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Williams tries to hold off Yates for Dist. 15 Senate seat;
Wright, Chism face off in Dist. 37 House race
BY SLIM SMITH port in Choctaw County lifted know a lot more about the dis-
ssmith@cdispatch.com her into the runoff. trict by getting out and meet-
For both candidates, broad- ing people in those areas.”
In some circles, today’s ening their support beyond For Yates, it’s been reestab-
District 15 Mississippi Senate their hometown is essential, lishing her ties to Starkville
runoff between Bart Williams Williams Yates Wright Chism
they said. and Mississippi State.
and Joyce Meek Yates could be “There are places in the dis- “It’s not really as big a differ- as a kid, I was always going to tising’ — getting out and meet-
billed as a country vs. city com- trict that I wasn’t that familiar ence as it may seem,” she said. Starkville for different things. ing as many voters as possible.
petition. with,” said Williams, who had “I was at Mississippi State for So I still identify with Starkville “It’s been different with
Williams has been a busi- a 500-vote margin over Yates, years, at a young age as an in- and Mississippi State.” COVID,” Williams said. “Lot’s
ness owner in Starkville, the the second-place finisher in the structor and later as director of With just three weeks be- of fist-bumping instead of shak-
largest municipality in the dis- four-candidate field in the Sept. health promotion and wellness. tween the first election and ing hands. It’s been a lot of long
trict, for 27 years while Yates 22 election. “I feel like over the I have so many friends and fam- today’s runoff, both candidates days, but it’s been an enjoyable
lives in Eupora, where her sup- past three weeks, I’ve gotten to ily from Mississippi State and have focused on “retail adver- See RUNOFFS, 3A

STUDYING HARD LCSD to

expand internet
connectivity
throughout
campuses
District received
more than $900,000
from state Broadband
Availability Act
BY ISABELLE ALTMAN
ialtman@cdispatch.com

Lowndes County
School District ad-
ministrators plan to
expand the district’s
Wi-Fi through park-
ing lots and sports
facilities within the
next year, allowing
members of the com- Allison
Yue Stella Yu/Dispatch Staff munity — and especially students
Will Stanard, a 21-year-old political science major at Mississippi State University, works on his Spanish homework at a local — to access the district’s internet
coffee shop in downtown Starkville Monday afternoon. Stanard said he is a regular at the shop and visits there a few times a outside class.
week. With the pandemic, he said he feels a lot more stress than he used to. “It’s definitely been a struggle,” he said.
LCSD Superintendent Sam Alli-
son said the project would be paid
for with about $915,499 in money
from the Mississippi Pandemic Re-
sponse Broadband Availability Act,

One injured in West Point shooting part of federal CARES (Coronavi-

Sunday incident was the last in a ‘rash’ of four weekend shootings
DISPATCH STAFF REPORT person to the hospital.
In a video posted to Face-
West Point police are in- book Sunday morning,
vestigating a string of shoot- WPPD Detective Ramirez Ivy
ings within the last week, the described a “rash of shoot-
most recent of which sent one ings,” including three on
Sunday morning alone. The
last of those, which occurred
at about 7 a.m. on Grove
Street, injured a male victim
who was flown to North Mis-
sissippi Medical Center in Tu-
pelo with what WPPD Chief
Avery Cook described as non
life-threatening injuries.
Ivy also said shots were
fired at a residence on South
Division Street Saturday
morning; at a residence at
See SHOOTING, 6A
rus Aid, Relief, and Economic Secu-
rity) Act money given to the district
to help enhance distance learning
during the COVID-19 pandemic.
“We will use the funds for sever-
al things — one will be to improve
our connectivity throughout our
campuses and provide hotspots in
and around all areas on campuses,”
Allison said in a text message to
See LCSD, 6A

Flag commission member: Magnolia is ‘something people would recognize’ for Mississippi
Bevis expects proposed design to be
approved on next month’s ballot
BY TESS VRBIN
tvrbin@cdispatch.com
Sherri Bevis remem-
bers the exact date Lt.
Gov. Delbert Hosemann
called and asked her to be
a member of the state flag
selection commission:
June 30, which happens to
be Hosemann’s birthday.
“I was very emotional
because I
knew the
and I was truly humbled
by that request,” Bevis,
the former state flag due
to its featuring the Con-
flag in July, and the public
will vote yes or no on the
ma g n it ude
of the po-
who also is president of
the Mississippi State Uni-
federate battle emblem.
The nine-person com-
proposed new design in
the Nov. 3 election.
sition and versity Alumni Associa- mission — appointed by
The commission chose
what it tion, told the Starkville Hosemann, Gov. Tate
meant, but Rotary Club at its Monday Reeves and House Speak- the magnolia surrounded
I also knew meeting. er Philip Gunn — started by 20 stars, representing
what an Bevis The state Legislature accepting public submis- Mississippi as the 20th
honor to serve it would be, voted in June to remove sions of designs for a new See BEVIS, 6A

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Barrett to face senators

on health care, legal precedent
Supreme Court nominee: Americans ‘deserve an
independent Supreme Court that interprets our
Constitution and laws as they are written’
BY MARK SHERMAN, LISA MASCARO
AND MARY CLARE JALONICK
The Associated Press
WA S H I N G T O N
— Supreme Court
nominee Amy Co-
ney Barrett will face
senators’ questions
over her approach
to health care, legal
precedent and even
the presidential elec- Barrett
tion during a second day of confir-
mation hearings on track to lock in
a conservative court majority for
years to come.
The mood is likely to shift to a
more confrontational tone as Bar-
rett, an appellate court judge with
very little trial court experience,
is grilled in 30-minute segments
Tuesday by Democrats gravely op-
posed to President Donald Trump’s
nominee, yet virtually powerless to
stop her rise. Republicans are rush-
ing her to confirmation before Elec-
tion Day.
“This should not be President
Trump’s judge,” said Sen. Amy Klo-
buchar, D-Minn., a member of the
Senate Judiciary Committee. Dem-
ocrats say the winner of the presi-
dential election should choose the
nominee.
“This should be your judge,” she
said.
Barrett presented her approach
to the law as conservative and
fair on Monday at the start of fast-
tracked confirmation hearings.
Democrats cast her as a threat to
Americans’ health care coverage
during the coronavirus pandemic.
With her husband and six of
their seven children behind her in a
hearing room off-limits to the pub-
lic and altered for COVID-19 risks,
Barrett delivered views at odds
with the late Ruth Bader Ginsburg,
the liberal icon whose seat Trump
nominated her to fill, laying out a ju-
dicial philosophy she has likened to
that of her conservative mentor, the
late Justice Antonin Scalia.
“Courts are not designed to
solve every problem or right every
wrong in our public life,” declared
the 48-year-old federal appeals
court judge, removing the protec-
tive mask she wore most of the day
to read from a prepared statement.
Americans “deserve an indepen-
dent Supreme Court that interprets
our Constitution and laws as they
are written,” Barrett told the com-
mittee.
The Senate, led by Trump’s Re-
publican allies, is pushing Barrett’s
nomination to a quick vote before
Nov. 3, and ahead of the latest chal-
lenge to the Affordable Care Act,
which the Supreme Court is to hear
a week after the election.
Republicans also hope to seat
Barrett quickly enough to hear
any legal challenges after the elec-
tion. Sen. Richard Blumenthal of
Connecticut was among several
Democrats demanding that Barrett
pledge not to take part in any elec-
tion case. She has made no such
commitment.
Ginsburg’s legacy was felt
throughout the hearing, with some
Democrats wearing lapel pins with
her likeness. Barrett also praised
the liberal icon, saying she was
“forever grateful” for Ginsburg’s
trailblazing path as a woman on the
court.

Bipartisan Christian group forms super PAC to oppose Trump

Not Our Faith plans to roll out six-
figure TV and digital ads focused on
evangelical and Catholic voters
BY ELANA SCHOR
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — A
group of prominent Chris-
tians from both sides of
the aisle, including a past
faith adviser to former
President Barack Obama,
is forming a political ac-
tion committee designed
to chip away at Christian
support for President
Donald Trump in the final
weeks of the 2020 cam-
paign.
Dubbed Not Our Faith,
the new super PAC plans
to roll out six-figure TV
and digital ads focused on
Christian voters — partic-
ularly the evangelical and
Catholic voters who helped
power Trump to victory in
2016. Its first digital ad,
set to run in Michigan and
Pennsylvania, takes sharp
aim at Trump’s claim to a
foothold with Christians.
The ad, shared with
The Associated Press in
advance of its release, says
Trump “has used Christi-
anity for his own purpos-
es,” invoking imagery of
the Republican president’s
photo op outside a historic
Washington church amid
this summer’s racial jus-
tice demonstrations. Urg-
ing Christians to break
from Trump, the ad states
that they “don’t need
Trump to save them. The
truth is that Trump needs
Christians to save his flail-
ing campaign.”
That sharp critique of
Trump’s standing with
Christian voters comes
as the president looks to
evangelicals in particu-
lar to help him muscle
to reelection over Demo-
cratic nominee Joe Biden.
While Biden’s campaign
is mounting a well-orga-
nized faith outreach effort,
that work largely focuses
on an affirmative case for
the former vice president
rather than the overtly an-
ti-Trump case that the new
PAC is making.
Among the PAC’s
advisory council mem-
bers are Michael Wear,
a former faith adviser in
Obama’s administration
and reelection campaign,
and Autumn Vandehei,
a former aide to onetime
Republican Rep. Tom De-
Lay of Texas. Wear said in
an interview that Trump
has “in a predatory way
attached himself to Chris-
tians,” asserting that the
faith would be “better off”
without the president.
“Trump eked out 2016
with unprecedented sup-
port from white evan-
gelicals and, important
to note, a really strong
showing among Catholics.
We’re going after all of
it,” Wear said. “We think
Christian support is on the
table in this election.”
Trump and his reelec-
tion campaign continue to
lean heavily on pitches to
Christian voters, with the
president asserting the
baseless claim that Biden
and Democrats are hostile
to religion. Republicans
are also appealing to vot-
ers of faith by claiming that
Democrats have unfairly
criticized Supreme Court
nominee Amy Coney Bar-
rett for her Catholicism,
although no Democratic
senator has yet raised the
issue during Barrett’s con-
firmation hearings.

Trump intensifies focus on Harris in final weeks of campaign

BY K ATHLEEN RONAYNE
The Associated Press
SACRAMENTO, Calif.
— Grasping for a come-
back, President Donald
Trump and his Republi-
can allies are intensifying
their focus not on Demo-
cratic nominee Joe Biden,
but on his running mate,
Sen. Kamala Harris — ar-
guing without evidence
that it’s Harris, the first
Black woman on a major
party ticket, Biden’s more moderate House Speaker Nancy Pe-
who would record, but may associate losi would “replace” Biden
really be Harris with Democrats’ with Harris. And the pres-
in charge left flank, despite her own ident called her a “mon-
if Demo- more centrist positions on ster” during an interview
crats win some major issues. with Maria Bartiromo of
the White During the past week, Fox Business.
House. Trump told Sean Han- Trump’s focus on Har-
The ef- Harris nity of Fox News that ris is building as he tries
fort is laced with sexist Harris would assume the to regain an advantage
and racist undertones, presidency within “three against Biden, who is
and one that is aimed at months” of Biden’s inau- leading most national and
winning back Republi- guration. During a con- battleground state polls
cans and independents versation with Rush Lim- three weeks before the
who are comfortable with baugh, he warned that election.
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Senate Democrats’ fundraising success puts GOP on defensive

Mike Espy reported raising $4M in his rematch
against Republican Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith
BY BRIAN SLODYSKO
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Buoyed
by massive fundraising suc-
cess, Democratic Senate can-
didates are mounting a push
in Republican states that few
would have thought possible
just a few months ago, placing
continued GOP control of the
chamber at risk.
In South Carolina, Sen. Lind-
sey Graham’s challenger, Dem-
ocrat Jaime Harrison, shattered
fundraising records when he
announced on Sunday a $57
million haul for the quarter that
ended in September. MJ Hegar
in Texas reported raising over
$13 million during the same
period for her race against Re-
publican Sen. John Cornyn. In
deep-red Kentucky, Amy Mc-
Grath has posted strong fund-
raising numbers against Senate
Majority Leader Mitch McCon-
nell. In Mississippi, Mike Espy
reported raising $4 million in
his rematch against Republican
Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith.
The windfall speaks to the
energy coursing through a
restive Democratic base that
hopes not only to oust President
Donald Trump, but also to flip
control of the Senate, where Re-
publicans have a 53-47 majority.
That will be key for Democratic
presidential nominee Joe Biden
to enact his agenda, if he wins.
But the flood of money flow-
ing to high-profile Senate can-
didates is so large, it’s not at all
clear the recipients will have
time to spend it. That may in-
advertently short low-profile
states and candidates who may
not engender the same fervor
from party activists and could
use an infusion of resources.
And since much of it is com-
ing from donors outside their
states, it’s an imperfect mea-
sure of the candidates’ chances
— especially in red states.
“For Jaime Harrison and
Amy McGrath, money can buy
you a lot of TV advertising,”
said Josh Holmes, a Republican
strategist and McConnell advis-
er. “But they are never going to
have enough money to buy an-
other 2 million liberal voters in
South Carolina and Kentucky.”
The cautionary tale for these
candidates is Texas Rep. Beto
O’Rourke, who in 2018 raised
a record-breaking $80 million
for his losing Senate campaign
against Republican incumbent
Ted Cruz, who was widely re-
viled by liberal activists and
donors. O’Rourke was criti-
cized for being too stingy with
his cash, only reluctantly aid-
ing other Democrats, though
he eventually donated large
amounts to the Texas Demo-
cratic Party.
That’s a position Harrison
could soon find himself in. Pub-
lic polling shows he’s locked in
a tight race against Graham, a
staunch defender of Trump’s
who is leading Senate confir-
mation hearings for Supreme
Court nominee Amy Coney
Barrett this week. Barrett is the
conservative appellate court
judge Trump picked to replace
liberal justice Ruth Bader Gins-
burg.
In the days after Ginsburg’s
death last month, over $100
million flooded in through Act-
Blue, Democrats’ fundraising
platform, with Harrison garner-
ing a large chunk.
Harrison’s campaign manag-
er, Zack Carroll, said the plan
is to use “every dollar donated”
for ads, digital organizing and
communication.
But with TV largely saturat-
ed, there are limited avenues
for him to productively spend
such a massive sum of money
with just three weeks left before
the election.
“I don’t think Jaime Harri-
son can spend $57 million in
the next couple weeks. But
that’s not his fault,” said Jefrey
Pollock, a Democratic pollster
who is working on eight Sen-
ate races. Pollock said much of
the money will go to advertis-
ing, get out the vote and other
expenses, but “at some point
they’ll start sending that mon-
ey to other places or spending
down ballot.”
The same could apply for
McGrath, who is fighting an
uphill battle against Senate
Majority Leader Mitch McCo-
nnell in Kentucky. She has yet
to release her most recent fund-
raising figures, which must be
made public by Thursday, but
has pulled in $47 million this
cycle as of July 1.

ROSENHAN HONORED

Tess Vrbin/Dispatch Staff

Oktibbeha County supervisors Joe Williams of District 5, left, and Orlando Trainer of District 2 present a plaque
to Kirk Rosenhan on Sunday at a celebration of his retirement earlier this year as the Oktibbeha County volunteer
fire services coordinator. Rosenhan’s successor, Patrick Warner, right, and Oktibbeha County Fire Chiefs’ Associ-
ation president Greg Ball, second from right, organized the event at The Fellowship Place to thank Rosenhan for
his nearly 32 years as fire services coordinator before he retired in February.

Runoffs
Continued from Page 1A
experience and a real
pleasure to realize how
many wonderful people
there are in District 15.”
Yates said she’s split
her time between secur-
ing her base and re-intro-
ducing herself to Oktib-
beha County voters.
“In the rural areas
where we did well, we
wanted to go back to
them and make sure we
weren’t taking those
votes for granted,” she
said. “We need to do bet-
ter in Oktibbeha County,
so we’re working hard to
make sure people know
who I am.”
The winner of to-
night’s runoff will fill the
unexpired term of Gary
Jackson, who retired af-
ter the 2020 season end-
ed.
In another runoff to-
day, Lynn Wright meets
David Chism for the Dis-
trict 37 House of Repre-
sentative seat to fill the
unexpired term of Gary
Chism, who also resigned
in June.
Dist. 37 House race
When the final tally
came in from the special
election for District 37
House of Representa-
tives, Wright had finished
tantalizingly close to win-
ning the seat outright,
falling just 47 votes of a
majority in the three-can-
didate race. Instead, he’s
meeting David Chism in
a runoff today.
As voters go to the
polls for that runoff, nei-
ther candidate is taking
anything for granted.
“We’ve got to keep
going, keep working as
hard as we can,” Wright
said. “The votes don’t
carry over. People have
to show up and vote. So
we’re doing everything
we can.”
Chism, a Lowndes
County businessman who
won the most votes in the
Clay and Oktibbeha parts
of the district, but was
badly beaten in the larger
Lowndes County portion,
said he hasn’t spent much
time reflecting on the
Sept. 22 results.
“We’re still in this,
absolutely,” he said. “I’m
looking at this like a
clean slate. I won big in
Oktibbeha and Clay. In
Lowndes County, Lynn
Wright is better known,
whether it’s for the good
or the bad. So I’ve really
been working to get out
and talk to as many peo-
ple as possible and listen- think maybe haven’t had
ing to them about what their voices heard. That’s
their needs are. I’ve talk- an opportunity for a can-
ed about issues that may- didate if he will listen.
be people aren’t comfort- So that’s been the most
able talking about, trying interesting part for me.”
to get past all the noise. I Wright said the cam-
think people are listening paigning has served to
and that’s the main rea- meet old friends and
son for optimism.” make new ones.
For Wright, a former “We’ve met some won-
Lowndes County School derful people,” he said.
District superintendent, “We’ve met some inter-
the past three weeks esting dogs, too.”
have been spent travel-
ing through the district,
particularly the western
parts he had been unfa-
miliar with.
“When you have
25,000 voters in your
district, it’s impossible
to get to every house,”
Wright said. “But we’re
trying to get to as many
as we can, from south-
east Lowndes County all
the way to West Point,
Pheba, Double Springs,
Maben.”
Both candidates said
the best part of the cam-
paign has been meeting
the voters.
“It’s been great to
meet the people in the
district,” Chism said.
“There’s a lot more diver-
sity in the district than I
first thought and there
are a lot of people who I

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SLIMANTICS
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n Monday, told him to get the This time, it’s even more un- the abortion issue? everywhere. Individual states
the Senate results in the paper likely that the Senate will reject Perhaps not what you think. will make that determination.
Judiciary on Sunday, he’d have the nomination. The central argument Some states will provide legal
Committee be- to get the results to In many respects, the Barrett against legal abortion in 1973 access to abortion. Others
gan hearing on a us earlier. nomination is the holy grail of wasn’t a moral question. It won’t.
Supreme Court “OK, “ he said. Republican politics for the past wasn’t a matter of whether abor- The issue wasn’t settled in
nomination that “Is Thursday early 40 years. Nothing on earth will tion was “murder,” a character- 1973.
may fundamentally enough?” prevent her confirmation along ization that didn’t come along It won’t be settled in 2021 or
change the Ameri- That’s pretty party lines. even among the most ardent soon thereafter, either.
can landscape like much my attitude Barrett’s position on abortion of abortion opponents until the Nationally, Americans are
no other. about the confirma- could not be more clear. That’s 1980s. evenly divided on abortion.
I don’t intend to tion hearings being the primary reason she was No, the anti-abortion argu- No one’s views are likely to be
watch any of the Slim Smith held for Supreme nominated even though she’s ment rested on a question that altered by the Supreme Court’s
hearings, though, Court nominee Amy one of the least experienced has roiled the courts for almost ruling.
for the same reason Coney Barrett. Like nominees to ever be nominated, 200 years - state’s rights. Strategically, conservatives
I’ve never understood the appeal pro wrestling, it’s going to be with just three years as a prac- In 1973, opponents to abor- may come to regret getting
of pro wrestling. a spectacular show. Also like ticing attorney and less than tion held the position that states what they’ve asked for. Abortion
Thirty years ago, when I was wrestling, the outcome has two years as a judge. had the right to determine the has always been a central part
the sports editor of the Biloxi already been decided. It should be noted that legality of abortion. In a 7-2 of its strategy. Without that
newspaper, a local wrestling It’s almost always been that Supreme Court justices, once decision, the court rejected that issue, they may lose one reliable
promoter called to complain way, of course. Since the high appointed, can act with a argument. issue needed to build a winning
about the paper not running the court was established only 2 per- surprising degree of indepen- If Barrett is confirmed, base.
results of his Saturday night cent of the nominees have been dence. Nominees once thought conservatives will have the History has proven that
wrestling events. rejected, the most recent being to be reliably conservative, have impregnable (pardon the pun) rights, once granted, are almost
Although I was extremely Robert Bork, who was rejected turned out to be far more liberal majority required to overturn impossible to take away.
dubious about the news value of by a 58-42 margin in 1987. than expected. The opposite has Roe v. Wade, although it will be Access to legal abortion isn’t
wrestling, I offered a more diplo- Back then, Bork was rejected held true on occasions as well. interesting to see what prece- likely to be any different.
matic explanation. His wrestling for his perceived willingness to But that seems unlikely in dent it leans on to do it. Slim Smith is a columnist and
cards often didn’t end until close roll back the court’s civil rights Barrett’s case. She will be as So, if a Barrett court does feature writer for The Dispatch.
to midnight, far past the newspa- rulings of the two previous good (or bad) as advertised. overturn Roe v. Wade, it likely His email address is ssmith@
per’s deadlines, I explained. I courts. So what does that mean on won’t mean the end of abortion cdispatch.com.

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fter his girlfriend boot-
ed him out of her place,
Adam Fox found refuge in
a storage space under a vacuum
shop. There, he reportedly lived
with an emotional support dog
and smoked pot.
Fox and six other men be-
longing to a militia group they
call the Wolverine Watchmen
were arrested for their alleged
role in a plot to kidnap Michigan
Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and try Froma Harrop
her for treason. Set aside for the
moment the ludicrous though
dangerous Wolverine Watchmen’s plan. Note instead the
social and economic dysfunction that membership in
extremist groups seeks to cover. Look at these loners who
can’t hold a job, sustain an intimate relationship or get
along with the neighbors.
Many Americans are suffering job loss and romantic
breakups, with the coronavirus adding new layers of pain.
But the troubled men who join these outlandish gangs
seem especially unable to hold it together.
In these cases, the public usually gets flooded by
serious analyses of these boy-men’s political beliefs. Those
who wish to sort through their “extremist” views can go
ahead, but one thing that’s extreme about these sad cases
is the mess that is their lives.
Federal investigators say that for fragile psyches,
personal setbacks can trigger acting on violent fantasies.
Eating at Fox, according to the vacuum shop owner, was
Whitmer’s mandate to wear face masks against COVID-19
— to him an outrageous violation of his rights.
His maladjusted alleged co-conspirators referred to
Whitmer as a “tyrant,” with Pete Musico calling for her to
be “hung for treason.” Musico and his son-in-law were also
accused of surveying bridges to blow up and collecting
addresses of law enforcement officers they planned to kill.
Right-wing extremists often fancy themselves as
defenders of America against their imagined communist
threat. This is sadly comical coming from guys who seem
unable to grab even the lowest job rung in a market econo-
my. You don’t have to be a captain of industry to afford rent
on a studio, but a lot of these men were too handicapped to
do even that.
Go down the list of Wolverine Watchmen. Daniel Harris
was living with his parents. Paul Bellar, whose Michigan
landlord tried to evict him for not paying rent on his trailer,
had moved in with his father in South Carolina. Joseph
Morrison lived with Musico, his father-in-law. Neither
apparently had a job.
The Watchmen would spend Sunday evenings march-
ing around Musico’s backyard dressed in camouflage and
shooting off high-powered weapons. Local children were
afraid to play in the woods, causing some neighbors to
express relief when the “warriors” were taken away.
Lost boys frequently seek to make common cause with
other lost boys. Brandon Caserta, another of the accused,
was not alone in praising Kyle Rittenhouse, the 17-year-old
charged with shooting two people dead at a Black Lives
Matter rally in Kenosha, Wisconsin. Who was Ritten-
house? An unemployed high school dropout living with his
mom.
Caserta posted an admiring meme of Rittenhouse with
the words “when you’ve smoked 3 commies before you can
legally smoke cigarettes.”
Caserta was sore because he lost his job at a Chipotle
restaurant during the initial virus lockdown. Any future
employment prospects would seem much dimmer now that
he’s been charged with planning to harm the governor.
Let us end on a sober note. These disturbed individuals
may be bumping along the dusty bottom of society, but
they have company, guns and a belief system that, while
ridiculous to sane people, covers their mental distress with
grandiose visions of national importance.
“Most terrorists are idiots,” David Kilcullen, a terrorism
expert, told Slate. “That doesn’t mean they can’t commit
some very deadly acts.”
The times are ripe for idiots.
Froma Harrop, a syndicated columnist, writes for the Prov-
idence (Rhode Island) Journal. Her e-mail address is fhar-
rop@gmail.com.
THE WORLD
Is war with China becoming inevitable?
“T
he Indians are
seeing 60,000
Chinese soldiers
on their northern
border,” Secretary of State
Michael Pompeo ominously
warned on Friday.
He spelled out what he
meant to commentator
Larry O’Connor:
“The Chinese have
now begun to amass huge
forces against India in the Patrick Buchanan
north. ... They absolutely
need the United States to be their ally and partner in
this fight.”
Pompeo had just returned from a Tokyo gathering
of foreign ministers from the Quadrilateral Security
Dialogue, or “Quad,” the group of four democracies
— U.S., Japan, Australia, India — whose purpose is to
discuss major Indo-Pacific geostrategic issues.
Exactly what kind of “ally and partner” the U.S.
is to be “in the fight” between India and China over
disputed terrain in the Himalayan Mountains was left
unexplained. We have no vital interest in where the
Line of Control between the most populous nations
on earth should lie that would justify U.S. military
involvement with a world power like China.
And the idea that Japan, whose territorial quarrel
with China is over the tiny Senkaku Islands in the
East China Sea, thousands of miles away, would take
sides in a Himalayan India-China conflict also seems
ludicrous.
Yet, tensions are rising between the U.S. and Chi-
na, as the list of ideological, political and economic
clashes continues to lengthen.
And there is a transparent new reality: China
seems in no mood to back down.
When, after a year of demonstrations for greater
democracy, the Hong Kong government failed to quell
the uprising, Beijing stepped in and took control. The
U.S.-led democracies that had been cheering on the
Hong Kong marchers and protesters did nothing, and
they have done nothing since to reverse Xi Jinping’s
political coup but prattle on about “values.”
Lately, the democracies have been protesting, and
rightly so, the inhumane treatment of the Uighur
peoples in Xinjiang in China’s west.
Han Chinese have been moved into the region to
swamp the local population of Turkic and Muslim Ui-
ghurs and Kazakhs and bring about the demographic
change Beijing desires. “Reeducation camps” have
been established to cleanse Uighurs of their ethnic
and religious identities and convert them into loyal
and reliable Chinese Communists.
In a speech in late September, Xi declared that
Beijing’s policy of eradicating the ethnic and reli-
gious identity of the minorities of Xinjiang through
state-driven education has proven “totally correct.”
He vowed to imprint a Chinese identity “deep in
the soul” of the peoples living there. “Our national
minority work has been a success,” said Xi, “It must
be held to for the long term.”
Xi makes no apology for — indeed, he is proud
of — using state power to impose the state ideology
upon the peoples he rules, and he openly repudiates
our democratic values as inapplicable in his country.
Our rejection of China’s claims to virtually all of
the reefs and atolls in the South China Sea is also
being ignored. Beijing’s warnings grow louder and
more pointed as the U.S. continues to send warships,
the latest being the USS John McCain, close to islets
claimed by China.
What is our strategy here? Are we prepared for a
naval and air clash in these waters? What would be
the U.S. strategic goal?
The Chinese are now responding angrily and defi-
antly to what they see as the provocations of sending
high-level U.S. officials, and selling new weapons, to
Taiwan, which China regards as its lost province.
Again, what is our purpose in playing the Taiwan
card now?
If it is to provoke a fight, then are we prepared for
a war in the Taiwan Strait or South China Sea? Do we
think the Chinese will capitulate?
Is this being done to “stand up to China” before
Nov. 3?
Which is the party here that is engaged in bluster
and bluff and which is the party that seems deadly
serious as it views its vital interests and territorial
rights as challenged?
There has been talk of the Quad evolving into an
Asian NATO that embraces the major democracies in
the Indo-Pacific Theater.
But the essence of NATO is Article V, where the
U.S. commits itself to treat an attack on any one of
some 30 nations as an attack on us.
Is there anything like this in the cards?
Australia, Japan and the U.S. are not going to war
with China over its border with India, or its ethnic
concentration camps in Xinjiang, or its seizing Hong
Kong and atolls in the South China Sea.
When this election is over, this country has to
think through what we are and are not willing to fight
China for.
Xi Jinping dismisses our concerns over Hong Kong
and the Uighurs, and he appears willing to fight for
Taiwan and for what Beijing holds in the South China
Sea, rather than see it permanently lost.
Are we?
Patrick J. Buchanan, a nationally syndicated colum-
nist, was a senior advisor to presidents Richard Nixon,
Gerald Ford and Ronald Reagan. His website is http://
buchanan.org/blog.
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Doctor: Mississippi virus indicators go ‘unwanted direction’

State health department to offer rapid virus
testing in some counties this week
BY EMILY WAGSTER PET TUS
The Associated Press
JACKSON — Mississippi’s
state health officer said Mon-
day that he’s troubled by the
state’s recent rise in COVID-19
cases, including a significant
increase during the past week
of people hospitalized because
of the highly contagious coro-
navirus.
Dr. Thomas Dobbs said six
hospitals have no beds avail-
able in their intensive care
units, and clinics are seeing an
increasing number of patients
with COVID-19 symptoms.
“All of the indicators are
starting to turn in an unwanted
direction,” Dobbs said during
an online news conference.
Although Republican Gov.
Tate Reeves ended his state-
wide mask mandate Sept. 30,
Dobbs said it’s important for
people to voluntarily do simple
things to slow the spread of the
virus — wearing masks, keep-
ing social distance of at least 6
feet and avoiding large gather-
ings.
Dobbs said Mississippi’s
case numbers were “starting
to creep up” before health offi-
cials expected any impact from
the lifting of the mask man-
date. He said the lack of a man-
date could add to the problem
of increasing cases.
“I will say, personally, I’ve
been a little bit disappointed
just hearing from churches and
businesses that they feel like
they are no longer empowered
to have their members or visi-
tors wear masks,” Dobbs said.
Cities and counties are al-
lowed to set their own man-
dates for people to wear masks
in public places.
The state health department
will start offering rapid corona-
virus testing in some counties
this week. Dobbs said it should
be available next week in the
department’s other testing
sites. Until now, tests done by
the department have had re-
sults available in days rather
than hours.
Dobbs also said that ahead
of the Nov. 3 election, the de-
partment will hand out free pa-
per masks that include a plas-
tic guard to cover part of the
face. Those will be available at
testing sites to people who are
at least 65 or who have health
conditions that could make
them more vulnerable to the
virus, including diabetes, hy-
pertension and lung disease.

2nd COVID-19 vaccine trial paused over unexplained illness

Temporary stoppages of large medical studies are relatively common
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
NEW BRUNSWICK,
N.J. — A late-stage study
of Johnson & Johnson’s
COVID-19 vaccine can-
didate has been paused
while the company investi-
gates whether a study par-
ticipant’s “unexplained ill-
ness” is related to the shot.
The company said in
a statement Monday eve-
ning that illnesses, acci-
dents and other so-called
adverse events “are an
expected part of any clin-
ical study, especially large
studies,” but that its physi-
cians and a safety monitor-
ing panel would try to de-
termine what might have
caused the illness.
The pause is at least the
second such hold to occur
among several vaccines
that have reached large-
scale final tests in the U.S.
The company declined
to reveal any more details
about the illness, citing
the participant’s privacy.
Temporary stoppages
of large medical studies
are relatively common.
Few are made public in
typical drug trials, but the
work to make a coronavi-
rus vaccine has raised the
stakes on these kinds of
complications.
Companies are re-
quired to investigate any
serious or unexpected re-
action that occurs during
drug testing.

How long can I expect a COVID-19 illness to last?

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
How long can I expect
a COVID-19 illness to last?
It depends. Most coro-
navirus patients have mild
to moderate illness and re-
cover quickly. Older, sick-
er patients tend to take
longer to recover. That
individuals ages 18 to 34
still had symptoms at least
two weeks after becoming
ill. The same was true for
nearly half of people age
50 and older.
Among those sick
enough to be hospitalized,
a study in Italy found 87
still have coughing epi-
sodes, breathing difficul-
ties and fatigue three to
four months after infec-
tion.
She said it’s hard to
predict exactly when
COVID-19 patients will re-
turn to feeling well.
initial illness subsides.
COVID-19 can affect
nearly every organ, and
long-term complications
can include heart inflam-
mation, decreased kidney
function, fuzzy thinking,
anxiety and depression.
It is unclear whether

includes those who are
obese, or have high blood
pressure and other chron-
ic diseases.
The World Health Or-
ganization says recovery
typically takes two to six
weeks. One U.S. study
found that around 20 per-
cent of non-hospitalized
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and William Morris all
of Aberdeen; sister, Net-
tie Ingball of Molene,
Illinois; nine grandchil-
dren; 11 great-grand-
children; and two
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James Lewis
ALICEVILLE —
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DCH Regional Medical
Center of Tuscaloosa,
Alabama.
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celebration will be at
1 p.m. Friday, in the
James and Lola Laven-
der Memorial Chapel
of Lavender’s Funeral
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follow in Mt. Pleasant
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tery. Visitation will be
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Murvle Wheat
MILLPORT, Ala. —
Murvle “M.L.” Wheat,
84, died Oct. 10, 2020.
Funeral services will
be at 11 a.m. Wednes-
day, at Dowdle Funeral
Home, with Ken Boz-
eman and Craig Holli-
man officiating. Burial
will follow in Macedo-
nia FWB Church Cem-
etery. Visitation will
be one hour prior to
services in the chapel.
Dowdle Funeral Home
of Millport is in charge
of arrangements.
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in Pickens County,
Alabama, to the late
Nelson and Mamie
(Carpenter) Wheat.
In addition to his
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complications after their
parents, he was preced-
ed in death by his first
wife, Willette Wheat;
siblings, Glendon
Wheat, Reedus Wheat,
Donald Wheat, Sara
Nell Shelton, Irene Kirk
and Allene Wheat.
He is survived by
his second wife, Adean
Pender Wheat; chil-
dren, Keith Wheat,
Betty Langston,
Barbie Patrick and
Brenda Lett; broth-
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grandchildren; and 10
great-grandchildren.
Howard Spann
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2020.
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Cynthia Dollar
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Dollar, 77,
died Oct.
11, 2020,
at DCH
Regional
Medical
Center of
Tuscaloo-
Dollar
sa, Ala-
bama.
Funeral services will
be at 3 p.m. Wednes-
day, at Dowdle Funeral
Home, with James
Jackson and Ed Na-
bors officiating. Burial
will follow in Kennedy
Cemetery. Visitation
will be one hour pri-
or to services in the
funeral home chapel.
Dowdle Funeral Home
of Millport, Alabama is
in charge of arrange-
ments.
Mrs. Dollar was
born April 18, 1943,
in Kennedy, Alabama,
to the late Armon and
Melba (Crowley) Vice.
She was a graduate of
Kennedy High School
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and attended West End
Beauty College. She
was formerly employed
with Louise’s Beauty
Shop and later owned
“A Touch of Class.”
In addition to her
parents, she was
preceded in death by
her siblings, Hellon
Johnson, Ray Vice and
James Vice.
She is survived by
her husband, John D.
Dollar; children, Darryl
Dollar and Danny
Dollar; and two grand-
children.
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Sandra Bounds
Mrs. Sandra Hudnall Bounds, 77, of Macon,
MS passed away on October 8, 2020, at Macon
Elderly Care Center in Macon, MS.
A private graveside service was held at
Shuqualak Cemetery in Shuqualak, MS on
October 11, 2020, with Rev. Steve Galloway
officiating. Memorials may be made to
First Baptist Church, P.O. Box 510, Macon,
Mississippi. Cockrell Funeral Home is honored
to be entrusted with arrangements.
Sandra Hudnall Bounds was born on
December 10, 1942, the tenth of ten children born
to the late Homer Graves Hudnall and Lucille
Adams Hudnall in Columbus, Mississippi. She
was the valedictorian of the graduating class of
Shuqualak High School in 1960 and was chosen
as Miss Shuqualak High. She continued her
education at East Mississippi Junior College,
where she was chosen as “Most Intellectual.” On
February 2, 1964, she married Dr. Samuel Barrie
Bounds, settled in Macon, and completed a
Bachelor’s Degree in Education from Mississippi
State University. She later continued her
education, earning a Master’s Degree in English
from Mississippi State University in 1990.
Along with being an extraordinary wife,
mother, and homemaker, Sandra taught English
literature and composition in both the private
and public schools of Noxubee County and she
was an English instructor for East Mississippi
Community College. She was a published poet,
a member of the Mississippi Poetry Society, and
the recipient of many prizes presented by MPS,
including a Lifetime Achievement Award in 2015.
Her work appeared in journals published around
the world and three of her poems received a
nomination for a Pushcart Prize in Poetry. A
collection of her poems, entitled “From the Heart
of the Deep South,” was published by MPS in
2015.
In her later years, Sandra was blessed to
participate in the Parkinsons Aquatic Exercise
Class and Support Group sponsored by the
Frank P. Phillips Memorial YMCA Association at
the Downtown YMCA in Columbus, Mississippi.
The friendships, fun, and spiritual support she
found in this group sustained her as she sought
to live gracefully with Parkinson’s disease.
Sandra attended First Baptist Church in
Macon, Mississippi where she taught Sunday
School for many years. She is preceded in
death by her parents; brothers, Charles and
Homer Hudnall of Mississippi, Bobby Hudnall
of Memphis, Tennessee and John Hudnall of
Keedysville, Maryland; and sisters, Mildred
Carlin of Minnesota, Margaret Nichols of Tupelo,
Mississippi and Susie Culver of Des Moines,
Iowa.
Sandra’s survivors include her husband of 56
years, Dr. S. Barrie Bounds; two sisters, Josephine
Franklin of Olive Branch, MS and Amanda Gates
of Memphis, TN; two daughters, Robin Horan
(Rob) of Fayetteville, AR and Beth Eubank (Tom)
of Greenville, MS; a son, Eric Bounds (Phyllis) of
Steens, MS; seven grandchildren; and one great-
granddaughter.
Mrs. Sandra will be remembered by her
family and students for her firm but loving hand,
her quiet, graceful presence, and her love for her
Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.
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state in the union, on a
navy background with
red vertical banners on
Sept. 2. Graphic design-
er Rocky Vaughan of
Starkville co-designed
“The New Magnolia
Flag.”
Narrowing down more
than 3,000 submitted de-
signs to 25, then five and
finally two before choos-
ing the one that will be on
next month’s ballot was a
challenge, Bevis said, be-
cause she “would ask 10
people and get nine dif-
ferent answers” when she
sought other opinions on
the variety of options.
“We don’t all hang the
same piece of artwork
behind our fireplaces (be-
cause) we all like different
things, but the one thing
I felt like the committee
could come together on
was the magnolia,” Bevis
said. “It was something
that represented Missis-
sippi, and I felt like it was
something people would
recognize across the
country.”
The commission only
issued two requirements
for the design: it could not
be the previous flag or an-
other version of it, and it
had to include the phrase
“In God We Trust.”
When the commission
had settled on the final
five options, it added a
gold star to each of them
to symbolize Mississippi’s
Native American popula-
tion “because we felt like
it was an important repre-
sentation,” Bevis said.
The magnolia rep-
resents “the hospitality of
our citizens” and “Missis-
sippi’s sense of hope and
rebirth,” since the flower
blooms more than once
per year and has a long
blooming season, she
said.
A vexillologist, or a
person who studies flags,
worked with the commis-
sion throughout the se-
lection process and told
them one important as-
pect of a state flag is that
it should be “reproduced
very easily” and a child
should be able to draw it,
Bevis said.
Another factor in the
decision was what the flag
looked like on a flagpole,
she said.
“We flew (the final
five), and that kind of
made our decision in the
end,” Bevis said. “It was
really interesting to watch
it because there were sev-
eral that we may have
liked before, but once we
flew them, they looked
different.”
The flag needs a ma-
jority of “yes” votes in
order to be adopted, and
if not, the commission
will go “back to the draw-
ing board” and it will be
another year before Mis-
sissippi has a flag, Bevis
said.
Businesses and uni-
versities across the state
have embraced the new
flag design, she said, and
she believes “the num-
bers look pretty good” for
the design to be approved
next month.
“You’re going to have
30 percent of people who
will vote for no flag, no
matter what it is, because
it’s not the old one,” Bev-
is said. “That’s just the
reality, but we’re hoping
we can really focus on
the positive side and get
people who are excited
about this flag and move
forward and vote for this
one.”

LCSD
Continued from Page 1A
The Dispatch this morn-
ing.
The pandemic, which
prompted LCSD and oth-
er area districts to offer
a virtual learning option
for students whose par-
ents prefered they not be
exposed to other students
and staff at school, has
highlighted the impor-
tance of internet connec-
tivity in learning. While
Allison previously told
The Dispatch he does not
know if LCSD will contin-
ue to offer virtual learning
to the whole student body
next semester or next
year, he pointed out the
expanded Wi-Fi will also
help students do home-
work or search for jobs.
He said some of the
CARES money the district
has already received was
used to purchase devices
for each student. Those
devices should be sent to
the district by November.
“We’re trying to figure
out ways for people who
don’t have internet ac-
cess … to drive up in the
parking lot,” he said. “If a
kid drives up in our park-
ing lot ... all our kids have
devices that automatical-
ly connect, so they don’t
even have to worry about
a password or whatnot.”
Allison spoke brief-
ly about the project at
a meeting of parents
of Booster Club mem-
bers at Caledonia High
School Monday night.
The Booster Club, which
had initially planned to
help pay the cost of ex-
panding internet to the
press box at CHS’s foot-
ball field before adminis-
trators determined they
could use federal funds
instead, plans to use the
Wi-Fi to livestream all
school sporting events,
along with other school
activities.
But Allison stressed
laying the fiber optic ca-
ble will benefit more than
the sports teams.
“I’m glad it can sup-
plement sports, but it’s
really just we’re trying to
make ways to have more
access across our cam-
pus so students can come
here,” he said.
District officials are
still in the process of
finding a construction
company to lay the fiber
optic cables, Allison said.
While he hopes the proj-
ect will be completed in
the spring, he said there
is no definite timeline —
though he told Booster
Club members it would
not be complete in time
to livestream any of this
season’s football games.
“It’s doable,” he said.
“We’d love to have it
streaming games by the
spring.”

Shooting
Continued from Page 1A
about 2:30 a.m. Sunday on
Meadowbrook Circle; and
at a residence on High
Street at about 6:30 a.m.
Sunday.
No injuries were re-
ported in those shootings.
“It has gotten out of
hand,” Ivy said. “One
shooting is enough. … We
shouldn’t have to stress
that.”
Cook said investiga-
tors believe the shootings invest iga -
are related, and that the tors asked
victim and suspects knew a n y o n e
each other. with infor-
“We’re still investigat- mation on
ing,” he told The Dispatch the shoot-
this morning. “… We’ve ings to con-
talked to several people. tact Ivy or
We know pretty much another in- Cook
what’s going on.” vestigator with WPPD at
Cook added they hope 662-494-1244 or Golden
to make arrests in the Triangle Crime Stoppers
case soon. He and Ivy said at 800-530-7151.

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WITH THE AIR RAID SCREECHING TO A HALT, MIKE LEACH
LOOKING TO RESUSCITATE STRUGGLING MSU OFFENSE
BY BEN PORTNOY
bportnoy@cdispatch.com
STARKVILLE — may play more guys. But
Change is coming to
Mike Leach’s offense.
For the better part of
two weeks, Mississippi
State’s offense has seen
nothing but drop eight
zone coverage as it strug-
gled to anemic offensive
outputs in losses to Ar-
kansas and Kentucky.
And while Leach isn’t
panicking quite yet, there
figures to be some shake-
up ahead of No. 11 Texas
A&M’s visit to Starkville
on Saturday.
“We’re going to be
competitive at every po-
sition,” he said during
his Monday press con-
Lutz lifts
Saints past
hard-luck
Chargers
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
NEW ORLEANS — Wil
Lutz kicked a 36-yard field
goal with 5:08 left in over-
time and New Orleans’
defense stopped Chargers
receiver Mike Williams
just short on fourth down
to preserve a 30-27 victo-
ry over seemingly star-
crossed Los Angeles on
Monday night.
Chargers kicker Mi-
chael Badgley, who
missed his first career
point-after kick wide right
in the first quarter, had a
chance to redeem himself
after Williams’ leaping
catch between two de-
fenders put the Chargers
on the Saints’ 32-yard line
in the final seconds. But
Badgley’s 50-yard kick as
time expired bounced off
the right upright.
Drew Brees rushed for
a 1-yard touchdown and
hit tight end Jared Cook
for a 41-yard score.
Rookie Justin Herbert’s
fourth touchdown pass of
the game, a 64-yarder to
Michael Williams, briefly
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Margot’s homer,
catch highlight
Rays’ 4-2 win
over Astros
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
SAN DIEGO — Back
in the ballpark where he
started his big league ca-
reer, Manuel Margot of
the Tampa Bay Rays had
a breakout game in the AL
Championship Series with
a three-run home run and
a spectacular catch while
tumbling over a wall in
right field.
Asked which was big-
ger in the 4-2 victory
against the Houston As-
tros, Margot said through
a translator: “Definitely
the home run. The home
run didn’t hurt.”
The home run was
huge, for sure, because it
helped the Rays get half-
way to the World Series
with a 2-0 lead in the best-
of-7 series.
But they’ll be talking
about the catch for a long
time.
With two outs in the
second and runners on
second and third, Mar-
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ference. “There may be
some lineup changes,
we’ll see, and then we also
if they bring three (pass
r u s h e r s),
we have to
consistently
win those
battles, and
I don’t think
we’ve been
c o n s i s t e nt
at it.” Leach
MSU fig-
ures to see
a change or, at the very
least, a short leash under
center. After dazzling the
nation with his 623-yard,
five-touchdown effort
against then-No. 6 LSU
in Week 1, K.J. Costello
has turned into a shell of
NLCS
Riley HR ignites big Braves 9th in 5-1 NLCS win over Dodgers
Atlanta Braves third baseman Austin Riley (27) celebrates with first baseman Freddie Freeman (5) after hitting a home run during the ninth inning
against the Los Angeles Dodgers during Game One of the 2020 NLCS Saturday at Globe Life Field.
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
ARLINGTON, Texas
— Austin Riley led off
the ninth inning with a
tiebreaking homer that
sparked a four-run out-
burst, and the Atlanta
Braves opened their first
National League Cham-
pionship Series since
2001 with a 5-1 win over
the Los Angeles Dodgers
on Monday night.
Riley greeted reliev-
er Blake Treinen with a
448-foot drive to left-cen-
ter, drawing a loud reac-
tion and some tomahawk
chops from the first fans
allowed to attend a major
league game this season.
“I didn’t feel my legs
when I was running
around the bases, so it
was a good feeling,” the
23-year-old Riley said.
The Braves weren’t
done after Riley’s homer
gave them a 2-1 lead and
made him the youngest
player with a go-ahead
homer in the ninth inning
of a postseason game or
later since Atlanta star
Chipper Jones in 1995.
“That’s a pretty good
9-hole hitter we’ve got,”
teammate Freddie Free-
man said. “We believe in
every single guy and Aus-
tin was the guy tonight.”
Ronald Acuña Jr.
MISSISSIPPI STATE FOOTBALL
himself. In the two games
since, Costello has com-
pleted 69.3 percent of his
throws, but seven inter-
ceptions and a 6.9 yards
per completion rate have
bogged down a seemingly
high-flying aerial attack.
Since Costello’s bois-
terous introduction to
Southeastern Conference
defenses, Leach has refer-
enced the quarterback’s
eye placement as a point
of contention in recent
losses. The coach ex-
plained Monday that it’s
a trait he needs to teach
better, but it also falls on
Costello to execute.
Beyond where Costello
is looking, he’s also spent
the bulk of the past two
games forcing balls into
followed with a double
and scored on a single
by Marcell Ozuna that
chased Treinen before
Ozzie Albies’ two-run ho-
mer off Jake McGee.
“It’s what these guys
do. I’ve said we’re like
an NBA game, you don’t
want to leave because a
lot of things don’t hap-
pen until the last third,”
Braves manager Brian
Snitker said. “They’ve
been like that for a few
years now. ... These guys
never quit, they keep
grinding at-bats and do-
ing their thing, and it’s a
pretty neat trait for a ball-
club to have.”
In a matchup of teams
that ranked 1-2 in the ma-
jors during the regular
season for both runs and
homers, and in the first
NLCS opener since 2007
with both teams unde-
feated in the postseason,
the Braves had another
impressive pitching per-
formance even without a
shutout.
Will Smith, the third
Braves pitcher, worked
a perfect eighth before
Mark Melancon closed it
out. Atlanta has allowed
a total of six runs while
winning all six of its play-
off games.
Before the ninth,
the only runs had been
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tight windows. Why? The
process is twofold.
First, MSU’s offense
has lacked the rhythm
it needs to tire out de-
fenses and get ahead of
the chains. Instead, the
Bulldogs are finding
themselves in third-and-
long situations that force
Costello to try and make
plays down field that ar-
en’t necessarily there.
For example, seven of
MSU’s 17 third-down at-
tempts against Kentucky
were from nine or more
yards out. Of those, the
Bulldogs converted just
one, while three of the
Bulldogs’ six intercep-
tions on the night came
on third down.
Secondly, Costello has
a pair of solo homers.
Freeman went deep for
Atlanta in the first and
Kiké Hernández led off
the Dodgers fifth with a
homer.
Game 2 in the best-of-
seven series is Tuesday
night, with Braves rookie
Ian Anderson set to face
three-time Cy Young
Award winner Clayton
Kershaw.
It was the first time
since March 12, the day
spring training was sus-
pended because of the
coronavirus, there were
fans in the stands for an
MLB game.
All 10,700 tickets avail-
able to the general public
were sold, in addition to
another 800 or so utilized
by the league and teams.
That was about 28% of
the 40,518 capacity at the
new Texas Rangers ball-
park where the retract-
able roof was open for the
first NLCS game played
at a neutral site.
The Braves had the
bases loaded in the
eighth after reliever
Dustin May hit pinch-hit-
ter Pablo Sandoval with
a pitch. Victor Gonzalez
came on and struck out
pinch-hitter Charlie Cul-
berson, punctuating the
inning-ending out with
an emphatic fist pump on
gotten away from the air
raid’s cardinal rule: Never
pass up an open man.
In losses to Kentucky
and Arkansas, Costello
has been afforded short
throws as teams contin-
ue dropping eight men
into coverage. But rather
than take the minimal
gains checkdowns offer
at most every juncture,
he’s forced balls down-
field when the looks aren’t
there.
“It goes back to our
saying, ‘You have a
great capacity for bore-
dom,’” air raid architect
and Leach’s mentor Hal
Mumme told The Dis-
patch in September as to
how quarterbacks have to
look at the offense.
the way back to the dug-
out.
Dodgers starter Walk-
er Buehler pitched past
the fourth inning for the
first time in his three
playoff series openers
this fall, while apparently
now dealing with blisters
on both his middle and
index fingers and with
his seemingly tight pants
trending on Twitter.
Buehler struck out
seven in his five-plus
innings, joining Hall
of Famer pitcher Ran-
dy Johnson as the only
ones with at least seven
strikeouts in nine con-
secutive postseason
starts — coming in the
first nine for Buehler. He
also walked five, a career
high.
“I feel like I’ve been
decently successful,”
Buehler said. “I don’t
want to walk guys. We’re
trying to keep runs off
the board. I can go deep-
er. I can be better.”
Max Fried had nine
strikeouts and two walks
while allowing one run
over six innings in his
start, two years after
pitching in relief for the
Braves in every game of
the 2018 NL Division Se-
ries when they lost to Los
Angeles in four games.
The left-hander was
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While Costello has
shouldered the brunt of
the blame for a middling
offense the past two
games, MSU’s run game
also hasn’t allowed him
much reprieve. Through
three contests, the Bull-
dogs rank second to last in
all of college football with
an average of just 2.15
yards per rush attempt.
By contrast, Washington
State running backs av-
eraged 4.21 yards per at-
tempt a season ago under
much of the current MSU
staff.
Monday, Leach ex-
plained the struggles in
the run game are rooted
in two simple facts: slow
starts off the ball and
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born in Santa Monica,
went to high school in
Los Angeles and was the
seventh overall pick by
the San Diego Padres in
2012, two years before he
got traded to Atlanta.
There were chants of
“M-V-P! M-V-P!” when
Freeman homered in the
top of the first — a 429-
foot solo shot to right
that landed among fans
well beyond the roped-off
first five rows closest to
the field. It was his first
homer this postseason.
While the Braves had
the five walks against
Buehler, they didn’t have
another hit until consec-
utive singles opening
the sixth that chased the
starter. Busdar Graterol
got out of the jam with
a popout, strikeout and
comebacker.
Hernández got his
first start this postseason
with the Braves starting
a lefty, and tied the game
1-1 when he pulled a ho-
mer to left leading off the
fifth. Hernández, 0 for 6
in the playoffs until then,
was the first player to
homer on a curveball by
Fried since Bryce Harp-
er on Sept. 10, 2019.
Fried induced 14
swings and misses, his
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Joe Morgan, driving force of Big Red Machine, dies at 77

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
CINCINNATI — At
5 -foot-7, he was the
smallest cog in the Big
Red Machine. And to
his star-powered team-
mates, Joe Morgan was
a driving force, too.
Morgan, the Hall of
Fame second baseman
who became the spark-
plug of dominant Cincin-
nati teams in the mid-
1970s and the prototype
for baseball’s artificial
turf era, has died. He
was 77.
He died at his home
Sunday in Danville, Cal-
ifornia, family spokes-
man James Davis said
in statement Monday.
Morgan was suffering
from a nerve condition,
a form of polyneuropa-
thy.
“Joe Morgan was
quite simply the best
baseball player I played
against or saw,” Reds
Hall of Fame catcher
Johnny Bench texted to
The Associated Press.
Morgan’s death
marked the latest among
major league greats this
year: Whitey Ford, Bob
Gibson, Lou Brock, Tom
Seaver and Al Kaline.
“All champions. This
hurts the most,” Bench
said.
Morgan was a two-
time NL Most Valu-
able Player, a 10 -time
All-Star and won five
Gold Gloves. A dynamo
known for flapping his
left elbow at the plate,
Little Joe could hit a
home run, steal a base
and disrupt any game
with his daring.
Most of all, he com-
pleted Cincinnati’s two-
time World Series cham-
pionship team, boosting
a club featuring the likes
of Pete Rose, Tony Perez
and Bench to back-to-
back titles.
“Joe would always
amaze me,” Rose told
the AP. “He was by far
the most intelligent
player I’ve ever been
around. He rubbed off
on all of us. A big part of
the Big Red Machine.”
Morgan’s tiebreak-
ing single with two outs
in the ninth inning of
Game 7 in 1975 gave
the Reds the crown in
a classic matchup with
Boston, and he spurred
a four-game sweep of
the Yankees the next
season.
Morgan was the
league’s MVP both
years. And his Hall of
Fame teammates and
manager readily ac-
knowledged he was the
one that got it all start-
ed.
Often regarded as the
greatest second base-
man in history, he was
an easy first-ballot pick
for Cooperstown.
“He was just a good
major league player
when it didn’t mean any-
thing,” former Reds and
Tigers skipper Sparky
Anderson once said.
“But when it meant
something, he was a
Hall of Famer.”
In a 22-year career
through 1984, Morgan
scored 1,650 runs, stole
689 bases, hit 268 hom-
ers and batted .271.
But those stats hardly
reflected the force cre-
ated on the field by the
lefty-swinging No. 8.
Confident and cocky,
he also was copied. His
habit of flapping his
back elbow as a way to
keep it high when hit-
ting was imitated by
many a Little Leaguer in
Cincinnati and beyond.
Health issues had
slowed down Morgan in
recent years. Knee sur-
gery forced him to use a
cane when he went onto
the field at Great Ameri-
can Ball Park before the
2015 All-Star Game and
he later needed a bone
marrow transplant for
an illness.
In his prime, Morgan
helped to revolutionize
the game with his quick-
ness and many talents,
especially once he hit
the turf at Riverfront
Stadium. His statue
outside Great American
Ball Park portrays him
in motion, naturally.
“Packed unusual
power into his extraor-
dinarily quick 150 -lb.
fireplug frame,” he was
praised on his Hall of
Fame plaque.
There were moments
of silence held at Petco
Park in San Diego before
the Tampa Bay Rays and
Houston Astros played
Monday in Game 2 of
the AL Championship
Series and at Globe Life
Field in Arlington, Tex-
as, before the Los Ange-
les Dodgers and Atlanta
Braves met in the NL
Championship Series
opener.
“He meant a lot to
us, a lot to me, a lot to
baseball, a lot to African
Americans around the
country. A lot to players
that were considered
undersized,” said Astros
manager Dusty Baker,
a longtime friend and
National League rival.
“He was the one of the
first examples of speed
and power for a guy they
said was too small to
play.”
Morgan got his start
with Houston in 1963,
when the team was
called the .45s and still
played on grass. Once
he became a full-time
player in 1965 when the
club became the Astros
and moved into the As-
trodome, he began to
provide a glimpse of
what speedy, multi-
skilled players could do
on the new kind of turf.
The Reds had already
built a formidable team,
but they came up short
in 1970, losing to Balti-
more in the World Se-
ries. Cincinnati made a
shocking trade for Mor-
gan after the 1971 sea-
son, giving up slugger
Lee May and All-Star
second baseman Tommy
Helms in an eight-player
swap.
Morgan turned out
to be exactly what the
Reds needed to take the
next step.
“Joe made us better,
and we made him bet- off the All-Star Game at Star in every one of his
ter,” Rose said. “We put Yankee Stadium with a years with the Reds.
him in the spotlight. It home run against future After his playing ca-
was a perfect fit.” Hall of Famer Jim Palm- reer, he spent years as
Rose was the dash- er. an announcer for the
ing singles hitter, on “Small in stature like Reds, Giants and A’s,
his way to becoming the his idol Nellie Fox, Joe along with ESPN, NBC,
game’s career hits lead- played every game at ABC and CBS. He was
er. Bench supplied the the highest level. May- analyst for ESPN’s Sun-
power. Perez was the be proving to himself day night telecasts from
clutch hitter. And Mor- and everyone else that 1990 -2010 and won two
gan did a bit of every- he belong. Did he ever!” Sports Emmy Awards
thing, slashing hits and Bench said. as an Event Analyst —
stealing bases whenever A series of injuries ESPN’s first two wins
needed. in the late 1970s dimin- in the category, in 1998
Skilled at drawing ished Morgan’s pro- and 2005.
walks, and helped by a duction — the years Morgan also was
small strike zone, Mor- of throwing his body board vice chairman of
gan led the NL in on- around on the turf had baseball’s Hall of Fame
base percentage in four taken a toll. The Reds and on the board of the
of his first five years decided to dismantle Baseball Assistance
with the Reds, and fin- the Big Red Machine, Team.
ished with a career prompting Morgan to Morgan was inducted
mark of .392. also leave. into baseball’s Hall of
“That’s when the He spent the 1980 Fame in 1990. The Reds
game went to more season with Houston, also inducted him into
speed,” Rose once said. helping the Astros to a their Hall of Fame and
“There were guys who NL West title. He played retired his number.
did more, but Joe stole two years with San “He did it all, and he
bases when everyone at Francisco — hitting a did it all the time,” said
the park knew he would. home run on the final Bench, the first member
He didn’t waste steals. day of the 1982 season of the Big Red Machine
He made them count. against the rival Dodg- to enter the Hall.
Joe probably could have ers to knock the defend- “Great father and out-
stolen more. Lots of ing champions out of the standing businessman.
guys just steal to run playoffs — and later was He was a friend to so
up the numbers, and reunited with Rose and many and respected by
then they can’t when it Perez in Philadelphia. all,” he said.
counts to win the game. Morgan hit two home Morgan recognized
Joe made them count.” runs in the 1983 World his place on one of base-
Morgan scored a ma- Series as the Phillies ball’s all-time greatest
jor league-leading 122 lost in five games to Bal- teams.
runs in his first season timore, and tripled in Bench probably had
with the Reds and they his final at-bat. the most raw baseball
reached the 1972 World Morgan finished as a ability of any of us,”
Series, where they lost career .182 hitter in 50 Morgan said before his
in seven games to Oak- postseason games. He Hall of Fame induction.
land. played in 11 different “Pete obviously had the
Morgan hit .327 with series and batted over most determination to
17 homers, 94 RBIs and .273 in just one of them, make himself the player
67 stolen bases in 1975, a stat that surprises he was. Perez was the
then followed with a .320 many considering his unsung hero. I guess I
average, 27 homers, 111 big-game reputation. was just a guy who could
RBIs and 60 steals the Raised in Oakland, do a lot of things.”
next year. He was only Morgan returned to the He is survived by his
the fifth second base- Bay Area and played the wife of 30 years, There-
man in the NL to drive 1984 season for the Ath- sa; twin daughters Kelly
in more than 100 runs letics before retiring. and Ashley; and daugh-
and also led the league Morgan set the NL re- ters Lisa and Angela
in both on-base percent- cord for games played at from his first marriage
age and slugging per- second, ranked among to Gloria Morgan.
centage in 1976. the career leaders in Funeral details were
The next year, he led walks and was an All- not yet set.

The NBA offseason begins, with

1 major question: Now what?
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
LAKE BUENA VISTA,
Fla. — The season’s first
big development came
with the Los Angeles Lak-
ers on a long road trip, in a
place with very restrictive
rules. The season’s last big
development came with
the Lakers on a longer road
trip, in a place with very re-
strictive rules.
From China to Disney,
this was an NBA season
like none other — and
quite probably like none
ever again.
The NBA offseason has
officially started, the bub-
ble at Walt Disney World is
closed and the Lakers have
their 17th championship.
Nobody knows everything
that will happen over the
coming weeks as far as
how rosters and coaching
staffs will be reshaped. As
a bonus this year, nobody
knows when anything will
happen, either.
But while a difficult sea-
son is over, the difficulties
the league and players face
are not. The coronavirus
pandemic is still raging.
The players fight against
racial inequality and their
quest for social justice,
which were top priorities
of this NBA restart, con-
tinue. And while nobody
knows when the next NBA
game is, the Lakers’ LeB-
ron James began looking
forward during the trophy
ceremony celebrating his
fourth title.
“Everybody from the
NBA, the NBPA, putting
this thing together and us
using our voices, us being
together ... we know we all
want to see better days,”
James said.
The priority, for the last
seven months, was getting
through the pandemic
safely and salvaging the
season. That happened; a
champion was crowned,
a bubble was built and no-
body tested positive for
three months inside that
NBA campus in large part
because of extremely tight
regulations surrounding
conduct and safety. Now
comes a quick pivot toward
figuring out all things re-
lated to money for next
season such as the salary
cap and luxury tax lines,
as well as when teams can
resume play — and where.
“These issues are a bit
complicated and difficult
in many cases,” NBA Com-
missioner Adam Silver
said. “But there’s no rea-
son to believe that with our
counterparts at the (Na-
tional Basketball) Players
Association that we won’t
be able to work through
them.”
Not everything was un-
expected this season: The
Lakers were not a surprise
champion, Milwaukee’s Gi-
annis Antetokounmpo was
not a surprise to win his
second consecutive MVP
award, Houston’s James
Harden was not a surprise
to be the scoring champion
for the third year in a row.
That’s not to say there
were no surprises: Miami
became the first No. 5 seed
to reach the NBA Finals,
Golden State lost practical-
ly everyone to injury and
plummeted to the bottom
of the league in what basi-
cally was a reset year, the
San Antonio Spurs weren’t
in the playoffs for the first
time in 23 years and Doc
Rivers — long considered
one of the league’s best
coaches — got fired by
the Los Angeles Clippers,
then quickly hired by the
Philadelphia 76ers.
But this year will be re-
membered for the shock-
ing developments: The
conflict between the NBA
and China that started
last October after a tweet
from Houston general
manager Daryl Morey in
support of anti-govern-
ment protesters in Hong
Kong and how the Lakers
and Brooklyn Nets (who
were in China at the time)
got caught in that hail-
storm; the death of com-
missioner emeritus David
Stern on Jan. 1; the death
of Kobe Bryant on Jan. 26;
and then the shutdown of
the season on March 11
after Utah’s Rudy Gobert
became the first of many
in the league to test posi-
tive for coronavirus. Play
stopped for 4-1/2 months,
a bubble was built, 171
more games were played
but no more tickets were
sold.
“It has been an emo-
tional roller coaster for
certainly our players and
for me, for the entire com-
munity, for that matter,”
NBPA executive director
Michele Roberts said.
“Between Stern’s death,
Kobe’s death, the virus —
which is just the most vi-
cious entity I’ve ever come
across — and then what’s
happening in the streets
... the tendency to want
to just stay under the cov-
ers, I don’t have to fight it
every day. But there are
days when I say ‘Oh God,
I was having such a great
dream, why did I have to
wake up?’”
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put Los Angeles back in
front before the Saints
(3-2) tied it on Taysom
Hill’s 9-yard run with 52
seconds left in regula-
tion.
The Chargers (1-4) fell
to their fourth straight
loss by a touchdown or
less, and the second in
overtime. They also blew
a 17-point lead for a sec-
ond straight game.
Herbert, who was
named the starter for the
remainder of the season
this week, finished 20 of
34 for 264 yards without
an turnover. Five of his
completions went to Wil-
liams for 109 yards and
two TDs.
Brees finished 33 of
47 for 325 yards. Ka-
mara had 119 yards from
scrimmage, highlighted
by his leaping, juggling
catch along the right
sideline over the head of
safety Rayshawn Jenkins
to set up Hill’s tying TD.
The Chargers became
the first team to lose
17-point leads in consec-
utive weeks since the
2003 Atlanta Falcons.
For the Chargers, both
have come on the road
against an NFC South
team led by a quarter-
back older than 40.
In Week 4, it was Tam-
pa Bay’s Tom Brady. This
week it was Brees -- the
NFL’s all-time leader in
completions, yards and
touchdowns.
Brees’ dive over a pile
of linemen at the goal
line made it 20-10 14 sec-
onds before halftime.
Lutz’ 53-yard field
goal pulled New Orleans
within a touchdown in
the third quarter. Then
Brees found Cook open
behind the Chargers’
secondary on third-and-
long to tie it early in the
fourth quarter.

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second-most in any game this
season — including his 11
starts in the regular season
when he was 7-0 with a 2.25
ERA.
Trainer’s room
Braves: LF Adam Duvall left
in the middle of his at-bat in
the second inning because of
an oblique issue. Duvall was in
obvious pain after fouling off a
pitch, then had his hand on his
left side.
“I don’t expect the outcome
to be good. He popped it,” Snit-
ker said.
Cristian Pache took over
with a 1-2 count and drew a
walk.
Short hops
It was the fourth time both
teams entered Game 1 of the
NLCS without a postseason
loss. That’s happened three
times in the ALCS, all in the
past 11 years. ... With starters
Buehler and Fried both 26, it
was only the seventh league
championship series opener
with two pitchers 26 and young-
er.
Up next
Anderson has thrown 11
2/3 scoreless innings with 17
strikeouts in his two playoff
starts. Kershaw, the ace lefty
from nearby Dallas, has 19
strikeouts in his two starts this
postseason — both wins. He
pitched eight scoreless innings
against Atlanta in the NLDS
two years ago.

MSU
Continued from Page 1B
poor vision in the back-
field. For much of Satur-
day’s loss to Kentucky,
the MSU offensive line
struggled to handle a
three-man rush, while
the ground game was
limited to just 20 yards
on 14 carries in an ef-
fort Leach criticized for
ill-timed cuts and not at-
tacking holes when nec-
essary.
Postgame Satur-
day, the first year head
coach received flack
for his comments re-
garding “malcontents”
on the MSU roster and
that there hasn’t been
a complete buy-in from
the Bulldogs. Never one
to mince words, Leach
doubled down on those
sentiments Monday.
“I think we do have a
few fence-riders that are
trying to decide whether
they’re going to commit
or not going to commit
(to) what everybody is
doing here,” Leach said.
“And anytime there’s a
transition there’s a cer-
tain number of guys,
and I’ve been through
a number of these tran-
sitions, who are going
to do the wait and see
thing — ‘Well, I’ll see if
I like what I see.’ Well,
it’s too bad. I mean, the
train rolls on. They need
to jump on board pret-
ty quick, or the train is
going to roll on without
them.”
Through three weeks,
the prolific MSU of-
fense that debuted in
Baton Rouge has come
to a screeching halt in
Lexington. For Leach,
Costello and the rest of
the Bulldog offense, this
week is a chance to apply
whatever grease is need-
ed to get the axles of a
broken unit spinning ef-
ficiently once more.

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got tracked George Spring-
er’s long foul ball to right field
while shielding his face from
the sun. He caught it as he tum-
bled over a padded railing atop
a wall and landed on a walkway
near the seats down the line at
Petco Park.
Margot popped up, smiled
and held up his glove with the
ball in it after a 102-foot sprint.
Margot was shaken up a lit-
tle but stayed in the game.
“Approaching it you don’t re-
ally realize how high it is but it
gets a little lower once you go
over the wall, so once I actual-
ly started to flip and realized
it was a little bit further of a
drop, that’s when I got a little
scared,” Margot said.
Margot played with the San
Diego Padres from late in the
2016 season until being traded
to Tampa Bay in the offseason.
He played one game in right
field in 2016 and the rest of his
time in San Diego was spent in
center.
“To have the ability to know
where you’re at, and kind of be
able to say, ‘Forget it, I know
I’m going to hit something but
I’m going in,’ and still hang on
to the ball, was really, really
impressive,” manager Kevin
Cash said.
His teammates raved about
the catch.
“He sold out,” winner Char-
lie Morton said. “Those guys
are all in for each other and
they put their bodies on the
line. They’ve been doing that
all year. That play was unbe-
lievable.”
Shortstop Willy Adames
said Margot “was going with
determination. He was going
to do whatever it took to make
that catch. It was an unbeliev-
able play that he made on the
right field line, putting himself
in a dangerous place. I’m just
happy for him, after that ho-
mer. It was amazing. I hope he
continues to help the team win
like that.”
Margot homered to straight-
away center field on an 0-1
pitch from McCullers with two
outs in the first. It followed
the first of two errors by sec-
ond baseman José Altuve on a
grounder to shallow right field
by Ji-Man Choi. Altuve’s throw
hit the ground before going in
and out of first baseman Yuli
Gurriel’s glove.
The play originally was
ruled an error on Gurriel,
but the official scorer later
charged the error to Altuve.
When Gurriel returned to the
dugout, he slammed his glove
onto the bench.
Margot’s big plays made a
winner of 36-year-old Morton,
who helped Houston win the
2017 World Series, and spoiled
an otherwise fine effort by Mc-
Cullers, who lost despite strik-
ing out 11 in seven innings.
Three of the four runs off him
were unearned.
Margot had a rough regu-
lar season. He was placed on
the COVID-19 injured list in
August as a precaution after
he traveled to the Dominican
Republic following the death of
his father due to the virus.
“He’s been put through the
ringer along with other fami-
ly members, but we’ve turned
him into our family,” Cash
said. “Everybody is really, re-
ally supportive of him and just
so happy for what he’s accom-
plished.”
Morton improved to 4-0
with a 0.90 ER A in the last two
postseasons.
Tampa Bay held on through
a tense ninth, when Nick An-
derson twice loaded the bases.
One run scored when Spring-
er hit a one-hopper to second
baseman Brandon Lowe, who
stepped on the base and start-
ed a double play. After walking
Altuve and Michael Brantley
on four pitches each, Anderson
got Alex Bregman to fly out on
the first pitch to center field-
er Kevin Kiermaier, a step in
front of the warning track.
Game 3 is Tuesday night,
when the Rays will send Ryan
Yarbrough against Houston’s
José Urquidy. Because this is a
neutral site, the Rays, the top
seed in the AL, were the home
team in the first two games and
Houston will bat last in Games
3 and 4, and Game 5, if neces-
sary.
Teams with 2-0 leads have
won 72 of 85 best-of-7 series.
“It’s not business as usual.
Tomorrow is a must-win situa-
tion for us,” said Carlos Correa,
who homered for the Astros.
“You don’t want to be down 0-3
in a series with a great team
like the Rays.”
Said manager Dusty Baker:
“It’s very frustrating, because
all you hear it exit speed, and
we had a ton of exit speed to-
day.”
McCullers retired 14
straight, nine by strikeout, be-
fore Mike Zunino hit a 454-foot
homer into the back bullpen
beyond the fence in left-center
for a 4-1 lead in the seventh. It
was his third this postseason.
Houston’s Carlos Correa
homered to nearly the same
spot off Pete Fairbanks with
one out in the sixth, his fifth
of the postseason.
The Astros are in the ALCS
for the fourth straight year
and are trying to get to the
World Series for the third time
in that span. The Rays have
been to one Fall Classic. They
lost to Philadelphia in 2008.
Morton, who signed with
Tampa Bay before the 2019
season, allowed five hits in five
shutout innings. He struck out
five and walked one.
McCullers allowed four hits
and four runs, one earned, and
walked none.
“I feel like we’ve been play-
ing good baseball. We just
haven’t got those hits. There
were a lot of hard-hit balls to-
day right at people,” Correa
said. “Their defense is win-
ning ballgames for them right
now.”
Nice play
Besides Margot’s spectac-
ular catch, Adames made a
nice sliding backhanded stop
of a grounder by Bregman in
the third and threw to first
baseman Ji-Man Choi, who
stretched out to catch it.
Remembering Joe morgan
There was a moment of si-
lence before the national an-
them for Hall of Fame second
baseman Joe Morgan, who died
Sunday at his home in Danville
at 77. A photo on the score-
board showed Morgan in an As-
tros jersey. He played his first
nine seasons with Houston be-
fore becoming the sparkplug of
Cincinnati’s Big Red Machine.
He played with Houston in 1980
toward the end of his career.
Up next
Rays: Yarbrough will be
making his first career post-
season start. In Game 4 of the
ALDS against the Yankees, he
went five innings for the lon-
gest relief appearance in Rays
postseason history. He allowed
a two-run homer to Gleyber
Torres.
Astros: Urquidy started
Houston’s Game 3 loss to Oak-
land in the ALDS, giving up
four runs and five hits in 4 1/3
innings. That should line up
Zack Greinke to start Game 4,
although Baker wasn’t ready
to commit to that on Monday.
Greinke has had a sore arm.

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COLUMN: Time is now for Elliott to race into title round
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
CHARLOT TE, N.C.
— Chase Elliott again
has a chance to take the
next step in his young but
quite celebrated career.
He’s back in the round of
eight for a fourth consec-
utive year, once again try-
ing to drive through to his
first championship finale.
Is he a true contender?
The time has come for
him to prove it.
Kyle Busch is out of the
way, eliminated Sunday
after Elliott won on The
Roval at Charlotte Motor
Speedway. Busch won’t
race in the final four for
the first time since 2014,
and there will be a new
Cup champion this year.
Kevin Harvick and
Denny Hamlin, winners
Comics & Puzzles
DILBERT
ZITS
GARFIELD
CANDORVILLE
BABY BLUES
BEETLE BAILEY
MALLARD FILLMORE
of a combined 16 of the 32
races so far this season,
are heavily favored to ad-
vance to the Nov. 8 finale
at Phoenix. That would
leave just two remaining
slots for the rest of the
field; six drivers hoping
to join Harvick and Ham-
lin in the winner-take-all
desert showcase.
“We tend to see the
same guys make the final
four every year, the same
group fighting for those
spots,” Elliott said. “We’re
very capable of asserting
ourselves amongst them.”
Busch has cleared
out after five straight ap-
pearances — two were
title-winning years — so
there’s room for a wild-
card winner this Novem-
ber.
Elliott, who three
FAMILY CIRCUS
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times before has stalled
his season in the round of
eight, is a credible candi-
date. He’s won three rac-
es for the third year in a
row and is statistically on
pace for the best season of
his career.
The Hendrick Motor-
sports No. 9 team has
been solid before but
always stumbled in this
critical three-race round.
That’s unacceptable for
such a high-level team.
Elliott is considered the
centerpiece at Hendrick
Motorsports, particu-
larly with seven-time
champion Jimmie John-
son’s retirement just one
month away, and he gives
Chevrolet its best shot at
ending a three-year title
drought.
Chevy has not ad-
vanced a driver to the
final four since John-
son won his last title in
2016. The bowtie brand
watched as Ford and Toy-
ota went head-to-head
for the title the last three
years. Chevrolet, and cor-
nerstones Hendrick and
Elliott, were shut out of
the crowning race.
The burden falls to El-
liott, NASCAR’s two-time
defending most popular
driver, to get Chevy a tick-
et to the final show. He’s
long been spotlighted as
the future of NASCAR
and the time has come for
him to answer the expec-
tations on the track.
Elliott at The Roval
won his fourth straight
road course race, prov-
ing he’s the best active
driver in the series at that
Dear Abby
D
EAR ABBY: I
am thinking
about asking
my stepdaughter
“Gwen” (37 years
old with a hus-
band and three
kids) if she would
like me to adopt
her. I married
her mother when
Gwen was 2. We
divorced when
she was 8 or 9,
so we were out of
contact for about
25 years.
Gwen really Dear Abby
dislikes her father.
Her mother and I have patched
things up, so much so that
we’ve been on a couple of vaca-
tions together. Gwen has been
along on both.
We have a special bond that
goes back to the first time I met
her. She was a terror, and her
mother, grandmother and the
rest of the family had basically
given up on her. But we clicked.
I was patient with her, and we
became close. When we were
together a few weeks ago on
vacation, she asked if I wanted
to come to Colorado, which is
halfway across the country from
where I live, for her daughter’s
3rd birthday party. I’m going.
I love her dearly and always
have. I missed her terribly
during the years her mother and
I barely communicated. I was
Horoscopes
TODAY’S BIRTHDAY (Oct.
13). You’ve graduated from te-
dious lessons and now less can
bother you, frees you from the
sort of entanglements that used
to keep your smile at bay. You’ll
be appointed to a position and
entrusted with secret, sacred or
extremely powerful information.
You’ll get that wonderful news
you’ve waited years for. Gemini
and Sagittarius adore you. Your
lucky numbers are: 2, 18, 9, 30
and 44.
ARIES (March 21-April
19). You want to be alone and
unbothered, but you talk to peo-
ple anyway, and that lifts your
spirits more than solitude could.
It’s amazing how much happier
you get when decide to let go of
what you want.
discipline. There are no
road courses in this next
round that begins Sunday
at Kansas Speedway.
Elliott is good enough
at Kansas and even won
there in 2018, but the
No. 9 team struggled to
a 12th-place finish there
in July. He also finished
12th a week earlier at Tex-
as Motor Speedway, the
second stop in this round.
If this is the year Elliott
is to race for a title, he’ll
need significant improve-
ment at those two tracks
the next two weeks.
“Both races were dis-
appointing for us,” ac-
knowledged crew chief
Alan Gustafson. “We’ve
got to find a way to get
through. Running at the
sharp end of the spear is
going to be what it takes.
able to see my
kids, but not her.
Now I feel that
closeness again,
and I want to of-
ficially adopt her
as I should have
back when she
was 2. What do
you think, Abby?
— LOVING HER IN
LOUISIANA
DEAR LOVING
HER: Do not
make such an
important deci-
sion on impulse.
Be prudent and
let this renewed
relationship with your ex and her
daughter play out a while longer
before making any decisions.
Then, if you still feel the same,
talk to your ex about what you
have in mind. If she reacts
positively, discuss it with Gwen.
But I urge you to use caution
because your ex may consider
herself and her daughter to
be a package deal and expect
you to “adopt” her, too. It goes
without saying that this should
be discussed with your lawyer
because the fact that Gwen still
has a father may complicate
matters.
DEAR ABBY: The sisters in
my family are very close. Today
we live independently and
alone in different cities. After
we retire, three of the four of us
plan to live together in a new lo-
TAURUS (April 20-May 20).
It’s a good day to get sort out
who is in charge of what and
take responsibility for as much
of it as you can. After you han-
dle things, use hand-sanitizer
- actually and metaphorically.
GEMINI (May 21-June 21).
The self-help site suggests
taking five minutes to decom-
press. Is that a joke? With all
the pressure you’re under, you
will need at least five hours or,
better yet, five days.
CANCER (June 22-July 22).
Currently, there is no way to
magically align your expec-
tations with reality. The only
method available is to go there
and do that. You’ll know what
an experience is like because
you’re having it.
I think we can do it.”
There’s been attention
on Elliott since before
he reached the national
level. His father is “Awe-
some Bill from Dawson-
ville,” the Hall of Fame
1988 champion and re-
cord 16-time most popu-
lar driver. Chase has fol-
lowed those footsteps the
last 24 years.
When he was 13, El-
liott was featured along-
side golfer Jordan Spieth
and tennis player Madi-
son Keys in a 2009 Sports
Illustrated “Where Will
They Be” feature of 14
athletes. He signed a
driver development deal
with Hendrick Motor-
sports when he was 15
and was racing in the
Truck Series two years
later.
cation. Our dilemma: The fourth
sister marches to a different
drummer.
Our lifestyles are very differ-
ent — completely opposite, in
fact. We love her and enjoy be-
ing with her at family gatherings
and doing things together. Yet
we feel strongly that because
she has little initiative and a
“dependent” personality, she
shouldn’t live with us, so we ha-
ven’t included her in our plans.
We know the news will
upset her, and we don’t want to
cause hurt feelings, but we feel
strongly about this. We have
tried to figure out how we could
make it work, but always end up
knowing it won’t. The only option
we can think of would be that
she could move to wherever we
are and find a place of her own,
but we’re not sure she has the
means to make it happen. Can
you help us figure out the most
compassionate way to share
the news with her? — FORWARD
THINKING
DEAR FORWARD THINKING:
The most compassionate way
to venture into this minefield
would be to ask your sister what
her plans are once she retires.
If she says she plans to live with
you, she should be told it won’t
happen and why, so she can
make other arrangements for
herself. While the conversation
may not be pleasant, it is nec-
essary, and it should take place
sooner rather than later.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22).
You’ll wonder what people mean
and how they mean it. The
same statement can denote so
many different things, revealed
best in sound. This is why a
phone call will be so much
better than a text today.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22).
You may privately question your
knowledge, skills and abilities,
and that’s appropriate, legiti-
mate and intelligent. However,
this is a day not to wear those
doubts on the outside. Wear a
facade of confidence like it’s a
power suit.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23).
Excess can’t help but shift
toward the empty. Drop water
into the glass for a physical
illustration. And what else in
your life is like this today? Think
twice before you tip one thing
into another.
SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov.
21). What you would do isn’t
what they would do, and that’s
the whole point of getting
together. Society will be healed
by people who can sit and hear
one another without trying to
persuade or win the conversa-
tion.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec.
21). In the game of darts and
in life, the instant your fingers
open and the dart flies free, you
no longer have control. Take
your best shot, and then don’t
obsess over the target or what
happens after you hit or miss it.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan.
19). Getting it wrong doesn’t
automatically show you how to
get it right, but today’s mistakes
will attract excellent teachers.
Setbacks can be used to im-
prove your skills.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb.
18). Being near the person you
think of as so special can be a
bit like vertigo — disorienting,
causing a loss of balance and
possibly leading to a fall. Even-
tually, reality will set in. Until
then, grab a handrail.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March
20). To remain calm in the face
of frustration is a valuable skill
and one you can hone today
if you’re up to the challenge.
Small disturbances and irrita-
tions are opportunities to prac-
tice patience, humor, reframing
and the like.
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Bluecutt Road; run thence
South 85 degrees 08 minutes
East and along said South right
of way of Bluecutt Road a dis-
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Substitute Trustee reserves the 1020 ½ Gardner Blvd
right to retain any escrows, re- Columbus, MS 39702
serves, security deposits, or
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TRUSTEE’S NOTICE OF SALE
WHEREAS, on July 23, 2007,
Dawanda O. Elliott and Mi-
chael E. Elliott executed a
Deed of Trust to T. Harris Colli- with all of the rights, powers,
er, III, as Trustee for Trust-
mark National Bank, as Lender, set forth in the Deed of Trust
with Mortgage Electronic Regis- and revoked any and all prior
tration Systems, Inc.,
(“MERS”), as Beneficiary,
which is recorded in the office
of the Chancery Clerk of
Lowndes County, MS, in Book
2007 at Page 22309;
WHEREAS, said Deed of Trust
was assigned to Trustmark Na- record in Mortgage Book 2015,
tional Bank in Book MORT
2012 at Page 14424;
WHEREAS, on March 9, 2020,
Trustmark National Bank sub-
stituted James Eldred Renfroe
as Trustee in the aforemen-
tioned deed of trust with this
recorded in Book MORT 2020
at Page 5339;
WHEREAS, there being a de-
fault in the terms and condi-
tions of the Deed of Trust and
entire debt secured having
been declared to be due and
payable in accordance with its
terms, Trustmark National
Bank, the holder of the debt
has requested the Trustee to
execute the trust and sell said
land and property pursuant to
its terms in order to raise the
sums due, with attorney’s and
trustee’s fees, and expenses
of sale;
NOW, THEREFORE, I, James
Eldred Renfroe, Trustee for
said Deed of Trust, will on Oc-
tober 28, 2020, offer for sale
at public outcry, and sell with-
in legal hours (being between
the hours of 11:00 a.m., and
4:00 p.m.) at the main front
door of the Lowndes County
Courthouse in Columbus, MS,
to the highest and best bidder
for cash, the following de-
scribed property situated in
Lowndes County, MS, to-wit:
Lot No. Forty (40) of Diamond
Estates, a subdivision of
Lowndes County, Mississippi,
as recorded in Plat Book 3 at
Page 48 in the Chancery
Clerk’s office of Lowndes
County, Mississippi. Said con-
veyance is made subject to all
covenants, easements, restric-
tions, reservations, conditions
and rights of record and sub-
ject to any state of facts which
an accurate survey would
show. Together with all and sin-
gular the rights, easements,
herediments and appurten-
ances there into belonging. Be-
ing the same property ac-
quired by the Grantor pursuant
to the provisions of the Nation-
al Housing Act, as amended
(12 USC 1701 et seq.) and the
Department of Housing and
Urban Development Act (79
Stat. 667). The above de-
scribed property in conveyed
Subject to protective coven-
ants, restrictive covenants,
easements, conditions and lim-
itations, if any now of record af-
fecting the use or enjoyment of
said property, and to the lines
of all taxes, special assess-
ments and levies of every kind
and nature.
INDEXING INSTRUCTIONS: Lot
40, Diamond Estates, Lowndes
County, Mississippi.
I will convey only such title as
is vested in me as Trustee,
with no warranties.
WITNESS my signature this
25th day of September, 2020.
JAMES ELDRED RENFROE,
Trustee
James Eldred Renfroe, 648
Lakeland East Dr., Ste A, Flo-
wood, MS 39232, Phone 601-
932-1011
Publish: 10/6, 10/13, 10/20,
& 10/27/20
NOTICE OF SUBSTITUTE
TRUSTEE’S SALE
WHEREAS, by Land Deed of
Trust dated February 13, 2006
(the “Deed of Trust”), filed of
record in Mortgage Book 2006,
at pages 3814-3820, in the Of-
fice of the Chancery Court
Clerk of Lowndes County, Mis-
sissippi (the “Land Records”),
Donald R. Depriest (the “Bor-
rower”), whose address is P.O.
Box 1076, Columbus, Missis-
sippi did convey in trust to J.
Patrick Caldwell, as Trustee,
whose address is P.O. Box
4360, Tupelo, Mississippi
38803, certain property de-
scribed therein to secure pay-
ment of a debt in the original
principal sum of
$3,538,566.00 for the benefit
of BancorpSouth Bank (“Origin-
al Lender”), whose address is
P.O. Box 4360, Tupelo, Missis-
sippi 38803. Said Deed of
Trust is incorporated herein by
reference;
sippi 38803. Said Deed of Quarter of Section 32, Town- grees 46 minutes East a dis- of intersection of the South further publication and in ac- VIN # 4T1BE32K74U938663
Trust is incorporated herein by ship 17 South, Range 18 West, tance of 245.00 feet to a point right of way of Bluecutt Road cordance with law, upon an-
reference; and in the Northeast Quarter of on the South right-of-way of a and the West right of way of nouncement of said adjourn- 2003 Toyoto XPR
the Northeast Quarter of Sec- public city road known as Chubby Drive; run thence South ment on the day and time and VIN # 5TESM92N43Z242160
WHEREAS, Original Lender,
named and appointed Jack H.
tion 5, Township 18 South,
Range 18 West, Lowndes
Bluecutt Road; run thence
South 85 degrees 08 minutes
00 degrees 48 minutes East
and along said West right of
place of sale set forth above.
If not claimed they will be sold
Haynes, as Substitute Trustee County, Mississippi. East along said right-of-way a way of Chubby Drive a dis- The failure of any high bidder to on October 21, 2020, at 10
under said Deed of Trust pursu- distance of 200.00 feet to a tance of 250.00 feet to the ini- pay the purchase price and AM at 1020 ½ Gardner Blvd.,
ant to that certain Appoint- LESS AND EXCEPT THERE- point; run thence South 24 de- tial point of beginning and con- close this sale immediately Columbus, MS by Auto Mart
ment of Substitute Trustee FROM the following tracts or grees 27 minutes West a dis- taining 1.43 acres, more or shall, at the option of the Trust- LLC or Jim’s Towing and Recov-
dated March 18, 2013, of re- parcels of land: tance of 245.00 feet to a less. ee, be cause for rejection of ery LLC. They will be sold for
cord in Mortgage Book 2013, point; run thence North 85 de- the bid. The proceeds derived monies owed for the tow bill,
at pages 8466-8467 in said Parcel A grees 00 minutes West a dis- SUBJECT, HOWEVER, TO PER- from the sale of the property storage fees, and all other ex-
Land Records, who was vested 0.15 acre, more or less, lying tance of 201.28 feet to the MANENT (BUT NON-EXCLUSIVE) will be applied as provided for penses incurred to process the
in the Southeast Quarter of point of beginning. EASEMENTS FOR VEHICULAR in said Deed of Trust and are claims.
and privileges of the Trustee Section 32, Township 17 Being the same property as AND OTHER TRAFFIC OVER THE made a part hereof as if set
South, Range 18 West, and in sold by Donald R. DePriest to FOLLOWING TWO PARCELS OF forth verbatim herein. Substi- Witnessed this the 8th day of
the Northeast Quarter of Sec- Mid-South Development Group, LAND: tute Trustee shall convey only October, 2020.
appointments made; tion 5, Township 18 South, LLC, a Kentucky Limited Liabil- such title as is vested in him
Range 18 West, all in the City ity Company, by Deed dated Au- PARCEL ONE as the Substitute Trustee. Auto Mart LLC
WHEREAS, said Deed of Trust of Columbus, Lowndes County, gust 14, 2000, and appearing Commencing at an iron pin Jim’s Towing and Recovery LLC
was assigned by Original Mississippi, and being de- of record in Deed Book 1310 marking the intersection of the This Notice of Sale has been
Lender to Lucius E. Burch, III scribed as follows: at Page 739 of the land re- north right-of-way line of a posted and published in ac- Publish: 10/13 and
(hereinafter “Lender”) by As- Commencing at an iron pin at cords in the office of the Chan- paved City of Columbus road cordance with Miss. Code Ann. 10/20/2020
signment of Deed of Trust the intersection of the North cery Clerk of Lowndes County, known as Chubby Drive and the § 89-1-55 and any provisions
dated November 21, 2014, of right-of-way of a paved road Mississippi. east right-of-way line of U.S. of the Deed of Trust affecting IN THE CHANCERY COURT OF
known as Chubby Drive and the Highway No. 45, Lowndes same beginning September 29, LOWNDES COUNTY, MISSIS-
at pages 19676-19677 in said East right-of-way of U.S. High- Parcel C County, Mississippi, said iron 2020. SIPPI
Land Records; way 45, said iron pin being the A tract of land being located in pin being the same as that re- Erno Lindner, Substitute Trust-
same as that referred to in the the Southeast Quarter (SE 1/4) ferred to in the Donald R. De- ee IN THE MATTER OF THE ES-
WHEREAS, Lender is the true Donald R. DePriest deed of re- of the Southeast Quarter (SE Priest deed of record in Deed TATE OF SAMUEL ALAN SMITH,
and lawful owner and holder of cord in Deed Book 848, Pages 1/4) of Section 32, Township Book 848, Pages 523-524 of BAKER, DONELSON, BEAR- DECEASED
the debt aforesaid, which is se- 523-524 of the land records in 17 South, Range 18 West, the land records in the Office MAN, CALDWELL
cured by the Deed of Trust and the office of the Chancery Clerk Lowndes County, Mississippi of the Chancery clerk of & BERKOWITZ, P.C. CAUSE NO. 2020-0195-JNS
Assignment of Rents (the of Lowndes County, Missis- and more particularly de- Lowndes, Mississippi, and be- 633 Chestnut Street, Suite
“Debt”); sippi, and being described scribed as follows: ing described therein as the ini- 1900 NOTICE TO CREDITORS
therein as the point of begin- tial point of beginning of Par- Chattanooga, TN 37450
WHEREAS, Erno Lindner (here- ning of Parcel 1; run thence 6 Commencing at an iron pin cel 1; thence run North 81 de- (423) 756.2010 STATE OF MISSISSIPPI
inafter, the “Substitute Trust- North 81 degrees 44 minutes marking the intersection of the grees 44 minutes East along COUNTY OF LOWNDES
ee”) was substituted as trust- East along the North right-of- North right-of-way of a public the north line of said chubby Published: The Commercial Dis-
ee under the Deed of Trust in way of said Chubby Drive for road known as Chubby Drive Drive a distance of 250.00 feet patch Letters Testamentary have
the place and stead of the ori- 300 feet; run thence North 81 and the East right-of-way of to the point of beginning of the Lowndes County, Mississippi been granted and issued to the
ginal Trustee, and of any other degrees 35 minutes East along U.S. Highway No. 45 in the City herein described easement; Tuesday, September 29, Octo- undersigned upon the Estate of
substitute trustee, by that cer- said North right-of-way of of Columbus, Mississippi, said from said point of beginning ber 6, October 13, and Octo- Samuel Alan Smith, deceased,
tain Substitution of Trustee Chubby Drive for a distance of Iron pin being the same as that run thence North 08 degrees ber 20 by the Chancery Court of
dated August 24, 2020, recor- 265.9 feet to the point of be- referred to in the Donald R. De- 20 minutes West a distance of Lowndes County, Mississippi,
ded in the Land Records in ginning of the property hereby Priest deed of record in Deed 220.0 feet to a point; run IN THE CHANCERY COURT OF on the 7th day of October
Book 2020, Pages 21936- conveyed; from said point of Book 848 at Pages 523-524 of thence North 14 degrees 28 LOWNDES COUNTY, MISSIS- 2020. This is to give notice to
21937, and thereafter spread beginning continue thence the land records in the office of minutes East a distance of SIPPI all persons having claims
upon the land records main- North 81 degrees 35 minutes the Chancery Clerk of Lowndes 140.94 feet to a point; run against said estate to Probate
tained by the Chancery Court East along the North right-of- County, Mississippi; run thence thence North 04 degrees 50 IN THE MATTER OF THE ES- and Register same with the
Clerk of Lowndes County, Mis- way of Chubby Drive (25 feet North 08 degrees 20 minutes minutes West a distance of TATE OF ISOM B. BURKS, DE- Chancery Clerk of Lowndes
sissippi; and from the centerline) for a dis- West along the East right-of- 260.00 feet to a point; run CEASED County, Mississippi, within
tance of 65 feet; run thence way of said U.S. Highway No. thence North 85 degrees 10 ninety (90) days from the first
WHEREAS, default having been North 08 degrees 20 minutes 45 a distance of 246.82 feet minutes East a distance of CAUSE NO. 2020 – 0202-F publication date of this Notice
made in the terms and condi- West for a distance of 100 to a concrete right-of-way mark- 50.00 feet to a point; run to Creditors. A failure to so Pro-
tions of said Deed of Trust and feet; run thence South 81 de- er, run thence Northwesterly thence South 04 degrees 50 MICHAEL RONALD BURKS, EX- bate and Register said claim
the entire Debt secured grees 35 minutes West for a along a curve and said right-of- minutes East a distance of ECUTOR will forever bar the same.
thereby, and the entire in- distance of 65 feet; run thence way the following chord bear- 268.50 feet to a point; run
debtedness having been de- South 8 degrees 20 minutes ings: North 07 degrees 33 thence South 14 degrees 28 NOTICE TO CREDITORS This the 7th day of October
clared to be due and payable in East for a distance of 100 feet minutes West - 103.18 feet, minutes West a distance of 2020.
accordance with the terms of to the point of beginning. North 04 degrees 50 minutes 139.35 feet to a point; run Letters Testamentary have
said Deed of Trust, Lender, as West - 260.00 feet to a point; thence South 08 degrees 20 been granted and issued to MI- /s/ Susan Bowen Smith, Exec-
holder of the Debt and the TOGETHER WITH AND INCLUD- run thence North 81 degrees minutes East a distance of CHAEL RONALD BURKS, Ex- utrix
Deed of Trust has instructed ING a permanent, perpetual 45 minutes East a distance of 209.94 feet to a point on the ecutor of the Estate of ISOM B.
the Substitute Trustee to fore- easement for utilities, being 143.36 feet to a point; run North right-of-way line of said BURKS, deceased, by the PUBLISH: 10/13, 10/20 &
close under the provisions of described as follows: Commen- thence North 24 degrees 46 Chubby Drive; run thence South Chancery Court of Lowndes 10/27/2020
the Deed of Trust in accord- cing at the Northwest corner of minutes East a distance of 81 degrees 44 minutes West County, Mississippi, on the 8th
ance with the terms of said the herein above described 149.27 feet to the point of be- along said North right-of-way day of October, 2020. This is
Deed of Trust and applicable 0.15 acre tract, as the point of ginning of the herein described line of Chubby Drive a dis- IN THE CHANCERY COURT OF
to give notice to all persons LOWNDES COUNTY, MISSIS-
Mississippi law, for the pur- beginning, and run thence tract; run thence North 24 de- tance of 50.00 feet to the having claims against said es-
pose of raising the sums due North 81 degrees 35 minutes grees 46 minutes East a dis- point of beginning of this ease- SIPPI
tate to Probate and Register
thereunder, with the proceeds East along the North line of tance of 7.0 feet to a point; run ment. same with the Chancery Clerk
thereof to be applied in accord- said 0.15 acre tract for 10 thence South 85 degrees 00 IN THE MATIER OF THE ES-
of Lowndes County, Missis- TATE OF THOMAS CAMERON
ance with the terms and condi- feet; run thence North 08 de- minutes East a distance of PARCEL TWO sippi, within ninety (90) days
tions of the Deed of Trust and grees 20 minutes West for 201.28 feet to a point; run Commencing at an iron pin BAILEY, DECEASED
from this date. A failure to so
related loan documents; 114.6 feet to a point that is 10 thence North 24 degrees 27 marking the intersection of the Probate and Register said
feet North 85 degrees 10 minutes East a distance of North right-of-way line of a KELLY CHARLENE RAY, Admin-
claim will forever bar the same. istratrix PETITIONER
NOW, THEREFORE, I, Erno Lind- minutes East from an iron pin 245.00 feet to an iron pin on paved city of Columbus street
ner, acting solely in my capa- at the Southeast corner of the the South right-of-way of known as Chubby Drive and the THIS the 9th day of October,
city as Substitute Trustee and Jameson Inn lot; run thence Bluecutt Road; run thence East right-of-way line of U.S. v.
2020.
by virtue of the authority con- South 85 degrees 10 minutes South 85 degrees 08 minutes Highway No. 45, Lowndes
ferred upon me by the Deed of West for 267.4 feet to the East along the South right-of- County, Mississippi, said iron THE UNKNOWN HEIRS AT LAW
/s/ Michael Ronald Burks OF THOMAS CAMERON BAILEY,
Trust, do hereby give notice Southwest corner of said way of Bluecutt Road a dis- pin being the same as that ref- MICHAEL RONALD BURKS, Ex-
that I will, between the legal Jameson Inn lot; thence South tance of 10.6 feet to a point; erenced to in the Donald R. De- DECEASED RESPONDENTS
ecutor
hours of 11:00 a.m. and 4:00 14 degrees 28 minutes West run thence South 24 degrees Priest deed of record in Deed
p.m. on Tuesday, October 27, along the East line of an ac- 27 minutes West a distance of Book 848, Pages 523-524 of CAUSE NO.:2018-0218-F
PUBLISH: 10/13, 10/20 &
2020, offer for sale at public cess road for 15.9 feet; thence 254.25 feet to a point; run the land records in the office of 10/27/2020
outcry at the southeast front North 85 degrees 10 minutes thence North 77 degrees 22 the Chancery Clerk of Lowndes SUMMONS BY PUBLICATION
door of the Lowndes County East parallel to the South line minutes West a distance of county, Mississippi; run thence
Courthouse, 505 2nd Avenue of said Jameson Inn lot for 105 16.0 feet to a point; run thence North 81° 44’ East along the IN THE CHANCERY COURT OF THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI
LOWNDES COUNTY, MISSIS-
North, Columbus, Mississippi, feet; thence North 4 degrees North 85 degrees 00 minutes North line of said Chubby Drive
to the highest and best bidder 50 minutes West for 5 feet; West a distance of 195.31 feet a distance of 250.00 feet to a SIPPI TO: The unknown heirs at law
for cash the following de- thence North 85 degrees 10 to the point of beginning and point; run thence North 08° 20’ of Thomas Cameron Bailey, De-
scribed real property situated minutes East parallel to the containing 3859.7 square feet West a distance of 220.00 feet IN THE MATTER OF THE ES- ceased
TATE OF MARIE R. HOLLIS, DE-
in Lowndes County, Missis- South line of said Jameson Inn or 0.09 acre, more or less. to a point; run thence North
sippi (the “Premises” or “Prop- lot for 158.2 feet; run thence 07° 43’ West a distance of CEASED You have been made a Re-
erty”), to-wit: South 08 degrees 20 minutes Being the same property as 17.98 feet to the point of be- spondent in the suit filed in
East for 105.2 feet to the point sold by Donald R. DePriest to ginning of the herein described CASE NO. 2020-0102 this Court by Kelly Charlene
Commencing at an iron pin of beginning and the terminus MSDG Columbus, LLC, a Ken- easement; run thence North Ray, seeking the Determina-
marking the intersection of the of this utility easement. tucky Limited Liability Com- 07° 43’ West a distance of ROY WINSTON HOLLIS, EX- tion of the Heirs at Law of
ECUTOR
North right-of-way line of a pub- pany, by Deed dated July 2, 53.86 feet to a point; run Thomas Cameron Bailey De-
lic county road known as Being the same property sold 2002, and appearing of record thence North 65° 37’ East a ceased.
Chubby Drive and the East by Donald R. DePriest to Guy E. in Deed Book 2002 at Page distance of 34.83 feet to a NOTICE TO CREDITORS
right-of-way line of U.S. High- Evans by Deed dated October 5515 of the land records in the point; run thence South 14° You are summoned to appear
way No. 45, Lowndes County, 1, 1998, appearing of record in office of the Chancery Clerk of 28’ West a distance of 68.87 Letters Testamentary have and defend against the com-
been granted and issued to
Mississippi, said iron pin be- Deed Book 1216 at Page 395 Lowndes County, Mississippi. feet to a point; run thence plaint or petition filed against
ing the same as that referred of the land records in the of- South 81° 41’ West a dis- ROY WINSTON HOLLIS, Execut- you in this action at 9:00
or of the Estate of MARIE R.
to in the Donald R. DePriest fice of the Chancery Clerk of Parcel D tance of 7.36 feet to the point o'clock A.M. on the 12th day of
Deed of record in Deed Book Lowndes County, Mississippi. A tract of land being located in of beginning and containing HOLLIS, deceased, by the November, 2020, in the
Chancery Court of Lowndes
848, Pages 523-524 of the the Southeast Quarter (SE ¼) 0.03 acre, more or less. courtroom of the Oktibbeha
land records in the office of the Parcel B of the Southeast Quarter (SE County, Mississippi, on the 6th County Courthouse at Stark-
day of October, 2020. This is
Chancery Clerk of Lowndes A tract of land located in the ¼) of Section 32, Township 17 Said property is designated as ville, Mississippi, and in case
County, Mississippi, and being Southeast Quarter of the South, Range 18 West, City of tax parcel number to give notice to all persons of your failure to appear and
having claims against said es-
described as the initial point of Southeast Quarter of Section Columbus, Lowndes County, 46W200007200, but such defend a judgment will be
beginning of Parcel 1; run 32, Township 17 South, Range Mississippi, and more particu- designation is not a part of the tate to Probate and Register entered against you for the
thence North 81 degrees 44 18 West, Lowndes County, Mis- larly described as follows: legal description of the prop- same with the Chancery Clerk money or other things deman-
of Lowndes County, Missis-
minutes East along said North sissippi, and more particularly erty sold herein, and in the ded in the complaint or peti-
right-of-way line 300.00 feet to described as follows: Commencing at an iron pin event of any discrepancy, the sippi, within ninety (90) days tion.
the point of beginning of the marking the intersection of the legal description herein shall from this date. A failure to so
Probate and Register said
herein described tract: Commencing at an iron pin North right of way line of a city control. You are not required to file an
Run thence North 08 degrees marking the intersection of the road known as Chubby Drive claim will forever bar the same. answer or other pleading but
20 minutes West 246.82 feet North right-of-way line of a pub- (paved) and the East right of Said sale shall be made for you may do so if you desire.
to a point; run thence North 05 lic road known as Chubby Drive way line of U.S. Highway 45; cash to the highest and best THIS the 7th day of October, Issued under my hand and the
degrees 47 minutes West and the East right-of-way of run thence North 81 degrees bidder in cash subject to the 2020. seal of said Court, this the
103.27 feet to a point; run U.S. Highway No. 45 in the City 44 minute East and along the following: 23rd day of September 2020.
thence North 04 degrees 50 of Columbus, Mississippi, said North right of way line of 1. Any unpaid taxes against the /s/ Roy Winston Hollis
minutes West 277.50 feet to a iron pin being the same as that Chubby Drive a distance of 300 property; and ROY WINSTON HOLLIS, Execut- CINDY E. GOODE ,
point; run thence North 24 de- referred to in the Donald R. De- feet to a point; run thence 2. Any recorded easements, or LOWNDES COUNTY CHAN-
grees 27 minutes East 343.65 Priest deed of record in Deed North 81 degrees 35 minutes conditions, covenants, rights- CERY CLERK
feet to a point on the South Book 848 at Pages 523-524 of East and along said North right of-way or subdivision plats af- PUBLISH: 10/13, 10/20 & (seal)
right-of-way line of a public the land records in the office of of way a distance of 513.40 fecting the property; and 10/27/2020
county road known as Bluecutt the Chancery Clerk of Lowndes feet to a point; run thence 3. Any dedication of roads af- By: Shantrell W Granderson
Road; run thence South 85 de- County, Mississippi; run thence North 00 degrees 48 minutes fecting the property and any The following vehicles have DEPUTY CLERK
grees 08 minutes East along North 08 degrees 20 minutes West and along the West right governmental zoning and subdi- been abandoned at
said South right-of-way line of West along the East right-of- of way line of said Chubby vision ordinances or regula- PUBLISH: 9/29, 10/6 &
Bluecutt Road for a distance of way of said U.S. Highway No. Drive a distance of 575.10 feet tions in effect; and Auto Mart LLC 10/13/2020
425.22 feet to a point inter- 45 a distance of 246.82 feet to the initial point of beginning 4. Any prior or superior liens, 1009 Gardner Blvd
secting the West right-of-way to a concrete right-of-way mark- of the property herein de- judgment, deeds of trust or oth- Columbus MS 39702
line of said Chubby Drive; run er; run thence Northwesterly scribed: er interests of record. or
thence South 00 degrees 48 along a curve and said right-of- Jim’s Towing and Recovery LLC
minutes East along said West way the following chord bear- FROM SAID INITIAL POINT OF Substitute Trustee reserves the 1020 ½ Gardner Blvd
right-of-way line of Chubby Drive ings: North 07 degrees 33 BEGINNING run thence North right to retain any escrows, re- Columbus, MS 39702
for a distance of 825.12 feet minutes West - 103.18 feet, 85 degrees 08 minutes West a serves, security deposits, or
to a point intersecting said North 04 degrees 50 minutes distance of 250.00 feet to a other funds or rights to pay- 2008 Nissan Maxima All notices must be
North right-of-way line of West - 260.00 feet to a point; point; run thence North 00 de- ment of funds and to apply the VIN # 1N4BA41E78C831454
Chubby Drive; run thence South run thence North 81 degrees grees 48 minutes West a dis- same in accordance with the emailed to
81 degrees 35 minutes West
along said North right-of-way
45 minutes East a distance of
143.36 feet to a point; run
tance of 250.00 feet to a point
on the South right of way of
terms and provisions of the 2008 Nissan Altima
Deed of Trust and related docu- VIN # 1N4AL21E68N537767
classifieds@
line of Chubby Drive for a dis- thence North 24 degrees 46 Bluecutt Road; run thence ments. cdispatch.com.
tance of 513.40 feet to the minutes East a distance of South 85 degrees 08 minutes 2015 Nissan A2S
point of beginning, lying and 156.27 feet to the point of be- East and along said South right The right is reserved to ad- VIN # 1N4AL3AP6FC466246
being situated in the South- ginning of the herein described of way of Bluecutt Road a dis- journ the day of sale to anoth-
east Quarter of the Southeast tract; run thence North 24 de- tance of 250.00 feet to point er day and time certain, without 2004 Toyoto Camry
Quarter of Section 32, Town- grees 46 minutes East a dis- of intersection of the South further publication and in ac- VIN # 4T1BE32K74U938663
ship 17 South, Range 18 West, tance of 245.00 feet to a point right of way of Bluecutt Road cordance with law, upon an-
and in the Northeast Quarter of on the South right-of-way of a and the West right of way of nouncement of said adjourn- 2003 Toyoto XPR

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WHEREAS, Original Lender,
named and appointed Jack H.
Haynes, as Substitute Trustee
under said Deed of Trust pursu-
ant to that certain Appoint-
ment of Substitute Trustee
dated March 18, 2013, of re-
cord in Mortgage Book 2013,
at pages 8466-8467 in said
Land Records, who was vested
with all of the rights, powers,
and privileges of the Trustee
set forth in the Deed of Trust
and revoked any and all prior
appointments made;
WHEREAS, said Deed of Trust
was assigned by Original
Lender to Lucius E. Burch, III
(hereinafter “Lender”) by As-
signment of Deed of Trust
dated November 21, 2014, of
the Northeast Quarter of Sec- public city road known as
tion 5, Township 18 South, Bluecutt Road; run thence
Range 18 West, Lowndes South 85 degrees 08 minutes
County, Mississippi. East along said right-of-way a
distance of 200.00 feet to a
LESS AND EXCEPT THERE- point; run thence South 24 de-
FROM the following tracts or grees 27 minutes West a dis-
parcels of land: tance of 245.00 feet to a
point; run thence North 85 de-
Parcel A grees 00 minutes West a dis-
0.15 acre, more or less, lying tance of 201.28 feet to the
in the Southeast Quarter of point of beginning.
Section 32, Township 17 Being the same property as
South, Range 18 West, and in sold by Donald R. DePriest to
the Northeast Quarter of Sec- Mid-South Development Group,
tion 5, Township 18 South, LLC, a Kentucky Limited Liabil-
Range 18 West, all in the City ity Company, by Deed dated Au-
of Columbus, Lowndes County, gust 14, 2000, and appearing
Mississippi, and being de- of record in Deed Book 1310
scribed as follows: at Page 739 of the land re-
Commencing at an iron pin at cords in the office of the Chan-
the intersection of the North cery Clerk of Lowndes County,
right-of-way of a paved road Mississippi.
Chubby Drive; run thence South
00 degrees 48 minutes East
and along said West right of
way of Chubby Drive a dis-
tance of 250.00 feet to the ini-
tial point of beginning and con-
taining 1.43 acres, more or
less.
SUBJECT, HOWEVER, TO PER-
MANENT (BUT NON-EXCLUSIVE)
EASEMENTS FOR VEHICULAR
AND OTHER TRAFFIC OVER THE
FOLLOWING TWO PARCELS OF
LAND:
PARCEL ONE
Commencing at an iron pin
marking the intersection of the
north right-of-way line of a
paved City of Columbus road
known as Chubby Drive and the
east right-of-way line of U.S.
ment on the day and time and VIN # 5TESM92N43Z242160
place of sale set forth above.
If not claimed they will be sold
The failure of any high bidder to on October 21, 2020, at 10
pay the purchase price and AM at 1020 ½ Gardner Blvd.,
close this sale immediately Columbus, MS by Auto Mart
shall, at the option of the Trust- LLC or Jim’s Towing and Recov-
ee, be cause for rejection of ery LLC. They will be sold for
the bid. The proceeds derived monies owed for the tow bill,
from the sale of the property storage fees, and all other ex-
will be applied as provided for penses incurred to process the
in said Deed of Trust and are claims.
made a part hereof as if set
forth verbatim herein. Substi- Witnessed this the 8th day of
tute Trustee shall convey only October, 2020.
such title as is vested in him
as the Substitute Trustee. Auto Mart LLC
Jim’s Towing and Recovery LLC
This Notice of Sale has been
posted and published in ac- Publish: 10/13 and
cordance with Miss. Code Ann. 10/20/2020
§ 89-1-55 and any provisions
of the Deed of Trust affecting

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record in Mortgage Book 2015,
at pages 19676-19677 in said
Land Records;
WHEREAS, Lender is the true
and lawful owner and holder of
the debt aforesaid, which is se-
cured by the Deed of Trust and
Assignment of Rents (the
“Debt”);
WHEREAS, Erno Lindner (here-
inafter, the “Substitute Trust-
ee”) was substituted as trust-
ee under the Deed of Trust in
the place and stead of the ori-
ginal Trustee, and of any other
substitute trustee, by that cer-
known as Chubby Drive and the Highway No. 45, Lowndes same beginning September 29,
East right-of-way of U.S. High- Parcel C County, Mississippi, said iron 2020.
way 45, said iron pin being the A tract of land being located in pin being the same as that re- Erno Lindner, Substitute Trust-
same as that referred to in the the Southeast Quarter (SE 1/4) ferred to in the Donald R. De- ee
Donald R. DePriest deed of re- of the Southeast Quarter (SE Priest deed of record in Deed
cord in Deed Book 848, Pages 1/4) of Section 32, Township Book 848, Pages 523-524 of BAKER, DONELSON, BEAR-
523-524 of the land records in 17 South, Range 18 West, the land records in the Office MAN, CALDWELL
the office of the Chancery Clerk Lowndes County, Mississippi of the Chancery clerk of & BERKOWITZ, P.C.
of Lowndes County, Missis- and more particularly de- Lowndes, Mississippi, and be- 633 Chestnut Street, Suite
sippi, and being described scribed as follows: ing described therein as the ini- 1900
therein as the point of begin- tial point of beginning of Par- Chattanooga, TN 37450
ning of Parcel 1; run thence 6 Commencing at an iron pin cel 1; thence run North 81 de- (423) 756.2010
North 81 degrees 44 minutes marking the intersection of the grees 44 minutes East along
East along the North right-of- North right-of-way of a public the north line of said chubby Published: The Commercial Dis-
way of said Chubby Drive for road known as Chubby Drive Drive a distance of 250.00 feet patch
300 feet; run thence North 81 and the East right-of-way of to the point of beginning of the Lowndes County, Mississippi
degrees 35 minutes East along U.S. Highway No. 45 in the City herein described easement; Tuesday, September 29, Octo-
said North right-of-way of of Columbus, Mississippi, said from said point of beginning ber 6, October 13, and Octo-
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General Merchandise Travel & Entertainment
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$20. Motorcycle riding
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$650 dep + $650/mo. No
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for example 11 Spooky 38 Light metal
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laces 14 Accepting
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Bucket truck & stump w/ elderly person in home, LAWN SERVICE
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Serving Columbus Light housekeeping & yard cutting, landscaping,
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242−0324/241−4447
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Interior & Exterior Painting.
662−435−6528
WORK WANTED: Licensed Sitting With The Sick / Elderly
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insulation, painting, demo−
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