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Man dies in factory accident BY BOBBY J. SMITH bsmith@dailycorinthian.com

IUKA — An employee was killed in an accident at a Yellow Creek industry. Timothy Allen Harville, 24, of Savannah, Tenn., was killed

just before midnight Friday at FerrouSouth, a metal supplier industry at Yellow Creek Port. According to Tishomingo County Coroner Mack Wilemon, the E-911 oﬃce in Tishomingo County received

the call about the accident at approximately 11:45 p.m. on Friday. “He was lifting bundles of steel sheets, loading a truck, and for whatever reason those bundles came out of that lift

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The 21st Annual Corinth Rotary Club / Daily Corinthian Christmas Basket Fund has topped the $9,000 mark. A $23,000 fund raising goal was set so 1,000 food baskets could be given to local families on Saturday, Dec. 17. The baskets were given away on faith the goal will be reached. The newspaper has received $9,105 in donations so far. Donations include a $200 anonymous gift in memory of Mr. and Mrs. Victor Robison, Mr. and Mrs. Marvin Bain and Mrs. Oleta Sartain; $50 from Dick and Judy Wood in memory of Jim Corley; $100 from Sue McNair in memory of Charlie McNair; $100 from Mr. and Mrs. Billy Ray Briggs Jr. in memory of Bill and Marie Briggs and Bill and Harriet Williams; $100 from Tom and Bobbie Smith in memory of Ota May Maynard and Marguerite Truitt; $50 from Mrs. James L. Jones; $25 from Ronald Wood in memory of Vergil and Mary Wood; $100 from Mrs. Lester Strickland; $25 from Debbie Garrett in memory of Brady Eubanks and Johnny Gann; $100 Please see FUND | 2A

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Storm chasers with the National Weather Service reported seeing a tornado touchdown briefly in both the Kossuth and Rienzi area, but no major damage was reported. In Prentiss County, strong

The Corinth School District’s modified calendar might see a tweak around Thanksgiving next school year based on student attendance. After having a full week oﬀ for fall break in past years during the week of Thanksgiving, school was in session on Monday and Tuesday of that week this year with the new calendar. Superintendent Lee Childress reported to the board of trustees that attendance on the Tuesday prior to Thanksgiving was in the range of 65 to 70 percent. It was also down on Monday of that week to a lesser degree. Daily attendance, which had been tracking at 95 to 96 percent, was down in November as a result. Childress attributed the poor Tuesday attendance to people being accustomed to having the full week as fall break. He said it’s something the district needs to consider when the next calendar is formulated. In other business from the board’s latest session: • The board accepted a donation of $13,597.74 from the Corinth School District Foun-

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Strong winds pulled off a section of metal roofing from a business on Second Street in Booneville Saturday night, damaging power lines and transformers as the roofing landed in the middle of the street.

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line severe thunderstorms ahead of a frigid cold front moved across the Crossroads area overnight Saturday. Alcorn County Director of

Emergency Services Ricky Gibens said the Corinth-Alcorn County Airport reported 114 mph winds around 11 p.m. “The tornado moved right over the top of us, but never touched down,” said Gibens. “We dodged the bullet, again.”

Legion distributes toys to area children Corinth’s American Legion Post #6 is working with Region IV Mental Health and a number of other local entities to provide a better Christmas for a large number of local kids. Members of the American Legion have been collecting toys over the last two months with the help of American Auction in Burnsville, the Rienzi auction and the Jacinto Volunteer Fire Department to provide toys for Region IV. “This our second year to join

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with Corinthian Funeral Home giving toys to Region IV for their children, wherever they see the need for them to go,” explained Carlean Parker, president of the American Legion Auxiliary. “We’ve enjoyed doing this. With what Ricky at the funeral home has already carried over there we’ve gotten close to a 1,000 toys.” Parker said she believes the Legion has collected maybe three times as many toys this year as had been collected in 2015.

Judy Glenn has always volunteered her time for the needs of others. “I believe God has always opened my eyes to the needs of the community,” she said. “From a child, I was taught that one person can make a difference and I try to be an example of that.” The 40-year veteran real estate broker is past president and original founding member of the local Habitat for Humanity. She currently serves as the second vice president of the Kiwanis Club and is the vice president of the Corinth Artist Guild. Married to Bill, the couple has two grown children, Gary Glenn and Kelly Treadway. The owner of Corinth Realty since 1980, Glenn loves to travel. “I take an international trip once a year,” she said. “I have once walked the Great Wall of China – it was simply remarkable.”

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dation to fund the next round of mini-grants for various classroom enrichment activities. • The board approved personnel hires including Michelle Fernando, Tamara Wicks, Jimna Wicks and Virla Denise Kirksey as teacher assistants at Corinth Elementary School, and Kimberly Jones, Ekebian Cummings, Angela Scales and Valerie Little as sup-

ply teachers at CES. Other hires are Janet Sherer, secretary, Corinth Middle School; Stacy Ricks, supply teacher, Corinth High School; Ronnie Inman, part-time custodian, CHS; John J. Hora, bus driver; and Marion Jones, mathematics specialist, central oﬃce. Resignations are Kelly Marshall, secretary, CMS; Patti Whitehurst-Poindexter, teacher, CES; and Haley Moore, nurse, CES.

Members of the Corinth Police Department Special Response Team beat their fundraising goal of $3,000 with a $3,100 donation to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. The team ran in the St. Jude Memphis Marathon on Dec. 3. “We are extremely grateful to all the donors and sponsors, and we hope to run further and raise more money next year,” said Maj. Josh Fortenberry. Team members include Erin Hill, Ramiro Mares, Shane Stegall, Fortenberry, Bo Swindle and Ken Edmonds.

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winds toppled trees and tore the roof oﬀ of one building in Booneville. A large section of metal roofing was ripped oﬀ a strip of businesses on Second Street near Kentucky Fried Chicken, landing in the roadway. Downed trees were also reported around ninth street and in the Geeville and Altitude communities. Prentiss County Electric Power Association Manager Ronny Rowland said the damage on second street broke a mainline pole with three transformers, causing an outage in several areas. Lightning damage to a transformer near Baldwyn cut power from McDonalds west to the

Union County line. A wayward squirrel also shut down power after it shorted a line feeding Blackland, Osborne Creek, Dry Creek, Lake Mohawk, Jumpertown and Pisgah. Rowland said at the peak of the damage just over 3,000 customers were without power. He expressed appreciation to employees who worked in the rain, sleet, freezing rain and subfreezing temperatures and also thanked the Booneville Street Department and Booneville Police Department for their assistance as power company employees repaired damage. (Staﬀ writer Zack Steen contributed to this story.)

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from Mr. and Mrs. Harrison Spear in memory of Len Spear; $100 from Gunn Drug Company in memory of Joe Robert Henry; $100 from Gunn Drug Company in memory of Mark Freeman; and $100 from Gunn Drug Company in memory of Joel Griﬃn. Christmas Basket Fund donations can be made

“in honor of” or “in memory of” a special person or persons. The tribute will be published in the Daily Corinthian. The special fund will remain active until the end of the year. Donations can be brought by the newspaper oﬃce or mailed to: Daily Corinthian, Attn.:Christmas Basket Fund, P.O. Box 1800, Corinth, MS 38835.

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The American Legion Post #6 is working with the community to provide a better Christmas for area children. Show here (front row, from left): Nelda Hughes - Jacinto Fire Department, Annette Trantham - American Legion Auxiliary, Dallis Hill - American Legion, Chelsea Watson - American Legion Auxiliary, Bobby McDaniel - American Legion, Shirley Tutor - American Legion Auxiliary, Wynn McCandles - case worker at Region IV, Jeannie Timmons - Region IV, Joy Dixon - Region IV, Valerie Gunther - Region IV and Jessica Malone - Region IV; (back row, from left), Sheila McDaniel - American Legion Auxiliary, Emma Hudson - American Legion Auxiliary, Carlean Parker - president of American Legion Auxiliary, Debbie Watson - treasurer of American Legion Auxiliary, Tommy Watson - post commander of American Legion, Ricky Holland - Corinthian Funeral Home, Tina Hurst - American Legion Auxiliary Dept. of Miss. 2nd Vice Pres., and Glenda Gatlin of Region IV.

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Across the Region Booneville Multiple indictments reached in arrests

Today is Tuesday, Dec. 20, the 355th day of 2016. There are 11 days left in the year.

BOONEVILLE – Prentiss County Narcotics Officers wrapped up a several month long undercover investigation into narcotics sales in Prentiss County with the recent indictment of several individuals. • Michael Staggs, 42, of CR 1021 in Rienzi was arrested on Saturday, Nov. 26 after being indicted for the sale, transfer or distribution of a controlled substance. Staggs’ bond was set at $10,000. • James Clint Williams, 34, of CR 1221 in Booneville was arrested Monday, Nov. 28 after being indicted on two counts of the sale, transfer or distribution of a controlled Substance. Williams’ bond was set at $20,000. • Brandon Corey Horton, 32, of CR 3360 in Rienzi was arrested on Monday, Nov. 28 after being indicted for the sale, transfer or distribution of a controlled substance. His bond was set at $10,000. • Jackie Ray Wilburn, 63, of CR 3020 in Booneville was arrested Monday, Nov. 28 after he was indicted on two counts of the sale, transfer of and distribution of a controlled substance. Wilburns bond was set at $30,000. Other indictments that were not drug related were as follows: • Randall Joe Barnes, 58, of of CR 1195 was arrested Monday, Nov. 28 after being indicted for touching a child for lustful purposes, gratification and molesting. Barnes bond was set at $20,000. • Richard Hoyle McCoy, 53, of Hare Road in Booneville was arrested on Saturday, Nov. 26 after being indicted for two counts of embezzlement. His bond was set at $45,000.

Today’s Highlight in History: On Dec. 20, 1946, the Frank Capra film “It’s A Wonderful Life,” starring James Stewart and Donna Reed, had a preview showing for charity at New York’s Globe Theatre, a day before its official world premiere.

On this date: In 1790, the first successful cotton mill in the United States began operating at Pawtucket, Rhode Island. In 1803, the Louisiana Purchase was completed as ownership of the territory was formally transferred from France to the United States. In 1812, German authors Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm published the first volume of the first edition of their collection of folk stories, “Children’s and Household Tales.” In 1860, South Carolina became the first state to secede from the Union as all 169 delegates to a special convention in Charleston voted in favor of separation. In 1864, Confederate forces evacuated Savannah, Georgia, as Union Maj. Gen. William T. Sherman nearly completed his “March to the Sea.” In 1924, Adolf Hitler was released from prison after serving nine months for his role in the Beer Hall Putsch; during his time behind bars, he’d written his autobiographical screed, “Mein Kampf.” In 1945, the Office of Price Administration announced the end of tire rationing, effective Jan. 1, 1946. In 1963, the Berlin Wall was opened for the first time to West Berliners, who were allowed one-day visits to relatives in the Eastern sector for the holidays. In 1976, Richard J. Daley, the mayor of Chicago since 1955, died in office at age 74. In 1987, more than 4,300 people were killed when the Dona Paz, a Philippine passenger ship, collided with the tanker Vector off Mindoro island.

Tishomingo Eight charged with burglary in Tishomingo TISHOMINGO COUNTY – According to Tishomingo Police Chief Mike Kemp, eight people have been charged in Tishomingo County following a series of burglaries. Within a week, several homes in Tishomingo were broken into. “All suspects have been arrested and charged,” said the chief. A Jackson Street rental home belonging to David Whitfield on Jackson Street was burglarized and tools of significant value were stolen, said Kemp. The Tishomingo Car Wash

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was also burglarized, but thieves were only able to steal a small amount of change and damage the building, said the chief. Also, in the series of burglaries, a back door was kicked in at a residence on Natchez Street and a small amount of property was taken from a carport on Third Street. • Dakota (Cody) Williams, 19, of Tishomingo was arrested and charged with receiving and selling stolen property. • Brad George, 46, of Booneville was charged with receiving stolen property. • Dakota Traylor, 19, of Tishomingo was charged with burglary, burglary of an occupied dwelling and burglary of a commercial building. Five juveniles were also arrested in connection with the burglaries. They were charged with burglary, burglary of an occupied residence and burglary of a commercial building. Since the burglaries, the Tishomingo Police Department has hired another officer and changed schedules to improve the quality of patrols in the town, noted Kemp. The chief wished to thank officers Russ Robinson and Rodney Waddle for their help in bringing the suspects to justice.

Tupelo Police believe armed robberies are connected TUPELO – Tupelo police now believe that the same man robbed a gas station and a Dollar General store three days later. Police say a black male robbed the Sprint Mart store at 317 South Gloster St. on the evening of Dec. 10. He reportedly was wearing a brown wig. Around 4:30 p.m. Dec. 13, an armed man threatened an employee of Dollar General at 1706 South Gloster. “In both instances the suspect attempted to disguise his face with a fake beard,” said Tupelo Police Department spokesman Capt. Chuck McDougald. Surveillance camera footage not only shows the suspect without his disguise, it also identified to possible suspect vehicles. A silver or light gray Chevy Trailblazer or GMC Envoy could have been used in the Sprint Mart robbery. A white, four-door Toyota Camry with an emergency spare tire on the driver’s rear side was seen outside the Dollar General on Dec. 13. In addition to these robberies, the police are also working the Sunday night armed robbery of the Dollar General at 5400 Cliff Gookin. That suspect is a black male with possible acne scars on his forehead. “It is unknown if this suspect is connected with the Dec. 10 or Dec. 13 crimes,” McDougald said. “No was injured and the suspect escaped with an undetermined amount of cash.” (Anyone with information about this suspect is asked to call TPD at 662-841-6491 or Crime Stoppers at 1-800-773-TIPS.)

Shiloh Shiloh National Military Park to mark 122 years SHILOH, Tenn. – Shiloh National Military Park will commemorate the 122nd anniversary of its establishment as a Civil War military park on Tuesday, Dec. 27. The event will begin at 2 p.m. in the Shiloh Battlefield visitor center auditorium. Visitors are invited to attend a power point presentation on the past and present of Shiloh Battlefield. Following the program, at 2:30 p.m., the Hardin County Visitor and Convention Bureau will present a cake to the park for visitors to enjoy. This event is free and open to the public. Shiloh National Military Park was established on Dec. 27, 1894, but for years after the battle only the Shiloh National Cemetery stood as a reminder of the epic two-day engagement. That was until veterans of the Battle of Shiloh, both North and South, reunited to establish a lasting memorial to their role in history. Shiloh was one of the first five Civil War battlefields preserved as national military parks, along with Chickamauga, Antietam, Gettysburg, and Vicksburg. The Shiloh National Military

Oxford Two more charged in moving company theft OXFORD – Two more people have been charged in connection with employees of a local moving company burglarizing a house. On Nov. 16, burglars stole 13 firearms worth more than $26,000 from a residence on Lyles Drive in Oxford. Oxford

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It’s not a junta President-elect Donald Trump has already committed a grave offense against our system of government by forming a “junta,” according to his critics. The Trump junta consists of Rich three former generals whom Lowry the president-elect has tapped for top national-security posiNational tions, with others still under Review consideration. Like much of what Trump does, the military selections have inflamed people who pride themselves on their knowledge and discernment into flights of self-discrediting outrage. There are only a few problems with the charge Trump is creating a junta, a term associated with Latin America and which the Cambridge dictionary defines as “a small group, especially of military officers, that rules a country after taking power by force.” Namely, Trump didn’t seize the government by force; he himself is not a general (although he went to the New York Military Academy for high school); and the three generals he has tapped for top posts are all retired and therefore civilians. (Michael Flynn will be national-security adviser, and Trump has nominated James Mattis as defense secretary and John Kelly as homeland-security secretary.) The Trump cabinet, in other words, bears about as much resemblance to a junta as the Supreme Court does to the College of Cardinals because it has five justices who are Catholic and wear robes. To call the connection superficial is to understate how absurdly inapposite it is. If the presence of three retired military leaders is enough to tip an otherwise dulyelected, civilian-led government into quasimilitary rule, we already experienced it at the outset of the Obama administration. As the Washington Examiner pointed out, President Barack Obama had three military leaders as part of his initial team, a retired Marine general (Jim Jones as national-security adviser), an Army general (Eric Shinseki at Veterans Affairs) and a Navy admiral (Dennis Blair as director of national intelligence). The republic survived. Worse, the United States has repeatedly had retired generals not merely as cabinet secretaries, but as commander in chiefs, from George Washington, to Andrew Jackson, to U.S. Grant, to Dwight Eisenhower. No one seriously considered their presidencies affronts to the principle of civilian rule. None of this will dissuade the journalists and analysts who have been throwing around the “junta” charge, though. Much of the left and the press has taken Trump’s election as a license to suspend rational thought. They like the delegitimizing sound of the word “junta,” and that’s enough for them to use it, never mind that it renders the term meaningless. The fact is that Trump is a civilian leader who is impressed by people who once served at the top levels of the military. This is understandable, given how the stereotype of the general as the thoughtless, buzz-cut warmonger is -- if it ever applied -- less relevant than ever. The best generals are worldly, capable, and tend to be realistic about the limits of military power. Despite the nickname “mad dog,” which he dislikes, Gen. James Mattis is hardly Gen. Curtis LeMay, the cigar-chomping Air Force general who notoriously talked of bombing the North Vietnamese “back into the Stone Age.” Mattis is noted for his bookishness and traveling with a 6,000-book library. It was important that, after his election, Trump reach outside his inner circle (Michael Flynn is firmly ensconced within it) to impressive public servants, and Mattis and John Kelly both fit the bill. They are more likely to be restraining influences rather than enablers. Trump has credited Mattis with changing his view of waterboarding, which Trump casually endorsed throughout the election campaign. If there are legitimate worries about how Trump will govern, the alleged junta is more of a commentary on his detractors than on his choices for his cabinet. But don’t worry. As soon as this charge is dropped, another equally over-the-top one will take its place, in this, the season of the left losing its mind.

Prayer for today Loving Father, teach me the secret of constancy, that none may ever be disappointed in me. May I not reckon what I give on recompense, but have the spirit of giving which has no measure for what it may receive in return. May I not be forgetful of thy love which will hold me to deeper reverence and devotion. Amen.

A verse to share But the angel said to her, “Do not be afraid, Mary; you have found favor with God. You will conceive and give birth to a son, and you are to call him Jesus. —Luke 1:30-31

What’s Trump up to on foreign policy? What is President-elect Donald Trump up to on foreign policy? It’s a question with no clear answer. Some will dismiss his appointments and tweets as expressing no more than the impulses of an ignorant and undisciplined temperament -- no more premeditated than the lunges of a rattlesnake. Others may recall that similar things were said about his campaign strategy. But examination of the entrails of election returns suggests that Trump was following a deliberate strategy based on shrewd insight when he risked antagonizing white college-educated voters in the process of appealing to non-college-educated whites. Antagonizing college graduates cost him scads of popular votes -- but zero electoral votes -- in states such as California, Arizona, Texas and Georgia. But his appeal to non-collegeeducated whites in Florida, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin, Iowa and Maine’s 2nd Congressional District won him just enough popular votes to capture 100 electoral votes that had gone

for President Barack Obama in 2012. So maybe Trump knew what he Michael was doing. Barone It seems to me that like Columnist many rich men, he has original insights that, together with hard work and good luck, have made him successful, even while showing boundless ignorance or mindless delusion about other things. So let’s examine Trump’s actions and comments on foreign policy so far in that light and in light of the speculations of historian and Henry Kissinger biographer Niall Ferguson, who sketched out what a “Kissinger-inspired strategy” by Trump might look like. Ferguson argued that Trump is pursuing what Kissinger’s most admired American statesman, Theodore Roosevelt, also sought: “a world run by regional great powers with strong men in command, all of whom understand that any lasting international order

must be based on the balance of power.” That seems in line with Trump’s moves vis-a-vis China. He ostentatiously took a congratulatory call from Taiwan’s president, and the first foreign leader to make a postelection visit to Trump Tower was Japan’s Shinzo Abe. Both are signals that Trump will look askance at China’s moves to establish sovereignty in the first island chain. But then he tapped as ambassador to Beijing Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad, whose friendship with Xi Jinping goes back to the Chinese leader’s visit to Iowa in 1985. Those moves look like a good cop-bad cop routine. Trump wants some changes in trade relations with China and limits on its probes in the South China Sea and will build up U.S. military forces. But there’s room for acceptance of China as a great power. There’s room for acceptance of Russia, too, as suggested by the secretary of state nomination of Exxon Mobil CEO Rex Tillerson, self-proclaimed friend of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s. He may be opposed

by Republican senators who, like Mitt Romney in 2012, see Russia as “our No. 1 geopolitical foe.” But perhaps Trump favors Kissinger’s proposal for a neutral and decentralized (i.e., dominated and partitioned) Ukraine, with an end to sanctions on Russia. Tillerson would be a good choice if that were your goal. In the Middle East, will Trump ditch the Iranian nuclear deal or police it aggressively? Will he bolster the tacit Sunni-Israeli alliance against the expansion of Iranian influence? Unclear, though Mattis and Tillerson could help with both. Trump’s moves and picks so far are not inconsistent with Ferguson’s supposition that his strategy is to seek accommodations with regional powers led by strongmen, showing even less regard for and paying even less lip service to human rights than Obama. We’ll see. Michael Barone is a senior political analyst for the Washington Examiner, resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and longtime co-author of The Almanac of American Politics.

Lessons of Aleppo for the president-elect In this world, it is often dangerous to be an enemy of the United States, said Henry Kissinger in 1968, but to be a friend is fatal. The South Vietnamese would come to appreciate the insight. So it is today with Aleppo, where savage reprisals against U.S.-backed rebels are taking place in that hellhole of human rights. Yet, again, the wrong lessons are being drawn from the disaster. According to The Washington Post, the bloodbath is a result of a U.S. failure to intervene more decisively in Syria’s civil war: “Aleppo represents a meltdown of the West’s moral and political will -- and ... a collapse of U.S. leadership. “By refusing to intervene against the Assad regime’s atrocities, or even to enforce the ‘red line’ he declared on the use of chemical weapons, President Obama created a vacuum that was filled by Vladimir Putin and Iran’s Revolutionary Guard.” But the blunder was not in staying out of Syria’s civil war, but in going in. Aleppo is a bloodbath born of interventionism. On Aug. 18, 2011, President Obama said, “For the sake of the Syrian people the time has come for President

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in Raqqa. U.S. policy became to back the “good” rebels in Aleppo, bomb the “bad” rebels in Raqqa and demand that Assad depart. An absurd policy. Nor had the American people been consulted. After a decade of wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, they saw no U.S. vital interests at risk in who ruled Damascus, so long as it was not the terrorists of ISIS or al-Qaida. Then came Obama’s “red line” warning: The U.S. would take military action if chemical weapons were used in Syria’s civil war. What undercut this ultimatum was that Congress had never authorized the president to take military action against Syria, and the American people wanted to stay out of Syria’s civil war. By 2015, as Assad army’s seemed to be breaking, Vladimir Putin boldly stepped in with air power, alongside Hezbollah and Iran. Why? Because all have vital interests in preserving the Assad regime. Bashar Assad is Russia’s ally and provides Putin with his sole naval base in the Med. Assad’s regime is the source of Hezbollah’s resupply and weapons to deter, and, if necessary, fight Israel. To Iran, Assad is an ally

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against Saudi Arabia and the Sunni awakening and a crucial link in the Shiite Crescent that extends from Tehran to Baghdad to Damascus to Beirut. All have greater stakes in this civil war than do we, and have been willing to invest more time, blood and treasure. Thus they have, so far, prevailed. The lessons for Trump from the Aleppo disaster? Do not even consider getting into a new Middle East war -- unless Congress votes to authorize it, the American people are united behind it, vital U.S. interests are clearly imperiled, and we know how the war ends and when we can come home. Before starting such a war, Donald Trump might call in Bob Gates and ask him what he meant at West Point in February 2011 when he told the cadets: “Any future defense secretary who advises the president to again send a big American land army into Asia or into the Middle East or Africa should ‘have his head examined,’ as General MacArthur so delicately put it.” Patrick J. Buchanan is the author of the new book “The Greatest Comeback: How Richard Nixon Rose From Defeat to Create the New Majority.”

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Writing class turns into two published works BY BOBBY J. SMITH bsmith@dailycorinthian.com

In the first month of 2014 a poet named Louis Bourgeois brought some light into one of the most notoriously dismal places on planet earth: Parchman Prison, the setting for enough misery to inspire a hundred blues songs and countless tales told among friends and family. Bourgeois, the Louisiana-born publisher of Oxford’s nonprofit Vox Press, went to Parchman as a kind of literary pioneer, bringing the first creative writing class to the prison. One result of that class was the book “In Our Own Words: Writing From Parchman Farm,” a collection of stories written by nine of the students in what he deemed the Prison Writes Initiative. He wrote of the experience in the introduction to that book. “About the writing itself, I can only say this: men who had never written before in their lives, ended up churning out 10- to 40-page narratives, at an amazing speed and quality,” wrote Bourgeois. The program was a success, praised by educators, health authorities, prison oﬃcials and anywhere people are concerned with the betterment of the prison system in America. Bourgeois pressed on, another year, another group of prisoners in his classroom. The program led to the new book “Unit 30: New Writing From Parchman Farm.” Herein are stories and poems by 11 inmates at Parchman Prison — Vincent Young, Johnny Snow, Eric Potts, Randy Jackson, Richard Mason, Reginald Scott, Nelson Bailey, Victor Hampton,

Bruce Caples, Willie Davis and Gregory Frazier — men who are serving time for crimes ranging for sale of a controlled substance to murder. There are the kinds of writings you’d expect, the misery of prison life and missing one’s friends and families. But they’re also about family, faith, race, mistakes, dreams and life in general. They range from the hilarious, like Gregory Frazier’s bullseye political commentary and wonderful lyric “80s Type of Man,” where Frazier rips the blues a new one (“You can have Johnnie Lee / And B.B. / I’ll keep Aha and Richie / I am a joyful kind of guy”) to the heartrending, like the essay by Vincent Young, where the writer describes making a new friend who “did most of the talking ‘cause of my stuttering problem.” Young lays that out so matter-of-factly it hit me like a kick to the gut. These are not just prison tales. They’re tales of what it means to be human. From a literary side, these books accomplish

one of the most important missions of literature -- to increase our empathy for our fellow human beings. While reading these convict tales I got a strong sense of déjà vu that brought me back to a time in my early-twenties, about 10 years back, when I was reading the great Russian novelists for the first time. As a child of the late Cold War, I was old enough to be familiar with the specter of our old enemy, the Russian Bear. I knew we were supposed to hate the Russians and fear them. They wanted to kill us. This was just the way it was. But when I read Gogol and Dostoevsky and Tolstoy I soon found that I could not hate these people. They were too much like me. They cared for their children and struggled with money while making their way through life. They went to church and wrestled with questions of faith and how to do the right thing. They tried and they failed. In short, the Russians became human. I couldn’t hate and fear them any-

more. It would be the same as hating a great deal of what made up myself. This is the same thing that happens when you read the stories from the Prison Writes Initiative. These people are no longer the bad guys, no longer the anonymous, most often black, faces of somebody who messed up and has to pay for it. These are human beings who tried to fit in as kids and worry about their families as grownups and look for the same things in life as the rest of us look for. Once you spend a few minutes with their thoughts, they are no longer the fearsome Other. They are us. Reading the stories of the men in Unit 30 leads to understanding in us. Then there’s the other side of the coin — what these books can do for them. Bourgeois intends to expand the Prison Writes Initiative into all of Mississippi’s prison. When you purchase a copy of these books, you are contributing to this cause. How can that be a bad

thing? I’ve known many people, friends and family, who have put in time down on Parchman farm. From everything I’ve heard it is hell on earth, a place with violence in the air, where you’re treated like a dog until you become an animal and all you really learn is how to be even worse when you get out. A creative writing class may sound like a small, unimportant thing, but for some of these guys in the program it represents the only time they’ve been able to share their stories with others, and perhaps even more crucially, it may be the only time they’ve ever took a long, hard look at the forces at work in their lives. It also enables them to see each other in a diﬀerent light. It is a force for introspection as well as connection in a place that could use

‘Big Joe’ says restaurant business ‘in my blood’ “I love being in the restaurant business because you get to see some of the same people every day. ”

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SELMER, Tenn. — If anyone has ever been looking for something to eat in Selmer for the past half-century, the man they were likely searching for was Joe Dan Maness. “Big Joe” began in the restaurant business in 1965 and has been in the business throughout his adult life, except for one 10-year stretch when he sold insurance. Maness was recently honored by the McNairy County Chamber of Commerce for being the Business of the Month. The award was for his business, Smokey Joe’s in Selmer. “I love being in the restaurant business because you get to see some of the same people every day,” said Maness. “I get to talk to my old friends and I get to make even more new friends.” His grandson Dustin Maness and his wife Courtney serve as manager and assistant manager at Smokey Joe’s. The restaurant oﬀers BBQ, chicken plates, chicken breasts, hamburgers and plate lunches. Maness began his career with Joe’s Cafe in 1965. He ran the iconic Dixie Cafe from 19681974. He is proud to say that he was the first fast food place in Selmer, opening Joe’s Hamburgers in 1972. Burger King did not arrive in Selmer until 1975 and that cut into Joe’s business volume. Joe swapped to selling cereal burgers and plate lunches under the name Joe’s Country Kitchen

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Joe Dan Maness in 1977. He ran The Log Cabin 1984-1985. Maness then got into the concession business. Maness then got out of the restaurant business in 1999 and began selling Cotton States Insurance. He retired for a short time only to get back into the restaurant business with Joe’s Beef House. He opened Smokey Joe’s 2013 and moved it across the street to the former location of Joe’s Country Kitchen earlier this year. When quizzed about how he got the idea to work in a restaurant, he said that students

at Selmer High School would come down the hill and eat lunch at Roy’s Cafe. He asked for a weekend job and Roy Carothers hired him. “I maintained a friendship with he and Maxine for a long time,” remembered Maness. “Maxine called me after Roy had died and asked me if I wanted to buy the cafe. I bought it and that is how I got to run my first restaurant.” The veteran food service operator reflected on his many years in the business and summed it up by saying, “It is just in my blood.”

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much of both. And imagine what it’s like for the guys in the program to see themselves becoming better readers and writers -- and to see their work between covers. That’s the kind of accomplishment that can turn a life around. In a world of darkness, one positive action like that can go a long way. (The book “Unit 30: New Writing From Parchman Prison” and its predecessor “In Our Own Words: Writing From Parchman Prison” are available at Amazon. com.)

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Deaths James E. “Jim” Cooper

James E. “Jim” Cooper of Bethel Springs, Tenn. was born Oct. 16, 1934, in Oxford, Ark., the son of the late Burgess and Bernice Faust Cooper. He was united in marriage to Elizabeth H.(Betty) Heavner on May 21, 1955. Mr. Cooper graduated from West MemCooper phis High School in 1953 and attended Memphis State University. He served as Vice President of Transportation for Aqua Glass and General Manager of Tom Bigbee Transportation Corporation for 20 years until retiring in 1999. He and his wife Betty owned and operated several businesses over the years in Memphis before settling in Bethel Springs with their family in 1974. He was a member of the Stantonville Church of Christ. Mr. Cooper departed this life on Dec. 16, 2016, at his home at the age of 82 years, 2 months. He is survived by his wife, Elizabeth H. (Betty) Cooper of Bethel Springs, Tenn.; a daughter, Vicky Taylor and husband Jimmy of Charlotte, N.C.; three sons, Phillip Cooper and wife Tracy of Stantonville, Tenn., Tim Cooper and wife Tammy of Selmer, Tenn., Aaron Cooper and wife Kristi of Bethel Springs; eleven grandchildren, Andy Cooper and wife Michelle, Adam Cooper and wife Brooke, Cory Cooper and wife Brianna, Shelby Cooper, Chris Taylor, Jon Taylor, Lauren Sprayberry and husband Jordan, Anna Cooper, Marissa Cooper, Mathew Cooper, Olivia Cooper; two step grandchildren, Samantha Hollie, Dakota Butler; six great grandchildren, A. J. Cooper, Alexis Taylor, Miles Cooper, Ethan Cooper, Amelia Cooper, Ella Mae Cooper; two step great-grandchildren; Brian Plunk, Rudy Plunk; a sister, Janice Daniels and husband Seth of Hernando; a brother, Wayne Cooper and wife Clara of Monticello, Ark.; a sister-inlaw, Darlene Cooper of St. Louis, Mo.; a special former daughter-in-law, Jan Cooper, and a host of extended family and friends. In addition to his parents, Mr. Cooper was preceded in death by a brother, Travis Cooper; and a daughter-inlaw, Nancy Jane (Raines) Cooper.

Funeral services will be held on Tuesday, Dec. 20, 2016, at 2:30 p.m. at Shackelford Funeral Directors in Selmer, Tenn., with Randy Cook and Tim Carothers oﬃciating. Interment will follow in the Hope McNairy County Memorial Cemetery at Selmer. Visitation will be on Monday from 6 to 9 p.m. and Tuesday from 8 a.m. until service time at Shackelford Funeral Directors of Selmer.

Linda Wilbanks Newman

Funeral services for Linda Wilbanks Newman, 69, of Walnut are set for 11 a.m. on Monday, Dec. 19 at County Line Baptist Church with burial in the church cemetery. Visitation was from 5 to 9 p.m. on SunNewman day, Dec. 18 and from 10 a.m. until service time Monday at the church. Mrs. Wilbanks died Saturday, Dec. 17, 2016, at her residence. She was born Sept. 1, 1947, and was a retired secretary at Union Center School and a retired clerical assistant at Kossuth. Mrs. Newman was of the Baptist faith. She was a member of Old Paths Baptist Church in Ashland. Survivors include her husband of 45 years, Glen Newman of Walnut; her son, Brent Glen Newman and wife Tonya of Walnut and daughters, Telina Newman and Jeffery Ketchum and Tina Cooper and husband Keith, all of Walnut; five grandchildren, Austen Cooper, Eli Cooper, Ali Newman, Amzley Newman and Harleigh Newman; her brother, Danny Wibanks and sister-in-law, Dorothy Wibanks; other relatives and a host of friends. Pallbearers will be Donald Yancey, Ronald Yancey, Chase Yancey, Grant Yancey, Daniel Wilbanks and Ricky Shoffner. She was preceded in death by her grandchildren, Chloe Newman, Aybree and Aubrey Newman; her father, Herschel Loyd Wilbanks and mother, Francis Settlemires Wilbanks; and her brother, Hughey Wilbanks. Bro. David Shepard and Bro. Bobbie Brandon will officiate. Magnolia Funeral Home is in charge of the arrangements. Visit www.magnoliafuneralhome. net to send condolences.

Russell T. Campbell

Funeral services for Russell T. Campbell, 58, of Corinth are set for 11 a.m. on Thursday, Dec. 22 at City Road CME Church with burial in the Corinth National Cemetery. Visitation is from 5 to 7 p.m. on Wednesday, Dec. 15 at Patterson Memorial Chapel. Mr. Campbell died on Thursday, Dec. 16, 2016, at his residence. He was born Nov. 1, 1958 and formerly attended Corinth High School. Survivors include his children, Russian Clack and Cortney Eaton; his siblings, Dorothy E. Boyd, Willie J. Boyd, Shirley Strickland, Laura Copeland, Demetria Tall (Dre), Wilson Boyd and Larry Boyd (Gloria); and her grandchildren, London Clark and Karmyn Herman. He was preceded in death is parents, Annie M. Hampton and John W. Camp-

bell; and his siblings, Freddy Boy Boyd and Oneil Boyd. The Rev. Freeman will oﬃciate.

Jussie L. Hurd

A memorial service for Jussie L. Hurd, 65, of Booneville will be held at 11 a.m. on Tuesday, Dec. 20 at Patterson Memorial Chapel. Mr. Hurd died on Thursday, Dec. 15, 2016. He was born on Oct. 1, 1950 and was a member of Hopewell M.B. Church. Survivors include his siblings, Regenia Dilworth, Rickey and Debby Hurd, Fredric and Janet Hurd, Billy Hurd and Kathy Hurd Shully. He was preceded in death by his parents, Cecial and Donie Hurd, his siblings, Wayne Shonney and Alvin Royal Hurd. The Rev. Leroy Harris will oﬃciate.

Trump sails to victory BY STEPHEN OHLEMACHER Associated Press

WASHINGTON — There were many protesters but few faithless electors as Donald Trump won the Electoral College vote Monday — ensuring he will become America’s 45th president. An effort by anti-Trump forces to persuade Republican electors to abandon the president-elect came to practically nothing and the process unfolded largely according to its traditions. Trump’s polarizing victory Nov. 8 and the fact Democrat Hillary Clinton had won the national popular vote had stirred an intense lobbying effort, but to no avail. “We did it!” Trump tweeted Monday evening. “Thank you to all of my great supporters, we just officially won the election (despite all of the distorted and inaccurate media).” He later issued a statement saying: “With this historic step we can look forward to the bright future ahead. I will work hard to unite our country and be the President of all Americans.” Even one of Trump’s fiercest Republican rivals, Ohio Gov. John Kasich, said it was time to get behind the presidentelect.

“We want unity, we want love,” Kasich said as Ohio’s electors voted to back Trump at a statehouse ceremony. Kasich refused to endorse or even vote for Trump in the election. With all states voting, Trump finished with 304 votes and Clinton had 227. It takes 270 Electoral College votes to win the presidency. Texas put Trump over the top, despite two Republican electors casting protest votes. Befitting an election filled with acrimony, thousands of protesters converged on state capitols across the country Monday, urging Republican electors to abandon their party’s winning candidate. More than 200 demonstrators braved freezing temperatures at Pennsylvania’s capitol, chanting, “No Trump, no KKK, no fascist USA!” and “No treason, no Trump!” In Madison, Wisconsin, protesters shouted, cried and sang “Silent Night.” In Augusta, Maine, they banged on drums and held signs that said, “Don’t let Putin Pick Our President,” referring to Russian President Vladimir Putin. Despite the noise outside state Capitols, inside, the voting went pretty much as planned.

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Jesus Is the Reason for... For a period of about five or six weeks each year, the slogan is tossed around in certain circles and then retired for about eleven months until it emerges again. While there is zero evidence (Biblically or historically) that Jesus was born on December 25 (in fact, the evidence points away from that time), it does bring a certain satisfaction to hear folks suggest that “Jesus is the reason for the season.” I don’t say this because I believe that Christmas is a religious holiday to celebrate the birth of Christ, but I do find some joy in knowing that people believe that Jesus is the reason for anything good these days. But, let’s take a look at Jesus from a Biblical perspective. Jesus is the reason for redemption. You and I would be utterly damned in our sins if it were not for “the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and with spot” that has “redeemed us to God” (1 Pet. 1:18-19; Rev. 5:9). Are you redeemed by the blood of the Lamb? Then give praise to Jesus! He is the reason! Jesus is the reason for hope. You and I would be eternally doomed if it were not for Jesus Christl We possess “a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead” (1 Pet. 1:3). And, because our “forerunner has entered for us [into the Presence of God], even Jesus,” we have hope “as an anchor of the soul” (Heb. 6:19-20). Do you have that hope? Then give praise to Jesus! He is the reason! Jesus is the reason for the church. You and I would know nothing of the church (and maybe care nothing about it) if it were not for Jesus Christ! When His physical body died on the cross, He “purchased” His spiritual body, the church (Acts20:28). How important is the church? It is “the body of Christ” (Eph. 4:12; 1:22-23), saved by “the blood of Christ” (Eph. 2:13-16). Are you in His body, the church? Then give praise to Jesus! He is the reason! Christ paid a great price to purchase the church (Acts 20:28). It must have meant a great deal to Him. The church is the only place where I can serve God and get treasures in return after death (I Corinthians 15:58). Jesus is the reason for zeal. You and I need to examine ourselves and honestly measure two things: (1) am I zealous as a Christian? and (2) why? True zeal as a Christian has nothing to do with me or what I get out of it for myself, but true zeal is all about Jesus. When “the love of Christ compels us” (2 Cor. 5:14), we will boldly speak His word (Acts 4:13-31) and be truly “zealous for good works” (Tit. 2:14). Are you burning with zeal? Then give praise to Jesus! He is the reason! Jesus is the reason for ... love, joy, peace, grace, mercy, forgiveness, courage, repentance, worship, faithfulness, assurance, obedience, etc. This list goes on and on. Don’t let this realization emerge for a few weeks and then go back into hibernation for several months. Jesus is the reason for who you are and what you have as a Christian! Give praise to Him! Read Your Bible = Matt. 1 Welcome

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PALM BEACH, Fla. — On the day that his election victory became official, Donald Trump on Monday experienced what life will be like as president as he condemned separate deadly incidents against a Russian diplomat and shoppers at a German Christmas market, blaming Islamic terrorism in both instances. He oﬀered no support for his claim that terrorists were responsible for the carnage. Authorities in Turkey and Germany were still investigating when Trump issued back-to-back statements condemning the incidents, although the White House earlier had said that what happened in central Berlin when a trucked rammed a holiday crowd “appears to be a terrorist attack.” Trump called the brazen, daytime shooting of Russia’s ambassador to Turkey as he attended a photo exhibit “a violation of all rules of civilized order.” He added that the diplomat, Andrei Karlov, was assassinated by a “radical Islamic terrorist.”

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