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TODAY IN HISTORY55 B.C.: Roman forces led by Julius Caesar invade Britain.1958: Alaskans overwhelmingly vote in favor of statehood.2005: Utility crews in South Florida scramble to restore power to more than 1 million customers blacked out by Hur-ricane Katrina, which continues to churn in the Gulf of Mexico.

WEATHERTonight:

Clear, lows in the 60s Friday:

Sunny; highs in the 90sMississippi River:

22.9 feetRose: 0.03 foot

Flood stage: 43 feet

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DEATHS• Shirley Jean Chase• Walter L. Gray• Leonard Griffin• Bernice W. McGriggs• Wilbert Eugene

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The 577 stu-dents of Vicks-burg Catholic School — St. Aloysius High School and St. Francis Xavier Ele-mentary — line up on Balzli Field at Farrell Stadium Wednes-day to form a giant “1-5-0” and a cross in celebration of 150 years of Catholic education in Vicksburg. The anniversary will be marked on the weekend of Oct. 29-30 with such events as a golf scramble, street party, tours of the Cobb

House, St. Mary’s

the Sisters of Mercy Convent and Pemberton’s

Headquarters and a gala at the Southern Cultural Heritage Center. Catholic education in Vicksburg began in 1860 when the Religious Sisters of Mercy opened a school and continued as the Brothers of Sacred Heart opened St. Aloysius for boys in 1879 and the Sisters of the Holy Spirit opened the doors of St. Mary’s Catholic School in 1906.

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County balances budget with department cutsBy Danny Barrett [email protected]

Cuts in routine mainte-nance to county buildings and other infrastructure and a second straight jump in assessments on utility com-panies in Warren County have brought a balanced county budget for 2010-11 — a zeroed-out balance that seeks to maximize effects

of the remaining tax appeal lawsuit over values set last year.

A day after a settlement with Ameristar Casino resulted in an expected loss of $68,000 in revenue next fiscal year, supervisors pressed County Administra-tor John Smith to eliminate any deficit in the still-evolv-ing budget. They settled on one that takes $24,116, from

Buildings and Grounds’ money for everyday mainte-nance, $1,000 each from the chancery and circuit clerk’s

offices and reflects $10,000 less spending at the jail after a staff nurse and other medi-cal costs are cut due to priva-

tization after Oct. 1.Spending and revenue

stand balanced at $14,835,526 in the version that’s likely to be adopted following a hear-ing Sept. 7. Revenues inside the City of Vicksburg are estimated at about $31.3 mil-lion for the next fiscal year, up about $200,000 from the current budget year.

Wednesday’s action is another sign, as supervisors

have indicated for months, that property tax rates will be left alone on bills due in December.

Though unacknowledged by supervisors, the net effect of the dramatic balancing act — still subject to overruns during the year — takes some heat off supervisors to settle quickly with River-

NRoute cutting2 regular runs,Saturday ridesBy Steve [email protected]

Less than two years after expanding ser-vice to Saturdays, the NRoute Transporta-tion Commission has voted to end the week-end mini-bus runs and reduce the number of routes from nine to seven, effective Oct. 1, in an attempt to shore up its operating deficit.

“The numbers are just not adding up,” NRoute Executive Director Evelyn Bumpers told the commission at its monthly meeting Wednesday evening.

Routes No. 8 and 9, which travel along U.S. 61 South and Porters Chapel Road, will be eliminated. Those routes were added about a year after the initial seven were identified and the public transit system was created in June 2006.

Bumpers said the elimination of the two routes and Saturday runs, which went from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., will save the commission $89,668.99 a year. To date in the current fiscal year ending Sept. 30, NRoute is run-

‘A few years ago, you had casinos and hotels being built. You look across the countryside now, and there’s nothing

being built.’RichaRd GeoRGe

Board President

Mayor, too, wantsban on drug SpiceBy Steve [email protected]

Hours after Gov. Haley Barbour said on Wednes-day morn-ing he’d ask legislators to approve a statewide ban of Spice, a synthetic marijuana commonly sold as potpourri, Mayor Paul Winfield said he’d like Vicksburg to be the next city to approve a local ban.

“A lot of young people are abusing this... and I do intend at some point in time to bring this board some sort of ordinance banning these substances and the sale of these substances in our community,” Win-field said at the Vicksburg Board of Mayor and Aldermen meeting mid-morning Wednesday.

About 15 municipalities in the state,

MISSISSIPPI ARTS COMMISSION

By Ben [email protected]

The Vicksburg-based South-ern Cultural Heritage Founda-tion and local artist H.C. Porter are among this year’s nominees for a state arts honor previously received by actor Morgan Free-man and authors John Grisham and Eudora Welty.

A panel of judges selected by the Mississippi Arts Commission will announce the five winners of the 2011 Governor’s Awards for Excellence in the Arts at a Feb. 24 ceremony. In addition to the SCHF and Porter, 44 “artists, arts patrons and arts organizations from across the state” have been nominated for the award, said a news release from the MAC.

For the first time, the MAC also is conducting an online straw poll to determine favorites for the awards. Voters have until Friday to pick a top five by logging on to www.surveymonkey.com/s/NC37XFB.

Malcolm White, executive director of the MAC, said the poll won’t bind the judges who even-tually select the winner.

“It’s just a way for us to see

whether who’s winning the awards matches up with who the public thinks should win them,” he said. “It will be interesting for us to see.”

Porter, who owns an art gal-lery at 1216 Washington St., is perhaps best known for “Back-yards & Beyond: Mississippians and Their Stories,” a project that portrays Mississippians in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Her 80 mixed-media works incor-porate photography, printmaking and painting.

“She has a distinctive style of taking photographs and manipu-lating them,” White said. “She’s a very innovative and creative visual artist who has always been commercially successful.”

Porter attributes her success to her subjects.

“I think that a lot of this is probably based on ‘Backyards & Beyond,’ and I’m apprecia-tive of that,” Porter said. “All of this work, of course, would not be possible without the total

cooperation and generosity of the people of the Gulf Coast, who allowed me to just walk up to them with a camera in their darkest hour.”

The SCHF has owned the former St. Francis Xavier Academy and Convent since 2001 and offers cultural and artistic programs at the com-plex, called the Southern Cul-tural Heritage Center.

“It’s what we call an address for the arts,” White said.

“We’re thrilled about” being nominated for the award, said executive director Annette Kirklin. “It means that we’re appreciated.”

OnlineTo vote in the Mississippi Arts Commission’s online arts awards poll, visit www.surveymonkey.com/s/NC37XFB. The deadline is Friday.

H.C. Porter

SCHF, Porter nominated for state awards

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A Vicksburg man was in the Warren County Jail this morning for a drug charge.

Marcus Cooper, 28, 1901 Baldwin Ferry Road, Apt. G9, was arrested at 9:39 a.m. Wednesday at his home and charged with sale of marijuana, Lt. Bobby Stewart said.

Stewart said Cooper’s arrest followed com-plaints about drug activity in the area.

Cooper was held without bond for the Mis-sissippi Department of Corrections for a pro-bation violation.

Teenager reports theftat North Frontage gas station

A Vicksburg teen told police that a man who approached her while she was pumping gas Tuesday afternoon took cash from her before driving away.

Lt. Bobby Stewart said the teen told police she was approached at 4:41 p.m. by a man, described as black, “older and scruffy,” who told her, “You should give me the money if

you know what’s good for you.” The teen said she gave him $2 in quarters and he drove west on North Frontage Road from the gas station/convenience store at Indiana Avenue and North Frontage. The teen described his vehicle only as white. No injuries or weapons were reported.

Thieves nab books, televisionin burglaries in Vicksburg

An auto burglary and residential burglary were reported in the city Wednesday.

A Jordan book bag and books valued at $255 were missing at 3:07 p.m. from a Pontiac Grand Prix in the 2500 block of Mission 66.

A 50-inch LG TV was reported missing at 5:52 p.m. from a home in the 100 block of Enchanted Drive.

Interview skillsfocus of sessions

A two-part free workshop Monday will focus on inter-view skills, media relations and marketing.

The Make A Promise Coali-tion and the Behavioral Health Foundation of Central Mississippi will present the Interview Skills Workshop at the Courtyard Marriott on Underwood Drive, off South Frontage Road. The instruc-

tor will be Sharonda Medina.The first session, from 9

a.m. until noon, will focus on marketing an organization or project in grant proposals, media relations and speaking engagements. The second, from 5 until 6:30 p.m., will deal with preparing for a job, college and interviews.

Both sessions are open to students of all ages. Space is limited to 30 per session, and registration at 601-802-1009 is required.

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New Mount Elem M.B. —Seven Churches of Asia, 6 p.m. Friday; the Revs. Earl Cosey Jr., Willie White, Michael Wesley, Adrian Clark, Kev-in Winters, Joe Mosley and James Archer; Dr. Leonard Walker, pastor; garage sale, 6-10 a.m. Saturday; proceeds will benefit New Mount Elem God Sent Angels praise danc-ers; 3014 Wisconsin Ave.Cedar Grove M.B. — Gun safety class, 8 a.m.-5 p.m. Sat-urday; 3300 Grange Hall Road.King David M.B. No. 1 — Fit-ness and nutrition workshop, 9 a.m. Saturday; wear com-fortable clothing; sponsored by the Creative Women’s Min-istry; 2717 Letitia St.Zion Travelers M.B. — Men’s fish dinner sale, 11 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturday; $6 tickets, from any

member; 1701 Poplar St.Mount Able M.B. — Evening of singing, 5 p.m. Saturday; United Men of Christ; the Rev. Henry Hudson, pastor; U.S. 80, 1 1/2 miles east of Mound, La. Greater Mount Lebanon Baptist — Appreciation pro-gram for Curtis Ross Sr., pastor, 6 p.m. Saturday; Ron C. Regan Jr., speaker; 339 Alpine St.New Mount Pilgrim — Dea-cons program, 6 p.m. Satur-day; the Rev. Edmond Gibbs, speaker; the Rev. Henry J. Wil-liams, pastor; 501 N. Poplar St.

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CRIMEfrom staff reports

LOCALfrom staff reports

Four-year-old Austin Norwood’s hair stands on end due to static electricity built up from sliding down a slide at the playground

at Glenwood Circle Wednesday. Austin is the son of Greg and Erin Norwood of Vicksburg.

STATIC SLIDE

By Steve [email protected]

The city is seeking a $150,000 grant from the state office of Homeland Security to update a joint emergency response plan with the county — which is temporarily being denied a $34,822 federal grant adminis-tered by the Mississippi Emer-gency Management Agency because the plan is outdated.

The Vicksburg Board of Mayor and Aldermen OK’d the grant application Wednesday. If approved, it would require no local match. In a letter to a Homeland Security grants director in Jackson, Mayor Paul Winfield wrote both the city and county “lack the man-power, expertise and financial resources to complete the plan in-house.”

Warren County Emer-gency Management Direc-tor Gwen Coleman last week submitted to MEMA a draft of the updated plan that did not include the city’s role or responsibilities in the event of a local emergency. Cole-man said she did so only after months of waiting on the city to submit its revisions to the plan.

MEMA Director Mike Womack has said he intends to send members of his staff to Vicksburg and Warren County in the coming weeks to help sort out the mess and get an up-to-date compre-hensive response plan that details both city and county responsibilities.

City and county officials began meeting with MEMA officials in March about updat-ing the plan, which was last modified in 2007. A May 1 deadline was identified to make the appropriate revi-sions, but more than three months later the plan remains out of date.

Disputes between the city

and county over emergency management began imme-diately after Vicksburg cre-ated its own emergency man-agement department and response plan five years ago in the aftermath of Hurri-cane Katrina. Then-Mayor Laurence Leyens criticized the county and state for not having adequate emergency response plans.

While a handful of cities in the state have indepen-dent emergency manage-ment departments, counties are responsible for manag-ing emergency management operations and reporting to MEMA. The city previously has attempted to become the state-recognized emer-gency management depart-ment locally and has also complained about not get-ting a share of MEMA reim-bursements for joint training exercises that go into county coffers.

All counties are required to have a MEMA-approved com-prehensive emergency man-agement plan spelling out the responsibilities of various emergency response depart-ments, such as police and fire, in the event of natural disas-ters, chemical accidents or other emergencies.

MEMA will not release to Warren County $34,822 in fed-eral grant funds, which can be used for personnel and equip-ment, until the local plan is updated. Outside of three counties not participating in the grant program, Warren County is the only one of the state’s 82 without an up-to-date plan, a MEMA spokes-man has said.

Marcia Weaver, who han-dles most of the city’s grant applications, said she does not know when the city will find out if it gets the Home-land Security grant to update the plan.

City seeks $150,000to update emergencyplan with county

City man held for marijuana sale

THEODORE, Ala. (AP) — Residents near an ammonia leak that sent 130 people to hospitals were not warned for at least 45 minutes after it was detected, a delay that some said Wednesday increased the risk to their safety.

Federal regulators are inves-tigating the time lag, but the

company and emergency offi-cials said they acted as quickly as they could.

Millard Refrigerated Ser-vices said it first detected a leak at its plant on the The-odore Industrial Canal in coastal Alabama at 9:05 a.m. Monday, or 20 minutes before the Mobile Fire-Rescue

Department said it was noti-fied by a 911 call.

By then, residents and work-ers along the canal had seen a white vapor cloud billow from the plant and some were run-ning for their lives.

The director of the Mobile County Emergency Man-agement Agency said it was

about 9:50 a.m. — or 45 min-utes after Millard said it first detected the problem — before the first siren went off. Ronnie Adair said his office learned of the problem at 9:35 a.m. and needed about 15 min-utes to assess it, come up with an emergency message and notify broadcast media.

“I was pleased with our actions. We received the information and got it out as quickly as we could,” said Adair.

At least nine people were treated in intensive care units, and one remained in the hos-pital Wednesday.

Time lag focus of Alabama ammonia leak investigation

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Key device in Gulf spill didn’t get recertifiedBlowout preventer might have to be lifted from seafloor

HOUSTON (AP) — A critical device at the center of an inves-tigation into the Gulf oil rig explosion didn’t undergo a rig-orous recertification process in 2005 as required by federal reg-ulators, a worker responsible for maintaining the equipment told investigators Wednesday.

Mark Hay of rig-owner Trans-ocean said the blowout preven-ter — designed to prevent a spill in the case of an explosion — was not recertified because it was being constantly main-tained. Recertifying the five-story device requires com-pletely disassembling it out of the water and can take as long as three months to complete.

The device — which might be lifted from the seafloor a mile below the water’s surface in the coming days — failed follow-ing the rig explosion. After the blowout, some 206 million gal-lons of oil spewed into the Gulf until mid-July, when a tempo-rary cap stopped the flow. A permanent fix is expected to be put in place after Labor Day.

The blowout preventer will be key to the investigation into the April 20 explosion that killed 11 people and caused the biggest oil spill in U.S. history.

Testimony from BP and Transocean officials showed the device had not been recer-tified according to a three- to-five year timetable laid out by federal regulators; repairs were not always authorized by the manufacturer, Cameron; and in the days after the explo-sion confusion reigned about changes to the equipment, delaying attempts to close the well.

Hay could not say how much it would have cost to recer-tify the blowout preventer, but said he knew it was functioning because he personally oversaw its maintenance.

The device underwent tests to ensure it was working, he told the joint investigation by the U.S. Coast Guard and

the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement.

The device, he said, had undergone a maintenance overhaul in February as it was being moved to the Deepwater Horizon to be placed over BP’s well. When asked if he had any doubts April 20 that the device was in full working order, Hay said: “No, sir.”

He also detailed getting approval from Transocean’s headquarters before making modifications to the device, and in at least one case making a change requested by BP.

Harry Thierens, BP’s vice president for drilling and completions, told the federal panel documents detailing

the changes to the equipment were not readily available, a waste of critical time after the explosion.

It took between 12 hours and 24 hours to get drawings of changes made to a locking system, Thierens said, and there were other changes and questions.

“If that time had not been nec-essary a faster response” could have been possible, Thierens said.

During this time, Thierens kept copious handwritten notes in a logbook. Before each item he wrote the hour in military time, then noted key moments from conversations he had with personnel from BP, the opera-tor of the well, and with people

from other companies, includ-ing Transocean.

Thierens worked closely with Transocean employees to try to activate the preventer with undersea robots begin-ning four days after the explo-sion and until it became clear — sometime in early May — that the device was not going to work.

At some point in his log notes, Thierens questions whether Transocean personnel had made changes according to their own protocols. “My con-cern right now is that Trans-ocean made an ... uncontrolled change on the rig.”

It later became apparent that there were a variety of other problems with the device, including pipes being run to dif-ferent places. Thierens and the other workers trying to shut in the device suddenly learned that after hours of working to build up pressure to one area they were actually doing the work to another part of the device.

Billy Stringfellow, a Trans-ocean cementer, was “clearly emotional. Told me ’this stack is plumbed wrong,”’ Thierens added.

When pressed, however, Thierens admitted none of it mattered because the blowout preventer didn’t work, even when all the other problems were addressed.

Retired Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen, the government’s point man on the spill response, declined to give a specific time-line on when the blowout pre-venter would be raised.

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Transocean subsea supervisor Mark Hay testifies during the Deepwater Horizon joint investigation hearings in Houston.

The blowout preventer will be key to the

investigation into the April 20 explosion that

killed 11 people and caused the biggest oil

spill in U.S. history.

Judge weighing decisionon Choctaw casino vote

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Judge Jeffrey Webb is expected to rule later on a request by three Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indian mem-bers to force an election for the new casino project in the Bogue Homa community of Jones County.

Webb, a tribal judge, heard both sides of the argument earlier this week.

An attorney for the three Tribal members told the court that the office of tribal chief Beasley Denson and the Elec-tion Committee were using technicalities to deny the referendum.

The Election Committee charged that it was following the laws of the Tribe, which address a referendum, and the petition was deficient and untimely filed.

About 500 to 700 slot machines and a snack shop are

planned for the 27,000-square-foot casino on tribal land in Sandersville in Jones County. Work has started at the site.

The casino would employ about 250 people, said tribal spokesman Warren Strain, and be about an $18 million investment for the Choctaws.

The casino is on schedule to open by mid-December, Strain said.

The casino has been opposed by Mississippi Gov. Haley Bar-bour and some other state offi-cials. Barbour has threatened to go to court to stop it.

Attorney General Jim Hood has said a gaming compact signed by Republican Gov. Kirk Fordice left the state no legal grounds to halt the plans. Hood has said state and federal courts have upheld the compact, and the state’s dead-line for protesting the deal expired long ago.

Convicted rapist, murdererclose to using up appeals

JACKSON (AP) — A death row inmate convicted of kid-napping, raping and fatally shooting a 79-year-old woman is on the state’s short list for execution after the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals denied his appeal.

Rodney Gray, 38, likely will follow Frederick Bell, also 38, to the execution chamber as the two men are closest to exhausting all appeals.

The state attorney general’s office said Tuesday that a date this year is expected to be set for Bell’s execution, but Gray likely won’t be put to death until early next year.

“At this point, it does appear that Gray will be after Bell,” said Jan Schaefer, attorney general’s office spokeswoman.

The 5th Circuit in New Orleans last week upheld Gray’s conviction in the death

of Grace Blackwell of Louin.Blackwell was abducted and

forced to withdraw $1,200 from the bank. Her body was found Aug. 15, 1994, near the Newton County bridge, court records show.

Blackwell died from a shot-gun blast to the face but had other injuries, indicating she was struck by or pushed out of a vehicle.

Forensic evidence showed the victim was taped and con-nected Gray to the crime, according to the court.

Bell’s attorney, Kenneth Coghlan of Oxford, said Tues-day that he overnighted Bell’s appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court last week in an effort to prevent the execution.

“I can’t venture to guess when they will rule on it,” Coghlan said. He said the process is vexing on every-one involved.

Dog breeder slaying case sentto Jackson County grand jury

PASCAGOULA, Miss. — A judge has found proba-ble cause to send a capital murder case involving the death of a Pascagoula dog breeder to a Jackson County grand jury.

Daniel Lamont Hatten and Rodney McKenzie had their preliminary hearing in Pascagoula City Court on Wednesday.

Judge Michael Fondren bound the case over to the next grand jury.

Hatten and McKenzie were arrested on Aug. 11 in the death of Johnny Bullock.

Sentencing resetin immigration raid

HATTIESBURG, Miss. — A federal judge has resched-uled the sentencing hearing for the only company execu-tive charged in the nation’s largest workplace raid on illegal immigrants.

Jose Humberto Gonzalez pleaded guilty to conspiracy in an indictment that alleged he knowingly hired illegal immigrants at Howard Indus-tries in Laurel, where he was personnel director.

Sentencing had been sched-uled for Monday. Court records indicated it was pushed back to Oct. 28.

More than 600 were arrested in the August 2008 raid.

Gonzalez faces up to five years on the conspiracy charge.

Chevron leaderpledges improvements

PASCAGOULA, Miss. — Chevron’s Pascagoula refin-ery will return to “top-tier performance” by 2013, when the plant celebrates its 50th year in Mississippi.

Tom Kovar, the refinery’s general manager, told a local business group this week that the Pascagoula opera-

tion was once a top-tier per-former, “but we’ve slipped a bit.”

He said the company will focus on improving effi-ciency, diversifying its prod-uct line and diversifying its raw material capabilities.

1 injured in explosionat compressor station

SHONGALOO, La. — An explosion at a natu-ral gas compressor station near Shongaloo has left an employee critically injured.

The explosion at the DCP compressor station happened at about 4 a.m. Wednesday.

Officials said an employee was conducting a site inspec-tion when the accident occurred. The employee, identified as Heath Warford, was transported to Springhill where he was then airlifted to a Shreveport area hospital for treatment of critical burn-related injuries.

Board reinstates2 LSU degree programs

BATON ROUGE — LSU degree programs in compar-ative literature and in wom-en’s and gender studies have received new life when they were reinstated after previ-ously being terminated in January.

The Louisiana Board of Regents Wednesday also authorized new Baton Rouge Community College pro-grams in engineering, vet-erinary technology and diag-nostic medical sonography, a specialized form of medical imaging.

As for the LSU programs, the university successfully won appeals after the pro-grams were axed for having too few graduates.

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OLD POST FILES120 YEARS AGO: 1890Mrs. C.O. Willis dies at Cambridge, Md. • Mrs. Juliet Peale is in Meridian visiting friends.

110 YEARS AGO: 1900Sam Brown and Sam Baer return from Paris. • Cotton worms appear in Madison County.

100 YEARS AGO: 1910Five hundred people assemble at the Oak Ridge barbecue planned to aid the agricultural schedule. • John Woolfolk is home from his summer outing.

90 YEARS AGO: 1920The Rev. J.C. Greenoe is home from a successful meeting at Hickory. • Salvi, noted harpist, is in Vicksburg.

80 YEARS AGO: 1930The Jitney Jungle store on Cherry Street is formally opened. • Warren citizens vote on the issue to retain the county high-way commissioners, those favoring the commission winning by a huge majority. • Louis Froent is back from a buying trip.

70 YEARS AGO: 1940Mrs. Mary Oakes dies. • Nicholas Kahn dies.

60 YEARS AGO: 1950The 434th Engineer Construction Battalion leaves Vicks-burg for active duty with the United Nations forces, the first organization of its kind to be called out in the United States. • John Bell Williams, renominated for another congressional term last week, is the father of an 8-pound, 13-ounce daughter.

50 YEARS AGO: 1960An industrial clinic sponsored by Mississippi Power & Light Co. is held here at the Hotel Vicksburg. • Mr. and Mrs. Claude Grimes are vacationing in Colorado. • Dr. J.A.K. Birchett and Tommy are visiting in Chicago. • State Tax Collector William Winter speaks to the Kiwanis Club. • Frank Sinatra stars in “Oceans 11” at the Strand Theatre.

40 YEARS AGO: 1970Mr. and Mrs. Robert Henry announce the birth of a son, Michael, born Aug. 14. • Mrs. W.H. Davis is a patient at Mercy Hospital. • Mr. and Mrs. Thomas White announce the birth of a son, Scott Wayne, on July 23. • Mrs. F.W. McClain, Tallulah resident, dies.

30 YEARS AGO: 1980Tom Lindsey, 60-year-old factory worker, dies in his sleep. • Robert David Goshorn celebrates his fourth birthday. • Mr. and Mrs. Robert Saway are the parents of a daughter, Kath-ryn Grace, born Aug. 23.

20 YEARS AGO: 1990Jeanette Baswell dies. • Capt. Dickie Martin of the Vicksburg Fire Department warns Vicksburg residents to use caution when burning trash because of the dry weather conditions and the lack of rainfall. • Shameka Shawntae Valentine cel-ebrates her first birthday.

10 YEARS AGO: 2000Vicksburg Fire Department receives $7,500 after winning a charity volleyball tournament hosted by Rainbow Casino. • Mary Katherine Kraemer celebrates her third birthday. • Brig. Gen. Richard E. Coleman, commander of the 412th Engi-neer Command, is nominated by President Bill Clinton for promotion to the rank of major general.


It was fewer than two years ago that voters swept Barack Obama into the White House, bolstering Democratic majorities in the House and Senate and setting off a flurry of predictions about the demise of the Republican Party.

But with the 2010 elections fewer than three months away, all signs point to voters preparing for a dra-matic course correction that will pro-duce large Republican gains and is almost certain to produce arguments about what the results say about the president’s fate in 2012.

National polls are consistent in showing an electorate that is dissat-isfied with the direction of the coun-try, unimpressed with the president’s job performance, disapproving of the job Congress is doing and calling for change.

Although voters have confidence in neither of the two political par-ties, they appear to be inclined to cast their votes for GOP candidates in the fall. The Gallup poll, for example, has found more voters saying that they plan to vote Republican than Demo-

crat for Congress, a dramatic rever-sal from sentiment before the 2006 and 2008 elections, when voters told the polling organization that they intended to vote for Democratic con-gressional candidates.

Part of the Democrats’ problem is that they hold so many seats after winning a total of 51 seats in the past two elections. Forty-eight districts won by John McCain in the 2008 presidential race are currently rep-resented by Democratic House mem-bers, making them obvious targets in a midterm election when voters may

send a message of dissatisfaction about the president and the Demo-crat-controlled Congress.

Republicans need to gain 39 seats in November to take back control of the House of Representatives. A year ago, that seemed unlikely, but now control of the House is very much up for grabs. More than 70 Democratic House seats are at risk, while only a handful of GOP-held districts are in any danger.

Polling conducted in individual competitive House races shows the same thing over and over: Democratic

incumbents are under-performing even against unknown Republican challengers. This is particularly true in Republican and swing districts where the Democrats supported the economic stimulus, health care reform and the climate bill, which included the so-called cap-and-trade provision.

At this point, Republicans appear likely to gain at least 25 seats in the House, with possible gains reaching well into the 40s, or even above, if the GOP political wave reaches tsu-nami size.

In the Senate, where Republicans have only 41 seats and need to add 10 for a majority, substantial GOP gains are also likely. At least 11 Dem-ocratic-held seats are at risk, but a handful of Republican-held seats, all of them open because of retirements, are also competitive.

Republicans seem assured of gain-ing four or five Senate seats at a mini-mum, with gains of five to eight seats more likely. In a huge wave, double-digit gains are not impossible.

Of course, Democrats have more

than two months to try to limit the damage, and they will use their resources to try to change the elec-tion from being a referendum on President Obama and the Demo-cratic Congress to being a choice between Democrats who are tackling tough issues and making progress and a Republican Party that wants to return to the Bush years.

Unfortunately for the president’s party, voters understand Democrats didn’t create the economic mess, but they aren’t confident that the White House and Democratic Congressio-nal leaders have the right solutions.

Two months is indeed an eternity in politics, and we all have learned to expect the unexpected. But the cur-rent landscape is terrible for Demo-crats, and the only question is the size of their losses.

•Stuart Rothenberg is editor and publisher of the Rothenberg Political Report, a nonpartisan newsletter that reports on and handicaps Congressional elections.

For both parties, 2008 seems a lifetime away

WithdrawalFeds should begin exit from mortgage businessThe country’s housing finance

system is in dire need of revamping — this is a consensus. But the question is how to fix it. The best answer is to phase out most forms of federal mort-gage support and get taxpayers out of the mortgage-backing business.

At a conference to discuss possibili-ties earlier this week, U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner advo-cated a system that would still include the government. Instead of backing Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, the larg-est federal mortgage support institu-tions, the government would explicitly subsidize mortgage loans made by pri-vate companies.

That would be a mistake. Taxpayers have already spent more than $150 bil-lion to make up for losses that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac acquired by investing in lower-quality, subprime mortgage loans. As Mark Calabria, director of financial regulation studies at the Cato Institute, noted in a recent article, the main flaw in the current

system is that “the gains from risk-tak-ing are divorced from losses ... lend-ers, homeowners and the real estate industry reap the rewards, while the taxpayer is left holding the bag.”

Calabria also pointed out the mort-gage finance system has morphed into another form of welfare. If the government aims to redistribute wealth, he contends it needs to do so transparently.

Those in support of government-backed mortgages argue that the guar-antees are vital in order for investors to finance mortgages. Geithner said such support would ensure Ameri-cans can borrow at reasonable inter-est rates despite the downturn. He also argued the recession could worsen if unsubsidized private companies reduce lending. But other countries manage well without significant gov-ernment involvement. The Economist magazine cited a paper by Michael Lea of San Diego State University which looked at how numerous other

countries, including Germany, Brit-ain and Canada, boast fairly healthy home-ownership rates with much less government backing of mortgage finance.

Elliot Spoon, a professor at Michigan State University’s College of Law and an expert on housing legislation, says despite how central Fannie and Fred-die have been to the housing finance system, change is essential. He recom-mends winding down the mortgage giants and allowing the private market to take over. “No longer would tax-payers be on the hook for the private mortgage market,” he says.

A properly managed phase-out is important, however, since government entities such as Fannie and Freddie and the Federal Housing Adminis-tration back about 90 percent of new mortgages. The housing market is still depressed.

The government needs to begin extricating itself from the mortgage industry.

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SYDNEY (AP) — After sur-viving 14 days trapped under-ground in a collapsed Austra-lian mine, Todd Russell has a few words of wisdom for the miners trapped in Chile: Keep your sense of humor. Support each other. And belting out a rendition of Kenny Rogers’ “The Gambler” never hurts.

The 33 miners who have been trapped since the Aug. 6 mine collapse in Chile might be stuck there for up to four months as rescuers struggle to reach them. For those 33 people, Rus-sell says, surviving that mine will be all about the mind.

“Mentally, it’s going to be very hard,” says Russell, 38. “Four-teen days for us felt like an eter-nity. Four months is going to feel like light years.”

In 2006, Russell and fellow miner Brant Webb found them-selves buried a half-mile under-ground, after an earthquake caused a cave-in at a gold mine in the island state of Tasmania. The pair were trapped in the 4-foot-tall safety cage in which they’d been working.

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The only food they had was one cereal bar, which they left untouched until they’d been trapped nearly three days. Even then, they took only small nibbles of it, savoring each bite. They used their hats to collect water that seeped into the cage through the rocks.

There was no room to stand, and they spent most of the 14 days lying down. Russell’s left leg went numb. The air was stiflingly hot, but the water dripping down on them com-bined with air drafts led to hypothermia.

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“We used each other as sound-ing boards” he says. “Having someone there with you is probably the best thing.”

Five days after becoming trapped, they were singing “The Gambler” — the only song they both knew — when they heard a rescuer’s voice from above.

But they would spend nine more days waiting for the res-cuers to drill a tunnel deep enough to get them out. The uncertainty of when they would be freed was agony, Rus-sell says — an agony the Chile miners are likely to experience, too.

“After six days, they’re tell-ing us, ‘We should have you guys out in 48 hours, 48 hours, 48 hours.’ Every time that 48 hours would elapse, they’d say another 48 hours,” he says. “It was so mentally draining on

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to them through a narrow pipe they forced down through cracks in the rock. Letters from family members followed — bringing both joy and pain.

“Probably one of the hardest things is actually seeing letters being written by the families, because you couldn’t physically hold them or talk to them,” he said.

But he found great comfort in a family photo rescuers sent down at his request. He stuck it to the rock above his head and kept it there until he was freed.

After finally being pulled to safety, Russell says he experi-enced the highlight of his life upon seeing his family. But he was unprepared for the new challenges that lay ahead.

There was the media onslaught, the insomnia and the nightmares that lasted for more than a year. “It didn’t matter what you dreamed about, you always ended up trapped,” he said.


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NEW YORK (AP) — Stock futures rose moderately this morning after a drop in claims for unemployment benefits relieved some worries about slowing economic growth.

The Labor Department said claims for unemployment benefits fell to 473,000 last week, after claims climbed above 500,000 for the first time since November a week ear-lier. Economists were expect-ing a more modest drop to 490,000, according to Thom-son Reuters.

Though claims fell, the latest number still indicates claims are at a level above what is con-sidered a sign that employers

are hiring plenty of workers.In a healthy economy where

jobs are being added regularly, weekly claims usually fall below 400,000. At the height of the recession in March 2009, weekly claims peaked at 651,000.

But investors welcomed the report because it was the first decline after three straight weekly gains. It also tempered

growing expectations that the economy might fall back into recession. Economic reports in recent months have shown sluggish economic growth.

Claims had hovered around 450,000 for most of the year until they started rising a few weeks ago. At that level, com-panies might not be hiring workers, but it also doesn’t suggest layoffs are increasing

either.Ahead of today’s opening

bell, Dow Jones industrial average futures rose 45, or 0.5 percent, to 10,092. Standard & Poor’s 500 index futures rose 5.80, or 0.6 percent, to 1,060.40, while Nasdaq 100 index futures rose 13.00, or 0.7 percent, to 1,802.75.

Bond prices traded in a tight range, indicating not all inves-tors are upbeat about the unemployment report and still holding onto the relative safety of government debt. Investors tend to buy Treasurys, driving interest rates lower, when they are worried about economic growth.

Stock futures climb on drop in jobless claimsThe Labor Department said claims for unemployment benefits fell to 473,000 last week, after claims climbed above 500,000 for the first time since November a week

earlier. Economists were expecting a more modest drop to 490,000, according to Thomson Reuters.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Securities and Exchange Commission on Wednesday approved changes that make it easier for shareholders to nominate directors of public companies.

The 3-2 vote allows groups that own at least 3 percent of a company’s stock to put their nominees for board seats on the annual proxy ballot sent to all shareholders. The new

financial overhaul law enacted last month formally gave the SEC the authority to make the change.

Under the current system, investors must appeal to share-holders at their own expense if they seek new directors on a company’s board or a bylaw change.

The new policy was long sought by investor advocates. But business groups, including

the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and a group representing CEOs of large corporations, oppose it. The panel’s two Republican commissioners voted no. One of them warned that it would likely be overturned by a court. The change comes as investors are angry about risks corpo-rations are taking for short-term profit gains and extrava-gant compensation packages for executives. Getting candi-

dates on the board gives sup-porters a better shot at influ-encing company policy. For a majority of public U.S. compa-nies, the policy change will be in place in time for next spring’s corporate elections season. But it will be put off for three years for the roughly 5,000 companies deemed small, with $75 million or less in market value, of the total 10,000 to 12,000 public companies.

SEC bolsters shareholders’ say-so on board seats

SEATTLE (AP) — Dell Inc. said today that data storage maker 3Par Inc. has accepted its raised buyout bid of $1.52 billion, after the computer maker topped an offer from rival Hewlett-Packard Co.

HP and Dell, among the world’s largest personal com-puter makers, are looking at 3Par as a way to build up their “cloud computing” busi-nesses, delivering software, data storage and other ser-vices to customers over the Internet. The companies want 3Par to help keep data stor-age costs down because the company has technology that

doles out storage space on the fly.

Dell’s new offer is $24.30 a share in cash, up from its $18-per-share offer, or about $1.13 billion, on Aug. 16.

Rival HP countered with an offer of about $1.5 billion on Monday, or about $24 per share.

Dell, based in Round Rock, Texas, said it expects the deal to add to earnings by fiscal 2012.

The deal is expected to close before the end of the year, sub-ject to government approvals and other closing conditions.

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including Southaven, Horn Lake, Ridgeland, Clinton, Pascagoula, Hattiesburg and Ocean Springs, have passed local ordinances ban-ning Spice. Barbour said the statewide ban will be on the agenda of a special called session beginning Friday that also includes $50 million in incentives for a prospec-tive biofuels project.

City Attorney Lee Davis Thames Jr. said a local ordi-nance is already in the works because a statewide ban, if approved, might not take effect to upward of a year.

“The idea is to get it off the streets now,” Thames said.

Spice, as well as simi-lar substances going by names such as K2, Demon, Voodoo, Genie and others, are commonly sold at con-venience stores and smoke shops. They are all herbal and chemical products typi-cally labled “not for human consumption.” Police Chief Walter Armstrong said his department has already per-suaded some Vicksburg shop owners to stop selling the substances.

“But we have others who are still selling it,” Arm-strong told the board.

If approved locally, Thames said the ordinance would likely make possession or sale of Spice a misdemeanor. Penalties in most communi-ties that have outlawed Spice call for up to six months in jail and a $1,000 fine.

Winfield said the issue could come before the board as soon as its next meet-ing Tuesday. “When we do pass this ordinance, we are going to enforce it, so if you

get caught there are going to be ramifications,” the mayor warned.

Since Southaven and Horn Lake enacted local ordi-nances June 21, new munici-

pal bans in cities and coun-ties across the state have sprung up on an almost weekly basis. A number of states are considering state-wide bans, and eight have

already done so. Most coun-tries in Europe — where Spice first appeared in 2004 — have outlawed Spice.

The governor announced Wednesday morning that he

was expanding his call for a special session of the Legisla-ture on Friday to include the synthetic marijuana ban.

The plan to add the issue to a session called primarily

for discussions of a $50 mil-lion biofuels and research project was prompted by requests from state and local law enforcement agencies, he said.

SpiceContinued from Page A1.

On the agendaMeeting Wednesday, the Vicksburg Board of Mayor and Aldermen: • OK’d meeting minutes from June 7 and 10.• Acknowledged the following employees for anni-

versaries with the city: Frederick Banks, five years, right of way; Constance Bryan, five years, police; James Moore, five years, gas department; Leeroy Anderson, Willie Stamps and Albert Johnson, 10 years, fire; Perry Jones, 15 years, police; and Frank Ashley, 25 years, building maintenance.

• Administered the oath of office and appointed Bo-nell Robinson to the police department.

• Received a sealed bid for elevator and escalator maintenance from Otis Elevator of Jackson; for an elevator at City Hall and Vicksburg Convention Center, $130 and $185 per month, and for the es-calator at the convention center, $835 per month.

• Received a sealed bid for 33 line item traffic signal components from Quality Traffic Systems of Nash-ville and Temple Industries of Decatur, Ala.

• Awarded the following sealed bids: for asphalt, APAC Mississippi; for landscaping supplies, Flower Center Nursery, Faulk’s Farm & Garden Shop and Watkins’ Nursery Home & Garden Center, all of Vicksburg; for fire and police department uni-forms, Mid South Uniform & Supplies of Jackson.

• OK’d a number of budget amendments. • OK’d a contract for nursing services for city em-

ployees with River Region Health System for $49,500 a year.

• OK’d a resolution establishing a special downtown taxing district for the Vicksburg Main Street Pro-gram, and set the tax rate at 5.05 mills for com-mercial property owners, no change from the ex-isting rate.

• OK’d an affordable housing program agreement for owner-occupied projects with the Federal Home Loan Bank of Dallas. A $198,000 grant will provide down payment and other assistance for

first time homeowners. • OK’d final payment of $191,277.03 to Hemphill

Construction Company and closed out docu-ments for the relocation of a 30-inch water main at Jackson and Washington Streets. The project was administered by the city, but paid for by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.

• OK’d accepting a $4,000 grant requiring no local match from the Mississippi Leadership Council on Aging for the fiscal year 2011 TRIAD grant pro-gram. The funds will be used to educate 70 se-niors age 60 and older about identity theft scams.

• OK’d accepting a $52,471 grant requiring no lo-cal match from the U.S. Department of Justice for the fiscal year 2010 Justice Assistance Grant pro-gram. The money will be split evenly between the city and county, and both plan to use the funds to purchase a police squad car.

• OK’d accepting a grant from the Mississippi De-partment of Transportation to update the fuel farm at the Vicksburg Municipal Airport. The grant will require a 10 percent local match, and the board OK’d spending up to $40,000 on the match. The exact cost of the project has not been identi-fied as engineering work needs to be done and bids need to be taken.

• Gave the building and inspections department permission to cut and clean the following prop-erties found noncompliant with property main-tenance codes: Cedar School Circle PPIN No. 030175, 2840 Clay St., 1411 Harrison St. and 1601 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. A dilapidated building is also to be removed from 824 W. Pine St.

• OK’d certifying contract documents and original plans, and executed Section 902 spending on the Levee Street Depot project, to be paid for via $1.9 million in federal stimulus funds.

• Accepted a recommendation from the Vicksburg Board of Zoning Appeals to rezone 6.81 acres of land at the intersection of U.S. 61 North and North

Washington Street from C-4 general commercial to L-2 heavy industrial; and adopted an ordinance to reflect the change in the Zoning Ordinance of the City of Vicksburg. Sklar Exploration Company intends to do exploratory drilling on the land for oil and gas.

• OK’d a $120 advertisement request from the War-ren Central High School Valhalla Yearbook staff.

• OK’d a statement from Trustmark National Bank about the city’s petty cash fund.

• OK’d the following reports: city cemetery, privilege license, mayor and treasure, detail budget up-date, tax collection, delinquent tax collection and claims docket.

In closed session, the board: • OK’d three longevity pay raises in the fire depart-

ment, two in police and one each in the right of way and gas departments.

• OK’d two new hires in the water maintenance de-partment and one in parks and recreation.

• Accepted four resignations in the police depart-ment.

• OK’d seven terminations in the recreation depart-ment, seasonal employees at the City Pool, and one each in the water maintenance and sewer de-partments.

• OK’d advertising the following open positions: one seasonal employee in the parks and recreation maintenance department, one seasonal employ-ee and one equipment laborer in the right of way department, one laborer in the sewer department and two in water maintenance.

• Discussed personnel matters in the senior center and at Vicksburg Municipal Airport, but took no action.

• Discussed one insurance matter and two property matters.

The board is scheduled to meet next at 10 a.m. Tuesday in room 109 of the City Hall Annex, 1415 Walnut St.

walk Casino over its tax lia-bility this year. In fact, recent versions have been written expecting a $4.6 million loss in real property tax revenue due to the Riverwalk suit.

“A few years ago, you had casinos and hotels being built,” Board President Rich-ard George said. “You look across the countryside now, and there’s nothing being built.”

Both casinos had filed suit on grounds the county did not use state-set criteria for

casinos of their size for the purposes of taxation.

Cranes seen at the court-house Wednesday signaled the start of emergency work to replace a bad compres-sor on the building’s air conditioning system. The board was urged this week by Buildings and Grounds chief Chuck Thornton to set aside $65,000 to replace the whole system next year. That and other repair items could be affected next year if cut-backs there take hold. Cuts

in the chancery and circuit clerk’s offices are derived from their respective records fees, Smith said.

Public utility assessments by the state tax commis-sion rose by $11 million this year, thanks to the Mid-continent Express natural gas transmission pipeline coming on the tax rolls. The line was assessed at $7.6 mil-lion. Overall, the $90,157,578 in public utilities in Warren County should net $243,422 for tax revenues expected

next year, Smith said.On Friday, supervisors

will consider a $177,600 offer from Charlotte, N.C.-based Southern Health Partners to take over prescriptions and medical visits for jail inmates, a move projected to save about $10,000.

Largest among additions is a $50,000 inclusion to hire an inmate population manager to alert judges to instances of people being incarcer-ated a year or more with-out standing trial. Whether

the task is handed to cur-rent staff or another person will be decided by the sheriff once the budget is adopted.

Heading into next year, that and indigent defense costs remain the crux of concerns with the crimi-nal justice system. A public defender rotation of up to four attorneys remains under consideration, but without a decision as to how much to pay them. Officials said no money appears in the coming year’s budget for

such a setup, which would scrap the 30- or 40-lawyer list used by the circuit bench and blamed by supervisors for running up judicial costs. Baselines for defending indi-gent clients have been kept at $300,000 for next year.

Millage rates are expected to hold steady this year despite meager 1.9 percent growth in overall land value. Current millage rates are 40.53 in the county, 46.2 for schools and 35.88 inside the city.

CountyContinued from Page A1.

NRouteContinued from Page A1.

ning about $96,000 in the red. Commissioner Mark Buys said “we’re hoping we can get more support from the private sector” to end the fiscal year in the black.

Bumpers said the reduc-tion in runs and the route closures could “possibly” lead to reductions in NRoute staffing. The transit system currently has 11 full-time and five part-time employees, including drivers and admin-istrative staff.

The two routes being elimi-nated “are just not produc-tive at all,” Bumpers said, drawing in about 10 to 15 pas-sengers per day.

The Saturday runs were drawing about 45 to 50 riders across the nine routes, she said.

“As much as we hate it, it’s necessary,” Commissioner Don Brown said of the ser-vice cuts.

In March, single fares rose 25 percent to $2, while daily passes were raised by 33 per-cent to $4. Weekly passes went to $15, up from $10, and monthly passes rose from $30 to $35.

Bumpers said she did not think fare increases have contributed to lower rid-

ership numbers across all routes this fiscal year.

A total of 57,886 riders was recorded last fiscal year. With just more than one month left in the cur-rent fiscal year, ridership is at 45,233. Average monthly ridership is about 4,100 in the current year, compared to just more than 4,800 last fiscal year.

NRoute gets about 63 per-cent of its approximately $781,000 annual operat-ing budget from the Mis-sissippi Department of Transportation.

The City of Vicksburg provides about 21 percent funding, while the Warren County Board of Supervisors provides roughly 5 percent. Fares account for about 7.5 percent.

The transit system has lost all corporate sponsors since garnering an initial $320,000 in tax-deductible pledges from local businesses at its inception.

Operated as a department of the City of Vicksburg at its outset, NRoute became an independent utility in Feb-ruary 2007 and formed the transportation commission in August 2008.

Suspect in stabbings in 3 states being extradited to MichiganATLANTA (AP) — A man

suspected in 18 attacks in three states, including five fatal stabbings, was being extradited to Michigan today to face charges in at least one

of the assaults.Elias Abuelazam has been

held in an Atlanta jail since his Aug. 11 arrest at the city’s airport. He waived extradition Aug. 13, and officials had 15

business days to bring him to Michigan.

Fulton County Sheriff ’s Office spokeswoman Tracy Flanagan first said Abuela-zam left the jail around 6:30

a.m., but later said he was still in the jail being processed to leave.

The 33-year-old is charged with assault with intent to commit murder in the July 27

stabbing of a 26-year-old Flint man. It’s one of 14 stabbings of men in the Flint area, about 70 miles northwest of Detroit. He’s also suspected in simi-lar stabbings in Virginia and

Ohio.After arriving by plane in

Flint, Mich., Abuelazam is scheduled to be taken directly to the Genesee County jail.

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The Vicksburg Post prints obituaries in news form for area residents, their family members and for former residents at no charge. Families wishing to publish additional information or to use specific wording have the option of a paid obituary.

Shirley Jean ChaseShirley Jean Chase died

Tuesday, Aug. 24, 2010, at River Region Medical Center. She was 56.

Lakeview Memorial Funeral Home has charge of arrangements.

Leonard GriffinServices for Leonard Grif-

fin will be at 11 a.m. Friday at W.H. Jeffer-son Funeral Home with the Rev. Henry Wil-liams offici-ating. Burial will follow at Cedar Hill Cemetery.

Mr. Griffin died Monday, Aug. 23, 2010, at River Region Medical Center. He was 53.

He was of the Baptist faith.

Walter L. GrayEDWARDS — Services for

Walter L. “Scony” Gray will be at 11 a.m. Saturday at St. Paul M.B. Church, Smith Sta-tion in Edwards. Burial will

follow at the church cem-etery under the direction of Robbins Funeral Home.

Mr. Gray died Friday, Aug. 20, 2010, at River Region Med-ical Center. He was 46.

A native of Chicago, he was of the Baptist faith.

Bernice W. McGriggsBernice W. McGriggs died

Tuesday, Aug. 24, 2010, at Regency Hospital of Jackson. She was 78.

Mrs. McGriggs was a member of Mount Olive M.B. Church in Utica.

Dillon-Chisley Funeral Home has charge of arrangements.

Wilbert Eugene MinorServices for Wilbert

Eugene Minor will be at 1 p.m. Saturday at Greater Grove Street M.B. Church with the Rev. Casey Fisher officiating. Burial will follow at Cedar Hill Cemetery. Visi-tation will be from 4 until 6 p.m. Friday at Williams Funeral Service.

Mr. Minor died Sunday, Aug. 22, 2010. He was 56.

He was employed by Cooper Lighting Co. for 21 years.

Ida Mae StimageServices for Ida Mae

“Kimba” Stimage will be at 2

p.m. Saturday at Vicksburg City Auditorium with the Rev. Joseph Willis officiating. Burial will follow at Cedar Hill Cemetery under the direction of W.H. Jefferson Funeral Home.

Mrs. Stimage died Monday, Aug. 23, 2010, at her home. She was 72.

She was a homemaker and

member of the Triumphant Baptist Church, where she was a former usher.

Carolyn K. VaughnServices for Carolyn K.

Vaughn will be at 11 a.m. Saturday at Bethlehem M.B. Church with the Rev. Rich-ard Caples officiating. Burial will follow at Cedar Hill Cem-

etery. Visitation will be from 6 until 7 p.m. Friday at W.H. Jefferson Funeral Home.

Mrs. Vaughn, a Vicksburg native, died in Memphis on Thursday, Aug. 12, 2010. She was 59.

She worked as a nurse for more than 20 years in the Vicksburg area and in Memphis.


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chance of showers on Sat-urday; highs in the lower

90s; lows mainly in the 60s

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Clear with lows in the 60s

Friday-saturdayPartly cloudy with a

chance of showers on Sat-urday; highs in the lower

90s; lows mainly in the 60s

ALmAnACHiGHs aNd LOws

High/past 24 hours............. 91ºLow/past 24 hours .............. 69ºAverage temperature ........ 80ºNormal this date .................. 80ºRecord low .............58º in 1891Record high ............98º in1986

raiNFaLLRecorded at the

Vicksburg Water PlantPast 24 hours ................0.0 inchThis month .............3.52 inchesTotal/year ............. 36.19 inchesNormal/month .....2.56 inchesNormal/year ....... 36.00 inches

sOLuNar tabLeMost active times for fish

and wildlife Friday:A.M. Active ........................... 7:20A.M. Most active ................ 1:10P.M. Active ............................ 7:40P.M. Most active ................. 1:30

suNrise/suNsetSunset today ....................... 7:35Sunset tomorrow .............. 7:34Sunrise tomorrow ............. 6:34

RIVER DATAstaGes

Mississippi Riverat Vicksburg

Current: 22.9 | Change: +0.3Flood: 43 feet

Yazoo River at GreenwoodCurrent: 15.7 | Change: -0.5

Flood: 35 feetYazoo River at Yazoo City

Current: 13.5 | Change: -0.1Flood: 29 feet

Yazoo River at BelzoniCurrent: 15.7 | Change: -0.1

Flood: 34 feetBig Black River at West

Current: 2.5 | Change: -0.1Flood: 12 feet

Big Black River at BovinaCurrent: 7.2 | Change: -0.2

Flood: 28 feet

steeLe bayOuLand ...................................70.2River ...................................69.9

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Cairo, Ill.Friday ...................................... 28.7Saturday ................................ 27.7Sunday ................................... 26.5

MemphisFriday ...................................... 14.9Saturday ................................ 14.5Sunday ................................... 13.9

GreenvilleFriday ...................................... 30.3Saturday ................................ 30.5Sunday ................................... 30.4

VicksburgFriday ...................................... 23.6Saturday ................................ 23.9Sunday ................................... 24.1

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DEATHS

Drug cartel suspected in massacre of 72 migrantsMEXICO CITY (AP) —

Mexican security forces were bringing refrigeration equip-ment for the bodies of 72 Cen-tral and South American migrants massacred by drug cartel gunmen at a remote ranch in northern Mexico, while investigators tried today to determine their identities and why they were gunned down 100 miles from the U.S. border.

The sole survivor — an Ecuadorean who escaped and stumbled wounded to a marine checkpoint on a highway — told authorities that his cap-tors had identified themselves as Zetas, a drug gang whose control of parts of the north-ern state of Tamaulipas is so brutal and complete that even many Mexicans avoid travel-ing its highways.

If confirmed as a cartel kid-napping, the Tamaulipas mas-sacre would perhaps be the most extreme case seen so far and the bloodiest massacre of Mexico’s drug war.

President Felipe Calderon said cartels are increasingly trying to recruit migrants as foot soldiers — a concern that has also been expressed by U.S. politicians demanding more security at the border.

He insisted that such activi-ties indicated the cartels have been battered by thousands of troops and federal police battling them in their strong-holds, and are desperate for alternate means of income.

Calderon frequently makes that argument, while critics counter that Mexico’s cartels have only gotten more power-ful and brutal since the gov-ernment launched its offen-sive against the cartels in late 2006.

The drug gangs “are resort-ing to extortion and kid-nappings of migrants for their financing and also for recruitment because they are having a hard time obtain-ing resources and people,” Calderon said in a statement Wednesday night.

Authorities said they were trying to determine whether the 72 victims in Tamaulipas were killed at the same time — and why. The government was taking the bodies from the ranch to the small town of San Fernando for identifica-tion, and will have to move in

refrigeration equipment that the local authorities lack, said Ricardo Najera, a spokesman for the federal Attorney Gen-eral’s Office.

Investigators believe the migrants were from Ecua-dor, Brazil, El Salvador and Honduras.

A spokesman for Brazil’s foreign ministry said the vice consul of the Brazilian Embassy in Mexico City will be among several diplomats flown by the Mexican govern-ment to San Fernando to “help in any way he can with the investigation.” He asked not to be identified because he is not authorized to discuss the matter with the news media.

Marcio Araujo, Brazil’s consul general in Mexico, said documents found at the scene indicated at least four of the dead were Brazilian.

Migrants running the gaunt-let up Mexico to reach the United States have long faced extortion, violence and theft. But reports have grown of mass kidnappings of migrants, who are forced to give the tele-phone numbers of relatives in the United States or back home who are then required to transfer ransom payments to the abductors.

Teresa Delagadillo, who works at the Casa San Juan

Diego shelter in Matamoros just across from Brownsville, Texas, said she often hears sto-ries about criminal gangs kid-napping and beating migrants to demand money — but never a horror story on the scale of this week’s massacre.

“There hadn’t been reports that they had killed them,” she said.

In an April report, Amnesty International called the plight of tens of thousands of mainly Central American migrants crossing Mexico for the U.S. a major human rights crisis. The report called their jour-ney “one of the most danger-ous in the world” and said every year an untold number of migrants disappear with-out a trace.

Mexico’s government has confirmed at least seven cases of cartels kidnapping groups of migrants so far this year, said Antonio Diaz, an official with the National Migration Institute, a think tank that studies immigration.

But other groups say migrant kidnappings are much more rampant. In its most recent study, the National Human Rights Commission said 1,600 migrants are kidnapped in Mexico each month. It based its figures on the number of reports it received between

September 2008 and Febru-ary 2009.

On Tuesday, Ecuador-ean migrant Luis Freddy Lala Pomavilla staggered to the checkpoint with a bullet wound in his neck. He told the Mexican marines he had just escaped from gunmen at a ranch in San Fernando, 100 miles (160 kilometers) south of Brownsville, Texas.

The marines scrambled helicopters to raid the ranch, drawing gunfire from cartel gunmen. One marine and three gunmen died in the gunbattle.

Then the marines discovered a hellish scene: piles of people, some of them blindfolded and with their hands tied behind their back, slumped on top of each other along the cinder-block walls at the ranch.

The 58 men and 14 women were killed by the Zetas gang, the migrant told investiga-tors Wednesday. The gang, started by former Mexican army special forces soldiers, is known to extort money from migrants who pass through its territory.

The marines seized 21 assault rifles, shotguns and rifles, and detained a minor, apparently part of the gang.

Violence along the north-eastern border with the U.S.

has soared this year since the Zetas broke with their former employer, the Gulf cartel. Authorities say the Gulf cartel has joined forces with its once-bitter enemies, the Sinaloa and La Familia gangs, to destroy the Zetas, who have grown so powerful they now have reach into Central America.

It was the third time this year that Mexican authorities have discovered large masses of corpses. In the other two cases, investigators believe the bodies were dumped at the sites over a long time.

The Rev. Alejandro Sola-linde, who runs a shelter in the southern state of Oaxaca, where many migrants pass on their way to Tamaulipas, said the Zetas have put infor-mants inside shelters to find out which migrants have rel-atives in the U.S. — the most lucrative targets for kidnap-extortion schemes.

He said he hears horror sto-ries, including people who “say their companions have been killed with baseball bats.”

Solalinde said he has been threatened by Zetas demand-ing access to his shelters.

He said the gangsters told him: “If we kill you, they’ll close the shelter and we’ll have to look all over for the migrants.”

The site where 72 bodies were found in San Fernando, eastern Mexico.The associaTed press

MIAMI (AP) — Hurricane Danielle is churning across the open Atlantic as it heads toward Bermuda.

Danielle’s maximum sus-

tained winds today were near 105 mph and additional strengthening was expected.

Danielle was located about 770 miles southeast of Ber-

muda and moving northwest near 15 mph.

Farther east in the Atlantic, Tropical Storm Earl logged maximum sustained winds

near 45 mph. Forecasters expected Earl to become a hurricane by early Saturday.

In the Pacific off Mexi-co’s coast, Hurricane Frank

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ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Sen. Lisa Murkowski declared Wednesday that “it ain’t over yet, folks” as she faced the prospect of being ousted by a conser-vative chal-lenger backed by Sarah Palin amid wide-spread anti-incumbent rage this year.

Joe Miller leads Murkowski by about 2,000 votes with sev-eral thousand absentee bal-lots still to be counted, putting him in position to potentially be the latest political new-comer to defeat a well-known incumbent.

At a news conference in Anchorage, Murkowski men-tioned that then-Sen. Ted Ste-vens in 2008 went to bed one night in the lead and learned later he had lost his Senate seat of 40 years to Mark Begich. She said U.S. Rep. Don Young also reminded her of a race he had won after going into the election thinking he would be the clear loser.

“There is much, much yet to be counted,” she said.

Regardless of who prevails, the Republican primary is a sign of Palin’s clout in her home state after the former governor and vice presiden-tial candidate had suffered a string of loses recently in endorsing other candidates nationally.

Murkowski declined to dis-cuss what kind of role Palin might have had with the close race, but Palin and the Murkowski family have a tense history.

The Senate race repre-sents the latest chapter in the long-running political saga that began when Murkows-ki’s father, Frank, picked his daughter — not political up-and-comer Palin — to replace him in the Senate when he was elected governor in 2002.

Four years later, Palin trounced Frank Murkowski in the GOP gubernatorial pri-mary, the race that launched her start in national politics. The women have occasionally clashed.

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CALCUTTA, India — Hun-dreds of nuns, bishops and volunteers attended a Mass today marking the 100th anniversary of the birth of Mother Teresa, the selfless nun who dedicated her life to serving the sick and poor in India.

School children, tourists and volunteers, some car-rying bunches of flowers or candles, also crowded Mother Teresa’s grave in the headquarters of the Mission-aries of Charity, the order of nuns she founded in 1950 in Calcutta.

In a message read at the Mass, Pope Benedict XIV described Mother Teresa as an “inestimable gift” and said “this year will be for the church and the world an occasion of joyful gratitude to God.”

Born Aug. 26, 1910, Mother Teresa came to India in 1929. She was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979. She died in 1997. The Vatican beatified Mother Teresa in 2003.

Ex-RNC chairmanannounces he’s gay

WASHINGTON — Former Republican Party Chair-man Ken Mehlman says in a magazine interview that he is gay.

Mehlman, who was cam-paign manager for President George W. Bush in 2004 and then RNC chairman after

Bush’s re-election, told The Atlantic in an interview that he came to the conclusion he is gay and wanted to talk about it because he is for gay marriage.

“It’s taken me 43 years to get comfortable with that part of my life,” said Mehl-man, an executive with KKR, a private equity firm.

Budget woes shutterArmy GED program

FORT JACKSON, S.C. —

The Army is ending a pro-gram that helped nearly 3,000 high school dropouts earn high school equivalency cer-tificates and become soldiers.

The GED pilot program known as the Army’s prep school started here in summer 2008, when the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan left the service scrambling to find soldiers. But since, with the economy in a down-ward spiral and jobs hard to come by, more people with diplomas have been enlist-ing in the Army. In 2008, 82.8 percent of people who enlisted for active duty were

high school graduates. That number jumped to 94.6 per-cent in 2009.

“We’re a victim of our own recruiting success,” said Col. Kevin Shwedo, deputy com-mander at Fort Jackson, the Army’s largest training installation.

Slashed taxi driverto visit NYC mayor

NEW YORK — Michael Enright once volunteered with a group that promotes interfaith tolerance and has supported a proposal for a mosque near ground zero —

an experience distinctly at odds with what authorities say happened inside a city taxi.

The college student, 21, was charged Wednesday with using a knife to slash the neck and face of the taxi’s Bangladeshi driver after the driver said he’s Muslim. Police say Enright was drunk.

A taxi drivers’ labor group quickly used the attack to denounce “bigotry” over plans to build an Islamic center and mosque two blocks north of ground zero.

Mayor Michael Bloomberg, a supporter of the mosque project, invited the taxi driver to visit today.

Afghan chief criticizes U.S. withdrawal plans

KABUL, Afghanistan — President Hamid Karzai said that U.S. plans to start with-drawing troops from Afghan-istan next year had boosted the Taliban’s spirits, while an insurgent attack killed eight Afghan police in the coun-try’s increasingly volatile north today.

Speaking to a visiting U.S. congressional delegation, President Hamid Karzai said the July withdrawal date had provided “morale value” to the insurgency, the presiden-tial office said. Violence has spiked around the country as the Taliban push back.

Mother Teresa remembered as ‘inestimable gift’


Nuns of Mother Teresa’s order, the Missionaries of Charity, mark the centennial of her birth today in Calcutta, India.

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Porters Chapel turned in a solid performance in its season opener. It held a strong running back in check, pitched a shutout on defense and took advantage of its opponent’s mistakes to ring up 38 points.

All that means, though, is there’s still room for improvement when the team heads to Bastrop, La., to face Prairie View Friday night.

“Our biggest thing going into this week is we’re saying ‘not good enough,’”

PCA coach John Weaver said. “There’s miscues, reads we missed defensively. We played better than we did in the jamboree, but we can still do better.”

Mixed in with their strong moments in the opener against Tallulah Academy were several blunders.

The Eagles committed two turnovers in the first half and fumbled twice in the second, but recovered both. Freshman quarterback Jonah Masterson threw

three touchdown passes, but also was sacked twice.

To correct the mistakes, the Eagles have gone back to basics, Weaver said.

“We made (running back) Steven Moore carry a foot-ball around all week. The linemen are basically going through a week of two-a-days with learning their blocking assignments,” Weaver said.

With Prairie View (0-1),

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PREP FOOTBALLPCA at Prairie ViewFriday, 7 p.m.

St. Al at Tallulah AcademyFriday, 7 p.m.

WC at Lawrence CountyFriday, 7:30 p.m.

ON TV7 p.m. ESPN - Quarterback Peyton Manning, at least for a few series, and the In-dianapolis Colts will battle in the Green Bay Packers at historic Lambeau Field.

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DARIUS WHITEMississippi Heat Track Club run-ner won a silver med-al in the 200-meter dash at the AAU Junior Olympics held at Norfolk State in Norfolk, Va.

SIDELINESFuryk’s missed alarmcosts him plenty

PARAMUS, N.J. (AP) —Jim Furyk picked a bad time to sleep in.

Furyk overslept Wednes-day when his cell phone lost power overnight and the alarm didn’t go off, causing him to be late for his pro-am tee time in The Barclays. That left PGA Tour officials no choice but to make him ineligible for the first of four FedEx Cup play-off events.

A two-time winner on tour this year, Furyk is No. 3 in the standings as the race for the $10 million prize gets under way at Ridge-wood Country Club with-out him.

It is unlikely he will fall too far down the stand-ings, although he eliminat-ed any chance of improv-ing.

“I’m kicking myself,” Furyk said. “I have a way of climb-ing into situations that are all my fault.”

Phil Mickelson appeared to be more furious than Furyk.

“The rule itself applies to only half the field,” said Mickelson, noting that only 54 of the 122 players were in the pro-am.

LOTTERYLa. Pick 3: 9-2-1La. Pick 4: 9-4-7-5Easy 5: 6-10-23-32-33La. Lotto: 11-14-16-18-22-39Powerball: 16-17-29-31-36Powerball: 23; Power play: 3Weekly results:B2

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Open swim to hit Eagle Lake SaturdayBy Ernest [email protected]

Following a successful first run, Mississippi’s only open water swimming event is back with more divisions, more competitors and a new name.

The Gator Bait at Eagle Lake open water swim — formerly known as the Mis-sissippi Open Water Swim-ming Championships — will begin Saturday at 8:30 a.m. at Messina Landing. Regis-tration starts at 7:30.

Roughly 50 swimmers from across the South will hit the water for a 1-mile swim. There are also quar-ter- and half-mile events for younger swimmers.

“It’s about the only open

water swim that’s classi-fied for just swimming for three states. Most of these

events are part of a triath-lon,” tournament direc-tor Matthew Mixon said. “I wish we would’ve had this when I was a kid, because it gives you a break from the monotony of swimming laps. It’s got that thrill of being almost an extreme sport.”

The event was renamed to play off that thrill, Mixon added. Alligators, snakes and fish are common sights in Eagle Lake, but a small flotilla of volunteers in boats and kayaks will be positioned to keep the crit-ters at bay. The volunteers also are on hand to provide emergency assistance to any swimmers who might need it.

“We wanted a name that was catchy and daring,”

Mixon said. “But we didn’t see any critters last year. The only gator was an inflat-able one.”

Now in its second year, Mixon said he feels the event is here to stay. Around 35 swimmers participated last year, a number that has already been surpassed this time. Mixon was hopeful that good weather on Satur-day morning will draw a big enough crowd to double last year’s total.

“Last year was great. Most everybody that came last year is returning and bring-ing company,” Mixon said. “Probably 60 percent of the competitors are over the age of 18. They just enjoy swim-ming as a lifetime activity.”

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ATLANTA — NFL owners are eager to increase the regular season from 16 to 18 games.

The players aren’t so sure.During a five-hour meeting

at a posh hotel in downtown Atlanta, the push to add two more games to the regu-lar season picked up steam Wednesday — at least among those who sign the checks.

“I think it’s a win-win all around,” said Bob Kraft, owner of the New England Patriots.

The owners also unani-mously approved Stan Kroenke’s proposal to purchase majority ownership of the St. Louis Rams, assum-ing he turns over control of two other teams he owns — the NBA’s Denver Nuggets and the NHL’s Colorado Ava-lanche — to his son.

Kroenke owns 40 percent of the downtrodden Rams and exercised his right to pur-chase the rest of the team from the Rosenbloom family for a reported $750 million.

“Obviously, all of us know and respect Stan,” commis-sioner Roger Goodell said. “He’s been a terrific owner in the NFL and we’re confident he will continue to be a great owner.”

Kroenke must turn over operational and financial control of the Nuggets and Avalanche to his 30-year-old son, Josh, by the end of the year. He must give up his majority stake in the teams by December 2014 to meet NFL rules against cross-own-ership of franchises in other NFL cities.

But talks on the expanded season dominated most of the meeting.

Goodell pointed out that the league already has the right to impose an 18-game schedule — and keep four preseason games for each

Despite losing week, all is not lost with local teamsCall this chicken soup for

the prep football soul.Scanning the headlines,

local prep football fans (except those at Porters Chapel) would have right to be concerned.

Both Warren Central and Vicksburg were blasted in the Red Carpet Bowl by Ocean Springs and Gulfport, respectively.

Combined score: 84-7. Ouch, that’s going to leave a mark.

Across town, Pelahatchie blanked a young St. Aloysius team 14-0 in the opener at Balzli Field.

But things aren’t as bad as they appear. For starters, all three games were non-divi-sion games. They look bad, but don’t affect the postsea-son one iota.

In the case of Warren Cen-

tral, the Vikings needed only to hold onto the ball and cut the defensive penal-ties and they would’ve been locked in a tight game with a very good Ocean Springs team. Shon Jackson ran the ball well, and the young WC offensive line was strong in the running game. They just have to improve in their passing protection and they will be a complete unit.

The defense did a good job of containing giant wide-out Joe Morrow and run-ning back Dewayne Cherry, who didn’t have a gain longer than 15 yards. But the pen-alties, most of which were encroachment calls, hap-pened on third down, what WC coach Josh Morgan calls “the money down.” Cut those and the Vikings are in great shape defensively, especially since they are not playing as many guys both ways as they did last season. The Vikings play Lawrence County, another 0-1 team, on the road Friday.

Vicksburg needs to improve defensively on third down. The Admirals converted far too many third-and-long situ-ations and continued far too many drives.

Cameron Cooksey is an excellent passer with some excellent pass-catching weapons and the VHS run-ning game is much improved, but if the defense comes around, the Gators will be a tough out for any opponent. They will get a week off to hone off some rough edges.

The Flashes gave up just two big plays against a potent Pelahatchie team, but with the offense being very young at the skill positions, the margin for error will be slight. St. Al will have to lean heavily on a veteran line and the running of Carlton Campbell as senior Ford Bie-denharn gets up to speed at quarterback. Biedenharn is better known for running the show at point guard for the Flashes’ basketball team, but

like Heisman Trophy Char-lie Ward, he can be effective at both. He just needs time. Like WC, the Flashes will face another 0-1 team, Tallu-lah, on the road on Friday.

Everyone wants to go undefeated, but losing these games won’t impact any playoff hopes All that can be done is learn from mistakes, improve and move on.

Imagine every game as an exam. The finals are quite a few weeks away and the games now are just quizzes.

Friday’s slate of games is just an opportunity to raise the grade.

•Steve Wilson is sports editor of The Vicksburg Post. You can follow him on Twitter at vpsportseditor. He can be reached at 601-636-4545, ext. 142 or at [email protected].

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If you goThe “Gator Bait at Eagle Lake” open water swim will take place Saturday morning. Registration be-gins at 7:30 a.m. at Mes-sina Landing, and the 1-mile swim starts at 8:30. The registration fee is $35 in advance or $40 the day of the race.For information or to reg-ister, visit www.vsaswim.org or call Matthew Mixon at 601-629-7392.

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See PCA, Page B3. See NFL, Page B3.

PCA tAkes on PrAirie View

Porters Chapel defenders Lee Kirk (34) and Steven Moore (28) tackle Tallulah Academy’s Todd Harrell last week. PCA won 38-0 and will play Prairie View on Friday.

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East Division W L Pct GBNew York ......................78 49 .614 —Tampa Bay ...................78 49 .614 —Boston ..........................73 55 .570 5 1/2Toronto .........................66 60 .524 11 1/2Baltimore ......................45 82 .354 33

Central Division W L Pct GBMinnesota .....................72 55 .567 —Chicago ........................68 58 .540 3 1/2Detroit ...........................63 64 .496 9Kansas City ..................54 73 .425 18Cleveland ......................50 76 .397 21 1/2

West Division W L Pct GBTexas ............................72 54 .571 —Oakland ........................63 62 .504 8 1/2Los Angeles .................63 65 .492 10Seattle ..........................50 77 .394 22 1/2

Wednesday’s GamesKansas City 4, Detroit 3, 12 inningsBoston 5, Seattle 3, 1st gameL.A. Angels 12, Tampa Bay 3Oakland 6, Cleveland 1Toronto 6, N.Y. Yankees 3Seattle 4, Boston 2, 2nd gameTexas 4, Minnesota 3Baltimore 4, Chicago White Sox 2

Today’s GamesOakland (Mazzaro 6-5) at Cleveland (Masterson 4-12), 6:05 p.m.Detroit (Scherzer 9-9) at Toronto (R.Romero 10-7), 6:07 p.m.Minnesota (Liriano 11-7) at Texas (Cl.Lee 10-7), 7:05 p.m.Baltimore (Arrieta 4-5) at Chicago White Sox (E.Jackson 1-0), 7:10 p.m.

Friday’s GamesKansas City (Bullington 1-2) at Cleveland (Tomlin 1-3), 6:05 p.m.Detroit (Verlander 14-8) at Toronto (Marcum 11-7), 6:07 p.m.Boston (Lester 13-8) at Tampa Bay (Price 15-5), 6:10 p.m.Oakland (Bre.Anderson 3-4) at Texas (Tom.Hunter 10-2), 7:05 p.m.N.Y. Yankees (A.J.Burnett 9-11) at Chicago White Sox (F.Garcia 10-5), 7:10 p.m.Baltimore (Bergesen 5-9) at L.A. Angels (Jer.Weaver 11-9), 9:05 p.m.Minnesota (S.Baker 11-9) at Seattle (J.Vargas 9-6), 9:10 p.m.

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National leagueEast Division

W L Pct GBAtlanta ..........................73 54 .575 —Philadelphia ..................70 56 .556 2 1/2Florida ...........................63 62 .504 9New York ......................63 63 .500 9 1/2Washington ...................53 74 .417 20

Central Division W L Pct GBCincinnati ......................73 54 .575 —St. Louis .......................68 56 .548 3 1/2Milwaukee .....................59 67 .468 13 1/2Houston ........................57 69 .452 15 1/2Chicago ........................54 74 .422 19 1/2Pittsburgh .....................43 84 .339 30

West Division W L Pct GBSan Diego ....................76 49 .608 —San Francisco ..............71 57 .555 6 1/2Colorado .......................66 60 .524 10 1/2Los Angeles .................65 62 .512 12Arizona .........................49 78 .386 28

Wednesday’s GamesColorado 12, Atlanta 10Cincinnati 12, San Francisco 11, 12 inningsChicago Cubs 4, Washington 0Houston 3, Philadelphia 2Pittsburgh 5, St. Louis 2Florida 5, N.Y. Mets 4L.A. Dodgers 5, Milwaukee 4San Diego 9, Arizona 3

Today’s GamesHouston (W.Rodriguez 9-12) at Philadelphia (K.Kendrick 8-6), 12:05 p.m.L.A. Dodgers (Monasterios 3-4) at Milwaukee (Gal-lardo 11-5), 2:10 p.m.Arizona (I.Kennedy 7-9) at San Diego (Correia 10-8), 6:35 p.m.St. Louis (C.Carpenter 14-4) at Washington (Zim-mermann 0-0), 6:05 p.m.Florida (Ani.Sanchez 10-8) at N.Y. Mets (Niese 8-5), 6:10 p.m.

Friday’s GamesSt. Louis (J.Garcia 11-6) at Washington (Olsen 3-6), 6:05 p.m.Chicago Cubs (Gorzelanny 7-7) at Cincinnati (Cueto 11-4), 6:10 p.m.Houston (Figueroa 3-1) at N.Y. Mets (Pelfrey 12-7), 6:10 p.m.Florida (Volstad 7-9) at Atlanta (Hanson 8-9), 6:35 p.m.Pittsburgh (Ja.McDonald 2-3) at Milwaukee (Narveson 9-7), 7:10 p.m.L.A. Dodgers (Kershaw 11-8) at Colorado (Jime-nez 17-4), 8:10 p.m.Philadelphia (Oswalt 9-13) at San Diego (Latos 13-5), 9:05 p.m.Arizona (Enright 4-2) at San Francisco (Lincecum 11-8), 9:15 p.m.

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PIRATES 5, CARDINAlS 2St. Louis Pittsburgh ab r h bi ab r h biSchmkr rf 5 0 2 0 AMcCt cf 3 1 1 0Winn rf 2 0 0 0 Tabata lf 4 1 1 1Craig ph 1 0 0 0 NWalkr 2b 4 0 1 3Hwksw p 0 0 0 0 GJones 1b 4 1 1 1Pujols 1b 4 0 0 0 Alvarez 3b 4 0 0 0Hollidy lf 4 0 1 0 Doumit rf 4 1 2 0Jay cf 4 0 0 0 Cedeno ss 4 0 2 0FLopez ss 3 1 1 1 Snyder c 3 0 0 0P.Feliz 3b 4 1 1 0 DMcCt p 1 1 0 0BryAnd c 4 0 1 0 AnLRc ph 1 0 0 0Westrk p 2 0 0 0 Resop p 0 0 0 0Miles ph-2b 2 0 2 1 Ledezm p 0 0 0 0 Meek p 0 0 0 0 Hanrhn p 0 0 0 0Totals 35 2 8 2 Totals 32 5 8 5St. Louis ..................................000 000 101 — 2Pittsburgh ................................003 100 01x — 5LOB—St. Louis 8, Pittsburgh 6. 2B—Holliday (35). 3B—N.Walker (3). HR—F.Lopez (7), G.Jones (19). SB—Cedeno (12). S—D.McCutchen. IP H R ER BB SO St. LouisWestbrook L,1-2 6 6 4 4 1 5Hawksworth 2 2 1 1 0 2 PittsburghD.McCutchen W,2-5 6 3 0 0 2 5Resop 1-3 1 1 1 0 0Ledezma H,2 2-3 2 0 0 0 1Meek H,12 1 0 0 0 0 0Hanrahan 1 2 1 1 0 1HBP—by Westbrook (Snyder).Umpires—Home, Brian O’Nora; First, Chris Guc-cione; Second, Jerry Crawford; Third, Phil Cuzzi.T—2:33. A—12,686 (38,362).

mAJOR lEAGUE lEADERSAMERICAN LEAGUE

G AB R H Pct.Hamilton Tex ................. 122 481 89 171 .356MiCabrera Det ............... 124 448 90 153 .342Mauer Min ..................... 112 423 75 139 .329ABeltre Bos ................... 124 475 67 154 .324Cano NYY ..................... 126 487 87 157 .322DeJesus KC ................... 91 352 46 112 .318Konerko CWS ............... 119 439 73 138 .314ISuzuki Sea ................... 127 525 58 163 .310Podsednik KC ................ 95 390 46 121 .310Butler KC ....................... 125 471 57 145 .308

BATTING—Hamilton, Texas, .356; MiCabrera, Detroit, .342; Mauer, Minnesota, .329; ABeltre, Boston, .324; Cano, New York, .322; DeJesus, Kansas City, .318; Konerko, Chicago, .314.RUNS—Teixeira, New York, 94; Crawford, Tampa Bay, 91; MiCabrera, Detroit, 90; Hamilton, Texas, 89; Jeter, New York, 89; Cano, New York, 87; JBautista, Toronto, 85.RBI—MiCabrera, Detroit, 104; ARodriguez, New York, 97; JBautista, Toronto, 95; Guerrero, Texas, 93; Hamilton, Texas, 92; Teixeira, New York, 91; DelmYoung, Minnesota, 88.HITS—Hamilton, Texas, 171; ISuzuki, Seattle, 163; Cano, New York, 157; ABeltre, Boston, 154; MiCabrera, Detroit, 153; MYoung, Texas, 148; AJackson, Detroit, 147.DOUBLES—Longoria, Tampa Bay, 41; MiCabrera, Detroit, 39; Markakis, Baltimore, 39; Mauer, Min-nesota, 39; Hamilton, Texas, 38; ABeltre, Boston, 37; VWells, Toronto, 37.TRIPLES—Crawford, Tampa Bay, 8; AJackson, Detroit, 7; Pennington, Oakland, 7; Span, Minne-sota, 7; Granderson, New York, 6; Maier, Kansas City, 6; Podsednik, Kansas City, 6.HOME RUNS—JBautista, Toronto, 40; MiCabrera, Detroit, 31; Konerko, Chicago, 31; Hamilton, Texas, 30; Teixeira, New York, 28; DOrtiz, Boston, 27; Cano, New York, 25; Scott, Baltimore, 25.STOLEN BASES—Pierre, Chicago, 49; Crawford, Tampa Bay, 41; RDavis, Oakland, 37; BUpton, Tampa Bay, 36; Gardner, New York, 35; Figgins, Seattle, 32; ISuzuki, Seattle, 32.PITCHING—Sabathia, New York, 17-5; CBuch-holz, Boston, 15-5; Price, Tampa Bay, 15-5; PHughes, New York, 15-6; Pavano, Minnesota, 15-9; Cahill, Oakland, 14-5; Verlander, Detroit, 14-8.STRIKEOUTS—FHernandez, Seattle, 192; Jer-Weaver, Los Angeles, 189; Lester, Boston, 166; Liriano, Minnesota, 165; Morrow, Toronto, 165; Verlander, Detroit, 160; CLewis, Texas, 156.SAVES—RSoriano, Tampa Bay, 38; Soria, Kansas City, 36; NFeliz, Texas, 32; Papelbon, Boston, 32; Gregg, Toronto, 29; MRivera, New York, 25; Valverde, Detroit, 24; Jenks, Chicago, 24; Aards-ma, Seattle, 24.

NATIONAL LEAGUE G AB R H Pct.Votto Cin ....................... 118 438 90 143 .326CGonzalez Col .............. 112 459 81 147 .320Pujols StL ...................... 123 467 87 149 .319Prado Atl ....................... 110 475 86 151 .318Polanco Phi .................... 99 417 61 132 .317Byrd ChC ....................... 123 465 69 141 .303Holliday StL ................... 121 466 74 140 .300AHuff SF ........................ 123 447 79 134 .300Werth Phi ...................... 123 436 77 131 .300Zimmerman Was ........... 118 426 71 128 .300

BATTING—Votto, Cincinnati, .326; CGonzalez, Colorado, .320; Pujols, St. Louis, .319; Prado, Atlanta, .318; Polanco, Philadelphia, .317; Byrd, Chicago, .303; Holliday, St. Louis, .300; AHuff, San Francisco, .300; Werth, Philadelphia, .300; Zimmerman, Washington, .300.RUNS—BPhillips, Cincinnati, 90; Votto, Cincinnati, 90; Pujols, St. Louis, 87; Weeks, Milwaukee, 87; Prado, Atlanta, 86; Uggla, Florida, 83; CGonzalez, Colorado, 81.RBI—Pujols, St. Louis, 92; Votto, Cincinnati, 90; CGonzalez, Colorado, 84; McGehee, Milwaukee, 84; AdGonzalez, San Diego, 82; Howard, Philadel-phia, 82; DWright, New York, 82.HITS—BPhillips, Cincinnati, 151; Prado, Atlanta, 151; Pujols, St. Louis, 149; CGonzalez, Colorado, 147; Braun, Milwaukee, 144; Votto, Cincinnati, 143; Weeks, Milwaukee, 142.DOUBLES—Werth, Philadelphia, 42; ATorres, San Francisco, 41; Holliday, St. Louis, 35; Loney, Los Angeles, 34; Braun, Milwaukee, 33; Prado, Atlanta, 33; GSanchez, Florida, 32; ASoriano, Chicago, 32.TRIPLES—Fowler, Colorado, 9; SDrew, Arizona, 8; JosReyes, New York, 8; Victorino, Philadelphia, 8; AEscobar, Milwaukee, 7; Morgan, Washington, 7; Pagan, New York, 7.HOME RUNS—Pujols, St. Louis, 33; ADunn, Washington, 31; Votto, Cincinnati, 31; Uggla, Flor-ida, 28; MarReynolds, Arizona, 27; AdGonzalez, San Diego, 26; CGonzalez, Colorado, 26.STOLEN BASES—Bourn, Houston, 42; Morgan, Washington, 31; Pagan, New York, 31; JosReyes, New York, 28; AMcCutchen, Pittsburgh, 26; HRamirez, Florida, 26; Venable, San Diego, 25; CYoung, Arizona, 25.PITCHING—Jimenez, Colorado, 17-4; Wainwright, St. Louis, 17-8; Halladay, Philadelphia, 16-9; CCa-rpenter, St. Louis, 14-4; THudson, Atlanta, 14-5; Arroyo, Cincinnati, 14-7; Nolasco, Florida, 14-8.

STRIKEOUTS—Halladay, Philadelphia, 186; Ker-shaw, Los Angeles, 174; Lincecum, San Francisco, 173; Wainwright, St. Louis, 171; Hamels, Philadel-phia, 170; Dempster, Chicago, 168; JoJohnson, Florida, 166.SAVES—HBell, San Diego, 37; BrWilson, San Francisco, 35; FCordero, Cincinnati, 34; Wagner, Atlanta, 30; LNunez, Florida, 29; Capps, Washing-ton, 26; FRodriguez, New York, 25.

mINOR lEAGUE bASEbAllSouthern leagueNorth Division

W L Pct. GBx-Tennessee (Cubs) .....37 22 .627 —Huntsville (Brewers) .....30 29 .508 7Chattanooga (Dodgers) 28 31 .475 9West Tenn (Mariners) ..28 31 .475 9Carolina (Reds) ............25 33 .431 11 1/2

South Division W L Pct. GBx-Jacksonville (Marlins) 34 25 .576 —Mobile (D-backs) ..........33 25 .569 1/2Mississippi (Braves) ..27 32 .458 7Montgomery (Rays) ......27 32 .458 7B-ham (White Sox) ......25 34 .424 9x-clinched first half

Wednesday’s GamesChattanooga 3, Mobile 2West Tenn 5, Tennessee 4Huntsville 5, Montgomery 3Mississippi 4, Jacksonville 0Carolina 8, Birmingham 5

Today’s GamesHuntsville at Mobile, 7:05 p.m.West Tenn at Montgomery, 7:05 p.m.Jacksonville at Chattanooga, 7:15 p.m.Birmingham at Tennessee, 7:15 p.m.

Friday’s GamesCarolina at Mississippi, 7:05 p.m.Huntsville at Mobile, 7:05 p.m.West Tenn at Montgomery, 7:05 p.m.Jacksonville at Chattanooga, 7:15 p.m.Birmingham at Tennessee, 7:15 p.m.

NflNfl PRESEASON

AmERICAN CONfERENCEEast

W L T Pct PF PAMiami .................2 0 0 1.000 37 33New England .....2 0 0 1.000 55 34Buffalo ...............1 1 0 .500 51 63N.Y. Jets ............1 1 0 .500 25 34

South W L T Pct PF PATennessee .........1 1 0 .500 42 30Houston .............0 2 0 .000 36 57Indianapolis .......0 2 0 .000 38 71Jacksonville .......0 2 0 .000 53 55

North W L T Pct PF PABaltimore ...........2 0 0 1.000 40 15Pittsburgh ..........2 0 0 1.000 47 24Cincinnati ...........2 1 0 .667 62 49Cleveland ...........1 1 0 .500 44 43

West W L T Pct PF PAOakland .............2 0 0 1.000 49 26San Diego .........1 1 0 .500 39 26Denver ...............0 2 0 .000 44 58Kansas City .......0 2 0 .000 25 40

NATIONAl CONfERENCEEast

W L T Pct PF PADallas .................2 1 0 .667 41 38N.Y. Giants ........1 1 0 .500 48 40Philadelphia .......1 1 0 .500 37 49Washington ........1 1 0 .500 45 40

South W L T Pct PF PAAtlanta ...............1 1 0 .500 30 38New Orleans .....1 1 0 .500 62 47Tampa Bay ........1 1 0 .500 27 25Carolina .............0 2 0 .000 15 26

North W L T Pct PF PAGreen Bay .........1 1 0 .500 51 51Minnesota ..........1 1 0 .500 38 22Detroit ................1 1 0 .500 32 43Chicago .............0 2 0 .000 27 57

West W L T Pct PF PASan Francisco ...2 0 0 1.000 52 27Arizona ..............1 1 0 .500 29 40Seattle ...............1 1 0 .500 44 45St. Louis ............1 1 0 .500 26 45

Monday’s GameTennessee 24, Arizona 10

Today’s GamesSt. Louis at New England, 6:30 p.m.Indianapolis at Green Bay, 7 p.m.

Friday’s GamesAtlanta at Miami, 6 p.m.Washington at N.Y. Jets, 6 p.m.San Diego at New Orleans, 7 p.m.Philadelphia at Kansas City, 7 p.m.

Saturday’s GamesCleveland at Detroit, 4 p.m.Cincinnati at Buffalo, 5:30 p.m.N.Y. Giants at Baltimore, 6:30 p.m.Jacksonville at Tampa Bay, 6:30 p.m.Dallas at Houston, 7 p.m.Tennessee at Carolina, 7 p.m.Seattle at Minnesota, 7 p.m.Arizona at Chicago, 7:30 p.m.San Francisco at Oakland, 8 p.m.

Sunday’s GamePittsburgh at Denver, 7 p.m.

PREP fOOTbAllArea leaders

OffensePassing

Player Comp. Att. Yds. TD Int.Cam. Cooksey (VHS) .... 12 31 162 1 1Jonah Masterson (PC) ... 11 20 148 3 1Hunter Windham (TA) ..... 7 15 85 0 1Ricky Green (SD) ............ 5 14 79 1 0Beau Wallace (WC) ........ 4 17 40 0 2Ford Biedenharn (SA) ..... 6 10 31 0 0

RushingPlayer Att. Yds. TD Avg.Jordan Currie (CH) ......15 138 1 9.2Shon Jackson (WC) .....13 95 0 7.3T. Montgomery (SD) ....8 74 0 9.3Hakeem Johnson (SD) 8 71 1 8.9Hunter Farrior (CH) ......10 71 3 7.1Cody Landrem (TA) .....20 65 0 3.3Kaw. Gaston (VHS) .....8 48 0 6.0Ricky Green (SD) .........2 45 2 22.5Ford Biedenharn (SA) ..11 37 0 3.4

Jake Boyd (PCA) .........4 36 1 9.0Carlton Campbell (SA) .9 34 0 3.8Mont. McDaniel (PC) ...4 31 0 7.8Beau Wallace (WC) .....9 31 0 3.4

ReceivingPlayer Rec. Yds. TD Avg.Kaw. Gaston (VHS) .....6 38 0 6.3Brandon Smith (SD) .....4 61 1 15.3Mont. McDaniel (PC) ...4 59 1 14.8Chris Marshall (PC) .....3 70 1 23.3Shelton Headley (SA) ..3 13 0 4.3A.J. Stamps (VHS) .......2 95 1 47.5Rafael Soldana (TA) ....2 31 0 15.5Shan Shivers (TA) .......2 14 0 7.0Milan Nasif (VHS) ........2 12 0 6.0

DefenseTackles

Player No.Elliott Bexley (SA) ................................................ 11Melvin Young (SD) ............................................... 11Bill McRight (WC) .................................................. 9Brandon Smith (SD) ............................................... 8Jake Boyd (PC) ...................................................... 7Montana McDaniel (PC) ........................................ 7Marlon Dorsey (SD) ............................................... 7Robert Seaton (SD) ............................................... 7Derrick Hoye (SD) .................................................. 7Given Breckenridge (WC) ...................................... 6Tyler Comans (WC) ............................................... 6Thomas Mayfield (WC) .......................................... 6Scott Johnston (SA) ............................................... 6Peter Harris (PC) ................................................... 6Hunter Farrior (CH) ................................................ 6Beau Lowery (CH) ................................................. 6

Special teamsPunting

Player No. Avg.Devon Bell (WC) ........................3 ....................45.7Judson Gatling (SA) ...................4 ....................33.3Montana McDaniel (PC) ............1 ....................28.0Ricky Green (SD) .......................3 ....................23.7

Kick returnsPlayer No. Avg. TDBrandon Smith (SD) .................... 5 31.2 0Barrett Teller ............................... 3 24.7 0Key: CH-Central Hinds; PC-Porters Chapel; SA-St. Aloysius; SD-South Delta; TA-Tallulah Academy; VHS-Vicksburg High; WC-Warren Central

GOlfPGA Tour Schedule

July 1-4 — AT&T National (Justin Rose)July 8-11 — John Deere Classic (Steve Stricker)July 15-18 — The Open Championship (Louis Oosthuizen)July 15-18 — Reno-Tahoe Open (Matt Betten-court)July 22-25 — RBC Canadian Open (Carl Pet-tersson)July 29-Aug. 1 — The Greenbrier Classic (Stuart Appleby)Aug. 5-8 — WGC-Bridgestone Invitational (Hunter Mahan)Aug. 5-8 — Turning Stone Resort Championship (Bill Lunde)Aug. 12-15 — PGA Championship (Martin Kay-mer)Aug. 19-22 — Wyndham Championship (Arjun Atwal)Aug. 26-29 — The Barclays, Paramus, N.J.Sept. 3-6 — Deutsche Bank Championship, Nor-ton, Mass.Sept. 9-12 — BMW Championship, Lemont, Ill.Sept. 23-26 — THE TOUR Championship, AtlantaSept. 30-Oct. 3 — Viking Classic, Madison

World Golf RankingThrough Aug. 22

1. Tiger Woods ........................USA 9.40 2. Phil Mickelson .....................USA 9.14 3. Lee Westwood ..................... Eng 8.76 4. Steve Stricker ......................USA 7.43 5. Martin Kaymer ..................... Ger 6.75 6. Jim Furyk .............................USA 6.73 7. Rory McIlroy .........................NIr 6.00 8. Ernie Els .............................. SAf 5.66 9. Paul Casey .......................... Eng 5.6210. Luke Donald ........................ Eng 5.2611. Ian Poulter .......................... Eng 5.0512. Hunter Mahan .....................USA 4.8813. Graeme McDowell ...............NIr 4.7814. Anthony Kim .......................USA 4.52

PGA Tour FedExCup LeadersThrough Aug. 22

Rank Name Pts Money 1. Ernie Els .................1,846 $4,097,761 2. Steve Stricker .........1,697 $3,192,735 3. Jim Furyk ................1,691 $3,308,872 4. Phil Mickelson ........1,629 $3,409,233 5. Justin Rose .............1,593 $3,241,081 6. Jeff Overton ............1,536 $3,301,181 7. Hunter Mahan .........1,528 $3,283,479 8. Bubba Watson ........1,498 $2,954,761 9. Matt Kuchar ............1,437 $2,894,798 10. Tim Clark ..............1,409 $3,101,881

lOTTERYSunday’s drawingLa. Pick 3: 4-3-8La. Pick 4: 4-6-0-6Monday’s drawingLa. Pick 3: 8-7-5La. Pick 4: 0-4-9-1Tuesday’s drawingLa. Pick 3: 8-8-9La. Pick 4: 6-8-3-4Wednesday’s drawingLa. Pick 3: 9-2-1La. Pick 4: 9-4-7-5Easy 5: 6-10-23-32-33La. Lotto: 11-14-16-18-22-39Powerball: 16-17-29-31-36Powerball: 23; Power play: 3Thursday’s drawingLa. Pick 3: 4-0-1La. Pick 4: 6-5-4-3Friday’s drawingLa. Pick 3: 1-2-2La. Pick 4: 0-9-8-2Saturday’s drawingLa. Pick 3: 9-0-7La. Pick 4: 7-1-9-8Easy 5: 4-12-15-31-33La. Lotto: 1-7-19-22-33-36Powerball: 7-10-12-22-27Powerball: 26; Power play: 2

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B2 Thursday, August 26, 2010 The Vicksburg Post

GOLF1 p.m. TGC - PGA Tour, The Barclays4:30 p.m. TGC - USGA, U.S. Amateur Championship

LITTLE LEAGUE BASEBALL2 p.m. ESPN - World Series, Pool D final5 p.m. ESPN2 - World Series, Pool A final

NFL PRESEASON7 p.m. ESPN - Indianapolis at Green Bay

WNBA PLAYOFFS8 p.m. ESPN2 - Game 1, San Antonio at Phoenix

mINOR lEAGUE bASEbAllM-Braves earn rarewin over Jacksonville

Mauro Gomez’s three-run homer gave Mississippi the bump they needed as they cruised behind the pitching of Erik Cordier to a 4-0 win over the Jacksonville Suns on Wednesday at Trustmark Park. Cordier (11-7) earned his team-leading 11th win of the season and added an RBI single at the plate. Mauro Gomez broke the team record for RBIs in a season with 76.

NflOchocinco tweets apology for in-game tweeting

CINCINNATI — Chad Ochocinco has apologized for his costly tweets.

The NFL fined the Cincinnati Ben-gals wide receiver $25,000 on Tues-day for violating its restrictions on using social media sites before, during and after games. He’s the first player disciplined under the policy adopted one year ago.

He wouldn’t discuss the fine with reporters on Wednesday, but addressed it on his Twitter account, where he apologized to commis-sioner Roger Goodell.

“Dad again I apologize 2 you for my tweet, as my father I under-stand you’ve to discipline, can we try timeout next time please :)” he tweeted before practice.

Average value for NFL teams falls in tough economy

NEW YORK — The average value for NFL teams has fallen for the first time since Forbes began keep-ing track in 1998.

The magazine released its annual ranking of NFL team values Wednesday, and it found larger-market teams have weathered the rough economy far better than their smaller counterparts. Overall, the average value decreased 2 per-cent from last year to $1.022 billion.

None of the top 12 franchises lost more than 3 percent of their value. The bottom six dropped by 5 per-cent to 16 percent.

“Just like housing, people never thought it would go down,” said Marc Ganis, president of Chicago-based consulting company Sports Corp. Ltd.

Not even the NFL is immune to the economic downturn, he said, but the league is still in much better shape than many other proper-ties that have plummeted in value. Revenues aren’t a problem, but the NFL needs to get costs under con-trol, he said.

Aug. 261939 — The first Major League

Baseball game is televised, with NBC-TV broadcasting a double-header at Brooklyn’s Ebbets Field between the Cincinnati Reds and the Dodgers.

1989 — Chris Drury pitches a five-hitter as Trumbull, Conn., becomes the first American team since 1983 to capture the Little League World Series with a 5-2 victory over Kaoh-siung, Taiwan.

1995 — Greg Norman sinks a 66-foot chip on the first playoff hole to capture the World Series of Golf and become the leading money winner in PGA Tour history. Norman wins $360,000 in his third tour victory this year to raise his lifetime earnings to $9.49 million and overtake Tom Kite.

1997 — Carl Lewis finishes his track-and-field career anchoring a star-studded team to victory in the 400-meter relay to cap the ISTAF Grand Prix meet in Berlin. The team of Olympic 100-meter cham-pion Donovan Bailey, former world record-holder Leroy Burrell and Namibian sprint champion Frankie Fredericks wins in 38.24 seconds.

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Woods regrets divorce,ready to focus on golf

PARAMUS, N.J. (AP) — For the first time all summer, Tiger Woods showed up at a PGA Tour event knowing that his day would not include phone calls from a lawyer or divorce documents to approve.

He is only married to his golf now.

“This is my job,” Woods said Wednesday. “This is what I do.”

Even so, Woods slowly shook his head when asked if he felt relief that his divorce became official two days ago.

“I don’t think that’s the word,” he said. “I think it’s just more sadness. Because I don’t think you ever go into a mar-riage looking to get divorced. That’s the thing. That’s why it is sad.”

Woods still could not avoid talk about the end of his nearly six years of marriage

to Elin Nordegren, brought on my numerous extramari-tal affairs that were exposed last Thanksgiving.

As he was teeing off in the rain during the pro-am, People magazine released an inter-view with his ex-wife in which she spoke openly about how her world fell apart and that she has “been through hell.”

“I wish her the best in every-thing,” he said. “You know, it’s a sad time in our lives. And we’re looking forward in our lives and how we can help our kids the best way we possi-bly can. And that’s the most important thing.”

They have two children, 3-year-old daughter Sam and 18-month-old son Charlie.

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Braves choke away nine-run lead, lose seriesDENVER (AP) — The Colo-

rado Rockies overcame a nine-run deficit, matching the big-gest rally in team history and stunning the Atlanta Braves 12-10 Thursday on Troy Tulowitzki’s go-ahead single in the eighth inning.

Down 10-1 in the third inning, the Rockies chipped away against the NL East lead-ers before taking the lead with four runs in the eighth.

Carlos Gonzalez hit a tying, two-run single with two outs, and Tulowitzki and Todd

Helton followed with RBI sin-gles. The Rockies kept close in the wild-card race and fin-ished off a three-game sweep.

Colorado also rallied from nine runs down to beat Florida 18-17 on July 4, 2008.

The major league record for the biggest comeback is 12 runs — it’s happened three times, most recently by Cleve-land against Seattle in 2001. The NL record of 11 runs has been done three times, with

Houston doing it to St. Louis in 1994.

With one out in the eighth and the Rockies trailing 10-8, reliever Jonny Venters (4-2) walked Chris Iannetta and Melvin Mora singled. One out later, Dexter Fowler walked, bringing up Gonzalez. Kyle Farnsworth relieved, and Tulowitzki and Helton deliv-ered their hits.

Matt Belisle (6-4) picked up the win, pitching 1 1-3 innings in relief.

Brian McCann matched his

career best with four hits, including an RBI single in the Braves’ four-run second. Martin Prado doubled and drove in three runs and Jason Heyward tripled, doubled and scored twice.

Atlanta chased Colorado starter Esmil Rogers with two outs in the second inning after tagging him for seven runs and eight hits.

Manuel Corpas relieved Rogers but was lifted in the fourth inning after he felt pain in his pitching elbow.

EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn. (AP) — One of the biggest reasons Brett Favre decided to return to the Minnesota Vikings this year was his familiarity with an offense that he enjoyed being around so much in 2009.

Suddenly, in some ways, Favre feels as if he’s starting all over again.

His two favorite targets — Sidney Rice and Percy Harvin — have struggled with ail-ments throughout the pre-season. Rice had hip surgery on Monday and likely will miss the first half of the regu-lar season while Harvin has hardly practiced because of recurring migraines.

“Not a lot different than last year as far as chemistry is con-cerned,” Favre said Wednes-day. “It would have been nice to come in and go to bat with the guys that we finished with last year, but that is part of football. Every coach will say the same thing. Regardless of who is put in there we have to play the same way.”

With Favre leading the way, the Vikings changed from a run-oriented offense in the first three years under coach Brad Childress into a pass-first unit that finished second in the league in scoring.

Vikings receivers caught 207

of the 377 passes completed last season, nearly all of which were thrown by Favre. When Favre stepped into the huddle in San Francisco on Sunday night, Rice and Harvin were not even in the stadium, mean-ing 143 of last season’s recep-tions weren’t around.

Bernard Berrian (55 catches) and Greg Lewis (eight) are the only healthy receivers on this year’s roster who caught a pass from Favre in 2009.

Harvin did practice on Wednesday for the first time since a scary collapse last week brought on by migraines. He was taken from the field in an ambulance, spent the night in the hospital and did not make the trip to San Fran-cisco. His availability for Sat-urday night’s game against Seattle is in question.

The reigning rookie of the year forged a bond quickly with Favre last year, emerg-ing as his security blanket on third down. Harvin missed one

game in the regular season because of migraines and sev-eral practices in the playoffs as the Vikings marched to the NFC title game.

“Percy’s situation is kind of iffy,” Favre said. “We expect big things from him, bigger than last year. He has to take care of himself first.”

While Harvin dealt with the headaches last year, Rice’s need for surgery came as a surprise to nearly every-one. He was injured in the NFC title game loss to New Orleans, but said that doctors told him his hip would heal without surgery.

Rice posted an update on his blog on Wednesday, saying that he tweaked the injury during minicamp in June but still hoped to avoid sur-gery. But doctors told him on Monday that a new MRI showed “a problem that could shorten my career.”

“Once the Doc got in there and checked everything out, he said having the surgery was the best move I could have made, so I don’t regret it now,” Rice wrote. “He said it could have been much worse if I would have tried to play on it during the season. He said it could have been my last year of playing football, so I know I made the right decision.”

By Brett MartelAP sports writer

METAIRIE, La. — Sean Payton says poor kick and punt coverage had nothing to do with the surprise release of former special teams cap-tain and veteran linebacker Troy Evans.

Evans was one of five players cut on Tuesday night, and by Wednesday, one new player had been added to the roster: second-year linebacker K.C. Asiodu.

While Asiodu does not nec-essarily expect to replace Evans’ leadership role on spe-

cial teams, he figures his best shot to win a roster spot with the defending Super Bowl champions is to shine on kick coverage.

“If you’re not a starter, really, you’re a special teams player and you have to do it well, and I take it very seriously,” Asiodu said. “I’m not trying to come in here and be a captain. I’m just trying to come here and fit it, do what they expect me to do and make plays.”

The Saints appear to need help on special teams. After ranking 29th in kickoff cov-erage and last in punt cover-age in 2009, the Saints have

allowed three kickoff returns of more than 50 yards and one 40-yard punt return in their first two preseason games of 2010.

Coaches have said they expect to see some improve-ment in Friday night’s game against San Diego.

Asiodu, meanwhile, said the Saints told him, “they really thought I could help them on special teams and I agree with that.”

A native of Chino Hills, Calif., the 6-foot-2, 242-pound Asiodu began his college career at UNLV, where he started six games as a sophomore in

2006, but played sparingly as a junior because of injuries. He then transferred to Cen-tral Oklahoma for his senior season.

In 2009, he joined the St. Louis Rams as a rookie free agent. He was cut during pre-season and spent stints on the practice squads of both the Miami Dolphins and the Rams before being elevated to the Rams’ active roster for 11 games.

He played in all 11 games for which he was active on special teams, all the while nursing a sports hernia which required surgery after the season.

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the Eagles face a team that has often given them fits, no matter the score. Three of their four meetings since 2006 have been blowouts, yet the physical nature of the games has almost always taken a toll on PCA.

In last year’s 34-33 PCA vic-tory — the only game in the series decided by less than 26 points — the Eagles suffered a slew of injuries that lin-gered the rest of the season.

Weaver said Prairie View has its normal large, physi-cal presence but his team is better equipped to handle it this time around. PCA’s spread offense and team speed negates Prairie View’s ability, to some degree, to turn the game into a battle in the trenches. It’s a formula Trinity used to great success in beating the Spartans 54-8 last week.

“They’re always hard-

hitting. It’s not going to be a walk in the park,” said senior defensive end Ste-phen Purvis, who had three tackles and a forced fumble against Tallulah. “They’re big and physical and not going to be afraid to hit us. The team they played on film (Trinity) was real fast, and we’re the same. So we match up with them.”

Weaver felt the biggest issue for PCA, however, was to not let up after beating a big rival in its opener. Head-ing on the road to face a physical team coming off a big loss, combined with the euphoria of last week’s win over Tallulah, posed a threat, he said.

“That was a big win. And then to go play a Double-A opponent, at their place, after they just got thumped? That scares me,” Weaver said.

team — under the current labor agreement with the players. But that contract expires after this season, and it’s clear the expanded sched-ule will be a central issue in talks on a new collective bar-gaining agreement.

The owners would like to keep the season at 20 weeks, reducing the number of pre-season games from four to two.

“We want to do it the right way for everyone, including the players, the fans and the game in general,” Goodell said. “There’s a tremendous amount of momentum for it. We think it’s the right step.”

The owners held off on voting on a specific proposal that could be presented to the players union. Among the issues that still must be

resolved: when to start the expanded regular season, possible roster expansion to cope with more games, and changes in training camp and offseason routines to come up with ways for evalu-ating younger players who wouldn’t have as many pre-season games to make an impression.

“We want to continue to address a variety of issues before putting together a specific proposal, which our negotiating team will provide to the union’s negotiating team,” Goodell said.

The players clearly expect to be receive a bigger chunk of the multi-billion-dollar NFL pie if they’re going to be putting their bodies on the line in two more games that count.

War Dawgs face rival Blue WavesBy Ernest [email protected]

Hinds AHS has held the upper hand lately in its High-way 18 rivalry with Port Gibson, winning three in a row.

This, however, is likely to be the year things change.

Hinds AHS opens the season Friday night against Port Gibson (1-0) in a game that will begin its rebuild-ing process. Hinds returns only three offensive and four defensive starters from last year’s team.

Port Gibson, meanwhile, has high hopes for this season after opening with a 14-0 win over Raymond last week and going 4-7 in 2009.

“They’re vastly improved. (Coach Lynn) Lang has done a good job of turning them around. They’re real physi-cal. They’re going to be a major test for us,” Hinds coach Michael Fields said. “It’s been a pretty physi-cal rivalry. It’s going to get one-sided with us declining and everybody around us growing.”

Port Gibson isn’t the only early-season test for the War Dawgs. Their first three

games are against Class 4A schools.

That led Fields to forego a sea-son-opening classic game to save his young players some wear and tear.

“We didn’t want those guys to take a pounding,” Fields said.

South Delta atHollandale-Simmons

South Delta showed off a potent multiple threat attack in last week’s 36-20 opening win against McClain. Quar-terback Ricky Green threw for 79 yards and a touch-down, and combined with four other rushers to total more than 200 yards on the ground.

This week they’ll face a Simmons team that managed only 79 yards of total offense and gave up 346 in a 36-12 loss to Forest.

mAISGreenville Christianat Central Hinds

Central Hinds gets a sneak preview of what lies ahead when it hosts Greenville Christian tonight.

Greenville Christian fea-tures a solid spread attack on offense, similar to the ones Central Hinds will see during a brutal four-week stretch next month against Class AA heavyweights Lamar, Bowl-ing Green, Brookhaven and Copiah.

“By the way Greenville’s offense looks, it’s going to be good for us. They exe-cute well and it’s going to be good for us to see that,” CHA coach Todd Montgom-ery said.

Carroll at SIAOne of the MAIS cellar

dwellers will end a long losing streak this Friday. Sharkey-Issaquena and Car-roll Academy have both lost eight consecutive games dating to last season. Shar-key, which fell 46-0 to Central Holmes in the season-opener last week, has been shut out

five straight times.

8-mAn footbAllBriarfield atHot Springs Christian

Briarfield heads to Arkan-sas to face Hot Springs Chris-tian, as well as an unusual challenge. The game will be played on an eight-man field that is 80 yards long and 40 yards wide, rather than a 100-by-50 yard 11-man field.

Briarfield, which is already transitioning from the 11-man game this season, has had to shift gears again to prepare for its first experi-ence with the smaller field.

“You worry about some of your pass routes. Are they going to run out of room? We’re not going to have as much room on our toss sweep,” Briarfield coach Ben Durham said. “We’re going to try to put some barrels out there in practice to make sure they know it’s shorter than normal.”

Briarfield had a successful eight-man debut last week, beating North Sunflower 36-28. The Rebels hung on after taking a 30-7 lead early in the second half.

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Bullock to visit ‘Today’ in New OrleansSandra Bullock will be talking about educa-

tion and health in New Orleans on NBC’s “Today” show.

NBC announced Wednesday that the Oscar-winning actress will sit down with “Today” host Matt Lauer Tuesday.

The interview will take place at Warren Easton Charter High School in New Orleans. Bullock will discuss the opening this month of the school’s on-campus health clinic that she helped fund.

Bullock had spent time in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina with former husband Jesse James. She has adopted a baby who was born there.

Letterman to visit ‘View’ next monthDavid Letterman will welcome Barbara Walters back to “The

View” when he visits the ABC daytime talk show next month.ABC said Wednesday that Letterman, host of CBS’ “Late Show,”

will make his first guest appearance on “The View” on Sept. 7. That’s the day that co-panelist Walters returns to the air after taking the summer off to recover from open-heart surgery. The show also marks the start of the 14th season of “The View.”

Other guests scheduled that week include former Secretary of State Colin Powell and actor Danny DeVito.

German court finds HIV singer guiltyA German court has found a girl-band singer

guilty of causing bodily harm to an ex-boyfriend by having unprotected sex with him despite knowing she was infected with HIV but she won’t spend any time in prison.

News agency ddp reported the Darmstadt ad-ministrative court on Thursday handed 28-year-old Nadja Benaissa a two-year suspended sen-tence after finding the No Angels bandmember guilty.

Prosecutors get results of Gibson probeA sheriff’s official says detectives have given prosecutors the

results of their investigation into domestic violence allegations against Mel Gibson.

Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department spokesman Steve Whitmore says the results were turned over Wednesday for a decision on whether charges will be filed.

Detectives investigated claims made against the Academy Award-winner by his former girlfriend Oksana Grigorieva.

Gibson spokesman Alan Nierob declined comment in an e-mail message.

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8 fried finalists vie for Big Tex crownFried food fans looking to feast at this year’s State Fair of Texas

will have to bring an ID along with their appetite.Fair officials unveiled eight finalists in the Big Tex Choice

Awards, including alcohol-laced fried goodies, Wednesday. Ven-dors at the fair that runs Sept. 24 through Oct. 17 are seeking honors for best taste and most creative new offerings.

Fair spokeswoman Sue Gooding says those hoping to try the beer-filled pretzel pockets and deep-fried frozen margaritas will have to prove they are at least 21.

The other six finalists to be judged by members of the media Sept. 6 include a deep-fried s’mores Pop-Tart, fried club salad, fried chocolate, fried lemonade, fried caviar that features black-eyed peas, and a fried Frito pie, with chili and corn chips.


the CirCle remains unbroken

Paisley, Dickens help repair Opry stagenashVille, tenn. (aP) —

As it turns out, the circle is unbroken.

Brad Paisley and Little Jimmy Dickens helped a handful of construction workers install the circle in the center of the Grand Ole Opry House stage Wednesday after flood waters nearly destroyed the precious piece of country music his-tory. The two then performed the Opry standard, “Will The Circle Be Unbroken?”

“That is a classic song that’s been sung here for genera-tions and it’s taking on new meaning with all of this,” Pais-ley said.

Officials announced the Opry House will reopen to the public with a star-studded performance Sept. 28 and the Opry’s 85th anniversary cele-bration will go on as scheduled in October.

“We’re having a party,” Opry president Steve Buchanan said.

The circle, made in 1974 from a part of the old stage from the Opry’s former home at Ryman Auditorium, was submerged in 46 inches of water during the May flood that damaged the Opry house and the Gaylord Opryland Hotel and Resort in

Nashville.Many musicians and fans

consider the circle the heart of country music. The wood carries scuffs from the boots of the genre’s biggest stars and is a destination for aspiring singers from all corners of the world.

“This is absolutely the one place that matters more than any other in country music,”

Paisley said.Buchanan said the 6-foot

circle of oak buckled but proved to be sturdier than the modern Opry stage. It was refurbished by Nashville’s CC Cabinet Inc., and is now sur-rounded by a dark brown teak that helps the lacquered circle stand out under stage lights.

Paisley said he’s amazed at how far the reclamation proj-

ect has come since the days fol-lowing the flood, which caused more than $2 billion damage in Nashville alone.

“When I first walked in here everything you see including the rafters and the very top pews were covered in a sort of brown film from the dried mud that had become dust and it was horrendous looking,” he said.

Glenn Beck rally on anniversaryof King’s speech drawing fire

WashinGton (aP) — Glenn Beck’s rally on the anni-versary and at the site of Martin Luther King Jr.’s famous “I Have a Dream” speech is draw-ing criticism, protests and ques-tions about his intentions.

Beck insists the event Satur-day at the Lincoln Memorial is not about politics, even though Beck and former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin will attend. But the rally is drawing a strong reac-tion — and several counter-rallies — as the nation looks toward November’s elections.

Beck, a popular figure among tea party activists and a polar-izing Fox News Channel per-sonality, has said it is merely a coincidence that the event is taking place on the 47th anni-versary of King’s plea for racial equality. Beck has cal led President Barack Obama a racist.

The event’s website says the Restoring Honor rally is to pay tribute to America’s military personnel and others “who embody our nation’s founding principles of integ-rity, truth and honor.” It urges citizens to attend and “help us restore the values that founded this great nation.”

“This is going to be an iconic event,” Beck says. “This is going to be a moment that you’ll never be able to paint people as haters, racists, none of it. This is a moment, quite honestly, that I think we reclaim the civil rights movement. It has been so distorted and so turned upside down. It is an abomination.”

The rally also is to promote the Special Operations War-rior Foundation, which pro-vides scholarships and ser-vices to family members of the military.

Beck’s critics dismissed his claims that the event will not be political.

“When we heard about Glenn

Beck, it was puzzling,” the Rev. Al Sharpton said. “Because if you read Dr. King’s speech, it just doesn’t gel with what Mr. Beck or Mrs. Palin are representing.”

Beck has called Obama “a guy who has a deep-seated hatred for white people or the white culture.”

Palin has defended radio per-sonality Laura Schlessinger, who announced this month she was ending her “Dr. Laura” pro-gram after using a racial epithet repeatedly on the air during a discussion with a caller about racism. Schlessinger later apol-ogized but said her free speech rights were being violated by

those urging station affili-ates and sponsors to drop her program.

“Dr.Laura:don’t retreat...reload!” Palin tweeted. She called Dr. Laura “even more powerful & effective w/out the shackles, so watch out Constitutional obstruction-ists. And b thankful 4 her voice,America!”

“The 8-28 rally is suppos-edly is about ‘reclaiming the civil rights movement,’ but it is being led by someone whose idea of a racist is the presi-dent of the United States,” said Jess Levin, a spokesman for the liberal Media Matters for America.

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It also would allow the star-let to return to work after spending more than a month in jail and inpa-tient rehab.

For the next 67 days, Lohan will be expected to attend psy-chotherapy, drug and alcohol counseling and random drug and alcohol testing several times a week, Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Elden S. Fox ordered during a hearing.

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Wife attests bald-headed men are smooth operatorsDear Abby: I had to chuckle

at the letter from “Smooth-Headed in Tampa” (June 28), who complained that shallow women won’t date a bald man. He hit the nail on the head with the term “shallow.”

My husband is bald, but I didn’t realize it when I first met him because he always wore a ball cap. We had gone to school together many years earlier, and he had thick, wavy hair then. When he took his cap off, I only hesitated for a second, remembering a lesson my father had taught me: “Never judge a book by its cover.”

I’m so glad I heeded my dad’s advice. We’ve been married 11 years and are more in love with each other now than when we married.

Please tell “Smooth-Headed” that not all women are shallow. He wouldn’t want a woman like that, anyway. Besides, those women have no idea what they’re missing. I keep threatening to get my husband that T-shirt that reads, “This Isn’t a Bald Head, It’s a Solar Panel for a Sex Machine,” but he says he doesn’t want to spill

the beans! — Love His Chrome Dome

Dear Love: Thank you for the encouraging words for “Smooth-Headed.” If the enthusiasm from my read-ers who love and/or prefer bald men is any indication, “Smooth” has been worrying needlessly. Read on:

Dear Abby: I happen to absolutely go nuts over bald or balding men. I find nothing sexier. I can spot a bald man a mile off, and in my eyes there is no one else who compares. It may be because ever since I can remember, my father has been balding.

It makes no difference to me whether a man has little or no hair, is tall or short, thin or heavy. It is what’s on the inside that counts. Any man bold enough to shave his head

or not cover it with a ball cap is tops in my book. (My favor-ite actor is Vin Diesel.) — Out There Looking

Dear Abby: Doesn’t “Smooth” know that bald is the new “sexy”? If he is uncomfortable with his hair-line, he should see a barber or stylist who can make what hair he has “hot.” Every head can look good.

I have happily dated men with receding hairlines and shaved heads. “Smooth” just needs to find a real woman who’s inter-ested in who he is, not what’s growing or not growing on top of his head. — Not Baldphobic in Massachusetts

Dear Abby: You are correct that plenty of women will date balding men. Aside from your assertion that we are the smart ones who see beyond the surface, balding is sup-posed to be a sign of virility.

I do have one question for “Smooth-Headed”: Are you willing to date women who are less than supermodels? Many women I know, myself included, are smart, funny and sexy, but have been spurned because we are slightly over-

weight. What I have learned is that people who sit around whining about the opposite sex being shallow should review their own biases and unrealistic expectations. Who might you be overlooking, Mr. “Smooth”? — Big and Beauti-ful in South Dakota

Dear Abby: I am in a loving, happy relationship with my 26-year-old boyfriend who has male-pattern baldness. We met through Internet dating, and “Smooth” should give it a try. Potential dates read about your interests and personality at the same time they see your photos. They’ll start to know you before they meet you.

My advice to balding men: Don’t be ashamed. “Own” your baldness. My boyfriend does. And his self-confidence makes him even more attrac-tive to me. — Happy Honey to a Balding Babe

•Dear Abby is written by Abigail Van Buren, also known as Jeanne Phillips, and was founded by her mother, Pauline Phillips. Write Dear Abby at www.Dear Abby.com or P.O. Box 69440, Los Angeles, CA 90069.

Exemplary lifestyle doesn’tprevent enlarged spleen

Dear Dr. Gott: My friend who lives in another state indicated her mother was diagnosed with an enlarged spleen.

This is a woman in her 80s, still tall and slender, never smoked or drank alcohol, doesn’t con-sume caffeine and doesn’t take drugs of any kind. Her diet is exemplary with no white sugar, bread, flour, starchy foods, red meats or luncheon meats. She has always eaten a lot of fruits and vegetables, buying organic whenever possible.

Lately, she has complained about being very tired, she fell a couple of times, and now she has a constant fear of falling. How could someone who took such good care of what she put into her body end up with an enlarged spleen? What pur-pose does it serve, anyway?

Dear Reader: The spleen is an organ located in the upper portion of the abdomen. It is purple in color, about 4 to 5 inches long and weighs about 6 ounces in healthy people. Because it is protected by the rib cage, it generally cannot be felt unless it enlarges. The spleen acts as a filter for blood, destroying old and damaged blood cells. It fights bacteria such as meningitis and pneu-monia by producing white blood cells known as lympho-cytes. It stores iron from old cells, returning the iron to our bone marrow, where hemo-globin is made. Oddly enough, with all the important things this organ does, we can live without it if necessary.

An enlarged spleen, known as splenomegaly, can occur because of infection, parasites, liver disease, lymphoma, leu-kemia and a number of other conditions. When the con-dition occurs, this relatively small organ can weigh up to 4 pounds and becomes palpa-ble on examination. Symptoms can include frequent infections, fatigue, anemia and pain in the left upper abdomen that radi-ates to the left shoulder.

Diagnosis, other than through palpation, can be made by ultra-sound, CT scan or MRI and will often provide a physician information such as how large it is and whether it is crowding other organs in its proximity.

Treatment is directed toward determining the underlying cause for the enlargement and may be as simple as antibiotics to cure infection or chemother-apy and radiation if Hodgkin’s or another more complex dis-order is discovered.

Sadly, an enlarged spleen can occur despite doing all the right things. A healthful diet, plenty of exercise and abstaining from smoking, drinking and drugs has likely kept her well all these years. Now, however, she should be under the care of a physician, who can get to the bottom of the issue and get her back on the road to recov-ery. She should also address her fear of falling. It might be that she has been so well for so

many years that she now per-ceives the falls to be the begin-ning of a massive decline in her general health. Her physician can order appropriate testing to rule out any concerns he might have in this regard or, if appropriate, she might speak with a therapist in an attempt to regain her independence.

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Dr. Wallace: I’m a 17-year-old girl and I live with a good-for-nothing older brother, my mentally weak mother and my loud-mouth, verbally abusive father. The only thing good about him is that he is a good provider. He has a good job and brings his entire paycheck home to my mother.

My father constantly uses poor language and swears at me for no reason. Already he has told me that I’m no good, useless and stupid, and that he wished I was never born. He said my mother should have had an abortion when she was pregnant with me.

All I can do is wait it out until I graduate from school. I’m an above-average student, but I could get better grades — I’m a B to C (plus) student — if I had a better atmosphere. I plan to leave the area the day that I graduate in June 2011, and I never want to see my parents or brother again.

My boyfriend (he is really a super guy) and I plan to move to California to find some kind of employment, even if it means cooking hamburgers at a fast-food restaurant. We can live with his married brother and his wife until we get married.

Do you think that it’s wrong for me to abandon my family? I honestly believe they already have abandoned me. — Name-less, Nashua, N.H.

Nameless: Get the best grades possible, be a model citizen, and after graduation, head for California to start a new and bet-ter life for yourself. California has a marvelous community col-lege system, so prepare yourself to take advantage of this op-portunity.

I don’t think you should burn your bridges with your family. Keep in touch with them and give them your California address and phone number. Once you’re gone, they may come to their senses. I hope so! Families remain intact only when its members are able to practice forgiveness. Giving up on your family will leave you with a void in your heart that might never be filled.

•Dr. Robert Wallace writes for Copley News Service. E-mail him at rwallace@Copley News Service.

Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) — Someone in dire need may seek you out for your know-how and talent, which in the end is likely to benefit you. As it turns out, you should be able to profit from being helpful.Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 23) — Collective effort has its rewards. While working in close conjunction with one or two other peo-ple, your team could end up making a big impact on something important.Scorpio (Oct. 24-Nov. 22) — It isn’t likely that you will feel ful-filled unless you work on something you believe to be of impor-tance. Devote as much time as you can possibly spare to do so.Sagittarius (Nov. 23-Dec. 21) — Although it generally isn’t al-ways a good policy to mix business with pleasure, it might be one of those rare times when you should if you can. Close your deal while playing golf or tennis.Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) — Proceed on the path you’re on by handling one step at a time, and there is every reason to be-lieve that you’ll be able to close out a critical assignment that has given others fits.Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 19) — This is a better than usual time to take care of neglected e-mails or important correspondence you haven’t had time to handle. Once you put your personal af-fairs in good working order, you can relax.Pisces (Feb. 20-March 20) — Financial matters are likely to turn out to be more in your favor than they might at another time, so get right on them. Try to resolve and/or conclude all financial deals.Aries (March 21-April 19) — Avoid involvements with any-body who makes demands on your time. It will be important that you’re able to operate at your own discretion and able to do what you want.Taurus (April 20-May 20) — The things you do for those you love and not what you do for yourself will provide you with the greatest gratification. You won’t wait to be asked, but will jump right in when needed.Gemini (May 21-June 20) — If you need a recreational outing, plan to do something with friends with whom you are comfort-able enough to let your hair down. Pretentious people will only get you more uptight.Cancer (June 21-July 22) — Some kind of objective of consid-erable significance can now be achieved, because you’ll have the courage to go after what you want. You won’t allow its diffi-culty to scare you off.Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) — You aren’t likely to be satisfied with the status quo, because you’ll sense within you the ability to ap-ply yourself in ways that can make good things even better. Im-provement in all things will be your goal.

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IN THE CHANCERYCOURT OF WARRENCOUNTY, MISSISSIPPIIN THE MATTER OFTHE ESTATE OFHETTIE RAY RHOADSBARRETT(PREVIOUSLY DAVIS),DECEASEDNO. 2010-113PRNOTICE TO CREDITORSOFHETTIE RAY RHOADSBARRETT (DAVIS)NOTICE is hereby given thatLetters Testamentary on theEstate of Hettie Ray RhoadsBarrett (Davis), Cause No.2010-113PR, were grantedto the undersigned by theChancery Court of the War-ren County, Mississippi onthe 19th day of August,2010, and all persons havingclaims against said estateare hereby notified and re-quired to have the same pro-bated and registered by theClerk of said Court as re-quired by law within ninety(90) days from date of firstpublication of this notice.Failure to do so will foreverbar such claims.WITNESS my signature thisthe 19th day of August,2010./s/CHARISSE BARRETTROGERS,Executrix of the Estate ofHettie Ray Rhoads Barrett(Davis),DeceasedPublish: 8/26, 9/2, 9/9(3t)

01. LegalsSEALED BIDSThe Warren County Board ofSupervisors will acceptcompetitive sealed bids fromqualified Contractors until10:00 A.M. CST on Monday,September 20, 2010 forconstruction services relatedto the project known as the"WARREN COUNTYEECBG LIGHTING/HVACPROJECT". Bids must besubmitted to the WarrenCounty Chancery Clerk'sOffice, 1009 Cherry Street,Vicksburg, MS prior to thetime and date stated above.Late bids will not beconsidered. The bid filenumber is 08162010.A Pre-Bid Conference will beheld on September 13, 2010at 2:00 p.m. CST at theWarren County LibraryAuditorium, 700 Veto Street,Vicksburg, MS. Attendanceis highly recommended.This project is funded by theAMERICAN RECOVERYAND REINVESTMENT ACTof 2009 (ARRA) through aGrant from the U. S.Department of Energy.Contractors who wish to par-ticipate in this project shouldfamiliarize themselves withthe requirements of ARRAprior to submitting a bid. Re-quirements for participationin this project include but arenot limited to the following:a DUNS numberHYPERLINK"http://www.dnb.com"www.dnb.coma Central Contractor Regis-tration number (CCR)HYPERLINK "http://www.c-cr.gov" www.ccr.govcompliance with the Davis-Bacon Wage Actcompliance with the E-Verifyprogram HYPERLINK"http://www.vis-dhs.com/em-ployerregistration" www.vis-dhs.com/employerregistra-tioncompliance with theWhistleblower Protection Actjobs creation and retentionreportinguse of American iron, steeland manufactured goodsaward notices, contracts,payments and other requiredinformation will be posted onpublicly accessible websitesfor the duration of thecontractcompliance with any otherARRA requirements, aspublished by the U. S.Government and the State ofMississippi on an on-goingbasisPursuant to Mississippi Code1972 Annotated, 31-5-51,Performance and PaymentBonds are required for publicprojects in excess of$25,000.00.Pursuant to Mississippi Code1972 Annotated, 31-3-15 and31-3-21, for constructionprojects in excess of$50,000.00, the Biddersmust be qualified under Mis-sissippi Law and show cur-rent Certificate of Responsi-bility (COR) number issuedby the Mississippi StateBoard of Public Contractorsestablishing their classifica-tion as to the value and typeof construction on which theyare authorized to bid.The Bidder shall write theirCOR number on the outsideof the sealed envelope con-taining their bid. Contractor'sCOR number or a statementthat the bid does not exceed$50,000.00 must be shownon the outside of the bid en-velope. Bids not meetingthis requirement will not beconsidered.The complete Request forBids Package, includingdetailed drawings, plans andspecifications, is available forreview at the Warren CountyChancery Clerk's Office,1009 Cherry Street, Vicks-burg, MS 39183, and in theABC and AGC Plan Roomoffices in Jackson, MS.Contractors may obtain thecomplete Request for Bidspackage for a refundabledeposit of $150.00 bycontacting Missie Broyles,Engineering ResourceGroup, Inc., ConsultingEngineers, P.O. Drawer16443, Jackson, Mississippi,39236 or 601-362-3552.The Warren County Board ofSupervisors reserves theright to determine responsi-ble bidders, responsive bids,to reject any and all bids, tosolicit new bids or choosethe bid deemed to be in thebest interest of WarrenCounty, and to waive anytechnicalities, informalities orirregularities in the bids orbidding process.Published pursuant to an or-der of the Warren CountyBoard of Supervisors datedthe 21st day of June, 2010.Warren County Board ofSupervisorsBy: Dot McGee, ChanceryClerkPublish: 8/19, 8/26(2t)

SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE'SNOTICE OF SALEWHEREAS, on August 13,2007, Gwendolyn F.England, executed a Deed ofTrust to Recon Trust,Trustee for the use andbenefit of MortgageElectronic RegistrationSystems, Inc., which Deed ofTrust is on file and of recordin the office of the ChanceryClerk of Warren County,Mississippi, in Deed of TrustBook 1669 at Page 677thereof; and

01. LegalsWHEREAS, said Deed ofTrust was assigned to BACHome Loans Servicing, LPfka Countrywide HomeLoans Servicing, LP, byassignment on file and ofrecord in the office of theChancery Clerk of WarrenCounty, Mississippi, in Book1504 at Page 396 thereof;andWHEREAS, the legal holderof the said Deed of Trust andthe note secured thereby,substituted Lem Adams, III,as Trustee therein, asauthorized by the termsthereof, by instrumentrecorded in the office of theaforesaid Chancery Clerk inBook 1504 at Page 395,thereof; andWHEREAS, default havingbeen made in theperformance of theconditions and stipulationsas set forth by said Deed ofTrust, and having beenrequested by the legal holderof the indebtedness securedand described by said Deedof Trust so to do, notice ishereby given that I, LemAdams, III, SubstituteTrustee, by virtue of the au-thority conferred upon me insaid Deed of Trust, will offerfor sale and will sell at publicsale and outcry to thehighest and best bidder forcash, during the legal hours(between the hours of 11o'clock a.m. and 4 o'clockp.m.) at the West front doorof the County Courthouse ofWarren County, atVicksburg, Mississippi, onthe 16th day of September,2010, the following describedland and property being thesame land and propertydescribed in said Deed ofTrust, situated in WarrenCounty, State of Mississippi,to-wit: All of Lot 26 ofWarrenton HeightsSubdivision, Part "D" of PartII, a plat whereof appears ofrecord in Plat Book 2 atPage 54 of the WarrenCounty, Mississippi LandRecords. Title to the abovedescribed property isbelieved to be good, but Iwill convey only such title asis vested in me asSubstitute Trustee.WITNESS my signature, onthis the 20th day of August,2010._______________________LEM ADAMS, IIISUBSTITUTE TRUSTEEPREPARED BY: ADAMS &EDENSPOST OFFICE BOX 400BRANDON, MISSISSIPPI39043(601) 825-9508A&E File #27262Publish: 8/26, 9/2, 9/9(3t)

SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE'SNOTICE OF SALEWHEREAS, on August 26,2002, Cora Floyd, executeda Deed of Trust to Adams,Edens & Akers, PA, Trusteefor the use and benefit ofCountrywide Home Loans,Inc., which Deed of Trust ison file and of record in theoffice of the Chancery Clerkof Warren County,Mississippi, in Deed of TrustBook 1339 at Page 202thereof; andWHEREAS, said Deed ofTrust was ultimatelyassigned to BAC HomeLoans Servicing, LP, fkaCountrywide Home LoansServicing, LP, by assignmenton file and of record in the of-fice of the Chancery Clerk ofWarren County, Mississippi,in Book 1508 at Page 849thereof; and WHEREAS, thelegal holder of the said Deedof Trust and the note se-cured thereby, substitutedBradley P. Jones, as Trusteetherein, as authorized by theterms thereof, by instrumentrecorded in the office of theaforesaid Chancery Clerk inBook 1508 at Page 850,thereof; and WHEREAS,default having been made inthe performance of theconditions and stipulationsas set forth by said Deed ofTrust, and having been re-quested by the legal holderof the indebtedness securedand described by said Deedof Trust so to do, notice ishereby given that I, BradleyP. Jones, Substitute Trustee,by virtue of the authority con-ferred upon me in said Deedof Trust, will offer for saleand will sell at public saleand outcry to the highest andbest bidder for cash, duringthe legal hours (between thehours of 11 o'clock a.m. and4 o'clock p.m.) at the Westfront door of the CountyCourthouse of WarrenCounty, at Vicksburg,Mississippi, on the 16th dayof September, 2010, thefollowing described land andproperty being the same landand property described insaid Deed of Trust, situatedin Warren County, State ofMississippi, to-wit: Beginningat the Northeast corner of thehalf acre tract, recorded inDeed Book 228, at Page145, of the Record of Deedsin the office of the ChanceryClerk of Warren County,Mississippi, said point beingmarked with an iron pipe onthe West side of Mt. AlbanRoad, thence South 66degrees East 330 feet, to aniron corner; thence South 24degrees, 15 minutes, West38 feet; thence South 49degrees West, 124 feet;thence South 37 degreesWest, 152 feet; thence south60 degrees West, 152 feet;thence South 60 degrees, 15minutes West, 21 feet, to aniron corner being theSoutheast corner of theparcel hereby conveyed ;thence due West, a distanceof 170 feet, to an iron on theWest fence line of theaforesaid Schuman property;thence North along saidfence line 120 feet, more orless, to the Southeastcorner of the aforesaid halfacre tract; thence with thebearing as given in saiddeed of record in Deed Book228, at Page 145; thenceNorth, according to saiddeed 285 feet, to the point ofbeginning of the tract herebyconveyed, containing two (2)acres in Section 17,Township 16 North, Range4 East, in said County andState.Title to the above describedproperty is believed to begood, but I will convey onlysuch title as is vested in meas Substitute Trustee.WITNESS my signature, onthis the 20th day of August,2010._______________________BRADLEY P. JONESSUBSTITUTE TRUSTEEPREPARED BY: ADAMS &EDENSPOST OFFICE BOX 400BRANDON, MISSISSIPPI39043(601) 825-9508A&E File #26583Publish: 8/26, 9/2, 9/9(3t)

01. LegalsLEGAL ADINVITATION FOR BIDSFOREST PRODUCTSFOR SALENOTICESealed bids will be receivedby the Vicksburg-WarrenSchool District up to and nolater than 10:00 a.m.,September 17, 2010 for theright to cut and remove alltimber, standing or down,designated for that purposeon Section 16, Township 14North,Range 1 East, and Section16, Township 17 North,Range 3 East, WarrenCounty, Mississippi.Before bids are submitted,full information concerningthe material for sale,conditions of sale andsubmission of bids should beobtained from FORMTEXTTommy Walker, MississippiForestry Commission Office,Vicksburg, Mississippi,phone number601-927-9383.The right to reject any andall bids is reserved.Publish: 8/26, 9/2, 9/9, 9/16(4t)

BEFORE THE BOARD OFMAYOR AND ALDERMENOF THE CITY OFVICKSBURG. MISSISSIPPINOTICE OF PUBLICHEARINGName & AddressProperty DescriptionTO: Abe Fowler, Jr.,Parcel# 108A 27 2560 012300,1127 Highway 80 East,1500 East Avenue,PPIN 16363,Vicksburg, MS 39183,Vicksburg, MS 39180You are hereby notified thatthe Board of Mayor andAldermen of the City ofVicksburg, Mississippi, willconduct a public hearing attheir regular meeting onSeptember 20, 2010 at10:00a.m. on the state ofyour property describedabove, situated within theCity of Vicksburg,Mississippi, to determine ifsuch condition is a hazardand/or menace to the health,safety and welfare of thecitizens of the City ofVicksburg, Mississippi, andto order such cleaning of theabove mentioned property asmay be necessary to removesaid property as a hazard ormenace to the health, safetyand welfare of the citizens ofthe City of Vicksburg,Mississippi.BY ORDER OF THEBOARD OF MAYOR ANDALDERMEN OF THE CITYOF VICKSBURG,MISSISSIPPI, this theAugust 24, 2010.Victor Gray-LewisDirectorBuilding & InspectionsPublish: 8/26, 9/2(2t)

SECTION 00000ADVERTISEMENTFOR BIDSNotice is hereby given thatsealed bids will be receivedfor the project named belowby the: Vicksburg-WarrenSchool District, 1500 Mission66, Vicksburg, MS 39182,until September 30, 2010 at2:00 p.m.Location for Receipt of Bids:Vicksburg Warren SchoolDistrict1500 Mission 66Vicksburg, Mississippi 39182Plans and SpecificationsEntitled:Grove Street ElementaryRe-roofMay be inspected at the of-fice of the Architects namedbelow, or may be obtainedfrom the Architects as setout below:a. Qualified Prime (Gener-al) Contractors, Subcontrac-tors, and Material Suppliersmay obtain one set of plansand specifications upon de-posit of $200.00 per set,which deposit will berefunded upon return ofdocuments within 10 daysafter bid date. Contractorswho do not submit a bid shallforfeit their deposit.b. Qualified Prime (Gener-al) Contractors, Subcontrac-tors and Material Suppliersmay obtain additional sets ofplans and specificationsupon payment of $200.00per set, non-refundable.c. Partial Sets will not be is-sued.d. Copies of plans andspecifications will be placedin plan rooms in major citieswithin the area, locally, andelsewhere as bona fide re-quests are received.e. Make deposit checkpayable to the Architectsnamed below.Proposals shall be submittedin duplicate only upon theblank proposal formsprovided with thespecifications and must beaccompanied by ProposalSecurity in the form ofCertified Check or accept-able Bid Bond in the amountequal to at least five percent(5%) of the Base Bid: suchsecurity to be forfeited asliquidated damages, notpenalty, by any bidder whofails to carry out the terms ofthe proposal, executecontract and post Perfor-mance Bond in the form andamount within the timespecified. The Bid Bond, ifused, shall be payable to theOwner.Bids on the Project must bereceived on or before theperiod scheduled for theProject and no bid withdrawnafter the scheduled closingtime for the Project for a peri-od of Sixty (60) days.All bids submitted in excessof $50,000.00 by a Prime orSubcontractor to do anyerection, building, construc-tion, repair, maintenance, orrelated work must complywith the MississippiContractors Act of 1985, bysecuring a Certificate ofResponsibility from the StateBoard of Contractors.The Owner reserves the rightto reject any and all bids onany or all projects and towaive informalities.OWNER:Vicksburg Warren SchoolDistrict1500 Mission 66Vicksburg, Mississippi 39182ARCHITECT:JBHM Architects, PA105 Court StreetTupelo, MS 38804PH: (662) 844-1822FX: (662) 844-0971Publish: 8/26, 9/2(2t)

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01. LegalsBEFORE THE BOARD OFMAYOR AND ALDERMENOF THE CITY OFVICKSBURG. MISSISSIPPINOTICE OF PUBLICHEARINGName & AddressProperty DescriptionTO: SPS LLCc/o The Jefferson Group LLCParcel# 1111013 1090 0042002100 South Bridge Parkway,Ste. 650Springridge Drive,PPIN 07708Birmingham, AL 35209Vicksburg, MS 39180You are hereby notified thatthe Board of Mayor andAldermen of the City ofVicksburg, Mississippi, willconduct a public hearing attheir regular meeting onSeptember 20, 2010 at10:00a.m. on the state ofyour property describedabove, situated within theCity of Vicksburg,Mississippi, to determine ifsuch condition is a hazardand/or menace to the health,safety and welfare of thecitizens of the City ofVicksburg, Mississippi, andto order such cleaning of theabove mentioned property asmay be necessary to removesaid property as a hazard ormenace to the health, safetyand welfare of the citizens ofthe City of Vicksburg,Mississippi.BY ORDER OF THEBOARD OF MAYOR ANDALDERMEN OF THE CITYOF VICKSBURG, MISSIS-SIPPI, this the August 24,2010.Victor Gray-LewisDirectorBuilding & InspectionsPublish: 8/26, 9/2(2t)

IN THE CHANCERYCOURT OF WARRENCOUNTY, MISSISSIPPIIN RE: ESTATE OF IRMAELIZABETH "BETH"JOHNSON,DECEASEDPROBATE NO.2010-0110 PRNOTICE TO CREDITORSIRMA ELIZABETH "BETH"JOHNSONLetters Testamentary on theEstate of the abovedecedent having beengranted on the 9th day ofAugust, 2010 by theChancery Court ofWarren County,Mississippi to theundersigned Executor of theEstate of IrmaElizabeth "Beth"Johnson, deceased,notice is hereby given to allpersons having claimsagainst said estate topresent said claims to theClerk of this Court forprobate andregistration according to law,within ninety (90) days fromthe firstpublication of this notice orsaid claims will beforever barred.THIS the 9th day ofAugust, 2010.ANNE E. MCWILLIAMS,ExecutrixPublish: 8/12, 8/19, 8/26(3t)

SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE'SNOTICE OF SALEWHEREAS, on May 14,2004, Alton L. Jones andKappi S. Jones, executed aDeed of Trust to Peter T.Burns, Trustee for the useand benefit of Britton &Koontz First National Bank,which Deed of Trust is on fileand of record in the office ofthe Chancery Clerk ofWarren County, Mississippi,in Deed of Trust Book 1467at Page 714 thereof; andWHEREAS, said Deed ofTrust was ultimately as-signed to Citimortgage, Inc.,by assignment on file and ofrecord in the office of theChancery Clerk of WarrenCounty, Mississippi, in Book1506 at Page 517 thereof;andWHEREAS, the legal holderof the said Deed of Trust andthe note secured thereby,substituted Bradley P. Jones,as Trustee therein, asauthorized by the termsthereof, by instrumentrecorded in the office of theaforesaid Chancery Clerk inBook 1506 at Page 516,thereof; andWHEREAS, default havingbeen made in the perfor-mance of the conditions andstipulations as set forth bysaid Deed of Trust, andhaving been requested bythe legal holder of theindebtedness secured anddescribed by said Deed ofTrust so to do, notice ishereby given that I, BradleyP. Jones, Substitute Trustee,by virtue of the authorityconferred upon me in saidDeed of Trust, will offer forsale and will sell at publicsale and outcry to the high-est and best bidder for cash,during the legal hours(between the hours of 11o'clock a.m. and 4 o'clockp.m.) at the West front doorof the County Courthouse ofWarren County, at Vicks-burg, Mississippi, on the 2ndday of September, 2010, thefollowing described land andproperty being the same landand property described insaid Deed of Trust, situatedin Warren County, State ofMississippi, to-wit:That part of Lots 13 and 14that certain Subdivisionknown as Walnut RidgeSubdivision situate inSection 8, Township 15North, Range 3 East,Vicksburg, Warren County,Mississippi, more particularlydescribed as follows, to-wit:Beginning at an old iron pipe(found) on the West right-of-way line of U.S. Highway 61,said pipe is located 30.0 feet

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Southerly along the Westright-of-way line of saidHighway 61 from theNortheast Corner of Lot 13,Walnut Ridge Subdivision,Warren County, Mississippithence along the Westright-of-way line of saidHighway 61, with a chordbearing of South 04 Degrees38' West, and a chorddistance of 233.0 feet;thence leave said Highwayand run North 85 Degrees36' West, 196.3 feet; thenceNorth 04 Degrees 29' West,238.3 feet; thence South 85Degrees 00' East, 234.1 feetto the point of beginning,containing 1.16 acres, moreor less.Title to the above describedproperty is believed to begood, but I will convey onlysuch title as is vested in meas Substitute Trustee.WITNESS my signature, onthis the 6th day of August,2010.____________________BRADLEY P. JONESSUBSTITUTE TRUSTEEPREPARED BY: ADAMS &EDENSPOST OFFICE BOX 400BRANDON, MISSISSIPPI39043(601) 825-9508A&E File #25505Publish: 8/12, 8/19, 8/26(3t)

Statewide Publishing LLCPO Box 768170Roswell, GA 30076SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE'SNOTICE OF SALE STATEOF MISSISSIPPI COUNTYOF WARREN WHEREAS,on August 10, 2000, StacyLampp executed anddelivered a certain Deed ofTrust unto John H Shows,Trustee for the benefit ofCimarron MortgageCompany, to secure anindebtedness therein de-scribed, which Deed of Trustis recorded in the office ofthe Chancery Clerk ofWarren County, Mississippiin Book 1219, Page 681; andWHEREAS, said Deed ofTrust was subsequentlyassigned unto ChaseManhattan MortgageCorporation, by instrumentrecorded in the Office of theaforesaid Chancery Clerk inBook 1230, Page 336; andWHEREAS, the holder ofsaid Deed of Trust substitut-ed and appointed NationwideTrustee Services, Inc., asTrustee in said Deed of Trustby instrument recorded in theOffice of the aforesaidChancery Clerk Book 1510,Page 686; and WHEREAS,default having been made inthe payments of indebted-ness secured by said Deedof Trust, and the holder ofsaid Deed of Trust, havingrequested the undersignedso to do, on September 2,2010, I will, during legalhours (between the hours of11 o' clock a.m. and 4 o'clock p.m.), at public outcry,offer for sale and will sell, atthe Front door steps of theWarren County Courthousein Vicksburg, Mississippi, forcash to the highest bidder,the following described landand property situated in War-ren County, Mississippi, to-wit: All of Lot Five (5) ofBroad Hills Addition, accord-ing to the plat which is ofrecord in Book 116 at Page196 of the Land DeedRecords in the office of theChancery Clerk of WarrenCounty, Mississippi Title tothe above described propertyis believed to be good, but Iwill convey only such title asis vested in me as Substitut-ed Trustee. WITNESS MYSIGNATURE, this the 22ndday of July, 2010 ChristianMayer Christian Mayer,Assistant Vice PresidentNationwide TrusteeServices, Inc.1587 NortheastExpressway Atlanta, GA30329 (770) 234-9181 ext1023856MSPublish: 8/12, 8/19, 8/26(3t)

SEALED BIDS for furnishingLawn Maintenace will bereceived in the office of theCity Clerk of the City ofVicksburg, Mississippi until9:00 o'clock a.m., Friday,September 10, 2010. Theywill be publicly opened andread aloud by the Mayor andAldermen of the City ofVicksburg in a RegularBoard Meeting at 10:00o'clock a.m., Friday,September 10, 2010.Bidders are cautioned thatthe City Clerk does notreceive the daily U.S. Mail onor before 9:00 a.m. Bids willbe time-stamped uponreceipt according to CityClerk's time clock.Specifications andinstructions for bidding areon file in the office of the CityClerk, second floor, City Hall,1401 Walnut Street, cornerCrawford and WalnutStreets, Vicksburg,Mississippi.Cash, Cashier's Check,Certified Check or Bidder'sBond in the amount of 5% ofbid must accompany same.(No Business or PersonalChecks)The Mayor and Aldermenof the City of Vicksburgreserve the right to reject anyand all bids and to waiveinformalities./s/ Walter W. Osborne, Jr.Walter W. Osborne, Jr.,City ClerkPublish: 8/19, 8/26(2t)

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01. LegalsStatewide Publishing LLCPO Box 768170Roswell, GA 30076SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE'SNOTICE OF SALE STATEOF MISSISSIPPI COUNTYOF WARREN WHEREAS,on March 7, 2008, AshleyMarie McDuff and ThomasJames McDuff executed anddelivered a certain Deed ofTrust unto Morris & McCalla,Trustee for the benefit of JP-Morgan Chase Bank, N.A.,to secure an indebtednesstherein described, whichDeed of Trust is recorded inthe office of the ChanceryClerk of Warren County, Mis-sissippi in Book 1695, Page619; and WHEREAS, saidDeed of Trust was subse-quently assigned unto ChaseHome Finance LLC, by in-strument recorded in the Of-fice of the aforesaidChancery Clerk in Book1502, Page 239; andWHEREAS, the holder ofsaid Deed of Trust substitut-ed and appointed NationwideTrustee Services, Inc., asTrustee in said Deed of Trustby instrument recorded in theOffice of the aforesaidChancery Clerk Book 1502,Page 240; and WHEREAS,default having been made inthe payments of indebted-ness secured by said Deedof Trust, and the holder ofsaid Deed of Trust, havingrequested the undersignedso to do, on September 2,2010, I will, during legalhours (between the hours of11 o' clock a.m. and 4 o'clock p.m.), at public outcry,offer for sale and will sell, atthe Front door Steps of theWarren County Courthousein Vicksburg, Mississippi, forcash to the highest bidder,the following described landand property situated in War-ren County, Mississippi, to-wit: The South one-half ofthe East one-half of Lot 3 ofthe Lone Elm Plantation, aplat of which is of record inDeed Book 116 at Pages 89and 111, in Section 20,Township 15 North, Range 4East, Warren County, Missis-sippi, being the south 20acres of the 40 acre parcel ofland designated at Lot "B" ofthe Partition of Lot 3 of theLone Elm Plantation in theDecree of record in FinalRecord Book 11 at Page501, together with a non-ex-clusive easement over andacross a roadway extendingthrough the other lots of theLone Elm Plantation for thepurpose of ingress andegress from the propertyherein conveyed. Title to theabove described property isbelieved to be good, but I willconvey only such title as isvested in me as SubstitutedTrustee. WITNESS MY SIG-NATURE, this the 22nd dayof July, 2010 Christian MayerChristian Mayer, AssistantVice President NationwideTrustee Services, Inc. 1587Northeast Expressway At-lanta, GA 30329 (770) 234-9181 ext 0931096MSPublish: 8/12, 8/26(2t)

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IN THE CHANCERYCOURT OF WARRENCOUNTY, MISSISSIPPIIN RE: ESTATE OF VIVIAN G. REGAN,DECEASEDPROBATE NO: 2010-0105 PRNOTICE TO CREDITORSVIVIAN G. REGANLetters Testamentary on theEstate of the above decedent having been granted on the 5th day of August, 2010 by theChancery Court of Warren County, Mississippi to the undersigned Executor of theEstate of Vivian G. Regan,deceased, notice is herebygiven to all persons havingclaims against said estate topresent said claims to theClerk of this Court for probate and registration according to law,within ninety (90) days fromthe first publication of this notice orsaid claims will be forever barred.THIS the 5th day of August, 2010JAMES R. SHERARD, ExecutorPublish: 8/12, 8/19, 8/26(3t)

BEFORE THE BOARD OFMAYOR AND ALDERMENOF THE CITY OF VICKSBURG, MISSISSIPPINOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARINGName & AddressProperty Description TO: Mary Ross, Parcel# 0951 19 9999 020200,1913 Martin Luther KingBlvd.,1913 Martin LutherKing Blvd., PPIN 20570,Vicksburg, MS 39183,Vicksburg, MS 39180You are hereby notified thatthe Board of Mayor and Aldermen of the City ofVicksburg, Mississippi, willconduct a public hearing attheir regular meeting onSeptember 20, 2010 at10:00a.m. on the state ofyour property describedabove, situated within theCity of Vicksburg, Mississippi, to determine ifsuch condition is a hazardand/or menace to the health,safety and welfare of the citizens of the City of Vicksburg, Mississippi, andto order such cleaning of theabove mentioned property asmay be necessary to removesaid property as a hazard ormenace to the health, safetyand welfare of the citizens ofthe City of Vicksburg, Mississippi.BY ORDER OF THEBOARD OF MAYOR ANDALDERMEN OF THE CITYOF VICKSBURG,MISSISSIPPI, this the August 24, 2010.Victor Gray-LewisDirector Building & InspectionsPublish: 8/26, 9/2(2t)

IN THE COUNTY COURTOF WARREN COUNTY,MISSISSIPPIAMERICAN CORPORATEINVESTMENT GROUP, LLC, AND LISAASHCRAFTPLAINTIFFSVS.CIV. ACTION NO. 10,0880-COWILLIAM GREENWOOD;ANTIQUE WOOD AND BRICK CO.,INC. OF MISSISSIPPI; PRESTON J. REUTHER;MARY REUTHER; John Does 1-10DEFENDANTSWILLIAM GREENWOODand ANTIQUE WOOD AND BRICK CO.,INC. OF MISSISSIPPI; COUNTER-PLAINTIFFSVS.AMERICAN CORPORATEINVESTMENT GROUP, LLC, AND LISA ASHCRAFTCOUNTER- DEFENDANTSWILLIAM GREENWOODand ANTIQUE WOOD AND BRICK CO.,INC. OF MISSISSIPPI; CROSS-PLAINTIFFSVS.PRESTON J. REUTHERand MARY REUTHERCROSS-DEFENDANTSSUMMONS BY PUBLICATIONTHE STATE OF MISSISSIPPITO: Preston J. ReutherMary ReutherYou have been made Defendants in the suit filed inthis Court by William Green-wood and Antique Wood andBrick Co., Inc. of Mississippi,Cross-Plaintiffs, seeking indemnification from you. You are required to mail orhand-deliver a written response to the Cross-Claimfiled against you in this action to Karen E. Howell,one of the attorneys for theCross-Plaintiffs, whose postoffice address is Brunini,Grantham, Grower & Hewes,PLLC; Post Office Drawer119, Jackson, MS 39205;190 E. Capitol Street, Suite100, Jackson, MS 39201.YOUR RESPONSE MUSTBE MAILED OR DELIVERED NOT LATERTHAN THIRTY (30) DAYSAFTER THE 26th DAY OFAugust, 2010, WHICH ISTHE DATE OF THE FIRSTPUBLICATION OF THISSUMMONS. IF YOUR RESPONSE IS NOT SOMAILED OR DELIVERED, AJUDGMENT BY DEFAULTWILL BE ENTEREDAGAINST YOU FOR THEMONEY OR OTHER RE-LIEF DEMANDED IN THECOMPLAINT.You must also file the origi-nal of your Response withthe Clerk of this Court withina reasonable time afterward.ISSUED UNDER MY HANDAND SEAL of said Court,this 18th day of August,2010.SHELLY ASHLEYPALMERTREE, WARREN COUNTY CIRCUIT CLERKBY: /s/ Kelly Stevens, D.C.(SEAL)Publish: 8/26, 9/2, 9/9(3t)


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IN THE COUNTY COURTOF WARREN COUNTY,MISSISSIPPIAMERICAN CORPORATEINVESTMENT GROUP, LLC, AND LISAASHCRAFTPLAINTIFFSVS.CIV. ACTION NO. 10,0880-COWILLIAM GREENWOOD;ANTIQUE WOOD AND BRICK CO.,INC. OF MISSISSIPPI; PRESTON J. REUTHER;MARY REUTHER; John Does 1-10DEFENDANTSWILLIAM GREENWOODand ANTIQUE WOOD AND BRICK CO.,INC. OF MISSISSIPPI; COUNTER-PLAINTIFFSVS.AMERICAN CORPORATEINVESTMENT GROUP, LLC, AND LISA ASHCRAFTCOUNTER- DEFENDANTSWILLIAM GREENWOODand ANTIQUE WOOD AND BRICK CO.,INC. OF MISSISSIPPI; CROSS-PLAINTIFFSVS.PRESTON J. REUTHERand MARY REUTHERCROSS-DEFENDANTSSUMMONS BY PUBLICATIONTHE STATE OF MISSISSIPPITO: Preston J. ReutherMary ReutherYou have been made Defendants in the suit filed inthis Court by William Green-wood and Antique Wood andBrick Co., Inc. of Mississippi,Cross-Plaintiffs, seeking indemnification from you. You are required to mail orhand-deliver a written response to the Cross-Claimfiled against you in this action to Karen E. Howell,one of the attorneys for theCross-Plaintiffs, whose postoffice address is Brunini,Grantham, Grower & Hewes,PLLC; Post Office Drawer119, Jackson, MS 39205;190 E. Capitol Street, Suite100, Jackson, MS 39201.YOUR RESPONSE MUSTBE MAILED OR DELIVERED NOT LATERTHAN THIRTY (30) DAYSAFTER THE 26th DAY OFAugust, 2010, WHICH ISTHE DATE OF THE FIRSTPUBLICATION OF THISSUMMONS. IF YOUR RESPONSE IS NOT SOMAILED OR DELIVERED, AJUDGMENT BY DEFAULTWILL BE ENTEREDAGAINST YOU FOR THEMONEY OR OTHER RE-LIEF DEMANDED IN THECOMPLAINT.You must also file the origi-nal of your Response withthe Clerk of this Court withina reasonable time afterward.ISSUED UNDER MY HANDAND SEAL of said Court,this 18th day of August,2010.SHELLY ASHLEYPALMERTREE, WARREN COUNTY CIRCUIT CLERKBY: /s/ Kelly Stevens, D.C.(SEAL)Publish: 8/26, 9/2, 9/9(3t)

SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE'SNOTICE OF SALEWHEREAS, on June 25,2003, ADA RINGOLD, executed a Deed of Trust toADAMS, EDENS AND AKERS, PA as Trustee forthe benefit of MORTGAGEELECTRONICREGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC. AS A NOMINEE FOR COUNTRYWIDE HOMELOANS, INC., which Deed of Trust was filed on July 1,2003 and recorded in Book1399 at Page 402 in the Office of the Chancery Clerkof Warren County, Mississippi; andWHEREAS, CountrywideHome Loans, Inc. the currentBeneficiary of said Deed ofTrust substituted Emily KayeCourtean therein, as autho-rized by the terms thereof, asevidenced by an instrumentrecorded in Book 1444 atPage 413 in the Office of theChancery Clerk of WarrenCounty, Mississippi; andWHEREAS, BAC HomeLoans Servicing, LP, F/K/ACountywide Home LoansServicing, LP the currentBeneficiary of said Deed ofTrust substituted LemAdams, III as Trustee there-in, as authorized by theterms thereof, as evidencedby an instrument recorded inBook 1496 at Page 134 inthe Office of the ChanceryClerk of Warren County, Mississippi; and WHEREAS, BAC HOMELOANS SERVICING, LPFKA COUNTRYWIDEHOME LOANS SERVICINGLP, the current Beneficiary ofsaid Deed of Trust, substituted RECONTRUSTCOMPANY, N.A. as Trusteetherein, as authorized by theterms thereof, as evidencedby an recorded as InstrumentNo. 279042 - and in Book1512 at Page 98 - in the Office of the Chancery Clerkof Warren County, Mississippi; andWHEREAS, default havingbeen made in the terms andconditions of said Deed ofTrust, and the entire debt secured thereby having beendeclared to be due andpayable, and the legal holderof said indebtedness, BACHOME LOANS SERVICING,LP FKA COUNTRYWIDEHOME LOANS SERVICINGLP, having requested the undersigned SubstituteTrustee to execute the trustand sell said land and prop-erty in accordance with theterms of said Deed of Trustfor the purpose of raising thesums due thereunder, together with attorney's fees,Substitute Trustee's fees and expenses of sale.NOW, THEREFORE,RECONTRUST COMPANY,N.A., Substitute Trustee, willon September 09, 2010, offerfor sale at public outcry tothe highest bidder for cash,within legal hours (betweenthe hours of 11:00 a.m. to4:00 p.m.) at the front stepsof the Warren County Courthouse, the following-described property:ALL OF LOT THREE (3) OFPLEASANT VALLEY SUBDIVISION, A PLATWHEREOF IS DULYRECORDED IN PLATBOOK 2 AT PAGE 56 OFTHE LAND RECORDS OFTHE OFFICE OF THECHANCERY CLERK OFWARREN COUNTY, MISSISSIPPI.RECONTRUST COMPANY,N.A. will convey only such title as vested in it as Substitute Trustee.WITNESS my signature onthis 23rd day of July, 2010.RECONTRUST COMPANY,N.A., SUBSTITUTETRUSTEE2380 Performance Dr, TX2-984-0407Richardson, TX 75082Telephone No. (800) 281-8219By: /s/ Carolyn HollemanTitle: Assistant SecretaryRECONTRUST COMPANY,N.A., SUBSTITUTETRUSTEE2380 Performance Dr, TX2-984-0407Richardson, TX 75082TS No.: 10 -0077250PARCEL No. 1233 22 1540 006100DGHW 54345G-1LLPublish: 8/19, 8/26, 9/2(3t)


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SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE'SNOTICE OF SALEWHEREAS, on January 12,2006, Bradford Leon Smith,Sr. and Adriane SheliaSmith (Adreine SheliaSmith), husband and wife,executed a Deed of Trust toJim B. Tohill, Trustee for theuse and benefit ofAmeriquest Mortgage Company, which Deed ofTrust is on file and of recordin the office of the ChanceryClerk of Warren County, Mississippi, in Deed of TrustBook 1581 at Page 89thereof; andWHEREAS, said Deed ofTrust was assigned toDeutsche Bank NationalTrust Company, as Trusteefor, Ameriquest MortgageSecurities Inc., Asset-Backed Pass-Through Certificates, Series 2006-R2,Under the Pooling and Servicing Agreement DatedMarch 1, 2006, by assignment on file and ofrecord in the office of theChancery Clerk of WarrenCounty, Mississippi, in Book1490 at Page 840 thereof;andWHEREAS, the legal holderof the said Deed of Trust andthe note secured thereby,substituted Bradley P. Jones,as Trustee therein, as authorized by the termsthereof, by instrumentrecorded in the office of theaforesaid Chancery Clerk inBook 1510 at Page 162,thereof; and WHEREAS, default havingbeen made in the perfor-mance of the conditions andstipulations as set forth bysaid Deed of Trust, and having been requested bythe legal holder of the indebtedness secured anddescribed by said Deed ofTrust so to do, notice is here-by given that I, Bradley P.Jones, Substitute Trustee, byvirtue of the authority con-ferred upon me in said Deedof Trust, will offer for saleand will sell at public saleand outcry to the highest andbest bidder for cash, duringthe legal hours (between thehours of 11 o'clock a.m. and4 o'clock p.m.) at the Westfront door of the CountyCourthouse of Warren County, at Vicksburg, Mississippi, on the 2nd dayof September, 2010, the following described land andproperty being the same landand property described insaid Deed of Trust, situatedin Warren County, State ofMississippi, to-wit:All of Lot Three (3) of thesurvey of Lots One (1), Two(2), Three (3) and Four (4) ofBroadmoor Subdivision, asubdivision according to amap or plat thereof on fileand of record in the Office ofthe Chancery Clerk of Warren County at Vicksburg,Mississippi, in Book 352,Page 82, reference to whichis hereby made.Title to the above describedproperty is believed to begood, but I will convey onlysuch title as is vested in meas Substitute Trustee. WITNESS my signature, onthis the 6th day of August,2010._____________________BRADLEY P. JONESSUBSTITUTE TRUSTEEPREPARED BY: ADAMS & EDENSPOST OFFICE BOX 400BRANDON, MISSISSIPPI39043(601) 825-9508A&E File #26790Publish: 8/12, 8/19, 8/26(3t)

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SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE'SNOTICE OF SALEWHEREAS, on January 12,2006, Bradford Leon Smith,Sr. and Adriane SheliaSmith (Adreine SheliaSmith), husband and wife,executed a Deed of Trust toJim B. Tohill, Trustee for theuse and benefit ofAmeriquest Mortgage Company, which Deed ofTrust is on file and of recordin the office of the ChanceryClerk of Warren County, Mississippi, in Deed of TrustBook 1581 at Page 89thereof; andWHEREAS, said Deed ofTrust was assigned toDeutsche Bank NationalTrust Company, as Trusteefor, Ameriquest MortgageSecurities Inc., Asset-Backed Pass-Through Certificates, Series 2006-R2,Under the Pooling and Servicing Agreement DatedMarch 1, 2006, by assignment on file and ofrecord in the office of theChancery Clerk of WarrenCounty, Mississippi, in Book1490 at Page 840 thereof;andWHEREAS, the legal holderof the said Deed of Trust andthe note secured thereby,substituted Bradley P. Jones,as Trustee therein, as authorized by the termsthereof, by instrumentrecorded in the office of theaforesaid Chancery Clerk inBook 1510 at Page 162,thereof; and WHEREAS, default havingbeen made in the perfor-mance of the conditions andstipulations as set forth bysaid Deed of Trust, and having been requested bythe legal holder of the indebtedness secured anddescribed by said Deed ofTrust so to do, notice is here-by given that I, Bradley P.Jones, Substitute Trustee, byvirtue of the authority con-ferred upon me in said Deedof Trust, will offer for saleand will sell at public saleand outcry to the highest andbest bidder for cash, duringthe legal hours (between thehours of 11 o'clock a.m. and4 o'clock p.m.) at the Westfront door of the CountyCourthouse of Warren County, at Vicksburg, Mississippi, on the 2nd dayof September, 2010, the following described land andproperty being the same landand property described insaid Deed of Trust, situatedin Warren County, State ofMississippi, to-wit:All of Lot Three (3) of thesurvey of Lots One (1), Two(2), Three (3) and Four (4) ofBroadmoor Subdivision, asubdivision according to amap or plat thereof on fileand of record in the Office ofthe Chancery Clerk of Warren County at Vicksburg,Mississippi, in Book 352,Page 82, reference to whichis hereby made.Title to the above describedproperty is believed to begood, but I will convey onlysuch title as is vested in meas Substitute Trustee. WITNESS my signature, onthis the 6th day of August,2010._____________________BRADLEY P. JONESSUBSTITUTE TRUSTEEPREPARED BY: ADAMS & EDENSPOST OFFICE BOX 400BRANDON, MISSISSIPPI39043(601) 825-9508A&E File #26790Publish: 8/12, 8/19, 8/26(3t)

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01. LegalsSUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE'SNOTICE OF SALEWHEREAS, on January 31,2005, Shingyhun Walker andAngela Walker, executed aDeed of Trust to RecontrustCompany, N.A., Trustee forthe use and benefit of Mort-gage Electronic RegistrationSystems, Inc., which Deed ofTrust is on file and of recordin the office of the ChanceryClerk of Warren County, Mississippi, in Deed of TrustBook 1513 at Page 819thereof; andWHEREAS, said Deed ofTrust was assigned to BACHome Loans Servicing, LP,fka Countrywide HomeLoans Servicing, LP, by assignment on file and ofrecord in the office of theChancery Clerk of WarrenCounty, Mississippi, in Book1502 at Page 60 thereof; andWHEREAS, the legal holderof the said Deed of Trust andthe note secured thereby,substituted Bradley P. Jones,as Trustee therein, as authorized by the termsthereof, by instrumentrecorded in the office of theaforesaid Chancery Clerk inBook 1508 at Page 452,thereof; andWHEREAS, default havingbeen made in the perfor-mance of the conditions andstipulations as set forth bysaid Deed of Trust, and having been requested bythe legal holder of the indebtedness secured anddescribed by said Deed ofTrust so to do, notice is hereby given that I, BradleyP. Jones, Substitute Trustee,by virtue of the authority conferred upon me in saidDeed of Trust, will offer forsale and will sell at publicsale and outcry to the high-est and best bidder for cash,during the legal hours (between the hours of 11 o'clock a.m. and 4 o'clockp.m.) at the West front doorof the County Courthouse ofWarren County, at Vicksburg, Mississippi, onthe 2nd day of September,2010, the following describedland and property being thesame land and property described in said Deed ofTrust, situated in WarrenCounty, State of Mississippi,to-wit:That certain land and property located in Lot 1 ofthe Clarence ThompsonSubdivision in Section 19,Township 16, Range 4 East,Warren County, Mississippi,as same is more particularlydescribed in Book 178 atPage 163 of the WarrenCounty Land Records in theOffice of the Chancery Clerkof Warren County, Mississip-pi, with plat attached thereto.Title to the above describedproperty is believed to begood, but I will convey onlysuch title as is vested in meas Substitute Trustee. WITNESS my signature, onthis the 5th day of August,2010.____________________BRADLEY P. JONESSUBSTITUTE TRUSTEEPREPARED BY: ADAMS &EDENSPOST OFFICE BOX 400BRANDON, MISSISSIPPI39043(601) 825-9508A&E File #25812Publish: 8/12, 8/19, 8/26(3t)

07. Help Wanted

01. LegalsStatewide Publishing LLCPO Box 768170Roswell, GA 30076SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE'SNOTICE OF SALE STATEOF MISSISSIPPI COUNTYOF WARREN WHEREAS,on April 24, 2006, Gordon B.White and Phylis F. Whiteexecuted and delivered acertain Deed of Trust untoJohn H. Shows, Trustee forthe benefit of Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., acting solelyas a nominee for RiverHillsBank, its successors and assigns, to secure an indebtedness therein described, which Deed ofTrust is recorded in the officeof the Chancery Clerk ofWarren County, Mississippiin Book 1587, Page 420; andWHEREAS, said Deed ofTrust was subsequently assigned unto Chase Home Finance LLC, by instrumentrecorded in the Office of theaforesaid Chancery Clerk inBook 1510, Page 688; andWHEREAS, the holder ofsaid Deed of Trust substitut-ed and appointed NationwideTrustee Services, Inc., asTrustee in said Deed of Trustby instrument recorded in theOffice of the aforesaidChancery Clerk Book 1510,Page 689; and WHEREAS,default having been made inthe payments of indebtedness secured bysaid Deed of Trust, and theholder of said Deed of Trust,having requested the undersigned so to do, onSeptember 2, 2010, I will,during legal hours (betweenthe hours of 11 o' clock a.m.and 4 o' clock p.m.), at publicoutcry, offer for sale and willsell, at the Front door Stepsof the Warren County Courthouse in Vicksburg,Mississippi, for cash to thehighest bidder, the followingdescribed land and propertysituated in Warren County,Mississippi, to-wit: All of Lot7, Camelot Estates Subdivi-sion, Part 1, as recorded inPlat Book 3, Page 23 of theLand Records of WarrenCounty, Mississippi. Title tothe above described propertyis believed to be good, but Iwill convey only such title asis vested in me as Substituted Trustee. WITNESS MY SIGNATURE,this the 27th day of July,2010 Christian Mayer Christian Mayer, Assistant Vice President Nationwide Trustee Services, Inc. 1587 Northeast Expressway Atlanta, GA 30329 (770)234-9181 ext 1023674MS Publish: 8/12, 8/26(2t)

02. Public Service

2 ORANGE kittens, maleand female tabbys, 13weeks old. 601-618-0877.

FREE BLACK AND graymale tabby kitten to lovinghome. 601-883-9862.

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24. BusinessServices

05. Notices80TH SHOW! VICKS-

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Services available towomen & children who are

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05. NoticesENDING HOMELESS-

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14. Pets &Livestock

AKC/ CKC REGISTERED Yorkies,

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Currently has30 puppies& dogs

39 cats & kittensavailable for adoption.

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14. Pets &Livestock

CHIHUAHUA PUPPIES.Small type, registered, firstshots and wormed. $200-$250. 601-529-5029.

FREE TO GOOD homekittens. 2 Black, white, gray.601-415-5535.

LITTLE BABIES FOR SALE.Tiny Toy Poodles, red and Apri-cot. $200 and $500. Small Chi-huahuas, $250. Shih-Tzus, 6weeks and older, $150 and up.Tiny Yorkie males, $350. Design-er pups, $100. Cash only. Allwith shots and wormed. Healthguaranteed. Registered with Cer-tified Pet Registeristration KennelClub. Delhi 318-680-2100.

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17. Wanted ToBuy

WE HAUL OFF old appli-ances, lawn mowers, hot waterheaters, junk and abandonedcars, trucks, vans, old autobatteries, etcetera. 601-940-5075, please leave message.



10 FOOT HEX shapedtent, $50. 7 foot x 17 inchwide steel firewood rack,$30. 2 CD Roms, $10 each.256 MB chip, $10. Righthand Russian Militaryleather holster, $25. 601-634-6121, leave message.

2 CEMETERY PLOTS atGreen Acres Cemetery.Reasonable price. 601-636-6531.

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2557016 TIRES ANDrims. 16 inch, fits FordRanger. $225. 601-529-3265, 601-529-3250.

CAPTAIN JACK'SSHRIMP Special! Frozen,headless, 5 pounds-$24.99. Also Froglegs, Alli-gator, Crawfish Tails.Thursday, Friday, Saturday.601-638-7001.

CLAYTON MARCUS3176-02 Sleeper sofaQueen, with two arm pil-lows, stripped fabric, excel-lent, $500; Fairfield JuliaWing Chair, wine fabric,good $50; Lazyboy RockerRecliner, leather good,$150, 601-638-2187.

Craftsman Radial Arm Saw$250, Craftsman Drill Presswith Stand $75, 36 inchTruck Tool Box $50,Polishing Machine with standand accessories $60, 3 TonFloor Jack $50, 1 1/2 TonAluminum Racing Jack $60,Work Bench $75, PaintSpraying equipment withcabinet $150, 601-636-0886

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7 day delivery.Call 601-636-4545,

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HUSTLER FASTRACK Zwith 4x8 trailer, customizedfor lawn service. $3000,769-203-1279.

THE PET SHOP“Vicksburg’s Pet Boutique”3508 South Washington Street

DESIGNERS, DESIGNERSFor that Special Tiny One or That

Special Big One!Designer Collars,

harnesses & leadsNow Available. Great

Variety! Fancy, Fancy!

SHOPSMITH MARK V Jigsaw, brand saw, 4 inch jointer,lathe attachment too many ac-cessories to name, $1500. 601-883-0996

USED TIRES! LIGHTtrucks and SUV's, 16's,17's, 18's, 19's, 20's. A fewmatching sets! Call TD's,601-638-3252.

YELLOW TAG SALE.New and used furniture.Discount Furniture Barn,600 Jackson Street. 601-638-7191.

19. Garage &Yard Sales

1365 STANDARD HILLROAD, Thursday throughSaturday 8am-4pm. Cloth-ing, household items, elec-tronics, and much more.Items starting at $1.

366 BOY SCOUT Road,Follow signs from CulkinRoad. Saturday 7am- 11amonly. Men and boys coats,Clothing all sizes, someHunting clothes and otheritems. Rain or Shine.

727 FONSYLVANIAROAD, Friday and Saturday6am- until. 7 miles pastFisher Ferry Super Junioron left. Dishes, Baby, Kidsclothes, tools, DVDs, hunt-ing, camping equipment, alot of new and used miscel-laneous.

STILL HAVE STUFF after your Garage Sale?Donate your items to

The Salvation Army, we pick-up!

Call 601-636-2706.

What's going on inVicksburg this weekend?Read The Vicksburg Post!

For convenient home deliv-ery call 601-636-4545, ask

for circulation.

20. Hunting

Let us sell your usedhunting and fishingequipment with a classi-fied in the Fall HuntingGuide special sectionSeptember 23, 2010. 20words, $20, $10 for pho-to. Ads will run free onFriday September, 24th.Deadline is September 8,2010.

21. Boats,Fishing Supplies

What's going on in Vicks-burg this weekend? ReadThe Vicksburg Post! Forconvenient home delivery,call 601-636-4545, ask forcirculation.


Malone Home ImprovementsHonest Work for an Honest Price

•And More

Free EstimatesRonnie Malone

(601)738-0884 (601)663-6587

•Vinyl siding •Sheetrock •Additions •Decks•Metal/Shingle roofs•Ceramic/ Laminate Flooring


DIRT AND GRAVELhauled. 8 yard truck. 601-638-6740.

I AM AVAILABLE FORHouse cleaning or Sitting.Reasonable rates. Call 769-203-1498.

PERSONAL ASSISTANTCare for your pets?? Run

your errands (groceries, Dr. appointment, airports) Yardwork, organization of home or

office, painting. References if needed. Call 601-618-3147.

River City Lawn CareYou grow it - we mow it!Affordable and profes-

sional. Lawn and land-scape maintenance. Cut, bag, trim, edge.

601-529-6168.

26. For RentOr Lease

PROFESSIONAL OF-FICE SPACE available Au-gust 2nd. Great location.Utilities and janetorial ser-vice included. $900/month.601-638-4050.

27. Room s ForRent

FURNISHED BEDROOMOverlooking WashingtonStreet. Deposit required.601-638-5943, 662-873-

4236, 662-873-2878.

29. UnfurnishedApartments

28. FurnishedApartments

Completely furnished 1 bed-room and Studio Apartments.

All utilities paid including ca-ble and internet. Enclosedcourtyard, Laundry room.

Great location. $750 - $900month. 601-415-9027,

601-638-4386.

CORPORATE APARTMENT.Fully furnished. $800 monthly,utilities, weekly cleaning, offstreet parking. 601-661-9747.

28. FurnishedApartments

EXCELLENT IN-TOWNlocation. 1 bedroom fur-nished, private parking, de-posit and references required.$450 monthly. 601-218-6208.


$450 MONTHLY! GATEDCommunity, 1 bedroom,hardwood, washer/ dryer,central heat/ air, 1115 FirstNorth. 512-787-7840.

1 AND 2 BEDROOMS withrefrigerator and stove.

$400 monthly, $200 deposit.601-634-8290.

1, 2 AND 3 BEDROOMAPARTMENTS, downtown.$400 to $650 monthly, depositrequired. 601-638-1746.

1, 2 AND 3 bedroom unitsavailable. Phone 601-636-0447 for information/ viewing.8am-5pm.

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30. HousesFor Rent

3 or 4 BEDROOMS- Rent $1,000 and up! 721

National, 418 Groome732-768-5743

30. HousesFor Rent

LOS COLINAS. SMALL 2Bedroom, 2 Bath Cottage.Close in, nice. $795 month-ly. 601-831-4506.

31. Mobile HomesFor Rent

118 RIDGEVIEW NICE 3bedroom 2 bath country lot$585 monthly plus deposit.Reference and application.601-638-6660

16X60 2 BEDROOM, 1BATH, 12x60 porch. Nopets. $200 deposit, $550monthly. 601-631-1942.

2 BEDROOM, 1 BATH.Stove, refrigerator, washerand dryer, no pets. $200deposit, $450 monthly. 601-638-6239.

3 BEDROOM, 2 BATH16x80. 14X70, 2 bedroom, 1bath. Call 601-218-2307, 601-218-5656.

MEADOWBROOKPROPERTIES. 2 or 3 bed-room mobile homes, southcounty. Deposit required.

601-619-9789.

32. Mobile HomesFor Sale

FOR SALE BY OWNER

Less than $600 mo. 4 BR 2 Baths,

Over 2150 sq. ft. 1/2 acre lot

FHA ApprovedNew Carpet

Call 601-218-0140601-218-2582

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33. Commercia lProperty

��FOR LEASE��

1911 Mission 66Office or Retail

Suite B-Apprx. 2450 sq. ft.Great Location!

Easy Access!High Visability!

Brian Moore RealtyConnie - Owner/ Agent

318-322-4000

FOR LEASE- MISSION 66,500 square feet to 1600 squarefeet. Will sub-divide, 601-629-7305 or 601-291-1148.


34. HousesFor Sale

CallMindy Hall

REALTOR- ASSOCIATE®For all your

real estate needs!

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3 BEDROOM HOME,over 1500 square feet po-tential living area. Under$100,000. Christy at Vicks-burg Realty, 601-529-9304.

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Rental includingCorporate Apartments

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14 INDIAN HILLS5 BR, 3.5BA home

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302 NEWIT VICK4 BR,2 BA.

Privacyfencedyard w/patio.


34. HousesFor Sale

BY OWNER, 313 LAKEFOREST DRIVE. 3Bedroom, 2.5 Bath, 1550square feet. Move-In Ready.$154,900. 601-630-0314.

McMillinReal Estate601-636-8193

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HOUSE FOR SALE byowner. 113 Camden Drive,$279,000. 4 bedroom, 3.5

bath, large gameroom/media room, 2962 squarefeet. 10X12 storage build-

ing, covered patio. 601-883-0996 for appointment.

Mary D. Barnes.........601-966-1665Stacie Bowers-Griffin...601-218-9134Rip Hoxie, Land Pro....601-260-9149Jill Waring Upchurch....601-906-5012Carla Watson...............601-415-4179Judy Uzzle-Ashley....601-994-4663Andrea Upchurch.......601-831-6490Broker, GRI

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Licensed inMS and LA

Jones & UpchurchReal Estate Agency

1803 Clay Streetwww.jonesandupchurch.com

REDUCED TO $105,000,Edna Drive, Glenwood Cir-cle area. 3 bedrooms, 1.5baths. 601-218-4714.

Kay Odom..........601-638-2443Kay Hobson.......601-638-8512Jake Strait...........601-218-1258Bob Gordon........601-831-0135Tony Jordan........601-630-6461Alex Monsour.....601-415-7274Jay Hobson..........601-456-1318Kai Mason...........601-218-5623Daryl Hollingsworth..601-415-5549Sybil Caraway....601-218-2869Catherine Roy....601-831-5790Rick McAllister..601-218-1150Mincer Minor.....601-529-0893Jim Hobson.........601-415-0211

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36. Farms &Acreage


38. FarmImple ments/

Heavy Equipment


39. Motorcycles ,Bicycles

2008 CRF 450X StreetLegal, $5,500. Very lowmiles, like new conditionContact: 601-636-1927 [email protected]


40. Cars & Trucks

CREDIT PROBLEMS?NO PROBLEM

Gary’s Cars for Less3524 Hwy 61 South

601-883-9995Has a financing programTo fit your needs. Yourpaystub is your credit!

For pre-approvalwww.garyscfl.com


40. Cars & Trucks

1971 CHEVELLE. Mintcondition. Edelbrock Perfor-mance package added.$10,000. 601-638-6711. Se-rious buyers only.

1995 DODGE RAM 2500Extra good, customized$2,250 or best offer. 601-415-6326.

2005 JAGUAR X-TYPE.75,000 miles. $15,950. 601-868-1235.

2005 TOYOTA COROL-LA. $6,995. Call VicksburgToyota at 1-877-776-4770.

2005 TOYOTA PRIUS.Stock# 600166A. $13,995.Call Vicksburg Toyota at 1-877-776-4770.

2007 RAV 4. Stock#6P4498. $16,995. CallVicksburg Toyota at 1-877-776-4770.

2008 CHEVROLET Z71.Excellent condition, leather,$22,500. After 4pm week-day. 601-831-0017.

2008 HONDA CIVICCoupe EX. Stock#600225A. $15,995. CallVicksburg Toyota at 1-877-776-4770.

2009 FORD E-150 Van.8,000 miles. $18,995. CallVicksburg Toyota at 1-877-776-4770.

•1995 Toyota Truck $2,495 •2005 Ford Crown

Victoria, $2,995 •1997 Ford Crown Victoria

$1,995 •2001 Dodge Ram $3,995

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FOR SALE 2006 Chevro-let Silverado, 1500 extend-ed cab. Excellent condition.$10,500. 601-634-6445,601-209-7507.

Fully Loaded1999 NISSAN ALTIMA

New rims & tires. Veryclean, excellent runningcondition. To view picture,

go to craigslist.com, type inkeyword 1999 Nissan Altima.

$2500 - 601-631-0222

2010 Jeep Wrangler, Wran-gler Sport, hard top, automatic,with power windows and doorlocks, white only 2,200 miles.$24,900. 601-218-4714.


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