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Saturday, September 12, 2015
Today in History Today is Saturday, Sept. 12, the 255th day of 2015. There are 110 days left in the year.
Today’s Highlight in History: On Sept. 12, 1962, in a speech at Rice University in Houston, President John F. Kennedy reaffirmed his support for the manned space program, declaring: “We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard.”
On this date: In 1914, during World War I, the First Battle of the Marne ended in an Allied victory against Germany. In 1938, Adolf Hitler demanded the right of self-determination for the Sudeten Germans in Czechoslovakia. In 1944, the Second Quebec Conference opened with President Franklin D. Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill in attendance. In 1953, Massachusetts Sen. John F. Kennedy married Jacqueline Lee Bouvier in Newport, Rhode Island. In 1960, Democratic presidential candidate John F. Kennedy addressed questions about his Roman Catholic faith, telling a Southern Baptist group, “I do not speak for my church on public matters, and the church does not speak for me.” In 1974, Emperor Haile Selassie was deposed by Ethiopia’s military after ruling for 58 years. In 1977, South African black student leader Steve Biko died while in police custody, triggering an international outcry. In 1986, Joseph Cicippio, the acting comptroller at the American University in Beirut, was kidnapped (he was released in December 1991). In 1995, the Belarusian military shot down a hydrogen balloon during an international race, killing its two American pilots, John Stuart-Jervis and Alan Fraenckel.
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Across the Region Board of supervisors vote to raise taxes IUKA — Tishomingo County residents will soon see a tax increase. The Board of Supervisors voted Friday in a special public hearing to increase the ad valorem tax to 3.75 mills from 93.25 to 97 mills. The increase will affect taxes paid on property and car tags. Board president Nickey McRae said 2 mills will go into the county’s school fund, while the remaining 1.7 mills will go to the county’s general fund. “We needed to increase tax last year, but were able to make cuts elsewhere to keep from doing it,” said McRae. “We had to work an increase in this year to survive.” The upcoming fiscal year budget for the county will include more than $10 million in revenue including about $4 million which will be generated from the tax increase.
Thorn to headline Booneville festival BOONEVILLE — One of Northeast Mississippi’s most successful singer-songwriters is set to headline the 24th annual
Booneville Fall Festival. Tupelo-native Paul Thorn, whose latest album “Too Blessed to be Stressed” has been a fixture on the Americana music charts, will top the bill for the free festival closing concert on Saturday, Oct. 17. Booneville & Prentiss County Main Street Association Executive Director Trudy Featherston said they’re thrilled to feature Thorn at the festival and are looking forward to one of the biggest festivals in years. The annual festival will feature all of the usual fun and excitement including the Lions Club soapbox derby, jams and jellies contest, car show, hula hoop contest, political speaking, local musical entertainment throughout the day and more. Featherston said they’re already getting requests for booths from vendors and expect a large and varied group of food and arts and crafts vendors for this year’s event. The PBJ Happee Days carnival will also be set up downtown offering rides and games for the young and young-at-heart. A complete schedule of times for activities will be announced soon. Featherston is also excited
about this year’s t-shirt design featuring a unique owl design. Shirts can be preordered now at a cost of $12 for shortsleeve and $15 for long-sleeve. Sizes above XL are slightly more. Shirts can be preordered at the Main Street office in the historic Booneville Depot. For more information on the fall festival or to reserve a vendor space, call the Booneville & Prentiss County Main Street Association at 662-728-4130.
McNairy County deputies search for man MCNAIRY COUNTY — Sheriff deputies were searching Friday for a man with multiple warrants outstanding. McNairy County Sheriffs Department officials were searching the Adamsville area for Clint Johnson. Johnson is wanted for multiple felonies including theft and aggravated burglary.
Blue Mountain partners on engineering program BLUE MOUNTAIN — Blue Mountain College and Union University have signed a partnership agreement that enables Blue Mountain students to earn engineering degrees.
Through this agreement, BMC students will earn an engineering degree with either a mechanical or electrical concentration. This degree program is a “2+2.5” or “2+3” curriculum where students attend the first two years at Blue Mountain and final two and half or three years at Union. “Partnerships such as this allow both institutions to practice good stewardship while affording a greater number of students the chance to pursue the career of their choice. We are very pleased to enter into this engineering partnership with Union University,” Blue Mountain president Dr. Barbara McMillin. This partnership is based on two educational entities that pride themselves on providing academic excellence and a shared commitment to their Christ-centered missions. Union University has a proven track record of performance with a 100-percent pass rate of the Fundamentals of Engineering exam for 2015, the fifth time in the last 11 graduating classes. Both institutions of higher learning provide a Christcentered environment and are affiliated with the Southern Baptist Convention.
Earle in song: Time to change state flag BY EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS Associated Press
JACKSON — Country rockers Steve Earle & The Dukes have released a new song exhorting Mississippi to remove the Confederate battle emblem from the state flag. The single, “It’s Time, Mississippi,” went on sale Friday as a fundraiser for the Southern Poverty Law Center. Virginia native Earle sings that he comes from a “long, long line / of a Rebel strain / but the wind has changed.” Old South symbols have been widely debated since the June 17 massacre of nine black worshippers at a church in Charleston, South Carolina. The man charged in the slayings had previously posed for online photos, holding the Confederate battle flag. Soon after the killings, the
Confederate battle flag was removed from state Capitol grounds by lawmakers in South Carolina and by the governor in Alabama. But Mississippi continues to fly the state flag it has used since 1894, with the rebel emblem in one corner. The song is posted to the Southern Poverty Law Center website, with a statement from Earle, who said he lived in the South for the first 50 of his 60 years. “I know that I’m not the only Southerner who never believed for one second that the Confederate battle flag is symbolic of anything but racism in anything like a modern context,” Earle said. Mississippi leaders, and the public, are divided on whether to keep the flag or ditch it. Jeppie Barbour, a brother of
Republican former Gov. Haley Barbour, is helping organize efforts to keep the Confederate emblem on the Mississippi flag. He said Friday that he had not heard the new song. “I am hesitant to pay too much attention to musicians,” Jeppie Barbour told The Associated Press. “But they have the right to believe what they want to believe and say what they want to say. And so do I, and I say, ‘Keep it.’” The Republican speaker of the Mississippi House, both Republican U.S. senators, the state’s only black congressman and many state lawmakers from both parties have said the state flag should be redesigned without the divisive symbol. But Gov. Phil Bryant and Lt. Gov. Tate Reeves, both Republicans, have said if the issue is reconsidered, it should be done by
a statewide vote rather than by the Legislature. In a 2001 election, Mississippi voters decided by nearly 2-to-1 to keep the Confederate emblem on the flag. The flag’s defenders see it as a symbol of history and heritage, while critics say it’s a stark reminder of slavery and segregation. In lyrics and melody echoing the strains of “Dixie,” Earle sings in the new song: “I wish I was in a land that never / held a soul in bondage ever.” The Alabama-based Southern Poverty Law Center tracks racial hate crimes and files lawsuits to challenge conditions in schools and jails. Concerning the SPLC, Jeppie Barbour said, “There are a lot of people who I would not pay any attention to, and they are high up the list.”
Timberlake, Sam & Dave among Memphis music hall inductees Associated Press
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — The Memphis Music Hall of Fame says it will be inducting pop singer Justin Timberlake, soul men Sam & Dave and Elvis Pre-
sley guitarist Scotty Moore during a ceremony next month. The hall says its fourth annual induction ceremony will take place Oct. 17 at the Cannon Center in downtown Memphis.
Also being inducted are Booker T. and the MGs drummer Al Jackson Jr., blues singer Alberta Hunter, pianist Memphis Slim and country singer Charlie Rich. All inductees have strong con-
nections to Memphis. Hunter, Jackson, Memphis Slim and Timberlake are from the Memphis area. Rich and Moore recorded at Sun Studio. Sam & Dave recorded at Stax Records.
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