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PRECISION FORECAST BY CHIEF METEOROLOGIST BARBIE BASSSETT
Continued from Page A1. provide a full array of behavioral health services from adolescent to geriatric care for our community.” Carney said a “multidisciplinary team” will work in the unit, led by a psychiatrist and staffed with new hires for nursing, social work, activity therapists and others. At completion, the unit will require about 16 fulltime equivalent personnel at an annual cost of $1,082,640, according to the application.
River Region based its application to build the facility on a variety of factors, such as a stated “void” of inpatient psychiatric services for adolescents in its primary service area of Warren, Issaquena, Sharkey, Yazoo, Hinds, Claiborne and Copiah counties. The application mentions 12 beds licensed in Hinds County at University Hospital & Clinics, but emphasizes completion of the project at the
West Campus “will provide a much-needed treatment option for troubled adolescents in Warren County and the surrounding areas.” In 2001, MSDH approved a similar facility for Brentwood Health Management, called Children’s Hospital of Vicksburg. The $4 million unit was to include 20 beds for treatment of child and adolescent psychiatric conditions and 60 beds for psychiatric residential treatment. The agency
revoked the approval in 2007, citing inaction on the part of the Flowood-based psychiatric care provider to advance the project. The decision was upheld in Hinds County Chancery Court in 2008. The Mississippi Supreme Court in 2010 declined to hear an appeal of the ruling. In November, the agency OK’d a certificate of need to transfer 15 adolescent psychiatric beds to Brentwood from Diamond Grove Center, located
in Louisville, Miss. River Region, one of 126 hospitals operated by Franklin, Tenn.-based Community Health Systems, has 261 general acute care beds, 40 adult psychiatric beds, 28 adult chemical dependency beds, 12 adolescent chemical dependency beds and 31 long-term care beds which are temporarily de-licensed, the application says.
license plate wanted a redesign every year, it would take an inordinate amount of time from Department of Revenue employees who have other duties. SCV has not decided what the Forrest license plate would look like, Stewart said. Opponents are using their imagination. A Facebook group called “Mississippians Against The Commemoration Of Grand Wizard Nathan Forrest” features a drawing of a hooded klansman in the center of a regular Mississippi car tag. Robert McElvaine, director of history department at the private Millsaps College in Jackson, joined the Facebook group. McElvaine said Forrest’s role at Fort Pillow and involvement in the Klan make him unworthy of being honored, even on the bumpers of cars.
“The idea of celebrating such a person, whatever his accomplishments in other areas may have been, seems like a very poor idea,” McElvaine said. Mississippi lawmakers have shown a decidedly laissezfaire attitude toward allowing a wide variety of groups to have speciality license plates, which usually sell for an extra $30 to $50 a year. The state sells more than 100 specialty plates for everything from wildlife conservation to breast cancer awareness. One design says “God Bless America,” another depicts Elvis Presley. Among the biggest sellers are NASCAR designs and one with the slogan “Choose Life.” The Mississippi Division of the Sons of Confederate Veterans has had a state-issued specialty license plate since 2003 to raise money for resto-
ration of Civil War-era flags. From 2003 through 2010, the design featured a small Confederate battle flag. The Department of Revenue allowed the group to revise the license plate this year for the first of the Civil War sesquicentennial designs. The 2011 plate, now on sale, depicts the Beauvoir mansion in Biloxi, the final home of Jefferson Davis, the Confederate president. SCV wants license plates to feature Civil War battles that took place in Mississippi. It proposes a Battle of Corinth design for 2012 and Siege of Vicksburg design for 2013. Stewart said the 2015 plate would be a tribute to Confederate veterans. Johnson, with the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, said he’s not bothered by Civil War commemorative license
plates generally. But he said Mississippi shouldn’t honor Forrest, who was an early leader of what he calls “a terrorist group.” “He should be viewed in the same light that we view Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden,” Johnson said of Forrest. “The state of Mississippi should deny any vanity tags which would highlight racial hatred in this state.” Democratic Rep. Willie Bailey, who handles license plate requests in the House, said he has no problem with SCV seeking any design it wants. “If they want a tag commemorating veterans of the Confederacy, I don’t have a problem with it,” said Bailey, who is black. “They have that right. We’ll look at it. As long as it’s not offensive to anybody, then they have the same rights as anybody else.”
relatives and friends including the Mixon, Miller, Burkes, Hills, Taylor, Kelly, Parker, Sanders, Anderson, Davenport, Sweezer, Thomas and McRunnels families. Services will be at 1 p.m. Saturday at Lakeview Memorial Funeral Home with the Rev. Charlie Blackmore officiating. Burial will be at Cedar Hill Cemetery. Visitation will be from 1 until 6 p.m. Friday at the funeral home.
great-great-grandchild. Services will be at 10 a.m. Friday at Delta City Baptist Church with the Rev. Nick Smith officiating. Burial will follow at Hollandale Cemetery. Visitation will be from 5 until 8 tonight at Glenwood Funeral Home in Rolling Fork. Memorials may be made to the Delta City Baptist Church.
Faye Seale Kent
Services for Clarence Shelby Sr. will be at 11 a.m. Saturday at Locust Grove M.B. Church with the Rev. Robert Miller officiating. Burial will follow at the church cemetery. Visitation will be from noon until 7 p.m. Friday with the family being present from 5 until 7 p.m. Clarence “Rock” Shelby Sr. died Thursday, Feb. 3, 2011, at his home. He was 41. Mr. Shelby was a member of Locust Grove M.B. Church. He was a coach and mentor for the Vicksburg Browns football team. He was preceded in death by his father, Clarence McGloster.
— Willena Mae “Cee” BlueSteward, formerly of Vicksburg, died Thursday, Feb. 3, 2011, at her home. She was 75. Mrs. Blue-Steward was born and raised in Vicksburg. She was preceded in death by her parents, Archie and Abbie Blue; a brother, Charles Blue Sr.; and her son, Myles Steward Jr. Survivors include her husband of 54 years, Myles Steward Sr.; four daughters, Jeanette Glover of McKinney, Texas, Martha Jean Owens of Sprague River, Ore., Rita Rene Scott of Pomona, Calif., and Rita Chauntai Smith of Vicksburg; four sisters, Mildred Scott of Bly, Ore., Bobbie Jean Swafford of Chattanooga, Tenn., and Linda Johnson and Beverly Johnson, both of Vicksburg; two brothers, Claude Blue Sr. and Lonnie Dean Blue, both of Vicksburg; nine grandchildren; five great-grandchildren; and other relatives and friends. Services will be at 2 p.m. Friday at O’Hair & Riggs Funeral Home in Sprague River. Visitation will be from noon until 8 tonight at the funeral home. Burial will follow Monday at 11 a.m. at Rose Hills Memorial Park in Whittier, Calif.
Tag Continued from Page A1. Forrest was a Klan grand wizard in Tennessee after the war. Sons of Confederate Veterans member Greg Stewart said he believes Forrest distanced himself from the Klan later in life. It’s a point many historians agree upon, though some believe it was too little, too late, because the Klan had already turned violent before Forrest left. “If Christian redemption means anything — and we all want redemption, I think — he redeemed himself in his own time, in his own actions, in his own words,” Stewart said. “We should respect that.” State Department of Revenue spokeswoman Kathy Waterbury said legislators would have to approve a series of Civil War license plates. She said if every group that has a specialty
deaths The Vicksburg Post prints obituaries in news form for area residents, their family members and for former residents at no charge. Families wishing to publish additional information or to use specific wording have the option of a paid obituary.
George Donald Bischoff George Donald Bischoff, formerly of Vicksburg, died Sunday, Jan. 23, 2011, in Fort Dodge, Iowa. He was 86. Mr. Bischoff was born in St. Louis, served in the Navy in World War II and graduated from the University of Oklahoma, where he played varsity basketball. His family lived in Vicksburg from 1960 until 1970 and he George Donald served as Bischoff assistant general manager at the old Valley Mills feed plant. In 1970, they moved to Fort Dodge where he worked for Land O’ Lakes Inc. until his retirement in 1990. He was part of the Mississippi delegation to the 1964 Republican National Convention. He served on the Vicksburg City Planning Commission and on the board of the Vicksburg Catholic Schools. Mr. Bischoff was preceded in death by his parents, Herman and Toddy Bischoff; and his wife of 57 years, Helen Catherine Neier Bischoff. Survivors include two sons, David Bischoff of Albertville, Ala., and Kurt Bischoff of Fort Dodge; three daughters, Susan Murphy of Nashville, Tenn., Jane Bischoff of Cleveland, Ohio, and Laura Bischoff-Konz of Minneapolis, Minn.; and seven grandchildren. Services were Jan. 28 in Fort Dodge with full military honors.
Catherine J. Cranfield UTICA — Catherine J. Cranfield died Tuesday, Feb. 8, 2011, at her home in Utica. She was 86. A lifelong resident of the Utica area, she was a member of the Carpenter Baptist Church. She was preceded in death by her husband, Hugh Cranfield, Sr.; and a brother, Kent Strong.
Survivors include her daughter, Helen Smith of Jackson; four sons, Robert Cranfield of Utica, Hugh Cranfield, Jr. of Jackson, Fred Cranfield of Brandon and Admiral Cranfield of Buffalo, N.Y.; two sisters, Dorothy Strong of Neeses, S.C., and Lillie Mae Gunter of Carpenter; seven grandchildren; and six great-grandchildren. Services will be at 11 a.m. Saturday at Glenwood Funeral Home in Utica with the Rev. Rocky Henriques officiating. Burial will follow at Utica Cemetery. Visitation will be from 5 until 8 p.m. Friday at the funeral home. Pallbearers will be Ian Cranfield, Andrew Cranfield, William Walley, D.J. Hawthorne, Steven Pitts and Joey Tucker.
Charles Ray Harris Charles Ray Harris died Thursday, Feb. 3, 2011, at River Region Medical Center. He was 54. Mr. Harris was born and raised in Valley Park and was a farmer and volunteer firefighter in Valley Park for a number of years before retiring and Charles Ray moving to Harris Vicksburg. He was preceded in death by his father, Miner Harris Sr.; his brother, Miner Harris Jr.; and a nephew, Eddie Harris. He leaves to cherish his memory his wife, Gwendolyn Harris; one daughter, Adrian Mixon-Harris; three loving sons, Charles Mixon-Harris, Fredrick Mixon-Harris and Terrance Mixon-Harris, all of Vicksburg; his mother, Mary Lou Harris of Rolling Fork; four brothers, Larry Harris of Fortuna, Calif., Dale Harris of Grace, Miss., Robert Harris of Galveston, Texas, and Johnny Harris of Greenville; six sisters, Dorothy Seriven, Barbara Goodman and Nancy Conner, all of Vicksburg, Mary Washington of Rolling Fork, Kathleen Harris of Vallejo, Calif., and Sandra Donaldson of Phoenix; his mother-in-law, Lillie Mixon; 13 grandchildren; a host of uncles, aunts, nieces, nephews, and other
DELTA CITY — Faye Seale Kent died Tuesday, Feb. 8, 2011, at Central Mississippi Medical Center in Jackson. She was 83. Mrs. Kent was a lifelong resident of Delta City and had been a resident of Wellington Place in Greenville. She was a former business owner and employee of the U.S. Postal Service. She was a member of Delta City Baptist Church. She was preceded in death by her husband, W.D. Kent; a daughter, Kaye K. Stevens; and a great-grandson, Jeremy Andrew Keith. She is survived by a son, John Walter Kent of Port Lucie, Fla.; her brother, William Seale of Metairie, La.; eight grandchildren; 23 great-grandchildren; and one
Clarence Shelby Sr.
Willena Mae Blue-Steward SPRAGUE RIVER, Ore.
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WEATHER 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 friday-saturday Mostly clear; highs in the 40s, lows in the 20s
STATE FORECAST TONIGHT Clear, lows in the 20s friday-saturday Mostly clear; highs in the 40s, lows in the 20s
Almanac Highs and Lows High/past 24 hours............. 44º Low/past 24 hours............... 23º Average temperature......... 34º Normal this date................... 49º Record low..............19º in 1947 Record high............78º in 1887 Rainfall Recorded at the Vicksburg Water Plant Past 24 hours.............. 0.52 inch This month..............1.34 inches Total/year.................9.55 inches Normal/month......1.70 inches Normal/year...........7.17 inches Solunar table Most active times for fish and wildlife Friday: A.M. Active..........................11:04 A.M. Most active................. 4:51 P.M. Active...........................11:29 P.M. Most active.................. 5:16 Sunrise/sunset Sunset today........................ 5:43 Sunset tomorrow............... 5:44 Sunrise tomorrow.............. 6:49
RIVER DATA Stages Mississippi River at Vicksburg Current: 13.6 | Change: +1.5 Flood: 43 feet Yazoo River at Greenwood Current: 13.9 | Change: -0.2 Flood: 35 feet Yazoo River at Yazoo City Current: 11.8 | Change: NC Flood: 29 feet Yazoo River at Belzoni Current: 13.7 | Change: -0.1 Flood: 34 feet Big Black River at West Current: 7.1 | Change: -0.2 Flood: 12 feet Big Black River at Bovina Current: 9.6 | Change: -0.1 Flood: 28 feet StEELE BAYOU Land....................................69.5 River....................................60.9
MISSISSIPPI RIVER Forecast Cairo, Ill. Friday....................................... 24.0 Saturday................................. 23.2 Sunday.................................... 22.2 Memphis Friday....................................... 10.0 Saturday....................................9.5 Sunday.......................................8.8 Greenville Friday....................................... 23.0 Saturday................................. 23.6 Sunday.................................... 23.8 Vicksburg Friday....................................... 15.2 Saturday................................. 16.3 Sunday.................................... 16.9