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Vol. 119, No. 142

Culture Club: Staff tries upbeat approach and upbeat approach that will be introduced with four nights of open houses — one for each grade — to launch the school year. “I’ve got 40 teachers that are completely fired up,” said Principal Nathan Hall. Some details are not being

BY JEBB JOHNSTON jjohnston@dailycorinthian.com

The Corinth Middle School staff wants to create a different kind of culture when students return to the classroom in August. The school will roll out a reform effort based on a positive

publicly revealed before the launch, but the plan is based on the positive behavior interventions concept and was inspired by the Ron Clark Academy and Clark’s “The Essential 55” rules for behavior. The school has created its own “essential 50” behaviors

that Hall said are the things of “good home raising,” such as giving a firm handshake and looking the person in the eye. “We’re really trying to turn the corner from saying, ‘You didn’t do right,’ to saying, ‘We appreciate what you’re doing is right,’” said Hall.

He hopes the approach will help to energize the school. Some of the bullet points of the plan include teaching to the top, having uniform discipline procedures from grades five through eight, clearly comPlease see CULTURE | 6

Delivery date told for new trash carts BY JEBB JOHNSTON jjohnston@dailycorinthian.com

Dates are set for the delivery of new trash carts to Corinth’s residential garbage customers. The afternoon of Monday, July 13, is the date that the manufacturer, Cascade Engineering Company, will begin to deliver the solid waste containers to about 6,054 city customers. The city purchased about 6,400 carts at a cost of $317,565. Distribution is expected to take six working days. Residents just need to be sure to have their garbage out on time on the normal pickup day to be collected in the old cart for the last time.

“What we are asking of our customers is they pull their cart out to the road by 7 o’clock on their collection date and leave the old cart there until the city picks it up,” said Street Commissioner Philip Verdung. Removing the old carts will take longer than delivering the new ones. The vendor will follow the city’s truck routes as it distributes the new carts, leaving them at the curbside at each residence. Once they are delivered, residents can move them to their usual storage spot. The new carts are dark Please see CARTS | 3 Staff photo by Steve Beavers

Corinth High School student Maddie Essary cleans an exhibit at the Corinth Civil War Interpretive Center. Essary and Mathis McGee are serving as summer interns at the center for five weeks.

City’s sales, tourism Students serve as park interns taxes continue growth BY STEVE BEAVERS

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BY JEBB JOHNSTON jjohnston@dailycorinthian.com

Corinth sales tax and tourism tax collections continued to grow with funds returned to the city in May. Sales tax brought $533,049.24 to the city coffers in May based on sales activity that occurred in local businesses during the month of March — an increase of 3 percent or about $16,000 compared to a year earlier. The 18th consecutive monthly increase pushed the fiscal year total to $4.129 million, an increase of 9 percent from the prior year. Across the state, collections grew 1 percent for the month

compared to a year earlier, and eight of 11 northeast Mississippi municipalities posted gains. Funds returned to the city in June, July, August and September will round out the fiscal year. The 2 percent tourism tax on lodging and restaurant food sales in the city produced $114,706 for the month, an 11 percent increase. The year-todate total of $816,067 is up 12 percent. Other sales tax results from the region (all percentages rounded):

Two Corinth High School students are getting an up-close look at how the National Park Service operates. Maddie Essary and Mathis McGee are summer interns at the Corinth Civil War Interpretive Center and Shiloh National Military Park. The pair began work at the Interpretive Center on June 1 as part of the Park Steward program. Their last day in the program, which is paid through the National Park Service Foundation, is scheduled for July 2. “Their goal is to learn how the park operates in every division,” said Supervisory Park Ranger Ashley Berry.

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Essary and McGee attended the Corinth Area Convention and Visitors Bureau board meeting Wednesday. “I wanted them to see how tourism and the park service work together,” said Berry. The CHS students were selected from among 200 high school sophomores. They were required to submit a resume and undergo an interview process. “It really got my attention when they talked to us about the job at school,” said McGee. “We have done things like greeting visitors to working out in the hot sun.” Most of their time has been spent at the Interpretive Center. They have also been a part

of work at Shiloh for a few days. “It has been fun to see how many people come to the Interpretive Center,” said Essary. “I didn’t know so many people from other countries came here.” Shiloh National Military Park was one of 28 national parks to receive the Park Stewards grant. The program, in its sixth year, gives high school teachers and students the chance to explore the relevance of national parks to their lives and enables them to become civically engaged stewards of their national parks through year-long service-learning projects. “I learned a lot more about Please see INTERNS | 3

Local NAACP branch announces homecoming activities BY KIMBERLY SHELTON kshelton@dailycorinthian.com

Steeped in history, the Alcorn County Branch of the NAACP will hold its 13th Biennial Reunion/Homecoming on July 3– July 5. “We’ve hosted the event every two years since 1991,” said Reunion Coordinator Annie Windom. “It’s a wonderful way for us to reunite with friends and relatives and to invite those who live out of town to come back to Corinth.” After extensive research, by Reunion Coordinators Eleanor Benson and Windom, it was verified from a newspaper clipping that the first reunions were organized by a group of concerned individuals in the 1970s and 1980s.

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The planning committee during the 1980s included Mrs. Aaron (Earnestine) Shannon, Mrs. R.T. (Oneida) Lasley, Mrs. Arthur (Ella) Fowler, Mrs. Henry B. Williams, Mrs. Charlie (Ozella) Betts, Mr. Howell Gilstrap, all of Corinth; Mr. Preston Vanderford of St. Louis, Missouri; and Mr. Ed Beauregard and Mrs. Maude Sexton of Detroit, Michigan. With the passage of time no one continued the event, and that is when the Alcorn County Branch NAACP accepted the responsibility in 1991. Each event has continued to improve and become more and more successful. The Reunion/Homecoming Celebration will kick off on Friday, July 3, with registration

from 1 to 5 p.m. at the Black History Museum, located at 1109 Meigg Street. A Hawaiian Fiesta with entertainment by Deejay Terrell Hughey will follow from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. at the Crossroads Area Convention Center, located at 2800 South Harper Road. The cost to attend the Fiesta is $10 in advance or $12 at the door. A parade will be held at 9 a.m. on Saturday, July 4. Line-up time is at 8 a.m. The parade will begin on Davis Street, will continue down Meigg Street and will end at the Crossroads Regional Park with a picnic. The picnic will begin immediately following the parade with deejay-mixed music by James E. Damons and food vendors until 3 p.m. There will also be performances by youth

group dancers and the Partlow Band from Tupelo/ Baldwyn during the picnic. A $10 fee will be charged for each parade entry, with the deadline June 30. A $50 fee will be charged for all vendors and payment must be received by June 30. Reunion/Homecoming registration will be held from 12:30 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. under the City Park Pavilion next to the walking trail. Registration is free. From 9 p.m. to 1 p.m., the Black and Gold Ball with entertainment by the PC Band will take place at the Hillandale Country Club, located at 13 Oakland School Road. Tickets are

“We’ve hosted the event every two years since 1991. It’s a wonderful way for us to reunite with friends and relatives and to invite those who live out of town to come back to Corinth.” Annie Windom Reunion coordinator

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Thursday, June 18, 2015

Today in History Today is Thursday, June 18, the 169th day of 2015. There are 196 days left in the year.

Today’s Highlight in History: On June 18, 1815, Napoleon Bonaparte met his Waterloo as British and Prussian troops defeated the French in Belgium.

On this date: In 1778, American forces entered Philadelphia as the British withdrew during the Revolutionary War. In 1812, the War of 1812 began as the United States Congress approved, and President James Madison signed, a declaration of war against Britain. In 1873, suffragist Susan B. Anthony was found guilty by a judge in Canandaigua, New York, of breaking the law by casting a vote in the 1872 presidential election. (The judge fined Anthony $100, but she never paid the penalty.) In 1908, William Howard Taft was nominated for president by the Republican National Convention in Chicago. In 1940, during World War II, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill urged his countrymen to conduct themselves in a manner that would prompt future generations to say, “This was their finest hour.” Charles de Gaulle delivered a speech on the BBC in which he rallied his countrymen after the fall of France to Nazi Germany. In 1945, Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower received a tumultuous welcome in Washington, D.C., where he addressed a joint session of Congress. William Joyce, known as “Lord Haw-Haw,” was charged in London with high treason for his English-language wartime broadcasts on German radio. (He was hanged in January 1946.) In 1953, a U.S. Air Force Douglas C-124 Globemaster II crashed near Tokyo, killing all 129 people on board. In 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson and Japanese Prime Minister Hayato Ikeda spoke to each other by telephone as they inaugurated the first trans-Pacific cable completed by AT&T between Japan and Hawaii. In 1983, astronaut Sally K. Ride became America’s first woman in space as she and four colleagues blasted off aboard the space shuttle Challenger on a six-day mission. In 1992, the U.S. Supreme Court, in Georgia v. McCollum, ruled that criminal defendants could not use race as a basis for excluding potential jurors from their trials.

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Man charged in burglary BOONEVILLE — On Thursday, June 11, Prentiss County deputies arrested Harold Jay Ramsey, 57, for an outstanding felony warrant from Lee County as well as an active MDOC retake warrant for a parole/ probation violation. He was picked up without incident the same day and released to Lee County Ramsey Sheriff’s deputies. Ramsey is being held in the Lee County jail on the charge of burglary of a commercial building with bond set at $100,000.

Riders to host fundraiser BALDWYN — Dream Riders Chapter B and Shades of Blue will host a fundraiser at Latimer Park in Baldwyn on Saturday. Activities will include a poker

run and registration from 10 a.m. until noon when kick stands go up. A bike show will be held from 2 to 3 p.m. with first, second and third place trophies. There will also be a potato dig, bake sale, 50/50 and slow race. Concessions will include hamburger and hot dog plates. The money will raise funds for a child in need.

3D dinosaur movie set MEMPHIS, Tenn. — The Pink Palace Museum, located at 3050 Central Avenue in Memphis will present “Prehistoric Planet: Walking with Dinosaurs 3D” in the CTI 3D Giant Theatre on Saturday, June 20-Friday, March 4, 2016. Appropriate for all ages, the 3D film will give viewers the opportunity to visit an extraordinary prehistoric world as well as experience a year in the life of dinosaurs as they fight, feed, migrate, play and hunt. The cost is $9 for adults, $8 for seniors, $7 for children and free for kids under 3.

The museum is open Monday-Saturday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sunday from noon until 5 p.m. For more information and exact show times, call 901-6362362 or visit www.memphismuseums.org.

District could revive band BOONEVILLE — Kay Stacy is hoping to bring the brass back to the Prentiss County School District. The school board member received support Monday from her fellow members to begin researching how the district could reestablish a marching band program. The school system previously had a combined county band made of students from throughout the district, but it was disbanded several years ago. Stacy said she believes a music program can provide a valuable extracurricular option for many students and she’s heard a desire from parents and students to bring band back to the district.

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A band program provides another option for extracurricular activities for students who may not be drawn to athletics and also encourages self-discipline and lifelong learning, she said. Board member Sheila Johnson agreed and said she believes a band program would be a positive for the entire district. Stacy said she plans to conduct extensive research before returning to the board with a proposal. She wants to talk with administrators in other similar districts about how their band programs operate and what it would take to get a new program up and running. She said they need to consider exactly how to do it and all the costs involved before making any decision. Board President Ronny Kesler said any decision on reviving the band program would ultimately come down to the costs and whether the district can afford it within the budget. He said he would be in favor of the program if it can be done affordably.

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Corinth Civil War Interpretive Center intern Mathis McGee works in the commemorative courtyard, left. Corinth High School students Maddie Essary and Mathis McGee are serving as summer interns at the Corinth Civil War Interpretive Center, above.

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Corinth through the internship,” said Essary. McGee has enjoyed being a summer intern. “I like talking with visitors and telling them

about the Interpretive Center,” he said. “This is something I wouldn’t mind doing again in the future.” Shiloh partnered with CHS teacher Phillip Henson to develop cur-

riculum which would enhance high school sophomores understanding of Corinth’s historic resources. CHS students completed a historic landscape project to repair a

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$25 if purchased in advance or $30 at the door. Activities will wrap on Sunday, July 5 with a 3 p.m. Memorial Service at Macedonia Baptist Church, located at 715 Martin Luther King Drive. “We ask those who have experienced the unfortunate death of a loved one to call us with their loved ones names so that we may honor and remember them by listing their names in the Reunion/Homecoming Souvenir Booklet,” said the reunion coordinator.

walking trail permitting visitors access to historic resources. “The project was designed to engage students, instill a sense of public awareness and stewardship for the his-

toric resources in the community,” said Berry. “We enjoyed working with Mr. Henson and Ben Cowart to develop a greater sense of awareness for historic places in Corinth.”

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REUNION “Memorial ads may also be purchased for the Souvenir Booklet in memory of a loved one. The cost for memorial ads is $50 for a full page, $25 for half a page and $15 for a fourth of a page.” Planning meetings are scheduled to be held each Thursday at 6:30 p.m. at the Johns Street Community Center. “The meetings are open to the public and anyone who would like to attend and participate in the planning is free to do so,” said Windom. “You don’t have to be an NAACP member to par-

ticipate.” In addition to scheduled events, the NAACP will also be selling tshirts to commemorate the event. The cost is $10 for S–XL, $12 for 2X–3X and $14 for 4X–5X. All youth sizes will be available for $8. (For more information, contact Reunion Coordinator Annie Windom at 662-643-3592, Reunion Coordinator Eleanor Benson at 662287-2975, Branch President William Dilworth, Jr. at 662-284-0864, or Email: reuinionhomecoming@yahoo.com)

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The audacity of Jeb Bush In 1992, South Central Los Angeles exploded into riots after a jury acquitted four police officers standing trial about possible excessive use of force in apprehending a black man named Rodney King. Star Videotape showed the offiParker cers brutally beating King. The riots destroyed my pubColumnist lishing business there because businesses that were my advertisers were wrecked. I started becoming vocal about what had driven me to start this business to begin with. My eyes had opened to the destructiveness of welfare that had been destroying my own life and was destroying the minority urban communities around me. My Christian conversion gave me the faith and power to walk away from it all, get my bachelor’s degree and start my business. Rush Limbaugh heard my story and in early 1994 wrote about me in his Limbaugh Letter; he also talked about me on his radio show. As a result, I received over 2,000 letters and calls. One call I received was from a man who told me his name was Jeb Bush. He said he was considering running for governor in Florida and he wanted to hear more about my thoughts about welfare, how it could be reformed, and what we should be thinking about regarding revitalizing inner city life. Jeb Bush went on to run for governor of Florida in 1994, losing to Democrat incumbent Lawton Chiles by less than 2 percentage points. However he ran again in 1998 successfully, going on to become Florida’s first twoterm Republican governor. Jeb’s speech at Miami Dade College announcing his candidacy for the presidency stirred up the memory of that day when he called me. I felt I was listening to the same independent thinking man of principle: the son of a president, with familial roots in New England aristocracy, who out of the blue would call a black former welfare mother to pick her brain about ideas because he was out searching, seeking the truth – because he was trying to think through how to make things better. Jeb’s remarks at Miami Dade College were audacious and unprecedented for a Republican presidential candidate. He was broadly principled and conservative in his take on the world and what America needs. Yet, at the same time, he was out-front and aggressive in reaching out to minorities. No Republican aspiring to the presidency has ever done this or even tried. Yet it is crucial – not just to turn around Republican fortunes in presidential politics, but also for the good of the nation. His promo video shows a young black woman talking about school choice. It shows a blue-collar Hispanic worker talking about the importance of economic growth. Liberals have destroyed our minority communities. It is a national embarrassment that black poverty is virtually unchanged from where it was when the Civil Rights Act was passed in 1964. Jeb in his remarks touched the heart of the matter when he said, “Think of what we all watched not long ago in Baltimore, where so many young adults are walking around with no vision of a life beyond the life they know.” Hillary Clinton will campaign on making sure those young people will have no other vision. She will, like every liberal before her, buy their votes by promising more government and using fear to keep them where they have always been – on government dependency that wrecks heart and soul. Jeb talked about limited government, lowering and simplifying taxes, religious freedom, school choice and military strength. And he did it sounding upbeat and optimistic. And he conveyed it as relevant to every single American. Not easy in these cynical times. Certainly, Jeb Bush has much work to do to translate all of this into policy specifics. But his audacious kick-off provides reason for feeling good and excited. These days, nothing could be more refreshing. (Star Parker is an author and president of CURE, the Center for Urban Renewal and Education. Contact her at www.urbancure. org.)

Prayer for today Lord God, my soul fills with gratitude for the blessings which I have received and enjoyed. Help me to conform to thy will concerning my duties. May I not try to resist thy providence. I pray that thou wilt bless my daily life, and make my home a place to dispense kindness and cheerfulness. Amen.

A verse to share “Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure:” Isaiah 46:10

Political left comes up with new buzzword The political left has come up with a new buzzword: “micro-aggression.” Professors at the University of California at Berkeley have been officially warned against saying such things as “America is the land of opportunity.” Why? Because this is considered to be an act of “micro-aggression” against minorities and women. Supposedly it shows that you don’t take their grievances seriously and are therefore guilty of being aggressive toward them, even if only on a micro scale. You might think that this is just another crazy idea from Berkeley. But the same concept appears in a report from the flagship campus of the University of Illinois at Urbana. If you just sit in a room where all the people are white, you are considered to be guilty of “microaggression” against people who are not white, who will supposedly feel uncomfortable when they enter such a room. At UCLA, a professor who changed the capitalization of the word “indigenous” to lower case in a student’s dissertation was accused of “micro-aggression,” apparently because he preferred to follow the University of Chicago Manual of Style, rather than the student’s attempt to enhance the im-

portance of being indigenous. When a group of UCLA law students Thomas came to class Sowell wearing Twith Columnist shirts a picture of one of their professors who had organized an intramural softball game, those T-shirts were protested as a manifestation of “white privilege.” Why? Because that professor had written a book critical of affirmative action. “Micro-aggression” protests have spread to campuses from coast to coast – that is, from California’s Berkeley and UCLA to Harvard and Fordham on the east coast, and including Oberlin and Illinois in the midwest. Academic administrators have all too often taken the well-worn path of least resistance, by regarding the most trivial, or even silly, claims of victimhood with great seriousness, even when that involved undermining faculty members held in high esteem by most of their students and by their professional colleagues on campus and beyond. The concept of “microaggression” is just one of many tactics used to stifle

differences of opinion by declaring some opinions to be “hate speech,” instead of debating those differences in a marketplace of ideas. To accuse people of aggression for not marching in lockstep with political correctness is to set the stage for justifying real aggression against them. This tactic reaches far beyond academia and far beyond the United States. France’s Jean-Paul Sartre has been credited – if that is the word – with calling social conditions he didn’t like “violence,” as a prelude to justifying real violence as a response to those conditions. Sartre’s American imitators have used the same verbal tactic to justify ghetto riots. Word games are just one of the ways of silencing politically incorrect ideas, instead of debating them. Demands that various conservative organizations be forced to reveal the names of their donors are another way of silencing ideas by intimidating people who facilitate the spread of those ideas. Whatever the rationale for wanting those names, the implicit threat is retaliation. This same tactic was used, decades ago, by Southern segregationists who tried to force black civil rights organizations to reveal the

names of their donors, in a situation where retaliation might have included violence as well as economic losses. In a sense, the political left’s attempts to silence ideas they cannot, or will not, debate are a confession of intellectual bankruptcy. But this is just one of the left’s ever-increasing restrictions on other people’s freedom to live their lives as they see fit, rather than as their betters tell them. Current attempts by the Obama administration to force low-income housing to be built in middle class and upscale communities are on a par with forcing people to buy the kind of health insurance the government wants them to buy – ObamaCare – rather than leaving them free to buy whatever suits their own situation and preferences. The left is not necessarily aiming at totalitarianism. But their know-it-all mindset leads repeatedly and pervasively in that direction, even if by small steps, each of which might be called “micro-totalitarianism.” (Daily Corinthian columnist Thomas Sowell is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305. His website is www.tsowell.com.)

Gone but not forgotten I grew up in cemeteries. They were part of our education, recreation and, too often, conversation. As a child, my grandmother spread a tablecloth over a grave slab for our picnic. We battled the ants for our deviled eggs served atop our more stable kin. My mother saw to it that we visited the cemeteries where important men are buried: Confederate generals, distant relatives and Hank Williams. It wasn’t a successful outing unless a cemetery was involved. Cemetery importance did not diminish after childhood. My late husband, a journalism professor, routinely told his students that if they could spell “cemetery,” they’d get a job. I know from personal experience the word was on the spelling test for employment at the Memphis, Tennessee, newspaper, along with “lightning” and “inoculation.”

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My parents planned their burial spots in detail when they were still relatively young. Rheta Whenever I’d Johnson come home for a visit, Columnist we’d sit for hours as they rehashed the minutia of lot sizes, placement and tombstone wording. Once, when I was between husbands, they offered me a marker beside them as my Christmas present. They only thing I’d have to supply was a death date. I declined. My favorite all-time cemetery is in Cross Creek, Fla., where the writer Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings is buried. The year I visited, the remote site was following that ashes-to-ashes formula that perpetual care contradicts. The swampy place seemed to be taking care of itself.

My husband Hines and I were having a recent, latenight, ipso facto, animated, discussion about cemeteries. I was taking the rather indefensible position that too much is made of grooming ghosts, that we should scrub and rake and prune where the living live, not where the dead are lying. Give your artificial flowers to the living, and all of that. Hines was having none of it. He quickly noted how much I love walking the grounds of Pere La Chaise in Paris, stumbling across the tombs of Chopin and Piaf, not to mention Jim Morrison. And he reminded me how I try to visit Hank’s gravesite once a year, and that I’m as fond of strolling through fascinating old cemeteries as the next person. How would I be able to do that if someone weren’t taking care of business? And, he said, cemeteries are for the living, to give solace and space for rumina-

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tion – not to mention picnics. The living, then, must tend them. He won the immediate argument, though I’m still not convinced that there’s physical room on this old earth for everyone to have a tomb like Grant, Napoleon or even Marjorie Rawlings. We must evolve in death as in life. Cremation is to burial what birds are to fish. I for one volunteer to forgo the “fancy filigree” that Lucinda Williams sings about when she advises against spending money on a funeral that could put “cover on the bed.” I’d rather be scattered about some swamp, or maybe the Gulf of Mexico when the wind is seaward. That will save my niece the trouble of trimming the privet. (To find out more about Daily Corinthian columnist Rheta Grimsley Johnson and her books, visit www. rhetagrimsleyjohnsonbooks.com.)

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No charges after election loan probe TOPEKA, Kan. — Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback’s office says federal prosecutors have brought no charges after completing their investigation into loans that the state’s lieutenant governor made to the ticket’s re-election campaign. In a statement released to The Associated Press, the office said the U.S. attorney’s office was bringing no charges after completing its investigation “regarding campaign finance matters.” Lt. Gov. Jeff Colyer did not respond to messages seeking comment. A spokesman for the U.S. attorney’s office had no immediate comment. The three loans totaling $1.5 million raised eyebrows not only because their size is unusual in Kansas politics but because the first two were repaid within days.

Dad: God directed son to fight militants HUDSON, Mass. — The father of the first American believed to have been killed fighting the Islamic State group said his son’s path “wasn’t very straight,” but God straightened it and guided him to Syria. Keith Broomfield, a Massachusetts man who had no military training, died fighting alongside Kurdish forces. Friends and family gathered Wednesday at Grace Baptist Church in Hudson for his funeral before a private burial. Friends described Broomfield, 36, as a car and motorcycle enthusiast who embraced his passions headlong. He drove a DeLorean car in high school and later fixed up a 1970s motorcycle to ride on a cross-country adventure to California. He loved his family and his dog, Columbo. But his parents said he also had gotten into trouble with the law. “There was a lot of things that Keith tried that we won’t even mention, but it breaks your heart to see your children do that,” Tom Broomfield said. Childhood friend Ben Roberts said Broomfield had “lost years pursuing things that left him empty and alone, and that left those who loved him wounded.”

After shark attacks, town considers ban OAK ISLAND, N.C. — The weekend shark attack on a girl in surf about 100 yards from a North Carolina fishing pier has the town considering a ban on shark fishing. Officials in Oak Island are exploring if it can ban shark fishing at least temporarily this summer after two people were attacked

Sunday within about 90 minutes of each other. Town manager Tim Holloman says officials want to limit luring shark close to shore at least through the busy Independence Day holiday. Fishermen say they don’t think they should be blamed or punished for the rare shark attacks.

Fed officials see one rate increase WASHINGTON — More Federal Reserve policymakers expect just one or no increase in short-term interest rates will occur this year compared with three months ago, reflecting a sharp slowdown in the economy at the start of the year. Five of the 17 Fed policymakers now forecast that the short-term rate will be 0.375 percent at the end of this year, up from just one in March. Two foresee no increase until next year, the same as in March. The current rate is approximately 0.125 percent, so only one quarter-point increase would bring it to 0.375 percent. The median forecast remains 0.625 percent, which would require two increases. A lower rate at the end of the year suggests policymakers expect the first increase may come later than they thought three months ago. Fed policymakers also now project the shortterm rate they control will rise at a slower pace. They expect the rate will be lower at the end of next year than they did three months ago. The median forecast fell to 1.625 percent from 1.875 percent. The lower rate expectations are consistent with the Fed’s sharp cut in its economic growth forecast for this year. Fed policymakers expect the economy will expand between 1.8 percent and 2 percent in 2015, down from a 2.3 percent to 2.7 percent forecast in March.

Former QB Starr assists drug trial GREEN BAY, Wis. — The family of Packers Hall of Fame quarterback Bart Starr says he is participating in a clinical trial using stem cells as a possible treatment for strokes. Starr suffered two strokes and a mild heart attack last September. His family said Wednesday in a statement released by the Packers that Starr is participating in the trial. The family says details will be shared in the future, and that Starr is working toward one goal — a return to Green Bay for a Packers game. The 81-year-old Starr returned to his home in Alabama last Friday after the first of two treatments. He played for

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the Packers from 1956 to 1971, leading the team to five NFL championships as well as the first two Super Bowls.

Dolezal: No proof parents are white SPOKANE, Wash. — The woman who resigned as president of the Spokane NAACP after her parents revealed she was white posing as black says there’s no proof they are her mother and father. In an interview with NBC News on Tuesday night, Rachel Dolezal said she hasn’t had a DNA test and there’s no “biological proof” that Larry and Ruthanne Dolezal are her parents. NBC’s Savannah Guthrie pointed out there’s a birth certificate that lists the Dolezals as her parents. Rachel Dolezal responded that she can’t prove her parentage one way or another.

Team, mascot face civil case over injury KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Jurors have begun deliberations in a lawsuit against the Kansas City Royals by a man who was struck in the eye by a foil-wrapped hotdog flung by the team’s mascot. John Coomer of Overland Park, Kansas, says he suffered a detached retina at a 2009 Royals game when Sluggerrr chucked a hot dog behind his back, striking Coomer in the eye. The team claimed the so-called “baseball rule” was in effect and that Coomer should have been aware of what was going on around him. Coomer sued, but a Jackson County jury sided with the team in 2011, saying Coomer was at fault. An appeals court overturned the decision in 2013, and last year the Missouri Supreme Court sent the case back to Jackson County.

Exhibition targets Sargent’s portraits NEW YORK — An upcoming John Singer Sargent exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art will focus on the celebrated artist’s portraits of his famous friends. “Sargent: Portraits of Artists and Friends” opens June 30 and runs through Oct. 4 at the New York City museum. The American artist was a leading society portraitist at the turn of the 20th century who studied in Paris and lived in London. His subjects included artists, writers and musicians. Many of their portraits were not commissioned. This allowed Sargent to pose them more informally. The 90 featured works will include one of Claude Monet painting outdoors.

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Officer on leave after killing dog CLEVELAND — A Mississippi police officer is on administrative leave while authorities investigate the fatal shooting of a family dog. Tyler Muzzi says the officer shot his 1-year-old yellow Labrador, Miller, while the dog was tied to a leash June 12 as police investigated a call about a suspicious person next door. Muzzi told The Bolivar Commercial the dog was friendly and never aggressive toward strangers. Muzzi says police told him the officer felt threatened, prompting the shooting. Muzzi says a police video of the incident doesn’t show the shooting. Muzzi says the department has offered to pay the vet bill and buy his family another dog. He wants a change in police policy. Cleveland police Chief Buster Bingham hasn’t released the officer’s name and says the department is gathering information.

Bodies of 2 found in Pass Christian PASS CHRISTIAN — Marine divers have recovered the bodies of two boaters who went missing Tuesday night in Pass Christian. Harrison County Coroner Gary Hargrove tells WLOX-TV in Biloxi the boaters were reported missing around 11:00 p.m. When sheriff’s deputies responded to the scene, they found a truck and an empty trailer, but no sign of the boaters. The Marine Patrol and Coast Guard found a small skiff vessel capsized about 200 yards west of the Merlin Necaise Boat Launch. The bodies were found Wednesday morning. Hargrove identified the boaters as 51-year-old Alphonze Dedeaux of Pass Christian and 56-yearold Gerald Ellis of Pass Christian. Hargrove has ruled both deaths accidental due to drowning.

Clinton to allow Sunday alcohol CLINTON — The city of Clinton will allow alcohol sales on Sundays beginning in July. A 2002 city ordinance allowed alcohol sales Monday through Saturday only. Aldermen voted 5-2 Tuesday to make the change after no one opposed the Sunday sales during a public hearing. Sunday sales will begin in 30 days and will go from 11 a.m. until 10 p.m. Restaurants will also be allowed to serve liquor by the glass, though the state Department of Revenue will have to approve that portion of the ordinance. Mayor Phil Fisher supported Sunday sales. He said he hears often from restaurants that

eliminate Clinton from their list of possible expansion sites because they won’t be able to sell alcohol on Sundays. “When they can build anywhere in the metro area, that’s what they’re doing. They’re not offended, their feelings aren’t hurt, they’re just making a business decision,” Fisher said. Alderman Mike Cashion, who’s also the executive director of the Mississippi Restaurant and Hospitality Association, said national restaurant chains budget a set number of new restaurants they’ll open each year, without regard to location. “We have to build a case that competes with the rest of the country, not just the rest of the metro area. Sunday sales are one piece of the puzzle,” he said.

Mayor: Katrina slabs and pilings need to go GULFPORT — Gulfport Mayor Billy Hewes wants slabs and pilings left behind when Hurricane Katrina tore the businesses and homes removed. Hewes said Tuesday the debris is “unsightly” and a “blight.” The Sun Herald reports the city council will consider July 7 an ordinance to require people to remove the debris. Driveways, patios, retaining walls and sidewalks could remain, but under the proposal slabs and pilings have to go. “Most folks feel like 10 years is long enough to get your property cleaned up after the storm,” Hewes said. Urban Development Director Greg Pietrangelo said the city hopes slabs and pilings will be pulled up by year’s end if the ordinance passes. Pietrangelo said the city has found about 300 slabs or pilings, and not all concentrated along the waterfront as people might think. Inland waterways also flooded a number of communities during Katrina. The city would then notify an offending property owner by registered mail two weeks before scheduling a hearing on whether the property should be declared a nuisance.

Leaders change rental ordinance OCEAN SPRINGS — Ocean Springs will now

require a property owner who wants to rent out a home or condo to live in the city or within two miles of the city limits. The change to the city’s short-term rental ordinance came Tuesday on 4-3 vote by aldermen. The Sun Herald reports the majority of aldermen decided they didn’t want absentee homeowners renting their houses out by the day or week. The ordinance requires the homeowner to apply for a permit, but would allow him to designate an Ocean Springs resident to be the property manager and be on call at all times. Beth Riley, a long-time proponent of vacation rentals by owners, said the latest quirk could be a deal breaker. Riley said that with short-term vacation rentals, the homeowner can make enough money to improve the property and maintain it properly. When people rent out a house by the year, something that takes no ordinance, the owner can’t make enough money to pay taxes and insurance, let alone deal with the damage that long-term renters can cause, she said. The ordinance says all homeowners within 500 feet of a property would be notified by mail that the owner was applying for a short-term rental permit. The city’s zoning board would recommend granting the permit or not after a hearing. The board of aldermen would have the final say.

Council delays police chief vote HATTIESBURG — Hattiesburg City Council members spent an hour behind closed doors with the latest candidate nominated for police chief. Council members told The Hattiesburg American Tuesday’s interview went well, but the council deferred voting on the nomination of Crystal Springs Police Chief Anthony L. Parker for three weeks. The council voted 4-1 to table a confirmation vote on Parker’s appointment until July 6-7. Parker was the fourth candidate nominated for council approval by Mayor Johnny DuPree since December. The previous three nominees were rejected by council.

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Deadly balcony collapse linked to rotted beams Associated Press

BERKELEY, Calif. â€” The balcony collapse that killed six college students appears to have been caused by rotted wooden beams, Berkeleyâ€™s mayor said Wednesday as the victimsâ€™ heartbroken loved ones began arriving in the U.S. from Ireland. Mayor Tom Bates said investigators believe the wood was not caulked and sealed properly at the time of construction and was damaged by moisture as a result. The crowded fifthfloor balcony broke off an apartment building during a 21st-birthday party held by visiting Irish college students Tuesday, dumping 13 people 50 feet onto the pavement. In addition to the six killed, seven were seriously hurt. â€œMore than likely it was caused by rain and caused by water damage that was done to the support beams,â€? Bates said. He said it was â€œobviously a bad ideaâ€? for 13 people to crowd onto such a small balcony but added that he is not blaming the victims. Later in the day, however, the mayor said that the water-damage theory was speculation on his part and not an official conclusion, and that the investigation is still underway. Building inspectors also determined another balcony at the Library Gardens apart-

â€œMore than likely it was caused by rain and caused by water damage that was done to the support beams.â€? Tom Bates Mayor ment complex was â€œstructurally unsafe and presented a collapse hazard,â€? and it ordered it demolished. Two other balconies were red-tagged, or declared off-limits, at the apartments, which were completed in 2007 and are popular among visiting students and those at the nearby University of California, Berkeley. Segue Construction, the Library Gardens general contractor, was involved in two San Francisco Bay Area lawsuits in recent years involving allegations of dry rot and substandard balconies at condo and apartment projects in Millbrae and San Jose. Among other things, Segue was accused of improperly waterproofing balconies. Both cases were settled in 2013 with Segue, developers and other parties agreeing to pay millions.

Regional bank OKâ€™d to buy Georgia bank Associated Press

TUPELO â€” Shareholders of Renasant Bank of Tupelo have approved the purchase of HeritageBank of the South â€” based in Albany, Georgia â€” in an all-stock deal. Shareholder approval came Tuesday. Regulatory agencies approval came in March. The merger will move Renasant into southern Georgia and northern Florida for the first time and slightly bolster the bankâ€™s position in the Atlanta and Birmingham, Alabama, markets.

Renasant announced the merger agreement in December. The merger is expected to be completed July 1, and it would be Renasantâ€™s largest acquisition in its 111-year history. Heritage brings about $1.9 billion in assets, bringing Renasantâ€™s total to $7.5 billion. It has offices in Mississippi, Alabama, Tennessee, Georgia and Florida. The merger also adds about 600 employees at 36 banking locations, 21 mortgage offices and five investment offices.

â€œNEWNESS OF LIFEâ€? Once a person has been baptized for the remission of sins, he is aâ€? new creature.â€? (2 Corinthians 5:17) Paul said to the saints at Rome that we have been â€œburied with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.â€?(Romans 6:4) Baptism of the penitent believer who has confessed Jesus as Godâ€™s Son puts one into a new relationship with God. Old sins are washed away (Acts 22: 16), and he or she is able to live a new and different life in Christ. What a great thought: to know that we can leave the burden, the baggage, and the condemnation of sin at the cross, and start over. There is a new purpose in our life. Paul wrote, â€œFor we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.â€?(Ephesians 2: 10) To Titus he wrote that Christ â€œgave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works. (Titus 2: 14) We no longer are living for the things of this world, we no longer belong to our selves, but have been called out of the world for higher and nobler causes. The old is cast off as a dirty garment, and a whole new spiritual wardrobe is acquired. â€œMortify (put to death) your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry: Put off all these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth. Lie not one to another, seeing that ye have put off the old man with his deeds; and have put on the new man .(Colossians 3:5 - 10) Clearly, Jesus requires us to live differently, if we are to wear his name. One cannot live in two worlds at the same time. One cannot travel two roads at the same time, and one cannot live for both God and Satan at the same time. This new life, if we live it to the end and do not depart from it, will lead us to eternal glory. Paul could confidently affirm that because he had â€œfought a good fight, finished my course, and kept the faith,â€? there was a â€œcrown of lifeâ€? awaiting him and all others who would be faithful in living this new life (2 Timothy 4:8) lf you would like to know more about this new life in Him, please call us. We invite you to study and worship with us at the Danville church of Chris!.

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Deaths Calvin â€˜Lesâ€™ Hooker

A graveside service for Calvin Leslie Hooker, 95, is set for 11 a.m. Friday at Forrest Memorial Park. Mr. Hooker passed away after a short illness on May 31, 2015, in Saint Petersburg, Fla., with his sons by his side. He was born in the Wenasoga community of Alcorn County on Jan. 23, 1920. He served in the Engineering Corp in Europe in World War II and was involved in all the major battles there. After the war he married Mary Frances Floyd of Danville and later moved to Memphis, Tenn., to work for Ford Motor Company. He moved to Amherst Ohio in 1958. He worked for Ford for over 30 years in Memphis and Lorain and Avon Lake, Ohio. After retirement, he moved to Dallas in 1989 with his second wife. In 2014, he relocated to Saint Petersburg, Fla. He was preceded in death by his wife, Mary Frances; his parents, Dewitt Hooker and Isola (Campbell) Hooker; his sisters, Doreen, Aileen and Deoma; and his brothers, Odell, Marcus and Kelsey. Survivors include his stepson, Sherrill (Mary Ann) Hudson of

Bro. Benny McKinney

TISHOMINGO â€” Funeral services for Bro. Benny McKinney, 69, are set for 11 a.m. Friday at Burgess Creek Freewill Baptist Church with burial at Belue Cemetery. Visitation begins at 6 p.m. today at the church. Bro. McKinney died Tuesday, June 16, 2015. Survivors include his wife, Quay McKinney of Tishomingo; a daughter, Angie Tilley (Dwight) of Wakefield, Kansas; one brother, Wade McKinney (Mary Jo) of Tennessee; two sisters, Teresa Farris (Larry) of Arizona and Neva Armstrong (Dennis) of Red Bay, Ala.; and two grandchildren, Cassidy Tilley and Devin Tilley. He was preceded in death by his parents, Haskel and Gladys McKinney, and a son, Benji Wayne McKinney. Bro. Danny Short and Bro. Malcolm Garrett will officiate the service under the direction of Ludlam Funeral Home.

Coral Gables, Fla.; two sons, Larry (Frank) of St. Petersburg Fla., and Jerry (Cindy) of South Amherst, Ohio; several grandchildren and great-grandchildren; and nieces and nephews. The family requests no flowers. Magnolia Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements. For online condolences: magnoliafuneralhome.net

Paul Swartz

Celebration of life for Paul â€œHappy Giantâ€? Swartz, 49, is set for 11 am. Friday at Memorial Funeral Home Chapel with Pastor Terrell Rowland, Tommy Wilson and Bobby Capps officiating. Visitation is Friday from 10 a.m. until the service. Mr. Swartz died Tuesday, June 16, 2015, at North Mississippi Medical Center. He was born December 31, 1965, in Corinth. He was a member of Calvary Baptist Church and attended Living Free Ministry. He was very active in the local NA chapter and was proud of receiving his five-year pin. He also served as secretary-treasurer for NA. He enjoyed fishing and singing. He was one that loved to

Aurther Middleton Sr.

OLIVE HILL, Tenn. â€” Memorial services for Aurther Lee â€œCurleyâ€? Middleton Sr., 86, are set for 4 p.m. Friday at the family residence in Olive Hill, Tenn., with burial at the Middleton Family Cemetery. Mr. Middleton died Friday, June 12, 2015, at his home in Olive Hill, Tenn. Survivors include a son, AurMiddleton ther Lee Middleton of Olive Hill, Tenn.; three daughters, Sharon Smith of Rienzi, Cindy Oliver of Savannah, Tenn., and Choney Shelby of Olive Hill, Tenn.; a brother, Ray Middleton of Savannah, Tenn.; a sister, Janie Dukes of Rainsville, Ala.; eight grandchildren; and four great-grandchildren. Pastor Kelly Turner will officiate the service under the direc-

laugh, had a servantâ€™s heart and loved the Lord. He was preceded in death by his father, James Rowland, and his mother, Peggy Essary Swartz. Survivors inSwartz clude his brother, Terrell (Margie) Rowland; a sister, Marcee (Allen) Whisenant; nephews Eric Davis and Tyler French; aunt Sandra (Tony) Parker; uncle Adrown (Diane) Essary; first cousins Suzanne (Stacy) Suggs, Candy (Jim) Fleming and Ashley (Brandon) Heintzelman; a host of second cousins that loved their â€œHappy Giant;â€? adopted father J.D. Swartz; and stepbrothers and stepsister Don Swartz, Kelly Swartz and Janet Range. Local NA chapter members will serve as honorary pallbearers. Memorial contributions may be made to Living Free Ministries, P.O. Box 224, Corinth, MS 38835. For online condolences: www. memorialcorinth.com tion of Grayson Funeral Services of Corinth. Attendees are asked to bring lawn chairs.

Gaye Parnell

IUKA â€” Funeral services for Gaye Cole Parnell, 95, are set for 1 p.m. Saturday at New Salem Baptist Church with burial at New Salem Cemetery. Visitation is Friday from 5 until 8 p.m. at Cutshall Funeral Home in Iuka. The body will lie in state one hour prior to service time. Mrs. Parnell died Tuesday, June 16, 2015, at Tishomingo Community Living Center in Iuka. She was a homemaker and a hairdresser for several years. She was a member of the Eastern Star and New Salem Baptist Church. Survivors include a son, Thomas C. Parnell (Denise) of Iuka, and three granddaughters, Mandy, Sydney and Briely. She was preceded in death by her husband, Clayton Parnell. Bro. Jimmy Daniel will officiate the service.

Prosecutor: Worker discussed killing with inmates Associated Press

PLATTSBURGH, N.Y. â€” A prison worker charged with helping two convicted murderers escape from a maximum-security facility had discussed hiring them to kill her husband, a district attorney confirmed Wednesday. Clinton County District Attorney Andrew Wylie said at a news conference that Joyce Mitchell had talked to inmates Richard Matt and David Sweat about a murder-for-hire plot involving her husband, Lyle. Both Joyce Mitchell and Lyle Mitchell work at the Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora, near the Canadian border. Sweat and Matt escaped from the 170-year-

old prison on June 6. Lyle Mitchell arrived at the state police barracks in Malone with his attorney late Wednesday morning to talk to authorities, the Press-Republican of Plattsburgh reported. Investigators have no information that Lyle Mitchell knew about the escape plan or assisted in it, Wylie said. Meanwhile, state police expanded the search for the killers beyond a 16-squaremile area of woods, fields and swamps where the manhunt has been most intense. Police stepped up roving patrols and were checking the hundreds, if not thousands, of seasonal homes and hunting camps in the region. Officials said the num-

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cautioned that the lack of evidence doesnâ€™t mean the escapees are somewhere near the prison. Sweat, 35, was serving a life sentence without parole in the killing of a sheriffâ€™s deputy. Matt, 48, was doing 25 years to life for the kidnap, torture and hacksaw dismemberment of his former boss. Joyce Mitchell is charged with helping the killers flee by providing them with hacksaw blades, chisels and other tools.

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municating rules and expectations to parents and students, putting special emphasis on the â€œessential 50â€? during the first two weeks of school, and transforming the climate and culture. The effort will address one of the two recommendations from the accrediting agency AdvancED, which found that the district needs a formal advocacy program for all students. Superintendent Lee Childress said elementary school teachers are able to build relationships with their small classes,

but that diminishes as students move on to higher grades. â€œThatâ€™s the challenge schools face,â€? he said. â€œNathanâ€™s staff has chosen to address it, and itâ€™s far better for them to choose to address it from within than for us to say, â€˜Hereâ€™s how weâ€™re going to address it.â€™â€? It is hoped that the effort will result in fewer behavior problems, increased attendance and better academic performance. The effort is the type of initiative that the district envisions being supported financially by the proposed Foundation for Excellence in Education.

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