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Rinehart pleads guilty BY JEBB JOHNSTON jjohnston@dailycorinthian.com

Stemming from vehicle purchases for the sheriﬀ’s department, former sheriﬀ Charles Rinehart and two others entered guilty pleas to two counts of conspiracy to defraud and two counts of fraud against Alcorn County on Wednesday. Rinehart entered an Alford plea in which

the defendant pleads guilty but does not admit to the criminal act. The pleas came in Pontotoc County Circuit Court. District Attorney John Weddle said the defendants were there for hearings on motions before Judge Thomas Gardner in anticipation of a trial next week in Alcorn Please see RINEHART | 2

Unborn child dies in crash on Hwy 45 Staff reports

A Monday night crash on Highway 45 south of Corinth has been upgraded to a fatality because of the death of an unborn child. The Mississippi Highway Patrol said in a release to media outlets that Briana Bryan, 19, of Walnut, was approximately eight months Please see CRASH | 6

Basket Fund goes to $1,605 The spirit of giving this Christmas season is alive and well in the Alcorn County area. Donations are now arriving for the 21st Annual Corinth Rotary Club / Daily Corinthian Christmas Basket Fund. A $23,000 fund raising goal was set so 1,000 food baskets can be given to local families on Saturday, Dec. 17 at the Crossroads Arena. The newspaper has received $1,605 in donations so far. Donations include $500 from the Hampton Inn in honor of Janie Little. Christmas Basket Fund donations can be made “in honor of” or “in memory of” a special person or persons. The tribute will be published in the Daily Corinthian. Donations can be brought by the newspaper oﬃce or mailed to: Daily Corinthian, Attn.:Christmas Basket Fund, P.O. Box 1800, Corinth, MS 38835.

Corinth police search for man in robbery BY MARK BOEHLER editor@dailycorinthian.com

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A Tractor Supply team member shows off the Corinth-Alcorn Animal Shelter Angel Paws Christmas tree at the local store.

Shelter creates Angel Paws BY ZACK STEEN zsteen@dailycorinthian.com

Paws for a good cause. The Corinth-Alcorn Animal Shelter is wishing for a Christmas filled with donated gifts for their four-legged friends. The shelter is hosting Angel Paws, a fundraiser where Christmas trees filled with Christmas wishes were placed at five local

Church presents country Christmas dinner theater BY BOBBY J. SMITH bsmith@dailycorinthian.com

It’s going to be a country Christmas at Pleasant Hill United Pentecostal Church. The church will present its dinner theater featuring the children’s musical “It All Happened in the Country” beginning at 6 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday. The nights will begin with a home cooked meal at 6 p.m. followed by dinner at 7. “People can come and have a meal and then see the play or they can just come to the play, whichever way they would like,” said Pat Grossell, Sunday school director at Pleasant Hill and director of the play. Anyone who wishes to be a part of the meal is asked to make reservations to make sure there will be enough room in the fellowship hall, Grossell said. “It All Happened in the Country” is the musical story of two city kids who find themselves stuck in the coun-

businesses throughout the Crossroads area. “On each tree are handmade ornaments with a photo of a shelter animal on one side and a list of needed items on the other side,” said Volunteer Shelter Director Charlotte Doehner. “It’s a lot like the popular Angel Trees, but ours are just for fur-babies.” Please see SHELTER | 6

All available Corinth patrol units were searching for an armed robbery suspect Wednesday night. A woman was robbed of $80 cash about 5 p.m. in a vacant packing lot at the corner of Fillmore and Cass streets, Sgt. Chad Harville told the Daily Corinthian. The suspect was described as a young black male wearing a black coat over a green hoodie and black pants, he said. The woman told police she was sitting in her vehicle and was picking up an item which had fallen to the vehicle floorboard. When she raised back up, a man was holding a revolver to her head, said Harville. “We have all units out searching for the suspect,” he said.

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try at Granny’s house after their car breaks down. “Their city ways and the country ways of Granny and Uncle Yule and the country cousin just don’t mix really well,” Grossell said. “What happens is the city kids learn the meaning of Christmas through song and through Uncle Yule and Granny.” The production will feature older members of the church playing the roles of Granny and Uncle Yule, with other roles by teenagers and the kids choir kids from first to fifth grades. Grossell said church members have been working on the play since October. She gives special credit to Kristen Whitley, the director of the children’s choir. “She has worked really hard in getting the kids prepared and working with them,” Grossell said. Admission is $6 for kids and $7 for adults. (For more information contact Pat Grossell at 415-9953.)

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“We’re a bunch of veterans who want to serve our country,” said Tommy Watson, the 63-year-old commander of the American Legion Post #6. “Just because we finished serving our country doesn’t mean we stepped out of service. Now we want to serve our community.” Reared in Lee County, Watson attended high school in Shannon and went on to earn a bachelors in engineering from Mississippi State and a masters in industrial engineering from the University of Tennessee. He retired from the Air Force in 1997, after working in weapons development — equipping the planes that protected America from the Russian Bear — and moved to Kossuth. He stays busy these days tinkering around the house, helping out at Wheeler Grove Baptist Church, and serving area veterans at the American Legion, where he’s helped by wife Debbie and daughter Chelsea, a junior at Kossuth High School.

25 years ago The first steel beams go up for the start of construction of NASA’s planned solid rocket motor plant near Iuka.

10 years ago The 14th Annual Main Street Corinth Christmas ornament features the Alcorn Chancery Building, built in 1925 as the Corinth Bank and Trust Company.

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City adopts new sewer rate BY JEBB JOHNSTON jjohnston@dailycorinthian.com

City Honors Elliott Mayor Tommy Irwin and the Board of Aldermen recognized retiring First Presbyterian Church pastor Don Elliott during Tuesday’s meeting. The board passed a resolution recognizing Elliott for his service to the community. He is retiring as pastor after more than 30 years with the church. Aldermen present were (from left) Chip Wood, Ben Albarracin, Mike Hopkins, J.C. Hill and Michael McFall.

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After several months of looking at options, the Corinth Board of Mayor and Aldermen on Tuesday adopted a sewer rate increase. The rate hike is in response to an annual shortfall of about $800,000 resulting largely from a substantial decline in revenue from industrial customers that could wipe out the sewer enterprise fund by 2018. The increase aﬀects both the customer base rate and usage rate. The monthly residential base rate goes from $5 to $10; the commercial base rate rises from $10 to $20; and the industrial base rate goes from $10 to $25. The usage rate will go up by 20 cents per 100 cubic feet per year during the next three years. It has already increased by that amount in each of the last five years. It could continue to increase beyond the three years, but the board hopes to be able to revisit the rates for possible reductions in the future if volume picks up. The base rate increase will kick in at a date yet to be determined. The usage rate increases will come in July of 2017, 2018 and 2019. “I think it’s important to shift a good bit of our income over into the base rate so that our revenue

doesn’t get undermined by conservation efforts,” David Huwe, director of community development and planning, recently told the board. The current average residential bill is $21.23. The city has debt payments for the major treatment plant rehabilitation and sewer collection assessment and repairs — investments totaling $23 million. Usage among six of the largest customers fell from just shy of 50 million cubic feet in fiscal 2010 to 33.3 million in fiscal 2016. The loss of Quad Graphics was a major factor, taking 3.8 million cubic feet per year of usage and $112,000 annual revenue with it. Another factor was a water recycling and fiber reclamation project at Kimberly-Clark, which cut its usage by about 30 percent, or $300,000 in revenue at current rates. The plant also saved about $250,000 annually with the improved condition of its effluent stream. The city also speculates that other industries tried to limit their usage following the 2012 rate increase. Usage is trending slightly downward on the residential side. One likely factor, the city believes, is the gradual replacement of toilets and appliances with more efficient models.

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County but decided to go ahead and plead guilty. Each of the the three were sentenced to 20 years but will be placed in the house arrest program as an alternative to incarceration. Rinehart, 75, of Rolling Wood Circle, Corinth, was placed in the house arrest program for two years followed by five years of probation upon successful completion of house arrest. Pamela Denise Null, 48, of Norman Road, Corinth, was placed in the house arrest program for two years followed by five years of probation. Teddy Cleveland Null, 51, of Norman Road, Corinth, was placed in the house arrest program for one year followed by five years of probation. D. Null During a lengthy investigation by the State Auditor’s Office centering around Dal Nelms, the former Second District supervisor, auditor investigators discovered what appeared to be fraudulent bids for the purchase of multiple vehicles by the county from Cars For Less, a business operated by Teddy and Denise Null. Further investigation revealed that Rinehart submitted to Alcorn County the Cars For Less bids T. Null along with fraudulent competitive bids prepared by Denise Null. “Although the investigation did not produce additional charges involving stolen parts or proof that Rinehart benefitted from the transactions or that the county paid more for the vehicles than they should have,” said Weddle, “the bid laws are there for a reason, and violation of those laws should and did result in the defendants accepting reRinehart sponsibility for their actions.” Rinehart’s attorney, Tony Farese, said the former sheriff always maintained his innocence. “His actions in this matter was to try to provide the best cars at the cheapest price to save the county money,” said Farese. “He decided to purchase wrecked or salvage vehicles through Teddy Null, which, in the four counts that he pled guilty to and the 10 counts he was indicted for, it’s uncontradicted that Cars for Less was the cheapest bid. Unfortunately, Mr. Rinehart did err in relying on the Nulls to obtain legitimate second bids.” He said Denise Null obtained the other bids through Copart, an online service. All of the cars involved are still in service today, he said, except for a 2010 Crown Victoria that was wrecked while in service. Farese said Rinehart felt the plea was in the best interest of his family. “This is a result of not following the correct letter of the law in the bid process,” he said, “and for that error, Mr. Rinehart is certainly sorry and accepted responsibility since he was, in fact, responsibile as sheriff.” The four counts on which the subjects entered pleas involved a 2009 Chevrolet Trailblazer and a 2012 Chevrolet Tahoe. The state auditor’s civil demand against Rinehart remains a separate matter, said Weddle, who expressed appreciation for the auditor’s office’s work in the case. “The work they have done has resulted in numerous violations resolved before the court,” he said. State Auditor Stacey Pickering thanked the DA’s staff for their work on the case. “Without committed prosecutors, our job would not be effective. This case proves that no one is above the law, including sheriffs,” he said. Rinehart, who served eight years as sheriff, and the Nulls were arrested in June 2015 following grand jury indictments.

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Across the Region Blue Mountain Native inspires BMC to give thanks during holidays

Today is Thursday, Dec. 8, the 343rd day of 2016. There are 23 days left in the year.

Today’s Highlight in History: On Dec. 8, 1941, the United States entered World War II as Congress declared war against Imperial Japan, a day after the attack on Pearl Harbor.

On this date: In 1854, Pope Pius IX proclaimed the Catholic dogma of the Immaculate Conception, which holds that Mary, the mother of Jesus, was free of original sin from the moment of her own conception. In 1863, President Abraham Lincoln issued his Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction for the South. In 1972, a United Airlines Boeing 737 crashed while attempting to land at Chicago-Midway Airport, killing 43 of the 61 people on board, as well as two people on the ground; among the dead were Dorothy Hunt, wife of Watergate conspirator E. Howard Hunt, U.S. Rep. George W. Collins, D-Ill., and CBS News correspondent Michele Clark. In 1980, rock star John Lennon was shot to death outside his New York City apartment building by an apparently deranged fan. In 1987, President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev signed a treaty calling for destruction of intermediate-range nuclear missiles.

BLUE MOUNTAIN — Dr. Don Newcomb, and his wife Emily, recently made a $300,000 contribution to Blue Mountain College. Don Newcomb grew up in the small community of Blue Mountain, which has been home to the college since 1873. He worked throughout his school years as a “soda jerk” at City Drug in Ripley. He practiced dentistry for many years in Oxford, but he never could shake his love for the food industry. So in 1989, he founded McAlister’s Deli, which has grown into a nationwide success. Along with his business partners, he later created another boom in the restaurant industry by starting Newk’s Eatery. Dr. Barbara C. McMillin, BMC president, said, “It is so fitting for us to announce his gracious gift during the season of giving. What a joy it is for us to share in the Newcomb’s passion for education and love for their hometown. We are deeply grateful for their abundant generosity.” When Dr. Newcomb presented the College with this amazing gift he shared the following simple, yet profound words, “I believe in you guys.” Jody Hill, Blue Mountain College director of development, continued, “It is so encouraging to know that the Newcombs believe in Christ-centered education, while having confidence in us to enhance that mission at Blue Mountain College.” The gift will strengthen the College’s seven year strategic enrollment plan entitled Grow BMC. They have a record enrollment of 571 students this fall and have set a target of having 1,000 students by their 150 year anniversary in 2023. McMillin said, “Enrollment enhancement is paramount to

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Booneville Prentiss supervisors lift ban on burning BOONEVILLE — Prentiss County Supervisors voted Monday to lift a ban on burning in the county. Several recent rounds of steady rain have greatly reduced the risk of wildfires, noted board members in terminating the countywide ban on outdoor burning. The move comes after Governor Phil Bryant lifted a statewide ban on burning last Friday. The board agreed to consider options for significant equipment upgrades needed at the county’s E-911 dispatch center. Melissa Hamlin told the board their main system has not been updated in 12 years and the current equipment is no longer made and almost impossible to repair. They are considering several options to update the system to current standards and board members agreed to look at pro-

posals and the available budget to determine the best way to proceed. In other business, the board: • approved the hiring of Kristin Lambert as deputy justice court clerk and Cody Thomas as a full-time uncertified jailer. • agreed to consider a recent attorney general’s office opinion regarding late fees on garbage accounts to determine how best to match the county’s policies with the law. The next regular meeting of the board will be at 10 a.m. Dec. 21 at the county chancery building.

Henderson, Tenn. Art professor’s article published in society papers HENDERSON, Tenn. — An article by a Freed-Hardeman University art professor is included in the most recent volume of “The West Tennessee Historical Society Papers.” Laquita Thomson’s work is titled “Major William Stanley’s Path Through Tennessee.” Stanley was the first person of European descent who can be documented in the West Tennessee counties of McNairy, Chester, Henderson and

Benton. He visited in 1798. “This is significant because it places him in the interior of West Tennessee where no person of European descent had ever been recorded before,” Thomson wrote. He traveled an old buffalo and Indian trail on the Western Natchez Trace, identified on 1820s maps as the Road to Natchez. Thomson, who is interested in local history, had seen a portrait of Stanley wearing a bearskin coat in the Cincinnati Museum Center. In the portrait, she said, he is depicted as “a middleaged man, clear-eyed and confident, wearing a shaggy animal skin coat, the kind of covering used by packhorse men traveling the Natchez Trace.” The painting likely was completed after his time on the Trace was over, according to Thomson. With degrees in painting and printmaking, Thomson teaches art and art history courses at Freed-Hardeman University. She has presented numerous solo art shows in multiple states, and her art is permanently included in many museums across the South. Historical research is another of her interests.

Oxford Alabama man sentenced in child exploitation case OXFORD (AP) — A federal judge sentenced a 25-year-old Alabama man to 10 years for child exploitation and for crossing state lines to engage in sexual activity with a minor. U.S. Attorney Felicia C. Adams of the Northern District of Mississippi said in a news release that Wesley Scott Greene, of Opelika, Alabama, will also serve 10 years of supervised release following his incarceration. Greene was remanded to the custody of the United States Marshals Service Tuesday to begin his sentence. He pleaded guilty to both charges in July.

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When the truth doesn’t matter The Emperor With No Clothes is lumbering at his full speed toward the highest office in the free world, pulling behind him to help guard the hens the largest collection of miscreants, misogynists Rheta and thieves since Alcatraz Johnson closed shop. And all along the route, Columnist fools with their baseball caps on backward are cheering the swaggering parade, shouting hallelujahs and playing the occasional game of kick-the-can with liberty, justice and the messenger. At a friend’s birthday party recently, two well-meaning acquaintances who still read newspapers asked why I haven’t been writing about politics. I’ve been thinking about the honest question since. I am not writing about politics because there is nothing left to say. Not for me, anyhow. The voters -- or nearly half of them -- have spoken. At least they have brayed a response to a torturously long call for intolerance, injustice and insanity. The news these days depresses me to the point that I can’t follow it. For the first time in my adult life, I am not interested in current events. Not if it involves Jeff Sessions’ face in high definition. Wake me when the nightmare’s over. Seven times more people in my home county voted for a crude, tweeting racist than for the other candidate, who was not perfect but at least did not base her campaign on hate. If I dwell on that, I’ll go crazy. And, there’s nowhere to move. Many thinking people I know are hurting because they find it hard to believe that so many of their fellow Americans were harboring such grudges against minorities that they were carved like soft soap into a coalition of hate. A powerful coalition of hate that will rule our world. The country is fundamentally changed. The decent, world-saving country I was born into when Eisenhower was president and the middle class mattered is gone. The optimistic citizens who asked not what their country could do for them but what they could do for their country are beaten. The humble leaders who left office and built houses for the homeless are woefully out of style. The prospect of another minority or woman president has vanished, at least in my lifetime. This is a new day, and not a bright one. The officers on this sinking ship already are singing “Nearer My God To Thee.” My profession, which I’ve diligently pursued in some form or fashion for 40 years, is, for practical purposes, gone, too. Trump and his ilk see no need for a free press, what’s left of it. They have no need for facts that cannot be made up and fed to the gullible. They are making real plans to rule without the ultimate check and balance of the truth. I was not as surprised as some about the outcome of the election. I had a preview. The mail I get from The Other Side had turned vicious. I’ve always heard with regularity from those who disagree with my politics, but never before had it been written in crayon and covered with drool. I no longer read my mail. Save your stamps and your bile. You have elected a man with effective ways to stop any opposing views. Sit back and enjoy the ride on greased rails. As for me, I’m sticking my head in the shifting sand and trying to focus on other things. When the truth doesn’t matter, little else does. Rheta Grimsley Johnson’s most recent book is “Hank Hung the Moon ... And Warmed Our Cold, Cold Hearts.” Comments are welcomed at rhetagrimsley@aol.com.

Prayer for today Lord God, help me to take in the glory of life, that my spirit may never be lonely, even though I may have to be much alone. I pray that thou wilt spare me the loneliness and the solitude that may be brought on by selfishness. Make me considerate of others. May I soar above the disappointments and losses that may come to me, and stay where I may have thy companionship. Amen.

A verse to share Give thanks to the LORD, for he is good; his love endures forever. –1 Chronicles 16:34

Fake news and war party lies “I have in my possession a secret map, made in Germany by Hitler’s government -- by the planners of the New World Order,” FDR told the nation in his Navy Day radio address of Oct. 27, 1941. “It is a map of South America as Hitler proposes to reorganize it. The geographical experts of Berlin, however, have ruthlessly obliterated all the existing boundary lines ... bringing the whole continent under their domination,” said Roosevelt. “This map makes clear the Nazi design not only against South America but against the United States as well.” Our leader had another terrifying secret document, “made in Germany by Hitler’s government. ... “It is a plan to abolish all existing religions -- Protestant, Catholic, Mohammedan, Hindu, Buddhist and Jewish alike. ... In the place of the churches of our civilization, there is to be set up an international Nazi Church... “In the place of the Bible, the words of ‘Mein Kampf’ will be imposed and enforced as Holy Writ. And in place of the cross of Christ will be put two symbols -the swastika and the naked sword. ... A god of blood and iron will take the place of the God of love and mercy.” The source of these as-

tounding secret Nazi plans? They were forgeries by British agents in Pat New York Buchanan o p e r a t i n g under WilColumnist liam Stephenson, Churchill’s “Man Called Intrepid,” whose assignment was to do whatever necessary to bring the U.S. into Britain’s war. FDR began his address by describing two German submarine attacks on U.S. destroyers Greer and Kearny, the later of which had been torpedoed with a loss of 11 American lives. Said FDR: “We have wished to avoid shooting. But the shooting has started. And history has recorded who fired the first shot.” The truth: Greer and Kearny had been tracking German subs for British planes dropping depth charges. It was FDR who desperately wanted war with Germany, while, for all his crimes, Hitler desperately wanted to avoid war with the United States. Said Cong. Clare Boothe Luce, FDR “lied us into war because he did not have the political courage to lead us into it.” By late 1941, most Americans still wanted to stay out

of the war. They believed “lying British propaganda” about Belgian babies being tossed around on German bayonets had sucked us into World War I, from which the British Empire had benefited mightily. What brings these episodes to mind is the wave of indignation sweeping this capital over “fake news” allegedly created by Vladimir Putin’s old KGB comrades, and regurgitated by U.S. individuals, websites and magazines that are anti-interventionist and anti-war. Ohio Sen. Rob Portman says the “propaganda and disinformation threat” against America is real, and we must “counter and combat it.” Congress is working up a $160 million State Department program. Now, Americans should be on guard against “fake news” and foreign meddling in U.S. elections. Yet it is often our own allies, like the Brits, and our own leaders who mislead and lie us into unnecessary wars. And is not meddling in the internal aﬀairs, including the elections, of regimes we do not like, pretty much the job description of the CIA and the National Endowment for Democracy? History suggests it is our own War Party that bears watching. Consider Operation Iraqi

Freedom. Who misled, deceived, and lied about Saddam’s weapons of mass destruction, the “fake news” that sucked us into one of our country’s greatest strategic blunders? Who lied for years about an Iranian nuclear weapons program, which almost dragged us into a war, before all 16 U.S. intelligence agencies debunked that propaganda? One can go back deeper into American history. Was Assistant Navy Secretary Theodore Roosevelt telling us the truth when he said of our blasted battleship in Havana harbor, “The Maine was sunk by an act of dirty treachery on the part of the Spaniards”? No one ever proved that the Spanish caused the explosion. Yet America got out of his war what T.R. wanted -- Puerto Rico, Guam and the Philippines, an empire of our own. “In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.” So said Winston Churchill, the grandmaster of fake news. Patrick J. Buchanan is the author of the new book “The Greatest Comeback: How Richard Nixon Rose From Defeat to Create the New Majority.”

The left gambles with people’s lives Sometimes life forces us to make decisions, even when we don’t have enough information to know how the decision will turn out. The risks may be even greater when people make decisions for other people. Yet there are some who are not only willing, but eager, to take decisions away from those directly affected. Something as personal as what doctor we want to go to has been taken out of our hands by ObamaCare. What job offer, at what pay rate, someone wants to accept has been taken by minimum wage laws. Sick people who are dying are prevented from trying a medication that has not yet completed all the long years of tests required by federal regulations -- even if the medication has been used for years in other countries without ill effects. One by one, innumerable decisions have been taken out of the hands of those directly affected. This is not just something that has happened. It is a central part of the agenda of the political left, even though they describe what they are doing in terms of the bad things

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they claim to be preventing and the good things they claim to be creating. M i n i Thomas mum wage Sowell laws are described Columnist as preventing workers from being “exploited” by employers who pay less than what third parties want them to pay. But would people accept wages that third parties don’t like if there were better alternatives available? This is an issue that is very personal to me. When I left home at the age of 17, going out into the world as a black high school dropout with very little experience and no skills, the minimum wage law had been rendered meaningless by ten years of inflation since the law was passed. In other words, there was no minimum wage law in eﬀect, for all practical purposes. It was far easier for me to find jobs then than it is for teenage black high school dropouts today. After the minimum wage was raised

to keep up with inflation, for decades the unemployment rate for black male 17-year-olds never fell below TRIPLE what it was for me -- and in some years their unemployment rate was as much as five times what it was when I was a teenager. Yet many people on the left were able to feel good about themselves for having prevented “exploitation” -- that is, wage rates less than what third parties would like to see. No employer in his right mind was going to pay me what third parties wanted paid, when I had nothing to contribute, except in the simplest jobs. In short, the left has been gambling with other people’s livelihoods -- and the left pays no price when that gamble fails. It is the same story when the left prevents dying people from getting medications that have been used for years in other countries, without dire eﬀects, but have not yet gotten through the maze of federal “safety” regulations in the U.S. People have died from such “safety.” Police are dying from restrictions that keep criminals safe.

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San Francisco is currently trying to impose more restrictions on police, restrictions that will prevent them from shooting at a moving car, except under special conditions that they will have to think about when they have a split second to make a decision that can cost them their own lives. But the left will pay no price. One of the most zealous crusades of the left has been to prevent law-abiding citizens from having guns, even though gun control laws have little or no eﬀect on criminals who violate laws in general. You can read through reams of rhetoric from gun control advocates without encountering a single hard fact showing gun control laws reducing crime. Such hard evidence as exists points in the opposite direction. But the gun control gamble with other people’s lives is undeterred. And the left still pays no price when they are wrong. Thomas Sowell is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305. His website is www.tsowell.com.

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Max Jobe is presented with Alumni Fellows recognition by Dr. Richard Blackbourn, dean of the MSU College of Education.

STARKVILLE — Dr. Max E. Jobe of Kingwood, Texas, formally of Corinth, was among eight prominent graduates named as MSU 2016 Alumni Fellows. For more than a quartercentury, the fellows program has brought former students of distinction back to campus to meet with those currently enrolled and share experiences of their successful careers. Fellows carry the designation for life. Gathering on the MSU campus on Thursday, Nov. 3 and Saturday, Nov. 5, the group had the opportunity to meet with faculty and staﬀ members as they reminisced about their collegiate years. Sponsored and organized by the MSU Alumni Association, the annual recognition includes one representative from each college of the 138-year-old land-grant

institution. They are chosen by their respective academic units to make presentations in both classroom and informal settings. “The Alumni Association proudly works with the academic colleges of Mississippi State to bring dedicated alumni back to our campus to share their success stories, mentor and enrich the lives of current students,” said Jeﬀ Davis, the international organization’s executive director. “Through the years, we have had many top-caliber graduates selected as Alumni Fellows, and the annual experience strengthens this group’s ties with our campus and enables them to become stronger alumni leaders from this point forward,” Davis added. Recognized among MSU’s more than 135,000 living graduates, the 2016 honoree is a College of Education graduate.

After receiving an industrial education degree in 1954, he went on to a 14 year-career with the Mississippi National Guard, from which he retired at the rank of captain. He also holds a master’s degree from Our Lady of the Lake College in Louisiana and a doctorate from the University of Georgia, both in education. In addition to several high schools and institutions of higher learning, Dr. Jobe has served on the Maryland State Advisory Council on Vocational and Technical Education and with the U.S. Oﬃce of Education. He spent 25 years at Texas A&M University-Commerce, where he now is a professor emeritus. (For detailed biographies of the 2016 alumni fellows, along with information about the MSU Alumni Association and its programs, visit www. alumni.msstate.edu.)

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OXFORD – For the 16th year, the University of Mississippi Museum is oﬀering a new keepsake ornament for the holidays. This year’s design features the Ole Miss powder blue football helmet. “As with our 2012 Walk of Champions gateway design, we celebrate the traditions of Ole Miss athletics and campus life in these ornaments, and we’re grateful to have such collegial partners in athletics as we develop these keepsakes,” said Robert Saarnio, museum director. The team wore the color until 1977 and then again from 1983 to ‘94. The nostalgic color is often associated with the “golden age” of Ole Miss football, having been worn by notable players such as Billy Brewer, Jake Gibbs and Archie Manning. In 2014, the university renamed Coliseum Drive in honor of Chucky Mul-

lins. In addition to this commemoration, the powder blue helmet, which Mullins wore, saw its second revival on the field. “The powder blue helmet has a long history with the Ole Miss Rebels football,” said Melanie Munns, the museum’s antiquities collections manager. “While the University of Mississippi chose Yale’s navy and Harvard’s crimson as its oﬃcial colors, the powder blue has become a signature color of the team. “Legend attributes the first iteration in 1948 as an accident in production, which Coach Johnny Vaught chose to embrace.” The Ole Miss Powder Blue Helmet commemorative ornament is available for $25, plus tax. (Museum visiting hours are 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Tuesdays through Saturdays. For information about events and exhibits, visit http://museum.olemiss. edu or call 662-915-7073.)

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Deaths Mary Frances “Sally” Plaxico

A service to celebrate the life of Mary Frances “Sally” Plaxico, 89, of Corinth, is set for 12 noon Friday at West Corinth Baptist Church with Bro. Seth Kirkland officiating. Burial will follow in Henry Cemetery. Visitation is Thursday from 5 to 8 p.m. at West Corinth Baptist Church and from 10 a.m. until the service on Friday. Mrs. Plaxico died on Tuesday, Dec. 6, 2016, at her residence. She was born in Alcorn County on March 8, 1927, to the late John V. and Maggie Paysinger Haynes. She was an active member of West Corinth Baptist Church for 75 years. She was retired from the Mississippi Employment Department office and was a homemaker. In her spare time she volunteered as a “pink lady” at Magnolia Hospital. She was a loving mother and grandmother, and her favorite quote was, “Your family and health are the most important things, but you have to love God first.” In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband, William Howard Plaxico; an infant daughter, Sylvia Plaxico; and a brother, Verdell Haynes. Survivors are her sons, Bill Plaxico and wife Becky, Stan Plaxico and wife Julie, and Buz Plaxico and wife Stacy, all of Corinth; grandchildren Kristi Pittman, Will Plaxico, Sallie Ann Plaxico, Sylvia “Tootles” Moore (Paul), Jennifer Plaxico, Von Culver (Jennifer), and Caroline Miller (Brandon); great-grandchildren Jay Moore, Tyler Moore, Tripp Pittman, William Pittman, Andrew Pittman, Bradley Bingham, Ava Marcle, Jaken Culver, Riley Culver, Alexander Culver, Aidan Whiteaker ane Elliott Tedford; her close friend and sitter, Bernice Stafford; and a host of other family and friends. Memorial Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements. Online guestbook: memorialcorinth.com

Casey Hastings

A memorial service for Casey Travis Hastings, 37, of Corinth, is set for 3 p.m. Saturday at River of Life Church. Visitation is Saturday at the church from 2 p.m. until the service. Mr. Hastings died Wednesday, Dec. 7, 2016, at his home. Magnolia Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.

Leroy Tate

BOONEVILLE — Funeral services for Leroy Tate, 70, are set for 11 a.m. Saturday at New Tabernacle Missionary Baptist Church with burial at the church cemetery. Visitation is Friday from 6 to 8 p.m. at the church. Mr. Tate died Sunday,

Dec. 4, 2016, at North Mississippi Medical Center. Born Feb. 21, 1946, he attended New Tabernacle Church. Survivors are his wife, Betty Tate; children Linda Smith, Patricia Tate, Leroy Tate Jr. and Joseph Cummings; siblings Mildred Billups, Stella Holland, Jimmy Holland, Cassie Grizzard, Bobby Beene, Mary Ann Davis and Carolyn Harris; six grandchildren; and eight greatgrandchildren. He was preceded in death by his parents, Nannie Tate and Wilson Holland, and three siblings, James Tate, Robert Tate and M.C. Marshall. Patterson Memorial Chapel of Corinth is in charge of arrangements.

Trump picks hardliner Cabinet BY JONATHAN LEMIRE Associated Press

NEW YORK — Donald Trump embraced new Cabinet oﬃcers Wednesday whose backgrounds suggest he’s primed to put tough actions behind his campaign rhetoric on immigration and the environment, even as he seemed to soften his yearlong stance on immigrants brought to the U.S. illegally as children. It’s clearer by the day, underscored by Trump’s at-times contradictory words, that his actual policies as president won’t be settled until after he takes his seat in the Oval Oﬃce. Retired Marine Gen. John Kelly has been selected to head the Department of Homeland Security, and Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt, a climate-change denier whose policies have helped fossil fuel companies, is to be announced as head of the Environmental Protection Agency. Separately, Trump named the

former chief executive of World Wrestling Entertainment, Linda McMahon, to head the Small Business Administration. Trump’s long presidential campaign was in large part defined by searing rhetoric and his steadfast promises to build an impenetrable wall on the border with Mexico and crack down on immigrants living in the U.S. illegally. But he struck a softer tone in an interview published Wednesday after he was named Time Magazine’s “Person of the Year.” “We’re going to work something out that’s going to make people happy and proud,” Trump said. “They got brought here at a very young age; they’ve worked here, they’ve gone to school here. Some were good students. Some have wonderful jobs. And they’re in never-never land because they don’t know what’s going to happen.” He oﬀered no details about a policy that would make that clear.

During the campaign, Trump’s tough comments — including a vow to overturn President Barack Obama’s executive orders on immigration — have led to fears among immigrant advocates that he will end Obama’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. Hundreds of thousands of young immigrants have gained work permits and temporary protection from deportation under the 2012 program, which aides to Trump have said would be revisited. Others continue to press the immigrants’ case. Chicago Mayor Rahm Emmanuel presented Trump a letter Wednesday from 14 big city mayors urging him to keep the program intact. “They were working hard toward the American dream,” Emmanuel told reporters in lobby of Trump’s skyscraper. “It’s no fault of their own their parents came here. They are something we should hold up and embrace.”

2 juveniles charged in Tennessee wildfires BY JONATHAN MATTISE Associated Press

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Authorities on Wednesday charged two juveniles in an East Tennessee wildfire that killed 14 people and destroyed or damaged more than 1,700 buildings in an iconic tourism spot at the foot of the Great Smoky Mountains. Oﬃcials oﬀered few other specifics about how they think the two started a fire that leveled buildings into charred scraps, carving a deadly path through the Gatlinburg area. People scrambled in terror to

try to flee on foot or drive out of the inferno that often cloaked them from all sides, shooting hot embers through the winds. Some spent days hoping for good news about their missing loved ones. Many learned they would soon be planning funerals. The juveniles face aggravated arson charges in the fire in the Chimney Tops area of Great Smoky Mountains National Park on Nov. 23. That fire grew amid drought conditions and ultimately rode winds exceeding 87 miles per hour into the Gatlinburg area early

last week. Authorities have not yet announced a dollar amount on the damaged caused by the wildfire. The two are being held in the Sevier County juvenile detention center. “Our promise is that we will do every eﬀort to help bring closure to those who have lost so much,” said Tennessee Bureau of Investigation Director Mark Gwyn. The juveniles are from Tennessee, but not Sevier County, where the fires spread. Otherwise, oﬃcials said state law prevents releasing more information about them.

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Some of the items on the wish list include dog food, cat food, kitten food, garbage bags, brooms, heavy duty tarps, food bowls, litter scoops, litter boxes, pet

shampoo, hand sanitizer, spray bottles, pet crates, rubber gloves, old bedsheets, newspapers, mops, Walmart gift cards and cash donations. The trees were donated and decorated by shelter volunteer Donna

Orlick. Trees are located at Tractor Supply, Pet Sense, Vet Med, Corinth Animal Care Center and Jackson Animal Clinic. The shelter has also placed Christmas donation cans at businesses

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Revelation 1:5 identifies Jesus as “the ruler of the kings of the earth.”(American Standard Version, 1901). If the historical record is correct, the first Christians who read John’s “Revelation,” were living in the last decade of the first century, under the Roman Emperor, Domitian. “He demanded worship for himself, and insisted on being hailed as Dominus et Deus.” (Merrill C. Tenney; “New Testament Survey”, p 11) Tenney goes ahead to say that “Both Jews and Christians refused to accord worship to Domitian. In A.D. 93 he executed some Christians for refusing to offer sacrifice before his image.” (Tenney, p. 12) It is in the midst of this kind of trial and suffering that John affirms that Jesus is “the ruler of the kings of the earth.” What a comfort to those who suffered at the hands of powerful and evil men! On the Day of Pentecost, Peter affirmed that Jesus of Nazareth was “approved of God among you by miracles and wonders and signs, which God did by him in the midst of you”, and that he was delivered to them “by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God,” and that “God raised him up.” (Acts 2:22-24) Again, in verse 32, Peter says that God raised him up, and that he was at the “right hand of God exalted”, and, finally, “that God hath made that same Jesus whom ye have crucified, both Lord and Christ.”(Acts 2:36) Jesus never assumed a place of honor for himself, but the New Testament repeatedly affirms that his place of authority at the right hand of God the Father, was given to him because he “humbled himself and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross, wherefore God hath highly exalted him, and given him a name that is above every name, that at the name of Jesus, every knee should bow, …..and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.”(Philippians 2:8-11 All emphasis mine.TC) Jesus said to the apostles just before his ascension back to the Father: “All authority has been given unto me in heaven and in earth.” (Matthew 28:18) No power, no authority, no man on earth today, or in any other era, is comparable to that of Jesus Christ. None is so loving and merciful, and able to wash away our sins and save us eternally, as he, “the ruler of the kings of the earth.” We invite you to study and worship with us at the Danville church of Christ.

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throughout Corinth. “Students from Corinth Middle School decorated the donation cans for us to hopefully gather some extra coins from folks while they are doing their Christmas shopping,” added Doehner. Another upcoming shelter fundraiser, the McDaniel’s Christmas, will take place on Saturday. Held at the home of Bobby McDaniel located at 25 County Road 105, just oﬀ Kendrick Road, in Corinth, the event will also include free photos with Santa, a puppy kissing booth and refreshments. The event will be held from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Doehner also said the annual shelter fundraiser calendar will soon be back from the printer. “Our 2017 calendar is wonderful,” she said. “With more than 75 local animals featured throughout the calendar, I can’t wait for everyone to see it.” Calendars are excepted to be in by Dec. 15. Cost is $15. The local animal shelter is a no-kill, non-profit organization on a mission to save the abused, neglected, abandoned and injured animals of Corinth and Alcorn County. (For more information or to make a donation to shelter, contact 662-284-5800, email alcornpets@gmail.com or visit alcornpets.com.)

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pregnant. Bryan was taken to Regional One in Memphis following the approximately 6 p.m. crash. MHP said an 18-wheeler leaving the 45 Truck Stop attempted to cross the highway and it appeared the driver failed to yield the right of way, entering the path of the southbound 2005 Jeep Liberty driven by Bryan, causing her vehicle to collide with the trailer. The driver of the 2013 Kenworth tractor trailer was Stanley Bramer, 29, of Eureka, Mo. He was not injured, according to MHP.

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