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This Week in The Civil War: Jan. 1: Clamor for war The year 1862 will open with the Union Army of the Potomac under Major Gen. McClellan facing popular and political pressure to engage in major combat with its Confederate foes. But McClellan has come down with typhoid and is ill in bed. President Abraham Lincoln is increasingly anxious to engage Southern secessionists in battle even as he wishes to give his general time to prepare for battle. New Year’s Day of 1862 dawns though with some hostilities. On Jan. 1, 1862, Union warships unleash a barrage on targets around Pensacola, Fla., and the Confederates respond by bombarding Union-held Fort Pickens. Associated Press reports in a dispatch Jan. 2 from Nashville that some Confederate units have destroyed railroad tracks for several miles in the region. AP reports other movements by Confederate forces “we do not comprehend” and adds troop movements in several areas “point clearly to stormy events” ahead.
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By Danny Barrett Jr. dbarrett@vicksburgpost.com When Vicksburg and Warren County’s legislators return to the Capitol Tuesday, it’ll be all about the children — where and how they’ll learn and play, to be precise. As 2011 drew to a close, city officials renewed a push to build a youth sports complex with money generated from higher sales taxes on hotel stays and restaurant bills and bars. Earlier, during the last regular session, a bill to require attendance in kindergarten in Mississippi school districts died in committee. Each should be visited when local lawmakers write bills this year. “Even in a poor economy, people are still going to spend money on their children,” state Rep. Alex Monsour said in support of the city’s desire to charge an additional 2 percent tax on hotel and motel room rentals and a 1.5 percent tax on restaurant and bar tabs. The current tax on each is 2 percent on lodging and 1 percent on food and beverages. A local option referendum would be called if such a bill passed. Through a private appraiser, the city has vetted a privately-owned piece of land on which to build baseball fields, soccer fields and other sports venues — last planned in 2007-08 where Halls Ferry Park stands but abandoned in the face of environmental concerns by the state. The city hasn’t specified the tract’s location or its size. Enthusiasm for the idea varies among Vicksburg legislators. Monsour, a Republican, says the ball on a new complex must roll soon, else the community could lose its lone youth baseball tournament, the Vicksburg Baseball Association’s Governor’s Cup. “We’ll have to have better facilities to keep the Governor’s Cup,” Monsour said. “Vicksburg is way behind on facilities to compete with other counties.” Money from higher sales taxes would be used to pay off over about 15 years a $18.5 million to $19.5 million loan to purchase and develop property, Mayor Paul Winfield said. “I believe the hotel and the food taxes are a better alternative for us than putting an ad valorem tax on people’s property,” Winfield said. “This is for economic development that is going to occur in that area and improving the quality of life for our youth.” Legislation to charge the higher sales tax on lodging and restaurant bills is expected to let the new rate expire once any funding mechanism is paid off, MonSee Legislature, Page A2.
District 55 Rep. George Flaggs Jr.
Capitol: Room: 402-C, P.O. Box 1018, Jackson, MS 39215 Home: P.O. Box 1674, Vicksburg, MS, 39181 601-359-3328 (Capitol office 402-C) 601-630-8004 (Warren County Youth Court office) 601-942-0492 (cell) gflaggs@house.ms.gov d55flaggs@yahoo.com
District 54 Rep. Alex Monsour
Capitol: P.O. Box 1018, Jackson, MS 39215 Home: 112 Villanova Drive, Vicksburg, MS 39183 601-415-7274 (cell) amonsour@ house.ms.gov
District 85 Rep. Chuck Middleton
Capitol: Room 100-C, P.O. Box 1018, Jackson, MS 39215 Home: P.O. Box 685, Port Gibson, MS 39150 601-359-9392 (Capitol office 100-C) 601-437-8502 (home) 601-529-9928 (cell) amiddleton@house.ms.gov
District 23 Sen. W. Briggs Hopson III
306 Madison Ridge, Vicksburg, MS 39180 601-359-2886 (Capitol office) 601-359-5957 (fax) bhopson@ senate.ms.gov hopson@tellerlaw.com
HONOLULU — Leaving behind a year of bruising legislative battles, President Barack Obama enters his fourth year in office having calculated that he no longer needs Congress to promote his agenda and may even benefit in his re-election campaign if lawmakers accomplish little in 2012. Absent any major policy pushes, much of the year will focus on winning a second term. The presi-
Capitol: P.O. Box 1018, Jackson, MS 39215 Home: 101 Pinehaven Cove, Clinton, MS 39056 601-924-8438 (home) 601-355-8321 (work) pgunn@house.
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Mississippi lawmakers facing full agenda in 2012 session JACKSON — Mississippi legislators expect to handle several big issues during their four-month session that begins at noon on Tuesday. They’ll consider charter schools, to possibly allow more flexibility in academic offerings. They could debate changes to the Public Employees Retirement System, a politically sensitive topic that affects tens of thousands of people. They still need to handle legislative redistricting. Many Republicans want to limit fees for private lawyers who do contract work for the Democratic attorney general. And, some want to take another shot at immigration, an issue important to Repub-
In 2012, Obama vows to do things his way By The Associated Press
District 56 Rep. Philip Gunn
By Emily Wagster Pettus The Associated Press
President Barack Obama waves before getting onto Air Force One.
‘It will be interesting, with the new House dynamic in place, to see how we can get some conservative issues at least debated and not assume they’re going to immediately die in committee because they have a different philosophy than we do.’ Sen. Joey Fillingane R-Sumrall
lican Gov.-elect Phil Bryant. Republicans already control the Senate, and they’re
taking over the House majority for the first time since Reconstruction. “It will be interesting, with the new House dynamic in place, to see how we can get some conservative issues at least debated and not assume they’re going to immediately die in committee because they have a different philosophy than we do,” said Sen. Joey Fillingane, R-Sumrall. He cited immigration, lawyers’ fees and charter schools as three previously stalled issues that could gain momentum with Republicans leading both chambers. An immigration bill that died in 2011 would have allowed law officers to check during traffic stops whether people are in the country legally. Opponents See State, Page A2.
Delta sailor’s July death reclassified after probe By The Associated Press ROLLING FORK — More than five months after a Mississippi sailor died in Bahrain, the Navy has reclassified his death as one in support of the U.S.-led invasion of Afghanistan. The Defense Department said Thursday that 35-year-old Petty Officer Stacy O. Johnson of Rolling Fork died July 18 on work to support Operation Enduring Freedom. He was a master-at-arms assigned to Naval Security Force Bahrain. The news release did not give other details. The Navy Times reported that Johnson died in a motorcycle accident that was not originally considered part of the operation. It quotes Jen Stride, a Navy spokeswoman in Bahrain, as saying a continuing review found that he was directly supporting the invasion.
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State Continued from Page A1. said it could put additional, unfunded requirements on state troopers and sheriff’s deputies, and that it could open cities and counties to lawsuits. Bryant, who was backed by many Tea Party voters, said Mississippi needs to ensure that people from other countries have proper documentation to live and work in the United States. Private lawyer fees has been a top issue for some Republicans for years. Attorney General Jim Hood is the only Democrat in statewide office in Mississippi, and Republicans criticize him for hiring private lawyers to handle lawsuits for the state. Hood has said the lawyers are putting their own financial resources at stake in cases that could pay millions to the state. Critics say the lawyers often collect millions, and many give campaign contributions to Hood. Some lawmakers propose what they call a “sunshine act” to require more disclosure about the contracts, and to limit how much they could collect if a lawsuit is successful. Bryant has said for years that Mississippi should allow the widespread establishment of charter schools. They’re public schools but can set different operating hours or can try different academic approaches. Bryant often cites the KIPP Delta Public Schools in eastern Arkansas, which have longer school days than most schools and conduct classes two Saturdays a month. Republican Rep. Philip Gunn of Clinton, who’s
Continued from Page A1. sour said. State Rep. George Flaggs, D-Vicksburg said he’ll support the plan if city and county officials favor the plan jointly. “Until I see a resolution from the city and the Board of Supervisors, I won’t take a position,” Flaggs said. “Until then, it’s just talk.” State Sen. Briggs Hopson III, a Republican, hasn’t spoken at length with the city about the proposed tax hike, one he says affects everyone who rents a room or goes out for dinner in Vicksburg. “I have a concern that if we raise the tax too much, we’ll drive people away,” Hopson said. “You’ll end up taxing the local people.” His support for requiring children to attend kindergarten and phasing in pre-kindergarten is strong enough to author a bill this year, said Hopson, also the attorney for the Vicksburg Warren School District. Currently, it’s mandatory for school districts to offer kindergarten; attendance is optional. Warren is as good a setting for a pilot project for pre-K as any other area in the state, he said. Mandatory kindergarten, full funding of the Mississippi Adequate Education Program and pre-K would “provide every child an opportunity, especially in this time of accountability” to build learning and social skills, Superintendent Dr. Elizabeth Duran Swinford said. Hopson and Monsour said they’ll support fewer school districts statewide. The state
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expected to become speaker of the House, said he favors changes to allow more competition in education, whether through charter schools or vouchers. “Charter schools are just one form of competition and I think everyone would agree we should look at that,” Gunn said. Many legislators say education funding is the most important agenda item in 2012. “That’s the big, big picture so that our struggling school systems, especially those in the Delta and some of the poor districts, are not negatively impacted,” said Sen. Willie Simmons, D-Cleveland. The Joint Legislative Budget Committee released a proposal that includes neither an increase nor a decrease in funding for elementary and secondary schools for the fiscal year that begins July 1. Departing Gov. Haley Barbour said politicians’ commitment to education shouldn’t be based on how much public money they spend. He said people should instead look
for the effectiveness of policy decisions. “The results we’re getting today are no better than they were 30 years ago if you compare us nationally,” Barbour said. “Our scores that we’re getting are higher than they were 30 years ago, but the national scores are higher, too, though neither one of them are very much higher. We’ve got to think about different ways to get done what we all want done.” Leaders from both parties say writing an overall state budget will be challenging because money is tight, as it has been the past several years because of the lethargic economy. Redistricting carries over as unfinished business. Legislators are required to update the boundaries of their own districts each decade after the Census reveals how population has shifted. During the 2011 session, each chamber approved its own plan, but talks stalled when House and Senate leaders sparred over how to treat each other’s proposed maps. Democratic House Speaker Billy McCoy, D-Rienzi, said
month. Now, the system’s retirees automatically receive a 3 percent annual increase as the COLA. Barbour said the actual cost of living has increased by less than 3 percent for each of the past few years, so PERS beneficiaries were overpaid during that time. Barbour said a three-year halt to the increases would save the system money; people would still receive the previous amount of COLA, just not an increase. The study group proposes that for upcoming retirees, the COLA be withheld for the first three years after they leave government service. “I don’t think that’s something the Legislature’s going to hang its hat on,” Rep. George Flaggs, D-Vicksburg, said of the recommendation to change the COLA. Many lawmakers will present issues that are of particular interest to the regions they represent. Those from south Mississippi, particularly along the coast, say the insurance market needs to be stabilized to help in the continuing recovery from Hurricane Katrina, which struck in 2005. “All of us in south Mississippi are interested in insurance rates,” said Sen.elect Angela Burks Hill, R-Picayune. Simmons said an issue of particular importance in the Delta is the reopening of the Great River Road state park in Rosedale, which has been closed since the Mississippi River flooded several months ago.
items on his to-do list to include a charter school bill and another to phase out the state’s tax on inventory kept by businesses. Hopson wants to hear from the system’s actuaries before deciding whether to take Barbour’s recommendation. On other topics, Hopson said he’ll re-file one or more bills to consolidate certain administrative functions in select state agencies. Bills he wrote last year to that effect for the state’s respective university and community college boards and the Department of Finance and Administration died in committee. In the courts, a crime of “attempted murder” would close a gap between aggravated assault and murder, District Attorney Ricky Smith said. “Right now, if somebody tries to kill somebody else but shoots and misses, we can only prosecute them for aggravated assault,” Smith said. “The max penalty for aggravated assault is 20 years, versus life for murder. That’s a large gap between those crimes.” Smith would also welcome the creation of a forensic interviewer to work with children who are victims of sexual assault in the Ninth Circuit Court District, which includes Warren, Sharkey and Issaquena counties. Currently, victims are taken to the Child Advocacy Center in Jackson. The Mississippi Sheriff’s Association will push lawmakers again to allow counties to use radar equipment to enforce speeds on roads outside cities. Bills to allow
all the state’s sheriff’s departments to run radar have failed consistently in committee for years. “We’d like to be able to enforce and read speed limits like everybody else,” Sheriff Martin Pace said. Pace said he also would like to see the Legislature rewrite laws on house arrest so those convicted of serious crimes are not allowed to complete sentences at home, instead of jail or prison. “It’s the ridiculousness of the house arrest program where people who have committed serious crimes are sent back here, then we’re having to deal with them,” Pace said. State Rep. Philip Gunn, R-Clinton, whose district includes parts of northeast Warren County, is a top choice of state House Republicans to be the next speaker. The GOP will control both chambers of the Legislature for the first time since Reconstruction. Flaggs, Vicksburg’s senior legislator and key Democratic vote in the House, said he’ll support Gunn because he’s part of the local delegation. “It’ll be difficult because the Democrats have been in control for so long,” Flaggs said. “But, we still have to move this state forward. We can’t do anything until we have a speaker.” Flaggs chairs the Banking and Financial Services Committee. He serves on the Appropriations, Executive Contingent Fund, Gaming, Insurance, Investigate State Offices, Legislative Budget, Medicaid and Public Health
and Human Services committees. Flaggs represents District 55, which covers the municipal limits of Vicksburg. Gunn serves on the Conservation and Water Resources, Judiciary A, Judiciary En Banc, Juvenile Justice, Public Utilities and Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks committees. Gunn represents District 56. Monsour sits on the House Juvenile Justice, Judiciary B, Judiciary En Banc, Ports, Harbors and Airports, and Transportation committees. Monsour represents District 54, which covers most of nonmunicipal Warren County, Issaquena County and part of Sharkey. Hopson vice-chairs the Senate Judiciary A and Public Health and Welfare committees. He serves on the Judiciary B, Appropriations, Environmental Protection, Conservation and Water Resources, Tourism and Universities and Colleges committees. Hopson represents District 23, which covers Warren, Issaquena and southwest Yazoo County. District 85 Rep. Chuck Middleton, D-Port Gibson, represents parts of four precincts in southeast Warren County. He chairs the House Enrolled Bills Committee and serves on the Agriculture, Appropriations, Forestry, Public Property, Select Committee and Utility Cost Recovery and Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks committees. •
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has 152 districts, with some counties having as many as six. Spending cuts or using reserves to fund elementary and secondary education on the district level is part of Gov. Haley Barbour’s final budget proposal, as is merging some functions of the state’s three historically black universities. Gov.-elect Phil Bryant and new lawmakers may accept or ignore parts of the nearly $5.5 billion recommended budget. Flaggs said he’ll wait on whatever comes from the incoming administration before he commits on most of the state’s pressing topics, including school consolidation, in 2012. Permission for Warren County to contribute funds to charitable organizations is expected to pass. Last year, eight local nonprofits were OK’d for $40,050 in support. County funds for charities — allowable only by act of the Legislature — have been cut at least 10 percent per agency since 2009. Requiring state workers to kick in more money toward their own retirement was among Barbour’s recommended moves. Monsour plans to file a bill that would require retired workers who return to work for the state part time to contribute to the system. “It’s not a drop in the bucket, but it will help fix what’s going on out there,” Monsour said. The Mississippi Public Employees Retirement System needs $26.3 million to keep up with long-term obligations, Barbour has said. Monsour expects other
Staff writers John Surratt and Pamela Hitchins contributed to this report.
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legislators should stick to the tradition of each chamber drawing its own map and rubber-stamping the map from the opposite chamber. Bryant, as lieutenant governor, said the Republican-controlled Senate should have some say in the House map drawn by the Democraticcontrolled House. The 2011 session ended with redistricting in limbo. Now, Republicans will control both chambers and some GOP House members, including Rep. Greg Snowden of Meridian, predict redistricting will be finished this session, with new maps that follow the Justice Department mandate to maintain minority voting strength. “It should be easier simply with the fact that we’ve just gone through an election,” Snowden said. “Everybody in that room has been elected in their current district.” The Mississippi Public Employees Retirement System manages pension funds for 80,000 state and local government retirees and 167,000 active employees. Many say they oppose changes to PERS because they fear losing money. A study commission appointed by Barbour recommended several changes to bolster PERS’ finances, including a three-year freeze on the cost-of-living adjustment each of the system’s retirees receives. The COLA is typically referred to as a “13th check” because many retirees take it as a lump payment at the end of each calendar year. However, they have the option to receive the COLA each
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CLUBS VAMP — Noon Tuesday; Linda Fondren, Bonney Ander-
son and Stuart Miller, speakers; Ameristar Buffet. Vicksburg Kiwanis — Noon Tuesday, Jacques’ Cafe; John George, Corps of Engineers, speaker. Lions — Noon Wednesday; Mike Renacker, Corps of Engineers, Mississippi River Museum and Interpretive Center; Toney’s. Les Soeurs Charmantes Social and Civic Club — Seeking debutantes from 1972 to
present for 40-year celebration in 2012; Carolyn Strothers, 601-636-5857. Army/Navy Club — 7 p.m. Thursday, steak dinner at the club house.
CHURCHES The Word Church — Service with Prophet Bill Dickers, 11:30 today; 6:30 p.m. Monday-Tuesday; Bishop Oscar L. Gates, pastor; 1201 Grove St. Trinity Theological Semi-
nary — Registration open, classes start 6 p.m. Jan. 12; Emma Roberts, 601-638-3062, or Pastor Joe Harris Jr., 601636-2407; 260 Mississippi 27.
PUBLIC PROGRAMS American Legion Post 213 “The Hut” — Dance: 8 tonight until; DJ “Horseman” Mitchell; $3 single, $5 couple; cash raffle drawing. Senior Center — Closed Monday.
Tuesday Vicksburg AlAnon — Noon Tuesday; second floor, First Presbyterian Church, 1501 Cherry St.; 601634-0152. River City Mended Hearts — 5 p.m. Tuesday; River Region Medical Center, Rooms C and D; all members and family welcome. Serenity Overeaters Anonymous — 6-7 p.m. Wednesday, Bowmar Baptist Church, Room 102C; 601-638-0011.
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Obama signs sweeping defense bill HONOLULU (AP) — President Barack Obama signed a wide-ranging defense bill into law Saturday despite having “serious reservations” about provisions that regulate the detention, interrogation and prosecution of suspected terrorists. The bill also applies penalties against Iran’s central bank in an effort to hamper Tehran’s ability to fund its nuclear enrichment program. The Obama administration is looking to soften the impact of those penalties because of concerns that they could lead to a spike in global oil prices or cause economic hardship on U.S. allies that import petroleum from Iran. Obama’s signature caps months of wrangling over how
to handle captured terrorist suspects without violating Americans’ constitutional rights. Th e W h i t e House initially President Barack threatened to Obama veto the legislation but dropped the warning after Congress made lastminute changes. Among the changes the administration secured was striking a provision that would have eliminated executive branch authority to use civilian courts for trying terrorism cases against foreign nationals. The new law now requires military custody for any sus-
pect who is a member of alQaida or “associated forces” and involved in planning or attempting to carry out an attack on the United States or its coalition partners. The president or a designated subordinate may waive the military custody requirement by certifying to Congress that such a move is in the interest of national security. The administration also pushed Congress to change a provision that would have denied U.S. citizens suspected of terrorism the right to trial and could have subjected them to indefinite detention. Lawmakers eventually dropped the military custody requirement for U.S. citizens or lawful U.S. residents.
Romney in position of strength in Iowa LE MARS, Iowa (AP) — Mitt Romney is the clear Republican front-runner in Iowa in the final days before the first voting in the 2012 presidential election. But that’s where the clarity ends in this unpredictable nomination race. Five others are fighting, as they have all year, to emerge as the Romney alternative. The ascendant Rick Santorum and Rick Perry are battling to win over social conservatives. Libertarian-leaning Ron Paul is working to preserve support that’s starting to slip. Newt Gingrich is struggling to end his sharp slide. Michele Bachmann is hardly a factor. “It may be Romney’s to lose at this point,” said John Stineman, an Iowa GOP campaign strategist. “And it’s a battle among the rest.” Despite rapidly shifting dynamics, two things were clear on the final weekend before the caucuses: The yearlong effort to establish a consensus challenger to Romney had failed, and Romney’s carefully laid plan to survive Iowa was succeeding. It relies on conservative voters failing to rally behind one candidate. He was either slightly ahead or in a virtual tie with Paul in NBC/Marist and CNN/Time polls, with Santorum running third. A new poll by The Des Moines Register, which has
U.S. seals $3.48B sale of arms to UAE WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States has reached a deal to sell $3.48 billion worth of missiles and related technology to the United Arab Emirates, a close Mideast ally, as part of a massive buildup of defense technology among friendly Mideast nations near Iran. P e n t ag o n s p o ke s m a n George Little announced the Christmas Day sale on Friday night. He noted that the U.S. and U.A.E. have a strong defense relationship and are both interested in “a secure and stable” Persian Gulf region. The deal includes 96 missiles, along with supporting technology and training support that Little says will bolster the nation’s missile defense capacity. The deal includes a contract with Lockheed Martin to produce the highly sophisticated Terminal High Altitude Area Defense, or THAAD, weapon system for the U.A.E. Tom McGrath, vice president and program manager for Lockheed Martin’s THAAD program, said in a statement released in Dallas that it was the first foreign military sale of the THAAD system. THAAD interceptors are produced at Lockheed Martin’s Pike County Facility in Troy, Ala. Wary of Iran, the U.S. has been building up missile defenses of its allies, including a $1.7 billion deal to upgrade Saudi Arabia’s Patriot missiles and the sale of 209 Patriot missiles to Kuwait, valued at about $900 million.
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Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, right, talks with newlyweds Seth and Ali Banwart during a campaign stop on Saturday. endorsed Romney, late Saturday showed Romney and Paul statistically even at the front of the pack. Romney had 24 percent and while Paul had 22 percent. Santorum was third with 15 percent of likely voters backing him. Gingrich had 12 percent support and Perry had 11 percent. Bachmann trailed with 7 percent. With the stakes high, the candidates pressed their closing messages Saturday and released final TV ads while volunteers and staffers canvassed the state to both persuade undecided and mobilize backers. By Saturday afternoon, an upbeat Romney had returned
to Iowa from a brief trip to New Hampshire. In Le Mars, he drew a crowd of 300 people, including supporter Alan Lucken, who shouted to the candidate: “You’re going to win.” “I’m planning on it,” Romney said and later told a reporter, “I sure hope to. I’ll tell you that.” In another show of confidence, Romney promised to return to Iowa, a perennial general election battleground, if he is the nominee. “I’m going to be back in Iowa — we’re going to fight, we’re going to win Iowa in the general election,” Romney said as he closed his remarks in Le Mars.
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New Year
A hearty farewell to 2011 Good bye — or should we say good riddance — to 2011. Welcome, 2012. We have waited 365 long days and nights for your arrival. The start of the New Year brings with it the hopes and dreams of an erased blackboard. Hope springs eternal when the calendar morphs from one year to the next. Few in Warren County will forget the fear and unknowing as the Mighty Mississippi River began to swell its banks. Rumors ran amok as apocalyptic scenarios were played out on national and international media. When the river finally did crest at a record 57.1 feet — 14.1 feet above flood stage — on May 19, disaster for most had been avoided. Public and private entities sprang into action to keep the damage as minimal as possible. While we grieve for those who lost property, the fact that only one person died as a direct result of the rising waters was astounding. We certainly hope the efforts put forth to battle that flood will not be needed in 2012. We also are keenly aware that the river by its nature will do what it wants when it wants. Being prepared — and we are very prepared — will help keep catastrophic outcomes at bay. The flood certainly dominated the local news scene in 2011, and we hope there is no repeat of that. We would like to see some things moving forward into the new year. A new crop of elected officials throughout the county and in statewide offices will have their work cut out for them as the nation, states and municipalities grapple with uncertain economic times. Pitching grand plans in a time of economic distress can be unwise, but we wish for some action on a few hot-button issues around Warren County. • Make a decision on the jail. The sheriff has said repeatedly that the jail in its current form is untenable. The more-than-100-year-old building is too small and too antiquated for today’s needs. A new jail will be an expensive proposition, but for at least the last
2012 promises a new paradigm in government, but woes linger
15 years each grand jury has recommended a new facility. Stop dithering and make a decision. Yay. Nay. Whatever. Just make a decision. • The on-again, off-again saga of the recreational complex is vexing. The current rec facility, like the jail, is antiquated. Other towns our size and smaller have made a commitment to building a first-class recreation facility and they have gotten it done. For some reason, our leaders love to accept grand, pie-in-the-sky plans with few results. Again, figure something out and decide if Vicksburg will be a recreation destination or not. Our one big baseball tournament — the Governor’s Cup — eventually will have better offers from cities with better facilities. It would be a shame to lose that tournament, but how much longer can Halls Ferry Park handle it? • Crime will be a huge challenge. The news pages of this newspaper are filled daily with robberies, burglar-
ies, rapes and slayings. A collaborative law enforcement-public effort will be needed. The one thing that cannot be done is for the people to admit defeat and cower in fear. Take back the streets and neighborhoods from the thugs and slugs who sully this town’s name and reputation. • Education must be improved on all levels. The local schools need to be a drawing point for the best and brightest. The city should not be a stopover for work, only to leave for areas with more complete schools. More work will need to be done in 2012. There is a huge presidential election that will affect us all. But we must remember to act locally and tackle the problems that are affecting us most right here. If we all come together to do that, 2012 could be a banner year in Warren County. Happy New Year.
A thank-you to an anonymous tipster We would love to thank the tipster who helped police nab two suspects in the brutal, senseless rape of a Drummond Street woman, but we cannot. That is the beauty of the Crimestoppers program — anonymity. The anonymous tipster in the Drummond Street case is on track to receive a $5,200 reward — a well-deserved reward indeed, especially if the two arrested are found to have committed the heinous crimes of rape and burglary. The fate of the two suspects is now in the hands of America’s justice system. We will let it play out in court when the facts will become known. The fact
is, though, that someone needed the courage to come forward with information that led to the arrest of Eddie Lee Harris, who is charged with rape and burglary of a 55-year-old Vicksburg woman, and his cousin, accused of burglary of the home. The program, in its 35th year, uses code numbers and cooperating banks. A person with information can call the center. The operator will never ask for the caller’s name so nobody knows whom he or she is. Tips are received at a central call station in Texas, then forwarded to a regional Crimestoppers center. The information is then distributed to a local law enforcement agency.
Many times, providing information in criminal cases proves most difficult. Apprehension from witnesses to fears of retribution likely keep witnesses or those with information quiet. The anonymity of the Crimestoppers program takes that apprehension away. Many law enforcement hours were put into making an arrest in this case. Police went door-to-door, took DNA samples and conducted myriad interviews. But it was Crimestoppers and one anonymous tipster who provided the last, best piece of information. Thank you, whomever you are.
Get the job done, legislators In a few short days new and veteran lawmakers of the Great State of Mississippi will head to the Capitol with a new governor, lieutenant governor and, most obviously, a different political party in the majority. Big changes? Probably not. The governor-elect, Phil Bryant, cut his political teeth on the political coattails of the outgoing, strong, aggressive Gov. Haley Barbour. The lieutenant governor-elect has been in Jackson and state government for most of his career. Neither is expected to change dramatically his style just because he has a new title. The greatest potential for change is in the lawmaking body. For the first time in more than 100 years, the majority of the 122 members of the House of Representatives will be registered with the
The 1890 Constitution provides a system that vests more power in the Legislature than in the state’s governor.
Republican Party instead of the Democratic Party. We say party-shmarty. We say the job of legislating is about doing the right thing, be it for the voters, their children or their children’s children and being as responsible as possible to carry out the wishes of the constituencies. The last Legislature — the 122 representatives and the 52 members of the upper body, the Senate — could not make a decision on redrawing the state’s legislative lines that determine the makeup of the bodies. That failure to act has been and will be costly. It’s costing money to prepare information for potential litigation, it’s costing money for elections that probably will be scheduled next year to pick lawmakers for the new districts — had the lines
been drawn earlier, the voting along the new lines could have come in the just-completed election season — and, most importantly, it is costing faith Mississippians could have had in the legislators. Had they acted with the efficiency and timeliness expected by voters, the party-affiliation makeup might not have been so different from the last Legislature’s. Lawmakers, there’s your sign. Get in there, cut through the layers of politics, refuse to be swayed by your own wishes. Do the job for which you were elected. Draw the lines, and then get on with taking care of this Great State of Mississippi.
STARKVILLE — Mississippi voters enter 2012 with the assurance of a new — or at least significantly reshuffled — leadership team in state government. Most significantly, the New Year is bringing dramatic changes in the Mississippi Legislature. Within days, outgoing Gov. Haley Barbour will pass the baton of executive branch leadership to incoming Gov. Phil Bryant. Bryant will be succeeded by new Lt. Gov. Tate Reeves. Democratic House Speaker Billy McCoy and his party’s leadership in the House will be replaced by a new Republican regime that appears certain to be led by new House Speaker Philip Gunn, whose district includes part of northeast Warren County. New legislative committee chairs and vice chairs will emerge in both houses of the Legislature. Perhaps more than any single development will be what many predict will be the emergence of a new paradigm in how the Legislature and the new governor interact as compared to how the prior Legislature interacted with Barbour. While Bryant brings prior legislative experience in both the House and the Senate that Barbour didn’t possess and SID it’s true that the GOP now controls the House, Senate and the Governor’s Mansion, there is a clear expectation that the Legislature is seeking to reassert its constitutional role as the stronger branch of state government. The 1890 Constitution provides a system that vests more power in the Legislature than in the state’s governor. Barbour turned that model on its head during his two terms in office, implementing Washington-style party discipline particularly in the state Senate and using that discipline to manipulate state government into a model which pitted Barbour and the Senate in many cases against the House to the benefit of Barbour’s position. The dynamics of an all-Republican power structure, however, is likely to return the role of the governor to that which existed when the Democrats controlled the House, the Senate and the Governor’s Mansion. In that era, the governor enjoyed less power and the stronger figures in state government were the lieutenant governor and the House speaker. For Bryant, the challenge will be to utilize his prior legislative experience along with the power of the “bully pulpit” of the governor’s office to push for his own reforms. Reeves enjoys a significant GOP majority in the Senate and that will strengthen both his political hand and that of the chamber he leads. In the House, the partisan divide is not wide enough to give the new speaker a blank check. Republicans don’t have a super-majority in the House and governing will require the new GOP House speaker to find a working super-majority among individuals from all three major House camps — the Republicans, the rural Democrats and the House Black Caucus. Many House Republicans are still smarting from what they called “not having a seat at the table” during McCoy’s tenure as House speaker. Some argue for “scorched earth” retribution against House Democrats now that the GOP has the upper hand. But the more likely outcome is that state government returns to a more familiar, traditional system in which there are institutional political tensions between the House and Senate and between the Legislature and the governor. At the same time, state Republicans are keenly aware of the contempt that political gridlock on Capitol Hill had bred among voters and they will seek to avoid that slippery slope while they are in control across the board at the Mississippi State Capitol. For if the leadership team is new, many of the vexing problems — the state budget, a staggering economy, redistricting — have changed little since the Legislature adjourned from the 2011 regular session. •
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Sid Salter is a syndicated columnist. Contact him at sidsalter@ sidsalter.com
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WEEK IN Vicksburg Vicksburg saw high temps warm from consistent 50s to 64 by week’s end. Overnight lows ranged from the low 30s to mid-40s. Nearly three inches of rain fell over the course of the week. The Mississippi River receded slightly on the Vicksburg gauge, dropping from 38.9 to 37.4 feet by week’s end. Forecasters weren’t expecting much of a change, as they predicted a reading of 37.4 for today. Fred Camfield, Corps of Engineers retiree from Vicksburg, has begun designing necklaces for first lady Michelle Obama at Christmas. The idea was first introduced about three years ago and, with help from Art and Soul owner Regina Gailani, has turned into a present sent annually to the White House. Selected as The Vicksburg Post Players of the Year for prep football were Devon Bell of Warren Central for defense and Cameron Cooksey and A.J. Stamps, both of Vicksburg High, for offense. Alonzo Stevens was named Coach of the Year. Tamara Brown, a 1989 graduate of Vicksburg High School, was honored with a Champions of Change award from the White House. Brown, a chemical and biomedical engineer living in Buffalo, was among 12 leaders selected from across the nation for work that encourages girls and women to pursue careers in science. The tipster who led Vicksburg police to a suspect in a reported rape and burglary in October will receive a $5,200 reward in an anonymous Crimestoppers process. The procedure involves a central call facility in Texas, code numbers and cooperating banks that enable the tipster to collect the money and remain anonymous. Eighteen Warren County officials took the oath of office for the 2012-2016 term, a procedure held earlier than usual because of the New Year’s Day holiday. Swearing-in ceremonies are usually held before the start of the term so bonds may be purchased from private bonding companies. Mayor Paul Winfield announced plans to approach Warren County representatives for help at the state level in introducing a bill that would usher in a recreational complex for Vicksburg. The bill would allow the city to increase two taxes — on hotels and restaurants/bars — and to borrow around $19 million to be repaid over 15 years. Shirel Hall, 18, was treated and released from University Medical Center in Jackson after being shot in the hip during a crossfire of bullets as she drove her car onto Patton Street. Though Vicksburg police were still investigating the event, shots appeared to have been fired from both sides of the street. Port Gibson’s town board has decided to seek a replacement for Vicksburg Mayor Paul Winfield as that town’s attorney. Winfield has been attorney for six years for Port Gibson, whose own mayor cited no reason for the change. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Mississippi Valley Division announced that more than $800 million in emergency repair money, approved by President Barack Obama, will be directed to areas along the Mississippi River hardest hit by last spring’s historic flood. No specific repair projects have been listed publicly. Local deaths during the week were Theodora “Lee Lee” Williams, Esther E. “Buttons” Randall, Hilda Frances Hansen Ferron, Hilbert E. Shiers, Charles Henry Johnson, Robert Earl “Bob the Tattoo Kid” Parker Jr., Larry Donnell Whitaker, Pilar Rosa Duran and Margaret Gray Ramsey.
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Haley hitches up his own britches, heads north OXFORD — “Marsha says it’s time for me to make some money.” And with that, Haley Barbour will hitch up his own britches and head back to the nation’s capital, the place from which he cometh. The portly man from Yazoo City, I remain convinced, returned to his native Mississippi about nine years ago to get his “bona fides.” He left (or took a leave of absence) from Barbour, Griffith and Rogers, one of D.C.’s most successful lobbying firms, with 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue on his mind. If the stars had aligned just right — and they almost did — Barbour would parlay his masterful strategic skills in politics and raising money into a bid for the White House. But without a record of effective public service in elective office, running for president would have been folly. Barbour needed success in Mississippi, preferably across party lines, to create bragging points if he entered the national contest. We were his guinea pigs, and most say we’re better off as a result. As we all know, the two-term governor made his decision not to run months ago. After working behind the scenes as a mastermind in the Republican gains in the U.S. House and Senate in November 2010 — a shakeup from which President Barack Obama has yet to and may not recover — it’s clear Barbour’s brand of fiscal and social conservatism has been on the rise. But again citing family, Barbour withdrew his name from consideration as a possible Republican nominee. So the summer and fall have been a victory lap of sorts for one of the most popular governors ever. At the Neshoba County Fair in July, hundreds of red, white and blue placards waved as he addressed his fans. “Thank you, Haley,” is all they said. The signs reappeared in several places, including the Overby Center for Southern Journalism and Politics at the University of Mississippi in October when Barbour sat for an hour and talked with students and locals about his two terms. It has been a busy eight years,
So the summer and fall have been a victory lap of sorts for one of the most popular governors ever. CHARLIE
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but there were three crucial challenges. The first came immediately after Barbour unseated Democrat incumbent Gov. Ronnie Musgrove. The state’s economy was reeling due to national factors and the fact that state legislators had created but not funded new programs all through the flush 1990s. The budget was $700 million out of whack and the 2 percent budget reserve was empty. Barbour said he could achieve a balance with no tax increase. Few believed him. But that’s what happened. Then came Hurricane Katrina. Barbour still calls the 2005 storm that nearly wiped South Mississippi off the map the worst natural disaster in American history. While Louisiana politicians defined “dysfunctional” and engaged in opportunism at the highest levels, Barbour went to Washington seeking unprec-
edented amounts of aid, but with a pragmatic plan. Finding the money and commencing the rebuilding, he said in Oxford, fit his “skill set.” He was right. The state’s two Republican senators were in position to help, too. And it was during that time when Barbour bragged the most about the state’s people, telling anyone who would listen that Mississippians wouldn’t have a postKatrina pity party — but would “hitch up their britches” and get to work. The third challenge has been the U.S. and state economy since 2008. Barbour showed no mercy in blaming Musgrove for the state’s money mess eight years ago, but has artfully dodged any responsibility for job losses, tax shortfalls and reduced funding for education and other state responsibilities since 2008. And while so doing he has prevailed on legislators to go slow in allocating bail-
out funds and draining the state’s reserve, which was replenished starting in his first budget year. Longtime acquaintances of Barbour, back to his high school years, describe him as both a loyal friend and the go-to guy who could make things happen. “Lobbyist” is a cuss word, at least until you or your industry needs one. Then his or her services become invaluable. In Oxford, Barbour said he really doesn’t see himself ever in elective office again. Certainly not the House and probably not the Senate. A cabinet post, perhaps — but he candidly described the Oval Office as the only job he’d see as a promotion. So it’s back to courting clients, back to billing them market rates for services provided — and making money — for Haley Barbour. Mississippi’s second Republican governor in memory leaves the soon-to-be third set up with the good will of the public and a legislature realigned as never before. And he leaves able to make a claim that few who serve in office are able to make: He did what he said he would do. • Charlie Mitchell is a Mississippi journalist. Write to him at Box 1, University, MS 38677, or e-mail cmitchell43@yahoo.com
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Crime victim, family grateful for community support When bad things happen there are naturally a lot of questions you ask yourself about why and how this could have been prevented. Believe me we’ve asked those questions in the days following the cowardly and conscienceless attack on our home that ended in beating and rape. This is the kind of thing you see on TV crime shows or read about when they happen to some other unfortunate person, but it is unimaginable that it could actually happen to you or someone you know. Maybe that explains the tremendous support we have witnessed from our family, friends and the community at large. We have been surrounded with support and prayers from literally thousands of people across our city, state and nation, as friends and friends of friends added our family to their church and personal prayer lists. We felt those prayers as we lived each day following this crime trying to cope with what didn’t seem real. We are proud to say those prayers were answered last week, exactly two months since that awful day. Today those arrested and accused of this crime are no longer a threat to the rest of you after the excellent police work of the Vicksburg Police Department. Our faith in our community was bolstered as we witnessed an outpouring of concern from a diverse group of people who were united on one thing —
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that happened in a world marred by the influence of sin. He has assured us that we are always in His care and He is so awesome that only He can make a blessing from evil. Our house is still our home and it is still His dwelling. Nothing can change that. “God is our refuge and strength, an everpresent help in trouble. Therefore we will not fear, though the earth give way and the mountains fall into the heart of the sea,” Psalm 46:1-2 Our humble thanks to all of you! Keep praying! Doug and Tina Jones Vicksburg
Protect PERS Who among us can look a teacher or firefighter or social worker in the eyes and say, “You have sacrificially devoted your lives and talents to a poorly paid, but critically important, career; and we deeply appreciate your service to the men, women, and children of your community — but you are not worth a decent retirement”? Who can say, “After your 25, 35 or 45 years of expertise and devotion in the classroom or keeping the streets safe or caring for the needy, a 3-percent annual cost-of-living adjustment is just too lavish for you”? My initial astonishment at the news that Gov. Haley Barbour had unilaterally created a study commission to recommend
changes to the Public Employees’ Retirement System I felt a cold sense of betrayal. I still cannot fathom his motives since PERS has for decades been widely regarded as one of the best-managed state retirement programs in the country. That PERS has felt the effects of the deep recession which has shaken every economic sector is no surprise, and even those intent upon slashing this humble income of public service retirees agree that the PERS fund balance will recover within a few years. It is unconscionable that Gov. Barbour and PERS Study Commission Chair George Schloegel would coldly violate the retirement promises made to our under-compensated public servants. Beyond the almost certain breach of contract this would represent is a cruel laugh at the modest expectations of PERS retirees. Whatever their motives may be, whatever the source of the callousness thus displayed, the people of Mississippi and the legislators by whom we are represented must not allow the recommended changes to PERS. We must look our public service workers in the eyes and tell them, “We will stand beside you because you have labored honorably for us.” Melissa McKenney Harris Pass Christian, Miss.
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New year a downer for some Wow, we survived 2011. Too bad at least one person is not too jazzed about 2012. An uplifting start does not seem to be in the cards. I ache to listen to Sam Cooke’s 1964 version of, “A Change is Gonna Come.” Change is good — and many times necessary. On Saturday night, countless people raised a glass a few minutes before midnight declaring their biggest changes of all. The New Year has that effect on people. The calendar changes to 1-1 and all is new again. New Year’s resolutions are wonderful — to give up for Lent. The topics are usually the same — more diet, more exercise, giving up the drink or the cigars. And they usually last until the BCS championship game when most of the aforementioned are ditched with promises of a one-day reprieve. How many resolve to do something good for the new year, then resolve the same again next December? I’d love to resolve to lose a chin or two, exercise more and ditch the beer, but that would be like admitting defeat before the year is one-day-old. Have you seen the college football schedule for Monday? Resolutions 1, 2 and 3 are ruined and the NFL playoffs have yet to start. I will resolve to not let the happenings in Washington, D.C., affect my day-to-day activities. This election year — and each subsequent one — will begin earlier and last longer. In our world of 24-hour media, presidential elections are the most draining. Campaigning has become a two-year sport and, I can almost guarantee this, that minutes after a president is elected or reelected in November, talk of the race for 2016 will ensue. As part of the anti-D.C. resolve, I will resolve to ditch the 24-hour news cycles. I resolve to give up lettuce, carrots and onions. I resolve to keep the dog fed and happy. I resolve to show my disdain for the State of Mississippi politicians and illegally brew beer every other weekend. I resolve to then drink said illegal beer. I resolve to put my dreams of being a motivational speaker at bay in hopes that by 2013 I can reach back to “Mr. Soul” Sam Cooke and proudly — and motivationally — sing that 1964 gem. ‘It’s been a long, a long time coming ‘But I know a change is gonna come, oh yes it will.’ Here’s to 2013 — and many more days of Sam Cooke. •
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‘We have grandmothers dragging in swords and muskets’ Civil War buffs seeking items for anniversary
Online For more information and to track events set to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the Civil War, visit: • Mississippi Sesquicentennial of the American Civil War Commission — www.mscivilwar150. com. • The Civil War Trust — www. civilwar150.org.
By The Associated Press RICHMOND, Va. — A diary with a lifesaving bullet hole from Gettysburg. An intricate valentine crafted by a Confederate soldier for the wife he would never see again. A slave’s desperate escape to freedom. From New England to the South, state archivists are using the sesquicentennial of the Civil War to collect a trove of wartime letters, diaries, documents and mementoes that have gathered dust in attics and basements. This still-unfolding call will help states expand existing collections on the Civil War and provide new insights into an era that violently wrenched a nation apart, leaving 600,000 dead. Much of the Civil War has been told primarily through the eyes of battlefield and political leaders. These documents are adding a new narrative to the Civil War’s
story, offering insights into the home front and of soldiers, their spouses and African-Americans, often in their own words. Historians, who will have access to the centralized digital collections, are excited by the prospect of what the states are finding and will ultimately share. “I think now we’re broadening the story to include everybody — not just a soldier, not a general or a president — just somebody who found themselves swept up in the biggest drama in American
A makeshift valentine from Confederate soldier Robert H. King to his wife, Louiza life,” says University of Richmond President Edward Ayers, a Civil War expert. “That’s what’s so cool.” In Virginia, archivists have borrowed from the popular PBS series “Antiques Roadshow,” traveling weekends throughout the state and asking residents to share family collections, which are scanned and added to the already
vast collection at the Library of Virginia. Started in September 2010, the Civil War 150 Legacy Project has collected 25,000 images. Virginians have been generous, knowing they can share their long-held mementos without surrendering them, said Laura Drake Davis and Renee Savits, the Library of Virginia archivists who have divided the state for their onthe-road collection campaign. “They think someone can learn from them rather than just sitting in their cupboards,” Savits said of the family possessions. “And they’re proud to share their famSee Civil War, Page A8.
Deceased husband still talks through love letters By The Associated Press FAIRHOPE, Ala. — They fill dresser drawers and spill out of shoeboxes, the ink barely faded — the love letters from sea. “It’s just like he’s talking to me,” says Florence Smith, a petite, 89-year-old perched on the edge of a chair, holding one of the letters written by her late husband during his years with the Merchant Marine. From the time they married in 1943 until Oscar Smith retired from maritime work nearly 40 years later, Oscar wrote his wife on a nearly daily basis when away. They spent the last 20 years of their marriage “in the same house, 24-7,” she says,
and he did not have to write. For Florence, who is 5 feet tall and weighs just under 100 pounds — “he said I was as big as a sack of flour,” she says, smiling — the letters are now a treasure. Oscar died in 2005. “I was going to write these letters yesterday, but the ship was rolling all day long, and it is hard to relax even in bed when a ship is rolling,” says one dated Dec. 26, 1953, from the SS Quisqueya, at Cristobal, Canal Zone. “I hope you received my Xmas message. I meant it for you, the children, and all the folks, so you can wish them all a Merry Christmas, and Happy New Year from me . . . Love, Hubby & Dad.” As Florence picks through
‘The first letter he wrote was no different than the last.’ Florence Smith Fairhope, Ala.
the letters, she marvels again at her husband’s emotional intensity. “The first letter he wrote,” she says, “was no different than the last.” During his times home over the years, they did have time to start a family — and add on. And on. They had nine children, eight of whom survive. “He was home for the birth of all but two,” she says. “Dearest Dreamstuff and all of our little Dreambeams,” he writes in 1953 from Costa Rica, “how’s my gang doing about now . . . As for hubby
and Dad he is doing very well as usual, but as usual, starved for some loving from his wonderful seven.” In 1961 he writes, asking, “How are the nine we love so much?” The letters are filled with admiration for his wife and comments about the children and their activities. There are observations about money — the ambition to buy a house, the need to work longer hours to pay off Christmas bills. And there are tales of the characters he meets on his voyages, the meals he eats,
and other details of the exotic locales where he travels. After writing about a holiday meal in December 1961 on the SS Hibueras, docked in Panama with a stereo playing Bing Crosby’s “White Christmas,” he adds: “Well! Darling I have another first to chalk up in my career. This time an earthquake.” During those years, when Florence was tending the children often on her own, she made all their clothes — she still does seamstress work — and shared the letters from dad. Often, the children got their own letters, too. “When he came home,” Florence says, “they were on See Letters, Page A9.
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Civil War Continued from Page A7. ily’s experience.” Patricia Bangs heeded the call when a friend told her about the project. She had inherited 400 letters passed down through the years between Cecil A. Burleigh to his wife, Caroline, in Mount Carmel, Conn. “I felt this would be useful to researchers, a treasure to somebody,” said Bangs, who works for the library system in Fairfax, Va. In one letter, she said, Cecil writes of Union troops traveling from Connecticut to Washington, crowds cheering them along the way. The letters, like many collected by archivists, are difficult to read. Many are spelled phonetically, and the penmanship can be hard to decipher. Typically, they tell of the story of the home front and its daily deprivations. Researchers in Tennessee, a battleground state in the war, teamed up with Virginia archivists earlier this year in the border town of Bristol. Both states have seen their share of bullets, swords and other military hardware. “We have grandmothers dragging in swords and muskets,” said Chuck Sherrill, Tennessee state librarian and archivist. Documents are fished from attics, pressed between the pages of family bibles and stored in trunks. Wisconsin, Ohio, Indiana, Michigan and many other states have similar programs, or at least are trying to gather materials for use by scholars and regular folks.
Sunday, January 1, 2012 Pennsylvania has been especially ambitious in adding new layers to the state’s deep links to the Civil War, including a traveling exhibit called the “PA Civil War Road Show.” The 53-foot-long museum on wheels also invites visitors to share their ancestors’ stories and artifacts in a recording booth. The remembrances will be uploaded on the website PACivilWar150.com. One visitor brought in a bugle that an ancestor was blowing when he was fatally shot at the Battle of Gettysburg. “He wouldn’t let anyone touch it,” said John Seitter, project manager of the Pennsylvania Civil War project. “It shows you how deeply these artifacts connect people with the Civil War. The George and Ann Richards Civil War Era Center at Penn State is in the middle of a survey of all the public archives in the state to produce a searchable database. The ambitious project aims to shed light on small, underfunded public historical societies where records are often “hidden from historians and scholars” and not used, Matt Isham of the “The People’s Contest: A Civil War Era Digital Archiving Project” wrote in an e-mail.
City man jailed for eluding deputies, wreck A Vicksburg man who had a traffic accident while fleeing Warren County sheriff’s deputies is accused of felony eluding and could face other charges stemming from the incident, Warren County Sheriff Martin Pace said. Pace said Robert Earl Wheatley, 32, 1413 Jackson St., was being held without bond in the Warren County Jail. He said Wheatley could face traffic charges and possible child endangerment charges because Wheatley’s 4-year-old son was in the car. Pace said the case will be presented to the district attorney’s office for review Tuesday. Pace said deputies stopped Wheatley’s car about 11:32 p.m. Friday in the 6500 block of Paxton Road. An out-ofstate license check came back suspended and also that Wheatley had outstanding misdemeanor warrants from Vicksburg police. When a deputy approached Wheatley’s car about the license, Wheatley drove off, Pace said. Wheatley drove south on Mississippi 27, where his car hit the rear of a southbound 1994 Cadillac driven
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by Bianca Larry of Vicksburg that was turning off the highway onto Watkins Road near China Grove Road. After hitting the car, Wheatley got out of his car and fled on foot down China Grove, where he jumped a fence into a pasture, and was caught by deputies, Pace said. Deputies found the child in the front seat of the car after taking Wheatley into custody. The sheriff said the child was not injured and was released to his mother. Larry was treated and released from River Region Medical Center.
Vicksburg man jailed for fleeing police A Vicksburg man was in the Warren County Jail Saturday night accused of felony eluding after leading police on a chase earlier in the day from Interstate 20 at Halls Ferry Road to Speed Street, Vicksburg Police Lt. Sandra Williams said. Lamont P. Rogers, 31, 1950 Hope St., was being held without bond pending an initial appearance in city court. Williams said the chase began after officers received a 911 call after midnight Saturday about a man apparently asleep in his car on the I-20 exit ramp. When officers arrived and woke Rogers, he
drove off, leading police on the 10-minute chase, which ended when he crashed his car on Speed Street, said Williams , who added that no one was injured.
State charge lands city woman in jail A Vicksburg woman faces state charges after her arrest Saturday by Vicksburg police on a Mississippi Department of Corrections warrant for parole violation, Vicksburg police Lt. Sandra Williams said. Dee Leach, 25, 720 Crawford St., was arrested about 1 a.m. Saturday in the Casa Court housing complex off of Elizabeth Circle.
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NASA probe circles the moon on New Year’s Eve PASADENA, Calif. (AP) — As planet Earth rang in the new year, a different kind of countdown was happening at the moon. After a 3 1/2-month journey, a NASA spacecraft flew over the moon’s south pole, fired its engine and dropped into orbit Saturday in the first of two back-to-back arrivals over the New Year’s weekend.
Mission control at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory erupted in cheers and applause after receiving confirmation that the probe was healthy and circling the moon. An engineer was seen on closed-circuit television blowing a noisemaker to herald the New Year’s Eve arrival. “Everything went just as we hoped. The burn was spot-on,”
chief scientist Maria Zuber of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology said in a postmission interview with The Associated Press. The team toasted sparkling cider, but the celebration was brief. Despite the successful maneuver, the work was not over. Its twin still had to enter lunar orbit on New Year’s Day.
The Grail probes — short for Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory — have been cruising independently toward their destination since launching in September aboard the same rocket on a mission to measure lunar gravity. Hours before revelers in Times Square watched the ball drop, Grail-A approached the moon and fired its engine
for about 40 minutes to get captured into orbit. Deep space antennas in the California desert and Madrid and fed real-time updates to ground controllers Grail is the 110th mission to target the moon since the dawn of the Space Age including the six Apollo moon landings that put 12 astronauts on the surface.
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Florence Smith reads one of the letters written by her late husband, Oscar, in Fairhope, Ala. Smith reads time and again the scores of love letters Oscar sent her during his years in the Merchant Marine.
and great-grandchildren come for the holidays, she puts up another sign: “No caps and no cells.” She does not like the idea of everybody sitting around texting. And e-mail? She dismisses it with a wave of her hand. “Y’all won’t have all of this,” she says of the new generation, opening up yet another drawer where Oscar’s letters are stacked. “Y’all are going to miss that. Will anybody have the collection that I have?” All she need do is pluck a single letter out, head back to her chair, and take a seat. Her husband of 62 years is speaking right to her again: Dec. 3, 1953. She reads aloud as he
talks of it being “well on to 6 months since I saw the children last. I know they must be growing. I wonder if the baby would know me now. I guess he would if he looks at my picture, and the picture of the ship, for he must have some recollection of me, bless his little heart.” She also reads of an impending rendezvous: “Well, darling, I can’t think of anything more to say about your trip, so I guess all is in readiness for it. I will be at the station to meet you . . . “Angels, I am going to close now . . . Bye now for a couple of days. Love — Hubby & Dad.”
the White House says, Obama’s political fate will no longer be tied to Washington. “Now that he’s sort of free from having to put out these fires, the president will have a larger playing field. If that includes Congress, all the better,” said Josh Earnest, White House deputy press secretary. But, he added, “that’s no longer a requirement.” Earnest said Obama will come out with at least two or three directives per week, continuing the “We Can’t Wait” campaign the administration began this fall, and try to define Republicans in Congress as gridlocked and dysfunctional. Obama’s election year retreat from legislative fights means this term will end without significant progress on two of his 2008 campaign promises, an immigration overhaul and closing the military prison for terrorist suspects at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Presidential directives probably won’t make a big
dent in the nation’s 8.6 percent unemployment rate or lead to significant improvements in the economy. That’s the chief concern for many voters and the issue on which Republican candidates are most likely to criticize Obama. In focusing on executive actions rather than ambitious legislation, the president risks appearing to be putting election-year strategy ahead of economic action at a time when millions of Americans are still out of work. “Americans expect their elected leaders to work together to boost job creation, even in an election year,” said Brendan Buck, a spokesman for House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio. Still, Obama and his advisers are beginning 2012 with a renewed sense of confidence, buoyed by a series of polls that show the president’s approval rating climbing as Congress becomes increasingly unpopular.
They believe his victory over Republicans in the payroll tax debate has boosted his credentials as a fighter for the middle class, a theme he will look to seize on in his Jan. 24 State of the Union address. Obama’s campaign-driven, domestic-travel schedule starts in Cleveland on Wednesday, the day after GOP presidential hopefuls square off in the Iowa caucuses. He will also keep up an aggressive re-election fundraising schedule, with events already lined up in Chicago on Jan. 11. Campaign officials say Obama will fully engage in the re-election campaign once the Republicans pick their nominee. He will focus almost exclusively on campaigning after the late summer Democratic National Convention, barring unexpected developments at home or abroad. Among the issues that could disrupt Obama’s reelection plans: further economic turmoil in Europe,
instability in North Korea following its leadership transition and threats from Iran. The president’s signature legislative accomplishment will also come under greater scrutiny in the new year, when a critical part of his health care overhaul is debated before the Supreme Court. Obama’s foreign travel next year will be limited mainly to the summits and international gatherings every U.S. president traditionally attends. He’s expected to travel to South Korea in March for a nuclear security summit and to Colombia in April for the Summit of the Americas. He’s also likely to visit Mexico in June for the G-20 economic summit. Two other major international gatherings — the NATO summit and the G-8 economic meeting — will be held in Chicago, on home turf.
On Friday, Dec. 30, 2011, Charles Ray Herrington, dedicated husband and loving father, grandfather and friend, passed away peacefully after a lengthy illness. He was 73. A devout Christian who lived his life faith first, he lived a joyful life and was always eager to share the Word with others. His smile will not fade and his hugs will long be remembered. Mr. Herrington was a past board member of the Vicksburg Transportation Board, the 31st Infantry “Dixie Division, and the McDonald Coffee Club. Mr. Herrington worked for 33 years at the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Waterways Experiment Station as a civil engineer technician. Survivors include his wife, Mildred McMillan Herrington of Vicksburg; a daughter, Rhon Herrington Culicchia (Carl) of Mandeville, La.; a daughter-in-law, Laura Herrington; two grandchildren, Miranda Herrington and Alex Herrington; and two great-grandchildren
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This weather package is compiled from historical records and information provided by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the City of Vicksburg and The Associated Press.
LOCAL FORECAST Monday-Tuesday Sunny Monday, highs in the upper 40s, clear Monday night, lows in the lower 20s; sunny Tuesday, highs near 50
STATE FORECAST TONIGHT mostly clear, lows in the lower 30s
and special family members, Cassie and Bella Grace Moreland. He was preceded in death by his parents, R.B. and Vergia Adcock Herrington; and a son, Mark Daron Herrington. Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. Tuesday, Jan. 3, 2012, at Vicksburg Church of Christ in Vicksburg, with Pastor Eric Welch and Les Ferguson officiating. Burial will be in Greenlawn Gardens Cemetery. Visitation will be Monday, Jan. 2, 2012, from 5 to 7 p.m. at Fisher Funeral Home, and Tuesday from 10 a.m. until the hour of the service at the Vicksburg Church of Christ. Pallbearers will be James A. “Tony” Young, Charles Hinston, Nick Cocilova, James Rouch, Bobby Stanford, Glenn Coutch, Howard McCoy and Sonny Sistrunk. Honorary pallbearers will be Wilson Sistrunk, Dr. Daniel Edney, Dr. Murray Whitaker. Reggie Crawford, the 31st Infantry “Dixie Division,” McDonald Coffee Club, and elders and deacons of Vicksburg Church of Christ.
Ned A. Vollstedt Ned A. Vollstedt of Vicksburg died Friday, Dec. 30, 2011, at his home. He was 57. Mr. Vollstedt was born in Iowa and lived in Vicksburg
for 16 years. He was retired from Grand Gulf Nuclear Station in Port Gibson, where he was a health physicist. He served in the Navy and was a member of the American Legion. He was an ordained minister. He was preceded in death by his father, Lyle Vollstedt; and a stepson, Shawn
Upshaw. Survivors include his wife, Beth Vollstedt of Vicksburg; a stepson, Shane Upshaw; three daughters, Mandy Falh of Ontario, Ore., Tawnia Bush of Carthage, N.Y., and Krystal Vollstedt of Arizona; a stepdaughter, Kim Upshaw of Vicksburg; his mother, Vera M. Vollstedt of Iowa;
two sisters, Becky Vollstedt of Iowa, and Kathy George of St. Louis, Mo.; and three brothers, Steve Vollstedt, Ron Vollstedt and Tim Vollstedt, all of Iowa. A memorial service will be at 11 a.m. Tuesday at Glenwood Funeral Home Chapel. Visitation will be from 9 a.m. to the hour of service.
• Vicksburg • Mr. Ned A. Vollstedt Memorial Service 11:00 a.m. Tuesday Glenwood Chapel Visitation 9:00 till hour of service Memorials to favorite charity
Highs and Lows High/past 24 hours............. 71º Low/past 24 hours............... 34º Average temperature......... 53º Normal this date................... 48º Record low..............10º in 1983 Record high............78º in 1951 Rainfall Recorded at the Vicksburg Water Plant Past 24 hours.................0.0 inch This month..............7.92 inches Total/year.............. 44.89 inches Normal/month......5.95 inches Normal/year........ 52.37 inches Solunar table Most active times for fish and wildlife Monday: A.M. Active..........................11:42 A.M. Most active................. 5:31 P.M. Active..............................N/A P.M. Most active.................. 5:35 Sunrise/sunset Sunset today........................ 5:07 Sunset tomorrow............... 5:08 Sunrise tomorrow.............. 7:04
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Monday-Tuesday Sunny Monday, highs in the upper 40s, clear Monday night, lows in the lower 20s; sunny Tuesday, highs near 50
Obama dent will keep up a robust domestic travel schedule and aggressive campaign fundraising and use executive action to try to boost the economy. Partisan, down-to-thewire fights over allowing the nation to take on more debt and sharply reducing government spending defined 2011. In the new year, there are almost no must-do pieces of legislation facing the president and Congress. The one exception is the looming debate on a fullyear extension of a cut in the Social Security payroll tax rate from 6.2 percent to 4.2 percent. Democrats and Republicans are divided over how to put in place that extension. The White House believes GOP lawmakers boxed themselves in during the preChristmas debate on the tax break and will be hardpressed to back off their own assertions that it should continue through the end of 2012. Once that debate is over,
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Continued from Page A7. their best behavior.” She often wrote him back with long letters, too. Florence is trying to catalog the letters — his and hers — but there are so many. And it is his, after all, that she reads over and again. “Good times, bad times, hurt times, I remember them all,” she says. She is still agile on her feet, moving about the house where some of the 88 descendants often seem to be paying a visit. She keeps a sewing room, where bobbins of thread create a colorful collage above an old Singer sewing machine. “Granny’s Sanctum Sanctorum,” reads a sign she hung there: Granny’s sacred place. When her grandchildren
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Mr. C. Ray Herrington Memorial Service 11:00 a.m. Tuesday Vicksburg Church of Christ Visitation Monday, at funeral home and 10:00 a.m. Tuesday at Vicksburg Church of Christ Burial Greenlawn Gardens Cemetery • Mrs. Patricia Cupit Arrangements to be announced
Stages Mississippi River at Vicksburg Current: 36.8 | Change: -0.5 Flood: 43 feet Yazoo River at Greenwood Current: 25.0 | Change: -0.2 Flood: 35 feet Yazoo River at Yazoo City Current: 24.8 | Change: -0.5 Flood: 29 feet Yazoo River at Belzoni Current: 24.5 | Change: -0.5 Flood: 34 feet Big Black River at West Current: 16.1 | Change: +0.3 Flood: 12 feet Big Black River at Bovina Current: 20.8 | Change: -1.7 Flood: 28 feet StEELE BAYOU Land....................................85.6 River....................................84.8
MISSISSIPPI RIVER Forecast Cairo, Ill. Monday.................................. 38.3 Tuesday.................................. 38.5 Wednesday........................... 38.3 Memphis Monday.................................. 21.6 Tuesday.................................. 21.8 Wednesday........................... 21.9 Greenville Monday.................................. 39.7 Tuesday.................................. 40.0 Wednesday........................... 40.2 Vicksburg Monday.................................. 36.6 Tuesday.................................. 36.8 Wednesday........................... 37.1
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Revellers smile during the New Year celebrations in Hong Kong’s Times Square.
Iraqi leader celebrates U.S. withdrawal BAGHDAD — Iraq’s prime minister hailed the end of the American military presence in Iraq as a new dawn for his country and urged Iraqis to preserve the unity of a nation still under attack by insurgents and beset by sectarian divisions. At a televised celebration in Baghdad on Saturday, Nouri al-Maliki declared Dec. 31 a national holiday marking “a new dawn” in which Iraq would focus on rebuilding a nation shattered by nearly nine years of war. The prime minister sought to credit Iraqis with the overthrow of Saddam Hussein and made no mention of the role played by U.S. forces that invaded in March of 2003. He said the U.S. withdrawal that was completed Dec. 18 was proof of the government’s ability to protect the country’s sovereignty.
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BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS largest opposition groups signed an agreement on setting up a democracy if President Bashar Assad’s autocratic regime falls, opposition figures said Saturday. Burhan Ghalioun, leader of the Syrian National Council, and Haytham Manna of the National Coordination Body for Democratic Change in Syria, or NCB, signed the draft in Cairo on Friday night, according to an NCB statement and Omar Idilbi of the SNC. The United Nations says more than 5,000 people have died as the government has sought to crush the revolt.
Iran backs away from oil threats TEHRAN, Iran — Talk of blocking the strategic oil route through the Strait of Hormuz is a discussion of the past, a commander of
Iran’s Revolutionary Guard said Saturday in comments that seemed to back away from an earlier threat. But he said Iran had other, unspecified strategies for reacting to any Western aggression. “Discourse about closing the Strait of Hormuz belongs to five years ago. Today’s debate in the Islamic Republic of Iran contains new layers and the time has not come to raise it,” Gen. Masoud Jazayeri said in comments posted Saturday on the Guard’s website, sepahnews.com. Vice President Mohamed Reza Rahimi threatened on Tuesday to close the strait, cutting off oil exports, if the West imposes sanctions on Iran’s oil shipments.
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Monday Ticketcity Bowl / Penn St. (9-3) vs. Houston (12-1)/ 11 a.m. ESPNU Tuesday Sugar Bowl / Michigan (10-2) vs. Virginia Tech (11-2)/ 7 p.m. ESPN Monday Outback Bowl / Georgia (10-3) vs. Michigan St. (10-3)/ Noon ABC Wednesday Orange Bowl / West Virginia (9-3) vs. Clemson (10-3)/ 7 p.m. ESPN Monday Gator Bowl / Florida (6-6) vs. Ohio St. (6-6)/ Noon ESPN2
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Nebraska (9-3) vs. South Carolina (10-2)
Oregon (11-2) vs. Wisconsin (11-2)
Stanford (11-1) vs. Oklahoma St. (11-1)
Noon Monday TV: ESPN
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Smashing win Dan Mullen and the Bulldogs hope to build on bowl victory. Story/B4
NFL on TV Noon Fox - Carolina at New Orleans Noon CBS - New York Jets at Miami 3 p.m. Fox - Tampa Bay at Atlanta 3 p.m. CBS - Kansas City at Denver 7:30 p.m. NBC - Dallas at New York Giants
On TV Noon Fox - The New Orleans Saints aim for the yardage record and a possible second seed in the playoffs against the Carolina Panthers in the Superdome. NFL preview/B3
Who’s hot RODNEY HOOD
Mississippi State forward scored 16 points to lead the Bulldogs to a win over Utah on Saturday. Story/B3
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LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) — Freshman Michael Kidd-Gilchrist hesitantly accepted a leadership role at first as the youngest member on No. 3 Kentucky’s prospect-laden roster. Kidd-Gilchrist had season-highs with 24 points and 19 rebounds to lead Kentucky in a roughand-tumble 69-62 victory over No. 4 Louisville on Saturday to extend the nation’s longest home winning streak. “This is what I live for right here. Why? Because I’ve always been that way,” Kidd-Gilchrist said of the physical play that at times turned it into more like a free throw shooting contest with 52 fouls called. “I’m built for this.”
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MLB Padres get Quentin from White Sox SAN DIEGO — Being traded from the Chicago White Sox to his hometown San Diego Padres couldn’t have been any more convenient for All-Star outfielder Carlos Quentin. “I get a call and they said I’ve been traded to San Diego. I’m already here,” Quentin said on a conference call shortly after the trade was announced Saturday. Four years after trading Quentin from Arizona to the White Sox, new Padres general manager Josh Byrnes is bringing him home. Byrnes made his second bold move in two weeks when he acquired Quentin for two prospects. “Trading him is pretty high on my list of regrets,” Byrnes said. “That group in Arizona had a lot of talent. Carlos always stood out for his intensity and his style of play. Having a chance to get him back became very appealing here this offseason.” The trade is expected to bolster San Diego’s offense, which was dreadful as the Padres finished last in the NL West at 71-91, 23 games behind the Diamondbacks. Quentin has four consecutive 20-homer seasons, including 36 in 2008. “Improving our offense is a priority this offseason and the acquisition of Carlos gives us a proven middle-of-the-order bat,” Byrnes said. “We specifically targeted Carlos because of his production and his hard-nosed style of play.” While Quentin started the last two seasons in right field for the White Sox, he’s penciled into left field with the Padres.
NFL Colts players stay home for season finale INDIANAPOLIS — The Colts will play today at Jacksonville without starting guard Joe Reitz or backup linebacker A.J. Edds. Both players stayed home Saturday when the team flew to Florida for Indy’s season finale. Reitz missed practice all week with an undisclosed ankle injury. Edds has an injury to his left foot that has kept him off the field most of December. The Colts also will be without starting linebacker Phillip Wheeler, who was placed on injured reserve this week. Indianapolis (2-13) can clinch the first overall pick in April’s draft with a loss to Jacksonville (4-11).
Vikings CB Sapp cited for misdemeanor assault MINNEAPOLIS — Police say Minnesota Vikings cornerback Benny Sapp has been cited for fifthdegree assault and careless driving, both misdemeanors, after a run-in with security at Children’s Hospital in Minneapolis. Officers were called Friday morning after police say Sapp and his 11-year-old son tried to enter the hospital through a closed entrance. The Star Tribune reports Sapp left his son with a hospital security guard, saying the boy’s mother was inside and he had to go to work.
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BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Jan. 1 1934 — Columbia upsets Stanford 7-0 in the Rose Bowl when Al Barabas scores in the third quarter on a 17-yard hidden-ball play. 1993 — No. 2 Alabama wins its first national championship in 13 years and deprives Miami of its fifth title as the Crimson Tide defense humbles the No. 1 Hurricanes 34-13 in the Sugar Bowl. 2000 — Georgia’s Hap Hines kicks a 21-yard field goal in overtime to complete the greatest comeback in bowl history. The Bulldogs beat Purdue 28-25 after trailing 25-0 early in the second quarter in the Outback Bowl. 2006 — Seattle’s Shaun Alexander sets the NFL mark for touchdowns in a season with 28 and wins the league rushing title with 1,880 yards. He breaks Priest Holmes’ 2003 mark of 27 with a 1-yard run, the 100th touchdown of his career.
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scoreboard NFL AMERICAN CONFERENCE East
W y-New England... 12 N.Y. Jets............. 8 Buffalo................ 6 Miami.................. 5 W y-Houston........... 10 Tennessee.......... 8 Jacksonville........ 4 Indianapolis........ 2 W x-Baltimore......... 11 x-Pittsburgh........ 11 Cincinnati............ 9 Cleveland............ 4 W Denver................ 8 Oakland.............. 8 San Diego.......... 7 Kansas City........ 6
L 3 7 9 10
T 0 0 0 0
South L 5 7 11 13
T 0 0 0 0
North L 4 4 6 11
T 0 0 0 0
West L 7 7 8 9
T 0 0 0 0
Pct .800 .533 .400 .333
PF 464 360 351 310
PA 321 344 385 296
Pct .667 .533 .267 .133
PF 359 302 224 230
PA 255 295 316 411
Pct .733 .733 .600 .267
PF 354 312 328 209
PA 250 218 299 294
Pct .533 .533 .467 .400
PF 306 333 368 205
PA 383 395 351 335
NATIONAL CONFERENCE East
W N.Y. Giants......... 8 Dallas.................. 8 Philadelphia........ 7 Washington......... 5
Pct .533 .533 .467 .333
PF 363 355 362 278
PA 386 316 318 333
Pct .800 .600 .400 .267
PF 502 357 389 263
PA 322 326 384 449
Pct .933 .667 .467 .200
PF 515 433 336 327
PA 318 342 328 432
W L T Pct y-San Francisco.12 3 0 .800 Seattle................ 7 8 0 .467 Arizona............... 7 8 0 .467 St. Louis............. 2 13 0 .133 x-clinched playoff spot y-clinched division ——— Today’s Games Chicago at Minnesota, Noon Carolina at New Orleans, Noon Detroit at Green Bay, Noon San Francisco at St. Louis, Noon Tennessee at Houston, Noon Buffalo at New England, Noon N.Y. Jets at Miami, Noon Indianapolis at Jacksonville, Noon Washington at Philadelphia, Noon San Diego at Oakland, 3:15 p.m. Kansas City at Denver, 3:15 p.m. Seattle at Arizona, 3:15 p.m. Tampa Bay at Atlanta, 3:15 p.m. Baltimore at Cincinnati, 3:15 p.m. Pittsburgh at Cleveland, 3:15 p.m. Dallas at N.Y. Giants, 7:30 p.m.
PF 346 301 289 166
PA 202 292 328 373
W y-New Orleans... 12 x-Atlanta............. 9 Carolina.............. 6 Tampa Bay......... 4 W y-Green Bay....... 14 x-Detroit.............. 10 Chicago.............. 7 Minnesota........... 3
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COLLEGE FOOTBALL UTAH 30, GEORGIA TECH 27, OT
Georgia Tech 0 Utah 7
7 17 0 3 — 27 3 0 14 6 — 30 First Quarter Utah—S.Asiata 1 pass from Hays (Petersen kick), 9:54. Second Quarter GaT—Lyons 36 run (Ju.Moore kick), 11:39. Utah—FG Petersen 25, :15. Third Quarter GaT—FG Ju.Moore 32, 10:27. GaT—S.Hill 31 pass from Washington (Ju.Moore kick), 4:43. GaT—Nealy 74 interception return (Ju.Moore kick), 4:15. Fourth Quarter Utah—Moeai 3 pass from Hays (Petersen kick), 6:50. Utah—Christopher 28 pass from Hays (Petersen kick), 1:32. Overtime GaT—FG Ju.Moore 34. Utah—J.White 8 run. A—48,123. ——— GaT Utah First downs................................19........................14 Rushes-yards.....................56-311.................32-144 Passing....................................137......................193 Comp-Att-Int..................... 11-15-0............... 15-32-1 Return Yards.............................84........................41 Punts-Avg............................5-45.6..................8-49.5 Fumbles-Lost............................3-0.......................2-0 Penalties-Yards......................4-30.....................4-20 Time of Possession.............33:58...................26:02 ——— INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHING—Georgia Tech, Lyons 18-138, Washington 20-96, Peeples 9-59, Jones 5-20, S.Hill 1-2, Perkins 1-(minus 1), O.Smith 1-(minus 1), Team 1-(minus 2). Utah, J.White 26-115, Dunn 2-37, Hays 4-(minus 8). PASSING—Georgia Tech, Washington 11-15-0137. Utah, Hays 15-31-1-193, Christopher 0-1-0-0. RECEIVING—Georgia Tech, Melton 3-19, Jones 3-17, S.Hill 2-35, Lyons 2-8, Peeples 1-58. Utah, S.Asiata 5-57, Christopher 4-74, Moeai 2-8, Matthews 1-31, Rolf 1-20, M.Walker 1-6, J.White 1-(minus 3).
CINCINNATI 31, VANDERBILT 24
Cincinnati Vanderbilt
0 14 0 17 — 31 7 0 7 10 — 24 First Quarter Van—Stacy 7 run (Fowler kick), 7:34. Second Quarter Cin—Winn 69 run (Miliano kick), 14:17. Cin—McClung 8 pass from Collaros (Miliano kick), :12. Third Quarter Van—J.Seymour 5 run (Fowler kick), 3:53. Fourth Quarter Cin—FG Miliano 44, 14:41. Van—Boyd 68 pass from Smith (Fowler kick), 14:03. Cin—Abernathy 90 kickoff return (Miliano kick), 13:51. Cin—Pead 12 run (Miliano kick), 1:52. Van—FG Fowler 35, :24. A—57,103. ——— Cin Van First downs................................20........................14 Rushes-yards.....................44-221.................36-127 Passing......................................80......................168 Comp-Att-Int..................... 12-29-2............... 12-34-2 Return Yards.............................16........................33 Punts-Avg............................7-42.9..................8-42.3 Fumbles-Lost............................3-0.......................2-1 Penalties-Yards......................5-55.....................6-39 Time of Possession.............30:37...................29:14 ——— INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHING—Cincinnati, Pead 28-149, Winn 6-78, McClung 1-4, Team 1-(minus 2), Collaros 8-(minus 8). Vanderbilt, Stacy 18-57, Rodgers 9-33, Kent 1-17, Smith 5-17, J.Seymour 2-5, Team 1-(minus 2). PASSING—Cincinnati, Collaros 12-29-2-80. Vanderbilt, Smith 8-19-1-142, Rodgers 4-14-1-26, Stacy 0-1-0-0. RECEIVING—Cincinnati, Robinson 4-16, Kelce 3-29, Pead 3-15, Chisum 1-12, McClung 1-8. Vanderbilt, Matthews 4-56, Barden 3-20, Boyd 2-69, Stacy 2-11, Tate 1-12.
ILLINOIS 20, UCLA 14
0 3 7 10 — 20 0 7 0 7 — 14 Second Quarter UCLA—Embree 16 pass from Prince (Wallace kick), 10:02. Ill—FG Dimke 36, :00. Third Quarter Ill—Hawthorne 39 interception return (Dimke kick), :43. Fourth Quarter Ill—FG Dimke 37, 12:17. Ill—Jenkins 60 pass from Scheelhaase (Dimke kick), 5:36. UCLA—Rosario 38 pass from Prince (Gonzalez kick), :29. A—0. ——— Ill UCLA First downs................................17........................14 Rushes-yards.....................43-178...................30-18 Passing....................................148......................201 Comp-Att-Int..................... 19-33-1............... 14-29-1 Return Yards.............................70...................... (-1) Punts-Avg............................5-46.0..................8-45.8 Fumbles-Lost............................1-0.......................4-1 Penalties-Yards......................6-51.....................3-15 Time of Possession.............33:46...................26:14 ——— INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHING—Illinois, Scheelhaase 22-110, Young 12-45, Jenkins 1-16, Pollard 4-13, O’Toole 1-1, Team 1-(minus 1), Millines 1-(minus 2), Dimke 1-(minus 4). UCLA, Coleman 9-39, Franklin 8-29, James 2-(minus 6), Team 1-(minus 13), Prince 10-(minus 31). PASSING—Illinois, Scheelhaase 18-30-1-139, O’Toole 0-2-0-0, Millines 1-1-0-9. UCLA, Prince 14-29-1-201. RECEIVING—Illinois, Jenkins 6-80, Lankford 3-25, Millines 2-18, Viliunas 2-15, Young 2-(minus 1), Scheelhaase 1-9, Harris 1-6, Davis 1-0, Pollard 1-(minus 4). UCLA, Fauria 5-36, J.Smith 3-60, Rosario 3-55, Evans 1-29, Embree 1-16, Coleman 1-5.
TEXAS A&M 33, NORTHWESTERN 22
Texas A&M Northwestern
3 17 10 3 — 33 0 7 0 15 — 22 First Quarter TAM—FG Bullock 24, 5:46. Second Quarter NU—Mark 2 run (Budzien kick), 10:12. TAM—Malena 1 run (Bullock kick), 7:58. TAM—Fuller 26 pass from Tannehill (Bullock kick), 1:31. TAM—FG Bullock 40, :00. Third Quarter TAM—Malena 19 run (Bullock kick), 10:00. TAM—FG Bullock 47, 5:59. Fourth Quarter NU—Colter 1 run (Fields pass from Ebert), 11:15. NU—Riley 2 pass from Colter (Budzien kick), 5:22. TAM—FG Bullock 31, :30. A—68,395. ——— TAM NU First downs................................22........................24 Rushes-yards.......................27-80...................38-52 Passing....................................329......................226 Comp-Att-Int..................... 27-40-1............... 27-40-0 Return Yards.............................54........................50 Punts-Avg............................4-45.0..................8-42.1 Fumbles-Lost............................2-0.......................2-0 Penalties-Yards......................7-67.....................8-67 Time of Possession.............26:41...................33:19 ——— INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHING—Texas A&M, Malena 23-77, Tannehill 3-10, R.Swope 1-(minus 7). Northwestern, Colter 17-65, Green 3-13, Mark 3-7, Schmidt 5-6, Persa 10-(minus 39). PASSING—Texas A&M, Tannehill 27-40-1-329. Northwestern, Persa 25-37-0-213, Colter 2-3-0-13. RECEIVING—Texas A&M, R.Swope 8-105, Fuller 7-119, Malena 6-36, Nwachukwu 5-67, Prioleau 1-2. Northwestern, Fields 7-73, Ebert 4-35, Schmidt 4-32, Lawrence 3-28, Colter 3-12, Dunsmore 2-13, Jensen 1-12, Moulton 1-11, Green 1-8, Riley 1-2.
COLLEGE BASKETBALL SOUTHEASTERN CONFERENCE
Conference All Games W L PCT W L PCT Kentucky............. 0 0 .000 13 1 .929 Mississippi St... 0 0 .000 13 2 .867 Florida................. 0 0 .000 11 3 .786 Alabama............. 0 0 .000 10 3 .769 Arkansas............. 0 0 .000 10 3 .769 LSU..................... 0 0 .000 10 3 .769 Auburn................ 0 0 .000 9 3 .750 Ole Miss............ 0 0 .000 9 4 .692 Vanderbilt........... 0 0 .000 9 4 .692 Georgia............... 0 0 .000 9 5 .643 South Carolina... 0 0 .000 7 6 .538 Tennessee.......... 0 0 .000 6 6 .500 .500 Friday’s Games Georgia 58, Delaware St. 51 Auburn 78, Georgia Southern 75 Dayton 62, Ole Miss 50 Arkansas 77, Texas Southern 49 Saturday’s Games Kentucky 69, Louisville 62 South Carolina 72, SC-Upstate 66 Florida 90, Yale 70 Mississippi St. 66, Utah St. 64 Today’s Games No games scheduled ———
CONFERENCE USA
Conference All Games W L PCT W L PCT Southern Miss.. 0 0 .000 13 2 .867 Tulane................. 0 0 .000 12 2 .857 UCF.................... 0 0 .000 10 3 .769 Marshall.............. 0 0 .000 9 3 .750 East Carolina...... 0 0 .000 9 4 .692 Rice.................... 0 0 .000 9 5 .643 SMU.................... 0 0 .000 8 5 .615 Houston.............. 0 0 .000 7 5 .583 Memphis............. 0 0 .000 7 5 .583 Tulsa................... 0 0 .000 7 7 .500 UTEP.................. 0 0 .000 7 7 .500 UAB.................... 0 0 .000 5 7 .417 Friday’s Games Central Florida 64, Rhode Island 54 Houston 94, Texas St. 71 Saturday’s Games East Carolina 91, Virginia-Wise 56 Texas 73, Rice 59 SMU 73, Louisiana Tech 65 Tulane 53, Texas-Pan American 42 Southern Miss 65, McNeese St. 56 UAB 92, Alabama A&M 58 Tulsa 74, TCU 66 Charlotte at Memphis, (n) Today’s Games Akron at Marshall, 3 p.m. ———
SWAC
Conference All Games W L PCT W L PCT Prairie View........ 0 0 .000 4 9 .308 Southern U......... 0 0 .000 4 9 .308 Alcorn St........... 0 0 .000 3 9 .250 Alabama A&M.... 0 0 .000 2 7 .222 Alabama St......... 0 0 .000 2 9 .182 Jackson St........ 0 0 .000 2 10 .167 MVSU................. 0 0 .000 1 11 .083 Texas Southern.. 0 0 .000 1 11 .083 Ark.-Pine Bluff.... 0 0 .000 1 12 .077 Grambling St...... 0 0 .000 0 10 .000 Friday’s Games Arkansas 77, Texas Southern 49 Saturday’s Games Iowa St. 67, Miss. Valley St. 65 New Mexico St. 81, Ark.-Pine Bluff 65 UAB 92, Alabama A&M 58 Today’s Games No games scheduled ———
2011-12 Bowl schedule Dec. 17 New Mexico Bowl.............................................................................Temple 37, Wyoming 15 Dec. 17 Famous Idaho Potato Bowl............................................................. Ohio 24, Utah State 23 Dec. 17 New Orleans Bowl..............................................................La.-Lafayette 32, San Diego St. 30 Dec. 20 Beef ’O’Brady’s Bowl............................................................................ Marshall 20, FIU 10 Dec. 21 Poinsettia Bowl.............................................................................TCU 31, Louisiana Tech 24 Dec. 22 MAACO Bowl..........................................................................Boise State 56, Arizona State 24 Dec. 24 Hawaii Bowl....................................................................................Southern Miss 24, Nevada 17 Dec. 26 Independence Bowl.......................................................................Missouri 41, North Carolina 24 Dec. 27 Little Caesars Pizza Bowl....................................................... Purdue 37,Western Michigan 32 Dec. 27 Belk Bowl............................................................................. North Carolina St. 31, Louisville 24 Dec. 28 Military Bowl........................................................................................... Toledo 42, Air Force 41 Dec. 28 Holiday Bowl............................................................................................ Texas 21, California 10 Dec. 29 Champs Sports Bowl.....................................................................Florida St. 18, Notre Dame 14 Dec. 29 Alamo Bowl.............................................................................................Baylor 67, Washington 56 Dec. Dec. Dec. Dec.
30 30 30 30
Armed Forces Bowl.....................................................................................BYU 24, Tulsa 21 Pinstripe Bowl..................................................................................... Rutgers 27, Iowa State 13 Music City Bowl...........................................................Mississippi State 23, Wake Forest 17 Insight Bowl..............................................................................................Oklahoma 31, Iowa 14
Dec. Dec. Dec. Dec. Dec.
31 31 31 31 31
Meinke Car Care Bowl................................................................ Texas A&M 33, Northwestern 22 Sun Bowl........................................................................................ Utah 30, Georgia Tech 27, OT Liberty Bowl....................................................................................... Cincinnati 31, Vanderbilt 24 Fight Hunger Bowl...................................................................................... Illinois 20, UCLA 14 Chick-fil-A Bowl........................................................................................Auburn 43, Virginia 24
Jan. Jan. Jan. Jan. Jan. Jan.
2 2 2 2 2 2
TicketCity Bowl Capital One Bowl Outback Bowl Gator Bowl Rose Bowl Fiesta Bowl
Penn St. (9-3) vs. Houston (12-1)................... 11 a.m. ESPNU Nebraska (9-3) vs. South Carolina (10-2)....................Noon ESPN Georgia (10-3) vs. Michigan St. (10-3)........................Noon ABC Florida (6-6) vs. Ohio St. (6-6)...........................Noon ESPN2 Oregon (11-2) vs. Wisconsin (11-2).......................4 p.m. ESPN Stanford (11-1) vs. Oklahoma St. (11-1)..............7:30 p.m. ESPN
Jan. 3 Sugar Bowl
Michigan (10-2) vs. Virginia Tech (11-2)...................7 p.m. ESPN
Jan. 4 Orange Bowl
West Virginia (9-3) vs. Clemson (10-3)....................7 p.m. ESPN
Jan. 6 Cotton Bowl
Kansas St. (10-2) vs. Arkansas (10-2)....................7 p.m. Fox
Jan. 7 BBVA Compass Bowl Jan. 8 GoDaddy.com Bowl
Pittsburgh (6-6) vs. SMU (7-5).........................11 a.m. ESPN Arkansas St. (10-2) vs. Northern Illinois (10-3)..............8 p.m. ESPN
Jan. 9 BCS National Championship
LSU (13-0) vs. Alabama (11-1).....................7:30 p.m. ESPN
Top 25 schedule
Washington....................0
Saturday’s Games No. 13 Indiana 74, No. 2 Ohio St. 70 No. 3 Kentucky 69, No. 4 Louisville 62 No. 9 Connecticut 60, St. John’s 57 No. 10 Florida 90, Yale 70 Iowa 72, No. 11 Wisconsin 65 No. 12 Georgetown 49, Providence 40 No. 15 Mississippi St. 66, Utah St. 64 No. 16 Michigan St. 68, Nebraska 55 No. 17 Kansas 84, North Dakota 58 No. 19 UNLV 74, Hawaii 69 No. 21 Creighton 68, Wichita St. 61 No. 24 Harvard 74, Saint Joseph’s 69 Today’s Games No. 1 Syracuse at DePaul, 4 p.m. No. 5 North Carolina vs. Monmouth (NJ), 2 p.m. No. 7 Duke vs. Pennsylvania, 5 p.m. No. 14 Marquette vs. Villanova, Noon No. 18 Michigan vs. Minnesota, 3 p.m. No. 22 Pittsburgh vs. Cincinnati, 6 p.m. ———
Mississippi college schedule
Saturday’s Games Iowa St. 67, Miss. Valley St. 65 Mississippi St. 66, Utah St. 64 Southern Miss 65, McNeese St. 56 Today’s Games No games scheduled
SOUTHERN MISS 65, MCNEESE ST. 56
MISSISSIPPI ST. 66, UTAH ST. 64
UTAH ST. (8-6) Grim 5-11 0-0 10, Reed 3-8 2-4 8, Pane 5-9 0-0 11, Berger 1-4 0-0 2, Medlin 5-9 4-5 15, Clifford 3-5 0-0 7, Thoseby 0-1 0-0 0, Farris 2-3 0-0 5, Bruneel 2-3 0-0 4, Stone 1-3 0-0 2. Totals 27-56 6-9 64. MISSISSIPPI ST. (13-2) Sidney 6-8 0-1 13, Moultrie 6-13 3-5 15, Steele 2-5 0-0 6, Bost 1-10 2-2 5, Hood 7-16 0-0 16, Bryant 2-4 0-2 4, Lewis 0-2 0-0 0, D. Smith 2-2 2-2 7. Totals 26-60 7-12 66. Halftime—Mississippi St. 32-29. 3-Point Goals— Utah St. 4-11 (Farris 1-1, Clifford 1-2, Pane 1-2, Medlin 1-4, Berger 0-2), Mississippi St. 7-16 (Steele 2-4, Hood 2-5, Sidney 1-1, D. Smith 1-1, Bost 1-3, Bryant 0-1, Moultrie 0-1). Fouled Out— Pane. Rebounds—Utah St. 31 (Clifford, Grim 7), Mississippi St. 35 (Moultrie 10). Assists—Utah St. 9 (Grim, Pane 3), Mississippi St. 14 (Bost, D. Smith 4). Total Fouls—Utah St. 17, Mississippi St. 9. Technical—Bost. A—7,385.
LSU 69, GRAMBLING ST. 37
GRAMBLING ST. (0-10) Wheeler 0-0 0-0 0, Danridge 0-4 0-0 0, Rogers 3-11 0-0 8, Dorsett 0-4 4-4 4, Roberts 7-23 4-6 19, Livas 0-1 0-0 0, Purvis 0-3 0-0 0, Roberson 3-11 0-0 6. Totals 13-57 8-10 37. LSU (10-3) O’Bryant 5-7 0-0 10, Ludwig 3-8 0-0 7, Hamilton 4-11 1-1 9, Hickey 2-5 0-0 4, Turner 3-5 0-0 9, Bass 1-2 0-0 2, White 2-6 0-0 4, Courtney 5-8 0-0 14, Warren 2-6 2-4 6, Isaac 1-9 0-0 2, Del Piero 1-4 0-0 2. Totals 29-71 3-5 69. Halftime—LSU 33-20. 3-Point Goals—Grambling St. 3-9 (Rogers 2-5, Roberts 1-4), LSU 8-18 (Courtney 4-7, Turner 3-4, Ludwig 1-4, Hickey 0-1, Isaac 0-2). Fouled Out—Roberson. Rebounds—Grambling St. 38 (Purvis, Roberson 8), LSU 51 (Bass, Hamilton, Ludwig, Warren 7). Assists—Grambling St. 4 (Rogers 2), LSU 20 (Hickey 5). Total Fouls—Grambling St. 11, LSU 10. A—8,612.
NBA EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division L 2 2 2 3 3
Pct .500 .333 .333 .250 .250
Southeast Division
W Miami.............................4 Atlanta...........................3 Orlando..........................3 Charlotte........................1
L 0 1 1 2
W Indiana...........................3 Chicago.........................3 Milwaukee......................2 Cleveland.......................1 Detroit............................1
L 1 1 1 2 3
GB — 1/2 1/2 1 1
Pct GB 1.000 — .750 1 .750 1 .333 2 1/2
.000
3 1/2
Pct .750 .750 .667 .333 .250
GB — — 1/2 1 1/2 2
WESTERN CONFERENCE Southwest Division
W San Antonio...................3 New Orleans.................2 Houston.........................2 Memphis........................1 Dallas.............................1
L 1 1 2 2 3
Pct .750 .667 .500 .333 .250
GB — 1/2 1 1 1/2 2
Northwest Division
W Oklahoma City...............5 Portland.........................3 Denver...........................2 Utah...............................1 Minnesota......................0
L 0 0 2 3 3
Pacific Division
SOUTHERN MISS (13-2) Pelham 2-3 4-5 8, Page 8-12 7-7 29, Bolden 1-8 4-4 6, McGill 0-1 0-0 0, Johnson 2-7 0-0 4, Dodson 1-8 4-4 6, Watson 2-6 7-10 12, Jenkins 0-1 0-0 0, Mills 0-3 0-0 0. Totals 16-49 26-30 65. MCNEESE ST. (4-8) P. Richard 5-16 4-6 14, D. Richard 2-3 0-0 4, Turner 10-12 2-4 22, Mitchell 2-11 1-2 7, Cannon 2-13 0-0 6, Hardy 0-6 0-0 0, Fields 0-0 0-0 0, McFerrin 0-0 3-5 3, Guidry 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 21-61 10-17 56. Halftime—Southern Miss 32-22. 3-Point Goals— Southern Miss 7-18 (Page 6-9, Watson 1-4, Bolden 0-1, Johnson 0-2, Dodson 0-2), McNeese St. 4-12 (Mitchell 2-4, Cannon 2-5, P. Richard 0-3). Fouled Out—Mitchell. Rebounds—Southern Miss 38 (Pelham 8), McNeese St. 42 (Turner 18). Assists—Southern Miss 8 (Watson 4), McNeese St. 6 (P. Richard 3). Total Fouls—Southern Miss 18, McNeese St. 22. A—986.
W New York.......................2 Toronto..........................1 Philadelphia...................1 New Jersey...................1 Boston...........................1
3
Central Division
W Golden State.................2 L.A. Lakers....................3 L.A. Clippers..................1 Sacramento...................1 Phoenix..........................1
L 1 2 2 3 3
Pct GB 1.000 — 1.000 1 .500 2 1/2 .250 3 1/2 .000 4 Pct .667 .600 .333 .250 .250
Friday’s Games Orlando 100, Charlotte 79 Indiana 98, Cleveland 91, OT Boston 96, Detroit 85 Atlanta 105, New Jersey 98 Phoenix 93, New Orleans 78 Miami 103, Minnesota 101 Memphis 113, Houston 93 Dallas 99, Toronto 86 Milwaukee 102, Washington 81 Utah 102, Philadelphia 99 Chicago 114, L.A. Clippers 101 Saturday’s Games L.A. Lakers 92, Denver 89 Detroit 96, Indiana 88 Houston 95, Atlanta 84 New York 114, Sacramento 92 Oklahoma City 107, Phoenix 97 San Antonio 104, Utah 89 Philadelphia at Golden State, (n) Today’s Games New Jersey at Cleveland, 5 p.m. Charlotte at Miami, 5 p.m. Toronto at Orlando, 5 p.m. Boston at Washington, 5 p.m. Dallas at Minnesota, 6 p.m. L.A. Lakers at Denver, 7 p.m. Memphis at Chicago, 7 p.m. New Orleans at Sacramento, 8 p.m. Portland at L.A. Clippers, 8:30 p.m. Monday’s Games Golden State at Phoenix, 2:30 p.m. Washington at Boston, 6:30 p.m. Indiana at New Jersey, 6:30 p.m. Orlando at Detroit, 6:30 p.m. Atlanta at Miami, 6:30 p.m. Toronto at New York, 6:30 p.m. San Antonio at Minnesota, 7 p.m. Oklahoma City at Dallas, 7:30 p.m. Milwaukee at Denver, 8 p.m. New Orleans at Utah, 8 p.m.
LOTTERY Sunday’s drawing No drawing Monday’s drawing La. Pick 3: 9-6-8 La. Pick 4: 0-1-8-2 Tuesday’s drawing La. Pick 3: 0-5-6 La. Pick 4: 8-1-0-9 Wednesday’s drawing La. Pick 3: 8-7-8 La. Pick 4: 9-0-9-5 Easy 5: 1-32-33-35-36 La. Lotto: 5-13-15-29-30-36 Powerball: 16-21-27-41-45 Powerball: 14; Power play: 2 Thursday’s drawing La. Pick 3: 5-1-0 La. Pick 4: 4-3-4-3 Friday’s drawing La. Pick 3: 9-9-5 La. Pick 4: 8-5-4-0 Saturday’s drawing La. Pick 3: 9-3-9 La. Pick 4: 0-9-6-6 Easy 5: 3-9-11-15-35 La. Lotto: 3-6-9-17-24-35 Powerball: 5-23-25-28-40 Powerball: 34; Power play: 4
GB — — 1 1 1/2 1 1/2
Sunday, January 1, 2012
The Vicksburg Post
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Saints take aim at first-round bye By Brett Martel The Associated Press
The associated press
New Orleans Saints quarterback Drew Brees celebrates a touchdown by running back Pierre Thomas last week.
NEW ORLEANS — Sean Payton has spent the past year regretting how he handled the Saints’ 2010 regularseason finale. He hopes he can get it right this time when New Orleans (12-3) hosts the Carolina Panthers (6-9). As the 2011 season comes to a close, Payton’s dilemma is similar to one he faced when the Saints closed out last season with a loss to Tampa Bay that turned out to have no effect on playoff seeding, but was costly nonetheless because of injuries to emerging tight end Jimmy Graham, starting safety Malcolm Jenkins and then-leading rusher Chris Ivory. The next week, the short-
NFL on TV Noon Fox - Carolina at New Orleans Noon CBS - New York Jets at Miami 3 p.m. Fox - Tampa Bay at Atlanta 3 p.m. CBS - Kansas City at Denver 7:30 p.m. NBC - Dallas at New York Giants handed Saints opened the playoffs in Seattle and went home with a loss. Today, the Saints could climb as high as the No. 2 seed in the NFC — worth a bye and a second-round home game — if they win, but only if heavily favored San Francisco also loses at 2-13 St. Louis. While Payton has been
known to say one thing during the week and do another on game day, it sounds as though he’s preparing top players for significant action — regardless of out-of-town scores — with the aim of riding the momentum of an eight-game winning streak into the playoffs. “We talked about it at length,” Payton said. “We’re going to play all of our guys. There’s still seeding at stake. I know it’s similar to a year ago. I think we’re getting better as a team week to week right now, and there’s a value in that. ...That progress might be something we need going into this postseason.” There are also matters of pride. The Saints’ offense has been a history-making group this season. Drew Brees last Monday night took over the
NFL single-season record for yards passing with 5,087, eclipsing Dan Marino’s 1984 mark of 5,084. Although it took 27 years for Marino’s mark to fall, New England’s Tom Brady is one game away from passing Brees if the Saints quarterback either doesn’t play well or sits out a significant portion of the game against Carolina. Meanwhile, the Saints also are only 219 yards from breaking the 2000 Rams’ NFL record 7,075 offensive yards in a season. The Saints also have a chance to finish a regular season with a perfect home record for the first time. Panthers coach Ron Rivera said he will prepare for New Orleans’ best, but would understand if Payton played it safe and limited playing time for some of his stars.
college basketball
Bulldogs escape upset bid by Aggies Cyclones hold
off Delta Devils
By David Brandt The Associated Press STARKVILLE — Mississippi State coach Rick Stansbury shook a few hands and then hustled off the court following his team’s 66-64 victory over Utah State on Saturday. It was almost as if he was worried the referees would call everybody back for one more possession. Coming off a tough loss to No. 6 Baylor, Stansbury had a feeling this would be a very dangerous game for the 15thranked Bulldogs. He was absolutely right. “We weren’t at our best from the tip — from the first possession,” Stansbury said. “You have some guys not feeling great, the emotion of Baylor and then put them against a very good Utah State team and that’s what you get — a one-possession game. We’re lucky we found a way to win it.” Rodney Hood scored 16 points and Arnett Moultrie had 15 and Mississippi State (13-2) needed a defensive stop on its final possession to seal the win. Utah State’s Danny Berger missed a 3-pointer as time expired that would have won the game. Renardo Sidney added 13 points on 6-of-8 shooting from the field. Moultrie had 10 rebounds for his eighth double-double of the season. Stansbury said both players had a sinus infection but fought through the sickness to post good numbers. Utah State (8-6) had its fourgame winning streak snapped. Preston Medlin led the Aggies with 15 points, Brockeith Pane added 11 and Morgan Grim had 10. The Aggies have played in three straight NCAA Tournaments, but lost several starters from last season’s team. They still had plenty of talent to make things difficult for the Bulldogs. “We made some errors down the stretch,” Utah State coach Stew Morrill said. “I’m pleased that we were in the game, but we’ve had enough success in our program that we’re not
rogelio solis•The associated press
Mississippi State guard Dee Bost shoots past Utah State guard Brockeith Pane in the second half Saturday. Mississippi State won 66-64. going to feel good about losing a game like that. That was a game we could have won.” Mississippi State’s Dee Bost had four assists to become the school’s career leader, passing Derrick Zimmerman’s record of 514. But Bost struggled for most of the game, shooting just 1 of 10 from the field. He’s struggled over his past four games, shooting just 11 of 52 from the field. “Lately, I’ve been play-
ing bad, but other guys have been stepping up,” Bost said. “That’s the luxury we have.” Mississippi State was coming off Wednesday’s 54-52 loss to Baylor in Dallas — a muchanticipated, emotional game that came down to the final seconds. The Bulldogs looked less enthused in front of a half-full and only partly interested Humphrey Coliseum crowd on Saturday, and their performance in the first half
reflected that malaise. Utah State pulled ahead 15-6 midway through the first half as Mississippi State missed shots, made sloppy passes and blew defensive assignments, but the Bulldogs eventually responded with a 13-4 run that tied the game at 19. Sidney’s 3-pointer with 27 seconds remaining in the half gave Mississippi State a 32-29 lead.
Huskies clip Bulls despite missing coach By The Associated Press No. 9 Connecticut got a much-needed spark from Jeremy Lamb, who made sure the Huskies found a way to hold off South Florida in its Big East opener without suspended coach Jim Calhoun. Lamb scored 16 of his 23 points in the second half and had a jumper and three free throws over the final 1:46 to help the Huskies (11-1, 1-0) beat the Bulls 60-57 on Wednesday night for their sixth consecutive victory. Calhoun did not make the trip to Tampa, remaining behind as he began serving a three-game suspension by the NCAA for failing to create
an atmosphere of compliance within the program. Assistant coach George Blaney, a former head coach at Holy Cross and Seton Hall, is leading the defending national champions during the ban. Andre Drummond had 16 points and 11 rebounds and Jeremy Lamb added 15 points for UConn (12-1, 2-0 Big East), which shot 60 percent from the field to win its seventh straight game. Freshman D’Angelo Harrison had 17 points, and God’sgift Achiuwa and Moe Harkless each added 16 for St. John’s (7-6, 1-1).
Florida 90, Yale 70 Kenny Boynton’s 26 points
led Florida less than 40 hours after the Gators were upset at Rutgers.
Mich. St. 68, Nebraska 55
Iowa 72, Wisconsin 65
Draymond Green scored 19 points and Keith Appling had eight of his 14 in the last 7 minutes to lead 16th-ranked Michigan State to its 13th straight victory.
Freshman reserve Aaron White scored 16 of his 18 points in the second half and Iowa snapped 11th-ranked Wisconsin’s six-game winning streak.
Georgetown 49, Providence 40 Henry Sims scored five of his 11 points in the final 7 minutes for No. 12 Georgetown, which blew a 14-point lead and shot a season-low 30 percent.
Kansas 84, N.Dakota 58 Thomas Robinson posted career-bests with 30 points and 21 rebounds for 17thranked Kansas. North Dakota (5-8) had no answer for the 6-foot-10 Robinson. With 12 points and 10 rebounds, the junior had socked away his Big 12-leading ninth doubledouble by halftime.
AMES, Iowa (AP) — Iowa State’s run of glorified exhibitions and scattered tests are over, as Big 12 play starts next week. The Cyclones will have to play much better than they did on Saturday to have a chance in one of the nation’s toughest leagues. Melvin Ejim scored 15 points and grabbed 15 rebounds and Iowa State closed out nonconference play by with a thoroughly unimpressive 67-65 win over woeful Mississippi Valley State. Scott Christopherson added 11 points for the Cyclones (10-3), who’ve now won five straight heading into Big 12 play. But they let one of the worst Division I teams in the country hang around until the end, a fact that disgusted coach Fred Hoiberg so much that he slammed a table as hard as he could in his postgame press conference. Iowa State’s defensive effort, which appeared to have improved over the past few weeks, had once again flummoxed the often-unflappable Hoiberg. “Instead of buckling down, hitting the table and getting ready to get stops, we don’t do it,” said Hoiberg as he banged a table for emphasis. “We stand straight up and down, guys drive right by us. It’s as a frustrating a thing as I can tell you guys.” Iowa State shot just 34.4 percent, allowing the Delta Devils to pull with 62-59 with 1:19 left. But the Cyclones’ defense finally came up with a big stop, and Ejim buried two free throws with 12.1 seconds left. Cor-J Cox’s 3 pulled the Delta Devils within two, but it came at the buzzer. Terrence Joyner had 14 points for Mississippi Valley State (1-11), which dropped its seventh straight game. The Delta Devils, like many teams in the Southwestern Athletic Conference, have played an utterly brutal schedule so far. Saturday’s matinee
in Ames came on the heels of trips to Arkansas, Northwestern, Ole Miss, Florida and Wisconsin. Iowa State star Royce White played just three minutes as he struggled with flu-like symptoms so bad that Hoiberg said he was vomiting in the hallway outside of Iowa State’s locker room, and the Cyclones struggled mightily without their best player. Without White, Iowa State’s leading scorer and rebounder, the Cyclones took longer to put away Mississippi Valley State than previous highmajor opponents. The Delta Devils cut Iowa State’s lead to 47-37 midway through the second half on a Terrance Joyner 3-pointer, and Kevin Burwell’s 3 pulled Mississippi Valley State within 47-42. Mississippi Valley State got as close as 54-49 with 5:38 left, but Ejim answered with a 3 and the Cyclones were able to hold off the Delta Devils — but just barely — the rest of the way.
Southern Miss 65, McNeese State 56 LAKE CHARLES, La. (AP) — LaShay Page scored 29 points as Southern Miss won its ninth straight game, pulling away from McNeese State late in the first half for a victory. The Golden Eagles (13-2) never trailed, although the score was tied three times early. Leading 20-19 with 4:11 left until halftime, Southern Miss went on a 12-3 run. The Golden Eagles then held on despite shooting only 20 percent from the field in the second half (5 of 25), including 0 of 7 3-pointers. Southern Miss scored more second-half points from the free-throw line, hitting 23 of 27. A layup by Rudy Turner got the Cowboys (4-8) within four, at 52-48 with 3:58 remaining, but they could get no closer. The Golden Eagles made 9 of 10 free throws in the last 2 minutes.
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Bulldogs ready to ride momentum into 2012 NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Capping a tough season playing in the Southeastern Conference with a bowl victory means the Mississippi State Bulldogs are celebrating how they finished rather than lamenting what might have been. Senior Vick Ballard ran for 180 yards and the two longest touchdowns in the Bulldogs’ bowl history, and Mississippi State beat Wake Forest 23-17 on Friday night in the Music City Bowl. The Bulldogs have won five straight bowls, two under coach Dan Mullen. “It’s big for the team and Mississippi State University because we go out with a winning season and going to a great bowl game,” Ballard said. Mississippi State’s losses came to teams ranked either at the time of the game or going into the postseason, including three ranked in the Top 10 — all in the SEC West. Now the Bulldogs (7-6) have won consecutive bowls for only the second time and first since 1999-2000. Two of the
Bulldogs’ losses came to LSU and Alabama, who will play in the BCS national championship game Jan. 9. Coach Dan Mullen said this win will propel the Bulldogs into the offseason, and their goal remains winning an SEC title. “In the Southeastern Conference, that next step is a huge step to go play for that championship,” Mullen said. “Look, the SEC West championship will be decided at the national championship game this year, I guess. That’s the next step in this program, and that’s a big step for us. But I think the players coming in now can see there is that light at the end of the tunnel.” Mississippi State overcame four turnovers thanks to Ballard’s long TD runs and six sacks — its highest total since piling up seven in a win over Florida in 2000. “We thought they were going to bring the heat,” Wake
Forest coach Jim Grobe said. “At times, we just didn’t protect as well as we could.” Wake Forest (6-7) snapped a two-game bowl winning streak. The Demon Deacons of the Atlantic Coast Conference have lost both bowls against the SEC and finished the season with losses in five of their last six games. They did double their win total of 2010. Chris Relf started for the Bulldogs and played the whole game with Tyler Russell limited by a sprained knee. Relf ran for 64 yards and threw for 129 yards and a TD with two interceptions. Mullen said Russell would have played if something happened to Relf. The Demon Deacons, who held the ball for more than 35 minutes, tried to rally. They converted two fourth downs before Brandon Maye sacked Tanner Price for the sixth time, forcing Wake Forest to kick a 46-yard field
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Mississippi State Bulldogs defensive lineman Fletcher Cox tackles Wake Forest Demon Deacons quarterback Tanner Price during the Music City Bowl Friday. goal to pull to 23-17 with 3:27 left. Wake Forest forced Mississippi State to punt, getting the ball back with 2:15 to go. But Price threw incomplete on three straight passes, the last to Terrence Davis on fourthand-7 with 1:40 left. “All in all, we had our chances,” Grobe said. “We
just didn’t take advantage of them.” That had Bulldogs fans clanking their cowbells and chanting “S-E-C! S-E-C!” as Mississippi State ran out the clock. The Bulldogs picked up their trophy, then went to the edge of the stands to start high-fiving fans.
Ballard came just shy of Walter Packer’s school-record of 183 yards rushing in the 1974 Sun Bowl against North Carolina. The senior more than compensated for a first-quarter fumble that led to Wake Forest’s first TD and only lead with his 60-yard TD run.
Aggies hold off late Northwestern rally By The Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — Northwestern’s comeback attempt came too late and doomed the Wildcats to yet another bowl loss. Ryan Tannehill threw for 329 yards and a touchdown and Ben Malena ran for two more scores to lead Texas A&M to a 33-22 win over Northwestern on Saturday in the Meineke Car Care Bowl. Northwestern hasn’t won a bowl game since the 1949 Rose Bowl, a span of nine losses. Heading into the game, players and coaches spoke of “getting the monkey off” their backs and ending the losing streak. “We failed in that regard,” quarterback Dan Persa said. “We let everyone down and we know it.” The Wildcats had dropped three close ones in the postseason before Saturday’s loss, losing in overtime two years straight before last year’s one touchdown loss to Texas Tech in the TicketCity Bowl. Northwestern coach Pat Fitzgerald, who has coached the team in each of those recent bowls, said this loss wasn’t any more difficult than the others. “They all stink,” he said. “They are all awful. It’s frustrating. We will worry about that next postseason. We have to play more soundly. We have to execute more consistently.” The Aggies, which snapped a five-game bowl losing streak, were up 30-7 before Brian Peters intercepted Tannehill early in the fourth quarter and the Wildcats took advantage of that mistake when Kain Colter scored on a 1-yard run for Northwestern’s first points since early in the second quarter. The 2-point conversion left A&M ahead 30-15. Colter found Tim Riley in the corner of the end zone for on a 2-yard touchdown pass to get Northwestern within 30-22 with less than six minutes remaining. Persa, who threw for 213 yards, said the difference on the two fourth-quarter drives was his offensive line’s ability to win one-on-one battles and his doing a better job of getting rid of the ball. Persa set an NCAA record for career completion percentage (73.6) by going 25 of 37 to end his career 460 of 633. He entered the game needing 19 attempts to meet the minimum standards to
Auburn running back Onterio McCalebb (23) rushes against Virginia’s Matt Conrath (94), LaRoy Reynolds (9) and Corey Mosley (7) during the Chick-fil-A Bowl.
Auburn crushes Cavaliers in Atlanta By The Associated Press
Cincinnati running back Isaiah Pead celebrates his 12-yard touchdown run against Vanderbilt in the Liberty Bowl Saturday. Pead rushed for 149 yards as Cincinnati won 31-24. qualify for the record. A&M responded with a clock-eating drive capped by a 31-yard field goal to secure the win after Northwestern cut the lead to eight. “They made the plays that winners make,” Fitzgerald said. “We ran out of time there at the end.” Senior Jeff Fuller, who has had a disappointing and injury-plagued year, had a key third down catch for 29 yards on that drive and finished with a season-high 119 yards receiving. “It stings because we needed to ball back to ... try to win the game,” Peters said of A&M’s third down conversions on that drive. Malena ran for 77 yards, filling in ably for Cyrus Gray, who missed his second straight game with a stress fracture in his left shoulder. A&M won a bowl for the first time since a 28-9 victory over TCU after the 2001 season. That also came in Houston, when this game
was called the Galleryfurniture.com bowl and played next door at the Astrodome. Texas A&M erased a 7-3 second quarter deficit thanks to touchdowns by Malena and Fuller and a field goal by Randy Bullock to lead 20-7 at halftime. Malena’s second touchdown came on a 19-yard run early in the third quarter that made it 27-7. Another field goal by Bullock, this one from 47 yards, pushed A&M’s advantage to 30-7.
modores led 21-17 when Abernathy became the first Cincinnati player to return a kickoff for a TD in the program’s 13 bowl appearances. Vandy’s Archibald Barnes blocked Tony Miliano’s 39-yard field goal with 3:58 left, giving the Commodores the ball with plenty of time to go ahead. Nick Temple picked off a Larry Smith pass with 3:15 remaining, and Pead sealed the victory with a 12-yard TD run with 1:52 left.
Cincinnati 31, Vandy 24 Utah 30, Ga. Tech 27, OT MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Isaiah Pead ran for 149 yards and a touchdown, and Ralph David Abernathy IV’s 90-yard kickoff return early in the fourth quarter put Cincinnati ahead to stay. The Bearcats (10-3) capped the season with their third straight victory. But the co-Big East Conference champs had to work to put away Vanderbilt (6-7), a team that tied for fourth in the Southeastern Conference, despite forcing three turnovers and coming up with two sacks. The Com-
EL PASO, Texas (AP) — John White plowed into the end zone from 8 yards out to give Utah a victory. Justin Moore kicked a 34-yard field goal in Georgia Tech’s overtime possession to take a three-point lead, but White finished a 115-yard rushing day with the gamewinning score on his 26th carry. The Utes (8-5) tied it in regulation when Jon Hays hit DeVonte Christopher with a 28-yard touchdown pass on fourth-and-14 with 1:32 left in the fourth quarter.
ATLANTA (AP) — Playing without its top quarterback and running back, Auburn used tandems at each position to set a season scoring high and beat Virginia 43-24 in the Chick-fil-A Bowl on Saturday night. Auburn was without running back Mike Dyer, who was suspended for an undisclosed rules violation. Quarterback Clint Moseley left with an ankle injury early in the first quarter. Onterio McCalebb, who said this week he wanted to “show everybody I can do it all,” scored on a 3-yard run and 25-yard catch while starting for Dyer. McCalebb had 109 yards rushing. Tre Mason added 64 yards rushing, including a 22-yard scoring run. The offensive outburst came in Auburn’s last game with offensive coordinator Gus Malzahn, who has been hired as the Arkansas State coach. Barrett Trotter passed for 175 yards and a touchdown while sharing time with Kiehl Frazier, who ran for two touchdowns. Auburn (8-5) also had big plays on special teams, blocking two punts and recovering an onside kick. Kris Burd caught two touchdown passes for Virginia (8-5). One year after winning the national championship — and losing Heisman Trophy winner Cam Newton — Auburn absorbed lopsided losses to LSU, Georgia and
Alabama in the second half of the regular season. After the loss to Alabama, defensive coordinator Ted Roof left for the same post at Central Florida. While Malzahn stayed with Auburn for the bowl game, coach Gene Chizik took control of the defense. Moseley limped off the field with an injured right ankle after the Tigers’ second possession. He did not return. Trotter, a junior, started the first seven games before losing his job to Moseley. He made a triumphant return to prominence against Virginia, completing 11 of 18 passes for 175 yards and a touchdown. Frazier, a freshman, had 16 carries for 55 yards and two touchdowns.
Illinois 20, UCLA 14 SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Terry Hawthorne returned an interception 39 yards for Illinois’ first touchdown late in the third quarter and Illini snapped a six-game losing streak. Nathan Scheelhaase added a 60-yard touchdown pass to A.J. Jenkins midway through the fourth quarter to seal the first victory for Illinois (7-6) since beating Indiana 12 weeks ago. The game between two sixwin teams who have already fired their head coaches matched the underwhelming expectations as there was little excitement before Hawthorne’s third-quarter touchdown that gave Illinois its first lead.
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2011 was year of turmoil in sports By Nancy Armour The Associated Press Even after all the turmoil 2011 brought to sports, what with the NBA and NFL players and owners huddling with lawyers and accountants, more unsettling reports of brains ravaged by hard hits, and college players being given cash, tattoos, access to strip clubs and pretty much anything else you can imagine, the games still mattered. Until November. In less than two weeks, allegations of child sex abuse at Penn State and then at Syracuse shook both schools to the core, cost Joe Paterno his job and left us all with the searing question of whether our love for sports has helped corrupt what were once such simple games. “I think there is a disillusionment there, but I think it’s reality. We haven’t seen behind the curtain before,” said Jarrod Chin, director for training and curriculum at the Center for Sport in Society at Northeastern University. “We’ve used sport as a way to ignore problems. But now what we’re seeing is they exist there, too. “That’s what makes it the worst year in sports. What people are coming to realize is the thing we thought was such a great escape has a lot of the same issues we’re trying to escape from.” In sports, most years are defined by their triumphs. Golf’s latest phenom, Rory McIlroy, winning his first major at the U.S. Open, perhaps. Or Aaron Rodgers and the Green Bay Packers following up their Super Bowl victory by flirting with a perfect season. Maybe Novak Djokovic’s utter dominance of the tennis world, a 70-6 record that included victories at the Australian Open, Wimbledon and U.S. Open. Even in years tainted by steroids or labor strife, there was always someone or some per-
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The ouster of one of America’s most revered coaches, Penn State’s Joe Paterno, after shocking child sex abuse charges against his former assistant was overwhelmingly voted the sports story of the year by members of The Associated Press. formance that stood tall. Not this year. The lasting memories of 2011 will be of mug shots and court rooms, millionaires squabbling with billionaires, and big red Xs drawn through the first two months of the NBA schedule. Sixteen games were pared off each NBA team’s schedule because of drawn-out labor negotiations, while the NFL wasted its summer vacation in conference rooms and mediation sessions. “We have this arena where sport is pure, sport has been sanitized,” said Gary Sailes, a professor of sport sociology at Indiana University. “That’s just not the case.” That illusion was shattered for good by the charges against former Penn State defensive coordinator and one-time Paterno heir apparent Jerry Sandusky. Once cherished in the Penn State community for his ferocious defenses and apparent devotion to at-risk children, Sandusky now faces more than 50 charges of sexually abusing 10 boys over a 12-year
span. Prosecutors say Sandusky used his Nittany Lions connections to groom his victims, and some of the alleged assaults occurred on Penn State property. Sandusky has denied the allegations, telling NBC and The New York Times that he showered and horsed around with boys but never sexually abused them. An emotional and lurid trial is a safe bet for 2012. The shock of the initial charges quickly turned to anger as details emerged that Penn State officials — Paterno included — knew of an alleged assault in 2002 but never called police. Receivers coach Mike McQueary testified that, as a graduate assistant, he believes he saw Sandusky raping a boy of about 10 or 12 in the Penn State showers. McQueary reported the incident to Paterno, who in turn told Penn State athletic director Tim Curley and university vice president Gary Schultz. Though Paterno said McQueary was not as explicit in his description of what hap-
pened as he was in his grand jury testimony, criticism over the now 85-year-old coach’s failure to do more intensified before Penn State’s board of trustees fired him Nov. 9. The dismissal came just 10 days after Paterno celebrated his 409th career victory, making him major college football’s winningest coach. “This is a tragedy. It is one of the great sorrows of my life,” Paterno said in a statement announcing his intention to retire at the end of the season, issued a few hours before he was fired. “With the benefit of hindsight, I wish I had done more.” Paterno was diagnosed with lung cancer a few days later, and has undergone radiation and chemotherapy. He also re-fractured his pelvis earlier this month. Curley and Schultz face charges of perjury and failing to properly report suspected abuse. The scandal also cost Penn State president Graham Spanier his job and tarnished the Nittany Lions’ squeaky clean reputation.
Lewis were on the Class 1A first team. Over the course of the year, other top athletes earned recognition for their efforts. Vicksburg High basketball stars Mychal Ammons (South Alabama) and Donyeah Mayfield (Tennessee State) signed to play with Division I programs. Former St. Al baseball players Ryno Martin-Nez and Pierson Waring, now at Hinds Community College, signed to play at Louisiana Tech and Mississippi State, respectively. Those four were among 14 Warren County athletes who accepted scholarship offers from either four-year colleges or junior colleges. Among the county’s high school athletic teams, there was also plenty of success. St. Aloysius won team state championships in golf and swimming — plus individual titles in tennis and track — while Vicksburg and Porters Chapel advanced deep into their state basketball tournaments. PCA’s boys team overcame a pair of halftime deficits to reach the MAIS Class A semifinals before losing to Trinity, then again in the consolation game. Vicksburg’s boys made it all the way to the MHSAA Class 6A championship game before losing to Meridian. Led by Ammons, the Gators finished the year with a 27-4 record and won the North State title en route to the state final. Gators coach Dellie C. Rob-
inson had contemplated retiring after that tournament run, but instead opted to return. Nearly a dozen coaches did not, leading to the usual rash of summer coaching changes. None were longer or stranger than the hunt for Warren Central’s boys basketball coach. Longtime Lanier coach Thomas Billups and New Hope’s Robert Byrd both turned down the job, drawing out the process until late July. Finally, Brandon assistant Chareck Cable was hired, but soon found himself in trouble. Cable conducted two practices ahead of the MHSAA’s mandated starting date. That led the MHSAA in October to ban the Vikings from postseason play this season. Cable was suspended by the Vicksburg Warren School District for the first five games of the season. While Cable’s coaching career got off to a rocky start, Vicksburg High football coach Alonzo Stevens rode off into the sunset. After 11 seasons as the team’s head coach, and more than 35 years of association with the program, Stevens announced his retirement at the end of the season. Stevens finished his career with a 63-65 record. He was replaced in December by Cleveland East Side’s Tavares Johnson, putting a neat bow on a year full of change in Warren County sports.
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Confusion on dustjackets leads to a nice set of placemats Had a lot of good reactions from my “Going Mome” column a couple of weeks ago, so I thought I’d share another little mislick from the publishing world here at Brownspur. This’un is about my first book, “The Flaming Turkey.” Bear in mind that my own mother used to claim, “Bob can just walk through a room, and pictures will fall off the wall.” I might can write a little with a pencil, but when the technology gets into even ballpoint pens, things start not working right for Neill. Big Robert once told me without a bit of rancor, “Son, you could mess up a twocar funeral.” Oh, well, at least I’ve always known it out front. Anyhoo, I wrote this book of turkey hunting stories that did very well, and jump-started me as an author. But it’s no secret than any dang fool can write a book. It’s the selling of the book that is important. That fall of 1986 was the first dry harvest season in three years, and I got all the crops in by mid-October. With the books due to arrive in early December, I hit the road and walked into every li’l ole shop that sold books in Mississippi, east Louisiana, east Arkansas, west Alabama, and west Tennessee. Incidentally, that’s when this column was originated, as well. After the bookstore had placed an order, I’d find the town newspaper and give them an advance interview with a local boy who had his first book coming out, and was doing a signing at Billy Bob’s Book-Nook just before Christmas. As I left, I’d drop
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off a dozen typeset articles, in case the editor wanted to run them for free, to build up reader interest. The next quarter when I offered to keep sending columns, but for a price, 66 papers subscribed the first month. To illustrate the book, I had my dust jackets run off early, and put one of my dust jackets on another hunter author’s book of similar size. Five thousand dust jackets were delivered in early October, and they looked great. But my Bride cast a wondering eye and said, “They’re too small.” Sho’nuff, they didn’t fit the other book, which was almost the same page count as mine. Turned out the printer had misread a “bleed line” for a “cut line.” He took full responsibility, said to burn the first batch, and went to work reprinting 5,000 more, promising to get them out as quickly as possible by the night shift, since I was on a deadline. We had an early morning call from the print shop, saying that 5,000 dust jackets had been shipped to arrive the next morning. Hallelujah! We had a second just-a-little-later call from the printer again, with the news that, “You are going to receive a shipment of 5,000 Flaming Turkey placemats. The night crew laminated them
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Bynum leads Lakers past Denver Nuggets LOS ANGELES (AP) — Andrew Bynum had 29 points and 13 rebounds in his season debut following a four-game suspension that carried over from the playoffs, and the Los Angeles Lakers beat the Denver Nuggets 92-89 Saturday. Bynum shot 13 for 18, helping the Lakers win their third straight following the team’s first 0-2 start since 2002-03. The 7-foot center was suspended without pay for the first four games of the season because of a flagrant foul against Dallas’ J.J. Barea in Game 4 of the Western Conference semifinals. The original ban was five games, but was reduced on Dec. 23. Bynum totaled 41 points and 23 rebounds in two preseason games against the Clippers. Kobe Bryant, bogged down by foul trouble, had 17 points along with nine assists and 10 rebounds. The Lakers overcame 2-for-24 shooting from 3-point range.
Los Angeles Lakers guard Kobe Bryant shoots over Denver Nuggets guard Arron Afflalo Saturday. Reserve forward Al Harrington had 21 points for the Nuggets, who have lost 25 of their last 29 road games against the Lakers. The Lakers missed their first 12 shots from 3-point range — all of them in the first half.
on BOTH sides! We are now printing our third batch of 5,000 Flaming Turkey dust jackets, at my expense. I ain’t leaving this place until these are done right!” So, the first printing of “The Flaming Turkey” actually has “varnished” dust jackets, instead of the laminated ones on subsequent print runs. There was not enough time left to laminate that third batch. But if you are invited to
a formal dinner at Brownspur, you just might set your plate on a real “Flaming Turkey” placemat, because we kept a couple of dozen that were double laminated. Finally, we were delivered books and dust jackets — my first book. I pulled the first case off the truck, opened it, and proudly held up the first copy of my first book, for all the family to admire. And son Adam, who is color
blind, frowned and asked, “Daddy, that’s a pretty picture of turkeys on the front, but isn’t there usually some kind of title on the front of a book, too?” He could not see the red letters against the green background. That’s why on subsequent print runs, the red title letters are barely outlined in white. I had published a book ostensibly for male turkey hunters, 20 percent of whom
could not see the title. Fortunately, women buy 75 percent of all books, and they can see colors. It was a small press bestseller and that first printing sold out in nine months. There’s a lot of humor in all of my books. Maybe you can understand why? Check ‘em out yourownself at roberthittneill.com. Happy New Year!
• Robert Hitt Neill is an outdoors writer. He lives in Leland, Miss.
Sunday, January 1, 2012
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TONIGHT ON TV n MOVIE “The Count of Monte Cristo” — A French sailor, Jim Caviezel, framed and sent to an island prison, escapes and seeks revenge on those who betrayed him./7 on Ovation n SPORTS NFL — The final day of the NFL’s regular season is sure to bring plenty of thrills. The New Orleans Saints are one of a dozen teams that can improve their playoff standing with a win today, and they’ll try to get it at home against the Carolina Panthers./Noon on Fox Jim Caviezel n PRIMETIME “The Good Wife” — Diane represents ballistics expert Kurt McVeigh in a lawsuit; Eli takes an interest in Wendy Scott-Carr’s illegal nanny./8 on CBS
THIS WEEK’S LINEUP n EXPANDED LISTINGS TV TIMES — Network, cable and satellite programs appear in Sunday’s TV Times magazine and online at www.vicksburgpost. com
MILESTONES n BIRTHDAYS Ty Hardin, actor, 82; Frederick Wiseman, documentary maker, 82; Frank Langella, actor, 74; Country Joe McDonald, rock singer-musician, 70; Don Novello, writer-comedian, 69; Rick Hurst, actor, 66; Grandmaster Flash, rapper, 54; Dedee Pfeiffer, actress, 48; Morris Chestnut, actor, 43; Verne Troyer, actor, 43; Eden Riegel, actress, 31.
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Etta James taken off respirator
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Etta James’ manager said the terminally ill blues singer is breathing on her own after being taken off a respirator. Spokesman Lupe De Leon said James was put on a respirator when she was hospitalized in Southern California on Dec. 21 because she was having trouble breathing. James has been diagnosed with terminal leukemia and is suffering from dementia. She has been receiving mostly at-home care. James is best known for the hit “At Last.”
Moore: Festival tops funding goal Michael Moore said the year-end fundraiser for the theater that hosts the annual Traverse City Film Festival has topped its $500,000 goal with days to spare. The Oscar-winning documentary filmmaker and festival co-founder said the drive has taken in $40,000 more than its goal. The nonprofit film festival owns the 534-seat Michael State Theatre, first opened in 1916, and has Moore said it needs money to balance its budget and upgrade the landmark venue’s facade. About $250,000 will cover a new facade and other repairs, with the remainder going to the State’s community fund.
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La. casino drops gape-mouthed gator Louisiana has alligator gumbo, alligator sauce piquante, alligator sausage and alligator meatballs. It has Mardi Gras balls and cotillion balls. But the alligator ball at the Indian casino in Marksville is big, gape-mouthed, and created to mark the new year. The 175-pound ornament is an alligator perched atop a big ornamental ball, its tail coiled around the sphere and its toothy mouth pointing toward the floor. It’s new for 2012. The Paragon Casino Resort is owned by the Tunica-Biloxi Tribe. It hired Egads LLC of Las Vegas to create the three-foot-high ball, which was to drop from about the 8th floor of the resort’s atrium to 35 feet above the real alligators in the casino’s indoor swamp habitat.
TOMORROW’S HOROSCOPE
BY BERNICE BEDE OSOL • NEWSPAPER ENTERPRISE ASSOCIATION Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) — Anyone who is only interested in him or herself will annoy you far more than usual. Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 19) — The best way to ruin the family’s tranquility is to introduce a topic that is emotionally charged and sure to cause a kerfuffle. Keep your piquant little observations to yourself. Pisces (Feb. 20-March 20) — Before you jump in and support someone who looks like the underdog, be sure that you know what the situation is all about. Aries (March 21-April 19) — Be your own person instead of risking your efforts and resources on what another thinks you should do. Taurus (April 20-May 20) — Before judging or condemning another for his or her faults, you should be mindful of your own. Gemini (May 21-June 20) — You would do well to keep bystanders out of your private battles. Cancer (June 21-July 22) — Even if you have to spend a little time with someone
who rubs you the wrong way, make the most out of doing so. Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) — Be particularly careful about your conduct when around someone whose respect is important to you. Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) — In order to get your points across to an individual who has rejected your ideas in the past, you need to know your subject well and be extremely prepared to make a presentation. Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 23) — Make certain that those to whom you delegate an important assignment have the ability to successfully carry things off as needed. Scorpio (Oct. 24-Nov. 22) — Normally you have little problem working in conjunction with another. However, it might be wise to avoid any type of entanglements at this juncture. Sagittarius (Nov. 23-Dec. 21) — That row you intend to hoe might be littered with far more rocks and potsherds than you anticipate.
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Lilley plays 6 roles on HBO’s ‘Angry Boys’ By Frazier Moore AP Television Writer NEW YORK — Three years ago in his mockumentary “Summer Heights High,” Chris Lilley played a trio of characters at an Australian high school, including a flamboyant drama teacher and a mean society girl named Ja’mie. Now Lilley is back with the even more ambitious “Angry Boys,” a 12-episode showcase where he tackles a half-dozen personalities in an examination of boys and men who are misunderstood, self-deluding and typically at odds with the opposite sex. By turns painful, bitterly funny and illuminating, the series premieres on HBO on Sunday at 9 p.m., with two half-hour episodes airing weekly. Lilley’s pantheon includes identical twins Nathan and Daniel Sims, an angry, constantly bird-flipping pair of 17-year-olds. They have a troubled dynamic: Nathan was left deaf and mentally addled by an accident, and Daniel, who loves him yet hates him for being disabled, teases Nathan cruelly while defending him against the rest of the world. Lilley is also the boys’ grandmother, Gran, a devoted but often inappropriate prison officer at the Sydney Garingal Juvenile Justice Center for teenage boys. To keep the mood light, Gran likes to play mean jokes, such as telling a young inmate his sentence has been cut by nine months, then yelping, “Gotcha!” Another of Lilley’s characters is S.mouse, a rich-kid rapper in Los Angeles who scores with an embarrassingly stupid novelty song and dance, “Slap My Elbow” (“You do it like thiiiiis,” he raps on his video: “Slap my el, slap my bow, slap my elllllbooooooow”), but is bitter at his father’s derision and, worse, his lack of hip-hop outlaw cred. Lilley is Jen Okazaki, the softspoken and almost psychotically exploitative mother of an aspiring skateboarding champion whom she is bullying into the big time. And he is also a 38-year-old burned-out championship who lost his testicles to a stray bullet in a gang fight. This spectrum of characters — and the geographic range they represent — speaks to the higher stakes for which Lilley (who created, wrote, co-produced and co-directed the series) is playing this time around.
Chris Lilley as two characters from “Angry Boys.”
On TV “Angry Boys” premieres tonight at 9 on HBO. Declaring “Summer Heights High” to be “ contained and small,” Lilley speculates his fans “figured they’d worked out my formula — find a work environment and throw in some characters — and expected my next series should be in a hospital or a police station. But a part of me wanted to rebel against that. I wanted to do something on a massive scale with a story that was woven together in a trickier way.” With its documentary format, “Angry Boys” seems to unfold spontaneously, but Lilley says it was tightly scripted, even
storyboarded, before shooting started. Lilley spent a year writing the series while scouting locations. Filming consumed seven months, and editing took a year after that. “I don’t make things easy for myself,” he says, “but why give myself limitations? I don’t need a deadline. I just work until it’s ready.” On a recent visit to Manhattan from his native Melbourne, the 37-year-old Lilley is in T-shirt and jeans, with a day-old stubble on a cherubic face that can readily adapt to playing women as well as men, and youngsters as well as adults. Unlike a chameleonic performer such as Tracey Ullman, who wildly transforms her appearance with makeup
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and costumes, Lilley keeps disguises to a minimum. “A big part of the show is that it has the same person playing a number of the characters, so I don’t want to be too disguised and made up,” he says. “More important, I think you lose the expressive qualities of your face if you’re covering it too much.” Bottom line: Lilley doesn’t transform himself into his characters so much as channel them. “People go, ‘You’re a great mimic,’ which I sort of hate to hear because it’s never my motivation,” he says. “I’m not even that fussy about accents. I love writing the characters, I think about them a lot, and then they’re just there.”
New year gives each of us opportunity to start anew Dear Readers: Welcome to 2012! While the last year has been tumultuous for many of us, a new one is here, bringing with it our chance for a fresh start. Today is the day we discard destructive old habits for healthy new ones, and with that in mind, I will share Dear Abby’s often-requested list of New Year’s Resolutions, which were adapted by my mother, Pauline Phillips, from the original credo of Al-Anon: Just for today: I will live through this day only. I will not brood about yesterday or obsess about tomorrow. I will not set far-reaching goals or try to overcome all of my problems at once. I know that I can do something for 24 hours that would overwhelm me if I had to keep it up for a lifetime. Just for today: I will be happy. I will not dwell on thoughts that depress me. If my mind fills with clouds, I will chase them away and fill it with sunshine. Just for today: I will accept what is. I will face reality. I will correct those things that I can correct and accept those I cannot. Just for today: I will improve my mind. I will read something that requires effort, thought and concentration. I will not be a mental loafer. Just for today: I will make a conscious effort to be agreeable. I will be kind and courteous to those who cross my
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path, and I’ll not speak ill of others. I will improve my appearance, speak softly, and not interrupt when someone else is talking. Just for today, I will refrain from improving anybody but myself. Just for today: I will do something positive to improve my health. If I’m a smoker, I’ll quit. If I am overweight, I will eat healthfully — if only for today. And not only that, I will get off the couch and take a brisk walk, even if it’s only around the block. Just for today: I will gather
the courage to do what is right and take the responsibility for my own actions. And now, Dear Readers, I would like to share an item that was sent to me by I.J. Bhatia, a reader who lives in New Delhi, India: Dear Abby: This year, no resolutions, only some guidelines. The Holy Vedas say: “Man has subjected himself to thousands of self-inflicted bandages. Wisdom comes to a man who lives according to the true eternal laws of nature.” The prayer of St. Francis (of which there are several versions) contains a powerful message: Lord, make me an instrument of your peace; Where there is hatred, let me sow love; Where there is injury, pardon;
Where there is doubt, faith; Where there is despair, hope; Grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console; To be understood, as to understand; To be loved, as to love; For it is in giving that we receive, It is in pardoning that we are pardoned, And it is in dying that we are born to Eternal Life. And so, Dear Readers, may this new year bring with it good health, peace and joy to all of you. — Love, Abby
• 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.Dear Abby.com or P.O. Box 69440, Los Angeles, CA 90069.
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Music stars reveal struggles before, after success The Warren County-Vicksburg Public Library reports on new books regularly. • “Bayou Underground” by Dave Thompson is a study of the music of Louisiana. This book explores the music of the region through the
legends and rumors that created it in the first place. From “The House of the Rising Sun” to the legend of Stagger Lee, from Marie Laveau to the axman who loved hot jazz, Bayou Underground unearths the people and the cultures that have called the bayou home, revisiting their words and lives through the music of so many rock outsiders: Bo Diddley, Nick Cave and Alice Cooper pass through the pages to document past history, or to create a new one. It is the world of Creedence Clearwater Revival, Jerry Reed and Elvis Presley; it is the music of Dr. John, Joe Satriani and the Oak Grove Swamp Fox. Part social history, part epic travelogue and partly a lament fo r a way of life that has now all but disappeared, this is the gripping story of American music’s forgotten childhood and the parentage it barely even knows about, seen through the emotions, dreams and enchantment that the bayou instills in all of us. • “Susan Boyle: Living the Dream” by John McShane is the biography of Britain’s incredible singing sensation. She struggled at school and spent many years dreaming of being noticed at local talent shows. This book explains how the death of her mother and the strength of her faith finally gave her the courage to apply for Britain’s “Got Talent “in 2009. Her rendition of “I Dreamed a Dream” from Les Miserables captivated not only the British audience but audiences across the globe. Millions of fans logged in on YouTube and Twitter making Susan an overnight success. Susan’s debut album sold 701,000 copies in the United States its first week, the best opening week for a debut artist in more than a decade. “I Dreamed a Dream” also outsold the rest of the top five albums combined. In only a week, it sold more than 2 million copies worldwide. Here is the inside story of Susan’s rise to fame and the effect it’s had on her life. • “Dirty South” by Ben Westhoff examines OutKast, Lil Wayne, Soulja Boy and the southern rappers who
new on the shelves reinvented hip-hop. Westhoff watches rappers “make it rain” in a Houston strip club; parties with 2 Live Crew’s Luke Campbell; visits with the gritty neighborhoods where T.I. and Lil Wayne grew up; kicks it with Big Boi in
Atlanta; speaks with artists like DJ Smurf and Ms. Peachez, dance-craze originators accused of setting back the black race 50 years; probes the dark history of Rap-a-Lot Records; gets Scarface to open up about his time in a mental institution; and speaks with Lil Wayne about his tattoos, Juvenile on bounce music, and Lil Jon on crunk. This journalistic tour de force will be considered the definitive
account of the most vital musical culture of our time. • “From this Moment On” is Shania Twain’s autobiography. The world might know Shania Twain as many things: music legend, a mother,
and recently a fixture in the news for her painful, public divorce and subsequent marriage to a cherished friend. But in this extraordinary autobiography, Shania reveals that she is so much more. She is Eilleen Twain, one of five children born into poverty in rural Canada, where her family often didn’t have enough food to send her to school with lunch. She’s the teenage girl who helped her
mother and young siblings escape to a battered women’s shelter to put an end to the domestic violence in her family home. And she’s the courageous 22-year-old who sacrificed to keep her younger siblings together after her parents were tragically killed in a car accident. Shania Twain’s life has evolved from a series of pivotal moments, and in unflinching, heartbreaking prose, she spares no details as she takes us through the events that have made her who she is. • “David Bowie: Starman” by Paul Trynka explores the legend that is David Bowie. Born David Jones to a bluecollar family in South London, he learned the craft of songwriting and moved through the long and fascinating career that led him to be a movie star, trendsetter, glittery glam idol, taboo breaker and sex symbol. He has been a friend, champion and collaborator to music icons such as Freddie Mercury, Mick Jagger, Brian Eno, Lou Reed, Iggy Pop and John Lennon. His music has influenced countless other musicians as wide-ranging as Nirvana, Lady Gaga and the Flaming Lips. He is the Thin White Duke and of course, Ziggy Stardust. And above all, this book details not just how David Jones reinvented himself on the outside, but how an ambitious child with more desire and drive than talent transformed himself into a genius on the inside. • “The Chitlin’ Circuit and the Road to Rock ’N’ Roll” by Preston Lauterbach is the first history of the network of black nightclubs that created rock ’n’ roll through an alliance between vice and entertainment. For generations, “chitlin’ circuit” has meant second-tier — brash performers in raucous nightspots far from the big-city limelight. This world of clubs and conmen has thus far managed to avoid close examination despite its wealth of intriguing plotlines and vulgar glory. Now, music journalist Lauterbach offers a groundbreaking account of the birth of rock’n’roll in black America, establishing the chitlin’ circuit as a major musical force. • “Preachin’ the Blues” by Daniel Beaumont examines the life and times of Son House. As a young Baptist preacher in the Mississippi Delta, Eddie “Son” House scorned “sinful” music — until one night in 1927, when the haunting sound of a bottleneck guitar changed his life forever. House began singing
and playing guitar and, within a few short years, became a true blues legend. In this first full length
biography of Son House, author Beaumont traces a life and career that were marked not only by musical greatness but also by violence, alcoholism, two m a r riages, two decades of obscurity, and finally, a surprising comeback that brought his remarkable music to a new generation. • “Sweet Judy Blue Eyes” by Judy Collins is her life in music. This is the deeply personal, honest, and revealing memoir of folk legend and relentless creative spirit Judy Collins. In it, she talks about her alcoholism, her lasting love affair with Stephen
Stills, her friendships with Joan Baez, Richard and Mimi Farina, David Crosby, and Leonard Cohen, and above all, the music that helped define a decade and a generation’s sound track.
• Denise Hogan is reference interlibrary loan librarian at the Warren CountyVicksburg Public Library. Write to her at 700 Veto St., Vicksburg, MS 39180.
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GASOLINE PRICES Average regular unleaded self-service prices as of Friday: Jackson..............................$3.05 Vicksburg..................$3.10 Tallulah..............................$3.14 Sources: Jackson AAA, Vicksburg and Tallulah, Automotive. com
PORTFOLIO City native will serve on federal bank board Vicksburg native Carl J. Chaney has been appointed to the board of directors of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta’s New Orleans branch. Chaney, 50, a graduate of Warren Central High School and Culkin Academy, has been president and chief executive officer of Hancock Holding Company since 2006. Hancock is the parent company of Gulfport-based Hancock Bank and New Orleans-based Whitney Bank. He was chief financial officer of Hancock from 1998 to 2006. Twelve federal reserve banks compose the nation’s central banking system. Chaney’s term on the ninemember board runs through Dec. 31, 2014. Chaney has a bachelor’s degree in banking and finance from the University of Mississippi and a juris doctorate from the University of Mississippi School of Law. He is chairman of the Mississippi Bankers Association and treasurer of the Mississippi Economic Council. He is a member of the Mississippi Power Company board and teaches classes at the Louisiana State University Graduate School of Banking in Baton Rouge, the Alabama Banking School and the Mississippi School of Banking. A Gulfport resident, Chaney is married to the former Jinx Wilson and has two daughters, Maxie and Morgan, and a son, Brent.
Florida native joins River Region team Obstetrician and gynecologist Dr. Sarah E. Williams has joined River Region Medical Center, the hospital has Dr. Sarah announced. Williams A native of Pensacola, Fla., Williams received her undergraduate and medical degrees at the University of Miami. She completed her residency at the University of Miami Jackson Memorial Hospital. Her office is on the first floor of the hospital.
North Dakota thanks Corps for flood work The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Vicksburg District has received a certificate of appreciation for disaster response and recovery operations for the 2011 flooding in North Dakota. The certificate was presented by the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the North Dakota Department of Emergency Services. A total of 44 Vicksburg District employees spent 167 days supporting recovery missions from the Souris River flood. The efforts of employees from Vicksburg and other Corps districts led to the removal of more than 61,000 tons of debris.
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A Greek Orthodox priest drives his buggy next to riot police during clashes in central Athens.
Europe financial crisis top story By The Associated Press NEW YORK — Europe took the financial world on a stomach-churning ride in 2011. The rising threat of default by heavily indebted European countries spread fear across financial markets and weighed on economies worldwide. As the year came to a close, banks and investors nervously watched Europe’s political and financial leaders scramble to prevent the 17-nation eurozone from breaking apart. Several of the other biggest business stories of the year highlighted the global economy’s linkages: A British phone-hacking scandal shook the foundations of Rupert Murdoch’s U.S.-based media empire; a nuclear disaster in Japan stymied auto plants in the U.S. and beyond; and the price of gasoline surged because of unrest in the Middle East and growing demand in Asia and Latin America. In the U.S., political squabbling led to the first credit downgrade for government debt, the economy suffered its fourth straight disappointing year and Apple founder Steve Jobs died. The European financial crisis was chosen as the top business story of the year by business editors at The Associated Press. The sluggish U.S. economy came in second, followed by the death
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An Occupy Wall Street protester tackles a police officer in New York.
Apple CEO Steve Jobs of Jobs. 1. European financial crisis. The governmentdebt crunch rattled Europe’s financial system and weighed on the global economy. Portugal became the third Euro-
pean country, after Greece and Ireland the year before, to require a bailout as its borrowing costs soared. And investors grew worried that countries with much larger debts, such as Spain and Italy, would also need help. Financial markets were volatile all year as hopes rose and then were dashed that forceful steps would be taken to prevent the financial crisis from becoming Europe’s version of the 2008 collapse of Lehman Brothers, which triggered a global financial panic and deepened the Great Recession. Banks worried that they or their partners wouldn’t be able to cover losses if governments defaulted, so they
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cut back on lending. European governments, facing ever higher borrowing costs, reined in spending — a policy response that is expected to stunt much-needed economic growth. Analysts estimate the slowdown in Europe, America’s No. 1 trading partner, will cut U.S. economic growth next year. 2. Bad U.S. economy: Year four. The Great Recession might have ended, but the economic recovery continued to disappoint. For the first six months of the year, the economy grew at an annual rate of just 0.9 percent. Growth improved to a 2 percent rate in the third quarter and a 3 percent growth rate is forecast for the fourth quarter.
Still, 2 1/2 years after economists say the recession ended, 25 million people remain unemployed or unable to find full-time work. The unemployment rate fell from 9 percent in October to 8.6 percent in November, providing a hopeful sign. Yet the housing market remained burdened by foreclosures and falling prices in many metropolitan areas. How to fix the economy became the top campaign issue for Republican presidential contenders. 3. Steve Jobs dies: The college dropout who helped popularize the personal computer and created the iPod, iPhone and iPad, died on October 5. That was two months after Apple Inc., which Jobs started in a Silicon Valley garage in 1976, briefly surpassed Exxon Mobil Corp. as the most valuable publicly traded company in the world. Jobs cultivated a countercultural sensibility and a minimalist design ethic. He rolled out one sensational product after another, even during the recession and as his health was failing. He first helped change comSee Business, Page B10.
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American brat pack: Where airline CEOs came of age By The Associated Press NEW YORK — From an office at the end of a Dallas runway in the 1980s, the modern airline business was born. There in cubicles with thin, gray carpet and shared computers, young graduates of the top business schools were tasked with making sense of deregulation — a new era when the government no longer dictated
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routes or prices. Under American Airlines’ then CEO Robert L. Crandall, they issued the first fre-
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quent flier miles, developed the hub system and found a way to fill empty seats with deeply discounted fares.
Standards were high. Perfection was demanded. Those who excelled were quickly promoted, regardless of how young or new to the company they were. At the time, being a financial analyst on the second floor of American’s headquarters was unlike any other job in the industry. Today, four of them are running airlines — including American — themselves. “It was a magical time,” says Virgin America CEO
David Cush, 51. “You didn’t know where these guys were going to end up, but you knew you were hanging around with a bunch of smart guys.” US Airways CEO Doug Parker, 50, and Spirit Airlines CEO Ben Baldanza, 50, got their start alongside Cush. Tom Horton, the other member of this airline Brat Pack, arguably hit it even See Airlines, Page B10.
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Business Continued from Page B9. puters from a geeky hobbyist’s obsession to a necessity of modern life. In recent years, he upended the music business with the iPod and iTunes, transformed the smart phone market with the iPhone and created the tablet market with the iPad. 4. The U.S. credit downgrade: The inability of political leaders to come up with a long-term plan to reduce the federal budget deficit led the credit rating agency Standard & Poor’s to take away Uncle Sam’s sterling AAA credit rating for the first time. The political bickering enraged voters, spooked investors and led to the lowest consumer confidence level of the year. But the nation’s long-term borrowing costs fell after the crisis. The reason: U.S. debt still looks safer to investors than almost everything else, especially European debt. 5. Rupert Murdoch and the hacking scandal: The man whose worldwide media empire thrives on covering scandal became the center of a dramatic one. A British tabloid newspaper owned by Murdoch’s News Corp., which also owns Fox News and The Wall Street Journal, hacked the phone of a murdered schoolgirl. Murdoch was not charged with a crime, but an investigation by British authorities raised questions about Murdoch’s ability to run his worldwide media empire. News Corp. fired several executives and closed the newspaper at the
Former MF Global Holdings Ltd. Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Jon Corzine testifies on Capitol Hill before the House Financial Services Committee. sending retail prices higher. The worst nuclear accident since Chernobyl led countries around the world to reconsider nuclear power. Germany decided to abandon nuclear by 2022. 7. Gasoline prices hit annual record: The retail price of gasoline averaged $3.53 per gallon for the year, eclipsing the 2008 record of $3.24 per gallon. Americans drove less and switched to more fuel efficient cars, but it wasn’t enough to offset the higher prices. A bigger percentage of household income went into the gas tank in 2011 than any year since 1981. Economists say the high prices shaved half a percentage point off U.S. economic growth. 8. Social media IPOs take off: Shares of the business
social networking site LinkedIn more than doubled when it went public in May, recalling the froth of the dot-com boom. LinkedIn was followed by large IPOs from online radio company Pandora Media, online discount site Groupon and social gaming site Zynga. But the market is treacherous: shares of Pandora, Groupon and Zynga all traded below their offering prices soon after they were listed. Market anticipation is high for a Facebook IPO in 2012. 9. Occupy Wall Street: On Sept. 17, several hundred protesters gathered at a small plaza about a block from the New York Stock Exchange. They slept in tents, ate donated meals and protested income inequality and the influence of money
in politics. The movement inspired protesters around the world who camped in city centers and business hubs to complain about unemployment, CEO pay and a decline in upward social mobility. 10. The downfall of MF Global and Jon Corzine: The former governor, senator and co-chairman of Goldman Sachs lost control of a small brokerage firm he agreed to run in 2010. Saddled with huge debt and risky bets on European bonds, MF Global was forced to file for bankruptcy protection on Halloween after trading partners and investors got spooked. It was soon discovered that $1.2 billion in customer money was missing. Corzine told Congress he had no idea where the money went.
Today, American is struggling with old jets and high labor costs. Once the largest airline in the world, American is now in third place behind Delta Air Lines Inc. and United-Continental Holdings Inc., which became bigger and more efficient through mergers. But the most-painful jab for the carrier came last month when American’s parent, AMR Corp., sought Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection — the same day it promoted Horton, 50.
“We were all single and many people met their spouses there,” says Teri L. Brooks, who rose to head human resources at American before leaving in 1996. She started the same year as David Brooks. Five and a half years later, they were married. He now runs American’s cargo division. Parker met his wife, Gwen, — then an American flight attendant — thanks to Cush, who knew her through a college friend. Working at an airline meant free flights. Thursday night or Friday morning a weekend destination was selected — New York, London, the Caribbean or skiing in Utah. “We’d all pile into hotel rooms, sleep on the floor,” Brooks says. Sometimes a random gate was picked. The plane might be heading to Cancun or Kansas City. Fate would decide. “I was never a fan of that game,” says Virgin America’s Cush. “It never worked
out very well.” For the most part, the young analysts were respected by those outside the finance department. Occasionally, a veteran manager would ask how long they’d been at American, suggesting they weren’t qualified to be asking questions. That was the exception. Crandall wanted the facts and would take them from whoever knew the business best. Those working around him learned how to gather information about a complex issue and then make a decision. “If you were aggressive, intelligent and were willing to work hard,” Baldanza says, “there was no limit on the types of things you could be involved in.”
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A display for Groupon is shown at the Nasdaq MarketSite in New York. center of the scandal, the News of the World. 6. Japan earthquake: An earthquake and tsunami that crippled the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear reactor, owned by Tokyo Electric Power Co., cut off supplies of
crucial Japanese parts and idled factories thousands of miles away. Auto companies, especially Toyota and Honda, were hit hardest. Inventory of certain models, especially hybrids, fell short at dealerships, reducing sales and
Airlines Continued from Page B9. bigger — taking over as CEO of the airline where they all started. But the job that he inherited is a long way from American’s glory days under Crandall. The 1980s “was sort of a golden moment for American,” says Michael Useem, director of the Center for Leadership and Change Management at The University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School. Today, American is struggling with old jets and high labor costs. Once the largest airline in the world, American is now in third place behind Delta Air Lines Inc. and United-Continental Holdings Inc., which became bigger and more efficient through mergers. But the most-painful jab for the carrier came last month when American’s parent, AMR Corp., sought Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection — the same day it promoted Horton, 50. Horton and Parker declined requests for interviews. American’s success at molding future leaders echoes the success of big companies such as General Electric and Procter & Gamble. Those companies were known for weeding out underperforming executives and giving those who showed promise responsibilities well beyond their rank. “These companies made developing great leaders a defining element of their DNA,” Useem says. American didn’t just create CEOs. Dozens of its young financial analysts from the 1980s went on to
become top executives at most of the major airlines. Others held senior roles at travel companies including Orbitz and Royal Caribbean. They all came to American because it was the center of innovation in an industry on the verge of a revolution. There were challenges found nowhere else. For instance: How do you create the first curbside check-in system? These young analysts were driven by their bosses and each other. And nobody pushed harder than Crandall. “The most competent got promoted very rapidly,” says Crandall, who retired in 1998. “That made American a very good place to work. And the consequence of that is we attracted a lot of very, very bright people.” Crandall required major initiatives in other departments — from marketing to flight planning — to be vetted by the finance department, exposing the analysts to all aspects of the industry. He wanted to know the exact cost and potential benefit of any change. Three decades later, most still recall the CEO’s persistence. The worst thing you could do was say you didn’t want to waste his time with the details. Crandall thrived on those details and demanded
PORTFOLIO Three will speak at VAMP meeting Three speakers are set for the Vicksburg Area Marketing Professionals monthly luncheon, set for noon Tuesday at Ameristar Casino’s Heritage Buffet. Bonney Anderson of Ideal
Weight for Life, Stuart Miller of Anytime Fitness and Linda Fondren of Shape Up Sisters will talk about their businesses and how they market them. VAMP meets the first Tuesday of each month. Lunch is $12. E-mail vicksburgmarketing@yahoo.com for more information.
land transfers No commercial land transfers were recorded in the
chancery clerk’s office for the week ending Dec. 30, 2011.
them of his staff. He was known to quiz station managers on how much they spent on rags. If they didn’t know, they were told they didn’t really understand their operation. “They didn’t care if you were too young or didn’t have enough years of experience. All they cared about was if you were competent and able to do a good job,” says Bernie Han, who worked at American from 1988 until 1991. He later became the chief financial officer at America West and then held that title at Northwest. He is now chief operating officer of Dish Network. American’s headquarters was an energetic place. Competition was fierce but friendly. The analysts often bounced ideas off each other while playing Nerf basketball in a cubicle. “If somebody did good
work, the other guy wanted to do better work,” says Jeff Katz, an American alumnus who went on to become CEO of Swissair, then led the online travel company Orbitz before landing the top job at Nextag, an online shopping website. Despite being at competing airlines today, many of the former American analysts still keep in touch. From the start, they were a social group. After work, beers were had at the Euless Yacht Club — a land-locked dive bar that was the closest place to headquarters. Other nights, it was margaritas at Esparza’s, a nearby Mexican restaurant. There were Texas Rangers games, a basketball league that Parker played in and the occasional lunchtime trip to Sonny Bryan’s Smokehouse.
sales tax revenue The City of Vicksburg receives 18.5 percent of all sales taxes collected by businesses in the city limits. Revenues to the city lag actu-
al sales tax collections by two months, that is, receipts for April reflect sales taxes collected on sales in February. Here are the latest monthly receipts:
October 2011.............$602,012 Fiscal year 2010-11 to date... $602,012 October 2010.............$568,617
2009-10 fiscal year to date..... $568,617
casino tax revenue Vicksburg’s five casinos pay a 3.2 percent revenue tax to the State of Mississippi that is divided — with 10 percent going to schools, 25 percent to Warren County and 65 percent to the city. A second revenue tax is a 0.8 percent share of the state’s 8.8 percent revenue
tax. It is split based on population proportions between Vicksburg and Warren County. Each casino is also required to pay $150 for each gaming device annually to the city. To date, two casinos have paid the gaming device fee. These are the latest receipts:
November 2011 City...................................$399,225 County............................$194,764 Schools..............................$51,811
November 2010 City...................................$461,095 County............................$217,574 Schools..............................$59,015
Fiscal year 2011-12 to date City...................................$907,451 County............................$446,287 Schools...........................$118,925
Fiscal year 2010-11 to date City...................................$922,828 County............................$405,843 Schools...........................$110,500
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MLK Jr. events set in Vicksburg The eighth annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Parade will roll along Washington Street Jan. 14. The parade will begin at 2 p.m., and this year’s theme will be The Dream Continues, Let Freedom Ring! Participant applications may be picked up at City Hall. Donors and sponsors may contact Sylvester Walker at 601-678-8263. Also, the Martin Luther King Jr. Scholarship Breakfast will be at the Vicksburg Convention Center Jan. 16. The event will begin at 8:30 a.m., and admission is $20 per person. Call 866-822-6338 or 601-6302929, or visit www.vicksburgevents.com.
Antiques show headed to Monroe Civic Center The 26th annual Northeast Louisiana Antique Dealers’ Association’s show will be Jan. 13-15 at the Monroe Civic Center. From 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Jan. 13 and 14 and from noon to 5 p.m. Jan. 15, dealers from at least 10 states will be on hand. Door prizes and free seminars will be offered. Also, a crystal repair craftsman will be on site. Tickets are $5 for three days, and food and drinks will be sold. Call 318-323-3188.
Music, messy crafts on tap at museum The Mississippi Museum of Art will host two events in January. • On Jan. 17 at 5:45 p.m., the monthly Music in the City event will feature jazz standards with musicians Jackie McGinnis and John Paul. Hors d’oeuvres and a cash bar will be available at 5:15. Donations are welcome. • On Jan. 20 at 10 a.m., Look and Learn with Hoot will be offered free for children ages 4-5 and their parents. The event will feature a hands-on art activity and story time. Participants are encouraged to dress for a mess. The museum is located at 380 S. Lamar St., Jackson. The phone number is 601-9601515, and the website is www. msmuseumart.org.
Authors to sign works at SCHC Two Vicksburg authors will be featured at a Jan. 21 event at the Southern Cultural Heritage Center. Dwain Butler, author of “Einstein Redux,” and Donna Clark, author of “The Lone Horseman,” will be on hand for readings and signings. Entertainment and refreshments will be provided. For more information, call 601631-2997, e-mail info@southernculture.org or visit www. southernculture.org.
Political writers set for signing Lorelei Books will host two political authors, Alan Huffman and Michael Rejebian, in a March 1 event at the downtown business. The two will sign their book, “We’re With Nobody: Two Insiders Reveal the Dark Side of American Politics,” from 4 to 6 p.m. Lorelei is at 1103 Washington St. The phone number is 601634-8624, and the website is www.loreleibooks.com.
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The Levee Street depot downtown is surrounded by floodwater.
The Mississippi River took center stage in 2011, flooding in Vicksburg and Warren County not once but twice in the spring. Initial forecasts of a second dramatic rise in the river came just weeks after the river’s first topping of the 43-foot flood stage, cresting April 1 at 43.3 feet. On April 25, officials announced the river was expected to rise to 52.5 feet, its highest level since 1937. They were wrong. Before the great Mississippi Flood of 2011 receded, 46 days after topping flood stage again April 30, the river: • Rose to a new record, cresting May 19 at 57.1 feet, more than 14 feet above
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flood stage; • Displaced more than 3,200 people in Vicksburg and Warren County from 707 homes, with an additional 600 structures evacuated; • Closed U.S. 61 North at Redwood and U.S. 61 South at the Big Black River, along with Mississippi 465 into the Eagle Lake community, North Washington Street and numerous side roads; • Caused the evacuation of Redwood Elementary School, with students having to move into Sherman Avenue ElementaryWarren Central Intermediate just days before they had to take mandated state tests;
• Canceled rail service from City Front to the Port of Vicksburg; • Temporarily shut down businesses including International Paper, AndersonTully Lumber and Ameristar and Rainbow casinos; • Brought wild hogs, alligators, snakes and other creatures into homes, parks and developments; • And inundated millions of acres of crop land. When it was over, officials, farmers and residents, especially in north Warren County and the lower Delta, lauded the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, whose levees held for their greatest challenge since 1927. Of recent floods, in 2008
the river topped out at 50.9 feet, the highest since 1973 when it reached 51.6 feet. The benchmark 1927 flood reached 56.2 feet on today’s gauges and 62 feet had levees held.
County: New names, same old jail The 2011 election saw three new faces chosen for countywide government positions. Closely watched races included chancery clerk, where newcomer Donna Farris Hardy bested Vicksburg city clerk Walter Osborne; circuit clerk, where incumbent Shelly Ashley-Palmertree easily
won re-election; Sheriff Martin Pace trounced challenger and former deputy Bubba Comans; and tax collector, where lengthy affidavit and absentee vote counting and ballot canvasses were involved before Democrat Antonia Flaggs-Jones emerged the victor over Republican challenger Patty Mekus by 56 votes, 7,630 to 7,574. District 1 Supervisor David McDonald was defeated in the August primary, and Republican challenger John Arnold was elected to the post in the November general election. Other supervisors — William Banks in District 1, See Local, Page C4.
Osama bin Laden’s killing tops world headlines By The Associated Press NEW YORK — The killing of Osama bin Laden during a raid by Navy SEALs on his hideout in Pakistan was the top news story of 2011, followed by Japan’s earthquake/tsunami/meltdown disaster, according to The Associated Press’ annual poll of U.S. editors and news directors. The death of bin Laden, the al-Qaida leader who masterminded the Sept. 11 terror attacks, received 128 first-place votes out of 247 ballots cast for the top 10 stories. The Japan disaster was next, with 60 first-place votes. Placing third were the Arab Spring
uprisings that rocked North Africa and the Middle East, while the European Union’s Osama financial bin Laden turmoil was No. 4. The international flavor of these top stories contrasted with last year’s voting — when the Gulf of Mexico oil spill was the top story, President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul was No. 2, and the U.S. midterm elections were No. 3.
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White House officials, including, from left, Vice President Joe Biden, President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, watch the May 1 raid that killed See World, Page C5. Osama bin Laden.
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Big, vibrant garden scenes theme of Monroe display Secret Garden is the title of the January exhibit at the Ouachita River Art Gallery in Monroe. The display by Melanie Fitzgerald Douthit features vibrant acrylic floral paintings with a bit of whimsy. An opening reception will be from 2 to 4 p.m. Saturday. Douthit, whose “Mardi Gras Dachshund” paintings hang in Mimi’s Café restaurants nationwide, began selling her art online in 2000. She is a member of the Ouachita River Art Gallery. Her works may be viewed at www.melaniedouthit.com. The gallery, located at 301 Trenton St., is open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday. Admission is free. For more information, call 318-322-2380.
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Local book club studies Comanches The Southern Book Club will meet Jan. 18 to discuss “Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History,” by S.C. Gwynne. Gwynne’s book is about the 40-year battle between Comanche Indians and white settlers for control of the American West. For the meeting time and place, call the Southern Cultural Heritage Center at 601-631-2997 or e-mail info@ southernculture.org.
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A painting that’s part of the Secret Garden display at the Ouachita River Art Gallery in Monroe this month
local happenings In town Fourth annual Chill in the Hills 8:30 a.m. Jan. 14; Guaranty Bank, 1900 Cherry St.; $20 in advance, $25 week of the race; 601-636-5703, www.active.com, www.gracechristiancounselingcenter.com.
Southern Cultural Heritage Center Spinning fiber workshop: 10 a.m.-noon Jan. 11, 18, and 25; Brenda Harrower, instructor; $90 members, $100 nonmembers; Gold leaf workshop: 8:30-noon Jan. 14; Teri Taylor Roddy, instructor; $90 members, $95 nonmembers; Monotype printing workshop: 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Jan. 28; Leah Johnson, instructor; $30 members, $35 nonmembers; Contact: 601-631-2997, info@ southernculture.org, www.southernculture.org, also on Facebook.
Vicksburg Theatre Guild Performances: “Forever Plaid,” 7:30 p.m. Jan. 20-21 and 27-28 and 2 p.m. Jan. 22 and 29; “Ten-Minute Play Project,” Feb. 3-4; “Gold in the Hills,” March 16-31; “The Foreigner,” May 4-13; Auditions: “The Foreigner,” Feb. 11-12 for May 4-6 and 11-13 shows; “Fairy Tale Theatre,” to be announced, for June shows; Tickets for main-stage plays: $12 for adults, $10 for 55 and older, $7 for students and $5 for younger than 12; tickets for “Gold in the Hills,” other shows vary; Contact: Parkside Playhouse, 101 Iowa Ave.; 601-636-0471 or www.vicksburgtheatreguild.com.
25th annual Riverfest 6 p.m.-midnight April 20-21, downtown; tickets go on sale Jan. 1; www.frontgatetickets.com; www.riverfestms.com.
25th annual Riverfest Arts & Crafts Show 8 a.m.-4 p.m. April 21; South, Walnut and Crawford streets; www.riverfestms.com.
out of town Poverty Point Historic Site Accepting old Christmas trees through Thursday; west of Epps town hall, in fenced area with orange construction tape; West Carroll Parish, east of Monroe on Louisiana 577; 888-926-5492, povertypoint@crt.la.gov.
Narratives: Inside and Out 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Tuesdays-Saturdays through Feb. 18 at Mary C. O’Keefe Cultural Center of Arts and Education; works by local artists Ellen Langford, Earl Wayne Simmons, Kennith Humphrey, Lesley Silver and Jean Blue; Duckett Gallery, 1600 Government St., Ocean Springs; free; 228-369-4967, mhardycre8@cableone. net.
Mississippi Invitational winners 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesdays-Saturdays and noon-5 p.m. Sundays through Feb. 5; Mississippi Museum of Art, 380 S. Lamar St., Jackson; $5 for adults, $4 for seniors, $3 for students, free for
museum members; 601-960-1515, 866-843-9278, www.msmuseumart.org.
Grant-writing workshop 6 p.m. Jan. 17 at Quisenberry Library, Clinton; free; Mississippi Arts Commission; 601-359-6030, morrisey@arts.state.ms.us.
Arts Center of Mississippi LEGO display Through Jan. 15; 210 E. Pascagoula St., Jackson; 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Monday-Friday, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturdays, noon-5 p.m. Sundays; 601-960-1557.
For foodies
Beechwood Restaurant & Lounge 4451 Clay St., 601-636-3761 On stage, with a cover charge, at 9:15 p.m.: • Easy Eddie & The Partyrockers — Friday-Saturday. • Snazz — Jan. 13-14. • Back 40 — Jan. 21. • Ratchet — Jan. 28. • Crossin Dixon — Feb. 4.
Ameristar Casino, 4116 Washington St. 601-638-1000, www.ameristar.com
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Free at Bottleneck Blues Bar: • Dr. Zarr’s Funkmonster — Variety/funk; Friday-Saturday. • The King Beez — R&B/Blues; Jan. 13-14. • Mustang Sally — Country Rock; Jan. 20-21. • Hoosier Daddies — Variety; Jan. 27-28. Free at Cabaret Lounge: • B.B. Secrist — Oldies; Friday-Saturday. • Doug Allen — Variety; Jan. 13-14 and 27-28. • LaNise Kirk — Variety; Jan. 20-21.
3:45-5 p.m. Thursdays beginning Jan. 19 for 13 weeks; Karen Biedenharn and Regina Renot, instructors; first-sixth grades; free; Southern Cultural Heritage Center; 601-631-2997, info@southernculture.org, www.southernculture.org, also on Facebook.
Eddie Monsour’s at the Biscuit Company 1100 Washington St., 601-638-1571
Winter soup workshop 5:30-7:30 p.m. Jan. 17 at the Southern Cultural Heritage Center; William Furlong, instructor; $30 members, $35 nonmembers; 601-631-2997, info@southernculture.org, www.southernculture.org, also on Facebook.
For kids
Intro to Spanish for Kids 4:15-5:30 p.m. Tuesdays, Jan. 31-March 6; Olivia Foshee, instructor; $70 members, $75 nonmembers; Southern Cultural Heritage Center; 601-631-2997, info@southernculture.org, www. southernculture.org, also on Facebook.
16th annual Pasta Tales writing contest Through Jan. 29; 50-250 word essay; first-12th grades; 954-7761999,www.olivegarden.com.
Mississippi School for the Arts Applications accepted through Feb. 1; 355 W. Monticello St., Brookhaven; 601-823-1300,www.msa.k12.ms.us.
Jackson Zoo Safari Slumber Sleepover 7 p.m.-9 a.m. Feb. 24-25; $25 members, $30 nonmembers, registration required; 2918 W. Capitol St.; 601-352-2580, www.jacksonzoo.org; zoo admission: $9 for adults, $6 for ages 2-12, $8.10 for over 65, free for younger than 2.
Nightlife Vicksburg Convention Center 1600 Mulberry St., 601-630-2929 • Ron White Moral Compass Tour — 7 p.m. Jan. 28; tickets: $40.75, $52.75, $184.75 for VIP pass with meet and greet; ticketmaster.com, VCC box office, 800-745-3000.
• 8-11 p.m. Tuesdays and Fridays — Karaoke. • 8 p.m. Wednesdays — Biscuit & Jam; open mic. • Thursdays — Ladies night.
Jacques’ Cafe at Battlefield Inn 4137 N. Frontage Road, 601-661-6264 • 9 p.m. Wednesday-Saturday — Karaoke.
LD’s Kitchen 1111 Mulberry St., 601-636-9838 • 8:30 p.m. each second and fourth Tuesday — Central Mississippi Blues Society Band, local artists; free. • 8:30 p.m. each first and third Tuesday — Soul Unlimited and Sounds Unlimited; free.
Roca Restaurant & Bar 127 Country Club Drive, 601-638-0800 • 6-8 p.m. Wednesdays — Ben Shaw. • 7-10 p.m. Fridays — Dustin.
The Upper End Lounge 1306 Washington St., 601-634-8333 With a $3 cover charge: • 7-11 p.m. Tuesdays and Wednesdays — Karaoke. • 7-9 p.m. Thursdays — Ladies night. • 10 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays — D.J.
New year is the perfect time to lighten up heavy menu By ALISON LADMAN The Associated Press After all that heavy holiday eating, it’s good to tone it down a bit for the new year. Whether you resolve to make a commitment to better eating or just want a palate cleanser from all the roasts and dips, this light and creamy soup will do the trick. Creamy in texture without being creambased, this soup satisfies with vegetables, wild rice and rosemary. We’ve opted for quick and lean protein in the form of chicken breast, but shrimp would be another easy, tasty option.
Creamy Rosemary Wild Rice Soup The associated press
Creamy Rosemary Wild Rice Soup
Start to finish: 1 hour 15 minutes
Servings: 6 1 tablespoon olive oil 8 ounces boneless, skinless chicken breast, cubed 1 medium yellow onion, diced 2 cloves garlic, minced 2 stalks celery, diced 1 large carrot, peeled and diced 1 large parsnip, peeled and diced 3 tablespoons minced fresh rosemary 1 quart (4 cups) lowsodium chicken broth 1/2 cup wild rice 2 tablespoons instant flour (such as Wondra) 2 cups fat-free half-andhalf Salt and ground black pepper, to taste In a large saucepan over medium-high, heat the olive oil. Add the cubed chicken breast and sear until
browned, 4 to 5 minutes. The meat does not need to be cooked through. Add the onion, garlic, celery, carrot and parsnip, then cook until browned, about another 3 to 4 minutes. Add the rosemary, chicken broth and wild rice. Bring to a simmer and cover. Cook for 45 minutes, or until the rice is tender. Add the instant flour and cook, stirring constantly, for 3 minutes, or until thickened. Add the halfand-half and heat, but do not boil (the half-and-half will separate). Season with salt and pepper. Nutrition information per serving: 210 calories; 40 calories from fat (18 percent of total calories); 4 g fat (1 g saturated; 0 g trans fats); 25 mg cholesterol; 27 g carbohydrate; 15 g protein; 3 g fiber; 220 mg sodium.
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Mr. and Mrs. Jabari Raynard Lockett The bride is the former Stacy Nicole Hester The associated press
Jake Nyberg, third from left, and his fiance, Tess Haun, fourth from left, after he proposed to her at a skating rink in St. Paul, Minn.
December popular time to pop the question By Leanne Italie The Associated Press NEW YORK — The heck with lovey-dovey Valentine’s Day. Turns out December, with its holiday cheer, romantic winter backdrops and family gatherings, is among the busiest months for popping the question. “It’s a pretty time of year,” said Jake Nyberg, 31, a video producer in Minneapolis. He chose Christmastime to drop to one knee in a gorilla suit while teetering on ice skates in front of his beloved. “You know you’re going to be around a lot of family. You’re going to be seeing all the people you’d like to see after something like this happens.” Sarah Pease, a professional proposal planner in New York, usually gets one or two inquiries a week from nervous grooms-to-be, but once Thanksgiving rolls around, it’s more like one or two a day, with most guys looking to propose in December. While she specializes in elaborate surprise proposals, she says the simple engagementring-under-the-tree trick is still popular. “That’s a great way to have it as a family affair,” she said. “It’s dreamy. This is definitely THE busiest time of the year.” Laurent Landau in New York, a partner in the jewelry site DiamondIdeals.com, also sees the December bump: “October, November and early December, we probably see a 50 percent to 60 percent increase in the number of people buying rings with the purpose of proposing during the holiday season.” And it’s not just regular folks; celebs confirm the trend too. Matthew McConaughey announced in a tweet that he proposed to his girlfriend, Brazilian model Camila Alves, on Christmas Day this year. And two days after Christmas, a spokesman for John Legend revealed that the singer recently proposed to his girlfriend, model Chrissy Teigen, in the Maldives. Christmas is considered one of four big proposal days, along with Valentine’s Day, Thanksgiving and New Year’s. Thirty-nine percent of proposals occurred between November and February among 20,000 newlyweds surveyed by the popular wedding website TheKnot.com. Of those, 16 percent got engaged in December, more than any other month, according to TheKnot editor Anja Winikka. Winikka’s on board. Her fiance, Benjamin Bullington, proposed Dec. 20 by matching a fantasy she’d had “as a child that on my very first date ever I would wear a red dress and we would go to Red Lobster in a red car.” Bullington sent a red dress and shoes to her office, then whisked her off in a red car to dine on red lobster. With help from Pease, the wedding planner, Matthew Fowkes surprised his honey
Mr. Lockett marries Miss Hester in Texas Jabari Raynard Lockett and Stacy Nicole Hester were married at 7 p.m. Oct. 27, 2011, at Sugar Grove Church of Christ in Meadows Place, Texas. Minister Mark Howell officiated at the ceremony. The bride is the daughter of Doug E. Jr. and Emily Hester of Houston, Texas. She is the granddaughter of Hazel Bell and the late Henry Bell Sr. and Marie Hester and the late Doug Hester Sr., all of Vicksburg. The groom is the son of Jerry and Kim Lockett of Houston. He is the grandson of Sylvia Turner and the late Malcolm Turner of New Orleans and Elizabeth Nash of Fort Worth, Texas. Given in marriage by her father, the bride’s chosen colors were purple, green and gold in a Mardi Gras theme. Maid of honor was Danielle Gray of Houston. Matron of honor was Natashia Harris of Houston. Bridesmaids were Brandi Milliff of New Orleans; Keisha Smoke of Channelview, Texas; and Jasmine Boddie of
Baytown, Texas. Flower girl was Asia Green of Houston. The groom’s brothers, Malcolm Lockett and Jamaal Lockett, both of Houston, served as best men. Groomsmen were Steven Hester of Houston; Steven Harris of Denver, Colo.; and Leonard Smith of Missouri City, Texas. Special wedding assistant was Dorene Martin. A reception followed at Shafaii Hall & Garden in Houston. For a wedding trip, the couple will travel on a Caribbean Cruise in March. They are making their home in Houston. The bride, a retired NFL cheerleader for the Houston Texans, is owner and founder of Pro Status Cheer & Dance Co. and teaches sixth grade for the Channelview Independent School District. The groom owns Jabari Lockett Photography and teaches high school for the Channelview Independent School District.
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Matthew Fowkes, right proposes to Melissa Barnickel in the Brooklyn borough of New York
Christmas is considered one of four big proposal days, along with Valentine’s Day, Thanksgiving and New Year’s. Thirty-nine percent of proposals occurred between November and February among 20,000 newlyweds surveyed by the popular wedding website TheKnot.com. Of those, 16 percent got engaged in December, more than any other month, according to TheKnot editor Anja Winikka. with an impressive yellow diamond on a romantic Christmas week getaway to New York. “We thought it would be a magical time in the city with all the lights and everything — and it was,” said Fowkes, 35, a website founder in Pittsburgh. Fowkes took Melissa Barnickel, 25, to a French bistro in Brooklyn on Dec. 2 where they were the only guests. The evening included singers belting “Marry Me” by Train, a videographer and photographer recording it all, a tiered proposal cake and a bottle of wine identical to one the pair drank during their first trip together, to Canada. Fowkes had the wine placed in a box made of Canadian wood, carved with their names. They’ll fill it with remembrances at their Sept. 29 wedding and seal it as a time capsule to be opened on their 10th wedding anniversary. And they
might just duplicate the proposal cake for their nuptials. “I was completely surprised,” said Barnickel, an analyst for an insurance company. “It was such a fairy tale. Everything was just so thought through.” Brad Carlson, 41, a production executive for Paramount Pictures in Los Angeles, went for the fake-out. He and Allison Koeppe, 34, had been talking marriage for a while. She thought it might be nice to get engaged the weekend of Dec. 16, when he had business in New York, but he held her off, suggesting they wait until they could figure out a plan. “She was, like, a plan. What do we need a plan for,” Carlson recalled. What she didn’t know was he had hired Pease months before to make every moment meaningful when he proposed that Saturday. They stayed at a fancy
downtown hotel and strolled through Washington Square Park on their way to dinner at Babbo. Along the way they encountered a painter in the park whose easel bore a replica of a favorite photo Koeppe had taken on a trip to Italy. As she realized what was about to happen, a guitarist materialized and played “Reminiscing” by Little River Band: “How to tell you girl/ I wanna build my world around you/ Tell you that it’s true/ I wanna make you understand/ I’m talkin’ about a lifetime plan ...” Carlson let Koeppe’s closest friends in on the secret and presented her with a video featuring their congratulations back at the hotel. That gesture moved her to tears. “It was beyond anything I could have imagined,” said Koeppe, who’s originally from Hopewell Valley, N.J. “New York in December is one of the more romantic places you could be.” Nyberg also went stealth. His fiancee is a freelance photographer and he concocted a fake client who was going to propose in gorilla gear at an outdoor skating rink in downtown St. Paul, Minn. Nyberg showed up himself Dec. 16 with several friends, all dressed as gorillas who took to the ice.
Air Force Airman Bryan C. Mullen has graduated from basic military training at Lackland Air Force Base, San Antonio, Texas. The eight-week program included training in military discipline and studies, core values, physical fitness and basic warfare principles. He also earned four credits toward an associate degree through the Community College of the Air Force. A 2011 graduate of Vicksburg High School, he is the son of Angie Mullen of Vicksburg and Tommy Gentry of Buford, Ga. Air Force Airman Lauren Proctor has graduated from basic military training at Lackland Air Force Base, San Antonio, Texas. The eight-week program included training in military discipline and studies, core values, physical fitness and basic warfare principles.
She also earned four credits toward an associate degree through the Community College of the Air Force and earned distinction as an honor graduate. A 2011 graduate of Warren Central High School, she is the daughter of Melissa and Kenneth Proctor of Vicksburg. Air Force Airman Ronnie Smith has graduated from basic military training at Lackland Air Force Base, San Antonio, Texas. The eight-week program included training in military discipline and studies, core values, physical fitness and basic warfare principles. He also earned four credits toward an associate degree through the Community College of the Air Force. A 2011 graduate of Vicksburg High School, he is the son of Ronnie Smith and Michelle Obannon, both of Vicksburg.
Are you planning a wedding?
The Vicksburg Post will publish an engagement announcement before the wedding date. The Sunday before the wedding, we will list your wedding in a roundup of those planned for the week. The wedding writeup and photo will run, as space allows, as soon as possible after the wedding. Wedding information submitted more than two months after the ceremony is too late for use. There is no charge to publish any of the announcements submitted within our time limits. Brides who submit information past the deadline or who wish to include additional details not requested on our forms (such as dress descriptions or decorations) may do so at a cost of 50 cents per word. A $100 fee will be charged to include a photo if the information is posted after our deadline. Information for engagement and wedding announcements should be submitted on forms provided by The Vicksburg Post. They are available at the newspaper office, 1601 N. Frontage Road, or online at vicksburgpost.com. Forms should be filled out in full, typewritten when possible or legibly written. A phone number on the form is required. Photos of the bride or couple should be close-ups when possible; unfiltered, glossy images in 5-by-7 or 4-by-6 reproduce best. Inferior quality photos will be refused. For more information, call 601-636-4545, ext. 131.
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Local Continued from Page C1. Charles Selmon in District 3, Bill Lauderdale Jr. in District 4 and Richard George in District 5, were re-elected. In the tax assessor’s race, Angela Brown was elected, taking over for the retiring Richard Holland. An old-timer that remains as the new year dawns is the Warren County Jail. For nearly 20 years, grand jurors have said conditions at the jail, now 106, must be addressed for the safety of inmates and employees. The October-November grand jury, which has no enforcement authority, urged officials to fund studies to compare the costs of building a new jail with refurbishing the old. The jail, last renovated in the 1970s, can house up to 128 inmates and often is at capacity with pre-trial detainees. Overflow city prisoners are jailed at the Issaquena County Correctional Facility, increasing costs to cover housing and transportation. Some have called for refurbishing the jail’s third floor, currently used for storage, to incorporate jail cells. The area lacks egress and accessibility required by law, necessary heating and cooling systems and other Department of Justice inmate housing standards, and might not be structurally capable of being remodeled into inmate housing. Estimated costs of a new facility are $20 million to $30 million.
Population changes Results of the 2010 census show Vicksburg’s population was 23,856 or 9.7 percent fewer people than in the 2000 count. The countywide total was 48,773, down 1.75 percent from the 2000 count. Growth in District 1, which covers the northeastern part of the county, kept it the most populous in the county, with 10,169 people, and necessitated redrawing the borders of the county’s five districts to meet requirements of the Voting Rights Act. In June, supervisors approved new maps for their own districts and for the three justice court districts. On the maps, Districts 2 and 3 grew geographically to reflect population shifts away from the city in the 2010 census. A legal challenge of maps of districts brought by several chapters of the NAACP against 10 Mississippi counties, including Warren, was dismissed from federal court but at year’s end remained before the 5th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals. In December, Board of Supervisors attorney Randy Sherard said no rush is necessary to send the redistricting plan to the U.S. Justice Department since the appellate court has not ruled. If approved, the new district lines would be used for the 2015 election cycle. Redistricting in the state Legislature was delayed until 2012 after a breakdown in the process.
City Progress was marked on two long-term projects in the city. Replacement of the Clark Street bridge, which has closed Washington Street to north-south travel since January 2009, is on track to be completed at the end of February. Renovation of the Yazoo & Mississippi Valley Railroad Station, commonly known as the Levee Street Depot, neared completion as the year ended, with the first two floors completed and thirdfloor renovations under way. The depot became a symbol of the 2011 Mississippi River Flood, as national media capitalized on floodwaters surrounding the depot for photographs and broadcast backgrounds. In September, city workers stepped in to help clear the remnants of a brick wall at the old Thomas Furniture Store that collapsed
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Joe Herring, great-grandson of a Civil War veteran, raises the Bonnie Blue Flag at the Old Court House Museum at a January event to kick off the 150th Civil War anniversary. six years ago at 713 Clay St. No one was injured when a remaining beam fell in 2011, but it leveled a chain-link fence blocking the front of the property and blocked a portion of the sidewalk and a parking space in front of the building. In December, County Judge Johnny Price ruled the City of Vicksburg will not be dismissed from a lawsuit involving the building that had been filed in 2010 by Lisa and Randy Ashcraft. The couple own the former First Federal Savings and Loan building at 1221 Washington St., which shared a wall with Thomas Furniture. City attorney Lee Davis Thames Jr. and Mayor Paul Winfield said the city will appeal. Thames said attorneys for the city’s insurer are representing the city. On Dec. 19, Winfield, city buildings and inspection department Director Victor Gray-Lewis, police Chief Walter Armstrong, deputy police chief John Dolan, police officers Sgt. Troy Kimble and Leonce Young and five unnamed people were listed as defendants in a federal lawsuit filed by the Ashcrafts. The suit claims harassment and intimidation in retaliation for the initial lawsuit related to the collapsed building and for the Ashcrafts’ opposition to Winfield’s election.
Who’s in, who’s out At City Hall, a shakeup in the mayor’s staff resulted with the dismissal in April of Kenya Burks, who had been Winfield’s chief of staff. Burks, a $72,000-a-year salaried employee whose duties Winfield said included facilitating meetings and promoting his policies, had been paid nearly $10,000 in back overtime pay two weeks before. She was replaced with a secretary paid about $25,000 annually. Allen Derivaux, municipal court judge pro tem, resigned Dec. 21, weeks after the 56-year-old was disbarred by a three-member panel appointed by the Mississippi Supreme Court for professional ethics violations tied to collecting premiums for fraudulent title insurance policies from clients and others. The Board of Mayor and Aldermen named Toni Terrett, community court judge, to fill the spot. After about two years on the job, Vicksburg Housing Authority Director Dannie Walker resigned Sept. 7 to take a similar position with the Ozark, Ala., Housing Authority. Walker cited a desire to be closer to his family. Commissioners voted Dec. 7 to hire Bennett Washington, a Jackson native and a former contract inspector for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, inspecting Section 8 and public housing com-
plexes in Mississippi. Larry Gawronski, longtime executive director of the Vicksburg Convention Center and City Auditorium, accepted a similar position in Ottumwa, Iowa, with VenueWorks, the VCC’s management company. Gawronski was set to begin his new job this week. Replacing him will be Troy Thorn, 41, the former assistant director of the Dallas Convention Center, whose appointment was announced Dec. 9. And after 31 years of reading to and helping two generations of Vicksburg’s children with their school reports, Lottie Walker retired June 30 as children’s librarian at the Warren County-Vicksburg Public Library. Walker was replaced by former library assistant Julie Bryan.
Education The year began with Vicksburg Warren School District Superintendent Dr. Elizabeth Duran Swinford being given a “favorable” rating in her first four months on the job by the board of trustees. Trustees followed up in August by saying they were “pleased” with her performance, and extended her contract by a year. Her $125,000 annual salary was not discussed publicly. Test scores released in July showed gains, especially in math, and in August, the district achieved a two-step rating rise, moving to “Academic Watch” from “At Risk of Failing,” the rating it had held for two years. Swinford also continued holding meetings with parents, teachers and community members. She also contracted for teacher training at the high schools and junior highs, added a districtlevel curriculum director, revamped the elementary school schedules to add 30 minutes to the school day and mandated an hour and a half of reading to begin each day’s instruction in all schools. At Alcorn State University, based in Lorman with a satellite campus in Vicksburg, Dr. Christopher Brown was formally instituted April 15 as the institution’s 18th and, at 38, youngest president.
Wrecks and fires Eight fatal wrecks were recorded in the county in 2011, and three in the city. In 2010, the county had seen one and the city, two. In the county: • Christopher Lynn Jr., 19, 2217 Glass Road, died Feb. 22 in a single-vehicle wreck in the 1300 block of Redbone Road. • Dudley Shane Scrimpshire, 42, of Moselle, died March 13 when he was struck by a hit-and-run driver while walking near the Interstate 20 off-ramp at Bovina. Roger
Dale Curtis, 26, of Collins, was charged March 16 with Scrimpshire’s death. • Damon Keshoun Brown, 21, 5698 Gibson Road, was killed at 10:30 p.m. June 12 in a single-car wreck at 4812 Gibson Road. • Willie L. Williams, 57, 1529 South St., died just before 1 a.m. Sept. 5 on Interstate 20 west near Bovina when his 1993 Jeep left the highway and struck a tree. • Anthony Sims, 40, address unavailable, was struck on U.S. 80 just before 6 a.m. Sept. 18. Sims was reportedly in the road when he was hit by 19-year-old Ashley King. King, who was flown to University Medical Center in Jackson, was later fined $677 for driving under the influence but not charged with Sims’ death. • Kenneth Patterson, 32, 3159 Mount Alban Road, died just after 8 p.m. Sept. 18 at Jeff Davis and Mallet roads. • William Edward Broadwater, 55, 24 Wigwam Road, was killed around 11 p.m. Sept. 22 when his motorcycle wrecked in the 1500 block of Nine Mile Cut-Off Road. • John P. Lee, 61, 102 Monteray, was killed in a motorcycle wreck at Mississippi 465 and Eagle Lake Shore Road Oct. 2. In the city: • Jenilyn Hall, 79, died Jan. 17 from head trauma she received in a Jan. 7 accident on Interstate 20 near Halls Ferry Road. • Latashia Haggar, 31, 122 John Allen St., died in an accident on railroad tracks next to Old Highway 27 and North Frontage Road. • The body of Lt. Col. Jeffery Dryden, 46, 610 Briarfield Drive, was found Sept. 26 near Holly Ridge Road, about 24 hours after he was last seen driving his motorcycle away from his home. Two people died in fires in 2011. • Karen Anderson-Smith, 50, died March 16 in her home at 3022 Rose Lane. • John Brandon Graham, 56, died Dec. 5 in his mobile home on Rooster Ridge Road, off 615 Burnt House Road. An autopsy determined that Graham died of natural causes while he was cooking. Other fatalities involving Warren County residents included the drowning deaths of Walter Cook, 69, 503 Pearl St., in floodwaters near Washington Street on May 19; Carson Braydon Lynn, 8, a rising third-grader at Porters Chapel Academy, on June 11; Quincy Jones, 32, 317 Lake Forest Drive, Aug. 7; and Christopher Ingraham, 50, 436 Tucker Road, Nov. 12.
Business In a year of mixed news for businesses, the Vicksburg Mall got a new tenant in an old anchor spot with the opening of Goody’s April 7 and a longtime fixture of Vicksburg industry was sold twice in 2011. LeTourneau Technologies, including the Vicksburg and Houston plants, was purchased from Rowan Technologies in June for $1.1 billion by Joy Global. Joy then announced in September it was selling the Vicksburg drilling operations to Houston-based oil services firm Cameron International Corp. for $375 million in cash. Joy directors said they planned to retain the LeTourneau facility in Houston. The pending transfers follow the departure of the $150 million Joe Douglas jackup oil drilling rig from the south Warren County fabrication yard on the Mis-
sissippi River — a sendoff believed to be a sign of change at the plant, which dates to 1944.
Cultural The first year of the Civil War sesquicentennial observance began Jan. 8 with the raising of the Confederate Bonnie Blue flag over the Old Court House Museum, to mark the anniversary of Mississippi’s secession from the Union. Events will continue through 2015. Also in January, the Vicksburg National Military Park, commemorating the city’s role in the key 1863 Union campaign, received the donation of a field desk used during the siege by then-Lt. William Rigby, who later became a park superintendent. Renovations at the Shirley House, the only remaining structure in the park dating to 1863, were completed and the inside of the house was opened to visitors for the first time in decades. Clearing of trees and brush in certain key areas at the park began in late fall, to restore several significant battle sites to their 1863 appearance. Finally, the USS Cairo, a Union ironclad gunboat, was featured on an America the Beautiful quarter issued Aug. 30 by the U.S. Mint. In downtown Vicksburg, though slowed by the flood, progress continued on the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers interpretive museum and MV Mississippi IV restoration. The museum is set to open in August.
Notable deaths • Former Red Tops members James Leonard “Jimmy” “Jim” Bosley died Feb. 10 at 96, and Williard Tyler Sr., one of the famed blues, jazz and pop group’s founders, died Nov. 19, at 95. Rufus McKay, 84, is now the last living original Red Top. • The man known as “Mr. Rotary,” Harry Reese Gillespie, died March 30 at 105. • Community theater great for more than half a century William “Buddy” Hallberg Jr. died April 27 at age 75. • Known as the “father of the county schools,” Sharp Banks, 87, died Dec. 9. Over 38 years starting in 1952, Banks was a teacher, coach, principal, public address announcer and superintendent.
Crime and courts After just three homicides were logged in the city in 2010, with none in the county, nine were recorded in Vicksburg and Warren County this year, along with three shootings ruled accidental. In Warren County: • Timothy Wayne Harmon, 25, 3400 U.S. 80, Lot 4, was shot just before 4 a.m. Jan. 6 at his home. Charged with murder was Jeremy Blake Bowlin, 19, of the same address, the son of Harmon’s live-in girlfriend. Bowlin goes to trial Feb. 21. • Alicia Michelle Vega, 32, was shot just before 3 p.m. May 2 at her 100 Jones Road home. Her stepdaughter, Tyla Vega, 14, was seen leaving the residence in the family’s car. After a sixday search, Tyla Vega was arrested in Greenville and charged with murder. Her trial date also is Feb. 21. • Gerald Wayne “Jerry” Allen, 36, 1626 Broadhill Drive, was shot May 26 at 5:22 p.m. at 1254 Dillon Ridge Road. His father, 64-yearold Winifred Allen, 2255 Freetown Road, Lot 1, was
arrested minutes after the shooting. Winifred Allen is scheduled for trial Feb. 27. • Angela Andrews, 40, 10150 U.S. 61 South, died at 3:30 p.m. Dec. 5 of head injuries from a beating. Charges against her live-in boyfriend, Lorenzo Hull, 41, were upgraded to murder after his arrest for aggravated assaultdomestic violence. Hull’s case will be presented to a grand jury in 2012. In Vicksburg: • Maurice Morris, 19, 2228 Grove St., was found shot to death May 2 outside the Confederate Ridge Apartments, 780 U.S. 61 North. Morris was believed shot while attempting to rob a resident of the complex. His accomplice, Corey Thompson, initially charged with robbery and capital murder, was indicted on two counts of armed robbery. His trial is set for April 9. • Michael Justin Tornero, 26, of Houston, Texas, died of a gunshot wound May 23 at the Econo Lodge, 3959 E. Clay St., in the room he shared with a co-worker, Daniel O’Neil Dodd, 28, of Tyler, Texas. Dodd, initially charged with culpable manslaughter, was not indicted by the grand jury and Tornero’s death was ruled accidental. Tornero and Dodd were in Vicksburg as temporary security officers hired by Entergy Mississippi during the flood. • Robert Banks, 20, 226 High Hill Drive, was shot to death in the 1700 block of Martha Street about 4 p.m. May 31. Police said the shooting followed a dice game. James Ranson, 19, 1717 Martha St., was indicted for depraved heart murder and is scheduled for trial April 2. Charges against two others arrested with him were dropped. • Michael Terrence Smith, 45, was stabbed at his home at 2910 Arcadia Place around 11:15 p.m. on June 13. Charged with manslaughter was his live-in girlfriend, Annette Scott. Her trial is scheduled for March 26. • William J. Jones Jr., 20, 280 Curry St., was shot just after 2 a.m. July 15 in front of the home where he lived with his parents. Police believe Jones also was robbed, and charged Rondell Galvin, 20, 209 Overlook Drive, with capital murder, and James Walker, 37, 33 Johnson Drive, with accessory after the fact. The case has not yet been presented to the grand jury. The homicide of a Vicksburg man also was reported outside Warren County. Johnny Brown, 24, was killed in a Jackson group home Oct. 24. Arrested was a fellow resident of the home, 37-yearold Donavon Brown, no relation to the victim. The city was also part of a multi-jurisdictional manhunt for two escaped Louisiana prisoners in March, when Ohio resident David Cupps was carjacked in Vicksburg while on a business trip to inspect Grand Gulf Nuclear Plant in Claiborne County. Ricky Wedgeworth and Darian “Drake” Pierce could face the death penalty if convicted of kidnapping resulting in death. Their trial is set for November in federal court in Natchez. Authorities say the inmates kidnapped Cupps, 53, of Sunbury, Ohio, from a hotel on Pemberton Square Boulevard in Vicksburg after escaping from a Louisiana State Police compound in Baton Rouge March 4. Investigators said Cupps was beaten and strangled and his body dumped in Bessemer, Ala. The escapees were captured March 14 in Memphis.
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World Continued from Page C1. Here are 2011’s top 10 stories, in order: • Osama bin Laden’s death — He’d been the world’s most-wanted terrorist for nearly a decade, ever since a team of his al-Qaida followers carried out the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. In May, the long and oftenfrustrating manhunt ended with a nighttime assault by a helicopter-borne special operations squad on his compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan. Bin Laden was shot dead by one of the raiders, and within hours his body was buried at sea. • Japan’s triple disaster — A 9.0-magnitude earthquake off Japan’s northeast coast in March unleashed a tsunami that devastated scores of communities, leaving nearly 20,000 people dead or missing and wreaking an estimated $218 billion in damage. The tsunami triggered the worst nuclear crisis since Chernobyl after waves knocked out the cooling system at a nuclear power plant, causing it to spew radiation that turned up in local produce. About 100,000 people evacuated from the area have not returned to their homes. • Arab Spring — It began with demonstrations in Tunisia that rapidly toppled the longtime strongman. Spreading like a wildfire, the Arab Spring protests sparked a revolution in Egypt that ousted Hosni Mubarak, fueled a civil war in Libya that climaxed with Moammar Gadhafi’s death, and fomented a bloody uprising in Syria against the Assad regime. Bahrain and Yemen also experienced major protests and unrest. • European Union fiscal crisis — The European Union was wracked by relentless fiscal turmoil. In Greece, austerity measures triggered strikes, protests and riots, while Italy’s economic woes toppled Premier Silvio Berlusconi. France and Germany led urgent efforts to ease the debt crisis; Britain balked at proposed changes. • U.S. economy — By some measures, the U.S. economy gained strength as the year progressed. Hiring picked up a bit, consumers were spending more, and the unemployment rate finally dipped below 9 percent. But millions of Americans remained buffeted by foreclosures, joblessness and benefit cutbacks, and investors were on edge monitoring the chain of fiscal crises in Europe. • Penn State sex abuse scandal — One of America’s most storied college football programs was tarnished in a scandal that prompted the firing of Hall of Fame football coach Joe Paterno. One of his former assistants, Jerry Sandusky, was accused of sexually molesting 10 boys; two senior Penn State officials were charged with perjury; and the longtime president was ousted. Paterno wasn’t charged, but expressed regret he didn’t do more after being told there was a problem. • Gadhafi toppled in Libya — After nearly 42 years of mercurial and often brutal rule, Moammar Gadhafi was toppled by his own people. Anti-government protests escalated into an eight-month rebellion, backed by NATO bombing, that shattered his regime, and Gadhafi finally was tracked down and killed in the fishing village where he was born. • Fiscal showdowns in Congress — Partisan divisions in Congress led to several showdowns on fiscal issues. A fight over the debt ceiling prompted Standard & Poor’s to strip the U.S. of its AAA credit rating. Later, the so-called “supercommittee” failed to agree on a deficit-reduction package of at least $1.2 trillion — potentially triggering automatic spending cuts of that amount starting in 2013.
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Yemeni protesters rally in the streets of Sanaa.
Some highlights January • Jan. 8 — U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords is among 12 injured during a Tucson, Ariz., shooting that kills six; prosecution suspended to allow suspect to undergo treatment for schizophrenia. • Jan. 14 — In an unprecedented popular uprising, Tunisian protesters enraged over soaring unemployment and corruption drive President Zine El Abdine Ben Ali from power after 23 years of iron-fisted rule. • Jan. 18 — The first director of the Peace Corps, R. Sargent Shriver, widower of Special Olympics founder Eunice Kennedy Shriver, dies at 95. • Jan. 25 — In Egypt, thousands of antigovernment protesters clash with police during a Tunisia-inspired demonstration to demand the end of President Hosni Mubarak’s rule. • Jan. 27 — Tens of thousands of Yemenis demand that their president step down. Taking inspiration from Tunisians’ revolt, they vow to continue until their U.S.backed government falls.
February • Feb. 6 — Green Bay Packers win Super Bowl, defeating the Pittsburgh Steelers 31-25. • Feb. 7 — AOL Inc. announces $315 million purchase of news website The Huffington Post. • Feb. 11 — Egypt explodes with joy after pro-democracy protesters bring down President Hosni Mubarak with a momentous march on his palaces and state TV. Resigning, Mubarak hands over power to the military. • Feb. 15 — Protesters swarm Wisconsin’s capitol after Gov. Scott Walker proposes cutbacks in benefits and bargaining rights for public employees. • Feb. 16 — Bookstore chain Borders declares bankruptcy; its last stores will close in September. • Feb. 28 — Actress and World War II pinup bombshell Jane Russell dies at 89.
March • March 7 — Obama approves the resumption of military trials at the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, ending a two-year ban. • March 9 — Shuttle Discovery ends its career as the most flown U.S. spaceship, returning from orbit for the last time. • March 11 — Magnitude-9.0 earthquake and resulting tsunami strike Japan’s northeastern coast, a combined disaster that will kill nearly 20,000 people and cause grave damage to the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power station, world’s worst nuclear accident since Chernobyl. • March 18 — Former U.S. Secretary of State Warren M. Christopher dies at 85. • March 19 — U.S. fires cruise missiles from the sea while French jets target Moammar Gadhafi’s forces, launching a broad international effort in support of a Libyan uprising that seemed near defeat.
April • April 1 — In politically gridlocked Washington, an 11th hour agreement on the federal budget, including tens of billions of dollars in spending cuts, averts a government shutdown. • April 4 — The Obama administration gives up on trying Khalid Sheik Mohammed and four alleged 9/11 co-conspirators in civilian courts in New York and will prosecute them before military
• Occupy Wall Street protests — It began Sept. 17 with a protest at a New York City park near Wall Street, and within weeks spread to scores of com-
commissions. • April 23 — Yemen’s president agrees to step down and hand power to his deputy in exchange for immunity from prosecution, an about-face for the autocrat who has ruled for 32 years. • April 27 — Powerful tornadoes rake the South and Midwest, killing more than 300; Tuscaloosa and other Alabama cities are especially hard-hit. • April 29 — Britain’s Prince William and Kate Middleton marry at London’s Westminster Abbey amid pomp, circumstance and elaborate hats.
May • May 2 — Osama bin Laden, the face of global terrorism and architect of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, is killed in a firefight with elite American forces at his Pakistan compound, then is quickly buried at sea in a stunning finale to a furtive decade on the run. • May 5 — Writer-director Arthur Laurents, who wrote “West Side Story,” dies at 93. • May 14 — At New York’s JFK airport, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, head of the International Monetary Fund and potential candidate for president of France, is pulled from a plane and charged with sexually assaulting a Manhattan hotel maid. He resigns. Charges are later dropped. • May 19 — Katie Couric, first solo anchorwoman of a network evening newscast, leaves “CBS Evening News” after five years. • May 22 — Joplin, Mo., tornado causes more than 160 deaths; the monstrous storm, with winds up to 250 mph, damages or destroys about 8,000 homes and businesses. • May 25 — After 25-year run, “The Oprah Winfrey Show” airs final broadcast.
June • June 2 — Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney announces bid for the Republican presidential nomination. • June 3 — Doctor-assisted suicide advocate Jack Kevorkian dies at 83. • June 16 — U.S. Rep. Anthony Weiner announces resignation 10 days after admitting he’d sent lewd self-portraits to women online. • June 22 — James “Whitey” Bulger, the longtime fugitive Boston crime boss and fixture on the FBI’s 10 Most Wanted list, is arrested in Santa Monica, Calif. • June 22 — Obama announces he is bringing home 33,000 troops from Afghanistan by next summer. • June 24 — New York becomes the largest state to legalize same-sex marriage.
July • July 1 — Six weeks after ex-California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger revealed he fathered a child with a member of his household staff, Maria Shriver files divorce papers seeking to end their 25year marriage. • July 5 — Orlando, Fla., jury finds Casey Anthony, 25, not guilty of murder, manslaughter and child abuse in the 2008 disappearance and death of her 2-yearold daughter, Caylee. • July 7 — Rupert Murdoch’s media empire unexpectedly jettisons News of the World, Britain’s best-selling Sunday newspaper, after a public backlash over claims it used phone hacking and other illegal tactics to expose the rich and famous, royals and ordinary citizens. • July 8 — Former first lady Betty Ford
munities across the U.S. and abroad. The movement depicted itself as leaderless and shied away from specific demands, but succeeded in airing its com-
dies at 93. • July 21 — The 30-year-old space shuttle program ends as Atlantis lands at Cape Canaveral, Fla., after the 135th shuttle flight. • July 23 — Singer Amy Winehouse, 27, is found dead from accidental alcohol poisoning following drinking binge after weeks of abstinence.
August • Aug. 1 — A last-minute deal in the U.S. Congress ends a stalemate over raising the federal debt ceiling that had threatened to lead to government default. Deal included provision for a “supercommittee” to agree on deep spending cuts by a November deadline. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords returns for first time since her January shooting, to vote. • Aug. 5 — Citing a “gulf between the political parties,” credit rating agency Standard & Poor’s downgrades U.S. debt for the first time since assigning the nation’s AAA rating in 1917. • Aug. 5 — Federal jury convicts three New Orleans police officers, a former officer and a retired sergeant of civil rights violations in the 2005 shooting deaths of a teenager and a mentally disabled man crossing a bridge following Hurricane Katrina. • Aug. 13 — In the Republican presidential race, Rep. Michelle Bachmann wins the Iowa straw poll; Texas Gov. Rick Perry officially declares his candidacy. • Aug. 23 — A magnitude 5.8 earthquake in Virginia, the strongest on the East Coast since 1944, causes cracks in the Washington Monument and damages the National Cathedral. • Aug. 27 — Hurricane Irene, after striking Puerto Rico and the Bahamas, pushes up the East Coast, prompting evacuations in New York City and leaving major flood damage in Vermont.
September • Sept. 11 — As the U.S. and the world mark the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, a memorial plaza at ground zero opens. • Sept. 16 — Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas says he will ask the U.N. Security Council to endorse his people’s decades-long quest for statehood. • Sept. 17 — A demonstration calling itself Occupy Wall Street begins in New York. • Sept. 20 — Repeal of U.S. military’s 18-year-old “don’t ask, don’t tell” compromise takes effect, allowing gay and lesbian service members to serve openly. • Sept. 25 — In the GOP race, Romney wins the Michigan straw poll; businessman Herman Cain gets a surprise victory in the Florida straw poll. • Sept. 30 — U.S. drone airstrike in Yemen kills two American members of al-Qaida, cleric Anwar al-Awlaki and recruiting magazine editor Samir Khan.
October • Oct. 1 — Campaigning begins in Tunisia for the first elections born of the revolts
plaint that the richest 1 percent of Americans benefit at the expense of the rest. As winter approached, local police dismantled several of the protest encampments.
that swept the Middle East. • Oct. 3 — An Italian appeals court frees Amanda Knox of Seattle after four years in prison, tossing murder convictions against Knox and an ex-boyfriend in the stabbing of their British roommate. • Oct. 5 — Apple Inc. co-founder Steve Jobs — entrepreneur, inventor, selfmade billionaire — dies of cancer at 56. • Oct. 16 — In Washington, the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial is dedicated. • Oct. 20 — Gadhafi, Libya’s dictator for 42 years, is killed as revolutionary fighters overwhelm his hometown of Sirte and capture the last major bastion of resistance two months after his regime fell. • Oct. 31 — United Nations marks world population surpassing 7 billion.
November • Nov. 4 — “60 Minutes” commentator Andy Rooney, 92, dies a month after his farewell segment on the show. • Nov. 7 — Los Angeles jury convicts Michael Jackson’s doctor, Conrad Murray, of involuntary manslaughter for supplying an anesthetic implicated in the entertainer’s 2009 death. • Nov. 9 — After 46 seasons as Penn State’s head football coach and a record 409 victories, Joe Paterno is fired, along with the university president, over their handling of child sex abuse allegations against former assistant coach Jerry Sandusky; two top university officials step down following grand jury indictments. • Nov. 12 — Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi resigns, setting in motion a transition aimed at bringing the country back from the brink of economic crisis. • Nov. 21 — In Washington, Congress’ bipartisan deficit reduction “supercommittee,” appointed to find $1.2 trillion in cuts over a decade, fails, triggering automatic cuts agreed to under the summer’s debt ceiling deal. But they don’t take effect until 2013. • Nov. 23 — Yemeni president Ali Abdullah Saleh agrees to step down amid a fierce uprising to oust him after 33 years in power.
December • Dec. 2 — U.S. Labor Department announces unemployment rate fell to 8.6 percent in November, lowest since March 2009. • Dec. 3 — One-time GOP front-runner Herman Cain suspends his campaign amid allegations of sexual improprieties, which he denies. • Dec. 7 — “M-A-S-H” actor Harry Morgan dies at 96. • Dec. 18 — Kim Jong Il, the North Korean leader whose iron rule and nuclear ambitions dominated world security fears for more than a decade, dies. • Dec. 18 — Last convoy of heavily armored U.S. troops leaves Iraq crossing into Kuwait in darkness in final moments of nine-year war. • Dec. 23 — After days of stalemate and rancor, the U.S. Congress approves a two-month renewal of payroll tax cuts for 160 million workers and unemployment benefits for millions.
• Gabrielle Giffords shot — The popular third-term congresswoman from Arizona suffered a severe brain injury when she and 18 other people were shot
by a gunman as she met with constituents outside a Tucson supermarket in January. Six people died, and Giffords’ painstaking recovery is still in progress.
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Clockwise from top left: Corey Leyens, 3, son of Shelley and Laurence Leyens, tries to make a snowball as snow starts to fall on Wednesday Feb. 9, 2011, on Crawford Street; Merrill Marsh, 4, front, and Kwajah Gipson, 4, crawl into the mouth of the “whale” at First Presbyterian’s Vacation Bible School as they learn about Jonah and the Whale. Merrill is the daughter of Natalie Marsh. Kwajah is the daughter of Justin Gipson and Kawanda Cosby; Tears run down Kebra Smith’s face as she describes how she was forced to catch her neighbor’s two children as they jumped out of their second floor apartment window to escape heavy smoke from a fire in the living room of their New Main Apartment; A roadside icon for decades the red barn in Rolling Fork collapsed on Saturday, April 30, 2011.
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KK McCarley said she found these “cool” mushrooms just after the sun rose, making what she called a perfect picture.
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Out and about with her camera again, Martha Leese of Vicksburg found, above, a “beautiful table set for the birds” and a stark site of wrought iron and headstones at Wintergreen Cemetery in Port Gibson.
Howard Tatum of Eagle Lake submitted this photo of a stunning sunset over the lake.
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DEAL FELL THROUGH! - 418 Melrose Ave. Immaculate home decorated to perfection with 3BRs/2B, Living/dining room, den all updated, fenced backyard with lots of charm. A MUST SEE HOUSE! No Flood Insurance Required. MLS 21042.
1727 East Avenue Interior gutted & huge addition done by renowned contractor. Custom molding & huge 4BRs, plus 2 BAs. Custom kitchen, double ovens, JenneAire6 burner stove, separate dining room, breakfast room & large tree shaded flat backyard. REDUCED!
803 FORT HILL DRIVE Peaceful, Scenic, Historic, Hilltop Wonderland with 1880s Char m and 2012 Amenities -- 2.5 Acres, 1600 sf, 3 bed, 3 bath, Living, Dining, Kitchen, Pantry, Indoor Laundry, New Wiring, New Plumbing, New HVAC, New Appliances, Solid Wood Floors, Granite Counters, Slate Shower, Claw Foot & Pedestal Tubs -- $163,400.
David Mitchell
JONES & UPCHURCH, INC. REALTY LTD.
Call Andrea at
601-831-6490
601-634-8303 Office 601-218-8201 Mobile
Over 34 years of experience put to work for you! EMAIL: ANDREA@JONESANDUPCHURCH.COM Andrea Upchurch WWW.VICKSBURGHOMES.COM
1022 Monroe St. • Vicksburg, MS 39183-2552
Vanessa Leech, Broker • 601-415-4114 Andrea Lewis • 601-218-0644 Nina Rocconi • 601-415-4503 Mindy Hall • 601-631-4144 Tommy Shelton • 601-415-2507 Richard Engel • 601-831-2597 Cathy Mitchell • 601-218-2763
602 NEWIT VICK DR Large backyard with a cottage facing in-ground pool provides for ultimate entertainment. Cottage contains large front porch, bedroom/ recreational, kitchen, bath, & wired work shop. All this with 2, 141 sq. ft. home that features 4 bdrms, 2 bths, family rm, living rm, dining room, eat-in kitchen & sprinkler system in front yard.
Happy New Year from A Reputable Real Estate Company with Proven Results
Jimmy Ball
Leech Real Estate of Vicksburg, Inc.
REALTORÂŽ
601-636-5947
601-218-3541
www.leechrealestate.net
fewball@cablelynx.com
05. Notices
07. Help Wanted
ENDING HOMELESSNESS. WOMEN with children or without are you in need of shelter? Mountain of Faith Ministries/ Women's Restoration Shelter. Certain restrictions apply, 601-661-8990. Life coaching available by appointment.
BARTENDER, CASHIER, WAITERS needed. Full and part time. Please send resumes to: Dept 3774 The Vicksburg Post P.O. Box 821668 Vicksburg, MS 39182 COUNSELOR NEEDED FOR a juvenile group home. Must have a Master's degree in counseling, social work or related field. Must have experience working in the substance abuse field. Please fax your resume to 318-5744093, attention Janet. HAIR STYLIST POSITION Local salon has opening for full or part time Cosmetologist. 601-4158205.
06. Lost & Found FOUND! MALE LABRADOR MIX, black with some white. Redbone area. 601-636-5862. LOST LARGE BLACK Labrador. Wearing pink collar. Blind in one eye! Missing from Timberlane area. 601-415-2284, 601-6368774.
07. Help Wanted “ACE� Truck Driver Training With a Difference Job Placement Asst. Day, Night & Refresher Classes Get on the Road NOW! Call 1-888-430-4223
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Specializing In: Remodeling, Additions, Storm & Fire Damage Repairs, Drainage & Erosion Control
Licensed by the State of MS & the City of Vicksburg
Johnny Sanders 601-629-7808
MANAGER TRAINEESBEST Value Rental, an eight Store Rent to Own chain has an immediate opening for a Manager Trainee in Vicksburg. If you have previous sales, collections, or management experience, we would like to talk with you. All applicants must have valid drivers license and be able to lift 75 pounds without assistance. Five day, 40 hour work week. Excellent training provided, pay commensurate with experience. Apply in person to Best Value Rental, 1904 Clay Street, Vicksburg. EOE , No phone call, please! MASSAGE THERAPIST POSITION. Local salon has opening for massage therapist. Part or full time. 601-415-8205.
READ THE CLASSIFIEDS daily!
No matter what type of work you’re seeking, the Classifieds can help you find it!
24. Business Services
24. Business Services
MS Prop. Lic. 77#C124
Barnes Glass Quality Service at Competitive Prices #1 Windshield Repair & Replacement
Vans • Cars • Trucks •Insurance Claims Welcome•
AUTO • HOME • BUSINESS Jason Barnes • 601-661-0900
BUFORD CONSTRUCTION CO., INC. 601-636-4813 State Board of Contractors Approved & Bonded Haul Clay, Gravel, Dirt, Rock & Sand All Types of Dozer Work Land Clearing • Demolition Site Development & Preparation Excavation Crane Rental • Mud Jacking
River City Dirt Work, LLC • Dozer / Trackhoe Work • Dump Truck • • Bush Hogging • Box Blade • Demolition • Debris Removal • Hydro Seeding • Deliver Dirt -13 yd. load $85 locally • Gravel • Sand • Rock Res. & Com. • Lic. & Ins. Robert Keyes, Jr. (Owner) 601-529-0894
07. Help Wanted
14. Pets & Livestock
EXPERIENCED MECHANIC NEEDED
AKC CHAMPION SIRED Australian Cattle Dog puppies (heelers). Blues and reds. $500. 601-415-8970.
Apply in person only at:
FULL BLOODED AUSTRALIAN Shepherd. Small type, black tri-colored male. $100. 601-415-1373.
Sheffield Rentals 1255 Hwy 61 South Vicksburg.
NO PHONE CALLS, PLEASE NOW HIRING SHIP fitters, Flux Core Welders, Short Arc Welders, Stick Welders, Pipe Welders, and Pipe Fitters. Must have 3 or more years experience. Work located along Louisiana/ Gulf Coast area. Please call 985-542-7881 or Fax resumes to 985-3467882. EOE PART TIME ON-SITE apartment manager needed for small local apartment complex. Must be honest, dependable, work well with public, must have good clerical skills, experience a plus. Serious inquiries only, fax resume to: 318-3521929.
Vicksburg Warren Humane Society & MS - Span Low Cost Spay & Neuter Program CATS: Male . .$25 Female ........$35 DOGS (UNDER 40 LBS): Male . .$55 Female ........$65 • For the above category of animals, pick up applications at the Humane Society DOGS (OVER 40 LBS): Male . .$70 Female ........$80 • For dogs over 40 lbs, call 866-901-7729 for appt.
“WE CAN ERASE your bad credit- 100% guaranteed.� The Federal Trade Commission says the only legitimate credit repair starts and ends with you. It takes time and a conscious effort to pay your debts. Any company that claims to be able to fix your credit legally is lying. Learn about managing credit and debt at ftc.gov/credit A message from The Vicksburg Post and the FTC.
VICKSBURG WARREN HUMANE SOCIETY Hwy 61 S. • 601-636-6631
DON’T SHOP...
Call the Shelter for more information.
HAVE A HEART, SPAY OR NEUTER YOUR PETS! Look for us on www.petfinder.com
www.pawsrescuepets.org
If you are feeding a stray or feral cat and need help with spaying or neutering, please call 601-529-1535.
Classified Advertising really brings big results!
24. Business Services
ROSS
CONSTRUCTION
New Homes
Framing, Remodeling, Cabinets, Flooring, Roofing & Vinyl Siding State Licensed & Bonded
Jon Ross 601-638-7932
ROCKET TAXICAB
601-636-0491
FREE
Rides for Children 4 & Under
24. Business Services
Simmons Lawn Service
Professional Services & Competitive Prices • Landscaping • Septic Systems • Irrigation: Install & Repair • Commercial & Residential Grass Cutting Licensed • Bonded • Insured 12 years experience Roy Simmons (Owner) 601-218-8341
All Business & Service Directory Ads MUST BE PAID IN ADVANCE !
SPEEDIPRINT & OFFICE SUPPLY
PATRIOTIC
• Business Cards • Letterhead • Envelopes • Invoices • Work Orders • Invitations
• FLAGS
(601) 638-2900 Fax (601) 636-6711 1601-C North Frontage Road Vicksburg, MS 39180
Great location. Brick. 3 bedrooms, 2 baths, living/dining, separate den with wood burning heater. Hardwood floors under carpet. 1 car carport. $125,000.
2735 Washington Street, Vicksburg, MS 39180 • 601-638-6243
County location on quiet cul-de-sac 3 bedrooms 2.5 baths. Home has been recently remodeled with a new kitchem, floors and paint. 1.1 wooded acres with workshop.
118 Singing Hills Cove 4.2 acres 3 bedroom, 2 bath with screened porch on lake. Extra lot for garden included, covered shed for boat.
Real Estate McMillin And
Beverly McMillin 601-415-9179
Come see this wonderful home located one of the newest built home in great neighborhood waiting for you. This lovely 3 bedoorm 2 full spacious bath home is move in ready. Features include trey ceiling, recessed lighting, split plan, dining and family room with gas fireplace that’s never been used and plenty of yard.
Presented By
Valorie Spiller
601-456-6234 601-634-8928
Home for Sale? Show it to the world at www.vicksburgrealestate.com
15. Auction
17. Wanted To Buy
OUR ON-LINE SUBSCRIPTION keeps you “plugged� in to all the local news, sports, community events. Call Circulation, 601-636-4545.
16. Antiques STACY DOUGLAS ANTIQUES
New Shipment from New Orleans! 619 Crawford Street (beneath Cinnamon Tree)
504-427-4071 Don’t send that lamp to the curb! Find a new home for it through the Classifieds. Area buyers and sellers use the Classifieds every day. Besides, someone out there needs to see the light. 601-636-SELL.
17. Wanted To Buy WE BUY ESTATES. Households and quality goods. Best prices. You call, we haul! 601-415-3121, 601-661-6074. www.msauctionservice.com
PLEASE CALL THE Gentleman of Junk for all your junk vehicle needs. Just in time for extra Christmas cash, Please leave message if no answer. 601-868-2781.
Remember...
Classifieds Really Go The Distance!
WE HAUL OFF old appliances, old batteries, lawn mowers, hot water heaters, junk and abandoned cars, trucks, vans, etcetera. 601940-5075, if no answer, please leave message.
Call
CLOSET PHOBIA?
To Place Your Ad.
601-636-SELL
601-636-SELL
Clear out the skeletons in yours with an ad in the classifieds.
18. Miscellaneous For Sale 18 INCH cut seasoned Oak firewood, all split. $70- ½ cord, $130- cord. Delivered. 601-415-8970. EXERCISE BIKE. WORKS legs, arms or both, computer workout display, excellent condition. $100 firm. 601-638-9242. FIREWOOD FOR SALE. $75 per truck load. Delivered and stacked. 601-6346140 or 601-638-6740.
HOME COMPUTER SERVICE and repair. Reasonable prices. Pick up available .601502-5265, 601-636-7376. CALL 601-636-SELL AND PLACE YOUR CLASSIFIED AD TODAY.
Hwy 61 S - 601-636-6631
Adopt Today!
10. Loans And Investments
8 Crestwood Drive
6026 CASTLE ROAD
5 Dogwood Heights Start 2012 with any of our reliable realtors for all your housing needs:
10 secluded acres with available house site, features immaculate 2,537 sqft 4BR, 3BA home, sun rm, vaulted ceiling family rm/ fireplace, dining area/ wood stove & large wired workshop over looking large fishing pond. $214,000.
Runaway Are you 12 to 17? Alone? Scared? Call 601-634-0640 anytime or 1-800-793-8266 We can help! One child, one day at a time.
Sanders Hollingsworth Builders
davidmitchell@warrenrealtyltd.com
1405 SWEETGUM LN
KEEP UP WITH all the local news and sales. Subscribe to The Vicksburg Post Today! Call 601-636-4545, ask for Circulation.
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33. Commercial Property
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33. Commercial Property
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Classified • S O M E T H I N G N E W E V E R Y D A Y • We accept: e y r w • Call Direct: (601)636-SELL Online Ad Placement: http://www.vicksburgpost.com
We Write Thousands Of Best Sellers Every Year... We’re The Vicksburg Post Classified Advertising Department . . . our job is to help you write effective classified ads so you can have best sellers too! Give us a call . . . we’ll write one for you! Call (601) 636-SELL.
Hours: 8 a.m. - 5 p.m. Monday - Friday, Closed Saturday & Sunday. Post Plaza, 1601-F North Frontage Road, Vicksburg, MS 39180 • P. O. Box 821668 Vicksburg, MS 39182.
18. Miscellaneous For Sale
24. Business Services
24. Business Services
CLARK’S CONSTRUCTION
I-PHONE REPAIR. Buy, sell and repair. Arcue Sanchez - 601-618-9916.
29. Unfurnished Apartments
Classified Information
FIREWOOD FOR SALE. Long wheel base, $70 per load. We deliver. 601-6367402 or 601-636-5771.
Line Ad Deadlines
KENMORE ELITE SIDE by side black refrigerator, black Kenmore microwave, black Kenmore dishwasher. 601-638-4791.
Classified Display Deadlines
Dozer, Track hoe, Form setting, Concrete, Demolition work.
NEED YOUR HOUSE cleaned? No job too small. Call Sherri. 601-630-5231.
Ads to appear State Deadline licensed and Bonded River City Lawn Care You grow it - we mow it! 601-638-9233 Monday601-218-9233 2 p.m.,• Friday Affordable profesAds toandappear THE PET SHOP sional. Lawn and land“Vicksburg’s Pet Boutique” Tuesday 5 p.m., Friday scape maintenance. Monday 3508 South Washington Street Cut, bag, trim, edge. Pond fish, Gold fish, Koi, fish food Wednesday 5 p.m., Monday 601-529-6168. LOOK! Tuesday aquarium needs, bird food, designer collars, AFFORDABLE TREE Thursday CUTTING 5 p.m.,andTuesday Wednesday trimming. harnesses & leads, 601-415-8970. loads of pet supplies! 26. For Rent Thursday Friday 5 p.m., Wednesday Bring your Baby in for a fitting today! Or LeaseFriday Walker Terrett Saturday 11Toni a.m., Thursday Attorney At Law Stacy Douglas Antiques. 601-636-1109 11 a.m., Thursday RICHARD M. CSaturday New shipment fromSunday New ALDWELL Sunday Orleans! 619 Crawford • Bankruptcy Street (beneath Cinnamon Tree). 504-427-4071. THE BEST WAY to bargain hunt is to check the Classifieds Daily. We make it easy with our convenient home delivery. For details call 601-636-4545, Circulation. TWIN MATTRESS SETS $175, Full sets $199. New sofa love seat $675. 601638-7191. Discount Furniture Barn. USED TIRES! LIGHT trucks and SUV's, 16's, 17's, 18's, 19's, 20's. A few matching sets! Call TD's, 601-638-3252.
19. Garage & Yard Sales
BROKER SPECIALIZING IN RENTALS
Chapter 7 and 13 • Social Seurity Disability • No-fault Divorce
D & D TREE CUTTING •Trimming • Lawn Care • Dirt Hauled • Insured For FREE Estimates Call “Big James” 601-218-7782 D.R. PAINTING AND CONSTRUCTION. Painting, roofing, carpentry service. Licensed, bonded. Free estimates! Call 601-638-5082. DIRT AND GRAVEL hauled. 8 yard truck. 601638-6740. DIRT, SAND, CLAY gravel, 6/10. Anywhere and Anytime. 601-218-9233, 601-638-9233.
What's going on in Vicksburg this weekend? Read The Vicksburg Post! For convenient home delivery call 601-636-4545, ask for circulation.
20. Hunting 1994 KAWASAKI 400 4x4. Extra wheels and tires with winch, adult ridden, good condition. $1800. 601831-2999.
Call our Circulation Department for CONVENIENT Home Delivery and/ or our On-line Subscription. Monday- Friday, 8am-5pm, 601-636-4545.
21. Boats, Fishing Supplies
ROOFING & RESTORATION •Roof & Home Repair (all types!) •30 yrs exp •1,000’s of ref Licensed • Insured 601-618-0367 • 601-456-4133
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THE COVE Stop looking, Start living!
Ask about our Holiday special! 601-638-5587 1-601-686-0635
BEAUTIFUL LAKESIDE LIVING
Commodore Apartments 1, 2 & 3 Bedrooms 605 Cain Ridge Rd. Vicksburg, MS 39180
601-638-2231
30. Houses For Rent 1621 BROADHILL, 2 bedroom, 1 bath, $650. 118 Fleur De Lis, 3 bedroom, 2.5 bath, $1300. Call Andrea, Jones & Upchurch, 601-831-6490. 3 BEDROOM HOUSE. Freshly painted, hardwood floors, Central air/ heat $575, $250 deposit. 601-618-5071. 3 BEDROOMS, 2 baths. Formal dining/ living, den, hardwood floors, workshop, $975 monthly. 601-831-0066.
Finding the home you want in the Classifieds is easy, but now it’s practically automatic, since we’ve put our listings online.
29. Unfurnished Apartments
29. Unfurnished Apartments
Bienville Apartments The Park Residences at Bienville 1, 2 & 3 bedrooms and townhomes available immediately.
and
VICKSBURGS NEWEST, AND A WELL MAINTAINED FAVORITE. EACH WITH SPACIOUS FLOOR PLANS AND SOPHISTICATED AMENITIES.
No matter what type of boat you’re looking for, the Classifieds can help you find it!
EQUAL HOUSING OPPORTUNITY
FOR LEASING INFO, CALL 601-636-1752
www.parkresidences.com • www.bienvilleapartments.com
YOU ARE APPROVED! START REBUILDING YOUR CREDIT HERE!
CROSS OVER
INTO THE GOOD LIFE! Apartment Homes
Spacious 1, 2, and 3 bedroom apartment homes! • CABLE FURNISHED • HIGH SPEED INTERNET ACCESS AVAILABLE • NUMEROUS LAVISH AMENITIES • SPARKLING SWIMMING POOL • BASKETBALL COURT • VOLLEYBALL COURT www.gfprop.com
601-636-0503
• 2160 S. Frontage Rd.
COMMERCIAL BUILDING or Turn- Key restaurant with 2 lots for sale at Eagle Lake. Call 850-683-1085.
Classified Ad Rates
MEADOWBROOK PROPERTIES. 2 or 3 bedroom mobile homes, south county. Deposit required. 601-619-9789.
Classified Classified Line Line Ads: 34.Das Houses Starting at 1-4 Lines, 1 for Starting at 1-4 Lines, 1 Day Day for $8.32 $8.28 For Sale
601-916-9796.
LOS COLINAS. SMALL 2 Bedroom, 2 Bath Cottage. Close in, nice. $795 monthly. 601-831-4506.
PLUMBING SERVICES24 hour emergency- broken water lines- hot water heaters- toilets- faucetssinks. Pressure Washingsidewalk- house- mobile homes- vinyl siding- brick homes. 601-618-8466.
118 RIDGEVIEW. COUNTRY lot. Nice, 3 bedroom 2 bath. $575 plus deposit and references. 601-638-6660.
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Deadline Classified line ads are charged according2tobaths. the 3 BEDROOMS, 32. Mobile county, 5 p.m., Thursday numberHomes of lines. ForSouth complete pricingcarport, $35,000. 601For Sale contactbasement. •31,p.m., 2 & 3 Bedroom information a Classified Sales Friday Apts. 529-0829. • Beautifully Landscaped Representative today at 601-636-SELL. p.m., Monday 12x 70 MOBILE HOME BY OWNER. 100 Free•3Lake Surrounds Community for sale. $1,800. Valley dom Lane, 5 bedroom, 3 full • Pool • Fireplace 3• Spacious p.m., Tuesday Park.Ads 662-347-7295. baths. Spacious livingare room cancelled before expiration date ordered Floor Plans with fireplace. Large charged at prevailing rate only for days actually run, 3 p.m., Wednesday FOUR BEDROOM 601-629-6300 kitchen, central air/ heat, 44line minimum charge charge. www.thelandingsvicksburg.com DOUBLE WIDE. large minimum lot. 601-415-5693. line minimum charge.$8.32 $8.28 minimum charge. 11 a.m., Thursday 501 Fairways Drive 4 bedrooms, 2 baths, all Vicksburg appliances, central air. CARY, MS. 3 bed, 2 bath 11 a.m., Thursday $29,900! 4.5 lots. Shown by e y home, r w Call 662-417-2354, appointment only. Asking
GREAT CITY LOCATION! 3 bedroom, 1 bath. Clean, well kept. 601-5294808.
KATHY'S CARE SERVICES. Let me lighten your load!House cleaning, errands, pet care. Rates available on request! 601-831-6170.
What's going on in Vicksburg? Read The Vicksburg Post! For convenient home delivery, call 601-636-4545, ask for circulation.
29. Unfurnished Apartments
2 OR 4 bedroom apartment for rent. Section 8 welcome. Recently remodeled. 601-6364338, 601-218-1210.
Paid cable, water and trash. Washer, Dryer and built-in microwave furnished.
TREY GORDON
STILL HAVE STUFF after your Garage Sale? Donate your items to The Salvation Army, we pick-up! Call 601-636-2706.
(INCLUDING CORPORATE APARTMENTS) CALL 601-618-5180 caldwell@vicksburg.com
28. Furnished Apartments
FREE ESTIMATES
Ask us how to “Post Size” your ad with some great clip art! Call the Classified Ladies at 601-636-Sell (7355).
2 BEDROOM Duplex, $400. 4 bedroom duplex, $500. With stove and refrigerator. $200 deposit. 601-634-8290.
31. Mobile Homes For Rent
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S ALES/ R ENTALS Get a Late Model Car With a Low Down Payment IF B.K. W WH E D O REPO WE AT Y N’T H CA OU DIVORCE N G WA AVE N LOST JOB ET IT! T, ! MEDICAL YOU ARE STILL OK!!! NO CREDIT APP REFUSED!!! 24 Month Warranties Available
601-636-3147 2970 Hwy 61 North • Vicksburg Monday - Saturday 8am-7pm www.okcarsandtrucks.webs.com
KEEP UP WITH ALL THE LOCAL NEWS AND SALES... SUBSCRIBE TO THE VICKSBURG POST TODAY! CALL 601-636-4545, ASK FOR CIRCULATION. OWNER FINANCE, NO CREDIT CHECK! 5 bedrooms, 3 baths with land. Must have $5,000 deposit. Call Buddy, 601-941-2952. USED 16X80. 3 bedrooms, 1 bath, all appliances, central air, some furniture. Delivery, setup and tie down. $17,900. 662-417-2354, 601-916-9796. USED 16X80. 3 bedrooms, 2 baths, glamor bath, all appliances, extra clean! Only $12,900. 662-417-2354, 601-916-9796.
14x70 MOBILE HOME FOR sale. Some water damage. $1,000 or best offer. 601-529-3790.
$115,000. 601-824-0270.
HOUSES FOR SALE 1862 MLK 807 First North LAND FOR SALE Jones &Place Upchurch your classified line801adFirst at North Farmer St. Bl. 3 Real Estate Agency Call 601-942-1838 1803 Clay Street gspencerprater@aol.com www.jonesandupchurch.com
Internet
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Errors
Mary D. Barnes .........601-966-1665 Stacie Bowers-Griffin...601-218-9134 In the event of errors, please call the very first day Jill WaringUpchurch....601-906-5012 your ad appears. The Vicksburg Post will not be Carla Watson...............601-415-4179 responsible for more than one incorrect insertion. Andrea Upchurch.......601-831-6490
40. Cars & Trucks YEAR END SPECIAL!!
Mis-Classification 601-636-6490
Broker, GRI
Buick No ad will be deliberately2003 mis-classified.
Rendevous $955 Down $176 Bi -Weekly
..........601-638-2443 Kay The Odom Vicksburg Post classified department is the Kay Hobson.......601-638-8512 sole judge of the proper classification for each ad. Jake Strait...........601-218-1258 Alex Monsour.....601-415-7274 Jay Hobson..........601-456-1318 Daryl Hollingsworth..601-415-5549
Open Hours: Mon-Fri 8:30am-5:30pm
601-634-8928 2170 S. I-20 Frontage Rd.
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Licensed in MS and LA
Sybil Caraway....601-218-2869 Catherine Roy....601-831-5790 Mincer Minor.....601-529-0893 Jim Hobson.........601-415-0211
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JIM HOBSON
REALTOR®•BUILDER•APPRAISER
Gary’s Cars 601-883-9995 Garyscfl.com
1965 CHEVROLET TRUCK. Partially restored, Negotiable. 318-574-1213, 601-218-8356. 1999 SILVERADO 4x4. 105,000 miles. Excellent condition. New tires, brakes, rotors. Very well maintained. $9,000. 601218-6132.
www.ColdwellBanker.com www.homesofvicksburg.net
601-636-0502
Eagle Lake - 16853 Hwy 465, 2 story apartment 2BR/1BA upstairs, 1BR /1BA downstairs, lakefront, deck, pier, completely furnished, reduced, make offer. 50 Sullivan Cove - 2 story, 2BR/1BA up, 1BR down, everything new, flooring to roof, deck, community pier, boat launch, 2 lots, $130,000 Bette Paul Warner 601-218-1800 McMillin Real Estate
Classified Advertising really brings big results!
Call 601-636-SELL to sell your Car or Truck!
29. Unfurnished Apartments
29. Unfurnished Apartments
AND PLACE YOUR CLASSIFIED AD TODAY.
FOR SALE BY owner! 4 bedroom, 2 bath, Garage, Updated kitchen and bathroom. Overlooking Windy Lake. $179,500. Seller pays closing. MUST SEE! Call for appointment. 601-619-1510.
29. Unfurnished Apartments
29. Unfurnished Apartments
CALL 601-636-SELL
34. Houses For Sale
MAGNOLIA MANOR APARTMENTS Elderly & Disabled 3515 Manor Drive Vicksburg, Ms. 601-636-3625 Equal Housing Opportunity
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Great Staff Great Location, Location, Hard-Working Hard-Working Staff
601-638-7831• •201 201Berryman Berryman Rd 601-638-7831 Rd.
NEED AN APARTMENT? Enjoy the convenience of downtown living at
The Vicksburg Apartments UTILITIES PAID! 1 & 2 Bedroom Apartments Studios & Efficiencies 801 Clay Street 601-630-2921 www.the-vicksburg.com
S HAMROCK A PA RT M E N T S SUPERIOR QUALITY, CUSTOM CABINETS, EXTRA LARGE MASTER BDRM, & WASHER / DRYER HOOKUPS. SAFE!! SENIOR CITIZEN DISCOUNT
601-661-0765 • 601-415-3333
Bradford Ridge Apartments Live in a Quality Built Apartment for LESS! All brick, concrete floors and double walls provide excellent soundproofing, security, and safety. 601-638-1102 • 601-415-3333
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Timothy Olyphant The actor, 43, returns Jan. 17 as Deputy U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens for season three of FX’s Justified (10 p.m. ET). Season two will be on DVD Tuesday. Raylan is a tough guy, known for his unblinking stare. Are people intimidated by you? I’d like them to be, but
they’re usually not. I have a number of ways of telling my children how I can have them arrested. It seems to work.
after his death, she’s still struggling. “I had no idea how hard this road would be,” says Swayze, 55. “Sometimes it’s all I can do just to put one foot in front of the other.” She chronicles her experience with loss and grief in her new memoir, Worth Fighting For, and is optimistic about the future: “Little by little, I have more good days, just like I was promised.”
The show is set in Kentucky but shot in California. Have you gotten any feedback from southerners?
I don’t feel like I run into too many people from Kentucky. I think I’m hanging around in the wrong places.
—Hilary Swank on her career. She’s currently showing off her lighter side in the romantic comedy New Year’s Eve. P Andy Serkis and Caesar
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then applied to animated renderings of Caesar from infancy to adulthood. “It’s about believing you are that thing and totally inhabiting it,” Serkis, 47, has said of the process. Previously, he brought to life Gollum in The Lord of the Rings and King Kong in the 2005 remake.
Will the body count be higher this season than last? It might be. We’re surely off to
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the races in the first episode. My guess is a little more blood gets shed this year. Are you a good shot in real life? Anything within five feet, I’ve got it. What’s your favorite part about playing Raylan? Well, he doesn’t have to run. I appreciate that I don’t have to do any physical exercise. It’s fun pretending to be cool.
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When you cook, what’s your specialty? Chicken and dumplings. money, entertainment, and more It’s all country cooking. I’ll bring my grits when I travel because I get so I HAVE NO PLANS hungry on the TO EVER RETIRE. I’LL JUST BE road. I try to THE VERY BEST AT stay on my THE AGE I AM, low-carb WHATEVER THOSE diet during uring NUMBERS ARE.” the week, ek, and then when I know I have a day off, I say, “Make me a pan of corn bread.”” You’ve been very open about your plastic surgery. I joke that if I see something sagging, dragging, or bagging, I’ll have it nipped and tucked. People say I look so happy and I say, “Well, that’s Botox!”
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How many wigs do you have? I put one on every day for some reason or another, so I must have at least 365. I don’t wear wigs when I’m home.
Despite your sunny disposition, you’ve weathered some storms—including The Tennessee treasure on food, family, growing up poor with 11 and why she’s no diva siblings, and the death of your beloved parents. Folks think with sunny What do you like to been looking for me, people that you’re always do on Sundays? someone who wouldn’t try happy. I’m not. Songwriters When I’m home, I spend to strangle him, because have to be in touch with Sunday with my he’s pretty independent. their emotions. husband. If It seemed like we were You can’t live on For Dolly’s we’re not cookbrought together for a the surface chicken and dumplings recipe, ing, we travel reason. After 47 years— because you go to Parade around in our 45 married—we believe can’t harden .com/parton camper, stop at that now more than ever. your heart.
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i, everyone, I’m Beyoncé!” Gayle King calls out to a group of CBS staffers she’s meeting for the first time. The line gets a big laugh, just as King intended. Soon this 57-year-old journalist and TV personality, up until now best known as Oprah Winfrey’s closest friend, will be showcasing that playful sense of humor in the highestprofile job she’s ever had: Starting Jan. 9, she’ll be cohost, with Charlie Rose and Erica Hill, of the new CBS This Morning program. The venture will be an eye-opener for King, who loves staying out late, hitting movie premieres and concerts (her musical tastes range from Jay-Z to Josh Groban). “I never had a desire to do a morning show because I don’t like getting up that early. Thank you, Jesus, for hot flashes!” she laughs, explaining why she’s up these days before 5 a.m. anyway—and how she’ll need to rise only a half hour earlier to do the show. Dating, she notes (she was divorced in 1993), may be a bit more challenging: “I’m available for afternoon tea. I love sandwiches with the crust removed!” King was born in Maryland and lived for most of her elementary school years in Ankara, Turkey (her father, an engineer, worked for the U.S. government). A news junkie who has a TV in every room, she spent 21 years anchoring news programs in Kansas City and Hartford, Conn., but says it was never her dream to go national. “Unless you lived in one of those places, you got to know me through Oprah. I’m really okay with that,” says King. “I didn’t grow up thinking I wanted to be on the morning news. But now at this stage of my life, it’s all I want to do. It’s so cool.” She resisted a network job in the past because she was raising two kids. “I wanted to be in a community I really liked,” says King. “I wanted to go to the grocery store and the post office. Network to me meant a lot of traveling, and I’m a very nervous flyer.” Now she’s an empty nester: Daughter Kirby, 25, works in Washington, D.C., and son Will, 24, who worked for
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a New York investment bank for two years, is now pursuing business opportunities in Shanghai. “I’m trying to pretend they’re still just away at college,” says their doting mother. One of King’s goals for 2012 (see below): fly 14plus hours to visit Will in China. What will CBS This Morning be like? When we talked in early December, it was still a work in progress. “I know Charlie will drive the first [7 a.m.] hour,” King says, “and I’ll be driving the second, which will definitely be geared toward women. Erica will be on both. How it opens on day one will not be how it looks on day seven. Everything takes a hot minute to gel.” The aim is to get the perennially third-place show out of its ratings rut. With executive producer Chris Licht (late of MSNBC’s Morning Joe) at the helm, CBS This Morning is meant to be a harder-hitting, less frivolous take on the day’s stories than its network competitors. It won’t be deadly serious, however. King’s not suddenly going to become buttoned up. “I don’t know how to be anyone other than me,” she says. “I was never stiff, even when I was supposed to be.” Anyone who’s seen the 2010 camping trip she and Winfrey took in Yosemite for The Oprah Winfrey Show, merrily bickering the whole way, knows this. (Highlights are on oprah.com.) Though King will continue in her position as editor at large of O, the Oprah Magazine, saying yes to CBS meant giving up her radio program and the two shows she has hosted on Winfrey’s OWN network. She was nervous her new job would prompt “tabloid stories about Gayle and Oprah fighting,” she admits. “But Oprah said, ‘Are you crazy?’ She was adamant that I begin the conversation. You couldn’t find a better cheerleader for me. “Someone just said to me, ‘There’s only a small group of people who’ve done this,’ ” King adds about her big leap to morning show host. “And we have nowhere to go but up. I intend to go up!” —Roger Friedman
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“I GOT OUT OF DEBT.” ERROL BRYAN, 52 New York City In 2004, Errol Bryan’s wife lost her nursing job, which cut their household income in half. Within two years, he’d maxed out his credit cards and owed $17,000. Bryan called a nonprofit credit counseling service and worked out a plan to reduce his cards’ interest rates by paying $260 a month. Now debt-free, he has begun to save at least $100 a month.
BRYAN’S TIPS Seek help. The credit counseling service charged $40 a month, but it gave Bryan the advice he needed to devise a wise strategy. Pay smart. Bryan had been making $100 payments on each credit card balance, but most of that went toward interest. The credit counselor set up a plan to pay off the lowest balance first. Think before you shop. “If it’s not a necessity, I don’t buy it,” Bryan says. —Holly Schmidt January 1, 2012 • 9
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THIS IS THE YEAR TO ... she’d spend her golden years as a wife and grandmother, but when her husband left, she needed to find a job. Mark, 40, was a warehouse supervisor. He liked his coworkers, but he kept feeling as if the days were slipping away without his having really lived. Finding your passion in situations like these is like spotting a tiger in Times Square—you’re in the wrong territory. Go looking in its natural habitat: your memory.
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As a life coach, I have a passion for helping people find the source of their passion. This new year, I’d like to help you locate yours. I know some of you are thinking, “Passion is for zillionaires! I need to mash my nose against any grindstone I can find.” Or maybe you believe you have no strong interests, you’re too old to chase them, or yours would require costly training. You’re wrong. We all have something we’re passionate about; it’s never too late to pursue it; and you 10 • January 1, 2012
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Notice if you’re on a cold, or joyless, trail. Consider these three clients of mine. Todd, 51, was a manager at a utilities company. He was grateful to have a job— but constantly exhausted and miserable. Alicia, 63, thought
Recall a hot track. Scan your memories for experiences that caused you to forget that time was passing. Those are hot tracks, signs you’ve connected with your passion. Todd’s hot tracks were hiking and skiing. Alicia remembered teaching her son with Down syndrome to read. Mark thought about a massage he’d had for a back problem.
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Spot the patterns. Now look for warm tracks, memories with a similar kind of energy. For Todd, it was hunting trips with his dad; for Alicia, seminars she’d taken; and for Mark, bandaging an injured bird. Todd’s experiences all involved outdoor activity; Alicia
loved learning and teaching; and Mark was drawn to healing.
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Warm up your life. Examine your schedule. You’ll see your activities range from cool to warm. Each week, cancel one small cool thing and do something warm instead. This way, you can find your passion without quitting your job. Over time, little steps may lead to big changes. As Todd spent more time outside, he realized he could work in the great outdoors reading gas meters—without too big a pay cut. Alicia met a few moms with special-needs kids who wanted help teaching them to read. She began working with them, they referred her to others, and suddenly she was in business. Mark took massage classes at night and now earns more as a therapist than he ever did at his old job. My point is not that these people are making a good living (though they are); it’s that they’ve all found how to make a good life for themselves. Track your passion and by the end of this year, you could be closing in on a life that truly satisfies you. Martha Beck is the author of the just released Finding Your Way in a Wild New World.
They did it!
“I FOUND A NEW CAREER.” JENIFER TWEDELL, 38 Grants Pass, Ore. After Jenifer Twedell lost her 61-year-old mom to lung cancer, she reexamined her life. Her job selling athletic club memberships left her uninspired and without the flexibility she wanted. Then her best friend came to her with an idea: to run an online directory of local businesses. Within five months, their first clients were on board.
TWEDELL’S TIPS Banish fear. At first, Twedell was afraid of the risk involved in quitting her job, but after doing her research, she went with her gut feeling that the business would be a perfect fit. Network. Twedell met her accountant while sitting on the sidelines at her son’s soccer game. Expect obstacles. After falling short of her goal of signing up 60 new businesses in the first month, she learned to set more realistic objectives. —H.S.
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Up Your Gratitude “Knowing that you had to work on Thanksgiving of all days, I thought I’d express my gratitude that you have taken the time and made the effort to learn my name and greet me each day in a way that makes me feel like a person instead of a number. It’s a small thing, but on any given day, it can make all the difference. Thank you!” About three years ago, I gave a card with these words to a Starbucks barista named Kimber. When I went in the next day, she told me, nearly breaking down, that my note made her realize what she did really counts. It was my 260th thankyou of 2008, the year I vowed to send one to a different person every day. I succeeded—though it took more than 365 days. I embarked on the endeavor at a time when I felt anything but thankful. On New Year’s Day 2008, I went for a hike, feeling at an all-time low. I was overweight. I owned a law practice, but it was losing money. Entangled in a divorce, I lived in a depressing apartment. The woman I’d been dating had recently ended our relationship. On my hike, I heard a voice. It said I shouldn’t focus on what I wanted or had lost but should be grateful for what I had. The idea of a year of thank-yous popped into my head. This project transformed my life. I saw how much I had been blessed by so many people in different ways, and acknowledging their blessings seemed to make them multiply. After I thanked colleagues for directing cases to me, they referred more. When I expressed gratitude to clients for paying promptly, they began doing so even more quickly. Something more subtle occurred, too. With my thank-you notes, I was trying to tell people how much their kindness meant to me. As they responded, that same message was reflected back. In 2010, I put out a book about my year of thank-yous,
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BE SPECIFIC. Perhaps start by thanking the people who just gave you holiday presents. Open with “Dear So-and-So,” identify the gift (“the red and white tie”), and say one sincere thing about why you like it (“It’s a perfect match for my blue suit”).
BY JOHN KRALIK
A Simple Act of Gratitude (now in paperback). A few days after its release, I got my first thankyou y from a reader. The next week, I received a few f more, and then my publisher sent a whole box. b My readers showed me how the effects of gratitude g continued to ripple out. A nursing home patient who was paralyzed on her right side said she was grateful to be born left-handed and had written notes to the staff. One woman went in person to deliver her message to a former teacher, who read it and wept—she’d been working for 23 years and no one had ever thanked her. My circumstances have improved immeasurably since that hike. I’m now in great shape—I ran a marathon to benefit leukemia research in part to thank an employee, and then completed two more. I found a small but lovely house, and I was appointed to my dream job, Superior Court judge. Having written my 860th note, I can say I keep learning that gratitude is a path to the peace we all seek. Recently, a friend whose support led me to write my book passed away. On my desk is a thank-you from him, and I pray that the heartfelt note I’d sent to him did not go unread. At sad times like these, I return to the practice that turned my life around. I sit and think about the people to whom I owe so much. Then I take out my pen and write.
“I LOST WEIGHT.” BOB FORSYTHE, 50 Aledo, Tex. Six months ago, Bob Forsythe started his morning by washing down pills for high blood pressure, cholesterol, and knee pain. At 290 pounds, he’d failed at diets before. Vowing to lose 50 pounds by his 50th birthday, Forsythe decided to go to a doctorsupervised weight loss clinic. Now he eats healthy meals and has started exercising. The 50 pounds are gone, and his doctor even took him off his meds.
FORSYTHE’S TIPS Have a support group. Forsythe’s three sons texted him every week for results of his weigh-ins.
WRITE YOUR OWN: FOUR SIMPLE STEPS
GRAB A PEN AND PAPER. Refrain from sending an email. Handwritten notes feel special, almost like the person is there with you. I use plain off-white cards that have my name printed on the front and my name and address on the envelope.
They did it!
DIG INTO THE PAST. After thanking your close friends and family, write to people who helped you at critical moments. I reached out to the doctor whose operation cured my pain, and to another doctor who told me I needed to stop drinking.
KEEP IT SHORT. Your message doesn’t need to be long and eloquent—my cards are small, with room for only three or four sentences. By sticking to a few lines, you keep the focus on your thank-you and on the other person’s kindness. —J.K.
Be open-minded. Forsythe tried foods he didn’t think he’d like. “I’d never had turkey sausage, and now that’s my choice.” Adapt. At his favorite Mexican restaurant, he orders taco salad with grilled chicken and skips the tortilla shell. —H.S. continued on page 14
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Bowlful of Warmth Judy Collins rhapsodizes about homemade soups I used to make my own bread from scratch and baked both bread and pies on a woodstove. But I’ve stopped eating sugar and flour. Now I love making soups; they’re one of the secrets of good health. They’re cooked for a long time so everything delicious gets spread throughout for a wonderful flavor. When I’m on the road, I have this soup for lunch or dinner because I find it enormously satisfying.
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Split Pea Soup 1 (16-oz) package yellow split peas, rinsed 2 (10½-oz) cans chicken broth 2 cups water 1 package dried onion soup mix (preferably Lipton) 1½ cups baby carrots, rinsed and sliced 2 large Vidalia onions, chopped 6 stalks celery, trimmed and diced 1 large or 2 small leeks, stripped of their outer leaves, rinsed, and chopped 2 cloves garlic, minced 2 Tbsp Grey Poupon Dijon mustard 3 or 4 Tbsp tamari or soy sauce 2 Tbsp balsamic vinegar Salt and pepper
1. In a large pot, combine peas, broth, water, and soup mix. Stir well. Add carrots, onions, celery, leeks, garlic, mustard, tamari, and balsamic vinegar. If mixture seems too thick, pour in a little more water. 2. Bring to a full boil over medium, reduce heat to a simmer, and cook for about 2 hours, stirring and skimming surface occasionally. 3. Remove from heat and let sit for an hour at room temperature. 4. Puree, in several batches, in a food processor or blender until smooth. Add salt and pepper to taste.
SERVES: 10 I PER SERVING: 170 calories, 30g carbs, 11g protein, 1.5g fat, 0mg cholesterol, 1,060mg sodium, 9g fiber
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Make One Healthy Move a Day 7 tips to get you started BY JESSICA CASSITY
CREATE A LIST OF FIVE THINGS THAT MAKE YOU HAPPY. Personal happiness has more to do with how you spend your time and what you think about than external circumstances, says Sonja Lyubomirsky, author of The How of Happiness: A Scientific Approach to Getting the Life You Want. Prepare a list of the simple life events that make you feel good—smiling at strangers, sipping the perfect cup of coffee, taking a walk with friends. Commit to at least one moodboosting act every day.
CUT CALORIES, NOT TASTE. Swap high-calorie ingredients for healthier options, says nutrition and wellness coach Mona Laru. Try Greek yogurt as a spread instead of mayonnaise, portobello mushroom steaks rather than beef, red peppers on pizza in lieu of pepperoni, and applesauce for your baking in place of morecaloric oil.
QUIT WAFFLING ON YOUR DECISIONS. Washing your hands can help you stop questioning a decision, according to Spike W. S. Lee and Norbert Schwarz, psychology researchers at the University of Michigan. “Cleansing appears to remove not just physical residues, but ‘mental’ residues, such as the concern about whether one made the right choice,” says Lee. 14 • January 1, 2012
SHARPEN YOUR SHORT-TERM MEMORY. First, eliminate distractions like TV, says Marc Berman of the Rotman Research Institute in Toronto. Then organize the data you’re committing to memory so that similar facts aren’t grouped together. For instance, if you’re trying to memorize two phone numbers, you’re more likely to succeed if you focus on a different type of task in between.
STRENGTHEN RELATIONSHIPS. Pay attention to the small things your family and friends do for you. In a recent study, couples recorded the gratitude they felt for their partners, whether it was for taking the kids to soccer practice or shoveling the driveway. The subjects reported feeling more connected to their loved ones for over 24 hours afterward.
GET ORGANIZED ABOUT PAYING BILLS. Go digital, says Emily Wilska, founder of the Organized Life. “Having bills automatically paid from your bank account or charged to a credit card can mean fewer checks to send.” Opting for electronic statements will also cut the clutter.
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THE POWER OF REINVENTION MB: I’ve reinvented myself several times. I’ve been a local news anchor,
an overnight network anchor, and a cable news host wearing sexy clothes on a chick show. That definitely was not me, so I went back to my roots as a journalist. I rose to the top—then was fired on my 39th birthday. I assumed my career in television was over, so after months of looking, I landed a job in PR. Just when I was about to take it, I found myself blurting out,“I’m not perfect for this job, but I have a friend who is.” I had to go back to who I was. It meant calling up places like MSNBC and begging for any job. I took a very low-paying position but found out what I was made of. JS: I got elected to Congress at 31. Seven years later, for a variety of reasons, I had to come home and be a father to my two boys, then in middle school. So I quit during my fourth term to become a smalltown lawyer. Ninety-five percent of the people who wanted to talk to me when I was a congressman had no interest in talking to me now. It took a while to reconnect with who I was, but the best type of reinvention is reconnection, whether it’s Mika getting on Morning Joe; Steve Jobs being fired from Apple, getting beaten up, then going back to
“I’ve learned if I followed my gut and worked harder than everybody else, it would pay off.” —Joe Scarborough
STOP DWELLING ON PAST MISTAKES. We’ve all tripped on a stair or fumbled a word. But as you replay the mistake in your head, chances are everyone else has moved on. “It’s likely they’ve experienced the same types of disaster and are empathetic,” says Thomas D. Gilovich of Cornell University. Not convinced? Try to remember the last time you saw someone stumble. It’s easier recalling your own blunders, isn’t it? First published in Better Each Day: 365 Expert Tips for a Healthier, Happier You
Apple; or me reconnecting with my kids. It’s an ongoing search for a job or lifestyle that reconnects you with who you were before you started making compromises that everybody told you you had to make. MB: When Morning Joe came along, it was a risk, but I just had a feeling it was going to be good. If your gut is telling you something loud and clear, sometimes it’s all you’ve got. JS: When I quit my law practice to be a conservative TV host on a liberal network, my friends called me crazy. But I’ve learned if I followed my gut and worked harder than everybody else, it would pay off. MB: I would add this, specifically for women: Don’t apologize. Be very clear what your value is and what you bring to the table. JS: Here is my formula for success: Wake up before everybody else. Go to sleep later than everybody else. Work harder and smarter than anybody else. And love what you’re doing. P
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ost of us thought the era of the “Super-Powerful” diet pill ended a few years back when the FDA removed Ephedra and Fen-Phen from the U.S. market because of safety concerns.
with an aggressive thermogenic compound (for fat burning and stamina). This two-pronged attack on fat is apparently what makes the compound so effective... and so popular.
While the pills do cause rapid weight loss (no doubt about that), these amphetamine-like compounds are fast becoming a favorite among bodybuilders, college students, and overstressed, exhausted homemakers for their energy and stamina-boosting properties (in other words as But recently, an entirely new crop of high-quality, powerful “go-fast” pills). Because cult-like super-powerful and super-effective diet pills are trends that begin with bodybuilders and college coming out of hiding and are hitting the shelves students quickly become mainstream, many of your local Wal-Mart, Walgreens, and GNC.
Well, it turns out that “most of us” were wrong. It seems that a huge, multi-billion-dollar, “underground” market for these amphetaminelike fat burners sprung up even before the ink was dry on the FDA’s decree.
The current leader in this new category is While the pills do cause rapid weight loss (no doubt a product called BiphedAdrene™, developed and about that), most people buy them as “speed” pills sold by a division of Generix Labs, LLC. The company tells us that BiphedAdrene is a two-part system comprised of a unique “Amphetamine BiphedAdrene (or BiPhed for short) critics are A spokesperson for Generix Labs explains, “One Provisional Complex” (for powerful appetite concerned about the overuse of these powerful of the things we often heard, as we made a study control, mood-elevation, and energy) combined compounds. of the weight-loss market, is that people missed the mood-elevation and boost of energy that that were ‘side-effects,’ if you will, of the Fen-Phen and Ephedra class of diet pills. The weight loss was always primary, but nearly as important was the increase in energy and mood. These new non-amphetamine compounds provide not only very substantial weight loss, but also a similar mood and energy boost.”
While these “super pills” are finding their way into the general marketplace, they are definitely not for everyone. In fact, you shouldn’t even think about taking them if losing five or six “vanity pounds” is your goal. These diet pills are intended exclusively for the significantly overweight. But that’s not the only caveat. You should check with your doctor to ensure you are in overall good health before considering any of this new category of pills. Let’s face it... even though this new generation of diet pills, such as BiphedAdrene, promise “easy” weight loss, increased energy, and improved mood, they are expensive ($135 for a 30-day supply) and need to be used very responsibly. See you in the supplement section!
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Cook Something We believe cooking something— anything—is the first step in eating better. One of my role models for cooking and eating better is Liz Shenk, a vital part of the Relish food team. Liz was diagnosed with breast cancer a couple years ago. Not only did she endure treatment with resilience and aplomb, she worked through most of it. Liz (left) is a great spirit who also happens to be vegetarian and a wonderful cook. Her mantra: Keep it simple and eat with the seasons. With this issue of Relish, Liz’s advice is easy to follow. We have healthy whole grains, spicy heart-healthy chicken, warming soups and smoothies—all of which you cook yourself. We also have an indulgent French tart, because as the French know, eating healthy is about balance, variety and moderation. My New Year’s resolution? Eat breakfast. I’ll start with a great smoothie from food Relish Prop and Food Stylist Teresa Blackburn (right). ——Jill Melton
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“I’ve fallen in love with almond milk—it’s thick and creamy, fortified with calcium, low in fat, high in vitamin E and dairy free.”— Teresa Blackburn
Diet Myth: Stay Away from Carbohydrates— They Make You Fat
Teresa’s Banana Almond Smoothie Almond milk, peanut butter, banana, protein powder, ice cubes Combine, blend and enjoy!
Flax Seeds Flax seeds are one of the few vegetable foods high in omega-3 fatty acids. They’re also high in fiber. They must be ground to release their nutrients, making them perfect for our smoothies on page 6.
Use spices for flavor instead of fat. To make your spices taste their best, try toasting them. A few minutes in a hot skillet heats up the oils and brings out the flavor. The same is true for nuts.
The reality: Carbohydrates don’t make you fat, unless you eat them in large portions. Excess calories— whether from protein, fat or carbohydrates— cause weight gain. Your muscles and brain rely on carbohydrates for energy. What’s more, plenty of research has found that a regular intake of whole grains helps guard against heart disease and type 2 diabetes. That said, not all carbs are created equal. Limit refined sugars and white starches, carbs that are quickly digested and leave you feeling hungry sooner. A diet based on slowly digested carbs such as brown rice, whole-wheat pasta, sweet potatoes, steelcut oats and whole-grain bread can also help you maintain a weight loss.— Leslie Beck, R.D.
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You can find red lentils next to the brown lentils in most supermarkets or at an Indian market. We love lentils— they’re high in protein, fat-free, require no soaking and cook quickly.
Mushroom, Beef and Barley Soup You can use quick-cooking barley here to save time, but we like the chewiness of whole barley. You can find it next to the rice in supermarkets. Toss in some greens at the end for a splash of color. ½ 2 1 1 1 ½ 1 5 1 ¼ 2
pound sirloin steak, cut into 1 ½-inch pieces tablespoons olive oil cup diced onion cup diced carrots (12-ounce) package mushrooms, coarsely chopped cup uncooked barley (10 ½-ounce) can fat-free, lower-sodium beef broth cups water teaspoon coarse salt teaspoon freshly ground black pepper cups chopped Swiss chard (optional)
1. Heat oil in a large pot over medium heat. Add beef and sauté until brown. Add onion and carrots; sauté about 7 minutes. Add mushrooms; cook, about 8 minutes. 2. Add barley, broth, water, salt and pepper; stir to combine. Bring to a boil; reduce heat and simmer 40 minutes or until barley is tender. Stir in Swiss chard, if using, and cook 5 minutes. Makes about 6 cups. Serves 6. Per serving: 296 calories, 12g fat, 31mg chol., 21g prot., 28g carbs., 7g fiber, 933mg sodium.
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1. Heat oil in a large pot over medium heat. Add carrots and onion; cook, stirring occasionally, until onion is softened, about 7 minutes. Add tomato paste and cumin; stir to combine. Add lentils, rice, water, bouillon, salt and pepper; stir to combine. Bring to a boil. Reduce heat and simmer 25 minutes or until rice and lentils are tender. Makes about 6 cups. Serves 6. Per serving: 246 calories, 7g fat, 0mg chol., 10g prot., 36g carbs., 8g fiber, 107mg sodium.
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Season with Haste Exotic? Not so much, but even the best cooks use garlic and onion powders for quick, simple meals.
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1. Season both sides of chops with salt and pepper. In a large skillet, melt butter over medium-high heat. Add chops and cook, turning once, until slightly pink inside, 6 to 8 minutes. Transfer chops to a platter and cover with foil to keep warm, 2. Add shallots to pan and sauté 1 minute. Add juices, stirring with a whisk to loosen any browned bits. Bring to a boil and cook until liquid is nearly gone, 1 to 2 minutes. Whisk in cream. Boil until sauce reaches desired consistency. Season with salt and pepper. Whisk in thyme and orange rind. Spoon sauce over pork chops and serve. Serves 4. Per serving: 355 calories, 19g fat, 158mg chol., 38g prot., 5g carbs., 0.2g fiber, 377mg sodium.
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1. To prepare salad, put wheat berries into a large bowl, cover with at least 2 inches of water and set aside to soak at least 1 hour. Drain well. 2. Put 7 cups water into a medium pot and bring to a boil. Add wheat berries, reduce heat and simmer, uncovered, until thoroughly cooked about 40 minutes. (Wheat berries retain a firm, chewy texture when cooked.) Drain and let cool. 3. Transfer wheat berries to a large bowl. Add pumpkin kernels, apples, apricots, cranberries and parsley. 4. To prepare dressing, combine all ingredients in a small bowl. Whisk well. Add to salad ingredients and mix well. Serves 8. Per serving: 390 calories, 15g fat, 0mg chol., 13g prot., 52g carbs., 7g fiber, 160mg sodium.
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