Daily Corinthian • Saturday, September 2, 2017 • 5
Deaths James “Jimmy” Russell
A Celebration of life service for Mr. James Leon “Jimmy” Russell, 80, of Rienzi, will be held at 2 p.m. Sunday at the Corinthian Funeral Russell Home Chapel. Bro. Steve Leggett will officiate the service. Burial will be at Juliette Cemetery. Visitation will be from 5 to 8 p.m. Saturday and
Hazel Byrd Phillips
TIPPAH COUNTY — Funeral services for Hazel Byrd Phillips, 63, will be held at 3 p.m. today at Unity Baptist Church in the Biggersville Community. Burial will follow at Shiloh Baptist Church Cemetery in the Theo Community. Visitation will be at the church from 12 p.m. until service time today at the church. Mrs. Phillips died
from 1 p.m. until service time Sunday at the funeral home. Mr. Russell passed from this life Thursday, Aug. 31, 2017, at Magnolia Regional Health Center. He was born May 19, 1937 to F.A. and Belle Austin Russell in Alcorn County. He was a General Contractor by trade. Those to carry on his memory includes his wife of 62 years; Florence Burcham Russell of Rienzi, his children: Sharon Russell of Morrow, Ga., Janet Russell Lindsey husband Greg of Glen, and Lamont Russell of Huntsville, Ala., two granddaughters: Thursday, Aug. 31, 2017 at the Cornerstone Health & Rehabilitation Center in Corinth following an extended illness. She was lifelong resident of North Mississippi with numerous relatives and friends in Alcorn, Tippah And Prentiss Counties. Born May 10, 1954 in Alcorn County, Mrs. Phillips was the daughter of the late John Floyd and Bonnie Isbell Byrd. She received her education in the Al-
Ashley Jenkins husband Cody of Counce, Tenn., Brandi Butler husband Johnny of Corinth, one grandson; James Miller of Corinth, four great-grandchildren: Ethan Butler, Hudson Butler, Audrey Butler, and Dylan Miller, two sisters: Louise Peters of Glen and Lucille Peters of Corinth, and his cherished pet, Roscoe. He was preceded in death by his parents, one son; Bryant Russell, and his father and mother-in-law; Howard and Ruby Burcham. Corinthian Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements. corn County School System and was married to Bobby Joe Phillips, her husband of 46 years who survives. She was a Christian and a homemaker. In addition to her husband, she leaves her children, Tammy, Timothy, Leiman and Matthew Phillips, all of Corinth, one brother, five sisters and two grandchildren. The Ripley Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
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‘Dreamers’ decision weighs on Trump as announcement nears BY JILL COLVIN Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Midday protests. Urgent pleas. Furious campaigning. A president torn. President Donald Trump stood at the center of a frantic lobbying campaign Friday as he neared a decision on the fate of hundreds of thousands of young people brought into the country illegally as children. After months of dragging his feet, the president on Tuesday will announce his plans for the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, or DACA, which has given nearly 800,000 young immigrants the ability to work legally in the country and a reprieve from deportation. Despite his fiery pledges during the presidential campaign to end the program, Trump has spent the last week mulling his choices, going over his options again and again, according to several people with knowledge of the deliberations. The people spoke on condition of anonymity in order to discuss private conversations. “I think that this isn’t a decision that the president takes lightly and he’s taking time and diligent effort to make sure that he goes through every bit of the process,” White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said Friday. “I think the decision itself is weighing on him, certainly.” At the same time, House Speaker Paul Ryan and a number of other legislators are urging the president to hold off on scrapping the program to give them time to come up with a legislative solution to protect those now covered by the program.
“These are kids who know no other country, who are brought here by their parents and don’t know another home. And so I really do believe that there needs to be a legislative solution,” Ryan told Wisconsin radio station WCLO. Republican Sen. Orrin Hatch of Utah also urged Trump not to revoke former President Barack Obama’s efforts to protect “individuals who entered our country unlawfully as children through no fault of their own and who have built their lives here.” Pushing the debate over to Congress would add immigration, long a thirdrail issue in Washington, to an already packed fall congressional agenda that includes must-pass measures to raise the debt ceiling, shape the federal budget and provide hurricane relief funding. Republican leaders have worried that Trump would rescind legal status for the so-called dreamers since his first day in office. Some congressional GOP lawmakers spent Inauguration Day urgently trying to reach senior White House officials about the matter after hearing rumors that Trump could roll back the deportation protections as one of his first moves. Trump had railed against the Obama program during the presidential campaign, slamming it as an illegal “amnesty” that he would immediately end. Instead, the new president left the protections in place, overruling top advisers including former chief strategist Steve Bannon and policy aide Stephen Miller. The advisers continued to press the matter occasionally in recent months, but Trump always put off the deci-
sion for another time. Then came a letter forcing Trump’s hand. A group of Republican state officials sent a letter to Attorney General Jeff Sessions in June announcing a September 5 deadline: If the president didn’t halt the program by then, the lawmakers would challenge DACA in court. As the deadline neared, anxious Republicans began urging the White House to try to persuade the group, led by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, to further postpone any lawsuit. It was an approach the administration had also seriously considered earlier in the week. But Paxton made clear the date was nonnegotiable. “No, we are not going to push back the deadline,” said spokeswoman Jennifer Speller. The president also encountered countervailing pressure from those working to keep the program — including CEOs, Roman Catholic bishops and celebrities — and staging daily protests, phone banks, demonstrations and letters. There appeared to be some signs the pressure was having an impact. Late Friday, the attorney general of Tennessee, one of those who had signed the letter, announced his office was no longer interested in the lawsuit and would encourage legislation to protect the dreamers instead. “There is a human element to this, however, that is not lost on me and should not be ignored,” wrote Herbert Slatery III. “At this time, our Office has decided not to challenge DACA in the litigation, because we believe there is a better approach.”
Houston tries to safeguard areas by flooding others BY JEFF AMY AND JUAN LOZANO Associated Press
HOUSTON — Officials in Houston sought Friday to safeguard parts of their devastated city by intentionally flooding others that were inundated by Harvey, which retained enough rainmaking power to raise the risk of flooding in the middle of the country a week after it slammed into Texas. The mayor announced plans to release water from two reservoirs that could keep as many as 20,000 homes flooded for up to 15 days. In another Texas city with no drinking water, people waited in a line that stretched for more than a mile to get bottled water. And aerial video broadcast Friday evening showed a new fire at a crippled Houston-area chemical plant that was the scene of an earlier explosion and fire. Residents of the stillflooded western part of Houston were told to evacuate ahead of the planned release from two reservoirs protecting downtown. The move was expected to flood homes that were filled with water earlier in the week. Homes that are not currently flooded probably will not be affected, officials said. It could take three months for the Addicks and Barker reservoirs, which are normally dry, to drain. The Harris County Flood Control District said it had to continue releasing water to protect the reservoirs’ structural integrity and in case more heavy rain falls. Some of the affected houses have several feet
of water in them, and the water reaches to the rooftops of others, district meteorologist Jeff Lindner said. Mayor Sylvester Turner pleaded for more high-water vehicles and more search-and-rescue equipment as the nation’s fourth-largest city continued looking for any survivors or corpses that might have somehow escaped notice in flood-ravaged neighborhoods. Search teams quickly worked their way down streets, sometimes not even knocking on doors if there were obvious signs that all was well — organized debris piles or full cans of trash on the curb, for instance, or neighbors confirming that the residents had evacuated. Authorities considered it an initial search, though they did not say what subsequent searches would entail or when they would commence. Turner also asked the Federal Emergency Management Agency to provide more workers to process applications from thousands of people seeking government help. The mayor said he will request a preliminary aid package of $75 million for debris removal alone. The storm had lost most of its tropical characteristics but remained a source of heavy rain that threatened to cause flooding as far north as Indiana. By Friday evening, Harvey had dumped more than 9 inches of rain in parts of Arkansas and Tennessee and more than 8 inches in spots in Alabama and Kentucky. Its remnants were expected to generate another 1 to 3 inches
over parts of Kentucky, Indiana, Ohio and West Virginia. National Weather Service meteorologists expect Harvey to break up and merge with other weather systems over the Ohio Valley late Saturday or Sunday. More than 1,500 people were staying at shelters in Louisiana, and that number included people from communities in Texas. The state opened a seventh shelter Friday in Shreveport for up to 2,400 people, said Shauna Sanford, a spokeswoman for Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards. The Texas city of Beaumont, home to almost 120,000 people near the Louisiana state line, was trying to bring in enough bottled water for people who stayed behind after a water pumping station was overwhelmed by the swollen Neches River. Authorities raised the death toll from the storm to 39 late Thursday, while rescue workers conducted a block-by-block search of tens of thousands of Houston homes. The latest statewide damage surveys showed the extent of destruction. An estimated 156,000 dwellings in Harris County, or more than 10 percent of all structures in the county database, were damaged by flooding, according to the flood control district for the county, which includes Houston. Lindner called that a conservative estimate. Figures from the Texas Department of Public Safety indicated that nearly 87,000 homes had major or minor damage and at least 6,800 were destroyed.
NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING PROPOSED 2017/2018 BUDGET ALCORN COUNTY, MISSISSIPPI The Board of Supervisors of Alcorn County, Mississippi, will hold a public hearing on its proposed budget and proposed tax levies for fiscal year 2018, on September 14, 2017, at 9:00 A.M. in the Alcorn County Board of Supervisors Building located at 305 South Fulton Drive, Corinth, Mississippi. At this meeting, a proposed ad valorem tax effort will be considered. Alcorn County is now operating with projected total budget revenue of $17,890,862. Of that amount, 51 percent, or $9,124,339, of such revenue is obtained through ad valorem taxes. For the next fiscal year, the proposed budget has total projected revenue of $18,937,272. Of that atnount, 51 percent, or $9,658,008, is proposed to be financed through a total ad valorem tax levy. For the next fiscal year, the Alcorn County Board of Supervisors plans to keep your ad valorem tax millage the same at 116.21 mills. The millage rate attributed to county operations is 63.45 mills and the millage rate attributable to county school operations is 52.76 mills. The decision to not increase the ad valorem tax millage rate for fiscal year 2018 above the current fiscal year’s ad valorem tax millage rate means you will not pay more in ad valorem taxes on your home, automobile tag, utilities, business fixtures and equipment and rental real property, unless the assessed value of your property has increased for fiscal year 2018. A millage rate of 111.55 will produce the same amount of revenue from ad valorem taxes as was collected the prior year. The millage rate for the prior year was 116.21. Any citizen of Alcorn County, Mississippi, is invited to attend this public hearing on the proposed budget and tax levies for fiscal year 2018, and will be allowed to speak for a reasonable amount of time and offer tangible evidence before any vote is taken. A final decision on the proposed budget will be made following such public hearing. ALCORN COUNTY, MISSISSIPPI By: Jimmy Tate Waldon, President Board of Supervisors