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Index On this day in history 150 years agoJan. 8 — A small force of 450 Union soldiers attack a Con-
federate camp at Roan’s Tan Yard on Silver Creek, Mo. The 800 Confederates were surprised and routed but managed to escape under the cover of a heavy fog.
Stocks......7A Classified......4B Celebrations ..1B Wisdom......2B
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The Alcorn Narcotics Unit ar-rested three people following an investigation of alleged drug activity.
The arrest happened Jan. 3 when offi cers stopped a vehicle on Farmington Road after ob-serving the occupants purchase items used in the production of methamphetamine.
Cassandra Gail Prisant, 42, of Box Chapel Road, Corinth, was charged with conspiracy to manufacture a controlled substance, possession of two or more precursors with intent to manufacture a controlled sub-stance and felony possession of a controlled substance. Bond was set at $20,000.
Sandra Tracy Eaton, 33, of Merrill Drive, Booneville, was charged with conspiracy to manufacture methamphet-amine. Bond was set at $5,000.
Charles Ragan Kennedy, 46, of Box Chapel Road, Corinth, was charged with possession of two or more precursors with intent to manufacture a controlled substance and con-spiracy to manufacture meth-amphetamine. He was also held for the Mississippi Department of Corrections because he was on probation at the time of the arrest.
Narcotics Offi cer Darrell Hopkins said offi cers gained consent to search the vehicle and found items used in cook-
The Northeast Mississippi Chapter of the Red Cross offers a wide variety of assistance and services.
Possibly most widely-known are the organization’s efforts in disaster relief.
“Basically, if it’s part of a di-saster, we assist with it,” said Cheryl Kocurek, readiness and response manager for the Red
Cross’ Northeast Mississippi Chapter.
The organization’s disaster and emergency relief for fami-lies includes providing food, clothes and shelter during disasters. During large scale disasters the Red Cross dis-tributes tarps, cleanup kits and hygiene kits.
The Northeast Mississippi Chapter includes 16 counties. It is headquartered in Tupelo,
with offi ces in Tishomingo, New Albany, Starkville and Columbus.
Although Red Cross no lon-ger has a Corinth offi ce, the organization wants to stress it continues to offer services in Alcorn County.
People seeking disaster as-sistance in Northeast Missis-sippi can call the Tupelo head-quarters during offi ce hours at 662-842-6101. The toll-free
after hours phone line is 1-855-891-7325.
In addition to assisting peo-ple suffering the effects of di-sasters, the Red Cross provides services to the armed forces. They are the only communi-cation link between military families and members of the armed forces and often are called on to relay messages of
Red Cross known for disaster relief servicesBY BOBBY J. SMITH
Tips for the trip.Momentum continues to
build for a trip to Disney World by a group of special needs chil-dren.
A fundraiser to collect funds for destination Disney is sched-uled for Tuesday night from 5-8 p.m. at Sweet Peppers Deli.
Thus far $14,971 has been raised for the trip that will see around 38 youngsters and 37 parents visit the Orlando, Fla. magical theme park.
Parents will wait tables and other work at the restaurant located in The Commons shop-ping center. Children will be accepting tips at the door. The group will receive all tips and 10 percent of what is taken in over the three hours.
“We have had other fundrais-ers, but nothing like this one,” said Sweet Peppers Manager Amy Holland. “This is a great cause and something good for the community to come out and support.”
Momentum builds for magical trip
Staff photo by Steve Beavers
Sweet Peppers Deli Manager Amy Holland goes over a menu with 10 year-old Stephanie Caples. Caples is part of a special needs group that is raising money to go to Disney World in May. Organizers of the trip are planning a fundraiser at Peppers on Tuesday from 5-8 p.m.
BY STEVE [email protected]
Narcoticsunit makes3 arrests
BY JEBB [email protected]
As Americans live longer, more families are forced to cope with Alzheimer’s disease.
The Mississippi State Exten-sion Service is hosting an edu-cational session on the disease Thursday beginning at 1 p.m. The Understanding Alzheim-er’s Workshop is free to the public and organized by the Mississippi chapter of The Al-zheimer’s Association.
The program will include perspectives on caregiving by Keri Roaten and Jay Van Win-kle.
“There are many families within our community coping with Alzheimer’s and the dif-ferent challenges it presents,” said Roaten. “There are several resources available that many people know nothing about. This program will highlight those resources and also help understand the disease, which is very important when you are caring for someone.”
A caregiver panel discussion with speakers Shelia Crum and Catherine Kilgore will deal with
Session helpsfamilies copewith Alzheimer’s
BY JEBB [email protected]
The multi-talented Thomas Brothers — award-winning fi lmmakers and songwriters from Iuka — have released a new traditionally-fl avored al-bum with sounds straight from the classic American songbook.
“Chasing Butterfl ies” is Eddie and Frank Thomas’ second in-stallment of an autobiographi-cal trilogy that began with 2011’s “Maggie’s House” and will conclude this spring with “Pennyland.”
All of the songs for the tril-ogy were recorded at the broth-ers’ Iuka studio over a roughly one-year period, explained songwriter and guitarist Ed-die. As the songs went down on tape a pattern began to emerge, and the idea for the trilogy was hatched.
“We did it here at our little home studio in Iuka. We re-corded it all at once — then we decided which songs to put in there,” Eddie said. “When we looked at it, we saw the songs kind of tell a story.”
The way the trilogy is orga-nized, the fi rst release, “Mag-gie’s House,” tells the story of growing up in small town Mis-sissippi. With “Chasing But-terfl ies” the songs grapple with
growing up and fi nding oneself in the world. The upcoming “Pennyland” deals with com-ing home again and discovering one’s roots.
To celebrate the new al-bum’s release, the brothers are throwing a release party at the Friends of the Iuka Library lunch break on Tuesday, Jan. 17 from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.
On Saturday, Jan. 21, they will play another hometown show, an evening of dinner and concert, with dinner at The Place on Front & Main begin-ning at 5 p.m. with a concert following from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. at Iuka’s Little Episcopal Church.
Tickets for the dinner and show are $10 each and available at www.eddieandfrank.com or
at the Iuka Public Library.Before the release of “Pen-
nyland,” the Thomas Brothers are embarking on a three-week tour of the United Kingdom, where they have an exception-
ally enthusiastic and apprecia-tive following.
For more information or to purchase albums by Eddie and Frank Thomas visit www.ed-dieandfrank.com
Iuka songwriters release second CD of trilogy
Submitted photo
Frank (left) and Eddie Thomas recently released “Chasing But-terflies,” part two in an autobiographical trilogy of folk-laced ballads about growing up, going out into the world and coming home again.
BY BOBBY J. [email protected]
“We recorded it all at once — then
we decided which songs to put in there. When we looked at it, we
saw the songs kind of tell a story.”
Eddie Thomas
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births and deaths to de-ployed service men and women.
The Red Cross’ service line for the armed forces is 877-272-7337.
They also offer health and safety training, in-cluding fi rst aid, baby-sitting and CPR, as well as disaster training for busi-nesses.
To learn more about the Red Cross health and safety training call 1-800-733-2767.
The Northeast Mis-sissippi Chapter of Red Cross will soon hold its fi fth annual Evening of Jazz concert with Grady Nichols. The benefi t will be held from 7 until 10 p.m. at The Summit in Tupelo. Tickets are $30 and will be available at
the door or by calling the Tupelo offi ce.
The goal for the con-cert is to raise $50,000 to be used in the chapter to support projects and di-saster services.
For more information and to fi nd the nearest location for Red Cross health and safety classes visit mississippi-red-cross.org
CROSS: NE Mississippi chapter will soon hold annual Evening of Jazz concert with Grady Nichols
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ing methamphetamine as well as fi nished product. Offi cers then went to Pri-
sant’s residence at 15 Box Chapel Road, where they found items used in meth production. Kennedy was arrested at the residence.
In other area arrests:■ The Corinth Police
Department charged Eric B. Anderson, 46, of Thom-as Gap Road, Iuka, with
grand larceny on Dec. 8.According to the police
report, Anderson on Dec. 5 allegedly took a Honda high-pressure washer from a local restaurant where he was doing some work for a commercial as-phalt sealing and coating company. The pressure washer, valued at $1,250, was rented from a local business.
■ Robert Lee Settles, 23, of Forrest Lee Drive, Booneville, was arrested Monday and charged with credit card fraud by the Prentiss County Sher-iff’s Department.
Sheriff Randy Tolar said Settles acquired a credit card from his grandfather around Thanksgiving and began withdrawing money. The card actually belonged to the Vietnam Veterans of America Chapter 842 in Tupelo.
Settles is accused of more than 20 instances of credit card fraud in Pren-tiss County in addition
to transactions in Pearl. He was also charged with burglary in an unrelated case.
Bond was set at $12,500, and Settles was also held for the Missis-sippi Department of Cor-rections.
■ Prentiss County picked up a Booneville man wanted on burglary charges in Texas who has also been charged with burglary by Boon-eville police. He was also charged with escape after an attempt to fl ee the jail.
Ira Whitlock, 40, of County Road 3101, was arrested Dec. 16 and faced additional charges Jan. 1.
The escape charge was fi led after Whitlock ran and exited an interior door that experienced a lock malfunction. Tolar said there was no chance of the inmate getting out-side, however.
“The malfunctioning door lock and other elec-tronic problems began
several months ago when lightning knocked out our control board and numerous other elec-tronic mechanisms,” said Tolar. “For the last sev-eral weeks, technicians have been working to get everything back up and running even better than before.”
■ The Tishomingo County Sheriff’s Depart-ment charged Joshua Duane McKinnon, 20, of Iuka, in connection with two burglaries at the Whitfi eld Trailer Park.
Investigators recovered a fl at-screen television, electronics and numer-ous DVDs, as well as equipment belonging to the National Guard.
■ Allyson Shelby, 25, of Memphis, Tenn., was arrested by Tishomingo County offi cers on Coun-ty Road 232 in northern Tishomingo County on identity theft charges. She was also wanted in Shelby County, Tenn., on identity theft charges.
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“I am glad to have the opportunity to do this,” said organizer Havis Hur-ley. “The kids are really excited about having the chance to go to Disney World.”
Hurley says the group raised $3,600 at its fund-raiser at Pizza Inn in No-vember.
“We still need to try and have 1-2 fundraisers a month because the time will be here before you
know it,” said the orga-nizer.
A package has already been put together for the trip to see Mickey Mouse. It will cost around $450 per child with the deal including transportation, tickets and accommoda-tions for fi ve days. The trip is set for May 26 through June 1.
Hurley, who has made over four dozen trips to the park, came up the idea for the magical ride while working with 18 of
the youngsters. He started putting the plan into ac-tion in September of last year.
An account -- Disney World Fundraiser -- has been set up at Trustmark Bank for those that would like to donate. Donations can also be sent to: Ha-vis Hurley, 1306 Orchard Lane, Corinth, Ms. 38834.
For more info about the special needs trip or to donate call Hurley at 662-643-3561.
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When thinking of the cornerstone businesses in the Crossroads area, one that always comes to mind is Dickerson Furniture Company, a part of his-toric downtown Booneville since 1945.
The year 2012 will mark its closing after 67 years in business.
“The old retail joke goes ‘when business is good it’s smart management ... when business is slow, it’s poor economic condi-tions,’” says owner Mar-shall Dickerson.
The economic downturn took a toll on Dickerson’s business for the last four years.
“Furniture is something that people can put off buying if they’re nervous about the economy or their fi nances aren’t as good as they’d like them to be,” he says. “I realized I couldn’t go on much longer.”
The quality of furniture sold was long-lasting, too. Once a customer called the store, laughing about a remark made by her car-pet installers. As they were moving furniture to make way for the new carpet, one of the men commented he didn’t have to ask where she had bought her furni-
ture. He knew it came from Dickerson Furniture be-cause of how heavy it was.
Four generations of cus-tomers have shopped at this family furniture store.
Marshall Dickerson’s dad, Hugh, opened Dicker-son Furniture Company in June 1945 on Front Street, which would later be re-named West College Street.
The Dickerson family had always been in retail. Hugh’s parents, Sam and Ella Dickerson, moved from eastern Benton County to Ripley in the late 1920s to open a small gro-cery store. They had fi ve living children with Hugh being the youngest (two
died in infancy). Every one of them had a store at one time.
After graduating from high school, Hugh Dicker-son went to work at Tip-pah Wholesale Company in Ripley, where he met his wife-to-be, Eunice Carter, who worked in the offi ce.
Hugh and Eunice mar-ried in 1945.
It is interesting to note Hugh’s brothers, Asa and Nelson, also had stores by the name of “Dickerson Furniture.”
Asa’s store was located on the square in Ripley, while Nelson’s store was
located in Calhoun City. The store in Ripley was purchased by the Hopper family and remains in the same location as Hopper Furniture. The store in Calhoun City only lasted a few years.
After his marriage, Hugh wanted to live in Boon-
eville. In June 1945, he opened Dickerson Furni-ture Company at its pres-ent location at 105 West College St. Marshall was born in 1949, followed by two younger sisters, Joyce Crook of Atlanta and Janet Johnston of Birmingham. Both are nurse practitio-ners.
Although his sisters nev-er worked much at their dad’s furniture store, Mar-shall did, loading furniture and anything else that needed to be done.
Marshall remembers when his dad used to sell tile and fl ooring, and can point to a door facing in the back of the store where he glued tiny bits of tile when he was a small child.
Marshall recalls his fa-ther talking about furni-ture sales after World War II. “He said after the war there was no problem sell-ing furniture ... the prob-lem was just getting it. He spent all his time begging people to ship furniture. He said he would put fur-niture on the sidewalk and it would be gone by the end of the day.”
His parents built their home on Washington Street in 1951. “Dad would bring home furniture for
Dickerson Furniture store closing after 67 yearsBY ANGELA STOREY
Staff photo by Angela Storey
Marshall Dickerson and his son, Sam, at Dickerson Furniture in Booneville. The oak desk Marshall sits behind was once used by John Lee Richie when he was mayor of Booneville.
“Furniture is something that people can put
off buying if they’re nervous
about the economy or
their finances aren’t as good as they’d like them to be.”
Marshall DickersonOwner, Dickerson
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Leroy BrooksBOONEVILLE — Leroy Brooks died Saturday, Jan.
7, 2012, at Baptist Memorial Hospital in Booneville. Patterson Memorial Chapel is in charge of arrange-ments.
Robert G. Samson Jr.Robert G. “Bob” Samson Jr. of Corinth died
Wednesday, Dec. 28, 2012, at North Mississippi Medical Center in Tupelo. A memorial service will be held at a later date. McPeters Funeral Directors is in charge of arrangements.
Azline ClarkGLEN — Funeral services for Mandy Azline Clark,
83, are set for 2 p.m. Monday at Magnolia Funeral Home Chapel of Memories with burial at Oak Grove Cemetery in Iuka.
Ms. Clark, a retired factory worker, died Friday, Jan. 6, 2012, at her home. Born Nov. 5, 1928, she was a member of Unity Baptist Church.
Survivors include two daughters, Janice Bryson and Barbara Laird, both of Glen; three grandchil-dren, Kristopher Lee Bush, Jessica Lee Ann Long and Stephanie Mary Ann Long; two step-grandchil-dren, Nick Bryson (Amy) and Casey Cornelison; three great-grandchildren; one step-great-grand-child; and her former husband, Marlin Clark of Iuka.
She was preceded in death by her parents, Frank and Ada Pearl McAnally Allred; a daughter, Paulette Letson; a grandson, Jeremy Bush; her fi rst husband and father of her children, Travis Lee Letson; her brothers, Huey Allred, D.C. Allred, Dexter Allred, Huel Allred and Noonon Allred; and sisters Hazel Miles, Josephine Terrian and Avanell Cooper.
Kris Bush will offi ciate the service.Visitation is Monday from 12 noon until service
time.
Ben Frank DavisFuneral services for Ben Frank Davis, 71, are set
for 11 a.m. Tuesday at Oak Grove CME Church with burial at Annie Dilworth Cemetery.
Mr. Davis died Thursday, Jan. 5, 2012, at his home. Born Aug. 6, 1940, he attended Synagogue School and was retired. He was a member of Oak Grove CME Church.
Survivors include his children, Karaleen Mar-tin, Tommie Davis, Keith Davis and Barry Davis; his siblings, Mae Ruth Bush, Annie Strickland, Gertrude Sorrell, Vistie Carpenter, Louise Sorrell, James Davis, Sammy Davis and John Davis; his grandchildren, Carlissa Gilmore, Rosy Gardner, Charles Gardner, Tramine Davis, Tiffany Martin, Chris Walker, Blake Davis and Arlena Davis; and six great-grandchildren.
He was preceded in death by his wife, Ilean Phillip Davis; a stepdaughter, Jean Gardner; his parents, Ben and Lizzie Davis; his grandfather, Matt Davis; his siblings, M.D. Davis, O.D. Davis, Joe Davis and Manerva Strickland; and a grandson, Chris Gard-ner.
The Rev. Henry Damons will offi ciate the service.Visitation is Monday from 6 until 7:30 p.m. at
Patterson Memorial Chapel.
Mary DilbeckFuneral services for Mary Dilbeck, 79, of Corinth,
are set for 2 p.m. Monday at Corinthian Chapel with burial at Forrest Memorial Park.
Mrs. Dilbeck, a homemaker, died Saturday, Jan. 7, 2012, at Cornerstone Health & Rehabilitation. She was a member of New Life United Pentecostal Church, born Aug. 11, 1932.
She was preceded in death by her husband, James Dilbeck.
Survivors include a host of family and friends and a special friend, Leola Robinson.
Bro. Don Clenney will offi ciate the service.Visitation is Monday from 11 a.m. until service
time.
Wilma McKinneyFuneral services for Wilma Lois Pennington McK-
inney, 77, are set for 1 p.m. Monday at McPeters Fu-neral Directors Chapel with burial at Oak Hill Cem-etery in Hardin County, Tenn.
Mrs. McKinney died Friday, Jan. 6, 2012, at North Mississippi Medical Center in Tupelo.
She was preceded in death by a daughter, Ani-ta Thrasher; three sisters, Betty Pendly, Geneva Whitaker and Catherine Lamb; two brothers, Noel Pennington and Carlton Pennington; and her par-ents, Homer and Mary Pennington.
Survivors include her husband, Robert H. McK-inney of Corinth; her son, Jerry McKinney (Sherra) of Michie, Tenn.; a sister, Ann Hood of Nashville; a brother, Phil Pennington of Nashville; three grand-daughters, Amy McKinney, Carrie McKinney and Rebecca McKinney; a grandson, Brennan Thrasher; two step-grandchildren, Samuel Devine and Rachel Devine; and one great-granddaughter.
Visitation is Monday from 11 a.m. until service time.
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4-H volunteer leaders
The Alcorn County 4-H Volunteer Leaders’ Asso-ciation will meet Monday, Jan. 9 at 5 p.m. at the Alcorn County Extension Service. On the agenda: 4-H Saturday, council officer installation, com-mittee meetings, county procedures and the 2012 MVLA Conference. All 4-H volunteers and parents are encouraged to attend.
For more information, call the Alcorn County 4-H office at 286-7756.
Guild annual meeting
The 2012 Corinth Artist Guild annual membership meeting will be held at 6 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 19 at the artist guild gallery lo-cated at 507 Cruise Street in downtown Corinth.
Members are urged to attend to give ideas about the future of the local guild. Future plans will be discussed and board mem-bers will be elected or re-elected. Persons interested in joining the guild are also encouraged to attend.
Applicator training
There will be a Private Applicator Training ses-sion held on Monday, Jan. 9 at 6 p.m. at the Alcorn County Extension Service office located behind the Crossroads Arena. There is a $10 fee to attend the training.
This training is for farm-ers who need their Private Applicator’s Certificate in order to purchase restrict-ed use pesticides for their farm. For more information or to attend, call Patrick Poindexter at the Alcorn County Extension Service at 662-286-7755.
TOPS
A TOPS (Take Off Pounds Sensibly) membership drive is being held Wednesday, Jan. 11 at Waldron Street Christian Church in Corinth, beginning at 4:30 p.m. TOPS goal is to make posi-tive lifestyle changes that
lead to weight loss and wellness.
Guest speaker will be Pat Harris from Columbus.
For more information, contact Jean Brown, 287-8868 or 293-0091 or Heather Johnson.
Modeling Squad try-outs
Alcorn County 4-H Mod-eling Squad try-outs are being held Saturday, Jan. 14 at the Alcorn County Ex-tension office, 2200 Levee Road behind the Cross-roads Arena in Corinth. An introduction to the program and workshop will begin at 10 a.m. with try-outs to fol-low at 11 a.m. Participants can dress casual but ap-propriate for try-outs, which will include an interview by the judges. Participants will be given the questions during the workshop. Par-ticipants will meet with the judges individually.
The 4-H Modeling Squad try-outs are open to all youth (male and female) ages 8-18. All models will become members of the Alcorn County 4-H program. There is no joining fee or monthly fee. No experience is necessary.
A small reception will be held for the participants and family members im-mediately following the try-outs.
‘Tuition Extravaganza’
A “Tuition Extravaganza” event is set for Feb. 2 from 10 a.m. until 2 p.m. at Northeast Mississippi Community College in Hol-liday Hall and the Bonner Arnold Coliseum west parking lot in Booneville. The event is being held to inform students of possible tuition solutions available through ROTC.
Students can earn a two-year or four-year degree despite the cost of tuition by participating in the ROTC program. Representatives from Northeast, Mississip-pi State University and the University of Mississippi will be on hand to answer any questions.
For more information about the event call SFC Shackelford at 662-687-2460. Visit Northeast on the web at www.nemcc.edu.
Mended Hearts
Mended Hearts will be meeting Monday, Jan. 9 at 10 a.m. at the Magnolia Community Service Com-plex in the Cardiac Rehab Conference Room, 1001 South Harper Road in Corinth.
Mended Hearts is a sup-port group open to all heart patients, their families and others impacted by heart disease. Its purpose is to inspire hope in heart disease patients and their families through visits and sharing experiences of re-covery and returning to an active life.
Healthcare professionals join the mission by provid-ing their expertise and support. Mended Hearts meets the second Monday of every month.
NEMCC registration
Registration dates for day/evening and distance learning classes for the 2012 spring semester at Northeast Mississippi Community College are set: Day and evening classes will begin today. Distance learning classes commence on Monday, Jan. 17.
Registration for day and evening classes will remain open until Wednesday, Jan. 11. Students may register for distance learn-ing classes through Friday, Jan. 13.
Northeast’s Bookstore located in the Haney Union will be open from 8 a.m. until 6 p.m. today and Jan. 5, 9 and 10. Regular hours are 8 a.m. until 4 p.m.
For additional informa-tion about admissions or financial aid, call 662-720-7239 in Booneville or e-mail [email protected]. Students who are uncer-tain about their career or educational choices should
contact the Counseling Center at 662-720-7313. Visit Northeast on the Inter-net at www.nemcc.edu.
McClain benefit
A benefit for Renee Mc-Clain is being held Feb. 4 at the Ramer Civic Center from 11 a.m. until. Renee is the mother of Michael and Tiffney Penley and the widow of the late Larry “Top Hog” McClain. She is under-going open heart surgery and a triple by-pass plus trigger point laser sur-gery and needs help with medical expenses.
Homemade chili and barbecue plates are being sold for lunch at the ben-efit. There will be a cake walk and an auction to fol-low, along with live music.
For more information, contact Tiffney Penley, 731-610-3123; Michael Penley, 731-610-7082 or Lisa Dillon, 731-610-3421 for more information or to make a donation.
Alzheimer’s program
A family orientation pro-gram to educate families about Alzheimer’s is being held Thursday, Jan. 12 from 1-3 p.m. at the Mis-sissippi State Extension Center, 2200 Levee Road in Corinth.
The Mississippi chapter of The Alzheimer’s As-sociation is conducting a free community education program, “Understanding Alzheimer’s” workshop. The program will feature perspectives on caregiving by Keri Roaten and Jay Van Winkle. There will also be a caregiver panel discussion with speakers Shelia Crum and Catherine Kilgore that include issues regarding the stages of Alzheimer’s, end of life issues, as well as financial and legal mat-ters.
Sign up by calling the chapter office at 601-987-0020 or e-mail [email protected]. For more information about the Alzheimer’s As-sociation, visit www.alz.org. A 24/7 Helpline --1-800-272-3900.
Community Events
I realize that it’s just January, but you can go ahead and start making some preparations for spring gardening.
Directly related to that, I have been receiving some questions about what to do with areas where people had gardens last year. Dur-ing the winter, one of the most important things you can do to your potential garden spot is to perform a “soil test.” The main piece of data we want to learn from this soil test during this time of year is the pH of the area in question. Based upon this reading from the soil test, you can then make a lime applica-tion if needed and it will have time to work prior to the spring planting season.
One of the most com-mon problems with garden areas is low pH. If your pH is as low as 5.0, research shows you are wasting over 50 percent of the fertilizer you put out simply because the plant cannot utilize the fertilizer that is available.
If you move the pH up to 6.0 you then only realize a 19 percent loss. Moving the pH to 7 will make 100 percent of the fertilizer available with no loss, so
you can see the impor-tance of liming.
Even if you soil tested and put lime out last year you need to soil test again. You might not need any lime this time but it pays to double check.
It is also important to remember many of the problems that were ex-perienced in your garden this year might be around next year if appropriate measures aren’t taken to combat them. These problems include fungi, bacteria, nematodes and many other microorgan-isms.
All of these have little diffi culty in surviving win-ter months. If we have a light winter this year in Al-corn County, it could prove to be a problem this com-ing spring and summer. By this I mean the insects and other nuisances such as those listed above won’t have as hard a time surviv-ing this winter as winters in the past.
Experienced gardeners know a winter clean-up will help reduce disease carryover. Removal of diseased leaves from an area where you might have experienced a problem with fungi last year will help in controlling it if it happens to come back this year. Perennial weeds in and around the garden area should be destroyed, since these are often hosts for viruses and different fungi.
If there are any old plants or parts of plants that are still in the garden, they should be removed from the area. Fungi and bacteria can overwinter in these plants and come back in the spring with another onslaught of problems.
If you have fruit trees that had problems with canker, black knot or other types of fungus problems last year, you should re-move those branches that might be dead or dying. This will also help control some insects that overwin-
ter in dead branches.It is important to re-
member if you prune a tree with a fungus problem, you should disinfect your pruning tools between cuts. This will prevent the spread of the fungus to dif-ferent branches and other trees. A good disinfectant can be either bleach dilut-ed to 10 percent strength or rubbing alcohol.
Pruning tools should be also washed and dried before storing to prevent rusting.
It is important to re-member any major prun-ing that doesn’t involve diseased or dying branches can be put off until later on in the winter months if need be. This would include fruit trees, grape vines and crape myrtles.
(For more information concerning the winter care of your garden or trees, call Patrick Poindex-ter, county director, at the Alcorn County Extension Offi ce at 286-7755 or visit the web at www.msu-cares.com.)
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What’s it say about Ameri-can politics when all the candi-dates for president -- including President Obama – are run-ning against government in Washington?
Unless we see some kind of major event like a terrorist attack or signifi cant foreign affairs catastrophe, jobs, the economy, and fi scal responsi-bility will remain the main is-
sues of the 2012 presidential campaign. Voters feel disenfranchised with Washing-
ton because regardless of who is in charge, things appear to remain the same or get worse. When candidate Obama ran on “hope and change,” the nation’s voters elected him President hoping for positive change. What did we get? Huge spending increases driving up huge defi cits and accompanying debt, and unemployment leveling off at unprecedented high levels.
In the 2010 mid-term elections Americans voted TEA Party Republicans into offi ce in a backlash against runaway spending and fi s-cal irresponsibility. What spending cuts have Republicans pushed through? Nada.
In fact, spending has actually increased quietly. While the media spotlighted the three-ring circus on payroll tax cuts last month, Congress quietly passed and Presi-dent Obama even more quietly signed a bill increasing federal spending. Yes, they all agreed to increase spending this year! By this time next year we could be $1.5 trillion more in debt.
To their credit in the spring of 2011 Repub-licans in the House passed a reasonable bud-get addressing reform of Medicare and cut-ting defi cit spending by as much as $4 trillion over the next ten years. The Democratically-controlled Senate on the other hand has not passed a budget in nearly 1,000 days. They just keep kicking the can down the road.
From now until November’s elections our national politicians appear to be resigned to political rhetoric, campaign speeches, and gotcha-points. Back here in the real world nobody believes Washington is going to change regardless of who wins in November.
I remember Barry Goldwater running for president in 1964. That summer our three TV stations preempted some really good programming for a whole lot of political she-nanigans. This year we don’t have that much good programming to preempt.
Of course nations in the Eurozone are in much worse shape than we are, and that’s a problem for us. Economists estimate the Eurozone is about fi ve years ahead of us re-garding debt crises. They are battling over austerity measures and government entitle-ment promises, and hoping none of the sister nations defaults on her debt.
If the Eurozone begins to default -- one conservative economist is giving 3-to-1 odds at least one nation will default -- then we will see another negative impact on our own economy.
Candidates will campaign fast and furious-ly for change in Washington, and everybody agrees we need change in our nation’s capi-tal. We desperately need to stop spending ourselves into deeper debt. We need Wash-ington to get out of businesses’ way to create more jobs. Washington has done nothing but complicate business efforts to create jobs.
We need leaders in Washington who recog-nize we’re all Americans whether we’re rich or poor, black or white, or whatever. We need someone who will lead and unite all of us.
The 2012 election is not about Washington -- it’s about America.
(Daily Corinthian opinion page colum-nist Daniel L. Gardner is a former resident of Corinth. He now lives in Starkville. He may be contacted at [email protected].)
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STARKVILLE — On the way out the door, Gov. Haley Barbour revisited a public policy suggestion in his fi -nal speech to the Mississippi Legislature as governor that was as fl awed this week as it was back in 2004 when he brought it up the fi rst time.
The governor proposed raiding school district re-serve funds in the state’s K-12 school districts, a strategy he fi rst utilized back in 2004 during the fi rst of his eight years in offi ce.
The 1997 Mississippi Ad-equate Education Program was the vehicle that was sup-posed to have addressed the inequities between affl uent school districts like DeSoto County and poor districts like Quitman County. MAEP was supposed to assure an educa-tion funding formula that of-fers each child in Mississippi an equal chance to succeed regardless of the amount of local school funding available.
Left alone, MAEP has in great measure accomplished that goal. But in 2004, legisla-tors and Gov. Haley Barbour effectively pushed the state’s school boards around on the education funding play-
ground and took some of their money away, impact-ing the MAEP concept as a funding equal-izer.
The 2004 Legis la ture pushed a greater share of the burden
of funding public education in Mississippi down to local tax-payers by using local district funds to offset state revenue shortfalls – and they did so at the urging of Gov. Barbour.
In 2004, lawmakers shoved the responsibility of paying $30 million in higher teacher health insurance costs and $93 million in state teacher pay raises down to the 152 school districts with less state funding, forcing them to use local reserves to make up the difference.
If the districts were unable make up the difference, the alternatives were to cut ser-vices in the local districts, to reduce staff by eliminating jobs or to raise local prop-erty taxes - or a combination of all three. The Legislature
also provided an emergency “bridge” loan program to loan poor districts funds necessary to avoid insolvency until the next year’s school taxes could be collected.
As he did in 2004, Barbour claimed this week that local school districts maintained huge reserves that should be drawn down. The governor said the state’s 152 school districts had $615 million in reserves. That’s at best a half-truth.
The state’s school districts, which primarily get funded early in the year and then have to live on those funds the rest of the year, indeed had reserve fund balances of $615 million at the end of the last state fi scal year on June 30, 2011. But those funds fl uctu-ate downward as the school districts pay their bills over the rest of year.
The reserves are not only depleted by recurring expen-ditures, but by unforeseen problems and emergencies. In 2011, killer tornadoes de-stroyed schools in Smithville in Monroe County and Cum-berland in Webster County. Local taxpayers in Monroe and Webster counties and in
other venues where schools were damaged needed ev-ery dollar to deal with these calamities. Prudent school boards and superintendents build reserves by assuming that those storms, fi res, acci-dents and other eventualities will occur and that funding has to be available to help meet those needs.
In 2004, the Legislature brokered a deal with Barbo-ur to underfund MAEP and force local school districts to spend down reserve funds. Now, after a long and pun-ishing recession, many of the state’s school districts have ei-ther already implemented or are facing local tax hikes.
The Legislature is far more conservative now than it was in 2004. But declaring open season on local school district reserve funds, most county offi cials will tell you is a vir-tual guarantee of local tax in-creases.
The same recession that has crippled state govern-ment resources has impacted local governments as well
(Sid Salter is a syndicated columnist. Contact him at 601-507-8004 or [email protected].)
Raiding reserves: That’s poor policy
In what The Washington Post called “a bold act of po-litical defi ance,” President Obama Wednesday an-nounced the recess appoint-ment of Richard Cordray to head the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
Cordray’s nomination had been blocked by a Senate fi li-buster. There was no way he was going to win approval in 2012.
Enraged Republicans de-nounced the appointment as an affront and a usurpation of power, for the Senate had not formally gone into recess.
The White House airily dis-missed the Republican rage, saying no Senate business is being conducted during the Christmas-New Year break, and to argue that the Senate is still in session is a sham.
Obama seemed to delight in his Trumanesque contempt:
“I will not sit by while a mi-nority in the Senate puts party ideology ahead of the people they were elected to serve. ... Not at this make-or-break moment for middle-class Americans.”
Cordray’s appointment will be contested in the courts. Yet it will likely stand, though it’s in-your-face aspect added appreciably to the bad blood bubbling in this city.
The Obamaites seem not to care.
Indeed, from year-end re-ports out of Hawaii, this is the new Obama strategy. He has given up on working with Congress and intends to run a year-long campaign modeled
on Harry Tru-man’s 1948 d e m a g o g i c assault on the “no-good, do-nothing 80th C o n g r e s s ” -- the one that passed Taft-Hartley and enacted the Marshall
Plan.Details of the Obama strat-
egy were spoon-fed to the Post and New York Times. The Times lead: “President Obama is heading into his re-election campaign with plans to step up his offensive against an unpopular Congress, con-cluding that he cannot pass any major legislation in 2012 because of Republican hostil-ity to his agenda.”
The Post lead: “President Obama has a New Year’s res-olution that will shape his re-election strategy at the dawn of 2012: Keep beating up on an unpopular Congress.”
Once he gets a year’s exten-sion of the Social Security pay-roll tax cut, said White House deputy press secretary Josh Earnest, that is the last “must-do” item, “the president is no longer tied to Washington, D.C.”
But if the president is about to barnstorm the nation sav-aging Congress for a full year, where does that leave the country?
If Obama will be proposing nothing to deal with the fi scal crisis --trillion-dollar defi cits as far as the eye can see -- how
does America avert the future that Italy faces? Italy’s debt is 120 percent of gross domestic product; ours, at 100 percent of GDP, is not all that far be-hind.
The U.S. fi scal crisis can be simply summarized. Since 2009, the federal govern-ment has been spending 24 to 25 percent of gross domes-tic product, while tax collec-tions have fallen to 15 percent. When his fi rst four years end, Obama will have grown the debt by $6 trillion.
And if he is giving up on any solution in 2012, believ-ing he can win re-election by vilifying the GOP as toadies to America’s top 1 percent, who are icily indifferent to the middle class, what hope is there for any political coop-eration, should Obama win?
As of today, Obama is run-ning even with Mitt Romney. He has lost much of the en-thusiasm of the young and the minorities that he had in 2008. College-educated whites who had hopes for him seem disillusioned.
Assuredly, he may still win. But should Obama win, how, after a campaign like the one he intends to conduct, does he unite the country?
How does he work with a Republican Party that will likely still hold the House and will have made gains in the Senate, after he has spent a year castigating that party?
And what happen to the na-tion if we have fi ve more years of political gridlock?
If the president failed to broker a budget compromise with the GOP in 2011 and has given up on 2012, how does he work with a Republican House in 2013?
How does he, in a second term, resolve this budget crisis when his bottom-line demand for higher taxes is poison to a party he has just trashed for 15 months as a tool of Wall Street?
Resolving our fi scal crisis seems today beyond the ca-pacity of the U.S. government, as currently constituted. We appear to be in a crisis of the regime rooted in an irrecon-cilable ideological confl ict be-tween two parties of relatively equal strength.
Republicans who refused to raise taxes in 2011 are not going to agree to raise them in 2013 in response to a request from an Obama who defeated them by portraying them as the party of the 1 percent in 2012.
If Obama is re-elected, the crisis endures.
It will then be resolved when the world realizes that the U.S. defi cit and debt are beyond the capacity of this U.S. government to bring un-der control.
At that point, the ratings agencies and world markets will begin to treat the U.S. debt the way they treat the debts of Italy and Spain.
(Newspaper columnist Patrick J. Buchanan is the author of “Suicide of a Super-power: Will America Survive to 2025?”)
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“A budget tells us what we can’t afford, but it doesn’t keep us from buying it.”
— William Feather
Jesus said, “I made your name known to those whom you gave me, and I will make it known, so that the love with which you have loved me may be in them, and I in them.”
— John 17:26 (NRSV)
Dear Lord, thank you for your truth re-vealed to us in your word. Help us not only to know but to successfully apply your word in our lives. Make us instruments of grace. Amen.
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the new house — then bring home customers a few days later and sell it out of the house. I think Mom had to put her foot down fi nally.”
Prior to the mid-1950s all of the furniture would come by rail to the Depot, located within view of the back of the store building.
“Then after 1955 or 1956, it completely changed and furniture was brought by trucks and nothing came by rail anymore,” he said.
The buildings
So much history is in the buildings, even before it became Dickerson Furni-ture Company.
Dickerson buildings are located on both sides of West College Street.
On the east side, the store actually encompasses three buildings.
Dickerson Furniture started in the center por-tion, which was Holley Brothers Fur Trading be-fore it became the furni-ture store.
Once when doing some work, an old animal trap was found under the fl oor. Bars on the back windows were put there to protect the furs, he said.
The lower building was once Shack’s Cafe in the late 1940s. One front cor-ner of the building is cut at a “funny angle” because a cotton buyer wanted the sunlight from a particular direction coming through the window to grade the color of cotton.
Then the south part of the building was purchased in the early 1950s and was the former Prentiss County Co-op. An old rolling door in this part of the building still works. Once a cus-tomer asked to look at this rolling door. She saw scrib-bling on the door and rec-ognized the handwriting to be that of her dad, who had worked at the co-op.
Across the street on the west side is another build-ing owned by Dickerson Furniture. This building is the former Sutherland Clinic, a four-story build-ing, the tallest building in Booneville.
The Sutherland Clinic building was built in 1925 by Dr. W.H. Sutherland. It was occupied by Dr. Sutherland and his son, Dr. Hayden Sutherland, and Dr. R.B. Cunningham.
The Sutherland Clinic closed in 1956 or 1957, and then Marshall’s father, Hugh, bought the build-ing. The names of the doc-tors can still be seen on the doors on the fourth fl oor.
Dr. David Budlowe, a dentist, was the last tenant of the second fl oor.
Employees part of the family
Only four employees have worked at Dickerson Furniture for any length of time: Pink Fraser; Martin Bolt for about 20 years; David Senter 10 or 12 years; and present em-ployee, Sandra Dobbins of Corinth, for 21 years. Dob-bins, an interior design consultant, has worked
there since 1991. “She’s done a great job,” Marshall says.
Martin Bolt ran the el-evator in the Sutherland Clinic before he began working at Dickerson Fur-niture.
Marshall jokes when Da-vid Senter worked at the store it was a “diffi cult pe-riod for me.”
“David and I graduated from high school together. About half the people who came in asked if he was my son.”
Marshall and his wife, Carol, have two children, Sam, who works in Wash-ington, D.C., for Pricewa-terhouseCoopers, an ac-counting fi rm, and Sarah who is married and resides in Jackson and is a teacher in the Madison School Dis-trict.
Both the Dickerson chil-dren are following their own career paths. “Neither of the children are interest-ed in continuing the busi-ness,” he said.
Of course, for awhile it appeared Marshall him-self might not continue his father’s business as he left Booneville to pursue other avenues.
After college at Ole Miss, the Booneville High School
graduate went to Australia where he worked for Grace Bros. Department Stores for four years (1972-76). When he came back to the States, he worked for Dil-lard’s Department Stores in Shreveport and Baton Rouge, among other loca-tions.
He will never forget when, as an assistant man-ager, it fell his job to fi re 12 employees on Christmas Eve, per the mandate of the higher-ups. That instance showed him he might like working for himself.
Marshall returned to Booneville in February 1978 and bought the busi-ness from his dad.
“I thought I’d try it three or four years and see how I liked it. Thirty-four years later, here I am,” he said.
“Booneville has been a great place to raise a fam-ily. I’m very appreciative of the community for sup-porting our business for 67 years.”
The closing sale
As for the fi nal clear-ance sale, the items to be sold are “what we’ve al-ways had,” he said. It is un-known if it will take three weeks or three months.
The store will have its regular business hours, and be open till 8 p.m. on Fridays.
The buildings are also for sale.
Marshall has a part-time job with Renasant Bank, serving on the board in Tupelo, where he attends a number of committee meetings, which he has done for the past 12 years or so.
He is an active member of First Baptist Church in Booneville where he serves as a deacon, Sunday School teacher and sings in the choir. His wife, Carol, is the pianist.
He is a member of the Booneville School Board and a member of the Boon-eville Rotary Club.
“A person at the grocery store said they would miss me. I’m not going any-where ... you’ll probably see more of me,” he says.
And he is leaving his op-tions open. He may look for something part-time. He is known for his su-perb sense of humor, and is considered to be one of Booneville’s most avid his-torians, along with being actively involved in many community endeavors. He recently portrayed George E. Allen during the fi rst Booneville City Cemetery Historic Tour.
His dad, Hugh, died in 1991. His mother, Eunice, 88, resides at Landmark Assisted Living in Boon-eville. Many will remem-ber her brother, Leland Carter, who worked at Kraft Cheese in Booneville, while her sister, Pauline,
went to nursing school and was married to John Lee Richie, who was mayor of Booneville while Marion Smith was in the military.
The oak desk at Dicker-son Furniture used every day by Marshall was used by John Lee Richie when he was Booneville mayor. “Dad bought it from him, probably in the late 1940s,” he said.
The Christmas of 2011 was somewhat bittersweet for the Dickersons, as the “store closing” signs went up on the store windows on Christmas Eve.
In the quiet and calm be-fore the fi nal clearance sale began this week, Marshall refl ected on the past and the changes to come.
“I’ve enjoyed coming to work 34 years. It was just time to shut her down. I’ve been through ups and downs before ... but never seen the economy as slow as the last four years.
“I’m grateful to the Lord and the community that my dad and I could stay in business 67 years and raise two families. Right now we’re just feeling very thankful!”
Daily Corinthian • Sunday, January 8, 2012 • 5A
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CLOSE: Christmas 2011 was bittersweet as ‘Store Closing’ signs went up in windows on Christmas Eve
DISEASE: Many mistake early onset of Alzheimer’s as ‘just getting old;’ Van Winkle urges early diagnosis
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6A • Sunday, January 8, 2012 • Daily Corinthian
UNIONTOWN, Pa. — A southwestern Pennsyl-vania grandmother says she’s no marijuana grow-er, just a woman who wanted something that would look pretty next to her tomatoes.
A Fayette County jury cleared 67-year-old Al-berta Kelley of drug pos-session and manufacture charges on last week after she told them she simply tossed a handful of seeds into her garden after a bearded stranger gave
them to her.Connellsville police
charged Kelley a year ago after receiving a tip about Kelley’s garden. Inves-tigators say they found seven well-cultivated, four-foot marijuana plants behind her home.
Grandma says she was duped by pot
WASHINGTON — The No Child Left Behind education law was cast as a symbol of possibil-ity, offering the promise of improved schools for the nation’s poor and mi-nority children and bet-ter prepared students in a competitive world.
Yet after a decade on the books, President George W. Bush’s most hyped do-mestic accomplishment has become a symbol to many of federal overreach and Congress’ inability to fi x something that’s clear-ly fl awed.
The law forced schools to confront the uncom-fortable reality that many kids simply weren’t learn-ing, but it’s primarily known for its emphasis on standardized tests and the labeling of thousands of schools as “failures.”
Sunday marks the 10-year anniversary of the day Bush signed it into law in Hamilton, Ohio. By his side were the lead-ers of the education com-mittees in Congress, Rep. John Boehner, R-Ohio, and Sen. Ted Kennedy, D-Mass. The bipartisanship that made the achieve-ment possible in the months after the Sept. 11 attacks is long gone.
The same Senate com-mittee approved a re-vamped education bill last year, but deep-rooted partisanship stalled the measure in the full Con-gress. In this election year, there appears little political will for compro-mise despite widespread agreement that changes are needed.
Critics say the law car-ries rigid and unrealistic expectations that put too much of an emphasis on tests for reading and math at the expense of a more well-rounded edu-cation.
Frustrated by the con-gressional inaction, Presi-dent Barack Obama told states last fall they could seek a waiver around un-popular profi ciency re-quirements in exchange for actions his adminis-tration favors. A vast ma-jority of states have said they will go that route, seen as a temporary fi x until lawmakers do act.
Like Obama, Republi-can presidential candi-dates have criticized the law. One, former Penn-sylvania Sen. Rick Santo-rum, even saying he re-grets voting for it.
“If you called a rally to keep No Child Left Behind as it is, not a single per-son would show up,” said Democratic Sen. Michael Bennet of Colorado, Den-ver’s former school super-intendent.
The view was drasti-cally different 10 years ago, when Bush took what was an uncommon stance for a conservative in seek-ing an aggressive federal
role in forcing states and districts to tackle abys-mal achievement gaps in schools.
He was able to get fel-low Republicans such as Boehner, the current House speaker, and Dem-ocratic leaders on edu-cation such as Kennedy, who died in 2009, and Rep. George Miller, D-Ca-lif., to join him. The man-date was that all students read and perform math on grade level by 2014.
“No longer is it accept-able to hide poor perfor-mance. No longer is it acceptable to keep results from parents,” Bush said when he signed the legis-lation. “We’re never go-ing to give up on a school that’s performing poorly; that when we fi nd poor performance, a school will be given time and incen-tives and resources to cor-rect their problems.”
The law requires an-nual testing. Districts must keep and publish data showing how sub-groups of students per-form. Schools that don’t meet requirements for two years or longer face increasingly tough con-sequences, from busing children to higher per-forming schools to offer-ing tutoring and replacing staff.
The test results were eye-opening, recalled Miller, the top Democrat on the House Education and the Workforce Com-mittee.
“People were stunned because they were always led to believe that things were going fi ne in this particular school. And the fact of the matter was, for huge numbers of students that was not the case,” Miller said. “That led to a lot of anger, disappoint-ment. That led to embar-rassment. In many in-stances, the schools were being held out as exceed-ing in their mission, when it fact they were failing many, many of the chil-dren in those schools.”
Under the law, watching movies and assigning ir-relevant or no homework was no longer acceptable because suddenly some-one was paying atten-tion, said Charles Barone, a former aide to Miller who is director of federal policy with Democrats for Education Reform.
In low-performing urban schools, where teachers and principals once might have thrown up their hands and not known what to do, there was a new attitude along the lines of “we might not know what to do, but we’ve got to do something,” said Eric Hanushek, a senior fellow in education at the Hoover Institution of Stanford University.
Both spoke at a recent forum on the law at the Thomas B. Fordham In-stitute.
But many teachers
and principals started to believe they were being judged on factors out of their control and in ways that were unfair.
Jennifer Ochoa, an eighth-grade literacy teacher in New York who works with low-perform-ing students, said the law has hurt morale among educators as well as stu-dents, who feel they have to do well on a standard-ized test or are failures, no matter how much prog-ress they make.
“Afterward, it didn’t matter how far you came if you didn’t make this outside goal,” Ochoa said. “We started talking about kids in very different ways. We started talking about kids in statistical ways instead of human being terms.”
How successful the law has been academically re-mains under debate.
Scores on a national as-sessment show signifi cant gains in math among the fourth- and eighth-grad-ers, with Hispanic and African-American fourth-graders performing ap-proximately two grade levels higher today than when the law was passed, said Mark Schneider, the former U.S. commission-er of education statistics who now serves as vice president at the American Institutes for Research.
“You cannot dismiss these gains, and I think ... people just aren’t will-ing to credit NCLB or ac-countability in general because of ideological and political preferences,” Schneider said.
As the years went by, however, the growth has largely plateaued, Sch-neider said. Similar large gains were not shown in reading, and some experts say more progress was made in reading before the law was passed. There are still huge differences in the performance of Af-rican-American and His-panic students compared with white students.
As the 2014 dead-line draws closer, more schools are failing to meet federal standards, with nearly half not doing so last year, according to the Center on Education Pol-icy. Center offi cials said that’s because some states today have harder tests or have high numbers of im-migrant and low-income children, but it’s also be-cause the law requires states to raise the bar each year for how many chil-dren must pass the test.
Some states had long put off the largest increas-es to avoid penalties.
In Washington, much of the political debate over the law centers on how much federal control the government should have. Some Republicans want to go so far as to close the Education Department and end federally-im-posed annual testing.
Education law’s promisefalls short after 10 yearsBY KIMBERLY HEFLING
Associated Press
Associated Press
Daily Corinthian • Sunday, January 8, 2012 • 7A
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WASHINGTON — Un-employment is higher than it’s been going into any election year since World War II.
But history shows that won’t necessarily stop President Barack Obama from reclaiming the White House.
In a presidential elec-tion year, the unemploy-ment trend can be more important to an incum-bent’s chances than the unemployment rate.
Going back to 1956 no incumbent president has lost when unemployment fell over the two years leading up to the election. And none has won when it rose.
The picture is similar in the 12 months before presidential elections: Only one of nine incum-bent presidents (Gerald Ford in 1976) lost when unemployment fell over that year, and only one (Dwight Eisenhower in 1956) was re-elected when it rose.
Those precedents bode well for Obama. Unem-ployment was 9.8 percent in November 2010, two years before voters decide whether Obama gets to stay in the White House. It was down to 8.7 per-cent in November 2011, a year before the vote. It fell to 8.5 percent in Decem-ber and is expected to fall further by Election Day.
Even so, the unemploy-ment rate is still at reces-sion levels. And former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, who is contend-ing with other Republican candidates to challenge Obama in November, has made the weak economy the centerpiece of his campaign.
In a statement Friday, Romney said Obama’s policies “have slowed the recovery and cre-ated misery for 24 mil-lion Americans who are unemployed, or stuck in part-time jobs when what they really want is full-time work.”
An Associated Press-GfK poll of American adults last month found that 60 percent of Ameri-can adults disapprove of Obama’s performance on economic issues.
Obama can take com-fort in President Ronald Reagan’s experience. In November 1982, the econ-omy was in the last month of a deep recession, and unemployment was 10.8 percent, the highest since the Great Depression. A year later, unemployment was down to 8.5 percent. By November 1984, it was still a relatively high 7.2 percent, but the down-ward trend was unmistak-able. Reagan was re-elect-ed that month in a 59-41 percent landslide.
“A sense that things are on the mend is really im-portant to people,” says Andrew Kohut, president of the Pew Research Cen-ter. Three examples:
— President Richard Nixon got a boost from falling unemployment, which dropped from 5.9 percent in November 1970 to 5.3 percent when voters went to the polls in No-vember 1972.
— President Jimmy Carter was hurt by rising unemployment — from 5.9 percent in November 1978 to 7.5 percent in No-vember 1980.
— President George H.W. Bush, who seemed invincible after the U.S. drove Saddam Hussein’s Iraqi forces out of Ku-wait in early 1991, wound up losing in November 1992. The unemployment rate was 7.4 percent that month, up from 6.2 per-cent two years earlier.
The trend holds up even when the changes in un-employment are slight. President Bill Clinton was re-elected handily even though the unemploy-ment rate was only 0.2 percentage points lower in November 1996 than it had been two years earlier and was the same as it had been a year before.
Under Obama, unem-ployment peaked at 10 percent in October 2009, nine months into his pres-idency, before it began coming down in fi ts and starts. Along the way it stayed above 9 percent for 21 straight months.
But unemployment has now dropped four months in a row. And the economy added 1.6 million jobs in 2011, the most since 2006.
Of course, unemploy-ment isn’t everything.
Obama’s prospects could be changed by the strengths or weaknesses of whoever emerges as his Republican opponent or by a triumph or setback in foreign policy, perhaps in Afghanistan or the Mid-dle East.
Eisenhower no doubt benefi ted from having an opponent, the high-brow former Illinois Gov. Ad-lai Stevenson, who had trouble connecting with ordinary voters. Ford may have been sunk by his unpopular decision to pardon former Presi-dent Nixon. President Jimmy Carter’s prospects were surely dimmed by the lengthy hostage cri-sis in Iran — and a failed attempt to end it with a military rescue.
The third-party candi-dacy of billionaire Ross Pe-rot — not just an increase in unemployment — may have torpedoed President George H.W. Bush’s re-election campaign in 1992 by dividing his supporters and giving an edge to chal-lenger Clinton.
And there’s no guaran-tee that unemployment will continue to slide through Election Day. “We’ve seen this before ... periods when it seemed like things were getting better only to see them grind to a halt,” says John Challenger, CEO of the staffi ng company Chal-lenger, Gray & Christmas. “I’m not yet convinced.”
Americans who have given up looking for work don’t count as un-employed in the offi cial tally. But if they get more optimistic, they might re-enter the job market and join the ranks of the offi cially unemployed, pushing the rate back up, says Republican strategist Rich Galen.
Galen says what mat-ters is how the economy looks in late summer when undecided vot-ers start making up their minds. “What people per-ceive in August is what they take to the polls with them.”
Three dozen econo-mists surveyed by The Associated Press in De-cember see an 18 percent chance that Europe’s debt crisis will cause the U.S. economy to slip back into recession. If 2012 brings a recession, Obama would surely lose, writes Yale University’s Ray Fair, who feeds economic forecasts into a computer model to predict elections.
Pew’s Kohut also warns that voters are wary after seeing the economy fail to achieve liftoff two and a half years after the Great Recession offi cially ended in June 2009. “The public is going to be in a show-me mood,” he says.
Still, the online betting market Intrade on Fri-day put the chances of an Obama victory in Novem-ber at 52.5 percent.
Jobless trend important for electionsBY PAUL WISEMAN
Associated Press
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Sports8A • Daily Corinthian Sunday, January 8, 2012
The Corinth Lady Warriors turned the tables on the Alcorn Central Lady Bears.
Corinth forced Central into 36 turnovers and the squad that’s been known to loose possession on numerous occasions com-mitted just 16 in rolling to a 53-32 win in the fi nals of the Alcorn County Tournament.
It was just the second such title for CHS since the program was revived in 1974-75 and the fi rst for fi fth-year head coach Patri-cia Barr.
“Turnovers have consistently been an is-sue for us,” said Barr. “It was a good win, especially for our girls.”
The Lady Warriors last crown came in 2005, the fi rst time the event was staged at the Crossroads Arena. They had reached the championship round the previous two tournaments, but lost to Kossuth each time.
Saturday’s contest also marked the fi rst time in the eight events at the Arena that a No. 4 seed has left with the trophy.
Corinth turned it on in the second quar-ter after a MaKayla Voyles putback gave Central an 8-7 lead after eight minutes. The Lady Warriors outscored the Lady Bears 20-3 in the frame and took a 16-point lead
at recess.The Lady Warriors limited AC to a 1-of-
11 showing from the fl oor over the eight-minute stanza and turned the ball over just once.
“We were playing smart on offense and aggressive on defense,” said Barr.
Central, seeking its 21st title, went the fi rst 6:20 of the decisive quarter without a fi eld goal. Katie Foster, who led all scorers with 15 points, ended an overall drought of 6:23 with a stickback, but that only cut the defi cit to 13.
Corinth scored the fi rst 15 points of the frame, holding Central scoreless until a Sa-mantha Driver free throw at the 2:35 mark.
The Lady Warriors did their damage from the outside -- three-point rips by Sa-die Johnson and Audrianna Green -- and the inside, four buckets by post players Erin Frazier and Stennett Smith.
“We did a good job inside and outside the paint,” said Barr.
Central made up one point in the third, in part by holding Frazier -- the tournament MVP -- scoreless. Corinth closed the game on a 14-8 advantage and claimed a 21-point
Corinth girls win second titleBY H. LEE SMITH II
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — J.J. Mc-Dermott ran and threw for fi rst quarter touchdowns and SMU beat Pittsburgh 28-6 Saturday in the BBVA Compass Bowl.
Rishaad Wimbley ran for two scores for SMU (8-5), which tied a school record by playing in its third straight bowl under coach June Jones.
McDermott completed 16 of 26 passes for 239 yards and a touchdown, to Darius Johnson early in the fi rst.
Pittsburgh (6-7) was held without a fi rst down and fell
behind 21-0 in the fi rst quarter. Kevin Harper kicked fi eld goals of 32 and 34 yards.
The Panthers were coached by defensive coordinator Keith Pat-terson, who took over after Todd Graham left to coach at Arizona State.
Pittsburgh’s newly hired coach, former Wisconsin offen-sive coordinator Paul Chryst, fl ew into Birmingham on Satur-day and watched the game from the press box level.
Chryst visited with Pitt alumni and fans before the game. He said he wanted to maintain a re-spectful distance from the team
until the game ended, signaling the start of his era.
“This is the culmination of their season,” Chryst said. “This wasn’t me.”
Chryst said he has “a lot of ap-preciation for how they’re fi nish-ing things out” after Graham’s unexpected exit.
McDermott beat Pitt’s blitz when lobbed a 50-yard touch-down pass to Darius Johnson for the Mustangs’ fi rst touchdown.
Johnson had seven catches for 120 yards. The 50-yard catch was the longest in the six-year history of the bowl.
After McDermott’s 1-yard run
capped an eight-play drive to push the lead to 14-0, Ja’Gared Davis hit Pitt quarterback Tino Sunseri, forcing a fumble that was recovered by Taylor Reed at the Panthers’ 27.
McDermott’s 19-yard pass to Cole Beasley set up Wimbley’s 2-yard touchdown run.
Wimbley added a 1-yard touchdown run in the third quar-ter.
A series of key plays went against Pitt in the second quar-ter. Following the fi eld goal, Pitt recovered an onside kick, but the offi cials said there was an inad-vertent whistle before the ball
was recovered. Pitt fans booed as the offi cials said another kickoff was necessary.
With SMU still leading 21-3 later in the quarter, Pitt drove from its 16 to a fi rst and goal at the Mustangs’ 10. On third down from the 5, Sunseri’s pass bounced off tailback Isaac Ben-nett. The defl ection was caught by SMU linebacker Stephon Sanders for an interception.
The half ended with Pitt again coming away with no points at the end of a long drive. Harper’s 47-yard fi eld goal attempt hit the left upright to end a 14-play drive.
McDermott leads SMU past Pittsburgh, 28-6BY CHARLES ODUM
Associated Press
Boys’ champions and runners-up from the fi nals of the Alcorn County basketball tournament since 1950. Scores of the title matches prior to 1955 aren’t currently available.Year Champion Runner-up2012 Corinth 53 Biggersville 392011 Corinth 81 Central 622010 Corinth 85 Biggersville 602009 Corinth 61 Central 512008 Corinth 54 Central 372007 Corinth 53 Kossuth 512006 Kossuth 34 Central 322005 Corinth 60 Central 272004 Corinth 71 Central 492003 Corinth 78 Central 622002 Corinth 77 Central 562001 Corinth 67 Biggersville 572000 Corinth 74 Kossuth 671999 Corinth 70 Biggersville 611998 Biggersville 63 Central 60 OT1997 Biggersville 55 Corinth 541996 Central 54 Corinth 481995 Central 70 Corinth 631994 Corinth 66 Kossuth 631993 Corinth 69 Central 541992 Central 43 Kossuth 381991 Corinth 71 Biggersville 551990 Corinth 77 Biggersville 501989 Corinth 79 Central 621988 Central 64 Corinth 63 2OT1987 Biggersville 57 Corinth 541986 Corinth 34 Kossuth 301985 Corinth 57 Central 521984 Central 58 Corinth 56 OT1983 Central 47 Corinth 461982 Corinth 30 Central 291981 Central 57 Corinth 511980 Corinth 48 Biggersville 46 OT1979 Corinth 68 Biggersville 511978 Corinth 66 Kossuth 571977 Kossuth 51 Corinth 491976 Corinth 62 Biggersville 601975 Corinth 64 Kossuth 451974 Corinth 69 Central 571973 Corinth 76 Kossuth 571972 Central 62 Biggersville 521971 Corinth 88 Biggersville 661970 Corinth 69 Biggersville 601969 Corinth 74 Central 471968 Biggersville 53 Central 51 OT1967 Corinth 66 Central 481966 Central 64 Kossuth 621965 Kossuth 61 Central 441964 Kossuth 19 Central 181963 Corinth 60 Kossuth 57 OT1962 Corinth 70 Central 611961 Corinth 50 Central 461960 Corinth 82 Biggersville 541959 Corinth 54 Glendale 531958 Corinth 47 Kossuth 351957 Farmington 68 Kossuth 631956 Kossuth 86 Biggersville 531955 Kossuth 51 Glendale 361954 Glendale Kossuth1953 Kossuth Glendale1952 Kossuth Farmington1951 Farmington Kossuth1950 Kossuth Biggersville
(B) Corinth 53, Biggersville 39Biggersville 9 8 13 9 — 39Corinth 13 17 10 13 — 53 BIGGERSVILLE (39): Tevin Watson 14, Dexter
Stafford 13, Blake Anderson 4, Darrien Williams 2, Jaylon Gaines 2, Tyran Davis 2, Darien Barnett 2.
CORINTH (53): Deione Weeks 17, Jazz Garner 8, Raheem Sorrell 8, Eric Richardson 7, Jose Contreras 6, Kendrick Williams 4, Desmin Harris 2, Dondre Green 1.
3-pointers: (B) Watson. (C) GarnerRecords: Corinth 14-2, Biggersville 13-5
(JV-B) Biggersville 54 Corinth 44Biggersville 4 17 6 17 — 54Corinth 14 4 16 10 — 44 CORINTH (44): Justin Mills 18, Kendall Staf-
ford 10, Kyoshi Agnew 6, Darius Herman 4, Dar-ian Patterson 4, Quavon Hughey 2.
BIGGERSVILLE (54): Jaylon Gaines 15, Darien Barnett 10, Daniel Simmons 8, Blake Stacy 6, Marquis Watson 5, Emmanuel Simmons 4, Slat-er Huggins 2, Terrell Harvell 2.
3-pointers: (C) Agnew. (B) Gaines 2
Boys’ Champions
BY H. LEE SMITH [email protected]
Girls’ champions and runners-up from the fi nals of the Alcorn County basketball tournament since 1950. Scores of the title matches prior to 1965 aren’t currently available.Year Champion Runner-up2012 Corinth 53 Central 322011 Kossuth 54 Corinth 422010 Kossuth 67 Corinth 252009 Central 46 Kossuth 362008 Central 44 Biggersville 412007 Biggersville 52 Central 382006 Central 46 Kossuth 422005 Corinth 47 Biggersville 342004 Central 56 Biggersville 472003 Kossuth 46 Central 252002 Kossuth 40 Central 392001 Kossuth 42 Corinth 392000 Central 60 Corinth 391999 Central 61 Biggersville 431998 Central 65 Kossuth 431997 Kossuth 56 Central 471996 Central 48 Kossuth 321995 Central 57 Biggersville 431994 Kossuth 55 Central 491993 Kossuth 56 Biggersville 311992 Biggersville 60 Kossuth 541991 Biggersville 65 Central 541990 Biggersville 63 Kossuth 531989 Biggersville 44 Kossuth 371988 Kossuth 59 Biggersville 501987 Central 67 Kossuth 291986 Central 55 Kossuth 361985 Central 60 Biggersville 531984 Kossuth 52 Biggersville 401983 Kossuth 42 Biggersville 271982 Kossuth 41 Corinth 261981 Biggersville 60 Kossuth 381980 Central 51 Kossuth 311979 Biggersville 52 Kossuth 381978 Biggersville 38 Central 311977 Central 53 Kossuth 471976 Central 48 Kossuth 431975 Kossuth 47 Central 411974 Central 44 Kossuth 361973 Kossuth 51 Central 311972 Kossuth 37 Central 321971 Kossuth 41 Central 281970 Central 40 Kossuth 321969 Kossuth 56 Biggersville 541968 Biggersville 38 Kossuth 291967 Kossuth 65 Biggersville 541966 Kossuth 41 Central 361965 Central 37 Kossuth 291964 Kossuth Central1963 Central Kossuth1962 Central Kossuth1961 Kossuth Central1960 Kossuth Biggersville1959 Biggersville Kossuth1958 Biggersville Kossuth1957 Kossuth Biggersville1956 Farmington Kossuth1955 Kossuth Farmington1954 Kossuth Farmington1953 Kossuth Farmington1952 Farmington Glendale1951 Kossuth Farmington1950 Farmington Kossuth
Saturday’s championships(G) Corinth 53, Central 32
Corinth 7 20 12 14 — 53Central 8 3 13 8 -— 32
CORINTH (53): Erin Frazier 14, Sadie Johnson 12, Audrianna Green 12, Stennett Smith 10, Teo-sha Boyd 3, Jaynesia Johnson 2.
ALCORN CENTRAL (32): Katie Foster 15, MaKayla Voyles 6, Alexis Harmon 4, Haley Barnes 3, Amber Meredith 2, Samantha Driver 2
3-pointers: (C) Johnson 2, Green 2. (AC) None.Records: Corinth 6-10, Central 12-6
(JV-G) Kossuth 50, Corinth 19Corinth 3 7 6 3 -- 19Kossuth 12 15 7 16 -- 50
CORINTH (19): Tamia Clark 7, Teosha Boyd 5, Jamia Kirk 3, Imani Payne 2, Aspen Stricklen 2.
KOSSUTH (50): Lacy Essary 14, Parrish Tice 8, Ryleigh Follin 7, Blythe Bullard 6, Kaylee Switch-er 4, Shelbi Barnes 3, Bailey Mitchell 3, Alison Green 3, Cheyenne Daniel 2.
3-pointers: (C) None. (K) Green, Barnes, Follin.
Girls Champions
BY H. LEE SMITH [email protected]
Alcorn County Tournament
Please see WARRIORS | 9A
Photo by Jeff Allen
Corinth’s Erin Frazier goes up for two of her team-high 14 points on Saturday.
The Corinth Lady Warriors turned the tables on the Alcorn Central Lady Bears.
Corinth forced Central into 36 turn-overs and the squad that’s been known to loose possession on numerous oc-casions committed just 16 in rolling to a 53-32 win in the fi nals of the Alcorn County Tournament.
It was just the second such title for CHS since the program was revived in 1974-75 and the fi rst for fi fth-year head coach Patricia Barr.
“Turnovers have consistently been an issue for us,” said Barr. “It was a good win, especially for our girls.”
The Lady Warriors last crown came in
Lady Warriors win second titleBY H. LEE SMITH II
Corinth kept one streak intact, while pre-venting Biggersville from starting another.
The Warriors (14-2) claimed their sixth straight Alcorn County Tournament title and avoided dropping consecutive games to the Lions for the fi rst time in over 13 years with a 53-39 decision on Saturday.
Biggersville, under fi rst-year head coach Cliff Little, ended a 23-game losing streak to Corinth with a 61-59 overtime win at the Kos-suth Classic on Nov. 12.
After tournament MVP Deione Weeks converted a three-point play at the end of the fi rst half, a repeat -- even a shot at overtime -- were all but taken out of the equation.
Corinth led 30-17 at the break and cruised to its 38th championship since 1950. The Warriors have hoisted the trophy 13 of the last 14 events.
With Weeks, who became the 26th Warrior to record 1,000 career points on Tuesday, tal-lying eight in the opening period Corinth led
Warriors roll to sixth straight titleBY H. LEE SMITH II
Please see BOYS | 9A
Please see GIRLS | 9A
Scoreboard Daily Corinthian• 9ASunday, January 8, 2012
FL playoff scheduleWild-card Playoffs
SaturdayHouston 31, Cincinnati 10New Orleans 45, Detroit 28
SundayAtlanta at New York Giants, NoonPittsburgh at Denver, 3:30 p.m.
Divisional PlayoffsSaturday, Jan. 14
Atlanta, N.Y. Giants or New Orleans at San Francisco, 3:30 p.m.
Cincinnati, Pittsburgh or Denver at New Eng-land, 7 p.m.
Sunday, Jan. 15Pittsburgh, Denver or Houston at Baltimore,
NoonDetroit, Atlanta or N.Y. Giants at Green Bay,
3:30 p.m.Conference Championships
Sunday, Jan. 22TBD
Pro BowlSunday, Jan. 29
At HonoluluNFC vs. AFC
Super BowlSunday, Feb. 5
At Indianapolis
Texans 31, Bengals 10Cincinnati 7 3 0 0—10Houston 7 10 7 7—31
First QuarterCin–Benson 1 run (Nugent kick),
7:34.Hou–Foster 8 run (Rackers kick),
4:57.Second Quarter
Cin–FG Nugent 37, 7:09.Hou–FG Rackers 39, 1:48.Hou–Watt 29 interception return
(Rackers kick), :52.Third Quarter
Hou–A.Johnson 40 pass from Yates (Rackers kick), 1:08.
Fourth QuarterHou–Foster 42 run (Rackers kick),
5:15.A–71,725.
––– Cin HouFirst downs 21 19Total Net Yards 300 340Rushes-yards 19-76 35-188Passing 224 152Punt Returns 3-20 3-12Kickoff Returns 1-22 0-0Interceptions Ret. 0-0 3-28Comp-Att-Int 27-42-3 11-20-0Sacked-Yards Lost 4-33 2-7Punts 3-48.3 5-50.2Fumbles-Lost 1-0 0-0Penalties-Yards 3-25 5-87Time of Possession 30:17 29:43
–––INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS
RUSHING–Cincinnati, Leonard 3-34, Dalton 3-17, Benson 7-14, Scott 6-11. Houston, Foster 24-153, Tate 9-37, Casey 1-0, Yates 1-(minus 2).
PASSING–Cincinnati, Dalton 27-42-3-257. Houston, Yates 11-20-0-159.
RECEIVING–Cincinnati, Leonard 6-36, Green 5-47, Gresham 5-46, Simpson 3-33, Scott 3-29, Whalen 2-24, Lee 1-36, Hawkins 1-8, Benson 1-(minus 2). Houston, A.Johnson 5-90, Foster 3-29, Daniels 2-29, Walter 1-11.
MISSED FIELD GOALS–Cincinnati, Nugent 50 (WR).
Saints 45, Lions 28Detroit 7 7 7 7—28New Orleans 0 10 14 21—45
First QuarterDet–Heller 10 pass from Stafford
(Hanson kick), 10:58.Second Quarter
NO–Sproles 2 run (Kasay kick), 14:01.
Det–Johnson 13 pass from Stafford (Hanson kick), 9:11.
NO–FG Kasay 24, :00.Third Quarter
NO–Henderson 41 pass from Brees (Kasay kick), 13:09.
NO–Graham 3 pass from Brees (Ka-say kick), 4:03.
Det–Stafford 1 run (Hanson kick), 1:08.
Fourth QuarterNO–Sproles 17 run (Kasay kick),
9:53.NO–Meachem 56 pass from Brees
(Kasay kick), 7:29.Det–Johnson 12 pass from Stafford
(Hanson kick), 4:40.NO–P.Thomas 1 run (Kasay kick),
3:36.A–73,038.
––– Det NOFirst downs 22 34Total Net Yards 412 626Rushes-yards 10-32 36-167Passing 380 459Punt Returns 0-0 2-4Kickoff Returns 2-41 2-54Interceptions Ret. 0-0 2-17Comp-Att-Int 28-43-2 33-43-0Sacked-Yards Lost 0-0 2-7Punts 3-42.3 0-0.0Fumbles-Lost 0-0 2-2Penalties-Yards 7-64 3-18Time of Possession 22:24 37:36
–––INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS
RUSHING–Detroit, K.Smith 6-21, T.Young 1-8, Burleson 1-2, Stafford 2-1. New Orleans, P.Thomas 8-66, Sp-roles 10-51, Ivory 13-47, Henderson 1-4, Brees 4-(minus 1).
PASSING–Detroit, Stafford 28-43-2-380. New Orleans, Brees 33-43-0-466.
RECEIVING–Detroit, Johnson 12-211, Burleson 4-50, Pettigrew 4-49, T.Young 4-33, K.Smith 2-20, Heller 1-10, Scheffl er 1-7. New Or-leans, Colston 7-120, Graham 7-55, P.Thomas 6-55, Meachem 4-111, Sp-roles 4-34, Henderson 2-64, Collins 2-20, Arrington 1-7.
MISSED FIELD GOALS–None.
NBA standingsEASTERN CONFERENCE
Atlantic Division W L Pct GBPhiladelphia 5 2 .714 —New York 4 4 .500 1½Boston 4 4 .500 1½Toronto 3 5 .375 2½New Jersey 2 7 .222 4
Southeast Division W L Pct GBMiami 8 1 .889 —Atlanta 6 3 .667 2Orlando 5 3 .625 2½Charlotte 2 6 .250 5½Washington 0 7 .000 7
Central Division W L Pct GBChicago 7 2 .778 —Indiana 6 2 .750 ½Cleveland 4 3 .571 2Milwaukee 2 4 .333 3½Detroit 2 6 .250 4½
WESTERN CONFERENCESouthwest Division
W L Pct GBSan Antonio 5 2 .714 —Memphis 3 4 .429 2Dallas 3 5 .375 2½New Orleans 2 5 .286 3Houston 2 6 .250 3½
Northwest Division W L Pct GBOklahoma City 7 2 .778 —Denver 6 2 .750 ½Portland 5 2 .714 1Utah 4 3 .571 2Minnesota 2 5 .286 4
Pacifi c Division W L Pct GBL.A. Clippers 3 2 .600 —L.A. Lakers 5 4 .556 —Phoenix 3 4 .429 1Sacramento 3 5 .375 1½Golden State 2 5 .286 2
–––Friday’s Games
Atlanta 102, Charlotte 96, OTNew Jersey 97, Toronto 85New York 99, Washington 96Philadelphia 96, Detroit 73Indiana 87, Boston 74Oklahoma City 109, Houston 94Denver 96, New Orleans 88Cleveland 98, Minnesota 87Chicago 97, Orlando 83Utah 94, Memphis 85L.A. Lakers 97, Golden State 90Phoenix 102, Portland 77
Saturday’s GamesAtlanta 109, Chicago 94Indiana 99, Charlotte 77Miami 101, New Jersey 90New York 103, Detroit 80Oklahoma City 98, Houston 95Philadelphia 97, Toronto 62Denver at San Antonio, (n)New Orleans at Dallas, (n)Utah at Golden State, (n)Milwaukee at L.A. Clippers, (n)
Sunday’s GamesMinnesota at Washington, NoonOrlando at Sacramento, 5 p.m.San Antonio at Oklahoma City, 6 p.m.Milwaukee at Phoenix, 7 p.m.Cleveland at Portland, 8 p.m.Memphis at L.A. Lakers, 8:30 p.m.
Monday’s GamesMinnesota at Toronto, 6 p.m.Indiana at Philadelphia, 6 p.m.Atlanta at New Jersey, 6:30 p.m.Charlotte at New York, 6:30 p.m.Detroit at Chicago, 7 p.m.New Orleans at Denver, 8 p.m.
NHL standingsEASTERN CONFERENCE
Atlantic Division GP W L OT Pts GF GAN.Y. Rangers 39 26 9 4 56 116 82Philadelphia 39 24 11 4 52 133 115New Jersey 41 23 16 2 48 114 117Pittsburgh 40 21 15 4 46 123 106N.Y. Islanders 39 14 19 6 34 91 125
Northeast Division GP W L OT Pts GF GABoston 38 26 11 1 53 141 73Ottawa 42 21 15 6 48 129 139Toronto 41 21 15 5 47 133 131Buffalo 41 18 18 5 41 107 121Montreal 41 16 18 7 39 109 114
Southeast Division GP W L OT Pts GF GAFlorida 41 20 13 8 48 107 115Winnipeg 41 20 16 5 45 109 119Washington 38 21 15 2 44 114 110Tampa Bay 40 17 20 3 37 109 136Carolina 43 14 22 7 35 112 146
WESTERN CONFERENCECentral Division
GP W L OT Pts GF GASt. Louis 41 24 12 5 53 107 89Chicago 41 24 13 4 52 132 120Detroit 40 25 14 1 51 131 92Nashville 41 22 15 4 48 111 114Columbus 40 11 24 5 27 95 130Northwest Division GP W L OT Pts GF GAVancouver 42 26 13 3 55 138 102Minnesota 41 21 14 6 48 95 98Colorado 43 23 19 1 47 114 120Calgary 42 18 19 5 41 100 123Edmonton 41 16 22 3 35 111 119
Pacifi c Division GP W L OT Pts GF GASan Jose 37 22 11 4 48 107 87Dallas 40 23 16 1 47 112 114Los Angeles 42 20 15 7 47 88 93Phoenix 42 20 17 5 45 108 109Anaheim 39 11 22 6 28 92 129
NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss.
Friday’s GamesNew Jersey 5, Florida 2N.Y. Rangers 3, Pittsburgh 1Carolina 4, Buffalo 2Colorado 4, Chicago 0Anaheim 4, N.Y. Islanders 2
Saturday’s GamesVancouver 4, Boston 3Philadelphia 3, Ottawa 2, OTDallas 4, Edmonton 1Columbus 1, Los Angeles 0Winnipeg 2, Buffalo 1, OTToronto 4, Detroit 3Montreal 3, Tampa Bay 1New Jersey 3, Pittsburgh 1St. Louis 4, Colorado 0Nashville 5, Carolina 2Phoenix 5, N.Y. Islanders 1Minnesota at Calgary, (n)Washington at San Jose, (n)
Sunday’s GamesPhiladelphia at Ottawa, 4 p.m.Detroit at Chicago, 6:30 p.m.Columbus at Anaheim, 7 p.m.
Monday’s GamesVancouver at Florida, 6:30 p.m.Washington at Los Angeles, 9:30 p.m.
Sunday’s scheduleSchedule subject to change and/or
blackouts.Sunday, Jan. 8COLLEGE FOOTBALL
8 p.m. (ESPN) — GoDaddy.com Bowl, Arkansas St. vs. N. Illinois, at Mobile, Ala.
GOLF8 a.m. (TGC) — European PGA Tour,
Africa Open, fi nal round, at East Lon-don, South Africa (same-day tape)
4:30 p.m. (TGC) — PGA Tour, Tour-nament of Champions, third round, at Kapalua, Hawaii
MEN’S COLLEGE BASKETBALL
12:30 p.m. (CBS) — Wisconsin at Michigan
3:30 p.m. (FSN )— Arizona at South-ern Cal
5:30 p.m. (FSN)— California at Or-egon
NFLNoon (FOX) — NFC Atlanta at N.Y.
Giants3:30 p.m. (CBS)— AFC Pittsburgh
at DenverNHL
6:30 p.m. (NBCSP) — Detroit at Chicago
RODEO1:30 p.m. (NBC) — PBR, Madison
Square Garden Invitational, at New York (same-day tape)
WOMEN’S COLLEGE BASKETBALLNoon (FSN) — Memphis at UTEP2 p.m. (FSN) — Oklahoma at Texas
A&MEds: VERSUS is now NBC Sports
Network, refl ected here as “NBCSP”
TransactionsHOCKEY
National Hockey LeagueCAROLINA HURRICANES_Reassigned F Dray-
son Bowman to Charlotte (AHL).ECHL
ECHL_Suspended Chicago’s Chaz Johnson one game and fi ned him an undisclosed amount as a result of his actions in a Jan. 6 game against Chicago.
SOCCERMajor League Soccer
MONTREAL IMPACT_Named Denis Hamlett assistant coach and Nicolas Gagnon assistant coach for the U21 team and technical assistant of the Impact soccer schools.
COLLEGENORTH CAROLINA_Announced the NCAA
granted FB Devon Ramsay a hardship waiver, giv-ing him an extra year of eligibility in 2012.
Saturday’s men’s scoresEAST
American U. 82, Colgate 54Bryant 59, St. Francis (Pa.) 56Bucknell 75, Army 59Buffalo 66, Kent St. 65CCSU 68, Robert Morris 53Charlotte 57, Saint Joseph’s 52Cornell 78, Albright 60Dayton 87, Temple 77Duquesne 66, St. Bonaventure 52Harvard 63, Dartmouth 47Holy Cross 84, Lehigh 78LIU 79, Quinnipiac 75Lafayette 65, Navy 63Loyola (Md.) 77, Canisius 62Maine 89, UMBC 70Mount St. Mary’s 66, Fairleigh Dickinson 45Richmond 70, Rhode Island 53Rutgers 67, UConn 60Seton Hall 66, Providence 57St. Francis (NY) 99, Sacred Heart 84Syracuse 73, Marquette 66Wagner 89, Monmouth (NJ) 79West Virginia 74, Georgetown 62Xavier 67, Fordham 59
SOUTHAlabama 74, Georgia 59Alabama A&M 65, Ark.-Pine Bluff 62Alcorn St. 63, Jackson St. 60Bethune-Cookman 59, NC A&T 56Campbell 77, Presbyterian 65Chattanooga 65, Appalachian St. 63Clemson 79, Florida St. 59Coastal Carolina 80, Charleston Southern
77, OTColl. of Charleston 66, Furman 43Davidson 96, Georgia Southern 74Delaware 75, William & Mary 64Denver 67, South Alabama 50Duke 81, Georgia Tech 74E. Kentucky 63, SE Missouri 59ETSU 76, Mercer 61Florida A&M 62, NC Central 60Gardner-Webb 65, High Point 61, OTGeorge Mason 61, Georgia St. 58Hampton 57, Howard 55Jacksonville St. 72, Tennessee St. 65Kentucky 79, South Carolina 64LSU 81, Mississippi 55Longwood 85, NJIT 70Louisiana-Monroe 54, FIU 50MVSU 67, Alabama St. 60Middle Tennessee 65, Louisiana-Lafayette 53Morgan St. 73, SC State 68Murray St. 87, Austin Peay 75
New Mexico St. 83, Louisiana Tech 73Norfolk St. 78, Md.-Eastern Shore 72North Carolina 83, Boston College 60North Florida 88, Florida Gulf Coast 81, OTNortheastern 68, James Madison 56Northwestern St. 83, Texas St. 68Notre Dame 67, Louisville 65, 2OTOld Dominion 75, Towson 38SC-Upstate 68, Kennesaw St. 53SIU-Edwardsville 69, UT-Martin 65Savannah St. 72, Coppin St. 60Southern Miss. 71, Tulane 66, OTSouthern U. 72, Grambling St. 59Stetson 73, Jacksonville 61Tennessee 67, Florida 56Tennessee Tech 66, Morehead St. 55The Citadel 73, Samford 62Troy 67, W. Kentucky 65UCF 81, East Carolina 63UNC Asheville 98, Liberty 75UNC Wilmington 86, Hofstra 80Vanderbilt 65, Auburn 35Virginia 52, Miami 51W. Carolina 67, Wofford 57Wake Forest 58, Virginia Tech 55Winthrop 91, VMI 84
MIDWESTAkron 65, Miami (Ohio) 60Ball St. 78, W. Michigan 69Bowling Green 67, Ohio 57Cent. Michigan 85, Toledo 69Cleveland St. 69, Loyola of Chicago 48Creighton 92, Bradley 83E. Michigan 47, N. Illinois 40Illinois 59, Nebraska 54Illinois St. 75, Evansville 73Kansas St. 75, Missouri 59Milwaukee 64, Green Bay 63Missouri St. 69, Indiana St. 63N. Iowa 83, Drake 68Oakland 93, IUPUI 81Ohio St. 76, Iowa 47Saint Louis 78, George Washington 56South Dakota 76, UMKC 57St. John’s 57, Cincinnati 55W. Illinois 75, IPFW 65Wichita St. 83, S. Illinois 73Youngstown St. 71, Ill.-Chicago 50
SOUTHWESTArkansas St. 75, North Texas 72Baylor 73, Texas Tech 60E. Illinois 74, Houston Baptist 62Iowa St. 74, Texas A&M 50Kansas 72, Oklahoma 61Lamar 103, Cent. Arkansas 67Marshall 63, Rice 61McNeese St. 71, Texas A&M-CC 69Oral Roberts 97, S. Dakota St. 75SMU 57, Tulsa 55Stephen F. Austin 63, SE Louisiana 36Texas 58, Oklahoma St. 49Texas Southern 84, Prairie View 49Texas-Arlington 85, Nicholls St. 55UALR 40, FAU 38UTEP 70, Houston 50
FAR WESTBYU 81, San Francisco 56Colorado 71, Washington St. 60Colorado St. 87, Nebraska-Omaha 63Gonzaga 82, Santa Clara 60Idaho 63, Fresno St. 59Loyola Marymount 79, San Diego 68Montana 68, Idaho St. 44New Mexico 85, North Dakota 57Portland 53, Pepperdine 43Washington 57, Utah 53
FBS Bowl GlanceFriday
Cotton BowlAt Arlington, TexasArkansas 29, Kansas State 16
SaturdayBBVA Compass Bowl
At Birmingham, Ala.SMU 28, Pittsburgh 6
SundayGoDaddy.com Bowl
At Mobile, Ala.Arkansas State (10-2) vs. Northern Illinois
(10-3), 8 p.m. (ESPN)Monday, Jan. 9
BCS National ChampionshipAt New OrleansLSU (13-0) vs. Alabama (11-1), 7:30 p.m.
(ESPN)Saturday, Jan. 21
East-West Shrine ClassicAt St. Petersburg, Fla.East vs. West, 3 p.m., (NFLN)
Saturday, Jan. 28Senior Bowl
At Mobile, Ala.North vs. South, 3 p.m. (NFLN)
Saturday, Feb. 5Texas vs. NationAt San AntonioTexas vs. Nation, 1 p.m. (CBSSN)
MISC.
HOCKEY
TELEVISION
PROFOOTBALL
COLLEGEFOOTBALL
PROBASKETBALL
COLLEGEBASKETBALL
win despite missing 13 of 22 shots from the charity stripe.
Corinth fi nished 20-of-64 overall and 4-of-13 from dis-tance with Johnson and Green netting two each. Smith and Fra-zier combined for 19 of the Lady Warriors’ 41 rebounds, with Smith recording a double-double with 10 boards.
Central was 11-of-41 from the fl oor and missed on its only two three-point attempts. The Lady Bears won the rebounding battle with 43.
Twenty-two of Central’s 36 turnovers were the result of Corinth steals.
Green and Johnson joined Frazier on the All-Tournament team, while Foster represented the runners-up. Kossuth’s Anna-leigh Coleman and Biggersville’s Tyler Shelley rounded out the annual team.
BOYS: Sorrell gave CHS the big lead
WARRIORS: MVP held scoreless
CONTINUED FROM 8A
(G) Amory 2, Corinth 1
@ AmoryGoals: (C) Frances BullardAssists: (C) Olivia Suitor.Record: 9-6
(B) Corinth 2, Amory 1
Goals: (C) Albert Stanley, Deigo Alonzo.Assists: (C) Matt Windham. Graves
Marshall.Saves: (C) Cullen Grantham 14.Record: Corinth 12-1-2
Friday (G) Corinth 2, North Pontotoc 1
@ EcruGoals: (C) Frances Bullard, Olivia Suitor.Assists: (C) Stennett Smith, Brianna
Scobey.Saves: Madison Bickert 5.Record: 4-0 Division 1-4A
(B) Corinth 7, North Pontotoc 0
Goals: (C) Bryant Carlton 2, John Mi-chael McFall, Deigo Alonzo, Ben Malone, Matt Windham, Albert Stanley.
Assists: (C) Stanley 3, McFall, Josh Trest, Graves Marshall
Saves: (C) Cullen Grantham 5Record: 4-0 Division 1-4A
13-9.One of the senior’s six assists
-- this one to Raheem Sorrell -- gave CHS a double-digit lead late in the fi rst. He capped a 13-point half with a one-on-one drive to the bucket in the closing seconds and tacked on a free throw after being hacked in the act.
Corinth was able to outscore the Lions 17-8 thanks in part to just one turnover. The Warriors had four miscues in the fi rst two min-utes and seven after the fi rst quar-ter. Five points by Dexter Stafford held the Lions (13-5) cut it back to a 10-point game -- 40-30 -- after three periods. Eric Richardson, the team’s leading scorer on the season, got fi ve of his seven points in the fi -nal period to keep the Lions at bay.
Biggersville couldn’t buy a bucket in the fi nal period. The Lions missed their fi rst 13 shots and didn’t score from the fl oor until Darian Barnett’s effort in the lane with 1:43 remaining. Weeks led all scorers with 17 points and recorded a double-double with an even 10 rebounds.
Corinth fi nished 20-of-48 over-all and just 1-of-5 from distance. The Warriors had 35 rebounds to go along with 16 turnovers.
Biggersville was just 17-of-51 from the fl oor and 1-of-7 from three-point range. The Lions got 32 rebounds and turned the ball over 16 times -- none in the fi nal quarter.
Richardson joined Weeks on the All-Tournament team, while Stafford and Tevin Watson repre-sented the Lions. Kossuth’s Heath Wood and Alcorn Central’s Trae Bain rounded out the unit.
Prep Soccer
CONTINUED FROM 8A
2005, the fi rst time the event was staged at the Crossroads Arena. They had reached the championship round the pre-vious two tournaments, but lost to Kossuth each time.
Saturday’s contest also marked the fi rst time in the eight events at the Arena that a No. 4 seed has left with the trophy.
Corinth turned it on in the second quarter after a MaKayla Voyles putback gave Central an 8-7 lead after eight minutes. The Lady Warriors outscored the Lady Bears 20-3 in the frame and took a 16-point lead at recess.
The Lady Warriors limited AC to a 1-of-11 showing from the fl oor over the eight-min-ute stanza and turned the ball over just once.
“We were playing smart on offense and aggressive on de-fense,” said Barr.
Central, seeking its 21st ti-tle, went the fi rst 6:20 of the decisive quarter without a fi eld goal. Katie Foster, who
led all scorers with 15 points, ended an overall drought of 6:23 with a stickback, but that only cut the defi cit to 13.
Corinth scored the fi rst 15 points of the frame, holding Central scoreless until a Sa-mantha Driver free throw at the 2:35 mark.
The Lady Warriors did their damage from the out-side — three-point rips by Sa-die Johnson and Audrianna Green — and the inside, four buckets by post players Erin Frazier and Stennett Smith.
“We did a good job inside and outside the paint,” said Barr.
Central made up one point in the third, in part by hold-ing Frazier — the tournament MVP — scoreless. Corinth closed the game on a 14-8 advantage and claimed a
21-point win despite missing 13 of 22 shots from the char-ity stripe.
Corinth fi nished 20-of-64 overall and 4-of-13 from dis-tance with Johnson and Green netting two each. Smith and Frazier combined for 19 of the Lady Warriors’ 41 rebounds, with Smith recording a dou-ble-double with 10 boards.
Central was 11-of-41 from the fl oor and missed on its only two three-point at-tempts. The Lady Bears won the rebounding battle with 43.
Twenty-two of Central’s 36 turnovers were the result of Corinth steals.
Green and Johnson joined Frazier on the All-Tourna-ment team, while Foster represented the runners-up. Kossuth’s Annaleigh Coleman
and Biggersville’s Tyler Shel-ley rounded out the annual team.
(G) Corinth 53, Central 32
Corinth 7 20 12 14 — 53Central 8 3 13 8 — 32 CORINTH (53): Erin Frazier 14, Sa-
die Johnson 12, Audrianna Green 12, Stennett Smith 10, Teosha Boyd 3, Jaynesia Johnson 2.
ALCORN CENTRAL (32): Katie Fos-ter 15, MaKayla Voyles 6, Alexis Har-mon 4, Haley Barnes 3, Amber Mer-edith 2, Samantha Driver 2
3-pointers: (C) Johnson 2, Green 2. (AC) None.
Records: Corinth 6-10, Central 12-6
(JV-G) Kossuth 50, Corinth 19
Corinth 3 7 6 3 — 19Kossuth 12 15 7 16 — 50 CORINTH (19): Tamia Clark 7, Teo-
sha Boyd 5, Jamia Kirk 3, Imani Payne 2, Aspen Stricklen 2.
KOSSUTH (50): Lacy Essary 14, Parrish Tice 8, Ryleigh Follin 7, Blythe Bullard 6, Kaylee Switcher 4, Shelbi Barnes 3, Bailey Mitchell 3, Alison Green 3, Cheyenne Daniel 2.
3-pointers: (C) None. (K) Green, Barnes, Follin.
CONTINUED FROM 8A
GIRLS: ‘We did a good job inside and outside the paint,’ said head coach Barr
“We were playing smart on offense and aggressive on defense.”
Patricia BarrFifth-year Warriors head coach
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(This information was obtained in part from an article published in The Tishomingo Coun-ty News of Iuka, dated Jan. 31, 1985. This is Part 1 of a two-part se-ries.)
“How are you, Mrs. Cummings?” was the re-petitive phrase that was heard when Mrs. Mabel Robinson Cummings, of the Walker Switch Com-munity, was seen by the people in the country who knew and loved her. This petite woman was loved because of her be-nevolent mannerisms and her heart of pure gold. Her optimistic out-look allowed her to see only the best in every-one.
On November 10, 1897, Mabel Clara Rob-inson was born in to a family that later reached 12 children. She was the sixth child born to her
p a r e n t s , W i l l i a m “ W i l l ” and Mary Whitehu-rst Robin-son. Ma-bel was born at the home place of her grand-p a r e n t s ,
Richard “Dick” and Nancy Barnes Robinson, near the old Hebron Church, and lived there with her family until she was 6 years old.
Mabel remembered hearing her grandpa, Dick, talk about his ad-ventures when he served in the Confederate Cav-alry under General For-rest in the Civil War. He told about sneaking through Union lines when they were patrol-ling the Southern Rail-road when he was in the
area so he could check on his family. He knew the area so well that he was able to do it without getting caught.
While Mabel lived at her grandparent’s farm, there was always some-thing going on since her family ran a saw mill, a grist mill, a cotton gin, and eventually a country store.
When Mabel was 6, her father moved the family to Burnsville, where Mabel started school. While his fam-ily lived at Burnsville, he began to work on the 360 acres that he had purchased at Walker Switch. After numer-ous days of ditching and clearing, Will moved them to a log cabin in the Walker Switch com-munity. Mabel celebrat-ed her eighth birthday in the log house, and her brother, Bill, was
born there as well. Dur-ing this time, her father was also building a new house, and in the middle of winter, he decided it was time for them to move into it, although it was not quite fi nished. Mabel remembered hanging quilts over the doors to keep out the cold.
Her father also raised a lot of horses along with other stock. Mabel remembered that he had big fi ne teams he worked with. He had wagons, and there was also a surry in which to ride to church. Mabel stated that she wore a duster that was placed over her good clothes, similar to a light coat, and it kept the dust and dirt off of her clothes until arriving at the designated location.
Mabel’s father also raised cotton, corn, pea-nuts, sorghum, and al-
most everything else the family ate. Along with farming, he also opened a saw mill with the help of Nixon Haines. The woods were so dense at that time in the Walker Switch area that even at noon on a summer day it appeared to be late af-ternoon.
Mabel’s father and Mr. Haines built rails that went a long way back into the woods and used “dummy cars” to carry the timber out. They also had short sturdy wagons, called durgens, which were pulled by oxen. Oxen handled the terrain better than hors-es. Mabel’s father always employed two or three men who helped on the farm and at the saw mill, and among other things, their pay included room, board, and their laun-dry done by Mabel, her mother, and sisters.
After Mabel fi nished the eighth grade at Walk-er Switch School, she went to Iuka to live with her uncle and his wife, Dr. and Mrs. Whitehu-rst. There she attended the Iuka School to fur-ther her education. At this time, the fi rst world war was in progress, and there was a great need for school teachers, so Mabel took her teacher’s exam. The test took two days to complete, and it covered 16 subject areas. The Superintendent of Education at that time was N. L. Phillips, and he was the one who is-sued a teacher’s certifi -cate to her.
(RaNae Vaughn is board member and in charge of marketing and publications for the Tishomingo County Historical & Genealogi-cal Society, P.O. Box 203, Iuka, MS 38852.)
Featuring Mrs. Mabel Robinson Cummings . . .
Some of you have probably read stories or watched an outdoor show telling how to hunt for late season bucks.
The story or host of the show, whichever it may be, always tells how crucial it is to hunt near a good food source since bucks will be on their feet for longer periods looking for some chow in order to regain their strength from the long and grueling mating season.
It is true.You do need to hunt
in an area that offers a concentrated high en-ergy producing food source, but not neces-sarily for the same rea-son you heard or read from informative maga-zines and shows.
Heightened rutting
a c t i v i t y begins in this area and the l o w e r southeast-ern U.S. in mid-December and con-t i n u e s t h r o u g h
all of January and, in some places and in-stances, into February. Doe deer have to eat, too. Locate where the girls are dinning and you can count on the ole’ boys to be hang-ing around somewhere close ready to bus their table.
The all day buffet deer frequently like to visit at this time of year can consist of many food types. It could be a
honey-suckle patch in a sparse pine thicket, a new clear-cut, an oak ridge that produced an abnormal amount of acorns, or the lush green food plot you planted back in early fall. Food plots are always a good bet for seeing deer in the latter part of the season.
Once an area is found where deer are passing through to fi ll their bel-lies, the hunt is as simple as it gets. Simply set up between the food source and the nearest bedding cover. If it appears the deer are bedding too close to the feeding area to risk hanging a stand, take a ground position that best conceals your silhouette.
Many hunters these days are catering food to the deer themselves,
whether it be of legal means or not. If you suspect someone is us-ing a feeder or putting out feed on an adjoining property, this can work to your advantage if the person is hunting too close to the feed, you have an idea of where they’re hunting and how the deer travel from their property to yours once pressured.
When the person goes to his stand for a morn-ing hunt, there’s a good chance he’ll push the deer right toward your position if you’ve made the correct assessment and set-up.
I ought to know. I took three eight-pointers out of the same stand last year that were being corn fed. And trust me, I wasn’t the one doing
the feeding.In this area, the hunt
for late season bucks is not much different than a mid to late December hunt. Locate a plenti-ful high protein food source and you’ll fi nd the females. Find the fe-males and the bucks will be close by with some-thing else on their mind other than food.
However, there is one big difference. The buck you encounter now will likely be the biggest, smartest, most ultra-wary deer left in the woods since dominant bucks are the primary breeders during the sec-ondary rut.
But, of course, if you’ve already done your damage in the deer woods and thoughts of fi shing are swirling in
your brain, maybe you should consider trying the crappie on Pickwick Lake.
Over the past month or so, anglers have been pulling some real good catches of crappies from the deep waters of Yel-low Creek.
Just imagine how a batch of fresh golden brown fi llets deep fried to perfection would taste right about now.
(Alcorn County resi-dent David Green is an avid hunter and fi sher-man in the Crossroads area. His column ap-pears Sunday. Anyone wishing to share their own unique outdoor story or have any news to report pertaining to the outdoors, David can be contacted at [email protected].)
The hunting game for late-season bucks
RaNae VaughnHistorically
Speaking
David GreenOutdoors
Daily Corinthian • Sunday, January 8, 2012 • 11A
Culinary Food MonthAlcorn County Welcome
Center, 2028 South Tate Street, Corinth is observ-ing Culinary Food Month for January. Visitors to the center can go by and pick up recipe cards, sweet potato recipe brochures, valuable restaurant cou-pons (while supplies last), menus, the new “eat.drink.Mississippi” magazine with lots of wonderful recipes and other information. The focus of this month’s dis-play is to help promote the unique assets that Corinth and the entire state has to offer.
The Welcome Center will also be doing random giveaways throughout the month to out of state and/or local travelers who come in and sign in on their daily visitor register on numbered lines. The giveaways for the month of January are “Find your True South” aprons, com-pliments of the Mississippi Development Authority-Tourism Division and the Alcorn County Welcome Center.
Genealogical societyThe Alcorn County Gene-
alogical Society is located at the Northeast Missis-sippi Business Incubator System on 1828 Proper Street in Corinth. Operat-ing hours are Tuesday and Wednesday, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.; and Thursday, Friday and Saturday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. The Genealogical Society is also open other days and times by advance appointment.
Directions and a map to the new location can be obtained from the ACGS website at http://www.av-sia.com/acgs.
Living WillThe Magnolia Regional
Health Center’s Patient Advocate’s Office offers free forms and assistance for those wishing to ex-press their medical wishes through a living will or ad-
vanced directive.Anyone interested in
learning more should call 293-1117.
Mentally disabled socialization
Region IV Mental Health/Mental Retarda-tion Commission offers a program that serves indi-viduals, 50 years of age or older, who are in need of socialization activities. This program offers training in use of leisure time, struc-tured assistance in daily life activities, individual and group therapy, weekly field trips, and meals. Transportation is provided.
Interested individuals should contact Sheila Bak-er at 662-286-5868.
Magnolia DulcimerMagnolia Dulcimer meet-
ings are 6 p.m. the first and third Mondays at First Presbyterian Church, 919 Shiloh Rd., Corinth. Visitors are always welcome.
For more information, contact Jan Pike, 665-1871.
Caregiver supportThe Alzheimer’s Care-
giver Support Group in Corinth is partnered with the Alzheimer’s Associa-tion Mississippi Chapter. Keri Roaten is the facilita-tor. The group meets every first Thursday of each month at the Corinth Public Library, from 6-7 p.m.
The group discusses the hardships of those caring for people effected by the disease and offer several different resources as well. For more information, contact [email protected] or 662-594-5526.
Medicare helpThe Northeast Missis-
sippi Planning & Develop-ment District of Booneville can help with qualifications for extra help through So-cial Security for Medicare prescriptions. Call SHIP (State Health Insurance Assistance Program) at
1-800-948-3090.
New business ownersThe MSBDC Busi-
ness Assistance Center @ Northeast Commu-nity College-Booneville address is MSBDC Busi-ness Assistance Center @ Northeast Community College-Corinth, 2759 S. Harper Road, Corinth. The telephone number is 662-696-2311. Office hours are Wednesdays and Thursdays, 8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Marines helping Marines
“The Few and the Proud — Marines Helping Ma-rines” — a United States Marine Corps League is a visitation program for senior inactive Marines. When a senior inactive Ma-rine is housebound or in a nursing home or hospice, the Corinth detachment will visit fellow Marines — because once a Marine always a Marine.
For more information, call 662-287-3233.
Support groups■ A support group for the
blind and vision impaired will meet the first Satur-day of each month from 10-11:30 a.m. at the Tate Baptist Church fellowship hall, 1201 N. Harper Rd., Corinth. There will be no cost to attend.
Contact Patsy at the church office at 286-2935 for more information.
■ The “Good Grief” ministry is for those who have recently lost a loved one, or are caring for those in the final chapter(s) of their life. This ministry of support, consolation and moving forward is open to all in the community. For more information please call 662-587-9602.
Hopewell United Meth-odist Church is located at 4572 CR 200 (Old Farm-ington Road), Corinth.
■ Magnolia Regional Health Center’s Respira-
tory Therapy Department has a support program for those with respiratory disease and their families. “Better Breathers” is a social gathering of people interested in understand-ing and living with chronic lung disease on a daily basis, including caretak-ers. Meetings are free. Area professionals speak on topics related to lung disease — medications, treatments, therapies, etc. Better Breathers allows participants to share expe-riences, learn about their disease, products and medical facts and issues that affect their quality of life.
MRHC is offering Better Breathers classes every 3rd Monday of the month from 1-2 p.m. at the Harper Road Complex. To reserve a space at the next Better Breathers meeting or for more information about the Better Breathers Club, call Candice Whitaker, RRT at 662-279-0801.
■ The Crossroads Group of Narcotics Anonymous meets Monday, Wednes-day and Friday at noon, and at 7 p.m., seven days a week, at 506 Cruise Street in Corinth. All meet-ings are non-smoking.
The Northeast Missis-sippi area of Narcotics Anonymous Hotline is 662-841-9998.
■ The Savannah 123 Group of Narcotics Anony-mous meets on Wednes-day from 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. and on Saturday from 5 p.m. to 6 p.m. at 589 N. Cherry St. in downtown Savannah, Tenn.
■ A sexual assault sup-port group meets in Tupelo on Wednesdays at 1 p.m. For more information and location of the group, please call 1-800-527-7233.
■ NAMI (National Alli-ance on Mental Illness) is sponsoring a monthly support group for adults experiencing a mental ill-ness. Meetings will be held
the first Monday of each month at 6 p.m. in Iuka at the public library.
The group will be led by trained mentors who are themselves experienced at living well with mental ill-ness. Please call the NAMI Mississippi office for more information at 1-800-357-0388.
■ Tishomingo County Families First Resource Center, located at Tishom-ingo County High School, has a Domestic Violence Support Group, open to women only. Call 423-7318 for date, time and location of this group meeting.
■ Chapter 8, a Northeast Mississippi Scoliosis sup-port group, provides infor-mation and understanding for parents, children and adults with the condition that causes the spine to curve abnormally.
For more information, contact Bonnie Buchanan at 662-369-6148 or [email protected].
■ “Blindness doesn’t know the meaning of dis-crimination. It can strike at any time or at any age. There are over 10,000 blind men, women and children throughout Missis-sippi.” For anyone, or their family member or a friend, who is visually impaired — or has recently lost vision — adjustments are often difficult. For help or for more information, call Elsa Barrantes-Bullard, member of the Board of Directors of the National Federation of the Blind of Mississippi at 662-286-8076 or 662-643-9589.
■ The Corinth Downtown Group AA meets Sundays and Tuesdays at 8 p.m. at the First Baptist Church, 501 N. Main Street, Corinth.
For more information for all area AA groups, please call 662-284-5623.
■ An Alcoholics Anony-mous meeting is being held in Iuka. Meetings are at the old car dealership building across from the
Tishomingo Power Com-pany in Iuka each Wednes-day at 7 p.m. and Friday at 7:30 p.m.
■ Operation Second Chance is a support group for those with loved ones incarcerated within the state of Mississippi. Meet-ings are held every third Tuesday of the month, 6 p.m., at Skyline Baptist Church, Hwy. 178, Tupelo.
For more information, contact 287-6652 or 287-8452.
■ The Autism Connec-tion, a family support and community awareness group, meets every second Thursday at 6:30 p.m. at the Mississippi State Extension Center located at 2200 Levee Road in Corinth.
All interested parents, families, care givers, advo-cates and public service providers are urged to at-tend.
For more information contact 662-287-8588.
■The Corinth Crossroads Multiple Sclerosis Support Group has its monthly meetings on the third Wednesday of each month at 11:30 a.m. at the Mis-sissippi State University Extension Service, 2200 Levee Rd., Corinth, (locat-ed behind the Crossroads Arena).
For more information, call Joy at 662-462-7325, or e-mail [email protected].
Thrift stores■ The Corinth Scottish
Rites Masonic Center Thrift Store is located at the corner of Childs and Fillmore streets (710 Fill-more) in Corinth, and will be open Thursdays, 9 a.m. - 12 p.m.; Fridays, 9 a.m. - 4 p.m. and Saturdays, 9 a.m. - 12 p.m. Profits will go toward diagnosing and teaching Dyslexia Therapy. Donations are being ac-cepted for immediate resale.
For more information, call 662-286-5434.
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NEW ORLEANS — A push to place levee breach sites from Hurricane Ka-trina on the National Reg-ister of Historic Places is cause for consternation at the federal agency that built the fl oodwalls that failed during the 2005 storm.
It’s a potentially sen-sitive issue for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, which has been asked to OK the effort. Nobody de-nies the resulting fl oods caused death, destruction and misery on a historic scale, but there’s concern over whether the applica-tion could infl uence ongo-ing court cases about the corps’ responsibility and liability in the fl oods.
“We would like to re-emphasize that the narra-tive needs to be carefully reviewed and edited to make sure that personal opinions and any contest-ed facts are really not pre-sented as fact,” Corps offi -cial Mike Swanda told the state review board during a December meeting, ac-cording to a transcript.
Also, corps spokes-man Ken Holder said, the agency wants to be sure the listing wouldn’t pro-hibit “any kind of future levee lift or anything that would protect the safety of the public.” One reason for including a property on the register is to make sure consideration of a property’s historic value is considered before it is de-molished or altered.
Mark Barnes, a consul-tant for the group seek-ing the historic designa-tion called Levees.Org, said there is no need to worry. Placement on the register wouldn’t preclude alterations necessary for public safety, he said in an interview. Moreover, federal agencies already are required to research and consider historic and archaeological effects of planned projects before they are undertaken — a costly endeavor that has already been undertaken by Levees.Org. “It’s going to save the corps a lot of money because they won’t have to go through this whole process,” Barnes said.
The fi nal decision rests with National Park Ser-vice, not the corps. But the corps, as the owner of one of the sites, gets to weigh in.
Levee breaches at nu-merous sites in and around New Orleans fl ooded 80 percent of New Orleans and also swamped suburban areas. Flood wa-ter lifted some houses off foundations, fl ooded oth-ers at or above roof lines. Close to 2,000 deaths were blamed on the storm, many due to drowning. Stories and pictures of the tens of thousands of peo-ple stranded in both the Morial Convention Center and the storm-damaged Louisiana Superdome — sweltering in late summer heat with no electricity and little food or water — dominated media for days.
Nomination for Katrina breach sites sparks debate
JACKSON — Cindy Hyde-Smith wants to em-phasize the “commerce” part of the Mississippi De-partment of Agriculture and Commerce.
The Brookhaven Re-publican, sworn in Thurs-day as the state’s fi rst female agriculture com-missioner, sees a chance to increase not only the quantity of food grown in Mississippi, but food pro-cessed in the state as well.
“There’s always a de-mand for safe, affordable food,” Hyde-Smith said.
In addition to using her offi ce as an economic de-velopment tool, she said she hopes to promote agritourism, make sure farmers have a voice in any state immigration legislation and improve revenue at the state fair-grounds.
Hyde-Smith is Missis-sippi’s fi rst female ag-riculture commissioner and one of two women in statewide offi ce, along with new Treasurer Lynn Fitch. But she downplays the gender difference, joking that the state’s gas pump inspection stickers will not be pink.
Hyde-Smith, 52, was fi rst elected to the state Senate in 2000 as a Dem-ocrat, and switched to the Republican Party in 2010. She served two terms as chairwoman of the Senate Agriculture Committee, and has a close relation-ship with the Mississippi Farm Bureau, the state’s top agriculture group.
She handily beat Demo-cratic Pickens Mayor Joel Gill and Reform Party candidate Cathy L. Toole of Biloxi in November’s election.
She succeeds Lester Spell, a four-term agricul-ture commissioner. The post pays $90,000 a year.
Hyde-Smith operates a
cattle farm and livestock auction in Brookhaven with her husband, Mike Smith. She says 25 percent of all jobs in Mississippi already are agriculture-related, and she believes the state can build on that strength by working to attract more food proces-sors. Mississippi already has more food processing employees per capita than all but one Southern state, according to the Missis-sippi Economic Council, although it has been los-ing those jobs in recent years.
“We have a work force out there who needs those jobs as well,” she said. “Why can’t they be here?”
The incoming commis-sioner wants to work with the Mississippi Develop-ment Authority to recruit industry.
“We will defi nitely be knocking on doors,” she said. “Let me show you what Mississippi has to offer.”
One part of her eco-nomic development plan is to do more to promote agritourism, farming op-erations that supplement their income by welcom-ing visitors.
“You can see the interest that city folks, city dwell-ers, have in agricultural production,” Hyde-Smith said. For example, she cited corn mazes, a dairy farm that lets guests help milk the cows, and farm tours for schoolchildren.
Some Mississippi law-makers are considering efforts to crack down on illegal immigration, an effort that could affect farmers, if last year’s ex-periences in Alabama and Georgia are repeated. In those two states, fruit and vegetable growers com-plained that much of their crop rotted in the fi elds for lack of skilled pickers.
“I think the producers need to be heard on this.
Everyone wants legal im-migration,” Hyde-Smith said. “But the process of verifi cation needs to be in tune with how farmers hire your help.”
Hyde-Smith said she supports a federal guest worker program, which would allow people to work legally in the United States on a temporary ba-sis. “Defi nitely, if that’s what it takes for the farm community to have their needs met.
Hyde-Smith said she’s looking into selling nam-ing rights to the Mississip-pi Coliseum, the aging are-na at the state fairgrounds in downtown Jackson. A 2009 report by the Legis-lature’s Joint Committee on Performance Evalu-ation and Expenditure Review suggested that, among other measures, as way to raise more money for the Mississippi State Fair Commission. Hyde-Smith will chair the com-mission, which relies on its own efforts for fund-ing, even as it acts as the public face of the Agricul-ture Department for thou-sands of visitors.
“A lot of people see the agency through the fair-ground,” she said.
But Hyde-Smith em-phasized that most Mis-sissippians interact with the department through its regulatory efforts, such as inspecting meat and produce or making sure gas pumps and scales give correct readings. She said that many are unaware of other functions such as investigating livestock, equipment and timber thefts, regulating pest-control. Hyde-Smith said that she aims to spend much of her early tenure shadowing the depart-ment’s employees.
“I want to ride with these employees,” she said, “getting to know their jobs.”
Hyde-Smith vows focus on jobs
BY JEFF AMYAssociated Press
BY KEVIN MCGILLAssociated Press
14A • Sunday, January 8, 2012 • Daily Corinthian
By Ken McIntoshSTAFF WRITER
The American Coin Buyers Guild will be placing ads
in newspapers and on the radio this week, asking
people to bring in any old silver and gold coins made
before 1970. Those that do bring in their coins will
be able to speak with specialists one-on-one and
have their coins looked at by a specialist. Offers will
be made based on silver or gold content, the rarity
of the coins, and key dates. All coins made before
1970 will be examined, including gold coins, silver
coins, nickels, pennies, proof sets and uncirculated
mint sets. Those that decide to sell their coins will be
paid on the spot.
If you are like a lot of people, you might have a
few old coins or even a coffee can full of them lying
around. If you have ever wondered what they are
worth, now might be your chance to find out and
even sell them if you choose. They could be worth
a lot according to the American Coin Buyers Guild,
also known as ACBG. Collectors will pay a fortune
for some coins and currency for their collections.
According to Mark Cooper, coin collector and ACBG
specialist, if they are rare enough, one coin could be
worth over $100,000. One ultra rare coin, an 1894
S Barber dime, sold for a record $1.9 million to a
collector in July of 2007. While that is an extreme
example, many rare and valuable coins are stashed
away in dresser drawers or lock boxes around the
country. The ACBG has organized a traveling event
in search of all types of coins and currency. Even
common coins can be worth a significant amount due
to the high price of silver and gold. Cooper explains
that, “even Washington quarters and Roosevelt dimes
are worth many times their face value. Recent silver
markets have driven the price up on even common
coins made of silver. All half dollars, quarters and
dimes made before 1965 contain 90% silver and are
sought after any time silver prices rise. Right now it’s
a seller’s market.”
The rarest coins these collectors are looking for
include $20, $10, $5 and $2.5 gold coins and any
coin made before 1850. These coins always bring
big premiums, according to the ACBG. Silver dollars
are also very sought after nowadays.
Other types of items the American Coin Buyers
Guild will be purchasing during this event include
U.S. paper currency, gold bullion, investment gold,
silver bars, silver rounds, etc. Even foreign coins are
collectible and will be purchased.
Also at this event, anyone can sell their gold jewelry, dental gold or anything made of gold on the spot. Gold is currently trading at near record highs and can bring in a good amount of money. Bring anything
you think might be gold and the ACBG specialists
will examine, test and price it for free. If you decide
to sell, you will be paid on the spot—it has been
an unknown fact that coin dealers have always paid
more for jewelry and scrap gold than other jewelers
and pawn brokers.
So whether you have one coin you think might be
valuable or a large collection you recently inherited,
you can talk to these specialists for free and if you’re
lucky, you may have a rarity worth thousands. Either
way, there is nothing to lose and it sounds like fun!
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