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u.S. officially ends war with iraqBy The Associated Press

BAGHDAD — After nearly nine years, 4,500 American dead and 100,000 Iraqi dead, U.S. officials formally shut down the war in Iraq — a conflict that Defense Secre-tary Leon Panetta said was worth the American sacri-fice, because it set Iraq on a path to democracy.

Panetta stepped off his mili-tary plane in Baghdad today as the leader of America’s war in Iraq, but will leave as one of many top U.S. and global officials who hope to

work with the struggling nation as it tries to find its new place in the Middle East and the broader world.

Bombings and gun bat-tles are still common. And experts are concerned about the Iraqi security force’s ability to defend the nation against foreign threats.

In addition to the dead, the war left 32,000 Americans wounded and cost the U.S. more than $800 billion.

Still, Panetta said earlier this week, it “has not been in vain.”

Panetta and several other

U.S. diplomatic, military and defense leaders partici-pated today in a symbolic ceremony during which the flag of U.S. Forces-Iraq was officially retired, or “cased,” according to Army tradition. The U.S. Forces-Iraq flag was furled — or wrapped — around a flagpole and cov-ered in camouflage. It will be brought back to the U.S.

“You will leave with great pride — lasting pride,” Panetta told the troops. “Secure in knowing that your The associaTed press

Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta, right, arrives in Iraq this morning to officially end the war.See Iraq, Page A3.

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Raise freeze recommended for state government retireesBy Emily Wagster PettusThe Associated Press

JACKSON — A commis-sion is recommending a three-year freeze on the 3 percent cost-of-living adjust-ments paid to Mississippi government retirees.

It’s also asking lawmak-ers to consider a long-term change in the pension rules for new hires of state and

local government, by adding a defined-contribution com-ponent to the Mississippi Public Employee Retirement

System.The recommendations are

part of a report released Wednesday by a commis-

sion that Republican Gov. Haley Barbour appointed in August. The group is made up of business people,

elected officials and finan-cial experts, and Barbour asked them to find ways to strengthen PERS.

The commission can only make recommendations. Any changes would have to be approved by new legisla-tors who take office in early January.

Ten years ago, Mississippi

‘Who deserves this the most? The taxpayers deserve it. But the employees and the retirees deserve it the most, because they’re the people who are basing their future assumptions that this money is going to be there at a time when the system is going in the wrong

direction.’GOV. HALEy BARBOuR

See Retirees, Page A3.

Alabama educator toutsplan to beef up schoolsBy Pamela [email protected]

The best habits of leadership could be coming soon to Vicksburg schools — perhaps courtesy of some of Vicks-burg’s best leaders.

Members and directors of the Vicks-burg-Warren County Chamber of Com-merce hope to raise support and some-thing a little more tangible — money — to enable three area public schools and one parochial school to launch The Leader in Me, a youth initiative designed by “The Seven Habits of Effec-tive People” guru Franklin Covey.

“For two years, the chamber has been

focused on how the business commu-nity can make a positive contribution to our schools,” said J.E. “Brother” Blackburn, past president of the cham-ber’s board of directors and the owner of Blackburn Motor Company. “The Leader in Me (program) addresses needed changes in (student) behavior and attitude rather than curriculum.”

Wednesday’s monthly chamber lun-

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Dr. Danna “Dee Dee” Jones, the principal of Somerville Road Elementary School in Decatur, Ala., addresses the Vicksburg-Warren County Chamber of Commerce at its monthly luncheon Wednesday about implementing The Leader in Me.

onlinewww.leaderinme.org

See Chamber, Page A3.

An 18-wheeler carrying a giant rotor for Grand Gulf Nuclear Station in Claiborne County makes its way north on North Washington Street this morning, blocking traffic along the way. The blockades were orches-trated by law enforcement officers along the way, from Kansas City Southern Railway freight yard west of downtown, north on Washing-

ton, south on U.S. 61 North, to Interstate 20 West and on to U.S. 61 South, before the rig was to use Warner-Tully Road to get to Grand Gulf. The rotor is part of the power plant’s power-generation upgrade under way that is to be completed next year.

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CLUBsHester Flowers Garden — 6:30 tonight, Jordan Amborn home; 601-631-6944. Vicksburg Homecoming Be-nevolent Club — 7 tonight; monthly meeting; potluck and exchanging gifts; the home of the president.MXO Pearls Girls Club — 10:30 a.m. Saturday; Vicksburg ASU branch, Cherry Street.Letitia Street Reunion — 9 p.m. until Saturday, Christmas party; entertainment by REO; $5 admission; American Le-gion, The Hut; 1 p.m. Sunday, monthly meeting; home of Beverly Mayfield, 2008 Ford St.; 601-218-3869.

PUBLIC PROGRAMsSenior Center — Friday: 10 a.m., beanbag; 11:30, dul-cimer; 12:30 p.m., dulci-mer Christmas tunes; 1, card games and dirty Santa.Buck’s Country Playhouse — 6:30 p.m. Friday, Christmas potluck supper; music by Wild Bunch; donations accepted; 601-638-3193.Levi’s — A Gathering Place; 7-10 p.m. Saturday, Christmas jam; donations appreciated. YMCA Christmas Camp — 7 a.m.-6 p.m., for grades K-6; register at Purks Center YMCA or online at www.vicksbur-gymca.com; 601-638-1071.Winter Soup Workshop — 5:30-7:30 p.m. Jan. 17; William Furlong, presenter; $30 mem-bers, $35 nonmembers; SCHC, 601-631-2997.

CHURCHEsGibson Memorial United Methodist — 6 tonight and Friday, drive-by Nativity; 335 Oak Ridge Road.Mount Givens — 6:30 p.m. Friday, choir practice; 210 Kirk-

land Road.Shiloh Baptist — Noon Sat-urday, ladies auxiliary; 920 Meadow St. Pleasant Valley M.B. — Will-ing Workers Club fellowship meeting, 3 p.m. Saturday; 5:30, Christmas program; 2585 N. Washington St.Mount Pilgrim M.B. — Christmas program practice, 4 p.m. Saturday; Mary Gaines, 601-638-6051 or Alma Ham-berlin, 601-638-4357; 3327 U.S. 61 South.Greater Grove Street M.B. — Greater Grove Street Mass Choir concert, 6 p.m. Satur-day, featuring Lonnie McBride and Virgie Dishmon and the Chosenaires of Vicksburg; Dr. Casey D. Fisher; 2715 Alcorn Drive.

St. Alban’s Episcopal — A liv-ing Nativity, 6-8 p.m. Friday and Saturday; 5930 Warriors Trail, Bovina.Rose Hill M.B. — 7:30 p.m. Dec. 23, “The Night Before Je-sus Christ Was Born;” 683 Sten-son Road.

HOLIDAY EVENTsHoliday Skate Party — 7-11 p.m. Friday; $10; 601-634-0145; Big Wheelie, 1729 N. Frontage Road.Glenwood Circle Luminaries — Saturday at dark.“1940s Radio Hour” — 7:30 p.m. Tuesday-Thursday and Dec. 27-29 at Strand Theatre on Clay Street; $12 for adults, $8 for those younger than 12; Westside Theatre Guild, 601-636-8313 or 601-618-9349.

COMMUNITY CALENDARCulkin

Culkin Water District has issued a boil water alert for all customers in Foley’s Trailer Park, 2255 Freetown Road. Residents are asked

to boil drinking and cooking water vigorously for 2 min-utes. Additionally, the alert for customers along Center Point Road and in Dogwood Lake Subdivision has been lifted.

A Hot Wheels toy drive is under way to honor the memory of James Timothy Tomplait.

Tomplait, whose mother said her son always had a Hot Wheel in his hand, died in 2009.

The Hot Wheels collected will be donated to the Blair E. Batson Children’s Hospi-tal. Boxes for the toy collec-tion will be placed at The Vicksburg Post, at 1601 N. Frontage Road; The Cricket Box, 3040 Halls Ferry Road;

This ‘N’ That Gifts & More, 1640 U.S. 61 North; and Dr. Dan Dare’s office, 2080 S. Frontage Road.

The donated Hot Wheels should be new, individual Hot Wheels and not wrapped.

The collection will run through Monday and deliv-ered to the children on Tuesday.

For more information, call 601-397-0178.

River stage OK despite rain, hydrologist saysBy Danny Barrett [email protected]

A forecast of rain and a flood advisory issued for Mississippi River counties from Bolivar to Wilkinson is not expected to affect the river to a point of concern, a top hydrologist said.

The Mississippi River at Vicksburg was 38.3 feet this morning and is forecast to crest at 38.7 feet Monday, 4.3 feet below flood stage. Three-quarters of an inch to an inch of rain expected in the city over the next five days looks “pretty good” overall and, if anything, will keep the river stage nearly level before it falls, said Marty Pope, senior service hydrologist for the National Weather Service in

Jackson.“It’s not a big deal,” Pope

said. “It may just keep it at the levels we have (for Monday) right now.”

Kings and Ford subdivi-sions west of North Washing-ton Street in north Vicksburg were damaged heavily by last spring’s historic flood. Histor-ically, the area’s lowest-lying roads take on water only when the river hits its 43-foot flood stage.

Mayor Paul Winfield said the city is “watching the river and waiting.”

“We’re not doing anything yet, but if we feel there is an imminent threat to lives and safety, we will take steps to protect the city and to educate the people about what may happen,” he said. “We’re keep-

ing a watchful eye.” Chances for rain overall

were 80 percent tonight and 70 percent Friday. Today’s high temperature of 71 degrees will drop to 61 Friday afternoon, then to 39 degrees by Friday night.

On May 19, the river crested 14.1 feet above flood stage, at 57.1 feet, topping the 1927 mark by nearly a foot. Stages were above the 43-foot flood mark for 46 days. A new high mark was also set at Natchez, where the river crested the same day at 61.9 feet. Peak daily flows topped 1927 levels at Vicksburg — where more than 2.2 million cubic feet of water was measured — and at Arkansas City, Greenville and Natchez. BOIL wATER

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Chevrolet reportedmissing on Court

An auto theft was reported in the city Wednesday, said police Capt. Bobby Stewart.

A black 2005 Chevrolet Trailblazer valued at $5,000 was reported stolen at 3:30 p.m. in the 1600 block of Court Street.

The car had been parked in the front yard of the home when the owners left Tues-day at 9:30 a.m. and was gone when they returned Wednes-day afternoon, said Stewart.

No tag information was available.

Phone, TV takenon Main Street

A residential burglary was reported in Vicksburg this morning, said police Capt. Bobby Stewart.

An iPhone valued at $200 and a 26-inch Sanyo TV valued at $300 were reported stolen at 6:09 a.m. from a home in the 900 block of Main Street.

Jackson woman heldfor check forgery

A Jackson woman was arrested on a warrant for check forgery Wednesday at

5:10 p.m., jail records showed.April Johnson, 24, 528 N.

Canton Club Circle, was being held without bond in the Warren County Jail pending a hearing.

Johnson was arrested by Ridgeland police and trans-ferred to Warren County when the warrant, issued after she was indicted during the August term of the Warren County Grand Jury, was identified through a records search, said Sheriff Martin Pace.

Pace said Johnson’s case was initially investigated by the Vicksburg Police Department.

It was not known why Ridgeland police arrested her.

City man arrestedfor drug court

A Vicksburg man was jailed at 1:20 p.m. Wednesday on a drug court sanction, jail records showed.

Brandon McDaniel, 21, 412 Inglewood, was in the Warren County Jail without bond.

CRIMEfrom staff reports

Vicksburg Fire Department Capt. Carl Carson washes debris off South Frontage Road after a wreck at 4 p.m. Wednesday. The victim, John Hicks, 28, 211 Belva Drive, was driv-ing on Interstate 20, police said, when he attempted to change lanes and his 2006 Lin-coln LS hit a Chevrolet Silverado and veered off the highway, flipping several times over the grassy area between the highway and

South Frontage Road. The car came to a stop in front of Mutual Credit Union. Hicks was ejected and taken to River Region Medical Center, where he was treated and released, said hospital spokesman Allen Karel. The driver of the Silverado, Glenn Goulette, 24, 107 Warren St., was not injured, police said.

THAT’S THE WAY HE ROLLS

Hot Wheels toy driveongoing for Batson

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IraqContinued from Page A1.

sacrifice has helped the Iraqi people to begin a new chap-ter in history.”

During a stop in Afghan-istan this week, Panetta described the mission as “making that country sov-ereign and independent and able to govern and secure itself.”

That, he said, is “a trib-ute to everybody — every-body who fought in that war, everybody who spilled blood in that war, everybody who was dedicated to making sure we could achieve that mission.”

Iraqi citizens offered a more pessimistic assess-ment. “The Americans are leaving behind them a destroyed country,” said Mariam Khazim of Sadr City. “The Americans did not leave modern schools or big factories behind them. Instead, they left thousands of widows and orphans.”

The Iraq Body Count web-site says more than 100,000 Iraqis have been killed since the U.S. invasion in 2003.

A member of the political coalition loyal to anti-Amer-ican cleric Muqtada al-Sadr saw another message in the U.S. withdrawal. “The Ameri-can ceremony represents the failure of the U.S. occupation of Iraq due to the great resis-tance of the Iraqi people,” said Sadrist lawmaker Amir al-Kinani.

Panetta echoed President Barack Obama’s promise that the U.S. plans to keep a robust diplomatic presence in Iraq, foster a deep and

lasting relationship with the nation and maintain a strong military force in the region.

As of today, there were two U.S. bases and about 4,000 U.S. troops in Iraq — a dra-matic drop from the roughly 500 military installations and as many as 170,000 troops during the surge ordered by President George W. Bush in 2007, when violence and raging sectarianism gripped the country. All U.S. troops are slated to be out of Iraq by the end of the year, but offi-cials are likely to meet that goal a bit before then.

The total U.S. departure is a bit earlier than initially planned, and military lead-ers worry that it is a bit pre-mature for the still matur-ing Iraqi security forces, who face continuing struggles to develop the logistics, air operations, surveillance and intelligence sharing capabili-ties they will need in a diffi-

cult neighborhood.U.S. officials were unable

to reach an agreement with the Iraqis on legal issues and troop immunity that would have allowed a small training and counterterrorism force to remain. U.S. defense offi-cials said they expect there will be no movement on that issue until sometime next year.

Still, despite Obama’s ear-lier contention that all Amer-ican troops would be home for Christmas, at least 4,000 forces will remain in Kuwait for some months. The troops will be able to help final-ize the move out of Iraq, but could also be used as a quick reaction force if needed.

Obama met in Washing-ton with Iraqi Prime Minis-ter Nouri al-Maliki earlier this week, vowing to remain committed to Iraq as the two countries struggle to define their new relationship.

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cheon kicked off the drive to get the program into schools. About $50,000 per school to $75,000 per school must be raised through donations, matching and other grants and discretionary school funds, local developer, busi-nessman and chamber board member Bob Morrison III said.

A “very hard-nosed group of business guys who want results” are convinced of the program’s merits, Morri-son told about 150 business, school and civic leaders. “It could be transformative. It could change how things are in our community for this generation and for several generations,” he said.

The featured speaker was Dr. Danna “Dee Dee” Jones, principal of Somerville Road Elementary School in Deca-tur, Ala., which is in its fourth year of the leadership pro-gram and was named a Seven Habits Lighthouse School, the 12th in the nation.

Also, a presentation by members of the Bowmar Elementary School commu-nity drew a standing ova-

tion. Principal Tammy Burris, teachers, a sixth-grade stu-dent and a representative of the PTO explained why Bowmar will benefit from the program, and a video featur-ing the hiring chiefs of such local standouts as the Engi-neer Research and Develop-ment Center, an arm of the U.S. Army Corps of Engi-neers, and River Region Med-ical Center, explained ben-efits to business of educating students in character traits such as accountability, pride of performance and initiative.

Bowmar is one of two local schools — the other is Bovina Elementary — that are “shovel ready” to implement

The Leader in Me in Septem-ber, said chamber director Christi Kilroy. Two others, Dana Road Elementary and Vicksburg Catholic School, which comprises St. Fran-cis Xavier Elementary and St. Aloysius High School, are nearly ready.

Vicksburg Warren School District Superintendent Dr. Elizabeth Duran Swinford said she strongly supports the initiative and the cham-ber’s selection process.

“Everyone has leadership potential,” she said. “It’s iden-tifying and building on it that can make a difference.”

A panel of chamber mem-bers evaluated presentations from a number of schools interested in implementing the program, Blackburn said, and narrowed the initial field to the four.

The panel looked for evi-dence that administration, faculty and staff are fully informed about and com-mitted to its principles, said Kilroy.

“They want to be good stew-ards of any money raised from business and individu-

als, and not just throw money into a big pot,” she said. “They are setting a standard schools have to reach.”

Jones said her school has seen higher student test scores, increased parent involvement, steady atten-dance rates and fewer disci-pline referrals.

“It offers a huge return on investment and puts every-one on an equal footing,” Jones said.

Jones’ school, where 96 per-cent of the students are on free or reduced meal plans and 24 percent have special education needs, also has a highly transient student pop-ulation and presented chal-lenges that the leadership program met head on, she said. It emphasizes self-dis-cipline, commitment to stud-ies, planning and goal setting in adapting Covey’s seven habits, and has especially brought parents on board.

“Supporting this initiative might be the most important thing any of us do as citizens of Vicksburg,” Morrison said. “This is about hope — hope for a better future.”

To contributeDonations, marked “The Leader in Me,” can be mailed to the Vicksburg Warren County Chamber of Commerce Communi-ty Fund, 2020 Mission 66, Vicksburg, MS 39180. For more information, call the chamber at 601-636-1012.

RetireesContinued from Page A1.

PERS had enough money to cover 88 percent of its long-term responsibilities, Bar-bour said.

Now, it has enough money to cover 62.5 percent, and money managers would like to see the system have at least 80 percent, he said.

Barbour, who leaves office Jan. 10, said many states are shoring up the finances of their public employees’ pen-sion plans, and Mississippi needs to do it, too.

“Who deserves this the most?” Barbour said Wednesday. “The taxpayers deserve it. But the employ-ees and the retirees deserve it the most, because they’re the people who are basing their future assumptions that this money is going to be there at a time when the system is going in the wrong direction.”

Under the current struc-ture, all of PERS is a defined benefit plan, with manag-ers making investments for all participants and retir-ees receiving a guaranteed payout based on how many

years they work and how much they earn on the job.

If a defined contribu-tion plan is added for new employees, the workers would either manage part of their own investments for retirement or hire someone to manage the investments for them.

The cost-of-living adjust-ment is typically referred to as a “13th check” because many retirees take it as a lump payment at the end of each calendar year. How-ever, they have the option to receive the COLA each month.

Mississippi PERS man-ages pension funds for 80,000 state and local government retirees and 167,000 active employees.

The members include teachers, firefighters, state hospital workers, prison guards and other nonfederal government workers.

State troopers have a sepa-rate fund, while legislators have a supplemental fund on top of the regular plan.

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OLD POST FILES120 YEARS AGO: 1891Ed Cotton dies. • Charles Ehlbert chases a burglar. • Laura Collier contemplates going to Louisville, Ky., to live.

110 YEARS AGO: 1901William T. Smith, popular Valley Railroad engineer, dies. • The Rev. J.M. Weems, now presiding elder of the Vicksburg District, preaches at Crawford Street Methodist Church.

100 YEARS AGO: 1911Whitfield Griffith is here from Oklahoma for the holidays. • Capt. James Gorman returns from Biloxi where he spent the holidays. • Fran Schrader and Sybil Heard are married.

90 YEARS AGO: 1921Pauline Morris and father leave to go to New Orleans to visit relatives. • E.J. Bonner is here for the holidays. • Albert Spen-gler returns from Chicago.

80 YEARS AGO: 1931Services are held for John Wright at Yokena. • Mr. and Mrs. T.D. Hutchins enjoy a trip to New Orleans. • Mr. and Mrs. George Jenne and children are here from Yazoo City. • G.W. Swanson, former resident, dies in Chicago.

70 YEARS AGO: 1941Daisye Fuller visits in Union. • “Junie” Hovious and Kather-ine Tennant are married. • Lt. Gerald Melsheimer of the U.S. Army returns to his station after spending the holidays with his family. • Annie Marie Head returns from Houston, Texas, where she visited relatives.

60 YEARS AGO: 1951Lawrence Tierney stars in “The Hoodlum” at the Joy The-atre. • J.F. Causey is elected president of the Illinois Central Employees Service Club. • William Chaney passes away.

50 YEARS AGO: 1961Mr. and Mrs. Tommy Barnes celebrate their 25th wedding anniversary. • Mr. and Mrs. J.M. Stanley announce the birth of a daughter, Jill, on Dec. 29. • Frank Pajerski is named to the administrative board of Mercy Hospital-Street Memorial.

40 YEARS AGO: 1971Evan Doss, 23, is sworn in as Claiborne County tax collector-assessor, the only black collector-assessor in the state.

30 YEARS AGO: 1981Guy V. Lewis dies. • St. Francis Xavier Elementary School performs its annual Christmas play. • Angela Taylor, 1, is injured in an auto accident. • Dr. Wright L. Lassiter Jr. is guest speaker at Mount Carmel M.B. Church.

20 YEARS AGO: 1991Vicksburg attorney and former state Sen. Ellis B. Bodron is chosen by President Bush to be a member of the National Council on Disability. • Keria Cachet Goodman celebrates her first birthday.

10 YEARS AGO: 2001Dr. B.N. Shaw, Mississippi Valley State professor, signs copies of “In the Name of God” at the Public Library. • Dezmond De’Shawn Miller celebrates his fourth birthday.

STARKVILLE — Back in Rhode Island, they called Frank Williams — the former chief jus-tice of that state’s Superior Court (the same court Mississippi calls the state supreme court) — “Maximum Frank.”

Williams earned that title as a no-nonsense trial judge and later as an appellate court judge in Rhode Island for eight years, cul-minating in his service as chief justice. His legal career came after Williams served from 1962-67 as a U.S. Army captain in Viet-nam, earning the Bronze Star, the Combat Infantry Badge, and the Republic of Vietnam Gal-lantry Cross with Silver Star for valor.

The judge later accepted a White House appointment through the Department of Defense in 2003 to serve as a member of the Review Panel for the Military Commissions to be held in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, with the rank of Major General. Subsequently, the Military Com-missions Act of 2006 created the

Court of Military Commission Review, on which Williams con-tinues serving as chief judge.

But it is the retired judge’s renown as a scholar on the lives and careers of Abraham Lincoln and U.S. Grant that brought Wil-liams into the orbit of Mississippi State University. Williams deliv-ered the university’s fall com-mencement speech Friday night.

Williams is the founding chair-man of The Lincoln Forum, a national organization of Lincoln and Civil War buffs and schol-ars. Since 1990, Williams has also served as president of the Ulysses S. Grant Association. He

has written or edited numerous books, including “Judging Lin-coln” (Southern Illinois Univer-sity Press, 2002).

In 2008, Williams was instru-mental in the choice of the Mitch-ell Memorial Library at MSU to become the repository of the U.S. Grant papers. Comprised of some 15,000 linear feet of correspon-dence, research notes, artifacts, photographs, scrapbooks and memorabilia, the Grant Asso-ciation Collection housed in the MSU Library is the largest single collection of material of and about the famed Civil War Union general who went on to become

the nation’s 18th U.S. president.During his visit to MSU, Wil-

liams told one audience that his lifelong interest in Lincoln began in elementary school: “In sixth grade, you were seated alphabetically and if your last name began with a “w” you sat in the last row. In my case, that seat was under a great portrait of Lincoln. I liked the face. My teacher, Mrs. Taylor, saw this. She helped direct me to study Lincoln. I got 25 cents a day in lunch money and many times, my lunch money went to buy used Lincoln books. Sandburg’s Lincoln, Carnegie’s Lincoln, not very good biographies, but it was a beginning.”

Williams’ interest in Lincoln continued long after his court-ship and marriage of his wife, Virginia. The Frank and Virginia Williams Collection of Lincolni-ana has about 12,000 books and pamphlets, 40,000 clippings, and 20,000 items including numismat-ics, philately, political parapher-nalia, photographs, maps, prints

and statuary.In 1863, Grant’s army won a

series of battles in Mississippi that culminated in a bloody siege at Vicksburg that ended in Confederate surrender on July 4, 1863. One of the combatants who fought Grant and his forces during the Vicksburg campaign was Confederate Gen. Stephen Dill Lee. Lee was wounded in the shoulder at the Battle of Cham-pion Hill. After the war, Lee would become the first presi-dent of Mississippi Agricul-tural & Mechanical College in Starkville — now Mississippi State University.

MSU ranks with the Univer-sity of Virginia (Thomas Jeffer-son) and Princeton (Woodrow Wilson) as universities desig-nated as repositories of presiden-tial papers.

But for the MSU students who were fortunate to hear him speak, Williams made that his-tory come alive.

•Sid Salter is a syndicated columnist. Contact him at 601-507-8004 or [email protected]

Retired Rhode Island jurist driving force behind MSU’s Grant Collection

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MSU ranks with the Univer-sity of Virginia (Thomas Jeffer-son) and Princeton (Woodrow Wilson) as universities desig-nated as repositories of presi-

dential papers.

MintA dollar bill, as we all know too

well, is a fleeting thing. Not just because it leaves our hands so much more easily than it returns but because, as it changes hands, it wears out within about three years, and often sooner.

A coin’s life span, by contrast, averages 30 years. That’s why several members of Congress are suggesting phasing out the dollar bill entirely and replacing it with a coin. The production savings could add up to $5.5 billion over those three decades, proponents say.

Coins are bulkier, but at least vending machines wouldn’t spit them back out at us for having untidy corners or a crease here or there.

But if Congress wants to save money on money, there’s no reason to stop at the dollar bill. The U.S. Treasury has nickel-and-dimed for years on the pro-

duction of nickels and, well, pen-nies, both of which cost more to produce than they’re worth. The cost of a penny is volatile because it depends on the metals market — pennies are made of copper-plated zinc — but figures for 2010 put the price of producing 1 cent at close to 2 cents, meaning that the government loses a cent for every one it makes. With 7 bil-lion pennies manufactured per year, that’s almost $70 million lost annually.

And what do people do with pennies? They leave them on the cafeteria counter for the next cus-tomer or toss them into jars to be redeemed ... someday. Pennies are a significant added expense for retailers, costing a couple of cents per purchase in added transaction time — including the seconds customers spend hunt-ing for the penny in their pocket so they can avoid getting more

pennies in change.The one-cent coin, let’s face it,

is little more than a nostalgia item, a copper-clad anachronism whose absence few outside the zinc industry would notice. Since the 1980s, the U.S. military has done without the penny on over-seas bases, rounding out trans-actions to the nearest nickel with no noticeable harm.

And that nickel? An even bigger loser, costing up to 9 cents each to produce. As President Barack Obama sensibly suggested in 2010, this could be solved by making the nickel out of cheaper materials than the current cop-per-nickel alloy.

The worth of today’s coins has nothing to do with their mineral content; they are merely tokens of value, like the dollar bill that we could do without, thereby saving many more dollars.

It’s time to save money on money

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Q: My husband and I have acquired so many credit cards that we never use, and there have been no annual fees. With the new laws, I’m wondering if that’s going to change. I also

would like to ask whether it’s true that can-celing a card can affect your credit rating nega-

tively. — Marilyn, OregonA: Lots of luck with reading

all the fine print. I have tried to digest a good deal of it. I under-stand that, like many people, you have acquired many credit cards, and because there’s no annual fee, what difference does it make?

If you have a stack of these, cancel many of them. It is true that when you reduce your available credit (Visa, Master-Card, American Express, etc., not department store or gas cards), your credit rating will take a small hit. That will go away. Having all of these cards that you’re not using, where you’re not even reading state-ments and could be tapped for identity theft, can do you no good. If you are very sensitive about your credit rating, you might want to do this over a period of time.

For the average bear, two or three credit cards and maybe one department store card should be sufficient. Other than that, I would cancel the rest.

•Bruce Williams writes for Newspaper Enterprise Association. E-mail him at [email protected].

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The following quotes on local companies are provided as a service by Smith Barney Citi Group, 112-B Monument Place, 601-636-6914.Archer-Daniels (ADM)............ 27.43American Fin. (AFG) .................35.72Ameristar (ASCA) .......................17.05Auto Zone (AZO) .................... 324.32Bally Technologies (BYI) ..........36.28BancorpSouth (BXS) ................... 9.99Britton Koontz (BKBK) ............... 5.91Bunge Ltd. (BG) ..........................57.34Cracker Barrel (CBRL) ...............49.30Champion Ent. (CHB).....................20Com. Health Svcs. (CYH) ..............16.66Computer Sci. Corp. (CSC) ..........24.93Cooper Industries (CBE) .........51.85CBL and Associates (CBL) ...............14.78CSX Corp. (CSX) ..........................20.04East Group Prprties (EGP)............40.59El Paso Corp. (EP) ......................24.87Entergy Corp. (ETR) ..................70.60

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Dems abandoning surtax plan

WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrats are abandoning their demand for a surtax on millionaires to help finance pay-roll tax cuts in a sign that law-makers are trying to broker a compromise on Congress’ high-est-profile year-end dispute.

Even so, there is no clear path to quick bipartisan agreement on the legislation, which would prevent an automatic Social Security tax increase on 160 million workers and the expi-ration of jobless benefits for people out of work the longest. Both would occur Jan. 1 with-out congressional action.

Lawmakers are also embroiled in a squabble over a huge, separate spending bill, a dispute that would force a shut-down of most of the govern-ment on Saturday unless it is resolved. Neither party wants to risk the wrath of voters by shuttering government doors.

Republicans said they plan

to try winning House approval for a $1 trillion measure financ-ing dozens of agencies through next September.

House Republicans officially unveiled the massive, biparti-san spending bill late Wednes-day to fulfill transparency rules, but Senate Democrats had yet to officially sign on. However, the measure wasn’t expected to change much, if at all, before a vote Friday, despite White House protests and an explicit veto threat regarding provisions placing limits on the ability of Cuban immigrants to visit families on the island or send money back to them.

Senate aides said top Demo-

crats are writing a new ver-sion of the payroll tax legisla-tion that would exclude a 1.9 percent surtax on people earn-ing more than $1 million a year, a levy Democrats relied on to pay for their previous payroll tax cut bills. Instead, they said, their new legislation’s savings would include higher fees that government-run Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac would charge to back mortgages and reve-nue from selling portions of the broadcast spectrum.

In one instance of coopera-tion, the Senate was expected to give final congressional approval today to a $662 billion defense bill.

FedEx earnings, job news push Dow up 88 points

NEW YORK (AP) — Strong earnings from FedEx and a sharp drop in claims for unem-ployment benefits sent stocks higher in early trading today.

The Dow Jones industrial average jumped 88 points, or 0.7 percent, to 11,911 in the first half hour of trading. The Dow lost 360 points over the past three days as on worries that Europe’s latest plan to keep its cur-rency union intact would fail.

FedEx reported that its quar-terly income nearly doubled on strong growth in online shopping during the holiday season. FedEx is seen as a bell-wether for the economy. Its stock jumped 4.9 percent.

The number of people apply-ing for unemployment benefits dropped last week to 366,000, the lowest level since May 2008. That’s a sign that layoffs are easing, a first step toward bringing down the unemploy-ment rate, which currently stands at 8.6 percent.

The gains were broad. All 10 industry groups in the S&P rose, led by health care and banks. Every stock in the Dow Jones industrial average rose except for AT&T Inc., which slipped 0.3 percent. Pfizer Inc. rose the most, 1.7 percent.

The Standard & Poor’s 500 rose 8 points, or 0.7 percent, to 1,220. The Nasdaq rose 10, or 0.4 percent, 2,549.

In corporate news, Michael Kors Holdings Ltd. jumped 23 percent to $24.84 on its first day of trading. The ini-

tial public offering valued the fashion design company at $3.8 billion.

Novellus Systems Inc. jumped 21 percent. The semi-conductor equipment maker said late Wednesday that it was being acquired by rival Lam Research Corp.

Rite Aid Corp. rose 7 percent. T h e d r u g -store chain announced that losses had narrowed in its third quarter.

European markets rose, a day after big declines, as an auction of

Spanish government bonds drew strong demand from investors. Germany’s DAX rose 1.7 percent; France’s main stock index rose 1.2 percent.

The euro rose against the dollar, moving back above $1.30, a day after hitting an 11-month low. The yields on Spanish and Italian govern-ment fell, a sign that inves-tors were less worried about the ability of those countries to pay back their debts.

European aCentral Bank President Mario Draghi said there’s “no external savior” for heavily indebted govern-ments in the eurozone debt crisis and gave no sign the bank is ready to step in and support their finances.

Draghi said governments must take the tough steps to balance budgets and reform economies to promote growth.

“I will never tire of saying that the first response should be from government,” Draghi said today in Berlin.

Tobacco firmsto pay $6.25M toonline database

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — The nation’s two biggest tobacco companies, Philip Morris USA Inc. and R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co., have agreed to pay $6.25 million to support the coun-try’s largest online collection of internal tobacco industry docu-ments, the Justice Department announced Wednesday.

The settlement resolves a dispute over an online docu-ment database that a U.S. Dis-trict Court judge in Washing-ton, D.C., mandated in a 2006 ruling in which she found the companies masked the dangers of smoking.

U.S. District Judge Gladys Kes-sler said the companies were trying to deceive people about the health effects of smoking and nicotine addiction.

Over the next four years, the companies will fund and enhance access to the Legacy Tobacco Documents Library, an online database of more than 13 million internal tobacco com-pany documents.

House Republicans unveil $1 trillion spending billSenate aides said top Democrats are writing a new

version of the payroll tax legislation that would exclude a 1.9 percent surtax on people earning more than $1 million a year, a levy Democrats relied on to

pay for their previous payroll tax cut bills.

The number of people applying for

unemployment benefits dropped last week to

366,000, the lowest level since May 2008.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The average rate on the 30-year fixed mortgage fell back down to 3.94 percent, the record low set earlier in the fall.

Low rates offer a historic opportunity for those who can afford to buy or refi-nance. Still, few people are able to take advantage of the record-low rates or have already done so.

The rate on the 30-year home loan fell from 3.99 percent the previous week, Freddie Mac said today. The 3.94 percent average is the lowest on records dating to the 1950s.

The average on the 15-year fixed mortgage fell to 3.21 percent from 3.27 percent. That’s also a record.

Rates have been below 5 percent for all but two weeks this year. Even so, this year could end up as the worst for home sales in 14 years.

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TONIGHT

Partly cloudy tonight with showers, lows in the 50s;

mostly cloudy Friday with showers and thunder-

storms, highs in the 60s

55°

PRECISION FORECASTBY CHIEF METEOROLOGIST

BARBIE BASSSETTFRIdAy

63°

WEATHERThis weather package is compiled from historical records and information

provided by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the

City of Vicksburg and The Associated Press.

LOCAL FORECASTfriday-saturday

Partly cloudy with showers and thunderstorms; highs in the 60s, lows in the 50s

STATE FORECASTtONiGHt

Partly cloudy with show-ers; lows in the 50s

friday-saturdayPartly cloudy with showers and thunderstorms; highs in the 60s, lows in the 50s

ALmAnACHiGHs aNd LOws

High/past 24 hours............. 70ºLow/past 24 hours .............. 56ºAverage temperature ........ 63ºNormal this date .................. 50ºRecord low .............15º in 1901Record high ...........76º in 1948

raiNfaLLRecorded at the

Vicksburg Water PlantPast 24 hours ............. 0.03 inchThis month .............1.50 inchesTotal/year ............. 38.47 inchesNormal/month .....2.81 inchesNormal/year ....... 49.23 inches

sOLuNar tabLeMost active times for fish

and wildlife Friday:A.M. Active ........................... 9:35A.M. Most active ................ 3:23P.M. Active ............................ 9:58P.M. Most active ................. 3:46

suNrise/suNsetSunset today ....................... 4:59Sunset tomorrow .............. 4:59Sunrise tomorrow ............. 6:57

RIVER DATAstaGes

Mississippi Riverat Vicksburg

Current: 38.3 | Change: +0.2Flood: 43 feet

Yazoo River at GreenwoodCurrent: 22.5 | Change: +0.2

Flood: 35 feetYazoo River at Yazoo City

Current: 22.3 | Change: +0.1Flood: 29 feet

Yazoo River at BelzoniCurrent: 21.3 | Change: +0.2

Flood: 34 feetBig Black River at West

Current: 3.1 | Change: -0.1Flood: 12 feet

Big Black River at BovinaCurrent: 7.0 | Change: NC

Flood: 28 feet

steeLe bayOuLand ...................................85.9River ...................................85.7

mISSISSIPPI RIVER FORECAST

Cairo, Ill.Friday ...................................... 42.8Saturday ................................ 42.5Sunday ................................... 42.1

MemphisFriday ...................................... 26.8Saturday ................................ 26.7Sunday ................................... 26.5

GreenvilleFriday ...................................... 43.3Saturday ................................ 43.4Sunday ................................... 43.4

VicksburgFriday ...................................... 38.5Saturday ................................ 38.6Sunday ................................... 38.6

Lamar C. BrownMemorial services for

Lamar C. Brown will be at 11 a.m. Saturday at Wesley United Methodist Church.

Mr. Brown died Sunday, Dec. 4, 2011, at River Region Medical Center. He was 73.

He was a graduate of Rosa A. Temple High School and received a bachelor’s degree from Jackson State Uni-versity. He taught school in Warren and Copiah counties.

He was a member of Phi Beta Sigma fraternity.

He was preceded in death by his parents, Burton A.L. Brown Sr. and Etta Marley Brown; and a brother, Burton D. Brown.

Survivors include one daughter, Deborah Brown Young of Phoenix, Ariz.; one brother, Harold D. Brown of Kosciusko; and friends and other relatives, including Elma D. Brown, Jessie Lacey and members of the Marley, Brown, Childs and McWane families.

Dillon-Chisley Funeral Home has charge of arrangements.

Willie Mae davisROLLING FORK — Willie

Mae Davis died Tuesday, Dec. 13, 2011, at Sharkey-Issaquena Hospital in Rolling Fork. She was 88.

Mrs. Davis had lived in Roll-ing Fork most of her married life. She was the owner of a day care center at her home and a member of First Bap-tist Church of Rolling Fork.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Edwin Leon Davis; a daughter, Dianna Cooper; a great-grandson, Robert Joseph Fletcher; a brother; and a sister.

Survivors include a son, Leon Davis of Vicksburg; three daughters, Rosemary Davis, Edwina Warbington and Emily Heranney, all of Rolling Fork; a sister, Esma Parks of Vicksburg; seven grandchildren; and 12 great-grandchildren.

Graveside services will be at 11 a.m. Friday at Mound Cemetery in Rolling Fork with the Rev. Millard Caulder officiating. Visitation will be Friday from 9 a.m. until the service at Glenwood Funeral Home in Rolling Fork.

Pallbearers will be Brad Fletcher, Audie Heranney, Eddie Davis, Early Cooper, Jody Warbington, John Davis Warbington and Willie Cooper.

John B. EderingtonJohn B. Ederington, M.D.,

passed away Saturday, Dec. 10, 2011, at his home at the age of 74.

Born and raised in Warren, Ark., he spent his childhood playing and working on the family farm. After attend-ing Vanderbilt University, John went on to graduate from Tulane Medical School. He completed his intern-ship at Baptist Medical in Nashville before joining the U.S. Air Force for a two-year stint. He served his resi-dency at hospitals in New Orleans and Monroe, La. John and his family moved in 1969 to Vicksburg, where he began practicing ophthal-mology. He retired from his practice in 1997. John was a fellow of the American Col-lege of Surgeons and a past member of the Mississippi Medical Association. He was also involved with the Y’s Men’s Club at the YMCA for many years. In his free time, John enjoyed duck hunting with his friends at the Tupelo Break Duck Club and Riv-erland Properties and spent many hours in his wood-working shop.

His parents, Louis Wilson and Mary Catherine Bayliss

Ederington, preceded him in death.

John is survived by his loving wife of 49 years, Peggy Sue Marionneaux Edering-ton of Vicksburg; his daugh-ter, Mary Elizabeth “Beth” Ederington of St. Petersburg, Fla.; a son and daughter-in-law, Charles Dixon and Debo-rah Herrod Ederington; two grandchildren, Courtney Elizabeth and Gage Dixon Ederington, all of Vicks-burg; and a brother and sis-ter-in-law, Louis Havis and Anne Jewell Ederington of Norman, Okla.

Memorial services will be held at 2 p.m. Friday, Dec. 16, 2011, at the Glenwood Funeral Home Chapel. Visi-tation will be tonight, Dec. 15, 2011, from 5 until 8 at the funeral home.

Memorials are requested to the Vicksburg YMCA, 2674 YMCA Place, Vicksburg, MS 39183 or the American Cancer Society, Mid-South Division, 1380 Livingston Lane, Jackson, MS 39213.

Andrew J. Flowers Services for Andrew J.

Flowers will be at 11 a.m. Sat-urday at Lakeview Memo-rial Funeral Home with the Rev. James O. Bowman Sr. officiat-ing. Burial will follow at Pleasant Hill M.B. Church Cemetery. Visitation will be from 1 until 6 p.m. Friday at the funeral home with the family present from 5 until 6.

Mr. Flowers died Thursday, Dec. 8, 2011, at River Region Medical Center. He was 63.

Mr. Flowers was retired from General Motors of Sag-inaw, Mich. He attended Rosa A. Temple High School.

He was preceded in death by his father, Peter Flow-ers Sr.; and a sister, Patricia Flowers of Eubanks.

Survivors include his wife of 31 years, Shirley Flowers of Vicksburg; a son, Andrew James Smith of Saginaw; two daughters, Heather Jordan of Jackson and Tiffany G. Schattily of Vicksburg; his mother, Margaree T. Flow-ers of Vicksburg; two broth-ers, Peter Flowers Jr. and Kiahcam L. Flowers, both of Vicksburg; five sisters, Annie Mae Marshall, Victoria May-field, Willie Mae Maxey and Deyannah M. Flowers, all of Vicksburg and Viola Cash of Woodbridge, Va.; eight grandchildren; numerous friends and relatives includ-ing the Tolliver, Nervies and Austin families.

Paul W. IngleMemorial services for Paul

W. Ingle will be at 10 a.m. Friday at Southside Baptist Church with the Rev. Greg Clemts officiating. Frank J. Fisher Funeral Home has charge of arrangements.

Mr. Ingle died Monday, Dec. 12, 2011, at River Region Med-ical Center. He was 58.

Sellos Marshall Jr.Services for Sellos Marshall

Jr. will be at 11 a.m. Saturday at Mount Carmel Ministries with Pastor Elnora Littleton officiating. Burial will follow at Greenlawn Gardens Cem-etery. Visitation will be from 2 until 6 p.m. Friday at Dillon-Chisley Funeral Home and Saturday at the church from 9:30 a.m. until the service.

Mr. Marshall died Tuesday, Dec. 13, 2011, at Covenant Health and Rehab of Vicks-burg. He was 82.

Mr. Marshall retired as an electrician from Magnolia Homes after 32 years of ser-

vice. He was of the Baptist faith.

He was preceded in death by his wife, Reola Marshall; his parents, Sellos Sr. and Orveal Marshall; one brother, James Marshall; and one sister, Rosie Lee Tillman.

He is survived by two sons, Larry Marshall and Carl Marshall, both of Vicksburg; three daughters, Clara Davis, Teresa Logan and Joanne Miller, all of Vicksburg; a brother, David Marshall of Vicksburg; six grandchil-dren; 10 great-grandchildren; and nieces, nephews and other relatives, including the Brown and Davis families of Vicksburg.

Julia Ellen ScottPORT GIBSON — Julia

Ellen Scott died Saturday, Dec. 10, 2011, at Patient’s Choice Hospital. She was 79.

Mrs. Scott was preceded in death by her husband, David Scott; her parents, Virgel and Marie McLaughlin Smith; a daughter, Patricia Easterly; a son, Ronnie Spruille; one brother, Horace Smith; and one sister, Bessie Allen.

Survivors include four sons, Louis Spruille and Ken-neth Spruille, both of Port Gibson, Johnny R. Scott of Brandon and Dexter Scott of Laurel; three daughters, Luticia Spruille and Bobbie Spruille, both of Port Gibson, and Cassandra Scott-Parker of New Orleans; two broth-ers, Johnny McLaughlin of New Orleans and Robert McLaughlin of Vicksburg; one sister, Marcia Pettis of Greenville; 19 grandchil-dren; 13 great-grandchil-dren; and nieces, nephews, friends and other relatives, including Wilbert Bosley of Port Gibson, Dexter Spruille of Atlanta and Desmaria Spruille of New Orleans.

Services will be at 1 p.m. Saturday at St. Peter A.M.E. Church in Port Gibson with Pastor Byram McKenzie offi-ciating. Burial will follow at Holly Grove Cemetery in Pattison. Visitation will be from 1 until 5 p.m. Friday at Thompson Funeral Home of Port Gibson and Saturday at the church from noon until the service.

Wayne SmithMADISON — Wayne

Smith a former alderman for Vicksburg, passed away Sunday, Dec. 11, 2011, at St. Dominic Hospital in Jackson. Visitation was today from 10 until noon in the fellowship hall at Briarwood Presbyte-rian Church in Jackson, fol-lowed at noon by a Memorial Celebration of Life Service at the church. Wright and Ferguson Funeral Home has

charge of arrangements.Wayne was born Nov. 29,

1952, in Vicksburg to James and Ruby Jewel Smith. He graduated from Warren Cen-tral High School, where he excelled in football and track and was voted captain of his football team his senior year. He then graduated from the University of Southern Mis-sissippi in 1975 with a degree in Urban and Municipal Recreation.

He returned to Vicksburg to work in the city recreation department and worked his way up to superintendent of the department at the young age of 25. He was elected South Ward Alderman at the age of 28, a full-time posi-tion in Vicksburg, and served three terms in office. One of the many highlights of his tenure was helping bring casino gaming to Vicksburg.

At the end of his term in 1993, he moved to Madison and was hired at the Missis-sippi Department of Wild-life, Fisheries and Parks to facilitate the legislative bond bill to construct golf courses in Sardis and McComb. He was then named executive director of the Mississippi Agriculture and Forestry Museum, followed by being named executive director of the State Fair Commis-sion, from which he retired in 2002. In retirement, he worked part-time with the Swedish-American Cham-ber of Commerce in Madison and started a small business called F and W Distributors.

He was a life member of the USM Alumni Association. Accomplishments during his work life included serving on the Board of Directors of the Central Mississippi Plan-ning and Development Dis-trict, the Mississippi Munici-pal League, the Hotel/Motel Association and as president of the Metro Jackson Attrac-tions Association. While in Vicksburg, he received awards for outstanding lead-ership from the BMX Par-ents Association, the Vicks-burg Foundation for Historic Preservation and received the United Way of Warren County President’s Award for Outstanding Leadership. He also was one of the original organizers of RiverFest and served on the Sprague Arti-facts Restoration Committee.

Wayne is survived by his loving wife, Frances of Madi-son; brothers Joe Smith (Carolyn), Richard Smith (Jeanette), Bill Smith and Charley Smith (Bille Sue); and sisters, Catherine Hol-lowell (Bob) and Linda Hull (James), all of Vicksburg; many nieces and nephews, great-nieces and -nephews, two godchildren and his dearly loved dogs, Baby Girl

and LadyBug.Wayne is described by

friends as an easy man to like who never had a bad word to say about anybody. He believed it was impor-tant to give back. He was a man of integrity, compassion, humor, and had a fierce loy-alty and the deepest love for his wife, family, and friends. We all miss him, but we will honor and cherish his memory forever.

In lieu of flowers, the family requests donations to any animal rescue organization, as his rescue pets were one of his greatest joys.

Alfred Julius Williams Sr.

Services for Alfred Julius “Rip” Williams Sr. will be at 11 a.m. Saturday at W.H. Jef-ferson Funeral Home Chapel with the Rev. Robert L. Lewis officiating. Burial will follow at Beech Grove M.B. Church Cemetery. Visitation will be from 5 until 6 p.m. Friday at the funeral home.

Mr. Williams died Thurs-day, Dec. 8, 2011, at River Region Medical Center. He was 66.

He was a graduate of Rosa A. Temple High School and a retired construction worker. He was a member of Beech Grove M.B. Church.

He was preceded in death by his parents, Alex and Ruby Nix Williams; a brother, Ray Williams; and a sister, Mary Cooksey.

Survivors include three sons, Alfred J. Williams Jr. of Maywood, Calif., Alfred Dean Sylvester of Indianap-olis, Ind., and Michael D. Williams, all of Vicksburg; three daughters, Evita L. Williams of Vicksburg and Andrea Williams and Shelia Williams, both of Maywood; three brothers, James Wil-liams, Dillard Williams and Eddie W. Williams, all of Vicksburg; four sisters, Estella Brooks, Rosie Turner and Vera Williams, all of Vicksburg, and Ellen Wil-liams of Houma, La.; three grandchildren; and nieces, nephews, cousins and other relatives.

DEATHS

Andrew J.Flowers

Study group eyes 8 projects for Gulf restorationJACKSON (AP) — Citing

“widespread and extensive” damage from the disastrous 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, a group of state and federal environmental officials said Wednesday it’s important to begin restoration and listed

eight proposed projects.The April 20, 2010, spill killed

11 people. It was the worst in U.S. history.

The projects include; • The Lake Hermitage Marsh

Creation Project in Plaque-mines Parish, La., would

create 104 acres of marsh.• The Louisiana Oyster

Cultch Project in St. Bernard, Plaquemines, Lafourche, Jef-ferson and Terrebonne par-ishes would involve oyster bed restoration.

• The Mississippi Oyster

Cultch Restoration Project in the Mississippi Sound.

• The Mississippi Artificial Reef Habitat Project near Hancock, Harrison and Jack-son counties.

• The Alabama Dune Resto-ration Cooperative Project in

Baldwin County.• The Florida (Pensacola

Beach) Dune Restoration Proj-ect in Escambia County.

• The Florida Boat Ramp Enhancement and Construc-tion Project in Escambia County.


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T h u r s d a y, d e c e m b e r 15, 2011 • S E C T I O N B

LOTTERYLa. Pick 3: 6-6-4La. Pick 4: 6-8-7-9Easy 5: 3-9-17-24-25La. Lotto: 5-13-24-29-31-36Powerball: 2-24-46-52-56Powerball: 19; Power play: 5Weekly results: B2

NFL, networkssign big dealLeague could earnas much as $3.1 billion Story/B3

schedulePREP BASKETBALLPCA hosts Mt. SalusFriday, 6 p.m.

VHS at Greenville-WestonFriday, 6 p.m.

St. Aloysius hosts Bogue ChittoFriday, 6 p.m.

PREP SOCCERWC at VicksburgFriday, 5:30 p.m.

University Christianat St. Aloysius (boys only)Friday, 6 p.m.

ON TV7 p.m. NFL Network - The Atlanta Falcons still harbor hopes of a wild-card berth as they host the reeling Jacksonville Jaguars in the Georgia Dome.

WhO’S hOTBENNIE PEOPLESGrambling and for-mer War-ren Central offensive lineman is headed to the HBCU All Star Bowl on Saturday in Atlanta.

SIdELINESSuh returns to Lionsafter two-game ban

ALLEN PARK, Mich. (AP) — Ndamukong Suh is back with the Detroit Lions. And he’s not inter-ested in rehashing the past. Suh declined to an-swer questions Wednes-day about his two-game suspension and car ac-cident after rejoining his teammates for the first time in two-plus weeks.

“The most important thing right now is this football team and not me individually,” Suh said.

The reigning Defensive Rookie of the Year was forced by the NFL to sit out two games without pay for stepping on the right arm of Green Bay Packers offensive line-man Evan Dietrich-Smith during a loss on Thanks-giving Day. He was defi-ant during his postgame news conference that day and after the Lions criticized his conduct the next day, Suh followed up on his Facebook page with an apology to his teammates, organization and fans.

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college basketball

Hornets ship Paul to ClippersBy Brett MartelThe Associated Press

NEW ORLEANS — Chris Paul is headed to Los Ange-les for real this time — to the Clippers, not the Lakers.

The Hornets traded Paul to the Clippers for guard Eric Gordon, forward Al-Farouq Aminu, center Chris Kaman and a first-round draft choice.

The deal required the approval of NBA Commis-sioner David Stern because the Hornets are owned by the league.

For Paul, Wednesday night’s trade means no more lame-duck practices — or ducking questions — in New Orleans.

It also ended a tortured week in which the Hornets’ season sat in limbo, while the NBA took a public relations beating over everything from

potential conflicts of inter-est to hampering the team’s pursuit of free agents to dis-respecting the New Orleans fan base.

“I knew we were doing the best thing for New Orleans and that was my job,” Stern said. “You have to stick with what you think was right. I must confess it wasn’t a lot of fun, but I don’t get paid to have fun.”

Stern said he never allowed other owners’ opinions or considerations of large and small markets to determine where Paul, one of the NBA’s biggest stars, would end up. He said his only focus was on getting the best deal for the Hornets.

That may take time to determine. But for now, the Hornets at last have a mea-sure of certainty about the roster they’ll have when the regular season begins in less

than two weeks.Paul, already a star with

international appeal, gets to play in one of the NBA’s biggest markets, even if his new team plays in the shadow of the Lakers. That’s the club Paul was almost traded to last week, only to have Stern nix the deal and unleash a torrent of bad pub-licity on his league just as it was trying to generate good will following a nearly five-month labor dispute that has already caused a shortening of the season.

Then again, maybe there is no such thing as bad public-ity — or as Stern called it, “a frenzy.” Even with the NFL’s Saints on a five-game win-ning streak and wrapping up a playoff spot, the Hornets-and-Paul saga was the talk of New Orleans for a change. ThE ASSoCIATED PrESS

Involved process generates all-area football teamEvery Christmas week,

The Vicksburg Post All-Area team honors the best of the gridiron.

We award a defensive player of the year, an offen-sive player and a coach. It’s a process that few are aware of. But there is a process.

Every year, we get calls “Why didn’t player XYZ make the team?”

That’s a good question. Hope this answer helps.

The process to build the team starts with our annual sports department meeting. We decide on the individual awards first. The toughest process is when there are a ton of deserving candidates and you have to pick one. Sometimes, we have to pick two, like we’ve done in base-ball and basketball, but that’s not a preferred scenario.

It’s easy to believe that looking at stats alone would decide the offensive player, but we try to compute other factors, like the win-loss record, into the equation as well. I think a day will come if we have a dominant men-among-boys-type lineman to make one player of the year.

For defensive player, we want the guy that opposing offenses had to game plan around. Who makes the big sack or the big takeaway in

crunch time? It’s not just a leading tackler award. It’s an impact award.

Coach of the year is a little more difficult, especially if all our teams do well or poorly. Out of all of the awards we give out, that one can be the toughest to pick.

As for the team, we evalu-ate everything, from our vantage point covering the games to stats and coaches’ recommendations, which count for a lot. The first thing at the end of the season we ask is “Who deserves to be on the all-area team?” When it comes to linemen, espe-cially defensive linemen who occupy blockers and who usually don’t show up statis-tically, we depend heavily on the coaches to point us in the right direction.

We try to hold down the

numbers to around 12 or 13 players on offense and defense. Since we don’t cover that many schools (four in the county and five in the area) and just about every decent player would deserve inclusion in a second team or an honorable mention, we don’t go that route. We want this to mean something, not just be a silly participation award.

The toughest part of put-ting together the team is finding a place for players, especially when we have several deserving candi-dates at one position. Often, if that player took snaps and excelled elsewhere, we’ll put them there instead. Imagine it as a gigantic puzzle and we try to fit the pieces where we can, within reason.

That’s why you’ll see a

player more well known as a running back on our team as a defensive back or even as a return man. We will have a few athlete/multipurpose slots to accommodate guys who don’t really fit on the team elsewhere.

Inevitably, a numbers crunch, not a vendetta, is why a guy will slip through the cracks. We hate that it happens, but often, we have to choose two out of three candidates and one will get left out.

I hope you’re looking for-ward to the all-area team as much as we are bringing it to you.

•Steve Wilson is sports editor of The Vicksburg Post. You can follow him on Twitter at vpsportseditor. He can be reached at 601-636-4545, ext. 142 or at [email protected].

STEVE WILSONPOST SPORTS EDITOR

Tide, TigersdominateAll-Americafirst teamBy Ralph D. RussoAP college football writer

NEW YORK — LSU’s Tyrann Mathieu and Morris Claiborne became the first cornerback teammates to lock down spots on the AP All-America team.

Mathieu, a Heisman Trophy finalist, and Claiborne were joined on the All-America team by Heisman Trophy winner Robert Griffin III of Baylor and finalists Montee Ball of Wisconsin and Trent Richardson of Alabama.

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Nelson’s heroics lead Rebels to winBy The Associated Press

OXFORD — Dundrecous Nelson might not have started the game for Ole Miss on Wednesday night, but he definitely finished it.

Nelson scored 21 points, including five 3-pointers, as Ole Miss defeated Louisi-ana-Lafayette 66-54 for its sixth consecutive win.

“He can score really, really quick,” Ole Miss coach Andy Kennedy said. “Of course that’s good and bad, but he made big shots tonight, so it’s good.”

Nelson, who has averaged 15 points in a reserve role in the past five games, sparked a decisive 14-0 run midway through the first half that gave the Rebels (9-1) a lead they never surrendered.

Nick Williams added 12 points, five rebounds and two assists for the Rebels, who overcame a sluggish start to extend the winning streak.

Darshawn McClellan and Bryant Mbamalu led Lou-isiana-Lafayette (5-7) with 12 points apiece while Josh Brown added 11. McClel-lan added a team-high nine rebounds.

“I felt my shot early. I knew it was there,” Nelson said. “I know my role right now is to come off the bench and give our team energy. If I do that, then the points are usually going to come. That’s what happened

tonight.”Louisiana-Lafayette, on the

strength of a pair of Mba-malu baskets, led 12-6 with 10:56 left in the first half. Both clubs combined for 13 turnovers and missed 18 shots in 23 attempts at that

juncture.Nelson turned the game

for the Rebels, hitting a pair of 3-point shots in that 14-0 spurt that gave Ole Miss a 20-12 lead with 7:41 left. The Rebels never trailed again and eventually led 34-27 at

halftime.Louisiana-Lafayette never

got closer than six points in the second half. Ole Miss led by as many as 19 points, the final time on a 3-pointer

brucE nEwman•The associaTed press

Ole Miss guard Jarvis Summers drives against Louisiana-Lafayette’s Raymone Andrews on Wednesday. Summers finished with nine points, as Ole Miss won 66-54.

New Orleans Hornets guard Chris Paul drives past Los Ange-les Clippers guard Eric Gordon in 2009.

LSU cornerback Tyrann Mathieu and Morris Clai-borne were selected to The Associated Press All-America team on Wednesday.

See All-America, Page B3.

See Paul, Page B3.

See Rebels, Page B3.

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nflAMERICAN CONFERENCE

East W L T Pct PF PANew England .....10 3 0 .769 396 274N.Y. Jets ............8 5 0 .615 327 270Buffalo ...............5 8 0 .385 288 341Miami .................4 9 0 .308 256 246

South W L T Pct PF PAy-Houston ..........10 3 0 .769 330 208Tennessee .........7 6 0 .538 266 251Jacksonville .......4 9 0 .308 193 252Indianapolis .......0 13 0 .000 184 382

North W L T Pct PF PABaltimore ...........10 3 0 .769 320 202Pittsburgh ..........10 3 0 .769 282 198Cincinnati ...........7 6 0 .538 285 270Cleveland ...........4 9 0 .308 178 254

West W L T Pct PF PADenver ...............8 5 0 .615 269 302Oakland .............7 6 0 .538 290 354San Diego .........6 7 0 .462 324 299Kansas City .......5 8 0 .385 173 305

NATIONAL CONFERENCEEast

W L T Pct PF PAN.Y. Giants ........7 6 0 .538 324 349Dallas .................7 6 0 .538 317 281Philadelphia .......5 8 0 .385 297 292Washington ........4 9 0 .308 229 290

South W L T Pct PF PAx-New Orleans ..10 3 0 .769 415 286Atlanta ...............8 5 0 .615 300 267Carolina .............4 9 0 .308 313 355Tampa Bay ........4 9 0 .308 232 370

North W L T Pct PF PAy-Green Bay ......13 0 0 1.000 466 278Detroit ................8 5 0 .615 367 305Chicago .............7 6 0 .538 301 255Minnesota ..........2 11 0 .154 274 364

West W L T Pct PF PAy-San Francisco 10 3 0 .769 307 182Seattle ...............6 7 0 .462 246 259Arizona ..............6 7 0 .462 253 288St. Louis ............2 11 0 .154 153 326x-clinched playoff spoty-clinched division

———Today’s Game

Jacksonville at Atlanta, 7:20 p.m.Saturday’s Game

Dallas at Tampa Bay, 7:20 p.m.Sunday’s Games

New Orleans at Minnesota, NoonSeattle at Chicago, NoonCincinnati at St. Louis, NoonCarolina at Houston, NoonGreen Bay at Kansas City, NoonTennessee at Indianapolis, NoonMiami at Buffalo, NoonWashington at N.Y. Giants, NoonDetroit at Oakland, 3:05 p.m.New England at Denver, 3:15 p.m.Cleveland at Arizona, 3:15 p.m.N.Y. Jets at Philadelphia, 3:15 p.m.Baltimore at San Diego, 7:20 p.m.

Monday’s GamePittsburgh at San Francisco, 7:30 p.m.

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nfl Playoff ScenariosWeek 15

AFCNEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS

— Clinches AFC East division with:New England winOR New England tie and a N.Y. Jets loss or tieOR N.Y. Jets loss— Clinches a playoff spot with:New England tieOR Cincinnati loss or tie and an Oakland loss or tie and a Tennessee loss or tie

BALTIMORE RAVENS— Clinches a playoff spot with:Baltimore win or tieOR N.Y. Jets loss and Oakland loss or tieOR N.Y. Jets loss and Tennessee loss or tieOR Oakland loss or tie and Tennessee loss or tie

PITTSBURGH STEELERS— Clinches a playoff spot with:Pittsburgh win or tie OROakland loss or tieOR Tennessee loss or tieOR Denver lossOR N.Y. Jets loss

NFCCLINCHED

GREEN BAY - NFC North and first-round byeSAN FRANCISCO - NFC WestNEW ORLEANS - playoff spot

GREEN BAY— Clinches home-field advantage throughout NFC playoffs with:A win or tieOR San Francisco loss or tie

NEW ORLEANS SAINTS— Clinches NFC South division with:New Orleans win and a Atlanta loss or tieOR New Orleans tie and an Atlanta loss

college footballFCS playoffs

SemifinalsFriday

Montana vs. Sam Houston St., 7 p.m.Saturday

Georgia Southern vs. North Dakota St., 1:30 p.m.———

NCAA Division II playoffsChampionship

SaturdayAt Florence, Ala.

Pittsburg St. vs. Wayne St. (Mich.), 10 a.m.———

NCAA Division III playoffsChampionship

FridayAt Salem, Va.

Mount Union vs. Wisc.-Whitewater, 6 p.m.

aP all-america teamFIRST TEAM

OFFENSEQuarterback — Robert Griffin III, junior, 6-foot-2, 220 pounds, Baylor.Running backs — Montee Ball, junior, 5-11, 210, Wisconsin; Trent Richardson, junior, 5-11, 224, Alabama.Tackles — Barrett Jones, senior, 6-5, 311, Alabama; Matt Kalil, junior, 6-7, 295, Southern California.Guards — David DeCastro, senior, 6-5, 310, Stanford; Kevin Zeitler, senior, 6-4, 318, Wiscon-sin.Center — David Molk, senior, 6-2, 286, Michigan.Wide receivers — Justin Blackmon, junior, 6-1, 215, Oklahoma State; Robert Woods, sophomore, 6-1, 180, Southern California.Tight end — Dwayne Allen, junior, 6-4, 255, Clemson.All-purpose player — Sammy Watkins, freshman, 6-1, 180, Clemson.Kicker — Randy Bullock, senior, 5-9, 212, Texas A&M.

DEFENSEEnds — Melvin Ingram, senior, 6-2, 276, South Carolina; Whitney Mercilus, junior, 6-4, 265, Illi-nois.Tackles — Devon Still, senior, 6-5, 310, Penn State; Jerel Worthy, junior, 6-3, 310, Michigan State.Linebackers — Luke Kuechly, junior, 6-3, 237, Boston College; Jarvis Jones, sophomore, 6-3, 241, Georgia; Dont’a Hightower, junior, 6-4, 260,

Alabama.Cornerbacks — Morris Claiborne, junior, 6-0, 185, LSU; Tyrann Mathieu, sophomore, 5-9, 175, LSU.Safeties — Mark Barron, senior, 6-2, 218, Ala-bama; Bacarri Rambo, junior, 6-0, 218, Georgia.Punter — Brad Wing, freshman, 6-3, 184, LSU.

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SECOND TEAMOFFENSE

Quarterback — Andrew Luck, junior, Stanford.Running backs — LaMichael James, junior, Ore-gon; David Wilson, junior, Virginia Tech.Tackles — Jonathan Martin, senior, Stanford; Nate Potter, senior, Boise State.Guards —Will Blackwell, senior, LSU; Austin Pazstor, senior, Virginia.Center — Peter Konz, junior, Wisconsin.Wide receivers — Ryan Broyles, senior, Okla-homa; Kendall Wright, senior, Baylor.Tight end — Tyler Eifert, junior, Notre Dame.All-purpose player — Joe Adams, senior, Arkan-sas.Kicker — Caleb Sturgis, junior, Florida.

DEFENSEEnds — Frank Alexander, senior, Oklahoma; Vinny Curry, senior, Marshall.Tackles — Joe Vellano, junior, Maryland; Derek Wolfe, senior, Cincinnati.Linebackers — Courtney Upshaw, senior, Ala-bama; Lavonte David, senior, Nebraska; Manti Teo, junior, Notre Dame.Cornerbacks — David Amerson, sophomore, North Carolina State; Dre Kirkpatrick, junior, Ala-bama.Safeties — Markelle Martin, senior, Oklahoma State; Antonio Allen, senior, South Carolina.Punter — Ryan Allen, junior, Louisiana Tech.

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THIRD TEAMQuarterback — Matt Barkley, junior, Southern California.Running backs — Ronnie Hillman, sophomore, San Diego State; Bobby Rainey, senior, Western Kentucky.Tackles — Levy Adcock, senior, Oklahoma State; Cordy Glenn, senior, Georgia.Guards — Ryan Miller, senior, Colorado; Gabe Ikard, sophomore, Oklahoma.Center — Grant Garner, senior, Oklahoma State.Wide receivers — Jordan White, senior, Western Michigan; Patrick Edwards, senior, Houston.Tight end — Coby Fleener, senior, Stanford.All-purpose player — Tavon Austin, junior, West Virginia.Kicker — Quinn Sharp, junior, Oklahoma State.

DEFENSEEnds — Sam Montgomery, sophomore, LSU; Andre Branch, senior, Clemson.Tackles — John Simon, junior, Ohio State; Fletcher Cox, junior, Mississippi State.Linebackers — Tank Carder, senior, TCU; Sammy Brown, senior, Houston; Emmanuel Acho, senior, Texas.Cornerbacks — Nigel Malone, junior, Kansas State; Brodrick Brown, junior, Oklahoma State.Safeties — Josh Bush, senior, Wake Forest; George Iloka, senior, Boise State.Punter — Shawn Powell, senior, Florida State.

—————AP All-America team selection panel:Bob Asmussen, Champaign (Ill.) News-Gazette; Greg Auman, St. Petersburg (Fla.) Times; Robert Cessna, Bryan-College Station (Texas) Eagle; Chadd Cripe, Idaho Statesman; Seth Emerson, The Macon (Ga.) Telegraph and Columbus (Ga.) Ledger-Enquirer; Erik Gee, KNML-AM Albuquer-que, N.M.; Eric Hansen, South Bend (Ind.) Tri-bune; Mike Herndon Press-Register. Mobile, Ala.; Joshua Kendall, The State, Columbia, S.C.; Rob Long, CBS Radio 105.7 Baltimore; Dave Matter, Columbia (Mo.) Daily Tribune; Sam McKewon, Omaha (Neb.) World-Herald; Dave Reardon, Honolulu Star-Advertiser; Kyle Ringo, Daily Cam-era, Boulder, Colo.; Keith Sargeant, Home News Tribune, Somerville, N.J.; John Shinn, The Norman (Okla.) Transcript.

college baSketballTop 25 ScheduleWednesday’s Games

No. 2 Ohio St. 82, SC-Upstate 58 No. 6 Baylor 69, Bethune-Cookman 42

Today’s GamesNo. 10 Missouri vs. Kennesaw St., 7 p.m.No. 14 Wisconsin vs. Savannah St., 7 p.m.No. 24 Murray St. vs. Lipscomb, 7 p.m.

Friday’s GamesNo games scheduled

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Mississippi college scheduleWednesday’s Games

Ole Miss 66, Louisiana-Lafayette 54Today’s Games

Jackson St. at SMU, 7:30 p.m.Mississippi College at Mary Hardin-Baylor, 7:30 p.m.Millsaps at Covenant College, 7:30 p.m.

Friday’s GamesTougaloo at Philander Smith, 6 p.m.Millsaps at LaGrange College, 7 p.m.Truett-McConnell at William Carey, 7:30 p.m.Southern Wesleyan at Belhaven, 7:30 p.m.

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SEC scheduleWednesday’s Games

Ole Miss 66, Louisiana-Lafayette 54Coll. of Charleston 71, Tennessee 65Auburn 52, South Florida 40

Today’s GameUC Irvine at LSU, 7 p.m.


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C-USA scheduleWednesday’s Game

Rice 109, Louisiana College 51UNLV 65, UTEP 54

Today’s GameJackson St. at SMU, 7:30 p.m.

Friday’s GameEast Carolina at UNC-Greensboro, 6 p.m.

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SWAC scheduleWednesday’s Games

No games scheduledToday’s Games

Ark.-Pine Bluff at Akron, 6 p.m.Texas Southern at Northwesterm, 7 p.m.Jackson St. at SMU, 7:30 p.m.


college basketball Scores EAST

Baruch 71, Yeshiva 48 Dowling 56, American International 52 Morgan St. 73, UMBC 60 NY Tech 74, S. New Hampshire 60 Princeton 72, Rider 71, OT Ramapo 68, York (NY) 65

SOUTH Auburn 52, South Florida 40 Augusta St. 92, Flagler 55 Charleston Southern 88, The Citadel 69 Coll. of Charleston 71, Tennessee 65 Coppin St. 71, Towson 57

Iona 88, Richmond 79 Louisiana Tech 60, McNeese St. 58 Maryland 65, FIU 61 Ole Miss 66, Louisiana-Lafayette 54 Norfolk St. 73, LIU 62 St. Augustine’s 70, Barber-Scotia 53

MIDWEST Adrian 70, Defiance 64 Cincinnati 78, Wright St. 58 DePaul 75, N. Illinois 52 Ohio 88, Marietta 54 Ohio St. 82, SC-Upstate 58 Viterbo 62, St. Mary’s (Minn.) 58 Wichita St. 94, Chicago St. 44 Wis.-Eau Claire 49, Wis.-Superior 48 Wis.-La Crosse 69, Carleton 50 Wis.-River Falls 72, Wis.-Stout 52 Wis.-Stevens Pt. 79, Wis.-Whitewater 77

SOUTHWEST Arkansas St. 87, Seattle 74 Baylor 69, Bethune-Cookman 42 Houston Baptist 87, Campbell 76 Lamar 88, Huston-Tillotson 59 Rice 109, Louisiana College 51

FAR WEST Cal Poly 91, Menlo 58 Denver 71, N. Colorado 65 New Mexico St. 92, W. New Mexico 65 UC Riverside 91, UC Santa Cruz 60 UCLA 60, E. Washington 47 UNLV 65, UTEP 54

ole MISS 66, loUISIana-lafaYette 54LOUISIANA-LAFAYETTE (5-7)McClellan 4-10 1-2 12, Coleby 3-5 0-3 6, Mbamalu 4-7 4-6 12, Brown 4-11 2-2 11, Andrews 2-6 1-1 6, Payton 2-5 2-5 6, Jackson 0-2 1-2 1, Williams 0-1 0-0 0, Thompson 0-0 0-0 0, Perez 0-2 0-0 0, Smith 0-1 0-0 0. Totals 19-50 11-21 54.OLE MISS (9-1)Henry 3-5 3-5 9, Buckner 1-2 0-0 2, Holloway 3-5 0-0 6, Williams 5-11 1-2 12, Summers 3-8 1-4 9, Cox 3-3 1-2 7, Nelson 6-14 4-5 21, White 0-5 0-0 0, Aniefiok 0-1 0-0 0, Short 0-1 0-0 0, A. Jones 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 24-55 10-18 66.Halftime—Ole Miss 34-27. 3-Point Goals—Louisiana-Lafayette 5-15 (McClellan 3-6, Andrews 1-3, Brown 1-4, Jackson 0-1, Perez 0-1), Ole Miss 8-19 (Nelson 5-9, Summers 2-2, Williams 1-3, Aniefiok 0-1, White 0-4). Fouled Out—None. Rebounds—Louisiana-Lafayette 35 (McClellan 9), Ole Miss 34 (Holloway 10). Assists—Louisi-ana-Lafayette 9 (Andrews, Coleby, Mbamalu, McClellan 2), Ole Miss 13 (Summers 5). Total Fouls—Louisiana-Lafayette 19, Ole Miss 18. Technical—Buckner. A—4,857.

Mlbfree agent Signings

NEW YORK (AP) — The 49 free agents who have signed, with name, position, former club if different, and contract.

AMERICAN LEAGUEBOSTON (2) — Announced David Ortiz, dh, has accepted salary arbitration; signed Kelly Shop-pach, c, Tampa Bay, to a $1.35 million, one-year contract.CLEVELAND (1) — Re-signed Grady Sizemore, of, to a $5 million, one-year contract.DETROIT (3) — Signed Gerald Laird, c, St. Louis, to a $1 million, one-year contract; re-signed Ramon Santiago, ss, to a $4.2 million, two-year contract; signed Octavio Dotel, rhp, St. Louis, to a one-year contract.KANSAS CITY (2) — Re-signed Bruce Chen, lhp, to a $9 million, two-year contract; signed Jonathan Broxton, rhp, Los Angeles Dodgers, to a $4 mil-lion, one-year contract.LOS ANGELES (2) — Signed Albert Pujols, 1b, St. Louis, to a $254 million, 10-year contract; signed C.J. Wilson, lhp, Texas, to a $77.5 million, five-year contract.MINNESOTA (3) — Signed Jamey Carroll, of, Los Angeles Dodgers, to a $6.5 million, two-year con-tract; signed Ryan Doumit, c, Pittsburgh, to a $3 million, one-year contract; re-signed Matt Capps, rhp, to a $4.75 million, one-year contract.NEW YORK (1) — Re-signed Freddy Garcia, rhp, to a $4 million, one-year contract.TAMPA BAY (1) — Signed Jose Molina, c, Toron-to, to a $1.8 million, one-year contract.TEXAS (1) — Signed Joe Nathan, rhp, Minnesota, to a $14.5 million, two-year contract.TORONTO (1) — Announced Kelly Johnson, 2b, has accepted salary arbitration.

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NATIONAL LEAGUEARIZONA (6) — Re-signed John McDonald, inf, to a $3 million, two-year contract; re-signed Henry Blanco, c, to a $1.5 million, one-year contract; re-signed Willie Bloomquist, inf, to a $3.8 million, two-year contract; re-signed Aaron Hill, 2b, to an $11 million, two-year contract; re-signed Lyle Over-bay, 1b, to a $1 million, one-year contract; signed Takashi Saito, rhp, Milwaukee, to a $1.75 million, one-year contract.CHICAGO (1) — Signed David DeJesus, of, Oak-land, to a $10 million, two-year contract.COLORADO (1) — Signed Ramon Hernandez, c, Cincinnati, to a $6.4 million, two-year contract.LOS ANGELES (4) — Re-signed Juan Rivera, of, to a $4.5 million, one-year contract; signed Adam Kennedy, 2b, Seattle, to an $800,000, one-year contract; signed Chris Capuano, lhp, New York Mets, to a $10 million, two-year contract; signed Jerry Hairston Jr., inf-of, Milwaukee, to a $6 mil-lion, two-year contract; signed Aaron Harang, rhp, San Diego, to a $12 million, two-year contract.MIAMI (3) — Signed Heath Bell, rhp, San Diego, to a $27 million, three-year contract; signed Jose Reyes, ss, New York Mets, to a $106 million, six-year contract; signed Mark Buehrle, lhp, Chicago White Sox, to a $58 million, four-year contract.MILWAUKEE (3) — Announced Francisco Rodri-guez, rhp, has accepted salary arbitration; signed Alex Gonzalez, ss, Atlanta, to a one-year contract; signed Aramis Ramirez, 3b, Chicago Cubs, to a $36 million, three-year contract.NEW YORK (1) — Signed Jon Rauch, rhp, Toron-to, to a $3.5 million, one-year contract.PHILADELPHIA (4) — Signed Jim Thome, 1b, Cleveland, to a $1.25 million, one-year contract; signed Jonathan Papelbon, rhp, Boston, to a $50,000,058, four-year contract; re-signed Brian Schneider, c, to an $800,000, one-year contract; signed Laynce Nix, of; Washington, to a $2.5 mil-lion, one-year contract.PITTSBURGH (5) — Signed Rod Barajas, c, Los Angeles Dodgers, to a $4 million, one-year con-tract; signed Clint Barmes, ss, Houston, to a $10.5 million, two-year contract; signed Nate McLouth, of, Atlanta, to a $1.75 million, one-year contract; signed Erik Bedard, rhp, Boston, to a $4.5 million, one-year contract.ST. LOUIS (1) — Re-signed Rafael Furcal, ss, to a $14 million, two-year contract.SAN DIEGO (1) — Signed Mark Kotsay, of, Mil-waukee, to a $1.25 million, one-year contract.WASHINGTON (1) — Re-signed Chien-Ming Wang, rhp, to a $4 million, one-year contract.

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7:30 p.m. TGC - PGA Tour Austral-asia, JBWere Masters

NFL7 p.m. NFL - Jacksonville at Atlanta

PREP BASKETBALL7 p.m. ESPN - Oak Hill Academy (Va.)

vs. Miller Grove (Ga.)8:30 p.m. ESPN - Montrose Christian (Md.) vs. Marcus Flower

Mound (Texas)WOMEN’S VOLLEYBALL

6 p.m. ESPN2 - NCAA Division I, playoffs, semifinal, UCLA vs. Florida St.

8 p.m. ESPN2 - NCAA Division I, playoffs, semifinal, Illinois vs. Southern Cal

Dec. 151973 — Tennessee beats Temple

11-6 in the lowest scoring NCAA basketball game since 1938. With 11:44 left in the first half and Ten-nessee leading 7-5, Temple holds onto the ball without a shot. Ten-nessee doesn’t take a shot in the second half, but manages four free throws by John Snow.

1974 — Oakland’s Jim “Catfish” Hunter is ruled a free agent by arbi-trator Peter Seitz when A’s owner Charles O. Finley fails to live up to the terms of Hunter’s contract.

2000 — Georgia Southern beats Montana 27-25 for a second straight Division I-AA championship and its a record sixth championship.

2006 — Kobe Bryant of the Los Angeles Lakers scores 53 points in a 112-101 double overtime victory against the Houston Rockets.

lotteRYSunday’s drawingLa. Pick 3: 7-9-5La. Pick 4: 7-3-0-9Monday’s drawingLa. Pick 3: 5-7-6 La. Pick 4: 1-4-7-5 Tuesday’s drawingLa. Pick 3: 5-2-0 La. Pick 4: 0-7-0-9 Wednesday’s drawingLa. Pick 3: 6-6-4La. Pick 4: 6-8-7-9Easy 5: 3-9-17-24-25La. Lotto: 5-13-24-29-31-36Powerball: 2-24-46-52-56Powerball: 19; Power play: 5Thursday’s drawingLa. Pick 3: 1-2-1La. Pick 4: 0-3-8-0Friday’s drawingLa. Pick 3: 5-8-7La. Pick 4: 8-6-0-3Saturday’s drawingLa. Pick 3: 0-8-8La. Pick 4: 8-4-0-5Easy 5: 10-14-20-21-22La. Lotto: 7-8-9-26-33-37Powerball: 5-18-33-43-45Powerball: 8; Power play: 3

nbaSmith: Magic intendto keep Dwight Howard

ORLANDO, Fla. — Magic general manager Otis Smith said the team intends to keep Dwight Howard with the team as long as possible and that the trade talks “could go to the end of the season.”

Smith would not say whether trade talks for the center are off, but did say there was no deal in place.

Rip Hamiltonsigns with Chicago

DEERFIELD, Ill. — Veteran guard Richard Hamilton signed with Chicago, joining MVP Derrick Rose in the Bulls’ backcourt.

Terms were not released, but a person familiar with the situation said earlier in the day it’s a three-year, $15 million deal. The person spoke on the condition of anonym-ity because the contract had not been finalized.

Cavaliers waive former Hornet Davis

CLEVELAND — The Cava-liers waived veteran point guard Baron Davis, using the NBA’s new “amnesty clause” to clear space under the salary cap.

Davis, acquired in a trade last season from the Los Angeles Clip-pers, is now a free agent. He will be paid $28 million owed over the next two seasons. His release had been expected since training camp opened.

MlbRed Sox tradefor Melancon, Punto

BOSTON — The Boston Red Sox acquired reliever Mark Melancon and utility infielder Nick Punto in separate deals.

The Red Sox obtained Melancon from the Houston Astros in a trade for infielder Jed Lowrie and right-hander Kyle Weiland.

Hours later, the team announced it had signed Punto to a two-year contract. He replaces Lowrie — both are switch-hitters who can play all over the infield.

Cardinals re-signRafael Furcal

ST. LOUIS — The St. Louis Car-dinals completed a two-year, $14 million deal with free-agent short-stop Rafael Furcal, a trade deadline pickup who helped them in their run to the World Series title.

The deal became official after the 34-year-old Furcal passed a physi-cal. He gets salaries of $6 million next year and $7 million in 2013.

2011-12 bowl scheduleDec. 17 New Mexico Bowl Wyoming (8-4) vs. Temple (8-4) ...................1:30 p.m. ESPNDec. 17 Famous Idaho Potato Bowl Utah St. (7-5) vs. Ohio (9-4) ......................4:30 p.m. ESPNDec. 17 New Orleans Bowl La.-Lafayette (8-4) vs. San Diego St. (8-4) ................8 p.m. ESPN

Dec. 20 Beef ’O’Brady’s Bowl Marshall (6-6) vs. FIU (8-4) ..............................7 p.m. ESPN

Dec. 21 Poinsettia Bowl TCU (10-2) vs. Louisiana Tech (8-4) .......................7 p.m. ESPN

Dec. 22 MAACO Bowl Boise St. (11-1) vs. Arizona St. (6-6).....................7 p.m. ESPN

Dec. 24 Hawaii Bowl Nevada (7-5) vs. Southern Miss (11-2) ................... 7 p.m. ESPN

Dec. 26 Independence Bowl North Carolina (7-5) vs. Missouri (7-5) ...................3 p.m. ESPN

Dec. 27 Little Caesars Pizza Bowl Western Michigan (7-5) vs. Purdue (6-6)...........3:30 p.m. ESPN2Dec. 27 Belk Bowl North Carolina St. (7-5) vs. Louisville (7-5) ................7 p.m. ESPN

Dec. 28 Military Bowl Air Force (7-5) vs. Toledo (8-4) ....................3:30 p.m. ESPNDec. 28 Holiday Bowl Texas (7-5) vs. California (7-5) .........................7 p.m. ESPN

Dec. 29 Champs Sports Bowl Florida St. (8-4) vs. Notre Dame (8-4) ...............4:30 p.m. ESPNDec. 29 Alamo Bowl Baylor (9-3) vs. Washington (7-5) .......................8 p.m. ESPN

Dec. 30 Armed Forces Bowl Tulsa (8-4) vs. BYU (9-3) ............................11 a.m. ESPNDec. 30 Pinstripe Bowl Rutgers (8-4) vs. Iowa St. (6-6) ....................2:30 p.m. ESPNDec. 30 Music City Bowl Mississippi St. (6-6) vs. Wake Forest (6-6) ..........5:40 p.m. ESPNDec. 30 Insight Bowl Oklahoma (9-3) vs. Iowa (7-5) ..........................9 p.m. ESPN

Dec. 31 Meinke Car Care Bowl Texas A&M (6-6) vs. Northwestern (6-6) ................11 a.m. ESPNDec. 31 Sun Bowl Georgia Tech (8-4) vs. Utah (7-5) ......................... 1 p.m. CBSDec. 31 Liberty Bowl Vanderbilt (6-6) vs. Cincinnati (9-3) .................2:30 p.m. ESPNDec. 31 Fight Hunger Bowl UCLA (6-7) vs. Illinois (6-6) .......................2:30 p.m. ESPNDec. 31 Chick-fil-A Bowl Virginia (8-4) vs. Auburn (7-5) .....................6:30 p.m. ESPN

Jan. 2 TicketCity Bowl Penn St. (9-3) vs. Houston (12-1) .................. 11 a.m. ESPNUJan. 2 Capital One Bowl Nebraska (9-3) vs. South Carolina (10-2) ...................Noon ESPNJan. 2 Outback Bowl Georgia (10-3) vs. Michigan St. (10-3) .......................Noon ABCJan. 2 Gator Bowl Florida (6-6) vs. Ohio St. (6-6) ..........................Noon ESPN2Jan. 2 Rose Bowl Oregon (11-2) vs. Wisconsin (11-2) ......................4 p.m. ESPNJan. 2 Fiesta Bowl Stanford (11-1) vs. Oklahoma St. (11-1) .............7:30 p.m. ESPN

Jan. 3 Sugar Bowl Michigan (10-2) vs. Virginia Tech (11-2) ..................7 p.m. ESPN

Jan. 4 Orange Bowl West Virginia (9-3) vs. Clemson (10-3) ...................7 p.m. ESPN

Jan. 6 Cotton Bowl Kansas St. (10-2) vs. Arkansas (10-2)....................7 p.m. Fox

Jan. 7 BBVA Compass Bowl Pittsburgh (6-6) vs. SMU (7-5) ........................11 a.m. ESPN

Jan. 8 GoDaddy.com Bowl Arkansas St. (10-2) vs. Northern Illinois (10-3) .............8 p.m. ESPN

Jan. 9 BCS National Championship LSU (13-0) vs. Alabama (11-1) ....................7:30 p.m. ESPN

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NFL, networks sign new TV deals worth $3.1 billionNEW YORK (AP) — With

NFL games enjoying seem-ingly invincible ratings while most everything else on TV goes down, down, down, the league’s traditional broadcast partners embraced a deal that sends their rights fees up, up, up.

CBS, Fox and NBC renewed their contracts for nine years through the 2022 season, the NFL announced Wednesday. The average fees from the three networks will increase by an average of 7 percent annually, a person familiar with the details said. That will take the total revenue from them from the current $1.93 billion per year to $3.1 billion by 2022.

The person spoke on condi-tion of anonymity because the figures weren’t made public.

The current agreements expire after the 2013 season.

“(The deals) will ensure the NFL will stay on free tele-vision for another 11 years, which I think is great for fans,”

Commissioner Roger Good-ell said at the owners’ meet-ings outside Dal las . “ I t will continue to allow us to grow our audience. It’s a tribute to the players and (union chief DeMaurice) Smith for extend-ing our labor agreement for 10 years. I think that kind of sta-bility gave us the ability to get these contract extensions.”

Earlier this season, the NFL and ESPN reached an eight-year extension to keep “Monday Night Football” on the cable channel through the 2021 season, increasing the rights fee from $1.1 to 1.9 bil-lion annually.

The new contracts also will allow NFL Network to expand the number of Thursday night games it airs beginning next year. The current schedule includes eight games during

the second half of the season.Goodell said the broadcast

committee hadn’t yet decided on whether to create a sepa-rate Thursday package to sell to an outside network.

NFL games account for 23 of the 25 most-watched pro-grams among all television shows this fall and draw more than twice as many average viewers as broadcast prime-time shows. No wonder net-work executives piled on the superlatives Wednesday.

“This is incredibly power-ful programming,” said NBC Sports Group Chairman Mark Lazarus.

“It’s as sure as you can get with anything today,” said Fox Sports Co-President Eric Shanks.

“It’s an unbelievably impor-tant product to associate our-selves with,” said CBS Sports Chairman Sean McManus.

The three networks will each televise three Super Bowls during the length of the con-tracts, continuing the current

rotation.The nine-year terms are the

longest for NFL television agreements with over-the-air networks. The previous lon-gest were the eight-year deals with CBS, Fox and ABC from 1998-2005.

“With live broadcasts becom-ing more and more important, having the cream of the crop of live programing for the next 11 years is pretty incredible,” Shanks said.

Locking in the NFL is the cornerstone for the rest of net-works’ economic planning, he said.

“I’m sure even today our ad sales guys’ phones are ringing off the hook, even though the deal doesn’t start for another two years,” Shanks said.

CBS will continue to show the AFC package on Sunday afternoons as it has since 1998, while Fox still has the NFC package that it first acquired in 1994.

“Sunday Night Football” will remain on NBC.

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Stern said the team is in negotiations with several potential ownership groups, who, if all goes to plan, will have to accept a new long-term lease in the state-owned New Orleans Arena in order to buy the team.

“The future of the Hornets in New Orleans is brighter than it’s ever been,” Stern said.

Meanwhile, the Clippers have plenty of reason for optimism themselves.

The 26-year-old Paul is a four-time All-Star who aver-aged 18.7 points and 9.8 assists last season, his sixth in the NBA. His move to the Clippers means he’ll now be able to lob alley-oop passes to one of the best finishers

in the game — one who’s famous for dunking over a car. That would be forward Blake Griffin, who averaged 22.5 points and 12.1 rebounds last season, his first as a pro.

Paul will earn $16.4 million this year and has a player option for the 2012-13 season — in which he is due $17.8 million.

The Hornets get a pro-lific young shooting guard in Gordon, who turns 23 on Christmas Day and aver-aged 22.3 points last season. Gordon would be a restricted free agent after this season unless he signs an extension with New Orleans. Hornets general manager Dell Demps said those talks haven’t yet started.

from Nelson for a 63-44 lead with 7:02 left.

Both teams had difficulty at the free-throw line, as Ole Miss finished 10-of-18 (55.6 percent). Louisiana-Lafayette was worse, hitting 11 of 21 (52.1 percent).

The Ragin’ Cajuns missed 4-of-6 free throws in a series midway through the second half while trailing 45-34. They never had an opportunity to pull within 10 points again.

Ole Miss outrebounded Louisiana-Lafayette 35-34, led by Murphy Holloway with 10 boards. The Rebels forced 19 turnovers as Louisiana-Lafayette struggled from the field, hitting 19 of 50 shots (38 percent).

The game was expected

to be the debut of Ole Miss freshman guard Jelan Kend-rick, who was declared eligi-ble by the NCAA on Monday after completing academic requirements.

Kendrick, who is recovering from hernia surgery, did not play due to a coach’s deci-sion, Kennedy said.

“I’m head coach at the Uni-versity of Mississippi and I want to be sure he knows it’s an honor to put on this uni-form,” Kennedy said. “He has to earn that right.

“As for tonight, we’re still not as efficient as we need to be offensively. We’ve got some things we’ve got to clean up. We will. But right now, we’re still consistently inconsistent.”

Heisman runner-up Andrew Luck from Stan-ford was the second-team quarterback.

Mississippi State defen-sive tackle Fletcher Cox was selected to the third-team defense.

The team released Wednes-day was selected by a panel of 16 AP poll voters.

Second-ranked Alabama had the most first-team-ers with four. Richardson was joined by tackle Bar-rett Jones, linebacker Dont’a Hightower and safety Mark Barron. Tide linebackers Courtney Upshaw and cor-nerback Dre Kirkpatrick also made the second team, leav-ing the Crimson Tide tied with No. 3 Oklahoma State for the most players selected overall.

The LSU duo was joined on the first team by Tigers punter Brad Wing. LSU guard Will Blackwell was a second-team selection and defensive end Sam Mont-gomery made the third team.

The top-ranked Tigers will play SEC West rival Alabama on Jan. 9 in New Orleans for the BCS title.

Since the AP began select-ing both an offensive and defensive team in 1964, no team had put a pair of cor-nerbacks on the first team. Of course, few teams have had two cornerbacks as tal-ented as Mathieu and Clai-borne. Mathieu, also known as Honey Badger, has been a mayhem-maker for LSU on defense and special teams. He forced five fumbles, inter-cepted two passes and scored four touchdowns — two on punt returns, two on fumble returns. The 5-foot-9, 180-pound sophomore also had 71 tackles and was versatile enough to be moved around the defense at times.

Claiborne is a prototypi-cal shutdown corner. The 6-1 junior made six interceptions and averaged 29 yards per return, with a touchdown.

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Meloni sinking teeth into ‘True Blood’HBO said “Law and Order” veteran Chris Mel-

oni will be joining the cast of the vampire dra-ma “True Blood.”

The network confirmed Wednesday that Mel-oni will be joining the popular series as an an-cient, powerful vampire who controls the fate of the show’s major characters.

The series’ fifth season is expected to air next summer. Its stars include Anna Paquin and Ste-

phen Moyer.Meloni recently ended a 12-year run on NBC’s

“Law & Order: Special Victims Unit,” where he played Detective Elliot Stabler.

Before that, the 50-year-old actor was a regular as a bisexual inmate on HBO’s gritty prison drama, “Oz.”

Judge: Lohan doing well on probationA judge offered Lindsay Lohan something

Wednesday that she hadn’t heard from a court in nearly two years — praise.

Superior Court Judge Stephanie Sautner said the actress was doing well under strict new terms of her probation.

The starlet has completed 12 days at the coun-ty morgue and five therapy sessions since Nov. 2, when she was sentenced to a strict routine of community service and counseling after her lat-est probation violation.

“You’re doing well and I’d like to see it continue,” Sautner said during a 10-minute status hearing.

Huntsman to ham it up on ‘Late Show’Republican presidential candidate Jon Huntsman is set to ap-

pear on the “Late Show” with David Letterman next week.The former Utah governor is struggling both in the polls and

to raise money to keep his campaign going after the nation’s first presidential primary in New Hampshire on Jan. 10.

Huntsman’s “Late Show” appearance will be at 10:35 p.m. Wednesday on CBS.

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Stolen ashes returned to N.H. womanA stolen urn containing the ashes of her mother has been re-

turned to a New Hampshire woman, who had been taking the container to bingo games for good luck.

Police said the urn was returned to Diane Bozzi, but they have no suspects. The urn was stolen from Bozzi’s van last week in Rochester by someone targeting unlocked cars. She said the urn was in a bag she was planning to take to a bingo game.

Bozzi and her mother loved playing bingo together. Before her mother died in 2002, Bozzi promised her she would take some of her ashes with her to play. Her mother agreed, saying she would bring Bozzi good luck.


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‘Pragmatic’is year’stop wordBy Stephanie ReitzThe Associated Press

When the time came for Merriam-Webster to pick its top word of 2011, its editors decided they needed to be pragmatic.

So they chose ... pragmatic.The word, an adjective that

means practical and logical, was looked up so often on Merriam-Webster’s online dictionary that the publisher says ‘pragmatic’ was the prag-matic choice for its 2011 Word of the Year.

Though it wasn’t traced to a specific news event or quote from a famous person, searches for pragmatic jumped in the weeks before Congress voted in August to increase the nation’s debt ceiling, and again as its supercommittee tried to craft deficit-cutting measures this fall.

Movie with few wordsspeaks up with 6 nods

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) — Silent film is taking over Hollywood’s awards scene. The silent-era tale “The Artist” heads the Golden Globes with six nominations, among them best comedy or musical, and acting honors for its French stars, Jean Dujar-din and Berenice Bejo.

Tied for second-place with five nominations today are the 1960s Missisippi-based racial tale “The Help,” also nomi-nated for four Screen Actors Guild awards, and George Clooney’s Hawaiian family story “The Descendants.” Both films are up for best drama, while Clooney was nominated for best dramatic actor and “The Help” earned acting slots for Viola Davis, Octavia Spencer and Jessica Chastain.

Also competing for best drama: Martin Scorsese’s Paris adventure “Hugo”; Clooney’s political thriller “The Ides of March”; Brad Pitt’s baseball chronicle “Moneyball”; and Steven Spielberg’s World War I epic “War Horse.”

Joining “The Artist” in the best musical or comedy cat-egory are: the cancer story “50/50”; Kristen Wiig’s wed-ding romp “Bridesmaids”; Woody Allen’s romantic fan-

tasy “Midnight in Paris”; and Michelle Williams’ Marilyn Monroe tale “My Week With Marilyn.”

Dujardin, who won the best-actor prize for “The Artist” in its premiere at last May’s Cannes Film Festival, was nominated for best actor in a musical or comedy. He plays a silent-film star whose career nosedives as talking pictures take over in the late 1920s in “The Artist,” which has virtu-ally no spoken dialogue and is shot in the boxy, black-and-white format of the silent era.

The actor called his nomina-tion an “incredible gift.”

“To be recognized along-side such brilliant actors is an honor,” Dujardin said. “The nomination for ‘The Artist’ has left me speechless!”

“The Artist” also picked up a supporting actress honor for Bejo as a rising star of the sound era. Filmmaker Michel Hazanavicius earned direct-ing and screenplay nomina-tions, which also is up for best musical score.

The Screen Actors Guild Award nominations were announced Tuesday Those and the Globes help narrow down prospects for the Acad-emy Awards, whose nomina-tions come out Jan. 24.

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Jean Dujardin as George Valentin in “The Artist”The associaTed press

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Child’s way of saying goodbye defies adult funeral etiquetteDear Abby: “Saddened in

New Jersey” (Oct. 2) com-plained that her sister’s 4-year-old daughter put stick-ers on the hands and face of her deceased grandmother during her wake. Perhaps the child’s mother didn’t antici-pate her daughter’s actions. Children need to grieve, too. That said, they also should behave appropriately.

I saw an article about one funeral home with an excel-lent solution. Before the dearly departed is placed in the casket, the inside fabric, pillow, etc. are removed. The

children are then allowed to decorate the uncovered casket walls with farewell messages and drawings. The interior is then “reupholstered” and nothing is visible. The chil-dren are told that it is to keep their messages private.

One story was particu-

larly touching — a little boy wanted his mommy to know how much he loved her and for it to be as close to her as possible. He wrote “I love you, Mommy” on the casket pillow that was placed beneath her head. At the service, only he knew about the secret mes-sage he had left for his mom for all eternity. — A Mom in Texas

Dear Mom: Thank you for sharing a clever solution. I felt that the child’s placing of stickers on her grandmoth-er’s body was disrespectful and the mother was wrong to

permit it in spite of the grand-father’s expression of disap-proval. While I viewed it as a desecration of a corpse, read-ers felt differently. My news-paper readers comment:

Dear Abby: “Saddened” should never have removed the 4-year-old from the casket. It was not her place. The child was giving her grandmother a goodbye gift. If the woman wanted to remove the stickers before the casket was closed, she should have done it after the child left the room. — Melody in Nevada

Dear Abby: If the sticker

incident is the worst that can be said about the 4-year-old’s behavior that day, what’s the harm? Had she thrown a tan-trum during the service or before placing the stickers, I’d agree that the child should not have been there. But since the behavior took place after “Saddened” made an issue of the stickers, the situation

could have been handled more effectively.

•Dear Abby is written by Abigail Van Buren, also known as Jeanne Phillips, and was founded by her mother, Pauline Phillips. Write Dear Abby at www.Dear Abby.com or P.O. Box 69440, Los Angeles, CA 90069.

Colonoscopy’s positivesoutweigh its negatives

Dear Doctor K: My brother was recently diagnosed with colon cancer. Now my doctor wants me to have a colonos-copy. Can you tell me what will happen during this procedure?

Dear Reader: Your brother’s diagnosis puts you at higher risk for colon cancer, so I’m glad to hear your doctor has recommended that you get checked.

Colonoscopy is used to look at the lining of your colon, or large intestine. The proce-dure can detect colon cancer, as well as abnormal growths (polyps), inflammation, bleed-ing, weaknesses in the wall of the intestine (diverticular dis-ease) and other problems of the digestive tract.

Your bowel needs to be empty during the colonoscopy to give your doctor a clear view of your intestine. Your doctor might ask you to have a liquid diet the afternoon and evening before the test, and to eat nothing the night before the procedure. To help empty your bowel, your doctor will ask you to drink a lot of fluid, with laxatives in it, the day before the procedure.

Many people find “the clean-out” to be the unpleasant part of the procedure. For the pro-cedure itself, you will be asked to lie on your side on an exami-nation table. The lower part of your body will be covered by a sheet.

Your doctor will use an instru-ment called a colonoscope. This is a flexible viewing tube with lenses, a small TV camera and a light on one end. The colono-scope scans the inside of your colon and transmits images to

a video screen.The colonoscope is lubricated

and bends easily. You will be given light doses of sedatives to minimize any discomfort.

Your doctor will insert the colonoscope into your rectum and, as necessary, pump a small amount of air through the colonoscope. The air will open up your intestine for a clearer view.

If your doctor sees a suspi-cious area during colonoscopy, he can take a small tissue sample to be examined in a laboratory. If a polyp is found during colonoscopy, your doctor might remove it.

Even though it has its unpleasant aspects, a colonos-copy is a miraculous advance. It can see inside your colon, catch colon cancer early and save your life.

•Write to Dr. Komaroff in care of United Media, 200 Madison Ave., 4th fl., New York, NY 10016, or send questions to his website, www.AskDoctorK.com.

Dr. Wallace: I’m a 15-year-old girl who really needs your advice. I live at home with my mother and two broth-ers who are ages 17 and 18. The problem is that my two brothers can do no wrong. My mom places them on a pedes-tal. Mom thinks that cooking, washing and pleasing males are what females were put on earth for. Ever since I can remember, Mom and I have literally been servants for my brothers.

Because of this, my brothers show me no respect. Let me give you an example. Both of my brothers have their own cars. Last week, I was walk-ing home from a store when it suddenly started raining. My brother drove by and didn’t even pick up his soaking-wet sister to give her a ride home. The reason: He was late in meeting a few of his friends.

Then my mom got upset with me because I got upset

with my brother. She defend-ed his action. Isn’t that stupid! What can I do to get Mom to treat me as an equal? I’m tired of being a second-class citizen in my own family and talk-ing to Mom does no good! — Nameless, Big Spring, Texas

Nameless: Maybe reading might. Make sure Mom gets a chance to read this column. Let’s hope that the written word will inspire a change in her misguided parental phi-losophy. The “silver lining” is that when you become a mother, you won’t be making the same mistake!

•Dr. Robert Wallace writes for Copley News Service. E-mail him at rwallace@Copley News Service.

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IN THE CHANCERYCOURT OF WARRENCOUNTY, MISSISSIPPI INRE: THE ESTATE OFTHOMAS DAVIDSONBOLDEN, DECEASEDNO. 2011-139-PRPAMELA BOLDEN GRACINPETITIONERLEGAL NOTICEEXECUTORS' NOTICE TOTHE CREDITORS OFTHOMAS DAVIDSONBOLDEN, DECEASEDNOTICE IS HEREBY GIVENthat Letters Testamentarywere granted to theundersigned by theChancery Court of WarrenCounty, Mississippi on the1st day of November, 2011,and all persons havingclaims against the saidEstate are hereby notifiedand required to have sameprobated and registered bythe Clerk of said Court asrequired by law within ninety(90) days of the firstpublication of this Notice.Failure to do so will foreverbar such claims. THIS the8th day of November, 2011.PAMELA BOLDEN GRACINEXECUTRIX OF THEESTATE OF THOMASDAVIDSON BOLDEN,DECEASED.Publish: 12/1, 12/8, 12/15,12/22(4t)

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01. LegalsSUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE'SNOTICE OF SALE STATEOF MISSISSIPPI COUNTYOF WARREN WHEREAS,on November 20, 2007, LarryCollins and Ernestine Collinsexecuted and delivered acertain Deed of Trust untoLem Adams, III, Trustee forthe benefit of MortgageElectronic RegistrationSystems, Inc., as nomineefor SunTrust Mortgage, Inc.its successors and assigns,to secure an indebtednesstherein described, whichDeed of Trust is recorded inthe office of the ChanceryClerk of Warren County,Mississippi in Book 1689,Page 445; and WHEREAS,the holder of said Deed ofTrust substituted andappointed NationwideTrustee Services, Inc., asTrustee in said Deed of Trustby instrument recorded in theOffice of the aforesaidChancery Clerk Book 1528,Page 88; and WHEREAS,default having been made inthe payments ofindebtedness secured bysaid Deed of Trust, and theholder of said Deed of Trust,having requested theundersigned so to do, onJanuary 5, 2012, I will,during legal hours (betweenthe hours of 11 o' clock a.m.and 4 o' clock p.m.), at publicoutcry, offer for sale and willsell, at the Front door stepsof the Warren CountyCourthouse in Vicksburg,Mississippi, for cash to thehighest bidder, the followingdescribed land and propertysituated in Warren County,Mississippi, to-wit: All of LotFive (5) of that certainsubdivision known as SilverCreek Estates, a plat ofwhich is recorded in PlatBook 3 at Page 20 of theland records of WarrenCounty, Mississippi. Title tothe above described propertyis believed to be good, but Iwill convey only such title asis vested in me asSubstituted Trustee.WITNESS MY SIGNATURE,this the 30th day of Novem-ber, 2011 Stephanie FontenoStephanie Fonteno,Assistant Vice PresidentNationwide TrusteeServices, Inc. 1587Northeast Expressway At-lanta, GA 30329(770) 234-9181 0812712MSPublish: 12/15, 12/22, 12/29(3t)

SUBSTITUTED TRUSTEE'SNOTICE OF SALEWHEREAS, on December12, 2003, Donald Harris andRosie Elanie Harris akaRosie Elaine Harris executeda Deed of Trust to T. HarrisCollier III, Trustee for thebenefit of Trustmark NationalBank, as recorded in theoffice of the Chancery Clerkof Warren County,Mississippi, in Book 1439 atPage 658; andWHEREAS, the aforesaidDeed of Trust was reformedby Judgment AuthorizingReformation of Deed of Trustexecuted and entered by theChancery Court of WarrenCounty, Mississippi, in CivilAction No. 2010-368gn,which Judgment is recordedin the Warren County landrecords as Instrument No.286984 in Book 1522 atPage 300, et seq.; andWHEREAS th f id

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01. LegalsWHEREAS, the aforesaidDeed of Trust, as reformed,was re-recorded on May 19,2011 as Instrument No.287192 in Book 1709 atPage 352; and,WHEREAS, TrustmarkNational Bank, the holder ofsaid Deed of Trust and theNote secured thereby,substituted J. Mark Franklin,III as Trustee therein, asauthorized by the termsthereof, by instrument datedNovember 10, 2011, andrecorded as Instrument No.293068 in Book 1530 atPage 62 in the office of theChancery Clerk aforesaid;and,NOW, THEREFORE, I, theundersigned J. MarkFranklin, III, being theSubstituted Trustee, dohereby give notice that onJanuary 5, 2012, between11:00 o'clock a.m. and 4:00o'clock p.m., being the legalhours of sale, I will proceedto sell at public outcry, to thehighest bidder for cash, atthe West Front Door of theWarren County Courthousein Vicksburg, State ofMississippi, the following realproperty described andconveyed in said Deed ofTrust, lying and beingsituated in Warren County,Mississippi, and being moreparticularly described asfollows, to-wit:All of Lot 2 of the Survey ofSubdivision of Lot 271 ofSquare 55 of the originalsurvey of the City ofVicksburg, Mississippi, a platof which survey is of recordin the office of the ChanceryClerk of Warren County,Mississippi, in book No. 116at page 155 of the Recordsof Plats and Deeds of saidCounty, together with all ofthe improvements theretobelonging.I will convey only such titleas is vested in me asSubstituted Trustee.WITNESS MY SIGNATURE,this the 2nd day ofDecember, 2011./s/ J. Mark Franklin, IIIJ. MARK FRANKLIN, IIISUBSTITUTED TRUSTEEJ. Mark Franklin, IIIMCKAY LAWLERFRANKLIN& FOREMAN, PLLCAttorneys at LawPost Office Box 2488Ridgeland, Mississippi39158-2488(601) 572-8778POSTED THIS December 5,2011PUBLISHED: December 8,2011, December 15, 2011,December 22, 2011 andDecember 29, 2011

SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE'SNOTICE OF SALE STATEOF MISSISSIPPI COUNTYOF WARREN WHEREAS,on May 17, 2007, Ethel M.Jackson a/k/a Ethel Jacksonexecuted and delivered acertain Deed of Trust untoThe Security Title GuaranteeCo., Trustee for the benefitof Mortgage ElectronicRegistration Systems, Inc. asnominee forMortgageAmerica, Inc. itssuccessors and assigns, tosecure an indebtednesstherein described, whichDeed of Trust is recorded inthe office of the ChanceryClerk of Warren County,Mississippi in Book 1657,

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01. LegalsPage 331; and WHEREAS,said Deed of Trust wassubsequently assigned untoChase Home Finance LLC,by instrument recorded in theOffice of the aforesaidChancery Clerk in Book1508, Page 398; andWHEREAS, the holder ofsaid Deed of Trustsubstituted and appointedNationwide TrusteeServices, Inc., as Trustee insaid Deed of Trust byinstrument recorded in theOffice of the aforesaidChancery Clerk Book 1530,Page 74; and WHEREAS,default having been made inthe payments of indebted-ness secured by said Deedof Trust, and the holder ofsaid Deed of Trust, havingrequested the undersignedso to do, on January 5, 2012,I will, during legal hours (be-tween the hours of 11 o'clock a.m. and 4 o' clockp.m.), at public outcry, offerfor sale and will sell, at thefront door steps of theWarren County Courthousein Vicksburg, Mississippi, forcash to the highest bidder,the following described landand property situated inWarren County, Mississippi,to-wit: Commencing at aniron pipe at the NortheastCorner of Lot Two HundredSeventy-one (271) of SquareFifty-five (55) of the originalSurvey of the City of Vicks-burg; running thence Westwith the Northern boundaryline of said Lot Two HundredSeventy-one (271), adistance of One Hundredand Thirty (130) Feet; thenceSouth a distance of Forty-Seven and one-half (47 1/2)Feet to an iron pipe; thenceEast to the Western bound-ary line of First North Streeta distance of One Hundredand Thirty (130) feet to aniron pipe on the Westernboundary line of said FirstNorth Street; thence Northwith said Western boundaryline of said First North Streeta distance of Forty-sevenand One-half ( 47 1/2) feet toplace of beginning; it beingthe intention to hereby con-vey all of Plot Seven (7) ofthe Survey of Sub-division ofsaid Lot Two Hundred Sev-enty-one (271) of SquareFifty-five (55), of the originalsurvey of said City of Vicks-burg, as shown by plat ofF.J. Guscio, Civil Engineer,which plat is of record in theoffice of the Chancery Clerkof Warren County, Mississip-pi. Also being described asP.P.I.N. # 17701, Parcel #75J10QA19006500 Title tothe above described propertyis believed to be good, but Iwill convey only such title asis vested in me asSubstituted Trustee.WITNESS MY SIGNATURE,this the 8th day ofDecember, 2011 StephanieFonteno Stephanie FontenoNationwide Trustee Ser-vices, Inc. 1587 NortheastExpressway Atlanta, GA30329 (770) 234-91810804535MSPublish: 12/15, 12/22, 12/29(3t)

01. LegalsIN THE CHANCERYCOURT OF WARRENCOUNTY, MISSISSIPPIRE: IN THE MATTER OFTHE ESTATE OFLARRY I. MIZE, DECEASEDCAUSE NO: 2011-147PRNOTICE TO CREDITORSOFLARRY I. MIZENOTICE is hereby given thatLetters of Administration onthe Estate of Larry I. Mize,deceased, Probate No.2011-147PR, were grantedto the undersigned by theChancery Court of WarrenCounty, Mississippi on the18th day of November, 2011,and all persons havingclaims against said estateare hereby notified andrequired to have the sameprobated and registered bythe Clerk of said Court asrequired by law within ninety(90) days from date of firstpublication of this notice.Failure to do so will foreverbar such claims.WITNESS my signature thisthe 28th day of November,2011./s/ MARVIN GLYNN MIZE,ADMINISTRATOR OF THEESTATE OF LARRY I.MIZE, JR., DECEASEDPublish: 12/1, 12/8, 12/15(3t)

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SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE'S NOTICE OF SALEWHEREAS, on April 15, 2004, GERALD MCLEOD executeda Deed of Trust to JIM B. TOHILL as Trustee for the benefitof ARGENT MORTGAGE COMPANY, LLC, which Deed ofTrust was filed on January 6, 2005 and recorded asInstrument No. 218359 - and in Book 1511 at Page 47 - in theOffice of the Chancery Clerk of Warren County, Mississippi;andWHEREAS, WELLS FARGO BANK, N.A., AS TRUSTEEFOR THE HOLDERS OFTHE PARK PLACE SECURITIES,INC. ASSET-BACKED PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES,SERIES 2004-WCW2, the current Beneficiary of said Deed ofTrust, substituted RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A. asTrustee therein, as authorized by the terms thereof, asevidenced by an instrument recorded as/in Instrument No.293229 - and in Book 1530, Page 169 in the Office of theChancery Clerk of Warren County, Mississippi; andWHEREAS, default having been made in the terms andconditions of said Deed of Trust, and the entire debt securedthereby having been declared to be due and payable, and thelegal holder of said indebtedness, WELLS FARGO BANK,N.A., AS TRUSTEE FOR THE HOLDERS OFTHE PARKPLACE SECURITIES, INC. ASSET-BACKEDPASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2004-WCW2,having requested the undersigned Substitute Trustee toexecute the trust and sell said land and property inaccordance with the terms of said Deed of Trust for thepurpose of raising the sums due thereunder, together withattorney's fees, Substitute Trustee's fees and expenses ofsale.NOW, THEREFORE, RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A.,Substitute Trustee, will on January 05, 2012, offer for sale atpublic outcry to the highest bidder for cash, within legal hours(between the hours of 11:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.) at the frontsteps of the Warren County Courthouse in Vicksburg,Mississippi, the following-described property:LOT 84ALL OF THAT CERTAIN LOT OR PARCEL OF LAND LYINGAND BEING SITUATED IN PART OF THE SOUTHEASTONE-QUARTER OF SECTION 23, TOWNSHIP 16 NORTH,RANGE 4 EAST, OF THE COUNTY OF WARREN, STATEOF MISSISSIPPI, MORE PARTICULARLY DESCRIBED ASFOLLOWS, TO WIT:COMMENCING AT AN IRON ROD (FOUND) ON THESOUTH LINE OF U.S. HIGHWAY NO. 80, MARKING THENORTHWEST CORNER OF THE B.P. BUFORD'S 46.6ACRE TRACT AS RECORDED IN DEED BOOK 1048 ATPAGE 7 OF THE LAND RECORDS OF WARREN COUNTY,MISSISSIPPI; THENCE RUN S 04 DEGREES 30 MINUTESE 533.37 FEET; AND RUN THENCE S 89 DEGREES 47MINUTES 30 SECONDS W 37.98 FEET; THENCE S 59DEGREES 20 MINUTES 48 SECONDS E 226.56 FEET;THENCE RUN N 22 DEGREES 16 MINUTES 27 SECONDSE 40.47 FEET TO AN IRON ROD AND THE POINT OFBEGINNING, THENCE RUN ALONG THE CENTERLINE OFA 50 FOOT WIDE ROAD AS FOLLOWS: N 22 DEGREES16 MINUTES 27 SECONDS E 57.92 FEET; THENCE RUNN 07 DEGREES 41 MINUTES 36 SECONDS E 100.47FEET; AND THENCE LEAVING THE SAID CENTERLINEOF A 50 FOOT WIDE ROAD, RUN S 61 DEGREES 55MINUTES 25 SECONDS E 137.57 FEET TO AN IRON ROD;THENCE RUN S 31 DEGREES 01 MINUTES 45 SECONDSE 84.24 FEET TO AN IRON ROD; THENCE S 18 DEGREES48 MINUTES 27 SECONDS W 73.82 FEET TO AN IRONROD; THENCE RUN N 73 DEGREES 05 MINUTES 08SECONDS W 184.39 FEET TO THE POINT OF BEGIN-NING, CONTAINING 0.553 ACRE.TOGETHER WITH THAT CERTAIN PERPETUAL,NON-EXCLUSIVE EASEMENT, TO BE USED IN COMMON,FOR THE PURPOSE OF A ROADWAY AND FOR THEINSTALLATION AND MAINTENANCE OF SEWER LINES,POWER LINES, AND WATER LINES OVER AND ACROSSTHAT CERTAIN FIFTY (50') FOOT WIDE STRIP OF LANDBEING FURTHER DESCRIBED AS COMMENCING AT THENORTHEAST CORNER OF SAID B.F. BUFORD TRACT;THENCE RUN S 86 DEGREES 00 MINUTES W 506.21FEET TO THE INTERSECTION OF THE SOUTH LINE OFU.S. HIGHWAY NO. 80 WITH THE CENTERLINE OFSILVER LEAF DRIVE AND THE POINT OF BEGINNING OFROAD EASEMENT; THENCE RUN 25 FEET EITHER SIDEOF THE FOLLOWING DESCRIBED CENTERLINE: S 06DEGREES 48 MINUTES 39 SECONDS E 58.65 FEET;THENCE S 27 DEGREES 20 MINUTES 29 SECONDS E76.9 FEET; THENCE S 39 DEGREES 12 MINUTES 31SECONDS E 102.1 FEET; THENCE S 36 DEGREES 01MINUTES 10 SECONDS E 43.78 FEET;THENCE S 55DEGREES 02 MINUTES 51 SECONDS E 125.37 FEET TOA POINT IN THE CENTERLINE OF ANOTHER ROAD;THENCE LEAVING THE CENTERLINE OF SAID SILVERLEAF DRIVE, RUN ALONG THE CENTERLINE OF ANOTH-ER ROAD AS FOLLOWS; S 38 DEGREES 33 MINUTES W195.0 FEET; THENCE S 07 DEGREES 41 MINUTES 36SECONDS W 100.47 FEET; THENCE RUN S 22 DEGREES16 MINUTES 27 SECONDS W 235.74 FEET; THENCE RUNS 46 DEGREES 47 MINUTES W 527.06 FEET TO THE ENDOF EASEMENT.SUBJECT TO THAT CERTAIN 25 FOOT STRIP OF LANDTO BE USED FOR A ROADWAY OVER AND ACROSSCERTAIN 25 FOOT WIDE STRIP LYING IMMEDIATELYSOUTH OF THE NORTH LINE OF THE HEREINDESCRIBED PROPERTY.INDEXING INSTRUCTION:SE 1/4 SECTION 23, TOWNSHIP 16 NORTH, RANGE 4EASTRECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A. will convey only such titleas vested in it as Substitute Trustee.WITNESS my signature on this 30th day of November, 2011.RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A., SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE2380 Performance Dr, TX2-984-0407Richardson, TX 75082Telephone No. (800) 281-8219By: /s/ Mahtab MemarTitle: Assistant Vice PresidentRECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A., SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE2380 Performance Dr, TX2-984-0407Richardson, TX 75082TS No.: 11 -0130082PARCEL No. 0964 23 9999 002800DHGW 66740G-1LLPublish: 12/15, 12/22, 12/29(3t)

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AIRLINES ARE HIRING - Train forhands on Aviation Career. FAA approvedprogram. Financial aid if qualified - Jobplacement assistance. CALL AviationInstitute of Maintenance 866-455-4317.ALLIED HEALTH career training. Attendcollege 100% online. Job placementassistance. Computer available. Financialaid if qualified. SCHEV certified. Call8 0 0 - 4 8 1 - 9 4 0 9 .www.CenturaOnline.comEARN COLLEGE DEGREE ONLINE.•Medical •Business •Criminal Justice.Job placement assistance. Computeravailable. Financial Aid if qualified.SCHEV certified. Call 888-899-6914.www.CenturaOnline.com

PARKER DRILLING COMPANY is nowaccepting applications for experiencedSCR Electricians. Must possess at least 5years rig experience. Candidates canapply online at www.parkerdrilling.com.EOE.

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10. Loans AndInvestments

“WE CAN ERASE yourbad credit- 100% guaran-teed.” The Federal TradeCommission says the onlylegitimate credit repairstarts and ends with you. Ittakes time and a consciouseffort to pay your debts.Any company that claims tobe able to fix your creditlegally is lying. Learn aboutmanaging credit and debt atftc.gov/credit

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29. UnfurnishedApartments

12. Schools &Instruction

EARN COLLEGE DEGREE ONLINE.

*Medical, *Business,*Criminal Justice. Jobplacement assistance.Computer available. Financial aid if qualified.

SCHEV certified. Call 877-206-5185.

www.CenturaOnline.com

12. Schools &Instruction

WORK ON JET Engines.Train for hands on AviationCareer. FAA approved pro-gram. Financial aid if quali-fied. Job placement assis-tance. CALL Aviation Insti-tute of Maintenance 866-455-4317.

13. SituationsWanted

ELDERLY ASSISTANCEAVAILBLE. Clean, cook anderrands. Call Frances 601-868-0009 or 601-456-4413.

NEED A SITTER? Call601-400-1290, 601-497-5144. Over 25 years of

experience.


14. Pets &Livestock

Vicksburg WarrenHumane Society& MS - Span

Hwy 61 S - 601-636-6631

CATS:Male . .$25 Female ........$35

DOGS (UNDER 40 LBS):Male . .$55 Female ........$65

• For the above category ofanimals, pick up applications at

the Humane Society

DOGS (OVER 40 LBS):Male . .$70 Female ........$80

• For dogs over 40 lbs,call 866-901-7729 for appt.

Low CostSpay & Neuter Program

14. Pets &Livestock

www.pawsrescuepets.org

If you are feeding a strayor feral cat and needhelp with spaying orneutering, pleasecall 601-529-1535.

15. AuctionOUR ON-LINE

SUBSCRIPTION keepsyou “plugged” in to allthe local news, sports,community events. Call

Circulation, 601-636-4545.

16. Antiques

STACY DOUGLASANTIQUES

New Shipment from New Orleans!

619 Crawford Street(beneath Cinnamon Tree)

504-427-4071


17. Wanted ToBuy






WE HAUL OFF old appli-ances, old batteries, lawnmowers, hot water heaters,junk and abandoned cars,trucks, vans, etcetera. 601-940-5075, if no answer, pleaseleave message.

WE PAY CASH forjunk. Cars, trucks. Vans,SUVs, and old dumptrucks. 601-638-5946 or601-529-8249.

18. Miscellaneou sFor Sale

16 BY 6 dual axle heavyduty trailer with ramps.$975 or best offer. 601-636-2731 or 662-610-5126.

50 INCH TOSHIBA Pro-jection TV, excellent condi-tion. $300. 601-636-2636.

CVA 35 CALIBER Whe-len stainless steel Scout.$275. 601-638-3906, 601-218-9788.

ELECTRIC TREADMILL,very nice. Large wall unit,couch, love seat, travel trail-er, deep freeze, twin bed,hospital bed, Power chair,stove, hens, and lots more.601-831-2563, 601-638-7067.

FIREWOOD FOR Sale.Pick up or delivery. 601-630-7085.

HARVARD FOOSBALLTABLES and air hockeygame table, perfect condi-tion. Great Christmas gifts!Must see, make offer! 601-638-8925.


HOTEL FURNITUREFOR Sale. Battlefield Inn.4137 North Frontage Road.No phone calls!

LIFE GEAR RECUM-BANT exercise bike. Goodcondition. $130. 601-638-9242.

MATTRESS & BOXSPRING

King Size, pillow top . Only 5years old. $250. 601-529-3938

NEW QUEENCAMOFLAUGE bed set. Paid$140, will sell for $70. FisherPrice aquarium cradle swing$25. 601-638-9859.

THE PET SHOP“Vicksburg’s Pet Boutique”3508 South Washington Street

Pond fish, Gold fish, Koi, fish foodaquarium needs, bird food, designer collars, harnesses & leads,loads of pet supplies!Bring your Baby in for a fitting today!

THE BEST WAY to bargain hunt is to

check the Classifieds Daily. We make it easywith our convenient

home delivery. For details call 601-636-4545, Circulation.

USED TIRES! LIGHTtrucks and SUV's, 16's,17's, 18's, 19's, 20's. A fewmatching sets! Call TD's,601-638-3252.

24. BusinessServices

19. Garage &Yard Sales

Ask us how to “PostSize” your ad with some

great clip art! Call theClassified Ladies at 601-636-Sell (7355).


MOVING SALE, 207West Drive, off Nailor Road,Saturday, 7am-11am, refrig-erator, furniture, tools, en-tertainment center, exerciseequipment, much more!

19. Garage &Yard SalesSTILL HAVE STUFF

after your Garage Sale?Donate your items to

The Salvation Army, we pick-up!

Call 601-636-2706.

What's going on inVicksburg this weekend?Read The Vicksburg Post!

For convenient home deliv-ery call 601-636-4545, ask

for circulation.

20. Hunting

Call our Circulation Department for

CONVENIENT Home Delivery and/ or our On-line Subscription.

Monday- Friday, 8am-5pm, 601-636-4545.

21. Boats,Fishing Supplies

What's going on in Vicksburg?

Read The Vicksburg Post!For convenient home

delivery, call 601-636-4545, ask for

circulation.


24. BusinessServices

• BankruptcyChapter 7 and 13

• Social Seurity Disability• No-fault Divorce

Toni Walker TerrettAttorney At Law

601-636-1109

D & D TREE CUTTING•Trimming • Lawn Care

• Dirt Hauled• Insured

For FREE EstimatesCall “Big James”

601-218-7782

D.R. PAINTING AND CON-STRUCTION. Painting, roof-ing, carpentry service. Li-censed, bonded. Free esti-mates! Call 601-638-5082.

DIRT AND GRAVELhauled. 8 yard truck. 601-638-6740.

FREE ESTIMATESTREY GORDON

ROOFING & RESTORATION•Roof & Home Repair

(all types!)•30 yrs exp •1,000’s of ref

Licensed • Insured601-618-0367 • 601-456-4133

I CLEAN HOMES! Over35 years experience. Ex-cellent references. 601-631-2482, 601-831-6052.

I-PHONE REPAIR. Buy,sell and repair. ArcueSanchez - 601-618-9916.

PLUMBING SERVICES-24 hour emergency- brokenwater lines- hot waterheaters- toilets- faucets-sinks. Pressure Washing-sidewalk- house- mobilehomes- vinyl siding- brickhomes. 601-618-8466.

River City Lawn CareYou grow it - we mow it!Affordable and profes-

sional. Lawn and land-scape maintenance. Cut, bag, trim, edge.

601-529-6168.

26. For RentOr Lease

RICHARD M. CALDWELL

BROKER

SPECIALIZING IN RENTALS(INCLUDING CORPORATE

APARTMENTS)CALL 601-618-5180

[email protected]

29. UnfurnishedApartments2 BEDROOM Duplex,

$400. 4 bedroom duplex,$500. With stove and refrigerator. $200 deposit.

601-634-8290.

THE COVEStop looking,

Start living!

Paid cable, water andtrash. Washer, Dryer

and built-inmicrowave furnished.

601-638-55871-601-686-0635

BEAUTIFULLAKESIDE

LIVING

• 1, 2 & 3 Bedroom Apts.• Beautifully Landscaped• Lake Surrounds Community

• Pool • Fireplace• Spacious Floor Plans

601-629-6300www.thelandingsvicksburg.com

501 Fairways DriveVicksburg

CommodoreApartments

1, 2 & 3Bedrooms

605 Cain Ridge Rd.Vicksburg, MS

39180

601-638-2231

DOWNTOWN, BRICK,MARIE Apartments. Total

electric, central air/ heat,stove, refrigerator. $520, water

furnished. 601-636-7107, [email protected]

NICE 2 BEDROOMapartment. Good river view.$375 monthly. 601-638-5832.

SAVE! SAVE! SAVE!Ask about our Holiday

Special- 2 and 3 bedrooms. We aim to

please. Call 601-686-0635.

VAN GUARDAPARTMENTS. Two

bedroom flat, $550 monthly.3 bedroom apartment $550.MANAGERS SPECIAL. Nodeposit. $30 application fee.

Call 601-631-0805.

30. HousesFor Rent

2 BEDROOM, 1 bath,with washer/ dryer hook-up,refrigerator, stove andfenced yard. $450 month,$250 security deposit. 601-638-0133.

31. Mobile HomesFor Rent

MEADOWBROOKPROPERTIES. 2 or 3 bed-room mobile homes, southcounty. Deposit required.

601-619-9789.

32. Mobile HomesFor Sale

5 BEDROOMS, 3 Baths.Buy double wide with

land. No credit check/ own-er finance. Must have$5000 deposit. 601-941-2952.

KEEP UP WITH ALLTHE LOCAL NEWS

AND SALES...SUBSCRIBE TO

THE VICKSBURG POSTTODAY! CALL

601-636-4545, ASK FORCIRCULATION.

VERY NICE 5 bedroom,3 bath. New hardwoodfloors on ½ acre lot. Asking$65,000. 601-618-8612.

33. Commercia lProperty

COMMERCIAL BUILD-ING or Turn- Key restaurantwith 2 lots for sale at EagleLake. Call 850-683-1085.

FOR LEASE- COMMER-CIAL property. Car lot withnew office, 2720 ClayStreet. 601-218-3252.


34. HousesFor Sale

3 BEDROOM, 2 bath, to-tally remodeled to perfec-tion. Fenced back yard, lotsof charm. $99,000. Call An-drea, Jones & Upchurch,601-831-6490.

CARY, MS. 3 bed, 2 bathhome, 4.5 lots. Shown byappointment only. Asking$115,000. 601-824-0270.

Carla Watson...............601-415-4179Mary D. Barnes .........601-966-1665Stacie Bowers-Griffin...601-218-9134Jill WaringUpchurch....601-906-5012Andrea Upchurch.......601-831-6490Broker, GRI

601-636-6490

Licensed inMS and LA

Jones & UpchurchReal Estate Agency

1803 Clay Streetwww.jonesandupchurch.com

Kay Odom..........601-638-2443Kay Hobson.......601-638-8512Jake Strait...........601-218-1258Alex Monsour.....601-415-7274Jay Hobson..........601-456-1318Daryl Hollingsworth..601-415-5549

Sybil Caraway....601-218-2869Catherine Roy....601-831-5790Mincer Minor.....601-529-0893Jim Hobson.........601-415-0211

AARRNNEERRRREEAALL EESSTTAATTEE,, IINNCCVJIM HOBSON

REALTOR®•BUILDER•APPRAISER

601-636-0502

34. HousesFor Sale

Open Hours:Mon-Fri 8:30am-5:30pm

601-634-89282170 S. I-20 Frontage Rd.

www.ColdwellBanker.comwww.homesofvicksburg.net

When you need helpin finding that perfecthome in Eagle Lake,

call me!Whether you’re looking for a

lakefront home, waterfront lots,foreclosures, reduced housing

or just good deals!!!

Bette Paul Warner,601-218-1800,

McMillin Real Estate.

38. FarmImple ments/

Heavy Equipment






39. Motorcycles ,Bicycles



40. Cars & Trucks

DECEMBER DEAL!

Garyscfl.com

2002 Ford Escape

$850 Down $163 Bi -Weekly

Gary’s Cars601-883-9995

2002 CAMRY XLE.Black, asking $7500. 1997Honda Accord, Silver, ask-ing $3000. 601-630-5091.

AUTO WORLD'SROCK-BOTTOM

CHRISTMAS SALE!George Carr

Rental building. 601-831-2000 after 3pm.






MUTUAL CREDITUNION has for sale: 2007GMC Yukon, 93,000 miles.$16,500. Please call 601-636-7523, extension 258.

Barnes GlassQuality Service at Competitive Prices#1 Windshield Repair & Replacement

Vans • Cars • Trucks•Insurance Claims Welcome•

AUTO • HOME • BUSINESSJason Barnes • 601-661-0900

ROSSCONSTRUCTION

New HomesFraming, Remodeling,

Cabinets, Flooring,Roofing & Vinyl Siding

State Licensed & BondedJon Ross 601-638-7932

Simmons Lawn ServiceProfessional Services &

Competitive Prices• Landscaping • Septic Systems• Irrigation: Install & Repair• Commercial & Residential

Grass CuttingLicensed • Bonded • Insured

12 years experienceRoy Simmons (Owner)

601-218-8341

BUFORDCONSTRUCTION CO., INC.

601-636-4813State Board of Contractors

Approved & Bonded

Haul Clay, Gravel, Dirt,Rock & Sand

All Types of Dozer WorkLand Clearing • Demolition

Site Development& Preparation Excavation

Crane Rental • Mud Jacking

River CityDirt Work, LLC

• Dozer / Trackhoe Work• Dump Truck •

• Bush Hogging • Box Blade• Demolition • Debris Removal

• Hydro Seeding• Deliver

Dirt -13 yd. load $85 locally• Gravel • Sand • Rock

Res. & Com. • Lic. & Ins.Robert Keyes, Jr. (Owner)

601-529-0894

All Business &

Service Directory Ads

MUST BE PAID

IN ADVANCE!

FREERides for

Children 4 & Under

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SPEEDIPRINT &OFFICE SUPPLY

• Business Cards• Letterhead• Envelopes• Invoices

• Work Orders• Invitations

(601) 638-2900Fax (601) 636-6711

1601-C North Frontage RoadVicksburg, MS 39180

PATRIOTIC• FLAGS

• BANNERS

• BUMPER STICKERS

• YARD SIGNSShow Your Colors!

MAGNOLIA MANOR APARTMENTSElderly & Disabled3515 Manor Drive

Vicksburg, Ms.601-636-3625

Equal Housing Opportunity

801 Clay Street 601-630-2921www.the-vicksburg.com

UTILITIES PAID!1 & 2 Bedroom Apartments

Studios & Efficiencies

NNEEEEDD AANN AAPPAARRTTMMEENNTT??Enjoy the convenience of downtown living at

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SAFE!!SENIOR CITIZEN DISCOUNT

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COME CHECK US OUT TODAYYOU’LL WANT TO MAKE YOUR

HOME HEREGreat Location, Hard-Working Staff

601-638-7831 • 201 Berryman Rd.

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601-638-7831 • 201 Berryman Rd

Bradford RidgeApartments

Live in a Quality Built Apartmentfor LESS! All brick,

concrete floors and double wallsprovide excellent soundproofing,

security, and safety.601-638-1102 • 601-415-3333

BienvilleApartments

The ParkResidencesat Bienville

1, 2 & 3 bedroomsand townhomes

available immediately.

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and

EQUAL HOUSINGOPPORTUNITY

YOU ARE APPROVED!START REBUILDING

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601-636-31472970 Hwy 61 North • VicksburgMonday - Saturday 8am-7pm

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IF WE DON’T HAVE

WHAT YOU WANT,

WE CAN GET IT!!

Call 601-636-SELL tosell your Car or Truck!



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