Daily Corinthian E-Edition 071812

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Daily Corinthian Vol. 116, No. 172

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• Corinth, Mississippi • 20 pages • 2 sections

US Marshals’ Office arrests pastor BY JEFF YORK For the Daily Corinthian

The U.S. Marshals’ Office has arrested a pastor of a Guys, Tenn., church in California. The pastor has been involved

in a battle with the Seventhday Adventist Church over a trademark infringement for six years. Pastor Walter “Chick” McGill was arrested Friday in Califor-

nia at the Loma Linda Seventhday Adventist Church. He will be charged with contempt of court because he failed to appear at a court hearing in May, according to the U.S. Marshal’s

office. McGill’s church in Guys had used the name Creation Seventh-day Adventist Church and that caused the Seventh-day Adventist Church to file trade-

mark infringement against McGill’s church. McGill is a former Corinth resident and for many years Please see ARREST | 2A

Appointed school board member won’t seek post BY BOBBY J. SMITH bjsmith@dailycorinthian.com

Dale Bain will not seek election to the Alcorn School District Board’s District 2 seat at the end of his term. Bain announced his intentions at Monday’s regular meeting of the board at the Alcorn Education Center. The 44-year-old son of late board member Peggy Bain was appointed to fill his mother’s seat in January. Peggy Bain died Dec. 28, 2011, following a heart procedure. “I appreciate everybody on this board and the support I’ve had trying to fill my mother’s position,” Bain said. The Alcorn Central graduate is an industrial supply salesman with Riechman Crosby Hays Company. The day after his mother died, he started getting calls from people wanting him to seek the board position, and he accepted the responsibility to work on what his mother wanted to accomplish as a board member. Bain said he will serve out the remainder of the year, but he will not seek election in the November special election to fill the rest of his mother’s term.

Staff photo by Steve Beavers

Kennedy Hardin, 4, grew tired of working in the heat at a lemonade stand. The stand was the project of Hardin’s brother, John Wiley Works. Works came up with the old-fashioned idea as a fundraiser for his team in the Mississippi Yard Wiffleball League.

Lemonade stand raises funds old-fashioned way BY STEVE BEAVERS sbeavers@dailycorinthian.com

Lemon‘ade’ for the cause. The Padres were taking their swings with the beverage and some cookies in effort to look good for the playoffs.

John Wiley Works, a Padres player in the Mississippi Yard Wiffleball League (MYWL), came up with the old-fashioned lemonade stand idea for the fundraiser. The Alcorn Central High School student

even got some help from four year-old sister, Kennedy Hardin, on Monday as they put up the drink stand in front of the Corinth Cigarette Store. Please see STAND | 2A

“I want to give good, qualified people plenty of time to come out for the position,” Bain said. District 4 board member Mary Coleman expressed the board’s gratitude to Bain for volunteering to serve the district after his mother’s death. “You have served well — and we thank you for stepping up,” Coleman said. In other news from the meeting, Superintendent Gina Rogers Smith recognized the achievements of 2012 Alcorn Central High School Valedictorian Trevor Smith. Trevor served on the Superintendent’s Advisory Council and played football, basketball and tennis. Superintendent Smith recognized Trevor as the recipient of a $1,000 scholarship from the Mississippi Association for Superintendents. “We hope he enjoys the trip to Ole Miss and does as well there as he has for the Alcorn County school system,” Smith said. The board meets at the Alcorn School District Administrative Offices the second Monday of each month at 5 p.m.

City, county approve airport grant match BY JEBB JOHNSTON jjohnston@dailycorinthian.com

With new grant funds, the Corinth-Alcorn County Airport will improve aircraft accommodations by enclosing hangars. Alcorn County supervisors on Monday and Corinth aldermen on Tuesday agreed to accept an Airport Multi-Modal Grant for the project at the jointly owned facility. The two

governments also committed to provide the local match of $2,045 for the $204,520 project. Attorney Bill Odom, representing the airport board, said the project will provide for the enclosure of two T-hangars so that aircraft will be protected from the elements. Airport Board of Directors Please see AIRPORT | 2A

Staff photo by Jebb Johnston

Alcorn DARE car wins top honors BY JEBB JOHNSTON jjohnston@dailycorinthian.com

D.A.R.E. officers across the state continue to applaud David Derrick’s efforts in the program in Alcorn County. Elected vice president of the Mississippi D.A.R.E. (Drug Abuse Resistance Education) Officers Association two years ago and honored as D.A.R.E. Officer of the Year in

The Alcorn County Sheriff’s Department took top honors for its D.A.R.E. vehicle at the annual conference last week in Tennessee, and Officer David Derrick became president of the state D.A.R.E. officers association.

2011, he has now been chosen to serve as president of the organization. D.A.R.E. officers across the state number about 125. He was chosen at a conference in Tennessee last week when he also brought home top honors for the Alcorn County Sheriff’s Department’s new D.A.R.E. vehicle. Please see DARE | 2A

Index Stocks...... 7A Classified......5B Comics......3B Wisdom......2B

Weather......5A Obituaries......3A Opinion......4A Sports......8A

On this day in history 150 years ago Confederate raiders cross the Ohio River and capture the town of Newburg, Ind. The Southern commander, Capt. Adam Johnson, fools the enemy by showing them two fake cannon made of stovepipes. For the rest of the war he is known as “Stovepipe” Adams.

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