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Suspect Cowbells expected to be loud,

in murder even at 25-percent capacity
of Starkville Mississippi State prepares its game day operations
man heads for home opener against Arkansas
to trial today
Murry was indicted
in 2019 for murder,
conspiracy in the death
of Jarrell Ward
BY ISABELLE ALTMAN
ialtman@cdispatch.com

The trial of a man

accused in the 2018
murder of a Starkville
resident is scheduled
to begin today in
Lowndes County.
Joshua Murry, 29,
was indicted in Janu-
ary 2019 on charges Murry
of first-degree murder and conspir-
acy after authorities said he mur-
dered Jarrell Ward, 24, on July 26,
2018, according to court records.
Ward’s family had reported him
missing in Columbus a few days
before investigators discovered his
body on Aug. 1 in a wooded area
near Sand Road, west of Highway
12. At the time, investigators did
Courtesy photo/MSU Athletics/Austin Perryman
not release further information
about the cause of Ward’s death. The sun shines down on a Mississippi State student-athlete standing on Scott Field at Davis Wade Stadium. Saturday, the
Bulldogs open the 2020 home football slate against Arkansas with limited-capacity due to COVID-19. Tickets for this year
Murry was arrested for mur- were only made available to season ticket holders and students.
der the day investigators found
Ward’s body. He was indicted for
conspiracy because days later, on ‘We’re not trying to be the fun police. ... We want to and understanding with
what we’re trying to do.
Aug. 6, 2018, he allegedly tried to
escape Lowndes County Adult De- tie in cowbells and having fun and taking pictures and It’s not like we’re trying
to really prohibit or re-
tention Center with the help of his
girlfriend, Shanice Nottage, who showing yourself on the video board with masks and strict or punish. It’s to
planned to impersonate a Missis- provide a safe means to
sippi Department of Corrections being socially distanced and that kind of thing.’ have sports and we’re for-
officer, according to previous re- MSU Deputy Athletic Director for External Affairs Leah Beasley tunate enough to be able
Logan
porting by The Dispatch. The two to do that.”
were still in the planning stages of BY BEN PORTNOY es of hosting a football game amid the The most prominent fixture of
the conspiracy when investigators bportnoy@cdispatch.com COVID-19 pandemic. COVID-19-affected game day experi-
learned of it. “From maybe where they tailgated, ences nationwide is limited stadium
Nottage was also charged with The Junction may be empty, but the or where they parked, or where they’ve capacities. Davis Wade Stadium will be
conspiracy to commit a crime and clanging of cowbells will return to Da- sat, or how they’ve come into the game at 25 percent of its capacity — roughly
her trial is pending. vis Wade Stadium this weekend, albeit and all those things — for some that 15,000 fans — due to restrictions put
A jury in Murry’s case was cho- in a limited capacity. may not be the same, just because of in place by Gov. Tate Reeves in recent
sen Tuesday, and attorneys are With Mississippi State beginning its the situation,” MSU Executive Senior weeks, while tickets this year are only
scheduled to begin opening argu- home slate against Arkansas on Satur- Associate Athletic Director for Internal available to season ticket holders and
ments this morning. If convicted of day following a season-opening upset Affairs Jay Logan told The Dispatch. students.
first degree murder, Murry could of then-No. 6 LSU in Baton Rouge last “So I think that in all the information Given the limited crowds, Executive
be sentenced to life in prison with week, athletic department officials are I have, that we’ve put together it really Senior Associate Athletic Director for
the possibility of parole. preparing for the logistical challeng- comes down to our fans being patient See MSU, 8A

Sim Scott Park reconstruction expected to wrap up by November

Construction workers
can be seen working
Lewis: Building combines community, senior centers
on the new Sim Scott
Recreation Center into one, will remain closed amid pandemic
at Sim Scott Park
Monday afternoon.
BY YUE STELLA YU The 9,000-square-foot building,
syu@cdispatch.com which will include a large room for ac-
With the old Sim
Scott Community tivities, two classrooms and a senior
Center destroyed by The new Sim Scott center, will integrate the old commu-
the February tornado Recreation Center, nity center and the senior center into
in 2019, the new which will replace the one. The senior center will take up
9,000-square-foot structure destroyed by roughly 1,700 square feet of the space
building will house the February tornado on the west end of the building, which
both the community in 2019, is expected to will include a large room, a kitch-
and senior centers.
The construction is ex- reach completion by en and pantry area and a unisex re-
pected to be finished the end of October, Co- Lewis stroom, said Darrell Winters, senior
by the end of October. lumbus Parks Director project manager for J5 GBL, which is
Garrick Hodge/Dispatch Staff Greg Lewis said. See SIM SCOTT PARK, 3A

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Debate Takeaways: An acrid

tone from the opening minute
Tuesday’s debate in Ohio was the first of three
debates scheduled before Election Day on Nov. 3
BY BILL BARROW
AND ZEKE MILLER
The Associated Press
WA S H I N G T O N
— After more than a
year of circling each
other, Republican
President Donald
Trump and Demo-
cratic challenger Joe
Biden met on the de-
bate stage Tuesday Trump
night in Ohio.
The 74-year-old
president and the
77-year-old former
vice president are
similar in age, and
they share a mutual
dislike. But they dif-
fer starkly in style and Biden
substance. All of that was evident
from the outset on the Cleveland
stage.
Here are key takeaways from the
first of three scheduled presidential
debates before Election Day on Nov.
3.
And in this corner
Trump is no stranger to going on
offense, but his pugilistic approach
on stage left his Democratic oppo-
nent fighting to complete a sentence.
Trailing in public and private poll-
ing, Trump advisers have pushed
him to reframe the election away
from a referendum on his presi-
dency to a choice between him and
Biden. Trump, instead, comman-
deered the debate, trying to trip up
Biden by interrupting and insulting
him. In the process, Trump made
the debate more about himself.
“There’s nothing smart about
you,” Trump said of Biden. “47 years
you’ve done nothing.”
While Trump played into his rep-
utation as a bully, it may have been
effective at breaking up the worst of
Biden’s attacks — simply by talking
over them.
Trump aides believed before the
debate that Biden would be unable
to withstand the withering offensive
on style and substance from Trump,
but Biden came with a few retorts
of his own, calling Trump a “clown”
and mocking Trump’s style by ask-
ing, “Will you shut up, man?”
Trump’s supporters may have
been cheered by his frontal assault.
Whether undecided voters, who
watched the debate to try to learn
about the two candidates, were im-
pressed is another matter.
Moderator Chris Wallace was
none too amused, delivering a point-
ed reproach to Trump for his in-
terruptions. “Frankly, you’ve been
doing more interrupting,” Wallace
said, appealing to Trump to let his
opponent speak.
Trump is fond of superlatives, but
in the case of the debate there is lit-
tle doubt that it was the most acrimo-
nious of since the forums have been
televised.
Trump can’t escape the virus
Trump has wanted the election
to be about anything but the coro-
navirus pandemic, but he couldn’t
outrun reality on the debate stage.
“It is what it is because you are
who you are,” Biden told the presi-
dent, referring to Trump’s months
of downplaying COVID-19 while he
said privately he understood how
deadly it is.
But Trump didn’t take it quietly.
He proceeded to blitz Biden with a
mix of self-defense and counter-of-
fensives. 200,000 dead? Biden’s
death toll would have been “mil-
lions,” Trump said. A rocky econ-
omy? Biden would’ve been worse.
Biden wouldn’t have manufactured
enough masks or ventilators.
The kicker: “There will be a vac-
cine very soon.”
Biden fell back on his bottom
line: “A lot of people died, and a lot
more are going to unless he gets a
lot smarter.”
For voters still undecided about
who’d better handle the pandemic,
the exchange may not have offered
anything new.
Question about court, answer
about health care
Trump defended his decision to
nominate Amy Coney Barrett to the
Supreme Court just weeks before
Election Day, saying “elections have
consequences.”
Biden said he was “not opposed
to the justice,” but said the “Ameri-
can people have a right to have a say
in who the Supreme Court nominee
is.”
But rather than litigate Repub-
licans’ 2016 blocking of Merrick
Garland to the high court, Biden
quickly pivoted to the issues that
will potentially come before the
court: healthcare and abortion. It’s
an effort by the Democrat to refo-
cus the all-but-certain confirmation
fight for Trump’s third justice to the
Supreme Court into an assault on
Trump and his record.
Biden said Barrett, who would be
the sixth justice on the nine-member
court to be appointed by a Republi-
can, would endanger the Affordable
Care Act and tens of millions of
Americans with preexisting condi-
tions, and would imperil legalized
abortion. It was a reframing of the
political debate to terms far more
favorable to the Democrat, and one
Trump played into. Trump said of
the conservative Barrett, “You don’t
know her view on Roe vs. Wade”
and he defended his efforts to try to
chip away at the popular Obama-era
health law.
Biden has tried to press Dem-
ocrats to use the court confirma-
tion fight as a rallying cry against
Trump, and the debate discussion
largely played out on his turf.

Trump to far-right extremists: ‘Stand back and stand by’

‘Almost everything I see is from the
left wing, not from the right wing’
President Donald Trump
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS change with Democrat
Joe Biden left the extrem-
President Donald ist group Proud Boys cel-
Trump on Tuesday didn’t ebrating what some of its
clearly condemn white members saw as tacit ap-
supremacist groups and proval.
their role in violence in He was responding
some American cities this to a question from de-
summer, branding it sole- bate moderator Chris
ly a “left-wing” problem Wallace, who asked the
and telling one far-right president if he would con-
extremist group to “stand demn white supremacist
back and stand by.” and militia groups that
“Almost everything I have showed up at some
see is from the left wing, protests. Wallace specif-
not from the right wing,” ically mentioned Keno-
said Trump, whose ex- sha, Wisconsin, where
a white teenager was
charged with killing two
protesters during demon-
strations over the police
shooting of Jacob Blake,
a Black man. Trump has
repeatedly blamed “anti-
fa,” which stands for the
anti-fascist movement.
“I’m willing to do any-
thing. I want to see peace,”
Trump said. “What do you
want to call them? Give
me a name.”
“Proud Boys,” Dem-
ocrat Joe Biden chimed
in, referencing a far-right
extremist group that has
shown up at protests in
the Pacific Northwest.
The male-only group of
neo-fascists describes
themselves as “western
chauvinists,” and they
have been known to incite
street violence.
“Proud Boys, stand
back and stand by,”
Trump said. “But I’ll tell
you what, I’ll tell you
what, somebody’s got to
do something about antifa
and the left because this is
not a right-wing problem.”
Trump, a Republican,
has tried to tie incidents of
violence that have accom-
panied largely peaceful
protests to Biden and the
Democrats, running on a
“law and order” message
that warns people won’t
be safe under a Democrat-
ic president.

Biden releases 2019 taxes as pre-debate contrast with Trump

BY STEPHEN BRAUN
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — their 2019 federal and
Democratic presidential
nominee Joe Biden paid
nearly $288,000 in feder-
al income taxes last year,
according to returns he
released just hours before
his Tuesday night debate
with President Donald
Trump.
The move came follow-
ing a report from The New
York Times that Trump
paid just $750 in income
taxes in 2016, the year he
ran for president, and in
2017, his first year in the
White House.
Biden and his wife, Jill,
along with Biden’s run-
ning mate, California Sen.
Kamala Harris, released
state returns as the presi-
dent contends with the po-
litical fallout from a series
of Times reports about
Trump’s long-hidden tax
returns. The Times also
reported that Trump paid
no income tax at all in 10 of
the 15 years prior to 2017.
The Bidens’ payment
of $287,693 to the feder-
al government in 2019
showed a substantial drop
from the $1.5 million they
paid in income taxes in
2018, reflecting a decline
in Biden’s book revenue,
his decision to run for the
presidency and his leave of
absence from an academic
post at the University of
Pennsylvania in Philadel-
phia.
After paying $91,000
in 2016, Biden’s last year
as vice president in the
Obama administration, the
Bidens paid $3.7 million to
the government in 2017,
largely because of income
from book deals. Their lat-
est return shows that the
couple’s adjusted gross
earnings of $985,233 came
from his vacated Penn po-
sition, Jill Biden’s commu-
nity college teaching job
and corporate entities that
hold their speaking and
writing payments.
Harris and her hus-
band, attorney Douglas
Emhoff, paid $1,185,628
in combined federal and
state taxes on earnings of
$3,018,127.
The Biden campaign
has moved aggressively
to capitalize on the Times
reports about Trump’s tiny
tax payments. The cam-
paign released a media ad
showing that nurses, fire-
fighters and other work-
ing-class Americans pay
far more in annual federal
taxes than the $750 Trump
tax payments described
by the Times.

Foreign observers note ‘chaos,’ ‘rancor’ in US debate

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
BEIJING — “Chaos,
interruptions, personal
attacks and insults,” one
outspoken Chinese news-
paper editor said of the
U.S. presidential debate.
An Australian counterpart
said it was “swamped” by
the “rancor engulfing
America.”
The first debate pit-
ting Republican President
Donald Trump against
Democratic challenger
Joe Biden was not a high-
light of political oratory in
the eyes of many overseas.
Yet interest ran high
for its potential impact on
what may be the most con-
sequential U.S. election
in years, now just over a
month away.
Observers looked for
possible impact on finan-
cial markets and curren-
cies, although the reaction
was muted overall. Share
prices slipped further in
Japan and the dollar weak-
ened against the Japanese
yen and the euro, while
U.S. futures were lower,
auguring a weak opening
on Wall Street.
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Officials request federal audit of internet provided by AT&T

‘Our investigation has revealed a wide-array
of inconsistencies in what AT&T advertises
as available and what actually exists when
consumers try to get internet service’
Northern District Public Service Commissioner Brandon Presley
BY LEAH WILLINGHAM
Associated Press/ Report for America
JACKSON —
The state of Mis-
sissippi on Tues-
day questioned
whether AT&T
has adequately
followed through
on a federally
funded initiative Presley
to make internet service avail-
able to residents as officials
asked the U.S. government to
perform an audit into the matter.
In a letter to the Federal
Communications Commission,
Mississippi’s three public ser-
vice commissioners said records
recently provided by the tele-
communications conglomerate
through a subpoena have led “to
great concern surrounding the
validity of AT&T Mississippi’s
claims and the honesty of data
submitted by them.”
“Our investigation has re-
vealed a wide-array of inconsis-
tencies in what AT&T advertises
as available and what actually
exists when consumers try to
get internet service,” Northern
District Public Service Commis-
sioner Brandon Presley said in a
statement.
Presley presented a subpoe-
na to AT&T Mississippi on Sept.
11 for records related to work it
completed in the state to provide
fixed wireless service access
through the Connect America
Fund, a multiyear federal pro-
gram designed to expand access
to broadband in rural areas of
the country that are currently
underserved.
The Federal Communica-
tions Commission provides
funding to service providers to
subsidize the cost of building
new network infrastructure or
performing network upgrades.
AT&T has received nearly $284
million in federal money as part
of the Mississippi initiative.
Presley said Public Service
Commission officials request-
ed the records after receiving
complaints from residents who
said they were told by AT&T
that they were not eligible for
service.
The company agreed to com-
ply on Sept. 17. Officials said in
their letter Tuesday that an in-
vestigation by the Public Service
Commission found “concrete,
specific examples” of homes
where AT&T reported to the
federal government that it had
made service available, but that
service was not actually provid-
ed.
While the government has
gained access to these records,
AT&T has said that Mississippi
law protecting companies from
disclosing “competitively sensi-
tive” information shields them
from publicly disclosing the re-
cords.
AT&T has said it is on track
to provide service to more than
133,000 Mississippi households
by the end of the year. Data pro-
vided by AT&T and made public
by the Universal Service Admin-
istrative Company shows well
over 133,000 addresses where
AT&T says service has been de-
ployed.
“The data we report as part of
Phase II of the Connect America
Fund is already subject to strict
audit and compliance measures
by the federal government,”
AT&T said in a statement Tues-
day. “We will continue to focus
on doing work that matters to
Mississippians by deploying
high-speed infrastructure in
communities across the state.”
On its website, Universal Ser-
vice Administrative Company
said it verifies data provided to it
by recipients of federal Connect
America Fund dollars by check-
ing with a sample of the total
households where companies re-
port service has been provided.
Along with the number of ac-
tual subscribers to AT&T’s fixed
wireless service, the Public
Service Commission requested
the number of complaints filed
with the company by customers
who have taken service. It also
sought information on the num-
ber of Mississippians who ap-
plied for fixed wireless service
based on AT&T’s assertion that
it was available and were later
determined not to be in an area
covered.

James Meredith film weighs ‘complicated’ civil rights figure

‘Walk Against Fear: James Meredith’
is scheduled to air Thursday on the
Smithsonian Channel
BY RUSSELL CONTRERAS
The Associated Press
RIO RANCHO, N.M.
— A new documentary is
diving into the complicat-
ed, and sometimes contra-
dictory life of James Mer-
edith, a Black civil rights
figure who helped change
Mississippi.
“Walk Against Fear:
James Meredith,” sched-
uled to air Thursday on
the Smithsonian Channel,
examines the life of a U.S.
Air Force veteran and hu-
man rights agitator whose
admission to the Univer-
sity of Mississippi forced
President John F. Kenne-
dy to send federal troops
into the state to quell a
white supremacy uprising.
It was one of the most vi-
olent moments of the Civ-
il Rights Movement and
Meredith’s determination
to enroll in Ole Miss forev-
er transformed life in the
American Deep South.
Known as a bold, stub-
born character from the
movement, Meredith
was later shot during a
peaceful demonstration
in Mississippi, and years
later drew anger from
civil rights leaders for en-
dorsing former Klansman
David Duke for Louisiana
governor. He shunned
interviews and openly
supported former segre-
gationists who he said he
was helping transform.
But Meredith told The
Associated Press on Tues-
day he believed all of his
actions in his life had been
predestined by higher
forces. “My life has always
been according to a plan,”
Meredith said. “And I was
not the engineer of most
the plan.”
Born in Kosciusko,
Mississippi, Meredith
graduated from high
school in St. Petersburg,
Florida, and enlisted in
the U.S. Air Force, where
he took courses at New
Mexico Western College
— now Western New Mex-
ico University — in Silver
City, New Mexico. Those
classes in New Mexico
changed his life and set
him on a path to become
a writer. “It was the most
important thing that ever
happened to me,” Mere-
dith said.
The experience in New
Mexico also got him think-
ing of attending Ole Miss,
an all-white college that
barred Black students.
The documentary fol-
lows Meredith from his
decision to challenge the
University of Mississip-
pi’s segregationist policies
and then a governor who
personally tried to refuse
to admit him.
Meredith eventually
attended classes thanks to
federal court orders only
to see white students walk
out in protest.

Sim Scott Park

Continued from Page 1A
handling construction.
A new pavilion has
been built to replace the
old one destroyed by the
tornado, and the con-
struction crew is work-
ing on the sidewalks and
the playground while
finishing up the interior
construction, Lewis said.
Interior walls have been
painted, Winters said, and
the air-conditioning sys-
tem and the lighting will
be installed over the next
few weeks. The crew will
then install the ceiling,
cabinets, interior doors
and other equipment, and
the concrete floor will be
stained toward the end of
the project, he said.
The project was orig-
inally estimated to cost
roughly $900,000, 87.5
percent of which would
come from the city’s in-
surance money and fund-
ing from the federal and
state emergency manage-
ment agencies, accord-
ing to previous Dispatch
reporting. Winters said
the construction has cost
about $400,000 so far, but
the final cost may rise as
the construction nears
the end.
Before the tornado
struck Columbus, the
senior center at Sim
Scott Park had roughly
16 participants per day
who played games, made
quilts and engaged in oth-
er activities from 9 a.m.-
2 p.m. Monday through
Friday, Lewis said. But
due to the pandemic, no
senior programs will be
hosted at the building yet,
he told The Dispatch.
However, Lewis said
he has been in touch with
past senior participants
to keep them updated
on the senior program.
Rental space will then be
available on weekends, he
said, and afterschool and
summer programs can
also be held there.
“We do phone calls
and visitations, stuff like
that, just to let them know
that we are coming back,”
Lewis said. as to when
Mayor Robert Smith to reopen
told The Dispatch Mon- the com-
day afternoon he is happy munity cen-
the construction is near- ters. Once
ing the end. However, Reeves al-
he said, the center will lows for the
remain closed during the facilities to
Smith
pandemic because event be open at
attendees will likely not full capacity, he said, Sim
follow safety measures Scott can be reopened for
at the community center, public use.
and the city doesn’t have “I wouldn’t feel com-
enough manpower to en- fortable right now to open
force it. them up until we get clear
“If you rent it out to indi- (instructions) from the
viduals and you tell them, governor saying that we
‘Well, you can’t have more can open them up to full
than, say, 100 people in capacity or X amount in
there,’ and they’ve got to there,” he said.
social distance in there,”
he said, “there is nobody
to regulate it to make sure
they are following the
guidelines. … They know
that we are not coming
out and check. We don’t
have enough police to go
and check each facility
that’s rented out.”
Smith said the city
will follow instructions
from Gov. Tate Reeves

Sales of Mississippi lottery

tickets exceeding expectations
Lottery sales averaging about $10
million or more a week statewide
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
JACKSON — Sales of
Mississippi lottery tickets
are surpassing estimates,
with proceeds averaging
about $10 million or more
ing lottery tickets Nov. 25
and Powerball and Mega
Millions national lottery
games Jan. 30.
From November
through June, Mississippi
Lottery Corporation trans-
sippi Lottery Corporation.
Under Mississippi law,
the lottery helps raise
money for the infrastruc-
ture and education sys-
tems.
The first $80 million SOLUNAR TABLE
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after expenses and paying peak-feeding times for fish and game.
Wed. Thurs.
winnings per fiscal year Major — 12:36a
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goes to the State Highway Major 12:15p 12:56p
Fund to build and maintain Minor 6:15a 7:09a
Courtesy of Mississippi Department

a week statewide.
of Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks
ferred $70.7 million in net roads and bridges through
Since the budget year

started July 1, the lottery
has brought in $18.3 mil-
lion for the state, after
money taken out to pay
out winnings and other
expenses, the Sun Herald
reported.
Mississippi began sell-
proceeds to the state trea-
sury, even with the corona-
virus shutdown reducing
sales by 10 percent to 13
percent in the early weeks.
Some of the net proceeds
in the beginning months
were used to repay the loan
taken to set up the Missis-
June 2028. Anything over
$80 million in net proceeds
is deposited into the Edu-
cation Enhancement Fund
for classroom supplies and
other uses. Other sources
bring in larger amounts of
money for highways and
schools.
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— Annie Eva Aus- ceded in death by was formerly employed June King of Double Trentham, James Aar-
tin-Nicks, 106, died his siblings, Billy at Hyster Company Springs, Alabama and on Trentham, Jaxon
Sept. 26, 2020, in Cummings and Jackie and was a member of Jean Taylor of Win- Trentham, Justin Tren-
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Gravesides ser- He is survived by his In addition to his grandchildren; and Brent Trentham, Chris
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Paulette Weeks
SULLIGENT, Ala.
— Paulette Bennett
Weeks, 74, died Sept.
23, 2020, at North Mis-
sissippi Medical Center
of Tupelo.
Memorial services
will be at 6 p.m. Thurs-
day, at Otts Funeral
Home Chapel, with
James Godsey offici-
ating. Visitation will
be one hour prior to
services at the funeral
home. Otts Funeral
Mary Ashcraft
tery. Visitation is from of Virginia, Stephanie He is survived by his
1-6 p.m. today, at West Edwards of Hatley and wife, Martha Barnes
Memorial Funeral Mandy Cummings Wil- Trentham; children,
Home. West Memo- liams of Starkville; and James Trentham of Sul-
ligent, John Trentham Mary Joanne Gilliam Ashcraft transitioned
rial Funeral Home of 10 grandchildren.
peacefully into eternal life with our LORD and
Starkville is in charge Pallbearers will be of Moody, Alabama
Savior on Saturday, September
of arrangements. Bobby Harper De- and Dona Trentham
26, 2020, while surrounded by
She is survived by wayne Foster, Bubba Gadellof Vernon, Ala-
family and friends.
her son David Lee Pat- Foster, Timothy Par-
Family graveside services
rick; and seven grand- ish, Bradlee Parish and
will be 11 a.m. Friday,
children. Jason Edwards.
October 2, 2020, in Elmwood
Cemetery, 824 S. Dudley
Leslie Shelton Dwight Trentham Street, Memphis, TN.
COLUMBUS — Les- SULLIGENT, Ala. Born to Margaret Frances
lie Joan Shelton, 67, — Dwight Trentham, Redding Gilliam and John
died Sept. 28, 2020, at 71, died Sept. 27, 2020, Edwin Gilliam in Columbus,
Baptist Memorial Hos- at DCH of Tuscaloosa, Ohio on October 8, 1929, as they were visiting
pital-Golden Triangle. Alabama. family. They lived in Buckingham CH, Virginia.
Graveside services Services will be at She was a true Virginian.
will be at 10 a.m. 2 p.m. Thursday, at She attended William and Mary and Mars
Friday, in Memorial Shiloh Baptist Church Hill College before coming to Mississippi State
Gardens. Visitation followed by Masonic Martha Fortner College for Women. Because of her move, she
Graveside services in
will be from 6-8 p.m. Visitation: met and married a Mississippi State University
Wednesday, Sept. 30 • 12:30 PM
Thursday, at First As- the church cemetery, student, John Dunklin Ashcraft, Jr of Roebuck
2nd Ave N. Location
sembly of God. Lown- with Jimmy May and Graveside Services: Plantation, Sidon, MS. Before proceeding her in
des Funeral Home of Josh Trentham offi- Wednesday, Sept. 29 • 2 PM
Friendship Cemetery
passing, John and Joanne were married 59 years.
Columbus is in charge ciating. Visitation is 2nd Ave N. Location Having married during the Korean War,
of arrangements. from 6-8 p.m. today, Joanne quickly became a military bride with
at Otts Funeral Home. Barbara Nance John serving in the US Army first stationed at
Otts Funeral Home of Graveside Services: Fort Benning, GA where Jo taught English as
Nita Walsh Sulligent is in charge Saturday, Oct. 3 • 2 PM
a second language to non-English speaking
COLUMBUS — Nita Friendship Cemetery
of arrangements. 2nd Ave N. Location service personnel.
Walsh, 73, died Sept. Mr. Trentham was
30, 2020, at Windsor Jody, an endearing name many called her,
born May 24, 1949, in moved to the rich Mississippi delta in 1951 where
Place. Beaverton, Alabama, to
Arrangements are she and John raised 5 children, one born in
the late Philip E. and Joplin, MO, three born at the Greenwood Leflore
incomplete and will be Vernie Mae Trentham.
announced by Lown- memorialgunterpeel.com Hospital, and one they birthed in the family home
He was a graduate of on their farm.
des Funeral Home of Sulligent High School
Columbus. She served in the children and youth programs
and was a veteran of at First Presbyterian Church as Director of
Christian Education. Known for her skills in arts

Home of Sulligent,
Alabama is in charge of
arrangements.
Mrs. Weeks was
born Aug. 12, 1946, in
Winona, to the late Paul
Harper Bennett and
Wilma Coker. She was
a graduate of Sulligent
High School and was
formerly employed with
McCoy Manufacturing,
Detroit Slacks and as a
nurse’s aide with The
Convalescent Center.
In addition to her
parents, she was pre-
ceded in death by her
sister, Liddy Bennett
Knob. She is survived
by her children, Roger
Dewayne Cantrell,
Feleshia Weeks both of
Sulligent, Alabama and
Tony Cantrell of Win-
field, Alabama; siblings,
Judy Elizabeth Wright
of Caledonia and
Tracey Bennett Eads
of Sulligent, Alabama;
five grandchildren; and
nine great-grandchil-
dren.
Lyndia Mitchell
Earnest Cummings and crafts, many a fun project was completed by
AMORY — Earnest all these young people as they learned of GOD.
James Cummings, 66, Jody enjoyed many years serving with the
died Sept. 27, 2020, Lyndia Heard Mitchell was Greenwood Junior Auxiliary and was a life
at North Mississippi born May 27, 1947, to the late member. She was also a member of the Greenwood
Medical Center-Gilm- Walter and Della Wilson Heard Garden Club, taught square dancing at Bankston
ore of Amory. of Derma, MS. She also had Elementary, was the leader of Brownie and Girl
Funeral services will a loving step-father Zeddie Scout Troops, and a founding member of Arts for
be at 11 a.m. Thursday, Brownlee. She attended South Success
at Cleveland-Moffett Calhoun High School, Calhoun She established an arts and craft store, ash
Funeral Home, with City, MS class of 1965. She Craft & Custom Arts, in Greenwood and went
Stanley Blaylock accepted Christ at an early age on to become a wholesaler for this industry.
officiating. Burial will at Oak Grove Baptist Church In the late 1900s she purchased and published
follow in Bethlehem and was very active in the Church. She was an international magazine, Craft & Art Market
Cemetery. Visitation raised in a Christian home with one sister. She Magazine. She and John traveled greatly for
is from 5-8 p.m. today, loved school and reading, she also had many that this industry and were blessed to have many
at the funeral home. inspired her along the way. treasured friends of numerous diversities from
Cleveland-Moffett Fu- Lyndia earned an undergraduate degree from near and far.
neral Home of Amory MUW in Library Science, a masters degree in In the Mississippi Delta, Joanne and John
is in charge of arrange- gifted studies from MUW and specialist degree began as ranchers evolving into farmers before
ments. from Mississippi State University in Elementary retiring from farming. It seems though that once
Mr. Cummings was Education. Lyndia worked in CMSD as an Media working the land gets into your system, there it
born Feb. 10, 1954, in Specialist for 36 years where she loved working grows. Their family now continues Poppin John’s
Memphis, Tennessee, with children grade 1-6, then as time changed Roebuck Blues Blueberries that Jo and Jack began
to the late Bilbo and k-4 and k-5 th grade. Reading many many with children over 30 years ago. Because of her
Madie Cox Cummings. stories, she served under five different principals insistence in teaching her children that family is
He was a graduate of and eight different superintendents where she priority, Roebuck now is a 4th generation delta
Amory High School represented the school as “Teacher of the year” plantation.
and attended IJC and twice. She worked with many kind and loving Known for having supported family, various
Tennessee Tech. He teachers while serving many children. She was universities, causes, and charities, she sprinkled
was formerly employed chosen as “Librarian Extraordinaire” by the much love in many places. And as one life-long
with Metalloy and Columbus Dispatch in October 2000. friend shared recently, Jody was always happy
MMC. Lyndia joined Armstrong Missionary Baptist wherever she was planted.
Church where she also worked with children in She is preceded in death by her loving

Barbara Nance
different capacities as a Sunday School Teacher,
Youth Director, Missionary President, Senior
Choir President, and Vacation Bible School
Barbara Ford Nance age 78, Director.
died Sunday September 27, Lyndia organized a youth program called
2020, at her daughter-in-law’s “Study Buddy” in 1988. It was designed to
residence in Guyton, GA. increase the learning abilities and over all good
A graveside service will moral character of the community youth. Also,
be held Saturday October 3, she served on the board for many years at the
2020, at 2:00 PM at Friendship Boys and Girls Club. She would volunteer her
Cemetery in Columbus, with time to assist with the boys and girls in after
Rev. Sammy Crawford, Dr. school learning. She was a member of Alpha
Breck Ladd and Tommy Gillion Kappa Alpha Sorority Inc. since 2004, Chapter
officiating. Nu Epsilon Omega. She served as anti-basileus
Mrs. Nance was born on March 27, 1942, in 2011-2012 and chaplain 2019-2020.
Columbus, Mississippi to the late Hugh and Lyndia leaves to cherish and honor her
Lillian Ford. She was a member of Fairview memory, her husband of 52 years, Walter E.
Baptist Church and a retired IRS Branch Auditor. Mitchell; two daughters, Elizabeth (Crist)
In addition to her parents, she was preceded in Ridley of Alpharetta, GA and Joyce (Kerry)
death by her husband, Paul A. Nance and her son Miles of Kingsland, GA; one sibling, Betty
Hugh Edward Nance. (Calvin, deceased) McFarland of South Bend,
Survivors include, daughter-in-law, Tara IN; seven grandchildren, Brittany (Kristopher)
Nance; sister, Dee Poquette (Dan); grandchildren, Hall, Lauren Ridley, Daelyn Miles, Lance Ridley,
Kala M. Nance, Hope E. Nance, Emma L. Nance Logan Ridley, Karren Miles and Kristian Miles;
and Kyle C. Nance; nephew, Adam Poquette; and two great-grandchildren, Kai Hall and Koree
great-nephews, James and Thomas Poquette. Hall; many loving nieces, nephews, cousins and
In lieu of flowers memorials may be made a host of relatives, friends and former students.
to Fairview Baptist Church, 127 Airline Road, Lyndia was a very loving and caring wife,
Columbus, MS 39702 or CURE Childhood mother, and grandmother. She was always
Cancer, 200 Ashford Center North, Suite 250, ready to help others as best she could. She
Atlanta, GA 30338. loved reading the scriptures and having
passionate discussions. She was an avid reader
of biographies and enjoyed reading to children.
She just believed in teaching her children and
grandchildren about the importance of reading
scriptures and applying it to their lives. She loved
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creating and cherishing special memories. She
716 Second Avenue North • Columbus, MS will be truly missed and will always hold a special
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Visitation will be Friday from 1 PM until 6
PM at Lee-Sykes Funeral Home of Columbus.
Graveside Services will be held Saturday, 2 PM
cdispatch.com at Memorial Gardens Cemetery.
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husband, John D Ashcraft, Jr and their eldest,
John D ‘Tad’ Ashcraft, III.
Joanne is survived by two cherished sisters,
Patricia Ellen Gilliam Storebeck and Jacqueline
Gilliam Locke (Bruce); children, Mary Joanne
‘Ryan’ Austin (Hugh), Gilliam Ashcraft,
Margaret Frances Redding ‘Sonshine’ Ashcraft
and Josephine Ashcraft Austin (Lawrence); and
beloved daughter in law, Susan Ashcraft. Also
surviving her are nine grandchildren, Janie
Ashcraft, Chad Ashcraft, Daniel Austin, Jennifer
Main (Taylor), Mary Kimbrough Brewer
(Nathan), Andrew Ashcraft, Edwin Ashcraft,
Amanda Austin and Lawrence Austin. She is
also survived by two great-grandchildren, Leroy
‘Levi’ Brewer and Clara Ryan Main; along with
numerous adored nieces and nephews.
Joanne prays the best life together for Amanda
Austin, granddaughter, and fiance Danner
Goodwin, who wed October 10, 2020. She also
prays for a long, loving marriage for Edwin
Ashcraft, grandson, and fiancee Olivia Romito,
who will marry November 7, 2020.
Pallbearers will be Daniel Austin, Chad
Ashcraft, Andrew Ashcraft, LT Edwin Ashcraft,
PFC Lawrence Austin and Nathan Brewer.
Honorary Pallbearers will be Henry Flautt,
Taylor Main, Jeffrey Jackson, Danner Goodwin,
Hugh Austin, LTC Lawrence Austin, David
Howard and Max Shaw.
Officiating minister will be Steve Fortenberry,
First Presbyterian Church.
Special thanks to Dr. Kenneth Hines and
staff, Nell Dowd, Essie Davis, Samantha Young,
Indywood Glen staff, Greenwood Leflore Hospital
and Rehab staff, and Halcyon Hospice staff.
In lieu of flowers, donations may be given to
Mississippi University for Women, Greenwood
Arts for Success, and Greenwood First
Presbyterian Church Youth Department.
The LORD is her Shephard.
Wilson and Knight is in charge. Online guest
book may be signed at www.wilsonandknight.
com.
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Justice Ginsburg buried at

Arlington in private ceremony
Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who died Sept. 18, was the
second woman to join the high court and the first
woman to lay in state at the U.S. Capitol
BY JESSICA GRESKO
The Associated Press
ARLINGTON, Va.
— Supreme Court
Justice Ruth Bader
Ginsburg was buried
Tuesday in a private
ceremony at Arling-
ton National Ceme-
tery, laid to rest be-
side her husband and Ginsburg
near some of her former colleagues
on the court.
Washington last week honored
the 87-year-old Ginsburg, who died
Sept. 18, with two days where the
public could view her casket at the
top of the Supreme Court’s steps
and pay their respects. On Friday,
the women’s rights trailblazer and
second woman to join the high
court lay in state at the U.S. Capitol,
the first woman to do so.
Already the capital is looking
ahead to confirmation hearings ex-
pected to begin Oct. 12 for Amy Co-
ney Barrett, whom President Don-
ald Trump announced Saturday as
his nominee for Ginsburg’s seat.
Barrett was meeting with senators
on Tuesday.
Arlington, just over the Potomac
River from Washington, is best
known as the resting place of ap-
proximately 400,000 service mem-
bers, veterans and family members.
But Ginsburg is the 14th justice to
be buried at the cemetery.
Ginsburg’s husband Martin
Ginsburg was buried at Arlington
in 2010 following his death from
cancer. He had served in the Army
as an artillery school instructor
at Fort Sill in Oklahoma when the
couple were newlyweds. The cou-
ple was married for 56 years and
had two children. The justice had
kept the framed, folded flag from
her husband’s casket in her office at
the court.
While the cemetery is known for
its rows of white headstones, the
section where the Ginsburgs are
buried, called Section 5, is an old-
er section of the cemetery where
markers chosen by families are al-
lowed, and their headstone is black,
with a Star of David at the top.
Supreme Court spokeswoman
Kathy Arberg said in a statement
that according to the justice’s fam-
ily, Rabbi Lauren Holtzblatt — who
spoke at ceremonies last week for
the justice at the Supreme Court
and the U.S. Capitol — officiated at
Tuesday’s burial and offered tradi-
tional Jewish prayers. There were
no formal remarks. Family, close
friends, justices, and Ginsburg’s
staff attended, Arberg said. Gins-
burg was an opera lover, and the
ceremony concluded with record-
ings of two arias by Giacomo Pucci-
ni sung by Leontyne Price.
Ginsburg’s gravesite is just be-
low the final resting place of former
President John F. Kennedy. The
Lincoln Memorial and Washing-
ton Monument are in the distance.
Nine other justices are buried in
that section, including three that
Ginsburg served with.
Other justices buried at the cem-
etery include President William
Howard Taft, who served as chief
justice after he was president, and
Thurgood Marshall, the civil rights
champion who argued the land-
mark Brown v. Board of Education
school desegregation case and be-
came the court’s first black justice
when he joined the bench in 1967.
Harry Blackmun, the author of the
1973 Roe v. Wade decision estab-
lishing a woman’s right to an abor-
tion, is buried next to Marshall in
Section 5.
The last justice to be buried at
the cemetery was retired Supreme
Court Justice John Paul Stevens,
who died in 2019 at the age of 99.
In addition to Stevens, the other jus-
tices Ginsburg served with who are
buried at the cemetery are Black-
mun and Chief Justice William
Rehnquist.

Court to release grand jury record in Breonna Taylor case

BY DYLAN LOVAN sentation because we are Brett Hankison with ing of Taylor, who was
The Associated Press confident in the case we three counts of wanton shot five times after they
presented,” Cameron said endangerment for firing knocked down her door to
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — serve a narcotics warrant
in a written statement. through Taylor’s apart-
Kentucky’s attorney gen-
Cameron also revealed ment into an adjacent unit on March 13.
eral acknowledged that
late Monday that the only with people inside. No one In a TV interview Tues-
he never recommended
charge he recommended in the adjacent unit was day evening, Cameron
homicide charges against
any of the police officers to the grand jury was that injured. Hankison, who also indicated that he had
conducting the drug raid of wanton endangerment. was fired from the force recommended no charges
that led to Breonna Tay- He had previously de- for his actions during the against the other officers,
lor’s death, and said he clined to say what charges raid, pleaded not guilty on Jonathan Mattingly and
didn’t object to a public he recommended. Monday. Myles Cosgrove.
release of the grand jury’s The grand jury last None of the officers
deliberations. week charged Officer was indicted in the kill-
Amid outrage over the
jury’s decision last week
to not charge any of the
officers for Taylor’s fatal
shooting, Attorney Gen-
eral Daniel Cameron said
Monday that he also did
not object to members of
the panel speaking public-
ly about their experience.
“We have no concerns
with grand jurors sharing
their thoughts on our pre-

Lawyer for Flynn says

she updated Trump
on status of case
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

WASHINGTON — A
lawyer for former Trump
administration national
security adviser Michael
Flynn told a judge Tuesday
that she recently updated
President Donald Trump
on the case and asked him
not to issue a pardon for
her client.
The attorney, Sidney
Powell, was initially reluc-
tant to discuss her conver-
sations with the president
or the White House, say-
ing she believed they were
protected by executive
privilege. But under per-
sistent questioning from
U.S. District Judge Em-
met Sullivan, she acknowl-
edged having spoken to
the president within the
last few weeks to update
him and to request that he
not pardon Flynn.
She did not elaborate on
the request, but it presum-
ably reflected the defense
team’s desire to secure a
legal, rather than political,
victory for their client and
to have the judge concur
with the Justice Depart-
ment’s assertion that the
prosecution should be
abandoned.

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THE NATION
There is a fire in the house of democracy
J
able.
ust last week,
the headlines
were inescap-
They stemmed
from a story in The
Atlantic detailing
what amounts to the
Republican Party
plotting a coup.
Which is to say,
cooking up Elector-
al College schemes Leonard Pitts
designed to keep
Donald Trump in
office even if voters turn him
out. Even worse, Trump him-
self explicitly refused to say
he would respect the judgment
of the electorate. For a couple
days, it dominated the news,
this shocking confirmation
of our worst fears, the brazen
theft of a nation.
Again, that was last week.
This week, it feels as if all that
happened in another lifetime.
Now we’re mesmerized by a
New York Times report that
has Trump paying
less in taxes than
a part-time worker
at a fast-food joint.
and nobody noticed? Well, what
would have seemed unthink-
able four years ago is anything
but in 2020.
now. The numbing litany of bad
news. The ever-rising outrag-
es. People suffering, dying
and protesting all around you,
CDC. The American military
fires upon peaceful American
protesters. Face masks have
become fashion statements.
And his former Maybe that should tell us while you think about dinner. If There is something heroic
campaign manager something. Indeed, though you’re trying to carry on while in human adaptability, shaping
being hospitalized some of us have been arguing people around you die, your oneself to a new normal when
after drunkenly try- that America is a nation in dan- society is not collapsing. It’s the old one is destroyed. That
ing to kill himself. ger of collapse, a writer named already fallen down.” which does not bend, after all,
And, oh yes, the Indi Samarajiva disagrees. He One is reminded of the old breaks.
first presidential says we’re already there. And proverb about the frog in the But there is also something
debate. he should know. pot of water. Look at all that to be said for the refusal to
In the Trump “I lived through the end now passes for normal: thou- adapt when the cause is righ-
era, news moves at of a civil war,” he writes in a sands of Americans each week teous. And this one is. Trump
the speed of chaos. new piece on Medium.com. “I die from a pandemic, formerly and his henchmen claim
As a result, our concentration moved back to Sri Lanka in my apolitical government agencies nothing less than the power
is atomized to the point of twenties, just as the ceasefire now serve Trump’s political to reject the will of the people.
nothingness, our ability to pay fell apart. Do you know what it needs, so-called militias To accept that is to accept not
attention fractured like china. was like for me? Quite normal. roam our streets, protests are just the theft of the nation, but
That which should absolutely I went to work, I went out, I ordinary, corruption is routine, the death of the nation — the
stop the presses, that which dated. This is what Americans lies are common, ignorance is irrevocability of our collapse.
should grab us by the shoul- don’t understand. They’re wait- every day and now this: Repub- There is a fire in the house
ders and shake us like rag ing to get personally punched licans blithely planning a coup. of democracy. Let no one adapt
dolls, that which should count in the face while ash falls As a result, we live a “nor- to that.
as a four-alarm fire in the from the sky. That’s not how it mal” that grows stranger every Leonard Pitts Jr., winner
house of democracy, has all the happens. day. We work from home and of the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for
staying power of soap bubbles “This,” continues Sama- date on Zoom. Voting now commentary, is a columnist for
and dew. rajiva, “is how it happens. requires an elaborate plan. You the Miami Herald. Email him
Suppose they held a coup Precisely what you’re feeling don’t know if you can trust the at lpitts@miamiherald.com.

VOICE OF THE PEOPLE

Predicts Trump plan if he loses
We didn’t learn as much as we
might have about the candidates’
policies during last night’s debate
but the likely future of the next two
months became considerably more
clear, I think.
It’s not a pretty sight.
Unfortunately, I think my letter
in yesterday’s Dispatch laid out a
scenario that now seems far more
likely than I thought at the time I
wrote it on Monday.
Fasten your seat belts because
here is the game plan I strongly
suspect President Trump has in
mind:
1. Have a perceived electoral
edge on Election Day — declare
victory on that basis;
2. Litigate the outcome once
the mail-in ballots are counted —
unless he has won;
3. Take that litigation all the way
to a 6-3 Supreme Court;
4. Stall the certification of the
result until mid-January;
5. Such that the determination
of the winner goes to the House
of Representatives where the
vote will go along party lines and
SUPREME COURT
Will Justice Amy star in ‘The Five’?
Trump will be declared the winner
— no matter the popular vote.
6. That would be the case even

if Biden wins 56 percent of the
vote. There will be Proud Boys in
the streets with long guns keeping
things “interesting.” And maybe
other groups — on both left and
right. Trump supporters — at his
urging during Tuesday’s debate
— will have flooded the precincts
to make poll workers, especially,
but also those voting in person feel
uncomfortable.
There is a chance to avert this
outcome. In my view, it depends on
us as responsible citizens. We have
to remember what this country
is, what we represent to the rest
of the world, and that we, as its
citizens, hold the power if we can
act in unison. We must demand
of our leaders, particularly those
Republican leaders who have thus
far chosen to stay silent in the face
of the President’s excesses, that
they also put the country and the
Constitution first, ahead of their
party. Perhaps then we can keep
the country we have.
Last night was a travesty in
Presidential behavior. I hope I
never see anything like it again. I
more fervently hope that it inspires
key Republicans to do the right
thing, see the timeline I laid out
above, and stop it in its tracks — as
they did during Watergate.
Paul Mack
Columbus
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B
y nominating Federal
Judge Amy Coney
Barrett to the Su-
preme Court, Donald Trump
kept his word, and more than
that.
Should she be confirmed,
he will have made history.
Even his enemies would
have to concede that Trump
triumphed where his Repub-
lican predecessors — even
Ronald Reagan, who filled Patrick Buchanan
three court vacancies — fell
short. Trump’s achievement
— victory in the Supreme Court wars
that have lasted for half a century — is
a triumph that will affect the nation and
the law for years, perhaps decades.
Trump’s remaking of the Supreme
Court for constitutionalism may well be
the crown jewel of his presidency.
Consider. If Judge Barrett becomes
Justice Barrett, she will join Justices
Clarence Thomas, Sam Alito, Neil
Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh to create
a constitutionalist core of five justices, a
controlling majority.
On the other side would sit the three
liberals: 82-year-old Stephen Breyer and guaranteeing constitutional rights of
Barack Obama appointees Elena Kagan
and Sonia Sotomayor.
If Chief Justice John Roberts envi-
sioned a Roberts Court where he would
be the swing vote for 4-4 deadlocks,
deciding every such case himself, his
dream could be about to vanish.
If Barrett is confirmed, the new court Warren, President Lyndon Johnson had
becomes “The Five,” with its youngest,
newest and most charismatic member,
a 48-year-old protege of Justice Antonin
Scalia, its brightest and rising star.
Consider the credentials of the jurist
Trump just named.
Barrett was summa cum laude at
Notre Dame Law School, graduating
first in her class. She clerked for Scalia,
taught law at South Bend for 15 years
and has served for three years on the
7th Circuit Court of Appeals.
She is a non-Ivy League, Middle
American and a devout Catholic and
mother of seven, including a
special needs child and two
adopted children from Haiti.
Almost universally, former
classmates and colleagues,
liberals among them, praise
her temperament, brilliance
and scholarship.
America’s court wars,
in which the coming battle
over Barrett’s nomination
may prove decisive, go back
half a century.
It was begun in June
1968, as Richard Nixon,
victorious in his party’s primaries, was
moving inexorably to the GOP nomina-
tion in Miami Beach and very possibly
on to the presidency of the United
States.
Chief Justice Earl Warren, an old
adversary of Nixon’s from California
days, was not happy with this. A report
in the Philadelphia Inquirer reported
that Warren “is said to feel that Richard
Nixon — regarded as the GOP’s likely
presidential nominee — would be bound
to appoint a new Chief Justice pledged
to overturn recent court decisions
criminals.”
Nixon sent the clipping to me with a
note: “Buchanan: Why doesn’t (Strom)
Thurmond send this to Southern papers
— opinion leaders.”
The Inquirer article proved to be on
point. In collusion with Chief Justice
hatched a plot.
Warren would announce his resig-
nation as chief justice and would make
acceptance contingent upon Johnson’s
nominee to succeed him being con-
firmed. And that nominee would be Jus-
tice Abe Fortas, a court ally of Warren
and longtime crony of LBJ. All three
were in on it.
When Fortas was confirmed, his
vacant seat as associate justice would
then be filled by Federal Judge Homer
Thornberry, also an ally of Johnson’s
going back to his Texas days.
Thus would Nixon be preempted, the
liberalism of the high court guaranteed,
and the Warren Court succeeded for
another decade by the Fortas Court.
When LBJ named Fortas, Nixon went
silent. But GOP Senators Robert Griffin,
John Tower and Howard Baker moved
to block Fortas’ ascent. They used an
argument familiar to us today. The new
president chosen in November, not the
president retiring in January, should
choose Warren’s replacement as chief
justice.
The attack from Senate Republicans
soon zeroed in on Fortas’ social liber-
alism on pornography as manifest in
his having voted alone on the court to
approve for public viewing films depict-
ing acts of homosexual sex.
Fortas not only failed to win the
support of the two-thirds of the Senate
he needed to overcome a Republican
filibuster, he also failed to win a simple
majority, receiving only 45 votes for con-
firmation. On Oct. 1, 1968, Fortas asked
Johnson to withdraw his nomination,
and in the spring of 1969, he was forced
to resign from the court in a financial
scandal.
Warren would have to swear in Nixon
as the nation’s 37th president on Jan.
20, 1969, and then watch Nixon replace
him as chief justice with Judge Warren
Burger in the spring of that same year.
Came then Nixon’s losing bat-
tles to put Southern judges Clement
Haynsworth and G. Harrold Carswell
on the court, Reagan’s failure to elevate
Bob Bork, and the brutal but failed
assaults on Clarence Thomas and Brett
Kavanaugh.
Now comes Amy Coney Barrett’s
turn.
If Senate Republicans stay united,
then they can realize a victory that gen-
erations of their GOP predecessors had
hoped to see.
Patrick J. Buchanan, a nationally syn-
dicated columnist, was a senior advisor
to presidents Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford
and Ronald Reagan. His website is http://
buchanan.org/blog.
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COVID-19 cases rising among

US children as schools reopen
Children of all ages now
make up 10 percent of
all U.S. cases, up from
2 percent in April
BY LINDSEY TANNER
AP Medical Writer
After preying heavily on the
elderly in the spring, the coronavi-
rus is increasingly infecting Amer-
ican children and teens in a trend
authorities say appears fueled by
school reopenings and the resump-
tion of sports, playdates and other
activities.
Children of all ages now make
up 10 percent of all U.S. cases, up
from 2 percent in April, the Amer-
ican Academy of Pediatrics report-
ed Tuesday. And the Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention
said Monday that the incidence of
COVID-19 in school-age children
began rising in early September as
many youngsters returned to their
classrooms.
About two times more teens were
infected than younger children, the
CDC report said. Most infected
children have mild cases; hospital-
izations and death rates are much
lower than in adults.
Dr. Sally Goza, president of the
American Academy of Pediatrics,
said the rising numbers are a big
concern and underscore the im-
portance of masks, hand-washing,
social distancing and other precau-
tions.
“While children generally don’t
get as sick with the coronavirus as
adults, they are not immune and
there is much to learn about how
easily they can transmit it to oth-
ers,’’ she said in a statement.
The CDC report did not indicate
where or how the children became
infected.
Public health experts say the
uptick probably reflects increasing
Mississippi middle school
in quarantine after virus outbreak
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
LONG BEACH — An entire middle school in Mississippi is in quar-
antine after more than a dozen students tested positive for coronavirus.
Long Beach Middle School ordered Tuesday that all students be
quarantined for two weeks beginning Wednesday, according to the
school’s website. Students will return to the classroom on Oct. 14.
The news comes after 15 students tested positive for the virus, the
school said. Another 165 students are under quarantine. In a state-
ment, officials said they made the decision to temporarily shut down
the school after 35 percent of students either tested positive or were
exposed to the virus.
The Mississippi Department of Health recommends that schools
quarantine when 33 percent of students are positive or exposed.
Since the start of the pandemic, at least one other Mississippi school
has had to quarantine all of its students because of a coronavirus out-
break. Biloxi High School sent all of its students home in late August af-
ter students were exposed at what State Health Officer Thomas Dobbs
described as “unnecessary” social gatherings.
spread of the virus in the larger community are low, the CDC report
community. While many districts said.
require masks and other precau- Mississippi is among states
tions, some spread in schools is where several outbreaks among
thought to be occurring, too. But students and teachers have been
experts also say many school-age reported since in-person classes re-
children who are getting sick may sumed in July and August.
not be getting infected in class- Kathy Willard said she had mixed
rooms. feelings when her grandson’s fourth
Just as cases in college students grade class in Oxford was sent home
have been linked to partying and for two weeks after several teachers
bars, school children may be con- and one student tested positive for
tracting the virus at playdates, the virus. The family doesn’t have
sleepovers, sports and other activi- internet access at home, making re-
ties where precautions aren’t being mote learning a challenge.
taken, said Dr. Leana Wen, a public “It was a hardship. There’s al-
health specialist at George Wash- ways a worry about him falling be-
ington University. hind or not getting access to what he
“Understandably, there is quar- needs for school,” Willard said. “But
antine fatigue,’’ Wen said. Many at the same time, I’m glad the school
people have a sense that if schools is doing what they can to protect our
are reopening, then other activities kids.”
can resume too, “but actually the Students in her district are re-
opposite is true.” quired to wear masks and receive
Global school studies suggest temperature checks, and students
in-person learning can be safe when and teachers who come into contact
transmission rates in the larger with the virus are quarantined.

Disney to lay off 28K at its parks in California, Florida

Florida parks reopened this summer
but the California parks have not yet
BY MIKE SCHNEIDER
The Associated Press
ORLANDO, Fla. —
Squeezed by limits on
attendance at its theme
parks and other restric-
tions due to the pandem-
ic, The Walt Disney Co.
said Tuesday it planned to
lay off 28,000 workers in
its parks division in Cali-
fornia and Florida.
Two-thirds of the
planned layoffs involve
part-time workers but
they ranged from sala-
ried employees to hourly
workers, Disney officials
said.
Disney’s parks closed
last spring as the pandem-
ic started spreading in the
U.S. The Florida parks
reopened this summer,
but the California parks
have yet to reopen as the
company awaits guidance
from the state of Califor-
nia.
In a letter to employ-
ees, Josh D’Amaro, chair-
man of Disney Parks,
Experience and Product,
said California’s “unwill-
ingness to lift restrictions
that would allow Disne-
yland to reopen” exacer-
bated the situation for the
company.
D’Amaro said his man-
agement team had worked
hard to try to avoid lay-
offs. They had cut expens-
es, suspended projects
and modified operations
but it wasn’t enough giv-
en limits on the number
of people allowed into the
park because of social dis-
tancing restrictions and
other pandemic-related
measures, he said.
“As heartbreaking as
it is to take this action,
this is the only feasible
option we have in light of
the prolonged impact of
COVID-19 on our busi-
ness, including limited ca-
pacity due to physical dis-
tancing requirements and
the continued uncertainty
regarding the duration of
the pandemic,” he said.
California’s health sec-
retary on Tuesday said
the state was close to
working out a way to have
the theme parks reopen in
a responsible way.

US official: 2020 census to end Oct. 5 despite court order

BY MIKE SCHNEIDER
The Associated Press
ORLANDO, Fla. —
U.S. Secretary of Com-
merce Wilbur Ross says
the 2020 census will end
Oct. 5, despite a federal
judge’s ruling last week
allowing the head count
of every U.S. resident to
continue through the end
of October, according to a
tweet posted by the Cen-
sus Bureau on Monday.
The tweet said the
ability for people to
self-respond to the cen-
sus questionnaire and
the door-knocking phase
when census takers go
to homes that haven’t yet
responded are targeted to
end Oct. 5.
The announcement
came as a virtual hear-
ing was being held in
San Jose, California, as
a follow-up to U.S. Dis-
trict Judge Lucy Koh’s
preliminary injunction.
The injunction issued last
week suspended the Cen-
sus Bureau’s deadline for
ending the head count on
Sept. 30, which automati-
cally reverted back to an
older Census Bureau plan
in which the timeline for
ending field operations
was Oct. 31.
The new Oct. 5 dead-
line doesn’t necessarily
violate the judge’s order
because the injunction
just suspended the Sept.
30 deadline for field op-
erations, as well as a Dec.
31 deadline the Census
Bureau has for turning in
figures used for determin-
ing how many congressio-
nal seats each state gets
in a process known as ap-
portionment. The census
also is used to determine
how to distribute $1.5 tril-
lion in federal spending
annually.
Koh asked federal gov-
ernment attorneys during
Monday’s hearing to pro-
vide documents on how
the new decision to end
the head count on Oct. 5
was made. When a fed-
eral government lawyer
suggested that the deci-
sion-making was a mov-
ing target without any re-
cords, the judge asked, “A
one sentence tweet? Are
you saying that is enough
reason to establish deci-
sion-making? A one sen-
tence tweet?”

Liberty disputes reports about Falwell severance payment

BY SARAH RANKIN
The Associated Press
RICHMOND, Va. —
Liberty University said it
paid its recently resigned
president, Jerry Falwell
Jr., the two years’ base
salary owed under his em-
ployment contract Tues-
day.
The Lynchburg, Vir-
ginia-based Christian
university issued a brief
statement about the com-
pensation that did not
provide an exact figure
but said previous “media
reports regarding the size
and terms” of Falwell’s
severance were incorrect.
Falwell stepped down in
August from his post at
the school founded by his
late evangelical father af-
ter a series of scandals.
“By his pre-existing
contract, Mr. Falwell is
entitled to two years’ base
salary as severance,” the
statement said. “Addition-
al compensation that Mr.
Falwell receives under
his agreement following
his resignation are only
accrued retirement ben-
efits. These accrued re-
tirement payments reflect
reasonable terms after 30
years of service to Liber-
ty, with 13 as university
president.”
Falwell, who declined
comment in response to
questions from The As-
sociated Press last month
about the terms of his
employment contract
and exit package, has
previously discussed the
matter with other news
organizations that report-
ed he would receive $10.5
million. He could not im-
mediately be reached for
comment Tuesday.
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Bulldog Club and Ticket
Operations Mike Richey
and his team have worked
to fill as many ticket re-
quests as allowed, while
also redrawing the usual
seating manifest.
MSU offered the op-
portunity for fans to opt-
out of their season tickets
for the 2020 season over
the summer without any
ramifications toward the
2021 campaign. Follow-
ing the opt-outs, Richey
and his staff distributed
tickets to season ticket
holders based on ranking
in the Bulldog Club be-
ginning in the club level
and on down to the grand-
stands. Richey told The
Dispatch the vast majori-
ty of fans who requested
tickets received them,
though some have been
displaced from their usual
sightlines.
“Our fans, you know,
it was kind
of late for
them (to get
t i c ke t s),”
Richey said.
“And so
they under-
standably
had a lot of Richey
quest ions,
but they’ve been great.
They’ve been real patient,
they’ve shown us a lot of
grace during this period.”
Social distancing
As part of social dis-
tancing measures, the
ticketing office reorga-
nized the stadium into
pods of eight people on
the general concourses.
Those pods shrink to four
and two on the club levels
and in the student sec-
tion, respectively. Richey
said there were even a
few folks that looked to
opt back into their tickets
after MSU’s win in Baton
Rouge.
“When we look at (the
stadium) from above and
we see more than eight
people seated together,
then we know that we
need to go down to that
group and ask to see their
tickets and make sure that
they spread out and sepa-
rate and go back to their
specific areas,” he said.
Another Mississippi school
removing its Confederate name
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
BILOXI — Confederate
President Jefferson Da-
vis’s name will be removed
from a school in the city
where he his final years on
the Mississippi Gulf Coast.
The Biloxi School Dis-
trict announced Monday
that it will rename Jeff Da-
vis Elementary. The Sun
Herald reported that the
district is surveying staff
and parents to come up
with a new name.
Options will be present-
Beyond the actual
seats, this season will also
mark a long-anticipated
shift into mobile ticket-
ing by the MSU athletic
department. Richey said
some fans have opted for
physical tickets that can
be printed at home, but
the split is somewhere be-
tween 80-20 and 90-10 in
favor of fans using touch-
less ticketing. To aid the
process, the athletic de-
partment has installed
wi-fi hotspots at gates in
case fans need to down-
load their tickets upon
arrival — among the first
steps in a longer-term
idea toward bringing wi-fi
to Davis Wade Stadium as
a whole.
“Fortunately with air-
lines using a lot of mobile
ticketing, boarding pass-
es and with most profes-
sional teams using mobile
ticketing and things like
that, a lot of people have
some kind of familiarity
with it,” Richey said.
The biggest changes
on the operations level
come in masking and
the way in which fans
are asked to enter and
exit the stadium and con-
courses. Upon arrival,
markers will be placed
on the ground to ensure
social distancing between
patrons as they enter the
stadium. Tickets are to be
marked with the gate fans
are expected to enter and
exit the stadium through
in an effort to distance
crowds. The club levels
will also be opened three
hours and 15 minutes be-
fore kickoff — an hour
earlier than normal — to
allow for more time to
move people up and down
the elevators in groups of
five or less.
As for masks, patrons
will also be asked to wear
face coverings through-
out the concourses as
they move about the sta-
dium and whenever they
cannot maintain social
distance from others not
in their household. They
are not required to do so
once in their seats. Of
course Richey, Logan
and their staff have pre-
pared for the inevitable
conversation of asking
ed to a renaming commit-
tee of staff, parents, and
representatives of Keesler
Air Force Base and the Bi-
loxi community. District
spokeswoman Jennifer Py-
ron said Superintendent
Marcus Boudreaux hopes
to finish the process by
November.
“This is an opportu-
nity to ensure that every
student and staff member
feels welcome in his or
her school,” Biloxi School
Board president Jim Wallis
said in a statement.
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fans to ensure their faces
are covered when leaving
their seats and wandering
around the stadium.
“We’ve talked about
that a little bit and we’ve
had some kind of formal
and informal training,”
Richey said. “Under-
standing that, you know,
it takes firmness, but it
also takes some customer
service as well to make
sure that everybody un-
derstands that.”
Maintaining a normal
game day experience
There will be no “kiss
cam” this year according
to MSU Deputy Athletic
Director for External Af-
fairs Leah Beasley, but
the Bulldogs’ marketing
department is also work-
ing to ensure as close to
a normal feel to game day
experience as well.
Fans can expect “safe-
ty selfies,” a “Hail-gater”
of the game, where fans
can submit their home
tailgating experiences in
hopes of winning an MSU
prize pack as tailgating
on-site is prohibited, per-
sonalized cutouts and a
slew of other incorpora-
tions of feeds in the sta-
dium and on couches into
the video boards at Da-
vis Wade and on MSU’s
varying social media ac-
counts.
“We’re not trying to be
the fun po-
lice,” Beas-
ley said. “...
We want to
tie in cow-
bells and
having fun
and taking
p i c t u r e s Beasley
and show-
ing yourself on the video
board with masks and be-
ing socially distanced and
that kind of thing.”
Saturday also marks
the debut of MSU’s new
food vendor, Proof of the
Pudding, which will re-
place Aramark as the uni-
versity’s athletic venue
food distributor. Options
within Davis Wade Stadi-
um, according to Beasley,
are set to include Starkve-
gas Tacos and Junction
Barbecue.
Elsewhere in Missis-
sippi, the name of another
Confederate figure will be
removed from a school. A
committee is scheduled
to meet Wednesday to
narrow down the list of
proposed new names for
an elementary school in
Jackson that is currently
named for Confederate
Gen. Robert E. Lee.
Jackson Public Schools
officials said in 2017 that
the district would remove
the names of Confederate
figures from schools.
This isn’t to say Satur-
day will be entirely nor-
mal. Logan, who previ-
ously spent 14 years in the
school’s sports medicine
department as the head
trainer for the basketball
and baseball teams before
moving into his current
role in 2007, has worked
closely with the game
day operations staff in
Starkville and across the
Southeastern Conference
to ensure a safe environ-
ment for fans.
This past weekend, Lo-
gan and Executive Senior
Associate A.D. for Sports
Medicine and Perfor-
mance Mary McLendon
went to Baton Rouge to
meet with LSU’s game
day operations crew as
they held their first foot-
ball game of the season.
Touring the grounds
and running through
the protocols the Tigers’
staff put in place, it of-
fered a chance for Logan
and McLendon to get an
idea of what might work
when Arkansas arrives in
Starkville.
“It’s almost like doing
scouting,” Logan said. “...
You’re kind of scouting
what’s going on at the oth-
er schools in terms of how
they’re operating. Are
they doing anything that
we might be able to do or
change?”
Changes aside, there
will be an air of normalcy
to Saturday. The SEC al-
lows for between 70 and
75 decibels of crowd noise
to be piped into the stadi-
um to foster a more reg-
ular volume during the
contest. Beasley noted
the athletic department
expects to use some add-
ed cowbell clanging as
well, though even with
roughly 15,000 people in
the stands, those in atten-
dance will be heard.
“Now, our cowbells
are loud,” she said. “And
I think even at 25 percent,
they’re going to be loud.”
Sports
WITH LEACH AT THE HELM, HOW GOOD DOES DAWGS’ DEFENSE HAVE TO BE?
BY BEN PORTNOY
bportnoy@cdispatch.com
STARKVILLE — No-
body is calling Mike
Leach a defensive genius.
In eight years at Wash-
ington State, his defense
finished in the bottom
third of college football
six times and concluded
a year in the top 40 na-
tionally in total defense
just once. Despite that,
he left Pullman as the
second-winningest head
coach in school history
since World War II and
boasts a career record of
139-90.
Riding an offense
that perennially finishes
among the nation’s best
in passing yards and total
offense, Leach’s teams
haven’t needed to be
great defensively to be
effective. But now boast-
ing a defense that sur-
prised doubters in MSU’s
season-opening upset of
then-No. 6 LSU, his first
team in Starkville could
prove far more dangerous
than initially believed.
“Our defensive line
does a good job of that,”
Leach said of his defense’s
pursuit of the quarterback
against LSU. “Mississippi
State has had good defen-
sive linemen over time,
and then when Zach (Ar-
nett) does that pressure
MLB
No debate:
Judge, Yanks
pound Bieber,
Indians in
series opener
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
CLEVELAND — On a
night for debates, Aaron
Judge, Gerrit Cole and
the New York Yankees
made quite an opening
statement.
Shane Bieber had no
rebuttal.
Judge smashed a West Lowndes sophomore JaMya Brooks serves during the second set Tuesday at
tone-setting, two-run ho-
mer on Bieber’s fourth
pitch, Cole struck out 13
in his New York playoff
debut and the Yankees
opened their AL wild-card
series with a resounding
12-3 win over the Cleve-
land Indians on Tuesday.
Just a few miles from
where President Donald
Trump and campaign op-
ponent Joe Biden made
their cases to the nation
in their presidential de-
bate, the Yankees teed
off against Bieber, who
was baseball’s best pitch-
er during the condensed
regular season but inef-
fective in his playoff de-
but.
Judge and the rest of
New York’s hitters hadn’t
faced Bieber in 2020, but
they were well prepared
and took some meaty cuts
against the 25-year-old
ace, who gave up season
highs in runs (seven) and
hits (nine) over 4 2/3 in-
nings — his shortest stint
since June 9 last season
against the Yankees.
“The first inning didn’t
go as planned,” Bieber
said. “I wish I would have
been with my off-speed
stuff in the zone, and chal-
lenged those guys a little
more. I forced myself into
some bad situations and
some bad counts on top of
not having my best stuff
and making mistakes.
“No excuses. It was not
See YANKEES, 3B
Mississippi State safety Shawn Preston Jr. (12) latches onto Alabama wide receiver DeVonta Smith (6) on Nov.
16 at Davis Wade Stadium. Preston is one of the young secondary pieces the Bulldogs will rely on this season.
stuff ... Mississippi State
broke in a huge portion of
that with Joe Lee Dunn.
Sometimes old ways are
best.”
Saturday, MSU wran-
gled a previously dynam-
ic LSU offense that aver-
aged nearly 570 yards per
West Lowndes volleyball has an off night at Hamilton
BY THEO DEROSA
tderosa@cdispatch.com
HAMILTON — Ash-
ley Clark doesn’t know
what went wrong.
On Monday night, her
West Lowndes volleyball
team roared back after
losing the first two sets
to beat Okolona, 3-2. The
Panthers overcame ad-
versity and the big deficit
to notch their third win of
the season.
“They played well, and
they overcame a lot of cir-
cumstances,” Clark said.
“I was proud of them for
showing leadership last
night — as a team.”
But Tuesday, whatever
fueled West Lowndes to
the improbable win wasn’t
there. The Panthers (3-7)
were swept by Hamilton
(9-2) in Tuesday’s road
match. Set scores were
25-13, 25-13 and 25-10.
“I don’t think they
More than volleyball: Caledonia, New Hope set to Dig Pink again
BY THEO DEROSA
tderosa@cdispatch.com
Bailie Cross isn’t sure,
anymore, where she saw
it.
But she knows she told
her coach about it.
In 2017, Cross was a
senior right-side hitter
for the Caledonia High
School volleyball team,
she first came across the
Side-Out Foundation’s
Dig Pink programs,
which raise funds for
breast cancer aware-
ness through volleyball.
She told coach Saman-
tha Brooks, who was
intrigued. The coach’s
search for an opponent
led to Lowndes County
rival New Hope, and Tro-
jans coach Allison Wool-
bright agreed to play the
very first Dig Pink Game
on Oct. 12 at Caledonia.
The players wore pink,
raised money and just
had a good time, Cross
remembered.
“It just helped all of
us realize that we were
playing for a much bigger
thing than just to have
MISSISSIPPI STATE FOOTBALL
game to just 425 yards in
the debut of post-Joe Bur-
row quarterback Myles
Brennan. Limiting the
Tigers to 146 yards in the
first half, they did it with
creativity in their scheme
and constant pressure.
Speaking with the me-
Hamilton. The Panthers lost in straight sets to the Lions and fell to 3-7 on the year.
played like the team I saw
last night,” Clark said.
“Tonight was a different
team.”
Tuesday’s version
fun,” she said. “We had
more of a reason, more of
a meaning to do what we
were doing.”
Since that game, New
Hope and Caledonia have
traded off hosting the
Dig Pink Game every Oc-
tober — Breast Cancer
Awareness Month. This
year’s matchup — at 6:30
p.m. at New Hope — is
the latest installment of
what has already become
an annual fixture for the
two schools.
“Every year it’s just
gotten kind of bigger and
better,” Brooks said.
Combined, Caledo-
nia and New Hope have
raised over $10,000 in
three years of Dig Pink
contests, and Thursday’s
games will add to that to-
tal. Middle school teams
play at 4:30 p.m., junior
varsity takes the court
at 5:30 p.m., and varsity
competes at 6:30 p.m.
There will be a raffle
($2 to enter) for more
than 50 items, includ-
ing gift cards to Café on
Main, Caledonia Nutri-
tion, Allegro MedSpa and
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dia Tuesday night, junior
linebacker Tyrus Wheat
noted the Bulldogs and
defensive coordinator
Zach Arnett noticed a
mismatch on the interior
of LSU’s offensive line.
Using its speed, MSU
hounded the interior of
of the Panthers wasn’t
altogether awful, but
Clark’s team was prone to
mishits and short points
that let the Lions run up
more local businesses.
Pink paper volleyballs
can be purchased to hon-
or or memorialize those
who have battled breast
cancer. The Kona Ice
food truck will be in the
New Hope parking lot to
feed attendees.
Besides ticket sales,
all proceeds from the
event — including con-
cession sales — will go to
the Side-Out Foundation,
established by a high
school volleyball coach
in Virginia who lost his
mother to metastatic
breast cancer in 2010.
“A side-out in volley-
ball is getting possession
of the ball back,” Brooks
said. “Well, the Side-Out
Foundation is getting
possession of your life
back after cancer. It’s re-
ally a neat and unique and
personal thing for us that
we’re really proud to par-
ticipate in.”
Both teams said they
look forward to the con-
test every year — for
many, it’s because of the
personal stakes of the dis-
ease. Caledonia’s Taylor
the Tiger front en route to
seven sacks for a loss of
45 yards.
But beyond the num-
ber’s there’s further
reason to believe in Sat-
urday’s performance.
Of the 23 players on the
Bulldogs’ two-deep ahead
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the score. Hamilton ran
off strings of seven points
in the first set and 11
points in the second and
third set to take control of
Fletcher has an aunt bat-
tling breast cancer; Wool-
bright’s grandmother,
aunt, cousin, friends and
coworkers have faced the
disease.
“It affects so many
people that almost every-
one knows someone who
has been impacted by it,”
Woolbright said. “It is a
very dear cause to me
personally.”
Brooks said she feels
fortunate that she and her
players haven’t person-
ally suffered from breast
cancer. She also said the
team is lucky not to have
its season affected by the
COVID-19 pandemic so
far.
“We have been blessed
for so many reasons, and
so that kind of gives us a
sense of, ‘We should give
back. We should do some-
thing,’” Brooks said.
Enter Dig Pink, a tra-
dition Caledonia has em-
braced completely in its
infancy. The school has
raised $7,300 over the
past three years, accord-
ing to Brooks.
Cross said that wasn’t
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of Saturday’s contest
against Arkansas, 16 are
either underclassmen or
junior college transfers in
their first season at MSU.
In the secondary, soph-
omore Martin Emerson
is the most experienced
cornerback on the ros-
ter despite having been
in Starkville for just one
year.
Despite the inexperi-
ence, there’s confidence
to MSU’s youthful de-
fense. Granted some of
that is earned with a win
over a defending national
championship, but for a
team that lost seven start-
ers from a season ago and
replaced them with one
senior, four sophomores
and two juniors in Wheat
and walk-on Londyn
Craft.
“We don’t fear anyone,”
Preston said Tuesday
night of this year’s safe-
ties. “No matter how old
you are, how old they are,
how much more experi-
ence they’ve got than you,
I’m going to give you all of
mine for 60 minutes.”
Leach’s best year at
Washington State came in
2018 when current Jack-
sonville Jaguars quarter-
back Gardner Minshew II
finished fifth in Heisman
Trophy voting and guided
the nation’s top-ranked
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the match.
Lions coach Bryan Lo-
ague said his team has
improved from the past
week, where it struggled
despite a pair of wins over
Okolona and Monday’s
win over Nettleton.
“Tonight, I think over-
all we did a lot better com-
municating, being where
we were supposed to be
and keeping the ball in
bounds,” Loague said.
West Lowndes, mean-
while, struggled in the
same areas, with little
communication between
players and a lack of
movement around the
court.
“We could have done
better — stepped more
and called for the ball,”
sophomore JaMya Brooks
said.
Brooks acknowledged
that the Panthers got dis-
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what she expected when
she first raised the possi-
bility of hosting the event
back in 2017.
“Oh, maybe we’ll raise
a few hundred dollars,”
she thought. “Maybe
we’ll just help spread
awareness for it or at least
have a fun time doing it.”
Instead, it became a
yearly tradition, some-
thing Cross was happy to
see.
“Having that annual
tradition, I think, raises
a lot of awareness — just
makes a lot of people look
forward to something,”
Cross said.
Not only that, but it
offers an opportunity for
Caledonia and New Hope
to do good in their com-
munity, both head coach-
es said.
“We’re trying to raise
these girls and teach
these players that some-
times there’s a lot of
things more important
than just a ballgame,”
Woolbright said.
Doing that through
their sport of choice is an
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Titans have NFL’s first COVID-19 outbreak; next game still on

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
NASHVILLE, Tenn.
— The Tennessee Titans
won’t be back inside their
building until Saturday
at the earliest because of
eight positive tests for the
coronavirus, the first out-
break to hit the NFL as it
tries to play a full sched-
ule amid the pandemic.
Tennessee is sched-
uled to host Pittsburgh
in a matchup of two of the
league’s seven remain-
ing undefeated teams
on Sunday, and Steelers
coach Mike Tomlin said
his team has been “given
a mandate” to prepare as
if the game will be played
on time — even if the Ti-
tans are unable to prac-
tice.
“We’re going to trust
the medical experts,”
Tomlin said. “If they deem
it safe for us to proceed,
we’re going to go down
there with the intention
of playing and playing to
win.”
Tennessee suspend-
ed in-person activities
through Friday after the
NFL said three Titans
players and five person-
nel tested positive for the
coronavirus. The NFL
had played three weeks
without a COVID-19 out-
break. Now, the Titans
will become the first sig-
nificant in-season test of
the league’s virus proto-
cols.
The Minnesota Vi-
kings also suspended
in-person activities Tues-
day following the Titans’
test results. The Titans
beat the Vikings 31-30 in
Minneapolis last week-
end.
“Both clubs are work-
ing closely with the NFL
and the (players union),
including our infectious
disease experts, to eval-
uate close contacts, per-
form additional testing
and monitor develop-
ments,” the league said in
a statement.
The Titans placed a
pair of key players, defen-
sive captain and lineman
DaQuan Jones and long
snapper Beau Brinkley,
on the reserve/COVID-19
list later Tuesday.
The Vikings released
a statement saying they
had not received any pos-
itive results from their
testing after Sunday’s
game and they followed
NFL protocol by closing
their facility immediately.
The Minnesota complex
will remain closed at least
through Wednesday.
Minnesota is sched-
uled to visit Houston (0-3)
on Sunday.
“All decisions will be
made with health and
safety as our primary con-
sideration,” the NFL said.
“We will continue to share
updates as more informa-
tion becomes available.”
If they kick off Sunday,
the Titans will have spent
three days in virtual, vid-
eo meetings with possibly
only a walk-through Sat-
urday. The prospect of a
team facing a competitive
disadvantage because of
the virus was not a sur-
prise to Tomlin.
“Once we left the sta-
tion and we got all teams
into a training camp-like
setting, we as a collec-
tive, meaning the Na-
tional Football League,
acknowledged that this
COVID environment
could be challenging to
that,” Tomlin said. “So we
all proceeded with that
understanding.”
Titans coach Mike Vra-
bel is scheduled to talk
to reporters Wednesday
morning.
“I just wanna play,” Ti-
tans starting left guard
Rodger Saffold tweeted.
Commissioner Roger
Goodell sent a memo to
teams Tuesday noting the
protocols set up by the
league and the players
union are being followed. ing coaches and teams someone is within 6 feet
Those who tested positive when coaches have vio- of another device and re-
will be isolated, moni- lated league rules requir- cords how long they are
tored and offered medical ing face coverings during that close together. That
care, and family members games. means the league has
also are offered testing. Steelers defensive data on everyone’s inter-
Officials and others who tackle Cam Heyward actions from inside the
worked the game will be posted on Twitter that if team headquarters to the
tested. the game were postponed, practice field, an airplane,
“This is not unexpect- players would be compro- inside a hotel and at a sta-
ed; as Dr. Sills and oth- mised in their preparation dium.
ers have emphasized, for the following week. That information
there will be players and “This is wild but this is should help the Titans
staff who will test posi- the world we live in now,” and the infectious disease
tive during the season,” Heyward wrote. experts know which play-
Titans outside line- ers and coaches were at
Goodell wrote in the
backers coach Shane risk. The closure of Ten-
memo obtained by The
Bowen did not travel with nessee’s facility should
Associated Press, refer-
the team to Minneapolis also help limit further
encing the NFL’s chief
following a virus test re- spread of the virus.
medical officer, Dr. Allen
sult Saturday. Vrabel said The Titans are due to
Sills. “We are exploring
in more detail the nature Monday that Bowen was have about 7,000 fans in
not with the team. Nissan Stadium on Sun-
of the close contacts to
determine where they Rookie offensive line- day as local restrictions
man Isaiah Wilson, the on large gatherings have
occurred (locker room,
flights, etc.), and identify Titans’ top draft pick out been eased. That number
of Georgia, also has been is set to expand to about
any additional learnings
that can be shared with on the reserve/COVID-19 8,500 on Oct. 11 for a
list since Sept. 6. game against Buffalo and
all clubs.”
The Titans, like other up to 10,000 on Oct. 18,
Goodell asked teams
NFL teams, use devic- when Houston is sched-
to look at what they’ve
es that detect whenever uled to visit.
done to limit contact,
especially when travel-
ing and within position
groups, and to review how
they bring in players for
tryouts. He noted the test
results affirm the need to
follow health and safety
protocols “to the fullest
extent.”
The NFL has been fin-

Astros win Game 1; Twins’ record losing streak at 17

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
MINNEAPOLIS — Oakland 1
Tarnished by scandal at
the start of the year and
below average during
this pandemic-abbreviat-
ed season, the Houston
Astros showed up for the
playoffs with their usual
confidence and poise.
Just like that, they’ve
got the edge on the Min-
nesota Twins in an elimi-
nation game.
Jose Altuve drew a
walk to force in the go-
ahead run in the ninth in-
ning Tuesday after a two-
out error by shortstop
Jorge Polanco, and the
Astros beat the Twins 4-1
to open their AL playoff
series and stretch Minne-
sota’s all-time postseason
record to 17 straight loss-
es.
“These guys know how
to battle. They know what
it’s like,” said manager
Dusty Baker, after the As-
tros became the first team
in major league history to
win a game after reaching
the postseason with a los-
ing record. “They know
how to win, and they take
pride in what they do.”
Game 2 in the best-of-
three wild-card matchup
is Wednesday at Target
Field.
Michael Brantley
tacked on a two-run sin-
gle against Caleb Thiel-
bar in the ninth after
Sergio Romo issued the
full-count walk to the
5-foot-6 Altuve, who bat-
ted 127 points lower (.219)
this year than his 2017 AL
MVP season.
“He laid off a close
pitch. It didn’t go my
way,” said Romo, who has
three World Series rings
with San Francisco and
pitched in his 30th career
postseason game. “Tough
pill to swallow.”
Twins manager Rocco
Baldelli called for Romo,
the fifth of six pitchers,
to start the ninth. The
Astros started with two
singles, but Romo was
about to escape with the
tie preserved until Polan-
co’s throw to second base
after a straight-at-him
grounder was low to blow
the forceout.
“I’m the one to wear
any of that. I do feel that
I put my teammates in a
position they shouldn’t
have been in,” said Romo,
lamenting the five shutout
innings by starter Kenta
Maeda that were spoiled.
Minnesota and Hous-
ton tied for the fewest er-
rors in the majors with 20
during the 60-game sea-
son. The Astros were only
18th in walks, but this one
counted the most.
Chicago White Sox 4,
OAKLAND, Calif. —
Lucas Giolito released a
brief yell of delight and
marched quickly back to
the dugout, his work day
going just brilliantly for
the Chicago White Sox.
Giolito simply dazzled
in his postseason debut,
stymieing the Oakland
Athletics through six per-
fect innings and sending
the White Sox to a 4-1 vic-
tory in the opener of their
best-of-three wild-card
series Tuesday.
“Unreal. Unreal to
watch. Unreal to be be-
hind him,” shortstop Tim
Anderson said. “He put
the work in. When you
set yourself apart to put
the work in and want to
be a superstar, you want
to be that dominant. The
work is showing. Happy
for him and hopefully he
can keep it up and contin-
ue to grow as a player and
as a person. He’s our guy.
I expect nothing but that
from him.”
It also brought back
memories of Giolito’s
no-hitter against Pitts-
burgh on Aug. 25.
“It was a different feel
though because throwing
a perfect game, no-hitter
is a great personal ac-
complishment, but we’re
in the playoffs, the goal
is to win the game,” Gi-
olito said. “For me it was
all about I’m going to give
the team the best possible
chance to come out on top
after nine innings.”
On Tuesday, he didn’t
allow a baserunner to the
AL West champions until
Tommy La Stella’s single
up the middle to start the
seventh. Giolito gave up
one run on two hits over
seven innings, struck out
eight and walked one be-
fore giving way to Evan
Marshall after a stellar
100-pitch outing.
“Pretty cool,” manager
Rick Renteria said. “It was
neat to see.”
Giolito got plenty of
support: José Abreu hit a
two-run homer and Adam
Engel also connected for
Chicago. Yasmani Gran-
dal homered in the eighth.
Alex Colomé, Chica-
go’s third reliever, worked
the ninth for a save to
close out the 2-hour,
53-minute game.
Before the single by
La Stella, Jake Lamb’s
line drive to center in the
fifth was the hardest-hit
ball against Giolito by the
powerful A’s, whose of-
fense struggled down the
stretch.
Now, Oakland must
win Game 2 on Wednes-
day at home to avoid an-
other early playoff exit. groove. It usually takes
me a little while to get go-
Tampa Bay 3, Toronto 1 ing anyway,” Snell said.
“It’s been two months but
ST. PETERSBURG,
Fla. — Beyond ace I usually start slow. I’m
lefty Blake Snell, the starting to get the hang of
small-market Tampa Bay it, starting to feel it. The
Rays are light on house- playoff energy always
hold names. gets me a lot more excit-
On the postseason ed, for sure.”
stage, the American Toronto reliever Rob-
League’s No. 1 seed bie Ray took the loss, giv-
showed just where all ing up one run and one hit
that dominance is coming in three innings. Margot
from. hit his homer to left-cen-
“Tonight was a pretty ter field off A.J. Cole to
good representation of push Tampa Bay’s lead to
the Tampa Bay Rays — 3-0 in the seventh inning.
our players, how we go
about winning games,”
manager Kevin Cash
said. “We found success
being really good in tight
games. Pitching, the de-
fense, and timely hits are
the reasons for it.”
With Snell taking a
no-hitter into the sixth
inning, shortstop Willy
Adames making splashy
defensive plays and Man-
uel Margot delivering a
two-run homer, the AL
East champions opened
the playoffs Tuesday with
a 3-1 victory over the To-
ronto Blue Jays.
The Rays will try to ad-
vance in the best-of-three
wild-card matchup Game
2 at Tropicana Field,
where seats will be empty
with the exceptions fami-
ly and friends from both
teams.
“I think the biggest
thing is not to press, not
to really panic. That’s
probably the worst thing
we can do as a team,” Blue
Jays third baseman Cavan
Biggio said.
“It’s a bigger stage
right now and not a lot
of our guys have really
played in the playoffs be-
fore,” the son of Hall of
Famer Craig Biggio add-
ed, “but I think we learned
from this one today.”
Snell allowed just two
baserunners until Alejan-
dro Kirk singled leading
off the sixth. The 27-year-
old lefty retired the next
two batters, but Cash
didn’t give him a chance
to finish the inning.
Diego Castillo, Nick
Anderson and Pete Fair-
banks followed the start-
er, limiting the Blue Jays
to two singles, two dou-
bles and Bo Bichette’s
eighth-inning sacrifice fly
the rest of the way.
Fairbanks closed for
his first save of the sea-
son as Cash kept taking
a fresh and innovative ap-
proach to using his pitch-
ing staff.
Snell yielded one hit,
walked two and struck out
nine, tying a Rays post-
season record.
“I’m getting into a
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added bonus, according
to Brooks.
“I feel like it’s import-
ant for coaches to provide
opportunities for players
to be able to give back,
and this one is so cool be-
cause it’s through some-
thing we love: volleyball,”
she said.
The nature of Thurs-
day’s matchup should
be enough of a reason to
attend, too. Both teams
reached the state final
four last fall for the first
time in their respective
schools’ history, and
they’re formidable oppo-
nents on the court.
“The last two years,
they’ve been especially
strong,” Brooks said of
New Hope. “It is absolute-
ly essential to play teams
like them to be prepared
for the playoffs.”
Cross, who played
with many a Trojan in her
days with Level Elite club
volleyball, remembers
that players from each
school would joke around
about who would win, but
there was an added layer
with Dig Pink.
“We all knew that we
were doing something
much better than just
playing each other and
seeing who was going to
come out with the win,
so that was really nice,”
Cross said.
Three years later,
the feeling is the same.
Cross’s cousins, Ella and
Emily Clark, play for
Caledonia’s varsity team;
through them, Cross
maintains her connection
to the team and to the
event that might never
have happened without
her intervention.
“To see those girls
continue on doing what
they’re doing is just in-
credible, honestly,” Cross
said. “It makes me feel
really happy.”
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good.”
The best-of-three se-
ries continues Wednes-
day night with Carlos
Carrasco trying to save
Cleveland’s season
against Masahiro Tana-
ka.
When Bieber’s final
pitch clanged loudly
off the empty left-field
bleachers on a two-run
homer by Gleyber Torres
in the fifth, the Yankees
were up 7-2 and had deliv-
ered a boisterous postsea-
son message to the rest of
baseball: Don’t forget us.
“We scored quite a few
runs,” said Brett Gardner,
who hit a two-run homer
in the seventh and drove
in three. “I don’t think you
ever expect that against
a pitcher the caliber of
Shane Bieber. Hopefully
that’s a sign of more good
things to come.”
After giving up Torres’
homer, Bieber handed
the ball to acting Indians
manager Sandy Alomar
Jr. and walked slowly to-
ward Cleveland’s dugout,
seemingly carrying all
of the city’s hopes for a
long run with him. The
Indians have lost seven
straight playoff games.
DQ forgotten, Djokovic leaves French Open foe ‘suffocated’
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
PARIS — Novak
Djokovic’s backhand
clipped the net and land-
ed wide, so he shook his
head. That was it.
Later, a too-soft drop
shot found the white tape
and bounced back on his
own side, finally ceding a
game in a dominant debut
performance at the 2020
French Open. Djokovic
simply bowed and walked
to the sideline.
And when he flubbed
yet another drop shot —
he kept using them on
the slow red clay during
a 6-0, 6-3, 6-2 win over
Staked to an early lead
on Judge’s homer, Cole
showed why the Yankees
shelled out $324 million
for him in the offseason.
The right-hander gave
up two runs — includ-
ing Josh Naylor’s homer
— and six hits without a
walk in seven innings.
Naylor went 4 for 4 and
became the first player
with three extra-base hits
in his postseason debut.
Cole’s strikeouts
were the second-most
by a New York pitcher
in postseason history.
Roger Clemens fanned
15 in Game 4 of the 2000
ALCS. Cole also became
the first pitcher to strike
out at least 12 in three
postseason games.
“We needed to set the
tone for the series,” Cole
said. “I’m obviously very
thankful and humbled to
be able to take the ball
and be in this position. To
be able to deliver feels re-
ally good.”
Giancarlo Stanton
added a solo shot in the
ninth for the Yankees,
who didn’t even have to
warm up their top reliev-
ers — keeping Aroldis
Chapman, Zack Britton
80th-ranked Mikael Ymer
— and got broken Tues-
day, Djokovic pulled an
extra tennis ball out of his
pocket and merely gave it
a gentle tap with his rack-
et strings.
The ball landed right
behind him, safely in the
middle of the court.
Playing his first Grand
Slam match since his
U.S. Open disqualifica-
tion for smacking a ball
after dropping a game
and accidentally striking
a line judge in the throat,
Djokovic never really
gave himself reason for
histrionics or shouts of
dismay or displays of an-
and Adam Ottavino fresh
for Game 2.
Judge’s first homer
since coming off the in-
jured list on Sept. 16 —
and the first allowed by
Bieber at home this sea-
son — gave the Yankees
a stunning 2-0 lead.
“We had a big, long
hitter’s meeting about
all sticking to the same
plan and just trying to
work counts, get pitches
to drive and I think, as a
whole, we did that,” Judge
said. “That’s when this
team is dangerous, when
we go out there and we
can just grind out at-bats.
Any mistakes that are
thrown up there, we ham-
mer them.”
DJ LeMahieu, the AL
batting champion, led
off with a single before
Judge, who missed 29
games with a strained
calf, blasted Bieber’s first
pitch, a middle-of-the-
plate fastball, beyond the
wall in right-center.
It was just the shot in
the arm the Yankees were
looking for after going 11-
18 on the road this season
and dropping six of eight
down the stretch.
Unlike the previous
ger. Sure, there was some
eye-rolling and one sar-
castic kiss directed at one
of the few fans on hand
under the roof at Court
Philippe Chatrier.
But otherwise, what
was there for Djokovic to
be disturbed about?
“I just felt very suffo-
cated out there. It’s just
corner, corner; very, very
rarely miss. His position
is unreal in the court,”
Ymer explained.
“You know how the
snake kills its prey?”
Ymer said, pantomiming
a boa constrictor’s attack
by bringing his arms
around and putting his
four postseason match-
ups between the Indians
and Yankees since 1997,
this one, played amid a
pandemic that threatened
to wipe out the entire sea-
son, was different in so
many ways.
There was barely any
buzz downtown, parts
of which were cordoned
off because of the debate
taking place on Case
Western Reserve’s near-
by campus. Progressive
Field was mostly empty
and a cold front dropped
the game-time tempera-
ture to 61 degrees so it
felt like fall.
There were a few
midges, those pesky fly-
ing insects that swarmed
New York reliever Joba
Chamberlain in the 2007
playoffs.
This time, though, the
Yankees were the ones
causing all the mayhem.
“Our season,” Gardner
said, “started today.”
Family affair
MLB eased its
COVID-19 restrictions
and allowed family mem-
bers of players on both
teams attend the game.
hands together. “That’s
a little bit how I felt being
out there.”
Ymer said he didn’t pay
any attention to Djokov-
ic’s mood or energy.
And Djokovic, for his
part, said that what hap-
pened in Flushing Mead-
ows was of no concern to
him, either, as he began
his pursuit of a second ti-
tle at Roland Garros and
18th Grand Slam trophy
overall.
“I have not had any
traces of New York in my
mind. I’m over it. Honest-
ly forgot about it. I’m not
thinking about it,” the No.
1 seed said.
Boone said nearly half
of New York’s players had
loved ones on the trip,
and believes their pres-
ence can have a positive
effect.
“Hopefully it is some-
thing that provides a little
bit of an escape after the
game and a little com-
fort,” he said.
Helping hand
The Indians are going
through the postseason
without their leader.
Manager Terry Fran-
cona, who missed 46
games in the regular sea-
son due to poor health,
watched the game from
a suite. Indians presi-
dent Chris Antonetti said
Francona continues to re-
cover, but the 61-year-old
is “still far short of 100
percent.”
Up next
Carrasco’s inspiration-
al comeback after being
diagnosed with leukemia
last year reaches the post-
season. He’ll face Tanaka,
who pitched seven shut-
out innings in Game 3 of
the 2017 ALDS against
the Indians.
“Winning a 6-love
first set is the best possi-
ble way to start a Grand
Slam,” he said. “This is
exactly what my inten-
tions will be — trying to
get off the blocks very
strong, with a good in-
tensity, obviously, be-
cause players in the early
rounds have nothing to
lose.”
Maybe that’s why
17-year-old Clara Tauson
of Denmark was able to
earn her first tour-lev-
el win by knocking off
U.S. Open semifinalist
and No. 21 seed Jennifer
Brady 6-4, 3-6, 9-7.

Panthers
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couraged when the Lions
made big runs to build
up the lead. Particularly
damaging was in the third
set, when West Lowndes
won the first five points,
but Hamilton countered
quickly.
The Lions won the fol-
lowing four points, and
on the next play, the Pan-
thers’ Quankeria Halbert
returned a serve off the
backboard and then the
rim of a basketball hoop
in the back left corner of
the Hamilton gym, a good
distance out of play. The
near-basket drew a loud
cheer from the crowd.
Hamilton won the next
six points to take an 11-5
lead, a sudden and rather
demoralizing run for the
visiting school.
“We need to have a
good attitude instead of
a bad one,” said Brooks,
who admitted that can be
harder than it sounds.
Hamilton, for its part,
did a good job of that
Tuesday. The Lions are
in their first year playing
volleyball after the MH-
SAA discontinued slow-
pitch softball last fall, and
Loague said the transition
wasn’t easy.
“We knew absolutely
nothing,” he said. “It’s
been a challenge.”
All but a couple of
Hamilton’s varsity play-
ers also play softball, and
the team missed out on
camps in the spring and
summer because of the
COVID-19 pandemic. In-
stead of the three prac-
tices a week that Loague
envisioned, the Lions got
together just five times all
summer. They didn’t hold
tryouts until mid-June.
But, still, Hamilton has
found success so far in its
first year of competition.
“We were a little bit
behind to start with, but
we’ve come a long way,”
Loague said. “We’ve got-
ten a lot better since the
first of June.”
West Lowndes had,
too, but Tuesday was a bit
of a step backward for the
Panthers. Clark said she’s
not sure of the precise
reason for their strug-
gles Tuesday, but she just
hopes her team can fix
them before a rematch
with Hamilton on Oct. 8
in Columbus — and the
sooner, the better.
“We don’t know what
it was today,” Clark said.
“Hopefully we find out
what it was.”
Other scores
New Hope 3,
South Jones 0
ELLISVILLE — New
Hope beat South Jones in
straight sets in Tuesday’s
road match.
Set scores were 25-21,
25-18 and 25-15 as the Tro-
jans picked up the win.
New Hope will host the
Dig Pink Game against
Caledonia at 6:30 p.m.
Thursday.
Prep Girls Soccer
Starkville Academy 5,
Tupelo HomeSchool 1
STARKVILLE — Lau-
ren Bock scored twice to
lead the Starkville Acad-
emy girls soccer team to
a 5-1 win in Tuesday’s se-
nior night match against
Tupelo HomeSchool.
Kaitlyn Bock, Mia Kate
Cade and Anna Claire He-
flin also had goals for the
Volunteers.
Starkville Academy
will play at Pillow Acad-
emy in the first round of
the MAIS Class 4A, Di-
vision 2 playoffs at 6 p.m.
Tuesday, Oct. 6.
Lamar School 5,
Heritage Academy 1
MERIDIAN — Heri-
tage Academy lost Tues-
day’s road match at La-
mar School, 5-1.
Caroline Peal had the
lone goal for the Patriots.
Heritage Academy
hosts Columbus Chris-
tian Academy at 5:30 p.m.
Thursday.

Dawgs
Continued from Page 1B
passing attack with an av-
erage of 367.6 yards per
game. Concluding the
year 11-2, it was the first
time in school history the
Cougars reached the 11-
win plateau and their first
10-win season since 2003.
As for the defense,
former Minnesota head
coach Tracy Claeys
helped the unit to a No. 42
ranking in total defense
— the second-best mark
of the Leach era in Pull-
man — allowing just 359.5
yards per game.
Over Leach’s final
three seasons at Wash-
ington State, the Cou-
gars were 21-0 when the
defense allowed 27 or
fewer points in a game.
Saturday, senior quarter-
back K.J. Costello and
the MSU offense stole
headlines with his 623-
yard, five-touchdown ef-
fort through the air. And
while it’s not expected
that he’ll eclipse the 600-
yard mark in every game
this contest, it was the de-
fense’s effort that proved
as much the difference.
“He’s the best coach in
the game,” Leach’s long-
time mentor Hal Mumme
told The Dispatch via text
Saturday night. “Been
doing more with less for
years. Now he has skill
and a program with a
history of great defense.
Look out. This is just the
beginning.”
4B WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 2020
Starkville unanimous No. 1 overall in new high school football poll
BY THEO DEROSA
tderosa@cdispatch.com
Starkville High School
earned the first-place vote
it was missing to become
the No. 1 unanimous
selection among Mis-
sissippi high schools in
Tuesday’s new Associated
Press football poll.
Ten Mississippi media
outlets, including The
Commercial Dispatch,
were polled on the top five
teams in each class and
the top 10 overall.
Class 1A
1. Nanih Waiya (4-0)
2. Lumberton (3-1)
3. Biggersville (4-0)
4. TCPS (2-2)
5. Resurrection (4-0)
Comics & Puzzles
DILBERT
ZITS
GARFIELD
CANDORVILLE
BABY BLUES
BEETLE BAILEY
MALLARD FILLMORE
Teams earned 10 points
for a first-place vote, nine
for a second-place vote,
and so on.
The Yellow Jackets
(4-0) received eight of
nine first-place votes last
week, while Oak Grove
earned the other. But af-
ter Starkville won 38-20
at No. 2 South Panola,
the Jackets got all 10 first-
place votes both overall
and in MHSAA Class 6A.
Oak Grove finished
second in Class 6A and in
the overall rankings. War-
Class 2A
1. Taylorsville (3-0)
2. North Side (0-0)
3. Clarke (3-0)
4. Scott Central (3-1)
5. Walnut (3-1)
FAMILY CIRCUS
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ren Central, South Panola at Starkville on Sept. 4.
and Oxford rounded out West Point earned seven
the top five in Class 6A. of 10 first-place votes in
Class 5A, second-place
Starkville will go on
West Jones got two, and
the road to face German-
third-place Neshoba Cen-
town (3-1) on Friday in
tral had one. Picayune
Madison.
and Lafayette rounded
out the top five. West
In other polls Point plays at Saltillo (0-
— West Point (3-1) was 3) on Friday.
still ranked third overall — Noxubee County
and first in Class 5A. The (2-1) maintained its spot
Green Wave beat Lafay- as the No. 3 team in Class
ette 21-15 last week and 3A. The Tigers received
have won three straight The Dispatch’s first-place
games after a 40-28 loss vote, while No. 1 Colum-
Class 3A Class 4A
1. Noxubee Co. (2-1) 1. Louisville (3-1)
2. Columbia (4-0) 2. Corinth (2-2)
3. Jeff. Davis Co. (3-1) 3. Newton Co. (4-0)
4. Magee (2-1) 4. Pontotoc (3-1)
5. West Marion (3-1) 5. Poplarville (1-3)
Dear Abby
D
EAR ABBY:
My family
just came
back from a
relative’s after
a weekend visit.
The occasion was
a birthday party,
and he had a
tattoo artist come
over. My boyfriend
— the father of our
14- and 3-year-
olds — spent our
last $100 and
went ahead and
got himself a
tattoo! We aren’t Dear Abby
rich, and we had
to borrow money for gas to get
home.
I think he is the most selfish and out of the house) and our
person on the face of the
planet, and I get mad at him for
every other little thing now. I
can’t imagine many adult men
would do that to their partner. I
know a few who would even say,
“No, Honey, YOU get something.
I can wait.” Is there any hope for miserable, but if any of us tries
mankind? — MARK OF DISAS-
TER IN WASHINGTON
DEAR MARK OF DISASTER:
There is plenty of hope for
mankind; for the father of your
14- and 3-year-olds, maybe
not so much. Was he under the
influence at that party, or does
he make poor decisions about
money often?
That tatt is now a constant
reminder of your disappoint-
Horoscopes
TODAY’S BIRTHDAY (Sept.
30). Because you prize intimacy
over power, you’ll enjoy a sweet
stretch for relationships in
which the vulnerable sharing
of feelings allows for continu-
ously joyful connections. Your
influence in a group will lead
to money in November. You’ll
invest well, which leads to
lifestyle upgrades down the line.
Aries and Gemini adore you.
Your lucky numbers are: 1, 49,
3, 27 and 41.
ARIES (March 21-April
19). It won’t be enough to do
the thing once, although doing
a thing once a day for the next
four weeks will work wonders.
Now the question is, how are
bia earned six-first place
votes, and No. 2 Jefferson
Davis County had three.
Magee and West Mari-
on were fourth and fifth,
respectively. Noxubee
County was off last week
and plays at Houston (2-2)
on Friday.
— Heritage Academy
(5-1) remained fourth
among private schools
in the state in Tuesday’s
new poll. The Patriots
still trail Madison-Ridge-
land Academy (nine first-
place votes), Jackson Prep
Class 5A
1. West Point (3-1)
2. Neshoba Cen. (4-0)
3. Picayune (4-0)
4. Lafayette (2-2)
5. West Jones (3-0)
ment in him, so
I hope it’s in a
place where you
don’t have to see
it every day or
night. You have
my sympathy, but
you chose this
person as a life
partner.
DEAR ABBY:
My parents have
been together for
more than three
decades, but
their marriage
has been strained
for years. Still,
they won’t pull
the plug and call it quits. It’s
making us kids (all in our 20s
extended family confused and
frustrated.
They still live under one roof,
although they spend all of their
time in separate parts of the
house and communicate only
through us kids. They’re clearly
to speak to them about their
toxic dynamic, each one blames
the other.
Abby, I adore both of my
parents, but they’re becoming
shells of themselves. I know
it’s not my business to step in,
but something has to change.
I can’t handle another tense
holiday visit. What should I do?
— CONCERNED IN CALIFORNIA
DEAR CONCERNED: You and
you going to remind yourself?
TAURUS (April 20-May 20).
Your capacity to delight others
is large and ever-expanding.
You get such a thrill from seeing
their smiles that the quest
has become, by now, a sweet
addiction.
GEMINI (May 21-June 21).
It’s not a stretch to say that
relationships matter more to
you than anything else in life, or
even more than life itself, since
you gladly give so much of your
time and breath to making them
run beautifully.
CANCER (June 22-July 22).
How readily do you forgive?
If you do decide that some-
one needs forgiveness, you’ll
and Leake Academy (one
first-place vote). Green-
ville Christian was fifth.
Heritage Academy has
won five straight games
after losing at Jackson
Prep on Aug. 21. The Pa-
triots are off Friday and
will play at Lamar School
(3-2) next Friday.
Most of the ballot Theo
DeRosa submitted for The
Dispatch is below. See cdis-
patch.com/sports for the
full ballot.
Class 6A
1. Starkville (4-0)
2. Oak Grove (3-0)
3. South Panola (3-1)
4. Oxford (3-0)
5. Warren Central (3-1)
your siblings should sit down
with your parents and tell them
the effect their toxic dynamic
has had on you as a family. All
of you should urge them to seek
counseling from a licensed
marriage and family therapist.
Then cross your fingers and
hope they are willing to follow
through. However, if they aren’t
and you can’t handle another
tense holiday visit, I recom-
mend you make other plans
and tell them why.
DEAR ABBY: I am 13. Three
years ago, I was in a car acci-
dent that left me in a wheel-
chair. I have been able to move
on in life and am happy and
have lots of friends who help
me stay active in sports, etc.
My problem is, I had a friend
before my accident who moved
away, and I’m sure he doesn’t
know his once best friend can
no longer walk.
I just heard his family is
moving back here, and I’m not
sure how to handle this. Should
I contact him before the move,
or wait and be like, “Oh, by the
way”? Do you have any advice?
— WONDERING IN NEW YORK
DEAR WONDERING: The
news is bound to be a shock.
If you have this young man’s
contact information, I vote for
letting him know in advance
about the accident. And while
you’re at it, fill him in on what
you have been doing since he
left town.
take it through a process. Your
conscious awareness of this
process will help you sort out
today’s action.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22).
Generous and helpful, you have
plenty to offer people. Avoid
giving it in the form of advice
though, especially the unsolic-
ited variety. Most people don’t
even listen to the advice they
actually asked for.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22).
Age-old wisdom holds up for
good reason. Truth endures.
Well over a millennia ago, Plato
said, “For a man to conquer
himself is the first and noblest
of all victories.” This still applies
today.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23).
There are certain people around
who give you such a warm feel-
ing that it’s like the two of you
are much better friends than
your actual friendship history
would suggest. It’s OK because
the feeling is mutual.
SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov.
21). Laughing is intimacy. When
you make someone laugh, they
are connecting with you on a
deeper than surface level — a
level of truth, pain and vulner-
ability.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec.
21). The reason not to partici-
pate in gossip is that afterward
you’d feel dirty, and the next
time you saw the person you’d
spoken ill of, you would feel
even worse. That’s reason
enough to stay out of it.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan.
19). It’s like all of your life is
being run by a scientific inquiry.
You’ll make a prediction and
then conduct an experiment
to see what occurs. Be sure
to record it all, because that
will ultimately be your key to
success.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb.
18). It’s easier to make a thing
happen when you want it so
badly that you’re having trouble
thinking of anything else.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March
20). What gets confusing is
when you don’t know if you
love a person, or you love your
projected fantasy about who
that person is. The question
will have more relevance today
when you’re likely to be thrown
by someone’s behavior.
At the top of one’s voice
SOLUTION:
Food
Sweet flavorsof fall
Welcome autumn with cookies that celebrate fall flavors we love, like cinnamon, pumpkin, pecans, apple and cran-
berries. Clockwise from top left: Caramel pecan shortbread, cranberry chip cookies, cinnamon roll macarons and
caramel-apple shortbread cookies.
Make it all about cookies
BY JAN SWOOPE
jswoope@cdispatch.com
T
hose of us who savor cool-
ing days and crisp nights
are happily savoring the
week we’ve been given. What a
refreshing way to welcome Octo-
ber. The changing season brings
with it an appetite for “fall flavors”
— cinnamon, pumpkin spice,
brown sugar, cranberries, pecans,
apples. There’s something about
them woven through the snuggly,
cozy ambiance of autumn. And
they make the house smell pretty
awesome, too.
What better time for fall
cookies? Maybe cinnamon roll
macarons inspired by the clas-
sic cinnamon roll will be a new
family favorite. Or caramel pecan
shortbread cookies topped with
chocolate and pecans. Or maybe
cranberry chip cookies chock of
BUTTER TOGETHER
The ancient art of grit-making
W
hen I was
a child, my
mom used
to serve breakfast
for dinner —
brinner — every
Christmas Eve.
She did this out of
necessity. Getting
four children out of
the house in time
for Christmas Eve Amelia Plair
church services
was a feat in and of
itself, never mind adding the the planning and cooking re-
stress of cooking a full meal sponsibilities, these breakfasts
afterward. became more and more elabo-
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Beef meatballs with garlic and
herbs, topped with Parmesan and
parsley, warms from the inside-out.
A flavorful
family meal
for fall
FAMILY FEATURES
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arm, delectable dishes go
hand-in-hand with cool
fall evenings when the
crisp air sends you to the kitchen
for a filling meal. Look no further
than easy recipes like meatballs
that pack fulfilling flavor to feed
your family when the autumn tem-
peratures dip.
These Grass-fed Beef Meatballs
with Garlic and Herbs can be the
perfect solution anytime you’re
craving a warm, comforting meal.
They’re made with New Zealand
grass-fed ground beef, which pro-
vides an unrivaled taste. Grass-fed
year-round, the animals roam and
graze freely over lush green hills
and pastures, resulting in lean,
flavorful meat that tastes just as na-
ture intended. Paired with a toma-
to-based sauce, the meatballs are
baked before being topped with
Parmesan cheese and parsley then
served hot for a dish that warms
Courtesy photos you from the inside-out. While
preparing the meatballs, be sure
to wet your hands prior to shaping
them as it helps prevent the meat
from sticking to your hands.
1 teaspoon maple flavoring
Find more comforting fall reci-
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GRASS-FED BEEF MEATBALLS
sweet berries, chocolate chips and
nuts. There will be time enough 1-3/4 cups all-purpose flour WITH GARLIC AND HERBS
for pies and cakes as Thanksgiv- Prep: 15 minutes
Glaze: Cook: 25 minutes
ing and Christmas inch closer. 3/4 cup plus 1 tablespoon confection-
Makes 4 servings
For lunches, brunches, snacks or ers’ sugar
neighborly happies, today’s cookie 1/3 cup maple syrup Beef meatballs:
recipes provide plenty of ways Oil
to wrap our taste buds around n In a large bowl, beat butter, sugar 1 pound ground beef (New Zealand grass-
and cornstarch until blended. Beat in fed recommended)
autumn and the hope that we can flavoring. Gradually beat in flour. 1 cup fresh white breadcrumbs
soon put the weird, unsettling n Shape dough into a disk; cover. Re- 3 cloves garlic, crushed
spring and summer behind us, frigerate until firm enough to roll, about 1 egg, lightly beaten
that we’ll be able to celebrate the 45 minutes. 3 tablespoons milk
holidays ahead “normally,” that n Preheat oven to 325 F. On a lightly 1 1/2 teaspoons Worcestershire sauce
floured surface, roll dough to 1/4-in. 1 teaspoon dried mixed herbs, such as
the new season brings with it thickness. Cut with a floured 2-3/4-inch parsley, thyme and oregano
breath of renewal. Salt, to taste
leaf-shaped cookie cutter. Place 1 inch
apart on parchment paper-lined baking Pepper, to taste
sheets.
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Oil
SHORTBREAD COOKIES 25 minutes. Remove from pans to wire
racks to cool completely. 1 onion, finely chopped
Prep: 25 minutes+chilling 2 cloves garlic, sliced
Bake: 20 minutes/batch+cooling n In a small bowl, mix confectioners’
sugar and maple syrup until smooth. 1 can (14 ounces) chopped tomatoes, in
Makes 1 1/2 dozen juice
Spread over cookies. Let stand until set.
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So her solution rate. One of our favorite dishes lem: equal parts of cheddar (for which you can still find on the
for feeding hungry as teens and young adults was flavor) and Velveeta (for tex- bottom shelves of most South-
bellies so we could the annual vat of garlic cheese ture) with garlic powder added ern grocery stores. These grits
have visions of grits. gave us a pretty good replica of have body and flavor all alone,
sugar plums dance Remember those? It was a our perennial favorite. even without the garlic cheese
through our heads favorite dish in the South in the But those toppings are mixed in. They also reheat
was a big pan of ’90s. Almost all recipes called nothing without a good bowl of beautifully, so you can make
scrambled eggs and for a tube of garlic Velveeta, grits underneath them. I’m not a large pot of them and then
an oven full of hot sold in the dairy case. Unfor- talking about the instant type, store the leftovers in the refrig-
biscuits. tunately, garlic cheese became which bear resemblance to the erator to eat on all week.
As the years more and more scarce and real thing in name only. Nor Unfortunately, the old-fash-
progressed and we finally disappeared entirely am I a fan of the three-minute ioned type of grits I prefer
became old enough several years ago. type, which are an improve- also typically require a bit of
to take on some of So we went without our be- ment from instant, but only babysitting to cook properly.
loved garlic cheese grits for a just. When you cook them on the
few years until we figured out a No, I mean old fashioned stovetop, you have to stir fairly
reasonable solution to the prob- grits, preferably stone ground, See BUTTER TOGETHER, 6B
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California sunshine, they cent of the daily value for minutes or until puffed, increases from Monday to Sunday.
come by their sweetness fiber in each serving. 1 pastry (9 inches, not in golden and set.

Cookies
Continued from Page 5B

CARAMEL PECAN CRANBERRY CHIP

SHORTBREAD
Prep: 30 minutes+chilling
Bake: 15 minutes/batch
Makes about 4 dozen
3/4 cup butter, softened
3/4 cup confectioners’ sugar
2 tablespoons evaporated
milk
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
2 cups all-purpose flour
1/4 teaspoon salt
Filling:
28 caramels
6 tablespoons evaporated
milk
2 tablespoons butter
1/2 cup confectioners’ sugar
3/4 cup finely chopped
pecans
Icing:
1 cup semisweet chocolate
chips
3 tablespoons evaporated
milk
2 tablespoons butter
1/2 cup confectioners’ sugar
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
Pecan halves
n In a large bowl, cream
butter and confectioners’
sugar until light and fluffy,
5-7 minutes. Beat in milk and
vanilla. Combine flour and
salt; gradually add to creamed
mixture. Cover and refrigerate
for 1 hour or until easy to
handle.
n On a lightly floured surface,
roll out the dough to 1/4-in.
thickness. Cut into 2-by-1-inch
strips. Place 1 inch apart on
greased baking sheets.
n Bake at 325 F for 12-
14 minutes or until lightly
browned. Remove to wire
racks to cool completely.
n For filling, combine car-
amels and milk in a large
saucepan. Cook and stir over
medium-low heat until cara-
mels are melted and smooth.
Remove from the heat; stir in
the butter, sugar and pecans.
Cool for 5 minutes. Spread 1
teaspoon over each cookie.
n For icing, in a micro-
wave-safe bowl, melt chips
and milk; stir until smooth.
Stir in the butter, sugar and
vanilla until smooth. Cool for
5 minutes.
n Spread 1 teaspoon icing
on each cookie; top each
with a pecan half. Let stand
until set. Store in an airtight
container.
(Source: tasteofhome.com/
Dorothy Butler)
COOKIES
Prep: 10 minutes
Bake: 15 minutes/batch
Makes about 6 dozen
1 cup butter, softened
1 cup sugar
2 large eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
2 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 1/2 cups semisweet choco-
late chips
1 1/2 cups dried cranberries
3/4 cup chopped pecans
1/2 cup English toffee bits or
almond brickle chips, optional
n In a large bowl, cream but-
ter and sugar. Add eggs and
vanilla; mix well. Combine the
flour, baking powder and salt;
gradually add to the creamed
mixture and mix well. Stir in
chocolate chips, cranberries,
pecans and toffee bits if de-
sired (dough will be stiff).
n Drop by rounded table-
spoonfuls 2 inches apart onto
ungreased baking sheets.
Flatten slightly. Bake at 350 F
for 11-14 minutes or until set
and edges are lightly browned.
Cool for 2 minutes before
removing to wire racks.
(Source: tasteofhome.com)
CINNAMON ROLL
MACARONS
Prep: 45 minutes
Bake: 10 minutes/batch
Makes 5 dozen
4 large egg whites
1 1/2 cups almond flour
1 1/4 cups confectioners’
sugar
1/2 teaspoon ground cinna-
mon
3/4 cup sugar
Filling:
4 ounces cream cheese,
softened
3 tablespoons butter, soft-
ened
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1-1/2 cups confectioners’
sugar
Additional ground cinnamon
n Place egg whites in a
small bowl; let stand at room
temperature for 30 minutes.
Sift almond flour, 1-1/4 cups
confectioners’ sugar and
cinnamon together twice.
n Preheat oven to 325 F. Beat
egg whites on medium speed
tasteofhome.com
Glazed maple shortbread cookies are an elegant sweet
for any fall occasion.
until soft peaks form. Gradu- mon, divided
ally add sugar, 1 tablespoon 2 cups all-purpose flour
at a time, beating on high 1/3 cup finely chopped dried
until stiff peaks form. Fold in apple chips
almond flour mixture. 15 caramels
n Cut a small hole in a corner 2 tablespoons heavy whipping
of a food-safe plastic bag. cream
Pipe 1-inch-diameter cookies Additional finely chopped dried
2 inches apart onto parch- apple chips, optional
ment-lined baking sheets. ACROSS
Bake until lightly browned and n In a large bowl, beat butter, 1 RV’s kin
firm to the touch, 9-12 min-
utes. Keeping cookies on the
confectioners’ sugar and 2
teaspoons cinnamon until
7 Londoner, e.g.
11 Twin of
parchment, transfer to wire
blended. Gradually beat in
racks; cool completely. flour. Stir in 1/3 cup apple
Artemis
n For filling, in a small bowl, 12 Nevada city
chips.
beat cream cheese and butter n Divide dough in half. Shape 13 Meal
until creamy. Beat in vanilla.
each into a disk; wrap and 14 Dutch cheese
Gradually beat in confection- refrigerate 1 hour or until firm
ers’ sugar until fluffy. Refrig- 15 Bahamas port
enough to roll.
erate until mixture firms to a n Preheat oven to 350 F. 17 Quite uncom-
spreading consistency, about
10 minutes.
On a lightly floured surface, mon
n Spread about 1/4 teaspoon roll each portion of dough to 20 Fancy tie
1/4-in. thickness. Cut with a
filling onto the bottom of each
floured 2-inch apple-shaped 23 History bit
of half of the cookies; top with
cookie cutter. Place 1 inch 24 Commuter
remaining cookies. Sprinkle
with additional cinnamon. apart on greased baking carrier
Store in airtight containers in sheets. 26 Performed
the refrigerator. n Bake 9-11 minutes or until
light brown. Remove from 27 Farm enclo-
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pans to wire racks to cool sure DOWN song
completely. 28 Writer Tarbell 1 Sedan or SUV 22 Diving ducks
CARAMEL-APPLE n In a small saucepan, melt
caramels with cream and
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SHORTBREAD COOKIES remaining cinnamon over me- Tide’s home 3 Custodian’s trunk
Prep: 35 minutes+chilling dium heat, stirring frequently. 31 Squeak tool 25 Skirt edge
Bake: 10 minutes/batch Drizzle over cookies. If de- stopper 4 Glider, e.g. 30 Rob
Makes 3 dozen sired, sprinkle with additional 32 Happen again
apple chips. Let stand until
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1 cup butter, softened set. 33 Addition 6 Decays 35 Plays a part
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Butter Together
Continued from Page 5B
frequently to keep the
grits from sticking to-
gether into a big clump.
Enter the electric
pressure cooker. Mine
is an Instant Pot, but
all of them work fairly
similarly. I found a recipe
for amounts and cooking
times on the This Old
Gal blog and used them
to make the type of grits
I prefer: salted, creamy,
and low-maintenance.
The original recipe calls
for adding cheese before
cooking, but I absolutely
do not recommend this
method. I’ve tried it sev-
eral times, and it resulted
in a large clump that was
difficult to smooth out.
I hope you’ll try these,
too. Cooking real South-
ern grits is almost an art
form, and doing them
this way makes the art
easy.
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and high school teacher in
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Starkville. Email reaches milk plus ¼ cup cream) 45 Writer Rice 18 Like tumblers 42 Sleuth Spade
her at mamabadgerplair@ 46 Brook 19 Editing
gmail.com. n Whisk together all ingre-
dients well in inner pot of 21 Nostalgic
pressure cooker. Place inner
PRESSURE COOKER pot into pressure cooker. Lock
on lid and turn knob to seal-
SOUTHERN GRITS ing. Set pressure cooker for
15 minutes at high pressure.
1 cup old-fashioned grits Once time is done, allow for a
(stone ground if possible) 10 minute natural release. Re-
3 cups water lease the remaining pressure.
4 Tablespoons butter Whisk grits thoroughly again.
Allow to sit, uncovered, for a
1 teaspoon salt (or more to
taste) few minutes to cool and thick-
1 1/2 cups milk or cream or en slightly. Enjoy plain or with
mix (I used about 1 ¼ cups cheese and garlic powder.

Meatballs
Continued from Page 5B
To serve:
1/3 cup freshly grated Parmesan cheese
1/2 cup roughly chopped parsley leaves
n To make beef meatballs: Preheat oven
to 425 F.
n Lightly oil deep baking dish or skillet.
Mix beef, breadcrumbs, garlic, egg, milk,
Worcestershire sauce, mixed herbs and
salt and pepper, to taste, then shape into
eight meatballs and place in prepared
baking dish.
n To make tomato sauce: In heavy
saucepan over low heat, heat dash of oil
and add onion and garlic. Cook until onion
is soft, about 10 minutes. Add tomatoes,
stock, tomato paste, sugar, bay leaf and
salt and pepper, to taste.
n Simmer 10 minutes to allow flavors to
mingle and liquid to reduce. Remove from
heat, cool about 5 minutes and remove
bay leaf. In food processor, process until
sauce is smooth.
n Pour sauce over meatballs and bake
25 minutes, turning meatballs after 15
minutes. Serve hot sprinkled with Parme-
san cheese and chopped parsley.
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SUMMONS BY PUBLICATION
IN THE CHANCERY COURT OF
MONROE COUNTY, MISSIS-
SIPPI
IN RE: THE ADOPTION OF A
CHILD, B.T.T.
ROBERT OWENS, JR., AND JEN- (One Contract) will be received
NIFER OWENS
PETITIONERS
CAUSE NO. 2020-364B
THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI
TO: LATASHA LABELLE TERRY, will be publicly opened and
NATURAL MOTHER OF B.T.T.
TO: BOBBY RAY REEVES, LEG-
AL FATHER OF B.T.T.
TO: PUTATIVE FATHER OF
B.T.T., A MINOR CHILD
DEFENDANTS
All defendants are not to be
found and their residence is
not to be known after diligent
search and inquiry and the post The Issuing Office for the Bid-
office address of the defend-
ants is not known to the peti-
tioners after diligent search
and inquiry.
You have been made a Defend- Bidders may examine the Bid-
ant in the suit filed in this
Court by Robert Owens, Jr., and Office on Mondays through Fri-
Jennifer Owens, same being a
Petition for Adoption of the
minor child, B.T.T.
You are summoned to appear
and defend against the Peti-
tion and/or Complaint filed in
this action at 9:00 A.M. on the Documents may be obtained
19TH day of OCTOBER, 2020,
in the Chancery Courtroom of
the Monroe County Court-
house at Aberdeen, Missis-
sippi, and in the case of your
failure to appear and defend, a Documents shall be payable to
judgement will be entered
against you for the relief de-
manded in the Petition. You are of the document deposit indic-
not required to file and answer ated above plus a non-refund-
or other pleading but you may
do so if you desire.
Issued under my hand and the service. The shipping charge
seal of said Court, this 8th day amount will depend on the
of September, A.D., 2020.
RONNIE BOOZER
Chancery Clerk of Monroe
County, Mississippi
(SEAL)
BY: Valerie Whitfield, D.C.
PUBLISH: 9/16, 9/23 &
9/30/2020
SUMMONS BY PUBLICATION
IN THE CHANCERY COURT OF
MONROE COUNTY, MISSIS-
SIPPI
IN RE: THE ADOPTION OF A
CHILD
ROBERT OWENS, JR., AND JEN- held at 9:00 a.m. local time on
NIFER OWENS
PETITIONERS
CAUSE NO. 2020-365B
THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI
TO: LATASHA LABELLE TERRY, Bidders are encouraged to at-
NATURAL MOTHER OF B.T.T.
TO: BOBBY RAY REEVES, LEG-
AL FATHER OF B.T.T.
TO: PUTATIVE FATHER OF
B.T.T., A MINOR CHILD
DEFENDANTS
All defendants are not to be
found and their residence is
not to be known after diligent
search and inquiry and the post Community Development Block
office address of the defend-
ants is not known to the peti-
tioners after diligent search
and inquiry.
You have been made a Defend- tion 3). Contractors and sub-
ant in the suit filed in this
Court by Robert Owens, Jr., and provide, to the greatest extent
Jennifer Owens, same being a
Petition for Termination of Par- and contracting, opportunities
ental Rights.
You are summoned to appear
and defend against the Peti-
tion and/or Complaint filed in
this action at 9:00 A.M. on the sons, or which employ low-and
19TH day of OCTOBER, 2020,
in the Chancery Courtroom of
the Monroe County Court-
house at Aberdeen, Missis-
sippi, and in the case of your
failure to appear and defend, a The Town of Artesia does not
judgement will be entered
against you for the relief de-
manded in the Petition. You are access to or treatment or em-
not required to file and answer ployment in its programs or
or other pleading but you may
do so if you desire.
Issued under my hand and the munity and seeks to further fair
seal of said Court, this 8th day housing within the City to the
of September, A.D., 2020.
RONNIE BOOZER
Chancery Clerk of Monroe
County, Mississippi
(SEAL)
BY: Valerie Whitfield, D.C.
PUBLISH: 9/16, 9/23 &
9/30/2020
IN THE CHANCERY COURT OF
LOWNDES COUNTY, MISSIS-
SIPPI
RE: LAST WILL AND TESTA-
MENT OF CHAD DOWNING
KINGSBURY, DECEASED
NO. 44CH1:20-pr-00152-JNS
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
Notice is given that Letters
Testamentary have been gran-
ted to the undersigned, Jen-
nifer Lynn Kingsbury, in the
matter of the Estate of Chad
Downing Kingsbury, deceased,
by the Chancery Court of
Lowndes County, Mississippi,
and all persons having claims
against said estate are re-
quired to have the same pro-
bated and registered by the
clerk of said court within ninety
(90) days after the date of the
first publication of this notice,
or the same shall be forever
barred. The first day of publica-
tion of this notice is Septem-
ber 23, 2020.
WITNESS MY SIGNATURE on
this 21st day of September,
2020.
/s/Jennifer Kingsbury
JENNIFER LYNN KINGSBURY
EXECUTRIX
PUBLISH: 9/23, 9/30 &
10/7/2020
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TOWN OF ARTESIA
LOWNDES COUNTY, MS
PART 1 – SEWER LINE INSPEC-
TION
PART 2 – SEWER LINE REHAB-
ILITATION
PART 3 – PUMP STATION RE-
HABILITATION
ADVERTISEMENT FOR BIDS
Sealed Bids for the construc-
tion of the Part 1: Sewer Line
Inspection, Part 2: Sewer Line
Rehabilitation and Part 3:
Pump Station Rehabilitation
by the Mayor and Board Mem-
bers of the Town of Artesia, at
the offices of Town Hall loc-
ated at 101 North Front Street,
Artesia, MS 39736 until 10:00
a.m. on October 29, 2020, at
which time the Bids received
read. The Project consists of
constructing Part 1: Sewer Line
Inspection, Part 2: Sewer Line
Rehabilitation and Part 3:
Pump Station Rehabilitation.
Bids will be received for a
single prime Contract. Bids
shall be on a lump sum price
basis, with additive and/or de-
ductive alternate bid items as
indicated in the Bid Form.
ding Documents is: Calvert-
Spradling Engineers, Inc.;
7085 Highway 45 North Altern-
ate, P.O. Drawer 1078, West
Point, MS 39773. Prospective
ding Documents at the Issuing
days during regular business
hours, and may obtain copies
of the Bidding Documents from
the Issuing Office as de-
scribed below.
Printed copies of the Bidding
from the Issuing Office, during
the hours indicated above,
upon payment of a non-refund-
able deposit of $100.00_ for
each set. Checks for Bidding
Calvert-Spradling Engineers,
Inc. Upon request and receipt
able shipping charge, the Issu-
ing Office will transmit the Bid-
ding Documents via delivery
shipping method selected by
the prospective Bidder. The
date that the Bidding Docu-
ments are transmitted by the
Issuing Office will be con-
sidered the Bidder’s date of re-
ceipt of the Bidding Docu-
ments. Partial sets of Bidding
Documents will not be avail-
able from the Issuing Office.
Neither Owner nor Engineer will
be responsible for full or par-
tial sets of Bidding Documents,
including Addenda if any, ob-
tained from sources other than
the Issuing Office.
Bid security shall be furnished
in accordance with the Instruc-
tions to Bidders.
A pre-bid conference will be
October 21, 2020 at the La-
goon Pump Station. Attend-
ance at the pre-bid conference
is highly encouraged but is not
mandatory. Representatives of
Owner and Engineer will be
present to discuss the Project.
tend and participate in the con-
ference. Engineer will transmit
to all prospective Bidders of re-
cord such Addenda as Engin-
eer considers necessary in re-
sponse to questions arising at
the conference. Oral state-
ments may not be relied upon
and will not be binding or leg-
ally effective.
This project is funded through
a grant from the Mississippi
Grant Program and is a Sec-
tion 3 covered activity as
defined by the Housing and
Urban Development Act of
1968 (12 U.S.C. 1701u) (sec-
contractors are encouraged to
feasible, training, employment,
generated by the expenditure
of this assistance to low-and
very low-income persons and
business concerns owned by
low-and very low-income per-
very low-income persons. Pref-
erence can be given to busi-
nesses that comply with Sec-
tion 3.
discriminate on the basis of
disability in the admissions or
activities. The Town of Artesia
considers itself an equal em-
ployment opportunity com-
greatest extent possible.
Bid security shall be furnished
in accordance with the Instruc-
tions to Bidders.
Owner: Town of Artesia
By: Jimmy Sanders
Title: Mayor
Date: September 22, 2020
Publish: September 30, 2020
and October 7, 2020
SUBSTITUTED TRUSTEE’S NO-
TICE OF SALE
WHEREAS, on October 21,
1999, Michael David McCrory,
a single person, executed a
deed of trust to Bobbe Burkhal-
ter, Trustee for the benefit of
Secretary of Veterans Affairs,
which deed of trust is recor-
ded in Deed of Trust Book
1297 at Page 374 in the Of-
fice of the Chancery Clerk of
the County of Lowndes, State
of Mississippi; and
WHEREAS, the aforesaid deed
of trust was assigned to
Bankers Trust Company of Cali-
fornia, N.A., not in its individu-
al capacity but solely as Trust-
ee, or its permitted suc-
cessors and assigns, on be-
half Vendee Mortgage Trust
(2000-1) by instrument dated
February 24, 2000, and recor-
ded in the Office of the afore-
said Chancery Clerk in Book
1317 at Page 245; and
WHEREAS, the aforesaid,
Deutsche Bank National Trust
Company formerly known as
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fornia, N.A., as Trustee of
Vendee Mortgage Trust 2000-
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trust and the note secured
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the terms thereof, by instru-
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WHEREAS, default having been showing. 662−549−9873.
made in the terms and condi-
tions of said deed of trust and
the entire debt secured
thereby, having been declared
to be due and payable in ac-
cordance with the terms of said
deed of trust, and the legal
holder of said indebtedness,
Deutsche Bank National Trust
Company formerly known as
Bankers Trust Company of Cali-
fornia, N.A., as Trustee of
Vendee Mortgage Trust 2000-
1, having requested the under-
signed Substituted Trustee to
execute the trust and sell said
land and property in accord-
ance with the terms of said
deed of trust for the purpose of
raising the sums due thereun-
der, together with attorney’s
fees, Substituted Trustee’s
fees and expense of sale;
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wood Law Firm PLLC, Substi-
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legal hours (being between the
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P.M.) at the Main front door of
the County Courthouse at
Columbus, County of Lowndes,
State of Mississippi, the follow-
ing described property situated
in the County of Lowndes,
State of Mississippi, to-wit:
Lot Twelve (12), of Green Acres
Subdivision, Second Extension,
to the City of Columbus,
Lowndes County, Mississippi,
as shown by the map or plat of
same recorded in Plat Book 2
at Page 80 in the Office of the
Chancery Clerk of Lowndes
County, Mississippi.
WE WILL CONVEY only such
title as is vested in Underwood
Law Firm PLLC as Substituted
Trustee.
WITNESS OUR SIGNATURE,
this the 10th day of Septem-
ber, 2020.
Underwood Law Firm PLLC
SUBSTITUTED TRUSTEE
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PUBLISH: 09/16/2020,
09/23/2020, 09/30/2020
IN THE CHANCERY COURT OF
LOWNDES COUNTY, MISSIS-
SIPPI
IN THE MATTER OF THE ES-
TATE OF WILLIE GEORGE ED-
WARDS, DECEASED
MONICA EDWARDS PETITIONER
CAUSE NO.:2019-0125-F
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
Letters of administration hav-
ing been granted on the 28th
day of July, 2020, by the Chan-
cery Court of Lowndes County,
Mississippi in Cause No.:
2019-0125-F to the under-
signed Administratrix upon the
Estate of Willie George Ed-
wards, deceased.
Notice is hereby given to all
persons having claims against
said estate to present same to
the Clerk of said Court for pro-
bate and registration accord-
ing to law within ninety (90)
days from the first date of pub-
lication of this notice or they
will be forever barred under
Mississippi law.
/s/ Monica Edwards
Monica Edwards, Administrat-
rix of the Estate of Willie
George Edwards, deceased
Submitted by:
Chynee A. Bailey, MSB 99513
Bailey Law, PLLC
Post Office Box 8121
Columbus, MS 39705
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RV/MOBILE HOME SITE
East or West Columbus or Lots & Acreage Garage Sales: Other
near CAFB, Caledonia
schools. 601−940−1397. 1.75 ACRE LOTS 182 Sanders Lane. Lots of
Good/Bad Credit Options. toddler boy clothes, toys ,
Good credit as low as 20% Halloween decor, lots h/h
down, $499/mo. Eaton items and much more!
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Land, 662−361−7711.
55 Oakwood Dr.,
Houses For Sale: Other Brooksville. 10/3, 7:30am.
25+ tables & food booths!
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Merchandise
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HISTORIC DOWNTOWN
COLUMBUS. FREE FIREWOOD 15 oak
2 SPACIOUS cuttings. Must be split. 24"
CONDOMINIUMS NOW in length. Pick up & they’re
AVAILABLE − 2BR 2BA yours. Call 662−327−3518
& 1BR 1 1/2 BA RENT
or 662−386−6774.
FROM $1000−$1350
PER MO. LEASE & Furniture
DEP IS REQD., BLDG.
SECURITY @ 55 IN Samsung TV $250,
ENTRANCE, PRIV queen bed $200, queen
PARKING, GRANITE mattress $300. All in good
COUNTER TOPS, condition. Call 662−275−
BEAUTIFUL FLOORING, 7679 anytime!
SS APPLIANCES,
WASHER/DRYER, Lawn & Garden
WATER AND SEWER
INCLUDED. HAYES DAYLILIES
662−251−3367 $1 Sale.
Oct. 8th−10th. 8a−5p.
1069 New Hope Rd.,
Columbus.
662−251−6665.
It’s a classified
Vehicles
rule-of-thumb:
We tell readers Ads starting at $12
what they need Campers & RVs
to know to buy
what they need. One call will bring you results.
662-328-2424
Medical / Dental
2007 45 Luxury Newmar
Essex Diesel Pusher 30K
miles. Sale price $34,500,
Everything works properly
on it. TEXT 2283672671
Community
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Travel & Entertainment
PUBLIC CATFISH POND
@ 130 Hillcrest Drive.
Open Tues−Sat, 7a−5p
662−386−8591
Call for pricing.
Five Questions:
1 (Peter Karl)
Fabergé
2 Suze Orman
3 Tarragon
4 Wayfarers
5 She is Julia
Roberts’s niece.
Service Directory
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Carpet & Flooring General Services General Services Painting & Papering
A & T TREE SERVICES QUALITY PAINTING.
Bucket truck & stump Ext/Int Painting.
removal. Free est. Sheet Rock Hang, Finish &
Serving Columbus Repair. Pressure Washing.
since 1987. Senior Free Estimates. Ask for
citizen disc. Call Alvin @ specials! Larry Webber,
242−0324/241−4447 662−242−4932.
"We’ll go out on a limb for
you!" SULLIVAN’S PAINT
DAVID’S CARPET &
SERVICE
WORK WANTED: Licensed Special Prices.
UPHOLSTERY
& Bonded. Carpentry, minor Interior & Exterior Painting.
CLEANING 662−435−6528
electrical, minor plumbing,
Fall Special: 4 Rms $99 insulation, painting, demo−
1 Room − $50 lition, gutters cleaned, Tree Services
2 Room − $70
pressure washing, land−
3 Rooms − $90 J&A TREE REMOVAL
scaping, cleanup work.
Carpet−Rugs−Tile−Cars 662−242−3608. Work from a bucket truck.
Call for more info! Insured/bonded.
662−722−1758 Lawn Care / Landscaping Call Jimmy Prescott for free
estimate, 662−386−6286.
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662−356−6525