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WEATHERTonight:
mostly cloudy, chance of rain, lows in the lower 70s
Wednesday:partly cloudy, slight chance
of rain, highs near 90Mississippi River:
55.9 feetFell: 0.4 foot
Flood stage: 43 feetA7
DEATH• Lois Kleinman Bowers
A7TODAy in HiSTORy
1844: Samuel F.B. Morse transmits the message, “What hath God wrought” from Washington to Balti-more as he formally opens America’s first telegraph line. 1883: The Brooklyn Bridge, linking Brooklyn and Man-hattan, is dedicated by President Chester Alan Arthur and New York Gov. Grover Cleveland, and opens to traffic.1935: The first major league baseball game to be played at night takes place at Cin-cinnati’s Crosley Field as the Reds beat the Phila-delphia Phillies, 2-1.1961: A group of Freedom Riders is arrested after arriving at a bus terminal in Jackson, Miss., charged with breaching the peace for entering white-desig-nated areas.
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RiDERSBarbour apologizes
to activistswho were arrested
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Meeting setfor victims offlood beginsat 6 tonightBy Danny Barrett [email protected]
Issues front and center for flood recov-ery such as home inspections and relief for businesses will be covered starting at 6 tonight during a wide-ranging community meeting at Vicksburg Auditorium.
Vicksburg city offi-cials, Vicksburg Police Department, Warren County Board of Super-visors, Warren County Emergency Manage-ment, Warren County Sheriff’s Office, Federal Emergency Manage-ment Agency, Mississippi Emergency Management Agency, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Small Busi-ness Administration and charitable organizations will be available to answer questions and offer information.
Flood victims will have an opportunity to register with FEMA at the meeting. The Corps also will have a booth for anyone with questions.
Recovery from the Mississippi River’s historic flood level reached in Vicksburg is expected to be slow for low-lying neighbor-hoods west of North Washington Street and south, where floodwaters cover homes and farmland.
This morning, the river was at 55.9 feet in Vicksburg, down four-tenths of a foot. Levels are predicted to remain higher than 50 feet at the local gauge for about two weeks, according to timelines issued
In motels, hotels, victims ready to go homeBy Manivanh [email protected]
One-month-old Ja-Kayla Smith has spent half of her life in a Vicksburg motel room having been born just two weeks before the historic Mississippi River flood forced her family from their Cary homes.
Her family now is ready to go home.
“It doesn’t feel the same,” said Tichina Brown, Ja-Kayla’s mother.
“I really can’t wait to go back home.”
Brown and her daughter are among the more than 2,000 resi-dents forced from their homes by the Mississippi River. Many found shelter with families and friends. About a dozen called the Ameri-can Red Cross emergency shelter home while some checked into local hotels and motels.
Bill Seratt, executive director of the Vicksburg Convention and Visitors Bureau, the agency that
reports hotel occupancies, said an estimate of how many evacuees living in hotels is unknown.
Julie Ford, sales and marketing director for five local properties held by MY Hospitality Services, said the number of evacuees stay-ing at her properties is less than 5 percent. The majority, Ford said, are from state and federal emer-gency management agencies and media.
Off-duty security guard killed
By John [email protected]
A security guard working for a company under con-tract with Entergy to protect transmission lines over flood-waters was killed Monday, and his roommate was
charged in the shooting.Vicksburg police Lt. Bobby
Stewart said Michael Justin Tornero, 26, of Houston, was shot once in the neck by a semi-automatic hand-gun at about 5:54 p.m. He said Tornero was taken to River Region Medical Center.
Warren County Coroner Doug Huskey said Tornero was pronounced dead at 8:31 p.m.
Stewart said officers arrested Tornero’s room-mate, Daniel O’Neil Dodd, 28, of Tyler, Texas, just after the shooting at their motel room at the Econo Lodge at 3959
5-member groupto study jail sitesBy Danny Barrett [email protected]
A five-member panel is in place to review eight offers for land to build a new jail, with a meeting date to unseal the proposals to be determined.
Supervisors approved Sher-iff Martin Pace, District 1 Supervisor David McDonald, County Administrator John Smith, Warren County Sher-iff’s Department Lt. Randy Lewis and Brian Robbins, with ABMB Engineers Inc.
In March, county super-visors put out feelers for parcels of land anywhere
in Vicksburg and Warren County at least 15 acres in size, within reasonable dis-tance from major transporta-tion routes and utilities and other criteria.
An initial meeting date for the committee to open and vet each proposal will be set this month, said Smith, whose recommendation on the panel’s membership was accepted without dissent.
While details on how each submission fits the board’s criteria remain sealed, the city tipped its hand publicly May 10 when the Board of
Proposed sitesThe eight offers of land
for location of a new county jail:• The City of Vicksburg,
P.O. Box 150• John Arnold, 586 Pen-
nebaker Road• Highway 27 Develop-
ment LLC, 1903 Mis-sion 66.
• Melborn Estates LLC, 4 Melborn Place.
• Rice Realty Group Inc., 3110 Halls Ferry Road.
• William Bost Jr., 1221 Grove St.
• Jerry Beard, 64 Los Coli-nas Drive.
• Gay M. Strong, 1634 Vicklan St.
Make minimal changes,officeholders tell countyBy Danny Barrett [email protected]
A redrawn justice court dis-trict map for Warren County should reflect as little change as possible, two incumbent officeholders said Monday.
Alternatives under review by county supervisors keep three districts — the northern, central and south-ern — but moves voters to the city-based central district from the northern district
due to population shifts. Total moved and where
they’re located distinguish the two plans, either of which must be approved by the
Department of Justice to comply with federal voting rights laws.
In the first, the cen-tral district expands north and east of Inter-
state 20, picking up every-thing between Culkin and Stenson roads except for a
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Once supervisors choose a plan for justice court
and one of two for their own districts, the Justice Department has 60 days
to approve it.
Vicksburg police officer Eric Paymon stands outside a motel room Monday. Sitting behind him is killing suspect Daniel O’Neil Dodd.
Tichina Brown, 15, holds her 1-month-old daughter, Ja-Kayla Smith, while her cousin Joclyn Moore, 3, plays outside of their motel room at the Travel Inn Monday. Their 14-person extended family has been in three rooms for two weeks.
Roommate, co-worker faces charge
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Arrests madein ‘08 killingin EdwardsBy John [email protected]
Three Edwards men have been charged with capital murder in the 2008 armed robbery and murder of Larry Hunter, also of Edwards, Hinds County Sheriff Mal-colm McMillin said in a news release late Monday.
Kenny Bingham and Kelvin Washington, both 28, were arrested Monday by members of the U.S. Marshal’s Fugitive Task Force.
Bingham was arrested in Harrison County and remained in the Harrison County Jail awaiting transfer to Hinds County. Washing-ton was arrested in Winston County and was being held in the Hinds County Jail. Bonds had not been set.
Hinds County authorities also issued an arrest warrant for David Scott Fultz, 54.
Hunter, 48, was found dead in his truck on Mosely Drive on Feb. 11, 2008, with gunshot wounds to his back. His wallet and an undetermined amount of cash were missing.
Sheriff’s deputies believe that Hunter was shot between 5 and 7:30 a.m.
Authorities said Hunter, an employee at Cal-Maine Foods, was believed to have been in the area checking his horses before going to work.
Guns, electronics missing from Enchanted Hills homesGuns and electronics were
reported missing in two bur-glaries at Enchanted Hills homes Monday.
In the first, reported at 3:30 p.m. in the100 block of Sher-wood Drive, a .22 semiauto-matic valued at $350, a Hi-Point .45 automatic valued at $300, a .410 single-shot shotgun valued at $200, a Dell laptop computer valued
at $1,100, a Sony 46-inch TV valued at $800, a digital camera valued at $80, a Play-Station valued at $400 and an Xbox 360 valued at $400 were missing, said Vicksburg police Lt. Bobby Stewart.
In the second, reported at
5:56 p.m. in the 100 block of Enchanted Drive, miss-ing were a 32-inch Coby TV valued at $300, a 46-inch Sanyo TV valued at $550, a Sony laptop computer valued at $600 and a Nintendo DS valued at $150.
Stewart said this morning he did not know if the two burglaries were related.
Gun taken from carleft unlocked in city
A .22 caliber handgun was reported stolen from a 2002 Honda Accord parked in the 600 block of Redbone Road Monday at 5 p.m., police Lt. Bobby Stewart said.
The car was not locked, he said.
BENEFITSItems for Flood Victims — Drop off at Vicksburg Main Street Program office, 1617 Walnut St. from 10 a.m.-2 p.m.; canned/nonperishable food items, bottled water, Ga-torade/Powerade, hygiene products, baby products, work gloves, safety glasses, face masks, rubber gloves, paper products, extra-large garbage bags and cleaning products. Shylock — One-man show featuring M. Brady McKellar; by Mark Leiren-Young; ben-efits Vicksburg Theatre Guild; 7:30 p.m. June 4 and 2 p.m. June 5; admission: $10 adults/seniors, $5 students/children; Parkside Playhouse, 101 Iowa Ave.The Delta Mountain Boys — 7-10:30 p.m. July 22; progres-sive bluegrass concert/live
DVD/CD recording; admis-sion:$5 or more; benefits the Southern Cultural Heritage Center; 1302 Adams St.
PUBLIC PROGRAMSSenior Center — Wednesday: 10 a.m., chair exercises; 11 a.m., walking; 1 p.m., bingo and knit-ting class; 2, card games.Vicksburg Farmers’ Market — 4-7 p.m. Wednesdays; 8-11 a.m. Saturdays; Jackson and Washington streets. Grace Group Alcoholics Anon-ymous — 5:30 p.m. Mondays and Wednesdays; 11 a.m. Sat-urdays; 601-636-5703; 1414 Cherry St. Serenity Overeaters Anony-mous — 6-7 p.m. Wednes-day, Bowmar Baptist Church, Room 102C; 601-638-0011.Vicksburg Al-Anon — 8 p.m. Wednesday; family, friends of alcoholics and addicts; 502 Dabney Ave.; 601-636-1134.Crystal Springs Farmers’ Market — June 25; produce must be grown in Mississippi; www2.msstate.edu/~ricks/cs-tomato/tomfest.html for ap-plications, deadline is June 21.Miss Mississippi Outstand-ing Teen Pageant — 8 p.m. June 2-4; information and tickets, www.missmississip-
pischolarshippageant.com or 601-638-6746.
CHURCHESTriumphant Baptist — Non-perishable food for flood vic-tims, noon-6 p.m. Thursday-Friday; noon-5p.m. Saturday; 224 R.L. Chase Circle. Shiloh M.B. — Quarterly busi-ness meeting, noon Saturday; 522 Locust St.
CLUBSLions — Noon Wednesday; Bill Lauderdale and Richard George, Warren County super-visors; Jacques’ Cafe.Rosa A. Temple Class of 1961 — Committee meeting, 5 to-night; John Ferguson home, 2605 Drummond St.; John Fer-guson, 601-638-6647, or Henry Harper, 601-750-7660; reunion, June 23-26. TRIAD — 2 p.m. Wednesday; Gene Allen, River City Rescue Mission, speaker; City Hall An-nex.Vicksburg Toastmasters Club No. 2052 — Noon Thursday; IT Lab, Porters Chapel Road; Jeff Hensley, 601-634-4596.Vicksburg Homecoming Benevolent Club — 7 p.m. Thursday; monthly meeting; at the home of Tina Dillard,
705 Adams St.Class of 1971-Pre-Memorial Day Dance — 9 p.m. Friday; music by DJ Eddie; admis-sion $5; refreshments served; Robert Crear, 601-631-4177 or 601-415-1377; 1618 Main St.Reunite Social and Civic Club — 9 p.m. Saturday; ad-mission $5; music by Reo; food; 1618 Main St.Rosa A. Temple Class of 1965 Reunion — 4 p.m. Sun-day; planning meeting; Pleas-ant Green M.B. Church, 817 Bowman St.; 601-636-5958 or 601-622-0695.
CRIMEfrom staff reports
COMMUNITy CALENdAR
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With floodwaters from the swollen Mississippi River below them, hundreds of motorcyclists cross the Interstate 20 bridge into Vicksburg Monday as part of the annual Run for the Wall ride from California to the Vietnam Veterans
Memorial Wall in Washington, D.C. The ride, the first in 1989, is to raise awareness of veterans’ needs and the thousands of veterans still unaccounted for and to show support for all military personnel.
RIDING TO THE WALL
Trustees of the Vicksburg Warren School District will hold their regular business meeting for May in the library of Beechwood Elemen-tary School at 5:30 p.m. Thursday.
The meeting will follow the annual cer-emony that honors teacher, administrator and staff retirees, set for 4:45 p.m. in Beech-wood’s gym.
Beechwood Elemen-tary is at 999 Missis-sippi 27, across from Warren Central High School.
About 50 school employees will be hon-ored as they retire.
Yokena-Jeff DavisAbout 100 customers in the
Yokena-Jeff Davis Water Dis-trict are under a boil-water alert.
Residents on north inter-section of Glass Road and U.S. 61 South; Glass Road and its side streets, LeTourneau Road; Thomas Drive; Hartley Road; and Rocky Lane are asked to boil their water due to a water main break.
BOIL wATER
SMITHVILLE (AP) — The north Mississippi town of Smithville is seeing some prog-ress in recovering from an April 27 tornado.
The town’s only bank reopened on Monday. A day care also opened. And a mar-tial arts school welcomed back its students for the first time since the storm.
“Overall the recovery is going well,” Mayor Gregg Kennedy said. “We’re moving forward, taking small steps at a time. Once we clean up, we’ll take the big steps.”
Renasant bank opened a mobile office on the site of its brick-and-mortar branch that was mostly leveled by the EF-5 tornado.
The vault in which three Renasant employees hid when the tornado struck still sits behind the temporary office.
Town leaders and bank offi-cials gathered for a ribbon-
cutting ceremony to celebrate the first business to reopen in Smithville.
“It’s a financial institution, but it’s also a part of the commu-nity,” said Wes White, pastor of Smithville Baptist Church, which also was destroyed.
Fourteen of Smithville’s 16 businesses were destroyed by the storm. Only Coker’s Han-D-Mart and the Smithville Tele-phone Co. survived.
B r ow n ’s M a r t i a l A r t s reopened Monday afternoon.
Instructor Joey Brown, a sec-ond-degree black belt in Tae-kwondo, welcomed back some of his 20 students in the build-ing that once was the post office.
Brown, who was the valedic-torian at last week’s Smithville High graduation, opened his school two years ago.
After the tornado ripped off the building’s tin roof, he and his father, Jim, did their best to plug the leaks. A front window and the office floor had to be replaced, but everything else was OK.
“We saw all four walls up ... now we’ve got everything back in order,” Joey Brown said.
The mayor said Dollar Gen-eral plans to open in Smithville in the next few weeks. The steel for a new building arrives next week, and company officials will work quickly to get it open, Kennedy said.
Businesses begin to reopen in SmithvilleLOCAL
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Fourteen of Smithville’s 16 businesses were destroyed by the storm. Only Coker’s
Han-D-Mart and the Smithville Telephone Co.
survived. Brown’s Martial Arts reopened Monday
afternoon.
School boardplans to honor retirees Thursday
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JOPLIN, Mo. (AP) — Rescue crews worked through the rain-soaked chill of night, ignoring lightning and strong winds to dig through splintered homes, crumpled busi-nesses and crushed cars in this Missouri town wal-loped by the deadliest single tornado in nearly six decades. Even more omi-nous: More storms, possi-bly strong ones, were on the horizon.
The death toll in Joplin reached 116 Monday and was expected to climb. But there were glimmers of hope: Rescuers pulled 17 people from the rubble, and Gov. Jay Nixon vowed that crews would keep searching until everyone is found.
“They still think there are folks that could be alive,” Nixon told The Associated Press. Searchlights were brought in for work to con-tinue overnight.
Early today, Assistant City Manager Sam Anselm said no new victims or survivors had been found overnight.
The killer tornado ripped through the heart of Joplin, a blue-collar southwest Missouri town of 50,000 people, Sunday night, slamming straight into St. John’s Regional Medical Center. The hospital con-firmed that five of the dead were patients — all of them in critical condition before the tornado hit. A hospital visitor also was killed.
The tornado destroyed possibly “thousands” of homes, Fire Chief Mitch Randles told AP. It leveled hundreds of businesses, including massive ones such as Home Depot and Walmart.
Speaking from London, President Barack Obama said he would travel to Mis-souri on Sunday to meet with people whose lives have been turned upside down by the twister. He vowed to make all fed-eral resources available for efforts to recover and rebuild.
“The American people are by your side,” Obama said. “We’re going to stay there until every home is repaired, until every neigh-borhood is rebuilt, until every business is back on its feet.”
Craig Fugate, director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, said today that Obama has declared a disaster in the area, which means resi-dents are eligible for his agency’s assistance.
It was the second major tornado disaster in less than a month. In April, a pack of twisters roared across six Southern states, killing more than 300 people.
Barbour apologizes to activistsarrested during Freedom RidesBy Shelia ByrdThe Associated Press
JACKSON — Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour has apol-ogized to dozens of civil rights activists who were carted off to the state’s notorious Parch-man prison in the 1960s for attempting to desegregate interstate travel.
“We apologize to you for your mistreatment in 1961, and we appreciate this chance for atonement and reconcilia-tion,” Barbour told the Free-dom Riders.
The Freedom Riders, college students and other activists who challenged segregation on commercial bus lines are in Jackson this week to mark the 50th anniversary of the 1961 protest. Barbour is among the leaders hosting them.
Barbour thanked the group for their “courage, your com-mitment, your sufferings and your sacrifices of 50 years ago.” On Monday, the Repub-lican welcomed them at a breakfast at the Governor’s Mansion.
In 1961, a biracial group of activists boarded interstate buses to expose the segre-gation in travel despite a Supreme Court ruling out-lawing it.
A project of the Congress of Racial Equality, the strategy was simple: blacks would sit in the front of the bus and whites stayed in the back. At stops, blacks would use white-only restrooms.
Traveling from Washington,
D.C., into the Deep South, the group’s bus was stoned and firebombed and many of the activists were attacked by angry racists in Alabama. As the journey continued, the nation’s eye was turned to the
racial strife in the South.When they made it to the
bus terminal in Jackson, the activists were arrested and sent to the Mississippi State Penitentiary at Parchman.
Convicted killer to be executed todayPARCHMAN — Barring
any last minute reprieve, Mississippi death row inmate Robert Simon Jr. was sched-uled to be executed today.
Simon, now 47, was moved to a holding cell near the execution room at the prison. The penitentiary was placed on lockdown Monday, the usual procedure the day before an inmate is sched-uled to be put to death. The execution is scheduled for 6 tonight.
Simon was convicted and sentenced to death in the 1990 slayings of Carl Parker,
his wife, Bobbie Jo, and their son Gregory, 12. The killings occurred a few hours after the family had returned to their rural Quitman County home from church services.
2 indicted for murderin dog handler’s death
PASCAGOULA — Two men have been indicted on capital murder charges in the August 2010 shooting death of professional dog
handler and groomer Johnny M. Bullock.
Daniel Lamont Hatten, 28, and Rodney Phillip McKen-zie Jr., 19, were indicted in the shooting death of 67-year-old Bullock during an armed robbery. The trial is set for Aug. 28.
StateBY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
For reelingMissouri city,possible 2ndpunch looms
Reena Evers-Everette, left, and her mother, Myrlie Evers-Wil-liams, attend the unveiling of the Mississippi Freedom Trail Marker at the Medgar Evers Home Museum in Jackson.
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OLD POST FILES120 YEARS AGO: 1891P.J. Foley, John Hassingre, Charles Schmating and Eugene Webb go to Natchez on the fi remen’s excursion. • Alder-man T.A. O’Herin inspects Fairground Street and will have it repaired.
110 YEARS AGO: 1901Isaac Fisher speaks at the courthouse. • The Hook and Ladder Company of Natchez gives an excursion to Vicksburg.
100 YEARS AGO: 1911Invitations are sent out for the marriage of Alice Margaret Flood to John C. Hamilton on June 15. • Nan Young and Lottie Bush are in Tallulah on a visit.
90 YEARS AGO: 1921Corrine C. Foster makes a brilliant record at Sophie Newcomb College. • Louis Leyens is the designer of the Japanese souve-nirs at an All Saints party.
80 YEARS AGO: 1931The Vicksburg Evening Post issues the commencement edi-tion of The Tattler, Vicksburg High School’s newspaper. • The Eagle Lake test well is drilled to 1,210.
70 YEARS AGO: 1941Ralph Allen Jr. undergoes surgery for removal of his ton-sils at the Vicksburg Hospital. • A son is born to Mr. and Mrs. Dalton Glatt.
60 YEARS AGO: 1951Richard Griffi th, prominent Jackson resident, dies. • The weather bureau reports the month of May could be the driest on the Vicksburg record books.
50 YEARS AGO: 1961Joseph O. Lee dies. • Services are held for Charlotte Burnes. • A group of high school seniors from King’s Fisher School in Oklahoma are visiting in the city. • Robert Mitchum stars in “The Sundowners” at the Rivoli Drive-In Theatre.
40 YEARS AGO: 1971Mr. and Mrs. Dean Roland announce the birth of a daughter, Leslie, on May 18. • Fabian stars in “Thunder Alley” at the Joy Theatre. • Services are held for John A. Murray.
30 YEARS AGO: 1981Marty Thompkins and Randy King search the muddy waters of Clear Creek and discover remains of extinct animals. • Ser-vices are held for Margaret J. Halford. • Mr. and Mrs. Robert M. Richardson Sr. celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary.
20 YEARS AGO: 1991Three students and the driver of a Chevrolet Astro van are injured in an automobile accident involving a school bus • About 1,350 seniors are scheduled to graduate from area high schools. • The Fitness Center opens on Plaza Drive.
10 YEARS AGO: 2001David Bell and Mac Montgomery each nail a hole-in-one at Vicksburg Country Club. • William Campbell and Ben Bryant are inducted into Phi Beta Kappa honor society at the Univer-sity of Mississippi. • Jimmy Dale Qualls, Port Gibson native, dies.
STARKVILLE — With statewide elections slated later this year and federal elections a year later, Mis-sissippi voters who believe they won’t be hearing more about immi-gration over the next 18 months aren’t correctly reading the tea leaves.
But while Republicans are talk-ing about immigration in Missis-sippi’s 2011 state elections, don’t look for the national GOP to be drawn into a serious debate over immigration at the level of federal elections and particularly in the 2012 presidential elections.
Incumbent Democrat Presi-dent Barack Obama wants to talk about immigration reform. In recent speeches this week, Obama repeated his call for “comprehen-sive immigration reform” and said that the need to address the issue was “not only an economic impera-tive or a security imperative, it is also a moral imperative.” Clearly, it will be part of Obama’s re-elec-tion strategy to draw bright-line distinctions between his immigra-tion proposals and that of potential Republican challengers.
Mainstream Republican presi-
dential contenders can ill afford to write off large Hispanic popu-lations in key presidential battle-ground states like Florida, Texas and California by refusing to embrace a form of comprehen-sive immigration reform. But if they do, conservative Republicans more closely aligned philosophi-cally with Tea Party Republicans rather than the mainstream GOP will forsake them in the prima-ries. Congressional candidates in those states face the same political dynamics.
Arizona-style anti-immigration laws failed to pass the Mississippi Legislature in 2011. House Demo-crats refused to adopt legislation
approved by Senate Republicans. State lawmakers were slammed by the Mississippi Municipal League and the Mississippi Association of Supervisors for what they saw as efforts by the Legislature to expose local governments and law enforcement entities to law-suits over federal immigration law enforcement by local governments. Local governments also called the Senate version an “unfunded mandate” and questioned where funding for the additional enforce-ment would come from. Some said it would necessitate local tax increases.
Conservatives in Mississippi will continue to campaign on immigra-
tion reform and promises to adopt tough new immigration enforce-ment laws at the state level will continue.
Public education will likely fuel the next round of anti-immigra-tion legislation in Mississippi. At the K-12 level, the results of a 2010 Southern Education Foundation report found that the South has become the “fi rst region in the country where more than half of public school students are poor and more than half are members of minorities.” The report pre-dicts that the rest of the nation will follow suit by 2020 as minority stu-dents exceed 50 percent of national public school enrollment.
The 2010 report notes that 54 per-cent of Mississippi’s 513,000 public school students were from minor-ity groups — including African-Americans, Hispanics, Asians and other non-white groups. The Southern Education Foundation suggests that other infl uences than “white fl ight” are at play. Four states — Mississippi, Geor-gia, Louisiana and Texas — have a majority of both poor and minority pupils in their states’ public school
systems.In higher education, the fl ash-
point issue will be the growing national debate over whether uni-versities should grant in-state tuition to illegal immigrants. Some 12 states that allow that include Texas, California, Illinois, Kansas, Nebraska, New Mexico, New York, Oklahoma, Oregon, Utah, Wash-ington, and Wisconsin. While Mis-sissippi universities have no such policies currently, it’s a lock that some legislation will propose a solution to the “illegal immigration in-state tuition problem” during the campaign.
In truth, the problem of illegal immigration in Mississippi is not yet comparable to the problems encountered in Texas or Califor-nia. In truth, state laws regarding immigration are little more than window dressing, since immigra-tion law is federal law.
But don’t look for some politi-cians to let that fact get in the way of a good campaign issue.
•Sid Salter is a syndicated columnist. Contact him at [email protected]
Regardless of feds, immigration will reappear as a state campaign issue
SIDSALTER
Conservatives in Mississippi will continue to campaign on im-migration reform and promises to adopt tough new immigration enforcement laws at the state lev-
el will continue.
Debt ceilingIf the debate in Congress about
raising the nation’s debt ceil-ing is a game of chicken, House Speaker John Boehner gripped the steering wheel, mashed the accelerator to the fl oorboards and stared straight ahead, giving no indication that he was pre-pared to swerve.
In a speech at the New York Economic Club, Boehner said if Washington wants to increase the U.S. debt limit above $14.3 tril-lion to avoid a fi nancial “crisis,” it must accompany the higher ceiling with a corresponding cut in spending. As an example, the Ohio Republican said a proposed $2 trillion increase in the debt limit must be offset by $2 trillion in reduced spending.
That set off shrieks of panic from opponents who accused him of being reckless, holding the nation hostage, playing poli-tics with the economy and kick-ing puppies and drowning kit-tens. For critics, the ceiling must be raised when the national debt bumps up against it sometime in August, and it must be done unconditionally.
A politician’s view of the enor-mity of the debt ceiling is usu-ally in direct contrast to that of the party in power whose respon-sibility it is to raise it. When Republicans are in control and argue that the limit must be increased to keep the nation “sol-vent,” Democrats can be counted on to oppose it while preaching fi scal prudence.
The ease with which both par-ties change their spots on this issue is a clear indication they know that a “nay” vote won’t trig-ger a fi nancial disaster, or have serious political repercussions. Indeed, the nation has reached the debt ceiling several times in recent years and America hasn’t defaulted. Markets haven’t col-lapsed. Washington eventually strikes a deal and life goes on.
But if the mechanism of the debt ceiling isn’t the gateway to the apocalypse, the debt itself is a genuine threat. When then-Sen. Obama voted against raising the debt ceiling, it stood at $9 tril-lion. Five years later it’s already at $14 trillion and headed toward $16 trillion (and counting). The
nation’s credit rating already has been downgraded. If this path continues, the amount of borrow-ing required to pay Uncle Sam’s bills will crush the economy. The trend must be arrested now.
Boehner’s gambit correctly addresses the problem: Bend the spending curve downward. Raise the debt limit, but only while put-ting the nation on a more fi scally sustainable path to reduce fur-ther pressure on the ceiling.
Politically, the speaker truly has crossed the Rubicon. If he caves on this bold pursuit, the Republi-can base, especially its Tea Party element, will revolt.
Boehner received fl ak last month for negotiating a budget compromise that averted a gov-ernment shutdown. This newspa-per held its nose and supported what was initially portrayed as a $38 billion reduction in spend-ing. But we had to break out the Renuzit when further analysis showed even those modest cuts were smaller than advertised.
Boehner can’t turn back on this course. But at least it is the right one.
Boehner moving full speed ahead
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Archer-Daniels (ADM)..............30.97American Fin. (AFG) .................34.66Ameristar (ASCA) .......................22.92Auto Zone (AZO) .................... 276.78Bally Technologies (BYI) ..........39.43BancorpSouth (BXS) .................12.82Britton Koontz (BKBK) .............12.75Cracker Barrel (CBRL) ...............53.15Champion Ent. (CHB).....................20Com. Health Svcs. (CYH) ..............28.21Computer Sci. Corp. (CSC) ..........43.59Cooper Industries (CBE) .........61.25CBL and Associates (CBL) ...............18.06CSX Corp. (CSX) ..........................76.13East Group Prprties (EGP)............45.15El Paso Corp. (EP) ......................18.98Entergy Corp. (ETR) ..................67.50
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U.N. opens investigationinto Japan’s nuke plant
TOKYO — A major inter-national mission to investi-gate Japan’s fl ooded, radia-tion-leaking nuclear complex opened today as new infor-mation emerged on just how serious the crisis was in the early days after the March 11 tsunami.
The team of U.N. nuclear experts met with Japanese offi cials and were to inspect the Fukushima Dai-ichi plant in coming days to investigate the worst nuclear accident since Chernobyl in 1986.
Stocks mixedas oil prices rise
NEW YORK — Stocks are mixed in midday trading as gains in energy compa-nies are tempered by persis-tent worries about whether Europe can control its debt problems.
Oil rose above $99 per barrel, sending energy stocks higher, after Goldman Sachs raised its forecast for crude.
The Dow Jones industrial average is down 7 points, or 0.1 percent, at 12,380. The S&P 500 is down less than one point, at 1,317. The Nasdaq is down 7, or 0.2 per-cent, at 2,752.
Official: Ash will cancelup to 500 flights
LONDON — Dense ash from the erupting Icelandic volcano forced the cancel-lation of hundreds of fl ights today, as airlines and passen-gers braced themselves for
days of uncertainty and chaos.Some passengers spent the
night at Edinburgh airport after airlines canceled fl ights in and out of Scotland. Brit-ain’s Civil Aviation Authority said there was high-density ash in the skies above parts of Scotland by late this morning.
Smucker boosts pricesof most coffees
ORRVILLE, Ohio — Coffee drinkers will get another jolt at the supermarket: the com-pany that sells Folgers and Dunkin’ Donuts brand cof-fees has announced its second double-digit price increase this year.
J.M. Smucker Co. said today the list price for most of its U.S. coffee products will go up 11 percent, on average, because costs keep rising for unroasted beans.
Greek opposition shuns government deal
ATHENS, Greece — Greece’s main opposition leader has bluntly rejected a call for support from the prime minister for new aus-terity measures designed to pull the country out of its crippling debt crisis.
The European Union has increased pressure on Greece to fi nd cross-party support for a midterm aus-terity program.
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Mayor and Aldermen voted 2-1 to offer up to 200 acres off Fisher Ferry Road eyed for a sports complex since 2003. South Ward Alderman Sid Beauman voted no.
Additional considerations mentioned for vetting each offer have included terrain, proximity to existing deten-tion and court facilities, what types of planned and exist-ing development are near the parcel and the possible impact to quality of life on the surrounding area. Prices to be negotiated between
the county and landowner are subject to three value appraisals chosen jointly by the two parties, according to guidelines of the request for proposals.
Quality of the land search will determine whether supervisors ask the Legisla-ture for a local and private bill to enable construction of a jail inside or outside city limits. State law indicates property that a county pur-chases for vital infrastruc-ture such as jails be located within a county seat, and the
law has been backed up by an advisory opinion from the attorney general.
Guidelines in a 2009-10 con-sultant study said 20 to 50 acres are needed to build a jail capable of housing at least 350 inmates. Costs have been estimated at $20 mil-lion to $30 million. The oldest parts of the current jail at Cherry and Grove streets were built in 1905. In 2007, the facility was decertified to house state inmates due to poor condition.
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TONIGHT
Mostly cloudy tonight, chance of rain, lows in the lower 70s; partly cloudy
Wednesday, slight chance of rain, highs near 90
72°
PRECISION FORECASTBY CHIEF METEOROLOGIST
BARBIE BASSSETTWEdNESdAy
90°
WEATHERThis weather package is compiled from historical records and information
provided by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the
City of Vicksburg and The Associated Press.
LOCAL FORECASTWednesday-ThursdayMostly cloudy Wednesday night, chance of rain and
thunderstorms, lows in the lower 70s; mostly cloudy Thursday, chance of rain,
highs in the mid-80s
STATE FORECASTTOnIGhT
Mostly cloudy, chance of rain, lows in the lower 70s
Wednesday-ThursdayMostly cloudy Wednesday night, chance of rain and
thunderstorms, lows in the lower 70s; mostly cloudy Thursday, chance of rain,
highs in the mid-80s
ALmAnAChIGhs and LOWs
High/past 24 hours............. 87ºLow/past 24 hours .............. 72ºAverage temperature ........ 80ºNormal this date .................. 74ºRecord low .............50º in 1892Record high ...........94º in 1970
raInfaLLRecorded at the
Vicksburg Water PlantPast 24 hours ............. 0.00 inchThis month .............1.54 inchesTotal/year ............. 19.68 inchesNormal/month .....3.83 inchesNormal/year ....... 25.85 inches
sOLunar TabLeMost active times for fishand wildlife Wednesday:
A.M. Active .........................12:56A.M. Most active ................ 6:27P.M. Active ..........................12:37P.M. Most active ................. 6:47
sunrIse/sunseTSunset today ....................... 7:59Sunset tomorrow .............. 8:00Sunrise tomorrow ............. 6:00
RIVER DATAsTaGes
Mississippi Riverat Vicksburg
Current: 55.9 | Change: -0.4Flood: 43 feet
Yazoo River at GreenwoodCurrent: 17.7 | Change: -1.1
Flood: 35 feetYazoo River at Yazoo City
Current: 38.2 | Change: -0.3Flood: 29 feet
Yazoo River at BelzoniCurrent: 30.7 | Change: -0.3
Flood: 34 feetBig Black River at West
Current: 4.3 | Change: +0.01Flood: 12 feet
Big Black River at BovinaCurrent: 12.9 | Change: -0.4
Flood: 28 feet
sTeeLe bayOuLand ...................................89.9River ................................ 105.2
mISSISSIPPI RIVER FORECAST
Cairo, Ill.Wednesday .......................... 46.6Thursday ............................... 46.5Friday ...................................... 46.3
MemphisWednesday .......................... 36.1Thursday ............................... 35.3Friday ...................................... 34.6
GreenvilleWednesday .......................... 61.0Thursday ............................... 60.5Friday ...................................... 60.0
VicksburgWednesday .......................... 55.7Thursday ............................... 55.4Friday ...................................... 55.0
DEATHThe Vicksburg Post prints obituaries in news form for area residents, their family members and for former residents at no charge. Families wishing to publish additional information or to use specific wording have the option of a paid obituary.
Lois Kleinman BowersTALLULAH — Lois Klein-
man Bowers died Monday, May 23, 2011, at Olive Branch Senior Center in Tallulah. She was 96.
Services will be at 2 p.m. Wednesday, May 25, 2011, at Frank J. Fisher Funeral Home in Vicksburg with the Rev. Kent Campbell officiat-ing. Burial will be at Cedar Hill Cemetery. Visitation will be from noon until 2 p.m. Wednesday at the funeral home.
Mrs. Bowers was born in Vicksburg to the late Albert Lynd and Ruby Tucker Kleinman. She was a former employee of Culkin Academy working as an assistant cafe-teria manager for more than 30 years. She was a Sunday school teacher for 5-year-olds at Woodlawn Baptist Church, a leader of the Ladies World Mission Group and a member of Senior Saints.
She was preceded in death
by her father, Albert Lynd Kleinman; her mother, Ruby Inez Tucker Kleinman; her husband of 58 years, James Adolph Bowers Sr.; a son, James A. “Jimmy” Bowers Jr.; brothers, Albert Magee “Red” Kleinman, Walter Lynd “Bee” Kleinman and Harry Lee “Wooty” Klein-man; and a sister, Mary Clyde “Cissie” Schultz.
Survivors include a daugh-ter, Linda Bowers Vance of Vicksburg; two sons, Wil-liam A. Bowers and David Lynd Bowers, both of Vicks-burg; grandchildren, Bev-erly Bowers James and Belinda Bowers Guillott, both of Gonzales, La., James Adolph “Trey” Bowers III of Burleson, Texas, William Scott Bowers of Brookhaven, Travis Wayne Vance Jr. of Humboldt, Texas, Linda Elizabeth “Beth” Vance of Bay St. Louis, Donna Bowers and Laura Katherine “Kate” Bowers, both of Vicks-burg; and great-grandchil-dren, James Charles “Chaz” Bruno, Elizabeth Dawn Bowers, David Benjamin Bowers, Caroline R. Bowers, Harrison Thomas Vance, Alexis Catherine Vance, Grayson Wayne Vance,
Carley Musgrove and Ruby Rose Elizabeth Harthcock.
Pallbearers will be Travis W. Vance Jr., Benson Klein-man, John Kleinman, Lee Musgrove, Trey Bowers,
Scott Bowers, Jay Middleton and John Barnes.
Honorary pallbearers will be Phil Irwin, David White, Cecil Bryant and Chaz Bruno.
Memorials may be made to Woodlawn Baptist Church Building Fund, 2310 Culkin Road, Vicksburg, MS 39183.
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On the agendaMeeting Monday, the
Warren County Board of Supervisors:• Awarded a $835,985.20
bid to APAC-Mississippi for the county’s routine paving for 2011.Roads set for resurfacing
this year include parts of Bell Bottom Road, Indian Hills Drive, Indian Hills Cir-cle, Garden Grove Street, Whatley Road, Pecan Bou-levard, Pecan Tree Lane West, Pecan Tree Drive and Oakwood Drive.
Read more: The Vicksburg Post - County board to set viewings for new maps• Approved a quarter-page
advertisement for the 4th annual Juneteenth event on Saturday, June 11, planned by the Missis-sippi Chapter of Blacks in Government.
• Approved the Active In-mate Reimbursement Voucher, totaling $2,940.
• Reported no action taken on a personnel matter in the general accounting department.
strip of U.S. 80 between the city limits and Buck Drive. It also picks up territory south of East Clay Sreet/U.S. 80.
In the second option, it expands north of the inter-state but also northwest to pick up the Chickasaw, Kings and Ford subdivisions cur-rently in the northern dis-trict. Also, the northern district keeps areas east of Mississippi 27 to Mount Alban Road it loses to the central district in the first plan. Overall, the central dis-trict gains the most voters and the northern district loses the most voters in the second alternative compared to the first — by 12 per-cent and nearly 11 percent,
respectively.Comments during the
public hearing came from District 1 Election Commis-sioner Petesy Smith, North-ern District Constable Glenn McKay and Chuck Carr, a GIS manager with Central Mississippi Planning and Development District, hired by the board to consult cre-ation of new maps.
Smith and McKay couched support for the second plan in terms of geographic continuity and familiarity amongst officials working in the justice court system. Justice court judges preside over small-claims cases, mis-demeanor offenses outside city limits and state traffic
offenses. Constables serve the court’s papers in those cases.
“I like Plan B,” Smith said. “At first glance, it requires the least amount of change.” “Looking at this, I would also be in favor of Plan B,” McKay said, adding his constable district, which dips as far south as Gibson Road, would be nearly cut off from its southernmost zones in the first plan.
Once supervisors choose a plan for justice court and one of two for their own districts, the Justice Department has 60 days to approve it. When supervisors must choose plans for each is less certain, in light of a federal court
decision last week to dismiss a case filed by various local NAACP chapters statewide that sought to delay quali-fying periods in local races in 10 counties, including Warren. A three-judge panel ruled last week state legis-lators must run in current districts unless they receive federal preclearance before June 1. The 2012 Legislature would have to drawn new maps if lawmakers opt to wait out the process and hold state House and Senate elec-tions under current maps. Vicksburg’s three state law-makers have qualified to run this year.
A third map for supervi-sor districts presented to the
board April 26 on behalf of the organization was ana-lyzed by Central Mississippi Planning and Development District, at the direction of the board, Carr said.
A version of the map could not be reproduced on CMP-DD’s computers, as it “didn’t have enough detail,” Carr said. Local NAACP president John Shorter told super-visors consultation on the NAACP’s map was from Jackson State University.
“We feel we have two pro-posals here that are both legitimate plans,” Carr said of the two proposals for new supervisor districts.
E. Clay St. He said Dodd was being held without bond at the Warren Count Jail pend-ing an initial appearance today in Vicksburg Munici-pal Court. Stewart said Dodd would be charged with man-slaughter with culpable neg-ligence because they were playing with the guns in the motel room.
He said Dodd and Tornero were employed as secu-rity guards by International Security Agency of Hous-ton. The company has a con-tract with Entergy to pre-vent people from launching boats from U.S. 61 South, LeTourneau Road and War-renton Road near the Baxter Wilson power plant.
He said the men have been in Vicksburg since May 10. Tornero, Stewart said, had been employed by Interna-tional Security Agency for about three weeks.
The police report said Tornero was hit in the neck, Stewart said. He said police found Tornero lying on a bed.
The killing was the second in the city this year.
Roadside bomb kills 10 in AfghanistanKABUL, Afghanistan (AP)
— A roadside bomb killed 10 workers in southern Afghani-stan today, and NATO again promised that the coalition would not abandon the coun-try even if some members plan to withdraw their forces.
Also today, two high-ranking government officials survived attempted assassinations.
NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said that plans to hand over con-trol of seven areas to Afghan soldiers in July remained on course, despite new bombings and assaults by insurgents. Those areas include Bamiyan and Panjshir provinces, the cities of Lashkar Gah, Herat, Mazer-e-Sharif and Mehter-lam, and nearly all of Kabul province.
“Those who threaten Afghanistan’s future should be under no illusion — NATO is and remains committed to Afghanistan,” Fogh Rasmus-sen told Afghan President Hamid Karzai, according to a coalition statement.
NATO also acknowledged today that soldiers shot dead an Afghan holding a flash-
light during a raid, something that could add to the grow-ing anti-foreigner sentiment in Afghanistan after nearly a decade of war.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the roadside bombing aimed at workers in Kandahar, which has seen a rise in incidents in recent days as Taliban fight-ers try to retake territory lost in the past year.
The workers on the truck
were employed by the local government in the region to clean up rivers and streams, according to Dr. Qayoum Pakhla, the director of Kan-dahar Hospital. Ten died, and 28 were injured in the attack.
“I could see people calling for help and crying,” said one of the survivors, who gave his name as Sabdullah. “I saw some of my friends’ dead bodies. I was helpless at that moment.”
Meanwhile, Ahmad Ziad, a deputy chief at the National Directorate for Security, escaped injury in an attempted suicide bombing that targeted his car as he was traveling to work in Kabul, police said.
Ziad’s bodyguards opened fire on a suspicious sport util-ity vehicle heading toward his convoy, wounding the driver and stopping the speeding SUV laden with explosives, the police said.
The driver was arrested and hospitalized under guard.
In a separate attack, gunmen opened fire on an armored SUV carrying Helmand pro-vincial Gov. Mohammad Gulab Mangul. A statement from his office said police returned fire, killing two attackers. Mangul was not injured during the attack.
The growing number of attacks in the insurgents’ spring offensive come as NATO and the United States hope to begin relinquish-ing control of security to the Afghan military through the end of 2014. President Barack Obama has said the U.S. will begin withdrawing in July.
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An Afghan solder is seen through the point of a machine gun in Kabul, Afghanistan.
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By Bryant [email protected]
Lil Bit, a Chinese pug, bolted from his crate and ran in cir-cles as soon as his owner unhooked the latch and said, “We’re back, Lil Bit.”
Mark and Terri Reeves, vic-tims of the 2011 Mississippi River flood, were forced, as others have been, to leave their dog at the closest thing the county has to a pet motel, the Vicksburg-War-ren Humane Society shelter on U.S. 61 South. Lil Bit is one out of about 85 animals being housed at the shelter.
The Reeveses, who live off Glass Road on Rocky Lane, also had to leave their tabby cat, Sam, when they were forced to evacuate on May 9.
“It’s been hard,” Mark Reeves said. “We’re used to having them around. And they’ve never been in a cage
before now.”“This is a very loving and
caring community,” said Geor-gia Lynn, director of the Vicks-burg-Warren Humane Society. “Everyone has pitched in to help us take care of these ani-mals,” which include chickens, goats and a miniature pony.
She said animal owners and the public have given money to help house and feed the ani-mals. The shelter also is using a grant from The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. Volun-teers from DiamondJacks Casino have also been help-ing out as part of their ser-vice projects while the casino is closed.
“We didn’t have any other option,” Reeves said, who is staying with family until the water recedes. “They let us go back to see the animals when-ever. It’s a lot off our mind knowing they’re safe.”
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Pets find homes away from homes at shelter
Terri Reeves pets her pet Chinese pug, Lil Bit, at the Vicks-burg Warren Humane Society.
Monday by the Corps. The local gauge is not expected to drop below the 43-foot flood stage until mid-June.
Both ends of U.S. 61 in Warren County and Missis-sippi 465 are closed due to high water. New estimates issued today by the Corps show closures at Redwood and the Big Black River lift-ing by Monday and 465 by mid-June.
In a separate advisory Monday, the Mississippi Department of Transporta-tion said all closed roads will reopen when water recedes from pavement and shoul-ders and crews remove debris, inspect affected roads and bridges, and make repairs. No reopening dates have been announced by MDOT.
“It will be an informed judgment call,” MDOT Cen-tral District Engineer Kevin Magee said. “If we find dam-ages, we’ll make the neces-sary repairs and keep them closed longer.”
Reopening dates in the Corps’ advisories indicate when river stages indicate water should be off road sur-faces, not necessarily under-lying conditions, said Tim Rogers of the Corps’ Vicks-burg District Water Control Division.
Mainline levees in the Army Corps of Engineers Vicksburg District have held out the massive amount of water flowing down the river, save for spotty instances of sand boils and two slides near Lake Albemarle.
The pair of slides, located next to each other on a 300- to 400-foot stretch on the land side of the levee, were termed “shallow” by the Corps in an update issued Monday by the District.
The slides were “caused by the under seepage of water and saturation of the levee, the slides are simply a failure of the levee surface, not the
levee itself,” read part of the update.
About 7,000 tons of rock will shore up the slide, while about 11,000 tons of sand will be used to backfill the area to provide weight and stabil-ity while allowing water to seep out.
Eagle Lake remains at 89.7 feet and might not make 90 feet unless it rains in the backwater area, Rogers said. The Muddy Bayou Control Structure was opened April 30 to raise the lake to ease water pressure on the Buck Chute levee, where a sand boil was enclosed with a 2-acre berm.
Levels at the Steele Bayou Control Structure were 105.18 feet on the river side and 89.93 feet on the land side. Stages should equal-ize around June 20, when the Corps expects to open gates there, according to the updated timeline.
if you go• Community meeting on
flood issues• 6 p.m. at Vicksburg Audi-
torium• Officials will provide the
public with information and answer questions.Those expected to at-
tend include Vicksburg city officials, Vicksburg Po-lice Department, Warren County Board of Supervi-sors, Warren County Emer-gency Management, War-ren County Sheriff’s Office, Federal Emergency Man-agement Agency, Missis-sippi Emergency Manage-ment Agency, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the Small Business Admin-istration and charitable or-ganizations.
Brown and her extended family of 14 have been shar-ing three rooms for two weeks at the Travel Inn on North Frontage Road.
Everyday tasks such as cooking and going to school were halted once they evacuated.
Brown’s aunt, Sadie Hall, who works at Ameristar Casino and regularly com-mutes 45 minutes each way, said she misses cooking in her three-bedroom trailer, which is underwater.
“You can’t cook like you normally could at home,” she said. “We’ll eat anything you can cook in the microwave.”
The eight children missed more than two weeks of school, but were able to make up exams, Hall said.
Brown’s mother, Tracy
Brown, also works at Ameri-star, which is paying for the families’ accommodations through its financial assis-tance fund called the Sun-shine Fund, said George Stadler, Ameristar general manager and vice president.
“We are a family here at Ameristar,” Stadler said. “We care about each other and want to help each other during this time of need.”
Ameristar and Riverwalk casinos stayed open, while Vicksburg’s other three casi-nos are closed.
Including Brown and Hall, Ameristar has assisted 18 employees with shelter and gift cards, Stadler said.
“In addition to helping out team members, we have lent a helping hand to the com-munity by providing food
and water to the relief work-ers at Salvation Army Distri-bution Center,” he said. “We also filled a need by donating drinking water for the flood victims in nearby Claiborne County.”
Tracy Brown is grateful. “It’s like a lifesaver to get this assistance from Ameristar. I know they didn’t have to do that, but they did.”
The families plan to return to Cary as soon as the high-ways open, which is expected to be in mid-June.
Alma Taylor, 76, who found shelter at a local motel, said she is uncertain about her near future.
“I miss home,” said Taylor, who evacuated from her Kings Crossing Road home more than two weeks ago. “I’m thinking and I don’t
have any plans. I’m just taking it one day at a time. I can’t plan it because there is so much missing and it’s so complicated to me. I’ve never been in a flood like this before. I don’t know. I really don’t know.”
Taylor, a retiree, has been staying at the Candlewood Suites on South Frontage Road and has been paying for the stay herself, but she said she is unable to continue to pay for the stay and has contacted the Federal Emer-gency Management Agency for help, she said.
“I know my Visa has been maxed out,” she said.
She has not decided if she will return and rebuild her home or forget about it.
“I know I just want to stay in Vicksburg,” she said.
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LOTTERYLa. Pick 3: 2-9-3 La. Pick 4: 4-2-6-2Weekly results: b2
C-USA TourneyThe Conference USA baseball tournament will begin Wednesday morn-ing at Trustmark Park in Pearl. Southern Miss will play at 7:30 p.m. Wednes-day, Thursday and Friday. For tickets, call 601-932-8788 or visit conferenceusa.cstv.com. C-USA schedule/b2
SChEdULEALL-STAR GAMESMAIS baseballFriday, 2 and 5 p.m.at Smith-Wills Stadium
MHSAA baseballJune 4, 1 and 6 p.m.at Trustmark Park
ON TV7:30 p.m. TNT - NBA MVP Derrick Rose and the Chicago Bulls aim to even up the Eastern Con-ference finals against the Miami Heat tonight. The Heat lead the series 2-1.
WhO’S hOTANTOAN RICHARDSONMississippi Braves out-fielder had five hits in a double-header sweep as the M-Braves took a pair from the Jack-son Generals on Monday. Story/b2
SIdELINESNASCAR inducts second hall class
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — There was shock, may-be even outrage, when David Pearson didn’t make the inaugural class of the NASCAR Hall of Fame.
If Pearson felt slighted, he never said.
Pearson made the wait worth it Monday night, headlining the inaugura-tion of the five-member second class. As he did last year, when he was passed over for induc-tion, Pearson called on the voting panel to elect NASCAR’s pioneers be-fore anyone else.
“I keep going back to the ones that really start-ed it.”
But Pearson, winner of three championships and 105 races, understood why he was selected. He was introduced by long-time rival Richard Petty and inducted by car own-er Leonard Wood.
Pearson was inducted along with 84-race win-ner Bobby Allison, Petty Enterprises patriarch and three-time Cup champi-on Lee Petty, Bud Moore, a decorated World War II veteran and two-time Cup championship team owner, and two-time champion and noted broadcaster Ned Jarrett.
college baseball
nba playoffs
Koelling wins Cellular South Ferriss TrophyBy Ernest [email protected]
JACKSON — There’s been times this season, Tyler Koelling admits, when a strikeout might have been preferable to putting the ball in play.
“I’ve always been a con-tact hitter. Sometimes I get myself in trouble by doing that. I’ve hit into about 12 double plays this year,“ Koelling said with a slight grin. “Sometimes, I think if I struck out more it’d cut down on that, but I just try to make
contact and get that first pitch to hit.”
Fortunately for South-ern Miss, the senior out-fielder has kept putting the ball in play, time and time again. It’s helped make the Golden Eagles one of the best teams in the country, and Koelling the best player in Mississippi.
Koelling was named the winner of the 2011 Cellu-
lar South Ferriss Trophy on Monday, capping a season in which he struck out just nine times in 229 at-bats. He’s second in Conference USA with a .367 batting aver-age and 84 hits, and ranks in the top five in several other offensive categories. He’s also made just two errors in 112 chances while playing all three outfield positions.
In his three-year career at Southern Miss, Koelling has a .328 batting average and has struck out just 46 times in 579 at-bats.
“He’s a competitor,” said
Mississippi State third base-man Jarrod Parks, a fellow Ferriss Trophy finalist and a former teammate of Koelling’s at Meridian Com-munity College. “He’s just so hard to strike out. He’s just always up there hitting. He’s always been that guy. I enjoyed hitting behind him. He was fun to play with. He’s also a great defender. And he’s an even better person.”
The Ferriss Trophy has been awarded each year since 2004 to the top college
BulldogsopenagainstFloridaBy Ernest [email protected]
JACKSON — Missis-sippi State wore the label of hottest team in the Southeastern Conference, until it was snatched away by LSU last week-end. The Bulldogs will certainly try to get it back, but in this topsy-turvy season, it could be any one of eight teams wearing it by week’s end.
The SEC Tournament begins Wednesday morn-ing in Hoover, Ala., with three favorites and a gang of five teams behind them hungry to shore up NCAA Tournament resumés. South Carolina, Florida and Vanderbilt tied for first place in the Eastern Division. Four teams were separated by a game in the West.
“Anybody can get hot at any time of the day. The SEC Tournament has always been like that. LSU was an 8-seed last year and they won it, so I think anybody can do that,” Mississippi State third baseman Jarrod Parks said.
Mississippi State won’t go in as the No. 8 seed — that distinction belongs to Auburn — but it’s also not quite as high as it could be. After winning nine of 10 heading into the series with LSU, the Bulldogs (34-21) dropped two out of three to head into the tournament on a sour note. They wound up seeded sixth and will face Florida (41-15) on Wednesday at noon in their first SEC Tourna-ment game since 2007.
“It’s going to be great. Even if we go two-and-out it’s still going to be an experience to play in Hoover,” Parks said.
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Golden Eagles aim for C-USA titleBy Ernest [email protected]
JACKSON — For much of the season, it seemed like the stars were aligning for Southern Miss.
The Golden Eagles rolled through the first two-thirds of their Conference USA schedule and built a three-game lead with six to play. Then, suddenly, it all came crashing down. They lost four of their last five and had to settle for a co-champion-ship with Rice.
The good news is, a new day dawns Wednesday at the C-USA Tournament and
once again everything seems in sync. Southern Miss has a favorable schedule, a bit of home field advantage, and a chip on its shoulder as it tries to defend its tournament championship.
“I think every team goes through it. Just a little hiccup. We got out of our game. Didn’t pitch well, didn’t hit well, didn’t field well. We’ve really been focused on it in practice. Sat-urday, we got back on track and played some really good ball,” USM shortstop B.A.
Vollmuth said.Southern Miss (38-15) opens
the tournament at Trust-mark Park on Wednesday night at 7:30 against Tulane. It will then face Houston on Thursday night and East Carolina on Friday, all in the same time slot. Conference USA officials put the Golden Eagles in the late game pri-marily for attendance pur-poses, and the team was glad for it. Vollmuth said playing at the same time every day
SEC Tourneyat Hoover, Ala.
Wednesday• Alabama vs. Arkansas, 9:30 a.m.• Mississippi St. vs. Florida, 1 p.m.• Auburn vs. South Carolina, 4:30 p.m.• Georgia vs. Vanderbilt, 8 p.m.SEC schedule/b2
C-USA Tourneyat Trustmark Park
Wednesday• Memphis vs. Central Florida, 9 a.m.• UAB vs. Rice, 12:30 p.m.• Houston vs. East Carolina, 4 p.m.• Tulane vs. Southern Miss, 7:30 p.m.
Mavericks turn the tide in OTBy The Associated Press
OKLAHOMA CITY — A decade’s worth of playoff experience has taught Dirk Nowitzki plenty about hard-ship. Jason Kidd knows it well, too.
Now, it’s starting to look as if the tide has turned for the Dallas Mavericks.
Nowitzki scored 40 points, Kidd hit the go-ahead 3-pointer with 40 seconds left in overtime and the Maver-icks rallied from a 15-point deficit in the final 5 min-utes of regulation to stun the Oklahoma City Thunder 112-105 on Monday night and take a 3-1 lead in the Western Conference finals.
“It’s just a bunch of veter-ans with a lot of unique sto-
ries. A lot of guys have been through a lot in this league and have been around for-ever,” Nowitzki said. “A bunch of guys have been to the finals. ... Ultimately, we have one goal and we came together and fought through some stuff.”
Already with an improb-able sweep over the two-time defending champion Los Angeles Lakers under their belts, the Mavericks came back from a 99-84 deficit with 5 minutes left in regulation to move within one win of the
NBA finals.They handed the Thun-
der their first consecutive losses of the postseason and first back-to-back home losses in six months to earn a chance to clinch the series on their home court in Game 5 Wednesday night in Dallas.
“We worked really hard these two games to win, and none of that guarantees anything for Game 5. We know that,” said coach Rick Carlisle.
The Mavs have won at least 50 games in 11 straight sea-sons with no titles and only one trip to the NBA finals to show for it.
“All of us involved with this team have been through a lot of these wars,” Carlisle added.
On TV7:30 p.m. TNTChicago at Miami
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See USM, Page B3.
Rice second baseman Michael Ratterree throws to first to complete a double play as Southern Miss shortstop b.A. Voll-muth slides into second last week. Rice won 4-0.
Dallas Mavericks forward Dirk Nowitzki shoots as Oklahoma City Thunder forward Serge Ibaka defends during Game 4 Tuesday. The Mavericks won 112-105.
See Koelling, Page B3.
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college baseballSEC Tournament
At Hoover, Ala.Wednesday
Game 1 - Alabama vs. Arkansas, 9:30 a.m.Game 2 - Mississippi St. vs. Florida, 1 p.m.Game 3 - Auburn vs. South Carolina, 4:30 p.m.Game 4 - Georgia vs. Vanderbilt, 8 p.m.
ThursdayGame 5 - Alabama-Arkansas loser vs. Mississippi St-Florida loser, 9:30 a.m.Game 6 - Auburn-South Carolina loser vs. Geor-gia-Vanderbilt loser, 1 p.m.Game 7 - Alabama-Arkansas winner vs. Missis-sippi St-Florida winner, 4:30 a.m.Game 8 - Auburn-South Carolina winner vs. Geor-gia-Vanderbilt winner, 8 p.m.
FridayGame 9 - Game 5 winner vs. Game 7 loser, 3 p.m.Game 10 - Game 6 winner vs. Game 8 loser, 7 p.m.
SaturdayGame 11 - Game 8 winner vs. Game 9 winner, 9:30 a.m.Game 12 - Game 7 winner vs. Game 10 winner, 1 p.m.x-Game 13 - Game 11 winner vs. Game 11 loser, 5 p.m.x-Game 14 - Game 12 winner vs. Game 12 loser, 8:30 p.m.
SundayChampionship game, 1 p.m.x-If necessary
———Conference USA Tournament
At PearlWednesday
Memphis vs. Central Florida, 9 a.m.UAB vs. Rice, 12:30 p.m.Houston vs. East Carolina, 4 p.m.Tulane vs. Southern Miss, 7:30 p.m.
ThursdayCentral Florida vs. UAB, 9 a.m.Memphis vs. Rice, 12:30 p.m.Tulane vs. East Carolina, 4 p.m.Houston vs. Southern Miss, 7:30 p.m.
FridayMemphis vs. UAB, 9 a.m.Central Florida vs. Rice, 12:30 p.m.Houston vs. Tulane, 4 p.m.East Carolina vs. Southern Miss, 7:30 p.m.
SaturdayChampionship game, 7:30 p.m.
mlbamerican league
East Division W L Pct GBNew York ......................25 21 .543 —Tampa Bay ...................26 22 .542 —Boston ..........................25 22 .532 1/2Toronto .........................24 23 .511 1 1/2Baltimore ......................21 24 .467 3 1/2
Central Division W L Pct GBCleveland ......................30 15 .667 —Detroit ...........................24 23 .511 7Kansas City ..................22 24 .478 8 1/2Chicago ........................22 27 .449 10Minnesota .....................15 31 .326 15 1/2
West Division W L Pct GBTexas ............................25 23 .521 —Los Angeles .................25 24 .510 1/2Seattle ..........................23 24 .489 1 1/2Oakland ........................22 26 .458 3
Monday’s GamesCleveland 3, Boston 2Detroit 6, Tampa Bay 3Toronto 7, N.Y. Yankees 3Texas 4, Chicago White Sox 0Seattle 8, Minnesota 7, 10 inningsL.A. Angels 4, Oakland 1
Today’s GamesBoston (Beckett 3-1) at Cleveland (Carmona 3-4), 6:05 p.m.Kansas City (Duffy 0-0) at Baltimore (Britton 5-2), 6:05 p.m.Tampa Bay (W.Davis 4-4) at Detroit (Verlander 4-3), 6:05 p.m.Toronto (R.Romero 4-4) at N.Y. Yankees (Sabathia 4-3), 6:05 p.m.Chicago White Sox (Peavy 1-0) at Texas (D.Holland 3-1), 7:05 p.m.Seattle (Fister 2-4) at Minnesota (Blackburn 3-4), 7:10 p.m.Oakland (Moscoso 0-0) at L.A. Angels (Haren 4-2), 9:05 p.m.
Wednesday’s GamesBoston (Lester 6-1) at Cleveland (Talbot 1-0), 11:05 a.m.Tampa Bay (Sonnanstine 0-1) at Detroit (Penny 4-4), 12:05 p.m.Toronto (Jo-.Reyes 0-3) at N.Y. Yankees (F.Garcia 2-4), 12:05 p.m.Seattle (Bedard 2-4) at Minnesota (Duensing 2-4), 12:10 p.m.Chicago White Sox (Floyd 5-3) at Texas (C.Wilson 4-3), 1:05 p.m.Kansas City (Hochevar 3-4) at Baltimore (Arrieta 5-2), 6:05 p.m.Oakland (Cahill 6-1) at L.A. Angels (E.Santana 2-4), 9:05 p.m.
National leagueEast Division
W L Pct GBPhiladelphia ..................29 18 .617 —Florida ...........................26 19 .578 2Atlanta ..........................26 23 .531 4New York ......................22 24 .478 6 1/2Washington ...................21 26 .447 8
Central Division W L Pct GBSt. Louis .......................29 20 .592 —Cincinnati ......................25 23 .521 3 1/2Milwaukee .....................25 23 .521 3 1/2Pittsburgh .....................22 24 .478 5 1/2Chicago ........................20 25 .444 7Houston ........................18 30 .375 10 1/2
West Division W L Pct GBSan Francisco ..............27 19 .587 —Colorado .......................23 22 .511 3 1/2Arizona .........................23 23 .500 4Los Angeles .................21 28 .429 7 1/2San Diego ....................19 29 .396 9
Monday’s GamesPhiladelphia 10, Cincinnati 3Houston 4, L.A. Dodgers 3Milwaukee 11, Washington 3St. Louis 3, San Diego 1
Today’s GamesArizona (J.Saunders 0-5) at Colorado (De La Rosa 5-2), 3:10 p.m., 1st gameAtlanta (Jurrjens 5-1) at Pittsburgh (Morton 5-1), 6:05 p.m.Cincinnati (Cueto 2-1) at Philadelphia (Worley 2-0), 6:05 p.m.L.A. Dodgers (Billingsley 2-4) at Houston (Happ 3-5), 7:05 p.m.N.Y. Mets (Niese 3-4) at Chicago Cubs (Dempster 2-4), 7:05 p.m.Washington (L.Hernandez 3-6) at Milwaukee (Narveson 2-3), 7:10 p.m.Arizona (Collmenter 3-0) at Colorado (Chacin 5-2), 7:40 p.m., 2nd gameSt. Louis (McClellan 6-1) at San Diego (Harang 5-2), 9:05 p.m.Florida (Nolasco 3-0) at San Francisco (Cain 3-2), 9:15 p.m.
Wednesday’s GamesAtlanta (Minor 0-1) at Pittsburgh (Ja.McDonald 3-3), 12:35 p.m.Washington (Marquis 5-1) at Milwaukee (Greinke 2-1), 12:10 p.m.L.A. Dodgers (Lilly 3-4) at Houston (An.Rodriguez 0-2), 1:05 p.m.
St. Louis (Carpenter 1-4) at San Diego (Latos 1-6), 6:35 p.m.Cincinnati (T.Wood 3-3) at Philadelphia (Halladay 6-3), 6:05 p.m.N.Y. Mets (Gee 3-0) at Chicago Cubs (C.Coleman 2-3), 7:05 p.m.Arizona (I.Kennedy 5-1) at Colorado (Hammel 3-3), 7:40 p.m.Florida (Volstad 2-3) at San Francisco (Bumgarner 1-6), 9:15 p.m.
maJoR leagUe leaDeRsAMERICAN LEAGUE
G AB R H Pct.Joyce TB ........................ 45 143 29 51 .357Bautista Tor .................... 39 139 39 49 .353MiYoung Tex .................. 47 184 21 64 .348AdGonzalez Bos ............ 47 193 30 66 .342HKendrick LAA ............... 45 177 30 57 .322Lowrie Bos ..................... 41 142 19 45 .317Betemit KC ..................... 35 127 20 40 .315MiCabrera Det ................ 47 163 35 51 .313ACabrera Cle ................. 45 186 33 58 .312Guerrero Bal ................... 43 178 20 55 .309
BATTING—Joyce, Tampa Bay, .357; Bautista, Toronto, .353; MiYoung, Texas, .348; AdGonzalez, Boston, .342; HKendrick, Los Angeles, .322; Low-rie, Boston, .317; Betemit, Kansas City, .315.RUNS—Bautista, Toronto, 39; MiCabrera, Detroit, 35; Granderson, New York, 35; ACabrera, Cleve-land, 33; Zobrist, Tampa Bay, 31; AdGonzalez, Boston, 30; HKendrick, Los Angeles, 30.RBI—AdGonzalez, Boston, 41; Beltre, Texas, 38; Konerko, Chicago, 36; ACabrera, Cleveland, 34; Granderson, New York, 34; Bautista, Toronto, 32; Youkilis, Boston, 32.HITS—AdGonzalez, Boston, 66; MiYoung, Texas, 64; ACabrera, Cleveland, 58; HKendrick, Los Angeles, 57; ISuzuki, Seattle, 57; Guerrero, Balti-more, 55; Ellsbury, Boston, 54; Konerko, Chicago, 54; Kubel, Minnesota, 54.DOUBLES—Quentin, Chicago, 16; MiYoung, Texas, 16; AdGonzalez, Boston, 15; Gordon, Kan-sas City, 15; Butler, Kansas City, 14; MiCabrera, Detroit, 14; Ellsbury, Boston, 14; Kinsler, Texas, 14; Zobrist, Tampa Bay, 14.TRIPLES—Bourjos, Los Angeles, 5; Granderson, New York, 4; 9 tied at 3.HOME RUNS—Bautista, Toronto, 19; Granderson, New York, 16; Teixeira, New York, 12; Beltre, Texas, 10; ACabrera, Cleveland, 10; Konerko, Chicago, 10; 6 tied at 9.STOLEN BASES—Andrus, Texas, 15; Ellsbury, Boston, 15; Crisp, Oakland, 14; Aybar, Los Ange-les, 12; RDavis, Toronto, 12; Fuld, Tampa Bay, 12; ISuzuki, Seattle, 11.PITCHING—Cahill, Oakland, 6-1; Tomlin, Cleve-land, 6-1; Scherzer, Detroit, 6-1; Lester, Boston, 6-1; Pineda, Seattle, 6-2; Weaver, Los Angeles, 6-4; 11 tied at 5.STRIKEOUTS—FHernandez, Seattle, 77; Shields, Tampa Bay, 73; Verlander, Detroit, 71; Weaver, Los Angeles, 70; Haren, Los Angeles, 66; Lester, Boston, 63; Pineda, Seattle, 61.SAVES—MaRivera, New York, 13; CPerez, Cleve-land, 13; League, Seattle, 11; Valverde, Detroit, 11; Feliz, Texas, 9; Walden, Los Angeles, 9; Farn-sworth, Tampa Bay, 9; Fuentes, Oakland, 9.
NATIONAL LEAGUE G AB R H Pct.Holliday StL .................... 40 149 31 52 .349Berkman StL .................. 41 132 32 45 .341Polanco Phi .................... 47 180 25 61 .339Votto Cin ........................ 47 168 34 55 .327YMolina StL .................... 42 148 18 48 .324SCastro ChC .................. 44 192 25 62 .323Carroll LAD ..................... 47 174 24 55 .316BPhillips Cin ................... 44 171 30 54 .316GSanchez Fla ................ 45 171 25 54 .316Wallace Hou ................... 47 149 21 47 .315
BATTING—Holliday, St. Louis, .349; Berkman, St. Louis, .341; Polanco, Philadelphia, .339; Votto, Cincinnati, .327; YMolina, St. Louis, .324; SCastro, Chicago, .323; Carroll, Los Angeles, .316; BPhil-lips, Cincinnati, .316; GSanchez, Florida, .316.RUNS—Braun, Milwaukee, 34; Votto, Cincinnati, 34; Rasmus, St. Louis, 33; Stubbs, Cincinnati, 33; Berkman, St. Louis, 32; Bruce, Cincinnati, 31; Hol-liday, St. Louis, 31; Weeks, Milwaukee, 31.RBI—Braun, Milwaukee, 37; Fielder, Milwaukee, 37; Howard, Philadelphia, 36; Pence, Houston, 36; Berkman, St. Louis, 35; Kemp, Los Angeles, 33; Holliday, St. Louis, 31.HITS—SCastro, Chicago, 62; JosReyes, New York, 62; Polanco, Philadelphia, 61; Prado, Atlan-ta, 60; Pence, Houston, 59; Kemp, Los Angeles, 57; Ethier, Los Angeles, 56.DOUBLES—CJones, Atlanta, 15; Beltran, New York, 14; JosReyes, New York, 14; CYoung, Arizona, 14; Fielder, Milwaukee, 13; Holliday, St. Louis, 13; Pence, Houston, 13; SSmith, Colorado, 13; Votto, Cincinnati, 13.TRIPLES—JosReyes, New York, 6; Victorino, Philadelphia, 5; Espinosa, Washington, 4; Braun, Milwaukee, 3; SCastro, Chicago, 3; Fowler, Colo-rado, 3; Rasmus, St. Louis, 3.HOME RUNS—Braun, Milwaukee, 12; Bruce, Cincinnati, 12; Berkman, St. Louis, 11; Fielder, Milwaukee, 11; Kemp, Los Angeles, 11; ASoriano, Chicago, 11; Tulowitzki, Colorado, 11.STOLEN BASES—Bourn, Houston, 18; JosReyes, New York, 17; Desmond, Washington, 14; Stubbs, Cincinnati, 14; Kemp, Los Angeles, 13; Bourgeois, Houston, 12; CGomez, Milwaukee, 12.PITCHING—McClellan, St. Louis, 6-1; Marcum, Milwaukee, 6-1; Lohse, St. Louis, 6-2; Gallardo, Milwaukee, 6-2; Hamels, Philadelphia, 6-2; Halla-day, Philadelphia, 6-3; Correia, Pittsburgh, 6-4.STRIKEOUTS—Halladay, Philadelphia, 80; ClLee, Philadelphia, 78; Kershaw, Los Angeles, 77; Lincecum, San Francisco, 75; Norris, Houston, 69; Hamels, Philadelphia, 68; Garza, Chicago, 68.SAVES—LNunez, Florida, 17; FRodriguez, New York, 15; Street, Colorado, 14; BrWilson, San Francisco, 13; Hanrahan, Pittsburgh, 13; Putz, Arizona, 12; Axford, Milwaukee, 12; Kimbrel, Atlanta, 12.
miNoR leagUe baseballsouthern leagueNorth Division
W L Pct. GBTennessee (Cubs) ........29 16 .644 —Jackson (Mariners) .......25 18 .581 3Chattanooga (Dodgers) 22 22 .500 6 1/2Huntsville (Brewers) .....22 22 .500 6 1/2Carolina (Reds) ............13 31 .295 15 1/2
South Division W L Pct. GBMobile (Diamondbacks) 23 20 .535 —B-ham (White Sox) ......23 21 .523 1/2Jacksonville (Marlins) ...23 22 .511 1Montgomery (Rays) ......22 23 .489 2Mississippi (Braves) .....19 26 .422 5
Monday’s GamesJacksonville 5, Birmingham 3Mississippi 8, Jackson 5, 1st gameMississippi 12, Jackson 10, 2nd game
Huntsville 5, Montgomery 2Tennessee 6, Mobile 5Chattanooga 9, Carolina 3
Today’s GamesMississippi at Tennessee, 7:15 p.m.Chattanooga at Carolina, 7:15 p.m.
Wednesday’s GamesJackson at Mobile, 6:05 p.m., 1st gameJacksonville at Montgomery, 7:05 p.m.Mississippi at Tennessee, 7:15 p.m.Birmingham at Carolina, 7:15 p.m.Huntsville at Chattanooga, 7:15 p.m.Jackson at Mobile, 8:35 p.m., 2nd game
NbaNba Playoffs
CONFERENCE FINALS(Best-of-7)
EASTERN CONFERENCEChicago 2, Miami 1
May 15: Chicago 103, Miami 82May 18: Miami 85, Chicago 75Sunday: Miami 96, Chicago 85Today: Chicago at Miami, 7:30 p.m.Thursday: Miami at Chicago, 7:30 p.m.x-Saturday: Chicago at Miami, 7:30 p.m.x-May 30: Miami at Chicago, 7:30 p.m.
WESTERN CONFERENCEDallas 3, Oklahoma City 1
May 17: Dallas 121, Oklahoma City 112May 19: Oklahoma City 106, Dallas 100May 21: Dallas 93, Oklahoma City 87Monday: Dallas 112, Oklahoma City 105, OTWednesday: Oklahoma City at Dallas, 8 p.m.x-Friday: Dallas at Oklahoma City, 8 p.m.x-Sunday: Oklahoma City at Dallas, 8 p.m.
maVeRicKs 112, THUNDeR 105, oTDALLAS (112)Marion 1-5 5-6 7, Nowitzki 12-20 14-15 40, Chandler 2-4 1-1 5, Kidd 5-9 4-4 17, Stevenson 1-5 0-0 3, Terry 7-19 4-4 20, Stojakovic 2-7 0-0 4, Haywood 2-2 5-8 9, Barea 3-10 1-1 7. Totals 35-81 34-39 112.OKLAHOMA CITY (105)Durant 9-22 9-10 29, Ibaka 8-15 2-2 18, Perkins 3-5 0-1 6, Westbrook 7-22 5-8 19, Sefolosha 6-10 0-0 12, Harden 3-5 1-2 7, Collison 5-7 2-2 12, Maynor 1-4 0-0 2, Cook 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 42-90 19-25 105.Dallas 22 32 23 24 11 — 112Oklahoma City 31 28 22 20 4 — 1053-Point Goals—Dallas 8-25 (Kidd 3-6, Nowitzki 2-3, Terry 2-6, Stevenson 1-4, Barea 0-3, Sto-jakovic 0-3), Oklahoma City 2-13 (Durant 2-7, Maynor 0-1, Sefolosha 0-2, Westbrook 0-3). Fouled Out—Harden, Collison. Rebounds—Dallas 43 (Chandler 8), Oklahoma City 62 (Durant 15). Assists—Dallas 16 (Kidd 7), Oklahoma City 23 (Westbrook 8). Total Fouls—Dallas 22, Oklahoma City 29. Technicals—Chandler, Dallas defensive three second, Oklahoma City defensive three second. Flagrant Fouls—Haywood. A—18,203 (18,203).
NHlNHl Playoffs
CONFERENCE FINALS(Best-of-7)
EASTERN CONFERENCEBoston 3, Tampa Bay 2
May 14: Tampa Bay 5, Boston 2May 17: Boston 6, Tampa Bay 5May 19: Boston 2, Tampa Bay 0May 21: Tampa Bay 5, Boston 3Monday: Boston 3, Tampa Bay 1Wednesday: Boston at Tampa Bay, 7 p.m.x-Friday: Tampa Bay at Boston, 7 p.m.
WESTERN CONFERENCEVancouver 3, San Jose 1
May 15: Vancouver 3, San Jose 2May 18: Vancouver 7, San Jose 3May 20: San Jose 4, Vancouver 3May 22: Vancouver 4, San Jose 2Today: San Jose at Vancouver, 8 p.m.x-Thursday: Vancouver at San Jose, 8 p.m.x-Saturday: San Jose at Vancouver, 7 p.m.
NascaRSprint Cup Schedule
Feb. 20 — Daytona 500 (Trevor Bayne)Feb. 27 — Subway Fresh Fit 500 (Jeff Gordon)March 6 — Kobalt Tools 400 (Carl Edwards)March 20 — Jeff Byrd 500 (Kyle Busch)March 27 — Auto Club 400 (Kevin Harvick)April 3 — Goody’s Fast Relief 500 (Kevin Harvick)April 9 — Samsung Mobile 500 (Matt Kenseth)April 17 — Aaron’s 499 (Jimmie Johnson)April 30 — Crown Royal Presents The Matthew & Daniel Hansen 400 (Kyle Busch)May 7 — Southern 500 (Regan Smith)May 15 — FedEx 400 (Matt Kenseth)May 21 — x-Sprint Showdown, Concord, N.C. (David Ragan)May 21 — x-Sprint All-Star Race, Concord, N.C. (Carl Edwards)May 29 — Coca-Cola 600, Concord, N.C.June 5 — STP 400, Kansas City, Kan.June 12 — Pocono 500, Long Pond, Pa.June 19 — Heluva Good! 400, Brooklyn, Mich.June 26 — Toyota/Save Mart 350, Sonoma, Calif.July 2 — Coke Zero 400, Daytona Beach, Fla.July 9 — Quaker State 400, Sparta, Ky.July 17 — Lenox Tools 301, Loudon, N.H.July 31 — Brickyard 400, Indianapolisx-Non-points race
Sprint Cup standings1. Carl Edwards ................................................ 4162. Jimmie Johnson ............................................ 3923. Kyle Busch .................................................... 3794. Dale Earnhardt Jr. ........................................ 3645. Kevin Harvick ................................................ 3626. Matt Kenseth ................................................. 3427. Ryan Newman .............................................. 3408. Clint Bowyer .................................................. 3369. Kurt Busch .................................................... 33610. Tony Stewart ............................................... 32811. Mark Martin ................................................. 32412. Greg Biffle ................................................... 31113. Denny Hamlin ............................................. 30414. Jeff Gordon ................................................. 29915. Juan Pablo Montoya ................................... 29616. A J Allmendinger ........................................ 29517. Paul Menard ............................................... 29118. Kasey Kahne .............................................. 28619. Martin Truex Jr. .......................................... 28220. Marcos Ambrose ......................................... 281
———Nationwide Series Schedule
Feb. 19 — DRIVE4COPD 300 (Tony Stewart)Feb. 26 — Bashas’ Supermarkets 200 (Kyle Busch)March 5 — Sam’s Town 300 (Mark Martin)March 19 — Scotts EZ Seed 300 (Kyle Busch)March 26 — Royal Purple 300 (Kyle Busch)April 8 — O’Reilly Auto Parts 300 (Carl Edwards)
April 16 — Aaron’s 312 (Kyle Busch)April 23 — Nashville 300 (Carl Edwards)April 29 — BUBBA burger 250 (Denny Hamlin)May 6 — Royal Purple 200 (Kyle Busch)May 14 — 5-hour ENERGY 200 (Carl Edwards)May 22 — John Deere 250 (Ricky Stenhouse Jr.)May 28 — Top Gear 300, Concord, N.C.June 4 — STP 300, Joliet, Ill.June 18 — Alliance Parts 250, Brooklyn, Mich.June 25 — Bucyrus 200, Elkhart Lake, Wis.July 1 — Subway Jalapeno 250, Daytona Beach, Fla.July 8 — Feed The Children 300, Sparta, Ky.July 16 — New England 200, Loudon, N.H.July 23 — Federated 300, Lebanon, Tenn.July 30 — Kroger 200, Indianapolis
Nationwide Series standings1. Elliott Sadler ................................................... 4182. Reed Sorenson ............................................. 4113. Ricky Stenhouse Jr. ..................................... 4104. Justin Allgaier ............................................... 3985. Jason Leffler ................................................. 3756. Aric Almirola .................................................. 3667. Kenny Wallace .............................................. 3558. Steve Wallace ............................................... 3159. Brian Scott .................................................... 30310. Josh Wise ................................................... 289
golfPGA Tour Schedule
April 7-10 — The Masters (Charl Schwartzel)April 14-17 — Valero Texas Open (Brendan Steele)April 21-24 — The Heritage (Brandt Snedeker)April 28-May 1 — Zurich Classic (Bubba Watson)May 5-8 — Wells Fargo Championship (Lucas Glover)May 12-15 — The Players Championship (K.J. Choi)May 19-22 — Crowne Plaza Invitational at Colo-nial (David Toms)May 26-29 — HP Byron Nelson Championship, Las Colinas, TexasJune 2-5 — Memorial Tournament, Dublin, OhioJune 9-12 — FedEx St. Jude Classic, Memphis, Tenn.June 16-19 — U.S. Open, Bethesda, Md.June 23-26 — Travelers Championship, Hartford, Conn.June 30-July 3 — AT&T National, Newton Square, Pa.July 7-10 — John Deere Classic, Silvis, Ill.July 14-17 — British Open, Sandwich, EnglandJuly 14-17 — Viking Classic, Madison, Miss.July 21-24 — RBC Canadian Open, Vancouver, British ColumbiaJuly 28-31 — The Greenbrier Classic, Greenbrier, W.Va.Aug. 4-7 — WGC-Bridgestone Invitational, Akron, OhioAug. 4-7 — Reno-Tahoe Open, Reno, Nev.Aug. 11-14 — PGA Championship, Johns Creek, Ga.
FedExCup LeadersThrough May 21
Player Points YTD Money1. Bubba Watson ................1,383 .........$2,948,7902. Luke Donald ....................1,354 .........$3,344,8673. Mark Wilson ....................1,243 .........$2,516,5724. David Toms .....................1,229 .........$2,842,2155. Phil Mickelson .................1,190 .........$2,362,1526. Nick Watney ....................1,169 .........$2,791,7337. K.J. Choi .........................1,161 .........$2,915,0498. Martin Laird .....................1,129 .........$2,314,9969. Rory Sabbatini ................1,100 .........$2,150,43110. Gary Woodland .............1,050 .........$2,047,66011. Aaron Baddeley ............1,046 .........$2,265,69112. Jonathan Byrd ...............1,034 .........$2,142,24813. Brandt Snedeker ...........1,023 .........$2,098,88714. Webb Simpson ................956 .........$1,870,75815. Hunter Mahan ..................952 .........$2,008,40216. Matt Kuchar .....................907 .........$1,977,86917. Steve Marino ....................881 .........$1,739,96618. Charl Schwartzel ..............850 .........$1,833,55419. Bill Haas ...........................842 .........$1,601,72820. Jhonattan Vegas ..............816 .........$1,499,350
World Golf RankingThrough May 22
1. Lee Westwood .................. Eng ....................8.082. Luke Donald ...................... Eng ....................8.033. Martin Kaymer ...................Ger ....................7.494. Phil Mickelson .................. USA ....................6.295. Graeme McDowell ..............NIr ....................5.716. Rory McIlroy ........................NIr ....................5.467. Charl Schwartzel ................SAf ....................5.168. Steve Stricker .................. USA ....................5.159. Paul Casey ....................... Eng ....................5.1310. Matt Kuchar ................... USA ....................5.1011. Bubba Watson ............... USA ....................5.0412. Tiger Woods .................. USA ....................5.0313. Dustin Johnson .............. USA ....................4.9814. Ian Poulter ...................... Eng ....................4.8715. Nick Watney ................... USA ....................4.7916. K.J. Choi .......................... Kor ....................4.56
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May 241935 — In the first major league
night game, the Reds beat the Phil-adelphia Phillies 2-1 before 25,000 fans in Cincinnati.
1981 — The Indianapolis 500 ends in controversy when Mario Andretti, who finished second to Bobby Unser, is declared the winner because Unser broke a rule during a slowdown period near the end of the race. The decision is later reversed, giving Unser credit for the victory, but he is fined $40,000.
1992 — Al Unser Jr. wins the clos-est finish at the Indianapolis 500, beating Scott Goodyear by 0.043 of a second, barely half a car length. Lyn St. James, the second woman to race at Indy, finishes 11th.
2001 — John Lieber of the Chicago Cubs tosses a 79-pitch, one-hit shut-out in a 3-0 blanking of the Reds. It’s the first shutout of the Reds in an NL-record 208 games.
WWeVicksburg’s Riggsmakes it to final three
Former Porters Chapel football player and former mixed martial arts fighter Jeremiah Riggs sur-vived another round of elimina-tions on the Worldwide Wrestling Entertainment reality show “Tough Enough” on Monday. He is among the final three with Andy Leavine and Luke Robinson. The next-to-the-last episode, with one more elimination, airs on June 30 on USA Network at 7 p.m., while the finale will air live on Raw on June 6.
miNoR leagUe baseballClass-A game goes 23 innings
JUPITER, Fla. — A minor league game in the Class-A Florida State League lasted 23 innings Monday night before the Jupiter Hammer-heads finally beat the Clearwater Threshers 2-1.
With one out in the bottom of the 23rd, Jose Duarte singled home Jaime Ortiz with the winning run to end it after 5 hours, 37 minutes. Ortiz had singled off losing pitcher Justin Friend, who entered to start the 23rd.
Attendance was 330 for a game that began at 6:30 p.m. and ended after midnight.
Clearwater scored a run in the third on Brian Gump’s RBI double and Jupiter tied it in the sixth on a single by Dallas Poulk before the teams went scoreless for the next 16 innings.
Mississippi Bravessweep doubleheader
The Mississippi Braves scored early, often, and in bunches on Monday, winning both ends of a doubleheader over the Jackson Generals at Pringles Park. The M-Braves won game one 8-5 and took game two 12-10 to earn the series victory.
Mississippi (19-26) would never trail in either ballgame, and broke through both games for three runs in the first inning.
In game one, the Braves were led at the plate by Tyler Pastornicky and Ernesto Mejia with three hits apiece. Pastornicky hit his fourth home run of the season in the second inning, a two-run shot to extend the Braves’ lead to 5-0.
Yeliar Castro (1-0) grabbed the win in relief in game two, allow-ing three hits for two runs in 2 2/3 innings. He came on after Paul Cle-mens managed just three innings.
Sunday’s drawingLa. Pick 3: 9-2-3La. Pick 4: 1-6-8-0 Monday’s drawingLa. Pick 3: 2-9-3 La. Pick 4: 4-2-6-2 Tuesday’s drawingLa. Pick 3: 6-3-9 La. Pick 4: 2-8-6-4 Wednesday’s drawingLa. Pick 3: 1-2-4La. Pick 4: 3-0-1-8Easy 5: 3-12-20-26-27La. Lotto: 1-8-14-18-22-31Powerball: 7-12-13-42-49 Powerball: 16; Power play:4Thursday’s drawingLa. Pick 3: 8-4-6 La. Pick 4: 9-3-1-2 Friday’s drawingLa. Pick 3: 5-2-2La. Pick 4: 4-3-3-4Saturday’s drawingLa. Pick 3: 5-1-3La. Pick 4: 2-6-0-7Easy 5: 1-11-20-29-36La. Lotto: 7-8-9-11-20-32Powerball: 2-8-40-49-50Powerball: 36; Power play: 3
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baseball player in Missis-sippi. Koelling is the first Southern Miss player to win. He beat out Parks and team-mate B.A. Vollmuth in voting by a statewide panel of col-lege coaches, scouts and media.
“I guess I was kind of sur-prised. Those other two guys are just as deserving of that trophy as I am. I’ve done nothing that those guys haven’t done. All of us were deserving of it, and I just happened to get it,” Koelling said. “It’s awesome. It feels good. To see some of the names on there like (Drew) Pomeranz and Stephen Head and (Ed) Easley from Missis-sippi State, all of those guys are on there and are some
pretty big names to be up there with. It’s just an honor to be put in the same com-pany as them.”
Southern Miss coach Scott Berry said Koelling was pretty good company, too. In addition to what Koelling has contributed on the field — he’s started 148 of a pos-sible 179 games in three sea-sons in Hattiesburg — Berry called him a model citizen off the field.
“I look at Tyler and the things he stands for. The trouble he’s been in off the field. None. The calls I’ve gotten from the academic center about him. None,” Berry said. “He’s represen-tative of everything we want our athletes to be.”
— and an hour from campus — will not only draw a healthy pro-USM crowd, but allow the players to stick to a routine.
“Last year we played the late game one night and then had to wake up the next morning. This year we play all late games. It’s really nice. You get to sleep in a little bit and relax all day, and really get your mind focused,” Voll-muth said.
Despite the apparent advantages they’ll enjoy, the Golden Eagles do need to break out of a losing routine. They lost four in a row before beating Rice in the regular-season finale last Saturday. USM coach Scott Berry said the win helped shake off the swoon, but was still hoping two months of good base-ball isn’t undone by two bad weeks.
“The thing I didn’t want to get lost is what we had done prior to get ourselves to that position. We played good baseball for a long, long time,“ Berry said. “Baseball is a sport where you’re going to deal with some adversity. You just hope you get over it quick. Hopefully that game on Saturday gives us some momentum.”
Southern Miss is also play-ing for more than just a con-ference championship this week. Its RPI was as high as No. 2 in the country at one point this season, meaning a strong showing in Pearl could allow the school to host an NCAA regional next week.
“We’re not looking ahead to regionals, but in the back of our mind we know if we do what we’re supposed to then that’s what can happen
for us,“ Vollmuth said. “It’s been that way the last couple weeks, and I think we got to looking ahead a little too much and looking at what other people were doing and
got off of our game. But now we realize we have to take it one game at a time and things will work out how they’ve got to work out.”
Ferriss winners• 2004 Stephen Head (IF/P) Ole Miss• 2005 Brian Pettway (OF) Ole Miss• 2006 Thomas Berkery (IF) MSU• 2007 Ed Easley (MSU)• 2008 Scott Bittle (P) Ole Miss• 2009 Craig Westcott (IF/P) Belhaven• 2010 Drew Pomeranz (P) Ole Miss• 2011 Tyler Koelling (OF) Southern Miss
MlbBraves’ outfield hit hard by injuriesBy The Associated Press
The Atlanta Braves placed center fielder Nate McLouth on the 15-day disabled list Monday, losing another starter in their injury-depleted outfield.
McLouth went down with a strained muscle on his left side, and the Braves recalled former starter Jordan Schafer from Triple-A Gwinnett.
McLouth was hurt Sunday against the Los Angeles Angels when he checked his swing on a 1-2 pitch lead-ing off the game. The same day, the Braves placed right fielder Jason Heyward on the DL with lingering stiffness in
his troubled right shoulder. Wilkin Ramirez was called up from Gwinnett to take Hey-ward’s place.
“Teams that can survive the injury bug are going to be there at the end, and we’re going through that right now a little bit,” manager Fredi Gonzalez said after Sunday’s
game. “But I think this team, mentally, is going to survive that.”
The Braves also must contend with an ailing Tim Hudson, who returned to Atlanta to have his back examined after giving up eight runs over 3 2-3 innings and hitting three batters with pitches in a 9-0 loss to the Angels. The right-hander will miss Wednesday’s scheduled start in Pittsburgh, forcing the Braves to make another roster move.
Left-hander Mike Minor will be called up from Triple-A to make the start.
The 24-year-old Schafer returns to the big leagues for the first time since 2009.
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Readers have a few tips for miserly hotel guestDear Abby: I was shocked
and angered by the letter from “West Virginia Trav-eler” (April 16) on towel usage and tipping hotel housekeep-ers. His priorities and “knowl-edge” of hotel staff are seri-ously skewed. This man is taking his peevishness out on hotel employees who can least afford to take it.
The concierge is paid well to deal with disgruntled guests and make things right. The bellman gets tipped to carry a bag from the lobby to your room. If a doorman calls a cab for you, he gets tipped. If there is a restaurant, the servers are tipped.
The one person who is most critical to making your stay comfortable and pleasant is the maid/housekeeper. She is the one who makes sure you have a clean bathroom, fresh sheets and plenty of toilet paper. She does the grungi-est job in the hotel, gets paid
very little, is rarely thanked in person and is the last to be tipped. She needs these tips more than anyone else.
I make a point of tipping every single day of my stay, and I have always received the best room service imaginable. — Luann in Keene, N.H.
Dear Luann: Thank you for your letter. Housekeepers everywhere will be grateful for your support. Read on:
Dear Abby: I am a house-keeper in a popular hotel chain. Our staff leaves cards in the bathrooms asking our guests to please conserve and hang towels for reuse if pos-sible. Just because you can be
wasteful, it doesn’t mean you should. — Jennifer in Canada
Dear Abby: “Traveler” said not a single housekeeper has been “exceptional.” What about the simple fact that housekeepers clean up his mess during his stay? They take out his trash, refresh his towels and replace used soaps and shampoos. Housekeepers vacuum anything tracked in, remake beds, wipe down the sink and bath/showers.
I can say from personal expe-rience that many hotel guests wouldn’t leave their homes in the condition they leave their hotel rooms, and sadly, they feel that it’s acceptable. House-keepers work hard to provide a clean and comfortable room prior to a guest’s arrival, and strive to maintain that comfort throughout the guest’s stay. In addition, they will fulfill any request within their abili-ties. I’d say this alone is pretty darn “exceptional.” — Guest
Service Rep in UtahDear Abby: Leaving a tip for
housekeeping in a hotel is a matter of social responsibility/social justice. A striking major-ity of hotel maids are women — many of color, invariably in a lower income bracket and, often, single mothers. They work extraordinarily hard for less than minimum wage in cities where the cost of living is much higher than their incomes. In other words, they are not paid a living wage. Consider it a “mitzvah” (a blessing) to leave a tip. It can make a difference between a family “getting by” and one that is drowning. This is about doing the right thing. — An M.D. in Monte Sereno, Calif.
•Dear Abby is written by Abigail Van Buren, also known as Jeanne Phillips, and was founded by her mother, Pauline Phillips. Write Dear Abby at www.Dear Abby.com or P.O. Box 69440, Los Angeles, CA 90069.
Cold, warm water: It’s all the same for drinkingDear Dr. Gott: I have read
that drinking the appropriate amount of water each day is good for my health. I also see a lot of information about how much water is enough. Now I get an e-mail from a friend who forwarded a message that drinking cold water with a meal is bad for health but drinking warm water with a meal is good for it.
Does it matter whether I drink cold or warm water
with a meal? Does it matter whether I drink cold or warm water without a meal? Thank you.
Dear Reader: If I am cor-rect, the e-mail you received
was about cold water causing cancer and might have had some information about heart attacks thrown into the mix. Both Hoax Slayer (www.hoax-slayer.com) and Snopes (www.snopes.com) classify this as false, and I agree.
Cold water will not solidify the stomach contents because it does not remain cold. As it is consumed, the water warms to the same temperature as the body. So drink cold or warm
water with or without a meal. It doesn’t really matter.
Now as for how much water to drink daily, I have previ-ously talked about this. You can read the article on my website at www.askdrgot-tmd.com/do-water-intake-rec-ommendations-change-with-weight/.
•Write to Dr. Peter Gott in care of United Media, 200 Madison Ave., 4th � ., New York, NY 10016.
Dr. Wallace: I’m a 13-year-old boy with a high squeaky voice. When will my voice start to get deeper? — Nameless, Goshen, Ind.
Nameless: Your voice will not become deeper in stages. One morning, you will wake up and will be the proud owner of a deep, rich voice. Ninety-nine percent of all teen males experi-ence this instant change.
Dr. Wallace: Last night, my boyfriend and I went to a movie. I happened to see my best friend’s boyfriend with another girl. When he saw me, he ran over and begged me to keep what I saw a secret.
I promised him I would, but today I feel di� erently. This guy is a louse and I feel that I should tell my best friend. Don’t you agree? Besides, I’m almost ready to burst. I can’t keep the secret in much longer. — Ashley, Hagerstown, Md.
Ashley: Keep your mouth sealed. You won’t burst. After all, a promise is a promise. It won’t take long before your friend dis-covers what you already know — he’s a louse.
•Dr. Robert Wallace writes for Copley News Service. E-mail him at rwallace@Copley News Service.
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TONIGHT ON TV ■ MOVIE“The War” — A Vietnam vet-eran, Kevin Costner, teaches his son, Elijah Wood, and daugh-ter what is worth � ghting for in 1970 Mississippi./8 on GMC■ SPORTSNBA — MVP Derrick Rose and the Chicago Bulls aim to even up the Eastern Conference � -nals against the Miami Heat to-night. The Heat lead the series 2-1./7:30 on TNT■ PRIMETIME“The Biggest Loser” — Con-testants reunite to weigh in one more time; the third � nalist is announced; the winner is re-vealed./7 on NBC
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MILESTONES■ BIRTHDAYSTommy Chong, comedian, 73; Bob Dylan, singer, 70; Patti La-Belle, singer, 67; Priscilla Presley, actress, 66; Mike Reid, coun-try singer, 64; Rosanne Cash, singer, 56; Kristin Scott Thomas, actress, 51; John C. Reilly, actor, 46; Heavy D, rapper-recording executive, 44; Rich Robinson, rock musician, 42; Cayden Boyd, actor, 17.
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Austen manuscript to go on auctionAuction house Sotheby’s said that it is selling an early Jane
Austen manuscript — the only major manuscript by the author still in private hands.
The auction house says the draft for “The Watsons” is the earli-est surviving manuscript for a novel by Austen that was prob-ably written in 1804.
It said Monday that the manuscript is estimated at $322,027 to $482,995.
The novel is incomplete and was written before Austen was a published writer.
It centers on a family of four sisters, the daughters of a wid-owed clergyman.
It was not published during Austen’s lifetime.The manuscript has not been at auction since 1988. It will be
auctioned in London on July 14.
Schwimmer becomes dad to girl, CleoDavid Schwimmer is now a father.A spokeswoman for the 44-year-old actor and
director said Schwimmer and his wife, Zoe Buck-man, recently welcomed their � rst daughter.
Publicist Ina Treciokas said baby Cleo Buck-man Schwimmer was born May 8.
Schwimmer was a star of TV’s “Friends.” He also lent his voice to the “Madagascar” animated movies.
‘Taxi,’ ‘Grease,’ star � ghting for lifeJe� Conaway’s manager said the actor is in critical condition
and facing a crucial period of survival.The 60-year-old Conaway has been hospital-
ized since May 11, when he was found uncon-scious from what manager Phil Brock said was a drug overdose that may have involved pain pills.
Conaway, who starred in TV’s “Taxi” and the movie musical “Grease,” has pneumonia and sepsis, a potentially deadly blood poisoning
caused by a bacterial infection, Brock said Mon-day. The next 48 hours are considered crucial.
To aid his recovery, Conaway was in a medically induced coma at the Encino Tarzana Medical Center, Brock said.
In 2008, the actor aired his battle with addiction on TV’s “Ce-lebrity Rehab.” Conaway has struggled with back pain and re-peated operations, Brock said.
AND ONE MORE
Pair serves pool time for rafting o� enseA northeast Ohio couple
found themselves up to their ankles in trouble for rafting on a � ood-swollen river without life preservers and lying about it af-terward.
A judge sentenced them to stand in a tiny swimming pool while wearing life jackets and handing out water safety bro-chures Saturday at a festival in Painesville, 30 miles northeast of Cleveland.
Twenty-year-old Grace Nash and 22-year-old Bruce Crawford pleaded guilty to misdemeanor misconduct during an emer-gency.
Searchers spent hours looking for them last month after they were spotted on the Grand River.
They made it to land but lied to an o� cial about being in the water.
They chose the pool punish-ment and community service over 60 days in jail.
Nash said they’ve learned their lesson.
DavidSchwimmer
Kevin Costner
Bruce Crawford and Grace Nash pass out water safety brochures at the Interna-tional Cuisine Festival in Painesville, Ohio.
JeffConaway
Radio host: World’s end actually in OctoberOAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — As
crestfallen followers of a Cali-fornia preacher who foresaw the world’s end strained to fi nd meaning in their lives, Harold Camping revised his apocalyp-tic prophecy Monday, saying he was off by fi ve months and the Earth actually will be obliter-ated on Oct. 21.
Camping, who predicted that 200 million Christians would be taken to heaven Saturday before global cataclysm struck the planet, said he felt so ter-rible when his doomsday mes-sage did not come true that he left home and took refuge in a motel with his wife. His inde-pendent ministry, Family Radio International, spent millions — some of it from donations made by followers — on more than 5,000 billboards and 20 RVs plastered with the Judgment Day message.
Follower Jeff Hopkins also
spent a good deal of his own retirement savings on gas money to power his car so people would see its ominous lighted sign showcasing Camp-ing’s May 21 warning. As the appointed day drew nearer, Hopkins started making the 100-mile round trip from Long
Island to New York City twice a day, spending at least $15 on gas each trip.
“I’ve been mocked and scoffed and cursed at and I’ve been through a lot with this lighted sign on top of my car,” said Hopkins, 52, a former tele-vision producer who lives in
Great River, NY. “I was doing what I’ve been instructed to do through the Bible, but now I’ve been stymied. It’s like getting slapped in the face.”
Camping, who made a special appearance before the press at the Oakland headquarters of the media empire Monday eve-ning, apologized for not having the dates “worked out as accu-rately as I could have.”
Through chatting with a friend over what he acknowl-edged was a very difficult weekend, it dawned on him that instead of the biblical Rapture in which the faithful would be swept up to the heavens, May 21 had instead been a “spiri-tual” Judgment Day, which places the entire world under Christ’s judgment, he said.
The globe will be completely destroyed in fi ve months, he said, when the apocalypse comes.
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Harold Camping speaks during his show “Open Forum” in Oakland, Calif.
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If tomorrow is your birth-day: A number of impedi-ments and restrictions that have been blocking your path will finally be alleviated in the coming months.Gemini (May 21-June 20) — The thoughtful concern you show to everyone will be deeply appreciated and make you very popular among your peers. Cancer (June 21-July 22) — Not only will you apply your ingenuity and resourcefulness to new things but to all your tasks as well.Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) — A big score on something huge might never manifest itself, but that doesn’t mean you can’t be happy with the many little things that you do quire well. Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) — You have a way of making your doings seem far more ex-citing and enticing than those of others. Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 23) — This could be the right day to subtly demonstrate to people who owe you something just how they can repay you.Scorpio (Oct. 24-Nov. 22) — Do more listening than talk-ing when in a discussion with some in-the-know friends. Sagittarius (Nov. 23-Dec. 21) — Think in very small stages and a very big objective of yours that you’ve been anx-ious to attain can be reached. However, it will take lots of pa-tience and persistence.Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) — Use your abilities as an observer and something quite important and valuable can be discovered. There will be plenty of opportunity to watch how the experts get it done.Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 19) — It won’t be possible to de-ceive you with outward ap-pearances. Little do people know that you are born to see things for what they are.Pisces (Feb. 20-March 20) — Rehash an issue down to its
smallest detail with someone who is equally as discerning as yourself. What you don’t think of, he or she will, and collectively you can figure out what you’re seeking.Aries (March 21-April 19) — Don’t expect others to make a big deal out of one of your victories, regardless of how clever you are in your accom-
plishment. The only thing that’s important is that you appreciate the results.Taurus (April 20-May 20) — What makes you so popular is your ability to put people at ease and get them talking about themselves. This will turn out to be a very valuable asset at any gathering.
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NOTICE OF SUBSTITUTETRUSTEE'S SALEBy virtue of that certain Deedof Trust made on the 22ndday of March, 2002, by BillyR. Grey to J. PatrickCaldwell, Trustee,subsequently replaced byLauren Roberts Cappaert,Substituted Trustee,pursuant to valid Substitutionof Trustee which is recordedin Deed Book 1520 at Page795 of the Land Records ofWarren County, Mississippi,to secure certainindebtedness thereinmentioned for the benefit ofBancorpSouth Bank, whichDeed of Trust is dulyrecorded in Book 1327 atPage 606 of the Records ofMortgages and Deeds ofTrust on Land in the Office ofthe Chancery Clerk ofWarren County, Mississippi;and pursuant to the powerand authority vested in me,as Substituted Trustee, andat the request of the owner ofsaid indebtedness, defaulthaving been made in thepayment due thereunder asdescribed in PromissoryNote by said Deed of Trustsecured and the payment ofthe interest thereunderaccruing and the holder andthe owner of the Note havingelected under the terms ofsaid Deed of Trust to declaresaid Note due and payableas by said Deed of Trustauthorized, and the sameremaining unpaid, I, LaurenRoberts Cappaert, asSubstituted Trustee, willbetween the legal hours of11:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m. onWednesday, the 15th day ofJune, 2011, at the main frontdoor of the Cherry Streetside of the county court-house in Vicksburg, WarrenCounty, Mississippi, exposefor sale at public auction tothe highest and best bidderfor cash the followingdescribed property conveyedby said Deed of Trust, saidproperty being situated inWarren County, State ofMississippi, being describedas follows:Commencing at a 1-inchpipe marking thereconstructed 1/2 Sectioncorner between Sections 24and 25, Township 16 North,Range 4 East WarrenCounty, Mississippi, saidcorner being further de-scribed as Point No 103 on aplat titled "Re-Survey andPartition of Tract describedin Deed Book 250 Page 398and as Parcel One DeedBook 1198 page 574 inSection 25, Township 16North, Range 4 East, WarrenCounty, Mississippi"surveyed January - July2001 by M. D. Gettinger,Registered Land SurveyorNo. PLS 2621, said platbeing made a part of thisdescription. Thence N 82de-grees 52' 31" E 28.14 feet toPoint No. 158 a 1/2-inch pipeset at the southwest cornerof a 2.77-Acre Lot describedin Deed Book 1238 Page453 of the Land Records ofWarren County. A plat titled"Survey of 2.77-Acre Lot ToBe Conveyed, being part ofParcel One Deed Book 1198page 574 in Section 25,Township 16 North, Range 4East, Warren County,Mississippi" surveyedJanuary - May 2001 by M. D.Gettinger, Registered LandSurveyor No. PLS 2621, wasmade a part of said2.77-Acre Lot description.Thence along the south linef id 2 77 A L t d
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of said 2.77-Acre Lot andsaid Parcel One N 81de-grees 58'40" E 350.52 feet toPoint No. 48 a 1-inchpinched-top piperecovered at the southeastcorner of said 2.77-Acre Lotand at a point on the westline of said Parcel One, saidPoint No. 48 being the Pointof Beginning of Lot E hereindescribed. Thence along thewest line of said Parcel Oneand said Lot E S 02degrees56'05" W 223.68 feet to PointNo. 102 a 1 1/2-inch pipe setat the southwest corner ofsaid Parcel One and said LotE on the north Right-of-Wayof Old US Highway 80;thence, along the south lineof said Lot E and the northRight-of-Way of said High-way N 81degrees 58' 40' E210.00 feet to Point No. 105a 1/2-inch rod set at thesoutheast corner of said LotE on north Right-of-Way ofsaid Highway; thence leavingsaid Right-of Way and alongthe east line of said Lot Eand the west line of Lot C N02degrees 56' 05" E 137.60feet to Point No. 107 a 3/8-inch rod set; thence continu-ing along the east line of saidLot E and the west line of LotA N 02degrees 56' 05" E183.40 feet to Point No. 110a 3/8-inch rod set; thencecontinuing along the east lineof said Lot E and the westline of Lot D N 02degrees 56'05" E 198.06 feet to PointNo. 106 a 1/2-inch rod set onthe north line of said ParcelOne at the northeast cornerof said Lot E; thence alongthe north line of said ParcelOne and said Lot E N 89de-grees 52' 40" W 206.42 feetto Point No. 104 a 1/2-inchpipe with elbow top set at thenorthwest corner of said LotE and being the northeastcorner of said 2.77-Acre Lot;thence, leaving the north lineof said Parcel One and alongthe west line of said Lot Eand the east line of said2.77-Acre Lot S 02degrees56' 05" W 325.17 feet toPoint No. 48 the Point ofBeginning. Said Lot E hereindescribed contains 2.53acres more or less.The undersigned will onlyconvey such title as is vestedin me as SubstitutedTrustee.WITNESS my signature thisthe 18th day of May, 2011./s/ Lauren Roberts CappaertLAUREN ROBERTSCAPPAERTSubstituted TrusteePublish: 5/24, 5/31, 6/7, 6/14(4t)
LEGAL NOTICEI, Yong Rui Zheng(sole owner)We, the officers ofSunKoon Inc.intend to makeapplication for: anOn-PremiseRetailer permit asprovided for bythe Local OptionAlcoholicBeverage ControlLaws, Section67-1-1 et seq., ofthe MississippiCode of 1972,Annotated. Ifgranted such per-mit, I propose to
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operate as acorporation underthe trade name ofSunKoon Inc.located at 3041 N.Frontage Rd.Vicksburg ofWarren County.The name(s), title(s) and address(es) of the owner(s)/ partners/corporate officer(s) and/or majoritystockholder(s)/member(s)/ trusteeof the abovenamed businessare: Yong RuiZheng (President)3120 S. FrontageRd. Apt 605Vicksburg, MS39180, Yidi Liu(Vice President)3120 S. FrontageRd. Apt. 605Vicksburg, MS39180If any personwishes to requesta hearing to objectto the issuance ofthis permit arequest for ahearing must bemade in writingand received bythe Department ofRevenue within(15) fifteen daysfrom the first datethis notice waspublished.Requests shall besent to:
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Chief Counsel,Legal DivisionDepartment ofRevenueP.O. Box 22828Jackson, MS39225Date of FirstPublication:05/24/2011This the 20 day ofMay, 2011.Publish: 5/24, 5/25(2t)IN THE CHANCERYCOURT OF WARRENCOUNTY, MISSISSIPPIBRUCE CHAD WILLIAMSCOMPLAINANTVS.CAUSE NO. 2011-141GNDONNELL A. SHEHANE;MARY A. SHEHANE andALL PARTIES HAVING ORCLAIMING ANY LEGAL OREQUITABLE INTEREST INTHE FOLLOWINGDESCRIBED LAND, TO-WIT: DEFENDANTSBEGINNING AT AN OLD #"IRON PIPE (FOUND), SAIDPIPE MARKS THENORTHEAST CORNER OFPARCEL ONE OF THEKENNETH L. HARTLEYTRACT IN SECTION 38,T15N, R3E, WARRENCOUNTY, MISSISSIPPI,AND RECORDED IN DEEDBOOK 518 AT PAGE 316OF THE RECORDS OFDEEDS OF WARRENCOUNTY, MISSISSIPPI;THENCE ALONG THENORTH LINE OF THEHARLEY WILLIAMSONAND KILLEBREW TRACTS,S 65degrees02' W, 332.45FEET TO AN OLD IRONPIPE (FOUND), SAID PIPEMARKS THE NORTHWESTCORNER OF THEKILLEBREW TRACT, ANDTHE NORTHEAST OF THEBAGBY TRACT; THENCEALONG THE NORTH LINEOF THE BAGBY ANDYOUNG TRACTS, S80degrees18' W, 411.0FEET TO THE EAST LINEOF REDBONE ROAD;THENCE ALONG THE
McCoy’s Building Supply, a successful family-owned lumber and building supply retail chain with 83 retail stores located throughoutTexas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Mississippi and Arkansas, is seeking
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01. LegalsEAST LINE OF REDBONEROAD, N 26degrees37' W,100.0 FEET; THENCELEAVE SAID ROAD ANDRUN N 64degrees40' E,681.0 FEET TO THE WESTLINE OF A 25 FEETSTREET LEADING TO THESINGING HILLS ROAD;THENCE ALONG THEWEST LINE OF SAID 25FEET STREET, S38degrees24' E, 218.61FEET TO THE POINT OFBEGINNING, CONTAINING2.91 ACRES MORE ORLESS.SUMMONSTHE STATE OFMISSISSIPPITO: MARY A. SHEHANEYou have been made aDefendant in the suit filed inthis Court by theComplainant, BRUCE CHADWILLIAMS, who is to confirmtax title and quiet title to theabove described property.You are required to mail orhand-deliver a copy of awritten response to thecomplaint filed against you inthis action to Clyde E. Ellis,the attorney for Complainantwhose street address is1212 Farmer Street,Vicksburg, Mississippi39183.YOUR RESPONSE MUSTBE MAILED ORDELIVERED NOT LATERTHAN THIRTY (30) DAYSAFTER THE 17TH DAY OFMAY, 2011, WHICH IS THEDATE OF THE FIRSTPUBLICATION OF THISSUMMONS. IF YOURRESPONSE IS NOTMAILED OR DELIVERED, AJUDGMENT BY DEFAULTWILL BE ENTEREDAGAINST YOU FOR THEMONEY OR OTHERRELIEF DEMANDED INTHE COMPLAINT.You must also file theoriginal of your responsewith the Clerk of this Courtwithin a reasonable timeafterward.Issued under my hand andseal of said Court, thisday of May, 2011.DOT McGEEChancery Clerk of WarrenCounty, MississippiBY:______________________Deputy ClerkPublish: 5/17, 5/24, 5/31(3t)
IN THE CHANCERYCOURT OF WARRENCOUNTY, MISSISSIPPIBRUCE CHAD WILLIAMSCOMPLAINANTVS.CAUSE NO. 2011-141GNDONNELL A. SHEHANE;MARY A. SHEHANE andALL PARTIES HAVING ORCLAIMING ANY LEGAL OREQUITABLE INTEREST INTHE FOLLOWINGDESCRIBED LAND, TO-WIT: DEFENDANTSBEGINNING AT AN OLD #"IRON PIPE (FOUND), SAIDPIPE MARKS THENORTHEAST CORNER OFPARCEL ONE OF THEKENNETH L. HARTLEYTRACT IN SECTION 38,T15N, R3E, WARRENCOUNTY, MISSISSIPPI,AND RECORDED IN DEEDBOOK 518 AT PAGE 316OF THE RECORDS OFDEEDS OF WARRENCOUNTY, MISSISSIPPI;THENCE ALONG THENORTH LINE OF THEHARLEY WILLIAMSONAND KILLEBREW TRACTS,S 65degrees02' W, 332.45FEET TO AN OLD IRONPIPE (FOUND), SAID PIPEMARKS THE NORTHWESTCORNER OF THEKILLEBREW TRACT, ANDTHE NORTHEAST OF THEBAGBY TRACT; THENCEALONG THE NORTH LINEOF THE BAGBY ANDYOUNG TRACTS, S80degrees18' W, 411.0FEET TO THE EAST LINEOF REDBONE ROAD;THENCE ALONG THEEAST LINE OF REDBONEROAD, N 26degrees37' W,100.0 FEET; THENCELEAVE SAID ROAD ANDRUN N 64o40' E, 681.0FEET TO THE WEST LINEOF A 25 FEET STREETLEADING TO THE SINGINGHILLS ROAD; THENCE
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01. LegalsALONG THE WEST LINEOF SAID 25 FEET STREET,S 38degrees24' E, 218.61FEET TO THE POINT OFBEGINNING, CONTAINING2.91 ACRES MORE ORLESS.SUMMONSTHE STATE OFMISSISSIPPITO:DONNELL A. SHEHANEYou have been made aDefendant in the suit filed inthis Court by theComplainant, BRUCE CHADWILLIAMS, who is to confirmtax title and quiet title to theabove described property.You are required to mail orhand-deliver a copy of awritten response to thecomplaint filed against you inthis action to Clyde E. Ellis,the attorney for Complainantwhose street address is1212 Farmer Street,Vicksburg, Mississippi39183.YOUR RESPONSE MUSTBE MAILED ORDELIVERED NOT LATERTHAN THIRTY (30) DAYSAFTER THE 17TH DAY OFMAY, 2011, WHICH IS THEDATE OF THE FIRSTPUBLICATION OF THISSUMMONS. IF YOURRESPONSE IS NOTMAILED OR DELIVERED, AJUDGMENT BY DEFAULTWILL BE ENTEREDAGAINST YOU FOR THEMONEY OR OTHERRELIEF DEMANDED INTHE COMPLAINT.You must also file theoriginal of your responsewith the Clerk of this Courtwithin a reasonable timeafterward.Issued under my hand andseal of said Court, thisday of May, 2011.DOT McGEEChancery Clerk of WarrenCounty, MississippiBY: ________________
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IN THE CHANCERYCOURT OF WARRENCOUNTY, MISSISSIPPIIN RE: ESTATE OFTHOMAS RAY WILLIAMSProbate No: 2011-042 PRNOTICE TO CREDITORSOFTHOMAS RAY WILLIAMS,DeceasedThe Administrator of theEstate of Thomas RayWilliams, Deceased, byorder of the Chancery Courtof Warren County,Mississippi, upon the docketof said Court on the 14th dayof April, 2011, gives notice toall persons having a claimagainst the said Estate tohave the same probated andregistered by the ChanceryClerk of Warren County,Mississippi, within ninety (90)days after the date of the firstpublication of this notice, anda failure to probate andregister a claim within ninety(90) days from said first dateof publication will bar theclaim forever.AMBER WILLIAMS KING -AdministratorPublish: 5/17, 5/24, 5/31(3t)
IN THE CHANCERYCOURT OF WARRENCOUNTY, MISSISSIPPIBRUCE CHAD WILLIAMSCOMPLAINANTVS.CAUSE NO. 2011-141GNDONNELL A. SHEHANE;MARY A. SHEHANE andALL PARTIES HAVING ORCLAIMING ANY LEGAL OREQUITABLE INTEREST INTHE FOLLOWINGDESCRIBED LAND,TO-WIT: DEFENDANTSBEGINNING AT AN OLD #"IRON PIPE (FOUND), SAIDPIPE MARKS THENORTHEAST CORNER OFPARCEL ONE OF THEKENNETH L. HARTLEYTRACT IN SECTION 38,T15N, R3E, WARRENCOUNTY, MISSISSIPPI,AND RECORDED IN DEEDBOOK 518 AT PAGE 316
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01. LegalsOF THE RECORDS OFDEEDS OF WARRENCOUNTY, MISSISSIPPI;THENCE ALONG THENORTH LINE OF THEHARLEY WILLIAMSONAND KILLEBREW TRACTS,S 65degrees02' W, 332.45FEET TO AN OLD IRONPIPE (FOUND), SAID PIPEMARKS THE NORTHWESTCORNER OF THEKILLEBREW TRACT, ANDTHE NORTHEAST OF THEBAGBY TRACT; THENCEALONG THE NORTH LINEOF THE BAGBY ANDYOUNG TRACTS, S 80de-grees18' W, 411.0 FEET TOTHE EAST LINE OFREDBONE ROAD; THENCEALONG THE EAST LINE OFREDBONE ROAD, N 26de-grees37' W, 100.0 FEET;THENCE LEAVE SAIDROAD AND RUN N 64de-grees40' E, 681.0 FEET TOTHE WEST LINE OF A 25FEET STREET LEADINGTO THE SINGING HILLSROAD; THENCE ALONGTHE WEST LINE OF SAID25 FEET STREET, S 38de-grees24' E, 218.61 FEET TOTHE POINT OF BEGIN-NING, CONTAINING 2.91ACRES MORE OR LESS.SUMMONSTHE STATE OFMISSISSIPPITO: ALL PARTIES HAVINGOR CLAIMING ANY LEGALOR EQUITABLE INTERESTIN THE ABOVEDESCRIBEDPROPERTYYou have been made aDefendant in the suit filed inthis Court by theComplainant, BRUCE CHADWILLIAMS, who is to confirmtax title and quiet title to theabove described property.You are required to mail orhand-deliver a copy of awritten response to thecomplaint filed against you inthis action to Clyde E. Ellis,the attorney for Complainantwhose street address is1212 Farmer Street,Vicksburg, Mississippi39183.YOUR RESPONSE MUSTBE MAILED ORDELIVERED NOT LATERTHAN THIRTY (30) DAYSAFTER THE 17TH DAY OFMAY, 2011, WHICH IS THEDATE OF THE FIRSTPUBLICATION OF THIS
01. LegalsSUMMONS. IF YOURRESPONSE IS NOTMAILED OR DELIVERED, AJUDGMENT BY DEFAULTWILL BE ENTEREDAGAINST YOU FOR THEMONEY OR OTHERRELIEF DEMANDED INTHE COMPLAINT.You must also file theoriginal of your responsewith the Clerk of this Courtwithin a reasonable timeafterward.Issued under my hand andseal of said Court, thisday of May, 2011.DOT McGEEChancery Clerk of WarrenCounty, MississippiBY:________________Deputy ClerkPublish: 5/17, 5/24, 5/31(3t)
02. Public Service
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Is the one youlove
hurting you?Call
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06. Lost & Found
LOST A DOG? Found a cat? Let The
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06. Lost & Found
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11. BusinessOpportunities
07. Help Wanted
AMIkids NELA is currentlyseeking a Licensed
Mental Health Therapistwith LPC or LCSW credentials and aPsychiatrist with
experience working withadolescents to provide
assessments and prescribe medication on a
monthly basis. ContactKarVan Powell at
(318) 574-9475 or [email protected]
“ACE”Truck Driver Training
With a DifferenceJob Placement Asst.
Day, Night & RefresherClasses
Get on the Road NOW!Call 1-888-430-4223MS Prop. Lic. 77#C124
Attention Students!SUMMER WORK- $15 Starting Pay
- Flexible Schedules- Customer Sales/Service
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11. BusinessOpportunities
07. Help Wanted
AVON LETS YOU earnextra money. Become anAvon Representative today.Call 601-454-8038.
BUSINESS MACHINESERVICE Technician. Sharp
copier certified. Send resume and salary re-
quirements to Dept. 3751 TheVicksburg Post P.O. Box
821668Vicksburg, MS 39182
Director Of Nursingneeded for a local
skilled nursing facility. Experience
in skilled nursing orlong term care
preferred. Send resumes to:
Dept. 3749 The Vicksburg Post
P.O. Box 821668Vicksburg, MS 39182.
Experienced Managerneeded for local property.
Interested applicants,mail resume to:Dept. #3750, The
Vicksburg Post, P.O. Box821668, Vicksburg, MS39182 or include Dept. #on fax to: 601-634-0897.
IMMEDIATE OPENINGFOR a full time licensedand experienced pharmacytechnician in a fast pacedsetting. Must be availablefor ALL shifts, includingweekends. Pay negotiablewith experience. Send re-sumes to: Dept. 3752, TheVicksburg Post, P.O. Box821668, Vicksburg, MS39182.
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PART TIME SECRE-TARY needed. Communica-tion, phone and computerskills a must. Call for ap-pointment, 601-636-1477.
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10. Loans AndInvestments
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11. BusinessOpportunities
12. Schools &Instruction
AIRLINES ARE HIRING-Train for high paying Avia-tion Career. FAA approvedprogram. Financial aid ifqualified – Job placementassistance. CALL AviationInstitute of Maintenance866-455-4317.
Barnes GlassQuality Service at Competitive Prices#1 Windshield Repair & Replacement
Vans • Cars • Trucks•Insurance Claims Welcome•
AUTO • HOME • BUSINESSJason Barnes • 601-661-0900
BUFORDCONSTRUCTION CO., INC.
601-636-4813State Board of Contractors
Approved & Bonded
Haul Clay, Gravel, Dirt,Rock & Sand
All Types of Dozer WorkLand Clearing • Demolition
Site Development& Preparation Excavation
Crane Rental • Mud Jacking
ROSSCONSTRUCTION
New HomesFraming, Remodeling,
Cabinets, Flooring,Roofing & Vinyl Siding
State Licensed & BondedJon Ross 601-638-7932
Simmons Lawn ServiceProfessional Services &
Competitive Prices• Landscaping • Septic Systems• Irrigation: Install & Repair• Commercial & Residential
Grass CuttingLicensed • Bonded • Insured
12 years experienceRoy Simmons (Owner)
601-218-8341
FLOORING INSTALLATION•Custom showers
• Ceramic tile •Porcelain tile•Wood flooring
•Laminate flooring •Vinyl tile
Russell Sumrall 601-218-9809
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(601) 638-2900Fax (601) 636-6711
1601-C North Frontage RoadVicksburg, MS 39180
PATRIOTIC• FLAGS
• BANNERS
• BUMPER STICKERS
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All Business & Service Directory
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WEACCEPT CASH,CHECKS ANDMOST MAJOR
CREDIT CARDS.
Advertise your business for as littleas $2.83 per day, call our Classified
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•Lawn Maintenance•Trimming/ Prunning
•Seasonal Cleanups •Straw/ Mulch•Rake leaves & remove
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DEWEY’SLAWN MOWING
SERVICES
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& Lawn Care
601-529-5752601-634-9572
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• Dozer / Trackhoe Work• Dump Truck •
• Bush Hogging • Box Blade• Demolition • Debris Removal
• Lawn Maintenance• Deliver
Dirt -13 yd. load $85 locally• Gravel • Sand • Rock
Res. & Com. • Lic. & Ins.Robert Keyes, Jr. (Owner)
601-529-0894
STRAIGHT LINEBUILDERS
Courteous, Competent, Committed• Remodeling
•General Construction• Over 25 Yrs. Exp.• Local References
• Insured• YOUR FLOOD SPECIALIST
Jeff Beal (Owner)601-642-7142
Classified Advertisingreally brings big results!
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YOUR CLASSIFIED AD TODAY.Classified Advertising real-
ly brings big results!
Find a Honey of a Dealin the Classifieds...Zeroin on that most wanted
or hard to find item.
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12. Schools &Instruction
ATTEND COLLEGE ON-LINE from home. *Medical,*Business, *Paralegal, *Al-lied Health. Job placementassistance. Computer avail-able. Financial aid if quali-fied. SCHEV certified. Call888-210-5162.
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13. SituationsWanted
CAREGIVER AVAILABLEOver 25 years experience.Excellent references. Fulltime/ part time or live in. Call601-497-5144.
14. Pets &Livestock
AKC/ CKCREGISTERED Yorkies,
Yorkie-Poos, Maltese,Malti-Poos.$400 and up!
601-218-5533,��������������� �����
Vicksburg WarrenHumane Society& MS - Span
Hwy 61 S - 601-636-6631
CATS:Male . .$25 Female ........$35
DOGS (UNDER 40 LBS):Male . .$55 Female ........$65
• For the above category ofanimals, pick up applications at
the Humane Society
DOGS (OVER 40 LBS):Male . .$70 Female ........$80
• For dogs over 40 lbs,call 866-901-7729 for appt.
Low CostSpay & Neuter Program
Foster aHomeless
Pet!
www.pawsrescuepets.org
15. AuctionLOOKING FOR A great
value? Subscribe to TheVicksburg Post, 601-636-4545, ask for Circulation.
17. Wanted ToBuy
$ I BUY JUNK CARS $I will pickup your junk car
and pay you cashtoday! Call 601-618-6441.
WE HAUL OFF old appli-ances, lawn mowers, hot waterheaters, junk and abandonedcars, trucks, vans, etcetera.601-940-5075, if no answer,please leave message.
WE PAY CASH for junk.Cars, trucks. Vans, SUVs,and old dump trucks,etcetera. 601-638-5946 or601-529-8249.
18. Miscellaneou sFor Sale
2009- SC610 VICTORY Mo-bility Scooter. 3 wheel. Withhauler, used about 3 months.$1,000 601-535-7054.
ANTIQUE KITCHEN WOODstove. Pot belly coal burnerstove. Set of smoothing ironsflat irons, coal irons from everyera. 601-638-6857.
ATTENTION HOME OWN-ERS, horse owners and hunters!!Sod, pine straw and Oat for sale.318-428-8438, 318-355-1318.
FOR LESS THAN 45cents per day, haveThe Vicksburg Post
delivered to your home.Only $14 per month,
7 day delivery.Call 601-636-4545,
Circulation Department.
LOTS OF QUALITY Furniture!
Stretch your $$$*Great Prices, layaways,
All About Bargains,1420 Washington,
Downtown, 601-631-0010.
THE PET SHOP“Vicksburg’s Pet Boutique”3508 South Washington Street
Pond fish, Gold fish, Koi, fish foodaquarium needs, bird food, designer collars, harnesses & leads,loads of pet supplies!Bring your Baby in for a fitting today!
Fresh Seafood, & Sack Oysters,
Live Crawfish $1.99/ lb
• BACK ROADS •Playing Saturday
9pm-1am
CCheapest Prices in Townheapest Prices in Town
STRICK’SSEAFOOD601-218-2363
18. Miscellaneou sFor Sale
USED TIRES! LIGHTtrucks and SUV's, 16's,17's, 18's, 19's, 20's. A fewmatching sets! Call TD's,601-638-3252.
19. Garage &Yard SalesWhat's going on in
Vicksburg this weekend?Read The Vicksburg Post!
For convenient home deliv-ery call 601-636-4545, ask
for circulation.
20. Hunting
FOR SALE 2006 YAMA-HA RHINO 660. Call 318-282-1152.
21. Boats,Fishing Supplies
14 FOOT TRACKER. 4feet wide with trailer, seats,25 horse power motor,trolling motor, 2 batteries,one year old, all welded.$3300. Call 601-218-9654days, 601-636-0658 nights.Dealer.
15 FOOT ALUMA Weldboat with trailer and 30horse power Mariner.$2200. 601-218-1143.
2001 GMC JIMMY. 4door, 4x4 SUV, looks great,in great shape. $6,000. Call601-218-9654 days, 601-636-0658 nights. Dealer.
What's going on in Vicks-burg this weekend? ReadThe Vicksburg Post! Forconvenient home delivery,call 601-636-4545, ask forcirculation.
29. UnfurnishedApartments
24. BusinessServices
24 HOUR EMERGENCYheating and plumbing. Bro-ken water lines, hot waterheaters, toilets, faucets,sinks. 601-618-8466.
ALL PRO PAINTING- Alltypes of painting, interior/exterior and home repairs.601-218-0263.
BATHS, KITCHENS,CABINETRY. Professional,reasonable rates. 601-634-6894, 601-629-8570.
• BankruptcyChapter 7 and 13
• Social Seurity Disability• No-fault Divorce
Toni Walker TerrettAttorney At Law
601-636-1109
FREE ESTIMATESTREY GORDON
ROOFING & RESTORATION•Roof & Home Repair
(all types!)•30 yrs exp •1,000’s of ref
Licensed • Insured601-618-0367 • 601-456-4133
D & D TREE CUTTING•Trimming • Lawn Care
• Dirt Hauled• Insured
For FREE EstimatesCall “Big James”
601-218-7782
D.R. PAINTING AND CON-STRUCTION. Painting, roof-ing, carpentry service. Li-censed, bonded. Free esti-mates! Call 601-638-5082.
DIRT AND GRAVELhauled. 8 yard truck. 601-638-6740.
ELVIS YARD SERVICES.General yard clean-up, rakeleaves, grass cutting, treecutting, reasonable. 601-415-7761. Quick response.
24. BusinessServices
REAVES HVACAir condition/ heat/ electrical
Commercial • ResidentialMaintenance ProgramsOffice 601-429-5338Cell 601-415-7859
River City Lawn CareYou grow it - we mow it!Affordable and profes-
sional. Lawn and land-scape maintenance. Cut, bag, trim, edge.
601-529-6168.
26. For RentOr Lease
PPPPFOR LEASEPPPP
1911 Mission 66Suite B-Apprx. 2450 sq. ft.Suite E-Apprx. 1620 sq. ft.
Office or Retail!Great Location!
BRIAN MOORE REALTY
Connie - Owner/ Agent
318-322-4000
28. FurnishedApartments
COMPLETELY FUR-NISHED. 1 Bedroom or stu-dio apartment. All utilitiespaid. Includes cable, internetand laundry room. $750 -$900 a month. 601-415-9027or 601-638-4386.
29. UnfurnishedApartments
$450 MONTHLY! GATEDHas it all. 1 bedroom,washer/dryer included. 1115First North. 512-787-7840.
1 BEDROOM APART-MENTS
$400-$450 monthly. Appliancesand water included. Jones &Upchurch 601-218-9134
THE COVETired of high utility bills?
Country Living at it’s BEST!
Paid cable, water & trash!Washer & Dryer,
Microwave included!Ask about our
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601-415-8735
29. UnfurnishedApartments
BEAUTIFULLAKESIDE
LIVING
• 1, 2 & 3 Bedroom Apts.• Beautifully Landscaped• Lake Surrounds Community
• Pool • Fireplace• Spacious Floor Plans
601-629-6300www.thelandingsvicksburg.com
501 Fairways DriveVicksburg
CYPRESS HILL APART-MENTS- 402 Locust- 1 bed-room- $250 bi-weekly, utili-ties/ furniture, no utilities-$350/ month. 601-456-3842.
CommodoreApartments
1, 2 & 3Bedrooms
605 Cain Ridge Rd.Vicksburg, MS
39180
601-638-2231
FURNISHED AND UNFURNISHED down-
town apartments. 1,2 and 3 bedrooms. 601-638-1746.
29. UnfurnishedApartments
30. HousesFor Rent
LOS COLINAS. SMALL 2Bedroom, 2 Bath Cottage.Close in, nice. $795 month-ly. 601-831-4506.
31. Mobile HomesFor Rent
MEADOWBROOKPROPERTIES. 2 or 3 bed-room mobile homes, southcounty. Deposit required.
601-619-9789.
NEAR BOVINA! ON Lake. 4 bedrooms, 3 baths double
wide. Large front porch, bricksurround. Completely remod-
eled. $950. 601-218-9928,601-638-0177.
32. Mobile HomesFor Sale
14X80. 4 BEDROOM, 2bath on 1.8 acres. 3180Grange Hall Road. $35,000.601-994-3018.
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601-636-4545, ASK FORCIRCULATION.
MOBILE HOME-$29,900. 28x68 doublewide, in Cophia County tobe moved. New air, lots ofextras. Call Mike 601-212-2330.
TWO 2007 MOBILE homesfor sale. 14X50 2 bed, 2 bath.Fully furnished with appli-ances. $12,500 each. Tallu-lah. 662-292-0148.
33. Commercia lProperty
AVAILABLE - FIRSTFLOOR office space. Mission66. $495 to $1200. Call 601-291-1148 or 601-629-7305.
29. UnfurnishedApartments
34. HousesFor Sale
137 Woodstone Drive(Fairways)
BY OWNER! Meticulouslykept, quiet neighborhood, 4 br/2.5ba., 2470 sf, lots ofamenities, large wooded lot.
A Must see!601-638-0317, 601-529-5137,
601-529-0720
29. UnfurnishedApartments
34. HousesFor Sale
233 HILDEGARDE TERACE.Fresh & modern paint colors!Lots of areas to entertain includ-ing swimming pool. Convenientin town location in Warren Cen-tral School district. 4 year oldappliances PLUS refrigerator.Hardwood & ceramic floors. NOCARPET! Master bath withlarge jacuzzi tub! 2522 squarefeet. $165,000 601-301-0581.
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! FHA & VA! Conventional! Construction! First -timeHomebuyers
Candy FranciscoMortgage Originator
MortgageLoans601.630.8209
Open Hours:Mon-Fri 8:30am-5:30pm
601-634-89282170 S. I-20 Frontage Rd.
www.ColdwellBanker.comwww.homesofvicksburg.net
Rental includingCorporate Apartments
Available
McMillinReal Estate601-636-8193
VicksburgRealEstate.com
FOR LEASE OR Rent.899 National Street. Com-pletely renovated. 3 bed-room, 1.5 bath. 1504square feet. Section 8 ok.601-885-4354.
29. UnfurnishedApartments
34. HousesFor Sale HOME FOR SALE
Beautiful 2 bedroom 2 bathhome on 1 acre. Open floorplan, walk in closets, largescreened in back porch,fireplace, 2 car garage. Lotsof wildlife, private backyard.Halls Ferry Road south ofTimberlane. Asking$105,000 Or Best Offer. Call601-606-5201.
Jill WaringUpchurch....601-906-5012
Carla Watson...............601-415-4179
Mary D. Barnes .........601-966-1665Stacie Bowers-Griffin...601-218-9134
Andrea Upchurch.......601-831-6490Broker, GRI
601-636-6490
Licensed inMS and LA
Jones & UpchurchReal Estate Agency
1803 Clay Streetwww.jonesandupchurch.com
TEXAS HILL COUNTRY 3year old brick home. On 20.85acres. 2 ½ bath, 2 large bed-rooms, open floor plan.$312,500. 830-864-5698.
Kay Odom..........601-638-2443Kay Hobson.......601-638-8512Jake Strait...........601-218-1258Bob Gordon........601-831-0135Tony Jordan........601-630-6461Alex Monsour.....601-415-7274Jay Hobson..........601-456-1318Kai Mason...........601-218-5623Daryl Hollingsworth..601-415-5549
Sybil Carraway...601-218-2869Catherine Roy....601-831-5790Mincer Minor.....601-529-0893Jim Hobson.........601-415-0211
AARRNNEERRRREEAALL EESSTTAATTEE,, IINNCCV
JIM HOBSONREALTOR®•BUILDER•APPRAISER
601-636-0502
37. RecreationalVehicles
2008 LUXURY BY DESIGN35' Fully Self contained, oneslide, washer/ dryer, stand upshower, sleeps 5. $15,800 orbest offer. 225-290-2660.
JAY FLIGHT BY JAYCO.28 foot camper, gooseneckor fifth wheel. Very nice.$20,000. 601-248-1212.
39. Motorcycles ,Bicycles
2009 HARLEY NIGHT-STER. Black, 8,500 miles,Many extras. Perfect condi-tion. $8,000. 601-218-4135.
29. UnfurnishedApartments
40. Cars & Trucks
1997 CHEVROLETMONTE Carlo. Low miles,Good condition. $2,000.601-259-9246.
2005 CHEVROLET COL-ORADO. Regular cab pick-up, 5-speed, 4 cylinder, bedliner, like new, gas saver!Call 601-218-9654 days,601-636-0658 nights. Deal-er.
2010 CAMARO 2SSCOUPE
V8 engine and fully loaded.Only 7,400 miles still likenew. $31,000. Call 601-529-6931.
EASYFINANCING
Gary ’s Cars Hwy 61 South 601-883-9995
For pre-approval:www.garyscfl.com
Look NO Further!2005 Chevrolet
Impala $1593 down
$362 per month
MAGNOLIA MANOR APARTMENTSElderly & Disabled3515 Manor Drive
Vicksburg, Ms.601-636-3625
Equal Housing Opportunity
801 Clay Street 601-630-2921www.the-vicksburg.com
UTILITIES PAID!1 & 2 Bedroom Apartments
Studios & Efficiencies
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601-661-0765 • 601-415-3333
COME CHECK US OUT TODAYYOU’LL WANT TO MAKE YOUR
HOME HEREGreat Location, Hard-Working Staff
601-638-7831 • 201 Berryman Rd.
COME CHECK US OUT TODAYYOU’LL WANT TO MAKE YOUR
HOME HEREGreat Location, Hard-Working Staff
601-638-7831 • 201 Berryman Rd
Bradford RidgeApartments
Live in a Quality Built Apartmentfor LESS! All brick,
concrete floors and double wallsprovide excellent soundproofing,
security, and safety.601-638-1102 • 601-415-3333
BienvilleApartments
The ParkResidencesat Bienville
1, 2 & 3 bedroomsand townhomes
available immediately.
VICKSBURGS NEWEST,AND A WELL MAINTAINED
FAVORITE. EACH WITHSPACIOUS FLOOR PLANS ANDSOPHISTICATED AMENITIES.
FOR LEASING INFO, CALL 601-636-1752www.parkresidences.com • www.bienvilleapartments.com
and
EQUAL HOUSINGOPPORTUNITY
CLOSET PHOBIA?Clear out the skeletons in yours
with an ad in the classifieds. 601-636-SELL
Looking for a new ride?Check our online listingstoday. Just go towww.vicksburgpost.com
Find a Honey of a Deal inthe Classifieds...Zero in onthat most wanted or hard
to find item.
2008 NISSANALTIMA COUPE.
40,000 miles.Great condition.
$15,500.601-218-5710.
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