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Daily Corinthian Vol. 115, No. 314
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• Corinth, Mississippi • 22 pages • 2 sections
Tourism OKs event funding boost Alcorn Farm and Machinery Show will get $10,000 for advertising BY BOBBY J. SMITH bjsmith@dailycorinthian.com
The tourism board has voted to increase funding for an upcoming event at Crossroads Arena. In a specially called meeting at the Corinth Area Conven-
tion & Visitors Bureau Thursday, the tourism board voted to award an additional $5,000 for the Alcorn Farm and Machinery Show, coming to Crossroads Arena Jan. 19-21. Thursday’s decision brings
the total CACVB sponsorship for the event to $10,000. The arena requested a total of $20,000 for advertising and promotion of the event. “We’re putting $10,000 into the Farm & Machinery Show’s
advertising and promotional efforts in the hope that it will be a success and we can support it next year as well,” said Kristy White, executive director of the Tourism Office. The full amount could not be
funded because of current financial constraints within the CACVB’s budget, explained White. With the total $10,000 award, the arena must comply Please see FUNDING | 2A
Lengthy pursuit ends in arrest BY ANGELA STOREY astorey@dailycorinthian.com
A Booneville man is in custody. accused of shooting at the Prentiss County Sheriff’s Department chief deputy during a lengthy pursuit which went from Booneville to Corinth then back to Booneville. The Prentiss County Sheriff’s Department is still investigating and determining what charges will be filed against Terry Farrow, 44, of 24 CR 5061, Booneville, said Sheriff Randy Tolar. The pursuit began Monday night around 11 when deputies were called to an area northeast of Booneville to check out a suspicious vehicle in the area. “When a deputy got to the area he spotted the vehicle, a Ford mini van. The deputy stopped the vehicle and began investigating the report and discovered contraband in the vehicle,” Tolar said. Farrow “The driver abruptly started the vehicle and began to flee. The deputy pursued the vehicle that failed to stop. From that location he eventually doubled back to Booneville and hit Highway 45 and traveled north to Corinth. “Apparently when the driver saw blue lights ahead he turned back south on Highway 45. There were several depuStaff photo by Jebb Johnston
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Corinth Street Commissioner Jim Bynum adds a live tree to the recycling pile at the inert landfill on Linden Street, where the trees will be converted into mulch, which is available at no charge to local residents.
Tree recycling program continues Residents can get free mulch BY JEBB JOHNSTON jjohnston@dailycorinthian.com
Corinth’s Christmas tree recycling program continues this year, although each passing year is seeing fewer trees offered for chipping. “It gets less and less each year,” said Street Commissioner Jim Bynum. “Everybody gets the artificial trees.” Probably fewer than 100 were collected by the city last year. When the program began about 15 years ago, the city would have
“quite a pile” of trees accumulated at the inert landfill. Residents can leave their discarded live trees curbside for pickup by the street department. “They need to be sure to take off all the decorations and wires and nails,” said Bynum. “It will interfere with the chipper.” Chipping of the collected trees is scheduled for 1 p.m. on Jan. 11. Residents will then be able to pick up fresh cedar mulch at the inert landfill on Linden Street near the railroad track. Hours are 7:15 a.m. to 2:45 p.m. While providing a protective barrier for plant roots, the mulch prevents weed growth and adds nutrients to the soil as
it breaks down, according to the Mississippi State University Extension Service. In other areas, discarded Christmas trees may be used to help stabilize beaches and shoreline, sunk in bodies of water to provide fish habitat or used for river delta sedimentation management. With other post-Christmas trash, Bynum encourages residents to tear down large boxes when possible and keep loose papers from littering the neighborhood. City and county trash collection is on a holiday schedule again next week, with the Monday and Tuesday routes both scheduled to be picked up on Tuesday.
Northeast nears halfway point on construction BY BRANT SAPPINGTON bsappington@dailycorinthian.com
Northeast Mississippi Community College has reached the halfway point in the construction of its new student services building. College president Dr. Johnny Allen said recently the contractor has informed them work on the T. Jack Ramsey Student Services Building is 50 percent complete. The more than $7 million building, which sits at the eastern end of Cunningham Boulevard, will create a one-stop location for students to access a variety of key college services including admissions, records, financial aid, business, housing and counseling offices. Many of these offices are now scattered across the campus. The second floor of the center will house the college’s administrative offices. The school broke ground on the project in February. Planning for the center began more than three years ago and in Please see NORTHEAST | 2A
Captured Japanese World War II battle flag making its way home BY BOBBY J. SMITH bjsmith@dailycorinthian.com
A Japanese battle flag captured in World War II is on its way back to its native land. The flag changed hands at the Corinth home of Patricia McNair. Patricia and her son Mike had invited a group of Japanese visitor’s to a barbecue. Mike knew them from his job at the Toyota Supplier factory in Baldwyn. Manabu Yasui, Makato “Big Mac” Takakuwa, Takahito Kohashi and Shigeru Kuroyanagi had traveled to Baldwyn from the Land of the Rising Sun to work in quality control at the factory. The group would get a surprise during the barbecue when Patricia’s brother, Kenneth Roaten, brought over a faded Japanese flag. In its center was the traditional red sun, surrounded by words written in Japanese. The Japanese visitors were able to translate some of the flag’s message for their Ameri-
can hosts. “It was for the boys leaving to go fight,” Patricia explained. “When they would leave, it was a good luck thing, because they felt like so many of them would not make it back.” Patricia and Kenneth’s father, James Marlin Roaten, was a veteran of the U.S. Army. James, who passed away in 1970, brought the flag home after fighting in World War II. It had been in Kenneth’s possession since 1969. With the 70th anniversary of the bombing of Pearl Harbor approaching, Patrician and Kenneth gave the family heirloom to their Japanese visitors, in hopes that it would find its way to a museum in its native land, where the flag and its history could be appreciated by anyone with an interest. “You should have seen them
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Mike McNair and his mother, Patricia, display the Japanese battle flag brought home from World War II by Mike’s grandfather — and which will soon be on display in a museum in its native land.
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On this day in history 150 years ago Gen. Albert S. Johnston informed the administration in Richmond of the fear among the population of Nashville who believe the city will be targeted by “incendiaries sent in by the Federalists or engaged from the disloyal of their own citizens.”