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2013 Christmas Basket Fund

BY JEBB JOHNSTON jjohnston@dailycorinthian.com

A new leaf machine is making the rounds in the city.

The new equipment arrived a few weeks ago and is being put to use on fall cleanup.

The leaf vacuum previously purchased by the city is past

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Basket fund tops $17,000 The spirit of giving is alive and well in the Crossroads area as generous donations are arriving daily for the 18th Annual Corinth Rotary Club/Daily Corinthian 2013 Christmas Basket Fund.

The civic club and newspaper have set a $25,000 community fundraising goal this year so 1,000 food baskets could be given away to local families on Saturday, Dec. 7, at the Crossroads Arena. Baskets were given on faith and hope the goal will be reached.

The total increased to $17,016 after the most recent donations arrived. They are $100 from Mr. and Mrs. Van E. Hedges in memory of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Vann and Dr. Fred Hedges; $150 from Roger’s Supermarket in memory of Jimmy Gardner; $150 from Gardner’s Supermarket in memory of Jimmy Gardner; $100 from Sandra and Thad Fulghum in memory of Benny Fulghum; $50 from V. Please see BASKET | 3A

its prime, according to Street Commissioner Philip Verdung. “This one is much heavier duty construction in every aspect,� he said. “It’s fully remote-controlled capable from in the cab or outside the cab. In most situations, the driver can operate the vehicle and the leaf

machine at the same time.�

The previous one required four people to operate it.

Residents may contact the street department to request a visit from the leaf machine. “We’re going to try to put that machine on the same schedule as the garbage pickup,� said

Verdung. “We do need people to be aware we need the leaf piles to be out of the ditches if at all possible so if we get a rain before it’s picked up, it doesn’t stop anything up. The arm on the machine will reach Please see LEAVES | 2A

Report rates Corinth top place to live

BY JOSEPH MILLER jmiller@dailycorinthian.com

For those who are just starting off in life with a young family or looking for a change of pace, figuring out where to live plays a major role in their thought process.

Some may choose to stay in their local area. Some may chose to move far away from their native city, town or country setting.

In Mississippi, young couples understand choosing where to live is one of the most important financial decisions they will ever make. This means more than buying a home. It means buying into the community, including its local economy, with the jobs it has to offer, and, for those families with kids, it’s schools.

According to a recent survey by www.nerdwallet.com, a company who creates great tools, crunches numbers and gives one all the financial results a person would need —

unfiltered and unbiased — they have Corinth in their list of top locations to live in Mississippi.

Nerdwallet.com covers banking, insurance, health care, investments, education, housing and travel. They report to do the homework so folks don’t have to when it comes to finances. They offer data-driven tools and impartial information to help people make solid decisions about their money.

A recent article by nerdwallet.com wanted to identify the communities with the best opportunities in Mississippi, so they asked the following questions to analyze cities and towns across the state.

Does the town have good public schools? They measured schools’ academic performance with ratings from GreatSchools. This non-profit compares a given school’s standardized test scores to the Please see CORINTH | 2A

Stephanie and Justin Simpson are excited about living in Corinth.

Special needs group sells T-shirts, ornaments CT-A names

events for ’14

BY STEVE BEAVERS sbeavers@dailycorinthian.com

Santa’s big night is only a few days away.

Havis Hurley and his group of elves still have work to do before their sleigh can make its way to Disney World.

Hurley, organizer of the trip, is planning to transport members of the Corinth-Alcorn County Special Needs Group to Orlando, Fla. in May. Through various fundraisers the group has raised $36,000 to pay for the trek thus far. “We aren’t going to do anything else until after Christmas,� said Hurley. “After the first of the year, we will hit it hard again.�

Those wanting to help with the trip still have a chance before Dec. 25th. The group has Christmas ornaments, T-shirts and calendars for sale. Three different colors of shirts are available and would provide a great gift, according to Hurley. “They come in comfort colors and the more you wash them, the softer they get,� he

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“The shirts will also be avail-

Corinth’s Theater-Arts has anounced upcoming events for the new year.

Shows already scheduled for the 2014 year include; “Ransom of Red Chief,� based on the classic O. Henry story, Feb. 28; “Sordid Lives,� a hilarious Texas-family comedy and Second Stage production, April 3-6; and the musical “Big River,�

May 22-25 and May 29 through June 1.

Ransom of Red Chief is set to hold auditions at 4 p.m. on Monday and Tuesday, Jan 1314. “Ransom of Red Chief rehearsals begin on Jan. 20, and the show is sponsored by LINK, the Healthy Schools-Healthy Youth Iniative for Corinth and Alcorn County schools,� said Cathy Wood, CT-A office manager. “So, performances will

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Joseph Edwards puts one of the four ornaments being sold by the Corinth-Alcorn Special Needs Group on a tree. said.

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Havis Hurley (left) and Jennifer Edwards display some of the items being sold to help take a group of special needs children to Disney World.

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able after Christmas with a different design,” said Hurley. “It really helps us get the word out about the trip when people purchase one.”

Four different ornaments are also available in time for Christmas.

The ornaments range in cost form $2 to $10 with each featuring Mickey

Mouse in some form.

Fifteen calendars featuring special needs children remain, according to Hurley. Cost is $12.

“We have a lot of people with great ideas working on this,” said the organizer.

Taking special needs children to Orlando, Fla. is nothing new to Hurley.

He has made over four dozen trips to the magi-

cal place. Hurley, who is a special needs bus driver, carried over 60 combined special needs children, parents and volunteers to Orlando in May of 2012.

In 2012, he helped raise over $54,000 for the trip.

American Road Machinery 30 cubic yard leaf collector from Truck Center of Tupelo at a cost of $157,385.

The equipment arrived a bit later than anticipated.

Along with the new street sweeper, the vacuum was used to clean up candy from the street following the Christmas parade.

The city also continues to provide leaf bags to city garbage customers at no charge to help with fall cleanup.

Residents can bag the leaves and leave the bags beside the street for collection by the street department.

To request a visit from the leaf machine, contact the street department at 286-8144.

(To purchase a shirt, calendar or ornament or for more information about the trip, contact Hurley at 662-643-3561.)

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out somewhere around 10 feet from the machine, so we’d like to have the piles within 8 feet from the road.”

Also, a long, narrow pile is preferred to one big blob of leaves.

In February, the board approved the purchase of the equipment, an International truck and an

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state average to obtain a rating on a 1 to 10 scale (10 representing the highest score). Higher ratings led to a higher overall score.

Can you afford to live there? They looked at both median home values in each town and ongoing monthly home costs, including mortgage payments, real estate taxes, insurance costs, utilities, fuel and other bills. Lower costs led to a higher overall score.

Is the town growing and prospering? They assessed a towns economy by looking at average household income and income growth over the last decade. Higher income and greater growth led to a higher overall score.

Leading the way for the state is Petal. Corinth placed in just below the top ten at number 11.

In the “Great schools rating” Corinth hit the seven mark, just behind Petal who was eighth. In the media home value, Corinth was at $97,000, in monthly owner costs $962, median household income $28,738, growth (from 1999 to 2011) 22.6 percent and overall scores for young families was 53.3. Petal’s overall score was 68.8.

There were 41 Mississippi cities and towns designated as places by the U.S. Census were included in this analysis. Only places with a population greater than 10,000 were considered.

So, if a young person — or anyone for that matter — is looking for a great place to raise a family and work, Corinth should be in their cross

The Simpson family — Catherine (5), Julianna (4), Samantha (14), Lindsay (12) and Laura (9) — are glad to be having Christmas in Corinth this year. hairs, noted the report.

Corinth Mayor Tommy Irwin said he wasn’t surprised by the report.

“We are growing and continue to see a lot of things happening in a positive way around here,” Irwin said. “I am excited about what we have to offer anyone who decides to make Corinth their home.”

One couple who recently decided to move to Corinth explained why they made the Crossroads centerpiece their new place of residence.

The Simpson family, who recently moved to Corinth from Marinette, Wis., thought Corinth was the perfect place for their new beginning as a family. This family of five agrees with the survey, and said Corinth

is the perfect place for young couples.

“We moved here because Corinth offers an excellent culture with good schools, churches, rich history and family friendly activities,” said Justin Simpson, CPPM Engineering Manager for Kimberly Clark. “The Corinth region is poised to draw business and industial growth with a very stable long term outlook. We were excited to move to a small town and develop long lasting friendships. It has been a great experience so far and we are excited to be a part of the community.”

Simpson and his wife Stephanie have five children, Samantha (14), Lindsay (12), Laura (9), Catherine (5) and Julianna (4).

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Today in history Today is Sunday, Dec. 22, the 356th day of 2013. There are nine days left in the year.

Today’s Highlight in History: On Dec. 22, 1944, during the World War II Battle of the Bulge, U.S. Brig. Gen. Anthony C. McAuliffe rejected a German demand for surrender, writing “Nuts!” in his official reply.

On this date: In 1808, Ludwig van Beethoven’s Symphony No. 5 in C minor, Op. 67, Symphony No. 6 in F major, Op. 68, and Piano Concerto No. 4 in G major, Op. 58, had their world premieres in Vienna, Austria.

In 1864, during the Civil War, Union Gen. William T. Sherman said in a message to President Abraham Lincoln: “I beg to present you as a Christmas-gift the city of Savannah.”

In 1894, French army officer Alfred Dreyfus was convicted of treason in a court-martial that triggered worldwide charges of anti-Semitism. (Dreyfus was eventually vindicated.)

In 1910, a fire lasting more than 26 hours broke out at the Chicago Union Stock Yards; 21 firefighters were killed in the collapse of a burning building.

In 1937, the first, center tube of the Lincoln Tunnel connecting New York City and New Jersey underneath the Hudson River was opened to traffic.

(The north tube opened in 1945, the south tube in 1957.)

In 1968, Julie Nixon married David Eisenhower in a private ceremony in New York.

In 1977, three dozen people were killed when a 250-foot-high grain elevator at the Continental Grain Company plant in Westwego, La., exploded.

In 1984, New York City resident Bernhard Goetz shot and wounded four youths on a Manhattan subway, claiming they were about to rob him.

In 1988, Brazilian environmentalist Chico Mendes was shot and killed. (Rancher Darly Alves da Silva and his son, Darci, who pulled the trigger, were sentenced to prison for killing Mendes; they were freed after serving a third of their 19year sentences.)

In 1992, a Libyan Boeing 727 jetliner crashed after a midair collision with a MiG fighter, killing all 157 aboard the jetliner, and both crew members of the fighter jet.

AiM returns ‘The Roots of Rhythm’ For the Daily Corinthian

SELMER, Tenn. — Arts in McNairy (AiM) is excited to announce the return of The University of Tennessee at Martin World Percussion Ensemble’s “The Roots of Rhythm” performance on Monday, Jan. 6, at 7:30 p.m. at the Latta Theater of the McNairy County Visitor’s and Cultural Center in Selmer.

“The ensemble is global in purpose, striving to explore all facets of world percussion, embracing diversity found in all cultures throughout the world, but specifically those throughout Africa, Brazil, Cuba, and the Caribbean,” explained Dr. Julie Hill, Director of the World Percussion Ensemble.

The UT Martin World

Percussion Ensemble performs regularly for schools and communities with their presentation, “The Roots of Rhythm.”

This presentation provides an engaging multisensory performance, encouraging students (and general audiences) to observe how differing societies are formed and interact through music. Brazilian, African,

Afro Caribbean and Afro Cuban ensembles also perform on traditional instruments during this program demonstrating the migration of rhythm through the slave trade,” said Dr. Hill. “’The Roots of Rhythm’ concert is high energy, entertaining and educational,” said Paige HolPlease see ARTS | 6A

Recycling effort doesn’t need to be difficult

BY BECKY GILLETTE Mississippi Business Journal

JACKSON — Some cities say recycling is just too expensive and difficult, particularly to get a large enough percentage of households to participate to make the program cost effective.

The City of Ridgeland, which for the second time in three years has been given the Local Government Recycler of the Year

Award by the Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality (MDEQ), has proven that doesn’t have to be true.

Ridgeland partners with Recycle Bank in order to provide an incentive program for residents to recycle.

“They provide reward points each time the container is picked up,” said Ridgeland Public Works director Mike McCol-

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The city charges $70.20 per year to each curbside customer. The average point value per year is $160.00. That more than covers the cost to customers for recycling.

“We are also considering reducing our solid waste pickup from twice

to one time per week, therefore reducing the cost for that service.”

McCollum recommends starting small with recycling drop off points, and then moving to a curbside program with incentives to reduce cost.

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(For more information on events call CT-A at 662.287.2995, or email at corinth.theatre.arts@gmail. com or come by CT-A, 1 p.m. - 6 p.m., Tuesdays-Fridays, for details.)

Pipkin in memory of Lavita Harris; and $100 from V. Pipkin in memory of L.C. and Iris Terry.

Donations can be the perfect time to make a holiday tribute to a special person. Contributions can be made “in honor of” someone living or “in memory of” someone who has passed. They can be family or

friends, co-workers, employees, bosses or even groups who have made an impact on a person’s life.

All tributes will be published in the Daily Corinthian until Dec. 26.

Donations can be brought to the newspaper office at 1607 Harper Road or mailed to the Daily Corinthian, Attn: Christmas Basket Fund, P.O. Box 1800, Corinth, Miss. 38835.

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Keeping in touch State: Sen. Rita Potts Parks Alcorn, Tishomingo, Tippah counties 662-287-6323 (H) 662-415-4793 (cell) rparks@senate.m.s.gov

Rep. Nick Bain Alcorn County 662-287-1620 (H) 601-953-2994 (Capitol) nbain@house.ms.gov

Rep. Lester “Bubba” Carpenter Alcorn, Tishomingo counties 601-359-3374 (Capitol) 662-427-8281 (H) lcarpenter@huse.ms.gov

Rep. William Tracy Arnold Alcorn (Rienzi area), Prentiss counties 662-728-9951 (H) warnold@house.ms.gov All state legislators can be reached via mail: c/o Capitol P.O. Box 1018 Jackson, Miss. 39215

Federal: U.S. Rep. Alan Nunnelee 202-225-4306 (Washington D.C.) Fax: 202-225-3549 662-327-0748 (Columbus) Fax: 662-328-5982

U.S. Sen. Thad Cochran 202-224-5054 (Washington D.C.) Fax: 202-224-9450 601-965-4459 (Jackson) 662-236-1018 (Oxford)

Sen. Roger Wicker 202- 224-6253 (Washington D.C.) Fax: 202-228-0378 601-965-4644 (Jackson) Fax: 601-965-4007

Prayer for today Loving Father, I thank thee that every morn breaks in a new day without the sadness of yesterday or the gladness of to-morrow. I pray that I may not lose the love and joy that it brings to-day. Amen.

A verse to share “But while he thought on these things, behold, the angel of the Lord appeared unto him in a dream, saying, Joseph, thou son of David, fear not to take unto thee Mary thy wife: for that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Ghost.” – Matthew 1:20

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In digital age, is it really a free country?

There’s a lot things I see and hear in the media – traditional and digital – that I disagree with. I find a growing amount of it offensive in some way. A little of it actually angers me.

But I think back to what I used to hear my late father say back in the 1960s and 1970s when someone popped off about something he disagreed with: “Well, that’s not for me, but it’s a free country.”

Is that still true? Are we a still a “free country” when it comes to expressing our individual beliefs and opinions? Many believe the jury’s out on that question and from both the left and the right sides of the political spectrum.

Earlier this year, Edward Snowden captured a major spot on the international stage for his leaks revealing U.S. National Security Agency surveillance programs. The Obama administration holds that Snowden’s leaks of potentially thousands of classified and sensitive documents to the media constitute a felony. Critics suggest Snowden’s a traitor and a criminal.

Others say Snowden’s a hero and a champion of free

speech and a defender of constitutional rights who exposed the fact that the NSA went Sid Salter too far.

The debate Columnist rages online and the political bedfellows engaged in alternatively defending or indicting Snowden get stranger and stranger.

The same can be said for the digital post mortems on “Duck Dynasty” star Phil Robertson’s unfiltered comments to GQ Magazine.

The explosion of reaction, pro and con, to Robertson’s coarse description of his religious beliefs brings to the fore the fact that social media fosters an instant and often frighteningly brutal trial, conviction and execution in the court of public opinion.

Social media also fuels battles of wits that are often fought by philosophical combatants who are woefully unarmed. More than anything else, it provides great catharsis for those who professionally and institutionally offended and for those who don’t care to let the facts interfere with

their opinions.

Tiger Woods, Paula Den, you name it, our society now approaches people’s failings or shortcomings as people approach TV wrestling – we need a hero, we need a heel. More than simply reality TV series, we like reality TV news in which the offending parties must be drawn, quartered, sliced and diced.

We want tearful confessions and we want winners and losers. Part of social media mob mentality is that those who offend must lose something – a title, a contract, fame, fortune, etc.

Then, when sufficient time has passed and the mob believes that a sufficient penalty has been exacted, we love a good comeback story as well. Hey, but like my dad used to say, “It’s a free country,” right?

Like I said, there are a lot things I see and hear in the media – traditional and digital – that I disagree with. I find a growing amount of it offensive in some way. A little of it actually angers me.

But social media seems to beckon us to do more.

For many, it’s the digital equivalent of the practice of stoning. And the abusive language, the threats, the

insults, they’re all safe because the targets of attacks are not really present to defend themselves.

There’s a divide in America that can be defined by a couple of TV shows. One’s “Duck Dynasty” and the other is “Modern Family.”

Both have loyal followings, both are wildly popular, both offer different moral and political world views.

I watch and enjoy both shows. But I’ve never lost a minute on Sunday mornings on the pew of the Methodist church and with my own family wondering if my moral compass is appropriately aligned with either Phil Robertson or Eric Stonestreet.

We are responsible, each of us, for our own beliefs and opinions and in America, there’s no guarantee that those many and varied beliefs will be pleasing, uniform or inoffensive. Some of those beliefs are volatile in some circles and some will carry consequences.

Like the old man said, it’s a free country.

(Daily Corinthian columnist Sid Salter is a syndicated statewide. Contact him at 601-507-8004 or sidsalter@sidsalter.com.)

Humanity does not accept Authority higher than itself During the Christmas season when many celebrate a unique and miraculous birth, what the late Pope John Paul II called “a culture of death” continues its march.

Last week, the upper house of the Belgian Senate voted to extend a 2002 law legalizing euthanasia for adults so that it includes incurably ill children. The amended law will now have to be voted on by the Parliament’s lower house, a vote expected to take place before elections in May, but if passed, writes The New York Times, children afflicted with “constant and unbearable physical suffering” and “equipped with a capacity for discernment” could then be legally euthanized in Belgium.

Reports The Times, “Els Van Hoof, a Christian Democrat from Belgium’s Dutch-speaking community, argued that paying more attention to relieving the pain of patients instead of allowing doctors to legally kill them would ‘allow both old and young to die with dignity.’ A 10-year-old, she said, is not in a position to make a life-or-death decision ‘in an autonomous manner’ and will invariably be vulnerable to pressure.”

If the bill becomes law, Belgium would be the first European nation to allow

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the euthanasia of terminally ill children. In The Netherlands, where euthanasia has Cal been legal Thomas since 2002 when the Columnist “Termination of Life on Request and Assisted Suicide Act” took effect, a recent poll published in the Journal of Medical Ethics found that of 2,000 Dutch people polled, 21 percent believe euthanasia should be allowed for those who are suffering from no illnesses, but who are simply “tired of living.”

If everyone who has even momentarily felt tired of living were subject to euthanasia, Earth might soon resemble a ghost planet.

Europe, which has become more secular in recent years, could be a bellwether down the road for the United States if Obamacare survives its many dysfunctions and the Independent Payment Advisory Board (IPAB), charged with controlling health care costs.

Based on this system, could the IPAB one day determine who gets treatment and who doesn’t based on actuarial tables and cost projections?

Could there come a time when it could conceivably

decide how much a human life is worth?

Absent a standard for life’s value, the state could get to decide based on its interests.

In the extreme we get Stalin’s Russia with its forced famine, gulags and executions; Mao’s China and the cultural revolution; Germany’s Third Reich and its “Final Solution” and slavery in America with its ThreeFifths Compromise, which, for representation purposes, determined that slaves would be counted not as full human beings, but as “threefifths of all other Persons.”

The Articles of Confederation were written a decade after Thomas Jefferson declared: “...all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights.”

It would be nearly a century later before the Civil War led to the Emancipation Proclamation, which freed the slaves, and another century before civil rights legislation recognized those “endowed” rights.

The distinction is important. The federal government did not grant rights to African Americans. It recognized rights endowed by their Creator. It is when nations depart from this noble creed that we get abortion on demand, infanticide for the “defective” and “unwanted,” and now eutha-

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nasia. Removing protection at one end of life inevitably threatens all life at every stage.

It is more than ironic that a group known as the Nonhuman Rights Project has made it their mission to “...change the common law status of at least some nonhuman animals from mere ‘things,’ which lack the capacity to possess any legal right, to ‘persons,’ who possess such fundamental rights as bodily integrity and bodily liberty...” Bodily liberty? Based on what?

Three New York courts have so far rejected the NRP’s efforts, but give it time. Society may soon devolve even further than it has already.

This is the problem when humanity does not accept an Authority higher than itself, an Authority that holds life, all life, however inconvenient, however tiresome, infinitely valuable. But if we consider ourselves nothing more than evolutionary accidents in an impersonal universe, then we are all potentially vulnerable, depending on the value assigned to us by the state.

Cal Thomas is the host of “After Hours with Cal Thomas” on the FOX News Channel. Readers may email him at tmseditors@ tribune.com.

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Nuclear missiles a force in distress WASHINGTON — The hundreds of nuclear missiles that have stood war-ready for decades in underground silos along remote stretches of America, silent and unseen, packed with almost unimaginable destructive power, are a force in distress, if not in decline.

They are still a fearsome superpower symbol, primed to unleash nuclear hell on a moment’s notice at any hour of any day, capable of obliterating people and places halfway around the globe if a president so orders.

But the number of intercontinental ballistic missiles, or ICBMs, is dwindling, their future defense role is in doubt, and missteps and leadership lapses documented

by The Associated Press this year have raised questions about how the force is managed.

The AP revealed one missile officer’s lament of “rot” inside the force, and an independent assessment for the Air Force found signs of “burnout” among missile launch crews.

The AP also disclosed that four ICBM launch officers were disciplined this year for violating security rules by opening the blast door to their underground command post while one crew member was asleep.

Ice, snow frustrate holiday travelers CHICAGO — A storm with a 2,000-mile foot-

print threatened to frustrate Christmas travelers from Texas to Nova Scotia with a little of everything Mother Nature has to offer, from freezing rain, ice and snow to flooding, thunderstorms and possibly some tornadoes in the South.

Some of the millions of people hitting the roads and airports Saturday squeaked through before any major weather hit, but as the afternoon wore on some cancellations and delays started to mount at major aviation hubs. Forecasters said roads that are passable one minute could become treacherous the next as a cold blast on the backend of the storm turns rain to ice and snow.

Making it harder for forecasters to stay a step ahead, the system was a weird swirl of wintry and spring-like weather as it passed over areas in the Midwest with freezing temperatures and places like Memphis, Tenn., where temperatures surpassed 70 degrees on Saturday.

More surveillance origins released

WASHINGTON — The director of national intelligence on Saturday declassified more documents that outline how the National Security Agency was first authorized to start collecting bulk phone and Internet records in the hunt for al-Qaida terrorists and how a court eventually gained oversight of the program, after the Justice Department complied with a federal court order to release its previous legal arguments

for keeping the programs secret.

Director of National Intelligence James Clapper explained in a statement Saturday that President George W. Bush first authorized the spying in October 2001, as part of the Terrorist Surveillance Program, just after the Sept. 11 attacks. Bush disclosed the program in 2005. The Terrorist Surveillance Program — which had to be extended every 30-60 days by presidential order — eventually was replaced by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act — a law that requires a secret court to OK the bulk collection.

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State Briefs Associated Press

Judge orders MDMR records released JACKSON — A federal judge has ordered prosecutors to release 60 boxes of Mississippi Department of Marine Resources records to Biloxi’s Sun Herald.

U.S. District Judge Keith Starrett, in a Friday order, overruled the U.S. Attorney’s claims that keeping the records secret preserves grand jury secrecy.

Starrett gives the government 10 days to provide the documents to the Sun Herald. He finds that releasing the

records won’t imperil grand jury secrecy, in part because it appears they were never presented to grand jurors before federal indictments were issued Nov. 5.

If Starrett hadn’t sided with the newspaper, state Auditor Stacey Pickering could have faced a contempt ruling. Harrison County Chancery Court Judge Jennifer Schloegel had ordered the records released.

Court papers: Davis may plea

SOUTHAVEN — Former Southaven Mayor

Greg Davis may be preparing to plead guilty to the state’s embezzlement case against him.

A court filing in DeSoto County Circuit Court shows that the former Dec. 9 trial date was delayed so Davis could consider a plea offer “in conjunction with other law enforcement agencies.”

A Feb. 24 trial date has been set.

The three-count state indictment against Davis charges him with using city gasoline in his city-leased 2007 Ford Expedition even though he was getting a monthly mileage check.

Congress does little of consequence

WASHINGTON — Call it a steady diet of gridlock, with “Green Eggs and Ham” on the side.

Congress did not pass White House-backed immigration or gun control legislation in 2013.

Or raise the minimum wage. Or approve many other items on President Barack Obama’s agenda.

But tea party-inspired House Republicans did propel the country into a 16-day partial government shutdown that cost the still-recovering economy $24 billion, by one estimate.

Congress didn’t repeal the health law known as “Obamacare.” Or endorse construction of the proposed Keystone pipeline.

Or make it harder for the White House to put costly new federal regulations in place, or accomplish dozens of other measures on the House Republican to-do list.

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Ruth Wages

Funeral services for Mary Ruth Wages has been set for 6 p.m. today at North Corinth Baptist Church with the burial at Corinth National Cemetery on Monday, Dec. 23, 2013.

Wages died on Friday, Dec. 20, 2013 at Magnolia Regional Health Center. She was born in Union County on Aug. 27, 1933 to the late Johnny Allen and Pearl Melson Hardy.

She was a hard working pastor’s wife that was always looking out for the needs of Wages others and putting them before her own. She enjoyed working with the kids and teens in the church, often handing them little cards with scripture on it for them to memorize. However, her biggest joy in life, was the 60 years that she spent with the love of her life, and seeing him receive not one, but two doctorates of theology.

Survivors include her husband, Bro. Bill Wages; one daughter, Kay McMillan (Phillip); one sister, Ruby Burks; three grandchildren, Kacie Hardin, Barry Parker and wife Leah, and Kerry Parker (Nevaree); five great-grandchildren, several nieces, nephews, her church family, and a host of friends.

She was preceded in death by her parents and her one brother, Roy Hardy.

Visitation will be at 2 p.m. today until service time at the church.

Condolences for the family may be left at www.memorialcorinth. com.

Memorial Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.

Charles Rayford Wilbanks, Sr.

KOSSUTH — Funeral services Charles Rayford Wilbanks, Sr., 79, will be held on Monday, Dec.

23, 2013 at 2 p.m. at First Baptist Church in Corinth and burial will follow in Shiloh Cumberland Presbyterian Church Cemetery with Military Honors.

He died in Jackson on Dec. 16, 2013.

He was born March 5, 1934, in Kossuth.

Wilbanks graduated from Alcorn County Agriculture High School in Kossuth, Mississippi and then attended Mississippi College in Clinton and the University of Mississippi School of Law. He served in the United States Army from 1956 – 1960. He was commissioned as Second Lieutenant and later promoted to First Lieutenant.

Wilbanks began practicing law in 1963, practicing both in Corinth and Kossuth. He was a member of the Mississippi Bar for 50 years. As an attorney he is remembered for working hard for his clients and often taking the difficult and unpopular stand. He also served as a municipal court judge for the town of Farmington.

Wilbanks taught at the Mississippi College of Law from 1977 to 1982 and in 1977 was named “Professor of the Year.”

He was inspired by the needs of his grandson, Christopher, he founded the National Leigh’s Disease Foundation in 1988 to help sponsor medical research for this very rare disease, and to provide support for affected families. In 1996 the Foundation broadened its efforts merging with United Mitochondria Disease Foundation which now has more than 50 local chapters across the nation.

During his life he was always involved in and dictated to his church and served as deacon, Sunday school teacher and choir member.

Wilbanks is survived by his loving wife of 56 years, Nancy Worley Wilbanks; four children, Angela Wilbanks Cossitt, Sandra Wilbanks Rives (Jay); Charles Ray-

ford Wilbanks, Jr. (Alicia); and Jane Wilbanks Roberts (Mark), Sammy Cleton Wilbanks (Susan); He was “Big Daddy” to nine adoring grandchildren, Justin Michael Rives (Cristie), Casey Cossitt Jones (Cliff); Molly Cossitt Clark (Todd); Allyce Wilbanks Majors (Adam); Ashley Cossitt Quick (Davis); Joey Roberts; Annaclaire Elizabeth Wilbanks; Abigail Louise Wilbanks, Jacob Lee Roberts; five greatgrandchildren, Mary Logan Clark; Jason Cade Rives; Henry Davis Quick; Rosey Kate Clark and Jordan Blake Rives.

Wilbanks was preceded in death by his parents, Sam Cleton Wilbanks and Annie Cleo Parish Wilbanks; his sister, Betty Wilbanks Campbell and two grandsons, Christopher Blake Rives and Charles Rayford Wilbanks III (Chase).

Bro. Dennis Smith will be officiating.

Visitation will be Monday, Dec. 23, 2013 from 12:30 p.m. until service time at First Baptist Church.

Pallbearers will be Justin Rives, Todd Clark, Adam Majors, Davis Quick, Rob Tadlock and Cliff Jones.

Honorary pallbearers will be Jerry Monroe, Jerry Jones, Bro. Carroll Talley, Taft Little, Larry James, Hoyt Alexander Glen Parker, Leiman Wilbanks and Donald Downs.

In lieu of flowers we ask that you consider a donation to “But God Ministries” , which is a 501 (c) (3) non-profit organization, that shares the love of Jesus Christ through building sustainable communities around the world. It is currently building a sustainable community near Ganthier, Haiti.

The work in Haiti was a passion of Wilbanks.

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Ridgeland has 40 percent participation in its residential curbside recycling program. If the city decides to reduce the solid waste pickup to once per week, they expect that number to increase. Businesses recycle at two drop off points strategically located in the city.

McCollum recommends working with the MDEQ for assistance in capital

cost and education. Also, find recycling champions in your community and assist them in fostering their passion for the program.

Recycling is a major commitment to building a more sustainable community, said Anne Marie Kornelis, recycling coordinator for the City of Greenwood.

“In Greenwood we have taken the steps to build a successful recycling program with long-range goals,” Kornelis said. “In

terms of being a financially sustainable recycling program, one must consider not only the money the program makes from selling recyclables, but you also have to factor in the money saved by diverting recyclable materials away from the landfill.”

That point is hammered home by Mayor Eddie Fulton of Quitman, a small town south of Meridian that has the state’s longest running municipal recycling program.

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The mayor takes time each year to visit with children from the elementary school about recycling. He plays a money game where he gives $2 in change to a non-recycling student and $2 to a recycling student. The student representing a recycler gets paid for the garbage she recycles while the student who throws it away has to pay. The recycler ends up with more money, and the non-recycler with less.

Drug dealer wants sentence tossed JACKSON — A Mississippi man described by authorities as a major drug dealer and former record label owner has asked a federal court to throw out his 90-year prison sentence on money laundering charges.

Starsky Darnell Redd and his associates used cars, 18-wheelers, buses and couriers on commercial airlines to bring large shipments of cocaine and marijuana into Mississippi from Texas, authorities said. Redd, 35, was sentenced in 2006 on five counts of money laundering. He is scheduled for release in 2083.

Redd, acting as his own attorney, argued in a court filing that his lawyer didn’t tell him about a plea offer from prosecutors or warn him about the “risks of proceeding to trial versus pleading guilty.”

Teacher honored as top math educator JACKSON — A Jackson teacher has been named as Mississippi’s recipient of the Presidential Award for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching by President Barack Obama.

The winner is Cathy Tebo-Butterick, who teaches math to fourth graders at St. Andrew’s Episcopal School. Winners will receive $10,000 from the National Science Foundation to be spent as they wish.

Rent deal reached for amphitheater SOUTHAVEN — Aldermen approved an increase in the rent the city charges Green Machine Entertainment to lease Snowden Grove Amphitheater.

The city will charge a flat rate of $75,000 for one year for use of the outdoor venue off Getwell Road. The rate works out to $6,250 per month.

The company also must pay the city $1 for each concert ticket sold at the site. The city will not be paid the fee for free concerts at the amphitheater.

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Daily Corinthian • Sunday, December 22, 2013 • 7A

Mississippi State’s Wiseman plots new course

BY PATSY R. BRUMFIELD Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal

(Editor’s Note: Marty Wiseman was also a regular columnist on the Daily Corinthian opinion page.)

STARKVILLE — Marty Wiseman recalls standing with his father for long periods of time, when he was 4 or 6 years old, waiting to shake the hand of venerated U.S. Sen. John C. Stennis.

“I wanted to go play,” he remembered of the strained anticipation in the old Mississippi State University Alumni House every homecoming. “My father made me do it.”

Years later, he says he felt the coincidence of their yearly connections as he became full-time director of the John C. Stennis Institute of Government and Community Development at MSU. Wiseman, 62, officially retires Dec. 31 from the post he’s shaped across 22 years.

Through those years, he’s been a media go-to for political analysis and a reliable source of information and research for the Mississippi Legislature, other governmental agencies and communities across the Magnolia State.

“My wife is making these lists,” he said as he

considers his time away from the booklined office with docuand Marty ments years of Wiseman collectibles Stennis s c a t t e r e d Institute across desk tops.

Wiseman insists he has no skills around the house, other than mastery of Thanksgiving and Christmas family feasts.

Born in Greenwood, Wiseman grew up in Kosciusko, the son of an Extension Service county agent.

He graduated from MSU in 1974 with a master’s in political science and married Bonnie Parker a month later.

That’s when he briefly tied his star to a Mississippi legend, Jim Buck Ross, the longtime, colorful agriculture commissioner.

Likely with the help of a call from his dad, Wiseman went to work for Ross for $613 a month with his wife, holding an elementary education degree, answering the switchboard at the Country Club of Jackson.

“She got free food — she ate like a queen,” Wiseman said with a laugh.

He suited up for Ross’ style — cowboy boots

and a cowboy hat — and headed around the state for two years trying to encourage the public to eat more grass-fed beef.

The campaign rose from struggling farmers’ complaints to Ross that they couldn’t afford to feed their calves anything else.

He also recalled Ross’ propensity to hire farmers who’d called it quits.

“It was like a retirement home for old farmers,” he said of their Jackson headquarters.

After that experience, Wiseman headed back to MSU for an Extension Service job and work on a master’s degree in sociology to pursue his interest in rural community development.

Not knowing where it would take him, Wiseman focused on studying rural, local government and how policies were influenced by Southern culture, especially religion.

“I had the idea that rural folks didn’t necessarily know the difference between their culture and the laws on the books,” he said.

He wound up surveying hundreds of county groups to see what people thought.

Wiseman said he continues to be mindful, and sometimes amazed, at the strong public reactions to “sin issues,” like where to locate restaurants with

bars.

“Often the nuances of local government have nothing to do with an issue,” he said. “It’s how much are you going to demonstrate religious practices. It can get kind of confusing.”

One good example, he said, is a well-known strip club just off Interstate 55 in Carroll County, one of the state’s most conservative locales.

“But, out in rural counties, there are no land-use codes,” he said. “People don’t want government telling them what to do, even if it’s to stop the opening of a strip club.”

In 1991, with the departure of the Stennis Center’s director, Charles Washington, Wiseman got his shot as the lone employee and interim director.

He said the future turned bright when a graduate student named Jim Borsig asked for a Ph.D. project, and they began building program relationships with state agencies and local governments.

Wiseman said as they searched for funding, he and Borsig convinced Lt. Gov. Eddie Briggs to go into a $50,000 line item in the budget for use by the executive director of the state Institutions of Higher Learning, for whom they worked as MSU staffers.

“Briggs called and told

him he had to let us have the money,” Wiseman said. “Frankly, that was a firing offense.”

Borsig, now president of Mississippi University for Women, termed their action “audacious.”

“I couldn’t have made it past the first year without Jim,” Wiseman said.

As time passed and experience came their way, he said the Stennis Institute became dexterous at research and training requested by governmental entities.

“We fell into a role that nobody else was taking,” Wiseman adds.

He describes that role as a “translator” to understand public problems, to present them to policy makers and then to translate how new policy can be implemented.

“We contributed by understanding both sides and by our ability to talk to both,” he said.

Through his years, Wiseman also has surveyed and analyzed many a Mississippi political campaign.

He said he “called” a Haley Barbour win as governor long before any of his campus lunch crowd even knew who Barbour was.

“He changed the ball game as far as campaigns are run,” he said of the Republican politician.

“You discover your base,

you turn it out and don’t waste any time or money on anybody else.”

As for Democrats, Wiseman said its leadership “waited too long” to respond to the GOP surge of the 1990s.

He predicts that Democrats can make some comebacks in state politics, when they field candidates that lots of voters can be comfortable with.

“It will be modern populism that connects with people,” he said. “We will reach a point where folks tire of the constant antigovernment, anti-education, anti-health care” attitudes and look for something new they can benefit from.

“Heck, we’re the poorest state in the union.

We gain from the federal government. Cussing the Washington Beltway isn’t helpful.”

As for his own immediate future, Wiseman said he will continue to teach at MSU. But now, without his previous restraints, he looks forward to being as partisan a Democrat as he wants to.

He also looks forward to spending more time with his son, Parker, Starkville’s mayor, and his daughter, Kelly, a special education teacher in Tennessee, plus his six granddaughters and a grandson on the way.

Blue Cross, HMA settle hospital payment disagreement

BY JEFF AMY Associated Press

JACKSON — Mississippi’s largest health insurer and its second-largest hospital operator have settled their dispute.

Health Management Associates says all 10 of its Mississippi hospitals will return to the Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Mississippi network starting Jan. 1.

Blue Cross spokeswoman Meredith Virden confirmed the agreement.

Blue Cross pays more to service providers inside its network, although HMA had been making up the difference out of its own pocket. That was a costly move, though. The company had estimated that the dispute would cost it $10 million to $15 million in October, November and December.

Blue Cross, under pressure from Gov. Phil Bryant and state Insurance Commissioner Mike Chaney, reinstated four of the HMA hospitals in October. Bryant tried forcing the insurer to reinstate the other six, but a federal judge blocked his executive order.

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The insurer kicked the hospitals out after HMA sued Blue Cross, claiming Blue Cross violated contracts with Florida-based HMA by cutting payments. Blue Cross denied wrongdoing, saying HMA was trying to raise profits.

As part of the settlement, HMA agreed to dismiss its suit in Rankin County Circuit Court.

Blue Cross won’t pay any money as part of the dismissal, HMA said.

It’s not clear whether Blue Cross offered HMA higher payments going forward.

“I think it’s probably the same offer they’ve had on the table for a long time,” Insurance Commissioner Mike Chaney said of Blue Cross.

HMA declined Friday to comment on the terms of the agreement.

Despite the resolution, Chaney said his department would conclude a report on Blue Cross’ network adequacy that was prompted by the expelled hospitals.

He said he continues to favor allowing private groups to work out their disputes. “We know from experience that when you give private markets time to work out their differences and grievances, these issues can be resolved without government interference,” Chaney said.

He still expects lawmakers to offer legislation that would give hospitals more leverage in such disputes.

Bryant said in a statement that he intervened because negotiations had stalled and said he was thankful Blue Cross and HMA had reached agreement.

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HMA shareholders voted out prior directors and replaced them with directors who embraced a $3.9 billion acquisition by Community Health Services of Brentwood, Tenn.

HMA shareholders are scheduled to vote on the merger on Jan. 8.

HMA reported quarterly profits Nov. 13 that were below what analysts had estimated, largely because it admitted fewer patients.

On a conference call with investors, new board Chairman Steve Shulman said decreased admissions and revenue in Mississippi

stemming from the dispute was a significant part of the decrease.

At the time, Shulman said HMA expected to “return to the negotiating table in the near future, negotiating good faith and reach and mutually beneficial agreement.”

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1999. In May 2010 he was promoted to CEO and has served as president and CEO for 21⁄2 years.

As vice hairman, he will continue to serve on the board of directors and will serve as the bank’s

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Small pecan crops expected

BY JANET MCCONNAUGHEY Associated Press

NEW ORLEANS — This year’s pecan crop in Louisiana is shaping up to be about one-third of last year’s. Nothing’s gone wrong; that’s just how pecans roll. Small crops follow big ones, and last year’s totaled 15 million pounds of nuts in the shell.

But the 5 million pounds likely to be harvested this year in Louisiana will include a higher percentage of big, top-quality nuts, said Randy Sanderlin, research coordinator at the LSU AgCenter’s Pecan Research Station in Shreveport.

“Pecans are a high-energy seed or nut — about 70 percent oil,” he said.

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senior lending officer.

Lanny Monroe joined Commerce National Bank in 2001 as EVP, CFO and chief investment officer.

Prior to joining Commerce National Bank, he worked for National Bank of Commerce from 1973 to 1997, where he served as EVP, chief investment officer and a senior lending officer.

From 1997 to 2001 he worked at Trustmark National Bank as EVP and loan officer.

With 40 years of banking and executive experience, Monroe is well qualified to serve as the bank’s president and CEO, noted Davis.

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Hull Davis, chairman of the Board of Directors of Commerce National Bank, has announced that effective Jan. 1, two of the bank’s executive officers were promoted to new positions.

Bobby Roberts was promoted to vice chairman of the Board of Directors and Lanny Monroe was promoted to president, CEO and director of Commerce National Bank.

Roberts, a Corinth banker for over 40 years, was an organizing director of Commerce National Bank and has served as the bank’s president since it opened in January

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“It takes a lot of oil to produce the nut and fill it out. When there’s a large crop on the tree it puts a large strain on the carbohydrate resources of the tree. They just can’t make as good a nut,” he said.

Nationwide, said Sanderlin, about 200 million pounds are expected. Last year’s crop totaled 302.8 million pounds, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

Mississippi is also among the 14 pecan-producing states; its farmers harvested 3 million pounds in 2011 and 1.8 million last year, according to federal statistics.

The statewide crop is expected to be 1.5 to 2 million pounds this year, said Max Draughn, whose Pecan Hill Farms in Raymond, Miss., includes about 300 acres of pecans.

“We had a late, cold spring, and we had a lot of rain this year,” he said.

A rainy growing season means less sunshine and more disease pressure. “It means fewer nuts, smaller nuts,” he said.

When it’s time to harvest, machines shake the trees, then other machines blow the nuts between the rows for a third set of machines to harvest.

“When we shake the nuts off the tree we want to harvest them very quickly,” he said. “If they land on wet ground or get rained on, they lose quality very fast.”

Pecans are the only major tree nut native to the U.S., which produces about 80 percent of the world’s crop. The harvest season begins in the fall in Georgia and Florida and ends in February in New Mexico.

Georgia is usually the biggest pecan producer, followed by New Mexico, Texas, Arizona and Oklahoma. The top three states produced about 72 percent of last year’s U.S. crop. Most pecans bought in supermarkets are likely from those states, Draughn said.

All his pecans will be sold at three retail stores and over the Internet, he said.

At Bergeron Pecan Co. in New Roads, La., president Lester Bergeron said, “We’re covering our needs.” His company shells pecans bought from growers and from about 70 stations around the state, some of them grocery stores that buy pecans in the shell from individuals and farmers.

Draughn suggests that customers ask whether pecans are from this year’s crop and watch out for dark kernels or shells — an indication of older or improperly stored nuts. Kernels should be golden or light brown, he said.

Daily Corinthian • Sunday, December 22, 2013 • 9A

Distraught daughter won’t let longtime couple tie the knot DEAR ABBY: I’m 50 and my boyfriend, “Ray,” is 55. We have been together for 11 years. He’s divorced with two children. I am single and childless. We owned our own homes until a year ago, when we sold them and bought a house together. We each pay half the bills including the mortgage.

We love each other, get along great, have similar values and can’t imagine not being together.

My problem is I want to get married. Ray does, too, but his 20-year-old daughter isn’t ready for it yet. She and I get along fine, but she gets very stressed and cries when the topic is mentioned. I told Ray I think she has learned from her childhood that crying enables her to get her way.

But Ray insists she has anxiety issues, and he’s afraid she will hurt herself if we get married.

Counseling is out of the question for her. She won’t go. Ray and I did go for advice about this. The counselor agreed that his daughter needs counseling, but we can’t “make” her go. My question is, is Ray ever going to marry me? Any suggestions on what we should do? – CONFUSED IN NEW JERSEY DEAR CONFUSED: If Ray waits for his daughter’s blessing, it may take another 11 years for her to give it – if she ever does.

You and Ray should get more counseling to help him find the strength to stop allowing his troubled daughter to rule his life.

DEAR ABBY: My hog-mouth

husband and I are having an ongoing disagreement about food. When there is special food in Abigail the house, ething Van Buren sweo mboth like, he feels free Dear Abby to eat as much of it as he wants without leaving any for me. His argument is that if it’s around for several days, I have had “plenty of time to get my share.” I feel it shouldn’t be up to him to tell me how much to eat, and when.

He weighs almost twice as much as I do, and eats accordingly. It’s particularly upsetting if I have invested hours in the preparation of a dish, only to find it’s gone when I want my second helping. I think he is being inconsiderate at best. Am I wrong? – WHERE’S MY BEEF?!

DEAR “WHERE’S”: I don’t think so. Your husband is behaving like a selfish child. If you have been cooking in large quantities, try preparing only enough for two portions for a while – a LONG while.

DEAR ABBY: My 30-year-old niece passed away, leaving a 7-year-old daughter. Her grieving husband found a married woman two months later. She divorced her second husband, and now all

three of them are living together.

Abby, the little girl is not allowed to tell anyone that her mommy died and has to tell all her friends that her father’s new girlfriend is her mom. Is it right to keep her from talking about her mommy? – MARIA FROM TEXAS DEAR MARIA: Of course not!

While the father and his girlfriend might wish to erase the child’s mother from her memory, she is old enough to remember not only that her mother died, but also that her father and this woman want to bury the fact that she ever existed. That child NEEDS to talk about her mother, and to forbid it will cause problems when she is older. Count on it.

DEAR ABBY: I work with several women who are Hispanic.

They are all very nice and I love working with them. The problem is when they are together they speak Spanish. I do not understand a word they say, so I am left out of the conversation. How can I let them know how rude I think this is? – LEFT OUT IN TEXAS DEAR LEFT OUT: Say it in English, and if they are as nice as you say they are, they will make an effort to include you.

Dear Abby is written by Abigail Van Buren, also known as Jeanne Phillips, and was founded by her mother, Pauline Phillips. Write Dear Abby at www.DearAbby.com or P.O. Box 69440, Los Angeles, CA 90069.

Horoscopes ARIES (March 21-April 19).

If you keep going to the same sources for excitement, what you get will cease to be exciting. See what else is out there. To please you, it doesn’t have to be bigger and better; it really just has to be new.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20). Is there anything wetter than water? Is there anything hotter than fire? What you need to know today may seem like a strange thing to ask, but ask it anyway, because you’ll be among brilliant minds.

GEMINI (May 21-June 21). Delusions aren’t always symptoms of mental disorder. Just because they challenge and contradict what’s generally accepted as reality doesn’t mean they are unhealthy or even untrue.

CANCER (June 22-July 22).

One person seems to receive you with more clarity than everyone else. When this person reflects your most brilliant qualities, you can take it as hard evi-

dence that this is a truly special connection.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). When you feel safe and comfortable, you perform better. That’s why wearing weather-appropriate clothing and the right shoes could make a significant contribution to your success.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). At certain times in your life, you’ve cared more about social acceptance than at other times. Right now, on a scale of 1 to 10, 10 being caring a great deal, you care about a 1. And that’s why you’re so popular.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23). Birds of a feather, the saying goes -although you may look around your “flock” today and think that you’re nothing like them. There’s a reason for why you’re flying in this group, though. Can you tell what it is?

SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21).

You can’t expect yourself to get where you’re going without training. Put in the hours. The way to

make it to the end of the course is to get over a small hurdle and then another and another.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21). When you’re presenting a product to the world, it’s important that you know how it compares with the other competing products. But you’re not a product. Comparing is just a bad idea now.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19). Don’t agonize. Do the work with a smile on your face. If it’s the kind of work you can’t seem to do that way, then skip it. Tomorrow is another day.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18).

Does it seem you’re getting smarter, noticing more and connecting with others on deeper levels? These are the spoils of taking on greater responsibility.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20).

What works in theory doesn’t always pan out in practice. Put your ideas to the test, and when they work, test them again to make sure it wasn’t a fluke.

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SEC Roundup Georgia 65, W. Carolina 63 Kentucky 93, Belmont 80< LSU 86, UAB 63 Vanderbilt 76, Georgia Tech 63

Mann rallies Georgia over Western Carolina 65-63

BY BLAKE GILES Associated Press

ATHENS, Ga. — Charles Mann made two free throws with 2.5 seconds left to rally Georgia to a 65-63 win over Western Carolina on Saturday.

With the score tied 63-all, Georgia ran the clock down for Mann to penetrate. After he made the first free throw, Georgia coach Mark Fox called timeout to instruct Mann to miss the second free throw on purpose, but he still made it. Mann had been 3 of 9 from the line previously.

Kenny Gaines led Georgia (6-4) with 17 points. Mann added 13, and Brandon Morris 11.

The Catamounts scored the first eight points of the second half to go ahead 37-29 and led most of the way from there. Trey Sumler was 4 of 5 from the 3-point line and scored 21 points for Western Carolina (6-8).

Georgia did not lead in the second half until Nemanja Djurisic’s 3-pointer made it 61-58 with 1:25 left.

Western Carolina’s Tom Tankelewicz shot an air ball on a long 3-pointer to try to win at the buzzer.

The first half was a see-saw 20 minutes with neither team able to build a lead of more than four points. The lead changed five times and the teams were tied nine times, finishing at 29-all when Gaines went coast to coast in the last 4.7 seconds for a buzzer-beating layup.

The Catamounts twice led by 10 points in the second half, the last time at 57-47 with 7:13 to play after a 3-pointer by Brandon Boggs.

But Western Carolina would score only one more field goal the rest of the game.

Danté Williams’ breakaway dunk tied it for Georgia at 58-all, setting up Djurisic’s 3, his first field goal of the game.

After Sumler’s three-point play, Djurisic tucked the basketball under his arm like a halfback and drove for a layup to put Georgia up 63-61 with 50 seconds left.

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Sunday, December 22, 2013

SEC fines 4 schools for breaking policies Associated Press

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — The Southeastern Conference fined four schools a combined $60,000 for violating league policies during the football season.

Mississippi State and Mis-

sissippi were the hardest hit, with each school receiving a $25,000 fine.

Mississippi State was fined for violating the league's artificial noisemaker policy a second time. The last violation was in 2010. Mississippi

State fans have a tradition of bringing cowbells to games, which the league approved, as long as they are only used at approved times.

Ole Miss was fined for violating the league's field access policy a second time.

Fans rushed the field following the school's 27-24 victory over LSU. The school also violated the policy in 2012.

Auburn and Missouri also were fined $5,000 for a first violation of the field access policy.

Northwest Missouri tops Lenoir-Rhyne 43-28

BY JOHN ZENOR AP Sports Writer

FLORENCE, Ala. — Trevor Adams was a freshman spectator during Northwest Missouri State’s last national title run.

He finished his career by leading the Bearcats to another one.

Adams passed for 277 yards and three touchdowns and Northwest Missouri raced to a fast start in a 43-28 victory over LenoirRhyne on Saturday in the Division II championship game.

The Bearcats (15-0) won their fourth national title to match Grand Valley State for second-most behind North Dakota State’s five. They’re the fifth team to go 15-0, managing that feat for a second time.

“Being able to finally make it back is really, really neat,” said Adams, who was in a redshirt year when Northwest Missouri won in 2009.

“It’s huge because the legacy that’s there, it’s been a strong one for many years. To be a championship team, a part of that, is just something special. I know our team is going to be excited about it for the rest of our lives.”

Lenoir-Rhyne (13-2) fell short in only the one-time NAIA champion’s second appearance in the Division II playoffs.

Adams completed 15 of 25 of passes with touchdown throws of 29 and 30 yards to Reuben Thomas.

The pair hooked up for their first score on fourth-and-7 on the opening drive and the Bearcats were up 17-0 after

“Being able to finally make it back is really, really neat. It’s huge because the legacy that’s there, it’s been a strong one for many years. To be a championship team, a part of that, is just something special. I know our team is going to be excited about it for the rest of our lives.”

Trever Adams Nortwest Missouri quarterback

10 minutes.

“I thought we needed to be aggressive in the first 20 plays,” Northwest Missouri coach Adam Dorrel said.

“We tried to fire most of our bullets early in the first half.”

Lenoir-Rhyne’s spread flexbone offense couldn’t catch up, despite a quick spark from backup quarterback and playoff star Josh Justice when he came in midway through the third quarter.

“We made too many mistakes,” Bears coach Mike Houston said. “We’re playing the best team we played all year, we couldn’t make the mistakes that we made in all three phases.”

It was a record eighth title game appearance for Northwest Missouri. It capped a huge year for football in Maryville, Mo. “It’s pretty cool,” said Dorrel, an alumnus and Maryville native.

“Maryville’s 60-0 in football from junior high through the university. I don’t know if any other town in America

can say that. That means a lot to me.”

The Bearcats, who had “Family” on the back of their jerseys instead of individual names, remained in control throughout after the fast start.

Lenoir-Rhyne had won 13 consecutive games since dropping the opener, despite losing quarterback Miles Freeman to a leg injury during the regular season and having backup Teverrius Jones go down with a neck injury in the second round of the playoffs.

Jones returned to start this game after Justice came up big in all three playoff wins, but never got the offense going.

Lenoir-Rhyne fumbled five times, losing two.

Jones sprained a knee in the third quarter, bringing a gimpy Justice into the game.

The senior didn’t start after injuring his left ankle in practice on Wednesday and wearing a boot since.

“What guts,” Houston said. “To go out and execute

the way he did in the second half with the pain goes back to the reason he’s been successful the last three weeks.”

Justice said he couldn’t even walk in a boot Friday morning. He savored the chance to play such a big role late in his final season.

“It’s been a great experience,” Justice said. “It’s been extremely exciting and yet humbling, too, just to sit back and see that I was third-string and I didn’t think I was going to be playing again.”

On his second play, Justice managed a 59-yard touchdown to Greyson Wells, who bobbled the ball before heading to the end zone to cut the deficit to 29-14.

Wells also caught a 34-yarder in the fourth quarter on running back Corron Boston’s first pass of the season.

The nation’s top running team still produced 273 rushing yards, 105 shy of their season average. Jarrod Spears led the way with 13 carries for 108 yards.

Lenoir-Rhyne hadn’t attempted a pass in a 42-14 semifinal win over West Chester, when Justice ran for 175 yards and three touchdowns and converted three two-point attempts.

Justice couldn’t keep his playoff magic going but was 3-of-3 passing for 69 yards.

His touchdown pass was the team’s first completion of the game and nearly matched the senior’s 63 passing yards coming into the game.

Justice had a 1-yard touchPlease see BEARCATS | 11A

Mississippi State draws No. 2 in preseason poll Associated Press

TUCSON, Ariz. — The preseason Collegiate Baseball poll with 2013 records and points.

Voting is done by coaches, sports writers and sports information directors: Record Pts 1. Cal. St. Fullerton 51-10 495 2. Mississippi St. 51-20 493

3. Louisiana St. 57-11 491 4. Oregon St. 52-13 5. Florida St. 47-17 6. Oregon 48-16 7. Indiana 49-16 8. Louisville 51-14 9. Vanderbilt 54-12 10. N.C. State 50-16 11. North Carolina 59-12 471 12. Virginia 50-12

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13. Miami 37-25 14. South Carolina 43-20 463 15. UCLA 49-17 16. Florida 29-30 17. Rice 44-20 18. Oklahoma St. 41-19 454 19. Texas Christian 29-28 451 20. Texas 27-24 21. Clemson 40-22

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22. Arizona St. 37-22-1 23. La.-Lafayette 43-10 443 24. Arizona 34-21 25. Texas A&M 34-29 437 26. Stanford 32-22 27. Cal. Poly 40-19 28. Kansas St. 45-19 29. Alabama 35-28 30. Mississippi 38-24 421

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O’Bryant leads LSU over Vanderbilt rallies past Georgia Tech, 76-63 UAB 86-63 Associated Press

BY BRYAN LAZARE Associated Press

BATON ROUGE, La. — Johnny O'Bryant scored 17 points to propel LSU to an 86-63 victory against UAB Saturday.

O'Bryant scored 13 of his points in the second half as the Tigers maintained a double-digit lead. O'Bryant was the lone LSU player to score in the first 9 minutes of the second half with nine points during that stretch.

Three other players scored in double figures for the Tigers (8-2).

Andre Stringer had 13 points, while Jarell Martin and Jordan Mickey had 12 apiece.

Chad Frazier was the leading scorer for the Blazers (9-3) with 15.

Fahro Alihodzic and CJ Washington each had 12.

LSU hit 20 of 39 shots in racing out to a 49-33 halftime lead, making seven of their 11 shots from 3-point range. Martin, who had three 3-pointers in the first nine games, made two in the first half. Anthony Hickey and Stringer also made two 3-pointers.

LSU built a nine-point advantage in the opening 3 minutes thanks to its long-range shooting. With the score tied at 4, the Tigers made three straight 3-pointers - one by Martin and two by Hickey.

UAB reduced its deficit to 17-11 Please see LSU | 11A

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Vanderbilt Coach Kevin Stallings asked his players on Friday for a special gift this holiday season, and they delivered.

Rod Odom scored 18 points — including four 3-pointers — and Vanderbilt rallied from 14 points down in the first half to end Georgia Tech’s three-game win streak 76-63 on Saturday.

“Coach told us that if we win today, it would be a present for him, that was the only gift he wanted,” senior guard Kyle Fuller said. “Thankfully we got that W for him and he can go home happy, and we don’t have to go to practice worrying about what’s going to happen after Christmas.”

It was the third straight victory for the Commodores (7-3) after a pair of two-point squeakers. It also marked their first win in 1½ seasons over a team from a power conference.

Dai-Jon Parker added 13 points and a pair of treys, while Fuller scored 12 points to spark Vanderbilt off the bench for the second consecutive game.

“This made Christmas a lot happier for me,” Stallings said. “. A couple of them walked by the door when we got into the locker room, and

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they said ‘Merry Christmas.’ I told them I appreciated that.

They made this Christmas a lot better for me because they played well. I think they made it a lot better for themselves too.”

The Commodores completed a 29-point turnaround to take a 56-41 advantage with 10:21 left on Fuller’s drive and subsequent assist to Luke Kornet. The Yellow Jackets scored only 10 points over a period of 17-plus minutes and were outscored 4112 during the decisive run.

“Both teams were in similar situations, and they were able to hold on there and kind of rally the troops a little bit at the end of the first half and get back in the game,” thirdyear Tech coach Brian Gregory said. “Unfortunately, we weren’t able to do the same.”

Center Daniel Miller had 11 of his 16 points in the first half for the Yellow Jackets (84). But he went 27 minutes without a field goal, scoring his final five points in the last 3 minutes of the game. Miller, who has started all 105 games in his Georgia Tech career, finished with 10 rebounds.

Vanderbilt trimmed a 14-point deficit to 31-29 at halftime on a three-point inbounds play from Fuller assisted by Parker.

“Coach brought us together, said we need to bring it down to seven,” Fuller said.

“We started locking in, buying in, everybody helping, everybody talking, playing defense and all of a sudden our offense started clicking.”

The Commodores then opened the second half with a 9-2 run. Odom’s second 3-pointer of the game put Vanderbilt ahead 34-33 for their first lead since 1110, and the Commodores stretched it to 43-36 on five straight points by Fuller.

Solomon Poole (11 points) hit his third 3-pointer for Georgia Tech to pull within 43-39, but Shelby Moats sank a trey for Vanderbilt. The Commodores then pushed it out to 52-39 on Odom’s jumper, Kornet’s 2-of-3 free throws, and Eric McClellan’s dunk after a steal.

“I can’t remember us defending like that and scoring like that for as long a stretch as we did tonight,” Odom said.

Odom, who missed only one of five shots behind the arc, hit two 3-pointers during an 11-4 spurt down the stretch to hold off the Yellow Jackets. Parker added his own 3-pointer to give Vanderbilt its largest lead at 7154.

Trae Golden, playing Vanderbilt for the first time since transferring from Tennessee, contributed eight points for Georgia Tech. Marcus Georges-Hunt and Robert Carter Jr. were limited to eight points combined.

Miller extended the Yellow Jackets’ advantage to 25-15 on a three-point play. Stacey Poole Jr. then had back-toback baskets to push the lead to 29-15 on a 12-0 run.

“I thought there were stretches in the first half where we played exceptionally well, we moved the ball well, we got the ball inside, we made some extra passes,” Gregory said.

But the Commodores went on a 14-2 spurt to close within 31-29 at halftime on Parker’s 3-pointer and Fuller’s threepoint play for his first points.

“I don’t know why, I don’t know how, but we just stayed with it and our guys kept playing hard and they stopped playing as well and we started playing better,” Stallings said.

Vanderbilt committed only nine turnovers for the game after having 19 turnovers in its last outing against Austin Peay on Tuesday. Fuller and Parker combined for nine of the team’s 17 assists, and Moats made two steals.

Sunday, December 22, 2013 Basketball NBA standings,schedule EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division W L Pct GB Boston 12 16 .429 — Toronto 10 14 .417 — Brooklyn 9 17 .346 2 New York 8 18 .308 3 Philadelphia 8 19 .296 3½ Southeast Division W L Pct GB Miami 20 6 .769 — Atlanta 15 12 .556 5½ Washington 12 13 .480 7½ Charlotte 13 15 .464 8 Orlando 8 19 .296 12½ Central Division W L Pct GB Indiana 21 5 .808 — Detroit 13 16 .448 9½ Chicago 10 16 .385 11 Cleveland 10 16 .385 11 Milwaukee 5 21 .192 16 WESTERN CONFERENCE Southwest Division W L Pct GB San Antonio 21 5 .808 — Houston 18 10 .643 4 Dallas 15 11 .577 6 New Orleans 11 13 .458 9 Memphis 11 15 .423 10 Northwest Division W L Pct GB Oklahoma City 21 4 .840 — Portland 22 5 .815 — Denver 14 11 .560 7 Minnesota 13 14 .481 9 Utah 8 22 .267 15½ Pacific Division W L Pct GB L.A. Clippers 18 9 .667 — Phoenix 15 10 .600 2 Golden State 14 13 .519 4 L.A. Lakers 13 13 .500 4½ Sacramento 8 18 .308 9½ Friday’s Games Philadelphia 121, Brooklyn 120, OT Cleveland 114, Milwaukee 111, OT Miami 122, Sacramento 103 Atlanta 118, Utah 85 Charlotte 116, Detroit 106 Indiana 114, Houston 81 Toronto 109, Dallas 108, OT Phoenix 103, Denver 99 L.A. Lakers 104, Minnesota 91 Saturday’s Games Memphis 95, New York 87 Washington 106, Boston 99 Sacramento 105, Orlando 100 Houston 114, Detroit 97 Utah 88, Charlotte 85 Chicago 100, Cleveland 84 Philadelphia at Milwaukee, (n) Oklahoma City at San Antonio, (n) Dallas at Phoenix, (n) New Orleans at Portland, (n) L.A. Lakers at Golden State, (n) Denver at L.A. Clippers, (n) Today’s Games Boston at Indiana, 5 p.m.

Toronto at Oklahoma City, 6 p.m.

Minnesota at L.A. Clippers, 8:30 p.m.

Monday’s Games New York at Orlando, 6 p.m.

Detroit at Cleveland, 6 p.m.

Milwaukee at Charlotte, 6 p.m.

Atlanta at Miami, 6:30 p.m.

Indiana at Brooklyn, 6:30 p.m.

Dallas at Houston, 7 p.m.

Utah at Memphis, 7 p.m.

Toronto at San Antonio, 7:30 p.m.

L.A. Lakers at Phoenix, 8 p.m.

Golden State at Denver, 8 p.m.

New Orleans at Sacramento, 9 p.m.

Saturday men’s college scores EAST Canisius 87, Lamar 74 Coastal Carolina 65, CCSU 62 Columbia 82, Fairleigh Dickinson 59 Dartmouth 84, Longwood 64 Duquesne 95, Mass.-Lowell 77 George Washington 74, UMBC 61 Harvard 74, Vermont 68 Holy Cross 74, NJIT 55 Lehigh 69, Quinnipiac 58 Manhattan 84, Buffalo 81, OT Monmouth (NJ) 87, Fordham 78 Northeastern 62, Milwaukee 59 Pittsburgh 73, Cal Poly 56 Providence 94, Maine 70 Saint Joseph’s 88, Loyola (Md.) 77 St. Bonaventure 74, Niagara 72 St. John’s 96, Youngstown St. 87 Temple 101, LIU Brooklyn 65 Villanova 88, Rider 67 SOUTH Appalachian St. 100, Milligan 68 Arkansas St. 83, Marshall 82 Boston U. 83, Maryland 77 Campbell 95, Johnson & Wales (NC) 64 Charlotte 81, SC-Upstate 76 ETSU 84, Austin Peay 79 Florida 66, Fresno St. 49 Florida St. 60, UMass 55 Gardner-Webb 90, Hiwassee 54

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Georgia 65, W. Carolina 63 James Madison 55, Hampton 49 Kent St. 58, Coll. of Charleston 54 Kentucky 93, Belmont 80 LSU 86, UAB 63 Louisville 85, FIU 56 Lyon 55, Grambling St. 54 Miami (Ohio) 79, Tennessee St. 64 N. Kentucky 72, Navy 65 NC State 90, East Carolina 79 North Carolina 97, Davidson 85, OT North Florida 68, Bethune-Cookman 64 Old Dominion 69, UNC Wilmington 57 SE Louisiana 80, UT-Martin 76 Tulane 84, Alabama St. 66 UCF 86, Rio Grande 58 VCU 82, Virginia Tech 52 Vanderbilt 76, Georgia Tech 63 Virginia 57, N. Iowa 43 W. Kentucky 71, Murray St. 64 Wake Forest 59, UNC Greensboro 51 Wilmington (Del.) 65, Md.-Eastern Shore 62 Wofford 62, Winthrop 56 Xavier 77, Alabama 74 MIDWEST Butler 68, Evansville 59 Cincinnati 69, Middle Tennessee 48 E. Michigan 81, Oakland 79, OT Green Bay 74, Fairfield 58 IPFW 86, E. Illinois 65 Illinois 65, Missouri 64 Indiana St. 81, IUPUI 61 Kansas 86, Georgetown 64 Kansas St. 72, Gonzaga 62 Ohio St. 64, Notre Dame 61 S. Dakota St. 77, North Dakota 70 S. Illinois 66, Ball St. 58 Saint Louis 79, NC A&T 57 Toledo 71, Cleveland St. 67 Valparaiso 89, Southeastern (Fla.) 46 W. Michigan 92, Prairie View 53 Wright St. 61, UMKC 49 SOUTHWEST Charleston Southern 97, Cent. Arkansas 90, 2OT Houston 54, Rice 52 Michigan St. 92, Texas 78 North Texas 81, Wayland Baptist 77 Oklahoma 64, Texas A&M 52 Oral Roberts 69, Dallas Baptist 55 Stephen F. Austin 83, Elmhurst 49 TCU 70, Tulsa 58 Texas St. 73, Texas-Tyler 54 Texas-Arlington 79, CS Bakersfield 75, OT FAR WEST Cal St.-Fullerton 59, Sacramento St. 51 Long Beach St. 82, Montana St.-Billings 75 Pepperdine 76, Houston Baptist 64 San Diego 67, S. Utah 52 San Jose St. 73, Westminster (Utah) 66 UC Davis 80, Air Force 74 UC Irvine 63, Denver 50 TOURNAMENT BVI Tropical Shootout Third Place Jacksonville St. 72, Coppin St. 61

Saturday women’s college scores EAST Boston College 77, Holy Cross 60 Buffalo 78, Niagara 70 E. Michigan 69, Wagner 56 Fordham 71, Manhattan 46 George Washington 80, NC A&T 54 Hartford 70, Sacred Heart 64 Harvard 60, Hofstra 41 Loyola (Md.) 56, UMBC 49 Maine 72, Towson 58 Marist 76, Oklahoma 69 Mount St. Mary’s 85, Md.-Eastern Shore 61 Northeastern 95, UMass 76 Penn 46, Drexel 44 Providence 54, Rhode Island 51 Quinnipiac 65, Canisius 55 Rider 61, CCSU 58 Robert Morris 76, Cornell 63 Rutgers 61, Georgia 58 Seton Hall 74, NJIT 48 Siena 49, Binghamton 41 Stony Brook 69, Monmouth (NJ) 52 Syracuse 64, Saint Joseph’s 62 W. Kentucky 57, Georgetown 55 West Virginia 88, Duquesne 80 SOUTH American U. 64, Coppin St. 42 Ball St. 67, N. Kentucky 63 Bucknell 71, Longwood 47 Charlotte 76, Davidson 60 Chattanooga 70, ETSU 61 Coll. of Charleston 71, South Florida 64 Columbia 78, Kennesaw St. 61 E. Illinois 76, Air Force 44 Grambling St. 70, Philander Smith 64 Hampton 86, Kansas St. 75, 2OT Iona 78, UCF 66 Louisville 69, Colorado 62 Marshall 62, Delaware St. 47 Middle Tennessee 59, S. Dakota St. 44 Murray St. 81, Bethune-Cookman 70 North Carolina 103, High Point 71 North Florida 56, Georgia Southern 47 Oklahoma St. 68, Georgia Tech 60

Old Dominion 60, William & Mary 49 SC-Upstate 65, Furman 55 Southern Miss. 83, New Orleans 61 Stetson 74, Nicholls St. 65 Tulane 89, St. Francis (Pa.) 67 UAB 67, George Mason 64 UTEP 88, Belmont 74 Vanderbilt 83, UNC Asheville 57 Virginia 85, Florida Gulf Coast 56 Virginia Tech 82, Radford 33 MIDWEST Auburn 66, UCLA 60 Cincinnati 47, Xavier 26 IPFW 84, Detroit 73 Ill.-Chicago 58, Wisconsin 56 Illinois 77, UT-Martin 62 Indiana 107, Cleveland St. 73 Indiana St. 62, Butler 56 Iowa 73, Drake 51 Missouri St. 77, SE Missouri 66 N. Iowa 66, N. Illinois 64 Nebraska 87, South Dakota 53 Northwestern 72, IUPUI 61 Saint Louis 50, Evansville 49 Wichita St. 86, Austin Peay 64 SOUTHWEST Abilene Christian 76, Jacksonville 72 Arkansas St. 73, Cent. Arkansas 61 Nebraska-Omaha 73, Texas-Pan American 61 SMU 84, North Texas 79, OT Texas Tech 76, FAU 63 Texas-Arlington 75, Texas A&M-CC 64 FAR WEST Arizona 75, UC Riverside 59 Arizona St. 75, Miami 73 BYU 84, Utah St. 74 DePaul 79, Louisiana-Monroe 57 Gonzaga 69, Washington St. 62 Nevada 77, UC Santa Barbara 66 North Dakota 68, N. Colorado 65 Oregon St. 74, Clemson 41 Pepperdine 74, N. Arizona 51 Portland 76, Portland St. 49 Saint Mary’s (Cal) 72, CS Northridge 60 San Jose St. 81, UMKC 76 Southern Cal 66, Hawaii 55 Stanford 76, Tennessee 70 UC Davis 63, Houston Baptist 58, OT Utah 69, Samford 49 Washington 76, Pittsburgh 69 Wyoming 72, Idaho 64 TOURNAMENT Beach Classic Third Place Pacific 59, Richmond 57 Christmas City Classic Championship Delaware 77, Lehigh 64 Third Place Youngstown St. 74, Vermont 67 Gator Holiday Classic Championship Florida 90, FIU 74 Third Place La Salle 66, Tennessee St. 58 Wright State Invitational Championship Wright St. 87, Bradley 71 Third Place Lipscomb 86, Gardner-Webb 68

Football Bowl lineup TODAY New Mexico Bowl At Albuquerque Colorado State 48, Washington State 45 Las Vegas Bowl Southern Cal 45, Fresno State 20 Famous Idaho Potato Bowl At Boise, Idaho San Diego State 40, Buffalo 24 New Orleans Bowl Tulane (7-5) vs. Louisiana-Lafayette MONDAY Beef ‘O’ Brady’s Bowl At St. Petersburg, Fla. Ohio (7-5) vs. East Carolina (9-3), 1 p.m. (ESPN) TUESDAY Hawaii Bowl At Honolulu Oregon State (6-6) vs. Boise State (84), 7 p.m. (ESPN) THURSDAY Little Caesars Pizza Bowl At Detroit Bowling Green (10-3) vs. Pittsburgh (66), 5 p.m. (ESPN) Poinsettia Bowl At San Diego Northern Illinois (12-1) vs. Utah State (8-5), 8:30 p.m. (ESPN) FRIDAY Military Bowl At Annapolis, Md. Marshall (9-4) vs. Maryland (7-5), 1:30 p.m. (ESPN) Texas Bowl At Houston Minnesota (8-4) vs. Syracuse (6-6), 5 p.m. (ESPN) Fight Hunger Bowl At San Francisco BYU (8-4) vs. Washington (8-4), 8:30 p.m. (ESPN) FRIDAY

Military Bowl At Annapolis, Md. Marshall (9-4) vs. Maryland (7-5), 1:30 p.m. (ESPN) Texas Bowl At Houston Minnesota (8-4) vs. Syracuse (6-6), 5 p.m. (ESPN) Fight Hunger Bowl At San Francisco BYU (8-4) vs. Washington (8-4), 8:30 p.m. (ESPN) SATURDAY, DEC. 28 Pinstripe Bowl At New York Notre Dame (8-4) vs. Rutgers (6-6), 11 a.m. (ESPN) Belk Bowl At Charlotte, N.C. Cincinnati (9-3) vs. North Carolina (66), 2:20 p.m. (ESPN) Russell Athletic Bowl At Orlando, Fla. Miami (9-3) vs. Louisville (11-1), 5:45 p.m. (ESPN) Buffalo Wild Wings Bowl At Tempe, Ariz.

Kansas State (7-5) vs. Michigan (7-5), 9:15 p.m. (ESPN) MONDAY, DEC. 30 Armed Forces Bowl At Fort Worth, Texas Middle Tennessee (8-4) vs. Navy (7-4), 10:45 a.m. (ESPN) Music City Bowl At Nashville, Tenn.

Mississippi (7-5) vs. Georgia Tech (75), 2:15 p.m. (ESPN) Alamo Bowl At San Antonio Oregon (10-2) vs. Texas (8-4), 5:45 p.m. (ESPN) Holiday Bowl At San Diego Arizona State (10-3) vs. Texas Tech (75), 9:15 p.m. (ESPN) TUESDAY, DEC. 31 AdvoCare V100 Bowl At Shreveport, La. Arizona (7-5) vs. Boston College (7-5), 11:30 a.m. (ESPN) Sun Bowl At El Paso, Texas Virginia Tech (8-4) vs. UCLA (9-3), 1 p.m. (CBS) Liberty Bowl At Memphis, Tenn.

Rice (9-3) vs. Mississippi State (6-6), 3 p.m. (ESPN) Chick-fil-A Bowl At Atlanta Texas A&M (8-4) vs. Duke (10-3), 6 p.m. (ESPN)

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W L T Pct PF PA x-Denver 11 3 0 .786 535 372 x-Kansas City 11 3 0 .786 399 255 San Diego 7 7 0 .500 343 311 Oakland 4 10 0 .286 295 393 NATIONAL CONFERENCE East W L T Pct PF PA Philadelphia 8 6 0 .571 364 349 Dallas 7 7 0 .500 393 385 N.Y. Giants 5 9 0 .357 251 357 Washington 3 11 0 .214 305 434 South W L T Pct PF PA New Orleans 10 4 0 .714 359 270 Carolina 10 4 0 .714 328 208 Tampa Bay 4 10 0 .286 258 324 Atlanta 4 10 0 .286 309 388 North W L T Pct PF PA Chicago 8 6 0 .571 406 391 Green Bay 7 6 1 .536 353 362 Detroit 7 7 0 .500 362 339 Minnesota 4 9 1 .321 363 425 West W L T Pct PF PA x-Seattle 12 2 0 .857 380 205 San Francisco 10 4 0 .714 349 228 Arizona 9 5 0 .643 342 291 St. Louis 6 8 0 .429 316 324 Today’s games Tampa Bay at St. Louis, Noon Indianapolis at Kansas City, Noon Denver at Houston, Noon Miami at Buffalo, Noon New Orleans at Carolina, Noon Dallas at Washington, Noon Cleveland at N.Y. Jets, Noon Minnesota at Cincinnati, Noon Tennessee at Jacksonville, Noon Arizona at Seattle, 3:05 p.m.

N.Y. Giants at Detroit, 3:05 p.m.

Oakland at San Diego, 3:25 p.m.

Pittsburgh at Green Bay, 3:25 p.m.

New England at Baltimore, 3:25 p.m.

Chicago at Philadelphia, 7:30 p.m.

Monday Atlanta at San Francisco, 7:40 p.m.

Sunday, Dec. 29 Green Bay at Chicago, Noon Houston at Tennessee, Noon Philadelphia at Dallas, Noon Detroit at Minnesota, Noon Tampa Bay at New Orleans, Noon Carolina at Atlanta, Noon Cleveland at Pittsburgh, Noon Washington at N.Y. Giants, Noon Baltimore at Cincinnati, Noon Jacksonville at Indianapolis, Noon N.Y. Jets at Miami, Noon Buffalo at New England, Noon Denver at Oakland, 3:25 p.m.

Kansas City at San Diego, 3:25 p.m.

St. Louis at Seattle, 3:25 p.m.

San Francisco at Arizona, 3:25 p.m.

FCS playoffs

NFL Playoff Scenarios

Semifinals Friday North Dakota State 52, New Hampshire 14 Saturday Towson 35, Eastern Washington 31 Championship Saturday, Jan. 4 At FC Dallas Stadium, Frisco, Texas North Dakota State (14-0) vs. Towson (13-2), 1 p.m.

The Associated Press WEEK 16 AFC Denver — clinched playoff spot Indianapolis — clinched AFC South Kansas City — clinched playoff spot DENVER Clinches AFC West and first-round bye with: — Win and Kansas City loss Clinches home-field advantage throughout AFC playoffs with: — Win and Kansas City loss and New England loss or tie NEW ENGLAND Clinches AFC East with: — Win or tie, OR — Miami loss or tie Clinches first-round bye with: — Win and Cincinnati loss or tie and Indianapolis loss or tie, OR — Tie and Cincinnati loss and Indianapolis loss Clinches playoff spot with: — Cincinnati loss or tie CINCINNATI Clinches AFC North with: — Win and Baltimore loss or tie, OR — Tie and Baltimore loss Clinches playoff spot with: — Win and Miami loss or tie, OR — Tie and Miami loss BALTIMORE Clinches playoff spot with: — Win and Miami loss and San Diego loss or tie MIAMI Clinches playoff spot with: — Win and Baltimore loss and Cincinnati loss NFC Seattle — clinched playoff spot SEATTLE Clinches NFC West and home-field advantage throughout NFC playoffs with: — Win or tie, OR — San Francisco loss or tie NEW ORLEANS Clinches NFC South and first-round bye with: — Win Clinches playoff spot with: — Arizona loss, OR — Tie and San Francisco loss or tie, OR — Tie and Arizona tie, OR

Division II playoffs Championship Today At Braly Municipal Stadium Florence, Ala. Northwest Missouri State 43, LenoirRhyne 28

Division III playoffs Semifinals Friday, Dec. 20 At Salem Stadium Salem, Va. Wisconsin-Whitewater 52, Union 14

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NAIA playoffs Championship Today At Barron Stadium Rome, Ga. Grand View 35, Cumberlands (Ky.) 23

NFL standings, schedule AMERICAN CONFERENCE East W L T Pct PF New England 10 4 0 .714 369 Miami 8 6 0 .571 310 N.Y. Jets 6 8 0 .429 246 Buffalo 5 9 0 .357 300 South W L T Pct PF y-Indianapolis 9 5 0 .643 338 Tennessee 5 9 0 .357 326 Jacksonville 4 10 0 .286 221 Houston 2 12 0 .143 253 North W L T Pct PF Cincinnati 9 5 0 .643 354 Baltimore 8 6 0 .571 296 Pittsburgh 6 8 0 .429 321 Cleveland 4 10 0 .286 288 West

PA 311 296 367 354 PA 319 355 399 375 PA 274 277 332 362

— San Francisco loss and Arizona tie CAROLINA Clinches playoff spot with: — Win, OR — Tie and Arizona loss, OR — Tie and San Francisco loss, OR — Arizona loss and San Francisco loss SAN FRANCISCO Clinches playoff spot with: — Win, OR — Arizona loss, OR — Tie and Arizona tie PHILADELPHIA Clinches NFC East with: — Win and Dallas loss or tie CHICAGO Clinches NFC North with: — Win and Detroit loss or tie and Green Bay loss

Hockey NHL standings, schedule EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Boston 36 24 10 2 50 100 75 Tampa Bay 36 22 11 3 47 100 86 Montreal 38 22 13 3 47 96 84 Detroit 38 17 12 9 43 99 105 Toronto 38 18 16 4 40 105 111 Ottawa 38 14 17 7 35 106 126 Florida 37 14 18 5 33 87 117 Buffalo 36 9 24 3 21 64 104 Metropolitan Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Pittsburgh 38 27 10 1 55 121 83 Washington 36 19 13 4 42 115 109 New Jersey 37 15 15 7 37 90 94 Philadelphia 36 16 16 4 36 89 103 Carolina 36 14 14 8 36 83 101 N.Y. Rangers 36 16 18 2 34 82 100 Columbus 36 15 17 4 34 97 103 N.Y. Islanders 37 10 20 7 27 93 129 WESTERN CONFERENCE Central Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Chicago 38 25 7 6 56 140 105 St. Louis 34 23 7 4 50 119 81 Colorado 35 23 10 2 48 102 83 Minnesota 37 20 12 5 45 86 88 Dallas 34 17 12 5 39 99 102 Winnipeg 37 16 16 5 37 100 108 Nashville 36 16 16 4 36 83 103 Pacific Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Anaheim 38 26 7 5 57 124 96 Los Angeles 37 25 8 4 54 104 71 San Jose 35 21 8 6 48 113 88 Vancouver 38 21 11 6 48 104 92 Phoenix 35 19 10 6 44 110 108 Calgary 36 13 17 6 32 91 115 Edmonton 37 11 23 3 25 95 127 NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss.

Thursday’s Games Vancouver 3, Chicago 2, SO Anaheim 3, New Jersey 2, OT N.Y. Islanders 5, N.Y. Rangers 3 Washington 4, Carolina 2 Winnipeg 5, Florida 2 Saturday’s Games Los Angeles 3, Colorado 2, SO Detroit 5, Toronto 4, SO Pittsburgh 4, Calgary 3 Phoenix 4, Ottawa 3, OT New Jersey 5, Washington 4, OT Columbus 6, Philadelphia 3 Montreal 4, Nashville 3, OT Boston 4, Buffalo 1 Tampa Bay 3, Carolina 2, OT Anaheim 5, N.Y. Islanders 3 St. Louis at Edmonton, (n) Dallas at San Jose, (n) Today’s Games Minnesota at N.Y. Rangers, 6:30 p.m.

Winnipeg at Vancouver, 7 p.m.

Monday’s Games Phoenix at Buffalo, 6 p.m.

Toronto at N.Y. Rangers, 6 p.m.

Anaheim at Washington, 6 p.m.

Columbus at Carolina, 6 p.m.

Pittsburgh at Ottawa, 6:30 p.m.

N.Y. Islanders at Detroit, 6:30 p.m.

Tampa Bay at Florida, 6:30 p.m.

Minnesota at Philadelphia, 6:30 p.m.

New Jersey at Chicago, 7 p.m.

Boston at Nashville, 7 p.m.

St. Louis at Calgary, 7 p.m.

Winnipeg at Edmonton, 8:30 p.m.

Dallas at Los Angeles, 9:30 p.m.

Colorado at San Jose, 9:30 p.m.

Transactions Saturday’s deals FOOTBALL National Football League CLEVELAND BROWNS — Placed WR Davone Bess on the reserve/non-football illness list.

GREEN BAY PACKERS — Placed TE Brandon Bostick and DT Johnny Jolly on injured reserve.

MINNESOTA VIKINGS — Placed TE John Carlson on injured reserve. Signed RB Joe Banyard and DE Justin Trattou from the practice squad. Waived CB Robert Steeples.

LSU CONTINUED FROM 10A

on a three-point play by Frazier. The Tigers answered with an 11-3 run to go ahead by 14. Martin and Stringer knocked down 3-pointers during that stretch. The Blazers

came no closer than eight points for the remainder of the first half.

UAB was able to stay within striking range of LSU during the first 8 minutes of the second half. A 3-pointer and two foul shots by Jordan

BEARCATS CONTINUED FROM 10A

down run with 1:04 left for the final margin.

The game ended a 28year run for the Division

Swing left the Blazers behind 56-44.

However, LSU wouldn't let UAB reduce its lead to single digits. The Blazers trailed by 10 points twice. On both occasions,

Mickey made baskets for the Tigers. Two baskets, one a 3-pointer by Tim Quarterman, put LSU on top 69-53. UAB trailed by at least 15 points the rest of the way.

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12A • Sunday, December 22, 2013 • Daily Corinthian

Community Events Reminder Events need to be submitted at least two weeks prior to the event.

Community events publishes on Wednesdays and Sundays and on Friday if space is available.

Garbage pickup For Christmas week, Alcorn County will pick up the Tuesday, Dec. 24, garbage route on Monday, Dec. 23. The Wednesday route will be picked up on Thursday, Dec. 26. For New Year’s, the Wednesday route will be picked up on Thursday, Jan. 2.

‘High School Musical’ Alcorn Central High School central Stage will present “High School Musical’ at 7 p.m. on Thursday, Jan. 16 and Saturday, Jan. 18 in the ACHS auditorium. Admission is $5.

Tickets are on sale in the ACHS office during school hours or purchase tickets at the door on the night of the performances. For additional information contact the school at 662286-8720.

New location The Corinth Artist Guild Gallery has moved to a now location on Fillmore Street in the former Dodd Eye Clinic building. Hours

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continue to be 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday. Contact the gallery at 665-0520 for more information.

Lions Club The Corinth Breakfast Lions Club meets the first and third Monday of each month at 7 a.m. at Martha’s Menu.

Private Applicator Training There will be a Private Applicator training session held on Monday, Jan. 6 at 6 p.m. at the Alcorn County Extension Service office located behind the Crossroads Arena. There is a $10 fee to attend the training.

This training is for farmers who need their private applicator certificate. If you have any questions or need additional information please contact the Alcorn County Extension Service at 662-286-7755.

Candy Sale The Corinth Breakfast Lions Club is selling tins of King Leo Stick Candy for a fundraising project.

These make a great gift for family, friends and coworkers. The sales support the club’s programs providing eyeglasses, eye surgery and hearing aids for those that can’t afford them. Tins are $10 each. Call 287-6799 or 603-5121 to order.

Tupelo Community Theatre’s Off Broadway production of The Santa Land Diaries, by David Sedaris and adapted by Joe Mantello, is adding two additional performances on Dec. 27 and 28 at 7:30 p.m. at 213 East Franklin.

The play is a brilliant evocation of what a slacker’s Christmas must feel like when he decides to become a Macy’s elf during the holiday crunch.

The play contains explicit language and is not recommended for children.

Tickets are $18 for adults and $6 for students and may be purchased by calling the TCT ticket office at 844-1935.

Celebration Team Hardin County is sponsoring a New Year’s Eve Bash fundraiser on Dec. 31 at Pickwick Landing State Park. Cost is $250 per couple and includes overnight lodging at the inn, live entertainment by Magi, evening dinner, New Year’s Day morning brunch and much more.

To make a reservation, call 800-552-3866.

First Day Hike The Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks will celebrate the new year with Third Annual First Day Hikes on Jan.

1 at both Tishomingo State Park and Trace State Park. It’s part of a nationwide initiative by America’s State Parks to get people outdoors, connect with nature and establish a lifetime of fitness through hiking. For additional information, contact Tishomingo State Park at 662-438-6914.

Shiloh Park B-day Shiloh National Military Park will commemorate its 119th anniversary of its establishment as a Civil War military park at 1:30 p.m. on Friday, Dec. 27 in the visitor center auditorium with a 30-minute Power Point presentation about the park’s establishment.

Following the program, the Hardin County Convention and Visitors Bureau will present a cake to the park for visitors to enjoy. The event is free and open to the public.

Excel By 5 Excel By 5 is an innovative early childhood certification that emphasizes the important roles parents and early childcare educators play in the lives of children during their most formative years, ages 0-5 years old.

It is a grass roots organization of volunteers and community leaders.

The Excel By 5 team identifies and addresses children’s health issues

by support families and assisting early care and education centers. Its mission is to give every child a chance to live up to his or her potential.

Excel By 5 is looking for qualified and enthusiastic volunteers interested in art, music, literacy and early education for events at childcare centers, family community events and health fair events.

If you would like to volunteer and mentor parents and children ages 0-5 years old, then contact Susan O’Connell at 662-286-6401 or visit our link at www.excelby5. com to learn more about The Corinth-Alcorn County Excel By 5.

Karaoke/dance night VFW Post No. 3962 hosts a Karaoke Night every Friday at the post on Purdy School Rd. in Corinth. Karaoke begins at 8 p.m. with music by D.J. Lanny Cox. Lanny Cox also provides music at the VFW on Saturday Dance Night which begins at 8 p.m.

‘Just Plain Country’ Just Plain Country performs at the Tishomingo County Fairgrounds in Iuka every Saturday from 7-10 p.m. Good family entertainment.

Friday night music There is music every

Friday night with the band, The Renegade, from 7-10 p.m. at the Guntown Community Center. This is a familyfriendly event.

Quilt fundraiser A quilt made by the Cross City Piecemakers Quilt Guild is up for grabs in support of the ongoing efforts to preserve the VerandahCurlee House Museum.

Chances will be sold and can be purchased at the Corinth Area Convention and Visitors Bureau.

Civil War exhibit Corinth Civil War enthusiast Larry Mangus is sharing some of the items from his collection of artifacts related to the Battle of Corinth at the Corinth Civil War Interpretive Center. His collection includes pieces of currency, autographs of Union and Confederate generals, war bonds, guns and canteens -- many of which have been identified and connected to a specific soldier during the war. The exhibits will be switched out every six weeks and will continue for the foreseeable future. Located at 501 W. Linden Street, the Corinth Civil War Interpretive Center is open every day except Christmas Day from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. For more info about the Interpretive Center call 287-9273.

NASA astronauts tackle urgent spacewalking repairs Associated Press

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Astronauts removed an old space station pump Saturday, sailing through the first of a series of urgent repair spacewalks to revive a

crippled cooling line.

The two Americans on the crew, Rick Mastracchio and Michael Hopkins, successfully pulled out the ammonia pump with a bad valve -- well ahead of schedule. That

task had been planned for the next spacewalk on Monday.

“An early Christmas,” observed Mission Control as Mastracchio tugged the refrigerator-size pump away from its nesting

spot.

If Mastracchio and Hopkins keep up the quick work, two spacewalks may be enough to complete the installation of a spare pump and a third space-

walk will not be needed on Christmas Day as originally anticipated.

The breakdown 10 days earlier left one of two identical cooling loops too cold and forced the

astronauts to turn off all nonessential equipment inside the orbiting lab, bringing scientific research to a near-halt and leaving the station in a vulnerable state.

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Sunday, December 22, 2013

‘The Prettiest little fight in the war’ On the 10th of December, 2013, Senator Lamar Alexander (R), Tennessee, introduced S. 1785, “A bill to modify the boundary of the Shiloh National Military Park located in Tennessee and Mississippi.” If this bill is signed into law it means four battle sites could someday be added to, or affiliated with the park.

T h e Tom bill itself Parson does not transfer Park Ranger any property to the Park Service. No, all it does is change the authorized boundary of the park which would allow more acreage to be added at some later date. That’s the way it works, even if someone wanted to give us a big chunk of land, we are not allowed to take it unless it lies within the boundary approved by congress.

What is great about this bill is it includes two sites which, though located in Tennessee, are associated with Corinth; Davis Bridge on the Hatchie River and the Russell House.

You say you’ve never heard of the Russell House? Well warm up that cup of coffee and I’ll tell you a story.

This tale takes place mid-way through the Siege of Corinth in May, 1862. There were three Union armies working together to capture Corinth and the all-important railroad junction. On the right of the Union line was the Army of the Tennessee and on the far right of this army was Gen. William T. Sherman’s Fifth Division.

Sherman wanted a piece of real estate not far in front of his lines. It was on a low ridge overlooking the headwaters of Phillips Creek, a spot close to where the Purdy, Ridge and State Line roads came together. If you want to see the site, head north on Polk Street, (Old 45), to the Tennessee Line and there you are.

The Russell family owned a house and several out-buildings on the property which was occupied by a brigade of Mississippi infantry

Brigadier General James R. Chalmers under the command of Gen. James R. Chalmers, a Holly Springs lawyer.

Chalmers was not inclined to give the property to Sherman just because he wanted it.

On the 17th of May Sherman moved his troops like so many pieces on a chessboard. Two regiments were sent off to keep an eye on the road to the right while two more headed off to the left. On the main road, or Purdy Road, the 55th Illinois and 8th Missouri moved up to a bridge over Phillips Creek and waited for the word to move forward. The Russell House was ¾’s of a mile away.

When the word came the two Federal regiments crossed the bridge, ran along a “causeway” that spanned the bottom land, and up to a hill that overlooked the house. The Northerners moved forward slowly and fought with the Southern pickets who grudgingly fell back toward their main line at the house. General Morgan Smith, whose troops were making the attack, wrote, “The enemy retired sullenly, obstinately contesting the ground.”

As the Confederates fell back, “with great reluc-

This week in the Civil War

tance,” General Chalmers extended his reserve which came close to flanking Sherman’s line and threatened to undo everything the Union had accomplished. The Federal reserves on the right were brought up to counter this move and the fighting moved closer to the house. The boys in blue began cheering loudly to psych themselves up for the final effort.

Before the charge was sounded a Confederate bullet pierced the heart of Pvt. Andrew Jones. He dropped his gun, threw up his hands and yelled, “Hurrah for the Fiftyfifth!” and immediately fell dead on the ground.

Jones had miraculously survived an earlier wound at Shiloh when a small piece of buckshot hit him square in the forehead and came out the back of his head without breaking the skull. The small projectile had travelled right through his brain with no outward effect. He had cheated Death but Death found him at the Russell House.

Nearby were Sgt. Fred Ebersol and Pvt. Littlefield of the same regiment who were doing their best to take cover behind a

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The Union, which had bolstered its positions in East Tennessee earlier in the year, launched into one more battle in the state before ringing out the year 1863.

A Union brigadier general, Samuel D. Sturgis, got word on Dec. 28, 1863, that Confederate

cavalry had been spotted near Dandridge, Tenn.

He chose to go out and attack the force, opening up a battle at a place called Mossy Creek.

Initially Confederate forces got the upper hand but then the Union troops turned the tables, forcing a brigade of Confederate cavalry to retreat.

The Union victory, though a minor one, further consolidated Federal gains in the state. Soon after, fighting forces on both sides would begin their retreat to winter camps, hunkering down to await warmer weather to resume combat in earnest.

small tree some fifty yards from the house. They made a tempting target but came out of the fight without a scratch. The tree, however, was later found to have been hit by thirty bullets.

Another casualty was William Dwyer of the 8th Missouri who had been promoted from sergeant to lieutenant that very morning, and three hours later he was dead in the Tennessee dust.

From their positions some one hundred yards from the house they could hear “some of the officers entreating and ordering their men to hold their ground and not run from the damned Yankees.”

The Southerners were taking casualties too. An officer was hit as he came out of the front door, the door frame covered with gore. Another officer was hit as he was using an upstairs window to peer out at the Federals. He mistook one of the movements he observed for a retreat and yelled out that the, “damned cowardly Yankees are running!”

A moment later a bullet fired by Private Snyder of the 8th Missouri ended his life.

The skirmishing came

to an end when a few pieces of Union artillery were hauled across the causeway and onto the hill. When the shells began to fall among his men General Chalmers wisely called on them to fall back and relenquish the house to the Federals.

At last the attackers rushed forward and took possession of the grounds. Inevitably, the men of the two regiments began to quarrel over claims of who had been the first to take the house.

The 8th Missouri seemed to be winning the shouting match but Sgt. Ebersol of the 55th was having none of it. When Smith came up to see what the ruckus was about, Ebersol handed the general a Confederate canteen filled with whisky he had found in the house.

Smith took a swig and turned to the crowd. “Dry up, for if that [Missouri] regiment had gotten into the house first, nobody else would ever have found a canteen of whisky there.”

Both regiments would end up stitching the honors “Russell House” on their battle flags.

The Federals pursued the Confederates for an additional three hundred

Museum asks for USS Vicksburg items The Associated Press

Fighting continues in Tennessee

Brigadier General Morgan L. Smith

yards before halting at the road junction as the sun was setting. The fight had lasted for three hours and Sherman’s Division held undisputed ownership of the hill, the house and the out buildings.

The cost in human lives was small by Civil War standards but no less devastating to the families who had lost husbands and sons. Smith lost ten killed and thirtyone wounded. Chalmers made no report of the action though twelve dead Southerners were found including a captain and two lieutenants.

A Southern prisoner was also taken and he was interrogated and revealed that the regiment had been issued brand new rifles straight from the box just two days before.

Some were found scattered about the field, still loaded and never fired.

Sherman was delighted with the afternoon’s work, deeming the encounter, “The prettiest little fight of the war.” A new advance picket line was established and over the next few days a long line of earthworks was built right through the yard.

As for the house, it was burned to the ground a week later.

I hope this piece of property will someday be added to Shiloh National Military Park. There are a number of sites scattered about town with earthworks from the Siege of Corinth, but the Russell House would be the only protected property where actual fighting took place during the Siege. The first step is getting congress to adjust our boundary.

One last thought. Don’t confuse the Russell House property with the story in Wednesday’s paper about the West Corinth Elementary School. The old school property is already within the park boundary approved by the U. S. Congress and could easily be added to the park provided all parties are in agreement. Many of my stories talk about the October battle raging across the school grounds, including the one about Col. William P. Rogers leading the men of Texas and Alabama in the three tragic charges against Battery Robinett. To a guy like me, it is hallowed ground.

VICKSBURG — The Old Depot Museum is asking the U.S. Navy to loan or donate of items from the soon-to-be decommissioned USS Vicksburg for a display in the cruiser’s namesake city.

Museum director Lamar Roberts sent letters to Navy officials including Navy Secretary Ray Mabus in August.

“I think it’s a good project for Vicksburg and a good project for the museum,” Roberts said.

Strong naval history Four warships have been christened the USS Vicksburg. The first was commissioned in 1863 and served as a Union blockader during the Civil War. The second boat to use the name was com-

“We have the decking of the World War II Vicksburg to deck the floor in there, so you would actually be walking on the deck of the ship.”

Lamar Roberts Old Depot Museum director missioned in 1897.

The Old Depot Museum is already home to a model of the modern-day cruiser and memorabilia donated by sailors aboard the World War II-era incarnation, including a logbook, photos and 8 mm films, which are currently tucked away in the museum’s library.

“The crew had their reunion here several years ago and adopted us as the

place where they wanted to keep their archive,” Roberts said.

Now, Roberts is waiting for the application process to be completed and the official decommissioning of the cruiser.

“It’s a lot of hoops to jump through,” he said.

The ship had been planned for decommission in fiscal 2013, but it and two other cruisers of its class were saved by the National Defense Au-

thorization Act. The Navy has not said when the Ticonderoga-class cruiser will be decommissioned, but the Department of Defense has opposed retaining the ship in the naval fleet.

“It’s in limbo right now,” Roberts said.

Finding a logical home If the items, including clocks, flags, and the ship’s bell, are obtained, they and the World War II-era memorabilia would be placed into a room on the third floor of museum with models of all four USS Vicksburgs, Roberts said.

“We have the decking of the World War II Vicksburg to deck the floor in there, so you would actually be walking on the deck of the ship,” he said.

Clarksville’s Fort Defiance offers a peek at 1863 Christmas celebration CLARKSVILLE, Tenn.

— The Santa Claus from 1863 is on his way to Fort Defiance in Clarksville.

Don’t expect him to be

wearing a plush red suit or bringing along Rudolph, though.

Historical interpreter William Parker told The

Leaf-Chronicle that the Christmas in Occupied Clarksville celebration on Sunday will resemble a Christmas celebration

of 150 years ago, when Clarksville was occupied

by Union forces during the Civil War. He says Friends of the

Fort Defiance Interpretive Center have done extensive research to recreate the atmosphere, including how Santa would

look.

The free event will also feature elves, eggnog, Christmas carols and cookies.

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Wedding favors get personal

Wedding

Couples lend creative touch to keepsakes

“It’s not just Jordan almonds and chocolate truffles anymore. It’s anything that’s meaningful to the bride and groom. It’s really anything goes with favors.”

BY LISA A. FLAM Associated Press

Morgan Samantha Brawner, Lee Price Boggs

Brawner — Boggs Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Brawner of Corinth announce the engagement and forthcoming marriage of their daughter, Morgan Samantha Brawner, to Lee Price Boggs, son of Mr. and Mrs. Larry Boggs of Corinth.

The bride-elect is the granddaughter of Mr. and Mrs. Everett Parvin, Ms. Ethel “Bit” Brawner, and the late Robert Brawner.

The prospective groom is the grandson of the late Mr. and Mrs. David A. Price, H.T. “Peck” Boggs and the late Marion Boggs, all of Corinth.

The bride-elect is a 2007 graduate of Biggersville High School, where she was a member of the varsity high school softball team. She graduated from Northeast Mississippi Community College in 2009, with an Associate’s degree. She was a member of Phi Theta Kappa. In 2011, she graduated from Mississippi State University with a Bachelor’s de-

gree in Accounting. She is presently employed with Dobbins and Mitchell Accounting Firm.

The prospective groom is a 2008 graduate of Alcorn Central High School, where he was a member of the varsity high school basketball team, and the varsity golf team. Upon graduating, he entered the United States Marine Corps. After graduating in the top 5 of his unit at Paris Island, S.C., he was stationed at Camp Lejeune, N.C. He is presently employed with Null Electrical and Boggs’ Building Co. The couple will exchange wedding vows on Saturday, Dec. 28, 2013, at 7 p.m. at Crazy K Ranch, Michie, Tenn.

A reception will follow the ceremony. All family and friends of the couple are invited to attend.

After a honeymoon to Cozumel, Mexico, the couple will reside in Corinth.

Jillian Mackey had seen wedding favors that seemed like an afterthought, and she knew she did not want to give one of those an impractical trinket that would likely get tossed in the trash or thrown in a drawer.

So during her yearlong engagement to Jason Simms, the couple picked blackberries, strawberries and rhubarb in Oregon, where they lived; gathered cactus pears in New Mexico, where he grew up; and plucked blueberries and apricots when they relocated to her home state, Connecticut.

By the time they married on Aug. 2 in New Haven, Conn., the bride, who learned to make jam as a girl, had turned their bounty into dozens of jars of jam for their 135 wedding guests.

The idea was to create a favor that was personalized and different, “something I could really feel came from us as a couple, that we had actually put time and effort into,” Jillian Simms said.

The wedding favor that little thank-you-for-coming gift has risen to new heights.

“It’s not just Jordan almonds and chocolate truffles anymore,” said Jennifer Condon, wedding style and registry director for Brides magazine. “It’s anything that’s meaningful to the bride

Jennifer Condon Wedding style and registry director for Brides magazine and groom. It’s really anything goes with favors.”

With so many choices, made even more numerous with personalization and online inspiration, favors have become more specific to the couple, their wedding theme or the venue.

“It used to be more tchotchke-type items candles, bottle stoppers, picture frames just really generic things that you can get in bulk easily without putting too much thought into it,” said Amy Frugoli, a wedding planner in San Jose, Calif. “And now it’s more personalized, wellthought-out and usable items.”

Great favors nowadays include food and photos things that guests can enjoy immediately and that aren’t “going to clutter their house,” said Frugoli, who also co-owns a sweets company.

When the party is over, guests can find bags and containers to fill with decorated cookies, candy from a colorful buffet, popcorn in fun flavors or the fixings for s’mores.

“It goes back to a nostalgia thing,” said Frugoli. “People are looking for a lot of comfort food and fun things.”

Baked goods cake pops, pie pops and cup-

cakes can be decorated to fit a theme or color scheme.

Heartier fare, like pizza and crepes, is sometimes served up after a night of drinking and dancing.

“We’ve been seeing a lot of people doing a food truck at end of the night,” Condon said. “As guests are leaving, they can pick up a midnight snack for the ride home.”

Foodie couples may give a gourmet gift, such as an herb-infused salt or a small bottle of wine, or vinegar or olive oil in a distinctive flavor.

Couples with a cooking specialty might offer homemade goodies, often with custom labels and packaging. Frugoli recalls a groom who made his famous barbecue sauce; a couple that gave honey, and another that did marinated olives.

“If there’s something they’re known for or they do well or they want to share with people, I’m seeing them make their own stuff,” she said.

Instant gratification also comes by way of the photo favor, a strip of pictures from a photo booth, an instant photo that gets popped into a frame, or a flip book made from a short video taken at the event, sometimes with silly props.

The bridal couple often gets a copy of the images too. “They get to see everybody, like Grandma in a moustache and glasses,” said Frugoli.

A favor can also do double duty.

“Instead of one large centerpiece, a bride will do eight tiny little vases that create a centerpiece together, and each person takes one home as a favor,” Condon said. Or there might be picture frames holding the table numbers.

Frugoli has seen couples grow “braver,” more willing to eschew tradition and give what feels right to them. Those with an outdoor ceremony in a cool setting might give fleece blankets; others might hand out hangover kits with mints and pain reliever. Or they can customize a drink cozy or tin of tea.

“The result is phenomenal,” Frugoli said. “They feel happy giving those things out because it has a purpose. The guests are happy because they are getting something fun, cool and unique.”

As she labeled the halfpint jars of jam with her guests’ names and table numbers, Simms, 30, gave each guest a flavor she felt would be special to them.

“I got a really good reaction,” she said. “Each person had something that was clearly made just for them.”

And how does Frugoli know that guests appreciate these modern favors?

“They actually take them,” she said. “You can always tell when it’s a bad favor when you find a bunch at the end of the night.”

Warmth an important factor for winter wonderland wedding

BY SAMANTHA CRITCHELL AP Fashion Writer

NEW YORK — No bride has ever asked designer Mark Badgley, half of the Badgley Mischka duo,

about incorporating a cold-weather look into her wedding ensemble.

Coats and boots just aren’t the stuff of fantasy wedding dreams, he says.

Reality sometimes

doesn’t set in until months later, when the forecast is real.

Ideally, though, it should be part of the initial conversation, and certainly by the first fitting,

Badgley says, because being prepared for the weather affects other decisions.

“I’d suggest making sure the church or temple or wherever you are get-

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ting married has a room to get dressed in, so you don’t have to worry about getting into the place,” he adds.

Afterward for the reception, photos and the goodbye try a cape, certain coats and fur accessories.

Badgley and his partner, James Mischka, favor the cape or capelet, allowing that they won’t keep you as warm, but they’ll work with almost any dress silhouette. Carrie Goldberg, associate fashion editor for Martha Stewart Weddings, says it’s possible to find a flattering coat, although a shorter shrug would be easier to work with.

The gown’s neckline and hemline dictate the outerwear, says Goldberg, and a sleeker style allows more room for a coat. A ballgown or a gown with a long train is the trickiest, but there’s a bubbling trend in ready-to-wear that works for weddings: satin evening coats. Many of these have bell sleeves and swingy trapeze shapes, both of which accommodate a lot of fabric underneath, but are fancy

enough because of the fabric.

She’d probably choose something that isn’t white perhaps a heathered gray, blush pink or icy blue but white is OK, too, if it been well thought out as part of the look. In that case, the shades of the outerwear and the gown should match, but a metallic sheen or a bit of embellishment can camouflage subtle differences.

Still, don’t go for too much glitz or overwhelming details on outerwear, Goldberg advises, because the focus should be on the face. It’s the same advice she’d give about the dress.

Mischka worries about a full-length coat, however, because it can be bulky, covering up that gorgeous gown and jeopardizing the silhouette.

Fur would be his preference since it keeps that glamorous vibe.

And there’s certainly no way to make boots delicate. But sandals or open-toe shoes are too far to the other extreme, and risk looking silly when there’s snow. Pumps are the middle ground.

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To be Meryl Streep, it takes a good deal of work

BY JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer

NEW YORK — “A big chunk of meat” is how Meryl Streep describes the sprawling, combative dinner scene at the core of “August: Osage County.”

In a career filled with sublime crescendos, it’s a showstopper: a knockout feast of everything that has made Streep — perhaps you’ve heard this before? — the greatest American actress.

As Violet Weston in John Wells’ adaptation of Tracy Letts’ Pulitzer Prize-winning play, Streep is the pill-addled, venom-spewing matriarch of a large Oklahoma family who, after the funeral for her husband (Sam Shepard), fires all of her bitterness at her gathered family, from the head of the table. It’s comic and caustic: “I’m just truthtellin’,” she says.

It’s a tour de force that looks like fun for an actor, but what it actually took gets to the heart of

Streep’s considerable talent. The scene, 18 pages of dialogue (mostly of Violet), took nearly four days to shoot. As Wells’ camera traveled around the table getting each individual performance (the ensemble includes Chris Cooper, Julia Roberts, Margo Martindale, Julianne Nicholson and Benedict Cumberbatch), Streep gave her full performance — varying it slightly from take to take — for each co-star.

“It just goes to the deepest part of what I believe about being an actor, that you have to bring it even when the camera’s not on you,” Streep said in a recent interview. “It was very hard to sustain 18 pages of ranting — of seething and waiting and then pouncing and ranting. To maintain your fury. It’s great the first couple times you do it, you feel fantastic. ... But by the 12th or 15th or 30th time I had done it, I was flagging.

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“I looked at it almost like an Olympic (event): OK. Everybody says you’re so good? Well, (expletive) show me! Do it for Benedict Cumberbatch! Do it for Abigail (Breslin) down there at the end! Because now the camera is finally turning around on them and they deserve every bit of it. But that’s acting. It’s just what it is.”

What’s left to say about Meryl Streep? Her ability to transform into a role, adopting a constellation of accents over the years, has long been celebrated.

Some have questioned whether her technique isn’t too good — too controlled and calculated — but the force of her personality always comes through, endearing audiences to both the actress and her characters.

There is, of course, the litany of awards: 17 Oscar nominations and three wins; eight Golden Globes from 28 nominations, including one last week for

“Osage County.” Most of her statuettes were accepted with eloquence, humility and an unapologetic mischievousness.

When she won her third Oscar for playing Margaret Thatcher in “The Iron Lady” last year, she dismissed the assumed reaction of “Her? Again?” with an eye roll: “But anyway.”

Her stature, she says, is “the narrative that accompanies me like a caboose,” shorthand for “oh, you think you’re so great.”

“It’s not anything that’s valuable,” Streep says.

“Increasingly, it’s more of an obstruction to be gotten through. I’m not sure there isn’t a point of critical mass where it’s hard to have that stuff go away in order to be seen fresh as a character that you’ve poured yourself into. I don’t know. I just can’t seem to stop because I really like working. I’m just an actor. That’s all.”

What most bothers her about her lofty reputation is that it can get in the way of working with other actors: “Sometimes people watch me while I’m in the scene with them, instead of being with me, which is a really disconcerting thing. It’s not good.”

Those who work with Streep say she works hard to make it look so easy. Wells said when he first met with Streep about nine months before shooting, she was already working on the character.

When rehearsals started, she was off-book.

“In some ways she doesn’t get fully credited with how talented she is because there’s a little bit of a dismissive thing which is, ‘Oh, well, it’s Meryl. You know it’s going to be good,’” says Wells.

“The assumption that you’re always going to be terrific puts a tremendous additional burden on actually taking the risks that are necessary to continue what you’re interested in doing as an artist.”

Despite “the disgruntlement of some,” Streep says, she insisted the cast live together in condos

near the on-location set in Oklahoma to foster a familial connection. She and Martindale, who plays her sister, worked “late at night, over the big red” (wine) to make their gestures and speech similar.

The dinner scene, Martindale says, was “grueling” for Streep.

“She raised the bar so high that everybody was there 150 percent,” says Martindale. “At the end of the film, she was exhausted. She was drained. She gave it her everything, I think. She does it with ease, or you think it’s with ease.”

Streep, though, denies any great preparation for Violet, a smoker with mouth cancer.

“You can’t get ready to make a movie. A movie happens right in front of you,” she says. “I’ve had sad and close contact with people who have cancer and are in pain, and I know quite a few drug addicts. And that’s all I needed to know. I didn’t do any prep in that way.

But I’m old, so I come with a big bag.”

Though Streep, 64, has spent much of the last decade making comedies (”Julie & Julia,” ‘‘It’s Complicated,” ‘‘The Devil Wears Prada”), “Osage County” is a darker turn.

Violet has a Midwest tenacity of having lived through the Depression and an abusive childhood.

Streep, who grew up in New Jersey, drew partly from her own mother.

“There’s a certain kind of impatience with the fact that they coddled their children and then got mad at them for being spoiled rotten,” she says.

“My mother would say, ‘You kids are spoiled rotten!’”

To describe Violet, she uses the phrase “shrill insanity,” said by Ewan McGregor’s academic character in the film.

“I found the experience of making the film much less hilarious because, like all things that are funny, they’re rooted in real pain. Somehow,

film brings that up close,” Streep says. “She’s somebody without any stops, no stops on anything — particularly unattractive in a woman. It’s a character I don’t know if people will respond to. I have no idea.”

Asked if Streep, who has four children with her husband, sculptor Don Gummer, didn’t also identify as a mother with the generational divide in the Westons, she laughs and replies: “I have different resentments.”

Streep has mostly remained on the East Coast, living between New York and northwest Connecticut. She chose family and nature (she has long been an advocate for organic food) over Hollywood, never setting up a production company to develop parts for herself.

“The progression of a career is COMPLETELY random of an actor,” she says. “You’re just completely dependent on what comes over the transom. You don’t know.

There’s no strategizing in this business. And if there is, I wish I knew how to do it.”

She exudes both city refinement (she’s a particularly sharp conversationalist) and a country wildness (her erupting laugh is still one of her greatest assets). In 2010, she gave a memorable commencement address at Barnard College, telling its female students that when she was young, she “cultivated a softness” to please boys. She used that psychology for “The Deer Hunter” (one of her first big movies, an uncharacteristically simple girlfriend role), but not, it would seem, ever since.

At the suggestion that Streep — an ever-changing portrait of female strength — has filled a career countering that youthful yielding, she replies, “Wow, that’s really true.”

“Well, I have a job where I get to do a correction,” she says. “Everything is a reaction to something, right?”

‘Mary Poppins’ among 25 US films that will be preserved

BY BRETT ZONGKER Associated Press

WASHINGTON — Just in time for a new movie about the making of “Mary Poppins,” the 1964 Disney classic starring Julie Andrews and Dick Van Dyke has been selected for preservation at the Library of Congress so future generations of Americans can see it.

On Wednesday, the library is inducting 25 films into the National Film Registry to be preserved for their cultural, historical or cinematic significance.

This year’s selections include Quentin Tarantino’s “Pulp Fiction,” the space race film “The Right Stuff,” and Michael Moore’s documentary confronting the auto industry, “Roger and Me.” Curators said it was a coincidence that they selected “Mary Poppins” just ahead of its 50th anniversary and during the release of the new Disney film “Saving Mr. Banks,” which is about the making of the movie. Steve

Leggett, program coordinator for the library’s National Film Preservation Board, said “Mary Poppins” had been on the short list of picks many times before.

“It’s just a title that everyone has seen and recognizes, and the musical numbers and just the Julie Andrews and the shimshim-a-ree — it’s just become a real, imbued part of our culture,” he said.

The films chosen this year span from 1919 to 2002 and include Hollywood classics, documentaries, silent films, independent flicks and experimental pictures.

Congress created the program in 1989 to ensure that gems from American movie history are preserved for years to come.

Some are chosen for their influence on movies that would follow, as with “Pulp Fiction” from 1994.

The film board called it a milestone for independent cinema, and Leggett noted Tarantino’s “stylized violence and kind of

strangeness” in the cinematography.

Older films often become endangered of being lost, said Librarian of Congress James Billington, “so we must protect the nation’s matchless film heritage and cinematic creativity.”

This year’s selections represent the “extreme vitality and diversity of American film heritage,” Leggett said. Many illustrate American culture and society from their times, he said.

The oldest films joining the registry this year are from the silent era. They include 1920’s “Daughter of Dawn,” which featured an all-Native-American cast of Comanche and Kiowa people, with a fictional love story and a record of Native American traditions of the time.

The 1919 silent film “A Virtuous Vamp,” a spoof on workplace romance, made Constance Talmadge an early film star.

And “Ella Cinders” from 1926 featured the famous actress Colleen Moore.

Kiss frontman Paul Stanley has book deal NEW YORK — It’s legacy time for Kiss frontman and co-founder Paul Stanley.

Not only are Stanley and fellow band members being inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, he has a memoir scheduled to come out

less than two weeks after the ceremony.

HarperOne announced Tuesday that Stanley’s “Face the Music: A Life Exposed” is coming out April 22.

The publisher says the book will feature rare photographs and candid

memories about his wild life with the mega-selling band.

Earlier Tuesday the Rock Hall announced that Kiss, Linda Ronstadt and Peter Gabriel were among the performers voted in. The ceremony is scheduled for April 10.

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Assistance Retiree breakfast The Caterpillar Retiree Breakfast is held the first Monday of each month at 7:30 a.m. at Marthaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Menu in Corinth. Â

Mississippi Youth Challenge coming Mississippi Youth Challenge Academy features a structured environment with a focus on job training, social skills and self-discipline. Other academic opportunities include high school diploma, college classes through a local university and nationally certified construction skills. The academy is designed to meet the needs of todayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;at riskâ&#x20AC;? youth.

Both males and females, 16-18 years old, can apply.

Applicants can earn their GEDs. Tuition is free. For more information, call 1-800-5076253 or visit www.ngycp. org/state/ms.

Volunteers needed â&#x20AC;˘ Hospice Advantage in Corinth is looking for volunteers in the surrounding area: Corinth, Tippah, Tishomingo and Prentiss County. Volunteering is a wonderful way to give back to your community and lend a helping hand to the elderly.

For more information, call Carla Nelson, volunteer coordinator with Hospice Advantage on becoming a volunteer at 662-665-9185 or 662279-0435. The website is hospiceadvantage. com. â&#x20AC;˘ Magnolia Regional Hospice is currently seeking individuals or groups to be trained as volunteers. Hospice is a program of caring for individuals who are termi-

nally ill and choose to remain at home with family or a caregiver. Some of the ministry opportunities for volunteers are sitting with the patient in their homes to allow the caregiver a break, grocery shopping, reading to a patient, craft opportunities, bereavement/grief support and in-office work.

For more information, contact Lila Wade, volunteer coordinator at 662-293-1405 or 1-800843-7553. â&#x20AC;˘ Legacy Hospice is looking for volunteers.

Legacy needs special people with special hearts and volunteers who are wanting to help others. Their duties will be helping with the support of patients and caregivers, writing letters, making phone calls, and community activities.

There is a training period involved at no cost. If interested, contact Lanell Coln, volunteer coordinator at Legacy Hospice, 301 East Waldron St, Corinth or call 662-2865333.

Senior activities The First Presbyterian Senior Adult Ministry has two fitness classes available to senior adults.

Judy Smelzer leads a stretching/toning class on Mondays at 9 a.m. in the fellowship hall. There is no charge.

FPC is also hosting a Wii sports class for senior adults on Tuesdays at 9 a.m. There is no cost to participate.

Call the church office at 286-6638 to register or Kimberly Grantham at 284-7498.

Red Cross The Northeast Mississippi Chapter of the Red Cross offers a wide variety of assistance and

services, including disaster relief.

The Northeast Mississippi Chapter includes 16 counties. It is headquartered in Tupelo, with offices in Tishomingo, New Albany, Starkville and Columbus. Although Red Cross no longer has a Corinth office, the organization wants to stress it continues to offer services in Alcorn County.

People seeking disaster assistance in Northeast Mississippi can call the Tupelo headquarters during office hours at 662-842-6101. The tollfree after hours phone line is 1-855-891-7325.

The Red Crossâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; service line for the armed forces is 877-272-7337. They also offer health and safety training, including first aid, baby-sitting and CPR, as well as disaster training for businesses.

To learn more about the Red Cross health and safety training call 1-800-733-2767.

Friendship class The Friendship Class meets weekly on Thursday at 6:30 p.m. in the fellowship hall of the First Presbyterian Church on Shiloh Road. This group of mentally challenged adults and mentors enjoy sharing time together, games, crafts, singing and refreshments. For more information, call the church office at 286-6638.

Story Hour Pre-school Story Hour is held each Thursday at 10 a.m. at the Corinth Library. Year-round art exhibits are also on display and educational non-profit groups meet in the auditorium monthly.

The Corinth Friends of the Library hold their ongoing book sale inside

the library. Hardback, paperback and audio books, and VHS and DVD donations to the library are always appreciated.

For more information, call 287-2441.

Quilt Guild meets The Cross City Piecemakers Quilt Guild meets on the third Thursday of each month at the Homemakers Extension Office (beside the arena) Â at 1 p.m. Anyone interested in quilting (learning or collecting) Â is invited to attend. Â For more information, contact Sharon at 287-0987. Â

Marine Corps meet The Corinth Marine Corps League meets the first Tuesday of every month at Marthaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Menu, downtown Corinth, at 6 p.m.

GED version to expire GED test-takers who need to finish the current version of GED need to do so by the end of 2013. The GED test contains five parts that can be taken separately, but must all be passed to receive a high school credential. GED testtakers who have started the 2002 Series GED Test, but not finished and passed every section, have until the end of 2013 to do so. Otherwise, their scores will expire, and will have to start over again with the new 2014 GED test.

Test-takers can find out more information by visiting the local adult education or GED class.

In the Corinth area, contact the adult education instructor at 662-6962314 or visit 1259 South Harper Rd. in Corinth.

Genealogy society The Alcorn County Genealogical Society is

located at the southeast corner of the Alcorn County Courthouse basement in the old veteransâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; services office.

It is open Tuesday-Friday from 10 a.m. until 2 p.m. The Society can be contacted at 662-2860075 or email acgs2@ att.net.

Support groups â&#x20AC;˘ The Crossroads Group of Narcotics Anonymous meets Monday, Wednesday and Friday at noon, and at 7 p.m., seven days a week, at 506 Cruise Street in Corinth. All meetings are non-smoking.

The Northeast Mississippi area of Narcotics Anonymous Hotline is 662-841-9998. â&#x20AC;˘ A Narcotics Anonymous meeting is held on Tuesdays at 7 p.m. at the Johnson-FordMitchrell Community Center, 707 Spring Street in Iuka. Call 662279-6435 for directions. â&#x20AC;˘ The Corinth Downtown Group AA meets Sundays and Tuesdays at 8 p.m. at the First Baptist Church, 501 N. Main Street, Corinth.

For more information for all area AA groups, please call 662-2122235. â&#x20AC;˘ An Alcoholics Anonymous meeting is held in Iuka at the old Chevy dealership building off old Hwy. 25 each Wednesday at 7 p.m. and Friday at 7:30 p.m.

Alcoholics Anonymous is a fellowship of men and women whose common welfare is to stay sober and help others achieve sobriety.

The Iuka meeting is an open meeting, anyone who has a problem with alcohol or other substances is welcome to attend.

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call 662-660-3150. â&#x20AC;˘ The Alzheimerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Caregiver Support Group in Corinth is partnered with the Alzheimerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Association Mississippi Chapter. Keri Roaten is the facilitator. The group meets every first Thursday of each month at the Corinth Public Library, from 6-7 p.m.

The group discusses the hardships of those caring for people effected by the disease and offer several different resources as well. For more information, contact k_roaten@hotmail. com or 662-594-5526. â&#x20AC;˘ The â&#x20AC;&#x153;Good Griefâ&#x20AC;? ministry of the HopewellIndian Springs United Methodist Charge is a collaborative effort of both churches and meets every Wednesday afternoon at 3 p.m. in the dining room of the Arbyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Restaurant, 706 Highway 72 East, Corinth.

The ministry was established to support those who have experienced a devastating life event such as the death of a loved one, diagnosis of a terminal illness or condition, the loss of a spouse or parent through divorce, even the loss of a job or home. The ministry is non-denominational and open to all.

There is no cost to attend and no obligation to continue. For more information, call Bro. Rick Wells, pastor of Hopewell and Indian Springs United Methodist Charge and facilitator at 662-5879602. â&#x20AC;˘ Al-Anon is a support group and fellowship of relatives and friends of alcoholics. The group meets at 7 p.m. on Mondays at 1st Baptist Church in Corinth. For more information, call 462-4404.

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Merry Christmas to all the Christmas Angels of 2013

Parents: Shane & April Adams Grandparents: Loretta Hadley, “Skeet” Hadley, Sandy Wright Great Grandparents: Gerald Hadley, Sr., Betty Beseau

BRADLEY ELIZABETH MCCOY Parents: Blain & Darcie McCoy Grandparents: Mike & Jana McCoy, Tim Bradley, Margaret Bradley Great Grandparents: Van & Joan Smith, Williard & Pat McCoy, Rady & Margaret Elizabeth Bradley

Molly Kate Coleman Parents: Clint Coleman & Jessica Hathcock Grandparents: Keith & Rita Coleman, Phillip & Tonya Hathcock Great Grandparents: Marilyn Stewart, Doris Hathcock, Gary & Linda Smith

Cayden Harris Parents: Corey & Niki Harris Grandparents: William & Joyce Harris and the Late Gary & Angela Rorie Siblings: Dezmin & Darius Harris

Jordan & Ty Dickson Parents: Jody & Christy Dickson Grandparents: Keith & Rita Coleman, Gary & Sandra Combs, Stephanie Leggett Great Grandparents: Marilyn Stewart

Gregory Spencer

Parents: Amber Fletcher & Joseph Spencer Grandparents: Betty & Joe Spencer, Linda & Dennis Russell, Dawn & Mark Boehler

Madalyn Grace Winchester

Parents: James & Brooke Winchester Grandparents: Rickey & The Late Teresa Stewart, Jill Stewart, Marie Bryan Great Grandparents: Monk & Dade Stewart, Mildred Riggs, Johnny & Martha Bryan

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We wish this Wonderful Young Man a Very Merry Christmas!

Happy Birthday to Our Christmas Angel Love Mom & Dad (Chris & Emily) Grandparents Reece & Sharon Terry, Carroll & Janet Wallace.

Daily Corinthian • Sunday, December 15, 2013 •5B

Watch for our upcoming Season’s Greetings to be published in the Christmas Day Edition

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We have unfi fiunfinished nished Cabinets in various and sizes that have been We have Cabinets instyles various styles and sizes pickedpicked to dealer closings. up due up that have been due to dealer closings.

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A page featuring your special Angel will be published Sunday, December 22nd, 2013 in The Daily Corinthian

$20 includes pictures & name of child or children and names of parents, siblings, grandparents & great-grandparents MUST BE PREPAID All photos must be in our office by 5 p.m.

Monday, Dec. 16th, 2013 I give my permission to publish the enclosed picture(s) and information in the Daily Corinthian Christmas Angels

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POPEIL AUTOMATIC Pasta Maker-fresh pasta no additives cheaper than dried store bought, 12 shaping discs, videos, & recipe book. Excellent condi- LEARNING V-TECH playtion, works great! $40. ing game, good condition, $25. Call 662-396731-239-9232 1202

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40" 1080PH Samsung HDTV. $230. 662-212- (2) ALUMINUM Telescopic Grade poles, 13'6".

2729 Both for $50. firm. 2868257 GPX SINGALONG KARAOKE PARTY MA- (2) VINTAGE 1949 Nash CHINE, PLAYS CD'S, HAS heavy metal die cast car MICROPHONE, $40. CALL & W y a n d o t t e t r u c k .

662-5216 Both $25. 286-8257

HOUSEHOLD 0509 GOODS

0320 CATS/DOGS/PETS

MISC. ITEMS FOR 0563 SALE

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MERCHANDISE

Tis the time of year that people are looking for the ideal pet for a great Christmas gift.

Do you have some For Sale?

Advertise Here.

5 lines, 6 days for pets under $400. only $14.60.

Call 662-594-6502 or email: classad@dailycorinthian.com

TOASTMASTER BREAD Machine-makes 1, 1 1/2 & 2 lbs loaves, 41 programs, 13 hr delay timer, 1 hr warm cycle.

Manual included. Very good condition, works great! $40. 731-239-9232

(6) JAPAN 100 Yen Phoenix silver 1958 coins, only 2 yrs of this design, see ebay item #301036347374, all 6 for PLAY STATION 2, SEVER- $45. 286-8257 AL GAMES, GOOD CONDI- 129 RARE vintage Coca TION $60. CALL 662-396- Cola carmel colored 1202 cork lined bottle caps used, see ebay item SPORTING #290962074654, $50 firm 0527 GOODS for all 129. 286-8257

VIP MCGREGOR CLUBS. MATCHING DRIVER, LEATHER BAG. EXCELCELLO WITH BOW, BAG LENT CONDITION. $250.

AND PAD. $100. CALL CALL 731-645-0049 828-506-3324

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T J PERCUSSION DRUM SET,shiny blk & chrome, 5 drums, HiHat, cymbal 1 6 F T . C A T T L E t r a i l e r & stand, throne, New rough but usable, $500. $450. 4 mos. old will CR 159. 731-610-9325 take $300. 828-506-3324

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1846 LARGE cent, $20.

286-8257

804 BOATS

MISC. ITEMS FOR 0563 SALE

MISC. ITEMS FOR 0563 SALE

26 WHITE used kit cab doors, scroll molding, with hinges & knobs, assorted sizes, on Salem Rd, All $25. 286-8257

4 NEW dress and pull over men's shirts. 1 Xlge & 3 XXL. Tags still attached. $25 for all 4.

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GRACO PACK-N-GO PLAYPEN WITH MAT. EXCELLENT CONDITION. $40. CALL 731-645-0049

NEW WHITE vinyl dbl hung windows w/grids. energy efficient.

34"Wx59"T, $50. 286-8257

LIKE NEW vintage Taisei Musical Instrument Co, harmonica Ebay #2812018662. $100/OBO, call 662-286-8257

OLD 1923 Union Tool Co. Catalog.

Ebay #310763558179. $10. Call 662-286-8257

6 VIETNAM &/or Korean G A B R I E L E R E C T O R War uniforms. All for set"vintage", great for the inquisitive kid. $20. $25. 286-8257 call 662-286-8257 A N T I Q U E B A N D s a w GERIATRIC EQUIPMENT: blade from Corinth Ma- Bedside Commode $30. chinery, 10 1/2" to tip of ( 2 ) s h o w e r c h a i r s - 1 tooth, teeth 2" on cen- swivels, $20 each. Unter, weighs approx 100#, der 3 mos old. 286-0191 $100/OBO 286-8257 GERIATRIC EQUIPMENT: A N T I Q U E : A . T . A k i n s Lift Chair $250, Wheel wholesale liquor deal- C h a i r $ 1 5 0 . U n d e r 3 e r s , J a c k s o n , T N ; # 2 mos. old. Call 662-286crock, see ebay item 1091 for details. #121073386605, theirs $1350, mine $350 firm. GERIATRIC EQUIPMENT: Walker w/wheels & seat 286-8257 $75.Pronged Walker $20.

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53’ GOOSE NECK TRAILER STEP DECK BOOMS, CHAINS AND LOTS OF ACCESSORIES $12,000/OBO 731-453-5031 REDUCED

2013 KUBOTA 3800 SERIES TRACTOR 16’ TRAILER, DOUBLE AXEL, BUSH HOG, BACKHOE, FRONT LOADER

$25,000 CALL PICO

662-643-3565

804 BOATS

$6,400.

662-808-0113.

ski boat, 5.7 ltr. engine, new tires, $6700.

662-287-5893, leave msg. & will return call.

PRICE IS NEGOTIABLE CALL 662-660-3433

2000 MERCURY Optimax, 225 H.P. Imagine owning a like-new, water tested, never launched, powerhouse outboard motor with a High Five stainless prop,

for only $7995.

Call John Bond of Paul Seaton Boat Sales in Counce, TN for details.

731-689-4050 or 901-605-6571

1989 FOXCRAFT 18’ long, 120 HP Johnson mtr., trailer & mtr., new paint, new transel, 2 live wells, hot foot control.

$6500.

662-596-5053

16’ ALUMINUM BASS BOAT Trailer Included 70 HP Mercury Motor w/Power Trim 2 LCR’s Foot Controlled Trolling Motor

SOLD $2000.

662-808-8033

868 AUTOMOBILES

2010 BUICK ENCLAVE

Loaded, Leather, 3rd Row Seating, dual sun roofs, rear camera, 44000 miles

SOLD

$27,500 Call/Text 662-643-8883

2000 TOYOTA COROLLA CE 4 cylinder, automatic Extra Clean 136,680 miles $4200

2005 FORD TAURUS V6, New Automatic Transmission CD Player, Power Windows & Locks 139,000 Miles Very Nice Car

$3950

662-665-1995

383 Stroker, alum. high riser, alum. heads, headers, dual line holly, everything on car new or rebuilt w/new paint job (silver fleck paint).

$9777.77 Call Keith 662-415-0017.

1983 NISSAN DATSUN 280 ZX Turbo, exc. cond.

662-462-7634 or 662-664-0789

1987 Honda CRX, 40+ mpg, new paint, new leather seat covers, after market stereo, $3250 obo.

$5000.

662-415-1482

1999 RED GRAND PRIX GT

2005 3800 ENGINE WITH ONLY 95,000 MILES ON ENGINE. CAR HAS 257,000 MILES. PAINT AND INTERIOR IN GOOD CONDITION. Asking $1700.

662-284-5733 LEAVE MSG

6 CYLINDER RUNS GREAT! 38,000 ORIGINAL MILES

$5,000 CALL PICO:

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2004 MUSTANG CONVERTIBLE 40TH EDITION GARAGE KEPT, EXTRA CLEAN, MAROON, 98K MILES

$

4950 CALL

662-415-6888

2001 TOWN CAR Signature Series, Dark Blue Good Tires And Battery Smooth Ride 206,000 Miles

SOLD $3000

662-286-7939

864 TRUCKS/VANS SUV’S

leather upholstery, sunroof, rear camera, blue tooth, loaded to the max!

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30 MPG GOOD CAR

$1650

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2000 PONTIAC GRAND PRIX GT

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864 TRUCKS/VANS SUV’S

1989 FORD F350 DIESEL MOVING VAN WITH TOMMY GATE RUNS GOOD

228k miles.

$2500 obo.

662-643-6005

1995 CHEVY VAN TOW PACKAGE 83,000 ACTUAL MILES $2995/OBO 662-415-8180

SOKKIA BRAND tripod for shooting grade. All Aluminum, Super H.D. Look it up on Ebay. $100. 286-8257

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$685

CALL 662-415-8180

gas burner, workhorse eng., 2 slideouts, full body paint, walk-in shower, SS sinks & s/s refrig w/ im, Onar Marq gold 7000 gen., 3-ton cntrl. unit, back-up camera, auto. leveling, 2-flat screen TVs, Allison 6-spd. A.T., 10 cd stereo w/s.s, 2-leather capt. seats & 1 lthr recliner, auto. awning, qn bed, table & couch (fold into bed), micro/conv oven, less than 5k mi.

$85,000 662-415-0590

REDUCED

2009 FORD F150

Gray, 76,000 Miles, Air, Cruise, Power Windows, Great Stereo, Bedliner, Clean $14,000.

SOLD

2001 WHITE FORD RANGER XLT 3.0 V6, Automatic Extended Cab New Tires, Cold Air Bed Liner 158,000 Miles

SOLD $4500/OBO

662-212-2492

2000 Ford F-350

2004 Ford Expedition 110,000 MILES One Owner New Tires

2007 GMC YUKON 70,000 MILES GARAGE KEPT

SOLD

$22,500

$5,400

CALL FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

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2005 GMC Envoy DENALI XL

2 OWNER NEW TIRES, BRAKES & BELTS 112,000 MILES

$9800/OBO 662-284-6767

662-284-8396

2006 Chrysler Town & Country 3.8v-6, Only 62,000 mi.

Automatic Transmission CD player, power sliding doors & rear hatch, Stow & Go package. Seats will fold flat into floor.

SOLD

$7650.

662-665-1995 1977 Chevy Big 10 pickup,

super duty, diesel, 7.3 ltr., exc. drive train, 215k miles, excellent, great mechanical condition”.

long wheel base, rebuilt & 350 HP engine & auto. trans., needs paint & some work.

662-664-3538

662-664-3958

$7400.

$1500

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2004 MERCURY MONTEREY fully loaded, DVD/ CD system, new tires, mileage 80,700, climate controlled air/heat, heat/ cool power seats.

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2005 AIRSTREAM LAND YACHT 30 ft., with slide out & built-in TV antenna, 2 TV’s, 7400 miles.

$75,000.

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REDUCED

REDUCED

2009 Nissan Murano SL,

SOLD

662-284-7293 2001 CAMERO CONVERTIBLE

1979 OLDSMOBILE OMEGA

2004 Ford F350 work truck, V10, underbed tool boxes, towing package, DVD. $8600 obo. Truck is in daily use. Please call for appt. to see,

340-626-5904.

REDUCED

1984 CORVETTE

RARE HARD to find full unopened 6 pack of ALE81 "A Late One" soft drink, see ebay item #231107804959, full 6 pack $30 firm. 286-8257

REDUCED

1993 BAYLINER CLASSIC

19’6” LONG FIBERGLAS INCLUDES TRAILER THIS BOAT IS KEPT INSIDE AND IS IN EXCELLENT CONDITION NEW 4 CYL MOTOR

PARABATH HEAT Therapy-Good for arthritis, use for hands or feet.

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1853 HALF Dime w/arrows, see ebay item #370956865319, $25. 2868257

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FENDER SQUIRE PURPLE FIREWOOD $90 cord. $20 METALLIC "FAT STRAT" FARM delivery and stack fee.

WITH FENDER GIG BAG. 603-9057 or 212-3003 AWESOME! $275. CALL 828-506-3324 HUGE LOAD of Redoak.

0450 LIVESTOCK Best firewood around.

J B PLAYER JUMBO GAME ROOSTERS $25 & ACOUSTIC ELECTRIC GUI- Beats gas prices. Call up, Sex Link $15.Hound TAR WITH GIG BAG. $350. Jeremy at 662-603-7818.

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2009 ROAD RUNNER 7X7X21’ ENCLOSED BOXED TRAILER,

WHITE, NEW TIRES

$3500

662-594-8271

2004 Nissan Murano, black, 120k miles, loaded, adult driver, garage kept, Bose, leather, exc. cond.,

$10,500.

662-284-6559.

1991 CUSTOM FORD VAN 48,000 ONE OWNER MILES POWER EVERYTHING

2012 STARCRAFT CAMPER Fiberglass 18’ bunk house, gray & black water tanks, cable ready w/TV.

$8,500

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1985 30’ long motor home, new tires, Price negotiable.

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1500 Goldwing Honda 78,000 original miles, new tires.

$4500

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1983 HARLEY DAVIDSON Shovel Head Leather Bags

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$6500

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IN MEMORIAM Remembering loved ones we’ve lost....

in 2013 Please send your Memorial (Must be no more than 8 lines approx.

4 words per line) with photo and payment of

$20 to:

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THE DUFFY Malt Whis- Lib of Congress #60key Co. brown bottlw, 9703. $25. 286-8257 August 24, 1886, Ebay #190883667864. $15. Call VINTAGE STANLEY #42X saw set (missing set 286-8257 s c r e w .

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UNFURNISHED 0610 APARTMENTS 2 BR, 1 BA, Glen area, W&D incl. $375 mo., $200 deposit. 662-415-1397.

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DEADLINE IS WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 22ND, 2013 AT 5:00 P.M.

MCSaturday, GEE EDecember STATE AUCTION 21 • 10 AM Probate Court #P7-303 775 Dr. Williams Drive Hardin County • Michie, TN Off Highway 142 (Kendrick Road)

119 acres in tracts and as a whole 60+ acres of timber. Brick home, gravel pit, pasture. 1010 JD Tractor, 10 pieces of equipment, 2000 Chevy Pickup, 16ft trailer, 5 Guns.

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State laws forbid discrimination in the sale, rental, or advertising of real estate based on factors in addition to those protected under federal law. We will not knowingly accept any advertising for real estate which is in violation of the law. All persons are hereby informed that all dwellings advertised are available on an equal opportunity basis.

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AUCTION SALES

0503

Last Minute Christmas Auction Sunday Afternoon Dec., 15th 2:00 North Corinth turn from bypass onto Purdy School Rd. Exit - Watch for signs

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Carquest & NAPA Battery Chargers • New Simmons Chairs • 3 Pc. Coffee Table Sets • 3 Pc. Settee (2 Chairs w/ Table) • Bicycles • Wagons • 110CC 4-Wheeler • Lots of Assorted Toys • Assorted Tools • NFL Electric Fans • Infared Fireplace Heaters • College Blankets • Polo Cologne Gift Sets • Fleece Blankets • Camo & Bed Sheets • Small Remote Control Helicopters • College Watches • Assorted Pocket Knives • Scarves • AA & AAA Batteries • 12.3 Gauge 50ft & 100ft Extension Cords • Fashion Western Purses w/Crosses • Camo & Houndstooth Purses & Wallets, Many other Items too Numerous to list!

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Features

Sunday, December 22, 2013

Families create holiday traditions at tree farm

BY MARK BOEHLER editor@dailycorinthian.com

KOSSUTH — “This way.

Come on!”

He may be the smallest and youngest member of the family, but two-yearold William Orman uses a stick to encourage other family members to move along.

Eventually it’s his father who is pointing the right way.

“Over here, William.

Come on now,” encourages John Orman.

Mother Jennifer Orman and six-year-old John Jr. sip some hot chocolate, but it appears older brother’s experience at picking out the perfect Christmas tree may have got the best of William this year, the Orman family tradition for the fifth straight year.

“I picked a good one,” exclaims John Jr. about his selection, an 8-foot Leyland Cypress. Family photos are made, kids eat their candy canes given by the staff and all enjoy hot chocolate with the sound of Christmas tunes back at the office.

At Pine Mountain Tree Farm near Kossuth, it’s more than just selling Christmas trees.

Family traditions are alive and well some 32 years since the Marolts opened for business.

“People encourage me to keep it going,” says owner Bobby Marolt, as he helps load an eighth tree on a Sunday afternoon with three hours of daylight still left. ‘It’s a family tradition. We see lots of the third generation.”

On a recent Saturday, 300 families kept their family traditions alive at Pine Mountain in rural Alcorn County.

As of that recent Sunday, Marolt had sold over 300 trees. Leland Cypress, like the choice of the Ormans, is the most popular selection, followed by white pine, says Marolt. Other varieties include Murray Cypress, Red Cedar and a blue looking tree called Carolina Sapphire.

The farm also has ecofriendly trees alive in pots for families to plant their selection after the holidays, he notes.

“We have come every year since John Jr. was born,” explains John Sr. “We enjoy it. When I was a kid, we just went into the woods and cut down a cedar tree.”

Jennifer keeps her eye out on the size of tree, as the year a 10-footer came home was too much to handle.

“It fell,” she said, smiling about the one tradition the Ormans don’t want to repeat.

Marolt’s brother, Raymond Marolt, and family friends Hunter Bullard and Matt Alred are assisting this day.

Trees are cut, shook of loose needles and tightly wrapped.

Hacksaws are available for those who want the entire experience, says the farm owner.

While some family traditions are kept alive at Pine Mountain, others are just beginning.

The Harris family of Corinth tells Marolt they have found their tree and they gather around the prize for photos as they await the arrival of the chainsaw.

“We are going to make it a yearly tradition,” says Marie Harris, as the group photo shot includes five adults and three kids.

“It’s our first year. Next year we’ll probably get three trees.”

As the crew harvests the Harris tree, more vehicles arrive at the tree farm.

Marolt smiles at the thought of another holi-

Staff photos by Mark Boehler

Employees Raymond Marolt, Hunter Bullard and Matt Alred harvest a tree for the John Orman family.

Pine Mountain Christmas Tree Farm has been a local holiday tradition for 32 years.

Brothers Mike Marolt and Raymond wrap a tree for the transport to a home.

William Orman, above, accepts a candy cane from employee Matt Alred. Left, the John Orman family -- Jennifer, John Jr. and William -- select a tree for the fifth straight year.

The Harris family of Corinth got a tree at Pine Mountain for the first time this year, but plan to make it an annual event.

day season and the joy the farm brings to families sharing quality time together.

“Where’s the restroom?” asks one visitor.

Marolt smiles and points to an outhouse among the many trees.

It’s the owner’s newest addition to the experience, complete with the quarter moon on the door.

The man appears relieved -- no pun intended -- it’s a modern toilet with running water.

Apparently, some of those old family traditions like outhouses are not as welcome today.

(Follow the signs to the farm off Highway 2 just west of the four-way stop in Kossuth.)

Farm owner Mike Marolt shakes a tree of its loose needles.

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4C • Sunday, December 22, 2013 • Daily Corinthian

Shoppers furious, frustrated over Target breach

BY ANNE D’INNOCENZIO & BREE FOWLER AP Business Writers

NEW YORK — Potential victims of credit card fraud tied to Target’s security breach said they had trouble contacting the discounter through its website and call centers.

Angry Target customers expressed their displeasure in comments on the company’s Facebook page. Some even threatened to stop shopping at the store. Target apologized on Facebook and said it’s working hard to resolve the problem and is adding more workers to field calls and help solve website issues.

The fury and frustration come as the nation’s second-largest discounter acknowledged Thursday that data connected to about 40 million credit and debit card accounts was stolen as part of a breach that began over the Thanksgiving weekend.

The theft is the secondlargest credit card breach in U.S. history, exceeded only by a scam that began in 2005 involving retailer TJX Cos. That incident affected at least 45.7 million card users.

Target disclosed the theft a day after reports that the company was investigating a breach. The retailer’s data-security troubles and its ensuing

public relations nightmare threaten to drive off holiday shoppers during the company’s busiest time of year.

Christopher Browning, of Chesterfield, Va., said he was the victim of credit card fraud earlier this week and believes it was tied to a purchase he made at Target with his Visa card on Black Friday.

When he called Visa on Thursday, the card issuer could not confirm his suspicions. He said he hasn’t been able to get through to Target’s call center.

On Monday, Browning received a call from his bank’s anti-fraud unit saying there were two attempts to use his credit card in California — one at a casino in Tracey, Calif., for $8,000 and the other at a casino in Pacheco, for $3,000. Both occurred on Sunday and both were denied. He canceled his credit card and plans to use cash.

“I won’t shop at Target again until the people behind this theft are caught or the reasons for the breach are identified and fixed,” he said.

Customers who made purchases by swiping their cards at its U.S. stores between Nov. 27 and Dec. 15 may have had their accounts exposed. The stolen data included customer names, credit and debit card numbers, card

expiration dates and the embedded code on the magnetic strip found on the backs of cards, Target said.

There was no indication the three- or four-digit security numbers visible on the back of the card were affected, Target said. The data breach did not affect online purchases, the company said.

Eric Hausman, a Target spokesman, said the company is engaged in “an ongoing investigation.”

Target hasn’t disclosed exactly how the breach occurred but said it has fixed the problem.

Given the millions of dollars that companies such as Target spend implementing credit-card security measures each year, Avivah Litan, a security analyst with Gartner Research said she believes the theft may have been an inside job.

“The fact this breach can happen with all of their security in place is really alarming,” Litan said.

Other experts theorize that Target’s network was hacked and infiltrated from the outside.

Whatever the case, Jason Oxman, CEO of the Electronics Transaction Association, which represents the payments technology industry, said data breaches like Target’s are generally “heavily organized and sophisticated.”

Annual losses from global credit and debit card fraud are on the rise. Last year, it reached $11.27 billion, up 11.4 percent from the previous year, according to The Nilson Report, which tracks global payments. Even so, Nilson’s publisher David Robertson pointed out that fraud still accounts for less than 6 cents of every $100 spent.

Target, which has almost 1,800 stores in the U.S. and 124 in Canada, said it immediately told authorities and financial institutions once it became aware of the breach on Dec. 15. The company is teaming with a thirdparty forensics firm to investigate and prevent future problems.

The credit card breach poses a serious problem and threatens to scare away shoppers who worry about the safety of their personal data.

Target’s stock dropped more than 2 percent, or $1.40, to $62.15 on Thursday.

“This is close to the worst time to have it happen,” said Jeremy RobinsonLeon, a principal at Group Gordon, a corporate and crisis public relations firm.

“If I am a Target customer, I think I would be much more likely to go to a competitor over the next few days, rather than risk the potential to have my infor-

mation be compromised.”

Target advised customers Thursday to check their statements carefully.

Those who see suspicious charges should report them to their credit card companies and call Target at 866-852-8680. Cases of identity theft can also be reported to law enforcement or the Federal Trade Commission.

“Target’s first priority is preserving the trust of our guests, and we have moved swiftly to address this issue, so guests can shop with confidence,” Chairman, President and CEO Gregg Steinhafel said Thursday in a statement.

Brianna Byrnes of Kansas City, Mo., a student at the University of MissouriKansas City and a call center worker, said she made a Target purchase during the affected period. The situation made her “a little bit” nervous, but she still plans to shop for toys at the store, she said.

“I’ve never had anyone steal my identity. I guess it’s taking a risk.”

The incident is particularly troublesome for Target because it has used its store-branded credit and debit cards as a marketing tool to attract shoppers with a 5 percent discount.

During an earnings call in November, the company said some 20 percent of store customers as of October have the Target-

branded cards. In fact, households that activate a Target-branded card have increased their spending at the store by about 50 percent on average, the company said.

“This is how Target is getting more customers in the stores,” said Brian Sozzi, CEO and Chief Equities Strategist. “It’s telling people to use the card.

It’s been a big win. If they lose that trust, that person goes to Wal-Mart.”

TJX Cos., which runs stores such as T.J. Maxx and Marshall’s, had a breach that began in July 2005 and exposed at least 45.7 million credit and debit cards to possible fraud. The breach was not detected until December 2006.

Without anyone noticing, one or more intruders installed code on the discount retailer’s systems to methodically collect and transmit account data from millions of cards.

In 2009, TJX agreed to pay $9.75 million in a settlement with multiple states.

Litan doubts the breach will have much effect on Target’s sales, noting that TJX launched sales promotions immediately following the news of its breach. The effort increased sales.

“People care more about discounts than security,” Litan said.

Report: Fired general in charge of nukes misbehaved in Russia

BY ROBERT BURNS AP National Security Writer

WASHINGTON — The Air Force general who was fired from command of U.S. land-based nuclear missile forces had engaged in “inappropriate behavior” while on official business in Russia last summer, including heavy

drinking, rudeness to his hosts and associating with “suspect” women, according to an investigation report released Thursday.

The events that led to the dismissal took place while Maj. Gen. Michael Carey was in Russia in July as head of a U.S. government delegation to a

nuclear security training exercise. At the time, he was commander of the 20th Air Force, responsible for all 450 of the Air Force’s Minuteman 3 intercontinental ballistic missiles stationed in five U.S. states.

When Carey was relieved of command in

October, the Air Force said he had engaged in unspecified misbehavior while on a business trip, but it did not say the episode was in Russia, nor did it indicate the specific allegations against him.

After the Russia trip, a member of the delegation lodged a complaint

about Carey’s behavior.

That person, described as a female staff member in the Office of the Secretary of Defense, asserted to investigators that on the delegation’s first night in Moscow, July 15, Carey was drinking and speaking loudly in a hotel lounge about how he

is “saving the world” and that his forces suffer from low morale.

The investigators said Carey seemed to forget substantial portions of what happened in Russia.

The report also said that he clammed up or gave testimony at odds with others in the delegation.

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