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Remembering a President Locals recall

Bush’s 1989 visit
to Golden Triangle
President gave
commencement speech at
MSU on day of drizzling rain
By Slim Smith
ssmith@cdispatch.com

The visit lasted only a few hours and was,

by presidential standards, a no-frills affair.
His contact with crowds was limited to
waves and even some who shared the stage
never got as far as shaking his hand. The
event went through without a hitch, despite
the drizzly weather.
Yet almost 30 years later, those who were
there still remember the day George H.W.
Bush, the nation’s 41st president, arrived
in the Golden Triangle to deliver the com-
mencement address at Mississippi State on
May 13, 1989.
“I don’t remember the details of what he
said, but he was very self-deprecating and
the focus of his speech was on the gradu-
ates,” recalled Dan Snowden, a 1987 Lee
AP Photo/Patrick Semansky High graduate who was a sophomore at
Visitors file past the flag-draped casket of former President George H.W. Bush as he lies in state in the Capitol Rotunda MSU that spring. “There wasn’t the sort of
in Washington on Tuesday. Bush, the nation’s 41st president, died Friday at age 94.
See Bush visit, 8A

A nation’s farewell for George H.W. Bush

Ceremony at Washington National Cathedral will
cap three days of remembrance for nation’s 41st
president; Bush to be buried Thursday
By CALVIN WOODWARD, LAURIE
KELLMAN and ASHRAF KHALIL
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The nation’s
capital bids its final farewell to the late
president, George H.W. Bush, in a ser-
vice of prayer and praise that is draw-
ing together world envoys, Americans
of high office and a guy from Maine
who used to fix things in Bush’s house
on the water.
coming — among them,
George W. Bush will
eulogize his father —
and President Donald
Trump will attend but is
not scheduled to speak.
The ceremony Wednesday at Wash- Also attending: one king
ington National Cathedral, the nexus (Jordan), one queen
Bush
of state funerals, will cap three days (Jordan), two princes
of remembrance by dignitaries and (Britain, Bahrain), Germany’s chan-
ordinary citizens as they honored the cellor and Poland’s president, among
Republican president who oversaw the representatives of more than a dozen Dispatch file photo
post-Cold War transition and led a suc- countries. Former President George H.W. Bush shakes
hands with Columbus Air Force Base’s Col.
cessful Gulf War, only to lose re-elec- Also expected in the invitation-only
James L. Higham in this 1989 Dispatch file
tion in a generational shift to Democrat crowd: Mike Lovejoy, a Kennebunk-
photo. Bush arrived at CAFB on Air Force
Bill Clinton in 1992. port electrician and fix-it man who has One before speaking at a commencement
The four living ex-presidents are See Bush farewell, 4A address at Mississippi State University.

Starkville opens Board OKs 2019 Pride parade

applications
for new with limited discussion
Event request passes on 4-3 vote
municipal judge
gural parade
was held
By Alex Holloway agenda en route to the end of March 24 this
By Alex Holloway aholloway@cdispatch.com Tuesday’s brief meeting. year, after an
aholloway@cdispatch.com Ward 2 Alderman Sandra initial denial
The approval for Starkville Sistrunk, Ward 3 Alderman of the group’s
Starkville’s board Pride’s second parade proved David Little, Ward 4 Alder- permit by
of aldermen on Tues- to be much easier than the man Jason Walker and Ward the board
day initiated the first, but the vote still wasn’t 5 Alderman Patrick Miller of aldermen Little Perkins McDaniel
search for a munici- unanimous. supported the request. Ward grabbed na-
pal judge to replace Aldermen approved a re- 1 Alderman Ben Carver, tional headlines and sparked to cast a tie-breaking vote in
Rodney Faver. quest from the grassroots Ward 6 Alderman Roy A. Per- a federal lawsuit against the favor of the parade. During
Faver, who has lesbian, gay, bisexual and kins and Ward 7 Alderman city. Aldermen denied the the second vote, Little cited
served as Starkville’s Faver transgender (LGBT) sup- Henry Vaughn opposed. request on Feb. 20, with a the costs of defending the
municipal judge port group by a 4-3 margin Starkville Pride is holding 4-3 vote that included Little’s lawsuit, which might fall to
since 2009, is leaving his position Tuesday. The vote came with its second Pride parade on opposition. On March 7, Lit- the city to cover instead of
after winning the Chancery Dis- little discussion as aldermen March 30, 2019. tle abstained from a re-vote, its Mississippi Municipal
See Judge, 3A pushed rapidly through the Starkville Pride’s inau- allowing Mayor Lynn Spruill See Pride parade, 5A

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Wednesday
Did you hear?

Actor-comedian Kevin
Hart will host 2019 Oscars
2019 Oscars
Prosecutors recommend no jail
“I will be sure to make
sure this years Oscars are
will be broadcast a special one,” Hart wrote.
Hart takes over hosting
Feb. 24 on ABC
The Associated Press
duties from Jimmy Kim-
mel, who presided over the
last two ceremonies, includ-
ing 2016’s flub that resulted
time for cooperative Flynn
LOS ANGELES — Kev- Former national security
Trump praises witness who
in the wrong best picture
in Hart has a new job — he winner being announced.
will host the 2019 Academy Last year’s ceremony was adviser participated
Awards, a role the prolific an all-time ratings low, and
in 19 interviews
actor-comedian says fulfills
a longtime dream.
Hart announced his se-
the film academy has an-
nounced a series of chang-
es to the upcoming show .
with prosecutors refuses to testify against him
lection for the 91st Oscars Those include shorten- The Associated Press
By CHAD DAY and ERIC TUCKER
in an Instagram statement
ing the broadcast to three The Associated Press
Tuesday. The Academy of WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump praised
hours, and also presenting
Motion Picture Arts and WA S H I N G T O N a key witness in the Russia investigation Monday for hav-
certain categories during
Sciences followed up with — President Don- ing the “guts” not to testify against him, and said his for-
commercial breaks and
a tweet that welcomed him ald Trump’s former mer lawyer — who cut a deal with prosecutors — should
broadcasting excerpts of
“to the family.” national security head straight to prison.
The announcement those winners’ speeches
adviser provided so In a pair of politically charged tweets, Trump made
came hours after trade later in the show.
much information to clear that he is closely watching those who turn on him
publication The Hollywood The 39-year-old Hart
the special counsel’s in the special counsel’s probe, which has ensnared some
Reporter posted a story has become a bankable star
Russia investigation of the president’s closest advisers. So far, five people in Trump
calling the Oscars host po- with films such as “Ride Trump’s orbit have pleaded guilty to federal charges.
Along,” ‘’Jumanji: Welcome that prosecutors say Flynn
sition “the least wanted job he shouldn’t do any prison time, The tweets add to mounting questions about whether Trump is tak-
in Hollywood.” to the Jungle” and “Night ing steps to improperly influence witnesses in an investigation that has
School.” according to a court filing that de-
Hart clearly doesn’t feel scribes Michael Flynn’s cooperation enraged him and shadowed his administration. Some legal experts,
that way, writing on Insta- Celebrities including though, say they may not amount to witness tampering if Trump didn’t
Martin Lawrence and as “substantial.”
gram that it has been on his The filing by special counsel Rob- directly tell others what to say or not say.
list of dream jobs for years. Chris Rock, who hosted Trump already has come under scrutiny from critics who fear he
the ceremony in 2005 and ert Mueller provides the first details
The 2019 Oscars will be of Flynn’s assistance in the Russia may use his executive power to protect himself as well as friends and
broadcast Feb. 24 on ABC. 2016, posted congratulato- supporters. Last week, Trump told the New York Post that a pardon
ry messages about Hart’s investigation, including that he par-
“I am blown away sim- ticipated in 19 interviews with pros- for his former campaign chairman Paul Manafort was not off the table.
ply because this has been selection Tuesday night.
ecutors and cooperated extensively
a goal on my list for a long “Damn I’ve lost another
in a separate and undisclosed crimi- trates the breadth of information Trump bonded with during the 2016
time...To be able to join the job to Kevin Hart,” Rock
nal probe. But the filing’s lengthy re- Mueller has obtained from people campaign.
legendary list of host that posted on Instagram, echo-
dactions also underscore how much close to Trump as the president Trump has repeatedly lamented
have graced this stage is ing a joke he told during his
Mueller has yet to reveal. increasingly vents his anger at the how Flynn’s life has been destroyed
unbelievable,” Hart wrote. 2016 opening monologue.
It was filed Tuesday, two weeks probe — and those who cooperate by the special counsel’s probe. At
“I know my mom is smiling “They got the best person
ahead of Flynn’s sentencing and with it. one point, he tried to protect Fly-
from ear to ear right now. for the job.” This week, Trump accused his nn by asking former FBI Director
just over a year after he became one
of five Trump associates to plead former lawyer, Michael Cohen, of James Comey to drop an investiga-
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Periodicals postage paid at Columbus, MS The Associated Press stolen from aides to the spread over several The committee said
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516 Main St., Columbus, MS 39703 Thousands of emails were during the 2018 midterm iar with the matter told vided few other details.
campaign, a major breach The Associated Press. At A cybersecurity firm and
FIVE-DAY FORECAST FOR THE GOLDEN TRIANGLE exposing vulnerabilities least four different par- the FBI have been inves-
that have kept cybersecu- ty aides had their emails tigating the matter, the
rity experts on edge since surveilled by hackers, committee said. The FBI
the 2016 presidential race. said the person, who was declined to comment.
TONIGHT THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY SUNDAY The email accounts not authorized to discuss Politically motivated
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Columbus CFO suspended without pay
in wake of budget deficit revelation
Councilmen
criticize Rawle
for not presenting
clear picture
of city finances
sooner
By Zack Plair
zplair@cdispatch.com
Columbus Chief Finan-
cial Officer Milton Rawle
has been suspended for
16 working days, without
pay, for failing to comply
with job performance
standards.
City councilmen voted
5-1 Tuesday evening to
suspend Rawle. It came
two weeks after he sur-
prised them with a re-
port showing the city had
operated at an $881,000
deficit in Fiscal Year 2018,
which ended Sept. 30.
The council in its Nov. 20
meeting amended that
year’s budget to reflect
the deficit — created by a
roughly $467,000 revenue
shortage and more than
$413,000 in excess expen-
ditures.
A source familiar with
the situation, who asked
not to be named, said
councilmen criticized
Rawle for not being forth-
coming with information
about the city’s financial
standing sooner, espe-
cially when the council
approved a Fiscal Year
2019 budget in Septem-
ber based on what they
believed to be a balanced
2018 budget.
Rawle presents month-
ly financial statements to
the mayor and council,
and councilmen approve
a claims docket — a list
of city expenditures — at
each of their bi-monthly
meetings. Still, several
councilmen claim those
documents didn’t give a
clear picture of the city’s
cash flow.
The 16-working-day
Deputies search for suspect in roadside robbery
Suspect told victim he needed help
with flat tire before pulling gun on him
DISPATCH STAFF REPORT
Authorities with Lown-
des County Sheriff’s
Office are searching for
a suspect in a roadside
armed robbery Tuesday
afternoon.
Deputies responded to
a call about the robbery
at about 1:45 p.m., LCSO
Capt. Greg Wright said.
Judge
Continued from Page 1A
trict 14, Place 1 judge’s
runoff election Nov. 27.
Faver will take his new
position at the beginning
of 2019.
Aldermen unanimously
voted to begin accepting
applications from poten-
tial candidates. The city
will accept applications
through 5 p.m. on Dec. 10.
The board will hold a
normal work session on
Dec. 14 at 1:15 p.m. After
that, at 3 p.m., the board
will hold a special-call
meeting to conduct inter-
views with judge candi-
dates.
Aldermen could select
a new municipal judge
then or at its Dec. 18 reg-
ular board meeting.
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Columbus Chief Financial Officer Milton Rawle, standing, appears before the city
council Tuesday evening at the Muncipal Complex. The council suspended Rawle
for 16 working days, without pay, for failing to provide city officials a clear picture of
the city’s financial status in a timely manner. The city operated at a near $881,000
deficit in Fiscal Year 2018.
suspension will equate to
four calendar weeks, since
city administration oper-
ates on a four-day work
week.
As executive sessions
are not held in public, the
public record for which
councilman opposed Raw-
le’s suspension will not
be available for at least 30
days.
Rawle declined to com-
ment after the meeting, as
did his immediate supervi-
sor, Mayor Robert Smith.
However, in an inter-
view with The Dispatch
last week, Rawle indicated
the year-end deficit was
somewhat of a surprise to
him, too.
He said the city entered
August showing a surplus
that turned to a steep defi-
cit in the last six weeks of
the fiscal year — during
which time city council-
men were considering the
FY 2019 budget.
While Rawle did sug-
gest the council raise
the property tax millage
According to the LCSO
incident report, the victim
in the case told deputies
he had stopped on the
side of Barton Ferry Road
to assist the driver of a
black Honda Accord that
had pulled off the road,
supposedly because of a
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for general operations to
offset future expenses
— which it did not — he
failed to indicate the 2018
budget had slipped into
the red until two months
after the new budget was
approved.
Instead of trying to re-
vamp the 2019 budget be-
fore it was approved, Raw-
le said he decided to take a
“wait-and-see” approach.
“A lot of people see that
big deficit number, but
what they don’t realize
is if a couple of things go
the other way, the num-
ber is a lot lower,” Rawle
said. “I took the attitude
of looking in January or
February — when we had
a clearer picture of how
(2019) was going — and
see if the new budget
needed amending.”
On the revenue side,
city sales and property tax
collections lagged behind
budgeted projections.
Also, Columbus didn’t re-
ceive $200,000 it thought
it would receive from
flat tire. He said when he
got out of his own vehicle
to help, the driver pulled a
gun on him and demand-
ed his wallet.
The victim told the
suspect he didn’t have his
wallet on him, according
to the incident report.
The suspect then went
through the victim’s truck
but did not take anything.
He threw the victim’s
truck keys into a ditch
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You set the budget, and
you hope. ... The good
Gavin — have confirmed
to The Dispatch those
news is it’s a new fiscal
year, and we have time to
adjustments will include
immediate spending
make adjustments as nec-
essary.”
freezes of some kind. All
four mentioned city trav-
Four councilmen — in-
el, while some also men-
cluding Ward 2’s Joseph
Mickens, Ward 3’s Char- tioned hiring freezes and
curtailing departmental
lie Box, Ward 5’s Stephen
Jones and Ward 6’s Bill overtime.
Zack Plair/Dispatch Staff
Lowndes County for its
parks department as part
of an agreement the two
entities made when the
Columbus-Lowndes Rec-
reation Authority split into
separate parks depart-
ments in October 2017.
Expense-wise, the city
police, fire and public
works departments ex-
ceeded their budgets by
roughly $475,000 com-
bined. Most of that came
from excess overtime,
Rawle reported.
The deficit dropped
the city’s cash on-hand
— which includes a cash
balance in its general
fund accrued from pre-
vious years’ surpluses
and a $900,000 dedicated
reserve fund — to about
$2.3 million.
Last week, Rawle de-
fended his budgeting
practices to The Dispatch.
“It’s a crap shoot be-
cause there’s no way you
can know exactly what’s
going to happen,” he said.
“It’s not an exact science.
and drove off in his own
vehicle toward Highway
45 North.
The victim said the
suspect was a heavy set
black male about six feet
tall. He estimated his age
to be around 30.
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Triangle Crime Stoppers
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Bush farewell
Continued from Page 1A
worked at Bush’s Maine
summer estate since 1990
and says he was shocked
and heartened to be asked
to come.
On Tuesday, soldiers,
citizens in wheelchairs
and long lines of others
on foot wound through the
hushed Capitol Rotunda
to view Bush’s casket and
honor a president whose
legacy included World
War military service and
a landmark law affirming
the rights of the disabled.
Former Sen. Bob Dole, a
compatriot in war, peace
and political struggle,
steadied himself out of his
wheelchair and saluted his
old friend and one-time ri-
val.
After the national funer-
al service at the cathedral,
Bush’s remains will be re-
turned to Houston to lie in
repose at St. Martin’s Epis-
copal Church before burial
Thursday at his family plot
on the presidential library
grounds at Texas A&M
University in College Sta-
tion. His final resting place
will be alongside Barbara
Bush, his wife of 73 years
who died in April, and Rob-
in Bush, the daughter they
lost to leukemia in 1953 at
age 3.
National Day
of Mourning
Trump ordered the fed-
eral government closed
Wednesday for a national
day of mourning. Flags on
public buildings are flying
at half-staff for 30 days.
As at notable moments
in his life, Bush brought
together Republicans and
Democrats in his death,
and not only the VIPs.
Members of the public
who never voted for the
man waited in the same
long lines Tuesday as the
rest, attesting that Bush
possessed the dignity and
grace that deserved to be
remembered by their pres-
ence on a cold overcast day
in the capital.
“I’m just here to pay my
respects,” said Jane Her-
nandez, a retired physician
in the heavily Democratic
city and suburbs. “I wasn’t
the biggest fan of his pres-
idency, but all in all he was
a good, sincere guy doing
a really hard job as best he
could.”
Bush’s service dog,
Sully, was brought to the
viewing, too — his main
service these last months
since Barbara Bush’s
death in April being to
rest his head on her hus-
band’s lap. Service dogs
are trained to do that.
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Former President George W. Bush and former first lady Laura Bush walk past the
flag-draped casket of former President George H.W. Bush in the Capitol Rotunda,
Monday in Washington.
The CIA also honored
Bush, the only spy chief
to become president, as
three agency directors
past and present joined the
public in the viewing.
In the midst of the peri-
od of mourning, first lady
Melania Trump gave Lau-
ra Bush, one of her prede-
cessors, a tour of holiday
decorations at the White
House, a “sweet visit
during this somber week,”
as Mrs. Bush’s Instagram
account put it. And the
Trumps visited members
of the Bush family at the
Blair House presidential
guesthouse, where they
are staying. Former Pres-
ident George W. Bush
and his wife greeted the
Trumps outside before
everyone went in for the
private, 20-minute visit.
Although Trump will
attend Bush’s service,
he is not among the eulo-
gists. They are, in addi-
tion to Bush’s eldest son,
Alan Simpson, the for-
mer senator and acerbic
wit from Wyoming; Bri-
an Mulroney, the former
Canadian prime minister
who also gave a eulogy
for Ronald Reagan; and
presidential historian Jon
Meacham.
People lined up before
dawn to pay respects to
the 41st president, a son
and father of privilege
now celebrated by every-
day citizens for his com-
mon courtesies and depth
of experience.
‘He was just
a decent man’
“He was so qualified,
and I think he was just a
decent man,” said Sha-
ron Terry, touring Wash-
ington with friends from
p.m. Thursday at Lown-
des Funeral Home
Chapel Burial will
follow at Pleasant Hill
Cemetery. Visitation
will be one hour prior
to services at the funer-
al home. Lowndes Fu-
neral Home is in charge
of arrangements.
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an Indianapolis garden
club. Said her friend Sue
Miller, also in line for the
viewing: “I actually think I
underestimated him when
he was in office. My opin-
ion of him went up seeing
how he conducted himself
as a statesman afterward.”
Fred Curry, one of the
few African-Americans in
line, is a registered Dem-
ocrat from Hyattsville,
Maryland, who voted for
Bush in 1988, the elec-
tion won by the one-term
president. “Honestly I
just liked him,” he said.
“He seemed like a sincere
and decent man and you
couldn’t argue with his
qualifications.”
Inside the Capitol, Sul-
ly, the 2-year-old Labra-
dor retriever assigned to
Bush, sat by the casket
in the company of people
who came to commem-
orate Bush’s signing of
the Americans with Dis-
abilities Act, the 1990
law that, among its many
provisions, required busi-
nesses that prohibit pets
to give access to service
dogs.
“After Mrs. Bush’s
death, general compan-
ionship was a big part of
Sully’s job,” John Miller,
president and CEO of
America’s VetDogs, said
in a phone interview. “One
of the things that I think
was important to the pres-
ident was the rest com-
mand, where Sully would
rest his head on the pres-
ident’s lap.”
The law was just one
point of intersection for
Bush and Dole, now 95,
who was one of its leading
advocates in the Senate.
They were fellow World
War II veterans, Republi-
can Party leaders, fierce
rivals for the 1988 Repub-
lican presidential nomina-
tion won by Bush (“Stop
lying about my record,”
Dole snapped at Bush) and
skilled negotiators. Dole,
an Army veteran hit by
German machine gunfire
in Italy, has gone through
life with a disabled right
arm. Bush, a Navy pilot,
survived a bail-out from
his stricken aircraft over
the Pacific and an earlier
crash landing.
On Tuesday Dole was
helped out of his wheel-
chair by an aide, slowly
steadied himself and sa-
luted Bush with his left
hand, his chin quivering.
Dignitaries had come
forward on Monday, too,
to honor the Texan whose to office. The late Presi-
service to his country dent Bush called Trump a
extended three quarters “blowhard.”
of a century, from World Those insults have
War II through his final been set aside, but the list
years as an advocate for of funeral service speak-
volunteerism and relief for ers marked the first time
people displaced by natu- since Lyndon Johnson’s
ral disaster. Bush, 94, died death in 1973 that a sit-
Friday. ting president was not
Trump’s relationship tapped to eulogize a late
with the Bush family has president. (Clinton did so
been tense. The current for Richard Nixon, and
president has mocked the George W. Bush eulo-
elder Bush for his “thou- gized Ronald Reagan and
sand points of light” call Gerald Ford.)
to volunteerism, chal- Bush’s death reduc-
lenged his son’s legacy as es membership in the
president and trounced ex-presidents’ club to
“low-energy” Jeb Bush in four: Jimmy Carter, Clin-
the Republican presiden- ton, George W. Bush and
tial primaries en route Barack Obama.
Billy W. Coleman
Billy Wright Coleman, age
97, passed away on December
3, 2018, in Starkville, MS.
Services will be held
Thursday, December 6,
2018, at 11:00 AM from First
Presbyterian Church, EPC in
West Point with visitation prior
to the service from 9:30 to
11:00 AM. Reverend Brandon
Bates will officiate. Burial with
United States Army Military Honors will follow
in Memorial Gardens Park in Starkville. Calvert
Funeral Home of West Point is honored to be
entrusted with the arrangements.
He was born November 27, 1921, in Union
County, to the late Frank Madison and Naomi
Wright Coleman, however, he spent most of his
boyhood in Lowndes County, when his family
moved there in the early 1930s. A veteran of the
U.S. Army, he served during World War II in the
Pacific theater. His military decorations included
the Asia-Pacific Theater of Operations Medal,
Good Conduct Medal, Meritorious Unit Award,
World War II Victory Medal and the Philippine
Liberation Ribbon with Bronze Star. Billy often
reminisced about his comrades from the war and
marveled at their ingenuity and resourcefulness
in difficult and extreme situations. He shared
many stories of the good will and kindness of
strangers that he experienced while in the Army.
After the war, he married his bride, Jean Cox,
in Lowndes County on March 25, 1950. She
preceded him in death on November 27, 2009.
Together, they settled in the Tibbee community
in rural Clay County, operating a dairy farm,
raising cattle, growing various crops and rearing
three children affectionately known as “The
Three R’s”. A member of First Presbyterian
Church, Billy enjoyed attending services there
and staying connected to lifelong friends. An
early riser, he enjoyed having coffee with fellow
farmers and friends at Mize’s Restaurant,
Moore’s Restaurant and the Tin Lizzie in West
Point.
In addition to his parents and wife, he was
preceded in death by a beloved daughter, Rachel
Jean Coleman; brothers, Leland Coleman and
Paul Coleman; and a half-brother, Pete Butler.
He leaves to cherish his memory a son ,Ronald
Paul Coleman (Elen) of Royal Oak, Michigan;
a daughter, Rene Coleman Hunt (Mark) of
Starkville; and a grandson, Davis Martin Hunt
(Megan) of Byhalia. He also leaves his loyal
canine companion, Kelly.
Pallbearers will be Davis Hunt, David Cox,
Joe Cox, Wally McGee, Glen Coleman and Alan
Coleman.
The family wishes to express their gratitude to
Dr. Drew Anthony and staff at Starkville Family
Practice, Oktibbeha County Hospital 2nd/3rd
floor nurses and staff and the staff at Bee Hive
Homes of Starkville for their excellent care,
kindness, and support.
Memorials may be made to First Presbyterian
Church, Post Office Box 366, West Point,
MS 39773 or to the charity of choice. Friends
may leave an online condolence at www.
calvertfuneralhome.com.
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Shooting victim had tense

relationship with ex-girlfriend
Affidavit: Woman the deceased allegedly attacked
Saturday was indicted for bashing his girlfriend’s
car with horse stand in 2017
By ISABELLE ALTMAN
ialtman@cdispatch.com
An arrest affida-
vit The Dispatch ob-
tained from Lowndes
County Justice Court
sheds light on the
tumultuous relation-
ship between a week-
end fatal shooting
victim and the wom- Moody
an he was allegedly attacking when
he was shot.
Tymechi-Ali Lachil Spann, 26,
of Macon, died during surgery at
Baptist Memorial Hospital-Gold-
en Triangle Saturday after being
shot apparently in a domestic vi-
olence incident at the Greentree
Apartments east of Columbus. The
apartment resident, 25-year-old Jas-
mine Webber, told Lowndes Coun-
ty Sheriff’s Office investigators
that early that morning Spann had
forced his way into her apartment,
attacked her while she was holding
her 10-month-old baby and choked
her, causing her to go in and out of
consciousness. Another individual
in the apartment then shot Spann.
The shooter, Stevie Moody, 26,
was arrested later Saturday and
charged with manslaughter.
The same day, Webber was
booked at Lowndes County Adult
Detention Center after being
served an indictment for malicious
mischief related to an incident from
November 2017 when she allegedly
damaged Spann’s girlfriend’s car
by beating it with a wooden horse
stand.
At the time of that incident, Web-
ber told deputies Spann still lived
with her and that the vehicle’s own-
er had been coming by her home,
according to the arrest affidavit
from the 2017 incident. She said
she drove by the parking lot, saw
Spann’s car there and “just got up-
set.”
Spann and Webber share a child
together. However, the Greentree
Apartments regional manager told
The Dispatch Webber is the only
adult currently living in the apart-
ment, and that she’s lived there less
than a year.
Authorities are still investigat-
ing whether Webber’s account of
the weekend’s shooting is accurate.
When reached by The Dispatch
Monday, LCSO Capt. Greg Wright
said his office was still in the pre-
liminary stages of the investigation
and that the initial report deputies
received from Webber may not nec-
essarily be what happened — a sen-
timent echoed by District Attorney
Scott Colom Tuesday.
“The incident report does not re-
flect the current state of the investi-
gation,” Colom said.
Residents in the apartment
building where the shooting appar-
ently occurred said they didn’t hear
anything Saturday morning and
that Webber kept to herself. They
also said they didn’t hear violent
fighting from the apartment unit.
One of the residents in the building
who had lived there about six years
said Spann used to be at Webber’s
apartment “on the regular” but that
he didn’t live in the building.
Webber has been released from
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League-provided insur-
ance.
Little declined to of-
fer much comment after
Tuesday’s board meeting.
However, he said he was
“pragmatic,” in reference
to the legal tangles from
the year’s prior votes.
“I didn’t want to go
down that road again,” he
said.
Perkins, who has al-
ways voted against the
parade and has opposed
us had any expectations,”
she said. “I think we were
going to be surprised ei-
ther way. We just knew we
had to have a group come
to sit in solidarity with us
and be prepared for what-
ever happened. I’m actu-
ally really shocked that it
was a 4-3 for, because we
didn’t expect that. We ei-
ther thought it was going
to be 4-3 against or 3-3
and the mayor decides.”
than for this year’s parade.
This year’s parade,
which organizers original-
ly thought might attract a
few hundred people, drew
thousands, and McDaniel
said plans for next year’s
parade have better pre-
pared for a large turnout.
She also said this year’s
Pride event will extend to
Sunday, with a unity event
to bring members of the
LGBT community, with or
the approval, though she
questioned if it would have
happened without the
threat of another lawsuit.
Still, McDaniel said
she sees Tuesday’s vote as
progress, and hopes it will
it will help lay the founda-
tion for Pride as an annual
event.
“This is saying some-
thing,” McDaniel said.
“This is four people who
said ‘yes.’ I think that’s
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suit, said he believes the
city shouldn’t foot the bill
for event in-kind services.
“I have consistently
voted against all special
event requests,” Perkins
said. “It is an enormous
expense for the city, in my
opinion, to provide in-kind
services for all of these
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lated matters. If you look
at the all the requests that
come across our table in
the course of a year, that is
a very onerous burden on
the taxpayers.”
This year’s Pride pa-
rade request includes
$3,200 in requested in-
kind services. The request
for next year’s parade,
which organizers have
said is more prepared for
a large crowd, includes
$6,100 for in-kind ser-
vices. Most of that cost,
$5,000, comes in police
department manpower. It
also includes $250 for the
utilities department and
$850 for the sanitation de-
partment.
The same trio of alder-
men who voted against the
Pride parade also voted
against the annual Mar-
tin Luther King Jr. Day
march and rally, which
was the next item on the
agenda. Perkins said he
voted against it for the
same reason as the Pride
parade.
The MLK event re-
quests $725 in in-kind ser-
vices from the city.
Spruill said Tuesday
she is pleased to see ap-
proval for next year’s pa-
rade come more easily.
“I’m delighted that
we had no difficulties,”
Spruill said. “They will
have a parade and it will
be lovely and hopefully
as pleasant as it was this
year.”

Pride reaction
Bailey McDaniel, an
organizer for Starkville
Pride, said she and the
handful of other Pride
supporters who attended
Tuesday’s meeting weren’t
sure what to expect.
“I don’t think any of
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POLITICS Cartoonist view

This is what actual

election tampering
looks like
I said it before, I’ll say it
again.
“As this country becomes
blacker, browner, gayer,
younger, more Hispanic and
more Muslim, it is increas-
ingly the case that the GOP
cannot win if all voters
vote. It cannot win, in other
words, without cheating.”
That observation, made in
this space a few weeks back,
was, let us say, not applaud- Leonard Pitts
ed by conservative readers.
Not that their vexation was surprising. In the face
of dwindling numerical primacy, much of the right
has seized, like a pit bull on a steak, upon a narrative
diametrically opposed to the truth. It casts them as
the real victims here, contending with a widespread
conspiracy of voter fraud in which armies of “ille-
gals” vote early and often, to the detriment of good,
God-fearing conservatives. State of the nation
Those who believe that claptrap can produce not a

Why are we so sad?

single fact to support it, but they cling to it neverthe-
less. It is their life raft upon a sea of change.
Well, on Monday, the life raft sprung a leak —
again. The reference is to news out of North Car- The Centers for
olina that the bipartisan State Board of Elections Disease Control
and Ethics Enforcement has now twice declined to has delivered sober
certify Republican Mark Harris as the winner of news — average life
a Congressional race amid charges of GOP dirty expectancy at birth in
tricks. Specifically, there are accusations, backed by the United States has
statistical analyses and eyewitness accounts, that declined for a third
people acting on Harris’ behalf went door to door in straight year due to
Democratic-leaning areas, collected absentee ballots extremely high rates
from voters in potential violation of state law, and of death from drug
diverted them from the ballot box. Given that Harris overdoses and suicide.
“won” by a paltry 905 votes, those accusations are As The Washington
seismic. Post reports, this is Mona Charen
More to the point: As Republicans go about claim- the longest sustained
ing victimhood in a “conspiracy” that is a figment
of their collective imagination, this is what actual
decline in life expec-
tancy since the early
Suicide has
election tampering looks like. Not millions of people
voting who shouldn’t but rather votes stolen, by
20th century. Between
1915 and 1918, a period
been rising
chicanery, mendacity and intimidation, from people
who have every right to participate in the electoral
that included the First
World War and the
dramatically
process.
And that’s just one example. There are many
worldwide flu pandem- since 1999
ic that killed 675,000
more. This year in Georgia, for instance, 4,700 vot- Americans, life expec- — and partic-
ers found that their vote-by-mail application forms tancy showed a similar
had mysteriously gone missing. In Wisconsin, cer- decline. ularly since
tain voters received fliers warning that ICE would be Today, we are at
patrolling polling places. In New York state, a GOP peace (with the excep- 2006. Rates
candidate sent out fliers with false deadlines for the tion of the occasional
return of absentee ballots. All this, according to the death in Afghanistan); in rural areas
nonpartisan Brennan Center for Justice at New York we are experiencing
University School of Law. an economic boom; far exceed
Nor should it surprise anyone that this kind of
flimflam — to say nothing of photo ID laws, bans
and we face no epidem-
ics of communicable
those in cities
on early voting, closures of polling places and other
impediments — tends to have its greatest impact
diseases.
Some might say that
(perhaps due
upon Democratic voters; that’s what it’s designed
for. If there is a corresponding litany of abuses that
our problems are those
of overabundance. For
to the greater
disproportionately suppresses Republican votes, I’ve
never heard of it. I doubt anyone has.
millennia, our spe-
cies was haunted by
availability of
So one gets sick and tired of watching Republi-
cans hyperventilate about a problem that does not
plagues, famines and
droughts. Our minds
guns).
exist while ignoring one that does. If they are really and bodies evolved to grab what
serious about confronting threats to the integrity of nourishment we could when we
American elections, the first step is to get a mirror. could. Those years in the caves
The second is to come to terms with reality. and on the savannah didn’t equip
America is changing, rapidly, dramatically and us very well to cope with a world
irrevocably. And the GOP needs to figure out how to of constantly available Frappuc-
compete in this new nation, how to make itself a par- cinos and cupcakes — to say
ty whose appeal extends beyond angry, older white nothing of fentanyl.
male voters. That’s a reckoning the right has avoided But overabundance has been
for years, but it becomes less avoidable every day. with us for decades, while the rise called naloxone may be making a
Indeed, not all the dirty tricks and photo ID laws of deaths from overdoses and sui-
in the world can obscure the hard but simple truth cide is relatively recent. Nor are
Republicans face. Namely, that the future is coming, other developed nations seeing
fast. similar declines in life expectan-
And they can’t cheat their way around it. cy. In 2017, 70,237 Americans died been rising for decades, with
Leonard Pitts Jr., winner of the 2004 Pulitzer Prize from drug overdoses, which is
for commentary, is a columnist for the Miami Herald. higher than the peak of the HIV
Email him at lpitts@miamiherald.com. epidemic in 1995 or car crash
deaths in 1972. drugs and still others to take
As economists An- their own lives? Explanations will
gus Deaton and Anne run the gamut. Usually, people
Case of Princeton have will cite their own particular
been documenting for hobbyhorse, and I may be guilty
the past several years, of that. My obsession is family
the plagues we are suf- decline. Due to unmarriage and
fering now are leading divorce, more Americans are
to “deaths of despair.” living alone than at any time in
These include cirrho- our history. Let me quickly ac-
sis of the liver, suicide knowledge that the steep rise in
and drug overdoses. adolescent depression in recent
In 2015, the pair noted years may have more to do with
the decline of life social media than anything else.
expectancy among
white middle-aged
Jean Twenge’s work suggests that
girls are particularly vulnerable
Americans from these
causes (outstripping
to online cruelty.
But back to family decline.
other ethnic groups).
And in a follow-up pa-
Not only do divorce and rapidly
cycling relationships (and living
per in 2017, they found arrangements) leave adults and
that the trend was especially children emotional-
persistent. In addition ly scarred, the loss of secure
to overdoses, this pop- families also leaves millions of
ulation was also more people lonely. In 2010, an A ARP
likely to report chronic survey found that one-third of
pain, which is associ- American adults were chronically
ated with depression lonely. In 2000, only 1 in 5 had
and can be a marker reported feeling that way. The
for suicide. Case and Atlantic magazine has described
Deaton cited family loneliness as “more dangerous
breakdown as one
cause of the trend.
than obesity, and ... about as
deadly as smoking.” In his book
Suicide has been
rising dramatically
“Them,” Sen. Ben Sasse quotes
psychiatrists who believe people
since 1999 — and par-
ticularly since 2006.
are more comfortable describing
themselves as depressed than
Rates in rural areas
far exceed those in
lonely. They noticed that their
patients felt “deep shame” about
cities (perhaps due to
the greater availability
their own isolation.
There ought not to be shame
of guns). about missing the company of
There is some evidence that others. We are not meant to be
the fentanyl spike is ebbing — alone, and we don’t find emotion-
as the crack cocaine craze did al succor or physical satisfaction
in the 1990s. Preliminary data in relationships with screens.
from the first four months of The Washington Post suggests
2018 show the number of drug that the solution may be found in
overdoses plateauing or dropping more funding for mental health
slightly. An anti-overdose drug services and drug treatment.
Maybe. But it seems to me that
difference. we facing not so much a drug
But the overall picture of sig- problem as a heartbreak prob-
nificant unhappiness in America lem. The road back to emotional
is clear. Rates of depression have health must include an emphasis
on commitment to family.
marked increases since 2005. Mona Charen is a Senior Fel-
What is making so many low at the Ethics and Public Policy
Americans turn to alcohol and Center.

CLUBS
n POSSUM TOWN
TOASTMASTERS
Possum Town Toastmasters
meet every Friday at 7 a.m.
at the Church of Christ, Co-
lumbus. To become a better
communicator and leader, call
662-549-3483.
n POSSUM TOWN QUIL-
TERS
Possum Town Quilters meet
at 9:30 a.m. the second and
fourth Saturdays of each
month at the Rosenzweig
Arts Center (lower level), 501
Main St., Columbus. Check us
out at possumtownquilters.
blogspot.com.
n EAST LIONS CLUB
The Columbus East Lions
Club meets every second and
fourth Monday of the month
at 65 Airline Road. For more
information, call 662-251-
1415 or 662-574-7552.
n HOST LIONS CLUB
The Columbus Host Lions
Club meets every Friday at
noon at EMCC Lion Hills
Center for a buffet lunch
and business gathering. For
more information, call John
Michael, 601-955-2176.
n LOWNDES REPUBLICAN
WOMEN
Lowndes County Republican
Women meets the second
Tuesday of each month. Buf-
fet line opens at 11:15 a.m.,
with call to order at noon.
n GT QUILTERS GUILD
The Golden Triangle Quilters
Guild meets at 5:30 p.m.
every third Thursday at the
Starkville Sportsplex Activi-
ties Building.
■ DULCIMER PLAYERS
Friendly City Strummers meet
twice monthly to practice and
teach others to play dulci-
mers. Join for $10/year for
the whole family. Dulcimers
available to borrow. Contact
David Saum, 662-386-6836
or DrSaum@cableone.net, or
the Switzers, 662-312-6025.
■ BREAKFAST WITH THE
BULLDOGS
MSU alumni, friends are
invited to Breakfast with the
Bulldogs on second Thurs-
days each month at Starkville
Café. Dutch treat breakfast is
7:30 a.m. Contact Carol Moss
Read at carolmoss@bell-
south.net or 662-312-0637.
n TOPS
Take Off Pounds Sensibly
No. 288 meets Tuesdays at
Community Baptist Church,
Yorkville Road East, Colum-
bus. Weigh-in begins at 5:30
p.m. Contact Pat Harris, 662-
386-0249.
n TOPS
Take Off Pounds Sensibly
No. 270 meets Thursdays
at 4370 Cal-Kolola Road,
Caledonia. Weigh-in begins at
5-5:30 p.m. Contact Michelle
Holliman, 662-386-3650.
n SENIOR CRAFTS
Senior Crafts meets at the
Starkville Sportsplex Tues-
days, 10-11:30 a.m. Crafts
provided by the parks depart-
ment. For information, call
Lisa Cox, 662-323-2294.
n QUILTING CLUB
Quilting Club meets in the
activities room adjacent to
the multi-purpose facility
at the Starkville Sportsplex
Thursdays 10 a.m.-noon.
Bring your own project to work
on. For information, call Lisa
Cox, 662-323-2294.
n AARP
AARP meets the first
Wednesday of each month
at 10 a.m. in the Community
Room of Regions Bank, Main
Street, Columbus. Programs
are geared to the needs and
interests of seniors 50 and
News About Town
up. For more information, call
662-889-9496.
Health Notes
n FREE MAMMOGRAMS
Baptist Golden Triangle offers
free mammograms to women
35 and older who have no
insurance coverage for
mammograms and are living
in Lowndes, Oktibbeha, Clay,
Monroe or Chickasaw Coun-
ties. To see if you qualify, call
662-244-2979.
n CROSSOVER SYMMETRY
North Mississippi Medical
Center-West Point Wellness
Center offers a Crossover
Symmetry Program focusing
on shoulder health/perfor-
mance. The 30-day member-
ship is $30 for members;
$50 for nonmembers. For
more information, call the
Wellness Center 662-495-
9355.
n CHILDBIRTH CLASSES
Baptist Golden Triangle
offers Childbirth classes and
Breastfeeding classes each
month, 6 p.m., in room 6,
near the Gift Shop, $20. For
information or to register, call
662-386-5592.
n LUPUS SUPPORT
A lupus support group meets
from 10 a.m.-2 p.m. the first
Saturday of every month in
Classroom 6 of the Baptist
Golden Triangle Patient Tower.
Open to anyone with lupus or
any family member or friend.
For more information, call
Rashell Hopkins, 662-570-
8342.
n CANCER SUPPORT
Baptist Cancer Center hosts
a support group for cancer
survivors and their families,
noon-1 p.m. the third Friday
of every month. Next class
is Dec. 21 in Classroom 5
of the Patient Towers. Lunch
provided. For information and
location, call 662-244-2923.
n HYPERTENSION
SUPPORT
A pulmonary hypertension
support group meets at 2
p.m. the second Saturday of
every month at North Missis-
sippi Medical Center-West
Point Education Center, 385
Medical Center Drive. For
information, call Dana Albert,
662-295-3642.
■ DIABETES SUPPORT
Baptist Golden Triangle hosts
day classes for Diabetes
Support on third Wednesdays
of each month, 10-11 a.m. in
room 6 PT. For information,
call Lacy Smith at 662-244-
1392 or 800-544-8762, ext.
1392.
■ HEART SUPPORT
Weekly education/support
group for people with conges-
tive heart failure are Thurs-
days 11 a.m.-noon in the Out-
patient Pavilion Boardroom,
Baptist Golden Triangle. For
information, call 244-1953 or
244-2132.
n NUTRITION EDUCATION
Diabetes education class
meets on fourth Wednesdays,
8:30 a.m.-3 p.m., Baptist
Golden Triangle Outpatient
Pavilion. Physician referral
required. For information, call
662-244-1597 or email info.
goldentriangle@bmhcc.org.
n ABUSE RECOVERY
GROUP
A Domestic Abuse Recovery
Group meets Thursdays at 6
p.m. through Safe Haven Inc.
Group counseling for rape
recovery is available. For in-
formation, call 662-327-6118
or 662-889-2067.
n CHILDBIRTH CLASSES
Baptist Golden Triangle offers
childbirth classes Tuesdays
at 6 p.m. To register, call
662-244-2498 or email info.
The Dispatch • www.cdispatch.com
goldentriangle@bmhcc.org.
n CPR CLASSES
Baptist Golden Triangle offers
CPR classes each month
at 6 p.m. in the Patient
Tower. Next class is Dec. 10.
Pre-registration required. Call
the Education Department,
662-244-2498.
n DIABETES EDUCATION
Diabetes Self-Management
Education Class meets on
fourth Wednesdays at 8:30
a.m. at Baptist Golden
Triangle Outpatient Pavilion
Conference Center. Physician
referral required. For informa-
tion, call 662-244-1596.
n ANGER MANAGEMENT
Family Resource Center,
Columbus campus, 1575
Second Ave. N., offers free
conflict resolution and anger
management classes. For
information, call 662-368-
3603.
n FAMILY RESOURCE
CENTER
The Family Resource Center
offers free classes including
parenting, anger manage-
ment, healthy relationships,
life skills and youth develop-
ment education classes. Call
662-251-1861.
n BAPTIST VOLUNTEERS
Baptist Golden Triangle
seeks caring, compassionate
volunteers to help in a variety
of hospital settings. For infor-
mation, call 662-244-1165
or email info.goldentriangle@
bmhcc.org.
n DRUG/ALCOHOL
INTERVENTION
Narconon offers drug and
alcohol interventions. For free
screenings or referrals, call
1-800-431-1754.
n GOLDEN TRIANGLE AA
Golden Triangle AA meets dai-
ly for support. If you want to
drink, that is your business.
If you want to stop drinking,
that is our business. For infor-
mation, call 662-327-8941.
n AL-ANON MEETING
The Columbus Al-Anon Family
Groups meet Mondays and
Thursdays at 5:30 p.m. When
you don’t know where to turn
because someone drinks too
much, we can help. For infor-
mation, call 888-425-2666 or
go to msafg.org.
SCHOOL NOTES
n ONLINE CLASSES
Family Resource Center,
Columbus campus, 1575 Sec-
ond Ave. N., offers free online
classes to earn diplomas. For
information, call 662-368-
3603.
OTHER EVENTS
n EDUCATION TOWN HALL
The Columbus Lowndes
Chamber of Commerce
Education Committee hosts
Education Town Hall at 5:30
p.m. Dec. 6 in the Castle-
berry Ballroom, Courtyard
Marriott, 1995 6th St. N. Free
and open to the business
community and the public. For
more information, call Lisa
James, 662-328-4491 or visit
clchamber.org.
n FUNDRAISER FASHION
SHOW
Starkville High School senior
Hannah Jian hosts a fashion
show at 6 p.m. Dec. 11
at The Mill, Starkville. All
proceeds benefit the Central
Mississippi Down Syndrome
Society.
n TOY DRIVE
An inaugural Toy Drive is
being held by Barnes Crossing
Auto Sales and Service of
Starkville through Dec. 17.
Every unopened, unwrapped
toy will be matched. For more
information, call 662-320-
2380.
Wednesday, December 5, 2018 7A
n CHRISTMAS PARADE
The Town of Artesia, Artesia
Mayor Health Council and
Lowndes County Recreation
Center hosts its annual
Christmas Parade at 6 p.m.
Dec. 5 in downtown Artesia.
For more information, call
662-272-5104 or 662-386-
3065.
n PARENT CAFE
Emerson Family Center, 1504
Louisville St. in Starkville,
offers Parent Cafe Group
meetings every Monday from
11 a.m.-noon to help meet
the challenges of parent-
ing. For more information,
call 662-418-5193 or visit
fcp-parentcafe.com.
n HEARTS TUTORING
Hearts After School Tutoring
Program, 109 Lawrence Drive,
Columbus, offers tutoring for
grades K-5 from 3-4:30 p.m.
Mondays and Wednesdays
or Tuesday and Thursdays.
No charge, but commitment
is required. Teacher, parent
referrals accepted. For infor-
mation, call 662-244-8444.
n TUTOR VOLUNTEERS
Hearts After School Tutoring
Program is seeking volunteer
tutors for its K-5 after school
tutoring program from 2:30-5
p.m. Monday-Thursday. Volun-
teer one to four days a week.
For information, call 662-244-
8444.
n EFFECTIVE PARENTING
Family Resource Center,
Columbus campus, 1575
Second Ave. N., offers free
effective parenting classes,
with insight on child safety,
appropriate discipline, effec-
tive communication and more.
For information, call 662-368-
3603.
n TENN-TOM WATERWAY
MUSEUM
The Tennessee-Tombigbee
Waterway Transportation
Museum, 318 Seventh St. N.,
Columbus, is open for tours
Monday-Friday, 8 a.m.-2 p.m.
School field trips, civic clubs,
church groups encouraged.
For group tours, call 662-328-
8936 or 662-574-5794.
n ENVIRONMENTAL
MEETING
Memphis Town Community
Action Group meets fourth
Tuesdays at 6 p.m. to discuss
issues related to the Kerr-Mc-
Gee site. For information,
contact Leon Hines, 662-574-
6109.
n R. E. HUNT MUSEUM
R. E. Hunt Museum and
Cultural Center, 924 20th St.
N., invites the public to tour
the center, 1-5 p.m. every
Tuesday-Thursday. For group
tours, call 662-327-6324 or
662-327-8986.
n DIVORCECARE
DivorceCare meets on Tues-
day evenings at Connections,
101 E. Lampkin in Starkville.
Don’t go through separation
or divorce alone. Call Jake
Adams-Wilson at 662-323-
5722 or Jake@first-umc.org
for more information.
n WRITERS’ GUILD
Golden Triangle Writers Guild
meets the second Saturday
of each month at Bryan Public
Library in West Point. For
information, contact Claire
Spradling at clairespradling-
books@gmail.com.
n FREE LIFE SKILLS
CLASSES
Life skills classes by the Fam-
ily Resource Center of North-
east Mississippi are available
for qualifying participants on
site at your agency or entity.
Classes include positive par-
enting, conflict resolution, life
skills, soft skills and healthy
relationship skills. For infor-
mation, call 662-251-1861.

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Bush visit
Continued from Page 1A
‘look at me’ air about it we
see in our politics today.
He was very gracious,
which is how people are
remembering him now.”
Bush, 94, died Friday
at his home in Houston.
He will be buried Thurs-
day on the grounds of the
George H.W. Bush Pres-
idential Library, located
on the grounds of Texas
A&M University in Col-
lege Station, Texas, next
to his wife, Barbara, who
died in April, and their
daughter, Robin, who
died of leukemia at age 3
in 1953.
A short trip
Bush delivered five
commencement address-
es in 1989 after being
sworn into office that Jan-
uary, two of them in Mis-
sissippi and both on the
same day.
Bush arrived in Missis-
sippi that morning, deliv-
ering the commencement
address at Alcorn State in
Lorman, before boarding
Air Force One to Colum-
bus Air Force Base. The
presidential motorcade
proceeded down High-
way 45 from CAFB then
west on Highway 82 to the
MSU campus.
George Hazard, then
a reporter with The Dis-
patch, was assigned to
cover the president’s
arrival at CAFB, which
came at 2:10 p.m.
There was no media
availability, so Hazard’s
reporting consisted en-
tirely of his observations
from his spot behind a
fence as the president
made the few steps from
Air Force One to the wait-
ing limousine. The pres-
ident paused only long
enough to shake hands
with CAFB Wing Com-
mander Col. Jim Higham
and a few other Air Force
officials.
“There wasn’t a big
crowd there, as I remem-
ber,” Hazard said. “I think
it was closed to the public,
so it was just Air Force
personnel and their fam-
ilies.
“One thing that stuck
with me was his cheerful-
ness,” he added. “When
he stepped off the plane,
he gave this big enthusi-
astic wave to the people.
I don’t know why, but that
stayed with me, just how
good-natured he seemed
to be.”
Preparations
In the weeks prior
to his arrival, MSU and
White House officials
worked out plans for the
event, which was held at
Scott Field, the universi-
ty’s football stadium.
Ralph Null of Colum-
bus, then a horticulture
professor at MSU, super-
vised the floral arrange-
ments that adorned the
stage, which was located
on the east side of the sta-
dium.
For Null, who had
helped decorate Presi-
dent Ronald Reagan’s in-
augural ball in 1985 and
President Bush’s inaugu-
ral ceremony in 1989, the
decorations for the com-
mencement were relative-
ly modest.
“It was a graduation
ceremony, so everything
was maroon and white,”
Null said. “It was pretty
modest, and one of the
reasons for that is that
the Secret Service had to
have all these sight lines,
so we were pretty limit-
ed.”
Snowden was also part
of the preparations.
“Back then I was a
member of the College
Republicans, which I at-
tribute to the folly of my
youth,” he laughed. “Our
group got to participate
in some of the planning,
working with the White
House team on the ar-
rangements.
“It was interesting to
be a part of it, to see the
If you don’t read The Dispatch, how are you gonna know?
President George H.W. Bush, left, tips his hat to the
audience at a 1989 commencement address at Missis-
sippi State University in this Dispatch file photo.
At right, Buth McKenzie of Bay Springs keeps an eye
out for President George H.W. Bush while his daugh-
ter, Laurie, and wife, Beenie, read over the schedule
of events for the former president’s 1989 visit to
Mississippi State University to give a commencement
address in this Dispatch file photo. “We’re not here for
graduation. We are here to see Bush,” Beenie said.
logistics and planning
that went into it,” he add-
ed. “We all had to have
background checks. I also
remember vaguely seeing
this Secret Service agent
on the roof with his big
gun.”
A bipartisan friendship
Getting the president
to deliver the commence-
ment address was quite a
coup for Mississippi State,
something that probably
would not have happened
without the influence of
Mississippi Congressman
G.V. “Sonny” Montgom-
ery, a MSU graduate who
became a close friend of
Bush.
Kyle Steward, now the
executive director of ex-
ternal affairs at MSU, was
on Montgomery’s staff
in 1989, and although he
didn’t make the trip to
Starkville for the event,
he remembers the rela-
tionship that paved the
way for Bush’s appear-
ance.
“Sonny and President
Bush became friends al-
most the minute they got
to Washington,” Steward
said.
Both were World War
II veterans who had been
elected to Congress for
the first time in 1966.
“Here was this Dem-
ocrat from Mississippi
and this Republican from
Texas and somehow they
became friends,” Steward
said. “They were so close
the Bushes felt Sonny was
part of the family. I’m ab-
solutely sure that Sonny
had a lot to do with the
president accepting the
invitation. They would do
anything for each other.”
Bush made a return
visit to MSU in the fall
of 2000, when MSU hon-
ored Montgomery during
halftime of its game with
Arkansas as a part of Mili-
tary Appreciation Day.
“That was another ex-
ample of how close they
were, that the president
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would want to be here to
honor Sonny,” Steward
said.
A break in the weather
In the days leading up
to the commencement,
contingency plans were
put in place to move the
event to Humphrey Coli-
seum in case of bad weath-
er. But officials were re-
luctant to make the move
because it would limit the
crowd to the 11,000 or so
seats available at the Col-
iseum.
Despite drizzle, the
event went on as planned
at Scott Field, where a
crowd estimated at 20,000
filled most of the seating
on the “home” side of
Scott Field.
Roy Ruby, MSU vice
president of student af-
fairs at the time, shared
the stage with the presi-
dent, who stepped out of
the limousine a few paces
from the stage.
“I didn’t even get to
shake his hand,” Ruby
recalled. “Of course, stu-
dent affairs didn’t have
much to do with the
event, so I wasn’t much
involved.”
Joseph Ammerman, a
Starkville native and for-
mer Dispatch editor, was
one of the roughly 2,000
MSU students who grad-
uated that day.
In one respect, it wasn’t
a typical graduation cere-
mony. For starters, every-
one attending the event
had to be seated in the
stadium an hour before
the president’s arrival at
2:30.
Then there was the se-
curity.
“What I remember
most is that I had this
pocket knife that be-
longed to my dad. It has
about an inch-and-a-half
blade, just a regular pock-
et knife,” Ammerman
said. “The security guard
said I couldn’t bring it in
and I couldn’t believe it. I
said, ‘What do you think
I’m gonna do, jump up on
the stage and whittle him
to death?’ The guy didn’t
laugh, didn’t even smile.
So I got out of line and
when nobody was looking
I stuck it in a bush and
came back later and got
it.”
Despite the inconve-
nience, Ammerman said
everyone took the extra
security in stride.
“I don’t remember peo-
ple feeling put out,” he
said. “The president of
the United States is giving
your graduation speech.
That’s a pretty big deal.
You have to expect a few
inconveniences.”
From his vantage point
on the stage, Ruby re-
called few details of the
speech. What does stand
out was the weather.
“You know it rained
all morning, almost up
to time the president got
to the stage,” Ruby said.
“Then it stopped raining
and didn’t rain a drop for
the whole graduation,
which probably took a
couple of hours. Almost
as soon as it was over, it
started raining again. It
was almost like some kind
of divine intervention.”
Early evening departure
Another reporter cov-
ered the commencement
address for The Dispatch,
so Hazard’s part of the
coverage was confined to
the president’s arrival and
departure from Columbus
Air Force Base.
“After he landed, I just
stuck around, had lunch at
the officer’s club and wait-
ed until he came back,”
Hazard said. “I could
have left, but I knew that
if something were to hap-
pen, everything would be
coming back to the base.
That would be where the
story was.”
That the trip went with-
out incident was some-
thing Hazard did not have
to be told. He could see it
with his own eyes.
“I remember how re-
laxed the President’s
entourage was when
he came back,” Hazard
said. “It was noticeably
different than when they
arrived. It’s like, ‘OK, ev-
erything is safe. Every-
thing went the way it was
supposed to.’”
Bush boarded Air
Force One and it taxied
down the runway at 6 p.m.
Hazard watched the
plane until it became little
more than small blinking
lights against the darken-
ing sky.
The only surprise of
the day was the veter-
an reporter’s reaction to
watching Air Force One
disappear on the horizon.
“I remember thinking
as I watched the plane fly
away, ‘All I have to do is
go back to The Dispatch
and write my story. The
man in that plane has the
whole country to take
care of,’” Hazard said. “It
was impressive.”
Sports
COLLEGE
FOOTBALL
Alabama’s
Locksley
named top
assistant
Broyles Award winner
takes job at Maryland
From Staff and Wire Reports
TUSCALOOSA, Ala.
— Alabama offensive co-
ordinator Michael Lock-
sley was named Tuesday
the winner of 2018 Broyles
Award.
On Tuesday night,
Mar yland
a nnounced
the hiring of
Locksley as
its new foot-
ball coach.
“I am
thrilled to
Locksley be return-
ing home
and to have the opportu-
nity to lead the Maryland
football program,” Lock-
sley said in a statement.
“This has always been a
See ROUNDUP, 2B
COLLEGE
BASEBALL
Marsh no
longer with
Bulldogs
By Bret t Hudson
bhudson@cdispatch.com
STARKVILLE — 17 points. Shanti
Mississippi State con-
firmed Tuesday that pitch-
er Cole Marsh is no longer
a member of the school’s
baseball team.
MSU practiced in the
fall with 38
players on
the roster.
It can only
have 35 on
the team
during the
season,
Marsh meaning two
more players
from the fall must be re-
moved from the roster.
Marsh, a Neville, Loui-
siana, product, was a pick-
up from Mississippi Delta
Community College. The
right-hander pitched nine
times in MSU’s run to the
College World Series, but
none in the postseason.
In two starts, he earned a
victory against New Mexi-
co State and a no-decision
against Southeastern Lou-
isiana. Marsh ended his
lone season as a Bulldog
with a 4.70 earned run av-
erage in 15 1/3 innings.
He struck out eight.
MSU will begin the first
season of the Chris Lemo-
nis era on Feb. 15 with a
three-game home series
against Youngstown State.
Fifteen of MSU’s first 18
games of 2019 will be at
Dudy Noble Field.
Follow Dispatch sports
writer Brett Hudson on
Twitter @Brett_Hudson
Caledonia, New Hope Basketball Teams Split
THE DISPATCH n CDISPATCH.COM n WEDNESDAY, December 5, 2018
Chris McDill/Special to The Dispatch
Caledonia High School’s Devonte Martin tries to lean in to block a shot by New Hope’s Duane
Hughes in their game Tuesday night in Caledonia. The Confederates won 66-53 to improve to 8-1.
TOP LEFT:
Caledonia High
School’s Jarvis
Leigh lines up a
runner in the fourth
quarter Tuesday
night. Romeo
Sanders had a
game-high 28
points and Tyrin
Johnson had 15 for
the Confederates.
R.L. Mattix had 11
points, Krash
Pascasio and
Rickey Johnson had
10, Tikorian
Chandler had nine,
and Duane Hughes
had eight.
BOTTOM LEFT:
Caledonia’s Nenah
Young shoots over
two New Hope
defenders. India
Woods paced
New Hope with
16 points. Imoni
Harris added 13,
and Anna Prince
had 10. Young led
Caledonia (2-7) with
Kidd had seven.
Chris McDill/
Special to The Dispatch
Chris McDill/Special to The Dispatch
New Hope High School’s Imoni Harris puts up a shot against Caledonia’s Allison Pennington in their
game Tuesday night. The Lady Trojans won 63-36.
SPORTS EDITOR
Adam Minichino
SPORTS LINE
662-241-5000
MEN’S COLLEGE
BASKETBALL
B
SECTION
Bulldogs
rally past
Cowboys
By Bret t Hudson
bhudson@cdispatch.com
STARKVILLE
Lamar Peters helped the
—
No. 22 Mississippi State
men’s basketball team re-
spond to an unexpected
challenge Tuesday night.
Trailing at halftime
to Mc-
Neese, MSU 90,
P e t e r s McNeese 77
had 15
of his
career-high 27 points in
the second half to lead No.
22 MSU to a 90-77 victory
at Humphrey Coliseum.
“You have to commend
McNeese State,” MSU
coach Ben Howland said.
“They really came in there
and took it at us in the
paint in the first half.”
McNeese (2-6), which
plays in the Southland
Conference, took a 42-39
lead at halftime largely on
the back of 28 points in the
See MSU, 3B
Game 9
n Clemson,
3 p.m. Saturday,
At Newark, New Jersey
(ESPN2; WKBB-FM 100.9,
WFCA-FM 107.9.
Inside
n MORE McNEESE-MSU:
Lamar Peters used the
Bulldogs’ research about his
shooting habits in practice
to his benefit Tuesday night.
Page 3B
Panthers
edge Tide
at buzzer
From Special Reports
TUSCALOOSA, Ala.
— Malik Benlevi’s buzz-
er-beater 3-pointer Tues-
day night helped the Geor-
gia State men’s basketball
team overcome a 21-point
halftime deficit to beat Al-
abama 83-80 at Coleman
Coliseum.
Georgia State (6-3)
trailed
5 5 - 3 3 GSU 83,
with 18 Alabama 80
minutes,
57 sec-
onds to play before rally-
ing for its second victory
against a Power 5 team
this season. Georgia State
defeated Georgia 91-67 in
the Cayman Islands Clas-
sic two weeks ago.
It is the second time
Georgia State has defeat-
ed two Power 5 teams in
the same season.
“I’m just really proud of
my guys,” Georgia State
coach Ron Hunter said.
“We were down 21 at the
half and we had not played
See PANTHERS, 3B
Game 9
n Arizona, Noon Sunday
(ESPN).
2B Wednesday, December 5, 2018 The Dispatch • www.cdispatch.com

briefly CALENDAR MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL Basketball

NBA
Local
Corbin, Nationals
EASTERN CONFERENCE
Prep Basketball
Atlantic Division
W L Pct GB
MSMS soccer teams win region openers Thursday’s Game Toronto
Philadelphia
20 5 .800 —
17 8 .680 3
The Mississippi School for Mathematics and Science girls Starkville Academy at Columbus Christian Boston 13 10 .565 6

agree to $140M,
and boys soccer teams opened Mississippi High School Activities Brooklyn 8 17 .320 12
Friday’s Games New York 8 17 .320 12
Association (MHSAA) Class 1A/2A/3A, Region 4 play with victories Southeast Division
Tuesday night. New Hope at Shannon W L Pct GB
Orlando 12 12 .500 —
Erin Williams had three goals and an assist in the girls’ team’s 7-1 Starkville High at Noxubee County Charlotte 11 12 .478 ½
victory. Tierah Macon added two goals and an assist. Amber Means Neshoba Central at West Point Washington 10 14 .417 2

six-year contract
Miami 9 14 .391 2½
had a goal and an assist. Samantha Holland had a goal. Aberdeen at Amory Atlanta 5 19 .208 7
“It was a solid team effort tonight,” said MSMS coach Chuck Central Division
Yarborough, whose team improved to 2-0-1. “The girls played together Heritage Academy Shootout W L Pct GB
Milwaukee 15 7 .682 —
well and dominated possession. We also created good opportunities in Oak Hill Academy at Winston Academy Detroit 13 8 .619 1½
Indiana 14 10 .583 2
combination play and finished well. Columbus Christian at Pickens Academy Cleveland 5 18 .217 10½
Winning on the road makes a great start to our district campaign.” By HOWARD FENDRICH
Chicago 5 20 .200 11½
In the boys match, Dylan Johnson had four goals in a 4-2 victory. Prep Soccer The Associated Press
WESTERN CONFERENCE
Southwest Division
“I was proud of the effort tonight,” said coach Morri Mims, whose Thursday’s Matches W L Pct GB
Memphis 13 9 .591 —
team improved to 2-1 “The boys implemented what we’ve focused on in Starkville Academy at Heritage Academy, 5 p.m. Dallas 12 10 .545 1
practice and it paid off in the game. WASHINGTON — Add Patrick Corbin to the New Orleans 12 13 .480 2½
“Dylan was an asset coming off the injured list, adding another MSMS at Kosciusko, 5:30 p.m. All-Star starting staff the Washington Nationals Houston 11 12 .478 2½
San Antonio 11 13 .458 3
facet to our attack.” Friday’s Matches have assembled. Northwest Division
W L Pct GB
MSMS will return to action Thursday when it travels to Winona. Indianola Academy at Columbus Christian, 4 p.m.
A person familiar with the deal said the Denver
Oklahoma City
16 7 .696 —
15 7 .682 ½
Louisville at Caledonia, 5 p.m.
left-handed Corbin has agreed to Portland 13 11 .542 3½
Pickens Academy basketball teams split doubleheader Kosciusko at New Hope, 5 p.m.
a six-year contract with the Na-
Minnesota
Utah
12 12 .500 4½
12 13 .480 5
Caroline Lewis had 18 points and six rebounds Tuesday night Starkville High at Madison Central, 5:30 p.m. Pacific Division
to lead the Pickens Academy girls basketball team to a 51-32 victory tionals, pending a physical exam. W L Pct GB

against Russell Christian. Men’s College Basketball Another person familiar with the
L.A. Clippers
Golden State
L.A. Lakers
16 7 .696 —
16 9 .640 1
14 9 .609 2
Jessi Latham had 17 points, and Shelby Lowe had 11 rebounds for Thursday’s Game terms said the contract is for $140 Sacramento 12 11 .522 4
the Lady Pirates (4-1). Mississippi University for Women at million. Phoenix 4 20 .167 12½
In the boys game, Seth Peeks had 23 points in a 68-59 loss to
Russell Christian. Hayden Dyer and James Parker had eight points for Bethel University, 7 p.m. The people confirmed the de- Tuesday’s Games
Indiana 96, Chicago 90
the Pirates (2-5). Saturday’s Games tails of the agreement to The As- Orlando 105, Miami 90
Dallas 111, Portland 102
Pickens Academy will play host to Columbus Christian Academy Mississippi State vs. Clemson (Newark, New Corbin sociated Press on condition of an- Sacramento 122, Phoenix 105
Utah 139, San Antonio 105
on Friday Night. Jersey), 3 p.m. onymity Tuesday because nothing Today’s Games
Denver at Orlando, 6 p.m.
Southern-New Orleans at Mississippi University had been announced by the team. Golden State at Cleveland, 6 p.m.
Columbus will hold ODP Super Center for Women, 6 p.m. Corbin’s contract would include $10 million in Oklahoma City at Brooklyn, 6:30 p.m.
Washington at Atlanta, 6:30 p.m.
Columbus United will serve as host for the Olympic Development
Program Super Center from 4-6 p.m. Saturday at the Downtown Colum-
Ole Miss at Illinois State, 7 p.m. deferred money, one of the people said. Charlotte at Minnesota, 7 p.m.
Dallas at New Orleans, 7 p.m.
Corbin, who has played his entire major league Detroit at Milwaukee, 7 p.m.
bus Soccer Complex.
The event will be an opportunity for players to get seen for the state
Women’s College Basketball career for the Arizona Diamondbacks, joins a ro-
L.A. Clippers at Memphis, 7 p.m.
Philadelphia at Toronto, 7 p.m.
Today’s Game San Antonio at L.A. Lakers, 9:30 p.m.
ODP teams and to get more training from licensed coaches. tation in Washington that already includes three- Thursday’s Games
Players who register for the ODP Super Centers will be evaluated South Alabama at Alabama, 11:30 a.m. New York at Boston, 7 p.m.
time Cy Young Award winner Max Scherzer and Phoenix at Portland, 9 p.m.
and offered spots on the State ODP team if they are good enough. The Thursday’s Game Houston at Utah, 9:30 p.m.
event is for girls and boys ages 2009-2002. Stephen Strasburg. Corbin was an NL All-Star
Marquette at Mississippi State, 7 p.m.
The cost is $30 to register. Go to http://www.mississippisoccer. Saturday’s Games
selection in 2013 and this year; Scherzer has Football
org/Left_Nav/ODP___State_Select/Manage_My_Account_or_Enroll.
Savanah State at Ole Miss, 2 p.m.
been picked for each of the past six Midsummer NFL
htm to register. Classics; Strasburg has made it three times. Thursday’s Game
Jacksonville at Tennessee, 7:20 p.m.
Tulane at Alabama, 2 p.m.
The 29-year-old Corbin is coming off his best Sunday’s Games

Mississippi State Ole Miss at Illinois State, 7 p.m.

season in the majors, going 11-7 with a 3.15 ERA
New Orleans at Tampa Bay, Noon
N.Y. Giants at Washington, Noon

Junior College Basketball

Atlanta at Green Bay, Noon
McCowan earns second SEC Player of the Week honor while pitching 200 innings for the second time in Indianapolis at Houston, Noon
N.Y. Jets at Buffalo, Noon
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — With two double-doubles in two road Thursday’s Games his career. Carolina at Cleveland, Noon
games, Mississippi State senior center Teaira McCowan received her New England at Miami, Noon
Women: Itawamba at Snead State, 5:30 p.m. He finished fifth in voting for NL Cy Young Baltimore at Kansas City, Noon
second SEC Player of the Week honor of the season Tuesday. It is the Cincinnati at L.A. Chargers, 3:05 p.m.
sixth weekly conference accolade of her career, the most among active
Men: Itawamba at Snead State, 7:30 p.m. honors; Scherzer was second as he came up just Denver at San Francisco, 3:05 p.m.

SEC players.
Saturday’s Game shy of a third consecutive prize. Detroit at Arizona, 3:25 p.m.
Philadelphia at Dallas, 3:25 p.m.
McCowan also broke the Bulldogs’ career rebounding record with Men: EMCC at Baton Rouge, 2 p.m. Corbin was considered the top starter avail- Pittsburgh at Oakland, 3:25 p.m.
L.A. Rams at Chicago, 7:20 p.m.
her 12th rebound at then-No. 10 Texas. Her 1,109 career rebounds able in an elite free-agent class and became the Monday’s Game
pushed her past MSU great LaToya Thomas (2000-2003). on the air first player among them to sign a big money, mul-
Minnesota at Seattle, 7:15 p.m.

The Brenham, Texas, native averaged 18 points and 13.5 rebounds

tiyear deal this offseason. Hockey
per game while shooting 59.3 percent (16-for-27) from the field. She Today Still on the market is right fielder Bryce Harp- NHL
has now recorded six double-doubles this season and 45 in her career, COLLEGE BASKETBALL EASTERN CONFERENCE
which ranks fourth nationally among active Division I players. 5 p.m. — Lafayette at Connecticut, ESPNU er, the 2012 NL Rookie of the Year and 2015 Atlantic Division
GP W L OT Pts GF GA
No. 6 MSU will play host to No. 18 Marquette at 7 p.m. Thursday 5:30 p.m. — Ohio at Xavier, FS1 NL MVP for the Nationals. Washington made a Tampa Bay 29 21 7 1 43 114 85
(SEC Network+).
6 p.m. — Hartford at Duke, ESPN2 late-season offer to Harper in a bid to keep him, Toronto
Buffalo
28 20 8 0 40 102 73
29 17 8 4 38 89 82
n State champion Brownlee joins softball team’s signing but that was not accepted.
7 p.m. — VCU at Texas, ESPNU Boston 27 14 9 4 32 71 69
class: At Starkville, Softball coach Vann Stuedeman announced the Montreal 28 13 10 5 31 88 90
signing Tuesday of Houston High School standout infielder/outfielder
7:30 p.m. — Temple at Villanova, FS1 Detroit 28 12 12 4 28 81 93
Aquana Brownlee as the third member of Mississippi State’s 2019
signing class.
8 p.m. — North Carolina (Wilmington) at North
Carolina, ESPN2
SOCCER Florida
Ottawa
26 11 10 5 27 87 91
28 12 13 3 27 100 114
Metropolitan Division

Berhalter: Direction
“Aquana is an extremely talented and athletic player that possess- 9 p.m. — TCU at SMU, ESPNU
Washington
GP W L OT Pts GF GA
27 15 9 3 33 98 88
es a tremendous amount of raw power and speed,” Stuedeman said. 10 p.m. — Washington at Gonzaga, ESPN2 Columbus 27 15 10 2 32 96 92
GOLF N.Y. Islanders 26 13 10 3 29 77 75
“She has the ability to change the game with one swing of the bat as

needed to transform
N.Y. Rangers 28 13 12 3 29 80 88
well as a knack for being around the ball on defense. She is a very ver- 4 a.m. (Thursday) — European Tour Golf, South Carolina 26 12 10 4 28 66 71
Pittsburgh 26 11 10 5 27 89 87
satile player from down the road in Houston. We are excited to be a part African Open, first round, Johannesburg, TGC Philadelphia 25 11 12 2 24 76 88
of her continued development and proud she chose Mississippi State.” NBA
U.S. national team
New Jersey 26 9 12 5 23 75 91
Brownlee is entering her senior season as a captain for Houston WESTERN CONFERENCE
10 a.m. — G-League, Iowa at Raptors 905, ESPNU Central Division
High softball program after leading the Hilltoppers to the 2018 3A State 7 p.m. — Philadelphia at Toronto, ESPN GP W L OT Pts GF GA
Championship with a victory earlier this spring at Nusz Park. 9:30 p.m. — San Antonio at LA Lakers, ESPN Nashville 28 19 8 1 39 90 67
Colorado 28 16 7 5 37 102 79
NHL By RONALD BLUM Winnipeg 27 17 8 2 36 94 78
Mississippi University for Women 7 p.m. — Edmonton at St. Louis, NBC Sports The Associated Press Dallas
Minnesota
28 15 10 3 33 78 72
27 15 10 2 32 86 78

Women’s basketball team beats Judson College Network Chicago 28 9 14 5 23 77 104

St. Louis 25 9 13 3 21 74 85
MARION, Ala. — Rokila Wallace had 21 points and seven 9:30 p.m. — Chicago at Anaheim, NBC Sports NEW YORK — Gregg Berhalter promises to Pacific Division
rebounds Tuesday night to lead the Mississippi University for Women’s Network transform the U.S. national team into a pressing,
Calgary
GP W L OT Pts GF GA
28 17 9 2 36 100 82
women’s basketball team to a 66-50 victory against Judson College. SOCCER attack-minded group the Americans rarely have Anaheim 29 14 10 5 33 70 83
The W (6-2), which is the No. 1 team in the United States Colle- 1:55 p.m. — Premier League, Manchester United been.
San Jose
Vegas
28 13 10 5 31 85 89
29 15 13 1 31 87 81
giate Athletic Association, took a 22-12 lead after the first quarter and vs. Arsenal, NBC Sports Network Arizona 26 13 11 2 28 68 67
rolled to the road victory. “We want to see ball circulation, breaking Edmonton 27 13 12 2 28 71 83
Senior forward Tenazhia Hinkson and junior center Keyahna Jones Thursday lines, creating goal-scoring oppor- Vancouver
Los Angeles
30 11 16 3 25 84 105
28 10 17 1 21 59 84
scored 10 points while pulling down five and nine rebounds, respective- COLLEGE BASKETBALL tunities,” he said at his introduc- NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for
ly. Jones also had a season-high three blocked shots. 7 p.m. — Iowa State at Iowa, FS1
With a game-high 10 rebounds, junior forward and USCAA Player
tion Tuesday. “That should be the overtime loss. Top three teams in each division
COLLEGE FOOTBALL DNA of this team.”
and two wild cards per conference advance to
of the Week Qiayon Bailey was just three points shy of a double-double. 6 p.m. — College Football Awards: From Atlanta,
playoffs.
She also had two steals and an assist.
ESPN The 45-year-old is the first Tuesday’s Games
The W will return to action at 2 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 8 when it plays American to coach the national Winnipeg 3, N.Y. Islanders 1
host to Wesleyan College. Bring an unwrapped toy for the MUW Toy CURLING Florida 5, Boston 0
Drive and get free admittance. 7:30 p.m. — Curling World Cup: U.S. vs. Canada, team after playing for it at a World Calgary 9, Columbus 6
Pittsburgh 6, Colorado 3
NBC Sports Network Cup. He spent the last five years Montreal 5, Ottawa 2
Berhalter
Junior Colleges GOLF coaching Major League Soccer’s Tampa Bay 6, Detroit 5, SO
Toronto 4, Buffalo 3, OT
4 a.m. — European Tour Golf, South African Columbus Crew, which reached Vegas 5, Washington 3
EMCC basketball teams sweep Mississippi Delta C.C. Open, first round, Johannesburg, TGC the playoffs four times despite a small payroll but
Minnesota 3, Vancouver 2
Arizona 2, Los Angeles 1
SCOOBA — The East Mississippi Community College basketball 4 a.m. (Friday) — European Tour Golf, South Today’s Games
teams successfully opened their Mississippi Association of Community African Open, second round, Johannesburg, TGC failed to win any titles. Edmonton at St. Louis, 7 p.m.
and Junior Colleges (MACJC) North Division slate by sweeping Missis- NBA “Greg isn’t just the right choice, Greg is the Chicago at Anaheim, 9:30 p.m.
Carolina at San Jose, 9:30 p.m.
sippi Delta C.C. on Monday at Keyes T. Currie Coliseum. best choice,” U.S. Soccer Federation President Thursday’s Games
7 p.m. — New York at Boston, TNT Detroit at Toronto, 6 p.m.
The EMCC women claimed a 75-64 win in the opener, while the
men’s team cruised to a 94-77 victory in the nightcap. 9:30 p.m. — Houston at Utah, TNT Carlos Cordeiro said. “He will push our men’s N.Y. Islanders at Pittsburgh, 6 p.m.
Colorado at Florida, 6 p.m.
Tatyana Norment had a season-high 22 points for the Lady Lions NFL team forward and with an identity and approach Columbus at Philadelphia, 6 p.m.
(4-4). 7:20 p.m. — Jacksonville at Tennessee, WLOV that will be uniquely and fiercely American.” Montreal at Ottawa, 6:30 p.m.
Boston at Tampa Bay, 6:30 p.m.
Former New Hope High School standout Terryonte Thomas had and NFL Network The job had been held by Dave Sarachan Washington at Arizona, 8 p.m.
26 points on 10-for-15 shooting from the field for the Lions (5-4). Former WOMEN’S COLLEGE BASKETBALL Minnesota at Calgary, 8 p.m.
Starkville High standout Darrious Agnew had 10 points. 6 p.m. — Texas A&M at Houston, ESPN2 on an interim basis for 14 months since Bruce Nashville at Vancouver, 9 p.m.

See BERHALTER, 4B
Chicago at Vegas, 9 p.m.
— From Special Reports New Jersey at Los Angeles, 9:30 p.m.

Roundup
Continued from Page 1B
special place for me and my saw the running backs there redshirt sophomore defensive in MSU history to bring home Jacques Turner lead 15 Golden
family, and I am honored to from 1997 to 2002. He was the lineman Quinnen Williams back-to-back first-team laurels. Eagles named Tuesday to the
take on this role at the state’s Terps’ offensive coordinator and redshirt junior defensive Senior safety Johnathan All-Conference USA teams.
flagship institution. Our goal is from 2012-15 and was named back Deionte Thompson were Abram and senior offensive Watkins, a sophomore wide
to create an atmosphere and en- the team’s interim head coach named for first-team honors on lineman Deion Calhoun round- receiver from Athens, Alabama,
vironment focused on the total for the last six games of 2015 af- defense. This year’s first-team ed out MSU’s accolades with and Turner, a redshirt sopho-
development of our student-ath- ter Randy Edsall was fired. He honor is the second for Jonah spots on the second team. more defensive lineman from
letes. Our focus will always be went 1-5 as Maryland’s interim Williams (2017). Abram is the first MSU’s safety D’Iberville, earned first-team
to help them become more suc- head coach. Redshirt senior center Ross to earn an All-SEC nod from the selections.
cessful in all areas of their life Locksley also was 1-15 for Pierschbacher was named to league’s coaches since Nickoe On the second team, soph-
through their association with parts of three seasons from the second-team offense with Whitley in 2013. omore defensive back Ky’el
our program.” 2009 to 2011 as New Mexico’s senior running back Damien MSU’s four overall All-SEC Hemby posted a season-best
Locksley, 48, just finished head coach before being fired. Harris, junior tight end Irv selections were the program’s six interceptions for the Golden
his second season as a full- The Broyles Award has been Smith Jr. and sophomore of- most since MSU had five hon- Eagles and finished second on
time assistant on Nick Saban’s presented annually since 1996 fensive lineman Alex Leather- ored in 2014. the team in tackles with 51.
staff at Alabama. It was his first to the outstanding assistant wood. Senior defensive lineman Senior kicker Parker
season as the Crimson Tide’s coach in college football. Locks- Isaiah Buggs, junior linebacker Ole Miss’ Brown, Little earn Shaunfield joined him on the
offensive coordinator. Alabama ley joins former Alabama defen- second team.
heads into the College Football sive coordinator Kirby Smart
Mack Wilson and sophomore All-SEC honors On the C-USA All-Freshman
linebacker Dylan Moses were Junior wide receiver A.J.
Playoff ranked second nation- (2009) as the second Alabama second-team choices on de- squad, center Trace Clopton
Brown and junior offensive line-
ally in scoring offense (47.9 coach to receive the honor. fense. (Brookhaven) was one of nine
man Greg Little were named
points per game). The Crim- n In related news, Ala- freshmen offensive lineman to
first-team All-SEC picks by the
son Tide broke school records bama placed 12 players on the start during opening week. De-
for points (623), total offense All-Southeastern Conference
MSU has four players earn league’s 14 head coaches.
fensive lineman Tahj Sykes, of
(6,859 yards), offensive touch- Coaches’ Team, the league of- All-SEC honors from coaches On Monday, the duo also col-
lected first-team All-SEC hon-
Columbus, and defensive back
downs (77), and passing yards fice announced Tuesday. A second wave of postsea- Shannon Showers also were
son awards saw four Bulldogs ors from The Associated Press.
(4,231). The Crimson Tide led the recognized.
named to the All-SEC Coaches The SEC individual award
According to a report on way with 12 All-SEC selections, Offensive lineman Arvin
Team. winners will be announced
ESPN.com, Locksley will stay including five first-team honor- Fletcher, wide receiver Tim
Senior defensive end Mont- Wednesday and the SEC
on at Alabama throughout the ees. This marks the 11th-con- Jones, tight end Jay’Shawn
All-Freshman Team will be re-
team’s run in the CFP. secutive season Alabama has ez Sweat and junior defensive Washington, defensive lineman
leased Thursday.
His multi-year contract with led the conference in All-SEC tackle Jeffery Simmons earned LaDarius Harris, linebacker
Maryland will average in the picks. spots on the first team, mark- Racheem Boothe, linebacker
range of $2.5 million annually, Junior Jonah Williams and ing the second-consecutive sea- Southern Mississippi places Sherrod Ruff, defensive back
sources said. sophomores Jerry Jeudy and son the duo has brought home 15 on Conference USA squad Picasso Nelson Jr., and defen-
This will be Locksley’s third Tua Tagovailoa were first-team first-team honors. They are the Southern Mississippi soph- sive back Ty Williams earned
stint at Maryland. He over- selections on offense, while first defensive line teammates omores Quez Watkins and honorable mention.
 The Dispatch • www.cdispatch.com Wednesday, December 5, 2018 3B

COLLEGE BASKETBALL
Peters uses research
South Carolina at Wyoming, 8 p.m.
Tuesday’s Men’s Major No. 22 Mississippi St. 90, Arkansas at Colorado State, 9 p.m.
Furman
Georgia
2 10 15 11 —38
16 11 17 17 —61
Scores McNeese 77 (CBS Sports Network)
Thursday’s Games
3-Point Goals—Furman 1-16 (Duncan
0-1, Davidson 0-7, Petty 1-4, Kirisome 0-4),
EAST MCNEESE (2-6): Kennedy 5-8 1-2 11,

from practice to produce

American U. 95, St. Francis (Pa.) 82
Boston U. 79, Mass.-Lowell 60
Bucknell 92, La Salle 79
Florida 66, West Virginia 56
Holy Cross 82, UMass 78
R.Brown 1-2 1-3 3, Hines 9-14 5-8 24, Green-
wood 6-9 1-1 14, Hunt 1-2 2-2 4, A.Brown 0-1
0-0 0, Robinson 4-8 2-2 12, Johnson 0-0 0-0
0, Harvey 3-6 0-0 9, Touchet 0-0 0-0 0. Totals
No games scheduled Georgia 2-10 (Robinson 0-1, Cole 0-1, Connally
Friday’s Game 2-3, Hubbard 0-2, Caldwell 0-2, Morrison 0-1).
Oral Roberts at Missouri, 6 p.m. (SEC Network) Assists—Furman 8 (Manojlovic 4), Georgia 11
Saturday’s Games (Cole 4). Rebounds—Furman 32 (Duncan 6),
South Carolina at Michigan, 11 a.m. (FS1) Georgia 51 (Paul 10). Total Fouls—Furman 15,

results against McNeese

Indiana 64, Penn St. 62
Maine 75, Fordham 68, 2OT
NJIT 77, Army 72
Penn 89, Miami 75
Providence 100, Boston College 95, OT
Seton Hall 77, New Hampshire 57
Syracuse 72, Northeastern 49
SOUTH
Appalachian St. 100, Howard 86
Auburn 67, UNC-Asheville 41
Belmont 76, Lipscomb 74
Clemson 65, St. Peter’s 60
Davidson 99, Winthrop 81
Furman 98, Elon 77
Georgia St. 83, Alabama 80
Grambling St.
Centenary College of Louisiana 57
Jacksonville 94, Presbyterian 88
James Madison 73, Radford 66
Louisiana Tech 82, Prairie View 68
Memphis 88, S. Dakota St. 80
Mississippi St. 90, McNeese St. 77
SE Missouri 77, MVSU 57
UAB 73, North Alabama 67
MIDWEST
Cent. Michigan 100, Youngstown St. 94, 3OT
Cincinnati 78, N. Kentucky 65
Dayton 98, Detroit 59
E. Illinois 90, Fontbonne 37
High Point 55, Valparaiso 53
Kansas 72, Wofford 47
Marquette 76, UTEP 69
Michigan 62, Northwestern 60
Missouri 65, Texas-Arlington 45
Oklahoma 85, Notre Dame 80
SOUTHWEST
Abilene Christian 83, Campbell 68
Arkansas St. 87, Evansville 77
Bradley 68, UALR 62
Houston 79, Lamar 56
Incarnate Word 82, Trinity (TX) 57
FAR WEST
CS Bakersfield 67, UC Merced 53
Colorado 82, South Dakota 58
New Mexico St. 100, New Mexico 65
Saint Mary’s (Cal) 93, Bethune-Cookman 61
29-50 12-18 77.
MISSISSIPPI STATE (7-1): Ado 3-7
1-2 7, Holman 2-10 3-4 8, Peters 9-16 1-2 27,
N.Weatherspoon 3-7 4-6 11, Q.Weatherspoon
3-7 2-2 8, Feazell 0-0 0-0 0, Perry 5-8 3-3 15,
Datcher 0-0 0-0 0, Carter 4-8 0-0 10, Woodard
0-2 4-6 4. Totals 29-65 18-25 90.
Halftime—McNeese St. 42-39. 3-Point
Goals—McNeese St. 7-13 (Harvey 3-5, Robin-
son 2-3, Hines 1-1, Greenwood 1-3, Kennedy
0-1), Mississippi St. 14-31 (Peters 8-13, Carter
2-4, Perry 2-4, N.Weatherspoon 1-2, Holman
1-4, Woodard 0-2, Q.Weatherspoon 0-2). Re-
bounds—McNeese St. 22 (Hines 6), Missis-
sippi St. 36 (Holman 11). Assists—McNeese
81, St. 11 (Kennedy 3), Mississippi St. 14 (Peters
5). Total Fouls—McNeese St. 17, Mississippi
St. 17. Technicals—McNeese St. coach Heath
Schroyer. A—6,347 (10,575).
Georgia State 83,
Alabama 80
GEORGIA STATE (6-3): Benlevi 6-9 1-2
16, Thomas 5-12 3-4 14, Wilson 2-3 1-2 7, Si-
monds 8-24 6-6 23, Williams 5-8 2-3 12, Linder
0-0 0-0 0, Tyson 1-1 2-3 4, Mitchell 1-5 0-0 3,
Phillips 2-4 0-0 4. Totals 30-66 15-20 83.
ALABAMA (5-3): Hall 3-4 5-6 11, Lewis
6-12 2-2 19, Petty 2-6 0-1 6, Jones 0-6 1-6 1,
Mack 5-9 1-2 12, Smith 0-1 1-2 1, Reese 4-9
1-2 9, Ingram 5-6 5-8 17, A.Johnson 0-1 0-0 0,
Norris 1-2 2-2 4. Totals 26-56 18-31 80.
Halftime—Alabama 52-31. 3-Point
Goals—Georgia St. 8-23 (Benlevi 3-5, Wilson
2-2, Mitchell 1-2, Thomas 1-5, Simonds 1-7,
Phillips 0-1, Williams 0-1), Alabama 10-28
(Lewis 5-10, Ingram 2-2, Petty 2-5, Mack 1-5,
A.Johnson 0-1, Norris 0-1, Reese 0-4). Re-
bounds—Georgia St. 29 (Benlevi 8), Alabama
40 (Hall 11). Assists—Georgia St. 10 (Williams
5), Alabama 10 (Hall, Petty, Ingram, Jones
2). Total Fouls—Georgia St. 23, Alabama 18.
Technicals—Smith. A—9,076 (15,383).
Florida 66,
Michigan State at Florida, 11 a.m. (WCBI) Georgia 14. A—2,174.
Kentucky vs. Seton Hall, 11 a.m. (WLOV)
Western Kentucky at Arkansas, 2:30 p.m. Arkansas 65,
(SEC Network)
Mississippi State vs. Clemson, 3 p.m. (ESPN2) Tennessee Tech 42
TENNESSEE TECH (5-3): Cantrell 1-5
Boston College at Texas A&M, 5 p.m.
1-2 3, Alexander 2-7 0-2 5, Brock 3-10 0-0 7,
By Bret t Hudson
(SEC Network)
Ole Miss at Illinois State, 7 p.m.
Dayton at Auburn, 7:30 p.m. (SEC Network)
Buckner 4-11 0-0 9, Harris 2-7 1-3 5, Coleman
0-4 0-0 0, Lamb 2-3 0-0 4, Wilkinson 3-6 0-0 6, bhudson@cdispatch.com
Notebook
Brady 1-3 0-2 3, Totals 18-56 2-9 42.
Sunday’s Games
Arizona at Alabama, Noon (ESPN) ARKANSAS (6-3): Williams 3-4 0-0
Incarnate Word at LSU, 1 p.m. (SEC Network) 6, Dungee 12-18 0-0 28, Mason 1-5 1-2 4,
Monk 1-3 0-0 2, Tolefree 2-11 0-0 5, Stout
STARKVILLE — The Mis- The performance proved Pe-
Tennessee vs. Gonzaga, 2 p.m. (ESPN)
0-0 0-0 0, Thomas 0-1 1-2 1, Weaver 0-3 0-0 sissippi State men’s basketball ters can do it all at the point. He
Tuesday’s Women’s Major 0, Doumbia 0-1 0-0 0, Gaulden 6-16 0-0 12,
Northcross-Baker 0-2 0-0 0, Spangler 0-4 0-0 team’s extensive work charting also had five assists and a steal.
Scores 0, Zimmerman 2-6 2-2 7, Totals 27-74 4-6 65.
EAST Tennessee Tech 4 16 7 15 —42 shots in practice produced re- “I was happy for him. He’s put
Buffalo 84, Canisius 66
Maine 67, Harvard 60
Arkansas 18 17 23 7 —65
sults Tuesday night. an incredible amount of work
Manhattan 60, Lafayette 49
3-Point Goals—Tennessee Tech 4-16
(Alexander 1-1, Brock 1-4, Buckner 1-6, Har- The Bulldogs’ research in,” Howland said. “I think this
Stony Brook 73, Sacred Heart 58
Towson 62, Loyola (Md.) 57
ris 0-2, Coleman 0-1, Brady 1-2), Arkansas
7-23 (Dungee 4-6, Mason 1-1, Tolefree 1-8, shows Lamar Peters sometimes is an important moment.”
Yale 72, St. Peter’s 56 Doumbia 0-1, Northcross-Baker 0-2, Spangler
SOUTH 0-2, Zimmerman 1-3). Assists—Tennessee makes as many as 80 percent of
Belmont 83, Lipscomb 43
Georgia 61, Furman 38
Liberty 89, ETSU 86
Tech 11 (Alexander 4), Arkansas 9 (Mason 3).
Rebounds—Tennessee Tech 42 (Cantrell 9),
Arkansas 42 (Williams 9). Total Fouls—Ten-
his 3-pointers when he catches
and shoots.
In striking range
Louisville 102, UT Martin 62 nessee Tech 12, Arkansas 12. A—915. Holman’s three blocked
Middle Tennessee 67, Troy 64
USA Today Peters put some of that work shots brought him within one of
New Orleans 66, Memphis 59
S. Dakota St. 71, Chattanooga 54
Women’s Top 25 in practice into action against a top five spot in school history.
Tulane 71, Nicholls 46
Virginia Tech 55, Radford 44
The weekly poll, with first-place votes in McNeese, scoring a career-high He now has 162 blocks, which
parentheses, records through Dec. 3, points
W. Carolina 68, SC-Upstate 64
Wofford 107, Warren Wilson 30
based on 25 points for a first-place vote through 27 points on 8-for-13 shooting is one behind Rickey Brown
MIDWEST
one point for a 25th-place vote and previous
ranking: from 3-point range in No. 22 (1976-1980).
Bradley 82, W. Illinois 68
Drake 91, Clarke 43
1. UConn (31)
Rec. Pts Pvs
7-0 775 2
MSU’s 90-77 victory at Hum- Holman needs another
Illinois St. 61, Austin Peay 49
N. Iowa 64, North Dakota 60
2. Notre Dame 7-1 722 1 phrey Coliseum. 20 blocks after that to reach
3. Oregon 7-0 707 3
SE Missouri 82, Illinois at Springfield 46 4. Louisville 8-0 678 4 “Lamar really played well,” Kalpatrick Wells in fourth place
South Dakota 85, Missouri St. 74
UConn 98, Saint Louis 42
5. Baylor 7-0 660 5
MSU coach Ben Howland said. and 15 beyond that to reach Ty-
Wisconsin 67, Marshall 49
6. Mississippi State 8-0 627 6

The Associated Press SOUTHWEST

Men’s Top 25 Fared
Tuesday
1. Gonzaga (8-0) did not play. Next: vs.
Washington, Wednesday.
2. Kansas (7-0) beat Wofford 72-47. Next:
vs. New Mexico State, Saturday.
3. Duke (7-1) did not play. Next: vs.
Hartford, Wednesday.
4. Virginia (8-0) did not play. Next: vs.
VCU, Sunday.
5. Michigan (9-0) beat Northwestern
62-60. Next: vs. South Carolina, Saturday.
6. Nevada (8-0) did not play. Next: vs. No.
20 Arizona State, Friday.
7. Tennessee (6-1) did not play. Next: vs.
No. 1 Gonzaga, Sunday.
8. Auburn (7-1) beat UNC Asheville 67-41.
Next: vs. Dayton, Saturday.
9. Kentucky (7-1) did not play. Next: vs.
Seton Hall, Saturday.
10. Michigan State (7-2) did not play.
Next: at Florida, Saturday.
11. Florida State (7-1) did not play. Next:
vs. UConn, Saturday.
12. Wisconsin (8-1) did not play. Next: at
Marquette, Saturday.
13. Texas Tech (7-0) did not play. Next:
vs. Arkansas-Pine Bluff, Wednesday.
14. North Carolina (6-2) did not play.
Next: vs. UNC Wilmington, Wednesday.
15. Virginia Tech (6-1) did not play. Next:
vs. VMI, Wednesday.
16. Kansas State (6-1) did not play. Next:
at Tulsa, Saturday.
17. Buffalo (7-0) did not play. Next: vs. Le
Moyne, Wednesday.
18. Iowa (6-2) did not play. Next: vs. Iowa
State, Thursday.
19. Ohio State (7-1) did not play. Next: vs.
Illinois, Wednesday.
20. Arizona State (7-0) did not play. Next:
vs. No. 6 Nevada, Friday.
21. Villanova (6-2) did not play. Next: vs.
Temple, Wednesday.
22. Mississippi State (7-1) beat McNeese
90-77. Next: vs. Clemson, Saturday.
23. Maryland (7-1) did not play. Next: at
Purdue, Thursday.
24. Nebraska (7-1) did not play. Next: at
Minnesota, Wednesday.
25. Furman (9-0) beat Elon 98-74. Next:
at South Carolina Upstate, Saturday.
No. 8 Auburn 67,
UNC-Asheville 41
UNC-ASHEVILLE (1-7): Peck 3-4 0-0 6,
Jude 2-5 2-2 8, Jones 1-10 2-4 5, Worthy 1-7
0-0 2, Baker 2-10 0-0 4, Lawson 3-5 0-0 9,
Gilmore 1-1 0-0 2, Edoka 0-0 0-0 0, Woodyard
0-0 0-0 0, Heath 1-1 0-0 3, Seegars 0-2 2-2 2.
Totals 14-45 6-8 41.
AUBURN (7-1): McLemore 2-5 1-2 5,
Okeke 2-5 1-2 7, Brown 3-9 0-0 7, Harper 2-6
3-3 9, Doughty 4-7 3-4 13, Spencer 2-2 0-0 4,
Parker 0-1 0-0 0, Collier 0-0 0-0 0, Blackstock
0-0 0-0 0, Wiley 5-7 4-5 14, Maasdorp 0-1 0-0
0, Macoy 0-1 0-0 0, Williams 0-0 0-0 0, Cook
0-0 0-0 0, Dunbar 3-4 0-2 8. Totals 23-48 12-
18 67.
Halftime—Auburn 33-18. 3-Point
Goals—UNC-Asheville 7-19 (Lawson 3-5, Jude
2-4, Heath 1-1, Jones 1-4, Seegars 0-1, Bak-
er 0-4), Auburn 9-25 (Dunbar 2-3, Okeke 2-3,
Harper 2-5, Doughty 2-5, Brown 1-6, Parker
0-1, Macoy 0-1, McLemore 0-1). Rebounds—
UNC-Asheville 22 (Gilmore 4), Auburn 30
(Dunbar, Okeke 7). Assists—UNC-Asheville
8 (Baker 3), Auburn 19 (Harper, Okeke 5).
Total Fouls—UNC-Asheville 15, Auburn 16.
A—7,121 (9,121).
West Virginia 56
FLORIDA (5-3): Stone 2-5 4-5 9, Hayes
2-3 2-6 6, Allen 5-13 6-9 19, Nembhard 1-6 4-6
7, Locke 1-5 5-6 8, Bassett 0-0 0-0 0, K.John-
son 4-5 1-2 9, Stokes 1-1 2-4 4, Hudson 0-4 0-2
0, Okauru 0-0 1-2 1, Ballard 0-6 3-4 3. Totals
16-48 28-46 66.
WEST VIRGINIA (5-3): Ahmad 3-9 0-5 7,
Harris 3-7 1-2 9, Konate 2-10 0-0 4, Bolden 1-10
0-0 2, Harler 4-5 0-0 11, West 0-6 1-2 1, Routt
1-4 0-0 2, Gordon 3-5 0-1 6, Matthews 0-0 2-2
2, McCabe 0-0 2-2 2, Haley 0-2 3-4 3, Knapper
2-6 2-2 7. Totals 19-64 11-20 56.
Halftime—Florida 30-27. 3-Point
Goals—Florida 6-21 (Allen 3-7, Stone 1-1,
Nembhard 1-2, Locke 1-4, Ballard 0-3, Hudson
0-4), West Virginia 7-23 (Harler 3-4, Harris
2-5, Knapper 1-3, Ahmad 1-4, Bolden 0-2,
West 0-5). Fouled Out—Konate, Gordon. Re-
bounds—Florida 37 (Stone 8), West Virginia 42
(Ahmad 9). Assists—Florida 12 (Nembhard 6),
West Virginia 9 (Haley 5). Total Fouls—Florida
22, West Virginia 30. A—8,499 (19,812).
Missouri 65,
Texas-Arlington 45
TEXAS-ARLINGTON (3-6): Ibarguen
4-7 1-3 9, Mwamba 1-4 1-4 3, Azore 0-4 0-0
0, Warren 3-14 0-0 8, Davis 2-3 2-2 6, Nouhi
0-1 0-2 0, Narcis 2-3 0-0 4, Bryant 1-1 0-0 2,
Jackson-Young 2-3 0-0 5, Castro 3-6 0-0 8.
Totals 18-46 4-11 45.
MISSOURI (5-3): Tilmon 2-4 6-6 10,
Puryear 3-5 0-0 7, Pickett 4-9 0-0 10, Ma.Smith
2-4 0-0 5, Geist 4-10 0-0 9, Nikko 0-1 2-4 2,
Mi.Smith 1-5 0-0 3, Pinson 3-5 1-4 7, Watson
4-9 1-2 12. Totals 23-52 10-16 65.
Halftime—Missouri 37-21. 3-Point
Goals—Texas-Arlington 5-18 (Castro 2-4,
Warren 2-10, Jackson-Young 1-1, Nouhi 0-1,
Mwamba 0-1, Davis 0-1), Missouri 9-25 (Wat-
son 3-6, Pickett 2-6, Puryear 1-1, Ma.Smith 1-2,
Mi.Smith 1-2, Geist 1-7, Pinson 0-1). Fouled
Out—Tilmon. Rebounds—Texas-Arlington
25 (Mwamba 9), Missouri 33 (Tilmon 12). As-
sists—Texas-Arlington 11 (Warren 4), Missouri
10 (Geist 3). Total Fouls—Texas-Arlington 13,
Missouri 13. A—9,428 (15,061).
Southeastern Conference
Men
Conf. Pct. Overall Pct.
Kentucky
Auburn
0-0 .000
0-0 .000
7-1
7-1
.875
.875
Mississippi State 0 -0 .000 7-1 .875
Tennessee 0-0 .000 6-1 .857
Arkansas 0-0 .000 5-1 .833
LSU
Ole Miss
0-0 .000
0-0 .000
6-2
5-2
.750
.714
Vanderbilt 0-0 .000 5-2 .714
Georgia 0-0 .000 5-3 .625
Alabama 0-0 .000 5-3 .625
Florida
Missouri
0-0 .000
0-0 .000
5-3
5-3
.625
.625
South Carolina 0-0 .000 4-3 .571
Missouri 0-0 .000 5-3 .625
Texas A&M 0-0 .000 3-4 .429
Today’s Games
Georgia State 83, Alabama 80
Missouri 65, UT Arlington 45
Mississippi State 90, McNeese 77
Auburn 67, UNC Asheville 41
Florida 66, West Virginia 56
Today’s Games
Middle Tennessee at Vanderbilt, 6:30 p.m.
(SEC Network)
Arkansas 65, Tennessee Tech 42
Rio Grande 70, Texas A&M-CC 57
Texas State 92, St. Thomas (TX) 39
FAR WEST
S. Utah 60, Utah Valley 59
Wyoming 78, Denver 74
The AP Women’s
Top 25 Fared
Tuesday
1. UConn (8-0) beat Saint Louis 98-42.
Next: vs. Seton Hall, Saturday.
2. Notre Dame (7-1) did not play. Next: at
Toledo, Saturday.
3. Oregon (7-0) did not play. Next: at
Michigan State, Sunday.
4. Baylor (7-0) did not play. Next: vs.
Morehead State, Wednesday, Dec. 12.
5. Louisville (9-0) beat UT Martin 102-62.
Next: vs. No. 19 Kentucky, Sunday.
6. Mississippi State (8-0) did not play.
Next: vs. No. 18 Marquette, Thursday.
7. Maryland (8-0) did not play. Next: vs.
James Madison, Saturday.
8. Oregon State (6-1) did not play. Next:
vs. Santa Clara, Sunday.
9. Tennessee (6-0) did not play. Next: vs.
Stetson, Wednesday.
10. N.C. State (8-0) did not play. Next: vs.
Hampton, Wednesday.
11. Stanford (6-1) did not play. Next: vs.
No. 4 Baylor, Saturday, Dec. 15.
12. Texas (7-1) did not play. Next: vs. No.
9 Tennessee, Sunday.
13. California (7-0) did not play. Next: at
Saint Mary’s, Saturday.
14. Minnesota (7-0) did not play. Next: vs.
Incarnate Word, Wednesday.
15. Syracuse (7-2) did not play. Next: vs.
Maryland-Eastern Shore, Wednesday.
16. Iowa (6-2) did not play. Next: vs. Iowa
State, Wednesday.
17. Arizona State (5-2) did not play. Next:
vs. Southern University, Friday.
18. Marquette (6-1) did not play. Next: at
No. 6 Mississippi State, Thursday.
19. Kentucky (8-0) did not play. Next: vs.
Rhode Island, Thursday.
20. DePaul (5-3) did not play. Next: vs.
Northwestern, Wednesday.
21. Drake (8-1) beat Clarke 91-43. Next:
at South Dakota State, Saturday.
22. South Carolina (4-4) did not play.
Next: vs. Appalachian State, Wednesday.
23. Missouri (6-2) did not play. Next: vs.
UMKC, Thursday.
24. Gonzaga (8-1) did not play. Next: vs.
Washington State, Sunday.
25. Miami (7-2) did not play. Next: vs. New
Orleans, Sunday.
Georgia 61, Furman 38
FURMAN (4-4): Duncan 2-6 0-0 4, David-
son 0-11 6-7 6, Hunter 3-5 0-0 6, Manojlovic
0-2 0-0 0, Petty 1-8 2-2 5, Donovan 0-0 0-0 0,
Taborn 3-5 2-2 8, van Rij 0-0 0-0 0, Wilson 0-0
0-0 0, Boone 0-0 0-0 0, Kirisome 0-5 2-2 2,
Mateo 0-0 2-2 2, Outten 1-2 1-2 3, Sellinger 0-0
0-0 0, West 1-2 0-0 2, Totals 11-46 15-17 38.
GEORGIA (6-3): Paul 5-7 5-7 15, Robin-
son 4-14 0-0 8, Cole 4-9 1-2 9, Connally 4-8
2-2 12, Hubbard 3-10 2-4 8, Staiti 1-4 0-0 2,
Caldwell 1-8 1-2 3, Henderson 0-0 0-0 0, Hose
0-1 0-0 0, Johnson 1-4 0-0 2, Morrison 0-2 2-2
2, Totals 23-67 13-19 61.
7. Maryland 8-0 583 8
8. Oregon State 6-1 555 9
9. Tennessee 6-0 512 11
10. N.C. State 8-0 473 13
11. Stanford 6-1 471 7
12. Texas 7-1 459 10
13. California 7-0 319 18
14. Syracuse 7-2 310 12
15. Marquette 6-1 291 17
16. Iowa 5-2 279 15
17. DePaul 5-3 245 14
18. Minnesota 7-0 217 —
19. Arizona State 5-2 200 23
19. Kentucky 8-0 200 25
21. Drake 7-1 182 24
22. Gonzaga 8-1 99 —
23. Miami 7-2 83 20
24. South Carolina 4-4 77 19
25. Missouri 6-2 63 —
Also Receiving Votes: Iowa State 54,
Southern California 45, Texas A&M 45,
Florida State 34, South Florida 31, West
Virginia 25, Virginia Tech 16,
Kansas 12, Michigan 8, South Dakota 5,
Alabama-Birmingham 4, UCF 2, New
Mexico 2, South Alabama 2, Indiana 1,
Michigan State 1, Tulane 1.
SEC Women
Kentucky
Conf. Pct. Overall Pct.
0-0 .000 8-0 1.000
Mississippi State 0-0 .000 8-0 1.000
Tennessee 0-0 .000 6-0 1.000
Auburn 0-0 .000 6-1 .857
Missouri
LSU
0-0 .000 6-2
0-0 .000 4-2
.750
.667
Texas A&M 0-0 .000 4-2 .667
Arkansas 0-0 .000 6-3 .667
Georgia 0-0 .000 6-3 . 6 67
Alabama 0-0 .000 5-3 .625
South Carolina 0-0 .000 4-4 .500
Vanderbilt 0-0 .000 3-3 .375
Ole Miss
Florida
0-0 .000 3-6
0-0 .000 1-6
.333
.143
Tuesday’s Games
Georgia 61, Furman 38
Arkansas 65, Tennessee Tech 42
Today’s Games
South Alabama at Alabama, 11:30 a.m.
Stetson at Tennessee, 6 p.m.
Bethune-Cookman at Florida, 6 p.m.
Appalachian State at South Carolina, 6 p.m.
Thursday’s Games
Rhode Island at Kentucky, TBD
Texas A&M at Houston, 6 p.m. (ESPN2)
Auburn at Saint Joseph’s 6 p.m.
Vanderbilt at Ball State, 6 p.m.
Marquette at Mississippi State, 7 p.m.
UMKC at Missouri, 7 p.m.
Friday’s Games
No games scheduled
Saturday’s Games
Arkansas at Abilene Christian, 1 p.m.
Tulane at Alabama, 2 p.m.
Savannah State at Ole Miss, 2 p.m.
Central Arkansas at Texas A&M, 2 p.m.
Sunday’s Games
Tennessee at Texas, Noon (ESPN2)
Florida A&M at Florida, 1 p.m.
Kentucky at Louisville, 1 p.m.
(ACC Network Extra)
South Carolina at Duke, 1 p.m.
(ACC Network Extra)
Missouri at Saint Louis, 5 p.m.
“(He) shot the ball extremely
well, made a lot of good deci-
sions. I thought the way they
played ball screens, they were
giving up the three a little
more and why wouldn’t they?
We were a team that’s shooting
29 percent from three, so why
wouldn’t they force us to take
more threes. He knocked them
down.”
Peters entered the game
shooting 31.1 percent from
3-point range. His effort against
the Cowboys (2-6) helped him
tie the single-game school re-
cord for made 3-pointers.
Even with defenders grant-
ing him opportunities to shoot
off the dribble, Peters waited
until the time was right. The
junior point guard established
his shooting rhythm as three
of his 3-pointers in the first half
— two by senior forward Aric
Holman — were assisted. With
his flow established, Peters took
control in the second half. His
first 3-pointer of the half tied the
game at 50. His second, which
was in transition, capped a 19-0
run.
In those moments, Peters re-
called Howland’s message from
practice.
“Take better shots. Instead
of just taking hard, contested
shots, get some open ones and
the hard ones start to fall,” Pe-
ters said. “Wait until you come
open, knock a few of them down
then you can take some off the
bounce. I normally take some
shots early, but he told me when
I take good shots, I’m a good
shooter.”
rone Washington in third, but
Holman had 66 blocks last sea-
son and is on pace for more this
season.
Senior guard Quinndary
Weatherspoon remains eighth
in school history with 160 steals,
one behind Timmy Bowers, two
behind Barry Stewart, and five
behind Chuck Evans in fifth.
His eight points give him
1,514 for his career, which is
10th in school history. He is 44
points behind Jamont Gordon in
ninth.
Holman the showman
Holman had another produc-
tive game with eight points, 11
rebounds, three blocks, two as-
sists, and a steal, but he added a
bit of flair.
Holman’s second assist start-
ed by receiving a pass on the
right wing with an open lane to
the rim. He started down that
crease and curled the ball be-
hind his back and fired a pass
to Peters, who shuffled into
position on the left wing to hit
a 3-pointer. The play gave the
Bulldogs (7-1) their biggest ad-
vantage of the first half at seven
points.
The theatrics weren’t what
Howland wanted to see.
“I wasn’t excited about it. Im-
pressive, maybe in the too loose
way, for me,” Howland said.
“During that juncture, at that
time, I wasn’t excited about it.
Glad it worked out.”
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paint and a 65.5-percent maining. MSU led for at
shooting from the field. least 10 points the rest of
McNeese countered the way.
the size of MSU starters Peters capped the flur-
Abdul Ado (6-foot-11) ry with a layup. He also
and Aric Holman (6-10) found Reggie Perry (15
with Jackson native Malik points off the bench) for a
Hines, a 6-10 center, and dunk and canned another
forward Shamarkus Ken- 3-pointer to help the Bull-
nedy, who is 6-8. Hines
dogs bounce back.
led the Cowboys with 24
“This was an important
points on 9-for-14 shoot-
ing, while Kennedy was win,” Howland said. “It
5-for-8 from the field and sets up a big two weeks,
had 11 points. and two practices coming
“We were able to catch up for the game against
them on some slips, put Clemson on Saturday.
them in rotation a little “This was an import-
bit,” said McNeese coach ant win that we did a
Heath Schroyer, referenc- much better job. If we
ing a play where a screen don’t start with the defen-
creates action in one di- sive end, we’re going to
rection just for the post struggle.”
opportunity to come on McNeese followed 28
the other side. first-half points in the
“We really worked on paint with four in the sec-
spacing the floor the right ond half. MSU also had a
way and getting them in Blake Williams/Mississippi State Athletic Media Relations 40-23 rebounding edge.
rotation, and Ben is such Nick Weatherspoon, left, had 11 points, and Tyson Carter, right, had 10 in the No. 22 Mississippi State men’s
“This group is a sec-
a good defensive coach, basketball team’s 90-77 victory against McNeese on Tuesday night.
ond-weekend team in
it’s easier said than done.
We ran a lot of stuff to respond to communica- couple of tough shots, and percent from the field. 50-47 at the 17-minute, the NCAA tournament,”
try to get their bigs away tion, particularly from they were way more pa- The Bulldogs turned the 36-second mark, Peters Schroyer said, “because
from the basket and lull the weak side to react to tient than we expected,” tide when the Cowboys tied the game with a of its size and because
our guys back in, get ad- the slip. He also thought Peters said. “We had to go missed eight-consecutive 3-pointer off a pass from of a elite guard in Lamar
vantages on some seals, the team wasn’t proactive into the second half with a shots in the second half, Quinndary Weather- Peters who can go win a
run some slips and things enough in denying entry little more energy.” including five 3-pointers, spoon. (eight points) The basketball game.”
like that.” passes to the post. MSU responded with as the lane became diffi- basket ignited a 19-0 run Follow Dispatch sports
Howland credited “We want to give cred- a 51-point second half cult to access. that gave the Bulldogs a writer Brett Hudson on
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well. It has been a rough minutes in the second and eight rebounds, while year with 11 points and them on their heels. We the weak side. Offensively
road stretch the last few half. Simonds, the Sun Belt 11 rebounds, while junior were attacking with ball we had too long of a scor-
weeks, but I told them to A layup by junior Preseason Player of the forward Tevin Mack start- movement, player move-
go out and leave it on the D’Marcus Simonds with Year, had 23 points and ed his first game and had ment and our shots were ing drought. We saw it a
court in the second half. 43 seconds to play gave five rebounds. 12 points. falling and I thought we little bit in our last game,
They gave me everything the Panthers their first Kira Lewis Jr. hit five “It was a tale of two did a decent job at the line
but we just didn’t do a
they had and I am ex- lead, 80-78. Dazon In- 3-pointers for a team-high halves tonight,” Alabama in the first half. It all fell
tremely proud of each and gram tied the game on 19 points for Alabama. In- coach Avery Johnson apart in the second half. good job.”
everyone one of them.” the other end before Ben- gram had a season-high said. “We got off to a re- We just didn’t do a very Alabama will play
Georgia State held Ala- levi hit the game-winner 17 points off the bench. ally good start with shoot- good job on either end of
bama (5-3) without a field as time expired. Donta Hall recorded his ing the ball really well the floor. We didn’t get host to Alabama at noon
goal for more than nine Benlevi had 16 points third double-double of the in the first half and kept enough support help from Sunday (ESPN).
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Berhalter
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Arena quit after the shocking
failure to qualify for this year’s
World Cup. Sunil Gulati made
the decisions to hire Bob Brad-
ley in 2006, Jurgen Klinsmann in
2011 and Arena in 2016 after con-
sulting within the USSF, but the
federation established new pro-
cedures after Cordeiro replaced
Gulati last February.
Former midfielder Earnie
Stewart, who played alongside
Berhalter on the national team,
was hired in June for the new po-
sition of men’s national team gen-
eral manager. Stewart started his
job in August and picked Berhal-
ter, a decision ratified Saturday
by the USSF board.
“Today is another example of
the change we’re bringing to U.S.
Soccer. That includes making sure
that soccer operations are run by
soccer experts,” Cordeiro said.
The U.S. often has resorted
to counterattacking to go along
with a never-give-up attitude
and superior conditioning. Per-
sistence and perseverance dissi-
pated among an aging core in the
last four-year cycle.
Sarachan gave debuts to 23
players in 12 matches, and Ber-
halter will decide what veterans
to integrate among the team’s
emerging core of Christian Pu-
lisic, Tyler Adams and Weston
McKennie, all 20 and younger,
and even rawer players such Tim
Weah and Josh Sargent, both 18.
Stewart said part of success
will be “making sure that the way
we play, that it’s identified to our
fans so that what they see on the
field is what they want to see.”
“The idea is we’re an attack-
ing-based team that wants to create
goal-scoring scoring opportunities
by disorganizing the opponent,”
Berhalter said. “Consistently over
my time in Columbus, we’ve done
it through build up, right, where
we start the ball with the goalie in
the back. Teams try to press us, we
play through them.”
Columbus captain Wil Trapp,
who captained the U.S. eight
times this year, said Berhalter
was remarkable for his nonstop
eye contact with his players.
“At first he can be a very intim-
idating person for a young player
like myself when I started at 19, 20
years old with him,” said Trapp,
now 26. “But getting to know him
and how much he cares for his
players was something that I was
really, really shocked about.”
Berhalter and Oscar Pareja,
who left FC Dallas last month for
Mexico’s Tijuana, were the only
ones interviewed. Stewart said a
third finalist was unavailable.
Some American fans have crit-
icized the lack of a larger pool of
interviewees.
“A lot of it is actually because
they don’t feel that Greg is nec-
essarily the right person of the
best person,” said former Amer-
ican defender Alexi Lalas, now a
Fox analyst. “It puts baggage and
challenges on Greg that he un-
derstands.”
Jay Berhalter, the coach’s
47-year-old brother, was part of
that search for GM in his role as
the USSF’s chief commercial and
strategy officer. He did not partic-
ipate in the coaching search but
could succeed Dan Flynn as the
federation’s CEO, perhaps in the
next year.
“We will have a selection com-
mittee,” Cordeiro said. “We’ll
have internal candidates. Jay
could be one of them. We’ll have
external candidates.”
Stewart said he first contacted
Berhalter in late August or early
September. He wanted Berhalter
to explain his October 2017 state-
ment that “I’ve got a lot of coach-
ing to do before I’m ready” for the
national team job.
Berhalter said he now felt pre-
pared, and Stewart traveled to
Columbus for an interview. Berh-
alter went to Chicago and spoke
with Stewart, USSF chief sport
development officer Nico Romei-
jn and chief soccer officer Ryan
Mooney. Berhalter then spoke
with former U.S. captain Carlos
Bocanegra, who in April became
co-chairman of the federation’s
new technical development com-
mittee, and Flynn.
“I think Greg’s biggest chal-
lenge is to build a culture that
fosters a winning environment
against,” said former American
midfielder Stu Holden, a Fox
commentator. “I think the most
important thing is building a
team on and off the field, a group
of players that want to come in
and want to be a part of this. The
national team, it’s a privilege and
an honor. It’s not a chore.”

Comics & Puzzles

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Dear Abby
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EAR ABBY:
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Horoscopes
TODAY’S BIRTHDAY (Dec.
5). You’re considered a taste-
maker, and your recommenda-
tions will enhance and in some
cases change lives. Highlights
of this solar return will include:
a dance of love that spans
seasons, an event that involves
several moving parts and brings
BABY BLUES together different groups, and
something done in the spirit
of justice. Capricorn and Virgo
adore you. Your lucky numbers
are: 4, 7, 14, 30 and 20.
ARIES (March 21-April 19).
Self-worth and net worth are
not interchangeable values. For
you, this fact is a no-brainer. For
some others you know, it will
BEETLE BAILEY
MALLARD FILLMORE
FAMILY CIRCUS
take time and life experience to
learn – bear with them.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20).
Maybe it’s not, as they say, “all
good,” but there is little time to
waste rejecting the parts that
aren’t. It is “much good,” and it
will take a while to count all this
goodness. Take your time.
GEMINI (May 21-June 21).
You’ve an even temper much of
the time, but this shouldn’t be
taken for a steadfast rule. When
your passion is stirred, it will
surprise and impress all.
CANCER (June 22-July 22).
Status is important, but it’s nev-
er been your high priority. Right
now there are a hundred things
you care much more about than
looking good to the neighbors.
Because you’re not worried
about status, your status rises.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22).
Does the world seem to be in
disarray? Sometimes it’s our
way of mentally ordering infor-
mation that makes it confusing.
A teacher can help us find
another point of view – one that
will bring context and clarity.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22).
Cheerfulness is charming. As
you continue to make optimism
your default, you cultivate even
greater powers of enchantment
and become a charismatic
influencer.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23).
Wisdom comes out of adversity.
Hardship is the greatest teach-
er. But you don’t have hardship
now. The second greatest
teachers are people you don’t
agree with. Learn where they’re
coming from and become wise.
SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov.
21). There will be conflicts,
mostly one of your responsibil-
ities clashing with another of
more or less importance. Put it
all on paper. That’s how you’ll
sort it out.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec.
21). What are you doing on
a daily basis to support your
emotional and spiritual health?
What are you doing every day
to prove that you love yourself?
“Excellence is not an act, but a
habit.” – Aristotle.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan.
19). You’re making plans.
Ideally, you’d include everyone,
but this might not be possible.
Don’t worry, the right people
will show up, which is to say the
people who most need to be a
part of this.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb.
18). You’ve been on a learning
curve, but now you’re getting
the swing of things and it’s all
starting to flatten out a bit.
Enjoy the successful feeling that
comes with hitting your stride.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March
20). You’re in the mood to
share, and you have much to
give. Presentation will be key.
It’s not the face value, but the
spirit in which a thing is given
that really counts.

Free-for-all
SOLUTION:
Food
Gingerbread gets elegant
Move over plain gingerbread squares; this gingerbread cake can take center stage. The recipe is from the cook-
book “The Perfect Cake.”
Elevate gingerbread to a pretty
layer cake for the holidays
BY AMERICA’S TEST KITCHEN
G
ood gingerbread is dark and
moist, with an intriguing hint
of bitterness and a peppery
finish. Usually it’s a rustic square
cake or maybe even an attractive
Bundt, but it’s never quite sophis-
ticated enough to serve as the
centerpiece holiday dessert.
We wanted to transform homey
gingerbread into a stately layer
cake. The problem? Traditional
recipes are too moist to be stacked
four layers high. We knew we could
fix the excess moisture problem
by cutting back on the molasses
or coffee in our recipe or adding a
Old stale bread
can be transformed
into croutons
BY AMERICA’S TEST KITCHEN
D
on’t throw out stale bread.
Seriously, don’t. Baguettes,
sliced sandwich bread and
even loaves of crusty white bread
can be recycled into homemade
croutons.
Use a chef’s knife to cut the
bread into cubes (1/2-inch to
3/4-inch cubes are ideal). Toss
the cubes with olive oil and some
salt, and then spread them out on a
rimmed baking sheet.
Bake them in a 350 F oven, stir-
See Croutons, 6B
bit more flour. But both strategies
would lighten the color and dull the
flavor.
Instead, we added a convention-
al cake ingredient that’s uncon-
ventional in gingerbread: cocoa
powder. Cocoa contains a high
proportion of absorbent starch; just
1/4 cup of it soaked up the cake’s
excess moisture, so the crumb was
no longer objectionably sticky. The
cocoa also deepened the color and
flavor of our gingerbread without
making the cake taste chocolaty.
As a bonus, it diluted some of the
gluten, making the cake’s crumb
more tender.
Sprinkling chopped crystallized
Tenderize and tackle tough short ribs in a sous vide bath
BY AMERICA’S TEST KITCHEN
B
eef short ribs are a prime
example of how the precise
control of time and tem-
perature afforded by sous-vide
cooking can affect a piece of
meat. (Editor’s note: Sous-vide
is a method of cooking in which
food is prepared by partial cook-
ing, followed by vacuum-sealing
and cooking in a water bath.)
Short ribs are a tougher cut,
with a good amount of collagen
and intramuscular fat so they are
traditionally braised to a fall-apart
texture. But with sous-vide, you
can achieve short ribs that have a
THE DISPATCH n CDISPATCH.COM n WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 5, 2018
Carl Tremblay/Amreica’s Test Kitchen via AP
ginger over the top of the cake
completed the holiday gingerbread
revamp. Use a 2-cup liquid measur-
ing cup to portion the cake batter.
Do not use blackstrap molasses
here as it is too bitter.
GINGERBREAD LAYER CAKE
Servings: 12-16
Start to finish: 3 hour 30 minutes
1 3/4 cups (8 3/4 ounces) all-purpose
flour
1/4 cup (3/4 ounce) unsweetened cocoa
powder
2 tablespoons ground ginger
1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
3/4 teaspoon salt
See Gingerbread, 6B
texture similar to a medium-rare
steak or you can deliver a more
traditional flaky, braised texture
— or land almost anywhere in
between.
For this recipe, we were
looking for a fall-apart tender, pot
roast-style texture, so we decided
on a higher-temperature water
bath (160 F) while keeping the
cooking time under 24 hours.
This cooking time and tem-
perature combination allowed us
to break down this tough cut’s in-
tramuscular collagen, tenderizing
the meat while keeping it moist
and preserving a rosy interior
See Short ribs, 6B
LIFESTYLES EDITOR
Jan Swoope: 328-2471
Joe Keller/America’s Test Kitchen via AP
Lighten up a heavy dish with this
recipe from America’s Test Kitchen.
Yukon Gold
potatoes
are the gold
standard
for this gratin
BY AMERICA’S TEST KITCHEN
P
otato gratin is a notoriously
heavy side dish, laden with
cream and gooey cheese. We
wanted to shift the focus of this
classic side dish to the potatoes.
We chose Yukon Gold potatoes
for their rich flavor and moderate
starch content, which helped them
hold their shape when cooked.
Tossing the potatoes with fruity,
flavorful extra-virgin olive oil
heightened the flavor of the pota-
toes but didn’t overpower them.
For a crisp, cheesy topping, we
mixed more olive oil with panko
bread crumbs and sprinkled the
dish with sharp, salty pecorino-Ro-
mano. For added depth, we added
sauteed onions, fresh thyme, and
garlic.
OLIVE OIL POTATO GRATIN
Servings: 6-8
Start to finish: 2 hours
2 ounces pecorino-Romano cheese,
grated (1 cup)
1/2 cup extra-virgin olive oil
1/4 cup panko bread crumbs
Salt and pepper
2 onions, halved and sliced thin
2 garlic cloves, minced
1 teaspoon minced fresh thyme
1 cup low-sodium chicken broth
3 pounds Yukon Gold potatoes, peeled
and sliced 1/8 inch thick, preferably with
a mandoline
n Adjust oven rack to upper-middle
position and heat oven to 400 F. Grease
13-by-9-inch baking dish. Combine pecori-
no, 3 tablespoons oil, panko, and 1/2
teaspoon pepper in bowl; set aside.
n Heat 2 tablespoons oil in 12-inch skil-
let over medium heat until shimmering.
Add onions, 1/2 teaspoon salt, and 1/4
teaspoon pepper and cook, stirring fre-
quently, until browned, about 15 minutes.
Add garlic and 1/2 teaspoon thyme and
cook until fragrant, about 30 seconds.
Add 1/4 cup broth and cook until nearly
evaporated, scraping up any browned
bits, about 2 minutes. Remove from heat;
set aside.
n Toss potatoes, remaining 3 ta-
blespoons oil, 1 teaspoon salt, 1/2
teaspoon pepper, and remaining 1/2
See Potatoes, 6B
This short
rib “pot
roast”
cooked
using the
sous-vide
method is
paired with
mashed
potatoes.
Steve Klise/America’s Test Kitchen via AP
6B Wednesday, DECEMBER 5, 2018 The Dispatch • www.cdispatch.com

Crinkle cookies look pretty but can they taste better?

BY AMERICA’S TEST KITCHEN We had been refrigerating 1/2 cup granulated sugar
this fluid dough overnight 1/2 cup confectioners’ sugar

R
olled in powdered sugar
before baking, chocolate
crinkle cookies (often
called earthquakes) feature
chocolaty fissures that break
through the bright white
surface during baking. While
striking in appearance, these
cookies often fall short on
taste.
Using a combination of
cocoa powder and unsweet-
ened bar chocolate rather
than bittersweet chocolate
(which contains sugar) cer-
tainly upped the intensity, and
swapping brown sugar for the
granulated created a complex
sweetness.
At this point, the cookies
had deep, rich flavor, but the
exterior cracks were too few
and too wide, and the cookies
weren’t spreading enough.
Using a combination of bak-
ing soda and baking powder
helped — the bubbles pro-
duced by the leaveners rose to
the surface and burst, leaving
fissures — but the cracks
gapped.
before portioning and baking
the cookies, but the cold dough
didn’t begin to spread very
much until after that dried
exterior had formed, forcing
the cracks to open wide. The
solution was to bake the cook-
ies after letting the dough sit at
room temperature for 10 min-
utes, which was just enough
time for the dough to firm up to
a scoopable consistency.
CHOCOLATE CRINKLE
COOKIES
Servings: 22
Start to finish: 1 hour
1 cup (5 ounces) all-purpose flour
1/2 cup (1 1/2 ounces) unsweet-
ened cocoa powder
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/4 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 1/2 cups packed (10 1/2 ounces)
brown sugar
3 large eggs
4 teaspoons instant espresso pow-
der (optional)
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
4 ounces unsweetened chocolate,
chopped
4 tablespoons unsalted butter
n Adjust oven rack to middle posi-
tion and heat oven to 325 F. Line two
baking sheets with parchment paper.
Whisk flour, cocoa, baking powder,
baking soda, and salt together in
bowl.
n Whisk brown sugar; eggs; espres-
so powder, if using; and vanilla
together in large bowl. Microwave
chocolate and butter in bowl at 50
percent power, stirring occasionally,
until melted, 2 to 3 minutes.
n Whisk chocolate mixture into egg
mixture until combined. Fold in flour
mixture until no dry streaks remain.
Let dough sit at room temperature
for 10 minutes.
Spread granulated sugar in shallow
dish. Spread confectioners’ sugar
in second shallow dish. Working in
batches, drop 2-tablespoon mounds
of dough (or use #30 scoop) directly
into granulated sugar and roll to coat.
Transfer dough balls to confection-
ers’ sugar and roll to coat; space
dough balls evenly on prepared
sheets, 11 per sheet.
n Bake cookies, 1 sheet at a time,
until they are puffed and cracked and
edges have begun to set but centers
are still soft (cookies will look raw be- Carl Tremblay/America’s Test Kitchen via AP
tween cracks and seem underdone), America’s Test Kitchen tried various ingredients and steps to de-
about 12 minutes, rotating sheet velop this recipe for chocolate crinkle cookies.
halfway through baking. Let cookies
cool on sheet for 5 minutes, then Nutrition information per serving: 35 mg cholesterol; 103 mg sodium;
transfer to wire rack. Let cookies 165 calories; 50 calories from fat; 6 29 g carbohydrate; 2 g fiber; 22 g
cool completely before serving. g fat (3 g saturated; 0 g trans fats); sugar; 3 g protein.

Short ribs
Continued from Page 5B
from edge to edge.
To make things even
easier, we frontloaded
the work. We quickly
seared the short ribs,
and then we built a sauce
with traditional pot roast
ingredients: mirepoix,
tomato paste, red wine,
beef broth and herbs. We
bagged up the beef and
sauce together for their
sous-vide bath.
Afterward, we
strained the sauce and
briefly reduced it on the
stovetop, we poured it
over the tender short
ribs and finished the
dish with a sprinkling
of fresh parsley. Easy
pot roast, no pot or
roasting required. Make
sure that the ribs are at
least 4 inches long and
1 inch thick. Be sure to
double-bag the ribs to
protect against seam
failure.
SHORT RIB POT ROAST
Servings: 4
Sous vide time: 20-24 hours
(Active time: 1 hour)
3 1/2 pounds boneless beef
short ribs, trimmed
Salt and pepper
2 tablespoons vegetable oil
1 large onion, chopped
2 celery ribs, chopped
1 carrot, peeled and chopped
1 tablespoon tomato paste
1 garlic clove, minced
1 cup dry red wine
1 cup beef broth
8 sprigs fresh thyme
2 bay leaves
2 tablespoons minced fresh
parsley
n Using sous-vide circulator,
bring water to 160 F in 7-quart
container.
n Pat ribs dry with paper
towels and season with salt
and pepper. Heat 1 table-
spoon oil in Dutch oven over
medium-high heat until just
smoking. Brown half of ribs
on all sides, 8 to 12 minutes;
transfer to plate. Repeat with
remaining 1 tablespoon oil and
ribs.
n Add onion, celery, carrot,
1/4 teaspoon salt, and 1/4
teaspoon pepper to fat left
in pot and cook over medium
heat until softened and lightly
browned, 8 to 10 minutes. Stir
in tomato paste and garlic and
cook until fragrant, about 1
minute. Stir in wine, scraping
up any browned bits, and cook
until reduced by half, 2 to 4
minutes.
n Stir in broth and simmer for
2 minutes. Transfer mixture
to blender and process until
smooth, about 1 minute.
n Divide ribs, sauce, thyme
sprigs and bay leaves between
two 1-gallon zipper-lock freezer
bags and toss to coat. Arrange
ribs in single layer and seal
bags, pressing out as much
air as possible. Place each
bag in second 1-gallon zip-
per-lock freezer bag and seal
bags. Gently lower bags into
prepared water bath until ribs
are fully submerged, and then
clip top corner of each bag to
side of water bath container,
allowing remaining air bubbles
to rise to top of bag. Reopen 1
corner of each zipper, release
remaining air bubbles, and
reseal bags. Cover and cook
for at least 20 hours or up to
24 hours.
n Using tongs, transfer ribs
to serving dish. Tent with
aluminum foil and let rest while
finishing sauce. Strain cooking
liquid through fine-mesh strain-
er into medium saucepan,
pressing on solids to extract
as much liquid as possible;
discard solids. Bring to simmer
over medium heat and cook
until reduced to 2 cups, 4 to 6
minutes. Season with salt and
pepper to taste. Spoon sauce
over ribs, sprinkle with parsley,
and serve.
Nutrition information per
serving: 464 calories; 211
calories from fat; 23 g fat (10 g
saturated; 0 g trans fats);135
mg cholesterol; mg sodium; 6
g carbohydrate; 1 g fiber; 2 g
sugar; 44 g protein.

Croutons
Continued from Page 5B
ring once or twice so they brown evenly,
until crisp and golden brown, about 15
minutes. Once cool, the croutons can
be stored in an airtight container for a
week or so. Use them in soups or sal-
ads. Follow this recipe with your kids.

GINGERY CARROT SOUP

Servings 1-2 (Makes 2 cups)
Prep Time: 10 minutes
Cook Time: 30 minutes

1 tablespoon vegetable oil

8 ounces carrots, peeled and cut into 1-inch
pieces
1 (1-inch) piece fresh ginger, peeled and
chopped
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 1/3 cups chicken or vegetable broth
1/3 cup milk
n In large saucepan, heat oil over medium
heat for 1 minute (oil should be hot but not
smoking). Add carrots, ginger, and salt and
cook, stirring occasionally with wooden spoon,
until lightly browned, about 5 minutes.
n Stir in broth, increase heat to high, and bring
to boil. Reduce heat to medium-low, cover, and
simmer until carrots are very soft, about 15
minutes. Turn off heat and slide saucepan to
cool burner. Use oven mitts to remove lid and
let cool for 5 minutes.
n Use ladle to carefully transfer carrots and
liquid into blender jar (liquid will be hot; ask
an adult for help). Add milk. Place lid on top of
blender and hold lid firmly in place with folded
Carl Tremblay/America’s Test Kitchen via AP
That stale bread can be turned into
croutons for a hot soup, like this carrot
ginger soup.
dish towel. Process until smooth, about 1 min-
ute. Pour soup into bowls or mugs and serve.
n Ginger prep: Use side of small spoon to
scrape skin from one end of large piece of gin-
ger. Peel away skin from about 1 inch of ginger.
Use a chef’s knife to cut off peeled portion of
ginger. Chop peeled ginger into small pieces.
Nutrition information per serving: 142 calories;
72 calories from fat; 8 g fat (1 g saturated; 0 g
trans fats); 4 mg cholesterol; 435 mg sodium;
15 g carbohydrate; 3 g fiber; 7 g sugar; 4 g
protein.

Gingerbread
Continued from Page 5B
1/2 teaspoon ground white
pepper
1/8 teaspoon cayenne pepper
1 cup brewed coffee
3/4 cup molasses
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1 1/2 cups (10 1/2 ounces)
sugar
3/4 cup vegetable oil
3 large eggs, lightly beaten
2 tablespoons finely grated
fresh ginger
5 cups frosting
1/4 cup chopped crystallized
ginger (optional)
n Adjust oven rack to middle
position and heat oven to 350
degrees. Grease and flour
two 8-inch round cake pans
and line pans with parchment
paper.
n Whisk flour, cocoa, ground
ginger, baking powder, cinna-
mon, salt, pepper and cay-
enne together in large bowl.
Whisk coffee, molasses and
baking soda in second large
bowl until combined. Add sug-
ar, oil, eggs, and fresh ginger
to coffee mixture and whisk
until smooth.
n Whisk coffee mixture into
flour mixture until smooth.
Pour 1 1/3 cups batter into
each prepared pan. Bake
until toothpick inserted in
center comes out clean, 12
to 14 minutes. Let cakes cool
in pans on wire rack for 10
minutes.
n Remove cakes from pan,
discarding parchment, and let
cool completely on rack, about
2 hours. Wipe pans clean with
paper towels. Let pans cool
completely, regrease and re-
flour pans, and line with fresh
parchment. Repeat process
with remaining batter.
n Line edges of cake platter
with 4 strips of parchment to
keep platter clean. Place 1
cake layer on platter. Spread
3/4 cup frosting evenly over
top, right to edge of cake.
Repeat with 2 more cake
layers, pressing lightly to
adhere and spreading 3/4 cup
frosting evenly over each layer.
Top with remaining cake layer
and spread remaining frosting
evenly over top and sides of
cake.
n Garnish top of cake with
crystallized ginger, if using.
Refrigerate until frosting is
set, about 30 minutes, before
serving. (Cake can be refriger-
ated for up to two days; bring
to room temperature before
serving.)
Nutrition information per
serving: 590 calories; 201
calories from fat; 23 g fat (3 g
saturated; 5 g trans fats); 38
mg cholesterol; 365 mg so-
dium; 94 g carbohydrate; 1 g
fiber; 75 g sugar; 3 g protein.

Potatoes
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teaspoon thyme together in
bowl. Arrange half of potatoes
in prepared dish, spread onion
mixture in even layer over
potatoes, and distribute re-
maining potatoes over onions.
Pour remaining 3/4 cup broth
over potatoes. Cover dish
tightly with aluminum foil and
bake for 1 hour.
n Remove foil, top gratin with
reserved Pecorino mixture,
and continue to bake until top
is golden brown and potatoes
are completely tender, 15 to
20 minutes. Let cool for 15
minutes. Serve.
Nutrition information per serv-
ing: 313 calories; 160 calories
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the successor trustee, The Dispatch
thence North 79 de-
• www.cdispatch.com
grees 15 minutes West Wednesday, December 5, 2018 7B
during the legal hours 75 feet; thence South
(between the hours of 00 degrees 25 minutes
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CLASSIFIEDS
o'clock p.m.) at the side of before said 30
southeast front door of foot roadway 201.9 feet
Courthouse, on Decem- the Point of Beginning,
ber 19, 2018, the fol-
lowing described land
and property being the
containing 0.5 acres,
more or less, together
with a perpetual, non-ex-
Phone: 662.328.2424
same land and property
described in said Deed
clusive easement for in-
gress and egress
classifieds@cdispatch.com
of Trust, situated in
Lowndes County, State
across the following de-
scribed property: Begin-
cdispatch.com/classifieds
of Mississippi, to-wit: ning at the Northwest
corner of the East half P.O. Box 511 • 516 Main Street
Lot 82 of an unrecor- SUBSTITUTED TRUST-
ded plat of First Colony, EE'S NOTICE OF SALE
Phase III, containing
of the West half (E 1/2
of W 1/2) of Fractional
Section 17, Township
Columbus, MS 39701
0.24 acre, more or less, WHEREAS, on March 20 South, Range 17

DEADLINES
lying in the Northwest 10, 2008, Roy Joseph West, Lowndes County,
Quarter and the North- Evans and Donna Taylor Mississippi; thence

(Deadlines
east Quarter of Section Evans, husband and
subject to19
1, Township change.) REGULAR RATES South 00 degrees 25
South, wife executed a certain minutes West, for a dis- SUPER SAVER RATES GARAGE SALE RATES
Range 18 West, deed of 4 Lines/6 Daystance
trust to Thomas ...................
of 2170 feet $19.20
to 6 Days ...................................... $12.00 4 Lines/1 Day..................$9.20
Lowndes County, Mis- F. Vetters, Trustee for
4 Lines/12 Days
the US Army Corps of
................. $31.20 12 Days.................................... $18.00 4 Lines/3 Days..............$18.00
For Placing/Canceling Classified Line Ads:
sissippi, and being de- the benefit of Mortgage Engineers easement
Over 6 lines is $1 per additional line.
Sunday Paper Deadline is Thursday 3:00
scribed as follows: Com- Electronic
P.M. 4 Lines/26
RegistrationDays line;.................
thence Easterly $46.80 Price includes 2 FREE Garage Sale
mencing at the North- Systems, Inc. as nomin- along said easement Six lines or less, consecutive days.
Rate applies
LLC, it's to commercial operations signs. RAIN GUARANTEE: If it
Monday Paper Deadline is Friday 12:00east P.M.corner of Lot 32 of ee for GMFS, line 30 feet; thence Rate applies to private party ads of non-commer-
First Colony, Phase I, a successors and andas- merchandise North 00 over $1,000.
degrees 25 rains the day of your sale, we will re-
Tuesday Paper Deadline is Monday 12:00 P.M.
residential community in signs which deed of minutes East 2030 feet cial nature for merchandise under $1,000. Must
Wednesday Paper Deadline is TuesdayLowndes 12:00 P.M. County, Mis- trust is of record Call in the328-2424 to thefor rates on
beginning of a include price in ad. 1 ITEM PER AD. run you ad the next week FREE!
sissippi, as shown by office of the Chancery additional
curve tolines.
the right; No pets, firewood, etc. You must call to request free re-run.
Thursday Paper Deadline is Wednesday 12:00 P.M.
plat recorded in Plat Clerk of Lowndes thence Northeasterly

INDEX
Friday Paper Deadline is Thursday 12:00 Book P.M.
5 at page 6 in the County, State of Missis- along said curve for 125
LEGAL NOTICES must be submitted 3 Office of the Chancery
business days sippi in Book 2008 at feet to a point that is
Clerk of Lowndes Page 7787; and 40 feet South of the
prior to first publication date
County, Mississippi; run North side of said East
thence South 00 de- WHEREAS, Carrington half of the West half (E
grees 17 minutes West Mortgage Services, LLC 1/2 of W 1/2); thence
• Please read your ad on the first day of publication. We accept
along the East line of has heretofore substi- South 87 degrees 00with Elderly/Sick
responsibility only for the first incorrect insertion. Lots 32, 33, 34 and 35 tuted Shapiro 0 Legals& Mas-
1780 Sitting
minutes East 3250 feet 4000 Merchandise 5000 Pets & Livestock 8000 Real Estate
• The Publisher assumes no financial responsibility for errors nor
of said subdivision for forsey, LLC 1000as Trustee by parallel with 1790 Stump
said North Removal 4030 Air Conditioners 5100 Free Pets 8050 Commercial Property
Service 1800 Swimming
omission of copy. Liability shall not exceed 240 feet to
the cost ofthe
thatPOINT
portioninstrument
of dated April side to the West side ofPools 4060 Antiques 5150 Pets 8100 Farms & Timberland
SUBSTITUTE 1030 Air Conditioning & Heating 1830 Tax Service
space occupied by such error. TRUSTEE'S OF BEGINNING; thence 9, 2018 1060 and recorded
Appliance Repair
a county road; thence 4090 Appliances 5200 Horses/Cattle/Livestock 8150 Houses - Northside
NOTICE OF SALE continue South 00 de- in the aforesaid Chan- Northwesterly1860 along
Tree Service 4120 Auctions 5250 Pet Boarding/Grooming 8200 Houses - East
• All questions regarding classified ads currently running should be
grees 17 minutes West cery Clerk's Office in 1070 Asphalt & Paving said county road to the
directed to the Classified Department. 1890 Upholstery 4150 Baby Articles 5300 Supplies/Accessories 8250 Houses - New Hope
WHEREAS, on the June along the East line of 1090 Automotive
Book MORT2018 at Services North side of said East
1910 Welding
• All ads are subject to10, the2016,
approval of this paper.
Jacqueline Lots 35The andCommercial
36 of said Page 7793; and Half of West Half (E 1/2 4180 Bargain Column 5350 Veterinarians 8300 Houses - South
1120 Building & Remodeling
Dispatch reserves the right toWynn,
Santrese reject,ex-revise,subdivision
classify orfor cancel any
80 feet; of W 1/2); 2000
thence Announcements
North 4210 Bicycles 5400 Wanted To Buy 8350 Houses - West
1150 Carpeting/Flooring
advertising at any time.ecuted a Deed of Trust thence South 89 de- WHEREAS, default hav- 87 degree 002050 minutes 4240 Building Materials 8450 Houses - Caledonia
to Wilburn J. Evans, grees 43 minutes East ing been 1180 madeChildcare
in the West 3310 feet along
Card of Thanks
4250 Burial Plots
6000 Financial 8500 Houses - Other
Trustee for the use and for 130 feet to the West terms and 1210 Chimney Cleaning
conditions of said North side 2100toFraternal
the & Lodge 6050 Business Opportunity
Advertisements must be 2150 Goodto- Things To Eat 4270 Business Furniture & 8520 Hunting Land
benefit of Mortgage right-of-way of a public said deed1240 ofContractors
trust and point of beginning, 6100 Business Opportunity Wanted
Equipment 8550 Investment Property
Electronic Registration road known as First the entire1250debt secured
Computer Services gether with a2200 In Memorial
perpetual, 6120 Check Cashing
paid for in advance.
Systems, Inc., as nom- Colony Drive (formerly
inee for FirstBank, its known as First Colony
thereby having
clared to be due and
1300
been de- non-exclusive2250
1270 Electrical
Excavating
ment for ingress
ease-Instruction & School
and& Found
2300 Lost
4300 Camera Equipment
4330 Clothing
6150 Insurance
6200 Loans
8600 Lots & Acreage
8650 Mobile Homes
successors and as- Circle); thence North 00 payable in accordance egress across the fol- 4360 Coins & Jewelry 8700 Mobile Home Spaces
You may cancel atsigns, anywhichtime Deed
during of regular business
degrees 17 minutes hours 1320 Fitness
with the terms of Training
said 2350
lowing described prop- Personals
4390 Computer Equipment
6250 Mortgages
8750 Resort Property
and receiveTrust
a refund
is on fileforand daysof re-not published.
East along said West 1330 Furniture
deed of trust, Carring- Repair & Refinishing 2400
erty; Beginning at the Special Notices
4420 Farm Equipment & Supplies
6300 Stocks & Bonds
8800 River Property
cord in the office of the right-of-way (25 feet ton Mortgage Services Northwest corner
Services,
1360 General 2600 Travel/Entertainment
of the 6350 Business for Sale
4450 Firewood 8850 Wanted to Buy

FREE SERVICES
Chancery Clerk of from centerline) for 80 LLC, the 1380
legal holder of Southeast Quarter of
Housecleaning
Lowndes County, Mis- feet; thence North 89 said indebtedness, hav- the Northwest3000 QuarterEmployment 4460 Flea Markets 7000 Rentals 8900 Waterfront Property
sissippi, in Deed of degrees 43 minutes 1390 Insulation
ing requested the under- (SE 1/4 of NW 30501/4)
Clericalof& Office 4480 Furniture 7050 Apartments
Trust Book No. 2016, at West for 130 feet to the signed Substituted 1400 Insurance Section 17, Township
3100 Data Processing/ Computer 4510 Garage Sales 7100 Commercial Property
9000 Transportation
Page 12544 thereof; point of beginning. Trustee to 1410 Interior Decorators
execute the 20 South, Range 17 Help 9050 Auto Accessories/Parts
Bargain Column Ad must fit in 4 lines (approximately
WHEREAS, said Deed of Title to the above de-
trust and1440
and property
sellJewelry/Watch
said landRepairWest, Lowndes County,
in accord-
1470 Lawn Care/Landscaping
3150 Domestic
3170
Mississippi; thence run
Engineering
4540
4570
General
Household
Merchandise
Goods
7150
7180
Houses
Hunting Land
9100 Auto Rentals & Leasing
9150 Autos for Sale
20 characters per line) and will run for 3 days. For
Trust was ultimately as- scribed property is be- items $100 or ance with1500 theLocksmiths
terms of 3200
East 30.0 feet to a General Help Wanted 4630 Lawn & Garden 7190 Land for Rent/Lease
9200 Aviation
less ONLY. More than onetoitem
signed may by
FirstBank be inlieved
sametoad, be but
good, prices
but I said deed of trust and
1530 Machinery
3250
point; run thence South
Repair 00 degrees 25
Management Positions 4660 Merchandise Rentals 7200 Mobile Homes
9250 Boats & Marine
may not total over $100, assignment
no on file and will convey only such
relists. for the purpose of rais- 3300minutes
Medical/Dental 4690 Musical Instruments 7250 Mobile Home Spaces
of record in the office of title as is vested in the ing the sums 1560 Mobile
dueHome there- ServicesWest 93.1 feet 3350toOpportunity
the Information 9300 Camper/R.V.’s
4700 Satellites 7300 Office Spaces
Free Pets the Chancery Clerk of
Up toLowndes
4 lines,County,
runs for
sissippi, in November
Mis-6 days.
aforementioned Substi- under, together
tute Trustee.
1590 Movingwith
torney's fees,
& Storage
trustee's
1620 Painting
at- point of beginning;
& Papering thence South3450 79 de-
run
3400 Part-Time
Positions Wanted
4720
4750
Sporting
Stereos &
Goods
TV’s
7350
7400
Resort
River
Rentals
Property
9350 Golf Carts
9400 Motorcycles/ATVs
fees and 1650expense of grees 15 minutes East
Lost & Found 22, Up2016, to 6 lines, ad will run for 6 days.
in
2016, at Page 26144
Book No. WITNESS MY SIGNA-
TURE, this the 13th day
sale.
Pest Control
1680 Plumbing
525.0 feet
run thence North
to3500
a Professional
point;
3550 Restaurant/Hotel
00 de-
4780 Wanted To Buy 7450 Rooms
7500 Storage & Garages
9450 Trailers/Heavy Equipment
9500 Trucks, Vans & Buses
thereof; and of November, 2018. 1710 Printing I,
NOW, THEREFORE, grees 25 minutes East
3600 Sales/Marketing 9550 Wanted to Buy
These ads are taken by fax, e-mail or in person at Shapiro &1740 Roofing & Guttering
Massey, LLC, 289.6 feet to3650Trades a point;
7520 Vacation Rentals
7550 Wanted to Rent
our office. Ads will not be take by telephone.
WHEREAS, the legal Sincerely,
holder of the said Deed /s/ Jillian Wilson,
Substituted Saws & LawninMowersrun thence South
1770 Trustee
said deed of trust, will grees 10 minutes
67 de-
3700TruckEastDriving 7600 Waterfront Property
of Trust and the note WILSON & ASSOCIATES, on January 2, 2019 of- 54.1 feet to a point;
secured thereby, substi- PLLC, Substitute fer for sale at public thence South 00 de-
Legal Notices 0010 tuted Wilson
Legal Notices & Asso-
0010 Trustee
Legal Notices 0010 outcry and sell
Legal Notices 0010 within grees 25 minutes
Legal Notices 0010 West General Services 1360 Tree Services 1860 General Help Wanted 3200 Furniture 4480
ciates, PLLC, as Trust- legal hours (being 619.54 feet to a point;
NOTICE TO CREDITORS ee therein, as author- PREPARED BY: between the hours of run thence South 77 de- MUSIC THEORY LES- A&T Tree Service FULL TIME EMPLOYEE CORINTHIAN LEATHER
ized by the terms there- Wilson & Associates, 11:00 a.m. and 4:00 grees 15 minutes West SONS Bucket truck & stump NEEDED. SOME MECH- sofas with dual re-
THE STATE OF MISSIS- of, by instrument recor- PLLC p.m.), at the Southeast 51.2 feet to a point; run $25 per hour removal. Free est. ANICAL KNOWLEDGE, cliners, new, burgundy,
SIPPI ded in the office of the 400 West Capitol Aven- Door of the County thence North 00 de- Chords, Scales, Modes Serving Columbus LIFTING & DELIVERY OF oxblood. Barely used!
LOWNDES COUNTY aforesaid Chancery ue Suite 1400 Courthouse of Lowndes grees 25 minutes East & more! Call Jimbo @ since 1987. Senior EQUIPMENT. APPLY IN Purchase price was
Clerk in October 29, Little Rock, AR 72201 County, located at 505 28.88 feet to a point; 662-364-1687 citizen disc. Call Alvin @ PERSON AT HANDY- $2400. Will sell both for
Letters of Administra- 2018, in Book No. (501)219-9388 2nd Avenue North, run thence North 79 de- If no answer leave 242-0324/241-4447 MAN RENTALS, INC. ON $1800 or $900/$1000
tion have been granted 2018, at Page 22701 File # 333384 Columbus, MS 39701, grees 15 minutes West voicemail or text. "We'll go out on a limb HWY. 82 WEST, STARK- sep. Serious inquires
and issued to the under- thereof; and to the highest and best 525.0 feet to a point; for you!" VILLE. only. H 662-798-4375
signed upon the estate PUBLISH: 11/28, 12/5 bidder for cash or certi- thence North 00 de- RETAINER WALL, drive- or C 662-574-0369.
of ALFRED LEE TAYLOR, WHEREAS, default hav- & 12/12/2018 fied funds the following grees 25 minutes East way, foundation, con- VICKERS TREE Noweta's Green Thumb
deceased, by the Chan- ing been made in the described property situ- 50.8 feet to the point of crete, masonry restora- SERVICE, LLC is accepting applica-
cery Court of Lowndes performance of the con- IN THE CHANCERY ated in Lowndes beginning, all lying in tion, remodeling, base-
Tree trimming and re- tions for 2 positions:
County, Mississippi, on ditions and stipulations COURT OF LOWNDES County, State of Missis- the Northwest Quarter moval. Fully insured. delivery personnel & General Merchandise 4600
COUNTY, MISSISSIPPI ment foundation, re- Free estimates.
the 20th day of Novem- as set forth by said sippi, to-wit: (NW 1/4) of Section 17, pairs, small dump truck general help. Driver
ber A.D., 2018. This is Deed of Trust, and hav- Township 20 South, *Now Accepting Credit must know the area & HOVERROUND CHAIR,
hauling (5-6 yd) load &
to give notice to all per- ing been requested by IN THE MATTER OF THE Lot One(1) of an unre- Range 17 West, demolition/lot cleaning.
& Debit Cards* have good driving his- needs battery. New.
sons having claims the legal holder of the ESTATE corded subdivision Lowndes County, Mis- Call Curt 662-418-0889 tory. Apply in person @ $300, Cash Only.
against said estate to indebtedness OF LORENA A. PRUDEN, known as Kincade Land- sissippi and containing Burr Masonry or 662-549-2902 1325 Main St. 662-386-2915.
DECEASED 662-242-0259. “A cut above the rest”
Probate and Register secured and described ing, described as fol- 1.32 acres, more or M-F, 3-5 & SAT, 9-1.
same with the Chan- by said Deed of Trust so lows: less, together with a No phone calls.
cery Clerk of Lowndes to do, notice is hereby CAUSE NO. 2018-0249 Beginning at the Northw- perpetual and perman- WORK WANTED: Good Things To Eat 2150
County, Mississippi, given that Wilson & As- est corner of the South- ent non-easement for in- Licensed & Bonded-car-
sociates, PLLC f/k/a FLOYD E. PRUDEN, JR., east Quarter of the gress and egress over pentry, painting, & de- PEEPLES PECANS Medical / Dental 3300 MILLERMATIC 180 wire
within ninety (90) days welder. New. $1200
from this date. A failure Adams & Edens, P.A., EXECUTOR Northwest Quarter (SE the following described molition. Landscaping, 754 Pecan Drive
Substitute Trustee, by 1/4 of NW 1/4) of Frac- land, to-wit: Beginning gutters cleaned, bush Starkville, MS GENERATIONS OF firm. CASH ONLY.
to so Probate and Re- Text, 662-386-2915.
virtue of the authority NOTICE TO CREDITORS tional Section 17, Town- at the Northwest center hogging, clean-up work, Custom cracking, VERNON is looking for
gister said claim will
forever bar the same. conferred upon me in ship 20 South, Range of the Southeast pressure washing, mov- shelling, & blowing your compassionate and
said Deed of Trust, will Letters Testamentary 17 West, Lowndes Quarter of the Northw- ing help & furniture pecans. We also sell energetic LPN’s and
offer for sale and will have been granted and County, Mississippi; est Quarter (SE 1/4 of repair. 662-242-3608 shelled, halved, & RN’s to join our caring
This the 26th day of Sporting Goods 4720
November, 2018. sell at public sale and issued to FLOYD E. thence East 30 feet to NW 1/4) of Fractional pieces! 662-574-1660. team. If you are as
outcry to the highest PRUDEN, JR., Executor the East side of a 30 Section 17, Township Lawn Care / Landscaping passionate about long ED SANDERS Gunsmith
and best bidder for cer- of the Estate of LORENA foot roadway and the 20 South, Range 17 General Help Wanted 3200 term care as we are, Open for season! 9-5,
/s/ Lowreen Taylor 1470
tified funds paid at the A. PRUDEN, deceased, point of beginning; West, Lowndes County, we welcome you to Tues-Fri & 9-12, Sat.
LOWREEN TAYLOR
conclusion of the sale, by the Chancery Court thence South 00 de- Mississippi; thence Accountant Position - apply in person at Over 50 years experi-
of Lowndes County, Mis- JESSE & BEVERLY'S Generations of Vernon,
PUBLISH: 11/28, 12/5, or credit bid from a grees 25 minutes West East 30 feet; thence LAWN SERVICE. Mow- Columbus A/R, A/P, ence! Repairs, cleaning,
bank or other lending sissippi, on the 27th along said East side South 00 degrees 25 Payroll, Sales Tax, 1050 Convalescent Rd., refinishing, scopes
& 12/12/2018 ing, cleanup, landscap-
entity pre-approved by day of November, 2018. 93.1 feet; thence South minutes West 143.9 Journal Entries, Recon- Vernon, AL 35592 mounted & zeroed,
This is to give notice to 79 degrees15 minutes feet; thence South 79 ing, sodding, & tree cut- or call 205.695.9313
the successor trustee, ciliations, Closings for handmade knives.
IN THE CHANCERY all persons having ting. 356-6525. multiple companies. and speak with Human
COURT OF LOWNDES during the legal hours East along the North degrees 15 minutes Located: Hwy 45 Alt,
(between the hours of claims against said es- right of way of a 50 foot East 344.5 feet to the Attention to detail & Resources for more in- North of West Point,
COUNTY, MISSISSIPPI tate to Probate and Re- roadway 75 feet; thence point of beginning; Painting & Papering 1620 accuracy are req. Com- formation. We have
11 o'clock a.m. and 4 turn right on Yokahama
o'clock p.m.) at the gister same with the North 00 degrees 25 thence South 00 de- petitive salary w/ bene- competitive wages, sign Blvd, 8mi & turn left on
IN THE MATTER OF THE Chancery Clerk of SULLIVAN'S PAINT fits & health insurance. on bonus for nurses,
ESTATE OF southeast front door of minutes East 295 feet; grees 25 minutes West SERVICE Darracott Rd, will see
Courthouse, on Decem- Lowndes County, Mis- thence North 79 de- 252.0 feet; thence Send Resumes To: and uniform allowance. sign, 2.5mi ahead shop
LULA PEARL TURNER sissippi, within ninety Certified in lead jobs@
LEIGH, DECEASED ber 19, 2018, the fol- grees 15 minutes West North 81 degrees 21 removal. Offering spe- on left. 662-494-6218.
lowing described land (90) days from this 75 feet; thence South minutes West 344.5 prographicsms.com
date. A failure to so Pro- cial prices on interior & Bargain Column 4180
No: 2018-238-KMB and property being the 00 degrees 25 minutes feet; thence South 00 exterior painting, pres- EXPERIENCED CIVIL
same land and property bate and Register said West along the East degrees 25 minutes sure washing & sheet Estimator/Project 6-FEET Christmas Tree.
described in said Deed claim will forever bar the side of before said 30 East 337.0 feet; thence Pets 5150
PETITIONER, CHESTER same. rock repairs. Manager needed. Apply Still in the box. $25.
A. LEIGH, JR of Trust, situated in foot roadway 201.9 feet South 21 degrees 00 Free Estimates in person at John Plott Call 662-425-2256 or
Lowndes County, State the Point of Beginning, minutes West 57.0 AMERICAN BULLDOG
THIS the 30th day of Call 435-6528 Company, Inc. 2804 662-425-2454. puppies, no papers, par-
NOTICE TO CREDITORS of Mississippi, to-wit: November, 2018.
containing 0.5 acres, feet; thence Northeast- Rice Mine Road, ents on premises. $100
more or less, together erly along the normal Tuscaloosa, AL 35406
Lot 82 of an unrecor- with a perpetual, non-ex- water level of the Plumbing 1680 Computer Equipment 4390 ea. 205-480-4351.
Letters of Administra- or email resume to
tion having been gran- ded plat of First Colony, /s/ Floyd E. Pruden, Jr. clusive easement for in- Aliceville Pool 30 feet; kwyatt@jplott.com
Phase III, containing FLOYD E. PRUDENT, gress and egress thence North 21 de- ACME, INC. APPLE IMAC, 2.0 GHz
ted on the 15th day of JR., Executor Stan McCown
November, 2018 by the 0.24 acre, more or less, across the following de- grees 00 minutes West CAMGIAN MICROSYS- Core Duo computer. Business Opportunity 6050
lying in the Northwest scribed property: Begin- 40.0 feet; thence North Licensed Plumber TEMS has a position Built-in monitor. 2GB
Chancery Court of PUBLISH: 12/5, 12/12, ning at the Northwest "We fix leaks."
Lowndes County, Mis- Quarter and the North- 00 degrees 25 minutes opening for a Corporate RAM, Keyboard, mouse, HISTORIC DOWNTOWN
east Quarter of Section & 12/19/2018 corner of the East half East 281.0 feet; thence 662-386-2915 Accountant. This is a printer & desk incl. Columbus: 411 Main
sissippi to the under-
signed upon the Estate 1, Township 19 South, SUBSTITUTED TRUST- of the West half (E 1/2 North 79 degrees 15 full-time position. $300. 205-246-8704. St. Office, Retail, Res-
of Lula Pearl Turner Range 18 West, EE'S NOTICE OF SALE of W 1/2) of Fractional minutes West a dis- Stump Removal 1790 Primary responsibilities taurant Space available.
Leigh, (d), notice is Lowndes County, Mis- Section 17, Township tance of 30.5 feet to will include leading the Farm Equipment & Supplies Call 423-333-1124.
hereby given to all per- sissippi, and being de- WHEREAS, on March 20 South, Range 17 the point of beginning. accounting functions
sons having claims scribed as follows: Com- West, Lowndes County, Said property is located and overseeing the gen- 4420
10, 2008, Roy Joseph
against said estate to mencing at the North- Evans and Donna Taylor Mississippi; thence in Lowndes County, Mis- eral ledger. For more de-
tails about the position 2016 JOHN Deere Apts For Rent: Northside 7010
present the same to the east corner of Lot 32 of Evans, husband and South 00 degrees 25 sissippi.
Clerk of said Court for First Colony, Phase I, a wife executed a certain minutes West, for a dis- and requirements, go to 5100E Tractor, 210
residential community in deed of trust to Thomas tance of 2170 feet to Municipal Address: 853 www.camgian.com/ hours. $46,500. 520 11TH St. N. -
probate and registra- Also, 2016 15ft Renovations almost
tion according to law Lowndes County, Mis- F. Vetters, Trustee for the US Army Corps of Kincade Road, Colum- careers. Send resume
sissippi, as shown by bus, MS 39702 ALLSTUMP GRINDING to Camgian-HR Kubota Bush hog avail. complete. 2BR/1BA,
within ninety (90) days the benefit of Mortgage Engineers easement 205-329-1790. Central H&A, fresh
from the first date of plat recorded in Plat Electronic Registration line; thence Easterly Tax Parcel Number: SERVICE @camgian.com
Book 5 at page 6 in the Systems, Inc. as nomin- along said easement 92W210003000 paint, new flooring,
publication of this no- GET 'ER DONE! appliances and more.
Office of the Chancery line 30 feet; thence We can grind all your EXPERIENCED DIESEL
tice or they will forever ee for GMFS, LLC, it's
be barred. Clerk of Lowndes North 00 degrees 25 I WILL CONVEY only stumps. Hard to reach Mechanic needed. WANTED TO BUY! Good Taking applications
successors and as- Apply in person at John used drawbar pulled roll- now. $450/mo + $450
County, Mississippi; run signs which deed of minutes East 2030 feet such title as vested in places, blown over deposit with good refer-
This the 15th day of thence South 00 de- trust is of record in the to the beginning of a me as Substituted roots, hillsides, back- Plott Company, Inc. a-bar type hay rake
November, 2018. grees 17 minutes West office of the Chancery curve to the right; Trustee. yards, pastures. Free 2804 Rice Mine Road, (such as N/H 256) and ences only. No HUD or
pets. Call Long & Long
along the East line of Clerk of Lowndes thence Northeasterly estimates. You find it, Tuscaloosa, AL 35406 a good used Kuhn
/s/ Chester A. Leigh, Jr Lots 32, 33, 34 and 35 County, State of Missis- along said curve for 125 WITNESS MY SIGNA- we'll grind it! or email resume to GMD600 (or equivalent) 662-328-0770.
of said subdivision for feet to a point that is TURE on this 6th day of 662-361-8379 kwyatt@jplott.com 6 disc mower. Also look-
CHESTER A. LEIGH, JR sippi in Book 2008 at
ADMINISTRATOR OF 240 feet to the POINT 40 feet South of the November, 2018. ing for a good cattle
Page 7787; and PCA NEEDED. Part-time, trailer. 662-328-5248.
THE ESTATE OF OF BEGINNING; thence North side of said East but long-term to work
continue South 00 de- half of the West half (E Shapiro & Massey, LLC Tree Services 1860
LULA PEARL TURNER WHEREAS, Carrington with paralyzed man in STUDIO APT for rent.
LEIGH, DECEASED grees 17 minutes West Mortgage Services, LLC 1/2 of W 1/2); thence SUBSTITUTED TRUSTEE his home. Columbus Newly remodeled.
along the East line of South 87 degrees 00 J&A TREE REMOVAL Firewood / Fuel 4450
has heretofore substi- residents only. If dedic- $400/mth rent & dep
PUBLISH: 11/21, Lots 35 and 36 of said tuted Shapiro & Mas- minutes East 3250 feet Shapiro & Massey, LLC Work from a bucket req. Convenient to town
subdivision for 80 feet; parallel with said North 1080 River Oaks Drive truck. Insured/bonded. ated to your patients, FIREWOOD FOR Sale.
11/28 & 12/5/2018 sey, LLC as Trustee by Call Jimmy for a free es- call after noon for an in- Various lengths. & CAFB. No hud. No
thence South 89 de- instrument dated April side to the West side of Suite B-202 terview. 662-329-3234. 662-295-2274 pets. 662-328-2340.
grees 43 minutes East a county road; thence Flowood, MS 39232 timate 662-386-6286.
SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE'S 9, 2018 and recorded
NOTICE OF SALE for 130 feet to the West in the aforesaid Chan- Northwesterly along (601) 981-9299
right-of-way of a public cery Clerk's Office in said county road to the
WHEREAS, on the June road known as First Book MORT2018 at North side of said East 853 Kincade Road
10, 2016, Jacqueline Colony Drive (formerly Page 7793; and Half of West Half (E 1/2 Columbus, MS 39702
Santrese Wynn, ex- known as First Colony of W 1/2); thence North 18-022583MS
ecuted a Deed of Trust Circle); thence North 00 WHEREAS, default hav- 87 degree 00 minutes
to Wilburn J. Evans, degrees 17 minutes ing been made in the West 3310 feet along Publication Dates:
Trustee for the use and East along said West terms and conditions of said North side to the December 5, 12, 19
benefit of Mortgage right-of-way (25 feet said deed of trust and point of beginning, to- and 26, 2018
Electronic Registration from centerline) for 80 the entire debt secured gether with a perpetual,
Systems, Inc., as nom- feet; thence North 89 thereby having been de- non-exclusive ease- Building & Remodeling 1120
inee for FirstBank, its degrees 43 minutes clared to be due and ment for ingress and
successors and as- West for 130 feet to the payable in accordance egress across the fol- HOME REPAIRS & CON-
signs, which Deed of point of beginning. with the terms of said lowing described prop- STRUCTION WORK
Trust is on file and of re- deed of trust, Carring- erty; Beginning at the WANTED. Carpentry, Take down
cord in the office of the Title to the above de- ton Mortgage Services, Northwest corner of the small concrete jobs,
scribed property is be- Southeast Quarter of electrical, plumbing,
Chancery Clerk of
Lowndes County, Mis-
LLC, the legal holder of
lieved to be good, but I said indebtedness, hav- the Northwest Quarter roof repairs, pressure that “for rent”
sissippi, in Deed of will convey only such ing requested the under- (SE 1/4 of NW 1/4) of washing and mobile
Trust Book No. 2016, at title as is
aforementioned
vested in
Substi-
the signed Substituted Section
20 South,
17, Township
Range 17
home roof coating and
underpinning. No job
sign and get
Page 12544 thereof; Trustee to execute the

WHEREAS, said Deed of

tute Trustee. trust and sell said land West, Lowndes County, too small. 549-7031.
and property in accord- Mississippi; thence run SUGGS CONSTRUCTION
fast results
Trust was ultimately as- WITNESS MY SIGNA- East 30.0 feet to a
signed to FirstBank by TURE,
of
this
November,
the 13th
2018.
day
ance with the terms of
said deed of trust and point; run thence South Building, remodeling,
metal roofing, painting
with an easy
assignment on file and for the purpose of rais- 00 degrees 25 minutes & all home repairs.
of record in the office of
the Chancery Clerk of Sincerely,
ing the sums due there- West 93.1 feet to the
under, together with at- point of beginning; run
662-242-3471 classified ad.
Lowndes County, Mis- /s/ Jillian Wilson, torney's fees, trustee's thence South 79 de-
WILSON & ASSOCIATES, fees and expense of grees 15 minutes East Tom Hatcher, LLC
sissippi, in November
22, 2016, in Book No. PLLC, Substitute
Trustee
sale. 525.0 feet to a point;
run thence North 00 de-
Custom Construction,
Restoration, Remodel- Call today
2016, at Page 26144 ing, Repair, Insurance
thereof; and
PREPARED BY:
NOW, THEREFORE, I, grees 25 minutes East
Shapiro & Massey, LLC, 289.6 feet to a point;
claims. 662-364-1769.
Licensed & Bonded
to place
Wilson & Associates, run thence South 67 de-
WHEREAS, the legal
holder of the said Deed PLLC
Substituted Trustee in
said deed of trust, will grees 10 minutes East
General Services 1360
your ad.
of Trust and the note 400 West Capitol Aven- on January 2, 2019 of- 54.1 feet to a point;
cdispatch.com
secured thereby, substi- ue Suite 1400
328-2424
fer for sale at public thence South 00 de- NEED A Privacy Fence?
tuted Wilson & Asso- Little Rock, AR 72201 outcry and sell within grees 25 minutes West Call JB@662-549-7167
ciates, PLLC, as Trust- (501)219-9388 legal hours (being 619.54 feet to a point; Columbus Area Only!
ee therein, as author- File # 333384 between the hours of run thence South 77 de-
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Apts For Rent: West 7050 Apts For Rent: Other 7080 Houses For Rent: Northside Rooms For Rent 7450
7110 Penny
VIP
FIRST FULL MONTH WEST POINT:
RENT FREE! 1 & 2 Bed- Room - $120/wk.

Rentals
room Apts/Townhomes.
Stove & refrigerator.
$335-$600 Monthly.
BLUECUTT ESTATES:
3BR/2BA, ch/a, double
garage, chain link
Large Room (priv entr) -
$150/wk. All furnished
w/ furn, appl, utils &
pincher?
fenced backyard, newly
Apartments Credit check & deposit. remodeled, $115,000. cable. 662-295-4701.
Coleman Realty,
& Houses 662-329-2323.
662-352-4776.
Investment Property 8550
1 Bedrooms Houses For Rent: New Hope
20% UNDIVIDED in-
2 Bedroooms 7130 terest (other owner has
3 Bedrooms COLEMAN 4BR/2BA, 1.25 Acres
80%) in beautiful devel-
opment property at the
Christopher Hills Sub;
Furnished & RENTALS $197K (15K below ap-
southeast intersection
TOWNHOUSES & APARTMENTS of two four-lane high-
Unfurnished praisal). New Hope ways, US Hwy 82 and

1, 2, & 3 Baths
1 BEDROOM School District. Avail-
able to rent $1,000/
US Hwy 45. Equidistant
to Starkville, Columbus,
Use and read
2 BEDROOMS mth - must meet minim- and West point. About
Lease, Deposit 3 BEDROOMS quirements. Military
um credit/income re- four miles from Golden classifieds
& Credit Check Triangle airport. 80%
viceinvestments.com LEASE,
families welcome. Move owner likely wants to and your
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in ready. Dep $500 plus develop. 205-826-

327-8555 DEPOSIT first month’s rent. Hot

tub, detached apart-
3225.
dollars will
AND ment, & large wired Lots & Acreage 8600
Apts For Rent: Other 7080
shop. Contact James
CREDIT CHECK Thompson @ 662-574- 2.28 +/- Acre Lot. go further.
6269. 149 Tanyia Lane. Off of
1BR/1BA in Historic Mobile Homes for Sale 8650
662-329-2323
Sudoku
Lake Lowndes Road. YESTERDAY’S ANSWER
Downtown Columbus. Has asphalt drive &
Yesterday’sANSWER
answer
GREAT LOCATION to
Sudoku
$525/mo. No pets. USED SINGLEWIDE.
662-328-8655. school, clean, 2BR/ parking, 1200 ft. shop
2BR/1BA. Delivery, Set- YESTERDAY’S
2411 HWY 45 N 1BA, a/c, gas heat, w/d w/ living area, septic up & Tie down included. Sudoku is a number-
hook up. No pets, no tank & water meter. No
Only $17,950. placing puzzle
Sudoku based on
is a number-
2 5 4 8 7 9 6 1 3
COLUMBUS, MS HUD. 662-327-2798. trailers. $45,000. Call
662-570-1375.
1BR/1BA located in His- Lv msg after 3rd ring, 662-574-0345. a 9x9 grid
placing with based
puzzle severalon 1 8 6 3 5 2 4 7 9

2018 Conceptis Puzzles, Dist. by King Features Syndicate, Inc.

toric Downtown Colum- available for showing.
bus, Open space, very 3.5 Acre Lot. 3 estab-
Campers & RVs 9300 agiven
9x9 grid with several
numbers. The object 9 3 7 6 1 4 2 5 8
nice. $650/mo. 662- Commercial Property For given numbers. The object
328-8655.
lished trailer lots. Play-
Houses For Rent: South 7140 ground. Located on TOMBIGBEE RV Park, is to place the numbers 6 7 9 1 4 8 3 2 5
Rent 7100 located on Wilkins Wise is
Morgan Lane. Off of 1 to place
to 9 the
in the numbers
empty spaces
COMMERCIAL PROPER- 2BR/2BA, 2300 sqft, Harris Road. Caledonia
Rd & Waverly Rd. Full
Hookups available.
1sotothat
9 ineach
the empty spaces
row, each 8 2 1 5 3 7 9 6 4
TIES/Retail/Office very nice w/ 2 car gar-
1BR/1BA Loft in Histor- Schools. $25,000.
age, lg back yard. Pets 662-574-0345. $300/mo. 662-328- so that each
column row, each
and each 3x3 box 3 4 5 9 2 6 7 8 1
ic Downtown Columbus. Spaces starting @ 8655 or 662-574-7879. column and each 3x3 box
$285/mo. Downtown & need approval. $1,050 contains the same number
1,200 sqft. Available
12/1. $700 per month East Columbus loca- per mo + dep. 662-574-
LOWNDES COUNTY 45 contains the same number
5 9 2 7 8 3 1 4 6
7879 or 662-328-8655. only once. The difficulty
662-328-8655. tions. 662-435-4188. acres on Sobley & Dav- only once. The difficulty 4 6 8 2 9 1 5 3 7
is Rd. Excellent hunting. level increases from
Houses For Rent: Starkville 1 mile west of Hwy. 69. Let your level increases from 7 1 3 4 6 5 8 9 2
Monday to Sunday.
1, 2, 3 BEDROOM apart-
OFFICE SPACE: 2,000
7170 Small creek runs thru fingers do the Monday to Sunday. Difficulty Level 12/04

ments & townhouses. property. $1375 per

Call for more info.
662-328-8254.
DOWNTOWN: 2BR/1BA,
CH&A, 1 story, W/D,
historic district, 1 block
from downtown, $625/
mo. + $625 dep. NO
PETS. 662-574-8789.
Peaceful & Quiet area.
Apts For Rent: Other 7080
square feet. 294 3BR/2BA House, very acre. 205-799-9846 or walking.
Chubby Dr. Flexible leas- nice, 2 mi SW of Stk & 205-695-2248.
ing terms. Available Find your
MSU. $1500/mo.
now. 662-328-8254. 205-515-6579. WINTER SPECIAL dream job in
1.95 acre lots. the classifieds!
Houses For Rent: Other 7180 Good/bad credit.
10% down, as low as
HISTORIC DOWNTOWN
Columbus Office, Retail, SMALL COTTAGE: $299/mo. Eaton Land.
Restaurant Space avail- 1BR/1BA, all appl. incl. 662-361-7711
able. Call 662-328- Water, trash, lawn incl.
Five Questions:
8655 or 662-574-7879. in lease. Near Stark- Mobile Homes for Sale 8650
ville, Columbus & West
Point. No pets.
$500/mo. $400 dep.
ASSUME PAYMENTS.
3BR/2BA, Singlewide 1 Infallible
App/refs/lease req. $299/month
662-242-2923. 3BR/2BA Doublewide
$369/month
4BR/2BA, Doublewide 2 Tea
Land For Rent / Lease 7190 $400/month
Call 205-372-7273.
25 ACRES, Hay or Pas-
ture land in Steens for
rent. 662-327-4392.
NEW DOUBLEWIDE! 3 “Outta
here!”
3BR/2BA, Central A/C,
Skirting, Delivery, Set-up
Hunting Land 7200 & Tie down included.
Only $48,995.
135 ACRES in Caledo-
4 Annapolis
Columbus Home Center
nia. $1,400 for hunting 662-570-1375
lease. 662-327-4392.
NEW SINGLEWIDE! and
2BR/2BA, Central A/C.
Indianapolis
Mobile Homes for Rent 7250
Skirting, Delivery, Set-up
3BR/2BA Trailer, New & Tie down included.
Hope school dist. Only $32,900.
$500/mo & $500 dep. Columbus Home Center
Call between 10a-7p.
662-386-4292.
662-570-1375 5 Yale
NO TEXT MESSAGES.

NICE 3BR/2BA DBW

MH in North Columbus.
Close to schools &
CAFB. $600/mo +
$600 dep. 662-308-
7781 or 601-940-1397.

RENT A fully equipped

camper w/utilities &
cable from $145/wk -
$535/month. Colum-
bus & County School
locations. 662-242-
7653 or 601-940-1397.
Houses For Sale: Other 8500 Even if you
don’t get out much
these days, you can
still “go shopping” in the
Classifieds. You can find
exactly what you’ve
been looking for.
Find someone to mow the lawn
•
Find someone to clean the house ACROSS
• 1 Some football
Find that special recliner players
• 6 Plummet
Buy a computer system 10 Plain silly
• 11 Zellweger of
Buy a used car “Chicago”
• 12 Easy two-pointer
Buy that rare coin 13 Heart, e.g.
for your collection 14 Leave out
. . . and lots more 15 Truthful

The CommerCial
16 Dieter’s no-no
17 Bottom-line

DispaTCh
figure
18 Zodiac sign
19 Sweet-talks
22 Wow ’em at the
516 Main St. comedy club
Columbus, MS 39701 23 Staff member DOWN 20 Spigot
26 Waiters’ aids 1 Took on, as work 21 Canine com-
662-328-2424 29 Affectionate
gesture
2 Zoo residents mand
3 Star on a map 24 Satyr, e.g.
www.cdispatch.com 32 Rink stuff 4 Make booties 25 Sign of error
33 Comic Bernie 5 Capitol Bldg. 27 Play part
34 Turmoil figure 28 Play parts
36 Stand 6 Forest plant 29 Corn covers
37 Publicity act 7 Brat’s opposite 30 Loosen, as laces
38 Started 8 Renter’s paper 31 Sty sound
39 Sorts 9 Slow tempo 35 Finishes
40 Find darling 11 Hotel door 36 Make over
41 Workout divi- posting 38 Outlaw
sions 15 Color
42 Network points 17 Salon staffers

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