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Vol. 121, No. 72
• Corinth, Mississippi • 16 pages • One section
Armed robbery suspect caught BY MARK BOEHLER editor@dailycorinthian.com
Staff photos by L.A. Story
New MTFC project director Stacy Brooks holds up a banner signed by daughters at the Father-Daughter Dance earlier this year. MTFC members spoke with the fathers and daughters regarding tobacco-related issues.
Director spreads tobacco-free message BY L.A. STORY lastory@dailycorinthian.com
With several events under her belt, the Mississippi Tobacco-Free Coalition of Alcorn and Tippah Counties’ new project director has many more activities on the horizon. Stacy Brooks, new project director for MTFC, began taking on her new duties in midJanuary. Brooks takes the reigns from former director Anjanette Ratliff. This is “just the type of job” she was looking for, said Brooks. With a background as a teacher, Brooks wanted a change of pace, but needed a specific type of job.
“This job literally fell in lap,” she said. She had worked alongside MTFC for years in a different capacity and someone knew she was looking for a job. Her new position entails all the qualities she would want in a job. “I really enjoy being out in the community and being involved,” said Brooks. She and her husband, Keith, are Corinth residents. They have two daughters, Madeline and Marleigh. As Brooks was already familiar with the workings of the organization, she was ready to hit the ground running. She said MTFC had an extremely
successful presence at the Father-Daughter Dance earlier in the year. She and other members handed out spa bags to the daughters which contained a bottle of nail polish, a mini nail file and a booklet of information about resisting tobacco. She said they talked about the negative effects of smoking on the fingernails about how the acetone — such as in nail polish remover — is one of the toxic chemical additives of cigarettes. They provided smoking cessation information and smokefree home pledges for the Please see SMOKE-FREE | 2
A 45-year-old Hardeman County, Tenn. man believed to have assaulted and robbed an Alcorn County woman is now behind bars. Alcorn County Sheriff Ben Caldwell told the Daily Corinthian the suspect is Kevin Keller of Saulsbury, Tenn. He has been charged with felony armed robbery and remained jailed Friday in the McNairy County Jail awaiting extradition to Alcorn County, said the sheriff. The Tennessee Highway Patrol arrested Keller around 9:30 a.m. Thursday on State Line Road in a stolen van with no tag, said Caldwell. According to a report filed by sheriff’s deputies, a woman told officials that Keller held a knife to her throat, beat her in the
face, then pushed her out of her van about 10:30 p.m. Wednesday on U.S. 72 West near Alcorn County Road 605. “He left her on the side of the road,” said Caldwell. The suspect took the victim’s van and purse. Another woman was with the suspect, but no charges have been filed, noted the sheriff. The ordeal began when the suspect and another woman were helping the victim move. The victim refused to take the man to Corinth, resulting in the assault and robbery, said Caldwell. It wasn’t clear why the THP stopped the vehicle Keller was driving, but it was the van taken from the victim, said the sheriff. State line Road is adjacent to the Alcorn County line.
Registration deadline looms for city elections BY ZACK STEEN zsteen@dailycorinthian.com
FARMINGTON — Residents have only a few weeks to register to vote in the upcoming municipal primary elections. The election will see seven candidates vie for the five person Farmington Board of Alderman. With all candidates declaring party affiliation, the
election will be decided May 2. Mississippi’s voter registration deadline is April 1 and those voting for the first time or voters who have moved to Farmington in the last year must register in order to cast a ballot. An individual is eligible to Please see REGISTER | 2
Crossroads area resident turns 105 today Staff Reports
One Crossroads area resident will be celebrating his 105th year on this planet today and his family and friends will be right there to help him enjoy the day. Harley Marvin Hight was born March 25, 1912, the eighth child of James Rassie Hight and Loueda Jane Davis Hight in Hamilton, Ala. To place the year 1912 into time perspective, Howard Taft was the 27th President of the United States and Woodrow Wilson had just been elected to succeed him. New Mexico became the 47th state and Arizona became the 48th state. The Titanic sank in the North At-
lantic, the Model T Ford sold for just over $575, Thomas Edison produced the first talking motion picture and World War I was still two years away. In 1915, the Hight family moved to Morris Chapel, Tenn. Harley’s father died and his older brother Will became the head of the Hight family and farm. The family moved to Corinth in 1929. They swapped a team of mules as down payment on three acres and a house on what was known then as “Speedway” (now North Parkway). The family sharecropped adjoining land and sold three bales of cotton one year which yielded
$35.00 per bale. Their share was about one and a half bales. Hight met his future wife, Pearl Gann, where she was working as a 14-year-old at the Weaver’s Pants Factory. They were married March 5, 1933. Hight farmed, worked construction and sold various household products. He worked at McAnally’s Lumber Yard making $9 per week. He began what was to be a long career in painting and paperhanging. He contracted commercial painting, including many local and area schools, churches and downtown businesses. In 1949, in addition to his
paint contracting business, the family began operating a grocery store on Proper Street. Hight retired from paint contracting in 1977. They built their first home on Lilac Street and he and the family moved to this new home in 1938. In 1943, the family moved to the Fulton Street address where they lived until his wife died in 2011 at the age of 93. They were just a few months short of being married 80 years. Hight is a member of Church of the Crossroads (formerly First Pentecostal Church), where he served his Please see HIGHT | 2
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More than 130 people turn out for the annual Alcorn County Wildlife and Forestry Committee Wildlife Seminar and Tasting Supper.
Iuka’s Ashley Helton is crowned Most Beautiful at Northeast Mississippi Community College. April Essary of Corinth is first alternate.