Tuesday July 10,
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Daily Corinthian Vol. 116, No. 165
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25th Slugburger Festival begins Thursday BY BOBBY J. SMITH bjsmith@dailycorinthian.com
Once again it is time to celebrate Corinth’s signature deep-fried delicacy with carnival rides, entertainment — and tons of slugburgers. The 25th Annual Slugburger Festival begins Thursday at the CARE Garden next to the Corinth Depot. “We are very excited about this year’s Slugburger Festival entertainment,” said Montana Hill, director of Main Street
Corinth. “From our professional eating competition to country music band Love and Theft, whose hit song ‘Angel Eyes’ has reached number 10 on the country Billboard charts, we have something to offer everyone.” Carnival rides for the festival will up and running each night from 6 until 11 p.m. A $15 armband will give festival-goers access to unlimited rides. The rides will be located in the city parking lot across the railroad
cessions, Queen of Ice Cream, Rollin’ Rumps BBQ and plenty of slugburgers. Slugburger Festival 2012 Tshirts will be available at the carnival and music venue all nights and the Alliance office while supplies last. This year’s T-shirts were designed by local artist Katie Briggs. tracks from the CARE Garden. Food Vendors will include Thirsty Tiki, Tab & JoAnn Con-
Thursday The main events on the first night of slugburger festivities
will be the Slug Idol & Jr. Slug Idol contest. Back by popular demand, the Slug Idol contest will give contestants a chance to show off their talent in a competition for cash prizes and the opportunity to open Friday’s night of entertainment. Slug Idol is for ages 18 to 29, and Jr. Slug Idol is open to ages 13 to 17. Registration will remain open until Wednesday. Contestants Please see FESTIVAL | 2
Small plane crash kills three Aircraft goes down near New Site High School BY BRANT SAPPINGTON bsappington@dailycorinthian.com
Investigators spent Monday combing through the wreckage of a single-engine plane that went down Sunday afternoon near New Site, claiming the lives of a Georgia doctor, his wife and daughter. Officials with the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) were on the scene Monday searching for evidence to help them determine what caused the plane to crash around 2 p.m. Sunday during a violent thunderstorm. The victims were identified as Dr. James Joseph Bartley Jr., 55, of Columbus, Ga., his wife, Terry Hammond Bartley,
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55, and their daughter, Caroline Victoria Bartley, 20, according to Mississippi Highway Patrol Trooper Ray Hall, public affairs officer for MHP Troop F
in New Albany. The family was traveling from Andrews, N.C., where they owned a vacation home, to Oxford where Caroline Bartley was a sophomore biological science major at the University of Mississippi when their single-
Staff photo by Brant Sappington
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Investigators comb through wreckage as they began working to determine what caused a small plane to crash Sunday near New Site, killing all three family members on board.
Future Fare
‘Bringing Down the Giant’
City sets deadline for non-registered voters
Rock video shot at ACHS debuts
BY JEBB JOHNSTON jjohnston@dailycorinthian.com
Some important dates for Corinth’s Future Fare special election are coming up this month. People who are not registered voters but would like to vote on Future Fare on Aug. 21 will need to register by Friday, July 20. As usual, the city requests
that people who want to register to vote report to the Alcorn County Circuit Clerk’s Office at the courthouse. City Clerk Vickie Roach said absentee voting is tentatively set to begin on Wednesday, July 25. Absentee voting will take place at City Hall, where Please see FARE | 2
BY JEBB JOHNSTON jjohnston@dailycorinthian.com
Rock group Saving Abel’s music video shot on the campus of Alcorn Central made its debut last week. The clip for “Bringing Down the Giant,” the title track and lead single from their new album, can be seen on the Internet video sites YouTube and Vevo. The group spent a day at the campus shooting the mu-
sic video with an anti-bullying theme. It follows the antics of a bully in several different situations, such as knocking a notebook out of a girl’s hands as he walks through the hallway, stealing money from a cornered student and picking on a student in the lunchroom. A young student toting a slingshot in his back pocket emerges to help bring peace to the hallways. The slingshot imagery is also used on the
Kossuth grad helps Space Cowboys to runner-up finish BY BOBBY J. SMITH bjsmith@dailycorinthian.com
A local college student is on a rocket-fueled trajectory to success. Alcorn County native James Kelly, 23, recently led Mississippi State’s Space Cowboys rocketry team to high honors in the NASAsponsored University Student Launch Initiative (UNSI). The Space Cowboys finished second overall out of a field of 40 teams and earned the Best Science Mission Directorate Payload Award and an honorable mention for their education engagement activities. “I feel pretty great about it,” said Kelly, the team’s chief engineer. “We worked on the project for eight months, and I personally put hundreds of hours into the project. It was a great accomplishment for the entire team — everyone worked extremely hard on it.” Kelly, a 2007 Kossuth grad, became interested in rockets during his last two years of high school. He has always had an engineering mindset, he said, and enjoys build-
ing things and figuring out how things work. “Ever since he was a little boy, he’s always been real curious about how things work — especially things that blow up!” said his mother, Lelia Kelly, a professor of horticulture at MSU. “James has done a phenomenal job.” According to his mother, Kelly has long demonstrated the traits that would bring him success leading the rocket team. “Since high school some of his teachers said he had leadership qualities,” she explained. “He’s always been somebody who could organize people and motivate them to do things.” Kelly grew up in the Gift community of Alcorn County. His father, Jerry Kelly, is an engineer with Thyssen-Krupp in Middleton, Tenn. He has one brother, Philip, who will start college at MSU in the fall. After graduating from Kossuth, Please see KELLY | 2
Index Stocks........7 Classified......14 Comics...... 11 Wisdom...... 10
Weather........5 Obituaries........ 3 Opinion........4 Sports........8
cover of the album, which releases today. Most of the school scenes were shot in the hallways and cafeteria. The bully story is intercut with shots of the band performing the song at the football field, where people were invited to gather during the shoot. The video concept was inspired by the story of David Please see VIDEO | 2
Vann withdraws from race BY JEBB JOHNSTON jjohnston@dailycorinthian.com
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Alcorn County native James Kelly recently led Mississippi State’s Space Cowboys rocketry team to high honors in the NASA-sponsored University Student Launch Initiative (UNSI).
One candidate has withdrawn from the lineup for county election commissioner. According to the Circuit Clerk’s Office, Joe Vann has withdrawn from the race for 5th district election commissioner. That leaves the incumbent, Wendell Dixon, unopposed. Vann, a former Corinth aldermen, was running as a Republican. The remaining candidates for election commissioner are: ■ 1st district — Tim Chapman (D) and incumbent Bobby McDaniel (R)
On this day in history 150 years ago Col. Philip Sheridan and an escort travel under a flag of truce from Booneville to Guntown. They meet with Confederate officers “who received our dispatches, and with whom we exchanged newspapers and discussed in a most friendly manner the various topics of the day.”
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