Vol. 117, No. 298 • Corinth, Mississippi • 16 pages • 1 section Tuesday Dec. 17, 2013 50 cents Today 56 Sunny Tonight 32 Index On this day in history 150 years ago A landing party from the USS Moose captures and destroys a distillery operated by Confederate troops on Seven Miles Is- land, Tenn. There will be no spiking of the eggnog this Christ- mas season. Stocks........ 8 Classified...... 14 Comics........ 9 State........ 5 Weather...... 10 Obituaries........ 6 Opinion........ 4 Sports...... 12 0% chance of rain 2013 Christmas Basket Fund “A Community Tradition” The spirit of giving is alive and well in the Crossroads area as generous donations are ar- riving daily for the 18th Annual Corinth Rotary Club / Daily Co- rinthian 2013 Christmas Basket Fund. The civic club and newspaper have set a $25,000 community fundraising goal this year so 1,000 food baskets could be giv- en away to local families on Sat- urday, Dec. 7 at the Crossroads Arena. Baskets were given on faith and hope the goal will be reached. The total increased to $12,645 after the most recent donations arrived. They are $25 from Pauline Missionary Society of Waldron Street Christian Church in hon- or of Bro. Ted and Marie Avant; $50 anonymous gift in memory of G.B. and Myrtle Burns; $200 from Sharp, Fisher and Borden; $500 from Caterpillar; and $500 from Long Wholesale in memory of former employees who died this past year — Billy Jones, James Cooper and Paul Rorie. Donations can be the perfect time to make a holiday tribute to a special person. Contribu- tions can be made “in honor of” someone living or “in memory of” someone who has passed. They can be family or friends, co-workers, employees, bosses or even groups who have made an impact on a person’s life. All tributes will be published in the Daily Corinthian until Christmas Day. Donations can be brought to the newspaper office at 1607 Harper Road or mailed to the Daily Corinthian, Attn: Christ- mas Basket Fund, P.O. Box 1800, Corinth, Miss. 38835. Basket Fund tops $12,600 The former engineer for Al- corn County hopes the Board of Supervisors will decide to pay his bill for services. Ricky Newcomb appeared before the board Monday morning to ask the board’s in- tentions on an 18-month old in- voice that included work on an economic development project. If the county chooses not to pay it, “we’ll move on,” he said. Newcomb was replaced by Cook Coggin at the beginning of the new term, but Newcomb continued work relating to possible sites for the Caterpil- lar warehouse and logistics fa- cility project for several more months. Cook Coggin eventu- ally took over the project. Board Attorney Bill Davis is investigating whether the work was done before a contract was in place, and Board President Lowell Hinton said the county shouldn’t pay two engineer- ing firms for the same work. Newcomb said all of the work is documented in the invoice. With one “no” vote, the board voted after a lengthy discussion to take the matter under advise- ment with the goal of reaching a decision by the next meeting. In other business before the board: ■ Sheriff Charles Rinehart reported the monthly finan- cials for the jail and informed the board that 30 state inmates are arriving today and another 20 are expected on Dec. 26 as the state resumes sending in- mates to the regional jail. ■ Sandra Davis sought the board’s help to get her dog back from the Corinth-Alcorn Animal Shelter. The dog has been held at the shelter since it went after a neighbor’s goat and the neighbor stabbed the dog, a pit bull, she told the board. Davis has been unable to get the dog back. The board attorney said the supervisors have no authority on the matter and advised her to file an action in justice court. ■ Hinton said a compliance issue with bridge postings has been corrected and funding re- instated. ■ The next scheduled meet- ing of the board is Monday, Jan. 6, at 9 a.m. Ex-engineer seeks payment BY JEBB JOHNSTON [email protected]Voters in the state will be required to show photo identi- fication at the polls come June 3. Secretary of State Delbert Hosemann was in town Mon- day making sure the transition is a smooth one for those in need of a Mississippi Voter ID card. “We are committed to ensur- ing everyone who is qualified to vote gets the opportunity to cast a ballot,” said Hosemann during a training session at the Alcorn County Circuit Clerk’s office. “We have worked hard to make it as simple as pos- sible.” Alcorn County was one of three stops by the secretary of state as he makes his way around the state to explain the process. “It’s important to be here today so the deputy clerks can understand it,” said Hose- mann. “Voter ID will not be implemented until the June primary election, so everyone will have six months to get settled in.” According to Hosemann, cards will begin to be issued in the middle of January. “It’s in 18 counties today and we have not experienced any problems,” he said. On Monday, state represen- tatives Nick Bain and Lester “Bubba” Carpenter along with Corinth Mayor Tommy Irwin were all on hand to learn more about the process. Any registered voter without an acceptable photo ID is eli- gible to receive a free card. Voter ID cards are only re- quired if a voter doesn’t have other photo identification such as: ■ Driver’s license. ■ ID card issued by a branch, department, or entity of the State of Mississippi. ■ United States passport. ■ Government employee ID card. ■ Firearms license. ■ Student photo ID issued by an accredited Mississippi uni- versity, college or community/ junior college. ■ United States military ID. ■ Tribal photo ID. ■ Or any other photo ID is- sued by any branch, depart- ment, agency or entity of the Hosemann explains Voter ID process BY STEVE BEAVERS [email protected]Staff photo by Steve Beavers Secretary of State Delbert Hosemann goes over the process of obtaining voter identification card during a stop in Alcorn County on Monday. After a call to meeting the Crossroads Arena board mem- bers jumped right into the 2012 audit report on Monday after- noon. Stacey Mitchell, a Certified Public Accountant who repre- sented the Dobbins & Mitch- ell, P.A. accounting firm out of Corinth, broke down the finan- cial statements to the seven- person board. “I really appreciate all of you allowing us to do business with the arena,” said Mitchell. “Hir- ing us to do this audit was a pleasure for us, and we look forward to doing this again next year with your approval.” According to the financial statements, a total profit of $255,182 was made in 2012. Board chairman, Dr. Hard- wick Kay, said he was pleased with the job Mitchell and her company did with the audit. “I know we have much room for improvement still, however, we are on the right track,” Kay said. “Each year the report gets better and more detailed. Tam- my (Genovese) and Tina (McK- ee) have both done a fantastic job putting this all together, and representing us well.” Genovese said the arena was looking at adding to their net profit in 2013 by bringing in big names like American musician Darius Rucker. “We think Darius will be a great act to bring in here,” Genovese said. “It isn’t any- thing concrete yet, it is still in the works. However, we want to try to bring him in on a Satur- day night in mid-August if pos- sible.” Rucker first gained fame as the lead singer and rhythm gui- tarist of the rock band Hootie & the Blowfish, which he founded in 1986 at the University of South Carolina along with Mark Bryan, Jim “Soni” Sonefeld and Dean Felber. The band has re- leased five studio albums with him as a member, and charted six top 40 hits on the Billboard Hot 100. Rucker co-wrote the major- ity of the band’s songs with the other three members. In 2009, he became the first African American to win the New Artist Award from the Country Music Association, and only the second African Ameri- can to win any award from the association. A second Capitol album, Charleston, SC 1966, Crossroads Arena board gets 2012 audit report results BY JOSEPH MILLER [email protected]Staff photo by Joseph Miller Crossroads Arena General Manager Tammy Genovese (left), Chairmain Dr. Hardwick Kay, Dobbins & Mitchell, P.A CPA represen- tatives, Stacey Mitchell and Richard Dobbins, and board member Penn Majors discuss the 2012 financial statements during the audit discussions. Please see HOSEMANN | 2 Please see ARENA | 3 Daily Corinthian
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The spirit of giving is alive and well in the Crossroads area as generous donations are ar-riving daily for the 18th Annual Corinth Rotary Club / Daily Co-rinthian 2013 Christmas Basket Fund.
The civic club and newspaper have set a $25,000 community fundraising goal this year so 1,000 food baskets could be giv-en away to local families on Sat-urday, Dec. 7 at the Crossroads Arena. Baskets were given on faith and hope the goal will be reached.
The total increased to $12,645 after the most recent donations arrived.
They are $25 from Pauline Missionary Society of Waldron Street Christian Church in hon-or of Bro. Ted and Marie Avant; $50 anonymous gift in memory of G.B. and Myrtle Burns; $200 from Sharp, Fisher and Borden; $500 from Caterpillar; and $500 from Long Wholesale in memory of former employees who died this past year — Billy Jones, James Cooper and Paul Rorie.
Donations can be the perfect time to make a holiday tribute to a special person. Contribu-tions can be made “in honor of” someone living or “in memory of” someone who has passed. They can be family or friends, co-workers, employees, bosses or even groups who have made an impact on a person’s life.
All tributes will be published in the Daily Corinthian until Christmas Day.
Donations can be brought to the newspaper offi ce at 1607 Harper Road or mailed to the Daily Corinthian, Attn: Christ-mas Basket Fund, P.O. Box 1800, Corinth, Miss. 38835.
Basket Fundtops $12,600
The former engineer for Al-corn County hopes the Board of Supervisors will decide to pay his bill for services.
Ricky Newcomb appeared before the board Monday morning to ask the board’s in-tentions on an 18-month old in-voice that included work on an economic development project.
If the county chooses not to pay it, “we’ll move on,” he said.
Newcomb was replaced by Cook Coggin at the beginning of the new term, but Newcomb
continued work relating to possible sites for the Caterpil-lar warehouse and logistics fa-cility project for several more months. Cook Coggin eventu-ally took over the project.
Board Attorney Bill Davis is investigating whether the work was done before a contract was in place, and Board President Lowell Hinton said the county shouldn’t pay two engineer-ing fi rms for the same work. Newcomb said all of the work is documented in the invoice.
With one “no” vote, the board voted after a lengthy discussion
to take the matter under advise-ment with the goal of reaching a decision by the next meeting.
In other business before the board:
■ Sheriff Charles Rinehart reported the monthly fi nan-cials for the jail and informed the board that 30 state inmates are arriving today and another 20 are expected on Dec. 26 as the state resumes sending in-mates to the regional jail.
■ Sandra Davis sought the board’s help to get her dog back from the Corinth-Alcorn Animal Shelter. The dog has
been held at the shelter since it went after a neighbor’s goat and the neighbor stabbed the dog, a pit bull, she told the board. Davis has been unable to get the dog back.
The board attorney said the supervisors have no authority on the matter and advised her to fi le an action in justice court.
■ Hinton said a compliance issue with bridge postings has been corrected and funding re-instated.
■ The next scheduled meet-ing of the board is Monday, Jan. 6, at 9 a.m.
Voters in the state will be required to show photo identi-fi cation at the polls come June 3.
Secretary of State Delbert Hosemann was in town Mon-day making sure the transition is a smooth one for those in need of a Mississippi Voter ID card.
“We are committed to ensur-ing everyone who is qualifi ed to vote gets the opportunity to cast a ballot,” said Hosemann during a training session at the Alcorn County Circuit Clerk’s offi ce. “We have worked hard to make it as simple as pos-sible.”
Alcorn County was one of three stops by the secretary of state as he makes his way around the state to explain the process.
“It’s important to be here today so the deputy clerks can understand it,” said Hose-mann. “Voter ID will not be implemented until the June primary election, so everyone will have six months to get settled in.”
According to Hosemann, cards will begin to be issued in the middle of January.
“It’s in 18 counties today and we have not experienced any problems,” he said.
On Monday, state represen-tatives Nick Bain and Lester
“Bubba” Carpenter along with Corinth Mayor Tommy Irwin were all on hand to learn more about the process.
Any registered voter without an acceptable photo ID is eli-gible to receive a free card.
Voter ID cards are only re-quired if a voter doesn’t have other photo identifi cation such
as:■ Driver’s license.■ ID card issued by a branch,
department, or entity of the State of Mississippi.
■ United States passport.■ Government employee ID
card.■ Firearms license.■ Student photo ID issued by
an accredited Mississippi uni-versity, college or community/junior college.
■ United States military ID.■ Tribal photo ID.■ Or any other photo ID is-
sued by any branch, depart-ment, agency or entity of the
Hosemann explains Voter ID processBY STEVE BEAVERS
Secretary of State Delbert Hosemann goes over the process of obtaining voter identification card during a stop in Alcorn County on Monday.
After a call to meeting the Crossroads Arena board mem-bers jumped right into the 2012 audit report on Monday after-noon.
Stacey Mitchell, a Certifi ed Public Accountant who repre-sented the Dobbins & Mitch-ell, P.A. accounting fi rm out of Corinth, broke down the fi nan-cial statements to the seven-person board.
“I really appreciate all of you allowing us to do business with the arena,” said Mitchell. “Hir-ing us to do this audit was a pleasure for us, and we look forward to doing this again next year with your approval.”
According to the fi nancial statements, a total profi t of $255,182 was made in 2012.
Board chairman, Dr. Hard-wick Kay, said he was pleased with the job Mitchell and her company did with the audit.
“I know we have much room for improvement still, however, we are on the right track,” Kay said. “Each year the report gets better and more detailed. Tam-my (Genovese) and Tina (McK-ee) have both done a fantastic job putting this all together, and representing us well.”
Genovese said the arena was looking at adding to their net
profi t in 2013 by bringing in big names like American musician Darius Rucker.
“We think Darius will be a great act to bring in here,” Genovese said. “It isn’t any-thing concrete yet, it is still in the works. However, we want to try to bring him in on a Satur-
day night in mid-August if pos-sible.”
Rucker fi rst gained fame as the lead singer and rhythm gui-tarist of the rock band Hootie & the Blowfi sh, which he founded in 1986 at the University of South Carolina along with Mark Bryan, Jim “Soni” Sonefeld and
Dean Felber. The band has re-leased fi ve studio albums with him as a member, and charted six top 40 hits on the Billboard Hot 100.
Rucker co-wrote the major-ity of the band’s songs with the other three members.
In 2009, he became the fi rst
African American to win the New Artist Award from the Country Music Association, and only the second African Ameri-can to win any award from the association. A second Capitol album, Charleston, SC 1966,
Crossroads Arena board gets 2012 audit report resultsBY JOSEPH MILLER
Crossroads Arena General Manager Tammy Genovese (left), Chairmain Dr. Hardwick Kay, Dobbins & Mitchell, P.A CPA represen-tatives, Stacey Mitchell and Richard Dobbins, and board member Penn Majors discuss the 2012 financial statements during the audit discussions.
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United States government or any State government.
“As long as they have a driver’s license or the other mentioned forms of identi-fi cation, they do not need one of these cards,” said Hosemann.
Over 62 percent of Mississippi vot-ers approved a citizen-initiated Consti-tutional Amendment on November 8, 2011, which requires eligible voters to present a photo ID before casting a bal-lot in person at the polls or in a Circuit Clerk’s offi ce.
To get a free card, an individual must take one of the following types of docu-ments to the Circuit Clerk’s offi ce.
■ Any expired but valid photo identity document having the voter’s name and photograph issued by the U.S. govern-
ment or any U.S. state.■ Birth certifi cate or any other docu-
ment with the voter’s full legal name, date and place of birth.
■ Social Security card.■ Medicare card.■ Medicaid card.■ Or the following, as long as it in-
cludes the voter’s name and current address: utility bill issued within the preceding six months; bank statement issued within the preceding six months; paycheck issued within the preceding six months; government check issued within the preceding six months; or IRS Form W-2, Wage and Tax Statement is-sued within the current calendar year.
Those exempt from the ID requirement are voters who vote an absentee ballot by mail, fax or email; and voters with reli-gious objections to being photographed.
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JACKSON — Gov. Phil Bryant has issued an ex-ecutive order that says the state and not the federal government will set aca-demic standards for Mis-sissippi schools.
The Republican Bryant said Monday that Missis-sippi would not give up its right to set the curriculum and the standards for its public schools.
“We have made tre-mendous progress in en-acting improvements in our public education sys-tem, and we will continue pursuing what works for Mississippi children,” Bryant said in the order.
A spokesman for Bry-ant told the Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal that the executive order does not block the enact-ment of Common Core.
In a news release, Lt. Gov. Tate Reeves and the two Republican chairmen of the Education commit-tees, Gray Tollison in the Senate and John Moore in the House, voiced sup-
port for Bryant’s action.It also got support from
state Superintendent of Education Dr. Carey Wright.
“I am pleased that Gov. Bryant supports higher academic standards for Mississippi’s students. Over the past three years, the Mississippi Depart-ment of Education has been providing profes-sional development to educators across the state in preparation for higher standards.
“School districts have developed the curriculum around Common Core State Standards and have implemented these more rigorous learning goals in classrooms. The federal government hasn’t done any of that. Our teachers and school leaders across the state have done the hard work to make this happen,” Wright said in a statement.
Mississippi, 44 other states and the District of Columbia have adopted Common Core standards,
which supporters say are designed to better pre-pare American students for college and careers.
Common Core propo-nents also say it establish-es uniform benchmarks that can put America on a level educational playing fi eld with other countries.
Opponents call it a federal takeover of edu-cation. They say parents were never consulted on the standards, which were forced on teachers too abruptly.
Though there was little controversy over Missis-sippi’s initial adoption of Common Core, the stan-dards have been under increasing attack by a group of Republican state senators. Those sena-tors have held meetings across the state to rally opposition and have led supporters to local school board meetings to pres-sure those boards.
The issue is expected to be debated when the Leg-islature convene Jan. 7 in Jackson.
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Today is Tuesday, Dec. 17, the 351st day of 2013. There are 14 days left in the year.
Today’s Highlight in History:
On Dec. 17, 1938, German chemists Otto Hahn and Fritz Strassmann discovered nuclear fission by splitting the nuclei of uranium into lighter elements while performing experiments in Berlin.
On this date:
In 1777, France recognized American independence.
In 1830, South American patriot Simon Bolivar died in Colombia.
In 1865, Franz Schubert’s Symphony No. 8, known as the “Unfinished” (because only two movements had been com-pleted) was performed publicly for the first time in Vienna, 37 years after the composer’s death.
In 1903, Wilbur and Orville Wright of Dayton, Ohio, conduct-ed the first successful manned powered-airplane flights near Kit-ty Hawk, N.C., using their experi-mental craft, the Wright Flyer.
In 1925, Col. William “Billy” Mitchell was convicted at his court-martial in Washington of insubordination for accusing senior military officials of in-competence and criminal negli-gence; he was suspended from active duty.
In 1933, in the inaugural NFL championship football game, the Chicago Bears defeated the New York Giants, 23-21, at Wrigley Field.
In 1944, the U.S. Army an-nounced it was ending its policy of excluding Japanese-Ameri-
cans from the West Coast.In 1957, the United States
successfully test-fired the Atlas intercontinental ballistic missile for the first time.
In 1959, Stanley Kramer’s anti-nuclear war drama “On the Beach,” starring Gregory Peck and Ava Gardner, premiered on all seven continents (including Antarctica).
In 1979, in a case that ag-gravated racial tensions, Arthur McDuffie, a black insurance ex-ecutive, was fatally injured after leading police on a chase with his motorcycle in Miami. (Four white police officers accused of beating McDuffie were later acquitted, sparking riots.)
In 1981, members of the Red Brigades kidnapped Brig. Gen. James L. Dozier, the highest-ranking U.S. Army official in southern Europe, from his home in Verona, Italy. (Dozier was res-cued 42 days later.)
In 2011, North Korean leader Kim Jong Il died after more than a decade of iron rule; he was 69, according to official records, but some reports indi-cated he was 70.
Ten years ago:
Former Illinois Gov. George Ryan was indicted on corrup-tion charges. (Ryan was later convicted and ended up serv-ing more than 5½ years in federal custody.) The British government announced the first reported case of a person dying from the human form of mad cow disease after a blood transfusion from an infected donor. An attempt to re-create the Wright brothers’ first flight on the 100th anniversary failed to take off from North Carolina’s Outer Banks.
Today in history
was released on October 12, 2010. The album includes the number-one singles “Come Back Song” and “This.”
A full schedule of the 2013 upcoming events can be found at the Crossroads Arena website at www.crossroadsarena.com.
(For more information on events call 662-287-7779.)
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SHORT HILLS, N.J. — An evening of shopping ended in horror for a New Jersey couple when the husband was shot to death in a mall parking garage as his wife looked on and the two assail-ants then drove off in their luxury SUV.
The vehicle stolen Sunday, a silver Range Rover, was re-covered Monday morning in a residential neighborhood in Newark, about 10 miles away from the Mall at Short Hills. The two carjackers were at large, and a local an-ti-crime group was offering a $10,000 reward for informa-tion leading to their arrest and conviction.
Killed in the attack was 30-year-old Dustin Fried-land, a lawyer from Hoboken who had worked recently at his family’s HVAC company analyzing construction-re-lated legal claims, accord-ing to his LinkedIn profi le. Friedland’s wife, Jamie Schare Friedland, is listed as an attorney specializing in landlord-tenant law at a fi rm in New York City. Both attended law school at Syra-
cuse University, according to their online profi les.
A woman who answered the phone at Epic Mechani-cal in Neptune, N.J., de-clined to comment and said Friedland’s father, who also works there, was not in the offi ce. No one answered at several phone numbers list-ed for other relatives.
On Monday afternoon, the mall, home to such upscale stores as Neiman Marcus and Gucci, was doing a brisk business with the parking garage close to full. Shop-per Scott Rockoff, of Basking Ridge, said he had just heard about the carjacking but that it didn’t affect his decision to come to the mall.
“It can happen anywhere,” Rockoff, 55, said. “You can’t just stay home; you have to go out. But you do need to be a little more aware of your surroundings.”
A spokeswoman for Mich-igan-based Taubman, which operates the mall, didn’t im-mediately return a message seeking comment. A woman at the mall’s management of-fi ce said mall offi cials weren’t commenting on the shoot-ing.
Sunday’s encounter was the latest in a troubling pat-tern in Essex County, whose borders encompass crime-plagued Newark to the east as well as Short Hills and other affl uent suburbs to the west. Carjackings have risen steeply in the past several years, leading local authori-ties to create a multi-agency task force three years ago after a spate of crimes that included brazen daytime at-tacks and the carjacking of a snowplow two days after a Christmas blizzard.
The partnership succeeded in arresting and prosecuting three groups responsible for most of the carjackings, and the crime rate fell temporar-ily. Since then, it has ticked up, with 416 last year in Es-sex County, a 44 percent in-crease from 2010.
Nearly 300 carjackings were reported through July 31 of this year, according to the county prosecutor’s of-fi ce. In August, authorities announced a program that uses billboards to display mug shots of convicted car-jackers next to the number of years they are serving in federal prison.
Jew Jersey man killed during mall carjacking
BY DAVID PORTERAssociated Press
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Reviewing stories and head-lines from this past year, the best I can say is we are clearly a divided nation with secular-progressive-politically cor-rect-elite on the left leading Washington against religious-conservative-libertarian-grassroots on the right.
Leaders in these two di-visions have made news throughout the year with little
impact on masses in opposing camps who are rooted to their causes regardless of facts or arguments.
Each side characterizes the other as “ex-tremist,” and I’m sure they’re right. Progres-sives are extremists for wanting bigger, more controlling, centralized government, i.e. a socialist state leading to communism. We’ve seen that movie before.
Though “conservatives” are fi ghting among themselves to fi nd common ground on which principles and values are worth fi ghting for, libertarians appear to be winning in favor of individual rights, responsibilities, and less government interference.
Generally speaking, the mainstream media continue to side with progressive extremists, maintaining their elite, politically correct sta-tus.
Divided government in Washington dur-ing a president’s second term is the histori-cal norm, though progressive elites contend this time we’re seeing the worst ever, unprec-edented, and other such words to make the sky fall.
In February, President Obama boasted in his State of the Union address: “Nothing I’m proposing tonight should increase our defi cit by a single dime. It is not a bigger government we need, but a smarter govern-ment that sets priorities and invests in broad-based growth.” Well, Mr. Obama’s defi cits are still historically high, and we’ve seen little “growth” in employment or our economy.
We celebrated the 100th anniversary of the modern U.S. income tax, and while every-body agrees we need to reform the tax code, nobody has done anything about it…but add more taxes.
Progressives fought hard in the spring to limit gun ownership while conservatives tried to get anyone to pay attention to the tri-al of Dr. Kermit Gosnell, the man convicted of killing babies he had delivered alive in a fi lthy Philadelphia abortion clinic. Maybe if he had used a gun to kill those babies….?
Watching the news, President Obama discovered his IRS had targeted TEA Party groups, the NSA had been bugging Ameri-cans and foreign leaders, the FBI had tapped phones at the Associated Press, and that Benghazi really had been a planned Islamic terrorist attack. Later, the White House dis-missed all these as “phony scandals.”
We saw lines drawn in the George Zim-merman/Trayvon Martin tragedy, as well as a “red line” drawn fi rst in Syria by President Obama who later gave credit/blame to “the world” for drawing the red line.
The fi rst anniversary of Benghazi received little notice in the mainstream media. After all, “what does it matter now?”
We watched the usual debates over the debt ceiling, budget, and government shutdown, all much ado about nothing at it turned out. And, as TEA Parties across the nation had predicted since 2009, Obamacare ballooned and burst into the biggest federal program boondoggle of all time. Supported 100 per-cent by Democrats and opposed 100 percent by Republicans, Obamacare is the story that keeps on giving as President Obama voices his concern over how inept the federal bu-reaucracy really is.
2014 promises to be more of the same with a national election thrown in to decide win-ners and losers in the epic battle between what’s left and what’s right.
(Daniel L. Gardner is a former Corinth resident and syndicated columnist who lives in Starkville. You may contact him at [email protected], or visit his website at http://www.danlgardner.com)
What’s left, what’s right
Prayer for today
A verse to share
All this year, House Speaker John Boehner has been taking criticism from all quarters.
He is a squish selling out to the Obama administra-tion and the Democrats, many conservatives charged when he engineered biparti-san (mostly Democratic) ap-proval of higher tax rates on high earners rather than go over the fi scal cliff.
He is a radical hostage-taking Confederate-sympa-thizing terrorist, cried Dem-ocrats when he led House Republicans to pass a bill re-funding the government but defunding Obamacare.
He is irresponsible and obdurate, cried high-mind-ed supporters of a grand bargain including entitle-ment reform, because he resolutely refused to negoti-ate with President Obama.
He is a squish selling out – you know the rest – yelled some conservatives last week when he rallied votes, successfully, for the biparti-san budget agreement ham-mered out by House and Senate Budget Chairmen Paul Ryan and Patty Mur-ray.
Undoubtedly, some of these criticisms were sin-cere. Rational arguments could be and sometimes were made in their sup-port. On occasion, Boehner seemed to be stumbling from one stance to some-thing like its opposite.
But I would argue that the cumulative result, in terms
of budget, spending and tax policy, is far more fa-vorable for Republicans and conser-vatives than they had any right to an-ticipate given the correla-
tion of political forces after the November 2012 election.
Obama had just become only the 17th man to be re-elected president in 220 years. Democrats had, against considerable odds and with the incalculably valuable aid of some hapless Republican nominees, not only held on to their major-ity in the Senate, but had increased it from 53-47 to 55-45.
Boehner’s House Repub-licans had lost only eight seats. But Republican candi-dates had actually won fewer popular votes than Demo-crats.
In a House where there had been little bipartisan-ship in recent years, that meant that Boehner had to rally 218 of the 234 Repub-lican members in order to pass legislation if Democrats were opposed. A defection by 17 Republicans would cut Boehner’s leverage down to-ward zero.
And many of these Repub-licans were of a mind to op-pose anything they thought would accommodate the Obama Democrats.
Boehner could not count on favorable press coverage – or even much coverage at all, except when things went sour. His own gifts do not in-clude the smooth articulate-ness that goes over well on television.
Given all that, and tak-ing into account legislation passed, Boehner has had impressive policy success on budget, spending and tax is-sues.
He has achieved that, on occasion, by tactical surren-der. Former Speaker Dennis Hastert wouldn’t allow a bill on the fl oor that wasn’t sup-ported by a majority of Re-publican members.
Boehner broke the so-called Hastert rule in early January in the fi scal cliff cri-sis when he allowed a mostly Democratic majority to ef-fectively raise tax rates on high earners. The alternative was raising taxes on every-one. What’s amazing here is that the high-bracket in-creases were not enacted un-til the fi fth year of Obama’s presidency.
Two months later, Boeh-ner surprised Obama by accepting the sequester cuts. Democrats thought he would negotiate to increase defense spending.
But few House Republi-cans cared enough about de-fense to agree to Democrats’ demands for tax increases. Boehner read this mood ac-curately and extracted from it a major policy success. The sequester has held dis-
cretionary spending far be-low levels that the Senate and White House Demo-crats want.
In October, Boehner re-luctantly agreed to a bill funding the government but defunding Obamacare. Enough Republicans insist-ed they wouldn’t vote for the former without the latter.
But the speaker was quick to climb down when polls showed Republicans slump-ing with voters – and to yield the spotlight to the ragged Obamacare rollout. In the process, he won the trust of most Republican members.
That trust was essential to passage, Thursday, of the budget bill, which tweaks the sequester, assuaging ap-propriators who want more leeway and hawks who want more defense spending.
It institutes some small but probably permanent entitlement cuts and likely rules out another politically damaging government shut-down.
On policy, it’s hard to see how Boehner could have ac-complished more this year. And on politics, he has po-sitioned his often obstreper-ous members well for 2014.
(Daily Corinthian col-umnist Michael Barone is senior political analyst for The Washington Examin-er, a resident fellow at the American Enterprise Insti-tute, a Fox News Channel contributor and a co-author of The Almanac of Ameri-can Politics.)
John Boehner enjoys successful year in politics
JACKSON — The Missis-sippi Supreme Court is look-ing again at a child support question it fi rst addressed earlier this year. But with a twist.
In a 5-4 decision in June, the Supreme Court majority reached two conclusions. It said that nothing in state law requires parents to fi nan-cially support their offspring after they turn 21, and it also said the Legislature has not passed a law to require par-ents to pay support for, or on the behalf of, adult disabled children.
The decision came in a 2011 case from Hinds Coun-ty in which a woman sought modifi cation of alimony and child support from her ex-husband for the care of their son who was over age 21 and suffered from a serious med-ical ailment.
The majority sided with the chancery judge who ruled against the modifi ca-tion.
The issue has been raised in a similar case from Madi-son County now before the Supreme Court. And the
justices have asked the par-ties in the new case and the attorney general’s offi ce to weigh in on whether the de-nial of child support to dis-abled children over the age of 21 who cannot take care of themselves violates the 14th Amendment, which grants equal protection under the law.
What the justices said they wanted to hear from the par-ties in the Madison County case is “whether equal pro-tection would be violated by an interpretation that child support may not be ordered for adult children who are mentally or physically inca-pable of self-support.”
Equal protection was not raised in either case; howev-er, the Supreme Court raised the issue on its own.
That, an attorney said, could be signifi cant.
Sarah Ann Ellis, a Jackson attorney who joined in rep-resenting one of the parties in the Hinds County case, said her general impression is the court is “possibly try-ing to fi nd a way to order child support for an adult disabled child, and when I say disabled, I mean not ca-
pable of being self-support-ive. My hope is they will fi nd a way to do that.”
Ellis said parties in child support cases sometimes will agree to continue sup-port beyond the age of 21.
“But a judge doesn’t have authority under our statu-tory scheme to order child support past 21 regardless of the circumstances. Many surrounding states have statutes that do that,” Ellis said.
In the Hinds County case, the Supreme Court’s minor-ity, led by former lawmaker and Justice Leslie B. King, said the case should be re-turned to the chancellor who should determine if the child is under a disability that ren-ders him incapable of self-support and thus was never emancipated, and if child support should continue.
King argued he believes “the Legislature has provid-ed the chancery courts the authority to order a parent to support an adult disabled child.”
Justice Randy Pierce, an-other former legislator, said: “the Legislature has not created a statutory scheme
whereby parents may be re-quired to pay support for, or on the behalf of, adult dis-abled children.”
King said in instances that a child is disabled before reaching 21 and the child is unable to be emancipated, the courts should be able to order child support to con-tinue as long as the child re-mains unemancipated.
Presiding Justice Mike Randolph, who wrote the majority opinion, said un-der state law, “the duty of a parent to support its child does not extend beyond the child’s minority which terminates when the child reaches twenty-one years of age, as provided by our Leg-islature.”
“The power to grant the authority to require parents in Mississippi to support their adult children fi nan-cially is confi ded to a sepa-rate magistracy: the Legisla-ture. Our courts are without the constitutional power to declare otherwise,” Ran-dolph wrote.
(Daily Corinthian colum-nist Jack Elliott Jr. is a writ-er for the Associated Press based in Jackson.)
Analysis: Child support decision gets second look
Danny Gardner
Columnist
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Sheriff: Suspect lastperson seen with girl
WOOSTER, Ohio — A man accused of killing a 9-year-old neighbor and hiding her body under garbage in a trash bin was building a snow-man with the girl just a few hours before she was reported missing, investigators said Mon-day.
Jerrod Metsker, 24, was the last person seen with the girl at the trailer park where both lived, a sheriff’s investi-gator said.
He was arrested Sun-day, about 12 hours after deputies found Reann Murphy’s body. A judge Monday ordered that he be held in jail on a $1 million bond.
Investigators with the Wayne County Sheriff’s office described Metsk-er as a family friend and neighbor.
The girl’s mother was at work Saturday after-noon while Reann was at home with her moth-er’s live-in boyfriend,
said sheriff’s Capt. Douglas Hunter.
Man gets 28-yearsentence for scam
CLEVELAND — A judge handed down a 28-year prison sentence Monday to a man con-victed of masterminding a $100 million, cross-country Navy veterans charity fraud.
Judge Steven Gall also ordered the de-fendant, who identifies himself as 67-year-old Bobby Thompson, to pay a $6 million fine. Authorities say the defendant is Harvard-trained attorney John Donald Cody.
The Ohio attorney general’s office, which handled his trial, asked the judge in a filing last week to sentence him to 41 years in prison.
The judge rejected a request for a new trial. The defense had said comments by jurors af-ter the verdict that they were disappointed he hadn’t testified showed they were biased against him.
Stores have options to recoup theft loss
NEW YORK — Out-side the view of paying customers, people ac-cused of shoplifting at Macy’s huge flagship store are escorted by security guards to cells in “Room 140,” where they can be held for hours, asked to sign an admission of guilt and pay hundreds in fines, sometimes without any conclusive proof they stole anything.
As shoppers jam stores for the holidays, claims of racial profiling at department stores in New York have helped expose the wide latitude that laws in at least 27 states give retailers to hold and fine shoplift-ing suspects, even if a person hasn’t yet tech-nically stolen anything, is wrongly accused or charges are dropped.
At least nine custom-ers at the Macy’s store say in lawsuits that the retailer is abusing the law, wrongly targeting minorities and holding customers for hours.
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Grocery store settlesharassment lawsuit
JACKSON — A Jackson grocery store has agreed to pay $325,000 to settle a sexual harass-ment lawsuit filed by the government.
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission said Monday in a news release that it reached the deal with Venture Inc., which runs a Save-A-Lot grocery store on Ellis Avenue in west Jack-son.
In a statement Mon-day, Venture Inc. said it has a zero-tolerance policy for harassment.
“Venture strongly de-nies the allegations of harassment in the case but the EEOC made a settlement proposal that made it more favorable to resolve this and move on rather than engage in very expensive litigation to prove our innocence,” the company said.
EEOC says more than 20 women were victims of the sexually hostile workplace in which a
manager repeatedly propositioned female employees for sex, even offering money and ben-efits in exchange for sex.
The deal also includes a 30-month consent decree that requires the company to take mea-sures to prevent harass-ment in the future.
“There is no excuse for the sort of misconduct that was charged here — unwelcome sexual ad-vances, requests for sex-ual favors, and degrading language — especially when directed at so many employees,” said Delner Franklin-Thomas, district director of the EEOC’s Birmingham, Ala., office.
Lawsuit: Boy abusedat health facility
JACKSON — A woman has filed a federal law-suit that says a central Mississippi mental health facility failed to protect her 11-year-old son from being sexually abused by a nurse while he was a patient.
The lawsuit says Brent-wood Behavioral Health-
care of Mississippi, located in Flowood, was negligent for not prevent-ing the nurse, Clifford Hough, from abusing the boy from December 2012 to January 2013. The suit was filed Friday.
Hough, now 49, plead-ed guilty earlier this year in Rankin County Circuit Court and is serving 10 years on a gratification of lust charge.
Grenada man chargedwith sexual battery
BATESVILLE — A Grenada man has been arrested on one count of sexual battery of a vul-nerable person.
The attorney general’s office says in a news release Monday that 40-year-old Anthony Re-ece was arrested this past week.
Attorney General Jim Hood says the victim was a patient at Tri-Lakes Medical Center in Batesville, where Reece worked.
Reece was booked into Panola County Jail and bond was set at $250,000.
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Lloyd GreenBIGGERSVILLE — Lloyd Green, 85,
died on Saturday, Dec. 14, 2013, at Magnolia Regional Health Center. He was born May 21, 1928, to the late Mar-tin Wheeler Green and Ethel Bradley Green.
Mr. Green was preceded in death by his parents; his wife; Mary Brawner Green; brothers John Obed Green, Joe Green, Willie Martin Green and Leon Green; and a sister, Nita Dees.
Funeral Services for Mr. Green will be held at 12 noon Wednesday at New Hope Presbyterian Church with the Rev. Nick Phillips offi ciating. Burial will be in New Hope Presbyterian Church Cemetery with military honors. Visitation will be today at McPeters Fu-neral Home from 5 until 8 p.m.
Mr. Green was a lifelong Alcorn County native. He was a graduate of Kossuth High School. He was employed with the Buckeye Oil Company, ITT and Quartet Manufacturing Company. He was with the 31st Mississippi Dixie Division when he was activated during the Korean War. He joined and fought with the 1st Cavalry Division as Ma-chine Gun Sgt. He was later promoted to 1st Sgt. M Company with the rank of master sergeant. He loved his family and was an avid fan of SEC sports. He especially liked Ole Miss, Mississippi State and Vanderbilt, and especially in that order. He was a wonderful hus-band, father, and the best granddaddy ever to two little girls. He was loved by all who knew him and will be missed.
Mr. Green is survived by his son, Tim Obed Green of Biggersville; a daughter, Vickie Stanton and husband Jody of Nashville, Tenn.; a brother-in-law, Don Brawner and wife JoAnn of Biggers-ville; a sister-in-law, Sammie Williams and husband Willard of Memphis, Tenn.; two granddaughters, Rosemary Woods and husband Chris of Nashville, Tenn., and Sarah Smith and husband Aaron of Jackson; three great-grand-
children; and a host of other family and friends.
Pallbearers are Mike Green, David Green, Bill Brawner, Bruce Brawner, Phillip Brawner, Hugh McDaniel and Mac McDaniel. Honorary Pallbearers will be the elders of New Hope Presby-terian Church.
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Funeral Service for Cloise E. Rixie, 79, are set for 11 a.m. Wednesday at Middleton Pentecostal Tabernacle with Bro. Tim Wilbanks and Bro. Jimmy Rich offi ciating. Burial will be in the Community Pentecostal Church Cem-etery.
Mr. Rixie died Sunday, Dec. 15, 2013, at North Mississippi Medical Center. He was born December 4, 1934, in Middleton to the late Grant and Essie Rixie. He was a retired concrete fi nish-er for many years thoughtout the area. He attended the Middleton Pentecostal Tabernacle and enjoyed duck hunting and fi shing.
He was preceded in death by his wife Deannie Rixie; a son Randy Rixie; a granddaughter, Amanda Barnes; his parents; and brothers Reece and Tom-my Rixie.
Survivors include his son Mike Rixie; daughters Sheila (Harold) Barnes and Cindy Rixie, both of Walnut; a broth-er, Earl (Judy) Rixie; two sisters, Sue (Wayne) Flake and Glenda Mathis; grandchildren Joel (Lindsey) Barnes, Dustin Barnes, and Jessica, Tyler and Erica Rixie; great-grandchildren Col-lin, Dallas, Winter and Arizona Barnes; and a host of other family and friends.
Pallbearers are Ronald Wilbanks, Mike Hutson, Roy Gilliam, Marlon Bizzell, Jody Wilbanks and Adam Wil-banks.
Family will receive friends from 5 p.m. today to service time Wednesday at the Middleton Pentecostal Taberna-cle in Middleton.
Memorial Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
Mae HudsonIUKA — Funeral services for Mae
Romine Hudson, 91, are set for 1 p.m. Wednesday at Cutshall Funeral Home Chapel in Iuka with burial at Camp-ground Cemetery.
Visitation is today from 4 until 8 p.m.Mrs. Hudson died Sunday, Dec. 15,
2013, at Tishomingo Community Liv-ing Center. Born in Rogersville, Ala., on Oct. 13, 1922, she graduated from Cof-fee High School in Florence, Ala. She had worked at the Tishomingo County Hospital and the Iuka Shirt Factory. She was also a sitter for the elderly. She was a member of Campground United Meth-odist Church.
Survivors include her husband of 67 years, J.E. Hudson of Iuka; one daughter,
Connie Walker (Robert O’Neill) of Tus-cumbia, Ala.; three sons, Barney Hudson (Shelia) of Iuka, Jerry Hudson (Linda) of Muscle Shoals, Ala., and James Neil Hudson (Cynthia) of Iuka; 13 grandchil-dren, Jonathan Walker (Jaqueline), Dex-ter Walker (Melissa), George M. Walker, James E.H. Walker, Sommar Morrow (Bob), Sara Hudson, Brock Hudson, Sta-cey Hamner (Ken), Brian Hudson, Katie Tesson (Vincent), Kevin Hudson (Tosha), Jacob Hudson and Alexandra Ragland (Patrick); and 12 great-grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by her par-ents, Jess and Myrtle Stutts Romine; an infant son; her brother, Bufort Romine; and other infant siblings.
The Rev. Larry Sappington and the Rev. Robert Armstrong will offi ciate the service.
Nation Briefs
Many immigrants hesitateto seek health insurance
HOUSTON — The new health insur-ance system is stoking fears among immigrant families that applying for coverage could draw the attention of immigration authorities.
Immigrants who are in the U.S. illegally cannot participate in the sys-tem. But many of them have relatives who are American citizens or legal residents and are eligible.
Since the system debuted in Octo-ber, immigrant advocates and federal officials have been working to reas-sure families that insurance informa-tion will not be shared with enforce-ment agencies.
The effort has brought changes in the main health care website and a memo from immigration authorities promising not to go after anyone based on insurance paperwork. Of the nearly 40 million people in the U.S. who were born elsewhere, about a third lack health insurance.
Detroit leaders awaitingfinal details on art
DETROIT — Detroit may have to rely on the generosity of strangers to keep its impressive art collection that was amassed with taxpayer dollars in better times.
The bankrupt city is expected to learn this week the value of roughly 2,800 of its pieces at the Detroit In-stitute of Arts when New York auction house Christie’s delivers its final re-port to Kevin Orr, the state-appointed emergency manager who runs the Motor City’s finances.
Christie’s, which has been poring
over the collection for months, said it will include recommendations for how Detroit might make money while maintaining ownership of some of its most valuable pieces — including De-gas’ “Dancers in the Green Room,” Pissarro’s “The Path” and Renoir’s “Graziella.” But the city may have to sell off works many consider integral to the cultural soul of the city in order to help repay creditors, including re-tired public workers whose pensions could take a huge hit.
Orr had warned museum officials of the works’ potential fate, creating an outcry in the art community here and elsewhere.
“I think it’s so important that we can’t let it fail,” said 68-year-old phi-lanthropist A. Paul Schaap.
Schaap and his wife, Carol, have pledged $5 million to help offset ex-pected losses by city pensioners in Orr’s restructuring plan for Detroit.
A local foundation also has stepped up, heeding a call by U.S. District Judge Gerald Rosen, who is acting as chief mediator between De-troit and its creditors. Rosen is reach-ing out to foundations to raise $500 million to keep the artwork from be-ing sold.
“The idea that we would sell even one piece of art ... would be so de-moralizing to this community that we really can’t imagine the effect,” Schaap told The Associated Press last week. “On the other hand, we re-ally don’t want to see the pensioners hurt. They have a problem here, too, that we really have to address.”
Citing debt of at least $18 billion, as well as rising pension and health care costs and a revenue stream too small to pay the city’s bills, Orr filed for bankruptcy in July.
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PASCAGOULA — Former Jackson County Sheriff Mike Byrd is a defen-dant in nine federal lawsuits.
The Mississippi Press reports the lawsuits seek $906 million in ac-tual and punitive damages. And that doesn’t include unspecifi ed dam-ages sought in a wrongful death suit brought by the sister of an inmate who died at the Jackson County Adult De-tention Center.
Jackson County and, in most cases, other Jackson County Sheriff’s Depart-ment personnel are also defendants in those cases.
Attorney Adam Miller represents the plaintiffs in fi ve of those nine cases and says that number is soon to grow. He said Friday a woman has fi led a formal complaint with the Mississippi Depart-ment of Corrections which involves Byrd and the Jackson County jail and will fi le a lawsuit, as well. He expects at least two more lawsuits to follow.
On Tuesday, Byrd pleaded guilty to a federal charge of obstruction of jus-tice and on Thursday pleaded guilty to one count of intimidating a witness. In exchange, the state dropped the other 30 counts in the indictment which was handed down in August.
On Friday, District Attorney Tony Lawrence, who negotiated the state plea agreement with Byrd and his at-torney, Joe Sam Owen, said the pend-ing civil lawsuits had no bearing on the plea agreement.
“The decision that resulted in the guilty plea was not made lightly,” Law-rence said. “There were many factors that assisted in making the determi-nation to go forward with the plea, including the many reasons why Mike Byrd should not continue to hold the offi ce of sheriff.
“The pending civil lawsuits against Mike Byrd were not a factor in the de-cision to plead his case. However, his removal from offi ce to prevent the con-tinuation of conduct that produced the lawsuits was important.”
Regardless, Miller said Byrd’s fed-eral guilty plea could help his clients’ cases.
“Certainly, the subject matter in the federal plea can have an impact,” he said.
That federal case in Mobile, Ala., revolved around Byrd’s actions sur-rounding the June 19, 2012, arrest of James Mark Stahl. Byrd admitted to kicking the suspect while he was re-strained and subsequently misleading an offi cer about the incident, court re-cords show.
Byrd also said he had one of his dep-uties erase dashboard camera video of the arrest and ordering a department IT employee to “wipe” Byrd’s offi ce computer to destroy emails.
Most of the lawsuits also name Trav-elers Casualty & Surety Company of America as a co-defendant. Travelers is the county’s provider for liability in-surance.
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The winter holiday sea-son should be a joyous time of year. However, certain types of fi res and injuries associated with decorating are all too common and can put a damper on holiday cel-ebrations.
“Nearly half of holiday decoration fi res happen because decorations are placed too close to a heat source,” says State Fire Marshal and Commerce & Insurance Commis-sioner Julie Mix McPeak. “To decrease your risk for a home fi re, keep fi re safe-ty in mind as you deck the halls this season.”
Candles are widely used in homes throughout the holidays, and December is the peak month for home candle fi res. The National Fire Protection Associa-tion’s (NFPA) statistics show that two of every fi ve home decoration fi res are started by candles.
The State Fire Mar-shal’s Offi ce encourages Tennesseans to consider using fl ameless candles, which look and smell like real candles. How-ever, if you do use tradi-tional candles, keep them at least 12 inches away from anything that can burn, and remember to blow them out when you leave the room or go to bed. Avoid using candles in the bedroom, where one-third of U.S. candle fi res begin, or other ar-eas where people may fall asleep.
Holiday lights and other decorative lighting with line voltage were involved in an estimat-ed average of 150 home structure fi res per year for the past fi ve years in the United States. These fi res caused an average of nine civilian deaths, 16 civilian injuries, and $8.4 million in direct property damage
per year. Two out of fi ve (40 percent) occurred in December and 12% were in January. Electrical fail-ures or malfunctions were factors in nearly two-thirds (64 percent) of the fi res involving holiday or decorative lights.
Consider the tips be-low when you bring out the holiday decorations this year. And remember, as in every season, have working smoke alarms
installed on every level of your home, test them monthly and keep them equipped with fresh bat-teries at all times. Don’t forget to practice your home escape plan!
• Maintain your holiday lights. Inspect holiday lights each year for frayed wires, bare spots, gaps in the insulation, broken or cracked sockets, and ex-cessive kinking or wear before putting them up.
Not all holiday lights are made equal so be sure that you know whether yours are for indoor or outdoor use and use only lighting listed by van ap-proved testing laboratory. Use clips, not nails, to hang lights to keep cords from getting damaged.
• Do not overload elec-trical outlets. Do not link more than three light strands, unless the direc-tions indicate it is safe. Connect strings of lights to an extension cord be-fore plugging the cord into the outlet. Make sure to periodically check the wires - they should not be warm to the touch.
• Do not leave holiday lights on unattended. Turn them off when you leave the house or go to bed.
• Use only nonfl amma-ble decorations. All deco-rations should be fl ame resistant or fl ame retar-
dant and placed away from heat vents and other heat sources.
• Never put wrapping paper in a fi replace. It can result in a very large fi re, throwing off dangerous sparks and embers, and may result in a chimney fi re.
• Artifi cial Christmas trees. If you are using a metallic or artifi cial tree make sure it is fl ame re-tardant.
• Avoid using lit candles to Decorate. If you do use them, make sure they are in stable holders and place them where they cannot be easily knocked down. Never put lit candles on a tree. Blow out lit candles when you leave the room or go to bed. Never leave a child alone in a room with a lit candle.
• Keep escape routes clear. Do not block exit routes with trees or deco-rations.
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The Lord is faithful. These words used by Moses proclaim that God can be trusted. He is the same yesterday, today and forever! He is the eternal, unchanging One. James says that there is no variation in the shadow He has cast since time began (James 1:17). The trust placed in Him by Enoch, Moses, David and even Jesus, when He was on the earth, is the same trust we can place in Him. He is eternally trustworthy!
The Lord is merciful. Like all His attributes, His mercy is infi nite. Moses says that His mercy endures for a thousand generations. To see how remarkable this is, consider that when Moses said these words there had been only thirty generations since Adam! Take this number literally and you can see that we are still at the beginning of those thousand generations! Here is the point. He is eternally merciful, and His grace reaches to you!
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VeriFone Systems’ latest quarterly report will be the first since CEO Paul Galant joined the company.
Wall Street will be listening today for what Galant has to say after the company reports its fiscal fourth-quarter results. Galant, who had been CEO of Citigroup’s enterprise-payments business, took the helm at VeriFone in October. He succeeded longtime CEO Douglas Bergeron, who stepped down in March.
Better quarter?
Sanderson Farms is due to report fiscal fourth-quarter earnings today.
The company is coming off a strong third quarter, during which its profit more than doubled on higher prices for its poultry products. Wall Street expects Sanderson’s latest financial report to show earnings and revenue improved sharply from the same quarter last year.
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Concerns about rising mortgage rates have contributed to dimming the outlook of many U.S. homebuilders.
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Shares of Twitter set a record high of $60.24 Monday, but later stumbled as investors questioned whether the stock has risen too quickly.
Twitter’s stock price is up 36 percent this month. In recent weeks investors have been flocking to the social network as it announced new advertising services. That’s significant because the company has yet to turn a profit.
Financial analyst Mark Mahaney of RBC Capital Markets maintained his “outperform” rating in a report last week, supported in part by positive survey results from advertisers about their adoption of Twitter. Analyst Robert Peck of SunTrust Robinson Humphrey remains “extremely positive” about the company’s long-term prospects, but the stock’s quick rise prompted him to downgrade his rating Monday to “hold” from “buy.”
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Horoscopes
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ARIES (March 21-April 19). Traf-fi c, weather, the passage of time -- all things you can’t change, but oh, how you would if you could to-day. A happy friend will help you enjoy the many things over which you do have control.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20). There’s a test and/or major passage coming up, and the outcome will depend on how prepared you are. Spend time on it today, and plan on spending more time in the days to come. Make a daily habit out of it.
GEMINI (May 21-June 21). Even the most graceful relation-ships are messy. To love another is to make a mess of something, be it feelings, thoughts, sched-ules or property. Something is bound to get broken and that’s just part of it.
CANCER (June 22-July 22). It’s like you’re in a period-piece romance in which your attractive co-star is acting stoic and distant because he or she is in love with you. A handwritten note will drive the drama home.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). You are able to put your own needs and wishes aside in order to un-derstand what others want and need out of a situation. This al-lows you to project the image you feel will most infl uence oth-ers. Use your powers for good!
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). If there’s one thing to be learned today, it’s to have more patience waiting in lines. Impatient, tight, mad faces are ugly, and they make everyone else’s experi-ence ugly, too. The superior mind smiles while waiting.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23). It’s one of those rare times when it’s actually positive to dwell on the past. You’ll learn something. There’s a bit you missed, and when you look back, it will click into place for you. This changes how you think of yourself.
SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21). You don’t resent other people’s success, though it does get on your nerves from time to time, especially if said “other people” won’t shut up about it. Ignore the
boasters. It will drive them crazy.SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec.
21). You are able to present the truth in a way that others want to hear -- not necessarily a lie, but also not the complete story. Be careful. Someone may be using the same trick on you. Can you detect it?
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19). Perhaps it would be better for everyone if people would do things in accordance with your timeline, but they won’t. Nagging won’t help matters. Your attrac-tive attitude is the best tool you have for infl uencing others.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18). You don’t require your loved ones to be or believe as you do. Be-ing whole on your own, you can disagree with someone and still hold that person’s hand.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). Just because something is work-ing doesn’t mean you should leave it alone. You’ll see an exam-ple of a superior product, system or relationship and be inspired to take your own scene up a level.
DEAR ABBY: My mother-in-law sent my 7-year-old son a gift and a card for his birthday. They ar-rived about a week early. A few days before his birthday, she called and asked if he had re-ceived them. He said he had, but before he could explain that he hadn’t opened them, she started talking about the gift inside, re-vealing the surprise.
I have now “heard” she’s up-set with me and my son for this awkward moment. She says that from now on she would like a phone call when her cards or gifts arrive, so she can “hear his enjoyment over the phone even if they arrive early.” I don’t think my son did anything wrong.
When a gift arrives in ad-vance of an occasion, must it be opened immediately? Or can it wait for the actual birthday or Christmas? Sometimes he likes to open one present at a time, write a thank-you note, then open the next, stretching out his gift-opening over a few days. Is this a social no-no? – WONDER-
ING IN WASHINGTON
DEAR WONDERING: Gifts are usually opened the day of the occasion. When the occasion is a birthday, the usual expecta-tion is that the presents will be opened at the party. At that time a verbal thank-you is offered. A thank-you note should be writ-ten a very short time later. Your mother-in-law may have called for
reassurance that her gift had arrived. She should not have re-vealed what it was. You did nothing wrong. The mistake was hers.
D E A R
ABBY: My good friend
“Derek” is in his 30s and just started his fi rst serious relation-ship. He told me after a week together that she was “the One” and that he loved her. I told him I was happy for him and suggest-ed he take things slow so they could really get to know each other.
I had a party two nights ago where he introduced his new girlfriend. They spent most of the time making out like teenag-ers in front of everyone. Some guests were so uncomfortable they left early. I haven’t seen Derek since, and I’m worried not only that he’s moving too fast to make up for lost time, but that he’s doing it with someone who also is oblivious to how socially unacceptable their behavior was. I’m not sure how to express my concerns to my friend without hurting him. – CONCERNED IN
CALIFORNIA
DEAR CONCERNED: It would
not be rude or hurtful for you to mention to Derek that you think the girl is “great” – but the show they put on at your party made some of your other guests so un-comfortable they left early. Let’s hope the “hint” is suffi cient.
DEAR ABBY: My 10-year-old daughter told a friend she would go to a concert with her a few months ago. Since then, my daughter decided to end the friendship because the girl was clingy, dramatic and controlling.
Do I insist my daughter go to the concert as she said she would, or let her off the hook? The friend seems to be hoping she will go so they can renew the friendship, but my daughter has no plans to do it. Please help! – MANAGING DISCORD IN MIN-
NESOTA
DEAR MOM: If the girl is ex-pecting your daughter to go to the concert with her, your daugh-ter should tell her she does NOT plan to attend so the girl can invite someone else. Do not in-sist that your daughter associate with anyone who makes her feel uncomfortable. Her reason for pulling back from that relation-ship showed good judgment.
Dear Abby is written by Abigail Van Buren, also known as Jeanne Phillips, and was founded by her mother, Pauline Phillips. Write Dear Abby at www.DearAbby.com or P.O. Box 69440, Los Angeles, CA 90069.
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BY SCHUYLER DIXONAP Sports Writer
IRVING, Texas — Dez Bry-ant made the rounds Mon-day trying to explain why he left the fi eld early in Dallas’ crushing loss to Green Bay.
The emotional receiver just couldn’t watch the Packers take a knee three times for a 37-36 victory after the Cow-boys led 26-3 at halftime. He was afraid he was going to cry in front of the cameras, so he says he took the tears to the locker room.
Now it’s time for a two-game test for the Cowboys’ biggest playmaker and the re-solve of Tony Romo after his latest failure in key moments.
Beat Washington and Phil-adelphia to fi nish the season, and Dallas (7-7) ends a three-year playoff drought. Lose to the freefalling Redskins on Sunday, and the Cowboys might be eliminated before
they even play their fi nal game.
All this after they had a near-certain victory in hand against the Packers that would have pulled them even with the Eagles atop the NFC East and given them a chance to wrap up a playoff berth at Washington.
“The trend’s not going to continue because we’re go-ing to do what we need to do,” Bryant said Monday in a mostly empty locker room at the team’s training facil-ity. “This whole group in this locker room, we believe and we’re going to keep working.”
Bryant, who made similar
headlines earlier in the sea-son with a sideline rant dur-ing another defl ating defeat at Detroit, was waiting for re-porters so he could tell them that leaving with time still on the clock “was absolutely not right.”
That was essentially the message in his conversation with coach Jason Garrett, who said his star receiver wasn’t disciplined.
“It’s diffi cult for everybody when things don’t go well and he needs to understand how to handle that,” Garrett said. “I think he’ll handle that bet-ter in the future. He was very apologetic to me and was con-
cerned about the situation.”Bryant’s latest sideline mo-
ment didn’t face as much scrutiny Monday as Romo’s decision to check out of a run-ning play before throwing an interception that gave Green Bay another chance down 36-31 with less than 3 minutes to go.
The Cowboys were in posi-tion to force the Packers to go most of the fi eld in less than 2 minutes even if they didn’t get a fi rst down. Instead, Matt Flynn took over for Green Bay at midfi eld and led a scoring drive.
Another interception from Romo completed the col-lapse.
“I think in hindsight you would say that was the wrong decision, and Tony would be the fi rst to tell you that,” Gar-rett said of the fi rst intercep-
Bryant, Cowboys must bounce back
BY STEVE REEDAP Sports Writer
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Pan-thers coach Ron Rivera isn’t downplaying the signifi cance of this Sunday’s game against the New Orleans Saints.
When it comes to regular season games, Rivera said, “It’s about as big as it gets.”
The Panthers and Saints are tied atop the NFC South at 10-4 with two games remain-ing. The Saints, who beat the Panthers 31-13 on Dec. 8, can clinch the division and a fi rst-round bye with a victory. The Panthers can do the same if they beat New Orleans and win at Atlanta the following week.
Rivera said the opportunity to play the Saints for the sec-ond time in three weeks — par-ticularly at home — “comes at a good time” for his team after getting throttled in the Super-dome.
“We get right back in the saddle and get to compete against them,” Rivera said. “We don’t have to wait two or three weeks down the line.”
Rivera hopes that having home-fi eld advantage Sunday turns the tide in Carolina’s fa-vor.
The Panthers have won six
straight at home since losing their season opener to Seattle. Meanwhile, the Saints have struggled on the road where they’re 3-4, as opposed to 7-0 at the Superdome.
“I’d like to be able to pin-point one specifi c thing and say we’re going to change this one element and all of a sud-den play better” on the road, Saints coach Sean Payton said Monday. “Historically during our years here we have been a very good road team.”
Panthers offensive tackle Jordan Gross is thankful this one is at home and on grass.
“We’ll be at home, which is huge,” Gross said after Sun-day’s game. “The dome is a tough place to play and they were coming off a tough loss, so shame on us if we didn’t see that coming. But, we’re feeling confi dent again. We never re-ally lost confi dence after the last game but it was defi nitely a bit of a wakeup call to go down there and lose like we did.”
Players had the day off Mon-day.
Rivera suggested after the 18-point loss to the Saints that the Panthers “might have got a little full of ourselves.”
He doesn’t see the Panthers being overconfi dent again.
“There’s no reason to be,” Rivera said. “The thing that we have to do, most certainly, is focus in on this game. There is no reason to get caught up in anything else other than this game.”
The Panthers must do a bet-ter job in the red zone if they want to beat the Saints, Rivera said.
In the fi rst meeting Carolina was forced to settle for three fi eld goal attempts in the fi rst half, while the Saints con-verted their three trips inside the 20 into touchdowns. The Saints led 21-6 at the half, and the Panthers never threatened again.
There is also the matter of fi nding a way to shut down Brees, who gouged Carolina’s then top-ranked defense for 313 yards and four touch-downs.
Rivera said his staff is study-ing how the Seahawks and Rams shut down the Saints in two of the past three games and made no secret about Car-olina’s plans to play copycat this week.
“We have to take a look and see what things they did that mesh well with our game plan, and try to incorporate those things as well” in the game
plan, Rivera said.If the Saints will learn any
lesson from last week it might be the danger of poking at the Panthers.
Jets wide receiver Santonio Holmes said last week the sec-ondary was its “weakest link” on Carolina’s defense. The Panthers used that as bulletin board fodder and held Holmes to 17 yards on two catches and held Geno Smith to 167 yards passing in a 30-20 win over New York.
“It helped to illuminate one of the things that we talk-ed about — and that’s that we’re a team,” Rivera said. “If somebody is going to pick on a member of the team, then they’re going to pick on the whole team. You challenge one member of the team, you chal-lenge us all. You fi ght one of us you are going to fi ght us all. And I think that is the bigger message.”
Rivera said the Panthers are expected to have Cam Newton available for the rematch.
Newton injured his toe on Carolina’s fi nal snap of the fi rst half Sunday, but didn’t miss a snap. Rivera said the injury is not a concern and shouldn’t keep the third-year quarter-back out of practice this week.
Rivera: Saints-Panthers ‘about as big as it gets’
BY TERESA M. WALKERAP Sports Writer
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — The Tennessee Titans have a los-ing record, just don’t call them quitters.
Coach Mike Munchak said Monday how proud he was of his Titans and their rally from 17 points down to force over-time, saying the comeback attempt is a great testament to their character in the face of adversity. When Tennes-see fell behind Arizona 34-17 with 6:50 left, most of the fans that turned out on a cold day headed for the exits.
Still, Munchak understands playing hard is not enough.
“The bottom line in this league is winning,” Munchak said. “We know that, and they
know that. They still don’t feel great about what happened in that game. We didn’t win it. ... Two more opportunities is all we have, and we have to win two games.”
The Titans’ 37-34 overtime loss to Arizona eliminated their thin postseason hopes missing the playoffs for a fi fth straight year. It also was their third straight loss and eighth in 10 games, clinching a sec-ond straight losing record.
Now they need to win their fi nal two games to avoid
fi nishing 6-10 for the third time in four seasons with the last two under Munchak. Munchak said he fully expects the Titans to prepare and play their best because of the char-acter he sees on his roster.
“So we’ll play well, hopeful-ly play smart enough to win football (games) these next two games,” the coach said.
New president and CEO Tommy Smith plans to eval-uate everyone from Munchak on down after the season. The Titans at least have a chance
for a little payback Sunday in Jacksonville (4-10) be-fore the season fi nale against Houston (2-12), who hasn’t won since beating Tennessee in Week 2.
“They’ve added to our mis-ery this year,” Munchak said.
The Titans also have lost fi ve straight at home for the fi rst time since relocating to Tennessee in 1997.
Munchak said they all know the Titans face further changes to reclaim their edge at home. Winning the fi nal two games would help the coach’s case that he deserves the fi nal year on his contract to make those changes.
“It would defi nitely give me a stronger one I tell you that,” Munchak said.
Coach: Titans playing hard as losses pile up
BY DAVE SKRETTAAP Sports Writer
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — In the span of a year, the Kansas City Chiefs went from being a franchise in disarray to one with the best record in the AFC and a shot at winning their division with two regular-season games left.
It’s hard to believe even for those in the midst of it.
“You can’t really explain it by words,” said linebacker Derrick Johnson. “It’s a feeling that not ev-erybody has, and to go through what we went through last year and to be in this situation to do some big things — making the playoffs before the season is over, it’s great.”
The Chiefs punched their ticket to the postseason with a 56-31 vic-tory at Oakland on Sunday, one that pushed their franchise-best turn-around to nine games. Kansas City (11-3) also moved into a tie with Denver atop the AFC West, though the Broncos hold the tiebreaker by virtue of a season sweep.
Still, if the Broncos stumble in one of their two remaining games — at lowly Houston and Oakland — and the Chiefs beat Indianapolis and San Diego, it would be Kansas City that’s home for the playoffs.
The way this season has gone, even the most remote possibility is still possible.
“This team is wired maybe a little different,” Chiefs coach Andy Reid said Monday. “I think they’re going to fi nish out strong no matter what the outcome is. I feel as a coach you tell them to go get them, they’ll go get them. I kind of feel they’re wired that way.”
That wasn’t the way they were wired before Reid’s arrival.
While the Chiefs have churned through their roster, about half of which is new this season, most of the key players remain from that 2-14 team. Jamaal Charles, Eric Berry and Dwayne Bowe were all part of the most forgettable season in fran-chise history, one that resulted in the fi ring of coach Romeo Crennel and general manager Scott Pioli and an overhaul of the entire front offi ce.
Shortly after Reid was hired, John Dorsey was brought in as the GM, and team owner Clark Hunt vowed to take a more hands-on role with the organization. The results have been nothing short of spectacular: The Chiefs are heading to the play-offs for just the second time since 2006, Arrowhead Stadium is packed and there’s a buzz throughout the city.
“That just shows you how hard work pays off,” Charles said, “and every guy in that locker room has worked their tail off. ... That’s what I told those guys, ‘Hard work pays off.’”
The performance by the Chiefs on Sunday may have been the most im-pressive yet.
While the defense gave up big chunks of yardage, it also picked off fi ve passes and forced seven turnovers. Berry had two of those picks and returned one of them for a touchdown, the 11th time that Kansas City has gotten a TD from defense or special teams this season.
The only teams with more? The Cardinals (12) in 2010 and Se-ahawks (13) in 1998.
Alex Smith was 17 of 20 for 287 yards and fi ve touchdowns without an interception, making him just the second Chiefs quarterback with a perfect quarterback rating. Trent Green did it on Sept. 29, 2002.
Then there is Charles, who made a mockery of the Raiders defense. He touched the ball 16 times but still piled up fi ve touchdowns. He had 195 yards receiving, the fi fth-most by a running back in NFL history, and his TD total was tied for the fourth-most in league history.
“As you know, that’s a tough po-sition to play,” Reid said, “and this time of year, you see running backs, their production goes down a bit, and he’s been able to maintain a high level.”
The Chiefs put up all that offense despite missing starting left tackle Branden Albert, tight end Anthony Fasano and slot receiver Dexter Mc-Cluster due to injuries. All three of them, along with pass rusher Justin Houston, could be back for Sunday’s game against the Colts.
Reid said he wouldn’t hold any-body out who is ready to play, even though the Chiefs are already in the playoffs. After all, there’s still a divi-sion title to chase.
Chiefs headedto playoffs
“The trend’s not going to continue because we’re going to do what we need to do.”
Dez BryantCowboy wide receiver
Please see COWBOYS | 13
“The bottom line in this league is winning.”
Mike MunchakCoach
BY WILL GRAVESAP Sports Writer
PITTSBURGH — For three frigid hours on Sunday night, the Pittsburgh Steelers looked like the team cornerback Ike Taylor thought it would be all along.
Explosive plays on special teams. An effective if at times unspectacular offense. A de-fense that kept the dynamic Cincinnati Bengals under wraps until the game had all but been decided.
Watching how easily the Steelers whipped the Bengals 30-20, Taylor understands the inclination to look around and wonder why this didn’t
happen oh, say, three months ago. Pittsburgh labored through a winless Septem-ber that doomed its postsea-son chances before the leaves changed color.
Taylor just doesn’t buy into wondering “what if.” He’s been around too long. The Steelers earned all eight of their losses just like they earned all six of their wins.
“Ain’t no woulda, couldas,” Taylor said. “The NFL is reali-ty. It’s a humbling sport. Yeah, you have your ups and downs. This year, for the most part in a few words we’ve been con-sistently inconsistent. When you play in the NFL you’ve got
to be consistent.”A concept Pittsburgh has
been unable to grasp. The Steelers looked very much primed for a January run when they humbled the surg-ing Bengals (9-5) in front of a national audience. Yet it came just a week after the Steelers let the Miami Dolphins frolic in the snow in a 34-28 victory that all mathematically elimi-nated Pittsburgh from the playoffs with three games left.
“The one thing you know is they don’t let you play it over again,” safety Ryan Clark said. “You don’t get the Tennessee Titans game back, you don’t get the Oakland Raiders game
back ... For us, it’s about tak-ing it week by week. We won this week, it’s a good feeling.”
The kind of feeling the Steelers expected to have more often this fall.
Instead, they bottled most of that emotion and saved it for the Bengals. Quarterback Ben Roethlisberger shaved the beard he’d worn for the last two months and sprinted to midfi eld during player in-troductions like something more than simply avoiding the franchise’s fi rst losing season in a decade was on the line.
Steelers optimistic but realistic after romp
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ScoreboardTuesday, December 17, 2013 Daily Corinthian • 13
tion.“Sometimes it’s OK on second-
and-6 to hand the ball off, take your lumps, and deal with the third down, force them to use another timeout, and then just work that situation out.”
Now Romo has to fi nd a way to lead a team that has given away two games, been blown out of two others and has a personal history of late-game and late-season failures.
The latest left tight end Jason Wit-ten with nothing much to say be-yond “words can’t really describe it” after the game.
“If you have the right kind of guys on your team, you handle the in-evitable adversities of the season better than if you don’t,” Garrett said. “If you put emotion into some-thing, passion into something and it doesn’t work out, sometimes that’s hard to swallow. But again, you have to regroup.”
The challenge for Bryant might be the biggest.
“I know for me it’s very, very, very hard to swallow,” said Bryant, who had 153 yards and a touchdown that put Dallas up 12 midway through the fourth quarter.
“That kind of stuff leaves scars. It brings pain. I know that’s what it brought to me.”
COWBOYS
CONTINUED FROM 12
Slow starts have been an issue all fall for Pittsburgh, which entered Sunday being outscored 77-43 in the fi rst quarter. The Steelers nar-rowed the defi cit considerably with an overwhelming 15 minutes. That hardly made it seem like they were counting the days until the offseason begins.
Safety Will Allen tackled Bengals punter Kevin Huber after a mis-handled snap to set up the Steelers at the Cincinnati 1. Two plays later, Le’Veon Bell was in the end zone with his sixth touchdown rushing of the season.
A few minutes later, Roethlisberg-er loitered in the pocket for nearly 10 seconds before fi nding Antonio Brown for a 12-yard touchdown reception. Barely a minute later, Brown took advantage of a crush-ing — and perhaps illegal — block on Huber by teammate Terence Garvin to spring him for a 67-yard punt re-turn for a score.
It was 21-0 before the opening quarter ended, freeing the defense to get after Cincinnati quarterback Andy Dalton and disrupt the rhythm and the timing of an offense that came in having won three straight and topped 40 points in two of the previous three weeks.
STEELERS
CONTINUED FROM 12
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LEGALS0955
ORDINANCE TOAMEND CHAPTER 14,
GARBAGE, TRASHAND WEEDS, DIVI-
SION 3, RESIDENTIALGARBAGE, TRASHAND REFUSE, SEC-
TION 14-90
WHEREAS, the City ofCorinth is authorized by Sec-tion 21-19-1 of the MississippiCode of 1972, Annotated, asamended, to establish, oper-ate and maintain a garbageand or rubbish collection anddisposal system or systems;and
NOW, THEREFORE,BE IT ORDAINED BY THEBOARD OF MAYOR ANDALDERMEN OF THE CITYOF CORINTH, MISSISSIPPITHAT Chapter 14, Division 3,Section 14-90 of the Code ofOrdinances of the City ofCorinth is hereby amended toread as follows:
Sec. 14-90. Tree andshrubbery specifica-tions; trash, etc.
(a)It shall be the duty of everyhouseholder in the residen-tial section of the city havingcut trees, tree trimmings, cutshrubbery, shrubbery trim-ming and the like, except asprovided in section 14-65, tocut them in lengths not to ex-ceed four (4) feet, weighingone hundred (100) pounds orless, and place them withinfive (5) feet of the traveledportion of the street or side-walk in a uniform and evenmanner, in quantities less thanthree cubic yards, so thatthey may be convenientlyhandled by employees of thestreet and garbage depart-ment. The superintendentmay refuse to remove anysuch refuse unless it is cutand placed in a manner re-qu i red i n th i s sec t ion .However, it shall be unlawfulfor such refuse to be placedin side drain ditches, guttersor within the traveled por-tion of any street, avenue oralley.
(b)White goods, appliances, fur-niture, building constructiontrash and rubbish and anyother bulky items will bepicked up on a per call basiswith a minimum fee of tendollars ($10.00). The total feewill depend upon the volumeof items being disposed of.
(c)All trash that is generatedfrom building constructionand repair, tree trimmingsand the like, when done bythe resident, and in quantitiesexceeding 3 cubic yards, canbe disposed of by the truckload. The street and garbagedepartment of the city willprovide a truck equipped tohaul the trash, the residentwill load the trash on thetruck and the street andgarbage department of thecity will haul off the trash. Atruck can be provided for amaximum of two (2) days at acost as follows:A five-cubic yard bed truck— Sev-enty-Five dollars ($75.00) perload
A certified copy of this Or-dinance shall be published inThe Daily Corinthian, a news-paper having a general circula-tion within the City of Cor-inth, Alcorn County, Missis-sippi, for the information andguidance of the citizens ofsaid City of Corinth .
This Ordinance shall take ef-fect and be in force onemonth after its passage.
The foregoing Ordinance,having been first reduced towriting, Alderman Hopkinsmoved that the foregoing Or-dinance be adopted, Alder-man Labas seconded the mo-tion, the vote being as fol-lows:
Alderman Andrew"Bubba" Labas aye Alderman BenAlbaraccin aye Alderman A. L. "Chip"Wood aye Alderman J. C."Honey-boy" Hill aye Alderman Michael Mc-Fall aye Alderman Mike Hop-kins aye
The motion having receivedthe affirmative vote of themajority of the memberspresent, the Mayor declaredthe motion carried and theOrdinance passed, approvedand adopted on this the 3rdday of December, 2013.
s/Tommy Irwin, Mayor
CERTIFY AND ATTEST:
s/Vickie T. Roach,City Clerk
1x12/17/201314521
HOME SERVICE DIRECTORY
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LEGALS0955
ORDINANCE TOAMEND CHAPTER 14,
GARBAGE, TRASHAND WEEDS, DIVI-
SION 3, RESIDENTIALGARBAGE, TRASHAND REFUSE, SEC-
TION 14-90
WHEREAS, the City ofCorinth is authorized by Sec-tion 21-19-1 of the MississippiCode of 1972, Annotated, asamended, to establish, oper-ate and maintain a garbageand or rubbish collection anddisposal system or systems;and
NOW, THEREFORE,BE IT ORDAINED BY THEBOARD OF MAYOR ANDALDERMEN OF THE CITYOF CORINTH, MISSISSIPPITHAT Chapter 14, Division 3,Section 14-90 of the Code ofOrdinances of the City ofCorinth is hereby amended toread as follows:
Sec. 14-90. Tree andshrubbery specifica-tions; trash, etc.
(a)It shall be the duty of everyhouseholder in the residen-tial section of the city havingcut trees, tree trimmings, cutshrubbery, shrubbery trim-ming and the like, except asprovided in section 14-65, tocut them in lengths not to ex-ceed four (4) feet, weighingone hundred (100) pounds orless, and place them withinfive (5) feet of the traveledportion of the street or side-walk in a uniform and evenmanner, in quantities less thanthree cubic yards, so thatthey may be convenientlyhandled by employees of thestreet and garbage depart-ment. The superintendentmay refuse to remove anysuch refuse unless it is cutand placed in a manner re-qu i red i n th i s sec t ion .However, it shall be unlawfulfor such refuse to be placedin side drain ditches, guttersor within the traveled por-tion of any street, avenue oralley.
(b)White goods, appliances, fur-niture, building constructiontrash and rubbish and anyother bulky items will bepicked up on a per call basiswith a minimum fee of tendollars ($10.00). The total feewill depend upon the volumeof items being disposed of.
(c)All trash that is generatedfrom building constructionand repair, tree trimmingsand the like, when done bythe resident, and in quantitiesexceeding 3 cubic yards, canbe disposed of by the truckload. The street and garbagedepartment of the city willprovide a truck equipped tohaul the trash, the residentwill load the trash on thetruck and the street andgarbage department of thecity will haul off the trash. Atruck can be provided for amaximum of two (2) days at acost as follows:A five-cubic yard bed truck— Sev-enty-Five dollars ($75.00) perload
A certified copy of this Or-dinance shall be published inThe Daily Corinthian, a news-paper having a general circula-tion within the City of Cor-inth, Alcorn County, Missis-sippi, for the information andguidance of the citizens ofsaid City of Corinth .
This Ordinance shall take ef-fect and be in force onemonth after its passage.
The foregoing Ordinance,having been first reduced towriting, Alderman Hopkinsmoved that the foregoing Or-dinance be adopted, Alder-man Labas seconded the mo-tion, the vote being as fol-lows:
Alderman Andrew"Bubba" Labas aye Alderman BenAlbaraccin aye Alderman A. L. "Chip"Wood aye Alderman J. C."Honey-boy" Hill aye Alderman Michael Mc-Fall aye Alderman Mike Hop-kins aye
The motion having receivedthe affirmative vote of themajority of the memberspresent, the Mayor declaredthe motion carried and theOrdinance passed, approvedand adopted on this the 3rdday of December, 2013.
s/Tommy Irwin, Mayor
CERTIFY AND ATTEST:
s/Vickie T. Roach,City Clerk
1x12/17/201314521
LEGALS0955
ORDINANCE TOAMEND CHAPTER 14,
GARBAGE, TRASHAND WEEDS, DIVI-
SION 3, RESIDENTIALGARBAGE, TRASHAND REFUSE, SEC-
TION 14-90
WHEREAS, the City ofCorinth is authorized by Sec-tion 21-19-1 of the MississippiCode of 1972, Annotated, asamended, to establish, oper-ate and maintain a garbageand or rubbish collection anddisposal system or systems;and
NOW, THEREFORE,BE IT ORDAINED BY THEBOARD OF MAYOR ANDALDERMEN OF THE CITYOF CORINTH, MISSISSIPPITHAT Chapter 14, Division 3,Section 14-90 of the Code ofOrdinances of the City ofCorinth is hereby amended toread as follows:
Sec. 14-90. Tree andshrubbery specifica-tions; trash, etc.
(a)It shall be the duty of everyhouseholder in the residen-tial section of the city havingcut trees, tree trimmings, cutshrubbery, shrubbery trim-ming and the like, except asprovided in section 14-65, tocut them in lengths not to ex-ceed four (4) feet, weighingone hundred (100) pounds orless, and place them withinfive (5) feet of the traveledportion of the street or side-walk in a uniform and evenmanner, in quantities less thanthree cubic yards, so thatthey may be convenientlyhandled by employees of thestreet and garbage depart-ment. The superintendentmay refuse to remove anysuch refuse unless it is cutand placed in a manner re-qu i red i n th i s sec t ion .However, it shall be unlawfulfor such refuse to be placedin side drain ditches, guttersor within the traveled por-tion of any street, avenue oralley.
(b)White goods, appliances, fur-niture, building constructiontrash and rubbish and anyother bulky items will bepicked up on a per call basiswith a minimum fee of tendollars ($10.00). The total feewill depend upon the volumeof items being disposed of.
(c)All trash that is generatedfrom building constructionand repair, tree trimmingsand the like, when done bythe resident, and in quantitiesexceeding 3 cubic yards, canbe disposed of by the truckload. The street and garbagedepartment of the city willprovide a truck equipped tohaul the trash, the residentwill load the trash on thetruck and the street andgarbage department of thecity will haul off the trash. Atruck can be provided for amaximum of two (2) days at acost as follows:A five-cubic yard bed truck— Sev-enty-Five dollars ($75.00) perload
A certified copy of this Or-dinance shall be published inThe Daily Corinthian, a news-paper having a general circula-tion within the City of Cor-inth, Alcorn County, Missis-sippi, for the information andguidance of the citizens ofsaid City of Corinth .
This Ordinance shall take ef-fect and be in force onemonth after its passage.
The foregoing Ordinance,having been first reduced towriting, Alderman Hopkinsmoved that the foregoing Or-dinance be adopted, Alder-man Labas seconded the mo-tion, the vote being as fol-lows:
Alderman Andrew"Bubba" Labas aye Alderman BenAlbaraccin aye Alderman A. L. "Chip"Wood aye Alderman J. C."Honey-boy" Hill aye Alderman Michael Mc-Fall aye Alderman Mike Hop-kins aye
The motion having receivedthe affirmative vote of themajority of the memberspresent, the Mayor declaredthe motion carried and theOrdinance passed, approvedand adopted on this the 3rdday of December, 2013.
s/Tommy Irwin, Mayor
CERTIFY AND ATTEST:
s/Vickie T. Roach,City Clerk
1x12/17/201314521
LEGALS0955
ORDINANCE TOAMEND CHAPTER 14,
GARBAGE, TRASHAND WEEDS, DIVI-
SION 3, RESIDENTIALGARBAGE, TRASHAND REFUSE, SEC-
TION 14-90
WHEREAS, the City ofCorinth is authorized by Sec-tion 21-19-1 of the MississippiCode of 1972, Annotated, asamended, to establish, oper-ate and maintain a garbageand or rubbish collection anddisposal system or systems;and
NOW, THEREFORE,BE IT ORDAINED BY THEBOARD OF MAYOR ANDALDERMEN OF THE CITYOF CORINTH, MISSISSIPPITHAT Chapter 14, Division 3,Section 14-90 of the Code ofOrdinances of the City ofCorinth is hereby amended toread as follows:
Sec. 14-90. Tree andshrubbery specifica-tions; trash, etc.
(a)It shall be the duty of everyhouseholder in the residen-tial section of the city havingcut trees, tree trimmings, cutshrubbery, shrubbery trim-ming and the like, except asprovided in section 14-65, tocut them in lengths not to ex-ceed four (4) feet, weighingone hundred (100) pounds orless, and place them withinfive (5) feet of the traveledportion of the street or side-walk in a uniform and evenmanner, in quantities less thanthree cubic yards, so thatthey may be convenientlyhandled by employees of thestreet and garbage depart-ment. The superintendentmay refuse to remove anysuch refuse unless it is cutand placed in a manner re-qu i red i n th i s sec t ion .However, it shall be unlawfulfor such refuse to be placedin side drain ditches, guttersor within the traveled por-tion of any street, avenue oralley.
(b)White goods, appliances, fur-niture, building constructiontrash and rubbish and anyother bulky items will bepicked up on a per call basiswith a minimum fee of tendollars ($10.00). The total feewill depend upon the volumeof items being disposed of.
(c)All trash that is generatedfrom building constructionand repair, tree trimmingsand the like, when done bythe resident, and in quantitiesexceeding 3 cubic yards, canbe disposed of by the truckload. The street and garbagedepartment of the city willprovide a truck equipped tohaul the trash, the residentwill load the trash on thetruck and the street andgarbage department of thecity will haul off the trash. Atruck can be provided for amaximum of two (2) days at acost as follows:A five-cubic yard bed truck— Sev-enty-Five dollars ($75.00) perload
A certified copy of this Or-dinance shall be published inThe Daily Corinthian, a news-paper having a general circula-tion within the City of Cor-inth, Alcorn County, Missis-sippi, for the information andguidance of the citizens ofsaid City of Corinth .
This Ordinance shall take ef-fect and be in force onemonth after its passage.
The foregoing Ordinance,having been first reduced towriting, Alderman Hopkinsmoved that the foregoing Or-dinance be adopted, Alder-man Labas seconded the mo-tion, the vote being as fol-lows:
Alderman Andrew"Bubba" Labas aye Alderman BenAlbaraccin aye Alderman A. L. "Chip"Wood aye Alderman J. C."Honey-boy" Hill aye Alderman Michael Mc-Fall aye Alderman Mike Hop-kins aye
The motion having receivedthe affirmative vote of themajority of the memberspresent, the Mayor declaredthe motion carried and theOrdinance passed, approvedand adopted on this the 3rdday of December, 2013.
s/Tommy Irwin, Mayor
CERTIFY AND ATTEST:
s/Vickie T. Roach,City Clerk
1x12/17/201314521
LEGALS0955
IN THE CHANCERY COURTOF ALCORN COUNTY,
MISSISSIPPI
IN THE MATTER OF THELAST WILL AND TESTA-MENT OF GERALDINEHOWELL, DECEASED
NO. 2013-0657-02
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
Letters Testament-ary having been gran-ted on the 6 day ofDecember, 2013 by theChancery Court of Al-corn County, Missis-sippi to the under-signed upon the Estateof Geraldine Howell, De-ceased, notice is herebygiven to all personshaving claims againstsaid Estate to presentthe same to the Clerk ofthe Chancery Court ofAlcorn County, Missis-sippi for probate andregistration accordingto law within ninety (90)days from the date offirst publication of thisNotice to Creditors, orthey will be foreverbarred.
This the 6 day ofDecember, 2013.
ESTATE OF GERALDINEHOWELL, DECEASED
BY:C. RICHARD DOBBINS,CO-EXECUTOR
BY:S T A C E Y D O B B I N SM I T C H E L L ,CO-EXECUTOR
PHELPS DUNBAR LLPP. O. Box 1220Tupelo, MS 38802-1220662-842-7907
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LEGALS0955IN THE CHANCERY COURT
OF ALCORN COUNTY,MISSISSIPPI
IN THE MATTER OF THELAST WILL AND TESTA-MENT OF GERALDINEHOWELL, DECEASED
NO. 2013-0657-02
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
Letters Testament-ary having been gran-ted on the 6 day ofDecember, 2013 by theChancery Court of Al-corn County, Missis-sippi to the under-signed upon the Estateof Geraldine Howell, De-ceased, notice is herebygiven to all personshaving claims againstsaid Estate to presentthe same to the Clerk ofthe Chancery Court ofAlcorn County, Missis-sippi for probate andregistration accordingto law within ninety (90)days from the date offirst publication of thisNotice to Creditors, orthey will be foreverbarred.
This the 6 day ofDecember, 2013.
ESTATE OF GERALDINEHOWELL, DECEASED
BY:C. RICHARD DOBBINS,CO-EXECUTOR
BY:S T A C E Y D O B B I N SM I T C H E L L ,CO-EXECUTOR
PHELPS DUNBAR LLPP. O. Box 1220Tupelo, MS 38802-1220662-842-7907
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NOTICEAll real estate adver-tised herein is subjectto the Federal FairHousing Act whichmakes it illegal to ad-vertise any preference,limitation, or discrimi-nation based on race,color, religion, sex,handicap, familial statusor national origin, or in-tention to make anysuch preferences, limi-tations or discrimina-tion.State laws forbid dis-crimination in the sale,rental, or advertising ofreal estate based onfactors in addition tothose protected underfederal law. We will notknowingly accept anyadvertising for real es-tate which is in viola-tion of the law. All per-sons are hereby in-formed that all dwell-ings advertised areavailable on an equalopportunity basis.