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It takes years for most people to get to know who they are, but one area youth knows who she is and what kind of person she wants to be. Corinth High School senior Justice Norman, 17, was nominated as 2017 Youth of the Year to represent the Northeast Mississippi Boys and Girls Club. She traveled to Jackson to represent the region. Although she did not win the state-wide title, she said she was honored by the nomination. The student displayed a ready smile in speaking of the nomination. “I was really excited [about the nomination], a little nervous, too, but mostly excited,” said Norman. Norman was nominated by the Corinth Boys and Girls Club Director Trecee Hughey. “Justice has been a member of the club for many years and now she is junior staff. She is dependable and caring and she is a sweet young lady,” said Hughey. “It only seemed right to nominate her.” Norman has been a Boys and Girls Club member since 2008 and now she is a junior staff member, working at the club every week, Monday through Friday. She said she enjoys her job where she takes care of children from kindergarten to first grade. The student said she helps the children with their homework as part of her duties and enjoys what she does. At the club, she is not only a junior staff member, she is also a Keystone Member, Mentor, and President of the Real Majority Club. “I love it. This is literally my second home,” said Norman. Besides her assistance mentoring youngsters at the Corinth Boys and Girls Club, she said she likes singing, and playing the clarinet in the Corinth High School Band. She is also involved with activ-

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Corinth High School senior Justice Norman, 17, was nominated as 2017 Youth of the Year to represent the Northeast Mississippi Boys and Girls Club. She traveled to Jackson to represent the region. See related photo on Page 2.

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BY ZACK STEEN ities with her church family at Oakland Baptist Church. She will be going to Haiti on a mission trip in about two weeks and Norman expressed excitement for that project as it is just another way for her to do what she knows she was made to do — helping others. “I like helping people. If I see someone in need, I just want to help in some way,” she said. Regarding her future, Norman said she would like to

Local seniors now have the opportunity to apply for a scholarship from the Corinth Kiwanis Club. Club members will celebrate the 20th anniversary of their annual Leon Frazier Memorial Scholarship this year. Applications went live earlier this week at corinthkiwanis.com. In 2017, the club will award a minimum of eight $1,000 scholarships to Corinth and Alcorn County high school graduates and a minimum of

one $1,000 scholarship to a Alcorn Career-Technology Center (ACTC) completer program student. “Students and parents should understand that this scholarship can be awarded to any student -- even those students who have already received other scholarships including the tuition guarantee program from Northeast Mississippi Community College,” said Scholarship Chairperson Judy Glenn. “The money awarded from the KiPlease see KIWANIS | 2

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go into the medical field and become a nurse. In particular, she would like to do travel nursing in countries where she feels she can do the most good, such as in Haiti. Norman, along with younger sister, Sidnee, are the daughters of Ricky and Kasey Norman of Corinth and the granddaughter of J.J. and Sherry Jobe, the late David Wilson and Dartha Harris and the late Thomas “June” Grayson, all of Corinth.

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All blood types being sought Encouraging the public to show oﬀ their superpowers, Mississippi Blood Services (MBS) has scheduled a community blood drive for Corinth. The life-saving event will be held at Walmart from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Friday, March 10. Donations of all blood types are being sought and will be accepted via the MBS Motor Coach which will be stationed outside the store. “Every two seconds someone needs blood,” said MBS Public Relations Specialist Susan Ates. “Please help us ensure it is available when Mississippi patients need it most.” As an extra incentive, those who give will receive a free

FARMINGTON — The Farmington Board of Aldermen recently approved a request by a local Girl Scout troop to build a free children’s library. Girl Scout Troop number 23806 made the request to build and install a free library for children in front of the Farmington Town Hall. The board welcomed the idea and troop leader Nikki Smith said the young scouts were excited. Smith, who is the leader of the troop along with Ginger Radtke, explained that the girls were junior Girl Scouts (fourth and fifth graders) earning their Bronze awards. The highest is the Gold Award and the Bronze is their first step toward their ultimate goal. She said the project had to be permanent, sustainable and would serve the community. She said the idea was her

daughter’s who saw a free children’s library while on vacation and she wanted to do something similar. The whole troop came together on the plan. “They really wanted to do this for kids, especially kids in the Farmington area because this one would be close to them,” said Smith. Smith said the scouts were enthusiastic about the project and had plans created. They wrote up their opening remarks, as well as their carefully constructed plan, and were well organized when they appeared before the board. The small library should be assembled and built this month and will be attached to the Farmington Town Hall, with the exact spot still being determined. The troop plans to have an official ribbon-cutting when they open for business.

Tammy Genovese was born and reared in Corinth. At 23, she moved to Nashville with hopes of landing a job in the entertainment business. It wasn’t long before she began at the Country Music Association (CMA). Back home since 2013, the former CMA CEO loves the daily challenges of overseeing the Crossroads Arena as general manager. “It’s my favorite part,” she said. Genovese still has clients she works with in Nashville. “I think having those close contacts has helped us at the arena,” she added. The mother of Ole Miss junior Callie and Middle Tennessee State University grad student Nolan, Genovese said moving back home was a good decision. “I was able to spend some important time with my dad, Bobby Mitchell, before he passed,” she said. “So it was almost meant to be.”

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TUPELO â€” A man has pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit murder in Lee County as well as the theft of an all-terrain utility vehicle from Prentiss County Derik Graves entered pleas of guilty to Conspiracy to Commit Murder and Grand Larceny. Circuit Court Judge Paul S. Funderburk sentenced Graves to serve 15 years in the custody

of the Mississippi Department of Corrections. Graves was sentenced to an additional 15 years suspended. The plea came after a Lee County Jury was ready to be empaneled to hear the case. Graves committed the conspiracy to murder by planning with and hiring a Lee County man, a co-worker of Gravesâ€™, to shoot and kill Gravesâ€™ wife. Graves obtained a murder weapon to accomplish the

shooting. District Attorney John Weddle said Gravesâ€™ plan was thwarted when the hired gunman turned confidential informant and advised law enforcement of Gravesâ€™ plan. The Mississippi Bureau of Investigation, working with the informant, recorded Graves during 10 meetings scheming with the informant to obtain a rifle and committ the murder. Weddle

said on Dec. 2, 2015, moments after Graves obtained the weapon, state and federal authorities made their arrest and recovered the weapon. During the investigation, a stolen 2011 Polaris Ranger Utility Vehicle was recovered from Gravesâ€™ home. The Polaris had been reported stolen by the Prentiss County SheriďŹ€â€™s Department. Weddle said he is â€œthankful the man Graves conspired

with decided to come forward and cooperate with authorities. Otherwise, we could have been going to trial on a charge of murder instead of conspiracy.â€? Weddle thanked Lieutenant Chad Cummings with the Mississippi Bureau of Investigation for an outstanding investigation and Assistant District Attorneys Paul Gault and Josh Wise, who prosecuted the case for the District Attorneyâ€™s OďŹƒce.

Fiery crash ends Mississippi suspectâ€™s mayhem-fueled run BY JEFF AMY AND HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH Associated Press

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Youth of the Year nominee Boys and Girls Club of Northeast Mississippi 2017 Youth of the Year nominee Justice Norman has been a Boys and Girls Club member since 2008 and now she is a junior staff member working at the club every week from Monday through Friday. See related story and photo on Page 1.

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wanis scholarship can be used toward tuition, books, supplies and anything else needed for a college education.â€? The application deadline is March 31. The club has awarded more than $200,000 in scholarship money to more than 250 students since creating to scholarship program in 1997. â€œThis scholarship program is made possible thanks to the sponsors and event-goers of our annual Leon Frazier Memorial Gospel Singing,â€? said Glenn. â€œAny business or individual who would like to partner with Kiwanis by buying

an ad or sponsorship will be recognized in the commemorative printed program and all advertising prior to the event.â€? Glenn said the club is also welcoming any person who previously received a Kiwanis scholarship and their families to the gospel singing event this summer. â€œWe hope to recognize everyone who has ever been given a Kiwanis scholarship,â€? added Glenn. (Applications ca be downloaded at corinthkiwanis.com. Applications can also be emailed to jnglenn@bellsouth. net.)

BRANDON â€” A trail of mayhem that began last week in a suburban Mississippi apartment ended Wednesday morning when a stolen SUV chased by police flipped in a fiery crash in a rural Kansas field. In between, authorities suspect 28-year-old Alex Deaton killed two people, shot three others and stole four vehicles. â€œHeâ€™s led us on quite the chase the last few days and I think everybody here is happy heâ€™s in custody,â€? Mississippi Department of Public Safety Commissioner Marshall Fisher said at a news conference Wednesday. OďŹƒcials in Mississippi, Kansas and New Mexico are investigating Deaton, although Mississippi authorities appear likely to get first crack at prosecuting him because both the killings heâ€™s being investigated for happened there. Fisher and Rankin County SheriďŹ€ Brian Bailey said Mississippi will seek to extradite Deaton from Ellsworth County, Kansas, where he is jailed. â€œSo far, everybody is wanting to release him to us to come back here; and we want that also,â€? Bailey said. Authorities say Deatonâ€™s spree began Feb. 22 at the apartment of 30-year-old Heather Robinson in Brandon, Mississippi. Bailey said he believes Deaton strangled Robinson after the nurse told Deaton she wanted to break oďŹ€ their relationship. â€œI believe she was trying to break up with him and he wasnâ€™t going to have

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it,â€? Bailey said. â€œHe wasnâ€™t going to let her go. I think he went into a fit of rage. I believe he killed her first, and after that, everything went downhill.â€? Neshoba County SheriďŹ€ Tommy Waddell said he believes Deaton shot and killed 69-year-old Brenda Pinter, who had gone to clean Dixon Baptist Church south of Philadelphia. Waddell said video shows a white SUV that matches the one Deaton stole from Robinson entering the church parking lot. He said Deaton later sent a text confessing to a murder in a church, and said oďŹƒcials have collected physical evidence including a bullet. Waddell said he doesnâ€™t know why Deaton would have killed Pinter. OďŹƒcials have said he had family ties to Neshoba County. Friday, oďŹƒcials believe Deaton shot a female jogger in the buttocks from the window of the same SUV, back near Robinsonâ€™s apartment. Bailey said Deaton sent a series of texts before going silent Saturday. â€œA lot of them were jumbled, unintelligible, but some of them did say some incriminating things,â€? the Rankin County sheriďŹ€ said. Bailey said Deaton did â€œspecific things to avoid detection and capture.â€? While not elaborating, he said Deaton had worked in a cellphone store and that could have helped him evade police. Deaton next turned up Tuesday in New Mexico. There, oďŹƒcials say he carjacked and briefly abducted two hikers late Tuesday at a trailhead in mountains near Albuquerque.

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Today’s Highlights in History: On March 2, 1867, Howard University, a historically black school of higher learning in Washington, D.C., was founded as it received a congressional charter. Congress passed, over President Andrew Johnson’s veto, the first of four Reconstruction Acts, providing for “the more efficient Government of the Rebel States” by dividing the South into five military-run districts.

On this date: In 1939, Roman Catholic Cardinal Eugenio Pacelli was elected pope on his 63rd birthday; he took the name Pius XII. The Massachusetts legislature voted to ratify the Bill of Rights, 147 years after the first 10 amendments to the U.S. Constitution had gone into effect. (Georgia and Connecticut soon followed.) In 1942, the original Stage Door Canteen, a wartime club for U.S. servicemen, officially opened its doors in New York’s theater district. In 1955, nine months before Rosa Parks’ famous act of defiance, Claudette Colvin, a black high school student in Montgomery, Alabama, was arrested after refusing to give up her seat on a public bus to a white passenger. In 1965, the movie version of the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical “The Sound of Music,” starring Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer, had its world premiere in New York. In 1989, representatives from the 12 European Community nations agreed to ban all production of CFCs (chlorofluorocarbons), the synthetic compounds blamed for destroying the Earth’s ozone layer, by the end of the 20th century. In 2005, the number of U.S. military deaths in the Iraq war reached at least 1,500, according to an Associated Press count.

Judge announces change of venue in Bobo case HARDIN COUNTY, Tenn. — A judge has moved all future hearings in the Holly Bobo case to Hardin County. According to WBBJ-TV, Judge Creed McGinley announced the change of venue during a Wednesday morning motions hearing in Decaturville, Tenn. The judge also reset the trial for Zach Adams from April 3 to July 10. He said Adams’ attorney filed a motion for continuance. Judge McGinley also said Wednesday that the jury will be sequestered. Jury selection will take place April 5. Half of potential jurors will be summoned at 9 a.m. March 8 and half at 1 p.m. Jason Autry and brothers Zach and Dylan Adams all are charged in the disappearance and death of the 20-year-old nursing student. Bobo disappeared from her Decatur County home on April 13, 2011.

Burnsville 8-year-old boy recovering from dog attack BURNSVILLE — Eight-year-old Paxton Kilgore is recovering after a dog attack nearly took his life on Sunday. According to WTVA, the boy’s mother, Whitney Kilgore, said Paxton was in the front yard when four stray dogs wandered onto the property. She said the animals were after one of her two dogs because one was “in heat”. The animals began to fight with each other when Paxton tried to prevent them from harming his pets. The animals then turned on Paxton. A neighbor across the road saw what was happening to Paxton and ran to his aid. The dogs were later located and euthanized by the Tishomingo County Sheriff’s Department. No charges have been filed because the animals were considered strays. The dogs will be examined for rabies.

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Tippah County School district seeks input from public TIPPAH COUNTY — The North Tippah School District launched the 2017 Comprehensive Needs Assessment survey recently, according to the Southern Sentinel. To date, 228 stakeholders have responded with input while the school serves 1,381 students. All parents, students and community members are being asked to take the survey which can be found on the district website at www.ntippah. k12.ms.us. The school board will be reviewing the results of the surveys during the April board meeting and key leaders will begin to make decisions for the upcoming school year. The survey questions assess the status of the district in areas like family and community outreach, curriculum and instruction, and school facilities and organization. The results of the survey will be compiled into a report that also analyzes test score trends and other school

success measures. The district will then use this report for strategic planning, for administering federal programs that require an annual comprehensive needs assessment, and for examining current school and district practices.

Aberdeen Deputies charge man in drug investigation ABERDEEN — Monroe County sheriff’s deputies made a drug arrest in the northern part of the county. John Seymore, 41, of Nettleton, is accused of selling drugs. A news release from the sheriff’s department says he was arrested in his hometown on Tuesday. At last check, Seymore was awaiting an initial appearance in Monroe County Justice court.

Tupelo City gets look at paving list for 2017 TUPELO — The city’s Public Works Department has rolled out a list of roads it plans to repave across the next year. According to the Daily Journal, Public Works Director Chuck Williams shared the list Tuesday at a work session of the Tupelo City Council. In the summer of 2017, the department plans to overlay roads, including Cotton Bowl Lane, Springfield Drive, Clayton Road, parts of Clayton Avenue, parts of West Jefferson Street and parts of Park Street. Counting work done last fall, the 2016-17 mill and overlay budget will total out at $1.2 million. Public Works rates the city’s streets each year, with a grade of “one” representing the worst streets and a grade of “five” representing a road in excellent condition. All roads slated for overlay this year were graded at the “one” level. According to estimates by Williams, approximately $5.8 million would be required to pave every city street graded as a “one.” Certain City Council members, including Ward 1 Councilman Markel Whittington, have recently pressed the possibility of allocating more money for paving. However, Williams has warned that at current staffing levels, his department couldn’t take on much more work even if the money were available. The ward break-down for this summer’s paving projects are

as follows: In Ward 1: Cotton Bowl Lane, Spingfield Drive and Clayton Road. In Ward 2: Kincannon Street, part of Clayton Avenue and part of Eugene Street. In Ward 3: part of West Jefferson Street, part of Park Street and part of Milford Street. In Ward 4: Pinecrest Drive and part of Milford Street. In Ward 6: Rosewood Drive in Ward 7: Barley Court and Luther Millsaps Drive. Later in the fall, which will be in a different city budget year, Williams plans to begin work that will include overlay of some roads annexed into the city in 2012, including Fern Ridge Road.

Columbus Murder trial pushed back; no date scheduled COLUMBUS — The second capital murder trial for a man has been pushed back in Lowndes County. According to WTVA, Derrick Bankhead was scheduled to appear before a jury this week, but a lawyer involved was out sick. Now his trial will be continued to another term. Bankhead was convicted in September in the murder of his cousin, Eddie Bankhead. But shortly after that decision, a judge granted a retrial after Bankhead’s attorney showed evidence District Attorney Scott Colom represented Bankhead as a public defender after his arrest in 2011. No date has been set for the new trial.

Columbus Ole Miss football signee charged with burglary COLUMBUS — An Ole Miss football signee from Lowndes County is charged with burglary and larceny of a dwelling. Tae-Kion Tarshune Reed, 19, was arrested by the Lowndes County Sheriff’s Department Tuesday night. According to the Lowndes County Sheriff’s Department, the burglary happened Saturday evening at a home in the New Hope area. He is accused of taking multiple firearms. No one was home at the time of the burglary. The sheriff’s department says Reed turned himself into the department. His bond has not been set. Reed signed with Ole Miss as a defensive tackle from New Hope High School.

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They are moving and saving the Atlanta Cyclorama at a cost of $35 million to be paid by private philanthropists. I am glad, and amazed. I first saw the Cyclorama -- and the adjacent Atlanta Rheta zoo, and mighty, carved Johnson Stone Mountain -- when I was 10 and my mother inColumnist sisted our family vacation somewhere other than Central Florida. My father, an avid fisherman, was disappointed but went along. The two of them never could agree on Atlanta. One of the largest paintings in the world, oil on Belgian linen, the Cyclorama depicts the Civil War Battle of Atlanta. The painting has been seen by thousands of eager schoolchildren on field trips, and by countless tourists with an appreciation for history. Tourists like my mother, a former teacher who felt vacations should have educational elements, not just hot dogs and Tilt-a-Whirls. The century-old building leaked, the painting’s popularity waned, but the Cyclorama somehow endured. Like a fading actress, it had a few facelifts along the way. When I went for my second Cyclorama visit in 1985 -- to write a column, of course -- the venerable attraction was still a modest draw, and they’d done away with the red Georgia clay that used to be part of the foreground diorama. It caused mildew and attracted rats. But the painting was fresh from a refurbishing and much as I remembered it from childhood. The Martin brothers of Tennessee were right where I had left them 22 years earlier. One was lying prostrate on the ground, his gray uniform covered with blood. The other brother, dressed in blue, was bending down to offer comfort. I called my column “Chaos in the Round.” I felt the headline apt for the poignant painting of a Union victory that left an estimated 12,140 people dead. Now experts are preparing the footballfield-and-a-half-long Cyclorama for relocation. The painting, according to The New York Times, will be shrink-wrapped and rolled onto a pair of giant spools. The spools then will be lifted by cranes through a hole in the ceiling and placed on two trucks. The trucks will wait till after the infamous Atlanta rush hour to start the cross-town journey from the zoo to the Atlanta History Center. Having dealt with Atlanta traffic for seven years, I suggest they wait till Christmas morning. The Atlanta Cyclorama wasn’t always a Southern fixture. It was commissioned in 1885 by a Wisconsin man who hired German artists. Civil War veterans were still around for technical assistance, and the painting first toured the North. An Atlantan bought the enormous painting at auction for $1,000 around the turn of the century. It is now insured for $7.5 million and is one of fewer than two dozen cycloramas left in the world. Before movies, before digital photographs, before animation, a cyclorama was supposed to make you feel as if you were in the thick of things. Civil War battles were practically current events, and the popular paintings were like news reels. This Sistine Chapel of the South has a place in art history as well as a role depicting military history. The History Center seems an appropriate place for it to land. My mother would be delighted that neither snow nor rain nor traffic at night would defeat this painting in the round. Rheta Grimsley Johnson’s most recent book is “Hank Hung the Moon ... And Warmed Our Cold, Cold Hearts.” Comments are welcomed at rhetagrimsley@ aol.com.

Prayer for today Lord God, forbid that I should try to supplant character with manners and worldly goods. May I remember that thou seest me, and knowest me, and I need no shield from thee. Help me that I may be found acceptable while thou dost search me to the depths of the soul. Amen.

A verse to share In that day you will say: “Give praise to the LORD, proclaim his name; make known among the nations what he has done, and proclaim that his name is exalted. —Isaiah 12:4

Journalist’s perseverance helped bring justice STARKVILLE — On Tuesday, the body of a brave, old school Mississippi newspaper publisher and editor was returned to the red clay soil of Neshoba County. Stanley Dearman, 84, died Feb. 25 in Gulf Breeze, Florida. He retired after publishing The Neshoba Democrat weekly newspaper in Philadelphia for 34 years from 1966 to 2000. One story dominated his exemplary career in Mississippi journalism. It was a story that Dearman’s perseverance and courage guided to what would become a historic and important resolution in a Neshoba County courtroom some five years after his retirement. Last year, federal and state authorities oﬃcially declared the investigation into June 21, 1964, murders of three civil rights workers by the White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan in Neshoba County, Mississippi, closed after 52 years. The narrative of the murders is well known. The crime was the subject of more than a dozen books, four movies, and hundreds of thousands of newspaper and magazine articles. Dearman wrote some of those early stories while at The Meridian Star, and

then continued his coverage after moving to The Democrat. Civil and Sid Salter voting rights activists MiColumnist chael Schwerner, Andrew Goodman and James Chaney were detained under color of law subsequent to their attempts to investigate of the burning of an African-American church. Klansmen, including law enforcement oﬃcials who delivered them to the murder scene, shot the trio to death on an isolated rural road. Their bodies were buried in an earthen pond dam. Their crime? Trying to help the black citizens of Neshoba County register to vote. The massive ensuing FBI investigation into the murders produced 21 arrests, 18 indictments and seven convictions on charges of conspiracy to violate the civil rights of the slain trio by men linked to the Klan. Despite those 1967 conspiracy convictions, none of the men implicated in the Neshoba murders ever faced the scrutiny of a state court grand jury consider-

ing murder charges against them until 2005. That’s when Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood and Neshoba County District Attorney Mark Duncan took the case to trial in 2005 and won a manslaughter conviction against reputed Klansman Edgar Ray “Preacher” Killen in Philadelphia by a Neshoba County jury. That conviction came 41 years to the day after the 1964 murders. Stan Dearman was in the courtroom to witness what he had called for in print in a 2000 editorial, his final one for The Democrat, when he wrote, “Come hell or high water, it’s time for an accounting.” Duncan, my former Philadelphia High School classmate, eloquently echoed that sentiment in his closing arguments in the case: “Is a Neshoba County jury going to tell the rest of the world that we are not going to let Edgar Ray Killen get away with murder anymore? Not one day more ... for 41 years tomorrow, it has been Edgar Ray Killen and his friends who have written the history of Neshoba County. You can either change the history Edgar Ray Killen and the Klan wrote for us, or you confirm

it.” On the 25th anniversary of the murders in 1989, Dearman laid the groundwork for the conviction that Duncan and Hood won when he published a remarkable interview with Carolyn Goodman, the mother of Andrew Goodman. The interview transformed Goodman in the minds of all who read it from a vague “civil rights worker” to a son whose mother mourned for him, a young person robbed of a bright future, and the victim of a senseless murder. More comfortable with playing Chopin on his grand piano than with confrontation, Stan Dearman was an exceptionally intelligent, literate and cultured man – the antithesis of the elements he battled over the course of his life and work. Without Dearman and his compatriots in the Philadelphia Coalition who worked for racial reconciliation and justice, the “accounting” Dearman advocated would never have been made. For that, Mississippi’s history should note and recall his heroism in the face of great danger. Sid Salter is a syndicated columnist. Contact him sidsalter@sidsalter.com.

Mississippi should invest in what’s already working OXFORD — A tour bus pulled off the side of the narrow highway just west of Marks where Highway 6 becomes as flat and straight as the furrows that flank it. It was early October. One at a time, the passengers stepped off and into a field of soon-to-be-picked cotton. Some posed for photos. Others took selfies. They were from Amsterdam, which most of us consider pretty exotic. But they believed they were seeing one of the world’s most interesting sights There’s more where they came from. Mississippi should spare no effort in inviting them. Peer through the mists of memory, 10 years or so. Recall that today’s Tea Party, now a confederation of righties, began as the TEA Party, a cross-section of the population whose sole point was that government simply had to stop costing more and more. The message from the Taxed Enough Already cohort was straight out of an economics textbook. They believed capitalism itself was in danger because too much money was being scraped off by various bureaus of rev-

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enue. Not surprisingly, the TEA line of thinking found fertile soil in Charlie Mississippi. Mitchell This state was first in Columnist the nation to place a sales tax on private retail purchases. Several states have no personal income tax. Mississippi does, and has for a long time. Mississippi has just about every type of tax invented — use taxes, severance taxes, corporate taxes, fuel taxes, alcohol taxes, tobacco taxes, property and vehicle taxes. If it moves, Mississippi taxes it. If it sits still, Mississippi taxes it, too. Gov. Phil Bryant and his predecessor, Haley Barbour, were “no new taxes” kind of guys. The largest recent tax changes were an increase in the general sales tax from 6 percent to 7 percent and the creation of an average 12 percent tax on each dollar a gambler leaves at a Mississippi casino. And both were enacted about 26 years ago, well before Bryant and Barbour. While there have been

tweaks and adjustments, the steam ran out on the engine of taxation in this state even before the TEA Party movement. And while there is current talk of starting a lottery and actually collecting existing taxes on internet sales, the impetus during the administrations of Bryant and Barbour has been to cut the size of government. In 2015, the Legislature passed tax cuts for business. In 2016, the Legislature cut taxes for business again, with a tiny smidge for individuals. On another front, the Legislature has doled out hundreds of millions in 20-year tax waivers and other incentives for various manufacturing enterprises and even retail sales developments. Tax law may be complicated, but the underlying principle is clear. A healthy and active private economy generates public revenue. An anemic economy does not. Mississippi’s economy is anemic. It seems the recipe for goosing the economy needs another ingredient, and it’s right before our eyes, as evidenced by that bus by Highway 6 near Marks.

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Mississippi is a natural for specialized tourism. We know about the place; others are very curious. We see cotton fields and wild rivers and antebellum homes and flights of waterfowl pretty regularly. Others don’t. People will travel here to learn Civil Rights history just as much as Civil War history. They’ll follow a trail of the heroes who changed America just as they follow the trail of those who gave birth to America’s music. The natural world — ecotourism — is largely untapped. Music. The arts. Literature. One more thing: Food. More and more people travel to destinations just to eat like the locals. “Foodies” are worth courting, along with all those other specialized travelers. Mississippi would do well to spend a little less time trying to compete with the big manufacturing centers and a lot more time investing in the array of assets that are already here, but are unheralded, taken for granted or overlooked. Charlie Mitchell is a Mississippi journalist. Write to him at cmitchell43@yahoo. com.

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Guild invites quilt lovers to special program BY KIMBERLY SHELTON kshelton@dailycorinthian.com

IUKA — Putting the initial stitches on a new month, the Tishomingo County Needle Chasers Quilt Guild has scheduled their regular meeting for March. Open to the public, the monthly gathering will be held at 1 p.m. Monday, March 6, at the Iuka Public Library. As usual, it will begin with a special program and last approximate-

ly two hours. “As part of our program two quilters will be recognized as Star Quilters,” explained Guild Member Barbara Patterson. “Sharon Beene of Glen and Dianne Deming of Iuka will each show some of their quilts and talk about their quilting journey.” According to Patterson, The Star Quilters program was founded locally as a means of honoring Needle Chasers’ mem-

bers who have made quilts. “We have many talented quilters in our guild who would otherwise remain in the background with little or no recognition,” she said. “Star Quilters was designed as a way to recognize them for their time and artistry.” Always on the look out for new members, the Needle Chasers meet at 1 p.m. on the first Monday of every month (unless it falls on a federal holi-

Across The Region Tupelo Support sought from agencies, charities to aid homeless TUPELO — City leaders continue to hold talks with local aid agencies, nonprofits and faith leaders over fresh efforts to bring aid to the city’s homeless population, reported the Daily Journal. Specifically, Mayor Jason Shelton’s administration is pursuing the possibility of a formal partnership with Mississippi United to End Homelessness, or simply MUTEH, pronounced by its leadership as “mute.” Shelton and Chief Operations Officer Don Lewis convened a meeting Tuesday of local agencies and organizations that already seek to assist homeless persons in Tupelo. City leaders hope these organizations will be able to help defray the cost of a partnership with MUTEH. At the meeting, those local individuals and agencies already tackling the issue of homelessness were able to direct questions to MUTEH representatives. MUTEH is the lead agency in the state receiving funds from the federal Housing and Urban Development Department. The organization administers programs that provide different forms of assistance to homeless persons depending on their circumstances. MUTEH also conducts an annual count of homeless persons throughout much of the state, including Tupelo. City leaders are considering a proposal to contract with MUTEH to

ensure that the agency is able to maintain a frequent presence within the city and directly offer its services to the city’s homeless population. MUTEH staff members would directly seek out homeless persons in Tupelo, identify their eligibility for different assistance programs and seek to immediately connect qualifying individuals with appropriate services. Lewis said current proposals call for the city to partner with MUTEH for six months, from April through September, when the city’s current fiscal year ends. The council will craft the 2017-18 budget in late summer and could at that time decide to move forward with a full one-year contract with MUTEH.

Starkville School district names Peasant as new superintendent STARKVILLE — The Starkville Oktibbeha Consolidated School District Board of Trustees has named Eddie Peasant as the district’s new superintendent. The board voted unanimously to select Peasant, a former Mississippi Administrator of the Year, to lead the District. Peasant is currently assistant superintendent of the Tupelo School District, where he oversees secondary education, athletics, technology, dual enrollment and discipline. Peasant has also served as principal of Clinton High School and Gulfport Middle School. His official start date is July 1.

Trump budget hits ship to be built in state BY ANDREW TAYLOR Associated Press

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s budget would eliminate a $600 million-plus stateof-the-art Coast Guard cutter that’s a priority of the powerful Republican chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee. The proposal by Oﬃce of Management and Budget Director Mick Mulvaney is included in draft documents of the White House budget request. The documents, obtained by The Associated Press, ask the Department of Homeland Security to cancel its contract with Ingalls Shipbuilding, which is to construct the national security cutter at its shipyard in Pascagoula, Mississippi. The move is a direct slap at Appropriations Committee Chairman Thad Cochran, who added $640 million to build the ship to a catchall spending bill that passed in December 2015. The ship was not requested by the Coast Guard. And there’s an added twist: Cochran had publicly wavered last month about supporting Mulvaney’s nomination and had been a critic of the former tea party congressman from South Carolina. Cochran ended up voting for Mulvaney, which saved Vice President Mike Pence from having to alter travel plans to cast a tie-breaking vote. The documents say at least $500 million could be saved by canceling the contract and the money would be spent elsewhere in the homeland security budget for next year. Cochran, R-Miss., who also chairs the subcommittee that oversees defense spending, is certain to fight the cut. “There are responsible ways to reduce spending,” said Cochran spokesman Stephen Worley. “Weak-

ening our nation’s first line of defense against drug cartels and human traﬃcking isn’t one of them.” Ingalls spokeswoman Beci Branton said in an email that “the impact of

OMB’s direction to the Coast Guard is unknown at this time.” She said the shipbuilder has already purchased some materials and is in the pre-production stage.

day) in the meeting room of the Iuka Public Library, located at 204 Main Street in Iuka. “We welcome guests to attend both our Corinth and Iuka guild meetings,” said Patterson. “If you love quilts, Needle Chasers is right for you.” Current members are reminded that membership dues are now due for 2017. Those who would like to become members of the guild are urged to come to the meeting

and fill out an application. “Our dues are just $20 for the entire year right now,” said Patterson who invites everyone to visit. “We typically allow perspective members to attend two or three free meetings before they commit to see if Needle Chasers are right for them.” (For more information or for questions, contact Barbara Patterson at 662-424-9665 or patterbar@yahoo.com)

Event honors late UM pharmacy dean Hartman OXFORD — Ronald T. Piervincenzi, CEO of the U.S. Pharmacopeia, will deliver the 2017 Charles W. Hartman Memorial Lecture at the University of Mississippi. The lecture, which is free and open to the public, is set for 11 a.m. Friday, March 3, in the Gertrude C. Ford Center for the Performing Arts. Piervincenzi will discuss “Scientific Stewardship in the Age of Drug Resistance.” The U.S. Pharmacopeia is a health organization dedicated to creating standards that ensure the quality and safety of food and medicine. The standards it sets are used worldwide, and the organization has facilities on five continents. USP also works with the U.S. Agency for International Development to fight the harmful influx of substandard and counterfeit medicines in developing countries and around the globe. “We are very excited to welcome Dr.

The lecture is 11 a.m. Friday in the Gertrude C. Ford Center for the Performing Arts. Piervincenzi to our campus as our 2017 Hartman lecturer,” said David D. Allen, dean of the School of Pharmacy. “His work in improving public health on a global level is extremely important. We’re thrilled that our students will be able to hear him speak and talk with him.” Piervincenzi earned his master’s and doctoral degrees from Duke University, where he studied biomedical engineering with a focus on protein engineering. He is the founder of many nonprofit community service and scientific groups. He serves as board chair for both the Newark Mentoring Movement and the NextStep Translational Research Foundation. Before his appointment as CEO of USP in February 2014, Piervin-

cenzi was a partner in McKinsey & Company’s global pharmaceuticals and medical products practice. While there, he initiated McKinsey’s global drug safety, medical and regulatory service line. He later served as vice president in development sciences at Biogen Idec, where he worked to improve technology that addressed multiple sclerosis. The Hartman Lecture was established at Ole Miss in 1973 to honor the late Charles W. Hartman, who was dean of the pharmacy school from 1961 until his death in 1970. Former lecturers include American Board of Medical Specialties president and CEO Lois Margaret Nora, former Mississippi Gov. William F. Winter and U.S. Sen. Thad Cochran and former U.S. Sen. Trent Lott.

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Group. “West Tennessee Healthcare is excited for the opportunity to work alongside the highly skilled team of providers and employees of Prime Care who share our mission of providing exceptional care to its patients.” The acquisition includes real property, furniture, fixtures, diagnostic imaging and testing equipment, therapeutic and treatment equipment and a pharmacy at a cost of $7,345,000.

TRUTH Truth is deﬁned as: “(1) the state of being the case; fact (2) the body of real things, events, and facts; actuality (3) a transcendent fundamental or spiritual reality; (4) the property (as of a statement) of being in accord with fact or reality.” (Merriam-Webster, 2017) Consider the importance of truth in these areas: (1 )In legal matters the court is interested in learning “the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.” (2) In medicine it is essential that doctors know the truth about an individual’s health before making a diagnosis and determining what sort of treatment is appropriate. (3) In science one must be able to make precise calculations, know the properties of chemicals being used in a given application, and a host of other truths, in order to accurately test a hypothesis. In spiritual matters it is imperative that we search out and make application of truth. Here are just a few things said in the New Testament about truth. 1. Truth can be known. Jesus said, “Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.” (John 8:32) (Acts 2:41; Acts 8:12; Acts 18:8) 2. God’s word is truth and the means by which we are sanctiﬁed (set apart) “Sanctify them (the disciples) through thy truth: thy word is truth.” (John 17:17) The promise Jesus had made to his apostles in John 16:13 was that “when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you (the apostles) into all truth.”

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Deaths Judith Odom

A memorial service for Judith Diane Burch Odom, 72, is set for 11 a.m. Friday at First United Methodist Church. Family will receive friends Friday from 10 a.m. to service time and following the service at First United Methodist Church. Mrs. Odom died Monday, Feb. 27, 2017, at Baptist Memorial Hospital. She was born August 19, 1944, in Columbus, Ga., to the late Fred and Francis Burch. She was a secretary before becoming a homemaker. Judith and her family moved to Corinth in 1973, she was a member of First United Methodist Church. She was a supporter for the Corinth Band-Aids, Girl Scouts, AMEN Food Pantry and Corinth-Al-

Kenny Coleman

Funeral services for Kenny Wayne Coleman are scheduled for 3 p.m. Friday at Memorial Funeral Home Chapel. Visitation will be from 5 p.m. until 8 p.m. Thursday at the funeral home. Mr. Coleman died March 1, 2017, at Baptist Memorial Hospital.

Catherine Davis

FAULKNER — Funeral services for Catherine E. Crum Davis, 48, are scheduled for 2 p.m. Saturday at Hatchie Chapel Church, 550 Highway 72A, in Walnut, with burial at the Hatchie Chapel Church Cem-

corn Animal Shelter. A Master Gardner she enjoyed working with her flowers and garden. She is survived by her husband of 55 years Bill Odom; daughters Patrice (Martin) Mitchell, Angela (Richard) Warren, Tracy (Mark) Moore; grandchildren Kristen (Tommy) Ferguson, Ben Moore, Molly Warren, Hannah Cox; great-grandchild Jude Ferguson; sister Karen (Ferd) Ostrea; niece Gina (Brady) Gaster; nephew Anthony Ostrea; great nephews Gabriel and Lucas Gaster. She was preceded in death by her parents. Memorials may be made to Corinth-Alcorn Animal Shelter 3825 Proper St. Corinth, MS. 38834 or American Diabetes Association.

Condolences can be left at www.memorialcorinth.com Memorial Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements. The Rev. Roger Shock will officiate the service.

etery. Visitation will begin at 5 p.m. Friday and continue until service time on Saturday. Ms. Davis died Monday, Feb. 27, 2017, at her home. Born on June 14, 1968, to Jerry and Lane Patrick Crum in Tippah County, Mrs. Davis was a nurse formerly employed by C. Davis Magnolia Regional Health Center. She attended Hatchie Chapel Church and New Life Mission.

Survivors are her sons Dillon Davis and Mitchell Tanner Davis; daughter, Lydia Mitchell (Mike) Rowell, all of Faulkner; and a grandson, Sykes Rowell. She was preceded in death by a brother, Shelby (Lisa) Crum of Corinth, a sister, Becky (Shane) Spencer of Walnut. Corinthian Funeral Home has the arrangements. Bro. George McGregor, Bro. Kimbal Crum and Bro. Terry Vuncannan will oﬃciate the service.

Clarice Suitor

RIENZI — A memorial service for Clarice L. Suitor, 80, is scheduled for 11 a.m. Saturday at Magnolia Funeral Home Chapel of Memories. Visitation will be held from 10 a.m. until service time at the funeral home. Mrs. Suitor passed away Sunday, Feb. 26, 2017, at North Mississippi Medical Center, in Tupelo. She was born on Feb. 29, 1936, in Blair, Neb., to the late Stella Gilliam Linderman and Gideon Edgar Linderman. Clarice was the co-owner of

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MICHIE, Tenn. — Funeral services for Teresa Lynn Greer Davis, 61, are scheduled for 4

Suitors’s Meat Company which was established in 1914 in Rienzi. She loved the outdoors and said that when she was outside mowing she felt closer to God. Mrs. Suitor was a member of New Hope Presbyterian Church. Clarice was a loving wife for 64 years to Bobby L. Suitor, of Rienzi, Suitor and mother to Linda Fountaine, Robert Suitor II and wife Joyce, John Suitor and Mark Suitor and wife Laurie, all of Rienzi. She is also survived by her eight grandchildren, Andrew Rowsey and wife Ginger, Niki Smith and husband Phil,

Danica Rowsey, Daniel Rowsey and wife Misty, Robert “Robi” Suitor III and wife Misty, John “BJ” Suitor, Ian Suitor and wife Christina and Bailey Suitor; her thirteen great-grandchildren; her two nieces; Sandy Biller of Wisconsin and Gwedolyn McCoy and husband David of Florida; her two nephews, Jerry Glade and wife Sheryl of Nebraska and Donald “Chip” Martin of Nebraska; other relatives and a host of friends. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her half brother, Donald Martin and her half sister, Sharon Glade. Magnolia Funeral Home has been entrusted with the arrangements. Minister Donnie Davis will conduct the service.

p.m. Thursday at Acton Church of Christ in Acton, Tenn., with burial at the Lebanon Methodist Church Cemetery in Shiloh, Tenn. Visitation will be from 1 p.m. until service time Thursday at the church. T. Davis Ms. Davis died Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2017, at Baptist Memorial Hospital East in Memphis, Tenn., following an extended illness. She was born on Nov. 17, 1955, to Q. T. and Ruth Gurley Greer in Corinth. Having

served as a clerk at Payless Shoe Store, she was most recently a homemaker and attended Acton Church of Christ. Survivors are her son, Jody Ballard and his wife, Amy of Grenada; her brother, Tommy Greer and his wife Marla of Michie. Tenn.; sister Rita Strawn and her husband Dickey of Adamsville, Tenn.; and two grandchildren, Alexis Ballard and Quintin Ballard, both of Grenada. She was preceded in death by her parents. Corinthian Funeral Home has the arrangements. Bro. Shawn Weaver will oﬃciate the service.

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Speech leaves GOP encouraged, divided Associated Press

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s first speech to Congress left Republicans encouraged and enthusiastic Wednesday, yet still confronting thorny divisions on health care, taxes and more. Trump’s disciplined and optimistic tone was what GOP lawmakers wanted to hear after a rocky first month that provoked daily anxiety on Capitol Hill with each new presidential tweet. Republicans welcomed Trump’s presentation and his call for “a new chapter of American greatness.” “It’s just one speech, but I think what we see is a guy who comes from outside the political process now weaving his way through into becoming an eﬀective leader,” said Sen. David Perdue, R-Ga. Vice President Mike Pence said on MSNBC Wednesday morning that Trump showed Congress and the nation his “broad shoulders, big

heart, reaching out, focusing on the future.” And House Speaker Paul Ryan declared the speech a “home run.” Yet even though Trump oﬀered some specifics on health care and appeared to embrace a key element of a leadership-backed plan emerging in the House, his comments did little to settle an extremely diﬃcult debate over Republicans’ top legislative priority. Indeed, a day after the president called for “unity and strength,” Republicans looked as divided as ever as they try to make good on seven years of promises to repeal and replace former President Barack Obama’s health care law. Most said Trump’s speech hadn’t changed that or brought them much closer together. “I don’t know that that was his intent,” said Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tenn. “But I mean he gave the kind of guidelines that I think most presidents give on issues like this

and it’s up to us.” As Republicans cheered and Democrats sat silently Tuesday night, Trump declared: “We should help Americans purchase their own coverage, through the use of tax credits and expanded health savings accounts — but it must be the plan they want, not the plan forced on them by the government.” Those were comments House GOP leaders interpreted as an embrace of their plan to replace the Aﬀordable Care Act with a new system built around refundable tax credits. But conservatives who’ve been rebelling against that plan, denouncing the credits as a costly new entitlement, disagreed. And they showed few signs of backing down, although Rep. Mark Walker, RN.C., conceded Wednesday that the refundable tax credits likely will be included in the GOP leadership plan, adding he would try to limit the cost of those credits.

Fast learner: Trump gains skill in using trappings of office Associated Press

WASHINGTON — Most mornings, President Donald Trump gathers business leaders, union executives or others at the White House for made-for-television meetings meant to project the image of a cando chief executive. Trump sits at the center of one of the White House’s ornate meeting rooms, offers brief remarks and invites assembled journalists to stick around to hear his guests praise his plans. Few tangible policy decisions emerge from the listening sessions. But the public parts of the meeting are carried in full on cable television, underscoring the ways in which an unconventional new president is using the traditional trappings of the office to his advantage. Playing the role of president is a crucial skill that doesn’t always come easily to Oval Office occupants.

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The theater of the presidency can’t fully mask policy fumbles or awkward disputes, but it can shape the way in which a commander in chief is perceived by the public and can help keep anxious political allies in line. That was particularly evident Tuesday night, when Trump delivered his first address to a joint session of Congress. The new president stepped into the House chamber with historically low public approval ratings after a turbulent start to his administration. Some Republicans are growing weary of his refusal — or inability — to stop hurling personal insults and his seeming unwillingness to focus on the GOP’s ambitious domestic policy agenda. Trump responded by embracing both the traditional pomp and decorum of a presidential address. He delivered a restrained

and largely optimistic speech, rarely veering oﬀ script. In an emotional high point, he singled out the widow of a fallen Navy SEAL who was sitting in the guest box and joined lawmakers in sustained applause for her husband’s sacrifice. Republicans swooned. “You saw an outsider last night sort of hit his stride,” declared Sen. David Perdue of Georgia. Former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty called the address “less Mad Max and more Ronald Reagan.” “It buys him some good will and some time to fill out more positions and the roadmap of where they want to go,” Pawlenty said. To the president’s critics, it was a frustrating reminder that Trump is often judged by a diﬀerent standard and praised for stylistic shifts that rarely stick.

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