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150th Anniversary of the Civil War
Saturday May 26,
2012
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Daily Corinthian Vol. 116, No. 127
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• Corinth, Mississippi • 16 pages • 1 section
Forecasters predict hot holiday weekend BY JEBB JOHNSTON jjohnston@dailycorinthian.com
An unusually hot Memorial Day weekend is on tap for the Crossroads, with record-breaking high temperatures possible. The heat will aggravate increasingly dry conditions across the Mid-South, but low humidity may keep outdoor festivities from being unbearable. No heat advisories or warnings are anticipated for the holiday week-
end, according to the National Weather Service Memphis Forecast Office. “It’s going to be a dry heat,” said forecaster Ryan Husted. “The heat index is going to be within a degree or two of the actual temperatures.” High temperatures will be 8 to 10 degrees above normal today through Monday. For Corinth, the Memphis Forecast Office is predicting a high tem-
perature of 95 today, 96 on Sunday and 94 on Memorial Day, all under sunny skies. High temperatures will ease down into the low 90s for Tuesday and Wednesday. Husted said today and Sun-
day could see record-breaking highs. Memphis’ record for today is 94 and for Sunday is 95. The weather service is keeping an eye on developing drought conditions. “The worst in our region is in the Missouri Bootheel and northwest Tennessee, but we are dry right now everywhere,” said Husted. “We are 11.5 inches below normal for the year in Memphis.”
Most of the region’s counties have received 50 percent or less of normal precipitation in the last two months, and the outlook for the rest of the month is for below-normal rainfall. Corinth has received 2.87 inches of rainfall to date in May and 18.5 inches for the year, according to Corinthweather.com. A slight chance of a shower Please see WEATHER | 2
Man dies when hit by truck
Photos by Lisa Wilbanks
ACHS lip gloss girls Alcorn Central High School seniors Kate Jones, Alex Holloway, Makayla Voyles, Kristen Whitley, Rhonda Burton, Erin Johnson and Gracie Wilbanks apply lip gloss looking into a mirror as they each get ready for their graduation ceremony Thursday night at the Crossroada Arena. For more photos from the ACHS ceremony, see the Sunday edition.
CT-A welcomes new artistic director BY BOBBY J. SMITH bjsmith@dailycorinthian.com
Cristina Skinner is the new artistic director for Corinth Theatre-Arts. The 37-year-old Arkansas native arrived in Corinth last week and is currently getting settled in her new position and helping the local theater company prepare for its upcoming production of “Steel Magnolias,” which debuts next Friday. The new artistic director began her life in theater as a child in her native Arkansas, playing a toy soldier in a production of “The Nutcracker.” That was the beginning of an interest that would continue through high school and college. After a number of years working as a professional stage manager, Skinner decided she wanted to help spread the arts to smaller communities. She then attended graduate school at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln, where she focused on directing theater and film. For the past year she has worked as artistic director for Theatrics, a director-driven theater company. Skinner, who also has a
STANTONVILLE, Tenn. — A 75-year-old man was killed Friday morning when he was struck by a truck in an accident at Elam’s Trucking. The fatality has been ruled an accident based on the preliminary investigation by the McNairy County Sheriff’s Department. McNairy County Sheriff Guy Buck could not release the name of the victim or the driver of the truck Friday due to the pending investigation of the accident, which happened at 9 a.m. Friday on 874 Bud Cleary Road in Stantonville. “We do know the man was walking between trucks when he stepped between two trucks and was hit by a slow moving truck,” said Sheriff Buck. The Tennessee Highway Patrol is assisting the sheriff’s department in the investigation by bringing in their accident reconstruction team. Sheriff Buck said he believed that both the victim and the truck driver were employees of Elam Trucking.
CHS Class of ’62 plans 50th bash BY BOBBY J. SMITH bjsmith@dailycorinthian.com
she said. She hopes to develop new work for the stage and col-
The class of 1962 is throwing a party. Members of the Corinth High School graduating class of 1962 are in the final stages of planning for their 50-year class reunion. Activities for the 50-year reunion are slated for June 1416. “We’re really wanting to have a bang-up great class reunion — not just an ordinary one,” said Dianne Papasan, class president. Almost 130 people have reg-
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Staff photo by Bobby J. Smith
Corinth Theatre-Arts welcomes new Artistic Director Cristina Skinner. background in education, says she wants to help spread an enthusiasm for the arts and theatre to the community. “I want to encourage people
to become involved in all aspects of the theater by training people as actors and stage managers — to get people involved on and off the stage,”
Index Stocks........7 Classified......14 Comics...... 13 Wisdom...... 12
Weather........5 Obituaries........ 3 Opinion........4 Sports...... 10
On this day in history 150 years ago Gen. P.G.T. Beauregard decides to abandon Corinth. With only 50,000 effective troops, he is outnumbered 2 to 1 by the Union and cannot hope to survive a Federal siege. Plans are immediately initated to remove the sick, wounded and supplies.