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Co-defendant pleads in shooting BY JEBB JOHNSTON jjohnston@dailycorinthian.com

An Alabama man received a suspended sentence and probation for his role in an April 2015 shooting that left a Corinth man seriously injured. Steven Bradley Pharr, 39, of Red Bay, Ala., pleaded guilty to a reduced charge of accessory

after the fact in Alcorn County Circuit Court. He was originally charged with drive-by shooting after an incident that injured Thomas Rogers and DeMichael Morrison, both of Corinth. Pharr’s 10-year sentence was suspended, and he must serve five years of probation. He was ordered to pay restitu-

tion of $15,909.60 to Magnolia Regional Health Center jointly with co-defendant Jodi Ann Haney, also of Red Bay, Ala. He was ordered to have no contact with Rogers and Morrison and agreed to testify against Haney. At the time of the arrest of Pharr and Haney, the Corinth Police Department reported

that the two pursued Rogers and Morrison into a parking lot on Cass Street adjacent to Southgate shopping center. Haney allegedly pointed a handgun out the window of the truck the two were driving and fired one shot into the car occupied by Rogers and Morrison. The bullet struck Rogers, the

driver, in the back left shoulder area, and grazed the abdomen of Morrison, the passenger. Rogers attempted to drive to the hospital but crashed on Highway 72 near Galyean Road. He was flown to Regional One in Memphis and Morrison was treated and released at Magnolia Regional.

Foundation renders first aid to officers BY JEBB JOHNSTON jjohnston@dailycorinthian.com

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Linda Mills (left) and Bobbie Shadburn get clothes ready for “Operation Back to School.”

Back to School program returns BY STEVE BEAVERS sbeavers@dailycorinthian.com

KOSSUTH — “Operation Back to School” is more than just providing school supplies. Kossuth United Methodist Church is using the event to reach families with the love of

Jesus. Members of the church are getting another chance to let their light shine for Jesus Christ when “Operation Back to School” returns for a fourth straight year on July 23. “We want these families to

Corinth receives 2016 national accreditation BY JEBB JOHNSTON jjohnston@dailycorinthian.com

Main Street Corinth picked up national accreditation again for 2016. The downtown-boosting organization is one of a number across the state, including Booneville, recently announced as accredited by the National Main Street Center. “As a perennially certified community, this is nothing new for Corinth,” said Main Street Corinth Director Brent Johnson, “but it does showcase that we are staying on par with other communities, not only in Mississippi but across the nation. This means that downtown Corinth,

see Jesus in us,” said church pastor Bro. Mark Nail. “Our folks here are sharing Jesus with people through this event.” “Operation Back to School” Please see SCHOOL | 2

When a person is shot or has a bad wreck, the first help to arrive is often a law enforcement officer. Corinth police officers and Alcorn County deputies are getting better equipped to render aid to individuals in such situations that require major wound management. The Magnolia Foundation on Monday donated 60 level 2 first aid kits to the police department and sheriff’s department, and the foundation also aims to provide training to officers on an ongoing basis. “If you’ve got a school shooting or if you’ve got a mass casualty somewhere, your first responders are oftentimes your police rather than anybody else,” said Dr. Matt Johnson. “That’s why it’s critical they have this.” Police Chief Ralph Dance said the kits are something the department has wanted for some time. They can be used to provide self-aid or aid to another person for severe hemorrhage and inadequate airway.

“We couldn’t afford them out of the budget,” he said. “We talked to the hospital about it and the foundation. They were great to put all of this together and donate them to us. We really appreciate it.” Officers have already had some training on how to stop bleeding and the use of tourniquets. “We pull up on a lot of trauma cases that we are the first on the scene,” said Dance. “Fire is not far off, but you’re talking maybe a minute, a minute and a half.” And that short amount of time could be the difference in life or death. The kits contain the type of tourniquet that is credited with saving the life of Mississippi Highway Patrol officer Trea Staples, who received a severe femoral artery injury during the February hostage situation in Tishomingo County. “The foundation’s mission is not only to support the hospital but to support our communities,” said Foundation Director Tracy Moore. “We feel like Please see OFFICERS | 2

People of the Crossroads Ladron Tucker, Michie, Tenn.

specifically the historic preservation district, is meeting the benchmarks we need to not only survive but to thrive in our everchanging and evolving world.” The organization coordinates the annual Christmas parade, festivals, downtown landscaping and other programs. Each local Main Street organization’s performance is annually evaluated by the Mississippi Main Street Association and the National Main Street Center on 10 performance standards. The evaluation considers whether the communities are building comprehensive and Please see ACCREDITATION | 2

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Instant gratification is a big deal in Ladron Tucker’s line of work. “Some people do a job and never know how it turns out. What’s great about my job is I get a instant reward – I get to see the finished product,” said Tucker, who has owned Creative Stoneworks, a granite counter-top install company based in West Tennessee, for more than 16 years. “I started the business in my grandfather’s three-walled barn, and thankfully business got good and I had to build my own shop.” Married to Julie, the couple have three children – Hayden, 11; Harrison, 8; and Julian, 3. Although they live in Michie, the Tuckers are often seen in Corinth. “The boys take karate and Julian takes dance classes in Corinth, so we are well rooted in Corinth, that’s for sure.”

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Churches join forces for special prayer service BY STEVE BEAVERS sbeavers@dailycorinthian.com

SELMER, Tenn. — A pair of west Tennessee churches did what was right on Sunday night. They prayed. First Baptist and Cypress Creek Baptist Church joined together for a special

prayer service four days after five Dallas Police Officers were gunned down and seven others wounded in the deadliest single day for law enforcement oﬃcers since Sept. 11, 2001. “The reason we are here tonight to pray for police oﬃcers is because its bibli-

cal,” said First Baptist pastor Joey Johnson. “It’s our responsibility as Christian citizens … our police oﬃcers need prayer.” Johnson encouraged the two churches to pray for wisdom, courage and protection for the police. “They have one of the

most difficult and demanding jobs,” he said. “Police officers are the targets now and they are the only ones who stand between a civil society and total anarchy.” Johnson’s late father, Bob, was a police officer for over 40 years.

“I watched him strap on a gun and leave, never knowing if he would be back,” said Johnson. “Police oﬃcers are willing to die for us and there is never a time when they aren’t available.” Cliﬀord Wynn, pastor of Cypress Creek Baptist

Church, believes community churches should come together more. “This is what God wants us to do,” said Wynn of the special service. “We are the only Bible most people see and we need to demonstrate the love of God to others.”

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Representatives of the Magnolia Foundation presented 60 level 2 first aid kits to the Corinth Police Department and Alcorn County Sheriff’s Department.

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it’s extremely important to support law enforcement in what they are trying to do. In light of what’s going on in the world, there is not a better time for this to happen.” The foundation previously provided automated external defibrillator machines for all city and county patrol cars and the Alcorn School District campuses at a

cost of approximately $34,000. The foundation also funded startup and medication grants for the Living Healthy Free Medical Clinic created by Dr. Tommy Sweat and the Kids Get Fit program with CocaCola, focusing on a curriculum of good nutrition and proper exercise. Moore said the foundation, founded in 1980, has renewed its commitment to supporting community projects.

BAY ST. LOUIS — Officials with Aerojet Rocketdyne say assembly and testing of its AR1 advanced liquid rocket engine will take place at NASA’s Stennis Space Center in Mississippi. As a result, the company is expanding its Center of Excellence for Large Liquid Rocket Engine Assembly and Test. The AR1 is being developed to support the country’s mandate to eliminate U.S. reliance on the Russian RD-180 engine for national security space launches by 2019. Aerojet Rocketdyne’s

facility at Stennis Space Center is already home for assembly and testing of the RS-68 engine that powers the Delta IV family of launch vehicles, and the RS-25 engine that will power NASA’s Space Launch System America’s newest heavy lift launch vehicle in development, set to be the most powerful rocket in the world. As part of the buildup for RS-25 assembly and testing, Aerojet Rocketdyne is locating its RS 25 low pressure turbopump assembly to the company’s facility at Stennis Space Center.

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Magnolia Foundation President Dr. Scott Bauer (left) and Dr. Matt Johnson (center) look over items in the level 2 first aid kit with Police Chief Ralph Dance.

sustainable revitalization eﬀorts, fostering strong public-private partnerships, securing an operating budget, tracking program progress and actively preserving historic buildings. Mississippi Main Street touts nearly $4.9 million in private and public investment since 1993.

The organization says Main Street cities in 2015 generated 178 net new businesses, 49 business expansions to existing businesses, 1,695 net new jobs, 61 facade rehabilitations and 225 downtown residential units. More than 47,377 volunteer hours were recorded. Mississippi currently has 52 active Main Street cities.

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Charles King (left) and Bert Mills fill a book bag with school supplies.

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– an extension of the church’s Forever, Unending, Eternal, Love (FUEL) after school program – begins at 7 a.m. and ends when nothing is left at L.C. Follin Christian Life Center next to the Kossuth High School gym. “This is a vehicle to serve,” said church member Bert Mills. “It gives us a chance to do what Jesus would do if He was here.” During the yard sale, school supplies along with new and gently used clothing will be available to the public. A food box, containing non-perishable food items, will also be awarded with everything distributed coming at no cost for those who receive it. “Kids need so many things, but love and attention are the most impor-

tant,” said Charles King. “Seeing their faces when they receive even a small thing is a reward worth more than money.” Book bags will be stuﬀed with age appropriate school supplies. A large collection of clothes will also be distributed. “Our attic is full of clothes,” said FUEL Coordinator Anthia FollinKing. “We don’t turn anyone away.” The church plans to buy new underwear and socks for all ages to go along with the donated clothes. “It’s pretty tough when families have to buy all the supplies required for four or five kids,” added Mills. “We want to do anything we can do to eliminate the burden put on families,” added Linda Davis. Each church member involved in the event said

they receive the biggest reward. “The satisfaction is knowing we are trying to meet the needs of the community,” said FollinKing. “We get a blessing more than the kids.” “It has made me a stronger Christian … I see how blessed I am,” added Davis. “What we have been able to accomplish is all through what the Lord has provided.” Kossuth United Methodist Church doesn’t want to be the lone church stepping out to help those in need. “It would be great to see every church set a time once a year or so to give all they could in service to those in need,” said Linda Mills. (For more information about “Operation Back to School” call First United Methodist Church at 2877519.)

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Today in History Today is Tuesday, July 12, the 194th day of 2016. There are 172 days left in the year.

Today’s Highlight in History: On July 12, 1984, Democratic presidential candidate Walter F. Mondale announced his choice of U.S. Rep. Geraldine A. Ferraro of New York to be his running-mate; Ferraro was the first woman to run for vice president on a major-party ticket.

On this date: In 1543, England’s King Henry VIII married his sixth and last wife, Catherine Parr. In 1862, during the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln signed a bill authorizing the Army Medal of Honor. In 1909, the House of Representatives joined the Senate in passing the 16th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, allowing for a federal income tax, and submitted it to the states. In 1948, the Democratic National Convention, which nominated President Harry S. Truman for a second term of office, opened in Philadelphia. In 1957, President Dwight D. Eisenhower was flown by helicopter from the White House to a secret mountaintop location as part of a drill involving a mock nuclear attack on Washington. In 1967, six days of race-related rioting erupted in Newark, New Jersey; the violence claimed 26 lives. In 1975, the African island nation of San Tome and Principe became independent of Portugal. In 1988, Democratic presidential candidate Michael S. Dukakis tapped Sen. Lloyd Bentsen of Texas as his running-mate. In 1991, a Japanese professor (Hitoshi Igarashi) who had translated Salman Rushdie’s “The Satanic Verses” was found stabbed to death, nine days after the novel’s Italian translator was attacked in Milan.

Across the Region Iuka Man faces charges for failure to report IUKA — A Iuka man has been charged by police for failing to report as a sex offender. Andrew Blake Yandell, 24, of 709 West Third Street in Iuka was arrested by the Tishomingo Sheriff’s Department last week and was charged for failure to register as a sex offender. Yandell’s prior address was in the Belmont area and he had failed to notify the Sheriff’s Department of his recent change. Yandell is currently in custody of the Tishomingo County Jail where he is charged with Felony charges from Belmont Police Department. He also has a warrant from the Town of Golden. Yandell’s bond was set at $50,000.

Booneville Qualifying continues in justice court race BOONEVILLE — The race for Northern District Justice Court Judge in Prentiss County stands at 12 candidates. Qualifying for the special election continues until 5 p.m. Sept. 9. The 12 candidates who have qualified are: Richard Franklin, Joe Grooms, Donna Lambert Inman, Sabrina King Hall, Jo Carol Knight, Tara Lauderdale, Kevin Lindley, Jeff Prentiss, Billy Sartin, Tonyia Strickland, Richard Tollison and Billy N. Williams. The Nov. 8 special election is to fill the post previously held by Debra Moore who did not seek reelection in 2015. Her husband, Trent Moore, was appointed to serve until the special election.

Tupelo Weekend protest concludes in peace TUPELO — Tupelo police officers broke up a protest Friday night that was held regarding the recent police shootings across the country.

The gathering at Crosstown started small but had grown to where people and vehicles had filled the parking lot at the CVS drug store, according to WTVA. Mayor Jason Shelton originally told protesters they could be there even though they didn’t have a permit. But those involved say the size of the crowd and the lack of a permit led officers to go in and send people home. “White and black were pulling over their cars,” said protester Shon Cunningham of Nettleton. “People pulled over and gave us water out here. The city of Tupelo is not a bad place. But the way the officers came in and separated things, that’s what made it look like we were doing something wrong. Everything was very peaceful. Everything was nice. Even the officers were kind when they came up and they asked us to move.” Police moved into the parking lot around 9 p.m. The protesters were gone by 10 p.m. It doesn’t appear officers had any problems clearing the area.

Columbus Welty symposium lineup announced COLUMBUS — Novelist Brad Watson returns as the keynote speaker at the 28th annual Eudora Welty Writers’ Symposium, Oct. 20-22, reading from his new novel, “Miss Jane.” Watson is the author of short story collections “Last Days of the Dog Men” and “Aliens in the Prime of Their Lives” as well the novel “The Heaven of Mercury,” which was a finalist for the National Book Award. “Miss Jane” is loosely based on the story of Watson’s great-aunt, who had a rare birth defect that left her unable to bear children, incontinent and ill-suited for marriage. Set in rural 1920s Mississippi, the novel surrounds its main character with the lushly fecund natural world, even as she is defined as “barren” and lives a mostly solitary exis-

tence. Kirkus Reviews calls the novel “A well-written portrait of a person whose rich inner life outstrips the limits of her body,” arguing the Watson’s dry writing “captures the simple things that bring his character joy.” With its exploration of deep family secrets, “Miss Jane” is a fitting starting point for this year’s symposium theme, “Overcoming the Silence: To speak out when “‘It warrants no stir.’” The theme is taken from Eudora Welty’s story “The Demonstrators,” which was published in The New Yorker in 1966 and appears in The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty. Other writers who will participate in the symposium include: Dana Carpenter (“Bohemian Gospel”), Becky Hagenston (“Scavengers”), Randall Horton (“Hook: A Memoir”), Richard Lyons (“Un Poco Loco”), Cole Lavalais (“Summer of the Cicadas”), David Armand (“My Mother’s House”), James Kimbrell (“Smote”) and others.

Starkville MSU must update drone policy again STARKVILLE — The Federal Aviation Administration has released new regulations for flying unmanned aircraft systems. This means flyers across the world will have to keep up, including Mississippi State University programs. Out of 20 universities, Mississippi State leads the Federal Aviation Authority’s National Center of Excellence for Unmanned Aircraft Research. “You may have aircraft from Columbus air-force base doing touch and go’s. You may have general aviation that may fly out of there. All of those have people in the cockpit. Well, can we land unmanned aircraft?,” Director of the Geosystem Research Institute Robert Moorehead said. The focus of doing the research is to help the FAA develop policies to integrate unmanned aircraft systems also

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after being shot twice by former Columbus Police Officer Canyon Boykin on October 16th, 2015. Now, a Grand Jury will wade through the extensive investigation, dozens of tests and numerous interviews and videos to decide whether Boykin committed a crime or was justified. “It’s the most significant investigation report I’ve seen since I’ve been District Attorney,” Colom said. “It’s three binders. They did a thorough investigation. It looks like they interviewed as many people as they could.”

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COLUMBUS — District Attorney Scott Colom stood outside the Lowndes County courthouse last week to announce his office is going to have the state attorney general present to a Grand Jury the state’s investigation into the shooting death of Ricky Ball, according to WTVA. “I’ve decided based on my review of the report, my considerations of the best policy in these officer-involved shootings is to refer the case to the Attorney General’s office,” Colom said. Five weeks after he received the final report from the Mississippi Bureau of Investigation, Colom says it only makes sense to have a third party handle it to remove any hint of bias. That’s especially since members of the black community reached out to him early this year to push for justice. “This case has gotten a lot of attention,” Colom said. “With the national climate I understand that. We must remember the decision must be based on facts and evidence. Speculation and rumors, you can’t indict somebody based on that.” An autopsy shows 26-year-old Ball died

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When a child has Type I Diabetes BY LYNN FITCH Mississippi Treasurer

The choice was made and I was helpless. My daughter was diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes, and this ever so cruel and painful chronic disease had chosen my precious child. As a mother, my immediate reaction was to hold her and tell her that all would be fine and that I could give her some medicine and she would be all better shortly. However, the reality is that Type 1 Diabetes never goes away, and that it takes daily supplies of insulin, needles, meter strips and an insulin pump to keep that beautiful daughter alive. This is a life or death message when you hear your child has Type 1 Diabetes. The only way to have continued life for my child and all those thousands of children diagnosed every day was to be reassured that those medical needs would be met. The very breath was taken out of me when that warning sank in. I had to come to grips that this disease was going to rob my child of a sense of a normal life. So the new norm becomes one of thousands of finger pricks, counting carbs, waking up on a schedule to check her blood sugar, and to administer shots. And as another side eﬀect of how this awful disease rips your family to pieces, my other children watched my daughter give herself shots daily and many times up to seven shots a day. This ever-present disease never stops. Now, my other children have to be checked often to make sure Type 1 is not invading their lives as well. This disease is not hereditary and yet can hit any child at any given age. The new norm means numerous trips to numerous doctors, hospital stays, and of course countless trips to purchase the life thread supplies. Each and every one of those supplies is extremely costly even if you have insurance. This disease strips families of financial stability because those dollars that might have been saved away must be spent to sustain that child’s life. The Type 1 Diabetes nightmare does not end at a certain age but engulfs that child’s existence into adulthood because insulin dependency is forever. After the initial watershed of tears, we all began to face the fear of this dreadful disease and how we would rise to take on Type 1 Diabetes. The love of a parent for a child is powerful, and you will do anything and everything to make the life of your child as comfortable as possible taking on a chronic disease. Tears, smiles, and pain still exist in my sweet child’s life. My daughter is now a very strong young woman who meets this disease every day and stands up to the trauma her body is hit with every hour on the hour but she does so with the ever so necessary insulin and other medical supplies. Always the ultimate goal is research to end this devastating disease. As a board member of the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF) for many years, my entire family has been involved with enlightening others about the true story of Type 1 Diabetes and the hope of the cure. As God leads us through these trials and tribulations, there is that true hope that one day there will be a cure for this disease and no other parent has to hear those words that their child has been diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes.

Prayer for today Lord Jehovah, help me to learn how to be strong and brave, that I may not remain in fear and weakness. Help me to conquer unworthiness, and to overcome discouragements, that I may be spared the needless battles that are brought on through impatience and selfishness. Keep my soul in repose, that I may add to my conquering strength. Amen.

A verse to share “Wilt thou not revive us again: that thy people may rejoice in thee?” Psalms 85:6

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Nation’s deep divide over police and race STARKVILLE — Unfortunately, the perception is that there are two sets of rules, two sets of standards, two sets of laws in this nation and particularly in this state when it comes to race – one for blacks and another for whites. Perhaps an even more pervasive perception is that there is another dual set of rules, standards, and laws when it comes to “haves” and “have-nots” when it comes to crime and punishment. In Mississippi, the poorest state in America, those perceptions meld into a general distrust of law enforcement oﬃcers, the judiciary and “the system” and spell increased danger for the vast majority of brave, honorable men and women who wear a badge and are charged with keeping all of us safe. There’s no single set of statistics that explain those perceptions better than these – the racial composition of the state’s population compared to the racial composition of the state’s prison population. The Census Bureau indicates that Mississippi’s population is 59 percent white and 37 percent black, with the remaining four percent split between Hispanic, Asian, American In-

dians, mixed race citizens and other races. But the state’s p r i s o n population Sid Salter as of June was 66 perColumnist cent black, 32 percent white, and the remaining two percent split between other races. While a few percentage points less, the state’s probation and parole statistics reflect the same racial disparities. So the basis for the distrust of law enforcement and the judicial system by blacks can be quantified in terms that we can all understand. So, too, some would argue, can the racial divide be argued from the perspective of whites who perceive themselves to be in greater danger from black criminals than from white criminals. Statistics from the U.S. Bureau of Justice’s National Crime Victimization Survey suggest that those otherwise irrational fears have a statistical basis in that in 2013 - of the approximately 660,000 crimes of interracial violence that involved blacks and whites - blacks were the perpetrators 85 percent of the time. Of course, the “chance

encounter” argument – which takes into account that there are five times as many whites as blacks in the American population – lessens the impact of the initial analyses of those numbers. But the balance of those statistics rarely make it into the increasingly heated debate of crime statistics. Again, we’re talking perception here – the stuff of social media rants. The myriad of incidents in venues like Ferguson, Baltimore, and now in Dallas – and here at home in Mississippi in venues like Tupelo – in which black citizens question police actions or responses that have resulted in injury or death to black victims tend to reinforce perceptions on both sides of the racial divide. Caught in the middle, unfortunately, are the very law enforcement officers who put their lives on the line every day to keep us all safe. The carnage for law enforcement is shocking. According to the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund, A total of 1,439 law enforcement officers died in the line of duty during the past 10 years, an average of one death every 61 hours or 144 per year. There were 123 law enforcement officers killed in the line of duty in 2015.

In 2014, there were 15,725 assaults against law enforcement officers that resulted in 13,824 injuries. Since the first known line-of-duty death in 1791, more than 20,789 U.S. law enforcement officers have made the ultimate sacrifice – including Mississippi Bureau of Narcotics Special Agent Lee Tartt on Feb. 20. Clearly, these competing perceptions have created an increasingly dangerous reality. Fear and distrust of the police is real by blacks in America. A Pew Research Center study after the Ferguson incident and subsequent protests showed that 65 percent of blacks believed the police response to the protests went too far, compared to just 33 percent of whites. Mississippi has the highest percentage African American population in the nation. If America’s problems are the perceptions that blacks can’t trust law enforcement officers and that those same officers have an irrational fear of black men, the point where perception meets reality is that no state needs to find answers to these problems more urgently than do Mississippians. (Sid Salter is a syndicated columnist. Contact him sidsalter@sidsalter.com.)

Technology serves an update OXFORD — Some say “leapfrog.” Tennis terms are better. Technology serves an update. The return can be a lob, or it could be a rocket. But there is always a return. No aces. Then another serve, then another return. It really could be a sport, this one-upping the permeates our daily lives. This month, with limited fanfare, the three elected members of the Mississippi Public Service Commission have been traversing the state to encourage people to enroll in the new and improved “No Call” service. What’s new and improved? As a weapon against telemarketers, we’ve been able to enroll our wired phones in the state (and federal) no-call database since 2003. In 2015, the Legislature expanded the law to cell phones. (The feds had already done this.) The techno-history is fun. In the late 1980s, phone companies started pitching the idea of Enhanced 911 emergency services. Centralized dispatching had been around since 1970 – meaning people no longer

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had to dial the police or the sheriﬀ or the highway patrol or the fire department or Charlie the ambuMitchell lance service separately. Columnist Digital technology added a big plus — dispatchers could instantly see the address connected to the phone from which a call was being placed. Customer bills were increased to pay the big fees phone companies charged for access to proprietary data, but that’s not relevant here. This was Flash Gordon stuﬀ. People got service faster. That’s what mattered. Anyway, in rapid fashion Caller ID became available to all. Not such a big deal. Today, it’s ho-hum to know who is calling. Back then it was an absolute marvel. About the same time, computer-driven dialing was developed. It was a bonanza for sellers of goods and services — or so they thought. Phone owners who didn’t purchase Caller ID

were at their mercy. Phone owners who did purchase Caller ID were soon oﬀered another purchase — Call Blocking — so calls from identified sources would be rejected. See? Each development begets another development. Back and forth. Cell phones, like wired phones, now almost always come equipped with technology to show who is calling and to block calls from identified numbers. One answer from the creative (sneaky) minds in telemarketing has, to date, been to place calls from a variety of numbers. The same company selling the same thing might call from a Nebraska number, then Montana, then California. In theory, the company would not be able to use this dodge if a cell number is on the nocall list. There are exceptions, of course. Political organizations, charities and telephone surveyors are not required to screen out numbers on the lists. Yes, Donald will be calling, as will Hillary. So will pollsters, as well as advocates for Don-

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ald or Hillary who try to sound like pollsters. The most common exception is “existing business relationship.” No Call does not apply to any entity with which a person has had a commercial exchange in the past 18 months. (There’s a really sneaky end run in this context. If a person receives an email, say, from a vacation club, opens it and asks or answers any question the person has established a business relationship and can be called 20 times a day.) So let the game continue. In this and so many other contexts — some pretty serious (identity theft) and some not-so-serious (video game cheats) — one advance leads a protective response. Think about all the software writers and computer programmers who go to work every day with one goal: outfox the other guys. Just as at a tennis match, we’re on the sidelines. We watch and (when we’re not cursing) we marvel. (Charlie Mitchell is a Mississippi journalist. Write to him at cmitchell43@yahoo. com.)

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Sheriff: Inmate killed 2 bailiffs The Associated Press

ST. JOSEPH, Mich. — A jail inmate trying to escape from a western Michigan courthouse wrested a gun from an officer Monday, killing two bailiffs and injuring two more people before he was fatally shot by other officers, a sheriff said. People inside the building scrambled for cover at the Berrien County Courthouse in St. Joseph in the southwestern cor-

ner of Michigan, about 100 miles northeast of Chicago. “Our hearts are torn apart. ... I have known them for over 30 years. It’s a sad day,” Sheriff Paul Bailey said of the bailiffs. The inmate, locked up on several charges, was being moved from a cell for a courtroom appearance when a fight occurred and he was able to disarm an officer, Bailey said. The sheriff did not

say what charges the inmate was facing. He shot a sheriff’s deputy, killed the bailiffs and then shot a civilian in the arm in a public area, the sheriff said. The inmate then was fatally shot “by two other bailiffs who came to render aid, along with several other officers,” Bailey said. “He was trying to escape,” the sheriff said. The injuries suffered by the deputy and the civil-

ian aren’t considered lifethreatening. Authorities had not yet released the names of anyone involved. Bailey also said Monday evening that he didn’t yet have all of the details on the shooting, including whether the inmate was handcuﬀed at the time. Appearing with Bailey and other law enforcers, Gov. Rick Snyder called it a “terrible day in a wonderful community.”

West Point woman Psychiatric escapee cleared of murder planned bombing The Associated Press

COLUMBUS — A 26-year-old West Point woman will no longer face a capital murder charge in the death of her son. District Attorney Scott Colom told The Commercial Dispatch his office has filed a motion to dismiss the charges after a toxicologist’s analysis revealed that Britannia Smith couldn’t have given her infant child enough cough syrup to fatally poison him. Smith was indicted in April 2014 for capital murder. Colom’s oﬃce said the indictment was based on the allegation that she committed felony child abuse when she deliberately gave her child

enough cough syrup containing codeine and guaifenesin to kill him. Colom said his oﬃce found there wasn’t enough scientific evidence to support that claim. Though he said the autopsy revealed the child died from being poisoned by those drugs, the amount ingested, coupled with the child exhibiting no other signs of abuse, cast doubt on whether the infant’s death was intentional. Colom said the capital murder charge was the only charge pending against Smith. However, he said his oﬃce will review her file to determine if any other charges against Smith should be brought before a grand jury.

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SEATTLE — A patient accused of torturing a woman to death before escaping from a troubled Washington state psychiatric hospital earlier this year also had a fascination with the Islamic State group and planned to blow up a state building, newly released documents revealed. Detectives who investigated Anthony Garver’s escape from Western State Hospital south of Seattle also found that he had threatened to kill a federal judge and previously was caught with bomb-making materials. Despite an extensive criminal history and a

pattern of evading authorities, Garver lived in a ground-floor room, where he spent five months loosening his window frame before escaping through it April 6 with another violent patient. It took almost two hours for hospital oﬃcials to report the escape to Lakewood police — a delay that concerned oﬃcers and detectives working the case, according to police reports acquired by The Associated Press. Garver’s head-start allowed him to hop a bus across the state to Spokane, where he used self-described survivalist skills to hide from authorities for two days.

Watchdogs: Police shootings fuel extremism The Associated Press

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — The public backlash against police shootings of black people is helping fuel the growth of black hate groups, some of which advocate retaliatory violence against law enforcement, watchdog groups said Monday. The Southern Poverty Law Center counted 113 groups advocating black separatism, black supremacy or some other extreme, black-centric ideology in the United States in 2014. By the end of 2015, in the aftermath of last year’s killing of a black man by a white police oﬃcer in Ferguson, Missouri, the number had grown to 180, an increase of nearly 60 percent in less than a year. The center says the number of Ku Klux Klan groups grew even more during the same period, but experts say much of that change was linked to the splintering of larger groups rather than real growth. No one knows exactly how many people have been drawn to black extremist groups, but there’s no reason to believe the growth of violent ideology is slowing. Last week’s protests of police shootings in Louisiana and Minnesota have only spread since a black sniper killed five police oﬃcers at a demonstration in Dallas. “It draws people to their ranks, people who are mad about what is going on with law enforcement,” said Heidi Beirich, director of the Alabama-based center’s Intelligence Project, which tracks extrem-

ist organizations. People who join such organizations might not pose the biggest threat anyway, said Oren Segal of the Anti-Defamation League. He agrees that killings by police and the ensuing protests provide fuel for black extremist groups, but believes exact numbers are hard to pin down. “The most dangerous are those who don’t join anything, who get inspired by the militancy or hate, who get influenced by the rhetoric, and act on their own,” said Segal, who directs the ADL’s Center on Extremism. Dallas gunman Micah Xavier Johnson apparently fell into this category: The 25-year-old Army veteran wasn’t known to be an active member of any group, but he was on Facebook, and followed the feeds of the New Black Panther Party and the Black Riders Liberation Party. He also “liked” the African-American Defense League, which formed in 2014 and advocates violence against police and white people in general. The group has gathered more than 870 “likes” on its Facebook page, whose cover photo still showed dozens of military-style weapons days after Johnson killed five white oﬃcers. Beirich said the Intelligence Project tracks hate groups through methods including its own research, reports by media and law enforcement, the groups’ own publications, and social media. Some radical black religious organizations also

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have houses of worship or book stores that can be counted, she said. But determining a group’s true size and reach can be diﬃcult, said the ADL’s Segal. For example, he said, the New Black Panther Party is considered a “hard-core hate group” and members have advocated violence against police, yet it typically stages few events where watchdogs can count members, as they do with the KKK or the National Alliance, which are considered white hate groups. Instead, he said, black extremists often join in demonstrations, and sometimes incite others in the crowd. Adding to the diﬃculty is the fact that some black extremist groups use their advocacy of common so-

cial issues like eradicating poverty or improving education as a doorway to lead people down a path of militancy, he said. “They take legitimate social issues that people care about and infuse them with their brand of hatred,” said Segal. The KKK once did the same thing, billing itself as a group that helped poor Southerners even as members were blamed for racial violence. And similar to black extremists, the KKK reported an increase in followers after oﬃcials removed Confederate flags in the South following the shooting that killed nine people last year at a black church in Charleston, South Carolina. “(The Klan) took that as a direct attack on one of their symbols,” Beirich said.

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Deaths Ruby Mask

Celebration of life for Ruby Marcele Mask, 91, of Corinth, is set for 2 p.m. Tuesday at McPeters Inc. Funeral Directors Chapel with Bro. Ralph Culp officiating. Burial will be at Forrest Memorial Park. Visitation is from 12 noon until the service. Mrs. Mask died Saturday, July 9, 2016, at Cornerstone Health and Rehab. She was born Nov. 20, 1924, in the Hinkle community. She was a longtime member of East Corinth Baptist Church and a retired sales clerk for Kent’s and Shainburg’s. She is preceded in death by her husband, Leroy Mask; a brother, Ray Marcele; sister Irene Bynum. She is survived by her son, Larry Mask, and his wife, Janie; a brother, James Roy Marcele; grandchildren Todd and Casey Mask; one great-grandchild; two step-grandchildren; and four step-great grandchildren; special friend Vonnie King; and a host of other family and friends. Online guestbook: mcpetersfuneraldirectors. com

Dorothy ‘Dot’ White

Funeral services for Dorothy Leona Grissom White, 90, are set for 10:30 a.m. Wednesday at Magnolia Funeral Home Chapel of Memories with burial at Farmington Baptist Church Cemetery. Visitation is Tuesday from 5 until 8 p.m. and Wednesday from 9:30 a.m. until the service. Ms. White died Sunday, July 10, 2016, at Longwood Nursing Home in Booneville. Born Nov. 20, 1925, she was the retired owner of Kids World Day Care. She worked at White Weaver Pants Factory, The Sewing Basket and Walmart and also sewed for the public. A devout Christian and a member of Central Baptist Church, she was loved by many. Survivors include a brother, Avon Grissom of Corinth; a sister, Irene Mincy of Corinth; a special great-nephews, Trey Grissom; caregivers Peggy Winters and her husband, Russ, Maury Grissom and Linda and Wayne Odle; and a host of nieces, nephews, other family members and friends. She was preceded in death by her parents, William Elbert “Jack” Grissom and Bessie Bonds Grissom; a brother, Leonard Cornelius (Audie); sisters Ethel Cornelius (Mark), Claudie V. Grissom and Lela Mae Grissom; a sister-in-law, Norma Grissom; and a brother-in-law, Roy Mincy. Pallbearers are Maury Grissom Jr., Trey Grissom, Johnny Mincy, Randy Cornelius, Barry Barnett, Wayne Odle and Benson Skelton. Bro. Frank Wilson and Charlie Browning will oﬃciate the service. Online guestbook: magnoliafuneralhome.net

Donald O. King Sr.

Donald O. King Sr., 87, of Corinth, died Monday, July 11, 2016, at MS Care Center. Magnolia Funeral Home will have the arrangements.

John Cox

A memorial service for John Larry Cox, 65, of Corinth, is set for 1 p.m. Wednesday at Magnolia Funeral Home Chapel of Memories. Visitation is Wednesday from 12:30 p.m. until service time. Mr. Cox died Wednesday, July 6, 2016, at his home. Born Sept. 6, 1950, he was an engineer for a manufacturing company, a musician and a Baptist. Survivors include his sister, Janet Drew Lollar (Larry) of Sevierville, Tenn., and adopted sister Marsha Brown of Corinth. He was preceded in death by his parents, James Rupert Cox and Eller Drew Brown Cox, and a brother, James Randall Cox. Bro. Jerry Wallace will oﬃciate the service.

The Gospel Mirror

“But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves. For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass: for he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was. But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.” (James 1: 22-25.) Man is interested in mirrors. Man always has been interested in mirrors. No doubt the savage is interested in his reflection in the water when he drinks from the crystal stream. We are living in an age of mirrors. We have all kinds of mirrors for all kinds of purposes. man was not satisfied with mirrors that show the outside of the body, but we have that mysterious X-ray that explores the insides. The drunkard looks into God’s mirror and sees this: “Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolators, nor adulterers, not effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.” (1 Cor. 6: 9, 10.) A lot of church members ought to get his part of God’s mirror where they could get a square look at themselves! I have been told that there are a few preachers who need to take a squint at this. God says that folks who are guilty of the above shall not inherit the kingdom of God. This I believe and teach. When we look into a mirror and see dirt on our face, we turn from the mirror and wash the dirt off; when we see dirt on our souls, we had better get rid of it before it is eternally too late. We should study obediently - that is, we should approach the study of God’s word with an honest desire to know his will concerning us. We should have the mind that characterized the good man, Cornelius. After he had been instructed to send for Peter, who would tell him what he ought to do, and Peter had arrived, Cornelius said: “Now therefore are we all here present before God, to hear all things that are commanded thee or God.” (Acts 10: 33.) A man like that is bound to learn the will of the Lord. He wanted to hear all things that are commanded of God. The doctrines and commandments of men will damn our souls for time and eternity if believed and obeyed. “But in vain they do worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men.” (Matt. 15: 9.) “And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.” (Matt. 15: 14.) The doctrine of Christ believed and obeyed will save our souls for time and eternity. “For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth.” (Rom. 1: 16.) My reader, are you obeying the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ? Have you come to him by faith, repentance, confession, and baptism? (Matt. 28: 18-20; Mark 16: 15,16; Luke 24: 46,47; Acts 2: 37, 38; 8: 26-39; 22: 16.) Did you rise to walk in newness of life? (Rom. 6: 3-5; Col. 2: 12.) Read Your Bible - Mark 16. Welcome.

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