Issuu

Welcome to Corinth Mississippi Historical Society

Daily Corinthian

Thursday March 5,

2015

50 cents

Vol. 119, No. 55

Much colder Today

Tonight

40% chance of snow

• Corinth, Mississippi • 14 pages • One section

School bus, DUI suspect collide BY STEVE BEAVERS sbeavers@dailycorinthian.com

The quick reaction of a Corinth School District bus driver prevented any injuries in a Wednesday morning accident in front of Corinth High School.

“If the bus driver hadn’t taken the action he did, he would have hit the vehicle dead-on,” said Captain Landon Tucker with the Corinth Police Department. Brett Butler, 43, of Corinth, was dropping his child off at

CHS when he turned in front of the bus, which was heading north on Harper Road. The bus hit the vehicle on the passenger side quarter panel. “The bus driver did a good job of avoiding the car,” added

Tucker of the accident ,which happened around 8 a.m. Butler was charged with driving under the influence and child endangerment. Butler’s blood alcohol level was .24 – three times over the legal limit.

Only one person was in Butler’s vehicle, while two children were on the school bus. Also assisting at the wreck scene were Lt. Lane Fowler, Sgt. Chad Harville and officer Jeremy Barnes.

Storm warning brings flooding BY ZACK STEEN zsteen@dailycorinthian.com

On the heels of another winter storm, heavy rainfall created flooding issues throughout the city on Wednesday. Street Commissioner Philip Verdung said his crews were out in the streets all day trying to manage the known areas prone to flooding. “Because of the constant rain, ice and snow we have had over the last few weeks, the ground has remained mostly saturated,” said Verdung. “We haven’t been able to catch a break.” Several roads were barricaded off during the peak of the rainfall, while city employees were seen working to help move clogged water in drains in the downtown area. Verdung said he had been preparing for these two weather events for several days.

“We saw the weather and knew we would be getting a lot of rain followed quickly by ice and snow,” he said. “We’ve been working and planning and it’s not over. I’m worried this may end up being one of toughest storms as far as we’re concerned. We’ll definitely be up all night.” The National Weather Service issued a Winter Storm Warning in effect through noon today bringing the threat of more winter weather, including ice and sleet and snow accumulations of 1 to 4 inches. On Oak Lane, neighbors have been airing concerns of flooding issues for months. “When it barely rains, we have problems,” said resident Josh Steen. “It’s beyond time that something is done.” Verdung addressed the issue quickly.

Photo compliments of Josh Steen

Heavy rainfall Wednesday caused flooding issues on Oak Lane in Corinth. “There are several projects we are still working on, and one is the flooding issue around Oak Lane. We are aware of the issue and have a fix on the way,” he said. “We also have a issue

recent winter weather and extreme cold. Dozens of minor potholes have formed on busy city road-

in the Tishomingo and Washington Street area that is also about to be fixed.” Heavy rainfall and flooding only causes more trouble on roads already worn out from

Please see FLOODING | 2

‘Jesus Prom’ a special night for local adults BY STEVE BEAVERS sbeavers@dailycorinthian.com

Staff photo by Steve Beavers

4-H Advisory Council Vice-President Sandy Mitchell (left) and Mississippi State Extension Service Office Associate Evonne Grove get bacon ready for the 12th Annual Jesse Clausel Memorial Scholarship Soup Luncheon.

50 gallons of soup ready for luncheon BY STEVE BEAVERS sbeavers@dailycorinthian.com

The Soup Troop invaded the Mississippi State Extension Service. Their mission was to get almost 50 gallons of soup ready

for Friday’s 12th Annual Jesse Clausel Memorial Scholarship Soup Luncheon. “We decided to cook today because the weather didn’t look good for Thursday,” said Sandy Mitchell, vice-president of the

4-H Advisory Council. The Advisory Council is in charge of the annual event which sees proceeds used to fund scholarships for graduatPlease see SOUP | 2

K.C. Arnold is ready to give special needs adults a night they won’t forget. The Corinth native has organized “Jesus Prom” to give mentally and physically disabled adults something they might have never experienced before. “I got involved with it in Lexington, Kentucky,” said Arnold. “It was the most rewarding thing I have done.” Southland Christian Church started the event based on Luke 14:12-14 which states: Then he turned to his host. “When you put on a luncheon or a banquet,” he said, “don’t invite your friends, brothers, relatives, and rich neighbors. For they will invite you back, and that will be your only reward. Instead, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, and the blind. Then at the resurrection of the righteous, God will reward you for inviting those who could not repay you.” “Most special needs adults didn’t go to a main stream

school or to the prom,” said Arnold. “Society tends to forget about them … we want to love on them during prom and let them have a great night.” “Jesus Prom” will be held Saturday, March 7 at Crosswind Ministry. The evening begins at 5 p.m. with prom photos taken. “Different churches are coming together to make it happen,” said Arnold. “Everyone is excited and wants to be involved.” Following the photo time, there will be a dinner and games for those attend. A deejay will also be on hand with plenty of music for dancing. The age limit is 18 and up and there is no cost to attend. “It will be a lot of fun,” said Arnold. “It’s amazing to see all of the fun they have.”

25 years ago

On this day in history 150 years ago

United Way of Corinth and Alcorn County celebrated a big year at its annual “Thanks Banquet” with the announcement of over $361,000 in pledges. The figure was announced by United Way President Dick Dancereau.

Newspapers buzz about the rambling speech delivered by the newly inaugurated Vice President Andrew Johnson. Prescribed whiskey for a cold, a drunken VP angers many in his polarizing address.

zra Brooks $ 99

Canadian Hunter $ 99 1.75 L

Evans Williams Black $ 99 1.75 L

Old Kentucky Tavern $ 99 1.75L 1 .75L

2015 Hwy 72 E. Corinth, MS. 38834 • 662-594-1877

Cinerator (Hot Cinnamon) $ 99

750 750mL

Blue Ice Vodka $ 98

750mL 750m 7 50 m

Exotico Blanco or Reposado $ 99

750mL

Mon. - Sat. 10 A.M.- 9 P.M. • www.JRwinespirit.com

Local/State

2 â€˘ Daily Corinthian

House, Senate differ on reorganization of corrections office BY JEFF AMY Associated Press

JACKSON â€” Mississippi House members want to authorize new Corrections Commissioner Marshall Fisher to reorganize the departmentâ€™s central office and fire some employees without regard to civil service status. However, when the House passed Senate Bill 2804 Wednesday, it didnâ€™t go as far as the Senate, which wants to allow Fisher that power over all the departmentâ€™s employees. Fisher wants the ability to shift people around in the whole agency, as well as lay people off. The amended version would only authorize Fisher to fire roughly 100 central office employees for two years through June 30, 2017. â€œThe commissioner just wants a little bit of time to do a little bit of restructuring,â€? said Rep Angela Cockerham, DMagnolia. The bill requires the commissioner to con-

sult with Attorney General Jim Hoodâ€™s office before firing someone. Cockerham said that should guarantee that any firings are done in compliance with state and federal law. â€œThe commissioner has good intentions,â€? Cockerham said. â€œHeâ€™s not trying to go after specific people.â€? Department spokeswoman Grace Fisher said, â€œIn the last year we have been experiencing a drop in the inmate population but an increase in the number of offenders or ex-offenders being supervised in the community. If this trend continues, we likely will need to shift more resources to community corrections.â€? Some Democrats voted against the bill because they oppose allowing agencies to fire people without going through state Personnel Board procedures. The House and Senate must work out their differences in conference before the bill can move ahead.

Mississippi Power notes new Kemper overrun Associated Press

JACKSON â€” Southern Co. announced Tuesday that it projects at least another $26 million in spending to complete its construction of a power plant in eastern Mississippi, pushing the total cost to nearly $6.2 billion. Itâ€™s unclear right now how Mississippi Power Co., a unit of Atlantabased Southern, will pay for the plant itâ€™s building in Kemper County. The state Supreme Court on Feb. 12 struck down previous financing arrangements. The company says it will ask the court to reconsider that ruling, which ordered more than $200 million in refunds and instructed regulators to roll back an 18 percent rate increase theyâ€™d approved. A two-member majority of the Public Service Commission wants the Mississippi? Supreme Court to reconsider the motion as well, discussion at a Tuesday meet-

ing showed. Northern District Commissioner Brandon Presley moved to not seek rehearing, but his motion died for lack of a second vote. Southern District Commissioner Steve Renfroe said the regulators would like to preserve the previous framework, worked out in closed-door settlement talks that the high court lambasted as illegal. Thatâ€™s because the settlement said customers would pay $2.4 billion of the plantâ€™s price, plus pay for up to another $1 billion in bonds that Mississippi Power wouldnâ€™t make a profit on. That didnâ€™t count additional hundreds of millions for costs of a lignite mine and pipelines. In any event, customers could have to pay some of the charges announced Tuesday should regulators approve. The charges are interest on the project, and are outside the cost cap.

+PFcT 4IPFT ),//025( 67 s &25,17+ 06

3+21( -ON 3AT Â? Â?A M Â?TOÂ? Â?P M Â? 3UN Â? 3UN Â? Â?P M Â?TOÂ? Â?P M M

Execution drug secrecy debated Associated Press

JACKSON â€” Lawyers for Mississippiâ€™s prison system asked a judge to declare that the name of any pharmacy that supplies a crucial execution drug is a secret that must not be revealed publicly. But those seeking that information say such secrecy violates the stateâ€™s public records law. They demand the Department of Corrections release the information. â€œIf weâ€™re entitled to it under the clear terms of the Public Records

Act, then we should get these documents,â€? said Jim Craig, a lawyer for the Roderick and Solange MacArthur Justice Center. That legal group filed a records request in November seeking information about Mississippiâ€™s execution drugs and death penalty procedures. Both sides made their case Monday before Hinds County Chancery Judge Denise Owens, who says she will rule soon on the issue. Special Assistant Attorney General Paul Barnes

tial, privileged or exempt. Craig said such an interpretation â€œevisceratesâ€? the public records act. The argument comes as Attorney General Jim Hood is pressing state lawmakers to approve a bill cloaking many aspects of Mississippi executions in secrecy. House Bill 1305 would do much more than just conceal the name of the pharmacy. It would make the names of the executioner and anyone â€œassisting in the execution in any capacityâ€? exempt from public disclosure.

CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1

ways including Harper Road, Cass Street, Fulton Street, Proper Street and Shiloh Road. Potholes are formed when water seeps into cracks and freezes. As ice has more volume than liquid, it acts as a wedge and breaks the pavement apart. Salt and other icemelters laid down by road crews can often accelerate the process. The matter can be exacerbated if crews arenâ€™t able to fix the potholes quickly enough because of weather or other delays. Verdung said some of the larger potholes around town are due to the current sewer assessment project. â€œAs the sewer assessment crews find problems, they dig up the street to repair those problems, which has been creating potholes that because of the weather can only be filled with gravel or dirt at this time,â€? added Verdung. The head of the street

Photo complimentsÂ of Josh Steen

Flooding was reported in the Oak Lane area of Corinth on Wednesday. Several roads were barricaded during the peak of the rainfall, while city employees were working to help move clogged water in drains in the downtown area. department said he hopes spring really is just around the corner.

â€œIâ€™m praying right now this is the last round,â€? Verdung said. â€œItâ€™s been a

rough few months on this department, and Corinth streets.â€?

SOUP CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1

ing high school 4-H members. Mitchell, extension office associate Evonne Grove and Mitchellâ€™s parents, Norbert and Diane Coleman, were all busy in the kitchen at the extension office. Over five hours, the quartet ground 20 pounds of ground beef, cut 10 pounds of onions and cooked 10 pounds of bacon. Ten gallons of tea will be made later today. â€œWe do it for the kids,â€? said Mitchell. â€œThatâ€™s the benefit we get out of it â€Ś if it just helps one kid it has been all worth it to us.â€? The luncheon is set for 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Friday. Tickets are $6 and include a choice of vegetable beef soup, potato soup or chili. Also included are crackers, drink and dessert at the extension office behind the Crossroads Arena. Businesses that would like orders delivered need to fax them to Alcorn County 4-H Office â€“ 2867754 â€“ by 3 p.m. today. Pick-up orders will be

Staff photo by Steve Beavers

Sandy Mitchell and members of the 4-H Advisory Council spent most of the day Wednesday getting things ready for the annual soup luncheon. available at 11 a.m. Friday in the Exhibit Hall of the extension service. Those choosing to dine-in are asked to en-

QUICK - EASY - LOW COST

6DIHW\ 7RHV 3ODLQ 7RHV 0HWJXDUG 6OLS 2Q /DFH 8SV 6L]HV :LGWKV ' ((((

says those suing are trying to halt executions in Mississippi by using public pressure to cut the supply of pentobarbital, a barbiturate used to render prisoners unconscious before theyâ€™re injected with a paralytic agent and a drug that stops their heart. â€œThe supply of pentobarbital has dried up and it has dried up because of the efforts of death penalty opponents,â€? Barnes said. He argued that under state law, Owens can declare a record to confiden-

FLOODING

Stop the Harassment & Keep your Property

:( +$9( : (

Thursday, March 5, 2015

ter through the main entrance of the extension office. Tickets can also be purchased at the door.

The soup luncheon â€“ the top 4-H fundraiser â€“ is done in honor of longtime council president Jesse Clausel.

Your 5-Star Corinth Banking Team

Affordable flexible payment plans ZERO down payment gets you a fresh start with

101 West College Street, Booneville, MS

www.fmbms.com

Download FMB Mobiliti for your smartphone today!

Thursday, March 5, 2015

Today in History

Local/Nation

Daily Corinthian • 3

Across the Region Public hearing set on garbage ordinance

Today is Thursday, March 5, the 64th day of 2015. There are 301 days left in the year.

Today’s Highlight in History: On March 5, 1770, the Boston Massacre took place as British soldiers who’d been taunted by a crowd of colonists opened fire, killing five people.

On this date: In 1766, Antonio de Ulloa arrived in New Orleans to assume his duties as the first Spanish governor of the Louisiana Territory, where he encountered resistance from the French residents. In 1868, the Senate was organized into a Court of Impeachment to decide charges against President Andrew Johnson, who was later acquitted. In 1933, in German parliamentary elections, the Nazi Party won 44 percent of the vote; the Nazis joined with a conservative nationalist party to gain a slender majority in the Reichstag. In 1946, Winston Churchill delivered his “Iron Curtain” speech at Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri. In 1955, Elvis Presley made his television debut on “Louisiana Hayride” carried by KSLA-TV Shreveport (although audio recordings exist, there is no known video footage of this appearance). In 1960, Cuban newspaper photographer Alberto Korda took the now-famous picture of guerrilla leader Ernesto “Che” Guevara during a memorial service in Havana for victims of a ship explosion. Elvis Presley was discharged from the U.S. Army. In 1963, country music performers Patsy Cline, Cowboy Copas and Hawkshaw Hawkins died in the crash of their plane, a Piper Comanche, near Camden, Tennessee, along with pilot Randy Hughes (Cline’s manager). In 1970, the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons went into effect after 43 nations ratified it. In 1979, NASA’s Voyager 1 space probe flew past Jupiter, sending back photographs of the planet and its moons. In 1982, comedian John Belushi was found dead of a drug overdose in a rented bungalow in Hollywood; he was 33. In 1994, a jury in Pensacola, Florida, convicted anti-abortion activist Michael F. Griffin of first-degree murder in the shooting death of Dr. David Gunn; Griffin was immediately sentenced to life in prison.

BOONEVILLE — A public hearing is set for Tuesday, March 24 at 6 p.m. at Booneville city hall for citizens to give their opinions on the garbage ordinance which sets specific rules and regulations for the type, use and placement of residential garbage receptacles in the city. The law was given initial approval during the boards last regular meeting on a 3-2 vote with Aldermen Jason Michael, Harold Eaton and David Bolen in favor and Aldermen Jeff Williams and Mark McCoy opposed. The proposed ordinance requires residents to only place their garbage at the road for pickup in approved containers.

ordinance and could also be ordered to pay restitution for any costs incurred in cleaning up any garbage that is strewn onto someone’s else’s property. The ordinance will be enforced by law enforcement, the city building inspector, the city animal control officer and any other official with law enforcement authority in the city. Discussion of setting the public hearing brought new debate from aldermen on the proposal and the board ultimately agreed to hear from the public at the hearing and then consider any needed changes. Eaton said he has heard concerns from residents about the time period containers are allowed to be at the road. Williams repeated his concerns from the previous meeting regarding the costs involved

for residents and said he’s heard from several citizens who would prefer to pay slightly more on their garbage bills to receive a city issued receptacle than to have to purchase garbage cans complying with the ordinance. McCoy also said he believes providing containers through the city’s waste services provider would be the better move. Michael said he believes the long-term costs for providing containers through the waste services provider are much greater than the cost for citizens to purchase containers. He said the main focus of the ordinance is to deal with unsightly trash bins and other public health and safety concerns and the ordinance is needed no matter how the receptacles are provided.

Bill: Only 1 hospital to follow open-meetings act BY EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS Associated Press

JACKSON — Only one publicly owned hospital in Mississippi would be required to abide by the state open-meetings and public-records laws, under a watered-down version of a bill that passed a House committee Tuesday. Senate Bill 2407 was prompted by massive problems with the employee pension plan at Singing River Hospital in Jackson County, and that’s the only hospital remaining in the latest version of the bill, which now goes to the full House for debate. The Senate voted 51-0 on Feb. 12 to pass a broader version of the bill, which would have ap-

plied to all public hospitals. The Mississippi Press Association supports the broad version of the bill, saying the public should have access to meetings and records that show how tax dollars are being spent. “Transparency should apply to all public hospitals, not just the ones that have been put in a corner for naughty behavior,” Layne Bruce, the press association’s executive director, said in a statement Tuesday. The Mississippi Hospital Association opposes making any hospital subject to transparency laws. The group’s president and CEO, Tim Moore, said in a statement Tuesday that he appreciates the House committee’s

decision to limit the scope of the bill. “The hospital association continues to support exclusion of public hospitals from the Open Meetings Act,” Moore said. “This is not a stand against transparency but a stand to preserve a level playing field for public hospitals in a very competitive environment.” Rep. John Read, R-Gautier, said some legislators didn’t want to make any public hospital follow the transparency laws. “The hospital association has clout,” Read said after the House committee meeting Tuesday. Under the Senate version of the bill, boards of public hospitals would be able to close

Civil rights landmark bridge named for reputed KKK leader Associated Press

SELMA, Ala. — When the nation’s first black president steps onto the Edmund Pettus Bridge to honor the marchers beaten there 50 years ago, he’ll be standing on a structure that’s at once synonymous with the civil rights struggle and a tribute to a reputed Ku Klux Klan leader. The latter fact had all but faded from local memory until recently, when a Selma student group launched an online petition to rename the landmark bridge. During his 50th anniversary address Saturday, President Barack Obama will be flanked on one side by a new historic marker commemorating “Bloody Sunday,” when white police beat demonstrators marching for black voting rights on March 7, 1965. The sign, erected earlier this year by the state tourism department, notes Obama’s 2007 appearance there just before his election and the accolades for “Selma,” the recent film about the march. It offers no details about Edmund Winston Pettus, a Confederate general and U.S. senator who lived in Selma after the Civil War. The Encyclopedia of Alabama, an online database sponsored by the University of Alabama, Auburn University and the Alabama Department of Education, says Pettus held the title of grand dragon of the Alabama Klan in 1877 — an assertion that’s questioned by some historians. Just beyond the other end of the

Southern Carports Features Dersken Portable Buildings Buy or Rent to Own Treated • Painted & Metal Buildings 8x10’ to 16x32’

NO CREDIT CHECK • NO SLAB NEEDED *NO SECURITY DEPOSIT • on 36 month terms FREE DELIVERY & SETUP 915 Hwy. 72 W. Corinth • 662-415-1984 Mon–Sat. 9–5 • American made

meetings for the same reasons that city councils or other public boards can close them, including discussion of litigation, personnel matters and the purchase or sale of land. Patients’ medical information would remain confidential, even if public hospitals eventually are told to follow the open-meetings and public-records laws. It is unclear whether the full House will agree to the updated version of the bill. If it does, the bill is most likely headed to a final round of negotiations between the two chambers, and it could be changed there. Online: Senate Bill http://bit.ly/1M3GVSK

2407

Proposed ammo ban empties store shelves

bridge, a billboard erected recently bears a heroic image of another Confederate general, Klan founder Nathan Bedford Forrest. The ad, sponsored by a group dedicated to honoring Forrest, invites visitors to see Selma’s “War Between the States” historic sites; next month is the 150th anniversary of the Battle of Selma, in which Forrest fought. As the “Bloody Sunday” anniversary approaches, a student group in Selma is petitioning to rename the bridge, whose twin metal arches soar above the murky Alabama River. The online petition, addressed to Selma Mayor George Patrick Evans and to the National Parks Service, has been up for about two weeks. It does not propose a new name for the bridge. John Gainey, executive director of Students UNITE, a racially integrated youth group that began the petition, said having a white supremacist’s name attached to the city’s most visible landmark illustrates the city’s deep racial divisions a half-century after the marchers were beaten at the bridge. However, Selma historian Alston Fitts doubts Pettus had anything to do with the KKK. Although the city was a hub of racial animus in the 1960s, Selma was known as a “safe place” for blacks aligned with liberal Republicans after the Civil War during Reconstruction partly because of a lack of Klan activity, he said. “He was a pretty lousy Klan leader if that’s what he was,” said Fitts.

Associated Press

JACKSON — When word began to spread about a proposed ban on a popular type of ammunition, the market responded faster than a speeding bullet. “I think it was gone the day people heard about it,” Tim Sternberg of Dad’s Super Pawn in Gulfport said. The buying spree resulted from a proposal by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms which would ban the sale of 5.56 caliber SS109 and M855 “green tip” ammunition commonly used in the modular AR15 platform semi-automatic rifles. Originally developed for military purposes and capable of penetrating body armor, the ammunition in question has been exempt from classification as armor piercing because it is primarily used and designed for rifles. Current armor penetrating regulations outlaw certain types of handgun ammunition, but it does not apply to rifle ammunition. The BATF proposal explains that the firearm industry has now developed semi-automatic handguns designed to shoot what

has been historically rifle ammunition. According to the BATF, that not only increases danger to law enforcement officers, it places “green tips” in the armor piercing category. With its affordable price and popularity at shooting ranges, the supply disappeared. Sternberg said the 30-40 cases in his store sold within a week. Jamey Ray at Van’s Sporting Goods and Deer Processing in Brandon witnessed a similar scenario. “It only took a week once the word got out to sell what we sold,” Ray said. “We’re out now.” And he does not expect to receive any soon. “There is no distribution of it right now,” Ray said. With that source of ammunition depleted, the demand for other 5.56 ammunition and its civilian counterpart, the .223 Remington, has also escalated. “It’s still going fast,” Sternberg said. “It’s flying off the shelves also.” Though selling at a heightened level, both Ray and Sternberg said alternative 5.56 and .223 ammunition remain available for now.

CIVIL WAR RELIC SHOW March 14TH & 15TH

Timing is Everything

CROSSROADS ARENA CONVENTION CENTER 2800 S. Harper Rd. • Corinth, MS

Your Life doesn’t get better by chance it gets better by change and planning for the future. /:0 Come in for your complimentary ﬁnancial review at our new location:

ADMISSION: $5.00 Children Under 12: FREE

Starting at $6458 per month +tax

P.O. Box 1800 Corinth, MS 38835

Containers must be between 20 and 75 gallon capacity and must have an attached lid secured to the can or a lid that will close firmly on the can. All trash inside must be in garbage bags. The containers must not be placed out for collection prior to 6 p.m. on the night before the normal collection day and must be removed by 6 p.m. on the day of pickup. All permanent holding containers or bins placed at the end of driveways used to hold garbage must be removed when the ordinance goes into effect. All trash cans must be stored in an area on the property not visible from the street when not placed at the road for collection. Residents will face a fine of $100 for each violation of the

SHOW HOURS: Saturday, March 14TH 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday, March 15TH 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Langley Wealth Management

www.battleofcorinth.com

3116 N. Shiloh Road, Suite A • Corinth, MS 38834 Ofﬁce: (662) 872-3051, Cell (662) 665-5868

Sponsored by Col. W.P. Rogers Sons of Confederate Veterans, Camp #321

Home Delivery 52 weeks - - - - - - - $139.85 24 weeks - - - - - - - - $73.85 12weeks - - - - - - - - - $38.85

BLangley@LangleyWM.com • www.LangleyWM.com

Mail Rates 52 weeks - - - - - - -$198.90 24 weeks - - - - - - - $101.60 12 weeks - - - - - - - - $53.45

To start your home delivered subscription: Call 287-6111 Monday-Friday 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. For your convenience try our ofﬁce pay plans.

Miss your paper? To report a problem or delivery change call the circulation department at 287-6111. Late, wet or missing newspaper complaints should be made before 10 a.m. to ensure redelivery to immediate Corinth area. All other areas will be delivered the next day.

USPS 142-560 The Daily Corinthian is published daily Tuesday through Sunday by PMG, LLC. at 1607 South Harper Road, Corinth, Miss. Periodicals postage paid at Corinth, MS 38834

Postmaster: Send address changes to: P.O. Box 1800, Corinth, MS 38835

www.dailycorinthian.com

Reece Terry, publisher

Opinion

Mark Boehler, editor

4 • Thursday, March 5, 2015

Corinth, Miss.

Kissing cousins in the Creole World ST. FRANCISVILLE, La. — Fine art photographer Richard Sexton of New Orleans is an erudite, elegant man whose sartorial care adds to his polished presentation. I admire his work. Rheta He is here at the eighth anJohnson nual Writers and Readers Symposium to discuss “Creole Columnist World, Photographs of New Orleans and the Latin Caribbean Sphere,” his latest big, beautiful book with illuminating essays and images, not to mention paper quality to covet. You could build a coffee table around it. Richard Sexton needs no introduction, as they say about celebrities. His 1993 book “New Orleans: Elegance and Decadence” has sold 100,000 copies to date, reportedly making it the most popular photo book ever about that fair city. Richard humbly says that maybe the book stood out because it was the first one that “didn’t have cast iron or white columns” on the cover – or between the covers. In other words, he avoided photographic cliches. Richard wanted it to be more about the history, tradition and religion of the place, told in arresting images that translate as stories. When I look at my well-worn copy of “Elegance and Decadence” I always think of the poem “Ars Poetica” by Archibald MacLeish. It instructs the poet on how to capture major moments with small objects. “For all the history of grief/An empty doorway and a maple leaf.” Truly good photographers do the same thing. There’s this photo in “Creole World” that illustrates my point. In a collapsing building in Panama, a dangerously slumping balcony strung with a full clothesline is shading a baby left in an infant chair on the sidewalk below. Your eye goes from the bright clothes and profuse vines to the structural fragilities and finally to the child. The single photograph is a complete novel, a page-turner, refine your own plot. I would love his books even if Richard had not grown up in my birthplace, Colquitt, Ga. But that fact makes me inordinately proud, and I have to share it with anyone who will listen. Whenever I see his books, or find one of his prints in a fancy gallery on Royal Street, I practically tremble with joy. Something about his rearing in that rural and seductive land of my forbearers must have informed his approach to art. At least that’s my theory. When he was 20, Richard left Colquitt in his Datsun station wagon “bound for South America, driving to Panama and then traveling by bus, train and plane as far as Bolivia before turning back to retrace my steps ...,” he writes in “Creole World.” That trip not only introduced him to New Orleans, immersed him in photography and made him a seasoned traveler, it also “forged an enduring relationship” with Latin America. Richard would return to New Orleans to live 17 years later. And he saw the same sights he’d seen on that first trip, the one to Latin America and the Caribbean. “New Orleans, I came to learn, is unique in that it is the United States’ sole outpost of the Creole world,” he writes. The elegance and decadence of New Orleans is unique to the United States. But it has cultural cousins in the larger Creole world. (To find out more about Daily Corinthian columnist Rheta Grimsley Johnson and her books, visit www.rhetagrimsleyjohnsonbooks.com.)

Prayer for today My Father, my soul sinks with shame when I think of the great moments that I have given over to mean little things. Help me that I may reckon more on the value of time, and live not to tolerate life, but to have a great need for it, that day by day I may have a deeper consciousness of its appropriate use. Amen.

A verse to share “And after the earthquake a fire; but the LORD was not in the fire: and after the fire a still small voice.” 1 Kings 19:12

Letters Policy The Opinion page should be a voice of the people and reflect views from a broad range in the community. Citizens can express their opinion in letters to the editor. Only a few simple rules need to be followed. Letters should be of public interest and not of the ‘thank you’ type. Please include your full signature, home address and telephone number on the letter for verification. All letters are subject to editing before publication, especially those beyond 300 words in length. Send to: Letters to the editor, Daily Corinthian, P.O. Box 1800, Corinth, Miss. 38835. Letters may also be e-mailed to: letters@daily corinthian.com. Email is the preferred method. Personal, guest and commentary columns on the Opinion page are the views of the writer. “Other views” are editorials reprinted from other newspapers. None of these reflect the views of this newspaper.

Best of times or worst of times? Last week, John Kerry seemed to be auditioning for the role of Dr. Pangloss. Despite jihadi violence across the Middle East and ISIS terror in Iraq and Syria, Kerry told Congress, we live in “a period of less daily threat to Americans and to people in the world than normally – less deaths, less violent deaths today than through the last century.” Director of National Intelligence James Clapper appeared to undercut Kerry the next day when he testified, “When the final accounting is done, 2014 will have been the most lethal year for global terrorism in the 45 years [since] such data has been complied.” ■ From January through September 2014, said Clapper, there were 13,000 terrorist attacks that killed 31,000 people. Afghanistan and Pakistan accounted for half of these attacks. And the Islamic State ranks first among terrorist organizations. Yet, is Kerry wrong? Despite our outrage over the barbarity of ISIS, this century does not remotely rival in evil the bloodiest century of them all, the 20th. ■ From 1914-1918, nine million men died in the Great War. A comparable number of civilians per-

ished. At war’s end came the Russian Revolution and civil war, the Red TerPat ror of Lenin, Buchanan the genocide of the kuColumnist laks, the Holodomor in Ukraine and Stalin’s Great Purge of the ‘30s. Stalin’s butcher’s bill alone has been estimated at 30 million. ■ From World War II, 1939-45, European and Asian theaters together, the dead are estimated at another 50 million. ■ From 1945-49, in the Chinese civil war between the Communists of Mao Zedong and the Nationalists of Chiang Kai-shek, millions more died. The 194748 war in the subcontinent that severed Pakistan from India also consumed millions of Hindu and Muslim lives. Came then Korea and Vietnam, where the U.S. dead totaled well over 90,000, and the Korean and Vietnamese dead numbered in the millions. Pol Pot’s Khmer Rouge produced a million dead Cambodians in their first year in power in 1975. The Biafran War of se-

cession from Nigeria from 1967 to 1970, the Derg coup in Ethiopia in 1974 and subsequent Marxist rule until 1991, Rwanda in the 1990s, were each responsible for over a million deaths. World War I gave us poison gas and starvation blockades; World War II provided ethnic cleansing, genocide, saturation bombing of cities and women and children, with the firestorms of Tokyo, Dresden, Hiroshima and Nagasaki the grand finale. Does not Kerry have a case? We Americans lost more than 600,000 dead from 1861-1865, and another 600,000 died in World Wars I and II, Korea and Vietnam. In this century, in Afghanistan and Iraq, the two longest wars in our history, the death toll is 7,000 – a terrible loss, but a tiny fraction of the number of Americans lost in wars during many of our lifetimes. Jihadi John is a psycho, a sicko, a Charlie Manson who is loving all this publicity. He is not an “existential threat” to the United States. Nor is Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, or as he now calls himself, “Caliph Ibrahim,” who told his American captors who handed him over to

Iraqi authorities in 2009, “I’ll see you guys in New York.” Not likely, Abu. This is not to say that America should dismiss the revolutionary forces roiling an Islamic world of dozens of nation states. If the Sunni regimes do not cope with this challenge, the epidemic could engulf them. But as threats to the United States, ISIS, al-Qaida and Boko Haram are pathetic compared to Hitler’s Reich, Tojo’s Japan, or the nuclear-armed “evil empire” of the Cold War. Let us put this peril in perspective. Each year, 33,000 American die in auto accidents and tens of thousands die of the flu. How many American deaths did ISIS cause? As the Shiites are already engaged against ISIS, we should inform our Sunni friends – the Turks, Egyptians, Saudis, Gulf Arabs: As you are the most threatened here, you are the first responders to this blaze. We will have your back, but we will not fight your war for you. (Daily Corinthian columnist Pat Buchanan is an American conservative political commentator, author, syndicated columnist, politician and broadcaster.)

The ‘sad’ plight of Jihadi John Mohammed Emwazi, aka Jihadi John, the masked, British-accented butcher of hostages on ISIS videos, makes an unlikely victim, to say the least. The entire point of the videos is to advertise his savagery and that of the hellish cause he serves. Yet, shamefully, even he can claim the expiating status of victimhood and get a sympathetic hearing. According to his own self-pitying emails prior to his star turn as a knifewielding executioner, Emwazi was harried by British intelligence beyond human endurance. Some so-called civil libertarians have picked up on his plaint to argue that a good, promising young Muslim man was pushed into the arms of a medieval terror group by the Brits. “Jihadi John: ‘Radicalized’ by Britain” was the title of a press release from the terrorist-defending, British “human rights” group Cage. It maintains that young Muslims like Mohammed Emwazi have “turned to violence because of British counter-terrorism policies

Reece Terry

Mark Boehler

publisher rterry@dailycorinthian.com

editor editor@dailycorinthian.com

Willie Walker

Roger Delgado

circulation manager circdirector@dailycorinthian.com

press foreman

coupled with long standing grievances over Western foreign policy.” The WashRich ington Post, Lowry which broke the news last National that Review week Emwazi was Jihadi John, ran a piece about his runin with British authorities when trying to travel to Kuwait in 2010 headlined “The moment Jihadi John may have become a terrorist.” In that incident, Emwazi had traveled back to London from Kuwait and then found that British authorities wouldn’t let him fly back to Kuwait again (he was Kuwaiti-born, but raised in Britain). This is when he supposedly began to feel intolerably squeezed by the tentacles of the British security state. There were, of course, many alternatives available to Emwazi, if he were an innocent harassed by an outof-control security service. He could have started a blog devoted to civil liberties. He

could have joined an advocacy group fighting against such abuses. He could have gotten a law degree and fought for his rights and those of others falsely accused. He could have done any of a thousand things, including forswearing any association with Islamic radicalism. What he chose to do was to abscond to Syria – so much for the all-knowing British surveillance state – and decapitate people. What was the extreme provocation that allegedly drove him to such barbarity? He wrote to Cage when he was still in Britain that he felt like “a person imprisoned.” He had to feel like a person imprisoned because he wasn’t actually imprisoned. It was just that his ability to travel overseas was apparently blocked. Around the same time he was complaining about his unjust treatment at the hands of the British authorities, Emwazi expressed sympathy for “our sister Aafia Siddiqui.” She is an al-Qaida operative who is serving an 86-year sentence in the U.S. for

World Wide Web: www.dailycorinthian.com To Sound Off: E-mail: email: news@dailycorinthian.com Circulation 287-6111 Classified Adv. 287-6147

trying to shoot her interrogators after her capture in Afghanistan. Reports are now emerging of Emwazi’s radical associations going back years, suggesting, unsurprisingly, that his turn to ISIS wasn’t made on a whim. What accounts for the impulse to find excuses for even the most bloodthirsty monster? It’s another way of denying the Islamic character of Islamic terrorism, as if any random person – whether Episcopalian or Buddhist – could have been driven over the edge by such treatment. It is another way of blaming the West for the enemies besieging it, and so cloud the moral picture. And, finally, it is another way of denying the agency, and ultimately the evil, of fiends who choose to kill, maim and terrorize. The real victims, obviously, are the unfortunate souls who happen to fall into their clutches. (Daily Corinthian columnist Rich Lowry can be reached via e-mail: comments.lowry@nationalreview.com.)

How to reach us -- extensions:

Newsroom.....................317 Circulation....................301 news@dailycorinthian.com advertising@dailycorinthian. Advertising...................339 Classifieds....................302 com Classad@dailycorinthian.com Bookkeeping.................333

Editorials represent the voice of the Daily Corinthian. Editorial columns, letters to the editor and other articles that appear on this page represent the opinions of the writers and the Daily Corinthian may or may not agree.

Thursday, March 5, 2015

State/Nation

Across the Nation Associated Press

Exxon: Get used to lower oil prices NEW YORK â€” Exxon Mobil CEO Rex Tillerson expects the price of oil to remain low over the next two years because of ample global supplies and relatively weak economic growth. â€œPeople kinda need to settle in for a while,â€? Tillerson said at the companyâ€™s annual investor conference in New York. In a presentation to investors outlining its business plans through 2017, Exxon assumes a price of $55 a barrel for global crude. Thatâ€™s $5 below where Brent crude, the most important global benchmark, traded on Wednesday. Itâ€™s about half of what Brent averaged between 2011 and the middle of last year. The price of oil plunged in the second half of 2014 when it became apparent that production was outpacing global demand. U.S. production was particularly robust, with the increase of 1.5 million barrels per day being the third largest on record, according to a report from BP. Meanwhile, weakening economic conditions in China, Japan and Europe slowed the growth in oil demand. BP CEO Bob Dudley made remarks similar to Tillersonâ€™s in a recent call with investors. The CEOs comments reflect an increasingly common industry view that new sources of oil around the globe, relatively slow growth in demand, and large amounts of crude in storage will keep a lid on prices for the foreseeable future. â€œWhen you have that much storage out there, it takes a long time to work that off,â€? Dudley said. The U.S. Energy Department reported Wednesday that U.S. oil supplies have grown to 444.4 million barrels, the highest level at least 80 years. Tillerson cautioned that geopolitical turmoil could unexpectedly send prices higher. But he said that if tensions calm, much more oil is ready to hit the market. Production in Libya has been erratic in recent years because of political upheaval there. Production in Iran, once

OPECâ€™s second largest exporter, has been depressed in recent years because of Western sanctions. Those sanctions could be eased if current talks over Iranâ€™s nuclear program make progress. Â

Fed confronting banking system WASHINGTON â€” Transcripts of Federal Reserve meetings in 2009 showed central bank officials struggling to contain the worst financial crisis in seven decades and searching for the right policies to halt a deepening economic downturn. The transcripts released Wednesday revealed that officials were worried about the precedents being set by providing billions of dollars of government support to the nationâ€™s largest banks. They also searched for ways to provide more support to an economy that seemed to be in free fall at the beginning of the year. During an emergency call on the morning of Jan. 16, 2009, after the government had announced a $20 billion bailout for Bank of America, then-Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke declared that he was unwilling to allow â€œthe failure of a firm the size of Bank of America.â€? The call underscored the chaotic situation facing the Fed and other government agencies as they confronted a financial crisis that had begun in September with the takeover of mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and the collapse of Lehman Brothers in the largest bankruptcy in U.S. history. The Bush administration scrambled to assemble a $700 billion bailout fund that Congress approved to try to stabilize the financial system. Bernanke apologized to the group for not informing them about the details of the Bank of America rescue before it was publicly announced. He said officials had moved up the announcement at the request of the bank, which was worried about deteriorating market conditions. The countryâ€™s economic downturn was hitting with full force in early 2009.

Daily Corinthian â€˘ 5

Across the State

Faulty sign sends mixed message

Associated Press

MIAMI BEACH, Fla. â€” A sign welcoming tourists to Miami Beach briefly offered visitors a confusing message. The flashing, portable sign along the Julia Tuttle Causeway on Tuesday read: â€œWelcome visitors! Prohibited.â€? It was supposed to flash this message on three different screens: â€œWelcome visitors! Prohibited on the beach: glass, metal, alcohol and Styrofoam.â€? By Tuesday evening, city officials had apologized for the error and the sign was removed to be corrected. City spokeswoman Nannette Rodriguez told the Miami Herald that Miami Beach certainly welcomes visitors. She offered apologies to anyone who was offended. Â

Arts center receives $100 million gift

Columbus-built Airbus wins approval COLUMBUS â€” The first Airbus Helicopters AS350 AStar helicopter completely assembled in the U.S. has received airworthiness certification from the Federal Aviation Administration. The AS350 B3e rolled off the Airbus Helicopters Inc. final assembly line in Columbus at the end of December. Airbus officials say in a news release that the Columbus plant is set up to produce 30 AStars in 2015 and 60 or more in 2016 and beyond. The AStar is used by law enforcement agencies, air medical service providers and others. Airbus Helicopters in 2013 set up the AS350 assembly line in Columbus. The production line is patterned after the one in Marignane, France. Twenty employees from Columbus received training in Marignane. Â

House OKs tax cut on alcohol to retailers

NEW YORK â€” Entertainment industry executive David Geffen has donated $100 million to New Yorkâ€™s Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts. The performing arts building â€” long known as Avery Fisher Hall â€” will be renamed David Geffen Hall in September, Lincoln Center Chair Katherine Farley announced Wednesday. â€œAs a native New Yorker, I recognize that Lincoln Center is a beacon to artists and musicians around the world,â€? Geffen, a music and movie mogul, and longtime philanthropist, said in the statement. Lincoln Center announced in November that it would take Fisherâ€™s name off its concert hall and resell the naming rights to help finance a $500 million renovation. The renovation scheduled to start in 2019 was announced after the Fisher family agreed to accept $15 million to drop the name from the hall where the New York Philharmonic plays. One precedent close at hand is the former New York State Theater at Lincoln Center, renamed the David H. Koch Theater in 2008 after the oil-and-gas billionaire pledged $100 million.

JACKSON â€” Restaurants and package stores that sell alcohol in Mississippi could get a tax break, if the governor agrees. The House on Wednesday sent Senate Bill 2207 to Republican Gov. Phil Bryant. It proposes wiping out a $225 tax on every purchase of alcohol over $5,000 from the state alcohol warehouse in Madison. Bryant spokeswoman Nicole Webb says he will review the bill before either signing or vetoing it. Rep. Hank Zuber, an Ocean Springs Republican, says the bill would reduce tax collections by $1.75 million a year. Zuber says Mississippiâ€™s restaurants havenâ€™t recovered well from the recession and the tax break would allow them to hire more workers and invest more in equipment. Â

months Monday. U.S. District Court Judge Louis Guirola Jr. fined her $3,000 and ordered her to participate in a 500-hour substanceabuse treatment program. He also ordered three years of probation. Prosecutors say a package with 15 grams of meth mailed to Pham was intercepted by the U.S. Postal Service on Feb. 16, 2014. A multi-count indictment filed the next month alleged Pham and others had conspired to distribute meth in Harrison County since 2012. Â

Man sentenced for having child porn HOLLY SPRINGS â€” A 25-year-old Holly Springs man has been sentenced after pleading guilty to having child pornography. Rio Jemon Jeffries entered his plea Tuesday in Marshall County Circuit Court. Circuit Judge Kelly Luther sentenced Jeffries to five years in prison and five years of post-release supervision. According to prosecutors, Jeffries was caught posting child porn to his Facebook page. Â

City votes to issue $8 million in bonds OLIVE BRANCH â€” Olive Branch aldermen have voted to issue additional general obligation bonds designed to help pay for several projects. Over the coming months, The Commercial Appeal reports the Board of Aldermen will decide exactly how the $8 million in bonds will be spent with input from city staff. But right now, park improvements and water and sewer projects seem to be front-runners.

The $8 million in bonds is the last segment in a plan to issue $12 million in bonds for the city to catch up on its to-do list. Â

Manâ€™s body found in house fire rubble PASCAGOULA â€” Pascagoula firefighters found a body in the rubble of a house fire. Police spokesman Shannon Massey tells The Sun Herald the body was found Tuesday in the two-story homeâ€™s upstairs bedroom. Firefighters were able to get into the house about 6:30 a.m. and found the body of a dog on the first floor. Family arrived at the home and told police the man, in his 50s, slept in an upstairs bedroom. Massey says the manâ€™s name will be released when officials make a positive identification. Â

Lawyer loses effort to revive pay lawsuit JACKSON â€” The Mississippi Court of Appeals has dismissed a lawsuit filed by a lawyer for the stateâ€™s human services agency over his salary. The Appeals Court on Tuesday denied William Satterfield arguments that his salary range at the Department of Human Services was between $40,000 and $70,000, lower than the range of $67,000 to $117,000 for lawyers at the attorney generalâ€™s office. Satterfield said the salaries should be the same. He said state law requires the Personnel Board to review annually the salaries of the attorney generalâ€™s office and adjust those of human services attorneys accordingly.

Meth mailed to home earns prison sentence GULFPORT â€” A federal judge has sentenced a woman to prison for having a package of meth shipped to her Gulfport home from Las Vegas for distribution in Harrison County. Hoan My Pham, 29, received a prison term of seven years and eight

Legal Scene Your Crossroads Area Guide to Law Professionals ) ($ ) *

/ )

* *

/ #

/ (

* (

Odom and Allred, P.A. John O. Windsor Attorneys at Law

) - - ( ' "

# )( !* () *& !

( ! & % Serving Northeast Mississippiâ€™s legal needs...

" ! $ $ ! # v (Payment Plans available) ! " ! % ! ' $ & % " $ "! ! " ! v # " ( # " ! $ v " "! $ " !

+++ - ( ' +.) ( # ' $ "# * % ($ *& ) ($ ) * ( (* * - )* . * ( () , )* *& )

Attorney at Law 404 Waldron Street â€˘ Corinth, MS

_________________________________________ ' 3

401

E. Waldron St. - 1 / 2 1 * ' Corinth, MS 0 / 1 . 2 & & 2

â€˘ Bankruptcy 662-286-9311 â€˘ Criminal Defense William W. Odom, Jr. Rhonda N. Allred â€˘ Personal Injury Attorney at Law Attorney at Law bodom43@bellsouth.net rallred@bellsouth.net â€˘ Wills & Estates ___________________________________________ &'& # $ ) #(& , ! "' #" & # $ ' â€˘ Real Estate # & "#' " ' ", ' ' #" # +$ ' & ' " * ' " , * $ $ #$ # (" ' " ($' , # Call for an Appointment: #(" " # ! ' #" ) ($#" %( &'

662-872-0121 (local)

6 • Thursday, March 5, 2015 • Daily Corinthian

Deaths George Griffith

George Griffith died Wednesday, March 4, 2015, at his home. McPeters Inc. Funeral Directors will have the arrangements.

Wilma Nelms

Wilma Ruth Nelms died Wednesday, March 4, 2015, at MS Care Center. Memorial Funeral Home will have the arrangements.

Nola Shoffner

IUKA — Services for Nola Dill Shoffner, 85, are set for 2 p.m. Friday at Cutshall Funeral Home Chapel in Iuka with burial at Pleasant Grove Cemetery. Visitation is Friday from 10 a.m. until service time. Mrs. Shoffner died Tuesday, March 3, 2015, at Magnolia Regional Health Center.

Rose Cobb

IUKA — Funeral services for Dr. Rose Cobb, 78, are set for 1 p.m. today at Iuka Baptist Church with burial at Oak Grove Cemetery. Dr. Cobb died Monday, March 2, 2015, at St. Dominic Hospital in Jackson. She taught school for 35 years, holding a doctorate in elementary education, and was a member of Iuka Baptist Church. Survivors include a son, Joey M. Cobb (Becky) of Iuka; one brother, Bob Stephens (Katie) of Gautier; two grandchildren, Sara Beth Pind (Jacob) of Arlington, Tenn., and Jake Cobb of Iuka; and one great-grandchild. She was preceded in death by her husband, Bro. Joe Cobb, and her brother, Gerald Stephens.

Bro. Johnny Hancock will officiate the service. Memorial contributions may be made to the CorinthAlcorn Animal Shelter, alcornpets.com. Visitation was Wednesday evening.

Dorothy Cummings

Funeral services for Dorothy Verline Coman Cummings, 76, of Corinth, are set for 2 p.m. Saturday at Macedonia Missionary Baptist Church with burial at Forest Hill Cemetery. Visitation is Friday from 12 noon Cummings to 4 p.m. at Grayson Funeral Home and from 5 to 7 p.m. at the church. Mrs. Cummings died Sunday, March 1, 2015, in Corinth. She worked in catering for Refreshments, Inc., and was a member of Macedonia Missionary Baptist Church. She attended Scale Street School. Survivors include a daughter, Eartha Smallwood (Ernest) of Coppell, Texas, and two grandchildren, Ernest Smallwood III and Eaton Chanel Smallwood, both of Coppell, Texas. She was preceded in death by her husbands, Samuel Harbour and Henderson Cummings; her parents, Frank Coman and Susie A. Eaton-Coman; a son, Eric Jason Coman; and a brother, Thomas Franklin Burress. The Rev. Lawrence Morris and Houston Owens will officiate the service.

McDonald’s drops human antibiotics from chicken Associated Press

NEW YORK — McDonald’s says it plans to start using chicken raised without antibiotics commonly used in humans, and milk from cows that are not treated with an artificial growth hormone. The company says the chicken change will take place within the next two years. It says suppliers will still be able to use a type of antibiotic called ionophores that keep chickens healthy and aren’t used in humans. The milk change will take place later this year. Many cattle, hog and poultry producers give their livestock antibiot-

ics to make them grow faster and ensure they are healthy. The practice has become a public health issue, with officials saying it can lead to germs becoming resistant to drugs so that they’re no longer effective in treating a particular illness in humans. Chipotle and Panera already say they serve chicken raised without antibiotics, but the announcement by McDonald’s is notable because of its size; the company has more than 14,000 U.S. locations. Chipotle has nearly 1,800 locations, while Panera has almost 1,900 locations.

The Thrill of Victory!!! In competition, people prefer the thrill of victory over the agony of defeat. Victory is through Christ and is available to Christians. Followers of Christ are interested in and look forward to the thrill of victory. Christians can have the thrill of victory over temptations. Christ was tempted through the three avenues of temptation. “For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin” (Heb 4:15). Christ is willing to help those who are tempted. “For in that he himself hath suffered being tempted, he is able to succour them that are tempted” (Heb 2:18). The Lord will never permit Christians to be tempted more than we are able to bear. “There hat no temptation taken but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able ; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it”(1 Cor 10:13). Christians have the thrill of victory over sin. Christ is described as the sacrifice for sin in 1 John 2:2. “And he is the propitation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole”. Those in Christ enjoy forgiveness through the blood of Christ. “In whom we have redemption through his blood, even the forgiveness of sins” (Col 1:14). Christians are cleansed by the blood of Christ when they walk in the light. “But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin” (1 John 1:7) Christians can have a thrill of victory over the world. Christ was able to overcome the world and Christians must do the same. “These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be good cheer; I have overcome the world” (John 16:33). Christians are not to be in love with the world, but overcome the world. “Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love in the world, the love of the Father is not in him” (1 John 2”15). The world will pass away, but Christians will abide forever. “ And the world passeth away , and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth forever” (1John 2:17). The thrill of victory!!!

DanvilleTimChurch of Christ Carothers- Minister 481 cr 409 Corinth MS • c/o 471 cr 513, Rienzi MS • 662-287-0312

Louise Johnsey

RIENZI — Funeral services for Louise Johnsey, 95, are set for 1 p.m. Friday at Rienzi Baptist Church with burial at Rienzi Cemetery. Visitation is today from 5 to 8 p.m. at the church. Mrs. Johnsey died Tuesday, March 3, 2015, at Landmark Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Booneville. Born July 4, 1919, she was a graduate of Booneville High school and a homemaker who worked at Wurlitzer. She was a member of Rienzi Baptist Johnsey Church. Survivors include her son, Melvin Johnsey Jr.; three daughters, Sandra Williams (Noble), Cathy Moore and Margaret Presley, all of Rienzi; one brother, Billy Marecle of Belleville, Mich.; 7 grandchildren, Buddy Johnsey, Robin McEntyre (Kem), Ritchie Williams (Ginger), Trevor Williams (Kellie), Brandon Moore, Josh Lawson (Stephanie) and Lori (Josh) Hammock; 14 greatgrandchildren; and three greatgreat-grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her husband, Melvin Johnsey Sr.; her parents, Rufus and Nettie J. Marecle; two brothers, Henry Marecle and Milton Marecle; one sister, Nell Smith; a granddaughter, Dana Moore; and a son-in-law, Jerry Moore. In lieu of flowers, memorial may be made to the Alzheimer’s Association, P.O. Box 96011, Washington, DC 20090-6011. McMillan funeral Home of Booneville is in charge of arrangements.

For online condolences: mcmillanfuneralhome.com

Peggy Nabers

BOONEVILLE — Funeral services for Peggy Nabers, 82, are set for 1 p.m. Saturday at Tuscumbia Baptist Church with the Rev. Dennis H. Smith officiating. Burial will be in the Tuscumbia Cemetery. Mrs. Nabers died Monday, March 2, 2015, at Baptist Memorial Hospital in Booneville. She was born Aug. 24, 1932, to Mark and Nellie Kate Lambert. She was a member of Tuscumbia Baptist Church. She is survived by two daughters, Carolyn Whipple Nabers (Wayne) of Tupelo and Rhonda Allred (Sammy) of Corinth; one sister, Earline Rinehart of Natchez; three sisters-in-law, Geraldine Lambert of Booneville, Esta Bethay of Booneville and Marjorie Gresham of Memphis, Tenn.; one brother-in-law, McEllis Nabers of Booneville; six grandchildren, Joshua Whipple (Ambur), Holly Babcock (Jonathan), Patrick Whipple (Brigette), Nicholas Whipple (Kristy), Adam Whipple (Jessi) and Clayton Allred; 12 greatgrandchildren, Marie, Capri and Joaquin Whipple, Anna, Will, Mary and Jacob Babcock, Allie, Aubry, Duncan and Preston Whipple and Wesley Whipple; one special cousin-in-law, Ilene Lauderdale; her special caregivers, Pat Carpenter, Lila Grisby, Wanda Seago, Peggy Pickens and Joyce Holland; and a host of special friends and family.

She was preceded in death by her husbands, Houston M. Nabers and R.L. Duncan; her parents; one sister, Moline Hare; and one brother, John Watson Lambert. Pallbearers are Joshua Whipple, Patrick Whipple, Nicholas Whipple, Adam Whipple, Clayton Allred and Jonathan Babcock. Visitation is 5 to 8 p.m. Friday at McMillan Funeral Home and until 12 p.m. Saturday at the funeral home. For online condolences: mcmillanfuneralhome.com

Deanna Shoffner

IUKA — Funeral services for Deanna Foote Shoffner, 67, of Katy, Texas, were held Wednesday at Cutshall Funeral Home Chapel in Iuka with burial at Oak Grove Cemetery. Mrs. Shoffner died Feb. 26, 2015, at her home. The former Iuka resident was a wonderful mother who worked in real estate, the mortgage business and the oil business. She enjoyed arts and crafts. Survivors include her husband, Arthur Shoffner of Katy, Texas; two sons, David Michael McBee of Tennessee and Mark Shoffner of Cypress, Texas; one stepson, Arthur Frank Shoffner Jr. of Booneville; two daughters, Mitzi McBee and Delaney Mullis, both of Tennessee; one sister, Patricia Hyneman of Villa Rica, Ga.; and several grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her parents, Alfred and Mamie Ruth Foote. Pallbearers were Charles Jones, Buddy James, James Grisham, Jared Kettler, Brandon Gray and Chris Shoffner. Bro. Keith Smith officiated the service. For online condolences: cutshallfuneralhome.com

Storm could bring last big snow Associated Press

PHILADELPHIA — A storm stretching from northern Texas to southern New England is set to bring what could be winter’s last significant snowfall for the East Coast. West Virginia and Kentucky are expected to get hit the hardest with 8 to 10 inches, while Baltimore and Washington, D.C., are looking at 6 to 8 inches of snow, said National Weather Service forecaster Bruce Terry. Philadelphia could get 6 inches and New York could see about 4 inches of snow. Boston is a little more than 2 inches shy of its alltime snowfall record, and meteorologists are predicting 1 to 2 inches to fall. On Wednesday, schools from Texas to West Vir-

ginia were closing early and Penn State canceled classes due to weather for the first time in eight years. About 1,200 flights were canceled, including 600 in and out of DallasFort Worth. Residents of Kentucky and West Virginia dealt with flooded roadways and mudslides. In Arkansas, high school basketball playoff games were postponed until Thursday.

Light at the end of the tunnel? Mike Halpert, deputy director of the National Weather Service’s Climate Prediction Center, said the storm “might be winter’s last hurrah.” After the storm and maybe a couple of cold

The celebration of a lifetime begins here.

MEMORIAL Funeral Home CORINTH

662-286-2900 MemorialCorinth.com

days into the weekend, the next couple weeks are forecast to be considerably warmer than normal for a large chunk of the country, Halpert said. But Halpert’s office, which does longer term forecasts, does predict colder than normal for snow-struck New England and only normal temperatures — which would be warmer than recent weeks — for the rest of the Northeast. Likewise, AccuWeather senior meteorologist Alex Sosnowski says the storm could be winter’s “caboose.”

Two more inches, please! Some Bostonians are clamoring for a little more snow so they can break a record. So far this winter, the city has received 105.5 inches of snow — more than 81⁄2 feet, the National Weather Service says. The record is 107.6 inches recorded during the 1995-96 season. Records date to 1872. Having endured weeks of misery, residents like Erin O’Brien insist they deserve bragging rights. Otherwise what was the point of repeatedly dig-

ging out? “I want the record. We earned the record,” said O’Brien, a professor of political science at the University of Massachusetts-Boston. Others don’t care about the record. Amy Ouellette, a marketing associate in Salem, north of Boston, just wants spring and sun to come and melt it all away.

Roof collapse kills cows Officials are blaming heavy, wet snow for a partial barn roof collapse that killed at least five cows Wednesday morning in central New York. The collapse at the Whey Street Dairy in Cuyler, 25 miles southeast of Syracuse, was one of hundreds of roof collapses blamed on heavy snow in the Northeast this winter. Massachusetts officials say they’ve received reports of nearly 200 roof collapses since Feb. 9. No one was injured Wednesday morning when a 100-foot by 100foot section of the roof of Boston’s vacant Bayside Expo Center collapsed. The building had been slated for demolition.

Daily Corinthian • Thursday, March 5, 2015 • 7

THURSDAY EVENING C A WATN ^ ^ WREG # # QVC $ . WCBI

WMC

% %

WLMT & > WBBJ _ _ WTVA ) ) WKNO * WGN-A + ( WMAE , , WHBQ ` ` WPXX / WPIX

MAX

0 3

SHOW 2 HBO

4 1

MTV

5 2

ESPN

7 ?

SPIKE 8 5 USA

: 8

NICK

; C

DISC

< D

A&E

FSSO

? 4

BET

@ F

H&G E!

C H D

HIST E B ESPN2 F @ TLC G FOOD H INSP I LIFE

J =

TBN

AMC

N 0

FAM

O <

TCM

TNT

Q A

TBS

R *

GAME TOON TVLD FS1

S T U K Z

Æ ;

OUT NBCS OWN FOXN APL

Ø ∞ ± ≤ ≥

HALL

∂ G

DISN

“ L

SYFY

7 PM