Vol. 118, No. 27 • Corinth, Mississippi • 22 pages • 2 sections Friday Jan. 31, 2014 50 cents Today 52 Mostly cloudy Tonight 45 Index On this day in history 150 years ago In Georgia, Gen. Johnston is worried about his number of cav- alry and asks Gen. Polk in Meridian to send as much as he can spare. Polk is worried about protecting the Alabama coal coun- try and asks Johnston to send as much cavalry as he can spare. Stocks...... 8A Classified...... 3B Comics...... 9A State...... 5A Weather.... 10A Obituaries...... 6A Opinion...... 4A Sports.... 12A 20% chance of rain WENASOGA — All Andrew Cummings could do was watch as his family’s home was de- stroyed by fire late Thursday morning. “I was in the bed and heard something,” said an emotional Cummings while the home burned to the ground. “I saw flames and couldn’t do any- thing.” Alcorn County 911 received a call about the blaze near the VFW Club on County Road 725 in the Wenasoga community of north Corinth around 10:40 p.m. Thursday. The home, owned by Cum- mings’ sister, Margaret Har- ris Cummings, had been in the family 98 years. “I can’t believe this happened, we’d lived here our entire lives,” said Andrew Cummings, who was at home along with his sis- ter and another family member when the fire started. Wenasoga Volunteer Fire De- partment and Biggersville Fire and Rescue were the first to re- spond to the scene. “The home was built in 1916,” said Ricky Gibens, Alcorn Blaze destroys Wenasoga home BY ZACK STEEN [email protected]Staff photo by Zack Steen A volunteer firefighter battles the blaze at a home in the Wenasoga community. Please see FIRE | 2A A local retail store is help- ing the community by putting shoes on the feet of the needy. Maurices, located in the Southgate Shopping Center, is holding the event to benefit the Lighthouse Foundation. Those who bring in a slight- ly used or new pair of shoes through Saturday will receive a coupon for 20 percent off any regular-priced item in the store. “While we participate in a number of maurices-spon- sored benefits throughout the year, we are especially proud when we have the opportuni- ty to support causes right here at home,” said store manager A.J. Gipson. The drive began Jan. 26 and customers can drop off dona- tions any time during store hours, according to assistant Store’s shoe drive helps Lighthouse BY STEVE BEAVERS [email protected]Black History Museum volunteer Freida Miller often sees more out-of- town visitors pass through the doors than she does Corinth residents. The museum hopes to see that change during Feb- ruary as the 1109 Meigg Street museum expands its days of operation for Black History Month. “We’re pleading for people to come in and see what we have to offer here at the Black History Mu- seum, because most of the people in our area have not taken advantage of the vast knowledge that’s in this building,” said Miller. “We are kind of disappointed that we have not reached that segment of society that needs to know our history and our heritage and pass on to their children what they need to know concern- ing our backgrounds.” The museum at the Webb house near Corinth Nation- al Cemetery will open on Thursday and Friday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. through- out the month. It will also host Marvin Jones on Sat- urday, Feb. 15, from 1 to 5 p.m. Jones will display and talk about a collection of postal first-day covers fea- turing prominent figures such as Booker T. Washing- ton, Ray Charles and Hattie McDaniel. A first-day cover is an envelope with the stamp canceled on the first day of issue and with a design on Black History Museum planning longer hours BY JEBB JOHNSTON [email protected]Staff photo by Steve Beavers Assistant manager Pam Colley adds a pair of shoes to the collection basket at maurices. The store is holding a shoe benefit for the Light- house Foundation through Saturday, Want to get up-close and personal with nature’s furry inhabitants? Does the prospect of com- muning with animals awaken something something deep within your soul? Well, you are in luck. Mississippi State Univer- sity College of Veterinary Medicine offers the chance to attend a free wildlife interac- tions lecture. Wildlife enthusiasts can learn about human-animal interactions from experi- enced wildlife veterinarian and guest speaker Dr. Mark Johnson of Global Wildlife Resources. The lecture is part of the college’s Human-Animal Bond Lecture Series and will be held on Feb. 6 from noon-1 p.m. in the Wise Center’s spa- cious auditorium. Johnson’s presentation, is entitled, “Care, honor, and re- spect for every animal: a per- spective on wildlife and feral animals.” It is supported by Wildlife Exotic Zoo Avian and Aquatic Medicine. Over the years, Johnson MSU to host free lecture on wildlife interactions BY KIMBERLY SHELTON [email protected]Proving hard work, cour- age, and determination pay off, Gary Johnson is moving on up. He was recently named as program di- rector for the Air Evac Life- team base in Corinth. Most re- cently, John- son served as the com- pany’s base clinical lead. He began his career with the Air Evac Life-team eight years ago. In 2010, Johnson was pre- sented with the company’s an- nual President’s Award. The honor is given to only one employee annualy and rec- ognizes those who have gone above and beyond the call of duty. It is presented at the Air Evac Life-team National Awards Banquet. “I like working for Air Evac because it’s truly the best com- pany I’ve ever worked for,”said Johnson. “This company cares about and for its employees.” A 2000 graduate of the Northeast Mississippi Commu- nity College nursing program, Johnson has worked as a nurse at Magnolia Regional Health Center. He and his wife, Kellie, have four children: Kalah Rogers, Brittany Davis, Hannah Beth Johnson and Taylor Johnson. They also have one grand- daughter, Sadye Rogers. Air Evac Life-team is an air medical service that provides rapid access to definitive health care for those who live in medi- cally underserved areas. Flight crews consist of a pilot, flight nurse and flight paramed- ic. Teams are on duty 24 hours a day, seven days a week to re- spond to the scene of an emer- gency, or provide transporta- tion between medical facilities. Air Evac Life-team currently operates 113 bases in 15 states. (For more information, please visit www.lifeteam.net, or like them on Facebook.) Johnson named new program director BY KIMBERLY SHELTON [email protected]Johnson Please see LECTURE | 3A Please see SHOES | 2 Please see MUSEUM | 3A Daily Corinthian Call for complete details and rates! 286.6006 BROSE HWY 72 E • Corinth MS www.brosenissan.com Now Renting 2013 Nissans!
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Index On this day in history 150 years agoIn Georgia, Gen. Johnston is worried about his number of cav-
alry and asks Gen. Polk in Meridian to send as much as he can spare. Polk is worried about protecting the Alabama coal coun-try and asks Johnston to send as much cavalry as he can spare.
WENASOGA — All Andrew Cummings could do was watch as his family’s home was de-stroyed by fi re late Thursday morning.
“I was in the bed and heard something,” said an emotional Cummings while the home burned to the ground. “I saw fl ames and couldn’t do any-thing.”
Alcorn County 911 received a call about the blaze near the VFW Club on County Road 725 in the Wenasoga community of north Corinth around 10:40 p.m. Thursday.
The home, owned by Cum-mings’ sister, Margaret Har-ris Cummings, had been in the family 98 years.
“I can’t believe this happened, we’d lived here our entire lives,” said Andrew Cummings, who was at home along with his sis-ter and another family member when the fi re started.
Wenasoga Volunteer Fire De-partment and Biggersville Fire and Rescue were the fi rst to re-spond to the scene.
“The home was built in 1916,” said Ricky Gibens, Alcorn
A volunteer firefighter battles the blaze at a home in the Wenasoga community.Please see FIRE | 2A
A local retail store is help-ing the community by putting shoes on the feet of the needy.
Maurices, located in the Southgate Shopping Center, is holding the event to benefi t the Lighthouse Foundation.
Those who bring in a slight-ly used or new pair of shoes through Saturday will receive a coupon for 20 percent off any regular-priced item in the store.
“While we participate in a number of maurices-spon-sored benefi ts throughout the year, we are especially proud when we have the opportuni-ty to support causes right here at home,” said store manager A.J. Gipson.
The drive began Jan. 26 and customers can drop off dona-tions any time during store hours, according to assistant
Store’s shoe drive helps LighthouseBY STEVE BEAVERS
Black History Museum volunteer Freida Miller often sees more out-of-town visitors pass through the doors than she does Corinth residents.
The museum hopes to see that change during Feb-ruary as the 1109 Meigg Street museum expands its days of operation for Black History Month.
“We’re pleading for people to come in and see what we have to offer here at the Black History Mu-seum, because most of the people in our area have not taken advantage of the vast knowledge that’s in this building,” said Miller. “We are kind of disappointed that we have not reached that segment of society that
needs to know our history and our heritage and pass on to their children what they need to know concern-ing our backgrounds.”
The museum at the Webb house near Corinth Nation-al Cemetery will open on Thursday and Friday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. through-out the month. It will also host Marvin Jones on Sat-urday, Feb. 15, from 1 to 5 p.m. Jones will display and talk about a collection of postal fi rst-day covers fea-turing prominent fi gures such as Booker T. Washing-ton, Ray Charles and Hattie McDaniel.
A fi rst-day cover is an envelope with the stamp canceled on the fi rst day of issue and with a design on
Assistant manager Pam Colley adds a pair of shoes to the collection basket at maurices. The store is holding a shoe benefit for the Light-house Foundation through Saturday,
Want to get up-close and personal with nature’s furry inhabitants?
Does the prospect of com-muning with animals awaken something something deep within your soul?
Well, you are in luck.Mississippi State Univer-
sity College of Veterinary Medicine offers the chance to attend a free wildlife interac-tions lecture.
Wildlife enthusiasts can learn about human-animal interactions from experi-enced wildlife veterinarian
and guest speaker Dr. Mark Johnson of Global Wildlife Resources.
The lecture is part of the college’s Human-Animal Bond Lecture Series and will be held on Feb. 6 from noon-1 p.m. in the Wise Center’s spa-cious auditorium.
Johnson’s presentation, is entitled, “Care, honor, and re-spect for every animal: a per-spective on wildlife and feral animals.” It is supported by Wildlife Exotic Zoo Avian and Aquatic Medicine.
Proving hard work, cour-age, and determination pay off, Gary Johnson is moving on up.
He was recently named as program di-rector for the Air Evac Life-team base in Corinth.
Most re-cently, John-son served as the com-pany’s base clinical lead.
He began his career
with the Air Evac Life-team eight years ago.
In 2010, Johnson was pre-
sented with the company’s an-nual President’s Award.
The honor is given to only one employee annualy and rec-ognizes those who have gone above and beyond the call of duty. It is presented at the Air Evac Life-team National Awards Banquet.
“I like working for Air Evac because it’s truly the best com-pany I’ve ever worked for,”said Johnson. “This company cares about and for its employees.”
A 2000 graduate of the Northeast Mississippi Commu-nity College nursing program, Johnson has worked as a nurse at Magnolia Regional Health Center.
He and his wife, Kellie, have four children: Kalah Rogers,
Brittany Davis, Hannah Beth Johnson and Taylor Johnson. They also have one grand-daughter, Sadye Rogers.
Air Evac Life-team is an air medical service that provides rapid access to defi nitive health care for those who live in medi-cally underserved areas.
Flight crews consist of a pilot, fl ight nurse and fl ight paramed-ic. Teams are on duty 24 hours a day, seven days a week to re-spond to the scene of an emer-gency, or provide transporta-tion between medical facilities.
Air Evac Life-team currently operates 113 bases in 15 states.
(For more information, please visit www.lifeteam.net, or like them on Facebook.)
County director of emer-gency services. “The wood used to build the home was very dry, so it burned quickly.”
Gibens said the cause of the fi re is unknown, how-ever the home owner be-lieved a space heater got moved too close to a chair in a bedroom.
“The home owner did receive some minor burns to her forehead when she went back into the home to retrieve some personal belongings,” Gibens add-ed. “EMS responded and she was not transported to the hospital.”
The fi re spread into nearby woods and jumped a ditch. Firefi ghters were able to save several sheds and two vehicles that were sitting near the home, ac-cording to Gibens.
Union Center Volun-teer Fire Department,
Kossuth Volunteer Fire Department and Farm-ington Volunteer Fire Department responded to the scene to assist.
The Tishomingo Forest-ry Department responded to the blaze as well.
Firefi ghters remained on the scene until around 2 p.m. and were called back around 4 p.m. when fl ames began to erupt again.
“The Cummings fam-ily had friends and fam-
ily from all over coming to check on them,” said Gibens.
The Red Cross and Lit-tle Zion Baptist Church were also contacted.
Gibens said the family is already planning to re-build in the same spot.
FIRE
CONTINUED FROM 1A
Staff photo by Zack Steen
Andrew Cummings watches as his family home burns to the ground.
manager Pam Colley.“We want as many
shoes as we can get from all ages,” said Colley. “Our goal is to make a difference in the com-munity.”
Once a month, mau-rices takes part in some kind of drive to help oth-ers. Events such a coat drive for the Boys and Girls Club and a canned food collection drive for AMEN Food Pantry are just two of the things the store has done to offer assistance in the com-munity.
“For the most part,
people have been real receptive to helping when we have an event,” said Colley.
“This drive is just one way we can express how grateful we are to be a part of this com-munity,” added Gipson. “We invite customers to be part of the effort and look forward to giving them a special deal on an item from maurices in return.”
Store hours are 10 a.m.-7 p.m. Monday-Wednesday, 10 a.m.-8 p.m. Thursday-Satur-day and from 1-5 p.m. on Sunday.
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“We want as many shoes as we can get from all ages. Our goal is to make a difference in the
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The wildlife expert has also provided fi eld assistance around the world in such places as the Caribbean, Puerto Rico, and Na-tive American tribal lands.
In New Orleans, he helped with domestic animal rescue after Hurricane Katrina.
He has taught cours-es for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s National Conservation Training Center as an affi liate faculty mem-ber at the University of Montana.
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the left side explaining the signifi cance of the stamp.
The museum tells the story of local history-making individuals and showcases memorabilia from the Easom High School days.
Visitors can see in-formation about Roy Robinson, who was a member of the Tuskeg-ee Airmen, and Willard Pugh, who portrayed Harpo in “The Color Purple” and spent time in Corinth as a child vis-iting his grandfather.
Beyond local history,
the museum also has displays on President Obama and the civil rights struggle and a col-lection of African arti-facts.
Miller said plans for upcoming events include a Harpo day, a young artist competition and a T-shirt design contest.
MUSEUM
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Associated PressJACKSON — South
Mississippi residents were ready for the big thaw Thursday as tem-peratures were rapidly heading to the 50s and remaining ice was melt-ing on bridges and roads.
The Bay St. Louis Bridge reopened to traf-fi c around 11:30 a.m. Thursday. The Fort Bayou Bridge in Ocean Springs also opened. The Biloxi-Ocean Springs Bridge also was expect-ed to reopen Thursday, said Biloxi Police Chief John Miller.
“I’ve talked to Ocean Springs and we both feel like it’s just too iced right now, but I think within the next couple of hours Mother Nature will take care of it for us,” Miller said.
Miller said Interstate 110 is open after being blocked off in several
spots.He said traffi c has
been extensively backed up on the highway, but that’s because the Mis-sissippi Department of Transportation was dropping brine right around the same time Keesler Air Force Base was opening its gates.
“It’s looking like we’re starting to thaw out,” said Terry Jackson, dep-uty director of the Jack-son County Emergency Services Offi ce.
Hancock County lead-ers say most of their roads are in good shape. Pearl River County’s EMA director said the same thing. Roads near Picayune and Poplar-ville have little or no ice.
Roads in south Mis-sissippi were getting into good shape but some icing remained, said the Highway Patrol and MDOT.
Roads reopeningas thaw begins
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sissippi lawmakers are moving forward with a bill designed to make the criminal justice system more effi cient and less expensive.
Among other things, House Bill 585 says anyone convicted of a violent offense would be required to serve at least 50 percent of a sentence, and anyone convicted of a nonviolent offense would have to serve at least 25 percent.
House Judiciary B Committee Chairman Andy Gipson, R-Brax-ton, calls these “true
minimums.” He said judges often give long sentences now because of uncertainty about how long an inmate will stay in prison.
Judges have com-plained that crime vic-tims are sometimes up-set to learn an inmate has been released early.
The bill would give judges more fl exibility to give alternative sen-tences, such as ordering treatment for drug us-ers. It would, for the fi rst time in Mississippi law, specify which crimes are classifi ed as violent, for sentencing purpos-es. And, Gipson said it
would strengthen re-quirements that victims be notifi ed before an inmate is released from prison.
The bill cleared the Ju-diciary B Committee on Thursday, moving to the House Corrections Com-mittee for more work. The original version of the bill is 184 pages long, but it could grow as it moves through the House and Senate.
Mississippi’s prison population grew rapidly after the state enacted a law in the mid-1990s saying each inmate must serve at least 85 percent of a sentence.
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Every American needs to save more mon-ey. Millions of Americans are struggling in retirement part-time jobs to keep food on the table. Fast food restaurants are fi lled with American seniors working for minimum wage in order to survive.
Every dollar put toward retirement will eventually be needed for shelter, food and medical expenses. Each year millions of peo-ple live longer than the money they had saved for retirement lasts.
President Obama has an idea with a new government backed IRA account called MyRA that will encourage all Americans to contribute up to 15,000 a year. The contribu-tions would not be tax deductible but like a Roth IRA the interest would be tax-free. Con-tributions can be as low as $25 to start and people earning up to $191,000 a year may contribute through their employers. Savings can last as long as thirty years before being transferred to a private Roth IRA. Earnings on the savings will be the same as the fed-eral employees Thrift Savings Plan–Govern-ment Securities Investment Fund. This fund earned 1.74 percent last year.
I’m glad for any safe and inexpensive way for Americans to save money.
Some things make me nervous.• Our government handles our Social Secu-
rity. Aging Americans are now waiting longer and longer to collect earned benefi ts. The funds really do not even exist. Every month our government robs Peter to pay Paul in or-der to keep the Social Security checks com-ing. Our government has mismanaged Social Security. Do we feel secure about this govern-ment run supplemental retirement plan?
• Our government is handling our medical coverage through Medicare, Medicaid and now the Affordable Care Act. Each year the government will need more and more of your money through taxes to keep all of this sol-vent. We are in a crisis already.
• Our infrastructure is hurting. Funds for American interstates, bridges, our national parks, research to fi nd cures for cancer and other diseases is lean.
• Will this new savings plan and other ideas eventually eliminate the current mili-tary retirement plan? Is this a slick new way to eventually cut out the Federal retirement plan? Could this idea and other ideas elimi-nate our current Social Security? We need to at least beware. Our government is struggling to keep Federal, military and Social security checks moving.
I agree that all Americans need safe and accessible ways to save money. However, don’t be blindsided by easy new programs that could eliminate what millions of Ameri-cans have already spent twenty to thirty years working toward.
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Suppose a president of the United States delivered a State of the Union ad-dress and nobody cared? Isn’t that what happened Tuesday night when the in-creasingly irrelevant – and, yes, boring Barack Obama – droned on about predict-able things in a predictable way? We have been forced to listen to him so many times (often several times in a single day) that it could qualify as cruel and unusual punishment in violation of the Constitution.
One of the problems with political speech is that it exists in its own world and creates its own standards. Politicians measure their policies according to their own “facts,” ignoring out-comes that don’t fi t their beliefs.
A new ABC News-Wash-ington Post Poll reveals the problem for the president. After taking offi ce with sky-high approval and credibil-ity numbers, the president now fi nds that 63 percent of American voters surveyed lack any confi dence he will make right decisions for the country’s future. Further-more, according to the poll, 51 percent now believe he is not a strong leader.
Credibility and strength are the twin supports of any presidency. When they are gone, the administration
crumbles in the minds of its citizenry and shrinks in stature around the world. In a world full of threats and challenges, this can only encourage
America’s enemies, who might think they have noth-ing to fear from a toothless tiger.
Given the sources of in-formation available to the average citizen, decon-structing the president’s grand claims is not diffi cult.
“Today, after four years of economic growth, corpo-rate profi ts and stock prices have rarely been higher, and those at the top have never done better. But average wages have barely budged,” the president said. “In-equality has deepened. Up-ward mobility has stalled. The cold, hard fact is that even in the midst of recov-ery, too many Americans are working more than ever just to get by – let alone get ahead. And too many still aren’t working at all.”
Yet the nonpartisan Tax Foundation points to a Congressional Budget Of-fi ce fi nding on income in-equality: “Inequality today is slightly higher than the
average of the past 30 years, but less than it was during the last two years of the Clinton administration.”
The president has men-tioned the need for fi xing American roads and bridg-es – infrastructure – in all of his State of the Union ad-dresses. He claims the econ-omy is improving and there has been strong job growth. Yet, according to a report from Sentier Research on household income trends, since President Obama came into offi ce median household income has dropped by $3,827. It went from $56,124 in January 2009 to $52,297 in Decem-ber 2013.
The poverty level, accord-ing to the U.S. Census, has increased during the same period, from 13.2 percent to 15 percent. A record 46.5 million Americans are now considered poor.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics reports that the average number of weeks the unemployed have been without jobs has nearly dou-bled during Obama’s presi-dency, from 19.8 weeks in January 2009 to 37.1 weeks in December 2013.
It’s easy to give a point-by-point rebuttal to an Obama speech, but why bother? America is getting over Barack Obama. He is like a holiday houseguest
who stays too long. Increas-ing numbers of Americans are coming to realize their faith in him to “change the way Washington works” was misplaced, as it always is when anyone puts more hope in a politician than in one’s self.
All of the president’s la-ments and criticisms are about conditions that exist on his watch. It is his econ-omy, his high unemploy-ment rate, his dysfunctional health care plan and his in-effective foreign policy.
This presents an opportu-nity and a danger for Repub-licans. The opportunity is to fi ll the vacuum with propos-als that will turn the country in a positive, more prosper-ous direction and reduce the size, cost and reach of the federal government. The danger is that Republicans will blow it, nominating can-didates who cannot win with policies that are more nega-tive than positive.
Nothing of legislative sig-nifi cance is likely to hap-pen before the fall election. If Republicans reclaim the Senate, the president will be more than a lame duck. Po-litically he will be roadkill.
(Cal Thomas is the host of “After Hours with Cal Thomas” on the FOX News Channel. Readers may e-mail him at [email protected].)
State of the Union repels viewers
Barack Obama and John Kerry should make up their minds. Do they want war or peace with Iran?
We should hope for peace, but Obama and Kerry make optimism diffi cult.
Ideally, the Obama ad-ministration would simply exit the Middle East, tak-ing all its military and eco-nomic aid with it. The U.S. government cannot micro-manage events there, espe-cially when it is no honest, neutral broker.
As welcome as a U.S. exit would be, alas, it won’t hap-pen anytime soon, so the best we can hope for is rap-prochement with Iran. The U.S.-led economic sanc-tions impose an unconscio-nable hardship on Iranians. Clearly, a war would be catastrophic on many lev-els for nearly all concerned, including Americans. (I say “nearly all” because oppor-tunistic rulers in Israel and Saudi Arabia could benefi t.)
Given the circumstances, one might expect signs of wholehearted American support for rapprochement, but we’re not seeing them. The U.S. government, along
with the four other perma-nent members of the UN Security Council and Ger-many, reached an interim agreement with Iran aimed at demonstrating the peace-ful nature of the Islamic Republic’s nuclear facilities. Of course, we already knew the intentions are peaceful. Iran is a party to the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and is routinely in-spected by the Internation-al Atomic Energy Agency, which has certifi ed that no uranium has been diverted to weapons production.
Under the interim agree-ment, which is to be a bridge to a permanent accord, Iran will take additional mea-sures to reassure the world, including converting its en-riched uranium to a form unsuitable for weapons but appropriate for power gen-eration and medical pur-poses.
This should cheer all peace-minded people. So why do Obama and Kerry say things that make us doubt their sincerity about seeking a diplomatic reso-lution?
For example, Kerry re-cently said that “the military option that is available to the
United States is ready and prepared to do what it would have to do.” Threatening war hardly demonstrates the spirit of peace-making.
Further, investigative re-porter Gareth Porter points out that Kerry repeatedly says the agreement obli-gates Iran to “dismantle” nuclear equipment, such as centrifuges used to enrich uranium. Iranian President Hassan Rouhani protests that this is incorrect.
Is the administration moving the goal posts?
“In fact,” Porter writes, drawing on CNN inter-views, “[Iranian foreign minister Javad] Zarif has put on the table proposals for resolving the remain-ing enrichment issues that the Barack Obama admin-istration has recognized as serious and realistic.… Zarif observed that the ac-tual agreement said noth-ing about ‘dismantling’ any equipment.… So Iran was not required by the interim agreement to ‘dismantle’ anything.” Instead, Iran agreed not to enrich over 5 percent, far below weapons grade, “and not increase en-richment capacity.” Kerry’s use of the word “dismantle”
also disturbs Iran’s leaders.The NPT does not pro-
hibit parties from enriching uranium for electricity and medical treatments.
“The Obama administra-tion’s rhetoric of ‘dismantle-ment,’ however, has created a new political reality: the US news media has accept-ed the idea that Iran must ‘dismantle’ at least some of its nuclear program to prove that it is not seeking nuclear weapons,” Porter writes.
Thus, Kerry’s deception could infl ame the public against Iran and jeopardize the chance of a settlement.
Obama himself told the New Yorker’s David Rem-nick there’s less than an even chance of a permanent agreement, which is worse than the odds he gave late last year. And while he re-minded Americans that it was the United States that overthrew a democratic Ira-nian government in 1953, he called on Israel and Sau-di Arabia to focus on their common bond against Iran.
That doesn’t sound like a man seeking peace.
Sheldon Richman is vice president and editor at The Future of Freedom Foun-dation in Fairfax, Va.
Obama, Kerry jeopardize peace with Iran
“Only rebel not ye against the LORD, nei-ther fear ye the people of the land; for they are bread for us: their defense is departed from them, and the LORD is with us: fear them not.”
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State Briefs
Associated Press
Committee votes in favor of Wright
JACKSON — State Superintendent Carey Wright is one step closer to being confirmed to her post.
The Senate Educa-tion Committee voted 14-1 Thursday in favor of Wright, who was hired by the state Board of Education last year to lead Mississippi’s public schools.
The measure goes next to the full Senate for consideration.
Wright, who previously worked in the District of Columbia and Maryland, continues to emphasize her support for state-funded preschool and ef-forts to improve student achievement.
State Sen. Angela Hill, a Picayune Republican, is the only commit-tee member opposing Wright. Hill opposes state-funded preschool and Mississippi’s em-brace of the Common Core standards.
Supporters of those standards say they will help students learn more analytically and less by memorization. Opponents see them as academically flawed and a loss of state con-trol.
Mother and son dead in Jackson shooting
JACKSON — Jackson police were investigating the slayings of a mother and son.
Police department spokeswoman Colendula Green says officers were called to a west Jackson home about 7:40 a.m. Thursday where they found a man lying in the front yard. Green says 49-year-old Tyrone Lid-dell had been shot sev-eral times.
Green says the body
of 74-year-old Bertha Lee Liddell was found in the home and she also had been shot multiple times.
Green says police have not made any arrests and are trying to deter-mine a motive in the deaths.
Woman testifies in injection death case
JACKSON — A woman who prosecutors say died from illicit silicone injections in her buttocks in 2012 hoped to be-come a hip-hop model, her friend testified Thurs-day in a depraved-heart murder trial.
The testimony came in Jackson, in the trial of Natasha Stewart of sub-urban Memphis, Tenn.
Stewart, an adult en-tertainer also known as Pebbelz Da Model, has pleaded not guilty in the death of Karima Gordon of Atlanta.
Prosecutors say Gor-don paid Stewart $200 for a referral to the per-son who administered silicone injections to Gordon’s buttocks in Jackson in 2012. She died days later.
Anglean Barber testi-fied that she and Gordon flew to New York to meet
Stewart in February 2012 and that Stewart later referred them to the injector, Tracey Lynn Garner.
Barber said she and Gordon were fans of Stewart and wanted the same kind of buttocks enhancement that Stew-art had gotten.
“We wanted to be urban models in the hip-hop industry,” Barber testified.
Barber said she and Gordon drove to Garner’s house in Jackson on March 16, 2012, and both planned to get the injections. Barber said she was unsettled by the appearance of Garner, who was a man before having gender reas-signment surgery, and decided not to get the injections. Barber said Gordon got sick soon af-ter getting the shots.
A doctor testified Thursday that Gordon died a painful death in a Georgia hospital on March 24, 2012, of silicone embolism in her lungs.
Barber said Stewart told them falsely that Garner was a nurse. And after Gordon got sick, Barber said Stewart told her not to tell doctors about the injections.
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Deaths
Will Ida KirkmanFuneral services for Will Ida Kirkman are set for 2
p.m. Sunday at Soul’s Harbor Apostolic Church with burial at Christ Temple Church Cemetery.
Mrs. Kirkman died Tuesday, January 28, 2014 at Sanctuary Hospice House.
She was born October 25, 1942 in Tippah Co. to the late Willie Cook and Sarah Mauney Cook. She was a retired factory worker and a member of Soul’s Harbor Apostolic Church. She enjoyed spending time with her family.
Kirkman was preceded in death by her husband, Jimmy D. Kirkman; her parents; two sisters, Bobbie Dixon and Loyce Luna; and two grandchildren, Dusty and Rusty Kirkman.
Survivors include her daughter, Sonya (David) Haynes of Sulligent, Ala.; sons, William (Rhon-da) Kirkman of Sulligent, Ala. and Steve (Sherya) Kirkman of Walnut; brothers, Lynwood Cook and Lamont Cook; sisters Helen Clark and Sarah Soffner, all of Ripley; grandchildren, Joe, Jonathan, Josh, Justin, Alan and Brian Daniel; great-grandchildren, Summer, Zylah, Adalynn, Braxton, Kaden, Levi and Braylee; and a host of other friends and family.
The family will receive friends from 5 p.m. Satur-day until service time.
Pallbearers are John Lentz, Brandon Bates, Paul Chadwell, Michael Graves, Lance Cutrer, Cory Por-terfi eld and Justin Barnes.
Bro. Gary Porterfi eld and Bro. Clay Hall will offi cate.Memorial Funeral Home is in charge of arrange-
ments.
Janie GurleySELMER, Tenn. — Funeral services for Janie M.
Hollins Gurley, 69, are set for 2 p.m. today at Childer’s Hill Pentecostal Church in Counce, Tenn. with burial at Emmanuel Tabernacle in Stantonville, Tenn.
Mrs. Gurley died Wednesday, January 29, 2014 at her residence.
She was born February 17, 1944, and was a custodian at Pickwick Southside School and a retired fac-tory worker. She was a member of Childer’s Hill Pentecostal Church.
She is survived by her son, Dennis O. Milligan of Selmer; her daugh-ter, Loretta M. Mask of Selmer; four grandchildren, Felicia M. Russom (William) of Stanton-ville, Timothy R. Mitchell of Michie, Timothy B. Gurley (Bonnie) of Selmer and Chanda Beavers of Selmer; 7 great-grandchildren, her brothers, Charles E. Hollins of Corinth and Bobby R. Hollins of Savannah, Tenn.
She was preceded in death by her son, Timothy B. Mil-ligan; her parents, Dee F. and Stella McCain Hollins; her brother, Billy Dan Hollins, and a sister, Shirley Harvill.
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9 bodies found after Kentucky house fire
GREENVILLE, Ky. — Kentucky State Police say they have recovered nine bodies from an early morning blaze in the western part of the state.
Trooper Stu Recke said a father and daughter who survived the blaze are at a hospital in Nash-ville, Tenn. He didn’t know their conditions.
A relative says a cou-ple in their 30s lived in the house with their nine children.
Feds grab millions in knockoff souvenirs
NEW YORK — Investi-gators have seized more than $21.6 million in knockoff souvenir foot-ball jerseys, caps and other merchandise, shut
down illegal websites and made dozens of arrests in a crackdown on Super Bowl counter-feiters, authorities said Thursday.
The seizures and ar-rests were announced at a Manhattan news con-ference where NFL and law enforcement officials displayed fake Payton Manning and Russell Wil-son jerseys — complete with knockoff Adidas labeling — Broncos and Seahawks hats, Super Bowl T-shirts and other goods made to look like official NFL gear.
The league and law enforcement “are work-ing hard to prevent fans from being scammed by criminals seeking to profit from the public’s passion for the NFL, their home teams and the Super Bowl,” Anastasia Danias, an NFL senior vice presi-dent, said in a statement
issued three days before the game in East Ruther-ford, N.J.
During an eight-month operation, investiga-tors seized more than 202,000 Super Bowl-related items that, if legitimate, would have been worth more than $21.6 million. Authorities called the dollar amount a record for similar en-forcement operations be-fore other Super Bowls, including one last year that netted about $17 million in seizures.
Teen charged in killing due in court
SALEM, Mass. — A 15-year-old Massachu-setts boy charged with killing his math teacher is returning to court Thursday for arraignment on a second charge of raping her.
Philip Chism is charged
in the October death of Colleen Ritzer, a 24-year-old teacher at Danvers High School.
Chism has pleaded not guilty to charges of rape, robbery and murder. He was indicted last week on the initial rape charge. In court documents filed last week, state police say Chism admitted killing Ritzer but denied raping her.
Police say they want to conduct a forensic examination of Chism’s cellphone to see if he memorialized the killing in photos, video or au-dio recordings.
Suspect challenges NSA surveillance
DENVER — A terror suspect is challenging the constitutionality of the National Security Agency’s warrantless surveillance program, saying in a court docu-ment filed Wednesday that spying by the feder-al government has gone too far.
In the motion filed in federal court in Den-ver with help from the American Civil Liberties Union, Jamshid Muhto-rov also requested that prosecutors disclose more about how surveil-lance law was used in his case. Muhtorov de-nies the terror charges he faces.
Surveillance under current law “is excep-tionally intrusive and it is conducted by execu-tive officers who enjoy broad authority to de-cide whom to monitor, when and for how long,” Muhtorov argued in his motion.
“The statue that au-thorized the surveillance is unconstitutional,” Muhtorov said, citing constitutional provisions against unreasonable search and seizure.
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Associated PressATLANTA — Police
and the National Guard helped people reunite with their abandoned cars Thursday as the logjam on Atlanta high-ways eased and the roads thawed, two days after a winter storm hit the Deep South.
The cleanup could take all day. At the peak of the storm, thousands of cars littered the interstates in Georgia and in Alabama. Some people ran out of gas, some were involved in accidents and others simply left their car on the side of the road so they could walk home or to someplace warm. Across much of the South, the sun was out, tempera-tures were rising and snow was beginning to melt.
About 1,600 students in Alabama who spent two nights at schools were fi nally home, and all of
the state’s highways were reopened. Still, offi cials warned drivers to be ex-tremely cautious and to be on the lookout for icy patches. Schools and gov-ernment offi ces were still closed in several states.
At least eight people died from traffi c acci-dents and six people were killed in fi res blamed on space heaters. The latest was in Savannah, where two children were killed early Thursday as tem-peratures hovered below freezing. In the Midwest, an 86-year-old woman died of hypothermia out-side her suburban Chica-go home.
Savannah Fire and Emergency Services spokesman Mark Keller said all evidence indicat-ed an electric space heater caused the fi re.
North Carolina still faced icy conditions, with dangerous roads in much of the state as bone-chill-
ing temperatures over-night refroze any snow that had melted.
Still, there is much cleanup to do. The Geor-gia State Patrol said more than 2,000 cars were abandoned along the freeways.
Crystal Paulk-Buchan-an, a spokeswoman with the Georgia Emergency Management Agency, said it was critical vehicles were removed from high-ways Thursday because the emergency shoulders would be needed when normal traffi c returns Fri-day.
“We ask that all motor-ists be extremely cautious as they’re driving today and give these abandoned cars room so that folks who may be trying to get their car back, that they are able to do that safely,” she said.
Overall, the Georgia State Patrol responded to more than 1,460 crashes
between Tuesday morn-ing and Wednesday eve-ning, including two fatal crashes, and reported more than 175 injuries.
State transporta-tion crews spent much of Wednesday rescu-ing stranded drivers and moving disabled and abandoned vehicles that littered the interstates, medians and shoulders.
Members of Georgia’s National Guard set up at a church Thursday and offered to drive motorists in Humvees and heavy trucks to get their ve-hicles. Authorities at the makeshift command cen-ter could also tell people if their vehicles had been towed; state offi cials had said a database would be set up for tracking.
“It is very surprising to see how many vehicles are still abandoned along the side of the road,” Sgt. 1st Class Archer Ford said.
At Hartsfi eld-Jackson
Atlanta International Airport, more than 400 fl ights in and out were canceled by 6 a.m. Thurs-day, according to data from the fl ight track-ing service FlightAware. Many of those fl ights were canceled before the day began.
Gov. Nathan Deal and Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed found themselves on the defensive, ac-knowledging that storm preparations could have been better. But Deal also blamed federal forecast-ers, saying he was led to believe it wouldn’t be so bad.
However, the National Weather Service explic-itly cautioned on Monday that snow-covered roads “will make travel diffi -cult or impossible.” The agency issued a winter storm warning for metro Atlanta early Tuesday and cautioned against driving.
Deal, who is up for re-
election in November, said warnings could have been posted along high-ways earlier, but he also fended off criticism.
“We don’t want to be accused of crying wolf. Because if we had been wrong, y’all would have all been in here saying, ‘Do you know how many mil-lions of dollars you cost the economies of the city of Atlanta and the state of Georgia by shutting down businesses all over this city and this state?’” Deal told reporters.
Speaking on NBC’s “Today” show Thursday morning, Reed said many of the news photos and videos showing freeways littered with abandoned cars were not in the city but in the surrounding re-gion. Reed noted that the city doesn’t have jurisdic-tion of those freeways and said most streets in Atlanta itself were now passable.
Where’s my car? Storm cleanup underway in Atlanta
Associated PressTOLEDO, Ohio — The
homemade matzo ball and beef barley soups are lost on customers walking into Rascals’ NY Deli — because there just aren’t very many of them.
“After it starts getting really cold and the sun goes down, the people don’t want to come,” said Randy Smith, manager of the restaurant in the Cincinnati suburb of Blue Ash.
Across much of the eastern half of the coun-try, bitter cold and snow-storms in recent weeks have put a chill on restau-rants, bakeries and coffee shops, limiting the num-ber of walk-in customers and shrinking tips. Some merchants report sales cut in half.
The January deep freeze wrought by the polar vortex in the Mid-west, a big snowfall in the Northeast and abnormal cold and snow in the Deep South has moved many to hibernate.
Only four people picked
at pancakes and eggs dur-ing what should have been the morning rush at Amer-ican Table Family Restau-rant, a Toledo diner, while the temperature dipped to 9 below Tuesday. The nearly 40 inches of snow this month is a record for January and more than what the city normally gets in an entire winter.
“Some of the regulars, I haven’t seen in a week and half, two weeks,” said owner Elton Bregu.
Viven McKinney, a retired postal worker, stopped in for eggs and coffee only because he had just dropped his wife off at work.
“Otherwise, I’d still be in bed,” he said. “I don’t like to be cold.”
All the waitresses are working two fewer days a week, said Bobbie Boyd, the only one on duty. And on the days Boyd does work, she draws half her usual tips.
“I’m a single mom,” she said. “It’s hard making ends meet, paying bills.”
Coffee shops that fuel
legislators at the nearby Capitol in Madison, Wis., are seeing fewer state gov-ernment workers stop-ping by, since many have been staying home with children whose schools were closed or because they just don’t want to venture outside.
Tori Mitchell, owner of Ancora Coffee Roast-ers, estimated she’s lost $4,000 a week because of ultra-cold weather over the past month. She’s try-ing to cut costs by dialing back bakery orders rather than cutting her workers’ hours.
Many, she said, are stu-dents who sorely need the
money.“We’re just hanging in
there, waiting for nice weather,” Mitchell said.
Closing early has be-come routine at Bonbon Pastry & Cafe in Cleve-land, where six days in January the low tempera-ture has dropped below zero. Only the brave came out last weekend, with whiteout conditions mak-ing a culinary errand un-appealing.
“I would have much rather been staying in bed myself,” said manager Rob Hood.
While eateries are tak-ing a hit, a few places, in-cluding hardware stores,
are booming, selling out of space heaters, pipe insula-tion and sidewalk salt.
“Unfortunately, I live off everybody’s misery,” said Jamie Ondrus, who owns a hardware store in Toledo.
But in addition to res-taurants, other businesses that rely on walk-ins and appointments are seeing a hit, including health care specialists and hair salons. They can expect to recoup some losses as people venture out in warmer weather, but for now, that’s cold comfort.
Larry Guinn, a chiro-practor in Toledo, fi gures one-third of his patients
canceled in recent weeks.“Way more than we
normally see,” he said. “Usually the patients are there no matter what.”
Many of the older pa-tients are choosing to stay home rather than navigate icy roads and sidewalks. Now, it seems, most of his customers are aching from shoveling snow.
At Hair On The Floor Barbershop this week in Covington, Ky., in subur-ban Cincinnati, the two barbers on duty played video games to pass time while temperatures hovered around zero at lunchtime.
Cold runs off customers, puts a freeze on restaurant business
Toymaker Mattel reports financial results today for the fourth quarter.
Wall Street expects that the company’s earnings and revenue improved in the October-December quarter, which includes the crucial Christmas holiday shopping season. Sales during this period can account for up to half of the toymakers’ annual revenue. Strength in doll brands like Barbie and Monster High helped drive Mattel’s earnings the previous three months.
Holiday boost?
Did increased spending by shoppers during the holiday season help lift MasterCard’s fourth-quarter revenue?
Find out today, when the pay-ments processor reports its latest quarterly results. MasterCard benefited last summer from grow-ing payments processing volume, particularly overseas. Investors will be looking for an update on how consumer spending trends on MasterCard’s payments net-work are faring so far this year.
Refining trouble?
As Chevron’s oil and gas production has increased, so have its costs and refining woes.
Rising operating costs and weak refining results led to a 6 percent drop in earnings for the nation’s second-biggest oil company in the third quarter. Wall Street will be listening for an update on Chevron’s finances and refining business when the company reports fourth-quarter earnings today.Source: FactSet
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Dear Annie: I have a question regarding the appropriateness of a grandfather sleeping with a 5-year-old granddaugh-ter during visits to her family home. In this case, the grandmother and grandfather take turns sleeping in the same bed with the granddaughter.
I feel this is most in-appropriate and sends mixed messages to the child. I have read research that suggests it shouldn’t be done after the age of 8, or at reaching puberty. What is your take? — Concerned Cousin
Dear Cousin: Unless one of the grandpar-ents is molesting the child, this is nothing to be alarmed about. The grandparents don’t live with the family and don’t sleep with the girl on a reg-ular basis. We suspect this arrangement has more to do with the lack of beds during a visit and the desire to spend extra time with a young grandchild. If the girl objects (and if she doesn’t now, she will later), other ar-rangements should be made — such as a sleeping bag or an air mattress.
Dear Annie: I have two girlfriends I’ve been very close to for several years. We are all in our 40s. Recently, we have grown apart. I’ve seen Facebook postings of things they are doing and pictures of activities they’ve done to-gether, and I haven’t been
invited to any of them. I mentioned this to one
of them, who assured me they weren’t trying to hurt me. But I recently saw pictures of them celebrat-ing on New Year’s Eve. The same friend told me it was a spur-of-the-mo-ment thing, that they had no plans to celebrate, but circumstances allowed it when their shifts ended. When I asked the other friend, she gave a fl ippant remark as if it didn’t mat-ter.
Am I being oversensi-tive? Is it too much to think they could have called or texted me to join them? I sat at home, ringing in the New Year alone. My gut tells me to move along. What do you think? — Afterthought
Dear Afterthought: Your gut is right. These friends are no longer interested in making the effort to include you. Please search for friendships elsewhere. There’s no reason to sit home alone because oth-ers don’t call. Make your own plans. Get involved in activities that will allow you to meet others and be-come more interest-ing in the process.
Dear Annie: This is in response to the letter from “Massachusetts,” who is having an affair
with “Harry,” her child-hood sweetheart, even though both of them are married to others.
I have been married to the same woman for 35 years, and it has not al-ways been a bed of roses. My job placed a lot of stress on our marriage. But we persevered. I have always told my kids, their friends and anyone I know that marriage is the hardest “job” they would ever have. It takes a lot of effort and commitment from both sides to make it work, but anything worth having is worth work-ing as hard as you can to achieve it. The benefi ts far outweigh the bad parts.
I could have cheated numerous times, but when I pledged my vows, I meant every word. Ob-viously, “Massachusetts” and “Harry” were not quite so sincere. Those two have not only be-trayed their spouses, but also their children.
You want to mess around? Get a divorce fi rst. I have no idea what either of your spouses has done to deserve the bla-tant disrespect you two have shown, but I hope they can fi nd happiness with someone else after your divorce.
What absolutely fl oors me is that you would write to Annie’s column, which is published across the country, asking her for suggestions to help you cheat. The only feel-ing I have for you is ab-solute contempt. — You Disgust Me
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ARIES (March 21-April 19). Some say there is gold at the end of the rainbow. Others say rainbows are reminders of the illusory nature of beauty. You possess the uncanny ability to simultaneously maintain opti-mistic and realistic opinions.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20). Success will be found in simplic-ity. Be vigilant in this regard. Too many superfl uous additions and rigid details will only complicate things to the point you can’t move forward.
GEMINI (May 21-June 21). The person that entertains to keep the action moving along will be a welcome addition to the social swirl, as long as this person also knows how to share the focus. Attention hogs, on the other hand, are tedious.
CANCER (June 22-July 22). There’s a reason you like certain people and respond to certain stimuli. You possess similar and complimentary qualities. Let that resonance between you and what you admire be a validation
to you now.LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). Knowing
when and what to invest in may seem tricky, but really it’s not. Think about what is truly valu-able and put your money there. There is no point in saving pen-nies if doing so causes you to lose dollars later.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). There are so many reasons for doing the diffi cult thing fi rst, so don’t let fear or laziness keep you from doing so. Once you handle the diffi cult thing, every-thing else will be cake.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23). A rebellion is stirring inside you today. The easy move is to run off to a place where you’re al-lowed to do your own thing. But the true rebels are the ones who cause change by infi ltrating the mainstream.
SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21). Your mood is quiet and you won’t feel inclined to start conversa-tions that don’t really need to be started. This quietude is not a function of sadness, but a desire
to observe things how they are without your interference.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21). You may get to do your fa-vorite thing today. Put the inten-tion in your mind early on and let it serve as a beacon, sending signals to attract this special ac-tivity into the realm of possibility.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19). You’ll be moved to kindly state your boundaries and lim-its up-front, so everyone knows what to expect. This way of com-municating will deter people from pulling you off course.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18). You used to feel angry about the way a certain person treated you but lately those feelings have changed into fuel for your latest project, which will ultimately be an expression of your talent.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). People will be interested in you today, though you might not be in the mood to share your person-ality so openly, choosing instead to defl ect questions with humor and a focus on the asker.
DEAR ABBY: My husband is a hard worker, a good provider and a good dad. However, he’s angry all the time. It has been this way for as long as I can remember. He is aware of it, and always promises me that when this or that settles down, things will get better, but they never do.
When he sees something on TV or reads something in the paper that upsets him, he can say really vile and violent things. Often when he thinks things the kids and I do are not good enough, he borders on being ver-bally abusive.
His friends say I’m a “saint” for putting up with him, but lately all I feel is tired out and worn down by it. I have spoken to him about this numerous times, and it improves for a few days, then it starts all over. I’m not sure how much longer I can last.
He reads your column, and I’m hoping he’ll see this and real-ize how bad things really are. Do you think there’s anything I can do besides leaving that will make him see what he is doing to me and the kids? – READY TO
LEAVE
DEAR READY TO LEAVE: Your husband may be a good provider and a hard worker, but I question whether he is as good a dad as you would like to think. Children need their parents’ encourage-ment and approval, as well as their patience and counsel.
When they are given a con-
stant bar-rage of angry p u t d o w n s , they begin to internalize it. They think such behav-ior is normal, which means they will re-peat it in their relationships when they are older. Or,
they may think they deserve to be treated that way and choose mates who treat them like Dad did. Kids with low self-esteem also tend to choose friends who are like themselves, which can cause even more problems.
There is something you can do besides leave right now. Make an appointment for YOURSELF with a licensed psychotherapist and take the children with you. That way, your husband can foot the bill while all of you get your heads straight and you make up your mind if you’re serious about leaving.
DEAR ABBY: I’m engaged to be married soon, and I’m con-cerned about a commitment my fi ance, “Jeff,” made to his sis-ter “Beth.” Beth is planning on having a child through a sperm donor and asked Jeff to be a “fa-ther fi gure” to the child.
He agreed to do it without dis-cussing it with me. Beth is very nice, and Jeff’s family has em-
braced me and I don’t want to cause trouble.
Jeff and I plan on having sev-eral children of our own, and we also plan to move out of state. I am wondering how this commit-ment will affect that possibility.
I am uncomfortable with Jeff making a lifelong commitment to serve as a father fi gure to an-other person’s child, especially when he hasn’t established what it entails. Am I overreacting? I know I need to discuss this with my fi ance. How do you suggest I proceed? – UNSURE IN THE
MIDWEST
DEAR UNSURE: You’re not over-reacting, and I agree that before this goes any further, you and Jeff need to talk. Open the discussion by telling him that you’re not com-fortable and why. Suggest he talk to his sister and fi nd out EXACTLY what she wants from him.
He also needs to tell her he may have spoken too soon when he agreed, because he had not fi rst discussed it with you and that the two of you plan to leave the state in the next few years. She needs that important infor-mation because it may alter her choice about who should fi ll that important role.
Dear Abby is written by Abigail Van Buren, also known as Jeanne Phillips, and was founded by her mother, Pauline Phillips. Write Dear Abby at www.DearAbby.com or P.O. Box 69440, Los Angeles, CA 90069.
Family’s ties begin to frayunder man’s relentless anger
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Community Events
Reminder
Events need to be submitted at least two weeks prior to the event. Community events pub-lishes on Wednesdays and Sundays and on Fri-day if space is available.
4-H Volunteer Leaders
The Alcorn County 4-H Volunteer Leaders Asso-ciation will meet Monday, Feb. 3, at 5 p.m. at the Alcorn County Extension Service. On the agenda: 4-H Saturday, Visual Presentation Contest, and the Annual Soup Luncheon Fundraiser. For more information about the 4-H program, please contact the Alcorn Coun-ty Extension Service at 286-7756.
Forestry Educational/Alcorn CFA Meeting
There will be a Forestry Educational Meeting held on Thursday, Feb. 6, at 6 p.m. at the MSU Exten-sion Service office locat-ed behind the Crossroads Arena. Dr. James Hen-derson with Mississippi State University will be the guest speaker for the evening will cover forestry related tax issues. If you plan on attending or need
additional information, please call the Alcorn County Extension office at 662-286-7755 by Feb. 5.
Auction for Association
Bonnie Blue Antiques will present a silent auc-tion Saturday, Feb. 8, from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. in Honor of National Wear Red Day. All proceeds will go to the American Heart Association. All of the dealers there are donating items for this auction as well as local businesses in the com-munity. Refreshments will be served. Bonnie Blue Antiques is located at 355 Hwy 72, Burns-ville. For more informa-tion call 662-701-5174.
Baker will speakto Republicans
State Representative of Mississippi’s 74th District, Attorney Mark Baker, a candidate for Attorney General in Mis-sissippi next year, will be speaking to the Alcorn County Republican Party on Thursday, Feb. 13, at the Corinth Public Library. The meeting is free and all interested parties are invited to attend. Meeting starts 6 p.m. with meet and greet at 5:45.
Kindergarten Registration
Kindergarten pre-reg-istration for the Alcorn School District for the 2014-2015 school year will be held from 1 p.m. to 6 p.m. March 25 at each campus. Students must reside within the boundaries of the dis-trict, be five years old on or before Aug. 31 and parents must provide immunization records, proofs of residence, a birth certificate and So-cial Security card. For more information contact the school district office at 662-286-5591 or the individual school offices. Applications are also available online at www.alcorn.k12.ms.us
Mended Hearts
Dr. Fredonia Williams, Regional Director of Mended Hearts, will be meeting with the local Mended Hearts Chapter to discuss the future of the chapter. This is a very important meeting and all members are en-couraged to attend.
The meeting will be held Monday, Feb. 10, at 10 a.m.at the Magnolia Community Service Com-plex in the Cardiac Re-hab Conference Room,
1001 South Harper Road, Corinth.
Mended Hearts is a support group open to all heart patients, their families and others im-pacted by heart disease. Its purpose is to inspire hope in heart disease pa-tients and their families through visits and shar-ing our experiences of recovery and returning to an active life. Healthcare professionals join the mission by providing their expertise and support. All heart patients and their family are welcome. The regular meeting day is the second Monday of each month at 10 a.m. from September through May.
Pre-Kindergarten Registration
Pre-Kindergarten pre-registration for the Alcorn School District for the 2014-2015 school year will be held from 1 p.m. to 6 p.m. March 25 at each campus. Students must reside within the boundaries of the district, be four years old on or before Aug. 31, be potty trained (no pull-ups are permitted) and parents must provide transportation. For more information contact the school district office at 662-286-5591 or the
individual school offices. Applications are also available online at www.alcorn.k12.ms.us
New location
The Corinth Artist Guild Gallery has moved to a now location on Fillmore Street in the former Dodd Eye Clinic building. Hours continue to be 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday. Contact the gallery at 665-0520 for more information.
Book Club
Shiloh National Military Park is hosting a book club at the Corinth Civil War Interpretive Center.
This book discussion will be on “The Tarnished Cavalier: Major General Earl Van Dorn, C.S.A.” by Arthur B. Carter. The public is invited to join as Park Ranger Tom Par-son leads the discussion of the life and military career of Major General Earl Van Dorn.
His impact on Corinth was as great as any officer on either side during the war. In the days following Shiloh he arrived in Corinth with his Army of the West where he played a major role in the Confederate attempts to break the
Siege of Corinth.Anyone interested in
joining the discussion should read Chapters 1 & 2 of the book prior to the first meeting on Thursday, Jan. 30. The chat will begin promptly at 8:30 a.m. and last for one hour. This discus-sion is very open and informal. Books are avail-able for purchase at the park bookstore. For more information about the upcoming book discus-sion, contact park staff at 662-287-9273.
New Year, New Yoga
River Yoga is taking a new direction moving into a moderate, more ener-getic practice designed to cleanse and detox the body after all the holiday fun with a focus on ac-cepting where we are right now even as people grow stronger and more flexible with practice.
Classes are free (dona-tions are accepted) and open to anyone able to begin moderate exercis-es. They are located at the River of Life Worship Center behind Harper Shopping Center. Class times are Thursdays at 6 p.m. and Saturdays at 10:30 a.m. For more information call Mary at 662-415-6216.
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3-point shooting was medio-cre and its free throw percent-age was absolutely brutal.
But even when the offense is inconsistent, the third-ranked Gators are still one of the na-tion’s most dominant teams thanks to a defense that never quits.
Casey Prather scored 16 points, Patric Young added 12 and Florida beat Mississippi State 62-51 on Thursday night for its 12th straight victory.
“We can’t always control the ball going in the basket,” Young said. “But we can con-trol our energy on the defen-sive end.”
And that energy was intense the entire night. Mississippi State shot a respectable 23
of 54 (42.6 percent) from the fi eld, but had to work hard on every possession.
The Bulldogs briefl y took a 31-30 lead early in the sec-ond half on Gavin Ware’s la-yup, but the Gators (18-2, 7-0 Southeastern Conference) re-sponded with a 16-4 run. Mis-sissippi State couldn’t muster the energy for a rally.
It was the 12th time this sea-son Florida held an opponent to 60 points or fewer.
Florida coach Billy Dono-van said the key to stopping Mississippi State was keeping them off the free throw line. The Bulldogs had 117 com-bined free-throw attempts in three SEC home games this season. They were just 1 of 6 on Thursday.
“A huge key was if we could
defend them off the bounce and not foul,” Donovan said. “I thought we did a good job there.”
Florida’s Michael Frazier II had just nine points, but his three 3-pointers helped the Gators keep a comfort-able lead throughout most of the second half. The 6-foot-4 sophomore missed his fi rst six 3-point attempts before the last three dropped.
“When he’s open, I want him shooting,” Donovan said.
The Gators shot 6 of 20 (30 percent) from 3-point range and 8 of 19 (42.1 percent) on free throws.
Mississippi State (13-7, 3-4) lost for the fi rst time at home during conference play. The Bulldogs have lost four straight to the Gators. Colin
Borchert scored 15 and Craig Sword 12 for Mississippi State.
Chris Walker, Florida’s touted 6-foot-10 freshman forward, is expected to make his college debut on Tuesday against Missouri after be-ing cleared by the NCAA. His arrival will give the Gators some much needed frontcourt depth.
But Young was enough on Thursday. The powerful 6-foot-9, 240-pound senior was a consistent presence on both ends of the court, provid-ing timely baskets and post defense.
“No disrespect to Missis-sippi State, but they’re prob-ably not going to win an SEC championship this year,”
No. 3 Florida beats Mississippi State
Associated PressMEMPHIS, Tenn. — Grizzlies for-
ward Mike Miller is day to day after spraining his right thumb late in Memphis’ 99-89 win over the Sacra-mento Kings.
The Grizzlies updated Miller’s sta-tus on Thursday.
Miller scored 11 points Wednes-day night as the Grizzlies won their fourth straight in Sacramento. But he hurt his thumb late and immedi-ately signaled to the Grizzlies’ bench for help before heading directly to the locker room.
The veteran signed with Memphis last summer and has played all 44 games with the Grizzlies this season averaging 21.5 minutes per game.
The Grizzlies visit Minnesota on Friday night.
Grizzlies’ Miller is day to day with sprained right thumb
Associated PressNEW YORK — The number of con-
cussions in the NFL dropped 13 per-cent from 2012 to 2013, according to data the league released Thursday and touted as a result of its efforts to better protect players’ heads.
Using information collected from team doctors during preseason and regular-season practices and games, the NFL also said there was a 23 per-cent decrease over the past two sea-sons in the number of concussions caused by helmet-to-helmet contact.
Speaking at a pre-Super Bowl news conference, Jeff Miller, the NFL’s senior VP of health and safety policy, called the data “positive num-bers from our perspective; positive trends.”
“Our perspective is that rules changes, culture change, the en-forcement of the rules and the elimi-nation, over time, of dangerous techniques is leading to a decrease in concussions. Now all of that said, we’re talking about a small sample size of only a couple of years,” Miller said.
“This is an ongoing and important culture-change event, and so we’re going to continue to analyze it and I think that there’s room for continued growth,” he added. “So we’re pleased with the data, unquestionably, as it relates to concussion, but there’s still more to do.”
Some players have expressed con-cern that the NFL’s emphasis on de-creasing hits to the head could lead to more low hits and more knee in-juries.
NFL: 13 percent fewer concussions in ’13 than ’12
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Associated PressCHARLOTTE, N.C. — Say
goodbye to the NASCAR era when a driver, fresh off a sat-isfying, top-10 fi nish, climbs from the car and raves about what a good points day it was.
Winning is all that matters under the latest and most radical change to the Chase for the Sprint Cup champi-onship.
NASCAR’s overhauled championship format an-nounced Thursday is a 16-driver, winner-take-all elimination system designed to reward “the most worthy, battle-tested” driver at the end of the season.
“Riding around and being pleased because the (previ-ous) format rewards consis-
tency, those days are going to be pretty much over,” NAS-CAR Chairman Brian France said.
The fi eld, expanded from 12 to 16 drivers, will be whittled down to a fi nal four through eliminations after every three races of the 10-race Chase. The remaining four drivers will go into the season fi nale with an equal chance to win the champion-ship: The fi rst of the four to cross the fi nish line will be crowned Sprint Cup cham-pion.
“No math. No bonus points. It’s as simple as it gets,” France said.
It’s the fourth change to ei-ther the points or champion-ship format since France cre-ated the Chase in 2004. For
28 years prior to the Chase, consistency reigned as the champion was the driver with the most points at the end of the season.
That ended a year af-ter Matt Kenseth won the 2003 title with a single vic-tory, and France began his pursuit of creating “Game 7 moments.” Along the way, he has pushed his agenda of wanting aggressive drivers chasing wins.
He’ll get that under the new format, which makes settling for points pretty much pointless.
Why? Because a win in the 26-race regular season virtu-ally guarantees a berth in the Chase. Then, eliminations begin, and a driver can guar-antee a trip to the next round
with a victory.Last August, Brad Kes-
elowski chased Kyle Busch around Watkins Glen and declined to aggressively move his rival out of the way. Keselowski settled for second, racing for a good points day and declining to infl ame his touchy relation-ship with Busch. But in doing so, he failed to win a regular-season race and missed the Chase, making him ineligible to defend his title.
Under the new format, a winless Keselowski would have no choice in that same situation but to bang fenders with Busch and go after the win.
That’s exactly what France wants to see on the track each week.
NASCAR creates winner-take-all championship
Associated PressJERSEY CITY, N.J. — They
are former kids who played in their backyards and dreamed of scoring the winning touch-down, making the big play on defense and somehow shar-ing in the spotlight of helping a team win the Super Bowl.
Not all dreamers get to the NFL, and certainly, many who get to football’s highest level don’t get the chance to play in the Super Bowl.
There are at least a dozen who will be participating for the Denver Broncos and Se-attle Seahawks in Sunday’s Super Bowl who toiled for at least eight years in the NFL before getting a chance to play for the title.
Broncos cornerback
Champ Bailey is the poster child. He waited 15 years. The other includes the last XFL player still in the NFL, a couple of Chargers who got close, a Canadian who lost the NFC title in overtime a couple of years ago, and a number who played on very bad teams before fi nding their way to ones of the cusp of greatness.
Bailey is philosophical about being at his fi rst Super Bowl.
“If I was supposed to be here, I would have been here a long time ago,” Bailey said Thursday as players held their fi nal interviews before the fi rst Super Bowl in an outdoor stadium in a cold-weather city. “Things do take
time, and I fi nally got with the right group of guys, as a whole. I played with some great players, but this is defi -nitely the best team I’ve been on.”
Denver defensive end Jer-emy Mincey played on a lot of bad teams in Jacksonville and was heading nowhere late in the season when the Jaguars released him in De-cember for missing a meet-ing. The Broncos picked him up.
“Dude, this is what we play for, man,” said Mincey, who has played six seasons, missed another with a thumb injury, and had another as a practice squad player. “This is why we keep playing. A lot of us go through a lot in this
league, especially guys like me and Mike Adams who have been with so many dif-ferent teams, different situa-tions. It feels good to actually have this opportunity and for things to land in sync.”
Ironically, Mincey had re-fused to go to any previous Super Bowl unless he was playing one. This year, he told his fi ancee that he in-tended to buy tickets and go.
“But I ended up being here buying more tickets for peo-ple to come see me play in it,” he said.
Adams, a Broncos safety in his 10th season, is so excited to be playing in the Super Bowl that he has vowed to walk the 12-mile trek home to Paterson if Denver wins.
Getting to the Super Bowl is not easy for many
Associated PressJERSEY CITY, N.J. —Mar-
shawn Lynch said Thursday it will be good to get back to football after the Seattle quiet talking running back wrapped up his fi nal mandatory media session of Super Bowl week.
Lynch took questions for about 7½ minutes during the morning session, his longest such stretch this week. He talked for less than 7 minutes at both media day on Tuesday and the media session at the team hotel on Wednesday.
“It’s going to be good to get back to football,” Lynch said. “Real good.”
Lynch limited his answers to football-related questions, all with Seahawks fullback Michael Robinson by his
side. Robinson joked as he sat down that he was just a prop.
Lynch’s aversion to speak-ing with the media had be-come a major focal point as the Seahawks started their preparations for Sunday’s game against Denver. While Seattle was getting attention last week for the comments made by Richard Sherman during the NFC championship game, this week it was about Lynch’s reluctance to open his mouth.
His teammates were sup-portive of their teammate wanting to stay quiet.
“I think he shouldn’t have to do everything that he doesn’t feel comfortable with,” Sher-man said. “But myself, I’m fi ne with it. I enjoy it. I enjoy
getting the message out that I want to get out, and I enjoy supporting my teammates. The great Marshawn Lynch, I think his game speaks for it-self. It says enough for every-body to talk about for weeks and weeks.”
Even with only talking for a few minutes, Lynch managed to make an attention grabbing statement.
Asked what he thought about assistant head coach Tom Cable when he arrived in 2011, Lynch made reference to a reported incident with an assistant coach when Cable was Oakland’s head coach in 2009.
“Well, being from Oakland, all I knew about him was that he punched people,” Lynch
said. “That’s my type of per-son.”
It was unclear if Lynch was joking or being serious with his comment about Cable.
Some of Lynch’s best games have come in the postseason. He has four 100-yard rushing games in six career postseason games. He ran for 140 yards in the divisional round win over New Orleans and had 109 yards in the NFC title game against San Francisco.
“I’m not sure man. It’s not like I prepare any different. I couldn’t tell you,” Lynch said.
Lynch was also asked about Denver’s defense and its focus on trying to shut down Se-attle’s run game. The Broncos have allowed one back to top 100 yards rushing this season.
Seattle’s Lynch keeps comments brief again
Associated PressRALEIGH, N.C. —North
Carolina State keeps leaving fi rst-year coach Wes Moore searching for the right words.
Myisha Goodwin-Coleman scored all 16 of her points after halftime, including the go-ahead 3-pointer with 3:51 left, to help the 18th-ranked Wolfpack beat No. 8 Mary-land 72-63 on Thursday
night.It was the team’s fourth
win against a ranked oppo-nent this year and its fi rst home win against a top-10 opponent since beating then-No. 2 North Carolina in February 2007 — which was the last season that N.C. State was ranked in the AP Top 25 before this year.
“These kids just keep amazing me,” said Moore,
who had spent the past 15 seasons at Chattanooga.
Markeisha Gatling added 15 points for the Wolfpack (19-3, 6-2 Atlantic Coast Conference), who used Goodwin-Coleman’s 3 to start an 11-2 run that broke a 57-all tie.
It marked N.C. State’s fi rst win against Maryland (16-4, 4-3) in four years.
“We haven’t accomplished
anything yet,” Moore said. “We’re halfway through the conference and I love where we are. But this isn’t going to get us where we want to get.”
N.C. State shot 45 percent fi nished with a 37-34 advan-tage on the boards against a team that was ranked third nationally in rebounding margin, with Kody Burke fi n-ishing with 10 rebounds and Gatling grabbing nine more.
No. 18 N.C. State conquers No. 8 Maryland
Young said. “We have an opportunity to do that, and we need to play to a championship level.”
Prather went to the locker room briefl y in the fi rst half after an ankle in-jury, but returned to shoot 7 of 8 from the fi eld. His baseline drive and dunk gave the Gators a 55-42 lead with 5 minutes left that ended any remaining doubt.
Mississippi State had an 11-1 record at Humphrey Coliseum coming into Thursday’s game and was tough once again on its home fl oor.
Florida was in control for most of the fi rst half, jumping out to a 27-18 lead with 5:18 remaining.
But Mississippi State’s Tyson Cunningham made an off-balance 3-pointer with the shot clock wind-ing down to spark an 8-0 run, and I.J. Ready’s layup a few seconds before the buzzer pulled the Bulldogs to 27-26.
Florida was coming off a dominant defensive per-formance in a 67-41 victory over Tennessee on Satur-day, and the team’s length and athleticism also gave the Bulldogs problems. But the Gators couldn’t hit
shots — making just 10 of 27 (37 percent) from the fi eld in the fi rst half.
Nothing was easy. Young hit a couple inside buckets early in the second half and Prather’s layup at the rim gave the Gators a 42-32 advantage with 12:05 remaining.
Mississippi State had a couple of good moments in the second half, but Flor-
ida’s superior depth, size and athleticism proved too much to overcome. Ready added 10 points for the Bulldogs.
“Offensively we had our problems,” Mississippi State coach Rick Ray. “I thought we had a plethora of opportunities in the fi rst half to fi nish at the rim that we just didn’t get done.”
ScoreboardFriday, January 31, 2014 Daily Corinthian • 13A
Pro basketball
NBA standings, scheduleEASTERN CONFERENCE
Atlantic Division W L Pct GBToronto 24 21 .533 —Brooklyn 20 23 .465 3New York 19 27 .413 51⁄2Philadelphia 15 31 .326 91⁄2Boston 15 33 .313 101⁄2
Central Division W L Pct GBIndiana 35 10 .778 —Chicago 23 22 .511 12Detroit 18 27 .400 17Cleveland 16 30 .348 191⁄2Milwaukee 8 37 .178 27
WESTERN CONFERENCESouthwest Division
W L Pct GBSan Antonio 33 13 .717 —Houston 31 17 .646 3Dallas 26 21 .553 71⁄2Memphis 24 20 .545 8New Orleans 19 26 .422 131⁄2
Northwest Division W L Pct GBOklahoma City 37 10 .787 —Portland 33 13 .717 31⁄2Minnesota 23 22 .511 13Denver 22 22 .500 131⁄2Utah 16 29 .356 20
Pacifi c Division W L Pct GBL.A. Clippers 33 15 .688 —Phoenix 28 18 .609 4Golden State 27 19 .587 5L.A. Lakers 16 30 .348 16Sacramento 15 30 .333 161⁄2
Wednesday’s Late GamesChicago 96, San Antonio 86Memphis 99, Sacramento 89L.A. Clippers 110, Washington 103
Thursday’s GamesPhoenix 102, Indiana 94New York 117, Cleveland 86L.A. Clippers at Golden State, (n)
Today’s GamesMilwaukee at Orlando, 6 p.m.Atlanta at Philadelphia, 6:30 p.m.Memphis at Minnesota, 7 p.m.Oklahoma City at Brooklyn, 7 p.m.Sacramento at Dallas, 7:30 p.m.Toronto at Denver, 8 p.m.Charlotte at L.A. Lakers, 9:30 p.m.Golden State at Utah, 9:30 p.m.
Saturday’s GamesBrooklyn at Indiana, 6 p.m.Oklahoma City at Washington, 6 p.m.Philadelphia at Detroit, 6:30 p.m.Minnesota at Atlanta, 6:30 p.m.Cleveland at Houston, 7 p.m.Milwaukee at Memphis, 7 p.m.Chicago at New Orleans, 7 p.m.Sacramento at San Antonio, 7:30
p.m.Miami at New York, 7:30 p.m.Charlotte at Phoenix, 8 p.m.
Toronto at Portland, 9 p.m.Utah at L.A. Clippers, 9:30 p.m.
MIDWESTAshland 85, Ohio Dominican 69Culver-Stockton 121, Graceland 94Grand Canyon 76, Chicago St. 75Grand Valley St. 88, Saginaw Valley
St. 76Hillsdale 86, Malone 71IPFW 86, Nebraska-Omaha 82Lake Superior St. 77, N. Michigan 58Marquette 61, Providence 50Michigan Tech 82, Northwood (Mich.)
57Milwaukee 68, Wright St. 64N. Dakota St. 66, South Dakota 63Nebraska 60, Indiana 55Park 68, Williams Baptist 64Tiffi n 81, Lake Erie 74W. Illinois 69, IUPUI 54Walsh 81, Findlay 61Wayne (Mich.) 79, Ferris St. 62
SOUTHWESTHardin-Simmons 83, Howard Payne
73Lamar 59, Houston Baptist 57UALR 80, Louisiana-Lafayette 69Utah Valley 67, Texas-Pan American
53FAR WEST
Weber St. 76, N. Arizona 67
Thursday women’s scoresEAST
Albany (NY) 66, Stony Brook 51Buffalo 58, Miami (Ohio) 56Delaware 74, Northeastern 65Drexel 66, William & Mary 42Iona 68, Fairfi eld 55Manhattan 62, Siena 55Mass.-Lowell 65, Binghamton 54Monmouth (NJ) 52, St. Peter’s 41Pittsburgh 67, Boston College 65
SOUTHAustin Peay 86, Murray St. 71Campbell 63, Longwood 54Cent. Arkansas 65, McNeese St. 50Clemson 80, Georgia Tech 79, OTDuke 76, Miami 75East Carolina 64, Old Dominion 63Florida 75, Alabama 67Florida Gulf Coast 85, Lipscomb 67Georgia St. 63, South Alabama 55High Point 94, Liberty 89, 2OTJacksonville 73, ETSU 56LSU 65, Mississippi St. 56NC State 72, Maryland 63Nicholls St. 71, Oral Roberts 60Northwestern St. 72, Incarnate Word
66Presbyterian 55, UNC Asheville 41Radford 63, Coastal Carolina 62SC-Upstate 62, North Florida 51SE Louisiana 84, New Orleans 55South Carolina 99, Mississippi 70Stetson 90, N. Kentucky 66Syracuse 78, North Carolina 73Tennessee 70, Arkansas 60Texas A&M 71, Auburn 54Virginia 64, Wake Forest 59Winthrop 59, Charleston Southern 48
MIDWESTAkron 82, Toledo 62Bowling Green 78, Ohio 62Cent. Michigan 82, E. Michigan 67Green Bay 74, Oakland 58IPFW 81, Nebraska-Omaha 71IUPUI 77, W. Illinois 60Michigan St. 71, Wisconsin 67Missouri 59, Vanderbilt 54North Dakota 82, E. Washington 60Northwestern 58, Indiana 52Notre Dame 74, Virginia Tech 48Ohio St. 90, Illinois 64Penn St. 75, Purdue 72S. Dakota St. 72, Denver 61South Dakota 83, N. Dakota St. 70
SOUTHWESTHouston Baptist 76, Lamar 66Sam Houston St. 79, Texas A&M-CC
76Stephen F. Austin 80, Abilene Chris-
tian 59FAR WEST
Gonzaga 89, Santa Clara 37Grand Canyon 84, Chicago St. 53Idaho St. 62, Sacramento St. 53N. Arizona 96, Weber St. 87N. Colorado 77, Portland St. 60Texas-Pan American 64, Utah Valley
Pacifi c Division W L OT Pts GF GAAnaheim 39 11 5 83 184 134San Jose 34 14 6 74 165 129Los Angeles 30 19 6 66 133 116Vancouver 27 19 9 63 139 143Phoenix 25 18 10 60 154 160Calgary 19 27 7 45 124 169Edmonton 18 32 6 42 147 190
NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss.
Wednesday’s Late GamesEdmonton 3, San Jose 0Chicago 5, Vancouver 2
Thursday’s GamesMontreal 4, Boston 1Toronto 6, Florida 3Columbus 5, Washington 2Ottawa 5, Tampa Bay 3New Jersey 3, Dallas 2, OTMinnesota at Colorado, (n)San Jose at Calgary, (n)Buffalo at Phoenix, (n)Philadelphia at Anaheim, (n)Pittsburgh at Los Angeles, (n)
Today’s GamesN.Y. Islanders at N.Y. Rangers, 6 p.m.St. Louis at Carolina, 6 p.m.Washington at Detroit, 6:30 p.m.New Jersey at Nashville, 7 p.m.Vancouver at Winnipeg, 7:30 p.m.
Saturday’s GamesEdmonton at Boston, noonTampa Bay at Montreal, noonBuffalo at Colorado, 2 p.m.Philadelphia at Los Angeles, 3 p.m.Ottawa at Toronto, 6 p.m.Florida at Columbus, 6 p.m.Nashville at St. Louis, 7 p.m.Pittsburgh at Phoenix, 7 p.m.Minnesota at Calgary, 9 p.m.Dallas at Anaheim, 9 p.m.Chicago at San Jose, 9:30 p.m.
TransactionsThursday’s deals
BASEBALLAmerican League
BALTIMORE ORIOLES — Purchased the contract of 1B Carlos Diaz from the Mexico City Reds. Signed 3B Jomar Reyes and assigned him and Diaz to the Gulf Coast League.
MINNESOTA TWINS — Released LHP Andrew Albers.
NEW YORK YANKEES — Added Kend-all Carter, Brandon Duckworth, Joe Espa-da, Dan Giese and Dennis Twombley to the major league/professional scouting department.
American AssociationSioux City Explorers — Signed INF
Mark Sobolewski.Frontier League
GATEWAY GRIZZLIES — Signed INF Tommy Richards.
SCHAUMBURG BOOMERS — Signed RHP Seth Webster to a contract exten-
sion. Signed RHP Erik Shannahan and RHP Anthony Smith.
BASKETBALLNational Basketball Association
NBA — Announced the board of gover-nors approved the appointment of Mark Tatum to deputy commissioner and chief operating offi cer. Promoted Bill Koenig to president, global media distribution; Sal LaRocca to president, global operations and merchandising; and Danny Meiseles to president and executive producer, content.
HOUSTON ROCKETS — Recalled G Isaiah Canaan from Rio Grande Valley (NBADL).
NEW YORK KNICKS — Recalled C Cole Aldrich, G Toure’ Murry and F Jer-emy Tyler from Erie (NBADL).
FOOTBALLNational Football League
TENNESSEE TITANS — Named Nick Eason assistant defensive line coach.
Canadian Football LeagueCALGARY STAMPEDERS — Re-signed
LS Randy Chevrier.EDMONTON ESKIMOS — Release QB
Kerry Joseph.SASKATCHEWAN ROUGHRIDERS —
Re-signed DB Macho Harris and DB Troy Stoudermire. Released SB Weston Dressler.
HOCKEYNational Hockey League
CALGARY FLAMES — Assigned C Blair Jones to Abbotsford (AHL).
CAROLINA HURRICANES — Activated G Cam Ward from injured reserve and assigned him to Charlotte (AHL) for con-ditioning.
DALLAS STARS — Recalled F Dustin Jeffrey from Texas (AHL).
MONTREAL CANADIENS — Recalled F Christian Thomas from Hamilton (AHL).
NHL Players AssociationNHLPA — Announced the retirement
of LW Jay Pandolfo.ECHL
SOUTH CAROLINA STINGRAYS — Trad-ed D Brendan Rempel to Las Vegas for future considerations.
SOCCERMajor League Soccer
PHILADELPHIA UNION — Signed MF Vincent Nogueira.
SEATTLE SOUNDERS FC — Sold F Fredy Montero to Sporting Lisbon (Por-tugal).
SPORTING KANSAS CITY — Signedof D Chance Myers.
COLLEGECHOWAN — Named Ashley Wells as-
sistant to the director of athletics.GEORGETOWN — Announced the res-
ignation of football coach Kevin Kelly to become the defensive coordinator at Ball State.
MINOT STATE — Named Todd Hoffner football coach.
ST. SCHOLASTICA — Announced the retirement of football coach Greg Carl-son.
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Religion2B • Daily Corinthian Friday, January 31, 2014
It’s always nice to hear from someone who en-joyed something I wrote, and this week I received a letter from one of those folks.
Mrs. Opal Potts Strick-land, a resident of Hutto, Texas – a suburb of Aus-tin – read my recent col-umn about handmade quilts and responded with a sweet letter. I called her and asked per-mission to share some of her stories because I felt local readers would be in-terested.
Mrs. Strickland grew up in the Farmington area so several of our citi-zens will remember her, I’m sure. She says she moved to Texas in 1997 when her daughter had a new baby. The letter focused on her quilting history and how she stays busy with it now.
“Yes, I am a quilter,”
Mrs. Opal wrote. “I l e a r n e d to hand p i e c e quilts at the age of 6 years and to hand quilt by age 9. I sat on a box in
a chair around a quilt frame hanging from the ceiling. My mother was in a quilting bee group that met once a month with all the neighbors gather-ing for a day of quilting and visiting. It was not unusual for them to com-plete the quilting of two quilts in one day. I also remember using cotton picked from the fi elds for batting after we picked out all the seeds. Oh, the good old days!”
Mrs. Strickland says
her mother would always check the stitching when she, as a little girl, helped quilt. Her mother would commend her for her improvements, and fi -nally when she was 9, her mother commented on how good Opal’s stitches had become. “Those are going to stay!” she said. That’s when Mrs. Opal knew for certain that her mother had previously taken out her childish stitches before fi nishing the quilt. She laughed heartily as she shared her mother’s words – she knew how particular the older ladies were about the preciseness of the stitches in their quilts.
Mrs. Strickland says she gained more tools of the trade after she moved to Texas and attended class-es to improve her quilting skills. At age 81, she keeps busy with her sewing
projects and usually does some sort of handwork when she watches TV. She loves to do appliqué quilt tops and then hand-quilt them.
One of this lady’s ap-pliqué Baltimore quilts appraised at $2,675.00 so it sounds like she has reached the top of the line in her skills.
Mrs. Opal went on to say, “Recently I com-pleted hand-quilting a top that was pieced by an 84-year-old lady in 1913. When I fi nished, it was surprising to learn that the quilt was quilted ex-actly 100 years after the top was made.”
Opal’s sister gave her a top their mother pieced. She had stored it in a cedar chest for 50 years before pulling it out for Mrs. Opal to quilt it.
The former Corin-thian explained that her
daughter now has taken up the trade and has won Best of Show with sev-eral of her own creations. “My mother would be so pleased,” she wrote.
I was thrilled to get the letter and hear the sto-ries from the past, and I’m thankful Mrs. Strick-land’s niece from Corinth took the time to send her my column.
Hope you quilters enjoy the stories and you keep on doing the wonderful handwork to be passed down to future genera-tions. Your masterpieces are treasures indeed and will be admired for hun-dreds of years, I’m sure.
(Lora Ann Huff is a Wenasoga resident and special columnist for the Daily Corinthian. Her column appears Friday. She may be reached at 1774 CR 700, Corinth, MS 38834.)
Reader passes on stories of the past
Lora Ann Huff
Back Porch
Worship Call
Prayer breakfastThe American Legion
Post 6 is hosting a prayer breakfast every Wednesday at 7 a.m. Sausage, biscuits and coffee will be served. A devotional will be given by a different speaker each Wednesday. The prayer breakfasts are be-ing held at the American Legion Building on Tate St. in Corinth. You don’t have to be a post mem-ber to attend. For more information, call 462-5815.
Usher DayCentral Grove MB
Church will host its an-nual Usher Day Program on Sunday at 2:30 p.m. Guest speaker will be Rev. Alfred Watts, pas-tor of Mt. Pleasant MB Church of Kossuth. Watts will be accompa-nied by his church ush-ers, choir and members.
Black History Program
Mason Saint Luke will host their Black His-tory Program on Sunday, Feb. 9 at 3 p.m. Guest speaker will be Pastor Fredrick Perry of Greater Prosperity of Jackson, Tenn. and the Theme is Break every Chain.
Many years ago when I played on my high school baseball team I remem-ber sitting next to our catcher and I made the remark, “I can’t hit this pitcher.”
The catcher, a lifelong childhood friend, looked me square in the eyes and said, “You will never hit this pitcher if you don’t think you can. Believe in yourself and get away from your doubts.”
These words of wis-dom I have never forgot-ten, and over my span of coaching younger players, I have used my friend’s saying many times.
So many of us allow our
d o u b t s and frus-trations to get to us and take our sense of accom-plishment to a low level. It d o e s n ’ t m a t t e r
what stage of your life you are in, if you think you can’t do something then you probably won’t accomplish the task. However, if you think you can do something then your chances are much greater of accomplishing what you want and even more.
On that spring after-noon as I sat next to my friend and after he had chastised me, I was able to walk to home plate with a renewed confi -dence in my ability. It paid off as I did get a hit and we went on to win the ball game.
I am not saying that everything you are going to try is going to work. I am saying that if you try something the fi rst, sec-ond, or third time and it doesn’t work, don’t give up.
Remember what Thomas Edison said about his light bulb in-vention. After 3,000 at-tempts he found the right
version of his success.“Our greatest weak-
ness lies in giving up. The most certain way to suc-ceed is always to try just one more time,” is a fa-mous quote from Thom-as Edison.
Even in our lowest times when our confi -dence has dwindled we need to remember what the Bible tells us in 2 Cor-inthians 3:5, “Not that we are suffi cient of ourselves to think of anything as being from ourselves, but our suffi ciency is from God.”
When we are children of God, nothing can take us down but our own doubts.
Prayer: O Lord, I trust in You and believe in You. Guide me in the direction that You would have me go. Amen.
(Daily Corinthian col-umnist and Corinth na-tive Gary Andrews is retired after 35 years in the newspaper and mag-azine business. He may be contacted at [email protected].)
You have to believe in yourself, escape your doubts
Gary AndrewsDevotionals
M U R F R E E S B O R O , Tenn. — A blended family of Murfreesboro million-aires joined Bravo TV’s re-ality lineup in November and recently ended its fi rst season averaging 2 million viewers per episode.
The show, “Thicker than Water,” tells the story of Ben Tankard, a renowned, multi-platinum-album-selling Christian Jazz art-ist and minister, and his large, multi-generational clan - self-dubbed as the “black Brady Brunch.”
Six of the family mem-bers live together in a lav-ish mansion, the Tankard Palace, which, according to the father, serves as the backdrop of the family’s quarrels and adventures.
“We call it Christian ca-lamity with kingdom con-clusions,” Ben Tankard says. “We collide, but we don’t like to call it drama. We get into it, but we can make it work with God’s help. We have each other’s back.”
In addition to patriarch Ben, a former profession-al basketball player, the family’s cast of characters includes his wife Jewel, a businesswoman, author and evangelist; daughters Brooklyn, Britney and Cyrene, son Benji and his bride, Shanira, and Brook-lyn’s daughter, Diamond.
Brooklyn, Britney and Benji are Ben Tankard’s children from a previous marriage. Cyrene is the youngest.
Benji’s wedding, Brook-lyn’s quest to gain her own millions with a hair exten-sion line, Queen Brooklyn, and the Christian upbring-ing of Cyrene, have been audience grabbers.
For years, the family had joked that their antics and interesting lives should be the subject of a reality show, but it was Brooklyn who got the ball rolling by posting pranks featuring the family on YouTube.
“I’ve been touring around the world for over 25 years, but this being on a reality show is different,” Ben Tankard says.
Tennessee reality TV family finds its audienceBY STEPHANIE TOONE
The Nashville Ledger
VATICAN CITY — Dozens and perhaps hundreds of widows and Vatican pensioners re-cently came in for a rude surprise: The Vatican bank told them they had to close their accounts or risk losing access to their money — all in the name of Pope Francis’ reform efforts, The Associated Press has learned.
The bank now says it was a “technical error” and that the widows and pensioners are being kept on as clients, amid the bank’s highly-pub-licized plan to close so-called “lay accounts” as it tries to mend relations with Italian authorities who have suspected that Italians were using the bank as a tax haven.
It’s all come as a big embarrassment for an institution that is trying to fend off accusations of mismanagement and corruption.
“In some cases old ladies got nasty let-ters,” Max Hohenberg, spokesman for the Insti-tute for Religious Works — or IOR — told The AP. “The fact that a few doz-en people were catego-rized in the wrong way and hence got a letter which was incorrect is a mistake which we have apologized for.”
Bank President Ernst Von Freyberg penned a terse letter to clients Sept. 19, telling them to come to the bank before Nov. 30 to transfer their money out because they no longer fi t the criteria of account-holders set by the board. He warned somewhat ominously that if they didn’t meet the deadline, their mon-ey would become sub-ject to the “internal dis-
positions” of the bank, according to a copy of the letter obtained by AP. He didn’t say what those “internal disposi-tions” were.
But some former Vati-can employees and their widows got caught up in the sweep, apparently because of the way their accounts were classifi ed by the bank internally. Their accounts have now been reclassifi ed after they pleaded their cases to the bank.
Italian news reports have said that as many as 900 accounts were slated for closure and that some 300 million euros were expected to exit the IOR’s coffers as the bank transferred the money to clients’ ac-counts elsewhere.
In a statement, Ho-henberg stressed that the IOR had never con-fi rmed or denied the number of accounts slated for closure, saying only that “a signifi cant amount of customers” had been notifi ed that their accounts were to be closed. Hohenberg said the termination process is now proceeding on a case-by-case basis and that the account closure problem was a minor glitch in the bank’s re-form undertaking.
“While the board deci-sion exactly defi nes the clientele to be serviced by the IOR, we are seek-ing to handle the whole process in a responsible and sensitive way and under close supervision of AIF,” the Vatican’s fi -nancial watchdog agen-cy, he said. “Whenever an affected client can reasonably argue that the IOR’s classifi cation has not been accurate, the case will be looked at thoroughly.”
LACKAWANNA, N.Y. — The 25-year effort to elevate to sainthood a be-loved Buffalo-area priest known as the “Padre of the Poor” has so far cost upward of $100,000, and plans are in the works to raise hundreds of thousands more.
Even the most fervent supporters of the Rev. Nelson Baker acknowl-edge it’s an amount that probably would have made the servant of the needy uncomfortable.
But such canonization expenses are not unusual in the Roman Catholic Church, experts say, and are gaining new atten-tion in the “poor church for the poor” envisioned by Pope Francis.
Monsignor Paul Bur-kard is shepherding efforts to bank an ad-ditional $250,000 for an-ticipated ceremonies and other future expenses. He believes the outlays so far for lawyers, printing, research and travel has been well spent, even in a former steel city diocese that is closing struggling schools and churches.
“I think Father Baker would probably be em-barrassed that anybody would spend that much time or money to show-case him,” Burkard said. “But in the long run, it actually helps the poor because more public-ity about Father Baker means more people know about him and contribute to our chari-table works here.”
Burkard said the ongo-ing attention to Baker, who died in 1936 at 95, has already helped the social services agencies that continue to operate
here in his name, draw-ing donations from all over the country and be-yond. He said the Baker Victory Services’ dental clinic alone provided more than 21,000 proce-dures last year, many for disabled children.
But canonization is an arduous, expensive process that has tended to favor larger religious orders that have the re-sources and know-how to navigate it.
It’s something the Vatican seems to be ac-knowledging with a new, undisclosed “reference” price, announced this month, which those offi -cially guiding causes will have to abide by. Cardi-nal Angelo Amato, head of the Vatican’s saint-making offi ce, said it is intended to inspire “a sense of simplicity and fairness.”
“They’re trying to drop the price and trying to make it easier fi nancially for different groups who support different saints to move their causes ahead,” said the Rev. James Martin, a Jesuit
priest in New York City and author of “My Life with the Saints.”
Baker was a Civil War veteran who co-owned a feed and grain business before being ordained in 1876. Embracing so-ciety’s neediest, he ex-panded his Lackawanna church’s charitable mis-sion, improving its or-phanages and opening a school, a home for un-wed mothers and infants, and a hospital.
The Congregation of the Causes of Saints ap-proved the initiation of Baker’s cause in 1987, and in 2011, Pope Bene-dict XVI declared him venerable, the fi rst step in a three-part process. The fi rst of two miracles that must be attributed to Baker before he can be canonized is now un-dergoing a painstakingly thorough review involv-ing input from doctors and other experts.
Burkard said he is not allowed to disclose the nominated miracle. Countless people have attributed everything from sobriety to recovery from car accidents to in-tercession by Baker.
Many attribute the sudden 2005 awakening of a brain-injured Buffa-lo fi refi ghter from nearly a decade in a vegetative state to Baker. Firefi ght-er Don Herbert had been living in a nursing home and there were fam-ily prayers to the priest for his recovery. Before Herbert unexpectedly became lucid and began to speak, there had been medications and prayers to others — which would have made Baker’s inter-vention diffi cult to prove. Herbert’s recovery was short-lived, and he died in 2006.
Vatican bank: Widows were victim of a glitchBY NICOLE WINFIELD
Associated Press
Costs mount to make saint of a beloved New York priest
BY CAROLYN THOMPSON
Associated Press
“In the long run, it actually helps the poor because more publicity about Father Baker means more people know
about him and contribute to our charitable works here.”
Paul BurkardMonsignor
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IN THE CHANCERYCOURT OF ALCORN
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IN THE MATTER OF THELAST WILL AND TESTA-MENT OF EURAL CLYDEFARRIS, DECEASED
CAUSE NO. 2013-0030-02
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LETTERS TESTAMENT-ARY having been granted onthe 21st day of January, 2014,by the Chancery Court of Al-corn County, Mississippi, tothe undersigned as Executrixof the Estate of Eural ClydeFarris, deceased, notice ishereby given to all personshaving claims against said Es-tate to present the same tothe Clerk of said Court forprobate and registration ac-cording to law within ninety(90) days from the date offirst publication of this noticewhich is the 24th day of Janu-ary, 2014, or they will beforever barred.
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IN THE CHANCERYCOURT OF ALCORN
COUNTY, MISSISSIPPI
IN THE MATTER OF THELAST WILL AND TESTA-MENT OF EURAL CLYDEFARRIS, DECEASED
CAUSE NO. 2013-0030-02
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LETTERS TESTAMENT-ARY having been granted onthe 21st day of January, 2014,by the Chancery Court of Al-corn County, Mississippi, tothe undersigned as Executrixof the Estate of Eural ClydeFarris, deceased, notice ishereby given to all personshaving claims against said Es-tate to present the same tothe Clerk of said Court forprobate and registration ac-cording to law within ninety(90) days from the date offirst publication of this noticewhich is the 24th day of Janu-ary, 2014, or they will beforever barred.
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The City of Corinthwill receive sealed bidsuntil 10:00 a.m. CST onthe 24th day of February,2014, for a depository fora two year period.
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Bidders must meet all ofthe requirements out-lined in Sections 27-105-1thru 27-105-371 of theMississippi Code of 1972,as amended.
Special requirementsare: All accounts must payinterest( interest rate)
Will you process pay-ments to the City of Cor-inth by credit card and/ordebit card in accordancewith the provision of Mis-sissippi law? Yes( ) No( )
If you are willing to pro-cess credit card/debit cardpayments in accordancewith Mississippi law, willthere be any charge tothe City of Corinth. Yes( ) Chargefor Processing No( )
The number of ac-counts shall not be lim-ited.
Depository shall fur-nish deposit slips and de-pos i t s tamps free ofcharge for all Accounts.
Depository shall fur-nish checks free of chargefor the Tourism Account.
The City shall furnishwarrants for all other ac-counts.
No charges shall be as-sessed for stop payments,inadvertent overdrafts orwire transfers.
If you have any ques-tions, please call VickieRoach at (662) 286-6644.
Done by order of theBoard on the 17th day ofDecember, 2013.
___________
Tommy Irwin,
Mayor___________Vickie Roach,City Clerk
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Depository shall fur-nish checks free of chargefor the Tourism Account.
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If you have any ques-tions, please call VickieRoach at (662) 286-6644.
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IN THE MATTER OF THELAST WILL AND TESTAT-MENT OF FRANCES G.DALTON, DECEASED
CAUSE NO: 2014-0035-02
NOTICE TOCREDITORS
LETTERS TESTAMENTARYhaving been granted on the28th day of January, 2014, bythe Chancery Court of Al-corn County, Mississippi, tothe undersigned as Joint Ex-ecutor-Joint Executrix of theEstate of Frances G. Dalton,deceased, notice is herebygiven to all persons havingclaims against said Estate topresent the same to theClerk of said Court for pro-bate and regisration accord-ing to law within ninety (90)days after the date of the firstpublication of this Notice,which is the 31st day of Janu-ary, 2014, or the same shallbe forever barred. WITNESS OUR SIGNA-TURES, this the 28th day ofJanuary, 2014.
/s/ Claude DaltonCLAUDE DALTON
/s/ Dale WarrinerDALE WARRINER
Wilson & Hinton, P.A.PO Box 1257505 E. Waldron St.Corinth, MS 38835-1257662-286-3366
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SUBSTITUTETRUSTEE'S
NOTICE OF SALE
STATE OF MISSISSIPPICOUNTY OF ALCORN
WHEREAS, on Novem-ber 15, 1999, Terry Kiddyand wife, Theresa Kiddy,executed a deed of trustto Kevin T. Clayton,Trustee for the benefit ofCMH Homes, Inc. d/b/aClayton Homes, whichdeed of trust is recordedin Book 523 at Page 25, inthe Office of the Chan-cery Clerk of AlcornCounty, Mississippi; and
WHEREAS, said deed oftrust was assigned toVanderbilt Mortgage andFinance, Inc., by Assign-ment of Trust Deed re-corded January 2, 2014, inthe Office of the afore-said Chancery Clerk as In-strument# 201400006;and
WHEREAS, VanderbiltMortgage and Finance,Inc., the holder of saiddeed of trust and the notesecured thereby, substi-tuted Lori M. Creel asTrustee therein, as au-thorized by the termsthereof, by instrumentdated January 9, 2014, andrecorded January 15,2014, in the Office of theaforesaid Chancery Clerka s I n s t r u m e n t# 2 0 1 4 0 0 1 3 5 ; a n d
WHEREAS, default hav-ing been made in theterms and conditions ofsaid deed of trust, and theent i re debt securedthereby having been de-clared to be due and pay-able in accordance withthe terms of said deed oftrust, and the legal holderof sa id indebtedness ,Vanderbilt Mortgage andFinance, Inc., having re-quested the undersignedSubstitute Trustee to ex-ecute the trust and sellsaid land and property inaccordance wi th theterms of said deed oftrust for the purpose ofra is ing the sums duethereunder, together withattorney’s fees, substitutetrustee’s fees and ex-penses of sale;
NOW, THEREFORE, I,Lori M. Creel, SubstituteTrustee in said deed oftrust will, on the 28th dayof February, 2014, offerfor sale at public outcryfor cash to the highestbidder, and sell within leg-al hours (being betweenthe hours of 11:00 a.m.and 4:00 p.m.) at theSouth main door of theAlcorn County Court-house at Corinth, AlcornCounty, Mississippi, thefollowing described prop-er ty s i tua ted in theCounty of Alcorn, Stateof Mississippi, to-wit:
Lying and being in theSoutheast Quarter of theNortheast Quarter ofSection 22, Township 1South, Range 8 East, Al-corn County, Mississippi,more particularly de-scribed as fol lows:
Commenc i n g a t t heSouthwest corner of theSoutheast Quarter of theNortheast Quarter ofSection 22, Township 1South, Range 8 East, Al-corn County, Mississippi,for and as a true point ofbeginning; run thence Eastalong said quarter sectionline a distance of 105 feet;run thence North 420feet; run thence West 105feet to the quarter sec-t ion l ine; run thenceSouth along said quartersection line 420 feet tothe true point of begin-ning.
SUBJECT to right-of-wayof county roads.
ALSO: One (1) 1999Clayton manufacturedh o m e , S e r i a l N o .C L A 0 4 5 9 3 9 T N .
Said property shall besold as is, where is. I willconvey only such title as isvested in me as Substi-tute Trustee. The fullpurchase price must bepaid in cash or by certi-fied funds at the time ofsale. WITNESS my signaturethis the 27th day of Janu-ary, 2014.
/s/ Lori M. Creel Substitute Trustee
Lori M. Creel (MS BarNo. 104145)ROSEN HARWOOD,P .A .Post Office Box 2727Tuscaloosa, AL 35403Telephone: (205) 344-5000Fax: (205) 758-8358
4tc01/31, 02/07, 02/14, &02/21/201414575
IN THE CHANCERYCOURT OF ALCORN
COUNTY, MISSISSIPPI
IN THE MATTER OF THELAST WILL AND TESTAT-MENT OF FRANCES G.DALTON, DECEASED
CAUSE NO: 2014-0035-02
NOTICE TOCREDITORS
LETTERS TESTAMENTARYhaving been granted on the28th day of January, 2014, bythe Chancery Court of Al-corn County, Mississippi, tothe undersigned as Joint Ex-ecutor-Joint Executrix of theEstate of Frances G. Dalton,deceased, notice is herebygiven to all persons havingclaims against said Estate topresent the same to theClerk of said Court for pro-bate and regisration accord-ing to law within ninety (90)days after the date of the firstpublication of this Notice,which is the 31st day of Janu-ary, 2014, or the same shallbe forever barred. WITNESS OUR SIGNA-TURES, this the 28th day ofJanuary, 2014.
/s/ Claude DaltonCLAUDE DALTON
/s/ Dale WarrinerDALE WARRINER
Wilson & Hinton, P.A.PO Box 1257505 E. Waldron St.Corinth, MS 38835-1257662-286-3366
3tc1/31, 02/07, 02/14/201414576
LEGALS0955
SUBSTITUTETRUSTEE'S
NOTICE OF SALE
STATE OF MISSISSIPPICOUNTY OF ALCORN
WHEREAS, on Novem-ber 15, 1999, Terry Kiddyand wife, Theresa Kiddy,executed a deed of trustto Kevin T. Clayton,Trustee for the benefit ofCMH Homes, Inc. d/b/aClayton Homes, whichdeed of trust is recordedin Book 523 at Page 25, inthe Office of the Chan-cery Clerk of AlcornCounty, Mississippi; and
WHEREAS, said deed oftrust was assigned toVanderbilt Mortgage andFinance, Inc., by Assign-ment of Trust Deed re-corded January 2, 2014, inthe Office of the afore-said Chancery Clerk as In-strument# 201400006;and
WHEREAS, VanderbiltMortgage and Finance,Inc., the holder of saiddeed of trust and the notesecured thereby, substi-tuted Lori M. Creel asTrustee therein, as au-thorized by the termsthereof, by instrumentdated January 9, 2014, andrecorded January 15,2014, in the Office of theaforesaid Chancery Clerka s I n s t r u m e n t# 2 0 1 4 0 0 1 3 5 ; a n d
WHEREAS, default hav-ing been made in theterms and conditions ofsaid deed of trust, and theent i re debt securedthereby having been de-clared to be due and pay-able in accordance withthe terms of said deed oftrust, and the legal holderof sa id indebtedness ,Vanderbilt Mortgage andFinance, Inc., having re-quested the undersignedSubstitute Trustee to ex-ecute the trust and sellsaid land and property inaccordance wi th theterms of said deed oftrust for the purpose ofra is ing the sums duethereunder, together withattorney’s fees, substitutetrustee’s fees and ex-penses of sale;
NOW, THEREFORE, I,Lori M. Creel, SubstituteTrustee in said deed oftrust will, on the 28th dayof February, 2014, offerfor sale at public outcryfor cash to the highestbidder, and sell within leg-al hours (being betweenthe hours of 11:00 a.m.and 4:00 p.m.) at theSouth main door of theAlcorn County Court-house at Corinth, AlcornCounty, Mississippi, thefollowing described prop-er ty s i tua ted in theCounty of Alcorn, Stateof Mississippi, to-wit:
Lying and being in theSoutheast Quarter of theNortheast Quarter ofSection 22, Township 1South, Range 8 East, Al-corn County, Mississippi,more particularly de-scribed as fol lows:
Commenc i n g a t t heSouthwest corner of theSoutheast Quarter of theNortheast Quarter ofSection 22, Township 1South, Range 8 East, Al-corn County, Mississippi,for and as a true point ofbeginning; run thence Eastalong said quarter sectionline a distance of 105 feet;run thence North 420feet; run thence West 105feet to the quarter sec-t ion l ine; run thenceSouth along said quartersection line 420 feet tothe true point of begin-ning.
SUBJECT to right-of-wayof county roads.
ALSO: One (1) 1999Clayton manufacturedh o m e , S e r i a l N o .C L A 0 4 5 9 3 9 T N .
Said property shall besold as is, where is. I willconvey only such title as isvested in me as Substi-tute Trustee. The fullpurchase price must bepaid in cash or by certi-fied funds at the time ofsale. WITNESS my signaturethis the 27th day of Janu-ary, 2014.
/s/ Lori M. Creel Substitute Trustee
Lori M. Creel (MS BarNo. 104145)ROSEN HARWOOD,P .A .Post Office Box 2727Tuscaloosa, AL 35403Telephone: (205) 344-5000Fax: (205) 758-8358
4tc01/31, 02/07, 02/14, &02/21/201414575
LEGALS0955
SUBSTITUTETRUSTEE'S
NOTICE OF SALE
STATE OF MISSISSIPPICOUNTY OF ALCORN
WHEREAS, on Novem-ber 15, 1999, Terry Kiddyand wife, Theresa Kiddy,executed a deed of trustto Kevin T. Clayton,Trustee for the benefit ofCMH Homes, Inc. d/b/aClayton Homes, whichdeed of trust is recordedin Book 523 at Page 25, inthe Office of the Chan-cery Clerk of AlcornCounty, Mississippi; and
WHEREAS, said deed oftrust was assigned toVanderbilt Mortgage andFinance, Inc., by Assign-ment of Trust Deed re-corded January 2, 2014, inthe Office of the afore-said Chancery Clerk as In-strument# 201400006;and
WHEREAS, VanderbiltMortgage and Finance,Inc., the holder of saiddeed of trust and the notesecured thereby, substi-tuted Lori M. Creel asTrustee therein, as au-thorized by the termsthereof, by instrumentdated January 9, 2014, andrecorded January 15,2014, in the Office of theaforesaid Chancery Clerka s I n s t r u m e n t# 2 0 1 4 0 0 1 3 5 ; a n d
WHEREAS, default hav-ing been made in theterms and conditions ofsaid deed of trust, and theent i re debt securedthereby having been de-clared to be due and pay-able in accordance withthe terms of said deed oftrust, and the legal holderof sa id indebtedness ,Vanderbilt Mortgage andFinance, Inc., having re-quested the undersignedSubstitute Trustee to ex-ecute the trust and sellsaid land and property inaccordance wi th theterms of said deed oftrust for the purpose ofra is ing the sums duethereunder, together withattorney’s fees, substitutetrustee’s fees and ex-penses of sale;
NOW, THEREFORE, I,Lori M. Creel, SubstituteTrustee in said deed oftrust will, on the 28th dayof February, 2014, offerfor sale at public outcryfor cash to the highestbidder, and sell within leg-al hours (being betweenthe hours of 11:00 a.m.and 4:00 p.m.) at theSouth main door of theAlcorn County Court-house at Corinth, AlcornCounty, Mississippi, thefollowing described prop-er ty s i tua ted in theCounty of Alcorn, Stateof Mississippi, to-wit:
Lying and being in theSoutheast Quarter of theNortheast Quarter ofSection 22, Township 1South, Range 8 East, Al-corn County, Mississippi,more particularly de-scribed as fol lows:
Commenc i n g a t t heSouthwest corner of theSoutheast Quarter of theNortheast Quarter ofSection 22, Township 1South, Range 8 East, Al-corn County, Mississippi,for and as a true point ofbeginning; run thence Eastalong said quarter sectionline a distance of 105 feet;run thence North 420feet; run thence West 105feet to the quarter sec-t ion l ine; run thenceSouth along said quartersection line 420 feet tothe true point of begin-ning.
SUBJECT to right-of-wayof county roads.
ALSO: One (1) 1999Clayton manufacturedh o m e , S e r i a l N o .C L A 0 4 5 9 3 9 T N .
Said property shall besold as is, where is. I willconvey only such title as isvested in me as Substi-tute Trustee. The fullpurchase price must bepaid in cash or by certi-fied funds at the time ofsale. WITNESS my signaturethis the 27th day of Janu-ary, 2014.
/s/ Lori M. Creel Substitute Trustee
Lori M. Creel (MS BarNo. 104145)ROSEN HARWOOD,P .A .Post Office Box 2727Tuscaloosa, AL 35403Telephone: (205) 344-5000Fax: (205) 758-8358
4tc01/31, 02/07, 02/14, &02/21/201414575
LEGALS0955
SUBSTITUTETRUSTEE'S
NOTICE OF SALE
STATE OF MISSISSIPPICOUNTY OF ALCORN
WHEREAS, on Novem-ber 15, 1999, Terry Kiddyand wife, Theresa Kiddy,executed a deed of trustto Kevin T. Clayton,Trustee for the benefit ofCMH Homes, Inc. d/b/aClayton Homes, whichdeed of trust is recordedin Book 523 at Page 25, inthe Office of the Chan-cery Clerk of AlcornCounty, Mississippi; and
WHEREAS, said deed oftrust was assigned toVanderbilt Mortgage andFinance, Inc., by Assign-ment of Trust Deed re-corded January 2, 2014, inthe Office of the afore-said Chancery Clerk as In-strument# 201400006;and
WHEREAS, VanderbiltMortgage and Finance,Inc., the holder of saiddeed of trust and the notesecured thereby, substi-tuted Lori M. Creel asTrustee therein, as au-thorized by the termsthereof, by instrumentdated January 9, 2014, andrecorded January 15,2014, in the Office of theaforesaid Chancery Clerka s I n s t r u m e n t# 2 0 1 4 0 0 1 3 5 ; a n d
WHEREAS, default hav-ing been made in theterms and conditions ofsaid deed of trust, and theent i re debt securedthereby having been de-clared to be due and pay-able in accordance withthe terms of said deed oftrust, and the legal holderof sa id indebtedness ,Vanderbilt Mortgage andFinance, Inc., having re-quested the undersignedSubstitute Trustee to ex-ecute the trust and sellsaid land and property inaccordance wi th theterms of said deed oftrust for the purpose ofra is ing the sums duethereunder, together withattorney’s fees, substitutetrustee’s fees and ex-penses of sale;
NOW, THEREFORE, I,Lori M. Creel, SubstituteTrustee in said deed oftrust will, on the 28th dayof February, 2014, offerfor sale at public outcryfor cash to the highestbidder, and sell within leg-al hours (being betweenthe hours of 11:00 a.m.and 4:00 p.m.) at theSouth main door of theAlcorn County Court-house at Corinth, AlcornCounty, Mississippi, thefollowing described prop-er ty s i tua ted in theCounty of Alcorn, Stateof Mississippi, to-wit:
Lying and being in theSoutheast Quarter of theNortheast Quarter ofSection 22, Township 1South, Range 8 East, Al-corn County, Mississippi,more particularly de-scribed as fol lows:
Commenc i n g a t t heSouthwest corner of theSoutheast Quarter of theNortheast Quarter ofSection 22, Township 1South, Range 8 East, Al-corn County, Mississippi,for and as a true point ofbeginning; run thence Eastalong said quarter sectionline a distance of 105 feet;run thence North 420feet; run thence West 105feet to the quarter sec-t ion l ine; run thenceSouth along said quartersection line 420 feet tothe true point of begin-ning.
SUBJECT to right-of-wayof county roads.
ALSO: One (1) 1999Clayton manufacturedh o m e , S e r i a l N o .C L A 0 4 5 9 3 9 T N .
Said property shall besold as is, where is. I willconvey only such title as isvested in me as Substi-tute Trustee. The fullpurchase price must bepaid in cash or by certi-fied funds at the time ofsale. WITNESS my signaturethis the 27th day of Janu-ary, 2014.
/s/ Lori M. Creel Substitute Trustee
Lori M. Creel (MS BarNo. 104145)ROSEN HARWOOD,P .A .Post Office Box 2727Tuscaloosa, AL 35403Telephone: (205) 344-5000Fax: (205) 758-8358
4tc01/31, 02/07, 02/14, &02/21/201414575
LEGALS0955
SUBSTITUTETRUSTEE'S
NOTICE OF SALE
STATE OF MISSISSIPPICOUNTY OF ALCORN
WHEREAS, on Novem-ber 15, 1999, Terry Kiddyand wife, Theresa Kiddy,executed a deed of trustto Kevin T. Clayton,Trustee for the benefit ofCMH Homes, Inc. d/b/aClayton Homes, whichdeed of trust is recordedin Book 523 at Page 25, inthe Office of the Chan-cery Clerk of AlcornCounty, Mississippi; and
WHEREAS, said deed oftrust was assigned toVanderbilt Mortgage andFinance, Inc., by Assign-ment of Trust Deed re-corded January 2, 2014, inthe Office of the afore-said Chancery Clerk as In-strument# 201400006;and
WHEREAS, VanderbiltMortgage and Finance,Inc., the holder of saiddeed of trust and the notesecured thereby, substi-tuted Lori M. Creel asTrustee therein, as au-thorized by the termsthereof, by instrumentdated January 9, 2014, andrecorded January 15,2014, in the Office of theaforesaid Chancery Clerka s I n s t r u m e n t# 2 0 1 4 0 0 1 3 5 ; a n d
WHEREAS, default hav-ing been made in theterms and conditions ofsaid deed of trust, and theent i re debt securedthereby having been de-clared to be due and pay-able in accordance withthe terms of said deed oftrust, and the legal holderof sa id indebtedness ,Vanderbilt Mortgage andFinance, Inc., having re-quested the undersignedSubstitute Trustee to ex-ecute the trust and sellsaid land and property inaccordance wi th theterms of said deed oftrust for the purpose ofra is ing the sums duethereunder, together withattorney’s fees, substitutetrustee’s fees and ex-penses of sale;
NOW, THEREFORE, I,Lori M. Creel, SubstituteTrustee in said deed oftrust will, on the 28th dayof February, 2014, offerfor sale at public outcryfor cash to the highestbidder, and sell within leg-al hours (being betweenthe hours of 11:00 a.m.and 4:00 p.m.) at theSouth main door of theAlcorn County Court-house at Corinth, AlcornCounty, Mississippi, thefollowing described prop-er ty s i tua ted in theCounty of Alcorn, Stateof Mississippi, to-wit:
Lying and being in theSoutheast Quarter of theNortheast Quarter ofSection 22, Township 1South, Range 8 East, Al-corn County, Mississippi,more particularly de-scribed as fol lows:
Commenc i n g a t t heSouthwest corner of theSoutheast Quarter of theNortheast Quarter ofSection 22, Township 1South, Range 8 East, Al-corn County, Mississippi,for and as a true point ofbeginning; run thence Eastalong said quarter sectionline a distance of 105 feet;run thence North 420feet; run thence West 105feet to the quarter sec-t ion l ine; run thenceSouth along said quartersection line 420 feet tothe true point of begin-ning.
SUBJECT to right-of-wayof county roads.
ALSO: One (1) 1999Clayton manufacturedh o m e , S e r i a l N o .C L A 0 4 5 9 3 9 T N .
Said property shall besold as is, where is. I willconvey only such title as isvested in me as Substi-tute Trustee. The fullpurchase price must bepaid in cash or by certi-fied funds at the time ofsale. WITNESS my signaturethis the 27th day of Janu-ary, 2014.
/s/ Lori M. Creel Substitute Trustee
Lori M. Creel (MS BarNo. 104145)ROSEN HARWOOD,P .A .Post Office Box 2727Tuscaloosa, AL 35403Telephone: (205) 344-5000Fax: (205) 758-8358
4tc01/31, 02/07, 02/14, &02/21/201414575
LEGALS0955
SUBSTITUTETRUSTEE'S
NOTICE OF SALE
STATE OF MISSISSIPPICOUNTY OF ALCORN
WHEREAS, on Novem-ber 15, 1999, Terry Kiddyand wife, Theresa Kiddy,executed a deed of trustto Kevin T. Clayton,Trustee for the benefit ofCMH Homes, Inc. d/b/aClayton Homes, whichdeed of trust is recordedin Book 523 at Page 25, inthe Office of the Chan-cery Clerk of AlcornCounty, Mississippi; and
WHEREAS, said deed oftrust was assigned toVanderbilt Mortgage andFinance, Inc., by Assign-ment of Trust Deed re-corded January 2, 2014, inthe Office of the afore-said Chancery Clerk as In-strument# 201400006;and
WHEREAS, VanderbiltMortgage and Finance,Inc., the holder of saiddeed of trust and the notesecured thereby, substi-tuted Lori M. Creel asTrustee therein, as au-thorized by the termsthereof, by instrumentdated January 9, 2014, andrecorded January 15,2014, in the Office of theaforesaid Chancery Clerka s I n s t r u m e n t# 2 0 1 4 0 0 1 3 5 ; a n d
WHEREAS, default hav-ing been made in theterms and conditions ofsaid deed of trust, and theent i re debt securedthereby having been de-clared to be due and pay-able in accordance withthe terms of said deed oftrust, and the legal holderof sa id indebtedness ,Vanderbilt Mortgage andFinance, Inc., having re-quested the undersignedSubstitute Trustee to ex-ecute the trust and sellsaid land and property inaccordance wi th theterms of said deed oftrust for the purpose ofra is ing the sums duethereunder, together withattorney’s fees, substitutetrustee’s fees and ex-penses of sale;
NOW, THEREFORE, I,Lori M. Creel, SubstituteTrustee in said deed oftrust will, on the 28th dayof February, 2014, offerfor sale at public outcryfor cash to the highestbidder, and sell within leg-al hours (being betweenthe hours of 11:00 a.m.and 4:00 p.m.) at theSouth main door of theAlcorn County Court-house at Corinth, AlcornCounty, Mississippi, thefollowing described prop-er ty s i tua ted in theCounty of Alcorn, Stateof Mississippi, to-wit:
Lying and being in theSoutheast Quarter of theNortheast Quarter ofSection 22, Township 1South, Range 8 East, Al-corn County, Mississippi,more particularly de-scribed as fol lows:
Commenc i n g a t t heSouthwest corner of theSoutheast Quarter of theNortheast Quarter ofSection 22, Township 1South, Range 8 East, Al-corn County, Mississippi,for and as a true point ofbeginning; run thence Eastalong said quarter sectionline a distance of 105 feet;run thence North 420feet; run thence West 105feet to the quarter sec-t ion l ine; run thenceSouth along said quartersection line 420 feet tothe true point of begin-ning.
SUBJECT to right-of-wayof county roads.
ALSO: One (1) 1999Clayton manufacturedh o m e , S e r i a l N o .C L A 0 4 5 9 3 9 T N .
Said property shall besold as is, where is. I willconvey only such title as isvested in me as Substi-tute Trustee. The fullpurchase price must bepaid in cash or by certi-fied funds at the time ofsale. WITNESS my signaturethis the 27th day of Janu-ary, 2014.
/s/ Lori M. Creel Substitute Trustee
Lori M. Creel (MS BarNo. 104145)ROSEN HARWOOD,P .A .Post Office Box 2727Tuscaloosa, AL 35403Telephone: (205) 344-5000Fax: (205) 758-8358
4tc01/31, 02/07, 02/14, &02/21/201414575
LEGALS0955
IN THE CHANCERYCOURT OF ALCORN
COUNTY, MISSISSIPPI
IN THE MATTER OF THELAST WILL AND TESTA-MENT OF EURAL CLYDEFARRIS, DECEASED
CAUSE NO. 2013-0030-02
NOTICE TOCREDITORS
LETTERS TESTAMENT-ARY having been granted onthe 21st day of January, 2014,by the Chancery Court of Al-corn County, Mississippi, tothe undersigned as Executrixof the Estate of Eural ClydeFarris, deceased, notice ishereby given to all personshaving claims against said Es-tate to present the same tothe Clerk of said Court forprobate and registration ac-cording to law within ninety(90) days from the date offirst publication of this noticewhich is the 24th day of Janu-ary, 2014, or they will beforever barred.
THIS the 21st day of Janu-ary, 2014.
PENNY H. HINTON,Executrix
Wilson & HintonPO Box 1257Corinth, MS 38835-1257662-286-3366
3tc01/24, 01/31, and 02/7/201414561
SUBSTITUTETRUSTEE'S
NOTICE OF SALE
STATE OF MISSISSIPPICOUNTY OF ALCORN
WHEREAS, on Novem-ber 15, 1999, Terry Kiddyand wife, Theresa Kiddy,executed a deed of trustto Kevin T. Clayton,Trustee for the benefit ofCMH Homes, Inc. d/b/aClayton Homes, whichdeed of trust is recordedin Book 523 at Page 25, inthe Office of the Chan-cery Clerk of AlcornCounty, Mississippi; and
WHEREAS, said deed oftrust was assigned toVanderbilt Mortgage andFinance, Inc., by Assign-ment of Trust Deed re-corded January 2, 2014, inthe Office of the afore-said Chancery Clerk as In-strument# 201400006;and
WHEREAS, VanderbiltMortgage and Finance,Inc., the holder of saiddeed of trust and the notesecured thereby, substi-tuted Lori M. Creel asTrustee therein, as au-thorized by the termsthereof, by instrumentdated January 9, 2014, andrecorded January 15,2014, in the Office of theaforesaid Chancery Clerka s I n s t r u m e n t# 2 0 1 4 0 0 1 3 5 ; a n d
WHEREAS, default hav-ing been made in theterms and conditions ofsaid deed of trust, and theent i re debt securedthereby having been de-clared to be due and pay-able in accordance withthe terms of said deed oftrust, and the legal holderof sa id indebtedness ,Vanderbilt Mortgage andFinance, Inc., having re-quested the undersignedSubstitute Trustee to ex-ecute the trust and sellsaid land and property inaccordance wi th theterms of said deed oftrust for the purpose ofra is ing the sums duethereunder, together withattorney’s fees, substitutetrustee’s fees and ex-penses of sale;
NOW, THEREFORE, I,Lori M. Creel, SubstituteTrustee in said deed oftrust will, on the 28th dayof February, 2014, offerfor sale at public outcryfor cash to the highestbidder, and sell within leg-al hours (being betweenthe hours of 11:00 a.m.and 4:00 p.m.) at theSouth main door of theAlcorn County Court-house at Corinth, AlcornCounty, Mississippi, thefollowing described prop-er ty s i tua ted in theCounty of Alcorn, Stateof Mississippi, to-wit:
Lying and being in theSoutheast Quarter of theNortheast Quarter ofSection 22, Township 1South, Range 8 East, Al-corn County, Mississippi,more particularly de-scribed as fol lows:
Commenc i n g a t t heSouthwest corner of theSoutheast Quarter of theNortheast Quarter ofSection 22, Township 1South, Range 8 East, Al-corn County, Mississippi,for and as a true point ofbeginning; run thence Eastalong said quarter sectionline a distance of 105 feet;run thence North 420feet; run thence West 105feet to the quarter sec-t ion l ine; run thenceSouth along said quartersection line 420 feet tothe true point of begin-ning.
SUBJECT to right-of-wayof county roads.
ALSO: One (1) 1999Clayton manufacturedh o m e , S e r i a l N o .C L A 0 4 5 9 3 9 T N .
Said property shall besold as is, where is. I willconvey only such title as isvested in me as Substi-tute Trustee. The fullpurchase price must bepaid in cash or by certi-fied funds at the time ofsale. WITNESS my signaturethis the 27th day of Janu-ary, 2014.
/s/ Lori M. Creel Substitute Trustee
Lori M. Creel (MS BarNo. 104145)ROSEN HARWOOD,P .A .Post Office Box 2727Tuscaloosa, AL 35403Telephone: (205) 344-5000Fax: (205) 758-8358
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NO: 2014-0039-02
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
NOTICE IS GIVEN that Let-ters Testamentary were onthe 22nd day of January, 2014granted the undersigned Ex-ecutrix of the Last Will andTestament of OLEVIA J .MATHIS, Deceased, by theChancery Court of AlcornCounty, Mississippi; and allpersons having claims againstsaid Estate are required tohave the same probated andregistered by the Clerk ofsaid Court within ninety (90)days after the date of the firstpublication of this Notice,which is the 31st day of Janu-ary, 2014, or the sam shall beforever barred.
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/s/ Shelah TeetersSHELAH TEETERS
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IN THE CHANCERYCOURT OF ALCORN
COUNTY, MISSISSIPPI
IN THE MATTER OF THELAST WILL AND TESTAT-MENT OF FRANCES G.DALTON, DECEASED
CAUSE NO: 2014-0035-02
NOTICE TOCREDITORS
LETTERS TESTAMENTARYhaving been granted on the28th day of January, 2014, bythe Chancery Court of Al-corn County, Mississippi, tothe undersigned as Joint Ex-ecutor-Joint Executrix of theEstate of Frances G. Dalton,deceased, notice is herebygiven to all persons havingclaims against said Estate topresent the same to theClerk of said Court for pro-bate and regisration accord-ing to law within ninety (90)days after the date of the firstpublication of this Notice,which is the 31st day of Janu-ary, 2014, or the same shallbe forever barred. WITNESS OUR SIGNA-TURES, this the 28th day ofJanuary, 2014.
/s/ Claude DaltonCLAUDE DALTON
/s/ Dale WarrinerDALE WARRINER
Wilson & Hinton, P.A.PO Box 1257505 E. Waldron St.Corinth, MS 38835-1257662-286-3366
3tc1/31, 02/07, 02/14/201414576
IN THE CHANCERYCOURT OF ALCORN
COUNTY, MISSISSIPPI
RE: THE LAST WILL ANDTESTAMENT OF OLEVIA J.MATHIS, DECEASED
NO: 2014-0039-02
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
NOTICE IS GIVEN that Let-ters Testamentary were onthe 22nd day of January, 2014granted the undersigned Ex-ecutrix of the Last Will andTestament of OLEVIA J .MATHIS, Deceased, by theChancery Court of AlcornCounty, Mississippi; and allpersons having claims againstsaid Estate are required tohave the same probated andregistered by the Clerk ofsaid Court within ninety (90)days after the date of the firstpublication of this Notice,which is the 31st day of Janu-ary, 2014, or the sam shall beforever barred.
WITNESS MY SIGNATURE,this the 22nd day of January,2014.
/s/ Shelah TeetersSHELAH TEETERS
Executrix
Clay S. NailsAttorney at Law509 Franklin StreetCorinth, MS 38834662-284-9701
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