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Vol. 116, No. 86 • Corinth, Mississippi • 20 pages • Two sections
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April 8, 2012
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Index On this day in history 150 years agoCol. Nathan B. Forrest is wounded in a skirmish at Fallen Tim-
bers in Tennessee, the last casualty of the Battle of Shiloh. De-fenders surrender Island No. 10 on the Mississippi River allow-ing Union gunboats to proceed as far south as Fort Pillow, Tenn.
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Local thespians are pre-paring to charge Shiloh Hill.
Twenty-fi ve years ago, audiences packed the Coli-seum Civic Center for a well-received production of Bill Schustik’s “On Shiloh Hill: A Musical Resurrec-tion of the American Civil War,” which was staged during observance of the 125th anniversary of the Battle of Shiloh. Corinth Theatre-Arts is bringing it back with performances at 7:30 p.m. this Friday and Saturday and 2 p.m. next Sunday, all at the coliseum at 404 Taylor Street.
“It was such a success 25 years ago and, since this is the 150th anniversary of Shiloh, it seemed only natural to do it again,” said Sonny Boatman, producer, who has found that people involved in the 1987 pro-duction have many fond memories of the experi-
Corinth Theatre Arts returns to Shiloh Hill
BY JEBB [email protected]
Civil War musical returns to coliseum stage
Staff photo by Steve Beavers
Julia (Lesley Petty) gets Billy (John Huwe) ready to go off to war in On Shiloh Hill: A Musical Resurrection of the American Civil War. The production returns to the Coli-seum Civic Center after playing 25 years ago.Please see HILL | 2A
The extensive photo holdings of the Cross-roads Museum are beginning to go online, giv-ing the public the opportunity to take a virtual tour at any time.
The fi rst photos went up a couple of weeks ago at Crossroadsmuseum.com. The images number around 100 thus far, and the number is expected to grow into the thousands as new photos are uploaded.
“These are photos from the archives that the public does not see in a casual visit to the mu-seum,” said Director Brandy Steen. “It’s a great way to connect to the community and for people to get a taste of what Corinth looked like in the early days.”
Gathered from many different sources through the years, some are photos, and some of the images are photocopies of original photos. Many are considered rare.
The fi rst batch of photos to hit the web are di-vided into sections on the Civil War, including the Battle of Corinth, Civil War soldiers and Civ-il War camps, and famous Corinthians, includ-ing aviator Roscoe Turner, baseball player Don Blasingame and opera singer Ruby Elzy.
Upcoming galleries include World War I and II, local citizens, buildings and homes, trains and depots, the 1954 centennial celebration, the courthouse and downtown.
The next batch to go online will likely be pho-tos from the centennial, and Steen said many other interesting subjects are coming up.
“We have some Corinth Elementary school day photos from 1949 all the way up to 1960 with various classes and people,” she said. “We also have some black-and-white bride and wed-ding photos taken by Grady Perry for the Daily Corinthian.”
Museum photos going online
BY JEBB [email protected]
Please see CROSSROADS | 3A
Tony Bullard is bringing history to life.The 44-year-old Corinth artist’s most
recent canvas creation, “Grant at the Cherry Mansion,” takes its viewers back to the prelude of one of the defi ning bat-tles of the War Between the States.
The painting depicts Union General Ulysses S. Grant the morning of the Bat-tle of Shiloh.
“What I want to do is capture General Grant at the Cherry Mansion right before Shiloh erupted,” explained Bullard. “It’s at daybreak, he’s by himself contemplat-ing what’s about to hit. He’s got a seri-ous look, a pensive look, kind of at peace — but still an uncertain look.”
Bullard began his research for the work in December 2011, when he traveled to the Cherry Mansion in Savannah, Tenn., and took a series of snapshots from dif-ferent angles. For his depiction of Grant, Bullard searched online for photographs of the stern-faced Union commander from the time of the April 1862 battle.
The painting is done in oil paint. Oil and pencil are Bullard’s two favorite me-diums to work with.
Bullard will unveil the painting at a ceremony at the Cherry Mansion in Sa-
vannah on the morning of April 6 — the 150th anniversary of the event depicted in his artwork.
“Grant at the Cherry Mansion” is the fi rst of several paintings Bullard plans to do in 2012. With the anniversaries of the battles of Shiloh and Corinth upcoming, he has no shortage of timely material.
Another of Bullard’s artworks-in-prog-ress is along the same lines as his painting of Grant in Savannah — except from the Confederate side.
“It’s basically the other side of the coin,” Bullard said. It’s going to show the main Confederate generals at the train tracks with Corinth in the background. In the backdrop, there’s a storm coming in from the north.”
The painting “Preparing for the North-ern Storm” shows three Confederate gen-erals who commanded at Shiloh — Brax-ton Bragg, P.G.T. Beauregard and Albert Sidney Johnston — discussing the strug-gle ahead while standing next to a rail-road track in Corinth. The background is a historically-accurate rendering of Corinth as it appeared during the war based on wartime photographs.
Bullard plans to do another painting
History comes to life in Bullard’s artworkBY BOBBY J. SMITH
Staff photo by Bobby J. Smith
Corinth artist Tony Bullard stands at the downtown Corinth site of his current artwork-in-progress, “Preparing for the Northern Storm.”
KC’s Espresso is the place for poetry every Friday night this month.
In honor of National Poetry Month, the Crossroads Poetry Project is holding free poetry readings every Friday night in the month of April.
“We just get up and read and have a good time,” said Milton Wallis, vice-president of the group.
There is not sign up sheet. Anyone who wants to get up
and read is welcome. Poems can be original or the work of an established poet. The only requirement is to keep it clean.
“It’s all family-oriented,” Wallis explained. “We don’t get vulgar. “
The Crossroads Poetry Proj-ect is also celebrating National Poetry Month with displays featuring poems that were submitted for the group’s an-nual poetry concert. These displays will be at the library and KC’s Espresso throughout the month of April.
Wallis praised the poems submitted for the contest.
Group hosts readingsto mark poetry month
BY BOBBY J. [email protected]
Staff photo by Bobby J. Smith
Donna Janzen reads a poem by Lord Byron during poetry night at KC’s Espresso.
Shiloh National Military Park continues its celebration of the battle’s anniversary with rang-er-led hikes to the sites where the events unfolded 150 years ago.
On Friday — the anniversary of the battle’s fi rst day — hun-dreds of people from across the nation and around the globe signed up for the battlefi eld tours.
“We started out with over
300 people at Fraley Field at 5:00 this morning and it hasn’t slowed down yet,” said Park Su-perintendent Woody Harrell.
Another 300 signed on for a tour of the Hornet’s Nest, long considered the battle’s most important site, with Park Rang-er Chris Mekow.
On most years the anniver-sary hikes draw between 30 and 40 participants each, ac-cording to James F. Gentsch,
Hikes offer uniqueglimpse of Shiloh
BY BOBBY J. [email protected]
Please see BULLARD | 3A
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Staff photo by Steve Beavers
Greg Younger (from left), Randy Duke and Dan Marsh are part of the cast in On Shiloh Hill.
HILL
ence.“When people talk
about it, it seems as if they are carried back in time,” he said.
The musical came to Corinth in 1987 after a couple of Corinthians saw “On Shiloh Hill” pre-sented at Ford’s Theatre in Washington, D.C., and persuaded the playwright to allow CTA to present it in Corinth in conjunction with the battle anniver-sary.
Described as a “mod-ern-day troubadour,” the playwright began assem-bling a collection of songs, skits and tales about the Civil War in 1976. An-other eight years of writ-ing and research culmi-nated in the production at Ford’s Theatre, although it was originally a one-man reconstruction of the war by Schustik.
President Ronald Rea-gan is among those who saw “On Shiloh Hill” at Ford’s Theater.
Embracing folk instru-mentation, his style is shaped by a love for tradi-tional American lore and
his experiences singing in school, in the church choir and on family camp-ing trips.
In the play, “The setting is today,” explained Boat-man, “with today’s people rummaging through an attic and putting on bits and pieces of uniforms and costumes that they fi nd there.”
Guided by the trouba-dour, the players become the long-departed spirits of those who endured the Civil War.
The prose was gath-ered directly from let-ters, memoirs, diaries and other written collections and combined with music from the period.
“The troubadour in-troduces the story and is the tie between all of the different vignettes as the characters do their per-formances,” said Boat-man.
In the 1987 production, Schustik came to Corinth and portrayed the trouba-dour.
The 2012 production is directed by Myra Byrnes.
Lobby music will be provided by Skyler Ruth Norcom, a 12-year-old
violinist whose mother, Marilyn Ruth Norcom, was choreographer and portrayed Jessie in 1987.
Tickets cost $12 for adults and $6 for stu-dents. Seating is open.
The cast includes:Troubadour — R.T.
RinehartPreacher, patriot, offi -
cer — Randy DukeDriscoll — Greg YoungerJohnny — Dan MarshBilly Yank — John
HuweNat — Ben StricklandJoudan — Isaac Patter-
sonJulia — Lesley PettyJessie — Anna Ward-
DuckDecca — Leah PettyOola — Beverly HarrisUnion soldiers — Caleb
Pace, Kaitlyn MathisConfederate offi cer —
Mike ByrdRebel soldiers — Anna
Brock, Witt LucasAdditional singers —
Anna Brock, Jenny Jor-dan, Kaitlyn Mathis
Music by Lost Cause and the Smokehouse Band — Ernie Welch, Mike Byrd, Neal Byrd, Victor McIntire, Roger Jones, Keith Letson
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Deaths
Marie MartinMarie Martin, of Corinth, died Fri-
day, April 6, 2012 at Savannah Health and Rehab.
All other arrangements are incom-plete and will be announced by Memo-rial Funeral Home.
Connie Arnold
RIENZI — Funeral services for Con-nie Arnold, 69, are set for 2 p.m. today at McMillan Funeral Home Chapel with burial in the Pisgah Cemetery.
Mr. Arnold died Friday, April 6, 2012 at Magnolia Regional Health Center in Corinth. Born October 13, 1942, he was a Mason and member of Lodge 847 in Rienzi.
He was preceded in death by his par-ents; I.C. and Ruby Mullins Arnold; a sister, Ellie Mae Stokes; and two brothers, Gene and Sammy Arnold.
He is survived by his wife of 40 years, Lula Ann Arnold; a daughter, Mellisa Ann (David) Killough of Biggersville; two sons, Jeffery Gene (Amie) Arnold of Rienzi and Joe Ray (Lane) Arnold of Ripley; a sister, Evelyn Smith of Pisgah; two brothers, Olen (Dorothy) Arnold and Donnie (Paula) Arnold both of Rienzi; seven grandchildren, Cody Arnold, Shannon Arnold, Emma Arnold, Drew Akins, Eli Akins, Cory Killough, and Brittney Killough; one great-grandchild, Gabriella Killough.
Bro. Donnie Davis will offi ciate.Visitation is until service time on to-
day at the funeral home.Condolences may be left at www.mc-
millanfuneralhome.com
Onella BerryFuneral services for Onella “Nell”
Berry, 83, of Corinth, are set for 3 p.m. Monday at McPeters Funeral Di-rectors Chapel with burial in the City Cemetery.
Mrs. Berry died Saturday, April 7, 2012 at the Cornerstone Health and Rehabilitation.
A native of Corinth, she was a mem-ber of the United Methodist Church, a former employee of the Wurtlitzerr Company and she and her late hus-band owned Jo-Lee Ceramics on Ken-drick Road.
She was preceded in death by her parents, J.T. and Cordie Hughes; four sisters, Velma Dees, Bertha Brown, Lelia Lewis and Effi e Childers; and three brothers, Lonnie Hughes, Audie Hughes and Howard Hughes.
Visitation will be noon until service time.
McPeters Funeral Directors in charge of arrangements.
Gladys Motley
Funeral services for Gladys Irene Motley, of Corinth, are set for 1 p.m. Monday at Memorial Funeral Home Chapel with burial in Shiloh Baptist Church Cemetery.
Mrs. Motley died Friday, April 6, 2012 at North Mississippi Medical
Center. She was a homemaker and of the Baptist faith.
She was preceded in death by her mother and step-father; Annie and Al-vis Hivley.
Survivors include three sons, Wil-liam Parmely of Saltillo, Bobby Par-mely of Moscow, Tn., and Charles Par-mely of Ripley; four daughters, Linda Grimes, Brenda Parmely and Sharon Parmely all of Corinth, and Becky Wil-son of Russellville, Al.; 15 grandchil-dren; and 22 great grandchildren.
Bro. Philip Caples will offi ciate.Visitation is 5-9 p.m. tonight and 11
a.m. until service time Monday.
Bonnie RaggettMUNFORD, Tenn. — Funeral servic-
es for Bonnie Raggett, 75, are set for 11 a.m. Monday at Munford Chapel.
Mrs. Raggett died Friday, April 6, 2012 at Baptist Memorial Hospital.
She was a member of Bethel Cum-berland Presbyterian Church and a loving mother.
Survivors include her husband of 54 years, Jim Raggett, a daughter, Leigh (Greg) Bartram; a son, Neal (Tracy) Raggett, a brother, Weldon Brooks; three grandchildren, Kelly L. Ford, J.P. Bartram, and Derrick Bartram; and two great grandchildren, Colton Ford and Samuel Bartram.
Visitation is 5-8 p.m. tonight at the funeral home.
Willie Pearl Rodgers
Funeral services for Willie Pearl Rodgers, 68, of Corinth, are set for 1 p.m. Monday at Central Grove in Kos-suth with burial in Forest Hill Cem-
etery.Mrs. Rodgers
died Monday, April 2, 2012 at Magno-lia Regional Health Center. Born Aug. 15, 1943, she was a housewife and graduate of Easom High School. She was a member of Macedonia M.B. Church.
She was pre-ceded in death by a son, Robert James Rodgers; her parents, Ora Lee and William Boyd; and a sister, Clara Pat-terson.
Survivors include her husband, James Rodgers of Corinth; three chil-dren, Ethel (Junior) McGaha, Nathan-iel (Angelia) Rodgers, and Johnny Ray (Toshia) Rodgers all of Corinth; fi ve sisters, Deloris Walker, Edna Randall, Judy (Johnny) Ware, Theresa Patter-son, and Dortha Harris all of Corinth; two brothers, Leonard Boyd of Atlan-ta, Ga. and James Norman of Corinth; and 11 grandchildren; and one great grandchild.
Rev. Kevin Cummings will offi ciate.Visitation is 5-7 p.m. tonight at
Grayson’s Funeral Home.
Rodgers
Among the photos now online is this 1934 photo of actress Jean Harlow greet-ing aviator Roscoe Turner.
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The digital archive will also include some photos taken by William Sharpe, a Corinth resident, in Hi-roshima, Japan, following
the city’s bombing.“He was one of the fi rst
people to go in after Hi-roshima was bombed,” she said. “These photos show the destruction of Hiroshima, but it’s on
more of a personal level, with scenes such as kids interacting with the sol-diers.”
Steen encourages resi-dents to check the website often for updates.
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featuring Grant and one with Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest in the near future. His tentative plan for the fi -nale of his Civil War 150th Anniversary series is to depict the surrender cere-mony at Appamattox, Va.
Another Civil War-re-lated project is Bullard’s Corinth Civil War 150th
Anniversary Corinth Civil War Scenes calendar. The calendar features Bull-ard’s depictions of battle fl ags and scenes related to the Corinth area’s Civil War history. A limited edition of 150 calendars were printed. They are available at the Corinth Art Guild Gallery and the Crossroads Museum for $30.
Bullard, a 1985 gradu-
ate of Alcorn Central High School, began his pursuit of art as a child.
“I’ve been drawing all my life — ever since I could hold a pencil,” he said.
Largely self-taught, Bullard would practice his techniques for up to eight hours each day after get-ting home from school, he said.
He lives in Corinth.
BULLARD
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Last week was a busy week at the Capitol, and two important measures took center stage both on the statewide and local level.
The fi rst issue was that of immigration reform. The House passed a bill a couple of weeks ago that would require persons arrested for a crime to present proof of citizenship. This bill does not provide for profi ling, nor does it require or allow for unlawful search or detention of people based on simple speculation.
In its original form, the bill was not something that I could support. It was too much like the Arizona and Alabama laws, both of which have proven to be troublesome to local economies and an undue burden on law enforcement agen-cies who had to cope with unfunded mandates while already dealing with a shortage of offi cers and equipment.
I supported every amendment offered to help clean up that bill and pass legislation that made sense to Mississippi. We are not a border state, and we do not face the same kinds of problems as Arizona. Just as former Gov. Haley Barbour did not believe Mississippi needed a bill like Ari-zona, neither do I.
There is much concern over illegal immigra-tion and the impact of this bill. On one side, you have people who believe we have a serious illegal immigration problem that needs to be addressed. On the other side, you have a group of people who believe such an immigration bill will hurt the state economy by scaring off im-migrants who are here legally, thus causing a vacuum in the workforce needed in industries such as the poultry industry.
These concerns were tantamount to my votes on this bill and the amendments offered. I want to ensure that immigrants who come to work in Mississippi do so properly. At the same time, we must be responsible not to pass a law that would cause fear and anxiety in and harassment the immigrant workers who are here legally.
I am confi dent Sen. Bryant handled the situa-tion appropriately.
Just as many local leaders were visiting the Capitol and calling me on the immigration bill last week, they were doing the same over the in-ventory tax rebate bill.
In Mississippi, corporations are charged a tax on the inventory they maintain. This inventory tax is used by local governments — both munici-pal and county — to funded important services and to maintain infrastructure key to economic development.
The bill in question would offer a tax rebate from the state to these companies who pay an inventory tax. Our local government leaders ex-pressed their support of the passage of this bill because the tax would still be collected and any rebates would come from state funds and not from local funds. This is a huge economic devel-opment opportunity for us as we now can com-pete directly with Tennessee, which does not charge an inventory tax. We have many busi-nesses who incorporate in Tennessee and then come across the border to do business with us simply because of the lack of an inventory tax in the Volunteer State.
My only concern with this bill is that it could be the fi rst step in completely repealing the in-ventory tax. If that was to happen, then our local governments would lose hundreds of millions of tax dollars. Such a move would require either the cutting of vital local services or additional taxes on individuals. Local leaders would not support such a bill, and neither would I.
In the coming weeks, we will continue to work on budget bills and legislation that came to us from the Senate. One upcoming issue to watch is how we handle the Personnel Board and any proposed changes to PERS. I will not support changes to PERS, and I will not vote for anything that strips state employees of commonsense protection from political pressures.
(Nick Bain is the state representative serving Corinth and Alcorn County. He may be reached at [email protected] or 662-287-1620.)
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STARKVILLE— Life is messy and inconvenient. No one knew that better than my friend Rusty Van Reeves.
This week, we lost Rusty. He was a few days shy of his 52nd birth-day. I met him when we were boys in the early 1970s at Camp Bi-nachi, the sprawling Boy Scout camp southeast of Meridian near the Whynot community.
We were fast friends. There was cockiness, a self-assurance about him that drew friends to him but at heart he was a country boy whose life was all out there ahead of him. Physically, he was a truly gifted athlete. There was not an ounce of fat on him. Tan, tightly muscled and brown from summers spent in the sun, Rusty’s hair was shoulder length and he walked like a coiled spring.
That Rusty would become a middle linebacker on his
high school football team as a freshman was almost a given. He was strong as an ox and loved both contact and confrontation.
Adored by the girls, en-vied by the boys, Reeves was at age 15 in a small Mis-sissippi town in the mid-1970s what passed for a god - smart, funny, athletic and popular. He was an Eagle Scout and a lifeguard.
But the popular, competi-tive jock’s life changed on Oct. 10, 1975, in the third quarter of a football game between Reeves’ Newton High Tigers and the Forest Bearcats at L.O. Atkins Field in Forest. The Bearcats ran a reverse. Reeves moved in for a touchdown-saving tackle.
The collision was so vio-lent that Reeves’ helmet and mouthpiece sailed 15 yards past the point of im-pact. Reeves suffered a sev-ered spinal column at the C4 level. He almost died on the fi eld. He never walked again after the injury. But he never stopped trying to walk and to live.
Rusty lived in a wheel-
chair for nearly four de-cades. Reeves knew a little something about loss — but he knew far more about hope. He also knows some-thing about waiting. During those years, Reeves waited for medical science to ad-vance suffi ciently to give him back his freedom, his mobility, his life.
He didn’t mark time. De-spite his disability, he wrote fi ve books, a newspaper column, screenplays, and poetry. Despite his disabil-ity, he mastered comput-ers, email and social media. Rusty continued his lifelong interest in art and music.
Despite his disability, Rusty knew not only the love of his mother and brother — his defenders and caregivers — but also of a compassionate woman. He reached out to friends — sending them notes, CDs he’d burned or poems.
Rusty fought hard for political causes that he be-lieved in and feared no man in those pursuits. In short, Rusty Reeves was put on a hard road when he was 15 years old and he faced it all
with courage, grit, and de-termination.
The journalist in me has not confi rmed exactly how Rusty came to meet the fate of drowning after his com-plex motorized wheelchair carried him into his back-yard swimming pool. The friend in me doesn’t think the answer to that question particularly matters. Life is messy and inconvenient.
Despite his heroism, I will not remember the middle-aged man in the motorized wheelchair. I will remember the muscular linebacker — the Eagle Scout shirtless in the summer sun — teaching younger Scouts how to row their canoes across the lake at Camp Binachi and loving every minute of it.
In 1975, at Baptist Hos-pital in Jackson, Rusty told me while still attached to the “halo” after his injury: “I’m still in here. I’m still me.” To the end, Rusty re-mained true to those defi ant words.
(Sid Salter is a syndicat-ed columnist. Contact him at 601-507-8004 or [email protected].)
Reeves: Boy to man, he lived with courage
With the shooting death of Trayvon Martin by a neigh-borhood watch volunteer who was legally carrying a 9-millimeter handgun, the familiar wail has arisen from our cultural and media elite:
America has too many guns!
“Open car-ry” and “con-cealed carry” laws should be repealed.
F l o r i d a ’ s “Stand-your-ground” law, replicated in two dozen states, threat-ens to turn America into the Tombstone of Doc Holi-day and Wyatt Earp.
This is insane!The United Nations agrees.
This year, the world body takes up the global control of fi rearms, including small arms in the hands of citizens.
According to Sen. Rand Paul, the U.N. “Small Arms Treaty” will almost surely mandate tougher licensing requirements to own a gun, require the confi scation and destruction of unauthorized civilian fi rearms, call for a ban on the trade, sale and private ownership of semi-automatic weapons, and create an inter-national gun registry.
No more Colt .45s in the top drawer or M-1 rifl es in the closet.
Memo to the U.N.: Lots of luck.
Forty-fi ve Republican and 12 Democratic senators have declared their opposition to any such U.N. treaty, which means it is dead in the water the moment it is launched from Turtle Bay.
For when it comes to Sec-ond Amendment rights, Mid-dle America has spoken — at the ballot box and the gun store. And Congress, most state legislatures and the federal courts have all come down on the side of the Silent Majority.
In District of Columbia v. Heller (2008), the Supreme Court struck down one of the most restrictive gun laws in the nation, assuring district citizens of their right to keep a gun in the home.
U.S. Judge Benson E. Legg just struck down the section of Maryland’s gun law that left it to local authorities to decide if a citizen could carry a gun outside his house.
Virginia Gov. Bob McDon-nell, mentioned as a running mate for Mitt Romney, just signed a law striking down a 20-year ban that kept residents from buying more than one pistol per month. In Virginia’s legislature in 1993, McDonnell had voted in favor of the one-gun-per-month rule.
The new law ignited New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg, who calls Vir-ginia “the No. 1 out-of-state source of crime guns in New York and one of the top sup-pliers of crime guns nation-
ally.”Two New York cops have
been shot this year, one fa-tally, with guns from Virginia.
But there is another side to the gun story, and University of Houston Professor Larry Bell relates it:
“Law-abiding citizens in America used guns in self-defense 2.5 million times in 1993 (about 6,825 times per day), and actually shot and killed two and a half times as many criminals as police did (1,527 to 606).
“These self-defense shoot-ings resulted in less than one-fi fth as many incidents as police where an innocent person was mistakenly iden-tifi ed as a criminal (2 percent versus 11 percent).”
The fi gures tell the story. Along with rising incarcera-tion rates, the proliferation of guns in the hands of the law-abiding has been a factor in the nation’s falling crime rate.
And that proliferation has accelerated under President Obama.
According to ammo.net, tax revenues from the sale of fi rearms and ammuni-tion have gone up 48 percent since 2008, with Iowa, North Carolina and Utah register-ing revenue gains of over 100 percent.
On Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving, there were 129,666 background
checks of individuals seek-ing to buy a gun, the high-est one-day search in his-tory This exceeded by 32,000
the number of background checks by gun dealers on Black Friday 2010.
Background searches in December broke the all-time monthly record set in Novem-ber, as 1,534,414 inquiries were made to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System about prospec-tive gun-buyers.
Half a million inquiries came in the six days before Christmas.
Why are Americans arm-ing themselves?
More and more citizens, says the National Rifl e Asso-ciation, fear that if or when they confront a threat to their family, lives or property, the police will not be there.
Reports of home invasions and fl ash mobs have fi rmed up the market for fi rearms. After the 1992 Los Angeles riot, when Californians found themselves defenseless in homes and shops, gun sales soared.
Others argue that a fear of new laws in an Obama sec-ond term, or even the possi-ble confi scation of handguns, is driving sales.
Gun-control organizations claim that gun ownership is actually declining, that fewer and fewer people are buying more and more of these guns.
But the numbers seem to contradict the gun-control-lers.
A 2005 Gallup survey found that three in 10 Ameri-cans own a gun, that 40 per-cent had a gun in the house.
A nation arms itself — for what?
Sid SalterColumnist
Pat Buchanan
Columnist
BY NICK BAIN
I have been crucifi ed with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I now live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.
— Galatians 2:20
O God, help us to open ourselves to your transforming love seen in Jesus. Amen.
Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Worth quoting
Daily Corinthian • Sunday, April 8, 2012 • 5A
State Briefs
Accident reports available on Internet
JACKSON — Reports on accident investigated by the Mississippi High-way Patrol can be pur-chased over the Internet.
Public Safety Com-missioner Albert Santa Cruz says the system underwent several weeks of testing and went live April 2.
He says the records are accessible with the case identification number or using other criteria.
The records may be downloaded from www.reportbeam.com. Select the public access option and follow the prompts. The fees will be transmit-ted with a credit/debit card through a secure
portal.According to state law,
accident reports can only be accessed by the crash victim, the victim's family or the victim's rep-resentative.
Violators can be fined up to $2,500 and/or six months in jail.
Woman sentenced for child deprivation
NATCHEZ — A Natchez woman has been sen-tenced to one year of house arrest after plead-ing guilty to felony child deprivation.
Venicia Firley was ar-rested in June 2011 af-ter an investigation into an incident involving her two children.
Prosecutors say Firley left her 2-year-old and 4-year-old children alone
at their Natchez home in May 2011.
While she was away, the house caught on fire, and firefighters found the two children covered in soot and unresponsive in a room of the home.
Prosecutors say the children were treated for smoke inhalation, but were not burned in the fire.
Adams County Circuit Judge Forrest “Al” John-son this week gave her a five-year suspended sentence and one year house arrest.
DeSoto Co. gas line explosion injures 2
HERNANDO — Authori-ties said a natural gas line fire burned two work-ers in DeSoto County and temporarily shut down a
major thoroughfare.DeSoto County Sher-
iff's Department spokes-man Dick Hackett said the two workers were burned on their faces and hands and were taken by private cars to a hospital. He said the injuries were not considered life threat-ening.
Robert Lesley, an At-mos Energy spokesman, said the workers were company technicians
Hackett said the work-ers were fixing a gas leak when a spark caused the fire. The fire happened about 158 feet off U.S. 51, a major thoroughfare just north of the Tate County line.
Lesley said the line was repaired by Friday night. He said the company was investigating how the fire
started.The highway reopened
just before the 5 p.m. rush hour.
Deputy envisions new K-9 program
JACKSON — The Hinds County Sheriff's Office is shutting down its K-9 pro-gram because its two dogs are retiring and there's no money to replace them.
The Clarion-Ledger re-ports reports that Chief Deputy Chris Picou, a vet-eran K-9 trainer and drug interdiction officer, wants to remedy that as quickly as possible.
“I'll be starting from scratch,” said Picou.
Picou says the county drug dogs, Chico and Bubba, are not physically able to work.
Chico, a Belgian Mali-nois, was purchased by the Hinds County in 2010 with a $7,500 donation from BancorpSouth. He is now 12.
“Twelve years old is up there in age for a dog to be working the streets,” Picou said.
The industry standard for purchase of a trained law enforcement K-9 is when the dog is 18 months to 2.5 years, Picou said.
Chico's vet says prob-lems with his hips “are not allowing him to be as mobile as he needs to be,” Picou said. “It is painful for him.
“The dog is so driven that he will fight through the pain. He would keep on working, but that would be inhumane.”
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WASHINGTON — It's over, and Mitt Romney is going to be the GOP nom-inee for president.
That's the growing con-sensus among Republican National Committee mem-bers who will automatically attend the party's national convention this summer and can support any candi-date they choose.
Even some members who support other can-didates begrudgingly say the math doesn't add up for anyone but the former Massachusetts governor.
“I would be surprised if Romney doesn't get the number he needs,” said Jeff Johnson of Minnesota, who supports former House Speaker Newt Gingrich.
Bob Bennett of Ohio was more blunt.
“Look, Gov. Romney's going to be the nominee, and he's going to have enough votes,” said Ben-nett, who is publicly neu-tral but said he supported Romney four years ago.
Romney's chief rival, former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum, is pledging to stay in the race, hoping a victory in his home state's primary April 24 will give his campaign new life. But Santorum has fallen far be-hind Romney in the race for convention delegates, and RNC members are taking notice, even though
most are publicly staying neutral, preferring to let primary voters decide the nominee.
The Associated Press has polled 114 of the 120 superdelegates, party members who can sup-port any candidate for president they choose at the national convention in August, regardless of what happens in prima-ries or caucuses.
In the latest survey, con-ducted Tuesday to Friday, Romney has 35 endorse-ments, far more than anyone else but a modest fi gure for the apparent nominee. Gingrich has four endorsements, San-torum has two and Texas Rep. Ron Paul got one.
RNC members have been slowly embracing Romney. He picked up 11 new endorsements since the last AP survey a month ago, after the Super Tues-day contests. Over the course of the campaign, however, Romney me-thodically has added en-dorsements from every re-gion of the country. In the U.S. territories, where vot-ers help decide the nomi-nee but can't vote in the general election, Romney has dominated.
Romney has endorse-ments from all three RNC members in Guam, Amer-ican Samoa, the Virgin Islands and the Northern Mariana Islands. He was endorsed by two of the
three members in Puerto Rico.
Romney may be strug-gling among voters in the South, but he was en-dorsed by two of the three committee members in Mississippi, Henry Bar-bour and Jeanne Luckey. Romney even has sup-port from Robert Asher of Pennsylvania.
Santorum's only en-dorsements are from members in Iowa and Alabama. In Pennsylva-nia, state GOP chairman Robert Gleason is pub-licly neutral.
“I talked to Rick the other day,” Gleason said. “He didn't even ask me to support him.”
Texas GOP chairman Steve Munisteri said he talked to Santorum for about 20 minutes on Tuesday, when Santo-rum was in the state for a fundraiser.
Santorum told him “what I already believed, which is we're only a little over the halfway mark and that he thinks he'll do really well in the Southern states,” said Munisteri, who has yet to endorse anyone.
“He should go into those states as the front-runner,” Munisteri said. “If he can win Pennsylva-nia, he'd then be able to put a streak of fi ve or six wins together based on all the Southern states hold-ing primaries.”
GOP superdelegates: It’s over, Romney is nominee
BY STEPHEN OHLEMACHERAssociated Press
BUFORD, Wyo. — A Wyoming town advertised as the smallest in the Unit-ed States has sold at auc-tion for $900,000.
Buford is located be-tween Cheyenne and Laramie in southeast Wy-
oming. An unidentifi ed man placed the winning bid at auction Thursday.
As owner of the place along Interstate 80, he will get a gas station and con-venience store, a school-house from 1905, a cabin, a garage, 10 acres of land,
and a three-bedroom home.
The town has had just one inhabitant, Don Sam-mons. He plans to retire from his unoffi cial title as “mayor” of the unincor-porated community and write a book.
Wyoming town, pop. 1, sells for $900,000Associated Press
Nation Briefs
‘Defiance’ cause of Calif. suspensions
LOS ANGELES — School suspensions used to be for serious offenses such as fighting or bringing weapons and drugs on campus, but these days they're just as likely for talking back to a teacher, cursing, walking into class late or even eye rolling.
More than 40 percent of suspensions in California are for “willful defiance,” or anything that disrupts class, and critics say it needs to be eliminated because it's overused for trivial offenses, dispro-portionately used against black and Latino boys and alienates the students who need most to stay in school.
Assemblyman Roger Dickinson (D-Sacramento) earlier this year introduced a bill to remove willful defi-ance as a reason for sus-pension and expulsion.
His bill, AB 2242, would replace that category with specific behaviors such as harassment, threats or intimidation.
New law inspired by Caylee's death
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Florida Gov. Rick Scott has signed a bill inspired by 2-year-old Caylee An-thony's death.
The law increases the maximum penalty from a year in jail to five years in prison for knowingly making a false state-ment to police about a missing child.
Caylee's mother, Casey Anthony, was acquitted last year of murdering her daughter but con-victed on four counts of lying to investigators
Caylee wasn't reported missing until 31 days af-ter she vanished in 2008 in Orlando.
Casey Anthony com-pleted her four-year maximum sentence while awaiting trial on the mur-der charge.
She could have gotten up to 20 years in prison if the bill had been in ef-fect at that time.
Painter Thomas Kinkade dies in Calif.
SAN FRANCISCO — Artist Thomas Kinkade, whose brushwork
paintings of idyllic land-scapes, cottages and churches have been big sellers for deal-ers across the United States, died Friday, a family spokesman said.
Kinkade, 54, died at his home in Los Gatos in the San Francisco Bay Area of what appeared to be natural causes, David Satterfield said.
Kinkade called himself the “Painter of Light,” and his sentimental paintings, with their scenes of country gar-dens and churches in dewy morning light, were beloved by many but re-viled by the art establish-ment.
He claimed to be the nation's most collected living artist, and his paintings and spin-off products were said to fetch some $100 million a year in sales, and to be in 10 million homes in the United States.
Those light-infused renderings are often prominently displayed in buildings, malls, and on products — generally depicting tranquil scenes with lush landscaping and streams running nearby. Many contain images from Bible pas-sages.
“I'm a warrior for light,” Kinkade, a self-described devout Christian, told the San Jose Mercury News in 2002, a reference to the medieval practice of using light to symbolize the divine. “With whatev-er talent and resources I have, I'm trying to bring light to penetrate the darkness many people feel.”
Before Kinkade's Me-dia Arts Group went pri-vate in the middle of the past decade, the com-pany took in $32 million per quarter from 4,500 dealers across the coun-try, according to the Mer-cury News. The cost of his paintings range from hundreds of dollars to more than $10,000.
According to his web-site, Kinkade's paintings have been reproduced in hand-signed lithographs, canvas prints, books, posters, calendars, magazine covers, cards, collector plates and figu-rines. The website touts his Disney collection and offers a gallery loca-tor, where fans can find
nearby dealers.
Mega Millions winner will stay anonymous
TOPEKA, Kan.— Kan-sas Lottery officials say the winner of a share of a $656 million Mega Mil-lions jackpot wants to remain anonymous.
Lottery Director Dennis Wilson says the person came to the agency's To-peka headquarters Friday morning with an attorney and some financial advis-ers. Wilson says the per-son does not want to be identified, even by gender.
The winner did not take part in the lottery's news conference Friday after-noon.
Wilson says the winning ticket for the March 30 drawing was bought at a Casey's General Store in Ottawa, about 40 miles southeast of Topeka.
The person is taking the winnings in a lump sum of almost $158 million, or roughly $110 million after taxes.
No immunity for cartel lieutenant
CHICAGO — A Chicago federal judge issued a ruling Thursday denying a sensational claim by an admitted Mexican cartel lieutenant imprisoned in Michigan that the U.S. gov-ernment granted him blan-ket immunity that gave him carte blanche to smuggle cocaine over the border.
Lawyers for Vicente Zambada claimed U.S. agents granted him and other cartel leaders the immunity in exchange for intelligence about rival car-tels engaged in bloody turf wars in Mexico.
In his 11-page ruling, U.S. District Judge Ruben Castillo wrote that he ex-amined public and sealed documents from U.S. agents that deny ever con-ferring immunity directly or indirectly on Zambada.
“The court's indepen-dent review of these docu-ments established that none of these classified documents support de-fendant's legal position,” Castillo wrote.
Prosecutors have ac-knowledged that DEA agents encountered Zambada when a cartel lawyer brought him to a hotel meeting against the agents' instructions.
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AGRICULTURE FUTURES
MUTUAL FUNDS
GAINERS ($2 OR MORE)
CORN
5,000 bu minimum- cents per bushelMay 12 666 646ø 658ü +14ü
Jul 12 659fl 642 652ü +9
Sep 12 575fl 556ü 569ü +6
Dec 12 551 535 550ü +10
Mar 13 562 546fl 561 +9ü
May 13 570 555 569 +9ü
Jul 13 576ü 559fl 576ü +11ø
SOYBEANS
5,000 bu minimum- cents per bushelMay 12 1434ü 1406ø 1434 +31
Jul 12 1439ü 1411 1437fl +29ø
Aug 12 1430fl 1406 1429ü +28fl
Sep 12 1409ø 1383ø 1402ø +26ø
Nov 12 1397 1360 1381ø +23ø
Jan 13 1391ø 1355ü 1380ü +25fl
Mar 13 1375 1338 1365 +27
WHEAT
5,000 bu minimum- cents per bushelMay 12 666ø 635ø 638ø -22ü
Jul 12 679ü 645 646ü -27fl
Sep 12 694ü 657ø 659ü -30fl
Dec 12 715fl 679 680fl -31ü
Mar 13 728fl 695 697fl -30
May 13 729ü 708 712ü -22
Jul 13 735 710ü 715ü -16ø
CATTLE
40,000 lbs.- cents per lb.Apr 12 121.25 117.55 118.32 -2.13
Jun 12 117.15 114.40 115.82 -.33
Aug 12 120.50 117.50 118.47 -1.20
Oct 12 126.37 123.20 123.97 -1.63
Dec 12 128.12 125.20 125.97 -1.13
Feb 13 128.65 125.95 126.82 -1.03
Apr 13 129.40 127.05 127.72 -.88
HOGS-Lean
40,000 lbs.- cents per lb.Apr 12 84.85 83.17 84.50 +1.08
May 12 94.37 91.75 94.22 +2.30
Jun 12 93.55 90.70 93.52 +3.12
Jul 12 93.45 91.42 93.30 +1.65
Aug 12 93.90 91.77 93.85 +2.00
Oct 12 85.50 83.00 85.35 +2.45
Dec 12 82.30 80.00 82.25 +2.38
COTTON 2
50,000 lbs.- cents per lb.May 12 93.80 88.20 88.54 -4.98
Jul 12 94.00 88.12 88.39 -5.53
Oct 12 93.50 88.66 88.66 -4.18
Dec 12 91.00 87.46 87.54 -3.46
Mar 13 91.54 88.50 88.58 -3.04
May 13 91.47 88.84 88.84 -2.67
Jul 13 91.45 88.98 89.45 -1.91
WEEKLY DOW JONES
WkHigh WkLow Settle WkChg WkHigh WkLow Settle WkChg
THE WEEK IN REVIEW
PIMCO TotRetIs CI 151,030 11.10 0.0 +6.0/D +8.4/A NL 1,000,000Vanguard TotStIdx LB 69,995 34.93 +2.5 +5.7/B +1.9/A NL 3,000Vanguard InstIdxI LB 67,783 128.07 +2.7 +7.2/A +1.6/B NL 5,000,000Fidelity Contra LG 60,967 77.77 +4.3 +9.3/B +4.9/B NL 2,500American Funds GrthAmA m LG 58,599 32.66 +2.2 +2.1/D +1.3/D 5.75 250Vanguard 500Adml LB 58,095 128.91 +2.7 +7.2/A +1.6/B NL 10,000American Funds CapIncBuA m IH 57,179 50.92 -0.1 +3.4/A +0.9/D 5.75 250Vanguard TotStIAdm LB 56,340 34.93 +2.5 +5.8/B +2.0/A NL 10,000American Funds IncAmerA m MA 55,422 17.36 +0.3 +4.5/B +1.9/D 5.75 250American Funds CpWldGrIA m WS 47,942 35.00 -0.5 -3.3/C 0.0/B 5.75 250American Funds InvCoAmA m LB 46,242 29.70 +1.4 +3.3/C +0.5/C 5.75 250Vanguard InstPlus LB 43,245 128.08 +2.7 +7.2/A +1.6/B NL200,000,000American Funds WAMutInvA m LV 40,556 30.24 +1.4 +7.2/A +1.0/B 5.75 250Dodge & Cox IntlStk FV 40,102 32.01 -2.1 -11.3/C -3.0/A NL 2,500Dodge & Cox Stock LV 39,840 112.50 +1.2 -0.1/D -2.7/E NL 2,500FrankTemp-Franklin Income A m CA 37,556 2.15 +0.1 +1.6/E +2.9/D 4.25 1,000
Total Assets Total Return/Rank Pct Min InitName Obj ($Mlns) NAV 4-wk 12-mo 5-year Load Invt
CA -Conservative Allocation, CI -Intermediate-Term Bond, ES -Europe Stock, FB -Foreign Large Blend, FG -ForeignLargeGrowth, FV -Foreign Large Value, IH -World Allocation, LB -Large Blend, LG -Large Growth, LV -Large Value,MA -Moderate Allocation, MB -Mid-Cap Blend, MV - Mid-Cap Value, SH -Specialty-heath, WS -World Stock, TotalReturn: Chng in NAV with dividends reinvested. Rank: How fund performed vs. others with same objective: A is in top20%, E in bottom 20%. Min Init Invt: Minimum $ needed to invest in fund. Source: Morningstar.
Name Vol (00) Last Chg
SiriusXM 3951823 2.35 +.04Microsoft 1728754 31.52 -.74PwShs QQQ 1714532 67.72 +.17Cisco 1666507 20.22 -.85RschMotn 1331666 12.67 -2.03Oracle 1302045 29.56 +.40MicronT 1244828 7.59 -.51Intel 1146195 28.07 -.05Apple Inc 916855633.68+34.13Yahoo 651183 15.07 -.16
MOST ACTIVE ($1 OR MORE)
LOSERS ($2 OR MORE)
Name Last Chg %Chg
Cleantch rs 5.71 +3.83 +203.7NF EnSv h 2.35 +1.41 +150.0SmtHeat rs 6.30 +3.57 +130.8ChinRecyE 2.05 +.85 +70.8Tranzyme 3.37 +.80 +31.1HMN Fn 3.17 +.69 +27.8FstUtdCp 7.50 +1.50 +25.0CharmCom 11.44 +2.26 +24.6Conns 19.00 +3.65 +23.8TearLab 4.20 +.80 +23.5
Name Last Chg %Chg
MitekSys 7.35 -4.25 -36.6PremExhib 2.44 -1.10 -31.1Lihua Intl 4.24 -1.51 -26.3ClovisOn n 19.24 -6.21 -24.4Polycom s 14.56 -4.51 -23.6MeruNetw 3.10 -.95 -23.5ParamTch 21.46 -6.48 -23.2Groupon n 14.18 -4.20 -22.9YRC rs 5.11 -1.52 -22.9Amyris 4.06 -1.12 -21.6
Name Vol (00) Last Chg
Vringo 471464 2.66 +1.01CheniereEn 187338 16.39 +1.41NwGold g 176335 9.51 -.37NovaGld g 155450 6.81 -.37ParaG&S 85012 2.47 +.21Rentech 75356 2.14 +.06GoldStr g 67549 1.74 -.12UraniumEn 58845 3.28 -.62RareEle g 58642 5.85 -.43BarcGSOil 58417 25.87 -.01
MOST ACTIVE ($1 OR MORE)
GAINERS ($2 OR MORE)
LOSERS ($2 OR MORE)
Name Last Chg %Chg
Vringo 2.66 +1.01 +61.2WizrdSft rs 2.88 +.54 +23.1AdmRsc 66.95 +9.77 +17.1CPI Aero 16.40 +1.53 +10.3CheniereEn 16.39 +1.41 +9.4ParaG&S 2.47 +.21 +9.3GpoSimec 10.16 +.79 +8.4Ballanty 5.75 +.43 +8.1BioTime 4.76 +.35 +7.9HMG 4.64 +.34 +7.9
Name Last Chg %Chg
HstnAEn 4.21 -1.01 -19.3Augusta g 2.24 -.49 -17.9UraniumEn 3.28 -.62 -15.9KeeganR g 3.17 -.59 -15.7GoldenMin 7.27 -1.16 -13.8MastechH 5.43 -.82 -13.1GreenHntr 2.17 -.31 -12.5NavideaBio 2.89 -.39 -11.9Quepasa 3.91 -.53 -11.9TasmanM g 2.19 -.29 -11.7
Name Vol (00) Last Chg
BkofAm 7596066 9.23 -.34S&P500ETF 5182114139.79 -1.02SPDR Fncl 3291031 15.54 -.26FordM 2249367 12.47 -.01iShEMkts 2106812 42.74 -.21GenElec 1705073 19.49 -.58iShR2K 1684297 81.58 -1.23Bar iPVix 1679447 17.86 +1.08SprintNex 1343460 2.76 -.09Citigrp rs 1306071 34.79 -1.76
MOST ACTIVE ($1 OR MORE)
GAINERS ($2 OR MORE)
LOSERS ($2 OR MORE)
Name Last Chg %Chg
AmrRlty 2.28 +.58 +34.1GMX Rs pfB 15.17 +3.05 +25.2Avon 23.42 +4.06 +21.0DirDGldBr 50.74 +8.77 +20.9E-CDang 9.73 +1.63 +20.1FelCor 4.28 +.68 +18.9PzenaInv 6.93 +1.08 +18.5Willbros 3.75 +.51 +15.7TorchEngy 2.25 +.28 +14.2ArabAmDv 10.48 +1.20 +12.9
Name Last Chg %Chg
MillMda n 18.42 -5.08 -21.6YPF Soc 22.52 -5.89 -20.7RubyTues 7.27 -1.86 -20.4DirDGldBll 13.11 -3.25 -19.9HovnanE 2.02 -.43 -17.6NBGrce rs 2.21 -.46 -17.2BkIreld rs 5.72 -1.05 -15.5LDK Solar 3.38 -.62 -15.5EnzoBio 2.30 -.39 -14.5OwensC wtB 2.31 -.39 -14.4
WEEKLY STOCK EXCHANGE HIGHLIGHTS
Stock Footnotes: g = Dividends and earnings in Canadian dollars. h = Does not meet continued-listing standards.lf = Late filing with SEC. n = New in past 52 weeks. pf = Preferred. rs = Stock has undergone a reverse stock splitof at least 50 percent within the past year. rt = Right to buy security at a specified price. s = Stock has split by atleast 20 percent within the last year. un = Units. vj = In bankruptcy or receivership. wd = When distributed. wi =When issued. wt = Warrants. Mutual Fund Footnotes: b = Fee covering market costs is paid from fund assets. d= Deferred sales charge, or redemption fee. f = front load (sales charges). m = Multiple fees are charged. NA = notavailable. p = previous day’s net asset value. s = fund split shares during the week. x = fund paid a distribution dur-ing the week.Gainers and Losers must be worth at least $2 to be listed in tables at left. Most Actives must be worthat least $1. Volume in hundreds of shares. Source: The Associated Press. Sales figures are unofficial.
STOCKS OF LOCAL INTEREST
Wk Wk YTDName Ex Div Last Chg %Chg%Chg
Wk Wk YTDName Ex Div Last Chg %Chg%Chg
AFLAC NY 1.32 44.80 -1.19 -2.6 +3.6
AT&T Inc NY 1.76 30.94 +.15 +0.5 +2.3
AlcatelLuc NY ... 2.15 -.12 -5.3 +37.8
Alcoa NY .12 9.63 -.39 -3.9 +11.3
AlliantTch NY .80 49.32 -.80 -1.6 -13.7
AmIntlGrp NY ... 32.89 +2.06 +6.7 +41.8
Aon plc NY .60 48.41 -.65 -1.3 +3.4
Apple Inc Nasd10.60 633.68+34.13 +5.7 +56.5
Avon NY .92 23.42 +4.06 +21.0 +34.1
BP PLC NY 1.92 43.37 -1.63 -3.6 +1.5
BcpSouth NY .04 13.02 -.45 -3.3 +18.1
BkofAm NY .04 9.23 -.34 -3.6 +66.0
Bar iPVix NY ... 17.86 +1.08 +6.4 -49.7
Bemis NY 1.00 32.05 -.24 -0.7 +6.5
Caterpillar NY 1.84 105.87 -.65 -0.6 +16.9
Checkpnt NY ... 11.05 -.23 -2.0 +1.0
Chevron NY 3.24 104.75 -2.46 -2.3 -1.6
Cisco Nasd .32 20.22 -.85 -4.0 +12.2
Citigrp rs NY .04 34.79 -1.76 -4.8 +32.2
CocaCola NY 2.04 73.47 -.54 -0.7 +5.0
Comcast Nasd .65 29.56 -.29 -1.0 +24.7
Deere NY 1.84 81.83 +.93 +1.1 +5.8
DirSCBear NY ... 18.45 +.77 +4.4 -30.3
Dover NY 1.26 61.39 -1.55 -2.5 +5.8
DowChm NY 1.00 33.42 -1.22 -3.5 +16.2
EMC Cp NY ... 28.94 -.94 -3.1 +34.4
EnPro NY ... 40.68 -.42 -1.0 +23.3
ExxonMbl NY 1.88 84.82 -1.91 -2.2 +.1
FstHorizon NY .04 10.17 -.21 -2.0 +27.1
FordM NY .20 12.47 -.01 ... +15.9
FrkUnv NY .46 7.01 +.13 +1.9 +4.8
FredsInc Nasd .24 13.89 -.72 -4.9 -4.7
GenElec NY .68 19.49 -.58 -2.9 +8.8
Goodrich NY 1.16 125.15 -.29 -0.2 +1.2
iShSilver NY ... 30.72 -.66 -2.1 +14.0
iShChina25 NY .77 37.00 +.34 +0.9 +6.1
iShEMkts NY .81 42.74 -.21 -0.5 +12.7
iS Eafe NY 1.71 53.02 -1.87 -3.4 +7.0
iShR2K NY 1.10 81.58 -1.23 -1.5 +10.6
Intel Nasd .84 28.07 -.05 -0.2 +15.8
IBM NY 3.00 205.47 -3.18 -1.5 +11.7
ItauUnibH NY .84 18.08 -1.10 -5.7 -2.6
JPMorgCh NY 1.20 44.34 -1.34 -2.9 +33.4
KimbClk NY 2.96 74.37 +.48 +0.6 +1.1
Kroger NY .46 23.84 -.39 -1.6 -1.6
Lowes NY .56 31.35 -.03 -0.1 +23.5
MktVGold NY .15 46.20 -3.34 -6.7 -10.2
McDnlds NY 2.80 98.62 +.52 +0.5 -1.7
MeadWvco NY 1.00 31.32 -.27 -0.9 +4.6
MicronT Nasd ... 7.59 -.51 -6.2 +20.7
Microsoft Nasd .80 31.52 -.74 -2.3 +21.4
MorgStan NY .20 18.39 -1.25 -6.4 +21.5
NY Times NY ... 6.58 -.21 -3.1 -14.9
NiSource NY .92 24.50 +.15 +0.6 +2.9
NokiaCp NY 1.26 5.11 -.38 -6.9 +6.0
NorthropG NY 2.00 60.85 -.23 -0.4 +4.1
Oracle Nasd .24 29.56 +.40 +1.4 +15.2
Penney NY .80 34.97 -.26 -0.7 -.5
PepsiCo NY 2.06 66.15 -.20 -0.3 -.3
Pfizer NY .88 22.34 -.31 -1.3 +3.2
PwShs QQQ Nasd .49 67.72 +.17 +0.3 +21.3
ProctGam NY 2.10 67.31 +.10 +0.1 +.9
RadioShk NY .50 6.05 -.17 -2.7 -37.7
RegionsFn NY .04 6.43 -.16 -2.4 +49.5
RschMotn Nasd ... 12.67 -2.03 -13.8 -12.6
S&P500ETF NY 2.64 139.79 -1.02 -0.7 +11.4
SaraLee NY .46 21.51 -.02 -0.1 +13.7
Schwab NY .24 14.25 -.12 -0.8 +26.6
SearsHldgs Nasd .33 62.19 -4.06 -6.1 +95.7
Sherwin NY 1.56 110.77 +2.10 +1.9 +24.1
SiriusXM Nasd ... 2.35 +.04 +1.7 +29.1
SouthnCo NY 1.89 44.97 +.04 +0.1 -2.9
SprintNex NY ... 2.76 -.09 -3.2 +17.9
SPDR Fncl NY .22 15.54 -.26 -1.6 +19.5
TecumsehB Nasd ... 4.20 +.20 +5.0 -5.6
TecumsehA Nasd ... 4.13 +.11 +2.7 -12.1
Trchmrk s NY .60 49.08 -.62 -1.2 +13.1
Vale SA NY 1.55 22.91 -.42 -1.8 +6.8
VangEmg NY .91 43.17 -.30 -0.7 +13.0
WalMart NY 1.59 60.67 -.53 -0.9 +1.5
WellsFargo NY .88 33.73 -.41 -1.2 +22.4
Wendys Co Nasd .08 4.99 -.02 -0.4 -6.9
Weyerhsr NY .60 21.51 -.41 -1.9 +15.2
Xerox NY .17 7.87 -.21 -2.5 -1.1
Tables show seven most current contracts for each future. Grains traded on Chicago Board of Trade;livestock on Chicago Mercantile Exchange; and cotton on New York Cotton Exchange.
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TUPELO — Following a recent meeting of the Board of Directors of Re-nasant Bank, E. Robin-son McGraw, Chairman and Chief Executive Offi -cer, announced that Reid Bostick has been elected Banking Offi cer for Renas-ant Bank in Corinth.
Bostick has been with Renasant since January, 2011, serving in the De-partment of Credit Ad-ministration at Renasant Bank’s Corporate Head-quarters in Tupelo. Prior to joining the Renasant Bank team, Bostick was employed with U.S. Sena-tor Roger Wicker. In his new role with the bank,
Bostick will be responsible for Consumer and Com-mercial Lending in the Corinth area.
Bostick attended Mis-sissippi State University, graduating with a Bach-elor’s Degree in Business Administration. He also received a Master’s Degree in Public Policy & Admin-istration from Mississippi State University while be-ing inducted into Pi Alpha Alpha, which is a National Honor Society for Public Affairs and Administration for Graduate Students.
Bostick contributes to his Alcorn County com-munity through organi-zations such as Kiwanis Club, Leadership Alcorn,
Corinth Young Profes-sionals, and serves on the Community Development Council Board for the Al-liance. He and his wife, Hayli, are active members of Oakland Baptist Church and reside in Corinth.
ABOUT RENASANT CORPORATION:
Renasant Corporation, a 108-year-old fi nancial services institution, is the parent of Renasant Bank and Renasant Insurance. Renasant has assets of approximately $4.2 bil-lion and operates over 75 banking, mortgage, fi nan-cial services and insur-ance offi ces in Mississippi, Tennessee, Alabama and Georgia.
Renasant names Bostick as new banking officer in Corinth
For the Daily Corinthian
Reid Bostick
Small businesses can entice local customers with online coupons and discounts just like the big box stores do.
Online companies, such as Wildfi re and Woobox, offer entrepreneurs the opportunity to connect online coupons to their businesses’ Facebook and Twitter accounts. Woobox, for example, al-lows users to create free coupons, QR codes and discounts that have a cus-tomer limit and an expi-ration date.
Business owners can email the URL address for the coupon to an existing e-mail listserv, allowing customers to access the coupon, print it and take it to the store. Also, the cou-pon can be posted on the business’s Facebook page, where customers can “like”
or refer friends to the page to receive a discount.
While this software sounds complicated and expensive, it is relatively easy to set up. Start with something small. Gain confi dence in the soft-ware and your ability to manage coupons and discounts before jump-ing into a buy-one-get-one free deal. You want to attract customers with the coupons and dis-counts, not annoy them because you ran out of merchandise or were not adequately prepared to handle the demand.
Let’s take my favorite local veterinarian as an example. This veterinar-ian’s offi ce has a Face-book page, which they use to communicate with their clientele. The veteri-narian could use the on-line software provided by Woobox (http://woobox.com) to create a 10 per-
cent discount on a spay or neuter procedure. If they were trying to build their fan base on Facebook, they could make the cou-pon available only to cli-ents who get fi ve friends to “like” the page.
Software like Woobox also works for entrepre-neurs like my friends down at the farmers’ market. They can place a coupon or discount on their Facebook page (or e-mail it to me), and I can print it to take it with me or scan it on my smartphone. Of course, if they limited the number of coupons that could be printed, I’d have to get to the farmer’s market even earlier to beat everybody else there with a coupon.
To get started with Woobox, you will need to visit the website and login using your Facebook user-name and password. Once you do, it will ask you if you will allow the Woobox
app. Left-click allow. Next, you will need to enter your business information, such as name, address, e-mail and phone. By de-fault, your account set-tings are set to “free.”
In the upper right-hand column, left-click Promo-tions and then left-click Add Offer. Select the type of offer you wish to create. Enter the information for the online offer and then left-click Add Coupon. Left-click
Offers in the upper right-hand corner, and the coupon has been cre-ated. Either copy or paste the URL address for the coupon into an e-mail or post to Facebook. Use the Install Facebook tab to create a section on your page for coupons.
Attracting customers through online discounts and coupons is an easy way to build customer loyalty.
Woo customers with online couponsBY MARIAH SMITH
MSU Computer Applications and Services
NEW YORK — Ahh, spring. The days get lon-ger, fl owers bloom, and gasoline gets more expen-sive.
It's a galling time for drivers, and it's more maddening than usual this year. The average price of gasoline could surpass $4 per gallon na-tionwide as early as this week. It's already $3.93 per gallon, a record for this time of year.
Why the seasonal spike? It's the time of year refi neries reduce output to repair equipment and start making a cleaner, more expensive blend of gasoline for summer.
Since 2000, pump pric-es have risen every year between early February and late May. The an-nual increase has boosted prices by 27 percent on average, according to the National Association of Convenience Stores. This year, prices have risen 14 percent, or 48 cents per gallon, since Feb. 1.
“There's always built-in increase, and it's going to be accentuated this year,” said Tom Kloza, chief oil analyst at Oil Price Infor-mation Service.
Gasoline was expensive even before the seasonal run-up. Strong global demand, heightened ten-sions with Iran and a smattering of supply dis-ruptions have kept crude oil prices elevated for months. The oil used to make most of the gasoline in the U.S. has averaged $120 per barrel this year.
This year's spring surge is more extreme than usual because three refi n-eries that serve the East Coast were shut down last
fall and another one may be closed in July. That's threatening supplies in one of the country's most densely populated re-gions, and pushing prices higher everywhere.
Demand for gasoline tends to drop off in win-ter. That makes it the perfect time for refi neries to get ready for summer, when the objective is to produce as much fuel as possible. The catch is that the refi ning industry's version of spring cleaning causes supplies to shrink and prices to rise. To be specifi c:
■ Refi neries need major maintenance once every four years, on average. On a practical level, that means one-fourth of the nation's refi ning capacity is temporarily shut down in the fi rst quarter of ev-ery year. Because the U.S. has half the number of refi neries it did in 1980, a delay in getting one or two back up and running has a greater impact than in the past.
■ To comply with the Clean Air Act and limit smog, refi ners have to
make a special blend of gasoline that doesn't eas-ily evaporate in the warm summer air. The fuel is 5 to 15 cents a gallon more expensive to make because of raw material costs.
■ The nationwide fuel
supply can't be trans-formed overnight. Be-tween April 1, when refi n-ers must start making the summer blend, and June 1, when retailers have to be selling it, supplies be-come uncertain, and pric-es at the pump rise.
Spring: A time for flowers, high gasoline pricesJONATHAN FAHEY
Associated Press
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Sports8A • Daily Corinthian Sunday, April 8, 2012
Local Schedule
Monday, April 9BaseballBlue Mountain @ Biggersville, 5Central @ Biggersville, 7SoftballBiggersville @ Pine Grove, 5Booneville @ Corinth, 6
Tuesday, April 10BaseballBiggersville @ Wheeler, 6Itawamba @ Corinth, 7Kossuth @ Ripley, 7Central @ BelmontSoftballFalkner @ Biggersville, 5Corinth @ Tish County, 5Kossuth @ Central, 5:30TennisTCPS @ Central, 4
Thursday, April 12SoftballBooneville @ Kossuth, 5Jumpertown @ Biggersville, 5Corinth @ Pontotoc, 6TennisCentral @ Booneville, 4
Friday, April 13BaseballPine Grove @ Biggersville, 6:30Belmont @ Kossuth, 7Corinth @ Itawamba, 7Booneville @ CentralSoftballKossuth @ Corinth, 6TennisTish County @ Central, 4
Saturday, April 14BaseballWheeler @ Biggersville, 2Corinth @ Belmont, 6South Pontotoc @ Kossuth, 7South Pontotoc @ CentralTennisAC @ South Pontotoc Tourn.
Monday, April 16BaseballCorinth @ Tish County, 6SoftballThrasher @ Biggersville, 5
Tuesday, April 17BaseballBiggersville @ Falkner, 4:30Tish County @ Corinth, 7Booneville @ Kossuth, 7Central @ Pine GroveSoftballCorinth @ Amory, 5TennisDivision 1-3A @ ICC, 8:30 a.m.TrackDivision 1-3A @ Tish Co.
Associated PressFAYETTEVILLE, Ark. — Ar-
kansas athletic director Jeff Long made it perfectly clear what he expects from his staff as he put coach Bobby Petrino on leave for keeping him in the dark about a sordid-look-ing relationship with a female employee.
“It’s diffi cult any time that we have a coach, an employee that makes a misstep, it’s dis-appointing to me,” Long said. “We have high expectations. I think every coach and every administrator and every staff
person knows we have high expectations. Certainly, I’m disappointed.”
Those expectations are squarely in the spotlight at Arkansas and for Long, who told The Associated Press on Saturday that he continues to work on the review of Petri-no’s conduct throughout the weekend and likely into Eas-ter Sunday.
Long didn’t offer a time-table for the conclusion of the review, which is examining a variety of issues surrounding Petrino’s motorcycle acci-
dent last weekend. Most no-tably, Thursday’s revelation through a police report that the 51-year-old Petrino was riding with a 25-year-old fe-male employee at the time of the wreck.
Petrino initially said he was alone during the accident before admitting to Long on Thursday that he wasn’t.
As Long’s investigation continued Saturday, so too did the speculation surround-ing the exact nature and time-frame of Petrino’s relation-ship with Jessica Dorrell, the
football department employ-ee who was riding with the coach.
Petrino, who is married with four children, was no-ticeably vague in his state-ment on Thursday — saying only that he had acknowl-edged a “previous inappro-priate relationship” without naming Dorrell as the other party in that relationship.
Messages for the former Arkansas volleyball player and Razorback Foundation
Arkansas AD: Petrino review ongoing
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Associated PressAUGUSTA, Ga. — Phil
Mickelson raised the putter in his right hand and slammed down his left fi st to celebrate a 20-foot eagle putt that shook Augusta National with the loudest roar on a day fi lled with them.
Peter Hanson knew what was going on behind him without looking Saturday. He also knew exactly what he had to do.
The 34-year-old Swede, playing in only his second Masters, answered by making four birdies over the last fi ve holes for a 7-under 65, the lowest score of the tourna-ment, to take a one-shot lead
into the fi nal round.“I’m standing in the middle
of the fairway and I feel him breathing down my neck a little bit,” Hanson said.
He followed with an ap-proach into 2 feet for birdie, a 15-foot putt from the fringe on the 15th, a 30-foot birdie putt over the ridge on the 17th and one last birdie at the 18th with a shot that stopped in-side 3 feet from the cup.
What a fi nish — and it’s all just beginning.
The advantage going into Sunday belongs to Mickelson, a three-time Masters cham-pion who thrilled the sun-baked crowd with some magi-cal shots. Mickelson shot 30
on the back nine, including a birdie on the par-5 15th when he played a full fl op shot with a 64-degree wedge — no one even thinks about hitting a shot like that — to 4 feet.
He wound up with a 66 and was in the fi nal group at the Masters for the fourth time in the last nine years. Mickelson won the last three times he was in that spot, and on Sun-day he faces a Swede whom he trounced in the Ryder Cup two years ago in Wales.
“I love it here, and I love nothing more than being in the last group on Sunday at the Masters,” Mickelson said. “It’s the great thing in profes-sional golf.”
Hanson, who has never been closer than seven shots going into the lead at any ma-jor, was at 9-under 207.
Mickelson gave the leader-board some star power when so many others faded or, in the case of Tiger Woods, never came close to getting there. Woods now has gone 26 consecutive holes on the back nine at Augusta without a birdie. He had to settle for a 72 and was 12 shots behind, his largest 54-hole defi cit ever at the Masters.
But he wasn’t alone.U.S. Open champion Rory
McIlroy, who started the day
Hanson holds off charge by Phil Mickelson
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Associated PressNEW ORLEANS — A docu-
mentary fi lmmaker says he had the right to release a recording of then-Saints de-fensive coordinator Gregg Williams exhorting his play-ers to physically punish tar-geted San Francisco players.
In a statement posted on his promotional website, Sean Pamphilon says he and former Saints special teams standout Steve Gleason “have a production agree-
ment that I have followed.”Gleason, who has ALS,
had been allowing Pamphi-lon to document his struggle against the incurable dis-ease. The Saints, who’ve sup-ported Gleason’s efforts to raise awareness about ALS, gave Pamphilon behind-the-scenes access, which allowed him to record Wil-liams speech ahead of New Orleans’ 36-32 playoff loss to the 49ers in January.
Gleason said Friday that
the Williams recording should not have been re-leased without his permis-sion, which he never gave.
Williams is suspended in-defi nitely for his admitted role overseeing a bounty sys-tem that rewarded Saints de-fenders with cash for painful hits during his tenure with the team from 2009 to 2011. The assistant coach left New Orleans after the playoff loss and was hired as defensive coordinator by the St. Louis
Rams.The recording purports
to capture Williams telling players to “put a lick” on 49ers receiver Kyle Williams to see if he had lingering ef-fects from a concussion. Wil-liams also tells his players to “beat (running back) Frank Gore’s head,” and “lay out” quarterback Alex Smith. The coach also reminds his play-ers that receiver Michael
Filmmaker defends release of Williams recording
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Associated PressCINCINNATI — Miami Marlins
manager Ozzie Guillen apologized on Saturday for telling a magazine that he loves Fidel Castro, a comment that prompted to team to issue a statement denouncing the Cuban dictator.
Guillen told Time magazine that he loves Castro and respects him for stay-ing in power so long. When Guillen read his comments Friday, he said he felt sick because he knew how people would react.
Guillen called the team’s beat writ-ers for a closed-door meeting before a game against the Cincinnati Reds on Saturday night and apologized.
“I will apologize if I hurt some-body’s feelings, or I hurt somebody’s thought,” Guillen told the writers. “I want them to know I’m against every-thing 100 percent — I repeat it again — the way this man (been) treating people for the last 60 years.”
In response to the magazine story, the Marlins released a statement say-ing, “There is nothing to respect about Fidel Castro.
“He is a brutal dictator who has caused unthinkable pain for more than 50 years. We live in a community fi lled with victims of this dictatorship, and the people in Cuba continue to suffer today.”
It’s not the fi rst time Guillen, from Venezuela, has made a strong com-ment about a controversial leader. During his fi rst news conference as Marlins manager in September, he bristled at a suggestion he supports Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez.
“Don’t tell my wife that, because she hates that man. She hates him to death,” Guillen said. “I supported Chavez? If I was supporting Chavez, do you think I would be manager of the Marlins? I never supported Chavez.”
Guillen said he has never spoken to Chavez, but in fact he appeared on the Venezuelan leader’s national ra-dio show twice in October 2005, when Guillen led the Chicago White Sox to the World Series title. At the time, Guillen said: “Not too many people like the president. I do. My mom will kill me, but it’s an honor to talk to the president.”
Guillenapologizesfor comment
Photo by H. Lee Smith II
Softball SlateCorinth’s Stennett Smith throws a pitch to the plate during recent fast-pitch softball ac-tion. After taking the Easter weekend off, Alcorn County teams will jump back into action on Monday with a full state set for Tuesday.
Associated PressNEW YORK — Michael
Bourn broke for the plate, determined to score Atlan-ta’s fi rst run of the season.
Not so fast, pal.The three-time NL stolen
base champ was tagged out on a quick toss from catch-er Josh Thole to pitcher R.A. Dickey, and the Braves managed little else Satur-day in a 4-2 loss to the New York Mets.
Two games, two runs. That’s the grand total this year as the Braves, whose hitters disappeared during a late collapse last season that cost them a playoff spot, again struggled to fi nd their stroke.
“We’re not panicking,” Braves outfi elder Jason Heyward said. “The fi rst two games, it hasn’t hap-pened.”
Martin Prado hit a two-run homer for Atlanta. His shot in the fi fth ended the Braves’ longest season-opening shutout streak since 1980 — even so, this is their fi rst 0-2 start in four years.
Bourn tried to put Atlan-ta ahead from the get-go. He led off the game with a double, moved to third on a grounder and bolted home when a pitch defl ected off Thole’s mitt and skittered away. But Thole pounced on it and threw a fastball to Dickey, and the knuckle-baller tagged Bourn.
“A big percentage of the team that scores fi rst wins,” Braves manager Fredi Gon-zalez offered.
“Bourn hesitated,” he said. “You can’t fault him on that. The two guys made a play.”
The Braves got a fi nal chance in the ninth, putting runners on fi rst and second with two outs. Mets closer
Braves stillstruggling
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Scoreboard Daily Corinthian • 9ASunday, April 8, 2012
Baseball
N.L. standings, scheduleEast Division
W L Pct GBNew York 2 0 1.000 —Washington 2 0 1.000 —Philadelphia 1 1 .500 1Miami 1 2 .333 1½Atlanta 0 2 .000 2
Central Division W L Pct GBSt. Louis 2 1 .667 —Cincinnati 1 1 .500 ½Houston 1 1 .500 ½Milwaukee 1 1 .500 ½Pittsburgh 1 1 .500 ½Chicago 0 2 .000 1½
West Division W L Pct GBArizona 2 0 1.000 —Los Angeles 2 0 1.000 —Colorado 1 1 .500 1San Diego 0 2 .000 2San Francisco 0 2 .000 2
–––Friday’s Games
St. Louis 11, Milwaukee 5Colorado 5, Houston 3Arizona 5, San Francisco 4L.A. Dodgers 6, San Diego 0
Saturday’s GamesWashington 7, Chicago Cubs 4N.Y. Mets 4, Atlanta 2Milwaukee 6, St. Louis 0Arizona 5, San Francisco 4Houston 7, Colorado 3Pittsburgh 2, Philadelphia 1, 10 inningsMiami 8, Cincinnati 3L.A. Dodgers at San Diego, (n)
Sunday’s GamesAtlanta (Minor 0-0) at N.Y. Mets (Niese 0-0),
12:10 p.m.Miami (Zambrano 0-0) at Cincinnati (Arroyo
0-0), 12:10 p.m.Philadelphia (Worley 0-0) at Pittsburgh (Mc-
Donald 0-0), 12:35 p.m.Colorado (Nicasio 0-0) at Houston (Norris
0-0), 1:05 p.m.St. Louis (Lynn 0-0) at Milwaukee (Wolf 0-0),
1:10 p.m.Washington (Zimmermann 0-0) at Chicago
Cubs (Samardzija 0-0), 1:20 p.m.L.A. Dodgers (Harang 0-0) at San Diego (Rich-
ard 0-0), 3:05 p.m.San Francisco (Cain 0-0) at Arizona (Col-
lmenter 0-0), 3:10 p.m.Monday’s Games
Miami at Philadelphia, 12:05 p.m.San Francisco at Colorado, 3:10 p.m.Milwaukee at Chicago Cubs, 6:05 p.m.St. Louis at Cincinnati, 6:10 p.m.Washington at N.Y. Mets, 6:10 p.m.Atlanta at Houston, 7:05 p.m.
American LeagueEast Division
W L Pct GBBaltimore 2 0 1.000 —Tampa Bay 2 0 1.000 —Toronto 2 0 1.000 —Boston 0 2 .000 2New York 0 2 .000 2
Central Division W L Pct GBDetroit 2 0 1.000 —Chicago 1 1 .500 1
Kansas City 1 1 .500 1Cleveland 0 2 .000 2Minnesota 0 2 .000 2
West Division W L Pct GBSeattle 2 1 .667 —Los Angeles 1 1 .500 ½Texas 1 1 .500 ½Oakland 1 2 .333 1
–––Friday’s Games
Texas 3, Chicago White Sox 2Baltimore 4, Minnesota 2Tampa Bay 7, N.Y. Yankees 6L.A. Angels 5, Kansas City 0Seattle 7, Oakland 3
Saturday’s GamesToronto 7, Cleveland 4, 12 inningsDetroit 10, Boston 0Kansas City 6, L.A. Angels 3Baltimore 8, Minnesota 2Tampa Bay 8, N.Y. Yankees 6Chicago White Sox 4, Texas 3Seattle at Oakland, (n)
Sunday’s GamesBoston (Buchholz 0-0) at Detroit (Scherzer
0-0), 12:05 p.m.Toronto (Carreno 0-0) at Cleveland (Lowe 0-0),
12:05 p.m.Minnesota (Swarzak 0-0) at Baltimore (Ham-
mel 0-0), 12:35 p.m.N.Y. Yankees (Hughes 0-0) at Tampa Bay
(Hellickson 0-0), 12:40 p.m.Kansas City (Sanchez 0-0) at L.A. Angels
(E.Santana 0-0), 2:35 p.m.Chicago White Sox (Floyd 0-0) at Texas (Har-
rison 0-0), 7:05 p.m.Monday’s Games
L.A. Angels at Minnesota, 3:10 p.m.Chicago White Sox at Cleveland, 6:05 p.m.N.Y. Yankees at Baltimore, 6:05 p.m.Boston at Toronto, 6:07 p.m.Seattle at Texas, 7:05 p.m.Kansas City at Oakland, 9:05 p.m.
Pro basketball
NBA standings, scheduleEASTERN CONFERENCE
W L Pct GBx-Chicago 43 13 .768 —x-Miami 39 15 .722 3Indiana 34 22 .607 9d-Boston 31 24 .564 11½Atlanta 34 23 .596 9½Orlando 33 23 .589 10Philadelphia 29 26 .527 13½New York 28 27 .509 14½Milwaukee 28 28 .500 15Detroit 21 34 .382 21½Toronto 20 36 .357 23New Jersey 20 37 .351 23½Cleveland 18 35 .340 23½Washington 12 44 .214 31Charlotte 7 47 .130 35
WESTERN CONFERENCE W L Pct GBd-San Antonio 39 14 .736 —x-Oklahoma City 40 15 .727 —d-L.A. Lakers 35 21 .625 5½L.A. Clippers 33 22 .600 7Memphis 32 23 .582 8Houston 30 25 .545 10Denver 30 25 .545 10Dallas 31 26 .544 10Utah 29 27 .518 11½Phoenix 28 27 .509 12Portland 27 30 .474 14
Minnesota 25 32 .439 16Golden State 21 33 .389 18½Sacramento 19 36 .345 21New Orleans 15 41 .268 25½
d-division leaderx-clinched playoff spot
–––Friday’s Games
Indiana 103, Oklahoma City 98Atlanta 101, Detroit 96Memphis 97, Miami 82New Jersey 110, Washington 98Cleveland 84, Toronto 80Portland 99, Dallas 97, OTSan Antonio 128, New Orleans 103Milwaukee 95, Charlotte 90Denver 105, Phoenix 99Utah 104, Golden State 98Houston 112, L.A. Lakers 107
Saturday’s GamesBoston 86, Indiana 72New Orleans 99, Minnesota 90Memphis 94, Dallas 89Atlanta 116, Charlotte 96Orlando 88, Philadelphia 82Milwaukee 116, Portland 94L.A. Lakers at Phoenix, (n)Denver at Golden State, (n)Sacramento at L.A. Clippers, (n)
Sunday’s GamesChicago at New York, NoonPhiladelphia at Boston, 5 p.m.Detroit at Miami, 5 p.m.Cleveland at New Jersey, 5 p.m.Toronto at Oklahoma City, 6 p.m.Utah at San Antonio, 6 p.m.Houston at Sacramento, 8 p.m.
Monday’s GamesWashington at Charlotte, 6 p.m.Toronto at Indiana, 6 p.m.Detroit at Orlando, 6 p.m.L.A. Lakers at New Orleans, 7 p.m.L.A. Clippers at Memphis, 7 p.m.Oklahoma City at Milwaukee, 7 p.m.Golden State at Denver, 8 p.m.San Antonio at Utah, 8 p.m.Phoenix at Minnesota, 8 p.m.Houston at Portland, 9 p.m.
Hockey
NHL standings, scheduleEASTERN CONFERENCE
GP W L OT Pts GF GAz-N.Y. Rangers 82 51 24 7 109 226 187y-Boston 82 49 29 4 102 269 202y-Florida 82 38 26 18 94 203 227x-Pittsburgh 82 51 25 6 108 282 221x-Philadelphia 82 47 26 9 103 264 232x-New Jersey 82 48 28 6 102 228 209x-Washington 82 42 32 8 92 222 230x-Ottawa 82 41 31 10 92 249 240Buffalo 82 39 32 11 89 218 230Tampa Bay 82 38 36 8 84 235 281Winnipeg 82 37 35 10 84 225 246Carolina 82 33 33 16 82 213 243Toronto 82 35 37 10 80 231 264N.Y. Islanders 82 34 37 11 79 203 255Montreal 82 31 35 16 78 212 226
WESTERN CONFERENCE GP W L OT Pts GF GAy-St. Louis 82 49 22 11 109 210 165y-Vancouver 81 50 22 9 109 246 198x-Phoenix 82 42 27 13 97 216 204x-Nashville 81 47 26 8 102 231 209x-Detroit 82 48 28 6 102 248 203x-Chicago 82 45 26 11 101 248 238
x-Los Angeles 81 40 27 14 94 192 176x-San Jose 81 42 29 10 94 225 208Calgary 82 37 29 16 90 202 226Dallas 82 42 35 5 89 211 222Colorado 81 41 34 6 88 207 214Minnesota 82 35 36 11 81 177 226Anaheim 82 34 36 12 80 204 231Edmonton 81 32 39 10 74 212 236Columbus 82 29 46 7 65 202 262
NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss.
x-clinched playoff spoty-clinched divisionz-clinched conference
Saturday’s GamesChicago 3, Detroit 2, SOBoston 4, Buffalo 3, SONew Jersey 4, Ottawa 2Pittsburgh 4, Philadelphia 2Calgary 5, Anaheim 2Washington 4, N.Y. Rangers 1Montreal 4, Toronto 1Tampa Bay 4, Winnipeg 3, OTColumbus 7, N.Y. Islanders 3Florida 4, Carolina 1Phoenix 4, Minnesota 1St. Louis 3, Dallas 2Nashville at Colorado, 9 p.m.Edmonton at Vancouver, 10 p.m.Los Angeles at San Jose, 10:30 p.m.
Sunday’s GamesNo games scheduled.
Golf
Masters Par ScoresSaturday at Augusta National Golf Club, Au-
gusta, Ga. Yardage: 7,435; Par: 72Third round(a-amateur)
Peter Hanson 68-74-65—207 -9Phil Mickelson 74-68-66—208 -8Louis Oosthuizen 68-72-69—209 -7Bubba Watson 69-71-70—210 -6Matt Kuchar 71-70-70—211 -5Padraig Harrington 71-73-68—212 -4Hunter Mahan 72-72-68—212 -4Henrik Stenson 71-71-70—212 -4Lee Westwood 67-73-72—212 -4Paul Lawrie 69-72-72—213 -3Fred Couples 72-67-75—214 -2Ben Crane 69-73-72—214 -2Jason Dufner 69-70-75—214 -2Sean O’Hair 73-70-71—214 -2Fredrik Jacobson 76-68-70—214 -2Francesco Molinari 69-75-70—214 -2Ian Poulter 72-72-70—214 -2Nick Watney 71-71-72—214 -2Sang-Moon Bae 75-71-69—215 -1Jonthan Byrd 72-71-72—215 -1Jim Furyk 70-73-72—215 -1Sergio Garcia 72-68-75—215 -1Brandt Snedeker 72-75-68—215 -1Charles Howell III 72-70-74—216 EJustin Rose 72-72-72—216 EWebb Simpson 72-74-70—216 EMiguel Angel Jimenez 69-72-76—217 +1a-Hideki Matsuyama 71-74-72—217 +1Rory McIlroy 71-69-77—217 +1Geoff Oglilvy 74-72-71—217 +1Scott Stallings 70-77-70—217 +1Kevin Chappell 71-76-71—218 +2Graeme McDowell 75-72-71—218 +2Kevin Na 71-75-72—218 +2Adam Scott 75-70-73—218 +2Vijay Singh 70-72-76—218 +2Y.E. Yang 73-70-75—218 +2Aaron Baddeley 71-71-77—219 +3
Zach Johnson 70-74-75—219 +3Tiger Woods 72-75-72—219 +3Angel Cabrera 71-78-71—220 +4Rickie Fowler 74-74-72—220 +4Steve Stricker 71-77-72—220 +4Anders Hansen 76-72-73—221 +5David Toms 73-73-75—221 +5Keegan Bradley 71-77-73—221 +5Ross Fisher 71-77-73—221 +5Bill Haas 72-74-76—222 +6Martin Kaymer 72-75-75—222 +6Martin Laird 76-72-74—222 +6Charl Schwartzel 72-75-75—222 +6Thomas Bjorn 73-76-74—223 +7a-Patrick Cantlay 71-78-74—223 +7Luke Donald 75-73-75—223 +7Bo Van Pelt 73-75-75—223 +7Scott Verplank 73-75-75—223 +7G. Fernandez-Castano 74-75-76—225 +9Trevor Immelman 78-71-76—225 +9Robert Karlsson 74-74-77—225 +9Edoardo Molinari 75-74-76—225 +9a-Kelly Kraft 74-75-77—226 +10Stewart Cink 71-75-81—227 +11Gary Woodland 73-70-85—WD
Miscellaneous
TransactionsBASEBALL
National LeagueCHICAGO CUBS–Selected the con-
tract of Rodrigo Lopez Iowa (PCL). Sent INF Luis Valbuena outright to Iowa.
NEW YORK METS–Agreed to terms with RHP Jonathon Niese on a fi ve-year contract. Recalled OF Kirk Nieuwen-huis from Buffalo (IL).
Frontier LeagueEVANSVILLE OTTERS–Signed RHP
Kevin Ocampo.TRAVERSE CITY BEACH BUMS–
Signed OF Kyle Colligan and C Marcus Nidiffer.
FOOTBALLNational Football League
OAKLAND RAIDERS–Signed DE Dave Tollefson.
HOCKEYNational Hockey League
CHICAGO BLACKHAWKS–Agreed to terms with G Ray Emery on a one-year contract extension.
WASHINGTON CAPITALS–Recalled G Dany Sabourin from Hershey (AHL).
ECHLECHL–Suspended Idaho’s Matt
Case three games and fi ned him an undisclosed amount for an illegal check to the head of an opponent during an April 6 game at Ontario. Suspended Ontario’s Benn Olson one game and fi ned him an undisclosed amount for being s assessed a fi ght-ing major. Fined Ontario’s Geoff Irwin and J.D. Watt and Idaho’s Kory Scoran undisclosed amounts as a result of their actions at the conclusion of the April 6 game. Fined Elmira’s Dustin Gazley and Corey Cowick undisclosed amounts as a result of their actions an April 6 game against Reading.
COLLEGEFRESNO STATE–Named Raegan Peb-
ley women’s basketball coach.
fundraiser, who was hired by Petrino on March 28, have yet to be returned. A former Ra-zorbacks volleyball player and friend of Dorrell’s, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, said Saturday the volleyball pro-gram’s alumni have reached out to Dorrell.
“We feel like we have to do all we can right now to protect her,” the person said. “She’s done so many great things, but all of that is wiped out in the eyes of some people now. She’s not a bad per-son.”
The person said Dorrell hasn’t returned calls from friends since the police report was released Thursday.
“She’s in safe mode right now,” the person said. “Everyone has made mistakes. Everyone has dirty laundry, but not everyone has their dirty laundry shown on national television.”
Like it or not, coaches are ex-pected to be positive role models for their players and their pro-grams. It doesn’t always work out that way, though.
Petrino is hardly the fi rst ma-jor college coach to be caught in relationship scandal. Louisville basketball coach Rick Pitino ad-mitted to having sex with Karen Cunagin Sypher in a Louisville restaurant before becoming the victim of an extortion attempt by Sypher, who was later con-victed.
Pitino kept his job despite a morals clause in his contract that would have allowed Lou-isville to fi re him. Petrino has a similar conduct clause, and Arkansas is now faced with the decision of whether to keep the highly successful coach who is 21-5 over the past two seasons, 34-17 overall in four.
Frank Francisco earned his sec-ond save when pinch-hitter Matt Diaz struck out swinging, leav-ing the Braves at 0 for 10 with runners in scoring position this season.
Jair Jurrjens (0-1) gave up three runs on seven hits and three walks in 4 1-3 innings. He made the All-Star team last year, but won just one of his fi -nal seven starts and didn’t pitch in September because of an in-jured right knee.
Jurrjens’ start was his shortest since he went 3 2-3 innings on Sept. 9, 2010, against St. Louis.
Lucas Duda homered twice and became the fi rst player to take advantage of the pulled-in fences at Citi Field as the Mets improved to 2-0 for the fi rst time since 2009.
David Wright kept hitting with a homer and two singles. Com-ing off a down year and injury-interrupted spring training, the All-Star had two hits and drove in the only run in Thursday’s opener against Atlanta.
Josh Thole lined a go-ahead single with two outs in the fi fth inning off well-traveled Livan Hernandez, making his fi rst reg-ular-season relief appearance since his major league debut in 1996.
With hot dog wrappers blow-ing around the fi eld, Duda launched a drive to right-center fi eld in the fourth. The ball fl ew over the new fence, yet several feet in front of where the old wall still stands.
Duda hit another solo shot run in the seventh off Chad Durbin, a drive to right that would’ve been a home run in any year. Wright’s homer in the fi rst was an opposite-fi eld shot to right-center.
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BRAVES
Crabtree “becomes human when we ... take out that outside ACL,” a reference to the anterior cruciate ligament in the receiv-er’s knee.
Pamphilon, who said he received no money for releasing the audio, posted it on the promotional website for one of his fi lms on the same day that Saints coach Sean Payton, general man-ager Mickey Loomis and other team offi -
cials appeared before NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell for an appeal hearing of their punishment stem-ming from the bounty scandal.
“It is true that from the beginning Steve and his wife were opposed to releas-ing this audio and I felt strongly that the public had a right to hear this material and judge for themselves,” Pamphilon said.
Pamphilon added that both he and Glea-son agreed to let a
third-party they both trust “mediate and ad-vise us on the fi nal de-cision,” and that per-son, whom Pamphilon did not name, said to release the recording.
“I can’t understand why Steve would think it’s in his best interest to prevent me from re-leasing the truth about Gregg Williams,” Pamphilon wrote. “I feel as strongly today as I have from the be-ginning that the audio speaks for itself and that the public had a right to hear it.”
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SAINTS
one shot out of the lead, made double bogey from the trees on the fi rst hole and it only got worse from there. He had three 6s on his card and went out in 42, fi n-ishing with a 77 that left him 10 shots behind. He played with Sergio Gar-cia, who shot 75. Nei-ther made a birdie until No. 12, and they hugged each other on the green to celebrate.
Fred Couples, at 52 the oldest player atop the leaderboard going into the weekend at Au-gusta, bogeyed his fi rst two holes and tried to stay in the game. He wound up with a 75 and was seven shots behind.
A win would give Mickelson his fourth green jacket, same as Woods and Arnold Palmer.
But this is far from a
two-man race.Former British Open
champion Louis Oost-huizen rode his sweet swing to a 69 and was only two shots behind. Bubba Watson bird-ied the last hole for a 70 and was three shots back, followed by Matt Kuchar, who joined Mickelson as the fi rst players in 13 years to birdie the 18th hole each of the fi rst three rounds.
The group at 4-under 212 included Lee West-wood (72) and Padraig Harrington, who shot 68 and summed up what awaits on Sunday.
“It’s not the player that plays the most con-sistent that wins at the Masters. The player who plays probably some of the most exciting golf wins at the Masters,” Harrington said. “You only have to look at the way Phil has won some of his majors. You’ve
got to take on golf shots. Fortune favors the brave at times here.”
And to think Mick-elson almost lost this Masters on the opening day.
With a lost ball and a triple bogey on the 10th hole, he was 4-over par through 12 holes on Thursday and hitting the ball in places even he had never seen at Augusta. Only his short game saved him that day, and he escaped with a 74.
He has been on the move ever since, and Lefty was at his best on Saturday.
If there was one shot that showed why he has an imagination un-like others, it came from behind the green on the par-5 15th. Moments ear-lier, Hanson was in about the same spot and played a conven-
tional bump-and-run up the slope to a green that runs quickly toward the hole. Hanson went just over the green, and had to make a 15-foot putt.
Mickelson took out his 64-degree wedge — he carries that club for moments like this — and played a full fl op shot that landed softly and trickled to 4 feet be-low the cup for a birdie.
How tough was the shot? Even Mickelson said it was risky.
“It was possible to slide underneath it, so I leveled out my weight a little bit so that I would not take too deep a divot and the ball popped up nicely,” Mickelson said,
describing the shot as if giving a clinic.
Hanson was on the 16th hole when all this unfolded.
“To be honest, I never saw that high fl op shot from there,” he said. “He’s just amazing with the wedge and the way he plays those shots. When I ended up in that same spot on 15, I just sought the bump-and-run and get it past the hole and leave myself an uphill putt. He goes up and just hits a full swing and goes straight up in the air.”
But it was a lesson for Hanson, especially for the fi nal round: Don’t watch, just play.
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a history professor at the University of West Ala-bama who led Friday’s hikes to sites near Shiloh Church during a program that explained how Con-federate General Patrick Cleburne’s Brigade was almost completely oblit-erated during the fi rst day’s fi ghting.
Gentsch said he had to quickly amend the tour he’d originally planned when he learned about the unprecedented level of participation Friday morning.
The anniversary events drew visitors from far and wide, like Philip Alder-ton, a young Englishman who crossed the Atlantic to immerse himself in the Shiloh Sesquicenten-nial. Last weekend Alder-ton — an avid American
Civil War reenactor in his native Oxford, Eng-
land — donned the Fed-eral blue and participated in the Blue-Gray Shiloh 150th Reenactment.
This weekend he’s hik-ing the battlefi eld and getting a better under-standing of the Battle of Shiloh.
“It’s better to actually tramp the land than to read about it in a book,” Alderton said. You get so much more to actually see where the men were.”
Alderton said he’s been impressed by a the “really good atmosphere” during his stay and was pleased to fi nd local residents with a passion for the ar-ea’s history.
Friday also saw the pre-miere of the new Visitor Center movie, “Shiloh: Fi-ery Trial,” that is replac-ing the 56-year-old “Shi-
loh: Portrait of a Battle.”Harrell said the new
movie is getting an “ex-tremely good response” from its fi rst viewers.
Both movies packaged together are available for purchase in the park Visi-tor Center or online at ep-arks.com
The Battlefi eld Hikes continue today with a car caravan to Fallen Tim-bers, site of Confederate Col. Nathan Bedford For-rest’s rear-guard action on April 8, 1862 — and the last shots fi red in battle at Shiloh. Participants will meet at the Visitor Cen-ter at 10 a.m. and drive to several sites outside the battlefi eld.
The program will be end around noon.
Participants are asked to register in advance by calling the Shiloh Visitor Center at 731-689-5696.
Staff photos by Bobby J. Smith
Philip Alderton, a keen student of America’s Civil War from Oxford, England, tramped the woods of Shiloh on several of Friday’s battlefield hikes.
Crossing a stream gives the tour group an idea of the challenges faced by sol-diers during the battle.
History professor James F. Gentsch led a hike to sites near Shiloh Church and explained the decimation of Rebel Gen. Patrick Cleburne’s Brigade.
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“We had some quality poems submitted. It was a good turn-out for the contest,” he said.
He also encouraged local po-
ets to begin thinking about next year’s poetry contest.
“This year’s contest is over. You can start now writing poetry for next year’s contest,” said Wal-lis. “You’ve got the whole year,
from now until February, to write poems and turn them in.”
Started by the Academy of American Poets in 1996, Na-tional Poetry Month is a month-long, national celebration of
poetry. The concept is to bring attention to the art of poetry, living poets and America’s rich poetic heritage.
The Crossroads Poetry Proj-ect’s readings begin at 6 p.m.
each Friday night. KC’s Espres-so is located at the corner of Fillmore and Waldron in down-town Corinth.
For more information contact Milton Wallis at 415-2446.
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WEEKENDWEEKENDA ministry of the Bethany Hope Center
April 13th-15th, 2012
Tate Baptist Church 1201 North Harper Road
Corinth, MS 38834662-286-2935
Bro. Mickey Trammel, Pastor
Friday, April 13th - 7:00PMSpecial Guest Speakers:
Tommy Vinson & Tonya Joslin (Tonya will share brief testimony)
Worship Leaders: Rick & Dena Pike
Saturday, April 14th 9 AM - Ladies Fellowship
Special Guest Speaker: Shea Lowery
12:00NOON - Men’s FellowshipSpecial Guest Speaker: Jason Cook
2:00 PM - Single’s FellowshipSpecial Guest Speaker: Shea Lowery
5:15 PM - Youth Blast/Pizza Supper (7th Grade-college)
Special Guest Speaker: Jason Cook
5:25 PM - Children’s Time/Pizza Supper(4th-6th Grade)
Special Guest: The Children’s Team
6:30 PM - Couples Fellowship
Special Guest Speaker: Barry & Kathy Holcomb
Sunday, April 15th - 9:30 AMSunday School Classes - 9:30 AM
Worship Time - 10:45 AMSpecial Guest Speake: Bobby Humphrey
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Meet Our Special Guest Speakers and Worship Leaders
Dr. Tommy Vinson is a graudate of Blue Mountain College
and Luter Rice Semi-nary. He was honored
by Florida Bible College with Doctor of Divinity. From 1974 to
2007, he pastored various churches in MS, TN and FL He currently serves
as Senior Associate Pastor of Preach-ing & Pastoral Ministry at First Baptist
Church in Collierville, TN
Former Alabama Crimson Tide/Denver Broncos running back Bobby Humphrey played in
Super Bowl XXIV. In 1990, he was chosen to be the NFL Rookie of the Year as well as being select-ed to the NFL Pro Browl. Bobby is a much sought out speaker who loves to share the life changing
power of Jesus Christ.
Tonya Joslin is a member of West Jackson Street Baptist Church in Tupelo, MS.
Tonya will be giv-ing a brief testimony of how
she met Jesus Christ.
Shea Lowery is the Executive Director of The Bethany Hope Center. She has
a passion to share the love of Jesus Christ and
His desire to restore lives.
Jason Cook was a 4 year starter for the
Ole Miss Rebels football program.
Jason is a seminary student at Beeson Divinity School. He was previously on
staff with the Ole Miss Fellowship of Christian Athletes as the Football
Team Chaplain.
Rick Pike is the Worship Leader for The Orchard
in Tupelo, MS. Rick has been
blessed to have had the oppor-tunity to serve in the music ministry for several years before joining The Orchard. Rick and Dena are former
members of Tate Baptist Church.
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Bobby Humphrey
Tonya Joslin
Rick & Dena Pike
Jason Cook
Shea Lowery
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Community Events
Blood drivesUnited Blood is having
the following local blood drives: Tuesday, April 10 — 8:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m., Biggersville High School library; and Thursday, April 12 -- 10 a.m. - 3:30 p.m., Tishomingo County High School, Tri-State Building, Iuka.
Mended Hearts
Mended Hearts will be meeting Monday, April 9 at 10 a.m. at the Mag-nolia Community Service Complex in the Cardiac Rehab Conference Room, 1001 South Harper Road, Corinth. Shirlee Taylor, child nutritionist and food direc-tor of the Booneville School District for 20 years, will be speaking on “Heart Healthy Eating” and will have sam-ple snacks.
Mended Hearts is a sup-port group open to all heart patients, their families and others impacted by heart disease. Its purpose is to inspire hope in heart disease patients and their families through visits and sharing experiences of re-covery and returning to an active life. Healthcare pro-fessionals join the mission by providing their expertise and support. Mended Hearts meets the second Monday of every month.
Battlefield hikes
Three days of in-depth battlefield hikes are being led by park rangers at Shi-loh Park. During the April 6-8 anniversary weekend, participants will have a chance to learn the stories of the men who fought the battle while walking the ground where the events occurred exactly 150 years ago.
Each hike will last ap-proximately two hours and will cover easy to difficult terrain. For hike schedules check the Shiloh Park web-site at www.nps.gov/shil.
‘On Shiloh Hill’Corinth Theatre-Arts pro-
duction of “On Shiloh Hill: A Musical Resurrection of the American Civil War” by Bill Schustik will be held at 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday, April 13-14 and 2 p.m. Sunday, April 15 at the Coliseum Civic Center in downtown Corinth.
Call the Crossroads Playhouse at 287-2995 for more information. There is open seating at the Coli-seum, so no reservations are necessary.
Photo contest
Local photographers are invited to participate in Arts in McNairy’s sixth annual Amateur Photo Contest. The final day for submissions is Friday, April 13 from 9 a.m. until 4 p.m. Photos should be dropped off at the UT Martin/Selmer facility in Tennessee just off U.S. 45 North. Photos mailed must be postmarked by Mon-day, April 9 to: Attention George Souders, c/o AiM Photo Contest, UT Martin/Selmer, 1269 Tennes-see Ave., Selmer, Tenn. 38375. Entry forms are available at the photo-cen-ter at Wal-Mart in Selmer, Tenn. For more information and qualifications or to request an entry form by mail contact George Soud-ers at 731-610-1365.
Music exhibit
“Music, Sweet Music” is the subject of the featured exhibit at the Tishomingo County Archives & History Museum. The exhibit gives visitors an opportunity to view phonographs, re-cords, 8-track tapes, etc., used by artists to record their abilities in perpetuity.
A standard cylinder pho-nograph and wax cylinders used in the late 19th and early 20th century is part of the exhibit, along with the first field recordings
made of Native American music. The exhibit is avail-able for viewing through April 13. The Museum is open to the public Tues-day-Friday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. and Saturday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Personnel meet
The Alcorn County Chapter of the Retired Education Personnel of Mississippi (REPM) will host the District I REPM meeting on Wednesday, April 11 at Taylor's Escape Restaurant, 1401 Hwy. 72 West, in Corinth. Registra-tion will begin at 9 a.m. and the meeting will begin at 10 a.m. Mr. William Mc-Mullin, Northeast Regional Library System director will be the guest speaker. Lunch is $13 for a choice of chicken or fish.
Contact Linda Turner at 662-415-5856 as soon as possible for an accurate count for the luncheon. District I is comprised of Alcorn, Chickasaw, Clay, Itawamba, Pontotoc, Monroe, Prentiss, Tippah, Tishomingo, Tupelo-Lee and Union Counties. Lo-cal education retirees are encouraged to attend the district meeting.
Library guests
Jimmy Johnson, creator of the “Arlo and Janis” comic strip, will be at the Iuka Public Library, in Iuka at noon on Tuesday, April 10 to discuss and sign copies of his new book, “Beaucoup Arlo & Janis.” Syndicated columnist Rheta Grimsley Johnson will be there to introduce Jimmy at this unique and special event.
The Friends of the Iuka Library host this event as part of their National Library Week celebra-tions. There will be a $2 admission fee which goes to help the Friends in sup-porting the Iuka Library. A
light lunch is provided with admission.
Student art show
Northeast Mississippi Community College Art Department is exhibiting its annual Student Art Show, now through April 27. Categories include: painting, drawing, com-puter graphics, black & white photography, 2D design and ceramics. Gallery Hours are Mon-day-Friday, 8 a.m.- 3 p.m.
For more information, contact gallery director Terry Anderson at 662-720-7336 or [email protected].
Republicans meet
Republicans will be meeting at the Corinth City Library on Thursday April 12, with a meet and greet at 5:30 p.m. and a speak-ing at 6 p.m. The guest
speaker is Chairman of the Mississippi Republican Party Joe Nosef.
The meeting is free. For more information, call Mike Stewart at 662-808-0291.
Activity center
The Bishop Activity Center is having the fol-lowing activities April 9 - April 13: Monday — health program; Tuesday — exercise; Wednes-day — Bible study with Robert Ross of Alcorn M.B. Church; Thursday -- Bingo; and Friday — gro-cery shopping at Rogers’ supermarket.
Senior citizens, age 60 and above are welcome and encouraged to attend Bishop Activity Center. Daily activities include crafts, jigsaw puzzles, quilting, table games (Dominoes and Rook), washer games and Rolo Golf.
Registration heldRegistration for stu-
dents who plan to attend kindergarten and 1st grade at Glendale Elemen-tary School for the 2012-2013 school year is being held on Thursday, April 12 from 12-4 p.m. Children registering for kindergar-ten must be five years old on or before Sept. 1. Reg-istration requirements in-clude child’s certified birth certificate, Social Security Card and shot compliance with all shots up to date from the health depart-ment or family doctor, and two proofs of residency verification -- electric bill, water bill, telephone bill, etc.
Children registering for 1st grade must be six years old on or before Sept. 1.
Children enrolled in kindergarten this year at Glendale will not need to register for 1st grade.
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Corinth High School C Club members Katie Timmons, Elizabeth Williams and Chelsae Caveness help fill plastic Easter eggs with candy for an Easter egg hunt at a local apartment complex this weekend. As one of their community service projects, the high school organization is teaming up with Crosswind to host an Eas-ter party egg hunt for children who live in the apartment complex.
Features1B • Daily Corinthian Sunday, April 8, 2012
Corinth has a story to tell.
Corinthians Jesse Ables and LuAnne Parrish have taken on the responsibly of sharing parts of the town’s history with their book “Corinth” the new-est edition of Arcadia Publishing’s popular “Im-ages of America” series.
“Corinth is such a spe-cial city,” said Ables. “There is a ton of stuff to be told and we hope people can use the book to remember something from.”
It took the pair six months to compile over 200 photos from the past.
“The book is a love letter to Corinth from an aging baby boomer,” said Par-rish. “My mother (Nelda Boatman Parrish) would be very happy with it be-cause she loved Corinth.”
The book is dedicated to Nelda Parrish -- the fi rst female realtor in Corinth and Alcorn County and also the fi rst appointed fe-male justice of the peace.
“Corinth has a strong history background with a talent like most small towns of storytelling,” said Ables. “LuAnne is so good at telling those sto-ries.”
“I was fortunate to be born into a family of ex-traordinary storytellers,” added Parrish. “I heard tales of Corinth on a daily basis.”
The duo collected be-tween 600-700 images for the publication with most coming from the Crossroads Museum.
“The museum gave us every opportunity to use photos in the book,” said the lifelong Corinthian Parrish.
On the cover of the glance back into history is a 1916 photo of a pair of switch engines in the Corinth rail yard along with the engine’s fi ve-man crew.
“Everything that hap-
pened in Corinth is be-cause of the rail road,” added Parrish for the rea-son to have the photo as the cover.
Corinth’s story is told in three chapters. Genesis and the Coming of the War is the fi rst chapter. A Center of Commerce, In-dustry, and Culture along with Celebrities, Celebra-tions, and CHS makeup
the fi nal two chapters of the book.
“We didn’t even scratch the surface of the history and important people of Corinth,” said Ables. “We are hoping to get people to archive all of the old photos that are still out there ... it would be nice to have those stories told.”
Ables, a native of South Texas, studied art at Tex-
as State University and worked 45 years in the commercial printing in-dustry prior to coming to Corinth.
“I want people to feel the warmth of Corinth like I did,” said Ables who now is proud to hold dual citizenship as a Texan and Corinthian. “I felt there was no town better as a newcomer.”
Parrish, a fourth-gener-ation Corinthian, received her bachelor of science in history from Mississippi University for Women in 1978. She has been a living history reenactor for more than 20 years and shares her mother’s assessment -- “If I miss Heaven, at least I got to live in Corinth, Missis-sippi.”
“I feel a sense of ac-complishment because there is so much history to Corinth,” she said.
(Corinth is available at area bookstores, in-dependent retailers, and online retailers, or through Arcadia Publish-ing at www.arcadiapub-lishing.com on April 16. Cost of the 128-page book is $21.99.)
Submitted photos
This is the only existing photo of Corona College.
Staff photo by Steve Beavers
LuAnne Parrish (left) and Jesse Ables have compiled a book about the history of Corinth through images.
Pictorial history of CorinthTwo locals help publish ‘Images of America’ book
BY STEVE [email protected]
Submitted photos
The Tishomingo Hotel in downtown Corinth was overflowing with sick and dying soldiers following the Battle of Shiloh.
History/Features2B • Daily Corinthian Sunday, April 8, 2012
(A study of the Golden Sawmill, written by Har-old R. Russell. This is part 1 of a two-part series.)
The Golden Sawmill was set up about 1920 and had a powerful and long lasting impact on northern Mississippi. Not only did the mill bring an end to vast stands of vir-gin timber, but brought about an economic surge in a poor area and also attracted laborers from elsewhere to the area.
There are many people in this Mississippi/Ala-bama area whose families came here with the ad-vent of the Golden Saw-mill. Thousands of acres of virgin timber were cut by the mill. Hassell Leath-
ers tells about ly-ing across a stump in the C h u b b y Creek bot-tom when he was a child with his feet hooked on one side of
the stump and his fi ngers hooked over the other side. According to him this stump was at least 5-1/2 feet across and was only one of many such all across north Mississippi.
Hazel Cromeans tells about a picture of her father, Gus Woods who logged for the Golden
Sawmill, taken by the side of one being hauled to the mill. The log was so big only one could be hauled on the wagon and that log tested the strength of the oxen pulling the wagon.
Evidence of the rail lines used to haul the massive logs to the mill in Golden still exists. Rail-road spurs were built over North Mississippi and into the Freedom Hills. I remember talking to the late F.J. Horn, who began working in the woods for the sawmill when he was about 15. He worked as a logger in this area for sev-eral years.
He said the main line in Itawamba County ran from Golden to south of
Burntfi elds on the edge of Mud Creek. This line ran parallel with High-way 25 and you can still see stretches of the road-bed and fi lled in places and even cuts in the hills where the standard gauge railway was built.
The main line was built with steam-powered drag line mounted on rail cars. The rail line was built and fi nished in 20 foot sections. According to Coot Horn the trees were laid top to butt along the ground and covered with dirt to form a raised road bed. From the main line, spurs were built to give access to big timber stands.
Sawmill camps pro-
vided housing for the loggers and woodcutters. The camp made of one and two room shot-gun houses were located near the timber stands. Fami-lies moved into northern Mississippi and located in these little sawmill camps. There was one near the Salem Church and anoth-er set up by Aussie Wal-lace in the woods west of Fairview Church. The men working at the mill usually lived near Golden.
E.R. Warren, who talk-ed to Jerry Martin, when he was writing “A Place Called Belmont,” recalled doing a man’s work at 15. He earned $2.25 per day feeding the fl ooring machine. The men doing
common labor were paid $2 per day. At the peak of production the mill sawed 60,000 board feet per day (compare to TMA Mill) and worked two crews, a day crew and a night crew.
About 350 men were required at the mill and in the woods. At one time, when hands were needed, the company advertised for sawmillers for $3.50 for a 10-hour day.
(RaNae Vaughn is board member and in charge of marketing and publications for the Tishomingo County His-torical & Genealogical Society, P.O. Box 203, Iuka, MS 38852.)
RaNae VaughnHistorically
Speaking
Golden Sawmill had lasting impact on Mississippi
(This is the third part of a nine-part series of fre-quently overlooked Civil War sites in and around Corinth.)
Don’t bother to tell me, I already know; Farming-ton is NOT a part of the City of Corinth.
If I was to mention such a thing down at the Farmington Town Hall, Mayor Dale Fortenberry would give me a stern lec-ture on the history of his community. I have…and he did! So why should it be included in a story of the Civil War in Corinth? There is a long, rich his-tory between our two towns, and if we’re not immediate family, at least we’re kin.
What few folks know, and even fewer will ad-mit, is that Farmington is older than Corinth. In the 1830’s the Choctaws and Chickasaws were forced out of Mississippi and settlers poured in. When they arrived they found the community of Farm-ington was already well established, the Farming-ton Baptist Church hav-ing been constructed way back in 1800 (give or a take a few years).
Offi cially, the Town of Farmington was estab-lished on May 1, 1837, but this was just a bit of legal documentation for the folks in Jackson. As far as the residents were con-cerned, Farmington had already been around for a couple of generations.
The town was a thriv-ing community as they
entered the 1840’s. The Farmington Academy stood near the church as well as several homes, general stores, a U.S. Post Offi ce, a blacksmith shop and a saddle and harness shop.
Unfortunately the new Memphis & Charleston Railroad missed the town by a good two and a half miles and in 1857 several budding businesses chose to uproot and move to Cross City (as Corinth was known back then). Farm-ington might well have slipped into obscurity over the next few decades had not the war come along and hurried up the
process.After the Battle of Shi-
loh, on the banks of the Tennessee, three Union armies made an advance into Mississippi to wrest control of Corinth’s vi-tal railroad junction. The Armies of the Tennessee and Ohio approached from the north and north east, while Major General John Pope’s Army of the Mississippi came in from the east. Between Pope’s men and Corinth lay the town of Farmington.
On the 4th of May, 1862, Pope’s army moved into Farmington and skir-mished with Confeder-ates who had established
a camp in the community. To Pope’s right (that’s north to you and me) was General Buell’s Army of the Ohio, or at least it should have been there. Buell was moving much slower and could not move up into position to support the gains made by Pope’s army.
The Army of the Mis-sissippi had to move back beyond Seven Mile Creek (out past Kimberly Clark on Kendrick Road) and wait for Buell to catch up. On the 8th of May, the Federals returned to Farmington, but again Pope was forced to move back and cool his heels.
A single brigade was left near the town to keep an eye on the enemy.
General Beauregard, the Confederate com-mander, saw an opportu-nity. His army was much too small to defeat the Federals in open battle, so he watched and waited for a chance to strike at an exposed part of the Union line.
On the morning of the 9th, he attacked with an overwhelming number of screaming Confederates. Fortunately for the Feder-als, a second brigade was approaching town as the Southern attack struck home.
The Union troops, out-numbered seven to one, managed to hold out for fi ve hours before safely pulling back to the pro-tection of their own lines. There were hundreds of casualties and the town was left in absolute sham-bles.
Over the next few weeks there were four more skirmishes in Farm-ington, but the damage was already done. For the next three years, the town pretty much ceased to exist. In its place were shattered trees, burned buildings and miles of earthworks. But like the story of the phoenix rising from its own ashes, Farm-ington made a comeback in the post-war years.
It may not be the size of Corinth, but it has just as much heart. I know, I lived there for a spell.
There are plenty of Civil War sites to see in Farm-ington; Union earth-works, fi elds of battle and a rebuilt Farmington Baptist Church.
If you haven’t been to the annual “Battle of Farmington” reenact-ment, you are missing out on one of the premier events in our community. This year’s event will be held Sept. 15-16.
(For more information on locating the sites in Farmington, come by the Corinth Civil War Inter-pretive Center. The cen-ter is located at 501 West Linden Street and is open 8 to 5 daily. Park staff can be reached at 662-287-9273.)
Farmington boasts rich history, including Civil War yearsBY TOM PARSON
NPS Ranger
Artist sketches are scenes of Farmington during its Civil War years.
April 8, 1341 Francesco Petrarca
crowned in Rome
April 8, 1378 Bartolomeo Prignano
elected as Pope Urban VI
April 8, 1455 Alfonso de Borgia
elected as Pope Callistus III
April 8, 1500 Battle at Novara: King
Louis XII beats duke Ludovico Sforza
April 8, 1513 Explorer Juan Ponce
de Leon claimed Florida for Spain
April 8, 1716 Duke Karel Leopold of
Mecklenburg-Schwerin signs covenant with Rus-sia & marries Czar Peter the Great’s niece
April 8, 1730 1st Jewish congrega-
tion in US forms syna-gogue, “Shearith Israel, NYC”
April 8, 1759 British troops chase
French out of Masulipa-tam India
April 8, 1766 1st fi re escape patent-
ed, wicker basket on a pulley & chain
April 8, 1781 Premiere of Mozart’s
violin sonata K379
April 8, 1783 Catharina II of Russia
annexes the Krim
April 8, 1789 House of Represen-
tives 1st meeting
April 8, 1801 Soldiers riot in Bucha-
rest kill 128 Jews
April 8, 1802 French Protestant
church becomes state-supported & -controlled
April 8, 1832 Charles Darwin begins
trip through Rio de Ja-neiro
April 8, 1838 Steamship “Great
Western” maiden voyage (Bristol England to NYC)
April 8, 1848 1st battle at Gioto:
Sardinia-Piemonte beats Austrians
April 8, 1848 Battle at Xaquixa-
guana, Peru: Pedro de la Gasca beats Gonzalo Pizarro
April 8, 1861 US mint at Dahlonega,
Georgia seized by con-federacy
April 8, 1862 John D Lynde patents
aerosol dispenser
April 8, 1864 Battle of Mansfi eld,
La., Federals routed by Gen. Richard Taylor
April 8, 1865 General Robert E Lee
surrenders at Appomat-tox Court House in Vir-ginia
April 8, 1869 American Museum of
Natural History opens (NYC)
April 8, 1876 Amiliare Ponchielli’s
opera “La Gioconda,” premieres in Milan
April 8, 1879 Khedive Ismael of
Egypt fi res French/Brit-ish ministers
Today in history
Grief support
A grief support group for anyone who has lost a loved one or may have a sick family member and needs someone who will understand what your going through is meeting at Real Life Church, (next to Fred’s in Corinth), every Monday from 6-7 p.m.
For one on one meet-ings, contact Sherry Scott at 662-415-7173.
Cemetery donations
Antioch Free Will Bap-tist Church, Burnsville, is in need of cemetery donations for upkeep of the cemetery. The cost of paying for mowing and maintenance is covered through donations to the cemetery fund. The fund is currently low. Any donations to add to the fund will be appreciated. Mail to: Doyle Rorie, 146 CR 219, Burnsville, MS 38833.
Thrift stores
■ The Lighthouse Fam-ily Thrift Store is located in the Harper Square Mall at 1801 South Harper
Road in Corinth. One hundred percent of the revenue goes back into the community in helping the Lighthouse Founda-tion. The store is open Tuesday-Saturday from 9:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m.
■ Those wanting to donate items to the Sal-vation Army, 1209 U.S. Hwy. 72 West, whether it be clothing or furniture can call 287-6979. The Salvation Army hours are 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday-Saturday. The social ser-vice part of the agency is open 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday-Friday.
Post 6 meets
Perry Johns Post No. 6, American Legion will hold its regular monthly meeting every second Thursday at 7 p.m. at the Legion Hall on South Tate St., Corinth, along with the Ladies’ Auxil-iary and Sons of Legion Squadron No. 6.
Friday night music
There is bluegrass, country and gospel mu-sic at the Iuka American Legion Post No. 15,
across from the National Guard Armory, Friday nights at 7. Membership is not required to attend shows. The Heartland Band plays, along with other guest entertainers.
There is coffee, drinks, cake and food available. Admission is $3 for sin-gles and $5 for couples. This is a family-friendly environment.
Country music night
The Joe Rickman Band will be playing on Thurs-day nights from 6:30-9:30 p.m. at the Burns-ville city park building. Admission is $3, single and $5, couple. There will be concessions. The event is family-friendly with no smoking or alco-hol. Proceeds go toward the community center.
For more information, call 662-287-3437.
Pickin’ on the Square
Pickin’ on the Square has moved back to the Alcorn County Court-house Square in Corinth. Admission is free but donations are accepted to help pay rent.
Assistance
Outdoors3B • Daily Corinthian Sunday, April 8, 2012
The Mississippi Depart-ment of Wildlife, Fisher-ies, and Parks, in conjunc-tion with the Mississippi Chapter of the National Wild Turkey Federation, recently made available its annual report on the status of Mississippi’s wild turkey population.
This full-color publica-tion, entitled “Spittin’ & Drummin’,” is available for viewing at http://www.mdwfp.com/turkey.
The Wild Turkey Report contains a wealth of infor-mation on trends in tur-key population numbers from around the state, habitat management ad-
vice for h u n t e r s and land-o w n e r s , and other accounts of conser-vation ef-forts relat-ing to wild turkeys.
Much of the information present-ed in the report was made possible by data collected from some of Missis-sippi’s dedicated turkey hunters. Participating in-dividuals were requested to share observations of what they saw, heard and
harvested during the past spring season as a part of the Spring Gobbler Hunt-ing Survey (SGHS).
Since the survey’s in-ception in 1996, MDWFP turkey program biologist have worked with willing hunters to better under-stand the state’s turkey population, and currently there are over 1,400 vol-unteer turkey hunters enrolled in the SGHS pro-gram. Biologists however would like to see an even greater involvement.
“We have strong par-ticipation across much of the state, but we need ad-ditional information from
certain counties, so we need more participants to increase the reliability of the data in those areas,” said Dave Godwin, MD-WFP Wild Turkey pro-gram coordinator.
According to prior re-ports from the MDWFP, Turkey Program biolo-gists have expressed a dire need for more par-ticipants in Region 1 lo-cated in North-Central and Northeast Mississip-pi. The 21-county region has long had a history of poor participation in the Spring Hunter Gobbler Survey, which can cause turkey observations to be
biased as a result of lim-ited sample sizes.
In an effort to increase participation in the SGHS, the Mississippi Chapter of the National Wild Turkey Federation, the MDWFP and the Mis-sissippi Foundation for Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks will sponsor a raffl e for survey participants in which two shotguns will be given away this year during this promotion.
A general drawing will be open to all hunters who participate in the SGHS and provide data to the MDWFP, and an additional drawing will
be held for those hunters who recruit a new survey participant during 2012.
(To learn more about the SGHS or volunteer to become a participant, log onto the MDWFP Wild Turkey Program homep-age at http://www.mdwfp.com or call 662-325-5119. Alcorn County resident David Green is an avid hunter and fi sh-erman in the Crossroads area. Anyone wishing to share their own unique outdoor story or have any news to report pertaining to the outdoors, David can be contacted at [email protected].)
Volunteers make wild turkey report possible
David GreenOutdoors
Last month, the U.S. Senate demonstrated its commitment to restoring the Gulf of Mexico’s econ-omy and environment by approving the Resources and Ecosystems Sus-tainability, Tourist Op-portunities, and Revived Economies (RESTORE) of the Gulf Coast Act as an amendment to the Senate transportation bill.
The RESTORE Act must next make it through the U.S. House of Representatives.
Co-sponsored by Sena-tors Thad Cochran and Roger Wicker and Con-gressman Steven Pala-zzo, the RESTORE Act represents extraordinary bipartisan consensus among lawmakers and is a crucial measure that en-sures that 80 percent of the funds from the Clean Water Act and other pen-
alties assessed in the wake of the April 2010 Deep-water Horizon oil spill are used to pay for economic and environmental resto-ration projects in Florida, Alabama, Louisiana, Mis-sissippi and Texas.
One provision in RE-STORE establishes a re-search, science and tech-nology program aimed at improving Gulf fi sheries management and moni-toring. It is important to note that this legislation only directs funding from the Clean Water Act pen-alties charged to BP for the disaster and does not di-rect new federal spending.
This act also includes a major increase in fund-ing for the Land and Wa-ter Conservation Fund (LWCF). The LWCF pro-vides money to federal, state and local govern-ments for the acquisi-tion of land and water to benefi t conservation and
recreation. The provision would double current funding to $700 million for each of the next two years and reauthorize it until 2022, for a total of $1.4 billion.
The amendment re-quires that 1.5 percent of those funds be used to im-prove hunting and fi shing access on existing public lands. This access com-ponent was a major ini-tiative of the Boone and Crockett Club.
Saltwater recreational fi shing contributes more than $8 billion in eco-nomic output in the Gulf Coast region annually and supports approxi-mately 82,000 jobs. The Gulf of Mexico is one of the most popular areas for recreational fi shing in the United States with 3.6 million saltwater anglers spending more than 42.5 million days on the water each year. Beyond recre-
ational fi shing, the Gulf is an engine of commerce.
It produces roughly 40 percent of all the seafood in the lower 48 states. The region is home to 10 of the nation’s 15 largest ports, while over 25 percent of the nation’s waterborne exports pass through Louisiana ports alone
If the Transportation Bill with the RESTORE Act should win fi nal pas-sage, these two doses of conservation fund-ing would represent, by some estimates, the larg-est boost in conservation funding in U.S. history!
(James L. Cummins is executive director of Wildlife Mississippi, a non-profi t, conservation organization founded to conserve, restore and en-hance fi sh, wildlife and plant resources through-out Mississippi. Their web site is www.wild-lifemiss.org.)
US Senate approves RESTORE ActBY JAMES L. CUMMINS
Conservation corner JACKSON — Missis-sippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries, and Parks (MDWFP) Fisher-ies Bureau and the Mis-sissippi State University Extension Service will host 12 pond manage-ment workshops across Mississippi in 2012.
The workshops are de-signed to provide pond owners and future pond owners with information regarding the manage-ment of small lakes.
“Our fi sheries biolo-gists receive hundreds of calls each year from pond owners who have questions ranging from growing bigger fi sh to controlling aquatic veg-etation”, said MDWFP Fisheries Bureau As-sistant Director Larry Pugh. “The workshops will allow biologists and pond owners across the State to interact and pro-
vide participants with management strategies.”
An hour-long presen-tation will be given at each workshop.
Topics will include pond design, fi sh stock-ing, harvest, vegetation control, liming, fertiliz-ing. A question-and-an-swer period will follow to address additional topics. Those interested in attending are encour-aged to register.
Contact information for registration, along with the location, date, and time for each work-shop will be posted on the MDWFP website.
(For more informa-tion regarding fi shing in Mississippi, please visit www.mdwfp.com or call 601-432-2199. Follow us on Facebook at www.facebook.com/mdwfp or on Twitter at www.twitter.com/MD-WFPonline.)
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Wisdom/Celebrations4B • Daily Corinthian Sunday, April 8, 2012
DEAR ABBY: My hus-band served in Vietnam and proudly wears a Vietnam veteran insig-nia on his jacket or cap everywhere he goes. People approach him all the time and thank him for his service, which is wonderful. The big ques-tion is, how should he respond? He isn’t quite sure what to say back to them -- “You’re wel-come”? “It was my honor to serve”? “Thank you for caring”?
I’m not sure of the right response, either. So I told my husband I’d ask you. What’s the proper thing to say when someone is kind enough to take a minute and say thanks? -- VET’S WIFE IN PHOENIX
DEAR VET’S WIFE: I’m sure being thanked for his service in Viet-nam is music to your husband’s ears. When members of the mili-tary returned from Viet-nam, many of them were treated with hostility. A proper response when someone thanks him for his service would be any of those you offered, or a simple, “Thanks for say-ing that. I appreciate it.”
DEAR ABBY: My hus-band and I have dear friends who live in an-other country. They also have a vacation home in a very nice part of the U.S. They have often invited us to use their vacation place while they’re away, since it stands empty 11 months of the year.
I have hesitated in the past be-cause I know we w o u l d use utili-ties and it would be of some expense
to them. They are insis-tent that they will not let us pay for the use.
We would love to spend some time there. Is there anything we could do to show our appreciation without paying them? -- APPRECIATIVE, BUT ...
DEAR APPRECIA-TIVE: Yes. After spend-ing time in their vaca-tion home, write a letter thanking them and de-scribing the experience. Consider sending them an album of photographs you took during your va-cation there, or buy a gift for their vacation home. That way you will have repaid them without “paying” them.
DEAR ABBY: My little sister is almost 12. She has been having a lot of behavior problems. I thought it was the stupid videos she watches that made her act like that, but she’s getting worse.
One night, her mood was terrible and I noticed she was texting. So while she slept I took her cell-phone and started read-ing the messages. Her texts were about her be-ing a skank, drunk, sexu-ally active, depressed,
cutting herself and mov-ing away soon. No one in the family knows or would ever allow this.
I feel the right thing to do is to tell our parents, but I don’t want to make the situation worse. Her behavior and attitude stress us out, and her “friends” are the wrong crowd for her. I know it was bad for me to invade her privacy, but some-thing needs to be done. What can I do? -- SIS-TER WHO CARES IN TEXAS
DEAR CARING SIS-TER: Tell your parents what you have learned. Your sister’s behavior problems and angry or depressed mood must have been noticed by them as well as you. Ask them not to reveal that you looked at the mes-sages, but to insist on some answers from her until they get to the bot-tom of what’s happen-ing. If even half of what your sister is writing and receiving is true, she is headed for serious trou-ble and is overdue for an intervention.
TO MY CHRISTIAN READERS: Happy Eas-ter, one and all!
(Dear Abby is written by Abigail Van Buren, also known as Jeanne Phillips, and was found-ed by her mother, Pau-line Phillips. Write Dear Abby at www.Dear-Abby.com or P.O. Box 69440, Los Angeles, CA 90069.)
Veteran can’t find words to acknowledge thanks
Abigail Van Buren
Dear Abby
Miss Ginger Suzanne Simpson and Mr. James Kendall Gregory Jr. will exchange wedding vows at 6 p.m. on April 14 in Oxford.
The bride-elect is the daughter of Mrs. Marga-ret Edge Simpson and Dr. Don Everette Simpson.
She is the granddaugh-ter of Mrs. Gloria Mad-eline Simpson and the late Mr. James Thomas Simpson of Monroe, La. and the late Mr. and Mrs. Elbert Allen Edge Jr. of Tupelo.
The prospective bride-groom is the son of Mr. and Mrs. James Ken-dall Gregory. He is the grandson of Mr. and Mrs. Murry Donald Reeves of
Nashville, Tenn. and the late Mr. and Mrs. James Taylor Gregory of Nash-ville, Tenn.
Miss Simpson is a 2001 graduate of Corinth High School. She received her master’s degree from Mis-sissippi State University in 2006. She is presently employed at The National Food Service Manage-ment Institute (NFSMI) in Oxford.
Mr. Gregory is a1999 graduate of Franklin Road Academy and a 2005 graduate of Trev-ecca Nazarene Univer-sity where he received his bachelor’s degree. He is presently the owner of Oxford Adventure Boot Camp.
Engagements
James Kendall Gregory Jr., Ginger Suzanne Simpson
Simpson — Gregory
Miss Aimee Elizabeth Dearman and Mr. Jimmy “Jimmer” Loyd Fowler Jr. will exchange wed-ding vows on the evening of April 21, 2012 at Paris-Yates Chapel at Ole Miss in Oxford.
The bride-elect is the daughter of William and Charlotte Dearman of Tupelo. She is the grand-daughter of Charles and Dorothy Rogers of Saltillo and Laverne and the late Glen Dearman of Tupelo.
The prospective bride-groom is the son of Mary and Jimmy Fowler Sr. of Corinth. He is the grand-son of Paul and the late Roxie Singleton of Vina, Ala. and the late Jack and Fannie Fowler of Corinth.
Miss Dearman is graduate of Tupelo High School. She received her AAS of business and mar-keting management from Itawamba Community College. She also attended the University of Missis-sippi. Her honors in high school include graduat-ing with honors, member of NHS, FBLA and An-chor Club; and in college, member of Delta Epsilon Chi and awarded an art scholarship.
She is presently em-ployed as a legal assistant for Hall, Booth, Smith and Slover.
Mr. Fowler is a gradu-ate of Corinth High School and The Univer-sity of Mississippi where he received his bachelor’s of human resource man-agement. He is presently employed at Travelers.
A wedding reception will be held at the Oxford Con-ference Center Magnolia Room & Terrace in Oxford.
Aimee Elizabeth Dearman, Jimmy “Jimmer” Loyd Fowler Jr.
Dearman — Fowler
1st Grade
All A’s -- Emma K Arthur, Taylor Bradley, Jon-Michael Bragg, Carlie Burkhalter, Taylor Cornelius, Reece Crum, Magdalyn Dalton, Jackson Dupree, John Fiveash, Morgan Floyd, Makayla Gomez, Jackson Hancock, Jake Hebert, Ash-ton Higgs, Bryson Jackson, Ella Jobe, Wylee Laster, Lily
Little, Dacy Marsh, Charles MItchell, Joely Mullins, Adrian Newcomb, Allie Rob-ertson, Marley Thrasher, Jordan Walker, Andrew Wilbanks, Bailey Wilbanks, David Wilbanks
A’s & B’s -- Madison Beckham, Emily Bradley, Reid Burcham, Dalton Davis, Colton Dildy, Neia Flener, John Gifford, Les-lie Gray, Morgan Hamlin,
Shawn Harris, Nicholas Hol-lan, Samuel Hopper, Peyton Lathrop, Addison Loncar, Joellyn Mcewen, Anslie MItchell, Braden Mitchell, Jami Mitchell, Presley MItchell, Aaliyah Moody, Tylor Oakman, Tyler Orman, Matthew Peacock, Lily Robinson, Rayven Rowe, Samantha Sanchez, Addie Trulove, Ethan Tucker, Mi-aley Tucker, Priscilla Turner,
Mia Watkins, Katy WilbanksAll B’s -- Damien Baker,
Michael Baker, Wyatt Bay-less, Ben Crabb, Peyton Depriest, Hank Eaton, Jada Essary, Jada Ham-mond, Tessia Jones, Ash-lyn Malone, Leileigh Moody, Anna Ozbirn, Cedric Parker, Landon Roach, Hunter Ro-rie, Landon Schneider, An-nabell Smith, John Tucker
2nd Grade
All A’s -- Caleb Brum-field, Kaitlyn Burrell, Ethan Donahue, Carys Goodwin, Bryson Goss, Anna Hat-field, Kristen Jackson, Chase Johnson, Jenny Lambert, Ava Marsh, Ka-tie Meeks, Alanna Grace Mitchell, Riley Nunley, Wes Phillips, Lauren Talley, Kyler Wilbanks, Seth Wooten, Ashton Wren
A’s & B’s -- Teleigh Bowden, Brittany Bardley, Landry Callahan, Spence Crabb, Jason Davis, Isa-bella Duncan, Sam Eaton, Zoe Essary, Austin Flake, Rebecka Flener, Macken-zie Hamlin, Ashton Har-vell, Luke Hebert, Aiden Holt, Erin Irvin, Hunter Jacobs, Riley Lancaster, Landon Lewis, Daniel Mc-dowell, Madison Mcvey, Ava Meeks, Cassady Miles, Payden Mitchell, Trey Mont-gomery, Ashlee Newman, Kyler Polk, Sarah Seals
All B’s -- Bentley Briggs, Montana Brock, Eden Burk, Hunter Doles, Alexis Gif-ford, Noah Henderson, Madilyn Holland, Kayleb Hooper, Anna Loggains, Mckenzi Mitchell, Kelsey Polk, Devin Scott, Isaac Smith, Mason Stewart, Hei-di Sumler, Whitney Taylor, Jon Riley Thrasher, Brenna Williams
3rd Grade
All A’s -- Evan Clement, Michael Cornelius, Hannah Davis, Lauren Green, Bailey Holt, Adyson Massengill, William Mccormack, Colbie Mcdowell, Briley Newcomb, Morgan Null, Daniel Phil-lips, Calob Sanderson, Lily Shaw, Lainey Waldrop, Ste-
ven WrightA’s & B’s -- Madelyn Bark-
er, Trey Blackard, John Mi-chael Boler, Keb Brawner, Christian Brooks, Katelyn Bumpas, Joseph Dixon, Ja-cob Donahue, Caleb Felks, Lexi Fiveash, Jamie Hajek, Benjamin Harris, Hugh Henry, Madelyn Holmes, Aiden Holt, Martha Jones, Madalyn Malone, Kaleigh Martin, Breannah Miles, Chloe Mitchell, Jesse Pear-son, Brock Seago, Isaac Simmons, Taylar Spencer, Roger Thrasher, Addison Tidwell, Tatton Waldon, Wy-att Wilhite, Jaden Willis
All B’s -- Recardo Flores, Molly Mitchell, Breanna Parker, Alexandrea Paige Wilbanks, Alexandria Brooke Wilbanks, Montgom-ery Wilbanks
4th Grade
All A’s -- Audrey Baker, Regan Bobo, Brantley Carter, James Cox, Allison Dupree, Noah Evetts, Hank Gardner, Megan Hodum, Nicholas Hopper, Hadley Jackson, James Lawson, Callie Loncar, Julian Marsh, Kelsey Martin, Sabannah Martin, Laura Jane Mckee, Destiny Ozbirn, Isaac Pitt-man, Mallory Rainey, Bran-son Spencer, Catherine Turner, Mark Wooten
A’s & B’s -- Stone Brad-ley, Luke Braudway, Annie Clausel, Carley Clement, Lynleigh Crabb, Jonathon Duncan, Clayton Dunn, Gra-cie Glidewell, Jose Hernan-dez, Cara Hilliard, Hunter Hurt, Arleigh Johnson, Alexis Johnston, Chesne Joyner, Cheyanne Mask, Anna Newell, Maggie Nun-ley, Montana Settlemires, Harley Shackelford, Mitchell Shettles, Jennifer Shields, Levi Sides, Jaicey Sumler, Hayden Switcher, Isabella Thompson, Lorne Turner, Marlee Turner, Dakota Wilhite, Pecos Wilhite, Kay-leigh Williamson
All B’s -- Justin Arnold, Ben Flake, Bricen Hales, Kelly Hutchins, Hunter Keith, Claudia Martin, Rebekah Mattox, Carolyn Meeks, Chandler Moody
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BY HOLIDAY MATHISCreators Syndicate
The Aries sun has a way of stirring up tempers. Yesterday, Venus and Mars formed a terse angle, and the residual tension still lingers. To get on with things, someone may have to apologize. For those hiding Eas-ter eggs, you can bet they won’t all be found in a day. The Scorpio moon has a way of making things invisible.
ARIES (March 21-April 19). Talk-ing only about oneself is a bad habit that a friend has been guilty of on many occasions. It’s your turn to talk today, and you should gladly take it. You’ve earned the right.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20). Your words reveal your level of experience in the world. Others will make deci-sions about how to interact with you based on your vocabulary.
GEMINI (May 21-June 21). The thing about getting what you want is that it’s always going to change your world. It’s wise to consider the many effects that will happen, good and bad, and weigh your desire against them.
CANCER (June 22-July 22). It’s polite to make as little noise as possi-ble in many public arenas. But where you’re going, it’s only appropriate to add noise to the arena in the form of cheers and applause.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). Maybe your ultimate ambition is so lofty that few have achieved it. You’ll be happiest when your goals that lead up to that place are realistic. Set small achiev-able goals so you can feel good along the way.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). It’s the
perfect time to update your contacts, addresses and calendar. You’ll have to be ultra-organized to take advan-tage of the interesting opportunities in the week ahead.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23). Prob-lems and troubles are not the same thing. Today you’ll realize that you have problems, not troubles. Every-thing will work out. It’s just an equa-tion that needs to be solved.
SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21). In or-der to get where you want to go, you’ll have to change your attitude. The good news is that this will make your life better on many levels. You’ll love what happens next.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21). Our caveman and cavewoman an-cestors didn’t live as long as we do now, and their courtships were pro-portionately brief. You, however, can take your time instead of rushing in like a Neanderthal.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19). A desire to impress someone can be healthy for a relationship up to a point. If this desire is exaggerated, it becomes destructive. You’ll fi nd a graceful balance.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18). You want to be well thought of as much as the next person, but you’re not about to let that stop you from contributing freely to the social milieu. You may make a mistake and discover that others don’t care so much.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). Do what’s necessary to get to a smiling, laughing place. There will be a situ-ation that has you unsure, but you’ll interpret things in a positive way, demonstrating the difference be-tween a happy person and an unhap-py person.
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Daily Corinthian • Sunday, April 8, 2012 • 5B
LOS ANGELES — It’s been stuck in my head for weeks like a psychotic episode: “My Heart Will Go On,” Celine Dion’s big, bombastic ballad from “Titanic.”
Now that James Cam-eron has fi nally released the 3-D redo of his 1997 shipwreck epic — the winner of 11 Academy Awards, including best original song — it still won’t go away. It goes on ... and on ...
But we’re all about turning a negative into a positive around here, so we’re using this as an opportunity to talk about fi ve other great winners of the best original song Oscar. There are dozens to choose from so you’ll have some favorites of your own, but these are sure to keep you hum-
ming along:■ “Over the Rainbow”
from “The Wizard of Oz” (1939): One of the great-est songs ever from one of the greatest movies ever. A favorite from childhood that’s just as moving for grown-ups, it’s full of girl-ish innocence and melan-choly longing.
Written by Harold Ar-len and E.Y. Harburg, it’s been copied and covered endlessly by singers rang-ing from Frank Sinatra to Kylie Minogue. Sam Harris became a minor star by belting out a soar-ing version of it on “Star Search” in the mid-’80s, and Katharine McPhee made it one of her signa-ture tunes on “American Idol.”
But of course it will al-ways belong to Judy Gar-land. She performs it early in the fi lm when she’s still a naive farm girl, before
all the tornadic activity and house-dropping that inspire her journey down the yellow brick road.
■ “When You Wish Upon a Star” from “Pi-nocchio” (1940): A per-sonal choice, since this is the song my mother sup-posedly sang to me when I was a baby. Or so goes the lore — I was too young to remember. Written by Leigh Harline and Ned Washington and sung by Cliff Edwards in the voice of perky sidekick Jiminy Cricket, this is probably the greatest song ever to come from a Disney ani-mated movie.
It’s certainly the most identifi able with the stu-dio, since it plays along with the logo before every Disney fi lm. It’s hopeful and earnest and unabash-edly sentimental. And like the song that inspired this week’s list, this one will
really get stuck in your head. It also provided in-spiration for one of the more daring episodes of “Family Guy,” titled “When You Wish Upon a Weinstein.”
■ “Moon River” from “Breakfast at Tiffany’s” (1961): When Audrey Hepburn sings it alone on the fi re escape of her Manhattan apartment, it’s intimate, sweet and plaintive, an indication of the insecure woman look-ing for love that she tries to suppress through her glamorous persona and wild nights.
When it swells during the fi lm’s climactic con-clusion — in an alley in the pouring rain, as Hep-burn fi nds the cat she cast aside and clutches it to her chest while giving George Peppard a passionate kiss — it’s heartbreaking.
I cry every time in a
matter of seconds. Hen-ry Mancini and Johnny Mercer — they did not screw around. (Chevy Chase also felt prompted to belt out this song dur-ing an especially thor-ough doctor’s exam in “Fletch.”)
■ “Theme From ‘Shaft”’ (1971): He’s a bad mother ... so how do you NOT choose this song among the top fi ve?
It has such great en-ergy and is such a fabu-lously funky refl ection of its time: the horns, the driving chicka-chicka, the staccato strings. Isaac Hayes is at his smooth, soulful best here, croon-ing lyrics that seemed so racy in their day about Richard Roundtree’s character, “the black pri-vate dick that’s a sex ma-chine to all the chicks.” This was a bold pick from the Academy, and it made
Hayes the fi rst black per-son to win an Academy Award outside of the act-ing categories. Can you dig it?
■ “Lose Yourself” from “8 Mile” (2002): So catchy. Such vivid visu-als. And so crucial to the story as an exploration of the main character’s fears and ambitions.
Who knows whether Eminem can actually act, but he did a great job of playing a version of him-self in Curtis Hanson’s drama about an aspiring rapper battling his de-mons as he struggles to make it out of his work-ing-class Detroit neigh-borhood. I love what an unconventional choice this was for the Academy. And I think it’s hilarious that forever more, we can describe Eminem as Academy Award winner Marshall Mathers.
5 great winners of best original song OscarBY CHRISTY LEMIRE
Associated Press
NEW YORK — Lena Dunham is deconstruct-ing femininity right across the table.
Having spiffed up for some behind-the-scenes featurettes for her up-coming HBO series, “Girls,” Dunham has re-laxed into her seat at a Tribeca restaurant not far from where she grew up. Shortly after shedding her overcoat, she pulls off her fake eyelashes, too, apol-ogizing for her manners and lamenting the forth-right revelation of a wom-en’s “secret” to a member of the opposite sex.
“There’s a certain point when I’ve had them on all day, I just want to be free
of them,” she says, laugh-ing. “I want to be naked but for my own lashes. It upsets your friends if you pull them out and just hand them to them. They’re not exactly sure what’s going on.”
Inhibition and a comi-cal preference for natural-ism run deep in Dunham and her work. She’s a self-declared “over-shar-er” whose Twitter feed is a steady stream of self-deprecating wit. (“I was lying totally still on the shower fl oor and really hurt my knee. And that, my friends, is proof I can do anything.”)
Her work (two features, a few Web series and now the TV show) is heavily personal, like her break-
out fi lm, 2010’s “Tiny Fur-niture,” an indie she made for just $25,000 starring herself, her mother (the photographer and art-ist Laurie Simmons) and her younger sister, Grace. (Her father, the painter Carroll Dunham, typically abstains.)
“In many ways, my work acts as my jour-nal,” she says. “When I had a journal as a kid, I was constantly leaving it open, hoping somebody would fi nd it. I just didn’t understand the purpose.”
Not yet 26, Dunham has already been profi led by the New Yorker, had “Tiny Furniture” released on DVD by the esteemed Criterion Collection and attracted the interest of
comedy producer and fi lmmaker Judd Apatow, executive producer of “Girls.” Considering her unblemished good for-tune, Apatow has advised Dunham to get a T-shirt that reads “The Inevitable Backlash.”
“Girls,” which Dunham wrote, stars in and pro-duced, premieres Sunday, April 15, but it’s already captured the zeitgeist, sparking a dialogue about 20-something adulthood, femininity and sexual-ity. The show follows four young women (Dunham, Allison Williams, Jemima Kirke and Zosia Mamet) in post-collegiate drift, struggling in a diffi cult New York job market, chafi ng at conventional
ideas of womanhood and dealing with male coun-terparts on a different wavelength.
Dunham is the subject of op-eds and the topic of considerable blogosphere debate. She’s been lauded for inverting the usual representations of female bodies by having no shy-ness in portraying her, as she terms it, “not exactly model-esque body” in un-fl attering sex scenes. But one critic suggested Dun-ham would lose her “nar-rative propellant” if she dropped 30 pounds.
“If I lost 30 pounds, I’d die,” she says. “Not to quibble with him about what overweight means, but I can’t even lose 30 pounds!”
Most, though, recog-nize in Dunham the gen-uine article: an uncom-monly mature storyteller with natural instincts for autobiographical fi lm-making and neurotic por-traits of her self-absorbed 20-something genera-tion.
In a memorable scene in the fi rst episode, Dun-ham’s character, having arrived in New York an aspiring writer, tells her visiting parents that she believes she’s the voice of her generation, “or a voice of a generation.”
It’s particularly fi tting because it’s both true and a self-parody — a balance of sympathy and critique for Millenials that runs throughout “Girls.”
Dunham charts 20-something confusion in funny ‘Girls’BY JAKE COYLEAssociated Press