6A • Sunday, November 17, 2013 • Daily Corinthian
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Betty Voyles
Funeral services for Betty Wooley Voyles, 92, are set for 1 p.m. today at Brush Creek Baptist Church with burial in the Brush Creek Church Cemetery. Ms. Voyles died Friday, November 15, 2013 at her residence. She was born May 1, 1921 in Alcorn Co. to the late Jess and Betty Stewart Wooley. She was a housewife and member of Brush Creek Baptist Church. She was preceded in death by her husband, Anderson Voyles; parents; sisters, Lula Hughes and Eva Lee Hutchinson; and brothers, Victor, Hollis and Reese Wooley. Survived by her son, G.A. Voyles and his wife Brenda of Walnut; a brother, Walter Wooley; grandchildren, Wendy Butler, Angie Settlemires and David Voyles; and great-grandchildren, Peyton Donahue, James Trenton Settlemires, Riley Butler, Blake Butler, Camden Voyles, Hali Settlemires, Maggie Settlemires, Bailey Butler and Kailey Butler. Pallbearers will be Wayne Hughes, Franklin Miller, David Voyles, William Butler, James Settlemires and Jimmy Tate Waldon. Bro. Carroll Talley and Robert Voyles will do the eulogy and officiating Visitation is 11 a.m. until service time at the church. Memorial Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements
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Sentencing set in cocaine case GULFPORT — A federal judge has scheduled a Nov. 25 sentencing for a man who authorities say was pulled over on Interstate 10 in south Mississippi in a car carrying 9 kilograms of cocaine. An affidavit filed in U.S. District Court in Gulfport says Felipe Fabela was stopped for an unsafe lane change on April 11 in Pass Christian. The affidavit says Fabela was nervous as he told the officer he was traveling from Baton Rouge, La., to Montgomery, Ala. The affidavit says Fabela consented to a search of the car and the cocaine was found in a hidden compartment inside the front frame rails of the 2007 Chevy Cobalt. Fabela pleaded guilty Aug. 27.
Vicksburg cabbies may have to keep logs VICKSBURG — Taxi drivers could soon be required to keep log books chronicling their activities. The Vicksburg Post reported a meeting has been set for Dec. 9 involving the city’s Public Transportation Board and cab company owners. The board set the meeting Tuesday after member Stan Collins suggested the logs as a way to ensure drivers are getting sufficient rest between shifts.
Collins also said logkeeping could be of help to police — a passing driver may have seen something at a crime scene. Collins, who owns a trucking company, said federal transportation regulations require commercial truck drivers to keep logbooks showing activity. “I believe it would be a really good thing to have, to keep up with the drivers and know where they’re at, and whether they’re working or not working,” he said, adding the city’s logbook would not require as much information as a federal log. Board member Rita Wyatt said officials of Executive Cab Co., one of the city’s three cab companies, told her their drivers already keep a log of fares and destinations. “We need to look at something,” board chairman Jim Stirgus Jr. said, “but not something that’s going to require a whole lot of detail, because we don’t want to get the drivers bogged down with too much detail.”
New Freedom Trail marker in Ruleville RULEVILLE — The Rev. J. D. Story and William Chapel Missionary Baptist Church in Ruleville will be honored Saturday with a marker on the Mississippi Freedom Trail. The marker will be located at the church on the corner of O.B. and Langdon Streets in Ruleville. Story was the pastor of William Chapel M.B.
ment representative will enforce compliance. Opponents say the potential new rule would stifle public discourse.
Church in Ruleville during the Civil Rights era. Story opened William Chapel and New St. Phillip, another church that he pastored in Cleveland, for voter register meetings. Another marker in Ruleville honors Civil Rights icon Fannie Lou Hamer. A marker in Mound Bayou honors businessman and physician T.R.M. Howard and one in Cleveland honors businessman Amzie Moore. The Mississippi Freedom Trail offers a virtual tour of sites that played key roles in the Civil Rights Movement.
Bryant presents check to leaders in Smithville SMITHVILLE — The town of Smithville has received $1.3 million to help with its ongoing recovery from a 2011 tornado. Gov. Phil Bryant presented Monroe County with a check Friday. The money will be used to help cover the cost of the town’s domed gym and safe room at the Smithville Attendance Center. The north Mississippi town was devastated by the storm, which struck on April 27, 2011. The tornado killed 16 people. Authorities said 153 homes, four churches, the Town Hall, the police headquarters and 14 of the 15 businesses in the one-square-mile town were destroyed. Furniture Brands closing Action Transport TUPELO — Action Transport trucks have been moving Lane Furniture merchandise for more than 40 years. That ends Monday. Parent company Furniture Brands International is closing down Action. Anton Nicholas of ICR, a financial communications company representing Furniture Brands, tells the Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal that the company will now use Missoula, Mont.-based Watkins & Shepard Trucking.
Aldermen may ban smartphones STARKVILLE — The Starkville Board of Aldermen may discuss Tuesday a proposal to stop member of the public from using smartphones or cellphones, tablets and laptops during their meetings. If passed, the ban would take effective Dec. 3. The ban would not apply to public officials or media representatives. . The exemptions, however, do not apply to “Internet bloggers or anyone engaged in purely social media such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, etc.” The Commercial Dispatch reports that citizens would pass through a metal detector before entering the board meeting. Those found in violation of the rule may be asked to leave. A Starkville Police Depart-
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Army scrapping 4 weapons incinerators ANNISTON, Ala. — The Pentagon spent $10.2 billion over three decades burning tons of
deadly nerve gas and other chemical weapons stored in four states — some of the agents so deadly even a few drops can kill. Now, with all those chemicals up in smoke and communities freed
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mustard gas were stored about 55 miles east of Birmingham — the military this week said it’s about one-third of the way into a $310 million program to level a gigantic furnace that cost $2.4 billion to build and operate. Tim Garrett, the government site project manager, said officials considered doing something else with the incinerator, but the facility was too specialized to convert for another use. Also, the law originally allowing chemical incineration required demolition once the work was done.
Family seeks answers in deadly porch shooting DEARBORN HEIGHTS, Mich. — The parents of a 19-year-old woman who was shot in the
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face on the porch of a suburban Detroit home say they find it hard to believe their daughter posed a threat to the man charged in her death. Walter Ray Simmons and Monica McBride spoke publicly Friday after Theodore Wafer was charged with seconddegree murder and manslaughter in the death of Renisha McBride on his Dearborn Heights porch. “I can’t imagine what that man feared from her. I would like to know why,” Monica McBride said. Police say Renisha McBride was shot a couple of hours after being involved in a nearby car accident on Nov. 2. Family members say the former high school cheerleader likely approached Wafer’s home for help. Wafer’s lawyer,
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