Bobby” Fields, his brother Brain E. Sherrell; his grandchildren, Oveonah Fields and Jonathan Fields, Jr. He was preceded in death by his mother, Grace Earnest Sherrell; his grandparents, Willie and Ressie Earnest; and his sibling, Montenia Nabors.

Patterson Memorial Chapel is in charge of the arrangements.

The Rev. Lamar Walker will officiate.

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Economist: Mississippi growth trails Southeast

BY EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS Associated Press

JACKSON — Mississippi continues to have “sluggish” growth that trails the Southeast and the nation as a whole, state economist Darrin Webb told lawmakers Wednesday.

Webb said he expects data will show Mississippi’s economy grew about 1 percent in 2015 and he anticipates it will grow about 1.9 percent in 2016.

The state economy was flat in 2014 and contracted in 2013.

“This is sluggish growth compared to the nation,” Webb said.

The U.S. had 2.4 percent growth last year — the same rate as in 2014 and slightly higher than in 2013.

Mississippi has been one of the poorest states in the nation for generations, and Webb said it

has had slower growth than other states during the past 15 or 20 years.

He also said it is among 13 states that have not recovered the level of jobs lost during the Great Recession that started in 2008, despite a “resilient” manufacturing sector including automotive jobs at Nissan and Toyota plants.

The largest sector of job growth in Mississippi between 2014 and 2015 was in the leisure and hospitality category, which includes jobs with lower pay and fewer benefits.

Between 2010 and 2014, the national average for wage and salary growth was 8 percent. In Mississippi, the rate was 1.7 percent, and the state ranked fifth from the bottom. It was ahead of only West Virginia, Alabama, Virginia and New Mexico.

State Treasurer Lynn Fitch told lawmakers Wednesday that Mis-

sissippi is well below its constitutional debt limit.

However, the state ranks 14th in the nation for taxsupported debt per person. In the past several years, she said Mississippi has been as high as ninth and as low as 34th in the ranking.

Fitch said credit agencies see Mississippi has having stable budget and financial operations, but they also see low education attainment and high poverty as challenges for the state.

Webb also said because of education and widespread health problems, “Mississippi does have limited human capital.”

Mississippi ranks second-highest in the nation, behind only West Virginia, in government benefits payments as a total share of personal income, and Webb said he sees that as a weakness in the state economy.

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WAVERLY, Va. — A powerful storm system swept across the East Coast on Wednesday, killing three people in Virginia and knocking out power to tens of thousands of homes and businesses in the region.

A day earlier, the system spawned about two dozen tornadoes along the Gulf Coast, damaging hundreds of homes in Louisiana, Mississippi and Florida. Three people were killed and dozens were injured.

Forecasters warned the threat wasn’t over and that more than 88 million people were at risk Wednesday of seeing some sort of severe weather. In the Midwest, heavy snow and biting winds led to mass flight cancellations at Chicago airports and school closings in several states.

In Virginia, the tiny farming town of Waverly in the state’s peanutgrowing region took the brunt of the storm. The Virginia State Police said at least five structures were damaged in the town of approximately 2,000.

The names of the victims and the circumstances of their deaths were not released.

Roads leading into the town had to be closed

because of downed trees and debris tossed by winds gusting to 60 mph, state police spokeswoman Corinne Geller said.

Witnesses said the storm swept through Waverly with little warning.

Timothy Williams said a friend had just come by to take his new car for a drive when the storm hit.

“It picked the car right off the ground, and put it right back on the ground,” said Williams, 44. He said they remained in the car until the storm passed.

The storm blew down electrical wires “in a big ball of fire, thrashing all about each other,” Williams said. He said they both escaped shaken but uninjured.

“I’m just a little nervous and jittery, but overall I’m OK,” Williams said.

On Tuesday, one of the hardest-hit areas along the Gulf Coast was a recreational vehicle park in the town of Convent, in southern Louisiana. RVs were tossed about and lay on top of wrecked cars and pickup trucks.

Two people were killed there, and 31 injured people were taken to area hospitals, said St. James Parish Sheriff Willy Martin.

An all-night search of the RV park found no additional injuries or fatali-

THE BLOOD OF JESUS Peter wrote in I Peter 1:18,19 “Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers; but with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot.”

From the time of the Patriarchs, through the Mosaic era, and the Christian dispensation, blood has been an essential part of the redemptive plan of God. Of the cleansing of the items associated with worship under Moses’ law, Hebrews 9:21 says, “Moreover he sprinkled likewise with blood both the tabernacle, and all the vessels of the ministry. And almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and without the shedding of blood is no remission.” Verse four of the next chapter tells us, “For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and goats should take away sins. Verse eleven teaches me that despite the repeated offerings of these animal sacrifices, they could “never take away sins: But this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins forever, sat down on the right hand of God:” The blood of Jesus was therefore, the perfect sacrifice, accomplishing in the one sacrifice of himself, what could never be found in the sacrifice of animals. He was like the lambs offered to God under the Law of Moses, “without blemish and without spot.”

Paul wrote of him in I Corinthians 5:7 “For even Christ our Passover is sacrificed for us”; and in II Corinthians 5:21, “For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.”

Jesus, though innocent, accepted the burden and weight of your sins and mine, and subjected himself to the agonizing, and humiliating suffering of the cross, in order that those sins could be forever washed away. He bought us back, or redeemed us, with his blood. The debt for my sins has been paid by his sacrifice. For the obedient child of God, the blood of Jesus has not only washed away the sins of the past, but John wrote, “if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son continues to cleanse us from all sin. (I John 1:7) That beautiful old hymn says it well; “Would you be free from the burden of sin, there’s wonderful power in the blood.”

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ties, the sheriff said. One person was still unaccounted for.

Briaxton Lott, 23, was in the trailer park when the tornado hit. The pad where his trailer once sat was empty and he pointed to the remnants of it about 100 feet away.

“The whole front end came up and slammed back down, and I grabbed up the baby and the next thing I know we just went rolling end over end,” Lott said.

His destroyed trailer ended up right next to three trailers that appeared untouched. Children’s toys were scattered in the mud, and an alarm could be heard going off in the morning, likely alerting a long-gone resident it was time to go to work.

Bill Bunting with Storm Prediction Center estimated 20 to 24 tornados hit from Louisiana to Florida on Tuesday.

In Mississippi, 73-yearold Dale Purvis died of blunt-force trauma in a mobile home west of Purvis, Lamar County Coroner Cody Creel said.

Florida Gov. Rick Scott said an apparent tornado in the Pensacola area significantly damaged more than 70 homes and 24 apartments, leaving three people with minor injuries.

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“The club encouraged me to be a better person and it also helped me with my grades,” said Howard.

Howard said she found a way to push past the bullying.

“I was bullied for not looking and talking like everyone else when I first moved here,” said Howard. “The Boys Club has so many activities for children to help them deal with bullying … most kids who pick on others are being picked on at home or somewhere else.”

Hughey said Howard has made great strides in overcoming.

“She is doing great,” said Hughey. “Sometimes you have to get to a place in life where you don’t care what other people think.”

Howard’s mother, Lisa Kirk, is grateful her daughter has a place to go while she works.

“You don’t know what your kids are doing when you aren’t around,” said Kirk. “That’s why I tell them to be on their best behavior because you never know who is watching.”

“This is a great program,” added Kirk. “It’s exactly what Ulyssa needed.”

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Charge: Social media aids burglaries FULLERTON, Calif. — A maintenance worker is charged with using social media to track dozens of college women in order to burglarize their Orange County homes and sorority houses.

The Orange County Register says Arturo Galvan of Menifee appeared in court on Tuesday. He has pleaded not guilty to burglary and remains jailed.

Galvan allegedly targeted at least 33 women and stole more than $250,000 worth of items.

Fullerton police say he would spot women in public places such as coffee shops or malls and then try to track their locations through Instagram. Police say Galvan obtained their home addresses from geotagged photos.

Galvan allegedly stole laptops, jewelry and underwear from the victims, who were students at Chapman University and California State University, Fullerton. Â

Bundy, others enter not guilty pleas PORTLAND, Ore. — Ammon Bundy and another 15 defendants pleaded not guilty Wednesday to federal conspiracy charge related to 41-day occupation of an Oregon wildlife refuge. Several of the accused, however, expressed doubt that they enjoy the presumption of innocence.

Bundy sat at the main defense table while most of his co-defendants sat in the jury box as they listened to a government prosecutor read the indictment and U.S. District Judge Anna Brown tell them their rights.

Brown reminded the defendants that they are considered innocent until proven guilty. One by one, she asked them if they understood. Bundy simply said “yes,� but four co-defendants took the opportunity to express doubt. “It’s difficult to understand presumption of innocence when I’ve spent the last month in a jail cell and been led around in shackles and chains,� Ryan Payne

said.

Another, Jason Patrick, told the judge: “You’re the federal government; you’re going to do whatever you want.�

The judge tackled several procedural issues during the nearly two-hour hearing, which started with Bundy, sporting a fresh haircut, blowing a kiss toward the Odalis Sharp and her children. The family gospel band traveled from Kansas in January to sing at the occupation. One daughter, 18-year-old Victoria Sharp, was at the traffic stop in which authorities arrested Bundy and fatally shot Arizona rancher LaVoy Finicum.

The judge set an April 29 trial date, though that seems unlikely to occur. Assistant U.S. Attorney Ethan Knight said he expects to file a superseding indictment with additional charges after investigators finish examining firearms, electronics, American Indian artifacts and other evidence. Â

Guard initially didn’t think ship was at risk When an initial report arrived saying the captain of the cargo ship El Faro had called ashore for help, the U.S. Coast Guard didn’t believe the vessel was at risk of sinking and later had software problems while preparing a response plan.

Still, Coast Guard Petty Officer 2nd Class Matthew Chancery testified Wednesday at an investigative hearing in Jacksonville, Florida, that the ship’s distress was soon clear and that software issues did not delay search efforts.

The 790-foot SS El Faro sank in a hurricane Oct. 1 after losing propulsion near the Bahamas on its way from Jacksonville to San Juan, Puerto Rico. All 33 aboard died.

Chancery said initial conversations with a representative for the ship’s owner, Tote Inc., led the Coast Guard to believe early on that the ship was disabled, but managing to stabilize the situation.

The morning that the ship sank, El Faro Capt.

Michael Davidson told Tote’s designated person ashore, Capt. John Lawrence, he thought

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the crew would be able to pump out water coming into the ship, according to testimony.

Based on this information, Chancery told Lawrence he thought the ship might be able to anchor and ride out the bad weather. Even though El Faro was in 15,000 feet of water, Chancery said there were islands near where they thought the ship might be, and that the storm might push the vessel into shallower water. Â

Obama’s court pick to face long odds WASHINGTON — Wanted: Top legal mind with Supreme Court aspirations, to serve as a national political football. Candidate must be camera-ready and prepared for disappointment. Contact Barack Obama.

Republicans refusing to hold a vote or hearings on any candidate nominated by Obama have complicated his sales job as he seeks a replacement for Antonin Scalia. Though Obama insists he’ll put forward an “outstanding candidate� no matter what the GOP says, the White House is hard-pressed to offer a convincing scenario in which that person gets confirmed.

Overnight, Obama’s nominee will become the face of wellfinanced, high-intensity, election-year campaigns both for and against that will rage across the country. Though guaranteed at least a footnote in the history books, the nominee will have little ability to influence the debate and even less control over how the chapter plays out.

For a Supreme Court hopeful, the scenario is less than ideal. Highranking judges and others fit for consideration tend to be loath to throw themselves into the middle of public controversy. “As much as you tell them it’s not really about them, judges don’t engage in politics and take pride in their impartiality,� said Christopher Kang, who prepared lower-court nominees for confirmation as former deputy White House counsel. “It can be hard for them not to take it personally.�

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Bill would cut wait time for pension JACKSON — The Mississippi House has passed a bill that would cut the years state employees must wait to qualify for retirement benefits.

House Bill 880 would cut the wait from eight years to four years to be a member of the state Public Employees Retirement System.

The bill passed 113-7 Wednesday and moves to the Senate for more work.

The cut would give more state employees retirement benefits and shorten the time future workers must wait to get those benefits.

The changes to the retirement program wouldn’t cost much more than the program costs now, according to a joint committee of the House and Senate.

Voucher bill fails, but district transfers live JACKSON — A plan to use state money to pay for private school tuition or for home schooling is off the table, but Mississippi House members kept alive a measure Tuesday that could allow students to transfer from poor-performing public school districts to higher rated ones.

The House Appropriations Committee failed to consider House Bill 943, which would have allowed the state to pay for nearly 5,000 new students a year. Because Tuesday was the deadline for committees to act, the voucher bill died.

The House Education Committee did approve House Bill 91, which would allow students in districts with D and F academic ratings to transfer to any other district. The receiving district would be required to take the student as long as the district had capacity to take him or her.

House Appropriations Committee Chairman Herb Frierson, R-Poplarville, said there weren’t enough votes in either his committee or among House Republicans in general for House Bill 943. “It was my decision,�

Frierson wrote to The Associated Press in a text.

The plan expanded an existing voucher program focused on special edu-

cation students. It would have allowed $6,500 for special education students, $5,000 for students whose families make less than twice the federal poverty level, and $4,000 for students whose families make from 200 percent to 350 percent of the federal poverty level. Â

Financial audit for Natchez still overdue NATCHEZ — Natchez’s annual financial audit for the 2013-2014 fiscal year is nearly eight months overdue.

The records for the 2013-2014 fiscal year didn’t reach independent auditor Deanne Tanksley’s office until August 2015, The Natchez Democrat reported. Each year, the city is expected to send its financial records to Tanksley when the fiscal year ends in September.

Assistant city clerk Wendy McClain said Tanksley was making progress on the audit.

She said once Tanksley finishes the audit, she will move on to the next audit for 2014-2015. McClain says those records are ready to be sent to Tanksley as soon her office is ready for them. “I know that Deanne is getting close to finishing the 2013-2014 audit,� she said. “Once she finishes that one we will be moving right into the next audit for 2014-2015.�

Tanksley said in December that her health and bad bookkeeping from the previous city accountant made work on the audit difficult.

During a board of aldermen meeting that same month, she said she expected to finish the audit in January.

Man admits human smuggling GULFORT — A Mexican national arrested in Waveland has admitted smuggling people into the United States though he knew they did not have permission to enter the country.

The Sun Herald reports 41-year-old Roberto Esquivel-Alonso was arrested Nov. 15 when he was found with eight men and two boys who were traveling in a two-vehicle convoy. Federal prosecutors say seven were removed from the U.S. and three have been held pending prosecution.

Esquivel-Alonso, who is being held with no bond, pleaded guilty Monday before U.S. District Judge Sul Ozerden.

Ozerden set sentencing for May 24. Â

Ex-state senator’s sentencing delayed PASCAGOULA — The sentencing of former state Sen. Tommy Robertson for embezzling $379,000 has been delayed.

Special Judge Richard McKenzie was scheduled to sentence Robertson on Tuesday, but the hearing was cancelled due to a scheduling conflict.

No new sentencing date has been set.

Robertson, who served in the Senate from 1992 through 2007, pleaded guilty in December to one of five charges of embezzlement. He was accused of stealing $484,000 in April 2013 from a construction loan that Singing River Federal Credit Union extended to a couple building a house.

At the time, Robertson served as the credit union’s attorney and held the funds in a trust.

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Young moms feel pressure to succeed at parenting D E A R ABBY: Why is there so much angst today over raising children, especially in Abigail young mothI don’t Van Buren ers? remember my mother Dear Abby or my friends’ mothers being so concerned about whether or not they were doing a good job, and I certainly didn’t gather with my daughters’ friends’ moms to bemoan whether I was a bad mother.

Now there are all these blogs and workshops, etc. on how to be the “best” mom, and all these lifestyle gurus who constantly tell them not to worry, they’re doing a great job. It just seems like a bunch of nonsense to me.

I think it’s because a generation or so back, moms began to elevate their children to top priority in the family over their husbands.

What’s your take? -- PUZZLED GRANDMA IN THE SOUTH DEAR PUZZLED: The world is different today. Many women feel torn because they want or need to work, while at the same time feel pressured to help their children succeed in an increasingly competitive world. (Is the

child academically prepared for kindergarten? Is the child able to work cooperatively with others? Is the school highly rated enough?

What and how many extracurricular activities will boost their child’s chances of excelling?)

While it may seem like nonsense to you, I assure you it does not seem like nonsense to them.

Women of your generation didn’t second-guess themselves because parenting a generation ago was simpler. If children seem to be the No. 1 priority these days it may be because both parents feel driven to succeed and are determined that their children will, too.

DEAR ABBY: I have been married to my husband for 11 years.

We are financially and emotionally stable. We recently became friendly with another couple who are newly married and not as financially secure as we are. They spend frivolously.

When we go on vacation, they invite themselves along and assume they are staying in our travel trailer without asking (they have their own trailer they could bring).

They don’t offer to help pay for gas. The last trip we took, the wife cooked only one meal, while I prepared the rest for a three-day trip.

This upcoming trip, they haven’t offered to bring anything.

We don’t mind sharing what we have and helping our friends out, but what we are starting to resent

is the assumption that because we make more money, we’ll pick up the tab for everything. Are we wrong to feel this way? My husband and I both see this the same way. -- STARTING TO RESENT THEM DEAR STARTING TO RESENT THEM: It’s not wrong to not want to be taken advantage of. This wouldn’t be happening if you had established some rules in the beginning, but it isn’t too late to do it now.

Call the wife. Tell her what you expect her and her husband to bring on the next trip, and what chores they will be expected to perform. It isn’t fair that you are doing all the work and paying for everything while they are on your vacation.

They should provide -- or pay for -- half the groceries, half the gas, and share any housekeeping responsibilities. Ditto if you go to a restaurant. And the next time they tell you they are coming with you on your vacation, don’t hesitate or feel guilty when you reply, “We’d like some privacy this time, so it will just be the two of us.”

Dear Abby is written by Abigail Van Buren, also known as Jeanne Phillips, and was founded by her mother, Pauline Phillips.

Contact Dear Abby at www.DearAbby.com or P.O. Box 69440, Los Angeles, CA 90069.

Horoscopes ARIES (March 21-April 19).

What was your original intention? What you’re following now is the echo of that, dissipated to the degree that you can hardly hear the words anymore. It’s important to remember what you set out to do in the first place.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20).

You notice what people like, produce what they want and predict what they’ll need. You’re in touch with the trends, and for this reason you’ll make money and re-invest it where it will multiply.

GEMINI (May 21-June 21).

You may worry that if you are too present in someone’s life that person will eventually tire of you. It’s not a legitimate thing to worry about, because your continued presence only builds the bond stronger.

CANCER (June 22-July 22).

You know what you’re doing -you are strong and capable and more than a match for the task at hand. You could do it alone without a problem. All the more reason to invite teamwork.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). So-

cial adoration can be addicting.

Knowing this, you keep your head about you. You accept people’s interest in you as a compliment, and you try not to let their attention or opinion of you change how you think of yourself.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22).

Narrow your focus: Choose one goal for the meeting; invite fewer people to the gathering; attach less meaning to the interaction, etc. By thinking small you will accomplish big.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23).

When a situation doesn’t feel right, it’s best to disengage early on. What will happen if you go against your inner wisdom, fly in the face of red flags and decline the impulse to run in the opposite direction? Regret.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21).

There’s someone you want to know better. Allow this relationship to build slowly and steadily.

You still need to take risks in order to escalate the action, but they are small risks. This isn’t a day for leaping.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec.

21). The old saying suggests, “If you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em.”

The wisdom of this depends on how bad the fight was in which you were trying to “beat ‘em.”

There will be some tension to work through, for sure.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19). The authorities don’t always know, often get it wrong and are not always protecting your best interests. You offer your respect without giving over your power to someone just because that person happens to have a title.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18). It happens in many classic stories -- the “village idiot” turns out to be the wisest person in town. In your case today, the true message will resonate with you regardless of where it originates.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20).

You cannot haunt a person’s dreams unless you first haunt that person’s waking life. You’re starting to realize the good that could come from getting a little more deliberate with the impression you make on a certain someone.

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(LNKD) Wednesday’s close: $117.70 52-WEEK RANGE

$98

Investors are re-evaluating LinkedIn’s qualifications following an admission that it won’t live up to expectations in 2016 – the biggest stumble in the professional networking service’s nearly five-year career as a public company.

LinkedIn predicted its revenue will fall about $300 million, or 8 percent, below what analysts had been anticipating. Management blamed the letdown on slowing economies in Asia and other overseas markets, as well as the loss of $50 million in revenue from the surprise closure of a business advertising network.

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Wall Street’s harsh review has caused LinkedIn’s stock to plummet by 40 percent since the sobering forecast came out. At one point this month, the shares fell below $100 for the first time since 2012. The stock peaked at $276.18 a year ago.

LinkedIn has become known for lowballing its financial forecasts, a practice that has helped the company top analysts’ earnings estimates in all but one of 19 quarters since its stock began trading.

But this disappointment came after a succession of quarters in which LinkedIn deliberately trimmed its profit margins to invest in products that are supposed to boost its growth. Now, investors are worried management has been wasting time and money.

Sources: LinkedIn; FactSet

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reports its latest earnings.

Financial analysts expect Gap’s fourth-quarter earnings and revenue declined from a year earlier.

The company, which operates Gap, Old Navy and Banana Republic stores, is due to deliver its latest financial report card today.

Earlier this month, Gap said sales slumped at all three brands during the quarter.

The results underscore the challenges that CEO Art Peck faces as he tries to turn around the business.

BBY $31.47 Santa Claus didn’t leave Best $50 Buy much to feel merry about 40 this past holiday season.

Weak holiday business in 30 mobile phones and personal $38.99 ’15 devices helped dampen the 20 nation’s largest consumer elecest.

Operating $1.48 $1.39 tronics chain’s sales in the EPS fourth quarter. That prompted 4Q ’14 4Q ’15 the company to slash its sales Price-earnings ratio: 13 outlook for the quarter. Wall based on past 12-month results Street gets a look at the final numbers today when Best Buy Dividend: $0.92 Div. yield: 2.9% Source: FactSet

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Unhealthy results?

WTW $15.36 Weight Watchers International $30 $18.29 serves up its fourth-quarter results 20 today.

Wall Street anticipates that the 10 weight loss company will report ’15 lower earnings and revenue for the 0 est. quarter. That echoes the company’s Operating $0.07 $0.02 track record in the preceding three EPS quarters. Investors will be listening 4Q ’14 4Q ’15 for an update on any plans the comPrice-earnings ratio: 31 pany has to feature Oprah Winfrey based on past 12-month results in future marketing campaigns. A commercial starring Winfrey began Dividend: none to air in December.

Source: FactSet

10 • Daily Corinthian

Variety

Thursday, February 25, 2016

Crossword

BEETLE BAILEY

Edited by Rich Norris and Joyce Nichols Lewis

BLONDIE

HI & LOIS

BC

ACROSS 1 Beach tube letters 4 Tube in Paris 9 __ butter: cosmetic moisturizer 13 Roofing sealant 14 Gem weight unit 15 Home extension?

16 __ standstill 17 Intensive study program 19 Classic laundry soap 21 They’re drunk at socials 22 Fish in hamo, a Japanese delicacy 23 It’s the opposite of a flying one 26 Auto racer Busch 27 “Uh-huh” 28 Miscellany 30 Faux pas 33 Certain king’s pride 36 Nunavut people 39 Mighty clash 42 Simple type of question 43 “Good one!”

44 Dumped, perhaps 45 Sister brand of the Sensor razor 47 “You’ve found the right person” 49 D.C. bigwigs 51 2014 WNBA Finals runner-up 57 Wood-scratching tool 58 Pakistani bread 59 Loosen, as laces 60 Award to be announced February 28, previously won by the first words of 17-, 23-, 39and 51-Across 64 Cellular messenger 65 Take the helm 66 Trees yielding caffeine-rich nuts 67 Staples of many websites 68 Giveaway bag 69 One-for-one deals 70 Touch gently

DOWN 1 British Invasion drummer 2 Hibachi spot 3 Mali money 4 Real people?

5 Maestro’s forte 6 Refrain bit 7 Many a reggae musician 8 Additional 9 “Fifth Beatle” Sutcliffe 10 “Sure, take it!”

11 Picasso supporter 12 “Set Fire to the Rain” singer 15 Call for help 18 “The Censor” of Rome 20 Part of a winter suit 24 Penultimate contest, for its winner 25 Work with pupils 26 Bob Marley Museum city 29 The Blackbirds of the NCAA’s Northeast Conf.

30 Babe’s pen 31 Falsity 32 “Everything’s ready to go!”

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Dear Annie: I’ve been married for 32 years to “Conrad,” and we have two terrific adult sons. My mother-in-law will be 87 soon, and Conrad is her only child. I have never had a good relationship with her in spite of all my efforts. She chose not to attend our wedding reception because it was hosted by her late exhusband’s second wife.

Instead, she told us that she stayed home, drank champagne and “cried all night.” She has a long history of making snide remarks when nobody is there to witness them.

My husband and I are in Maui for a month. Prior to our departure, I provided a list (in a large font) of all contact information for family members, physicians, dentists, etc., and clipped it to a magnet on her refrigerator.

While we’ve been gone, her condo has developed a basement leak. My husband and I have been on the phone with her daily regarding insurance, repair work, etc. During one call, she commented that she had no one to phone while we were away. My husband reminded her that she can call our sons, who live nearby, and she replied, “No, your wife told me not to bother them.” This was a complete lie. He told her that I would never say that, but

Annie’s Mailbox she insisted that I had. My first reaction was to call her out on it, but I want my husband with me as a witness when I talk to her.

I want to be sure I am courteous when we see her. But how do I get her to stop lying? — Annoyed DIL Dear Annoyed: If Mom is still looking to discredit you after 32 years, it isn’t likely to change. We would also add that, as she gets older, some of this behavior may get worse. You and your husband need to politely, firmly and repeatedly correct Mom whenever she does this, so she knows she isn’t fooling anyone.

Write it down, if necessary, so that when you are vacationing, there is a record. Also inform other family members of any instructions you have given Mom. You will be less aggravated knowing that others are aware of what’s going on.

Dear Annie: I read the letter from “The Ones Left Behind,” who said that she and her husband

raised her three kids with no help from their birth father. Now that the kids are grown, the bio-dad is back in the picture and the kids are hungry for his attention. She feels they are leaving her in the dust.

I was like her children.

At one point, I felt I needed to establish a relationship with my father so that I could be at peace. I did it for my own well-being and hoped my mother would understand, but she was upset and hurt.

She took that anger to her grave. It saddens me to think about it.

Please tell “Left Behind” that a relationship with their father is probably very healing for her children. It has nothing to do with her. If she can joyfully support them in this effort, it would be the greatest gift she could give. — Been There Dear Been: Thank you for presenting the other side. We hope “Left Behind” sees this and understands.

Annie’s Mailbox is written by Kathy Mitchell and Marcy Sugar, longtime editors of the Ann Landers column. Please email your questions to anniesmailbox@comcast.net, or write to: Annie’s Mailbox, c/o Creators Syndicate, 737 3rd Street, Hermosa Beach, CA 90254.

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1. WHICH NORTH CAROLINA WILL WE SEE IN MARCH? This had to be a frustrating week for North Carolina fans. On Wednesday, the Tar Heels collapsed at home to a short-handed Duke team. The Heels led by eight with less than seven minutes left but lost 74â&#x20AC;&#x201C;73. Brice Johnson (29 points, 19 rebounds) was a non-factor near the end as the Heels insisted on shooting 3s (1-of-13). Roy Williams also eschewed a timeout on the Heelsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; LOO IDWHG Âż QDO SRVVHVVLRQ DJDLQVW WKH %OXH 'HYLOV 1RUWK &DUROLQD WKHQ WXUQHG around Saturday to pound Miami 96â&#x20AC;&#x201C;71, averaging an astounding 1.41 points per possession. That team can win a national championship â&#x20AC;&#x201D; as long as the WHDP IURP WKH Âż QDO VL[ PLQXWHV DJDLQVW 'XNH GRHVQÂśW VKRZ XS Âż UVW

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PRIME TIME PLAYERS Malik Newman drew more attention in November, but he wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t Mississippi Stateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s star freshman during the Bulldogsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; best week of Ben Howlandâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ďŹ rst season. Rookie guard Quinndary Weatherspoon had 15 points in an upset of Alabama on Saturday and 24 points in a comeback against Vanderbilt, including a game-winning 3-pointer at the buzzer. ... Louisville is facing self-imposed sanctions, but the Cardinals arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t going to be an easy out in the ACC. Damion Lee had 15 points in a 72â&#x20AC;&#x201C;58 rout of Syracuse and 24 points in a 71â&#x20AC;&#x201C;64 win over Duke. ...

St. Bonaventure guard Jaylen Adams had 31 points, six rebounds and six assists in a 79â&#x20AC;&#x201C;72 upset of Dayton on Saturday. Adams had 12 assists and no turnovers for the week. â&#x20AC;Ś Forward Jamel Artis helped Pittsburgh

strengthen its NCAA Tournament proďŹ le with 21 points, 11 rebounds and four assists in a 66â&#x20AC;&#x201C;52 win at Syracuse on Saturday. â&#x20AC;Ś UNLV guard Patrick McCaw had 25 points, 18 rebounds and ďŹ ve assists in a 102â&#x20AC;&#x201C;91 win over Nevada.

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Valparaiso forward Alec Peters averaged 21.0 points and 11.7 rebounds in three wins in a ďŹ ve-day span over Cleveland State, Oakland and Detroit. Peters had 32 points in a 90â&#x20AC;&#x201C;74 win Sunday over Detroit. â&#x20AC;Ś Wyoming guard Josh Adams stuffed the stat sheet with 37 points, eight rebounds, seven assists, four steals and two blocks in an 84â&#x20AC;&#x201C;66 win at Colorado State. â&#x20AC;Ś Georgia Techâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Marcus Georges-Hunt is relishing the spoiler role. Georges-Hunt had 19 points and seven rebounds in a 63â&#x20AC;&#x201C;62 upset of Notre Dame and 27 points in an 86â&#x20AC;&#x201C;80 win over Florida State last Wednesday.

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Johnathan Motley, Baylor Entering this week, Baylor had lost four of seven, and their best player, forward Rico Gathers, was under the weather with the ďŹ&#x201A;u. Johnathan Motley stepped up. The sophomore had 27 points, 10 rebounds and four blocks in a 100â&#x20AC;&#x201C;91 overtime win over Iowa State to complete the season sweep of the Cyclones. He added 24 points in a 78â&#x20AC;&#x201C;64 win over Texas on Saturday. Motley was 22-of-30 for the week. The Bearsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; schedule doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t get any easier: Three of their ďŹ nal four games are against Kansas, Oklahoma and West Virginia.

COACH OF THE YEAR WATCH 1. Jay Wright, Villanova The Wildcats have been so steady, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s easy to forget that Villanova lost three starters since last season. A second consecutive season with a No. 1 seed in the NCAA Tournament be in the cards.

2. Fran McCaffrey, Iowa Despite replacing Aaron White, the Hawkeyes are exceeding all expectations as they look to claim a Big Ten title for the ďŹ rst time since 1979 and a Sweet 16 bid for the ďŹ rst time since 1999.

3. Chris Mack, Xavier Xavier has spent most of this season in the top 10. No coach gets less credit for being consistently good than Mack.

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5. Frank Martin, South Carolina In his fourth season, Martin has led South Carolina to its highest win total since 2005-06 and potentially the Gamecocksâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; ďŹ rst NCAA bid since 2004.

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Happ emerging in paint for surging Wisconsin

BY GENARO C. ARMAS Associated Press

MADISON, Wis. â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Ethan Happ has grown up quickly at Wisconsin.

The 6-foot-9 forward is getting used to jostling for position in the paint against other Big Ten big men. As a redshirt last year, the freshman practiced against consensus player of the year Frank Kaminsky.

Those lessons are paying oďŹ&#x20AC; now for the Badgers.

Happ is leading scorer Nigel Hayesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; running mate in the frontcourt. He can post up to the bucket with either hand.

And, perhaps most impressively, Happ is the Big Ten leader in steals, averaging 2.5 per conference game and 1.8 overall. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The biggest thing is growing up, I always played point guard and kind of read the scene that way,â&#x20AC;? Happ said about his defensive mentality following a win over Illinois on Sunday. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Once I shot up, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been a lot easier to get around bigger guys.â&#x20AC;?

No. 8 Iowa (20-6, 11-3 Big Ten) provided the next big test for Happ and surging Wisconsin (1710, 9-5) on Wednesday.

Happâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s play has been instrumental in helping the Badgers win

eight of their last nine games and climb back into the NCAA Tournament conversation. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s really good in the low post.

His length defensively has helped them, so heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a solid rebounder at both ends,â&#x20AC;? Hawkeyes coach Fran McCaďŹ&#x20AC;rey said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s got really good instincts.â&#x20AC;?

Illinois got a firsthand look after Happ had six steals in Wisconsinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 69-60 win on Sunday, the most by a Badgers player since Joe Krabbenhoft had six against Ohio State in 2009.

Some of the same skills that allow Happ to contribute on the offensive end, which include good

footwork and a feel around the bucket to play oďŹ&#x20AC; bodies, also help on the other end of the court.

Interim coach Greg Gard said Happ can counter post players and â&#x20AC;&#x153;feel which way weight is being shifted and kind of counter that a little bit.â&#x20AC;?

The result on Sunday led to loose balls in the lane, with Happ there ready to scoop up a turnover.

But he could get much better.

Already a dangerous in the post, Happ needs a jump shot to develop into a more complete oďŹ&#x20AC;ensive player.

Defensively, Gard said Happ gambles too much at times, a

freshman mistake that Happ says heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s working on to correct. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I mean there were a couple times when I shouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have gambled,â&#x20AC;? Happ said after the Illinois game. Next to him Hayes, smiled and shook his head while covering his eye in mock disappointment.But the defensive potential is there, according to Gard.

Happ also played baseball, and his cousin is Toronto Blue Jays pitcher J.A. Happ.

Gard said he likes Ethan Happâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hand-eye coordination and ability to â&#x20AC;&#x153;stay on balance and move and counter peopleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s attempt to pin him defensively.â&#x20AC;?

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Crunching works for Wheeler Miss. St.

BY JENNA FRYER Associated Press

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — For years, Mike Wheeler crunched numbers as Denny Hamlin’s race engineer, the No. 2 atop the pit box each week. Wheeler wanted a crew chief job, and Hamlin developed a strong enough rapport with him that he knew he one day wanted Wheeler for the position.

So Joe Gibbs Racing sent Wheeler last year to the Xfinity Series to get experience as a crew chief. It was all the training he needed, as Hamlin summoned him back this season to run the No. 11 team.

The pairing paid off with a Daytona 500 win to open their tenure together.

“It’s pretty crazy. You work your butt off all these years trying to get to this spot,” Wheeler said. “You put in the hours. You work your guts out trying to be the best, fi-

nally have the opportunity to be the crew chief, lead the team. It’s really satisfying.”

This was a match Hamlin was certain would work, even though Wheeler becomes the fourth crew chief of his career and third in three seasons.

He wanted “Wheels” all along and said last month this pairing will last the rest of his career. That vote of confidence meant a lot to Wheeler, but like Hamlin, he was already certain the two would find success.

“We’ve grown up together.

We’ve been through some battles together. We’ve had long talks and had a lot of good times together, and I think one thing we can say is you just keep working together,” Wheeler said. “It either happens or it doesn’t happen, and I’ve known for years that we just clicked and we can talk and I can pass ideas by him, and whether it

sticks or not, he’d always listen. ... I think in the long run, I know we can work together for the long haul and be successful.”

Hamlin believes he promised Wheeler the crew chief job in either 2009 or 2010, knowing that Wheeler would not be content not taking the next step in his own career. It took much longer to make it happen, but it was worth the wait.

“I knew he had aspirations to be a crew chief in the Cup Series. You can only be a great engineer for so long before other teams are going to come knocking,” Hamlin said. “Even though I probably premature promised him the job, a little soon, you know ...

I’m glad he was only gone for a year.

“There’s something about Wheels that I felt was right.

Our communication is right.

This is my guy.”

falls to Texas A&M

BY KRISTIE RIEKEN Associated Press

COLLEGE STATION, Texas — Danuel House had 16 points, including two free throws with 2.1 seconds remaining, to lift No. 21 Texas A&M to a 68-66 victory over Mississippi State on Wednesday night.

Craig Sword tied it 66-66 with a jump shot with 24 seconds left before freshman star Quinndary Weatherspoon fouled out on House’s shot attempt that led to the winning free throws.

The Bulldogs had a chance to tie it after that, but Tonny Trocha-Morelos stole the inbound pass from Travis Daniels.

Freshman Tyler Davis had 15 points for the Aggies (21-7, 10-5 Southeastern Conference), who won their third straight game following a four-game skid.

Sword led Mississippi State (12-15, 5-10) with 24 points and Weatherspoon added 14.

Committee to debate personal foul ejections

BY MICHAEL MAROT AP Sports Writer

INDIANAPOLIS — Stephen Jones believes the NFL will crack down on flagrant personal fouls next season.

He’s just not sure what it will take for a player to get thrown out of a game.

After spending most of Tuesday inside an Indianapolis hotel, Jones emerged from an NFL competition committee meeting and acknowledged he expects the debate over ejecting players for multiple personal fouls to be resolved as early as next month’s owners meetings in Boca Raton, Florida.

The debate is all about the details.

“I think it’s not really about how many, it’s what personal fouls should be included,” said Jones, the Dallas Cowboys’ executive vice president for player personnel. “There’s more to it than that (a

number).”

It’s yet another aspect of the growing concern over player safety in football.

In response, league officials have implemented stronger concussion protocols and supported moves to teach safer tackling techniques at all levels of the sport.

The competition committee, meanwhile, has recommended a series of rules changes in recent years to provide more protection on the field.

Some of the alterations have included penalties for hitting defenseless receivers, restricting the use of the crown of the helmet by offensive or defensive players, and eliminating blind-side blocks, particularly on punt or kick returns.

New concerns emerged last December when New York Giants receiver Odell Beckham Jr. was called for three personal fouls during a loss to the

Carolina Panthers. Beckham played aggressively throughout the game, but some of his penalties were so flagrant it spurred a debate whether players with more than one offense in a game should automatically be ejected — like basketball players and coaches who receive more than one technical foul, or soccer players who receive two yellow cards.

NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell said during Super Bowl week he believes two personal fouls in the same game by one player should lead to ejection, and Jones indicated there’s not much dissension on that point.

And now that everyone is in Indianapolis for the league’s annual scouting combine, which begins Wednesday, the topic is front and center.

“We’ve had preliminary discussions,” Atlanta Falcons president and committee chairman Rich

McKay said. “But it takes some amount of time to develop something like this.”

There has been no discussion of implementing an NBA-style rule based on the number of personal fouls assessed to individual players during the season because repeat offenders already receive bigger fines and more punitive actions under the current NFL system.

The NFL Players Association does not have to approve rules changes before they take effect.

League officials and the union have had some discussions about revamping the discipline process.

The other big issue for the competition committee on this year’s agenda in Indy is a retread: the definition of a catch. Over the past several years, fans, players and even coaches have argued vehemently they have had a hard time understanding the rule.

Jones said the committee has not looked at replays of Larry Fitzgerald’s reception in last season’s playoff game against Green Bay, which was upheld by a replay review, or compared it to the one Dez Bryant thought he made in the playoffs a year earlier at Green Bay. Bryant’s “catch” was overturned and ruled incomplete.

Yet Jones has seen no interest from committee members about making a change next season.

“We’ve gone over it again and I think the way we have the rule now certainly makes it a lot easier for it to be consistent with the officials,” Jones said.

“Right now, I don’t see anything changing.”

Except, of course, when it comes to the most flagrant fouls in football.

“I don’t see any closure here (in Indy),” he said.

“I do see we could come up with something out of Florida.”

Coach Holly Warlick: Unranked Lady Vols ‘still battling’

BY STEVE MEGARGEE Associated Press

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — Tennessee coach Holly Warlick believes the issues that caused the Lady Volunteers to tumble out of the Top 25 for the first time since 1985 can still be corrected.

“There has not been a towel thrown in on this court,” Warlick said. “We’re still battling. We’re still trying to correct things. We’re still getting better. That’s all we know to do — just keep working.

We’re going to continue to work like we always have.”

But they’re running out of time.

Tennessee (16-11, 7-7 SEC) has

dropped three of its last five games heading into Thursday’s matchup at Alabama (14-13, 3-11), which has lost 42 straight meetings in this series since beating the Lady Vols in the 1984 SEC Tournament. Tennessee, which already has matched a school single-season record for losses, closes the regular season Sunday by hosting Georgia (20-7, 8-6).

When Tennessee fell out of the rankings Monday to end a string of 565 consecutive weeks in the Top 25, it marked only the 10th time that a team has ever fallen out of the poll after starting the season in the top five. Tennessee was

fourth in the preseason rankings.

The Lady Vols are 24th in the RPI, so an NCAA Tournament bid remains likely. Their chances of an extended postseason run depend on whether they can stop the up-and-down nature that’s defined their season.

“We just continue to do what we’ve always done - get on the practice floor, work hard and hope that it carries over onto the basketball court,” Warlick said.

“That’s all we can do. As long as we play hard and work hard, we’ve got a shot at anything.”

The game-by-game performance of leading scorer Diamond DeShields re-

flects Tennessee’s unpredictable nature. In two of Tennessee’s three games last week, DeShields scored 21 against South Carolina and 19 against LSU. In the other game, she went scoreless and committed four turnovers against Mississippi.

So far, the most consistent thing about this team has been its inability to come through down the stretch of close games.

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It’s tough picking college basketball’s best in a wild year

BY AARON BEARD Associated Press

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — Good luck sorting out who is college basketball’s best team this season.

Six teams have held the No. 1 spot in the Top 25, one shy of the record during the 1982-83 season.

But there is still time to tie the mark. With less than three weeks to go before Selection Sunday, there is a crowd of good, but not great teams that includes Kansas, Michigan State, Oklahoma and Villanova.

But one team stands out when reviewing advanced stats and other indicators: Virginia, one of the nation’s most efficient teams at both ends of the court.

Here is a closer look at nine contenders, with stats through Sunday’s games:

(18.8 points) and Peter Jok (16.3) leads an offense ranked 11th in KenPom’s adjusted efficiency ratings (118 points per 100 possessions). No. 8 Iowa also ranks fifth nationally in assist-to-turnover ratio, according to STATS. The Hawkeyes rank lowest among this group at 37th in adjusted defensive efficiency (95.9), but they’ve beaten Michigan State twice.

“I think what you’re seeing is a team that understands how you have to compete, how you have to prepare, how you have to stay together and continue to believe in each other,” coach Fran McCaffery said last month.

(118.8) and 21st in defense (94.5) against KenPom’s fifth-toughest schedule.

And the Jayhawks rank fourth in 3-point shooting (42 percent).

They’ve also beaten Oklahoma (twice), West Virginia and Kentucky, one of this year’s No. 1s.

Maryland

Sophomore Melo Trimble leads five double-figure scorers for the 10thranked Terrapins, who rank 14th in adjusted defensive efficiency (93.6) and 12th in free-throw shooting (76 percent).

But they lack high-end wins outside of beating Iowa in KenPom’s 49thtoughest schedule. They also lost last week to a Kansas Minnesota team that was There is plenty to like 0-13 in the Big Ten. about the second-ranked Jayhawks.

Iowa Michigan State Led by senior Perry Ellis, The Hawkeyes’ 1-2 Kansas ranks sixth in adThe Spartans stumbled punch of Jarrod Uthoff justed offensive efficiency from No. 1 as Denzel Val-

entine recovered from a knee injury, but they’re rolling now.

They’re tied with North Carolina for fourth in adjusted offensive efficiency (119.4), lead the country in rebounding margin (plus11.6), rank second in assist-to-turnover ratio and third in 3-point shooting (42 percent).

The sixth-ranked Spartans have beaten Kansas, Louisville and Maryland, though their overall schedule strength ranks a group-low 53rd.

North Carolina The preseason No. 1 team scores, takes care of the basketball (third in assist-to-turnover ratio) and hits the glass (17th in rebounding margin) with possibly the nation’s deepest roster. But are the seventh-ranked Tar Heels tough enough to defend and finish?

Their five losses have

come by 17 points. That includes last week’s home loss to undermanned Duke, though they routed then-No. 11 Miami days later.

“It’s a veteran team that I keep thinking, ‘We’re going to get it, we’re going to get it a little bit better,’” coach Roy Williams said this month. “You never know with kids.”

Oklahoma The third-ranked Sooners have a strong case behind star guard Buddy Hield.

Facing KenPom’s second-toughest schedule, they’re 12th in adjusted offensive efficiency (117.9) and 17th defensively (94) while shooting a national-best 43.1 percent from 3-point range.

Oklahoma blew out Villanova in December but fell twice to Kansas and recently lost three of four before beating West Vir-

ginia last weekend.

“Oklahoma is probably the hardest personnel to guard, I think, because all of them can go get their own,” Kansas coach Bill Self said this month.

Villanova Current No. 1 Villanova and Virginia are the only teams in the top 15 of both of KenPom’s adjusted efficiency ratings. The Wildcats rank 15th offensively (116.5) and fourth defensively (91), while their guard-led lineup makes a national-best 78.1 percent of free throws.

The blemish? They lost measuring-stick nonconference games with Oklahoma and Virginia by double figures in KenPom’s No. 33-ranked schedule.

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Woods’ video rebuts rumors

BY DOUG FERGUSON Associated Press

PALM BEACH GARDENS, Fla. — Tiger Woods posted a video of him swinging a 9-iron in a golf simulator on Wednesday to shoot down rumors on social media that suggested his recovery from back surgeries had worsened to the point he could not even sit in a chair.

The 13-second video Woods posted on Twitter shows him dressed in shorts and golf shoes, and he takes a smooth swing on a golf simulator.

“Progressing nicely,” Woods wrote.

The video (http://bit. ly/1oHi2If ) had a time stamp of Wednesday.

If nothing else, it provided the first update on Woods since he spoke at the Hero World Challenge the first week of December. This was intended primarily, however, because of the social media storm that began over the weekend with a Twitter account called “Secret Tour Pro.” Mark Steinberg, Woods’ agent at Excel Sports Management, released a statement Monday that said the rumors were “ridiculous and absolutely false.”

“With everything that went on this weekend with Twitter exploding and the ridiculous and erroneous discussions — I don’t even want to call it reporting — we were inundated with fans saying: ‘Wow. How can this be true?’ Clearly, it wasn’t true,” Steinberg said Wednesday.

“If I picked up the phone and called you and said he’s doing some chipping and putting and making some swings up to a 9-iron — and that’s what the club was — is that impactful or a visual evidence of that?” he said. “We felt that was a more appro-

priate way to go.”

Woods first had a microdiscectomy a week before the 2014 Masters, which kept him out nearly three months. He took off another three months to get stronger, but then announced another back surgery in September, and a third one at the end of October.

He has not played since August. He has not won since August 2013.

The tweet Sunday from “Secret Tour Pro” — who claims to be a tour player, though it has never been verified — said that Woods’ condition had worsened since Christmas and that he has to ride in a car with the seat full reclined. The tweet also said Woods has to lay down for the majority of the time and sitting in chair is no longer possible.

Robert Lusetich, who wrote a book about Woods’ 2009 season after returning from knee surgery, tweeted similar information the next day that he attributed to his sources, and talked about it on a national radio show.

Steinberg could not say if Woods would have posted the video without the rumors.

“He does want to keep people in the loop to some degree,” he said.

Missing from the update was anything beyond “progressing nicely.” Woods said in December that he misses competing and wants to return, though he does not appear to be in any rush this time. He has said he tried to come back too early from the first back surgery.

“He’s going to learn from the past,” Steinberg said. “We don’t want to put a timetable on it. He’ll come back when he’s ready.”

Arkansas hires Rhoads as new def. backs coach Associated Press

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. — Arkansas has hired former Iowa State coach Paul Rhoads as its new defensive backs coach.

Rhoads, 49, was fired by the Cyclones in November after seven seasons at the school, compiling a 32-55 record, including 3-9 in his final season.

The position was Rhoads’ first as a head coach, following a com-

bined nine seasons as a defensive coordinator at Pittsburgh and Auburn.

While at Pittsburgh, Rhoads coached future NFL Pro Bowl selection Darrelle Revis, one of six defensive backs Rhoads has coached who have been selected in the NFL draft.

Rhoads replaces Clay Jennings, who left Arkansas for the same position at Texas last week.

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week’s AP Top 25, the Cavaliers separate themselves by doing a lot of things well.

Led by two-way star Malcom Brogdon, they’re 14th in adjusted offensive efficiency (117.3) and sixth defensively (92).

They’re the only team from this group in the top 20 of those categories along with 3-point shooting (41 percent), free-throw shooting (75 percent) and assist-toturnover ratio, too.

The Cavs also beat Villanova and West Virginia in KenPom’s 11th-toughest schedule. Their only losses in the past month have come at Duke and Monday at Miami by a combined four points.

“Every single game we want to take a step forward because we

know it’s getting closer to March . and we want to start playing our best ball,” junior London Perrantes said last week.

“And I feel like we’re starting to get into that stride.”

Xavier Fifth-ranked Xavier ranks in the top 25 of KenPom’s adjusted offensive (114.3) and defensive (94.1) efficiency rankings. The Musketeers are also 14th in rebounding margin.

But they’ve played KenPom’s 48th-toughest schedule. They have one win against an RPI Top 25 team to tie Villanova for fewest in this group — and the Wildcats’ win came by 31 against the Musketeers. Their rematch was Wednesday.

Auto racing NASCAR schedule SPRINT CUP FOLDS OF HONOR QUIKTRIP 500 Site: Hampton, Georgia.

Schedule: Friday, practice (Fox Sports 1, 10-11:30 a.m.), qualifying (Fox Sports 1, 4:30-6 p.m.); Saturday, practice (Fox Sports 1, 10:30 a.m.-noon); Sunday, race, Noon (Fox, 11:30 a.m.-4 p.m.).

Track: Atlanta Motor Speedway (trioval, 1.54 miles).

Race distance: 500.5 miles, 325 laps.

Last year: Jimmie Johnson raced to the first of his five 2015 victories, pulling away after a late restart.

Last week: Denny Hamlin won the season-opening Daytona 500, beating Martin Truex Jr. by 0.010 seconds in the closest finish in the history of the race. Hamlin gave Joe Gibbs Racing its first Daytona 500 victory since 1993, and Toyota its first ever.

Fast facts: Ty Dillon is driving StewartHaas Racing’s No. 14 Chevrolet in place of the injured Tony Stewart. Retiring at the end of the season, Stewart fractured his back in an accident on an all-terrain vehicle. Brian Vickers was 26th subbing for Stewart at Daytona. Vickers will return to the car next week in Las Vegas. ... The track had two races a year from its opening in 1960 to 2010. Speedway Motorsports Inc. shifted one of the races to Kentucky Speedway.

Next race: Kobalt 400, March 6, Las Vegas Motor Speedway, Las Vegas.

Online: http://www.nascar.com XFINITY HEADS UP GEORGIA 250 Site: Hampton, Georgia.

Schedule: Friday, practice (Fox Sports 1, 8-9 a.m., 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m., 1:30-3 p.m.); Saturday, qualifying (Fox Sports 1, 7:30-9 a.m.), race, 12:30 a.m.

(Fox Sports 1, Noon-3 p.m.).

Track: Atlanta Motor Speedway (trioval, 1.54 miles).

Race distance: 251.02 miles, 163 laps.

Last year: Kevin Harvick won at the track for the third straight year and fourth time overall.

Last week: Chase Elliott won the opener at Daytona.

Fast facts: Kyle Busch is making his first start of the season in Joe Gibbs Racing’s No. 18 Toyota. Busch has a seriesrecord 76 victories. ... Harvick is driving Hendrick Motorsports’ No. 18 Chevrolet. ... The season champion will be decided in a seven-race, 12-driver Chase format.

Next race: Boyd Gaming 300, March 5, Las Vegas Motor Speedway, Las Vegas.

CAMPING WORLD TRUCK GEORGIA 200 Site: Hampton, Georgia.

Schedule: Friday, practice (Fox Sports 1, 9-11 a.m., 12:30-1:30 p.m., 3-4:30 p.m.); Saturday, qualifying (Fox Sports 1, 9-10:30 a.m.), race, 3:30 p.m. (Fox Sports 1, 3-5:30 p.m.).

Track: Atlanta Motor Speedway (trioval, 1.54 miles).

Race distance: 200.2 miles, 130 laps.

Last year: Matt Crafton raced to the first of his six 2015 victories.

Last week: Johnny Sauter won the crash-filled opener at Daytona.

Fast facts: Rico Abreu was 29th after a late wreck at Daytona in his series debut

in ThorSport Racing’s No. 98 Toyota. The 4-foot-4 Abreu was born with achondroplasia, a form of short-limbed dwarfism. ... The season champion will be decided in a seven-race, eight-driver Chase format.

Next race: Alpha Energy Solutions 250, April 2, Martinsville Speedway, Martinsville, Virginia.

Baseball Spring Training Schedule Monday Florida Southern vs. Detroit at Lakeland, Fla., 12:05 p.m.

Northeastern vs. Boston at Fort Myers, Fla., 12:05 p.m.

Boston College vs. Boston at Fort Myers, Fla., 12:05 p.m.

Tuesday Baltimore vs. Atlanta at Kissimmee, Fla., 12:05 p.m.

Pittsburgh vs. Detroit at Lakeland, Fla., 12:05 p.m.

Toronto vs. Philadelphia at Clearwater, Fla., 12:05 p.m.

Cincinnati vs. Cleveland at Goodyear, Ariz., 2:05 p.m.

U. of Arizona vs. Arizona at Scottsdale, Ariz., 4:10 p.m.

Thursday, February 25, 2016

Phoenix L.A. Lakers

14 43 .246 37 11 47 .190 40½ Tuesday’s Games Orlando 124, Philadelphia 115 Washington 109, New Orleans 89 Sacramento 114, Denver 110 Utah 117, Houston 114, OT Portland 112, Brooklyn 104 Wednesday’s Games Charlotte at Cleveland New York at Indiana Minnesota at Toronto Golden State at Miami Philadelphia at Detroit Washington at Chicago L.A. Lakers at Memphis Oklahoma City at Dallas San Antonio at Sacramento Denver at L.A. Clippers Today’s Games Golden State at Orlando, 6 p.m.

Milwaukee at Boston, 6:30 p.m.

Oklahoma City at New Orleans, 7 p.m.

Brooklyn at Phoenix, 8 p.m.

Houston at Portland, 9:30 p.m.

San Antonio at Utah, 9:30 p.m.

Friday’s Games Charlotte at Indiana, 6 p.m.

Washington at Philadelphia, 6 p.m.

Cleveland at Toronto, 6:30 p.m.

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

Chicago at Atlanta, 7 p.m.

Denver at Dallas, 7:30 p.m.

L.A. Clippers at Sacramento, 9 p.m.

Memphis at L.A. Lakers, 9:30 p.m.

Hockey Basketball NBA standings EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division W L Pct Toronto 37 18 .673 Boston 33 25 .569 New York 24 34 .414 Brooklyn 15 42 .263 Philadelphia 8 48 .143 Southeast Division W L Pct Miami 32 24 .571 Atlanta 31 27 .534 Charlotte 29 26 .527 Washington 26 29 .473 Orlando 25 30 .455 Central Division W L Pct Cleveland 40 15 .727 Indiana 30 26 .536 Chicago 29 26 .527 Detroit 28 29 .491 Milwaukee 24 33 .421 WESTERN CONFERENCE Southwest Division W L Pct San Antonio 47 9 .839 Memphis 32 23 .582 Dallas 30 27 .526 Houston 28 29 .491 New Orleans 22 34 .393 Northwest Division W L Pct Oklahoma City 40 16 .714 Portland 30 27 .526 Utah 28 28 .500 Denver 22 35 .386 Minnesota 18 39 .316 Pacific Division W L Pct Golden State 50 5 .909 L.A. Clippers 37 19 .661 Sacramento 24 31 .436

GB — 5½ 14½ 23 29½ GB — 2 2½ 5½ 6½ GB — 10½ 11 13 17 GB — 14½ 17½ 19½ 25 GB — 10½ 12 18½ 22½ GB — 13½ 26

Tuesday’s Games Detroit 2, Columbus 1, SO New Jersey 5, N.Y. Rangers 2 Carolina 3, Philadelphia 1 Nashville 3, Toronto 2 Tampa Bay 2, Arizona 1 N.Y. Islanders 4, Minnesota 1 Dallas 5, Winnipeg 3 Ottawa 4, Edmonton 1 Los Angeles 2, Calgary 1 Wednesday’s Games Montreal at Washington Pittsburgh at Boston San Jose at Colorado Buffalo at Anaheim Today’s Games Minnesota at Philadelphia, 6 p.m.

New Jersey at Columbus, 6 p.m.

Carolina at Toronto, 6:30 p.m.

Arizona at Florida, 6:30 p.m.

N.Y. Rangers at St. Louis, 7 p.m.

Nashville at Chicago, 7 p.m.

Winnipeg at Dallas, 7:30 p.m.

N.Y. Islanders at Calgary, 8 p.m.

Ottawa at Vancouver, 9 p.m.

Edmonton at Los Angeles, 9:30 p.m.

Friday’s Games Tampa Bay at New Jersey, 6 p.m.

Minnesota at Washington, 6 p.m.

Boston at Carolina, 6 p.m.

Edmonton at Anaheim, 9 p.m.

Buffalo at San Jose, 9:30 p.m.

Transactions Wednesday’s deals BASEBALL National League LOS ANGELES DODGERS — Agreed to terms with RHP Jamey Wright on a minor league contract.

BASKETBALL National Basketball Association DETROIT PISTONS — Signed F Justin

Harper to a 10-day contract.

HOCKEY National Hockey League MINNESOTA WILD — Placed F Jason Zucker on injured reserve. Recalled F Jordan Schroeder from Iowa (AHL).

NEW YORK RANGERS — Assigned D Brady Skjei to Hartford (AHL).

OTTAWA SENATORS — Signed D Chris Wideman to a two-year contract extension.

COLLEGE FLORIDA STATE — Agreed to terms with men’s basketball coach Leonard Hamilton on a contract extension through the 2018-19 season.

FORDHAM — Named Joe Davis pass game coordinator/quarterbacks coach.

NEBRASKA — Named John Parrella defensive line coach.

OKLAHOMA — Named Calvin Thibodeaux defensive line coach.

UNLV — Named Tony Samuel defensive line coach.

VANDERBILT — Named Osia Lewis senior defensive assistant, outside linebackers coach.

YALE — Announced men’s junior basketball G Jack Montague will not return to the team.

Television Today’s lineup COLLEGE BASKETBALL 6 p.m. — BTN Northwestern at Michigan 6 p.m. — ESPN2 Mississippi St. at Texas A&M 6 p.m. — ESPNU Houston at UCF 6 p.m. — FS1 Villanova at Xavier 7 p.m. — SEC Georgia at Auburn 7 p.m. — CBSSN Marquette at Creighton 7 p.m. — ESPNEWS East Carolina at Tulane 8 p.m. — BTN Wisconsin at Iowa 8 p.m. — ESPN2 Arizona at Colorado 8 p.m. — ESPNU Oklahoma St. at Oklahoma 8 p.m. — SEC Tennessee at South Carolina 9 p.m. — CBSSN San Diego St. at Wyoming 10 p.m. — ESPNU Washington at Oregon St. DIVING 10 a.m. — NBCSN FINA Championships, Men’s 10 meters, at Rio de Janeiro GOLF Noon — GOLF LPGA Tour, Honda Thailand, first round, at Chonburi, Thailand NBA BASKETBALL 7 p.m. — ESPN Washington at Chicago 9:30 p.m. — ESPN San Antonio at Sacramento NHL HOCKEY 6:30 p.m. — NBCSN Pittsburgh at Boston 9 p.m. — NBCSN San Jose at Colorado SOCCER 1:30 p.m. — FS1 UEFA Champions League, Manchester City at Dynamo Kyiv 1:30 p.m. — FS2 UEFA Champions League, Atletico Madrid at PSV Eindhoven 7 p.m. — FS2 CONCACAF Champions League, Real Salt Lake at Tigres UANL 9 p.m. — FS1 CONCACAF Champions League, Santos Laguna at L.A. Galaxy

Kubiak: No rush for Manning decision

BY ARNIE STAPLETON AP Pro Football Writer

Denver coach Gary Kubiak says he’s been in contact with Peyton Manning but isn’t pressuring him for a decision about his future. He also made it clear he wants Brock Osweiler back under center for the Broncos next season.

Fifth-year backup Osweiler went 5-2 when Manning was hurt last season and is set to become a free agent next month.

Osweiler led the Broncos to crucial comeback wins over New England and Cincinnati that helped set up Denver for its run to Super Bowl 50, where the

Broncos beat the Carolina Panthers 24-10 thanks to a defense that produced four takeaways and seven sacks.

Manning started all of Denver’s playoff games after winning his starting job back with a comeback against the Chargers in the regular season finale.

In comments at the league’s annual scouting combine in Indianapolis on Wednesday, Kubiak echoed GM John Elway’s stance that the Broncos will continue to give Manning all the time he needs to announce his plans.

It’s widely expected, however, that Manning will forego the final season

on his contract and retire a champion. He turns 40 next month and has been bothered by injuries each of the last two seasons.

“There is no hurry here,” Kubiak said.

But there is a deadline.

Manning’s $19 million salary for 2016 would become guaranteed March 9, and the Broncos cannot afford to pay two quarterbacks starter’s money.

Manning would face the possibility of being cut by the Broncos if he decides against retiring.

Kubiak said Elway and Manning “have had some conversations. I had a brief one with him yesterday. We will be talking

probably today or I know this week. We want him to take his time and we’ll work from there. Nothing has changed.”

Kubiak said Osweiler has a bright future — and he hopes that’s in Denver.

“He did a heck of a job for us. He started seven games for us. He played against some really good people in some tough situations. He played very well. I think he has a bright future,” Kubiak said. “Obviously we think the world of him. We want him to be a part of our football team.”

Elway meets with the media at the combine on Thursday.

Despite offseason deals, Phillips back for 11th year

BY GARY SCHATZ Associated Press

GOODYEAR, Ariz. — Brandon Phillips was traded twice this offseason but is back with the Reds for the 11th season.

Reds President of Baseball Operations Walt Jocketty says the Reds had deals with the Arizona Diamondbacks and the Washington Nationals for Phillips, but the second baseman blocked the deals.

Phillips, who turns 35 on June 28, is the longesttenured Reds player on a team that is trying to rebuild and acquired Jose Peraza from the Los Angeles Dodgers specifically to replace Phillips.

Phillips can refuse all trades because he’s played

10 years in the majors and at least five seasons with the Reds. But he refused to acknowledge the deals even when told Jocketty went on record about the moves.

“If that’s what he said, that’s what he said,” Phillips said. “I can’t really go off what people say. I only know what I really do. I know what the Aces, I’m represented by them, told me. I’m happy to be representing (Cincinnati), I play for the fans and I play for my family.”

Aces is the agency owned by brothers Sam and Seth Levinson, which represents several dozen players including Jonathan Papelbon, Dustin Pedroia and David Wright.

Phillips, a four-time

Gold Glove winner, had a bounce-back year in 2015 after being limited to 121 games in 2014. Phillips hit .294 in 148 games with 19 home runs and another solid season fielding.

“The only thing I know is I’m still playing for the Reds. I’m happy to be here. Whatever you all heard, that’s what you all really hear. I can’t really speak on many things,” Phillips said.

A trade to Washington would put Phillips on a contender and reunited him with Dusty Baker, who managed the Reds for five seasons.

Phillips said he doesn’t like that fans and observers think Cincinnati is likely to finish at the bottom of the NL Central.

“What we can do is go out there and prove people wrong. I don’t believe in the word rebuild and telling the city we’re not going to win,” he said. “Every major leaguer comes to spring training to try to win and try to get to the World Series. That’s what our mission is to really do, no matter how young and how sorry people think we’re going to really be.”

Phillips said he is willing to help young players — even those, like Peraza, poised to take his place.

“I’m an open book,” Phillips said. “If you ask me a question, I’m going to tell you how it is.

You might not like what I say but I’m a realist. Of course, I’m here to help out as much as I can.”

loss to an LSU team that entered the game with an 8-18 record.

Tennessee went 2 of 6 from the foul line in the last 15 seconds.

The Lady Vols were clinging to a one-point lead when they committed a foul about 80 feet from the basket, allowing LSU to make the winning free throws with 3.4 sec-

onds left.

Their inability to make shots and take care of the ball has proved costly in close games.

Tennessee is on pace for its lowest scoring average (65.6) and fieldgoal percentage (.411) since former coach Pat Summitt took over the program in 1974.

The Lady Vols rank

13th out of 14 SEC teams in 3-point percentage (.263).

“It may be mental,” Warlick said of Tennessee’s struggles in the final minutes of close games. “I think we just continue to work on it in practice. We’ve just got to keep getting better.

We’ve got to keep putting them in situations, and just hopefully they get it.”

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at Mississippi State and Texas A&M. Last week, Tennessee squandered a nine-point, fourth-quarter lead against Ole Miss before rallying to beat the SEC’s current last-place team.

Arguably the low point of Tennessee’s season came Sunday in a 57-56

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NOW, THEREFORE, notice is hereby given that I, the undersigned substituted trustee, on February 26, 2016, at the front doors of the county courthouse of Alcorn County, Mississippi, in the City of Corinth, Mississippi, within legal hours for such sale, will offer for sale and sell at public outcry to the highest bidder for cash the said property conveyed to me by said deed of trust described as follows: Situated in the County of Alcorn, State of Mississippi, towit: Part of Block 513 of Walkerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Addition to the City of Corinth, Alcorn County, Mississippi, described as follows:

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State laws forbid dis- Clayton O'Donnell, PLLC crimination in the sale, P.O. Box 1613 rental, or advertising of Corinth, MS 38835 real estate based on 662-396-4808 factors in addition to those protected under 15187 federal law. We will not knowingly accept any advertising for real esIN THE CHANCERY tate which is in violaCOURT OF ALCORN tion of the law. All perCOUNTY, MISSISSIPPI sons are hereby informed that all dwellings advertised are available on an equal IN THE MATTER OF THE opportunity basis.

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WHEREAS, on May 29, 2012, Jesse L. Arnold and wife, Lisa Arnold executed and delivered to Keith Frazier as trustee, a deed of trust on the property hereinafter described to secure payment of an indebtedness therein mentioned owing to Family Financial Services, Inc., Corinth, Mississippi, beneficiary, which deed of trust is recorded in the office of the Chancery Clerk of Alcorn County, Mississippi, as Instrument Number 201202631; and WHEREAS, Family Financial Services, Inc., legal holder and owner of said deed of trust and the indebtedness secured thereby substituted William H. Davis, Jr. as trustee by instrument dated February 2, 2016, and recorded as Instrument Number 201600459, of the land records of Alcorn County, Mississippi; and

You have been made a Defendant in the suit filed in this Court by Bobby Michael and wife, Bethany Michael and Amanda Michael, Petitioners, seeking termination of parental rights and adoption or other relief demanded. Defendants other than you in this action are Rebecca Lauderdale and Mississippi State Board of Health, Vital Records. Daniel Perez is a non-resident of this State and not to be found herein after diligent search and inquiry, and the post office address of said Defendant is not known, and whose last known address is unknown.

You are required to mail or hand-deliver a copy of a written response to the Petition filed against you in this action to Lisa A. Koon, whose post office address is Post Office Box 1109, Iuka, MS 38852, and whose street address is 1231 First American Drive, Iuka, MS 38852.

YOUR RESPONSE MUST BE MAILED OR DELIVERED NOT LATER THAN THIRTY DAYS AFTER THE 11th DAY OF FEBRUARY, 2016, WHICH IS THE DATE OF THE FIRST PUBLICATION OF THIS SUMMONS. IF YOUR RESPONSE IS NOT SO MAILED OR DELIVERED, A JUDGMENT BY DEFAULT WILL BE ENTERED AGAINST YOU FOR THE RELIEF DEMANDED IN THE COMPLAINT. You must also file the original of your Response with the Clerk of this Court within a reasonable time afterward.

Issued under my hand and the seal of said Court, this the 1st day of February, 2016

Greg Younger WHEREAS, said indebted- Chancery Clerk of Alcorn ness has matured in its en- County tirety and is now past due, Post Office Box 69

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Post Office Box 69 Corinth, MS 38835 By: Karen Duncan, D.C. Lisa A. Koon P.O. Box 1109 Iuka, MS 38852 662-423-1006 15193

You are required to mail or hand-deliver a copy of a written response to the Petition filed against you in this action to Lisa A. Koon, whose post office address is Post Office Box 1109, Iuka, MS 38852, and whose street address is 1231 First American Drive, Iuka, MS 38852.

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YOUR RESPONSE IN THE CHANCERY MUST BE MAILED OR COURT OF ALCORN DELIVERED NOT COUNTY, MISSISSIPPI LATER THAN THIRTY DAYS AFTER THE 11TH DAY OF FEBRUIN THE MATTER OF ARY, 2016, WHICH IS THE PETITION FOR THE DATE OF THE ADOPTION OF THE FIRST PUBLICATION MINOR OF THIS SUMMONS. CHILD, MM IF YOUR RESPONSE IS NOT SO MAILED OR CAUSE NO. CV2016DELIVERED, A JUDG00075-02-TKM MENT BY DEFAULT WILL BE ENTERED BOBBY MICHAEL AND AGAINST YOU FOR WIFE, BETHANY MITHE RELIEF DEMANCHAEL AND AMAND E D I N T H E C O M - All bidders should use the bid DA MICHAEL PLAINT. form that has been approved by the Board of Supervisors.

PETITIONERS You must also file the original of your Response with Done by order of the Board v. the Clerk of this Court with- of Supervisors of Alcorn in a reasonable time after- County, Mississippi on the JUAN DIAZ, REBECCA ward.

16th day of February 2016.

LAUDERDALE AND MISSISSIPPI STATE Issued under my hand and Jimmy Tate Waldon, DEPT. OF the seal of said Court, this the President HEALTH, VITAL RE1st day of February, 2016.

Board of Supervisors CORDS 2tc 2/18, 2/25/2016

RESPONDENTS

Greg Younger, Chancery Court Clerk 15203 SUMMONS Alcorn County, Mississippi Post Office Box 69 Corinth, MS 38835 THE STATE OF MISBy: Karen Duncan, D.C. SISSIPPI TO: Juan Diaz You have been made a Defendant in the suit filed in this Court by Bobby Michael and wife, Bethany Michael and Amanda Michael, Petitioners, seeking termination of parental rights and adoption or other relief demanded. Defendants other than you in this action are Rebecca Lauderdale and Mississippi State Department of Health, Vital Records.

Juan Diaz is a non-resident of this State and not to be found herein after diligent search and inquiry, and the post office address of said Defendant is not known, and whose last known address is unknown.

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its to the county roads and Public Notice location of work can be arMississippi Environmental ranged by contacting Greg Quality Permit Board Younger, Alcorn County Pur P. O. Box 2261 chase Clerk, at 662-286-7708.

Jackson, MS 39225 All bids received should be by the ton which shall include all Telephone No. (601) 9615171 maintenance of traffic, mobilization and any other incidental work required to comPublic Notice Start Date: Febplete the job. ruary 29, 2016 Sealed bids should be filed with the Purchase Clerk on M D E Q C o n t a c t : B e c k y or before such time. The N e s t e r Board reserves the right to CFH Holdings LLC, located at reject any and all bids.

740 Hwy 45, in Corinth, MS, The bid form and specifica- (662) 801-5644, has applied tion to be used by the bidder to the Mississippi Departto submit his bid has been ap- ment of Environmental Qualproved and is on file in the ity for the following permitBoard of Supervisors Office ting actions: Reissuance of of Alcorn County, Mississippi. N P D E S P e r m i t N o .

A copy of the bid form and MS0059749 and State Operspecifications may be secured ating Permit No. MSU040023. from the office during regular The applicant's operations fall within SIC Code 7261. business hours.

The application details the operation of a funeral home with preparatory and embalming operations. The building will include living quarters in addition to the usual offices, meeting rooms, Chapel, bathrooms, etc., for the funeral operations. Permit No. MS0059749 is a direct discharge permit for treated domestic wastewater only. Treated domestic wastewater will discharge at a maximum rate of 1000 gallons per day from an underground ATU to an unnamed

0955 LEGALS and resulting recommenda tion to the Permit Board. The draft permit conditions have been developed to ensure compliance with all State and Federal regulations but are subject to change based on information received as a result of public participation.

A Statement of Basis has been prepared that contains a discussion of the decision-making that went into the development of the permit and provides the permitting authority, the public, and other government bodies a record of the technical issues surrounding issuance of the permit. The Statement of Basis also addresses any changes to emissions and/or discharges resulting from any modification of the facility.

Persons wishing to comment upon or object to the proposed determinations are invited to submit comments in writing to Mrs. Becky Nester at the Permit Board's address shown above, no later than the end of the thirty (30) day public notice. All comments received by this date will be considered in the formulation of final determinations regarding the application(s).

A public hearing will be held if the Permit Board finds a significant degree of public interest in the proposed permit(s). Persons wishing to request a public hearing may do so by submitting that request in writing to Mrs. Becky Nester or the Chief of the Environmental Permits Division at the address shown above. The Permit Board is limited in the scope of its analysis to environmental impact.

Any comments relative to zoning or economic and social impacts are within the jurisdiction of local zoning and planning authorities and should be addressed to them.

The staff of the Permit Board has developed this draft permit based on information submitted to the Permit Board by the applicant, appropriate State and Federal agencies and other interested parties.

The staff of the Permit Board is soliciting all relative information pertaining to the proposed activity, including public comment, to ensure that the final staff recommendation on the draft permit complies with all State and Federal regulations. Public review and comment on the draft permit and supporting documentation is an important element in the staff evaluation and resulting recommenda-

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Lisa A Koon P.O. Box 1109 Iuka, MS 38852 662-423-1006 3tc 2/11, 2/18, 2/25/2016 15194

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Friday, February 26th

Invitation for Bids Notice is hereby given that the Board of Supervisors of Alcorn County will receive sealed bids until 9:00 a.m. on the 7th day of March 2016 in the Board Room of Alcorn County Board of Supervisors Building located at 305 South Fulton Drive, Corinth, Mississippi for spot patching and leveling with hot mix asphalt on various county roads. Visits to the county roads and

1:00 - 4:00pm at Caterpillar Logistics Facility 2732 South Harper Road, Corinth, MS

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Additional details about the application(s), including a copy of the draft permit(s), are available by writing or calling Mr. Lorenzo Boddie at the above Permit Board address and telephone number.

Additionally, as a courtesy, for those with Internet access, a copy of the draft permit(s) may be found on the Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality’s website at:http://opc.deq.state.ms.us/p ublicnotice.aspx . This information is also available for review at the following location(s) during normal business hours: Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality Office of Pollution Control 515 E. Amite St Jackson, MS 39201 Corinth Public Library 1023 Fillmore Street Corinth, MS 38834

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AMENITIES AVAILABLE • New Completely Renovated Units • Playgrounds & Walking Tracks • Utilities may be furnished in some areas • Laundromat on site • On-Site Security

PART-TIME

Forklift Operators Warehouse Workers

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The Daily Corinthian 1607 South Harper Road Corinth, MS

ALL SHIFTS AVAILABLE in Corinth/Booneville!

Experience preferred. Training is available.

Must be willing to submit to drug screen and criminal background check.

“The D aily C orinthian is an equal opportunity em ployer and does not discrim inate on the basis of race, religion, color, sex, age, national origin, or disability.”

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• Washer/Dryer Hookups • Appliances Furnished • Central Heat and Air

AND MORE! TELEPHONE: (662) 286-3098 MON–FRI 7:30AM UNTIL 4PM

Apply In Person at 223 Hickory Terrace Corinth, MS

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Pace Utility Tandem Trailer.

REDUCED Sportsman Camper Queen Bed, Couch sleeps 2, lots of cabinets, pulled 6 times, non-smoker, clean as new on the inside.

$9,500.00 $8500.00 287-3461 or 396-1678

(Enclosed) 6x12, Wired, A/C, Custom detailed/paint, inlayed equipment brackets, windows/shades and awning Drop down loading door and mounted Alum tool box.

Custom Wheels like new!

Perfect for camping.

Includes 2 twin electric air mattresses and port-a-potty.

Serious inquiries only.

No Calls after 6PM. Corinth.

$6500.00

662-284-4604

SOLD 2011 AR-ONE Star Craft, 14ft. Fridge/AC, Stove, Microwave, Full bath, immaculate condition. Refinance or payoff (prox. $5300) @ Trustmark, payments $198.

Excellent starter for small family.

284-0138

2006 SPRINGDALE

by KEYSTONE pull camper with slideout. Can sleep up to 10 with 2 bedrooms.

29’ long. Great condition & new tires. Ready to go.

‘07 Dolphin LX RV, 37’ REDUCED 2006 WILDERNESS CAMPER 29 FT.

SOLD

5TH WHEEL LARGE SLIDE OUT FULLY EQUIPPED $7000.00 Joe Roberts 662-415-5450

NON-SMOKING OWNER IUKA

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.

CED REDU $65,000 662-415-0590

CALL 662-423-1727

2005 AIRSTREAM LAND YACHT

Excaliber made

by Georgi Boy 1985 30’ long motor home, new tires, Price negotiable.

30 ft., with slide out & built-in TV antenna, 2 TV’s, 7400 miles.

$75,000.

662-287-7734

662-660-3433

470 TRACTORS/FARM EQUIP.

1990 Allegro Motor Home

SOLD

Excellent Condition Brand New Refrigerator New Tires & Hot Water Heater. Sleeps Six 7,900 ACTUAL MILES $12,500. OBO Must See!!

Call 662-665-1420

30' MOTOR HOME 1988 FORD 2003 CHEROKEE 285 SLEEPS 8 EXCELLENT CONDITION EVERYTHING WORKS 5TH WHEEL W/GOOSE NECK ADAPTER CENTRAL HEAT & AIR ALL NEW TIRES & NEW ELECTRIC JACK ON TRAILER

$8995 Call Richard 662-664-4927

LD SOMILES 51,000 SLEEPS 6

$4300 662-415-5247

WINNEBAGO JOURNEY CLASS A , RV 2000 MODEL 34.9 FT. LONG 50 AMP HOOKUP CUMMINS DIESEL FREIGHTLINER CHASSIS LARGE SLIDE OUT ONAN QUIET GENERATOR VERY WELL KEPT. ,500.

662-728-2628

GOOD CONDITION

WINNEBAGO MOTOR HOME 1989 40' Queen Size Bed 1 Bath Sleeps 6-7 people comfortably

$2,000.00

$8500

662-287-8894

662-808-9313

24 FT BONANZA TRAILER GOOSE NECK

JOHN DEERE 3020 DIESEL Looks and runs GOOD. Same owner past 20 yrs. $4,500.00 CALL 731-610-3172

SOLD

Older Model Ford Tractor with 2 Row Equipment. $6000.00 662-286-6571 662-286-3924

COMMERCIAL

8N FORD TRACTOR GOOD CONDITION $2500.00 287-8456

KUBOTA 2001

FOR SALE JOHN DEERE TRACTORS SPRING SPECIAL 662-415-0399 662-419-1587

2009 TT45A New Holland Tractor 335 Hours 8 x 2 Speed, non-Synchro Mesh Transmission. Roll over protective structure, hydrolic power lift. Like New Condition, owner deceased, Kossuth Area. $10,000- 662-424-3701

5700 HP GOOD CONDITION OWNER RETIRING $10,000.00 731-453-5521

601 FORD WORKMASTER

SOLD EXCELLENT CONDITION

$3,500 731-453-5239 731-645-8339

W & W HORSE OR CATTLE TRAILER ALL ALUMINUM LIKE NEW $7000.

731-453-5239 731-645-8339

1956 FORD 600 5 SPEED POWER STEERING REMOTE HYDRAULICS GOOD TIRES GOOD CONDITION

Hyster Forklift Narrow Aisle 24 Volt Battery 3650.00 287-1464

$4,200 662-287-4514

804 BOATS

53' STEP DECK TRAILER

Baker Propane Forklift 4000 LB Lift $2000.00 662-279-7011

CUSTOM BUILT TO HAUL 3 CREW CAB 1 TON TRUCKS.

662-287-1464 Loweline Boat 14’ flat bottom boat. Includes trailer, motor and all.

Call

Big Boy Forklift $

1250

Great for a small warehouse

662-287-1464

Toyota Forklift

BOOMS, CHAINS & LOTS OF ACCESSORIES

5,000 lbs Good Condition

$10,000/OBO

662-287-1464

CALL 662-603-1547

ASKING $7500.00 Or Make Me An Offer CALL 662-427-9591 Call (662)427-9591 or Cell phone (662)212-4946 Built by Scully’s Aluminum Boats of Louisiana.

1989 FOXCRAFT

18’ long, 120 HP Johnson mtr., trailer & mtr., new paint, new transel, 2 live wells, hot foot control.

662-415-9461

$6500.

or

662-596-5053

662-554-5503

BUILT-IN RAMPS & 3' PULL OUTS @ FRONT & REAR.

Clark Forklift 8,000 lbs, outside tires Good Condition $15,000

ALUMINUM BOAT FOR SALE 16FT./5FT. 115 HP. EVINRUDE. NEW TROLLING MOTOR TRAILER NEWLY REWIRED ALL TIRES NEW NEW WINCH

2000 MERCURY Optimax, 225 H.P. Imagine owning a likenew, water tested, never launched, powerhouse outboard motor with a High Five stainless prop,

for only $7995.

Call John Bond of Paul Seaton Boat Sales in Counce, TN for details.

731-689-4050 or 901-605-6571

16 1/2 FT. 2000 POLAR KRAFT ALUMINUM BOAT with a 40 HP Nissan P.L.U.S. Motor • • • • • • • •

SOLD

Camouflage seats Front and rear lights Trolling motor Live well Tackle box Eagle depth fi nder 10 gallon fuel tank AM/FM Radio

Asking $4,100.00

662-284-5901

DECK BOAT BAYLINER CLASSIC 15 FT Grumman Flat Bottom Boat 25 HP Motor $2700.00 Ask for Brad: 284-4826

SOLD

1995 15’ Aluminum Boat, Outboard Motor, Trolling Mtr., New Rod Holder, New Electric Anchor $2550.00 462-3373

2012 Lowe Pontoon 90 H.P. Mercury w/ Trailer Still under warranty.

Includes HUGE tube $19,300 662-427-9063

SOLD

14 Ft. Aluminum Boat & Trailer, 25 HP Johnson Motor.

New Battery $2000.

REDUCED Call for More Info: 662-286-8455

1985 Hurricane-150 Johnson engine Includes Custom Trailer Dual Axel-Chrome Retractable Canopy $4500.00

662-419-1587

BOAT & TRAILER 13 YR OLD M14763BC BCMS 19.5 LONG BLUE & WHITE REASONABLY PRICED 662-660-3433

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Telephone: 662-286-9946 Fax: 662-286-2713

810 S. Parkway

662.594.1023

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VEHICLE DIRECTORY

CED REDU 2009 Pontiac G6

Super Nice, Really Clean, Oil changed regularly, Good cold air and has good tires. 160k

Asking $5400. OBO CALL/TEXT DANIEL @ 662-319-7145

2004 Hummer H2 134,514 miles

$13,900 OBO

Just serviced and ready for the road.

Call @

662-664-0210

2006 Jeep Liberty New Tires 100K Miles Never BeeWrecked

Blizzard White, Tan Leather Interior, Fully Loaded, 66K miles,

$19,500 Excellent Condition Call:731-610-6153

2012 Jeep Wrangler 4WD 00 Miles, Red Garage Kept, it has been babied.

All maintenance records available.

Call or Text:

662-594-5830

OLD SWell

2007 Taurus Maintained $3,500.

662-322-5623

1997 Mustang GT

SOLD

Black Like new on the inside and out.

Runs Great, good tires, 114K miles

$

4,000.00 $3,900.00 662-664-0357 2003 Mustang GT SVT Cobra Clone Tuned 4.6 Engine 5 Speed Lowered 4:10 Gears All Power & Air $6500.

662-415-0149

2012 Subaru Legacy $10,900 $9,500 Excellent condition, One owner, Must sell!

Call 662-284-8365

For Sale or Trade 1978 Mercedes 6.9 Motor 135,000 miles.

Only made 450 that year. $2,500. OBO Selling due to health reasons.

Harry Dixon 286-6359

2010 Chevy Equinox LS 1996 Dodge Dakota

130K Miles, Fully Loaded GREAT Condition!

$10,500 662-415-8343 or 415-7205

6 cyl., 5 speed Convertible Leather Seats All Original Electric Windows & Seats 88,000 miles

$5900.00 OBO $8200 OBO $10,000.00 OBO 662-664-0357 212-4882

Automobile for sale

2011 TOYOTA AVALON

1998 PORSCHE BOXSTER

One Owner, Bought New in Booneville, MS. 139,000 miles, Xtra Cab, Leer Bed liner with cover, Back seat has storage under the seat.

318 Magnum Engine.

1989 Mercedes Benz 300 CE 145K miles, Rear bucket seats, Champagne color, Excellent Condition.

Diligently maintained. $4000.00 $5000.00 662-415-2657

2004 Cadillac Seville SLS Loaded, leather, sunroof, chrome wheels.

89,000 Miles $5500. $5,000 Call 662-603-1290

2006 SATURN ION Low miles $4,500.

662-322-5623

662-808-9313 662-415-5071

Cargo Van

$2700

662.415.1173

1976 F115 428 Motor

662-462-7790

Call

662-672-0222 662-750-1949

662-287-4848

$3,500.

Good, Sound Van

$2800.00

HO, 5 Speed, Convertible, Mileage 7500 !!

Second owner Last year of carburetor, All original. $16,500

Very Fast

Great Condition.

$ , 00.00

SOLD

$11,900 OBO

95â&#x20AC;&#x2122; ED CHEVY C U D RE ASTRO 2012 Yamaha 230 Dirt Bike

Limited Edition Chrome Wheels, Tan Leather interior with heated seats.

Sunroof, 2.4 Engine.

140,000 miles Clean car, Non smoker $3,000.00 firm.

Call 662-286-6427 or 662-415-0846

2003 FORD TAURUS 142100 MILES $2800.00 662-665-5720

Excel. Cond.

Inside & Out All Original

$8,90000

662-664-0357

1985 Mustang GT,

2011 GMC CANYON-RED REG. CAB, 2 WD 2006 Express 2500 6.6 Diesel Runs 78,380 MILES and drives great.

172,000 miles. A/C and new tires Well serviced! $7500.00 $8500.00 662-594-1860

1970 MERCURY COUGAR

2003 White PT Cruiser

872-3070

1950 Buick 78,400 miles $4200.00 or Trade All Original

662-415-3408

HONDA VAN 2005 TOURING PACKAGE White with tan leather DVD, Loaded 180K miles, $8000 OBO 662-284-5600

1998 Cadillac DeVille Tan Leather Interior Sunroof, green color 99,000 miles - needs motor $1,100.00 (662) 603-2635 212-2431

2001 LINCOLN TOWNCAR GREAT CONDITION 174,000 MILES $6,000.00 CALL 9AM-5PM M-F 662-415-3658

06 Chevy Trailblazer 1987 Power FORD 250 DIESEL 1994 Nissan Quest everything!

New Lifters, UTILITY SERVICE TRUCK Good heat Cam, Head, $4000. and Air Struts and Shocks.

IN GOOD CONDITION $2000. $3,250 OBO 731-645-8339 OR Call 603-9446 662-319-7145 731-453-5239 832 Motorcycles/ATVâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S

1999 Ford Ranger Extended Cab 150,000 miles 4.0 Liter Engine $2,900.00 $2,500.00 662-396-1326

D L SO

2009 HONDA RUBICON Rode 90 hours ONE OWNER 662-554-2363 $3,800.00

1500 Goldwing Honda 78,000 original miles,new tires.

$4500

662-284-9487

1964 F100 SHORT BED

2013 LINCOLN MKS WHITE - NAVIGATION EQUIPMENT GROUP 101A DOUBLE MOON ROOF EXTENDED WARRANTY

23,000 MILES

1998 CHEVY CUSTOM VAN 136,200 mi.

Well Maintained Looks & Runs Great

$23,750.00

$6,500.00

662-415-6553

662-415-9062

2012 Banshee Bighorn Side-by-Side 4 X 4 w/ Wench AM/FM w/ CD

$5900.00 OBO $7200.00 OBO

662-664-0357

2001 Heritage Softail

LIKE NEW 9K Miles 25,000 Invested Asking 8K Serviced by H/D Bumpas

731-645-3012

20,000 miles, One Owner, Garage kept.

YAMAHA V STAR 650

$8,500.00

22,883 MILES $2,650.00 665-1288

Leave Message

750-8526

2008 Harley Davidson Electra Glide Classic Black w/lots of Chrome 21,600 miles $12,500 662-286-6750

1995 Chevrolet Silverado Z71

Regular Cab Short Wheel Base, Red 35,000 miles on rebuilt engine, transmission, and rear differential Super clean interior and exterior, only minor cosmetic flaws Comes with extra set of wheels and tires $4,900 or best offer Contact Joe anytime after 5:00 pm (662) 415-2509

2006 YAMAHA 1700 GREAT CONDITION! APPROX. 26,000 MILES $4350 (NO TRADES) 662-665-0930 662-284-8251

6 Ft 6 in. wide, 13 Ft 6 in. long, Electric Brakes & Lights GOOD CONDITION

$1,250.00 415-1281

1999 Harley Classic Touring, loaded, color: blue, lots of extras.

70,645 Hwy. miles, $7,900.00 OBO Just serviced, good or new tires, brakes, ready for the road. Call @ 662-664-0210

CED U D E R

2012 Yamaha 230 Dirt Bike Great Condition.

$2800.00 Call

662.415.1173

2nd Owner, Great Condition Has a Mossy Oak Cover over the body put on when it was bought new. Everything Works. Used for hunting & around the house, Never for mud riding. $1500 Firm.

If I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t answer, text me and I will contact you. 662-415-7154

2003 100 yr.

Anniversary 883 Harley Sportster, color: blue, 14,500 miles, $4,900. OBO. Just serviced, good or new tires, brakes, ready for the road.

Call @ 662-664-0210

D L SO

2006 Harley Davidson Street Glide

103 Screaming Eagle Engine 9700 Actual Miles-Showroom Condition-Fully Chromed and Customized-Rinehart True Dual Exhaust-Stage1 Breather Kit-10K Mile Full Factory Service Just Compled$14,000.00 Firm-

662-212-0362

2002 Harley Fat Boy, color: purple, 27,965 miles, $7,900 OBO Just serviced, good or new tires, brakes, ready for the road.

Call @ 662-664-0210

1990 Harley Davidson Custom Soft-Tail $9000

2013 Arctic Cat

1949 Harley Davidson Panhead $9000 OBO

308 miles 4 Seater w/seat belts Phone charger outlet Driven approx.

10 times Excellent Condition Wench (front bumper)

662-808-2994

(662)279-0801

2000 POLARIS MAGNUM 325 4X4 4 WHEELER

2000 Harley Davidson Road King Classic

662-287-2333

completely refurbished & recovered seat, new brakes, NOS starter, new $125 battery.

6cyl, 3spdWalnut $1850.00,

CAR HAULER TRAILER

HD 1200 SPORTSTER CUSTOM XL LOTS OF EXTRAS GREAT CONDITION 39K MILES $5,200.00 662-643-8382