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Daily Corinthian Vol. 116, No. 230
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Liquor vote petition lists 1,200 names City only liquor vote petition effort currently underway in Iuka BY JEBB JOHNSTON
“I’m going to cross the finish line.”
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While Corinth’s petition calling for a city-only liquor election is near the half-way point on signatures, an Iuka resident is launching a petition effort for the Tishomingo County seat. The Corinth for a Vote effort began about two weeks ago and has gathered more than 1,200 names of citizens who want to vote on the sale of liquor in Corinth. Supporter John Orman said there is not a specific goal on the number of signatures, but they want to be sure to have extra signatures beyond the required 20 percent, which is around 2,350. He said supporters are
Charles Aldridge Spearheading liquor vote petition drives in Iuka, Tishomingo County pleased with the effort thus far. The completed petition would be presented to the Board of Aldermen, and a special election would be scheduled upon verification of names on the petition. The petition seeks a Corinthonly vote, excluding county voters, per the new state law, which allows citizens in cities of at least 5,000 population or in county seats located in counties that have voted dry in the past to seek an election.
Iuka is eligible as a county seat in a county voted dry in the past, and Charles Aldridge hopes to bring the issue to a city vote. He spent a couple of hours at Iuka’s Mineral Springs Park gathering signatures on Saturday. Aldridge is also the man behind an ongoing petition for a county-wide vote. That petition, which seeks a vote on liquor, beer and light wine, is about 200 short of the needed number. He had hoped to get it
on the November general election ballot but did not meet the deadline. Although he is starting a city petition, he said the county petition will continue “if it takes me another 10 years,” he said. “I’m going to cross the finish line.” The city petition will require around 500 valid signatures, and Aldridge believes about half of the 2,300 to 2,400 names he has gathered on the county petition are Iuka resi-
dents. “I’ve got oodles of people in the city that signed this county one,” he said. “I believe the city will come nearer passing it.” Aldridge said he is a former drinker. Although he does not indulge now, he believes the availability of alcoholic beverages would decrease the number of drunk drivers on the road. He also believes Tishomingo County is losing too much tax revenue to surrounding areas where alcoholic beverages can be purchased. “It’s awful how much goes to Alabama,” he said, as a package store sells wine, liquor and beer on U.S. 72 just a few miles from the Mississippi-Alabama border.
City employee retires after 30 years Corinth graduate attends Harvard
BY STEVE BEAVERS sbeavers@dailycorinthian.com
Herbert Taylor Jr. believes in working. The 57-year-old has been going off to work at two jobs since he was 17. That all changed when the assistant street commissioner retired from the Corinth Street Department on Wednesday. “Herbert was my right-hand man,” said street commissioner Jim Bynum. “He was not only my co-worker, but a brother to me.” Taylor left the street department after 30 and a half years. The father of two — Herbert Taylor III and Lauren Brooke Taylor — is the first AfricanAmerican to hold the position of assistant commissioner in Corinth. “He was a man you could always count on in any type of situation,” said former Corinth Mayor Jerry Latch. “Herbert was the first one to show up
BY KIM JOBE
Cointh School District
Dreams really do come true, especially for one Corinth coed. In just a few short months, Abby Noyes went from being salutatorian of the Corinth High School Class of 2012 to being a member of the Harvard University Class of 2016. “I’ve wanted to go (to Harvard) since I was 8 years old,” Noyes said during an interview a few days before leaving for Massachusetts recently. “I don’t know how it started; I’ve just always wanted to go.”
Staff photo by Steve Beavers
Herbert Taylor, Jr. retired last week after over 30 years at the Corinth Street Department. Taylor was the first African-American to hold the position of assistant street commissioner in Corinth.
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Local groups band together to lead mission of hope in Haiti BY BRANT SAPPINGTON bsappington@dailycorinthian.com
In the poorest nation on earth, a group of Corinthians from different denominations and different backgrounds are helping meet the physical and spiritual needs of the people and forge relationships
that can help build a better tomorrow. Over the past two years, groups from Corinth and Alcorn County have made more than half a dozen trips to rural areas in Haiti - helping to construct school buildings, homes and water wells and shar-
ing the love of God with a people living in some of the world’s harshest conditions. “It’s just people helping people to get better,” said Phil Little, who has made four trips to the impoverished Caribbean nation. “It’s what Jesus did, taking care of the
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poor.” The work began with an e-mail First Baptist Church Youth Minister Jason Marshall received from a friend and fellow youth minister at a church in Jackson. That friend invited him to join them in a mission trip to Haiti - leaving in
only a week. Marshall said at first he wasn’t sure about the sudden trip, but he prayed about it and began feeling it was something he needed to do. “I really felt led by God to go,” Please see HAITI | 5A
On this day in history 150 years ago Gen. Rosecrans, still in pursuit of Price after the Battle of Iuka, was wishing he had the troops in the Corinth garrison to help him. He complained to Grant, “Oh, that Corinth could be left to take of itself!”
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