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Alliance president to step down BY JEBB JOHNSTON jjohnston@dailycorinthian.com

After eight years working on economic development in Corinth and Alcorn County, Alliance President Gary Chandler is preparing to move on. Chandler informed local oﬃcials that he will depart his current job at

the end of September as he becomes director of the Jackson County Economic Development Authority in Scottsboro, Ala. “Leaving here was no easy decision,” said Chandler, A Tupelo native. “We are excited about the opportunity, but we certainly will miss our friends and our church in this

community. Corinth has been very good to us and we appreciate that.” His wife, Amy, is a teacher at Corinth Elementary School, and they have two children attending Corinth schools. The job in northeast Alabama is “an opportunity too good to pass up,” he said. A longtime director is

retiring from the post in Scottsboro, a city of about 14,800 population. The county has a population of more than 52,000. Current volunteer CEO Jason Marlar is sad to see Chandler go. “Gary’s personal involvement and Please see CHANDLER | 5A

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City school Family raises funds for St. Jude Couple enrollment jailed for stays level trailer theft BY STEVE BEAVERS

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Corinth School District enrollment is on pace to be about even with last year. As of Thursday, the district had a little over 2,700 students. At mid-September in 2015, enrollment was 2,729. The numbers will climb a bit more as students continue to register, said Superintendent Lee Childress. Corinth Elementary School has 1,325 in pre-kindergarten through fourth grade, almost unchanged from last September. Corinth Middle School is at 740, compared to 787 last September, and Corinth High School is at 640, up from 618 last September. The freshman class at CHS has topped 200 for the first time with enrollment of 210 as of Thursday. “We’re going to begin to see the enrollment increase at the high school because we’re keeping more and more of those stu-

The Dampoux family spent its last day in Corinth helping St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. All five family members had a hand in working at a lemonade and crepes stand at the corner of Fillmore and Third streets. “It was an activity we did while they were visiting,” said Elizabeth Husey while helping her French family at her Fillmore Street home. “I thought they needed to experience the American tradition of having a lemonade stand.” Sarah Lyle Dampoux and her husband, Emmanuel Dampoux, have spent the last three weeks at her mother’s home along with their children, Emma-Lyle Dampoux, Louis-Georges Dampoux and Honore`Dampoux. Emmanuel, who was in charge of making the crepes being sold for $1, is scheduled to run in the New York Marathon for St. Jude later this year.

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Elizabeth Husey helps her grandchildren, Emma-Lyle Dampoux and Louis-Georges Dampoux, with their lemonade and crepes stand.

Locals learning how to improve education BY ZACK STEEN zsteen@dailycorinthian.com

BIGGERSVILLE — Chronic underfunding of public education caused one Mississippi group to kickstart a grassroots organization called Parents’ Campaign. Ten years later, the group travels across the state advocating for parents and communities on stronger education. Adrian Shippman with the Parents’ Campaign spoke to a group of local concerned parents and educators on Thursday night at the P16 Parent Advisory Council meeting held at Biggersville High School. “We want to educate peo-

A Rienzi couple has been arrested in connection with several thefts including the theft of a trailer stolen from Alcorn County. Prentiss County authorities made the arrest after they were caught on video on Monday, Aug. 8th at the scene of a break-in and almost caught by the property owners. The video provided a good description of the vehicle which was spotted pulling a trailer Wednesday morning in the Jumpertown area, said Prentiss County Sheriﬀ Randy Tolar. The couple were eventually caught and transported to the Prentiss County jail. The trailer was determined to have been stolen from Alcorn County. Investigators looking through the contents of the trailer located evidence that led them to a house on CR 8251. After visiting the residence, it was determined that an outbuilding had been burglarized. The property Please see COUPLE | 2A

People of the Crossroads Dawn Smith, Biggersville Staff photo by Zack Steen

An advocate for public education, Biggersville native Dawn Smith says small school funding is very important. “My grandfather worked at Biggersville as a maintenance man and bus driver – five generations of my family have attended this school (Biggersville),” she said. “It’s very important to me and this community. The continued funding of public education is how we can ensure that Biggersville school is here to stay.” The 40-year-old stays busy with her son Peyton, a third grader at Biggersville Elementary School. A 24-year veteran of retail, Smith is the store manager at Cato Fashions in Booneville.

ple on why we believe our public schools are good and ways to be better,” she said. “We want to help parents and communities connect and figure out what can be done to achieve this goal.” The Oxford mother of two said the Alcorn School District has lost $13.9 million since 2009 because of the underfunding of public education by the state legislature. “For the 2016-17 school year, Alcorn County schools are underfunded by over $1.2 million,” said Shippman. “That funding could have gone toward hiring more teachers, creating smaller class sizes, Please see PARENTS | 2A

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A study looks at the possibility of tapping the Tenn-Tom as a source of water for the region. Cliﬀ Worsham of Corinth chairs a committee considering the idea.

Northeast at Corinth oﬃcially opens as college President Dr. Johnny Allen cuts the ribbon on the school’s full-service extension center on Harper Road.

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Wreck slows Highway 72 traffic BY ZACK STEEN zsteen@dailycorinthian.com

Kids art The Corinth Artist Guild GalleryÂ is showing works by nine Boys and Girls Club youths who recently studied for four days at the gallery. A reception for the exhibit is today, Saturday, from 2 to 4 p.m. at the gallery at 609 North Fillmore. The instructor was Megan Thompson, a fifth-grade instructor at Alcorn Central who had her own work displayed at the gallery when she was a junior at Alcorn Central studying art with Lynn Haynie. The young artists are Anyssa Avery, Cassidy Collins, Jacuriana Wimsatt, Jakhiya Williams, Javian Young, Patrick Crump, Preston Crump, Qwantiver Young and Xavier Young. The art camp was funded by a grant from CREATE.

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owners identified most of the items on the trailer as having been stolen from the outbuilding. Further investigation has determined that other items were property taken from multiple burglaries in Alcorn County and Corinth. The suspect vehicle was a 2002 Silver Trailblazer. Jason Bates, 36, of Rienzi and Christy Bates, 30, also of Rienzi were charged with two counts each of burglary of a building in Prentiss County. Both are awaiting their initial appear-

ance before a Judge. The Mississippi Department of Corrections has a hold on both for violations of their probation/parole. The couple will likely face charges in Corinth and Alcorn County. Investigator Derrick Hester is handling the case. â€œWe want to thank everyone that played a part in the capture of these suspects,â€? said Prentiss County SheriďŹ€ Randy Tolar. â€œWe encourage neighbors to lookout for one another and to report any suspicious activity they might see.â€?

A two-vehicle wreck backed up traďŹƒc on U.S. Highway 72 on Friday. The wreck caused a delay in the west bound lane near the Cass Street intersection around 1:30 p.m. It happened when the driver of a Dodge Ram truck pulled from Crater Street into the west bound lane of Highway 72 and into ongoing traffic. The driver of a Pontiac van collided with the the truck. No one appeared to be injured, however Magnolia EMS responded to the scene. The impact deployed the vanâ€™s front airbags and knocked vehicle parts across both west

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purchasing technology and expanding special education specials.â€? Meanwhile, the legislature has passed several underfunded mandates such as the third grade gate and new standards and testing that require significant resources to implement, according to Shippman. â€œIn addition to underfunding, we have some other battles coming our way including school choice,â€? she added. â€œSchool choice sounds great, but itâ€™s not. If Alcorn County is underfunded right now, does it make since to take money and put it into another school? No, and therefore we can not drain this school of the few resources we have.â€? When it comes to school choice, Shippman said, private schools or charter schools divert desperately needed tax dollars from

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Alcorn County P16 Parent Advisory Council chairperson Jodi Fiveash talks with Parentsâ€™ Campaign supporterÂ Adrian Shippman on Thursday night at Biggersville High School. tionship with their local public schools. Shippman said things lawmakers.â€? When the legislative can be done. â€œSignup to receive session starts in Januemails and texts from ary, the Parentsâ€™ Camthe Parentsâ€™ Campaign. paign helps parents and Thatâ€™s how we keep peo- educators across the ple informed about fund- state stay on track of the ing, vouchers and other thousands of education legislative issues that bills being talked about in aďŹ€ect public education Jackson. â€œWe want to have in this state,â€? she said. â€œNext, we encourage ev- strong people in Alcorn eryone to have an rela- County that we can call

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Today in History Today is Saturday, Aug. 13, the 226th day of 2016. There are 140 days left in the year.

Todayâ€™s Highlight in History: On Aug. 13, 1961, East Germany sealed off the border between Berlinâ€™s eastern and western sectors before building a wall that would divide the city for the next 28 years.

On this date: In 1624, King Louis XIII of France appointed Cardinal Richelieu his first minister. In 1792, French revolutionaries imprisoned the royal family. In 1846, the American flag was raised for the first time in Los Angeles. In 1910, Florence Nightingale, the founder of modern nursing, died in London at age 90. In 1923, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk was again elected Speaker of Turkeyâ€™s Grand Assembly. In 1934, the satirical comic strip â€œLiâ€™l Abner,â€? created by Al Capp, made its debut. In 1960, the first twoway telephone conversation by satellite took place with the help of Echo 1. The Central African Republic became totally independent of French rule. In 1979, Lou Brock of the St. Louis Cardinals became the 14th player in major league baseball history to reach the 3,000th career hit plateau as his team defeated the Chicago Cubs, 3-2. In 1981, in a ceremony at his California ranch, President Ronald Reagan signed a historic package of tax and budget reductions. In 1989, searchers in Ethiopia found the wreckage of a plane which had disappeared almost a week earlier while carrying Rep. Mickey Leland, D-Texas, and 14 other people â€” there were no survivors. In 1995, Baseball Hall of Famer Mickey Mantle died at a Dallas hospital of rapidly spreading liver cancer; he was 63.

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Across the Region Booneville Prentiss County Fair to begin next week BOONEVILLE â€” The 2016 Prentiss County Fair Aug. 17-20 will feature not only the usual mix of midway fun but a concert by Jamie Davis and Soul Gravy plus one of the countyâ€™s elected officials singing as the Thursday night concertâ€™s opening act. The fair will be held on the grounds of the Prentiss County Agri-Center on North Second Street. Agri-Center Director Johnny Cole describes the concert on Thursday night, Aug. 18 at 7 as â€œa present to Prentiss County.â€? He said since last year he wanted to have something special this year â€” and that something special will be Jamie Davis and Soul Gravy playing their â€œsoul tinged country.â€? As another musical highlight, Prentiss County First District Supervisor James Ray Plaxico and his nephew Ivan Pannell will be the opening guests with Jamie Davis and Soul Gravy playing with them. â€œI think the public will be surprised when they hear our first district supervisor,â€? Cole said. â€œHe may even sing a George Jones song or two.â€? It will mark the first time Jamie Davis and Soul Gravy have performed at the Prentiss County Agri-Center. The $5 gate fee on Thursday night gets fairgoers in to the concert and midway. In addition to the musical concert, the fair will have a youth rodeo, tractor pull, the Eddie Burns Memorial Go-Cart Race and rodeo, plus exhibits inside the agricenter. Events kick off with Senior Citizens Day on Wednesday, Aug. 17 from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. The popular Teacake Contest takes place at 10 a.m. where citizens ages 55 and older are invited to bring a plate with 24 or more of their best teacakes to be judged on appearance, texture, flavor and aro-

ma. Cash prizes will be awarded to the top three winners. Providing entertainment on Senior Citizen Day will be Kay Bain along with Ray Livingston and the Hobo Highsteppers. Lunch will be served. Last year around 350 attended Senior Citizen Day sponsored by The Hobo Highsteppers, Renasant Bank and Prentiss County Extension Service. No gate charge Wednesday. Thursday, Aug. 18 at 7 p.m. is the musical concert featuring Jamie Davis and Soul Gravy with special opening guests Ivan Pannell and Prentiss County First District Supervisor James Ray Plaxico. Friday, Aug. 19 features the youth rodeo at 7 p.m. Events Saturday, Aug. 20 will be the tractor pull at 1 p.m., go cart race at 6 p.m. (practice begins at 10 a.m. and qualifying at 1 p.m.) and adult rodeo at 7. The midway opens at 6 p.m. Wednesday and Thursday, 7 p.m. Friday and 3 p.m. Saturday. There is a $5 gate fee and children under 5 will be admitted free. Gates open Wednesday, Thursday and Friday at 5 and Saturday at noon. Wrist bands Wednesday and Thursday from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. are $17 and on Friday and Saturday from 7 p.m. to 11 p.m. are $20. The exhibit room will be open nightly at 5 and during Senior Day on Wednesday. Â

McNairy Co. Incorporated towns cause revenue issue MCNAIRY COUNTY, Tenn. â€” An ongoing problem with the financial troubles for government in McNairy County is the large number of incorporated towns. The small county has 11 incorporated towns which is tied for the largest of any one county in the state and that is a problem in the countyâ€™s revenue shortfall. A crucial part of the revenue problem is the

county has to share sales tax revenue with each of the incorporated towns. This is a reason the county has less money to operate with than neighboring counties in Tennessee. For example, if the county got $400,000 from an increase in sales tax they would only receive $15,000 after the towns receive their share of the revenue. Hardin County and Hardeman County each have three incorporated towns while Chester County has two of the municipalities as a comparison to McNairy County. McNairyâ€™s towns and their populations (2010 census) â€” Selmer (4,396), Adamsville (2,207), Bethel Springs (718), Eastview (705), Michie (591), Guys (466), Ramer (346), Finger (290), Stantonville (283), Milledgeville (265), and Enville (189). Enville is shared with Chester County while Milledgeville is shared with Hardin and Chester counties. The Tennessee Legislature has made it more restricted to incorporate a town. Prior to 1954, a private act from the state legislature was enough to approve a town. Tennessee law now requires a town to have a population of 1,500 residents to gain approval as an official town. If that law was applied to todayâ€™s towns in McNairy County only Selmer and Adamsville would be incorporated towns. The oldest incorporated town in the county is Adamsville in 1869. Bethel Springs became an official town in 1870 with Guys the youngest town in the county getting incorporated in 1986. In regards to bordering countyâ€™s sales tax rates - Hardin .0975; Hardeman .0975; Chester .0975; and McNairyâ€™s sales tax rate .0925. There are only four or five counties in the state that have a sales tax rate lower than McNairyâ€™s rate. There has been an

occasion in the county where the school board under the direction of superintendent of schools Estel Mills asked the towns to give up a portion of their share of the sales tax money. This extra money was part of the large school building in the early-80s. Â

Blue Mountain BMC expects fall enrollment record BLUE MOUNTAIN â€” Students returning to class on Tuesday, August 16, will be part of one of the largest enrollments in the Collegeâ€™s 143-year history. â€œResponse to GROW BMC, the Collegeâ€™s strategic enrollment plan, has been very positive,â€? stated President Barbara McMillin. â€œWe are excited to welcome back our returning students and to extend a special welcome to our new BMC students, many of whom will be members of our newly formed band, our tennis and bowling teams, and our junior varsity baseball and softball teams. We are committed to providing all of these students with an outstanding academic experience in a Christcentered environment.â€? Part of this academic experience includes redesigning courses that stress an active learning approach inspired by the collegeâ€™s quality enhancement plan. Delise Teague, director of the collegeâ€™s teaching and learning center, works with the faculty in this effort. â€œOur emphasis on active learning, critical thinking, and collaboration ensures that students will be more involved in the learning process,â€? says Teague. Increased enrollment has resulted in various campus improvements this summer. The Topper Lodge, a 13-bed facility, that will open and will house the menâ€™s golf team this fall. BMCâ€™s Sportsplex is well underway. The new baseball and softball fields will allow the teams to play

on their home fields in the spring of 2017. The menâ€™s and womenâ€™s basketball teams will also be practicing and playing on a new floor in Tyler gymnasium. With a growing student population, parking is always an issue. Additional parking will be available near BMCâ€™s Education Building.

Tupelo Thacker Mountain Radio Hour performs TUPELO â€” The Thacker Mountain Radio Hour, the long-running music and literary show, will return to Tupeloâ€™s Link Centre tonight (Saturday, Aug.13) at 7:30 pm. Guests will include British travel writer Richard Grant, bluesman Sam Mosley and The Kit Thorn Band. The show is hosted by Jim Dees and house band, the Yalobushwhackers. The program is free and open to the public. Following the radio recording, Mosley and the Kit Thorn Band will each perform additional brief sets. The Link Centre Concert Hall is located at 1800 West Main Street. For more information call 662-690-4011. Information on the Thacker Mountain Radio Hour is available at the showâ€™s website: http://thackermountain.com/. There will be no live broadcast; this show will air on Saturday, Aug. 20 at 7 p.m. on Mississippi Public Broadcasting heard locally on WMAE 89.5 FM. Richard Grantâ€™s latest book is â€œDispatches From Plutoâ€? (Simon and Shuster) a chronicle of his year living in the Mississippi Delta. He is the author of three previous books, Crazy River: Exploration and Folly in East Africa (2011) Godâ€™s Middle Finger: Into the Lawless Heart of the Sierra Madre (2008), and American Nomads (Grove Press, 2003). Grant was born in Malaysia, lived in Kuwait as a boy, then London, Tucson, AR, and New York City before moving to the Delta. He currently lives in Jackson.

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Those ‘old, tired ideas’ Reacting to Donald Trump’s speech Monday to the Detroit Economic Club, Hillary Clinton said her Republican opponent tried to “make his old, tired ideas sound new.” As opposed to her old, tired ideas of higher taxes on the wealthy with government as redistributor. Let’s consider some important quotes from the economic club speech. “... the most direct and sigCal Thomas nificant kind of federal action aiding economic growth is to Columnist make possible an increase in private consumption and investment demand -- to cut the fetters which hold back private spending.” Increasing federal spending, as Clinton has proposed, would, said the economic club speaker, “soon demoralize both the government and our economy. If government is to retain the confidence of the people, it must not spend more than can be justified on grounds of national need ...” The federal government, he said, “siphons out of the private economy too large a share of personal and business purchasing power; (and) reduces the financial incentives for personal effort, investment and risk-taking. In short, to increase demand and lift the economy, the federal government’s most useful role is not to rush into a program of excessive increases in public expenditures, but to expand the incentives and opportunities for private expenditures.” There are more of these “old, tired ideas”: “Corporate tax rates must also be cut to increase incentives and the availability of investment capital. ... For all these reasons, next year’s tax bill should reduce personal as well as corporate income taxes for those in the lower brackets, who are certain to spend their additional take-home pay, and for those in the middle and upper brackets, who can thereby be encouraged to undertake additional efforts and enabled to invest more capital.” If you haven’t yet guessed, the quotes you have just read are from a speech President John F. Kennedy delivered to the New York Economic Club on December 14, 1962. In attacking Donald Trump for wanting to cut personal and corporate taxes, and reduce federal spending and federal control over our lives, Hillary Clinton is effectively attacking the martyred JFK. Kennedy’s proposals were followed by Ronald Reagan’s major tax cuts and a reduction in tax rates, which had reached 70 percent on regular income for the highest earners under Jimmy Carter. Under Reagan, the government took in more tax revenue because lower tax rates gave people and businesses the incentive to work harder and earn more. In his Detroit speech, Trump noted how liberal economic policies have failed that once-prosperous city. That’s because Democrats have controlled the political machine there for more than five decades. “Detroit is the living, breathing example of my opponent’s failed economic agenda,” Trump said. “Every policy that has failed this city, and so many others, is a policy supported by Hillary Clinton. She supports the high taxes and radical regulation that forced jobs out of your community and the crime policies that have made you less safe. And the immigration policies that have strained local budgets and the trade deals like NAFTA, signed by her husband, that have shipped your jobs to Mexico and other countries. And she supports the education policies that deny your students choice, freedom and opportunity. She is the candidate of the past. Ours is the campaign of the future.” This is the way to go after Clinton. If Trump sticks to policies and not his personality, he could close the gap in opinion polls. Liberal policies have failed. Economic growth is the answer, but you never hear Clinton talk about it. She promotes class envy instead of prosperity and opportunity for all. Mrs. Clinton is the anti-JFK candidate. Hers are the failed policies not only of the past, but the present. If she is elected president, they will continue to fail into the future. (Readers may email Cal Thomas at tcaeditors@tribpub.com.)

Prayer for today Father of mankind, may I not be a barrier to the discouraged, but help them in the ways of encouragement. May I not allow pride and prejudice to keep me from acts of love and deeds of kindness, but may I be worthy of thy trust. Amen.

A verse to share “For so an entrance shall be ministered unto you abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.” — 2 Peter 1:11

Nationalism is not necessarily a bad thing Google “Donald Trump” and “nationalism” and you’ll get 1,090,000 results, the large percentage of which are, to judge from the top hits, negative. “Nationalism” is deemed to be bad stuﬀ, maybe even akin to Nazism. But is nationalism always so bad? Not, it seems, for the millions of people around the world watching the Rio Olympics. They watch as the TV networks keep track of the metal count – and they root for the men and women they see representing their nations. Americans were thrilled to see Michael Phelps propel the U.S. team to gold in the freestyle relay and excited to watch 19-yearold Katie Ledecky destroy the field in the 400 meter freestyle. People who watch gymnasts at only four-year intervals were amazed at the skill of the 4-foot-9-inch Simone Biles. Sports nationalism easily embraces ethnic and racial diversity, not only from historically biracial America and Brazil (which abolished slavery in 1865 and 1888) but also from European and other nations. One Olympic table-tennis match featured a Japanese-descended Brazilian and a Chinese-descended Congolese. People from nations with sharply

divisive politics (not least our own) and suﬀering from economic setbacks Michael and pervaBarone sive corruption (like the Columnist O l y m p i c s host, Brazil) nonetheless find themselves united in rooting for their country’s athletes. An elite globalist may scoﬀ at the arbitrariness of national border and style himself “a citizen of the world,” as Barack Obama described himself before a massive crowd in Berlin in 2008. But most people don’t think of themselves that way. Nationalism, properly understood, can be a positive force, welding otherwise disparate people together to build a decent society, secure a competent government and rally to defend themselves against attack. Each nation has developed its own particular culture, its own manners and mores, its own rules, written and unspoken. An intelligent nationalist can respect the strengths of other nations, while preferring his own, just as an Olympics fan can appreciate the superb performance of

athletes from other countries even while keeping an eye on the medal scoreboard. The social psychologist Jonathan Haidt, writing in The American Interest, notes that as nations grow more prosperous, their elites become more globalist in outlook, and consider nationalism as blind prejudice or even racism. “Nationalists feel a bond with their own country, and they believe that this bond imposes moral obligations both ways,” he goes on. “Citizens have a duty to love and serve their country, and governments are duty bound to protect their own people.” This is a principle that Donald Trump, in between off-the-cuff gaffes and self-harming diversions, affirms. Nations have boundaries and owe greater duties to their citizens than to foreigners. They have no obligation to open their borders entirely. It is not racist, Haidt argues, to bar those “whom they perceive as having values that are incompatible with their own, or who (they believe) engage in behaviors they find abhorrent, or whom they perceive to be a threat to something they hold dear.” Hillary Clinton takes a different view. She would not deport any noncriminal illegal immigrant, which

amounts to a permanent open borders policy – as extreme a position as Trump’s now discarded ban on Muslim immigration. But even Democrats at their national convention found it useful to sound nationalist themes, decrying Trump’s “dark” picture of America in his acceptance speech as somehow unpatriotic and, after conservative bloggers noted their supposed absence on the Democratic Convention’s first day, installing more prominent American flags on the stage. And former Treasury Secretary and Obama adviser Lawrence Summers has called for “a responsible nationalism” which recognize government’s responsibility “to maximize the welfare of citizens, not to pursue some abstract concept of the global good.” Evidently, nationalism, like rooting for your nation’s Olympians, is not necessarily a bad thing. (Daily Corinthian columnist Michael Barone is senior political analyst for The Washington Examiner, a resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, a Fox News Channel contributor and a coauthor of The Almanac of American Politics.)

Yes, the system is rigged “I’m afraid the election is going to be rigged,” Donald Trump told voters in Ohio and Sean Hannity on Fox News. And that hit a nerve. “Dangerous,” “toxic,” came the recoil from the media. Trump is threatening to “delegitimize” the election results of 2016. Well, if that is what Trump is trying to do, he has no small point. For consider what 2016 promised and what it appears about to deliver. This longest of election cycles has rightly been called the Year of the Outsider. It was a year that saw a mighty surge of economic populism and patriotism, a year when a 74-year-old Socialist senator set primaries ablaze with mammoth crowds that dwarfed those of Hillary Clinton. It was the year that a nonpolitician, Donald Trump, swept Republican primaries in an historic turnout, with his nearest rival an ostracized maverick in his own Republican caucus, Senator Ted Cruz. More than a dozen Republican rivals, described as the strongest GOP field since 1980, were sent packing. But if it ends with a Clintonite restoration and a ratification of the same old Beltway policies, would

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that not suggest there is something fraudulent about American democracy, somePatrick thing rotten Buchanan in the state? If 2016 Columnist taught us anything, it is that if the establishment’s hegemony is imperiled, it will come together in ferocious solidarity -- for the preservation of their perks, privileges and power. All the elements of that establishment -- corporate, cultural, political, media -are today issuing an ultimatum to Middle America: Trump is unacceptable. Instructions are going out to Republican leaders that either they dump Trump, or they will cease to be seen as morally fit partners in power. It testifies to the character of Republican elites that some are seeking ways to carry out these instructions, though this would mean invalidating and aborting the democratic process that produced Trump. But what is a repudiated establishment doing issuing orders to anyone? Why is it not Middle America issuing the demands, rather than the other way around?

Specifically, the Republican electorate should tell its discredited and rejected ruling class: If we cannot get rid of you at the ballot box, then tell us how, peacefully and democratically, we can be rid of you? How do we eﬀect “regime change” here at home? Donald Trump’s success, despite the near-universal hostility of the media, even much of the conservative media, was due in large part to the public’s response to the issues he raised. He called for sending illegal immigrants back home, for securing America’s borders, for no amnesty. He called for an economic policy where the Americanism of the people replaces the globalism of the transnational elites and their K Street lobbyists and congressional water carriers. By campaign’s end, he had won the argument on trade, as Hillary Clinton was agreeing on TPP and confessing to second thoughts on NAFTA. But if TPP is revived at the insistence of the oligarchs of Wall Street, the Business Roundtable, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce -- backed by conscript editorial writers for newspapers that rely on ad dollars -- what do elections really mean anymore? And if, as the polls show

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we might, we get Clinton -and TPP, and amnesty, and endless migrations of Third World peoples who consume more tax dollars than they generate, and who will soon swamp the Republicans’ coalition -- what was 2016 all about? Would this really be what a majority of Americans voted for in this most exciting of presidential races? “Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable,” said John F. Kennedy. The 1960s and early 1970s were a time of social revolution in America, and President Nixon, by ending the draft and ending the Vietnam war, presided over what one columnist called the “cooling of America.” But if Hillary Clinton takes power, and continues America on her present course, which a majority of Americans rejected in the primaries, there is going to a bad moon rising. And the new protesters in the streets will not be overprivileged children from Ivy League campuses. (Daily Corinthian columnist Pat Buchanan is an American conservative political commentator, author, syndicated columnist, politician and broadcaster.)

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Computer science program to help students STARKVILLE — The Computer Science for Mississippi program is set to help the state’s students prepare for careers in a high-tech, high-demand field. Also known as CS4MS, the program has completed its summer training for teachers in anticipation of the pilot program’s rollout in districts across Mississippi during the upcoming school year. Sponsored by the Mississippi Department of Education (MDE), in partnership with the Research and Curriculum Unit (RCU) at Mississippi State University, CS4MS aims to equip Mississippi’s students with the

computer science skills necessary to enter the high-tech workforce. At the training sessions, elementary and high school educators from 38 participating school districts across Mississippi learned how to teach the new computer science curricula. More than 160 teachers took part in hands-on training and robotics demonstrations, practiced coding with Code.org, and received an Edison robot to take back to their classrooms in the fall. “We are looking to the teachers who took part in this training to help us shape what computer science will look like in every grade level, in ev-

ery school across the state,” said Shelly Hollis, a project manager for the RCU who is overseeing the CS4MS pilot. Computer science is a high-demand field that currently has more job openings than workers qualified to fill those positions. The MDE hopes that by teaching computer science skills in the K-12 years, students will be better positioned to build careers in computer science and related technology fields. In the pilot year, computer science curricula will be introduced to students in grades K-5 and 9-12. In addition to pretraining over the summer, teachers will be supported

throughout the school year with further training. “Only a few other states have adopted a K-12 curriculum for computer science, so Mississippi is at the forefront of the growing computer science movement,” said Hollis. “The goal is to have computer science oﬀered in each grade, at every school in Mississippi by 2024.” (For more information on CS4MS, visit cs4ms. org or contact Hollis at 662-325-6313 or shelly. hollis@rcu.msstate.edu. To learn more about the RCU and its work to support public education in the state of Mississippi, visit rcu.msstate.edu.)

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Celebration of life for David Gerald Henderson, 58, is set for 2 p.m. Sunday in the Chapel of McPeters Inc. Funeral Directors with Bro. Shane Price and Tharen Price oﬃciating. Burial will be in the Kemps Chapel Baptist Church Cemetery. Visitation is Saturday from 5 to 8 p.m. and Sunday from 1 p.m. to service time. Mr. Henderson died Thursday, Aug. 11, 2016, at Magnolia Regional Health Center. Born Nov. 11, 1957, he worked for Valvoline Oil Co. for many years as a manager. He was preceded in death by his parents, Gerald Baker Henderson and Pearl Lanelle Crowder Henderson. Henderson Survivors are his wife whom he married July 14, 2014, Billie Jean Perry Henderson; his children, Robin Henderson Harris, David Gerald Henderson Jr. and Mike Henderson; stepchildren Jesse Nunley, Kimberly Henderson, Jennifer Nunley and Wendy Reeder; a brother, Danny Henderson; sisters Sherry Ricks and Penny Barnes; 16 grandchildren; very special friends and neighbors Eileen, Larry Schindler and Benny Schindler; and a good friend, Manny Machado. Online guestbook: mcpetersfuneraldirectors.com

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“We will do it until we run out of lemonade and crepes,” said Husey as customers made their way to the stand. Emmanuel, a French chef, had planned for 100 crepes using the recipe of famous French chef Andre`Le Notre. The family visited St. Jude during their three-week stay. “We are hoping to help Emmanuel raise $5,000 for St. Jude,” said Sarah. Emmanuel has been training for the past two months for the November event. Louis-Georges, age 11, knows the importance of being a St. Jude Hero. “It costs $2 million a day to operate the hospital so families will never receive a bill,” he said.

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hands-on approach has been vital to the retention of thousands of jobs in Corinth and Alcorn County over the last eight years,” he said. “Gary’s leadership as the president of The Alliance was critical during our last economic downturn. I think we emerged in good shape and embarked on our rail project with purpose and intent. It’s been a pleasure working with him since he and his family came to Corinth.” Looking back at his time in Corinth, the work done with Caterpillar is one of the highlights for Chandler. “Being able to firm up Caterpillar’s presence here and grow them has been big,” he said. Others include retaining and expanding employment at KeytronicEMS, formerly Ayrshire Electronics, and Avectus Healthcare Solutions, which is headquartered in Corinth. The new industrial site is another. “We’ve had some courageous people who have stepped out of what I consider to be the community’s comfort zone to a certain degree and put us in a position to really be competitive in the years to come,” said Chandler. “Buying that rail hub site was one of them. That’s more of a longterm vision.” KeyTronicEMS Vice President and General Manager Ed Carter

praised Chandler’s efforts. “Gary Chandler’s strong business presence and work ethics will be greatly missed,” he said. “He has been a strong supporter of existing industries in Corinth and Alcorn County. Gary drove the efforts with the state and local government which convinced Ayrshire Electronics to purchase and continue operation in the old ITT facility. During his time leading The Alliance, he has supported several expansion projects at our Corinth facility. His commitment has clearly secured our location as a solid growing employer which today has nearly 300 people working at our Corinth Operation.” Avectus CEO Tim Smith said Chandler’s efforts were vital in the company’s expansion. “Keeping Avectus’ jobs in Corinth was important to our company, and he helped us find a way to make it happen,” said Smith. “His devotion for economic development and Corinth will certainly be missed.” Rep. Nick Bain said he is grateful for the time and work Chandler has put into serving Corinth and Alcorn County. “One of the indicators of success is leaving a place better than you found it,” he said. “From an economic development standpoint, I believe Gary has done this and has laid a solid foundation for future success in Alcorn County.”

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dents in the grades as we progress,” said Childress. He reported a smooth start to the school year and the new modified calendar, which had an earlier start date than the county schools’ calendar. The new C-Tech program is up and running with about 40 students participating. The classes are biomedical science, engineering and robotics, and law and safety education. CHS is having “zero period” this year for students who want extra preparation for ACT, SAT and PSAT tests. It begins at 7:05 a.m. a couple of days a week for five weeks prior to ACT testing. In staﬃng actions on Thursday, the board of trustees approved Craig Strickland, Candida Hancock, Alesha Knight, Megan Anderson and Barbara Trapp for the zero period instruction. For the C-Tech program, the board approved Allen Lyles for law and safety education and Audrey Hector for engineering and robotics. The board also approved half-time personnel at CES — Diane Young and Ruth Ann King, speech therapists; Lee Ann Nuckolls, teacher; and Wendy Phillips, supply teacher. Resignations are William Stewart, assistant football coach and powerlifting head coach, CHS; Ashley Parvin, cheer coach, CHS; Lisa Henry, special education teacher, CES; and April Kennedy, cafeteria, CMS. Teachers taking leave are April Cole, CMS, and Amy Reed, CES.

Funeral services for Eulene Maddox Lancaster, 82, of Corinth, are set for 2 p.m. Sunday at Magnolia Funeral Home Chapel of Memories with burial at Corinth National Cemetery. Visitation is Saturday from 5 to 8 p.m. and Sunday from 1 p.m. until the service. Mrs. Lancaster died Thursday, Aug. 11, 2016, at Magnolia Regional Health Center. Born Oct. 23, 1933, she was a cashier and greeter at Walmart. She was a member of Covenant Presbyterian Church. Survivors are a son, David Wesley Lancaster and wife Ginger of Corinth; daughters Amelia Lancaster Jamieson and Christy Lancaster Mayhall, both of Corinth; a sister, Annette Maddox Craig of Corinth; four grandchildren, Kelly Ann Jamieson Whitaker and husband James Andrew, Laura Elizabeth Lancaster, Jonathon David Lancaster and Madison Leigh Mayhall; brothers-in-law James A. Kiddy Jr. of Corinth and Gene S. Hunter of Houston, Texas; sisters-in-law Doris McAfee and husband Autry, Cubelle White, and Mary L. Null and husband Hershel, all of Corinth; numerous nieces and nephews; other relatives; and a host of friends. She was preceded in death by her husband of 15 years, John Wesley Lancaster Jr.; a son-in-law, Stanley Jamieson; her parents, Oscar Delton Maddox and Estelle Thorn Maddox; brothers Quitman D. Maddox, Troy Wayne Maddox and Paul Dwayne Maddox; and sisters Essie Maddox Cato, Eddie Ruth Maddox Hunter and Carolyn Maddox Kiddy. Dr. Randy Bostick and Bro. Warren Jones will officiate the service. Online condolences: magnoliafuneralhome.net

Kathy Ross

Kathy Ross died Thursday, Aug. 11, 2016, at her home. McPeters Inc. Funeral Directors will have the arrangements.

Dossie Tabor

Dossie Tabor, 74, of Corinth, died Friday, Aug. 12, 2016, at her home. Patterson Memorial Chapel will have the arrangements.

Rhonda Wallin

ADAMSVILLE, Tenn. — Rhonda Wallin, 53, died Thursday, Aug. 11, 2016, at her home. Memorial Funeral Home will have the arrangements.

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